Skip to main content

tv   News4 at 6  NBC  May 11, 2015 6:00pm-7:01pm EDT

6:00 pm
to explain why what happened this morning is becoming a bigger problem. adam? >> reporter: jim, and this feels like deja vu. look at the sign here. we have new delays and cancelations on the orange and silver line and then out to the left outside the window. the fire department actually just showed up so we'll have to see what's going on here right now at rosslyn. as far as this morning, it started around 8:00 with a call of smoke in the tunnel between the rosslyn and foggy bottom station, a very long tunnel under the potomac river. they tell news 4 crews had to walk far into the tunnel to the middle in fact before electrical sparking causing that smoke and then replace insulators that were smoking there and by that point the damage was done. leaving riders stranded for hours. as i said back here now live we have new delayss and cancelations here on the orange and silver and blue lines and we'll get
6:01 pm
back to you at 6:30 with developments on what's happening here. jim, back to you. >> all right. adam tuss thank you. the delays didn't just create an inconvenient commute for tens of thousands of riders. it led to very expensive commutes for some of them. our new reporter meagan fitzgerald has that angle on this coverage. >> reporter: good evening. for those passengers getting d.c. quickly this morning, they didn't have many alternatives. taxi or uber. but because of high demand uber increased the rates to nearly five times the average costs which means some travelers are left with a hefty bill. >> a significant delay. you can take a shuttle bus. >> reporter: hearing the announcements and signs of delays isn't how anyone wants to start their monday morning commute. >> four hours to get to foggy bottom. >> reporter: some people didn't have time to wait four hours. but some of the other
6:02 pm
alternatives weren't any better. >> i tried to take a uber but fare was 4.8. >> reporter: that's right. nearly five times more than what it usually costs to ride. >> basically, it was high demand that early in the morning. >> reporter: high demand which means bills upwards of $100 for those who say they were forced to ride with uber. >> i was like debating if i was going to go take a taxi or not. >> reporter: taking a cab was an option if you were lucky enough to hail one but aliceyssa said she squeezed on to aing pad shut l bus instead of forking over the cash for a cab. but whichever way the riders tried to get to their destination monday morning, it was a headache and possibly even a costly one at that. >> bear in mind that i don't pay anything because of my age and health. it's very costly. >> reporter: now, we spoke with a metro area transit spokesperson telling us they'll monitor the issue throughout the night for further issues and, of
6:03 pm
course tweeting as those developments come about. reporting in foggy bottom meagan fitzgerald news 4. >> thank you and welcome. breaking news in the sports world now. just minutes ago the nfl suspended tom brady for the first four regular season games for his role in deflate-gate. a report last week implyicated him in the scheme to soften footballs in cold weather in the patriots super bowl run. they're also fined a million dollars and will lose their 2016 first round draft pick. also breaking right now, nbc news confirmed an important element of a story about the raid that killed osama bin laden. >> the story the administration is pushing back on all day. steve handelsman is on capitol hill now with big news. >> reporter: it is big newses. the white house hammered all day on this investigative story by pulitzer prize winning seymour hersh. he's been criticized for many of
6:04 pm
his stories. hersh said president obama lied about how bin laden was discovered and lied about the raid. now nbc news confirms a key element of the hersh story with two sources. hersh said he had a single source. two sources tell nbc news that a so-called walk-in okayasset, a pakistan pakistani came with the big reveal. number one, where osama bin laden was hanging out, and number two, what pakistani intelligence knew or at least some in that intelligence service knew where the founder of al qaeda was hiding out in pakistan. the old version made it into the movie "zero dark thirty" and that intelligence found a bin laden currier and tracked him to the hideout and might still be true.
