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gun on the kid, but these court documents i've found reveal an ongoing custody -- child custody dispute with her ex-husband. a terrible discovery a inside apartment at the post-tyson's corner complex, two children shot. 5-year-old brooklyn youngblood dead from and gunshot w to the head. dispatch calls show police began searching for her mother 33-year-old veronica youngblood. >> fairfax county is asking that we be on theokout for a 30-year-old hispanic female dressed in all black. >> reporter: youngblood turned up at a home in the ashburnham area banging on >> silverwood terrace saying the suspect is there saying she killed her daughters and currently has a gun. >> it was around 11:00 p.m. in her neiborhood when s shaw a police officer with gun drawn. >> my daughter saw it and said why is h pointing the gun,
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mommy, and he was just walking with the gun like that. and put your arms down and do not move, do not move. >> it wasn't until this afternoon that hurricane floydy milan lanrned a w she saw get arrested was accused of killing her own daughter. >> devastating thing for me as a mom with my children that a mother is capable of doing so something like that. it's heartbreaking. >> police are barred by law from identifying the two victims. court documents reveal in addition to 5-year-old brooklyn, youngblood has an older daughter. urt records also show youngblood and her husband have spent years in court hashing out custody details. they lived together in this apartment complex so they could share the girls' lives. under the custody order youngblood wascheduled to move to missouri later this week and
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court documents also show she didn't want to go but we don't though i that has anything to do with the cleanse. back to you in the studio. such a tragic outcome, julie, thank you >> pice arrested etienne xwongor who skulted a as 12-year-old week. more now on what we're learning about this incident. nicole? >> reporter: wendy, i can tell you that the judge against etienne kabongo's actions brazen, and what he's accused of doing just a couple of days later that has prosecutors considering him a flightrisk, and for that the judge has ordered thepe s held without bond. i can tell you in court today we
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learned that etienne kabongo allegedly sexually assaulted this 12-year-old special needs student on the school bus that he drove f montgomery public county schools. they also say that all of this was caught on surveillance video. we do have i someormation from the s schoolerintendent who call the alleged actions despicable. we do though that kabongo is no longer employed. he's on leave right now and the stupid says will he be part of the workplace there or be allowed on skull prosecute. t state's attorney's office says this is a parent's worst nightmare knowing that an adult is prague on kids during any type of child care situation. coming up at 6:0 wll have much more on this story and more
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from what the school system is ying about one of their bus drivers. wendy, back to you. >> nicole jacobs, thank you. trial oftwo in the president trump's former campaign chairman paul manafort, and just withias the lt hour manafort's longtime deputy took the stand.ti rick gates tfied that he had been involvedn criminal activity and that he committed crimes with manafort. this follows testimony fm manafort's former accountant who says she falsified documents for gates and what she believed that manafort.rom the direction of gates previously pleaded guilty to the charges in the special probe. manafort is on trial for tax evasion stories. >> and now more on the infamous meeting at tru tower and ove the weekend the president admitted via twe that the meeting was to get information
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on an on sent. originally the preside a said it wasbout russian adoptions. it's illegal for a campaign to accept help from foreign o governme from foreign nationals. turning now to the forecast, outsideyou have ventured today, folks, you know it's a hot one. like atures are feeling they are in the triple digits because of all that humidity. stm team 4 tracking those along with occasional pop-ups and this is the storm in alexandria. >> doug, what a muggy monday and a w one for some folks. >> for some areas it was a wet one. most us were on the dry side today, but if you did get onef those thunderstorms, some places it came down pretty hd. storm team 4 tracking the thunderstorms and were around the region earlier and the gare ree for the most part? we saw some bigger storms over i-59 towards the wheaton area towards college park and now zooming on in you really don't see any at all.
