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both passengers on the germanwings plane that went down in the alps. chris gordon is live in nokesville where friends of the victims are mourning inging tonight. chris? >> reporter: yvonne sul kielke and her daughter emily were killed. yvonne yvonne, a government contractor and her daughter who had just a few years ago been chosen by local teachers as a future leader of america. emily selke graduated from woodbridge high school with top honors, winning a $1,000 college scholarship from the national naval officers zs association at quantico. today i spoke with a neighbor who has been a friend. >> just an upbeat person happy all the time. >> reporter: emily selke was killed in the crash while on a vacation trip with her mother yvonne. family members here at the selke
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home didn't want to speak on camera but e-mailed me this statement. our entire family is deeply saddened by the losses of yvonne and emily selke, two wonderful amazing people who meant so much to so many. at this difficult time, we respectfully ask for privacy and your prayers. >> sad and shocking that it's just over. we'll never yvonne selke worked for booz allen. booz allen and our employees are mourning the sudden and shocking death of yvonne selke an employee of nearly 23 years and the death of her daughter. she was a wonderful co-worker and a dedicated employee who 13e7b9 her career with the firnl supporting the mission. yvonne selke's husband is still here along with family members at the home in nokesville, virginia. he has no plans at this point to
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travel to france. coming up on news4 at 6:00, i'll tell you why. that's the latest live in nokesville. >> now let's take a look at the flight. the plane took off from barcelona for doosusseldorf. for unexplained reasons, it began a descent that lasted about eight minutes. during that time, no distress signal and the plane eventually dropped off of radar altogether before slamming into the mountainside in the french alps. at this point, here's what we know about those on board, there were 144 passengers and 6 crew moebs, none of whom survived, 67 were german including 16 school children. the audio recorder has been recovered but it could take weeks if not months to analyze. there's still no initial cause for the crash. now to a heartfelt plea from the wife of a man found dead
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inside an upscale d.c. hotel. for the first time police revealed the person of interest in the case is a woman. but how she's linked to the lawyer found dead remains a mystery. pat collins joins us live in thomas circle. pat, what have you learned about this case today? >> reporter: well, one night he goes missing. the next morning he's found stabbed to death at the donovan hotel. and for his wife, this has been a time of great sorrow. >> the world has lost a good person person. david's family a son and brother, and i have lost everything. >> reporter: surrounded by family members, kim vuong the wife of david messerschmitt talked publicly for the first
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time about the pain and the loss. her husband, david messerschmitt found murdered at the donovan hotel 43 days ago. >> my husband was the gentlist and kindest hearted person i knew. >> reporter: david messerschmitt was a 30-year-old lawyer with a powerhouse firm downtown. he lived with his wife in a stylish condo on capitol hill. it's unclear as to why he was staying at this thomas circle hotel back on february the 10th. shortly after the murder police released surveillance video of a person of interest in the case. today police say that person of interest is a female. >> all information that we've obtained indicates that it is a woman. >> reporter: according to court documents, police say messerschmitt had stab wounds to his back. they say they found blood on the walls and door of the hotel room. from the room, police say they
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recovered a number of items, including a wallet, credit cards, a condom, lubricant, a watch an enema, a cell phone and some keys. at the meeting with reporters today, kim vuong read a statement. she took no questions. >> i won't be answering questions because i don't have any answers. >> reporter: coming up at 6:00, big pictures of that person of interest and an impassioned plea for help. pat, back to you. turning now to storm team 4. chief meteorologist doug kammerer is tracking a temperature swing and some showers. doug? >> we've got the showers actually coming through the area right now. storm team 4 radar picking the showers up pretty well. it's actually a frontal boundary moving across our area. you can see the showers now. take a look you can see a few toward the south, most of them in and around the potomac, southern maryland. that's the front. you can see more around baltimore. we'll zoom in around the showers
