Back at that Church Parking lot today, investigators deployed a bloodhound to pick up the trail of that potential suspect. This is the last known sighting of that man and theyre trying to figure out why he brought the stolen car here and what he did after he set fire to it. That was pot collins reporting. And the longtime housekeeper of the family just talked to Megan Fitzgerald about her colleague dying in the home. Megan megans in the newsroom with that part of story. Reporter the woman didnt want to be identified on camera and refer to her as nelly. Nelly has been working for the homeowners for more than two decades. She owns the cleaning company and allowed her friend to work with her at the home so she could make a living. Nelly called her friend vera. Nelly says vera was a close friend of hers and hard working and loved life. Vera came to this country from el salvador to earn money before retiring next year. She said she wanted to work for the family and planned to get off of work at 3 00. But vera never made it out of that home alive. And she send me to a text message that shes not coming with me. That shes going to washington to the woodland to the family. To work over there. And she say, yeah because every time when you take me i always get home late. And i better work here and leave around 3 00 because that was the time that she used to leave. On wednesday. Now, nelly told us she missed the call wednesday night letting her know vera was spending the night. Coming up at 6 00 new details about some of the last communications nelly received from her friend as well as the family. Back to you. All right. Megan, thanks. Remember well send you breaking news alerts from the nbc washington app when there are any developments in this story. Turning now to storm team 4. Blistering heat out there today in the midatlantic and chief meteorologist doug cammerer is tracking the temperatures. Heat index up to 94 earlier and sparking the showers and storms. Storm team 4 radar showing where they are right now. Not very widespread but heavier downpours and see the showers making the way our way and really just developing across the area. Heres some of them toward gaithersburg down through the d. C. Metro area and the potomac. Im going to zoom in here. Continuing to watch that storm down there and then mt. Vernon and yet another down towards the woodbridge area too. Warrenton. A little line drifting south. Culpepper seeing some storms and back to the west lightning with this storm up towards frederick county, virginia. Moving in towards the panhandle of west virginia. Well talk about the storms and talk about some heat relief coming up in a couple of days. A mother says she was this close to catching the man she believes sexually assaulted her 12yearold daughter. Surveillance video shows the man police say attacked a girl at an Apartment Building hallway last wednesday. Friday afternoon Prince Georges County police say the girls mother confronted that suspect but he got away. The man is africanamerican had a tattoo of the world blessed on his neck. And a tattoo of a star on both shoulders. Call police if you see him. Police identified two suspects in a deadly robbery attempt in reston. Rodriguez on the left and may on the right. In these photos face attempted robbery charges right now. Investigators say the pair went into a home on the 11000 block of stone view square yesterday afternoon after an altercation day who was in the apartment at the time was shot and killed. News 4 first identified day at the victim last night. Detectives originally believed the incident was a home invasion. Tonight the investigation into the botched robbery and shooting continues. At the live desk im pat lawsonmuse. A man found shot to death in a crashed car is identified as a 38yearold d. C. Residents. Officers responded to a reported crash at an apartment complex along reed street overnight and when they got there they found Rupert Everton dead from gunshot wounds. A Security Guard in the area telling news 4 he heard rapid gun fire if the middle of the night. Had to be about seven, eight shots. A lot of shots. Yeah. And then what . Then i saw smoke coming from the parking lot area. At this point, police dont have a suspect or a motive in this case. More food trucks are on their way to virginia. Governor came to Tysons Corner today to sign a law allowing the trucks to expand where they operate. News 4 transportation reporter adam tuss is here now with details. Adam . Reporter jim, you know an old virginia law made it illegal for a lot of food trucks to be on virginias streets. Youd have to come here to a popup park to find a food truck but now a change. Thats cooking. Needs another minute. Reporter who doesnt love the food from food trucks . It gives you variety. I think its a little bit more hip in a way. Reporter tastes good fresh, super convenient. Making the area more socialible. Reporter pluses all around. But theres a negative. The access. You see, an old state law made it impossible for these food trucks to operate on many state roads meaning trucks had to find popup parks or get creative. Are we ready . Reporter all that is changed by the governor signing a law for trucks on most roads. The idea that in virginia on vdot roads you are not allowed to have the food trucks i couldnt understand why. It made absolutely no sense to me. Reporter and, of course he had to sample the goods. The head of the dmv food truck association. In places like washington, d. C. And Arlington County this