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looking for one of these? yoplait. smooth, creamy, and craved by the whole family. now at 11:00, full house. a d.c. home rented out online. the owner now facing a lawsuit after noise complaints and huge parties. >> they are coming after me. they should be coming after the tennants. >> tonight the changes he's willing to make to keep the business going.
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>> he was overwhelming. >> a maryland man who lived through the deadly earthquake in nepal describes the chaos that followed. and up in flames. the public art project that intentionally lit up a local college campus. first tonight a party house for rent on airbnb. the owner getting sued by d.c. government. they say he runs the place more like a hotel, offering the house for large parties and even weddings and without a license to do any of it. shomari stone is live in dupont circle tonight with the homeowner's response. shomari? >> reporter: well neighbors in this area here in dupont circle tell me that they are sick and tired of the noise coming from this home after 10:00, but the homeowner says their complaints and this lawsuit is unfair. >> i don't think this is a lawsuit that's going to go very far. >> reporter: doug jeffries'
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response to the lawsuit. it claims he's renting his dupont circle home out as a party have unu on airbnb.com. >> when i listed my home i also said people could have events. it's a sizable home so that you can have an event and so i add that had in my airbnb description. >> the lawsuit says he shall sees operation of all business activity until he gets a business license and certificate he can mick more than $2,500 a night renting this place out for parties and wedding receptions. he says he donates some money to haty. >> generating enough money in one night to build a single house in haty. >> neighbors who won't go on camera says the parties are too loud. the city has received more than 100 calls to police about the noise over the last year. >> we're a city and living next to each other. it is what it is. >> reporter: he reminds tennants about the 10:00 noise ordinance and puts up this sticker. >> if you had a house and you had another how is that you were renting and those tennants had a
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party would the police come after the tennants that were make the noise or the owners that were renting the house? >> and tonight jeffries says he's changed the listing. it says not for events. live in dupont circle shomari stone, news 4. >> thanks, shomari. montgomery county is trying to make income on people who use airbnb and not just for parties. earlier this week we told you about a proposal in the count toe make homeowners pay a 7% hotel tax on the money they make renting out their homes onlive. supporters say it could raise as much as $230,000 a year. what makes it tricky is that air airbnb isn't even legal in some parts of montgomery county. storm team 4 is tracking weather threats, tornado throws tonight and tomorrow and subtropical storm ana is gaining strength. a look at how that system could
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affect our weekend. >> yeah. the latest advisory on that storm still has it as a subtropical storm. in the much difference between sub tropical and tropical. it has strengthened and does have a little better definition as far as a storm is concerned. can you see it trying to wrap around some of the moisture. some of the showers an thunderstorms around the center. once that happens that's what we're talking about as far as a tropical storm. doesn't matter for us. still going to make its way up to the north and then just down to the south and then this will have a slight impact on your weekend. we'll talk about that in just a second. down towards oklahoma and texas, severe weather and possible tornadoes, large hail and flash flood warnings in effect around the oklahoma city area and this is just day two of what sob a three-day event. tomorrow we could be talking about a tornado outbray. jay gray has been there all day in oklahoma and has more now from there >> i don't like this at all. >> reporter: storms started building friday evening, an omen forecasters say, of what could be a rough weekend across
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the middle of the country. >> not just large hail winds, damaging winds, 5 inches rain, could real be a dangerous situation this weekend. >> reporter: situation is already dire in places like oklahoma city where so many are sifting through the rubble left behind after the first round of storms that included more than 50 tornadoes. >> so we're trying to get it done. >> reporter: cleaning up salvaging what they can, though for many there's little left. >> this is everything i own. i just -- just lost everything i own and trying to get it out of here before -- before the next storm comes. >> big-time weather on the way for oklahoma. >> reporter: a storm system that could threaten as many as 16 million and one that includes the possibility of what meteorologists call long-track tornadoes, larger twisters that stay on the ground longer a dangerous combination. >> they say it's going to get bad again. >> a concern for so many across tornado alley right now as they brace for the next round of
