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why this year may be different for some local students. >> news 4 at 4:00 begins with breaking news. et's get right to that breaking news. a woman and child struck by a orthwest washington. >> jackie benson just arrived on the scene. what can you tell u now? >> reporter: well, we want to show you what's going on. you can see metro transit pndice officers d.c. police officers here on the scene, where you can see that e-6 bus is stopped. they're actually talking to some witnessesnse. now, in regard to this collision, i have some good news. we understand that the 18-year-old woman who was struck, whoas with a 4-year-old child, botgoof them are ing to be okay. the child, i d't know whether it's a little boy or a little girl, described as just having abrasions, scrapes from hitting the ground. the woman's condition, she'ss8 yeold, i understand. g.little more serious but nonlife-threaten what happens in a situation like
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this is obviously they have to document this scene very, very closely, figure out exactly what happened. we all know metro busses have cameras. hopefully that will, you know, help them understand exact what's going on. if you take a live look now at what i'm showing you here, we're going to show youhe bus and our photographer is going to show youthe bus and that the bus is actually stopped in the crosswalk here i the hash marked crosswalk. so you can see all of be part of the investigation into a collision that happened just a short te ago here. two people struck, an 18-year-old woman, a 4-year-old boy -- excuse me, a4-year-old child who was with her. both of them expected to beay we're live in northwest washington. back to you. >> that is the best part. th're going to b okay. thank you, jackie. jackie bensen reporting live. stay with news 4. we'll stay on top of that breaki story off afternoon
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long, folks. let's tn to double trouble for president trump. >> michael cohen hit with a subpoena for a state investigation into the trump foundation. >> this one day after cohen implicated him in a campaign financeti violaon. the president took to friendly territory to plead his case. >> did you kw about t payment? >> later on i knew. later on. >> all of this as the president lashes out again on twitter. blayne alexander joins us now with the very latest. blayne? >> it certainly seems clear there isore t come from both sides. after that extraordinary plea yesterday, today the president's team is pushing back, the white house saying repeatedly that p president trums not facing any charges as the president works to discredit his one-time confidant. michael cohen, the president's one-time attorney and clean man, already spilling a lot about his former boss and it appears he is not done yet. >> michael cohen has told me that he's going to tell the truth to whoever asks him,
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whether it be a congressional committee, a prosecutor or somebody in washington. >> reporter: cohen facing prison time for campaign finance violatio, admitting he was directed by donald trump to pay hush money to w twoen whose stories of affairs could have derailed his campaign. >> in american story, i don't know how many times a president of the united states sitting has been accused of a felony by prosecutors. >> reporter: the president today telling fox business he did not know about the payments until later. >> my first question, when i heard about it, was did they come out of the campaign? because that could be a little dicey. they didn't come out of the campaign. >> reporter: today on twitter, comparing cohen to former campaign manager paul manafort, who was convicted on eight federal counts and who refused wrote.k, the president such respect for a brave man. now for both, questions of a possible presidential pardon. cohen's camp says, no way. >> not onlyots he n hoping for it, he wld not accept a on
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pard >> reporter: potentially a different response from manafort, facing years in federal prison and anooner trial next. and cohen's attorney has set up a website to raise money for cohen and his family. in less than oneday,leon, that website brought in more than $54,000. back to you. >> very interesti,. thank you blayne alexander. susan, over to you. that's right. well, within the past hour, arlington national cem-oery rened to the public after shutting down this morning for a bomb threa o cemeteicials tell us the threat involved the entire site, not just one particular ndarea,o huds of staffers and law enforcement had to comb through the massive y624-acre prope before giving an all-clear. funerals, though, at the cemetery were allowed to procdd. we are tol the cemetery has 10,000 visitors ery day. a catholic high school named after cardina donald worrell is changing its name. the school just north ofl
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pittsburgh w now simply be known as north catholic high earlier this week the sign out front had been vandalized. after a pennsylvania grand jury riport ont sex abuse that report accuses the cardinal of being part o a cover-up, an accusation he has denied. the school's board of trustees asked that his name be reoved so would no longer be a distraction. calls for justice this afternoon after a young father from maryland was gunned down in broad daylight. >> his son is turning 1 year old in just a couple of weeks. he was shot and killed earlier this month. >>ews 4's meagan fitzgerald joins us live where the community is rallying around his family. meagan? >> reporter: yeah, susan and leon. friends and family are expected to gather just behind me here for a candlelight vigil tonight. that's the same location where lamont was gunned down. after that they say they're going to walk to the rec center that he never made it to that
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his mother tells me she's doing this because she wants the community to know that her son's memory lives on. it's been two weeks since 24-year-old lamont adair was gunned down in broad while walking for a rec center near grieg stree police say they've been aggressively investigating and they know adair was targeted but so far no arrests have been made. >> come on. go to sleep. >> whatever it- may have been >> reporter: meanwhile, hid mom darlene and other family mbers are left to care for his only son who will celebrate his 1st birthday in two weeks without his dad. >> it's always going t be a void because the family circle was broken, but you have to livy on know? >> reporter: darlene says her son loved to play basketball but his greatest joy was his son makai. she says her son's legacy will live on in them.
