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shame on you. >> shame on you, cardinal donald wirl interrupted during mass by a man upset over the church's sexual scandal. others upset as well. > reminder, this is an election year. >> parades and politics. candidates are keepingus this holiday at parades across our area. is already hot one out there right now. no rain in sight just yete but have a small chance today. we will talk about how warm it's going to get for your labor day and for the rest of this week. it's coming up. >> announcer: news4 midday
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starno >> good morning to you. and happy labor day i'm meagan fitzgerald. >> i'm angie goff. as y mentioned, it is labor day. if you went outside let the record or you went outside already, you know the heat and the humidy -- the walk to the car was enough. >> hair fries out. let's check in with lauryn any the shumt going away opcketts. today. >> not today, not tomorrow, and not pretty much the rest of this work week. we have a frontal system at the ends os week that could bring some relief. that's a big qrkstion we will talk about that on the ten-day forecast coming up in about 20 minutes. right now, fureaded outside to have pooltime fun it is hazy hot and humid out there right now. current temperatures. we are already in the 80s. it's not even iton. september, what is happening.
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temperatures 86 in washington. baltimore now at 87. in the shannon doha valley, low 80s. when you factor in the humidity it already feels like we are 95 degrees and hotter in downtown d.c. fredericksburg feeling like 99. baimore feeling like 96. it's already a warm start. it's only getting hotte as we continue through the afternoon. lday it's going to f about 102. tomorrow 103. the actual temperatures are in the yellow in the lowo mid 90s. we will talk about the rain chances and show you what is going to happen at the end of the work week with more rain coming our way in about 20 minutes. >> no rain, so it isif a bea day for a parade. minus the humidity.
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festivities are underway. >> in mckenzington that parade already kicked off. hopefully parade fans are staying hydrate.ot it's out there, girl.ri alt. >> well, we could see it behind yer. it's definit happening. we heard the noise. i think she has something wrong with her earpiece. >> it's frying. we will work on getting her . ba you could see and hearnd the sightsounds around her. new this morning, we will continue with other stories we e following. one person was kileed t
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others hurt in accidents. one accident was i clinton, maryland near malcolm road at 5:30 this morning. the victim is in serious condion. a woman was killed in falls church virginia when a driver in a car hit her around 3:00 in the morning. lanes were shut down at arlington boulevard and graham road for hours. we are told that speed and nol alcoho appear to be factors for the driver. police won't say if alcohol was a factor for the pedestrian. in milwaukee, a manth walking i travel lanes of washington boulevard and jess en was killed e was hit by driver. it happened last night around 00. we are told that the driver was not rt. police in green belt say a woman was hit and killed early yesterday hrning. appened on the ramp from southbound kennel worth avenue to green belt road. s investigatoray the woman was
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hit by two cars. both drivers did stay on the scene. the woman has been identifiedpes l betterin of silver trings. >>ay cardinal wirl will meet with d.c. priests to discuss the growing sex abuse scandal involving himnd catholic priests. justin finch has morerom announciation catr catholic church until northwest. >> reporter: those priests are set to gather later today. before they do so, cardinal wuerl reached out apologizing for past misjudgments that caused ing. here on sunday he wa approached by a parishioner who raised his voice and his outrage. >> considerable animosity. >> shame on you. >> that's the voice of a parishioner of mr. garfieldho
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scream shame on you before walking out. he said he didn't feel like being lectured at. wuerl was here to inst new pastor. but he can't elude the controversy following the church elcluding hi they cannot do enough to purge priests who involved in sex abuse. we also spoke with aon paris who let her actions do the talking here turning her back on the cardinal as he addressed parishioners here on sunday. we caught up with her after mass. >> i don't think they did this alt ofe at all. i think that they abused their position. and i fee like they abused the responsibility that was give to them. >> reporter: in a statement, the diocs acknowledging what happened here on sunday but adding to that cardinal wuerl d the support of the
