All of the agencies that have teleworking ability to take advantage of it and allow those employees to do the work. They should expect major delays on wednesday which are expected to have the most people headed into the district for the popes, vents. We want to help you get around and get through all of this while the pope is in town. If you havent already and download the nbc washington app and youll find a list of tips for commuters and visitors written by staffers who just like you rely on metro every day. Just search pope commute. Thank you, chris. An overwhelming number of people requested tickets to see the pope on the west lawn of the capitol. So congresswoman eleanor homes norton figured out who could go. A High School Senior stepped up. Yeah. Thats right. Norton wanted to show no favoritism. So they got appear minister from archbishop carol. The students principal whose job today was to hand pick each winner vying for one of these very limited and hot tickets in this town. It says mint. The first name called in a very special lottery drawing for tickets to see the pope outside the capitol. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes norton put up 50 tickets she gets as an elected leader and snagged 35 more in fellow members and house leadership. Matthew mcgregor. I just cant believe that 450 members and senators all have people who are going to have get here, and that may mean that i am underestimating how attractive this post this pope is to catholics and noncatholics alike. Look who is actually pushing the winner. Zachary israel. She will show no favoritism so Archbishop Carroll high school got the call and selected senior Patricia Gomez out of 400 classmates to pick winners from a jar filled with 150 d. C. Resident hopefuls. It was pretty surreal to me at first. I didnt know what to expect coming in here, and i was just really excited when i got the opportunity. Reporter but this hot ticket. Yvette peron is the last number. Standing room only means just that, to watch the pontiff on jumbotrons outside the west lawn of the capitol. That means people will have to stand from very early in the morning before they get any sight of the pope. Reporter and delegate nortons office tells me that crowd estimates so far range between 300 and 500,000 for the National Mall alone. Coming up at 6 00, well take a look at security and other prep going on down here that are coming together down here and elsewhere around washington. Back to you, doug. And well let down there right now, a Beautiful Day and plenty of sunshine across the area, but coming up over the next couple of days well start to see some changes out there and we have the area of High Pressure, and thats giving us the sunshine and these really nice temperatures and take a look. The warm area is here and as it shifts off the coast it starts to bring our wind in from a different direction and combine that with an area of low pressure that will form off the coast and you take the northeasterly flow. What that does is bring in more clouds and a chance for showers and drizzle and lowers the temperatures and thats whats going to be happening next week, next tuesday and into thursday. So if youre immediated out to see the pope, mostly cloudy, dreary and a few showers and most of those are on monday and not we dont think there will be too much in the way of rain and it will be a bit breezy, but if you are going to be out and about that day, the papal visit and everything happening during the day on wednesday and looking pretty good as far as temperatures go. 74 degrees at 10 00 a. M. And nice and mild around 2 00 and temperatures around 76 degrees and all in all, not a badlooking day. Guys . Before the pope arrives here in our area, he spends three days in cuba, landing in havana tomorrow and during his trip hell be celebrating a mass at revolution square and meeting with raul castro. The pope has been credited with playing a major role in easing tensions between the u. S. And cuba and later this hour our david culver reports from havana on why noncatholics are excited about this visit, as well. We have developing for you right now, Montgomery County fire just tweeted out that a bush fire outside of latonville under control. Chopper 4 under a power line trail about an hour ago it spread to five acres and firefighters had to bring water tanks to put it out. The news 4 i team found it has been a particularly busy brushfire season in Montgomery County. 120 acres destroyed in a sevenday period in april alone, and that includes about 20 acres in senecca creek state park, and we have an update tonight on a story that news 4 just reported. Last june, 73yearold james gary was killed by a street sweeper while crossing the street near his home. His family filed a lawsuit against the company that owns that sweeper. The safety steps that the family says were ignored. Fort Meyer Construction Company is one of the biggest local Government Contractors in the region and youve probably seen them in the streets of d. C. And thats just what the crew is doing in front of james garys home the day he tried to cross the street. It was senseless, really. It was kind of hard dealing with that and why he had a lot of years ahead of him. James gary leaves behind a wife, five children, and 22 grandchildren. He was cool and he liked to joke. Thats what drew people to him and he always liked to joke and always liked to laugh and he had a warm demeanor about him. Reporter the 73yearold grandfather was crossing the street in front of the home where he lived for more than 30 years when a street