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>> his life is not going to be in, va neither is his death. >> reporter: thimisaturday, members say lamont's funeral will be held in >> m thank you so much. gandover. now we turn to criminals caught on camera in the distkct. take a lt this. here is a picture showing a group of people destroying a police cruiser in d.c. an offduty officer snapped this shot. all of it happening last night right in front of that officer's home. another picture shows what lookt like a d in the cruiser. three people facing charges. a $3 million bail set for a man accused of kling a college student in iowa. charged withid kpping and killing mollie tib tts last month while she was jogging. her body found earlier this week buried in a corn fieay. officials rivera is an undocumented immigrant from mexico, his attorney disputes that saying the suspect passed an e-verify electronic immigration status check.
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ambitious plans being put together to cut down on yourdrie time on i-95. >> wants to add three lanes in fredericksburg. adam tuss explains, it should help alleviate one of the worst bottle necks in the corridor.ep >>ter: if you are one of the unlucky ones that have to deal with i-95 all the time, you know that i is packed most of the day. now, though, new relief could coming in the fredericksburg area, but you are going to have to deal with some construction. i-95 is not a kina road. >> it'ghtmare. it actually is a nightmare. >> reporter: even during a ground breaking ceremony to add new lanes, a whipping wind and in seemed to ominously hang over this announcement. but help could be on the >>way. his is a big announcement. three new lanes coming across theriver. >> reporter: six miles of new
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lanes to be exact. in the fredericksburg area, soutound traffic will now be separated with local and through lanes. the tricky part will be building d new southbo bridge across the rap hannic river. >> it will relieve convention but you will see construction for the next four years. >> reporter: the work has started and the hope is that you get a smoother ride. in fredericksburg, adam tuss, news 4. another thing we're tired of eing is wet roads like the stuff we just saw there. >> no kidding. we're still going to have some showers tonight, but where amelia is, not so much. >> she is hanging out at wolf trap tonight. folks there showing up early for night's show. >> they're not showing up just yet, leon and susan, bu course, we have all the employees out here getting ready. we have wolfy out here, too. wolf trap is such a gem in our
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area, the outdoor concert venue. tonight's concert, michaelman donald and peter satera out here. 8:00 p.m., it'o going wrap up just before 11:00. the weather, i was telling all the employees here, folks t are goin be walking in. it's feeling very much like summer. by the time they're leaving tonight, hints of fall in the air. that's what you can expect as well. storm team 4 radar, shors holding on in parts of southern maryland, but as we look back to the west, we've also added the ouds on the radar. here we're starting to see a lot of sunshine, still feeling a little humid out here at wolf trap. we're going to see the humidity levels coming down over the next four hours. currently our temperature and 84 degree and we're going to be in the 70s by the time the concert gets under way. tonight is the night you can open up your wingow. we are go let you know, though, when the heat and humidity does return to the area. twe've got to have ate of
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fall but not done with the 90s just yet, o guys. >>e is going to enjoy the cooler temperatures more than the guy in the wolf suit behind you. >> no kidding. he's stillg,smilthough. >> i know. i feel bad for wolfy but he's loving it. >> thanks amelia. >> all right, thanks. >> see you. a local landmark is 6 celebratin years in business. >> that's right. you know it for the classic -- then chili bowl now servinghem for more than six decades. the restaurant stayed open through some of the city's toughest times. >> that's right. virginia ali opened it up with her husband back in 1958. today, a new street sane was unveiled in ben's over. reverend jesse jackson andathy hughes were there. right now, local drivers, they're working around problems like this. you're going to see caused by last night's reavyain. a closer look at the damage and thessue keeping kids out of
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we are continuing to follow that breaking new a woman rescued after she was pied under a metro bus in northwest washington. these are live pictures from the scene at broad branch road ande mcki street. we are told a woman and a child have been injured but not life injuries, i should say. we are gathering new details and we're going to bring you new updates as we get them. >> you see p collins there working the scene. we'll be checking back with him later on. now, we are still dealing with the damage left behind after yesterday's heavy rain. take a look at the scene here. andrain coming down so har fast it actually washed away part of stump town road in loudoun county. two gaping holesre t this is near the waterford area f the county if you know the place. we just checked with v d.o.t. and they say the road is going to be closed until at least tomorrow evening while they make repairs. >> the rain forced one school in the district to close today. several areas inside elliot high
