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area, please seek shelter, do not drive, do not even attempt to go outside and yet another storm south of washington. here's where this storm is the one that has all the lightning right up 495 up i-95, the bw parkway between vansville and maryland city, making its way down south, toward fedex field, toward d.c. this is going to come right through the district. make sure, if you're thinking about taking -- maybe leaving work or leaving your house just stay indoors for about the next hour or so this storm really means business. notice this one right on top of alexandria, the one that prompted the flash flood warping in d.c. and arlington county, but now got even more rain just to the north and going to continue to watch these moving down toward the south and east. noll done just yet. this will continue through prince george's anne arundel, charles county the rest of fairfax, keep you post on these storms move through the area. >> doug, thank you. here he is the suspected shooter. he is young, scrawny, protected
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by a bulletproof vest. nine people killed inside that church never got that chance. >> tonight, we are learning just who charleston and the world lost. they loved their families and their faith. >> we begin our team coverage now from south carolina and jay gray. >> reporter: the shock and mourning outside the emanuel africa cap methodist episcopal church and charleston and across the nation has just begun. >> and to say our thoughts and prayers are with them and their families and their community doesn't say enough to convey the heartache and the sadness and the anger that we feel. >> reporter: but the hunt for the accused killer is over now. >> we have arrested dylann roof, r-o-o-f, from lexington, south carolina. >> reporter: he was arrested
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four hours away from south carolina where he allegedly opened fire and killed nine people wednesday night. >> we woke up today and the heart and soul of south carolina was broken. >> reporter: police say roof, seen here entering the church on surveillance video, attended a prayer group inside the church after asking to meet the pastor. roof allegedly sat in the meeting for an hour, then opened fire. eight people were killed at the scene, one victim later died at a nearby hospital. >> she wants to be remembered for where she was when she died in the church. she was a strong lady of faith. she was committed to her community. she loved her family and she loved her congregation. >> reporter: among those killed, the church's pastor, who also served as a south carolina state senator. known as mother emanuel, the
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charleston church is the oldest ame church in the south, dating back to 1860. today, hundreds packed a nearby church for a prayer vigil to mourn those killed and to stand together in the face of this tragedy. >> no act will ever destroy the foundation of this church. >> reporter: a foundation nearly 200 years old that survived slavery and civil rights and now, will endure this tragedy as well. jay gray, nbc news charleston south carolina. >> the stories, the experiences of the nine people lost in the shooting are just beginning to emerge. you have now heard about reverend clem pinckney the pastor and state senator in south carolina. his desk in the state chambers this columbia now draped in black. the oldest victim was 87. the youngest, 26. some family members were now publicly talking about the tragedy. >> it's a sad day for our
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family, our faith is strong, trust in god. in church, we grew up in emanuel ame church. she was an active member of the congregation and we are trying to rationalize something that is so irrational. >> that brother of a victim says tonight while he forgives, he wants the ultimate penalty for the gunman. president obama says he knew the pastor of the church. he says mass shootings are becoming too common and he says americans have the power to prevent future mass shootings. >> once again, innocent people were killed, in part, because someone who wanted to inflict harm had no trouble getting their hands on a gun. grief over the charleston tragedy was felt all the way up on capitol hill today. more than a members of the house and senate gathered on the capitol lawn to pray for members of charleston's emanuel african methodist episcopal church who lost their lives.
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the chur suspect oldest ame church in the south. members of local ame church are now relying on their faith to understand the tragedy in charleston. prince george's bureau chief, tracee wilkins, found out one congregation will not change how they worship despite the security risk. she picks up our team coverage from bowie. ♪ >> reporter: the call for prayer for the emanuel african methodist episcopal church in south carolina reached across the country to ame parishioners everywhere, including here in bowie at mount nebo founded in 1877 it is the oldest ame church in prince george's. when shots were fired last night in charles top, reverend charles brown was leading bible study here. >> the first thing i thought about was september 15 1963 16th street baptist church, where nine black children were killed in a bombing. >> reporter: there is a history of racially charged attacks on black churches. for decades, the ame church fought those injustices head on.
