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dead here by the medical examiner a short time ago. >> two officers, one lieutenant from the new york state park police from the fish and wild life service responded and they ran down the embankment and made entry into the vehicle where they found an adult male subject and he was pronounced dead by anne arundel emergency medical personnel. >> reporter: you can see the united states park police here investigating the discovery of the car that's down in a ravine here just off the bw parkway at 198. what is unknown at this point, how long that vehicle has been down there. that is what investigators are trying to determine. jackie bensen, news 4. >> i'm meagan fitzgerald in northwest d.c. we are following a developing story. investigators are still on scene. they've been out here for the last eight hours investigating after one of two robbery suspects was shot and killed by
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police. this isn't the way neighbors in surrounding businesses expected to start their monday morning. >> there were shots and that was very scary for me. >> police say those scary moments happened at 9:00. the owner of this liquor store says he called 911 after two suspects tried robbing his business. >> they interrupted this robbery in progress this morning as did employees of the business. >> metropolitan police chief kathy linear says one man took off while police confronted the second suspect behind the store. >> investigators say he was armed. >> the officers did engage and respond to gun fire and one of the suspects on the scene that resulted in that suspect being killed and lisa stalwart lives yards away from where the shooting happened. >> i was in my living room and i heard gunshots. >> then i came here and alvarez works next door to the liquor store and the two shared the
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same parking lot where the shooting happened. >> a man behind the trash can there was a lot of shooting through the broken windows. >> reporter: alvarez says his coworker witnessed the suspect run behind the trash can and that's when he called him to tell him to stay away from the storm. >> alvarez says if he arrived to work five or ten minutes earlier he likely would have been in the middle of a dangerous situation, but instead, he and other neighbors watched while police conducted their investigation. >> it's a tragedy and something that shouldn't have happened. >> reporter: police say no one else was injured in this incident. as for that second suspect, they say they were able to arrest him shortly after the shooting four blocks away from where we are here. coming up at 6:00, police explain why armed robberies are such an issue in this area and what they're doing to fix it. reporting in northwest, meagan fitzgerald, news 4. i'm pat collins in frederick
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where a state trooper shot and killed a suspect here this morning, but minutes before that, a witness says the suspect was in a mens room here bathing himself, showing off big money, looking to party. >> i went to use the bathroom and he was in there and he had his clothes off. he was cleaning himself up and said he office a long trip. he did have a stack of cash on the counter in the bathroom also. >> reporter: a lot of money? >> yes. a lot of money and he was showing it to me saying let's go party and he started flipping through $100 bills. >> reporter: that's carl castle. he was in the mens room with the suspect before it all happened. now after the mens room encounter, the suspect leaves sheetz and that's when the cops come into play. >> he left in front of me to exchange phone numbers and like i said, i didn't want to follow him. luckily i didn't because i could have been in the middle of all
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of that. >> reporter: you see, police say the suspect is linked to this lincoln navigator, stolen last night in an armed robbery in baltimore. early this morning a state trooper spots the stolen cash in the parking lot and then calls for backup. as the suspect leaves sheetz the trooper calls for him to stop. the suspect gets into the navigator, takes off and rams into another police car arriving at the scene. the suspect gets out. police called for him to stop again and then the trooper opens fire. this is how carl castle saw it. >> they called for him to come over and that's when the tires screeched. he hit the patrol car and sho s were fired. >> state police are investigating the incident. they say the suspect didn't have a gun. the officer who was in the car that was rammed is said to have nonlife-threatening injuries.
