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inanassas and burke, virginia. >> heavy downpours and it's led to dangerous driving conditions. take a look at this. a tree cameow crashing here on a car on rock creek parkway at waterside drive right off mass ave in northwest d.c. a woman was taken to the hospital as crews still clear that scene. >> fast moving storms have alady left national harbor and more bad weather on the way and potential for flooding. >> doug amelia are tracking it all from storm center 1. >> guys. >> this has been one day of severe weather for sure thate won't forget. we've got really one former. there were two severde thtorms at up time but one storm has left a really big path of damage. >> yeah. and we're hearing that potential lit worst of the damage up ound college park, university boulevard and route 1 and rhode island avenue, doug, dozens of reports of trees down into homes. so much so that the police in prince george's county setting up a command post because of how much damage. we have a photographer headeneto that s right now.
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>> this may man microburst that came through the area. watching it on r thear as it moved on through. right now the storms up around the baltimorerea, severe thunderstorm warning still with baltimore. take this back two hours. itamame through prince wil county and fairfax county and right through arlington a right through d.c. all of those areas had trees down. seeing numerous trees down with this storm right here. it's now exiting the area. still have storms around anne arundel county. anywhere indu anane arundel cou. moreer thundowers and thunderstorms into calvert county. the only parts i'm concerned about is extreme southern maryland because you take a look at the wider picture here. we're really srting to los the chance for severe weather around the d.c. metro area and points west. doesn't mean that we're done for the nig for right now most of the area starting to get a little bit of a reprieve. that's good news b we'll be hearing much more about this
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breaking news with the trees down in parts of our area. >> all right, doug, thank y. now to the other breaking news that we've been following in fairfax county. a child has died after out of a high rise window. >> yeah. this is the iskyline tower falls church. our jackie benson joins us live with the latest. jackie? >> well, we believe that the child fell from the same area that a little boyell from and died in may. take a lock behind me. you can see fairfax county police here on the scene at the spre the child fell. there are a number of women out here in the parking lot talking to police. they have their own children in their arms. it's not clear whether they are residentsr whether they were inside the apartment where this happ ted, buty are obviously very, very as you mentioned, this is the second time in three months that a child hasallen to their
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death from this building, from seminary -- from skyline towers here on seminary road. since may we've had a number of complaints from residenbout the strength of the locks on those windows. someone who lives there thas i wapeaking to just a short tied ago describt as a flimsy l k. almost like plastic and that he says that there are a number of people in the building who have asked that those window locks be made stronger. again, we don't know whether the tried fell from a win doe or from a ball cone, but it is believed in this case tilt the did fall from the win doe. we are awaiting anrm in al press conference by fairfax county police and when we get more information from that we'll bring ito you. live in fairfax county, jackie benson, news 4. back to you. >> such a s story. jackie, thank you. president trump returns to washington later tonight aft a working vacation that did not include a break from drama. former white house aide omarosa
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released another secret ecording tailed, and as s promotes her new book she's making new claims about what she saw and did during her year in the whiten house. su mcguinnes joins us with the nbc news exclusive. ,usan? >> reporter: wehat's right, doreen. omarosa is out with more attacks on president trump and the president is the firing back. today former white house staffer and reality tv star omarosa maniult newmanreleased a second audio tape. >> what' rgoing on? orter: a secretly recorded conversation with the president a day after her firing last year. >> you know, the run a big operation, but i didn't know it. i didn't know that. >> reporter: nbc news has not been able to listen to the full recording to know what was said before or after. this morning on twitter the president calls her wacky, nasty, a low life and not smart. manigault newman once a loyal supporter of the president turns on her former boss in a new boss
