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attacker. >> he dances hd his way to the national stage. we talked to the local sheriff deputy who appeared on "america's got talent" tonight. >> news 4 at 11:00. an interview you will see only here on news 4. the prince george county teacher making explosive allegations in the county's grade fixing scandal. >> grades where students did not earn. the teachers do not want to identify. >> i am not trying to embarrass anyone or the county or my school, i am ashamed of what they are doing. >> the teacher told our prince george's county, a smoking gun will be hard to find. there is nothing in writing nor any direct order but a lot of pressure
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kids get over the line. >> if you don't change the grade, your principal has the authority to do what's called an administrative over ride and they can change the grade for you. >> this teacher's allegation and others prompted school board members to send a letter to governor hogan asking for a state's allegations. teachers union says it is impossible for teachers the change grades once it is published. kevin maxwell has maintained all along that these allegations are promoted. today he wrote a letter formally requesting a follow up investigation. he denied any systematic cover up effort and said the allegations are based on no evidence. today the state board of education unanimously voted to
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investigation. >> we don't have anything to hide or anything to be afraid of. i have not or anyone on my team told people to change grades that should not be changed. >> state board will hire an independent third party to lead that investigation. new developments in the murder of a muslim teenager in sterling, virginia, last week. the suspect in this case was arrested just days after. the poster report torres was accused of sexually assaulting her. she did not press chrarges because she feels that he's with a gang member. police are investigating her death as a road rage incident. tonight the belt way is clear after
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caused a massive backup during the evening rush hour. it started when a large truck stalled here near the american legion bridge. at least 175 gallons of fuels is spilled out. hazmat crew cleaned up the mess. backups extended to the outer loop of gw parkway, i-66 and every major road ways near by. new video shows a group of people getting robbed at gunpoint heard in the back room of the dc store. the suspect were still free tonight. jackie has more on what they took and the run of bad luck at this particular store. >> reporter: this store has been robbed three times in the last two years. >> reporter: caught on
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a frightening all too familiar experience for employees of the metro pcs phone store on the 50th block of arizona. they took valuables from everyone and grabbed a bunch of store's merchandise before they fled. this video shows another robbery of the same store of may of 2015, one o f two that happened last year. >> one of the 2015 robberies was solved with an arrest. in northwest, jackie bensen, news 4. keeping an eyes on wild fires that are burning in five states. record heat that's making it in the west. the largest fire that's burning in utah. it is now 50,000 acres and only 9% contained ni
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in the area. at least one state lawmaker is blaming the environmentalists. the new brush fire, the mart fire sparked after 3:00 today at the san bernardino national forest, it destroyed one building. this fast moving fire in arizona forcing 1400 people out of their homes tonight. the goodwin fire nearly 4500 acre and growing. "tat the live desk i am leo harris. other top story tonight, mitch mcconnell delayed the vote on the bill of the healthcare until after 4th of july. he says he wants to make a change to the bill and get a new
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democratic support. gop leadership needs at least 50 to pass it. today it became clear that they'll not get there this week. white house officials are pushing back on reports of sudden warning to syria caught some defense military officials off guard. the u.s. identified potential preparations for another chemical weapons attack. the assad regime would pay a prize in such an attack is carried out. a global cyber attack is targeting u.s. drug companies. ukraine government and russian banks are also impacted. you can protect your computers by updating your system and anti-virus anti-virus software. dc is in the first in the country to offer
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driver's licenses. those will allow people who don't identify as male or female to mark their license with an x instead. there is no estimate of how many people may opt for that x. district official say they are alerting state and nationwide that the license is legit. >> going to help everyone to come to a place where we respect everyone regardless of their gender. >> saying we respect the rights of all individuals and all individuals deserve the right to be able to say who they are. >> starting july 3rd, oregon will become the first state to offer the gender neutral identifie identifier. family are heartbroken but hopeful to catch whoever knocked their loved one head
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heavy stone markers. investigators say they are looking for multiple suspects because they don't think one person could possibly do this much damage. the loudoun county sheriff's office is looking for a man accused of taking obscure photo at a target store. take a look at the man in this video here. a woman saw him taking a photo of her. she confronted it and he ran away. if you show who he is, you are urged to contact loudoun police officers. a documentary of the opioid crisis, a doctor prescribed pain medication that helped with a minor help issue. he struggled with a growing addiction and succumbing to a heroine over
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powerful documentary and a great turn out, too. >>. well, did you see him on "america's got talent," he's right here on our backyard. >> the sheriff deputy. we talked to him of the inspirations behind those dance moves. >> i am excited. this is lieutenant dahntay diggs' big night. >> how did i get here? i would never thought i would be danciing in uniform on stage. >> he watched the show with supported colleagues. >> i am excited to get to put a message out there that you know as a law enforcement officer, i am still human and i
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have fun. >> so much that he taught himself how to dance. >> i watch videos and some of my favorite artist, beyonce is my favorite artist. >> last year he danced to beyonce's "formation" at a prep rally. the video went viral and then he got a call from "america's got talent." >> we have seen a positive impact from the community. >> after the routine, the judges did not make it, although he did not make it, he had no regrets. >> i am not bummed out. his future is bright. >> news 4. >> wow, he does have the moves. my guess is he's going to get a little celebration. >> he looks like he's having a great time doing that. that's what matters. >> it was sure is. when we come right back on news 4. the heat in exchange today involving a correspondent at the