is already the law of the land. Reporter now lot of people saying to themselves hey, i can start a food truck but not so. You have to go through many regulations to get it started, even including fire regulations and health inspections. Is there a traffic concern . Many say as long as the trucks dont block the roads during rush hour everything should be just fine. And back here now live. Here a lot of people cheering this change and say there needs to be better pedestrian connections to get to the food trucks. More at 6 00. Jim, back to i dont. Thanks. We may never see video of the alleged incident that led to an assault charge against christopher barry, the son of the late former mayor. Reached a plea deal today with prosecutors. The younger barry accused of threatening a bank teller and throwing a trash can at her in january. If a judge approves the plea deal video from the bank that day will not become public. Barry lost the bid to take the Fathers Council seat last month. A setback in the search to find a new School Superintendent in Montgomery County. The board of education says dr. Houlihan withdrew his name. This comes just days after the board announced that he was its top choice. The board says its looked at 25 candidates. A rockville couple found murdered in the home and the neighbor arrested in alaska. How detectives tracked down the suspect and the evidence he had with him. And one of the warmest days of the year so far and scattered showers and storms out there on storm team welcome back. Still tracking showers and thunderstorms out there. See them making way across the region. The strongest right now just down to the south and west of d. C. In through porgs of Northern Virginia. This one now has a lot of lightning associated with it. Just to the west of anne arundel. The George Washington parkway dumped on right now. Thats a great road this time of day, isnt it . I think were probably dealing with traffic there. Again, just south and west of washington and now starting to make the way over the potomac. Ill continue to keep you posted. Thank you, doug. President obama thanked First Responders for their work in the deadly amtrak derailment up in philly. He met with them briefly on the way to an event in new jersey today. Amtrak service between philadelphia and new york resume resumed earlier today. Officials with amtrak says crews made infrastructure repairs along the busy northeast corridor. Of the dozens injured, about 20 remain in the hospital 5 still in critical condition. Whether youre starting in philadelphia or just passing through, this is probably the best and safest and most efficient fashion for travel up and down the entire east coast. Still continue a report of philadelphia with reports of something possibly hitting the trains windshield before it went off the tracks. Incredibly chaotic. Thats how witnesses describe the horror of a crash that killed a marine in hawaii. The aircraft crashed and caught fire at a Training Base east of honolulu yesterday. Marine Officials Say it had a hard landing mishap and thats a quote. In addition to the one marine killed 21 other people were hurt. One man who saw it happened said the wreckage was so dramatic. He surprised there werent more injuries. Within 15 20 minutes, this aircraft literally was just a large lump of metal. I mean it was it was incredible. The unit involved in this crash is based at Camp Pendleton in california. Injuries ranged from critical to minor. If you live in maryland and pay income taxes in other states you may be getting a refund. The Supreme Court upheld a lower courts decision today that ruled a tax in the state is unconstitutional. The tax allowed maryland residents to deduct out of state income but did not apply that deduction to taxes for local governments. Maryland argued the tax paid for Services Like public schools. The courts decision could cost the state about 200 million in refunds. The Supreme Court also weighed in on a Class Action Lawsuit involving those automated text messages. That case involved a company sending out 100,000 unsolicited texts to boost navy recruit m. Federal law bans unsolicited text messages. They offered the pay the maximum penalty by law. The navy itself is not part of the lawsuit. 2014 was named the year of the breach as so Many Companies were hacked. 2015 seems to be following the trend and only on news 4, Erika Gonzalez sits down with the man that many of the Big Box Stores turns to when your information is exposed. It takes an organization more than 200 days to figure out theyre breached. 200 days and getting the word out, are they doing all they can to do so . Are you just burned out and hearing about them . I think that we used to feel we were magically protected. Breach after breach after breach. Consumers Sensitive Information is exposed to hackers. It was the weekend before thanksgiving and i was in buying something inconsequential and i used my credit card. Reporter jill tells me her card was one of the 40 million cards compromised in the target data breach. But youve seen the headlines. Target is one of many retailers and Health Care Providers exposing consumers Financial Information and Social Security numbers to potentially nefarious activity. According to the vp of experian consumers arent reacting fast enough. He calls it breach fatigue. Two years ago the fanch consumer only received less than one breach notice in a year. This past 12 months the average u. S. Adult received over 3 note fe cases. Reporter depending on the