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today. and a decade old letter says the vatican knew about sexual abus claims against a former d. bishop. now it's playing a part in an alleged coverup by pope. >> first, welcome in saturday morning. it's 8:00 on the dot. thank you for being with us.>> holy storms yesterday. >> hold onto your hat. get your umbrellas out. >> it was >> and you needed sunglasses for the lightning strike. it have unbelievable. >> i was sitting inside my apartmen i could s lightning all throughout the windows in my apartment. it seemed like it wa so close. that's a good stat i'm going to look atif t's concentrated where i am, i know it was elsewhere. elsewhere we gt aot ofrain, and if you're around the d.c. areaetro yesterday, you heard it last night. a few showers right now.
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the heaviest rain just to the north and east of baltimore. and a f light showers toward the i-81or corr i widen out this view. look at this spin. we're s stilling gordon, and that is going to be headed our way as we head into the overnight and through much of the day tomorrow. so a lot of that moisture coming back into our area. this is actually a camera behind this graphic. we have a lot of fog too. that visibility down quite a bit. plenty of clouds. temperatures in the 70s. th're staying i 70s as we go through the day. we're going to talk about exactly what you can expect for this week when the heavy rain comes back and we'll talk about florence's new track. that's coming up in a few nutes. >> thank you. lauren. we were dealing with fridayni t lights. not football. a lot of high school games were cancelled. this was happening in the skies. >> the storms barrled through
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here. listen to this. that was just some of it. the storms brought drenching rain, pools of watere in road. flas flood warnings for hours. the rest of the eekend it could be a wet one as well. we'll keep our eye of the sky. the storms forced the tionals to postpone their game against the cubs last night. the game was scoreless in the top of the second when it was cancelled. today the teams will play a double header. the first game is at 3:05. the second game is 45es min after the first game wraps up. >> you'll want to stay on top of several road closures with 5k runs in the district. roads around the white house in the national mall a already closed for the susan g komen race for the cure. that r te set start about an hour from now. 9:00 this morning. most of the road closures are set t start aga this morning, and they will reopen back aft
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11:00. that's a brief shutdown this morning. tonight inli ton, police fire and sheriff 9/11 memorial race. it's set to start at can have. it starts on army navy drive. closed from 3:00 to 8:00 this evening. a lot to keep track of. new this morning, surveillance video showing t moments a man firing a gun hitting a six-year-old girl in southeast d.c. police want you to look at the video from thursday night. you can see a dark car stop. the person stops out. the gunmanegins firing and a stray bullet hits a six-year-old girl in her ankle. we know she is t expectedbe okay. time right now is 8:03. four years ago, one of the most confounding missing persons cases began in the parking lot of a fast food restaurant in germantown. jackie bensen was there last
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night as family and friends of jacob and sarah hogul braved the thunderstorms to remember them with a vigil. >> reporter: the winds picked up. the skies over germanto became ominous as a small tent in the chick-fil-a parking lot threatened t. blow aw a friend arrived to weight it down as thunder and lightning crashed overhead.f none o it flustered troy turn who are greeted everyone with a smile and a warm handshake or hug. a thunderstorm is nothing to a man who has for four years suffered daily not knowing thee wh abouts of his two youngest children. >> four days was too four years is ridiculous. we're not going to give up on them. we're going to keep fighting for their justice and to find them. >> reporter: sara and jacob were last w seenh their mother in september of 2014.
