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colleagues to t recognis is not about doing president trump a favor, this is about notecting the constitut of the united states. for a persoe moderrom the point of view from not wanting to use the position information a faerk agenda but to be abl - a particular agenda but use that to protect the particular branch of government. de so what's next? the pre already says he has a list of possible options. senate majory leader, mitch ntconnell wanlts the vote last fall. the vote last fall. you'll recall what happened in 2016 when mcconnell stonewalled merrick garland from eveng gett hearings. you'll remember what happened in 16, the american people should have a voice in the selection of their next supre court justice. it's unclear, with a minority, what, if any, ability democrats have to prevent a vote. much moreg comin up at 5am0.
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pete willi will give us his take. turning now to our forecast. storm team 4 watching the radar and potential for heavy rains in the next couple ofours. doug is in the storm center tracking the waves and heat waves that will follow this. >> heat waves will be the bigger story. we will see scattering of thunderstorms. we have some innd hardee shenandoah county john mcguinness it's not that strong, not a lot of lightning associated with it. some showers towards frederick county and maryland. light showers and a little stronger in this area and strongestk b towards west virginia, and this whole area will continue to move through. yes, a chance for storm tonight. not everyone will see them. showers and storms moving keep the umbrella just in case. heat and humidity moving in and,
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boy, do they build big-time. right now, i have at least 90 for the next 10-day of the forecast. breaking news at the "live desk" in the navsroom. police arrested two brothers in connection with a deadly stabbing in silver springs. th are both 1 years old and now both charged with murder. police say theynv wereved in the stabbing death of alvarez in may. they have a warrant out for 18-year-old francisco sosa, still searching for him. they believe this was a gang related murder. back to you in the sdio. >> thank you. new fall-out from the violence in cha ottesville. nearly 30 federal hate crime harges have been filed now against the man who drove into
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that crowd of people pro tsting a uni right rally. this was last august. you' remember a woman named heather heyer died. 28 people were injured. if convicted, the driver, jes field jr. there, could spend the rest of his life behind bar he was in town to participate in the wte supremi rally. and organizers behind that rally want a permit for d.c. on the one year anniversary. it appeared to be a tragic accident as a girl is still in critical condition. the fountain that is on the observation desk and overlooks the potomac and national skyline. chris has the latest on this. >> reporter: wendy, today we learn ad second child was injured at the same time. it happened just beforeear that
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that is lit up at night attracting families and their children. today, that area is closed to theublic for this investigation. te acciden happened here, by the outdoor fountain on the mg s deck overlooking the c y. apparently, two children were holding a handrail with lights embedded underneath and got shocked by electricity. mgm nationa harbor sent us this statement saying this is a horrible accident and we are heartbroken. we offer our support and prayers for the family. we are fully cooperating with the prince george's county ems fire department. people are wondering how a handrail could have been so dangerous. >> i think mgm could have done a better job protecting kids. >> reporter: a source with knowledge says the children are brother and sister, ages 5 and 6. the mother grabbed the little boy and aasino security guard
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pulled the little girl away from the energized railing. her heart wasn't beating. a prince george's police officer gave her cpr. >> they continued cpr en route to the hospital. >> reporter: that little girl remains in critical condition evening. the mgm security guard has non-life threatening first responders can't confirm what happened to the brother ort pare, because they weren't transported to the hospital by a county but a private vehicle. the republican and democratic nominees for maryland governor areo wasting time in their campaign. ben jealous has voters to win over andarty toend.
