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>> and once again, that new piece of information tonight, police are naming one suspect and releasing these pi+1 9ñ daron dylon wint. we're trying to find out moreápg)(pr(t&háhp &hc% about him right now on the nbc washington app and any breaking news alerts that come overnight. new at 11:00 ásautonight, a man in critical condition. both shot in what appears to be a domestic incident. deputies have a person in custody now. they believe that person was the shooter. we have not been told how seriously that woman was injured. the florida man who landed
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his gyrocopter on the west lawn of the u.s. capitol is back in d.c. tonight. a federal grand jury indicted douglas hughes on six new charges today, including two felonies. he could face up to nine years in prison. hughes tells the associated press the penalties don't fit the crime and he plans to make a statement outside a federal court tomorrow afternoon. hughes says his stunt last month was meant touvuq0 attention toñs9s politics. the u.s. capitol police chief was grilled on the hill today about that gyrocopter landing, and other security lapses. lawmakers wanted to know how hughes was able to fly right up to the capitol, even though police had been warned about that stunt. >> it's my understanding you did get that e-mail about a half hour before the gyrocopter landed, along1qá/h a website for a live stream that this guy was live streaming his flight. so maybe somebody else wants to follow up on that. but it would seem as though somebody would tune in. >> and we attempted to tune in.
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we had no luck immediately. >> as for those other security concerns, the chief told the house committee that his officers are getting extra training after three incidents guns in public rest rooms inside the capitol. next tuesday will there will be a full committee hearing on capitol hill about the deadly philadelphia. investigators are: still examining the cell phone of engineer brandon bastion. that process will take some time, though. investigators have to compare phone record time stamps to the train's data recorder.d÷@q bastion's lawyer says his client kept his cell phone in a bag while he was operating the train and only used it to call 911 afterward. boston bastion says he has no memory of the crash. new tonight the, alexandria is taking a major step toward building a new metro station.
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the city council voted in favor of what is known as the alternative b plan for a station at potomac yard. the vote clears the way for the next step in the design process. mayor bill yul says the $268 million project would create 26,000 jobs along with new housing, office, and retail space. right now the target open date is late 2018 or early 2019. right now a marathon speech on the senate floor is in its 11th hour. senator rand paul is attempting to delay a;xr/q to renew the patriot act. he has been speaking since just after 1:00 this afternoon, and is expected to continue speaking for at least another hour. several other senators have joined him on the floor to allow paul to rest. paul is using the speech to express his opposition to the nsa's bulk collection of telephone records, something allowed by the patriot act. the senate is also considering a separate bill that would end the bulk collection, but would allow
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a search of phone company records. new tonight we have learned that the u.s. department of transportation is investigating the cause of that huge oil spill on the california coast. more than 100,000 gallons of crude oil leaked from a broken pipe yesterday. about cí20000 gallons reached the pacific ocean. that created an oil slick that spans nine miles. a vibrant little league community is in disbelief tonight after learning a long-time umpire is in jail on a child pornography charge. don essex was arrested last weekend. he spent years as the chief umpire for the fort hunt little league in fairfax county. police say he sent child porn to an undercover fbi agent and tried to set up a sexual encounter with the agent's fictional 9-year-old daughter. >> i'd want to know that the league is doing everything they can to ensure thatyãthis doesn't happen again. and i personallyé:unáá t that they will. >> we've done everything we
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could to prevent stuff like this from happening. and we're devastated it happened. we are devastated that it's us. >> police are still deciding whether essex will face any more charges. next at 11:00, homes lost to foreclosure. thousands of dollars gone. local families left shattered. >> my house was my everything. >> i like them to see this interview, all of us. they hurt us bad. >> they thought they were paying down their mortgages. tonight consumer reporterc(al erika gonzalez explains where all that money went. and i'm track rain out there right now. but i've got some new information that could make you kind of happy. we'll talk about that coming up in just a minute.hhi$ i'm alissa mill lay. 95 between 198 and the
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only on news4 tonight, local homeowners are out thousands of dollars after they paid money for loan modification that they never got. >> homes lost in foreclosure or nearing it. consumer reporter erika gonzalez explains how it happened. >> reporter: wilma burgess has owned this home in temple hill, maryland for 20 years. about two years ago, wilma says she fell behind on her mortgage payments and faces losing her home. >> itf,@ am tired, but i will fight to the end. >> reporter: wilma is not alone. each one of these people share her pain. they' tçí& either nearing or have had their home foreclosed