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>> so did the trooper do the right thing? we'll hear from witnesses coming up at 6:00. pat, back to you. >> pat collins, thanks, pat. some parts of texas and louisiana and now florida getting in on the action from the remnants of hurricane patricia made its way across mexico and in toward the gulf of mexico, as well and take a look at the video and once again, some locations picking up 10, 15 and 20 inches of rain and you can see what we're talking about there and we tell you never drive through flooded roadways and the rain continues and it will continue through portions of louisiana and florida right on through the next 12 to 24 hours before finally getting out of that region and that region has been inundated over the past couple of days and right now, this is where the storm is coming in toward new orleans and it's spinning around the new orleans area and it's spinning around the gulf of mexico and
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the whole storm will begin to shift our way and as it does, rain, some of it heavy and this is wednesday tomorrow night into wednesday and one to two inches in some spots and winds gusting 25 to 35 miles an hour and it will be a dreary wednesday for sure and a stormy wednesday and we'll talk about the timing of this rain and when it moves in and when you'll need the big umbrellas and coming up, my full forecast. witnesses heard up to 30 shots and now we know the woman killed at the fort washington marina is from montgomery county. her name is tania vanessa lopez and she was shot at a bar early sunday morning and the man is listed in stable condition right now. we still don't know his name. police have made no arrests in the case. it's a move police hope will improve public confidence in the aftermath of the riots. today the city launched a pilot program giving body cameras to
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some officers and more than 150 officers in different units will test out three different camera systems and police tell us they want more transparency and officers will have the option to turn the cameras off in some scenarios. >> a sexual assault may be an investigation that may warrant the nondisclosure of that conversation. so those are the things that we will vet through this pilot program. >> that pilot program will run through december and the public hopes to pick up a defender to all officers, and the next couple of years. there is a push to make the rules the same to police who use body cameras in the commonwealth. the wall is coming from the american civil liberties union. only 3% of local law enforcement agencies require officers to tell people that they're being recorded.
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12% of agencies ban police body cameras in homes when the residences don't consent. the aclu is calling for consistent protocols in virginia including rules for how long video can be stored and consequences for officers who don't follow the rules. right now house speaker john boehner is trying to strike one last deal before leaving congress at the end of the week and this would be a pretty big one. he wants republicans to get onboard to raise the debt limit. congress is facing two deadlines and the first, tuesday november 3rd and that's for the debt limit and friday, december 11th, that's for the budget and boehner is hoping by knocking out both at once, paul ryan will hope to avoid tough battles in the first months as speaker and it would take the possibility of government shutdown off the table until after the presidential elections next
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year. pat? >> we are hearing from the mother of a man found dead in a montgomery park. two men are charged with the death of garrick mclys and not far from route 29 and cheney road. the two men lured mcly to the park to rob him. police took earl bennett and shaunte gladdon into custody. >> i don't understand how a record such as those two individuals had that they were allowed to walk around. >> he has a daughter, and she's going to grow up and not know her father. bennett is being held without bond on a first-degree murder charge. gladen is in custody in the district and will be extradited to montgomery county. if you live near a bar or restaurant you can expect to
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hear noise, right? but just how much is too much? a plan that would specify when noise gets too loud. music and loud sounds can't be plainly audible from 50 feet away from a bar restaurant at night, 100 feet during the day. those in favor say the noise is disruptive. those opposed say the phrase plainly audible is just too vague. >> it's going to kill us, and it's going to put a lot of people out of business and out of work and what we do is we hear from people coming in to complain. what we don't hear is from the tens of thousands of people who vote with their feet and money. >> 7:00 and partying, and it's loud, low-frequency music and it penetrates the wall into our bedroom. >> the first offense is a warning and after that the bar or restaurant gets a fine with a maximum penalty of license suspension.