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>> our history, our i.d. as a denomination is civil rights oriented. >> reporter: brown says this tragic killing is a reminder that the fight is not over. >> even though some of us in prince george's county or in other communities may have benefited in economic and other ways from the struggles of our ancestors, but the struggle must continue. >> reporter: with thement is in custody and details becoming a built clearer the question is will this mass killing somehow change one of the most progressive denominations among black christians? >> this church in south carolina was a force in the community and we cannot -- we cannot put that cross down. that is our cross to bear. god is giving us that cross and we are going to carry it for as long as we are here. >> reporter: the minister here says he is in prayer for that gunman. coming up on news4 at 6:00, what
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that prayer includes. in bowie, i'm tracy willing news4. >> stay with news4 for continuing coverage of the church massacre. we have got a photo gallery of the emotional reaction in charleston today in our nbc washington app. just search charleston mourns. there's now a $1,000 reward to help find a man who inappropriately touched a 6-year-old girl at a cvs in riverdale. police say the attack happened last night day night at 8:00. they believe the guy is in the area a lot and they hope that somebody will recognize him. you can get a closer look at the photo on the nbc washington app just by searching riverdale. there have been changes in the last nine years but a new report finds the d.c. fire and ems department has a long way to go to improve emergency responses and patient care. news4's mark segraves talked to a man who lost a family member after a botched response.
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>> reporter: it was more than nine years ago, "new york times" reporter david rose.baum was mugged not far from here in upper northwest washington. he died later at a hospital partially due to a failed 911 response. rose.baum's family sued the city but dropped their case when the mayor and the fire chief agreed to a series of reforms to ensure something like that will never happen again. today the d.c. auditor released this report that reveals that since 2006, the majority of those reforms were never implemented. >> things are better that they were nine and a half years ago. there's still a long way to go. >> reporter: marcus rosenbaum has been keeping pressure on district leaders to improve emergency medical response since his brother died more than nine years ago. you know, when you still hear failed 911 responses -- >> makes me cry. >> it does? >> it is just horrible. just absolutely horrible. how could this have happened? >> reporter: the auditor found the district's fire department has yet to fully address issues like training, discipline and
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staffing. >> 80% of their job is dealing with medical calls and not dealing with fires and that's really important part of their job it is part of their job, they have to do it enthusiastically with and with verve and vigor. >> reporter: policies have been in place but have not been enforced and that's not entire the fault of the fire department. >> the failure of our political leadership to come together. >> reporter: acting chief gregory dean and mayor bowser have promised improvements. i have been on the job for six weeks and we are hard at work to implement the task force's recommendations. under the bowser administration, the department has taken steps to enhance our ems system. one of those steps the acting chief took today was to name a new assistant chief of medical services. >> all doug is have hope. but i do. >> reporter: while the department now has a person in charge of medical services that person named to the position is not a certified paramedic which was supposed to be a requirement for the job.
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in the district, mark segraves news4. been a rough indictment gw parkway. all rains are finally back open tonight. part of the busy road shut down for more than 12 hours today. a tour bus engine exploded near route 123. the northbound rains were closed between spout run parkway and the cia exit while crews cleaned up debris and oil. why did it take so long to reopen that road? news4's meagan fitzgerald joins us now with the latest on the story. boy, it is coming down around you first megan. >> reporter: you know, it is coming down out here but you can see traffic is finally moving along fairly steadily, keeping in mind it is rush hour right now, but it's moving along because finally, both of those lanes have reopened. but if you talk to folks earlier, they would tell you they were frustrate and want to know what took so long to open up the roadway. if you attempted to take the gw parkway at any time on thursday, chances are you didn't.
