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priests in the catholic church inennsylvania. today at 4:00, the accusations that have d.c.'s archbishop on the defensive. and mistakes made at the university of maryland. the school admits the death of a football player could have been prevented. we begin with that erelosive rt involving catholic priests accused of abusing children. >> the pennsylvania attorney genel conducting the most exhaustive investigation ever into the catholic church. >> among the findings more than 300 clergy accused and more than 1,000 children who were victims identified. >> the alleged abuse over a seven-decade span and at the center of the fdings cardinal donald wuerl, the archbishop of bishop of who was pittsburgh starting in the late '80s for nearly two decades. >> let's get right to mark segravesho has been poring over this report and has reaction from the cardinal. >> reporter: yeah, pat. archbishop wuerl is mentioned
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more than 150 times in this report. he served f 18 years as the bishop of pittsburgh, the city where he was born.no one of the closest american advisers to the pope is having to defend his actions. it was pennsylvania's attorney general joshhapiro who led the investigation and released the results. surrounded by victims and family mbers of victims, shapiro described some of the abuse he saidri hundreds of pests inflicted on possibly thousands of young victims. >> priests were raping little boys a girls and the men of god who were responsible for them not only did nothing, they t all for decades. >> the pennsylvania grand jur investigation accuses 301 priests of sexually abusing children over the past 70 yrs. some of the accuses priests serve while cardil donald wuerl wasishop of pittsburgh. the grand jury found that then bishop wuerl allowed at least one known cld abuser to
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transfer to another parish that wuerlved hundreds of thousands of settlement for a victim and wuerl would refer to the policy of hiding the facts from the public as, quote, the circle of secrecy. a spokesperson forp archbis wuerl tells news 4 that wuerl denies ever using that term circle of secrecy and tt they provided proof to the attorney general that those were not his wo wuerl who is now the archbishop of washington and considered a close adviser to pope francis served as bishop of pittsburgh for 18 years. in a statement, wuerl wrote the diocese investigated a allegations of child sexual abuse during my tenurend admitted or substantiated allegations of child sexual abuse and resulted in an appropriate actio pennsylvania's attorney general believes there could be thousands of more victims that his investition could not find because he says the catholic church coveredhe up truth. >> above a else, they
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protected their institution at all costs. as the grand jury found, the church showed a complete disdain for victims. >> mark, this investigation took alst two years, but it's been completed for some time now. why did it take so t long release the result, and why are they being released now? >> reporter: yea the report has actually been completed months ago, and the attorney generalctlly lasted this fact because they have been kept it tied up in court to prevent irelease. the state pennsylvania supreme court ruled it had to be leased but much of it was redacted. will attorney general is going back to court in september to turge the supreme court allow him to release an unredacted version o this very lengthy report. >> mark segraves, thank you, mark. we sent a letter posted by
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archbishop wuerl. can you read that in ull and see more of his response in thundershower nbc washington app. breaking this afternoon, the university of maryland says it's taking moral and legal responsibility for jordan mcnair's death. the football playerft died suffering heat stroke during a team practice. the school is also firing one member of its coaching staff. several other coaches aresp ded. news 4's tracee wilkins was made today in college park. tracee? >> reporter:he member of the coaching staff saying he resigned yesterday. the university put it that they have parted ways. this all during a press conference in whichhe president of the university of maryland pretty much fell on the sword here and said thatve they een doing an independent investigation and based on preliminary reports and what they have been hearing so far, they need to take, as you said, legal and moral responsibility. now that press conference wrapped up just l atle while ago. and during the press conference still from the president of ths
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univ of maryland no word on d.j. durkin, the head coach for the foo aall team here the university of maryland or what his future is going to be. right now he's an administrative lead with a number of other lks on the team after the death of 19-year-old jordan mcnair, football player foriv t sity of maryland, who suffered heat stroke during a practice in may a d thenied due weeks later. today the university saying that the d training sta not do the proper thing, that they did not render the kind of emergency care that mcnair needed and that they fell short on the job. hear now from president wallace love. >>eased upon what know at this time, even though the final report is not completed, i said to the family the university owes you anpogy. you entrusted jordan to our care, and he is never returning
