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leave, you can track it. nbc washington app. as we look at radar now, moment of the rain in the area in yellow. that's south and east of the met troer area and prince george's and heaviest rain in orange, annapolis, and tapering off across most of virginia and nearby northern suburbs. we'll see this just a few scattered sprinkles between now into the afternoon hours. more rain on the way tomorrow. we'll look at that, and the hour-by-hour timing for the rest of today, and, yes, summertime, on the way. all coming up. >> tom, thanks. check in with you then. breaking news. pris george's county police rushing to a neighborhood overnight after reports of shots fired. this happened on rochelle avenue in district heights. >> news 4 derrick ward has moor more on what exactly happened. that's the latest? wrt wh >> reporter: here's what we knoknow 1900 blockof
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the last of the detectives here. this happened about 4:30 this morning. a report of gunfire. they found an adult male shot several times. the person taken to the hospital and pronounced dead. police continue to comb this complex for clues. we're not sure whether it happened inside and apartment or outside here. outside certainly they'll have an issue with that because it is raining as it is, but, again, police still investigating this homicide. we don't have aidentity of the male who was found here shot several times who died at the hospital. whether he lived here, was a visitor, those things will come out as the investigation continues. live in capital heights, derrick ward, news 4. back to you. >> thanks so much. developing now in montgomery county, three people are hurt after a collision involving a tractor trailer. police telling us that the truck and a sedan crashed on north frederick avenue in gaithersburg around 5:00 in the morning. medics took three adults from the scene to
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the man investigators say sparked a chaotic scene near the white house. we brought you live coverage much of yesterday. fbi agents now believe the suspect waubtded law enforcement officers to kill him. police searched jesse olverie's home in pennsylvania last night. just hours after witnesses say he walked up to an estreet checkpoint on the west side of the white house flashing a silver gun. >> officers coming around him. they surrounded him, gave him multiple chances to stop his advance. >> the secret service says one of its agents shot olverie in the chest amp he ignored their commands to drop his weapon. olverie is in critical condition this morning. count on news 4 to keep you updated on this story. if you haven't already, download our app, where we'll send breaking news alerts and we find new developments. new photos this mog
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egyptair flight 804. the egyptian military posting these pictures on their facebook page. right now investigators will begin testing the debris for clues to what may have happened to cause that plane to go down. 26 minutes into the flight sensors detect smoke in the bathroom near the cockpit. one minute later, smoke was detected in the avionics compartment. this is the area of the plane which actually controlling the plane. it was shortly after that that the plane fell off radar. investigators are examine being whether there was a sudden fire or explosion and what or who may have caused it. >> it it's an insider, he put a device, somebody who had knowledge and put it in an area that could be close to a fuel line or in some other area they knew it would be catastrophic, that's very troubling. >> late yesterday search teams discovered human remains in the mediterranean. there were 66 people
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that flight from paris to cairo. 20 managers at metro out of a job this weekend. including seven senior managers. gm paul wiedefeld announced the firing yesterday, part offen a effort to streamline management improving effectiveness and accountability. one man terminated worked in rail operations. and working to make your ride safer, as we continue to talk about the rails. right now, the first empowerment summit. the goal, have teenagers come up to stop fights in trains as well as inside stations. how to minimize conflicts. about 200 students from d.c., maryland and virginia are taking part in this. the summit lasts until about 2:30 this afternoon and held at metro's hezquarters on fifth street in northwest. students will also get a chance to meet with local officials and community activists. the case of a loudon county man accused of killing his ex
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prosecutors say castillo tried to make the murder look like a suicide. northern virginia bureau chief reports on the witnesses who took the stand this past week. >> reporter: michelle castillo and estranged husband in the midst of a bitter divorce and custody battle when michelle's body was found in the lower level of her ashburn home after her four youngest kids woke up and reported her missing. the prosecutor told jurors castillo killed his wife and staged the death to look like a suicide. the defense countereding, he is no murderer. one of the witnesses, a response, the morning the kids woke up and couldn't find mom, a protective order barred him from the house. a man testified saying he did a sweep around the house. when he went inside the house found castillo opening doors in the master bedroom. he said that castillo's focus was in getting the kids off to school.
