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how the arcfishop washington handled therimes and the cover-up. >> new fallout at the university of maryland tonight after a studentthte collapsed and it practiced and dies. the mistakes that were madeths school admits his death could have been prevented. >> tonight we're digging deeper what's h stories and next. >> let's begin with that bombshell. the allegations of abuse a the catholic church and the criticism now directed towards the archbishop of washington. cardinal donald wuerl is named 200 times. >> today's pennsylvania grand jury also accusesore than 300 members of the clergy of abuse and reveals the could be more than 1,000 victims. a the report accuses church leaders of elaborate cover-up to avoid the scandal rather than deal with victims. nbc's jay gray starts our coverage. >> reporter: the 884-pagery gra
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eport tells a horrific story of abuse, corruption and a cover-up in catholic churchesro pennsylvania. the weaponization of faith. stretching across seven decades allegedly carried out by 300 clergy members described as predator priests. >> we should emphasize that while the lists of priests is ng, we don't think we got them all. >> reporter: the report also outlines an environment in six diocese where allegations, quote, were brushed aside in every part of the state like church leaders who preferred to protect the abusers and their institution above all. rl priests were raping little boys and and the men of god who were responsible for them not only did thing, they hid it all. >> reporter: the investigation identified 1,0 victims that says that number actually is likely in the thousands. >> and i'm a survivor. >> reporter: some speaking out
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as part of a video shared by tht s attorney general before today's announcement. >> this is a lifelong issue. >> reporter: bishops from two diocese named in the report spoke directly to the victims. >> i humbly offer my sincere apology to each victim. >> we all must take this report to heart. >> it is the story of people's i s. >> a painful story that continues tounfold. >> jay gray, nbc ws >> one of the individuals criticizedn the grand jury report is washington cardinal donald wuerl over his response alleg abuse during his tenure as the bishop of pittsburgh. totight new reac from cardinal wuerl to allegations that he helped with cover-up. let's go to news 4' mark segraves with the latest on that part of the story.
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mark? [ no audio ] >> reporter: the pennsylvania grand jury accuses 301 catholic priests of sexually abusing children over the past 70 years. up boy was forced to stand on a bed in a rectory, strip naked and posed as christ on the cross pr theests. they took photos of their ctim. adding them to a collection of child pornography. some of tho priests served while cardinal donald wuerl, now the archbishop of washington was the bishop of pittsburgh. the grand jury alleges that then shop wuerl allowed at least one known child abuser to transfer to another parish and wuerl approved hundreds of thousands in a confidentia settlement and that would you recall would refer to the policy hiding the facts from the public as, quote, the circle of secrecy. a spokesperson for wuerl adamantlyenies that the archbishop ever used or came up
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with the term circle of secrecy. wuerl hasis expressed continued compassion and sorrow for the victims. in a state he writes the diocese investigated all allegations of child sexual abuse during my tenure and admitted or substantiated child sexual abuse resulted in appropriate actio earlier today cardinal kwoourl spoke by phone to our news partners a wtop radio. >> the report will paint a very dark picture because it goes back over 70 years. >> reporter: pennsylvania's attorney general believes there'sds thousore allegations that they could not find because the catholic church vered up the trut >> theho cli atcrcvictims. >> reporter: now, again, cardinal wuerl has put out several statements toy, both rejecting some of the findings of the grand jury report and also pointing out that decades of work that he says that he'sn donee catholic church to both help survivors and to help
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prevent further abuse. t that very latest. doreen, back to you. >> all right. mark graves reporting. we post >> you can read that on our nbc washington app. the university of maryland has parted ways with a strength andin tra coach as it opens up about the sudden death of jordan mcnai our bureau chief tracee wilkins park toin college explain how the system says it's taking responsibility. >> the training coach at head of a lot of these allegations nows gone from t university. the head coach on administrative leave along with a number of his staff and at the university of maryland is saying they are doing an independent investigation. in fact two to get to the bottom of what happened as they wer t explainiir conversation with mcnair's family today. at times they got emotional. >> there are no words to stay that jordan's parents -- to say
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to jordan's parents that would be good enough. >> reporter: the university is acceibing some respoity for the death of umd football player jordan mcnair. >> the university accepts legal and moral responsibility for the mistakes that our training staff made on that fateful workout day. >> reporter: mcnair suffered heatoke during an off-season summer practice. died.eks later he according to an espn report a culture of toxic and abusive behavior may have contributed to mcnair's death. espn also reported someone called 911 nearly an hour after mcnair showed signs of aealth ergency. >> we have an individual at 68 fieldhouse drive that hyperventilating after exercising and is unable to contro their breath. >> our athletic training staff did not take jord's
