Found alive in a abandoned coal mine. Or now crews wk to get them out. And a suspect on the run. One mand arres for raping a woman and dumping her in the street. Another still free tonight. News 4 at 11 00 begins with breaking news. First tonight, a sigh of relief for a family in montgomery county. D their chint get off the school bus, and wound up in baltimore tonight. County police and School Officials tell us t child is home safe now, but thats after hours of confusion andni now, heres how it happened. Police tell us the child isst au and possibly nonverbal. The bus picked the student up this afternoon at rockville high school. The student was supposed to get off in silver ring. But for reasons were still trying to figure out, that didnt happen. He eventually, bus ended up here, near a holiday inn at ther innerr in baltimore. The reason . Montgomery county schoolsal ac buses in some students from baltimore city. Some of themake thatbus. And when the rockville student et off at the right stop, the bus continued onto baltimore with the other children. Montgomery county schools sayti theyre trying to figure out if the bus stop missed the stop in silver sprg or if t student just never got out. Stay with news 4 as we continue to search for answers about this story. Chopper in Prince Georges County tonight, where police say a man driving an s died after slamming into the back of another car. This ddly crashn Central Avenue in capital heights. The driver of the suv died at e hospital. The driver of the white car is dpected to be okay. Police closen Central Avenue at shady glen drive to investigation. Were also stayi on top of breaking news inest virginia. Rescuers are in a race against time to free three people ltrapped in a c mine, and tonight, they got some great news. Those three people are alive. Familyhe celebrated they learned that tonight, but oxygen levels still too low for First Responders to go inside. A fourth person emerg t from mine last night and he told the rescuers where to find his friends. Family members say the group went there illegally over the weekend, hunting for copper wire. That dsnt mean they should deserve to be put through this. I didnt want to give up hope, but i know theres water in there, and my daughter is a daredevil, i was scared to say it, but she would try to go through that water. The mines owner says the entrance was sead and the tunnels have been inactive for two years. Today, Police Arrested a man wanted in the brutal kidnapping and rape that started in prince orges county and ended in the district. But one of the accused hetackers is still on loose. Authorities credited Surveillance Video of the victim and the csuspectsar for helping them catch one of the suspects, but they still need your help finding this guy, 29yearold mark blue. News 4s jackie bense live at d. C. Police headquarters on the story for us tonight. Jackie reporter well, while these men were subjecting woman to a horrible, terrifying experience, there were cameras at every turn. Video from a Home Security camera shows the stumbling from an alley, whe hed been dumped out in the cold. Another camera captured the car the suspects used to abduct the young woman. A camera at a bank atm in the district captured this image of one of the suspects. Investigators say it all helped them identify nick savoy. He turned himself into police in roanoke. And mark blue, from souwest c. I believe Prince Georges County released some video. We also released video. It was very helpful in this case. Reporter the Victim Told Police one ofhe men was wearing a red jacket. Police released by d. C shows mark blue wearing a red jacket. After the december 3rd assault, news 4 spoke to a Good Samaritan who opened a door to the frightened victim after the attack. She described hers being about 20 years old. He sa he. When you see somebody that needs help, you just do it. Ge yourself,cond j you just, you know, you help that person, especially a female ocking on your door, you know, asking for help. Reporter police are still searching for mark blue. There is a 25,000 reward for information leading to his arrest. Live at d. C. Pole headquarters, jackie bensen, news 4. Thanks, jackie. A big legal defeat to supporters of a increase of tipped minimum wage. The citys board of elections could not accept any signatures collected over the past week in favor of the proposed referendum. Council members rejected the j propost months after voters approved it. Supporters of the pay hike move ed some 35,000 cigna childrens to repeal the councils move, bull tt the jio said ele officials did not follow proper procedures. F the people d. C. Are being punished again, and the voters of d. C. Are having their voices and their signatures is s supp again, because of an error tst ut of our control. Ramirez says the fights not over. Sh, and othee says, will continue to push for ineasing the tip minimum wage in t. C. Ning to our weather now, and the latest on another storm system coming our wa still have a couple of days before the rain. Another dreaded wet friday coming our way. Yeah. Doug has us looking in between now and then. The amazing about