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of football maryland team will wear the 79 through his graduation year and he'll be honored. he'll wear 79 sticker and they will be laencased in and a scholarship given in his honor andan offensive linemanna ed after him. >> reporter: a player they all considered a gejole giant. >an was one of the best friends, teammates and roommates that anyonej[ could ever k r. >> in addition there will be a moment of silence of the first two home games of the season. the players say it's so important now more than ever that they havevd the fan suppor. in college park, nicole jacobs. news 4. >> and next on news 4 at 4:00. >> the redskins bringing in one of the nfl's all-time best to help their running back situation. sherree burruss has some break up. ews coming >> vegetables love rain, butm to
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h of a good thing can be bad for your garden. we've got tips on what to do b rightefore the fall harvest. >> and our clearhe shelters event was a hge success this wk, but there's one dog that still needs a home. >> and did you know it is d.c. spirit wk? find out about the week long toast. just hop right
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much rain today, but we need you to get ready for the nxt 24 hours. storm team 4's amelia draper is back in two and a halftoinutes prepare us for tomorrow's weather alert. >> now let's go to some breaking news. the redskins making moves to replenish their backfield after losing derrius guice, and those plans now include a former nfl mvp. sherree burruss working the story from the newsroom. so all days coming to d.c.? bo he is, leon. we'll be talking this all day. veteran running back adrian peterson will be the newest member of the waington redskins. the 33-year-old worke out for the team this morning and reportedly signed a one-year deal with the burgundy and gold. peterson is aseven-time pro bowl selection and was the nfl mvp back in 2012. health and product bon haveeen issues lately. he's played 16 games just once over the last four seaso while appearing in ten games last season for the saints and cardinals. this news is going to be top
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twitter rights on now and current and former redskins players are putting their stp ofpproval on their newest teammate. at the live desk, buerree russ, news 4. >> here's there's something left in the tank there. >> thanks, sherree. >> first lady melania trump sd social media can be an importano l but destructive if used incorrectly. she said that the first step to solving the problem may involve giving kids opportunities to voice their ideas. >> let's face it. most children are more aware of the bnefits and pitfalls of social media than some adults, but we still need to do all we can to provide them with information and tools for successful and safe online habits. >> the first lady has drawn attention and even raised a few
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eyebrows for taking on this issue in light of the president's aggressive use of twitter to berate his foes and names. em >> thanks to all the folks who came out for the rariawide clear e shelter events. more than 400 animals are living in their forever home this breaks my heart. not may among those, this little gu. he's at t animal welfare league of alexandria. he watched one by one his qéihuvh1)/z1@.
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for somems severe st and 1)/z1@. there's going to be a storm team 4 weather alert day during thet oon and evening hours especially when we're monitoring e radar forhe stronger thunderstorms moving through the area. the time line pretty wide. between 3:00 and sock p.m. a cold front will actually move through ring the later evening hours. leading to y rain some flooding and gusty wind that could produce wind damage. i could rle ou some hail tonight and could not rule out tornado.ed the winds are right tomorrow in the atmosphere where we could see a tornado or two spin up. it would be on the low end, but just that that is a concern tomorrow. right now our temperatures are s. the 70s and 80 77 in frederick and 79 in manassas. earlier toda out for a run. started to get that little hint
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of fall in the air or at least that the dog days of summer are coming to a end and we're transitioning to the cooler radar. i'm tracking shortnd down ar the northern neck and extreme southern st. mary's county and calvert county as well. these are trying to move towards he north as we do so they are fizzling out. fast forward though to tomorrow morning because here's 6:00 a.m. and some scottered showers aatt possible so keep that in mind. sctered showers around the midday hours. otherwise it's looking like a mostly cloudy day. as we transition into the afternoon and evening hours, w her are at noon, we'll transition the forecast as well. take a look at 2:30 to 4:00 p.mn we're sbright colors showing up on future weather. that's theor potential some stronger and even severe thunderstorms moving through the area and this is the actual cold front moving through. right around 9:00 p.m. it will start to lower humidity levels
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and it re on wednesday sets us up for gorgeous days on thursday and friday, but tomorrow the kidsly defini want to be prepared for some ain and even storms as they are heading off thool so at the bus stop there's a chance for as few shout there. otherwise patchy fog and temperatures around 72. by recess 're around0. a high of 84 degrees and scattered showers out there during recss so it could be an indoor recess and thunderstorms out there for pickup and the after school activities migh need to go indoors because of the threat of thunderstorms in the forecast. on eswey, humidity levels lower throughout the day with a chance for a someternoon showers at about 30%. thursday and friday, leon and susan, they are looking fabulous. low 80s and low humidity. plenty of sunshine right now, and even the weekend looking really nice. no rain chances on saturday or sunday. >> love it, thanks, amelia. >> this pa weekend were fabulous for folks associated with "crazy rich asians."