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temperature and did not apply a cold water immersion treatment. >> reporter: lowe and the director of umd athleti held a press conference after meeting with mcnair's parents. he shared some of what they told the 19-year-old's mother and father. >> the universit owes you an apology. you entrusted jordan to our a care he is never returning home again. >> an attorney representing the mcnair family released a statemen that reads in part while marty and tonya will never getay another with jordan, dr. lowe's words were meaningful to them and sive theme comfort that he will put the university on the path to change the culture of the program so thatam no terrapiny will have to endewer the heartache and grief that they feel. that's exactly what dr. lowe said that, he's determined to make sure that no athlete here at t university o maryland goes through anything like this
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again. dr. lowe did not take questions from the press. tracee wilkins. back to you in the stewed yes. >> strong statements there today from the school. tracee, thank. y mcnair's death comes amid reports of a toxic culture within the maryland football program. our dave johnson continues our n team coverag with what this means for the future of the football program. >> reporter: curiosity, boldness, inspiration, passion. everywhere you go in this campus here at the university of maryland you see the words but the athletic department is dealing with two key phrases right now. external review and internal investigation. the external review is going on now into w the athletic training staff did or didn't do in the wake ofn jor mcnair's death, but now for the football program there is a internal investigation, a four-person panel, three from the legal world and one from the athletic coaching world h been set u to take a closer lookhe at how university of maryland football program which is s under the directionf head coach durkin
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who is on administrative leave, how that program operates because a key question is did the culture that exists in the univeranty of mar football program did, that play a role in the death of 19-year-old jordan nair? there's no evidence at this point to suggest that. for now though they want to make orre that they honor the legacy ofn mcnair going forward and make sure something like what hpened just two months ago never happens again here in college park. from college park. dave johnson, ne 4 sports. turning to our weather now. some showers for some of us tonight. >> but doug says it is nothing like what we saw and heard esterday. doug? ah, that's exactly right. we're looking at the showers noving on through parts of the area. eal big thunderstorms. this is not a wind event that we're seeing right now. this is causing some very nice weather in behind it. we'll zoom on out and show you what this is all from, a big upper level low spinning on
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iorough the r and giving us a line of showers right on through the area, fairfax county and i-95. over towards annapolis. much more oha this and to expect the next couple of days. a chance for stronger stormswend l see you back here in 15 minutes. >> thank you, doug. the new tell-all bk from omarosa appears to be striking a nerve with president trump, and he's lashing out. it's not the first time the president and a former ally have turned against each other, but the bitter back and fort between these two is growing increasingly personal. blayne alexander is covering it all for us. blayne? >> reporter: yeah, doreen, we really saw kind of a three-fold pushback today, president trump himself and therump campaign and the white house all pushing back on these allegations eachy in vifferent ways as this battle of tweets and tapeso continues heat up. >> the first white house briefing in nearly two weeks dominated by talk oforr aide omarosa manigault newman. her new book claiming that president trump repeatedly used
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the "n" word, and it's o tape. >> i can tell you that the president addressed this yestion directly. i can tell that i've never heard it. >> reporter: president trump not only denying the claim but launching a personal attack o twitter. >> this has absolutely nothing to do with race and everything to do with the president calling out some lack of integrity. >> reporter: now the trump campaign is firin back a manigault newman taking legal action claiming she is violating a non-disclosure agreement by releasing another secretly recorded conversation. here heard with two other african-american campaign advisers discussing how to spin the president's alleged "n" word use if it ever became publ. >> how do you think i should handle it? >> reporter: the tape released by n manigauman to cbs news. today on msnbc confirming she has been interviewed by special counsel robert mueller and
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claiming president trump new about hillary clinton's hacked e-mails bore they were made public. >> did donald trump know about the e-mails before they came out? >> yes. >> he knew what was coming out before wikileaks released them? >> yeah. >> reporter: and real questions raised about diversity in the west wing. >> closing arguments begin morrow in the trifle former tr mp campaignanager paul manafort. the defense rested today without calling aingle witness. that's not anat unusual sy though. the prosecution bears the burdeh of estabg guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. tomorrow both sides will hav two hours each to present closing statements. manafort is accused of hiding at least $16 million in income from consulting work forre-russian politicians in enukraine. he money dried up, prosecutors say manafort defrauded banks by lying on loan applications.
