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At the hospital and was released and is expected to be okay considering what happened to her. Coming up on news4 at 6 00, were going to tell you how the suspect was able to get inside the victims apartment. Were reporting live from fairfax county, darcy spencer. Jim, back to you. Thank you. Now to storm team4 coverage, folks. Get ready, were going to see rain and plenty of it starting tomorrow. It could turn into a stormy week here in the dmv. Doug . A couple days of rain here, guys, talking about tomorrow and the bigger day we think on wednesday. Some of that rain falling fairly heavily during the afternoon and overnight on wednesday. Falk abo talk about that in a second. Today a praetty nice afternoon. 52 backwards west virginia. The midatlantic dealing with nice weather today. Not much going on right now in our region, about you just down to the south we are watching this first batch of rain. You can see some heavier rain towards parts of the southeast around alabama moving into georgia. This is going to be the first [000 01 59;00] during our tuesday. The next wave will come in wednesday into wednesday night. So tonights headlines go down Something Like this, rain moving in tomorrow and it will affect that morning commute. The heaviest will be wednesday night, and we could even see some thunderstorms because of that. Wednesday will be a weather alert day here at nbc 4. Well talk much more about this from the storm center. Well take you hour by hour in a few minutes. Developing right now, Metro Transit Police are checking Surveillance Video for more suspects in the attack on a woman at the metro station that happened about 3 30 this afternoon. Police have four teenagers in custody. Investigators say the teens tried to take the womans purse but the woman fought back suffering some minor injuries, but shes expected to be fine. And meanwhile, we are learning new details about an attack that occurred at gallery place. Six teenagers charged with assaulting a man as he got off a metro train. They will be facing trial. In court today we learned that the teens who all attend wilson return to class, but theyre now barred from riding metro trains. However, they can ride the bus. The attack happened last month as a rider got off a red line train. Their trial is set for late april. And a woman found pushing her dead toddler in a swing in a Charles County park will not be facing any prison time. Romechia simms entered an alford plea. The defense says simms has schizophrenia and a judge found her not criminally responsible. Simms will be required to Seek Mental Health treatment, including seeing a psychiatrist and taking medication. Now to the race for the white house tonight where weve learned and seen one candidate drop out and another campaign shuffle after a weekend with wins for donald trump and hiar turnaround. Chris lawrence is in our newsroom to break it all down. Chris . Late this afternoon ted cruz asked his National Spokesman rick tiler to resign because of a false tweet about marco rubio. Now, this comes right on the eve of the nevada caucus and just three days after we saw donald trump win a decisive victory in South Carolina and jeb bush suspend his campaign. Looking at saturdays results, trump swept South Carolinas delegates winning in every Congressional District and all 50 of that states delegates. Marco rubio came in second with cruz right behind him. Bush was a distant fourth. On the democratic side, Hillary Clinton picked up a second victory against Bernie Sanders in their nevada caucuses. Now theyre both heading to South Carolina for saturday where polls show clinton with a double digit lead. Candidates are looking ahead to a week from tomorrow, super tuesday. Hundreds of delegates are stake including virginias. John kasich brought his campaign to our area, but he got some unwanted attention after he made these comments during about his early political says during a town hall. I didnt have anybody for me. We just got an army of people who and many women who left their kitchens to go out and go door to door and to put yard signs up for me all the way back. Your comment earlier about the women came out of the kitchen to support you, ill come to support you, but i wont be coming out of the kitchen. I got you. After he left george mason, kasichs campaign issued a statement saying the governor has always been about homegrown affairs adding that a lot of his early teams were made up of stayathome moms. Chris lawrence, thank you. Virginia is a key battleground state not just in the primaries now but for who will win the white house come november, and if you live in the commonweal commonwealth, youre bound to see more candidates k our Team Coverage continues with news4s tom sherwood. Reporter leesburg in Loudoun County retains much of its Country Charm but its at the n center of aggressive statewide politics. Prince william and loudoun counties are the two large swing counties in virginia. You must win these counties to win virginia at large. I think the candidates know that. Reporter Prince William county Board Chairman Corey Stewart is the statewide leader for Donald Trumps campaign in the march 1st primary. Virginia is probably the most important state coming up on super tuesday, and theres going to be a lot of attention here. I beat donald trump in Dixville Notch by 60 . Reporter republican candidate john kasich was at george iowa Mason University for a town hall today competing for super tuesday delegates across nine states and six caucuses. And i dont view this as anything other than selecting the best person o problems, has the experience to get the job done, to get america lifted again. Reporter Virginia Republican Party Chairman John Whitbeck says he expects more candidates