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one of the most powerful coaches in college football facing discipline for his handling of allegations ence coach. assistant and hawaii in the crosshairs. last minute preparations as the powerful hurricane lane takes aim at the islands. news4 at 11:00 starts now. good evening. first up tonight, embrassment fo d.c.'s fire department as police try to crack down those illegal atv riders. >> one of the riders arresd on sunday is a young d.c. firefighter. his name is duray willso his arrest came the same day dozens of four-whemoers and r bikes swarm add the streets of d.c. in arlington. jackie bensen is live where he was arrested which was chinatown. jacks? >> r worter: the firefighter arrested right here on seventh street after crashing his atv
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into another vehicle. sights and sounds as a swarm of atv riders rode throughar ngton and the district sunday. it's n the first time it's happened and local officials consider it a safety risk. as the riders pop wheelies, cross double yellow lines and surround cars. it is illegal to operate an all-terrain vehicle on the street in both municipalities. it's not clear whether 22-year-old deray willson was part of the swarm when he crashed a suzuki atv into anotherling in chinatown about 7:30 p.m. sunday. a spokesmd. for fire and ems tells news4, willson is an ployee of d.c. fire and ems where he works as a firefighteee he has so for a little over a year. he was arrested for drive agatv in a public space. willson has been placed on administrative leave. d.el police us they made
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three arrestsra and seized se atvs on sunday. live in northwest, jackie bensene news4. ve got breaking news tonight. head football coach at one of the country's top programs get suspended for three games for his admitted mitt handling of domestic abuse allegations against a member of his coaching staff. urban meyer leads the program at ohio state university. he fired his assistant zack smith this july. his ex-wifeays meyer knew smith was busing her as far as back as15 and failed to do anything to stop it. tonight meyer apologized and said he wishede had been told more. >> i followed my heart and not my head. i fell short because at each juncture, i gave benefit of the doubt. i did not know everything about zack smith which was h whatwas doing and i'm pleased that the
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report made this very clear. however, i should havean demd more from him and recognized red flags. >> meyer also apologized for in s words not being as complete and accurate as he should have been at a big ten press he erence the day after fired smith. he told report hes are that he was previously unaware of any domestic issues between the smiths. ohio state's athletic director also suspended, gene smithinit will gout pay through the 16th of next month. osu's president says this investigation may prompt changes hiring process. at the live desk, leon harris. >> leon thank you. hawaii is under threat tonight. rightnow, category 4 hurricane lane is barreling toward thes. isla a hurricane warning already issued for maui and the big island. check out this real look tonight from noaa's hurricane hunters flying into the eye of thestorm. the view from the international space station we want to show
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youer l in this story shows you just how massive lane is. nbc's dan sheneman reports with all the pictures about thest la for hawaiians seeking shelter tonight.e thurk is zeroing in on the island a research aircraft flew into e eye of the storm that's expected to make landfall thursday afternoon. lane has lost some punch. >> it was downgraded from a 5 to a category 4 s brm still packing 130-mile-per-hour winds and moving slowly. >> so is the effects of this hurricane as it masses the island of oahu could lt longer than one that moves back quickly. >> it bught back memories of hurricane iniki in 1992 h >> i'm goinge where it's safe. i'm not coming out again till this ends. >> reporter: people living in the path of the srm are filling gas thanks and their carts. cases of bottled water are flying off the shelves and
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generators are hard to find. officials say everyone needs to be ready. >> be prepared to shelter in place4 days of food and supplies and water. medicine, other necessities they would ha. >> reporte paradise prepare forth worst. dan eneman, nbc news. before we get to our trecast, amelia drape ser ooking athe latest track of lane. how bad could it be? these are islands out there. what are the people expecting? e>> the worst of torm is going to be the amount of rain that's falling over parts of the state. you can see rain bands moving into parts of hawaiiding the big island here. there's the main cirlation of lane. the island is going to see 10 to hrough theof rain end of the week. isolated amounts could reach maybe exceed i0hes. we'll be tracking some damaging surf to parts of hawaii and tropical storm force winds,wis well tha start there as narly as tomorrow morning.
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here's the latestlane. a category 4 hurricane.in maximum sus winds 145 miles an hour moving northwest at about eight miles an ur. you can see as we continue into the next few days, it gets downgraded to category 2 hurricane. friday afternoon, hawaii time. and what also happens friday afternoon is it starts to make this nice turn out toward the west at sea. while landfall is looking unlikely wh lane right now, we can't rule it out completely. it doesn't matter because thend isill see so much rain from the storm that is going to lead to some major flood issues in spots. back here at home, it's all about acooler, drier moving in. take a look. this is tomorrow morning in the 50s and 60s. it's d.c.no and you that's not going to last forever in summer. when the '90s return coming up at 11:18. l> tomorrow some students in the d.c. middle schoo will go to school at a different building.
