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another storm that has developed now, this is one i'm watching closely because this one has just kind of blown up over the last ten minutes. this is in and around the centerville area. it's traveling right up 286 and that's going to move up towards preston. if you live and around this is coming your way in the next ten to 15 minutes. more storms up to the north, more shower activity and even more developing down towards quantico, we still have a ways to go. we'll continue to keep you posted if this guy goes, we'll bring it to you right when that happens. >> thank you, doug. >> a dc firefighters just out of the training academy is now fighting to survive. >> an entire community of first responders is rallied around and its department. last night smothers was working a fire in northeast dc when a fire truck ran into him. he tweeted some of news source reporting -- megan, are you finding out any more about how
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>> so this is what investigators are telling us. they say it happened when he first arrived on scene. he's at the corner of getting ready to fight this fire at his home behind me, when all of a sudden an engine turned the corner here and struck it. it takes a special kind of person to be a firefighter. >> the fire service in general is dangerous. there's many dangers. >> the folks at engine company 3 say 28-year-old dane's mother is that special type of person. he just finished his training academy and started fighting fires two months, though. >> he was ready, you know, to make sure that his family was proud of him. and he was ready when the call came in last night for a fire on f street in northeast. investigators say smothers was on scene pulling a hose from an engine when another fire truck turned the corner on f and 8th street slamming right into him. >> it makes everyone closer when you experience a traumatic event like that. >> reporter:
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everyone is coming together, but the mood isn't the same around here. >> thank you. thank you. we appreciate it. >> reporter: other agencies like the capitol police have stopped by to offer their support. >> does smell good. so there we go, we don't have to make lunch for ourselves tonight. >> we try to be there for each other. we try to show support in the best way that we can. >> it's a gesture that helps, but crews here say they won't feel better until they hear their brother will be okay. >> everybody is here to, you know, lean on everybody else to get through te released a statement saying he's in the -- he's still in critical condition at this point, they're asking for privacy and prayers. >> completely understandable. i think two of his uncles are firefighters, so he's part of an entire family. thank you so much, megan. well this is a story that you would expect to see in the theaters for young mother and
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that played out for more than two years. deputies say this man, karim moore, held his girlfriend and their children captive in their fredericksburg home and the neighbors, apparently, had no clue. northern virginia reporter has some new and disturbing details about this. >> reporter: elementary out for the summer. according to property records this is where karim two young kids would have been going to school. instead, this is where deputies say they were kept captive more than two years stuck inside this ranch-style home. the cars outside expired tags. the windows, covered up. it sits on nearly four acres along a busy road. it's nestled between two seemingly quiet neighborhoods. some neighbors just hearing about the case from us. >> i think that's one of the most insane things i've heard in a long time, especially around here, two years. >> reporter: captivity came to an end ur
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to do a welfare check as they were talking to moore in the front yard, his girlfriend and the two kids rushed out the side door, safe, free. >> really, right here in our neighborhood? oh, no. so where are they now? >> reporter: moore is in jail. his 32-year-old girlfriend in the hospital. their two kids, eight and 11 years old, with family members. this neighbor didn't want to show her face, she's asking what many of you are also asking tonight. >> how family wasn't involved for two years. how did they not know. i don't know. >> reporter: it's not clear if the relatives even live around here. but shouldn't someone else have noticed. >> what about the school systems? it just all seems so crazy, you know, that something like that could happen. >> reporter: that's the question most of the folks around here have been asking as we've been out here talking with them today, how is it that this could have gone o