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parishioners who were here as d the pope. the meeting is set to take place today. police are involving an officer involved sppoting that ed last night in jess on at the extended stay on washington boulevard.e officers w called for a man acting erratically in the lobby and needing medic assistance. when responders got theree allegedly pulled out a gun. the man was shot. he wasaken to t hospital with non-life threatening injuries. no one else was hurt. we have a tragic update to a story we have been reporting all morning thhere. maryland natural resources police say that the body of a germantown man who went missing on sryland's easternre has been recovered. george barnes went out on boat on saturday from the georgetown yacht basin on the northern part of the eastern shore. officials say barnes was on the boat with several friends and at one point they jumped intosahe
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fras river for a swim and barnes disappeared. barnes was a personal trainer and the husband of a montgomery co ty police officer. and we have leaed the nam of the maryland woman swept aaway flood water inarvard county. melissa liu. and the search continues for her. police tell us she stopped to help some people whose car w stuck on a bridge due to high water. when liu got out she was swept over the bridge. one o wthe people s trying to res you ended up dying by flood waters. first responders rescued two dozen people this weekendfter heavy rain caused flash flooding. two baltimore police divers had to be taken to shock trauma after having troubles diver in the quarry area where liu disappeared. today the pject on the red line wraps up. for more than a month the red line was shut down for
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and improvement. metro is running on a holiday schedule today. it will be open until 11 p.m. offpeak fares will in effect all day and parking is free at metro rail parking lot. >> do you remember the feeling on the first day of school? >> yes, all the nerves, the butterflies. >> exactly. excited. in just a little over 24 hours kits across virgia will be getting ready for beolscho ringing in andersonia the city of falls church as well as arlington and stafford counties. >> students are also headed i bk tomorr parts of maryland. it includes calvert, arles, month, prince jorgesz st. mary's and washington coties. safety for the students is a iority across the board. that's part of the reason ngficials in prince georges county are rolli out a new app. this is called here comes the bus. through thisp, ap parents will be able to find out where a school bus is, if it's on time, or if their child missed the
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bus. that's going to be very, very helpful. >> i sure wish they had that when i was a kid. i was always running for the bus. always. >> same here. missed it a few times. >> me too. as we told youhe kensingtonabor day parade is underway. >> what's going on. >> reporter: there is a bren in the act here in the parade. let me show you all of the see e who have come out to this parade. lined up on both sides of the historic district. that's where we are in the wonderful beautiful neighborhood with the adult trees. the little ones up to the adults who have come out to see the parade. 75 participants ind. this st this is the grand stand, where everything will end when the parade is done.
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we saw some very cute grandpa marshals. ages 4, 7, 9.s this great opportunity for the candidates, politicians from the state level all the way to the u.s. capitol to come out and mix in. we saw senator vanholidayin, governor hogan. we saw the challenger to van hogan in thete m election. a great chance toti ppate in the down home local parade. >> my son is in the marching nd for mcgruger hospital. we are here to cheer him on and watch the parade. we would point out who it was, where they were and how t importany were. >> this is one of the best parades. it really is. a down home pade. nothing flashy and fancy. t's just home people getting together >> reporter: and you know what,
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people are very excited. we know this is kindhe unofficial end of summer. everybody goes back to school tomorr. and the announcer who has been doing this for 26 years tells me in all of his years of being out here, it has never rained on the kenzington labor day parade. we have got another group coming slowly.re but the parade action isn't t backbut we will send in to you guys now. it is wonderful out here. >> and there seems to be a lot of shade out there and people have their water bottles and theyre using their fans, right. >> definitely. water bottles everywhere. i know. they need it. that humidity. >> thanks, sgirl. >> it is expected to be a busy week ahead for lawmakers on capitol hill. we have the primaries behind us. as you mentioned kicking into high gear now politics wise. one of the top priorits for republicans, confirming a new supreme court justice. a look at ife democrats h a chance of blocking brett kavanaugh. >> and this story is
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devastating. piece of hisry destroyed by this huge fire that you are looking at. this is a museum in brazil. the oldest human remains ever found in america was house there had in that building. what we know
