news4's mark segraves was there. >> reporter: she's been a d.c.irefighter for more than 20 years. >> i thank god for being alive. >> reporter: she's alive today because of a community of strangers that came together to save her life. >> total strangers to recognize there was an emergency and they acted. >> reporter: she was on duty driving down pennsylvania avenue when she got near gw hospital and had a fender bender. this man was wain his job at a local burger joint, he quickly realized it was more than a fender bender. >> when i looked back at her and she was leaned over the seat foaming at the mouth. >> reporter: he called 911. >> and 911 told us to pull her out of the car. >> reporter: they were pulling her from the car and brandon was walking by on his way to get a haircut. the first year med student at gw knew just what to do. >> i checked for the carotid pulses and didn't feel anything. >> reporter: as he began cpr, he called into the crowd for help and a student at georgetown happened to be out for a bike ride. >> he started chest compress

in the district, mark segraves, news4. >> all right.ut to change seasons once again. >> yes, so it's going to feel more like june for the end of the workweek on into the weekend. talking about humidity, it's a little humid out there. i tweeted about this earlier today and it's going to continue to feel a little bit humid right on into the weekend. take a look at your weather headlines. it's hot and humid. we're mainly dry, though. tomorrow, friday, saturday and sunday we're near 90 degrees on saturday. we could potentially hit 90 degrees but right now we're forecasting a high of 88. and take a look at your third weather headline. our next best chance of rain looks to be later in the day on monday as a cold front moves through the area. really nice out there this evening. okay tomorrow night and here's the only caveat if you go early you'll be just fine. later thursday, though, thursday night, some scattered showers will impact the area and friday night looking just fine out there. keep it dry all d into your friday evening. currently we

i'm mark segraves in howard county. coming up on news4, we'll tell you how many patients have registered in just the first few days of the program and when people in maryland might actually be able to get their hands on medical cannibis. >>> you're watching news4 at 5:00. >>> more than a thousand patients in maryland have signed up for medical marijuana in just the first four days since the state began accepting applications. >> mark segraves broke that news on twitter this morning. tonight, mark takes us to a fewer grow site and talks to an owner you may remember from his more than 40 years playing in local bands. >> reporter: it's been three years since then governor martin o'malley signed medical marijuana into law. since that time, patients in maryland like amy been waiting. >> everybody knows a veteran with ptsd, a person dying of cancer, a child with autism. >> reporter: one of the people who believes medical marijuana can heal is johnny castle. as a member of the night hawks and the thrill billies, castle has bee

mark segraves, news4. >>> we have posted a look at the history of 4/20 day. including how it got that name. just go to the nbc washington app and search 420. >>> police say they've got another pair of local businesses trying to sell cigarettes to under-age kids. frederick, maryland police say they cited a city grocery store and a bake shop during their most recent undercover enforcement checks. a recent investigation found a 7% increase in local businesses failing those checks in recent years. clerks >>> now details tonight about a silver spring teenager who fell from a window at frostburg state university. investigators in allegheny county in maryland say that he had been drinking at an off-campus party before he felt from a sixth floor dormitory window. surveillance video shows he was alone when it happened. he was 19 years old. he's still being treated at a hospital in baltimore. >>> the teacher accused of kidnapping a former student is under arrest tonight. the 15-year-old girl is safe and on her way to being reunited with her family. tad cummins and eliz

in the district, mark segraves, news4. >>> here's at look at your other top stories. a government shutdown has been avoided, at least for another week. congress passed a short-term spending bill earlier today. next week, talks will continue to try to pass a longer term spending bill. the house will also continue its effort to revive a new gop health care bill. >>> just a little while ago, president trump finished speaking at the nra's meeting. the first sitting president to speak there since ronald reagan. was president trump was an outspoken supporter of gun rights during the campaign. >>> metro is running smoothly despite a mass sick-out by employees. all of this as union employees try to reach a new contract with the metro board. >>> former president jerge h.w. bush is back home today. he was treated for >>> it's going to be a busy weekend on the national mall. thousands are expected for the people's climate march, that's tomorrow. marchers will be heading from the capitol to the white house, starting at 11:00 a.m., all of this on the heels of last week's march for

