About this threat. News never stops on news 4. We will let you know on the latest on the search of the robot of the white pickup truck behind me and we will post the information on the nbc washington app and facebook and twitter on nbc washington. Live here on the national mall, im shomari stone, news 4. Troubling new details tonight about a shooting that left a 7yearold boy wounded in the district. That comes on the heels of a violent day in the district. Two People Killed in five separate shootings yesterday. Pat collins in southeast as police try to track down suspects. Pat . Reporter broad daylight gun violence in our city. In this case the victim is a 7yearold boy. In this case, police say the boy was with adults. In this case they say when the bullets started flying the adults ran away and left the boy alone. You thoughtha was going to die, didnt you . I did. I did. My heart i tried so hard to keep his eyes open and i was praying so loud and she was praying that loud, you know what im saying . To keep him making noise. She came to the aid of the little boy after he was wounded. 12th and bruce places southeast. It was 5 30 in the afternoon saturday when a 7yearold boy was shot and seriously wounded playing on a sidewalk outside an apartment here. Today police chief cathy lanier say there were adults with the kids when it happened and when the bullets started flying the adults ran away. From the information we received they fled. As soon as these shots were fired . They left the kids there . Correct. What does that tell you . Well, you know, first of all, anybody that would be careless enough to fire shots in the vicinity of children, thats as i said earlier thats one of the and the community. Reporter broad daylight brazen shootings appear to be on the upswing in our city. There were five yesterday including two murders in southeast. A 21yearold man shot and killed near the valero gas station on benning road and a woman in her 40s gunned down near her home about five blocks away. Police believe those two murders may somehow be linked. Now that little boy is expected to be okay, but police need your help. They need names. They need tips and they need to get these shooters off the street. Doreen, back to you. Pat collins reporting. Thank you, pat. Tonight were hearing from friends of the young woman who was hit and killed by a trois inin Fairfax County and they cross the tracks all of the time and even hang out there near the intersection of brook road and brook lake road. It was i mean, just heartbreaking. Not much to say about how terrible it is. Reporter here in the area where 18yearold erica dunn was killed there are several popular foot paths. Dunn hadded gra waited from nearby Braddock High School last year. She would greet you at the door, you know what im saying . She was a very nice girl. They were walking along the tracks when dunn was hit by a train. Shes not the first teenager to be killed by a train along these tracks and a 15yearold girl was killed as she walked along the same stretch in 2014. A lot of people like to go out around the train tracks and hang out there. It is very dangerous. I think people dont realize how dangerous it is. Despite the warning sign, teens we spoke with say its common place to hang out along the tracks. Ive been walking on it since i was, like, 6 years old. My grandpa lives over there. Its a cross walk pretty much from the high school to the pictures and i myself have taken a picture on the Railroad Tracks so i know how dangerous it is. I would hope they would put some kind of barrier or wall or a cautionary thing to tell everybody, not just people that live there that this is no trespassing and nowhere to be at and have some kind of memorial for her because this could have been any kid. This could have been me or anybody i grew up with. Its very, very tragic. Reporter while there are these no trespassing signs posted sporadically up and down the train tracks, there are no fences or any other barriers that would prevent people from crossing the tracks in the many path weise have found along this area. Its important to note that anyone who is crossing the tracks or walking along these tracks is actually trespassing. Doreen, back to you in the studio. Mark segraves reporting from burke, virginia. Thank you, mark. According to the news 4 iteam dozens have been killed. Dunn is the 29th death since 2014. More than 100 trespassers were injure order killed by trains between september 2011 and september 2014. Officials at amtrak say theyre reviewing the findings from federal investigators on what probably caused that deadly derailment in philadelphia. Eight people were killed as a speeding train rounded a curve near philadelphia last year. The National Transportation safety board says human error is to blame. The trains engineer was distracted, we are told, by radio traffic. Investigators also point a finger at at track for not installing positive train control and that is technology which automatically slows trains down that are going over the speed limit. Im very concerned that were going to be back in this room again, hearing investigators detail how technologyt 45 years could have prevented yet another fatal accident. Brandon pastian, the engineer operating the train was not at the hearing today. Amtrak suspended him without pay after that derailment. Were going to weather now. A temporary break from the rain. Its not raining right now, but keep your umbrella handy, folks, because doug says theres more coming our way. Doug . More coming our way for sure, vance, and its not just the next two days. Right on into the weekend im thinking we have a chance for rain with sunshine in between. Weve seen rain almost all day in most of the area, but you have noticed some clearing at least rain wise up to the north. Frederick leesburg, Montgomery County seeing less in the way of