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breaking news, two schools on lockdo at this hour, after po find new evidence in the mu of a prince william coun woman. plus, t help police ar for this morning, as we wait for word on if those remains found near charlottese are those of hannah grahams. and texas health officials say 120 people are still being mo as t famy of duncan emerges fr quarantine let'so to the live desk. this developing story out of bris virginia. two schools on lockout after poli find a car of a murder
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sut in an elementary school pag lot. let's te a look from what we'r seeing from chopper 4. this is above the lot of wood e the honda was found. stud arriving g were sent to bre school for the time being. s safe. precautiony move, t tell us, as parents e b scho or pick up their chil. e high sl has limited ac now also as police cos to scour the area for th guy, edward hail jr. poli he killed his girl, jessica wilson, this week he was shot -- or wilson was sh and killed yesterday on ledky in bristol. poli bel it happened after a domestic dispute. stay with news 4 as the search for hai continues. barb we're following a developi sty in virginia right now. we're waiting for the medical exam report to see if the
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hun remains found are those mig student hannah graham's. what can you tell us so far? >> r well, barbara, we can tel you that the results d . that would obviously be the big ne confirming whether ot if that find was hannah graham. the searching remains intense, pa where those remains were found. is where the focus still rema not confirmed in it's cod to hannah graham's disa e learned ty is a few miles of the home whe jesse matthew with his mom once lived. mattw is being held in the co jail, charged with hann abduction. the time line still unclear as to whether the identity of the body will be made. jesse matthew is is being held
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right now at the regional jail not far from where we're stan here. he's going to be back in court de 1st. the december court date has to do when he was first being qu and left the police stat then he'll back november 4th in e courtroom for the more sign abduction charge. i was speaking with the student body president of the university of virginia. they feel they're in a holding pan waiting for results to co back. he also says the impact on camp, on the grounds on uva, is reall noticeable, part with how students e handli. i'm going to get in to more of that wn we get into our co tonight at 4:00. for now, barbara, back to you. ask people to stay with news 4 and nbcwashin for co coverage.u see all our stori the hannah graham investigati online as well. turning to our weather now. a very cold start to this day
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and workweek. coldt so far i think this year stm team 4 meteorolo chuck bell joins us with the forecast. >> yes, it's the coolest weather we've seen since the springt ende summertime began. out towards the blue ridge and the shenandoah valley down to an even 32 freezing degrees this mornin a lot of great fall color star to come into our urban lae here in the metro area right now. skiee starting to turnther to a little bit more of a gray color tha a pretty blue for now as clouds are rolling in. temp in mid to upper 50s in most of the suburbs. rain drops are still a long ways out to the west of the metro area. we dry through the remar o the day. your hour by hour forecast, sunny breaks through lunch time, incr crowds this afternoon into the mid-60s. a risk of a few showers west of the mountains by about 6:00 and a chance for everyone get in the scattered showers.
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clou may be here for a little whe and a milder pattern ths to come back. >> all right, thank you. developing right now this morn the world health orga and nigeria now of free of ebola but ba in the u.s. some children and teachers in moore, oklahoma, are not bei allowed in school toda were on a cruise ship with a texas health worker who is not yet cleared of her ebola quar. in dallas, five children are ba a their qu expired. theye among 43 people who can now enjoy life as normal betw news conference just hours ago, a dallas judge expressed his relief. >> there are still 75 people at pres most moms who spent the night the las night, going through the toughest tim in their lives with the benefit of a hug fr their children. and they need our help and supp >> everyone who came off
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qu is completely heal people are expected to be fr of quarantine this week. for all the stories about the viru including how it's impa our area, head to nbm and search ebol right now, police are trying to figure out who shot and ki a man in the district. the deadly shooting happened ju after 3:00 this morning in nortt washington that in the brightwood park neig. anotr m was hurt and taken to the hospital. no word on his injuries. poli are looking for a person who drove away from the scene in a gray 2003 monte car with mary tags 2-ay-2516. rit now, you can go vote in the dis of columbia. only one open right now, the one at judiciary square. as well.he legis
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eit more early voting centers op on saturday. thers one in either d.c. ward. go to the website to find co list of all them. elec day is november 4th, ju 15 days from today. and starting today, you can hunt black bear. that'sright, in western mary, b br hunts are on, at least for the first time this season. it will only last four days. since 2004, the previous hunts determined by the quota year, the department of nal resources will issue 450 perm agency is managing a growing bear population now. right now, apple is rolling out apple pay. comi up, how the service will alw you to us to pay inside stores. plus, w behind the sudden dr in u.s. gas prices and whe are we seeing the cheapest gas in our area? gas in our area? we
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have you seen the news about barbara comstock? first, the washington post reported, barbara comstock failed to report eighty-five thousand in income. now, we learn, barbara comstock pushed a client's issues in the virginia legislature and didn't disclose it. barbara comstock shepherded a trio of bills through the legislature and into law, but barbara comstock never officially disclosed that all the while she was being paid thousands of dollars. no wonder she hid it.