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a few showers around the manassasrea and back around i-66 and north of warrenton. the wider viewng not shouch at all. sbst of tonight on the dry side. 93 lg and 92 dulles and it gets even hotter tomorrow and wednesday, and we've got a better chance of storms, too. i'll break it down for you and see you back here in a few mi htes. >> met decided it will not make separate trains available to the white supremacists coming into d.c. sunday for the unite the right rally. late this afternoonro m announced separate trains are not part of the plan now. there's concern because one woman was killed when counterp testers and while nationalists clashed at last year's unite the right rly in charlottesville. coming up at 5:30, a look at how metro and d.c. police will be
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working together to keep the ac an inn send bystander, that's how police called an 18-year-old after a stray bullet struck her. our bureau chief tracee wilkins has the report. >> reporter: we need people who may have heard or sn something call us. >> a 19-year-old girl is in critical and stable condition after being shot in canterbury riding in aplaurel. itned around 10:00 p.m. last night. >> what's really unusual for us in this tase is thats was a bystander, someone who was completely innocent and not involved at all and happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. ea>> reporter: people who the gunfire told me there were six to seven shots and witnesses told police there was a group of young men running after the gunfire. >> i heard people screaming, and then i looked ouide, like 30 minutes later and i saw the police outside. >> canterbury ridings quiet town home d howard county portion of laurel. police say a crime like this one
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is unusual. >> we don't have a lot of shooting incidents in howard county.th ere's just not a high rate of violent crime. >> howard county police are looking for information to solve this case and they are ically interested in security camera video. if you picked up anything on your camera after 10:00 p.m. or have any information that could help inon this investigahey want to hear from you. in laure tracee wilkins, news 4. >> police are offering up to $1,500 for i to an arrest here. if you know anything, you're urged to contact howard county police. wendy? >> there's concern that a string of sexual assaults in different parts of northwest d.c. could be related. the suits happened over the past month in foggy bottom and neighborhoods in logan circle. some cases women have been approached from behind and the suspect's description in those cases is t similarthe person who is wanted for a sexual assaultrom last month. >> there is a new scandal emerging tonight in the catholic
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church, and it cld have implications here in washington. the license of pittsburgh sent a letter t parishioners this weekend announcing plans to release the names of clergy accused of child sexual abuse. almost all of the cases happened before 1990. now, that could coincide withca inal donald worrell's time as bishp in the pittsbu diocese. he was there from 1988 to 2006. as of tonight, there's no link between worrell and the investigation. a disturbing discovery after a virginia family returns home from vacation to find a dead body in their yard. it's one of the most read stories in our nbc washington app. so we're going to take a look at this and tell you what we've learned about the man who died and how he might have gotten there. a mass shooting here at home and some close to the case say the suspect left warning signs online. tonight theews 4 i-team investigates why police can't always act on social media
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threats. >> i knew he was going to do something violent, i just knew it. and an f aleor pet owners. the fda a has warning about certain p foods. at you need to look out for.
