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voter rolls or the power grid or the internet to drive down turnout. but federal officials insist that hackers working for our adversaries like russia will not be able to affect the count of the votes that are cast. i'm steve handelsman, news 4. >> thank you, steve. >> if you live in the district and you want to vote early, you need to get to the polls right now. the early voting ends at 7:00 tonight. if you miss it, you will have to wait until election day.
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>> today, the wait times at some of the locations such as this one in columbia heights, was longer than an hour. early voting ended in maryland yesterday. virginia does not offer early voting. the polls are getting much tighter in virginia, and that's leading some to wonder whether the commonwealth is going to be a battleground state after all. julie carey in louden county right now with a final push for votes. julie. >> balloting continues at this elections office until 8:00 tonight and a final day across the commonwealth tomorrow, but both democratic and republican party leaders and those volunteer grassroots campaign workers, they have already refocused their attention on election day. when election results roll in tuesday night, the eyes of many political observers will be on louden county, a must-win county to capture the commonwealth. that's why virginia democrats
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up supporters. >> my family is a testament to the goodness of this country. i gold star father khizr khan's scorching criticism of donald trump at the dnc convention and trump's controversial comments after have made him a key surrogate. he met with store owners and helped lead a rally at a diner. >> thank you for your service. >> thank you. >> democratic party leaders and khan both acknowledged the polls have tightened in virginia in >> i have firm belief that on the day of election, virginians will vote for the good values of this country. >> democratic attorney general mark herring says he'll be spending the closing days of the campaign in louden county, too. >> i'm going to work as hard as i could through election day to make sure we gut our votes out for hillary clinton and virginia's own tim kaine.
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heartened by a new poll that shows the republican presidential candidate with a three-point lead in the commonwealth. party chairman says he's not surprised that the polls have tightened. >> we knew it was going to tighten because it always does and we knew our state was much more conservative than a 12 to 16-point blowout like the polls were saying. >> whether virginia has regained its battlegrant status might not be clear until election day, but grassroots volunteers say they feel momentum moving their way. >> whether with our message in the last four days. 120 hours until election day. >> and here's something interesting one gop leader told me. he said while in-person absentee voting among republicans is up all across the commonwealth, it hasn't grown nearly as much in nourj virginia. that puts more pressure on them to turn people out here on election day. back to you in the studio. >> julie carey reporting. thank you, julie. >> developing right now in
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babies at the county's hospital center tested positive for the pseudomonas bacteria this week. a dangerous bacteria. one is showing symptoms. hospital officials held a news conference late this afternoon. five babies have been transferred out of the neonatal intensive care unit. it remains that unit remains closed for the second time in three months. coming up in our next half hour, meagan fitzgerald reports on the precautions the hospital is taking to figure out the s of this bacteria problem. a federal judge sentenced a man who prosecutors say took women's babies and forced the women into prostitution. that man is accused of operating a sex trafficking ring across northern virginia. chris gordon right now at the courthouse in alexandria with our report. chris. >> you may be shocked to learn that there is human sex trafficking in our area.
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world that the victims are often young mothers who need financial and emotional help. fairfax county detective bill wolf says the trend in human sex trafficking these days relies less on force and more on exploitation. >> coercion is the preferred method of the trafficker. they will target particularly vulnerable individuals and exploit that vulnerability to get them to do what they want them to do. >> traffickers. >> working to identify, dismantle and prosecute those organizations. >> today at the u.s. courthouse in alexandria, a judge closed down one of the biggest local sex trafficking wings. he sentenced michael mains jr. to 35 years in prison, saying you have committed horrible crimes. the community needs to be protected from you. mains is the convicted leader of a local sex trafficking operation in virginia.
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children, britney walker, was also charged. a victim said she was told in order to see her baby again, she had to continue to prostitute and send the proceeds, as much as $1,000 a day, to mains. her baby was being held for ransom. in court, mains spoke emotionally, saying i have never in my life been violent toward women. but the attorney for his girlfriend, britney walker, says that's not troo. >> he was violent at least with my >> his defense lawyer feels the 35-year sentence is excessive. >> he's devastated. he will definitely proceed with an appeal. >> his girlfriend britney walker testified against him at his trial after making a plea deal with prosecutors. she's been sentenced to 27 months. two other men are serving long prison sentences in connection with this sex trafficking ring.