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he testified he asked the oldest child, jonathan, have you searched downstairs? >> the husband answered, we already searched down there. he says he asked what should we do? i said we should call 911. but castillo loaded the kids in the car and left. it was the neighbor who called police to report michelle missing. when officer ace rived they found her dead in the basement. investigators say beaten, suffocated, hanged in a shower to make it look like a suicide. one of michelle's best friends testified telling jurors when they chatted a day before michelle was found dead she was happy, excited to soon be running the boston marathon. members of her running team will testify when the trial resumed on monday. in leesburg, julie carey, news 4. it has been a rainy month. expect more of the same today. tom is updating his forecast. >> ar
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we'll tell you about the challenges that lie ahead as nyquist looks to build his
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check this out. a seemingly out of control blimp swirls around over and over again. this is happening out in philadelphia. then it crashes into this construction site near interstate 95. now, this crash actually closed part of the interstate for a little bit, you can imagine. federal transportation officials trying to figure out what went wrong. police tell thrust were two people onboard but thankfully nobody hurt. >> wow. rain, definitely +r'2)tp(ur today's 141st preak nness stake in baltimore.
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the preakness is the middle jewel of racing's triple crown. all eyes on nyquist to see if he can nab this win after his kentucky derby win. the biggest obstacle may not be who he's running against but what he's running in. talk about all of this rain. >> nyquist has never run on a sloppy racetrack before. he's run on a good racetrack, one with moisture, but not a sloppy track. there's no reason to think he won't handle it but has never been faced with it before. sometimes horses handle it well and sometimes dhoent. >> you want to watch the 141st preakness stakes looking at the right channel. it's going to be right here at 5:00. the coverage, that is. it's going to be on nbc 4. we have you covered. all right, looking at ten minutes of a the 9:00 hour. your weekend plans might get washed out. tom is tracking showers and when we can expect this soggy stretch to end. and a year from now i will be fine and this will be a blip in my life. for him it is everything, and i just d
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good morning. still getting some very light rain in the metro area. heavier rain passed through now moving off to the north and east. that area in yellow crossing the bay heading off to the north and east, and behind that a few scattered sprinkles getting into the rest of the afternoon hours. what to wear, have an umbrella handy. poncho. your rain boots, a jacket. and, yes, definitely dress for cool weather. we'll have it hovering only near 60 with a few more sprinkles this afternoon. all right. thank you, tom. 9:14 right now. we may be one month away from summer, but winter still hanging around. in north carolina, at least, a dangerous mist of snow and rain, california, i should say, causing several crashes in the sierra region leaving drivers stuck in traffic, as you can see. more rain and snow in the forecast for the area today. if you or your family have plans to travel by air this summer, bracy
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hoping to get away by plane. what the top tsa official says after a tense meeting in chicago over long lines at airport security checkpoints. the lines have been particularly bad at chicago's o'hare. the tsa promised yesterday to send the airport 58 additional screeners. congress approved funding to cover overtime for current staff and provide more than 700 new screeners by mid-june. shocking cell phone video shows why a new york police officer is now off the street and under review this morning. look at this. witnesses say that the officer dressed in the plain clothes here handcuffed a man for no reason, pointed his gun and bystanders and even punched one in the face. officers in the area to direct people for riding dirt bikes when this incident began. the nypd says there's more to the story than meets the eye and it will conduct a thorough investigation. female pilots who served during
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buried at arlington national cemetery thanks to a new bill president obama signed into law yesterday. during world war ii, congress voted down a bill that would have granted the female pilots military status. it wasn't until 1977 women air force service pilots were recognized as veterans. 40 years ago they lobbied congress successfully to be buried at v.a. cemeteries. this last approval came separately, because the army runs arlington national cemetery. this next story a lesson in self-less giving involving a local teacher. meet arlington county's own mr. katune. >> with his second graders focused on the board, the surprise classroom visit didn't catch on immediately. >> nice job, tigers. >> mr. katoen! >> hi! >> reporter: soon they realizaled he was back.
