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president trump's political pull on capitol hill, tonight's vote on a bill to repeal and replace obamacare has been postponed. >> conservative republicans oppose the bill. and the president's 11th hour lobbying efforts failed to close the deal. tonight we have team coverage of the decision and what could happen next. let's start with blaine alexander. >> reporter: the president and house republican leadership had this day in mind specifically in part because of the symbolism. today marks seven years to the day since obamacare was signed into law. that's why we saw the president really working down to the wire to try and make this happen today. but it looked like in the end the bill just didn't have enough support. after an all hands on deck effort from president trump and republican leaders, the gop health care bill is a no-go, at least for today. >> he was on the phone last night well into the 11:00 hour with members on an individual basis. >> reporter:s
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contact your rep and tell them you support the bill. republican thomas massey tweeting he's changing his vote from no to hell no. the president got a standing ovation during his white house meeting with freedom kcaucus members. but for some in that meeting applause does not mean votes. >> the president was very gracious, but nothing new came out of it. >> we want president trump to have a successful agenda, but in order to get to yes, we have to bend the cost curve down. >> do i think it gives the president a loss? absolutely not. when you look at this, we're going to get to the finish line because the president's committed to get to the finish line. moderates and conservatives are committed to get to the finish line. >> reporter: the day began with an uphill climb, 30 republicans are voting no. >> trump may be a great
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negotiator. clearly you're not ready. >> reporter: for the white house, there is no plan b. the only focus, sell this bill. tonight there is no guarantee on when that vote will take place. a white house spokesman saying they're hoping the debate will go on tonight as scheduled and they're pushing for a vote to take place sometime tomorrow morning. nbc news has been tracking the republican lawmakers who plan to vote no today. here's a look at the list from our region in maryland. andy harris. and in virginia rob wittmann -- terry mcauliffe said he met with the entire congress yesterday to urge them to block the bill. the governor sounded much better than that when he originally said that. we reached out to virginia congresswoman barbara come
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stock's office but we have not heard back. changes to the health care system could have a big impact ma of them are ccerned they will lose benefits under the gop plan. kristin wright talked to people today concerned about their coverage. >> this is something i worry about every day, every day of my life. >> reporter: what happens next with the question of health care in america is really important to christine farley in northwest washington. her son was born with cystic fibrosis. >> the expense is huge. >> reporter: now 19, he takes about 30 pills a day and the rest of his life depends on costly medical supplies and drugs. >> this little vial he puts in once a day and this little vial is $27. >> reporter: christine is thankful for good health insurance from her employer but wonders about her son's future coverage as he gets older. >> the protection for people with preexisting conditions is of primary importance to me. >> reporter: meanwhile gop lawmakers
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support of the health care bill say the affordable care act must go. the white house fighting for what the president long promised. >> the problem with obamacare is it took all of these benefits, man dat mandated that it had to be offered. costs spiked and choices we want away. >> i'd like to see those things that are working very well in the affordable care act stay and i'd love to see a discussion about how to make health care in the united states even better. >> reporter: she says for all americans. in washington, kristin wright, new news4. we have continuing coverage on the nbc washington app. we'll have the latest lawmakers reaction and tell you when the bill might come to the floor. just search health care. there is stepped- up security at rockville high school tonight after a disturbing crime on that campus. a 14-year-oldl
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classmates in a bathroom during school hours. that case got national attention after we learned that one of the suspects was in this country illegally. now, new reaction from the suspect's attorney as we learn how he found his way into the u.s. and ended up in the montgomery county school system. news4's chris gordon is outside the school with these new developments. >> reporter: there have been threats here and they have been ugly. maryland governor larry hogan says they will not be tolerated. rockville high school has received telephone calls threatening to shoot what the caller referred to as, quote, illegals and to burn the school down. >> we can't condone any kind of hate speech like that. it's terrible and it's not something that should be allowed to go on. >> the board of education and the superintendent have received many, many e-mails that are hateful, threatening, just disgraceful. >> reporter: extraol