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around woodbridge, newington coming right across 495 in a minute and along waldorf down through 301 and toward the potomac river. these are all moving to the north and east, nothing too heavy. but you'll see a little in the way of shower/sprifrpg elle activity. tonight's headlines warmer, much warmer tomorrow. then the warmer weather brings us a chance for possible thunderstorms. we'll talk about when those roll in. then we get colder again. so a nice warm-up and then a frigid weekend. i've got the complete details in a moment. a local school district tonight says its classrooms are safe after the arrests of two men in a high-profile shooting. news4's chris lawrence is in the newsroom for us. >> you may remember this case up in frederick where two teenagers were shot outside a high school basketball game. 21-year-old brandon tyler and 19-year-old chandler davenport now face more than a dozen charges from that february shooting at frederick high
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school. police say tyler pulled the trigger and davenport lured people outside. more than 300 people were interviewed over the past month and a half to find these men. detectives think the victims were targeted and they want to know if the shooting was gang related. >> i know our schools are safe, and i think that's the message we need to make loud and clear. the schools in frederick county are absolutely safe. gangs are not a school issue per se. they're a community issue. >> one thing police are still looking for, the gun that was used in the shooting. it still hasn't been found. both teenagers who were hit are out of the hospital and recovering. jim? >> chris thank you. virginia's governor orders sweeping changes tonight for alcoholic beverage control agents. the executive order follows the bloody arrest of uva student martis johnston. agents are to undergo retraining on the use of force, cultural diversity and interaction with young people.
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johnson is said to meet with state investigators tomorrow and will be also appear in court. on day four, search teams scaled back their focus as they look for a missing kindergartner in virg. this is a story you've all shared more than 14,000 times on our facebook page. crews searched near a landfill today for 5-year-old noah thomas. his mother reported him missing early sunday morning from their home in the roanoke area. police don't expect foul play. four people are now charged in a shootout that left bullet holes in homes and cars. at least one person is still wanted. officers took breanna colbert and another woman paulina gomez into custody. they're still looking for the guy on the right, andre perry. we're told the groups ran into each other at a restaurant. as they drove off in two cars, police say they started shooting at wufrn anotherone another.
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no one was injured. there's a new problem tonight. adam tuss live in northwest washington tonight to show us why it's a good thing the war on potholes is speeding up. adam? >> reporter: well, jim, if the whole idea of potholepalooza is to report potholes, then i have some to report to ddot. take a look. "r" street northwest between 13th and 14th this is the pothole-laden street in the city. at this point, "r" street northwest may be beyond saving. >> bumpy right. no good. wear and tear on the vehicle. >> reporter: nonetheless, ddot and the city say they'll get on it. it's potholepalooza time. >> the ddot pothole team is declaring its annual war on potholes. >> reporter: the mayor kicking off the campaign today. she got in on the action herself, helping to fill and tamp down a crater in sweat
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southwest. if you have a pothole you want filled what do you do? >> is there something i say? >> reporter: i'll tell you. ready? you can either tweet ddot, call 311 or go to 311.dc.gov. >> i think i might do all of those things. >> reporter: you should. the last few winters so rough the city filling about 65,000 potholes a year. during the month-long campaign, the hope is to fill 12,000. if you report one the longest you should wait is two days. can you guarantee a pothole will be filled in 48 hours? >> this is our guarantee with the announcement of the potholepalooza. 48 hours we'll patch the pothole. >> reporter: busy work is coming, but the city wants to hear from you. and back here live, ddot says it has a brand-new strategy for dealing with the potholes this year. it's complex. talk about that more next hour at 6:00. pat back to you. crash investigators in maryland are trying to figure
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out why a dump truck and a pickup truck collided today killing one person. this was the scene in brandywine this morning. the crash happened around 9:00. we're told the pickup truck driver was ejected and later died. a new push tonight to prevent other pedestrian crashes. now under way across our region safety groups and officials with the metropolitan washington council of governments kicked off this year's street smart campaign in college park. they want to remind everybody to be more vigilant while walking, biking, driving, especially with the weather warming up. fines for anyone caught breaking traffic and safety laws in our area can range from $40 to $500. developing tonight a medical emergency inside a local high school. why several teenage girls were rushed to the hospital today. you may not always use the hov lane, but when you do make sure you don't take a page out of this guy's book.