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courthouse in alexandria, virginia. back toyou. >> chris gordon, thank you. >> also in court today, a virginia man has pleaded not guilty to federal terror charges of providing material support for isis. mohamad khweis traveled soosyria to join the group last year. this attorneys say they'll file a motion to suppress any statements he made to interrogators there. prosecutors plan to bring witnesses from iraq to testi april. >> fairfax county's outgoing school superintendent says she's confident no other teachers who have engaged in misconduct have fallen through the cracks there. this comes two weeks after the news 4 i-team revealed the school district failed to insure one of its teachers had his license revoked after he was arrested for sexually assaulting a student. >> our investigation found
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teacher brad norton lost his job in 2004. just after his arrest. he pleaded guilty to a charge of assault then. fairfax county schools notified norton then and state officials he was going to ask the virginia department of education revoke his license. but our investigation found the county failed to follow through, failed to do so. which means norton kept his license in tact and managed to find a new teaching job in baltimore county where a few years later he pleaded guilty to a sex offense student. when we first asked fairfax county schools how a mistake like this was made, the district declined to comment, saying due to legal reasons, the couldn't comment, in this sit-down interview today between superintendent karen garza, we asked if the handles of the brad norton case was acceptable. >> my goodness, absolutely not. and in fact, you know, since i have been here, the minute we had any kind of challenge with
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great employees, but occasionally we'll have a situation, we hold them accountable and we turn them over to to have their license revoked. >> the case in question occurred before garza became superintendent in fairfax. after our investigation first aired two weeks ago, a fairfax county school board member asked for a formal review of the district's teacher revocation back to 2000 in part she said to help insure no one else fell through the cracks. more of david's interview with job in a few minutes. in the meebt, to see our investigation, go to our nbc washington app and look for investigation. scott mcfarland, news 4 i-team. >> thanks. rolling stone magazine is apologizing to a university of virginia administrator after a jury found the magazine, its publisher and a reporter defamed that woman. the article was in 2014, gave the account of a woman
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men. police found no evidence to back up jackie's claims. a woman named nicole sued rolling stone. she said the article portrayed her as a villain who discouraged the alleged victim from reporting the incident to police. today, a jury ruled in her favor. she is asking for more than $7 million in damages. a terrifying case of road rage a targeted on the beltway. but the driver is not facing charges yet. and temperatures today 20 degrees cooler than they were yesterday, but still pretty nice. what about tonight's numbers? they're going down in a big way. we'll talk about that coming up
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leadership, the head of our region's largest school system will leave her position in just a few weeks. >> some people were shocked by her decision to resign. northern virginia reporter david sat down with dr. karen garza for an exclusive interview and joins us no. the first question, why are you seeing so many people -- why so many questions were raised about her departure. >> i think it comes down to when she started.
