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take a look. i circled this batch of rain puing out ofest virginia through parts of the panhandle west virginia and virginia. this is moving into our area over the next few hours. the areas in green are under flood warnings and these last times on into the weekend. those areas if you're in that floodwarning, you'll continue to see the heaviest and most rain. 70itegrees right now scattered light showers out there for everybody by 7:00 p.m. as we move toward 9:00 p.m. we're tracking rain. potentially heavy in spots and by 11:00 p.m. i think we'll see heavy rain in the d.c. metro area with temperatures only in 6the uppers. here are those flood warnings i was talking about. thisdes parts of culpeper, rappahannock and stafford counties as well as parts of shenandoah county. we'll see an 1 to 2 inches of rainfall inhe flood warnings. we're getting a lot of reports of flooded roads in these flood
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warning warning. remember, you never want to drive through flooded roads. i'll have more coming up at 5:25. this teen vanished after weekend concert. texts and posts from his cell phone leave confusing ces. now his parents are frantically trying to findim. our aimee cho is live at the site where friends last saw raymond mcgavin to explain what's being done to track him down. >> reporter: jim, his parents are fntic for answers. raymond mcgavin had come here to the capital oney arena on sun night to attend the u2 concert have friends. they went their separate ways at the end of the night to go home and he hasn't beeneen since. >> we don't get it. that's all i can say. >> reporter: as raymond mcgavin's parents talk about the search for their son, his dad's hands shakeit worry. >> he's a great person and we miss him and we want him to come home. >> reporter: what we know about that night. 8:00 p.m. the concert starts.
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11:00 raymond talks to a friend and it sounds like he's near the metro. 11:30 he texts someone he found a way home. 1:00 amhe posts a strpchat near n tracks. nobody knows where. >> we can't even begin the search until we know where he was last located. >> in our minds he's been gone four days. he's a teenager. he hasn't used his phone. to me that's evidence of criminal activity. >> reporter: raymond graduated from gonzaga high school last year. he's a guitarist i a local band called civic duty. >> very smart, very creative. k he'sd of an intellectual, but he's also very funny. he has a raw sense of humor. >> reporr: posting plea for help on social media. they say he was excited to attend william & m iythe fall. >> raymond, we love you. we're never going to stop you.ng for please come home.
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>> reporter: the mcgavinsell us at one point it looked like he might have been in maryland that night, b they have no idea why he would have been there. if you have any information, you're asked to please call police. live at the capital one arena. aimee cho, news 4. we have new details about a deadly hit and run earlier this month in montgomery county. police say a wan who run over by two cars on georgia avenue in aspen hills had been assaulted and robbed moments before. police say they made two arrests in that robbery. they are searching for a third person. only one of those suspects, this man, was or the age of 17. owever, investigators have not found the people or vehicles involved in the hit and run after thery rob just in to the newsroom, we have some sad news to report. we haveearned the man pulled from this car that plunged into the water this morng ing at columbia island marinaas died. emergency crews responded after lgatsses called 9inpu11
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thahit ut hospital. his name has not beenll don't k ended up in the we have some breaking nice right now involving metro.the a for all riders and they're demanding the agency te immediate action. shomari stone joins us live from the van ness stion to explain. >> the federal transit administration sent a letter to metro after an incident happened behind me abouton a ago involving a visually impaired woman. is is video of what she mistook as the doorway. it's on the metro rail 7000 series cars. fortunately she okay after falling on the track. metro sent the letter saying the
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rubber style between the series rail car barriers doesn't provide an accurate warning with passengers with vual impairment. it's unsafe and could hurt or potentiay kill passengers. they're requiring metro to immediately fix the risk to passengers and pubmit an within five business days. now the plan has to show how metro will fix this issue no later than december 31st of this year. in response to the ft alert, metro sent out a statement basically saying that they plan oneplacing the rubber barriersik with chain barriers. also they're going to have announcementsta within theon reminding people with disabilities to tap their foot to make sure that there is floor before you step out because you could, like the woman vho wasual impaired, fall on the track. here at the van ness station in northwest d.c., i'mhomari stone. >> shomari, thank you. for many people, recordings of the cn crying and
