Police have not identified a suspect, a person of interest, or even given us a car description. But coming up at 6, what miguel says his father did that likely saved his life. Reporting in southeast, Meagan Fitzgerald, news4. Meagan, thank you. Were tracking changing weather conditions now. And our weekend is going to feel very different, isnt it, doug . Well, it will be on the warm side for sure. Temperatures going to be around 90 degrees tomorrow. Right now were in the low 80s. We have the chance for some storms. Leting look at the storms on storm team4 radar. Shower activity mostly toward the west but a couple of storms in through Northern Virginia, we saw them through Southern Maryland earlier. Theyve dried up. Were still looking at shower activity through Prince William county. We had thunder with this. These are starting to die off. The big storms back toward luray and toms brook right along i81 here, shenandoah and page kwoupty. Look toward fredericksburg, storms firing up here, Spotsylvania County a lot of rain has fallen, sthunder and lightning there. As we move through the next couple of days, tibed hot for the weekend. We have a chance for strong storms. Ill break those down for you. Then changing the forecast from yesterday for the wrest of the weekend and the rest of the week. Ive got the change in a bit. Well, nearly two dozen accused drug dealers are behind bars behind in Prince William county as police bring a major operation to a close. Our Northern Virginia bureau chief julie carey and her photographer were the only news team present during these raids. She found out about operation growing pains that is going after a particular group, dealers who sell drugs to high schoolers. And this is video that you will only see on news4. Police search warrant come to the door reporter this is not the kind of wakeup call anyone wants to get. And when the suspect doesnt come to the door, the door comes down. Across Prince William county, this is how police moved in this week to grab drug dealers and execute search warrants. Undercover officers wear masks to keep their identity concealed. At this brist toe townhouse, a 21yearold was arrested and faces multiple drug charges. In a preraid briefings his was one of four profiled. The goal of operation growing pains, to close down a pipeline of drugs to teens. And of that 21 were picking up today, the other critical thing is every one of those individuals was selling drugs to high school aged kids. Or they are themselves in high school selling to other high school kids. Reporter police emerge with bags of evidence, several vehicles also searched. Back at police headquarters, take a look at the spread of drugs, both pot and pills. Theres a gun and cash. The marijuana gets tested. The money counted. This case in particular involved cocaine sales marijuana sales, the marijuana wax, the concentrated marijuana. We see a lot of pills. Reporter but what they are also seeing is more violence tied to drug deals involving teens. They wanted to crack down now before another high schooler ends up dead. When you start actually robbing people and carrying guns, you know, thats weve reaped a new level there. Its not system am as kids smoking a little bit of marijuana. But the arrests are only half the operation. Parent education is the next step. Coming up at 6, ill show you the newest and potentially very dangerous form of marijuana. If parents dont know what to look for, they might think it was spoiled food. Back to you. Interesting. Julie carey thanks. Well, the search is still on tonight for the person who shot and killed a reporter in southeast d. C. Investigators visited with sharniece miltons family today. Her parents say they was used as a human shield during a shootout between two groups who were on dirt bikes on wednesday night. Milton was waiting to take the bus home after covering a story on capitol hill when she was shot and killed. Im Chris Lawrence at the live desk where were learning some new details about the allegations of Sexual Misconduct against former House Speaker denny hastert. A Law Enforcement source telz nbc news the case involves payment hastert made to a man to conceal a sexual relationship that they had. This allegedly happened while the man whose identity has not been revealed was a teenager and student at the high school where hastert taught and coached wrestling. This was before he got into politics. A federal indictment against hastert accuses him of lying to the federal agents about cash withdrawals. Hastert is accused of taking 1. 7 million to give to the man. Hastert apparently told investigators he was keeping the cash. He retired from congress in 207 and has been working as a lobbyist. His company said yesterday hastert has resigned. Back to you. Chris lawrence. Chris thank you. Big traffic changes are going into effect that will make it tougher to get in and out of the district, even if you commute by bus. News4s Mark Segraves live now at the Memorial Bridge with the impact for us. Mark . Reporter hey, jim. Yeah you can see the signs are up, the cones are out, and the lanes are closed on the Memorial Bridge. One lane in each direction closed. Thats going to start leading to backups once we get to our normal traffic pattern next week. But the lane closures arent the only restrictions that went into effect today, and these restrictions are going to have a big impact on your commute. The. The bridge is safe for 99 of the users. If youre in a car, suv, the bridge is perfectly safe. The people it affects the most are the buses. Reporter in addition to closing the curb