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severe weather. jay gray nbc news oklahoma city. >> i'm jason pugh here at live desk. the capitals let one slip away in new york. here's how it went down tonight at madison square garden. tied at one in overtime. the new york rangers, they finally got the best of goaltender braden holtby. ryan mcdonagh sending this series to a game six. new york winners in o.t. dianna talking to a few caps players now and we'll have that live in sports. from the live desk i'm jason pugh. >> a developing story coming in from littleton, colorado, a motel surrounded by police after an fbi agent was shot while trying to serve a warrant on a bank robbery suspect. the agent was shot in the leg and is expected to recover. police believe the suspect is the longhorn bandit a nickname him because he often wears longhorn hats during
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robberies. first on 4, a district family is relieved at how d.c. fire and e.m.s. is responding to their concerns. it all started when the family's 1-year-old son fell down son steps and was knocked unconscious. family called 911 and then wait and waited some more for help to arrive. an ambulance eventually got there 23 minutes later. the boy's mother says she was scared and then angry. >> at that point i could have gotten him tocism i-- to simply to the e.r. in the amount of time we were waiting. >> turns out the boy, theo rose had a concussion and as you can see he's feeling better now. the new chief of d.c. fire and e.m.s. called the rose family personally to apologize and to promise that they would do better. the six police officers charged in freddie gray's death in baltimore wants the charges dropped and the state's attorney to step aside.
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lawyers filed the documents today and in the documents they say marilyn mosby should recuse herself a prosecutor because she is seeking personal gain through the case and has personal connections to several parties involved. those motions came hours after the u.s. attorney general loretta lynch announced in a she will launch a civil rights investigation into the baltimore police department. it begins immediately. lynch says the justice department will look for patterns of excessive force and unreasonable search and seizure. new at 11:00, virginia task force one is continuing its recovery work in nep a.m. the rescue team from fairfax county assessed earthquake damage and provided technical expertise on stabilizing a temple on kathmandu. it's more than 400 years old and it's a valuable part of the community. crews also helped the u.s. embassy repair a water line leak. planning is in progress tonight for the team's return home but details on that have not been
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finalized yet. a betts did a man who was in nepal when that deadly earthquake hit two weeks ago just made it back and it was a challenge. new tonight he shares his journey home with news 4's chris lawrence. >> matthew just got back to work in betts did a but he's not the same guy who left for nepal. he's a survivor. >> i felt the rumble. >> he was there for a tattoo convention in the main hall. >> register at first until stuff started breaking and crashing. >> how pad was the shaking? >> well i saw a woman who was going down some stairs and get pitched forward and down stairs. it was violent. i it threw people tooled ground. >> he knew he would never make it outside, and i kind of hunkered down beside the wall. >> it was loud crazy chaotic and people panicked. >> and bumping into people pushing each other down. >> the earthquake was so strong it caused the himalayas to drop more than 3 feet. 7,000 people died. >> did you have any idea how bad
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it was? >> oh, no no. tv broadcast that was available so we had no idea you know. it was rumor. >> he and his girlfriend got food and water from the embassy and lived outside in a tent for several days right next to fairfax county's urban rescue team. >> it was overwhelming you know and -- and -- and still hard to really comprehend. >> but one thing is for sure it didn't scare him of course and if they had the convention next year he's going back to nepal. in betts did a, chris lawrence news 4. >> developing tonight at military bases around the nation. all installations including the pentagon are on a heightened state of alert and under tighter security. a top military spokesman says the increased alert level is due to a generally higher threat environment. it comes amid worries about the threat of isis-inspired attacks here in the u.s. service members and civilians who work in or visit military bases are going to notice tighter gate security.