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investigators say a 15-year-old student supplied those drugs. detectives say charges are pending. which restroom should a transgender student be able to use? that's a question creating controversy in stafford county. >> now the school board there has reversed its earlier decision on the matter. the child in question is an elementary age student. northern virginia bureau chief julie carey joins us. >> reporter: hartan issue in increasing. the transgender student was allowed to use the restroom that the student identifies with. but parents complained and did political leader ss. last night 20 speakers showed up including a man who says he's the transgendered child's
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father. >> as we move forward, that we don't trade understanding for fear and that we don't trade misconceptions for hate. >> reporter: but most speakers echoed the view of russ molten who is pressing the board to return to a traditional bathroom policy. >> the vast number of parents were upset that their children were sharing the bathroom with a child of an opposite sex. and many of the children expressed that they were feeling awkward about it. >> reporter: after a closed session, the board voted to endorse a new plan. the superintendent's directive allows the transgendered student to either ufz the bathroom that corresponds with their gender at birth or an alternative facility like the nurse's bathroom. this stafford mom says that's wrong. >> kids should be accepted for who they are. i think in this time, people need to get over same sex marriage, transgender all of that stuff. >> the superintendent and school
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board declined an on camera interview but the board struggled with this issue, the reasoning behind our decision is that the legal landscape on these issues is unclear. we are attempting to ensure that the needs of all our students are being addressed. coming up at 6:00 you'll hear from a transgendered student also fighting the battle in their school district. california became the first state to pass a law spelling out transgender rights in schools last year. it includes the right for students to use the restrooms and play on sports teams matching the gender they identify with. the aclu has joined a similar case to the one in stafford in gloucester county, virginia filing a complaint with the department of justice and department of education. after months of infighting a liquor board hearing was finally held in prince george's county yesterday. governor larry hogan appointed a new chair to the board, but the
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former chair refused to step down. holding up a number of board meetings and stopping business from moving forward for weeks. a temporary restraining order is now barring the former chief from the board's meetings for the first time governor hogan commented about the bizarre standoff with bureau chief tracee wilkins. >> it was a little bit ridiculous. the guy was replace and he just didn't understand that. now he does. >> reporter: the liquor board members are appointed by the governor. they issue liquor licenses and monitor establishments selling alcohol in prince george's countenancy. the arm ji sergeant held captive from the cal i ban and released during a controversial prisoner swap will be charged with desertion and endangering fellow soldiers. he left his post if 2009 and was captured. if convicted on the endangerment charge, he could face a life sentence. more spinach is being recalled today. this time from target stores.
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the food and drug administration says simply balanced organic chopped spinach is being recalled because it may be contaminated with listeria. the spinach was sold in steam pouches at target stores across the country. spinach products sold at wegman's in amy's meals and shoppers were recalled earlier this week. we're happy to tell you about a brand-new partnership. beginning today, you'll be able to hear news4 reporters, anchors and meteorologists on wtop radio. listen for us. we'll also be pleased that some of our trusted voices that you hear on wtop every day and night will joins right here on news4. all of this designed to provide you with the latest up-to-date information wherever you are. doug, i tuned you in earlier today. >> that's right. weather and traffic on the 8s. we're there right now. veronica johnson on the radio and i'm here on the television. we've got a storm moving in. here's the storm back toward denver bringing severe weather
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>> announcer: now your storm team 4 forecast. doug is here. when are we getting off the roller coaster? >> you don't like the loops, huh? >> no. >> i think we've got one more big old loop-de-doop to go through. let's look outside right now. our reston camera notice the 267, the dulles toll road notice all the traffic heading westbound toward the airport. there was an earlier delay, and if that is the case, this goes all the way from around reston town center to the airport.