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the story is devastating. centuries and cturies and t trees of research and knowledge lost in a firet a museum overnight. look at the flamesust consuming a 200-year-old building. horrible. it houses some of the first fossils found in brazil. and nbc's chapman bell reports on this devastating there is researchs >> reporter: flames lighting up brazil's night sky as the country's national museum burned overnight in the city of rio de janiero. a massive fire gutting the former palace that holds the 200-year-old colction of history. around 80 firefighters were battling the blaze into the night a a residents some museum employees watched helplessly. amid fears mosth o more than 20 million items t held building are now lost forever. the cause of the fire is not clear but no injuries have been
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reinrted. statement brazil's president said it was a sad day for all azilians, addsing 200 years of work, investigation, and knowledge, have been lost. chapman bell, nbc news. a man is i jail after causing a security breach at the white house. the secret service says the man jumped over a bike rack at the white house at 8:00 last night. he was quickly arrested. in the last day before a break for co lress, a going on. >> tracie pott reports from capitol hill, where it all arts tomorrow. >> reporter: lawmakers hre questions upreme court nominee judge brett kavanaugh. >> this isuy a g that says one a president should be able to declare a statute constitutnal all by himself. >> reporter: will he throw out roe v. wade and barack obama. >> those are popular with his
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base but not the americanop . >> reporter: shielded, 100,000 pages of his record, from t bush white house. >> his skepticism on the power and authority of federal agencies is asking we need on the court. >> reporter: trade negotiations continue this week. president trump is revamping nafta, free trade between the u.s., mexico, and canada. congress has to approve that deal. >> unfortunately right now, the ale is weighted against him because he has done more to hurt workers than to help workers. >> reporter: federal workers are bracing for arn possible gont shutdown at the end of the month if congress can't coming up with a bget by the 29th of the september. plus those federal work remembers worried about their paychecks with the president cancelling a raise but then saying he will take another look at that over the holiday weekend. tracie potts, nbc news, washington. >> tracie, thank you. the ashes of one of the victims killed in the "capital
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gazette" shooting are now at national park. the widow placed his ashes in a planter of about again toias on saturday. he covered news and sports at the capital ga did he tell in annapolis. one of the five killed when a gunman broke in and opened fire last summer. the baseball park was a sacred place f john. another call for unity amid grief. ronbe eve the, ttibbetts, the f mollie tibbetts, allegedlyed murdy an undocumented immigrants pleading not to exploit his daughter's death. >> reporter: in ia a father in anguish pleads for empathy. writing in the des moines register he asks pundits not to
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exploit mollie's soul. the act greivously describes the crime that stole her from their family. her body was found in a corn field august 21 about month fter she dispardon while jogging. a mexican living in america illegally was charged with her murder. the tibbetts' loss has become a rallying cry for anti-immigration supporters. tibbetts column was published only one day after donald trump jr. wrote in the same paper that her murder never would have happened if we policed the southern border and that democrats response to mollie's death was heartless and despicable. and one dayer a the murder president trump raised the case in a rally. >> you saw what happened to that incredible beautiful young woman. should have never happened. illegally in our country. >> reporter: the whi house so tweeting an emotional video of relatives of people killed by
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illegal immigrants. >> this man wasn'tpo sd to be here. >> reporter: in his column, tibbetts saying his famany by iowa's hispanic community, even offering them a heart feltol y. in this town, mollie's death is a private loss. bout him.sn't and it's not about all the other issues that are getting attached to it. this is about mollie and the community and the people around here. >> reporter: not a way to score political points. matt bradley, nbc news. senator john mccain is now in his final resting ace. sterday his family and friends gathered for a private cwhemony h capped a week of pubc good-byes. navy pilots flew in missing man formation aste a trio mccain who was held captive for five years after being shot down in vietnam. he was buried next to his classmate and best friend inhe cemetery at the naval academy. he was honored by two former
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presidents, fellow senators, and family at aeremony at the national cathedral here in d.c. senator lindsey mccain is defending meghan mccain's fiery yulegy of her father rebuking donald trump. >> if you say something about her dad you will know it. >> president trump did attend the funeral. his daughter ivanka and jaredr kush were there. senator graham says he facilitated thatat invn with cindy mccain's blessing. to be anothercted busy day on the roads. we have the best times to avel. staytr w