amount of people, Companies Must information consumers but he says theres more to be done. In nowhere in those laws do they say or recommend social media and i think its a missed opportunity. Reporter target like some other retailers offered jill a free year of credit monitoring with protect my i. D. And a same service the university of maryland gave individuals for five years. It includes monitoring 50 indicators of fraud. Which might be new account openings inquiries, change of address, liens or judgments. Reporter but once that offer expires, it will cost you more than 100 a year. Looking ahead, a recent survey of i. T. And Risk Management professionals shows there may not be significant enough change coming while 54 of those surveyed are investing in new Technology Half said they dont have confidence in emerging payment systems. You know other credit reporting agencies and Companies Offer similar i. D. Protection at Different Levels all of which would significantly cut down the time it would take you or me to resolve the issue ourselves. Thank you. Just call him the tweeter in chief. Six years into Office President obama is now officially on twitter with his own account at potus. The president sent out the first tweet earlier today. Since then hes already gotten more than a million followers. That was fast. The white house says this new official account is a new way for the president to engage with the american people. Were still working that murder case in rockville. Now a man is arrested for killing his neighbors and new at 5 00 the suspects defense attorney is speaking to news 4. And not everybody seeing the rain. If you have the rain man, it is coming down. This is the tower cam. Looking down, heres the potomac here and notice this is rosslyn. The rain is coming down here. Heres the radar showing the showers. Not many of them. Once again, coming down in your area it is coming down. Heres the biggest storm right here along the metro area and potomac and national harbor. Seeing rain there. Lets zoom in right on this guy here. This ones actually building into downtown too. Heres downtown. Heres the mall. You notice the showers and, yeah a lot of rain and a lot of lightning associated with this around the rosslyn area and fox hall as you make your way up toward oh just a typical late july early august afternoon across the area today but of course talking about may. Take a look outside right now. Rain really coming down. National harbor. But some very heavy rain another viewpoint here showing that heavy rain just to the west. Heres downtown. The rain shaft making the way down too. Current temperature 81. That raincooled air. Look at the dew point. 70 degrees. It is oppressive all afternoon. 90 the current temperature at leesburg. 90 in winchester. Look at the heat index. 93 in fredericksburg. 95 toward frederick. A very hot and very humid day and always helps to produce some showers and thunderstorms out there. You just need a little bit of a trigger and today its been the bay, its been the potomac, the storms themselves that have been triggering some stronger storms and a couple of these right through downtown. Again, theres the potomac river, along the potomac right on through d. C. Towards the west and the rosslyn area. It was right over alexandria and shifted to oxen hill. National harbor. 495. That will bring us a slowdown there and then follow it up and then in and around downtown and the heavier showers and then look at this. Right here heres canal road. Agong the gw parkway. A heavy rain cell making way over and seen a lot of lightning with this too. Just to the inside of mclane. Another little zoom here and take you further inland or further into the storm. Canal road. Heres the palisades. Heres Reservoir Road and wisconsin avenue also seeing some of that rain and then into Virginia Military road and down 66 to continuing to see that rain there, too. Theres the lightning associated with that storm. Continues to happen. More storms of warrenton and then down 15 towards cull per. See the storms down there, culpepper county. Frederick county virginia. Martinsburg area. Jefferson county. Berkeley county seeing some showers and thunderstorms. These will continue through the evening. Most of the area is still dry and in the storms they will have fairly heavy down tourpours with the moisture out there. By tomorrow morning, we are done with this. Theyre gone. And tomorrow we start off with some cloud cover. Its another very warm and humid day tomorrow. Yes, a chance for shower activity. Maybe a couple rumbles of thunder and not anticipating anything severe and everything shifts off as a cold front moves out and will really bring us a change in the weather pattern over a couple of days. Look at the numbers. 88 tomorrow. 76 on wednesday. 72 on thursday. 75 on friday. We have some fantastic springlike weather. Wednesday, thursday and friday. And then just in time for memorial day weekend, starts to get warmer. 