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>> announcer: "news 4 today" starts now. >> right now on "news 4 today," talk about a disturbing discovery, two women found dead. we're going to tell you about the new concerns from neighbors as police try to piece this together. murder mistrial. a woman killed and a family looking for justice. why a jury went home after a week full of testimony. you heard the pounding rain? the thunder? what comes next? storm team 4 getting you ready for the weekend. some have a mess to clean up. we welcome you in on the 15th of july. >> i feel like it was just fourth of july, everybody celebrating, fireworks. >> id
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rise we have coming up behind us. >> uh-huh. >> it is hot, it is humid. we certainly are feeling it. >> 6:00 on the dot. lauryn ricketts, already in the 70s in some places. >> i know. a lot of people think it's going to be so hot today. the good news is even though those temperatures are up, i do not believe we're doing to get anywhere near the heat we saw yesterday. 97 was where we topped out yesterday. we had a lot of storms throughout the afternoon. most of them were out of here by the evening. but now we're not seeing any storms. we had a few rain showers scooting just to the north of baltimore. 76 is that temperature right now. we're slowly doing to take it up. we're going to be in the mid-80s just before noon. but that's about where we'll stay. we'll stay at 90 degrees today. i do believe that humidity will drop for the second part of the afternoon. when does that return come? we'll talk about that in a few minutes. we turn now to this developing
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fairfax police found two people dead inside of a mclean, virginia home. police got a call there may be a dead person inside that house. the naples of the women who are dead, those have not been released yet. neighbors do tell news 4, the grandmother, mother and child live in that home. people are relieved to learn the 7-year-old girl apparently was not at the house when this happened. >> you hear stuff like, this it's sad when you know there's a child living there as well. we're not sure what happened in that case. my daughter went to school with her, mentored her, was her reading buddy at school. it's a little bit sad right now as we don't know exactly what's doing on. at this point police say they are not looking for a suspect. no verdict. two families left feeling incomplete this morning after a judge declares a mistrial in the murder case of a beloved wedding caterer. the jury? they told the judge the
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they also told him more time, that wouldn't help him. kempton games claimed he stabbed tyonne bond in self defense. bonds had a job with fairfax county park authorities. attorneys are going to meet in the next couple of weeks and figure out the next steps and the new trial process. today they walked 18 miles in the heat and storms. this morning they will hold a rally outside the department of justice. organizers of january's women's march started the journey outside nra headquarters in fairfax yesterday. they want the gun rights group to respond to the death of philando castile. he was the man shot by a police officer in minneapolis. some counter-protesters said it's people, not guns, that cause the actual violence. today's
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along pennsylvania avenue. it's set to begin at 10:00 this morning. one of the women got people to sign the petition ended up getting new license plates in the commonwealth. carol wootten wants dmv to consider a plate that reads, stop the gun violence, end quote. right now they have more than 250 license options. they say it's important to add another one. >> when you're stopped at a light. this is a great way to bring it back. it means on the logo, stop breaking hearts. >> those promoting stop the gun violence plates say they need just 150 more signatures to take the step to the next process. they also say a lawmakers is on board to help out. the trump administration wants greater freedom deciding who can come into the u.s. justice department filing emergency appeal last night. it asks supreme court to close a legal window for the travel ban from
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countries. the administration is seeking to undo a hawaii judge ruling that vastly expands the list of family relationships that can come to the u.s. the new list includes grandparents and grandchildren. the tangled legal fight is expected to go before the high court in october. president trump the first sitting president to attend the u.s. women's golf tournament played at trurp golf club in bedminster, new jersey. the president watching the tournament you can see next to the 14th green. opened trump national back in 2012. front and center "meet the press," chuck todd exclusive interviews with texas republican senator john cornyn. other interviews include virginia senator mark werner and
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a member of the president's legal team. transportation alert. if you need to ride the red line, you might be in for delays. a new way to waterproof tunnels. this is what means stations will be closed for three weekends, four weekends in total. can you hop on the shuttle bus. they got a look inside leaky tunnels. the latest repairs will cut down on track fires caused by arcing insulators. you might be able to help police find the man who savagely attacked a montgomery county bus driver. these are the surveillance photos if you can take a look. just released of the suspect, investigators saying the man got into appear argument with the ride on driver near shady grove metro and moments later that person started to beat the driver with a radio phone as he tried to call for help. they caught
