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this morning near the rosslyn tunnel. the road had to be shut down for some time, it reopened just before 7:00. we'll have a report on why the volved.service was that's just minutes away. good morning to you on this sunday morning. >> we have a very busy morning here as you can tell at news4, but don't worry, we have got all of the big stories covered for you. >> we alsoalant to about the weather today, because it is spectacular outside, let's get straight to lauren ricketts. >> lauren, what do we give you, a gold star? a pat on the back? >> ererything. >>s what i say, take it when you can get it, how about that? >> thank you. i'll take it all this week, because i'lle here tomorrow and tuesday and wednesday. amelia and i will take some good credit for the beautiful weather that we're having out there, plenty of sunshine out there right w, it is a gore just sunday morning. temperatures are going to be
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topping out into the mid 80s for daytime highs today, right now we're in the m 70s, so it's going to be a beautiful day out there, northeast winds at about 5 to 10 miles an hour. a little breezy out there, i don't thi that's going to be the case today. those temperatures go up as we head through the afternoon,e have the nats game out there, hopefully we can go into the double digits scoring against the marlins. it's going to be warm with plenty of sunshine out there today, this is not going to last, we have got some changes come up in the forecas >> we want to get back to that breaking news outf thailand, where several boys of the soccer team stuck inside that cave gore the last 16 days have been rescued. >> as many as six of them a out and there are reports of them all coming out of the cave. according to reports two divers are guiding each boy through the partially flooded cere here's some new video into our
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newsroom of two ambulances leaving the cave scene there, medi wl teams areting for the boys at the mouth of the cave to rush them to the hospital. the 12 boys and their coach have been stranded in the cave since ju 23. thai government officials are giving an update on the rescue right now, we'll give you new details as we get them. also developinight now the search is on for the driver involved in a head-on collision just outside the rosslyn tunnel. >> secret service responding to the scene early this morning, our derek ward isli . a lot of people are wondering why the secret service would be involved in crash scene to begin with? >> indeed, it seems like a bit of an odyssey from where it started to where it ended. imagine you're rounding the 66 bend and you have a car coming at u.unluckyly motorist ear this morning.
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they weren't seriously injured. it started around 4:35 on i street northwest, that's when a uniformed secretvice officer spotted a car going the wrong way on i street. theyo tried pull them over, that car didn't stop and somehow ended u here on 66, in the westbound lanes -- i mean thean eastbound traveling westbound. that happened a short time after that lost that car. what hapned was they did indeed hit a car there was coming eastbound on 66. the driver of th struck them, they got out and ran. there was a passenger in thatt car t suffered nonlife-threatening injuries, that passenger was tak into custody and later taken to a hospital. police areow looking for the person that was driving that car, how they ended up here from i street northwest, it's now being handled by thegt arl police department, but the secret service is azigsing them because they're o the that
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initiated the stop. it was simply a uniformed secict se officer spots a car going the wrong way, got away from them, it eed up here. it could have been a lot worse than it was. we're live in arlington. want to tell you about a somber weekend for the annapolis community. wendi winters, one of the victims of the "capil gazette" shooting was laid to rest. and during the tribute, revelatis about her heroic actions in her final moments. >> my mom picked up a trash can ander recycling bin and charged at theho shooter shot her in the chest. >> the survivors may very well owe their lives to wendi. >> it was her life and legacy that was c yebratedterday during her memorial.
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>> don't forget to askouourself, what wendi do. >> reporter: as detai reedges of wendi winters heroism. >> by all accounts that very move saved lives, the livesf her co-workers in the "capital gazette" newsroom,s a gunman shot his way inside. >> she charged at the shooter yelling no. >> reporter: that's what it means to be wendi, said her daughter. only a short time earlier, the "capital gazette" shared new details from survivors at the attack, who hid, who were paralyzed in fear and shock, and those who were able to esc e because of what wendid. di >> slowing them down and giving the police time to saving lives.
