Punished. Reporter and Hillary Clinton tweeted, just when you thought it could not get worse, horrific and telling. And trump took it back saying in a statement the doctor or any other person performing this illegal act upon a woman would be held legally responsible, not the woman. The woman is a victim in this case as is the life in her womb. Trump, kasich, and ted cruz made news earlier going back on their pledge to support any republican nominee. Trump is angry that Party Leaders might let former candidate marco rubio keep control of his delegates. To deny trump a first ballot convention victory. Trump warning what the party could lose if he leaves. Tremendous number of democrats that like trump, tremendous numbers of independents, and something that i love, people that have never voted before. Reporter ted cruz today put his wife, his mother, and Carly Fiorina on stage in madison. Women are a majority of the United States of america, reporter the abortion issue sure to resonate now even though trump took back his call for punishing women who have illegal abortions. The whole Chris Matthews interview with donald trump airs tonight on msnbc at 8 00. Jim, back to you. Thanks, steve. Here is a closer look at the race in wisconsin. A new Marquette Law School poll shows ted cruz with a tenpoint lead over donald trump. On the democratic side, the poll shows Bernie Sanders with a fourpoint lead over Hillary Clinton. Although that is within the polls margin of error of 6 percentage points. Hillary clinton campaigned in wisconsin earlier this week but appears to have pivoted over to the new york primary. Her campaign released a new ad today that talks about that div. While it does not mention native new Yorker Donald trump by name, it shows his logo clinton continued the theme at the apollo theater. You know, loose cannons tend to misfire, and in a dangerous world thats not a gamble we can afford. Hillary clinton served two terms as senator in new york but Bernie Sanders is also claiming the state as home turf. The vermont senator was born and raised in brooklyn. News4 highways learned there is a problem with getting Bernie Sanders name on the d. C. Democratic primary ballot. Sanders and clinton campaigns both filed the proper paperwork and registration fees, but the citys Democratic Party missed the deadline to notify the board of elections that the fee was received. Clintons campaign is not affected because a d. C. Voter only filed a challenge against the sanders campaign. The board of elections is expected to hear the challenge next week, but if necessary, the d. C. Council may have to resolve the issue with an emergency vote. The cyber attack of this week has not impacted Quality Health care at its hospitals. Nearly 800 surgeries have been performed since the computer virus was detected on monday. But serious questions remain. Chris gordon joins us with more on what a former white house counterterrorism expert has to say about all this. Chris . Reporter well, doreen, experts say that hospitals are targeted because they provide Critical Care and cannot afford computer down time. Thats why last month a california hospital paid 17,000 in ransom to get its computers back. And experts say thats when other hospitals around the country, including med star, should have seen more attacks coming. Med star is not saying whether this was a ransomware attack, but paul kurt says it looks like one to him. Kurtz is a former counterterrorism director at the white house before he started his own true star technology. If this is my client, i would want to stretch time out as far as i could and not pay. However, i have to look at the welfare of patients, and if my doctors and nurses cannot serve my patients that are in beds today or in a surgical suite, its very clear what needs to be done. You pay. Reporter the Washington Post cites a number of employees reported seeing a message on their computer screens seeking payment of about 19,000 in bitcoins over the next ten days suggesting after that it may be impossible to recover computer files. This patient who doesnt want to be identified says he got a message yesterday from medstar that shocked him. You have a physical appointment scheduled with us tomorrow at 1 30. Our Computer Systems are still down so we need you to bring a list of our current medications and a list of allergies. If you dont have a list, you are welcome to bringu if you have any questions, feel free to give us a call. I have an extensive list of medications, multiple health conditions. Im seeing a new physician, firsttime appointment. Its absolutely essential that they have something to rely on called a medical record, which they dont have access to. Reporter the fbi tells nbc news weve been fortunate that no ones lives have been put in jeopardy because of these computer attacks, but the fbi says if that occurs down the road, the consequences are going to be severe. Thats the latest live in northwest washington. Doreen, back to you. Thank you, chris. The metro shutdown earlier this month may be just a sign of bigger things to come. Metro leaders were at a summit with area leaders and said the system cant keep going from crisis to crisis like it gm Paul Wiedefeld and board chair jack evans both say there are no easy solutions. Metro may have to shut down entire lines for months. Two weeks ago news4 transportation reporter adam tuss told us that extended shutdowns were possible to fix maintenance issues. Japan, south korea, ukraine, and algeria are only some of the countries that have sent officials to our area for a twoday summit on nuclear security. They will be