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otrs lived in fear of the "capital gazette" gunman for years, and he' blamingaps in maryland law for leaving them powerless and now he says it's time for change. >> and that'hat has to come out of this. where all those people died for absolutely no reason. >>onight the new 4 i-team asks experts and some of those closest to th case why law enforcementould not do more. investigative reporter jodi fleisher is here with the changes that they say have to happen. >> wendy in, maryland in orfor electronic communication to be considered harassing, it has to be sent received, like an e-mail. experts tell us that's just one of the reasons these hundreds of tweets were posted online for year did not count as threats even though the people he targeted definitely felt threatened. >> he would say that they wanted him to kill themselves, that
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they would be dripping in blood? in all his ears as an attorney brendan mccarthy could not s a suspect like jarrod ramos. >> i knew he would doet sng violent, just knew it. >> he battled him in court on behalf of klay enclient named . his threats eventually moved to twitter. >> nobodyould do anything about it. >> electronic communication has to be sent to a person and be received byer then meaning life-threatening language posted online doesn't always count, even if it references violence. >> but you're not saying i'm going tr come to y house and kill you? >> you think that's not an accident or coincidence? the laws read >> the newspaper reported on laurie's case making the journalists a twitter target, too. recordshow ramos started tweeting about mccarthy, the newspaper attorneys and even
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lol judges who ruled the newspapers had not defamed ramos coverage. >> i was scared with my client hat wasically anyone identified in that twitter feed. >> he said he tweeted about blood in the board room in the newspaper and posting journalist hell awaits and about a career. wspaper called them in 2013. >> i think our citizens expect us to be able to handle someone like him. >> kevin davis had just started as a police chief when the detective wrote this report and locked at ramos ecriminal story and read through that twitter account. >> he did not, according to our existing laws, go far enough for us to do something abouthim. >> the detective wrote he did not believe that mr. ramo was a threat to employees, noting ramos had not attempted to enter the capital newspaper building and didn't send direct threatening correspondence. the newspaper opted not to pursue any charges describing
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that as putting a stick in a beeh de. >> if w't have the tools to help someone with that problem, we end upalking away and telling folks call us wheng somethin happens and that's too late. >> several shots have been fired. >> responding to the active shooter. >> five yearsent by before ramos burst through the door of the capital newspaper and funned down fivemployees. ramos has pled not guilty. >> everyone knew he was a danger. and we just don't have the tools right now to stop him from doing what he's doing before he does it. that's the problem. >> mccarthy says he's making it his mission to change maryland law so police can act on earlier behave before it escalates. n righ police require clear directly threatening language to makere an . >> in many cases that we've en se, there is not a direct threat. >> threat expertsay many
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mass shooters reveal hints about their plans, even if it's not specific. >> we need to change law enforcement toake investigating easier. >> they need to stopne som like ramos from buying a gun. >> everyone loo in their mirror and look at each other and say i'm not surprised, and that mea w something isng with the system. >> maryland has passed a how against cyber bullying but it only applies to minors. need the ays adults same protection and that overs must follow up, even if a crime ha't been committed yet. >> what mechanism is there in place to keep watch on h to make sure he's not a threat in the future? >> none.gh there's your fning answer. >> now that is something tha could change in the coming months. at least in anne arundel
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coming up tomorrow at 5:00, we go one-on-one with the current police chief about these issues and others he's taking a look at in the wake of the shooting. jodi fleisher, news 4 i-team. >> thanks. yoea can more about what some say were threats or at least warning signs in this case. you'll find them in our nbc shington app. we've posted some of the suspect's tweets. you may find some of them disturbing. frightening and frustrating. social media and streaming sites are cracking dhen on right wing conspiracy theorist who once claimed the sdy hook elementary school shooting was fake. faceok unpublished four pages belonging to alex jones infoding two featuring his wars show. facebook says tonight the pages glorified violence and promoted hate speech against muslims, immigrants and transgender people. apple and spotify also removed info wars and alex jones' podcasts for violating hate
