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reagan or any other american airport about security changes yet because of what happened or didn't happen in britain. those 20,000 british citizens marooned in sharm el sheikh, they were vacationing, and they will get to start to go ho tomorrow, but it's not the resumption of commercial flights and special planes have been sent down and the they won't be able to take their regular luggage home, just carry-ones and security childrens are still high on the list of worries for the brits and president obama spoke about this and the president says we, meaning the americans, will be spending a lot of time to make sure that we figure out exactly what's going on before we make any definitive pronouncements, but he says, it is certainly possible there was a bomb onboard. officials here in washington very concerned that isis might have demonstrated a frightening new capability. at the scene of the crash investigators are still looking for conclusive evidence that the
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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. u.s. and british officials say it's likely that isis bombed 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. >> since pilots first attacked isis and the russians began a few weeks ago, 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 aboard in sharm el sheikh airport where the plane took off, the british government continued the plan on uk planes using that airport even though egypt's president today 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.
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>> reporter: 20,000 british tourists are stranded at some of the 224 victims of the crash are laid to rest. so again, tomorrow those 20,000 brits will start to head home. special arrangements made while the investigations continue into what brought down the plane and whether a bomb was put on at sharm el sheikh airport. live from reagan national airport, steve handelsman, news 4. >> thanks, steve. all of this comes as president obama continues to lose support by the american public for the way he is handling the threat of isis. 68% of americans disapprove of the president's approach. 53 people felt that way. this poll was done before last friday's announcement that u.s. special op troops would be heading to northern syria. we're following some breaking news in tacoma park tonight. doctors are working to save the
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lives of four children who were critically injured in a crash on new hampshire avenue. it happened near the maryland, d.c., line and news 4's jackie bensen is there right now. jackie, what's going on? >> reporter: doreen, what was here was a downhill slope and two american sports cars, muscle cars, a mustang and a camaro. in one car, one single man. in the other car, two adults, four children, and as you said, those children are hospitalized in very, very serious condition. now we want to swing over and show you, this is the camaro, we believe. that is the car that the children were in. police are just getting ready to tow it out of here as part of an investigation that's been going on here for a couple of hours now. new hampshire avenue north of the district has been heavily affected by this all afternoon and metro busses have had to be re-routed. police took their time with this because this is a very, very important investigation, this accident reconstruction team is
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only called out for very, very serious accidents, and as you can see, they're getting ready to tear away that mustang. jackie bensen, news 4. >> the hunt continues for four people who escaped and a police pursuit after conning an unknowing driver. this was the scene near braddock road this morning. one man was taken into custody, but the other people in the car escaped after they convinced a neighbor to give them a ride. pat collins talked to homeowners who were on edge for hours as cops searched their properties with their guns drawn. physical reminders tonight of the dangers and consequences of road rage. a dispute between two drivers ended up with both of them smashing into a motel. it happened this morning on richmond highway in the alexandria section of fairfax county. our meagan fitzgerald has our report tonight. meagan? >> reporter: and the owner of
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this motel says one of his employees could have been seriously injured all because of a road rage incident. he says his maid was inside this room cleaning. he had just left when the toyota corolla came crashing through. now he doesn't know if or when he'll reopen. kenneth blunt has owned the budget host motel since he built it in the 1950s. he calls it a labor of life. >> a life time, a lifetime of work and work for others. >> reporter: but on thursday morning at around 11:00 his business was forced to close his doors. >> road rage doesn't help and you see the results of road rage. >> fairfax county police say two cars ended up crashing into two separate rooms. >> bensen was driving this silver dodge and said it started near richmond highway and duke street. 50-year-old elmer king who was
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driving a toyota corolla got upset when he wouldn't let him over. >> i said what's your problem? he was shooting me the bird and doing the gun signal. >> roger enriquez says king hit a lexus while chasing densen right near the intersection of hunt road. >> they both continued and went off the driveway into the private property of the hotel. >> reporter: that's when densen hit the park the honda that crashes through one room while king's corolla collided near the hotel lobby. >> one of the maids just came out of the room, fortunately, before it was struck. >> reporter: he's thankful no one was hurt, but because of the damage, he says it's possible he may be forced to close down. >> forced retirement and it's a case if you can't do business then you're out of business. >> reporter: fairfax county police say king has been charged with aggressive driving.