lanes on each side of the Memorial Bridge to all traffic, buses wont be allowed on the bridge at all. The hundreds of buses that cross this bridge each day are going to have to find another way to get across the Potomac River. Everywhere thats an alternate to get away from that bridge, it will be a mess. Reporter and these restrictions will be with us for a while. Two curbside lanes should be reopened in the next six months or so. Reporter how about the Weight Restrictions . At this point the Weight Restrictions are indefinite. Reporter our partners at wtop radio know a thing or two about traffic and theyre warning commuters there will be a Ripple Effect to the bridge restrictions. People will now realize i shouldnt be going across this Memorial Bridge so im going to choose to go across the roosevelt, it will be more than a Ripple Effect. Reporter now, of course, these restrictions come as part of the aging and deterioration of this bridge. Coming up at 6 00 well tell you why this isnt the only bridge in our area thats in the shape that you have to worry about and what necessitateed these restrictions so urgently. At the Memorial Bridge, Mark Segraves, news4. Six months. Mark, thank you. Starting this monday youll notice some lane closures along a heavily traveled bridge downtown. The National Park service will begin repair work on the kutz bridge which runs across independence avenue. Among the changes, crews will widen the south sidewalk so it meets with the americans with disabilities act and provides more room for pedestrians and cyclists. Work is expected to last through early fall. Well for the first time in more than 35 homeowners in Prince Georges County may have to pay higher property taxes. And that increase was included in a budget pass last night. That money is intended to cover the mandatory pensions in the county. It is not offering any new finding for the school. That has a lot of people unhappy. Our county bureau chief tracy will kin has reaction from college park. My niece is graduating today. My nephew is graduating. Reporter its what its all about, this moment. Its a new venture. Shes getting ready to now move into another arena of life. Reporter what Prince Georges County is trying to figure out is how to get their students here and beyond so they can be competitive for the next phase of life. Its my first grandson to graduate. Reporter its everything to patricia douglas. I think education is doing great, but i think they could do more. And not cutting out programs for the children. Reporter douglas says she would pay a higher property tax like what Rushern Baker suggested. Shes disappointed the tax was revised down with nothing new for schools. Our residents cant afford a 15. 6 taxincrease. Reporter keown shill chair says the 4 will cover only state mandates to pay teacher pensions. Additional money for School Improvements will have to wait. Its not that we disagree in terms of the need. The problem is how we pay for it and the council collectively determined that a 15. 6 increase in property taxes was way too much. Reporter but to see her grandson here ready to go even further i will pay more taxes if i know its going for the purpose its going for. Reporter once a budget goes to the county executive, hell have ten days to review it and he has the opportunity to do some lineitem vetoes if hed like to and then send it back to the county council. That could mean that his tax proposal could come back up. Coming up on news4 at 6, why some residents say this whole thing is illegal. Ill explain. Reporting live, im Tracee Wilkins wilkins. A gondola ride across the potomac might be nice this time of here and georgetown could be one step closer to that becoming a reality. Plus, new developments in the case of a Police Officer and his mother both accused in a deadly shooting at a mcdonalds. We have a crew gathering reaction from the defense. Were going to have that within the hour. A former coach and parent reaching out to us warning of a troubled past for a local Little League. Why he says more needs to be done to protect the kids. Im tracking showers and thunderstorms right now across the area. Notice this one right here just out of fredericksburg in Spotsylvania County. Severe thunderstorm warning until 5 30 there are a lot of channels on your tv but only so many you want to watch what if you could pay for the types of channels you want and not the ones you dont now, fios brings you a totally new way to customize your tv. Starting at 74. 99 per month with no annual contract. Get custom tv, including internet and phone. Price guaranteed for two years. Or from now until june 8th get a 400 visa prepaid card when you sign a twoyear agreement. Go to getfios. Com. Cable just gives you channels. Fios gives you choice. Call the Verizon Center for customers with disabilities at 800. 974. 