Letter, weinstein had begged president obama to negotiate, pay a ransom anything. The answer was no. Negotiating with terrorist groups to try to secure the release of innocent americans would only put at risk more innocent americans. Rnchs weinsteins wife elaine today called much of the u. S. Governments assistance inconsistent and disappointing. What went wrong . U. S. Officials say using drone video the cia spotted the signature pattern of Al Qaeda Leaders and picked up no indication of hostages and attacked. Senior al qaeda leader ahmed fa resume was also reported killed, an american. Al qaeda spokes manl adam gadham born adam perlman from california was also killed in a similar strike. But any celebrating was short lived. Intercepts were picking up that hostages had died. As a husband and as a father i cannot begin to imagine the anguish that the weinstein and laporta families are enduring today. Reporter president obama asserted the strike was legal in the sense that it followed guidelines. No specific al qaeda leader was targeted, he said. But clearly if theyd known adam gadhan was at that site owe could have been targeted. He was one of the bestknown al qaeda top officials. Their chief propagandist from california, spoke flawless english, did video after video. But any joy that they may feel at the white house and at the cia at finally getting gadhan is overshadowed by the hostage disaster Steve Handelsman news4. Our Team Coverage continues with chris gordon in weinsteins hometown of rockville where friends are describing what kind of man he was. Chris . Reporter well we have just learned that at a White House Briefing this afternoon the u. S. Government announced that it will pay the weinstein family an unspecified amount of compensation for their loss. Here at the family home in rockville, we ran into a friend of Warren Weinstein who describes him this way. He was a very very warm, very dedicated guy. He loved what he was doing. Reporter now robert kopaken brings bread to Warren Weinsteins family as they begin their time of mourning. I remember one time when he was home on leave since i had lived and worked in pakistan many years earlier, i said warren, i dont think you should go back. He said, no, ill be fine. My name is Warren Weinstein. Reporter since dr. Weinstein was taken ho his family has kept a positive attitude. The tree in front of their rockville home was decorated by neighbors on the third anniversary of his captivity. The yellow ribbons have faded and now so has his wifes hopes. We are all very devastated that her hopes arent going to happen, you know, that his return is not going to occur. I just i mean she and her daughters need to be able to grieve. Reporter dr. Weinsteins wife elaine on behalf of her daughters and their families issued a statement saying there are no words to do justice to the disappointment and heartbreak we are going through. We do not yet fully understand all of the facts surrounding warrens death. Weinsteins family believes his captors are ultimately responsible. His friend robert copakeen says i was in government for 30 years, and i know there are lots of mistakes that can happen. Its just tragic, and it should not have happened. Reporter we have posted the entire weinstein family statement in our nbc washington app. Just click on our story, and you can read it all. Thats the latest live from rockville chris gordon, news4. Toward mark the end of a 2 1 2year ordeal that resulted from mistakes i made. Former cia director David Petraeus will serve two years probation and hell pay a 100,000 fine for leaking military secrets. Petraeus was a fourstar general who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor. He admits that he shared classified information with his biographer and former mistress. After months of delays and debate, the senate has confirmed a new attorney general. Loretta lynch becomes the first black woman to serve in the post. In a speech just a few minutes ago president obama congratulated lynch and said america will be better for her appointment. Lynch was nominated last november, but a vote was held up by her support of the president s executive actions on immigration and antihuman trafficking bill that had antiabortion language in it. Ten republicans voted in her favor. Police are calling it a heartbreaking case. A toddler not even 2 years old yet beaten to death. Tonight, a man close to the boys mother has been charged in that case. Pat collins now with reaction from those who knew both the victim and the suspect. Pat . Reporter jim, neighbors remember seeing the man. They remember seeing the little boy. They say they had no idea this would lead to a case of murder. Police say the murder happened in this apartment on goodluck road. The victim 23monthold Anthony Winfrey. Cory dickerson lives in the apartment below. Its heartbreaking being that i have kids. My kids were here. You know what im saying . I knew the guy. I had conversations with him, exchanged phone numbers with him. Jut to find out its kind of scary. Its definitely kind of scary. Reporter the murder suspect, 29yearold joshua riley, the boyfriend of the toddlers mom. In that apartment, police say he killed that little boy. Emerson scarlet lives right above where it happened. I dont know. Just shocked. Like i did not see that coming at all, you know. You dont hear about that type of stuff too much around here. Reporter Anthony Winfrey on his mothers Facebook Page today is pictured with wings. The message, though theres pain in our hearts, we know well see you soon. We love you. John winfrey was the little boys grandfather. Well anthony was my he was our grandson. Thats, you know