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frustrating all of us but there's absolutely nothing we can do. >> reporter: traffic was backed up for miles after the engine of a charter bus imploded, spilling gallons of oil onto the parkway around 9:30 wednesday night. the bus continued to travel after it had a massive engine failure but other vehicles did spread the oil up the parkway. >> reporter: aaron la roca with the national park service says the northbound rain at spout run was closed around 11 p.m. crews dumped sand on the roadway to sop up the oil but la roca says the process took longer that usual because they had to wait until the sun came up to assess the damage. >> it was wet last night. so, in the dark, the wet pavement, you can't tell if it's wet from water or if the sheen from the oil. >> reporter: it wasn't until 12:30 thursday afternoon that one rain reopened, allowing traffic to crawl by and the second lane opened another three hours after that.
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now, the national park service says this was a very special and unique cleanup because the oil made its way off of the roadway. coming up at 6:00, let you know why the u.s. coast guard had to get involved in that process. back to you. all right meagan fitzgerald, thanks very much. if you hate getting those robocalls, you know what i'm talking about, you now have new rights to block them. we are going to explain how even those annoying text messages are getting the boot. another murder in our city, another neighborhood where residents say gunfire is commonplace. hear the shot, hit the floor, that's how one woman says she survives here. i'm pat collins. the story coming up, news4. guys a brand new severe thunderstorm warping right now in affect for fairfax county, the district, arlington county, prince george's, northern charles, app arundel and calvert. trees down in and around the fairfax area checking on that. this storm, just a monster.
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we are back tonight with new information about a deadly shooting. bulleting flew through a southeast d.c. neighborhood more than 20 of them. when the gunfire stopped, one man was dead and the neighbors around 51st and h streets are again left shaking their heads. here's news4's pat comes. >> reporter: yet another murder in our city and yet another neighborhood where people say gun violence is a way of life. look at the evidence markers in
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this alley. they are placed near shell casings, 22 of them. that gives you some idea of the lead that was in the air this morning when a man was shot and killed here innin broad daylight. frank was here when it went down. much i heard like 10 15, 20 gunshots. i saw a guy run through this alley, had on all black or whatever. and then i just saw people converging on the alley. >> reporter: the scene, 51st and h street southeast. another neighborhood in our city where people say gunfire is commonplace. this woman asked that we not use her name or show her face. she talks about what it's like to live here. >> it's very, very scary. it seemed very close so we do our normal thing and we teach our little kids around here just hit the floor. >> hear the shots, hit the floor. hear the shot, hit the floor. >> our neighborhood is under
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siege. we just had a killing, somebody killed in southern avenue. i mean within two weeks, three bodies. >> reporter: the victim here is said to be in his 40s. the possible motive said to be robbery. on the scene today, councilwoman yvette alexander. we will hear from her at 6:00. now back to you. >> thank you, pat. former redskins scar clinton portis is apparently having some big money problems. according to court documents, portis owes half a million dollars in back taxes. theism rs say he is didn't pay on his earnings from 2006, his third season with the skips. portis also owes nearly $300,000 to the mgm grand casino in vegas and faces possible foreclosure on a home in florida. portis retired back in 2012. today a big win for consumers. moment after month, robocalls are the top complaint at the federal communications
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commission. and for the first time in more than a decade a change in robocall rules. now there may be more ways to stop them from getting to your phone. [ phone ringing ] robocalls. >> yeah very annoying. >> reporter: they are pervasive. just out of control. >> reporter: lots of times, they are illegal. so how is it we are still pigging up the phone and hearing themes? actually, i get a lot of them. >> reporter: more than a decade after the launch of the do not call rebel industry, the federal communications commission is working to close loopholes that have allowed up whammed robocalls and row bow texts. the fcc wants phone companies, wireless and land lines, to offer customers free tools to block them. until now, there was a question whether it was legal for companies to offer customers a way to block robocalls. these call blocking technologies that consumers have demanded are acceptable and encouraged. >> reporter: consumers union says -- >> the issue is unwanted calls.
