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xfinity mobile. it's simple. easy. awesome. click, call or visit a store today. we are a nation of laws, the rule of law apply. >> some of the president's men take a fall. as trump's former campaign manager and his former lawyer are found guilty. >> tonight, the one big thing that couldh stick w president
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trump long after today. >> that could be the beginning of what i think is a long t nightmare f president. >> and storm team 4 not done tracking rain. after a o day downpours and flooding. >> and flood warnings are still in effect for large part of the area. i'll have the latest. plus how today's heavy rain and thunderstorms will impact your s wednday. >> news4 at 11:00 ebegins with breaking news. where is the collusion. >> you know, they're still looking for collusion. where is the collusion? >> president trump playing to his base tightn west virginia. he and his supporters not swayed by the felon convictions and the guilty pleas from high level trump associates. today trump's former campaign manager was found guilty of eindt felony charges that was not the worst news that the president received this afternoon. >> there was an aftershock, a big one that is still rocking the legal and political world tonight from the president'sfo
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er personal attorney and fixer michael cohen. eight leaded guilty to counts of his own today. that includes two charges of campaign finance violations that directly implicate the president. cohen's plea never namesen pres trump but it acknowledges payments to two women for the purpose of influencing the 2016 election. one of the payments said to be in coordination with and repaid by the >> as for paul manafort, the jurors convicted him on eight coun related to financial andtach fraud. the judge declared an mistrial on ten other counts. this was the first trial prosecuted by the office of special counsel robert mueller >> our tea coverage begins with news4's leon harris and president trump's response to all of there tonight in wes virginia. leon? >> reporter: a lot of people were looking for that response. president trump flew tfeeest virginia to the campaign for a senate candidate but many were saysing on what he mig
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about the stunning it news of the day. the president never mantioned paulort or michael cohen by name. check it out. >> where is the collusion? you know, they' still looking for collusion. where is the collusion? we want to find thecollusion. >> and that was it. the closest the president came to talking about today's news lasted less than a minute. but he spoke more than an hour about the importance of the midterm elections and electing republicans to keep control of the house and senate. now, when he landed in west virginia earlier tonight, an the president did not res and to questions tossed to him about cohen but he did defend manafort. >> i feel very badly for paul manafort. again, he worked for bob dole. he worked for ronald reagan. he worked for many, many people. i had nothing to do with russian collusion. we continue the witch hunt. thank you very much. >> and while that's playing out in west virginia, video you'll
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see right now just came in. this is a projection protest of trump hotel in d.c., the words guilty and criminal among those plastered along the side of the front entrance by some kind of projection. meanwhile, new tonight, former trump adviser steve bannen tells bloomberg news nobody's mid elections became a referendum on impeachment. beak, it's going to be up an 0 or down vote. he's hoping that encourages can trumpe supporters to come out strong. >> leon,hanks so much. michael cohen's attorney wasn't holding back today.wi he very pointed, sharp words tonight for the president. >> lanny davis tweeted a statement making it very clearer who cohenen refd in his plea deal when he spoke about the candidate. davis said cohen "stood up and testified under oath that donald trump directed him to commit a crime by making payments to two
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women for the principal purpo of influencing an election." to continue the quote, if those payments were a crime for michael cohen, then why won't they be crime for donald ump? end quote. >> the president's lawyer rudy guiliani spoonding tonight by saying there is no allation of wrongdoing against the president.rn in the goment's charge against cohen. and he says cohen's areions ect a pattern of lies and dishonestityid with both s digging in,re he's nbc news political director chuck todd on what changed today. slus. >> i think there's one big thing that changed. the president of the united states was accused of committing a felony by his long-time former personal la'ser. thhe big thing. and yes, the oth stuff matts, too.al his personawyers an admitted felon, campaign manager a xwiked felon all happened on the same day. if you're to say of all this
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mess courthouse to ,courthou what is the mark left? it is the fact that the president of the united states was acced of committing a crime. yes, it's a campaign finance cr'se. but that that could be the beginningf what i think is a long nightmare for the president involving all things michael cohen. the paul manafort stuff is serious. it shows it you mueller's got plenty to g on here and it isn't a witch hunt. if you're the prenident t, it's the michael cohen news that has it you absolutely petrified. >> there is a lot more to unwrap on this story tonight. look for continuing coverage tomorrow morning on the "today" show a on news for today starting at 4:00 a.m. switching gears a bit and headingoutside, record rainfall today and it is still coming down this evening. check out the scene on northwest.t avenue in this is around 9:00 tonight. if you were caught without an umbrella, you were soaked in fconds. androm our white house camera, plenty of lightning to go along