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speech rulme. of the political right accused the tech companies of violating and blocking jones' right to free speech. facebook friends may soon turn into facebook flings. they are apparently delving into the online dating businpas. the com confirms it's testing a new dating app. we have a few screen shots of what have that may look like but so there aren't many deelse it a. one thi we do know is that facebook says anyin dat profiles will be kept separate and private from the rest our facebook friends. >> got like a profile behind it that you canll act like che out. maybe like -- like you can vet it out a little bit better. >> trust it a little bitore than tinder. >> this effort comes as facebook tries to vere from several
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controversies. online dating is worth half a billion in the u.s. alone. >> might be time for some to there, mom and dad o maybe the grandparents too. >> we should start a dating app, half a billion. >> so many different ways. >> some of us will be at the bank they are convenient and quick and maybe you have used them, but how safe a payment apps like venmo and zell? susan hoganith what you need to know tonight about the security of the services. >> wow, is it muggy enoughor you? we're sweltering under the heat and humidity. feels like 100do degrees. is back when we might get some relief and some relief and ho
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you go to is back from vacaacon. i'm from vacation. >> i've been tied to the desk. haven't been out of the building. >> it was raining? >> two extremely soggy weeks. some areas picking up 16 inches of rain in the two weeks and nob we'rk and the weather -- >> it's hot and sticky and horrle and uncomfortable, and -- and we all want to be ut o let's el r take a look at what we're de this is a live shot from a
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reston camera. take a look off in the distance here, you're looking at a storm now oveng right towards maryland. we're looking across the potomac from reston right off towards the north there up around the rockville and gaithersburg area. see that going o right now and some sunshine in reston. out there towards d.c. cloud ver and nothing going on really as far as rain is concerned. not the case earlier. temperatures as i mentioned last year will come back up. down to 83 and now back t up 87 because of the sunshine after a high today into the 90s. still 921 leesburg and 9 fredericksburg. fredericksburgt 39 degrees and winchester come in at 81. they had a shower, too, so that's why the temperatures are son the coolee of things. here's the radar. not much going on. we saw some s pretty goorms right along the i-95 corridor around 3:00 and 4:00. most of them have simply dissipated. nothing out there at all. watching this boundary. see this little line. showers developing and this is the one we're looking at from reston. here it is right here.
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looking across over towards sterling and a little bit of a shower starting to develop. want to zoom in first off. see this here around herndon and that is going up. lreston cameraking at that one. that's actually in virginia and then across the river.lo at this one towards rockville. we'll zoom in on this guy and this one has ptty good downpours and right around rockville and all the way out towards gaithersburg, pretty good downpairs, too. may see more develop and most remaining on the dry side. scattered showers ands thunderstormnd that's all we saw today. you see those popping up here on the satellite and radar and not a big system. not like whatin you're s back here towards chicago. that's bringing everybody some rain. what this is doing is look at the up settled pattern he. we esome scattered showers and thunderstorms develop. this is typicsummertime weather, hot and humid with afternoon showers and wethunderstorms. ee it again tomorrow. tomorrow morning waking up on the humid side and by noon still on the dry side and right around 2:00 or 3:00 we s showers and
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storms pop up again and a much better chance on wedneay for me of the storms and some could be strong. 74 tomorrow and 87 degrees by noon. ooking good at tomorrow afternoo again, if you're getting lunch outdoors it's on the hothund d side. that's when the storm chances develop. wednesday a bter chance for storms area wide. some could be strong and possibly severe with a high of 94. up to around 90 thursday and friday and humidity though comes down just a little bit. what about the weekend forecast? i've got that for you as well. if you're going o vacation, jim and i are done. >> we're out of it. >> white supremacists planning a second unite the right rally and this one is here in d.c. we checked in l withocal law enforcement and metro about how they pla to keep everybody safe. >> plus, we talked to the northern virginia man who came home from vacation to fd a body in his front yard. >> and so beyonce is telling us why her last pregnancy was so
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welcome back atm 5:30. endy religioner. >> and i'm jim handley. a look at our top stories. a fairfax county mother facrd a charge accused of shooting her two young the 5-year-old suspect viktoria youngblood has
