mark segraves broke the story first at 4:00. >> good afternoon, everybody. i'm jim handly. we begin with breaking news. >> i'm pat lawson, first a tragic number of shootings in iowa. >> lawmakers are still piecing together what happened. we do know a gunman shot and killed a soldier standing guard at a war memorial and at least 30 shots were fired inside the canadian parliament. the u.s. embassy nearby immediately went into lockdown. live at the white house with the very latest, steve handelsman. >> reporter: good evening from here at the white house today. president obama telephoned canadian prime minister stephen harper to offer solidarity and help to find out about the terror in the attacks in ottawa. >> reporter: the attack in canada began with the killing of a soldier at the war memorial by a witness with long hair and his face covered. >> there was a guy with a rifle just around on the back corner and just pow, pow. >> reporter: then seen and heard on this phone video, the gunman ran into the parliament building where lawmakers and stephen harper and lawmakers were at

mark segraves talked with people on that bus. but we'll begin with derrick wa and more on the response. he's live in falls church now. derrick? >> reporter: well, good afternoon. we are here at inova fairfax hospital where it is not your usual day here. much larger presence of police, fire and emergency medical technicians, and what -- the thing we can't stress enough here, everything is being done right now, being done out of an abundance of caution. i want to show you some video from a few hours ago. this is where fire and ems personnel were being deco out of the e.r. these were among the people who brought this woman here to the hospital. again, after she got sick earlier today at the pentagon. and in a penalty gone parking lot. we're told that woman threw up and did tell authorities she had recently traveled to west africa. pe even liberia. when she was brought here, that patient was isolated. tests are now being run to determine if further testing is needed to show that there is actually a presence of the ebola virus or to r

i'm mark segraves. i'm mark segraves.'ll at the tell in cases of rape and incest, just i'm mark segraves. i'll at the tell like the right-wing republicans in congress. they want to overturn roe v. wade. so does she. "i think roe v. wade should be overturned." barbara comstock even voted with right-wing republicans to require women seeking an abortion to undergo transvaginal ultrasounds. that's all i need to know. i'm john foust and i approve this messge. >>> we are hearing now details from a friend of the family about thomas eric duncan, the man who died from ebola earlier this week in dallas. she says the family feels the hospital could and should have done more the first time duncan went to the e.r. he went there and was sent home. and while they are considering legal action right now, she says they're in mourning. the spokeswoman says there is also misperception about duncan's reasons for coming to the u.s. >> i said i would have preferred to stay in liberia and die. than to come here and put the love of my life and my

. >>> i'm mark segraves. why the district's top health official says he's afraid there is going to be a stigma associated to ebola patients and international travelers, just like there was in the early days of hiv and aids. i'll have that story, coming up. >>> also, a terrible crash in our area. two emergency vehicles slam into each other, injuring firefighters, leaving an ambulance's parts scattered over the road. doug, how is the weather? >> light showers around the area now. storm team 4 radar picking those up through fairfax county, in the city of fairfax, northern montgoy too. i'll break down how those showers may affect your evening. plus, what's coming up this weekend? you' going to need to get something out. we'll talk about it, coming up. >>> you're watching news4 at 6:00. >>> there are new questions tonight about the protocols at texas health presbyterian hospital. in an exclusive interview, matt lauer talked to a nurse who cared for nina pham after pham tested positive for ebola. she says at that p

i'm mark segraves and i'll have >>> welcome back to news4 at 5:00. i'm dianna russini live at redskins park. washington has put themselves in a pretty difficult spot now. they are 1-4. and after yesterday's loss to seattle, a lot of players said they were happy they were able to keep up with the super bowl champs. but according to former redskin chris cooley, he says that's just not good enough. >> we're not as good as seattle. but we're not as bad as we were when we lost to new york giants a week ago. this team will play hard. this team will fight. but that doesn't mean this team has found a way to win. that doesn't mean this team has found its chemistry, found its leadership, found anything special about itself. but this is a complete turnover. and you have to expect as such, and it will continue to grow. >> reporter: a lot of people are talking today about the fact that after the game yesterday the players weren't upset enough. i was in there. i noticed it as well a little bit. when you were a player, do you recall what that was like? how are they

mark segraves, wendy rieger, veronica johnson and doug kammerer. up first -- >> as we have been reporting, the first nurse who contracted ebola after coming in contact with a patient in dallas is now on her way to maryland. news4's wendy rieger is following this story. she has been digging into details from the live desk. wendy. >> the specially equipped plane that will fly nurse nina pham to our area is on track. it will h down 11:00 tonight. she will make the trip to the national institutes of health in beckett he is da. police, city, county officials all coordinating efforts to make sure this trip is as quick and safe as possible. we have team coverage coming up at the top of the hour on news4 at 5:00, including some new reaction to the news that an ebola patient is coming to our area. i will see you then at the top of the 5:00. back to you. >> all right. and we've got the answer to a question that obsessed social media last night. people watching the highly specialized transfer of ebola patient amber vinson couldn't help but wonder about the gu

