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avenue in tacoma park. police say seven people were in one car. it ran off the road and hit a tree. four children and three adults were riding in that car. we are still trying to figure out how the crash happened and what condition all of those people are in. we will keep a close eye on this and bring you updates as we get them. just into the live desk we're getting new details about an early morning crash. we've learned two brothers from spotsylvania county have dayed. ian and jaylen brown were killed when their jeep ran off the road and crashed into two trees. ian was 18 years old and jaylen was 15. it is near county line church road and the brothers are both students at spotsylvania high school and counselors are at the school right now. we're still working on what made the jeep go off the road. derrick ward is on his way from spotsylvania and he'll be updating us throughout the evening. over in fairfax county one
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man is in custody, but othfour others are still on the run after a good samaritan unknowingly helped them get away. as news 4's pat collins reports this all started with a police chase and then a crash. >> pope's head road, you almost need a scorecard to keep track of what happened here today. a massive man hunt, cops, guns, dogs, the works. a police car crashes on the way to join the search. they say the officer will be okay. the car, i don't know. back beyond that house, an arrest. an arrest of a man who bolted out of his car and made a getaway on foot after they tried to stop him for speeding and reckless driving. speeding and reckless driving. four people with the men managed to con a neighbor here to drive them out of the search zone. they're still out and about.
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why was everyone running? what was going on here? i'll be back at 5:00 with more. now back to you. >> fairfax county police are calling it a classic case of road rage involving four cars ending up in the wall of a motel. police say it all happened before 11:00 this morning on richmond highway. investigators say 50-year-old elmar king who was driving a toyota corolla after the driver of a silver dodge wouldn't let him get over. king chased and hit the lexus at the intersection of fort hunt road and richmond highway shortly after king and the dodge ended up in a motel parking lot where the dodge slammed into a parked honda forcing that car through the wall. >> the timing of when they came through the parking lot, thank god there were no pedestrians and they went off the roadway and nobody expected them coming at that speed in a parking lot.
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>> it's amazing no one was injured. king has been charged with aggressive driving and news 4's meagan fitzgerald is at the scene talking with investigators and we'll hear from her live coming up in the next hour. with fear growing about what brought down that russian jet in egypt, here's the latest on what we know. officials, experts and nbc news sources agree on the most likely causes. some sort of explosion or structural failure caused the metrojet flight to break apart. investigators have a lot of available evidence including the layout of the wreckage and audio of the in-flight recorders which we have yet to hear. egyptian investigators say there is no proof to back up the theory of a bomb onboard. isis continues to claim responsibility for bringing the plane down. we'll have those claims and the response from u.s. officials in the next half hour. >> the two leading republican presidential hopefuls have secret service protection. >> jay johnson authorized the detail for donald trump and ben carson. both requested details last
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month. dhs considers factors like polling numbers, money raised and threats. meanwhile, the list of candidates filing paperwork to get on to the ballot in new hampshire is growing. florida senator marco rubio, bernie sanders and carly fiorina have all signed up today. candidates have until november 20th to file. ♪ i'm adam tuss at metro headquarters where today for the first time an official announcement about who the next general manager of metro will be, paul wiedefeld, a former executive of wbi airport and former head of the mta in maryland. news 4 cameras were there when his name was presented at metro and the vote taken. >> all in favor say aye. >> aye. >> opposed? the ayes have it. >> reporter: our cameras were there as general manager got a standing ovation for the job that he's been doing over the past year leading metro.
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coming up on news 4 at 5:00, much more, wiedefeld has a busy task ahead of him. what's he going to do and we'll have that from his colleagues. police are looking for a voyeur who has been videotaping students in the mens room. a student was using the bathroom when he looked up and saw a cell phone recording. the student yelled and someone removed the phone. the victim says it was an iphone 6, but wasn't able to describe the suspect. a voyeur was spotted in the women's dorm shower at the university. part of the search for justice in a college student's murder is on hold today. a court hearing scheduled today for steven briel was postponed until december. his lawyers say they had trouble getting a mental health evaluation completed. briel is accused of strangling his housemate grace mann in fredericksburg earlier this year. both were university ever mary washington students. mann was 20 years old and a
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native of mclean. u.s. park police spent the day searching in the bw parkway for a woman. her family is frantic and concerned. the car she was driving was spotted sunday on the shoulder of the parkway with its flashers on. on news 4 at 5:00, you will hear from lisa's family who tell us time may be running out to find her. ? just a few hours montgomery county school officials will discuss possible redistricting and it's part of the capital improvement program to meet the demand of a growing school district. the boundary includes boundary recommendation on which students will attend a new middle school set to open in clarksburg next year. tonight's work session will be followed by two public hearings next week when parents will be able to weigh in. the little boy was just 5 years old when he disappeared and more than a decade later, police say he's alive and well. what we're learning about the mysterious case that cross estate lines.