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died. the other girl is c intical condition. the victims were found last night inside a mclean apartment. >> a school bus driver has been charged with sexually assaulting a student. etie keabongo was captured on videolt assing a 12-year-old girl last year. the superintendent called the alleged behavior despicable. and after mixed messages metro is clarifying its safety plansor sunday's unite the right rally. late this afternoon they explained separat trains will not be available to white supremacists who will be protesting in d.c>> news 4 owes darcy spencer joins us live to detail the other measures that metro is taking, doris? >> wendy, metro has a major security challenge on its hands. the white supremabests wil heading here to washington and use the metro system. ey will get off right here at the foggy bottom station and head to the white house for this real. officials are scrambling to try
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to make sure this protest doesn't turn violent like it did in charlottesville. this map has run the souvenir stand outside the foggy bottom metro for 38 years and will be selling his hats and t-shirts when wte supremacists attend the unite the right rally and nt off the train on sunday. >> there'ser been a group hike that for a long time come here to protest against anything. >> reporter: metro has not said exactly how it will keep riders safe as participants carrying signs and confederate flags enter the system in vienna and get off at foggy bottom before marching to the white house for the rally. last year's demonstration in charlottesville resulted in violent clashes and the death of a counter protester. >> some metro riders say they are steering clear. >> you're not going to be on the
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train? >> i'mbe not going t on the train, absolutely not. >> reporter: metro officials are working closely with police to protect riders and employees and they are working through special security challenges because of the tightn space metro rail cars. at some riders say they are not worried. >> i don't think i would be any more concerned than i am on any other dayetting on the metro. >> reporter: metro's latest station says thenc a is not preparing a train for the private use of any group includ pg theserotesters. it was welcome news to riders who say that would have sen the wrong message. ha the car to provide separate trains, so wt are we saying, it's okay? >> reporter: metro is working with several policegencies to make sure it's a smooth ride for everyone. >> so far d.c. police and metro transit police have not outlined any specific details on their security plan. back for youer >> darcy spe darcy, thank
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otyou. vs in montgomery county may see three names on the ballot when they t pick next countyxe etive. council member nancy florring submitted more than 20,000 petition signatures, about three times the required amount to get her on the ballot. she's aemocrat who plans to run as an indepenaynt. she ss the current nominees republican robin thicker and democrat mark eldridge are flawed candidates. >> a lot of people thinkt will split the vote. >> oh, you know. people are concerned about that. the mr. finger is going to ome in third no matter what, and what you're hearing is a demand and a hope for unity in montgomery county, not for splitting the commuty apart. >> reporr: the county's board of elections will now count each signature for verification to make their final decision. >> the costs of getting youren chil ready for school it add up. prince george's county parents
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ar getting some help. this is one of the manytuffed s events happening ahead of the school year. today employees of the uc ional's system's federaled it unions in bowie created a human chain to load 2,500 backpacks into a bus. the packs are stuffed are school supplies and will handed out to students later this month. this d schooltrict goal is to collect 15,000 backpacks. >> our goal is to make sure that every student of those 15,000 have a backpack, have school supplies and what hence happens next, they will have a smile on their face to start an amazing successful school year. >> prince george's county public schools are asking families to register online and all of the backpacks will be handed out august 25th at the bowie stadium. >> if you want to donate a backpack there's a community stuff a bus event happening tomorrowight from 5:30 to 8:45 at the largo palazzo shopping center in upper marlboro and again on saturday at the
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wegman's in lanham from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. so help us ge. it d family and friends will say good-bye this week to a little girl killed by a fallen try. visitation and f seralvices are set for lydia she was tucked into bed when a tree crashed through her home pinning her to the bed. the tree felayafter several of soggy weather. she was just 10 years old, played violin and loved softball. a family returni from vacation makes a horrible discovery, a body in their yard. they found it yesterday on the enchanted woodsay in fredericksberg. today we're learning more about how it got there. news 4's meagan fitzgerald wtalked to the homeowner made the call to police.
