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already planned for tomorrow. >> plus, a white hepse rorter barred, his secret service clearance suspended after thise heatxchange with the president. >> that's enough. that's enough. that's enough. >> i want to ask -- >> that's enough. >> pardon me, mam. >> excuse me. that's enough. >> you are a rude, terrible person. news 4 at 11:00 begins with breaking news. first tonight, breaking news from the archdiocese of washington. usnew allegations in of sexual abuse by a priest in the district. >> the priest was arrested today. his name is father urbano vasquez. our sistern, statio telemundo 44, reports fm sacred heart. >> reporter: d.c. police havell said theed abuse happened in may 2015. an arrest was made today. ond father is accused of s degree sexual abuse. according to police, his victim, a 13-year-oldemale member of
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his church, said he placed his hand down the front of her shirt ote, bareed her, breast on two different occasions. when z was 42 years old the alleged abuse took place. the archdiocese of washington says this was the first report to the archdiose of this allegation of sexual abuse and immediately uponearning of this serious allegation, the archdiocese immediately removed father vazquez from ministry. since the claim to police, addition alabama games were reported. the pastor of sacred heart church has also been removed from his position, because according to the archdiocese, he failed to report the allegations against vazqz. doreen and leon, back to you. >> thank you, alberto. now, the church found out about this complnt on october 26th. and this was just days afters. e attorney's office in d.c. established a hotline for survivors o clergy abuse.
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we don't know if that's how this complaint was uncovered. you can find the number in our n nbc washingto app. search clerg abuse there. matt whitaker will now oversee the mller investigation. >> and many critics actually see this as improper influence by the president. >> matthew whitaker has made no bones about questioning the legitimate si of this investigation. >> and p seem have called this obstruction of justice in plain sight. a the newing attorney general is replacing his former boss. matthew whitaker was jeff sessions' chief of staff. >> after president trump forced his resignation, sessions today left the justice department o a rousing round of applause. after acknowledging the crowd, sessions shook whitaker's hand. >> tonight, nbc news justice correspondent pete williams
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introduces us to the man w stantly becomes one of the most influential figures in washington. >> reporter: president trump today appointed an acting attorney general, matt whitaker, a former u.s. attorney in iowa, and today, sessions' chief ofst f. whitaker will now oversee the russia investigation, taking it over fro rosenstein. when he was a conservative commentator for cnn, whitaker was wary of giving the special counsel too much power and the russia investigation could be throttled back. >> receive sessionss replaced, with a recess appointment and that attorney general doesn't fire bob mueller buzz jut just redulss the budget so low that his investigation grinds to a halt. >> reporter: and he saw nothing wrong with trump's son meeting with a russian lawyer offering dirt onli hillaryon during the campaign. >> you certainly want to have any advantage, any legal advantage you can. >> robert mueller retains his full authority as special counsel. he'll now have to clear all
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major decisions with matt whit acr. >> it mea that matt whitaker will oversee bob mueller's dovestigation. if mueller needs tomething or seek additional authority or ge permissio to charge, mueller has to go through whitaker w >> reporter:taker has authority to fire mueller, but only for cause such as misconduct. no word tonight on rosenstein's future. was on the job today, attending a previously scheduled white house meeting. pete williams, nbc news, washington. democrats are warning of dire t consequences i trump administration tries to stop or slow down the russia probe. chuck schumer says it could spark a constitutional crisis. any attorney general, whether this one or another one, should not b able to interfere with the mueller investigation in any way. >> at least two gop senators tweeted support for allowing the special counsel iestigation to continue. senator lamar alexander said any attorney general nominee who would stop the pro would not
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get confirmed. senator susan collins says robert mueller's work should continue without interference. protesters at the white house tonight worried mueller's in stigation is injeopardy. tomorrow, more will gather across the country. news 4's jackie bensen is at the white house tonight with that story. jackie? >> reporter: well, doreen, these planned protests are a collaborationretween a num of liberal and democratic groups. now, currently, form of protest going on in front of the white house almost every nig s. you can this one from tonight. tomorrow's protests have been long planned, and designed to be very quickly activated through social thdia. will be held at 5:00 p.m. in cities across the u.s. and are being called the nobody is above the law rally. the participating organizations say it is part of their emergency plan designed to protect the muellern investigat and was activated by today's firing of attorney general jeff sessions. >> already activated a networkos of across the country.