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heads-up, that will be a very slow go as you move through the evening hours. storm team 4 right now showing the clouds continuing. yes, showers around town 54 degrees, winds out of the south at 8 miles per hour, temperatures have warmed from where they were yesterday but still cool along the chesapeake. only 43 in annapolis. look at petersburg west virginia. 65. we would love to get into that air. right now into the upper 40s to lower 50s. we have warmer air tomorrow. here is where the shower activity is now prince george's county, portions of calvert county, through route 2 and 301. let's zoom in here. i'll make a box and zoom into the box, including southeast d.c. right around the stadium a little earlier. here's 495 around oxen hill clinton seeing some showers and heavier showers right there along route 2 and foyer 301. we'll continue to see these moving north and east over the next half hour to an hour. i mentioned the warm air. look at pittsburgh, 69 degrees right here. we've got the mountains keeping
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all the warm air just to our west. but it will get here eventually. 79 in jackson, 77 in memphis, the warm air that will invade the region overnight. future weather the rain is coming in tomorrow morning search:00 a.m., right around the time of rush hour. we'll see showers along the 95 corridor, could slow some things down, but we won't see too heavy. same thing through noon, but then it moves out. this is the key. if we get sunshine tomorrow, we soar into the 70s, no problem at all. that's ahead of our cold front. i do think we may even see some sun most of the afternoon dry. the storms are back to the west along i-81 around the 5:00 hour, then in and around the d.c. metro around 8:00 and again we could see some of those 30s,
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could even be a couple of flurries on saturday afternoon 52 on sunday. then like i said we come up, we go down, loop-de-loop here and then meander back. then we can get off the ride. >> all right, we'll do it. thank you, doug. new tonight, why a local congresswoman is taking heat on social media for how she parked her car. >> cutting past traffic in the most interesting way. why troopers are toasting a driver's ingenuity. >> reporter: have you been past the site of mgm national harbor lately? a lot of changes happening. i'm tracee wilkins. coming up we got a tour. we'll take you inside. >> reporter: i'm tisha thompson with the i-team in charleston west virginia with the story of the highest ranking woman to file an official complaint of
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in the shadow of the capitol wheel at national harbor, cranes hard at work. the mgm casino and resort is slated to open next year. today they hit a major hiring milestone. prince george's county bureau chief tracee wilkins joins us with a sneak peek at the progress. >> reporter: all of these cranes up in the air and d.c. and virginia are getting a sight of the cranes up in the air, they can't wait to start making money off of this casino. but there has been a change in the opening date. what was once an empty field is filled with work trucks cranes new foundations and the promise of a world-class casino and
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resort coming soon. >> here in just 20 months, you will find an exceptional resort. it will cost $1.25 billion. >> reporter: the new mgm national harbor will include a 23-story hotel a casino filled with slots and tables and a number of restaurants as well as a theater. >> there are many people who thought we'd never get to this day. >> reporter: concrete slabs have been poured. it's starting to take shape. >> probably before the midpart of the year we'll see steel in the air and you'll start to see our tower take form. >> reporter: but the expected opening date of july 1, 2016, is no longer a reality. >> the window we've committed to is the second half of 2016. so sometime between july and december. >> reporter: while construction is moving quickly, a transportation plan for the international resort is not. county executive baker says he wants to see a metro line cross the woodrow wilson bridge. >> certainly that's something we want to see in the future.