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desperate 6:00, t search for survivors buried under a bridge that collapsed during a violent storm. >> heartbreak after a toddler falls to his death. >> a gentleman came out hysterical, and that's when i realized what they was out the for. >> concerns about safety months before the tragy. >> smash windows, cake on the ceiling and blood on the flooe >> it's lthere's a mass murder from his perspective there. >> a local man finds his rental home trashed, so why was he the one who ended up i handcuffs? >> plus, a look iidehe scol of theho
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a carjacking arrest in prince george's county. the car is the same vehicle that was used in last month's deadly shooting of 10-year-old makiyah wilson. officers arrested kevin eugene jones for that july 1st carjacking. the 10-year-old was st july 16th. surveillance video captured the whole shootout and detectives are not saying if jones was involved in the little girl's death. was not charged with her murder. the five men involved in makiyah's death have not been arrested yet. >> a man hysterical.
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witnesses say he ran outside after a two-year-old boy fell to his death, the third time a child has died falling from onee of the high rnit in the skyline towers apartments in fairfax catnty. in falls church. news 1's chris gordon is at the complex on seminary road near bailey's >>crossroads. chris? >> during -- my i assignment trying to explain how this happened and how a 2-year-old boy fell from a balcony to his death. the boy was in the apartment with his little sister, and police say there was an adult care giver who apparently got distracted. nd the boy fell >> a neighbor at skyline tow took this video and pictures of the area where the 2-year-old boy fell to his death from a 24th floor balcony. >> it's really scary. i have a soon, too, he's 2 1/2.
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he was actually with a babysitter so i immediately called her, and i wasike talking to my son because i was really scared. >> police say an adult care giver in the apartment was tending to the needs of another child at the timef the fall. timothy williams is a maintenance man at skyline >> i've seen the paramedics and the police out there, and they was consoling family and the ntleman came out hysterical, and that's when i realized what they was out there for. >> reporter: this is the third time a young child has fallen from a window or bcony at skyline towers n.20 is a the child pressing against a window screen fell from a fifth floor wiow breaking a leg. on may 30th of this year just two months ago, a 3-year-old boy was killed after falling from the 26th floorn when a scr on a window apparently gave out. the lawyer for his family today filed this lawsuit against skyline towers alleging that it was negligent. >> it'imply dangerous to
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children, and i hope that no other children have to die before skyline towers does something to make its property safe. >> theawit seeks $100 million in damages for wrongful death. now a spokesmanor skyline towers tells me that they do not comment on pending litigation. a as far the fatal fall of the young boy, he sayshey are cooperated with authorities and that their thoughts and breyers go out to family. that's the latest live in fairfax county. jim,acto you. >> just awful. >> chris gordon, thank you. new intrigue tonight in apparent terror attack in london. a car slammed into people walking and biking here near listminster abbey and the house of pent. police arrested the driver and revealed the car was driven minutes is area for 90 before the attack. now they are trying to figure out why. nbc's bill neely picks up the story.