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position. this past summer, she renegotiated a four-year contract extension, and a few weeks later she said another opportunity came up. she was offered the position of ceo of the columbia based columbus rather based nonprofit. she talked about that being a huge opportunity, one she couldn't pass up. she acknowledged questions raised by some in the fairfax county schools allegations regarding a contractor and questionable payments. address to rumors that she no doubt has heard. >> whatever people say, whatever kind of stories they like to conjure up to, you know, with regard to my leaving, it's all silliness. >> is there an investigation? are you being investigated? >> there absolutely is nothing to that story. you know, i just -- anyone woo
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kind of sensationizing this. there's nothing improperly going on in the system or with me. >> we have seen a lot of school superintendents come and go in this area. very often, they're forced out because people don't like what they're doing. that's not the case with karen garza, is it? >> not the case at all. by parents, teaches, the school board, they were devastated, the fact she was leaving and shock several teachers tell me they feel she was a real advocate for them. she gave teacher raises, even adjusted start times to give teens more sleep. she said to keep fcps a quality educator, it's going to require money, a lot of it. money can come from the proposed and controversial meal tax. >> we're not even paying our teachers the market average, and clearly, our teachers are well above the average in what
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catch up just to market average, i believe, is contingent upon whether or not the meal tax and that revenue is available to our school system. >> garza officially leaves next month. her deputy after steve lockered will serve as interim superintendent and the search for a permanent replacement will begin shortly. >> she will be tough to replace. >> seems that way. >> all right, david, thank you. two former allies of jersey governor chris christie have been convicted for their part in the so-called bridgegate scandal. bridget kelly and bill baroni were found guilty of conspiracy and wire fraud today. prosecutors say they intentionally created traffic jams on the george washington bridge in 2013 to punish a democratic mayor who would not endorse christie. federal guidelines suggest the sentence of 1 to 3 years, both former aides say they're going to appeal the verdict. christie has denied any
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a road rage case on the beltway. a father driving with his 4-month-old daughter in the back seat says the driver of an suv kept cutting him off yesterday. they exchanged words. the father said the driver of the suv raised a weapon and then he said his window shattered. all this started near national harbor. the father later pulled over at a shopping center in springfield, virginia. both the father and t okay. police tracked down the suv driver in indiana, but they didn't find the weapon, and they're not sure, they say, how that window was shattered. >> federal agents ransacking a newsroom, local police infiltrating the local press. students arrested for selling newspapers. that may sound like something happening in another country, but it actually happened to journalists right here in the district. news 4's mark segraves reports on what happened when the
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and what's changed since then. >> they were turbulent times, the 1960s. in 1966, art grossman was a student at howard university. along with some other students from the university of maryland and other local colleges, he started the washington free press newspaper as a way of bringing black and white students together. >> none of the black students at howard understood the war coming on, and none of the white students in the universities understood the civil rights movement. >> the paper covered issues like abortion, the vietnam war, civil rights, and drugs. pete wrote a drug column under the name fooman. he would take a different drug and write about it. >> every major drug you would hear of, some not so familiar. >> the paper drew the attention of the local police and the fbi.
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harassed and infiltrated. >> we got harassed a lot. one time, when we were in a circle, the pamphlet fire was set on fire, our offices got totally ransacked, and i had a big rolodex that got stolen so they a lot of names and numbers off that. one time i went to the printer and the printer said the firb just left, they don't want me to print this copy. >> despite what they described as government harassment, the years. >> the paper sold for 20 cents. anybody when would go out in the street and sell it could keep a dime, and anybody who worked on the paper could keep the whole 20 cents. when the paper was sold on the street, we were harassed. >> one person was arrested for selling the paper. he said while the government didn't appreciate the washington free press, record companies trying to reach young music fans did. >> record company ads is what really brought in big money.
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i'm hillary clinton and i approve this message. donald trump: i could stand in the middle of 5th avenue and shoot somebody and i wouldn't lose any voters, okay? and you can tell them to go f--- themselves! blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever... you gotta see this guy. ahh, i don't know what i said, ahh. "i don't remember."
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i believe america is already great. yes, we have our challenges. we must give every child a great education, build an economy that works for everyone, end tax breaks for companies that move our jobs overseas. by working together, democrats and republicans, we can do these things. that's why we must defeat those who want to turn americans against one another. i'm chris van hollen, and i approve this message, because united, our best days are still ahead. another gift, another november gift from the weather god, doug. it's not going to last, is it? >> um, actually, it is going to last. it is. we have one present today. tonight is going to be a little chilly, but tomorrow and the weekend really looking pretty good out there. yesterday did not last.