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>> reporter: one tool being used to block robocalls on home phones no more row bow, a government-approved robocall blocking service. much recorded phone calls that invade your space, interrupt your dippers. >> reporter: nomo row bow blocks nearly 3 million robocalls every month. without written concept federal law prohibits such calls to land lines and cell phones, but consumers are asking for more. >> they have written to us and they have written to the companies and asked for more free tools to block these unwanted calls. >> reporter: we reached out to ctia the wireless association which represents wireless carriers. it tells us, "wireless companies have sought to empower customers there are a variety of apps and features to help stop robocalls. we remain committed to working with all interested parties to help protect consumers while preserving choice and promoting innovation." bottom line, consumers seem ready for a change. >> i would love to see something put into effect that stops these from happening. you may have heard that
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lester holt is the new anchor for "nbc nightly news," but now we have the first statement from brian williams. >> and prince george's county police targeting pedestrians in the deadliest section of the county. yeah, guys we are monitoring this situation again a dangerous situation, very strong winds, seep hail upwards the size of quarters now in to portions of fairfax county fairfax hit the hardest. zoom on in here, one thing i want to show you any time we see this purple south of fairfax, around the annandale area that purple means heavy, strong hail and big hail. we are going to continue to see it now the same storm that came through dulles airport about a half an hour ago. look at the rain here, dulles reported 64-mile-an-hour winds. again, 64-mile-an-hour wind reported with this storm as it moved on
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and seeing a lot of reports out there of very large hail. we have got trees down. we have got lightning that has struck a couple of homes. we have got ground stop right now at dulles airport 64-mile-an-hour wind gust go through there and now a new severe thunderstorm warning, this one includes prince george's county, ann aroundel and calvert until 6:00 tonight. look at the video here, 50 one of our photographers right now on -- in 50, you can see very heavy rain, the beltway going to be on the slow side, this is in prince george's county, the heaviest rain on the way there, heads up for that take a look at the storms, see them moving on through the area, been moving through fairly quickly, came through montgomery county, loud.county, pushing to the south. this is the strongest storm the one that prompted a all right of the warnings here severe warning for fairfax arlington, southeastern portions of the district toward prince george's county, northern charles county, that until 5:45. look at the intense amount of lightning with this storm here. we track this toward the south
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and east, remember, this is the one has trees down this is the one that had quarter-sized hail and 60-mile-an-hour winds coming toward mount verne.around 5:31 community., 5:44. if you're in clinton, thinking had, well it's already here, got this thunderstorm. that's another thunderstorm ahead of the more severe thunderstorm. heads up for you for example waldorf, 6:02. prince george's county getting hammered right now. you will continue to get hammered that is next storm moves on down. here is the storm along 301. you live along 301, you know exactly what i'm talking about, upper marlboro intense lightning out of this storm, too. this severe toward ann aare you married county, dry the most part, exception of this storm around deal. this one will make its way through, with extremely heavy rainfall. we still have that flash flood warping in effect for the district. do not drive on rock creek park. i guarantee some issues down there. do not drive on that. bowie toward upper marlboro, back toward clinton, seeing the heaviest rain right now.
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go ahead and zoom on in to the southeast of bowie, seeing the heaviest rain, london town upper marlboro. once again, drive safe if you don't have to go out anywhere the next hour or so, take your time. if you're going to the nationals game tonight, well here's nats park here, it's getting hammered now, but by 7, i think we will be okay. the crew down there is going to have to do a lot of work to get that game up and running. behind this we are really not seeing anything. and i think for the most part, going to be drying out with some snipe back toward the west. that's good news, too. what are we going to continue to see as this moves on down, severe risk, mostly high wind very, very heavy rain, continue to see that through the 6, 7:00 hour with the storms until they move out. after 7, most of us on the dry side. temperatures tomorrow back to around 90 degrees like they were today. 87 on saturday 92 on sunday. the weekend forecast this all has to do with the remnants of tropical storm bill making its way over our region.
