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and on alert, the search for the person who keeps trying to attack people along a popular trail. first at 6:00, a new plan to move central american children from the shadows to safety. they are still coming here by the thousands, many of them are traveling without their parents. and some are even younger than 12 years of age. tonight, president obama wants to try a new way to keep those children from making this dg erous journey to a nation that may not be willing to accept them, but his plan is controversial. news 4 steve handelsman is live on capitol hill with the latest. steve? >> it is controversial here on the hill, but some democrats and some republicans. president obama says holding hearings in honduras, u.s. hearings that he would then expand to include hearings in el salvador and guatemala would convince more parents there not to send their kids here that they're still doing now i droves. texas cops patrolling the border this week. on the mexican side of the rio
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grande are the smugglers and rafts they use to ferry over drugs and the children from central america. >> we have seen a tremendous spike in activity. >> reporter: the goal is to end the surge of kids. at the white house, the president shared his idea with the presidents of guatemala, el salvador and honduras. in honduras racked by gang violence an obama pilot program would offer hearings to kids seeking asylum who claim they're in special danger. >> there may be some narrow circumstances in which there is humanitarian or refugee status that a family might be eligie for. if that te,ul be or them to be able to apply in country. >> reporter: the few who would qualify come straight to the u.s. the plan is the rest would say they wouldn't qualify if they did come to the u.s. and would be deported. and so the hope is they won't try to come. many democrats like the plan. >> the first thing is, protect the children, have them come.
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>> reporter: most republicans want faster deportation. not a program to bring in children. >> processing these kids as refugees in their own country and then assisting them to come in to america. >> move them back to their home countries, which is where they belong. >> reporter: for now, many more children are coming than are going back. president obama said today that number, the number of kids coming illegally to the u.s. from those three central american countries is down about 50%. republic repah are divided about what to do to get the number down lower and it is very possible congress could leave on a summer break next week without approving any new plan to deal with this border crisis. i'm steve handelsman, news 4. for the third day, the bodies of the victims of mh17 have arrived in the netherlands. the arrival ceremonies have been somber in an attempt to give the
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dead the dignity they. those bodies are being taken to a dutch military facility for identification. 193 of the nearly 300 victims were dutch. meanwhile, investigators have found more human remains and a new section of the wreckage in eastern ukraine. a german tv crew took this video of a large piece of fuselage found in the woods near the crash site. mh17 arrived at kuala lumpur for the last time today. malaysia airlines is retiring that flight code. the service from amsterdam will now operate as mh19. we're getting a first look at the scene of an al algarie crash. all 118 people onboard were killed. nearly half of them were french citizens. terrorism hasn't been ruled ow, but officials say bad weather is most likely the cause of this
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crash. just before they lost contact, the pilots had asked air traffic controllers to change their route because of heavy rain >> heads down, hands up! that was the scene on a flight that left canada this morning. but was turned back when a passenger said he had a bomb. the plane was over west virginia when it was turned back to canada and two u.s. fighter jets were scambled to escort it to toronto. tom costello is working on this story for "nightly news" with brian williams immediately following our broadcast. residents are hoping two attacks on women will prompt change in their area. both cases happened in the past couple weeks just a few blocks away near a metro station and a popular trail. news 4 derrick ward live with a warning from police. derrick? >> well, we're on jamestown road
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in hya ttville station. now on july 10th there was an attack here and on the 23rd a few blocks away and they believe it may be the work of the same attacker. news of an attempted assault here on this stretch of jamestown road in hyattsville prompts but not a surprise. >> this happened before. we had robberies through here in the past. daylight, mind you. >> reporter: e latest attack here happened under the cover of darkness on july 10th. just after 10:00 p.m. a woman was walking alone and she just left the metro station when the man jumped out of the woods. >> approached her and she got on the phone like she was calling her boyfriend. >> reporter: she got away and the man ran back into the woods. police believe another attack on july 23rd could be the work of the same suspect. this time it happened at about 12:50 a.m. >> just outside of the woods.
