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this is in the postysons corner apartment complex just off of international drive by the galleria. police were spanned out across th and still on scene, crime scene investigators, as well as major crime bureau detectives. again, at this hour, what we know, two children were shot. one has died. the other was in the hospital. the person police are calling their lone suspect is in custody. right now, they're trying to move towards a motive as they continue to work this scene here and gather mo clues. we're live here intysons. i'm justin finch, news4 here in the studio. >> justin, we'll check back in with you. it is 5:00 a.m., we're keeping an eye on your forecast. >> that's right, wtop's jack taylor is standing by with a check on your morning commute. as i mentioned we wanted to talk about storm team 4's forecast. we're going from warm to cold real ick,right, sheena? >> that's right. it's warm this morning but this
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afternoon, you can call it i oppressive you thought yesterday was oppressive, because the humidity was very it felt like a sauna. and that's because the ground is so wetnd we have this warm air moving in from the south.oi that's g to be the same today. temperatures in the low 70s across the area. a wm start to th morning as you step outside. we are dry, but we're one shower in parts of anne arundel county. it's very slow or me yapderring north. and sunderlan seeing right rain. that's the only one in the area. we could have an isolated shower this afternoon. most of us stay dry. just hot and humid. take a look at the morning temperures, mainly inhe 70s. about 10:00 a.m., we'll see it jump in the 80s. bylunchtime, some of you could see temperatures in the upper 80s but feeling hotter with t humidity. wait until you see the afternoon temperatures and i'll tell you those rain chance in the next few days coming up let's go t jack taylor in for melissa.
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jack. >> reporter: heee , good morning, not a good start, unfortunately, in virginia, i-95, as you approachlorton, sounds like we've got a tractor trailer on its side. no traffic moving onhe southbound lanes of i-95 down in lorton. we also have conditions on the inner loop of the beltway. a new crash up near university boulevard. on the right side of the roadway, outer loop not bothered at all. t'll team you posted 95 leaving springfield by te you get to newington, that's where you're going slow. if you're getting on to 95 in lorton, youe fine. but the overturned tract are ore ler is 95 south b lorton closing the southbound lane. back to you. >> all right. jack, thank you. > 5:02. breaking news out of southern california. five people are dead after a small plane crashed. >> chris lawrence i at the live desk with the latest on the breaking news. chris. >> angie, imagine walking out of a s, a staples seeing a plane
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come down in front of u. first responders say it's a miracle no one on the ground was kill here's the parking lot in santa ana, staples, michael's those are some of the stores. e pilot radioed in that she was in trouble trying to make an emergencying landing. pieces of falling debris rain down on one car but no one on the ground was injured. all five victims were passenger on theplane. this morning, we're learning a lot more about them. this is the first photo of the victim, 29 years old. the oldest victim was 63. that's about a mile frfrl the. runw investigators are working to find out what was the emergency that caused it to go down, aaron. >> chris, thank you. now more breaking news,as a 91 people are dead after that powerful earthquake in indonesia. the quake hit the popular tourist town of lombok yesterday. crews are searching for more
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victims. at the same time, authorities are ting to evacuate several thousand locals and tourists from a nearby vacationing island. and predent trump offered a clear acknowledgement. and the president tweeted this, this is aeegt get information on an opt s, totally legal. he went on toit say about quote, i did not know about it. this changes there earlier catementsiming that russian adoption policy had been the focus of that meeting. some are questioning whether the meeting broke any laws. also happening today, president-elect trump administration former campaign chairman paul manafort trial continues. he'sal on t for perjury, tax perjury and bank fraud. for the firsttime, we are allergy from the family of a man killed by a montgomery county police officer. supporters held a march and vigil yeerday. just leased body camera footage
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showed a confrontation between robehite and officer anand badgujar. authorities say white was wearing a rimmed t-shirt and madeov a mement that made him look like he was armed. never get over.ng that i'll >> prosecutors ruled the shooting was justified. but white's family and supporters are demanding justice and want the officer to be fired. the service of justice coalition sponsored the rally last night downtown. friends and famy and supporters marched at the scene of the shooting. >> i was appalled, anoth unarmed african-american man in this country killed in an encounter with police. and time, here in m home, silver spris. >> montgomery county police contue to investigate the shooting. he officer could still face