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so very hot watching the remnant, heaviest rain i think saturday night. if you have maps saturday night, you might want to reschedule. most of sun day right now looks dry. we will see rain probably early sunday morning then sunday afternoon, looking on the dry side. we will continue to monitor these severe storms as they move on through the region. thank you, doug. right now at 5 tonight looters still cashing in after the baltimore riots. >> find out why the maryland state lottery officials are now getting involved. plus a history of hate in light of the church massacre. the n
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coming down pea-size. lots of lightning, strong gust of wind. >> wow, right in the middle of it our david culver sounded louder than pea sized that hail. as you can imagine, we are getting word that flights have been impacted earlier at dulles and perhaps reagan national, too. >> we want to go to chris pollism no, a spokesperson for dulles as well as dca. we have him on the phone. thanks so much for joining us chris. >> thank you. >> hey, chris what can you tell me about the situation right now? are flights able to get out? >> they are. they were briefly held at dulles that is heavy thunderstorm came through. we had reports of gusts of wind over 56 miles an hour and that pea-sized hail was actually clos reports out at dulles that heavy wind caused a lot of the material out on the airport the ramps, including baggage carts and larger items to move around, closed the run ways briefly while our crews got out there to inspect the run ways, make sure nothing had gotten onto them, nothing that would impede a
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plane from taking off or landing but those run ways are back open and we do have arrivals and departures now. how bad were the delays, real quick, chris? >> the thunderstorm moved through fairly quickly. shouldn't be terrible but a brief period of time where it was pretty heavy. chris pollino, thanks so much. the pictures coming out love to looked pretty rough. we saw from david culver. we want to go to doug kammerer, the picture was hail. heavy doug. >> saw reports of somebody on my twitter feed tweeted me a picture of hail. that was actually great than the size of quarters. that so some significant hail that will put a dent in some of the cars. seeing that with this storm here in fairfax county brand new severe thunderstorm warning. walk at here, make sure i get the time right on this severe thunderstorm warping until 6:15, that includes app arundel, calvert charles, prince george's and st. mary's county. that just about everybody in southern maryland. here is the storm right here and this storm, this was a storm that produced all of that damage back toward fairfax county.
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those storms really coming together now and kind of taking over a little bit. that's why we have the new severe thunderstorm warnings in effect for ann aroundel, calvert county, prince george's county, see everybody here involved in that around waldorf. this first storm will go just to your north, the second storm, the one that had all the hail and the 80 -- rather 60-mile-an-hour winds, the one that will continue to move on in here. let me zoom on into this area if i can, can't do that between clinton and waldorf upper marlboro, thunderstorm warnings until 6:30 this after into -- 6:15. heads up keep a watchful eye to the sky. if you don't have to go out, guys simply do not. a lot of trees down getting reports of a lot of power outages now, too. >> doug kammerer, thanks very much. a community in shock after that church massacre in charleston, south carolina, and tonight, we know the ides of the nine people killed. they include a state senator who was the church's pastor. >> a librarian band a recent
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college graduate. now the oldest victim was 87. the youngest just 26. >> the suspect dylan roof, now sits in jail a step tip led police to she will business north carolina where they captured him this afternoon. in an address to the nation, president obama said this shooting shows the need for a national reckoning on gun violence in america. we are learning more about the pastor gunned down inside that church. reverend clem pinckney was a father of two and south carolina state senator. he began his political career in 1996 but his life of faith started a very young able. nbc's craig melba has that story. >> reporter: welcome back to charleston, south carolina, a city that is grieving along with the rest of the country at this hour. nine people, nine people shot and killed inside a church a block behind me, several vigils are happening all over the state now. one of those vigils here in charleston is ongoing.