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with the.ain showe >> we saw some flooding this afternoon too from fairfax county to d.c. and prince gege's county. cars stuck in high water that didn't recede for hours. amelia draper has us covered. still some watches and warning out there. >> i'm still tracking flood warnings out there and still tracking some take a look at storm team 4 radar. the most intense activity up around loudoun county. on into parts of reston and gaithersburg. along 270 still dealing with rain. this is the last batch of rain of moving through the area overnight tonight. it will be out of here tomorro morning. but tomorrow morning, some of these flood warnings are still in efct. for instance, this one in loudoun county goes till 4:45mon the ing. remember, you never want to drive through a flooded roadway. we're tracking flood issues in parts of prince william,
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fairfax, loudoun, montgomery, frederick, carroll, washington county and parts of vest wa. a lot oflood warnings are in effect through the early morning hours.ur 76 degreesntly right now. maybe an isolated shower out there or during the morning hours. for most of us, looking dry. though.umd partly sunny with a temperature around 82. windy coming up. mohr on how today's thunderstorms and rain will impact the forecast tomorrow with humidity andain chances at 11:18. >> thanks amelia. a d.c. communi is reeling after another cld is shot less than a milere from whe a 10-year-old girl was rdered. in both cases can witnesses say in suspects drove off and both cases there have been no arrests. new at 11 can:00, jackie bensen oke to vincent gray about the two shootings in ward 7. >> reporter: the 100 block of 56th street southeast where a 6-year-old girl was shot when
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someone sprayed with gunfire the jeep she was sitting in with her mother and older sister mondaye evening than a mile from where another little gl was shot about six weeks ago under similar circumstances. mckay yao willsond d her injuries. the little girl shot on 56th street is alive, traumatized and in pain. >> apparently she was very excited being back in school and nowraatized for having been shot. >> vincent gray repre 7 where both shootings took place. >> we can't accept the inevitability of guns in our midst. andne w to do more not only working with our police officers but working with every agency, everyt leader in the distr of columbia. >> news4's pat collins spoke to the randmother of the 6-year-old girl we're notin sh her face and altering her voice. >> boom, boom, boom, like
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sounded like a machine gun but a grenade at the same time. >> she lived right where the shooting happened. shock turned to horror when she realized her preciou granddaughter had been shot. >> you saw whahappened. what went through your heart? >> police are looking for the get away vehicle described as an odor model acura or lexus with a wing on the back and the license plate in the front windshield. jackie bensen, news4. there are new delopments in the death of a university of maryland football player.gh to the father of jordan mcna says the university's president should not be fired. president wallace loh, and athletic director damon evans visited the family to apologize last week for the death. today, mcnair's dad, marty mcnair said in a statement that lo displayed decency and humanity last week. the family's attorney reiterated
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that feeling today. >> family feels very strongly mafter having with dr. lo that they appreciate his leadership and want it tot continue they think that is the clearest, strongest most efficient path to uncovering the facts. >> jordan mcnaiie in june after his family says he suffered a heat stroke weeks earlier during teamwork yous. several coaches including head football coach d.j. durkin now on paid leave pending an investigation. an undocumented immigrant has been charged with killing tu iowa collegent molly tibbetts. during questioning with police with her death, christian rivera told detectives he remembers approachinn her, eve running beside her but allegedly tells police he became angry when she threatened to call 911. he said he blacked out and doesn't remember what happened next. >> i can just tell you that it seemed that he followed her and
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seemed toe drawn to her on that particular day. he for whatever reason, chose to abduct her. >> rivera admits to finding tibbets bleeding in his trunk and covering her body with cornstalks.s tibbet had been missing for more than a month after she went for a run. >> a local police chief answering questions about a deadly police shooting. ghext at 11:00, one question neighbors say has not been answered all summer. tre's a new amazon facility opening in maryland that could mean faster delivery that could mean faster delivery for all of
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more than two months after a deadly police shooting in montgomery county, some community members are not satisfied with the answers they've gotten about why it happened. e cleared the s officer who fired the s of any criminal charges and police have already released the body camera video. but as news4's shomari stone reports tonight, there's one investigation that's still not over. providence. big man. >> body video shows police officer badgudar classing white on june 11th. >> i do not want to shoot you. >> reporter: had the encounter eventunds with the officer shooting and killing white. the state attorney's office ruled the shooting was
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justified. sidique lived near robert white and wondered what went wrong. >> seemed like a very nice guy. >> i knew robert white. he walked by my house several days a week. we chaed often. >> tonight, white's neighbors demand to know what led up to the shooting. >> i'm tcurious. y plet which an panel. >> you saw the man walking. why did he stophim. >> reporter: the chief can't answer that question because the officer is under investigation. >> so our iernal investigation is just beginning. the questions like why did stop him in the first place, the questions like why didn't he just let him go are questions bthat we wille asking the officer. > officer bajudar told investigators that he was drawn toeobert white be encounteredim because white had a ripped shirt and abruptly moved his right hand to the right si of his body. >> we have an unformed african-american man shot and killed by police. people expectancies.
