Southern maryland. Weve seen a lot of rain in fredericksburg. Back to the west, seeing some thunderstorm activity through Shenandoah County makingiti itsy up towards winchester and martinsburg. All of this is still making its way through. Heres wave number one. Heres wave number two. If you are heading out, keep the umbrella handy. Temperatures tonight will fall into the upper 60s, but expect at least some showers could even impact the nationals game, although well get that game in. Much more on the forecast, including some 80s that return. Ill see you in a minute. Residents at a northwest d. C. Complex say they are freaked out tonight after a deadly stabbing early this morning. It happened at the tunlaw condominiums. Residents had to be evacuated. Ree suspect, 59yearold charles sykes, lived on the fifth floor of this building right here. He was dating the victim who was found stabbed to death inside. This is not what neighbors who live in this glover Park Building ever thought theyd wake up to. You dont expect it out here. At about 6 00 a. M. , the building fire alarm went off and it meant that everyone had to go outside. Reporter police and firefighters surrounded their building for what was first thought to be a suspicious package inside. That was until police soon discovered a woman inside a fifth floor unit who was stabbed multiple times. Police arrested 59yearold charles sykes. If it was on the street, it would be a little bit different. Inside the building its creepy. Reporter sykes lives in the building and was dating the victim who was visiting. The letter says it was sykes who called police and pulled the fire but Police Spent Hours combing the building for evidence, trying to piece together what happened and why. Surprising. Something i never thought would have happened here. Reporter now, sykes has been charged with seconddegree murder and at this point police have not yet released the name of the victim. But coming up at 6 00, hear from a neighbor who describes what he heard around the time of that stabbing. Thank you so very much. We just learned the driver who died on the beltway was one from Prince Georges County. Jermaine mcallister died when his car collided with a tractortrailer overnight. This happened near temple hills road. It appears mcallister veered out of his lane into the path of the truck after hed been stopped on the shoulder. In a sweeping move, virginias governor is restoring Voting Rights to all felons who have completed their sentence. Its a move that could have a big impact on the president ial election. Julie carey joins us live from Loudoun County where Voter Registration offices will be especially busy this fall. Reporter the governors executive order means 206,000 Virgin Virgin virginiana who have done their time will be eligible to vote. No longer will they have to fill out this paperwork to have their Voting Rights restored. This news is cause for celebration for some. Oh, absolutely thrilled. It was just amazing. It is amazing. Reporter Sheila Coates has been spent decades helping people register to vote. She is with a group called black women united for action. More recently, shes focused on helping female felons go through the process of filling out these forms to get their Voting Rights restored. For the community that we work with, im just thrilled tat and continue to want to work for social justice. And this is a giant step. Reporter the latest step in Voting Rights restoration came with Governor Terry mcauliffes stroke of a pen on the capital steps. He says it marks out a civil war era provision of the constitution. It is time to embrace an honest, clean process for restoring the rights of these men and women. Reporter we were with Sheila Coates this afternoon as she phoned an exfelon shes been helping to tell her the news. She no longer needs to wait on the paperwork to be approved to vote. It was awesome. I was so excited because i think everybody should have a chance, a second chance. Everybody makes mistakes. Reporter this isnt just about Voting Rights. The governors order restores all civil rights, including the ability to run for office and serve on a leaders are outraged by what the governor has done. Coming up at 6 00, who they say should still be barred from voting. Thank you. We want to know what you think. Do you believe that convicted felons who have served their punishment should be allowed to vote . Its our flash survey this afternoon. Call or text us. You can also vote over on the nbc washington facebook page. A virginia man charged in the death of a toddler will remain behind bars now. Police tell us fields left a 2yearold girl in the backseat of a car for seven hours. He didnt realize until he went to pick up the girls mother in pentagon city. Fields is charged with neglect and involuntary manslaughter. President obama is overseas in the u. K. Right now. Earlier today, he had bilate minister of david cameron. Afterwards, a reporter asked him about prince. I didnt know him well. He came to perform at the white house last year and was extraordinary. It so happens our ambassador has a turntable, so this morning we played purple rain and delirious just to get warmed up before we left the house for important bilateral meetings like this. Here at home one of the smithsoni smithsonians museums is recognizing princes life and accomplishments. His portrait is back on display. Reporter on any given day, there are 900 or so portraits on display here, but today theres one that a lot of people are interested in. In fact, today it is one of their most popular portraits. The first visitors wereer the new acquisitions gallery. On the day after the death of its subject, it was perhaps the one generating the most emotion. I think for a lot of prince fan that is grew up with