80 on sunday. Memorial day. Coming up around 88 degrees. Guys . Thank you, doug. A rockville couple found dead in their pajamas. The suspected killer found whale watching in alaska. How investigators tracked him down and what his defense attorney is telling news 4. Why hundreds of people arrested more than a decade ago in d. C. Will receive thousands of dollars. A passenger claims he hacked into commercial jet Computer Systems while they were in flight. And how two Major Airline makers right now at 5 30 the man arrested in connection of a murder of rockville couple could be in court by the end of the week. Scott tomaszewski arrested in alaska charged in the deaths of richard and jody vilardo found dead back on mothers day. News 4 chris gordon is following the story and live in rockville now learning more about this suspect. Chris . Reporter Scott Tomaszewski is a loner, lives here in the house behind me on ridge drive with his mother father and brother. Its just up from the vilardos home. Now, most of the people who live in this neighborhood couldnt tell me a thing about the family or scott but the vilardos apparently knew him and in the past trusted him to take care of their home. Heres what we have learned about 31yearold Scott Tomaszewski whens now charged in the double murder of dick and jody vilardo. Tomaszewski lives with his parents and brother. Down from the vilardos. He doesnt work and not clear if he had any college. For those who live nearby news of the arrest is a relief. That the police did such a good job in finding, total shock, total shock. My heart goes out to the both families. Reporter this is the timeline that helped police crack the case. In 1998 tomaszewski house sitting and there was a burglary and helped police at the time. Then this past april, a burglary across the street on ridge drive. Detectives discovered that tomaszewski pawned items stolen in that burglary. They rested him on a cruise ship with his parents in juneau alaska and found tomaszewski carrying who could be key evidence in the vilardo murder. And the money with blood on it was found on him in his wallet. Correct . In his possession thats correct. Reporter do we know that for sure the blood on the money is the vilardos . You know that has to be analyzed. Reporter Montgomery County states attorney is asking an Alaskan Court to extradite tomaszewski, send him back to m. D. M for trial. I think we would expect if things go as anticipated we would have officers enroute to alaska as early as tuesday night, wednesday at the latest. Reporter coming up at 6 00 tonight, we will hear from the lawyer hired to defend Scott Tomaszewski on these murder charges. And well also hear from Montgomery Countys top prosecutor. Hes taking this case personally and he tells me he wants to try it himself. Thats the latest live in rockville, maryland chris gordon news 4. Learning new details of a murder mystery, a couple and son and one of the housekeepers. Police believe there is more than one person involved and that the victims may have been bound and threatened. Were also seeing new video of the victims car set on fire in a Church Parking lot. Investigators returned to this church today with bloodhounds to try to pick up a trail on a potential suspect. Chaos erupts while people enjoying a meal in a popular Shopping Center in texas. Rival bike gangs clashed. Nine people were dead as news 4 pat muse shows this clash was the latest confrontation in a violent history. Pat . Thats right. By the time it ended in waco many members of the gangs were dead. 18 people were injured. 170 suspected gang members were arrested. Police say the battle between several rival gangs started in the restroom, spilled into the bar and eventually surged into the parking lot. The head of the Texas Department of Public Safety calls the violence unprecedented. The Public Safety department sent Texas Rangers to process the crime scene as well as special agents who target motorcycle gangs. This is a criminal element that came in here yesterday and killed people. Theyre not here to drink beer and eat barbecue. We did some digging the find out who the bandidos are. The Justice Department features them on the list of outlaw motorcycle gangs. The feds say the bandidos involved Drug Trafficking with 900 members. And one journalist says the bandidos see the hells angels as quote, too nice. Texas Officials Say theyre constantly monitoring biker gangs and the violence dates back to at least the 1970s. Im pat lawsonmuse. Back to you. Thank you. The future of Reston National golf course before Fairfax County court. The Reston Association is appeal appealing last months decision by the zoning appeals to open the golf course to development. The association wants to ensure the area remains green space. A few days ago we asked restons planner what he thinks should be done with the area where the golf course is now. Its eess going to be a golf course as far as im concerned but if its no longer a golf course, it should be a park. Simon says he cant imagine residents accepting the loss of the green space and the appeal the association noted that the decision affects other acre age in the area, as well. The Property Owners told us there are no current plans to develop the golf course. Nearly two thirds of Service Members reporting Sexual Assault say theyre also victims of retaliation according to a new report and released by Human Rights Watch today. Interviewing roughly 150 Service Members saying they have encountered reprisals ranging from threats of vandalism to discharges and criminal charges. One of the women interviewed is lieutenant come nol james that told the iteam she believes her 34year career in the National Guard destroyed after she reported she was raped by her supervisor. Theres nothing else i canthey can do to hurt me. They did everything they could possibly do so its affecting change. Thats why im out today. Its affecting change and if i have to speak, shout it from the rooftops, thiss what im going to do. In a statement, a spokesperson with the department of defense