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six men three women killed, among them clementa pinckney the pastor of mother emanuel. pinckney was elected to the lower chamber here in south carolina when he was just 23 years old. at the time, he was the youngest elected representative since reconstruction in the history of the state. he was elected to the senate about ten years ago. he was called to preach at the aim of 13. he got his first church at 18. when i worked here some years ago, i covered the state house spent a fair amount of time covering clementa pinckney and he said once that he enjoyed politics but he loved the lord. >> and our team coverage of this big story continues. coming up on news4 at 6:00, our chris lawrence joins us live from charles top and he will have live reports for news4. stay tuned for those for nightly
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news with savannah guthrie tonight. nbc announces a changes to the nightly news anchor chair today. and brian williams issues an apology. what essaying about his new job straight ahead. i'm julie carey at the alexandria courthouse. he terrorized a pair of 84-year-olds inside their up home, stabbing the man abducting the woman. today, ha8
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big announcement today about the future of "nbc nightly news." lester holt will become the permanent anchor of the program much brian williams will continue to work for our parents company as a anchor on msnbc. williams ss has been under investigation, as you know, for exaggerated statements he made about his experiences in iraq. he said today "i'm sorry i said things that weren't true. i let down my nbc colleagues and our viewers. and i'm determined to he were
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their trust back." prince george's police want to make sure that you and your family are safe whether you drive or walk across one of the most dangerous intersections in the county. right now, officers there are telling people to slow down if they're driving and pedestrians to look both ways. they are going to be handing out fliers today and tomorrow at the intersection of marlboro pike and kip ling parkway in upper marlboro. the goal is to educate you about how to use and yield to crosswalks. couple in their 80s terrorize inside their up home. new tonight, their attacker learns their punishment and julie carey talks to the victims. i'm tom sherwood at the bureau of engraving in downtown washington. big changes. coming to the $10 bill and you can help decide whose face will be on it. i'll have the story coming up. severe thunderstorms continue to make their way down to the south. once again, heads up, northern charles county calvert county you're next, app arundel county,
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the department of justice, with help from the fbi, has opened a hate crime investigation into the church shooting in charleston. the news4 i-team's scott mcfar rain is in the newsroom with more on how many other cases like this are being investigate. scott? reports do happen in our area, too and checked with the fbi that tracked some of the numbers, provided on a voluntary basis by local government, not comprehensive. looking at 2013, most up-to-date numbers show there were 242 reports of hate crimes in d.c., maryland and virginia. the fbi doesn't specify hate crimes by location as well and that one-year spam, we found 206 reported hate crimes happened at churches, sip going tos, temples and mosques as i don't the country, about 3 1/2% of all reported hate crimes. to see a breakup of these reported hate crimes by state
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visit our nbc washington app and click on investigations. scott macfarlane news4 i-team. relief tonight for a alexandria couple in their 80s terrorized in their home earlier this year. >> northern virginia bureau chief julie carey talked with their family about the map who did it and how he was sentenced. she has the story for us from alexandria. >> reporter: the attacker's name is horace white. today, he admitted he broke into an alexandria home to steal but ended up stabbing one resident and abducting the other. this home was supposed to be a sanctuary for a couple who had both outlived their spouses. once childhood sweethearts they reconnected here. their family asked we not use their names. last january 9th the couple returned from a walk to find horace white inside their home. >> they interrupted the defendant in a burglary but there was no need forth violence. they would have given them anything that they had without him having to stab anybody. >> reporter: white pleaded guilty in court to stabbing the map in the stomach. he left him like on the floor
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bleeding. white then abducted the woman, forcing her to drive him to the king street metro. he got on a train and fled to d.c. police tracked white down and ten days later arrested him he's stepped off a metro train in rosslyn. they found out he traded jewelry he had stolen for cocaine. today, white apologized explaining i was on drugs. i was wrong to do what i did. jim jim clark fired back, wrong doesn't begin to describe it, mr. white. the notion that you would terrorize people who were utterly defenseless to support your drug habit is beyond belief. with that white was sentenced to serve 25 years in prize up. >> they are putting it behind them. >> reporter: the fee miami victim's daughter says the couple has physically healed from the attack and are doing their best to get back to a normal routine. >> they are great. they are tough as nails. they have so much support from their neighbors and friends in the community and hopefully, this conviction and sentence will help them heal and move on. >> reporter: the victim's daughter had high praise for police and prosecutors who worked this case.
