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. . . . he now, at 11:00, still in the race. alabama senate candidate, roy moore, addressing supporters tonight, one month out from his special election, while republicans openingly speculate about how to replace him.
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herself in in virginia. why she is facing charges that date back a year. recall resistance. consumer reporter shows us the danger of not getting a recalled air bag replaced and what automaker is doing about it. new tonight, authorities say quick action by elementary school staffers saved children's lives from a man intent on killing as many people as he could today. >> they warn the number of victims in the deadly shooting rampage in california could grow. the map opened fire in a rural community, about two hours north of sacramento. investigators say he shot at random, killing four and wounding ten others. >> one elementary school student is among the injured. investigators say none of the children lost their lives. it was all thanks to school staffers being proactive
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>> it appears he chose the school as a random target. what it appears to be is that he became frustrated, not being able to get into the classroom. the gunman died in a shootout with officers. >> investigators say one of the victims is a woman that took a restraining order out on the shooter and all of the others appear to be random. lee on hammon hammer is her more breaking news. alabama's candidate for u.s. senate seeing this through to the end. roy moore made his first major public appearance since the latest of five women came forward accusing him of pursuing them since they were teenagers when he was in his 30s. >> reporter: moore spoke at the god sake america conference at a local church in alabama. he claims republicans and democrats are working together to get him to drop out of the
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>> i'm the only one that can unite democrats and republicans. because i seem to be opposed by both. they have spent over $30 million to try to take me out. they have done everything they could and now they are together to try to keep me from going to washington. >> as for the folks who are in washington right now, many republicans on capitol hill say they would rather have a democrat than moore. retiring senator, jeff flake, said, if he were in alabama, he would run to the polling place to vote for the democrat. today, attorney general, jeff sessions says that he believes the women accusing moore of sexual misconduct. mitch mcconnell is floating the idea of sessions as a write-in alternative to take back the seat that was once his. a congresswoman says tonight over the past decade, $15 million has been
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alleged victims of sexual harassment by members of congress, all of it funded by you, the tax payers. they didn't say which members of congress have been accused of sexual misconduct. two female lawmakers say at least two sitting male members of congress, one republican, one democrat, are currently under ryu view. o review. one of them accused of exposing themselves. complaints on the hill require a 30-day cooling off period before women can file suit. >> there is a requirement to sign a nondisclosure agreement, which is a muzzle on the victim. the victim has to stay in that office for three months and continue to be in a very uncomfortable situation. >> 1500 have signed a letter saying they want to see reform for what they think are
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inadequate sexual if harassment policies. nbc news fired a senior vice-president today following multiple allegations of sexual misconduct against him. matt zimmerman was one of the top bookers of talent and guests for the "today" show. his actions, quote, violated company policy. he is the latest media executive to lose his job since accusations against film producer, harvey weinstein, surfaced, opening a floodgate of allegations against other powerful men. tonight, outspoken weinstein accuser, rose mcgowan, is free on bond in vary v.a. actress turned herself in today on a month's old arrest warrant from felony drug possession stemming to a flight she took to dull let airport in january. she was in town for the women's march after president trump's inauguration. something she left behind tested positive for narcotics.