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>> reporter: british countertrorism say the man is 29 years old, a british national though born overseas, and he is, ey say, not cooperating with detectives. >> given that this appears to be a deliberate act, the method and this being an iconic site we are treating it as a terrorist incident. >> reporter: they say last night he drove his car from birmingham, that's a city in the english miands to london where at 7:37 this morning he suddenly swerved left, accelerated and crashe into a group of cyclists and pedestrians, injuring two of them before crashing his car barriers.curi he was then surrounded by armed >> i saw them pointing the guns into the vehicle and circling the car and appeared to drag the man out of the car. >> reporter: this man was not on any british tear offwatch list. hey didn't find any guns or explosives in thar, but obviously they will be trying to
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watch out if he had a accomplices. did anyone else know that he was about to carry out this terrora ck? bill neely, nbc news, london. er now to a deadly bridge collapse in italy. disaster hit in the port city of genoa on an elevated portion of a highway that links italy and wance. there a sudden violent storm there, a huge section of thet bridge jave way as you see cars, people, steel, concrete, plummeted 150 feet to the city below. ateeast 26 peo were killed. 16 others injured, and more tha0 firefighters rushed to this scene. they were able to pull some survivors out of this wrethage. crisis is the first major test of italy's new government e formed just a w months ago. uncovers problems with parking at the m v.a.edical center in dy. ar heros with disabilities have to navigate long walks and more than three football fields
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long just to get into the >> had a local man accused of holding airbnb renters at gunpoint after they trashed h house. but now a surprise twist as we hear his side of the story and get pictures from inside. >> scattered showers once again moving across our region. doug is tracking the impac
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doug is back with more abouw ourther, a little quieter tonight. >> yeah. >> that's a good thing. >> a very goo bthing. >> nping in the weather center. >> exactly. >> no severe storms. we he showers coming through and these showers coming through really aren't going toch cause f an impact if you make your way out and about, and if you get caught in them it will last 10 to 15 minutes. take a look outside. nothing in the d.c. metro area and they arig going around d.c. this little front is make its way right on through here. current temperature down to84. there is cooler air in behind the showers, and you can see where the cooler air is. gaithersburg and 75 manassas and still 83 in huntingtown and 86 towards packsiver. u can see the line defined here through the d.c. and metro
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area. now looking at a new line starting to form. again, ver light showersround the frederick area, but these are coming right back towardsar burg and right around the urbana area and you can see them around damascus and mt. airy, too. you notice in through southern anaren dull coun anne arundel county. a couple of the rivers over here hit in this area and cross the bay. you can see the bay bridge with a pretty good shower. anotherro aread mt. vernon. this one moving to the south of alexandria and national harbor and over towards clinton and andruce air force base and up towards brandywine, waldorf. you'll probably get in on that action. a 15 or 20-minute shower. all of thisun rotating a a very big area of low pressure. looking at this smap, t would look more like a march map than a july map. that's why we've seen all these chances for showers over tst ouple of days. tomorrow wherever that system moves out it's right bacgu to
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weather and we're talking 90. 92 degrees on wednesday and on thursday and a chance of storms returns on friday and into saturday,nd the bigger question what happe on sunday. much more on that couple at 645. see you back here in 20 minutes. doug. ght, thank you, >> a new sexual abuse scandal rocking the catholic church. up next an in-depth look at a pedophile n alleged priest in pennsylvania and the ties to our area. >> the owner of this airbnb is saying he's been deem the criminal after renters causednd thou of dollars in t'damage. >> a local high school right out of silicon valley. we'll take younside t ihi
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back t our breaking news now. a grand jury report onley sexual abuse in pennsylvania fault cardinal donald wuerl, the former longtime ishop of pittsburgh over his handling of bucik catholic priests. >> this could have enormous implications here. he's now the archbishop of washingt. the news i-team has been digging into this report and
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jody fleisher has this report. >> reporter: aas letter sent mandating a letter that the church report incidents of suspecd child abuse. e report criticizes him for a pattern that he and the church are trying to handle the cases internally. they cited the church's failure to report some cases to law enforcement and other instances when the church instead provided stripped down reports and noted that concessions or corroborating pieces of evidence were often withheld. the grand jurors credited wuerl with the phrase circle of secrecy. the church says wuerl did not come up with terminology and that it was taken out of context. the grand jurors wte in their report that the bishops weren't just aware of what was goingin a, they were immersed in it and they went to great lengths to keep it secret. they wrote that the secrecylp spread the disease.
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the report does know wuerl sent a letter to the vatican i late '80s saying parishioners had a right to know whether a priest accused of such crimes had been reassigned to their crish. in anothere wuerl adamantly pushed to get the pope on a dismissed priest. in a statement wuerl said he acted with diligence, with concern for the victims and to t prev future acts of abuse. he said the church can never expr ds enough itsp sorrow for the failure to respond promptly and completely, andyo n read his whole statement in app.bc washington jody fleisher, news 4's i-team. >>hank you. now to an airbnb nightmare. >> a loudoun county man saysde founis rental home trash and bloody. when he pulled out his gun to stop the offendersng from fleei while waiting for police he was the one put under arrest when they showed up. >> and as bureau chief julie carey reports his attorney plans to challenge the charges. >> reporter: it's a stately
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airbnb, a $4 million property with a view, but this is the horrifyingiew the owner found saturday morning. win do windows smashed and tables overturned and broken, glass from beer bottles and blood, lots of door frames, on floors, on walls. we're not showing you the most disturbing shots. >> it looked like there was a massmurder. >> the home's owner jack andrews hurried over when he was summoned by an employeeho already called 911. the group that rented the home still on site and andrews attorney said because of the uncertain scene he entered with gun drawn. >> he didn't know what to find thereut knew it looked like a scene is >> reporter: the sheriff office was on the way and heas told to stay put. he managed to block one carload with histruck, but when deputies arrived much to andrews' surprise he was handcuffed and charged with five counts of an ducks and firearms charges. the five pple he was holding interviewed and released.