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students left rockville high school. it has been a week since a 14-year-old female student said she was dragged into a restroom and raped. two male students were arrested. one appears to be an undocumented immigrant. today i spoke by phone with the lawyer representing henry sanchez millian. he says the 18-year-old is not guilty. >> nothing in the statement mentions bruising or skaccratch or evidence of a fight. >> reporter: senator ron johnson released a letter saying if border patrol had properly done its job neither sanchez millian or the juvenile defendant would have been present in this country to commit this heinous act. the lawyer for sanchez millian says the youngster traveled alone from guatemala and was stopped after crossing the border in texas. >> i.c.e. examined the situation and decido
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his own recognizance and arranged for him to be flown to dwi at the expense of his father where he's been living in montgomery county ever since. >> reporter: henry sanchez was enrolled here in rockville high school. tonight he's being held in custody at the montgomery county detention center awaiting his preliminary hearing in this rape case. a police cruiser crashed. the officer involved now charged with drivings unding under the e and it's not the first time. the accident happened early this morning on the beltway near pennsylvania avenue. tracee wilkins joins us with new details. >> reporter: jim, now we know that for a while after this accident happened prince george's county police were searching for this officer. >>
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5243. >> reporter: with this accident involving a prince george's county police cruiser first happened, dispatch could not locate officer christopher brown. we now know according to sources close to this investigation that brown left the scene, returning 30 minutes later. he has now been suspended and is facing multiple charges connected to dui and speeding after wrecking his cruiser in the southbound lanes of the beltway near pennsylvania avenue this morning. prince george's county police say that it appears the officer clipped the back of a tractor trailer, spun out of control and hid the gua hit the guardrail. this is not the officer's first run-in with dui. in 2012 the same officer was involved in another crash in his cruiser while under the influence. he was charged in that crash, pled guilty and was disciplined administratively. the chief released a statement
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saying i find the circumstances gravely troubling and i apologize to for the appearance of impropriety. know that when i have the facts i will take appropriate action to remedy this and will make the facts known to the public. on twitter we had a viewer ask how was this officer able to stay on as an officer after a previous dui in his cruiser. police spokesmen tell me that because it was a misdemeanor the first time and he followed everything that the court asked him to do, had a probation before judgment, he was punished here within the department. they can't say what happened, but because of everything that was done he was allowed to stay on the job. the man who drove to a security checkpoint near the white house claiming to have a bomb in his car went before a judge today. shawn keegan told authorities he spoke telepathically to president trump. he was arrested on saturday after driving from roanoke, virginia, to a white house checkpoint and telling police
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had an asteroid in his car. there was no explosive device found in the vehicle. keegan was arrested on charges of making a false bomb threat and driving a stolen vehicle. he also under went a mental health investigation. there have been four security breaches at the white house so far this month. the suspect in the wave of threats against jewish community centers lives in israel and has dual u.s. citizenship. he's 19 years old and he was arrested in southern israel today. his name has been sealed. at a brief court appearance his public defender said he has a brain tumor that affects his cognitive functions. the threats were made against dozens of u.s. sites and at least one delta air lines flight using phone calls and e-mails. authorities say the suspect made the threats from his bedroom and masked the origin with sophisticated technology, some of which he built himself. terror in london. up next, a closer
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attacker's criminal past and why police had him on their radar years before yesterday's rampage. a murder that has haunted his family and friends for months, but tonight a new plea from the parents of a former dnc staffer killed on the streets of d.c. >> reporter: what's it going to take for metro riders to come back to the system? probably not fare hikes and service cuts but that happened today.
