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capitol hill and we've already got our hands on this opening statements. and in them he details his interactions with the president that both praised and fired him including the moments he said were very awkward. and comey's also talking about the request from president trump that made him uncomfortable. we're digging through all the details for you. but -- >> first this afternoon we are learning more details about the murder of two high school seniors on the eve of their graduation. i'm pat lawson muse. police are still searching for answers. they want to know who shot and killed the two young men. this comes as family members held funeral services for one of the victims. pat collins is live with police headquarters with what he's learned today. >> reporter: we're learning from our sources that one of the teenage victims in that montgomery village double murder was found dead inside the car and that he had cash in his hands. this as friends
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members gather at an islamic center in germantown for funeral services. the crowd so large the building wasn't big enough, mourners spilled outside on to the steps, into the parking lot, on the grassy areas all around. here at the islamic center in germantown for the funeral of shadi najar. >> what do you think happened here? >> cold blooded murder. whoever shot him it looks like they didn't want him to live. they did it with the intention to kill this young boy just one day before his graduation. >> 18-year-old artan z-ib bra, two star students found shot and killed in this
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street in montgomery village. they were scheduled to graduate the next day. it's unclear what the motive was but sources say one of the victims was found clutching a $20 bill in his hand. sources say about 23 shots went into that car. they came from two different guns fired from the street. so were these two teenagers set up or was it something else? more thoughts on that coming up at 5:00. live in montgomery county, pat collins, news4. >> here at the live desk we're getting our first look at what james comey will say under oath tomorrow. during their first private meeting the former fbi director says he told president trump he wasn't reliable, at least not in the way politicians use that word. when comey said he wasn't on any
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president said i need loyalty, i expect loyalty. i didn't move, speak or change my facial expression in any way during the awkward silence that followed. we simply looked at each other in silence. the president made several comments he found strange asking him if he wanted to stay on as fbi director and telling him bluntly a lot of people want your job. comey says it came off as if he was supposed to ask to keep his position, which could set up some sort of debt he'd owe the president and comey clearly says dealing with president trump made him immediately write down what happened. now he had never had to do it before, comey said when he ran the fbi, he had two private conversations with president obama and felt no need to record what was said. pat? >> thanks, chris. we're getting reaction this afternoon to the man who president trump nominated to replace comey at the fbi, christopher wray. he's a
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official who led the federal investigation of enron. he's currently in private practice and is the personal attorney for new jersey governor chris christie whom he represented during the bridgegate trial. reaction came slowly because lawmakers weren't giving a heads up and few in congress even know him. virginia senator mark warner says wray as a good reputation but he doesn't know much about him. jeff sessions says wray has a brilliant legal mind, outstanding accomplishments and a proven record of public service. another partner at wray's law firm is the ethics advisor to trump's revocable trust which holds the president's business assets. wray could face questions about any work he might have been done connected to the president. >> now ahead of comey's testimony, today members of the senate intelligence committee are questioning two of the nation's top intelligence leaders, both the nsa director and the director of national intelligence said that they were never -- they were never pressured by the president
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they'd be asked by the president to publicly state that they'd seen no collusion between the trump campaign and russia. >> did the president, the reports that are out there, ask you any way, shape or form to back off or down play the russian investigation. >> i'm not going to discuss the specifics of conversation with the president of the united states. >> "the washington post" article that came out last time was behind the z-braefs firing today. dan coats told associates that the president had asked him to interfere with then fbi director james comey. >> i have never been pressured, never felt pressure to intervene or interfere in any way with shaping intelligence in a political way or in relationship with an ongoing investigation. >> ranking democrat mark warner said that even if the directors