i'm mark segraves. i'll have that story, coming up. >>> you're watching news4 at 6:00. >>> west, the author and activist, was one of several arrested today during a protest in ferguson, missouri. hundreds of people marched on the city's police station there to cap off a weekend of protests. they called it the morrow monday demonstration and included stage acts of civil disobedience. the marchers are protesting the shooting of michael brown by a ferguson police department officer, darren wilson that happened just over two months ago. brown was unarmed at the time. protesters want wilson charged in that case. >>> at the pentagon, the army's top general does not sound confident that the iraqi military can hold back the isis fighters making a violent push toward baghdad now. steve handelsman is on capitol hill with the latest. steve? >> reporter: wendy, thanks. iraqi government forces are performing so poorly now against isis, u.s. officials admit, they've got to start all over again to train the iraqis wit

mark segraves, reporting live this afternoon. thanks, mark. >> he will get it done. >>> a difficult day for the parents of missing university of virginia student, hannah graham today. david culver joins us next. >>> also, the d.c. rabbi accused of spying on women in a ritual bath may have had cameras in several other spots. micro cameras. what a search of his university office uncovered today. >>> and it's homecoming weekend for a lot of high schools. football games this evening. we drop to 58 by 11:00. it's going to be chilly, but i'll show you a big warmup. in fact, a taste of september trying to make a comeback. >>> for the first time in nearly a week, police have pulled out of the area where remains were found near charlottesville, virginia. >> investigators say they have not identified that body, but the parents of the missing uva student, hannah graham, visited the scene today. news4's david culver joins us in the studio with more. david? >> jim and pat, all of this developing over the past few hours. a police source tellin

we're going to begin with mark segrav segraves, who just got out of the courtroom. >> rep that's right, wag wendy. i'm here at federal court, u.s. district court and as most of the lawyers in our audience know, in a courtroom, you usually only speak if you're spoken to, and if you're the defendant, you always let your lawyer do the talking. but several times today, dominic tried to speak directly to the judge. and several times u.s. marshals had to tell him to be quiet. last night, dominic al sanaa jumped the fence before being taken into custody. today the 23-year-old man from bel-air, maryland, was wearing blue hospital scrubs and large bandages on his arm as he appeared before a judge. he tried several times during the hearing to get the judge's attention. each time, marshals calmed him down. when the hearing ended, he continued motioning to the judge as the marshals grabbed his arms and ushered him out of the courtroom. court documents show al sanaa was arrested twice in july for similar incidents. on july 27th, he jumped over a barrier near a restricted guard post at the white hou

at nats ballpark, mark segraves, news4. payback series works for me. all right, mark. thanks getting into the spirit today. look what we did all day today, in to getting your news. we made these hats. >> works of art. cu too. >> and the whole station was in there. the whole network. everybs in there. >> like a craft shop. >> i felt like i was in browni again. >> we look like elves. or dunces. covera on nbcwashingto you can see where the gnomes from the scavenger hunt have been found. and the o's playoff run. >> we've got one gnome here for the entire building, took six hours to find. all right, you didn't don a hat toda oh, he did! >> of i did. >> a jaunty hat. >> who made your hat? >> i made my hat. as soo i saw we were making hats -- >> remember we couldn't have a cupcake if we didn't make the hats. i did not get a cupcake, but that okay. i'm ready to go, baby. tomorr, i cannot wait for in game. show y whas happe first f aoutside right now. northe virginia looking vet good right now. around the reston area, i am not wearing this the entire broadc i'm keeping the bear

i'm mark segraves.explain why, coming up. >>> and we're talking about some shower activity around our region out there now. we'll talk about that moving in, plus a nor'easter moving up the coast. we'll talk about that in just a minute. . >>> the accused ring leader of the attack on the diplomatic compound in benghazi, libya, has pled not guilty to new charges against him. ahmed abu khattala was charged with murder in the september 2012 attack that left four americans dead, including the u.s. ambassador. prosecutors say khattala also supervised the looting of that compound after the incident. when asked if this would remain a one-defendant case, prosecutors would only say their investigation is ongoing. >>> and prosecutors are asking a judge to postpone a hearing for jeffrey thompson from later this week until faeb. february. thompson pled guilty to funneling illegal distributions to politicians, including mayor vincent gray's 2010 campaign. the mayor has denied any wrongdoing. >>> a reminder that even t

i'll mark segraves and i'll have the details coming up. >>> praying for his recovery. a tribute under way for a teenager brutally beaten outside si >>> you're watching news4 at 6:00. >>> tonight a northern virginia community is coming together to fight against hate crime. >> more than a dozen messages have popped up over the last few months, all of them anti hindu. the vandals attack park benches and public signs in the brambleton neighborhood. mark segraves joins us live with more on why federal agents are involved. >> reporter: that's right, chris. police are calling these hate crimes here, and they're going to have a meeting at this elementary school in about an hour to talk to residents. over the past several weeks, there have been more than 16 cases of vandalism and each one targeting the hindu community. the anti hindu graffiti started showing up a few weeks ago. >> my family came here as immigrants for a better life. and it's -- it's just horrible. it really is horrible. >> reporter: neighbors aren't the only ones concerned. so is the loudoun county sheriff. >>