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"unhinged" where she calls the president . fit for offi >> he's different than the person i met back in 2003. he has serious mental impairment s >> reporter:om shee ignited a firestorm with the release of audio of her firing by chief of stf john kelly secretly recorded in the white house situation room w bch isng called a stunning security breach. t i have never heard of t happening, and it's outrageous. >> reporter: the president more blunt about his former protege. >> low life. she's aow life. >> the president's critics also slam her claim she heae a t of him using the "n" word. >> the president speaks bluntly, plainly and also doesn't speak in those kinds of terms. >> reporter: the white house calls her a disgruntled former employee looki to cash in. >> she's trying to sell books you've le scores, and got to be anti-trump for those to be succesr:ul. >> reporanigault newman says there are more tapes, about you she hasn't yet decided whher to release them. >> and the president tweeted omarosa did sign a
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non-disclosure agreement. jim? >> sue sap, thank you. fbi agent peter strzok was fired on friday after 21 years on the job. during the presidential race strzok and a woman with whom he was having an aeged affair exchanged text messages critical of the trump campaign. special counsel robert mueller learned of those message and removed strzok from the russia investigation last year. after a review, the fbi's office of per nnel responsibilit determined strzok should be suspended for 60 days and demoted, but his lawyer says the fbi'seputy director overruled that decision and fired strzok instead. the lawyer says strzok's termination is a departure from precedent and blames political pressure. fbi declined comment, but president trump had something to say on twitter. wrote in his words peter strzok was just fired from the fbi, finally. there are questionsab tonig out how metro handled
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yesterday's white supremacist rally and whether it provided special treatmentthe participants. just a couple ofdeozen nstrators actually turned out for thenite the right event, but it could still wind up costing the city a lot of money. news 4's darcy spencer is at the foggy bottom metro station with a closer look at all of this. hi, darcy. re well, doreen, critics saying metro did provide special treatment to the white nationalist,rt white supreme c sifts who were here in town for the unite the right rally giving them essen oally their trained car on the ride from vienna here to the foggy bottom ion. now, metro is saying what it did was in the interest o public safety, and area officials are still trying to figure out how much all of this costs. the unite t right rally only drew a couplef white nationalists to lafayette square, even though the group leadered predict hundreds would come. police departments f d.c. and
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virginia deployess countle officers and other resources to keep the peace. justow much did it cost for security? that's something that's still up. add >> but i think they are still calculating the numbers of the costs, and as soon as we have that we'll make it available. it costs a lot. >> reporter: police declared their operations a success trere o injuries or deaths. one arrest in d.c. and one in rginia. >> s for our personnel aim proud of them the way they handle themselves withpr ofessionalism andai rnt and with class as long as we do what we do wit law enforcement. >> reporter: they are being criticized for how to keep them separated from counterdemonstrators. robert white is an at-large member of the d.c. council and was frustrated by what he saw media.t on tv and social they saw demonstrators on a separate train car. >> last night like every other resident that health expectation
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that these far right folks would cit be given special accommodations, s cars, i felt misled and very frustrated. >> reporter: the union that represents bus and train operators sent out a strongly worded statement saying metro lied.ta thement says the special accommodations for a hate rally in washington, d.c. w dishonest, unprecedented and not a reflection of the police% of atu local 671 or d.c. values. now the union also said in that statement that the metro's gm should be fired as a result of yesterday's incident. the gm just put o an e-mail today to employees of metro f thanking the their hard work. he did not mention metro union calls for him to be fire. back to you. >> darcy spencer, darcy, thank you. detectives believe they have the man who could ber responsibe ore than a dozen sex imes. that spree spanned several years
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and covers parts of d.c. and virginia. new 4's mark segrave is in arlington tonight to explain how police caught him. >> reporter: since 2016,heolice in tistrict and virginia have been investigating incidents where a man would sneakp behind women and explosion himself and sometimes try to grab the women in their private areas. >> it's horrendous and disgusting. it's very good to get aharedator like off the street. >> reporte last week police arrested 34-year-oldti sano rodriguez campos after two d.c. police officers spotted him as he was sneaking up on a woman wearing a mask. after police caught him, they were able to get his dna which matched several open cases in d.c. and arlington. he's now been charged with four sexual ase cases in the district, two in d.c. from 2016 year.o from this he's also been charged with one case in arlington from 2017, but
