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family,t now at 6:00, friends and supporters say good-bye to a journalist gunned down in the capitol shooting. we are live at theta hos where a 15-month-old is in critical condition after nearly drowning at home. why right now may be the best chance to save boys trapped in acave. a memorial service honored one of thms five vic gunned down at the gazette. wendy winters was a publication.
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edit a crowd heard stories of her life and career today. ne >> reporter: those who knew wendyinters bes say her last acts on that day were an e extension of life she lived and worked and wrote. >> on thursday, june 28th, my mom picked up her trash can and she charged the coward who shot her in the chest. >> she was taken from us by a person who was violent, gun obsessed, mentally unhealthy. he should have not had access to any kind of gun. >> reporte nearly 1,000 people attended the service. there were remembrances from loved ones and colleagues from a the r. >> our world will be smaller without wendy and i'm glad she
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was a part of it and i'm a glad to call h my friend. thank you. >> reporter: there was the music, tears and laughter, butf most all the sense of loss from her children, the plans thatere made never to be realized. >> i was supposed to take my mom to the beach today and she would have told us to wearats and sun screen. >> reporter: there was joy and pain in those sstories. >>ou know, the pain will ache in waves, but you have other and you have a great crowd of witnesses all aund you. you are not alone. >> reporter: all took some t comfort i lessons they gained from wiers. >> go to the marches. write to your senatorsik live wendy would. i loveu, mom. we all love you. >> reporter: news 4. >> according to the gazette, of the 11 employees in the office
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during the attack only six suntived. f moments for a family after a toddler falls into the bathtub. news 4 is live outside children's hospital in d.c. with details on howhis happened. >> reporter: exactly how this transpired is something we're g still tryo learn. we've made several calls to montgomery county fire and rescue as well as police trying to learn how this happened. 15-month-old baby was brought here to children's hospital after being resuscit fire and rescue received a call just before 10:30 of a bab that bathtullen into the emergency crews arrived at the home. andbaby was resuscitated transported to children's hospital in critical condition. at this t point, baby is still
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here being treated. now, we have not been ae to find out a condition at this point. again, we are working to learn that information, but at this point, accordi to officials, this appears to be just a rrible accident. when we learn more, we will certainly bring it to you, but certainly a tragic situation of a child found in a bathtub, but foely resuscitated. we'll find out the condition as soon as we can and let you know. >> thank you. we're hoping for the best there. so now we want to take you live outside to the potomac river. storm team 4 tracking conditions. here is the weather situation right now. >> it is absolutely beautiful out there today. a nice break from all the heat we had last week. let's check in and see where our temperatures are sitting right now.
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plenty of sunshine out there. right now we have temperatures at 81 degrees. winds out of the east. a nice breeze at 7 miles an ur. plenty of sunshine for your saturday and that sunshine is going toolw us into tomorrow. right now current temperatdies in surro areas are cooler. it's 75 along i-81. so we are going to be warming just a tad bit tomorrow, but still in the low to mid 80 as we look at your headlines, it is going to be a cool night. a nice night to be on the we're going to do it tomorrow and i am trackinghe tropics. back to you. we look at the weather in thailand where the rain has started to fall and the window islosing to rescue 12 boys and their soccer coach trapped in that flooded underground cave. rescuers are fighting against
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treacherous conditions. they are dealing with faili oxygen levels and the threat of rain approaching. right now a plan is to use a buddy system dive. each boy would be paired with ae enced diver to make the three mile journey out. military teams from around the world are helping tescue efforts. an insider attack left one and service member killed two other wounded in afghanistan. this happened in the southern part of the country thtoday. ervice members are in stable condition. the name of the victim killed aned those wound are not being released until their families are a desperate search tonight for a teenager who has been missing for almost a week. the boy is 14 years old. he was last seen on july 1st. police got word he was missing
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yesterday. poli please give d.c. police a call if you have information where he might be. protesters in chicago shut down freeway and spark a fight between the mayor and the governor. you're going to see what has demonstrators marching in the streets. what this suspect was doing before d.c. police busted him. how the high profile disappearance and murder of a ung woman in
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a desperate plea from the family of a missing mom of four from virginia beach and concern about her safety is growing by thday. the woman left her apartment sunday night. her famil filing a missing persons report after she didn't show up to work on monday. then on tuesday her car was found abandoned in a parking lot four miles from her house. virginia state policeave issued an alert for her. that alert is named a after woman kidnapped from a naval se in virginia and her body found in north rolina. e alert system is for adults thought to have been aaducted ad in wdanger. >> are learning more about an assault on a d.c. officer.
