court. "news 4 today" starts now. 6:00 on the dot. good morning, everybody. i'm aaron gilchrist. >> i'm eun yang. thanks for joining you the. there's a whole lot to know. melissa mollet will have a look at your traffic. >> the all important weather from sheena parveen and chuck bell out on the national mall. good morning. >> reporter: what a great day to be outside. clear sky. sun is already up. got my cool solar observing sunglasses. we'll tell you what that's all about coming up in a bit. what a great morning that it is outside. 50s in some of the cooler suburbs to right around 60 degrees in downtown on your friday, finally friday forecast. how about full sunshine today? temperature 84 right here on the national mall. 79 the high in gaithersburg. basically low to mid 80s for most and upper 70s for the

temperature. 6:00 to 11:00 this evening here at the base of the washington monument at the mall it's astronomy night on the national mall. find out all the cool things going on. melissa mollet, in to you. >> very cool things going on right now as far as traffic goes. chopper 4 over the beltway here georgia avenue, inner loop and outer loop, nice light volume. we just saw that there. no worries there. taking a look 270 from 70 down to the spur, you are just fine. a little bit of a slowdown through germantown, no actual problem. if you are headed outbound on 270 northbound, you're okay now. widening out looking at the beltway, inner loop and outer loop, everything is rolling along fine here. remember on metro, single tracking between addison road and stadium armory. on the orange line trains running with late clearing traffic there. how

outcome of your case today? >> do you have a moment? >> pennsylvania doctor brian molz preparing for another day in court. >> this time he will be answering to a federal court judge. news 4's megan mcgrath is live outside of the trump hotel where he was arrested this week. megan has more on this case. good morning. >> reporter: well, good morning. brian molz stayed in a local hotel last night under guard. he is no longer in police custody. take a look at this video. here he is leaving d.c. superior court yesterday. the judge said he saw no reason to hold molz before a federal hearing. the judge did express concerns about molz and the safety of others. he suffers from ptsd. he's a veteran and an e.r. doctor and he'

with marijuana. molz was ordered to stay away from the trump international hotel as well as the white house. according to court documents, brian molz came to washington to talk to president trump. his goal was to bring down big pharmacy and big medicine. the pennsylvania doctor allegedly left a voicemail for a friend saying that he was heading to d.c. with a car full of ammunition, survival supplies and batteries. there was a tip given to police. that's how they knew about his whereabouts. again, he is due before a judge again today this time in federal court. back to you guys. >> megan mcgrath outside of the trump hotel. thank you. there was another security scare at the white house last night after seeing a man pace back and forth, secret service approached him. that's when the man attempted to hit the officer and grab his baton. as a precaution he was taken to the hospital. he will be charged with a felony once he's released. it's now 6:04.

molette green at the live desk with breaking news about the president's travel ban, molette? >> reporter: details coming in on the president making a plea to the supreme court now to let the travel ban take effect. the justice department wants it fast tracked, this process, enforcing the executive order while it's under review. now the executive order bans people from six countries and suspends the refugee program. the aclu and others say it's based on relidge gus discrimination. >> molette, thank you. new video of the man police say set off a suicide bomb at the ariana grande concert in manchester, eng grand. police say salman abedi arrived in the city four days before setting off the bomb. police are now asking the public to track his movement during that time. on sunday she'l

a benefit concert. top stories at 6:05. 37 people dead after a fire in the philippines. suspects started a fire inside. according to police, many of the people killed died of smoke inhalation. texas congresswoman sheila jackson lee calling on president trump to take immediate action after a noose was found inside the smithsonian museum. she said she was appalled by what was found inside the national museum of history and culture this week. news 4's justin finch will have more coming up. president trump has announced plans to pull the u.s. out of the paris climate deal. the u.s. has joined syria and nicaragua. pulling out of the deal could take near the end of president trump's term. we're out. president trump pulls out of the paris climate agreement to cut greenhouse gas

fra france's president called the u.s.'s decision a mistake. muriel bowser is sticking with the agreements. here's how, renewable energy still required in the city. the head of the dc department of energy says other cities should follow mayor bowser's lead. >> mayor bowser is standing with other mayors across the united states and in solidarity with other mayors across the world saying we will not turn our back for mitigating climate change. >> the president said he can renegotiate the deal but leaders of other major countries are saying no way. the president's decision will likely be a topic of discussion on the premiere of "sunday night" with megan keyn . she'll

exclusive one-on-one with russian president vladimir putin. we are learning new details about a crash in silver spring. one of them is in serious condition near layhill road last night. you can see a tractor-trailer. montgomery county fire and rescue say it collided with a car and went up into flames. a fatal cash in virginia. a 45-year-old was killed riding his motorcycle on telegraph road and beulah street. this is video from the i.c.c. new video this morning from tiger woods' arrest. now we're seeing the golf star's time spent inside a jail cell. and salmonella