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breaking high temperatures. today, we're down where we should be this time of year. average temperature is 62. we were a little above that at 65 today. out there right now, clear skies and starting to cool fairly quickly. winds out of the north at 14 miles per hour. 61 degrees. take a look at some of the rest of the area, down to 59, leesburg. 55, winchester. so you can tell tonight's going to be a chilly night. we're not talking about a freeze or even a frost in most areas. could b freeze and frost free tomorrow morning. now, your evening planner. if you're heading out tonight, take the jacket if thought the coat because even in the city by 11:00, we'll be in the upper 40s. that a rather cold night if you're out and about. make sure if it's coming back from inmovies, taking the dog for a late walk, wear the jacket. no rain. we're not going to see rain anytime soon. we're going to be way dry over
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anywhere in the next ten days. the next storm we watch is actually one that was just off to the east. that would make it much cooler next week. first off, 66 degrees tomorrow. mostly sunny. breezy, but really nice. again, you are going to have a very chilly start to the day. if you're thinking about eating outdoors, tonight is okay. again, a little chilly. saturday, okay. good day to sit by the heater if the restaurant has a sunday, really great weather all day long. especially sunday afternoon, really looking nice. sunday evening looking good, too. outdoor eating not too bad, and here's the kids forecast if you have sports for the kids. 45 degrees, this is in the city tomorrow. many of you will be in the upper 30s. it will be a cold start. you need the extra layer, a jacket or sweatshirt for the game. 55 by 11:00, up to 62 by 1:00, going for a high temperature tomorrow into the mid 60s. the weekend, beautiful.
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remember, set those clocks back, back one hour. you get an extra hour of sleep early on sunday morning. 62 on monday, 67 on election day, looking good there. election day, by the way, a good day for you if you have not gotten to the polls yet for the early voting. cool in the morning, so you might want to get in line early. you may need the jacket, but staying dry as we move through. there's the tyn-day forecast, again dry, but look at next weekend. something going on here, a lot we'll tauch more about that and some celestial events going on. i'll see you back here at 6:48. >> thank you. >> more on the race for the white house, and why this election could swing one way or another depending on what happens in six states. >> a local hospital shuts down its neonatal intensive care unit again after two babies test positive for a potentially deadly bacteria. what we know about their symptoms as investigators search
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crosswalk. it's a campaign to save lives. after all, we all know it can be treacherous to cross the streets
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strategy. >> a potentially deadly bacteria shuts down part of a local hospital again. >> it was an improvement made in terms of the type of soap products. >> what we're learning about the babies who tested positive and the investigation that's now under way. >> a new effort to crack down on deadly accidents in our area. pedestrians, cyclists and drivers need to be on alert, especially this weekend. >> plus, a new film takes us back to the local radio station rocked the revolution. >> always a subtle message in the songs. it was sort of a secret code between us and our listeners. >> back now to team coverage of the presidential race, just four days to go and the candidates are making their final arguments. >> donald trump expected to hit ten battleground states in the next three days.
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former president bill clinton is camping out in colorado. he is expected to arrive any minute at his third event there today. mr. clinton made four stops in pennsylvania on the day before president obama was re-elected in 2012. and now, donald trump is making the play for pennsylvania. he is scheduled to be at a campaign rally in hershey in about a half hour. >> this election will be won or lost in six battleground states. h electoral map from nbc news. hillary clinton still with a commanding lead, but the polls are tightening in a lot of states. chris lawrence is here with a look at the contest and what could happen on election day. chris. >> well, a lot depends on which side can turn out their voters on tuesday. look, let's dig a little deeper into some of these battleground states like florida. the latest poll by quinnipiac university shows hillary clinton
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state, she'll need african-americans and latinos to turn out in big numbers. right now, the latino turnout is up in early voting, and african-americans down from 2012. what about north carolina? take a look. the latest quinnipiac poll has clinton up by three points. that's within the margin of error. it's why clinton and president obama are bombarding the state. they're hoping to get millennials and minorities to the poll and perhaps end the race right the most intriguing states. the deep blue, i should say the deep red state and the deep south state has traditionally been rock solid for republicans. nbc news is still projecting trump will win the state, but he's only up by one point on clinton, and unlike florida, african-americans there have been turning out in big numbers. georgia could be a state to watch. also something to keep an eye
