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jump suit, facing a second-degree murder charge. he agreed to a plea deal in april pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter in exchange for a 12-month jail term. today the judge accepted and imposed the sentence and gear let loose with her frustration. >> if i went out and shot somebody, i would never see the light of day. one year in jail is insulting. it was murder. it was not involuntary manslaughter. >> reporter: this was the scene in late august 2013. john gear had guns in his home, but he had his hands up on the screen door when adam torres opened fire, stunning his fellow officers. evidence showed torres had been fighting with his wife and had a history of meltdowns. but prosecutor ray morrow defended the plea deal, explaining john gear's partner said she was very worried about the couple's oldest daughter having to testy.
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raw trial. it would have been pretty hard on those children. i guess i can say i put them ahead of ann gear's opinion. i hope i did the right thing. >> reporter: because adam torres has been jailed since last august and will get credit for good behavior, he'll likely be free in the next few weeks. his lawyer says his goal in the plea deal was to return to his family. his wife just gave birth in april to their third child. >> adam torres is moving on with his life, and i think that's the best thing that can happen in this situation. the gear family can work on trying to recover from this. >> reporter: there is one thing john gear's parents say they can take consolation in. at 6:00, the way this incident has changed police department practice and protocol. to an update we brought you first on news4 yesterday. a d.c. teenager accused of threatening to kill his
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school. he's now in custody. officers took the teen into custody last night. news4 meagan fitzgerald is live at d.c. superior court now with what we're learning about this investigation. meagan? >> reporter: we know this teenager is going to be tried as a juvenile, so we can't release his name, but the teen did appear in court this afternoon and is expected to be extradited back to maryland. we talked to greenbelt police. they tell us the prince george's county school district didn't notice parents of the threat. according to greenbelt police and court documents, a 17-year-old made threats to kill his ex-girlfriend and her entire family. he also said he would shoot up roosevelt high school. the ex-girlfriend called police last wednesday and that's when the investigation began. court documents say metropolitan police oai
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search warrant on the suspect's southeast home where they recovered an ak-47 and several rounds of ammunition. >> we partnered with prince george's county police department and the school security and we heightened security and awareness at the high school. >> reporter: the prince george's county school district did not tell pasrents about the threat. it is likely because pleaolice e still trying to find the suspect. the suspect was arrested in d.c. and appeared in court this morning. police say in addition to making violent threats the 17-year-old will also face child pornography charges for posting video online of his ex-girlfriend performing sexual acts. now we reached out to the prince george's county school district on several different occasions today and we have
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from them. at 6:00, hear from people who knew him had to say about him. here at the live desk we're keeping a close eye on west virginia where people are using words like historic and devastating to describe some of the flooding there. just in the past few minutes, the death toll has now jumped again to 18. 18 people now confirmed dead in the state, including two little boys. one of them 4. the other 8 years old. more than 9 inches of rain has been dumped on parts of west virginia, and that's caused floodwaters to completely swallow entire communities. just outside of charleston, 500 people got trapped at a shopping mall. they had to stay there all night when the only bridge was wiped out. doug kammerer has been tracking the flood
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virginia for the past couple of days. doug, i think everybody there just wants to know is at least the rain going to end at some point soon. >> they have a couple of showers and a couple of thunderstorms down in the same area tonight. those storms will not cause any more of the flooding. most of the rivers have already crested in that region. they'll continue to do so. many of the flood warnings continue through tomorrow morning. west virginia right now getting hit. but way north of that area, those storms came through down around greenbrier, which is way down to the south here. here we are in west virginia closer to our area. hardy and hampshire counties. more storms developing back along the shenandoah valley around portions of madison and green counties. this was the heaviest one along 301. waldorf, heads up. you're about to get some fairly heavy rain in this region. anotherer
