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i'm eun yang. a >> i'mie goff, in for aaron gilchri gilchrist. monday is here, fol leaglowing autiful weekend thawe dant wanit to end. let's check in with sheen ya parveenor our forecast. >> we had a good weekend and i hope you were ableo enjoy it. this week, the rainy pattern is coming back into the foreca. look at t radar. i zoomed it out a little bit. showers andhow the storms are getting out now. now, they're approaching richmond. they're heading up to the north. they're moving in our di'rction. if y about to leave soon for your morning commute, we are nice and drwe e going to stay this way through 9:00 this morning. after sat, wert to see showers move in through the south. fredericksburg, you're going to see the rain first after 9:00. temperatures right now, id comfortable, to upper 60s in
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many of the surbs. here's future weather. now, we go through the late morning hours and closer to lunchtime. there's 12:00 xpp.m., wet showers to be moving through most of the area around d.c. and points south. so, by lunchtime, you'll need the umbrella if you're heading out f lunch. don't forget it if you leave this morning and you'll want it for the rest of the week. we'll look at the high rain chances for this week coming up. let's go over to jack taylor and >>e what's happening on the roads. ood morning. we'll start off columbia, 32, eastbound, out of shaker drive. the left lane blocked. that's not causing a big delay so far. word of a truck fire, goingn southbound maryland, after 212, before you get to the beltway. along the right side of the roadway, could be overheated brakes. fire and rescue to the scene. in spngfield, moving north on t5, as you head up to the beltway, word tne left the roadway, hopefully maintaining himself on the shoulder.
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at reminder for the rail riders. penn line train407 has been canceled this morning. there's some damage to overhead power lines at the baltimore-penn station. back to you. your time is 5:02. we continue tolo f a developing story out of prince george's county. >> a man was shot to death in ft. washington. we go to justin finch on the scene. >> reporter: good morning. investigators still looking for tips at this they want to know more about this man, who shot him and how he.ot he we can tell you, the investigation wears on for hours here. this is the 7200 block of shockey court. we're seeing this overnight. the man was found outside of a ho this block near a cul-de-sac ock, a quiet area. itha unclear w this man's connection might be to this
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area. we can tell you, we're standing by for details on this case. in the meantime, police say if you know anything, about this man, or how heot here, to give them a call. there is a cash reward for information in this case. we are live in ft.gtwash. i'm justin finch,s n angie, eun, back to you. mi 5:03. t want to get a head start on your commute right now. the g.w. parkway construction project started just now. >> adam with what you need to know before you hit the road. >> good morning. good morning, to you guys. look out the windshield camera of ourve cle. we can show you what's going on here. we are headed in thed southbo direction. basically, they're doing a big bridge rehab in this area. it's shrinking the parkway down from four lanes to three lanes. you canll see wheref this
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merges and how it will be tricky getting through this area right now. the police out here right no directing traffic. this is why speeds are going to get narrowed and you're gng to come through this area into a snake-like if you look at the map, you can see where the bridge is. it's not far fro the parkway. this work just started. be aware this is going to cause delays for sure over the next couple of week ps th es. thect everything to wrap up. you get a better bridge on the parkway. you see how we have to meander and go around the turns shere. thatething to be aware of as you head out on the parkway this morning. >> adam, thank you. new details about the 17-year-old boy found dead in a schoolot parkingn montgomery county. police fou the teen. investigators said he had been seen earlier that day around the
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school and has played basketball at the school before. right now, police do notuspect foul play. an autopsy will be performed. a woman is alive this morning, thanks to t quick action of the u.s. coast guard. the scary scene play on a boat yesterday evening around 5:30. officials say a man called for help, saying he and a woman were sufring from carbon noxide poisoning. the coast guard fnd the man alert but the woman was passed out inside the boat. an officer performed cpr and she regained consciousness she is expected to survive. now, to breaking news out of northe california. a massive carr fire has killed six people. >> we want to get to chris lawrence at the liveesk, no end in sight, what it seems li right now. >> there's some good news, angie. fire crews did find another body and announced the death late last night. they have made some progress in the past2 hours. officials in california say more than 3,300 fire personnel are
