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only been on the force two years when he was killed by someone believed to be a drunk driver. >> today, on the way to the medical examiner's office, they drove his body past the station house where he served. his buddies were out in full force and his chief was clearly most upset. pat collins picks up our story from there. pat? >> jim, flags here at half-staff at the station where he worked. black draped over the front door all in honor of officer noah leotta. you know, he was only 24 years old. he was only on the force a couple of years, but they're going to remember him a long, long time. at the hospital where he died, on the roads he patrolled, at the place he was stationed an outpouring of love and respect for officer noah leotta. >> we have lost a great police
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officer today. this county is worse because officer noah leotta is not out driving around his patrol car, that he is not out here serving the community. >> reporter: in a police-escorted procession, the body of noah leotta taken to his home station where scores of his fellow officers gave him a final salute. there were a lot of hugs and tears and a lot of love. police say officer leotta was killed last week in rockville when he was struck by a car driven by a drunk driver. officer leotta was out trying to arrest drunk drivers at the time. officer leotta had only been on the force a couple of years, but he made quite an impression on his fellow officers. >> he's an officer that always had a smile on his face even if there wasn't something to smile about. >> this kid was very passionate
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about this job. he was our intern in the alcohol unit. he worked very hard to be a police officer, and i saw him the night before he went out. >> for the rest of us it yum boldens out to go out and protect the community and try and get the drunk drivers off the road. >> reporter: officer noah leotta, end of watch december 10, 2015. jim, back to you. >> pat collins. thanks, pat. now to the investigation and the frustration with drunk driving laws with police in montgomery county. pat lawson muse continues the coverage. >> the man who hit officer leotta had been, quote, smoking dope and drinking for four hours before getting behind the wheel and that he had been arrested twice before for drunk driving. chief tom major spoke out in clear frustration today about the specifics of this investigation and he was very emotional about the loss of noah
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leotta in a way we haven't seen before. he pointed out that leotta was trying to keep drunk drivers off the road and chief major emotionally called for tougher penalties for people who take lives while driving drunk. >> the state of maryland has some of the weakest penalties for drunk drivers, and in fact, as we look ahead to the prosecution of this case, i can tell you that whenever it's done there's little chance of real justice being done because until the state of maryland starts taking these crimes, and i'm talking about the crime of a drunk driver behind the wheel of a car who is killing someone, until they take this crime seriously there is no justice for these families. there is no justice for these victims. >> many people have been sending condolences to officer leotta's family on the nbc washington facebook page and if you would like to do so or send a donation in honor of his memory we have a
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link to do so in the nbc washington app. new developments in the san bernardino shooting investigation. there is a search under way in a lake in san bernardino county. the fbi confirms to nbc news that the search is connected to the terror attack that killed 14 people last week. it's not clear yet what divers hope to find. meanwhile, investigators are still talking to enrique marquez. he is a longtimeriend of shooter syed rizwan farook and he provided the high-powered assalt rifles that were used in the shooting. investigators tell nbc news that marquez says that farook talked about a possible terror attack, but had cold feet when four men in southern california were charged with plans to go to afghanistan to attack u.s. soldiers. today we are seeing the first funeral for the 14 victims of that attack last wednesday. a service for 27-year-old yvette velasco began about an hour ago at a cemetery in covina hills.
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she spent her years working her way up in the health department and she was hoping to receive her inspector badge last week at the holiday party that became the scene of terror. they gave the badge to her parents and her sisters yesterday. a tip from the cia led to the heightened alert level in geneva, switzerland, today. police say they're looking for several people in connection with a terror threat. at the european headquarters of the united nations in jen avenua, secure the guards are heavily armed and posted at entry points. the u.s. embassy is advising americans in geneva to be vigilant and to monitor media sources for any updates. employees at the center for american islamic relations are back in their offices on capitol hill after a scare there earlier today. this afternoon an employee opened annen vel open that had a white, powdery substance inside.
