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The gunman says give me money or ill kill a customer. They got money and the robbers escaped. But not for long. Now it looks like the black hat bandits are out of business. It appears the fbi had solved the case of the black hat bandits. A group of Armed Bank Robbers said to be responsible for nine bank jobs in d. C. , virginia, and maryland. They were known for their militarylike precision, their brazen guns drawn tactics, fake beards, and of course the black hats. According to Court Documents, 66yearold Thomas Anthony george has confessed to the robberies. Officials say georges last bank job was here at the wells fargo on connecticut avenue. They say he walked in, pulled a gun and said give me money or im going to kill a customer. They say he said that three times. According to Court Documents on that march 13th day, george and an accomplice made off with 9000 from the bank. And minutes later george was arrested at this apartment on 19th place in southeast. The fbi showed up in full force. They say george had about 4,000 in cash in his pocket. Now there was another man arrested in connection with this wells fargo robbery. More about him, more about the money they got, more about the money they lost coming up at 6. Jim, back to you. Pat, thank you. Now to an emotional case that moved jurors to tears today in alexandria. As the daughter of a high ranking d. C. Official described finding her mother dead. Northern Virginia Bureau chief julie carey joins us live from the courthouse with developments. Julie . Reporter well, that emotional testimony came from the daughter of homicide victim carolyn cross. Now, cross was a high ranking official in the d. C. Department of corrections. Prosecutors say she was at her apartment on the morning of september 7th preparing to go out of town to a Leadership Company when dawit seyoum targeted her and killed her. Clarissa davis was composed when she left the court houshgs but on the witness stand the tears came quickly as she was shown a picture of her mother carolyn cross. On september 7th, davis drove to her moms highrise to take her to the apartment. She became worried when she didnt answer the phone. She went into the apartment telling jurors, as she sobbed i went in and saw my mother. She was laid out in front of me and i screamed. I walked towards her and she had a plastic bag over her head and there was blood all over her head. That Afternoon Police spofrnded to a 911 attempted suicide call at a neighboring building. There they found dawit seyoum suffering from slashed wrists the words i am the dirty one written in blood on his bathroom wall. Once at the hospital, officer james young seyoum told him, i did something bad today. I asked him what. He said i think i murdered a woman. Jurors also heard an audiotaped confession given by seyoum from his hospital bed. He told detectives he had been angry with his mother and decided to kill someone. He targeted cross because he thought when he had encountered her at the apartment complex she had stared at him in a mean way. Asked the detective, was she hit on the head . Seyoum, yes. What was she hit with . Say yom a wrench. Was she still alive when you put the bag on her head . Seyoum she was not conscious. Now, in Opening Statements today Defense Attorneys told jurors that dawit seyoum should be found not guilty by reason of insanity. Coming up at 6, ill tell you more about his mental condition on that fateful day. Back to you. Julie, thank you. A man in Northern Virginia is facing charges tonight after a cyber tip led investigators to a child porn stash. Police arrested kevin sal gair row of woodbridge last week. They tell us they found more than 250 videos and 200 images of child pornography on his laptop. Hes being held now without bond. And there is still no sign of the man who is suspected of killing his wife in a maryland doughnut shop. Police are looking for bad rec kumar patel. They say he killed his wife in the Dunkin Donuts in hanover late sunday night. Patel is wanted on several charges including first degree murder. And praise is pouring in for metros new 7000 series railcars. The trains debuted on the blue line, the first new train since 2006. Cars are designed to be safer and stronger. There are flat screen monitors, better seattles, more room, no carpet, a Welcome Change for regular riders. When i first started riding about five years ago, it was in the 3 range its in the 5 range now. Absolutely you want to get the most bang for your buck. Oh, man, this is an awesome train right here. They need to have a lot of these on the line. Reporter what make its so good . The interior. The exterior. Everything about the train. Metro says the new cars will be in service over the next couple of weeks. They will be on the red line. So the riders are reacting to the new cars and weve shared some of the passengers responses. You can see them on the nbc washington app. Federal inspectors will head to Southern Maryland to check out the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Plant in the wake of the widespread power outage. A generator tripped after 11 seconds. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission Says there was no health or safety impact but it needs a closer look. Theyre calling her lucy. Shes got quite a job. The latest tunnel Boring Machine to fix century old problems with city sewage and stormwater flooding. Tom sherwood reports some residents cant wait for lucy to get on the job. Reporter for decades, neighborhoods like bloomingdale northwest near downtown have flooded when stormwater and sewage overflow centuryold pipes. Today the mayor spilled a little more water when she welcomed louis sit the 23foothigh Boring Machine that will dig a tunnel under first street northwest to create a massive tank to hold 9 million gallons of overflow. What we are doing together here is solving a problem that dates back a century or more, and a solution that will last into the future a century or more. Reporter lucy will dig 100 feet a day. It will be lowered nearly 200 feet into the ground later this week. The overall 4 billion citywide project began after 2005 when the epa sued the city for polluting the anacostia and potomac rivers. Were going to improve the quality of life for washingtonians in this generation and in the next. Reporter lucy is the third of four massive tunnel digging machines to be used around the city. Local residents have put up with noise street closings and other disruptions that will continue well into next year. All of our problems havent been solved. There will be more. Reporter and with one community wish. To seeing this work done as efficiently and as quickly and safely as possible. Reporter in the district, tom sherwood, news4. Some people in maryland will have to find a place to stay tonight after an explosion and a fire inside a highrise. Chopper 4 over the scene this morning in the Wayne Manchester apartments on wayne avenue in Silver Spring. Fire Officials Say that fire was contained to one unit but theres smoke and water damage to other parts of the building. And no word on what caused it yet. Starting next week crews will be out in force in richmond doing some muchneeded upkeep for Virginia State capitol building. Theyll be repairing stuck copaint regularco co the whole job is expected to take up to five months. It was 150 years ago today that president Abraham Lincoln was shot at fords theater in downtown d. C. As a tribute to our 16th president , the theater is holding a ceremony starting at 9 00 tonight. The theater is holding several different events. We put a list on the nbc washington app. Search lincoln. Tonight there will be a candlelight vigil on 10th street northwest and tomorrow Morning Church bells will toll across the city at 7 22, the time lincoln was pronounced dead. Developing right now, a reserve sheriffs deputy in oklahoma booked on a manslaughter charge after killing a suspect. Tonight, nbc news is asking why he was allowed on an undercover sting when his real job is selling insurance. Reporter im david culver in ashburn ashburn. Why it seems High School Students are paying the price. I would hate to see another family go through what ive been through. Her son was given 35 minutes to live. Seven months later he is still fighting. His ins prairgsal recovery and the new legal action that family is taking. There is no royal blood in this country. Nothing is reserved for anyone. Its all just out there. Waiting. For someone to reach out. And take it. And the ones who do. These are the kings and queens of america. Waves of rain sweeping through our area. Storm team4 chief meteorologist Doug Kammerer is updating your forecast. In just a few minutes hell tell you when the rain will end and whats coming in next. The reserve sheriffs deputy in the shooting death of an unarmed man is out of jail after turning himself in this morning. Robert bates was booked an photographed then released after posting bond. Yesterday he was charged with manslaughter for shooting and killing a man who allegedly tried to sell a gun to under cover officers in tulsa, oklahoma earlier this month. Police say the shooting was an accident and that bates mistaken apply thought he had pulled a stun gun. Bates is 73. Hes an insurance executive who was volunteering on the undercover operation. Whos using reserve officers in our area . We asked the news4 iteam to find out. We are joined with what he found. Aux the officers dont carry guns xsz they carry radios and in some cases they can put you in kufz, including Baltimore County auxiliary police wlo can make arrests for assault, Disorderly Conduct or destruction of property. Hagerstown uses about 20 auxiliary officers for crowd control and special events. They get their own uniforms and vehicles. Anne arundel uses reserved officers equipped with radios only for traffic and parking enforcement. Montgomery county, Prince Georges County do not use reserve officers. But fairfax does. They use auxiliary officers but everybody involved every agency involved, says those volunteers do not carry guns, wendy. Scott macfarlane, a Good Samaritan is being credited with saving the life of a Police Officer in miami. Aif passing motorist used his van to shield the officer from a shooting suspect. The suspect then stole the officers cruiser. He was taken into custody after a chase and a shootout. The suspect and two bystanders were hurpt. All are expected to survive. The former nfl star at the center of a serial rape case is out of his alma maters hall of fame. Darren sharper was kicked out of the william and mary hall of fame after a guilty plea in one of the nine cases in which hes charged. Women in four states say they were drugged and raped by sharper. He grew up in richmond, played safety at william mary before his 14year nfl career. Last month he was also kicked out of his high schools hall of fame. Nine educators from the atlanta area are now facing up to seven years in prison. A judge sentenced them today in connection to a widespread cheating controversy. Stemming back to 2005. Theyre accused of changing responses to inflate