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we've committed to the infrastructure here. that's why the governor is here. >> we're doing a major overhaul and looking at transportation across the state. we'll complete i study by the end of april and figure out what to do with the money we have and which projects have the most priority. >> reporter: folks in southern prince george's county have tried to get that metro across the bridge for years. baker says he he's open to all options. he wants to make sure people are coming to mgm national harbor when it opens. coming up at 6:00, we talk to the workers who are helping to make this place happen. it p means a lot to them, being that some of them are county resident residents. a string of bank robberies in prijs georges county may be over. today police charged a man carlton chase jr. with holding up a sun trust bank in chillham on friday. he matches the description of a man who robbed the same branch on february 11th and linked to a
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robbery of a business on mt. rainier january 20th. police are asking the public for any additional information about chase and these crimes. >> manufacture new dre tails about a stabbing in prince george's county. overnight a man was found with stab wounds to his neck in a home in greenbelt. we're told the victim is a 38-year-old man. they haven't released his name. officers arrested another man, patrick hunter on murder charges. he's currently being held without bond. >> there's a fund-raising effort under way right now to help the family of walter fauntroy as he remains missing abroad. week the 82-year-old tomorrow civil rights activist and d.c. congressional delegate is believed to be in dubai but he's had limited contact with people here for the past couple of years. his lawyer filed bankruptcy papers to avoid foreclosure on fauntroy's home. the fund is meant to help keep his wife from being forced out. >> we are not sure where reverend fauntroy may be at this
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time, nor his condition which we are very, very concerned about. we do want to make sure that the family and particularly mrs. fauntroy is in good hands. >> the head of the national congress of black women is overseeing the funds being raised. she says the money will not be sent overseas. no word tonight on any possible charges against a boy accused in a car crash that knocked out power in a virginia neighborhood. look at the damage down in norfolk. police tell us the 13-year-old boy who was driving a van with headlights off early this morning slammed into a utility pole, a power transformer and a neighbor's parked car. the neighbor described the chaos which fortunately did not lead to any injuries. >> i looked out, and that's when i saw my car like that. and then i saw the telephone pole over here, it was down. >> police tell us they found the boy who had been behind the wheel after he tried to flee on
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foot. the van apparently belongs to a friend of his. state troopers say it's a carpool ruse and say it's the most interesting one they've seen. >> a man tried using a cardboard cutout of the dose eck-- a cardboard cutout of an actor who portrays the most interesting man in the world doesn't cut it. troopers pulled over the driver but allowed him to keep his cutout. state patrol officers had some fun afterwards tweeting quote i don't always violate the hov lane law, but when i do i get a $124 ticket. >> costly company. a new mobile health clinic about to hit the streets in d.c. serving in silence. after coming forward she says her attacker was allowed to walk
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this week's wednesday's child is a young man with a whole lot of personality. >> as barbara harrison reports he just needs a family who will take the time to get to know him. >> ready to go? shall we go? okay! let's go. >> meet la shard a 16-year-old who, although wheelchair bound and nonverbal, has a wonderful way of communicating his feelings. is this your buddy? lashard has voebl alcalizations that sound like words. those who know him says he does understand questions and is eager to find a way to respond. >> he's unable to communicate. he can make sounds. he coos and laughs. he will belly laugh. >> good! >> he loves music. >> and lashard loves to try to sing along and likes having company. and, while he can't see, he
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certainly enjoys the presence of those who spend time with him. >> he's just so happy and joyful. he's got a wonderful personality. >> having worked with lashard for some time his social worker says he would really benefit from a permanent, loving family. >> maybe a couple that could open their heart and home to a wonderful, loveable child that deserves a permanent home that can love him and give their attention to him. he's just a wonderful child. he really is. just happy. every time i come over he's laughing and smiling. >> such a good job today. barbara harrison news4 for wednesday's child. >> he likes music. if you have room in your heart and home for lashard or another child, call our special hotline 1-888-to-adopt-me. she haes one of the highest
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ranking women in the national guard. >> and she's carried a horrifying secret for years. >> dealing with that guilt of had i said something earlier. >> why she's now speaking out to the news4 i-team about what happened to her and other women. rnchs there's the hospital. there it is. but this guy will come to you. big announcement today in southeast d.c. this mobile clinic is designed to bring quality health care to the folks who need it the most right in their own community. i'm zachary kiesch. i'll have that story coming up. we get really warm tomorrow but then look at this. the next five days in a row below average. we do get back up there a little bit. i've got the complete
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combat soldiers with the national guard claiming they were raped and sexually harassed on duty. >> their perpetrator allowed to walk free, while they say they've lost their careers. >> tisha thompson and the news4 i-team begin a multi-part investigation into sex assaults inside the national guard, starting here in our own backyard in the mountains west