6:05 pm
here's a key here. if the president told part of the story to protect sources, part of what he said was true all of what he said was true and left some out to protect sources and methods srks that a lie? hersh calls it a lie. the white house has denied it all and as john mccain said today, this operation succeeded. before we diminish it said mccain, we have got to have a lot more information. back to you. >> more to come on all this. steve, thank you. we're working right now to get you more information on a carbon monoxide incident at a building in rockville. 11 people taken to 2 hospitals after being exposed the high levels of co. chopper 4 flew over the 14000 block of northbound lane. tonight we got a look at the 34-year-old man shot and killed by two prince georges county sheriff's deputies. the shooting happened near
6:06 pm
fed-ex field last night. county bureau chief tracee wilkins spoke with the man's family today. tracee? >> reporter: this was the prince georges county sheriff's department that did the shooting. this is where the investigation is heading next. police officers here will be investigating exactly what happened. let me say this about the man killed. he had a serious criminal history younger but things straightened out getting older. family members say they didn't see this coming. >> i was kind of shocked that he woke up in the morning the find out your family member is shot. >> reporter: friends and family say they want to know to what led to deputies shooting and killing 34-year-old lionel young. >> my family is hurting right now. >> reporter: this is where county deputies say they were forced to shoot young last night. his friends called him l. >> the deputies discharged their weapons in order to stop the attacks by mr. young. >> reporter: deputies say young was out of control after a
6:07 pm
domestic dispute with his girlfriend that included him ramming her vehicle. the girlfriend called 911 who suggested she go to a public location. this shopping center on central avenue. deputies given a description of the vehicle seen in the area. >> a chase ensued. led into the district of columbia. that chase returned. to prince georges county. >> reporter: that brought police back here to the 900 block of nalley road where the pursuit ended behind rice elementary school. >> after trying to secure the arrest of mr. young, he resisted. he drove his car and rammed his vehicle a number of times into the deputies' cars. >> reporter: that's when two deputies discharged their weapons. both now on paid administrative leave per the outcome of this investigation. >> we investigate almost every police or law enforcement related shooting in the county. >> reporter: police are invest gatding what led to the two deputies discharging their weapons and will decide if the deputies were criminally negligent. >> we conduct the criminal
6:08 pm
aspect of the investigation. their investigators will handle the internal aspect of the investigation. >> reporter: after all of this happened that girlfriend was escorted to the office where she filed a stay away order against young that happened around midnight last night. young had already been shot and killed by that time. reporting live, i'm tracee wilkins. >> thank you. a former montgomery county music teacher is facing more than 100 years in prison for sexually abusing his students. lawrence joins pleaded guilty to abusing 15 students many of them first and second graders. this happened while he was a teacher at new hampshire estates elementary school in silver spring. a federal child pornography investigation led to his arrest in 2013. in court today, lawrence also pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a seventh grader at eastern middle school starting in the 1990s. this man is a predator, been a predator for decades. it's a shame, somewhat might
6:09 pm
call it a disgrace, he was able to remain hidden as many years he was and to remain a teacher in the school system. >> joins taught in the school system in montgomery county for 27 years. he will be sentenced in august. trying to get more details tonight about a person killed by a freight train in maryland. chopper 4 over the scene earlier today near the mark station in college park maryland. at this point, police have not released the victim's name nor have they said what that person might have been doing on the tracks. as a tornado roared through nashville, arkansas two young parents and n a mobile home spent their last moments trying to shield their 18-month-old daughter. she survived but they were killed and the latest round of deadly weather to tear through the nation's heartland. nbc's jay gray is live in another hard-hit area the small town of van, texas. hi jay. >> reporter: hey, just a tragic story there in arkansas. we know at this point that the
6:10 pm
child is with relatives so that's good news during what is just a horrible time there. here as well we have learned from the national weather service that the tornado that ripped through the small town, an ef-3 winds of 140 miles per hour. what's that do? ripped this an uning away. you can find these everywhere. shingles off of roof tops. there's splintered food. not only here but across tornado alley right now after six days of violent storms. this time the winds and water texas. >> it was all of a sudden. i mean there was nothing you could do even if you saw it coming. it was in a matter of minutes. >> reporter: just minutes for the violent storms to strike leaving behind a path of destruction that's changed lives here forever. at least two people are dead more than 40 injured and several are still unaccounted for after a tornado ripped through the small town of van.