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the national average price of gas priced 10 cents in a week, making it the lowest price so far this year. the falling prices are not done yet either. aaa says gas prices could co to drop until the end of year of it the motor club also says low d an abundant supply has kept
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glob oil prices low. right now, the average price in e district is $3.34 a gallon r regular. in maryland, $3.09. in virginia, 2.92. in west virginia, the average pric 3.22 a gallon. apple payday beaus today. you have hea about it, i'm lets you use your 6 li a credit card. you link your phone to your cr card with your fit reader, then swipe your p in places like mcdonald's and macy's to pay for purchases. who will be quarterba for the redskins next week? be right.w who it's going to third string quart colt mcy could get another chance afr leaving the skins to viy ove the weekend. head coach jay gruden could also give backup quarterba kirk cos another try. but gruden said if rg3 looks
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hey enough to practice this week, he will be the starting quk next monday against th> parts of africa are reg good news in the fight to stop the spread of ebola. plus, the suspected ringleader of a deadly 2012 attac beha libya is in court. th. >> i'm storm team 4 met chu bell on the frt lawn of channel 4 where ther sune getting thro 57 degrees here in not washingt. the clouds are coming back. how l will we have to deal withn drops? withn drops? l ts coming up? he's been called a super lobbyist, the ultimate washington insider. ed gillespie paid millions to lobby for the oil companies for a student loan company that overcharged taxpayers.
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his firm even lobbied for five foreign governments including a dictator now awaiting trial for war crimes. and then there's enron. gillespie lobbied for them while they committed the largest corporate fraud in us history. ed gillespie. the million dollar lobbyist whose never looked out for you.
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now to a developing story. nigeria is now free of ebol days have passed since the la case in nigeria. that twice the maximum in period. callg the country's contt of the lethal die a spectacul success r now, the montgomery co council is speaking out abt ebo th comes as just one patient, the dallas nurse being treated for the virus at nih in beth.
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conferenc in bethesda. that >> r nina pham, nurse nun call, is being treated at nih in bethesda. she' tnt in their spl bio containme unit. but there is one additional bed the so it's possible if anr ebola case crops up, th patient could be taken to nih as well. mont county president crg rice held an update and to reas people nih is the best ple to handle ebola. >> i think that the only and rit place for this is at a fa that has this kind of bio containme unit as well as the proper protocols and proc. folks go through this because they work with this disease befo this outbreak even happ. so from that perspectiv i thk that they're the ones that are really best prepared. >> and montgomery county has set
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up a special web page with inn on ebola. you can go to that link by going to our website nbcwashin and searching on montgomery co ebola. report live, megan mcgrath, ne 4. barb thank you, megan. > today, the man expected of plan the deadly attack is expe in federal court. he will face new charges. he's indicted on a total of 18 co including murder. if convicted, khattalah could fa the dea penalty. he was brought here in june afr u. s forces ca him. four americans, including am chris stevens, was ki in the attack on ser 11th, 2012. e using new weapons against s isis. dropped arms, ammunition d medical supplies to fighters in t town of kobani. thers heavy fighting now as the town is a key location on the border of syria and turkey.