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the snap, the slant and touchdown! >> you like that? you like that? ♪ ♪ >> might never get tired and seeing kirk cousins, that barbaric yelp after that game. >> you like that? and coach gruden was asked that same question and the answer, yes, i did. it was an emotional victory and they were down 24-0 in the first half when they mounted the comeback and they capped the largest comeback in team history with the cousins td to jordan reed sparked a massive celebration and gruden asked if he contemplates how different this monday would feel if it hadn't happened? >> i was trying not to think about that one. i probably wouldn't be standing up here today, but -- i might have done something crazy, to come back from that whooping in the first quarter and put three good quarters of football
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together and get a comeback victory and the biggest comeback ever in redskin history, you know, it's awesome. >> reporter: so it's an awesome, good news monday here at redskins park and that comes with the news that ryan kerrigan had surgery and i texted kerrigan earlier and he says he's doing great and good news, they're going to the bye week and that gives them more time to heal and more time for the team to savor this victory. guys? i'm darcy spencer at riverbend high school in spotsylvania county where two students have been charged in a planned attack on the school. i'll tell you what role their classmates played in preventing the violence. they were still newlyweds. now we've learned exclusive details about who was involved in a murder-suicide in prince george's county. >> governor larry hogan makes a change that will impact every child in the state of maryland. child in the state of maryland. you're watching news 4 at 5:00
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the washington post endorses democrat jeremy mcpike for state senate. applauding mcpike's "ideas about getting traffic moving." the post warns republican hal parrish "holds rigid positions against medicaid expansion and common-sense gun safety." and parrish was the deciding vote to restrict women's health clinics in manassas, forcing women to go elsewhere for cancer screenings and birth control. jeremy mcpike is the better choice. i'm jeremy mcpike, candidate for state senate, and i sponsored this ad.
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>> reporter: those two teenagers appeared before a judge earlier today because they are juveniles we are not allowed in the courtroom, but i am told they continue to be held in a local detention center and investigators are still scratching their heads trying to figure out what was the motive behind this planned attack. >> it's very scary. it's extremely nerve-racking. >> many students at riverbend high school in spotsylvania county tell us they're unnerved after two classmates are charged in a planned attack on their schools. >> definitely scary. i guess, that's what i would say. a lot of people were flipping out about it. >> this is something students are talking about here today. >> a lot of gossip going on. not panic and nothing too bad, but it has kids on the fritz a little bit as you can imagine. >> reporter: and for good reason, the 15 and 17-year-old boys planned to call in a bomb threat and then shoot as students and staff evacuated.
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>> really bad to think that people would actually think of doing that. >> reporter: authorities and school administrators are crediting students with helping prevent the attack. they reported threats posted on the internet to staff and the school resource officer. >> reporter: apparently they were able to stop it before it happened. >> thank god for that. >> reporter: the students are charged with conspiracy to commit murder. authorities say they did have access to guns. they don't believe anyone else was involved in the plan which was still in its early stages. >> very concerned. very, very. kudos to who turned them in. scared to death. >> reporter: coming up on news 4 at 6:00, i'll tell you what's being done here at the school to help students deal with their anxiety over school violence. back to you. >> danthanks, darcy. a woman came home to find a stranger sleeping in her house. that turned out to be a naval
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academy mid shipman and he is charged with burglary after the 74-year-old woman found him sleeping in her living room chair. max smith admitted he was there and he said he went to the apartment because it was unlocked. while he was there he had sex with a woman he met at a bar. the naval academy is doing its own investigation. school and faith leaders in the herndon, reston area are meeting tonight to forge new opportunities for students. herndon's mayor began the partnership and it's sparked in part by the success between florist united methodist church and hutch son elementary in herndon. the two have been working together for well over a decade with members of the church providing mentoring, food, winter clothing and summer camp and other things for students. >> what we're trying to achieve over the long term is a relationship between the faith community and the school community because we know that that's why floris and hutchison do, there's really a
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relationship there. >> tonight's gathering includes leaders of several faith communities along with nearly every school in the herndon-reston area. the owner of a whale watching boat that capsized says he's doing everything they can to help the passengers and the staff. this afternoon we're learning about a previous deadly accident involving the same boating company. jamie's whaling station had another boat capsize in 1998 killing the boat's operator and one of the passengers. rescue teams saved 21 people from this more recent incident. one person is still missing. new cancer concerns tonight. why one major health group says processed meat like a hot dog could be linked to the cancer. plus amtrak gridlock. the one reason why your next ride out of town may be jam-packed and why it could put your safety at risk. i'm julie carey at the murder trial of charles severance. he's an accused killer, but he's also an avid gamer.