6:11 pm
>> approximately 30% of the city of van suffered damages. >> reporter: trees and power lines snapped, homes and businesses splintered some completely wiped away. >> it's -- this is something you only see in movies. where these homes stood and they're not there anymore. >> reporter: in krum north of dallas, driving rains some areas more than four inches an hour. too much too fast. in neighborhoods quickly swallowed by flash floods. >> it is a very eerie feeling to be completely out of control. you could just stand there and watch everything being just taken away. >> reporter: texas national guard choppers rushled in pulling a half dozen residents to higher ground including me sis lis is an and her 5-month-old baby girl. >> she was going to be solid ground and like so many in the strike zone now dealing with the mess mother nature left behind. and, you know there's a concern more severe weather could be on the way, we expect heavy rain
6:12 pm
over a next few days. that's the latest here i'm jay gray. back to you. >> thank you. doug this stuff coming here? >> well i tell that whole system is making the way our way right now, jim. they have got the potential for severe weather today just off to our west. is it going to bring us any significant changes? yeah. that big change is much cooler weather moving on through the next couple of days. right now not a lot going on and shower activity earlier today as a result of tropical storm ana. back towards the west some showers in through parts of the shenandoah valley. west virginia. here's the front and does have some severe weather associated with it and moving through overnight tonight and into the day tomorrow. more heat more humidity. especially for the day tomorrow. and then we get much cooler and we have rather unsettled weekend coming up. i have the details in a few minutes in my forecast. number of people would l to see a washington's football team play in washington. tonight, why a conversation
6:13 pm
about that are having an impact on what some leaders say in public. first woman in my family to reach 50. that to me is groundbreaking. >> 18 years ago a woman from our area made a radical decision to avoid the deadly cancer that had killed her mother. now we visit with her again to
6:14 pm
[ female announcer ] business travel isn't just about the going. it's also about the going home. and being connected all along the way. whether you're working or recharging do business travel on your terms. acela. take off.
6:15 pm
jamie wanted a taste of the real new orleans and we just couldn't say no to that face. then we wanted more of that local flavor so betty says... oh yeah, that's betty. you're going to want to do this alligator thing. and betty didn't lead us wrong. a little later we passed some dancing. and who doesn't like dancing? especially when it's followed by fireworks everyone's nola is different. follow yours.
6:16 pm
a lot of people still want washington's football team to change its name. some local leaders are now using that nickname that some consider a racial slur though. and as mark seagraves shows us from outside rfk stadium now, that's a big change from the way it was last year. >> reporter: that's right. you will recall former mayor gray wanted to bring football back to washington but adamant the team would have to change the name. mayor bowser said she wants to bring football back to washington and willing to look past the name for now and willing to use it. >> we know that the perfect location for the redskins is where they played for decades very successfully. >> reporter: last year then council member bowser signed on to a resolution calling for the team to change the anymore and in the past she said the name
6:17 pm
change should be part of any talks about bringing the redskins back to d.c. but recently she started using the name in press interviews on radio and tv. >> rfk was the best place for the washington redskins to locate and i think that the team officials have said as much. >> reporter: maryland governor hogan defended the name and while virginia's governor hasn't defended it he frequently uses the team name. >> i would love to have the redskins move to virginia, making sense for us and them. >> reporter: news 4 is told the mayor is advised to use the name to show good faith with the team's owner and something bowser didn't dispute asking her about it. >> i'm told this might be a way that you're trying to extend an olive branch to let him know that you know the name is not a deal breaker and that you're willing to at least acknowledge and use the name. >> well i grew up in this town
6:18 pm
and using that name for my whole life and so what we know though is that a lot of people are offended by the name and have come to the view that the name should change. my job as the mayor of district of columbia is to look at economic development opportunities wherever they may be and we know that we have the ideal site for the team. >> reporter: contrary to some press reports, bowser insists the district is still in the running to be the next home for the washington redskins. >> i'm confident that we will talk to the team about their future in washington in the very near future. >> reporter: now, interesting that the mayor didn't use the team name in the brief interview this afternoon and she made it clear her top priority now is bringing the team and the economic development back to d.c. i just got off the phone with a spokesperson for the redskins declining comment for this report. at rfk stadium, mark segraves