tells news 4, quote, we agree that ending retaliation is critical to effectively addressing Sexual Assault in the mail tear and intensifyied our attention to this issue and are taking a number of steps directed by the secretary to better understand the problem and to address it. To see that list of what the d. O. D. Is doing along with this new report visit nbcwashington. Com. Now to the biggest reported victory for isis in iraq. And a major blow to the u. S. Led coalition there. Take a look. Isis posted this video which nbc news not verified to social Media Outlets today. The mill about the group says this shows residents celebrating the isis takeover of ramadi west of baghdad. Thats the same region that saw Many American casualties in the iraq war. Those images belie the intense violence reported in the isis advance on the city. Were getting reports by minute by minute. But we believe that around 500 people have been died in battle. This morning, u. S. Secretary of state john said hes confident the coalition can reverse the isis advance on ramadi. Senator Lindsey Graham is maybe making a run for the white house. He wont make it official until june 1st. The South Carolina senator said hell make the intentions clear on that date and then pretty much said hes jumping into the race. He says hes quote, running because he thinks the world is falling apart. If the senator, if and when he declares hell be entering a crowded gop primary field that is currently lacking a clear frontrunner. Two Major Airlines responding tonight to reports of hacking. What they say about a mans claims he took control of planes while in flight. Im still tracking the storms across the area right now. The heaviest inside the beltway here and a new one just developed on the other side of the beltway. Zoom in and show you where they are towards portions of d. C. Right downtown and then silver hill and walkers mill and arlington or rather the oxen hill area. Right along the parkway and continuing to see the showers and then more back to the west. There are a lot of channels on your tv but only so many you want to watch what if you could pay for the types of channels you want and not the ones you dont now, fios brings you a totally new way to customize your tv. Starting at 74. 99 per month with no annual contract. Get custom tv, including internet and phone. Price guaranteed for two years. Or get 300 back and free dvr service for 1 year, with a 2 year agreement. Hurry, offer ends june 8th. Go to getfios. Com. Cable just gives you channels. Fios gives you choice. Call the Verizon Center for customers with disabilities at 800. 974. 6006 tty v were following a developing story that involves militarygrade equipment at local Police Departments around the country. This afternoon, president obama ordered an immediate ban on the pentagon providing weaponized vehicles heavy weapons and even camouflage uniforms may be recalled. The president s announcement is a response to the Police Response to protests in ferguson. Weve seen how militarized gear can sometimes give people a feeling like theres an Occupying Force opposed to a force part of the community thats protecting them and serving them. President obama also said he wants to keep the police safe. And he says he believes that reducing tension with local residents will help in that effort. Boeing and airbus responding tonight to reports of an alleged inflight hack as the fbi tries to figure out if its real or a hoax. Chris roberts claims he hacked into a United Airlines jets avionic and took control part of the flight as it was airborne. The fbi says roberts claimed he hacked the Inflight Entertainment system and also kazzed one of the engines to climb causing the plane to move sideways. The folks at airbus and boeing are far too smart to create some system like that. Its just ridiculous. Boeing says Inflight Entertainment and Navigation Systems are isolated on its aircraft. And airbus says it has robust systems and procedures to protect against a potential cyber attack. A Civil Rights Group calls it a major victory. Why hundreds of people arrested a decade ago in the district will be receiving thousands of dollars from the government. Talking about rain continuing to make the way in across the area from around the rockville bethesda area to d. C. Turning now to storm team 4, doug is in the Weather Center with the latest. Las the word on the storms . Were continuing the watch the storms develop and fire. We have a lot of very heavy rain associated with the storms and lightning. Nothing severe. We have had a little bit in the way of hail reported system of these. Take a look. Out there across the region you can see looking out here towards the city cam rain off to the right portion, off to the west. See that rain shaft right in here and then see rain also back into portions of the area. 81 degrees. We saw a shower and thunderstorm at airport and temperatures have come down. Muggy at 11 00. Temperature around 73. Look at the numbers. 