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she'de facing m charges but has been deemed not mentally comp tent stand trial. she told the court she left the children with a friend, but sp e exhaustive searches, they have not been found. >> part of this is t say thank you to everyone who supported us in the community and everyone going through the facebook page. >> reporter: the children's paternal grandmother was among those who gathered. >> i cry every day. four years. >> reporter: the family continues to hold out t hopet someday they will have answers. they have a facebook page find sarah, find jacob. in germantown, jackie bensen, news 4. a resurfaced letror a top vatican official confirming it received a complaint about a bishop of washington nearly two decades ago. the letter refences the vatican first knew of the alleged misconduct with people ewin nersey back in 2000. the cardil signed earlier
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this summer. an archibishop cited the sis kpens of the letter in his accusation that vatican officials covered up for the bishop. >> time is 8:06. an outpouring on social media from celebrities andfans. they are shocked, saddened. they sent conlencesbout the sudden death of mac miller. he was found unresponsive at his l.a. home yesterday and was declared dead just beforenoon. investigators say they'll have to do an autopsy to determine how he died. the family released a statement saying in part he was a bright light in this world for his family and friends and fans. he had just released an album last month. he was expected to start touring soon. he wt 26 years old. a life-long dream for ati h victim that's about to come true months after his death. a book will be published by one
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of the five people in the june attack. his book features a teacher inying to figure out what to do after l his wife, dog, and boat all in a difficult year. proceeds from his book will go to the g anti-violenup, every town for gun safety. the man who carjacked a nun near catholic university earlier this yearoi is to get locked up for seven years in prison. yesterday aoudge a sentenced brandon brown to three years of supervised threlease. is part of a plea deal in a case that dates back to the past april. prosecutors say the nun who was dressed in pull h been bot said may god bless you as she handed over the keys. brown put a gun to the nun's head. he did ple guilty to the carjacking and a gun charge. we wanou to draw attention to the upper right hand corne of your screen.
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people who live here say they are surpeised this is hng and it happened last weekend. neighbors say drivers speed up ann their street all theti . after complaints prince george's county says it will survey the road to decide if speed humps will slow the drivers down. it is 8:08. next on news 4. a man thought a priest was his biological father. that set him on a 25-year journey to find the truth. dna results from that exhumed priest gave him the answer that he has been desperately seeking. his story is just ahead on news 4 today. get to the ross fall fashion event... ...and get the brands you want... check this out. ...at "oh, yeah" prices. from the latest trends to your favorite brands, it feels even better when you find them for less. at the ross fall fashion event. yes for less.
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remains were exhumed for dna testing. >> we captured the moments he learned the results. >> reporter: the long journey for jim graham ends here. he's been seeking a fwers 25 years from the catholic church, finding them on the campus of a tholic school. you've driven all the way from south carolina to find out whether father thomas sullivan is your father. dr. an marie myers is the forensic anthropologist who took dna samples from the pooriest t y after father'sday. now two months later. >> i here toell you that he is. >> >> reporter: finally, confirmation and relief. >> big range emotionally, but relaxed. >> reporter: amid family rumors,
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it's a journey that began at the tablef who he thought were his aunt and uncle. >> they said to me this man may be your father, but we don't know. only the principalsknow, and they're all dead. >> reporter: that day began the quest. he has uestioned thechurch, gathered records, hired private detectives. at the center? one question. was father thomas sullivan a priest, graduate of boston college, buried, his father. >> when she told you, you had ch emotion. >> when it's validated, it hit home. >> reporter: graham doesn't want compensation or money from e church. only validation, recognition, a confession. >> they tried to bury our history, and i wasn't goingle t that happen. >> reporter: and he never wanted to exhume a priest. >> my father is speaking today rrough his dna today. but it waslly unnecessary when you think of the catholic church all along. theynow who i am.
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they all know i'm his son. i look just like him. >> reporter: graham believes the church took h h from real parents to avoid scandal. a child fathered by a priest with a married woman. >> he told me forget the injustices of the past. i mean, justhat statement drove me to do what we're doing here today. all they had to do was acknowledge that 25 years ago and say what can we do to helpu there's emotional damage and they never even offered. >> repter: your story is ground breaking for so many other people who believe they're ildren of priests. what do you say to them? >> it will set a precedent where they may want to do the sam thing ihey have to. i think this story will resonate. and i will be an advocate for them >> reporter: news 4. the results potentially opened the door to thousands of other men and women around the world to prez their claim against the cathlic chu that
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their fathers are, indeed, priests. >> wild story there. time right now is coming upn 8:14. we look at the front yard here in nthwest d.c. a bit gloomy. a lot of rain. lightning, thunnd lauren says m that's awheat. delicious. but it's more than that. 10 layers of crunchy wheat to fill you up on big days. whether your day involves steam, mountains, or woah- fire... ...we've got your breakfast right here. is your breakfast built for big days?