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this says a lot about our community. a montgomery county police officer's colleagues pulling together after he lost his home. the fire started outside the officer's house in damascus early friday morning. ammunition stored inside the patrol car exploded. the officer and his wife were taken temperature hospital for smoke inhalation. they are going to be okay. investigators still working to learn what peak caused the flames. the officer's colleagues are holding a fundraiser for the family. we've got information on that. if you want to learn more do to our nbc washington app. developing right now, horror in honolulu. the deadly fire forcing dozens out of this high-rise and daring rescue by firefighters. there goes one house. that is the start. we'll tell you about the danger of a massive
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take a look at this video as a massive sing hole devours a homes. this is in pasco county, florida, 40 miles north of florida. no one was inside the home but firefighters did have to rescue two dogs. at least ten other homes in the neighborhood have been evacuated. all of this as a precaution. angie. >> wow. 6:10 this morning. at least three people are dead and a dozen others are seriously hurt following this devastating apartment fire. take a look. it happened in hawaii last night. honolulu's mayor says the burning highrise did not have sprinklers. then listen to this, according to our nbc station, because the elevators are down, firefighters had to use human chains to get equipment to the crews. investigators are working to learn what caused the deadly fire. can you bet there's doingbe
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that's going to be scary. coming up as we look live outside on saturday morning, it's going to feel a lot more comfortable today than in recent days. lauryn is tracking ahead and looking when showers are coming in. we'll check in with her. many of us still have cleaning up to do from the last storm. the wreckage that brought down trees and scattered
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quite as warm as yesterday. yesterday we made it up to 97 degrees. of course we had those thunderstorms roll through her in the afternoon, early portions of the evening, looking dry today. starting on the cloudy side, i do believe we'll get sunshine for the afternoon. humidity dropping for this afternoon as well. today looks dry. what about the rest of the weekend? we've got that in a few minutes on the ten-day forecast. >> we'll see you then. there's still a great deal of uncertainty over chances of passing the latest gop health care bill. >> both president trump and vice president pence turned up the heat on republican senators who are undecided. kasie hunt reports on the big incentives being offered to some. >> reporter: the new republican health care bill hanging on by a thread, now sewn together with back room bills, bayou
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sunshine sellout, polar payoff, each aimed at a republican senator on the fence about voting yes on republican health care. >> i won't make a decision until i've done by homework. >> senator krakowski was no on the last draft. it gives alaska special access to $132 billion pot of money. florida has a special carveout for marco rubio and so does louisiana for bill cassidy. all orchestrated by senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. >> he's pulled more than one rabbit out of the hat. i keep asking him if he feels the fuzzy ears of another one in there. we'll see. >> reporter: with two republicans opposed, mcconnell can't lose any more republican votes if he wants to keep the bill. republican governors losing medicaid money. >> this your chance. the senate health care bill restores medicaid to its original purpose. >> in west virginia where one in three relies on medicaid. >> it's terrifying for me
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mother. >> cristie's son was born with a genetic condition and needs round-the-clock care. she's waiting to find out what it means for her family. >> if we lost medicaid we would fight with everything we have in order to make sure we were able to keep ethan at home with us. >> reporter: kasie hunt. former jimmy carter out of the hospital. the 92-year-old had to be treated for dehydration. the former president and first lady worked in the heat at carter work project sites in two canadian cities. thursday carter became weak. carter wasted no time and was bag on habitat for humanity building in winnipeg. >> this the story we were talking about. we were talking about this opioid crisis running rampant across the country. here at home local governments trying to spend money to stop it and ultimately to save lives. in the district roughly $2 million federal grant will help officials b
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also known as narcan. it can reverse opioid overdose. mayor bowser says it doesn't solve all the problems because folks still need to be educated. >> throughout the summer we'll educate more washingtonians on the availability of narcan and new dangers of drug compounds that pervade our street today. >> that's expected to help the district by about 2500 kits. 6:17. this is a story you will only see on news 4. the family of a crash victim. questions about a dumptruck driver accused in a different crash. only news 4 talked with the family of bianca butler. she was the woman seriously hurt after a dumptruck hit her on south dakota avenue in northwest d.c. the crash happened earlier this week on tuesday. sources tell us two years ago that very
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alvarez hit and killed a woman crossing the street. as you can imagine, the woman's family is angry. >> he shouldn't have been driving, this would never have happened to bianca. i don't fault the driver, i fault the contractor. after this week's crash alvarez was arrested in that 2015 crash but he has not been charged in the most recent accident this week. his employer fort meyer construction says safety is their top priority and is working with police now. a lot of you waking up to cleep up after heavy rain. a lot moving through. talking about wind gust causing quite a mess across parts of d.c., maryland and virginia. everybody got a little taste of this. >> see how big that impact there uprooted and happened like this. storm caused a tree to fall onto a car and into a house on d.c. people inside that home, by the way, but they did get out okay. trees causing