our own mark segraves was there tweeting out the developments. takes us inside to both sides of the debate. >> reporter: renting homes or apartments or even basements for a day or few weeks through websites like airbnb is a multi-billion dollars worldwide industry. generating tens of million dollars of dollars in taxes for local governments. but today an official with airbnb acknowledged his company has an agreement with the city on h collected in d.c. but neither the company nor the office of taxing revenue will make that agreement public. >> the d.c. council is considering imposing limits on how many days a homeowner can rent their home and how many homes they can rent for short-term leases. greg ross rents three of the five apartments he owns on airbnb. he opposed any limits. >> i don't want a cap at all. i pay my mortgage 365 days a year. >> reporter: lauren spokane who rents out her basement supports more regulation. >> for me that seems like a low bar, a small price to pay in order to make sure that as many units as possible are on the affo

. >> mark segraves introduces us to one of the original langley punks, whose woork we still see everyay. >> if you've picked up a copy of "the washington post" bill o'leery has captured some iconic moments. this picture of marion barry after his arrest when he was just an intern. but before he was snapping pictures, he was part of a group of teenked filmmakers who called themselves the langley punks. >> this is the late '60s, we had grown up watching laurel and hardy and the three stooges and just the classic silent and early sound slap stick comedies. and that's what we wanted. we wanted to just make people laugh and have a good time. >> reporter: dave nutty comb joined the punks after they started submitting their films in local competitions against established filmmakers. >> and then these buffoons were just drinking beer, throw things at each other, and chasing around monsters and they would win every time. >> reporte >> the popularity thing sorta pretty crude and rudimentary. >> reporter: the langley punks went on to produce cult classics like hyattsville hol, intest ins from spa

news4 mark segraves explains all these changes first at 4:00. >> reporter: for the past few years this massive construction project going over the tie-ups here on massachusetts avenue. starting this saturday, that's going to change. this new on ramp will open allowing eastbound traffic on massachusetts avenue to go directly on to 395 south. that's good news for people downtown trying to get to virginia. but there's a downside to this for a few commuters. people who have been going westbound on massachusetts and h street will no longer be able to use this tunnel. they'll have to go a few blocks up and cut through the neighborhood over to d street or they'll have gotten on to the 395 freeway back on new york avenue. it still has a few more years ahead of it but they're making a lot of progress and this change on saturday will make it easier not only for drivers to get out of downtown but pedestrians and sooikists in this neighborhood as mark segraves, news4. >> >> some other top stories. d.c. police are looking for suspects in the robbery of an armored car in northwest this morning. two

as mark segraves depending on the direction you're driving, getting out of town actually may be more difficult. >> reporter: this is how traffic along massachusetts avenue between the convention center and union station has been moving along for nearly the past two years. $2 billion capital crossing construction project over 395 has created some traffic issues along this stretch. >> it's caused delays. we've been concerned about people being able to safely get from one sidewalk to the next. >> reporter: starting on saturday, drivers heading out of town on mass avenue will get a break. this new ramp will open carrying eastbound traffic directly on to 395 southbound making it easier for cars to get from the center downtown to north virginia or the southwest waterfront. the current detour down to the >> we expect it's going to relieve some traffic in the downtown area during major events and rush hour. you'll see a lot of congestion in this area. we think there's also going to be good improvements to the bus service. there's been some time delays over the past year and a half as this co

mark segraves was there for this very special reunion. >> angelyia has been a d.c.hter for more than 20 years. >> i thank god for being alive. >> reporter: she's alive today because a community of strangers came together to save her life. >> total strangers who pretty much recognized that there was an emergency, and they acted. >> reporter: she was on duty, driving down pennsylvania avenue and got near gw hospital and had a fernd benderer. >> sake won was walking home and quickly realized it was more than a fender bender. >> when i looked at her and she was leaned over the seat >> reporter: he called 911. >> and they called us to pull her out the car. >> reporter: as they were puming her from the car, brandon was walking by on his way to get a hair cut. the first-year med student knew just what to do. >> i checked for the carotid pulse, didn't feel anything. >> reporter: he called hear help, upstepped tyler, a med student at georgetown who was out for a bike ride. >> he had started chest compressions, and you moved to mouth to mouth and i continued the chest compres