mark segraves talked with the people contained on that bus, but we begin with derrick ward, live at inova fairfax. derrick? >> well, jim, this is one of the scenes of what has been a massive response. sometimes that can be disconcertin but it should actually have the opposite effect. it's about redundancy and the pursuit of an abundance of first responders, the firefighte and emergency medical technicians who brought the sick woman to inova fairfax go through the decontamination prs in a tent set up outside the emergency entrance. >> we decontaminated three arlington count firefighters, we had four hazmat members do that. when those four members were done, we then decontaminated those fo members. so a total of seven members, four from us, three from orange county, decontaminated. and once that was done, we went ahead and decontaminated arlington county's medical unit. >> rep the h presence of emergency personnel is standard for these situations. not necessarily an indication of the presence of the ebola virus. hazmat team and command center on site will stay here until the results are bac

i'm mark segraves.l have that story, coming up. >>> plus, the disease is a mysterious one, with so many misconceptions. e goi to break down exactly what you need to know about how likely it really is to become infected. >>> and it caused a firestorm online. why wasn't someone just steps away from an ebola patient wearing protective gear? well, we now know why. stay with us. have you seen the news about barbara comstock? first, the washington post reported, barbara comstock failed to report eighty-five thousand in income. now, we learn, barbara comstock pushed a client's issues in the virginia legislature and didn't disclose it. barbara comstock shepherded a trio of bills through the legislature and into law, but barbara comstock never officially disclosed that all the while she was being paid thousands of dollars. no wonder she hid it. >>> right now at 5:30, a live look at the national institutes of health in bethesda where an ebola patient will be arriving late tonight. nina pham. she is one of those t

and we will learn how the ponies made it and we will tell you more about the investigation, mark segraves, news4. >> nasa says there are no concerns the space station will run out of supplies after a russian re-supply launched early this morning. >> engines at maximum thrust and liftoff. >> the unmanned rocket was launched from kazakhstan without any problems and arrived six hours later with three tons of food, fuel and other items. the russian launch was scheduled long before the wallops explosion. >>> what a change in our skies. tracking scattered showers. >> let's get the latest from veronic veronica. >> what a big change from 24 hours ago. it dropped 30 degrees. the green is making its way eastward. this is the weather front and not much left in the way of showers. i-95 to waldorf and central virginia and you can see what's left east of waldorf danger annapolis, maryland, not much across the area. your temperatures in the mid 50s. and it will be breezy and you will need a jacket. the rain will be ending, talking about changes in the next couple of hours and even more changes in the ne

mark segraves introduces us to one woman we request all look up to. >> i've watched grown men cry when i was diagnosed with cancer. >> reporter: the sergeant admits she still cries from time to time. she says she's lucky to have so much support at work, like her lieutenant. >> i cried maybe the first five nights. i would call him at 1:00 or 2:00 in the morning and just cry. why me? why me? >> obviously it's a shock. the hardest thing was when she asked me to notify her squad. >> to see your fellow officers break down in tears, it was very emotional for me. >> that support at work not only helped her get through chemo treatments, she's been allowed to speak out. >> it's been a journey. a lot of women are fighting this journey, but we're in it together. >> last week that journey took her and other breast cancer survivors to new york and the set of the "today show." >> watching other beautiful, brave women on the set. it was such an experience for me. >> she says kicking off breast cancer awareness month on national tv was great. but her moment with host matt lauer was special. >> matt ga

news4's mark segrave is working on the report and will have more at 5:00. >>> in alexandria, virginia, court has just wrapped up in the case of a man accused of shooting a police officer. accused shooter bashir is a paranoid schizophrenic and lost touch with reality. the defense claims bashir is not guilty by reason of insanity in the 2013 shooting. he stopped his taxi and survived after a long spell in the hospital. bashir's father was also on the stand today and we'll hear what he told the court coming up at 5. >>> the man accused of kidnap ing a missing uva student will appear in court tomorrow and also a kidnapping in lynchburg. he's already charged in the abduction of hannah graham and he's linked to morgan harrington's murder. now, authorities are investigating any link between matthews and morton's body found after she went missing in 2009. forensic evidence links morgan to 2009 and sex assault in fairfax city in 2005. matthew's attorney says he's seen no evidence linking his client to any other crimes. >>> fear is running high today about a potential ebola outbreak in the u.s.

as news4s mark segraves reports, two national figures in maryland show how close the race for governor is getting. >> i actually believe the biggest upset in the entire country is going to be here in maryland. >> reporter: republican candidate larry hogan got a boost today from new jersey governor, chris christie, who attended a fund-raiser with hogan in potomac before meeting at a breakfast spot in bethesda. christie was quick to point out a republican can win in a democratic state. >> i'm here to show people i'm living proof it cannot only happen once, but twice. >> reporter: brown has been bolstered by big name democrats as well. >> you must have a leader. that's what anthony brown is. >> reporter: president barack obama just campaigned with brown over the weekend. >> and we're going to hope. that's what brown is about, is hope. >> you can see that democratic power structure in this country are all rushing to maryland now. why? they're rushing here because they know that hogan has momentum and they're trying to stop it. >> reporter: recent polls show brown's lead over hogan has shru