thats a very deep part of our life. Reporter and then for Something Like this to happen. Its incomprehensible. Reporter police say in this goodluck road apartment yosh wa riley was babysitting little anthony while his mother was at work. When she came home, the little boy was unresponsive. He died later at the hospital. They say he had been beaten to death. When you have a toddler that dies at the hands of someone whos been entrusted to them it affects the community affects the police democrat. You department. Were parents as well. Its completely heart breaking. Reporter joshua riley held without bond tonight in this first degree murder case. Live in Prince Georges County pat collins news4. Thank you pat. He is accused of three murders. The case is so high profile the trial is being moved out of alexandria. Julie carey tell us prosecutors pointed to his poetry about murder to prove their case. Reporter the hearing opened with the first of many outbursts from charles severance. He asked, can i be referred to as the accused instead of the defendant . But it was severences chilling writings about murder and revenge that were soon spotlighted by prosecutors. Defense attorneys are asking the judge to severe or separate the 2003 murder of the former sheriffs wife Nancy Dunning from the more recent killings. They argue there is no clear connection between the cases. But prosecutor brian porter fired back revealing key new evidence that will be used at trial. He points to passages from severences writing, one seems to describe the way in which the murders were committed. All three victims were shot to death just inside their front door. Wrote severence, knock, talk, enter, kill, exit, murder. Prosecutors say severence had a longstanding distrust of Public Officials after losing custody of his son years ago. Wrote severence murder is good. A question is how can you forgive someone for kidnapping your son . Can you murder someone for kidnapping your son . This longtime severence friend discount its all saying he was a fantasy gamer. I think that they looked through his writings and extracted what they wanted to be sensational about it. Reporter prosecutors also revealed new ballistics evidence that shows the same unusual ammunition was used in all three murders. Its small caliber, low velocity, quiet. The state crime lab had never seen it used before in other murders. And boxes of the same type of ammo were found in severences parents home and with severence. Now, the judge will rule soon on whether to separate the dunning case from the other two. This trial is set for october now in fairfax county. Live from alexandria julie carey, news4. Now to our weather on a chilly night ahead. Doug how cold is it going to get out there . Down to freezing in some locations or at least close to it. Were talking a freeze warning. Thats actually in effect for part of the area. Not in d. C. And not along the i95 corridor but to the west, portions of the blue ridge up towards the panhandle west virginia, catoctins, Frederick County, virginia and maryland and down toward the shannon dough wa valley. Freeze warning in effect from 2 00 a. M. To 9 00 a. M. , a very cold night out there for sure. Thats really the top headline here. Cold overnight, but the cold air wants to stick around for a little while and the weekend, well unfortunately, is looking wetter and wetter. Ive got all of this in my forecast in just a couple of minutes. Doug, thank you tv. The grace period is over. A lot of local cameras that watch you while you drive just came alive. Well tell you where you could get a ticket if youre not careful. Andcy ed its now or never. And i went. He made National Headlines when he jumped the white house fence. Tonight, this man is reaching out and telling why he did it and what happened once he cleared the fence. A tornado outbreak. The sensational storm caught on camera. Announcer youre watching news4 at 6. The family of Michael Brown filed a wrongful death lawsuit today against the city of ferguson, missouri, the Police Officer who killed him, and the former police chief. Attorneys for browns family say they have new evidence in the case. Brown was unarmed when he was killed by officer Darren Wilson last august. A grand jury and the Justice Department chose not to prosecute the former officer. The evidence has not changed but the presentation of that evidence will. We expect to put on evidence that youve never heard about before and never seen. Browns death sparked a National Protest movement about the way police treat black people. Tomorrow lawyers will try to convince a jury to spare the life of a convicted boston bomber. The prosecution rested today in its pursuit of the Death Penalty against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev but not before calling several more witnesses. And as Chris Pallone reports now, those witnesses revealed through details that could further condemn the bomber. Reporter hes had more than 60 surgeries, shrapnel still stuck in his body and mark fuch arely still might have his remaining leg amputated. Today he took the stand for the prosecution, describing the moments when his life changed forever. I remember looking up at the sky, he told jurors, and hearing a nurse scream, hes still on fire. Victim Heather Abbott followed him on the stand, speaking of her own leg amputation, she said it was the hardest decision of her life. Doctors tried to save her foot three times. Trauma surgeon david king told jurors he took care of three bombing victims that day. Hes a veteran who served in afghanistan and iraq. He testified the injuries he saw were consistent with improvised explosive devices. A