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11-month-old boy was found safe after he was abducted during a carjacking in baltimore. police say they're still looking for the suspect accused of taking this baby, again, the baby is safe. now to the campaign trail, and the fight for battleground states. donald trump is about to speak in north carolina. the republican giving a prepared policy speech in charlotte. good afternoon, i'm pat lawson muse. >> i'm chris lawrence here at the decision desk. we are getting a very on how certain battleground states are shaping up. millions of people have already cast their ballots in early voting. in the latest numbers show democrats surging to a large lead in north carolina. but the republican turnout is better down in florida and both states are vital for donald trump's chances. hillary clinton is holding an early voting rally in tampa right now, as she fights for florida's 29 electoral votes. earlier today clinton was in palm beach candidate, imploring
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reminding them how al gore lost the state by fewer than 600 votes. donald trump, a two-point lead in florida and almost has to win there to have any hope of winning the white house. at this point, every day is crucial, and it takes something big to get trump off the campaign trail, but there he is right here in the district. steve handelsman is live outside the trump hotel with details. steve? >> reporter: hey, chris, thanks. well, was a decaying host office on pennsylvania avenue, not far from the white house, now it's a glitzy hotel. donald trump came here to dedicate it, not as a break from his campaign, but part of it. off the campaign trail, but on tv. donald trump opened his new hotel in washington. >> one, two, three. >> reporter: five stars, claim the trumps, with a five-word message. >> under budget and ahead of
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job creator. this is what i want to do for our country. >> reporter: outside, protests, taking a shot at trump from florida was hillary clinton. >> he relied on undocumented workers to make his project cheaper. and most of the products in the rooms were made overseas. >> reporter: vote today, she urged floridians. >> please, you can go 6th. >> reporter: so far, with 1.6 million floridians having voted, who is balloting is equally split by party affiliation, but republicans claim an advantage nationally. >> republican turnout in each of these key battleground states is way up from where it was in 2012. >> reporter: clinton is weighed down by daily wikileaks unverified by nbc news. a late batch revealing her campaign scrambling last year when president obama said he
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"we need to clean this up" said a top staffer, "the president has e-mails from her." back at his hotel, donald trump lingered before heading to north carolina. a battleground where many more democrats are early voting than republicans are. staffers say donald trump coming here to washington today for this dedication carried live on cable, plus, his obvious accomplishment building this in the nation's capital, will do more even at this late stage t couple big rallies, mike. i'm steve handelsman, news 4 on pennsylvania avenue. pat, back to you. >> thank you, steve. virginia governor terry mcauliffe is firing back at a recent "wall street journal" report, suggests he donated money to a candidate to influence hillary clinton's private e-mail server. mcauliffe gave half a million dollars to the unsuccessful
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year. her husband is now deputy director of the fbi and oversaw the clinton investigation. on wtop's "ask the governor" program today mcauliffe said the timeline of events proved this was nothing more than a donation to a democratic candidate he was needed in the senate. mccabe was recruited to run more than a month before the e-mail story went public. at the time, mccabe's husband was not in position to have anything to do with the clinton investigation. >> unless i live in a time ac i'm such a psychic that i get into the time machine and i say, oh, the story's going to come out on e-mails, and a year after i meet with her, this gentleman from the fbi gets appointed after the election is over. i mean, this is so baseless. this is bad innuendo. >> mcauliffe urged voters to go to factcheck.org which questioned the "wall street journal's" story.