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as for the owner of this motel, he tells us he's waiting on the county to determine the next step. doreen? >> meagan fitzgerald, thank you. metro will formally introduce a new leader in a couple of weeks. tonight there's talk about what paul wiedefeld needs to do to make the metro experience better. here's news 4's adam tuss with early reaction to the big announcement. >> reporter: how do you turn around metro? well, that is a big challenge. the first order of business according to mort downey, wiedefeld needs to get out and mix with riders to see what they're going through. >> absolutely. i think he needs to do it every day just like i did, okay? >> reporter: from outside of metro, reaction from the head of the greater washington board of trade. >> overall, what paul needs to do with the entire team is to help start restoring confidence in metro. ridership has to pick back up and the finances have to get strengthened and safety has to be a real top priority.
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>> reporter: those that know him say wiedefeld is a doer. aviation background, transit background and he's expanded bwi marshall airport to the major player it is today, seeing record numbers of passengers. >> he covers, i believe, all of the requirements that the various jurisdictions are looking for. >> reporter: he'll be formally appointed at the next board meeting on november 19th. in a statement wiedefeld said he was humbled and excited. >> reporter: and back out here now live at metro headquarters. turning metro around is certainly not going to be an easy task by any stretch of the imagination, but the full metro board expressing confidence in this pick. guys? >> adam tuss, mr. wiedefeld and anybody who rides metro could give him a long to-do list, and what do you think is the first thing that riders could see when he takes office? >> reporter: doreen, my advice to mr. wiedefeld would be to focus on the customer, the experience of metro has to get
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better before everything else turns around. they simply just have to start getting through rush hours without trains breaking down and they have to focus maintenance and they have to take care of those things first and everything else including ridership and finances will fall back in line. >> a huge culture change needs to happen at metro is what most people say. how long -- how soon can we begin to see some change, in your opinion, adam? >> reporter: that's a fair question, doreen. a lot of people are wondering when something will change with metro. the metro board chair told us today he does not expect a day one miracle, but he did lay out a time line. he says six months in he expects mr. wiedefeld a full plan to what to do and one year in he expects full results. so we'll have to see what happens. >> okay. adam tuss, we know you'll keep us posted. thank you. the state of new hampshire in the presidential spotlight tonight. today marco rubio filed paperwork for the primary on
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february 9th there and carly fiorina did the same. candidates who do not file on november 20th will not appear on the ballot in new hampshire. former governor martin o'malley was the first candidate to hand in his paperwork and he did that yesterday and bernie sanders is running for the democratic nomination and he filed his paperwork today as a democrat, but it is donald trump's campaign that is making the most news today. chris lawrence has more on that from our newsroom, chris? >> donald trump is trying something new on the campaign trail r buying air time. in fact, $300,000 worth of radio ads and the new spots are playing in the early primary and caucus states like iowa, new hampshire and south carolina and his upcoming appearance on "saturday night live" is sparking backlash from latino activists who want nbc to cancel him and then there's the online promo he did for the show. >> because of equal time rules for television mr. trump can only speak for four seconds in
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this promo. >> so let me just say this, ben carson is a complete and total loser. >> nbc later removed that ad. dr. ben carson declined to respond in kind, but he was able to get in a dig. >> i discovered when i was in grade school that those tactics really are for grade school. >> reporter: carson and trump do have something in common. today the department of homeland security approved secret service details for both of them. the campaigns made the requests last month and this will make them the first republican candidates to get the protective detail. doreen? >> chris lawrence, thank you. over on the democratic side there are questions whether burdeny sanders has changed his mind about hillary clinton and her emails. sanders was widely seen to be giving clinton a pass during the democratic debate when he declared that the american people and he were tired of hearing about her emails, but now in a new "wall street