in ashburn, mark segraves, news4. anymo >>> you're watching news4 at 4:00. >>> thunderstorms have brought down trees and power lines across several southern states. >> thousands of people are still without power right now, and jeff smith reports from dallas now. >> reporter: crews are hard at work here at the arlington baptist college, clearing the debris away. you can see them behind me now cutting through all of this lumber. the roof was peeled back almost like a sardine can, and then thrown down on the parking lot during those storms last night. there is a lot of damage, including to six cars that you can see there that are badly damaged or destroyed. some of the cars are flattened almost, completely devastated by what happened last night. the winds here up to 80 miles per hour. fortunately, a few students had some minor cuts from shards of broken glass from broken windows. only one student had to go to the hospital very briefly, because she had some cuts to her hands and her ankles from the broken glass. but she w

mark segraves, news4. >>> today the public testified about two bills before the d.c.ity council that would criminalize what's known as revenge porn. both bills would put a person behind bars for five years for distributing sexually explicit photos or videos taken for private use during a romantic relationship. the majority of speakers favored the bills. others have concerns that any laws should be balance freedoms of expression. the district is not alone. in the past two years, 13 states, including maryland and virginia, have passed laws addressing revenge porn. police hope a sketch will lead them to a man who groped two teenage girls around the time they would be walking to school. take a good look at the man police are looking for here. news4's ma let green has reaction from the laurel neighborhood where these attacks occurred. >> reporter: on the lookout for a sexual assault suspect. neighbors in this laurel community of single family homes and apartments are on edge. >> everybody is looking, trying to figure out, you know, where is he, is he going to attack next.

mark segraves is live to explain. mark? >> reporter: that's right, barbara. while those two girls will be okay on copper road, it underscores the safety issue in crossing the street. montgomery county police list this stretch of connecticut avenue here in aspen hill as one of the ten most dangerous for pedestrians. so this is one of the places they have ramped up enforcement. in just nine months, they have issued more than 200 tickets here to both drivers for failing to yield to pedestrians who were in the crosswalk, and to pedestrians who were jaywalking. police say those tickets weren't always issued on an equal basis. >> in 2010, we began looking at how were the crashes occurring. who was at fault. and as such, we realized that pedestrians were at fault many, many times, but they were rarely given a citation. >> reporter: now, police say they have done a lot to level the playing field when it comes to issuing those tickets. coming up at 5:00 and 6:00, we'll crunch those numbers and let you know who has been getting the most tickets. drivers or pedestrians.

reporting live at the finish line, mark segraves, news4. >> all right. we'll be pulling for you on sunday, mark, who is also running as well. but, you know, this marathon isn't just for runners. dozens of hand cyclists will lead the way and a lot of them are wounded warriors. in our next half hour, we'll hear from a double amputee on what this race means to him. >>> next on news4, a new perspective on a deadly mid air collision. why it could be months before we learn who is at fault. >>> two sisters killed in a car and leaving behind ten children. tonight, the passionate words from a relative and the quest for justice. >>> plus, a controversial change for the area's largest school district. why extra sleep time will come with a cost. >>> tonight, the ntsb is on the ground, and we're getting an up-close look at the debris left by a deadly mid-air collision in maryland yesterday. a small plane and helicopter crashed a short distance from the frederick municipal airport yesterday afternoon, killing three people. derrick ward has the latest on the investigat

district court, mark segraves, news4. >> thank you, mark. and take a look at this. tonight we're getting our first look at the dogs that took down the white house fence jumper last night. the secret service just tweeted these photos a few minutes ago of hurricane and jordan. they are belgian shepard dogs. we are told they were both back on the job today. they're both okay. >> adesanya was the seventh person to jump the fence this year. the last man managed to make it inside the executive mansion before agents took him down. omar gonzalez is an army veteran and had a knife on him. the fallout from that incident forced the secret service director to step down. josi clancy now heads the agency temporarily until president obama names a permanent replacement. he had retired in 2011 as head of the president's protective division. >>> a search for a local grandmother ended in tragedy and now we're learning that park police investigated one of its own because of what they said about the missing 83-year-old woman. in may of 2013, victoria kong landed at reagan national airpo

repog live at nats park, ma segraves, news4. >> all right. thanyou, mark.n't even want to think abt a possible parade yet. >> no, i wonder in mark res that nats fans, wasn't a whole lot of prody today. gnomes th aced 100 of those the area. six of them are autographe and the fans who find those win two tickets a piece to satu game. there s some out there. here now are some of the places the alr been found. dupo circle, national portrait gall, alexandria city and the city dock in annapolis. the ori pla right now. and we'll have more on that game comi up in our sports report. >> and we've got news about anotr big event that will be happ here in d.c. emin, bruce springstee mea and rihanna, some of t artists booked on the nati mal next month. merystre, tom hanks and st spielberg will also make appe e concert for valor is set for vete day,uesday november concert will be free, but sp hope fans will donate to causes that help veterans. > the high-profi crimes, ing the abduction of a uva stud w a man in prison for ki and killing a vi teenager is asking a jue to take