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okay. if you have family members tr eling on had laborday, here's a good reminder were the people who arectually monitoring the traffic on the bay bridge. they say wait to hit the roads. best travel times are before 10:00 this morning. we missed that. then they say the next time after that is after midnight. one other noted, the 95 express lanes north bounds are just going north bound all day long. here's a live picture right now from hollywood beach florida. what a difference. thereinds here picking up
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because of tropical storm gordon. the state could be dealing with hazardous weather over the next 36 hours. along with the wind, there are concerns about heavy rain as well as storm surge. people living along the mississippi/alabama border could also be dealing with thean re of this storm or actually the storm it self. you kn, we are entering september. and i thought back to the anniversary of harvey and all of that. it seems like everything was tumultuous last year. >> isn't that near miami, hollywood beach, isn't that where the hurricane was las year. >> yes. we had irma there last year. and we are still watching. now it's ramping up. you are right angie. because we don't only have gordon. we have florence out there as well. both are tropical storms. gorton was just a tropical wave yesterday when i was working.al i wasng with sheena parveen when i got in.
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he sd i skipped depression and went trait to tropical storm. and i look at theod map and went whoa that thing is organized. right around the miami area. out here is florence. that's going to stay out to sea. we will watch thatne later. let's talk about gordon. this track is interesting. the rinds are about 45 miles an hour. they have storm surge warnings and tropical storm warnings up tobahe a coastline. look where it goes. right towards arlouisiana, t new orleans. but as a tropical storm. but still that's no joke. this is going to be something that we monitor as it will continue to bossbly gain a little strength as it enters the warm gulf waters. this is going to be something wo keep our eye for our friends down there on the gulf coast. back here at home. plenty of sunshine. it is a beautiful day out there. but it is a hot day out tethere. eratures right now in the 80s. factor in the humidity. this is what it feels like. hello fredericksburg.th
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you are up t century mark for the heat index. that continues to rise into the afternoon. pool forecast for today looking good. temperatures into the 90s. could have an isolated thunderstorm later on this afternoon. again, it is going to be there today. make sure you stay hydrated. make sure that you are taking breaks if you are outside in the sunshine because even by 7 t0 a.m.orrow morning we are still feeling it. tomorrow afternoon, 1:00, feeling like the ib triple digits. by 8:00 p.m. tomorrow night feeling like the mid 90swe. ill talk about the storm chances later on for today comingbo up in 15 minutes. >> thanks lauryn. thi week the man accused of killing four people inside their d.c. mansion in 2015 goes on trial. we he an inside look on the case including new information that raises questions about the way evidence was collected. the number of parts foregoing vaccinations for their children is soaring. we will look at the healthat problem th's creating
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dessteps during the ee collection. now we are learning prosecutors just discovered cash in thef pants pocketne of the victims. some legal experts say this raises questions about oth items that could have been ssed. >> we are nows away from the start of the mansion murder trial a tragedy that haunted an entire community for more than three years, after a man, his wife and son along with their housekeeper were brutally murdered. news4 has obtained this court the prosecution is responding to the defense team's questions about evidence. we are nowrning that just days ago, prosecutors checked waspant pocket that the man wearing the day he was murdered. $1 was recovered. glen kirschner, a former federal prosecutor, says that was a misstep by detectives on scene. >> medical examiners aren't responsible for searching clothing. >> okay. >> that is exclusively sort the
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police purview. >> reporter: legal experts say this mistake could be used to convince the jury of negligent police work while evidence was being llected. but another set of court documents shows that wasn't the only piece of evidence that was missed. when an atf forensic expert was inside the house in the hours after the murder she recalled seeing a screwdriver holding up a basement window. the expert says she asked for the screwdriver could be collected but she doesn't believe it was. >> that suggests that there is more than one perso involved. of course she sees the screwdriver, and you do swipe dna on it and you do fingerprint analysis on it. >> reporter: butding to this report, it doesn't appear as though that ever bernard grim is a criminal defense attorney with decades of he says that crew driver could have led police to another suspect. but right now, darren windt is the only person gech