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home again. >> he said that he and the hletic director forhe university of maryland visited the mcnair family before having is press conference. he also said that when their internal investigation is tmplete in september thay plan on sharing the outcome of that investigation with the mcnairamily first. he also said that they found out about what wasappening with the university of maryland football team and the allegations of a toxic and abusive environment there from media reports referring to ther rt that said that the culture of the university of maryland football team may have buted to mcnair's death. reporting live in college park, i'm tracee wilkins, back to you all in the studio. >> thanks so much. >> we're on the scenef breaking story in northeast d.c. crews are collecting evidence right now in ay dea shooting inside a barber shop. nwo people were shot this afternoon dick's street northeast just steps from the
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maryland-d.c. line. one man died at the scene and the barber also shot and is being treated now at thesp al. police say the shooter or shooters got away in a black four-door infiniti with paper plates. >> turning to our weather now, let's go straight to storm team 4 chief meteorologist doug cameron, the storm centertr king some more scattered showers and storms fort.he ni >> nothing like what we saw yesterday with severe weather. tracking severe showers and some have thunder and lightning and heavy downpours. out there right now most of us are seeing a beautiful afternoon. temperatures right now only in the low to mid-80s across the region and the upper level low persistent in giving us tcht ce of showers, not around d.c. yet. all through north and west and frederick county and loudoun county starting to see those. the strongest of the storms right here. this has a little bit of lightning and thunderr thund juh
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of urbana. a few more showers around gaithersburg, and the rest of the region seeing the showersd rotating aro the big upper level low that finally moves out m. i'll show you what's in storm for tomorrow and more on these storms coming up in just about 10 minutes. >> a closinguments set for tomorrow morning in the trial of paul manafort. the defense rested today without calling a singlss w. court experts say that s ategy isn'unusual, that the defense believes it made its case during cross-examination. the one-time trump campaign manager is being tried on bank and tax fraud charges. ge's accused of hiding millions he earned d -- doing consulting work fic polns in ukraine. >> right now italian firefighters areigging through debris and searching for survivors buried a in bridge collapse. a center chunk of the bridge dropped out tuesday afternoon during a violent storm. at least 20 people are now confirmed dead. that number is expected to rise.
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recovery teams say workers and buildings below the bridge are likely to be dead. >> in london right now, counterterrorism police are searching places connected to the man who drove a car into parliament. the silver fiesta was speeding when it plowed into cyclists this morning. three people are injured, but they arexpected to be okay. police are questioning the driver. back at home, we've n learned that the toddler who died after falling off that balcony in fairfax county was a 2-year-o boy. the accident happened yesterday at the skyline tow on seminary road in falls church. is there hris gordon with reaction from ridents. ris? >> reporter: well, fairfax county police say that andult care giver may have been distracted at the time that the 2-year-old boy fell from a
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balcony here at skyline towers. i'm told by a friend of the family tha w two childrene in the a apartment at the time, young sister and brother. n aeighbor at skyline towers took this video and pictures of the area where theye -old boy fell to his death from a 24th floory. balc >> it's really scary. i have a n, too, 2 1/2. he was actually with the baby-sitter and i immediately called her and i was like talking to my son because i was reallyiccared. >> p say an adult care giver in the apartment was tending to the needs of another child at the time of the fall. timothy williams is a maintenance man skyline towers. >> i've seen the paramedics and the police out there and they and consoling the famil the gentleman came out hy erical, and these when i realized what they were out there for. >> reporter: this is the third time a youngld has fallen from a window or balcony at skyliners to. in to 15 a childressing from a
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window screenful from a fifth floor window breaking a leg. on may 30'd two months ago a 3-year-old boy was killed after falling fro 26th floor when a screen on a window apparently gave out. the lawyer for his family today filed t as lawsuitinst skyline towers alleging that it was negligent. >> it is simply dangerous to ehir children, and i hhat no other children have to die before skyline towers does something to make its property safe. >> the lawsuit is seeking $100 million for wrongful death. now, a spokesman for skyline towers texted me this afternoon from my request saying that they do not comment on pending litigation. however, with regard to the fatal fall here yesterday he says that they are cooperating with authorities in this
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investigation and that their thoughts and prayers go out t f theily. that's the latest live in fairfax county, back for you. >> such a trs,edy. >> ch thank you. >> thank you, chris. ng inp next, tributes pou for the queen of soul. >> amid reports she is gravely ill, we look back on somef aretha franklin's most iconic moments,ncluding some right here in d.c. >> plus, orosa respond after the president calls her ad dog lowlife. >> continuing coverage of that catholic church cover-up today. he report detaili abuse of thousands of children by hundreds of priests for decades. >> and 24 hrs later college park still cleaning up debrisop thated trees. today we're tracking more storms.