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and we talk to the local family facing anti-gay backlash after their child is
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take a look at some of the spectacular photos are sharing from our facebook page. nasa just released these shots of a rocket exlotion. it happened a year ago on virginia's eastern shore. it blew up seconds after lifting off from the nasa facility. it cost about $15 million in damage to the launchpad. it delivered a resupply mission for the international space station. most of us can only imagine what it must have been like for a high school senior to find out he was the subject of a 13-year long search, a missing child search. julian hernandez was 5 years old when he was reportedly abducted by his father in alabama.
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for years the only thing police had to go on was an age progression photo. last month julian began to apply for college, and he found out the social security number that his father gave him could aren't be verified. so the fbi got involved. they tracked julian and his father to cleveland and now the father is facing abduction charges. new this afternoon a big push from a major company to help erase native american mascots from american schools. a man develops cancer and doctors say he got it from a tapeworm. we finally saw the sun come out this afternoon and that meant nice temperatures. tomorrow we're talking records and then a major temperature shift just in time for the
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we begin at the live desk with some breaking news. new hampshire avenue is shut down right now because of a serious crash. chopper 4 just over the scene. this is new hampshire avenue at popular avenue in tacoma park. police say seven people were in the car that ran off the road and hit a tree. those seven people are four children and three adults. we are still trying to determine how this crash or why it happened, and what condition the be onning pa occupants are in. we'll keep you updated and i'll have an update as soon as i get it. >> president obama is meeting with native american tribal leaders. here is a live look for you inside the seventh annual white
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house tribal nations conference. leaders from federally recognized tribes are attending this conference with the president and members of the cabinet. they are talking about issues important to tribal leaders and they're looking for ways to improve the nation to nation relationship. and adidas just made a major announcement of mascots and adidas says it will help high schools that want to change their mascots and imagery. it will work with students to create new uniforms and donate money to offset the cost of replacing uniforms. despite the announcement, adidas will still sponsor the washington redskins. the charity hospital group accusing the u.s. of a war crime says are says a deadly attack was unjustified. doctors without borders released an internal review. a u.s. airstrike killed 30 patients and workers in its facility in northeastern afghanistan october 3rd.
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there had been reports the taliban fighters were hiding out in the hospital, but doctors without borders says no one inside was armed and that they followed all of the rules for setting up a hospital in a combat zone. >> it is not a crime. >> president obama has apologized to doctors without borders. the group wants an independent geneva commission to investigate. this afternoon severe storms are hammering parts of the plains. this video was shot outside oklahoma city where folks are threatened with tornadoes, hail and damaging winds. doug kammerer is in the storm center. doug, nothing like that for us, but you're talking about a potential record tomorrow? >> well, yeah. that is the same frontal boundary that will move our way and it will give us the chance for shower activity tonight, but ahead of that we'll break a record tomorrow. the record high is 78 degrees in
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many areas today or already close to that. in the city, 70 degrees and that's because of the south wind and that wind coming off of the potomac and just enough to cool things off. back to win chester and laray, 77 back toward leesburg. nothing on the radar today and we did have a couple of light sprinkles and fog earlier, and that slowed things down on the roadways and look at the clearing. you can see the showers up toward delmarva and back to the west. this is where the front is. you can see the front and you notice oklahoma and they're under the gun for severe weather here. that front moving our way and out ahead of it we are getting the warm air and man, is it going to be warm tomorrow. as a matter of fact, here's what to expect for your friday. mid-september warmth. a touch humid and it will are it is going to be on the windy side and winds gusting 20 to 30 miles per hour out of the southwest and that will really warm things up. starting tomorrow, 64 degrees