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relevant if they were even asked. >> dramatic congressional hearings are something of a washington art form. we've taken a look at past high dramas going all the way back to the hearings over the sinking of the titanic. search hearings in the nbc washington app to find them all. >> chopper four is live now over the scene of breaking news. the scene of a police shooting in maryland. we don't have a whole lot of information about this because it's just happening right now. apparently a shooting in maryland which is outside baltimore city. we're trying to find out if anyone was hurt and how it all started. stay with us for any new developments as we learn them. neighbors in northern virginia are waking up to a very frustrating sight, all four tires stolen off of their cars. mark segraves with the victims have in common. >> reporter: it's happened to several residents in this neighborhood, frrt reports started come in sunday
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neighbors coming out to finding their cars with no wheels. the m.o. appears to be the same in every case, thieves come in the dark of night, they jack up your car, take off all of the wheels and leave your car on these bricks. in each case it appears the thieves didn't have to look far for those bricks to prop up the cars. they used landscaping blocks from nearby homes. right around the corner from that first car, it happened again, all four tires z-bon and the same bricks used to prop up the car. right down the street from the first two cars, a third car and the same thing. they took a nearby landscaping brick to prop up the car before they made their getaway and like the other two cars that were hit last night, this one is also a relatively new honda accord. >> fairfax county police are investigating. they say the sporty black rims on the new honda accords have
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some time. in northern virginia, mark segraves, news4. >> over to storm team 4 now on a day that really doesn't feel a whole lot like june. >> for this area? 60s in june? standing by in the weather center. is it going to stay this way? >> at least for the rest of today and part of tomorrow. we think tomorrow a much nicer day. the northeast wind has moved in. >> this is more like mid-april here than early june. you're right. this is really unseasonably cool for this time of year. >> and tomorrow and right on into friday, below average temperatures before we sky rocket well above average. now temperatures currently sitting at 66, d.c. 66, philly -- 62 in haguers town so well below average here. we are also tracking shower activity down in towards our area especially into northern virginia, back in towards fauquier county and rightlo
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shower activity. heaviest rain right around warr warrenton. so heads up there too. as you move on through the rest of the next couple of days, cool a few showers this evening, below average temperatures tomorrow and right on through the day friday but then temperatures rising and we are soaring with those high temperatures, say hello to the heat wave. we will be 30 degrees warmer on monday, tuesday, wednesday and thursday of next week than we are out there right now. 30 degrees warmer. that's a lot. >> all right. we'll talk to you in a little bit. feeling of speaking the heat, all eyes on the courtroom where bill cosby is fighting for his freedom now. it's a trial that a lot of you folks are saying is leaving you torn. >> first at 4:00. out with the old, in with you new. it's going to make a much anticipated change and a lot sooner than you might think. >> plus, who needs a profile on a dating website when you can just use a sign to find love.
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months ahead of schedule. every 1,004,000 series rail car will be permanently removed from service by the first of july. new more reliable 7,000 series railcars are already arriving. metro says these are six times more reliable than the cars they replace resulting in improved service, fewer offloads and delays. >> we working for the community. tomorrow say special day in our area, especially for nonprofit organizations. more than 600 of them are trying to raise as much money as they can in a 24-hour period. it's called do more 24. a day long fund-raising drive coordinated by the united way. you can find out all about do more 24 on nbc4.com. proud to be a partner in this initiative. >> from the comedy stage to the courtroom, many are watching bill cosby's ongoing trial. >> a closer look at how this story is tom went to washington to take on
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first at 4:00. this is day three of bill cosby's sexual assault trial. his main accusers just ended her testimony. she was on the witness stand for nearly seven hours today. most of the time getting grilled by cosby's defense team who questioned her credibility and motivation in this case. constand claims cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her in 2004. he says t
