Dealers after 26 heroin overdoses were reported in alexandria. We have been relentless in pursuing the dealers and trafficktraffi traffickers who bring this poison into our neighborhoods and profit off of this crisis. Reporter these are ten of the 11 suspected indicted. They eere from six different communities. Accused of working together to distribute a kilo of heroin this past year. Seized in raids last week, ten firearms, 400 grams of heroin, 330 grams of cocaine, pcp and marijuana. This is one of the alexandria houses searched. 78yearold bernice man was in tears as i spoke with her today. Her two sons face charges along with her grandson. While she admitted her have drug addiction problems, she denies Police Allegations that theyre significant dealers. Its not true. They are not in no drug dealing ring. They might have purchased drugs from somebody thats selling them or you know that got a big bash of it. My two sons are not in no drug ring. Reporter she thinks police are after her sons to get to bigger dealers. Police stand by their assessment that these arrests will help shut down a significant heroin pipeline. Now while state and local police Work Together on the investigation, the Virginia AttorneyGenerals Office will assist the Commonwealth Attorneys Office here in alexandria as this prosecution moves forward. Scott macfarland at the live desk. Were learning three men have been arrested for several recent Gun Store Burglaries in our they are all charged with conspiracy and theft of firearms from a licensed dealer. Theyre accused of robbing three Different Stores in Northern Virginia over the past two weeks. In chantilly they made off with 35 semiautomatic handguns in about 45 seconds. Only one of the weapons has been recovered. Police are checking into the possibility these same men may have robbed a rockville gun store march 9th. New today, sentencing day for a man who caused that scare at the Capital Visitors Center almost a year ago. That man shot by an officer when he pointed what appears to be a handgun at a security checkpoint. Today, we heard from that mans sister. Pat collins is live for us with details. Reporter jim, in court he wases suffering from schizophrenia. In court he said he was sorry for what he did. In court he said all he wanted to do was go back to tennessee and be with his family. In court he said he never ever wants to come back to d. C. Again. March 28th, 2016, a day of fear and bedlam at the u. S. Capital. Streets blocked off. Tourists rushed outside. At a Visitors Center checkpoint, a man pulls out a gun, aims it at a capital officer. When the suspect doesnt drop the gun, the officer fires off a number of shots. The suspect falls wounded to the ground. He was taken by ambulance to the hospital. Pam was in nashville tennessee when it happened. Sh her brother until she saw it on television. Found out about it on news like everybody else. Reporter what went through your mind . First of all, i was shocked. I was confused because i know my brother to be a good person and a loving person. It was just hard to believe that this had happened. Reporter pamela in washington today to speak on behalf of her 67yearold brother, Larry Russell dawson. He pled guilty in connection with that incident at the capitol. She says larry dawson was one of nine children and that he had a special role in the family. Our father passed around 1977. The three last siblings that were at home, he stepped up and became a father figure to us. Reporter in fact, when you got married he walked you down the aisle. Yes, he did. Reporter dawson was this. Hell be eligible for supervised release later this spring. Turns out the gun that dawson has was an unloaded bb pistol. Turns out he has a history at the capital. More on that at 6 00. Pat, im curious, did his sister not know anything about his history . This is clearly a side to the man that is a mystery to her. Reporter apparently she did not. She said she didnt know that he was coming up to d. C. Apparently he came up to protest in favor of the 15 minimum wage and hed been here before. Ill get into that at 6 00. She says she was unaware of his crusade, unaware of his trips up to d. C. Until she saw him on tv that march day. Were also security scares over the weekend at the white house. A virginia man named shawn keon is accused of driving a car up to the white house checkpoint at 15th on saturday evening, telling the guard he had a bomb in his car. Prosecutors say he told the officer he had an appointment with the president. Later he said that the bomb was actually an asteroid. No explosive device was found. The vehicle had been reported stolen in roanoke. Earlier on saturday a Silver Spring man taken into custody for going into a restricted area. Police say william rawlenson got behind a security barrier. Now to the big day on both sides of capitol hill today with crucial hearings undy the president s pick for the next Supreme Court justice making his debut today. And the heard of the fbi testifying on russia as wind wiretapping allegations by President Trump. The president was firing off a series of tweet this is morning, including one that accuses democrats of pushing the russian story as an excuse for, quote, running a terrible campaign. Chris lawrence is here with details on this. The hearing lasted more than five hours with house intel members grilling the fbi director james comey and nsa chief admiral mike rogers. For the first time in public director comey confirmed that the fbi is investigating the russian efforts to interfere with our election, saying that investigation includes any possible links or coordination between the Trump Campaign and russian that investigation has been underway since last july. Comey