as mark segraves reports now, she is hoping to start with traffic stops. >> for many, this feels like abuse of police authority. >> reporter: chief cathy lanier is describing a d.c. law that requires police to write $530 of tickets to a person if they catch you driving without your insurance card. >> the council has inadvertently established a system where officers are perceived to be harassing the community. the council should fix that so we can work to change that perception. >> reporter: she says the way her officers police drug use and sales also leads to problems in the community. she says the tactics of cracking down on people standing on street corners isn't working. >> having vice units doing the type of policing that was done in the late '90s and early 2000s is not effective in the drug market anymore, because drugs are being sold via text messages and craigslist and social media so the tactics have to change. >> reporter: lanier notices from time to time her officers do step out of line and she says that's when it's important for citizens to speak out. >> if you have an inte

mark segraves introduces us to a woman that everybody can look up to. >> i watch grown men cry when i was diagnosed with cancer. >> reporter: sergeant roles admits, even she still cries from time to time. she says she is lucky to have so much support at work, like her lieutenant. >> i cried maybe the first five nights. i would call him, 1:00, 2:00 in the morning, why me. >> obviously, it was a shock. the hardest thing i think was when sonia asked me to notify her squad. >> and to see your fellow officers break down in tears, it was very emotional for me. >> reporter: that support at work has not only helped her get through the chemo treatments, it's given her courage to speak out about her illness. >> it's been a journey. and i know a lot of women are fighting this journey. but we're all in it together. and it's hard, but it can be done. >> reporter: last week, that journey took the sergeant and other breast cancer survivors to new york and the set of the "today" show. >> watching other beautiful, brave women on the set. and it was such a -- an experience for me. >> reporter: she says

mark segraves spoke with marines on board about the sayer scare and safety measures put in place. >> reporte there were 21 active duty and retired marines on that bus at 8th and i on capitol hi they got here, polic detained them, moved them over to the side street, took them off the bus they had been trag another bus. they were detained for nearly four hours. when they were released, they lockdown after one of the t other passenger bec >> i'm glad we're taking precautions, but we had no physical contact with the passr in question. so it was much ado about nothing. in my mind. now i know we have to be safe and the public needs to be safe and informed. >> reporte lieutenant colonel eric dent was won about 20 active duty and retired marines who were coming from the pentagon here to marine barracks on capitol hill for military ceremony. never made it to their event. >> it seemed like it was an overreaction. the more i thought about it, i'm like hey, you know what, this is important. >> reporter: polic moved the marines off the bus that the passenger who got sick was on, and held them on

news4's mark segraves has the story. he admitted he videotaped himself having sex with a 17-year-old girl and acted a pimp for two other teenagers, but never implicated any other police officers. today a lawyer for one of those victims said more cops may be involved, and that's why she is afraid to testify. >> there is an actual fear of reprisal from the police officers. it is my understanding and through some investigation that it could be a little bit more far-reaching than just mr. barnhill. >> reporter: barnhill got a lighter sentence because the victims did not want to testify. and because prosecutors said the victims never knew he was a police officer. but the victims' attorney told reporters that other police officers visited barnhill's apartment while she was there. >> she also stated his residence. and she talked about other police officers coming into the residence and how they treated him and she understood that he was a police officer. >> reporter: barnhill's attorney disputed those claims. >> this is the fir

mark segraves has been following this case from the start and joins us now with more. >> reporter: well, wendy, here's what we can tell you. that lawsuit was filed today and it's asking for $3 million from the school, the teacher and others. the lawsuit filed by the mother of the 17-year-old boy alleges the school, the employment firm that hired her, and failed to conduct a proper background check before placing the substitute teacher in a classroom with at-risk students. now according to court documents, simone green performed oral sex on the boy in her classroom just hours after the two met on her first day of school at options charter school. green has pleaded not guilty to sex child abuse, and is due back in court next month. the lawsuit names green, the school, the personnel company that hired green and others. now, we reached out to the school, and to that employment company in delaware that first hired her. and they didn't reply. coming up at 5:00, the bombshell allegation in that lawsuit that could implicate another teacher. jim and wendy. >> all right. mark segraves. >>> nurse

news4's mark segraves is live at the shelter with more on the plan. mark? >> reporter: well, wendy, the shelter behind me can hold nearly 300 families and it's expected to be at capacity within just a matter of weeks as we head into the cold weather. today, as you said, mayor gray announced a $90 million plan to move the families here into real permanent housing. if that plan is successful, it would pave the way to close d.c. general, the district's most troubled homeless shelter. >> that is not as bad as people are making it seem. a lot of this animosity really came about when relisha went missing. it just seemed like because a little girl went missing, everybody just started talking bad about the shelter. >> despite being satisfied with her room here at d.c. general, this homeless mother wants to move her family to a real home. and that's the government's plan, as well. for everyone here. >> it's something we get off the private market for releasing and something we build ourselves. that is the point where we'll know and have a date certain for the closur