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you need to know about national astronomy night out here on the national mall from 6:00 to 11:00 tonight. we'll have cool opportunities to see our nearby celestial neighbors and get clear solar eclipse viewing glasses. don't go away. >> had a crash on the right side of the roadway. outer loop to connecticut avenue. beltway looking quite good. eun? >> thank you, melissa. >> there are a lot of questions about how he died. detectives say 24-year-old nicholas mongano was found dead inside of a car outside of a walmart in palm bay. police have not ruled out foul play. 24 hours later there is no word on what caused a corn mill to explode in wisconsin. this morning we know two people are dead and a third person is still unaccounted for in the

investigators say the structure isn't safe enough to enter and exami examine. the corn mill blew up. the centers for disease control is investigating eight different salmonella outbreaks in 47 different states. so far 4700 people have been sickened. the cdc blames this on backyard chickens. no defrts have been reported. 71 people were in the hospital. most patients have been in contact with live poultry the week before getting sick. keeping poultry as pets is a growing trend actually. d.c. mayor muriel bowser ruffled feathers when she tried to ban backyard chickens months ago citing health concerns. she later pulled that effort. >> reporter: i'm molette green at the live desk. we're watching this back to earth for the expedition 51 crew. you can see nasa astronaut peggy whitson. she officially handed other command of the official space station to

counterpart. she is still staying there. two others are leaving within the hour. we're looking forward to their safe return sometime today. this wraps up 196 days in space since their november 17th launch. whitson is a rock star setting that space flight record a little while ago for the most days in space. back to you, eun. >> thank you, molette. there is a new scripps national spelling bee champion this morning. >> marocain. >> she knows what it means. >> m-a-r-o-c-a-i-n. >> that is correct. >> use it in a sentence, origin, nothing. that 12-year-old from fresno, california, as you heard there, she had to spill marocain correctly in order to clinch the title and a $40,000 cash prize. you can see there her dad was very proud of her, rushed on the stage. she will be on the "today" show later this mo

saw there leaving the stage, our local speller, actually eliminated in the first round of last night's finals. he's 11-year-old -- we can't pronounce the word he spelled. >> t-u-l-e-s. >> great effort by him. >> right now the national science foundation is getting ready for an astronomy festival on the national mall happening tonight. >> meteorologist chuck bell is on the national mall bringing us the forecast from there around filling us in on this big event. chuck? >> reporter: hey, good morning. yes, indeed. that smart young girl there, the good speller, she may grow up to be like this. this is claire raptery. she is a solar physicist. ph.d.. she is part of the solar observatory. she's here to talk about national a stron know my night out here on the

good morning. >> good morning. thanks for having me. i'm glad to be here. >> reporter: what's going on tonight? >> tonight we have a series of amateur astronomers, professionals, agencies showing up with their telescope with a free observing night. we expect 7 to 10 thourks people to show up to look at the stars. astronomy is not all done at nighttime. you can pick up your free solar eclipse observing glasses. get a chance to look at our solar telescope. >> these are the only glasses safe to look at the sun? >> absolutely. very important if you're looking at the sun especially coming up with the solar eclipse later this year that you use these special solar eclipse glasses. sunglasses won't cut it. it gets rid of

it will be a total solar eclipse elsewhere in the country on august 21st. a good opportunity to prepare for the solar eclipse and get yourself up to speed, what's happening with the sun, the planets, what's going on in the night sky. >> reporter: once the sun goes down what other nearby neighbors can we see through the telescope? >> 20 telescopes planted at the planets in the sky. i believe saturn is up and then really whatever the constellations are passing by. >> reporter: thank you very much, claire. dr. claire raftery slumming with the weather guy early this morning. sheena has a check on the weekend forecast coming up. chuck, thank you. we want to say a big congratulations to aaron gilchrist, our very own, for an honor he received last night. there he is. he received the impact award from covenant house washington at its annual gala last night in