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>> reporter: recently wendi recently attended an active shooter training at her church,r which showedhe options of fighting.hiding or a saint to so many here, now clenching hands, hugging, crying, remembering etwendi, s stories of her, who she was to them and what she did. >> thank you, wendi. >> nicole jacobseporting there. anne arundel county police say this is still very much an ongoing investigation. happening now, u.s. military leaders are investigating an attack in afghanistan that left a u.s. service member dead. two others were wounded. this happened in part of the country yesterday. not many details have been releas but here's what we do
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know. the incident is being called an insider attack and the two service membe who survived remain in the hospital. the nameon of the peho was killed has not been named. mike pompeo spent yesterday meeting with nthkorea's top leaders th secretary pompeo called the meetings productive. north korea said the opposite, complaining in a statement that the u.s. is moving too quickly and that pompeo wascting gangster like. we have a close call for a local toddler, the child nearly drowning in a bathtub, this happened inside an apartment building. firefighter investigators in rockville are still trying to figure out wha sparked flames
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insin a shed i galena road. the fire then spread to aecond house, everybody got out safely but the damage was pretty extensive. in chicago, a protest over violence shutorown a maj highway. and coming up abird's-eye view of the massive demonstratns. and areas of the west continue to burn this morning, and we take you to the front as firefighters race to extinguish the flames.
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happening right now in the reited kingdom, police there stumped as to how two people were exposed to a nerve agent that was made in the soviet ion during the col war. authorities believe they were infected with a congretaminatedn
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ta taner that could have been used on an ex-russian spy and his daughter in the uk. meantime in chicago, protesters there puthe pressure on local leaders to stop the gun violence in their community. >> ty actually shut down an expressway to make sure they were heard. protesters blocked the dan ryan expressway here. chicago police saying in the first six months of the year, it the c saw 252 homicide and 61 childrenere struck by gun fire. a new jersey couple dies after their house explodes. this is the smolderi destruction that was left. officials say the explosion happened around 6:35 yesterday morning. no foul a play is expected and no word on what caused the explosion. now to ato developing in the west, where a brutal heat waveins m firen cans worse. at least 60 large firing are
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burning through at least 13 states, in northern california, one person is dead, firefighters are making progress containing the flames there, but officiaon say dry ctions and triple-digit temperatures are making things pretty tough. a former newspaper reporter and canadian prime minister justin trudeau have differing recollections. a woman says she considers the matter closed. knight claims trudeau apologized the next day. intru trudeau say he doesn't think he acted inappropriately, but says women may experience interaction differently. >> ieel i did not act inappropriately, but i think the essence of this is that people can experience interactions differently.
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and part of the lessons we need to learn in this time of collective awakening, is a level of respect and f understandi the fact that people in many ca s, women, experience interactns in professional contexts and other contexts differently than men. >> trudeau told reporters he will continue to defend individuals and the experiences they go through. well the comic book community is mourning the loss of a legend. >> the man who helped create popular characters such as spiderman and dr. strange has died. authorities say ordartist and writer steve ditko died in his apartment on february 29. he along with writer stan lee brought spiderlin tofe. but just as his popularity grows, ditka walked away from i all with no explanation, heve spoke of it.