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states. the clinton campaign, they have pretty much put pennsylvania and michigan in the win column. now, she's trying to hold on as trump makes a big push to flip one. >> thanks, chris. in this race for the finish line, the candidate are executing their final strategies. a closer look at where they are traveling might tell us a lot about where the race stands right now. our team coverage continues with "meet the press" moderator chuck todd reporting from new york. >> you have donald trump on this basically nationwide blitz, trying to hit as many states as he can in 96 hours. that's the sign of a candidate who has run out of paths to 270 and is hoping to, maybe colorado, maybe michigan. he's looking for something. he knows that right now where things stand, he's sort of blocked off to 270. the clinton campaign, they're
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turnout. they're not spreading out. everything is -- if you look at her schedule, it is literally goes to a state, back to pennsylvania. goes to a state, back to pennsylvania. goes to a state, back to pennsylvania, and what's monday right night? philadelphia, the obamas, the clintons. everything they're worried about this weekend is african-american turnout. we know the strategy. trump is desperately looking for another state to flip, a blue state he can make toss-up or red. and she's trying to drive >> chuck todd. we invite you to join chuck todd for "meet the press" at 10:30 on sunday morning. and also, don't forget to set your clock back an hour or you'll show up an hour early for that show. chuck won't mind that as long as you stick around. >> you can catch news 4 today. you may feel like you're getting more text messages reminding you to vote, and it turns out those text messages do
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nbc washington app. just search voting reminders. >> president obama noted yesterday that republicans are threatening to leave the supreme court without a ninth justice for another four years. >> some of the same who just a while back said, well, we can't have hearings and vote for the guy obama nominated because we're so close to the election, we should let the next president make the nomination. so now, they think hillary might block hers too. >> supreme court justice antonin scalia died on february 13th. a month later, president obama nominated judge merrick garland to take scalia's place. republican leaders refused to consider that nomination at the time. they said the next president should choose the next supreme court justice. >> it's not the person. it's the principle. who ought to make this lifetime appointment?
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senators have threatened to leave the vaekancy in place if hillary clinton is elected. judge garland has already waited longer than any nominee in history for a hearing, and the supreme court has been without a tiebreaking vote for 233 days now. >> the memory of justice scalia was honored today with a meeting of the supreme court's bar and a special sitting of the court. that meeting was streamed live online. a first for the supreme court. members aded resolution in appreciate of the life, work, and service of justice scalia. he served on the supreme court from 1986 until his death earlier this year. developing right now, two babies being treated at the prince george's hospital center's neonatal intensive care unit tested positive for the potentially dangerous pseudomonas bacteria this week. the centers for disease control is sending a team of experts to
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this issen the first time they had the problem there. megan fits gerald is outside the hospital with the latest details on this. this is troubling. >> doreen, it really is. experts say they don't know how two babies contracted this bacteria on wednesday. keep in mind, the nicu closed for about 60 days, just reopened in october because of an accident from august, but officials say then it was a water source that was the issue. now they say that's not the a total of five babies in the last three months have been infected with pseudomonas. babies who are already struggling to survive in the nicu. today at a press conference, prince george's hospital center officials say they don't know how these bacteria returned. on wednesday, the nicu shut down after two babies tested positive. officials say one is struggling with symptoms. >> i won't get into the details about these two babies.
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pseudomonas infection along with other complex issues. >> those cdc officials have come in to investigate the nicu to try to track down the source of the problem. hospital officials say when they reopened the unit last month, they thought they did everything right. >> there was an improvement made in terms of the type of soap products that was brought into the facility as well as th being an attention paid to scrubbing practices and the use of alcohol sanitizers between babies. >> but now, they say the unit will remain closed until all of their medical partners, including the cdc, are confident that these bacteria won't return. >> the initial focus of their assessment will be on environmental review of our unit, plumbing, our hvac system, infection control, and chart
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infection prevention practices. >> now, health officials say since january, they have had seven babies die in the nicu, and they it's possible that two of those deaths are connected to this bacteria. >> thanks. >> coming up, a new effort to crack down on drivers and say what's taking on a deeper meaning this weekend. >> a radio station in d.c. helped catapult some of the biggest names in music.
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after all donald trump has said and done... she ate like a pig. you can do anything. i moved on her like a [bleep] ...trump's just so disgusting and degrading. it just seems like he's invaded our lives. and he's the republican nominee for president. and now republican congresswoman comstock is trying to run away from trump? i mean, come on. look, we just can't vote for comstock or trump.