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people already have signs they've been storing in their basement prepared sometimes for months now, and even though the election was only asterday, peop ready to come out into the streets tomorrow, right tehere to the whouse, in idaho, in wisconsin, in cold weather, in hot weather, all over the cntry. rrow'sorter: to protesters are always calling for acting attorney general matt whitaker to recuse himself from the russia investigation. live in northwest, jackie bensen, news 4. >> all right, jackie, thank you. more b aking newstonight. allegations from reporters that president trump is trying to shut out the media after one of the country's top political corresponden was barred from the white house. >> this evening, cnn's jim acosta tweeted out new video of a secret service officer taking away his credentials. check it out. >> i am in front of the white house, secret service officer is asking for my hard pass, obviously no hard feelings to thefi ofcer, but i am now giving my hard pass to the secret
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service. >> his credentia were revoked after a testy exchange with president trump a during news conference. the white house points to acosta's interaction with the intern handling the microphone here. acosta says he was just trying to ask a question. >> are you -- >> that's enough. that's prough. >> mr.ident. >> that's enough. that's enough. >> pardon me, ma'am. that's enough. >> you are a rude, terrible person you shouldn't be working for cnn. go ahead. >> several hours later, white house press secretary sarah sanders tweeted, president trump believes in a free press. we will, however,ol neverate a reporter placing his hands on a young woman just trying to do her j as a white house intern. cnn says it stands by its reporter. a new statement out tonight ity overie state unive hazing allegations. >> the university says the band
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will remain suspended, b n it wi say exactly what those allegations are orow long an investigation could last. >> news 4's shomari swne got reaction from campus tonight. >> reporter: bowie state is taking a stand agast alleg hazing at this university. tonight, officials released a written statement about the school marching band, saying, quote, we have found sufficient he dence to confirm existence of hazing activities. therefore, all performance activiti remain suspended, including travel to the ciaa footballmp cnship game this weekend.oo the s investigated the hazing allegations over the past few days. bowie state officials say safety is the top priority for students and maintaining the integrity of the band program. students have mixed reactions to the university's decision. some support it, others don't. they can't perform this weekend. your reaction? >> that' huge. because it's the championship. i don't understand why it had to
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be this weekend they can't perform. why can't they just be benched for the first two games of next season. but they should be able to play. >> reporter: weeached out to prince george's county police to see if they are investigating this alleged hazing a spokesperson tells me that no one from bowie state has called. no studentsave called to report anything about hazing, so, they're not investigatg. meanwhile, bowie state officials are continuing their internal investigation and they plan to release information as soon as it becomes available before they decide what to a dout these suspected students accused of hazing in the school marching band. at bowie state university, i'm shomari stone, news 4. chopper 4 over a deadly scene tonight in wheaton. a caril hit andd a bicyclist on randolph road at connecticut avenue. you can see the driver's front windshield smashed in and the bicycle in the median. police say the driver did stay at the it's been two years since a grandfather was murdered in his
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home. the family is pleading for your help tonight. in march o 2016, police say the 83-year-old was targeted and shot t severales through a window at his house. the fairfax countyho detective is leading the case says there is one possible clue, a pick truck seen in the area the night of the crime. the family is hoping that someone saw or knows something. >> ofor ourfa ly, there will always be an empty chair at the dinner table. an aching about stance andsencee reminder of a loss. >> the family is offering a $25,000 reward for answers. if you know anything that can help them, call police. now that more democrats are headed to capitol hill, d.c.'s mayor sees an opportunity. next, we explain her plan to get the district's marijuana laws changed. the blue wave was actually wnk in virginia. how localen helped split the and there are still some
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victory and pulling together a transition te democratic nomineey sta abrams, though, won't give in until every vote is counted. she believes that there are enough uncounted votes out there to force a runf. the race for u.s. senate in orida, also too close to call at this hour. republican rick scott appears to be ahead, but less than one half one percent is what separates him from senator bill the democratic incumbent. a t marginhat small, under florida law, requires a recount. and it could be days before we learn who wins arizona's senaterace. republican martha mcsally leads democrat kyrst sinema by less than 1% there. but about a quarter of t votes have yet to be counted. whether there was blue wave nationally last night or note, there is no arguing that we saw one of those in virginia, led by three women. jennifer wexton, abigail spanbeer and elaine luria, who flipped republican districts. it meansrats will hold
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seven of the commonwealth's 11 hoine seats sta next year, and both u.s. senate seats. this afternoon, wexton talked about why democrats had such a good night in virginia. >> wee, i think have the benefit of having fantastic candidates, if i do say so myself. abigail spanberger, cia agent, girl scout leader and elaine luria, graduate of the naval academy, you know, and all of uf are moms, als are career women, all of h us know important it is that we just put on our big girl pants and dour jobs, and maybe more people in congress need to do that, too. >> wexton says an army of female volunteers helped her do the leg work necessary to win last night. >> how is that for a su? cia agent and girl scout leader. one of the first things on d.c.or m muriel bowser's agenda is legalizing the sale of recreation all marijuana. with democrats taking control of the house, s bowsers an opportunity to change the law.