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battling this blaze. you can see some of the footage on y screen. six people have been killed, tens of thousands of residents are forced tocu ee their home, since the fire started one week ago today. the carr fire has destroyed nearly 900 homes and damaged hundreds more. to put this into perspective, take a look at youren sc all of d.c. only consists of acres.3,000 this fire is over 95,000 acres. well over twice the size of the district. but the temperatures have dropped to the low 100s. the humidity is on the rise, which is giving firefighters a small window to attack this fire. they have it 17% contained. >> a lot of work ahead. thank you, chris. > john lewis is back home this morning after an overnight stay at the hospital. he checked into the hospital
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after sat to atlanta.a flight a spokesman says doctors gave him a clean bill of . congressman lewis is 78 years old. it's 5:0 president trump sparked versy over the weekend with a series of tweets. he took aim at everything from the russian investigation to the media and he threatened to shu down the government. he wte that he would be, quote, willing to shut down the government if the democrats do not give us a vote for border qu security, ene. he went on to say that the u.s. needs to implement a system based on merit. he wants democrats to support construction of a border wall. the president will face questions about his former lawyer, michael cohen, alater today. another tweet targeted the investigation and robert mueller. sosome of the tweets got pl. one he said mueller had a conflict of interest. including a, quote, nasty and contentious business
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relationship. he goes on to say, i turned him down to head the fbi, one day before appointment as special counsel.is and comeis close friend. the president referring to james comey, whom he fired. president trump did not explain the business relationship. but "the new york timets the pair had a dispute over fees at trump national golf club. we learn that michael cohen is willing toell the special counsel, trump knew in advance of the 2016 meeting between trump associates and the russians in october. it's 5:08 this morning. the archdiocesengs reac to the resignation of theodore mccarrick. he is accused o sexually abusing a teenage boy nearly 15 years ago. the archdiocese of washington
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issued a statement. for more than 30 years, the archdiocese of washington has encouraged survivors of sexual abuse would offer assistance to survivors of abuse in hopes of bringing healing to those who were harmed. you can read the entire statement from the ahdiocese in our nbc washington app. in an unprecedented move, pope francis took away mccarrick's title before his church title. mccarrick has denied the allegations. 14 rig right now, the search is onn for the hoodedn who killed three people over the weekend. two men used a rifle handgun to fire into a crowd on saturday night. the gunman allegedly stood over one person and shot them several times. two men an one woman died. >> it's sad and it's heartbreaking. put the guns down.e
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>> pollieve the shooting is gang-related. in is the fifth shooting involving ten or more victims in new orleans in the px years. this morning, we're learning more about what happened before the deadly duck boat accidentmin ouri that stilled 17 of 31 aboard. the events on the s.d. card and the recording system on the boat. video shows the captain giving the safety instructions when the ride starts. it shows calm waters when the boat leave as the weather worsens, an alarm goes off, revealing water collecting under the floorboards. di the last three minutes, the captain makes a call for help and the boat is still above water. happening today, an eort get more people to donate
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blood. a blitz is on in virginia. in fairfax county, people rolled up their sleeves todonate. inova is responsible for supplying blood to 2ours in the district, maryland and virginia. keeping the supplyp and ready is always eimportant. th on the front line say they see the need firsthand. >> we need 200 units of blood to fulfill our hospital needs. >> we're running emergencies. we see a lot of accidents and things in that nature. >> inova health care is set up right across from the dulles town center. still ahead, ahe bom report with serious accusations against the tsa. it's being reported now that the agency is trailing some passengers who aren't even on watch list. plus, it's been a couple rough days or rough weeks, i guess we can say, for rain. basements across the region are
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being flooded. this morning, news 4, we're working for you, with a look at things you can do now to prevent it from happening to you. sheena? and if you thought the nice weekend weather was going to continue, well, it's not. weai actually have down to our south. you can see, it's moving in this direction.n' leave home without the umbrel atbrella. we have a rainyrn setting up this week. i'll show you the details and the timing of this rain coming up.