mark segraves, news4. >> thank you, mark. this is one of several pro-pot events in the next few days. on saturday, there will be a festival outside rfk and on monday, activists are planning a smoke-in at the capital. we'll explain why april 20th, 4-20, became synonymous with marijuana. >>> and new today, a federal judge says a mechanic fired by metro in connection with that deadly smoke incident two years ago, must be rehired. our partners at wtop report the judge is upholding an punishment to a six-month suspension. that mechanic was fired for falsifying records. but the panel blamed in part lacks oversight by supervisors. passenger carol glover died. dozens became sick when smoke filled the metro tunnel in 2015. >> metro's general manager is laying out a plan to make the rail service reliable and safe for you, but it comes at a cost. over the next ten years, metro wants $15.5 billion and they want dedicated funding to the tune of $500 million every year from d.c., maryland, and virginia. news4's meagan fitzgerald is live, g

mark segraves, news4. >>> breaking news new involving metro's latest safe track surges. you'll need to make some pretty big adjustments for the fanel two surges on the orange and red lines. instead of single tracking, metro will shut down lines in segments. five stations will be closed for nearly a month, beginning on the 16th of that surge wraps up, begins the next one on the red line and buses will replace trains between shady grove and twin brook stations, but no dates are set for that yet. >>> former d.c. school chancellor kaya henderson violated rules and gave special treatment to other government leaders, according to the district's own internal investigators. scott macfarlane broke the story in the nbc washington app today and joins us now with more on the accusations and her response. >> yeah, just got that response. officials with d.c.'s inspector general's office say kaya henderson improperly used her discretion as school chancellor. their investigation of henderson, which we obtained today, says she gave special treatment to the powerful, helping move some stu

as news4's mark segraves shows us, the state-of-the-art facility is home to tens of thousands of memoriesporter: this 100,000 square-foot facility at first glance looks like a typical sterile research center. but one doesn't have to look hard to find this building is really filled with the hearts and souls of those who perished, those who survived, and those who now work to keep those memories alive. >> i love what we do, because we're rescuing memories. the children's stories are the hardest for me, as a mother. but on the other hand, everything happened 75 years ago, so there's nothing else we can stories. >> reporter: stories like this diary who describes the live of a young boy whose parents had been killed. >> not being in control of yourself, not being in charge, and waiting for your parents to come home. >> reporter: the conservation and research center was funded in large part by the family of fella chappell. a holocaust survivor herself. it holds more than 20,000 artifacts. each one a memory of an loved one or an entire family lost. for louisa, this little chair tells the story o

mark segraves has a great story. a facebook live on this that will be posted on the nbc washington facebook page and i'll post it on mine. he's looking at a lot of recordings that were never heard before, that are now making their way to vinyl, of all things. it's really exciting. and if you grew up with vinyl, it's a nice stroll down memory lane. we'll see you soon. just a few minutes, with those stories and more. pat, i understand you're joining me at 5:00. >> yes, and i've got lots of vinyl. >> excellent. we'll have a record party. >> sounds good to me. >> thanks, wendy. >>> amelia, some reports of hail? >> yeah, so congressional country club reporting dime-size hail. also reports of quarter-size in rockville. this is that severe thunderstorm warning we've been tracking and app, you would have gotten a push alert for that if you're in montgomery, the district, parts of prince george's county. take a look outside at our rockville camera. 3:55 here. you can see the storm starting to push out, moving east at about 30

hill monday and plan to light up in an act of civil disobedience, expecting once again to get mark segraves, news4. >>> first at 4:00, a memorial service tomorrow for the army crew chief who died monday in the black hawk helicopter crash. jeremy tomlin was killed when the chopper crashed onto a golf course in leonardtown. this afternoon, the community around the crash site is showing support for the battalion as two others on the chopper recover from injuries from the crash, they've put american flags on the poles leading to the crash site. >>> metro fired a mechanic after the deadly smoke disaster. now it has to give that person their job back. a federal judge says he had no choice but to order metro to rehire the mechanic who submitted false maintenance logs. "the washington post" reports the judge could find no reason to change the decision of an arbitration board, and that board determined the mechanic should have been suspended for six months, not fired. one woman died and others g sick when smoke filled a tunnel and fans didn't work properly. >>> the next time you head to the white ho