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same description. about 5'8", 170 pounds. he approached her, said, what's up? and he physically attacked her. >> reporter: this time the attacker tried to rip the women's clothes off, but she also screamed and got away. residents of the area where the attacks occurred can't escape the fear and some will be changing their routine, like this woman and her daughter. >> unfortunately, that will cut out our evening walks and early morning walks and things like that. >> reporter: for those was that can't be avoided like back and forth to the metro station, it's a walk buddy or nothing. her son will be escorting her to and fro. >> i'm more concerned for my mom here. >> luckily i don't really walk around at night because i'm normally by myself. >> reporter: as for ms. medley sadly she thinks now with at least one close call. >> hopefully it will make a differencher >> sorry, we can't hear derrick
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ward. that was derrick reporting from hyattville. the house passed a resolution barring president obama from sending forces to iraq in a "sustained combat role" without congressional approval. they need senate approval before going to the president's desk. mr. obama has ruled out sending combat troops to help iraq fight extremists but lawmakers say they need to reassert their c control. imagi taking one of those gift cards you have in your wallet and doubling, tripling or even quadrupling the value without paying more. that's what a local computer whiz says he's managed to do. but his boasting has made him the target of a federal probe. northern virginia bureau chief julie carey spoke with him and has the story from fairfax county. >> reporter: ahktar was 19 years old when he and his twin brother
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graduated from george mason university. a computer whiz, he founded a hacking club on campus, earned a master's degree by age 20 and as this thank you letter shows, even did cybersecurity research for the defense department. >> my mission is just to see where loopholes are. >> reporter: but that mission to use hacking to find system weaknesses has landed him in deep trouble. this search warrant l by a federal agent shows he is now being investigated for computer fraud. last month after starting a new cybersecurity job, he bragged to a colleague about a code he'd created and then enabled him to take an ordinary $25 gift card and add value to it. >> what i would do is take, buy a card and then have that card for a certain value and then have it reloaded online. bypass the whole financial process using bid squatting. >> reporter: his co-worker told a manager and a homeland security agent came to ask questions. at first telling him he was being considered for a higher
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position. ahktar said he still dt he was ing investigated when secret service and homeland security agents came to this house on july 17th and wanted him to explain even more about his code, but yesterday he learned he was in trouble when agents showed up with this search warrant. this docume shows the dozens of computers, phones and other electronic items seized. he was fired from his new job. now he waits to see what investigators determined. he calls his gift card experiment cyberresearch. he had planned to use his own company warden systems to approach retailers with a proposed fix. >> i am a researcher. i have been researching the field for a long time and a lot of my work shows it. i've been just doing research. i'm not a malicious guy. >> reporter: julie carey, news 4. the devastation is clear from the air, but tonight we're hearing some incredible stories of survival near a virginia camp ground where a tornado killed two people yesterday.
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our affiliate spoke with two men who road out the storm in one of the worst places possible. >> i'm pretty lucky. >> reporter: brother zach and ray road out thursday's tornado in one of the last places you'd want to be. >> we headed out, it was pretty, we put the net out and we got that little alert on our phones and we tried to pull the net in as quick as we could and once we got the net in, we tried to get to a creek and then take cover. >> reporter: the two had had been fishing about 30 minutes when the storm closed in on them, it was too late to get out of there. >> just started lifting up and just rolled right over and i kind of went underneath the boat and he got out first, he was on the bottom of the boat already and i was kind of struggling to get there and he grabbed me and pulled me up there. >> you were trapped under the boat? >> for a couple seconds. it took me a minute to get out and then i pulled myself out. we had our boots. pretty scary. >> reporter: the rescue came
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from two fishing buddies who had to rescue two other boaters. what were you thinking when you saw them? >> so close. >> reporter: when they got to shore, they called their family, ray and his wife have a son and a 3-week-old baby. the two brothers were struck by how quickly the community responde >> everybody is out. everybody does good. we usually don't have many situations like that around here. but when they do, we have people to help. they've wrapped up the second practice of training camp for the redskins. how did they look today? let's check in with dianna russini live in richmond. >> day two. happy friday. good weather certainly ensures good football. what a difference one day makes. the field looked absolutely beautiful today after yesterday's rain storms. and head coach jay gruden was much happier with the team's performance today. robert griffin iii was happier