90 in leesburg right now and huntingtown. You can see where we have seen some rain here and towards washington and 81 degrees. Theres showers and storms that we have had. Thats kicked off some of these. College park and then this one thats continuing to be inside the d. C. Metro area and zoom into these guys and the south and the east. This is some lightning right around the walkers mill area and camp spring. Silver hill. You notice that lightning and then just an up to the north. This is right along route 4. See what happens here. Well zoom in too far. Nope. There it is. 4 in pennsylvania avenue crossing from the district towards maryland. Thats what we are seeing and the heavy rain towards District Heights here. The north and west the same shower around the fox hall area and the north we have a couple of more. Zoom in on this guy here. This is a new one that just developed west of berwyn and university of maryland. We have a couple of more. This is right around fox hall village. Heres canal road with that rain moving up wisconsin and then further up wisconsin, its really developed. Its heavy rain and no lightning with this yet but i wouldnt be surprised to see that. And then north bethesda. 495. Randolph road and then the west. We are continuing to watch numerous showers and a few thunderstorms around the region. More down towards faulk county. And i81. Maybe you dont need the umbrella. Loudon county is clear for the most part. Well continue do see some of those developing. Tomorrow sun and clouds. A few storms possible. More humid day. Very much like today. 84 to 90 degrees. Less chance of a storms tomorrow. What to wear tomorrow . We know the deal now. Short sleeves, yeah summerlike temperatures tomorrow yeah summer wear for sure. Its going to change. High of 76 on wednesday and look at the cool as far as the temperatures go. 72 on thursday. 75 on friday. And the weekend, memorial day weekend, looking fantastic as of right now. That is inland. Thats also down towards the beaches. At 6 00 ill have that memorial day forecast for you down towards the beach. Sounds good. Thanks. 50 million is going to help a hospital launch a Cancer Center and anchor the new center for Personalized Health in fairfax. This generous gift courtesy of dwight shar and on the center trying to develop new ways to treat cancer. Virginia governor is calling this the largest gift ever given to a Health Care Organization in the old dominion. Police policies in Fairfax County up for discussion tonight. A review commission will hear public testimony on the use of force, communications recruiting and other issues. The group will then recommend any changes that could help the county. The board of supervisors created the commission in part to ensure a culture of public trust and to make sure policies are fair. The hearing begins tonight 7 30 at the Government Center in fairfax. And demonstrators no cleveland on a verdict watch in the Deadly Police shooting of two unarmed suspects. A small group of protesters blocked the street late this morning calling for justice in the killing of two. Police fired 137 rounds at the pair during a chase in 2012. A judge is deliberating whether to convict one officer of manslaughter. The judge has not said when hell announce that decision. A potential breakthrough in hiv prevention on the horizon and news for your health tonight, researchers at university of Californiasanta Cruz say theyre close to a vaccine against the virus a. Scientist said to stimulate the immune system to produce antibodies to neutralize hiv. So these things are theyre meant to fool the immune system in thinking theyve come in contact with a virus or bacteria and they havent and come in contact with a part of it created to trick the immune system. Health experts are cautiously optimistic and takes at least two more years until clinical vaccine trials start on humans and another five years to determine the results of those trials. It takes team work to get to the top. The freshman class at the Naval Academy in annapolis calls it a rite of passage, a tradition back to the 40s. Check out the climb to the top of a 21foot monument thats greased with lard. Yep. Here we go again, folks. The goal is replacing the hat with an upper classmans hat. The Capital Gazette says this years class did it just over an hour and a half. Intimate look at military might and perseverance in the power of film. A group is sharing the experiences. This is how you can catch a glimpse of the exclusive event. Its an opportunity for Service Members to kind of get their stories out. Get their voices heard. Reporter for former Service Members one of the toughest things to do is pivot, find purpose and full fimment after service. Nick joengs said he owes his career to president obama. Gives many te whole speech about, you know im living proof that nothings impossible. All that stuff. Im like you know what . Youre right. Reporter if theres a divide of soldiers and a civilian world, the g. I. Film festival is here to bridge it. Theres a connection and experience of serving in the military also an impetus to want to tell the story. And so it was really nerve wrecking to write it and create it. Once i did, i saw it on the big screen it was a relief. You know . I felt better. You know . Inside and i felt like the story now belonged to everyone else in the room that saw it. Reporter the festival opens this week with more than 60 films, shorts and documents ri here in virginia and the district. Nick jones film cold choices is personal. My film shows that harsh reality of some of the decisions to make under pressure for the greater good of the country rather than our personal self interest at the time. Reporter in a way, a reflection after seven years of active duty and three in the reserves nick is still chasing dreams. Yeah. Fulltime now. Write and directing or acting. Reporter trying to make a difference. Reporting in Northern Virginia news 4. Now to a move thats cheered by thousands who protest in the district. A settlement by the u. S. Park police changing the way officers handle protesters. This stems from a mass arrest more than 12 years ago. News 4s Mark Segraves is live near the white house where that protest happened. Mark . Reporter in addition to the 2. 