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warning. i bet it is for this area. i'm just going to go back real fast. it is for shenandoah county. hardy county and shenandoah county. that's going to be until 5:45 tonight. hardy county and shenandoah county until 5:45. these storms playoffing into our southe -- moving into our southern zone, so we'll continue to watch them for you guys. while the u.k.'s relationship with the eu will change, one thing that will not change is the special relationship that exists between our two nations. the eu will remain one of our indispensable partners. and our shared values in our commitment, that will continue to unite all of us. >> president obama speaking earlier about the united kingdom's vote to leave the european union. we have already seen the immediate impact. prime minister david cameron who called for this referendum now an
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nose dive. the dow plunging more than 600 points. we could see financial impacts worldwide. joining us live is mr. simmons. where does the u.k. go from here? >> reporter: that's a really good question. a virtual uprising through the ballot box by millions of people who felt disenfranchised, who felt like the politicians were making decisions that didn't connect to them. sometimes not only here in london, but in europe, in brussels. the effect though now has been so much uncertainty. there are so many questions left hanging. the british prime minister resigning. the leader of the opposition facing calls for him to resign. the question of whether they'll be anct
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the british currency dropping. leaders in scotland want to see a referendum to talk about divorce from the u.k. and staying with the european union. it is a bit like a divorce in a sense. and in that sense, we're really at the beginning. it's as if one partner has just managed to find the courage to say to the other partner, i'm fed up with living with you, but now, as anyone has been through a divorce will know, there's the difficult process of figuring out what to do about the children, what to do about the house, what to do about the money. that is the type of issue that europe faces. it will be bad for the european economy, bad for the world economy, and it is bound to effect the american economy. >> this is just starting to unravel. thank you so much. the dow fell more than 600 points on the day.
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the nasdaq also dropping more than 200 points on the day. this is the worst day, folks, since 2011. the s&p also fell today by 76 points. many traders didn't even sleep last night as they found out that britain did in fact vote to leave the european union. nobody expected it here on wall street, and nobody really knows exactly what it is going to mean. all that uncertainty is a signal for the markets. i've been done here on the new york stock exchange all day. i'll be telling you what it could mean for the u.s. economy on "nightly news." >> pat lawson will look at the impact here and what it means for your money. stay tuned for news4 at 6:00 for complete coverage. now to a story you'll see only here on news4.
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county employee charged with an abduction attempt and suspected in a separate sexual assault. those incidents happened nine years apart. today we learned the dna match and license plate technology helped police put this puzzle together. mark segraves joins us now live from arlington with new details on this story. >> reporter: this is the lion park neighborhood of arlington just off of washington boulevard where the most recent attack occurred. a woman raped inside of her home last month. it was that incident that gave police the break that they needed to solve not just this crime, but several assaults dating back to 2007. >> yeah, this is really a remarkable case where the courageous victims and witnesses came forward with information to some really diligent detectives. we were able to put the puzzle pieces together. >> reporter: police have charged 34-year-old justin wingate poe with two attempted abductions that occurred in 2007. during that time
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were four similar incidents in the arlington area where a suspect tried to put plastic bags over the victim's head. compare the police sketch from 2007 to the suspect's mug shot. those cases remain unsolved for nine years. this just released arrest warrant reveals police got two big breaks from a sexual assault here on north edgewood street last month. a dna sample from the rape suspect and a license plate from a plate reader that routinely collects and stores locations of thousands of car tags. the dna from the 2016 case matched the dna from 2007, but still no name to go with that sample. when the license plate reader found wingate poe's name, the detective recognized the name from another case in 2009 when a woman reported a suspicious man had been following her. >> not only that, but she also got the license plate number. >> reporter: police
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wingate poe with the 2007 attempted abductions. police say he hasn't been charged with the recent rape in the lion park neighborhood yet. >> we're still working on developing information and evidence in that case. we do expect future indictments. >> reporter: now police say they never questioned wingate poe in that 2009 case following those women because no actual crime was committed. as for the 2007 case when they ran the fingerprints from that case, the reason poe's fingerprints didn't come up even though he is a county employee working for the probation office, police only run those records from a criminal database. he's now being held without bond. he has been put on administrative leave from that government job. wendy, that's the very latest here in arlington. well, this was a costly attack.