meeting at the Washington Convention center and that will mean major problems with roads in that area. Our pat collins now with what this all means if you have to be in that area downtown. Pat . Reporter jim, take a look over there. You can see the cops are starting to drift in now. Theyre getting ready to shut down the roads here. In a short time life around the Washington Convention center will change dramatically. The the cops getting into position. Soon the security around the Washington Convention center is going to get secret service tight. Were always in a heightened state of alert around here just for the nature of the federal city. Our city here, our capital, but, yeah, well be even tighter in this particular area and around the city for this event. Reporter its got navy tags, its painted army green. I dont know what it is or what it does, but i wldnt do anything rash around it. But you look around and you see these fences, what does it remind you of . Prison. Reporter it is a little daunting, isnt it . Yes, it is. It is daunting. But they have to keep people safe, and this is the price you have to pay these days. Reporter now, for people who live in the secure zone, life will be something less than normal. Some have an escape plan. Youre g reporter get out . Yes. Reporter before youre trapped. Yes. Reporter when you look at these fences, i mean, my goodness, what do you think of . I just arrived from nashville. There were no fences. Reporter others plan to stick around and work around the various checkpoints. Ill be out and about but i was told you have to have your i. D. To even get to your house to prove you live here. Reporter cant park on your street. You need an i. D. To get into your own house. Yeah. Reporter beginning tonight, road closures, including about a 20block area around the convention center. Now, im no melissa mollet, but my traffic work around for this summit, stay far away from the Washington Convention center. Jim, back to you. Of that sounds like good counsel. In case you do need to get around the convention center, we have posted a map with all the shutdowns and the timing of the shutdowns. Just search road closures in our nbc washington app. Right now devastation in haymarket after a home was destroyed by a fire. Happened just before 3 00 this afternoon on poplar hill drive. There were no fire hydrants in the area. By the time firefighters got there with a tanker truck, the damage was done. One person was inside when it started and was able to get out. However, several pets could not be saved here. Theres no word on how this fire started. The investigators are also searching for a cause after this deadly fire. It started at a town home on windjammer way in gaithersburg last night. A man was found dead in the basement after all the flames were out. His name hasnt been released, but we talked with a friend who came to the scene when she heard the news. Im just devastated. Two days ago i talked to him on the phone, and i told him that i miss seeing him, that id like to come over and bri h something to eat and that id be back in touch. Two people who live upstairs in the town home were able to escape. Were told it could take several days to figure out the cause because there was so much damage here. Merrick garland, the Supreme Court nominee, had two more meetings on capitol hill today. Both of them with democratic senators. Garland met with al franken of minnesota and Kirsten Gillibrand of new york. Democrats are urging Republican Leaders to hold hearings and a vote on garlands nomination to the high court. Republicans say they dont want to do that because the next president because the next president they say should fill the empty seat on the Supreme Court. President obama joined a group of former inmates. They had lunch at bus boys and poets on 14th street. That meeting came after the president s announcement that he is commuting the prison sentences of 61 people who are se crimes. Among those getting a shorter sentence is byron lamont mcdade. He lives in bowie, maryland. Back 27 years ago a federal judge sentenced him im sorry, back in 2002 a d. C. Judge sentenced him to 27 years in prison for conspiring to distribute cocaine and other charges. Mcdade and most of the other prisoners will be released in july. 62 degrees right now. Thats also our High Temperature so far today. Nice this evening and not as cool as it was last night. Here is what you can expect as we continue on into the evening hours. 9 00 temperatures in the mid50s. A little bit breezy out there right now, and it will stay breezy at times on into the overnight hours. Its not windy though by any means and well have a few clouds out there. By 11 00 just a bit of a chill in the air with the temperature around 54 degrees. Now, tomorrow later in the day, have the small umbrella possible. On friday a better chance of rain and some heavier rain in the forecast. Ill have more on the timing of the rain tomorrow and friday coming up in my full forecast. Thanks, amelia. Up next, disturbing new allegations about a former teachers aide accused of producing child porn at school. Why one student says she was afraid to come forward. Were going to hear from reporter and the lawyer area of howard county, police say they have unfolded a murder for hire scheme. The one thing that the suspect allegedly did yesterday that resulted in his immediate arrest. Were going to hear from one of the people on a hijacked airplane yesterday. There are new questions about the suspe and security lapses. Ct hes begun forgetting words. Forgetting where he lives. But when the day comes when he forgets