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tracee wilkins has our report tonight. >> today, ben jealous, democratic nominee for governor gave us what to expect against governor larry hogan, one of the most popular in history. >> hogan, you have no idea, your cattacks thate out were sad, dude. >> reporter: hogan won aictory lap in a nomination that he trailed in for months. >> we wonn 22 of 24 counties and won in baltimoreouy where my family lived since 1941. >> reporter: baker vowed his support forlo j in his concession speech last night. >> i told him we would do everything we can to make sure he is victorious in november because the main thing is we need to get a democrat back in annapolis. >> i'm counting on him. we had a wonderful conversation. very >> reporter: reflecting on his
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win, jealous became remembering maryland is the state that once discriminated against his own moth. >> we a a state that yearns to be a place where no one is d pushn because of what they look like or who they love or what god the pray to. >> that was tracee wilkins reporting. susan turnbaugh, the former claire for the maryland party is jealous's running mate and says she believes he will be a key influence after that challenging primary. prince george's county poised to have as woman chief executive, angela also brooks the county's top prosecutor since 2011 a won decisive victory. also brooks grew up in the county. says she's excited about her win inspiring young girls. >> i heard the senator saying it's important i be the last. to make sure that we do such a
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wonderful job, it will create opportunities for every other young woman and young girl, that this is possible for them, too. i started inharyland w two young parents, 20 years old diagnosed with attention deficit disorder as a child and moved up. for every yging , this is possible with hard work. >> with 1 more than times more democrats registered than republicans in prince george county, it is possible also brooks will be elected this fall. it will be another week and county tomontgomery know who is the executive there. fewer than 500 votes separate the top t candidates. council member mark elrich and businessman, david blair. apu statewide cr glitch we've been talking about means 80,000 voters may haveo had cast provisional ballots. those votes and absentee ballots
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have not yet c beennted. you can check all the votes and search "primary results" for a look at the races near you. perhaps the biggest upset in primaries all over the country may have been up in new york, where alexandria cortez beat longim incumbent. she is a formeror organizer the bernie sanders. if elected, she would be the youngest person ever elected to ress. crowley had been widely considered a possible successor to nancy pelosi. justice anthony kennedy announcing his retirement. we continue to follow this breaking story just ahead. pete williams with a look what we can expect from cegress onc kennedy officially steps down, and the lasting impact of this decision. a mie after police in
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it was supposed to be the mpromised bill but republicans
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couldn't reach an agreement on the immigrationote last week so they pushed it to today's agenda and it didn't even come clos to passing. every democrat in the house voted against it. republicans couldn't even agree. now, the m house pivot to a stand alone bill that address just the stand alossue hoping to get something accomplished before the fourth of july recess this week. supporters demanded action from congress before that july fourth recess wanting prosections for children separated from their families older the president's zero tolerancey. >> we also want reunifications. kids areeing sent a over the country without their parents, and this ask -- disgracefulti administ has no idea where they are. yesterday, a judge in
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california order the trump administration to reunify all families within 30 days and even faster inas ces that involve children under the age of 5 the crisis at the border reaches our region and today we knowal children separated from their families in northern virginia. they're at the youth for tomorrow facility in bristow, virginia, dividend avid is ther explain how they'reeing car for. >> reporter: the facility has a contract with health ahuman servic today we learned 15 children separated from their falies at the border are housed here. today, senator mark warner was allowed to tour the facility. after more than an hour walking the ground, senator warner told us what he saw. today, we only had these images released by health & human services. >> these kids are being taken care of in a clean and
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appropriate environment. >> reporter: in touch with their loved ones but not yet reunitedr the sen says he wants the president to expedite that process. >> this problemas created because this president arbitrarily used power to put in place zero tolerance policy he american people revolted against. this president showed he could change that policy with simply the use of his own pen. luckily he did that. reporter: senator warner asking how many of the roughly 2,000 children affected nationally are still waiting to be connected with family. several interruptions adathe senator ted us. >> i come away frankly with the same view this facility, the individual shouted they're good neighbors, not hurting anyone. >> reporter: at the end of his remarks, another disturbance. wneighbor, andre onclseen
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hi wsal frustration on the issu. >> okay, run away.or >> reporter: m than 1500 miles from the u.s.-mexico border we're seeing emotions on both sides over the deeply divisive issue. vid culver, news4. virginia governor, ralph northam says that are investigating allegations of migrant teenagers. they deny it even though it ise oper by the localities and managed by the commentary. th governor says it will remain under scrutiny. >> we saw there were 22 children at the facility. we didn't find any wrongdoings 2 far. >> the who made those original complaints have been removed from that facility. joe jackson the patriarch of the musical, jackson 5, has died. he was in hospice care in los angeles battling cancer.