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coming up what a game store owner has to say about the game severance created called mental disorder. narrator: for state senate, who shares our values? jeremy mcpike - supports school funding. thinks women should make their own health care decisions. and favors background checks on all gun sales. hal parrish? as mayor, he slashed education. fought to block women's health clinics. parrish gets an "a" from the gun lobby - they oppose background checks to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people. virginia extreme or mainstream? vote mcpike for virginia. feinblatt: everytown for gun safety action fund sponsored this ad.
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a very nice shot looking out toward the northeast and you can see bethesda way out there in the distance, but right here you look at all of the colors going on around the reston area and this is just beautiful conditions and here's the dulles toll road and more of the buildings that are going up, but wow, some remarkable color going on right now and we are very close to peak around our region. in through downtown you see more color and we'll continue to see that over the next couple of days and 58 degrees is the current temperature, yes, it's on the cool side and not cold, but it is five to ten degrees below average for this time of year and with plenty of sunshine and 56 toward fredericksburg and on the radar, nothing to show today. we're not going to see any rain tonight and we're not going to see much in the way of rain tomorrow and it's tomorrow afternoon and evening that we see the rain coming in. clear skies and nothing, but sunshine up toward pennsylvania. we'll see this line of clouds move up and down and they're to
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the north and south. they will be clear enough tonight that we will see cold temperatures and the areas into the 30s overnight and we'll watch the storm system, and look at the rain toward kentucky and right off the gulf of mexico and these are the remnants of hurricane patricia and it came across mexico in toward the gulf of mexico and you see the swirl around the new orleans area and thousand without power and lots of flooding going on there and the good news for us is it's not going to cause a huge problem here. wednesday is not going to be a very nice day and we're calling it a weather alert day and we won't have flooding and wooe not going to have that big storm activity, either. future weather, noon tomorrow we're on the clear side. at least on the dry side as far as the rain is concerned. down toward orange and fredericksburg and then around 4:00, notice most of the region especially from i-95 to the west starting to see the rain move in
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and still a good idea to get the rain, and by 11:00 tomorrow night, everybody has the rain and we'll see periods of moderate to heavy rain at times especially overnight into early wednesday morning and notice the heavier rain out toward the west and we do think the areas close to the blue ridge will see the most rain and one to two inches in parts of the region and farther to the south and east and less rain down toward southern marylandnd each around noon on wednesday, still dealing with the rain and more rain potential and this is where we could see storms and it will be wednesday afternoon that we'll see those and any storms that develop could have very gusty winds and that's something that we'll be watching out for, too, as we move out toward the day. your bus stop forecast, cool, 42 degrees and want bad and it will be on the chilly side between 3:00 and 4:00 and temperature between 58 degrees and we'll start to see the showers moving in at that time. what to wear tomorrow morning? you'll need the warm jacket and most likely an umbrella and long pants and tomorrow will be a
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very cool day and highs only in the 50s and 59 in d.c. and a high of 67 and much bet or thursday and friday. friday's highs just like today, upper 50s to 60 degrees and v.j. has the forecast coming up. it's not too early to start thinking about winter and this winter cleaning up from a snowstorm could cost you more money depending on where you live and if you don't know the new rules. prince george's county police are investigating after a sworn officer shoots and kills his wife and then turns the weapon on himself. what agency he worked for and what the investigation is
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>> an argument and then gunshots. a husband and wife later found dead in their home. >> tonight we are learning more about the couple involved in a murder/suicide in upper marlboro. prince george's county bureau chief tracee wilkins with more. >> a family friend tells me these two were involved in a couples ministry and had recently been married and seemed like a loving couple to people who knew them and i'm told this is a shock to everyone who knows them. ♪ >> a family friend blasts gospel music outside of the sullivan home as if to try and heal this community. after sunday's murder-suicide that happened in this house. >> we believe that there was