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around 7:00 a.m. we are going to see some fog again tomorrow morning and it will burn off a lot quicker and we will see some fog and remember that for the morning drive. dress for the warm weather if you're be out there because look, at 1:00 we're at 7 degr7 degrees. future weather, here's 7:00 a.m., notice the fog around the region and it is east of the blue ridge just like it was today, but by 9:00 or 10:00 that fog is out of here and we're just plain warm and a very warm day for this time of year. a couple of showers coming in around 6:00, 7:00 and it will be warm enough to eat outside, but you may see a shower, too. so know that you may need the umbrellas as you move your way through the evening tonight and much cooler from 61 at 7:00 in the morning to 54 during the afternoon and falling temperatures, much cooler and a chance for rain. sunday and monday, just cool. highs in the 50s. veronica is talking about who
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has the best chances for rain on saturday coming up at 4:45. i'm carol maloney at nats park. a new era has begun. the dusty baker era. the nats introducing their new skipper today. it was one of the most entertaining press events ever. dusty has a big personality. he was not afraid to strut like he was on a runway with his nationals number 12 jersey, saying his mom was a model and he was a, quote, machine. 50 years he's been in the game and his new job is his last. he knows he's right for this club at this time. >> this is my fourth and final team and beyond compare, this is the best talent and that's why i was excited about coming here. a team has to be close, and that's what i think i can not only bring xs and os, but i can bring closeness to a team.
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>> reporter: close is key, he says, for teams to win. he has his work to do. more on dusty baker coming up on news 4 at 5k:00, including unfinished business and he name drops his good friend and he lives in the white house. >> thanks, carol. we're following up on good news we first told you about wednesday. some young ladies in loudoun county have raised $2500 for the friends of loudoun mental health. the seniors at wooddrove and loudoun valley high schools faced off in a powder puff football game trying to fight mental illness and loudoun valley won, but all of the girls came away winners. >> more startling revelations in the case of the crooked cop who staged his own suicide. who detectives say he tried to have killed. this is a strange one. the bizarre case of a man who caught cancer from a tape worm.
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a bizarre new twist in the case of a illinois police officer who staged his own suicide. according to the associated press lieutenant joe gliniewicz tried to hire a gang member to kill the village administrator. that administrator was apparently auditing the fox lake police explorer program. investigators say gliniewicz stole thousands of dollars from the program. according to the a.p., his wife who helped him run the program and their son, they are now
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under criminal investigation. police investigators say he staged his own killing to help conceal extensive criminal activity. we told you about the woman accused of impersonating the nurse caring for bobbi kristina, bobbi kristina brown in hospice care. now we learned she pulled a similar stubt in washington according to the d.c. board of nursing. they say taiwo sobamowo was in a nursing facility. the board sent an alert to a database maintained by the national council of state boards of nursing, but sobamowo was still able to get a job at the suburban atlanta hospice where she cared for brown. hey, hey, ho, ho, donald trump's got to go! >> they were standing outside nbc headquarters in new york calling on snl to cancel
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presidential candidate donald trump's hosting appearance. the protest organizer cites trump's competition show, "the apprentice. i think what trump says about immigrants and latinos is insulting and saturday night live shouldn't be making fun of what don wouald trump says. >> an nbc spokesperson declined to comment about that protest. >> we think this next story is pretty important, but it may make some folks just a bit squeamish. >> for the first time science has discovered tapeworms can infect people with tumors. having tapeworms is bad enough. they cause diarrhea and weakness and when they lay eggs the worms can infest the body for a lifetime. people usually get them from eating food that's been contaminate with mouse droppings
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or fecal matter from some animals. in the case that revealed this new information a patient with tapeworms was discovered to have cancerous tumors, but -- and here's where it gets interesting. the dna in the tumor didn't match the man, but the tapeworms. doctors say usually they can eliminate the worms with certain drugs, but it's not clear if these drugs would clear up the tumors. the tapeworm dna was a huge surprise to scientists who say this type of development is very, very rare. >> wow. well f you don't believe every vote really counts, consider a bizarre election night in florida. the luck of the draw literally determined who gets to lead the small city of bradenton beach. two candidates for mayor ended up in a dead tie after tuesday's election and the rules there called for the tiebreaker to be, quote, determined by lot. so elections officials had the candidates cut a deck of cards.