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shoes on display representing the 75 pedestrians and bicyclists killed on our area roads last year. they were put on display today to remind people to be street smart when it comes to pedestrian safety. kristen wright is at a new
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street. >> even with safety improvements, crossing southern avenue in front of united medical center is tough, and now with daylight savings time ending on sunday, getting around on the road is going to be harder for all of us, no matter how you get around. police pulling over drivers at the southern avenue crosswalk in front of umc, and this woman crosses here twice a day to catch the buto >> it got better. it got better, but it's still not making sense for how the cars are up and down the street. >> the crosswalk went in after two women were hit and killed trying to get across the street last year. physicians assistant emma was leaving work at umc. in the hospital parking lot today, officials from across the town launched this fall street smart campaign to beg drivers,
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>> according to nhtsa, more than 70% of pedestrian fatalities happen at night. >> it could be your child, your mother, your father. 75 pairs of shoes at the press conference represent the 75 pedestrians and bicyclists hit and killed in our area last year. this is umc's chief operating officer. >> i think education, education, education. that's whatan and empathy. >> albert robinson has to get to his appointments at umc, and he can't move fast. he wishes everyone else would slow down too. >> you're riding in a car. you ain't got to be rushing. i'm tryish to rush, but public transportation is just like you. >> so if you don't follow the rules, you could very well get pulled over. police say they will be giving
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avenue and across our area. kristen wright, news 4. a local radio station rocked the revolution of the '60s and '70s and reflected the voice of a generation. now there's a documentary being
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i'm hillary clinton and i approve this message. donald trump: i could stand in the middle of 5th avenue and shoot somebody and i wouldn't lose any voters, okay? and you can tell them to go f--- themselves! you know, you could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever... you gotta see this guy. ahh, i don't know what i said, ahh. "i don't remember."
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there was a time in washington many years ago when a radio station rocked the revolution. whfs was 102.3 on the fm dial. it was the '60s and the station had a wide open format that played music reflecting political, social, and cultural upheaval of those heady days.
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greatest musicians to life, and now we can relive it all as our wendy reports, there's a documentary in the works that will take us back to that time when radio resonated. >> it was the '60s. woodstock, the summer of love, the vietnam war. baby boomers were ditching their parents' american dream for something cataclysmic, and whfs revolution. >> in the early days, we had total freedom. >> no stinking play lists. the djs reigned with their ears to the ground, capturing the distant rumble, the music that would forever herald this generation's sound and fury. >> you know, there were no rules. it was very improvisational and free wheeling.
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message in the songs. sort of a secret code between us and our listeners, they knew what we were saying. >> it became a beacon for musicians unknown at the time who came to the station to get their music played. >> might have been bruce springsteen, might have been jackson browne or bonnie raitt or linda ronstadt, but they didn't have quotes around their names. they were not famous yet. >> lowell george and linda ronstadt, live on the air, neil young at a concert wearing the whfs bumper sticker on his pants. the documentary "feast your ears" the story of whfs, 1 answer 2.3, captured those years between 1961 and 1983, when whfs from atop the triangle tower in bethesda, was the epicenter for progressive music, the communal fire, social media before social
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cookbook. they had a ride board, a housing board. >> he got the idea for the documentary when he saw the original djs gathered for a reunion. >> i just reacted out loud, oh, my god, they're all not dead yet. somebody needs to tell the story. >> he says revisiting those golden years should resonate with the new generation, the millennials. >> they're a lot like we were. they're railing against corporate suasion, railing against the problems with our feast. of music and memories. a chance to wade once again into the sweet nectar of our youth. >> doesn't it take you back? feast your ears, the story of whfs 102.3, will be hitting the film festival circuit this spring and will be released afterwards. they're still fund-raising and they want you to know that. we have a link in our nbc washington app.