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people knowing about it? as far as the school system is concerned, i put a call to them. she tells me without the names of the two children, she can't check to see if they were even enrolled, a lot of questions still remain, questions we're working to get answered tonight. a lot of folks passing by this house had that unsettled feeling not knowing exactly what went on in there. >> raises a lot of questions, thank you so much, david. we saw a wild scene play out this afternoon. a carjacking started in prince georges county, ended with a police chase and crash on capitol hill. police were investigating a carjacking and put on a look out and the car was spotted over the border in dc. the driver wouldn't stop for officers that ended up crashing into another car in southeast dc. two people in that car cut out of there and rushed to a hospital. the two men who led officers on that chase took off
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after they were soon caught and arrested. they're helping rescue a elderly couple from a house fire. it happened on the street around 12:30 this morning. the husband is in serious condition with some burns, the wife and both officers are recovering from smoke inhalation. no word yet on how it started. >> and there are more reports of problems with those ford suvs that are used by the police. there are reports of an officer in massachusetts passing out behind the wheel because of carbon monoxide exposure. police departments around the country now inspecting their vehicles. in our area, montgomery county police have found defects in the vast majority of the police suvs that they have tested, news 4 mark seagraves broke this story this afternoon on twitter and on facebook. now we're working for you with a closer look at the impact to the local police and to public safety. mark. >> this has become a nationwide issue and concern nott
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who drives a ford explorer. not only do they find problems in the suvs used by the police, but also with the civilian. >> the camera on the end to look inside the engine searching for cracks in the manifold. they tell news 4, they've been inspecting their fleet because of this for the past several months. >> when we first became aware that this was a problem, we started to bring in vehicles and when we -- what we started to find was a great deal of cracking. >> approximately 108 ford police suvs in the montgomery county fleet, those test found cracks in the engine's manifold on about 80% of the vehicles. many of them found with a defect has been sent back to the manufacture for repair in a statement, a spokesperson report tells news 4, ford will cover the cost of specific repairs in every police intercepter utility thatma
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regardless of age, mileage, or after-market modifications made after purchase. as for other police departments in our region, all of those who responded to our questions, told news 4, they have notified all of their officers to be aware of the possible problems. most of the agencies are proactively inspecting their fleets and some departments have gone as far as installing carbon monoxide detectors in their police vehicles. >> one problem they're looking at are the spoilers. ford put out a bulletin about this, it's possible the exhaust from the exhaust pipe down below could be coming up and getting into the cabin to a defective faster on these spoils. >> now, montgomery county has found the same problem on the police versions and the civilian version of the explorers. so what happens if you own a ford, we're working for you to get some answers. anyone who owns a ford explorer and has concerns to contact their
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we use ford explorers and out of abundance of caution, we're having our fleet inspected as well. >> you can feel confident, nope it's not getting inside, you're good. >> you know, they have one, you saw the manifold, they go inside. they have a meter where they can go inside the cabin. montgomery county found no cases where the ka bonn mo knox -- car bo monoxide made its way inside of the vehicle. >> mark seagraves, thank you, mark. back to the news that broke just before we came on the air at 4:00. one of the president's private attorneys now saying he has no reason to believe the president is under personal investigation by special counsel robert mueller. mueller has p impanelled the dc grand jury to investigate russia's interference with the election. president's lawyer went on to see the legal team has been cooperating the investigation. nbc news is working to
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that "wall street journal" report. they'll have a lot more coming up on nightly news. as that plays out behind closed doors, we're getting a rare glimpse inside oval office. they show how president donald trump communicates with other world leaders. leon harris taking what was said. >> as you know, this is the kind of thing we almost never get to see, the actual transcripts of a conversation between these world leaders. the washington post published these two transcripts of two different phone calls, one of them between president donald trump and australia's prime minister. the other one between president trump and the president of mexico. now, trade drugs and the boarder wall dominated the conversation of mexican president and the leaders also discussed the importance of political optics. president trump stressing several times that he has to keep his campaign promise and make mexico pay for border wall and making it appear that was going to be the case publicly.