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>> they could have flippeded a coin or drawn straw, and i suppose they could have played that paper rock and hammer, scissors or hammer. >> maybe a duel in the street would be better. >> and the winner is bill sheer an who voters had ousted as mayor just six months ago. the city has more than 1200 full-time residents. we are still working several developing stories, 20,000 british citizens suddenly stranded in egypt when flights were abruptly canceled out of security fears. flights will resume, but there is a catch. >> a family in maryland, the target in an anti-gay backlash.
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some breaking news at 4:30, four children are in critical condition after this crash in tacoma park. two cars collided on new hampshire avenue and popular avenue. seven people in total are being treated right now and southbound new hampshire is completely shut down. news 4's jackie bensen just got to the scene and she will join us live shortly. right now at 4:30, a child escaped unharmed after a scary road rage incident in fairfax county. two vehicles crashed into the budget host traveler's motel on richmond highway this morning. police are still trying to figure out who the aggressor was
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in all of this. news 4's meagan fitzgerald will have a live report at the top of the hour. a man from fairfax county is apologizing to police as they're unknowingly driving four wanted criminals to a gas station. he says they showed up at his home today and told them their car ran out of gas so he drove them to a nearby gas station, all four of them got out and ran away. police say the group had been involved in an earlier chase near fairfax county parkway and pope's head road and there was a fifth suspect and police were able to take him into custody. new developments in the crash of the russian plane in reg i want. flights will resume tomorrow for 20,000 british tourists stranded since yesterday when the british government abruptly halted flights out of fears the airport in sharm el sheikh was not secure enough. however, they will only be allowed to take carry-on bags and the rest of their luggage will be delivered. u.s. intelligence reports
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suggest says likely the metrojet crash was caused by an isis bomb and they are gravely concerned about this. steve handelsman is tracking the story from reagan national airport. >> reporter: at the scene of the crash investigators are still looking for conclusive evidence that the bomb brought down the plane. the flight data recorder reveals an explosion, but not a cause. the jet's tail blew off landing far from the main wreckage, but a catastrophic structural failure could have caused that, experts say. still, u.s. and british officials say it's likely isis bombed the airliner has washington worried. >> if, in fact, this is the case it would be the most significant terrorist attack against the aviation sector since 9/11. >> reporter: ins u.s. pilots first attacked isis, fear rose of a counter strike by isis. >> they have been working for some time to perfect this ability to take down planes. >> reporter: assuming the bomb, if that's what it was, was put
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aboard in sharm el sheikh airport where the plane took off, the british government continued the ban on uk planes using that airport. even though egypt's president complained to the prime minister. >> we cannot be certain that the russian airliner was brought down by a terrorist bomb, but because it's a strong possibility it's right to act. >> reporter: 20,000 british tourists are stranded as some of the 224 victims of the crash are laid to rest. tonight the plan is to begin to bring the british tourists home from sharm el sheikh tomorrow while the invest galgzs continue into what brought down the metrojet and whether a bomb could be put aboard at that airport. no reexamination of u.s. airport security has been announced. at ronald reagan airport, i'm steve handelsman, nbc news. a new poll shows a clear majority of voters don't approve of the way president obama is handling isis. 61% thinks the president needs a better strategy and 38% think
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he's doing a good job of responding to isis threats. it's dropped six points compared to a year ago. this survey was taken, special operations troops to syria specifically to help the fight against isis. the online hacking group, anonymous says it's going to leak information about a thousand ku klux klan members today. this is according to "the washington post." the group has set up a twitter handle called operation kkk. the goal here is to unmask those involved in white supremacy. they will identify kkk members and their supporters by name. it is unclear how accurate the information will be. neighbors woke up to a deadly shooting investigation this morning. police say they got to the 1400 block of southern avenue around 3:00 after the report of a shooting in a parking lot. they rushed the man who had been shot to the hospital where he then died. no word on any motive or
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suspects in the case. >> over at prince william county this afternoon police are looking for two suspects for a weekend murder in woodbridge. investigators discovered byron king and lamar lewis got into a fight with kinard and his body was discovered a short time later. he'd been stabbed to death and detectives say all three men knew each other. our weather today, pretty nice, but you know what? tomorrow is going to be just as nice. temperatures will get a chance very quickly tomorrow. what's going on across the area and today we have a little system that provided the area with some cloud cover as well as quite a bit of fog early this morning. tomorrow, same deal. we'll be dealing with patchy fog and the southwest will pick up throughout the day and there will be a lot of areas topping out in the upper 70s tomorrow and yes, that is unusual for this area. for this evening, for some of the j.v. games going on, mild
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conditions under a mostly clear sky and i think a perfect evening, indeed, if you'll be going out in terms of any recreation this evening, too. mild conditions, but you know what? things are going to change in a big way this upcoming weekend which you'll need to know and i'll have that coming up on the other side of the break. i'm jackie bensen in the tacoma park area. take a look behind me. police are on the scene of a terrible accident here on new hampshire avenue just north of the d.c. line. you can see a black mustang there, and then i'm going to ask a photographer to show you the second vehicle involved. you can see the damage to these two vehicles. we are told one car contained two adults, four children. all of them at the hospital in critical condition. two adults in the other car and right now investigators are trying to find out exactly what happened.