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this morning. many of us had to get up an actually get the ice off our windshields. we saw the first frost, first freeze across parts of the area. take a look at the numbers out there early this morning, yeah, it was cold, down to 30 degrees at dulles. 30 gaithersburg. 30 as well manassas. 29 back toward martinsburg. at the airport, though, temperature right around the 41 degree mark. even in the city, there were a couple of patches of frost there. now, tonight, it's not going to be the frost. we're not looking at another very cold nightig this is why. today is the coats. tomorrow the umbrellas. look at the rain trying to make its way our way, a storm system bringing snow toward parts of michigan. that system moves our way, bring us a chance for rain. i'll take you hour by hour. see you back here at 4:15. >> thank you, doug. yeah, we're also following a very disturbing case in prince george's county. i put this up on my facebook page. a nanny has been charged with a death of a baby. >> chris gordon is live outside
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this incident was allegedly caught on video, chris? >> reporter: well, pat, thank you very much. the nanny has no prior criminal record. she's nigerian and has only been in this country a short time. last spring is when she started working for the family who lives in this house. taking care of their three children. today police told us how this homicide happened. but they're still trying to figure out why. the nanny, 66-year-old oluremi oyindasola was asleep on the couch inside the house. a video surveillance camera shows the 8-month-old was crying and woke the nanny. the nanny tried to feed the infant who was in a toddlers walker without success. police say the nanny forcefully removed the victim from her walker, removed the nipple from the victim's baby bottle and
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of liquid inside the victim's mouth. >> pouring the two bottles into the baby's mouth to the point where she suffocated and died. >> reporter: ahead at 5:00, what some neighbors tell us they often heard here that caused them concern for the baby. that's the latest live in glen arden, back to you. >> all right. thank you, chris. lot of folks will be praying for that family. ahead, what a local pastor was doing t arrest. that story first at 4. and just how long it could take for men and women to make the same money for the same work.
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a new study finds the cost of health care is creating a bigger burden for american families. the commonwealth fund examined employer-covered health plans and found premiums and deductibles rose slowly through 2010 and last year but families didn't feel a benefit because they're spending a higher percentage of their income on health care. the rising health care costs. you know it's been 108 years since the cubs won a world series. the shameful thing is it may take longer than that for women to get paid the same as men. the world economic forum did a new study that found it will take 170 years before women worldwide catch up to men. out of 144 countries, the u.s. ranked 45th in pay equality. the nordic nations scored the highest with iceland taking the
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developing nations like rwanda and nicaragua placed in the top ten. it started with a meeting at the white house, followed by lunch with the bidens at the vice presidential residence. community college leaders and students from across the country were invited to washington today to take part in a special education forum. it was hosted by dr. jill biden. the group shared ideas and laid out strategies to improve access to community colleges. dr. biden is a professor at northern virginia community tuition. >> this is our moment. we don't know what we're going to have two months from now or four months from now. we have to go forward with free community college. we have to have that in america. i -- thank you. >> the vice president also spoke to the group and thanked them for their dedication to community colleges.
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grinetta wells are accused of taking a million dollars. microenterprise management, which claimed to invest money in poor countries. but officials say that money from investors lined the pastors' pockets. they were arrested sunday after church services at victorious life church in alexandria. they are due back in court friday for a preliminary hearing. thousands of california national guardsmen are breathing so are their families. the pentagon suspended efforts to take back the bonuses soldiers got for reenlisting. nbc's chris clackum has some of the new developments. >> reporter: just days after a published report that thousands of california national guard members are being pursued by the pentagon to pay back suspect bonuses they received for reenlisting a decade ago, defense secretary ashton carter
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reimbursement from california guard members. >> reporter: carter's decision follows the "los angeles times" story every the weekend that nearly 10,000 california guard members have been ordered by the pentagon to repay bonuses they received during what turned out to be a recruiting scandal. >> we need to step forward, volunteered, signed on the line, we did our duty and now they're slapping us in the face for it. >> reporter: former guard in 2006 or 2007 two received a bonus of $15,000 or more to reenlist for more combat in iraq or afghanistan. an investigation in 2011, though, determined those bonuses were in error, or illegal. several california guard recruiters pled guilty to fraud. but at the same time, the pentagon pursued payback from the soldiers, which elected
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chris clackum, nbc news. i've got a snow white, a dinosaur and baby bat girl at home. i know a lot of you are making plans for halloween, coming right up. we posted a roundup of ghost stories, haunted houses and other ways to celebrate in the nbc washington app. search "halloween events." today, the folks at florist in vienna put finishes touches on the parade. abby home won a social media contest to be cinderella, 60 years of business in northern virginia. >> the town of vienna put on the parade and have different contests and categories. best float, best float with music, best overall. we're hoping to win one of the