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from the get-go, life long unless you can find a transplant. >> reporter: a teacher at c÷ nottingham elementary school 23 years. he has seen hundreds of students come and go. same for parents. >> you see them around the school, but you don't -- you're not as close. >> reporter: alison rice and her daughter lucy now an exception to that. two years ago lucy was in mr. katoen's class and aside from cordial interactions no real friendship between mom and teacher, until last year when the school told parents about mr. katoen's weakening health. >> i just thought it was the right thing to do. >> reporter: alison began a year-long series of tests to see if she could give him one of her kidneys. >> sometimes you sit there, you think, yes, someone ought to step up and do it. help someone. at a certain point you think, well, you know what? maybe that person that i'm waiting to do this is me. >> reporter: turns out she was a match. >> i have such admiration for
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alison and her family connecting with maurice and his family to give the gift of life. >> reporter: the surgery delayed once, now expected to happen in the next few weeks. >> i get emotional just thinking about it. >> reporter: grateful doesn't begin to describe it for maurice. >> speaks volumes. that's why i've been here at this school for so long. because this community is just awesome. >> reporter: but alison says with her kidney comes something else. >> i've warned him he's probably going to be a lot faster after the surgery is over and probably ought to warn his wife. >> reporter: a little fast, perhaps, but wrapped in a whole lot of generosity. >> great to meet those people and a great school community at notting humm elementary. >> amazing. she said they weren't really connected, other than her daughter being in his class, minimal interaction. >> cordial at best. and tom kierein, we can see the shot behind us.
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>> it is a gloomy back drop. >> not gloomy. >> what do you call it? >> dismal. >> gray? how many words? >> dreary, maybe. yeah. low clouds, light rain, even moderate this morning. now most pushing off to the east. the area in yellow, coming oun harder now in anne arundel, charles, st. mary and exiting prince george's county. the area in orange coming up hard along the bay bridge to the island. tracking towards chestertown and towards easton and south of there near cambridge over the next half hour or so. going forward, by later this afternoon, by noontime, just a few sprinkles. the areas in green are just light rain. so as we focus on that, just a few scattered sprinkles by 3:00 p.m. still around the metro area, northern virginia, much of maryland. then by 6:00, as the preakness gets underway in baltimore, sprinkle,
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track to the wet and metro area as well as evening hours by 11:00. a few scattered light sprinkale maybe drizzle. a couple inches tape tapering off and ending. the blue zone in northern virginia, maryland and the immediate metro area. still in the 50s. 55 at reagan national. we'll stay in the 50s the rett of t rest of the day today. temperatures by 2:00 p.m. hovering near 60 degrees. a few sprinkles. remaining cool, upper 50s. a few scattered sprinkles by 6:00 p.m. overnight tonight staying in the 50s. might get fog tonight, too. mid-50s by dawn sunday and tomorrow up into the low 60s. another cloudy day. and off and on sprinklie ins su, and monday, cloudy, a bit milder, upper 60s. finally feeling like summertime as we get into mid-week, mid-70s
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wednesday. thursday and friday, climbing into the mid and maybe even upper 80s in a few spots as we get towards the end of the week. summertime is on the way just in time for the holiday weekend, memorial day, coming up in just about seven or eight days. >> all right. thank you, tom. science, art and family. the unique bond in the mission to make a notable difference in nature. stay with us. and we leave you way quick note before we go to break here. this weekend the loudon county animal shelter wants you to make an adoption. they've got a lot of cats right now and hope you have room in your home for a little critter. the shelter is offering $50 off all adoptions running through tomrow.or
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back at 9:24. repair work could delay your trip on metro this weekend. red line trains running every 24 minutes. silver line, every 12 minutes between wheelie restin east and falls church only and buses replacing trains between stadium armory and minnesota avenue on saturday, today, between the stadium and new carrollton stops on sunday. and on the blue line, shuttle buses replacing trains sunday between stadium armory and capital heights. right in downtown d.c., a lot of people are getting in touch with their wild side. >> right. all part of a
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hands-on event showcasing exhibits, art, other family-friendly activities. megan mcgrath has a lookness. >> reporter: the aquatic gardens, a park teeming with wildlife. >> lots of different small fish. >> reporter: and it's the job of the national park service to keep an eye on things and document what's in the parks and make sure everything is thriving. >> we're over here in kenilworth in d.c. and in this magical garden. >> reporter: it's not an easy task. it requires a lot of manpower. so the national park service is enlisting the help of volunteers. folks willing to get in boats, grab nets and other tools and count the critters. >> we're on quest to discover everything. so we're looking for spiders and dragonflies. we're going to be doing some sound monitoring for bats on the national mall. >> reporter: it's called bioblitz. volunteers fan out in national parks around the country.