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consensual. cosby could get ten years in prison if convicted. troy johnson is here with today's talk around town and the troy you're listeners have been following this trial which is expected to last for about two weeks. what are there thoughts about what they've seen and heard so far? >> with all these things that are going on in washington, d.c. at this time with comey's big day tomorrow, people are still making time to keep an eye on this trial and it's been about two years since a lot of this avalanche of these accusations of sexually assault have come out against bill cosby. they started to steam roll. we've been waiting for the legal process and motions to get to the point where we are today. when i talk to people about it, they want to know what's going to happen to bill cosby. a man who is a television icon that folks grew up with and people -- there was a real tension is the word i'll used to about the outcome of this case. as youti
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of jail time is on the horizon and folks really just are waiting to see what's going to happen. >> the optics are interesting. we saw actress sheila frazer on cosby's arm as he headed into the courtroom. on monday we saw keisha knight pulliam. we haven't seen camille cosby. are people noticing that. what are they saying about it? >> it's very interesting because the optics it's got a bift that hollywood flavor to it. you see this red carpet entrance in such a serious scenario and one person said it's got that crisis management feel like an olivia pope moment with keisha knight pulliam walking him into the courtroom. i spoke with april rain today. she's a writer, a lawyer, social media may convenient and she sparked the firestorm and important conversation about the diversity in race with t the #oscar s
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2015 and 2016 academy awards. now she tells me today people following the cosby trial on social media are also noticing whose there and whose not. >> so, you know, it is not lost on people that we really haven't heard that much from keisha knight pulliam recently and yet here she pops up sort of escorting mr. cosby in the courtroom. people noticed that. it's a marked difference from what we've seen in the past. what we haven't seen is mr. cosby's wife camille. >> and a lot of people of course concerned about the -- on the other side they feel like bill cosby is getting railroaded. allegations and things like that are -- are from a much earlier time than these big allegations that are out against him now. so it's shaping that conversation. >> and regarding camille cosby's absence, i guess people read into that what they will. >> exactly. all of this of course is happening while his showsre
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>> there is a network that is airing the shows. they made a big production about it last year saying that backed by popular demand we will be airing the cosby show and some people say that they are tuning in because it is an iconic television show that a lot of people grew up with, but others are saying, they're staying away because they feel like the bill cosby of the 21st century is much different than the cliff huxtable that they grew up with and there's a feeling that there's a tainting of who the man is. >> thank you, troy. >> speaking of back by popular demand, doug kammerer here to explain why it is that we woke up today in the middle of march, february, what the heck is going on outside? >> it's like june right now. we're about 15 degrees below average. if we were 15 degrees below average in march we'd be talking about 30 so this is the month of june. we can take a little bit cooler than average temperatures and rain out there too.
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at times today. you notice, those clouds on the cool side as we move on through. temperatures only in the 60s. 66 right now as we move on through the rest of the night. temperatures dropping through the low 60s till about 60 degrees. cool conditions across our region. i got you. my cameras leaving. there we are right there. 59 in winchester, 64 in leesburg, 68 in hundred tingeton. there's the cool temperatures. and we have some showers, d.c. eastward, i don't think we'll see much in the way of showers. it's up against the blue ridge here that's why we continue to get these showers right along the blue ridge, the biggest area of rain, some fairly steady rain now fauquier county between marshal down toward the warrenton area, you probably noticed that rain following on your rooftop, so hello to you folks. hope you have the
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umbrella. here's the flow and again you notice it's coming right off the ocean. you can watch the clouds moving right on down from the northeast. that's what's keeping things on the cooler side and this is all part of the same system that was up in canada yesterday dropping down into our region. so in our region up towards the parts of the northeast it's on the cool side. 65 in new york, 66 in d.c. it's warmer in buffalo, new york, than in washington today. we are cool all across the east, again and that has been the pattern. tomorrow a little bit better, up to 74. clouds and sun. that's still close to ten degrees below average but it's going to be a nice afternoon. 74 with partly to mostly cloudy skies. this has been the pattern right on through the month of may into june. that pattern finally leaves. it gets hot. if you've been waiting for some 90s, the 90s are definitely moving back in here. heat wave coming. hello to those 90s and record highs early next week. ma