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on. >> i'm so sorry that we've all gone through this whole thing. >> reporter: they've got similar stories of sacrifice. >> i've been to court twice for foreclosure. >> my house was my everything. >> reporter: all have gone great lengths for help. >> i even wrote the white house. >> reporter: and they have all got one thing in common. they paid the same company thousands of dollars for a mortgage modification and lower interest rate. but their money never went to their mortgage debt in tom and ken's case they paid the company $13,000jr supposedly modified their mortgage from $1500 a month to $1000 with a 2% interest rate. but then the bank came knocking and eventually took their home. >> if i wouldn't have got that knock on the door, we would still be paying. >> reporter: they would still be paying hope and hamp services. does that sound familiar? that's because those same names offer real loss mitigation services offered by the federal housing administration. the problem, these homeowners
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fell for a knockoff. alleged con artists pretending to be associated with the government. >> you may be eligible for the 2015 home affordable modification program. >> reporter: and using president obama's name whilew preying on distressed homeowners. >> the homeowners who lost money in thisyz that efá theirá payments were#il going tom)n their lender's trust account. >> reporter: jonathan cohen, an attorney with the federal trade commission says the scam victimized a much larger group. over the course of a year cohen says 500 homeowners across the country fell for it. >> what these scams tend to do is take their last dollar. >> reporter: cohen said the scam worked in three phases. first, the company approved homeowners a loan modification. second, it asked the homeowner to make three trial mortgage payments. and finally the company allegedly staged an advocacy department to ensure homeowners
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made the payments. and that's when the ftc went undercover. you see, the ftc posed as an unsuspecting consumer looking for a mortgage modification. so they gave them this address in mt. airy, maryland and the scammers took the bait on an empty lot. >> we made the first trial payment. >> reporter: cohen says this surveillance video shows one of the defendant's girlfriend catching the ftc's check. and with that, a judge froze the men's assets and put an immediate halt on the business. the ftc has filed a civil suit against five california men who worked under a number of aliases. and the money? yeah, where did the money go? the ftc says the men gambled it away in vegas, and then there is country club dues, helicopter rides, and sports memorabilia. >> i like them to see this interview so they can see how much they hurt this woman here, this woman here, this man here, all of us. they hurt us bad. >> yeah, i thought about killing myself.
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>> reporter: as for wilma's house and the $7,000 she gave to the company. >> yeah, and i'm hopingy get it back. but if i can't so be it. i'm going to still make it. >> reporter: we were able to reach two ofz charged over the phone. one would not comment. the other denied being part of the scam. you can hear more of the victims' stories on our website and we have provided ways to protect yourself as well. >> erika gonzalez reporting. doug is here with a look at our weather. beautiful today. but not so much tomorrow huh? >> no not so much tomorrow. but some new information is in right now. it may be a little bit of good news. not really. it's still going to be cool. we're still going to see some showers. but maybe not as much steady rain during the afternoon. temperatures tomorrow will be about 10 to 15 degrees cooler than they were today.;keu and those numbers were 10 to 20 degrees cooler than they were yesterday that tells you we're going to be on the cool?em side for
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sure. 65 degrees. dew point at 43. very nice. very comfortable around the region. temperatures around the rest of the area already in the low 50s. 53 culpeper. 55 in winchester. 54 in gaithersburg. it really was a beautiful, beautiful evening if you were driving around with the windows down. you know what i'm talking about. storm team 4 radar nothing to show just yet. but the rain is making its way in here. look at the clear skies we saw earlier. here comes the cloud cover. and here comes the rain. and look at this guy right here. you see this little spin? little area of low pressure. that's going to move our way and help to enhance this rain as it moves across the region. now earlier it looked like everybody would get in on a lot of rain. but take a look. here is thursday at 8:00. just showers down to the south. rain to the south. by noon everybody is in on it. we will see shower activity, periods of rain during the day. but watch what happens around 5:00 6:00. just some isolated showers around. so the heaviest rain, or the steadiest rain, the most shower activity will most likely be
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between 10:00 and 2:00 and 3:00 in the afternoon. so right around lunch, take the umbrella you. you will need that. you'll also need the jackets tomorrow, because it's going to be quite cool. but by friday, we're back into the sunshine with some very nice weather. take a look. the rainfall forecast earlier was predict upwards of an inch down to the 3rsouth. now half an inch. that's it. quarter of an inch in fairfax. quarter inch in leesburg. that's still a lot of rain. we do need the rain. we've been below average for the last month. so a little bit of rain is going to help us. what it won't help is the temperatures. only 57 in leesburg. 57 gaithersburg. 58 in la plata. a little northeasterly wind. that's going to keep things on the cool side for sure. so a rather cool, dreary day tomorrow. traveling, yeah wet roads, slow going. exercise, do it indoors. i know doreen changed her plans. she is exercising indoors. now and out and about, bring the umbrella tomorrow. a little indoor tennis, doreen. i know you said that 59 on thursday. 76 on friday. 74 on saturday. with some sunshine. and then it gets really warm.
