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ridiculing a burglary his own home, the only reason they were caught, his cameras. think you can manage texting and driving, think again. in just a little more than 24 hours, a dangerous storm will make landfall in texas. >> this is it tonight tense of thousands of people bracing for hurricane harvey, strong winds, storm surge and a unthinkable amount of rain over the next few days. >> we have team coverage for you, leon? >> the warning from officials is blunt, get out night. experts are predicting this will be a historic storm. right now people in texas and louisiana are filling sand bags, stocking up with water, hitting the roads, look at inter state
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7, this is south texas where get away from the north. it could make landfall late tomorrow or early saturday. >> we are going to in the strongest possible terms encourage the residents in the low lying areas as they say, get out of dodge. harvey would be the first hurricane to make landfall in texas since 2008 that's when hurricane iek caused billions of dollars in damage. iek was a category 4 storm, this one expected to strength into a category 3. what does that mean? it's dangerous, destructive and life sletting. people preparing for major flooding and damage, winds up to 125 miles an hour. the president talked to governors of texas and louisiana telling them they'd get whatever they need in the aftermath of the
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more than a decade. >> if it becomes a major hurricane, that's a category 3 or higher, that would be the first time since will ma in 2005 when we got hit if the had u.s. with a hurricane. it's a category one but will become a category 3 as it makes it way toward corpus christi. the eye, the center of circulation within the radar range. you can see right there a very well defined eye. it can strength again. just off the coast of corpus christy should be on the coast in 24 hours. the latest advisory, winds of 85 miles an hour, moving north west at 10 miles an hour, no strength evening, but it will room the strengthen to a category 3 as it moves close to the keeft at 7:00 tomorrow night most likely making land fall at this time tomorrow night, right around or
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christi. but tig i'm going to break it all down for you, show you how it's going to affect parts of florida and our region as well in the 10 day forecast. >> you've got our attention. thank you, harvey could go down in history so storm team 4's ameala draper is headed there now. check in with news 4 tomorrow and all weekend long for her lives reports. now to a store, police officers caught on video making fun of a burglary victim. they were caught on the victim's home security cameras which also got a good look at the suspect. news 4 with the video and the police response to all this. >> reporter: >> i am feeling disillusioned, upset. >> reporter: you're watching a burglary in action. moments later, he kicks. and then he goes inside
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crest drive south east while williams was out of town. he stole a computer, clothes, shoes, the alarm company contacted williams. >> i was appalled and at the same time i was frantic because i was out of the country. >> reporter: this was the second time someone burglarized williams 'home in less than a month. it happened on august 8th around 2:30 in the afternoon. video showing police responding to the house shortly after. they knock on the front door. no one answers, and then they leave. >> when there's a alarm going off in someone's house, you don't just check the front door, you know, you don't just knock on the front door. you check the back door, too. >> reporter: police returned to the house eight hours later when williams 'neighbors noticed the shattered back door. >> they made a comment to my neighbor saying, well, what do you expect? you leave in south east. >>li
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and was shocked to see two officers seemingly joking about what happened, talked about the items shoalen in the first history and the officers question his sex wall ity. -- >> a few minutes later, a officer dances and then she busts another move by the staircase. >> we've got police out here dancing in my home. and acting as if this is a joke. and this is serious, this is my life. >> reporter: now, we talked about d.c. police and a spokesperson told us the two officers have been placed on noncontact status for misconduct following the initial complaint, but there's a internal affairs investigation. the spokesperson says, devote, in a written statement, their behavior is not representative of the we are here to help environment, we
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to uphold on a detail basis for residents and visitors of d.c. we remain committed to providing positive interactions with all and hold the trust of the community in my regards. >> williams says he doesn't plan on leaving south east. he says he's going to continue believing in the community. thank you. new at 11:00, proof that you never know what goes on behind closed doors. two people have been arrested now in nokesville virginia accused of abusing their 10-year-old son. police got a call from a child that showed up at a neighbor's home earlier this week looking injured and dirty and asking for food. detectives tell us the boys 'parents seen here would punish him by forcing him to kneel on sharp objects and burning his hands on a hot stove. the boy is being treated at a local hospital tonight. the parents are charged with felony child abuse.