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begging for their parents huenizes the cries at border. those sounds led to a show down on the house floor today. watch what happens when congressman ted lu plays the recording. >> iwagine being ripped from your mother or father and then being placed in a detention facility with strangers. >> the gentleman will suspend -- >> are you trying to prevent american the people. >> -- the rule prohibits the use k that device. >> these ares in a detention facility. why do you not lent the american people hear what they are saying. >> eventually lieu reaches into his pocket and turns off the record t. despi rain outside, families protesting the president's immigration policies today. this morning at the department of justice they held signs, chanted and marched. another rally is happening right now outside the department ofme nd security. a cheerful reunion at the
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airport early this morning as a mother and son were brought back together after having been separated at the border. back together after a long journey fm guatemala. they're seeking asylum. she fought, nev gave up until she got her son back. through the tears, you can hear this mother say it again and again, spanish for i love you as she cradles her son. it's a moment she feared night never happen again. tell mi telemundo 44 was at the airport for the reunion. they turned themselves in to customs and border protection in arizona back in may and were ultimately separated. with the support of ani ortion that aims to help mmigrant detiainees through
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migrant representation. >> they have been denied the human rights of custody and care of their minor children. >> she was released from custody last week without her cld. herehe is with her lawyer saying all she wants is to have her son by her side.da later a judge ruled in her favor. this also after president trump's executive order. and the two were once again gether. he's telling our cameras he loves his mom. just before they left the airport, she had these finals woo say to the other moms in her shoes. they can fight the way i did. they have to fight to be free and fight for their kids. theate of 2,000 children separated from their parents is still uertain. now company that does dna testing is stepping in to help. my heritage will offer free dna kits to help parents reunite with theirmy children. tear theritage is reaching out help identify separated families
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and so they'reiving out 15,000 free dna testing kids. >> the raises sparked outrage in prince george's county. some school system administrators gelli administrators getting a 35% pay buar in two now that has leaked into the maryland governor's race. we got a look today at a new audit. chris gordon says it led to tense back and forth for the county executive who is running for the state's top job. >> reporter: the problem is worse than these teachers realize when they began protesting pay hikes given to members of the central office h past year or two. now a new con fidential audit.
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>> now we have the evidence to prove that there are inappropriat pay raises and as a result of the inappropriate money giveaways, taxpayers lost hundreds of thousands of dollars. >> he says he sent a letter requesting a meeting with prince ve rge's county execu rushern baker to discuss the problem. >> i don't see the audit. the school boa members get the audit and they deal with it. >>eleporter: he me he supports ben jealous against baker in tuday's primary. today jealous used the findings in the new audit calling on ker to explain his lack of oversight allowing inappropriate pay raises. baker accuses jealous of playing politics. >> it also shows how much he doesn't kw about maryland. and the role of education. >> reporter: i contacted prince george's public school frs a comm comment and was told by a spokes
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person they have not had a chance to review the audit and have no response. chris gordon, news 4. maryland voters head to the poll next week. primaries will be held on tuesday for several hours and senate races in congress. as well as contests in montgomery and prince george's anunties. youead up on all the candidates on our nbc washington app and we'll have all the results on tuesday night at 11:00. a news 4 i-team investigation finds hundreds of d.c. public school teachers do not have a license. when we come back, city leaders react scott macfarlane's report and what they want to see happen next. > plus a story we broke on the nbc washington app. iolent gang f a indicted for the murders twof t teens. and we have details about a deadly crash during the test of a self-driving car. wait until you hear what the person behind the
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vo: "ludicrous." that's what the washington post calls the attacks on david blair. it's dirty politics. the washington post endorses blr for montgomery county executive. "an energy and passion for innovation." a dose of vitalitya county of injectthati badly needs it." david: we can invest more in our schools, expand pre-k and improve transportation and can do it without morexes when we create jobs. c that's tnge we need. vo: david blair. democrat for montgomery county executive. endorsed by the washington post.