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dweptal discipline. now, after an upar over the idea of separate metro trains for unite the right demonstrators metro announcing nothing is off the table. >> over theweekend, jack evans n backtracked o his earlier comments now telling news4 the issue ofeparate trains was nevernder consideration. the website said the white nationalists plan to take the vienna metro to f d.c. the rally. they also say the confines of railcar present an unique security challenge. metro says it' working with law enforcement and the publicty sas its highest priority. six minutes after 5:00 right now, a string of sex assaults in northwest d.c. has neighbors worried anddeolice wng if they're related. the assaults happened in the pa month in the foggy bottom, due point and logan neighborhoods. take a look on i street
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northwest july 22nd. a man approached a woman from behind. he tried to take off her clothes and assaulted her. d.c. police said his description matches those given by other assault.of sex word that the suspect is still out there has left some residents rattled. >> as a young 20 something, that kes me feel really concerned where i live. i no longer feel safe walkit home 10:00 p.m. on a weekday night. concerning.een quite >> d.c. police say the suspect may be connected to at least three other assault'. o>> is 5:07. we continue learn more about this crash on the bw parkway thatnded up with more than a dozen people in the hospital. according to investigators, the bus driver crossed the center line causing the bus to overturn. you can see where it ended up in those trees off the highway. the school bus was going froy new york co d.c. we learned that weren't any kids on t bus.
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14 people were hurt but all are expected to be okay. developing right now out of cras firefighters are now battling what is considered the seventh largest wdfire in the state's history. crews were encouraged over the weekend as stron windsushed the fires away from areas where people live and in placesha tha already burned. the white house approved california's request for a major disaster declaration in the wake of the historic wildfires. in new mexico the search for a missing boy led to the discovery of nearly a dozen children living in squalor conditions. on saturday, authorities say 11 children rangingn age from 1 to 15 were found with very ittle food or water and rags forclothing. the children are in state custody. omen also found three believed to be their mothers at that makeshift compound. deputies found those women and children while executing a search warrant for a man georgia say abducted his son last december. the boy still has not been
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found. a positive story, a local woman is trying to help with hunger in a colorful way. >>achel roberts calls herself the leesburg flower lady. she grows flowers and makes bouquets out ofthem. the profits go to loudoun hunger relief. so far,he's raised more than $60,000. >> i love flowers l and ie doing it. and i love sharing them with people that ve them,too. that's what making me really happy when ty sa i love your flowers. as a result, i keep going, as long as i'm able, i keep going because i can turn in some tsney. >> and rober has been going for six years now. she also gets a little help. you can see there, grandkids step in and do whatever needs to be doneha >>s right. she's passing it on. >> feeding the hungry is not the only way that locals gift back. in prince george's county this is an effort to make sure that kids have supplies that they
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need when it t comese to go back to school. why not stop over the weeannd help fill it up with a lot of supplies. the goal over the next t weeks is to send 15,000 students back to school with everything they need to g off on the right foot when they enter that classroom. >> remember, a great way to heln st is by taking part in the nbc4 backpack for ds. you want to help out the next chance is august 8th, at the ow king branch from 6:00 a.m. to noon. if you want to make a secure donationline, go to nbc washington daument and search backpacks. pop star demi lovato breaks her silence after a drug in the left her hospital. >> yes, she has a messageror fans this morning. > plus, police officers risk their lives to save a passenger trapped in a burning car. we're going to show you the fiery rescue coming up. sheena. >> well, a warm and humid start
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after a steamy dayyesterday. as you wake up, lots of sunshine, lots ofhumidity, near 90 degrees by 8:00. and the heat returns by then afternnd we'll show you that and the small rain chance coming up. we head to break with another look at breaking news we're following in fairfax coun. two juveniles were shot overnight inside atysons apartment. one of them has died. a suspect is in of the today right now. we'll be rig back.