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virginia. >> reporter: captain denver weaver says she's fought tough battles in the west virginia national guard. >> i think i'm pretty tough. i've seen some stuff, and i had my breaking point in afghanistan. >> reporter: but the real battle she says when she returned home to charleston west virginia. >> the inappropriate conversation that's were very lewd and sexual in nature that he would send me. >> reporter: uncomfortable private facebook messages from her high ranking boss. she says she tried to avoid him until one day he ordered her into his office. >> he said, captain if you repeat one word i say in here to anyone i will [ bleep ] kill you. do you understand me? >> reporter: frightened he could destroy her career, weaver says she went to the one woman she felt she could trust lieutenant colonel teresa james one of the highest ranking women inside the west virginia national guard. >> she is a fast tracker. >> reporter: but what captain
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weaver did not know -- >> i was like, oh, my god, he's going to do the same thing to her he did to me. >> she had a secret about the very same man. >> i didn't want to have sex with him. it was rape. >> reporter: james says after weaver confided in her, she heard about other women who said they too were sexually harassed or assaulted with the same man. >> dealing with the guilt of, had i said something earlier you know, perhaps if i wouldn't have been so selfish perhaps i would not have had to do what they had to go through. >> reporter: lieutenant colonel james felt it was her duty to
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come forward and report her rape even though she says she had kept quiet for years because she was worried it could destroy her 30-plus-year career. and she says that's exactly what happened. james says she tried everything she knew filing complaints with the department of defense, the national guard bureau, and a sexual assault response coordinator. >> she told me that they didn't believe me. >> reporter: because she and her alleged attacker were high ranking officers, the national guard dispatched a special team from its office of complex investigations which substantiated her case. but james says she was told that the state west virginia did not have the money or the authority to bring a court-martial against her attacker. instead, like most guard units across the country they had to rely on the local law enforcement where the assault occurred, who told james their statute of limitations had expired. meaning there was only one person left who could punish her
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perpetrator west virginia's add gent general james hoyer. >> i believe that the cases that we've dealt with with the tools that we have, we have done the maximum level of punishment we can under the system we have available to us. >> reporter: general hoyer says he agreed to accept the officer's resignation in lieu of adverse action instead of pushing for a dishonorable discharge because the officer was so cleaseose to retirement. the two-star general said he also delayed the officer from getting his $62,000 a year pension by placing two letters of reprimand into his file. >> one of the reasons that we've done those is to impact their ability not to get a job in a federal agency or a state agency. >> reporter: but captain weaver and lieutenant colonel james say they think the officer got off lightly. while they both feel retaliated
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against by being ordered to undergo medical evaluations questioning whether they were fit for duty. >> it was a career killer. it was absolutely. >> i absolutely have been reprised against. >> we have not retaliated against individuals, and all the come forward to us related to sexual assault, selfual harassment inappropriate conduct we have a record of dealing with perpetrators. >> it's probably one of the hardest things that i've ever had to do is to report that. >> harder than going to war. >> yes. i've lost everything, and i did nothing wrong. >> i lost my opportunity to continue to serve be a colonel, and it will never happen.
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>> lieutenant colonel james says if she would have known her guard unit couldn't bring a court-martial she never would have come forward. tonight we'll show you what her boss had to say in response to that and allegations other women have made saying they do not feel safe working in the west virginia national guard. tisha thompson, news4 i-team. >> announcer: and now your storm team 4 forecast. temperatures have climbed a little bit today. we're in into the 50s after only the 40s yesterday. tack a look at this shot, cloud cover across the region. but we're trying to see a little sunshine through there, down across the potomac looking toward alexandria. you can see the masonic tem emand the wid row wilson bridge. temperaturewise we're still on the mild side at least compared to yesterday, 54 degrees still below average for this time of year. we'll drop a little bit this evening. it will be cool but we're not talking about chilly conditions like we saw yesterday. 50 degrees in rockville bowie,
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reston, 52 in manassas. we'll continue to see the cooler than average temperatures. storm team 4 not he sewing much but we have shower activity. heads-up around dunkirk. you could see light showers coming your way over the next half hour or so. the wider picture showing one storm system moving out, the one that brought us showers earlier today. then look at this storm system. these are where the storms are big-time thunderstorms, severe weather in through parts of the plains. that whole system will begin to move our way overnight tonight and into tomorrow. that's what waes going to allow for the warmer temperatures. tomorrow morning a few light showers, exercise caution but you'll be okay. roads mostly dry by midday. it won't rain all day. it will rain early and then very late. i think the afternoon rush will be 0 okay, too as we do get a few showers in there.