rain. Heres more showers coming through d. C. And these are very light and down towards fredericksburg we continue to see the rain. Back to the west here was wave number one and here is wave number two back toward since natty and that willo our region coming into the night and into the day tomorrow so yes, we have more rain and very Cool Conditions and only 56 degrees in d. C. Our average high is 75 so another very cool, very wet day. It has been that way for most of the month. Today is the 17th. Weve had 14 of 17 days with rain. Tomorrow most likely 15. Well talk about the rest of this weeks forecast and the weekends forecast coming up in a week. For the democrats it is primary election day in oregon and kentucky. Hillary clinton is fighting to end Bernie Sanders momentum since march 22 rnd. That said in the final primaries of the 2008 race clinton won six states and barack obama won three, and he secured the nomination. This time scliclintons delegat lead is insurmountable and for now she is stuck in the middle between burdeny sanders and donald trump and weathering attacks from both sides. Steve handles is races from both sides. She sure is weathering the attacks. Hillary clinton set out to win in a similar bluecollar coal mining state. Leading up to the primary vote today in kentucky, Hillary Clinton reached out to democrats and even the coal mining families who hate her push to switch to cleaner fuels. I am the only candidate, the only candidate with a plan, a 30 billion plan to help coal country. Shes campaigned hard in kentucky trying to keep Bernie Sanders from beating her again. My guess is its got to be a close election. Reporter maybe in oregon, too, where voters mail in ballots for todays primary. Her concern is momentum for the november election. Weaker that she looks the more difficult it would be for her trump. In a new ad, they mock trumps comments. Trump called it amazing that hillary could do an ad when her husband was the worst abuser of women in u. S. Political history. The clinton lead over trump narrowed to just three points nationally in todays nbc News Survey Monkey online poll. More motivation for clinton to notch a couple of wins tonight. Breaking news, donald trump has disclosed his net worth his pfd. Trump says he is worth 10 million. Thats up from last year and he bragged saying, quote, i filed my pfd which i am proud to say is the largest in the history of the federal election commission. Im steve handelsman, news 4. Thank you, steve. Now to clintons possible Vice President ial picks. Nbc news ohio senator brown are both from important swing states, but kane has the edge if he were to leave the senate. Governor mcauliffe would choose his replacement and john kasich would likely replace brown with a republican costing a seat in the senate. A reminder, you can follow tonights Election Results with our nbc washington app. Still ahead at 6 00, a tribute for a devoted mother gunned down outside a Grocery Store. Funeral services today. They were the picture of a happy, young family until last july when a vienna husband and father of two was shot to death. Now Fairfax County police have made an arrest. His wife. Potholes and the lack of lane striping on roadways are just some of the issues the president of the Park Police Union says is causing roadways to be dangerous and potentially deadly. Coming up at 6 00 its been nearly a year now since a man in virginia, in vienna virginia, a husband, father of two, was found shot dead in his bed. Police have now made an arrest. Northern Virginia Bureau chief julie carey reports the reporter kim pham la roke and husband eric la roke in happier times. Both Virginia Tech grads and successful in their careers. He was an engineer at dewberry consultant and she worked at fannie mae. They started a family and had two young children. Last summer eric la roke was found shot to death and monday night after she left work, kim laroke was arrested accused for shooting her husband to death. Somehow it led to a 35yearold woman killing her 33yearold husband. Eric laroke was found dead in his bed on july 31, 2015. Police discovered a handgun still there, a bullet, pillow and sheet stained red. His wife mourned the sudden death. 12 days after the passing she updated her facebook profile picture with this button bearing her husbands initials reading forever in our police analyzed the evidence seized in the home, cell phone call, monday they presented their case to the Fairfax County grand jury. They won an indictment. Kim pham laroke was charged with seconddegree murder and use of of a firearm in commission of of a felony. Some cases take longer than others and in this particular case there was a lot of evidence and documents that the detectives had to sort through and wait for. In a homicide case especially, they want to build a very solid case. Reporter Fairfax County police will not comment on a motive for the shooting. Kim laroke is held without bond at the detension center. In fairfax, im julie carey. Take a drive on the bw parkway and the problems are apparent, and littered with pot holes. You wont find this on google and this problem is impacting drivers on several other into and out of d. C. And park police say its becoming a major issue. Meagan fitzgerald is live with more. Reporter doreen, the Union President for the park police say the problems along the bw parkway in some places are so bad that even defense attorneys, hes, are using these maintenance issues as a way of getting their clients out of tickets and sometimes even charges. Its usually less congested, but the Road Conditions there are a lot of potholes. The bw parkway says it could be dangerous. Its printed. Pamela is talking about the Line Striping on the roadways. The outer fog line on the outer line of the roadway in main areas is missing as are the center lane dividers. Ian glick is the Union