debunked the ptresidents accusations that former president obama ordered surveillance on trump tower. The president accused his predecessor of tapping his phones. Comey says theres no evidence to support that claim. I have no evidence that supports those tweets. The department of justice has asked me to share with you that the answer is the same for the department of justice and all its components. The department has no information that supports those tweets. Admiral rogers also debunked the notion that mr. Obama had used the British Intelligence service to carry out that alleged surveillance. When it comes to russia, at this point both comey and rogers say they cant comment on any particular individual who may be part of their investigation. All i can tell you is what were investigating, which includes coordination between People Associated with the Trump Campaign and the russians. They are still at the beginning of this process. That is a very different thing than a group of people saying there is an ongoing investigation. There is no evidence to suggest any type of conclusion. Despite everything, White House PressSecretary Sean Spicer says the president is standing by his tweets about surveillance on trump tower. Theres no timeline on how long that investigate may take. Also on the hill today, ugly partisanship opened the confirmation hearings for President Trumps Supreme Court nominee. Democrats in the Senate Judiciary committee took shots at republicans for refusing to hold hearings last year for president obamas nominee. Republicans accused democrats of turning gorsuchs hearing into a referendum on the new president. At the end of the day, the man everyone came to hear from finally he had a cha in his Opening Statements judge gorsuch vowed to remain an independent thinker, not bound to one political party. These days we sometimes hear judges cynically described as politicians in robes, seeking to enforce their own politics rather than striving to imply the law impartially. The Judiciary Committee will vote on gorsuchs nomination two weeks from today, april 3rd. Weve seen a lot of cloud cover across the area today. That actually helped to keep temperatures down. That was coming from a storm system moving just down to our southwest. You see one storm system up around cincinnati. That moves down to the south and another one developing here. This could bring us some showers overnight. The first one did make quite a bit of cloud cover today. Something to think about, showers overnight, more clouds tomorrow and then the cold man, does the cold return on wednesday. Well talk about that plus the roller coaster temperatures. They go down and then they go sky high just in time for the weekend. Girls disappearing from the streets of d. C. City leaders say theres no rise in the numbers of disappearances. But faith leaders still have questions. Ten missing girls over a short period of time should have sounded an alarm that should still be ringing in our ears. Up next, their message to police as yet another girl disappears. Reporter a student is stabbed while in class at crossland high school. The former student who stabbed him is now facg ain did you know slow internet can actually hold your business back . Say goodbye to slow downloads, slow backups, slow everything. Comcast business offers blazing fast and reliable internet thats 10 times faster than slow internet from the phone company. Say hello to internet speeds up to 150 mbps. And add phone and tv for only 34. 90 more a month. Call today. A High School Student st stabbed outside a school in Prince Georges County. This afternoon we are learning the suspect is a former student. This happened this morning at crosslands high in temple hills. Prince georges county bureau chief Tracee Wilkins is live with a look at what may have led up to this. Reporter a lot of parents are worried about what happened here. Although this stabbing happened outside of the school building, it was on School Property the student was in class. A High School Student was with his classmates walking on School Grounds preparing to fix a broken wall on School Grounds as part of his masonry assignment when he made direct eye contact with the suspect. Nathaniel coats was walking near the school at the time. Did not like the way a student looked at him and he stabbed him. Reporter a teacher quickly stepped in helping to keep coats on the scene. There was always an adult present with the kids. He tackled the young man that stabbed the young man and was able to get security out right away to arrest the young man. Reporter this teacher was a hero to jump on top of this guy with a knife. Absolutely. To be present and to stop it from getting worse. Reporter School Security turned him over to Prince Georges County police. The student who was stabbed is he was stabbed one time. He was taken to the hospital to make sure that there were no further injuries. Reporter the principal says she and her staff are planning to make a statement against violence. Our campaign. We have shirts, achieve, lethen leave. No more violence. Reporter now Prince Georges County police are still investigating exactly what led to all of this. The suspect is looking at a felony charge for first degree assault. Coming up on news4 at 6 00, one parent tells us she is very concerned about knives in and around schools. Well show you video explaining why. Community and faith leaders are drawing attention now to the number of missing girls in the district. There are more than a dozen unsolved cases in washington. Take a look at this interactive map weve got o washington app right now. It knows where the teens were last seen and their pictures. New news4s Darcy Spencer joins us live from northwest