About this threat. News never stops on news 4. We will let you know on the latest on the search of the robot of the white pickup truck behind me and we will post the information on the nbc washington app and facebook and twitter on nbc washington. Live here on the national mall, im shomari stone, news 4. Troubling new details tonight about a shooting that left a 7yearold boy wounded in the district. That comes on the heels of a violent day in the district. Two People Killed in five separate shootings yesterday. Pat collins in southeast as police try to track down suspects. Pat . Reporter broad daylight gun violence in our city. In this case the victim is a 7yearold boy. In this case, police say the boy was with adults. In this case they say when the bullets started flying the adults ran away and left the boy alone. You thoughtha was going to die, didnt you . I did. I did. My heart i tried so hard to keep his eyes open and i was praying so loud and she was praying that loud, you know wh
Restroom at a d. C. Hotel. Shocking allegations against poultry producers. A debilitating disease. I wish it was me. I really wish it was me. Dee smith and her husband taking aim at alzheimers and offering a message of hope. Check it out. We begin with a major mess at one airport that could impact passengers all over the country in to the weekend. Hello, everybody. Im doreen gensler. Thousands of checked bags couldnt be screened and now diverted to other airports out west. Chris lawrence is at the live desk with the latest. We are watching a meltdown at the phoenix airport. A Technical Glitch caused 3,000 checked bags t flights and almost all ended up in a parking lot here at sky harbor. The tsa experienced what they are calling an unprecedented computer issue and could it automatically screen the bags for explosives. They have been bringing in extra k9 units to do it manually but so many bags were stacking up they had to send them to the parking lot. Now passengers are flying 0 it of
Lightning and they could feel the high winds. I looked out the side doors, thats when i saw this solid sheet of rain and the wind just was really tremendous. Reporter thats not exaggerating from the looks of things around the church. Even inside the lobby area the doors started kind of buckling in and out because of the pressure change. Reporter while crews have begun cutting up whats left of fallen trees and repairing the daniel to power lines, you can seen the damage all over the area and the close calls. And we heard a tremendous loud sound. Reporter parts of the church roof are now in the Church Parking lot, and there are leaks inside where the water came in. Even the cemetery saw some damage but reverend felder is happy no one here was hurt, and he says its hard to think of a better place to be in a storm. Absolutely. We were definitely in gods hands being protected. Reporter and the damage he says, however costly, can and will be repaired. And indeed they consider themselves very
Winds. We have Power Outages in parts of st. Marys and Calvert County from the first storm that came through. That was a storm right in there that moved way up to the north but now were watching this line, this bow echo coming in here and thats what were continuing to watch. So heads up in this area. Severe thunderstorm warning in effect until 6 45 tonight. Lets drive on down to the south, veronica, show you where the potential for the Tornado Warnings are, and look whats happening here. This one right here. This one right here looks very dangerous. This is coming in towards Caroline County. This is Spotsylvania County where we have the Flash Flood Warning but this storm in carolina line county, this is one we will watch very, very closely because eventually it will move towards King George County and then over across the river and towards Southern Maryland, and i expect that to occur within the next half an hour to an hour. If you live in those areas, be ready to take cover. Hopefully
Beefing up the police force in the system to deter these kind of incidents and riders are happy. Just knowing how easy it is for any of those things to happen, its nice to see were taking a stand against these types of activities. Reporter metro is paying over 1 million bucks to bring in private Security Officers who will be responsible for looking over metros revenue collections. That will free up the current Metro Transit Police officers performing that revenue work to then be out in the system. Does metro have enough officers . We probably would never have enough. Probably no one ever does. Reporter more on the way though and riders should start noticing. And metro says officers are now going to start overlapping shifts so they can have higher visibility in late afternoons and evenings, jim. Back to you. Thanks, adam. As it regards that shooting on metros green line this week, we have learned that the suspect, a teenager, has a criminal past. Hes 16 years old. Hes being charged as a