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is in the hands of the state's attorney's office in baltimore and prosecutors will decide whether charges are warranted against any officers. a source tells news4 the investigation focuses on gray's transport van specifically, and they are looking into the possibility that the van is where the fatal injuries actually occurred. but what caused those injuries is still unclear tonight. >> today we are learning that the van made a previously unknown stop. it was one of four stops that the van made after gray was put inside. the first was where gray was picked up, the second stop the one that was revealed today and was discovered by a privately owned security camera. that's where gray is shackled and put back in the van. >> a third stop is made where the driver calls for another officer to check on gray. and then a fourth stop is made where an additional prisoner is picked up. >> baltimore police also announced today that more than 90 officers have been injured
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since this violence began on monday. >> our tracee wilkins is live in baltimore with these new developments today. tracee? >> reporter: well, reverend al al sharpton was speaking at the church behind me, a host for msnbc. he was talking about how what's happening here in baltimore is more of a national conversation than a local one. meanwhile, folks who live in this city are worried about cost and who is going to pay for the repairs that need to be done. >> my family, how long we been here? we been here forever. forever. >> reporter: as with so many businesses burned out and lost after monday's riots. >> i want to know where the money is going to come from. it's a simple question. >> reporter: today randall mcmillan got to ask governor larry hogan for himself. >> so we just turn on our neighbors so i figure what used to cost $1.70 now is going to go up to $2.30, $2.40. >> reporter: the exchange between the two as the governor toured the riot-torn section of
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the city was an honest one. >> we're going to find the resources at the state level and work with the city and federal government. >> so will come out of our pockets. >> some things will unfortunately. >> i understand. >> we're going to try to provide all the help we can. >> he said some positive things in there, but i got the feeling that he was unsure himself about the programs that he was going to try to implement. >> we lost 200 businesses on monday night. 100 of them, over 100 of them, are minority-owned businesses. many people didn't have insurance. >> reporter: meanwhile just a few blocks away at the new shilo baptist church -- >> this is not just a baltimore problem. >> reporter: -- reverend al sharpton talked about healing the city after freddie gray's death and monday's riots. >> we can't keep running like hamsters on a treadmill from one town to the next. it's time for a national answer to a national crisis of policing. >> reporter: caught in the middle are everyday folk like randall who want to know how all
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of this will impact him and the cost of living in baltimore. for years to come. >> we're trying to heal and have some dignity and try to have, you know, money to keep us operating as a neighborhood. >> reporter: today the governor said that the state has already spent millions in the last few days trying to deal with this issue. a lot of that money going toward police overtime for all the hours they have been spending here. coming up on news4 at 6, the riots left one of the most impoverished neighborhoods without groceries and the ability to get to stores. reporting live in baltimore, tracee wilkins back to you. and this situation in baltimore has set off protests across the country. this is a live look at a demonstration under way at this hour in philadelphia. this rally is having an impact on the evening rush there, and there are no reports of any violence. you know we are talking about the unrest in baltimore across
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all of our social media platforms. we invite you to join the conversation. use the hash tag nbc 4 d.c. and read about the 35-year-old prosecutor now leading the freddie gray investigation. it's on our website at nbcwashington.com. we have a developing story out of d.c. tonight. metro transit police say they now know the name of the guy who was caught on video sucker punching a 69-year-old man. and they say this isn't the first time he's tacked someone. jacqui benson is live with new information. jackie? >> reporter: wendy, according to court records this suspect who is just 19 is still on probation for a 2014 attack that is strikingly similar. now, the video from last week's assault is tough to look at. it shows a sudden violent attack on an escalator at the eastern market metro station. the victim 69 years old, was very seriously injured. he is on the mend now. police say the video was clear
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enough for a good citizen, as they referred to this person to identify 19-year-old elijah smith of silver spring. news4 has learned smith is still on probation after serving time for a brutal random attack in may of 2014. the victim in that case was an actor who had just finished a performance at a theater in downtown silver spring. he, too was very seriously injured. now, coming up on news4 at 6 we'll hear from the metro transit police chief about how anxious he is to find 19-year-old elijah smith. back to you. >> jackie, thank you. students in alexandria got a surprise lesson in aviation today when a helicopter made an emergency landing right at their school yard. the air force chopper was on a routine mission when it began having mechanical problems around 10:30. they landed near william ramsey elementary school. four chap lanes were on board. no one was hurt. >> so just in case we went ahead -- it's one of those emergencies where you want to
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land as soon as possible. we happened to be right over this field, it looked like a good spot so we landed. >> a.m.this picture was tweeted out. the students were not on the field during the landing but they got a chance toe talk to the pilot and others on board. take a look at these children. it has been almost eight months since anyone has seen them. their mother is charged with neglect and as news4's chris gordon reports, there was a hearing in montgomery county today to look at whether she is able to stand trial. >> reporter: she was brought to court for the first time since november. the report from the mental hospital indicates catherine hoggle shows improvement but is still mentally incompetent. hoggle is charged with child neglect. her children 3-year-old sarah and 2-year-old jacob have been missing since september. she has not said where she took them. in court the rest of the children's family watched hoggle closely. >> today to me she looked a little more softened maybe.