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>> a fie rescu caught by a body camera as atlanta police rush to save a passeng trapped in a burning car. that car slammed into a polemo yesterdayrning. and you can see it burst into flames there. some good samaritans pulle two neople to safety but a third person was stuck a car. you can sees officers used a re extinguisher as he was pulled to safety. a worn out valve is to blame to a heat explosion at a refinery. the blast in superior back in april and a preliminary report released yesterday, federalin stigators say that a bad valve likely exposed highly flammable chemicals sparking that big blast. the explosion caused $20 million in damage. it coulde two years, they say, before the facility is back up and reining. wo 5:15, pop superstar demi lovato is breaking her silence
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about her addiction struggle. >> singer is still recovering nearly two weeksfter suffering a drug overdose. lovatohi shared on instagram yesterday. it reads in part what i've learned this illss isot something that disappears or fades in time. it is something that i must continue to ercome and have not done yet. lovato also thanked god for keeping her alive. she said she willn focus o her season brie and road to recovery. e news is reporting that shepe ed to be released from the hospital in the next few days and then will go into rehab. while we deal with the heat and humidity, severals communitre still cleaning up after powerful storms struck tver the weekend. >> we know least one of those storms proved deadly. this tornado in manitoba, canada, is being blamed for the death of a 77-year-oldman. the dwifter was on the ground up to 45 minutes destroys several homes in its path. just look at the destruction it left behind here. at least two people were hurt.
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experts are stillurveying the damage to determine just how strong this tornado was. back here in the u.s., a tornado that hit a small town in massachusetts was so powerful, crews had to demolish two buildings downtown. this happened in webster on saturdayut about an hourde of boston. city officials there were concerned that those buildings uld collapse at any moment. we know that dozens of hes are unlivable right now. no serious injuries were reported with that pretty bad storm. 5:17, we know tha most of us will stay dry, but all of us will stay hot. >> the weather as a result of being hot. >> yeah. from all of th rain that we've had,m aside fro the wind flow that we've had giving us hot and humid tperatures or conditions all the rain has caused things to be reall steamy around here. so, even if we had a drier wind direction. wet ground would cause it on on the sauna-like side. as we go through the afternoon,
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yesterda was very steamy. same today. back in the 90s and very buggy stside with t kind of weather sitting over us. humid as we go through tomorrow, wednesday, you might findsd relf th and friday. if you're heading out today, whatever you're ing, spf 30 or higher because we're going to see a lot of sunshine. we could hav an isolated afternoon shower and that's only for a couple spots. you do see that, maybe you're the lucky one because that w l cool your temperatures down. midto low 70s, most of the aa this morning. still watching the only shower that we have around right w. it is now startinto die out, several portions of anne arundel county along the coastline. that's about it. as weo throughhe afternoon, there's that setup i was mentioning. high presse keeping us mostly dry but low pressure is bringing in heat and hamidty, once again. if the skids are heading to summer camp, temperares this morning, 80 degrees, sunny skies. find some shade by 11:00 this
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morning. temperatures will be in the mid to upper 80s. stay hydrated. low 90s. and if you are grilling we'll be stayin mostlydry. a couple showers but most of the area looksne with humidity today, feeling hotter. feeling more like upper 9s. 8:14.t coming in at here's future weather as we go through the day. a couple trail showers are possible. tomorrow, though, the chance are higher as we go through the afternoon for a few showers and by wednesday afternoon and evening, that's a cold front moving through so that's really ie best chance for rain this week. hould say, the highest chance for rain this week. that will come look at those temperatures, in the 90s with humidity so it'sin to be steamy out there for the first half of the week. second half of the week, at least the last two days, sunny ca and dry, you might notice the humidity just a tad lower, so far, unfortunately, for the
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weekend, we' still watching the rain chance. we'll look at the forecast as we go throu today. coming up, let's wed to jack taylor wh wtop with a check of the roads, good morning, jack. >> we'll talk to jack in a second, sheena. thank you. 5:20, we're working for you with tips how to get rid of mosquitos
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[music playing] (ceo) haven't been playing golf this year, i am sorry about that. (vo) progress is in the pursuit. audi will cover your first month's lease payment on select models during summer of audi sales event. >> announcer: you're watching "news4 today." my, my we've got a little bit of a trouble spot on 95,bo going soud as you head to lorton. there's an overturned tractor trailernvolved that this
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crash. traffic is now being forced off of 95 inlorton, but will you find southbound lanes closed. on its tor trailer is side in lorton. you'll find a delay building very quickly back towards newington. northbound can see this. we've got a slowing, sopllease ahead. southbound 95, lorton. all travel lanes blocked. 95 northbound coming up through spotsylvania and fredericksburg, north of route 1, that's cleared but everybody is on to the oulder. on t inner loop of the beltway, in maryland a crash on the right side. outer loop runs without lay, from 95 to georgia avenue.y attention, southbound, 95, again in lorton, all lanes closed. back to you. all right, jack, thank you. it's 5:23 right now. the amount of rain we' received over the past couple weeks has created a perfect breeding ground for mosquitos. >> yeah, they're everywhere. news4's justin finch is working for you howseo fight tho
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mosquitos that are ready to bite. >> reporter: enough,hahat's w we're all saying about our recent spell of unrelenting but when the rain goes away, get ready for a flood of mosquitos. >> tiny little water bottle cap which carries abo half a teaspoon of water that can breed 300 mosquitos easily. >> reporter: mosquitos. they're annoying and can be a health hazard. so what you can do to protect yourself and home? we asked aileen waxccessler. she says the number one way to protect youelf is tried and true. get rid of any standing water in your yard. fi in low areas on your lawn or landscaping areas where rain water may collect and stand for more than seven days. mosquitos restad in cool area, make sure your grass and shrubs are short and avoid overgrown vegetation.