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toddler in virginia. we're going to find out why the fight to save his life has placed a tremendous financial burden on his family. plus, she's one of the most recognizable faces of the olympic games. you may remember shannon miller for all the medals she won. now she's sharing a personal story with doreen genzler about a health battle and it comes with a warning for all women. students at the prince george's county high school say they were promised a term last year that they didn't get and now they're being told
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a former assistant track coach in the district is going to be spending more than 17 years in prison for sexually abusing students he worked with. a judge sentenced charles young for seven felony counties, and that includes first-degree child sex abuse. he preyed on seven different male students and had inappropriate sexual contact with them. young worked as the business manager and the assistant track coach at dunbar h.
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prince george's county. some high school students are demanding the new football field they say they were promised. >> reporter: i just spoke with the student athletes. they are saying, as you said, we want what we were told we were going to get. we started with just a few northwestern high school football players. >> we can't really do nothing because that's putting ourselves in danger. >> reporter: but the crowd quickly grew. >> by the time the football season comes, it is going to be straight dirt. the field will be a dirt patch. >> reporter: these student athletes say they want a better football field like they were promised. >> we were supposed to get it last year. we were next to get it this year. >> reporter: the funding and planning of the new turf field, northwestern was supposed to be among the first to get it built. >> they tried to slip it past us again this year.
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sustained on their muddy and overused gla ed grass field. >> i sprained my achilles. >> it is like paranoia. it brings me back to the time i hurt my ankle. >> reporter: this as these rising college seniors are working toward athletic college scholarships. >> william and mary. stoney brook. >> it is putting ourselves in danger. >> reporter: there's been a long legislative battle leading to having turf field at prince george's county schools. we contacted the school system to find out why they're shifting schools around on this list. nobody returned our calls. the students say they're planning a rally on monday at 5:00 p.m. and hoping some of their alumni that play for the nfl will be in attendance. some parents respond to all of this as
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happening with their kids on these fields. back to you in the studio. it's day two of the quicken loans tournament, and a familiar face is making some noise early on. >> there's one. carol maloney live out at congressional country club in bethesda. in heaven, we should say. you're loving it out there. >> reporter: i'm loving it. i was having so much fun watching v.j. singh. he was up to his knees almost in water on number 18 and it was trying to save a par. he ended up ending with a bogey. got out of the mess with a bogey. minus five today after this safe chip. he was lea right now he is two strokes back of the leader, jon rahm. what would be seen as a s
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at golf tournament is high praise. the golf clap. minimal sound with maximum appreciation. the golf clap, deliberately quiet, sometimes awkward, always sincere. >> i've tried to perfect it for a long time. i get the right degree of softness typically after one beer. >> reporter: you do? >> nice shot. keep it up. >> reporter: the clap though? that was a good one. the volume varies. sometimes silent is the answer. you sit here and watch them smack the ball and yet there is no celebrating. >> my hands are full. >> reporter: are you clapping on the inside? >> yes, very much so. >> and you're doing it right. >> reer
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them that you care. >> exactly and i do care. >> reporter: every feel like letting a hoot and holler out after a good tee shot. >> yes. i'm better at puts. >> reporter: does it make you feel better as a golfer when you see them shake it a little bit? >> a little bit, yeah. >> reporter: he's in the sand trap too. >> yeah, i'm not the only one. >> reporter: round two there was just a lot to cheer for guys. right now the 21-year-old amateur is tearing it up on the course right now. we'll have more on his day coming up. see you soon, jim and wendy. we take you to freddie gray's neighborhood after another baltimore police officer was acquitted in a murder trial. how the black community is reacting to this ruling. plus a mt
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found murdered in cold blood in his apartment. find out why his life came to an end because of a fight over money. we're learning new details about the flood victims. one of the youngest onl 4 yearsy
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and welcome back
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on stories from our newsroom right now. >> the governor of west virginia said it has been a rough 24 hours and the next 24 may not get any easier. >> their focus right now remains on search and rescue. one of the hardest hit areas is the town of richwood, west virginia. rivers and creeks there spilling over their banks, catching a lot of drivers by surprise today. more than 60 roads are now closed throughout the state and some 66,000 people still have no power. >> and hundreds of people spent the night in a shopping mall just outside of charleston. they were stranded after the overpass bridge to that mall washed away. the national guard is bringing in a temporary bridge to get them out. let's check in with doug. doug, what on earth caused all this and are they going to get any relief? >> they are going to get some relief. still seeing some showers and thunderstorms t today. st