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i don't know if it's the medication or what but we hope she comes around. >> reporter: troy turner, the children's father is frustrated. >> there's a lot more emphasis on the case and the conviction or acquittal than finding my actual children and finding what's going on with them. that's probably the biggest problem i have with everything. >> reporter: the judge says if kron lidge hoggle is found competent, he will order an immediate trial of the misdemeanor charges against her and if she's convicted her sentence might be time served. after court, her lawyers explained it this way. >> the judge was emphasizing that if and when ms. hoggle is found competent that because of the time she has spent detained, it seemed to us he doesn't want to drag out a court date. >> reporter: the prosecutor says hoggle will not be released from custody anytime soon. >> as long as she remains incompetent to stand trial, there is no logical reason to move forward seeking an indictment from a grand jury.
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>> reporter: catherine hoggle's next hearing is scheduled for july. ahead i'll tell you how close prosecutors are to filing additional charges against her. that's on news4 at 6:00. reporting from montgomery county, chris gordon news4. well part of a mistery in herndon virginia, is solved. we now know the name of that person whose remains were found along a trail. police say he is 50-year-old joseph john swain who appears to have been homeless. a man living along the lane discovered the boebs in february. police do not believe swain was murdered. police are looking for a possibly armed drug dealer near a school in northern virginia. students said a teeth ager pulled a gun from his waistband after offering him marijuana on tuesday afternoon in ashburn. investigators didn't specify where the student attends school, but it happened about a block from legacy elementary. the armed teenager reportedly walked away laughing and no one was hurt. montgomery county's top
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prosecutor calls it a strong message against the crime of rape in their community. today a judge sentenced joakim torres to 60 years in prison. torres is convicted of the violent rape of a woman along the northwest branch trail in silver spring nearly a year ago. he attacked the victim at knifepoint and robbed her. a suspect sketch helped police tractork torres to the area. metro is hosting a public hearing tonight on the potomac yard station coming to alexandria. the station will be built on the yellow and blue lines between the stops at reagan national and braddock road. now, the city of alexandria selected its preferred site this week. it's close to the potomac yard shopping center near the target store. tonight's hearing at the rec center begins at 7:00. tonight for the first time in more than 20 years congress is going to vote to strike down a law in the district of columbia. pat lawson muse at the live
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desk. >> wendy, this resolution if approved would overturn a d.c. law that prevents discrimination against workers who have abortions and this afternoon a group of activists let congress know how they feel about lawmakers taking aim at a local law. those were members of d.c. vote interrupting an initial vote on the measure. three residents were arrested as part of that demonstration. the law in question takes effect on saturday, but gop lawmakers say it would force some employers to violate their religious beliefs by providing contraceptives to their workers. supporters of the measure say it keeps companies from discriminating against the health positions of their employees. the white house has released a statement saying if the measure passes the president will veto it. jim in wendy? >> pat lausing muse. >> a 68-year-old woman was run over in southwest d.c. >> her family says she was left
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to die. >> i know you have a mother. i know you would not let your mother just die like that. >> our pat collins talks to the victim's family tonight about the search for the hit-and-run driver. and screams among the trembles. new video shows the moment that deadly earthquake struck in nepal. plus, government workers busted for watching porn on the job. the ex-rated revelations and admissions.