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today and less problems with dropped footballs on the field. he made his own observations today. coming up in just a few minutes, we'll tell you which receiver stood out and i'll give you a little hint, it was not jackson. so we'll have that. for now, live in richmond, dianna russini. another twist in the courtroom. what is next for the officer on the other side of the law even after prosecutors didn't get what they wanted. a cold case and from th vatican city to the east coast the nearby destination that
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a d.c. cop accused of trying to kill his wife is in jail tonight his bond revoked just one day after a mistrial. >> samson lawrence violated the conditions of his bond. tracee wilkins has the stor >> they got what they want. they want him locked up, that's what they got. >> reporter: a life-long friend of samson lawrence now being ordered to stay away from his wife and 17-year-old daughter. >> you got a mother/father that can't get along. husband and wife. they can't get along. it's a sad situation. >> reporter: the court ruled that lawrence violated two stay away orders when he continuously texted, called and visited his wife and daughter. >> mr. lawrence was told to stay away by the court. that was the condition of his bond. >> reporter: lawren seen here in the vest yesterday was on $200,000 bond after he was
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accused of violently beating his wife more than 20 years. according to the state an argument over installing a projection tv resulted in lawrence spraying his wife's face with lysol and pushing her down steps and hitting her with a pendant lamp and choking her and holding knives to her neck. after a three-day trial and several hours of deliberation a hung jury last night that could not decide if lawrence was guilty of attempted murder and assault charges. he was looking at the possibility of life behind bars. the case will now be retried. >> i think it's a waste of resources. i also think it's a case that's not going to get any better. >> reporter: lawrence' defense attorney says poor evidence and a lack of dna is what caused the hung jury. today the judge said he didn't buy lawrence's version of what happened with his wife credible. as part of the reason lawrence's bond was revoked. >> that's why we're doing a jury trial and not a court trial. >> reporter: the new trial is
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planned for late november. mr. lawrence is expected to stay in prince george's county jail. i'm tracee wilkins, news 4. the pope could make a visit to the u.s. next year. the archbishop of philadelphia says he plans to attend the world meeting of families planning to take place in philly next november. it does say the pontiff is interested in visiting. during that event an official decision is expected early next year. >> veronica is here with more of our weather. >> delicious. >> it heated up later in the day a little bi. >> but, still, really nice. by summer standards. not too many folks complaining about today at all. almost made you forget about summer for a little while. but don't be fooled because that nasty, sticky summer-time weather is going to return a lot faster probably than most of us want. let's take a look outside and see what's going on around the area. mostly sunny sky all throughout the area, very few clouds today
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and all thanks to high pressure that has moved into the area. 81 degrees at reagan international airport and the humidity still way low and dropped late last night. little bit of a southerly wind kicking in right now at 7 miles per hour. little bit of a breeze there coming off the water and making it feel a bit cooler. as we check out radar, this is a live scan going around on our sky 4 team radar where it is very quiet across the area, even down to the south. but come saturday, i do think that we're going to start to see a few isolated showers show up even early in the day. so, here it goes. more clouds around 11:00 p.m. midnight those clouds increasing and we'll start to see some light showers around the area starting at around 4:00, 5:00 a.m. in the morning. a shower here and there that could hang on until about 9:00 a.m. when we start to see the clouds break and get more sunshine in here. but nice evening for sure. 73, 78 degrees and really not too cool at all out ther but, again, cloud cover for early tomorrow morning. i can show you as i take you through the next 48 hours.
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snapshop is 7:00 a.m. and you can see that painted in white. the clouds, the green and showers that i'm talking about. again, not a big deal at all and still even around 10:00 a.m. have a few showers hanging on and then by afternoon with the heating of the day, it's thundershowers and maybe an isolated thunderstorm. but out of the weekend, i think saturday will be the more tame, calmer day, if you will. on sunday, some early morning showers, winchester, frederick, leesburg and this whole area coming through until 9:00 a.m. we get the heating and we get the storms starting to blossom and this time early and this time more widespread for the second half of the weekend. look at this, all through the area we can see showers and thunderstorms and those storms could be quite strong, if not severe. i think late afternoon, early evening pretty much everywhe across the area late sunday evening. up until 10:00, 11:00 p.m. and maybe even as late as midnight because this is one pretty strong system coming through, with the help of the humidity