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>> pl tonight the death toll has risen in the wake of that london terror attack yesterday. the fourth victim, a 75-year-old man. an american was also among those killed. he was from utah and in london for his wedding anniversary. he also learned more about the suspect today. police identified him as 52-year-old khalid masood, a british national known to police. he has several past criminal convictions but was not part of any active terror investigation. >> reporter: a day after a brazen attack on the heart of british
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learning more about the assailant and the victim. 52-year-old khalid masood born in kent in england was known to the police for a string of petty by violent offenses. but they were not looking at him on a suspicion of terrorism or did they have any intelligence on him being involved in a plot that was perpetrated on the capital yesterday. they said he'd been in prison as early as 1983 for some violent offenses. now there are questions as to whether or not he was radicalized in prison. but they say he acted alone. one of the victims, an american from utah, has been named as curt cochran, a 54-year-old man here on his anniversary with his wife. she is being treated in a london hospital for severe injuries. we learned more about the raid that took place overnight in london a
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seven people have been arrested, six of them are being held on charges related to the suspicion of preparation of terrorism. two of them are women. we're waiting to see if there's any more information, if they have connection to the attacker yesterday. new at 6:00 tonight, the family of a democratic national committee staffer who was killed near his home in the bloomi bloomingdale neighborhood of d.c., the family is asking for the public's help. they need help raising money so they can continue their own investigation to his death. police do not know who killed seth rich last july. tomorrow an office dedicated to solving his murder will open in arlington. >> the investigation hasn't gone as fast as i had hoped. we're doing everything possible. but now we want to move to a 24 hour a day approach. we're going to have a rapid attack, rapid response, 24 hour a day forensics until this is solved. d.c. police think rich was shot and kle
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attempt. although his wallet was not taken. some people think he was tied to the release of dnc e-mails by wikileaks. wikileaks even put up reward money to help find the killer. the goal is to raise $200,000 through a go fund me page. so far the family has raised almost $9,000. now, to the firestorm in the house intelligence committee's russia investigation. committee chairman is a republican. his name is deafen nuvin nunes. critics say that move raises questions about whether nunes can remain in his postand whether the committee can conduct a credible investigation. >> at the end of the day, you know, sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the wrong one, but you've goto stick by the decisions you make. >> he knows full well that there is grave
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objectivity. >> nunes says the information he shared with the white house shows the president and his transition team may have been inadvertently caught up in legal communication intercepts after the election. critics accuse nunes of trying to give mr. trump political cover for the debunked wiretap accusations that the president levelled against former president barack obama. and critics note republicans are already sending fund-raising e-mails about that. starting this summer, you'll have to pay more to ride metro. the board giving the green light to fare hikes today to try and close the $300 million budget gap. we told you these were coming. in addition to those rate hikes metro will also be cuttingle les routes. the fare hikes kick in july 1st. adam tuss is at metro he headquarters with what you
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to know. >> reporter: to raise fares didn't come without drama today, a packed board room so full some weren't allowed inside, pushing and shoving outside the board room as some forced their way in. others taking the mike to make the case to not reduce service. >> rather than cutting routes in the future we definitely encourage the board to subject down on some dedicated sustainable funding source. >> reporter: from a fare standpoint, you'll pay an extra quarter for the bus, ten currents for more rush hour rail service, a quarter more for off peak rail service and ten cents more for daily parking. there will be an increase in peak and off peak read head ways for the time you wait for a train and metro will cut some of its least
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>> it's very expensive. people are thinking about uber or taxi. >> reporter: paul wiedefeld hinted at the fact that he'll try to be more vocal in the future about getting more money to fix metro. >> we have to put information out there about what our needs are, clearly so people understand what we're up against. >> reporter: all of this coming on a day when virginia governor terry mcauliffe says he wants a full review of how metro operates and he's appointing a former transportation secretary to lead that review. >> we nd answers. >> reporter: metro yet again trying to deal with a tough day. it's been pretty rough here at metro headquarters. the fare hikes and the service cuts, you still have a couple of months. they kick in at the beginning of july. >> we want to hear what you think. in our flash survey we asked will the metro fare
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metro. so far many of you say you already avoid metro. you can vote on the nbc washington facebook page. coming up, they answer the call for help. then gunfire erupted. tonight a tribute to some local police officers honored for their bravery after a colleague was killed in the line of duty. plus, some chilling new clues in a woman's murder a
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well, doug, a little warmer than it was yesterday, but our blossoms, i think, are still at risk. >> well, i think we're getting out of that now. last night temperatures went below freezing. tonight that below freezing area will be outside of the city. i do not think the city will see temperatures below freezing again. that means very good news for the blossoms. this weekend could be a great weekend. they're expects to hit peak bloom this weekend. right now, clear skies, really abundant sunshine all day. still a little bit on the cool side. temperatures dropping 40 degrees by 9:00, 39 degrees by 11:00. current temperatures, 46 gaithersburg, 50 culpeppeculpep in charlottesville.