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ll this week we learned of a different kind of traffic complaint for one local neighborhood. >> pple who live in alexandra say speedersare -- this is rush hour. neigors say that ways to take drivers off the highway and send them right down their local streets. >> traffic here is unbearable at rush hour, you have to plan your day around what you're going to do. i can't go to the grocery store at 5:00 because traffic is going to make it 30 minutes before i t there. >> for now the hope is that the signs and some extra police enforcement will just keep drivers from cutting through. >> a lot of people concerned about that for sure. it is not the only natnal affairs we are keeping an eye
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on, but some pretty hotly contested stati eed races. >> our chris gordon spoke to both men t week about keeping marylanders educated and safe, especially in the wake of s at annapoliooting. >> how did the "capital gazette" mass shooting suspect get a gun? maryland governor larry hogan sa complaints against jarrode ramos wot enough under the law to prevent ramos from buying pump action shotgun. >> apparently this man went court a while ago for stalking, and had his record expunged. >> reporter: democratic candidate for governor ben jelus is a former reporter and newspaper editor, he calls thec
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s of the "capital gazette" shootings his her ooheroes. >> the fact that today took on a dangerous stalkern behalf of the residents of anne arundel county. >> the plan includes free college tuition. governor hogan says it sounds like a great idea, but how do u pay for it? >> we just came up with a prposal to h people go to community college, but doing it for every person i don't know if that's something reasonable or baffordable. shrinking the state prison system, he will use the savinay to for college and medicare for all. he also isng propo a new tax, but only on the rich. >> for 99% ofar theand population, there would be no tax increase. for 99%. >> and for 1%? >> for the wealthiest 1%, they
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would pay 1% more. and having been in that tax bracket. i'm confidence they can afford >> governor hogan told chris he wants to provide college and medicare for all. t minus 10 minutes.ee >> we to get out there and actually enjoy it. >> gorgeous. >> you can breathe. >> it it looks crisp. >> mold spores aif up a bit, so you're talking about breathing, we do have some poll and allergy concerns out there. but tomorrow's going to be similar to tied aoday and the temperatures are going up a bit. >> not like 110 lik wead last week. >> a steam bath. >> and we're not going to have any temps like that on that -day forecast. we warm up a little bit, but the humidity tries to stay in check as long as it can. if you were up early this morning like us, it felt like
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e.fall out th temperatures were in the upper 40s in the shenandoah valley, into the low 60s here in th city center. it felt like fall to start, stil feels like fall a little bit. we'll keep that sunshine throughout the day today. we have some chances of rain, that will return late tueay night into early wednesday morning. we'll feel se more humidity around on thursday, friday and into next weekend. current temperatures out there now, shenandoah valley, where you started in the upper 40s and now you're in the upper 60uts, we're all headed into the upper 80s today. it is going to be just almost perfect all thrt the day today. the forecast, mid 80s, another comfortable day with sunshine, sunshine thanks to high su pr. so thank you, high pressure, not for the sunshine, but also
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ing tropical storm chris down offthe coast of the carolinas. it's going to hang here andth intensify i warm waters of the atlantic and into the eastern seaboard. and tn itill eventually get moving and move to the north and east, as we go through the middle part of this week, but i do thi it will intensify into a hurricane,t could be hurricane chris toward the middle of the week. i remember having trouble with the pronunciation, i looked at the pronunciation about 15 times this morning. this storm right here, still a tropical storm. that is going to weaken io a tropical depression as it moves to the west,ss to the antill antilles, it's going to scoop just down to puerto rico one to four urges inches of rain with tropical storm. you can see tropical storm chris
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hanging off the north carolina coastline, as the clouds stay wwn, they stay to the south, we are looking good are looking dry here in the d.c. area, we may see a few sprinkles late tuesday and early wednesday but that's about it. humidity starts to come back in as we get into tuesday, low 90s on tuesday, with present lenty sunshine and that chance of rain a late tuesday night into wednesday. wednesday. wednesda we clearout,
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>> time right now is 10:26 here on sunday morning, here are the four things you need toknow. the search is on for a drivern a head-on colsion near the rosslyn tunnel. two people were hurt. wendi winters has been laid to rest,she's one of the victims of the "capital gazette" shooting. during hermemorial, it was revealed she fought back against the gunman, police won't comment due to the ongoing >>investigation. the united states appears to be in a war of words with north korea, following a meeting with the country's leadership. secretary of state mike pompeo says toi talks are well, the north korea says that the s. is moving too fast and that
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pompeo was gangster like. rescuers are t working save the remain ing kids still in th cave. 75 degree looking good outside. >> yeah, beautiful, low humidity out there today, plenty of sunshine and the temperature goes up, mid 80s today, upper 80s torrow, with low humidity, slight chance of sprinkles laty tues early wednesday, humidity comes back for the end of the >>ek. that's going to
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this sunday, breaking news. rescue workers have begun tooy pull from that flooded cave. we'll have the latest from thailand in just a moment. also, courtside seat.tr presidenp prepares to announce his supreme court choice. >> you turn in mony at 9:00, i think you're going to be extremely happy. >> demrats hope to stick together in opposition and win over at least one republican to defeat the nomination. >> it would be very difficult for me to support a nomin who did not consider roe vbewade to settled law. >> it's a fight over the direction of the court for a generation or more. my guest this morning, republican senator, roy blunt of missouri, and democratic senator,

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