Russia brought down malaysian flight 17. Prorussian militias need to be neutralized said some republicans on msnbc. If the president decides to move forward you will have the support of congress . That will be interesting. Reporter aides say president obama is considering tougher sanctions on russia. And u. S. Intelligence knocking down claims that Ukrainian Government shot down Malaysia Airlines flight 17. A memorial outside the Netherlands Embassy in northwest d. C. Is growing and now there is a new way for people to share their thoughts. The embassy has placed condolence registers in its lobby. If you would like to drop by those books will be out tomorrow from 10 00 a. M. Until noon and from 2 00 to 4 p. M. There is also an online registry. We have a link to that on nbcwashington. Com. Just search the word condolences. It cost lesz than 2. Police say a guy in his 60s attacked a driver. Pat collins is at the scene in northwest d. C. With more. Reporter let me set the scene for you. This is what they call the tinnily town station. Buses come and go here all the time it was in the afternoon. It was broad day light when all of a sudden that attack. The crime, assault with a deadly weapon. Not something you expect here. Reporter the victim, a metro bus driver. Thats crazy, man. Reporter the suspect, a 65yearold man. Just goes to show you cant judge a book by its cover. I dont think it has anything to do with the crime. You have no idea. Reporter because of the bloody scene inside the bus the recovery driver had to wear a hazmat outfit to take it away. [ sirens ] inside this ambulance the victim, a metro bus driver cut in the face by a passenger at the station. His injury is described as a nonlife threatening laceration. This is how sources tell the story. They say the suspect was getting on to a cross town bus headed for brooklyn in northeast. As he got on he got into a fare dispute with the driver. They say the suspect had a knife in his hand and then he hit the driver in the head and then slashed his face. Another driver saw the attack and flagged down some d. C. Cops and they moved in to keep the suspect on the scene. That suspect described as a 65yearold man later charged by metro police with assault with a deadly weapon. And that suspect is expected to be officially charged in court tomorrow. Thanks, pat. Earlier this year the news 4 iteam took alook at assaults on metro bus drivers and found at least 170 drivers had been attacked on the job since 2011. The attacks range from being pepper sprayed to punched. We obtained Security Camera footage of some attacks. Metro Transit Police say arguments over fare payments often trigger the assaults. Metro is working to install shields to protect drivers, planning to install 100 a year until the entire fleet has them. A woman attacked in the middle of the day. Police are looking for a man who they say raped her a couple of blocks from a maryland interstate. The Victim Told Police she was in a wooded area when a man attacked her from behind. Chopper 4 flew over the scene as k9 units searched the area for the attacker. President obama and the United Nations are urging israel and Palestinian Militants to agrooeto an immediate cease fire. Secretary of state john kerry landed in egypt. Casualties continue to mount on both sides. Martin fletcher has the latest from tel aviv. Reporter heavy fighting in the northern suburbs of gaza. There was heavy fighting yesterday and sudden intense area, thats where israel is moving slowly through with tanks and armored personal carriers. The palestinians fight in close range with great amounts of devastation in the area and casualties on both sides. Earlier in the day managed to go through a tunnel and come out in israel. They say they were heading to two settlements in the area but were spotted and one rocket hit one of the groups. There was a gunfight on the ground. Israelis say they killed ten palestinians. The elephant in the room earlier in the day hamas announced capture israeli soldier. We are waiting to hear whether it is true and whether he is dead or alive. Brian williams talked to israeli Prime Minister today about the civilian casualties. Brians report and other reports from that region coming up on nbc nightly news. New developments as plans for the new mgm casino at the National Harbor take shape. It is a 900 million Destination Resort expected to bring in hundreds of jobs. Some people arent happy about it. Tracee wilkins is here to tell us why some residents are upset that the project is moving forward. Reporter the project is moving forward very quickly but there are folks who have been protesting it all along the way. Today i can tell you none of the people were there for todays vote. Some say they have just given up hope. We have been here about a year and a half. Before this we were living on capitol hill. Reporter he lives at National Harbor. He says watching the approval process for the mgm casino has been frustrating for all who have opposition, many of whom stopped fighting all together. They said we give up. Nobody listened to anything. Reporter today the Council Voted eight to one. Impressive project, nothing like we have seen in this area. This is just not the future i was envisioning for prince georges. Reporter