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continuing to track numerous showers and thunderstorms, some with very heavy downpours. hagerstown just east of winchester, down to the west offer warrenton and right around the beltway here through fairfax county, monday gomry county. this is the strongest storm we have right now, a lot of lightning over the last 10 to 15 minutes. you can see that just to the west of marshall. a lot of red here. we have seen reports of hail with a lot of these showers. small hail, nothing too severe. we're not talking severe storms but we're talking about strong storms. there's a new lightning flash to the southwest of marshall. we'll continue tracking the storms through the rest of the region. >> doug thank you. she died trying to cross the street outside a local hospital. tonight we're hearing from the family of a woman killed in a hit-and-run ghent as police try and track down the person behind the wheel.
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news4's pat collins live along southern avenue in the district with details. pat? >> reporter: jim she was just trying to cross the street. just trying to get from there to over here. but it was not to be. she was run down by a driver who kept on going and left her to die here on southern avenue. this is a story about faith pines. her family's so big it's hard to get them all in the same picture, 5 children, 17 grandchildren and 2 great-grands. faith pines struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver as she was trying to cross southern avenue. it happened tuesday night. she'd been to the hospital here to visit a friend. as she went to cross the street she was run down. samoan jordan is faith pines'
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daughter. she just took this picture with her mom a couple of days ago. she has a message for that hit-and-run driver. >> why would you do that? i know you have a mother. i know you would not let your mother just die like that. you wouldn't have left the scene. why would you have left her? just to die right there? >> reporter: faith pines. she was 68 years old, but she led an active life. she made a living doing gardening work. she liked to dress up and go out. she spent a lot of time with her family. she was the team mother for simone's kickball team. she made most of the games. faith pines. her sudden death a painful loss. >> i would have liked to say hello, good morning, hi ma. i hope to see you this sunday at the game. i'm not going to be able to say that anymore. not to laugh with my friends, nothing.
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>> that was pat collins reporting. now you're looking at some newly released video of the moment that powerful earthquake hit nepal. western tourists were videotaping their trip. that city is home to some ancient hindu temples. and when the dust settled, tourists took pictures of those ancient sites that were almost demolished. you've likely seen the video and heard about the remarkable rescue of a 15-year-old boy in nepal. coming up in this newscast, you'll hear how a local search and rescue team help make that happen. meanwhile, revelations about federal workers looking at pornography on the job surfaced in a congressional hearing
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today. at least three employees at the epa are accused. internal epa investigators say an agency geologist admitted to looking at porn on his work computer for as many as six hours a day for several years. he resigned last week. another employee's misconduct came to light after a child caught him looking at porn on take your daughters and sons to work day. agency i.t. workers caught a third employee trying to erase child porn from his work laptop. he resigned in 2013 and is serving a 30-month prison sentence now. in a couple of hours, construction work will shut down two yards along our national mall. starting at 7:00, 15th street will be closed between jefferson drive southwest and constitution avenue northwest. that closure lasts until tuesday morning, may 5th. and as 15th street reopens, madison drive northwest will shut down between 14th and 15th streets. that closure will continue through the end of the week.
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these closures are due to the ongoing construction of the national museum of african-american history and culture. today marks 40 years since the fall of saigon american veterans joined members of vietnamese members at the memorial. on this day 1975 communist forces captured the south vietnamese capital bringing an end to a decades-old conflict. nearly 60,000 american soldiers died. former virginia senator jim webb, a vietnam veteran criticized the political leadership at the time. >> we did our duty as soldiers, the duty that we were asked to perform perform, and if our political leaders had done a better job with their duty, we may have seen a different situation. >> a replica of the vietnam veterans memorial is traveling
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to different american cities for families of americans who can't make it to the district. a big announcement about what general motors plans to do with more than $5 billion. didn't do much to boost its stock today. gm shares traded slightly lower by the end of the day following a press conference in michigan. the automaker will invest $5.4 billion to improve its manufacturing plants in the u.s. over the next three years rs and that could create about 650 jobs. well, the caps' quest for the cup continues tonight. one new york team down, another one on the way folks. carol maloney is live at the world's most famous arena. carol what's the mood of the team like right now? >> reporter: they're ready, jim! they are ready. you know the rangers have a nickname. they're called the mighty blue shirts. this is what you're going to see a lot of tonight in the stands. they won't be waving them. they'll be wearing this. it says rangers town. that's where the caps are. they closed down long island. now they're ready to take care of business here at the world's most famous arena.