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13 in our area. don't worry if you don't know anything about wildlife. >> you can take a picture of what you see so even if you don't know what it is, a scientist can help identify it. >> reporter: if you want to volunteer go to our website and sign up online -- nbcwashington.com. we have the link that you need. just use the key word, bioblitz. back to you in the studio. >> thank you so much. you still have time it get in on the action. the festival picks up again at 9:00. or it did. started about 30 minutes ago or so. running until 5:00 at constitutional gardens. expect a special appearance and dance number from buddy the bison. he was in the studio this past week. he's fun. >> and facebook live chaste. guess what's back. the rain! >> a chill. storm team 4 tracking cooler temperatures and when this dreary weather will star
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it's 9:30. here are your top stories -- a man is dead after a shooting in prince george's heights. p
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rachelle avenue around 4:30 in the morning. the victim died at the hospital. no word on a suspect. >> new words on debris. egyptair flight 804, the egypt military posting these pictures on its facebook. and a man in critical condition after a man ignored secret service commands near the white house. an agent shot him in the chest an ever after the man approached a security gate with a gun. check out all this. >> action. >> a lot of action. a lot. rainy, cooler start to the weekend, but we're here with you and get through it together. welcome back to "news4 today." i'm david culver. >> and i'm angie goff. rain 17 days so far this month. 17 days. >> feels that way. >> not stopping anytime soon. tom kierein is live on the weather deck, in the elements. >> outside. >> with the latest forecast. >> yeah, and the
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have, i need a coat. you need a coat if heading out. chilly. in the 50s. rain tapering off to a few sprinkles. the nearby suburbs, a few sprinkles. yellows and orange, where it coming down hard now and anne arundel and crossing the bay, heading out and pulling away from the metro area. the heaviest rain is pretty much done. the hour-by-hour forecast a few sprinkles off are and on through the afternoon. temperatures hovering near 60 degrees. >> tom, thank you. turning to decision 2016, at 9:31, hillary clinton in fort lauderdale, florida, tonight meeting with trayvon martin's mother and other parents of gun violence victims. you may remember trayvon's death ignite add heated debate about gun rights and florida's stand your ground law. clinton beat senator bernie sanders in florida's democratic primary, likely in town to key up what could be a significant clash in the gal
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on the other side of things, donald trump focussing on his likely general election opponent as he gains support from republicans. a new poll showing eight out of ten republicans believe party leadership should get behind trump. the gop's presumptive presidential nominee picked up an endorsement in the nra yesterday as he targeted clinton at its annual convention in kentucky. clinton said she -- trump said of clinton, she was heartless for backing restrictions on gun ownership. now, trump claims those restrictions would leave americans in high-crime areas unable to protect themselves. >> she wraunts ants to abolish second amendment, she wants to take your gurns away. >> clinton has not called for overturning. second amendment although she favors more restrictions. trump previously supported an assault weapons ban and we should mention with regards to trump, new campaign finance reports showing trump poured more tha
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own dollars into his presidential campaign in april alone bringing his total personal investment to more than $43 million. and hillary clinton by the way, will be on "meet the press" tomorrow morning with nbc's chuck todd. you can watch right here on news 4 starting at 10:30 right after "news4 today." also in politics, d.c. democrats hold a caucus today to elect delegates to the 2016 convention. it's open to all registered democrats who live in the city. just go to the washington convention center in northwest d.c. to get involved. caucus voting runs from 10:00 this morning, starts in half an hour, until 2:00 this afternoon and then again tonight from 9:00 until 10:30. d.c. police hoping this morning a new sketch will lead them to a suspect in what was a brazen sexual assault case. we want to show you this image. this by officers yesterday. calling this man a person of interest in an attack that happened tuesday night on ingleside terrace in the mount e
