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s to target people in d.c. tonight the urgent sill to get theccused armed kidnappers off streets. that dramatic fall off aif broke a girl's ribs and punctured her lungs. now the teen's friend is in some hot water. >> news4 at 11:00 starts now. the vote was unanimous. the universmy sys of maryland board of regents now taking over the investigation in a umd football player's death. good evening. i'm doreen gentzler. that board is also taking control of the probe into an alleged toxic culture in the program. dave johnson joins us now in the studio. >> what does this decision mean? >> reporter: developments are happening o a daily basis. one thing is certain, jordan mcnair's death has received more
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scrutiny in one week than the previous two months. d.j.urkin remains the head football coach on leave. in the week since the espn report described the culture inde the program a toxic, the school has become more public and proactive and the board of re-jenns which oversees all public schools in the university of maryland system is now overseeing two reviews. one into the circumsta es surrounding his death. that report is due to be complete next nth. but preliminary findings ledded to maryland accepting responsibility f mistakes made that led to his death. the other investigation initiated by school president wallaceowe is charged with looking into the program's culture. that nfour-perso committee has been given no timetable for completing its report but wil b ale report together board ofre nts. in a statement the board offered insight into why it is more involved. the statement reading our goal is to insure that all system universitiesdi inc umd at
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college park are working to protect the health and safety of every student and foster a supportive culture in which everyone can flourish. they asked the maryland attorney genera s to represent thete in any and all legal claims related to mcmayor's deat potential settlements are for the future. the present is for why andda settling j mcnair died. >> this is a big distraction for players and staff and certainly atrsful start to the season. >> it is. they're trying to carry on. but the most serious thing is mcnair's death. this is something that most likely was avoidable by the school's own admission and something they have to making sure it doesn't happen again in the future. >> thank you. after a stormy evemeng for f us, the showers are coming to an doug kammerer is tracking the possibility of more storms into e weekend. doug, what can we look forward
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to? >> doreen, a lot o us went through severe weather earlier today. 36 report three dozen reports of trees down. into portions of the valley. d.c.etro high and dry.ac shower tivity, a little bit of rain. now tracking more storms back to our west. nd even storms up around the frederick county area. storms in carroll county toward frederick, back towards the winchester area, too. we're tracking these showers as they make their way north and tracng what's coming next. these will enter is the shenandoah valley. we could see those producing lightning overnight tonight. wa till y see what to expect for the weekend. we'll see you back inew a minutes. >> thank you. the people praying together tonight i southeastashington are not related by blood. but they do share a strong and unique bftd the discovery of bury secrets. our jackie bensen explainshy these strangers are uniting.
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>> being the family member of someone who is missing is a small and often very lonely iub. >> this't a blame thing. we're not saying the didn't do their. we're saying what could i have done better. >> most who gathered on wayne place southeast near where the remains were foundn april have missing family members themselves. vernelljefferson, dorothy butts, all three disappeared in 2006. michael muse, former lead vocalist for legendary d.c. band raressence went 0 school with king's brothers. his own s has been missing since 2012. an environmentalist disappeared in 2009. he shared strength and hope with the families of missing women who came forward after the remains were discovered. >> i'm out here because i inow
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th a situation like this, people need help. >> henderson long is the founder of an organization called missing and exploed eastf the river. >> this is about human decency, about expressing love to the community. >> blans with the names of the missere released toward the sky over wayne place along with prayers they would one day bed. fo >> meanwhile, families of the wayne place murder victims have eeen dealing with the d.c. plekd examiner's off getting remains released trying to figure out a way to hold funerals. in southwest washington, jackie bensen, news4. >> thank you. another warning about verifying your uber ride before jumping into the car. poli identifie the man they say posed as an uer driver on u street in d.c. investigators tell us the passenger was beaten and forces to withdraw money from atms. officers believe the suspect is tied to other armed kidnappings.