youth homeless nsz. there is nbc 4's vice president of community affairs waiving, shanna weston. it raises money and supports homeless youth. you did your part by the night out that you slept outside on the ground. >> opportunity to do something in solidarity with the homeless youth. it does great work to educate, to feed in some cases housing for under privileged and homeless youth. happy to support them and glad to show what they do on the program. >> congratulations. your mom came into town for that award. >> yes. >> great award. great award. >> i love that. >> earlier the sunrise behind you, what a beautiful, beautiful shot. we still have it. we still have the pretty shot. there it is. currently outside. clear skies there as that beautiful sunrise, calm winds. look at that

glass. going to be a gorgeous day today. more sunshine not just today but going down to the beach isn't going to be until late sunday. it looks good and dry until we get into part of your sunday. i'll show you the timing on that. 62 in the district. 51 in gait thersberg. we do have low 50s. temperatures able to drop down a bit overnight. 51 manassas, 55 leasebeesburg. big area of high pressure. that's going to hold up as we go into the weekend so we can expect plenty of sun to stay in the forecast. exercising today, perfect day to be outside. 7:00 a.m. mid 60s. mid 80s this afternoon. here's future weather. later in the day maybe a few clouds moving in. we stay dry. saturday still looking dry. fantastic throughout the

rain towards the afternoon and then later in the day, that's when we have a better chance for some showers and storms late sunday into monday, even tuesday. the temperatures will stay nice and warm for us. let's check your warm, comfortable morning commute with melissa. good morning. >> i love it. this is a windows down morning. chopper 4 over the outer loop. had the earlier crash. only looking slow. the crash is out of the roadway now. top of the beltway looks quite good this morning. that is a nice view here for friday morning. you can see in bound 395 is a bit slow. pretty typical for this time of morning. inner loop and outer loop overall looking good. brand-new crash in virginia and falls church. we'll talk about that in a minute. that has cleared out of the way. blue line single tracking between addison road and stadium armory. on the orange line trains running between

stadium armory because of late clearing track work there. more on that problem in virginia coming up. a familiar cookie is getting a new flavor in time for national donut day. check this out. it is a golden or rio cookie. that's strike one. with a custard outer ring and a raspberry center. you can't just find these anywhere. you will only find them at some walmart stores. you have to have a chocolate cookie, i'm sorry. >> are you going to try it? >> no. >> for research purposes? >> yes. it's national donut day today. there are lots of freebies. i think coming up on facebook there are places for free donuts. more new video from tiger woods' dui arrest, and it's giving us a glimpse inside the golfer's holding cell. we'll get ready for more backups on the way to the beach this summer.

you're watching "news 4 today." take a look at this picture. do you remember this man, the miami man who looked like the joker character from the batman movie was arrested again this week. lawrence patrick sullivan was arrested on a marijuana possession charge on wednesday. you may remember that sullivan was arrested back on may 23rd after police received a call that he was pointing a gun at passing cars. more details in that arrest of one of golf's greatest pl

video of tiger woods' dui arrest from inside the police station. >> molette green has more on how he appeared in this video. >> reporter: you can see the golf star in that video standing in a holding cell handcuffed and barefoot. the arrest, of course, shows that woods was slurring his words and at times seemed to slur his speech. >> your hair and eye color? >> mostly brown and brown. >> he was arrested monday in florida. in another part of the video the officer asks woods to recite the alphabet backwards. woods can't comprehend the instructions. he believes the officer asks him not to sing the national anthem backwards. the golf great was arrested monday in florida after officers found him asleep at the wheel of his car.

in his system. he told police he had an unexpected reaction to prescription drugs. he will make his first court appearance in july. back to you. >> all right, molette. thank you. today kathy griffen will hold a news conference trying to explain why she took a picture of herself holding what looks like president trump's severed head. griffen has lost an endorsement deal and her new year's job at cnn. we're following a developing story at the district right now. new details on power outages and impact across the city. >> reporter: a member of congress is calling for swift action from the trump white house after a noose is found here at the national museum of african-american history and culture. what that member is asking for and why in a live report. >> reporter: and i'm storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell also live on the national mall this morning where we've been talking about astronomy night here on the national

p.m. tonight right here at the base of the washington monument.

