>> tisha thompson at the live desk for us.hank you so very much. >>> police have identified a woman found dead in an apartment building's laundry room. we first brought this story to you yesterday. they found the body of ashley solano in a complex along 18th avenue in adelphi yesterday. solano had been badly beaten. the laundry room for that building is accessed from the outside. so far no arrests and crime. >> d.c. police tell us a man trying to shoplift crab legs was holding a handgun replica. an off-duty police officer shot the man at the giant here on h street in northeast, d.c. sunday. the officer was working security for the store when he says he noticed the man trying to hide the crab legs. that officer says he confronted the man who pulled out what looked like a real gun. that's when the officer opened fire. the man is now in the hospital in critical condition. >>> it was 30 years ago today, the heavy metal band judas priest played a sold-out show in the capitol center in landover. two aspiring filmmakers took their ca

. >> our tisha thompson has put together a timeline to show us how this all unfolded today. >> people are trying to figure out if the series of shootings are all connected. here's a look at how it all started yesterday african. at 4:30 thursday afternoon, toil several times killing her. montgomery mall in man g and started shooting. two men who tried to help her were also shot. at 11:50 a.m., a woman was shot in a parking lot outside of the giant. by 12:30, nearby montgomery county schools were sheltering in police as police reported they were still actively searching for the shooter. by 1:00 p.m., all montgomery county public schoo tordil half houraf that at in a parking lot in a shopping mall. police kept him under surveillance until he walked back to his car when at 2:55 ol custody owealize of course many of the shelters in place and lockdowns were being lifted when police had tordil under surveillance. police say we have three fatalities. tordil's wife, one of the men who tried to help at westfield montgomery mall, and the woman inecond man at westfield montgomery mall who is curr

tisha thompson and the news 4 i-team has been investigating the problem of rape in the military. explains why the senators say yet time has come for congress to get involved. >> reporter: samantha jackson was knocked unconscious by an army officer serving in ft. belvoir in virginia. >> all of the reform, i thought thing hs had changed. i was wrong. >> reporter: jackson says the army never punished her attacker even after he pled guilty after a videotape surfaced showing the assault. >> i launched a petition urging the president to support efforts to fix the broken military justice system before he leaves office which now has over 100 thousand signatures. the military continues to say we got this, we got this. well, it's not shown in the data. it's testimony. it's not shown in seeing justice being done. >> reporter: over the last year the news 4 i-team introduced you to high-ranking women inside the military who say their careers were destroyed after they came forward with sexual assault allegationses. we found the national guard issued one dishonorable discharge for rape based on

tisha thompson, news 4 i-team. >> thank you. >>> doug is back with more about our weather and everybody's a little bit of a spring in their step and a smile on their face today and it's a good thing to see the sunshine. >> it's amazing when you make it to 80, isn't it? >> degrees or years? >> 80 degrees. >> happy birthday, vance. you have a few more. you're not even close. let's not even go there. beautiful day today, plenty of sunshine, probably one of the best days that we've seen so far this month and that's not a hard thing to say, because 19 out of 24 days it had rain, today, none of it. plenty of sunshine out there. look at the sun set tonight going down at 8:22, the sunset and it will be 8:30 by next week and the temperatures dropping through the 70s and just beautiful all night long tonight. no rain to talk about and 85 right now and 83 fort belvoir and 79 toward baltimore and there's the storm team 4 radar and no rain to talk about and we'll not see rain any time soon. so at the bus stop tomorrow, no problem. no umbrella needed and the kids can wear the shorts and the t-shirts an

tisha thompson, news 4 iteam. >> it started with a call to our tip line.have a story idea call 202-885-4444 or e-mail the team at tips@news 4 iteam.com. bee smith is a n celebrity chef and more. she is also one of the millions of americans diagnosed with alzheimer's. dan has been her loving husband and business manager for more than 20 years but now dan has assumed a much more critical role. jim vance has their story. >> you are now bee's caregiver. >> i'm a single parent. what i am is -- you know, it changes your life in so many profound ways. >> changes indeed. three restaurants, tv and radio shows, speeches appearances, it all came crashing down with a diagnosis. one test after another after another. >> they said well this is a leading indicator that she has alzheimer's. >> nobody wants to hear that or accept it. >> once you go through that you realize it's there, you go through all of the signs of not believing. you go through anger and disbelief, denial. >> the five stages. >> the five stair steps to reality. >> the reality for them now is first raisi