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in the mid-to maybe even upper 90s. high temperatures tomorrow, 74 looking good. friday a beautiful day there. saturday high temperature of 87 and then we get into the heat wave. we've got a five day heat wave coming up with three of those days 95 or hotter, tuesday could be 97, 98 degrees and humid so the heat index over a 100. get ready. the heat is moving on in here and it'll start this weekend. >> did you say 97? >> boom. >> what? we go from this to 97. >> we're going to be sweating it out. >> with this heat wave coming in here, this is the time of year that is brought tragedy to too many families. >> yes, but the government and the auto industry are trying to make sure that children are no longer left and forgotten in the
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switch now at fiosgigabit.com. right now at 4:30. spoiler alert. the former fbi director on the record the day before he goes under oath on capitol hill. we're digging through what he said, what it means and what happens next. >> stealing your money while you're filling up the tank. we're working for you with the new scheme that may be tough for you to detect. >> pride weekend at the nation's capital. you don't have to wait until the end of the week to take part in the action. >> announcer: you're watching news4 at 4:00. just over 17 hours from now, former fbi director james comey will start his testimony on capitol hill. there is a lot of anticipation. some bars in our area are
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holding watch parties. >> only in washington. >> only in washington. >> another twist to this saga has already emerged. we have already have comey's opening statement. >> let's bring in "meet the press" moderator chuck todd. we've got to get your take on the opening statements that have already been released today. any surprises there? anything that jumps out at you. >> the phrase satellite associates, that to me is what jumps out at me more than anything else. page 7 there. but it is a conversation that former director comey recounts with the president and the president is once again either getting his reassurance or looking for his reassurance about him not being a target of this investigation and then he himself refers to the potential of satellite associates of his that might be involved or at least that's the interpretation that jim comey has and he puts that in quotes. at
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it's finding a weapon at the crime scene and now you're finding out what's going on. that to me -- you're sitting there, what do you mean by satellite associates? all of a sudden that opens up a line of questioning of the president himself that i'm sure if you're an investigator you want to know more about and if anything, that's what also jumps out at me. every single interaction that comey had with the president seems to make comey more concerned and skeptical about what happened. >> and the level of detail in his notes that he kept and that he's revealed. it's just astonishing for those of us on the sidelines watching this. he's going to go under oath tomorrow. what do you expect him to see or hear tomorrow? >> the opening statement is there and i think one of the reasons they put it out early is everybody's tired of seeing it piecemeal out various print reports as we've seen over the last couple of days. this was an attempt to shut that down a little bit and just get it all out
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three -- director comey in his statement said there were nine conversations that he had with the president, three of them are not -- there's three missing. so i think the first line of questionings going to be tell us about the other three encounters. they weren't in here. what happened? at a minimum they'll be some fact base, some timeline questions. but -- you know, satellite associates i think that's going to be a code word for sometime and a flash point in the questioning. there's another aspect that i expect director comey to be questioned about that hasn't been brought up so much here and that is on the reports a couple weeks ago that indicated one of the motivations james comey had for going public with his clinton e-mail decision the way he did is for fear of false intelligence, perhaps, not even real intelligence but false intelligence. that was going to get dropped and speculated that the clinton campaign and the obama justice department had cut a deal and he
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that's somehow motivated him to move. i think you're going to see that also enter into the questioning tomorrow as well. >> chuck, before we heard from intelligence officials who appeared at the hearing today, the president tweeted his choice for comey's replacement. what do you think about this choice and what do you make of the timing of his announcement, not to mention the fact that it was released on twitter? >> there's no doubt, he's doing some -- trying hard to step on a little bit comey but don't forget at the same time his super pac is also running an attack ad on him that's going to run on cable that's a head scratcher of sorts. welcome to 2017. our modern way of political communication. the president's pick on one hand if you were to poll every u.s. senator, most of them said they wanted somebody who had been more of a career prosecutor, had some experience being a career prosecutor, hadn't been a political official of sorts and for the most part i think mr.
