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impact. plus, three women found buried under the same building, as you disappeared in the same year. why police can't rule out the possibility of a serial killer. and paul nafort's fate is in the hands of a jury now. the first courtroomth test o mueller investigation could be decided in a matter ofhours. news4 at 11:00 begins with breaking news. first to that breaking news at ragin nationalai ort. just before 10:00 tonight, the whole place went dark. >> passengers are tweeting out pictures and video from inside. the airport tells us this is a problem with dominion energy. the power is not getting to the airport. >> some things are operang on generators now. shomari, what are youearning there? good evening. ator atow i'm on an esc the airport. power.t working due to you see the lights on?th is solely due to generator power that the airport has as a
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back up. flights are operating. mechanicit systems wut power are slowing down boarding and dee planing. let's roll video just to set the scene to show what you people were experiencing heren the airport. walking in darkness after the lights wen out around 9:45. two fielders were interrupted and they're working with them to restore pou now. dca has generators supplying energy to ctical services. many people were wondering what was going on. they did notti hear informa on the pa system. they say explaining what the deal ths. e was a report that we saw of fire and smoke on a part of the airport. e however, wve not confirmed inform.ion about that there were fire trucks and emergency bervices outy an american airlines fligh f we'll now hem a passenger. >> my bags came out just before the power outage. and then everythingent blank.
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>> it felt a little creepyo actually in an airport and it's you know, and everything is dark. >> you can see that i'm sweating here because there is very warm due to the lack of air conditioning. there have been people walki around trying to figure out what is going on. it's worth mentioning right now, they're trying to restore the power to the airport. there are some uber drivers outside who werepi supposed to up people. they were unable to do so because some of those people were still o planes on the tarmac. developing news has it happens. we'll continue to bring you updates as the become available. shomari stone. >> we'll check back wityou. thank you. now to our other big story tonight. there are new leads this evening a mystery more than a decade in the making. no arrests in the murders of three d.c. women. > all three victims african-american, all in their 40s, all went missing in the
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year 2006. all found dead under the same apartment building this past spring. >> jewel king was 47 years old, april of st seen in that year, a mother of three, she died of a gunshot wound. verdell jefferson was41 she went missing a month later and police tell us she was found buried with king. she had a son and died of blunt forc trauma. >> dorothy butts was 43d,ears ast seen on christmas day, 2006. she also had a son. she died of a gunshot wound.nd she was fou separate from the other two victims. news4's jackie bensen h the latest on this investigation. jackie? >> reporter: doreen, someone hid them away. hoping to cov up three murders. science took dettives backn time 12 years. all they had were bones. e skeletalemains were
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discovered by construction workers renovating a propertye n th100 block of wayne place southeast in april. two were found buried together near the building, a third found in a crawl space. >> everyone's skeleton is unique. it's a good -- it has a lot of characteristics of the individuals. and so yes, the skeletal profile n include evidence of past injury and so forth. it led to the news that the families of verdell jefferson jewel king and dorothy bofts all hom lived in the neighborhood all reported missing in 2006 have been waiting to hear for some 12 years now. >> the impact of unsol d cases ispermanent. it's traumatic and today marks one step in the rovery of human remains. we will not stop until the diegos are brought to justice. >> two of the women were shot. the third died of blunt force trauma. the question was asked, do detectives believe this was the work of a serial killerlw >> we woulds consider that to be a potential in this epcas
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>>ter: there is a standing reward of $25,000 for a murder in the district. that means there is the potential f a$75,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction in these three murders. livet t offices of the chief medical examiner in southwest, jackie bensen, news4. >> thank you. and new at 11:00, we're hearing from a woman who says she comforted a girl who ran away from a man who exposed herself. police knocked on doors and passed out flyers in the fairfaxn stationery of county tonight. detectives are looking for clues to find the man in the sketch. this is the person who officers say touched a teenager while she was alone practicing soccer on august 4th. i heard a young lady screaming. i walked to the corner. she was screaming profusely and
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i asked her t come over. let me help you. >>huhe girl was not . the suspect is described as a whiteman with long bwn hair around 30 years old. call police if you have information. in just t past 24 hours, the pennsylvania attorney general's office says it has received morthan 150 calls and e-mails it about alleged sexual abuse in the catholic church. it all comes after yesterday's mbshell report alleging among other things a cover-up involving the man who is now arn bishop of washingt, cardinal donald wuerl. he served in pittsburgh for years. grand jury report alleges 300 priests across pennsylvania molested more than a thousand chilen over decades. the grand jury report yesterday mentioned wuerl's name nearly 200 timeur grands accused the catholic church of covering up the abuses today, the pennsylvania attorney general specifically addressed
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cardinaluerl in the report. >> thing i can tell you about cardinal wuerl, the public comments he has made directly contradict the church's own documents that we found in the secret archiv a. that spelled out in the grand jury report. >> wuerl did issue a statement saying in part he acted withit diligence wh concern port victims and will prevent future acts of abuse. he so far declined our request for aninterview. we've told but the rh of k2 overdoses here in the district in this region and tonight, we're learning at the state of connecticut there emergency officials are saying they have a major problem on their hands there. leon harris at the live desk. nearly 60 overdoses linked to ee have bn reported in new haven in a24-hour period. police arrested a person of interest. he had the drug on him.