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reaction tonig from leaders throughout the district to a news 4 i-team last night scott macfarlane's first reported how 1,000 d.c. public school teach s are unlicens. by employithem, the school district is violating d.c. school regulations. now the strong but very different rns to his investigation from the people in charge. >> the news 4 i-team found one of every four d.c. public school teachers is currently unlicensed and district officials acknowledge employing them is a violation of d.c. regulations and we found there is no timetable for when the problem will be solved. educationsshairmand a statement just after our report saying i'm again frustrated with d.c. public schools with this most recent failure to properly follow established laws and regulations. these licensing requirements were put in place to ensure or st aents are safe that we
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have quality educators in our schools. mayor bowser told news 4 the problem is primarily new teachers awaiting their licenses not veteran who licenses have expired or lapsed. >> i'm not sure anybody has lapsed, but i know there is a riod of time where they allow new hires to be certified. >> our d i-team investigationid find hundreds of the unlicensed are newlyiredteachers, but we pulled the records and found many others are veteran some who have bee working 20 to 30 years and we found high profile positions including teachers w on the chancellor's teacher's cabinet. an elite group ofca er whose advised the chancellor they, too, were uncensed. e head of the washington teachers union says it needs to be reformed. it's too bureaucratic and the district doesn't offer enough help for them to pass exams. >> it makes no sense if these
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teachers have been teaching for five, ten and 15 years, then we should not have a problem getting them recertified. >> for whom is it a problem that aboutch 1,000 ts don't have the certification? >> first and foremost it's a problemor students. >> child safety advocates and a d.c. state board of education say unlicensed teachers arelso a safety concern. it's more difficult to track unlicensed teacher whose might engage in misconduct. they've red flagged those i teache they don't have a license if they go find teaching work in other states. scott macfarlane, news 4 i-team. a woman attacked by her fiancee a dog outside their maryland home has died. she was mauled yesterday morning huntingtown. she died at the hospital last night. a witness to the attack called 911. authorities eventually shot and killed the dog. the neighbors told news 4 they attack nned by the because the dog had always been
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friendly. the dog was a dogo oarjen nino. the past administrations to defend his zero policy on immigration. president trump cla obama and bush also separated families who crossed into the u.s. illegally our ptners at fact check say trump's rationale is misleading. >> we're going to keep families together, but the i border going to be just as tough as it's been. >> reporter: hours afterigning an executive order that stopped the separation of families at the border, president trump insists the policy will stay in place. according to fact check.org that policy is what separates his administration from previous ones. >> the obama administration and bush administration all separatedamilies at the border. they absolutely did. they did. their rate was less than ours,
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but they absolutely did do this. this is not new. >> there may have been some separation, but there was not a blarn blanket zero tolerance policy that the trump administration has that is causing widespread separation of the famiores. >> rr: that means the obama administration was not referring 100rof illegal borde crossings for crimi l prosecution. the department of homeland security says it was about 21%. >> in other cases the obama administration would have used civildi procs. they could keep families together in family detention. they cld use things like releasing people and having them ome back for a court date and using things like ankle bracelets to keep track of them. >> this photo making the rounds on social media was mistakenly attributed to the trump administration, but was actually taken in 2014 and the children in the photo were not separated om their families. >> they were photos taken by the associated press when there was
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a surge in unaccompanied chilen coming to the border from central america. >> the dhs does not have the data on the number of family separations under previous administrations and analysts with t migration policy institute says it's most likely because it was done in limit circumstances when there was suspicion of trafficking or other fraud. i'm rose mary conners for nbc news. now you'll find complete coverage of the immigration debate inur nbc washington app including poetry written by young children held in aac virginiaity. new details tonight about that deadly crash involving a self-driving vehicle in march. police in arizona report the safein driver b the wheel was streaming a tv show during that accident. police say that if she had been paying attention t to road, she could have stopped the car before it hit the woman that was biking. she says she didn't see the woman until impact.
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prosecutors will decide what to do nt month. meanwhile, uber has shut down its self-driving operation in arizona. much more ahead when he come back on news 4 at 5:00. you might expect a car to make a weird noise when something's not working, but today one woman's car noise turned out to be a kitten. ahead how it got there and how firefighters were able to rescue it using a smartphone. plus storm team 4 tracking storm this is weekend and some storm this is weekend and some of them could be severe.