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political career, he said he can't let that happen. in fact at one point, president of mexico says, let us stop talking about the wall. my position has been and will continue to be very firm saying that mexico cannot pay for that wall. now, later president trump says, i cannot live with that. you cannot say that to the press because i cannot negotiate under those circumstances. in the end, the man agreed they'll collaborate on a statement, but they won't discuss the wall. now, the conversation with australian prime minister, that one reads as a bit more heated. the prime minister urged president trump to honor an agreement that was made under the previous administration to take in certain refugees here. he tells him the deal will kill him and he doesn't understand why the agreement is so important. that call ended after president trump calls the conversation unpleasant and ridiculous, wendy. >> leon harris,
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a group of patients say their doctor was taking advantage. and now they want justice. >> plus, you always buckle up when you drive, but what about the passenger behind you, why you'll want to think twice about whether they're strapped in. >> police and fire first responders treat drug overdoses ahead. public montgomery county public school system is training other personnel to address the
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take a look as we look out here the dulles toll road right here. some heavy rain, a lot of lightning associated with this moving right over downtown right now, heads up in that area. here is where the storm is. here it is, though, as we zoom on down right to the storm. you seal see a lot of lightning associated with this. this has been on the increase. shatilly, heads up in if you live over towards great falls. i'll be bah with another live picture with storm team radar. >> thanks. reporting on the opioid epidemics and overdose arising at an alarming rate. larry governor has declared a state of emergency. i shared some of chris gordon's reporting on the facebook page. and tonight he's working for
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montgomery county and the schools are doing to reverse this dangerous trend. >> montgomery county find ems crews carry an overdose reversing drug on every emergency call. the drug is naloxone you. >> the great thing about it, it has no bad side effects, if the patient isn't overdosing on opioid or narcotic, it will not hurt them. >> in maryland the overdose deaths have reached the crisis level. last year approximately 2,000 people died from narcotic overdoses, twice as many as the year before. some victims are high school age. >> i personally know a number of people who experience -- who have overdosed on heroin and i think it is a growing epidemic. >> a new law in maryland requires public schools to teach students about the dangers of narcotic drugs and train staff members beside school nurses how to
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montgomery county public schools will offer the state sponsor training not only in high schools, but will also pay $15,000 to offer the safety program in middle and in elementary schools as well. >> we never had a case of reported overdose on our school property, but it doesn't mean that we don't need to be prepared. >> some parents are just learning about the drug education and overdose prevention program. >> i think it's a great idea. i think it's great this is going on in the county. it's a good first step. >> montgomery county public schools will have the new drug awareness program in place by the time students return to the new school year, which begins on september 5th. chris news 4. it does serve up concern of designer babies. we're learning about the considerations that researchers made while they worked on this break through.
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very precise method to go inside a dna strand, cut out genes responsible for a heart condition and then repair the strand so the heart would develop correctly. one of the doctors involved says they knew what they were doing was controversial. >> but we have to go through to use and -- because this book will be done embryo and there are a lot of issues whether it should correct or not. >> the embryos used in the study developed for a few days whenever it landed in the wound. it could eventually be used to prevent babies from being born with certain inherited illnesses. >> pay back time for a company that alleged robo called millions of people. today fcc proposed an $82 billion fine because the company allegedly made more than 21
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consumer reporter susan hogan joins us with all the details. >> hey, there, chris. well, first of all it is illegal for anyone to deliberately falsify caller id information. it's a practice we now know, call spoofing. in other words this person purposely is trying to with intent to defraud you. so today's proposed action is against a company that actually goes by two names, best insurance contracts and wilmington insurance quotes. the fcc found a company's and its owner apparently make millions of illegal spoof robo calls to consumers nationwide. and they were an attempt to sell health insurance, which according to fcc targeted the elderly and low income families. against this company is part of a major crack down recently against similar robo callers, but also in big fines. if you are a victim of a robo call, you can file complaints we'reo
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by providing you with that on our nbc washington app we want to search the word robo call. now the fcc is responding to your complaints about these annoying spoofing calls. the government is exploring ways to set up a reliable system to verify that a phone call is really coming from -- never let it claims to be, wendy. >> susan hogan. the naacp issuing a travel warning, telling minorities to use extreme caution if they're going to missouri. the group says there zecivil rights may not be respected. it comes after the state passed a law that makes it harder to sue for housing and employment discrimination. the civil rights group says the law har kins back to the jim cr crow era. it cuts back on frivolous lawsuits. the naacp cites that shows last year black drivers were 75% more likely to be pulled over in that
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. >> i'm glad they put it out there so they'll rectify whatever it is. >> missouri's attorney general says there's no place for discrimination in the state abdomen that everyone regardless of race should feel welcome and safe there. >> well, the kennedy senator as name its hon reoree why the lat is making history. >> keeping an eye on the radar and all of the storms that are popping up throughout the area.