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>> everyone in this room is trying to do their job. >> coming up, what started that exchange and what the reporter had to say after it was over. >> news 4 consumer reporter susan hogan runs down the top four scams of summer that you need to watch out for. >> doug. >> we know we need to watch out for as far as temperatures go. it is the heat and hot weather making its way. i will show you when the hottest weather moves in in a mi
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russia/trump's hoax for about a year now and no evidence of anything. i think we should take a good look on what we are focused on and what we are covering and making sure it is accurate and honest. >> we are just asking you questions and you are here to provide the answer. what you just did is inflammatory to people all over the country who looks at it and see, once again the president is right and everybody is fake news. everybody in this room is only trying to do their job. >> i disagree completely. of anything that's in flamed is the dishonesty that's taken place by the news media. first time the cameras were allowed back in the white house's briefing room that he caught that fiery exchange. >> secretary hucklebee sanders referenced hidden camera video that the cnn's producer sayg
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russia for president trump because it is good for ratings. she referenced three cnn staffers that were resigned. at that point, brian karem, had enough. >> i want to see it taken off the table and let us ask our question and quit hitting us with fake media. >> the journalists do make mistakes but if journal iists a expected to apologize the administration should admit when they are wrong. summer is here. susan hogan is working for you on what you need
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>> the warmer weather brings out all kinds of pests and also some kind kinds of pests like scam artists. four scam that's making the round in our regions right now of the protection you need to know. number one, the vacation scam of a travel deal that seems too good to be true or a rental home on craigslist's. >> take some words off the ads and put it in your browser and see if it comes out. if you see duplicates, that can be a scam artist posting. >> number two, the abduction phone calls. all the photos that you posted during your vacations, scammers are using those details to help trick your family and friends. >> the most often theme that you hear is your loved ones was involved in an autoaccident, tried to run away or somebody has
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they need to pay for what they did. >> number three, home improvement scams. be weary of landscapers who approached you with our yard and any kind of home improvement projects, do your homework and confirm the company or person you are hiring is properly licensed and look for reviews online. number four, door-to-door sales, can be anything from an alarm company to a third party, utility provider. >> they are commission driven and sales quotas that they got to meet. they have hard sales stress on them. they maybe miss leading in their presentation to the homeowners. >> be wear of scare tactics and don't show your utility bill to anyone. >> if you want to stay on top of the latest scams in your neighborhood, the better business burrow has a scam tracker and we have a link to that right now on our nbc washington
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search for summer scam. >> so how much more nice? >> one day. >> t-minus one day in counting. lets take a look and show you what's happening. how about some fire works. we shot this in our power cam earlier. >> 9:00, right over towards columbia country club. i heard them as i was walking into the studio. okay. >> i was wondering what they were. there they go, we'll have more fire works across the area right onto 4th of july. looking pretty good there. a couple went off pretty low. i am not sure. no fire works in this shot. gorgeous across our
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>> 71 degrees winds out of the north at 10 miles per hour. not just a nice night, it is going to be cool. we are at 57 and you maybe able to open up those windows and turn the ac off for a change here. rainfall, i-95, south of eastward today, showers around cambridge and the eastern shore, that's about it. we had the storm up to our north, you can see the spin here and you can see here and follow this line of showers, that's what came through earlier. now we are looking at clear skies back to the west. this is the jet stream going up to canada and backup. that's the pattern that we had here. the jet stream pattern with a little bit of trough in the east. cooler and mild there across the region. look what's happening here. here comes the hot air, the trough back to the west and it gets hot over the next couple of days. yes, another heat
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ever, okay, just maybe for the next couple of weeks. a lot of sunshine. it is going to be a great afternoon on a wednesday. 75 degrees at 11:00 and 83 by 4:00. looking good there. here is the next ten days. 91 on thursday and friday coming in at 93 degrees. 95 on saturday. friday and saturday and sunday, those are the hot days and we'll continue to watch those as we move on through. take a look at 4th of july on next tuesday. yesterday i was going 96 and looks like we have a little bit of a front that may cut down temperatures, better than 96. just saying. >> always. >> thank you. coming up, the nats steal a win from the cubs
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this is the xfinity sports desk. >> all right, you are ready for the highlights. >> we thought this game was going to be a pitching duo between the cubs and the nats. >> serzer held up his end of the bargain. these two wearing all the gears tonight at the park. bottom of the first, turner slides in safe and at
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do. second stolen base at the at-bat for turner. jake arrieta cannot get back to the bat. serzer sends it to the eighth. the cubs could not slow down the nats tonight. >> that throws into left and taylor comes into score. nationals with 18 records and 7 stolen bases in the game. four alone for trey turner, the nationals beat the cubs 6-1. orioles taking on the blue jays. trumbo getshe
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that one. that's off the wall. jonathan scope scores easy and adam jones. jones slides in and 2-1 for trumbo. for the first time since april, 3-1. it was camp day at the mystic game host the storm. here in the third, they're about up 26. but, it was not all fun and games for every miystic. she's heated and she gets too tech dal a technical and ejected from the game. mystics wins though, 170. >> the team holding their annual fest and a lot of activities for the kids and they got to play and
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