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a man got into the victim the home after midnight and sexually assaulted her. neighbors tell us the woman was eventually able to fight off the man but he got away. learning new details about the search for two fairfax county teenagers missing more than a week now. police say that the teens may be changing their appearance. 13-year-old danielle lema and 14 yard rudy toranzo last seen last tuesday. rudy may have dyed his hair from brown to green. the fbi is assisting police in the search for the teens from west virginia to new york city. a tragic case out of fairfax county this morning. police are investigating the murder of a teacher's assistant near a large apartment complex. someone shot and killed 24-year-old taurese samson friday morning near the city side apartments in thing a alexandria section of the county. his girlfriend said the victim returned home to find a crime in progress. >> he got home and
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into a situation where they were burglarizing cars, asked what was going on and they shot him. >> there's no word from police on a possible motive or suspect. wounded veterans hoping to get help from washington. a veterans care bill passed by the senate, an an amendment to cover procedures like in vitro fertilization. it has to merge with similar legislation in the house. how about a little celebrating today? going to be happening at the c & o canal national park. ribbon cutting around 11:00, despite the rain, opening the newsd
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completed in the park in honor of the national park service's 100th anniversary. a serious u-turn for some of our regions lowest paid transportation workers. under a new three-year contract, d.c. circulator bus drivers will be some of the best paid in the washington area. the union supporting drive, and the company that manages the buses came to an agreement yesterday. the union says in addition to increasing drivers' hourly pay the company agreed to triple its contribution to the workers retirement savings plans. mexico's foreign ministry has biven the green light to extradite drug lord joaquin "el chapo" guzman to the united states. mexico agreed to the move after receiving guarantees guzman would not face the death penalty. he will, however, face drug trafficsing, money laundering and murder charges in federal court in both california and texas. guzman's lawyer said he will exhaust all legal avenues to stave off
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was head of the cartel and escaped from prison not once but twice. bill cosby's wife refusing to answer questions in an alleged sexual assault. during her february deposition, camille cosby cited marital privilege several times. it was part of a defamation lawsuit filed by seven women accusing the ka median of sexual assault. mrs. kocosby was asked if she thought her husband used his position to manipulate women. she had no opinion when she thought if her husband's response responses were not honest. and ticket designs revealed yesterday for the olympics saying new technology would make them more difficult to counterfeit. even so, special police units on the streetoo
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tickets and scalpers. are high school students overpunished? a new report claims suspensions and expulsions are becoming more common in our region, oh, rain this morning. rain this afternoon. chatting about it on our facebook live right now and it keeps coming, folks. tom is updating his forecast whether you can plan to eat dinner outside tonight and how to plan for the rest the weekofen
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schooling pushing students out of class through widespread discriminatory over use of punishment. what a virginia based nonprofit says after analyzing data from the state's department of education. the group found more than
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126,000 suspensions were given in the 2014 school year even though only 70,000 students were enrolled. the organization says black students and students with disabilities were suspended or expelled at disproportion the rates. well, he was the companion to everyone's favorite talking horse. alan young has died. young is best known for playing wilbur post, the owner of "mr. ed." originators of the series say young got the part when someone said he looked like the kind of guy that a horse would talk to. young was also a radio and tv comedian and he was 96 years old. >> all right. it's a rainy pattern. a lot of us would like a break from. got the wipers on the camera. storm team 4 tracking how long showers will stick around, and when you'll be able to break out the grill. and it's on almost every product in your kitchen. the changes the government sa will help your family eat healthier. we'lshow you what to look l fo
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morning noon or night there's always a moment to discover visit annapolis and create your moment the 17th day this month we've had miserable rain in the metro area. right now storm team 4 radar showing most of it is tracking east of our area. the area in yellow and orange, heaviest around the bay now moving off to the north and east. right around the immediate metro area. sprinkles irnd a the region now. got 80, on the seven-day