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journal" interview sanders is saying there are valid questions about the handling of clinton's emails and clinton's inconsistency on some issues speaks to, in his word, the character of a person. today clinton's campaign accused the sanders campaign of reversing a pledge to refrain from personal attacks. a split-second decision. we'll hear from a local doctor who jumped into action to help a man who was pinned under a bus and why she felt compelled to help. >> what we're learning about the moments before a local teen was shot and killed on the way to the bus stop. a new twist after a police officer staged his own suicide. we'll tell you why he tried to hire a hitman. and temperatures today got into the 70s and even 80 degrees just to the left and tomorrow everyone gets in on the action, everyone gets in on the action, but it will not last for l
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works with the american medical college on health issues and she travels the world on mercy missions. >> i traveled to syria and turkey and congo and i do rain and torture evaluations. >> reporter: moments after a bus on k street pinned a pedestrian underneath she knew what to do. >> i had a backpack on, and i threw the backpack off, and i slid under the bus and it was very clear that his left leg was pinned under the two-wheel system. >> reporter: dr. kivlahan who lives in arlington was there before first responders. >> reporter: what was your thought process? >> i thought if there was someone under it was someone i may be able to extract and if he was pinned he may need immediate medical care before 911 arrives. >> reporter: there were more tense moments. >> i was giving reports to the police and fire fighters and to the paramedics as they arrived. >> reporter: you weren't just there for a couple of moments. >> no, i was under there for a ilths bit. >> reporter: do you have a sense of how long? >> i don't know how long. i don't have any idea and i was
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under there until they were able to get the appropriate bus jack to try to move the bus off. >> reporter: she praised the work of all the first responders. >> the emergency response was amazing. >> i think they were spectacular human beings. i think this is what they do every day. i don't think the story is about me. it's about them. >> what did her four children and her husband think of her heroics staying with the victim. >> if my husband had been here, they would say colleen, i hope the emergency brake is on, and if it rolled i wanted to be there with him. in the district, tom sherwood, news 4. a plaintiff in illinois who staged his suicide has now been accused of trying to hire a hitman to kill a town official. lieutenant charles gliniewicz is accused of stealing thousands of dollars from a youth program that he oversaw at the fox lake police department. investigators say he wanted to hire someone to kill the village administrator so that she wouldn't find out about the theft during an audit.
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gliniewicz shot himself two months ago and staged it to look like he was killed in the line of duty. his wife and eldest son are also being investigated now. there are new revelations tonight about the murder of a teenager in sterling. we now know why a park view high school student was shot to death as he walked to the school bus stop. bureau chief julie carey is in leesburg with details you will only hear on news 4. >> detectives testified today it was a gang rivalry that left one 17-year-old dead, another 17-year-old charged with his murder and tonight, charges against two other young men charged with being accessories after the fact, they are moving ahead to the grand jury. it was a shooting that played out in full view of park view high school students headed to the bus stop. 17-year-old danny santana miranda killed only a year after he came to this country from el salvador. these two men, 20-year-old henry
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vasquez and juan zelaya are accused of helping the shooter try to hide the evidence. a detective who interviewed the men testified they knew the accused shooter as a fellow ms-13 gang member known as the mexican. they say he shot santana miranda because he believed danny was with the rival 18th street gang. after the gun fire, the 17-year-old alleged shooter ran to a townhouse in the same complex. the detectives says during an interrogation, zelaya admitted he threw away the shell casings from the suspect's revolver. vasquez told the detective the shooter used his phone to call gang leaders in el salvador to tell them about the killing and the alleged murder weapon, detectives found it in the freezer at the townhouse wrapped in foil, concealed in a carry-out food container. >> the sterling murder case is drawing national attention from chuck grassley, just sent this letter to homeland security asking why the three men accused hadn't been detained or