sweeper owned by fort Meyer Construction Company backed over him. He was sucked under the truck and he was run over twice and he did live for some time afterward. The Construction Company failed to have the proper safety procedures in place the day of the accident. There should have been a flag man. There should have been someone out there to keep pedestrians out of the way of this struck. Our understanding is all of the precautions were not in place that there were certain safety guidelines that were not followed and well know about this after we receive more of a complete investigation. Reporter another of garys sons told news 4 how he had just given his dad a new pair of cowboy boots as a present. Dad with his boots on and thats the way he wanted to go. Thats the way and thats how i want to remember him with his boots on. We reached out to fort meier construction and they did not return our calls and emails and back in june the company did extrees sympathy for the familys loss and declined to comment because of the ongoing investigation. The family says the lack of a flag man wasnt the only thing missing that caused their fathers death. Jim and wendy . Mark segraves, thank you. The mother of two children who had been missing for more than a year now will remain in the psychiatric ward. A judge told katherine hoggle to continue treatment finding her incompetent to stand trial. Hoggle is charged with neglect and the abduction of her children sarah and jacob. The kids disappeared last september and hoggle will be back in court in november. Thieves seemed to be targeting asian restaurants in Northern Virginia. At least six places hit so far and all of them have glassfront doors. Our Northern Virginia bureau chief julie carey is live at the most recent breakin to explain. Jules . Reporter when we pulled up earlier they were just finishing work on this brand new glass door. Take a look inside the waste can here. Thats whats left of the front doors of three businesses in this plaza all burglarized overnight and Loudoun County investigators think as many as a half dozen businesses were burglarized lately and those businesses might be connected. The finishing touches being put on a brand new glass door at this chinese restaurant. This is what it looked like earlier at the nail salon next door and at the indian restaurant. Ling has run oriental express for 21 years. She says when the chef arrived this morning he called with the bad news about the smashed door and this. They took my Cash Register, the whole Cash Register which is really old and heavy. They just took it and left through the back door. Three other chinese restaurants have also been hit in the last week and the others in the ashburn area. This Restaurant Owner who didnt want her face shown thinks thieves are targeting them because of a false notion. A lot of people think that chinese have a lot of cash in their drawers and thats why they pick chinese. None of the cash drawers have much money. Store owners also think the thieves were looking for Shopping Centers and businesses that either had no security cameras or very few. This one outside in hunan village wasnt working properly. That Restaurant Owner who also wanted her identity concealed says the breakins leave her uneasy. I cant feel safe anymore, and when i leave before at nighttime. For a small business, this is a big hit. Why would they do that . We are all here and they tried to, you know, make a living. And its a shame. Replacing these glass doors anywhere from 400 to 1200 at one of the restaurants. Ill tell you what the Loudoun County Sheriffs Department wants all of the restaurants in Loudoun County and the small shops to do before they lock up tonight. Back to you now, jim. Julie, thank you. Some of d. C. s gun laws are unconstitutional. A federal Appeals Court says the city cant require gun owners to reregister a gun every three years and make a gun available for inspection or pass a test about firearm laws and the court struck down a ban on more than one pistol a month and the requirement that gun owners be fingerprinted, photographed and complete a Safety Training course. D. C. Passed the laws after a Landmark Supreme Court ruling striking down the citys ban on handguns. A new and developing story on capitol hill is expected and the house has passed a bill that would end federal funding for planned parenthood for a year. Republican lawmakers outraged for an antiabortion group. They say it shows planned parenthood illegally profiting from tissue sales of fetuses. Planned parenthood says it didnt profit and its done nothing wrong and that the tapes were deceptively edited. The wall street journal reports abortions make up an extremely small amount of planned Parenthood Services and the Congressional Budget Office says federal money can only be used for abortions at planned parenthood in rare circumstances. Planned parenthood received half a billion in funding each year. The iteam was the first to show you how crooks were taking off with bicycles at metro stations. Now, well check to see if metro is doing a better job at protecting your stuff. From tragedy to hoax. After a deadly accident takes the life of teenagers in a band, there is a new way that their legacy will live on. After years of delays and millions of dollars in cost overruns. The Transit Center is about to open. This is chris gordon with information com right now at 5 15, bus riders are preparing for the Silver Spring Transit Center to open this weekend. After years of delays it becomes metros second largest transit facility just behind the