District One Council member the only one to vote against the proposal. Critics say the proposal was rushed in order to meet mgms construction deadline. Quickly meant less attention to detail. Reporter Council Member has criticized the casino in the past but voted for it today but has major concerns. Highest on his list is traffic of what a new casino will do to the already congested route 210 and says mgm should have put more money into road improvements. This facility is going to bring in far more money. Reporter he says it is example of the crucial details that have been overlooked. This process works best when you get Robust Community involvement. Unfortunately, the government has said to the people of Prince Georges County we dont really care what you say. You can see how popular this parking lot is. This is one of his concerns, he wanted to make sure that in this agreement the parking lot would remain for folks walking and using walking trails and going over the river. They just got this confirmed this morning. This is how quickly things have been rushing. Mgm is saying they will Start Building as soon as they get their permit. Reporting live at National Harbor im tracee wilkins, news 4. Coming up we will report what a neighbor witnessed moments before a fiery hot air balloon crash and was able to help some of those on board. Targeted twice. A car plows right through a local familys home. Controversial comments from a sheriff in maryland that has him calling for tougher action against undocumented immigrants. Today wasnt too bad out there. What you can count on is more heat and humidity, around 90 degrees the next couple of days. Cloud cover, showers and even thunderstorms. Ill tell you which day is tonight the governor of maryland says his state will try to help thousands of unaccompanied children who are in u. S. Custody after coming across the border. Martin omalley met with 50 religious leaders. News 4 learned the governments First Priority is reuniting the children with family members who may be here. Another idea is finding foster homes or placing them in housing run by a religious group. This is an issue we believe the governor has taken a strong leadership on and most of us in the room support the leadership the governor has given to the situation and we are pleased to come together. Governor omalley will meet with faith leaders to continue talking about ways to help the children. One local sheriff says what maryland wants to do is the opposite of humane. He just got back from a controversial trip to the border and today he spoke with Mark Segraves to speak about criticism. Reporter Chuck Jenkins spent three days along the border to see the magnitude of the problem which he says has a direct relationship to public safety. He says it is time to take military action. Its a tremendous challenge. My fear is they cant do it without a full military deployment, without changes in law and policy. Reporter sheriff jenkins went to the border and saw the toll the priecrisis is having o both sides. Im a father, a human being, i see the struggle. Reporter jenkins says the humanitarian thing to do is to send the thousands of children crossing our borders back. Most fair uncruel way to deal with the issue is to return the children to the countries to their families. Reporter the trip to texas came under fire even before he left town. A Frederick News survey found 55 of the respondents saying the trip was a waste of time and was funded by the federation for American Immigration reform, a d. C. Group labelled as a hate group for antiimmigrant remarks. The fact that they funded the trip has nothing to do with the mission. There was no agenda. Reporter jenkins opponent in the upcoming election doesnt agree. I dont think it was a responsible thing to do and i dont think there is anything to be gained that will be useful here in frederick county. We are only a few days from the border. The gangs come across the borders. They are in frederick. They are in every community. Reporter jenkins is not concerned about the controversy around the trip but concerned about what he says will happen if we dont secure our borders. If we become a third world country where is there to go. He insists there is a link between the flow at the borders and the Gang Activity and went as a representative of the National Sheriffs association and hoping to sway membership to pressure white house and congress on immigration reform. Reporting live, Mark Segraves, news 4. Texas is turning to the military governor perry ordered 1,000 troops to the border today. Those troops will focus on the valley where a majority of the crossings are happening. He also says he hopes the troops will deter criminals who he says have been exploiting the situation. The deployment will happen over the next 30 days. Veronica is here with a look at our weather forecast. We have so enjoyed the nice temperatures. Now we need to look at them in the rearview mirror. They are gone. Back to real summer type of heat around here. Humidity, too. This is a week where we will have to keep the umbrella handy. We are not talking showers but we will have storms and a day or two with severe storms. It is overcast and it looks like it could rain anytime. Storm team 4 has been tracking