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officers sayhey think he's connected to some of the overdoses they've been seeing there. some of the victims had life-threatening injuries and could have taken a batch laced with a potentially killer substance. >> some positive reaction to high dose of mar can which leads to us believe that there could be some opioid or fentanyl that actually was mix >> i walk through the green all the time. to see something like this is heart breaking. >> ten-day period in than 260 people were taken to who thes forg synthetic d overkoess. it is often called synthet marijuana but the chemical composition is different and the sheer amount of cases stacking up is stretching first responders and resources there very thin. doreen, back to you. >> leon, thank you. until today, the story of this week at the white house was the only rosa tapes.y, toresident trump revoked the security clearance of former
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a director john brennan. brannan has been very critical of mr. ump. the president cited brannan's erratic behavior as a reason. in an interview with the "wall street journal" tonight, trump says hete wto strip brannan's security clearance last week but it was "too hectic." last week the president was on vacation at his new jersey golf club. >> a verdict in the trial of president trump's former campaign chaian. deliberations begin at 9:30 tomorrowromorning. thecution told jurors the evidence off 18 different criminal counts is overwhelming. nbc's nikki car ba who has has arguments. >> prosecutors tried to paint former trump campaign manager paul manafort as greedy and dishonest, someone who lived a luxurious lifestyle but the defense insisted he was betrayed
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by his one-time friend and business partner rick gates. >> the government case went in very, very strong. >> manafort wentrinto the tal facing the possibility of spending the rest of his life behind bars for tax fraud and charges related to political consulting work in ukraine. e prosecutor spoke to jurors for almost an hour before even mentioning ges by name though his testimony attracted the most headline >> what he said was the star witness was not rick gates but he actually said the star witness is the doments. >> reporter: the case built on falsified loan documents doctored bank statements and e-mails a paper trail they say was littered with lies. the defense focused on gates whd admittnder oath to some of the same crimes manafort was on trial for. there's no question that there really is no defense to be put on except to attack the prosecution case. >> a case not focusing on russia or election pleding but a
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critical first test of special counsel robert mueller's investigation. nbc ws washington. >> we're staying on top of the breaking news at ragin national airport tonight. flights able to take o and land now, but someys sms are still without power. it was a total blackout that started here just before 10:00. we'll check backing in with omari stone who is the in a minute. doug, for now, how about our weather? >> got on the warm side todaysu for . high temperature today of 92. once again, that avege high 87. take a look at the numbers. you notice it was a warm one for sure. it wasn't that humid across the region. most areas in the 80s. this is going to change tomorrow. da92d.c. everybody's into the 90s tomorrow. heat and humidity return. eewatching an thend for rain chances. if you've got plans, i've got the forecast for you. mainly dry next week.
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back now with another live lookag at national airport from our city cam. the lights are on and dinion energy in virginia just tweeted that power is restored. >> shomari stone live in the terminal with new video. oking a little brighter where you are. >> reporter: tt's right. yo guys, take a look at the arrivals. you can see the lights are on. there are buses that are coming here to pick up some of the people who were waiting on tarmac and here in theor airp take a quick walk together
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through the doors. the power is on. the doors are opening. and rightve o here, the airport is lit up. and the dominionower has restored is the power. this is no longer generator operated power. i want to show you video we received momentsnggo sho you what it was like when the lights went out. as you can see, people were wondering what was going on. the lights just went ou some folks were walking in darkness trying to figure out what was going on. ey went to@n twitter bc washington and got the latest updates. and teore were pe outside waiting for people to an rbi. now, some people told us they were stuck on their planes an n coul get off to talk through the airport after landing here at ragin national airport. again, this news is developing as we speak and ragin national the power here is back on.
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but there are still some unanswered questions, number one, some people were wondering airportonse from th because they didn't know what was going on due to the p.a. system througho the airport. some people were saying evacuate. others saying no, stay in place. so there are still some unanswered questions. live here at ragin national, shomari stone. back to you. >> thank yo good news there. in fauquier county, virginia whtoe students returne class today, the school district is adding new securit to keep students and staff safe. they're in the process of adding armed guards. those guards are not carrying guns yet. that's eected to happe next month when one final procedural hurd is cleared. some students seem relieved after recent shootings across the country including parkland, florida. >> having them from enforcement background and trained and knowing what they're doing armed is better han jus giving anybody a gun i guess. >> with my experience and t traininghis is awesome.