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series of gang murders. the body they found in -- belonged to miguel cau rea. he'd been missing for three weeks. now cau rea was found about 40 miles from home. >> reporter: he hadn't been seen since august 3rd, the search for 18-year-old cau rea began the next day and the search intensified when it was believed it was gang related, three arrests in connection with his disappearance, a long with a female juvenile charged with object deduction and gang affiliation. >> we received information that the remainsor the body of the victim was possibly -- >> the area a rural part of
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searchers from prince william and fairfax county a couple of hours. remains were found. yesterday the body was identified. police say this investigation is far from over did he piet that troubling term. >> no matter what agency it is, we're trying to give the family closure, we want to make sure they get justice. >> reporter: prince kmount is leading the investigation. a senior official at the white house says president trump would likely accept the short term compromise to avoid a shutdown. that would mean a continuing resolution to keep the government in the black for another few months without funding for his border wall. but that official says the president would ultimately demand funding for the wall in any long term spending plan. new at 11:00, the navy is ordering a review of
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comprehensive safety. the commander says the collision monday between the uss mccain and a oil tanker near singapore is evidence of a disturbing trend, two sailors from our area died in june when a navy destroyer collided with a cargo ship new japan, two more sailors have been misting since monday anticipates accident. see what happens when scott mcfarland tests his ability to text and drive. showing you the danger first hand and revealing a alarming trend. last week it was tina fey, this week alec baldwin makes a guest appearance on the weekend update summer
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think you can safely text and drive? tonight the news 4 i-team goes behind the wheel to show you first hand the increasing danger in our area. it's especially important this time of year as students head back to school, many of them walking as more cars are on the road. >> as scott macfarlane shows us there's been a spike in distracted driving especially near our schools. a. >> reporter: fighting the traffic, to school or work it's often stop and go. but the e-mails and texts, they never stop. >> it's literally every where. no one is immune. sh
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pain -- tractor trailer against -- there's no contest. >> reporter: here husband harry died when a driver on the beltway hit him full speed while sending a text. >> i was cheated, he was cheated, the grandchildren were cheated and all the friends and extended family were cheated. >> reporter: a news 4 i-team shows distraction cases have grown far worse on or roads, there's a spike in maryland and virginia. in montgomery county police made about 11,000 stops just since january 2016. 1400 of those drivers were stopped for distraction in school zones. in fair action county, 12 thoiz accidents linked to distraction since 2014. this is one of those roads where there are no stop signs, no red lights, but you see a lot of distracted drivers. >> absolutely every day. >> reporter: at high speeds. >> at
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ohio with transportation -- >> this problem is getting significantly worse. >> reporter: we easily spotted a series of drivers texting or talking on the phone while driving 70 miles an hour. one woman he stopped had a phone and two ipads on her lap at the time. >> were you doing what they said you were doing? having a phone in your hand? did you know it was against the law. >> i'm very careful. i did know. >> reporter: there is no careful way to text and drive. >> the distraction problem is a epidemic. the stop-and-go traffic, people are board, they tend to engage more, be more productive. >> reporter: the i-team went behind the wheel on the university safe road, a closed road with
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rails and the my phone. >> i'm going to hand you a phone number and like you to enter the phone number into the phone. >> reporter: i tried it several times. sometimes i drift out of the lean. when the engineers bring a van on to the road with me, i'm cautious. >> this is tape call on a highway. >> if you were on i 66 people would be around you all day language. text your wife. >> reporter: i see fail to see the van leave. >> he hit the brakes on his side of the car. >> reporter: the to text and e-mail. >> it takes them longer to take home. >> reporter: especially with school back in session and additional cars jamming the road and families with more things to get done. >> put the phone down and the distractions away. driving is a full-time job. but she says that distraction is not worth