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new york new york. from the islanders to the rangers, this version of madison square garden opened in 1968. the rangers have won three stanley cups before moving here. caps look pretty comfortable during this morning's skate. braden holtby happy for a change of venue and looking forward to getting him to a new york state of mind. >> a city where you go to work. there's not much sitting around in this city and just relaxing. i mean, it's a very industrious city, probably the most famous building in the world, so much history. it's a fun place to try and challenge yourself. >> it's a historic place. lots of people have been here. it's fun to be part of it. >> reporter: man, are they excited to get this one. game one, round two. they're going to drop the puck
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in just about two hours. start spreading the news, guys. it is going to be a lot of fun. >> thank you carol. new tonight d.c. police chief kathy lanier taking some heat for her plan to use police body cameras but then limit public access to the video that they produce. they call them blue shirts. i should have on a red shirt right now. let's show you the radar, all lit up. there's red on the radar, too, meaning heavy rain. storm team4 radar tracking some rain. i've got the latest. we'
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>> announcer: and now your storm team4 forecast. and we continue to track very heavy rain right now. storm team4 radar lit up with rain lit up with thunder and lightning across our area. and take a look at this line that has developed here. it's not moving very fast at all. hagerstown right down 81, down through martinsburg over toward charleston, winchester just off to the east through clark county, right on down to the south, falkier county, warren county and rap ahan ick county, then more around the district. here's the northern line, very heavy rain here. let's go ahead and just move on down toward the south and look at clark county. seeing some very heavy rain just to the east of winchester a little bit of thunder and lightning there. watch out, there could being
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small hail, though it will be small thshgs is not severe kai tier area weather. >> we're looking at heavy rain toward bluemont as well. we'll go farther to the south. you'll see the lightning that just popped up one around the marshall area, one to the west through northwestern falkier county. this is moving very slowly along 66 and it will hit front royal in about the next half hour. then down toward washington, down toward the rap ahannah county area. then let's go to the d.c. metro area. you can see fairfax county, right along 66 again. look at these storms just lining up here again very heavy rain and very small hail associated with these. here's lightning down toward western portions of arlington, roslyn roslyn. we'll show you the city of fairfax fairfax. fairfax, a ton of very heavy rain along 66. that will continue. then right around falls church, let's go right in on this guy right here. i'll show you the heaviest, where we're seeing the most lightning associated with this, just to the west of radnor
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heights here. here's roslyn. this is just to the west of roslyn, just to the east of falls church. so heads-up very heavy rain associated with this. and most of this will stay west of i-95, but we continue to see these developing throughout the rest of the evening. current temperature 70 degrees. we've been in the low 70s throughout the day. temperatures around the rest of the region, you can tell where the rain is. look at the cooler air 59 hagerstown, 66 down toward manassas. temperatures the next couple of days, well, they're going back up. tomorrow the one exception. tomorrow some shower activity early, but most of the day i think looks dry. heads-up for showers early tomorrow during the rush 65, 70 degrees on saturday, 30% chance of a shower late in the day. all in all, not a bad day at all. then we just see some spectacular weather coming in sunday, monday, tuesday. fantastic as temperatures are well above average. our next chance of showers and storms doesn't come until next wednesday. once again, guys heads-up, some heavy storms out there right now. >> thank you, doug.
