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electricity this evening. >> simply amazing how strong those wind were. only the third time since 2001 that we've seen those winds over 65 miles per hour. we saw them in the d.c. area. take a look at the numbers. 66 miles per hour wind at reagan. 73 at joint base andrews. that's just amazing. we haven't seen winds this strong since the drach owe. now the winds have died a little bit. we're down into the 20s. it's breezy. 31 camp springs. the winds have come down enough national weather service no longer has us in the wind advisory. it is still there however for the eastern shore and parts of the delmarva. your forecast back here in about 15 minutes. the parking lot of a shopping center is now
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scene. prince george's county police us a man intentionally hit and killed another man with his car there. >> right now investigators are trying to figure out if there is a relationship between the victim and the suspect. this happened this morning on brown station road. that's just north of old marlboro bureau chief tracee wilkins joins us now with her live update. >> reporter: this all happened around 8:30 this morning. you can still see the markings there. i have seen have you ever hsurv of what happened here. the car took off, slam into this man. this is what happened next. >> he didn't have no gun. >> reporter: this video shows some of the
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burgundy range rover struck and killed a man in this upper marlboro shopping center parking lot. the victim was on foot. this eyewitness who did not want to be identified explains her first reaction. >> everyone was screaming. i screamed too. >> reporter: witnesses say it appears the man who struck the victim was in the vehicle with his daughter. >> he was an angry father. i don't know. >> reporter: the mother of the victim was also on the scene. you can hear her screams in this video. >> i just saw the mom trying to get to him. that's when i knew that he was run over. >> reporter: according to witnesses the victim was armed with a rifle. prince george's county police say the father who was behind the wheel of the striking vehicle is cooperating with investigators. >> the driver is talking with
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we are talking to as well. >> reporter: we are told by police that the rifle that was recovered was an ak-47. now, this is continuing to evolve as police are questioning witnesses, talking with people who were involved in this situation. charges have not been filed yet in this case. we have some breaking news right now with live pictures from the air. firefighters battening a three alarm blaze here at a warehouse in southwest baltimore. again, live pictures right now. we understand the roof here as just collapsed. fire crews were called to frederick avenue here at south calverton road this afternoon. heavy smoke could be seen initially from miles away. the smoke has gotten heavier just within the last ten minutes. the flames are pouring out of the roof. no word yet on what caused this.
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we are just entering the fourth week of donald trump's presidency and there is already talk of a presidential shakeup with key white house staff. concerns surrounding his national security advisor michael flynn and his advisor reince priebus. there have been calls for the president to fire flynn amid reports that he may have discussed sanctions with russia's ambassador before trump took office. that could be illegal. both flynn and mike pence denied publicly that anything had been discussed. but flynn has revised those comments saying he can not recall if sanctions came up during his discussion. >> there is push back about r s reince priebus. chris ruddy seemed to suggest that priebus may be in over
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head. today ruddy said he spoke to priebus after making those comments and he added it's not his job to call for someone to be fired. the president didn't face any questions today about either staffer this afternoon when he spoke to reporters at a joint news conference. earlier today the president welcomed canadian prime minister justin trudeau to the white house. the two leaders spoke about the importance of the relationship between our two countries. but the president did not back down from campaign promises that he would make changes to nafta. >> we have a very outstanding trade relationship with canada. we'll be tweaking it. we'll be doing certain things that are going to benefit both of our countries. it's a much less severe situation than what's taken place on the southern border. >> when asked about certain policies, including the president's controversial travel ban, the prime minister said it's not his job to lecture another country how it should govern itself. there is new fear tonight in
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after a series of arrests across the country in the past few days. immigration and cuss titoms enforcement officers have made arrests in five major cities. so far 680 people have been arrested. 75% of them had been convicted of some kind of crime. in our area the shift in immigration policy is creating fear, especially after a man was picked up in fairfax county walking home from work. bureau chief julie carey joins us live. >> reporter: that i.c.e. arrest took place right here in the hybla valley area wednesday morning. i'm told that man played piano at his church. he is now in the i.c.e. detention center in farmville, virginia. his arrest, a clear s
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it was on this stretch of route 1 last wednesday morning that a latino immigrant walking home from work found himself surrounded by i.c.e. agents. >> they showed him a picture of someone he didn't recognize. he said i don't know who that is. they asked him, do you have any id and took it from there. my understanding is he has no criminal convictions whatsoever. he's very active in his evangelical church. >> reporter: on tuesday and thursday mornings a similar seen at this apartment complex. agents came looking for a targeted illegal immigrant but left with several other people instead. >> they didn't find him so they arrested someone else. that's what's new. that's why the community is so terrified right now because of the random nature of that. >> reporter: those arrests striking fear into immigrant communities because they represent a big change.