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middle school are flooded. >> we just learned it's going to be closed for the rest of the week now. g students areng to have to have class at garnett patterson middlech sool. >> justin finch has more on tt damage. >> from the outside, it'sard tell anything's wrong, that there is any reason at all that elliot h middle school is closed on this first wednesday of the new school year,ut flooding in several areas of the building forced the northeast d.c. school to close i doors. outside, school staff stood by to break the news to students who may tave missed alerts. on twitter tuesday night, thishe update from elliot high middle school account, special notice, ehmsill be closed tomorrow, august 22nd, 2018. the district's public school office tells news 4 is taking students' safety and security seriously and working with ther dent of general services. the district says contractors ar on site assessing water damage and makingth repairs. r hope is to have those fixes finished soon so classes can resume as qulekly as
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poss here in northeast, i'm justin finch, news 4. >> here is something good to report on that regard, weather won't be a problem for the guys doing the work there. >> igsha j roining us live from wolf trap, and amelia, it looksnn pretty out there right now, actually. >> it is sunny. it'seautiful. starting to feel the humidity levels coming down a bit. still a mix of clouds and sun. right now i'm joined by the a presiden ceo of wolf trap. wolf trap, if you grew up in this ea, you have such fond memories coming here weather your parents or friendsnd family. atoe dwhs wfol t ?aseof o >> barns. we've still got almost a month here at the park. soe wrappingeaep n.weibut prince so we're really looking forward to that in the first wk of september. our big wolf trap ball is on septembe 15th. it's going to be a british theme
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extravaganza about music and art and all the greatusic that came out of the uk over the years. >> that sounds so wonderful. you continue on into the colder months with stuff at the barns. tell me about that. >> they're a pai of historic barns. our performance pattern is actuallyea 300 old. just about 1/4 of a mile down the road on the original existing wolf trap property. we do everything from ram nash to broadway, eclectic, irish, world music, whatever you might love, we have at the barns. >> so basically whatever interests you have in music, wolf trap has something to offer. as arvinointed out, we're not ne with summer just yet. although kids are starting to head back to school, there are still a lot more great concerts going on here at wolf trap. folks coming in tonight are going to be greeted by wolfy and all t great staff out here at wolf trap. you know what? thank goodness it's finally dry
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tonight. we have beenno so wet. just yesterday when we picked up 2 to 4 inches of rain, but since jul to date this is the sixth wettest year on record in our area. we'reo going have gorgeous weather starting tomorrow. that's going to last through your saturday. the 90s, though, do return on sunday. currently our temperatures across the area pretty much still in the 80 84 here at wolf trap and reagan national. 86 up in frederick. tomorrow as the kids are getting on the bus, i want to say best of luck to all the loudoun county students in particular t'o have their first day of school tomorrow, going to be fabulous. we start off with temperatures in the 6 s indecember, in the 50s in the suburbs. by recess, it's definitely outdrs with low midity, plenty of sunshine, temperatures in the 70s. a high tomorrow of 8 only degrees. so very comfortable and with low humidity it's just going to be gorgeous. the humidity levels do stay low through saturday. on tsunday, does start to feel a little humid out there. it is definitely oppressive by
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monday. you can see on your four-day forecast as we take a look at t tomorrowt high of 82, on friday, a little bit warmer. low to mid-80s for highs but still plentyshf se. saturday and sunday, the weekend, no rain at all in the forecast. mid-80s on saturday and around 90 on definitely feeling hot but not all that humid. more 90s y inr ten-day forecast. we'll have a look at that coming up right around 4:, guys. >> that's going to be a great time to be out there. >> it really does. what day is this weend? arvin, michael mcdonald and peter cetera tonight. head to wolftrap.com and see what's goingth on ther weekend. >> good idea. thanks, amelia. >> thanks, amelia. a giant cake for a giant panda. this guy is celebrating a big birthday. this is bea bea. he turns three o years today. zoo keepers helped him celebrate that with a cake that is jus as tall as he is.
