Breaking news in the alexandria section of fairfax county. A man has been shot and killed. This is happening in the 5700 block of general washington drive. We do know that deputies say the suspect is in custody. And that suspect apparently confronted someone he knew and then killed that person. Fairfax county Police Say One other suspect ran away. Clearly an Ongoing Investigation as we get updates and well pass them along to you. We welcome you back to news4 today on this saturday, april 29, 2017. Im david culver alongside angie goff. We are bracing now for what could be the hottest day of the year so far. We were in the 70s and feeling like the summer weather. Youre feeling allergies. My nose is running aaway from me because the pollen count is high, too. A chance of a shower. Lets go to tom. Break it all down for us. I think, tom, are you were outside, there you are. How does it feel out there . Reporter it is warm and muggy. We have a gray sky on the weather deck here in northwest w
Right now on news4 this week, moving up. Marylands top prosecutor gets a job at the u. S. Justice department. Well look at one of the biggest cases hes leaving behind in Prince Georges County. Memorial mess. A solemn reminder of metros biggest crash in need of a makeover. Well tell you when it could happen. And keeping kids home. We go behind the social media explosion surrounding d. C. s missing children and debunk some of the myths. Announcer welcome to news4 this week. Hi, everybody. Im lauren ricketts. Marylands top cop is leaving. Longtime federal prosecutor Rob Rosenstein begins work in the coming days. Thats u. S. Deputy attorney general. While rosenstein is stepping into a new ro h one of the biggest in Prince Georges County. Scott macfarlane sat down with rosenstein to talk about the fup of that case. Reporter Rod Rosenstein oversaw thousands of local cases, serving since 2005 in three president ial administrations. Among the big local cases hes handled, the highprofile ongoin
Intentionally set a woman on fire. And the Health Care Vote is on. Congress ready to try again to replace obamacare in a matter of hours. Good evening. Tonight that inmate, that dangerous inmate who escaped in maryland last week is finally back in custody. David watson is his name. He managed to break free last friday while being transferred to the hospital for mental evaluation. It started a days long search. Somebody reported seeing a suspicious man in the woods. Police say the 28yearold man freed himself from handcuffs and waist chain while riding in a prison van and then overpowered officers. Police tell us they found watson lying inside an 18 inch drainage pipe. He was in good health. They are promising more updates tomorrow morning. He is facing charges and serving sentence of 100 years in delaware for attempted murder. More breaking news in what sounds like a disturbing case of domestic violence. A woman apparently set on fire tonight in the district. Police responding to the ca
Incidents . The tone of the town hall stayed positive. Issues like this will continue to happen in the future. Not just here at au, but around the country as well. Now we have the opportunity to be proactive and to help create a procedure so that members of our community can have a level of transparency and support that is necessary when dealing with biasrelated incidents in the future. Reporter of course prompting the town hall meeting today, the banana incidents on monday, those hate crimes. This is Surveillance Video from Campus Police of the person of interest in this case. They are still looking for that person. Theres a 1,000 reward. Coming up, wendy, tonight at 6 00, whether students at the town hall meeting found it to be productive. Back to you. Thanks, kristin. Congresswomen who are members of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority are strongly denouncing this incidentnd joined that group on capitol hill this afternoon. The group noted the symbolism of hanging fruit, recalling the dark p
Reporter susan hogan with more on this. As we were to first report online earlier today, General Motors is offering a free fix to thousands of vehicles, this is a direct result of a federal investigation into whether the car maker went far enough with its initial recalls more than two years ago. The investigation comes after an additional 128 gm owners complained to the national highway traffic and Safety Administration that their headlights failed, but their vehicles were not part of the recall. In one complaint the owner of a 2007 chevy trail blazer says he was almost killed when the low beam headlight went out while driving at night but the recall does not include his vehicle. The owner of a 2006 buck lacrosse said our headlights quick working and even the make, model and year of their car was included, their vin number was not in april, was called a recall query. To set the scope of the initial recalls. Looking into the possibility that another 317,000 more vehicles may be recalled