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and to increase your comfort level in your yard, turn on the fan and set it on high. mosquitos can fly in busts over 10 miles an hour. here's one for your kids, blow bubbles. mosquitos don't like soap so blow bubbles. >> when you think about private treatment for your treatment, so that you're not so concerned about the diseases that the mosquitos carry. not only for your children, yourself but your pets as well. >> reporte justin finch, ws4. >> yeah, lots of bug out and the weather today, hot, humid. still a lot of standing water. you can bet there's going to be a lot of o bug today as well. temperatures as you wake up and walk outside this morning. pretty warm, midto low 70s. owi'll show you hot this afternoon coming up. and if you're just waking us with , we're following breaking news out of fairfax county. two children shot
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in an apartment intys tysons. we want to go now live to news4's justin finch live at the scene. justin. >> reporter: angie, a short time ago, fairfax county police can identify the suspect, veronica youngblood, 33 years old, charged and held without bondbln the d shooting of two children here last night. one of them dyi overnight, we are told. let's get to you video from the scene here, police called to the shooting just after 10:15 or so at the post rntyson's . the scene here, 1500 block the lincoln circle. this area by the dulles toll road, not far from international drive is where this took place at this time. at this time, no word on motive. but the suspect has been randied. veronica youngblood now being bond.d and held without
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at this point, we have not gotten the names of those two children shot, one of them dying overnight. awaiting any information police migh give that might link her to the two children. perhaps more of a m ive as well, what prompted her to possibly shoot those two children last night. ain, she's being charged with that. we'll bring you more details enfrom the we'll give you an update from the public informations officer in just a few minutes. we'll carry tha live for y and bring you more information as we get it as well. back to you in the studio. >> justin finch live in fairfax county.ha justin, you. it is 5:30. good morning, everyone. i'm aaron gilchrist. >> and i'm angie goff in forun yang. and jack taylor is here with the "first alert" traffic. before we get to him, he will fill us in on the the roads.for >> let's start with sheena parveen with the forecast. already 75 degrees here.
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it's going to get hotter, right? is sure it's going to feel like a sauna out there. just like yenoerday. you the humidity, it was oppressive at times, especinlly he middle. day in the afternoon. we were in the 90s and today in the 90s again. your planner for today, 75 degrees, by:00 a.m., right where we are now in the district. 10:00 this morning, we should be in the 80s for most of the area. should be in the mid-80s by then. and then as we goowards 1:00 p.m., expect it to be around 90 degrees but it will get even hotter as we go through the next two you are hoes after tha hour. another hot and humid day. the radar is dry. it's going to stay dry for most of us as we go through the afternoon. we could have an ilated shower later on. the one shower i've been watching all morningas broken part in southern portions of annual rundle county.
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nothing that you have to worry about. we'll take a look at the rest of the week coming up. let's head to jack taylor to get a check of the roads. good morning, jack. >> good morning. our trouble spot is in lorton, i-95 southbound,ll lanes blocked. tractor trailer on its side. tractor trailer will be diverted off if you can do it earlr, in newington, we don't think traffic can get on to29 lorton south as well. northbound lanes, a rubber neck delay. and southbound coming out of newington and doing nothing but growing. the water main break inbr woge contained. route 1 lanes open. southbound at route 1, mt. pleasant drive, we have the left laneetting by the water main break. aaron, bangie,k to you. developing this morning, we now know a double shooting in montgomery county was an attempted murder/suicide.