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deported? he reports they crossed the border from texas in 2013 as unaccompanied minors. they failed to appear in a 2015 hearing and deportation orders were issued. writes grassley, had these subjects appeared for their mandatory court date they would have likely not had the opportunity to murder a 17-year-old high school student. senator grassley's letter demands answers to a long list of questions about the young men involved in this case. we'll be following up to see what he learns. back to you now, vance. >> thanks, julie. some relief for the metro riders on the orange and silver line. beginning monday, trains will once again stop at the armory station. a fire did serious damage to a power substation there that forced metro to allow only blue-line trains to stop that stadium armory during peak travel times. metro originally thought it would be next year before normal service could resume, but thanks to upgrades at nearby potomac
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avenue, that service will resume well ahead of time. a local woman missing for days and the last person to see her alive was a police officer. hear the emotional plea from her family as investigators comb the scene for clues. a police chase turns into a man hunt. people on the run on pope's head road. the story coming up. >> a new weight loss treatment is getting a lot of attention and we'll tell you how it's he
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and now your storm team 4 forecast. >> and that forecast is a very warm one, and it's also a very cool one. let's take a look and show you what's happening outside the west. this is the storm system that we're watching right now. look at the front. very clearly defined here by the thunderstorms and a lot of
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storms going on. and there were tornado warnings right now for tornadoes on the ground into portions of oklahoma. this whole system moves our way and it will help us tomorrow to bump more temperatures up again during the day. here's what to expect on your friday and very warm conditions and it will feel like mid-september across the area if not late august and a touch humid, rather and winds gusting 20 to 30 miles per hour and it will help you get to the mid to upper 70s and yes, we are predicting a record high temperature tomorrow. dress for warm weather. that means the shorts on if you'll be going for that run and the short-sleeve shirts and 79 by 1:00 and 79 degrees by the 3:00 hour. future weather timing out tomorrow morning around 7:00 a.m. and notice fog once again, right along the blue ridge to the east and give yourself extra time and tomorrow it's just warm with some sunshine and a very nice afternoon on your friday and tomorrow evening, look at the shower activity and we could
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see a couple of showers and if you're thinking about eating outdoors tonight and if you're staying out late tomorrow around 10:00, 11:00, and notice the rain coming in here and some of the rain could be on the moderate side and if you are going to be making it into saturday and saturday morning, also notice a chance of showers down to the south and somebody asked me about the game. and that's something we'll watch as we move through the next couple of days. high temperature, 709 your friday and saturday we go from 61 down to 64 and i'll go more in-depth on the saturday forecast and what you may need to wear to prepare, as well. >> thanks, doug. coming up, new images from a rocket explosion in virginia. we haven't seen these before. how a u.s. park police officer may have been the last to see a woman who then
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the clock to find a woman missing since halloween. >> we just need to bring her back home to us because the more time she's out there it's just -- it's just sad. we just need to find her and bring her back home as soon as possible. >> we'll tell you about the mysterious circumstances surrounding her disappearance. >> a wild police chase and crash. >> it's not something that happens every day. >> how a bystander unknowingly helped four suspects get away. >> we learned the two victims were brother attending the same high school. >> a new breakthrough with weight loss for people struggling with obesity. >> this is just another tool to help us to further treatment for those patients. >> new clues about the rapidly changing atmosphere on mars. we'll report what it means for future space travel. >> first at 6:30 on a busy night, the desperate search for a missing woman. >> the last person to talk to her was a police officer. no one has seen her since.