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>> scott maas ice doesn't want to go on camera butis says neighbor told him about what happened on h yard. jarred smith was driving a car when his frienea dre miller-caldwell overdosed on heroin causing smith to crash into the ditn and t leaving the body on the side of mattice's house. >> i was going to cut the grass because it's kind of thick. walked arohed to the side of house where i store mymowers. >> reporter: mattice made theng disturbi discovery. >> around these bushes and where you see the lime all covered is where he was laid to rest. >> reporter: that's when he called police who spent hours on scene investigating. >> two families tragically lost people now, and, youow, they
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have bigger stress problems than what i had. >> reporting in fredericksburg, mean fitzgerald, news 4. >> smith has been charged with concealing a bold which is a felony ang is bei held without bond. told you about it for weeks. moviass is coming up with a new plan now to stay in business. what will and won't be changing with the popular subscription service. >> and a warning for poet owners. the fda is issuing an alert a certain kind of pet food. what you need to look out for. a hot and humid day f o everybod there and some of us dealing with heavy rain right now. a few s isolatedrms around rockville and gaithersburg and out towards the herndon area. more storms in the forecast tomorrow and especially
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a warning for dog observers tonightay what you're feeding your pet could do more harm than good. grain-free dog foods have bee linked to a fatal form of heart disease. while the fda didn't name any specific brands, be aware of foods with potatoe and lentils and other legumes as the main ingredient. pet owners should pay attention to that label. >> ily usu recommend a diet based on grain and one that used common pwell-establishedtein sources. as veterinarians study
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similar cases, they suspect some could be linked to a tone deficiency, an amino acid critical to dog's heart health. >> make sure you mark your lendar, folks. we're counting down. you can help an animal find a new nbc 4 and telemundo are teaming up with shelters for the fourth al clear the shelter dve. this happens on august 18th. now shelters will wave or offer scount fees as part of the one-day adoption dry. more than 650 animal shelters across the country are involved. wendy, you're be at one of them. you havedopted a of your cats. >> yes. >> and i'm going to be at the -- at the welfare -- alexandr. >> and sheena is going to be at the allianc down at oglethorpe. >> so easy to do. changes everybody's lives. not just the pets, people too.
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>> it's wonderful. pop star superstar demiut lovato o of the hospital and now at a rehab facility. lovato was in the hospital for nearly two weeks you'll recall recovering from an apparent drug overdose. she was released onda sat lovato posted on instagram yesterday writing that she will focus on her sobriety and the road to recovery. >> and beyonce is talking about motherhood in a new magazine interview. she told vogue she delivered her twins by emergency c-section. september issue. the singere reveals t babies were in intensive care a for weeksnd also opened up about pregnancy complications and says herttitude about her body changed after she welcomed those twins. beyonce says she isn't pressurilf her to lose weight quickly like she did after the birth of her daughter. she admits she has a mommy pouch, as she called it, and she's not rushing to get rid of >> all right. folks, when we come back. people used them for their
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simplicity, their speed, too, but how secure are those apps that let you send money to someone? susan hogan takes a closer look? >>'m sbures herree burruss in richmond, virginia. the redskins three days away from f
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about two dozen protesters outside of d.c. calling for mayor to take action when it comes town documented immigrants. organizers are accusing the administration of aiding in recent raids, but in a statement eayor reaffirmed the district is a sanctuary city and she pointed to a legal aid fun that she created for those fighting deportation. >> millions of americans are paying each other without actual
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cash ever changing hands, and it's all done through services er payment like venmo and zell. are they secure? do they protect your privacy? our consumer reporter susan hogans workingbout what you need at these services. >> consumer reports put the peer-to-peer services to the test to see if they can be trusted to keep your data safe. >> reporter: it's a convenience growing in popularity from millenials to baby boomers. an estimated 79 million americans will use a mobile peer-to-peer payment service this year. >> really easy splitting a check at the table. >> sometimes you have toay people back. so it's a lot easier for me to do that. >> throw in messages and emojis. >> it's also sort of fun. >> withsu crs worried about data breaches and hacks can the services be trued?