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high expectations going in. >> apparently for good reason. "crazy rich asians" scored a golden open at the box office and ted hoover joins and kit hoover joins us from "access." we have a smash hit on our hands. >> ii don't know if you s but i went to see it this weekend. "crazy rich asians" killed it at the box office, 45 million over t weekend alone. what's crazy it makes it the first romantic comedy in three e years to with over $20 million and the first major hollywood film since "the joy luck clb" which w 25 years ago to feature an all-asian cast and direcer. tar henry golding who is so good in this hopes that all the film's success is gng to be game-changer. >> it's not highlighting, like
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o i want to do a asian movies and i want to be the asian leading man. it want to be a leading ma in general, and that's the stage that we need to get to as storytellers is the fact that we're not driven by stereotype. >> got to go see the hevie. ower of seeing someone like you is i think the tone of this, and that wascertainly true for 5-year-old olivia. you guys got to check her out. she dressed in aini version of that blue marquesa gown. look how cute she wore. >> how cute is that. >> reporter: have both of you seen it or not? >> saw therailer but it does look so funny. my husband and i were talkingbo it this weekend. >> reporter: i took my mom, my husband and kids and loved it, a smash hit. we had a great time. >> what's on "access" again tonight, kit?
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>> reporter: ben affleck, did y'all see that, with shook now with shanna, this 22-year-old "playboy" plmimate, s may, a big month and my big thing is fine, ben, why are you g her to nobu the hollywood hot spot out here. you know there's gng to be paparazzi and we're breaking that all down and talking a lot about "crazy rich s"asiaand great stuff. ghat else is on there? give me somethood. that's all i can remember. >> don't peoe go to nobu to be seen? >> he what he was doing. >> reporter: jennifer garner gets her star on the hollywood walk of fame and she's out with her three kids and that's really sweet, and one more thing. it's comin to me now. so, jennifer garner was on "alias" back in the day with bradley coopy', and, l, you cannot even recognize him. you have to tune in to see if you recognize him. he looks like ellen/kato kaelin.
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>> he's actually directing a new movie. her new movie kicks b she does back in her days with "alias" so it's really fun to see. i love the flashback. >> >> you go flashback on me you don't recognize me at s all it's great. >> thanks, kit. have a good one. >ake care. nd a new challenge for drivers. >> we'll tell you where you'll need to keep your speed down in northern virginia. >> after all sf themer rain we will show you how to get your garden back on track.
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and we'rewing breaking news coming out of northern virginia where police arrested r man f threatening a mosque. >> so this happened in springfield last night. news 4's scott mafoarlane lowing the latest at the lieu of desk for us. scott? >>eporter: this isoming in. they are saying the man threatened to kll everyone he came in contact with and refused to let people inside the mouue onic road in springfield. we just received a picture of skhan. officey he also rammed three parked cars with his own car last night, including one that was occupied. police say when an officer d, arrie sped up towards the officer and then jumped out of the car wher policested him. investigators learned that khan
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also forced people ve as he threatened them. khan faces an bunch of charges this case, including destruction of property. nobody was injured in the incident. our julie carey is working the story and a live report coming up in minutes. >> thank you, scott. >> president trump escg his attacks on special counsel robert mueller. >> a also speaking against john brennan and another ex-investigation member. >> blayne alexander is here to break it all dn for us. >> reporter: let's start with the attacks from president trump. they came via twitter which set up a rathe interesting and unlikely split screen. muile he was using that platform to insultler and former cia chief john brennan his wife,ir lady melania trump, was speaking at aonference against cyber bullying. president trump intensifying his