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spelled out who could be picked up, mostly serious criminals. president trump's order says anyone could be arrested. >> when they use the word criminal, they're lumping in everyone from gang leaders with murder convictions to a mother with a 9-year-old shoplifting charge or someone with a simple possession of marijuana. >> reporter: at a news conference today, president trump defended his administration's policy saying it's been applauded by supporters. >> i said we will get the criminals out, the drug records, the gang members. we're getting them out. a lot of people are very, very happy right now. >> reporter: activists are working to get the word out to immigrants, yesterday going door to door at a herndon apartment complex with flyers, advising people how to respond if they're confronted. the advice lawyers are giving to immigrants about what to do if they are confronted by i.c.e. and whether or not it's safe for them to go about
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activities. congress on and the district on another collision course. the house committee is taking unan unusual resolution that would invalidate d.c.'s death with dignity law. residents are holding rallies to tell congress the stay out of it. tom? >> reporter: i'm having a little trouble hearing you guys because there's a rally just now starting over here. if you can see, that's d.c. eleanor holmes speaking now to a crowd that's just shown up in the last two minutes. they're concerned now because a house committee is expected to take a vote to essentially kill the city's death with dignity law. they say this is a city matter and they should not be involved. joining me now is josh birch. t
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congress to keep their hands off of d.c. laws and d.c. residents. these are laws that our legislators wrote for us and passed and sign spointo law. congress shouldn't have a say in it. >> reporter: this rally going on now, norton is going to go in now after she gets through speaking and testify at the committee vote and say that congress shouldn't be involving itself in all the city laws. there's another event tonight at 6:30 over on h street. >> council member charles allen is bringing over a thousand residents together to talk about not just what's happened with congress, but how to prevent it. it's standing up for ourselves and protest congressional meddling in d.c. affairs. >> reporter: there's a concern that this congress, the republican congress with a republican president, will now
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so you guys are just now rallying for a long fight. >> yes. this is the beginning of a very long fight against this congress. this congress is the height of hypocrisy here. still ahead, an investigation after a man is found shot to death inside his car. his car had a sticker on it for the lyft ride share service. a string of break-ins. enhancing the benefits of good cholesterol in your diet.
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police are looking for suspects after a string of car break-ins that all happened in arlington county. mark segraves tells us sergea investigators believe as many as 50 cars were targeted. >> reporter: the first one happened here wednesday night in north falls church. about 15 cars were broken into. saturday night over on north 26th street 32 cars were broken into. they say in each case, the cars wereoc
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suspects simply were going down the street checking the doors. and if the car was open, they went inside and took what they could. >> anything from change and dollar bills to toiletry bags, candy wrappers. things in the cars were found all over the streets. >> we didn't realize there were so many. >> reporter: police advise there are ways that you can protect yourself from being victimized like this. they say, one, keep your car doors locked at all times even if you're only in the house for a moment and even if you think your neighborhood is completely safe. don't leave anything of value in plain sight. that's exactly what these crooks were looking for, anything they could get their hands on. in montgomery county several vehicles vandalized this weekend. the damage discovered about 3:00
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police were on patrol in the 7300 block of new hampshire avenue. they noticed multiple vehicles had broken windows. not clear if anything was taken. an adopted son of jerry sandusky is now charged in his own child sex abuse case. jeffrey sandusky is charged with 12 criminal counts. police say he sexual assaulted two minor girls. the younger sandusky is one of six children adopted by the former coach and his wife. jerry sandusky serving a 30-year sentence. some of the culprits that can bring on heartburn. there's also something else to keep in mind. doreen gentzler is going to tell you about that. >> for the