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passionate pleas from professional athletes. >> ray lewis john harbaugh and other baltimore ravens try to keep the peace today. why they chose to deliver their message in person at schools. more police in our area will be getting body cameras but will the public ever get to see any of that video? coming up, i'll tell you who wants to keep the body cam video from the public and why. and members of a local search and rescue team participate in a remarkable recovery in the ruins of an
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right now at 5:30, the freddie gray case in the hands of prosecutors in baltimore. police turned over the findings in the investigation today, but the state's attorney says her office will form its own opinions based on its own investigation and findings. charging documents obtained by nbc news say gray ran from officers, and they found a pocketknife on him. baltimore police also said today 98 officers have been injured in the protests and violence since monday. i'm pat lawson muse at the live desk. where we have been working all afternoon to try to clarify some of the reports coming out about the freddie gray investigation. just in is an interview with the other man who rode in the back of that police van with freddie gray. his name is donte allen.
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allen was arrested the same morning as gray place nd the police van opposite gray with a solid divider between them so they couldn't see each other. allen says he didn't know anyone was in the van at the time. this is what he had to say about the ride to the police station. >> when i got in the van, i didn't hear nothing. it was a smooth ride. we went straight to the police station. all i heard was a little banging for a few seconds, you know what i mean? i just heard a little banging, just little -- i mean, boom boom, just little banging. >> reporter: did you tell the police that you heard him banging his head against the van? >> i told homicide that. i don't work the police. i did not tell the police nothing. >> sources have told our baltimore affiliate that gray was likely unresponsive by the time allen was picked up and put in that van. but medical experts say the type of injury gray suffered could have given him seizures which could have accounted for the four seconds of banging allen reported to police. according to gray's autopsy
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there's no evidence he hit his head on his own. the medical examiner says the spinal areinjury was similar to that suffered in a car accident. pat lawson muse back to you. ravens football players used their muscle today to help bring food to the neighborhood damaged on monday by the fire and looters. an elementary school is serving as a food bank there. the team is hoping to inspire the kids after the turmoil this week. players spoke to children at frederick douglas high school, across from the mall where this violence began. former ravens star ray lewis told the teenagers that they can change this tragedy in baltimore into an opportunity. >> that's where true character can be found. every young kid in this room, we have an opportunity because the spotlight is on us. it's on baltimore. >> ray lewis was supposed to be part of an nfl draft broadcast in chicago tonight, but he decided to stay in baltimore to help inspire people there to keep the peace.
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a growing controversy tonight about body cameras worn by d.c. police. the city's mayor has included millions of dollars in her budget to expand the program but if she and the chief get their way the public will have very limited access to the video. news4's mark segraves is working this story for us joining us from the newsroom. mark? >> d.c. police have had a body camera pilot program for about seven months. reporters and members of the public have been asking to see footage from the cameras since day one. but the chief has denied those requests. in the interest of full disclosure, news4 was one of the first organizations to do a freedom of information request for the footage, which was denied. now the chief and the mayor want to exempt footage to foia requests and limit who would ever see the videos. more and more jurisdictions across the counpolice body cameras, and they face the same question d.c. is now faced with, whether to release the video to the public.
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seattle police have a youtube channel where they release a majority of the footage every day. they blur the images to ensure privacy. d.c. police have posted two examples of footage from traffic stops. but mayor muriel bowser included a provision in her new budget to restrict who has access to the footage. >> the city attempted to slip it in the budget support act. i think that's the wrong tactic to take particularly something this significant, especially in light of what's happening across the country with law enforcement personnel as they relate to members of our public. >> reporter: the council member mcduffy agrees and has called to a public hearing. >> this is a dell at that time balance. >> reporter: chief lanier explained how the cameras work and why the footage should be restrict restricted. police accountability can be improved at many levels without the general public rauchwatching the individual quos. the goal of the program is not to satisfy the curiosity of everyone who might want to watch
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police interactions. the goal is to ensure that those who need to see the videos, the involved parties the criminal and civil justice system, will be able to use it. >> i wholeheartedly disagree. my office is in charge of compliance among agencies with the freedom of information act and quite frankly i'm against this amendment. i think it's throwing the baby out with the bath water approach. >> the real transparency concerns are something everyone should be mindful of. >> the council will have a public hearing next week. you saw the video from seattle police. in the fact chief lanier sent out, she said if d.c. tried to do that it would take 150 years because the technology is so slow. coming up at 6, what seattle police say about that and why others are questioning whether the chief's fact sheet is actually factual. in the newsroom mark segraves, news4. redskins fans have been waiting for tonight the nfl draft's first round. dianna russini is live in chicago at the draft to give us a little insight on who the team might take for the fifth pick.