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bush justice department. he's been more of a career side of things, not very much a political actor. now the one controversial client he has is chris christie during the bridgegate mess in new jersey. i think wray's biggest problem is going to be the person that nominated him, president trump and i think whether senators are going to be comfortable with president trump making this pick after this comey testimony. i think is an open question. >> all right. very interesting. it's going to be an interesting next 48 hours. >> you know that. >> changes. keep it right here for complete coverage of james comey's testimony. the entire nbc news team is working for you with more on "nbc nightly news" with lester holt that comes your way tonight at 7:00 right after news4 at 6:00. >> tomorrow you can watch it happen live. it gets underway tomorrow morning. watch that live here on news4 and in the nbc washington app. >> in the meantime weighing on
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planning to watch james comey's testimony tomorrow? so far more than half of you say yes, you will be watching. >> a couple from louden county was on capitol hill today. they want a new law in place to make sure what happened to them doesn't happen to anyone else. they lost a son when he was unintentionally left in a hot car. >> every year dozens of heat related car deaths are reported in this country. to day a bill was introduced to help further tragedies by targeting the technology in your car. first at 4:00. dan shan aman has the story. >> reporter: as the temperatures rise, unfortunately, so will the number of kids accidently left and killed in a hot car. nine children this year alone. today advocates for children's safety and legislators joined forces to introduce bipartisan legislation to require life saving technology in vehicles. >> this is about savings kids lives, period. >> this is not about politics. it's not about whose right o
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it is about safety. >> reporter: a simple integrated reminder that safety experts say can save a life. >> the many bells and whistles that we have in the cars, this one will save lives. >> arcadia is as versatile that you need it to be. >> technology that is proven and that already exist. rear seat reminder in it's 2017 models. there are apps and safety devices currently on the market to help caregivers remember their precious cargo. all new passenger vehicles be equipped with an alert system. >> it's really not too much to ask to save the life of a child to add a little technology. >> reporter: life saving technology that comes too late whose son chase died in a hot car. >> i pulled him from the car seat unaware of anyone around and ran into the office with him in my arms screaming. >> reporter: standardized equipment in automobile
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>> hot weather not a problem right now, but this gloomy cool weather, is it getting you down these days? storm team 4 has a look at a major change coming in. >> plus forget websites, forget personal ads, the unique way one local man is trying to find a missed connection out on the trail. >> we're bringing you the latest headlines and weather even during commercials. keep an eye on your screen until ralph northam: being a pediatrician has taught me to listen carefully. i'm ralph northam, and when survivors of the virginia tech shooting asked me to support an assault weapons ban and close the gun show loophole, i took on the fight. i saw what those weapons can do
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feeling more like april than june. good afternoon i'm storm team 4 tom kierein. we have a few sprinkles here in montgomery county and moderate to light showers in fauquier county, right along the eastern side of the blue ridge, east of lieu ray. we're all dry right now in the metro area where temperatures are only hovering in the mid-60s. just to our north it's in the low 60s, mid and upper 60s right around the chesapeake bay. by down tomorrow it'll be down to the low 50s from the shenandoah valley, upper 50s in town, near 60 by dawn tomorrow. much hotter weather on the way. a look at this in just a few minutes. >> if you are a copper head girl, listen to this. copper head guy is looking for you. >>, in fact, he
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wooden sign along the trail in ashburn looking for you that is if you're that girl. it's like those missed connection ads you find on craigslist and the sign says he should've asked for her number and they hope they cross paths again. smith switch road a few days ago. jessica bay lick of ashburn and the search had dozens of helpers. >> good luck, copperhead guy. >> let us know how it turns out. >> hopefully well for you both. this afternoon we are working for you with a warning at the gas pump. criminals are now stealing your information as you fill up the tank and these skimmers are so high tech, you probably can't even see them. >> plus doctors believe they have a new way to detect autism in babies long before they show ansigns. y
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in news4 on your health. it could be a game changer here. brain scans may one day help doctors detect autism in infants long before any symptoms show up. scientists at the university of north carolina studied brain activity in six month old babies who had a family history of autism and the scans measured thousands of connections in different areas of their brains and doctors were able to detect very specific brain patterns in nine of the infants who were eventually diagnosed with autism. >> in
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busy place for the weekend, both the capital pride festival and parade and the equality march will be taking place. the annual parade starts saturday at 4:30 at 22nd and p. streets. travel through dupont circle and ends at 14th and s. the festival takes place on sunday from noon to 7:00 along pennsylvania avenue between third and 7th streets and a separate event the equality march for unity and pride kicks off sunday near the white house. one of the first events kicking off this weekend happens tonight. a screening and discussion of the movie mi"milk" about the fit openly guy person elected to office. dustin atlantic city black of virginia won the oscar for best original screenplay for this movie. he's here in washington tonight to be part of the screening. black talk with wendy rieger about how the message from the movie is still applicable today. >> this is a time