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arguetown county police say he's a suspect in at least nine othe case >> obviously this is sub-who has been doing this behavior for a long time, so in addition to our detectives reviewing this, we're asking the public toome forward if they have any information about the activities of mr. campos so we can investigate them. >> reporter: in arngton, mark segraves, news 4. a football coach under fire. >> it was tragic. it's just -- it's past tragic. he was just starting his life. >> reporter: next andn only news 4, the family of a young athlete who died after practice demands action amidng the gro scandal at maryland. >> a potential life-saver for peop onidney dialysis facing years of waiting for a ansplant. >> i just feel grateful to give back what someone had given mow and that's a second chance at life. >> how infected kidneys are giving patient new hope. >> tracking your moves. why google may
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check out the radar as rain and storms wash over parts of the region. reports of hail in some places. others hit with several inches of rain. doug and amelia are fine-tuning the forecast. they will be back with us in minutes.w it's been six months since the deadly shooting at parkland high school inrida unleashed a wave of student activism across the country,he and as t get ready to go back to school
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this fall, the activists are calling for stronger gun safety laws. today dozens of young people from several states went to capitol hill to visit senate republicans. the senate is not in session today, but students say they ink they got their message across, and they say they will be back. >> this isn't going to be the last of us. we're not going to stop until we see a change. >> the students say they plan to be back at the cital in november just before the mid-term elections. it happened within the hour. the prosecution rested in the trial of former trump campaign chair paul manafort. we should find out tomrow if the defense plans to call any witnesses. if not, closing arguments could come as early as tomorrow. manafort is on trial, as know, in alexandria on charges of bank fraud and tax fraud. the charges are linked to his time as a consultant to a pre-russia political party in ukraine. well, the white housen situatoom just became a bit
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more secretive. so hasthhe rest o complex. the news 4 i-team has learned the feds will no longer release lists of repairs an upgrade and work orders to be prepared to keep the white house functioning. scott acfarlane explains fro our newsroom. scott in. >> reporter: jim, good evening. the u.s. general services administration helps with the upkeep of the white house ground and late last year they had a listk of its w orders and we found hundred of repairs and jobs over the course of one year, from insg to a new toilet seat in the oval office bathroom to removing a rodent problem in the white house situation room to installing new directv service in the vice president' west wing office. dozens of paint jobs, furniture moves an heating work, too. that i-team reportal became v and it spread nationwide. when we checked with the gener services information office for theyatest batch of orders say the white house controls those records, an office not subject to the freedom of information acto those records
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are no longer being released. inside we saw so ma work orders, some seem small but one asked a check f bugs, not the listening devices, but actual buggs, actual insects. we are still awaiting white house comment. reaction to all of this, and we've not seen it. to see the original work orders, head to our news 4 washington map and searchork orders. >> amelia is tracking weather conditions in storm center 4. >> we've seen aot of difficult area and d.c. westward no longer under the all the storms closer to maryland and chesapeake bay. >> anne arundel county getting hit hard. since mid-july we've been dealing with heavy rainfmol every day. >> a look at where the storms
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are. this is a two-hour loop to show you how the storms came together. this one right here, and amelia is going to come back in a s couple oonds to talk a little bit more about what this storm has done because it created a mess as far as trees down from prince william county to the district and right up towards the north. noha you can sees happening. we formed a line in towards anne arundel county. annapolis area, you're under the gun with these strong storms and right around annapolis. no warnings with these and heading towards annapolis and this is around crownsville and, of course, theol a mall us a make your wayar out towds chesapeake bay andun down a london town and points south also getting in on this action. chesapeake beach around dunkirk and huntingtown, charlotte hall. all making their way towards chesapeake bay. all of of this associated with a huge area of low pressure. you can see the l just spinning around our region so the severe threat. we're done, we think, for the next couple of hours. could be firing up in our area.