tonight, temperatures are well above what weve hen. Some aree already been in the teens the last couple of nights, but look at this. Right now, the coldest number, 29, but most everybody still in the low to mid 30s, even the upper 30s continuing 37 in d. C. 41 in annapolis. So, much warmer tonight, because of some southerly wind and cloud cover. T all eyes on yet another soaker coming in for the day on friday, and for your weekend. Im going to break it down for you, show you when this moves in and show you just how much rain we could see from this round of storminess coming on throug thanks, doug. Naya Howard Reynolds wanted to become a hai stylind a makeup artist. But instead, her life ended last month at just 19 o years age. Police say naya was murdered inside a home in southeast d. C. Tonight, news 4s shomari stone was there as her family tried to make sense of this senseless crime. Im devastated. Reporter kyra howard is filled with sadness. At a candlelight vigilor hg her 19yearold daughter, naya howard lreynolds. There are no words for how f imling and what happened. Reporter police say 22yearold robert smith, a local raplso known as a. G. Millie, shot and killed inside his bedroom on 57th place southeast last friday night. Naya was visiting friends. Tonight, people pray psalms 23 ince remembran of her. Shall follow me all the days d my life, and i will dwell in the house of the lrever. Amen. Reporter naya dream of becoming a hair stylist and makeup artist. She worked at a sdoughnutp and studied in the evenings. My daughter was a wonderful, beautiful child. Reporter according to court documents, she and smith knew each other. After the shooting, smith allegedly told people naya shot herself. Her mother and aunt say thats not true. She didnt deserve it w anre going to get justice. Were going to get justice forya thats next. She will not die in tein. Rep nayas funeral is tomorrow. Robert smyth is charged with Second Degree m hder and next Court Appearance is next month. Shomari stone, news 4. The university of maryland today confirmed more cases ofir aden on campus. To keep more people from getting sick, the school says itill expand efforts to disinfect student dorm rooms over winter s break, and of tonight, the school lists 35 confirmed cases of adenovirus. One case was deadly. A student died of complications last month. The centers for Disease Control says adenovirus is common and is rarely fatal. It presents with a wide range of symptoms that mimic over illnesses like cold symptoms. For more information about those symptoms and the cases a the university of maryland, go to our nbc washington app and search virus. News at 11 00, nancy pelosi is poised to be elected House Speaker for the second time, after string a deal toimit how long shell serve. The california democrat says that if she elected speaker, shell step down after two terms. Moments after that statement by her, seven democrats who had opposed pelosi said they would now support her. And that paved the way for her election to speaker next a small group of unhappy democrats have been lobbying for new blood inty par leadership. Pelosi was speaker from 2006 to 2010 and shes been the minority leader since then. The man who once said hed take a bullet for donald trump is now going to prison for crimes he smis he ctted at the president s direction. Michael cohen was sentenced to three y in prison today for hin role i several crimes, including the illegal payment of hush money to women who claim they had sexual encounters with mr. Trump. Cohen was the president s former lawyer and politicalfixer. He told the judge today that a led himyalty to trump to cover up the president s, quote, dirty deeds. Nbc justice correspondent Pete Williams joined us on news 4 at 5 00 today. He said the biggest news to come out of todays sentencing mtht actually be about michael cohen. Listen. One ofos the important developments today was actually something that didnt happen in court today, it was an announcent by the prosecutors in new york who charged cohen with this Campaign Finance violation for the hush money payments, to two women who claim that they had affairs with donald trump, a third person, who the government says was in on those discussions. The government saidhat it was cohen, it was the president who directed them to do this, and the third person was the publisher of the national enquirer. Today, the government announced that its not going to its not going tros cute ecute ameri media for being involved in th, and that adds a second voice now in addition to cohens, sayi that these payments were made to influence the election. So, thats exactly what the president has bee saying they were not all about. Nbcs Pete Williams reporting. The prosecutors agreementam wi ican media inc requires them to cooperate with any investigation. Next at 11 00, searching for a hit and run driver. Ne this is not how i want to be on the , but im on the news. The 18yearold victim recovering. His parents feeling blessed that hes still ative. Le Night Service fight. Is metro making enough progress to go back to normal Weekend Hours . We could find out tomorrow. And, moon