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here's pictures of kids at wolf trap elementary. they were excited to talk all about the weather. and they're excited about the warmer temperatures coming our way. what's not coming our way, rain. we do need some rain. we're not going to get any any time soon. but we do have a couple of chances on sunday and even into next week. back to the west, here's a warm front. it does have a few showers with it but not very many. that warm front will come our way and bring the temperatures with it as well. 72 in nashville, 74 in towards parts of arkansas. that's the warmer air that will be moving our way. even st. louis is around 60 today. that warmer air moving into our area tomorrow. it's been on the cold side. you know that. tomorrow the warmer air moves in across our region and the pattern
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region, much warmer pattern. cold air locked to the north and then a warmer pattern that sticks around for a while. how about tomorrow? well, let's take you through hour by hour. around 8:00 starting to see cloud cover in here. we've got the clouds at 10:00. it's cool and cloudy around 10:00. even some showers activity. if the showers move in early enough we could even see some freezing rain. by around noon, the chance of rain is done but we're still in the clouds and still not a very nice day. tomorrow afternoon into teche evening we clear. temperatures soar. bus stop forecast, chilly 36 degrees. still need the jacket around noon. then boom, right up to 63 degrees by 4:00. take a
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forecast. 76 degrees an your saturday. most of the weekend looking good if you're thinking about getting down there towards the cherry blossoms monday and tuesday, chance of showers each day. highs remaining in the 20s. a murder mystery in d.c. an artist found dead on a business trip here. up next we'll hear from the last man who saw her alive and tell you about the crucial clue that could lead police to her killer. also a new tool to help
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>> to the person who did this to her, you are too late. you failed. corrine mehiel was already liberated and emboldened so many to fight for their beliefs. >> reporter: artist mel chin was the last person to see corrina mehiel alive. >> i'm gdevastated. >> those in this neighborhood are understandably shaken. >> it's a little bit scary because she pretty much fits any profile. i guess the first thing i thought about when i saw the story is i was going to get some bigger dogs to keep me safe. >> reporter: police say this man is a person of interest seen here on a beltville convenience store surveillance picture. they also need to find corrina mehiel's car. they hope the yellow diamond shaped bumper sticker on the back will jog somes
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>> it's terrifying but there's a lot of crime in this neighborhood. and i think there's a lot of crime that's not being reported and i don't know why. >> reporter: mehiel was planning to drive to north carolina on monday. she was going to return to d.c. and continue helping chin with the exhibit. she didn't show up in north carolina. coworkers came to this apartment where she was found. a killer remains at large. now, mel chin has said he does not recognize that man, that person of interest in that surveillance picture. police definitely want that to get out to the public. they also want to look for that car, that prius with that diamond shaped yellow bumper sticker on the rear bumper. they hope that will be the clue or the clues that break this case wide open. we are awaiting more information from metropolitan police in terms of surveillance video or more information on that surveillance picture. live in northeast, derrick ward,
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news4. chopper 4 flew over the scene of a crash that killed a woman in charles county today. it happened on radio station road and audi lane just after 9:00 a.m. police say a car with three people in it crossed the center line and hit a school bus. there were no students on the bus. the driver of the car was killed. police are trying to figure out what led up to this crash. a funeral for a teenaged victim of gang violence was held this morning in gaithersburg. her name was alexandra reyes. she was 15 years old. her body was found last month near an industrial park in springfield. she had been missing since december. investigators believe she was killed after a dispute between rival gangs. ten people are facing charges now in connection with that murder. it was both a heartwarming and a heartbreaking day for first responders in prince william county.
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the county valor awards recognizing the most heroic acts by police and firefighters in the past year. but the prince william county police department also suffered one of its darkest days last year when a rookie officer was shot and killed on her first day on the streets. as julie carey reports now, this ceremony was dedicated to her memory. >> reporter: there was applause and a sense of pride. at the same time, there was tears and heartache as the tragic events of february 27th, 2016 were remembered. >> protection of other potential victims and additional responding officers was clearly their first concern. >> reporter: rookie officer ashley gwendon killed the day after she took the oath of office. the two other officers with her gravely wounded. the team that helped rescue them and arrest the shooter all received a silver medal of valor.