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here at the live desk, breaking news in.c southeast and this could affect hundreds of you trying to get up and get out ofhe door early this morning. a power outage in the hill east
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neighborhood. around 16th and "d" streets in southeast d.c. about 167 people don't have power. originally, they hoped to have all of the power restored by 5:00 in the morning. that has not happed yet. 167 people without power. we'll keep an eye on this one. >> chris, thas somuch. 5:16. rescuers are trying to evacuate hundreds of tourists trapped on the indonesian island after an earthquake triggered landslides. the quakeappened yesterday morning. 15 people are dead and 160 people are hurt. ese quake caused more than a hundred h to collapse. town south, toxic and a foul-smellinae is causing health and business concerns in florida. evke a look at this. it began spreadingal weeks ago in the waterways. the algae can cause problems to the nervous system. this is not the only spot on the
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coast that's being affected by this. this is happening all across the nation. >> peoe think it will cause serious health problems. you have to watch for that. >> yeah. you could be tracked at the airport and not know about it. >>ep a newt in "the boston globe" reports there's a tsa program that has air marshals tailing u.s. citizens, even though they're not on a watch list. the program is called quiet s. sk the tsa screens every american e tizen, who flies into ths. from certain foreign countries. every day, several dozen passengers are selected for surveillce based on red flags on travel historand other activities. >> air marshals get a photo. and then, they're directed to fill out the reports with every, single thing you do, from the moment you're at the airport, through who leaves -- whose car
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vau leave with in the arri city. it's hard to believe that summer is almost over. this is the perfect time to make last-minute getaway plans. new orleans an houston are ities where four-star pra properties can bereserved for $100 per night. there's one other tip when traveling affordably. >> don't forget about your points and miles, especially when prices are high and you can get great value for them and you don'tave to pull money out of your pocket. >> if you want to travel abroad, there's good travel deals right now for europe, in papicular. gr trip? >> i want to sit on a beach in greece. >> i think we neli to go and te this for the viewers, right? >> i think so. coming's talk about rain up this week. >> it makes it feel like summer when we have temperatures in the
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upper 80s t. hopefully, it doesn't feel like it'sto an end soon. you're going to walk outside and it will be dry. we have rain moving in mostly after 9:00 a.m. we have another rainy pattern, not exactly like the one last week. but we have high rain chances every day this keweek. ure you keep that aybrella, at least in your car. you can't you forgot it this week. we're nice and dry across the area. owe don't have head too far south to see the rain between frederi fredericksburg and chmond. th shower developed a short time ago. rain around richmond. that's moving from south-to-north. it's moving in this general direction. that will eventually be here, mostly afte 8900 a.m. you can expect scattered showers throughout theay today, once the initial area moves in. it's 73 degrees in for the rest of the area, dry,
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temperatures in the mid to upper 60s. we're off to a nice sta for this monday. cloudy but dry. you don't have to worry about wet roads. we should have a good amount of rain covering most of the area by lunchtime. 5:00 p.m., a chance of scattered showers. temperatures may not break 80 degrees for some of 9:30 this morning, showers moving in from the south. by lunchtime, you see a lot o the area should be seeing rain falling by the afternoon. we have scattered showers in the forecast. that's not going to be the end of it. look at tomorrow, wednesday, thursday, friday. we have some high rain chances and 70s will be primarily in tho afte but we'll be in the mid to upper 80s after today and humiat we'reing the chances for the week. unfortunately. let's go over to jack taylor in for melissa this morning. good morning, jack. >> good morning. maryland is not havingat a g morning by way of vehicle fires. a vehicle on fire, 95 it is after 212 down to the
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beltway. you find only a left lane is getting by. same situation, beltway, outer loop, topside, between new hampshire and university avenue on the northwest branch. we hav a fully engulfed trash truck. only the left lane is getting by there. you'll find a new tra pattern this morning. southbound north of spout run.es two l will get you by southbound. not causing a big delay. penn line train 407 canceled this morning. plan ahead ifhat's a normal route you take on the penn line. still aheaduahead, what yoe to know if you're basement is at risk for flooding. we're looking at steps you can take to prevent it.