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and reducing classroom sizes my gfor all our kids.play. unthat's why our next ty executive has to require developers to solve the problems their developments create. as eounty executive, thatctly what i'll do for every generation. i am so glad i bought movie tickets for us tonight, because it's the perfect night to be indoors. >> you just want to hibernate. >> it's like a sweatpants kind of night.tc tv, watch news 4. >> as we take a look at your
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weatherad nes, we are going to have more rain. we are having a break right now, but we're going to have rain moving back in in the next few hours and some pockets of heavy rain overnight tonight are possible in spots. take a look at your second headlines. scattered showers and thunderstorms are in the forecast it's not a washout, but it's one of those days where with the humidity stilln place and the at back among other factors, any storms that pop during the afternoon and evening hours could be on the strong to severe side with very heavy rainfall and gusty winds being theon biggestrn. as we look to next week, it is looking fantastic monday, tuesday, wednesday. i'll have more on that on the ten day forecast. first, all of threas in green here are under flood warnings. these are in these include stafford, culpeper, partsf rappahannock, page counties around luray. rivers also under flood warning.
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you can get more details bbout th downloading our nbc washington app and putting in your location. bute are hearing of a lot of flooded roads where these flood warnings in place and if you're in the flood warnings, we're going to see an additional 1 to 2 inches of rain. elsewhere we'll pick up half an inch to an isolated inchf n partse area. scattered showers out there tracking this i'm batch of rain pushing back into the area. it's about 90 miles awayrom washington. on its current track it's going to get here right around 8:00, 8:30. you can see pockets of more moderate rain, but that severe weather still staying south of us. your rain tonight does widespread rain in the forecast. tomorrow morning during the midday and afternoon hours, we're looking at scattered showers and on sunday just the chance for a late day shower or thunderstorm. here's your planner tomorrow. reme early morning scattered showers out t i think around the late morning and midday, dry with se
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sunshine. for the afternoon and evening hours, scattered showers and thunderstorms with a high temperature of 86 degrees. so we start off at 67. the humidity is there throuayout the and warm to saenl temperatures for this time of year. as weoo at your four-day forecast on sunday, a high temperature of 92. a mix of clouds. that 92 feels like 95 with the humidity. a small chance for a late day thunderstorm. lower humidity out there monday and it is beautiful. tuesday and wednesday temperaturesn the mid t upper 80s. after that we're tracking a heat wave next trsday on into until 1st which is next sunday. temperature around 94. i'm going to be walking you through the forecast tonight with future weather detailing the rain hour by hour coming up right around 5:45. >> i had to do a double take. i can't believe we're talking july. >> it is here. we brought this to you first on the nbc washingtonmipp. up next, new developments in the murders of two teens by the ms 13 gang. >> the new charges tonight
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he walked into an emergency room clenching his chest, and they sent him home. he died alone on a cold floor because he was poor. today in america your life is just a paycheck to an insurance company. it's time to end the american nightmare that my mother and i went through. i'm roger manno. i'ing for congress to expand medicare to every american. >> now at 5:30, they have nicknames like killer and horror, but tonight 11 gang members are jailed facing
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charges in connection with the murders of two fairfax county teenagers. ne boy just 14 is the youngest victim yet of gang violence in o area. the bodies of both victims were found last year. buried >> news 4 was first to report when the indictments were unsealed this our bureau chief julie carey has more now on why the victims were targeted. 1 and 17, victims of a surge of gang violence. this wft the steen a a tip led fairfax county police and the fbi to start digging in this park. the bodies were discovered there. their identities kept secret while investigators identified andearched for their killers. t his mom feared the worst telling them her 14 had gone to take the trash to the dumpster one september night and never came back.
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{ speaking a foreignanguage } >> reporter: the just unsealed indictment confirms what news 4 reported last year. mendez was abducted and killed because gang members believed he was spying on them for a rival gang. they were facebook friends. gang members became convinced he was cperating with police, so they decided to kill him too. court documents revealed both teens were lured to the park thinking they were going to a gang meeting. instead they were killed and buried. this is one of the 11 men charged in connection with the death. herera was alreadyd loc up. he's already facing charges of abducting and raping a ea 15old girl. 10 of the 11 defendants are behind bars. one believed to have fled the country. all but one are undocumented immigrests. more chare expected. i'm julie carey. news 4. >> we should mention that all theefendants are charged with kidnapping but so far just one of them with murder.