pentagon. Chris gordon shows us what to expect this weekend. Hi, chris. Reporter there it is, the Silver Spring Transit Center after five years of delays and cost overruns of 50 million and allegations of substandard construction methods and all of that has resulted in litigation and tonight people are not talking about the problems and theyre excited about the future and the grand opening here on sunday. Busses have been trending for weeks inside the Silver Spring Transit Center. The first and second floors will be for bus traffic only. The third floor off bonnfit street will be for kiss and ride, car share and taxis. Currently busses drop off passengers on the streets surrounding the Transit Center, leaving passengers with a long walk to the metro station. All of these changes may at first be confusing, but this sunday and monday, plenty of supervisors will be on hand to help commuters get around. What they can expect is to see a lot of metro staff out there to support and assist them. Direct them to what bus stop they need to take and where their busses are located, and they can expect to see a great facility that will make their commute a lot easier. Metro today gave us these facts and figures. The Silver Spring Transit Center cost 141 million and they anticipate it will handle 20,000 boardings on weekdays and 120 busses per hour will be in and out of the facility during peak usage. Today we have some pass everyoningers here how they think the new Transit Center will change their daily commutes. Im definitely faster, easier and appearance wise it will be better for Silver Spring maryland. Being looking forward to it . Definitely. I use the train so i will be excited for this. Its going to be helpful and usable for everybody who just needs to get around without a car, so reporter now ahead, one Community Leader says the Silver Spring Transit Center will not only be a good thing for the future of this area and those people who use it, but for businesses throughout our entire region. That part of the story coming up on news 4 at 6 00. Wendy, back to you. Chris gordon, thanks, chris. Ten years in prison for the woman who ran over two men in arlington during an incident that was caught on video. Alexandra mendes was sentenced today following tearful testimony in the courtroom. This Surveillance Video from january shows mendez driving into the m. K. Auto park and crashing into several cars. Two nearby Business Owners tried to stop her, but she kept on going and she nearly killed one of the men, seriously injured the other. Investigators are scouring Prince Georges County right now looking for the shooter who killed one woman and put a man in the hospital. Heres Megan Mcgrath in temple hills. An suv and a sedan towed from the parking lot. Police spent the night going into this ground floor unit in the gateway at that points and several items were 15 from the scene in evidence bags. We cant go in the house yet and everything is blocked off already and they had the front blocked off, too. Police got the call for shots fired around 10 00 thursday night and when officers arrived they found a woman dead inside the apartment. A man was found shot outside the building. People who heard the commotion last night were reluctant to talk on camera. Off camera they heard three gunshots. One resident said she heard a screaming as those shots rang out. The man who was shot is still in the hospital. Hes listed in critical condition. In temple hills, Megan Mcgrath, news 4. A Community Mourning the loss of three teenagers will honor their memory through scholarships. Kyle mathers, dale nymore and holly novak all from herndon were killed in a car accident last month in texas. Two of their friends were hurt. Tomorrow the Community Holds a Family Fun Day in their honor and the goal is to raise money for band scholarships in memory of the three students who were all band members at herndon high school. Its time to remember these kids in a positive spirit and bring the Families Together to understand how sensitive life us is and how fragile it is and to have fun with your kids. The fundraiser is from 11 00 to 4 00 tomorrow at woodys golf range on Leesburg Pike in herndon, and if you cant make it and want to donate, go to nbc washington and search banned scholarships for a link. More people in the district are joining the fight against synthetic drugs. How the laws could be changed to keep the drug dealers behind bars. And we travel down to cuba ahead of the popes visit tomorrow and we learn why there are so many atheists who will greet him on this holy trip. Im Darcy Spencer in northwest washington. They call them alley cats, stray cats, homeless cats and people who are sad vok ats of a program who deals with these animals are who deals with these animals are concerned i was at my shop tied up with a customer when i realized the time. I had to get to the bank before it closed, so i made a break for it. When i got out it was almost closing time. Traffic was bad. I knew i was cutting it close. But it was ok. I use td bank. Its got the longest hours and stays open an extra ten minutes every day. Im sid. And i bank human at td bank. Now your storm team 4 forecast. Always talking about how dry things have been lately over the past month, month and a half. This is just one area that has seen fires earlier today. Weve seen a couple of fires over the last few days and this one over in damascus, about five acres burned underneath some power lines and that was the good news. This was not in a populated area. No homes were affected by this. That was very good news