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some sort of argument between mr. sullivan and his wife prior to the murder-suicide. >> it unfolded sunday morn in upper marlboro. tanya wilkerson sullivan was shot and killed by her husband antoine sullivan who then turned the gun on himself. the two had only been married a few months. >> reporter: sullivan was a police officer with d.c. protective services and we have that confirmed by a number of employees, but the spokesperson would not tell us how long he had been working here and all of that is a part of the investigation. d.c.'s protective services protects services owned by d.c. government. sullivan used his service weapon to shoot and kill his rife and then take his own life. the two had four children, one together. one of the children was inside of the home when the shooting happened. the call reporting the murder-suicide came from a grandparent who was inside of the house at the time and there was still an investigation and
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any witnesses. people who had contact with the days prior to this and did they see the same. we won't leave any stone unturned. >> there's now a memorial on the steps in front of the house, a candle burning and also flowers there, as well. coming up on news 4 at 6:00, the mother here worked for prince george's county agency and what they're doing to pay honor to her memory and to help her family moving forward. >> i'm tracee wilkins reporting live. we've seen a number of deadly domestic cases in recent weeks. last week a man broke into his ex-girlfriend's home and ambushed her when she got there and that happened four miles from the scene in kettering and earlier this month, 14-year-old keyshaun mason died when he and his brother tried to protect their mother from her boyfriend. prince george's county has the highest number of domestic
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incidents in the state. i'm jauly carey at the fairfax county courthouse where a card game called mental disorder was the subject of some important testimony today. it's a card game created by accused killer charles severance and his attorneys are trying to convince jurors that it was a legitimate game and not evidence of a revenge motive that led to the murders of three alexandria residents. >> this is a photo of charles severance posted on his mental disorder website years ago showing the avid gamer with some of his cards. he says severance was a frequent game playing customer for years. wagon testified he play tested and began selling severance's mental disorder game back in 2000. it reflected the accused killer's anger against the mental health profession and anger they say drove him to kill three prominent alexandria
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residents, but defense attorneys viewed, and it was quite innovative, testified wagon and a copy of it sold as recently as 2013 and prosecutors got their chance to cross examine the defense team's mental health expert and forensic psychologist has diagnosed severance as having a personality disorder with mixed paranoid and skizo -- prosecutors praised the doctor the that the diagnosis was made by reading journals and interviewing family. asked the prosecutor he'd never spoken with the defendant at all and prosecutor, that means you've never done an actual psychological evaluation. >> now ahead at 6:00, a look at how the defense is raising questions about another important bit of testimony. it comes from a woman who says
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she saw charles severance in the murder victim's neighborhood just a few days before the final killing. back to you now to the studio. maryland is making changes for how your kids are tested for high levels of lead. all toddlers across the state will be included. until now the test has included just kids at risk and at-risk zip codes with mostly older homes. the testing will be done on children ages 1 and 2. the state after 1950 and lead can be absorbed through the skin and it can affect the development of a child's brain. >> a maryland woman finally, finally has relief from a mysterious condition. >> just taking a drink of water can cause her to choke and doreen gentzler is here. >> that seemed to be triggered by just drinking or eating.
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maryland suffered from the symptoms for years, but she didn't seek help until the day she almost died. >> she is a music teacher in calvert county while she was in front of her students she started to choke. it was so severe it nearly closed down. >> it was one of those things i kept putting off and putting off until it happened again in a more severe circumstance. when it happened in a school setting it was extremely traumatic because i thought i'm going to die in the school cafeteria in front of my 9 to 10-year-old students. tonight wooe look at the diagnosis she got and what doctors have to say about her symptoms and how she's using her ordeal as a teaching tool for her students. pat? >> thanks, doreen. ed walker was a legend on the radio for 60 years. she helped put the polish on radio's golden age and ed
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walker's voice has been silenced now and the host of the big broadcast of wamu radio died after listening to his final sunday night broadcast. ♪ >> reporter: from the moment they hit the air waifrs in washington, joy boys' willard scott and ed walker, a lot of people have said that over the years, friend, but it is hello there one more time as we wrap it up. they teamed up in 1952 and for 25 years, walker and scott did their daily shtick on wrc radio. >> if one of us was down it would pick the other one up and time goes by and it was real and we had a good time and the audience had a good time. >> in 1990, walker went on wamu with the big broadcast live each sunday night featuring four hours of music and shows from the 30s, 40s and 50s.