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>> reporter: good evening. detectives hope someone recognizes the suspect aalls d.c. police. they say he and his alleged acmplice pretend they're part of a ride sharing company. tonight, there's a warrant for an o arrest of of the suspects. this is a picture of 22-year-old jesse benjamin nunn. police say he and a woman shown in this video with him allegedly drove up to a man in the 1300k blocf u street northwest pretending to be a ride share company about a month ago. police say the man got car thinking that he was going to smoke marijuana. instead of lighting up,hey say nunn and the accomplice allegedly robbed him of his wallet, cell phone and credit card. detectives tell us they drove around to atm tz beating him with the gun, forcing him to withdraw cash and then throwingo him of the car in maryland. man wasreated and released from a hospital. police believe nunn and the woman may be related to other
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armed kidnappings that occurred earlier in the summer. companies remind you to check the driver's name, the photo, and the license plateefore you get in the car. in northwest d.c., shomari stone, news4. a special tribute tonight to aretha franklin before tonight's nats game. the team playedpp sniets of some of her biggest smash hits. franklin's family announced a four-dayelebration of her life in detroit beginning august 28th. franklin's b will lie in repose for the public to pay their respects. he funeral and burial will be private. performers are still beingined up for the massive musical tribut her music played to so many audience buzz her roots were in gospel music. she discovered her voice singing in church and h best selling album was "amazing grace." over thead d her music was the sound track for tic
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african-am experience in some ways. music was her activism. >> she did in a way that was quiet andpowerful. look at the afro, the et unapol embrace of her own city of detroit which was being purposed because it was a black city. >> to learn more where franklin's music and her legacy, open up our nbc washington app b leon harris in the newsroom withaking news out of the white house. the west is reporting that documentsg revokven more security clearances of figures who haveit been cral of the president have already been prepared and waiting for his signature. the post reports sayss advis tell president trump he can wait to actn those until the timing suits his agenda. that seems to be what happened on wednesday. coverage of fired trump aidoma row's new book vanished
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practically when the white house announced it voided is brennan's security clearance. some officials fear that is robert mueller maye next. >> i think what the president is doing in part is sending a menacing signal to the prosecutors and the investigators on the mueller team if they continue their investigation, that their rdcurity clearance which they need in to do their job is being put injeopardy. >> and because of that, if mueller or his team los their clearances it could mean the end of the investigation into i russia'sluence on the 2016 election. more than 70 former intelligence officials signed statements blasting trump for trying to stifle fre speech. the president is denying that he's trying to silence critics.e blicans defending him saying people no longer working in the intelligence communityo longer need those securitync cleara. doreen, back to you. >> thank you. new at 11:00, a teenager who pushed her friend off a bridge in washington state now facing
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reckless endangerment charges. 18-year-old taylor smith and 16-year-old jordan holgorsen weren't with friends at a popular recreational area last week. taylor pushed holgorsen off of the bridge roughly a 60-foot drop. hole jer son broke six ribs,pu tured both lungs and multiple internal injuries and cuts. evprosecutors say seral factors were considered when ty decided to press charges are. >> what tant to see happen. y. we look at the strength of the evidence and look at the defendant's maturity level, their age. >> smith could sve up to a year in jail and pay a fine. holgorsen is expected to be on the "today" show" tomorrow morning. insane?you >> a suspect pulls a gun on share's deputiein this video showing the heart stopping
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♪ ♪ ♪ raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens ♪ ♪ bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens ♪ ♪ brown paper packages tied up with strings ♪ ♪ these are a few of my favorite things ♪ ♪ ♪ a war of words today between president trump and the wom who runs the city he lives in. >> d.c. mayor muriel bowser fired back after he called outr di leaders for the soaring costs of trump's planned military parade. >> as mark segraves shows us
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tonight, the pare is off for now. but the glaim blame game is on. >> reporter: this early morning tweet from president donald trump did not sit well with d.c. mayor murie bowser. >> certainly you was offended by the notion that we were kind of goofing the numbers and would exaggerate the numatrs. as not been how we conducted ourselves in dealing with this president or the last or the one before that. >> reporter: since attending this military parade in france earlier thi year, president trump has been planning to have a miller parad here in d.c. but last night, an spokesperson for the department of defense said the parade scheduled for this november has been postponed until sometime next year. then this morning, theresident tweeted that the reason for postponing was the fault of local politicians in d.c. who ho accusef inflating the costs. within an hour, mayor bowser eeted back. yep, i'm the local politician who finally got through to the reality star in th white house
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with the realities of parades and demonstrations in trump america. press reports revealed the projected cost of the parade at $92 million. that includes $21 million the bowser administration estimat for things like police, fire and aparamedics, track contr even enforcing illegal vending laws. >> our costsre about $20 million which is in line with what it costs u toupport his inauguration. so that's what we there this event will cost. >> secretary of defense jim mattis disputed that $92 million price tag. >> whoever told you that is probably smoking something al that's leal ln my state but not in mostthtates. >> idistrict, mark segraves, news4. >> secretary mattis tonight said he hadn't seen the president's tweets and also acknowledged that the $92 million figure could have included other cost considerations. but the secretary stood by his
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comments blasting that dollar figure. we broke down the costs of the proposed military parade. just open up our nbc washington app. >> we're gting a closer look from the body camera of the moment when deputies say a florida man pulled a gun on them during a track stop. >> where is it? >> put the gun down! >> deputies say that man had his fing as wrappedround the gun when he started to get out that's why they acted so quickly. >> you pulled a gun underneath your leg. >> get him out of here right now. >> it's believed the guy may have been trying to commit suicide by cop. he is charged with carrying a concealed weapon and assaulting an officer. radio host struck by lightning and it happened while heas still on the air doing his show. you can see the sync to sports anchor bill michael's shoe there. he was sitting at a metal table
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in milwaukee when the lightning hit during a golfingfinger, it burnt a finger and fried all his gear.li he's f okay now. >> we'll be taking wooden tables to the >> with rubber feet on them. >> that's we have anything like that in our future, doug? >> it was quitezi a out there earlier from the blue ridge west. over three dozen reports o trees down. thank goodness, it didn't come into the metro area their evening on a friday nit. the storms came through 5, 6:00 but sighed offefore hitting d.c. out there right now, highte eratures today. you think it was hot 94.ay? that's not the whole story. 94 quantico. everybody into the 90s. the heat index over 100. tomorrow won't be quite as hot.