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the storms sprinkled around, doug. >> that's exactly right, wendy. i mean, some of us won't see any storms at all, some of us are going to get very very wet. that's going to happen -- we've had a couple of severe storms. i'm tracking one strong storm and of course fairfax county, you can see it. here is our tower cam from northwest dc. here it is, right down towards -- look at that really a cool looking storm right here. we've seen some lightning out of here now. let's go to the resting camera and you see what's happening, very heavy rain fall, right now down along the dulles toll road. it's just north of the toll road now. th's
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and west of our camera is located and here is what's happening. it's up around the baltimore area, no warning for us this is the one storm i've been watching over the last half hour or so, it's developing a lot of lightning associated with this, right on down through fairfax county parkway, just to the west of fairfax. we've seen some developing closer to the city of fairfax, shan tilly, some very heavy rain there, too and that will continue as we move on here. this is great falls to the north and towards herndon, already in, you'll see this move towards as you move on in. a lot of lightning and also dulles toll road, maybe some of the latest there, around our region because of the storms, dulles toll road and airport seeing the storms just off to the east. more storms, another big one. this one was in parts of montgomery county and crossed over just east, very large storm,
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around i-75 and another one just popped up this one in towards college park, right around the college park area, once again i told you yesterday, storm right over today, storm, right over ikea, there it is again. a lot of areas seeing storms back to back on numerous days. we have it back into portions of page county and watching this guy right here in prince william county around quantico, this will come up, so i'm watching a lot of different storm. once again, nothing too strong in our area now, strongest storm in through fairfax county, more storms back to our west. this is going to be the case tomorrow afternoon as well. that's something i'll be watching for. most of the storms tomorrow really come late in the evening, most of your day actually looking good. 92 degrees, sun and clouds, warm and humid. storms possible late. they may go 10 or 11:00 late. cold front moves through, boy does that cold front change things, 84 on rd
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beautiful weather for the weekend, a little bit on the breezy side this weekend. monday good chance of rain and more thunderstorms with a high of 83. next week right now looking really nice. and, hey, guys we'll take you below average this time of year, any time. >> absolutely, looks sweet. chris and i have this stronger urge to go to ikea now. >> i want to experience it. >> good, too. >> let's be it. all right. >> thank you, doug. you know, you get in the front seat of a car, immediately, you buckle up. that isn't always the case when you sit in the back. coming up, the risk that poses everyone in the car. >> a former doctor is accused of going too f
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leon harris here at the live desk with breaking news. this is going to come as tens of thousands of vacationers and homeowners in the outer banks. the power is back on for all of hatteras. evacuation order now being lifted and people will be able to go back to the beach houses starting tomorrow at noon. the two islands have been without power for the past week when construction crews accidentally cut a major powerline down there. the accident left thousands without power and ruined a lot of vacations. good news, live desk, leon harris. back to you. >> that is good news. but also now at 5:30, a doctor from our area accused of violating a patient's trust and much more and
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patient is now suing her former doctor. prince georges county bureau chief tracee wilkins tells us her story, tracee. >>. >> reporter: well there is one patient named in this class action suit the attorney filing it believes there are many more out there. >> former anesthesiologist is accused of sexually assaulting patients filed today in an upper marlboro courthouse. >> if you were a patient of dr. williams, wouldn't you want to know that dr. williams had been accuse -- if dr. williams had been accused of sexual misconduct. >> one inappropriately touched patients and abused them for physical examinations. he worked at the largo and kaiser locations from 2010, he was dismissed in 2014. >> it makes this even worse and more tragic is that kaiser did
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despite their moral legal ethical obligations. >> williams was investigated by the maryland board of physicians and lost his license in 2016. the attorney filing the class action suit believes there are more victims. >> we know from the board of physicians report that this was a vast and significant problem. >> kaiser released a statement that reads in part, in this case we determine the position and -- or in this case we determine the -- i'm sorry, we terminated the position and reported him to the physician licensing boards in maryland, virginia and the district of columbia. we have also reached out to each person who has raised allegations against dr. williams and sought to address their concerns. now, dr. williams was released from kaiser in 2014 lost his license in 2016. we have checked with both jurisdictions and state ator