showers to our south mainly across areas of virginia. Not a lot of this rain has made it up into areas of maryland as of yet. You can see it there right to the north and west of fredericksburg. It is northbound traveling. Just in the couple of minutes you may have a shower there making its way right through the eastern portion of your area. D. C. Those showers might not hit you tonight. Look at the moisture down to the south through the carolinas, north carolina, south carolina, it has been soggy here today and as this weather front hits us this week we have an increased threat of moisture making its way northward. Humid, sticky stuff and storming during the mid point of the week. Right now 83 degrees. Mainly overcast skies but cant rule out a spotty sprinkle or light shower coming our way for the evening. We will move from 83 to 75. Today a cool one for us and our coolest day out of the work week. Tomorrow morning 68 to 73 your range through the area. The south wind tomorrow will allow temperatures to rise close to 90 degrees. I can show you with future weather over the next 48 hours the clouds in the white, rain green and yellow where it will come down a little heavier. Woo eare not talking about moderate rain or heavy rain. At midnight things start to quiet down. Tomorrow morning a partly sunny skies. Filtered sunshine early part of the day and i think tomorrow afternoon we could get filtered sunshine. Here around frederick and leesburg and down south and scattered around. Tomorrow afternoon the possibility of a shower. Better chance on wednesday. Look at it at noon time on wednesday. Looks like a weatherfront coming in because it is just that. The weatherfront really bearing down on us wednesday night, early part of thursday. That is when i think we could see thunderstorms around here, storms that could produce nasty winds and maybe flooding. As far as this evening just a chance for one of the cells maybe bringing a wind gust but not a big deal. Tuesday 89 and close to 90 degrees. There is your heat this week. 93, warmest day out of the work week on wednesday. That is when we have our best threat of seeing more wide spread storms throughout the area. Thursday morning the high 88 with a 60 chance for showers and storms. Right now a weather alert day for thursday could change where it is wednesday and thursday, what follows all of the sticky stormy stuff, nice weather for friday and the weekend. I will have that coming up in just a couple of minutes later in the newscast right here. A maryland hospitals huge payout to thousands of women. The truly disturbing accusations against a gynecologist. Branded a rapist and murderer tonight, an end to one local mans two decade fight to clear his name. Delivering Affordable Homes to the district. Could a College Friend of the suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing has been convicted of impeding the investigation into the attack. He was found guilty today of obstruction of just skps conspiracy. Prosecutors say he agreed with another friend to remove the suspects backpack from his dorm room several days after the bombing back in 2013. That backpack contained empty firework shells. It was recovered in a land fill in massachusetts. Sentencing is set for october. Thousands of women trusted him as their gynecologist but a maryland doctor is accused of secretly recording his patients in the exam room. Now the hospital where he worked is paying out. Investigators say dr. Levy took more than 1,000 videos and pictures with a penlike camera he wore around his neck and they dont believe he shared the images with anyone. Today Johns Hopkins hospital announced it will sell out 199 million to 8,000 patients. The doctor committed suicide last year during the investigation and was never charged. Edward snowden revealing secrets claims sexually explicit photographs intercepted by the National Security agency sometimes were shared around the office. In an interview published in the guard insulin Europe Snowden said members would pass the pictures around and clamds it was seen as a fringe benefit. Snowden has been living in moscow for more than a year now after he tried to get asylum there. A close call as a car barrels through a home in virginia. Reporter a car with a drunk driver behind the wheel plowed through this house, plowed through a bedroom. I will tell you what happened to the people sleeping inside just ahead. That is the sound of changes coming to the parking lot at tysons mall. The reason, the silver line. Reporter im tom sherwood Near Catholic University. Shipping in a new way of building houses with shipping containers. I will have the story coming up. Now at 6 30 a suspected drunk driver crashed through a house. Three people injured. We was sleeping right there. It is not the first time that happened at that house. Reporter metros new silver line sparking changes. And well have Details Behind the new d. C. Apartment Building Made entirely of shipping containers. A car slams into a house and came within inches of a family sleeping in there. Police say the person driving was drunk. It happened in manassas yesterday. Reporter a site that has cars putting on the brakes. This is what it looked like early sunday morning when police say a drunk driver missed