there, but it did burn about five acres and i mentioned the fact that its been dry and we talked about it all week long. We are three and a half inches below average and look at the area that is abnormally dry here and this is from the National Drought monitor and many areas will continue to be on the dry side. Theres no real chance of any significant rain in the next seven days as far as the forecast is concerned. Theres the reason why. Nothing, but sunshine across our region. Look at the grass, the brown grass toward National Airport and 85 degrees and winds out of the south at 9 Miles Per Hour and everybody on the warm side and 86 in frederick and 75 over toward fredericksburg and winchester coming in at 82 degrees. No rain. We continue to need the rain, but its all because of this area of High Pressure thats just sitting on top of us. Not only are we not seeing rain. Were not seeing any cloud cover clouds for days. It does look like those are going to be changing in a big way with a couple of systems coming our way. Overnight low temperatures, first off this evening and looking good for that, tomorrow morning, 55 in leesburg and 58 in la plata. So if you do go outside and you will need the jacket. Tomorrow no jacket at all and as a matter of fact, were on the hot side and 88 in d. C. And 87 in leesburg, and abundant sunshine and tomorrow, temperatures will be ten degrees above average and if you have outdoor plans and it will be a bit humid and temperatures will rise quickly and 78 degrees by 11 00 a. M. And 1 00 around 84 and by 3 00 were sitting around 88 degrees and one of those, vents going on and the thunderbirds going on for the air show and plenty of sunshine, hot again in the upper 8 s a0s bring the umbrella, not for the rain, but the shade. You dont want to obscure anyones vision, but it would help with the sun. 79 degrees and thats because of a cold front that comes through. That cold front will bring in clearing skies, but also becoming rather breezy. It will bring in windy conditions and youll see falling temperatures during the day on sunday and then well see the changes just in time for the pope to arrive and veronica has more on that coming up at 5 45. Now at 5 00, the news 4 i team was the first to show you how crooks were stealing expensive bikes at metro stations. Now weve learned about a dramatic change. Plus, we are following breaking news that involves a little girl known as baby doe who was found in the trash. A News Conference is going on with details on who has been arrested. Is it history or is it offensive . Im Tracee Wilkins. Coming up on news 4. Its the symbol being debated all across the youre watching news 4 at 5 00. For more than two decades, the Confederate Flag has flown high at the Charles County fair despite the controversy over what that flag represents it will fly again this week at the fairgrounds. Our Tracee Wilkins is live at the fair with one group wo refuses to back down. Tracee . Reporter jim and wendy, this is a very magnificent fair that they put on down here in charles conte. Its the last place youd expect to see some controversy. This display of the sons of confederate veterans have been here at the Charles County fair for decades and Janice Wilkins says. Every time we see it, we have a reaction. A negative reaction. Thats why she, the president of naacp said wednesday that the Confederate Flag displayed here be removed and it has been, but it is still displayed in various other forms. We can only look back a few months ago at the tragedy in charleston where that Confederate Flag was used and displayed and then nine innocent people were murdered. That boy was just ignorant. He was misled. He probably knows really nothing about the history of the flag. Reporter jim dunbar, the sons of confederate veterans, dylann roof and his association with the Confederate Flag shouldnt erase this part of American History . Im sorry theyre offended, but if they would take the time to learn the history of the flag. Its a dark time in American History, the flag symbolizes for many africanamericans, hate, bigotry and slavery. Reporter many walked by the table without noticing it at l all. For those who did, these people mean no harm. As long as we have a platform and were not acting ugly about it or calling people names or speaking out of turn, i think, you know, live and let live. Reporter coming up on news 4 at 6 00, we speak with the lead Organization Organizer of this fair and what he thinks and hes the one who had to approve it. Im Tracee Wilkins, news 4. A former teacher in our area just found guilty in a sex abuse case involving a restaurastuden. This happened in High Point High School in 2013. Brown had worked at the school as a special ed teacher and also coached the schools football team. Hell be sentenced next month. D. C. Mayor Muriel Bowser wants to make sure you know that there will be enough First Responders to handle any neighborhood calls while the pope is in town. She made that promise on wamus politics hour this afternoon. Mayor bowser also wants you to stay off the roads as the pope travels throughout the city. We want all washingtonians and everyone commuting throughout throughout the city to pay special attention to the closures and just avoid those areas. Pack your patience. Federal workers are being encouraged to telework, and a lot of private schools are going to close. Mayor bowser has ordered all Public Schools and offices to stay open next week. Along with road closures and transit delays, the popes impact will Impact Capitol bike share. On wednesday and thursday there will