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who is suffer from heartburn, the signs are probably familiar. but what if it isn't just heartburn? there could be something else going on and it can have more serious consequences. heartburn symptoms can range from stomach pain to acid reflux to difficulty swallowing and more. >> heartburn means the burning or the pain that one may feel when acid is exposed to the distal esophagus. >> if symptoms persist they could be known as something called gerd. >> gerd can be a broad spectrum of diseases, anywhere from cough and post nasal drip. >> gerd stands for gastro i s t esophagufl
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continuous very strong burning that would last for days. >> it got so bad for northern virginia resident tom gillette he sometimes missed work and was barely able to eat anything. he lost nearly 50 pounds. finally a specialist put him on prilosec. >> consuming smaller meals and limiting tobacco use are good in the short order but over the long-term don't seem to work. we actually take a balloon. we insert it via catheter. with this catheter -- >> a balloon is inflated in the esophagus and plants needles into a involve called the lower i soft jeel
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it takes about an hour and patients can usually resume activities within a day after the procedure. tom gillette says he's been symptom free since his procedure in 2015. >> i am glad i had it done. >> reporter: strata is just one way to treat gerd. there's also the t.i.f. procedure that can treat the underlying causes of gerd. hey, if you eat a mediterranean diet, adding more virgin olive oil may enhance the benefits of so-called good cholesterol. researchers in spain looked at people at risk of heart disease and tried three
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those who ate a mediterranean diet saw good cholesterol. scientists are trying to figure out what killed a hump back wheal thale that watched u shore in virginia beach. the 30-foot long male had three large wounds that experts say were probably caused by boat propellers. it's estimated to weigh over 13,000 pounds. two other dead hump back whales were found in the area earlier this month. you're involved in a fender bender and you're not to blame. but chances are you'll pay for it anyway. the drivers most likely to see an increase in their insurance premiums after an accident for which they are not at fault. >> reporter: there was a serious crash at
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i drove back from new york today. the wind -- i was gripping that wheel the whole way over bridges, trying to steer clear
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>> those winds gusting upwards of 60-70 miles per hour last night. today upwards of 50-60 early. but those winds have really started to calm across our region right now. plenty of sunshine, bright plu skie -- blue skies. 45 degrees. temperatures dropping through the evening into the 30s. it's going to be a fairly chilly night. it will still be rather breezy and the windchill is going to be dropping too. 39 gaithersburg, 48 fredericksburg. we're still seeing gusts upwards of 20-25 miles an hour. that's really about it. you notice no more 30, 40 or 50 miles an hour wind that's why our wind advisory has been cancelled early. on the radar, nothing to show in
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our region. nothing except for a blizzard up here towards maine. that blizzard continues to move up and away from our area. it was one reason we had all that wind. temperature-wise, no real cold or hot air today. yesterday we had 80s to the south, 40s to the north. now 30 state college, 52 in richmond. we're going to stay in this kind of a regime here over the next couple of days. temperatures will fluctuate a little bit. tomorrow, temperature around 51 degrees. we're going to see a lot of clouds tomorrow especially early in the day. mostly cloudy, breezy and cool. 51 this time of year is pretty nice. at the bus stop, 31 degrees at 7:00. it will be chilly. 39 at noon. 51 degrees by 4:00. again once the kids are getting off the bus or when you're
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pretty good out there across our region. then we get cold again thursday. 39 degrees, breezy on thursday too. 47 on friday. look at this weekend. president's day weekend looking fantastic across our region. if you're skiing this weekend, sco cold enough to make some snow thursday and friday. those high winds are leaving their mark all over our area. coming up a woman describes what it was like to be in her home when a tree fell on it. a man is badly hurt after an accident between two other drivers who may have been street raising. >> it was a very sad day. even in the midst of all our celebrations, you know, there was a cloud.
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>> reporter: the murder scene, a car with a lyft sticker on the windshield. could this have been a ride with deadly consequences? police are working the case. i'm working the story.