6:19 pm
news 4. >> thank you. some wild weather to the west of us and really heavy humidity around here doug. >> yeah. almost like a summertime pattern. really has been for a couple of days. isolated showers and sun shining and showers at the same time. that's what you get in the month of june or july and we have got that for you in the first part of may. some courtesy of the remnants of tropical storm ana now just to the south and east and just south of ocean city right now. temperatures on the warm side. 80 degrees. dew point, up to 68 degrees right now. what does that mean? well again, this time of year we talk about the dew point and anything above 60 you're on the sticky side. anything at 65 or above you are uncomfortable and where we are in the day today and over 70 oppressive and we will be sweating outside if you go out the door today. 84 in frederick. much cooler along the
6:20 pm
chesapeake. more cloud cover and an easterly flow kept numbers down a bit. the you're heading out this evening, one of the great places to be down towards the verizon center as we take on the hawks one again. 80 degrees at 7:00. 77 at 9:00. 72 a little bit muggy at 11:00 and hopefully leaving the verizon cent we are a win. most of the storms not much around the rest of the region. we had some showers earlier. those showers actually coming courtesy of the remnants of ana to the south and east and since dried and remnants to move out to sea so it's going to take the cloud cover wit. seeing clearing skinls tonight and then move attention back to the west saying good-bye to ana, hello to a cold front and a pretty big storm. see the cloud cover from the storm up towards minnesota, kansas city and then look at the line here of clouds and thunderstorms that develop. that's the cold front. that cold front will come through overnight and by tomorrow we're talking about a completely different air mass
6:21 pm
trying to make its way in here. tomorrow though another hot one. 88 in d.c. 90 down towards fredericksburg and 88 manassas and talking about the heat index in the day tomorrow today. over 90 degrees in the afternoon so heads up for that. dry roads. travel not a problem. exercise, yeah, be ready to get sweaty outside for sure and shouldn't impact you too much. out and about, warm and humid one more day and i mean one more day. look how we come down dramatically on wednesday. back down to 70. that's below average. 70 with sunshine will feel beautiful. a little bit of a breeze too, on wednesday. 75 degrees on thursday. nothing but sunshine a fantastic afternoon. and then we start to get a little bit unsettled. friday saturday and sunday each day with a chance of thunderstorms and we get a little tropical again and what that means is any showers that do develop could be some fairly heavy showers, maybe some more of those downpours over the last couple of days and continuing to watch it for you right now. waiting on thursday. that day's looking really good.
6:22 pm
>> who are the wizards playing, zmoug. >> playing the hawks, jim. >> just checking isle is that right? >> you got it. thanks. after years of construction billions of dollars spent, a question about whether the local highway project is doing the job saving time. police know more now. they know how the killer did it. they know how he got into this house. but what's the motive behind this double murder in rockville?
6:23 pm
6:24 pm
6:25 pm
there are new details tonight on that shooting at a controversial art show in texas. police officers assigned to protect that show in garland, texas, last weekend did not know that the fbi had put out a memo about elton simpson. simpson is one of two gunmen who attacked a cartoon contest that centered on drawings of the prophet muhammad. the fbi memo indicated that simpson had interest in that event but it did not flag him as an imminent threat. police say the officers' response to the shooting would have been the same regardless of the memo. an officer shot and killed simpson and the second gunman. no word yet on what cause add dump truck to cashrash on the side on the beltway. this is from the afternoon. you can see from chopper 4 that
6:26 pm
the sand over the roadway in prince georges county was a mess. the accident backed up traffic for miles along 495 and 95 and the driver is expected to be okay. a busy montgomery county neighborhood is going to get even busier. the gazette newspaper report it is county's planning board signed off on a big project to build a new apartment complex with retail space and a new parking garage in north bethesda and sitting a tt intersection of old georgetown road and executive boulevard right next to the kennedy shriver aquatic center. construct is expected to start early next year. you should be prepared for road construction if you drive pretty much anywhere on route 28 in northern virginia. groundbreaking ceremony today kicked off a series of road widening and improvement projects along route 28 in loudon, fairfax and in prince women counties from sterling boulevard in the north to the city line in south manassas.