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elliott high middle school is closed for the rest of the we because o flooding. classes will be moved to garnett patterson middle school located at 10th and u. d.c. schools will provide usuttle bes starting at 8:00ng in the mornind they will return the studentsth i afternoon to elliott. >> more potential trouble for president trump tonight. michael cohen, h former attorney, says he's ready to tell more about hr for client and willing to do it before congress. cohen pleaded guilty yesterday to eight counts you'll remember. he admitted he violated campaign finance laws at the president's directio t cohen says hush money payments were made in an effort to silence women he believed could dee rail mr. trump's 2016 presidential campaign. the president has remained defiant following both cohen's plea deal and the conviction of his former campaign chair, paul ma on financial crimes. today, the president sat down with fox news for an interview
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teat the house. >> did you know about the payments? >> later on i knew. later on. and threw weren't taken out of campaign finance. that's a much bigger thing. did they come out of the campaign. they didn't come out of the campaign. they came from employee. >> cohen's attorney lanny davis says cohen would not accept a pardon. davis says heas already set up a website to raise money for cohen and his family. while presidentrump denies wrongdoing during at 2016 campaign, is he trying toly r his base by turning the spotlight back to immigrationsp ifically that mexican man accuses of murdering the iow collegestudent. there was a vigil on the university of iowa campus tonight for mollie tibbets. tibbets missing for more than a month. and that was before cristhian rivera led police to her body just yesterday. the dairy farm where he worked says he provided a valid government i.d. and a matching
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wocial security card when he was hired. hey know both were fakes. rivera was in the u.s. illegally working under a different name. >> this guy stayed aro for 35 days after he did this. nobody noticed anything different. >> and today molly's parents thanked everyone f around the world who sent thoughts and prayers for their daughter. it was ate fring scene today, an 18-year-old pinned aderneath this metrobus a little girl in her care is recovering tonight. it happened in the chevy chase section of northwest washington. the 4-year-old attends preschool at nearby lafayette elementary. the school d just ended. the cell phone video shows the scene seconds after crews rescued the woman from underneath that bus. she and the year-old were both taken to the hospital and both expected to be okay. policenterviewed witnesses on that bus. they'll also review bus cameras
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to determine if the driver was at fault. fredericksburg to d.c.,sthat ce is 52 miles. for some, it takes three three hours, one way in rush ur. and vdot has a plan to help easy the frustrations of that. it want to add three n lanes to that stretch of i-95 in fredericksburg from route 17 to route 3. virginia governor ralph northam took part in a ground reaking ceremony earlier today. those lanes will go across the rappahannock river and there will be six miles of new lanes. drivers know taking 95 in that stretch can be a tmnie. >> not only pack a lunch, bring a chef. you're going to neny it. >> so eople now. what do you do? >> it's going to cost $132 million t widen the stretch. state leaders hope the lanes will be completed in four years.
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>> oh, it was big. the guy la part of a full day of commorating 60 years for this d.c. institution. shomari stone is live on what is now ben'scallily bowl way. that is so cool to >>see. eporter: that's right. this is no longer u street this particular block. there ben'scallily bowl way. people have been taking photos and posting on social media about they will particular block. it was such a great celebration tonight. people remembering this iconic legendary restaurant h d.c. ♪ inside ben's chili bowl ♪ >> reporter: a gala at lincoln theater honoring ben's chili bowl on its 60th anniversary. ♪ >> we feel wonderful, very thankful. >> reporter: ali, his family served upha sizzlin smokes
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smothered in chili over the past six decades at the landmark u street location. >> it is beginning to feel lik a part of history for us. from my parents' beginning, it was humble. >> reporter: his b parents and virginia ali opened in 1958. ntring the visible rights era, ben's was an impor cornerstone and it thrived. >> amazing. >> reporter: the blair family it's dinner on this hick night. >> we're just proud that it's still here and proud tond come patronize. the food is really good and i like i here. >> reporter: earlier today, a ew street sign for ben's chili bowlway was unveiled. reverend jesse jackson and hughes were also added to the restaurant's famous mural. ♪ >> reporter: 60 years and beyond. >> we don't see a end in sight. we want to keep going day to day. >> reporter: back out here on ben's chili boll way, it's so great to see all the jobs ben's
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has been able to create over the past 60 year all the proceeds from today are going to d.c. charity just to help them out. all the money raised on this lisk day in our nation's capital. live here on ben's chili bowlway, shomari stone. >> long may that i reig this is a new technique to keep studentsocused. lock up their stone cell phones. that's a new requirement at will son higschool in northwest d.c. the school has students put their phones in something called a yonder bag. these bags have magnetic clips ocked by a ly be u device that the teach has. some students however worry this is not safe. >> it's not very likely but in case therechas like aool shooting or something, it would -- a teacher said it would ta a couple minutes to unlock all the bags in the classroom and thatould be very precious time. >> so what happens during an