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they're still waiting for the changeo come at the former jeb stewart high school in falls church. as you see the old name has been removed from the building but eew name has yet to appear. last fall you'll recall the fairfax countychool board voted to change the name of the school once named for a confederate general. the school's marquis and other signage has yet to be upd ed. thschool's new mascot is the wolves. it is graduatio season, but for some new grads, earning that diploma has been made harder by they high cost to get to and from school. today news 4 talked to rochelle. she is graduating 24 years after she was supposed to get her diploma. she has to take the train and bus to the hope adult public charter school. she could only afford all those trips because d.c. recently adopted a program who helps pay
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transportation for adults who are in school. >> now i want to go back to school, but how am i going to get to school and how am i going to continue t t get school and get back home without, youknow, being broke? that's what the program really helps. >> reporter: moore will finally get her high school diploma tomorrow and sng's also g to be giving the class speech at graduation. >> well, here's one for you cat lovers. it's a classic story you've heard before. firefighters saves kitten, except this time that firefighterd u a smartphone to get the job done. mark segraves with the rescue and what's next with this little ball of fur in that box. >> reporter: the call came in directly to t fire station. a woman parked at this walmart heard a noise coming from her car. this is the sound she heard
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{ meow } >> reporter: she could tell it was a kitten but she didn't know why the kitten was. only that it was somewhere in her car. the captain was the first on the scene. a self-described cat guy. >> the cat was in the iver's side fender in a little well area and he was there meowing. >> reporter: he could s the cat trapped inside the fender of the car but he couldn't reach it. he took out hishone to record e kitten. when he played it back, the kitten started moving closer toward him. >> i'm thinking this guy's going home with me. that's all i was thinking the whole entire time. crawledually the kitten to a spot where his partner could grab it.>> eporter: the firefighters brought the little fur ball back to the fire house whereas you ght have guessed they became attached to one another. theaptain plans to adopt the kitten he rescued once he's had it checked out by a vet.
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in prince george'scounty, mar segraves, news 4. es somtle tiny thing m noise there. >> i have to say i'm very pleased that mark segraves is the one that did that. >> on friday he kind of goes with the gentler story. >> i like that. well done. well done. so let's just stay with this team, shall we? a shelter dog in arizona is going viral for his hidden talent. check this out. >> reporter: drew came to an arizona animal shelter in march and his caretakers just discovered drew can say hello. nowe's an internet sensation. that's got to get him a house, right? that's got to get you a good family. if that doesn't, i don't know what does. >> he might say hello better than you did. > well, he would have been 100 years old this year and the nelson mandela legacy liv on.
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ahead at 5:00, how his grandson is picking up his mantelnd why 's choosing a local school to begin his work. and it is the first weekend of summer, but we've got rn. temperatures in the 60s. things are looking up as far as things are looking up as far as tes go, butmp to three generations montgoof elrich's.is home we love it her but we have to work to keep it great, like fixing transit and traffic to shorten my son-in-law's commute.
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a lot more driving. driving willoon take plac at prince george's county. today crews broke ground on aw op golf location at national harbor. it is expected to open next year. p golf has locations in alexandria and ashburn and another planned for germantown. top golf says more than halfei guests consider themselves nongolfers. not a good day for greens f day. onee biggest churches in prince george's county is taking a step to make sure that peop the community are healthy. the first baptist church in
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upper marlboro is opening the doors to a new family life center tomorrow. health and fitness center have three indoor basketballs. cou it's got an indoor running track and lti-purpose conference room. >> we have programs for all ages. we have programs for schoo age kids up to our seniors for after school programs. we'll haveur ments. we'll have open gym where we can come in and play basketball. we have fitness classes for people to come and get healthy. >> the ribbonng cut is for 10:00 a.m. the facility will be open to the entire community. not just a member of the church. everybody gets to enjoy thi a historic change in saudi arabia. a ban on women drivers gets lifted and it is hapning this weekend. plus a mother's mission after aaiul loss. she talks only to news 4 today about the drowning o her 1-year-old at a day care kiddi
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christmas eve, my dad had no healthcare. he walked into an emergency room clenching his chest, and ey sent him home. he died alone on a cold floor because he was poor. today in america your life is just a paycheck to an insurance company. it's time to end the american nightmare we that my mother and i through. i'm roger mann i'm running for congress to expand medicare to every american. i approve this message.