6:27 pm
some of the work will begin immediately. most most of it will be completed in about two years. next a critical piece of equipment inside metro's tunnels and today wasn't the first time there's been trouble. news 4 learning more about what caused the smoke and what to expect from your commute tomorrow. cleared of charges after an officer's big mistake. plus she made a choice to stand up against cancer more than a decade before jolie. the
6:28 pm
6:29 pm
6:30 pm
first at 6:30 tonight, a really messy day on metro. and tonight, a new problem. there are now delays right now on the orange wlu and the sill veer lines. >> they're trying to recover from a smoke emergency earlier this morning that sent passengers on the streets of virginia and d.c. the incident led to a service shut down for more than three hours between clarendon, fog gio bottom and arlington cemetery. adam tuss has more on what's causing all this. adam? >> reporter: this has been a day to just absolutely forget on the orange blue and silver lines. you mentioned new delays. take a look up on the board. there was a problem at courthouse. there was a problem at stadi as for what happened this morning, well that smoke incident could not have happened in a worst spot.
6:31 pm
the tunnel that runs between rosslyn and foggy bottom is under the potomac river and packed with trains. not a good place of a smoke incident or a good start to the work week for riders to jump between trains and buses. >> i have bad legs and a bad back. okay? so i can hardly move there to get to the location. >> reporter: here's what happened. around 8:00 this morning, metro got a call about smoke in the tunnel. that meant the orange blue and silver lines had to be shut down at the height of the morning rush while crews investigated. a crippling scenario for metro. >> the train came in. sat between the stations 15 to 20 minutes. kicked us off. we had to take a shuttle. >> reporter: crews had to walk far into the tunnel about a half mile before they found sparking insulators and the problem. then equipment had to be brought over from maryland to make a fix. all which took time and led to this scene playing out.
6:32 pm
>> this bus is going to foggy bottom. >> reporter: several locations. >> two hours later, i'm still under ground. i don't have cell phone service. big inconvenience. >> reporter: why arking insulators? metro said the trend is going down to these incidents but statistics show more smoke and fire incidents last year compared to 2013. you know a lot of people now asking about refunds. how they get one if they were caught in the delays. we have posted the information on our website just search metro. jim, back the you. >> thanks adam. smoke and fire issues are continuing problem for transit systems throughout the country. metro says last year the system had 108 such incidents. the highest number came in 2011. there were 187 of them then. but compare that to new york subway system averages 963 smoke incidents every year. keep in mind though that new
6:33 pm
york's system is about eight times larger than d.c.'s. we just published a new story on the nbc washington app taking a look at how common and disruptive smoke emergencies can be on the system. open our app in the break and check it out. there are still more questions than answers in the murder of a married couple in rockville over the weekend. police do think that whoever killed them climbed in through a window. news 4's pat collins spent the day talking to people who know the victims. he is at the scene to tell us what he's learned. senate. >> reporter: a double murder on mother's day. the couple found here at their home by one of their children. now, this is how it all played out on the police radio. >> complainant advises both parents are dead. complainant advises that the window was broken out of the
6:34 pm
house. broken inside. >> on call homicide to respond to the scene. >> reporter: the death of dick and jody vilardo. today officially ruled a double murder. the cause of death, something they call sharp force injuries. according to neighbors, the couple found dead in their pajamas. the scene discovered by one of their children after the vilardos missed a family gathering on mother's day morning. there is worry in this neighborhood. >> it's not very comforting to have the police tell you, you know we don't think you need to worry. anybody living here and the neighbors have been killed you're worried. >> reporter: neighbors say they were last seen alive at their home saturday night when they were returning from a trip to a casino in charlestown, west virginia. police say they believe the killer entered the house through an open window. so was this couple targeted or was it a random act of violence? >> for us to narrow the scope
6:35 pm