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well, i know a lot of us have been feverishly checking our weather forecast. we're trying to figure out how we got to dress the kids on monday. >> yeah, we understand you're looking forward to trick-or-treating, doug, is that true? >> yes, you know i am. i will be out there with the kids. i got some cool things, too, with my kids. if you're going out to the parade tonight in vienna, very large crowd expected. weather looking good, just on the cool side. you may have noticed we got some cloud cover now. those clouds have really c quickly over the past couple of hours. take a look. the clouds making their way in after a high temperature so far only in the mid 50s. 57 right now. winds out of the southeast at 5 miles an hour. after a very cold start, many of us saw temperatures down below freezing just off to the north and west and even in the city, around the beltway, we saw frost out there. right now only 54 gaithersburg. 5 5 leesburg. without the wind, it's not that bad. when we had the sun an hour or
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make sure you're on the warm side. tomorrow, not nearly as cold tomorrow morning. 48 degrees in the city. 56 by noon. but then the rain comes in. we're going to see a good chance of rain throughout the afternoon tomorrow. temperatures around 60 degrees. so let's talk about the rain. nothing on our forecast or on the radar right now. storm team radar all dry. but notice, back to the west, this is what we're watching. this is a storm system moving in, we got a warm front coming our way right now. that's what's producing the cloud cover. here's the storm. here's the cold front. this is what's going to bring us the rain it's also going to bring cleveland some rain tonight. that's why they moved up the world series game. game number two happening in cleveland tonight. could be a rather wet game. we're going to watch this front come our way. as it does, we're going to start to see that rain move in, too. so around noon tomorrow, we're dry around the i-95 corridor. starts to move back into i-91, winchester, hagerstown, maybe around frederick. 2:00, west of i-95, you start getting the rain. 2:00, 3:00, 4:00.
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rest of the rege. by 4:00. that means it's going to be a fairly wet rush hour even around 7:00, still dealing with shower activity. now we're not going to be dealing with a lot of rain, but it is going to kind of be a rather cool, dreary, rainy, nasty afternoon. not the best thursday. by 11:00, we start to clear out. by friday morning, we are all clear and we're seeing a day very much like what we saw today. high temperatures in the upper 50s. with some sunshine early. but the clouds will be here tomorrow. so we're calling tomorrow a moderate impact day. dry to start. but rain moving in. you'll need the jacket and the what are we expecting the next couple of days, though? well, friday a lot better. high temperatures under sunshine, 50s to around 6 o degrees. rather breezy on friday. it will feel cool. look at this weekend. phenomenal weather saturday and sunday. highs in the 7 os both days. a great forecast for the marine corps marathon. halloween right now looking cool. temperatures in the 50s. but not all that bad for those trick-or-treaters out there. then the roller coaster kind of continues. as we make our way into next
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?? the redskins play half the year away from home, but this sunday, you can't really even call it a road game. let's say they're going across the pond. >> yes, they're playing in london as part of the nfl's international series to try to attract an even bigger audience. >> yeah, so we sent, who else, pat collins overseas. he joins us live. >> >> reporter: hi, pat, hi, chris. you know, we have been on a roller coaster since we got over here. this is the only way i can really keep track of things. this is home. that's away. we're at picadelly circus. boy is that accurately named. look behind me. this is london's times square. down there the theater district, over there chinatown. this is where things have been happening at night in london for
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i'm going to bring in some special guests now. i met them at dulles airport on the flight over. they're sort of my scouts. they've been out here working the streets of london, finding things. where'd you get the hat? >> i bought it over here, one of these beautiful vendors, picked up for a mere six pounds. >> reporter: what is the most unusual thing that you've seen since yove supporters club. we were over in the crypt of st. paul's cathedral. had a great conversation with them. they've been over to d.c. so some games and they're going to the game on sunday. >> reporter: what about the traffic over here? >> the traffic's crazy. people on the bikes in front of buses, they just drive really crazy. >> reporter: what do you think? >> i think you're out of your mind if you walk, ride or spend any more than five or six minutes around the traffic here. >> reporter: could be hazardous
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unusual thing you've eaten? >> probably black pudding. not my liking. yeah. >> reporter: have you picked up british sayings along the way? >> we might have picked up one last night, nicked, don't know if you heard it. >> reporter: what's that mean? >> well, it means you're arrested. so if after a really rough run -- >> reporter: fortunately, you didn't get nicked. are you excited about the game? >> absolutely excited about the game. >> reporter: now one thing i'll notice about london, you find a lot structures next to some real modern glass and steel structures. there's sort of a struggle here between the old and the new. like, you know, old football, new football. we're going to talk all about that coming up at 5:00. i'll see you then. chris, back to you. >> all right. i love it, pat. man, people from d.c. complaining about traffic? you know it's got to be bad. >> reporter: yeah. >> and our next 15 minutes, we're going to tell you about a story, look, so many of you have
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y25emy y17vy northern virginia, on the issues, barbara comstock and donald trump are the same. comstock and trump promote deportation and reject any comprehensive immigration reform. both oppose background checks epared to shut down the government just for politics. time for luann bennett: comprehensive immigration reform now. common sense gun safety laws. bennett tells congress: do your job. i'm luann bennett and i approve this message. we have some breaking news at 4:30.