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together to fight back against the backlash as we see some rights being rolled back. you don't do it alone. you join arms. that was the message of mi"milk so when i heard they want to screen it here, i said i want to come and do that. >> the discussion of milk take place tonight at the e street cinema between 10th and 11th streets. for more on the weekend event, search capital pride in the nbc washington app. >> a lot of eyes expected to be on the testimony of former fbi director james comey tomorrow and some local bars are trying to cash in on the anticipation. jim and wendy are in the newsroom to tell us about that and more in our next hour. >> what do you drink when you're watching that? or will you be watching or will you be working? decisions. decisions. some bar owners in the area think it's going to be the former and they're planning to hold comey watch party. >> our tom sherwood went out to a few of them today to partake
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of crowds they're expecting and deals they're offering tomorrow. he'll have that story for us. >> plus for better or for worse, six months since the opening of the mgm casino in prince george's county. >> and our chris gordon is taking a closer look at the impact of the casino on people living in those surrounding neighborhoods there. and he finds out what the casinos biggest problems are. >> so we will see you with those stories and more in just a few minutes. >> this is the only place in the world where you can actually that question, what do you drink when you're watching the fbi testimony. >> that has washington written all over it. >> exactly. >> thank you. if you're feeling lucky today, pick up a powerball ticket. up to $375 million. if you choose the cash payout you'll still bring home 235 million bucks. this is the 12th biggest jackpot in the history of powerball. >> now we turn to a warning you may want to think about t
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next time you're at the gas station. >> police say thieves have this new trick. they steal from you at the pump. kristin wright is working for you on how to protect your money. >> reporter: now we have to worry about skimmers that you can't even see because they're hidden inside the gas pump. if you look just close enough right here in the credit card slot you might just see it, but these blue tooth skimmers are something very different. fairfax county police posted a few pictures on facebook just to show how intricate of a scam this is. lurking at the inside of a gas pump here. now police also passing along tips for you to protect yourself because these blue tooth skimmers are so hard to detect. try to use newer gas pumps whenever possible. they are just more secure according to police and as always use a credit card when you can i
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because if something should happen, it's usually easier to get your money back. now, the one of the guys at the gas station here told us that this type of skimming has never actually happened at this gas station and he says he actually feels quite lucky for that because police are seeing this more and more. in fairfax county, kristen wright, news4. >> keep your eyes open. let's get the latest from storm team 4 on changes coming our way weather-wise. >> tom's in the weather center tracking heat wave but doug's outside. no heat out there, yet. >> i walked outside, it's pretty nice but it's chilly. it really is quite cool especially for this time of year. we're 15 to 20 degrees below average right now and it's all because of the cloud cover and the nice breeze we've got here. the breeze felt a lot better than today's breeze. look at that wind out of the northeast 14 miles per hour. that's why we're on the cooler side and seeing the clouds
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showers. down around culpeper, around front royal. those areas will continue to see some showers in and around the d.c./metro area. we'll continue to stay on the dry side of things. we've been taking a look at the rain and tom, even though may was a wet month, we're still below average for rainfall. >> that is amazing. we had 5 1/2 inches of rain during the month of may but now we are entering a dry stretch here for much of the next ten day period here. we're not going to see much, if any, rain at all. so let's take a look back at 2017 so far in washington. we've had almost 15 inches of rain but that is still below average, almost two inches below average rainfall for washington for the year so far. meanwhile the pollen count, good news for allergy sufferers, it remains low range for trees today, grass is in the moderate range but it's low for weeds and more mold spores. it'll continue that way for another couple of
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and mid-60s. gaithersburg cool 61. it's only 59 degrees in winchester. getting a few of those sprinkles and that's keeping the temperatures in the mid-60s as well in central virginia. and we'll stay in the mid-60s here through 6:00, 7:00 but then it starts to drop back and by about 10:00, 11:00 tonight temperatures will be just right back down to near 60 degrees. for the commute tomorrow, little sunshine in the morning, but cool in the upper 50s. dry roads for the rest of the day. we'll be in the low and mid-70s bit middle part of the afternoon for dry roads for the commute. that heat wave on the way, doug has a look at that. >> not bad out there for tomorrow. 74 degrees for tomorrow. you start to get into the real heat. he'll be about 30 degrees warmer than today next week just amazing. let's take you through. friday, 80 degrees on friday. couple of events going on. the upperville horse show, the oldest horse show in america going on down there in upperville, 77 on
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saturday, 90 degrees during the day on sunday. a lot of horse racing going on down there. 87 on saturday, how about this? this is the 100th anniversary of chevy chase anniversary. looking great between noon and 4:00. temperatures there around 86 dsz and then you notice the 90s. 94 on sunday, 95 monday, tuesday and wednesday and we drop it to 92 on thursday. so. >> drop it like it's hot. >> because it will be hot. >> doug, dude, see you in a bit. >> the star witness back on the stand. we'll tell you what unfolded in court in the trial against bill cosby as one of his accusers takes questions from cosby's team of attorneys. >> we'll take you live to the courthouse.