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he created the jackson 5 in the 60s and becamenown as a harshly critical stage parent and accused of physecal ay some of his children. michael jackson's estate released a statement saying he was a strong man that acknowledged his own imperfections. he is survived by his children and more than two dozen grandchildren. he was 89. behavioral healt facilitie about to open in fairfax. looking inside, it iludes dividual patient rooms and adolescent unit and moredded patient safety enhancements. >> ultimately, what you're i concerned abo that someone's illness will push them into a decision to harm themself or try and take their life. that's a tragedy that you want to avoid at all costs. >> the facility, there are art
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therapy and group meeting roomsw alongh an open dining and kitchen space. the facility will open to its first parents early next month. today, a protest by former police officers against policon capitol hill. saying the police are discriminatory towards african-american officers on capitol hill about a h hf-dozen peopled signs and organizers say a discrimination lawsu has been tied up in u.s.co district for 17 years and they want a swift and immediate settlement. a local man with a passion for gardening. an unpleasant surprise after his plants m aretaken for weeds. he was facing a massive fine. what happened when news4 got involved. ugs
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all right, doug. you said it was going to cloud . i had showers in my neighborhood around lunchtime. >> we hadhors but nothing heavy. they came through to get the umbrella up a couple minutes. i think we will see heavier showers and maybe a few thunderstorms. we told you yesterday, today
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is not a washout. keep tmbrella handy. most of us may not see a sstwer or thundm out there. if you do see it, be prepared and kp the umbrella handy. showing cloud covers acr the national cathedral. temperatures at 81 winds out of the south at 13 miles an hour, helped produce a lot more humidity. it does feel a lotore humid than the past couple of days. winchester, 77 close to martinsville. more cloudsay all to the south, 85 towards the fredericksburg area. warmer there but still well below average. we had shower activity. ck towards winchester and you see shower activity and showers moving towards frederick county virginia and martinsville seeing showers. one linend another line coming
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as well. another area of storminess. back towards west virginia, right now, you can see this stor it's a big storm, very potent this time of year making it way through par of the great lakes. as it comes through,e will see scattered showers and thunderstorms throughout the rest of the night. again, not everybody will see those. be ready. couple strong storms and a slight risk for severe weather. it's a marginal risk thi area in the darker green, the highest threat area from d.c. to baltimore and martinsville and northern virginia. these a scattered thunderstorms. not a big weather night but something i want you to remember if you are heading out to dinner. 6:00 notice a couple showers or storms. 7:00,p8:00, k the umbrella handy. notice by 100, the second area begins to move in.
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we could see heavy rain around 10:00, 11:00, 12:00 hour. 72 degrees mostly cloudyie 83 degrees by noon and hot and humid weather heat index in the low 90s. 89 by 7:00. heading to the quicken loans golf tournament tomorrow. muggy tomorrow, 91 on friday and 94 on saturday. that's in the suburbs. look at the heat inside the city. 96 on saturday and 97 on sunday. that heat wave sticks around. h ie 90 or higher for the next 10 days at least. pretty big heat wave in the making. >> we are a week away from the fourth of july. some explosive warnings for you before you set off yourrk fire a legal fight and a physical one. we'll hear from a teacher who says she was bullied and
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assaulted b the principal at her elementary school. >> aand man dies after being
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back now at 5:30, closer look at our top story. supreme court justice kennedy set to retire.
