Picked up by police there after he got off a bus at 25th and pennsylvania avenue southeast. An Alert Community member identified mr. Assaye through all the social Media Outlets where we put our message out. Reporter it began around 3 00 this morning at the Inova Fairfax hospital. Assaye, a bank robbery suspect, was there on suicide watch. He had tried to take his life last week in jail. He was guarded by the u. S. Marshal service, a man and a woman. When the man went to the bathroom, assaye jumped the woman, took her gun, and made his escape in bare feet wearing only a hospital gown. Now, hospital prisoners are supposed to be shackled to the gurney. What happened here . Was he or was he not shackled in that hospital room . To my knowledge, he was shackle. And how did he get out of those shackles . Thats still being investigated at this point. Sit possible he had one of the guards let him loose . Theres no indication at this point. Reporter police move in and seal off the hospital. The search was on. Assaye steals a toyota camry and drives it around this annandale neighborhood. He blows a tire and pulls into this womans garage where he gets clothes and food. He wept through my entire house, which was mostly empty, although he may have gotten some of my old clothes because the hospital gown was left there and some of my old clothes gone. Reporter by this time the search in high gear. On foot he Eludes Police and manages to carjack a second car, end up getting arrested here in the district. Whatever he did, they dragged him and got him in the back of the car and started taking his boots and stuff off and everything making sure he didnt have a weapon. It was so unbelievable it was like it wasnt real. Reporter so what happened in that hospital room . What happened to those shackles . And how did he end up all the way here in d. C. . There are a lot of questions yet to be answered here. Doreen back to you. Thanks, pat. Ill take it. Wossen assaye was arrested only last week for a series of bank robberies. Hes the man police were calling the bicycle bandit because of what he used to get away. Police say he tried to hang himself in jail last friday. Thats why he was taken to Inova Fairfax hospital. Our Tisha Thompson is in alexandria now where assaye was under much tighter security in court today. Tisha . Reporter jim, one of the questions weve been getting tonight is why wasnt Wossen Assaye charged with other crimes stealing cars and were told it depend on whats possible what prosecutors describe is appropriate. Hes only facing one charge of escaping custody from the attorney general because they know what thats what happened today. He was previously facing one charge of bank robbery even though investigators want to link him to at least 12 Different Bank robberies. He appeared in court in a very thin white plastic jump suit. It was open to his naval. You can see that his chest was bear. He didnt appear to be wearing any undergarments. He had no shoes, no shirt, just that plastic jump suit. He was wearing shackles. He was wearing handle cuffs. And he was surrounded at all times by four u. S. Marshals who stood around him and his attorneys sitting at their table in a semicircle because he was not going anywhere. There were five other uniformed u. S. Marshals in the courtroom as well as well as the u. S. Marshal himself, robert mathieson, who said he stands by his statement that assaye was wearing handcuffs and was shack med when he supposedly escaped. Theyre still trying to figure out how that happened. The preliminary hearing was set in court today for friday at 2 00 p. M. And assaye could face up to five years for just the charge of escaping. In alexandria Tisha Thompson news4. And im wendy rieger back here in the studio. This manhunt went on for nearly eight hours. Let me walk you through it. It started at 3 30 this morning. We are hearing of Police Activity at Inova Fairfax hospital. It would be another two hours before we learned that a prisoner had escaped with a gun. And thats when things started Getting Started turning very quickly. By 7 30 this morning, police were saying that assaye might be in a stolen toyota camry, 8 00, the search had moved to neighborhoods in annandale, allowing the roads near the hospital to reopen. But then its 10 20 and a report of another car jaricing. Were learn noug this wild chase was close to ending at that moment. Witnesses say as assaye took the Hyundai Elantra from a home on oak court, neighbors tried to chase him down. He almost ran the neighbors over. A guy was backing out the driveway in the car, went up the street did a uturn came down the people that lived there tried to stop him, almost ran them guys over. And he just drove real fast down the road. That construction worker says the s. W. A. T. Team arrived seconds later but assaye was gone. This wasnt the only neighborhood terrorized by that search today. Coming up at 6 30 david culvert speaks with student who is got more excitement than they bargained for on their spring break. Doreen . Thanks wendy. Weve heard from people all day saying they saw the story unfolding live on news4. Imagine watching from inside the hospital or in the neighborhood nearby. Jackie bensen is outside Inova Fairfax hospital and continues our live team coverage. Jackie . Reporter make no mistake, this was a terrifying incident a desperate felon, a gunshot fired inside one of the areas premier hospitals. Now, while what we can tell you is that the employees inside there kept doing their job during that lockdown that lasted for four hours. Ambulances headed to the emergency room were diverted to other hospitals. Some surgeries