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she is at the scene with the latest. jackie? >> reporter: well, we have some updated information for you. we are now told that this is likely the result of a collision between two vehicles that drove this metro bus into a tree. take a look here. you can see they are getting ready to put chains on that bus and pull it out of there. this was a violent collision. people tell us it made a noise they could hear for blocks. pete, i understand that there was some initial efforts to get in that bus. >> well, we had dozens of fire rescue crews here of course. the doors were forced closed. the driver of the bus was trapped for about 15 minutes. there's not much of a front of a bus. hit the tree. pretty violent collision. all the people that were on the bus, which were about 15, were not injured
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we declared this as a mass casualty incident. >> reporter: east-west highway is very aptly named. it is especially on days when we have more traffic like we do. people not taking metro, people trying to avoid it, trying to get to the beltway. it is a shortcut to get from upper northwest, bethesda, chevy chase, to the georgia avenue exit on the beltway. very popular with people who know their way around here and it is jammed going east right now. you definitely want to avoid this area. we also understand metro is in the process right now. you can see the officers inside the bus there behind me. they are reviewing the tapes from the bus's cameras because we hear there is some type of discrepancy between the bus driver's account of what happened and the person who was driving the other vehicle that it collided with. >> what a mess out there. thank you. also new tonight, team
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coverage as metro rail riders deal with another rush hour of big delays because of that massive safetrack program. >> metro says overall the report card has been positive, but problems have started popping up again in the last hour. let's go first to adam tuss. he's at the foggy bottom station as riders try to make their way home. adam? >> reporter: that's right, doreen. we've got another evening commute to deal with here. of course, there's going to be a crush of riders. people start to make their way in. it is getting very busy. yeah, there are some issues that we are now hearing about. more on that in just a minute. metro's leader says the system was basically at capacity today. more challenges could come tomorrow. a lot of metro riders simply found another way today. take a look at this chart from metro.
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these stations saw ridership drops compared to pre-track conditions. they say that's a good thing, encouraging riders to stay away. >> i want to urge everyone whatever you did today do tomorrow, do wednesday, do for the duration of this surge because it worked okay today. >> reporter: but there were some notable issues. at the boston station, both platforms are open, but train that you think is coming isn't always coming or going in the directions that you're used to. we watched as amy from arlington got caught off guard racing back and forth between platforms, trying to catch her ride into d.c. are they communicating this effectively or no? >> no. i've missed three trains in the last five minutes. >> reporter: it happened to bruce burns also. is it confusing? >> yes, it is confusing. >> reporter: do you think they have enough communication out here? >> i don't see anybody here telling me -- all i see are passengers and
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>> reporter: they'll have more metro personnel at the boston station tomorrow. and now remember, this is just the first of 15 surges that'll be rolling out over the next year, guys. >> adam, as we get under way with what is going to be a very painful process, how confident are the metro folks that they can get all the work done in the time that's been scheduled? >> reporter: well, you know, doreen, i asked the general manager today. he actually walked down onto the tracks and saw some of the work that was being done. he was happy with the progress. i asked him is there any way the window of time would be extended in the work isn't done. he said absolutely not. everything that's been scheduled on the safetrack plan will happen during those windows. he's promising riders they will not have to endure any more pain than what's been scheduled for. more packed platforms, more problems popping up, and so are the headaches for
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tonight. shomari stone joins us live from the boston station where the growing confusion. shomari? >> reporter: yes, that confusion continues to grow. some riders tell me that they are downright frustrated. they catch a train here to the boston station. then they try to get off, get on another train. once they do that, that's when that train is gone or it is so packed it is just so tough to even get to the train. a bit confusing. you're going to see why. metro officials warned that the orange and silver line trains may be very crowded, especially during rush hour. riders should expect significant longer wait times at multiple stations in northern virginia. this seems to be the same issue riders experienced this morning. metro employees are here along with transit police. they're here answering questions, explaining to people why there is single tracking. a lot of folks say it is really frustrating because they're trying to figure out what is going on. let's hear from a rider now. >> they told me