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we've seen a lot of damage tonight, amelia. don't want to see any more and right now there's a lot of cleanuoing on. >> with this line of thunderstorms we sawhe damage that doug saw in prince william county and moved towards the north and east. everyouircle thate seeing on the screen is a report of either hail, wind damage or gusty winds out there, and you can see for the most part this is a pretty straight line with that one thunderstorm tht moved throhe area and some storm reports coming in right now include areas like clifton where a tree was down blocking parts of the road there. it's going to be a slow go with trees down on area roads. as we take a look for areas inside the beltway around around the beltway. arlington had five reports of trees down throughout the citrl ofgton so a lot of trees down in arlington and then we head up towards college park where we have a photographer on the way there where we're hearing some significant damage
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in and around the college park area. we've had dozens of reports of people calling in saying trees are down into homes and a lot of damage out there. hearing from police in prince george's cnty and so much damage in college park that they are having to set up a command center t figure out where to go from here to start the cleanup.b evy in the mid-d.c. metro-year and under a severe thunderstorm a few thunderstorms could fire up, but really the most significant area moving through anne arundel county and out of area. there were roars of 3.5 inches of rain in rappahannock county and tomorrow more thunderstorms are in the forecast for tuesday afternoon. >> those tomorrow could be on the strong side and possi severe again. wednesday and thursday, it's going to be hot, but the threat of stormss noonger there. it does return, however, on friday. a god chance of storms coming up on friday with a high of 94
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that's a 0% chance of thunderstorms on friday, and then notice the chance of storms all the way through the myle of inxt week, of amazing guys, what we've been dealing wit mthe lath and a half. that pattern doesn't want to break any time soon. >> doesn't sound like it. >> what happened to our stunned? >> insidertt ak. a worker stole a plane and took it on a wild ride. >> serious privacy concerns from google tonight. why it'sg trackin your
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there are a lot of questions tonight about that airport baggage handler who stole a commercial plane in seattle and d aerial acrobatics for about an hour and then crashed. his family and friends say they are stunned by his apparent suicide. for aeration experts, the incident highlights a weak link airport security. nbc's jay gray reports. >> reporter: confusion and concern in the control tower and questions on the ground >> what the hell is this guy
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doing? ter: we now know what richard russell is doing. >> just a broken guy. got a few screws loose guess. never really knew him until now. >> reporter: the baggage handler at seattle's sea-tac airport stole a empty commuter plane and flew for over an hour before dying in a fiery crash. >> this is a complete shock to us. we're devastate the by the events. >> as friends and f ily are aefrpg for answers now, se say that there may be a dangerous flaw inecurity procedures. >> we're focused on not a terrorist or someone bent on causing mass destruction, but there's still a vulnerability drifting here 17 years >> thousands of mechanics and workers had the same access russell did. >> if you're not a pilot or
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flight attendant you're not allowed on the plane unless the is somebody there responsible for tairport. >> a many around the country now are considering the poibility of an insider attack. jay gray, nbc news. a new report says the google security features still allows the company to follow you even when you think your information is turne off. apps autatically store timestamped location data, and it does so even without getting your permission which brings up alsocy concerns, but it allows police to track down suspects. the only way to stop google from following you may be just to turn off your phone completely. and then you're helpless. >> it's hard to believe, but it's back to school thousands of students in our area. coming up next, the strategy behind the early start. >>
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university killed my nephew. they are training and staff, they geld him. >> the family wants answers after the doubt of a university student. g is back with a closer
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storm team 4nu is cong to watch their storms making their way through the area. one thing you noticeere there nothing happening around the d.c. metro area right now. that's very good news because we saw this storm come through ando devastate parthe region. there are numerous trees down around the area fro prince william county right on into d.c. and prince george's county. we're looking at this line continuing a aund theapolis area and over annapolis we're seeing the very heavy rain about to make its way in towards chesapeake baynd right towards the mayo area and in towards calvert county and you can see this line continuing dow into king george county and this will come across to st. mary's county as well. that's something io want look at. one more area right here. one mohr storm true to fall back to the west. out of the woods right now but weould see more storms later tonight. much more where we have dozens of trees down close to college