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problems. a rider tweet out a photo, sideswiped a train before the orange line. passengers boarded a rescue train. when i say happened like this. we were on the toll road talking to her and it's coming down and, boom, people were pulling over. >> it was bad. it was real bad. i was coming back from vacation at the grocery store and looked up and, wow, that came in really quickly. >> yes. >> driving home from the grocery store and noticing all the trees. >> the whole team was predicting. >> it seems to have broken some of the humidity that came through. that's kind of nice. >> still a touch of humidity out there, not quite as oppressive. definitely falling. good call on that one, david. that's going to continue to fall as we get into the afternoon all behind this frontal system. let's show you what's going to happen for the rest of the week. the clouds are going to decrease as well. waking up to a little cloud cover, patchy fog. humidity out there not
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it will keep humidity levels low for tomorrow. humidity rolls back in late sunday night and also chances of rain return as we get into monday and tuesday. current temperatures out there right now, we're at 76 here in washington, leesburg. pretty much everyone walking up in the 70s. we're going to take it to the 80s by noon. however, we're going to stop right around 90 degrees. yesterday we made it up to 97, so not quite as bad today. a few sprinkles skirt north of baltimore, those since dissipated. we're going to have a dry day with that frontal system that brought severe weather is to the south of us. that's where it's going to stay as high pressure builds in. we're looking at some sunshine by this afternoon. again, temperatures right around 90 degrees as that humidity begins to fall. temperatures pretty much staying around 90, not only today but also tomorrow, monday and tuesday. 90 once again tomorrow, fairly comfortable, dry and sunny out there. humidity levels falling this afternoon. in fact, we'll stay on the
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sticky by this afternoon. it really starts to go back up as we get into monday and tuesday. then we stay hot and humid all next week. monday and tuesday chance of afternoon storms. slight chance. friday and saturday. look at thursday, that temperature pushing near 100 degrees. all right. thank you, lauryn. you may see them every day and never know how big of a difference they truly make. we'll show you how folks who do good things for our
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a look at first4traffic. start with metro. two stations close. on the red line medical center and bethesda. buses will replace trains. yellow line, regular intervals between huntington and national airport and as far as what's just regular, regular weekend service, orange, silver, blue and green lines. taking a look at the roads for the weekend, one thing i do want to mention in bethesda, rockville pike, medical center metro, 10:00 p.m. friday until 5:00 a.m. monday we have two northbound layups shut down. have a great weekend. see you "news 4 today." thanks, melissa. there are people you see every day but you don't know their real story people had do things for the community often they
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in loudoun county, that is about to change. june 2016, the deadliest flood in six years. parts of west virginia under water, hundreds of homes destroyed, thousands of lives impacted. >> there were hundreds of families that lost their housing, lost loved ones. family pets. it was a complete lost. had to do something. there was a family that had 13 children. they weren't able to safely transport them. they were in an area that experience add national disaster. we were able to get a van together through other community members, purchase 15 passenger van, get it renovated, down to them and even pay the first year of insurance. that allowed them to start doing athletics dporks to doctor's appointments, things they couldn't logistically handle without transportation so it was a game changer for them. obviously i see a need and think i'll do something
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>> mara's efforts went under the radar. started loudoun 100 to honor folks who made a difference without recognition. >> what i started to see was amazing how these every day people were doing things. i thought, if these were the people seen and put in the spotlight. >> loudoun 100, all generations, races, income level but they all have something in common. >> the first they say is i have no idea why i'm here. i have no idea why they think i'm important or amazing. >> incredible folks there. the december event will honor all 100 nominees. for more on that surearch what
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it won't be long until we're back in the 80s. lauryn ricketts will track how hot it's going to get this weekend and the best time to fire up your grill. check this out. more than 100 miles an hour, cops tight on the tail. a high-speed chase on a busy freeway as officers tra downck
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fairfax county priss investigating how two women died in their home. they got a call yesterday afternoon there may be a dead person in the house. the names of the women have not been released. police are not looking for a suspect now. we're going to stay in fairfax county for this next story. a judge declaring a mistrial in the murder case of a beloved wedding caterer. kempton bonds claimed he it's killed her in self-defense. a rally under way at 10:00 outside the department of justice. these are the women and some men who walked 18 miles from nra headquarters in fairfax to downtown yesterday. they are protesting against gun violence and controversial ads put out by the gun rights group. wme