who i am, ill still know who he is. The first time we said i love you we didnt use words. We simply held each others hands. We still are. I lost my dad to alzheimers. Preventing alzheimers is within our grasp. Lets double the budget of nih and get it done. Im david trone and i approve this message. In maryland a girl gave birth to a baby and then called the police, told them that she found the newborn on her back porch. She is not going to be charged. Police were called to a home in hagerstown this morning after the girl said she had found the baby girl wrapped in a plastic bag in near freezing temperatures. The newborn was flown to Childrens NationalMedical Center here in d. C. She is said to be in stable condition now. Police say the girl gave birth to the child inside the home from which she called. The mother was taken to doing okay now. A new lawsuit was just filed in a child Pornography Case that rocked a Prince Georges County community. Deonte carraway is charged with taking part in sex acts with 11 children between the ages of 9 and 12, many of those at an elementary school. This new lawsuit accuses carraway of abusing an 11yearold girl at sylvania woods elementary where he was an aide. The girl says carraway threatened to kill her if she told anyone. Hes facing 13 counts of exploiting children. A d. C. Man was arrested and accused of driving toward the gate of the cia with methamphetamine in his car. In a court filing, a cia police agent said he spotted the car driving from the George Washington parkway toward the entrance to the agency. The agent said he found crystal meth, syringes and a liquid called poppers that the driver acknowledged he was using to get the driver was said to be shaking and struggling to speak. Hes been charged with possession of meth. He was scheduled to appear in court today. Were hearing first happened accounts from the pilot on that hijacked egyptair. The pilot said the man let him decide where to land. He chose cyprus because it was closer than his other options, greece or turkey. The new questions being raised about security. Reporter this morning Authorities Say the man has a criminal record that includes forgery, burglary, and drug dealing. Surveillance video shows him breezing through Airport Security because his explosive belt was fake. An Egyptian Foreign Ministry official telling the media, quote, hes not a terrorist, hes an idiot. Tuesday morning egypt air flight ms 118 took off from alexandria bound for cairo before being including 8 americans. Among them noha saleh from new york. I texted my husband saying, okay, i got kidnapped. Reporter she said the flight attendants were calm and didnt tell passengers about the hijacking until they landed. And at this moment the people started to really panic. I stayed like shocked for 15 minutes. Are you serious . Reporter the hijacker kept the fly crew and men with foreign passports on board. One of the pilots scrambled out the cockpit window. The hijacker eventually surrendered. This whole incident has raised new questions about egyptian Airport Security six months after isis claimed it brought down a russian jet. As for the motive in this incident, that remains unclear, but Authorities Say the hijacker demanded to speak with his exwife who lives here. Gabe gutierrez, nbc news, cyprus. The d. C. Police union is asking everyone to take a moment was injured protecting president ronald reagan. It was 35 years ago today that the officer was injured during the attempt on president reagans life. The union says the incident is a stark reminder that even the most routine assignments can become matters of life and death for officers. President reagan was coming out of the Washington Hilton Hotel when John Hinckley fired six shots at him. The president was hit in the chest. The officer was shot in the neck. White House Press Secretary james brady and secret Service AgentTimothy Mccarthy also were injured. Brady was permanently disabled and died in 2014 of complications due to his injuries. Some Important News about the zika virus tonight. A case in this area from Childrens NationalMedical Center is helping to answer questions about a link between e according to a study just published by the new england journal of medicine, ultrasounds in a 21 week old fetus showed evidence of zika virus which showed extensive damage to the fetus brain tissue. Early ultrasounds though looked normal. Problems were revealed only at 19 weeks and later tests showed severe brain atrophy. That pregnancy was terminated. The mother contracted the virus while pregnant and traveling in central america. There are still traces of zika in her bloodstream months later. His will you have cut short in a senseless act of violence. Tonight the tribute to a local teenager who was murdered waiting for a metro train. Its a new place in Fairfax County where those who have overcome addiction and Mental Health challenges are helping those still struggling. I did not want to live. I didnt want to face my reality. Reporter coming up, one womans dramatic turnaround coming here to the peer center. Plus new research shining a light on a serious problem and it could be putting your safety at risk on the road. Narrator all that political mail might be overwhelming. Lets simplify. Post Kathleen Matthews. As a journalist and progressive leader at marriott, she has a broad and deep facility with policy. Emilys list praises matthews as prochoice and the post says on gun control, clean energy, education and Health ResearchKathleen Matthews has greater potential, following the van hollen model, to move the ball forward. Kathleen im Ka