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you're watching "news 4 today." after several days of rain, a lot of us are seeing water flow into our basements. >> justin finch has a look at other signsemhat your bt may be flooding and how to stop it. she has lived in her north d.c. home for years but there was one part of her home she was avoiding. >> i would love to every part of my house and i'm scared of my basement. each time it rains, water comes under the doors, through the walls and the windows. >> s's not the only one with basement battle these days.
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days of heavy rains have left homes across our area taking on water in basements, too. if you think yours has been spared, think again. not seeing water doesn't mean bryant, owner of water guard t it's nre, says john bryant, owner of water guard water-proofing. >> people don't think of a musty odor, crack, discoloration on wall coverings, all those are warning signs that aelling you the basement may leak one day. >> reporter: a simple solution you can do now, keep an eye on any of the drains. once these start getting backed up. the problems can grow the longer you ignore them. >> make sure your sump pump is working. make sure you have stair and window wells cleared. make sure you have a working water-proofing system. >> reporter: get estimates. your cost can range depending om your bt size and required repairs.
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for homeowners, it's often a worthwhile investment. >> to know my house is secure, safe, no outside bugs and water ming in, that feels real good. ca justin finch, news 4. baseball repaibe a heavy-duty job. >> and expensive. >> make sure you or the companye gets the ppermits before starting the work. i'm sure anyone with basement issues fromekast does not want to hear about the forecast. we're going to tell you anyway. we have rain moving in and a rainy pattern. showers moving in today after about 9:00 a.m. we'll break down the timing for theest of theay today and how all of this rain is going to last. plus, stunning collapse. ahead at 5:30, new video, dramatic video, showing a roof caving in under the feet of a crowd. and a nationals star at the center of ahe tm is
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right now, commuting concerns. a major construction project expected to impact your ride to work. we have the warnings and why you'll be stuck with the mess
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for months. also breaking overnight, amtrak outraged. trains travelind to from d.c., delayed for hours. the trouble on the tracks that can linger throu the morning rush. and the nationals star caught in a econtroversy. tweets own trea turner's ccount that has the team apologizing thimorning. >> "news 4 today" starts now. fst at 5:30, a live look outside. we start a new work week. happy monday to you. it's pretty clear out there right now. later this morning, the rain, we finally had a break from over the weekend, will return. bad to be the bearer o news. i'm eun yang. >> i'm angie goff. aaron has the morf.ng we have coverage, jack taylor, in for melissa. and adam tuss is on t road. >> chris lawrence is monitoring breaking news fm the live desk. all that in a moment. first, to sheena parveen and
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your forecast. >> t rain in the forecast, unfortunately, after a beautiful weekend. today, we're going to start to see the beginning of what will be severalhays with h rain chances. four things you need to know before you walk outside. grab the umbrella even though it's dry now, you'll need the umbrella later onda rain will be moving in after about 9:00 a.m., starting with areas south. we have a rainy week ahead. another rainy pattern setting up. throughout the afternoon, aside from today, todayill be different. we will see warm and humid days with this rain in the forecast. >> we have rain not too far from south of the area. frederi frericksburg and richmond. around richmond showers. we are looking dry. i'll show you the timing as we go through today, comg up in bit. we need to get a check on the roads this monday. let's go over to jack taylor. good ckrning, >> good morning. not a great morning forehicles on re. out of the beltway on
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new hampshi new hampshire boulevard. only the left lane is getng by. the same situation, riding 95 southbound, after 212. before you get to the beltway,e what was of a left lane getting by. at the time, they had traffic stopped. investigators are on-scene. just makingav sure hot spots been taken out. stay in you two lanes getting by southbound and one northbound. it's a new traffic pattern in place. we have an issue with overhead power lines. >> hundreds of people were rced to sleep on their amtrak trains after multiple lines were delayed. one of the pasngers was nbc's kelly o'donnell. this was a picture she snapped and posted on twither.