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scott macfarlane, news 4 i-team. >> and he had a passenger with brakes, we don't have that. >> reporter: alec baldwin back as president trump. >> first poking fun at the president for looking at the eclipse without glasses, then this. >> as we all know there was a tragic victim that came out of charlottesville, me. >> baldwin impercent nating the president's campaign style rally in phoenix. he said he solved afghanistan, praise the the secretary's wife and criticized those who criticized her on instagram. >> the show returns september 30th with host ryan gosling and musical guest jz. >
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reruns. so, this is -- this harvey thing is getting pretty serious. >> it's going to be. >> it's going to have a impact on us. >> and it looks like it could have a impact on labor day holiday. that's how long this is going to be. this storm is -- we're going to be talking about this most likely not days but for a week if not weeks. that's the kind of impact this storm may have. first off, what's happening in our area. currently temperatures are pretty nice right now, 74 degrees, wind out of the east at 5 miles an hour. already in the 60s to the west. cool air here, but look what else we have. some shower activity moving on through her. into frederick county, through loudoun county, these showers will come toward -- through leesburg, and on this track they will go right through the leesburg area, right
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7, in towards parts of -- i do think they'll fall apart before moving on through. behind it we get nice, tomorrow sun and clouds, temperature of 81, a beautiful friday, i like to fall it a fantastic friday. here's that little system that's been moving through the region. this is a small system. here's the big system. look at the eye of this storm. i just want to zoom on in, show you what's happening here. core pus christy saw a little rain, but you can see the outer rain bands from hurricane harvey. getting the eye better organized and i think by tomorrow morning we could be talking about that category 2 or 3 storm during the afternoon. here's the latest. winds 85 miles an hour, pressure about the same as where it was during the 8:00 advisory. i do expect it to continue to strength en, so does the hurricane center, bringing it
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corpus christi around 7:00, in towards corpus christi around this time tomorrow night, before just sitting there for days, saturday, sunday, monday, some of the latest computer models keep it there tuesday and into wednesday. because of that, this is going to bring unprecedented rainfall amounts to parts of that area, corpus christi to houston, so to 30 inches of rain, up to 40 inches of rain, that's 3 feet of rain. that's why this area is under the gun for the flooding, 4 to 8 inches for the new orleans area. we'll be watching that. numerous homes could be lost, and powers could be out for weeks. for our weather, the next 10 days, beautiful, really nice, saturday and sunday, high temperature upper 70s, a little breezy on sunday, if you head to the beaches definitely breezy, then thursday,
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labor day harvey. when it moves in here depends whent moves out of texas. that's something we'll track, ameala draper heading down there to track it. >> hard to know how it will affect us. >> really hard. it doesn't look like it'll affect us in a big way. not a good site for nats fans. stephen strasburg not looking right in houston. >> saturday nht liveig
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this is the xfinity sports desk. >> the good news is the nats will be heading out of houston ahead of harvey. >> and d.c. sports fans can't sleep easy ever. the nats were a inning away from taking 2 of 3 off the astros to what could be the world series. forces extra innings. questions about the starting pitcher stephen strasburg. houston we have a problem. it's orbit. hats off for his move here. way to go howie. strasburg is fun to watch until this. in the 60s. watch his left leg. shaking it out. later in the evening, now a ball
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inside, straws will hop on that trainers make their way up the mound later. they're trying to get him hydrated, did a little calf massage, hopefully just krafrps. dusty cutting brandon kissler out there for the ninth and he blows the game. this one still going, tied right now bottom of the 10th inning. not just one but two redskins players could be making their debut this weekend. release, competition between read and d.j. stair inberg, asking him to shut up the trash talk. can't defense that. as is junior gill he the. th
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the redskins. his last blue and -- 22 sacks in two seasons, but a ruptured achilles each year, he's practically begging to get back there. >> it's been two years. now it's getting to the point to a movie that was released that keeps getting postponed. you're like, man, and you got jay saying you're just a tease. that's you know he's kidding around but at the same time you're like i just want to go out there and prove that i'm everything they expect me to be. >> week three preseason action with jay cutter and the kol fins visiting the eagles. third down, he is airing it out for president territory smith who hauls in a 50 yard catch. touchdown and the eagles make a 7-0
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