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di? >> reporter: hey jim. it's definitely one of the most exciting nights of the year for redskins fans. it's like christmas morning here and underneath the tree there are all these gifts and the fans don't really know which is theirs. well, the redskins have the fifth pick in the first round tonight. now, there are two names that you're going to want to keep an eye on if you're going to watch tonight at 8:00. dante fowler jr. out of florida the defensive end really athletic. he's big, strong and he can start on this team immediately. now, if fowler gets picked before the redskins can get to him, look for offensive tackle brandon scherff. rgiii we know he needs protection and this guy could help. he played at iowa, a school notorious for putting out good offensive linemen. be exciting. it's going to be crazy here in chicago. but back at redskins park where gm scott mcclellan will be with jay gruden and the head coach, he says things will be a lot
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calmer. >> what we're able to walk in and kind of start laughing because it's so laid back. the board is set. i don't want confusion. the only time it gets anxious is if somebody calls and offers a pretty good trade or two teams calm. that's when things might get a little testy at times. but i pride myself and i want that room just to be steady. >> reporter: it might be steady there, but it's going to rocking here. 100,000 are estimated to come check out the draft and millions will be watching it on tv tonight. i'm dianna russini back to you. >> thanks. rescuers are calling it a miracle in the rubble. a local search and rescue team helped save the life of a teenager buried in nepal. what their teammates in fair tax county are saying tonight about their efforts. where is walter fauntroy? his wife of 57 years tells tom sherwood tonight how she's managed to cope with the disappearance of the former d.c. delegate and civil rights icon.
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the whitney museum of american arts. back open after a six-month renovation. mrs. obama used the occasion to make an appeal about how important it is to expose kids to the arts. it's a hot commodity helping some women make hundreds of dollars every month. doreen has details on what these new mothers are selling over the internet. >> hi, jim. it's breast milk. human breast milk. we found that some new mothers can make a lot of money selling it on specialty websites. one of the most interesting parts of this story the people who are buying it. we reached out to? of the people on this website called only the breast.com. it's full of new mothers selling their breast milk. that's where we met alma, a fredericksburg virginia mother who produced too much milk after her baby was born and instead of throwing it out posted an ad. >> i don't drink alcohol. i don't smoke. i eat very healthy.
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most of the food i eat is organic. almost everything. so, yeah, i'm sure my milk is on the top-shelf quality. i hope. >> she told us after she posted her ad she got a lot of responses but not all the kind she was looking for. many of them were from scammers trying to get her personal information and some from men who wanted her breast milk for sexual purposes. we'll have a lot more on this story tonight including how this is helping some new mothers and why others say this whole practice can be dangerous. that's mother's milk for sale tonight at 11:00. >> thanks doreen. she's the wife of a famous civil rights leader. >> but she hasn't seen her husband in three years now. >> continuing to pray for him daily and hope that he's doing okay. >> straight ahead, dorothy fauntroy talks to news4's tom
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sherwood about the mysterious disappearance of her husband walter. we'll be right back. i continue to track some very heavy showers out here. let's go ahead and zoom in and show you where these are here. right around 66 and route 50 in fairfax county centerville and chantilly, front royal, very heavy rain lightning thunder and small hail. i'm back
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>> news4's darcy spencer reports from the fair oaks fire station with a look at some of the tools being used to find survivors of this massive quake. >> this is our web gear. >> reporter: captain randy bill billinger shows us the gear they're using in nepal to find and dig out survivors. >> this is one version of a stanley hydraulic braker. >> reporter: it's like a jackhammer used to break through heavy concrete. in kathmandu where they're working in small places, this can be more useful. >> we operate this over our head very easily, get into small spaces around the victim and get them out. >> reporter: they used whatever it took to reach this teenager buried alive in concrete. he was rescued after spending days trapped in the bottom of a collapsed apartment building. >> it's what we call an entombment. he wasn't specifically crushed, but what he was, was inside of a box. a box with heavy concrete all