were delayed. Now, this afternoon i spoke on background to a number of d. C. Area Law Enforcement officials who said they were shocked to hear that an inmate like this facing federal charges was being guarded by private Security Officers through ayn greemt with the u. S. Marshals service. Neighbors who saw all of this unfold say its really shaken them up. It was like 3 30 a. M. I heard the helicopter woke me up. The helicopter woke me up. And i didnt know whats going on since this morning. Reporter now, i asked a hospital spokesperson via email if there is any talk at this point about possibly recrafting the security plan for inmates seeking treatment here at the hospital. We have not received a reply yet. Live at Fairfax HospitalJackie Bensen news4. Jim and doreen back to you. Thanks jamckie. The u. S. Marshals office uses private contract Security Officers to protect federal courts and inmates. Dozens of them are in our area including some who man security posts and checkpoints. Congressional reports show that federal judges want the Marshal Service to hire an additional 346 contract officers in the coming years to beef up protection. The iteam has also learned of concerns about a government helicopter that was searching for assaye this morning and whether that chopper should be grounded. Well have reports on that story at 6 45. Meantime meantime check the nbc washington app for all of todays coverage and we also invite you to sign up for breaking news alerts that are sent right to your phone. Well Fairfax County police were busy with that manhunt, another wild situation was happening just a few miles down the road in falls church. A highspeed chase that weaved in and out of traffic on the beltway, i95 and along the Fairfax County parkway. Thats where the driver lakisha tracy, was finally stopped and pulled out of her truck. Coming up a little bit later in this broadcast, adam tuss reports on why police say they were prepared to deal with this incident. Started off on a beautiful note today. Then the rain started making its way in. You can see the rain on storm team 4 radar. Rain up to the north rain down to the south. The heaviest in through portions of Southern Maryland from frederick toward waldorf in through Prince Georges County right around Upper Marlboro and Andrews Air Force base and right across towards annapolis. More rain to the north and west. As we widen out, you can see were not quite done just yet. Most of this should be out of here around the 8 00 hour. But temperatures theyll go down. Look at the highs today. 73 d. C. 74 at fredericksburg. Tomorrow 15 degrees colder. Ill update you on those temperatures and what to expect from the rest of the week in just a minute. Thanks doug. Ten minutes past the deadline for a deal on Irans Nuclear program but talks have not ended. Whats left to negotiate and whether Congress Might step in. Jo our fist look at an fbi agent pleading guilty to tampering with drug evidence. His public apology outside court. Im wendy rieger at the live desk. D. C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has issued an executive order that no district employee can take any official trip to indiana. The mayor becomes the latest official in the country to ban travel to that state in the wake of that controversial religious liberty law. It allows businesses in inn toin refuse to offer business to gay and lesbian couples on religious growns. Supporters say the claims are overblown. Mayor bowser says this indiana law discriminates against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people and would not be tolerated in the district. A wide variety of government and Business Leaders have called on indiana to amend or rescind this law. At the live desk im wendy rieger. Back to you. Late developments from the Boston Marathon bombing trial. Closing arguments are now set for monday in the case against dzhokhar tsarnaev. The defense rested its case after calling just four witnesses, one a fingerprints expert. He says the majority of prints on bomb remnants and detonators were from Dzhokhar Tsarnaevs brother, tamerlan who was killed in a shootout with police. A cell site analyst also testified that dzhokhar was not with tamerlan when the older brother bought bomb components. Three people died 260 were injured. Tonight a former fbi agent is apologizing for stealing heroin from fbi evidence and for jeopardizing dozens of cases. Matthew lowry spoke publicly for the first time after pleading guilty in federal court in d. C. News4s Mark Segraves is outside the courthouse where lowry spoke about how powerful addiction can be. Reporter thats right. Inside the courtroom, Matthew Lowry accepted responsibility and made no excuses for his actions over several years stealing heroin out of the evidence locker at the fbi. Outside here on the steps of the courthouse before reporters, he said it was his addiction to painkillers and he said he hopes the public can learn a lesson from his mistakes. Prescription opiate adibs has no boundaries. Its i think its one of the biggest epidemics as far as drugs there is. Reporter lowry says it was his addiction to painkillers that led to his addiction to heroin. More than a dozen Law Enforcement agents sat in the courtroom today supporting their former colleague. As a child, lowry dreamt of being a Police Officer just like his father who stood behind him today in court where the former fbi agent pled guilty to 64 charges. I just want to apologize and say that i was wrong for my actions, especially to my family former Law Enforcement colleagues. Reporter in the courtroom, the 33yearold former fbi agent who worked on several largescale