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the u.s. military says it also laun 11 air strikes at isis fi in that area today. pre is in il right now where he cast his vote for the midterm elec early voting opened there today. in the next the prest w make an appe in several political camp yesterday, he was in marl, campaigni for and we're selling home. that what he's about is hope. >> and in bethesda tomorrow, ch will join mary repubn candidate for governor. chri and larry hogan will be at t pancake house on wood mo avenue shortly after 10:00 to morning. form presidentl contender m ridge is expected to help the campaign this week. can we expect to see presidentae headg into the midterms? wee joined by carrie dan, a
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wr for nbc. so do you think democrats coui to try to distance th from the president or are we going to see them out the a little bit more? >> it depends on the speed. the presi will be cag mostly for gul candidates. peop like in pennsylvaa or neyork. we saw in maryland or illi. e are states very reliably blue. not campaigni in those crucl se races, mostly in red states whe he's very unpo we mentioned the president did campaign for anthony brown and maryland yesterday. was t crowd pretty friendly towas the president? >> according to reports, there we peoe in the audience who le as the president started spea. not exactly the headline the w wants. part of might be that so democratsre distancing thse from the presiden it may be something that could hurt democrats in the long run. i think if you start seeing turnt for these, especiall the senate contests, for
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des turnt low, i think there will be a lot of pressure to distance themselves from the pres saying i don't sut him on everything. so candidatee saying they won' talk about whether they vod f the president or not. does brown have a safe lead in maryland right now? would it hurt him to have the prt -- >> i don't think it hurts him, es because he's vying to be ryland's first af government. they were in pg county together, a heavily african-an pt of state, and i think overl is not going to harm any brown. in other states, however, the prt is a big drag. we don't have a lot of time le before the midterm elecknow, a lot of days. so tight, it could it could be months before we know the control of the senate. so buckle up. all right, thank you, see you late for mor from carrie and the re of the nbc news political tale, che out first read on nbcn preventing problems, bad de health is a bigger probm tha you may think, espe for children.
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how to avoid those problems, es ahead of halloween. and a baby update. the royal family's releasing new infon on the duchess and duke baby. a look at what's hot on
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new this morning, we're just a little more than six months
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aw from royal baby madness. the duke and duchess have conf their second baby is due in april. as you already know, kate midd has been suffering fr severe morning sickness thro this pregnancy just as she did with the pregnancy wi princ george. kens palace says she's dog mh better now. jay leno has a new award on the shelf. he received the mark twain award for ame humor. it recognizes someone would has had a big impact in the field of come. this is one they just call you up one day and without any campaigni or press ag calling. you just sort of get awarded it. it's a big honor. it's tremendous. >> jimmy fallon, jerry seinfeld, se meyers and other comics we all at the ceremony last nigh a woman caught in the cross fire, coming up. two men still on the loose after secu guard at a fast food re is attacked and an in woman is injured by acci. plus, n the best way to break
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in a home. a would be thief rescued ae fin unusl place. o first look at the sevey fo coming up. metet chu bell is back to let us know if we can expect more have you seen the news about barbara comstock? first, the washington post reported, barbara comstock failed to report eighty-five thousand in income. now, we learn, barbara comstock pushed a client's
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issues in the virginia legislature and didn't disclose it. barbara comstock shepherded a trio of bills through the legislature and into law, but barbara comstock never officially disclosed that all the while she was being paid thousands of dollars. no wonder she hid it. wothe way als dismantles someone like stuarty. is so painful. embryonic stem cells have so much promise, but barbara comstock voted to ban that research funding
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even though conservatives like nancy reagan support it. that takes away hope for a cure -- but also, for families like ours, who just wanted a little more time. house majority pac is responsible for the content of this advertising. right now, people in hawaii are breathing a sigh of relief sie hurricane ana passed the iss witho a direct hit.
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ana had been churning close to the hawaiian islands for several e storm passed hawaii with so high wins and strong waves but pretty much left the state unsc m team 4 meteorolo chuck bell joins us w. we didn't neede a hit. after bermuda was hit. we can't have all our island wi destinatis destroyed by hurr >> key west has made it. we've still got that option left. berma was going to be fine. cleaning up. n bermuda other the d no wed with gonzalo going by. man, chilly th morning. temp in the 30s in many of the suburbs. nort maryland also down into e upper 30s this morning. in town, temperature held in e . it w definitely a chilly one eay toda for now, the skies are still,
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blue-gray mix out ther a little more blue the further ea you are. gray out to the west. 60 at nation. sout at 12 miles per hour. the overall impact the weather's goiny to day, not too much, somewhere ben slim and none. a risk of a couple of showers comin after the sun goes down. curr still in the low to shenandoah vall this morning. 59 in brandy wine, maryland. 61 in fredericks and you're waiting f from school today, paly sunny, 64. turng mostly cloudy between 3:00 and 4:00. temp in th mid-60s. one of the things you could do toy is take a look at some of the gre fall color if you've got the day off. from skyline drive westbound up in mountains of west virg. that whe best color is gog to be found now. we found about another week to mae ten days to wait on peak cor right in downtown d.c. futu weather forecast starting at noon today, still a little
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cool. clou on the increase during the cours of the afternoon. wel be watchi could have a couple of sprinkles out. west of the blue ridge by early th evening. maybe a sprinkle to a late show by 7:00 tonight and st time tomorrow morning ch in th 40s. a risk of a little light rain firs thing in the morning as well. rains coming in from the west. nothg on radar just yet too clos to us. coup of sprinklesn pa west virg. of a disorganiz weather sy tt wil bring the rain into here. once we get the rain drops in, it may take a little while to get them out, but rainfall ams w be all that much. tomo, mostly cloudy, showers duri the afternoon g off and on through much of the evening hours tom througe da wednesda toda increasing clouds, 66.