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there was the gold medal. gwendon's aunt accepted the posthumous award. fellow officers both seriously wounded, now recovered. >> we're certainly proud of dave and jessie. we could not be any more proud of those two, fine, fine officers. we're always going to have a place here in our family, of course, for ashley. >> reporter: the police chief says she leaves an enduring legacy. >> it gives us all inspiration to go out every day and serve with the same passion and dedication that she did. >> reporter: there were bright moments remembered too today, complicated investigations that paid off with big arrests and life-saving work awarded. 25-year-old police officer nicole airingon tton saved two s last year with cpr. >> i took a deep breat
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remembered my training. i feel privileged. i'm glad that i was on duty and was close by to get to respond. >> reporter: glad too they could all pay tribute to ashley gwendon. in prince william county, julie carey, news4. coming up, a digital tool to help fight crime. going to tell you about the social media app that's already produced real results in a local community. it's a camp for kids like you've never seen before. how children are coming together to try and solve some of the world's most pressing problems. this is where we are. this is where we kind of want to be. but this is where we really want to be. 75 down to the southwest. it's coming our way. your complete fore ca
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the president's anti-immigrant policies. they marched the streets and protested outside trump's hotel. the demonstrators are also upset with the gop health care bill. they timed their march so that it would take place hours before the house vote on the health care bill. as we mentioned, that vote has been postponed. people in fairfax county are being recognized for using a social media app to solve crimes. we first told you about the nextdoor app in january when a group of neighbors used it to cash a serial burglar. the app connects local police departments with specific neighborhoods and alerts residents about crime trends. 100,000 people in fairfax county have started using the app. today some of the most active neighborhoods got some special recognition. >> last year we had a guy approach a girl and try to kidnap her or do inappropriate things and we were able to quickly identify that individual, get him
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>> this nextdoor app isn't only for conversation about crime. residents also use it to share information. in maryland suburbs prince george's county police have been using it for the last year and a half and montgomery county police just signed up a month ago. relief is on the way for people who live in the huntington area of fairfax county, people who got anxious every time it rained. crews broke ground this morning on a new levee and pumping station that will help protect their homes from catastrophic flooding from cameron run. dozens of homes in that area were built in the floodplain long before regulations were in place. they are susceptible to flash flooding and tiedal surges. up next, a unique concept for a summer camp as children come together to try to plant the seeds of peace. >> it didn't seem right for us to focus on the problems far
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their mission. >> this is an idea that began almost a quarter century ago at a dinner party right here in washington. three high level diplomats, an israel, a palestinian and an egyptian were at this party when the host, an american journalist, shared his idea for a summer camp for kids that could be the answer to creating peace among neighbors. it can take a while for neighbors to become friends. here, it can happen in just days. >> the camp is just the incubator. it's just the beginning. >> bobby has been welcoming kids to this camp for what will be the 25th year this summer. the challenge, to create peace between neighbors. for most of these years it was about making peace in other countries. these campers live here in american. >> i was born in atlanta, georgia, and i moved to
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>> she was part of a large group of immigrants freeing civil unrest in somalia in the '80s. >> atlanta was one of the first resettlement sites. after atlanta, some people stayed but some people moved up north and i was a part of the immigration wave up north to maine. >> a state where she says there were very few people of color. >> at the time, it was the whitest state in america. my first welcoming to maine was more so with hate and with the feeling of not being welcomed. >> during those same years, every summer for two two-week sessions at this sacamp in the state of maine kids would come to learn to get along with each other. >> the first year we brought them from egypt and we brought palestinians and israelis. >> the camp was called the seeds of peace camp. the idea of
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wallak. an american journalist who lived and worked in the middle east. >> he had this idea of creating a camp for kids from conflict areas of the world. he concentrated mostly on the middle east and the soviet union. >> conflict and prejudice was happening just down the road. >> with immigrant who is just came here, wrapping their heads around this new concept of race and what blackness means in america right when they get to a new place and being thrown in something like a race war, that's a lot. >> and it wasn't just about skin color. >> i've always felt like religion has been the bigger elephant in the room. >> it just didn't seem right for us to focus on the problems far away from home when we really should also be helping people in our own back yard. >> by the year 2000, a domestic seeds for peace camp was launched and the first campers were from right there
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state of maine. muna was chosen to go in her sophomore year in high school. >> a lot of like what islam phobia and bigotry goes down to is not knowing. in people not knowing comes the prejudice, comes the violence, comes this feeling of unsafety. >> muna graduated from the top of her high school class in lieu lew lew lewiston, maine. >> they go through a lot at camp. they go through so much together. they really develop an appreciation for each other and they worry that they'll never see each other again. and you've never seen so much hugging and crying as when they have to leave camp.