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hit 80 is coming up around five minutes. >> thank you, tom. changes are coming to your grocery store and the food you buy there. the government says they will help you and your family live a healthier life. we have the story. >> reporter: for the first time in 20 years an update in the labels telling you what's in the food that you eat. first lady michelle obama announced the changes at an annual nutrition summit in washington. >> you will no longer need a degree in nutrition to find out if the food you're buying is actually good for your kids. >> reporter: they carry nutrition labels. under new guidelines calories listed in bigger, bolder type and reflecting the latest research on the role of sugar in american diets, there's a new line revealing how much sugar has been added to a product. >> added sugar increases the risk of diseases like type ii diabetes, obesity, tooth decay and heart disease. >> reporter: if you've ever laugh
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size for a soft drink, pint of ice cream or bag of chips, that's changing, too. manufacturers will be required to list more realistic sizes to have a better idea how this affects their diets. >> we hope they'll use this to make better healthy choices for their families. >> reporter: and food manufacturers objected, but now many are embracing the changes. >> consumers have repeatedly said that they want this kind of information. >> reporter: you'll start seeing this in stores within the next two years. chris pallone, nbc news, new york. and meeting the first responder who helped save his life. an off-duty emt was in the stands. he revived him with an
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automatic external defibrillator. and medics continued to work on him on his way to the hospital. he has since made a full recovery. >> thank you. i'm endebted to you all. y'all saved my life. >> well, doctors say the 17-year-old has an enlarged heart and needs to quit competitive sports. the teen says he plans to study radiology. it is virginia's largest industry, but farmers in northern virginia say they feel development is taking over the land from which we eat. a look at the changing landscape from a decades-old tradition. >> reporter: it's a life that seems so removed from the rest of northern virginia. >> come on! >> reporter: on his family's silver ridge farm just north of fredericksburg, every morning mike silver feeds the cattle both by hand and on tractor.
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like the fifth generation of silvers to farm or raise cattle here. looking after his dad, jerry. >> nothing i more enjoy than talking about the farm, showing people what we do. >> reporter: but both father and son now watching the landscape around them quickly change. >> that's 18 acres there that we'd farmed for a long, long time. we've lost it this year. sold for houses. farm on the back side of us. 300 acres all in houses. >> reporter: the silver family has been farming this land for nearly 200 years. jerry silver tells me they reached their peak in the mid-80s. since then they've lost about a third of the land. >> easy. come on. >> we're growing housing in stafford county. not cattle. >> reporter: the cattle business here feeling the pinch. >> come on, girl. >> reporter: look no farther than the fredericksburg livestock exchange. >> it used to be full.
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i mean, you know, the stands here where people used to watch the sale. it would be full. and now -- you have a handful of people coming. there's just no farms in the area. it's really sad. >> reporter: at one of the exchanges last auctions, a bull was brought from a county farm. the final bid, aren't what they used to be. with decreasing land to farm, so went the local demand. >> the purpose was to have a place for local producers to sell their cattle. there's just not as many local producers anymore. >> reporter: but the stockyard wasn't just a place of business for all of those years. also a social gathering. >> you flow them all and get used to seeing them, how they're doing and they're family and stuff. kind of just like a weekly gathering. >> reporter: for the generation who has raised cattle, who came to the
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participated in the exchange, the closing sure is sad. but it's what it signals. really the end of an era, making it tougher to swallow. >> when i saw it in the paper i almost started crying, because it was that emotional. some place we'd been coming for so -- so long. >> reporter: families like the bennetts say the children of many farmers they know are choosing different careers. >> yeah, right. a lot of them, they're just not interested. the younger generation, this is -- it's a hard life. i mean, you don't make that much money, and -- it's just hard. >> this one is a monster truck tractor. >> reporter: but if a 3-year-old's playful spirit is any indication, the silver family may have hope passing this place on to a sixth generation. >> do you know what this is? >> huh-uh. >> it's barley. >> barley. >> look. it's called bearded barally. >> reporter: the little davis will have to do without the local exchange. >> you keep working and hope he'll have the opportunity to be raised on a farm, to be raised around all of this stuff. and potentially something they might want to do themselves.