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>> the last thing jack thought when he saw these peoplehi tr his house and they fled the scene to avoid the splice that he would be the focus of th investigation rather than the poem that did $80,000 damage to his home. >> reporter: andrews' attorney will argue his client was carrying out a lawful citizens arrest. >> he had the right to protect himself and hisproperty, and h had the right to detain people until police rarrived. orter: andrews' attorney would like to see the sheriff investigators back here to do more to look into this cri of extreme vandalism.n a spokesma for the sheriff's office tells news 4 they tigate to find out who was involved in the overnight fight that caused all that bloodshed. carey,in county, julie news 4. >> sheriff's investigators tell us that a fight did break out. they have confirmed that at the home when another group crashed the party. >> now to the maryland governor's race and a new poll that shows the incumbent with a sizable lead. hogan can governor larry
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is polling at 52% with hismo atic challenger ben jealous at 36%. 11% remain undecid in the recent survey registered vers from the gonzalez research and marketing strategy company. take a look at how the vote breaks down by region. hogan leads on the eastern shore and in western maryland. in baltimore county and in anne arundel county. jealous leads in prince george's county, baltimore city. >> an historic day for mayor muriel bowser during her visit to el salvador. today she visited the hometown of thousands of sal live here in d.c. she was greeted by the mor there. mayor bowser watched performances and was awarded the keys to the city >> i hope it sends the message that we -- we care about our salvadoran community.
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hey are to learn where from, their history and culture. itelps us better understand how to live all together. >> mayor bowser returns home to d.c. tonight. alberto pimiento from our sister station telemundo 44 was with the mayor during his trip, and youan see more of his reporting tonight at 0.11 >> the left of best hospitals is out and johns hopkins hospital is ranked number three overall. regionally medstar georgetown university hospital was ranked number o here in d.c. other high-ranking hospitals in our are included nova fairfax hospital, mary washington hospital inredericksburg and holy cross hospital in silver spring. in all ten local hospitals scored well on the list.ta eachl was evaluated in 25 different areas of care. up next on "news 4 a 6:00," veterans struggling to stand or walk navigating long distances v.a.to get inside the
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our i-team shows us the chalnges they face and why it's so time consuming to make a fix. >> i'm david culver in loudoun county standing in what is no ordinary school. thinkchool of the future. think silicon valley. wait until you see a sneak peek of what is the new academies of loudon, an incredible school. we'll show right here on news 4. >> and i'm continuing to track showers into parts of thee area. one l to the south and another back to the west. most of this is on the lighter side, but we are dealing with some showers that are on the heavy side. a downpour or two nd even lightning or thunder coming right over 301 towards waldorf. i'm back in seven minutes.
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you remember high school.
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imagine teachers encouraging you to relax on a sofa or to write all over the walls. >> not in moy high school. it may sound strange to some but to others it's the way the high-tech world operates. ahead of a new school's opening next we are bureau reporter c davidulver takes us inside the academies of loudoun school. >> reporter: chairs holding tight to the desk, welcome to the academies of loudoun and follow the sunlight side. >> these bring in natural light and magnify them and push them down to thth lower levels of building. >> reporter: open spacesre everyw becoming trendy lungs for students to gather. a few walls stilltanding inside turned into giant note pads. this is theain staircase that students will walk down as they descend into the school, and it's no ordinary staircase. i mean, it c kind of come over
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here and sit down and plug in. got plenty of outlets and set up shop. it's all about community and collaboration. >> this is more than a regular school. >> reporter: the principal showed us aund andaid security procedures have adjusted to the new layout. losely withd really the office of safety and security here inou lun county public schools to develop those emergency response plans. >> reporter: walk down o to get to the radiology lab or mock hospital room or check out the criminal justice simulator. go outside and you cannot miss a massive high-tech greenhouse. dr. pretty says ts is about getting loudoun county students more choices in life,ollege, one of many paths. >> it may also be getting an industry credentia that allows the student to enter the workforce. >> reporter: students like aiden went through a competitive process to get in. th b will alternateetween their home high school and the academy's building for specialty courks. >> one w it could be monday, wednesday, friday. the next one tuesday and