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81 right now. stl on the warmide for our area. current temperature 70. gaithersburg 78. about where we've been the last couple nights here. as we look towards the radar, notice back to the north and west, we still have shower activity. some thunderstorms towards carroll county. a couple showers aroundk frederounty in through the martinsburg area and petersburg, west virginia. these are the ones we'll watch. they'll most likely dais theyth move to east. we could still see more shower activity. the martinsburg region, around shepherds town, you may see a couple.do couple of downpour this is all rotating around an oea of low pressure. see the spinr lake erie making its way in across portions of the regio here.
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that means we'll see another chance for showers a thunderstorms, as well. aour by hour, 8:00 a.m., cloudy. most of the a dry in the morning. can't rule out showers but mostly dry. notice all the cloud cover during theay tomorrow. we'll see some sun tomorrow afternoon. close to 90 degrees. we see the chance of showers and thunderstorms develop towards the afternoon and evening. this is 9:00. most models had storms in between 4:00 and 10:00 tomorrow night. just something t tonk about. 89 degrees tomorrow afternoon. warm and humid. scattered storms. alexander drillal towards the marina. if you take a boat out tomorrow, watch out across the region because you mecir know when some up.these storms could pop make sure you download the nbc washington app to monitor rain moving in. 84 on sunday. most of the day dry. 84 monday. onuesday with a 40% chance of storms again.
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then and then, a you on vacation again next week? >> i am. >> the best week of the year here. of the year. >> what do you mean on vacation again? >> again. >> you picked up on that. >> like yad haven't a few days off lately. >> i was gone all of >> thanks, doug. >> coming up, all eyes on max sheers scherzer on the mound for the na. brycets it's a revolution ep.. s
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>> you know field of dreams and all that jazz, wgld say hey, babe, let's keep in touch. for the nationals nothing but nightmares till their four-game losing streak came to an end on ursday in st.louis. in the words of the blue travelers nats hope and pray there's still something left to say asy returnni home tot for doug's favorite hawaighn shirt fans decked out to see max scherzer hoping his teammates can get more run support. he only got one run. it's going to help i promise. bottom of the second, zimmerman going yards. his tenth home run of the season.s give the nationals and scherzer the early 1-0 lead. bottom of the third bryce harper at the dish, two on. he delivers a linelo drivew right. scherzer the bas runner on his horse trying to score from second. he beats the throw home. how about that slide? nats up 2-0 after three.
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nats ace working erl aen often. six vong innings for scherzer. seven strike yous to his flame. martinez goes to the bullpen for the final nine outs. a little bit s of acare in the seventh. the liner to right driving ada eaton. game one with the marlins 8-2. that's good stuf mystics penultimate game of the regular season. i think it means next t last welcomed the l.a. sparks. slow start for the mystics. candace parker dialing long distance. l.a.13-4 lead. 13 points on the night for parker. mid-way through t second mystics charging back. elaine nab a game high 16 points, ten rebounds. to the fourth. let's go to ariel powers. she is going to tie the game with a three-pointer, 10 for 10 for powers off bench. that's power. final four secs. still tiedt 67.
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natasha 1 for 10 so far but hits countsn it a buzzer beater. the mystics move to defeat the l.a. sparks. they're moving to st. elizabeth next year. that was their fal game at capital one arena. regular season winds up on sunday. all right. they should be pumped. e board of re-jenns that oversees all universities in maryland hason takenol over towle investigations in college park. one into the circumstancessu ounding football lineman jordan mcnair's death. the other into the culture of the football program described in an espn report as toxic. d.j. durkin is still the head football coach on ainistrative leave. >> a right. ll right?
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tomorrow news4 helps clear the shelters and match loving pets with fever homes. animal shelters across our area will waive adoption feefor pets spayed, neutered, microchipped and vaccinated. ere areozens of dogs and new familie for also, some turtles, bunnies and guinea pigs, too. guinea pigs, you bring your photo i.d., your children and prepare to fall in love with a new friend. >> check out reen's dog on her facebook page, murphy.
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