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"consumer reports" said five of them focus on security. we didn't find any are so bad you shouldn't use them. >> reporter: apple pay, for instance, is with a the only one ks score top m for data privacy. >> they try to take the least amount of data and keep thele t amount of data. >> however, it's only available if both the sender and receiver use anpplesmartphone, watch or tablet. that's something that note with peer-to-peer in general. >> i have to have zell, you have to have to ll. >> reporter: accounts are linked to your bank account, credit card or paypal accounts. opt for t highest security and e on cy settings possi those apps adding, for instance, a p.i.n. or fingerprintti authenti, and most importantly don't use peer-to-peer services to send money to strangers. >> you shouldll ronly pay
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people that you might. >> also make sure your app is up to date. hack remberslways trying to find new vulnerabilities so be sure that you need the most recent version. >> good to know. susan, back to you. >> sure. >> amazon's assistant alexa can an away mode that are designed to trick would-be thieves into thinking people are home. alexa will play pre-recorded audio tracks of conversations for about an hour eac and there's seven tracks to come from, including, and this is my absolute favorite, conversation of a couple bak up so that would be alive of it's not you, it's me, anywhere. >> wsn d love that. >> "saturday night live" comedy writers came up with some of the tracks. i thought people broke up on texts these days and sending ax teo each other. >> that's fabulous.
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>> very clever. >> moviepass, a sucription-based movie ticketing service is going to make drastic changes starting august 15th. subscribers are only going to bt o watch three movies a month. a significant cut compared to of one movie a day for tho you who don't have jobs. the charge will remain at 9.99 a month, not 149.95 previously announced and the new plan will include many major studio first run films. >> three a year is enough for me. wow.> e well, folks, we're just three days away from the redskins season opener up in new england. it will feature alex debut with the burgundy and gold andherree burruss reports about a scalding day down in richmond and finally a chance to squa off and face another team. >> reporter: an offensive lineman told me the tone of thel 2018 seasonbe set on
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thursday as they play their first preseason game against thp new englatriots. finally the redskins get to play elseone >> having some dbs that don't my move every day so can i get aor little in. these cats know my stuff now so they sit on a lot of stuff when you go against somebody else you can surprise ttthem. >> p exciting to go out and play against somebody else other than ourselves. get a gauge of where'r we a i know i'm playing with a lot of guys that i've had reps d,wi, you know, there's a lot of competition on our team to make r team so i'm excited to go out there and put our bestar fo fo >> we're looking forward to showing the coacheshe on t field on thursday? >> just that i can take in information and go play ball and compete and just me plays. >> i'm justo lookinge physical, you know. they have been flying around all camp. tn't w for them to go hit somebodype else. ople get tired of hitting the same guys over and over so it's going to be exciting, man, tt we've got a lot of guys who are
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eager to play. >> reporter: he vividly remembers h preseason game coming up seven years ago and coming up at 6:00 he takes us back to that day.bu sherreuss, news 1 sports. >> watch the game on thursday right her on nbc 4. after the game sherree will have live reaction from the players on the redskins post-game report follow by "news 4 a 211:00." boy they pe padding u today that. had to be a scorcher. >> this is always a tough time for them, you know. >> for sure. >> i actually opened up my umbrella today to stay out of the sun when i was standing outside. >> did you really. >> i felt like my mother. did you really. >> yes, iyes. worked. it actually works. >> yeah. standing there with my umbrella. >> shade is a huge factor. you still sweatse of the heat and humidity that's out there and, yeah, any time in the shat better than hitting the baking sun.