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share thers got to special moment with bei bei at the nnaatl get their time in because it's limited before he has to go back to china. he has to go back to china when turns 4. enjoy year with not so little bei >> popsicles and all sorts of treats. good to be a panda. so next, a warning for you before you sit down at dinner. >> toxic mushrooms growing in our area. why families need to take precautions about this. majorai retrs are
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history. er sarah palin joins h daughter bristol on mtv. >> i was a teen mom. my life is not perfect at all. >> as aease for the new "teen mom: og" show. nick jonas is coming to that's park for a benefit concert that monitors and fights man trafficking from coast to coast. no word of his new fiance priyanka chopra will be joining, but we'll all be keeping abeye out at nats park tomorrow. i'm tommy mcfly with your news 60. as it you make plans for dinner, you'l want to hea this. a family ate some freshly picked wild mushrooms and went to the hospital in extreme pain. news av4'sid culver with the warning from fire officials. >> reporter: all this recent rain that we've been having around hereas created the perfect ground for things like mushrooms. they're popping up allak over.
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juste a look here in fairfaxun co. you can see one here. you can even move forward justla le bit and see another one there. they're pretty much all over. now, fairfax county fire and rescue say behe mindful you're out and about. some people think you're actually able to eat these. that's the reality for one family hereust a few days ago. fire and rescue officials say that the family picked themth fm r backyard, decided to cook them in a meal and they ended up in the hospital. >> we were lucky in thisen io that the particular mushroom species thatto these folk turned out to be a terribleastrointestinal irritant were not systematically toxic. there are mushrooms in this area that can be incredibly toxic. they can cause liver failuredend h within a couple of days. >> reporter: they snapped photos of the mushrooms they collected after that incident. they're using this as a warning
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for others. tt onlyse who may consume them as humans but also for dogs and cats, pet owners. coming up, we caught up with a local v who has a warning for you who may be planning to go on a walk with you dog amidst the soggy conditions. you're going to hear from them just ahead on news 4 at 5:00. david culver, news 4. it is a new schl year. and for one local high school there is the classroom coroversy budding. the new rule about cell phonesn duri the school day. the concer about communication in an emergency. it's all about safety when looking to buy a car for your n or daughter. i've got the list or the best r rsou
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. if you are just joining us at 30 we're following breaking news. a woman pinned under a metro bue in nor washington. these are live pictures from the scene at broad branch roa and mckinley street. we are told the woman and a child haveeen injured. news 4's jackie bensen is at the scene along with pat collins. stay with news 4 as we gather new information for you. students and cell phones,he obviously go together and obviously they're a distraction in the classroom. that's why oneli d.c. p school is taking the phones away. wilson high school is plemented a pilot program requiring the students to store
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their phones awa s whileool is in session. news 4's chrisordgordon explain how it works. >> reporter: at wilson high school in northwest washington, students are learning to live without their cell phones in class. they have to shut o their phones, put them in what's called a yonder bag, which is locked and left on their desk. at the end of class, they're called u to the front to unlock the bags. >> what do you thk about giving up your cell phone andpu ing it in a bag. ? >> it's sort of rough. i know it's a little bit of a distraction in the classroom, but i think it's anto important to have. >> reporter: the bags used at wilson high school cost about $5,000. the money came from the parent/teacher student organization. right now math and science classesre using yonder bags. more classes will be added in nine weeks. >> we are starting with a slow
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implem we're asking students to be cell phone-free for just three hours and they have a 6 1/2 hour day. the rest of their time they're ableo use their phones. that amount of time they're cell phone-free will continue to grow. >> reporter: comin u at 5:00, what the school will do if there's an emergency and stents have their cell phones locked in a bag like this. reporting fromorwest washington, chris gordon, news 4. chris.ks, every d.c. public school has its own cell phone policy. wilson hheh school, by way, is the only school using those yonder bags, for now. >> oka so your teen is ready to get behind the wheel, as you want a safe and reliable car for th to drive. u.s. ne"u.s. news & world repor come out with its l best new cars that will keep your teens safe and also in some cases all you to keep an eye on them, too. so the most affordable car on this list is the 2019 honda fit. camera, blind view spot monitoring, forward