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we checked train status maps and one of the trains was delayed by four hours. nightmaretraining the on a wire issue near baltimore. >> a lot of upset passengers. >> adam tuss is onghe g.w. parkway. >> what do people before they head out the door. >>he lanes here are knonarrowin down. you can see all of the nstruction to deal wit on the parkway. this is northbound and southbound. we are going in the northbound direction right now. and the lanes on both sides have narrowed down from four lanes to three.rs they have a rele lane you have to deal with. you can see all of the
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meandering and merging and the traffic patterns set up in this area row by windy run to rehab the windy run bridge. and it's bringing the speed limits down to about 3.miles per ho just know this is going to be a tricky spot as you g through it the next couple of weeks. look at this map, and you'll have a better idea where the work is taking place. the windy run bridge is not far from the spout run parkway. you look out live and looking out our windshield camera. the traffic is starting to stack up. this is going to last .rough the fa this is a pattern that you have to pay attention to. >> thanks for the heads up. a homicid investigation in prince george's coty. this happened last night around 7:30. officers found a man shot to death in ft. washington. inpolice areg to figure out what happened. so far, there are no arrests.
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>> we're learning more about boy that was found dead in montgomery county. investigators say he had been seen earlier that day around the school and had played basketball at the school before. police do not suspect foul play. the carr fire in northern california has killed six people. california state fire officia saore than 3,300 fire personnel are battlinghis re. it started one week ago today and it's burned more than 95,000 acres and is only 17% contained. an independent investigation report on malaysia airlines flight 370 was released overnight. it reiterated the plane was deliberately diverted. it also said the cause of the disappnorance still c be determined. the flight disappeared more than four years ago. the president said in a weekend tweet, he would be,
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quote, willing to shut down the government if the democrats do not give us the votes for border security. he wants democrats to support building a wall on the border.nd , the president tweeted about media coverage and the ongoing russia probe. we'll have the latest on that from capitol hill a little later. today, the man charged in the "capital gazette" newsroom shooting rampage will appear in court. he is accused of killing five employees and injuring two others last month. over the weekend, people gathered for a benefit concert to remember the victims exactly one month since the shooting. ♪ d children and adults pla music saturday afternoon. the day-long event was dubbed annapolis rising. supporters paid tribute to theh victims wartfelt speeches.
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event raised money for the victims families and survivors of the shooting. this morning, treheturner is inpotlight but not for a good reason. multiple tweets with raciallns inseive language and homophobic slurs resurfaced last night. they were tweeted in 2011 and 12. turner has apologized to him and foe organization. turner issued thowing statement saying, i am sincerely sorry for those tweets and apologize wholeheartedly. i think people who know me understand thoseegrettable actions do not reflect my values or who i am. coming up, a motivational story to get you moving this mornin cycling to the finish no matter what. an american rider beats the odds. how he finished the tour de france despite a major injury. first,tunning collapse. a crowd plummets r when af caves in under their feet a the video the story behind it is next.
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you're watching news 4 today. elcome back. it's 5:40. a frightening scene caught on video at a tractor race in india. a shed that was serving as a grandstand collapsed, taking a big crowd down with it. 17 people are now injured, hundreds had climb on to the roof to watch the race. the weight was too much. i think looking at all those people, only 17 people injured. >> it was a miracle nobody was killed. it's been seven weeks since bode miller and his wife lost their daughter, drowning in a swimming pool. >> the millers are using their tragedy from having other parents go flu the pain they're going through. and they're opening up to savannah guthries the milllk about how
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quickly a child can be lost. >> it is literally a child under 30 pounds can drown in 30 seconds. and y keep counting to 30 in m head. >> you can see savannah's interview today, following news 4 today. good morning. we have rain mostly south of the area right no g as w through your morning, we should be dry at 7:00,8:00. we'll see the rain getting closer and moving in throughout the rest of the daytoe. we'll break down the timing of that and show you the rains chanor the rest of the week, coming up. two trouble spots both in maryland. vehicle fires, 95 southbound before the beltway, at 21 same lineup out of new hampshire avenue. one left lane gets by there.