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the building was evacuated, but a field test showed that the powder is not dangerous. cair says it receives threats on a daily basis and so this one was treated seriously. now to the presidential race. donald trump's controversial call for a temporary ban on muslims entering the u.s. is sparking from tests like this one in downtown washington today, but he insists it's paying off politically. steve handelsman is live at the hotel trump project with the latest. steve? >> reporter: eun, thanks. here on pennsylvania avenue not far from the white house, four blocks this trump international hotel, one of the biggest projects under construction now here in the city of washington. it's a symbol of donald trump, the candidate who today is bigger than ever. >> donald trump's new poll number is as huge as the sign on his hotel project. the trump best, 35% support more
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than double his nearest rivals in the cbs new york times poll of republicans. >> i believe donald trump is trying to do something for america that no one has ever done. >> the poll was done after san bernardino as trump demanded a ban on muslims entering the u.s. a political move that was risky, but paid off trump said today on "fox & friends." i understand the new polls have been higher because a lot of people agree with me, but i certainly didn't do it for numbers. >> a push to do that in canada than to get bruk. >> i've intriesed legislation that would impose a three-year moratorium from refinalingees from a country where they -- >> i believe the republican nominee is someone that can hold the general election and i don't
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think donald trump has. >> oh, yeah, says the gop front-runner. >> i'm getting criticism from people that have no poll numbers. trump is doing better than ever in a firestorm that he is fanning. >> reporter: but donald trump s is -- >> steve handelsman reporting. we apologize for the interruption in his report there. there were more protests today in chicago. this time a group of medical students marched to city hall. they did it this morning and then they lay down on the sidewalk. it was called a die-in. it lasted 16 minutes representing the 16 times that laquan mcdonald was shot and killed by a chicago police officer last year. it is the latest in a string of protests following several high-profile police-involved shootings and beatings in that city. more rallies are planned for tonight.
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witnesses took the stand today in defense of baltimore officer william porter's actions during the freddie gray arrest. porter's lawyers are trying to say that the injuries were self-inflicted. chris gordon is live in baltimore with the developments in the trial. chris? >> reporter: well, defense lawyers for baltimore police officer william porter called their second medical expert in the past two days. they are trying to convince the jury that nothing officer porter could have done would have saved freddie gray's life. >> the jury has to decide whether freddie gray broke his neck and if not getting him medical help was criminal negligence amounting to manslaughter in the trial of police officer william porter. neurosurgeon dr. matthew emerman from d.c. testified that freddie gray's injuries would have immediately paralyze him making him unable to talk or move. i don't think it was a
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survivable injury. >> think the doctor gave him another expert to say you see, the experts don't even agree here. >> reporter: the defense is expected to call a prisoner who was riding in the van with freddie gray to try to prove gri's injuries were self-impoeszed. donte allen, it's the first statement that he has, and he was thrashing around in the van. >> an expert on police proceed urs. long -- i think porter's decision was objectively reasonable. in baltimore, chris gordon, news 4. there is a battle in the works -- pardon me, for a critical congressional seat in northern virginia. today a local real estate executive announced that she will challenge the public and freshman barbara comstock in the 10th district. >> sochling prvling problems an
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results and that's what we expect from our leaders. i'm lu ann bennett. i'm announcing my candidacy for congress. >> bennett has never held elected office before, but she does have some political connections. she became a widow in 1994 and later married now retired virginia congressman jim moran. they divorced five years ago. congresswoman comstock wants work for republican congressman frank wolf. she was elected to his seat last fall after he announced his retirement. >> a murder victim's cell phone providing crucial clues for police. how recent text messages could lead investigators to her killer. the search for answers nearly two years after a little girl vanished. police now renewing their search for relisha rudd. breaking down the science on synthetic drugs. metro has lawmakers working together to fight the problem. we're talking about
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disappearance of a little girl named relisha rudd and it has led to a new search adan abandoned construction site in the district. that site is just across the street from a police station in northeast d.c. that little girl has been missing since march of 2014. she was last seen with a janitor who worked at d.c. general where she was living in a shelter there. mark segraves has more on the investigation. >> reporter: the search began early this morning on an abandoned construction site in northeast washington, not far from one of the last places relisha rudd was last seen alive two years ago. >> this will be an exhaustive search much like what you saw us do before. >> reporter: the d.c. police, fbi and the chief medical examiner's office spent the day scouring for clues at one point using shovels and a rig to dig up what turned out to be a bag. it's possible relisha rudd is no longer alive and that khalil tatum killed her.