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and with the help of upper level winds, we could be looking at some damaging winds through the area. look at the highs for tomorrow. 90 degrees culpeper and 91 and no worries at all really for tomorrow. building humidity. it is going to be a hot day compared to today. those isolated showers around and bigger storms, once again, set to hit on sunday. 91, 81 degrees and 86 on monday and as we get into the early part of next week, temperatures will just drop a little bit more on tuesday. 81 the high. look at all the sunshine, threat of storms back on friday and just a little bit, i'll take you county by county as we look at saturday and another look at that severe weather threat for sunday. next on the eve of the silver line, why one of the most prominent stations is still a work in progress. >> they should be given the best treatment. the i-team gives new information about vets being
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two men who carjacked a woman and crashed her suv into a crowd of people this morning. police say the suv jumped a curb and plow under to three children and their mother. they were selling fruit to raise money for their church. all three of the children were killed. 7, 10 and 15 years old. that mother and the woman who was carjacked are in critical condition right now. >> bottom line is we have a tragedy here and we will use all the resources we is at our disposal to find the people responsible. >> the suspects jumped out of the suv and ran from the scene. investigators are looking for businesses in the area with surveillance cameras hoping the suspects were caught on video. a break in the case tonight, 12 years after police found this local teen murdered. investigators have pinpointed her killer. but the teenager's family may never get justice. news 4 jackie benson is live to explain that. jack? >> wendy, investigators are not going to identify the man linked to the murder of erica smith, except to say that he committed
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suicide during the course of the cold case investigation. now, the shocking murder of the bright and bubbly 14-year-old is believed to be linked it her acquaintance with that man which she instructed her apparently to keep secrets even from her parents. he is believed to have lured her from her home the day she disappear would the promise of shopping of brotherirthday gif they came they told us that it was my daughter that was murdered, i made it a point in my heart that i had to be strong for her. i had to be her voice. this monster silenced her voice and i was going to be the voice that people hear for her. i was going to talk for her, speak for her and i was going to fight for justice for her. >> loudoun county chapman said the dedication of erica's parents inspired him to create the cold case unit two years
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ago. live in loudoun county, jackie bensen news 4. the burgundy and gold lining up to see their team in action. big prediction on the former quarterback on how the team would do this season. plus -- >> flat out, gone immediately. families are being torn apart. heroin deaths are on the rise in our region and what is being mixed into that heroin that could be even more dangerous than the drug itself. just hours away now until the silver line officially opens. metro putting a bow on some of the stations here.
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firsh at 6:30 after years of planning billions of dollars and what seemed like endless political rangling, we are now less than 24 hours away from metro's silver line becoming a reality and it will mean big changes for thousands of you who commute. >> but we found out not everything is quite ready for opening day tomorrow. a new transportation reporter adam tuss is at tysons corner with what the station will look like for the first riders tomorrow. hey, adam. >> hey, doreen. this whole thing is a work in progress. tysons corner itself is a construction zone and there are a few minor tweaks that we have to finish up here, but, hey, tomorrow by this time can you believe it?
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you're going to be riding a metro train here through tysons corner and on out into reston and northern virginia. here's what you need to know ride. the silver line is just about ready. five brand-new stations. four in tysons corner and one in reston. take a look at this map and you can see the silver line stretches across the entire region. it will run from largo town center in the east, through d.c. all the way to reston in northern virginia. it matters for riders like de. she normally rides the orange line and now she can take her silver line to her doctor's office in tysons. >> will you take the silver line? >> i will. >> reporter: what shoulu expect when you come here? not all monuments and beautiful gardens, at least not yet. much of tysons corner is a work in progress and under construction, but, of course, the mall is here and plenty of people will be using the silver
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line to get to their jobs. >> i've been told that it will make my commute about 30 minutes shorter. >> reporter: really? >> yeah. >> reporter: reanna kennedy works about two blocks from the new mclean station and take the metro here and listen to she's had to do she says there are plenty of people with similar stories and when all is said and done 50,000 new trips per day will be added to the metro system. right now daily ridership is 750,000 trips a day after the silver line metro expects that number to jump up to about 800,000 trips per day. and back here now live in tysons corner, these stations in tysons open at 11:30 tomorrow morning. the first train rolls out of here about noon and, of course, we'll be taking the first ride. reporting live in tysons, adam tuss, news 4. >> of course, we would expect nothing less, adam. fairfax connector had to