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em tgency? theeachers will take the unlocking device outside with them during an evacuation. b thoses by the way, were paid for by the pent teacher student organization. >> we could use some of those yonder bags. but then we wouldn't get our weather alerts from you. >> no, we wouldn't. how was wolf trap? >> i had a blast out there.be >> i what a beautiful night. >> what a beautiful night. >> so spectacular. >> you know what, you're out thinking i haven't gten out here in awhile. it's so perfect out there, specially on a night lik tonight. as we look at the weather, a few gorgeous nights. it's windows open kind of weather. we're getting a break from the rain which we very ch need look at your weather headlines. year to date, this is the sixth wettest year on record in our area thanks to capital climate on twitter for that info. open u those windows tonight. no worries of rain. you can open up the windoom againrow night. and again on into the weekend. ot by r, on sunday, it's
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the afternoon. we're back to around 90 degrees. more on the humid in a moment. but currently, our captains are in the 60s andseventies. 75 right now in washington. 70 inesrg. look at oakland, back in far eestern maryland, down to 54. it will refreshing. tomorrow morning, 7:00 a.m., the perfect morning tok bike or w to work. the kids are going to love it out there at the bus stop. 65 degrees in washington as well as gaithersburg. we're going to keep plenty ofun sunshine a throughout the entire day tomorrow on your thursday. nchtime, 76 degrees. a high of 82 with low humidity. d will feel like fall out there tomorrow especialling the early morning hours and evening hours. 7:00 tomorrow,e're at 77 degrees across the area. now, as we look at your allergy report, mold spores come inhi . over the next couple days they should go down we're not picking
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up morerain. rain yesterday did help to bring the rag weed count down. your weeds are coming in low tonight. as we look at the humidity t leveorrow through saturday, it stays comfortable. by sunday, it's starting to fee a littlbit humid out there. on monday, it's oppressive, b tk 90s. it's feeling very tropical. we are not done with the 90s just yet. here's your storm team 4 four-day forecast. tomorrow againfid the high 82, just gorgeous. on friday, high around 84. mid 80s on saturday. >> no rain at all in the forecast this weekend. igh unday, hot with a around 90. there you see monday, 94. with mymi ty, feeling closer to 100. it's not like fall's movinowin tomond then sticking around. it will be fairly short lived as we look to tuesday and wednesday, highsn the mid-90s. low 90s to around 80 the throughext weekend which is labor day weekend. and i'm just happy a to have
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maybe just maybe the nationals turning point in their season of missing the point is happening after they reach their breaking a night after the nationals survived a one-hour and 42 minute rain delay to beat the phillies they survived a delay walk off homer. stephen strasburg making his return. an up and down night. acing hernandez catching him looking at a nasty pitch. he lasted four innings, giving up four runs but striking out five. skipping ahead, bottom of the nt ni two outs. nats down a run. ryan zimmerman known by many asje mr. walkoff, deep to right. it's gone. or is it? originally ruled a double. but zimmerman and the entire nats dugout kno that wasgone. they had to wait. the umps take a look. goes off the railing above the wall. back to thefiel ring it up. then the umpir agrees.
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he comes out and the nationals get a two-run walkoffm homer f ryan zimmerman with two outs, his 11th career walkoff homer ties him for eight all time. the nats get a huge win over the phillies,-7. the redskins getting ready for their week one dress broncsal against the this friday. starters expected to be seen. defense hoping their strong play continues. four sacks, two interceptions and d.j. swearinger has bigger expectations for this friday. >> i'm look for at least three and out first drive you. drrnovers. secoive. keep it going. we want to get used to dominating to get used toti domina. if we can lock in together as a whole, we can dominate. this is good stuff. redskin park, mobile hope was ut parkedde practice. the non-profit supports needs of
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at risk youth as well as 18 to 24-year-olds who are homeless. food, clothes, school supplies teamingitp w jay gruden and his wife for a karaoke fund-raiser. deandre now working for the program now shared some of his experiences with it. >> i just got out june 1st on loudoun adc. i did two years there. coming out of adc being here now, i want to be like a role model whoever comes out of jail or if you happen to be in foster care or in the stem, just don't lose hope. >> good for >> don't lose hope. >> love that. really love that. >> a great story, greatre st, great win. >> it's all good. >> a good day. >> and we'll be right back wi
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a hometown superstar we love bringing a lot of young local swimmers out to tonight's nats game. check it out. >> one, two, three. >> we recognize that smile.'s bethesda own katy ladecky posing with fans. katy threw out the first pitch an tell us she training hard for the tokyo olympians now. but first, she's enjoying a few days at home. >> fun to see familiaraces and new faces, as well. i'm exc ted to see thatse swimmers look up to me and it's reallye inspiring to and hopefully to them and just happy to he them all here and to come together as a swim community night. >> she says she's excited about
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the new olympic event for 2020, the 15 meter race. she says her offseason is just two weeks she's getting back in the water in just a few days. did we not get the pitch? >> regardless of that, katy ladecky has her ft firmly in ladecky has her ft firmly in the grounds and i love (birds chirping, a running brook,) ladecky has her ft firmly in the grounds and i love ahh. the new deer park sparkling is made with real spring water. ♪ it's so refreshing and delicious, you don't need slo-mo models to sell it.
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