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tatum was an employee at the d.c. general homeless shelter where rudd and her family were living when she went missing in 2014. tatum and rudd were seen on surveillance video at a local hotel. a month later, tatum's wife was found shot to death in a hotel in oxon hill, maryland. tatum's body was found dead of an apparent suicide. >> this is a first step in what will be several day of additional searches. >> reporter: the search ended at 3:00 according to sources. nothing significant was found. in the district, mark segraves, news 4. a father will have to pay $5,000 in fines for hosting an underaged drinking party that led to a deadly crash in potomac, maryland. kenneth salzman was hit with fines today. prosecutors say he knew his teenage daughter and her friends were drinking at his house back in june.
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several teenagers left the party and got into a car wreck. that crash killed alexandra murk and calvin lee. we're following developments on that troubling commute in boston today. the governor of massachusetts says someone did tamper with the train that left the station with no operator onboard. that train sped along through four stations without stopping. transit official his to cut power to a third rail to bring the train to a halt. 15 people were onboard at the time. no one was seriously hurt. the fbi is in contact with transit police to try to figure out who messed with the train and why. back home there is a new lead for the search accused in a brutal attack on metro. police are looking for this person of interest in eye robbery and beating that put a man in the hospital. that man was with his partner on a green line train last night when they witnessed two teen beating up a 14-year-old. the couple tried to intervene, but the attackers turned on them
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while shouting anti-gay slurs. they say their electronics and cash were also stolen. news 4 broke the story about a backlog involving thousands of students in prince george's county who were not immunized. dr. kevin maxwell prepares for his state of the school's address. he talked to our bureau chief, tracee wilkins about how he plans to fix that problem. >> this is about our children and about the future of prince george's county. dr. kevin maxwell is expected to present a hefty and costly proposed budget to the prince george's county school board tonight. the next year has a big price tag to it. news 4 was first to report the enormous backlog of thousands of students who were not immunized. record keeping and an underfunded nursing staff was partly to blame. maxwell was hoping to change that. >> school nurses over the summer because keeping the records
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updated and keeping -- sending and making phone calls to parents and families is really important. >> last year's budget request of $1.84 billion prompted the county executive to propose a higher property tax in order to fund it. that request failed and with it a lot of the programs maxwell wanted to see in place. this time he wants better communication. he'd also like to see reduced class sizes for kindergarten, first and second graders and expand all day pre-k and that means more teachers. he also wants to add additional grade levels to specialty programs like the immersion schools. >> i believe strongly that we need to fund this district at a level that will allow us to do the things that we're asked to do. >> reporter: he will wait to reveal the exact dollar amount that he's requesting in this year's proposed budget until he presents it to the prince george's county school board. that happens tonight at 7:00 p.m. in upper marlboro. i'm tracee wilkins, news 4. >> how it could possibly put
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more money in your wallet. today governor terry mcauliffe revealed that part of his proposal including a 2% pay raise for state workers, college faculty, school teachers and other public employees. the virginia education commission says it's disappointed that the proposed increase isn't higher than 2%. the governor unveils his full budget plan a week from today. >> the guy who used to teach at a middle school has now been charged with child porn. a girl's fathery made made discovery on her phone that has two police departments investigating. >> an apology from chipotle as the ceo reports what's being done to keep customers safe after recent outbreaks. >> i'm adam tuss along 395 in northern virginia. lots to talk about, new toll roads here in northern virginia, but some say hey, don't just stop at the
