When the suv crashed, touching off a manhunt that lasted more than an hour. The guy went off the road into the trees here and thats when all hell was breaking loose and they called in for extra airships and police units. Reporter a helicopter circled over the area as police from Montgomery County, d. C. , secret service and maryland parks all responded. It all came to an end at 47th and mass in spring valley, one of washingtons most exclusive neighborhoods. Coming up on news4 at 6 00, police are investigating whether the suspect committed yet another crime while he was on the run. Reporting live from northwest, Darcy Spencer, news4. A young mother is now dead, killed as the district still grapples with this rising gun violence. Her name is tenika fontanelle. She was shot and killed and her 12yearold son recovering after he was also shot in their apartment. Their 17yearold neighbor is now charged in this case. And today, fontanelles family told us that her son was shot trying to protect
To help kids maintain what they learned throughout the year. We joined those kids for the first day back. Summers over here at Samuel Tucker elementary school. The front office has a buzz and school is in session here in alexandria. Okay, questions, go ahead. If you are saying, school, already . Youre not off. It was a fiveweek summer vacation, and just four weeks for staff. Out of 14 Elementary Schools in the division, tucker is the only one in class today. Principal renny pascal. The statistics have not confirmed anything other than what common sense already shows teachers every day, that when our kids come back to school today, theyre ready to go. Theyre going to be pretty much right on mark with where they left off on june 22nd, which was our last day of school. When i walked into the first grade class, it looked like any other day. The hunter searched for whales in the cold seas of the far fourth. Al san diaw Public Schools leave it up to each school to decide what works best thei
Well, sure, two years ago i offered legislation to allow kids to ride free on the metrobus. Oh, the buses are working. Yes. This year, we expanded the program to allow kids to ride free on metro rail. I think many people dont realize this, but we are an urban environment. We have only a school bus that serves a small number of our kids. Every other child, either walks to school or catches Public Transit or is dropped off by a parent. For some children, theyre leaving their neighborhood to go to school so they had to pay to get to school. Parents were spending at least 30 a month, kids were riding the bus and even more if they were riding the train. Kids ride free on metrobus has been hugely successful in helping families. Bottom line cost into the month. Thats 30 a month they could put towards extracurricular activities, books for their kids, Electronic Devices that help with learning. So we want that money to stay in the home. So our school bus is a metrobus. And the rail helps with t
News4 today starts now. Welcome back to news4 today. Im david culver. Im angie goff. Right now, at 9 00 a. M. , pandemonium, one of the viewers saying, pandapalooza. I like that one. People are bursting with excitement over the new twins here at the national zoo. We have new information from the News Conference that just wrapped up. You can hear them there. Smoke and alarms going off at a metro station. Why metro insists everything is just fine. Will he or wont he . The popup meeting indicating Vice President biden may make a run for the white house. A lot to cover. We sure do. We want to start with the two new panda cubs. Thats right. Mei xiang had twins. We are putting everything we learned about the little ones on the nbc washington app right now. Theyre the size of sticks of butter right now. So we have two sticks of butter. We have news4s derrick ward live at the national zoo where they say everybody is excited. But youre hearing from officials and theyre very cautious too, right
Hours. The testimony has included kanes staffers and Montgomery County detectives. At this point, kane continues to deny wrongdoing, saying she did not break state law. She has also resisted calls for her to resign. Some that go as high as the governors office. Live in Montgomery County, mitch blacher, nbc 10 news. Meanwhile, headaches on wall street and around the world today. It has been a stomachchurning ride on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange today. The dow dropped more than 588 points today after a bad day on friday, too. It is part of a global wave of selling triggered by signs of an economic slowdown in china. Nbc 10 National Correspondent brian mohr joins us live from washington with details. Reporter the sound of todays opening bell was accompanied by the smell of beer. From the opening bell, it was a roller coaster of a day on wall street. The dow plunging lower, lower and even lower in just the first 5 30. The dow is down 1,000 points. Reporter the numbers climbed b