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this happened inside a car at this parking lot on saturday. the lot is nearld leisure w where the men live together. greg wylie shot and killed 89-year-old thomas wylie and turned the gun on himself. >> greg survived but in grave condition this morning. this otrning, it's clear whether a driver will be charged with hitting andilng a man on 202. the driver hitur the man sy night. the man died at the hospital. investigators say the driver did ay on thescene. we're learning more about the 12-year-old chineseho girl was thought to have been abducted from reagan national airport. jianjian ma disappeared from the airport. it turnsut the man and woman are her parents. ma is stayi withhem in queens new york. according to the report, the parentseen living in the
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u.s. for several years. ma wasit vg with a tour group but will remainn the u.s. we begin with the latest on breaking news in southern california. officials have identified all five victims in yesterday's deadly plane crash as california residents. their ages range from 29 to 63 years old. the crash happenein a busy santa ana shopping lot parking lot. at least 91 people are dead following a powerful quake in indonesia. it hit the tour the sit of lombok yesterday. crews are searching for the rubble for more victims. at the same time, authorities are trying to evacuate several thousand locals a tourists from nearby vacation islands. there will be no separate metro trains for unite the right
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marchgoers. the safety is highest priority for metro and metro officials are workingntith law enforce ahead of that august 12th rally. kim fields is among the celebrities on social media this morning tweeting her love for charlotte rae. the star of "facts fe" died. she was 92 years old. she plarrd mrs. t on the show. is he survived a bout of pancreatic cancer in 2009 but was diagnosed with bone cancer last year >> rae won a tony and emmy award. after surviving that battle with pancreatic cancer she said every day was like abirthday. >> everything she did was hill layer yas. we're stayingn topf breaking news out of fairfaxre county w we know two juveniles have been shot. we're about to get an from fairfax county police on what they learned about the shooting tt happened about 10:00 last night. let's listen in here.
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>> i'm waiting for- first nam is taragehard. i'm a public informati officer with the fairfax county police dertment. so, a mclean woman is facing charges this morning.e a murder cha specifically. officers were called to the 1500 block of lincoln circle last night around 10:15 p.m. for report of a shooting. whenever officers arrived on the scene. they discovered two juvenilevi ims. one was taken to the hospital. one was pronounced deceased on scene. within an hour, our officers were able to take the suspect, veronica youngblood, 33 of mclean into custody. and our detectives are continuing to piece together what happened that led up to the events of last night's shooting. i would like to remind everybody that we're not allowed to release juvenile information due to state law. ie don't h that information.
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>> here or somewhere else? >> >> another jurisdiction? >> i don't have that information for you right now. >> unfortunately, ioun't give you any information that could lead to the identity of the children. >> is she the mother? >> i can give you that information. >> was she the one who called 91 >> i don't have that information. >> it wase ins the residence. >> a juvenile is likn 17 two days, you cannot give us young kids or teenagers. >> unfortunately, i cannot. >> were the children alone when the officers arrived in the home >> i don't have that information for you. i'm assuming so since she was taken into custody nearby.m sorry? [ inaudible question ]. >> i can't give you anything that could ideify the victims. air,ou're live now and on
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can you tell us what developed? >> sure, veronicaoublood, 33 of mclean is in custody after a shooting that p tookce at 1500 block of lincoln. officers identifiedwo juvenile victims one was taken to the hospital. one wasn pronounced dead scene. within an hour, our were able to take her into custody, veronica youngblood. >> where was this? >> the shooting was inside the 1500 block of lincoln circle inside of anapartment. >> where -- >> t the best of my knowledge, yes. [ inaudible question ]. >> correct.as >> she armed at all when you found her? >> i do not have that information. >> you have recovered a weapon? >> i don't have that information at this time either. >> so, you don't know if she was -- >> you've been listening to a briefing with fairfax county
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police about a shooting overnight that involved two juveniles. we know this happened, starts about 10:15 last night when police got a call about a shooting on lincoln circle in mclean in the tysons area, and learned two juveniles have been shot. one has since died. >> and because of the age, they cannot release their identity. veronica youngblood, the 33-year-old from mclean, what the relationship is to the the relationship is to the viimsct