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already crested. entire towns covered in that water. fortunately today they are seeing things calm down a little bit. they're going on the recovering for quite sometime. look what's happening around our portion of west virginia. those storms yet hit well down towards southern west virginia from charleston down to the sou south. notice this storm right here just south of le ray not moving a whole lot. we could see some flash flooding in and around le ray and shenandoah county. watch out. we're going to see some incredibly heavy rain in the next one to two hours. the rest of us seeing shower activity, but these are the storms until 5:45. severe thunderstorm warnings here. storms up toward the baltimore area and columbia. waldorf saw some rain. here's one around the rockville re
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where we have seen lightning and thunder out of this storm. prince frederick. right now around huntingtown. we'll see a couple more tonight. not expecting a widespread area of rain, but don't be surprised to see a shower. 84. heat index up to 89. that's why we're seeing those scattered showers and storms develop. that will be the case continuing. this is the area of heavy rain in west virginia. they are seeing some showers down there, but fortunately the heaviest rain is down. i'm not expecting much as you head out. tomorrow looking great. highs in the low 80s. lower humidity. highs around 83 degrees in d.c. that beach forecast, if you're headed down to the beaches, looking really good. saturday high temperature of 74. breezy around the beach. 78 and nice weather on sunday.
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the national weather service really putting out a big campaign here for you boaters. be ready for strong winds and storms. you can do that by checking the forecast early. don't just go out on the boat without checking that forecast. download the nbc washington app. that's going to be a great way for you to get the latest radar. unfortunately, we had 21 deaths as a result of people into the water. make sure you have plenty of life preservers on and you have those on as storms approach. next couple of days no storms. looking good saturday and sunday. highs in the low 80s. 83 on saturday. 85 on sunday. we're only talking 30% chance on monday and tuesday of showers and thunderstorms. >> i'm enjoying my friday night and saturday. >> we've just got to. what a friday for the markets in this country and all over the world for that matter, so why should you care about what's happening in the u.k.?
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how great britain leaving the eu could impact you and your wallet. plus the metro safetrack surge is not all going as planned. find out what did not go as scheduled. gangs and drugs add up to murder in montgomery county. up ahead, you'll hear the
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in fairfax koucounty. a former police officer sentenced to jail for shooting and killing a man on the job. the victim's mother says the 12-month sentence is a insult. and now all new at 5:30, a toddler in virginia attacked by a copperhead snake. the medicine that saved the child's life is taking a bite out of the family's budget. first, revenge for a debt owed was a motive for murder in montgomery county. today justice was served. a convicted murderer will be spending the rest of his life in prison. that sentence today from a judge in montgomery county. >> gangs and drugs led to this murder that hapd
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years ago in silver spring. chris gordon has new details on the murderer's confession tonight. >> reporter: the victim's mother said in court today that she cries every day for her murdered son. just feet away, the convicted killer looked at his own wife and young daughter and blew them a kiss. the judge said that this is a tragedy for two families, especially the children who will have to grow up without their fathers. he came to these apartments in silver spring to commit murder on december 7th, 2012. 30-year-old michael quinton shot jesse campos. quinton shot him in his apartment where he was watching a movie with his girlfriend. >> today the judge handed down a sentence of life without parole. this is an individual who already killed somebody in virginia, had wounded someone else in virginia, and had killed jesse campos dead in montgomery
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we wanted to ensure he would never get back out on the streets again. >> reporter: quinton targeted campos because of the mother of quinton's baby had loaned campos $2,000 for campos to buy marijuana. campos refused to pay the loan. quinton thought campos was disrespecting cook and killed him to protect cook and their young daughter. here's what quinton told police in a statement given to news4. >> seen jesse walking from the closet, pulled the trigger once, twice, three times, four times, five. might have been six. i don't know. i think it was five though. >> reporter: some members of jesse campos' family spoke before the sentencing. his mother said, he needs to pay here. i do not forgive him for what he did. he needs to ask god for forgiveness. ahead at 6:00, how a clerk who used to work right here at the montgomery county courthouse got herself involved
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wendy, back to you. a man who is accused of breaking into woman's apartment, sexually assaulting her at knife point is now in custody. he attacked a woman in the middle of the night last weekend. this was loalong 4th street in e boston area of arlington. the victim in that case managed to get away, locked herself in the bathroom, and called for help using an ipad. we're now in the midst of phase two of metro's safetrack program, but crews still have some work left from the first of its planned safety improvements. crews did not complete all power improvements. metro got more repairs than planned on on the tracks themselves. metro says the leftover work will be handled at night, on weekends, or between rush hours. right now, this has been the story of the .