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i'm pat lawson muse with breaking news at the live desk. our sister station in san francisco is reporting a council on american islamic relations office in santa clara has received a letter containing a suspicious substance. it arrived at 3:30 our time and the sender wrote his name was infidel. it comes hours after a suspicious powder was found in a letter at cair's office on capitol hill. tests found that substance was not dangerous. we'll keep an eye on the situation in santa clara and update you as we get details. >> and now your steam 4 forecast. who is ready for record-breaking temperatures? >> we had the chance to break some records or come close the next four days in a row. that's just how warm we're going to be here. take a look and we'll show you what's happening. no problems and the high temperature hit 63 degrees and right now we dropped to 54
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degrees and winds out of the south at 6 miles an hour and that's always on the warmer side of things. 49 in martinsburg and 43 in gaithersburg. so yeah, we're going to be cool, but it is mid-december. we are not, however, going to be cold any time soon and i do mean any time soon. waking up tomorrow morning, no problems. temperatures on the mild side and maybe a jacket and that's about it. 38 to 46 degrees. a very mild start. 46 in d.c. and that's close to our average high and we'll be there to start off the day. so you know we're going to get warm and those clouds will help temperatures stay above average and take a look at the wider view and here's the entire eastern half of the nation and notice where that's going and way up to the north and what that allows for is more warm air out ahead of it to come on in and that's exactly what we'll be seeing and this warm pattern remains and the jet stream moving back to the west and way
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up to the north and that puts everybody from texas all of the way up to new england and not just warm temperatures, but well above average temperatures and we'll be breaking records all around this area for the next couple of days. so, yes, near record highs for us many areas near 70 degrees and we will stay warm right on through next week. high temperatures tomorrow, 66 in d.c. and 68 in manassas and 62 martinsburg and a very warm day and starting off as i mentioned on the mild side and a nice one to get out and do some exercisi exercising. simply wow! that's all i can say as temperatures will move into the 50s and 60s by around the noon hour and here are your next few days. 66 on friday and 69 on saturday and the record high saturday and sunday is 71 and we can see we get close both days and 70 degrees on sunday and especially if we get more sunshine and on monday a high temperature of 71
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and the record high is 70 and we're forecasting a record for monday and it will get breezy during the afternoon and we will see the potential for rain and we'll talk much more about the potential for record-breaking heat and we're not done with the heat just where the and the seven-day forecast at 6:45. >> next at 6:00. taking action after a man's murder on metro. we'll report how lawmakers are working together to fight back against people using synthetic drugs. >> i'm julie krair julie carey william county and we're using a special automated phone call by telling them, and coming up, what he has to say about the allegations. >> for the first time, a soldier explains in his own words why he walked away from his post in afghanistan. >> i was trying to prove to myself and the world to anybody who used to know me that i was capable of, you know, being that person. >> bowe bergdahl's story now the topic of a popular podcast.
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disturbing news. >> a teacher has been indicted on child porn charges. bureau chief julie carey talked to the former teacher who says he'll be found innocent. >> most of the students headed home at benton middle school don't recognize the name mr. stansell. he only taught social studies here one year in 2014. shortly after that in september 2014 he's accused of possessing child pornography and soliciting a i minor to send sexually explicit material. he was first arrested there last summer and indicted in prince wail yam county last week. the investigation began when the father of a teenage girl noticed inappropriate pictures and texts on her cell phone. she was younger than 15 at the time. the alleged victim was not a student at benton middle school. >> i'm looking for tommy stansell. >> i called him at his new job.