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around him. >> reporter: the men and women with fairfax county's urban search and rescue team were instrumental in bringing the boy out. he had been completely surrounded by concrete, unable to move for five days. the fairfax county team was deployed over the weekend, 57 men and women and 6 dogs, trained to sniff out the scents of living victims. >> we're very gratified to see that they are able to successfully achieve a rescue. that's the whole reason they went there in the first place. >> reporter: once the news of the rescue spread celebrations broke out in the street. finally some good news. the earthquake has claimed more than 5,000 lives. this was the team's first rescue of the mission but they're hoping it won't be the last. family members of the search and rescue team have been watching developments very closely. coming up on news4 at 6, we're going to have reaction from a wife and daughter of one of the team members. in fairfax county, darcy spencer, news4. well everyone has their
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umbrellas out there. >> really coming down. >> it really is. we told you yesterday this would all be for the most part west of i-95 i-95. again, that's where it is heavy rain, lightning, even hail. take a look outside right now, storm team4 radar showing you where that line is. again, if you're west of i-95 you've most likely seen some rain. east of 95 in through southern maryland, a few showers, waldorf reporting some hail earlier. now, where are we talking about? up toward hagerstown, winchester just west of leesburg, that's where we've seen those showers during the day and where we will continue to see that rain making its way in here. look at hagerstown, winchester. this is the heavy rain right along i-81 in through jefferson county, berkeley count yir and right on through the winchester area, toward front royal. very heavy rain around the front royal region. let's go down south just a little bit more around rappahannock county, culpeper county, just to the west of culpeper county, warrenton in
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falkier county. this is the area not only seeing the heavy rain but the area that will continue to see the heavy rain for about the next one to two hours. some of you could see upwards of 1 to 2 inches of rain. in and around fairfax county just south of ruston, here we are around chantilly and centerville, very heavy rain here. notice a little bit of lightning here, just south of dulles airport. just south of the airport right along route 50 toward the city of fairfax most of it moving away from d.c. that's good news if you've got games around d.c. and southern maryland. you might be okay. but west of this area is the problem. look at the motion here. this big swirl just continues to happen, and that's why we have those thunderstorms big area of upper level disturbed weather making its way across the region. then we have a surface low out along the coast. this is what will affect us during the day tomorrow. this evening, though, just some shower activity. 70 degrees, showers showers and showers. some of these will be heavy downpours as temperatures fall through the 60s. currently, 61 in leesburg, we
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just saw the rain there. na mass as 63, just seeing some rain there college park coming in at 70 degrees. here's future weather 8:00 tonight, same area, winchester, front royal, luray, culpeper is where we expect to see the rain, around 8:00 through 10:00, 11:00 moving back toward the west. then watch what happens. the coastal low begins to take over, and look what happens tomorrow morning. we get that off the coast flow, and by 6:00 a.m. just in time for the rush, gaithersburg leesburg, d.c. right toward fredericksburg heavier rain through about 9:00 before it all starts to get out of here. tomorrow afternoon not too bad but tomorrow morning rather wet, rather damp and a little bit on the cool side, too. could be a little breezy with winds upwards of 15 to 20 miles per hour. then it gets a lot better. tomorrow evening, if you have plans to go out, i think tomorrow evening is a-okay. saturday looks great, temperature of 70, 76 on sunday, 80 on monday and this is where the weather just becomes spectacular. 82 on tuesday 80 on wednesday. just a chance of showers maybe
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a thunderstorm on wednesday. but right now getting through the heavy rain just to our west. >> thank you, doug. it is a mystery tinged with sadness. former d.c. congressman and longtime civil rights activist and minister walter fauntroy traveled overseas three years ago, and he never came back. today news4's tom sherwood talked to fauntroy's wife of 57 years who says her faith in god is helping her through this ordeal. >> reporter: their crestwood home of more than 50 years, a painting of walter fauntroy once the right-han hangs in the living room. the peace of this home is far from the daily fear dorothy fauntroy felt in the 1960s civil rights era, like once staying in an alabama home with dr. king. >> i said, they could throw a molotov cocktail, and all of us would be killed. >> reporter: dorothy said her faith in god got her through