d. C. Reporter police are telling us that it does not appear that there is any increase in the number of missing kids and theres no sign that this is involving sex trafficking. But those community and faith leaders told us today that they are not convinced. We are gravely concerned about the Alarming Number of girls that have gone missing in the district oflolumbia. Ten missing girls over a short period of time should have sounded an alarm that should still be ringing in our ears. Reporter many here worry that teens out on their own could fall victim to sex trafficking. Sex trafficking is a form of modern day 21st century, we ought not still be talking about any form of slavery. Reporter just today, another girl 15yearold Kiara Edwards was reported missing from northeast d. C. D. C. Police addressed the issue last week, saying there was not an increase in cases, but that they are being publicized more through social media. We have no indication to believe that young girls in the district are being preyed upon by human traffickers in large numbers. Right now the numbers dont suggest that were having that type of a problem in washington, d. C. But i think we have to remain ever vigilant to make sure that doesnt happen here in d. C. Reporter activists say they were not comforted by those words. They want to know more about the cases and whats happening to the girls while theyre away from home. When we say that ten girls missing in a week or ten days is the norm, then i suggest virginia, the dmv, that we need to find a new normal. Reporter coming up on news4 at 6 00, what role social media and websites could be playing in some of these disappearances and what parents can do to protect their kids. A Traffic Alert for you this evening. Look for traffic disruptions at canal road and foxhall road in the coming weeks. Eastbound lanes of canal and foxhall will be closed from 7 00 in the evening to 5 00 a. M. Delays are expected. Expect to see warning signs about that upcoming construction. He was known as the kansas comet during a thrilling six year career with the chicago bears. Now gael sayers may playing the game he loved. He has dementia. His wife tells the Kansas City Star he was diagnosed nour ye ds ago. Sayers played for the bears from 1965 to 1971. He made the probowl four times. Once scored six touchdowns in one game. Relatives say he is losing touch with those achievements. Sayers is one of thousands of former players involved in a class action suit over concussions in the nfl. The former players are alleging that the league covered up what it knew about the longterm Health Effects of repeated head injuries. Those include degenerative diseases such as alzheimers, dementia, chronic a new lawsuit filed in that dispute over a controversial painting that was removed from the halls of the capitol. What it reveals about how and why that picture was taken down. In the day after Hurricane Katrina slammed into new orleans. Now the little girl and the man who recued her from a rooftop reunited and remembering that moment. If she could survive one of the most massive hurrines in ca doug joins us now. Some clouds moved in today. Could we see some rain . Theres a chance. We really need it. We are sitting in a severe drought for much of the i95 corridor. Theres not much in this forecast. The cloud cover is extensive across our region. Those clouds courtesy of a storm system that has been weakening just down to our south and west. Current temperature 52 degrees. Tonight well drift through the 40s. It will be cool tonight, not cold. 52 right now in winchester, 57 fredericksburg, 58 charlottesville. Only 4 in hag8 in hagerstown an frederick. This was what we saw coming through earlier down towards west virginia. Now weve got another one. These are called mcss. Mesoscale convective systems. We could still see some showers and were hoping to see some showers. Future weather not giving us much. Here we are at 9 00. Some clouds remaining. Watch how this moves through. It really dies off down to our southwest, maybe luray, fredericksburg, best chance for showers tonight. 7 00 tomorrow, more clouds, showers to the west, but they break up before they get here. After 1 00, im expecting some sunshine. We are going to see some sun tomorrow afternoon. That will help temperatures to respond. I think temperatures rebound into the low 60s for the again, clouds early, some sunshine late. Now, next couple of days, look at wednesday, high of only 46. Even more than that, weve got winds that are going to be gusting upwards of 30 miles per hour. Another cold day. Winds gusting to 30. That will keep windchills below freezing most of the day. Some of you may see windchills in the 20s all afternoon. But we warm quickly. Look at saturday. 74 degrees on saturday. That coming before what could be a nice little rainstorm for us on sunday. We need the rain. Unfortunately it is during the weekend. Well call it a 5050 weekend. Saturday looking good, sunday not so much. Hes helped secure millions for improvements on metro. Now former Virginia Governor and vp candidate tim kaine is seeing just how well that money has been spent. What he saw after taking a ride and a family desperate for information that their emotional plea today for clues in a hitandrun that killed a Prince Georges County woman. Nicky was loved and we miss her and the thought that someone could just leave her out there like that, its just beyond me. Its league night . saved money on motorcycle insurance with geico goin up the country. Bowl without me. Frank. im going to get nachos. Snack bars closed. Gah ah, ah ah. Im goin up the country, baby dont you wanna go . Im goin up the country, baby dont you wanna go . Geico motorcycle, great rates for