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the report says it happened near the white house. the man was arrested friday morning in the 1600 block of pennsylvania avenue. he is charged with a misdemeanor count of assaulting a police officer. another report shows that the man wasrrested last year also for assaulting a police officer. atvs can be fun to ride, but they're prey dangerous and riding one in the district will land you in jail.an a found that out last night. police say they spotted this ato withicense plate or tags. officers say brian parker w riding the atv recklessly in a grassy area near a playground. police arrested parker and took that vehicle with them. so many people in maryland love eating crabs, but tonight an urgent warning. nine people have gotten sick. the specific crab meat you need to avoid.
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refighters are wagging against flames and hot >>conditions. reporter: high winds are fanning the flames of fires. 60 large fires are burning in 13 states. about a dozen fires have kicked up across california. >> the fires are 30, 40 feet high. >> reporter: 20 homes have been destroyed and 2,000 people have been evacuated. the governor has declared a state of emergency. the flames shut down busy interstate 5. >> 60 seconds maybe. we kw we needed to get in our cars and go. >>eporter: at least 20 million americans in the west are under an excessive heat warning. >> we're in the middle of a red flag warning right now. >> reporter: h firefighterse made progress containing some fires, but with the dry conditions and ttures they're not out of the woods yet.
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nbc news. a march against i violencen chicago today, this one involved civil disobeyance. thousands of anti-violence protesters shut down part of interstate 94. demonstrators wanted to get the city's attention about gun ol vice. the governor blamed the mayor for not doing enougho stophe protests. no arrests were reported. a day at the pool turns into accusations of racial profiling. a white man calls the police on a black family at a neighborhood pool in north carolina. he is nowut of a job after the encounter goes viral. take a look. >> nobody els a wased to leave. i a the only black. >> the woman is recording when
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the man confronts her. he demands to see her id and calls police. when officers arrived she told them she felt unfairlytargeted. police verified her poo pass worked. the man who volunteered at the pool said he was trying to do his job. >> can you understand whyy m people are online are calling you a racist. >> when people don't see a couple of seconds and don't see it in tota they can jump to conclusions that aren't tthere man has been fired from his job at a local packaging company and he is no longer working with the homeowner's associ hion. we a warning tonight. the department of health say nine people have gotten sick from crab meat. it's resulted in infections. symptoms are similar to the flu. two of the nine people hadtoo go he hospital. the imported crab meat is sold in plasts under various dierent names.