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now at 4:00, tracking some scattered scattered and storms for your evening and looking ahead at the rest of the week including some storms for the weekend, too. doug is back in three minutes tt breakll down for us. >> the baltimore police officer caught on camera repeatedlync ng a man has now been indicted.on arthur williaas been aarged with first and second-degree murd misconduct in office. williams resigned suny after video emerged of him punching
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deshaun mcgrier. warrant has been issued for williams' arrest. the thoughts of music fans are with the legendary aretha franklin right now. >> she isaid to be gravely ill.fr anklin's publicist told the associated press that stevie wonder and the reverend jesse jackson visitedfhe queen soul at her home in detroit. news 4's meagan fitzg a look at franklin's legacy here in washorgton. >> repter: aretha franklin sun doubtedly one of t -- is undoubtedly considered the queen of soul. >> she was there at the kennedy and was there to honor oobama. >> stranger to washington, d.c. >> aretha franklin has been in my magazine four times on the coveil >> sidneyr is the founder of black radio exclusive magazine which is dedicated to entertainers of color. i >> shethe ultimate diva,
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okay. if you know what a diva is, she created the word, all right. she's very, very specific about what she wants from her band. >> ready. >> that's why dr. joyce garrett, longtime and former director of the eastern high school choir in d.c. says franklin would often ask for her students to perform as backup singers on stage when she had concerts in d.c., but the world is now bracing for the worst. >> i have been livingsith t for seven months. this didn't just happen yesterday. aretha has been sick now for at least eight or nine months. >> miller saysranklin was diagnosed with pancreatic caer. >> she always talked about like that she was going to get better and everything was going to be okay. >> but her music and legacy will never >> there will never be another aretha franklin. >> you can say that again.
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>> only tone. >>re will be. >> when a trailblazer for so many who followed. >> and so many memorable performances here in, washingt of course, including the first inauguration of president>>bama. rain and passing thunderstorms are in the forecast for some of us tonight, but they "washington poswon't b the damage we saw last night from the lens of chopper 4. take a look at this. trees fall on to homes in college park and branches also clobbered a man's park. thankfully no one was seriously injured. so doug is here now to tell us what's in store ton and not like that. >> just like you mentioned, we have somewers and thunderstorms out there right now but nothing like the severe weather that came through theea last night. numerous reports of trees down, prince william county, arlington, c., prince george's county all the way up to baltimore and philadelphia with tte same storm. that's p incredible. >> out there today, beautiful conditions. s, we're tracking some showers and thunderstorms and right now
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look at downtown, i mean, just gorgeous. plenty of blue skies out there. temperature coming in at 86 degrees. comfortable. winds out of the west at 16 miles per hour, and you can see the rest of the area, temperatures in the 70 and 80s. 75 winchester and 72 martinsberg an 77 in frederick and, yes, we do have rain out there.s ther a line. can you see there's a line that formed here and this line does go all the way up into parts of pennia. not in d.c. yet but it is making its way heroo nothingstrong, and i have lightning turned on here so if there was any lightning with these you'd see it. we don't have any. around winchester, you notice storms a there down towards the northern fauquier county area, loudoun county, and this storm moving rht over loudoun county, in towards loudoun county right now and then this one moving over towards the gaitrsburgrea towards clarksville. i'll zoom in on this guy. it had been the strongest and we saw some lightningwi associated this. some brief gusty winds. making its way to 270 around the
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clarksburg area. it's moving south and east. heads up around damascus. you'll get a little bit on the wet side. here's the storm that just came through the charlestown, i don't see any lightning there moving over towds the shenandoah area. we'll see quick moving showers and thunderstorms all because of e same area of low pressure that's been sitting and spinning in towards our area. yesterday it was hereay and t it's farther north and east. that's why we're only seeing a scattering ofto showers ands today. once it moves out in behind this, we get some really nic weather tomorrow though it will be on the hot side. another storm back to the west, and you take a look at the pe overall ttures here around the east and there's really no heat anywhere so that's good news. if you want things to stay over on the cooler side, we'll start to build that heat as we head into the day tomorrow. out there tomorrow, going for a high of 92. sun and clouds, it' hot and not as humid. tomorrow will be a really comfortable day even hough temperatures get to 92.