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collision warning and automatic emergency brakier. all for u$19,000. now, if you are willing to pay a litt bit more, you can get a base model toyota camry. it comes whole with a whole host of safetys, featu including collision warning,utbraking and more. the camry starts at about 25,000 ra . ge motors offers a whole host ofmodels, parents to monitor and set speed warnings. you can create something called a geofence. we havell this information on our nbc washington app.s just search "cor teens." leon? >> amazingly, just a couple of years ago, those features you mentioned were only available on really expensive cars and now
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they're available to everydy. >> this is not good stuff. no more soft serve treats at kline's freeze in manassas. closed down for gd over the weekend. this after 53 years in business there. paul and june kline pened up the stand back in 1965. daughter lor iine worked as a child, eventually taking over with her husband james but now they've decided to retire and spend more time with their family, perhaps enjoying their own ice cmeam at something sweet for teachers to go back toady school in the next few weeks. we tag along with tommy mcfly an theyout and surprised 300 teachers. >> come on out, eat your cupcakes and meet the host of tommy's show. >> i'meo glad you'r here for this because as we're getting you ready for school, i want tos bring you ie the tommy show teacher tour. we've been giving cupcakes to teachers all around the beltway
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for the past five yrers. at this school,30 teachers,ul facty, nurses, janitors about to get aweet treat. what happens before the kids get back? >> we work on our classroom, setting things up, planning what 're going to do when the kids come. >> you are absolutely the cooles teacher in the school for the whole year now, right? >> i'm a milking this much as i possibly can. right now definitely today i am the queen. >> my radio co-hosts are going to a least 18 more schools on the teacher tour getting you ready for school with georgetown cupcakes and bags from responsibility.org. maybe we'll become the newest school that your family goes to. teachers love tommy, kelly and jen, in alandria, news. >> the day of bringing an apple, that's over. >> totally.
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that is awesome. >> well, howebbout ms.ca winning that for the whole school? >> that's amazing. >> is that cool or what? that is so cool. good forg er. we're go be keeping an eye on tommy's social media to see where they're going to next. alexa, where do babies come from? we'll explain how a new version of that voice assistant will help with tough parenting questions like this. >> speaking of whichte -- ity leave as well, but what about pawterty leave. sheena? >> i get it. okay. across the area nowe're seeing skies clear. coming up in a few minutes, amelia and i are back. we'll show you what you can expect for the last few weekends of summer and your beach forecast.
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an epipen. todayhe food and drug administration said certain epipens will still work up toth four m after their expiration day. the fda says pens with a .3 milligram dosage fall under that window. expirati dates between april and december of this year. the fda says the extended expirations should help cover shortages. alexa is going kid friendly. the same queionould get a new answer depending on who aski it. who is stormy daniels. where do babies come fm. alexa won't spill the beans about santa. this updated versi will also play songs without curse words and if the kids are supposed to be studying or sleeping, alexa will say, sorry, i can't play that right now. try again later. >> i think a lot of parents will like that. >> i like it. more a and more compani looking to stand out among the competition by offering perks
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like fre lunches and nap pods and gym memberships. >> for some now lreting workers go on pawterniny leave. two weeks off when you adopt a new pet. employees are using that time to bond with the newest member of their family and get them shots and acclamated to their new home. companies say these pet perks help them attract the best employees while striking a goodl work/lifece. i like it when actually employers let yng b your dogs to work. >> that's a good idea. >> i think so, too. >> time off to help theittle pup at home is a great idea because it means your house won't smell like the zoo. >> exactly. >> make sure that gets taken care of. good idea. >> for sure. >> spread the word. >> absolutely. a new reality on the first day ofro school, bulletp backpacks. >> we definitely want to protect our children. >> are they protecting kids? or are they just profits off
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four things t know if you're just joining us. the white house is pushing back against all the president's former lawyer michael cohen. >> the president has stated on numerous occasions he did nothing wrong. there are no charges against him in this. >> the president is making his case on 'sitter. slamming cohen and praising his former campaign chairman paul manafort for his refusal to flip for prosecutors. we're on the scene of crash in northwest washington. a woman and a child struck by a metrobus. the woman was rescued after getting pinned under thatweus. have a crew on the scene at broad branch road and mckinley street coming up. arlington cemetery back open afterlosing to the public after a bomb threat.f