and label this one thing or something else at this point would not do the investigation the justice that it deserves. >> reporter: dick and jody vilardo had two children two grandchildren. they were members of the lakewood country club where jody played tennis for nearly two decades. her friends and teammates most upset. >> senseless. terrible. just two nice people probably in the wrong place at the wrong time. >> kind of just makes you want to think it was a dream and you would wake up for her family and mother oes day. such a tragedy. >> reporter: so far, no motive. so far, no suspect. there's still a lot of police work yet to be done here. jim, back to you. >> pat collins, thanks. drivers who use the new express lanes along the capitol beltway and i-95 are not the only onesefiting from the service. people in the regular lanes are apparently seeing improvements
6:36 pm
as well. according to a study by the university of maryland travelers in the regular lanes have experienced shorter trips and faster speeds since the express lanes opened. transurban is the name of the company that operating the system saying that the that it's proof of projects to help all drivers, not just those that choose to use the special lanes. from a rowdy reputation to solemn celebrations tonight, how the event that has thousands of visitors striking a very different tone from years passed. a local businessman feared he might have to go to jail on a dui conviction until his attorney discovered problems with the police dash cam video. now his case has been tossed out along with others. i'll tell you why just ahead. and take a look at the numbers today a. very warm day across the area. 80 degrees in d.c. tomorrow we've got these
6:37 pm
numbers back towards the west. 86 pittsburgh. 88 in charleston and then the numbers back further to the west, 70 jackson and columbus. can't wait for that.
6:38 pm
6:39 pm
tonight hearing from a fairfax county man whose dui arrest dismissed by a judge. the case is one of several that had a problem with patrol car video and all of them had the same arresting officer. northern virginia bureau chief julie carey looking at how it happened in an update first reported here on 4. >> the first thing you notice is you have no audio and your client taken off the screen. >> reporter: those were two big problems defense attorney spotted right away watching patrol car video of his client's dui arrest. see for yourself. you can't hear anything the officer says to the fairfax
6:40 pm
county businessman sitting in an idling car. and when the officer takes him out of the vehicle for the field sobriety test -- >> that's all you see right there. that's it. he walks him right off and everything else that happens, happens over here. >> reporter: we agreed not to use his client's name. he tells us he was shocked when the officer handcuffed him that december night. >> i was speaking properly. i wasn't falling, you know, when i did all the field sobriety tests well. i completed them well. so basically, at that point, it was my word against his but i had nothing to show. >> reporter: the attorney decided to do some digging on the officer and he found three other cases where the same thing happened. on friday he and three other attorneys made the argument the dui cases should be tossed. the judge dismissed all four cases finding the defendants were deprived of evidence that could have helped their case. >> if you're not going to utilize the equipment then
6:41 pm
you're effectively putting yourself as an officer at risk for various accusations but you're also hurting the community as a whole because the community clearly made a decision they want this equipment used. >> reporter: a fairfax county police spokesman said they have no details about the cases in question. they say while the officers are initialled to get video of field sobriety tests it is not required. in fairfax county julie carey, news 4. it is national police week here in washington and police chief laneir says she wants officers to respect city laws and themselves and took part in a ceremony honoring washington area officers who have died in the line of duty but as she has for past eight years she in a letter warned visiting officers from around the country they're subject to all of the city's laws and she expects them to behave. the chief said she wants no
6:42 pm
repeat of misbehavior that marred police week here years ago. >> deter anyone from doing anything to tarnish the event. this is really for the family members of officers lost in the line of duty and anything that brings discredit to that is just shameful. >> there is a series of events this week to honor not only fallen officers but family friends and fallen officers that live with the pain of losing loved ones. a local made a decision almost 20 years ago that at the time seemed impossible to make. the choice between a disease and watching her family grow up. (gong)