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welcome back. no to story you're only going to see on news 4. >> this is sure to put a smile on your face. an unlikely friendship between a
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school janitor and a student. >> a seless act captured on camera. david culver reports. >> reporter: angel is used to people passing him by. >> it's normally mean mugs and shoulder shrugs where i come from. >> reporter: amid a high school hallway, one student made an kfort to get tow him. >> he was always saying have a great day. >> eporter: their friendshi started about two years ago right here in stafford high school. the conversation w based on shoes. >> i was getting into shoes and what he did. he t startedking about sports, and we found a good conn >> whenli i saw him, i wake man, thisid is pretty cool. >> rorter: angel's exterior makesis positiveness hard to believe. >> homeless four years.
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i met my wife and she took me out of the lifestyle. >> repter: work and famil became the focus. after that, friendship. this week tristan wanted to surprise angel. tristan asked him what type of shoes he could get for himself. he said you should get the jordan eights. i a said do you have pair? he said i have four kids. i can't shop for myself >> not including the pets. >> reporter: tristan walked up with a surprise with another classmate rolling. >> we weren't even going to videotape it. my mom was l i want to see his reaction. >> just to be able to know that he would be able to bless me is amazing. >> reporter: tristan's genuine generosity spreading online and throughout the school. >> that's reallyhat it's all about. there are so many life lessons in school that we can't teach. and you guys are learning them. >> reporter: one of those lessons? stop and get to know those we pass every da ere's no telling what might come of it.
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in stafford unty, david culver, news 4. >> pretty awesom pretty awesome. okay. we got a lot to get to with we have all our people here. they're tuning. the numbers go up on facebook live when lauren shows up. people have persona questions. this is asking about upper marlboro and -- >> we have rain. will they see rain showers? better chances north of.c. as opposed to south. it's not going to be a washout today. this gs for everybody. our weather questions, heavy rain today. no. g definitely nng to have a repeat of what we saw last night. we will have plenty of dry times today. but you see this picture out here right now? this graphic underneathis picture? that's what it's going to look like throughout the day today. eanow, the rain returns overnight and then periods of heavy rai through your sunday.
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today looks a lot dryer than tomorrow but both days are going to feature some rain. will florence impact us? it i definitely possible that we will see some of florence move into our area as we head into next weekend. current temperatures right now, 60s and0s. they're pretty much staying put. we have heavy rain t and isolated light showers here and there. one coming through the martinsburg area and then a few as we go down tonnolis now moving just to the north of the bay bridge. this will continue. light stuff out there today as we go through the day. the heaviest rain staying up throughan pennsy. here's gordon right here. gordon will actually move jus a ttle bit to the north bringing heavy rain to the area overnight intopennsylvania. we will see some of that move into our area for that's why we have a better chance of heavy rain tomorrow. watch out for the visibilities. they are very low right now with the fog.