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in southeast. the man's body was discovered this morning inside a room at the church on pennsylvania avenue. police say the victim suffered trauma to the head. right now investigators are not releasing the victim's name and they say he did not appear to have any connection to the church. news 4's shomari stone is headed to the scene right now. he'll bring us an update as soon as he learns more. right now in the district, a critical 14-year-old girl, we want to show you howard, police say she was last seen on georgia avenue northwest on monday. there the is right there. that's just a few blocks afwra away from the georgia avenue petworth station. if you have any information at all, please give police a call. hundreds of people protesting outside the trump hotel in d.c. today. it's the republican presidential
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>> reporter: and now we've got competing demonstration. there's one over there and one over there. [ chanting racist usa, no drugs, no kkk ] >> reporter: it was that kind of day. hundreds of anti-trump protesters outside, while trump formally opened his new hotel on the inside. people marche against trump and his campaign for president while a few showed up to support him. >> i don't understand. i don't understand why they will not give donald trump a chance because he does really love all people and wants to make america great again. i really truly believe it. >> reporter: coming up on news 4 at 5:00 and 6:00, how the presidential campaign played out on pennsylvania avenue today. tom sherwood, news 4.
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we rebounded nicely this afternoon into the 50s to even near 630 60 across parts of virginia. storm team 4 tower view looking off to the north. some of the clouds off to our north and west are producing a few sprinkles of light rain, way up here in pennsylvania. a few of them trying to reach the ground here. just to the west of frederick. right near bradock mountain. otherwise we're fredericksburg up to 60 degrees. culpeper at 59. so is manassas. we'll see the clouds coming and going into the afternoon and evening hours. by 10:00 tonight, back down to near 50. upper 40s tomorrow morning. might have a little sun in the morning then the clouds close in by 10:00, the mid 50s and rain likely in the afternoon. we'll have the hour by hour timing on that and a warmer
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? i love you but i tell you if you ever lay a hand on me ? music and videos are the source of much of our daily pleasure and entertainment, as we continue our spotlight on do domestic violence, today with our "safe at home" campaign, we focus on the role of music and videos can play perpetuaing and preventing domestic violence. troy johnson of whur is here. there's been much debate and discussion about the impact of videos and music on the behavior of youngsters. to you talked to a local artist who's trying to use her music to send a message about domestic violence. >> i talked to carolyn malachi, a grammy nominated artist from here in washington, d.c., who has been talking about these kinds of things in her music.