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no will soon be up to a jury to decide whether o he is convicted. >> each of these missteps will give the defense an argument in court to try to per ade the jury this was a shoddy investigation. >> prosecutors s they have dna evidence that links windt to the crimescene. we contacted the med row poll tan police department for a kmep and they t us they are unable to speak with us about this reenrt because of theng litigation. news4 is working for youiving deep into the high-profile murder mystery. we are looking into the clues left behind and the questions that still remain. join us tomorrow night at 6:30 for exclusive reporting on the mansion murders inside the investigation. we are waiting to hear more information from prince georges county police concerning a murder. they need her help finding a killer a officers fou woman lying in the floor inside an apartment
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early yesteay morning. she died on the scene. information is limited. so far no arrest and no words on amo ve. as more kids in our area are preparing to go back to school, there are some alarming health newsabo tell yout. >> that's right. a new study warns the number of parents refusg to vaccinate their children is surging and raising the risk for a mseor e outbreak. nbc's dr. john torres has the important inrmation you need to know. >> reporter: when kelly kruger's 3-year-old son developed cold symptoms a a rash she was shocked when she learned his diagnosis. >> they said he had measles and i went really, measles, is that a thinge kits get. ea reporter: ds like measles, eliminated from the u. years ago, could make a comeback. >> measles was the single leading killer of children globally. it's one of the mt contagious
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trssmissible infecti agents we know about. >> reporter: hot spots of risks are in2 states places vulnerable to outbreaks because too many parts aren't vaccinating their kids. idaho had some of the highest rates n. some strong rural counties, nearly 20% of kindhegarteners didn't get shots. hundreds of kids went unvaccinated in densely pulated cities like phoenix and seattle. >> these are the areas where we are concerned. >> reporter: pediatricians blame aggressive media campaigns scaring parents. >> how frustrating is it that social media i influencing parents more than their own doctor. >> it's frustrating. so much so we don't want to have the discussion because we know at times it won't lead anywhere. >> reporter: californid to allow parents to opt out of heir nes because of
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personal believes. but changed it because of a outbreak that started at disneyland. >> california needs to become a role model of what needs to happen in other states. >> reporter: the outbreak fected kelly kruger's son who had already received his first meles vaccine. her advice. >> do the research. know thes. real fa >> reporter: nbc news, boise, idaho. >> that was the bad news. but we have good news coming up on gras gas prices following the labor day holiday. >> she me the sney. p another eating contest. eating champ joey a chestnut is it again. see how he did with
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okay. so from hot dogs to chicken wings, competitive eating super
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star joey chestnut strikes again. he downed 206 chicken wings in minutes. 12 minutes. earning him a win in the national buffalo wing festival.b darreneden of orange, virginia, came in third place with 182 wings. i wonder how fast he did that. >> i did that math. joey did that 17 wings a minute. if i'm really hungr i might be kele to -- [ overlapping sp ] >>. [ laughter ] >> 17? wow. >> they must have iron stomachs don't they have pain after that. i don't know? >> iron widow. >> she's from northern virginia. she is tiny and she can eat it all. >> good metabolism. >> yeah. we are baking outside. >> yeah. >> be prepared. >> i took the trash out this orning and i walkeside and i was like oh, my -- >> it's so thick. it's worse than >> it is, and tomorrow is going to be worse than today. and the day after that isoroing
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to be than the day before. wednesday as we go through this week thingsoi are to heat up. with this heat and humidity we are going to have chances of pop-up thunderstorms popping up in the region. but it's going to be hot and humid all week. the humidity drops on friday as et some rain chances. from now until thuday it is really hot. we have rain for the upcoming weekend. starting on falday a fro system could come through, could stall out and continue the bring us rain throughout the weekend. watching temperatures going up. clinton, maryland at 90. reaganpt national a airport at 86. factor in the humidity, feeling like 101 for fredericksburg. it is a hot day. it's going to continue to be hot. fur grilling ohi there afternoon, again, temperatures low to mid 90s boo feeling like the triple digits. take water ure you breaks if you are ow and about outside. find some shade. heat index versus our