6006 tty v there are new kearns tonight over a Fairfax CountyLittle Leagues troubled past. Last week we told you federal agents have charged umpire don essex with distributing child pornography. Well, after that report, a former coach and parent reached out to news4s david culver told him theres more to the story. Reporter if you wonder how much doland sullivan loves baseball, just look at his home office. That was the allstar team that won. Reporter trophies and signed baseballs sit on his shelves, memories of his coaching days. He coached for eight years up until 2006. His two boys, now grown, both played for the league. What im hoping is to raise a certain level of awareness. Reporter after we told you about League Umpire don essexs arrest last week doland emailed us, tell me the League Problems go beyond one umpires child porn problems. I didnt see in the report the connection to the other individuals. Reporter dolan tells me essexs arrest is only the latest in a string in the league. He pointed me to 2009. Eric mincer, a former coach and umpire, he pleaded guilty to enticing a minor. Just before that, exumpire jon hamm will ton was accused of molesting five boys. He later pleaded guilty. And we saw things, you know that were red flags with hamilton spending more time, you know, with individual kids within the league. Reporter hamiltons arrest wasnt overnight. He fled the country for several months, was picked up in poland and eventually brought back to face the charges. Now serving a 55year prison sentence. The connection to essex dolan says its well known the two lived together. When hamilton was charged, some parents wanted the league to remove essex of his chief umpire position. Were not paying him. Theres no employment contract. Why cant we just separate ourselves from this individual . Reporter the leagues president told us that they didnt want to act without formal charges. Dolan is it not placing blame but is forcing ft. Hunt Little League to be more proactive. At 6, what he wants done and how the league is responding. David culver, news4. A case involving a former Anne Arundel County executive could pave the way for more lawsuits against government officials. A Maryland Appeals Court ruled today that people can sue elected leaders if their privacy rights are violated. John leopold is accused of getting personal information about political opponents from police without legitimate legal reasons. He was found guilty of misconduct in office. He stepped down back in 2013. Well, there is still more in the investigation into the live anthrax samples mistakenly sent to labs across the country. Chris lawrence is live in our newsroom with the latest on this. Chris . Wendy, another batch of live anthrax has tu, raising questions about the process the military uses to render those deadly spores inactive. The live anthrax turned up in a sample that was sent to australia from an army lab in utah back in 2008. Defense officials tell nbc news the anthrax spores were eradiated before they were sent to australia. Officials say it appears the anthrax had not received enough radiation to render the spores inactive. Experts say its very difficult to inactivate a large batch of spores. The cdc is helping to investigate these ins departments and says the public is not in danger. Jim . Thank you chris. A special dedication earlier today for a fallen sheriffs deputy in Stafford County, virginia. Rocky run reservoir was dedicated in honor of deputy jason mooney. He died in a crash along i95 back in 2007. Depply mooney graduated from Colonial Forge high in stafford and also served in the marines. Next memorial day the reservoir will become the countys newest park with lake mooney, offering canoeing and fishg for visitors. A scare in the air for a flight from national airport. Find out what one pilot had to avoid in midair. And a nightmare on the roads for drivers in texas. We have more dramatic video and stories of misery in the aftermath of that flooding. And just a couple of storms here right now. Take a look at storm team4 radar. Severe thunderstorm warning continues for eastern Spotsylvania County very heavy rain falling right now just to the west of i95 around the fredericksburg area. Ill be back in just a couple of minutes with more. Its an idea thats been floating around for years. Now it looks like plans are moving forward to maybe put some gondolas on the Potomac River. The Washington Post says the d. C. Council agreed to spend 35,000 for a Feasibility Study to determine if the gondolas make sense. The vessels could carry people over the Potomac River between georgetown and roz lan offering another mode of transportation. The study will look at all aspects of such a service, including whether it should be operated by the government or by private industry. Announcer and now your storm team4 forecast. Taking a look at a couple of showers out there right now and a couple of thunderstorms. We still have the one Severe Thunderstorm Warning toward Spotsylvania County. Let lets look at the radar. Severe thunderstorm warning until 5 30, thats really the only storm in the game with the exception of back towards the shenandoah valley. Here is the one in Spotsylvania County, just south of fredericksburg, one just north of fredericksburg, too. You can see where the warning is on the east side of Spotsylvania County. Really under the gun right now, the town of spotsylvania lightning associated with that right along route 3 and then right out of fredericksburg south and west through the county here. A lot of lightning and really the biggest story here with these storms, very heavy rainfall, this one right along i95 dumping a lot of rain in a very short amount of time. And the storms are really not moving all that much. Another storm just to the north of luray has had a lot of lightning associated with that, too, in toward shan do wa county, page county, Warren County and around front royal just to the south and west. Off toward the east weve got more showers and really this is some very heavy rain along route 50 if youre heading out toward the beaches, across the bay bridge, i do think youre gooding to run into problems on the roads because we have seen some reports of flooding out here towards the easton area. So headsup in those areas. It will continue to be a problem. But not everybody is seeing that.