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leased from custody, but the legal troubles are not over for the man who brought guns to d.c. and checked into the trump hotel. denouncing hate. a noose discovered at a museum. new calls for the white house to take action after recent racist attacks. gruesome discovery in the va hospital parking lot. the investigation sparked by a news 4 iteam report on the death of a d.c. veteran. "news 4 today" begins with breaking news. >> and that breaking news is about a power outage in the district right in the neighborhood near union station. >> we're following these developments out of capitol hill this morning. >> molette green is at the live desk with more. molette? >> reporter: yeah, we're talking about 1500 customers, residents and businesses included in that, without power in the dark this morning in the area of second and i street. of course, that area surrounding union station. tepco on the sceneor

the problem, but looks for a while for that to be the case for a while longer. we've been following this since about 4:30 this morning. back to you, un. >> molette, thank you. a busy friday morning. thanks for joining us early before your weekend. >> we want to get straight to your weather and traffic. news 4's weather team working for you. >> we begin with storm team 4 chuck bell live on the national mall. nice day to be outside, chuck. >> reporter: oh, my goodness, is this an awesome way to get your friday morning started. it is cool and comfortable. not much in the way of humidity. nary a cloud in the sky. what a great morning to be outside. if you're headed out this morning, temperatures hovering around 60 degrees. 51 in manassas, 61 by the bay. as you're planning for your friday, boy, is it going to be a nice one to be outside later today. lunchtime temperatures ad

a light northwest wind will help keep humidity in check for at least another day or so and a delightful evening. 7 degrees at 6:00 tonight and your saturday looks good, too. highs tomorrow back up to around 80 degrees. a little bit more cloud cover around tomorrow. we should be staying dry until sunday. sheena will detail more about the second half of the weekend and your beach weather coming up in a few. let's go to melissa mollet with first 4 traffic. >> take a look at this, 29 before gallows road, that has cleared out of the way. inner loop and outer loop of the beltway, looking quite good. in bound 395, you can see a little bit of a slowdown there. as we're looking a the the bottom of the beltway, prince george's county, you can see we're a little slow going about 29 miles per hour there this morning. 210 looking good. 270 at germantown road, looking good.

volume. northbound no big issue. remember, single tracking on the blue line between addison road and the army on the orange line trains running between vienna and the armory. we'll check out travel times coming up. >> melissa, thank you. 6:33. here is a look at some of the top stories this morning. the trump administration wants to fast track its travel ban. it asks the supreme court to immediately reinstate its travel ban on travelers from mostly muslim countries. the justice department filing claims that the lower court made several mistakes when they stopped a ban including relying on statements president trump made during the 2016 campaign. a doctor will be in federal court on charges. he drove to the d.c. hotel and had a car loaded with ammo and guns. he wanted to meet the president. traffic is moving again on the i.c.c. a tractor-tr

layhill road cleared up an hour ago. westbound lanes shut down last night after the truck collidewide a car. two people taken to the hospital. their conditions are not known at this time. 6:34. a member of congress wants the trump administration to take immediate action after a noose was found inside a smithsonian museum. >> this comes as the local community is rallying together to stand up against hate. ♪ we shall overcome news 4's justin finch is live now outside of the national museum of african-american history and culture with the latest on reaction and what's happening next. justin, good morning. >> reporter: eun, good morning. texas congresswoman sheila jackson lee is concerned this is a disturbing trend of racially based incidents and she wants the president and the white house to denounce them. that includes the noose found here at the museum on wednesday. on thursday we saw staff here

overcome and vowing to stand strong against hate. this as jackson lee is calling on the white house to go a step further. she released a statement reading in part, the vile and cowardly placing of a noose within the confines of this museum should not go without a thorough investigation and a denouncing by the trump administration. now back out live here, they say 8,000 visitors are sevserved ea weekday and 9,000 on the weekend. we are live here on the mall. justin finch, news 4, back in to you. 6:35 right now. fake immigration enforcement flyers are popping up in parts of the district. >> take a look at them here. d.c. mayor muriel bowser maintains that d.c. is a sanctuary city and urges residents to tear down the flyers. they're instilling real fear in