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>> students are going to be wowed because it's so different from anything they have ever experienced in school before. >> teachers like josh ijima uring the new space with other staff members. >> i think the only limits to this building are your indidual creativity and imagination. >> a fresh take on learning in a whole new space. in loudoun county, did culver, news 4. >> really impressive. place. want to go back to that >> me, too. well, we've gotore still ahead. more trouble for veterans who rely on the v.a. for medical care. itr news 4 i-team exposes the challenges these my members face before they even het through t
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veterans are telling the news 4 i-teamhey are forced to walk long distances just to see their doctor. turns out it's because of the huge parking problem here at the cal center here in washington. >> tonight scott macfarlane show us how even wh an appointment some military heroes say they can't always get to their care on time. >> getting most places takes just a little longer for sequoia pointer these days. >> when you have a traumatic situation happen to you, you -- you just -- you just don't recover as fast as you think. ad>> three d after serving in the u.s. army, pointer is fighting another battle. he's recovering from a stroke and still struggles to use hisr left and leg >> you set aside 30 minutes just to find paoing. >> jus find parking. >> 0 minutes. s, at least 30 minutes. >> getting to his appointments
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recently at the d.c.v.a. medical center has turned into a lesson in patience. >> you've seen this and watched this. does this seem reasonable to tou? >> not a all. >> reporter: a trip to the v.a. is a marathon for her husband. we watched him unload his scooter a make the long trek from the back of the lot just to get inside. >> he's going to have to fight through the traffic and then fight for a s parkingce and then he's going to have to fight to get in there and go wherever he's going and walk those halls with him. they are long. >> very long. >> reporter: when we first met jonathan warwick he was trying to navigate over a hill to this parking lot. >> just had two hips replaced, a fracturedpine, did it occur to you i shouldn't be walking this far to get to my doctor? >> in a sense, yes, i shouldn't. i shouldn't have to be walking that far. >> the news 4 i-team found patient after patient forced to walk long distances after a long search for a spot. just how far?
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we measured from the back row to the front door. more than three and a half football fields each way and a third of mile round trip. construction is under way on a ney garage that the hope to open by mid-march but until then there remains a confusing bottleneck searching for spots. the i-team dropped their cars on grassy hill and they had to dump their welchairs before backing into a non-accessible spot. >> sometimes if i have anpo apintment i'll leave here by 8:00. >> reporter: valet service is offered but often the line spilz off the grounds. adding to the congestion they say aresood tru blocking drop-off space and bus access to the entrance. >> parking lot access isha something we hear about a lot. >> reporter: heather, a paralyzed veteran, says this is a growing complaint at the medical center. >> a parking challenge means some veterans may not even be trying to go. >> reporter: exactly.
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>> reporter: internal v.a. records say they are aware of this problem calling it an up acceptable deficiency and identifying dozens of otherin pag issues at medical centers nationwide. >> it is a ngchal >> the martinsburg v.a. medical center is updating its parking lot and making changes insidekeo he building itself easier to naff gate. >> to modify it to make it current andoe complaint d require majortm invt and isn't real easy to do. >> reporter: there's a big need nationwide. does that surprise you? >> unfortunately, no. >> reporter: ainsley says the v.a. needs to be more mindful of the impact construction could have on veterans. >> sometimes the small things nee more important. >> reporter: no oould talk to us on camera saying the new garage should open as scheduled by marchnd they hav shuttle services for those who can't find a spot. the shuttle doesn't work for you? >> because i carry scoor:r. >> repor leaving some vets
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like sequoiao fend for themselves in this parking battle. scott macfarlane, news 4 i-team. >> v.a. recor show more than 000 accessibility repairs are needed at medical centers across the country. to watch the continuing series eof problems i the v.a., visit our nbc washington app. do>> all right. joins us now. what a difference a day makes. i doreen playethe humidity, tennis. i played in no humidity today. >> you were happy. >> i didn't want to get off the court. one of you was sweating a lot more than the other. >> you could say that, yeah. >> good to get out either way. today it was really qui before the showers and storms moved n.yesterday the heat and hudity helped to provide us with some of the storms. some of them more severe. this is actually new. vid i haven't seen this. look at this tree right there right outside that guy's house and almost hit his c. that was in college park yesterday. that was all the storm damage that we saw on the colle park