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obviously, from the way that these vehicles are damaged there was some level of speed involved in the collision. i can tell you on a secondary note, traffic on new hampshire avenue is stopped southbound. vehicles are allowed to go northbound, but the traffic in this area is just terrible. if there is any way that you can avoid it you are to do so at this time according to police. and again, we're trying to get more details on exactly what happened here. live in tacoma park, jackie bensen, news 4. >> boy, we hope those kids are going to be okay. we have new details from nasa regarding their latest mars probe and more evidence of how and why the environment on the red planet has changed so dramatically. nbc's jay gray shows us this step toward a manned mission to mars. >> reporter: the curiosity rover found evidence of lakes, rivers and minerals on mars, a surface that apparently once resembled earth, but now is barren and frozen. today nasa scientists say they're beginning to understand
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why. >> the solar wind is a thin gas from the sun is starting to blow away the martian atmosphere bit by bit and it's been doing it for billions of years. the latest revelation comes from the maven mission the first time ever a spacecraft has made direct measurements of the atmosphere. >> it's measuring atmospheric escape and we have the rovers on the surface and they're exploring the truth and what's available on the ground. >> reporter: here's what scientists know right now. there was water within our lifetime and methane identified in the atmosphere means mars is not a dead planet and ice water has been oifred on mars and strong evidence that it may also exist below the surface. those discoveries with today's new information, clearing a path for nasa's ultimate mission to the red planet. >> it's working together all of those scientific migs that can ultimately feed into the human exploration plan that nasa has
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for mars. >> reporter: something the agency continues to plan for, announcing this week they've opened applications ar astronauts for a manned space mission with a target date in the 2030s, jay gray, nbc news. talk about settling old scores. george h.w. bush tears into dick cheney. >> and more than a decade later, a missing boy found alive. yet teen never knew
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two local cities are among the best 50 cities to live across the country. that's according to 24/7. both alexandria, virginia, and gaithersburg, maryland make the cut. researchers say criteria like crime rates and educational opportunities and housing
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very different from the dick cheney i worked with. i think he served the president badly. cheney was, of course, george w. bush's vice president, rumsfeld was the secretary of the defense. a gay couple in maryland and their children are facing some harsh criticism online all because of a magazine profile. how they respond straight ahead. plus our warning about toxic crabs
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this story is generating a lot of conversation on our nbc washington facebook page right now. a maryland family is standing up to the backlash over a story in "american girl" magazine. the conservative group 1 million moms is calling for a boycott of american girl because it profiled an 11-year-old with two dads. news 4's jackie bensen spoke to them. >> the only thing they did was they showed an amazing, happy family. >> the november-december family of "american girl" magazine features joyful, exuberant, 11-year-old amaya. she talked about the charity her family founded that provides real travel bags filled with fresh toiletries to kids in foster care. she and her dad were both once foster kids lugging their stuff around in trash bags. pride turned to shock in the scheer home when a friend alerted rob that 1 million moms