be no regular morning corral services at 21st and foggy bottom or 13th and new york avenue in mcpherson square, but bike share will offer special, unlimited coring at both 10th and constitution where the pope will be holding his mass. That means Staff Members will be there to collect bikes since the return racks will likely be overfilled. Even though there are 25,000 tickets to the event and there are only 3,000 capitol bike share bikes in circulation, so the most we can expect is 3,000 is throughout the region. Weve posted a list of all bike share stations that could be impacted as well as the road closures that you can expect next week in our nbc washington app. Bike owners are doing a better job protecting their bikes at the metro rail stations. A review of the subways crime shows a 20 drop in bike thefts from this time last year. A recent investigation by scott mcforland and the iteam caught some in the act. Good evening, wendy. More surveillance cameras and better bike locks. To be clear, thefts are still happening and video obtained by the news 4 i team showed it a month and a half ago on the College Green line. Watch the screen. You can see a man use a pair of bolt cutters he took from his backpack and chopped off the lock of the green bike and about a minute later he takes the bike away. This man is charged with a felony for stealing another bike from another station the next day. The iteam found a sharp drop in bike thefts and metro stations region wide, down from 257 at this point last year to 215 in the first nine months of this year. The agency says there are still hot spots including college park and noma stations, but theyve deployed more surveillance cameras and the agency says riders who have been registering their bikes at metro police get newer, better ulock to prevent theft according to the news 4 iteam investigation last year. Metro says it is seeing a large number of thefts overnight. People who leave their bikes at stations instead of bringing them home. Jim . Scott, thank you. Tonight, were getting a look at what downtown Silver Spring will look like and these are rendering over the elsworth place redevelopment. Its replacing fenton street and elsworth drive. Bethesda magazine reports a grand reopening is planned for the spring. It is quite a controversy over cats. Why some people are fighting over whats going on in some d. C. Alleys. And a new arrest connected to the South Carolina church massacres. Why the friend of the accused gunman is in trouble with the law even though he came forward to police. Today this man pleaded not guilty to charges that he lied to investigators about the Church Shooting in charleston. Joey meek is a friend of dylann roofs, the man accused of killing nine people in the bible study. Meek told an fbi agent he didnt know about roofs plan to shoot the church goers, but the fbi says thats a lie. Meek faces up to five years in prison if convicted. An alarming study about nfl players and brain disease raising new questions about the safety of the countrys most popular sport. 87 of 91 former professional Football Players tested positive for a degenerative brain disease that is linked to depression and dementia. The disease is believed to occur after repeated blows and trauma to the head. Researchers from Boston University and the department of Veterans Affairs shared their findings with pbs. The players brains were tested after their deaths. Scott mcfarland at the live desk. Breaking news now. News 4 has learned of a multimillion dollar lawsuit just filed in d. C. Federal court against the fig olive restaurant in d. C. This is after salmonella illnesses by people who were eating at the restaurant. It has since reopened and cleared with the department of health. News 4 learned a d. C. Woman has filed a multimillion dollar lawsuit and Product Liability about fig olive restaurant and we are reaching out to the restaurant for reaction. More information on the suit and reaction as it comes in, jim. Its a sad story that gained national attention. What happened to baby doe . Now investigators have identified a little girl whose body was found in a trash bag. Well tell you how they found her mother. And it could mean more healing for the cubanamerican relations. How the pope is going to play a key role in the historic change. David culver has the report from havana. A chance of rain not nearly as high or as great. Ill show you the adjustments ill show you the adjustments that weve made to what can i make for you . How about one of our reuben sandwiches . Choose from tender corned beef or oven roasted turkey breast, topped with sauerkraut, melty swiss cheese and thousand island dressing. Enjoy one while theyre here subway. Eat fresh. Baltimore is moving ahead with those police body cameras. Chief jim johnson announced today that officers will begin wearing 150 cameras next summer. About 1400 more will be deployed in 2017. The cameras follow the death of freddie gray in Police Custody in april. The death prompted violent protests in the city, youll recall. Six officers will be charged and supporters say the cameras will keep the city safer. The police union say the cameras arent needed. Today bipartisan members of congress are uniting against one common foe. Synthetic drugs. Norton is cosponsoring a bill that will change the way drug cases are prosecuted and it would put the focus the distributors and not the users. They tell news 4s iteam prosecuting synthetic drug cases is challenging because manufacturers often change the chemical compound to skirt federal regulations. This bill would add