his music. Reporter this black and white photo of prince and his guitar is making its second appearance. It is from our second installation, cool, that we installed in 2014. Reporter other documents the moment with a photograph of a photograph that on this day held more significance than any of the 900 or so works on display. Its amazing to be a part of this. He was an amazing, amazing artist. His music will live on forever. Reporter it wasnt the first local tribute to the music icon a group put on purple and gathered outside the warner theater. There it was a communal experience. Here in a more subdued setting, the experience was somehow more intimate, taking the viewer back to a certain time of their lives like music will do, even when you cant hear it. For me, it was the College Years that were he was the best. Just really set a tone. Reporter derrick ward, news 4. As the tributes to prince pop up across our region, well get a report live from outside paisley park tonight with more on the latest developments on how prince died. And it was roof work that cost people thousands. One worker accused of telling a homeowner that a tree did the damage, but investigators say it was a hammer. Find out if you could be one of the victims. And stuni more and more women are taking their own lives. One maryland, our schools werent treated the same way. Narrator with neighborhoods getting unequal funding for schools, something had to be done for our children. Kelley it didnt matter where chris was from. He knew that we couldnt leave a child having less just because they lived in a region that was poor. Joanne benson he has not just talked about it. He is going to stand tall for all children to succeed. Im Chris Van Hollen, and i approved this message. Two thousand, zero, zero, party over, oops out of time here in the district, fans celebrated the life of prince with an impromptu dance party. A big party gathered outside the reef center with a dj playing princes hits from the back of a pickup truck. The sudden loss of a man who friends say led a very Healthy Lifestyle has caught the world by surprise. This evening there are still so many more questions surrounding how prince died. Jay gray is live outside paisley park for us. Jay, we can see the growing memorial behind you. We want to learn more about what the latest details are in the investigation, but tell us about whats going on behind you there. Reporter yeah, erika. This crowd has been building since sunrise this morning. Thousands showing up. Some adding to that memorial with flowers, placards. Many with the same lingering questions that investigators have here about the pop stars sudden death. What we know now is the autopsy has been completed. The medical examiner telling us, though, that it will be several weeks before any of that information is available and made public. Police think that theyre keeping all of their information close to the vest as well, stressing that this is still an ongoing investigation, but they say they are finished here at paisley park, that they have turned it back over to representatives of prince. That as these fans continue to mourn the loss here and say they will continue to honor a man that say shaped their generation providing a soundtrack for decades. A lot of emotion here as you might imagine. Thats the latest live outside of paisley park. Before i ask you about plans for funeral arrangements there, i want to ask y information we were learning about princes state when he had to make that Emergency Landing in illinois. That new information we got today. Reporter yeah, its interesting because we were told initially that they went to the hospital because of flulike symptoms, but nbc news has confirmed that in fact the call from that plane was that there was an unresponsive male. That means twice this week here at paisley park where he died and in that plane on the way home after a concert in atlanta that prince was deemed unresponsive. A very serious condition. Obviously serious enough for an Emergency Landing and a move to a hospital in illinois. Two serious events and something that will be key as this investigation continues. What about Funeral Plans and any more public tributes well be seeing in the coming days, jay . Reporter we know there is going to be an all it started last night and it will continue. There have been tributes across the country, but as far as anything that is formally planned, no word at all on any of that at this point or a funeral. Prince was a devout jehovahs witness. Plans being made likely by his family. A lot of people, thousands, maybe 10,000, police estimate from yesterday to today, deciding to hold their own memorial right here outside of paisley park. Thank you so very much. We invite you to tune in tonight for a special edition of dateline nbc on the death of prince. Lester holt will anchor the special. Prince, life and death of an icon airs at 10 00 right here on news 4. The Virginia School district at the center of the court ruling surrounding transgender bathrooms is appealing the decision now. Wants a review with all the Fourth Circuit court judges. The three judge panel argued he should be allowed to use the boys bathroom. School policy had required students to use a single stall restroom or the one corresponding to their biological gender. A medical examiner just confirmed a suicide in the death of a firefighter reported missing last week. We told you yesterday about the body found at Shenandoah National park. Well, family members later announced on their website it was 31yearold nicole mittendorff. Police reveal they found a note in mittendorffs car last saturday a mile from where they found her body. Im doreen genzler. Here at news 4 were committed to our series on changing minds about Mental Health