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>> eventually all schools in the county will have at least one armed office s the schooltem is also implementing new training for mental health first aid. well, christmas is a long way off. but one 6-year-old girl just couldn't wait and took matters into her own hands. >> caitlin is her name. her mother said she could order a barbie on amazon and when left unattended she ordered a lot more than just one. package after package wasle p off a delivery truck at her house in utah. obviously her parents were little shocked but you can see here caitlin wasust thrilled. and they decided to donate the $350 worth of toys to the childr's hospital where she stayed as a baby. >> caitlin is a shopping e. mach >> i bet that credit card number has been removed from the amazon site at that house. you got to be careful. niceht out there tonight.
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>> it really is. still a little bit on the humid side. you can feel it. not all that bad. temperature right now in the city in the 80s. the suburbsooking aot better. right now, out there earlier today, 92 in the city. 91 annapolis. currently we're looking at partly cloudy skies. a nice night. ty.in the 82 right now at the airport. winds out of the west at 7 miles per hour. look at the rest of the area. 82 here. 72 martinsburg, 72 in culpeper. anothe great art. no rain to speak of. we won't see any chances of rain tonight or tomorrow. an isolated chance of a shower or storm tomorrow butost ofs dry. you can see some clouds streaming in. you notice a little swirl back toward chicago trying to make its way our way. that's another storm system that will help to bring heat and humidity tomorrow into friday and friday give us a chance for
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showers and mounderstorms. ow 8:00 a.m. bringing the storm closer to us. friday at noon, no problem. i think we're ay. this is when we get on the hot side. scattered showers and stos developing. and coming through parts of the area during the late afternoon. not everybody will see it, but we could see a couple stronger storms with that, too. highs tomorrow 94. hot day for sure. few clouds.t and humid. heat index of 96, 97 tomorrow. that's hot. when you add in humidity on friday, heat index close to 100. friday going to be a hot day with a 40% chance of storms. 40% on saturday, too. a lot of clouds saturday and sunday. chance of showers both days. the best chance does look like it would be. on saturd >> sunday maybe to the south. and then next week, i'm like holding my braerth. i still have to talk but next wednesday, thursday, friday, saturday beautiful weather. we could be in the 60s at night.
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low to mid 80s in the afternoon. >> oh, my. >> many of us could wake up to >> now you're talking. > don't change your mind between thenand >> thanks, doug. >> coming up,s big los for the nats against the cardinals tonight. doesn't have anything to do xfinity mobile is a new wireless network designed to save you money. even when you've got serious binging to do. wherever your phone takes you, your wireless bill is about to cost a whole lot less. use less data with a network that has the most wifi hotspots
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remember that? seems like a long time ago. the floodgates opened. wednesday, the nats can't do anything right. in danger of losing their fourth stight and falling under .500 again. nine games out wf firsth 41 games remaining. doesn't inund good. ma hoping his club can stop the skid tonight. second inning, jeremy hellickson facing marll ozuna. marcell gets the best of this one. this is gone. solo shot. cardinals take a 1-0 lead. to the fifth, st. louis still up. hellickson's pitch to molina gets away. a throw not in time. runsc es. worse fortunates. hellickson comes down on his right hand. he's in pain and ends up leaving the game. another pitcher down. no word yet on his stus. did not look good. cardinals beat the nats, 4-2. orioles hosting mets. who is that guy rting for? maybe new york? probably not.
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it was a tough night to be as oriole fan. todd fraer smacks it ball to left. home run for him. he drove in four in the game.he in t sixth, kevin up with the bases loaded and everybody'sng comi home. grand slam. mets slam the orioles, 16-5. to the pitch, wayne rooney, dc unitedosting the portland timbers. rooney one of the best plays l the seasonast sunday. tonight, 43rd, minute he scores his second goal of the season for united. that evens things at one. the 68th minute, still sm ing, united up on a free kick. rooney into the back of the neta two g in the game for rooney. dc united wins 4-1. their second straight win. to the wnbc. enain na and the mystics fevering the fever.
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its on with the jumper and it. later in the quarter, pass down low. deladon knocks itdown. 25 points for her. mystics win their seventh , straig76-62. to college park, maryland interim head coach on the practice field today. terps set for the season opener against texas. media allow at practice for the first time since cam began 12 days ago. stressing that precaution being taken at practice in light of the passing of jordan mcnair. two big cooling tents on the field. team getting plenty of water breaks. taking over for durkin and getting the team ready to focus to play a game n twoweeks. >> saturday when this occurred after damon talked to the team and addressed where we were going, i briefly addressed the football teaol and t them that this is all chaging situation.
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we're all in it together. we're going to work through it together. and they needed to consult with ch other, talk to each other, lean on each other, talk to your families. and whatever they needed from us as a staff, we were there. >> maryland now trying to move on and gettingla ready to p a game in a (sound of footsteps) (sound of car door opening) (car door closes) (sound of engine starting) ♪ ♪
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