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park. a young man and a college-level athlete who died from heat strok at a recent practice. >> his uncle talks to tracee wilkins and why he blames the school for his nephew's death. >> i just cut his hair that saturday, that friday before he went away. ldver thought i w never see that boy alive again. >> reporter: william tarrant is heartbroken over the of his nephew. >>d football player jordan mcnair. ext time i saw him is when i was cutting his hair an getting hem ready for his funeral. >> reporter: he's very clear on what happened to his 19-year-old nephew. >> university of maryland killed my nephew.ra theiring staff and them people, they killed my nephew. >> reporter: mcnair suffered s
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heatoke during a maryland football practice and two weeks r he died. a few coaches including the head coach have been placed on administrative leave. an attorney reping the family called for durkin to be fired after an abusive and toxic environment was revealed that may have contributed t jordan's death. >> that style of coaching create the belief that this s a er is malingering, h chump and a punk, and a lot of other words that are much more objectionable than that. >> a statement was released saying humiliating and demeaning a teacher is not only bad but it's an abuse of the teacher and court. for jordan's family it was too little tlate. >> our only child. >> the family's attorney says while a c suit is likely they are not yet to file until an investigation is complete.
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that's supposed to be sometime in september. in college park, tracey wilkins, news 4. the family of a manassas mother of 5 is looking for answers tonight abo a man she was visiting attacked her and beat her to death. it happened on rugby roadn onassas just before midnigh friday. as our bureau chief julie carey reports, it was an 84-year-old man who went for help. >> teri jo hilbrand and dale wolfe knew each other for some time. yibland was adviceig the home when the two stabled to argue. nd's step-father heard the argument and wenatout to see as happening. >> he found out am fay lem member on top of a person assaulting h with a blunt object. when he couldn't stop wolf he an to the house next door and by the time police arrived
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hilbrandas death lying inside the front door. her attacker still inside. >> he was located in another part of the scene. >> reporter: he was taken to the hospital with a treatment for minor cut on his wife. whether it it was -- to the was ed killer's mother a out of town an doesn't really know what's happening. her son dale wolfe is not coming homeon any time he's facing murder charges and will be held without bond. juliecarey, news 4. for most students in d.c. school doesn't start for a week but in 13 city schools their first day was today. those schools have an an extended year andimee cho went to kook elementary to see how everyone felt about it. l >> what w everyone think when you're not there? >> it may have been a short
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cimmer they have got a long list, math andce and technology, reading and writing and art. >> the anything you don't like? >> no. >>e been here for four weeks so having the little bodies back in the building makes the school feel more like a school and the energy is contagiou i >> let's s we can find cuba. >> the kids stay in school longer at the end of the year. the cool to give them extra time for learning and make sure they don't forget it over thesu er. do you like school? >> yeah. >> reporter: why do you like school? >> because i like the school so i can learn new things. reporter: hello, happy first day of school. >> dropping by new director amanda alexander. >> it makes me feel good that they want to be here.
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>> yes, adrir:ne. >> repor as the kids settle into their classroom and routines they are ready to turn the page on their new year. >> i get to meet my friends again and meet my new teachers and today has been going very good. >> reporter: at kook elementary in northwest, aimee khoe, news 4. >> they look ready to us. otsylvania and culpepper public county school students in virginia returned to class today. all d.c. public s will be back in class next monday. a sad update tonight on the heth of soul legendretha franklin. >> also ahead, a new approach that could help thousand of people waiting for kidney transplants by giving them organs that would typically be thrown away and nevse >> reporter: new live pictures coming in from the scene showing the storm damage here in college park. check out these toppled trees and power lines down there, knocking out power here, too. >> this scene is ont black f
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ate rita franklin's health is fail and is said to be in grave condition and her fily believes she may pass away today. the music icon has 18 grammys. she was the first woman inducted into the rock 'n' roll hall of fame. she performed at the inaugurations of three presidents. among her accomplishments, aretha franklin says she's most proud of figuring out how to juggle her career and her family. back comse to this evening, alexandria city leader say they are seeing a spiken opioid overdoses.