the curb and plowed not just into but through this house. Homeowner maria ortero was sleeping upstairs. What happened . What happened . Reporter she tells me she thought there had been some kind of explosion. She ran outside to see this and in that downstairs room that was torn apart by the car a family of three had been sleeping, a couple and their 14yearold daughter. Marias son helps her tell the story from there. People were downstairs and crawling out of the room, bleeding. Reporter this is the video taken later by marias daughter. Oh, my goodness. Reporter remarkably no one was seriously injured although the teenager reportedly suffered a broken arm. She thanked god because there was no death. Reporter the tow truck driver had the challenge of removing the car. It was wild. I have never seen anything like it before. The car was all the way in the back of the house. Reporter the driver of the car initially ran off but police found him and arrested him. He faces multiple charges. Now as you can see from the sign on the door the house has been condemned because of the damage. Get this, this is not the first, but the second time a car has hit this house since she moved in. Luckily the last time the car only came part way into the house. In manassas, virginia, news 4. Fair fks county Police Released a sketch of a suspect accused of attacking a runner on the rocky run trail. She was able to get away and the suspect took off on a bicycle. Police will be canvassing the area this week. A man who spent nearly 30 years in prison trying to prove his innocence is now free. His name is kevin martin. He was convicted back in the early 80s of killing a woman in southeast washington. He spent 26 years in jail paroled in 2009. A recent review by prosecutors revealed that dna evidence at the crime scene has cleared martin of any involvement in the murder. This morning he broke down in tears outside d. C. Superior court. Martin is 50 years old now. He said today at last he is free. The count down is on until riders will finally be able to use the silver line. Metro gave us the time lapsed video showing what the new commute will look like. They are doing test runs all week. The silver line doesnt officially open until saturday but already causing big changes and not just for commuters. Adam tuss is at tyson corner mall with details of how the silver line is affecting parking there. Reporter everybody wants you to take the silver line. They dont want you necessarily to drive to use the silver line. That is the challenge here. That is the station right there. But just off to the right from the station is the mall parking lot. And the challenge for the people at the mall now will be keeping commuters out of these lots. Think youre just going to drive to tysons mall, park in the lot and get on the train . Think again. The work is started to prevent these from turning into make shift commuter lots. Key cards will be required to get in during nonmall hours. The regulars who use the lots are taking the measures in stride. I dont think it is a problem. Most malls have a gate. You think you will be able to come in and go with no problem . I think so. Reporter that is what the train looks like. This is the mall parking lot. What the people here at the mall are worried about is commuters coming here, parking their car and just hopping on the train. A mall spokesperson did send us a statement saying providing ample parking for shoppers and mall employees is our top priority. To that end we will have controlled access to our Parking Facilities before and after mall hours. The new parking system can make it easier for Mall Shoppers to find a spot. It will tell you how many spaces are available on each level. Martin donelly says he hopes the parking system stays the same but he is sure some will try to break the rules. Im sure they will try. Well see if they can figure it out. Reporter and back here now live. The mall parking lot opened at 10 00 a. M. If you want to park in them before that time you have to have one of the key cards. Well see how it all works out. Reporting live in tysons corner, adam tuss, news 4. More than 20 years since metro opened a new line so it will be a busy week leading up to the grand opening on saturday. We will have you covered here on news 4 and on nbcwashington. Com. One year after a no texting and driving law went into effect in virginia drivers are still doing it. Turns out Fairfax County has the most offenders. In the first three months there were 318 convictions in the county followed by Prince William county and Virginia Beach with 126. Loudoun county came in with 50. He has a very personal connection to the Mental Health crisis. Now Virginia State senator is leading a top to bottom review of the states Mental Health system. He is the chairman of a Mental Health reform panel. The goal is to make virginia a model for the rest of the nation to follow when it comes to Mental Health. Deeds son stabbed deeds and killed himself last year hours after being released from a hospital. He fought off hundreds of insurgents even while bleeding out. Today that soldier received the highest honor for his bravery. President obama awarded ryan pits the medal of honor defending an observation post when 200 taliban insurgents