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but not all-day rain. breezy at times with showers early and storms late. 68 to 76 degrees as you move on through the day tomorrow. your four-day forecast, 75 maybe even a little sunshine between noon and 5:00. 51 on friday chance of a shower early, cold, 42 on saturday and even a windchill back into the 30s on saturday. could even be a flurry or two, believe it or not, but we warm back up, temperatures at least along that 60-degree mark by monday. it will be a festival in vienna to benefit a good cause. among the group's performing will be rainbow rock, jammin consider java patrons are asked to bring baby items like diapers and rattles to donate to the
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pediatric center in northeast washington. >> this is a festival for kids. all the musicians and performers will be performing for children. we'll have face painting, a photo booth. >> and for another preview of the show and to find out how to get tickets, visit the nbc washington app and search "jammin java". residents who live in wards 7 and 8 in d.c. have some of the highest rates of diabetes and obesity in the country. >> tonight there is a new effort under way to combat those health problems and it could soon be rolling into a neighborhood near you. >> new tonight, d.c.'s delegate to congress catching all sorts of flak on social media for what's being described as the worst parking job ever.
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having a tough time parking recently, some calling it the worst parking job ever. this video shows her awkwardly going back and forth to fit in a spot outside the cannon office building, coming close to cars on both sides there. we reached out to her office. they tell us the owner of the cars reported no damage. maybe just a little embarrassment to the driver. a local hospital is bringing quality health care to those who need it most. they won't have to go far from home to get the care. >> united medical center's new mobile clinics will travel around d.c. and prince george's county. we have just posted specific locations on our facebook page. >> news4's zachary kiesch has a look at all the nervouses it will provide. >> reporter: why didn't you go to the doctor? >> it just something that wasn't -- >> reporter: not that big of deal. access to quality health care is a challenge to many in the d.c.
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area. here at the bus stop in southeast d.c. i met tyrone. >> my back didn' all. >> reporter: a quarter mile away and less than 30 minutes earlier a united medical center, an announcement specifically with people like him in mind. >> i don't want people walking away thinking this is just a health fair on wheels. this is about quality care. >> reporter: it looks like an rv but it's more than that a mobile clinic designed to break down barriers, whether it's transportation, trust or socioeconomic this van will come to you. >> when we're worried about if we're going to have a job if we can get a job, when we're worried about our safety, maybe the primary concern is not health care. >> reporter: six days a week the van will be on the road evaluate of the river in parts of prince jornlgts county. >> we're in wards 7 and 8 we have the higher incident of hiv/aids obesity diabetes. >> reporter: the mobile clinic will be staffed by four. screenings will be free but
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insurance is needed for physicals and wellness checks. tyrone goes to the clinic on a regular basis these days for chemo after years of waiting, he got the news. cancer. a vehicle to a healthier life. reporting in southeast d.c. zachary kiesch. right now at 6:00 a young woman from virginia and her mother killed in the plane crash in france. new at 6:00, the agonizing wait for answers. a plea for help from a wife of a lawyer murdered in a hotel in d.c. you heard about being raped inside a national guard ient. new at 6:00 the leader of that unit talks. we begin with the plane disaster in san francisco hit-- france. >> emily selke and her mother yvonne are from north virginia, they were traveling together on vacation. they are among three americans
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killed. one of the black boxes has been recovered and is now being analyzed. investigators say it could be days or even weeks before they know just what went wrong. chris gordon right now is in nokesville in prince william county, virginia, where the selkes lived. >> reporter: tonight a family member told me that they are in a state of shock that they have not been told anything beyond what's being reported on the news. yvonne selke, a beloved wife and mother, and her daughter emily whose life held such great promise emily selke graduated from drexel university with honors in 2013. her sorority provided this picture. she was killed in yesterday's crash along with her mother yvonne, members of the
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