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a couple of scattered showers tomo, primarily day. on into wednesd afternoon, turn breezy but milder as we fi out the week and head in the weekend. aids walk d.c. is saturday, tha. marin saturd temperatus up near 70 again. tha you, chuck. > a woman is e after she was shot during a chaoc scene. a secur guard got into an aln wit two men yey morning. the security guard used pepper spy and shot at the men. the woman, who was not volved, was hit by a spray bullet. the o m were able to get away. fir responders from more th 12 agencies trained for mu terrorist attacks in the district overnight.of emerg happ at the medical center in northwest. orga say the exercises du the night added some exa element of surprise for pe in those neighborho
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the drills at walter reed > a california woman is behind brk in to a house through a chim a look at this. she got stuck inside the chimney earlr y morning. theye getting her out. neigs h her screaming d called for help. crews had to dismantle the brick to get her out. turns out the woman is in the ho -- or is the homeowner's ex-w >> met her online not too long ago. i thought she was pretty normal as you meet people online. you , we hung out a couple of times. you know, you never know how cry somy is until they do cry things. >> the woman is now charged for ill entering and providin
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si "happy birthday." how long should children pn on brus? is at least two minutes. it helpful with children to have a partnership with a kind of fun to have a brus routine. perh within the ape intervals. partly establishg the 30 minu rule which i mention earl should people not pay atn to baby teeth since th go away anyway? >> any infection in the baby teeth can really transfer other and, infection spreads month mor readily in children than in adults. so we have to be careful with that. bein it infection not only tooth structure but als affects the gums. that affects of course nutr brus t tongue is just as imt as brushing the teeth. brush your teeth after all that halloween candy. every time you take a bite. and sipping water and of the -- at the dental of with for instance we have e potential to reminerali
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h structur we have to brush our. >> wonderful to be here. > howh is too much? the common mistake parents make when medicating their child. plus a virginia singer's latest test of her voice or her voice. what it's like to have the ap of artists l >> you actually choreogra in yo sleep. >> i've got some of my best work really? >> it got to a point -- >> explains to meredi. this exc.
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xfinity,ut aso. livthnewsdesk, the hallowest set on fire. you'rloliv courtesy of chopp 4 lookingn what started this fire. you can see the halloween sre.
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victims a medication error. that breaks down to one child every ei minutes. many cases involve giving the wrong amf ne. someti kere even given medicin t for a sibling. >> some they're cooking dinne getting y for school or somethi they tu and they give 6-year-oedn t 4-yearld >> most cases, however, did not require medical treatment. there are only nine weekends left until christmas. that means it's time to start thinkinguti giving. if you have a child on your list, w to help you get a hertay the toy insider mom joins us
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with so of this year's favores hodo com up with your list? welco back. we saw you last year. >> we examine thousands of toys every year. we co up with a list. it's called the toy insider list. i o some of my favorites. >> let's talk about that. >> we'll about kids and stayi active. we want to start them active young. we start with somethg ke balancke wh i l about this, it's a 2 in 1 balance bike. right now, it's in training mode. the wheels are spread apart. i can just lift this. twist and click. and now it's in balance mode. so kids move from a balance bike and the right into a two wheeler. we skip the two wheelers and the back breaking running. this is grow with me size. kids can start at about 18 months. tyl for about four years. >> what's next? >> so o of the best things you can put kid's hands and magnets. everyo fascinated by them.