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y23woy y5yy been another intense day of testimony in the bill cosby sexual assault trial as the defense team grilled addion constand. >> they questioned her credibility and motivation in this case. jay gray joins us live outside the courthouse with the very latest. what is the latest right now? >> reporter: hey, there. we know that the defense spent hours today trying to point out what they call inconsistencies in adrian constand's testimony during what both sides agree was
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profile case. the defense cross-examination of adrian constand dominated day three of bill cosby's sexual assault trial. cosby's attorney aggressively challenging her accusations that she was drugged then molested. pointing to what they called inconsistencies in her testimony, questioning why she waited almost a year to call police and presenting phone records that show constand remained in contact with cosby after the alleged attack. >> i think that in the end, when it comes out that most of these phone calls were about her job, i think that's a jury's going to be very disappointed that we've spent four hours going through phone calls. >> reporter: constand worked at temple university where cosby was a trustee. cosby has denied the allegation. he says the interaction was consensual. he's been attentive during the testimony sometimes shaking his head.
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prosecutors. her mother is also expected to testify along with experts on drug use and sexual assault. the defense ended its cross-examination late this afternoon after a brief redirect from prosecutors. constand was excused from the witness stand. that's the latest live here in norristown, pennsylvania. >> and our news continues now with jim and wendy. >> announcer: news4 at 5:00 starts now. >> and right now at 5:00 the opening statement we already know some of what former fbi director james comey will say as he goes before congress tomorrow. what he's saying today about his conversations with the president. >> but first our other big story, funeral services for one of those teenagers found murdered in a car just hours before he was supposed to graduate from high school. >> we are learning new details this evening about that deadly shooting but there are still quite a
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in this case. good evening. i'm wendy rieger. >> for the first time tonight we're also hearing from the mother of one of the victims. she's speaking out as she lays her son to rest. >> his funeral was held today at the islamic center in germantown and there was a huge turnout as people gathered to say their good-bye. >> pat collins joins us now live. he's outside the montgomery county police headquarters with new information for us, pat? >> reporter: this is what we know about that double murder today. about 23 shots were fired into that car on that dead end street in montgomery village. one of the teenage victims was found dead inside the car and that he had some cash cluchd in his hand. now where these two teenagers set up police aren't saying but family members, they have some thoughts on that. they
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he was just 17 years old. at the islamic center in germantown they had his cap and gown on display. you see he was an honor student at northwest high school. he was scheduled to graduate the day -- the day after he was killed. a large crowd of mourners here. among them his mother tina najjar. >> bad people who came for some reason, something happened, they weren't supposed to shot them they just decided to kill them, both of them, 23 bullets. there's no mercy. nothing. just shooting, shooting, shooting, killing. >> reporter: shadi najjar and his friend and class name 18-year-old artem ziberov shot and killed monday night as they sat in this blue honda car on a dead end street miles from their home in germantown.
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