To convince a shooting suspect to give himself up. He opened fire when they tried to serve him with a warrant yesterday. Bystander was kill and three officers were hurt. They evacuated this area where he barricaded himself. Larry tonight the man brutally attacked after stopping to he an woman is speaking out after being beaten. This is as Robert Mallette was sentenced for the crime today. Brad sat down with the Good Samaritan earlier today. Brad this is a tough story. A man who was 79 years old almost 8 o last september in bowie. There was a young woman who needed help. He provided that helm. For his efforts he was severely beaten. Tough story. Bob remembers clearly how the nightmare began. A young woman came running across the intersection. Brad he was a block from his the woman stopped his car and said help me, help me, please. My boyfriend is trying to kill me. Brad he let her in and they took off but soon realized the boyfriend Robert Mallette was following. He cut them off. Jumped
Rain. And you notice, no more yellows. We had lightning and thunder earlier this morning. That rain is gone, just the shower activity. Heres whats happening right now, through loudoun, fauquier. We had a break through parts of northern virginia, but the rain continues to fill in here and it is making its way down to the south and east. But this is all part of a storm system and a boundary thats across our region. You can see the edge, up through pennsylvania, back to the west. We continue to see shower activity moving through. And this will continue for the next few hours. Kinda tough to get the nationals game in, but maybe. Continued cool, yesterday we were 76. Today right now, 55. Mothers day forecast, it does get a little bit better. And the 80s, they do return. Even a 90 in there as far as the forecast is concerned too. Much more on t look ahead to the weekend, remember, you can get the latest on storm team4 on the nbc washington app, set weather as your home screen. Just open sett
The public thinks about this dismissal. Leon harris has the details. This is getting a ton of attention. And will be for days to come. President trump spoke extensively about his decision to fire james comey in an exclusive interview with nbcs lester holt, and the president s reasons appear to contradict previous statements coming from the white house. Now on the topic of comey, were also seeing some new reaction from a brandnew nbc News Survey Monkey poll. More than half, 54 believe that comeys dismissal was not appropriate, and when it comes to why the president let comey go, nearly half think it has to do with the russia investigation. Only about a quarter think its related to the Clinton Emails as stated. In his sitdown, he also had choice words to describe comey. Hes a show boat, hes a grandstander. The fbi has been in turmoil, you know what, i know that, Everybody Knows that. You met attorney general rod rosenstein. Right. Did you ask for a recommendation . What i did is, i was g
With him. What stands out in your mind from your talk . We set the interview up about ten days ago. Obviously they were true to their word and happy to sit down. A couple things stood out. One you saw some of that, how strong the president came out to denounce jim comey. We began the interview talking about how he could be so supportive of him during the campaign, because he was going after Hillary Clinton, and the president essentially seemed to focus on the fact that he didnt end up prosecuting her. He was angry at the fact that comey had laid out all that evidence and said, by the way, im not going to charge her. He was angry after his Second Review that he opted again, said there was nothing that was going to change his conclusions. He seemed to be more upset about the outcome than comeys actions in general. Lester, there have been different accounts about how all of this unfolded this week. Tell us more about the president s comments on the process that led to comeys firing. Well,
Our clients perspective is that if the university had taken action on that first report he may not have been on campus, he may not have ever met our other client, and she may not have been attacked. You know the hashtag no means no, actually like spread around campus, twitter, social media, all of that, people really started having discussing like conversations about that on campus. One of those women who spoke out on twitter says the dean of Student Affairs at Howard University told her, quote, you embarrased your family by doing that. Another woman suing the school claims her attacker was a Campus Police officer who sexually and physically assaulted her. All five women claim their cases were investigated slowly, if at all. Lawsuit state the school didnt provide appropriate counselling or accommodations to extends School Deadlines after they were attacked. They have experienced depression, theyve been suicidal, and they express those things to the university, and still the university