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you're watching "news 4 today." >> welcome back. it's 5:45. we continue to track a developing story out of prince george's county. a homicides investigation happening in ft. washington. a man was found sho to ath. >> and justin finch is live
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there now withfohat we have d out. you've been on the scene all morning. what's the latest? >> good morning. prince george's county police, hard to work on this case, trying to find out who shot and killed this n, who w found on this cul-de-sac street here last night. we're t talking about 7200 block off of webster lane here in ft. washington. we saw the prince george's county firefighters on the scene where this man was found outside of someone's home. it's not clear how the man got here. that's where the police are hoping the public can step in and help them identify this man, also who may have shot him, and area. got to this a cash award is being offered for tips for police to solve this case. we're live in washington, justin finch, news 4. >> justin, thank you. the president went on a twitter tiraden sunday, threatening to shut down the
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government again over a border wall. >> the president went after robert mueller and what he believes are conflicts of interest. acking it all is tracie potts, from capitol hill thismorning. >> threatening the shoutdown is a move seen before. what could we see in the next few days. >>aybe not anythin in the next few days. but looks like the president is throwing this out there early. congress has months from today to come up with the budgei that he is w to sign. he is making it clear, he's not willing to sign if they don't deal with immieyation. thought they had a deal, it didn't work out. the presidentth ght, this won't work out. when they come back from break, it will be crunch time again. president trump says he wants money for the border wall. he wants policy changes and wants them to get rid of the catch and release policy.
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>> the preside tweeting about michael cohen, his lawyer, his former lawyer. and kind of flipping sides on this. this is after the report that hn d to tell the special counsel what he knew about that infamo meeting in 2016 at trump tower between a russian lawyer and his campaign. do you anticipate this is going uglier? >> it could. the bigti qu, what can michael cohen prove? according to the president's attorney the 183 conversations thate secretly recorded don't prove a thing. don't prove that the president did anything wrong. dot necessarily prove that the payments to these women who necessary claim they had affairs to the president were illegal campaign contributions. according to rudy giuliani, the president's attorney, the tapes helped him because aside from the one that we heard so much about, there are other recordings that talk about the president, that essentially exonerate him from doing
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anything wrong, but they can't release those tapes right now. >> tracie potts, live for us on capitol hill. thank you. it's 5: today. robert wilke will be sworn in as the new veterans affairsse etary. wilke has been serving as acting secretary since march. he has been expected to shake up the v.a. on his first official day on the job. a resignation could put the slim house advantage in jeopardy. greg habeeb is stepping down on friday. he wan to focus on his family and career as a lawyer in roanoke. the special election in the republican district, would give democrats a chance to win the seat and force a 50/50 split. in that scenario, the parties would have to agree to share power. the peace cross the causing some conflict.
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the monument honors those who fought in world war i. lawmakers are hoping the u.s. supreme court overrules a lower court's decision. texas senator ted cruz and stevi scalisd an argument last night.fa they ruled ir of the humanist association, that says the cross that sits on the public land violates the separation between church and state. this fire in prince george's county happened on friday. this f was the scem chopper 4's view. the flames ripped through several un fire officials say it started on the third floor. but at this point, they haven't been able to pinpoint how it began. so far, we learned no one was badly hurt.