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thousands o personnel had to comb through the masve property. it's now been given the all-clear. today marks 60 years since ben's served its first chili bowls. it stayed open through some of the toughest times in the district's history. a favorite of celebrities and politicians. today, reverend jesse jackson and media mogul kathy hughes were added to the mural. a new backpack for your ild is on your back to school shopping list, there is more to consider forus parents than what the bag will hold. >> that's right. for the first time, major retailers are stocking their shelves with bulletproof backpacks. a response to the re in deadly school shootings nationwide. >> so are parents buying them and will they really stop a bullet fir at your child? >> investigative reporter randy mack from our sister station in los angeles we to go find out. >> reporte for parents, the images of school shootings like
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parkland aren't seared in our conscience. >> going to school and some people have guns -- >> let a child's words sink in. parents struggling with howpr t ect their kids from a potential school shooter. >>t's scary. i don't want my son getting shot. >> reporter: retailers are responding to that fear, stocking shelves with bulletproof backpacks. >> usually backpacks are rmal, no bulletproof. >> we definitely want to protect our children. adon't know, but i think product like this would do that for them. >> reporter: we wanted to answer that question for them. bulletproof backpacks being sold at stores like walmart, home depot and office depot where we sent a produce tore buy one. certified to stop a .9 milammeter or 44 caliber bullet. >> there is a lot of bs in the industry. so we'll find out. >> reporter: scott is a firearms instructor with three decades of experience with lapd. i attached the backpack to a
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mannequin. >> that should do it. >> reporter: hung it as a target. he set up 15 yards away, the distance he says most school shooting victims are shot from. fit, he fires a .9 milammeter handgun. slow motion shows you the force of the shot.ul the blet penetrated every layer of the inner fabric but did not make it through the back panel. did not. >> that was contained. >> t next shot was from a .45, a more powerful handgun. show motion shows you the -- >> it appears to have contained that atwell. >> i contained it. >> reporter: lastly, he used an ar-15fle, the weapon our military uses and has been frequently used in school shootings. you can see the dust blast behind the mannequin which barely moved. the bullets from ther-15 travelled at such a velocity each is in sw-mo -- >> the reason why, you're looking at basic physics. s
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>> reporteline usa, which manufactures the guard dog backpack, says our backpacks are tested and rated against level iii a, which excludeing a.-kell bar bullets. this protection can lessen the impact of bullets fromigher caliber weapons such as an ar-15 when filled with the normal carried objects, books and binders. for parents, the decision becomes are youaying for protection or peace of mind? reese says both may be worth the cost. an it's better nothing. >> reporter: still some parents say it would be better to not have to live with the fear of their child being shot at school. >> the only negative is a kid actually has ao have bulletproof backpack. >> bulletproof backpacks cost between $130 and $180. if you are f considering one your child, do your homework, check its safety rating and certification, but there should no expectations, of course, that it can stop a bullet from a
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military-style rifle, as you just saw. a reality for some local families, they were being forced to leave their homes because of plans to expand i-66. recentlyome of them told us they were concerned they'd have no pces to gon order to make way for that highway project. >> tracking a new development in the story for us for news 4 at 5:00. >> a lot comingp on this busy wednesday. among those homeowners being evicted because her land was being seized was an 82-year-old woman who had been imoher home 50 years. >> the way she's being treated, boy, did it anger virginia's governor. coming up at 5:00, we're going to tell you the steps he's taking the governor, to help her and other families who will eventually have to leave because of eminent domain. brand-new at 5:00, call it thinking ins te box. just in time for back to school. taking a closer look at a new craze out there there where boxes of clothes for your child delivered right to your
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doorstep. >> it's a child's tie. it's for fifth graders. is this going to take theai pn out of back-to-school shopping or the pain out of looking atha ey? whether this fashion craze is worth your money and your time. i think it's a school idea but i don't have kids except this one. >> this is a half tie, leon, okay? >> it's a clip-on. >> you are shameless. >> also, oprah is expanding her food offerings into the freezer ai'se because s not busy enough. >> talking about pizza, it's a frozen pizza and the crust, let's just put it this way, will make my stomach rumble like mad. it's supposed to be just260 calories. >> we think the crust is going to have her name imprinted on it. why not? >> got to be in thersomewhere. >> know of one special ingredient in the crust. >> that's what i'm talking about. s >> it's aret ingredient. >> that's right. >> only oprah knows. >> it's tequila. >> how did you know?