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their iconic djs is out with his memoir now, surf's up, which gives you even more details about the musicians and the magic of those days. >> you know, what is interesting, what we all have in common, those of us who remember those days. we all have aarp cards, all of us who remember that well, we all have a card. >> between that story and the free press story, we're going for that demographic tonight, right? >> baby boomers unite. >> back with a check on the weather. nice weekend weather and an extra hour to enjoy it. what more could we ask? innot much, but how about cool celestial events? >> okay. >> happened right over your shoulder last night. you already know this? >> i heard about it. >> i thought i was going to surprise you guys. >> did you see it? you say no. >> watch this, over your left shoulder did you see that? >> there it goes.
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zoom in. how cool is that? and that was right when you guys came out of a story, just so happened to come right there. amazing. >> a viewer pointed that out to us. >> that's right. >> watching closely. >> janet, thank you for pointing that out to us. really, really cool. that happens last night. other events later this week. but right now, a very nice night. temperature, 61 degrees. wingdz out of the north, 14 miles per hour. 55 in 59, riverdale. it's going to be a cool night tonight and a cool start to the day tomorrow. no rain on storm team 4 radar. here's your day as it looks out. look for some cool temperatures. 45 at 7:00 a.m. it will be frosty but i don't think we'll see frost. 66 around 3:00. really a great afternoon. if i rr out and about the next couple days, look at all the 60s that are there. of course, sunday, daylight savings time comes to an end.
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you'll get a little extra sleep there. monday, this is the other event i'm talking ability here. this will be the supermoon coming up sunday night and monday night. this is really cool. not only is this cool, but this is the closest the moon has been since 1948. the closest full moon since 1948. next time it will be like this, 2034, bull we'll see it as it sets around 11:00 at man: hey baby, how are you? woman: i have a surprise for you. man: you have a surprise for me?
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their first win of the season. certainly not the start they planned. chris miles is here from the csn studios. is this the night? >> possibly, it's going to be a challenge. the wizards are facing a 3-1 hawks team that beat them by 15 points in the season opener. with the way john wall is playing, maybe tonight is the night for the first one of the year. wall stars is ten assists away from passing for the franchise record. so far this year, wall is averaging 11 assists a game. so it's highly likely he sets the new mark tonight. you can catch wizards/hawks at 7:00 on csn. fresh off their fourth straight win, the capitals hosted a hockey fights cancer skate this afternoon. each player as well as head coach barry trotz and team owner
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battling cancer or in remission. children got a chance to meet players in the locker room. the caps signs autographs and took pictures. kids got a chance to skate with their favorite players. >> great. obviously, those kids are in a tough position, and they fight through it. so it's great to see them. >> great for us to meet some new friends and you know, put some smiles on the kids friend here with sidney, and it's exciting. we're going to go skate. i'm not going to think about hockey and not really think about what's going on around the world and just go out there and have fun and enjoy ourselves. >> it's so amazing. personally, i'm a huge caps fan. i'm very grateful to both the capitals and the make-a-wish foundation for making it happen. it's a great experience. once in a lifetime. not a lot of people get to do
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>> the next three weeks are brutal for the terps. maryland takes on three top ten teams in the next three weeks. the toughest opponent will be this week, maryland travels to michigan to face the third ranked wolverines. that game followed by sixth ranked ohio state and tenth ranked nebraska. such it life in the big ten. they don't look at the schedule as a daunting task, rather an opportunity on the horizon. >> all right, so the cubs won the world ie today. it's estimated that around 5 million fans showed up to the festivities. cubs fans have seen other celebrations this way for decades without feeling that same joy. after 108 years, in between world series titles, it was time for chicago baseball fans to rejoice. of course, with the cubs and the cavaliers championship drought ending, now it's d.c. that has a long drought. 24 years since a professional team has won.
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>> quite a party. did they dye the river blue? >> they did. >> good for them. >> thank you, chris. >> wouldn't that be nice? nightly news coming up next. hillary clinton: i'm hillary clinton and i approve this message. vo: in times of crisis america depends on steady leadership. donald trump: "knock the crap out of them, would you? seriously..."vo: clear thinking... donald trump: "i know more about isis than the generals do, believe me." vo: and calm judgment. donald trump: "and you can tell them to
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