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i expect it to be through that today. temperatures 60s and 70s out there today. dry time but also periods of drizzle a some light rain. now, here we go. 8:00 a.m. on saturday. we've got some rain north of baltimore. elsewhere seeing lightshowers. plenty of clouds throughout the day today. just about any time w will have some drizzle and some light shower activity. but again, pnty of dry time as well. we're stuck in the clouds. overnight tonight that's when the heavy rain starts moving back in. we'll continue to see some heavy rain throughout the day tomorrow. if you're waking up headed off to church, the farm market, bring tha umbrella. areas of heavy rain will continue all the way tndough night. in fact, we could have some flooding issues to deal with tomorrow. temperatures will be in the 60s. not only do we have rain but also a little bit of a breeze as well. so we've got a nats double header out there today. passing showers possible for that. race for the cure, susan gom
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at 9:00. cloudy. mostly dry with the occasional sprinkle here and there. moderate showerse bec you are north and that's where a lot of the dynamics are. th arlington fire police, sheriff, 91 memorial 5 k, light shower possible. i do think most of it is going to be dry. florence is going to continue to impact the atlantic right now. it is going to intensify a it runs into warmer waters in the atlantic tha arebove normal right now. so it could be a category h 4s it heads toward the eastern seaboard. we're going to have to really watch and see where this ends up. this will be thursday time frame. it could bring rain into our area as we get into next weekend. we'll talk about that ten-day forecast ando in depth more with florence coming up in a with florence coming up in a little bit.
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in dallas a shocking mixup has left a man dead. >> yeah. now a police officer is potentiallgh facing manslr charges. investigators say this happened on thursday night. a female officer had arrived home in ful uniform after working her shift. now, she entered a neighbor's participant thinking it was her own. officials say the officer confronted a 26ear-old and then shot and killed him.
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the mother is devastated. >>ook into her eyes and ask her why she did that to my son. she took away my heart. she took away my soul. she took away everything. >> now, the police chief says investigators were obtaining a warrant to charge the officer.s the officelood was drawn to test for alcohol and drugs as atll. wow. case there. >> a connecticut woman is recovering this morning afters authoritay she lit dynamite. she thought it was a candle. fire officials say that she wanted to light a candle after the power went out in the home thursday evening. that's when she lit one of the sticks. it went offer in hand. police say she suffered facial injuries and may have lost some of her fingers. more troubleor a celebrity chef with several restaurants ir our .
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"the washington post" reported that isabella file third dekn or protection for his businesses. this is coming after a sexual harassment lawsuitrom a former manager. she's claiming that isabella and his partners touched her without permission. ,hey've all denied it and settled the suit but his businesses took a hit and staffered had to leaveome of the spots. and even the washingtonut nationalsusiness ties with isabella. a live look outside at the national mall. a gloomy start to your saturday morning. but is not scorching hot. more rain is in the forecast, and then we're tracking a tropical storm out in the atlantic. atlantic. that coming's u as your home becomes more connected... shouldn't your internet keep up? it's time for fios.
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8:30 on this saturday morning. here's what we're following for you. you probably saw some of the strong wi you felt the heavyains rolling through much of the area last night. nowtorm team 4 tracking the chances for more weekend showers. mk miller died. he was found dead of a suspected drug overdose friday. he was scheduled to go on tour for his new album next month. a letter from a top vatican official confirms the church knew about abuse aaiegations nst a former cardinal for almost 20 years. a former vatican ambassador revealed that letter last month.
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>> good morning, everyone. i'm angie goff. >> thank you so much for being here with us onhis saturday morning. a gloomy start, and some mor c rainld be on the way. what a show last night. >> what a show. a lot of peopleaking up this morning with questions. you, know we'ree l facebook right now. you'd better get in the studio. wants toe asking jenny know about fairfax, and they want to know about germantown and everyone wants to know what it's going to do. they have plans. the was trying to run down things around the area. we have a lot of events today in d.c. and then outside the beltway as well. i'm going to jump on facebook live later o after our show. our show ends at 9:00. join me on there. i'm goingo answer you questions. i know we got a lot of them. right now the question is are w going to see heavy rain today? not seeing heavy rain across the region right now. we are seeing a lot of fogut there. visibilities are cut down quite a bit.