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change several of its bus routes to accommodate the five new stations. riding it will cost the same as the rest of the system. going from reston to largo will be $5.90 during peak times and $3.50 off peak. you can calculate the cost of your trip on our website, just head to nbcwashington.com and search silver line. and our coverage of the silver line doesn't end here. adam tuss will cover all the angles of the big debut and watch for his reports tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. and on news 4 at 6:00 for all of our silver line coverage from the early troubles with the project to its successful simulated runs earlier this month. go to our website, nbcwashington.com/silverlin it's reaching epidemic proportions and so is the heart ache for the families. people are injecting themselves with heroin and dying in record numbers across the state of maryland. news 4 darcy spencer explains
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why some cases it's not just the heroin that is killing those users. >> reporter: beth smith's son, shawn, died of an overdose just days after his 23rd birthday. at first she thought heroin killed him and then she found out it was fentanyl, a synthetic drug mixed with heroin to purify the drug. >> so, actually, we found his dealer. they could be charged with homicide because you can't survive something like that. >> reporter: fentanyl is being blamed for a spike in heroin-related deaths in maryland. in just the first quarter of this year, there were 252 overdose deaths. that's a 33% increase from the same quarter last year. 148 were from heroin. >> and when you use heroin, you're playing russian roulette with one bullet. when you have fentanyl that you don't know that you have you're playing it with six bullets. he had no chance. >> reporter: it may be hard to believe, but health officials say having someone die from an overdose makes that drug and the dealer even more attractive. >> they think that that person that they bought it from is
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selling more pure heroin. so people will actually seek out the dealer who sold somebody heroin that killed somebody. >> reporter: governor o'malley has announced a plan to reduce overdose deaths in the state by 20% by 2015. by advocates like lisa lowe who founded the heroin action coalition of montgomery county say the governor need to adess treatment. she says parents who are trying to get their kids help find out there are waiting lists. >> you know, parents are driving their kids to florida, to new york. sending them to california because other states have the treatment capacity that we don't. >> reporter: darcy spencer, news 4. a british man has been charged with hacking into computers that belong to the u.s. government. lori love is accused of stealing more than 100,000 employee records and that includes social security numbers and credit card information. prosecutors say he hacked computers from the department of health and human services, the
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fbi and the u.s. sentencing commission. love is free on bond in england facing up to ten years in prison, if convicted. do we need to tell you that last season was pretty rough for redskins fans, but that isn't keeping many from setting some pretty high expectations for the upcoming season, even as training camp is just getting under way this week. news 4 chris gordon is in richmond with some fan predictions. >> reporter: this evening we bring you predictions from the fans as to what the redskins' record will be this year. we begin with somebody who has a long history with the team. we ran into former redskins quarterback standing on the sidelines and asked for his early evaluation of the team. >> i think this football team has a great opportunity and a chance to win the division. >> reporter: that sets the bar pretty high. now, let's hear from some fans. >> i think we have at least 11-win season. >> reporter: at least after a 3-win season last year, that's pretty optimistic. >> very optimistic.
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>> what about the playoffs and beyond? >> i believe we make the playoffs don't know about the super bowl. >> reporter: fans here have extreme expectations. how are the redskins going to do this year? >> we're going it be undefeated. 16-16. >> how optimistic are you? >> we think we're going to the super bowl. >> okay, now, for a reality check. let's see what record joe thiesmann predicts? >> i think 10-6. i really believe that. i think the schedule is not an easy schedule, but we need to get off to a fast start. you can't get off to the start you had last year otherwise the fan base is going to go home. i'll always be this way, chris, cautiously optimistic. >> reporter: here's another note of caution. in as many years i've been covering the fans at training camp, they always predict that the redskins will win the super bowl and the last time the team did that was 1992. reporting from richmond, chris gordon. >> little commentary from the sidelines. for a while training camp
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looked more like boot camp more on that and the new coach's special guest coming up in 15 minutes. they climbed the brooklyn bridge to plant a flag, but now investigators say that's not all the culprits left behind. the new clue that is helping police in the security breach. plus -- >> my god, we're the government. that's a government facility. that should be the leading hospitainheor. and local veterans injured or even worse. the news 4 iteam
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virginia says a controversial drug will remain part of its leelthal injection cocktail despite executions in other states. one of three drugs that virginia uses during lethal injections. it's also the drug that was part of botched executions in ohio, oklahoma and just this week in arizona. that execution took almost two hours.