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criminal investigations, just a number of other civil suits. reporting live, i'm tracee wilkins, back to you all in the studio. >> motorcycle driver is now in custody after leading police on high speed chase along i-66. virginia state police say he got up to 100 miles an hour using the right shoulder to zoom by drivers. the chase came to an end when the rider crashed in centerville near exit 28. chopper 4 was there as officers arrested a man and so far has no word on why he ran in the first place. and it is proving to be a dangerous summer for motorcyclist on area roads prince georges county is one particular hot spot. here is a look at the numbers. according to aaa this year, at least 14 motorcyclists have been killed in accidents around the area. five of those have been in prince georges county and around the region, five occurred in the month of june. aaa says most of the crashes involving motorcycles in
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georges county, the baltimore. we're working for you to keep you and your family safe behind the wheel. if you're between the ages of 35 and 54, your luck -- you're more likely to do something that puts the car everyone in danger. if you don't buckle up a sudden collision could turn your body into a human missile. we're showing you how crash test are shedding new light on taxi and uber rides and how dangerous it can be for you and the person driving the car. take a look. it happened so fast. the impact tremendous. >> oh my god. >> the crash video isn't as convincing as you think. do you buckle up in the back 100% of the time. >> no, i do not back 100% of the time. >> she wears a seat belt on charles county, but rarely when
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well, the back seems like a much safer place, so naturally i'm in the back, i don't need to be buckled up. >> four out of five adults don't bother to buckle up with short rides are using taxis and uber. and a quarter of them think it's safer in the backseat. new crash test prove they're more like human missiles. >> unrestrained passenger flies into the back of the front seat, pushing the driver forward into the deploying air bag and steering wheel. >> the insurance institute for highway safety discovered, drivers are twice as likely to be killed in a crash if the person behind them isn't buckled up. >> we're always buckled up, all the time, no matter where we travel, right. >> even if it's just a parking lot. >> even if they're driving through states like virginia that don't legally require it. they have everyone strapped in. >> we've been in an accident before, i have to say it saved my life. >> and
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in 2015, more than a thousand backseat passengers died in crashes because they weren't buckled up. >> because of those numbers and because of what you told me, i'll think more cautiously now when we sit in the backseat. >> we've done our job there. >> thank you. thank you. if it's at least one, it will make a difference. >> yeah. we're working for you to make sure you know the rules, too. you're driving through virginia, your kids have to wear seat belts in the back, adults don't. dc and maryland requires everyone to be buckled up no matter where you're. >> we have the 20th anniversary, going back to princes diana was killed, should she and they were in the backseat of the car not buckled up as well. you get in the back and you think you're safe back there. you pull out your phone. >> that was before cell phones, that's before we jump in the back and immediately start -- >> i'm on my way. >> yeah. that's food for thought, something to do, it's easy. >> good luck. >> you know, we've also been
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this project aiming to make the rinks safer and usable year around. >> it looks like professional. >> beautiful. >> a lot of football players find training camp tedious. one red skin, it's another shot at success after two seasons of devastation and disappointment. news 4 live in richmond, his story and opportunity, i guess, sherry. >> chris, you can say that it's been on the redskins roster for the last two seasons but have yet to play it down. he's coming off two torn achilles, he's hoping that this year can be the year pick up right where he left off. >> say good-bye, i didn't think it would be the right thing to do. >> i was in the peak of my career when i got here and to go two years straight without playing football and i just want to get back, self doubt sometimes it tries to
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and try to do the best you can to stay focused. >> eve been in the place, not as de deep. >> i know how hard he works and that's one of my good friends and i can -- he's been there for me and i would like to be there for him. >> i remember him new orleans how productive he was and the production that he had. i don't think he's that far off, quite frankly. i think it's been quite incredible to see how far he's come in a short period of