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smart x puts it togethe this is part of a very bise this isdoc, she's got all the++s
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the car can run by itself. it's cool. there are a lot of -- >> girls and boys? >> girls and boys. okay, so, education, science technology, engineering, mathematics. when kids learn it in toys first, it makes it easier to go into the classroom. goldilocks introduces engineering for girls. part of the set called the builders survival guide. there's field notes from goldie. look what you can do here. >> and you do this from scratch? >> right, kids follow the blueprint and build it been they have a basic understanding of everything. >> fantastic. that's part of it? >> no, this is something different. so mind craft is a video game, one of the biggest ones out there, where kids are building in a virtual world. now we're bringing them back and we're letting them play in home with mind craft. they have to take the paper, make the same pieces they see in the game. they're away from the screen and
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now they can play with their friends too. >> wow. you have other things to show us but we've run out of time. i like this for my child. >> yeah, it's the 50th anniversary for them now. >> fantastic. we'll have your list on our website. nice to see you, barbara. >> i want a little bit of everything. >> great to have you. and moving on, virginia's own ryan sil is singing his heart out on nbc's "the voice." ♪ something that will light those ears ♪ >> he is from sterling and graduated from dominion high school in 2012 and attended james madison university. he stopped by our studio this morning and talked about the best advice his coach gwen stefani has given him. >> i think the best advice that she's given me hasn't been about my vocals. we haven't really worked that much about, like, my technicality and melody and everything like that. she really likes to work with me
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on my stage presence and, like, all my staging, things like that. because she's like the queen of awesome. >> there's a watch party tonightal velocity 5 in the sterling area. you can cheer on sil tonight as he sings in the battle rounds right here on nbc 4 at 8:00. our time right now is 11:51. coming up, a look at how technology is motivating people to get moving. plus, storm team 4 meteorologist is back with a look at our chance of rain over the next few days. stay with us. we'll be right back.
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have you seen the news about barbara comstock? first, the washington post reported, barbara comstock failed to report eighty-five thousand in income. now, we learn, barbara comstock pushed a client's issues in the virginia legislature and didn't disclose it. barbara comstock shepherded a trio of bills through the legislature and into law, but barbara comstock never officially disclosed that all the while she was being paid thousands of dollars. no wonder she hid it.
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we're following several developing stories. first, prince william county police say they found a body near an elementary school baseball field. chopper 4 over t wood elementary in bristo earlier this morning. police have not confirmed if the victim is edward hail jr. he's wanted for allegedly shooting and killing his girlfriend over the weekend. look for updates throughout the day on nbcwashington.com. we're following several other developing stories. the medical examiner in richmond could release the results of its autopsy on the human remains found. researchers found the remains saturday during the search for missing uva student hannah graham. stay with news 4 and nbcwashington.com for updates. some people are casting their ballots in d.c. right now.
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early voting opens today. you can vote for d.c. mayor, along with other positions. and issues include pot legalization. election day is november 4th, two weeks from tomorrow. they've become the latest fashion symbol. those bracelet like fitness tracking devices. nbc's katie ter has more how they're keeping millions keep in step and in touch with their bodies. >> here, come on you ready to go out? >> even before the sun rises in statesburg, she is moving. lately, her days are measured in steps. on her fit bit zip. >> by the time i come home from work. >> one of the growing number of americans hook on personal fitness trackers. the wherable motion sensor devices like fit bit, nike fuel band, measure everything from steps and sleep to heart rate and calorie counts. they sync with smart phones or
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computers, giving real-time progress reports. for better or worse. >> thank you, fitness tracking tori burch are stepping in on the trend. >> you have the pendant and you have -- i tell everyone i know to get it. >> eventually wherable tech is where it's going. >> jeffrey grant is the director of human resources in statesboro. this summer, the city brought workers who volunteered for the program. did you feel this town needed it? >> most definitely. employee health awareness is huge. having a program like this in place would really keep employees moving. >> the group logged more than 32 million steps. for the fire department employees, it's more than game.
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nbc news, statesboro, georgia. >> working out with something like that? >> i just take the dog out and go. seven-day forecaster.
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either night through halloween. wild. that's news 4 midday for today. we thank you for joining us. we invite you to tune in tonight and we'll be back tomorrow with news 4 midday. until then, have a great day and we'll see you in the morn.
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>> nicole: chad. >> chad: nicole. hi. >> nicole: hey. i-i haven't seen you since you got back. i am so sorry about your brother. >> chad: thanks. leave it to ej, right, to time it this way? >> nicole: "time it"? what do you mean? >> chad: i came back to nail him to the wall, and then the bastard went and died on me. >> lucas: whoa, whoa, kids, just stay in the kitchen with mary till i get back, okay? i'll be right there. >> johnny: okay. >> will: i think i got all of these. >> lucas: yeah, you got them? >> will: croquet... good idea-- kept them distracted for a while. >> lucas: yeah. yeah, the hardest part is, you know, those kids losing their dad at a time when they need him the most. >> will: yeah. >> lucas: here you go.

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