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but it didn't come on this side. it came on that side. i ran over to that side and i missed it. now i'm going to wait until i figure out what train i've got to get. >> reporter: describe what this is like for you. describe it. >> it's frustrating. it's very hard. i want to go home. >> reporter: a lot of people tell me they want to go home. keep in mind if you plan on catching the metro rail tomorrow make sure you give yourself plenty of time. i talked to a couple of metro employees off camera. they admit this is very confusing for passengers, especially when you're down there. it is very hot. a lot of folks just want to get home. one woman told me that she's calling in sick tomorrow because she needs a metro mental health day. that's what she said. live here in arlington. i'm shomari stone. news4. the storm team 4x4 also keeping an eye on the roads tonight. live pictures on i-66 in
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district. more people were choosing their cars in the wake of metro's safetrack program. others went with alternatives like uber and lift. capital bike share saw a big bump in ridership. today about 4100 people took their bikes. well, that's the focus of our flash survey tonight. we wanted to know how your commute was affected if you did not take metro today. more than 40% of people who responded said it was worse. now to the race for the democratic presidential nomination. tomorrow is the last big primary election day. six states will vote. california the biggest prize of all, but polls show hillary clinton leading bernie sanders by double digits in new jersey. so it's possible she could clinch the nomination before the california polls even close. put another way. clinton's current overall delegate total is 2364 and she is just 19 delegates short of clinching t
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bernie sanders would need 817 delegates to reach the magic number. steve handelsman is on capitol hill with the signs that this part of the race may be nearing an end. steve? >> reporter: definitely, doreen. thanks. the democrats' competition that had been heated seemed to cool a bit now that they are so close to the end. the day before she expects to lock the democratic nomination, hillary clinton was still in california. polls showed democrats closely divided, but she's calling for unity after the primary to bet the presumptive gop nominee. >> anyone who has supported senator sanders has a lot at stake in this election in preventing donald trump from being our president, which i can barely say. >> reporter: clinton is holding her fire on bernie sanders, hoping she can woo sanders' supporters. >> the worst
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followers that makes it harder for her to appeal to them. >> we need real change in this country, not superficial change, but real change. >> reporter: meanwhile trump is dividing republicans. today not backing away from his charge that federal judge gonzalo is biassed in the trump university case because he is of mexican heritage. >> all i'm trying to do is figure out why i'm being treated so unfairly by a judge. >> reporter: top republicans still back trump, but stay they're outraged. >> this is one of the worst mistakes trump has made, and i think it is inexcusable. >> reporter: in heavily hispanic california, clinton figures what trump said could help her beat him in the state in november. but that is five months away. clinton plans to celebrate locking the democratic nomination tomorrow night in brooklyn. we plan to be there, butin
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sanders' supporters will be hillary clinton's summer job. i'm steve handelsman, news4. doreen? >> thank you, steve. new information about a man who was murdered in woodbridge. police say that that victim's roommate is wanted in connection with his death. police say 24-year-old mason was found with gunshot wounds on potomac heights place on saturday night. mason was taken to the hospital and that's where he died. another person was also hurt in that shooting. today police issued a warrant for the roommate's arrest. this is prince william county's 11th homicide this year. it is more murders than the county saw all of last year. there were ten murders in 2015. just seven in 2014. prince william county officials say most of this year's murders have been drug related. >
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being remembered tonight by his colleagues. he and an afghan translator were killed on assignment in southern afghanistan yesterday. the photograph is on the right and the translator on the left. the taliban fired on their convoy with rocket propelled grenades. meanwhile the human is honoring the memory of journalists killed on the job in 2015. the list includes cartoonists from the french magazine "charlie hebdo," a blogger killed in bangladesh, and the tv news crew killed near roanoke last year. parker's father spoke to us after the ceremony. >> i think that the fact that she was killed the way she was just underscores what a tremendous gun -- senseless gun issue that wh
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country today. >> the museum hopes to raise awareness of threats against journalists and the first amendment. a man goes on trial for murdering his wife and staging it to look like a suicide. the grainy surveillance video that could play a big role in this case. hi, i'm pat collins. this is -- well, he doesn't really have a name yet. you see, he's one of 28 cats left in these crates in the rain over the weekend. what's going to happen now? how can you help, the story coming up. and some nice weather for us over the next couple of days, but i'm still tracking the latest on tropical storm collin as it tries to move up this way. impacts for us? we'll talk about it.