general, mark segraves, news4. >>> homelessness is one of the issues facing candidates in d.c.'s race for mayor. nbc 4 and the "washington post" are co hosting a candidates' forum. this one-hour event will be streamed live on nbcwashington.com. and we'll broadcast this forum at 11:30 in the morning this coming sunday. >>> coming up, tense moments in the air when the cabin walls on an airliner started cracking. >>> plus, a local school bus driver arrested for something he allegedly did on the job. >>> and president obama meeting with world leaders on a new with world leaders on a new strategy to fight isis. wothe way als dismantles someone like stuarty. is so painful. embryonic stem cells have so much promise, but barbara comstock voted to ban that research funding even though conservatives like nancy reagan support it. that takes away hope for a cure -- but also, for families like ours, who just wanted a little more time. house majority pac is responsible for the content of this advertising. >>> you're watching news4 at 6:00. >>> president obama today kicked off a series of meet

first on 4 tonight, mark segraves shows us who could have big penalties for using marijuana on their own time. >> we have marijuana laws that legalize marijuana, but essentially only for the unemployed. >> reporter: if d.c. residents vote to legalize marijuana, as the polls suggest they will, d.c. police and firefighters, as well as child and family service employees, will be prohibited from smoking it. so will metro bus and train operators. but it's not just first responders and bus drivers who could be fired for getting high on their free time. even if d.c. voters say yes to legalizing marijuana, federal law will still say no. so employers will still have the right to fire their employees who they catch smoking pot, even if it's on their free time. that's just what happened in washington state. >> a guy was taped in line on the first day by marijuana, his employer saw it and fired him. >> reporter: civil rights attorney says d.c. should learn from colorado and washington where marijuana is already legal. >> in colorado, it's a mess. things are complicated, because they pass the law

ne news4's mark segraves has more on the crackdown. >> reporter: just before 8:00 this morning outside kings view middle school, a driver hit the girls as they crossed the road. >> although they had minor injuries thshs is a serious event. >> reporter: police say they're on track to have fewer pedestrian fatalities in montgomery county this year than last. >> we have had seven so far this year, seven too many. >> reporter: one reason police say pedestrian fatalities are down, because the last four years they have ramped up enforcement, issuing thousands of tickets and warnings. the tickets went to drivers who didn't yield to pedestrians in cross walks, and pedestrians who jay walked. but the tickets weren't always issued on an equal basis. >> prior to 2010, pedestrians rarely got a ticket. >> reporter: new dataeleased by montgomery county police show there's been a major swing in who has been getting those tickets. after police began cracking down on pedestrians, in 2012, drivers received 42 tickets. pedestrians? 1,219. but in 2013, police again shifted their focus. drivers received 65

she sat down with news4's mark segraves to talk about her new journey. >> here we go!rter: that was not sonia's first time on television. you may have seen her over the years talking with local reporters at crime scenes. sergeant roles was home alone when the doctor called last march and told her she has breast cancer. >> i fell to my knees. i started crying and the first person i called was my lieutenant. >> reporter: since being diagnosed, roles has had to take time off from work, but not time away from her support group at work. >> and when i had had those down moments, i would get a text from someone on the department, you're a fighter, you can get through it. and it would just lift me up and give me the strength i needed to make it through. >> reporter: and the help from her fellow officers kept coming. some would take the time to drive her to treatment. and some found other ways to show their support. >> after i was diagnosed, pink things started showing up in my office. while i was going through treatment. >> reporter: roles is now sharing her story to both help

news4's mark segraves will have more on that part of that story, coming up tonight on news4 at 6:00. >>> now to new developments tonight of a maryland gubernatorial race. the "washington post" has given its endorsement to the democratic candidate, anthony brown, over his republican rival, businessman larry hogan. the "post" calls brown the quote, more serious and substantial candidate. and a new poll by the "baltimore sun" shows the governor's race getting tighter with just seven percentage points separating the two. it shows brown with49% of the vote, compared to hogan's 42%. 9% remain undecided. the candidates met for their second televised debate today. chris gordon is here with more on that. >> today's debate was the first held in the washington area. the other in baltimore. important because montgomery and prince george's counties are expected to pay -- play a big part in electing maryland's next governor. today's race was sponsored by news 8 and wtop radio. >> lieutenant governor still on his website -- >> reporter: the candidates clashed over maryland's health exchange. >> it

. >> news4's mark segraves was there as the d.c. chief responded to some concerned citizens. >> sure, i know we have tactics that create tension. >> reporter: chief cathy lanier acknowledged there are some things that could be done to ease tensions between police and the public who they have contact with. >> we hear these horror stories and begin to investigate and find out it's not an mp officer at all. >> reporter: one incident was caught on cell phone video of the fox hole neighborhood. >> the officer forced him to sit in the gutter. >> sometimes the person asks if they can sit down. i believe that was the case. that investigation is under way. i believe that was the case. in that particular video. but sometimes people ask if they can sit down. but it is not a procedure, it's not a tactic we train. it's not something we teach. >> reporter: one human papilloma rights advocate told council members, her group is worried there could be more riots across the country like in ferguson after a police shooting. >> we were recently in ferg

news4's mark segraves is live outside u.s. district court with the latest. >> reporter: well, chris, inside this courthouse today, the prosecutor, the defense attorney, even the judge said over and over again that linwood barnhill never abused his police powers when he was enticing these girls into prostitution. and, in fact, the girls didn't even know he was a cop. the judge said that was one of the reaches she agreed to a lighter sentence for barnhill. but after today's hearing, a lawyer for one of those victims told reporters that's just not true. >> the victim that i represent knew and understood him to be a cop. she actually wrote in the -- i rode in a car with him, and he actually pulled a gun from underneath the seat and bragged about being a d.c. police officer. >> reporter: that contradicts what prosecutors and lynnwood barnhill's attorney said in court. >> that is absolutely never what they had said before. none of them had never known he was a police officer. or that a web was involved. >> reporter: barnhill was a d