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coming up on news4 at 6:00, tell you how a metro smart trip card was used to track down horace white. some wild weather this after into and now close to 14,000 people in fairfax county alone are without power right now and take a look behind us this has been a fast-moving affair. >> hey doug it looks great behind us. does this mean that we are in the clear now or how much more of this is going to go on? >> most of the area right now behind the storms, if you've seen the storms, pretty much done there's one storm left in fairfax county the rest all moving into southern maryland right now, getting reports, continue to get the reports in, one report i had from that storm in fairfax this one really ang storm coming through fairfax county bigger that a golf ball you know what i'm talking about, those pool balls that we are talking about, very big here. i saw some damage with that, trees around the herndon area, that around chantilly, ping pong ball sized hail, too, southern maryland, southern prince george's, charles county calvert county, southern
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portions of ann aroundel county, wall cover, the clinton area deal zoom in around the deal area, see what we are talking about, down through 2, route 2 from just west of deal down toward is under land, extremely heavy rain here back toward the west. this is the storm that has had the most damage with it piscataway brandywine, one storm move through, another band move through and to the south of brandywine, the pipe field area, lower marlboro, that's where you're going to continue to see this right now. now, tracking this out of the next hour or so wall cover, getting hit right now around the stokley area 6:01, oaks around 6:11 golden beach around 6:13, right there 6:19 coming up around st. leonard's. a dangerous system as this continues to move down toward the south. right here fairfax county, looking a this the storm storm that formed here, zoom in again on this storm. this is a storm forming right behind the other storms so this is right over the city of fairfax, this will dump fairly
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heavy rain here, too, i don't expect these to go severe, don't expect that again still going to see that. winds have been an issue. heavy rain has been an issue. hail has been an issue this evening and top to be down toward those counties toward southern maryland, severe thunderstorm warning until 6:15 tonight, 90, the high temperature, what it was today, what it will be tomorrow, too, 87 saturday, 92 coming up on sunday, we will see sunday, rain likely early in the morning but then after that most of the day sunday i think looks very good. this is from the remnants of bill, 92 on our monday and then i think we get rather hot, tuesday a high temperature of 93 degrees. on sunday if we get enough snipe we could be up around 95 96 degrees, that's forecast we will continue to watch, you have got weekend mapsplans, watch those plans as we make our way through the weekend. you have weekend plans, keep it here continue to keep you posted. one more time, show you the radar, update you on where these storms are and where they continue to move on down toward the south, we move on continue
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to move on down to the south about 25 to 30 miles per hour watch them for you here from the storm center all night long. there they are right there got them for you through the 6:00 hour. busy day busy week for the storm team4. next month thousands of police firefighters and paramedic from around the globe will be in our area for the world of police and fire games. as news4's aaron gilchrist reports, one paramedic from prince george's county is settle nothing retirement, but first, she has a race to conquer. >> engine 46 respond much. >> reporter: when that alarm sounds, prince george's par riddick tracy dale labor day her partner know it is time to save a life. >> truly rewarding to be out here and to know that you make a difference in somebody's life. >> reporter: dale retired summer after making a difference as a firefighter/paramedic in the county for 21 years. just this year she and her crew at largo station 846 were honored for saving a woman's life after a bad crash last year. >> i mean it is always nice to
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be recognized for the team effort and for everything going right, but you know, for the most part, you know, that's what i signed on to do. >> reporter: on the job, daily isn't looking for glory. off the job, maybe a different story. >> a nice, quick, size lap. >> reporter: we caught one daily and her fire house crew on a morning pt run. she has become a seasoned runner and will represent prince george's county in the world police and fire games in fairfax this summer. >> i run something between a 5 k and a half marathon a couple times a month. i'm always in the gym in my off days. >> reporter: daily believes she is more than ready to make a good showing in what's been dubbed the game of hero. her training has included a run of some sort three or four times a week. still she won't say that she expects a first place finish, rather daily just wants to top her personal best. >> go expect to go out and win, you know running a half marathon? no, but i just want you know, to say that yeah, i was a part of it. >> reporter: strength drive, heart, all the qualities of a