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humidity starts to creep up. 94 on friday. 40% chance of storms again and we continue with that chance of storms as we head into the day on saturday. much more in the weekend forecast. sunday, sunday, sunday, we'll talk about that andf the rest the ten-day forecast. see you back here at 4:45. >> thanks, doug. >> when we come right back, a mother-to-be humiliated. >> a pregnant woman forced to hi lift her srt to convince a police officer she was stealing. that's next in the tuesday trend. ed sma windows, tape on the ceiling and blood on the floor. a local develop finds his rental home ravaged, so why was he the one who wound up in handcuffs? (sound of footsteps) (sound of car door opening) (car door closes) (sound of engine starting) ♪
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(sound of footsteps) (sound of car door opening) (car door closes) (sound of engine starting) a pregnant woman ss she felt ashamed and humiliated after an undon'ter at a store la after an encounter at a store last week. her story tops tuesday's trend. vic, let's start right here, a ther-to-be doing something many mothers do over the next
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couple of weeks, school shopping for kids. what did the police officer think she was going on? >> for the record, she was mid-transaction. when we're school supplye shopping youeady to get out of the store. the 34-year-old womanas asked by the police officer to tell her what was under her shirte ad ays the manager called the police officer to ask her that question. i think we have a sound bite from her. pregnant, ple are your radar goes off that they could potentially look like they are stealing? is thisto how this operates? is that how you operate as a snager? >> now, shes that she eceived a full refund, but it's already badugh if someone mistakes you for being pregnant when you'reut and could have just been eating a lot. they ask you that question, and you're like are you serious right now, so i'm glad. she deserved a full refund. >> and got the apology.
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>>teporter: she said she f like the manager was coerced into the apology but at least she got it. >> seeing for h i guess was believing. >> reporter: exintly. >> tre today, some people will bury good luck charms in their yards to try to sell their home and someone in baltimore is relying on a different kind of magic. >> reporter: this looks fun. this unicorn is helping to sell this home inthaltimore. posted these pictures on the website, and the -- my favori picture is the unicorn holding a dog. so someone who is dressed up in each room. the unicorn is basically selling the home, okay. it's fun. >> it is fun. >> i think this is a great strategy. ybe we should start doing that, and having a unicorn that is good >> yeah, it's supposed to be. is that a person dressed like a unicorn? >> it is. >> so pfectly posed. >> that looks like a fun job. sounds like we need to do a little investigation there. >> hopefully it sells fast.
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it is going for $362,000 in baltimore. >> okay. >> somebody may want to buy the unicorn. the unicorn comes with the house maybe. >> thanks so much. >> you're welcome. back to you. >> all right. thank you both. when we come back at 4:00 this afternoon, we're following that breaking news. th university of maryland says this afternoon it is accepting legal and moral responsibility for the mistak made that led to the death of a 19-year-old player. the white house callingus t ridiculous, but they can't guarantee he's never said it.
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we're back at 4:30 now if with our top story. a report from the pennsylvaniaal attorney genhat alleges decades of child abuse within the church. >> 3 m clergybers accused of abusing more than a thousand children. leadership and the crch allegedly helping to cover it up. >> dozens of witnesses testified before the gra jury. detailing acts of sexual abuse by priests and how senior church officials covered up their crimctal con prioritizing their institution over the safety and welfare of these young boys and girls. >> cardinal donald wuerl, who
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was bishop pittsburgh in the late '80s and for nearly two decades is criticized in report for his response. the grand jury finding that he allowed at least one kno child abuser to transfer to another parish and approve settlement. a spokesperson for wuerl has denied allegations in that report. >> continuing coverage now from college park where the university of maryland has accepted responsibility for theo death ofall player jordan mcnair. >> dave johnson is live now after an emotional press conference today. dave? >> reporter: well, indeend mary president wallace lowe and the athletic director david etches came here from college park to baltimore where they met this morning with the parents of jordan mcnair. ey didn't come her to make a coaching change but stressed a commitment to a cultural change. inde, d.j. durkin is still very much the head football coach at the university of ai maryland and the message
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was all about honoring the legacy ofcn jordanr and in the words of the school president making sure that what happened to jordan mcnair wilne ver happen again. an external review from heat stroke continues and a committee has been set up to investigate the football program. already the school has parted ways with the strengthnd conditioning coach, and now going forward -- >> make no mistake, we will not te any behavior from any employee within marylandt athletics t is detrimental to the mental or physicalei well of our student athletes. >> indeed the words of the athletic director, he's stepping downo allow healing, and they noted this will continue to cooperate with the investigation