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temperature, around 102. 103 tomorrow and 102 on wednesday. nothing happening on the radar. even area beaches looking good thanks to high pressure i charge bringing us all this sunshine. we have a chance for pop-up stormsater on this afternoon. along i-95. then back towards the mountains we get a breeze coming off and that coulder go to battle with the humid air mass. tomorrow we areooking at temperatures in the low 90s. it is going to be warm. already tomorrow morning the temperature is going to be around 80 degrees. we continue to go up from there. then chances of rain as we into the upcoming weekend. >> lauryn ricketts thank you ry much. amazon is defending its safety record coming up hear from anaymployee what she wants the truth to come out. >> also coming up, the pasto at
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aretha franklin's funeral said
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the pastor who caused an uproar saying black america has lost its soulis during yulegy at aretha franklin's funeral is not backing down. he also said black women were incapable of raising sons alone. take a sten. >> as proud, beautiful and kind
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as our black women are, one thing a black woman cannot do, a black woman cannot raise a boy to be a man. >> some people took that as a criticism against franklin because she was a single mother of fou boys. many called the words inappropriate during a celebration for the queen of soul. here's part of how he defended his comment. >> i seen too many women who raised excellent men, jesse jackson, one of my dearest friends was raised by a single mom. but the women need help in their homes, and our race needs to become sensitive to that. >> franklin had specificay asked t pastor to speak at her funeral. amazon is known forde vering packages pretty
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quickly to your front door but some employees are accusing the tech giant of prioritizing speed overworker safety. jo ling kent reports. >> reporter: inside this fulfill then center outside dallas the focus is speed, efficiency and customer satisfaction but this employee says amazon's work demands are ruining her life. >> it's been the ultimate nightmare. >> reporter: she says she processed an average of 600 items an hour at her job here at a broken workstation and hurt her back. >> it felt like someone stabbed me the back. >> reporter: amazon attempted to minimize her injury by not sending her to a doctor for weeks and not paying her during the dispute over her workers' compensation claim. now she is homeless, sleeping in her car, often in the amazon parking lot. you are sleeping right in here?
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allen is not alone. this year, amazon which oasr 175 fulfillment centers around the worland more than half a million employees was ranked one of the 12orst companies to work for by the national council for occupational safety and health a non-profit that advocates forndorker health a safety. as by far thear lst on line retailer for americans, amazon's record is difficult toompare to other major brands. the senior vice president dave clark oversys fulfillment center operations worldwide. >> we have hundreds of thousands of employeesorng ten was year ns of hours every across the network. the overwhelming majority of those are safe hours where people come in do great work for customers and go home safely. our gasil may seem a bit high now buts it loo like gas price also take a tumble. aaa is predicting the curre price of gas is about to fall be 147 cents o the next two months. experts say this is because
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winter fuel is cheaper to produce than what we use in summer. right now, the national average price per gallon is $2.84. after the break a mother fighting for her young son. >> hold on to our faith and trust that god wld save our baby. >> the boy nearly drowned. now a new treatment could
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this mornin irish rock star bono is working to get his voice back after losing it during a performance. saturday night, u2 had to stop thr concert in berlin after bono struggled through a few songs. the band says they areli resche the show for november adding they are relieved it wasn't anything serious with his voice. and the washington mystics havee forced a gam five in the w nba semifinals. ena returned to the starting nlineup lastht against the missing ream after three games with a knee injury. she may not appearo tbe at her full strength but pulledff a double-double with 15 points ad 10rebounds. a beast. the mystics scored a playoff record 97 points. game fe is set for atlanta on i almost went to that game yet. >> that would have been great. >> i >>know. the turks kicking off the football season over the weekend
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but -- the terps kicked off the football weekend. the team paid tnscribe t jordan mcnair the offensive lineman who died over the susoer. the sean has been dedicated to him and he will continue to have a locker. no one will wear his number 79 until 2020 bause that's the year he would have graduate a texas family hopes oxygen therapy will help their son who near drowned to develop new brain cells. it was a really closel here. bianca castro has the story. >> touch your head. let me see you touch it head. yeahs shoulder knees and toes. >> reporter: these are the moments stephanie reecehe cher the most. as she plays with her 3-year-old during treatment that may change s life.