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next at 11:00, an unusual sight at a local university. that's not a bonfire. rather it's a carefully crafted piece of art, and it just got torched. we'll tell you the idea behind all of this. plus president obama has done somethiever done before as president, joining some rare company, and special de
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atlanta airport when the plane went down. they were headed to a graduation at the university of mississippi. a fire fighter on the scene says it's a miracle that nobody on highway was hurt. for the first time in a decade there is a new council member in d.c.'s ward 8, laruby may won the special election for that seat. according to the unofficial results she beat her closest competitor trayon white by just 79 votes. the mayor supported may but the margin in the race has actually narrowed since the special election was held last week. the results will still have to be certified. 50 up and now 50 down. today president obama flew to south dakota to speak at a graduation ceremony. his visit means he's visited all 50 states in the union as president. it's a feat matched only by presidents nixon, george h.w. bush and clinton. before he left the president posed with a t-shirt that said saved the best for last.
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an unusual sight tonight at george mason university. a carefully crafted sculpture was deliberately set on fire and with 200 dreads of personal messages. it's called transformative art. the northern virginia bureau chief julia carey spent time with the artist to find out what it's all about. >> reporter: it's an inferno of art blazing on mason pond hundreds watched the sculpture go up in flames. for some the smoke rising sends messages up to the heavens. for others burdens are being burned away. this is what it looked like before the fire. it's called the temple of transformins. >> i would say this is the most beautiful thing i've ever made and so letting go of it is a challenge in its own way. >> reporter: but letting go is what this project is all about. artist and george mason student michael vernon spent months designing the floating pagoda and building it with 20
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volunteers and then people were invited in. >> creates a space for people to come in and share their stories of loss of struggles, their fears and hopes. >> reporter: some of the messages are heart-rendering. dear mom, i know you killed yourself thinking i never loved you and i would never forgive you, but you are wrong. others tell stories of rape but there are love letters, too. >> this one i wrote for my dear husband. i love my sweetheart >> reporter: impact is profound. >> people can see that others have the same struggles and they are not alone, and there's something really powerful about that. >> reporter: but it's the transformation of the fire that's meant to allow the message writers to let go of what's troubling them? it gives you such peace. >> reporter: in fairfax, virginia julie carey, news 4. >> quite a view in the skies over skies for history and aviation buffs and everyone else. more than two dozen vintage world war ii warplanes flew over the mall for nearly an hour this afternoon in commemoration of
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v-e day. tomorrow many of the planes will be on display. one of the warplanes had to make an emergency landing at nagan national offer a small fire broke out. >> wow. >> what a spectacular site. this unwing i would is there loved to have seen and the weather cooperated very nicely, didn't it? >> most definitely. six days in a row at 80 degrees or higher. a lot of you at the airport saying this is too much too soon. don't worry, cooler weather in the forecast as well but it gets a lot hotter first off, take a look at numbers. winds out of the south at 10 miles per hour. it is a very nice night no matter what you're doing, even if you're just taking a little walk outdoors. take a look at numbers around the area, the coldest area and coolest spot 59 in culpeper and 70 still in annapolis, up a
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degree from last year and even at this hour temperatures can go up. nothing around our region. not expecting any showers tonight. tomorrow a little bit of a different story. we'll talk about that in just a second. overnight a few clouds trying to make their way into here and that's about it. back to the west, a dangerous situation shaping up out there towards oklahoma. some have some 12 inches a foot of rain over the last couple of days. flash flood warnings the big issue tonight. still have athe lo of severe weather. a few foreign doe reports and tomorrow there could be a tornado outbreak in towards texas, kansas and oklahoma so this is an area tomorrow we'll really be watching. down to the south, sub tropical storm ana and winds are now 60 miles per hour. it's strengthened over the last couple of hours. again, moving to the north at about 2 miles per hour. by tomorrow night, look at that. that's it. it's only going a little bit of a distance here. by sunday well down to our south and even monday it's just
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off the coast of the chesapeake at 0-mile-per-hour winds and look where we are, well to the north and west of the center. any time a storm is inland and we're west of the system that means we won't see most of the rain. the rain will be east of this system. tomorrow's here the big difference. more cloud cover tomorrow but look about it is low-level clouds and there could be fog. notice there's no clouds west of the blue ridge. the blue ridge will act like a dam for the clouds not getting across and even during the day cloud cover in the area and maybe an isolated shower but i don't think you'll need to take the umbrella at all. same deal on sunday. more clouds and maybe a few showers on sunday. of course everybody wondering is mer's day going to be a rainy day? >> reporter: no a couple of isolated showers but that's about it. >> 13 in dc and another very warm day. numbers continue to go up.