walk back. Nba star steph curry responds to criticism after questioning whether a young man out for a jog last friday evening was hit by a car and thrown over a 30foo high bridge. The driver took off from the scene, leaving the teen for dead down below. When p ethansents called his cell phone, he said he didnt know where he was. Im they found h down a steepnk emnt next to lake jackson drive. ,than now faces several more surge ri and he has a message for that driver who hit him. Come forward and say something, rather than just do Something Like that and go away. It all works out better for soerybody if you just come forward and say thing. Come forward and say something. Detectives say they dont have any information about the drer, but they believe t cars hood, headlight or front bumper were damaged. Whats old may become new again. Owners of the landma mall i alexandria are looking to lecreate something similar to the origi outdoor Shopping Experience from the 60s. Tonight, there was a Community Open house in alexandria to get feedback from neighbors. Earlier today, news 4 got an exclusive look inside the old mall. Its all empty and deserlted inside now. In 1989, they put a roof on the mall and changed it to an indoor mall to keep up with the trend of the time, but now owners want to go back to that open air experience. Our mission, really, is to raise the mall and to think totally fresh, to create this master plan, walkable urban village. Themi planning cion says multiple changes in ownership slowed down the reopening of the mall. There will be two more Public Meetings next year, then the city council will weigh in in april. All they have to do is promise there will be as wegma there. I was going to say that. I know it. Well, a fight isooming over how late metro stays open. Now, at tomorrows boa meeting, d. C. Leaders are expected to try to force the system to run to 3 00 a. M. On weekends like itto used. Now, metro closes at. M 1 00 a on friday and saturday nights. The Transit Agency says closing early leaves more time for track maintenance. Muriel bowser wants the system to stay open later. Ansportation reporter adam tuss is going to be at that meeting for us torrow and let you know what happens. Nba superstar steph curry is walking back some comments he made aboutdi astronauts lanng o the moon. The Golden State Warriors guard says he was joking when he question the moon landi during a podcast released earlier this week. Curry made those comments during a lighthearted conversation with fellow players and they quickly went viral. Nasa even weighed in, offering curry the chance to visit their space center to debunk his claim. These guys are role models, and they have millions of followers in their social media, and they should take the role of being a role model serious. Cur is a threetime champion and twotime mvp. He told espn he would happily accept the iitation to visit the Johnson Space center in houston. That would get some publicity for su going down there and practicing to be an astronaut. So, thedea is you say a stupid joke about something and you get a free trip out of it . Right . Well are you thinking of something to say right now . I dont believe hawaii is i donthe really believe really make pizza in italy. I dont believe hawaii exists. Thats good. H m manyn landings have there been . Six. Thanks, doug. 12. Oh. Only 12 . Av 12 astronauts on the moon. Normally, they he three people there and one of them has to say anyway. Lets talk about it. Dont get him started. My grandfather was actually helped send some of those up there. Out there right now, what are we dealing with . We have the moon. There it is, hey, steph curry, look right there. We landed right there, buddy. A what we dealing with tonight . A crescent moon. Reanly nice. Look at this, a great shot down towards the Kennedy Center right now. Llat looking r nice, as well. Current temperature, 37 degrees, winds out of the southeast at 6 miles per hour. If i w said anythinng about the moon stuff, dont text me, all right . Im just im thinking of it now, did i read that correctly . Okay. 34 in martinsburg, 33 in huntingtown. Much warmer tonight than itbe h the past couple of nights. We saw temperatures in the teens and low 20s by this time the last few nights. Not tonight. The reason . Weve got cloud cover and wind. Clouds working through the area. A little wind. Upwards of 5 to 10 miles per hour. Its enough to keep the air circulating, which allows it to stay on the warmer side. This storm is well t the north of our area, but what this is bringing in is some winds out of the west, andr thats war air thats going to come in. I think tomorrow, actually a pretty nice day. Heres tomorrow. Nice and clear, as far as rain is cod. Were going to see more cloud cover. Temperatures closer average. Were watching our next soaker. This is going to come through on frid. Bring a l of rain late friday, right around the evening rush into the overnight and into turday. Low pressure moves out of here on friday and saturday, but then the upperevel area of low pressure sits back to the west and brings more showers on saturday and on sunday. So, what really are we expecting here . Rain, some heavy, on friday night. If ye dinner plans on friday night, get ready for some rain there. Showers likely satury and sunday. Keep the umbrellas handy. It wont be all that heavy, but it isng something were g to be watching, for sure. All in all, another one to two edches expe and look at this. The record high item the record rain, we only ed, for number two,. 