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there have been seven overdoses in the last seven days and one person died. news of those cases comes after a recent increase in overdoses of k-2 orynthetic marijuana in d.c. its components are from marijuana. they are cheap and popular among the homeless. district officials estimate that in a ten-day period last month 300 people were taken to the hospital for ods. more than all of 2017. >> coulde a game changer for people in desperate need of a dney transplant. >> i took the chance because i looked at my wife and my daughters, you know, and said i wanto spend more time with them. >> the new approach that eliminates the need for dialysis and drastically cuts down on the amount of time that people have to wait for a donor, but there's a catch. >> that's coming up. >> and doug and storms moving out of our region right now and moving across the chesapeake bay and a few down
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towards southern maryland and a lot of cleanup to go and the massive damage that we've around the college park area from thisrm s right here has a severe thunderstorm warning for hartford county and saw some of the damage that we saw. numero trees down i and around the college park area and around uniblevard and route one com togetehe you know when you're at ross shopping for backpacks... ...and mom also gets a back-to-school bag? that's yes for less.
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that area as you might imagine. doug and amelia are back in juso a couple minutes with a closer look at who is impacted. doreen? >> it's bad. >> there is new hope tonight for thousand of people waiting for kidney transplants. it could take five to eight years to find a suitable don and a lot of people with kidney disease don'survive that wait. now a new study shows hundred of kidneys that are not available for transplants now could safeld save lives a lots of them. >> i was hooked to a machine for tfour hoursee days a week which after treatment from the dialysha, after being off machine, my day was pretty much done. i enme, i couldn't dohenything at house. all i could do was get into bed and rest. >> reporter: elliott stevens is talking about the kidney dialysis that kept him alive while he waited for a kidney transplant. he's a married father of two,
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tive in his church for many years, a long career delivering packages for fedex. when his kidney started to fail in his 50s when everything anged. with that dialysis schedule, he couldn't work. he wouldn' travel. >> this drained my body. i couldn't do things with my dughters and go out with my wife toner and things and then 15 months after he went on the transplant list he got the late-night phone call he had been hoping for. >> reporter: a georgetown hospital asked me if they found a match for me as far as the kidney and would i be interested in it and me and my wife embraced it and we would thinking. >> there was a catch and a big one, the donor kidney was infected with hepatitis "c." it's a virus that can slowly derroy y liver. stevens had to make a quick choice. rect the offer and spend years waiting fornotheronor or
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take the infected kidney and spend the next three months taking t medicatio cure the hepatitis "c." >> i took the chance, you know, because i looked at my daughters and my wife and said, you know, i want to spend more time with them. >> and so we looked for ways to not waste the kidneys. the last thing we want to do with 100,000 people waiting for kidneys is to wt any of them. >> dr. alexander gill seibert a transplant neve roll gist at georgetown hospital and his team managed the successful kidney transplant. >> we don't want tive it to anybody but patients who don't do well on dialysis and have a long time to wait, their only choice for surviving the wait is getting ac" hepatitis kidney. a year after his transplant, he
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has a new kidney and he's free from hep "" >> two things that make this a life line for people waiting for kidney onansplants. powerful new drugs are available that can cure hepatitis "c" quickly and with few side effects and, two, this new study followed people who volunteered to take the hepatitis "c" infectedaf kidney. r treatment all of the people in the study were free of the virus. >> dr. gilbert and the team at georgetown are hopeful about this chance to help more people who need kidney transplants, but before they can do that, more research is needed to confirm theul r of this small study. elliott stevens has all the proof he need and h wants to spread the word that this option works. >> i just feelfu gra to give back what someone had given me and that's a second chance at life. >> i want to be clear. the small study involved 20