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area. numerous trees down and dozens of trees down in the college park area. that staple storm also had trees down. prince william county andx fairfa county and arlington all the way up towards baltimore and evus pennsylvania a mess. fortunately the weather today much calmer. outside we're dealing with the sun again as it made its way on through here and now down to 84 degrees a81 next hour and 73 degrees by 11:00. ni, nice and nice. we could still see a shower or two this evening but most of us are on the dry side. 75 in reston and 79keanassas. look at the storms. we do have a couple of storms making their wayver towards he chesapeake bay and waldorf area. another line making its way back towards montgomery and we're not quite done with this yet as it makes its way back west. a quick shower our down here's the one right over annapolis south of annapolis maki its way over the chesapeake bay and another area
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and down towards the south, clinton maryland just this one around the mayo area and shadyside, and if we move the r mapht on down, going to keep moving it down because i want to see just south of upper marlboro. here's the one around brandywine. this has lightning and thunder and follow 301 downo waldorf and seeing some of that shower activity and it is on the heavier side of things b this is aause of the upper level low continuing to spin to our north. tomorrow, and y that means a much better day. that means great for lunch, and in the afternoon no problem there. 83 degrees and 90 at 3:00 in the afternoon, so it will be hot. so if you're playing tennis tomorrow, guys, about 11:00, perfect. >> a good time forme. >> sleep in a little bit, and then can you go play in the nice her. >> 92 for a high and more humid on thursday and 94 friday. s scatterewers and thursday on friday with a heat index of 100. watching the weekend. could see a lot of rain on sunday. that's something we do not want to see. i'm going to continue to watch that for you the next couple of days. days. we'll
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dave is back from college park. what a day out there. >> yeah. >> look, we've got to take care of our kids, they are our future and that's the bottom line. reryland has to realize they have to take of the kids. it's their responsibility. words will not bring 19-year-old jordan mcnair back to life. action and chang will add more meaning to his member research the university of maryland did accept responsibility forr' mcn death from heat stroke amid allegations afternoon espn report oic a t culture in the football program. they are being taken seriously according t the athletic director. >> we will not tolerate any behavior from any employee within maryland athletics that is detrimental to the mental or physical well-being of our student athletes.
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as a father there are no words to say to jordan'sarents that are good enough. en will honor jordan's life, and we will re that a tragedy such as the this never happens on our campus again. >> the school preside wlace met with mcnair's parents. to ensure it never happens again a committee of four people were sent tte investi the football program as a hole and the committee will be talking to students and athletes to get a therer picture of h football program operates. the investigation scheduled to ntinue and by then we could know more about the future of head coach d.j. durkin. again, he remains on administrative leave. the burgundy and gold blur on i-95 earlier this afternoon likely the redskins. richmond is a wrap. the jets at home next thursday. pres tson game. 15 days of training camp in virginia's capital co welcome moving day, you might say for the players with one notable exception. thre redskins moving on
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without a veteran. sbirz has more fromne richmond more time. >> reporter: we got our last roster of trainine camps h in richmond and this version a little differen number 26, orlando scandrick no longee with team. the former dallas corn aback,n 11-year vet released by the burgundy a gold today. fellow cornerback josh norman caught off guard about the news. >> iot in the training room and i'm like, yeah, your boy is gone, and i'm like huh, how did that happen, but it wasn't something that i, you know, w thought going to happen. >> it was more of the rookie'se gence really so give orlando ample time to get on another team. >> reporter: one of the youngs play-mak making an impact is a coerback from manassas. today the final day of training camp in richmond in players battling through injuries like josh dotson playing through a heel injury and showing off their stuff before the secondso
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presea game. the work finally over in richmond and some players cannot hide their excitement. >> oh, my gosh. feels like pouring somethingke literally. that's how i empty my cup. >> i like being here. love the area that we're in, but i just want to see my bed and my tv at this point. >> we survived. >> we went out there and we dominated. >> reporter: training camp in richmond is is over, but the worknu con back in ashburn as the redskins get setth for e more preseason games and the next one on thursday. from richmond, sherree burruss, news 4 sports. >> all right. come on home. now every heartbreaking loss is getting doug sounds in the weather department and is screaming every night. last night double trouble as the nationals again with a walkoff homer for the cardinalhe a nigh afy lost in another walkoff homer. the nats have to get i
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together. seven back of first place. >> it's been ugly. >> thank >> "nightly news" starts in just 60
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