test scores in 44 different schools. Those sentenced will face between one and seven years in prison. There were thousands of children that were harmed in this thing. This is not a victimless crime that occurred in this city. Two educators did accept plea deals. Of the two, one completely avoided jail time. The other will spend six months of weekends in jail. A School Superintendent who was also indicted died from complications with breast cancer. A reformed jewel thief is giving some insight into last weeks massive heist in london. Larry lawton has analyzed the Security Camera footage released by scotland yard. He says it is clear this heist was carried out by professionals who were highly coordinated and it was probably an inside job. Your first goal as a robber is to make sure you can get d that pretty good. Second is to know what youre robbing. I think thats why i do believe it was an inside job. Its not clear how much the thieves got away with during this easter weekend heist. Estimates are as high as 300 million in diamonds, jewels and cash. Google has fixed the glitch, but earlier today nsa leaker Edward Snowden had a presence of sorts at the white house. On google maps, a fake store listed as edwards snow den put him right in the middle of the executive mansion. Marketing land which first noticed this hack says someone changed the address of a verified google map store location after it went live. Big battle over College Credit is brewing tonight in Loudoun County as our Bureau Reporter david culver found out. A local Community College is challenging a program that lets High School Students earn College Credit without paying tuition. Reporter prepping for their upcoming performance, studz at Rock Ridge High School theater course working with new stateoftheart equipment. Its kind of like an escape from i guess reality. Reporter sophomore Jessica Howard thinks this might be her career path. Shes approved for next years collegelevel theater course here paying only a fee, no tuition. Shell get credit after that. So to kind of get a College Credit out of the way, thats really cool because i think thats less money. Reporter absolutely. In january we introduced you to mr. Hanks physics class. Welcome back. These students the first in the program getting free College Credit, but they may also be the last. After our report Northern Virginia Community College contacted state education officials. Eventually challenging Richard Blands jurisdiction in Northern Virginia and nbc spokeswoman didnt return our request for an interview. Just last week, Richard Bland got a partial goahead. We got the approval from the state now. We are hoping question get approval from the county to keep on going for next year. Reporter the plan for next year was to expand the program into theater biology, maybe even chemistry. But all of that now on hold. Its now Loudoun County Public Schools stalling the program. Its unclear why. It creates uncertainty for students like jessica enrolled in next years coarses. It would be a very sad thing for those of us who have put in work to be in this course. Reporter jessica doesnt care who backs the credit so long as she can still get them free of charge. I think its less about what school sponsors it but more about the opportunities that are given to those of us who are very interested in this. Reporter in Ashburn David Culver news4. Millions of Health Records may have been involved in hacking or data breaches according to a new study. Published in the journal of the american medical association, they found that over a fouryear span 949 data breaches were reported around the country. Nearly 60 of those involved theft, and among the personal information taken, names, ages, illnesses test results. Experts say beware of phishing emails from fake doctors hospitals or insurers that require you to click links to get information. Expectant women have yet another big reason to get a doctor early in their pregnancy. A new study tonight shows early onset of gestational diabetes can put their child at higher risk for autism. The children are 40 more likely to be diagnosed than other children. It only applies when the diabetes develops before the 26th week. Diabetes risk factors include high cholesterol and high blood pressure. Developing tonight a new law at a local county is try willing to snuff out ecigarettes in public places. Where they will be banned and why users will have to fork over more money to buy these ecigarettes. Some frustrated nationals fans say they were overcharged at the ballpark. Why it happened and how the team is handling it. And were talking about rain that continues across our area. Ill show you when that rain moves out and what to expect over the next couple of days in announcer and now your storm team4 forecast. Oh that forecast has rain. You can see the rain, the fog, also wind out there and some Cool Temperatures. Right now a very dreary shot of the national mall. But, hey, at least we have leaves on the trees finally. Storm team4 radar showing the rain across the area, some of that rain toward the i81 corridor, toward the panhandle west virginia, Frederick County in virginia around winchester, more showers to the south. But this is the area of the heaviest rain and the most steady rain, south and east of d. C. Well do a zoom here and show you what im talking about. Charles county, st. Marys county, orn deal and route 4, route 5, leonardtown. Well do another zoom and show you whats happening around the air naval station around drum point. See the area of yellow, the heavier rain right there