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temperature-wise in the 80s, got some cloudopover redevg around d.c. and this is just to the west. that's a storm just to the west get to t a second. 87 degrees right now and 858 by 7:00 and dropping to about 78 11:00. b big deal today has been the heat index. look at that. 100 in leesbur and 103 in quantico and 95 in annapatis and nd humidity remain. that's going to be the case tomorrow and right on into the wednesday. something we've been watching all day, storms, showers and thunderstorms developing quickly and dying out just as quickly. we just had another one develop around rockville, but, look, thisne is almost gone and i showed you this one half an hour ago. almost nothing tre and now is the biggest one on the p.ou tflowmaoundary that could spawn more showers and storms. sterling and reston rht around herndon, route 7, here's herndon high school.n alma mater dowhere getting rain down there right now. this storm is quickly dying and
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will continue to do so over the next couple of hours. all in all this is just a repeat of what we're going to see tomorrow? we're going to see a chance of showers arms today. heading down to the nashville game, a bigin series a the braves and one thing for sure, hot and humid for sure. >> especially you hav the seats in the sunshine with the plastic chairs. make surein you're dri lots of water heading down to the ballpark tomorrow. haerdts have their double against the braves first game kicking off around 1:00 p.m. temperatures for that game in the upper 80s and low 90s with plenty of snipe and that 93 is going to feel more like 100 degrees out there at the ballpark and then the evening game will feature temperatures in the mid to upper 80s and i can't rule out an isolated thunderstorm. it could potentially lead to a delay and cancellation either game really unlikely tomorrow. it's all about that heat and humidity. not a bad day to head to the polls and even though you need a backup plan in c de you dol with one of the pop-up
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thunderstorms out there. same goes for wednesdaych the earlier the better on wednesday because more widespread late day erstorms are hu looking likely. head to the pool for the midday hours. thursday looking great and we'll keep it dry from start to finish. scattered thunderstorms again and a better chance on wednesday and theyould be severe. the weekend is not a washout but storm chances in our weekend forecast right now, but really it's all about the heat and humidity. tomorrow and wnesday it f like 100 degrees, maybe even a nottle bit warm out there during the aft hours. >> got on there a chance of a little bit of a relief on thursday and friday and humidity drops just a tad so it won't be quite as hot and humid. big chance of storms really on wednesday. tomorrow just a 40% chance, 60% chance of storms saturday and sunday and not a wash tout. temperatures mid to upper 80 and close to 90 degrees. once again your weekend not a washout butould expect to see a few storms around town. >> doug, thank you. a devastating earthquake rocks a popular resort island.
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the death toll is rights astating earthquake rocks a popular indonesian resort island. it's the second earthquake in a crews are racing to rescue any
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survivors and panicked tourists, they areesperate to get out. bill neely reports from london. >> it has been a terrifying vacation for thofand o tourists. many americans, some shaken by their second earthquake in a week. this one was, again, deadly and no americans have so far been identified among the victim. >> i'm trying to get an early flht out o here but i don't know when it's going to be. >> the quake hit and almost immediately a tsunami warning sent people running for the his. people wer injured in stam beads to get out. buildings that had been weakene in last week's quake collapsed. the death toll so far is close to but that is expected to rise because rescuers haven't t ablreas to where bridges and roads have been destroyed. there's been more than 120
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aftershocks so far from this quake and there were, of course, doze from last week's, but more are expected. indonesia sitss on whaalled the ring of fire. more than half the world'sre he. earthquakes happen all the time so ws gnd inre a ling onre extra flights to evacuate thousands of touris have had enough. bill neely, nbc news, london. now at 6:00, al local schoo bus driver is charged with sexually assaulting a young girl with speci needs. the whole thing caught on security camera. the news 4 i-team is tracking threats. police knew about this man's past sohy couldn't they stop him from going on a shooting rampage in an annapolis newsroom? >> 90 something-degree temperatures that feel more like 100. storm team 1 tracking heat and humidity and pop-up storm across the region.
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doug kammerer joins us in minutes with how long it's going to last. >> first tonight, two children shot. one of them dead and mother is behind bars. >> it's a story that hastunned a community. veronica youngblood is accused of opening fire on her own children last night. >> bureau chief julia careys live outside the apartment where the children were fnd. julie? >> reporter: yeah, doreen and jim, that apartment where the shooting took r placeht through the woods there, a few blocks away from tyson's gal rest. the big qn tonight, what would cause a mother to turn a gun on her own child. w we don't know the answer to at th, but what we do knowe from th court documents there was strife within the family. the wife and ex-husband h been fighting over child custody issues for years. >> reporter: veronica youngblood charged with an thinkable crime, shooting two children.

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