6:43 pm
6:44 pm
blend kikkoman into your burger patties to beef up their savoury meaty flavour. (taiko drum beat) (taiko drum beat)
6:45 pm
angelina jolie was hailed as a trailblazer after announcing he she removed her breasts and ovaries to prevent cancer but i met a real hero. she was one of the first to get the testing and also to have surgery to lower her risk. this was stacy and me 18 years ago. the styles are out of date but the decision we talked about that day was way ahead of its time. >> nobody not one doctor not one person not one researcher recommended it. >> reporter: she was one of the very first women to take a genetic test for the newly identified brca gene mutation
6:46 pm
that is linked to breast cancer. she joined a clinical trial because her mother her grandmother and both of her aunts had all died of breast cancer. >> but when we sat and did a family tree it was mind boggling. nobody was alive. >> reporter: when she tested positive stacy was not surprised. and after careful consideration, she decided to do the only thing that made sense to her. have her breasts and ovaries removed. >> to be able to reduce my risk by 85%, i have to do that. >> reporter: but first, she had to persuade her doctors who had never done such a surgery on a healthy woman before. >> we still don't know if it's the right procedure to do or follow the patients or some medication or drug developed to guarantee she won't develop breast cancer. >> reporter: that was a difficult decision 18 years ago. she was one of the first to do
6:47 pm
this. now she lives here in florida and we came down here to ask her how that decision has worked out for her and her family. >> there is no question or doubt in my mind that i would do it all over again. >> reporter: she gets regular check-ups and never developed the cancers she feared. >> how old was your mother when she died? >> she was 50. >> reporter: how old are you now? >> 57. first woman in my family to reach 50. so that to me is groundbreaking. >> reporter: and what does stacy think seeing aumt news coverage now ant angelina jolie's decision? >> my initial first reaction was, well wait a minute i did this 18 years ago. why is this just news now? >> reporter: also frustrating because 18 years ago stacy believed there would be more options for future women who tested positive something other than removing body parts. stacy's daughter who's now a mother herself also tested positive for the br aca-1 gene
6:48 pm
mutation and had a ma sect ri at 18 and soon she will have her ovaries removed and some day urging her young twin daughters to get tested. >> you have 20 years from now, they have the same thing and probably positive. i would hope there's something else we can do besides a mastectomy. >> reporter: another update years ago both of stacy's female first cousins also tested positive for the brca gene mutation. one of them had the surgery as stacy and is cancer free today. the other one decided against the operation. and stacy just learned that that cousin is now fighting breast cancer. >> you know it was her choice to make. but look at the result. i have six grandchildren. i'm seeing them and being able to play with them because i had the surgery. if i didn't i know i wouldn't be here to see them. >> great to reconnect with a healthy stacy mishkin after 18
6:49 pm
years. there's specific guidelines of who should get tested. it is something you should talk with your doctor about if you are curious. we have just published some frequently asked questions about the brca gene and what it is and who should be tested in the nbc washington app and check the app and share that information with your friends, too, if you would like. fantastic story there. take a look outside right now. we have plenty of sunshine phenomenal weather if you like it hot and humid. there's a lot of you out there that do. but if you want the temperatures to be a little bit on the cooler side i have that for you, too. coming up over a couple of days. let's take a look out towards the reston camera and the sunshine in the region. those temperatures at 80 degrees currently at the airport and notice the sunset tonight at 8:10. the sun will rise at 5:59 in the
6:50 pm
morning. the days continue to get longer. the temperatures on the warm and humid side through 11:00. muggy at 11:00 tonight. 75 in gaithersburg. 75 down towards huntingtown. cooler in the east. 70s and still very muggy out that way and the case tomorrow too. not much going on in our area. only storms back towards west virginia hampton county west virginia seen quitd a bit in the way of storms. see the remnants of ana moving out to sea. here's a cold front. that cold front will change our weather dramatically over 24 to 48 hours. not tomorrow. hot and humid, clouds sun. 84 to 90 degrees. we come way down on wednesday and here comes spring for those of you that want cooler weather. 70 on wednesday. 75 on thursday. spectacular on thursday. thursday is quite nice. and then rather unsettled. friday saturday and sunday. chance of rain and storms each