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kidd . he died in a kiddie pool at his day care just shy of his second birthday. one year laterotisr opens up overwhelmedith grief. she has a warning for other parents tonight. news 4eagan fitzgerald has her story. reporter: these are the moments parents cherish for a lifetime. 1-year-old stokeley taking his first step. >> he was just learning how to talk. he was very curious and he was very unique. he had very high energy. >> his mom mary says they knew instantly that he was born to make the world a better place.
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after why they named him civil rights leader stokley carmichael. we wanted him to have a big impact on h community, on the world. >> there were so many hopes and dreams for his life. but on june 13th of 2017, just days before he turned 2, his mom dropped him off a c this daye on 17th street in northeast before heading to work. not longfter, mary got a call from her husband. >> he had received a call from children's hospital that stokley had been in an accident. and we r to the hospital. >> reporter: the ball he was playing wit in the back yard of the day care went into this kiddie pool and he drownedtr whe ng to grab it. it's pain that i don't wish on anyone and in my healing, i wanted to do tomething help other parents. >> theasay care never
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charged, but no one saw him fall in. months later mary started a nonprofit called parents against negligent day care. they edu pteents on how to pick the right provider and remind them to never leave a child alone around a pool. the grief is still overwhelming, bu s marys she comes here to her son's room to p findce. his life was short, but his family knows hwill help a community through his death. >> we like to give parents life-saving information for their children. so that's our gift from him to other children. >> meagan fitzgerald, news 4. >> that day care provider lost its license for three years,ut again, no charges were ever filed. mary's nonprofit willold its first annual festival tomorrow son..c. to honor her you can find more information in
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our nbc washington app. summer safety comes in different forms. before heading o to summer camp, exper with the association of camp nursing suggests children get a pre-camp physical. this will ensure that your child is healthy and upto date on all vaccines. of course,wi s before going to camp. don't forget the sunscreen. encourage your kid to actually put it on. i don't know how much sunscreen we're going to need this weekend. >> you're not going to hit the pole either. in fact,ou say we're already seeing some flooding in parts out there, right? >> yh. and i've reached out to folks on twitter, so if you are seeing ooding, please let me know. i love to talk about that. we're getting reports of flooding down around south and west of fredericksburg. getting reports of flooding in culpeper, warren. the temperatures on the cool we're in the 60s right now. this is pretty much current temperature that we' been at for the last couple of hours. 69 degrees right now in
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washington. and for the most part a break from the rain right now, but i want to show you future and really walk you through the rest of your evening and your day tomorrow with what you can expect. here we are at 8:0 p.m we're seeing showers in the d.c. metro area. back to their west innia we're tracking areas of heavy rain and where you're seeing this heavy rain, this is where those flood warnings are already in effect. we can see an additional 1 to 2 inches in culpeper, rappahannock, stafford counties. these same areas also under a flash flo watch until 6:00 a.m. starting to see that heavy rain move into fairfax count by 11:00 p.m. heavy rain in the d.c. metro area. even a rumble of thunder as we look to tomorrow. an isolatedwe s is possible during the morning hours, but main ly during the afternoon. some f those storms tomorro afternoon could be strong to severe with heavy rainfall and gusty winds being the main concern. so the weekend tomorrow not a
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washout by any means. even tomorrow not all that bad, but you definitely want to be weather ready on your saturday. >> absolutely. in case we do get some of that rain or that storm, you wanto go indoors immediately. it's probably going to be the better day to get some gardening done early on sunday so you beat the heat, buteou don't h to battle the rain. here we go with our gardening forecast proviy us by the experts. you can see tomorrow morning temperatur l will be in the 70s to start. showers still coming down.ll then w dry things out. between about 1:00 to 5:00 we e looking a that storm chance. it will be very scattered. not a washout. by sunday hot. temperatures in the low 90s. you want to get this stuff done early. look at your gardening t keep an eye out for monarch eggs. if you really want toth encoura population, you want to go ahead and plant some milk weedhe
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out. let's talk about the giant national capital barbecue grill battle because there's a lot going on around town this wearend. this incular i know a lot of folks are going to be having to deal with rain. i'd probably bring the if i'm going to set anything up. by the afternoon it will be morn like a moving through. sunday temperatures around 90 degrees. we are tracking, keeping an eye on any rain chances sundayte oon. right now i'm thinking we're looking on the better side of things. >> some good news there. bottom line your weekend is n aotal loss at all. better chance that you're dealing with rain by far on saturday about 70%. otherwise humid with some hazy sunshine out there. 86 degrees for a high. 92 on sunday feels more like mid to werer 90upper 90s when you the humidity. next week, fantastic. no worries of rain. we'll be inrow keeping an