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those terrible times. now she trusts god will bring her husband safely home. the 82-year-old fauntroy, a member of congress for 20 years, has been away for 3 years first in africa, more recently the middle east, with little contact by phone or e-mail. >> people ask me how do you do it? and i just say, with the help of the lord, just like that. i said, i've always had a strong faith in god. >> reporter: family and church pitched in to stave off bankruptcy by paying the $2,000 a month mortgage while efforts continue to contact fauntroy and get him home. >> when he first left he went to africa. see, i don't know when he left africa and went to the middle east or wherever it is. >> reporter: fauntroy attorney johnny barnes is helping with legal advice and fund-raisers. >> we'll have a website up soon but we're working with the national congress of black women. they're the sort of fishery agent. >> reporter: at the new beth al
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baptist where fauntroy preached for 50 years, the senior pastor says the church is trying to help, too. >> so we are standing with her, supporting her however we can. >> reporter: in the district, tom sherwood news4. freddie gray's arrest in baltimore and his death have set off protests around the country. >> six baltimore police officers have been suspended and new tonight we're hearing from one of the families. plus, thousands of dollars in debt, and it's about to get even worse for one local man. this is a consumer warning that you need to see.
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tonight we're hearing from a new side in the freddie gray death investigation in baltimore. >> nbc's jane miller spoke to the relative of one of the officers who's been suspended in this controversial case. a woman who asked not to have her face shown. here is their conversation. >> i think that from what i understand when they have someone that's irate they may stop and do certain things like the leg shackles or the handcuffs. but if they're still irate, they won't put the seat belt on because that means they put themselves at risk of being attacked, even if they don't have their hands or their feet. they still have their mouth. and not knowing whether they have anything in their mouth or not knowing whether they're just going to bite them. who wants to risk that? when they could just secure them as best they can and get them to where they need to be.
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>> reporter: the policy is clear. >> yes. >> reporter: that the prisoner has to be belted. >> yes. >> reporter: but officers just ignore that? >> that i don't know. >> reporter: does this officer believe that he did anything wrong? >> no. no. >> reporter: even though the policy is clear. >> no. they don't. they came. they did their job. they regret that someone was killed. but in their hearts and in their minds, they think that they did the right thing. and they hurt behind the backlash of it more than anything and being left out there with no support. now at 6, taking to the streets of baltimore another large crowd marches to city hall
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while so many people there still need basic supplies in the wake of this week's unrest. some important new information about the investigation that started it all. we'll hear from the man who was in the back of that police van with freddie gray. >> just heard little banging, you know. just little -- i mean boom boom boom. just little bangings. >> what's not clear yet is what really happened inside that police van. but first, rain thunder, lightning, even some hail out there in places. storm team4 is tracking showers and storms in some parts of our area. let's go straight to doug in the weather center. what's going on doug? >> well, we are seeing those storms right now on storm team4 radar. they're coming down fairly heavily right now. again, some of these storms have lightning. we've gotten reports of hail, a lot of pea-sized hail around the region. over the last couple of hours you see this one line that has made its way just west of 95, just continuing off to the west.
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it's right now over i-81 as we stop the motion here. martinsburg in through bjerkery county, down 81 toward winchester, very heavy rain along 81, around front royal seeing the heavy rain toward rappahannock county, most of falkier county seeing the rain. then look at this rain right here around the city of fairfax, very heavy rain in this area, too. this is something that we're going to be watching very closely. let me move out of the way. i want to zoom in on that one storm that is over the city of fairfax right now. again, this one now has a lot of lightning associated with it. i'm getting a lot of reports out of fairfax and vienna of not just lightning but the pea-sized hail. let me take the lightning off. we're talking along 66 286 and of course 29 we'll continue to watch these storms for you on storm team4 radar. again, make sure you have the umbrella handy if you're heading out tonight. >> thank you doug. now to
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