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walker recorded his last show two weeks ago from his hospital bed in6pñ his gown. he insisted on sitting up to do the show. >> that's 25 years of my memories of hosting the big broadcast here on wamu. >> on sunday night, walker listened to that final broadcast and then surrounded by family and loved ones, passed away. >> so for one more time, let's end the show the way we always do. my name is ed walker and remember, it wouldn't be sunday evening if we didn't have to say ♪ i love to spend each sunday with you ♪ ♪ as friend to friend ♪ >> ed walker was 83 years old. he was inducted into the radio hall of fame in 2009. he was a great friend to many of us here on wrc and we saw him
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every day in the hallways and in the cafeteria. we will miss him and many of you are sharing tributes to ed online. for a look at some of those go to our nbc washington facebook page. >> one of a kind and already missing that voice. it wasn't random, that's the latest word from police about the bodies of two local teens found dead in a van. more on how the northern virginia community is coping with the loss and new action tonight after women said their tonight after women said their apartment re
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the washington post endorses democrat jeremy mcpike for state senate. applauding mcpike's "ideas about getting traffic moving." the post warns republican hal parrish "holds rigid positions against medicaid expansion and common-sense gun safety." and parrish was the deciding vote to restrict women's health clinics in manassas, forcing women to go elsewhere for cancer screenings and birth control. jeremy mcpike is the better choice. i'm jeremy mcpike, candidate for state senate, and i sponsored this ad.
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flip saunders helped usher into the nba. >> saunders passed away yesterday at the age of 60 after a battle with cancer and our jason pugh remembers how the wisz arts are remembering saunders today. jason? >> the nba tips off on wednesday night for the wizards and many within this organization enter the year with heavy hearts after the passing of flip sounders and there were so many people within the franchise and 35 years in the coaching business and over 1,000 went to the nba and they spent the 2009 and 2012 seasons here in the nation's capital. he was being treated for hodgkins lymphoma and a setback came in september and he forced saunders to miss the entire upcoming season and came yesterday's news.
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randy whitman spoke on his passing today after practice. >> when you lose a colleague and not only a colleague, but a great friend and that's who he was. he was a good friend and he's been there for me many times when i've been fired and something in my family has gone wrong. it's a tough day. coming up later, flip saunders was john wall's first nba coach and we'll hear from the all-star point guard later on news 4 at 6:00. >> thanks so much, and the all-american hot dog linked to cancer and you may see this story going viral on social media this week and you'll see why it's getting new attention tonight. it won't be long until
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if you run over somebody, it's usually because you were driving too fast or you didn't look before you turned or you didn't stop for someone in the crosswalk. always be alert. pedestrians don't come with airbags. it is -- it's one of the most read stories on the nbc washington facebook page today. many of you are checking in to find out more about a report that links meat to cancer. >> this is my least favorite story and it's going viral. that report from the world health organization today finds
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processed meats and things like bacon, hot dogs increase the risk of colorectal cancer. >> the report also says red meat probably does the same thing. so should you cut them out of your diet altogether? erica edwards has more. >> reporter: a division of the world health organization states processed meat like hot dogs and bacon can cause cancer. >> this was based primarily on the strong evidence that the consumption of processed meat causes colorectal cancer. >> reporter: what's more, the group says there's evidence to link meat and pork can cause colorectal cancers, as well. >> the american cancer society has been suggesting limiting red meat. >> reporter: limit, not necessarily eliminate. there is a difference between processed meat and lean cuts of beef and pork. experts say those leaner cuts can be important for health. >> it contains a bundent