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and the world with the united kingdom leaving the european union. why should you care? >> a lot of investors suffering from some market whiplash all throughout this day. up and down. mostly down in a big way. pat lawson is here with how this all affects americans' wallets. >> we're all trying to figure it out. it's a mixed bag. while brexit is complicated for people leaving in the u.k. where the pound fell to its lowest level in 30 years, there is a ripple effect for people who live here. >> we have entered a new period of uncertainty. >> reporter: mark hemric is a senior market analyst. he says the brexit vote is one of the biggest financial shocks to hit us since the u.s. financial crisis. as for the individual impact, starting with your investments, despite a volatile reaction in the stock market, you shouldn't make any emotional decisions based on fear. >> in terms of money in the stocma
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it next week or six months from now, you shouldn't touch it. calm should prevail right now. step back. take a deep breath. >> reporter: when it comes to the federal reserve and the rate hike we've been waiting for, consider that sidelined. >> the fed cannot raise interest rates between now and the end of the year at this point. >> reporter: borrowing rates will remain low for the foreseeable future. we're talking auto loans, mortgages, and credit card rates. >> one thing you can always say about the global economy we don't know what's going to happen next. >> reporter: another big impact, the pound in europe has weakened, giving the dollar more power. >> this is an unprecedented drop that we haven't seen since 1985. >> it means your buying power, particularly in england right now, is going to go farther. >> reporter: in other words, europe is on sale. >> you're going to be abl
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travel abroad and enjoy buying power that is really quite remarkable and perhaps a unique opportunity in history. >> reporter: when it comes to politics on this side of the pond -- >> we have our own election in the united states. only once we get past that will we have greater certainty about the way things are going to turn out in our own political systems. >> nbc news takes a closer look at how millennials voted in the u.k. we have a link on our nbc washington app. just search brexit. it was the neighborhood where the riots broke out in baltimore after the death of freddie gray. >> we're going to see how much has changed and what some people in that community are feeling now about their relationships with the police. a toddler recovering after being bitten by a snake, but right now his parents are asking for help. we're going to tell you the
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a toddler bitten by a poisonous snake and rushed to the hospital. >> but the life-saving medication has left his parents with some hefty bills. >> how the community is now trying to help. >> reporter: photos of a 16-month-old hin
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teddy bear. three days in the hospital all because of a snakebite. he made an effort to step over a brick and then flinched. >> i thought that he scratched his foot on something. i went to pick him up and when i picked him up, i looked down and i didn't see anything there. >> reporter: the family was visiting relatives, but over face ti facetime the mom said she noticed blood and the foot starting to swell. >> they confirmed it was definitely a copperhead bite. >> reporter: they transferred the little boy to a hospital in fairfax and treated him with anti-venom. the family doesn't have health insurance. the cost surged. each vial of medication about $3,000. >> and he had 16 vials of that. it's definitely costly. >> reporter: that doesn't include the
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hospital fees. through social media folks are stepping up, offering prayers and making donations. >> we were shocked. i was brought to tears immediately by how supportive and kind everybody has been. >> reporter: and a week later, he is back on his feet, smiling. david culver, news4. >> cute kid. well, she was a superstar at the olympics. >> you remember shannon miller, one of the biggest names in gymnasti gymnastics. up next, she's sharing a different side to her life. her story about one of the biggest battles over the years. there a chance you's
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do you remember shannon miller? she really embodied olympic grace, champion spirit. but five years ago when she was just 33, this athlete received some news that changed her life forever, set her on a new path. doreen genzler with her story. >> reporter: this is shannon miller at the 1996 olympics in atlanta at the top of her game with seven medals, the most decorated gymnast in u.s. history. but 15 years after her olympic victories, she received some shattering news. >> my doctor found a baseball-sized cyst on my left ovary.