prosecutor asked whether 8yearold Martin Richard died instantly when a bomb kmroeded three feet away. I can say with an extraordinarily high degree of certainty he did not die instantly, king testified. He was asked if richard felt pain before he died. Yes, without question, king received. The defense will soon begin making its case that tsarnaevs life should be spared. Theyre going to throw a lot of things against the wall and hope that one of their arguments, whether it be that he was 19 years old, whether he was an immigrant, whether he was under the spell of his brother whether he was smoking a lot of marijuana, would resonate with just one juror. Reporter for tsarnaev to be put to death, all 12 jurors must be unanimous in their verdict. Chris pallone, nbc news, new york. Headsup next time youre driving in the district. The grace period for six new speed cameras is over. That means the cameras will start issuing fines as of today. The cameras were activated last month in areas police say speeding is a problem. We have a map showing the six new locations you can find on nbcwashington. Com. Search speed a bunch of tornadoes out in west texas yesterday. A meteorologist caught this one on video in lubbock, texas. At least three tornadoes touched down in northwest texas. Not a lot of damage. Those tornadoes were said to be small, and they did not last long but they did bring some hail and up to six inches of in. Thats loo a lot. Kind of ugly looking. Quiet around here but getting colder. Weve turned the heat on. Should we do something to protect our plants tonight . You know, those areas that could see the freeze, yeah, cover plants for sure. Kind of ugly looking is the forecast. Lets take a look. It is kind of ugly right now, the cloud cover around the area. Yeah, some breaks of sun every once in a while but that sunshine we had earlier actually helped both the wind and the cloud z clouds to form a little bit earlier, all because of that cooler air making its way in. Currently at 58, winds out of the west at 12 miles per hour, it is a fairly chilly day. Were talking about midapril now. If this was midmarch, not a bad afternoon. This is april, winds gusting 25 up to 30 miles an hour. 52 in frederick, 47 in hagerstown, 59 toward luray and 61 in the fredericksburg area. Heres where the freeze warning is back to the west. It does not include d. C. But does include Frederick CountyWashington County and right down the western side of the blue ridge here and toward the schennen dough wa valley. Frost and freeze warnings. Cover sensitive plants. Well see a little bit of wind continuing and a little bit of wind actually helps as far as that is concerned, the plants. But cover them especially if they are some of those more sensitive plants. Then look at tomorrow morning. This is the feelslike temperature, the wind chill. I actually put this graphic away about two weeks ago, didnt think id use it again. Here it, feels like 30 when you wake up tomorrow, step out the front door in d. C. 26 in gaithersburg, 28 in winchester, 32 in fredericksburg. We may use this again saturday morning. Then hopefully we can kick it to the curb until next winter. Wed like to see warmer temperatures. On the radar right now, showing some showers but these arent actually hitting the ground. If they are theyre very very light. Most of this actually evaporating as we are seeing a very dry atmosphere currently. But the at light and radar shows the cloud cover making its way in here. Watch what happens. You get sunshine, cold air aloft, then sunshine which heats up the ground. Watch how the clouds just go right across the area here. Thats what were seeing again during the day today. We may see that tomorrow. Then again during the day on saturday, even some snow up toward the north. Heres whats going to happen on saturday. 8 00 a. M. , were dry. No problems saturday morning. No problems until about 1 00 p. M. If you have practice at 11 00, kids be there at the park. Looks like well be okay for practice. But look what happens by 3 00 or 4 00. Here comes the rain and it will linger and last all night. Im a little worried about this weekend forecast if you have plan onz sundays. Looking a bit on the wet side. Lows tonight 32 to the west 34 in leesburg, 38 in d. C. A very chilly start to the friday. Its going to stay chilly, 38 on saturday as well. Close to freezing saturday morning for in, high of 57. The rain continues into at least early afternoon sunday with a high of only 54 degrees. Then things start getting better. 60 on tuesday 66 on wednesday. By wednesday, our average high is up to 70. Lets get back there. Yeah, the sooner the better. Thank you, doug. Its happening again. Another big ice cream recall affecting our area. Why this one is being pulled from the shelves. And a traffic stop that quickly became so much more. Well meet the local officer who did what he had to do. 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There were nearly 180 people on board that flight. It did land safely. But that comes just one day after a skywest flight made an Emergency Landing at the same airport in buffalo. Three passengers on that flight passed out. Skywest Airline Officials say inexpectors on the ground could not find any mechanical issues with that plane. A transgender teenager took on the dmv and won after the agency refused to let her wear makeup for her drivers license picture. The 17yearold South Carolina girl filed a federal lawsuit against the dmv for violating her constitutional rights. In a settlement announced from the step fz the statehouse in columbia, the agency will now allow transgender and gender nonconforming people to be photograph