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nutrients that we all really need. it's concentrated protein and all of the aminoacids for good health and has vitamin b-12 and iron. >> the north american meat institute says the new report defies common sense in the statement writing scientific evidence shows cancer is a complex disease not caused by single foods and that say balanced diet and healthy lifestyle choices are essential to good health. the w.h.o.'s report puts processed meat in the same cancer-causing category as cigarettes and it does not mean they're equal in terms of danger. some studies show people who eat a lot of processed meat may have doubled the colon cancer risk of those who don't eat any. smoking, on the other hand, multiplies a person's risk for cancer by as much as 20 times. erica edwards, nbc news. v.dot is proposing the improvement plan for i-66. this follows concern by some residents and the chair of the
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prince william board of supervisors. some fear it will destroy a cattle farm known as the cedars farm. vdot wants to build a commuter lot somewhere in the vicinity of i-66 and route 15. tonight officials say they'll look at options other than cedar farms. >> amtrak's president says they're finding rail congestion in cities nationwide and better planning is needed to ease some of the gridlock. they say one of the biggest choke holds is chicago where passenger and freight trains are halting rail traffic. amtrak says it could potentially be dangerous with trains possibly crossing railroad crossings. chicago is also a critical point for business. somewhere between 657 billion and $799 billion of the nation's gross domestic product is dependent -- dependent on the fluidity of the rail network in the city of chicago. it's a national issue. >> amtrak's calling for better planning and funding for
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infrastructure improvements as a solution to the congestion. >> veronica, we've got some nasty weather coming, when and where. >> that we do. it's really all about mid-week, tomorrow is our transition day and tomorrow we'll start out dry and wet weather will start moving, take a look at this. here is a lock at the probabilities for rain for this week and a 40% chance for tomorrow and again, it's really positioned more for the afternoon and evening hours and that will be late tomorrow afternoon. nasty conditions for mid-week as you'll see it's not just the rain that we'll have to contend with and thursday we'll have to see things quiet down across our area and road impacts definitely impacted the next two days for tuesday afternoon tomorrow. roads just turning wet. i think it's light showers for tomorrow evening's rush and then for wednesday morning rush as well as the wednesday afternoon and evening rush and that's when we'll see things really change and rain and wind and nasty conditions and again more cautionary and you'll need to
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watch your speed by the end of the day with the winds picking up and we can have gusts 30, 35 miles an hour and we'll take a lot of the leaves and put it down on area roads. for this evening, we're at 58 degrees right now. we get chilly if not cooler by 11:00 with more cloud cover moving in and there will be some locations tomorrow morning. first thing tuesday, starting out in the 30s. so you're going to need a jacket and a nice, warm jacket heading out the door for the kids and your umbrella if you're going to be out late. so 3:00, i think we're still dry. most looks tomorrow with those temperatures this time in the upper 50s staying below the 60-degree mark and a couple of neighborhoods are at 60 today and these are the remnants of patricia and the leading edge touching us early tomorrow especially in areas down around 66 where tomorrow afternoon by the time we get into the evening hours and more rain will continue to overspread the area and even possibly some thunderstorms early wednesday
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morning as well as wednesday afternoon and the storms could bring with them some high wind and that's the main threat for wednesday and heavy rain and high winds and make sure you download the nbc washington app and some high winds coming your way and here's a look at the rainfall amounts and one to two inches possible and culpeper even into d.c. and we could see more than an inch of rain and tomorrow, on the cool side as we top out around 60 degrees and what that means is for any of the parades taking place and any of the area schools on wednesday and they'll probably be in the hallways, not outside and the weekend, good 62 on 70 and on sunday we fall back for halloween and at least we're dry for right now. >> veronica, thank you. teenagers at two prince william county schools are coping with the sudden loss of a classmate. two seniors from different schools were found dead in a minivan over the weekend.