i-team warned of the dangers in their investigation dangerous cargo, so joining us this evening tisha thompson. >> just today, this afternoon, we received photos from a resident who lives along the csx train tracks and who took pictures of chlorine tanker moving along the track around noon today. chlorine is one of the most dangerous things to transport, recording a mile wide evacuation zone in it derails. csx moves all kinds of dangerous chemicals through d.c. cxs told us at the time it stopped moving chlorine through the city following terrorism concerns after a photo that caught a chlorine tanker within sight of the u.s. capitol building which sparked a lot of concern. csx says it does not include certain hazardous materials through the district, but does move empty rail cars that previously contained hazardous materials through the district. i wrote them back. i said what does that mean. they said it means move full tanker cars, but they were moving empty tanker cars. >> this is a question that a lot of residents have been asking. why does csx continue to move through the stuff through the

tisha thompson, news 4 i-team. what happens when a contractor won't let you out of your contract? our consumer reporter susan hogan is tackling that angle here tomorrow. stay with us for that. >>> we'd like to break our contract with this weather forecast. >> might happen tomorrow. >> really? >> i'm going a little more optimistic. i've added some sun to the afternoon forecast. >> great. >> i'm trying to help everybody out. it is we have not seen much sunshine the last 15 days with the exception of the past weekend. remember mother's day was not that bad. today we saw the clouds, e rain and half an inch to an inch of rain in some locations. right now tracking the rain across the region, no much going on. still looking at the storm, the spiral that came in, moved up and moving to the south around dover. still rap wrapping shower activity around it. these showers in warrenton area, they will go through warrentonton and close to manassas before heading in to southern maryland. to the west we mentioned this severe weather. baseball sized hail, tornado reports, flash flooding to the wes

the news 4 i-team's tisha thompson traveled to florida to see why a murder history still matters. >>> they never talked about it. that's what ralph remembers about growing up in bethesda in the '30s. it wasn't until he was a teen he began to hear wispers his father had been a suspect in a car barn murder, up with of the region's most famous murder mysteries. >> my dad was home asleep and came and got me out of bed. they want to know where his uncle was. >> reporter: his father worked at the car barn and a ticket station on connecticut avenue in chevy chase. along with his uncle emory smith. the station's night watchman. on a cold january night, police say there was a robbery. more than today's money stolen. the clerk murdered inside of a locked office with no sign of emory. >> they found him the next day in the park. >> reporter: ralph smith said his father was quickly cleared of his uncle's murder. he said his dad and three uncles continued to work for the trolley. >> they thought it was an inside job. >> reporter: as time passed, the police had given up on finding the killer. until

. >>> and that was tisha thompson breaking everything down for us.th news 4 and the nbc washington app for continuing coverage. we will continue to follow the developments through the weekend. the suspect is set to appear in court on monday and we will be there. >>> so it is a little known structure with a towering view of d.c.'s monuments. >> yes. might jog or bike past it each day. maybe not noticing the harmony of it, a new effort to restore the symbol of what is liberation and gratitude to the u.s. >> reporter: it's that middle ground between the united states marine corps war memorial known as iwo jima and the hallowed land of arlington national cemetery. most we met didn't know this existed. no idea this was here? >> no, no. not at all. >> we've been here before with the kids and i don't remember it. >> reporter: do you know about this? >> no. a surprise along the way. >> actually saw it down here. >> reporter: many locals, too. it's called the netherlands carolon. >> depends who you ask. by my response, carolon. go to the embassy, they say car