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saturday morning, the 15th of july 2017. i'm david culver alongside angie goff. >> we welcome you in as we welcome lauryn ricketts who joins us back on this weekend. it looks like we're in for another sticky saturday. >> it is, especially out there right now. conditions are improving little by little, especially by this afternoon. we get to sunday and looking better. save the good weather for wednesday. you walk outside and wonder what the temperature will be, we're already in the 70s. 76 is the temperature in washington, see everybody else low- to mid-70s at this point. a few light showers north of baltimore. can you see the radar dry everywhere else. we do have cloud cover out there now making for a spectacular sunrise. we're going to take that temperature 90 degrees today. yesterday put it in perspective at 97. doing a little bit better in terms of the heat department, decreasing clouds, humidity falls. when do we have another chance for rain showers. we'roi
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exactly you can expect to bring that umbrella with you coming up in a few minutes. >> thanks, lauryn. take you out to california. a reckless driver taking police on a high-speed chase in california on the 5. the chase led all the way north towards grapevine and into the mountains. essentially about an hour and a half drive normally at a normal speed about 100 miles. the suv was driving up to 100 miles per hour in traffic. can you see him swerving there. no word on what caused the chase or if police caught up with that driver. >> this comes after police announcing they are doing new pursuit training after a new report said police chases were too dangerous. long time educator in prince george's county. news 4 got a copy of dr. beverly anderson's resignation letter through public information request. anderson resigned from the school board in june. in the letter she a little dysfunction
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she wrote she was disappointed in county executive baker who appointed her. in a statement baker said the school district improved because of anderson's work. this morning man is recovering after he was trumpld and bitten by a camel. it happened in la plata yesterday. we're told he was the camel's handler. they were here to perform in a circus at the fair ground. he was airlifted to the trauma center. no word on what, if anything, will happen to the camel. one confessed and another man faces charges in a bizarre situation, the deaths of four men who disappeared outside of philadelphia. >> it's sending shock waves through this community. as nbc's chris polon shows us, prosecutors say the victims were killed during a drug deal. >> reporter: a day after cosmo dinardo admitted to killing four
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where the bodies are, they have charged him and another man with murder and conspiracy. >> i'm very, very relieved to say that we brought four young men one step closer to their loved ones so they can rest in peace. >> police arrested sean kratz hours after dinardo's confession that deal was to keep his client from facing the death penalty. >> cosmo was spared life in terms of giving all of his relevant information he possibly could. >> district attorney matt weintraub said three of the victims were buried together in a grave more than 10 feet deep. the fourth was buried at least a quarter mile away. >> we'd still be looking for jimi patrick had we not made this agreement. >> dinardo charged with four murders, kratz with three. the disappearance of the four men triggered a massive search. investigators quickly focused on an estate opened by
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parents after he allegedly tried to sell the car of one of the victims. forensics spent days looking for property and evidence. >> i'm convinced at the time based on the evidence we have, we have the two men locked up for justice. the families left to grieve after their worst fears confirmed. chris polon, nbc news, new york. you may be waking up in the richest county in the country. it may not feel like it. the census county loudoun county takes the top spot. median household income is $125,000, home value almost half a million. home, schools and department of homeland security. falls church, fairfax, prince william and arlington counties, montgomery, calvert and howard counties in maryland. we have posted the entire list
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talking more trouble for metro. what a new review is uncovering about employees and overtime abuse and the action the agency is now taking. a sign of freedom and a community coming together. how neighbors are showing their pride after flags were found d.rn and burne
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disturbing and disappointing, how he feels after a review found an employee abused overtime. the metro employee was a track supervisor now let go. they found the supervisor was getting paid significant overtime earnings including for times that employee was not working. other employees are also under review for similar practices. metro's union says on twitter that it's not commenting because the person was likely not
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represented by the union. >> imagine finding the perfect wedding dress and then wedding dress shop shuts down. a national bridal chain closing its doors forever leaving brides-to-be dressless at the altar. they closed down 60 scores nationwide, impacting a lot of local brides. an employee says a trustee will take over the company and will decide if brides will receive their gowns. the bridal company has been in business for eight decades, 80 years. more stress added to wedding planning, goodness. take a look outside. have your sunglasses, short leaves available. lauryn ricketts has the best time to hit the pool, maybe work on your tan, sunblock. denied twice coming to america. afghanistan's all girl robotics team is on u.s. soil.