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and will respect, of course, what has to be de here in college park. a lot going on. an external review into what the athletic staff did or didn't do following jordan mcnair's trouble in may that's due in september, and as i mentioned now a committee being set up to investigate the football program and its culture. >> all right. a lot more on this to come. thank you, dave. >> new today the water in 90 scarols and upand county has not been tested for lead. the deadline for the test was july 1st. an arundel countyays logistically it could not test every school in time. the state agreed to extendhe deadline to next summer. the county managed to test some of itser o school buildings. results show led levels in water in 19 schools excee epa standards. some of that water comes from wate fountains and sink. the water faucets are being turned off and replaced for the start of the school year. >> another day and another secret recording from the white
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house aide, omarosa manigault newman, the tes and h new tell-all book are sparking a bitter back and forth with esident trump. today he sharpened his attacks and blayne alexander is here to break it all down for us. it's beyond heated today, blayne. >> reporter: jyeah,. today we saw the white house and the trump campaign and president trump himself allin respo in very different ways to those allegations as the battle of tweets and tapes continues to heat up. the first white house breflg ie dominated by weeks talk from former aide omarosa manigault newman claiming that presidentrump used the "n" word and it's on tape. i can't guarantee anything. i can tell you i've never heard it. >> reporter: president trump not only denying the campaign but launching a personal attackal o twitterng manigault newman a dog. >> this has absolutely nothing to do with race and everything
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ac do with the president calling out someone's of integrity. >> reporter:ow the trump campaign is firing back at emn m -- manigault newmanin cla legal action violating a non-disclosure agreement by releasing another tape here with two other a ican-american advisers on how to spin the president's alleged "n" word use if it ever became public. >> how do you think i should handle it, and i told him exactly what you just said, omaros which it depends on what scenario you're talking about, and he said, well, why don't you just go ahead and put it tobed. >> he said it. >> the tape released by manigault newman to cbs news. today on msnbc confirming she has been interviewed by special tunsel robert mueller and claiming presidemp new about hillary clinton's hacked e-mails before they were made public. those trump know about e-mails before they came out? >> absolutely.
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>> he knew about them? >>wes. >> he khat was coming out before wikileaks released them? >> yes. >> reporter: a reality-style show back and forth raising real questions about diversity in the west wing. and the book also touches on the president's handling of that puerto e devastation in rico alleging that president trump and his chief of staff john kelly used derogatory terms to remember to citizens. jim? >> all right. a story not going away by any stretch. blayne, thanks so much. >> we go live to richmond next after some fireworks on the last day of training,amp. pl a brand-new school unlike any other here in theashington area. david culver has the story only on news 4. >> and rht nown storm team 4 radar, we're tracking a few scattered showers moving see. through the area. otherwise a fantastic day overall. humidity levels, nice
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camp is officially closed now in richmond, and members of the burgundy and gold are heading home. >> but that wasn't before some final day fireworks. got to have those against the jets. shere burruss joins us now with more. hey, sherree. >> hey. >> hey, you guys, so, yes, the redskins and jets almost getting through a joint practicecoithout le fireworks. this afternoon there was a play made by the redskins thatidn't really sit well and actually created a spark between two former teammates wide receiver terrelle pryor played five games with washington lt season. is now on the jets. meanwhile, d.j. swearinger isn his second year with the burgundy and gold and you have to check out this play that caused sparks and swearinger wasn't even involved in the actual action.
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>> you know what i'm saying. he started talking on the energy that he had just let him know that he didn't get the respect to go cgainst thener one-on-one. >> we didn't giveim the respect. got to love a competitor. ovy competitor les competition. that's what it is. it's competition. whether it gets chippy or not, you've got to love the competition. >> reporter: safe to say i think that both tms pretty over the joint practices. i even talked to josh norman before and he wanted to end this with a bang. we both agreed no finding. didn't get that wi , but thankfully training camp over here in richmond, guys. >> it sended. >> -- it ended. >> i like t mt smacke where he lunged in. >> thanks, sherree.