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now at 5:30, a church de
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the innocent victim of what police say may have been a drag race on connecticut avenue. first at 5:30, the man found dead behind the wheel of a car in prince george's county. this deadly shooting now under investigation. the victim's car had a sticker for a popular ride sharing company in the window. he was found this morning parked along saint marys view road. >> reporter: we counted two bullet holes in the driver's side door. and there was a lyft sticker on the windshield. could it be that the killer here was a passenger? in this car, on this flat bed truck, the body of a man, a murder victim found shot to death this morning on a quiet stre street. police towed the car with the victim inside to a police where they can
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crime scene on wheels. they have a lot of police work to do here. >> we're still trying to develop a suspect and a motive. >> reporter: still an open case? >> still a very open case. >> reporter: on the windshield of the victim's car a lyft sticker. it's unclear whether or not the victim was working for lyft at the time he was killed. the bodies were discovered around 8:00 this morning by a neighbor who alerted police. let's take another look at the scene. the orange markings on the pavement indicate where the car was parked. now, there were plenty of places to park, but why did he choose to park the car here right next to a fire hydrant? now, come on over here. listen to this. in this house over here,he
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marley. he's barking now. he was barking around 2:30 this morning. hear now from his owner. scary? >> yes, it is. it was right outside my window so yes it is scary. >> reporter: you didn't hear any gunshots? >> no i didn't. i went back to sleep. my dog was barking so loud. >> reporter: coming up at 6:00, i'm going to show you how cops are using a camera tree to look for clues in this case of murder. church members are praying tonight that a deacon pulls through after he was seriously injured in a car crash in kensington. carlos hernandez was headed to church when his car was broad sided as he tried to make a left turn off connecticut avenue. police are trying to figure out if the driver who hit him was
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racing. >> reporter: that is still under investigation. i want to show you where we are right now. this is connecticut avenue here behind me. that crash happened right in the intersection. as you said, the man who was critically injured is a deacon at a local catholic church. today i was able to speak to the leader of that church who describes him as a wonderful man. carlos heronandez, a deacon at st. michael's catholic church in silver spring is fighting for his life. he was critically injured in a crash in can he thinking on the as he was driving to saturday evening mass. >> even in the midst of all our celebrations there was a cloud. he's a very very valuable member of this community. >> reporter: the 64-year-old found his calling. among the duties he embraced
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celebrating baptism. >> if i described him, i would say he is almost love personified. >> reporter: hernandez was turning left from denfeld avenue onto connecticut avenue when he was broad sided by another car. >> i it t's a matter of waiting. it's something that the parrish along with his family is going to have to learn in a very real way. >> reporter: meantime, church services have been dedicated to the deacon. church members, family and friend have been gathering at the hospital and praying he'll pull through. >> he have an impact on this parrish for many years. the way that he is, i know he will be fighting there but god will be fighting for him. >> reporter: this certainly was not the first serious cra
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happen here at this intersection. coming up at 6:00, what some residents are saying about the dangers here and what they would like to see happen next. nbc 4 always looking a way to shine a light on mental illness and mental health awareness. sound health is a partnership between the kennedy center and the national institutes of health. for the past several years the national similymphony orchestra performed for patients and their families at local hospitals. now they're using what they've learned to create some new music catered towards patients. they also want to explore ways to enhance music therapy and create public awareness about how the brain is impacted by music. d.c. mayor muriel bowser is hoping to spread early holida
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city's older residents. the mayor delivered valentine's day cards to home bound seniors today. those valentines made by students at eight d.c. public schools. we're told the initiative original planned to hand out about 2,000 valentines but thanks to students they made more than 4,000. this week is random acts of kindness week. we'd like to hear how you're paying it forward. tweet us your acts and we'll share some of them on our twitter page. and you can watch a video about the day on the nbc washington facebook page. people are donating food. others are simply writing tank you notes. whatever you do, share it with us online. a major emergency out west. too much water is threatening a 50-year-old dam. >> tonight some good news for the nearly 2,000 people now under
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order. >> 200,000 people. and a war between mobile phone companies leads verizon
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part two of metro's safe track is underway. there are going to be 16 surge
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it started saturday. it's going to continue for nearly three weeks. metro has shut down the blue line completely between braddock road and the roslyn metro station. avoid the trains by carpools, bussing or telecommuting. find information on ways to work around by searching safe track in the nbc washington app. we've all taken them before we board the plane. for decades mobile lounges have shuttled passengers around airports. they are fixtures for anyone who flies into dulles. tonight an investigation by scott macfarland uncovers questions about the safety of your road. >> reporter: when dulles international opened more than 50 years ago mobile lounges were -- after a pair of recent incidents involving the lounges,