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winner. also qualities that have built what she's called a wonderful career. and in retirement, she will focus out full-time job of mom to 7 and 8-year-old boys. >> my first goal is to be more devoted to them and being able to you know, help out in their school and stuff like that. besides just being the soccer mom that runs them here and there. so, i'm kind of really looking forward to this. >> reporter: in largo, aaron gilchrist, news4. >> 7 and 8-year-olds that will keep you in good shape. by now, you know a woman will soon be featured on the $10 billion. why the treasury department chose the 10 for the money makeover and how you can help decide whose face is going to be on it. an emotional zmeen a courtroom today as a drug dealer apologizes and is sentenced for
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today the maryland lottery commission admitted some of those stolen tickets may have won money and been cashed in already. the lottery tells us it has no way of knowing just how many tickets the looters actually stole and investigators try to figure out which store also tickets stolen in order to block them, but that has proven difficult so far. by now you have heard the treasury department wants to take alexander hamilton off the $10 bill and replace him with a woman. that's right. the question now is who. the news4 flash survey of the day asks the question, which woman do you think should be pictured on the $10 bill? take a look there. >> so many choices. news4's tom sherwood talked with tourists today at the bureau of engraving and printing. >> reporter: whether modern money rolling off the presses -- >> it took somebody maybe months and months -- >> reporter: or a testimony mop station of old ways, people are fascinated with the making of money. even more so now that the u.s. treasury is changing the $10
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bill. >> we have got counter filters around the world that are trying to duplicate our currency cop standly. >> reporter: for the first time the treasury will pick a female face for the $10 bill. maybe someone like civil rights eye cop harriet tubman who led a recent poll on the issue. women touring the bureau of engraving today liked the new idea with some digs at the men. >> think that females have contributed positively to our history. >> reporter: why not the $100 bill or $50 bill? >> boys might get upset. >> empowers women, all around d. like me. >> reporter: why is it important? >> um, well women have a lot of buying power in the country. >> reporter: money has changed many times but this is the first time officials are seeking public comment. >> process is going to be very different from anything we have ever done in the past. >> reporter: treasury secretary jacob lieu makes the final decision in late summer. new $10 bills would be out by 2020.
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>> always had men and now time to have a female. >> reporter: turns out the $10 bill in this country counter felted that's why it's getting new secure airport a phew new face. tom sherwood news4. >> a drumroll here, results of the flash survey of the day. >> who do you think should be on the $10 bill 27%, harriet tubman, 36, rosa parks, close, eleanor roosevelt, almost a tie there. now at 6:00, shock sadness anger, after gunfire inside an historic church. >> there's something particularly heart breaking about death happening in a place in which we seek solace and we seek peace. >> the faces of the victims emerge, we are also learning more about the man behind the mass sacker and the growing calls to stop scenes like this from playing out across our
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country. much we have been here before, whether it is a movie theater or a class ramroom or a church, gun violence has again plagued our country. tonight we have a team of reporters covering that tragedy down in charleston, south carolina. also, covering the question sur surrounding the motive for that massacre. first go to doug kammerer, tracking severe weather moving through our area right now. what do you have, doug? >> tracking these storms now severe thunderstorm warnings continue. one in prince george's county northern st. mary's county calvert county, until 6:15 tonight. includes parts of the eastern shores making their way over the chesapeake bay right now. heaviest storm look at all of the lightning associated with it a tremendous amount of light numbing. reports today 64-mile-an-hour winds, dulles earlier. some tremendous amounts of rain around the dulles airport a
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