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this is really what it'soing to look like all day. not going to be the prettiest of days. we are going to have plenty of cloud cover and some areas ofzl dr out there today. 76 is our temperature right now. a little bitf a breeze out there. as you head out the door this morning, grab that umbrella. you may need it. otherwise temperataresng in the mid 70s. patchy fog this morning, and then again o areas drizzle and light rain. we'll talk about who can see the heaviest rai even as we head into tomorrow. nd we'll also show you the track offlorence, something we're really going to have to watch here. ittle coming up in a bit. >> all right. lauren, a lot to keep track of. ti> cing with this theme. friday night lights, not football, the light new england and thunder. >> storms barrelled through the dmv yesterday. they brought. drenching ra a lot of lightning like that. and roads were poong and we also saw a lot of downed trees. therwere flash flood warnings for hours and the rest of the
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weekend is expected to be a wet one at some poitt for p much everybody. >> and there's baseball to play. the nats postponed their game last night. the game was scoreless in the top of hee second it was called. today the teams will try to play a double header. the first game is scheduled for 3:05. the second game is supposed to start5 nutes after the first game finished. there are several traffic cha changes you might want to watch out for. we have a look at some of the changes in your traffic. >> a look at your first 4 traffic. e roads for the weekend. a lot of stuff happening downtown this weekend. first, the race for the cure. downtownaturday from 8:30 in the morning until 11:00. pennsylvaniaet avenueen third and 14th and northwest and dependence and 3rd street between d and pennsylvani
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avenue shut down. sunday 5:00 a.m. to 2 nm. closuresng begin at 5:00 a.m. include a section of white hurs freeway and a 7:00 another set of closures. it's extensive. we'll have them all on our nbc 4 app. sunday, noon to 6:00, 18th street shut down between colombia road and florida avenue. aeads up. tomorrow trains on the orange, blue and silver and yellow lin will be running every 24 minutes starting late tonight all day sunday and on the red lin a major safety drill is closing platforms at two stations. that's from 7:00 in the morning until 2:00 in then afternoon o the red line on the upper level at the gallery place station. that means the red line plat forms at metro cente and gallery line are closed.
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both stations will be open for other lines buto closed te red line in the morning and the afternoon. buses will replace red lineio st from opening until about 2:00 tomorrow afternoon. keep that in mind. tlso you may hear simulated sounds during t drill. a somber anniversary for a father in montgomery county. it has been four s yearsce jacob and sarah disappeared. last night a thunderstorm did not stop troy turner who greeted those who came out in germantown. three-year-old sarah and two-year-old jacob were last seen with their mom in september of 14. she' facing murder charges. it's been determined she's not mentally competent to stand trial. >> fasr days too long. four years is ridiculous. we're going to continue on. we're not going to give up on them. we're going to keep fighting for titheir j and to find them. >> the family maintains a facebook page dedicated to
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aners of the where abouts of jacob and sarah. >> let's turn our attention to politics. president ump firing back at former president obama who called him out by name in campaign appearance. this happened last night. president ama told a cro to rebuke a brand of politics that he says is, quote, steeped ife and division. now, hours later president trump addresseorr president obama's critique and speculated why he's targeting him. >> i sort of watched that aeech, and i dozed off watching him. i'ays sort of dozed off watching him. he's trying to make a cacomebac e the democrats are in shambles. president trump has called on the justice department now to track down the anonymous of that new york times op ed, but a white house official said the presid amount to an order to federal prosecutors. the former trump campaign adviser who triggered the federal investigation into
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russian election interference is sentenced to 14 days i jail. papadopoulos got one year release and ordered to pay a fine of almost $10,000. he read a statement saying he made a terrible mistake and hopes to redeem himself. take a look at some surveillance video of an attempted particularly in northwest d.c. it didn't work out quite the way they were planning. this happened at the smile dental center. they just can't get the tv off the wall on georgia avenue and bright wood park. police say the suspect used a brick to shatter the front glass door and tried to get the mounted flat screen from the wall but they couldn't. >> you need a screwdriver. >> at one point they turned it on. >> it's mounted to the wall. not with duct tape.