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he left teaching to make more money before he learned he was under investigation and stansell maintains he's innocent telling me, i'm not pleading guilty to anything, definitely asserting my innocence. i just feel like i'm not going to be found guilty of any of these charges. >> the prince william county school district did not know of the charges against the former teacher until i contacted them today. so the parents don't become alarmed they'll be maybing an automated call to parents informing them about the charges and informing them the allegations involve a minor from another county. i'm julie carey, news 4. >> investigators are getting close to making an arrest in the murder of a 20-year-old woman in spotsylvania county. they found a cell phone and found important text messages and phone calls that were made just before she died. heather ciccone was found shot to death inside her car on sunday. her parents told news 4 their daughter received a call about
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9:30 that night. that was the last time they saw her alive. we're hearing for the first time from a u.s. soldier who spent nearly five years in captivity in afghanistan after walking away from his post. the new season of the hit podcast podcast serial is taking a closer look at bowe bergdahl's leadership. he thought his report would get the attention of top brass. >> i was fully confident that when somebody actually took a look at the situation and when people started investigating the situation that people would understand that i was right. you know, what was going on, a danger to the lives of the men in that company. >> bergdahl became lost and was captured by a group affiliated with the taliban. last year, five taliban prisoners were freed in exchange for bergdahl's release. he now faces military charges of
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dissertion and miss behavior before the enemy. he is still in the army and assigned to clerical work in texas. thousands of commuters are trying to make their way home on crammed and crowded and awful i-395 in northern virginia. there is a new proposal that says high occupancy toll lanes should be placed there to help ease the gridlock. our transportation rott ereport adam tuss is out on 395. >> reporter: that's right. toll to ease congestion and it doesn't sound like an idea that would necessarily work and that's the idea along 395 and you can see that the traffic just doesn't go the way it should all of the time of the day and some people are saying, hey, if you're going to put the tolls here why not just continue right on through the 14th street bridge to d.c.? high occupancy toll lanes, hot lanes and also called express
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lanes, whatever you call them, they seem destined for the 395 corridor next, but should those lanes just keep going into the district? mike mcgurk is with transurban. >> the current proposal you calls for the lane to end in the d.c. line and we'll have to get input from a lot of parties and there are still a number of reviews left to go. >> there are roads like the southeast-sweet of freeway in d.c. and right now nothing firm in place on to 395 and it primarily goes through arlington and getting the county onboard with the project hasn't been easy and they found transit and other forms of transportation to be in the project, as well and mary hines is part of the arlington county board. >> arlington is the skinny part of the funnel and everything has to come through us because of the geography and the bridges are always us. so if we want to be successful as a region, then figuring out how to move these layers all at
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once through arlington is part of everybody's success. >> reporter: before any next step is taken, a full environmental impact study has to be performed, but at this point, 395 looks to be the next piece of the puzzle for high-occupancy toll lanes much like the lanes on 95 and the virginia beltway. >> reporter: back here now live as you take a look at the traffic trying to make its way tonight. if everything goes according to plan on schedule, construction could start on this new toll lane network in 2017. back to you. >> thanks, adam. still to come tonight, the ceo of chipotle is speaking out after recent outbreaks at his restaurants on both coasts. he's planning to make some changes. the science of synthetic drugs. how a high-profile murder
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restaurants is up tonight after its ceo apologized for the recent outbreaks linked to his restaurant chain. steve ellis is that ceo. this morning on the "today" show he said his company is changing the way it handles food with the goal of making chipotle the safest place to eat. >> i'm sorry for the people who got sick. we're thinking about the safety and the -- and quality of our ingredients. just put in place practices that will not enable this to happen again. >> chipotle sales dropped 16% last month after an e. coli outbreak made nearly 50 people sick in a number of states including maryland and virginia. a norovirus outbreak discovered this week at a chipotle up in boston made at least 120 people sick. >> we're waiting to hear from the owners of westin national golf course about a possible appeal to the virginia supreme court after losing a fight over