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was calling to boycott "american girl" because of them. one of the pictures showed amaya and her three siblings with parents rob and reese scheer. she considers being gay to be a sin. >> i was shocked that this wasn't a group of men who i would expect from, these were moms. moms who were looking at a picture of our children and making a judgement on them. >> news of the boycott resulted in an outpouring of love for the scheer family. >> on sunday our congregation all stood to say that they loved us, they support us and that we are just like any other family. that's the only thing we asked for. we don't ask for any type of special rights. don't treat us any differently, just realize that we're just like everybody else. >> 1 million moms has 80,000 members who are being urged to boycott "american girl" and
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parent company mattel. and now your storm team 4 forecast. >> all right. a big story, the weather for tomorrow. the weather tomorrow may keep some of you from getting into work. that's right, because it's going to be so nice. the main issue for early part of the day tomorrow will once again be the fog, the widespread fog. you can see it here on our computer rendering. the fog all of the way to the west, right around i-81 and there will be some areas that dropped below a mile visibility and even as we get into 7:00 a.m. and there's gaithersburg and leesburg and of course, that was the case this morning that slowed down on area roads and that will be the case tomorrow morning again and mid-60s for testimo temperatures out the door and certainly not by the afternoon and a few clouds and some wind out on area roads and 78 degrees for the high temperature with those winds blowing and gusting around 20, 30 miles per hour, but again, still first thing out
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the door tomorrow you will not need the long pants. the shorts yes, and the short sleeves and everything short and there will be some clouds moving in, but still, you will need the sunglasses, as well. take a look at this. if you will be out tomorrow during the afternoon hours, recreational forecast, temperatures get into the mid-70s by 11:00 a.m., as early as 11:00 a.m. they'll hold in the 70s and not just through 3:00 and 5:00 which will be a mild evening and with a high temperature of 79 degrees, what we're forecasting that's just above the record high of 78 and well above the average of 62 degrees. big crash on the temperatures this upcoming weekend, though. friday night not bad and we're still in the 60s and can see a stray shower coming our way late in the day, but there will be some rain moving in in terms of how much rain and what kind of rain and we can see some moderate rain early in the day on saturday and that rain will be fairly light as it wraps up just to our south saturday
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afternoon. so we get the green light for midday as well as afternoon hours on saturday. the morning hours are more cautionary because roads will be wet and it's very likely that we'll have rain throughout the entire area on saturday. there it is, low-impact to medium impact just south of the areas of the northern neck. a look at the forecast, we have 61 degrees and falling throughout the day on saturday. sunday right now, the high 58 and we have a detailed look at your weekend on news 4 at 5:00. >> new video has been released showing a violent school bus brawl in florida. earlier this week police responded to a report of an argument on a bus outside orlando. they kicked and punched the officers. no one was badly hurt. a west coast thanksgiving tradition may not make it to the table this year. california fish and game commission has delayed the dungeness crab season because of an algae bloom off the west
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coast. the bloom has produced a dangerous neurotoxin that's been found in the crabs. the acid can cause memory loss, seizures and death in humans and it's sickened or killed multiple marine species. this has no impact on our local crabbing industry. "nightly news" is following the story and we'll have a full report coming up at 7:00. >> an experimental non-invasive weight loss treatment offers high hopes for those struggling with obesity and it's a gastric balloon that comes in the form of a pill. once you swallow a pill, the physician fills the balloon with nearly half a liter of liquid. after remaining in the stomach for four months or so, the balloon naturally dissolves and passes right through the body. a small group of study participants showed an average loss of weight of about 22 pounds. the device is not fda approved yet, but experts do believe this is a positive step toward treating obesity.