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nine months for it to come to light. three deadly shootings in four days, two of the suspects still free. all of it happening last week along the same high traffic area in the district from pent worth to the brightwood neighborhood along georgia avenue northwest. tonight, neighbors got a chance to get some answers from police. shamari stone is live with more on what they heard. >> many of the people that live in this neighborhood tell me they are sick and tired of the gun violence. they came here with their friends and family members to st. john united baptist church to hear d.c. police give an update on the three shootings. >> right now, i'm feeling distressed, disappointed and a little anxious as well. >> after living in northwest d.c. for 25 years, janet crump is upset over three murders near
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>> it is discouraging for me. i have been a community worker and organizer. i've been an amc commissioner and i don't see any particular change in my community. >> reporter: janice crump and 100 people listened to d.c. police talk about last week's rash of shooting, three people died, including a 16-year-old. they believe two of the shootings were bang related. police say overall crime is down 14%. brandon todd says he understands why people are still upset. >> public safety in the fourth district is one of my chief priorities. >> janice crump has a message for the suspected shooters. >> i want the young men to put the guns down and get a grip on life and try to make a change for themselves. >> reporter: police have onl
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shootings. they urge anyone with information about the other two to give them a call. they urge anyone with information to give them a call. they insist that people should think about installing surveillance cameras outside of their homes. new video shows a group of people beating a man with a baseball bat and robbing him. this happened last friday morning in the sean neighborhood outside the lincoln departments. this shows a woman hitting the man with the bat as two men kicked him. a urth to man stands by and watches. according to a police report, the victim was on his way up to his girlfriends' apartment. the attackers stole several items from his pockets. if you recognize them, you are urged to call police. >> joshua cole has filed a lawsuit over the
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controversy. republican, bob thomas, leads co colby 82 votes. stafford county's electoral board did not count 55 absentee ballots found at the box office. cole is suing to have those votes counted. he hasn't said if he will demand a recount. virginia's house democratic caucus will hold a news conference with cole's attorney about that lawsuit. the fbi says new lab results provide a stronger link between a homeless navy vet and the death of a young woman from prince george's county. eric brown is charged in the death of ashanti billings. they say brown's dna matches evidence found in her car. brown did construction work where billy worked and made crude sexual comments to her. billy vanished back in september. her body was later found in north carolina. >> tonight, wee
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look inside what could be the future of hotels. some big name companies are rolling outsmart rooms, completely customizable and controlled by alexa. news 4's meagan fitzgerald reports, you could stafrt seein some of these features as early as next year. >> the gym is being called the room of the future where most everything you want can be controlled by voice command. >> when you come to a new place, you like to feel at home and comfortable. >> reporter: kareem khalifa is the senior v.p. of global design for marriott. he is considered the brains of the operation. we asked him for a tour. >> let's go see a room. >> reporter: once inside shall the experience is transformed to a new level. >> there are different scenes here for people when they first arrive. >> reporter: the miller family has two kids and are staying at the marriott whi
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>> we have put their personalized artwork that comes from their accounts. the contents on the tv. >> there are exercise capabilities. >> we can see for her a yoga routine that let's her get some exercise when she first comes to the room. >> there is the bathroom where even the toilets are upgraded with heated and cooled seats. the shower pressure is adjusted through voice commands. hilton says they are making significant changes. many room features can be controlled through smart phones and work-out facilities inside rooms are already available at some of their properties. both hotel chains say the smart room. >> here is the room service menu. >> won't cost the guest a thing, because they are saving money in the long run. >> i can shut this whole room down, shut the curtains down and lock out the sunlight and keep all that out of the room and save all that energy. >> meagan fitzgerald, news
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>> you wouldn't intentionally put yourself or your kids in dane jury on the road. experts say that is what some of us are doing by not getting recalls fixed. susan hogan explains what's being done about it. >> learning to let go. our adam tuss gets into a self-driving car to show us how much closer they are getting to street ready. >> smart rooms, smart cars. forecast right now, temperatures today, upper 40s to low 50s. cool today. rather cold tonight. some locations already close to freezing in our region. we will talk much more about
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thoses of car owners are ignoring safety recall notices and may be putting themselves and you at risk. this recall resistance forced one automaker to take in some unprecedented action. consumer reporter, susan hogan is working for you to keep your family safe. >> reporter: here is the problem. certain air bags are so dangerous. honda is trying to get them off the road. the automakers efforts to get drivers to bring their cars into dealers isn't working. so honda is going to them. >> it started with a knock. >> there was a man that was standing on the stoop and he had a shirt on that said honda serviceman. >> she wanted to hear more. >> reporter: he mentions the honda car that we have and if the information was correct. t
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check the air bag in her honda crv. >> he went in and took the small piece and he just popped it right off. >> reporter: the tech told christine it is safe and he left. honda told her it was part of a quality control inspection. they told us about an even bigger initiative going on nation-wide to track down more than 100,000 of the most dangerous air bag inflateers, alpha inflaters only found in honda vehicles. locating the cars isn't easy. the honda recall pit crew going door to door. they are on a mission to locate those customers that haven't responded to recall notices. >> they have been recalled since 2008 and 2009 and never fixed. we are having to knock on the doors and try to talk to them face to face to breakthrough the clutter. >> if l