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least 16 mishaps involving these lounges since 2007 including this crash in october when a lounge drove into a construction zone. >> i flew forward like this and hit a pole that was in front of me and bruised my forehead. had i not had my luggage there, i think i would have hurt myself considerably more. >> reporter: police reports and internal agency records viewed by by the i-team reveal questions about blind spots, darkness and the speed of these vehicles and at least one deadly incident in 2012. the airport says the mobile lounges are the safest vehicles that operate in this airport area. but the families of one of the victims of those mishaps says those vehicles most certainly will not. our investigation tonight on news4 at 11:00. you have an accident but it
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to pay for it anyway. >> reporter: strong winds bringing down trees right into houses and wires down. a look at th
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prince george's county police investigating a deadly crash involving a pedestrian. a man was hit by a car in the parking lot of
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on brown station road in upper marlboro this morning. police say they found an ak-47 on the victim. there is a rally happening on capitol hill right now to ask congress to leave d.c.'s death with dignity law alone. congress has the ability to invalidate any district law. local church members praying for their deacon who was hurt in a crash. police say the person who hit him may have been racing. deacon carlos heronandez was headed to mass in kensington when he was broad sided. powerful wind tore through our region, knocking down trees and knocking out power. >> reporter: pepco has been at it now for a few hours here on southwood avenue. they have been worki
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quickly, though. we think they might be finishing up here after replacing an entire light pole. it's clear to us that the wind certainly did a bit of a number here in montgomery county. >> it was a bang. >> reporter: the wind blew through southwood avenue with a force that was mighty. fred peters is 99 years old but he heard the wind howling. all night, all morning, then that bang. >> like the transformer going out. i guess that's what it was probably. >> reporter: the tree took out an entire power pole and wires, knocking out electricity. crews worked to get that tree out of the middle of the street. fred sees a certain irony. >> trees are one of the reasons people like this neighborhood. i've already lost about four since i've been here about 60 years. >> reporter: pepco replaced the broken pole trying to get the
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neighbors can get back to normal. >> a man came up here and said don't get close to that stuff, stay in the house. that's been a couple of hours ago. i said, okay, i'll stay in the house and let them take care of it. >> reporter: at 6:00, a neighbor tells us about a postal carrier's close call this morn. we've been dealing with these winds. up north they are once again dealing with heavy snow, a massive storm sweeping through the northeast. still snowing up in parts of maine. this is portland where snowplow operators say they're having a hard time because of the wind as well. parts of the snow could see upwards of two feet of snow. >> that storm 500 miles away from us gave us this wind.
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that's how powerful that storm was. and how much wind did we get? here's a list of some of our peak gusts that we had as that first blast of wind came in late last night. reagan national had a gust of 66 miles an hour. joint base andrews, a gust of 73. now the all time record gust of wind in washington is 98 miles an hour. that happened, of course, with a hurricane. that was way back in 1954 from hurricane hazel. there's the sun going down. as the sun goes down, the winds go down as well. our latest wind gusts are down to just around 20-25 miles an hour and continue to diminish as we get into the evening hours. right now our temperatures are down as well. we're in the low to mid to mid 40s from the shenandoah valley all the way to the pay. right now radar all dwr,
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here. we'll stay this way here for the rest of the evening. just a few light breezes through mid evening. we'll have that bright moon rising and climbing up out of the eastern sky. we'll be in the upper 30s by 11:00 p.m. tomorrow we'll be near freezing tomorrow morning. a lot of clouds around tomorrow morning. then a little sun by noontime. for the commute tomorrow morning, dry roads. by noontime the mid 40s. hitting the upper 40s to near 50 during the afternoon hours. dry roads throughout for the commute during the day tomorrow. as we get into wednesday, the winds may pick up a little bit, a little bit of a blustery winds. clouds in the morning, sun back in the afternoon. turning colder than average. we'll be in the upper 20s on thursday morning. afternoon highs just near 40. then on friday we start
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it will be near 30 in the morning. look at next weekend. just in time for your weekend, a good weekend to go skiing. water skiing. we'll be in the mid 60s both saturday and sunday with morning lows pretty chilly. that may linger into the first part of the president's day weekend. three day weekend for a lot of folks. looks like it's certainly going to be un-february-like. what's missing? snow and rain. as we get into next week we'll have more average temperatures, morning lows near 30 and afternoon highs in the 40s but staying dry. here at the live desk, this is not the way that we were hoping this story would end but it appears that a missing teenage girl has been found dead in fairfax county. she was 15 years old.