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82 degrees on sunday. 90 on memorial day. and then another heatwave or at least the first heatwave of the season. 90 on monday. 92 on tuesday. 93 degrees on wednesday. very, very warm.dd 5a% down towards the beaches for memorial day weekend saturday is definitely going to be on the cool side. we'll see highs only in the 60s. so take the jacket down. they're going to be a little cool along the boardwalk. looking good on sunday, a high of 76. monday, a high temperature of 84 degrees. so nice and warm for everybody on memorial day. >> we'll get that rain out of here before the holiday weekend. >> the timing couldn't be better. >> all right, thank you, doug. >> thanks, doug. coming up, somebody found a way to cool off the nats' hottest (zqpitcher.p but it wasn't a player. dianna has the story next. >> smarter than a fifth grader. we have jeff
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this is the xfinity sports desk brought to you by xfinity, your home for the most live sports.znc> so i read dianna's copy in the printer. you know what she wrote? it's wednesday, may 20th. i'm inclined to say duh. >> i put the week and date because i forget. it is monday? >> just trying to trick you. >> it's thursday. you didn't know that? so it is wednesday, may 20th. the washington nationals are in first place in the nl east. bryce harper and manager matt williams have once again both been ejected from a game. and the nats rally to win once again.
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and some of you say baseball is boring. well, if you went to nats park to see the racing presidents, you got your money's worth tonight. if you were hoping to see bryce harper, well, not so much.3j]m third inning his second at-bat of the game, and bryce, not a .,ju$at pitch. walks out of the box.]ñwtr(t&háhp &hc% the ump doesn't like that. he orders bryce back in the box. he says you know what? get out of heáz tossesf?oxñ him. matt williams what is going on here. comes outiato argue. guess what? get out of here. second time in a week both williams and harper have been ejected from a game. so now we move ahead to bottom 7. games tied at two. bases full for denard span. ramos heads home. nats up 3-2. top nine. same story. drew story versus a-rod. runner on. strikes him out, ends the game. storen's 12 save. nats in sole possession of fist
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place with the 3-2 win. here is bryce harper after the game on the ejection. >> i don't think 40000 people came to watch tonight. plain and simple. i really don't think he did. >> i don't think if there is anything to warrant him being ejected. doggone it, he is our best player, and arguablyc&" the best player on the planet right now. and we need him in the game. and i don't feel as if there was any need to throw him out. >> doggone it he is. to camden yards. not the best dovex7n days for the birds. cute, doggone it. facing justin. one homer until two-run shot. his numbers take a significant bump there. the mariners lead it 3-0. so bottom 9, o's down 4-2.?p÷w but threatening travis snyder at the plate. grounds out to the second base. mariners win it, 4-2. so from baseball to football, the redskins gearing up for spring practices.
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they may be withoutg9c 26-year-old ryan kerrigan last week. the linebacker had arthroscopic surgery on his left knee. he isww the organized team activities, which begins next tuesday and lasts until june 11th. kerrigan had a career high 13 1/2 sacks last year. he is considered a veteran now on defense. hard to believe that already. all éoóáçright. some college baseball news. conference tournament play beginning. big ten maryland and7 state tied up at 1 in the fifth. george washington leading fordham 11-2. meantime, georgetown getting ready for the big east tournament. the first time in 29 years they made the postseason. so what is the past? >> we been through a lot of losing seasons. and we had this goal from day one to make this tournament. and i think it was a core group of guys that really stepped up and helped to mentor some of the younger guys who we knew were going to play a pretty big role for us. they ended up stepping up to the
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plate and really helping us out this year. >> you're going to see a-rod, that wasn't a strike, right? >> i just wantj:hw to know if there is anything at all in baseball that allows the ump to get thrown out. >> no. >> was that the same guy that called? >> well, your team bryce. maybe a bad day, didn't have his coffee, you know.
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healthcare funding as the other 50 states. the headlines tell the story... woman: "unfair treatment from washington." man: "thousands without medications." woman: "it's a crisis that could imperil the whole economy." narartor: washington must act now to protect care for three and a half million u.s. citizens. before it's too late.
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