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>> do we wish. >> where do we line up? that's all i want to know. >> we'llon be n just a few minutes. >> see you in just a bit. let's talk some more about is wonderful weather. gets to go outside and ebb joy it. uc you. amelia, you're joining us n>>. t's beautiful out here. summer is winding down. this is what you want low humidity. some rain earlier. storm team 4 radar all clear. we're he at wol trap tonight for michael mcdonald and peter ceteraerrming tonight. sound checks are getting under way. we already have some folks lining up to stake out their lawn seats. of course, you have all the employee here, to who have been so wonderful tonight. the other great thing aboutr th weatight now, we're getting a nice breeze at times. winds out of th northwe at about 8 miles an hour. miles es gusts around 15 per hour. 82 degrees currently.
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tomorrow morning, it's going to be fabulous, 66 degrees at 7:00 a.m. in theistrict. look to areas liketo culpeper. ght is the night you can definitely open up the windows and l some fresh air in. the concert tonight is not sold out. if you're looking for somethi do tonight, it's beautiful out here, come on down. over the weekend, i have toay is is what i'm jealous about. kim wor again friday night. on friday night, we have frankie valley a the four seasons here at wolfrap. then as we look -- i shouldn't say tomorrow night -- no, friday night. then we have kenny g. coming up on august 30th. i was talking to sheena who hasn't been able to make it out oere. are you going go frankie valley or kenny g.? >> kenny g.ous pretty tempting, amelia. the weather is going to me it more tempting. i'm jealous of you outside in the nice weather. i wouldn't have bee jealo this afternoon. now i'm a little jealous because things are really clearing up out t if wow want to head to wolf trap
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as we go through the rest of the week, perfect weather for it as you steputside t door. you'll notice one thing compared to earlier today. the rain is leavi the area. showers passed. they are taking the clouds with it. you're sing live sunshine in amelia's live shot there. nothing but clear skies in the forecaight. there is the cold front. there is the dry air behind it. it's all movg in this direction. the one thing you'll notice for the rest humidity is going to be dropping. if you've been thinking of the perfect day to t exerciss week, it's probably going to be tomorrow or friday, maybe saturday, too. a lot of nice days in the rrforecast. to morning, though, feeling a little more like fall. temperatures arounduc 60 for of the area. breezy by the morning and lunchtime. yo definitely want to be outside tomorrow. low humidity throughout 5:00 p.m. only topping outn the low 80s. when we talk about our normal high this te of year, it's actually 86 degrees now. we're goingelo be normal for the first time in awhile.
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85 friday, saturday. then the temperatures start rising back to 90 by sunday. humidity is going to go up with it. we have that stretch of weather as we go into next week. here is a look at your weekend, though, we're seeing sunshine across the weekend. morninur temperatures sy in the 60s. afternoon highs in the mid-80s. we could see areas in the upper -- saturday morning, temperatures right around 90 degrees. if you're heading to the this weekend, though, it's looking really good. tomorrow or friday i should sayr perfect wea sunny, 78 degrees. saturday, we're looking at greae we too. if this is one of your last weekends to get to the beach, this one is going to be absolutely perfect. 80 on saturday, 83 on sunday e warmest day being sunday. you definitely want that spf 30 or higher. he is a look at your ten-day forecast as we go through the rest of next week. look at these numbers. they're back in the 90s. i don't see any rain in the next ten days. you really can't com not being outside, guys.
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twith a livernsplant or wrong. >> why your pets need protection, too. >> because she doesn't have enough businesses oo >> oprah to change the frozen pizza game. >> news 4 at 5:00 starts right now. news 4 at 5:00 begins with breaking news. hi, everybody. that breaking news right now unfolding. the northwest d.c., uppert northw.c. where a young woman and child were let by a o crossus as they tried the street. >> the woman is 18 years old. she was actually pinned undernea had to be pulled out. all of this unfolding as a nearby schoong was let out for for the day. you can imagine the chaos. >> let's get straight to pat collins live at the scene in chev chase. pat? >> reporter: jim and wendy, a scy accident todaynvolving a metro bus, a you woman and a little girl. it happened at the intersection of mckinley street and broad branch road. ey say this bus, this e-6 bus co
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