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she went miss twing two months in montgomery county. her death was ruled a homicide. police are already following numerous leads in this case. facing increasing competition from wireless carriers, verizon is now offering unlimited data plans. verizon got rid of those unlimited everything about seven years ago. it's available to new and existing customers. runs about 80 per month for a single line and includes unlimited everything, data, talk and text. families can pay $45 per line for four lines. the plan arrives as t mobile and sprint have been trumpeting their own unlimited
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companies are raising premiums after not at fault accidents. consumer reporter susan hogan is in the newsroom with how this impacts you. >> it impacts those of us who get into an accident and it was the other guy's fault. the research released today by the consumer federation of america shows that in some cases those premiums can rise up to $300 or more. among the cities tested, drivers in new york city and baltimore pay out the most for doing nothing wrong. but yet some of the nation's largest ininsuresh insurers are. geico and farmer's sometimes raise rates by 10% or more. allstate occasionally penalized drivers who didn't cause the accident while state farm never increased premiums. another startling finding, being hit by another
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more for lower income drivers. from near record drought to near record rain. >> nearly 200,000 californians are now at risk because of a structural issue at a dam.
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nbc is in oroville california with the latest. >> reporter: good evening. it was a very, very scary night for a lot of people downstream from this eye ggigantic reservo. it is california's cruellest paradox after years of drought. we have more than we can handle.
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the country's largest dams is in a state of emergency. >> they've got their work cut out for them filling that. >> reporter: water levels in lake oroville have dropped enough to stop the water from lapping over the eroded emergency spillway, easing some of the panic overnight that send nearly 200,000 residents evacuating. >> there's no water flowing over the emergency spillway at this time. >> reporter: last thursday they spotted a hole in the lip of the dam spillway. a controlled release of water this morning is relieving pressure on the dam and buying officials much-needed time as engineers and crews repair the breech in the main spillway. >> our infrastructure is holding up very well even though it's been damaged. >> we just hope and pray that it holds. >> reporter: tom schultz is a walnut farmer. he says in 40 years of
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the area they've never been in this situation. >> the river can hold that water. if there happens to be a breach of the dam, it's a whole different story. >> reporter: more than 500 people showed up at this evacuation center in chico. a tractor trailer with additional supplies got stuck in gridlock traffic. dozens of communities living in fear of a 30 foot high wall of water coming through now after years of drought. and the crews here making the most of the clear weather, trying to get the lake level dropped and also to shore up those eroding emergency spillways along the edge. but they don't have much time with a forecast of 3-5 inches of rain later on this week we could be right back where we were yesterday in just a few day's time. two world
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all this as controversy swirls around the future of president trump's national security advisor. a dramatic confrontation in a shopping center parking lot. one man killed two others being questioned by police who are still trying to figure out a motive. new video of damage after high winds brought down trees and power lines overnight. tonight a look at the cleanup and the changes headed our way this week. we begin tonight with donald trump's first 100 days in the white house. once again, foreign policy front and center. president trump hosted canadian prime minister justin trudeau at the white house today. they talked about trade and border security and held a joint news conference. but one subject that did not come up, the controversy over national security advisor mike flynn. tracie potts is live with the latest. >> reporter: we're getting new developments on that tonight with the white house spokesman ng
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evaluating mike flynn's place in the white house while a senior advisor says flynn still has the president's full confidence. some mixed signals on a subject that never came up at the u.s./canadian news conference at the white house today. in their first meeting, president trump and canadian prime minister justin trudeau agreed to work together to create jobs but expressed differing opinions on border security. >> i said at the beginning we are going to get the bad ones, the really bad ones. we're getting them out. that's exactly what we're doing. >> we continue to pursue our policies of openness towards immigration refugees without compromising security. >> reporter: trudeau is offering to accept refugees into his country while the president's temporary travel ban remains on hold in the courts. today trudeau said he wasn't in washington to lecture the u.s. leader on how to keep his people safe. while the two leaders

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