undercover drug operations admitted to the judge he had stolen heroin from the fbi evidence control center. It took the judge nearly an hour to read each of the 64 charges, after which the judge asked lowry if he was guilty. Lowry repeatedly answered yes your honor. Prosecutors say that math math be Matthew Lowry began stealing heroin in 2013 from evidence seized in highprofile drug busts in our area. Between 2013 and 2014 he ampered with nearly 2,000 grams of heroin. Lowry began falsifying records so he could steal the heroin from the fbis evidence control center. After the fbi learned of the tainted evidence, prosecutors were forced to dismiss charges against 26 defendants, some of whom had already pled guilty and were serving time. Two ongoing investigations were dropped as well. I hope that people from this see how addictive anybody can get addicted to many medication. Reporter lowry told the judge he is still in counseling for his addiction to painkiller bus he is managing it. He already went through rehab. Had he gone to trial and been found guilty he would have faced up to 51 years in prison. During the plea he will face now seven years. Hell be sentenced in late june. Vance, back to you. Just minutes ago, a selfimposed deadline passed with no deal as part of the negotiations about dismantling Irans Nuclear program. There are signs of progress so theyll try it again tomorrow. Steve handelsman is on capitol hill now with a look at the next steps. Steve . Reporter a new deadline, the immediate next step is theyll talk again tomorrow. Thats just fuelling this delay, missing another deadline fueling the efforts by some lawmakers on capitol hill to impose tougher sanctions on the iranians to try to force them to do with those sangs, but so far they havent agreed to do at least in brit writhing in the talks. Other Nuclear Experts in washington looking at these talks say theres great progress, even though theres nothing in writing, no framework agreement, which is what they hope for by 6 00 washington time. Because these experts say the iranians have agreed in principle to vastly reduce their purification of uranium that would be needed to make a bomb and more importantly the experts say to open all of their facilities to Intrusive Inspections that would go on and on and on for a period of maybe ten years. And so there are fingers crossed among people who have backed these talks that ultimately will be success. Theyve moved again this framework deadline to tomorrow then amd at june 30th to have a formal written agreement. But at the same time with no deal jim, in switzerland, theyll be more lawmakers on the hill who are saying even if president obama vetoes an effort to toughen sanctions, they might override the president s veto because here on the hill a lot of people worried about a bad deal with iran. Im Steve Handelsman news4. Thank you steve. Dougs back with more about our weather. Seems like it unfolded today just as you predicted. Ill tell you what the one thing that was not as i predicted, i went far High Temperature in the low 60s. We hit 73 today. It was nice. I dont mind missing that way for sure. And it was hard to believe it was going to start raining later. Exactly right. We were doubting you a little bit. Dont doubt too much there, doreen. We did see that rain come in right around that 4 00 5 00 hour and right now most of the rain out of the d. C. Metro area but we continue to see more showers moving in from the north. One other thing we are noticing the wind 66 degrees right now, winds out of the west at 17 miles per hour. Some light showers from the airport down to the south and east. Look at these wind gusts. 33 miles an hour Winchester Manassas 54mileanhour wind gusts here, 43 in washington. We have a wind advisory now in effect from the National Weather service until 9 00 tonight for winds gusting upwards of 50 miles an hour. Could see some tree branches down isolated Power Outages too. This is the rain toward the south and west that came through the area earlier, now down through Prince Georges County anne arundel, calvert, waldorf, down towards charles and st. Marys county including the northern neck. Back to the west more showers around martinsburg and the shep wards town area over towards the charlestown area and right over towards frederick. Well continue to see more. Lets zoom into Southern Maryland and ill show you where the heaviest rain is. Just just to the north of waldorf up around Upper Marlboro the 301 region right along route 2, right along route 4 through Calvert County and through portions of st. Marys county and colonial beach. Youll continue to see the rain make its way through in the next one 02 hours. Heres the storm system itself. Lets widen out more and show you the storm. We saw plenty of sunshine today,highs in the lower 70s, snow though not far away parts of pennsylvania picking up 6 inches of snow earlier from this same storm system. So very warm to the south, very cold to the north nap colder air is trying to move our way. Its not all going to get here though but we are going to see cooler numbers. Already cooler to the north, 51 in hagerstown 57 in frederick, 72 though still down towards fredericksburg so a 21 1121degree temperature difference across our viewing area. Showers continue to move on through, 7 00 more to the south, and showers to the north creeping closer to the d. C. Metro area by around 8 00. Quickly move out by 9 00 10 00, 11 00. Overnight all well be dealing with is clearing skies. Tomorrow will be about 10 to 15 degrees colder than where we were today. Not a bad day. 58 for a high tomorrow. 60 down towards fredericksburg,