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>> if you go o of town a lot why not rent out your home. >> that's what one man did and when h got backe found a complete mess. his home was trashed, and now he's the one who is in trouble. >> tracking more storms today. stick around as storm team 4 times it all out for you totght. plus, wo expect for the rest of
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let's get you caught up with four things you need to know this afternoon.lv pennia's attorney general is out with a damning report from a grand jury thatus a more than 300 priests of preying on children over asearch-decade span. now the report identified more than 1,000 victims. tishington cardinal donald wuerl is czed throughout the report caused of helping to cover up some cases.im during his as bishop in pittsburs. wuerl denhe allegations in
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new york. university of maryland part ways it itsnd strengthonditioning coach after the death of one of its players. that includes head coach durkin also on head leave. todayt accepts legal and moral responsibility for jordan mcnair'sea d. he passed away during a practice back in june. another little boy is dead after fallingrom a balcony after the skyline tower -- at the skyline tower artment complex. earlier this year a 3-year-old boy died. tracking showers. changes coming tr rest of y week. doug and amelia back in two minutes. >> you could call it an airbnb
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nightmare. a loupdoun cou y man found his home trashed. he pulled a gun to stop the offenders from getting away and now he's under away. as juliearey reports, his attorney is fighting those charges. >> reporter: it's a stately airby, a $4 million prope with a view. the owner found windows smashed and tables overturned and broken and glass from beer bottles and blood, lots of it, on door frames, on floors, o walls. we're not showing the most disturbing shots. a property employee discovered the dama the group that had rented the home on airbnb still on site. 911 was called and t owner jack andrews rushed over. his attorney says because of e uncertain scene he entered with his gun drawn. >> it looked like there was a mass murdere his perspective there. >> reporter: when andrews confronted the group, they scattered for their cars. he was able to block a bridge and keep one cload on site.
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minutes later deputies arrived but to urandrews'ise he was handcuffed. he's charged with five counts of an ducksnd firearms charges. the five people he was holding interviewed and released. >> he's a bit outraged, you know. he was protecting himself. me was protecting his employees and his house. theacast thing thought when he saw these people trashing his house and they fled the scene to avoid the police is that he would be the focus of the investigation rather than the people who did $80,000 worth of damage to his home. >> reporter: andrews' attorney would likeo see t sheriff investigators back here to do more to look into this crime of extreme vandalism. a spokesman for the sheriff's office tells news 4 they continue to investigate to find out who was involved in the overnight fall that caused all that bloodshed. in loudoun county, i'm julie carey, news 4. wow. you don't want that to happenou when y went your house. >> you never do. boy, there's so many triggers out there. it's not easy right nowt
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represing property. for airbnb you take a risk sometimes.te >> abso. >> but easy to enjoy a day like today. >> nice to stepoutside without an umbrella, stepping outside and say it's raining on me or it's raining over there. >> can we get one day without thunderstorms. >> tomorrow,hat's the day. you know what annie said. the sun will come out tllorrow. >> r no chance of rain tomorrow or into today on thursday, but, yeah, we're seeing the chance outside right now. take a lookcross our region and you notice the blue skies and skies starting to build arou the d.c. metro area. 86 degrees right now and droppingnto the 80-degree range and shower activity through 7:00 in the districand then really nice weather this evening and dropping to 76 degrees by 11:00. ing to be a really nice night tonight. here are the correct numbers. look at 75 in esburg, why? rain is making its way through the leesburg area. here is that rain. it's a line. you can l see thate of showers and a couple of rumbles of
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thunder. however, we're really startg to see thetorms decrease in intensity. you can see them in and leesburg. rain around leesburg region and down towards middleburg in towards loudoun county and fauquier county. zoom on into this county. we're seeing shower activity here. this one did have some lightning earlier. no lightning with it now and back to the west looking at this one. i'll zoom in a little bit more. around l this will pass over the potomac river i towards part of western loudoun county. leesburg being hit heavy, too. tomorrow rkilly l quite nice. we've got another storm down to the south and marshall area. ths coming on through here. amelia, this is all out of here tomorrow and something else is out of here, too. >> the humidity levs are going to be really nice tomorrow. you know what, doug. the it really wasn't all thatre bad out t today as far as the humidity goes of the overall actually a fantastic day as we