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tack on the russia investigation and special counsel robert mueller calling him disgraced and discredited leading a teamf angry dems looking to impact the election. it comes as the "new york times" reports white house attorney done mcgahn spent 30 hours speaking to them voluntarily but not talking about it today. meanwhile, suort continues to grow for former cia chief john brennan, a vocal critic of the president whose security clearance he revoked more than 175 former officials their names to a list denouncing president trump's action as a tool to silence his critics. today on twitter president trump calling brennan the worst cia director in history. the president's online onslaught coming at first lady melania trump said this about social media during a cyber bullying conference >> it can be used in many positive ways but can only be destructive and harmful whenñy"
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used incorrectly. >> also today, the president's ersonal attorn rudy giuliani trying to explain thisqçów3 exc on "meet the press" about the . muler. >> that'syo si because it's somebody's version of the truth, not thexd truth. he didn't have añr - conversati >>ót( truth is truth. i don't mean -- >> no,x(c% it isn'txd truth.qi] truthjfjf isn't truth. >>ñr giuliani tweeting today he was trying to make a point about he said she said scenarios. >> reporter:ñi and back to thos security clearances. theouresident is thinking a revoking at least nine more, d' justice department and today h# found himselfe1aught in the president's twitter crosshairs. back to you. >> all right. thank you sormuch. blaynexdxd alexander, talks?nm soowk" brought you last week. a man accused of setting his pregnant girlfriend on fire is k"]! he'll be qreleased.clear la week a judge delayedq the
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head back to england. she was on the upper deck oñ( a ship thisxdxd weekend when she overb sard into the adriatic. the ship was heading from croatia to venice, italy. friendsi] arted the crew, and they circled back. the qwoman,s, get th treadedxd water for ten hours overnightñoñ ip found coast guard s her and got her out of theho cfo water.xdñia5 successfullw"s in the water for ten hours ucl these ued me. >> her yoga, fitness and singinr helped hq survive. the water was also calm and all? >> yeah. >> the whole time --x:xo c doou o survive the fall. >> i don't know. >> i'd just beko freaked out thinking sharks areoing to >> god love her. good for her. >> g%!h. > now on friday, we told y about the impact over too much rain on virginia's wine croop. >> butuch rain is alsofá affecting your backyard vegetable garden.
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tips toi]ñi earn a green shums n ti c weeks. >> amelia draper outside now. she's got some advice f you. hey, a-ó%9hr( guys. &&háhp has% been ohe of wettest mid-julys to mid-augusts in our area, and lot of you have been writing to me onok facend twitter saying what &háhp &hc% figured we're asked thexd exper. michael, talk to me a little bit about what canou do or wh based onall the rain we've had so far? >> thanks so muchjf for having on. >> a lot of people who planted early vegetables gardens like the aprilnd may time frame have had issuesi] and have been hitfá by the rainfall. a lot of people that planted a little bit later like, you know, mid-june, early june, some of them have gotten awayçó prettyc n and haven't hade1q nearlyxd te
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problems. one of the things if you've had success, reap the rewards andçó harvest the fruit and if you're supposed to rain pretty heavily like you said earlier, maybe you go yahead and cutur losses as ear have more issues and you geted sta for your fall planting. with that fall planting ba d on how mucinçóxd we've had. >> absolutely. >> let's say this has happenedñó next year and we have a real rainy season. weather from ruining your things i advocate %am=%1xd preparations in terms making sure you'reñr consta ly adding organic matter. add othert( things that will happen withfáqñr drainage. things th will help significantly. >> michael has a class coming up, gardening for dummies 101. when ist( that >> inseptember, check outq our garden center website for all the s.