issues in our community. There are some statistics out today from the centers of Disease Control and p prevention. More and more women are dying by taking their own lives. A 24 spike in suicides in the u. S. Between 1999 and 2014. Thats their highest level in almost 30 years. Researchers saw increased for middleaged men and women, but saw the largest jump among white and native american women. Suicide rates for adults over the age of 75 has actually decreased in that time period. Joining us now to offer insight is a guest with the American Foundation for suicide preventi prevention. The cdc lists suicide as the tenth leading cause of death in this country. What is behind these numbers in these increases . It is a health issue. Many things come together when someone dies by suicide or has a suicide attempt. That risk increases with life stressors, with health factors, but Mental Health and someone struggling with Mental Health problems is at greatest risk. Thats what were seeing in this country, people not getting the correct access to care. You know, if you look at things that we need to do as a society, we need to get our federal and local officials on the phone. We need to say, you need to fund the National Violent death reporting system so we can know more about these statistics. We need to tell people there is hope and help available. One of the things in this report found the biggest increase in my demographic, middleaged white women. Can you talk about that group and what we think is involved in the spike in that number . What we know from research and existing data is that there are higher rates of suicide and baby boomer cohort, the baby boomer generation. And as they have aged, that has continued to ascend. There is also increasing factors within that age demographic like divorce and Substance Abuse, opiates, opioids, combined with high rates of Substance Abuse can create tremendous risk for suicide. Access to lethal means is really the key here. We have to limit access to lethal means to people in crisis. What does that mean . Whether it is firearms or other types of means, opioids. If people are struggling, if people are in crisis, family members need to get them to a safe place and get those means away from them for the time being so they can get treatment and help. In most cases these people are not proper Mental Health treatment and care. Is part of the problem the screening thats taking place in our medical system in general that we dont treat Mental Health issues the same as other Health Issues . Absolutely. We have to put our brain on the same level as we would with our heart, our stomach, our kidneys. If an individual went to the emergency room for a heart attack, we wouldnt tell them in the middle of their heart attack that they needed to start working out and start eating better. We would get them immediate help. Someone in crisis, their brain is not functioning correctly, so weve got to tell them youre having an issue with a brain thats a Physiological Health issue. You can get treatment just like you can with any other physical health issue. There are a lot of warning signs when people are in crisis and lots of information available, particularly from your organization, the American Foundation for suicide prevention. You all also sponsor all sorts of events all where people can go for more information. Were at afspb. Org. We need to get people access to good health care. We need to save lives. Thanks for being here today. Thank you. If you or someone you know may be in need of help, we hope youll visit our special changing minds section on our web page. There youll find a map to help locate treatment available near you. Such a critically important issue. Thank you both. Coming up, two deadly attacks at one metro station. Now one d. C. Community is demanding change. Plus, its a story that impacts just about everybody in Prince Georges County. If you have trash, youre going to want to hear about these chang. Ahead on news 4 on this earth day, how Arlington County is getti you tngo the nra and its Campaign Cash are what stands between us and gun reform. Searing tragedy struck in a place parents felt their children were safe Chris Van Hollen met with nra lobbyists to craft a loophole that would let the nra skirt a new Campaign Finance law and block gun control. But democrat Donna Edwards said no to the nra loophole and stood up to the gun lobby. And she would ban assault weapons. Democrat Donna Edwards, marylands next senator. Working for us pac is responsible for the content of this advertising. Announcer and now your storm team 4 forecast. Who is happy its friday . Yes. All right, friday out there and were dealing with a couple of showers. Yeah, weve seen a couple of showers here and there today in the d. C. Metro area. Right now just some cloud cover, but a very nice afternoon. Temperatures in the low 70s. Winds out of the south 13 per hour. A little bit of sun mixed in now. We do have the rain, but most of us are on the dry side. 70s across the area. We did go into the 60s earlier. Now the 70s since its stopped raining. We do need the rain. Close to an inch now since the beginning of this month and over 3 inches since the beginning of march 1st. Some of us saw some rain. 0. 02 in leesburg. They saw some nice rain. There is more to come. Heres the latest radar showing the rain just south of d. C. Around fredericksburg and huntingtown. All seeing some rain right now. Thats one area of rain coming in. You can see right along 95 from woodbridge down towards quantico. This is all moving to the north and east, so it will clip part of the district here towardshe beltway. Heads up over the next hour light rain for the most part. Back towards harding and hampshire counties in west virginia, one area of thun