attacked. Pits was hit in both legs and an arm but kept fighting and even called in air strikes. You see the humility and loyalty that define americas men and women in uniform. This medal he says is not mine along and belongs to everybody who was there that day because they did it together. He is the ninth living recipient of the medal of honor for valor. A rather unusual living space. Flying just got more expensi expensive. This time the airlines have nothing to do with the price hike. Hike. [ shutter clicks ] hi there [ laughs ] im flo i know im going to get you your rental car. This is so ridiculous. Were going to manage your entire repair process from paperwork to pickup, okay, little tiny baby . Your car is ready, and your repairs are guaranteed for as long as you own it. The Progressive Service center a real place, where we really manage your claim from start to finish. Really. Easy as easy can be bye . You have seen the shipping containers that are used to ship goods all over the country and the world. Soon some people who live in d. C. Will call those metal boxes home. They have been recycled and remodelled and being stacked up in northeast washington to create a trendy new apartment building. Tom sherwood shows us the Building Blocks that are changing the face of a growing neighborhood. Reporter retired Police OfficerLarry Webster here with his granddaughter. He has lived in his home Near Catholic University for 37 years. The neighborhood is changing. Brooklyn was like a Hidden Treasure in the ruff. And it had a ruraltime atmosphere. Reporter a whole complex of new condos, apartments, stores and restaurants is emerging on monroe street. Two doors away from websters house the first of 18 shipping containers being stacked on 7th street to make 24 onebedroom apartments for mostly student housing. You ever thought you would live next to shipping containers . Never. Reporter lead project contractor says the project doesnt need special zoning. The ground floor underneath will be apartments and then three stories, three across. Reporter the container complex replaces a 100yearold house that had fallen into disrepair. Matthew grace, a 2005 graduate lived in and owned the old property. We came to a point where we needed Major Repairs after this winter and had a couple of pipes burst so either overhaul it or do something different. Reporter his fiance is the project architect. They met in school and intend to get this project finished before their wedding and without straining their relationship. We are getting married in september and come hell or high water we are getting this done before we go away. Reporter tom sherwood news 4. If you are planning to buy a plane ticket get ready to spend more money. Prices are going up because the transportation security fee have doubled. The socalled september 11 security fee was 2. 50 for each leg of the trip. Now you pay a flat 5. 60 for all flights and connections longer than four hours will count as a separate flight. The money will be used to reduce the federal deficit and offset security costs. A hot air balloon into power lines. Well show you the dramatic scene as it unfolded on cell phone video. Sprucing up americas front yard. New details behin a terrifying scene caught on video near boston over the weekend. This fire ball is actually a hot air balloon. Five people were in it. It went up in flames as it hit power lines. People nearby watched the scene unfold in horror not knowing what was going to happen to the people on board. Everyone on the balloon survived the crash. Some of them were severely burned. The accident comes two months after a similar incident killed three people in virginia. Reporter this new video of the hot air balloon over clinton, massachusetts, shows how low it was flying minutes before crash landing. The unusual sight caught on camera by eric peterson. He was going pretty low and i thought he was going to land over the hill. Reporter the balloon ultimately crashed into power lines creating two explosions. A dramatic scene on saturday night. You could see the operator was trying to pump up the propane, it just didnt go out. Reporter Dennis Mcdonald was home with his girlfriend. The balloon was coming right for his house. She says look at the balloon. I look at the balloon and it was low. And she says it is not going to clear the wires. Reporter and it didnt. Five people were injured, three with burn injuries. Dennis ran outside to help those on board. First i this is the xfinity sports desk brought to you by xfinity, your home for the from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with brian williams. Good evening. We suspect but dont know for sure that there are loved ones, crash victims, human remains still lying in a field in Eastern Ukraine five days after their widebodied jet was taken out of the sky by a surfacetoair missile. Some of the bodies have been put in bags and loaded into rail cars. Many people have walked through that wreckage and trampled on the evidence and peoples possessions. The president today expressed his frustration, so have civilized people around the world. Incredulous that a commercial air disaster is being handled or mishandled in this way. Its where we begin tonight with nbcs keir simmons in ukraine