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her family says time is running out as the search now moves into its fifth night. our chris gordon is in laurel, maryland, with the latest on this. chris? >> reporter: now, police had been thinking that if she ran out of gas on the bw parkway she could have come here to the nearby sunoco station. they posted her picture about five days after lisa wyche disappeared no one here has seen her. >> right now we're just hoping and praying for her to be found today. this being crucial. >> reporter: his wife, 46-year-old lisa renee wyche has been missing since saturday night. she was visiting her sister and was heading home to district heights southbound on the bw parkway when she had car trouble. >> saturday evening shortly after 7:00 p.m. a united states park police officer approached mrs. wyche and she was pulled overed on the side of the parkway and mrs. wyche indicated she was out of gas, but she was
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making her own arrangements and didn't need the assistance of the officer so he continued on his patrol. the next day was still on the shoulder of the parkway, but mrs. wyche was gone. >> today u.s. park police officers on horseback searched the fields and woods near the bw parkway. a caller saturday night reported seeing someone fitting her description walking in the median. her husband is worried because mrs. wyche doesn't have her medication. he says she suffered kidney failure and since her disappearance she's missed dialysis twice so far this week. >> we've been trying to get her healthy and she to me is first, foremost above anything. >> we need to bring her back home to us because the more time she's out there, it's just -- it's just sad, we just need to find her and bring her back home as soon as possible. >> the u.s. park police will return to this area to continue their search for lisa wyche
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tomorrow. that's the latest. live in laurel, jim, back to you. >> thanks, chris. tense moments in fairfax county as officers spent hours searching for people involved in a police chase. that chase ended with a mangled cruiser, one guy in custody and four others still on the run. >> it all came to a head in a wooded area just off the county parkway along pope's head road. pat collins has our report. it was a man hunt of major proportions. cops, guns, dogs, vehicles, all up and around pope's head road, and it had people here on edge. there was, like, five, six cop cars and motorcycles and they were all convening right here. i made sure all of our doors were locked and had the babysitter take the baby upstairs. >> reporter: the target of the search, this man. police say he's 20 years old. they say he's from woodbridge, and they found him right behind
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jim ishee's house. >> we had dogs out sniffing and that probably flushed him out. >> reporter: police say this morning they tried to stop the man for speeding, but that he bolted and made a getaway and then came that man hunt. and on the way to the scene the officer crashed his cruiser. they say he's expected to be okay. now police say the suspect had a revoked license. so far, he's been charged with speeding and reckless driving. but there's more police work to be done here. police say the suspect wasn't in the car alone. they say he had four other people with him and they ran off in a different direction and managed to con a resident here to drive them away from the search scene. in fairfax county, pat collins, news 4. the incident related to cosmetic waxing sparked a fire
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inside a montgomery county nail salon and it happened across the street from the westfield wheaton mall and the flames quickly spread to the ceiling and nearby businesses were also damaged and nobody was hurt in this fire. the president is calling out washington's football team once again tonight for its name. >> president obama spoke to to the tribal nation's conference this afternoon. while talking about a new initiative by the company adidas to help will skoos arouschools country to change mascots that could be considered offensive, the president offered this. >> i don't know if adidas made the same offer to a certain nfl team here in washington, but they might want to think about that, as well. >> adidas does sponsor rg3. the team issued a statement today calling adidas hypocritical for continuing to make gear for pro sports teams with native american mascots. former rhode island
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congressman patrick kennedy was in washington today, pushing for changes to the way we treat mental illness and addiction in this country. kennedy says brain health is not treated the same as other health issues like heart disease or cancer. he calls it a medical civil rights struggle. >> we treat mental illness and addiction as a stage 4 illness. with every other illness we would be in there with early intervention and wraparound services. the answer to all these tragedies, overdoses, shootings, suicides is to treat these illnesses, not ignore them. >> that is the answer. >> patrick kennedy is trying to make mental health and addiction a top domestic priority in the 2016 election. he has had a long and public battle with addiction as well as a bipolar disorder diagnosis. kennedy shared his story with us last year as part of our