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replace the air bags immediately. >> this goes well beyond honda and beyond cicada. the government and automakers are struggling to convince drivers to get their car's dangerous defects fixed. >> what the data tends to show is that about 70% of the vehicles recalled get fixed. what that means is that 30% don't. those numbers are even higher in terms of folks that don't get them fixed for older vehicles. >> paperwork might be missing or it could be something else. >> if they had the part and everything was simple, that would help people to comply easier. >> the importance of a safety recall, not just for yourself or for your family. >> none of us would send our loved ones, children, parents, spouses out if we knew there was
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doing. >> so honda isn't the only automaker using unconventional tactics to reach out to customers with open recalls. >> chrysler is sharing its recall information, it's data, to collision repair shops so they can reach out to the drivers as well. back to you. >> we may soon rely on self-driving technology to get us where we need to go. for the past two days, news 4 has seen just how close that is to becoming a reality. adam tuss has been traveling with engineers at virginia tech. the technology they are working on is so new. few news outlets have seen it. pressing a button allows the car to take over for you. the car then beeps and tells you when to take back control. experts tell adam, self-driving cars won't take over the roads all at once. that's a good thing. we'll see gradual changes over time. >> a long time for me. >>t
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take over control. >> exactly. >> even alexa can give the weather forecast now. it is outrageous. >> my daughter goes to alexa first. let's tell you what's going on out there right now. you don't need her to tell you it is cold outside across our region, a little bit on the cold side for sure. temperatures not too bad here at the airport. in the suburbs, on the cooler side. we are up 1 degree from last hour. winds out of the northwest. 37, winchester. 27 in stanton. 38 in gaithersburg. that has come up a little bit. we still have cloud cover. will we have clearing? look at huntingtown, down to 34. when we get rid of the cloud, we are going to quickly decrease as fa
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we will see rain this time tomorrow night on the radar coming from a storm system well to the west. you can see where the clouds are. watch this. i told you huntingtown, clear skies, still some cloud cover around northern virginia and d.c. we will see the clouds wane. this frontal boundary will move through tomorrow night into thursday. first off, tomorrow, sunshine early and then cloud in the afternoon as the storm system moves closer. continued cool high temperatures, upper 40s to around 51 in the city. as you move on through the day tomorrow, 7:00 a.m., no problem. 5:00 a.m., no problem. increasing clouds but dry rhodes throughout the time frame. not expecting weather to be a big issue. waking up tomorrow morning, it will be on the cold side. 51 tomorrow. 59 on thursday but 59 comes at a price. we say breezy. it might be down riright breezy. a chance of a shower early in he
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52, rather breezy on friday too. windchills in the 40s all day. on saturday, this is a big storm. we get pretty good chance of rain early in the day. again, a really good chance of rain on saturday night as the cold front moves through. temperatures drop significantly, 48 degrees on sunday. showers early. look at these windchills. sunday morning, down into the 20s, 35 in d.c. even during the day. here we are at noon. windchill of 38 in d.c. by afternoon, those windchills only in the 30s. sunday is going to be a rather chilly one. it looks like we stay rather chilly on monday. high only in the mid-40s. right now, it looks like thanksgiving will be in the mid-40s too. so watch out for that 46 degrees coming you on thursday for turkey day. >> all right. thank you, doug. coming up, the predats or
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visit sleepnumber.com for a store near you. the caps down in nashville, high scoring game. >> it was. you need both hands to count the goals. for the third time, the capitols gave up six goals or more in nashville tonight. the predators rocking in the music city. matt niskanen missing the last 13 games. not a good first, down 2-0. in the second, down 2-1. rick connolly shot off the mark and sends to alex chazon. the predators respond. filip forsberg's shot saved. he forces a
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and scores. this puck went off the skate of a defender and in. preds back on top. it is now 4-2. the cooaps kept responding. on the break, pass over to oshi. oshi nets their second goal of the game. they are just within a goal. mika selamaki with the caps. he tide for the worst of his career. predators win it, 6-3. meanwhile, just when it looked like most of the starters were back for the redskins, the team loses two more. out for the season, running back, rob kelly and linebacker, will compton both placed on injured reserve. huge as the offense and defense prepares for a red hot new orleans team. marshall in his second season with philly, where he was an undrafted freeag
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the first pac 12 player to go over 1,000 yards rushing and 1,000 yard receiving in ray single season. he has some much-needed depth behind chris thompson and samaji p ryan. seminoles led by 18 at the half. second half, colonials battling back. 14 for him. g.w. down ten. terrence mann was the man tonight for fsu. nice move. he gets the layup to go. he has 17, florida state beat george washington, 87-67. in a huge showdown earlier, number two, michigan state, taking on number one ranked duke in chicago. skipping ahead. late second half. blue devils within a point but kicking out to myles bridges knocking down the three. michigan state takes a two-point lead. 19 points for brinks. grayson allen saying, i can match it with that.
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37 points tonight. duke wins it, 88-81. georgetown is back tomorrow. we are in maryland. full swing. ♪ ♪ it feels good to be back. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪
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