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saw earlier. >> andch bers tried to form a human chain. they found the man in the waves but hedied officials are telling you don't go in the waves. and ase heading out, for your commute, temperatures in the mid-70s.t once t does come up, it's going to be a hot and humid day. most of e areatays dry. we'll number the 90s. i'll show you what it lks likeoo
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staying oe top of breaking news right now at 5:46, two children were shot overnig at an apartment building in mclean, virginia. one of those children has died. the other is in theospital right now. fairfax county poli identified the shooter as 34-year-old veronica youngblood. >> she's being charged. orwe'reng to learn the relationship between the shooter
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and the victim.ch justin f is live at the scene. we'll have a live report at 6:00 a.m. also happening today, the trump administration is imposing sanctions on iran lifted under the 2016 nuclear accord >> this is part of the withdrawal from the iran deal. news4 joins us. >> reporter: goo morning, as a result of the sanctions that the u.s. is imposing, major companies that do business here in the united states, boeing, honda, mda andothers, quite a few automakers and others haveu left doingess with iran. they cut it off because they don't want to get wrapped up in sanctions. also european countries with secondary sanctions. these are the sanctions that we hold our ong the nuclear deal, but now that the u.s. has pulled out of that deal, we're reimposing some of those sanctions for good. have a pretty significant impact on iran, with the idea tooet them come back to the table and renegotiate the whole thing.
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president trump said he's open to talking to president rouhani with that. they seem pretty reluctant andt stick t deal that he left and several other nations negotiated one president obama. ese sanctions seem to be affecting currency and government purchases. the auto industry and civil air industry. and according to the secretary of state, more from the white house later today. >> tracie potts on the hill. thanks. hour.2 minutes before the and the newseum changed its mind about conoversial merchandise. the newseum pulled the "you are fake news" t-shirt from its line. the newseum released a statement reading in part, quote, we made a mistakend we apologize. a free press is essential part of our democracy and journalists are not the enemy of the people." it's 5:48, new details on an
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apparent attack on the president ofel venezu the suspect used a pair of drones each packed with twods pounf explosives and tried to assassinate president nicolas maduro on saturday. bodyguards shielded maduro and his wife and they were not hurt. yesterday, president trump's u.s. national secity adviser john bolton denied any u.s. involvement in t attack. the blast injured seven members of the national guard. three are still in critical condition. today marks 73 years since the atomic bombing in hiroshima, japan. a sombererony was held there yesterday. the u.s. attack on hiroshimaki ed 1240,000 people. three days later. the bombing ofak nag killed
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more than 70,000. the attacks led to japan's surrender and an end to world war ii. >> reporter: we're following a developing story in alaska where five people are trapped on a crashed tour plane teetering on th edge of a mountain. now rescue crews are appearing to resume the searc in denali national park. the plane went down saturday with foun passengers board. the pilot made two soolgtsite calls but nothing since that day. cloud cover is making it very, very tough to locate them. they are equipped with sleeping bags, food supplies and a first aid kit. but the plane crashed at neerm f 11,0t elevation and it's posted on a extremely edge. and also at that high, the temperature may have dipped below zero. and at this point, they've been trapped out there two nights, angie. ha>> chris, you so much. a family thought they woulde never see t beloved dog again. ne year later he would be
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found several miles from their home in south carolina. last week, ester adkins found him on a walk about 70 miles from his owner's home in greenville. the dog followed her home apparently. after taking him to the vet, atkins learned t dt theog had a microchip. the family reported the d missing a year ago. it's not sure how ratchet got away or went missing but he' home now. good thing. we have this reminder for you that we ar less than two weeks away from our clear the shelters animal adoption drive. if you're thinking aboutin t home a new pet, consider heading to a local shelter to adopt on august 18th. you can check out the washington app search clear the shelters. timeight now, 5:51, we want to head over to wtop's jack taylor. he has a traffic alerti- on to tell us about. >> reporter: oh, this is not good a tractor trailer overturned 95