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take a look at your humidity levels tomorrow. still kind of i that comfortable range for this time of year as we continue to move on through tworkweek. thursday the humidity starts to creep back in just a little bitn it oppressive out there, but the humidity does return in full force out tren friday. since you planned out the rest of the workweek, maybe you're take the kids to the pool if they are not back in school. tomorrow is looking like perfection. it's completely dry. another great day out there on thursday as it starts to get hot and ontt friday sed thunderstorms are possible and later in the day. if you're heading to the pool around the miay, i really think it should be okay. as we take a look halt the douend forecast, 89 on saturday and then cooler on sunday. 84. saturday morning in midday looking dry, but maybe some thunderstorms later in the day, and we're keeping a really close eye on sunday's forecas because right now it's not looking all that great. of course,uesday so, that could change. we're looking at some rain and maybe even a few rumbles of thunder out there on sunday. >> if we're calling in on sunday
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it's a total washout. into tuesday and we have a lot of time to wch the next system as it makes its way our way. up to 90 by about 3:00 and going for a high of 92 and 93n thursday and 94 on friday. you heard amelia talk about the oppressive humidity on friday. heat iex between 100 and 105. about 100. saturday and sunday a good chance of storms here, especially on sunday and this is something we're going to be watching very close for you. i'm reallyth looking at thi right here, guys. this is really nice. mid-80s and upper 60s f low thmperatures. yeah. 's some nice weather. >> lovely. we l wait. >>thanks, doug. >> there is way more than just a slice of silicon valleyn one of loudoun county's newest schools. >> next and only on news 4 our david culver takes you inside the facility unlike any other in the dmv. >> and we have continuing coverage of thatin sca grand
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> think high school silicon valley style. that's what loudoun county students accepted no the new academies of loudon. david culver takes you inside the newest school that combines ecialties under one futuristic roof. >> reporter: sitting on nearly 0 acres in leesburg, a school that's unlike any other. >> in some cases we've the walls in order to invite and support collaboration and intere in curiosity. >> reporter: at times you forget this is a school. s is the only radiology program in a high school in the state of virginia. >> reporter: from radiology
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courses to culinary learning to auto service technology. even criminal justiceourses with simulators. >> many law enforcement agencies don't have this technology. >> reporter: this building is more than i could possibly imagine. >> teachers like josh ijima touring the space with other staff members today. >> i thio the only limits t this buildingr are y individual creativity and imagination. >> this is the main staircase at students will walk down as they descend into the school, and it's no ordinary stair caisse. i mean theyan kind ofome over here and sit down and plug in. got plenty o outlets, set up shot and it's all about community and collaboration. >> eight common areas with walls to jot down gro ideas. the library takes on a digital focus and trendy even has a corner coffee shop. >> we didn't have the space or the equipment needed to do certain wrojects that wee wanting to do, but we're definitelyoing to have that now. >> students like aidan had to
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pass comngtitive testi to get in. they will alternate between their home high school and the academy's building. >> one week it could be monday, wednesday and friday and the next one tuesday and thursday. >> reporter: so by being concurrently enrolled in two high schools they ar able to maintain that connection with the neighborhood environment but they still get a specialized s.t.e.m. experience. >> reporter: a fresh take on learning in a whole npace. in loudoun county, david culver, news >> wow. the brand-new academies of loudon cost $125 million. we should mention classes in loudon start onugust 23rd. kind of makes you want to go back to school. it's wcool. >> a really cool school. >> >> "news 4 at 5:00" starts with two breaking news stories. we'reollowing developments in two big stories tonight, the archbishop of the catholic church here in washington on the
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defensive over the issue of predatey priests. scathing report detailing allegations of rape, sexual abuse, even a forced abortion and an attempt by the church to cover it all up. >> plus, the fallout after a mistakesadmission of made and how they led to the death of a football player at th university of maryland. the death of schools now says it could have been prevented. >> we begin with that explosive report intons allegat of sexual abuse in the catholic church and the criticism nowct di towards washington archbishop donald wuerl. good evening. m doreen gentzler. >> and i'm put lawson muse. >> wuerl was named in a report that accuses more than 300 members of clergyab of e, and there could be more than a thousand children who are victims. >> the report als accuses church leaders of efforts to cover up and avoid thecandal rather than deal with the
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victims. >>nehese petit and for a time some of the diocese sought to prent t entire report from ever seeing the light of day. in effect, they wanted to cover up the cover-up. >> cardinal wuerl now responding to the allegations which happened during his tenure as bishop of pittsburgh. >> news 4's mark segraves has been goi through the repor and joins us now with the details. mark? >>ah good evening, archbishop wuerl has put out several statements both to priests, parishioners and to the press denying some of the allegaons that come outf this grand jury report and reiterating what he says all 's done over his decade as a leader in the catholic church to help these victims. >> it was childl sexuse including rape committed by grown men. inst children. >> repr:
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