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it has already ignited a battle over who might have succeeded. a closer look at what's at stake. > what this means is we will bt july do31st. e to if t psident of the senate don't get their act to confirm somedy by the first term of october we will be starting this term with eight justices like we did after the death of antonin scalia. this will set off a huge political fight in the senate. democrats are still smarting over the decisions by the ofublicans in the last year president obama's term not even to give a hearing to president obama's nominee to replace justice scalia, merrick garland. even though republicans have the majority it will still be a tough fight for whoever the president nominates. you can be sure whoever the president trump nom nates will be moreonservative than
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kennedy and that will shift it to one more conservative and will give samuel alito and nei gorsuch a fifth solid conservative and that will last for years and years to come. it's impossible to overstate how big a deal this is for the future of the supreme court at least for the next decade or so. >> you can read justice kennedy's announcement of the role he's played on the bench. you can find itll on the washington app. >> here are new developnts afte man died in police custody in fairfax county. news4 mark segraves has reaction from a family friend who knew the man. we also heard fm police tod clearing up confusion over how this all started. >> reporter: at first, police said ty were called to this home over a domestic incident
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but later, the cef tol reporters police were called for an overdose. when they arrived, 31-year-old hris hall was trying urt himself. a family friend says that's not exactly what happened. he said paul's number called because their son was in medical distress and flailing about uncontrollably, possibly fromn embolism. >> he washi thr around in intense pain and they were trying to secur him and his parents were desperately trying to know what happened. >> reporter: police were able to subdue paul after he fell down according to the chief. >> this was done by first handcuffing mr. paul and then using a nylon supplemental restraining device to stop his legs from violently the medics were then called in to provide a medical assessment of mr. paul. pronounced he was dead when he arrived at the hospital. >> at this time, it's a act of
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criminal investigation but with a level of confidence i can say no physical use of force was used against mr. paul, nor were any other type of weapons used agai>>t him. eporter: police are reviewing body worn camera video of the xincident. si officers who were there the afternoon were placed on routind nistrative leave pending an investigation. >> absolutely tragic. a wonderful young m. >> the chief will release the cameraid to the public when they can. >> one of the things the chief os not able answer was how much time elapsed from when police arrived at the house to whenaramedics treated paul. the chief says medics were kept outside the house for their safety until paul was subdued. a prince george's county teacher is suingch thel district saying her principal at
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ardmore elementary bullied her and should beth fired. are both on suspension after an altercation at the school. >> bullying, as you know, is ongoing, and if the bully isn't stopped, it willin co. >> reporter: she says she is a victim of bullying, the alleged bully is the principal at ardmore elementary school wherer chfield teaches second grade. the teacher's union confirmed she has reported issues with thh principal i past. two weeks ago, things escalated. >> i don't know what led up to her being sory a and hostile with me at this time. >> reporter: according to prince george's an incident happened on the 12th and a letter went home to parents because it's positble studentsssed the incident. crutchfield's attorney, charles
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tucker, says the principal attacked his client verbally and sed herulder to push her. >> she decided to confront her in the parking lot and it's scallated. >> they're trying to figure out exactly what hapned as they launch and investigation. it's escalated. >> she did get this protective order against the principal. regardless what happened, many parents we talked to say the incident suld have never occurred. >> i feel like it's about maturity. you're grown, you need to set an example for kids. if you can't set an example, don't get in this profession. >> what kind of example are you setting for the kids. >> rorter: prince george's county, news4. >> we have been trying to reach to the principal but at this time not able to reach her for a comment. becoming a trend in the district, marijuana pop-up parties. ing nearly two dozen
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people at one of these events, the fourth in recent months, the most recent along west virginia avn the underneath. police said they seized more than 10,000 pounds of pot and edibles and oils. sdsh $10,000 in itll remains illegal to sell it. we have a warning tonight, a demonstration how dangerous fireworks can be. today, the consumer products safety commission ward americans what can go wrong, as they d every year. they say last year there were eight fireworks related deaths, and emergency rooms treated nearly 13,000 injuries. >> keep sparklers out of the hands of children. c sparkl burn up to 2,000