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virginia says besides it its cocktail is different than those used in the other st . a surprise escort for the "costa concordia" a school of dolphins spotted in the water near the ship. this video shows a couple of the dolphins getting close to the boat. the "costa concordia" towed to a port where it will be scrapped. the ship capsizing off italy's coast and killing two people. one person is still missing. dna is now part of the evidence that police hope will lead them to whoever replaced the iconic american flags on top of the brooklyn bridge. they say a small amount of dna was found on the bleached white flag or on the aluminum pans used to block out the light. investigators are reviewing 1,800 license plates and scouring social media for clues. at this point there is still no possible motive on why anyone replaced the flags in the first place. local veterans suffering and the news 4 i-team uncovering new
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local v.a. medical centers. far more than just a few years ago. as the i.-team scott mcfarlane reports the public won't reveal how or why it's happening. >> he loved his family. >> reporter: john fought in and survived world war ii. >> he was a good father and he was a good provider. >> reporter: years later his family said he battled hip problems, diabetes, but at 83 years old he couldn't survive an outbreak of legionella inside the v.a. medical center in western pennsylvania in 2011. his daughter said he died of pneumon pnni re gen that's a government facility. they should have the top advisors. they should have the top doctors. that should be the leading hospital in the world for everything. >> reporter: in testimony before congress, the v.a. adminirar publicly admitted they may have contracted pneumonia while receiving care there ine
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years. legionella linked to the water supply. congressional investigators say hospital managers failed to address the risk of bacteria and called the infections preventable and congressional investigators say he was one of the victims. >> they should beiven the best, the top treatment. not the bottom. >> reporter: records obtained by the news 4 i-team via the freedom of information act show adverse event disclosures at v.a. medical centers nationwide. including incidents that patients d oa seriously injured while being cared for at v.a. hospitals. v.a. agency handbook dig noesic or therapeutic misadventures he. the report obtained by the i-team showed 70% spike in these incidents since 2010. including 30 serious injuries or deaths at the v.a. medical
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centers since september 2012, spanning from d.c. to maryland to martinsburg. >> what has to be looked at is are these happening on a rec recurring basis and, if so, what type of accountability is being provided to those people that are making the errors and the mistakes and causing the adverse event. >> reporter: deadly errors happen in nonv.a. hospitals, too. in d.c. 163 patients died because of mistakes ined is medical facilities in 2013. for the city lists the suspected cause or error in every single incident, the v.a. won't reveal publicly. the agency won't say how many of those 30 veterans who suffered incidents died or the nature or cause of each injury, whether doctors were disciplined. and congressional leaders say local vets deserve to know. >> we need and the public needs and certainly the veterans who use the system need to have that information so that they can
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make the appropriate choices so that they can get their health care in a timely fashion. >> reporter: the v.a. declined multiple requests to talk about the local injuries or deaths and, instead, issuing this statement. even one adverse event is one too many and we're committed to doing everything we can to restore the state and trust of our veterans who have earned care by their service. when the v.a. makes a medical mistake, the feds can be sued. relatives of john settled a suit against the government just a few days ago. federal taxpayers will give that family $227,000. scott mcfarlane, news 4. >> to see a break down of incidents at v.a. medical centers across the country, go to nbcwashington.com and click on investigations. veronica back. more about our weather if you love today, you better enjoy tonight, right? >> that's right. summer returns really in a big way this weekend. and not only do we get the heat, humidity and also the storms this weekend. not during the entire weekend. so, don't go panicking right
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now. look at that cloud structure right there. a few clouds drifting through the area, of course, but kind of clouds that we have this evening, not the kind that are going to produce any rain. but tomorrow morning, different story already. some showers across the area. building humidity with the heat and the threat of isolated showers even some thunderstorms. we take our impact forecast for saturday and put it right at low. i think by sunday, especially sunday afternoon it will be up around the moderate and maybe even the high range because of those storms and what they cou bring. more sun coming after 9:0010:00 a.m. in the morning 65 to 70 degrees and fairly comfortable start, again, with cloud cover. when you head out the door early tomorrow morning, don't think it will stay that way. not overcast through the whole day. 91 degrees and yet some sunshine, filtered sunshine coming our way for the afternoon and 90 alexandria and as we continue to focus on those areas northern virginia, leesburg down towards orange and even as far south as fredericksburg and 92
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degrees and at 92 with the kind of humidity we'll have around tomorrow, yeah, for a while during the afternoon, it's going to be a little uncomfortable and down right sticky coming our way for sunday. 91 mechanicsville there's your temperature. st. mary's, too. again, a few showers and thundershowers bigger threat of storms right now on sunday. and i can show you sunday, too. widely scattered showers and storms and right now our main threat high winds, hail and some heavy rain and our tornado threat just a little higher than what we would typically find it because of the type of situation that we're going to be in on saturday. ohio and west virginia. any traveling to do. that's during the afternoon. then during the late afternoon/evening hours that threat kind of moves throughout our area and by monday morning and monday midday, it's down to the south across southern maryland and areas of the northern neck. take a look at the weekend. there's the heat, but we cool back down and stay pretty much
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dry for a lot of next week, guys. so, here we go, again, back to the nice stuff next week. >> thanks, veronica. dianna is live in virginia with the redskins. players and weather looking a little built better today? >> coach is happy that his team responded after a rough start yesterday but how is his new wide receiver? jackson shares with us what he's learning and how he's managing his first camp with the
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