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"changing minds" series. you can watch that story on nbcwashington.com, just search changing minds. donald rumsfeld is firing back at former president george h.w. bush. in his new book the 41st president says rumsfeld, in his words served the president badly. mr. bush was referring to rumsfeld's time as defense secretary under the elder bush's son george w. bush. in a statement released today rumsfeld says, and i quote, bush 41 is getting up in years and misjudges bush 43 who i found made his own decisions. >> up next, a fake nurse caring for bobbi kristina brown exposed. now we're learning about the suspect's ties to our area. and a potential breakthrough in the fight against obesity. first, though, here's doug. record high temperatures tomorrow and maybe getting out
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we've seen pictures of the explosion before, but not quite like these, nasa put out photographs of the disastrous rocket launch from wallops island last october. a company called orbital sciences owned the unmanned rocket. ney one was injured in that explosion, but it did cost $15 million in damage and they couldn't use the launchpad for months and it is back in operation now. and it delayed a resupply mission for the international space station. scientists are discovering yet environment on the red
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planet has changed so dramatically. nbc's jay gray reports. >> the curiosity rover found evidence of lakes and minerals on mars, it once resembled earth, but now is barren and frozen. today nasa scientists say they're beginning to could why. >> the solar wind and the 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 data reported from the maven mission, the first time ever a spacecraft has made direct measurements of the atmosphere. >> we're trying to answer the question of atmospheric escape and we have the rovers that are exploring the truth of what happened in mars and what's available on the ground. >> here's what scientists know right now and there was water flowing on mars within our lifetime that methane means that mars is not a dead planet and ice from water has been identified on mars, strong
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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. >> we're working together all of those scientific missions can ultimately feed into the human exploration plan that nasa has for mars. >> something the agency continues to plan for announcing this week they've opened applications for a mars space mission with the target date of the 2030s. jay gray, nbc news. there say new procedure for people battling obesity and a lot of people are getting excited about it. it's called ellipse. it's a pill with a gastric balloon inside and a catheter attached to it. once swallowed, a doctor fills the balloon with fluid helping the patient to feel full much more quickly. after four month, the balloon naturally dissolves and passes through the body. a small study shows an average weight loss of 22 pounds at the end of a four-month period.
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>> we have quite a few people in this country, approximately 90 million that are overweight or obese and they all need help and this is just another tool to help us to get to further treatment for those patients. the treatment costs between $600 and $1200. this device has not yet been approved by the fda and still undergoing clinical trials. we reported some time ago about the woman accused of impersonating a nurse and caring for bobbi kristina brown in hospice care. now we learned she pulled a similar stunt in washington, all of that according to the d.c. board of nursing. officials say taiwo sobamowo used someone else's license number to get a job as a registered nurse at a d.c. facility back in 2013. 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
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northern virginia community are coming together in thewake of a car accident that killed two teenagers. they were brothers on their way to school, but they never made it there. police say the teenagers' jeep hit two trees as they tried to get to spotsylvania high school this morning. news 4's derrick ward says plans are under way for a candlelight vigil for the brothers tonight. >> reporter: a rainy, morning on a rural, windy road, two brothers on their way to school, they were about a quarter mile west of county line church road westbound when the 2003 jeep liberty they were in left the road and hit several trees. the two brothers identified as 18-year-old ian brown, a senior and a 15-year-old brother jaylen brown, a sophomore were both killed, pronounced dead on the scene. state police are investigating the cause of that crash. it happened about 30 minutes from the school. grief counselors were on hand during the day. the accident hit this school particularly hard. the richmond times dispatch
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reports the mother of the two students is a teacher at spotsylvania high school and the cause of the crash remains under investigation. a candlelight vigil is planned in memory of the two students later this evening. in spotsylvania, derrick ward, news 4. >> a child reported missing 13 years ago has been found. julian hernandez was 5 years old when his father took him from his mother's home in 2002. the fbi was tipped off last week when hernandez started applying to colleges and his social security number could not be verified. he'd been living with his father in cleveland, ohio. police do not believe julian knew he had been abducted as a child. his father will face charges in both states. now to our weather, tomorrow temperatures are going to dramatically shift. tomorrow will be great, but then -- >> then you will need the coats.