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well, we're starting off this morning on a cloudy note. there's patchy fog out there as well. usual area, shenandoah valley up around annapolis, culpeper. patchy fog, that will dissipate. humidity will die off by this afternoon. also the cloud cover. you're waking up to cloud cover this morning. temperatures are goingo
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we'll let you know when rain chances return in a couple minutes. >> thank you, lauryn. 6:42, the "today" show next. >> a peek at what they are working on. sheinelle jones, good morning. >> good morning. coming up on saturday morning, new details about the meeting between donald trump jr. and russian lawyer and russian american lobbyist some officials expect may have russian intelligence ties. we're live with the latest. also this morning we will go across the pond to wimbledon where venus william is hoping to make history as the oldest singles champion ever. a lot of anticipation surrounding hbo hit tv show "game of thrones." it returns for its seventh season and we'll have a preview. those stories plus medalist ali raisman. we would be
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give congratulations. the family is starting to spread. >> she's having a baby. can you see. >> look at the monitor. >> the side. >> what's the due date? >> we're looking around turkey time. so around thanksgiving. >> nice. congratulations. >> very exciting holiday. >> she's considering davida if a girl and david a boy. >> you get to be home for the holidays on maternity leave. >> thanks, guys. closer to alexandria. some neighbors making sure take note of their american flags today. >> that's right. just a couple weeks ago world war ii veteran woke up to find his flag burned and tattered as news 4's chris gordon tells us neighbors want to honor the simferopol of american freedom. >> dick joined the army when he was 17. he lost the use of his left arm when he was wounded by
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pn gunfi -- germany machine gunfire in wore 2. >> the flag means i lost a lot of blood and pled profusely for it. i take that flag as symbol in my life. >> the morning before independence day, he found the american flag he flies year-round in front of his alexandria home destroyed by fire. >> i guess in a state of shock, i had never seen anything like that before. >> three of his neighbors were also vandalized. at one home. ten garden flags were gathered and tossed in the gutter. two other homes had their flag burned. >> i thought it was a disgrace. it's our american flag. we're very proud of it. >> this surveillance video at a home in richmond, virginia shows a man setting fire to a flag in june. the vandal in richmond pleaded guilty to arson. they are hoping alexandria police catch the vandal responsible for desecrating flags here.
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home. >> since we were both army veterans, i thought it was a nice touch from two different generations we were able to replace it. flag day was june 14th last month. some neighbors in alexandria say they will fly flags to honor those symbols of american freedom that was destroyed during independence day celebration. chris gordon, news 4. for folks with sickle cell disease getting bone marrow is the cure. some some it's years waiting for the match. >> they found a way around that the first patient, a teen from manassas. >> strokes and seizures and hallucinations and things like that. >> reporter: that was the nortrn
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clogged vessels that cut off oxygen to the body's tissues. she spent years in pain waiting for a bone marrow match. >> it was stressful. at times that giving up feeling where you're down and you want it so bad. >> it's a parents' worst nightmare. to feel helpless, feel like there's nothing you can do, it's the worst feeling in the world. >> that's where the doctors at children's national came in. >> most patients don't have a perfect match donor. >> dr. abraham explaining half match donor procedure. normally if bone marrow isn't a perfect match, the cells will attack. they take out the immune cells and with that rhiannon's dad will donate. >> i would do anything for my daughter, even if it was give up my life for her to be able it sue.