more than 300 chemicals to the governments prohibited list. A whole lot of fun on tap for the bluebird blues festival tomorrow noon to 6 00 at Prince Georges County. Im going to be there. Youre going to be there, too. Tom will be there and the storm team 4 truck will be there and this is a great way to extend summer because weve got summer temperatures, music. Food and shortsleeves, shorts. Really dress for the summer heat and make sure you do the sun block and of course, stay hydrated because it is a split weekend. One day will feel like summer and the other day will feel like fall. So lets talk about the temperatures and where theyre going, between noon and 6 00 p. M. We will have those temps in the 80s from the low 80s to the mid80s by 6 00 and we peak at 88 and thats at prince Georges Community college. Hot and sunny and each a little sticky, too, and what happens after saturday and its all blue. The average high, 79 degrees and its got a cool pattern coming up for the next couple of days to follow. The evening planner forecast going out, splendid. The temperature getting into the late evening and its still nice under a mostly clear sky and a nice starry sky for us. I think it will be relatively comfortable early in the day tomorrow and humidity not too bad where 56 and the cooler spots and to 67 right inside the beltway and a really nice start, but again, its not just going to be toasty warm like today and it will be sticky so that 88 degrees that we get for a high, d. C. Down toward stafford and fredericksburg and close to waldorf will feel more like 90 degrees tomorrow with the humidity. This is what happens on sundy. Watch the cloud cover come into the area. Thats the weather front right on top of us by noon, 1 00 and its east of us by 3 dlok, 4 00 and that mean, i think that our temperatures will max out early in the day, about one or two, upper 70s and well fall through the 70s by the afternoon hour and anything that you will do on sunday, make sure you take the jacket and make sure you account for a little wind that will feel more like fall on sunday. So feeling nice. We have the changing minds walk for Suicide Prevention and that will be taking place over in manassas at the herods pavilion. Temperatures topping out in the mid to upper 70s. So washing the car this weekend and weve got showers coming up on monday and tuesday of next week. Good weekend for getting the run in, but i dont know. I would hold off in terms of washing the car until we get through next week because of those rain chances. A weekend that is split as we look ahead and a cool pattern for us. Monday right now, some showers throughout the area. 74 degrees, the High Temperature when the pope arrives on tuesday during the afternoon hours. 78, were 76 on wednesday for a lot of those activities and notice, weve got a lot of cloud cover around, and it will be on the cool side and even for tuesday and i cant rule out an early day sprinkle and all in all, well need that rain and well have that coming up next week. We do. V. J. , thank you. Before his highlyanticipated trip to the u. S. Pope francis will visit cuba. His plane is expected to land in cuba tomorrow. Hell visit three cities in the island nation. Its expected he will help strengthen the newly reestablished relationships between the american and cuban governments. While reporting in cuba last month, news 4s david culver spoke with cubans anxiously awaiting the popes journey. Reporter outside this havana Catholic Church known as el carmelo, the signs been up for months affection ately welcomin el papa francisco. They look at him as their son, their brother, their parent. Benedictine monk padre john says the American Flag now flies over the u. S. Embassy in havana, 54 years of severed relations requires much more healing. Enter, pope francis. His plan is to follow up, to follow up what he started in the relation between usa and cuba. Reporter on our trip last month, construction crews worked under the havana sun, trying to get things ready. We are standing in la Plaza De La Revolucion and the plaza of the revolution and carries significance, che guevera and you will see jose marti, all very important revolutionary figures in cuba. Then you look behind me here and you can see a lot of construction going on. This is an altar. Above it, the cross. Its here pope francis will celebrate mass as his two predecessors did, john paul ii in 1998 and benedict in 2012. Each visit further breaking down the harsh restrictions against the faithful. A catholic stronghold, even. The revolution expelled the church from cuba, for many, atheism became a way of life. You dont believe anything . Angel luis among them. He and his wife run a bed and breakfast in havana. Despite not being catholic, hes thankful for the pope for what hes done in brokering the deal. Hes hoping the new relations will soon allow them to visit their sons in miami. He smiles telling me, hell be among the thousands ready to greet the holy father. Padre jacques says thats exactly who the pope wants to see. He always said jesus has not been going around looking for christians, looking for catholics. He has been going around looking for anybody. Tomorrow morning on news 4 today, david takes a closer look at the growing catholicism in communist cuba. Here at the live desk were following breaking news out of boston. Police are searching for who killed baby doe, and it looks like theyve made a break in that case. Weve learned the little girls mother and her boyfriend have both been arrested. The boyfriend is now facing murder charges. The little girl