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>> we'll hear from hal i'm working with his voice for the first time in their, plus we catch up with one of the newest redskins from prince georges county, now he's getting back to the community. live in richmond, sherry, news 4. >> thank you. >> this year's kennedy center hon rees include singers, dancer and rider. >> they include from left to righ right. ip hop artist and actor ll cool j and television writer and producer, norman, also singer, composer, lionel richie is a great line up. the awards will be presented this december. >> young woman is making history at west point. >> i hope that she's first captain and they want to go
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we do have a couple of stronger storms. most of you, most of you are still fine, we haven't seen rain in southern maryland, lath couple of days that's been the case. we've seen most of the rain last three days right along i-95 that's what we have again today, baltimore over towards howard county. these are where the severe storms are. they're starting to get together right now prince william county. this is the storm that we've been watching for the last hour. it blew up and really blew up right around shantilly who was moving in and then kind of just expanded and moved back to the west, we're seeing it right now over dulles airport. you can see the lightning and thunder, heavy rain along the toll road here, here is the fairfax county parkway. . so, yeah, there may be some delays if you have somebody coming home from the airport or coming on the dulles roadway. here is the one towards howard county. another stormn
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the area over towards -- right along 29 and dumping some rain right now along 29 and along 95. that doesn't help the evening rush. back down to the south, tracking this one, it's moving towards wood bridge. it will move right across and about the next 10 to 15 minutes, heads up for you folks and then i'm watching this area now, too, just north coming into the area, we've got more storms developing into that region, too. this is all part of what's been happening the last couple of days, numerous storms developing in and around the mid-atlantic. i think we'll see that tomorrow. this is a storm that's off in the distance here. temperature tomorrow, taking the kids there, bright and early, noon, 2:00, no problem, 88, nice and humid. by 2:00, 4:00, most of those should come tomorrow night with a cold front. that cold front sets us up for a great weekend. >> picture perfect weekend, i will say, probably a ten, with low humidity, plenty of sunshine. take a look, the
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a pretty low impact, taking the bike out nearly perfect. it's not too hot. the barbecue during the afternoon on saturday, the birthday party just gorgeous, make sure you have the sunglasses for brunch and then if you're in the garden this weekend, rain is likely in the forecast on monday. and we've been saying that all week long, rain and storms on monday, probably want to make the plans. >> exactly, great we have the weekend. and on monday we do have that rain coming in. and look what happens, that rain and storm comes through. it will be on storm on monday. behind that, we get nice again, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, really nice for another chance of showers and thunderstorms develop late next week. but one more day of heat, guys, 92 tomorrow. and then we've got all 80s the rest of the ten-day forecast. >> yeah. >> i can't remember we saw whole week. we're getting some big news tonight. west point involving a woman from fairfax county. simone will be the first ca
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news 4. julie carey speaks with her incredible she was captain of the volleyball team, founder of black student union. now at age 20, she's making history, simone is the first african-american woman to lead west point's core cadets. her new official title, first captain. younger sister when i asked what it all means. >> i'm so proud of her. she's such a big role model for me. and i'm just so proud. >> mom says simone was drawn to the military at a young age, when as a third grader she watched the midshipman march into football game. >> she saw them all in formation and rose up and asked me what does it take to lead
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and that was third grade. >> simone got appointments to both naval academy at west point. it was the love of the army has decided it and taken her to the top of her class once again. >> she takes a lot of pride in west point and she has always been a leader. she will do what no one else will do and it doesn't matter who is watching if it needs to get done, she'll do it. >> her family says simone is well aware of the significance of her new position, she knows many will be watching. they hope, especially, african-american girls will take notice. >> it's so excited and you know it's a great step, not only woman, but african-american women because it shows, no matter what your sex or race, you can really do anything. and there's nothing -- >> after graduation next spring, simone steps into her next position as a military