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on me" is what we're watching now. this is the first look at the video, and you're seeing in a very visceral way a woman dealing with the immediate aftermath of domestic violence. i asked malachi what she wants people to take away from the song and the video. >> i want people to talk about domestic violence, you know, gender-based violence, any kind of sexual violence. we don't discuss it. i also want people who are going through it who feel feel something different. i want them to feel empowered. i want them to know that there's somebody out there that's trying to bring this subject to light. even though they feel they can't do it themselves. i kind of feel like they have a champion. >> what she's been talking about is something, she as an artist has traveled around the world, has had these kinds of conversations with women, young and old, about their experiences and what i gathered from the conversation with her was it was
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express the pain that many people are feeling through her own music. >> but do messages like hers get drowned out by what we often see and hear in these videos? you have to wonder if those images don't help to feed this epidemic. >> a lot of people are saying their kids their kids, they're worried about them seeing overly sexualized videos. she lives in ft. washington and hopes there i a especially from the music industry to address these kinds of issues. . >> young people are so impressionable, so when they see them on tv drinking, passing bottles, talking about popping mollys and smoking blunts, when you're under the influence, you're more likely to do and say things you would not do and a lot of people are more aggressive and violent when under the influence. >> so what are your listeners doing to try to counter some of these negative images? >> they're doing what a lot of
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time, having these hard conversations with their kids about what kind of things they're watching on their cell phones and on video and it's important from the folks that i talk to, it's important that parents stay engaged with their kids, not only just to keep an eye and monitor what they're doing, it's also provides an opportunity for you to have a richer and closer relationship with your kids, and if you understand what they're listening to, what they're doing, you can hopefully influence them to make some good decisions along the way. and turn these experiences into teaching moments. >> absolutely. >> for our young. thank you, troy. whur will be back with us tomorrow at the same time to talk about domestic violence in the lgbtq community. and you can find a list of local domestic violence resources plus advice from experts in the nbc washington app. search "safe at home." caught on camera, the
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pedal through a crossing, where people are in a dangerous area. maryland's national capital park police officer recorded video on her dashcam sunday. it shows cyclists ignoring stop signs at capital crescent trail and little falls parkway in bethesda. last week a crash there killed an elderly bike rider. 5:00 today, our next hour, news 4's kristin wright has more on what police are doing to keep drivers, cyclists and pedestrians safe. metro's general manager is train operator refused to move his train because his shift ended. this happened sunday outside ft. totten. transportation reporter adam tuss broke the story on facebook live and earlier today he spoke with gm paul wiedefeld. >> reporter: metro's general manager is reacting to our report that a train operator refused to move his train because his shift ended.
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a report a train operator would not follow through on his job. >> we got to find out what's going on with that. you know, i expect all our employees to use basic common sense. i understand sometimes there's work rules and things like that. we'll find out what's going on with that and deal with it. i'm asking all our employees just to step up and think about the customers first. >> reporter: now of course the backstory on all of this, sunday night 8:00 at the ft. totten station, a train operator said he would not move his train got into an argument with his supervisor and then the supervisor actually had to move the train while the train operator walked off the train. more tole to on this including reaction from metro as we go forward in the days ahead. back to you. first at 4, the local cities named today as some of the best places to live. >> yeah, see if your town made the list in a story all new at 5:00. today, plans were announced that could bring a lot more than
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association didn't pay the bills. the lynnhill condo complex in temple hills owes more than $1 million in unpaid utility bills. yesterday, the gas and power were shut off to the building and residents, many of whom are low income, were forced to try to find someplace else to go. now the county, churches and area businesses are all stepping in to help. >> we're offering financial assistance, we got moving companies here, the community has really stepped up. it's in the worst of times you see the best in really stepped up. >> prince george's county bureau chief tracee wilkins has been reporting on this story for years now. >> not only on our air but sharing it with thousands of people on facebook live. she joins us live outside the condo complex. tracee? >> reporter: well, people today have seen a very different side of this county. people who were feeling lost yesterday didn't know what their options were going to be, and where they were going to go are now seeing the kindness of prince george's county residents
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what they saw yesterday with more than 100 people trying to find their way to a new home since they could no longer live here at the lynnhill condominiums. what we are seen is movers donating their services. coming out here saying we're bringing in trucks and manpower to help people move. we have cooking right over here to the right of me. somebody has brought a huge grill and they're serving food to the residents here who are transitioning. people who are helping them to get u-hauls, et cetera, to pack up and move out. we have with social services, family services, the health department, a spokesperson here from the county executive's office as well. all on hand. the chief of police came by taking a look at how things are working here saying we can do a better job with the transitioning. so he's going to help to make sure there are lights out here in the parking lot and inside. when people are moving their mattresses, et cetera, it is pitch black inside of those apartment buildings.