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>> and the exchange officially came to an end this past week. >> i cannot believe. 200 years, right, in the family? >> for that one farm. absolutely. six generations. >> seems this is what farms across the nation are proeshl dealing with. one sad story after another. >> and virginia how it's continuing to grow. >> and develop. >> culturally, people trying to pass that career on to children who don't want that career it can be difficult. >> great story, david. all right, tom kierein is with us. hearing about accidents because of this weather? >> multiple spinouts. the pavement is wet. people driving too fast. slow down. have your headlights and wipers on. most of the heavier rain is crossing the bay, the area in yellow and orange pulling away, but still have lingering spring manies across north virginia, nearby suburbs and in the district, with us throughout the day. scattered sprinkles. this is not going away. the heavier rain will track farther away. going forward hour by hou
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by 3:00, still a few sprinkles in areas in green. the zones where could get sprinkles of very light rain continuing into the evening hours around the metro area. a few moderate showers out of the mountains as of 6:00 p.m. by 9:00 this evening, still scattered sprinkles around northern virginia, the district and much of maryland. all the way until late this evening and off and on during the day sunday. mouch rain total? most of the heavier rain this morning is generally south and east of us. maybe an inch to as much as two inches there. preakness, by 11:00, light rain. tapering to sprinkles. l by late afternoon, post time, mid to upper 50s, and they're off. temperatures tomorrow, low 60s. off and on sprinkle likely during the day sunday. smaller chance monday. 70s tuesday. here comes 80s, wednesday, thursday, friday. remember the '80s? cyndi lauper, dur
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>> and welcome them back, open arms. thank you, tom. all right. 9:53 your time on this saturday. we want to tell you we're following breaking news of the egyptair crash investigation. what investigators are learning from new photos of debris and what happened moments before that crash.
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teachers. teaching english at a public charter school and also the milken educator award. congratulations to them. 9:56 on this saturday. four things to know before you head out -- start with a man in critical condition after witnesses say he brandished a gun at a white house security checkpoint. a secret service agent shot the suspect after the agency says the man ignored several commands to drop his weapon. >> and take a look at this scene. montgomery county police say it happened around 5:00 this morning on north frederick avenue in gaithersberg. >> and a man ignoring commands to drop his gun. >> new photos of debris from egyptair flight 804. posting pictures on an egyptian facebook page. they'll begin testing
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cause the plane to go down. all right, tom, any words of wisdom dealing with a rainy day? >> heaviest gone. dealing with a few sprinkles today, off and on tomorrow. a smaller chance monday. focus on the latter few days of the seven-day outlook. tuesday looks fabulous, mid-70s. near 80 on wednesday and down-right summerlike on thursday and friday. highs in the mid and maybe even upper 80s. >> wow. hard to imagine. >> yeah. the sun finally giving love on your seven day. looks good. thanks for joining us. that des it foro
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♪ zooming in from outer space to see what we are doin' ♪ ♪ tiny little astronauts ready to get to it ♪ ♪ intergalactic scientists earthbound on a mission ♪ ♪ they're the brightest of the best ♪ ♪ a team of friends upon a quest ♪ ♪ all aboard they send reports of projects they are doin' ♪ ♪ question and investigate there is nothin' to it ♪ ♪ make a guess and do your best ♪ ♪ gathering the data - find out, floogals. go! ♪ they're a band of cosmic friends ♪ ♪ tiny happy aliens ♪ blast off to another world secretly exploring ♪ ♪ when they land upon the earth nothing's ever boring ♪ ♪ ♪ they might have landed in your room ♪ ♪ be testing in the kitchen or exploring in the bathroom ♪ ♪ have you noticed something missin' ♪ ♪ it's another undercover super secret day ♪ ♪ experimenting all the way ♪

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