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southbound in lorton. all traic stopped. you can see traffic on the right side exiting on to lorton. you see the volumes light. what they're doing, virginia state police areiverting traffic as well. back to the fairfax county parkway. if you'reeading in that direction be prepared. that's where you are taking off. they're saying southbound lanes will be blocked for the next couple of bhours. ju aware. 95 northbound. in that slow down, route 1 in wood bridge.he it's along right side the roadway. there's a water mainbreak, southbound route 1 mt. pleasant. nosh lanes are unaffected and that's a good thing. a lot of folks will eventually avoid 95 and that rubber neck f pl slowdowns both directions. 95 riding towards lton unfortunately. i think the weather's cooperating more than the traffic, miss sheena parveen. >> good morning, jack taylor,
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s, it is cooperating for us. however, if you don't like the heat and humidity it's not cooperating. we had 90s in the forecast again today. sterday.0s today, tomorrow, wednesday, all very humid, very steamy as wetho ugh the afternoon, combined with 90 degree temperatures. feelin like the upper 90s for the next few days. an afternoon thunderstorm not out of the question but we'll he aher chance as we go through tomorrow and tomorrow. 72, manassas, 75 degrees washington and annapolis coming in a a balmy 75 degrees this morning. got and humid, that's the story today. rea of high pressure out of the southeast bringing us the heat and pulling in the humidity. and we're not going to to see f therelief until the end week. a little relief there. if you're exercising today, this morningooks like the best time because after today it's going to heat up quickly. 75, mostly sunny.
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this rning, nearhen 90 this afternoon. and it might be better inside in the air conditioning. you're heading to the pool this afternoon, well, you want tsp 30 or higher. here's futureeather by 3:00 p.m. again, a stray shower or thunderstorm. most of the area stays dry. tomorrow, the chance goes up with passing showers and storms. and by wednesday, we're going to have a higher chance with the cold front moving through. so what that's going to do thursday and friy give a little relief for the humidity. and we watch the weekend as rain chance go back up more on the weather coming up. back-to-school shopping is in full swing right now. the tax-free holiday weekend in virginia just ended at midnight. shoppers enjoyed no sales tax on certain supplies, clothing, shoes. if you missed out, you c take advantage of ahmadinejmaryland'r
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holiday. but each item must cost less than a hundredbu s. well, your taste buds could land you a dream job. the company behind nutella is looking for sensory judges. you also should taste the company's ferrero chocolates. those are the little balls in the twisty wrappers. i don't know if i said it right. three months tining starting next month. only 40 will be selected. there's a catch, you must be willing to locate to the company's headquarters in alba, italy. is that possible? >> yeah. >> is that possible? that's so tough. w re crossing our fingers for mamie johnson's little league team. >> the team had a rough start, they played new york yesterday and lost 10-2.
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buo they d have a chance to redeem themselves when they play tomoow. the team is the first predominantly black team to regionalto the win or lose, the local sports teams have rallied aund the kids from d.c. the baltimore orioles outfielder adam jones donating 8500 max scherzer and his wife donated some gear for the team. nats player stephen strasburg and all wishing them luck because they're feeling the love and hopefully do well tomorrow. >> good luck. 5:56. still ahead on "news4 today," we're continuing to follow that breaking ns in fairfax county. two childrenhot in an apartment in mclean overnight. one has died. we're learning new detail it's about the woman until custody. continuing coverage on devastating news out of indonesia. an earquake has struck killing nearly 100 people.
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>> announcer:4 "neday" begins with breaking news. that breaking news, a late night shooting at a fairfax counpartment complex. two children were shot. we learned one has died the other child is in the hospital. police tell us the gunman is in custody. >> i'm aaron gilchrist. >> and i'm ang goff in for eun yang. we want to get you the latest information about that shooting.
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>> news4's justin finch live at the scene. justin, that news conference police, pping up with what you can tell us? >> reporter: aaron, just moments ago,airfax county police saying this will be a meticulous investigation with the piece coming together slowly throughout the morning. we do have a suspect incustody, veronica youngblood, 33 years old of mclean.ic thems identified only as two children. one dying here on the scene. the other in the hospital as you mentioned. the call about this came in about 10:15 last night at the post tyson's corner apartment off the international drive, at the tysons area about the 1500 block of lincoln circumstance searching for the suspect that they say was found nearby. that's all they're saying about this at this time. now, on the scene, the major crime bureau detectivesri as we as scene investigators. and moments ago, the officers
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