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they are called seeds and they're expected to use their voices to sow peace wherever they are for the rest of their lives. there are a lot of them out there. >> somebody really smart once said a long time ago that it gets increasingly more difficult to hate somebody the more you get to know them. >> that's exactly right. that's the point of that camp. it seems to be working. >> thank you, barbara. what's ahead, doug? >> what's ahead is something i think we're all going to enjoy. it's a 75 degree saturday. >> you know we're going to enjoy that. >> especially after coming back from yesterday. and this morning we woke up to temperatures in the low to mid 20s. it was frigid out there early this morning. but temperatures have warmed a little, although still well below average. current temperature 47 degrees. the cold air just trapped here around the area. winds out of the south at 8 miles an hour. that southerly wind is
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help. this is an area that we really need to see the rain. there's not a lot of rain in our forecast. a couple of chances of it but nothing really big. the biggest chance now may be next tuesday. but that's kind of far off. no rain in our mediaimmediate a. no clouds from d.c. to boston. down towards raleigh, here's the clouds. this is a warm front that will move across our region and by tomorrow afternoon change things big time. but remember, tomorrow early it's still quite cool. 36 at 7:00 a.m. north and west of the city maybe freezing rai
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9:00. look at this. temperature going up nearly 20 degrees between 11:00 and 4:00. that's after the front moves through. it gets rather breezy tomorrow night. 76 degrees on saturday, 66, a chance of a shower on sunday. 73 monday. 72 on tuesday. guys look, all 60s and 70s for highs all the way through next weekend. if you can't do this saturday, vance, next saturday looks good too. >> it's actually next saturday. put that on the calendar. we have sports coming up. also, big news jt iii out at georgetown. we'll tell you what the now former head coach is saying about his time. lester holt has a look at what's ahead on "ni
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we're following the breaking news there in washington, the gop health care ga, the last mie arm twisting by the president himself coming up short. also the young man charged with making threats against jewish centers. fios is not cable. we're wired differently. maybe that's why we've been ranked highest in customer satisfaction by jd power 4 years in a row. and now you can love fios too. get 150 meg internet, tv and phone. all for $79.99 per month, for the first year with a two-year agreement. it's the only internet with equal upload and download speeds. cable only offers upload speeds that are a fraction of the download speeds. plus get hbo for a year and free multi-room dvr service for two years. and verizon wireless customers can stream tv on the fios mobile app, data-free. get the best. go to getfios.com
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of town, this is shocking news. >> the thompson family name will always be associated with georgetown basketball. but today the school relieved john thompson iii son of john thompson jr. of his coaching duties. he led georgetown for the last 13 seasons. the team finished 14-18 this year missing the post season for a second straight season. the hoyas appeared in the 2007 final four. but this season some fans chanting fire thompson at games. john thompson releasing a statement this afternoon. reading, i am han norred to have been the head coach at georgetown university for the past 13 years. i am proud of what my players have accomplished on the court and how they are thriving since leaving georgetown. i am grateful to the fans for
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their tremendous support. jor georgetown basketball has been a part of my life since 1972. i look forward to my next chapter. the search process will be lead by former nfl commissioner. now, switching gears, two of the best teams in the nhl hooking up under one roof tonight. the capitals hosting the columbus blue jackets in a game with playoff implications. carol maloney at the verizon center tonight. is it feeling like playoff hockey down there? >> reporter: right now you would have no idea just how huge this game is. we're about ten minutes away from dropping the puck with first place on the line. the caps are hosting the columbus blue jackets. players know it's going to start slow butt
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>> going to be a playoff type atmosphere, playoff type game. you always know what to expect from them. they're a hard working team. >> we're going the play clolumbs in the first round of the second round. we just have to send a message. >> it has a lot of meaning and we'll get an opportunity to do that tonight. we're prepared all year for this. so let's get at it. >> reporter: let's get at it. only four games remain at home, including tonight. if the blue jackets over take first place, do you know what that means? it means the caps would face the penguins in the first round. earlier i spoke with the owner about this. i was expecting outrage. but he was like bring it on.
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we've got to play them some point maybe. who cares? playoffs doesn't matter who you play. someone is going to lose in the first round and they'll have one of the three best records. someone might sneak into the finals. >> reporter: that is just a sneak peek at my recent time with ted. why this playoff season feels different. his expectations for the wizards and what's the most annoying thing fans say to him. he's very candid in the interview. we're going to hear it on sunday sports final on sunday night at 11:30. as for tonight, i told you what it means. it means a lot. we'll see. drop the puck at 7:00. they only have ten games left. four of those games are at home. it's crunch time for the caps. >> she said tippoff. that would be cool.
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breaking news tonight. a stunning rebuke for president trump as house republicans hold the health care vote before going down in defeat. a cliff hanger for millions of americans. their health coverage left hanging in the balance. a suspect in that wave of jewish center scare. how the feds tracked him down. an american killed. his wife left injured in that terror attack in london as isis claims one of its followers is responsible. robocall crackdown. the government taking action to cut down on those annoying calls that always seems to come at the worst time. baby cuddlers inspiring america with some of the most important jobs at the hospital. ig
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