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might be available to figure out what was going on. >> reporter: shannon was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. >> my whole world stopped. >> reporter: doctors removed a mass in her pelvis along with one ovary and a fallopian tube. >> i was lucky they caught it early. >> reporter: about 22,000 cases will be diagnosed this year. >> there are symptoms of ovarian cancer and most women even at early stages have symptoms. they're just nonspecific. >> reporter: the top four symptoms of ovarian cancer are bloating, pelvic or abdominal pain, weight loss, changes in bathroom habits. shannon was unable to give birth to another child after surgery and chemotherapy. she is five years cancer free. she lives in
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husband and two children, and has made it her mission to spread the word to women about making their health a priority. >> i want to speak up and speak out about it because we need to understand the signs and symptoms and know that it isn't just a, quote, old person's disease. this is a disease that is absolutely horrific. the earlier you can detect it, the more options you have. >> well, and a pelvic mass does not necessarily mean you have ovarian cancer, but it is critical to get anything like that checked out. early detection is of course key. well, the excitement builds in washington as the summer olympics this year draws near. an event today at city center d.c. featured local athletes appearances and interactive sports experiences like pole vaulting and power lifting there. this is olympic day created in 1948 to commemorate the birth of the modern gas
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olympic values and ideals. meanwhile if you want the latest olympic news delivered to your inbox, just sign up for our olympic newsletter. just search newsletter in the nbc washington app. well, after two days after repairs, axel road in alexandria, it is back open. that water main break on tuesday was near van dorn street. crews finished patching it up today, but the boil water notice for some residents remains in effect and will be in effect until tomorrow. open our nbc washington app for a list of those neighborhoods and just search water main. breaking news on this severe flooding devastating parts of west virginia right now. we have just learned that 20 people have confirmed dead tonight and state officials expect that death toll to in fact rise even higher. this is the worst flooding there in a century. the national guard is rescuing people who spent the night stranded inside a shopping mall. morgan
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>> reporter: it's been raining on and off here in west virginia, but i want to show you some of this damage here. you can see where the power lines have been complete lly ripped down. there's an entire chunk of road that's missing behind me. this is where the floodwaters are moving very quickly. they are still looking for a young toddler. one of the people who died was an 8-year-old boy. he was playing in creek water that was just about a foot high. the water was so strong it carried him away. they later found his body and he was pronounced dead at the hospital. there are 500 people who are still trapped inside a shopping mall. they're biding their time while authorityinies figure out how t reach them. there are 17 shelters throughout the state to help residents without food, water, and electricity, and some without their homes. i ran into a gentleman.