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degrees fahrenheit, just like a blowtorch. >> always make sre consu fireworks are legal in your area before buying or using them. what's even safer is sitting back and taking t in a firework shows we have around our region. you can hop on our nbc washington app forips on taking the best fireworks pictures from your smaphone. > a police officer now facing homicide charges for shooting and killing a 17-year-old. tonight, there are new details about that and what led to the massive protest. plus, the mind-body ylink, doctors say your daily workout can be a treatment for depression. i'm storm team 4 meteorologist, lauren rictts, looking off to storms in west virginia, they will continue to move to the east. when you can see them in your when you can see them in your area and justow h h
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jogging, walking, maybe even lifting weights, it's that exercise when you're middle-aged that could prevent depression later in life, a study by the cooper institute in dallas. researchers looked at 18,000 adults who said they haven't ercised by age 50 have a chance of cardiovascular disease after age 65. ifrc ee doesn't make
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your feel better you may wt to try rolfing. it turns pressure into harmony for your body. >> reporter: meet juliet. she takes care of herself. she's a personal trainer. even she has had to make somes. chan >> i have an l-4 and l-5 injury in my spine. i w t leani the right. >> reporter: enter rolfing, decadesld technique that draws roots from yoga. the idea to apply pressure to get muscles and your body back in harmony. e it's not just letting s party of the body do all the work. >> reporter: ann is a certified rolfer. >> engaging your body and getting it to have a proper and accurate representatio where your body is.
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>> reporter: this might look like a massage but not really a massage. with a massage you tune out what's going on around you. with rolfing you tune into your body and see how it connects to your nervous system. >> reporter: after few sessions, juliet says she's a believer. >> the way i fee afterwards and move afterwards is totally different. reporter: in t district, adam tuss, news4. >> if rolfing isn't for o you, friday, we will look at acupuncture that involves thes needn certain areas of your body. ut many comfortable people swear by it. it's been around 5,000 years. we will be reporting on it on news for today this friday. a congressional country club as it welcomes tiger backo the tournament he sponsors. will the fans come out? more on the d of tiger next.
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how does your garden grow? a local man almost hit with pa $2,000 b fineause his plants look like weeds. ws4 working for you, what haened when we started appsk
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this shows jim clark's love of plants. that love was loste on city of alexandria. they asked clark to cut the weeds or they might do it for them. that's when clark contacted news4.go erika nzalez has more on how we're working for you. >> i like being outside. >> reporter: this is jim clark. >> i've lived here 30 years. >> reporter: this is his home in alexandria. >> this is st. john's worth and false blue indigo.
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>> reporter: a few years back he really got into plants and has the shirt to prove it. >> this person is stepping on a tyrant's neck and here, i'mng stepn ivy after i've cut it down. >> reporter: he was surprised whot he got ae from the city. >> yeah. this is a first. >> reporter: he needed to cut the weeds or the city might do it. might tack on a fine, too. according to the notice, the numbers on the house also needed to bix, displayed where they can be seen. the clarks reached out to news4 david culver who started asking estions and ultimately got the city to send its to its property. >> i don't understand the weeds you buy in nurseries. >> reporter: clark was right, these are n weeds. the city found the majority to be ornamental, adding the horticulture list will be providing follow-up training for inspectors. after fixing up the househe numbers issue was resolved. an issue in gardening in more
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ways than one in the event you should receive a notice from the city of alexandria, you can rpeak directly to the inspector calling the numn the notice. >> i set myself as an example what you can do with native stuff instead of ivy and stuff that kills your trees. >> reporter: news4. >> we will get some helpfulai for our garden. >> we've seen a lot of o rainr the past month and a half here. nice to get showe like today and in the gardens. the next 10 days ie don't h much of a chance of rain in. nice tohe get moisture in there. we're dealing with a lot of clouds. wead those clouds all day, sunshine here and there. that has hped to keep temperatures down. down to 81 degrees right now. high temperatures average 87. we're well below that.