released a statement saying, quote, any person who actively incites panic or fear of law enforcement is doing a disservice to the community, endangering public safety and the very people they claim to support and represent. we have an update to a story about a man accused of groping a minor at arlington national cemetery. the fbi says the man you see in this picture turned himself in yesterday. his name has not been released. he's accused of inappropriately touching a child on monday. no word on charges at this time. metro transit police need your help identifying people seen in this video. it was taken on april 29th at the waterfront metro station southwest. a woman was punched from behind and knocked to the ground. if you have any information, contact police. it's 6:36. right now if you are headed to the beach this weekend, we have some information on construction that could impact your trip. it all has to do with route 404

>> crews are widening that road in maryland so that there will be two lanes going in each direction. it's meant to increase capacity and improve safety. while this will likely impact your trip to the beach this summer, things should be much better next year. work is expected to wrap up by thanksgiving. a shakeup. the reversal in the u.s. deal and the fallout is still coming in this morning. check those lottery tickets if you bought one in virginia you could be about to lose out on a million dollars.

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and this morning -- >> now here's storm team 4 forecast. this morning for your friday, very comfortable. 62 degrees right now in the district. 52 dulles, as we go through the day, more sunshine. you're going to want the sunglasses. we are back in the 80s this afternoon. take a check on the weekend weather that's coming up. >> reporter: brand-new problem at 95 northbound at stafford. start seeing some slowdowns. going to talk about the roads and going to talk about also a situation on metro when we're back in just a minute. throw. here's durant across the lane. >> there was plenty of that to go around in game one of the nba finals. last night prince george's county native kevin durant made his final debut with the golden state warriors. they dominated the for

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trump hotel arrest. the doctor that brought guns and ammunition to d.c. is out of jail. the next stop he plans to take this morning. the united states will withdraw. >> the climate change deal is dead. >> this is one fight we cannot lose. >> new reaction to the u.s. exit from the paris agreement. a missing veteran. his body discovered in the parking lot of the v.a. medical center. the exclusive report from the news 4 i-team and reaction from veterans affairs. that is correct. >> congratulations. you are the champion. >> cool and calm. there is a new queen bee of spellers. right now pennsylvania doctor brian molz is preparing for another day in court. >> this time he'll be answering to a federal court judge. news 4's megan mcgrath is live outside the trump hotel now. this is where

earlier this week. megan, good morning. >> reporter: well, good morning, guys. dr. brian molz stayed in an undisclosed hotel, a local hotel under guard last night, but one thing we can tell you is that room was definitely not here at the trump international hotel. a judge ordered that the pennsylvania doctor stay away from the trump hotel as well as the white house. now while he set those restrictions, the judge did release molz yesterday. take a look at this video. this is him leaving d.c. superior court yesterday afternoon. the judge saying there was no legal basis to hold him in jail in advance of a federal court hearing. now the judge did express concerns about the safety of molz and others saying he's suffering from ptsd. he's a velt and an e.r. doctor. new information according to court documents, brian molz came to washington, he says, to talk to the president. he wanted a meeting with president trump.

pharmacy and big business -- big business medicine. police got a tip. they became aware that he was here and that he had guns and ammunition. he was arrested. now he will be back in court before a judge once again today, this time it's federal court. back to you. >> megan mcgrath. megan, thank you. it is 6:48 now. president trump has announced plans to pull the u.s. out of the paris climate deal. >> he calls it a campaign promise kept, but reaction around the world has been swift and hare much. news 4's molette green is live in the newsroom with more. molette? >> reporter: yeah, the u.s. now joins syria and nicaragua as the only countries in the world that are not part of a deal to curb global warming. in the rose garden yesterday the president said he was putting america first with this decision. and astronaut scott kelly shot down the president's statement on twitter saying withdrawing from the paris agreement will be devastating to

paris and pittsburgh share the same environment after all. and pittsburgh's mayor also tweeted a statement saying he plans to stick with the environmental agreement. now this won't happen overnight. pulling out of this deal could actually take until near the end of president trump's term. back to you. three dozen people died in this chaotic fire at a casino in the philippines and the suspect behind the fire is also dead of an apparent suicide. police say he brought a gun into the casino and started firing. police believe he was trying to rob the casino. he lit tables and set his room on fire as well. police say most of the people who died suffocated in the thick smoke inside. the house committee on veterans affairs is calling for an investigation after a news 4