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but his house was gone. he was identifying items that he owned that were floating along the river. these are the types of stories we're hearing today. people here that are aware the worst might not be over. there's more flooding expected today and into the weekend. >> they get some relief, amelia. >> as you heard, more rain potentially in the forecast and in parts of west virginia closer to us right now tracking some very heavy rainfall in the petersburg area. this activity comes to an end by 8:00 tonight. after that, really nice weather for the weekend. saturday and sunday looking spectacular. humidity is back on monday along with a chance of some late day showers and thunderstorms. right now looking ahead to july 4th, maybe you're having a barbecue, having the family and friends over. monday july 4th currently looking dry. that's a ways away, but right now the forecast looks good. this is that v
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continuing to move toward le ray in virginia. notice the bright colors here, the yellows, the oranges, and the reds. that is very, very heavy rainfall. it looks like this activity is starting to move a little bit rather than just sit there dumping rain on parts of virginia back into west virginia, but we just have a flash flood warning issued to the west of le ray. this is starting to show signs of diminishing and some scattered activity in the d.c. metro area. parts of fairfax and prince george's counties and rain in parts of st. mary's county. you can see the panhandle is starting to dry out. as we head into the virginia area, heavy rain south of le
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out. midnight we'll have partly to mostly cloudy skies. dining out tonight there's a chance of a shower or thunderstorm here in the d.c. metro area. it is muggy for everybody with temps in the 70s. humidity tomorrow nice. humidity on sunday still on the low side. by monday, it starts to feel sticky again in the area. right now temps are in the 80s. we'll wake up with temps around 68 degrees. a high tomorrow of 83. we'll hit that at about 4:00 in the afternoon. tomorrow evening spectacular. if you're headed to the beach this weekend, looking breezy both days, especially saturday. mid to upper 70s for highs there. back here at home sunday highs in the mid 80s. on monday chance of some late day showers and thunderstorms. a high of 85. tuesday a high temp around 90 degrees with a chance of showers and thunderstorms. potentially more showers a
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wednesday. monday, tuesday, wednesday, these days are not washouts. it is kind of the summertime weather pattern where you could be dealing with thunderstorms. otherwise it is humid. we'll keep it dry on thursday. friday with highs in the low to mid 80s. hamilton is a hot ticket, but we have one that might be a little hotter tonight. it's the mega millions drawing. >> you can buy the whole cast and play for a year with this. $363 million. that translates to 244 million if you take the cash option up front. as retailers compete for your lottery loot, those who have had several winners say they're hot spots to buy. those who haven't had winners say they're due for a big winner. >> more customers, more fun. everybody is really excited about it. we love it. >> we'll give you the results. tonight's drawing on news4 a
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11:00, wendy. the trial is over and the media is gone, but what's next for the people who live in freddie gray's neighborhood. we have reaction from that
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the 4th of july sale! from classic to contemporary. havertys. pennsylvania and north avenues in baltimore were the epicenter of unrest after freddie gray's funeral. people living there now have strong opinions after police van driver caesar
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not guilty of murder yesterday. morgan robinson has reaction. >> reporter: ministers took to the streets in an effort to reassure people and keep peace. on every corner people gathered to talk about the verdict in the goodson trial. disappointment and anger filled the air. >> i have never done nothing to hurt nobody or take somebody's life. that family losing their child and that young man to lose their life like that, everybody else gets less charges because he had the most serious case against him. it is only going to go downhill for me. >> i think it was predetermined. >> how does that make you feel? >> like i always felt. there's no justice in the police department. >> reporter: police officers had quite a presence in the area. police chaplains and the community collaboration of the
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streets. in some circles that's becoming more and more difficult as people begin to trust them less and less. >> they don't stand up for us. they don't do nothing for us. the police can just do whatever they want to do. we don't have a say in this town. we've just got a body here. now at 6:00, an historic vote in the united kingdom is still sending shock waves around the world. how its exit from the european union could impact your wallet. a teenager armed with an ak-47 and lots of ammo threatens to kill his ex-girlfriend and shoot up her school. the death toll jumps again in west virginia. the raging floods have now killed 20 people, including two little boys. the threat far from over. first tonight, one of the most powerful nations in europe exits the european union. >> it's a major shift and impacts everything from trade agreements to military
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alliances, and it's already hammeri hammering stock markets around the world. the dow ended the day down more than 600 points. the nasdaq down 4,000 points. >> what happens next is described as a messy two-year divorce, and the united states does not have the luxury of choosing sides. >> reporter: it wasn't long before celebration over britain's vote to leave the european union gave way to global alarm bells. as wall street and other world markets were in full retreat, president obama offered some words of assurance. >> while the u.k.'s relationship with the eu will change, one thing that will not change is the special relationship that exists between our two nations. that will endure. the eu will remain one of our indispensable partners. >> reporter: alan

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