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more than two dozen cats are getting a bit of tlc after somebody abandoned them in bad weather outside a maryland animal shelter. the cats spent several hours out in the elements before workers even realized they'd been left behind. it happened over the weekend at the greenbelt animal shelter just off kennel worth avenue. that's where we find pat collins. >> reporter: you know, it's against the law to abandon an animal here. it can costou
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leads to the question, who had 28 cats. some of those cats mama cats still nursing their babies. and why? why would they treat them this way? welcome to greenbelt. it's a cooperative community. population about 22,000. that's just the people. there are thousands and thousands of pets here. you see, this is an animal-friendly community. it has a no kill animal shelter, so you can imagine what it was like last weekend when someone abandoned 28 cats here. >> what kind of person would do something like this? >> someone who doesn't have a whole lot of moral character, i would think. >> it is very bizarre that someone would have that many cats in the first place. >> they're overwhelmed right now down there, so i don't know what they're going to do. >> reporter: here t
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and sound, all 28 of them. cats, kittens, even some mama cats still nursing their babies. left in these crates in the rain last weekend outside the greenbelt animal shelter. animal control officer howard stanback, he made the discovery. >> my heart dropped. i was terrified. i didn't know how long they would been out there. it was raining friday evening. i didn't know the conditions of them. i didn't know how many of them. >> reporter: now after they get checked out by the vet and after they get their shots and after they get neutered, all the cats and kittens will be put up for adoption next week. want a kitten? the greenbelt animal shelter,
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jim, what about you? >> wonder how many you're going to be taking home, pat collins. looks like you're doing some bonding there. the decision only set social media on fire today. the mother will not be charged in the case of a 3-year-old boy who fell into the cincinnati zoo's gorilla exhibit last week. >> i've gotten dozens, if not hundre hundre hundreds, of e-mails about this case. if anybody doesn't believe a 3-year-old can scamper off very quickly, they've never had kids. >> a zoo team had to shoot and kill the gorilla to protect the little boy last month. the old barrier at the enclosure has been replaced with a taller fence and the gorilla exhibit will reopen tomorrow. a special honor for a boxing legend at the national portrait
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this picture of muhammad ali is on display now in the in memo memoriam space. >> reporter: a vigil continues outside the muhammad ali center. >> he's very special. >> reporter: to honor the man who so famously shook up the world. >> he was a fighter in every sense of the word, what he did outside of the ring as well as what he did inside the ring. >> reporter: a hero remembered around the world and social media. a star to even the stars, paul mccartney, madonna, and president obama among those sharing photos, memories, and condolences online. his family who
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the world is also quick to point out louisville was always home. that's why they'll celebrate his life here. on thursday at an islamic funeral prayer program opened to everyone at freedom hall, the last place he fought in louisville and with a public memorial on friday following a 19-mile funeral procession. one final trip through his old neighborhood, past his childhood home, and down the street that now bears his name. >> our job now as a city is to send him off with the class and dignity and respect that he deserves. >> reporter: respect that like the man seems boundless. >> he was a remarkable individual. >> reporter: or more simply put, he was the greatest. when we come back tonight, crowded trains, fewer riders, a look at the unexpected impact from metro's safetrack program and what some bus
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a local man accused of murdering his wife and then
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suicide. the testimony from the couple's oldest son that could be pivotal for the prosecution. the author that spent mondays embedded with the police homicide unit. what he learned. those stories and more coming up at 6:30, but first here's doug kammerer with a check on our forecast. doug? >> are you guys in the camp that we missed out on a little spring weather? >> yeah. >> i get that a lot on my facebook and twitter accounts, talking about where wheere the 70s. we didn't see that. now we have some may-like air coming in. we're going to be seeing temperatures that are in the 70s the next couple of days. the average is now up to 82. that's where we are right now after a high today of 87 degrees. a warm day today, but
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in the 50s. now we're in the low 60s. 83 martinsburg. 82 over towards clinton. a very nice afternoon. a pretty nice monday, if mondays can be good. storm team 4 radar not showing much around our area at all. we're not going to see any rain tonight. there's a storm to our north. there's a storm to our south. the storm to our north, this is a cold front that's trying to make its way on down, having a hard time doing so. what this front will do is keep tropical storm colin away from the area. look at the clouds actually coming up from colin. you walk outside right now. you see those clouds. those are from the tropical storm down to our south. you can see that storm about t make landfall in the next few hours in the panhandle of florida here. they are seeing some significant flooding effects from this storm. they're going to continue to see that. four feet above the normal high tide. they're already sin
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the storm surge. a possible tornado in jacksonville today. that storm would come right up towards our area normally, but because of that frontal boundary it keeps it to the south and east. on that track and because of that front, it moves farther down to our south and east. then it moves out to sea as a post-tropical storm. well far down to our south and east. we'll not see impacts from this storm. we'll clear out tonight as the storm moves out of to the south and east. tomorrow a few more clouds develop as a result of the front. notice a couple of light showers. i'm not expecting much. yeah, there could be a rumble of thunder, but most of the day will be on the dry side. bus stop tomorrow morning no problem. sunny and mild. 72 degrees. high temperature around 84 degrees. looking good tomorrow. the 70s, here they come.