was recently identified today as bella bonn. She was just shy of 3 years old when she died. The arrests are coming after a search warrant was executed last night after someone tipped off police that bellas mother mentioned something about her death. Prosecutors just wrapped up a press conference in boston. In the tragedy of her death is compounded by the fact that her short ended not by illness or accident, but we believe by an act of violence in the very place where she should have felt safest, in her home. Weve also learned that the department of families and Child Services did have two cases that involved bella, but they were both closed. One was in 2012 and another one a year later. Wendy . Chris lawrence. And then new at the top of the hour, protesting the pope. Find out why some lawmakers are going to boycott pope francis speech to congress. Its a fight thats spilling into d. C. s back alleys. Well introduce you to the cat lady who is leading the charge. A live report he weve learned a lot of details of the brazen escape of the two in new york and matt lauer spoke to joyce mitchell. Tonight youll be hearing from her husband. She told you a lot of lies and there were other things she just didnt tell you at all. How do you stay by her side . I love my wife, but i believe that she was protecting her family. In the beginning . Everybody hurts and everybody else does and it got out of hand. Matt lauer reports tonight in a special edition of dateline and join us afterward for news 4 at 11 00. The people who help take care of alley cats in the district are afraid that the city will make them stop, but city leaders sayheyre not going to happen. They simply want to review the program after theyve gotten some complaints. News 4s Darcy Spencer tells us what the controversy is all about. Reporter wendy, im standing in an alley here in northwest washington. We interviewed a selfdescribed cat lady who comes here to take care of four stray cats. There is a lot of passion in this controversy. You have the selfdescribed cat people, but on the other hand you have people who dont necessarily of the to see the animals Walking Around the city and theyre subject to cold weather, to heat, to abuse and they prey on birds and other wild life. Kitty, kitty, kitty dana hubbard feeds patty, rocky and the other cats in this alley in northwest washington every day. They all know me. They all call me the cat lady and i come by on my bicycle, hello cat lady. If you would have told me when i was 20 years old that i would be proud of being called the cat lady, i would have died. They trap, neuter and return wild cats into the community. She and others consider it a necessary alternative to putting them down. It keeps the rats away, too. Thats a good thing. But she and other supporters are concerned that the district could change or possibly do away with the program. Were still at that number of 71 decline in euthanasia. A d. C. Council Committee Forum was held to discuss the wild life action plan. It will review tnr. Leaders say the program will not be eliminated, but some changes may be needed. Domestic cats are a nonnative predator species and when let loose outside they kill native bird, chipmunks, birds, lizards and other small animals. I think it is much more humane to sympathy euthanize them. I think it can be done in a gentle way and a miserable existence. D. C. s department of energy and environment trying to find some Common Ground so the birds and the cats can live in harmony. I get lots of pleasure out of making sure these cats live long, happy lives and knowing that all of the people around here love them and that we all know each other and we have community. New at 6 00, donald trump is getting slammed by both sides. Tonight, its what hes not saying and where he did not show up today. A major Transit Center about to open after years of delays. Well show you the big impact on our region. The popes historic trip to cuba and just hours away, some lucky winners got their hands on tickets today to see the pope in washington. Good evening, we begin with the president ial race and the controversy thats already grown so heated and donald trump cancelled a Major Campaign appearance tonight. The question is whether he is going to apologize. Nbcs dave wagner is live at the Heritage Action president ial forum where ten other candidates will speak and where donald trump was expected to be, dave . Yeah, doreen and jim. Its not what donald trump said its what he didnt say after a controversial comment from a supporter in new hampshire. It is the latest eyebrowraising moment in a campaign filled with them. We have a problem in this country. Its called muslims. We know our current president is one. You know hes not each an american. We need this and anyway, we have Training Camps growing where they want to kill us. Thats our question. Well be looking at a lot of Different Things and a lot of people are saying that, and a lot of people are saying that bad things are happening out there. Donald trump did not correct the supporters statement. His Campaign Later saying christians need support in this country. Their religious liberty is at stake. Chris christie while he wont lecture trump he would have handled it differently. If somebody at one of my town Hall Meetings said Something Like that i would correct him and say the president s a christian and he was born in this country. Democratic president ial candidate Hillary Clinton said he was appalled by trumps response. I would call on him call on all of the
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