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>>or while the crowd waits f answers they will have another meeting after the internal affairs investigation is over. in silver springs, shomari stone, news4. >> we are getting a first look inside a massi new amazon fulfillment center the size of 138 football fields, 1500 employees will work alongsidebo rod to help fulfill your amazon orders. the center will ship mostly to customers between richmond and new york. up and runng by the holiday season giving you more access to items is eligible for that same day or wup day delivery. >> just what we need to drive us all into holid debt. >> yeah. >> we only have one or two more days and then beautiful air. >> absolutely. tomorrow is our transition day to better weather. hints of fall in the air out there on thursday and friday. but we're not done with the 90s just yet. look at your weather headlines. i'm still tracking rain and
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thunderstorms till about 2:00 a.m. tomorrowe kind of transition to better weather, humidity levels drop throughout the day. a chance forn isolated shower. it's not all that bad. but it is spectacular thursday, iday, and saturday. humidity not an issue. n enty of sunshine. highse low 80s on thursday and friday. you can open up windows,ive e ac a break during the overnight hours, as well. but the 90s are backy on sun and the humidity starts to creep in sunday into henday. here's latest on storm team 48 radavy very h rainfall impacting parts of fairfax, loudoun and montgomery county. lightning. you're definitely noticing the rain, hearing the rain. this i moving off toward the east. you can see around leesburg, gaithth gaths gaithersbu. we don'tave anything back to the west moving through. but flood warnings are still in
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effect for many places in ra and maryland through the early moing hours. remember, if you do come across the flooded road tomorrow morning, turn around, don't drown. we saw a few swiftwater rescues this afternoon from the heavy rains that moved through the area.etro the timing with future weather, had is midnight. about 30 minutes from now, still tracking some rain through the metro area. we 2:00 a.m., it's off to the east. top future weather at 8:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. across clouds and sun the area. notice the isolated shower. but it is pretty small chance as we mov toward thefternoon hours. looking pretty nice. we'll have mostly to partly sunny skies. the day starts off at 72. by lunchth time, i low 80s. not all that bad out there if you have to rununn errand a lunchtime, you can have lunch outgoorpz a high of 87. it will feel hot. as the kids get home, 81 droids.
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the humid at this time levels lower throughout the day. a bit after breeze. on thursday and friday, we start off in e mid 6s. that's in the district. that's 50s in the suburbs. low 80sor a high on thursday. mid 80s on friday. mid 80s on saturday. >> you're thinking maybe it's fall and we won't see more 90s. not thecase sunday and then all of next week, we have high temperatures in low to mid-90s. high humidity levels but what this forecast doesn have after pretty much 2:00 a.m. any chances f rain. i don't think we've said that since about july 15th. >> there you e go. >>n dry out. we deserve it. >> we did. >> mow our lawns. >> come up, the newest member of the burgundy and gold already turning heads at practice. >> we've gotth
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is the xfinity sportsdesk. >> well, with p thessure off, they're ahead. >> they are aheadight now. while we're on break, it got reallyxcing. maybe a celebration drink we'll have. m borrow f church hill, the nationals are a riddle wrapped inside a mystery wrapped inside an enigma. m builtionals are a t for contention on the verge of collapse and within an e to the future, a trade away, daniel murphy and matt adams while still clinging to the present. rain cuds lovering over is the last couple of weeks. an hour and 42 minute rain
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delay. then the skyed cfoared, their unes turned. andrew stephenson what a way to say hello. deep tocenter, gone. two-run shot, his first career home run. tied at four. very next batter a monster home run to right. his solo shot gives the nashs the leave. zimmerman had a homer and a 7-4 lead in the earlier today, matt adams back to the cardinals. he pent spoes ofis career homers, 48 uis, 18 rbis his lone season here. the nats received cash him.derations for the cubs sent a prospect and player to be named later inex change for daniel murphy. he'seen batting .324 in augu. iched things ended differently in d.c. >> very disappointed in myself that it kind of came to this point would be the easiest w
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escribe it. no ill will what soever. it's unfortunate a this was option i was surprised. sad. t that's baseball. it wasn't anything malicious in nature. >> all right. adrian peterson at practice wearing the number 26 jersey. he's looking to problem dbters wrong. at 33 years old. saying he's slowing down. the redins raved about his workout and say that's why they signed him not because of the influence o his former teammate isent williams. >> with influence, we would have all sooners. i'm justkidding. it was important since he knows him so well. we do listen to tnt quite a bit when it comes to that. >> we're talking about adrian peterson. you don't need aav from anybody. he speaks for himself. >> i knew opportunitypr would esent itself. at the end of the day, god's
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willing, stay healthy, the guys upront and you know stay healthy, as well. i know that i'll be contribute in a big way in the running game. >> see? that's the way you start your monday. adrian peterso. in to nates are leading and wendy is lking about hot toddies in commercial break. >> it's a tuesday. >> you started your hot toddies. >> it'stuesday,
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can you believe it, ben's chili bowl turning 60 tomorrow. >> and a big part of the restaurant is the mural on the wall of the building, the latest designnvled just last spring featuringome of the most prominent african-american who have tied to d.c. including o beloved jim vance. the artist who brought it to life has aer to to tell withll the images. >> with harriet tubman, you know, holding a torch. that's the title of this mural, he torch." it's like it starts with her and trickles downo the current. >> it's going to be a day full c events tomorrow. ben'sli bowl turning 60. ben's owners holding a block party and a big guy la at the lincoln theater to the honor the cofounder virginia ali. our coverage starts tomorrow morning on "newstoday." get yourself some chili dogs and
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