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zoning. r.n. golf said it should be able to redevelop the golf course although there are no plans to do that right now. opponents say housing is against fairfax county's com pro hencive plans for that land. friday's circuit court ruling giving them 30 days to appeal. the public tonight is getting a glimpse into changes planned in old town alexandria. the city council there is talking about what it calls its living shoreline proposal right now. it calls for new housing, restaurants and a hotel. construction set to begin in early 2017. >> the new war on drugs. how lawmakers are trying to stay one step ahead of synthetic drugs that are constantly changing. i'm sure they're going to keep trying, but w
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hire a hitman to kill his ex-wife back in september of 2014. the guy's name is dallas brumback. he was in the middle of a custody fight with his ex at that time. >> a very public murderer on a metro train in d.c. that crime now has lawmakers working together to fight back against constantly changing synthetic drugs as tisha thompson and the news 4 i-team reports the problem is how do you put people in jail for selling drugs that aren't technically illegal yet? >> it was the moment when everything changed. >> first up at 5:00 tonight, that teenager charged in the deadly attack on a metro train. >> kevin sutherland had recently graduated from american university. his twitter full of pictures taken by someone thrilled to be living at the center of american politics. >> should be held without bond this afternoon. >> but the pictures suddenly stop on july 4th, sutherland was
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on this metro train headed to the fireworks when police say this man, jasper spires hopped onboard. you can see spires throw away a knife he used to stab sutherland 30 to 40 times in front of a dozen of other horrified passengers. >> it looks like his a sillant got to go through the trial and all of that it looks like his assailant was probably high on these synthetics. >> he knew sutherland for years. >> if it's one of those things if can can happen to kevin, it could happen to anybody. he wants this man on this side, congressman charlie dent from pennsylvania. >> we've had several overdoses and some deaths. hines is a democrat, that i say sutherland's death brought them together to fix a federal law used to prosecute sip thetic law
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cases. >> this is what maybes synthetic drug cases so tricky and this is one of the original chemicals used in the synthetic drug packet spice and four weeks after this was outlawed and kenneth tweaked the side chain by doing that and that's all it took to make a new and now legal drug. >> fast forward to 2015. the dea says it's now identified more than 300 new chemicals in synthetic narcotics and we found only 37 are actually on the government's list of illegal drugs. >> the manufacturers and distributors of this poison have figured out a way to retomorrow late these compounds. >> dent has bruced an unusual bill for congress. a long list of more than 200 molecular compounds connected to sen thetices the dea wants to outlaw. he wants to make it easier to prosecute similar drugs even if it's not on this list. dr. eric wish, worries laws like
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this won't fix the problem. >> you know that game whack-a-mole. as soon as you identify a drug and you put it on that list and they come up with a new one. so you're never going to be able to keep up with it. >> that's why virginia recently made a major change to its drug laws. >> in 2015, thus far we've probably seen 30 to 40 different compounds. >> she's in charge of virginia's forensic drug labs. she said this drug is on the state schedule of illegal drugs, but even though this one is not, under virginia's law it's still illegal because they have the same backbone. there are numerous different places on that molecule where you could add or change that molecule and so it would be hundreds of different possibilities that a chemist could create different drugs that would then still be included as being scheduled in virginia. >> it's a different approach
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from what dent and hines are trying to pass on the hill, but the two congressmen are confident their bill will work. >> this will shut it down for a long time. we'll make it a lot harder for them. there is a bill before the d.c. council that would make the d.c. drug law similar to what virginia is doing. the lawyer for the man accused of killing sutherland says his client is innocent and he's not the man seen in the surveillance video and his next court date is january 29th. tisha thompson, news 4, i-team. to watch the series on the new drug war including xfr access inside the dea's lab click investigations. it is weird. temperatures in the low 60s today. we are in december, folks. we wanted to know if these warm temperatures were dampening your holiday spirit. >> no. no way. this is the flash survey results