to shift focus to virginia after tomorrows gop nevada caucus. Were seeing record turnout in the first three states on the republican side. We think in virginia on march 1st were going to have record turnout. Reporter and democratic candidate Bernie Sanders has scheduled a visit in norfolk for tomorrow as virginia democrats gear up for super tuesday too. Tom sherwood, news4. And we invite to you make nbc news and news4 your home for all things politic this is primary season. Hey, if you dont already have it, download our nbc washington app for breaking news alerts about the race for the white house. Well, it was a busy day for the delegation of local leaders who are visiting cuba. One of the things they did today, explore Business Opportunities with cuban officials. David culver is traveling with the hes in havana. David . Reporter hey there, wendy. Were back here in havana. How about this for a live location. Some children playing behind us. A beautiful setting, no question. But as you mentioned, the delegation had a very busy itinerary for today, and this you have to understand is coming amidst a lot of excitement in cu cuba. Theres a cautious optimism about whats coming here. In the pabs year rapid changes after five decades of near silence between the two countries and here we have these delegations, Terry Mcauliffe last month, now the d. C. Mayor and several represents from maryland and virginia. Theyre navigating this New Territory of relations, if you will, really not sure of the time line or the outcome. [ speaking spanish ] a little espanol to cubas capital. Muriel bowser telling officials she sees the delegations historic visit as making the way for president obama in a few weeks. We like to think that the president is following us to cuba so weve been here and we can lay the groundwork. Reporter but the trip spearheaded by the Greater Washington chamber of commerce isnt about inking any business deals yet, just exploring they say. About a twohour drive outside of havana they learned about one of cubas bestknown exports, cigars. Its an environment all too familiar for virginia commerce and trade secretary maurice jones. In the middle of tobacco plantations, tobacco farms everywhere. You know, i could be in virginia years ago which is where i grew up. Reporter does it feel personal, secretary, when youre here . This certainly desperate need in cuba. The crumbling infrastructure, lack of basics. He thinks thats an opening for virginia businesses. Theres also great opportunity for us as people to build more relationships. Reporter Montgomery County executive ike leggett thinks maryland can add to that. We have Choice Hotels that are there, and theyre chomping at the bit to come here. Reporter i asked him if moving ahead with the potential business relationships ignores a painful past . Certainly you cant forget the past and there have been some challenges related to human rights issues here in cuba and they continue today. Opening cuba up, having the opportunity for people to come to cuba, having the opportunity for business contacts to be a part of that i think provides a better platform for improvement in human rights issues as well. David, this is your third trip just in the last year to cuba. Are you noticing any yet . Reporter you know, one of the things, wendy, that you notice as soon as you get to the airport is that it seems as one professor here put it, that havana is at its capacity and really all of kcuba. They have so many people coming from europe, even americans on exchanges, the hotels trying to figure out how to get people comfortable, so they really feel like theyre at a moment where theyre trying to just work with what they have, but thats why you hear in that piece the local leaders saying that the infrastructure is one thing they feel like they can contribute to the cuban economy. And a lot of growth going to be happening there in the coming years. Thank you, david. Reporter for sure. All right. He was hit in the head with a beer bottle and then smashed in his face with some fists and then look, look at the back of his car. This could be the last that story coming up. Plus, if youre driving along i66, its going to cost you. How much you pay may have to be riding on a wider interstate. Dancing. Just keep dancing. Its great. Its our favorite. She is our favorite. The president and first lady getting a special visitor at the white house, and shes showing them how to make the moves. Youre watching news4 at 5 00. For a cup of coffee just because youre a woman. So why does congress think its ok that women get paid 20 less than a man for doing the same job . Ill fight for pay equity, to protect planned parenthood, choice for women, and expand paid and family leave. Now some politicians will belittle this as a womens agenda. More proof that we just need more women in congress. Three men are in custody tonight and were hearing now from an uber driver who says he got attacked by his passengers. It all unfolded over the weekend as that driver says he asked the riders to stop drinking in his car. News4s pat collins is live in arlington with details on this. Pat . Reporter wendy, so the uber driver says, hey, what are you guys doing in the back of my car . Passengers say. Well, it turned out to be more than that. Did they hurt you . Yes, they did. Reporter we call him george. Hes an uber driver. Were not using his real name or showing his face. George says he was attacked saturday night when he tried to get some people to stop drinking beer in his car. When this ride started, there were six passengers in the car. A man in the front passenger seat, three guys in the second seat, and two women in the back. As they started to move along, it got boisterous. George knew there was something wrong. He says what are you doing back