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as molette green reports they're looking for answers. >> reporter: they started the day off with grief counselors ready to help them cope with an up expected loss. 17-year-old indya davis attended this school. police found her and 17-year-old lyle ferringer dead saturday. he attended garfield high school. prince william county schools said the schools are focusing on helping students and staff cope with the difficult news. that's the priority. parents in prince william county are shocked to hear what happened. >> when you have kids, you know you always worry about them. you just don't want that to happen to any kids. it's very sad. >> reporter: police say whatever happened was not random and they're working with the medical examiner to get an exact cause of death. autopsy set for today will give them some answers. >> that's horrible. do we know what happened?
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>> reporter: a park ranger discovered the teen saturday in dale city and inside the back of a locked minivan, the high school senior was pronounced dead at the scene. >> police said the teens had injuries to their body. meantime, indya davis' brother confirmed to news 4 the two were involved in a relationship together and went to the same middle school. that was the latest from manassas, molette green, news 4. two maintenance workers at baltimore's housing authority are out of a job. a lawsuit claims they demanded sex for repairs at public housing units. this afternoon a group protested in front of the city's housing authority saying they want action. nearly a dozen women are suing claiming they lived in squalid conditions. the protesters say there will be site visits and the city hasn't provided details about how to pay to fix the problem. no snow in the forecast, but we're already talking about how
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those restrictions have been in place for 25 years now. they prohibit personal and hover craft used on memorial day and weekends during the summer. those opposed to the request say it will create confusion and lengthen the safety -- or threaten the safety of other voters. >> dozens of d.c. inspectors will be out on the streets this binter enforcing new snow rules. >> if you own a home or business in the district, you could face fines if you don't clear your sidewalk after a snowstorm. >> as mark segraves reports, you have even more responsibility if you live next to an alley. >> for years, the district has had laws requiring residents and businesses to shovel their sidewalks after a snowstorm, but the old law was never enforced. this winter a new law goes into effect. if homeowners don't clear the sidewalk within 24 hours after a snowfall, they'll face a $25 fine. businesses will be fined $150. >> gone should be the days when
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people again, disabled, elderly and everybody when they can't get out of their house because some people let their snow stay on the sidewalk and people have to walk in the street or slip and slide on the sidewalk. >> district officials will use two methods to enforce the new law. after each storm, a team of 40 inspectors will hit the streets. >> our inspectors will be out following the law and making sure that sidewalks are clear. >> reporter: and residents will be able to call in and report sidewalks that are not cleared without having to confront their neighbors face-to-face. >> an anonymous call. we won't cause those challenges on the streets of d.c. >> reporter: the new law also requires homeowners who live next to the entrance of an alley to clear that curb cut, as well. >> we need business owners and residents to help make sure that the city is cleared as quickly as possible during a major snow, vent. >> seniors and disabled residents are except from the
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requirements and they can register in advance with the city so they'll know not to ticket them and they'll be put on a list of volunteers to clear their sidewalks. >> in the district, mark segraves, news 4. now at 6:00, we're working new leads on two police-involved shootings. first in maryland, the video on the left shows the scene outside a busy gas station. a police cruiser is smashed up and a man dead after the confrontation with the state trooper. on the right, a gun battle between an armed robber ends with one man dead and another in handcuffs. >> pat collins and meagan fitzgerald are gathering new information on both these stories. we begin in frederick, maryland, with a shooting outside the sheetz gas station on east patrick street. that played out as people were gassing up and heading to work. pat? >> reporter: imagine what it was like this morning. people gassing up and getting breakfast and trying to get
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their monday off to a good start when all of a sudden, a stolen suv plows into a police car, shots were fired and a suspect ends up dead on the ground. people in frederick are just not accustom to this sort of thing. it happened at this sheetz in frederick right in the middle of the busy time this morning. >> i've been in frederick 27 years, and i've never seen a shootout like this downtown. never. never somebody ram a cop like that. this is one of the busiest stores. >> reporter: it happened when a stolen suv rammed this police car and when the suspect began to run away, a maryland state trooper guns him down. witnesses say the cop yelled out a warning. >> i just saw a police officer and state trooper approach a vehicle and shouted many times get your hands up, get your hands up, g
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