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>> no more waking up at 2:00 in the morning feeling painful p n pain. no more being afraid to get in the pool with my friends because i might have some problems. >> with her little sister and parents by her side, she's healthier than ever and ready to head to high school. >> i have straight as, above my grade level. i've baseball working hard doing that. hopefully i can continue on my path, doctor to patient. >> a path she hopes will one day lead her back to the hospital as a doctor herself. >> being around those people and the nurses have really made a change in my life, made me feel warm and that sense of i want to help people like they do. >> now they can. thanks to that half match, she's got her whole life ahead. northwest, amy cho, news 4. children's national says they hope to use the
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diseases as well in the future. an all girls robotics team from afghanistan is waking up in d.c. this morning. their story captured attention across the globe. the girls were rejected not once but twice for u.s. visas. president trump intervened to reverse that decision. the u.s. won't say why the girls were rejected. the afghan ambassador to the u.s. says it appears there were concerns they would not return to afghanistan. the three-day robotics competition begins tomorrow. it will include participants from 157 countries. we have missed you here, lauryn ricketts. glad you're back and bringing less humidity. >> that's what i was trying to do from the beach, from the south, trying to bring less humidity. it happened to work. >> we'll take it. >> we'll take what we can get. that humidity dropping as we go into the afternoon, thank goodness. only a day and a half special because by the time we get to monday heat and humidity return. let's show you that beautiful sunrise out there. sun came up just in time as the
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timing. our director said she queued that plane. you need a pay raise. absolutely gorgeous. the sun came up at 5:55 this morning. it's going to be a beautiful day. you can see the cloud cover out there right now. we're stuck in a little bit of cloud cover. i do believe with humidity clouds will increase through the afternoon. all right sitting at 76. yesterday we made it up to 97. not doing to be quite as bad today as yesterday. we'll be 80 at 9:00 a.m. then temperatures go up to 90 today. rain moved out. a few sprinkles north of baltimore early this morning. that frontal system that brought that severe weather to us yesterday has now sagged to the south. again, we are looking at clear conditions as high pressure builds in. so looking good for the pool if you want to head out there. again, it's not going to be brutally hot and lower humidity than yesterday. we won't have to keep an eye on the sky because we're not looking at storms. humidity falls, chance
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on monday. all through next week we're staying on the hot side and humid side. temperatures around 94 tomorrow. again, we're going to be warm, just not as oppressive. i do believe it will be fairly confidentable tomorrow before the humidity starts to creep unlate sunday night into monday. monday afternoon, tuesday afternoon, chance of afternoon storms. wednesday we're looking good. look how temperatures go up on thursday, 97 on thursday. another chance of storms into the workweek friday and saturday. >> lauryn, thanks. an iconic local restaurant finding new life. the emotial reopening thonat
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first on news 4, it's been a tough year by an iconic restaurant in alexandria with a reopening. the welcome comeback. >> we're glad we're finally at this point where we're in the next week up and running again. >> the owner of al's steakhouse dorothy looks forward to slinging steaks again. she took over after the previous owner's death wstarted the busi. a new grill ignited grease behind the bar. during the year long repairs the
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by her competitors. >> the way the community rallied around us meant a lot. hopefully they will rally around us again and come back and eat some steak and cheese. >> now the old favorites are back, with a few new additions including breakfast sandwiches and of course the original steak and cheese made the way al made it. pat lawson muse, news 4. but wait, there's more. we're still hungry. this time we're talking pizza. a popular pizza shop in the district opening a unique space in prince george's county. they will serve slices of wood fired pizza in hyattsville. the new restaurant places but they will share with an art studio. they will hold classes in the same spot. owners of both businesses say food and art go great
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i think pizza goes good with anything. >> 6:56, your time now. turning to a tragic story in an update we're just getting into our newsroom. we've learned new details in death investigation in mclean. fairfax police say a daughter shot and killed her mother before turning the gun on herself. the two women identified as 23-year-old helen hargon and pamela denise hanson hargon. organizers behind the women's march will have people gather outside the department of justice. they are protesting gun violence and the national rifle association. yesterday they held a rally outside nra in fairfax and walked 18 miles to d.c. a fairfax county judge declaring a mistrial in the murder case of beloved wedding caterer. kempton bond claimed he stabbed tyonne after a cleanup, an argument that happened
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year. jurors told the judge they could not come to a consensus. some work from friendship heights and grosvenor. shuttle buses will replace trains tomorrow. if you go to the nbc washington app we have more details on this and other metro tie ups. >> 77 but will feel less humid. >> this afternoon, some sunshine dry for the weekend. that's good. >> we do have a programming note. we'll be on at 8:30 this morning instead of 9:00. we do hope that you'll join us again. we already appreciate you spending some of your saturday morning with us. >>
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good morning. breaking overnight, towering inferno. a deadly high-rise fire in hawaii. flames erupting on the 26th floor. three people killed, a dozen others injured, as thick smoke billows out of the apartment complex and spreads to nearby floors. seeing red. >> this has got another disturbing turn of events. >> democrats demanding answers after nbc news broke the story that a former russian intelligence officer was in the room for a meeting with donald trump jr. and other top campaign officials. this, as president trump hires a new lawyer to handle his response to the russia investigation. we're live with the latest.

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