05. For number one, as far as wettestcoears on , we only need halfn inch. We do think were going to be the wettest year on average. W close to two feet above average. 49 tomorrow. Mostly cloudy, near normal temperatures. Hemay be able to take coat off and just have the jacket during the afternoon. 48 on friday, with that rainfall. Saturday and sunday, rain chances going down a little bit, but still, again, showers during the day. It wont be allot day rain days, but we will need the umbrella at times. Temperatures close to 50. T, that a thatually above average. And showers next thursday and friday, as well. Youre right. 12 americans on the moon. Whew. How many of them are still alive . Sev . Still ahead its four. Four. There you go. Still ahead here, a wild finish, as the wizardsost one of the nbas best its not the holidays until. All your streams come true. [ kids laughing ] that jerk is ours. Play home alone. Watch your holiday favorites however you want and find them faster with the x1 voice remote. Now thats simple. Easy. Awesome. Switch to the entertainment youve been streaming about. 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Wiz down two. Bradley beal misses the second free throw. Gets his own board, puts it back in. The old playground move. I used to do that. It didnt work as well. Didnt work as well. Wiz tiet up. This one went to o. T. John wall slices through the d. Nice. He had 34 points, 13 assists. Were tied at 125. Blue kyrie irving stole the show late. Kyrie, the moon shot. Steph curry believes that one. Ah. Buckets. He had a game high 38. Scored bostons last 12 points. Celtics beat the wiz 130125. Boston, seven straight wins. To the. Redski josh johnson starting his first full week as t redskins top quarterback. Johnson will be the teams fourth starting quarterback this season. Utats never happened before for the redskins, b the quarterback, who performed well in sundays loss to the eaants, thm is hoping the arterback they plucked off his couch can snap their fourgame losing streak. As forusjohnson, hes thrilled with the opportunity. This is like going to ve disneyland day for me, for real, because just aeek ago, i was at home in the hood, chilling with the kids, chilling with my family, on the couch, possibly thinking i mig not ever play again. K but a wee later, look at me now. I have a great opportunity to get a victory sundayn jacksonville. Im excited about that. Well put there. Today, elijah brooks telling hi team he leaving for the university of maryland. An emotional decision for brooks, who coached at hissal ma matter for the last eight years, winning four championships. E former stags head coach heading up route one to coaru ing backs at maryland under head coach mike locksley. Now, brooks, happy with his move, but knows its going to take a little getting used to. I have to assume that a mcouple times going to make the wrong turn, you know, just because its been my daily routine for so long. But i couldnt have asked for a better situation. If im going to move, only going two miles down the road, its definitely a blessing in disguise. Andfinally, ys, some news out of the mlb winter meetings. The nats will have a h fullse of starting pitchers, so,hey traded a tanner for a tanner. You guys know where im going with this one . Er tannoark was sent to the reds for prospect tanner rainey. The first tanner for tanner swap. 4. 34 e. R. A. In 30 starts last season tanner danny tanner, full house. Not just the same firstname, same initials. Even better. Thank you, i want yall to give a big round of applause for Stephen Curry cough,cough today were going to do some drills stuff like that steph you dont look so good sneezes are you sure you can play basketball . Uh. Lets bring it in cough,cough hey, batter, batter, [ crowd cheers ] like everyone, i lead a busy life. But i know the importance of having time to do what you love. At comcast we know our customers time is valuable. Thats why we have 2hour appointment windows, including nights and weekends. So you can do more of what you love. My name is tito, and im a tech ops manager at comcast. Were working to make things simple, easy and awesome. Some of d. C. s best athles and the families hosted a Holiday Party in arlingtonto ght. Best athletes. You try saying that. Talking about the wizards, the franchise started the Family Program in 1996, for less families. And tonight, some capitals players, wizards wives and mystics play natasha cloud handedut gifts at the caps practice facility in arlington. Face painting, street [ cheers and applause ] steve from studio 6b in Rockefeller Center in the heart of new york city, its the tonight show starring jimmy fallon. Tonight, join jimmy and his guests natalie portman, dennis miller,