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showers at 7:00, stormy conditions around 11:00 or 12:00. 1 leesburg, 81 in manassas, 83 in warrington. 78 degrees towards annapolis. it isy v warm and humid afternoon. no rain in the city. we had showers in the southern zones and charles county and more shower activit in o western areas as well, back towards winchester and martinsburg and hagerstown. in martinsburg, one area of heavy rain, clark county and towards the warren county ea, front royal, heads-up, light showers, that's it. i expect to see heavier showers and light thund tshowers. notiy're north of this line, north of d.c. to the north. northern virginia, parts of maryland may see the bes chance of some storms later tonight. could they be strong? a couple of them could bero
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. medium risk for heavy rain, could inds and hail and be an isolated threat of a tornado, very low. we will see that at midnight tonight. then, we're just talng about heat. it gets really hot and humid. still have to go into thearden if you have a garden. >> absolutely. maybe you want to get out to the garden tomorrow, just know, spf and water. it wille hot and humid, tomorrow, temperatures in the 70s. we warm right into the 90 degrees. thes are gardening tips and analysis and perennials and roses to encourage a longer bloom season. it might be good day to do it because we will only get hotter as the week wears on. tomorrow, that heat index isn the mid to upper 90s. same deal for friday as well. the temperature a little warmer. friday is a little f warmer thursday and hot and humid as we
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head intohe weekend. more like 100 to 105 with temperatures in the mid to upper 90s. might be a good idea to get out to the beach. temperatures for saturday, sunday, monday, maryland beaches in the 80s. anyou go i temperatures in the 90s. nice ocean breeze, itt ill look a tter. still a little hazy and hooid but for the beach. not too bad here. not talking about storms, jt talking about heat and humidity. especially for the weekend. i heard from a friend of ours they have a wedding on saturday. it will be a hot one, 96 degrees on thursday and friday,ot hot hot, 97 on sunday and could be even warmer in someas a well over 100 degrees. that heat remains, monday, hig of 96 and 90 on tuesday. look at that. a couple of chances tuesday and wednesday of couple of thunderstorms. thursday, tomorrow, all the w
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through next week and into next weekend, talking 90s. i don't see it quitting either. this is a big heat wave for us and most of the country here, tast-to-coast, it will be baking headi the first week of july. >> sounds like we all could use ama arita, or three. there's extra star power in our area this week, tiger woods. he's back. sher sherree burruss joins us live to a tournament quite personal to him. >> reporter: tiger woodss back at the quicken national returning to the potomac for a benefit for his charity. woods teeing off for the first time at this course. the last time he played in this tournament was5 201 held in northern virginia. woods says he feels good after wednesday's pro-am round admitting after fusion backhe surgery, 's doing things he
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hasn't done in 10 years. what's nothe changed, t excitement from the fseeing woods back on the urse. >> reporter: with his ties to this charity and being a two-timehampion of this event, i asked woods what this means ti him ret to his tournament after missing the last two years. >> it's great to be back and frustrating not to compete and play and be part of this event. what we've created here over the years has been special. we were the first ones to d it. that was one of the standards throughout the tour, free admission to military servicemen and women andnt their depende retirees. it became a standard on the pga tour. we did a few things i'm very proud of. >> reporter:tiger's father earl woods served in t u.s. army
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and how important the military is to tiger. a couple more familiar faces, a couple guys from the redskins, needless to say they shoul not give up their day jobs playing football. >> thank you. >>a brand new exhibit opening up at the library of congress ahead of next month's all-star game in d.c. this exhibit is called baseball americana and takes you through america's favorite pastime. artifacts show you how the game has changed throughout history. it includes photographs of p.o.w.s playing baseball during the civil war and footage of baseball greats like babe ruth and jackie robinson.so al rare handwritten documents that detail some of the first rules of the game. the exhibit'sat says so much has changed since those were written in 1857. >> i want them to be things people hard core fans will come out of thissa and i've never seen that before, didn't know