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>> that sounds like i would need to take the gardening for dummies 101classes. >> i could provide you with a dummy. >> i just -- i did not have a green thump the i guess i can blame it on the rain then. >> thanks, you >> well, she is the best gymnast in the world. >> andnbq talk about simone bi. he's synonymous withñit( the cr gold,rhebut last night made an even bigger statement in this color. >> it's gorgeous. >> and we'll show you inside the brand-new public school in the district just for girls. >> as your kids head backñir,)= school safety is on the minds of a lot of parentsñi especially wt it come school shootings. >> tonight, bulletproof backpacks, do they really work, backpacks, do they really work,
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atop the u.s. gymnastics wori] and she made a statementq gettig there. ord fifth red hy÷ r straight xdall-around championsp at the trials in boston this weekend and did italin a t designed.a5xd she said the teal/mint color was for the hundreds ofñi gymnastic peers who suffered abuse at biles considers herself among the survivors. she stands with all victims and thinks it's special tofá unite people. to slow down. >> that's right. >> ju aheadhere, why dvers on a3w significant stretch of bustling route 1 in alexandria asy out route 1 in alexandria there. >> and we've got some really niceçó weather in the forecast t not bere we get hiwith more rain. the weather7oo alert we've
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25 miles an hour along route 1 near the busy pomac yard shopping area. transportation reporterdam tuss tells us why the city believes it wasry necessa. >> for a lot of drivers they say 25 miles ahour, and it's going to be tough to do. take a look at the sign right here. 25 miles an hour is the new speed limit along this stretch of route 1. signs, signs, and everywhere the signs tell the story. >> route 1. >> 25 now, i know, i'm not happy about rit. >>orter: nearly 40,000 cars a day ride along this stretch of route 1 and for many drivers like matt klieman let's just say this is going to be an adjustment. >> i mean, youknow, it's like, you know, you go 40, 50, you know, and it feels like you're obeying the traffic laws and you over.ut you're 15 not a good thing. >> reporter: a lot of drivers will have to tap the brakes here often. this is what it was like as we
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downained 25 miles an hour the road. car after car passing by us. hillary orr is the deputy director of transportation with the city of alexandria. >> one of the reasons we chose route 1 is with all the development and the changes and quarter over the past few years the street is already declined for a slower speed. >> reporter: ere's plenty of newer construction leading tode pestrians crossing the street. what wasnce more of a boulevard is becoming a neighborhoodal street. , this is a story playing out across the entire region. >> i tnk it's a good idea to put 25, you know. >> reporter: and a heads up. police say they are going to be out enforcing the new speed limit so ease up if you don't want a ticket. in alexandria, adamtuss, news 4. >> and we're keeping our eye on the roads here. we've got a breaking situation re. chopper 4 is out over southbound at the dale city a fully loaded tanker truck overturned there a short time ago. u see it there laying on its
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side. the good news is the tanker did not leak. e truck was the only vehicle involved in this accident, and the driver did suffer some minor injuries. as you can see rightnow, that ramp is closed. southbound traffic is moving ther it's still open, but one lane is being closed right there at the accident scene. the tankerr is not going to be moving moved away from there until it's been drained of all the gasoline. >> wow. imagine how lucky they are, fully load, and it didn't leak or catch fire. >> exactly.a could have beet worse than that. angry threats at a lal sque lead to a anrrest. >> now a virginia man is facing charges for terrorizing members there, and jim and wendy are in more of that. th >> news of this story coming into our newsroom a little more than an hour ago. >> that man is facing charges after ramming cars a parking lot and threatening to kill everyone inside. >> and our julie carey is gathering reaction this afternoon, and we are learning
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some things about this suspect. >> also new at 5:00. you might know her as a reality tv star, but this 25-year-old is now the youngest black woman in the countryo own a medical marijuanadi ensary. >> and her business is come to prince george's county. >> tracee wilkins caught up with her. we'll see you about the stories and more when we deal with you in ten min. >> see you guys here in just a bit. >> thank you so much. and we have to get through kind of a bunch of icky weather f a gorgeous weekend again it looks like. >> it's looki like a fantastic weekend right now. >> it's only monday. >> i a know. eady looking for the weekend. i am. >> and tomorrow though is going to be a storm team 4 weather alert decause there are going to be stronger, potentially even severe thunderstorms impacting us during the afternoon and evening hour right now most us are dry with some hazy sunshine out there and teeratures around 80 degrees. 81 right now in washington and 78 degrees in college park and
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78 out at dulles. we'l have overnight lows in the 60s and low 70s and most of us are dry because t we'recking isolated showers down around the northern neck and southern maryland. this rain north of calvert beach area and most of us stay dry tonight but for tomorrow take a look at yourain outlook. we have widespread rain and storms in the forecast. showersre possible during the morning hours and then we will have sttered showers and thunderstorms around for thern afn and evening hours. there's the chance for some showers out there on wednesday afternoon, but only a chance right now and then we keep thursday, friday and saturday completely dry and not just completely dry but take a look at this. . humidity levels this should be a little bit higher in that oppressive area. as we look to wednesday they come down from oppressive and still a littlut bit humid there. especially during the morning. humidity falls throughout the day on wednesday andrs by ty it is completely comfortable. feeling a little bit like fall out there on thursday and friday, but talking about the