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85 on your sunday and 86 degrees coming up on monday and then look at tuesday, a high temperature of 88 in locations if we hit it just right. could get around 90 degrees on tuesday and some locations and then as i told you the cool air comes back wednesday, thursday and friday and temperatures get closer to average, an average of 73. >> not going to complain about a little heat after that winter. just too fresh in my memory. >> thank, doug. >> dianna is live at madison square garden to the. the caps were so close to finishing it dianna. >> so close, so close. they could not close out here in new york but now they are headed back home to washington. find out why they still believe
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got to hate hockey overtime all that effort and then it's over like that. >> here's the thing. i don't want to complain about the officials but i will say this. they were awful tonight, capitals terrible. they were. here eat thing. the capitals have waited 17 years to reach the eastern conference finals. they will have to wait at least 48 more hours for another shot to advance. it was the rangers that came back to spoil the caps celebration in new york. another great game from braden holtby. 41 saves on the night. he was outstanding. let's get back to the second period. we're scoreless. matt niskanen fires on net and deflects and goes in and hold on. this one gets waved off and it's
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in contact with the goalie called on joel ward there. he can't believe it. scoreless. third period now. rangers turn over the puck. curtis glencross one-on-one. lundqvist makes the save but glencross follows it up and how about that his first playoff goal in his career. the caps they go up 1-0. here we go. under 2:00 to play. caps looking to close out this game and the series. the rangers pulling the goalie but chris kreider, he scores before lundqvist makes it to the bench. the rangers with the equalizer. this one is tied at one. so we go to overtime and in o.t. off the caps turnover. derek stepan back to ryan mcdonagh, and he scores. holtby got screened on the play. the rangers take the game 2-1 in overtime and the caps they lead this series 3-2. dianna is at madison square garden tonight. how is this caps team feeling
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right now after being so close to the eastern conference finals? >> yeah. they were disappointed, but they are still encouraged. barry trotz was asked does he feel like the pressure is on the capitals. he said no, we're head back home to the verizon center. he pointed out that this was the best game the rangers have played in the entire series and the caps they have yet to show it. >> right now we're disappointed. we were 1:41 away from moving on to that series but you can't do anything about that tonight, reset and have a good mindset going into the game. >> pretty good effort in a tough building and we were close. we're pretty happy with that. just know a couple minutes away. pretty good effort. >> we're okay right now, you know. we knew that we'd see their best effort today and we did, and -- and they haven't seen -- i don't think they have seen ours yet so hopefully they will see ours.
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>> all right. jason chimera showing disappoint there throwing that stick there. i'm sure lots of fans felt that way tonight, but the most common theme in that locker room today is that the caps are psych that had they get to go home and close out in front of their home crowd. back to you, jay. >> thanks dianna. game six coming your way sun at the verizon center. baseball diamond, nationals hosting braves today. first of a three-game series bryce harp we are three home runs in his last game on wednesday. he kept it going tonight. bottom of the sixth with a man on takes ball deep to center and the nats they go up 3-2. later on in the eighth more from harper he was feeling it again today, a thee-run blast. he has ten for season and tied for the most in the national league. that would earn him a curtain call. nationals hit five home runs in this game and win it by a final score of 9-2. no need to panic right now for
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mother's day came a little early for some very special women in our area today. we asked you to tell us about some mothers in your lives who deserved a special delivery of flowers. today we sent the men of news 4 out to surprise four wonderful women like parathena harris a mother of six and has been a foster mother for ten years and then there's june eder who has
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