death of a veteran from northeast d.c. news 4 i-team reported last night the feds are looking into whether that deceased man went undiscovered for two days in the parking lot of a d.c. va center. scott mcfarland has the story. >> reporter: his family said the military veteran never returned home from a treatment session two weeks ago on monday at the d.c. va center. they called the center to get help and get a search for the man. 36 hours no one found him until his sister drove to the medical center, searched the parking lot and herself found the man's body in his car in that parking lot just outside the entrance. the man's death was confirmed by a police report and multiple sources speaking with the news 4 i-team. the new head said the agency there is investigating what might have went wrong. >> we met with the veteran's

to her. >> reporter: we've learned they have launched their own investigation into the death. the d.c. va medical center already under scrutiny and audit. a scathing audit was released last month saying the medical center suffered supply shortages and used expired supplies during procedures putting patient safety at risk. in the newsroom, scott mcfarland, news 4 i-team. >> reporter: i'm molette green at the live desk now. big heads up on the power outages we've been telling you all morning about in northeast d.c. six intersections impacted by the outages in that capitol filled area around second and i street around union station. we'll look for details on all of those intersections inside our nbc washington app. we'll continue to update on the power outage problem throughout the day. now let's get over to melissa mollet iir

>> good morning. one of the problems northbound 95 at stafford there, crash in the left lane. we are seeing some real delays. also delays in woodbridge. 66 looks okay right now. live picture chopper over 66 just outside the beltway. have the normal delays headed in bound on the beltway. eastbou eastbound, the 12th street expressway, looking quite good. southbound gw parkway at 123 has police activity on the right side. right now no major issues through prince george's county or the top of the beltway. 270 looking good. as for your travel times, no major issues slowing anything down. remember to listen to wtop 103.5 f.m. when you hop in your car. right now chuck bell is outside. hi, chuck. >> reporter: good morning, melissa. good morning, everybody. finally friday is here.

this morning giving a little friendly shout out. something free and fun for kids of all ages 6 to is 1:00 tonight right here on the national mall. they'll be handing out free solar observing sunglasses and stuff and there will be a bunch of telescopes out here to look up to the moon and jupiter. come out here. so this morning we have temperatures and sunshine in the 50ed and 60s. low humidity now and the remainder of the day. 62 currently in washington. that's far and away the warm spot. only 55 in leesburg. today's forecast sunshine start to finish. sun doesn't go down until 8:30. sunshine will be in the upper 70s. low 80s around the nearby suburbs. 84 on the national mall. a lot of stuff going on over the week end. for more on the weekend forecast and beach outlook, let's go to my colleague, sheena parveen. >> good morning, chuck. fantastic day. tomorrow looks really nice. take a look

temperatures around 60 degrees. nice. plenty of sun through the afternoon. looking at a nice saturday. dry through the day. mostly sunny skies. we go into sunday and we're looking at a mostly dry day across the area. by sunday evening that's when we have a chance of very late breaks. beach forecast friday heading to cape may, very late chance of showers. tomorrow looks good, sunny. mid 70s. late chance. rehoboth beach this weekend, upper 70s. mostly sunny and dry. saturday looking dry. late chance of rain mid 70s. ocean city, very similar upper 70s. nice and dry. late chance sunday and down in virginia beach, temperatures closer to that 80 degree mark. let's take a look at that ten day, chuck. >> reporter: all right. so nothing but sunshine for today. the weekend, as you mentioned, sheena, looks really good. showery weather and continuing

really good news, if you like to exercise outside at this time of year, still no 90 degree weather on the way. you know, you've never looked better. >> and you've never looked weirder. thank you. thank you, chuck. >> well, start going through your pockets, your purses, check under the sofa cushions. two lottery ticket winners will lose out on their $1 million winnings if they don't come forward soon. >> three winning tickets were drawn in the virginia lottery -- >> i'm worried about people losing money. >> in the new year's raffle. they were sold at a 7-eleven in richmond and speedway in lynchburg. good morning, i'm landon dowdy at cnbc headquarters. walmart testing a new program to have workers deliver online orders to customers on their way home. employees will get extra cash

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