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people so there's going to be need to be more research done before this is a reality. a huge opportunity for all those people waiting for transplants. it's also very said that the heroin epidemic and all the overdose deaths tt are creating so many new organ donations. hepatitis "dr" is spread when drug users share needles. a lot more information about kidney transplants on the hospital's website and we posted a linko that at nbcwashington.m. >> encouraging for so many people. >> yeah. a lot of possibilities here. >> all right. let's get the latesthat weather alert mode we're still in. we're checking in with doug and amelia. is the worst of it bind us, guys? >> the worst is behind us, guys. sawhat come through 4:00, 4:30 and at 5:00 right o throughhe college park area and some incredible photos coming fro chopper 4 right now. just debris everywhere. trees just fallen down a at this point, doug, we have at
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least two homes in the college park area being reported as uninhabitable. >> right now the choppers over 50th place and kennesaw and hollywood. one of the trees down across a car and that tree made it across the road, too, so tha road is closed. we've seen power crews out in this area and also without power and hit incredibly hard. we think this is a microburst mean what we saw the storm coming through and quily laying down a layer of wind that just blew right through everything to the straight line winds that came onhrough here and knocked the trees down cross that region of college park. you can see where the storms are currently. out toward the chesapeake bay for the most part. still storms down o in southern zones, for the most part we're done. notice back towards clark county a little in the way of rai and showers. this is making its way cross the chesapeake bay bridge and
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follow that through the south into calvert county and then this storm trying to move across the potomac into st. mary's county. ther view showing for the most part we're out of the woods for now. we could see a few m,e stor however, developing, and that's why this flash flood watch continues until 10:00 tonight. >> just about everybody. the d.c.etro are and areas north and west round the flash flood watch until 10:00 p.m. earlier today it was one main thunderstorm that moved through the-year from the the northeast and producing damage. take a being loop. every circle y is a damage report. either of flooding issues, downed treeai some reports out there. again, all of these are storm reports from that thunderstorm that moved through the area. we've had so many rainfall sce mid-july. we can just not catch a break. so i've looked at some numbers and i've had some help from others. take a look at the rainfall stats. only 9 out of the last 30 days at reagan national have been completely dry.s thishe third wettest
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mid-july to mid-august on record thanks to capital climate on that and according to terp weather our area has seen the most flash flood watches and floods watches well as warnings in the nation since july 10th. find more on the statistics on my facebook and twitter pages. take a look at outlook, more scattered thunderstorms tomorrow and tomorrow evening. a bit of a break on wednesdayhu and trsday and more thunderstorms in the forecast starting on friday. >> yeah, and that sets up another string of days when we se t showers and thunderstorms returning. tomorrow about a 40% chance o storms and some could be on the strong side. we'll watch again recall to. wedn aday and thursday, little bit of a break here and temperatures are moving back into the 90s. another little heat wave coming up thursday and friday. high of 94 and then a chance of storms for friday all the way into next wednesday. this pattern is not gng anywhere any time soon. once again live shots of the
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ch cper over thelege park area. major damage and number rouse trees down on a few
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scam almost done, dave. >> i can hear the excitement in your voice. >> come on. >> get a work on that. >> it's almost done, dave. >> no, >> a portion of the summer. what else can we say? i better sayhi som. professional football practices are structured, organized and choreographed like broadway ays. that might be an exaggeration, but richmond, o broadway, and seemed that way yesterday as the redskins and jets were practicing together ended up brawling together. another practice with the jets today and burres is there. >> the work is far from over for the redskins, but the final days of training cp are finally hehere. today second to last day innd ri. much better todaytehan yrday
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