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eye on storm team 4 radar and she'll let you know any severe thunderstorms bubbling up across the area where they're heading and if they'll intercontinental pam you. >> thank you, ma'a meanwhile, another nfl heeerleader is suing the team that employed she says the houston texans put duct tape on her body to improve her looks. the lawsuit also claimsno she w paid for all the hours she worked. >> we were told to eat less, watch what we were eating, and we weren't loong theay we were and we didn't have a lot of time to work out. we wereold don't eat. do what you have to do to look the aipart. >> nfl it supports fair employment practices and everybody who works in the nfl, including cheerleaders, has the right to work in a positive and respectful environment. michigan state university will not use compensate women who say larry
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nassar sexually abused them. the board of trustees voted to pay the settlement with a bond $75 million will be set aside to settle future claims against the former sports doctor. the remaining amount will be 300 ed among more than alleged victims. nassar pleaded guilty to sex charges and will spend the rest of his life behind bars. he was also a doctor for usa gymnastics. some0 local residents will get new roofs for free. that thanks to a decision from d.c. mayor muriel bowser. she awarded $1 million to habitat for humanity. the organization will use the funds to fix and replace the roofs ofbout a dozen eligible low income rsidents. toda announcement is part of he mayor's efforts to reserve affordablesing and revitalize housing in the district. coming up, the grandson of the late nelson mandela. >> he's making his first trip to the u.s. as a scholar.
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in less than ten minutes life in saudi arabia changes forever. at the strike of midnight women akwill be able to t the wheel literally and drive cars for the first time. tens of thousands of women have applied to driving school. hundreds have their license. women's driving privileges are part of the crown prince's plan to modernize the kingdom.
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a mant n is not relying oni famous last name. >> he has a tradition rooted in humility. >> thi wisre you will find mandela work, george mason niversity, working on his ph.d.. do people give you a second glance and say are you related? >> oh, yes. yes. it's always a question. >> reporter: at 25 he goes by madiva. e late leader s 27 years in prison. he went on to become that nation's first black president. in december of 2013 our jim vance traveled to south africa to cover mandela's funeral. he describes mandela's legacy. >> nelson mandela, freedom
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fighter, diplomat, peace maker. he is gone from this l he loves so much, but the iconic figure, the conscience of this nation remains here today in spirit and according to thesa convon and many of the people here in south africa wila so forever. >> reporter: the younger is ready a lecture ur, but he is cct willing to live off his grandfather's s. sitting with him it seems there's no entitlement. >> how do you not have that? how is it that's not part of your ego? >> well, i think it was i ingraine me that you must also exercise hig level of humility. >> it is that humility that attracted him to george mason. some h might thinkwould gone to oxford or harvard. but a mason professor who
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as a mediator in south africa attracted his focus. >> i don't think the prestige of thut name, i seek the influence of contribution of those individuals thin, so that is what led me here. >> reporter: he aims to h echois grandfather's humity and leadership. >> you must always be able to extend the hand to those with you. >> reporter: a young acdemmadem believes you cannot achieve greatness alone. news 4 at 6:00 starts now. storm tea 4 is tracking storms as we head into our weekend. this picture o the flooding in culpeper, virginia. parts of our region are dealing with flooding. others are dodging rain drops. >> there's more on the let's go first to amelia draper. amelia. >> leon and doreen, i want to get right to those flo
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warnings. all of the areas in green are under some sort of flood warning and these will last until at least:30 tonight, potentially lingering on into the weekend as late as early sunday moing. we have the shenandoah and rappahannock rivers under flood warnings. culpeper, stafford counties under flood warnings. they're going to go tonight into morningmorrow this same area is potentially going to see some more heavy rain during the evening and overnight hours. we're getting a lot of reports of flooded roadways in these flood warnings. remember you never want to drive through a flooded road. we could see an additional 1 to es of rain. elsewhere about half an inch of rain possible. is area of rain is going to be moving into the d.c. metro area by about:00 p.m. i'm going to have more on how this impacts your saturday, c leon,ing up around 6:25. >> you got it. we'll see you then. in theea
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