President for the park police. He said the problem as the officers patrol g. W. Are getting work. You obscure your visibility compounded with the lack of lane markings and it could be something deadly. The lack of lane striping on some stretch of roads has become a tactic as some of the drivers as officers pull over. Defense attorneys are now using that to attack the probable cause for dwi arrests and which is why he says his officers have made changes in the way they do their jobs. We know where areas are where the lane markings are absent and we didnt have to follow these drivers beyond these areas until we get to an area that does have proper markation. Theyre working on a multiyear plan to fix problem areas on the bw parkway, but it wont happen immediately, so in the meantime, people like ama say theyll be extra vigilant on the road. Especially when youre driving at night. Reporter the National Park service also tells us that they are right now working on getting crews out as they arrive. Starting this summer theyll begin the process of restriping roadways. They tell us theyre working on getting paint thats more sustainable. Jim . Thanks, meagan. There is a new report out that details the worst bottlenecks in maryland. Four of the top ten are right here in the d. C. Area. Coming in at number one, the inner loop of the beltway at the 270. The second worst spot is the outer loop at the greenbelt metro drive. The worst is southbound number 10 is the bw parkway at the edge of maryland 197. That report comes from the National TransportationResearch Group called t. I. P. The fight against the zika virus and major obstacles remain. President obama has asked for 1. 9 billion to fund research, treatment zi it provides 1. 1 million and the house is set to vote tomorrow on a bill that grants 622 million to the zika virus fight. Theyre calling it woefully inadequa inadequate. The Fairfax County board of supervisors will turn to an outside consultant to examine the working environment inside the Fire Department there. That decision follows allegations that some female firefighters are victims of sexual harassment. After the recent suicide of firefighter nicole mittendorff, disparaging posts by men claims to be with the Fire Department were found on a community blog. Then last week a Fire Department administrator was placed on administrative leave after complaints about lewd pictures and posts on his Facebook Page. A drycleaner closes its doors without notice. Our Consumer Team is helping customers claimh wonder what happened to that celebrity top chef business at the boulevard at Capital Center . Its evidently happening to a lot she lost her life while helping to end a twoday crime today a final goodbye for a mother shot down outside a Grocery Store. A candidate in virginia is under fire for what he posted on facebook. Trouble for a top celebrity chef in the area. Well tell you about the fallout hes facing after closing his business in Prince Georges County. We have those stories and more at 4 30 and heres doug with the check on our weather. Doug, its a tough day to be a weather man. Unless one of youre those people that love the rain. Which people are those . Plubysomething. Plubiopfe oshplubiophiles. They love the rain. Two of them. The other 99. 7 of us are dealing with the clouds and rain and we continue to see it and this is the way its looked all day down toward the national harbor. At least now, though, theres better visibility than there was earlier. If you are out, its better there. We do have showers again and just light showers and 56 degrees and winds out of the north at 6 Miles Per Hour and temperature wise, 57 in frederick and 60 toward hagerstown. Someone made it to 60 today. How about that . That is because theyve seen the rain move well down to the south. We want to talk about a hurricane track for the upcoming season. The reason . Were talking about hurricane preparedness week all week. Yesterday we told you this week, this year were expecting a slightly above average Hurricane Season similar to what we had in 1998 and take a look at the hurricane tracks from 1998. All of them south and east of the region. We were not directly impacted by a single storm. Thats something to think about. Also in 1998 and that was the year i looked at similar to this year, we had a storm right off the coast. That year was hurricane bonnie right near the third week of august. Just think about that, showing the rain over the last six hours and notice hagers town. 60 degrees and thats where it is now. Still some showers around the beltway, right along the airport there and fred ricksburg and around waldorf. Thats just one wave of rain moving through and were in the blah pattern between two different ways and that will only help to enhance this as it makes its way through and this one coming through overnight tonight and lets time it out for you. Future weather timing it out around 11 00 tonight, no worries and most of us should be dry. Tomorrow morning, 8 00, notice who is seeing the rain tomorrow. No, you have rain in there early tomorrow and most of the rain back to the north and west and we will still see showers and notice areas of drizzle and well get everyone back on the shower activity. Showers at the bus stop, 52 tomorrow afternoon and just cool temperature around 62 degrees and 71 on friday and a couple of nice days, but look at that weekend. Back into the 50s with the rain and the latest on the sevenday forecast and the weekend coming up at 6 45. Were following braking news at the live desk and the Senate Confirmed eric fanning as secretary of the army which makes him the first openly gay leader of a branch of the military. He has a pretty long history at the pentagon and served as undersecretary of the air force and navy. It was also defense secretary ash carters chief of staff for a short time. His confirmation wa