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news 4. she may have to give that one to focus on all the responsibilities. >> i'm glad she's on our team, our big team. >> we've told you ability the thousands of high-tech jobs that have gone on and now trying to solve that problem with the help of our college students of out of work college students, in reston offering a three-month training program that takes ree cent college grads it's not just free for the students, it also pays them while they're learning. >> what we've done is created an environment where we custom train recent college graduates to fill those positions. we're connecting a college graduate
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well as solving this company's needs. i like it a lot. we've been providing a drastic shortcut. >> he's been in business for four years and placed hundreds of students in these coding jobs. >> a pesticide ban that was set to take effect in montgomery county next year is not going to happen. judge shot it down today and what prohibited use of certain pesticides on private lawns. the montgomery county council blasted the judge's decision. . circuit court judge ruled that maryland state law preemplts the ban. council president says they would review its options, including possible. >> it is -- it is an unusual kind of whale what was nature
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they think it deserves some love. it's melting. it opened an exhibit today dedicated to this strange animal and its changing world. >> it's called, it's a creature that makes you look twice because of its unusual -- a spear of sorts but it's not a weapon. it's actually a kind of tooth designed as antenna enabling them to download messages about its environment. >> dr. martin is a dentist who has been studying for years. focusing often this because it is considered a tooth. >> it's designed tooth growing capacity into this extraordinary tusk. >> yes. extraordinary. it can be as long as eight feet and it's off center and it's always a spiral. >> this is the only spiral tusk. >> it residn
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of the northern reaches of canada. few humans have ever seen this guy. >> i assume the arctic ice is always stuck up there where humans don't go. >> but more humans are starting to go there. climate change has shifted the shelf, opening up more northern passages for merchant messages. >> it's twice as fast as the rest of the world. >> prompting this exhibit in the natural history museum. the melting ice makes the place more accessible, those ships can bring other woes. it's hoped that introducing the public to the nor wall and the proud populations of this frozen world, that it may prompt us to turn our attention north and maybe care about these people and the tradition of this pri steen and exotic place so that nature's creations can continue to amaze and we can believe in
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kills in alexandria went back to school today, more than ten years samuel tucker elementary has been operating on a year round schedule. aim chi takes us there to show us why this schedule works for them. >> welcome back. how was your summer. >> it's a new year at tucker elementary. >> oh my gosh, she's doing it just like you guys, right. >> and they go. >> can i get a new backpack. >> you've got it. >> your teachers are very happy, too. >> you're high fiving. >> good job. >> and you're handling things. >> we'll follow the leader. >> you look like you're ready for pe. >> the students ready to go. >> even though the last school year ended just five weeks ago. >> if you really fun and i like the projects that i get to do. >> they come in and they're -- they're at the same level where they left off. i think they fall back, they regress a lot less and then they have a three month break. >> breaking it down, the kids at tucker elementary get what's
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make it for it. they get two extra weeks off in the fall and they also get two extra weeks off in the spring. >> they don't see the summer loss that. >> the students and their families choose. >> are you ready to do math today. >> the schools are so popular, they have to turn people away. >> i feel happy to be back in school. so they have more ideas for when i want -- for what i want to do when i grow up. >> when i'm in school, i don't like do my multiplication. and all of that. >> did you have fun this summer. >> it may have been a small summer. but you'll still find plenty of big smiles. >> amy, news 4. >> news 4 begins now with storm team 4. >> and we have severe thunderstorm warning, louden county right here, here is
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along the green way severe thunderstorm warning here in yellow, that includes leesburg, ash burn in there, as well, right along route 7. severe thunderstorm warning until 6:30. i want to show you some other areas in here. this is over towards sterling and then right back over towards where the radar is, which is right along the green way. a lot of lightning with this, moving towards the sterling area, if you live in and around sterling or just west of sterling towards ashburn, make sure you get in doors, we're tracking that storm system. other storms still developing. we've had a little bit of like ning. this is around the fair land area and right along 95, not good for the evening rush, farther to the south. other storms still developing. moving right in, right in towards the clifton region, in through fairfax county, down towards prince william county and more back towards culpepper county, too. we have more storms that will
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