2 million payout the u. S. Park police have agreed to change the way they handle protesters and mass arrests. Behind me is a live look at per shing park. In 2002 it was a much different scene. Hundreds of protesters gathered to peacefully protest the iraq war. Others were here upset with the world bank. But there were also tourists journalists and just innocent bystanders. Many who were here in the park looking on curiously. By all accounts very peaceful. But Police Became concerned that the protests could be violent and gave the order to surround the park and everyone in it arrested. Many were hog tied by police and detained up to 24 hours. Many arrested sued the park police and the d. C. Police. 12 years later, the federal government settled the case agreeing to pay out each person arrested about 5,000 and establish new procedures including three warnings to disperse before making arrests of protesters and not encircle unless they acknowledge a significant number of them have broken the law. Your hands locked behind your back. Held on a police bus for about five hours and then for another seven hours some people were in longer than me in the Police Gymnasium on mat on the floor with the right wrist to the ankle and theres a monetary settlement and the changes to the police and park Police Protocol is most important and makes now almost 400 of us as part of the settlement so very happy. Reporter now, this is not the first settlement in this case. In 2010 d. C. Police paid out the same group of 400 protesters more than 8 million and agreed to the same type of procedural changes. At 6 00 well tell you how these settlements impacted protests in the area like the ferguson rallies and occupy wall street. Investigators uncovering new information in the deadly amtrak train derailment. What theyre now saying about rocks possibly striking the train just before the disaster. Right now verizon is offering unlimited talk and text. Plus 10 gigs of shareable data. Yeah, 10 gigantic gigs. For 80 a month. And 15 per line. More data than ever. For more of what you want. On the network thats 1 in speed, call, data and reliability. So you never have to settle. Now, also get 200 when you join and buy a new smartphone. Stop by or visit us online. And save without settling. Only on verizon. Oh with that heat and humidity fueled evening showers and rumbles of thunder out there. Doug kammerer will have an updated forecast in moments. Were following new developments tonight into last weeks deadly amtrak derailment after investigators try to determine a cause. Our philadelphia station is telling us where the invest week later and what comes next. Reporter we know a train was hit with a projectile just minutes before the derailment and the ntsb said an employee stated in an interview she heard radio chatter regarding something hitting 188. But now, nbc 10 learned there is no evidence that conversation took place. A source tells nbc 10 there is no radio traffic between the engineer of amtrak 188 and the septa engineer of the damaged train. Investigators over the weekend also backed off the possibility of communication between the engineer to the dispatch center suggesting a projectile hit the illfated train. He did make a radio alert alerting them to a train on the track shortly before the train derailed and talked with ntsb investigators about what he heard and saw that night. Many of the ntsb investigators returned to washington. Philadelphia police are running an independent investigation into the derailment and the District Attorney for the first time saying he expects both the federal and local investigations to last for months. Were going to dot every i cross every t and be sure its done correctly. Theres no rush. Now at 6 00 bursts of rain thunder, even some lightning. Stormy weather popping up all over the area. Well tell you whos in for what and when. New at 6 00 wont be the Verizon Center much longer. What weve just learned about the home of the caps and the wizards. But first at 6 00 some big new developments in that murder mystery near the Washington National cathedral thats attracting national attention. Got information from when the terrifying ordeal began to how many people might be responsible in the deaths of a husband, a wife their son and a housekeeper. Our pat collins in the neighborhood now in northwest with more on this. Pat . Reporter jim, in the world of crime, you can burn evidence but you cant burn your past. Thats why a torched stolen car could be a key clue in this quadruple murder case. This is the 9 is 11 porsche stolen from the scene on woodland drive. This is what it looked like after it was set afire in the parking lot of a church in New Carrollton maryland. It was a dark plume of smoke that attracted the attention of police. Nearby that church, the la fontaine blue ban ket hall security cameras captured pictures of a potential suspect behind the building. Its hard to believe someone sets a fire like that in broad daylight in a Church Parking lot unless he was familiar with the area and felt comfortable here. Back at that Church Parking lot today, investigators deployed a bloodhound in an effort to pick up the trail of that potential suspect. This is the last known sighting of tha
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