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the residents. how are they feeling about this response? many of them were really distraught yesterday. >> reporter: yeah, and you got to keep in mind that depending on where you lived in this condominium, there's no telling what your living conditions were like. there were some people who were living in condos that hadn't been updated in a really long time and were paying low-income prices and rent and others who were paying market price for the places that they were living in. those people who have a little more resources than others. emotionally folks feel liketh underneath them. they don't know what they're going to do or where they're going to go. we've also seen local apartments managers for other properties here on site saying we're going to waive application fees and moving fees and if you qualify, we can get you moved into our places. that's a big help for social services because they don't have the resources to help everyone here. >> it's a complex situation. i appreciate you putting that into context for us. thank you, tracee. >> good to see so many people stepping forward to help. thank you, tracee.
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system, but you can see on storm team 4 radar, we have some rain moving our way. >> tom? >> yeah, it was a puffy coat morning. had to haul out all your winter gear this morning for crying out loud. it was down around 30 degrees in the suburbs this morning. we've rebounded back into the 50s this afternoon. clouds have closed back in as we saw there on the storm team 4 radar. there's some rain and even some snow up in michigan. and some rain in pennsylvania. now we just have somel there's a live view from our national harbor camera. there's the capital wheel. we've got a gray sky reflected in those waters of the potomac river. we have sprinkles coming in from the upper midwest, all the way into western pennsylvania. closer to us, there's one little sprinkle here right where interstate 70 meets 270 in frederick. that's going to be staying generally to our north. might have an isolated sprinkle for at hour or two north and west of the area.
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upper 40s by 11:00 tonight. not nearly as cold as it was last night. so by dawn tomorrow, you won't be needing your puffy coat. you'll need at least a warm jacket, though. temperatures right now mid and upper 50s metro area, around the bay. off to our west, low to mid 50s there as well as out in the mountains. at the bus stop tomorrow morning, there will be a chill in the air. it will be in the mid 40s, maybe a little sunshine. a lot of clouds around. the 7:00 hour. the 8:00 hour, upper 40 then during the 9:00 hour, students boarding buses, waiting for the metro, around 50 degrees. a chill in the air as we get rain showers moving in. have an umbrella handy in the afternoon, a jacket. dress warmly for the morning tomorrow. drier roads for the morning commute. wet roads north and west of the metro area for your lunch hour tomorrow. climbing into the mid 50s. then hovering right around 60.
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may be problematic. could have some fender benders with wet roads heading back home from work and school tomorrow right around 60 degrees. storm team 4 ten-day outlook. see a warming trend as we get toward the weekend. friday afternoon around 60 degrees. mid 70s saturday. a nice warming on the way. on sunday, should have good weather on sunday morning for the marine corps marathon. temperatures will be right around the upper 50s by the noontime, it will be up near 70. in the afternoon, it will be in the mid 70s on sunday. for monday, does look like good weather for trick-or-treating. temperatures will be in the 50s on monday evening, chilly and dry. and then we cool down a bit on tuesday. then back up maybe near mid 70s next wednesday. up and down we go here as we get over the next ten days. we'll be in the 50s by that following weekend. that's the way it looks.
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scott macfarlane at the live desk. breaking news overseas in italy. powerful aftershocks in central italy are happening just two months after an earthquake killed nearly 300 people there. the aftershocks crumbled buildings and knocked out power and sent people running into what were really some rain-drenched streets there. the first quake carried a magnitude of 5.4, but the second was eight times stronger meaning it was 6.1 according to the u.s. geological survey. of injuries. we will keep following the story and have more as it comes in. for now at the live desk, i'm scott macfarlane, pat, back to you. >> thank you, scott. first at 4, gaithersburg and alexandria made the list of the top a best ciies to live in america, according to the business website, 24/7 wall street. gaithersburg is number 23. alexandria is number 20 on that list. the website analyzed several variables like crime rates,
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restaurants and attractions, education and housing. the number one city was broomfield, colorado, which is a suburb of denver. well, the redskins are still practicing, getting ready for the royal road trip. news 4's carol maloney got out to london ahead of the team. carol, kirk cousins says he's been getting up early, going to bed early this week to try to get ready for the time difference. how did you sort of prepare >> reporter: you know, i come in with a strategy of using makeup and coffee to my advantage. i'm not sure that's going to work for cousins, though. i think he needs his rest. he did tell us he's getting to bed about 7:15 p.m. see if he does that again tonight. that works for him. so that's what he told us about last night. as far as the rest of us, though, making this trip, we're a little jet lagged. it was a 14-hour trip from door to door, photographer chris
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take a look. here's 30 seconds. ?? ?? ?? >> that was a long trip. that was a long trip, yeah. a long trip. so worth it for so many. i know a lot of fans are coming over here. first regular-season game in london. ever. but in 24 years ago, they had a preseason game, but what everyone was talking about today was that this is the first nfl game the redskins, the first one they ever saw, the 1983 super bowl was the first televised game here. they saw the redskins win.