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stephanie remembers every detail ofhe day in 2017 when her son snuck out the door and fell into the swimming pool. >> my oldest sonscreamed. i freaked out. >> reporter: he had been under water for five minutes. s his heapped beating for 45 minutes. miraculouscally, doctors revived him. severe brain damage left them without hope hwould ever the same. not stephanie. when afterhe accidente managed to breathe on his own kept her faith rong. >> we had to hold on to our faith and trust good. >> reporter: now a year later she is hoping the hyperbaric oxygen sessions will high pressure her son on the road to recovery. he spends an h day inside the chambering prooeting pure oxygen. >>t causes you to take in 15 times more oxygen that affects the cells. and the cells heal.
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it heals wounds no matter where they are. >>s eporter: the therapyfda approved to treat certain conditio like severeurns but not traumatic brain injuries. however justast year research had a cas study about how hyperbaric oxygen therapy reversed the brain damage of a girl who nearly drowned. she had 40 of these sessions. >> he is walking stsighter. he i babbling more. we can't understand what he is saying yet but he is trying to get the words out. >> reporter: he will continue spch and physical therapy in addition to up to 33 more hypearic therapysessions. each one costs the family $250. but to stephanie it is a small price to pay. >>hen i realize how many babies don't survive, i realize how great god is. >>eporter: to give her son his best chance of beating the odds. >> my gosh.t
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that's w i'm saying. it takes one second. looking away. you go to tak a phonecall. your kid hops into the pool. >> you don't hear it. it's silent. drowning is silent. and as a mother, you are willing to do anything and try anything to give your child the best chance. good luck to them. >> today would be a good day tot go into pool because it's so hot outside a. lot of people will l. >> a of people are going to be taking a dip. keep an eye to the sky because there is a chance we could have some thunderstorms out there. now you are seeing we have a few clouds out there right now. but sunshine. mainly the clouds are off to the east of i-95. 11:30, looking good. highressure in charge plenty of sunshine out there. we see thunderstorms trying to popft up 2:00 or 3:00. they could bring heavy downpours to the region. nothing too strong but they could pop up with the b breeze and the potomac breeze.
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tomorrow morning again it is going to be humid with patchy fog as well when you get the kids ready for the bus stop morni -- almost everybody is going back tomorrow if they haven't yet temperatures will be 80. it is a still going to feel like summer to the kids out there. and when they head home it will feel like over 100 degrees.s dangerheat. make sure your children stay hydrated especially if theytre on the bus stop for an extended period of time. isolated chance of thunderstorms tomorrow gzales went. staying in the low to m 9 or thursday. thank you for joining us. we are back on the air thisoo afte at 6:00 p.m. >> that's right. not 4:00 or 5:00. at 6:00. you can get of course all the weather updates and news on our nbc washington app..
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- ahh, nbc, my alma mater. the buildings have grown, but it's nice to be back. - i'm so excited. i never got to take the nbc studio tour. i hope it's informational. - i hope we get to see some celebrities. - you are a celebrity, you weirdo. - yeah, but other ones. - hi, there. welcome to the nbc universal new employee studio backlot tour. i bet you guys are the cast of "brooklyn nine-nine." - hi, i'm stephanie. we're so excited to be here. - wow, you are nothing like your character. - yeah, acting. - big fan, by the way, big fan. we are so excited to have you guys as part of the nbc family. i assume you guys have already completed the new employee intake program? - no, we have not, but we have our best man on the job. - andre braugher. - no, it's joe. [knock at door]

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