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>> there are approximately 90 million that are overweight or obese and they all need help and this is another tool to help us to get further treatment for those patients. >> now, the most common side effects from this device were nausea and vomiting and the cost could range anywhere from $6,000 to $12,000. a growing number of prominent doctors and scientists are raising red flags about just how much radiation we're being exposed to. the fcc regulates the guidelines for how much radiation our devices can give off, but that standard was developed nearly 20 years ago. a lot of devices have been invented since then. so the government accountability office wants the fcc to reconsider reassessing those standards especially when we use our modern phones directly against our body. >> phones are transmitting radiation so long as they're connected to the internet and connected to the wi-fi and even if you're not talking on your
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phone, your phone is talking to the tower. >> the fcc says it has some of the most conservative radiation standards in the world, but if you want to play it safe, experts say go hands-free whenever possible. former congressman patrick kennedy is trying to change minds to make mental health a priority in next year's election. kennedy calls his effort a new civil rights movement. the son of the late ted kennedy has had his own personal challenges. now he's fighting to end discrimination against those fighting mental illness, addiction and brain diseases. >> there's over twice the number of suicides as there are ho homicides. the overdose rate is skyrocketing. this is a call to action from -- for every political leader in this country. >> kennedy has been promoting his controversial tell-all book "common struggle" which
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discloses personal details about his family's health and alleged addictions. between a nail salon and a chinese take-out price restaurant in northwest d.c. lies a special message to all believers from the man himself, justin bieber. the singer is coming out with a brand new album this month and he's commissioned 18 murals in cities across the world to help songs. d.c. is one of the cities. the feeling is the name of the ninth track on his album which he revealed on instagram. fans have been seen taking pictures with the painting on rhode island avenue. we are working several developing stories in the newsroom right now. a man is recovering after a greyhound bus hit him yesterday near mount vernon square. he ended up pinned beneath the bus, but fortunately there was a doctor who happened to be walking by. he stopped and helped the man before rescue crews got there. tom sherwood's interview with that doctor. a cold case cracked thanks
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to a college application. why a boy missing for more than a decade never knew he was
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this probably isn't the way a burglar wanted to drop in for dinner. surveillance video shows the guy falling through the ceiling of a restaurant in daytona beach tuesday. he was trying to rob the joint by crawling through the air ducts and customers were able to
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subdue him until cops got there. a teenager applies for college and finds out he's in a national database of missing children. >> yeah. this is a 13-year-old kidnapping case and chris ty has more on its unusual surprise ending. >> reporter: this was julian age 5 and this is an age progression picture of who police have been locking for since august 2002. some time between then and now his non-custodial father bobby hernandez who went by the alias jonathan mangin attack him from alabama to cleveland. flyers had authorities looking in florida, tampa or key west. no one was looking at this house on the west side of cleveland where neighbors tonight say -- >> he's been here three to five years, somewhere around here and he's been a pretty cool guy. i can't say nothing bad about him. i had no idea that should happened. >> reporter: the son went by j.j. he was unharmed when police arrested his father this
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weekend. over the last few weeks j.j. or julian applied to college according to alabama authorities and when his social security number didn't match the rolls, his cleveland school counselor got involved and they got the center for missing and exploited children involved. they helped put the pieces together that led to an arrest of his father bobby where his son is tonight, ohio or alabama is unclear. his dad is behind bars. ♪ it leads to a massive man hunt. a good samaritan gets conned into helping people get away. a lot of tension here on pope's head road. >> it's unusual. i'm seeing things i don't normally see. we have team coverage that continues with another wild crash. this one happening here at a motel. turns out it was a case of road rage. i asked him, i said what's your problem and he kept
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shooting me the bird. news 4 at 5:00 begins with breaking news. first tonight, a teenage tragedy, two brothers never made it to school this morning. good evening. i'm jim handly. >> i'm wendy rieger and now we're learning what happened and the word is spreading quickly in virginia. derrick ward is live in spotsylvania count we this breaking news. >> reporter: we are outside spotsylvania high school. there is a sporting event going on now and there is a paul cast over this family because of the tragedy. two members of the same family killed on their way to school earlier today. it happened at about 7:12 this morning on route 639. state police say a 2003 jeep liberty driven by 18-year-old ian brown was westbound on route 639 about 30 minutes from the school when that jeep left the road and hit several trees. 18-year-old ian brown seen in a picture here on the right and the 15-year-old brother jaylen
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on the left were both killed and pronounced dead on the scene. luther glen virginia which is 20 miles south of here. state police is still investigating this crash and we do know there was a lot of fog in the region and all across the region earlier this morning. grief counselors have been on hand here at the school and we understand that a candlelight vigil is planned for later tonight. the student body can remember and mourn this terrible loss. again, two brothers killed on the way here to this school in spotsylvania and that crash remains under investigation. we are live, derrick ward, news 4. i'm jackie bensen in prince george's county. a catastrophic accident here on new hampshire avenue just north of the d.c. line. a short time ago, take a look behind me. you can see one of the cars, that black

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