>> mark segraves of. >>> the first 4 i-team first revealed how severe school overcrowding was. the review of state education department enrollment records shows at least 20 public schools in maryland are operating more than 140% recommended capacity. our school macfarlane's reporting reveals more than 100 newportable classrooms were deployed at local schools in just the past two months to handle the new load. >>> $220 million. that's how much it's going to take to fix the school overcrowding problem in montgomery county. school superintendent joshua star says tonight they desperately need that money to deal with the space crunch in their classrooms. >> we know that if we don't figure out how to deal with the bursting of the seams of montgomery county public schools, we will not be able to give our children the instructional spaces that they deserve. >> news4's zachary kiesch tells us where that money will go. >> reporter: montgomery county public schools need help. the school superintendent announced today, they're asking the state for more money to keep up with growth as more

superior court, mark segraves, news4. >>> new details in a shooting that left a d.c. teenager dead. 13-year-old tyronn caldwell was accidentally shot by his 14-year-old last month. it happened inside an apartment on downing street northeast. according to court documents, the 14-year-old was showing his friend his mother's gun while a magazine fell out and didn't know a bullet was still in it and pulled the trigger. the mother could face charges. >>> the cdc announced everyone traveling from a country hit by the ebola outbreak will be monitored for weeks just to make sure they're not carrying the deadly virus. live at dulles international airport, how are the travelers reacting to this? >> reporter: most of them are saying this sounds like a good idea. they also wonder if it will work. the cdc calls it a care kit or a kit to check and report ebola. in it, a thermometer, tracking log, a description of symptoms and pictures and who to call if they get sick. every person arriving to the u.s., whose traveling or nates in sierra leone, guinea and liberia, they will use thes

news stories, mark segraves, veronica johnson and doug culver. >> the worst is over. we're seeing rain head out of here but the worst is over with showers falling right now. some caution if you're hitting the road in the next couple of hours this evening until 8:00 or 9:00 or so. the latest on storm team 4 radar. areas in green and blue showing up is where there are showers right now. we're not seeing dark green or yellow or orange the case earlier today where the heavy rain was falling. you folks in bethesda, fairfax, gaithersburg,man nas sass, a few showers hanging on. and in the eastern shore of eastern maryland right now. and annapolis. at about a quarter of an inch. hanging on a few more hours but nothing heavy. temperatures coming down. 60s and 70s at the front. easton, 77 degrees right now. soon temperatures will be dropping. the impact forecast for tomorrow, 59 degrees early in the morning. a few clouds. roads will be dry. with light showers, could see a rush tomorrow and temperatures get to 70 degrees and big changes coming our way. doug, for the weekend. >>

mark segraves, news4. >> thank you. to late developments, the resignation of secret service director julia pierson. 24 hours after a blistering day of bipartisan criticism from congress it appeared her job was in jeopardy but one final misstep was the last straw. >> reporter: the pierson support collapsed after she failed to report to congress and the white house what happened in that elevator down at the cente for l just 15 days ago. secret service director, julia pierson resigned after disclosure of the atlantic incident, a man with a gun close to president obama. lawmakers were surprised and it was difficult for me to sleep last night. >> reporter: she testified the president's security was breached once this year when omar gonzalez made it inside the white house on september 19th. as gonzalez pleaded not guilty, came details of a scare three days bore he jumped the fence. secret service allowed in the elevator with the president a security contractor with a pistol and record of arrest for assault. >> reporter: tha s

mark segraves, news4. >>> engines at maximum thrust and liftoff. >> an unmanned russian rocket launched without a hitch in kazakhstan earlier this morning and carried three months of supplies for the international space station. it was scheduled before this explosion and part of a russian part of supplies to the space station. >>> getting a little funky in the air, a little bit of chill in the air. something coming our way? >> we do. we have another storm system coming our way and that storm system will cool things down more than the storm system we have. we have showers towards fredericksburg, stafford county, spotsylvania county and southern maryland. if you look to the west of d.c., should not see much of a problem. there's the front and shower activity. you can see more developing. we have portions of this coming across portions of southern maryland. if you're in st. charles, calvert county, you will see showers. we're at 59, a gun degrees temperature drop. 61 in richmond, only 49 in columbus, ohio. that cooler air has to make its way in. we get colder this weekend. wait until you s