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breezy wednesday and thursday with winds 10 to 20 miles per hour. 78 on your thursday. 80 degrees on your friday. a spectacular friday. we'll call it a fantastic friday. then we've got the weekend. we'll talk about that weekend forecast coming up at 6:45.
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the murder trial of a wealthy ashburn ceo is entering a new phase now. >>
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the prosecution rested its case this evening and one of the financial witnesses was the eldest son of the defendant and the victim. >> jula julie carey joins us li from leesburg. >> reporter: the prosecution saved some drama until the end, calling three of the people closest to the alleged victim michelle castillo. they were asked to identify a man seen approaching and then leaving the home shortly before michelle castillo was found dead. when this photo was taken for the family christmas card in late 2013, nicholas castillo never imagined it would be the last with his mother. he testified for the prosecution against his father. braulio and michelle castillo were in a bitter divorce battle en
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in the basement in 2014. a surveillance video shows a man whose face cannot be seen jogging up the street, pausing, then going up the castillo driveway. then at 12:30 a.m., the same figure running away. her body was found hanging in the basement shower. prosecutors say her husband braulio killed her and made the death look like a suicide. his attorneys say michelle took her own life. today the prosecutor asked nicholas, did you recognize anyone in that video. nicholas, i recognize the person in that video as my father. i could tell by the way he was running and the legs. he has a limp in his right leg. but defense attorneys pressed nicholas, suggesting his dad had surgery to correct those leg problems. he didn't have a limp after that, asked castillo's lawyer. nicholas, he
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yes, he did. both came to the same conclusion. they believed the shadowy figure is braulio castillo. the meekers are now the foster parents for the four youngest castillo children. the defense begins calling its witnesses tomorrow. back to you in the studio. two doctors testified today in another trial, the trial of andrew schmuhl. he's the man accused in the home invasion attack against a mclean couple. the doctor said schmuhl came to them complaining of fatigue and was diagnosed with low testosterone. his lawyers are argued he was so medicated he was impaired when he tasered, stabbed, and shot a couple in the mclean home. it was in retaliation for the firing of schmuhl's wife, alicia
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alicia. goodson is the police officer charged with the most serious crime considering the death of freddie gray. a judge will decide his fate. freddie gray died after suffering a broken neck in the back of a police van last year. officer goodson was driving that van. he faces second-degree murder, manslaughter, and other charges. he's written a book about it, a book that reveals new details about one of prince george's unsolved murder cases. >> it was different to have somebody from outside the office outside police family to be in our office embedded. >> reporter: for months in 2013, the prince george's county police department allowed an author to watch their every move.