mark segraves was there.to homeowners on both sides of this debate and he is live in downtown, mark? >> reporter: good evening. we can tell you that there were that hearing that started at 10:00 a.m. this morning that they are still in line to testify as we speak tonight. but as you look out over the skyline of washington, d.c., you can see why this is such a good market for short-term rentals. so many apartments and homes so close to national tourist attractions. lauren spokane lives in a neighborhood where for more than a year she's been renting out her basement on airbnb. >> we're first time home buyers so it helped out with our mortgage. >> reporter: she came to the d.c. council today to tell lawmakers she supports more regulation including the current proposal to limit the number of days per year a person could rent their home to 15. allowing for fines of up to $7,000 and requiring health and safety inspections. >> i don't see any need that i would need -- that i should be able to make extra money by tur

mark segraves has one of the unlikely people planning to grow and sell medical cannibis. ♪ ♪ >> reporter castle likes >> reporter: castle has spent most of his life as a working musician, currently a member of the night hawks. but castle is also a member of the free state wellness team. one of the groups that's been awarded a preliminary license to grow and sell medical marijuana in maryland. castle decided to get involved after seeing a report about the healing effects of marijuana. >> about some little girl who had like 25 to 30 seizures a day. and we said, that is unacceptable, you know. but she got hip to this foil they make from marijuana, it doesn't make her stoned or anything, it just stops her seizures. >> reporter: one of his partners says while growing marijuana is a business, medical marijuana is personal for him, after watching his father battle cancer. >> he was tortured. and you wouldn't want to see an enemy dealt with in that way. so if we could have, if i could have had some alternative for pain. i feel like i let him down, that we didn't get it soon enough. and there are

mark segraves broke this story first on 4. >> reporter: a team of auditors discovered the problem just this week. so far, they've identified hundreds of d.c. government employees who did not have any social security or medicare taxes withheld from their paychecks. that means those employees had no money paid into their social security and medicare accounts. vent ris gibson with the department of human resources said the error dates back at least ten years. >> certainly we are so sorry this has happened, and our goal is to just make our employees whole to the best of our ability and within the confines of the law. and just to let them know we're hear to help them get through the situation, as much as we want to get through it. workers who are impacted by the mistake will not have to pay the money back. federal law requires the employer to pay the irs. gibson doesn't blame the employees for not noticing the error. she says the pay stubs can be confusing. so they're sending a notice to all workers on how to understand their paychecks. while the d.c. government will be responsible for payi

mark segraves talked to a survivor about the importance of keeping these items. >>> also tonight, hemurder of agn and after seven and a half years in prison, he's eligible for parole. the victim's mother is talking to news4, and she says something needs to change in the law. >>> years of planning and norkds finally coming to fru ition at the historical walter reed army hospital. it's getting a new future. a long-time d.c. resident explains what it means for his community. >>> and i feel like i should be doing the weather since i'm sitting here. i think it's going to be raining the next couple days. >> it is. >> and the dew point is going to be high. >> and we'll be reunited. >> we'll be playing musical chairs. barbara left her i.d. >> of course. >> see you in a bit. we'll just toss it to lauryn. a real meteorologist. >> i'm just playing one on tv right now. >> wendy nailed that. she was talking about the dew point and the rain coming, not much more for me to say, except that it's going to feel more all right, more rain coming as she explained. it's chilly out there. who's ready for s

posted the locations in our area that are taking part in the nbc washington app as news4's mark segravesill give celebrate. >> reporter: when was the last time you did this? ♪ ♪ >> for years now, most of us have been buying our music digitally. never touching a record or cd. many record stores have been going out of business. but that's slowly changing. >> i have to tell you, we are experiencing now a major resurgence in the popularity of vinyl lps. to borrow the old adage, what is old is new again. >> reporter: recently, artists of all genres have been releasing new music the old-fashioned way, on final. jazz is one type of music that's seen a lot of records drop. zeb feldman has been searching the world unearthing rare jazz recordings, and releasing them -- you guessed it -- on vinyl. >> decades after these recordings were made, we were still making incredible discoveries from important artists and light for the very first time. >> reporter: jazz legends like fe -- the tenth annual record store day, saturday. a chance for music lovers to feel the music. and to share an experience remin