mark segraves is with hogan and christie at the campaign stop inside the original campaign house. make sure to follow mark on twitter to see his live tweets from the event. christie made his first stop in bethesda last month to help raise more than $400,000 for hog hogan's campaign. >>> with the mid-term election two weeks away, all eyes are on the races that could affect the balance of power in the senate. one is in virginia between mark warner and republican ed gill s gillespie. nbc's tracie potts has a look at the other hotly contested races. >> isis, ebola. >> none of the national story lines were very good news for democrats. >> and republican challengers are using that against democrats. isis keeps popping up in north carolina's senate race. >> obama kept waiting and kay hagan kept quiet. >> walt put boots on the ground. >> reporter: on ebola, democrats and supporters fighting back, blaming republicans for cuts that make it hard to control. make a cut. >> even with their party's heavy hitters on the campaign trail, democrats are distancing themselves from the president. >> d

mark segraves catches up on woody woodson sharing his story. >> reporter: he's played with some of thest names in music and credited for the ic ic beat for the isley brothers "it's your thing." >> reporter: after losing his leg to diabetes, the drumming legend was unable to earn a living. >> it's rough. >> reporter: after profiling his struggles, people reached out. >> it would tickle me to death not to play again but to be able to play a couple of songs. if i play a couple of songs, ain't no telling, man. >> reporter: one of those people who wanted to help was judy anderson, a nurse at his rehabilitation hospital. >> i thought maybe we could get him in here and we did. we love him. >> reporter: thanks to the help, woodson is a new man with a new leg. doctors say woodson's progress is nothing short of phenomenal. >>> have the expectation and vision woody has. he'll play the drums again and he'll do it very well, if not better than he did in the past. >> i want this. i don't think i've ever wanted anything more, you know, to be 73 years old -- >> reporter: while woody is surrounded by a

reporting live, mark segraves news4. >>> she's often celebrated for her fashion choices. lady michelle obama is helping groom the next generation of designers. she invited more than 150 students to the white house today for a fashion education workshop, along with industry i cons. and from richard wright charter school, duke ellington and the school without walls and blake and northwestern high schools in maryland. >> our mission is always the same, to inspire you guys to dream bigger, to reach higher and then most importantly, to pull somebody else up with you along the way. >> the first lady also highlighted the impact the fashion industry has on our economy. americans spend more than $350 billion on clothes and shoes last year. >> the white house is looking ahead to the holidays. this year's national christmas tree lighting ceremony. thursday, december 4th. write it down. free tickets will be given to an online lottery that opens three weeks from this saturday. it draws thousands every year. >> here we are october already talking christmas tree lighting. >>> let's get

reporting live, mark segraves, news4. >> continuing our team coverage with how this investigation will be unfolding, outside the nasa facility on wallops island. >> reporter: they are going to begin this process of looking on the launchpad and island to put the pieces together and determine what happened. this is a long investigation and could take some time. in the meantime, orbital sciences will not be launching any rockets until they figure out what happened. one more important point. the engines from this rocket were soviet built and go back to the space race. they have been refurbished. did that play any part in this? we simply don't know. back to you. >> the images on this explosion are being shared still on our social media site. look for the word photos on nbcwashington.com. >>> we have breaking news at redskins park. a big big change in quarterback. >> reporter: sources within the organization are telling me robert griffin the third will return to the field and start on sunday against the minnesota vikings. he's been out for over two months with that ankle injury, and jay grud

i'm mark segraves, and coming up, i'll tell you why it won't happen in time for this winter. >>> you'reatching news4 at 4:00. >>> new surveillance video shows a man throwing a smoke bomb into a crowded new york city restaurant. actress rose mcgowan was one of several people eating inside. it happened this past friday in new york's grenich village. the bomb was thrown from a subway exit hatch. no one was seriously hurt, but there are questions about subway security. new york's subway hatches have alarms on them, but the hatch's alarm wasn't working properly this time. >>> it was a wild and dangerous ride along a busy stretch of highway in utah. a school bus packed with children speeding and swerving in and out of traffic. fortunately, no one was injured. but the 911 call conveys the panic felt on board. >> okay. i am honestly shaking at this point. >> they were terrifying moments captured on police dash cam video. a school bus driver swerving erratically while taking more than 70 students, teachers and chaperones on a class trip. >> my heart is pounding. she can't stay in the lane. she i

news4's mark segraves introduces us to a couple first time marathoners all running for a special reason. mark? >> reporter: that's right, wendy. we're here at the finish line at the ewould he jet streama memorial. it's uphill. but these runners we met, this last few hundred yards is the least of their obstacles. >> i'm going to run for love. >> reporter: amanda sullivan is talking about her boyfriend, todd love, who lost his leg and an arm fighting in afghanistan. she is running for him, even though she's on crutches herself. >> i know he misses the sound of his feet hitting the ground. i'm going to take my steps for todd on sunday, and in honor of all of his recon brothers who kept him alive that day. >> reporter: and this wounded warrior is running with his service dog, sarg, in the very first dog run. >> absolutely phenomenal team. >> reporter: he says sarg saved his life. >> between all the medications i was on, not knowing how to really express any love or how to be just a good friend, good father and good husband, now i'm able to do that. >> reporter: kyle carpeter, who fell on a