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and most of them said no. 47% said yes. this is interesting. >> you get outside and you put up the holiday lights or whatever and you expect to be bundled up and you're not bundled up at all and you're taking clothes off. >> it is the season, though. the temperatures during the season, but it's the season. you know what i mean? let's enjoy it. every once in a while we set a record and that's fine. we do that all of the time and how about four days in a row and we can get close to if not break records and it's really quite amazing. here's the school day forecast sending them to the bus stop and 46 degrees and that's very warm for this time of the morning. how about 66 by dismissal and a nice day no matter what you're doing tomorrow. 54 right now and temperatures dropping through the 40s. 47 degrees by 11:00 and that's cool, but not cold at all. >> 53, dulles, and 46 in manassas and 46 down towards huntsingtown and very nice night
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on your thursday and no rain to talk about and we'll stay dry over the next couple of days and here is the hour by hour, and i'm not expecting much. 46 at 7:00 and 52 by 10:00 and 60 degrees by 1:00. a very nice afternoon and take a look at the next couple of days. the record high tomorrow is 68, we'll be very close to that and 69 on saturday and sunday and monday we're going 70. the record sunday is 71 and the record high on monday is 70. so yes, we are forecasting at least one record for sure and even next week behind that system we stay well above average. if you like it warm, there you go. >> i don't hear anybody complaining. >> not here! we have sports coming up. heather is our sports producer and what she wrote for me to say is that a star on the burgundy and gold is apologizing to fans on social media. i didn't know that, and she says it has something to do with the playoffs. carol's going to talk about
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record is as bad as ours. >> a good matchup for the redskins as they're looking for their first victory. it's been a quiet, bumpy ride, but a bend in the road isn't the end of the road unless the skins fail to make that turn. jason pugh has more. >> carol's monday's loss puts so much pressure on the red desisk they're the only team in the nfl that's yet to win a game on the road this season. if they want to make the playoffs they understand they have to get through the road issues come sunday. >> we have a win. so we have to execute when we're on the road and we have to come ready to play and the guys have to live in the details and the preparation and carry it over to the game once we play on sunday. >> that's the challenge to go out there in chicago and put our fears behind us and get a good victory. >> we're loud and rowdy and they love our team and it will be tough. in december, so i'm looking
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forward to it. >> since jay gruden took over as head coach this team has won one road game in two years. from redskins park, i'm jason pugh, news 4 sports. >> thank you, jason. meantime, pierre garcon's instagram page giving us insight into how the players are facing. i'm sorry. redskins fans deserve about tbe. >> he linked the famous rant. >> playoffs? playoffs? are you kidding me? playoffs? i just hope we can win a game. [ laughter ] >> try getting that sound out of your head. playoffs? >> we shouldn't use the p-word around pierre, but today he did talk about those postings. >> we lost and we were at first place and we had an opportunity to, you know, put -- i guess a gap between the rest of the
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teams in the nfc and it's been a long time since we were at first and we had offense. it's very frustrating and embarrassing and it is what it is. >> that's the look. see that face? that's the exact look i was giving when i heard the nats news today. you know escobar has been traded to the angels for relief pitcher trevor got also reports that they agreed for a deal for reliever sean kelly. a capitals hockey, the red hotness continues off to their best start in franchise history. the caps, the second best team in the afc. they've won eight of the last ten and they're going tonight as they visit the florida panthers and it's the annual dad's trip and they do not want to disappoint their pops and wizards with james harden and he's having his way and harden went off for 42 points a game
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and they're on the receiving end. and the, and they outscored 30 to 17 and the first quarter and a trend at home and it unfuhr yates the head coach and he afterward called off. >> he was again, not aggressive. he played not aggressive. too soft. that's what happens. you get seven turnovers. i'm getting tired of having to come in at halftime and light a fire under this team. >> we're digging ourselves in a too big a hole playing too cool and soft at the start of the game and it's as evident as night and day. >> and the old wall respondent. he's a badly bruised knee, right? he's playing with that and i know i'm not soft and i know my teammates are not soft and i have to come out with a sense of urgency, though. >> they play like they're not soft. so the home woes and we'll take
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