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please be on the lookout for that. more information in our app. let's turn to our weather. autiful day outside. i think the most noticeable thing is the o lack humidity. >> yes. that makes a big difference. folks at home, we were talking heat wave for days. thiss a nice refreshing change of pace that we've got in store. not just for today, but through the top of nextek let's look at the current temperatures. 81 degre in washington, d.c. if you look at some surrounding areas, y will notice that we are seeing some temperatures in the 70s. even cooler the furtherou out go from the district. i thought we'd take a moment to look at the feel-like temperatures because we were looking at that last week. look at what it feels like outside. it feels coor than i is. 80 degrees is the feel-like temperature. if you have plans tonight, whether you're doing dinner or
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watching the nats, you're in store for a beautifulsunset th temperatures in the upper 70 make sure you bring maybe a light jacket because it is going to be a bit on the cooler side as we head through the overnight hours. take a look at the future temperatures i'm fast forwarding to tomorrow morning. it shows you how low wedr . 65 expected in the district, but down into s dropping the 50s. it is going to be a cool night. tomorrow's high wil in the mid 80s. just slightly higher than we were today. same situation, though. plen of sunshine and we keep the low humidity. let's shift gears. i want to talk about the tropics because right now we do have two systems brewingthut e. this one is tropical depreion numberthree, a very
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disorganized disturbance, but it expected to strengthen possibly to a category one status, but its track is expected to move out to sea. for now this was a hurricane, but itas been downgraded to a tropical storm. as far as impacting puerto rico, it's going to pass to the south of them possibly bringing the rain. the h system weakened. here is a look atca tro depression number three. it is going to move out to sea. let's keep our fingers crossed. it's never too soon to make sure you have a hurricane plan in place. the ten-day outlook, we're headed to the 90s again, but it
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will be low humidity at the top of the week as we move into next weekend, that's when that july heat makek a comebnd we are looking at a possible second heat wave. >> all right. thank you. so we saw them party in d.c., but today t trophy went back to russia. we're going to show youhe reception and catch you up on this is customizable streaming tv for your family... whatever size. it's saving money with flexible channel packs. live tv and the latest shows to stream. and all your streaming apps in one place -- even netflix. this is how xfinity makes life... simple. easy. awesome. introducing new packages with customizable streaming tv options. enjoy more choice and faster speeds-- giving you the ultimate value. click, call or visit a store today.
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there was some kind of party in russia today with the arrival of a cup of this size. >> he's a rock star. >> of course. >> when he takes it home, you can imagine the reception he's going to get. >> i tnk the sweetest video was him and his dad. >> absolutely. now we know thaevery member of the organization that wins the hstanley cup gets a day w the cup. today was the day that it racked up some of those les. e captain wasn't just taking it to georgetown. he went home with it. he received a hero's welcome as he brought the cup to the fanfest where he stayed for almost three hours hanging out with thousands of fans hoping to catch a glimpse of him and the cup. he ped for pictures with fans
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that waited over two hours. he would later lift the cup with his father in his hometown where he pyed growing up. a great day and a couple of days ehe's going to hav in moscow with the stanley cup. could his home country take down croatia? one outside the box to open the scoring, but this game would go to extra time tied at one. the extra period it's croatia striking first. russia responds five minutes to go. they score off a set piece of their own. we head to penalty kicks in need of a goal to win. croatia takes down the host untry in a thriller. the first match of the day was between england and sweden. england looking to make their
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rst semifinal since 1990. theyot on the board first. fans loving it. the first ever goal for engld. samecore in the 59th minute. england attacking. it is a 2-0 game. that is your final score. england a croatia will square off in the semifinal. the rollerte cos national season has seen its ups and downs this week for sure. rn're closer to seeing injured players re good news is coming. they need t keep the winds coming too.ou the last ce of days have been good signs. it wasn't the shoout that thursday night's 14-12 game was, but friday's 3-2 win was just as exciting game tied at 2. it was ended with one swing. the nats get the record above 0 once again.
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the players loving it. as expected, the skipper was pleased with the clutch performance aswe . >> i can't say enough about mark. he's that guy. that moment, we needed 120 just like weat. needed someboy hit a home run and mark did. chravis didn't underperform here. it was a 3-0 lead.st. it did not last. 3-2 in the fifth. the pitch gets away and the twin score the tying run. next inning, bases loaded with two outs. wilson picks up the big hit. his double scoo.s that gives the twins the lead and they would go on to win 5-4. the shot goes wide.
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gh to raging western wildfires. californ's governor declares a state of ncy as record heat and high winds fan dozens of parent insider attack in afghanistan. time is running out to rescue the thai soccer team trapped i cave. oxygen levels are low and monsoon rains are on the way. the world mourns the loss of an icon. the man who cocreated two of our most recognizable superhero. for diversity in hollywood as up and coming stars flip the script and what we see
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