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that. didn't know they have that, didn't know it existed. that was the take away i >> reporter: the exhibition is free and opens to the public this friday.he 's something exciting that could happen in the commontaalth. ansicr and producer, pharrell williams, to bring a little bit of hollywood to virginia. farrell is fromirginia beach, a producer on the oscar nominated movie, "hidden figures," chronicling three women working for nasa in the '60s. it had to be shot intlta. now, he wants to build a campus to attract studios to work in the commonwealth. he's trying to get state lawmakers on board with his idea. some years back, an artist tried to restore a fresco that depicted jesus. it went horribly awry and he ended up with that thing. some call it the monkey image. now, conservativists in spain are outraged over another
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botched job, the latest effort involved a wooden sculpture of a knight on a horse from the 16th century. if you look closely, you can see the paint job has them all upset because the president of the national restorative association says this statute's art has now beeno transformed i a toy soldier. where are they getting these guys? >> i don't know. >> if that's what you do for a living, that's the best you can do, i could have done that. >> i think ere'sascara on the knight, too. they should hire pixar for a better job. >> when we come back, an unarmed black teenager shot in a case that sparked massive protests. >> there's a new development from an officer charg in a homicide and reaction from the teenager's family. >> a warni about a busy trains line a important safety deadlines are approaching. coming up at 6:00 tonight,
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embattled fbi agent, peter strauss facing capitol hill today. he was removed from the robert mueller inveson when the texts surfaced between him and
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fbi agent, lisa page.on included strzok claiming he would stop mr. trump from becoming president. he isthxpected to testify i future. new reaction in the killing of a 17-year-old in pittsburgh. >> the officer who now shot him is charged with homicide. nbc jay gray's response from the victim's family. >> reporter: a day after hisfu ral. >> confused. >> reporter: a police officer has been charged in the shooting death of 17-year-old antwon rose. >> the evidence supports third degree murder, no doubt about th in my mind. involuntary manslaughter. we think we should have the right to argue murder in the first degree. >> reporter: officer michael -- on the job three weeks turned himself in wednesday his attorney says he looks forward to clearing his name. >> the process will work.
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>> reporter: cell phone video shows rose gunned down as he was runningway from a traffic stop. >> you do not shoot somebody in the back if they are not a threat to you. >> reporter: the 17-year-old was a passenger in a car matchingti the descr of a vehicle involved in an earlier shooting. two guns were found inside. investigators now say rose was not involved in the initial attack and was unarmed when he was killed. >> heer was a passen a car. he found himself at the wrong place at the wrongim it in no way justifies his murder. >> reporter: his grieving and their attorney say the charges are a positive step in the ongoing investigation but not enough. >> this family iholding out for a conviction and proper sentencing. >> reporter: that proce begins with the first court hearing in the case set for early next week. jay gray, n ns. according to the criminal complaint filed inhis case, the officer admitted he didse n e a gun when the passenger got out of the car.
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>> he is due in court july 6th. news4 at 6, breaking news. a stunning announcement that could make a major shift on the highest court and influence policy for years to come. >> justice kennedy handed in his resignation to president trump today and they're talking about aential replacement. the political battle already brewing. >> reporter: for yea he was the critical swing vote on the supreme court. today, justice kennedy announcing he is retiring, a major shake-up tha could open the door to president trump to fundamentally change the makeup of the highest court in the land. >> a man displayed greatvision, tremendous vision and tremendous heart. he will be missed. >> reporter: president trump today praising kennedy while choose making plans t his successor. >> we will begin our search for
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a new justice of the unid states supreme court that will begin immediately. >> reporter: this will be the second supreme court nominee for president trump. last year, he picked justice neil gorsuch to replace conservative antonin scalia, a lateral change. kennedy, appointed by president reagan became a moderate conservative siding with conservatives but also on gay rights andbortion rights. >> if you get somebody much more in clinced inclined to a conservative jurisprudencet might shift back the other direct rn. orter: republicans urging a qui confirmation. >> we will vote for his successor this fall. >> reporter: democrats not in such a rush. >> this is the most important supreme court vacancy for this coun ay in at least

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