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tomorrow it's the shorts and t-shirt weather and on saturday it is the coats and maybe the umbrellas and saturday, not a nice day for many of us across the area and tomorrow, simply gorgeous. take a look outside right now and look at the capital wheel there and all lit up tonight and temperatures on the mild side and most areas, though, in the 70s, even close to 80 in some areas earlier. right now 65 at the airport and 64 at 7:00 and down to 62 by 11:00 and very nice. the one thing we could deal with fog early tomorrow morning and remember that when you step out the front door tomorrow and still 70 in leesburg and college park coming in at 61 and nothing on the radar and we are clear once again as we move on through the rest of the evening and the next chance of rain comes tomorrow night and not during the day, and here's your 8:00 a.m. forecast, fog and 64 degrees and 72 by noon and plenty of sunshine and we'll see the highs move back in with the highs close to 80 and by 8:00
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we're looking at shower activity there, so you may want to take the umbrella if you're thinking of getting dinner out. now saturday we will see a chance for rain early in the day and best chance southern maryland in fredericksburg and low chance in and around the d.c. metro area and still a chance and this is something that we'll be watching and north and west of d.c., i think you're okay and if you're headed to st. james episcopal, i think the weather is looking okay and it will be breezy and cool and dress warm during the day on your saturday and dropping to 54 on saturday afternoon and a 54 chance of showers during the day. and 58 degrees again on monday and next week, temperatures rise above average next wednesday and into thursday. coming up on monday, we've got our storm team 4 winter weather forecast and you don't want to miss that and speaking of that, tomorrow is storm team 4 friday on social media and we'll be all over social media on twitter,
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i'm not really intimidated or anything by stars because i was a star. when the game starts it's not about money. it's about whether i kick your butt or you kick mine. i'm not sounding cocky or nothing, but you know, i don't see a whole bunch of dudes out there that look better than me now. [ laughter ] >> all right. we already like him. >> oh, yeah! >> he's the man! >> he hasn't won a game yet, but he won the press conference today. >> he also knows al adels and i have to love him and i'll bet there's not ten people out there now that won't look it up. go ahead and do your sports report. >> only time will tell if dusty
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baker is the right man to lead this nationals club ask based on his credentials baker seems like the perfect fit. managing big-time personalities is easier when you have a huge personality yourself. carol maloney was at nationals park for dusty's press conference and she has more on the club's new skipper. >> my mom used to be a model and she would go like this. >> reporter: he has the walk of a winner and an impressive list of friends. >> i talked to the great bill russell and nelson mandela to the president down. dusty baker is still seeking one thing. a ring. >> i always have teams and have to build them up and he said dusty, you do more with less. i said i'm ready to do more with more. >> they literally had their hands on each other's throats by the end. >> he knowledge innes people well. they trust him and he's a motivator and a communicator and
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a guy that really squeezes the most talent out of each and every part of the roster. >> i can not only bring xs and os, but i want to bring closeness to the team as soon as possible from top to bottom and the great teams i've been on and organizations that i've been in, everybody had a positive attitude and people coming to the stadium from the janitor to the administrative assistant to the ownership to the players. >> bringing players together, that's dusty baker's strength. gm mike rizzo today nwould not confirm if he was the first choice, only that he was the right choice. carol maloney, news 4 sports. >> were you able to google al adels? >> for the warriors? >> yes! >> bad dude. i thought he was 5'4" and he's only 6 feet tall. >> he still might have been a power forward. >> dusty has in store for the
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nationals and also the team did announce davey looks would be the team's first base coach going forward. moving on to football, the redskins are still trying to get healthy for this weekend's matchup over the new england patriots and seven guys including the like of desean jackson and chris culver and ryan kerrigan. corey lichten steiger did not participate at all, and just one more practice day tomorrow and it should shed more light on the injury situation going forward. >> to the basketball court, how about the start for the wizards and that young man in particular? bradley biel knocking down -- oh! >> the game winner! a passionate dagger right there over the san antonio spurs since gilbert arenas in 2009 with at least 100 points in the season's first four games. he is off to a great start.
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