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february. >> not only were they getting slammed with homicides and police shootings, but they had a red ball murder that they were trying to solve of amber stanley. >> a lot of things took place while he was in there, a lot of breaks in cases. he was in there when we got the new information about the dna evidence in this case. >> reporter: wilber was there as police changed directions in the murder of amber stanley. dna evidence pointed them in a new direction connected to her foster sister. >> she has a foster sister who was assaulted a couple of days prior to amber's murder. we know this person was involved in that assault. it is just somebody we're looking at to see where he was at the time of the murder and if he has any involvement. >> reporter: wilber's book shows a side of this police department never seen before and reveals details in some of the county's most notorious murder cases. >> i want someone from the department to review the book
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objections to anything that might hurt a witness or endanger a prosecution. >> we're okay with it. we've seen the end product and i'm still okay with it. >> reporter: this is still a very active investigation. police george's county police say they're not able to say when they'll file charges in this case. the first major rush hour under metro's safetrack program. while trains were crowded, officials say things went pretty well on the rails today. it's been a little rougher on the roads. many people said they had a longer commute than normal as more people opted to drive to work. this first safetrack surge lasts until june 16th. and there was an urgent call today for washington area businesses to do more to prepare for safetrack shutdowns. as tom sherwood
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are concerned that a failure to act now could cause more problems as those repairs intensify. >> reporter: a worried business crowd pouring into the capital hilton downtown. don't ignore the metro safetrack disruption. >> they should be worried. people haven't really planned. if companies and individuals don't have a plan and rely on everybody else to have a plan, this won't work. >> reporter: with staggered rail shutdowns ahead, the children's national health systems in northwest washington is trying to guide its 6,500 employees. >> it's going to have an impact on our employees as well as our patients and families. >> reporter: are the hospital employees worried? >> absolutely. again, that's why we're here today to see what we can do to help that situation. >> reporter: the hospital says it was shuffle its many employee shuttle buses, but plan ahead is the message to every employee. john boardman
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25 representing 7,000 hotel workers. he says the impact really effects his workers. >> extra difficult for people to arrive at work in the morning. we're not 9:00 to 5:00. uber and lift are not economic options available to most of our members. >> reporter: boardman told news4 he wants metro to provide more stock gap bus routes in place of the trains. metro says it will consider it. in the district, tom shwoo sher. a new push to put more money in your paycheck. i'm darcy spencer. a teen struck and killed while riding his bike in gaithersburg had only been in the united states for less than a year. we'll have more on why he came to the u.s. and why his family is raising money coming up on "news4 at 6:00." we have seen the clouds
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tomorrow the d.c. council could vote to raise the city's minimum wage to $15 an hour. that raise would take effect in 2020. the council measure would also increase the minimum wage for work eeers who get tips up to 5 an hour. labor groups have lobbied hard for the increase, but some business groups warn a sharp rise in the minimum wage could lead to job cuts. it would match new york city and also the state of california. now to nbc 4 responds. you've heard the saying if it sounds too good to be true, yep, it probably is. >> yeah, we've heard that but some viewers believed the ad they saw was the real deal.
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consumer reporter susan hogan is here to explain what happened to them. >> there was an online ad on a legitimate website for a high-tech big screen tv and it was on sale big time. robert williams saw the ad and so did essence hunter. the ad listed a 40-inch 4k tv for $100 with a savings of $950. thinking it was an amazing deal, both consumers purchased the tv, but a few days later they received a notification that this great deal wasn't going to happen. >> a couple of days later, i got an e-mail saying that my order has been cancelled. >> they were not going to honor my two tv order. >> so what happened to this amazing deal and why did the company abruptly cancel not just their orders, but hundreds of others? nbc 4 responds gets answers and we'll have the story tonight at 11:00. if
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you need help solving, give us a call or go online. stay tuned. it's a great story. it's one of those things we can all relate to, no doubt. tragic twist of fate for a local teenager living the american dream. how the community is coming together in the days after his sudden death. plus, bracing for the worst. a look at the stronger is rebuilding a newborn's heart... and restoring a father's faith. it's standing tall after one surgery... not six. stronger is being a typical kid... despite a rare disorder. stronger is finding it earlier... and coming home sooner. stronger is seeking answers... and not giving up, until you find them.
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he was known as one of the best employees at a local restaurant. tonight colleagues of a 16-year-old hit and killed while he was riding his bike in gaithersburg are pulling together to help his family both here and in thousands of miles away. darcy spencer has our reporter. >> reporter: his dad says santos spoke very little english when the 16-year-old arrived in the u.s. from el salvador less than a year ago, but he became an "a and b" student at gaithersburg high school and dreamed of becoming a police chief. santos personified the american dream, but his dream was cut short last thursday. he was struck and killed while riding his bike home from school. >> he got as and his dad was