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>> if you recognize these guys, police want to hear from you.n' i know why it's so funny. >> tables full of edible marijuana are u the street. d.c. police seized all of this thursday in a raid on a marijuana popup party. you can't sell weed in d.c., but you canive it awa as a gift. and pop up parties,endors give pot away with the purchase of things like t shirts and stonkers. policeder that transaction, and, therefore, illegal. this was all taken from a popup wreet on street northwest around the corner from the rhode island metro stop. 8:38. theattle against bullies in the digital age. we pored over dozens of school reports to see who is most reports to see who is most likely migraine with botox®.
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get bullied on their phones as th are in the classroom according to a review of nternal school district reports. >> as scott mcfarland tells us, schools and parents must respond to a threat that increasingly follows students home long after dismissal. >> the start of the school year can be stressful for all of us. we check the bus routes of the new teachers. we can watch our kids 24/7. >> how many of you have seen or heard bullying? raise your hand. all righou how many of have seen or heard bullying on social media? these four students at this high school sayve though they rarely see bullying in the llways or neighborhoods, it's unavoidable online. >> i don't understand why people do it. they don't know what's going on in other people's lives. >> youhi may not t that person is being hurtut other people can see it.
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>> reporter: taunts and threats have anl media c audience of thousands. >> you might think you're innocently teasing your but they might be having a bad day. >> reporter: we wanted to know how much electronic bullying was happening with our local kids. we reviewed interna student surveys. we found at least 60,000 local kids reportedas bullying lt year, and we found no school district is immune to it. >> surveys in arlington county show one of three students bullied was harassed on social media or by text. in montgomery county ninth graders reported being bullied more oftenn social media or via text than the older classmates. in d.c. lgbtq students reported being tarted more often. >> it can become damaging. >> reporter: this mom knows the pain onlinean bullying cause. >> we shouldn't be surised when excessive horrendousll
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ng doesn't erupt somehow. >> reporter: her daughter, grace,de committed suifter being bullied on twitter. >> she was told a to choke die. i hope you kill yourself. these were actual written threats? >> i hope you somehow see this and then yourself to sleep and then wake up and kill yourself, you might as well. you're lousy piece of. aimed at a 14-year-old. >> reporter: she says grace didn't even have a twitter account but the tweets had hundreds of viewers. >> it is instantaneously distributed. g>> reporter: she's lobby to make it illegal for someone to urge a kid to kill himself or herself through online bullying. >> being good citizens, not just in your school community but also online is critically importan >> in loudoun county, schools are taking a new approach to bullying,y especia after a study that said cyber bullying needs to be addressed at school
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because nearly every kid comes with a smart phone. the assistant superintendent tells our team rather than expelling bullies, they're setting up confere to allow victims to confront the bully in front of a mediator. >> we're empowering them to take responsibility for their learning. >> reporter: back at the school students say they know it'spr a lem for all kids that needs to be addressed. s> you have to be a lot more aware about whaoing on in people's lives. >> people just keep doing it. t i don't thint's okay. it leads up to more and more bad results and people always wondeh people would do such things. it's because people are getting erllied. >> here's anoign things are changing. we're told schools in health departments didn't ask kids about the risk of cyber bullying. experts say when you meet your kid's achers or principals later this month, ask them what are they telling their students aboutullying both in school and out?
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8:44. some drizzle. but also some dry patches throughout the day. do you have questions about today's weather. >> yes. >> okay. well log onto facebook live on the nbc washington facebook page with lauren rickets who is joining u on airs
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smhsonian curators are thrilled about a big discovery. >> they're not in kans anymore.