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you expect privacy in locker rooms. but this may have you questioning other gymgoers. police are looking for people k that totos of men at the indoor swim center in boyd, maryland. a man encouraged three women to go into the locker room and snap phthos this month. may be from the baltimore area. flights are back on track for american airlines. an outage that gunded all flights yesterday morning. it took about 40 minutes to restore that system. the airline has apologized to customers for the inconvenience. as the summer speeds by, we're getting closer to football season. that's right. e skins have been busine sieve at training comp down in richmond. can't believe we're looking at this video rightow. yesterday was the first full day of pads. our new qu terback, alex smith, is getting comfortable with his new team and will also have a
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fifew other new guys on thd. such as rookie running back derrius guice. he sat down with sherry burris yesterday. >> first nfl training camp. how is it going so far? >> it's been good. got out here with the guys and put on pads. you can tell as a rookie, how much do you know?dy sometimes clmuddy and cry. overall, it's been very well. >> i think we did a story about him recently. the skins get a breaom training camp today. they open the preseason in less thth two weeks. ey head up to new england to take on the patriots. love the new season because it brings hope to us -slofering skins fans. another season. another quarterback. maybe this is the year. >> we're riding the wave of the stanley cue and so, want to keep that momentum going. and g 2018 isoing to be a year
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for sports in washington. >> i think lyso, i reo. talk about the weather. >> one thing i don't like to think about when we start talking football, is winter. we're seeing signs of summer here, of course. even though we're getting closer to the end, we have rainthown to south. it's heading in the direction. as i zoom in here, you can see the showers and storms are getting closer, especially as we head towards fredericksburg park. this thunderstorm between fredericksburg and richmond, this is all movie ining north. his has developed in the past hour orso. fredericksburg will be seeing this shortly for the morning commute. parts of st. mary's county, seeing modate to heavy rainfall. if we look at the area currently, we're nice and dry.or we're dry the morning commute this morning, unless you're around fredericksburg, you see the one thunderstorm rolling in theext hour or so. after the morning commute, about 9:00 a.m., that's when the rain chances increase. we're mid to upper 60s.
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73 in washington. your exercise forecast, if you're planning to exercise outside, this morning before 9:00 a.m., that's the best time. showers move in through nchtime, wide spread. temperatures only at about the upper 70s with the rain. rain00, there you see the moving in from the south, by lunchtime, pretty could see a couple of thunderstorms. ne go through the evening, still some showershe forecast. as we go through the next few days, we could see rainfall totals from half an inch to an inch in some locations. but the rainy pattern, that will be in the forecast this week. look at the high rainchances. ery day this week, do not forget that umbrella. it will be warm and humid weekend.the let's check in with jack and the road conditions. chopper 4 will be chasing a couple vehicle fires. 95 southbound, the outer loop of the beltway. we have trouble spots. we start on the beltway out of looper between new hampshi
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boulevard. only the left lane was getting by. hb95 sond, before the beltway, after 212, one left lane was getting by the scene ere. and our crash in virginia, 66 east, before 28 in centreville, was getti in the left center lane. now along the left side of the roadway. ang b angie,ack to you. >> there is the man of three weeks. applauded by the winner of last year and the winner of four tours, chris froome. after weeks of racing, the most famous biking race in the world comeso a close. geraint thomait won the race wh two minutes of the lead. he's the first british-born winner of the tour de france. > an american cyclist crashed on the first day of the tour. lawson craddick injured his shoulder and cut his eye. despite the cinsh, he kept
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he pledged $100 a day for each stage he finishes for a track he trained on back in houston. fans chipped in. there was a egofundme p for this campaign. >> the total, over ,0$2. really showing what a champion really is to a endure of that pain. it's hard enough as it is. >> a true warrior with a lot of heart. he is helping otherpeople, now, too. how is that for monday motivation? he still ahead, today is day major construction work is beginninal on a loc bridge. it will impact your ycommute. whou need to know before you head outdohe . and a bombshell report, details on a surveillance program within the tsa. how quiet skies apparently follows passengers who are not on a watch list. it's 5:56. news 4 today continues next.
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news 4 today, what work on the g.w. parkway meansor your commute. trump and rober mueller, what he says about the man at the head of the investigation in a personal way. and news 4kis worng for you on how you can keep your basement dry during heavy rains. "news 4 today" starts right now. >> "news 4 today" starts now.
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>> good morning, everyone. it's just about 6:00 a.m. i' eun yang. >> and i'm iangie goff in for aaron gilchrist. >> will the skies get clearer? we'll check in on your commute. first, sheena parveen is here with a look at our forecast. good mornin good morning. even though it looks beautiful in the shot behind, you guys, we're going t see big changes as we go through the day today. understorms approaching and the nice skies this morning, not going to be lastin here's a look at the radar. rain down to our south, mostly around richmond. these are moving to the north and rtheast. we have some storm developed in fredericksburg. this is traveli to theorth and northeast, too. that could be nearing fredericksburg soon some heavy rain and light ing in th that

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