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severe weather threats tomorrow. it's going to be heavy rain and gusty winds and for the biggest concerns i can't rule out hail and ansoted weak tornado, too. notice some time here between 3:00 and sock p.m., sot the bus stop tomorrow some patchy fog with a chance for a few showers out there and 72. by recess the temperature around 79 degrees, and if you're grabbing lunch out tomorrow, you probably want to bring that ermtt werers ul mb and even a thunderstorm at that poin pickup for the kids, dealing with storms and the temperature around 84 degrees, and some of those storms, again, tomorrow likely o the strong and even severe side. the humidity levels are lower throughout the day on wednesday with a high of 86. highs in the low 80s on thursday and friday and the weekendor coble on saturday and mid-80s. hot and we'll keep it drysu on ay with a high on 90 and if you're wondering if we're done with the 90ots, just yet. not only do we get the high at 90 but next week the highs in the low to mid-90s. >> thanks, amelia. er
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>> a nor virginia scout is taking on an environmental challenge during a rare award for conservation. >> that's right. >> life scout john fung is leading an effort to clear invasive craft from fairfax county. the plant has overtake the natural vegetation and is damaging the environment so this project hits home for the westfield high school senior. >> since fourth grade i've been over here and i've got a really wpersonal connectioh the park and besides that a lot of people in fairfax county will actually come here for school tripshend such. >> park is located along west ox road near centerville road. volunteers will be back here this saturday pilling out more spilled grass. if you would like more information search cleanup in our nbc washingtonpp. the award is named after william
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hornaday, the founder of the national zoo. >> the lazy hazy days of summer are just about over. >> thousands of kids are back ii class, includi a brand-new public school just for girls. >> the news 4 i-team is looking into the safety of school zones looking at new ways to better protect kids and drivers. stay with us. >> first a terrible opening weekend for kevin spacey's movie "billionaire boys club." it me 126 decimal zero zero dollars. ey are saying less than six humans went to see it in the eight theaters it oped in last weekend. the film was made two and a half years ago before allegations of misconduct game out against the former "house of cards" star. a weirdoment in vegas with sarah jessica parker and a
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14-year-old son. sjp was not having the filming. >> put the phone down. >> he deleted the video and then recovered it and posted it on this strange blog site and the eagles have beat out michael jackson and their greatestit album beat "thriller" for the most purchased record of all ecme bringing in online streaming, hardd sales and digitalbe download nrs so the eagles are now the new top selling record in our history. withour celebrity y
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school. >> yes, it's your day. >> reporter: the brand-new bods. >> so gou're happy. >> reporter: pencils and fun new friends, and for the little ladies of miss mccoy's kindergarten class. >> beautiful, it's looking good. >> reporter: another first to look forward to. d.c. public school'sirst all girls school. >> you guys like school? >> yeah. >> reporter: why do you like school? >> because it's so cool. >> it is so fun. >> reporter: the excel academy says they hope team power girls so theyon't just become students but sisters. >> that i can be that person who looks like them, works you know, talks like them, who, you know, works hard and they also see an example and they sound the same, right? >>he girls will goo excel through the 8th grade. >> good job. >> reporter: and the school will focus on things like science and math. >> it's a change of narrative of the school because it waed consid poor performing school so we want to make sure that we flip that around-for-our young ladies. they are absolutely adorably
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cute and i'm already having the best time. i'm having the best time. it's the first day, not even lunch yet. >> reporter: and speaking of lunch. >> do you feel excited?>> eporter: one thing these little learners are excited about. >> guess what i'm going to have for school to eat? i'm going to have a sanreich. sandwich really cool. >> reporter: in southeast, aimee cho, news 4. >> you did it! right now at 5:00, an atv takeover, from popping wheelies assault ng traffic to and robbery. >> what is this? >> reporter: new vid the moment a pack of riders overwhelmed a clerk at a local station. >> a letter to the faithful. pope francis on the catholic church and how it shoulde handl latest report about sexual abuse among the clergy, and what d.c.'s archbishop is doing about it here at home. >> and how the teammates of the maryland football playerdiho after a practice plan to honor him this year.
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and the redskins sign a former nfl mvp. "news 4 at 5:00" starts now. >> you have -- you are bound to have seen them. they swam doing tricks and dodging traffic. >> there they are, folks, and that's just the beginning. emingly out of nowhere they come upon you, and then there is the noise. >> reporter: we're talking about those atv riders that inve our area every once in a while, usually in the summer, and itga happened this weekend. >> and the t residents sayhis is not just a nuisance. this is dangerouser there three arrests in the district, a few crashes. at least o report of vandalism. meagan fitzgerald learned there s even a robbery. meagan? >> reporter: yeah, wendy, that's exactly right. arlington police say this robbery happened at the
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