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judy garland's red slippers from th wizard of oz f have ound after they were stolen more than a decade our derek ward with how the shoes me their way home. >> reporter: probably the most identifiable pair of shoes around. >> they've been danced in. they've been loved. >> reporter: and they've beence missing s a smash and grab bbery at the judy garland museumn 2005. while there are four surviving pairs, these were work third down by a then r-16-yd judy garland. >> we can see the cracks in the paint, and that's because as we wear shoes and they're being danced in and flexed, that paint that was applied to the bottom is going to start to crack. >> reporter: the case surrounding is the shoes began to crack. the fbi got involved. >> lots of interviews. severa searches. only to later lead this summer to the recovery. >> reporter: they had to verify
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these were those ruby slippers. so thehoes got a forensics treatment. >> we were able to look at the competition athe beads, of the prongs, of the threads, and really all the materials that make up theshoe. >> reporter: theni smithan had a mismatched pair. s thelen pair were also at mismched. this summer's discovery put things right. the right right with the right. le >> we were lucky enough to have the other pair of shoes brought here. we were comparing the two and were able to find they are consistent with the pair that we have. >> it's going to be a while before you can take a better look at the ruby slippers. they will be on display in october. >> a t so will old movie magic. >> after two years of working on this project, i still sort of smile every time i see the shoes when they come out of the box. t> reporter: derek ward, news 4. good t they are back home, finally. >> at one point theyffered $1
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million to try to find those ruby slippers. >> we're t toldy'll be on display at the american history museum starting october 19th. t s weekend might be a good weekend. or live in washington and often we take it granted that there are so many great museums we can go insend see. great day to check it out. >> definitelf today, you can get downtown. a lot of races. it's greatacing weather out there. i'd love to run in this right now. fog, clouds, temperatures in the 60s and 70s. quite a change seen over the last couple of weeks with the heat in place. 60s and 70ss what you'reoing to get throughout the day today. your planner for today, we've got someatchy fog as we continue through the morning. some drzle. maybe a breeze from time to time. but again, the temperatures staying in the 60 and 70s. pretty much all the way through the day today. it's not going to be a plenty of the day is going to be dry, but we also have that
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chance for light passing showers. again, a l h ofvier rain to the north right now. in baltimore, also aroundhe bay bridge right now. that's moving off to the eastern shore. but we're seeing a few light showers toward the i-81 corridor and the eastern panhandle of west virginia. widening out the view, the heavy rain continues t to stayough pennsylvania. this is remnants of gordon. gordon is going to pus up through the great lakes and kind of flatten out. the heaviest rain over the nt two days is going to be mainly north, but as gordon comes through tomorrow, that's when we could see heavier rain showers right around our area. and again, we're not looking at too much rain through the day today. this is by 8:00 p.m. tomorrow. n agai as much down to the south, but a lot of rain up toward that mason dixon line. and then we're gong add to the totals pretty much all of this week. again, here's 8:30. seeing a few light showers out there. just about any time tcoay we
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d see drizzle or a light passing shower. we're going to have pledry of time out there. just a lot of clouds and a lot of fog throughout the day. heavier rain as we continue to the overnight and then we'll sen heavy rhroughout the day tomorrow. temperatures in the 60s tomorrow and it's going to be breezy out there through the day tomorrow. and then we have rain on monday with a few thunderstorms. here's florence right now. it kind of weakenedbi a littl as we had some sheer ripping the apart at the upper levels f the atfear. it's going to reintetlify. thetic ocean will continue to be a little on the warmer side. temperatures are above normal. that warm water feeds into this hurric ae. it's tropical storm but it should be a hurricane heading into early monday. look at this. this is something we're going to have to pay attention to. so, again, this track, not set in stone. this is not until trsday tha we will maybe see it make land fall. maybe, big maybe. what's happening is we have a
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system up in the northeast pacific. at's going to move on shore into the west coast. that's going to create an area of high pssure on one side or the other of be we don't know yet. it hasn't formed and irmtud has started this process. but we should know by monday where ts area ofigh pressure is going to set up, and where that area of high pressure is going to set up is going to dictate this track. again, don't take this for -- set in stone. take it with a grain o salt. we are watching our interest right along the eastern seaboard. oncet moves to the eastern seaboard, fit does, we'll have rain in here thursday, friday, saturday, and even sunday.d it will be heavy tropical kind of rain that we'll see pre. todaynty of dry time. chances of passing showers. tomorrow heavier rain, and then a warm front lifts warmer temperatures by monday and tuesday with rain and storm ch wces andching florenc ch wces andching florenc toward tehe
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