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at wembley stadium on sunday. we're going to talk about that coming up on news 4 at 5:00. guys, back to you. >> all right. >> all righty. >> i know it's tough on the players but it's a pretty big deal. pretty cool. thanks, carol. >> all righty. it's her first marathon ever. how a local woman is choosing to pay tribute to her fallen hero
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i've been a soldier for 3 years. i've scaled the toughest terrain and faced plenty of my fears as part of my training. and for the past two years i've been a navy federal member. so even out here i can pay securely with mobile pay linked to my free checking account. i don't know about this, it's ... [screams] what did she say? she said "i don't know about this." i couldn't hear over my helmet. your ears are completely exposed. mm-hmm, yeah i just ... open to the armed forces, the dod and their families.
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>> yeah, one of them is paying tribute to her husband who was killed in afghanistan. shomari stone sharing her story. >> i'm very nervous. >> reporter: jane is racing with excite the. in less than a week she'll run in the marine corps marathon for the first time to honor her husband, army specialist christopher horton. >> everything i do is to leapt him and tell people that he gave his life for each and every one of us. >> reporter: she will be one of 30,000 runners taking the nation on sunday, wearing this blue shirt that reads "army specialist christopher horton," a u.s. army sniper killed in afghanistan. insurgents shot him to death on september 9th, 2011. >> it was the worst thing that could have happened. i never, ever thought he would be killed. he was one of the best of the best. i knew at that point forward, it was up to me to carry his legacy, tell people who he was. >> reporter: after his death,
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bracelets, gave one to president obama, and george w. bush and senators marco rubio and john mccain. >> it blows me away every single time and takes my breath away. >> reporter: jane remembers her husband as a good man and plans to honor him one race at a time. >> if i make it out alive. >> reporter: so as you can see, jane is ready for the race and she cannot wait to cross the finish line near the marine corps war she tells me that after it's done, she will continue to devote her life to honoring u.s. service members. in arlington, shomari stone, news 4. right now at 5:00, we're two weeks from election day. donald trump mixing business and politics here on pennsylvania avenue, with hillary clinton still leading in the polls. and it's been an awful day for dozens of families forced out of their homes. what members of the community in
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scenery for this week's game, so does news 4. we have team coverage of the redskins' royal road trip to london. news 4 at 5:00 starts now. >> good evening, everybody. first at 5 tonight, one neighbor says she was a beautiful, happy baby. >> so tonight, he is heartbroken. that baby is dead. the nanny who was taking care of her is charged with her live from glen arden with some disturbing details in this case. chris? >> reporter: well, the nancy faces charges of second-degree murder and child abuse leading to death. that happened here in this house on tuesday. then there was an autopsy and the medical examiner concluded that the cause of death was asphyxiation. neighbors say they were
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happened. >> the baby just cried, cried. i came outside, hear the baby crying. >> reporter: relatives and friends came to console the family which declined requests to speak or provide a photo of the baby. police say tuesday afternoon, the nanny, 66-year-old oluremi oyindasola was sleeping on the couch when the baby woke her. charging documents say the nanny proceeded to pour a large amount of wet liquid directly into the victim's mof and aggressively resist. the defendant then proceeded to force the contents of a second bottle inside the victim's mouth. >> she forcefully poured the two bottles of what looks to be milk down the baby's mouth. causing her not to be able to breathe. suffocating her and eventually she died at the hospital. >> reporter: one neighbor says he's heartbroken by the babiby's death. >> it was just a cute little
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