. >> tonight in partnership with reveal at the center for investigative reporting, tisha thompson andnt continues to shell out money. >> reporter: planet aid brings in almost $50 million a year from your clothing donations and from grants it receives from the u usda's foreign agricultural service. >> a lot of what they do is distribute food around the world on the condition that it will be sold to finance schools, to finance programs to educate farmers. >> reporter: the news4 i-team partnered with reveal at the center for investigative reporting and discovered the usda allocated at least $133 million to planet aid in the last 12 years to feed, educate, an afri africa. but internal e-mails obtained show usda officials have been repeatedly warned about planet aid's connection to a controversial danish organization some european countries label a non-religious cult. it's called the teachers group led by mr. petersen on the run for interpol after being charged with charities fraud and tax evasion in denmark. some are asking for an in-depth investigation in 2012 because of hints of potenti

tisha thompson, news 4 eye team. >> what happens when a contractor won't let you out of the contract?umer reporter, susan hogan and the response team got some big results. susan. >> that's right. as you just saw, choosing a reliable contractor is key in making sure understand the terms of your contract, just as important as the cost of the job. so signed a contract with one company and paid them a $21,000 deposit but then got a better price in fr another contractor. she had three days to cancel that first contract, and as she told the nbc 4 response team, the company wouldn't take in for an answer. time was ticking and her frustrations were boiling over. she just wanted her $21,000 back. our nbc 4 response team gets to work, and gets results. her story and how we were able to help, coming up on news 4, at 5:00. >>> a man ready to jump off a him to climb down. it took a stranger, a woman with blue hair, to help him down. >>> a california woman has a new nickname. the blue angel. >> that's right. anita murphy talked to distraught man from 160 foot tv tower, something crisis negotiate ar

tisha thompson explains what happened today that had so many so upset. >> reporter: plot owners, people who have purchased grave sites, showed up demanding answers from the cemetery's board of directors as they gathered for the board's first public meeting since our investigation aired. >> the key is to have all records opened up to see where money has been spent for non-cemetery use. >> reporter: including carl thomas whose wife and parents are buried here and a former board member joe shelton. >> i've grown up here in frederick. if it is mismanaged and a lot of illegal things still continue to go on, we're going to bankrupt this cemetery. >> reporter: sheldon has filed a criminal complaint with the frederick city police department after watching our news4 i-team report which exposed several spending errors. both men declined to make a comment as they left today's meeting. >> do you want to make a comment? >> unfortunately, those who listen to one side of the story may have a preconceived opinion. >> acknowledging that we have reached out t side of that story from everyone involved, bu

tisha thompson and i-team sifted through thousands of >> reporter: it was just after 9:00 p.m.n january 20th when jerry tried to drive home from a meeting. >> to go to the meeting, it took me about 20 minutes. to get home, it took me about seven hours. >> reporter: a quick snow squall that brought the d.c. area to its knees with dozens of crashes and thousands of commuters still on the road at 3:00 in the morning, including garcon, the transportation chair. >> this 1 1/2 inch snowstorm was probably one of the worst i'd seen. >> reporter: to find out what went wrong that night, the i-team obtained internal e-mails from the highway department. more than 5,000 showing hoe all the agencies were gearing up for the big blizzard that would hit on friday when just before noon on wednesday the national weather service warned to prepare for a half inch of snow starting in the vicinity of 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. with cold road temps it won't take much to cause icy on the roads. the virginia department of transportation decided to mobilize skeleton crews. by 9:00, the agency was scrambling, tryi

>> i'm tisha thompson at the live desk with some breaking news. nbc news has just confirmed that david french, a staff writer for the national review is considering an independent run for president. according to his bio, french is a veteran of the iraq war a recipient of the bronze star, a constitutional lawyer and an author. bill crystal has been actively trying to recruit an independent candidate and according to the never trump movement chose french. french is open to a run, but has not lined up a running mate or significant financial support. neither kristol nor french have responded to a comment. >> vance? >> thanks, tisha. >> some of the people in texas have new big concerns tonight, cleaning up from some historic flooding that's already hit their area and then there's the threat of even more rain coming later this week. nbc's jay gray has our report from houston. j from the air, the water seems to stretch forever. from the ground, for many, it's overwhelming. >> it's scary. we've never expected anything like this to happen in our community.