there . They said were just eating some cheese puffs. But george, he knew better. He smelled the beer. He heard the bottles clanking. He pulled the car off to the side of the road and asked them to throw those beer bottles away. But it didnt stop there. One of the guys opens the passenger side doord pull the keys out of the ignition. He breaks the keys and then throws a beer bottle at georges head. I tried to stop him with my hand. Then from the other hand he threw the bottle at me on my head, and after that he started punching me. I tried to save myself by going down. My head was a little bit down after that. One of the guys uses a beer bottle to smash the window in the back and then everybody scatters. Police arrested three men in connection with the case. 26yearold Justin Norconk charged with Malicious Wounding and assault by mob. 25yearold lance ingram charged with assault by mob. And 26yearold jeffery rowe charged with destruction of property. Now, wait until you hear how the cops caught these guys. Ill have that coming up at 6 00. Jim, back to you. All right, pat collins. Thank you, pat. We posted more information about the Safety Policies for uber, washington app. Just open it and search ride safety to check it out. Well, starting today there is increased security measures at the u. S. House Office Buildings on the hill. Anyone who enters through the parking garages will now have to go through metal detectors and xray machines according to a report in the hill. Before now that screening was only for people who entered the Office Buildings on foot. The Capitol Police plan to ask for more money for more officers in their 2017 budget. A maryland lawmake make mak is introducing new legislation after Deonte Carraway faces multiple counts of child abuse and child pornography. Carraway did not have an adult criminal record but he did have a history of juvenile sex offenses that were protected. Maryland senator anthony us bill would allow schools and other employers hiring people to work with kids access to to work with kids to access those records. It would have allowed us in this situation that were dealing with to know that there was some tremendous problems that should have raised the eyebrows of those who were in the employment industry relative to schools in this case to be able to say, this is a person that we either should not have hired or should have looked into further. Now, this law is expected to head to the Maryland Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee for review this week. Full disclosure, state senator muse is the husband of news4 anchor pat lawson muse. President barack obama hosting the nations governors at the white house today. He says terrorism tops his list when it comes to common issues that the federal government has with the states. Virginia governor Terry Mcauliffe brought up the issue of sequestration saying congress is failing to pass a budget and that hurts the they pushed it off for two years, but you know as well as i do the percent of debt to gdp in two years, we are going to be right back in this situation. We have to begin to think long term. We need leadership decisions to grow our country so the economy can grow and everybody can benefit. Were working with other nations to prevent terrorists from entering the united states. Were unwavering in our efforts to prevent attacks at home, and thats where the partnership with your states come in. This is a shared mission. We have to stay vigilant. Across the country weve got more than 100 joint Terrorism Task forces. President obamas other Top Priorities with the state, gun violence, cyber threats, and zika. Well, we know many of you cant get enough of it too. We know many of you and your friends love this video as we do. A 106yearold woman visiting the white house. A black president. Look at right there. A black wife. Thats me. Yes and im here to celebrate black history. Thats exactly right. Yeah. Thats what im here for. Were glad to have you here. And, boy, did she. 106yearold virginia mclaurin couldnt contain her excitement. She started dancing, and when she met the first couple. Mclaurin was at the white house to celebrate black history. She said mclaurin was born in South Carolina in 1909 and lived in d. C. Since the 1930s. Video already has this video has had nearly 36 million views on facebook since the white house pobsed it last night. There she goes. She can light up a room. Well, the fbis war of words with apple takes a new turn. Why the iphone of a suspected terrorist still locked up. And have you seen this new app . Before you use it. Youre watching news4 at 35 00. And now, your storm team4 forecast. And by this time tomorrow morning rain making its way in across our region. We saw a pretty nice monday across the area. Some sunshine, high temperatures in the low 50s for the most part. Not bad at all but tomorrow a completely different story. We have rain and much cooler temperatures too. Out there still looking pretty nice. The clouds are moving in. 50 degrees the current temperature, winds out of the south at 5 miles per hour. Upper 40s for the most part. Were not going to see temperatures fall very fast but by tomorrow morning they will be a lot cooler and it will lead to a cool rather than rainy day tomorrow. No rain in the forecast right now, at least throughout the reece of the evening. You can see the cloud cover. Look at the rain down around raleigh, the carolinas. The wider view showing the heavier rain in portions of mississippi and alabama, georgia. This is a system number one. System number two coming through the rockies right now, and thats whats going to affect us during the day wednesday and into early thursday. Thats the bigger system. Its the wednesday system and its going to be the stronger system. But i want t