6:51 pm
day. >> all right. thanks, doug. okay. sports coming up. john wall is out. that's
6:52 pm
6:53 pm
dianne and jason at the verizon center. can we get the brady thing out
6:54 pm
of the way? were you surprised? >> yes, i was. the nfl laying down the hammer. suspending tom brady for the first four games of the season and fining the patriots $1 million. >> the team's going to lose multiple draft picks for this upcoming draft and the year after. so big news coming out of the nfl today. the reason why we're here though wizards versus hawks game four. the big news no john wall tonight. he will miss the game. that according to head coach randy wittman. to the bad news wall won't play but the good, the swelling has gone down. the guard hasn't dribbled a basketball since being diagnosed with the fractures. with or without wall the wizards have to start closing out games better. the hawks came back on saturday night to tie the game up. despite getting the win, though the wizards, they can't let that happen again. >> that's probably the fastest 20-point comeback i have ever been a part of. you know? that's something to stray away
6:55 pm
from. we played great for 42 minutes and the last what 6 they kind of beat us up a little bit. we have to do a better job closing the game up. >> getting leads like that we have to continue to step on the throttle. continue to go up run our plays. you know? and continue to strive for excellence. >> tip-off here at the verz center in a few moments for game four. >> the caps headed back to madison square garden for game seven. they were leading the series 3-1 but now tied at 3-3 as they hope to go back to madison square garden and close this thing out and alex ovechkin is guaranteeing a win. >> we are going to come back and win the series. >> yeah. of course the new york tabloid's having a field day with this. cocky alex ovechkin guarantees game 7 win.
6:56 pm
bulletin board material for the rangers and barry trotz likes the confidence from his captain. we are in the national anthem right now so i'll send it back to you for a moment. >> that's what leaders do. i think leaders say, you know this is what we need to do. this is what we're going to do. i love that. i love that a player has got the wherewithal to say, hey, we'll go there and we're going to go after them and we're going to leave it out there and i have a lot of respect for players that say that. >> okay. we remember don't we i guess -- when joe namath made the point, i guarantee that the new york jets -- >> worked out okay. >> worked out okay. and it's because he could back it up and a team to back it up. well so does ovechkin. he's one of the best scorers in the entire nhl and a team -- >> hasn't every game been decided by one goal. >> only takes one. right? >> i don't know if you want to agitate the opponents that
6:57 pm
tight. >> sometimes, you know usually you don't want to do that. coaches say you don't want to locker room stuff -- >> bulletin board stuff. >> you know to jack them up. i like what barkley says about stuff like this. if you're not already jacked up for game seven, you don't need anything on the bulletin board f. you're not jacked up by then you need to go sell shoes or something else like that. let's go back now down to verizon center. we were waiting while they played the national anthem to be respectful. >> yes. sorry about that. we are ready for tip-off in a few minutes. a couple of quick little notes here. >> bryce harper national leagu nationals. congrats to him and sulemon transferring. >> watch my seat for me. nightly news is next. >> see you at 11:00.
6:58 pm
(music) hey! let me help with that. oh, thank you! (music) introducing the one-and-only volkswagen golf sportwagen. the sportier utility vehicle.
6:59 pm
7:00 pm
on this monday night, breaking news. harsh punishment for tom brady and the super bowl champion patriots. the star quarterback suspended as the nfl cops down hard on deflategate. bob costas is here. deadly tornadoes. a ferocious outbreak tearing across the country carving a bath of destruction. 49 million americans on high alert. what's behind the extreme weather? in cold blood. charges including capital murder for suspects 'kuzed of gunning down two police officers. the bin laden raid. an explosive report accuses the u.s. government of not telling the truth about what happened. tonight the white house whhits back hard. and getting personal. michelle obama like we have rarely heard her before. deep

103 Views

info Stream Only

Uploaded by TV Archive on