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get more hours. >> reporter: his daddy is the chief chicken cutter. guzman remembers the teen's dad asking him to hire his son. >> he came. the first time he was shy, but after that he learned quickly and everything we gave him he mastered. >> reporter: they're raising money to send santos body back to el salvador where his mom and most of his family live. they have collected $2500 in cash. much of that money coming from the employees themselves donating their tips. they have set up a donation site which has already raised several thousand dollars. >> he used to be so focused in school all the time. he used to go to school and then come here after work. he was a hard worker. >> reporter: the city of it
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who put the sign on the sidewalk and its role in the crash. no charges have been file ed against the driver. news4 checked in with the city of gaithersburg to find out whether it is legal to ride a bike on the sidewalk. bikes with wheels 20 inches in diameter or larger are not allowed on the sidewalk. it is unclear how big santos' bike was. the city says the whole thing is under investigation. today veterans of the d-day invasion were at the world war ii memorial to honor the memory of those who did not come home. on june 6th, 1944, roughly 160,000 allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of the beaches of normandy, france. nazis were heavily
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the toll on the allies was heavy. more than 9,000 soldiers were killed or wounded. their sacrifice on this day 72 years ago allowed the allies to gain a foothold that began the long, hard fight to liberate europe. tropical storm colin is beginning to bear down on florida. several inches of rain have already fallen in the tampa area. high winds have forced several bridges to close there. on the north carolina coast, beachgoers found rough surf today. doug, the storm is moving north, but you don't think it is going to affect us? >> no. even if you're down towards ocean city much closer to the path of colin, you can wave at it. i don't think they'll get the rain down there. we are getting cloud cover from it. earlier today we saw plenty of sunshine. now we're dealing with the clouds
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those high level clouds. you can see the clouds on the satellite and radar. go down to the south. you can actually see that spin just off the coast now. it will be making its way on shore tonight. it is producing some very high tidal flooding. we've seen that around the tampa area and st. pete in through the panhandle of florida there. now to the north, we're watching another storm. this one normally would come right up the coast as they do so often here, but look at this storm. coming out of canada here. this one is going to win out. it is going to bring in a cold front and that cold front will be far enough south to take colin out along with it. with that, we'll just see the cloud cover tonight and not much impact from colin tomorrow. what the impact is going to be the next couple of days is some cooler and nicer weather. rockville camera looking out towards tysons corner. very cool vantage point. temperature is 82 degrees right now. 80 degrees at 7:00. next couple of days, high temperatures of
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here comes that front cooling us and bringing us breezy conditions wednesday and thursday. we get to 80 on friday. friday looks great. then saturday and sunday looking pretty good too. slight chance of a shower on saturday. most of us remain dry. pretty nice seven-day forecast. coming up in sports, the redskins get one back, but lose two others from their team activities. ty two of
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well, deshawn showed up for practice. >> deshawn showed up. he may be a headache from time to time, but the redskins, they need this guy to play well. when he does, they're a different football team. he is entering the final season of his three-year contract with the skins. last season he was mostly down because of that hamstring injury. today the receiver returned to work in ashburn. jackson, he missed the first two weeks of
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he spent the time working out on his own out in california. the redskins, they have three more days of organized team activities this week before they hold their mandatory mini camp next week. a couple of redskins players got to join their ex-teammates at the white house. they were joined by vernon davis and peyton manning. they celebrated their victory in super bowl 50. they signed a helmet for him. the president, he found out commanding the line of scrimmage is not as easy as peyton manning makes it look. >> let me just say omaha, omaha. i don't know. it doesn't seem to work as well
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let's give it up for the super bowl champion denver broncos. let's head out to golden state. the warriors, they may be making a return trip to the white house. game two between the warriors and cavs not much of a game at all. golden state destroyed cleveland by 33 points. they're now up two games to nothing in this series. golden state has won the first two games by a combined 48 points. the series will head back to cleveland. we talked about the cavaliers and cleveland winning the championship, 1964 the last time. they're probably going to have to wait another year. the kcavaliers not going to bounce back, i think. zimmerman is back from paternity leave. the nats put up
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the reds. the middle of their lineup, harper, murphy, and ramos, they went 9 for 15. >> that's the first time he's had three hits in a long time. murph, he was cold the first couple of games here. he came back to life. it was big to get a couple hits. michael taylor hit a double. hopefully this is big for their confidence and it will help us big time. let's talk about the top of the lineup for a moment here because the guys who have been in that lead off role, they've been struggling. he hasn't been the same since suffering that oblique injury on opening day, revere. his career batting average is .290. then there's taylor. down in every major statistical
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the oriole great headlined the scholarship classic which benefits the youth leadership foundation. dozens of celebrities on hand to help 300 kids in summer programs. many of the big names coming out to help out a good cause and their good friend johnny. >> there's like a three degrees of separation between johnny and everybody else in washington, d.c. it seems like he touches everybody. >> johnny continues to raise a ton of money for these kids. he's been good to me since ai moved here. >> you know you're helping kids. any time most people my age get in that situation, it's a great opportunity. >> it makes you feel so good they have helped us raise over $200,000 from this tournament. >> great job by everyone who attended that tournament. >> great day. beautiful, beautiful.
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