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for the last three years, l's beal to smoke pot in the district, but you just can't buy it. your only option is to grow it in your home or get it as a gift. >> we have the ability to possess marijua, which is our law. we also need the ability to procure marijuana legally, which we don't have now. >> mayor bowser plans to submit new legislation to the d.c. council on this early next year. she hopes this time around, congress won't interfere. some people spent hours standing in line to vote in prince george's county last nigh look at the lines that we showed you last night. more than aol dozenng places in the county ran out of paper ballots. votersed questions about suppression in maryland's largest democratic voting bollo but the county election supervisor says it one suppression, it was simply human error. she says they didn't order enough ballots for t unprecedented midterm turnout. a> you know what we'd like to
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order? ew days with no rain. how about four, five days row with no rain? >> i'm sorry, sir, the intercom is not working. hello? hello? i can't make it out -- >> that's out of stock, that item. that? you say fries with >> we're at the drive through? >> unfortunately, the order is not coming out. t's not coming through, because we are going see more rain, starting on friday. now, tomorrow, another pretty nice day. we saw a great one today. sunshine early, cloud cover came through. a high of 66. beautiful, above average temperatures. and right now, we still have someloud cover and, hey, that's allowed temperatures to stay at 57, but that's actually e high temperature i have for tomorrow. we have some colder air starting make its wayhere. calm winds across the area. mild temperatures still. we've had clouds most of the here, no rain to talk about, though we did see sprinkles a little earlier. the system, though, is down to
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uour south. an actually see the system. it brought severert weather to of georgia, but starting to see clouds streaming across the area. we will srt to clear by tomorrow morning, i think, and that means some sunshine early. but then we look at our next storm. it's alreadyng back towards the west, back here coming out of the rockies. rithis one will in even more rain during the day on friday. and how about these numbers? 33, minneapolis, 74 in atlanta. so, you've got a bigemperature difference. today, we were on the mild side of this. tomorrow, we're on the cooler nd side,hen the cold air really comes in as we head in towards the weekend. your forowast for tomo a cool start, temperature around 49. not bad. you may need the jacket. nice around noon. we'll start to see the clouds or the se here. more clouds late in the day. 57 degrees for a high temperatur so, again, right where we are right now, at 11:00 at night. and54 degrees by tomorrow night. no rain tomorrow, no rain tomorrow evening. and then we start to get a better chance of rain during the day on friday. friday, a very wet day, 100% chance of rain. it's going to be off and on all
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day. shower activityearly. more consistent rain during the afternoon, the evening commute is really going to be kind of a mess here. then we'll see the rain end around 8:00, 9:00. the cold air moves in. look at saturday. high of only 47.in breezy, chills in the low 30s -- rather, low 40s during the day. and then we really get cold. sunday morning, a cold start, close to the freezing mark. could see the first freeze inside the beltway for many of us. winter outlook coming out on monday. you don't want to miss that, 4:00, 5:00, 6:00. i just finished making my snowfall map. sorry, i gothe smile on my face. i just finished making the 'lowfall map. look at that later. rain on tuesday, and this storm is a game gchanger. we'rng to be watching this storm really change the pattern. going to move up the coast, but not just cool weather, cold air moves in, first real arctic air of the season. first freeze in the city, if we don't see a freeze on sunday, i think we do see it on wednesday into thursday. wind chills in the 20s.
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so, much cder air as we make our way towards next thursday and friday. wednesday, thursday and friday, yeah, more like december or january-like numbers than november. so, definitely cool. and that's before thanksgiving. >> have to remember to undo the hoses outside. >> especially. good call. >> thank you, doug. >> and you're the only one smiling when you start talking oout snow. >> maybe the onl on the set, but not the only one out there. >> i get a little giddy. still ahead, o speaking ice, t.j. oshie rewaed after a painful night on the ice against
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desk. >> everybody loves caps/penguins, especially when the caps come out on top. >> one of theest rivalries in all of hockey. the caps and penguins. they have identcoal s. ovie and the boys looking to win two straight. things got testy at capital one. nicholklas backstrom honored fo reaching the 600-assist mark. that's nice. this is not. olli s maattatick catches oshie underneath his visor.na y cut. he left the game. would return. final seconds of the first. wild scene near the net. penguins go off the post. the puck is pinballing, as you can see he, off braden holtby. doesn't go in. braden lays on it. 41 saves for holtby. nice gamthere. second period, caps on the power play. alex ovechkin, h loves lamp. >> there you go.
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>> 12 goal of the season. makes it look so easy. now, in their oshie back in for a moment. evgeni malkin, hit to the head, t.j.'s down, heads to the dressing room again. malkin ejected, and the league might take another look at that one. now, later in the game, here comes oshie, returns and to the rescue >> take that, take that. >> take that. c oshieomes up with the winner. caps beat the pens. ht wild n for oshie. >> i don't know if i've ever had one like that. but it was nice to get back out there both times. shoutout to the t and the doctors bothti mes. > the hit from evgeni malkin, dirty, anythingthere? >> not my concern anymore. we got the "w." i don't i really -- don't care what happens to him. well, aftere r agawakening
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nst the fall on thecons, the redskins hope to right the ship. they're still in first place, d but they'n three starting offensive linemen on an offense that leans heavily o their success to help running back adrian peterson. jay gruden making a list, cheque it twice. yeah. long injury report, ut good news here, starting right tackle morgan moses out there sporting a bulky kn brace. now, grude getting his first look at the three offnesive lin the team added on heir firsttting chance to practice with the tea. to the redskins know, after some devastating injuries, they'll need everyone to step up on sunday. >> rtit's unate, you know, but it happens, you know?so , we just got to make thosent adjustme i know we brought in some guys, some ofhese younger guys, they're capable. the thing i love t most, they have a great offensive line coach. they will be working hard. >> the message is nextkn man up yo? this game is -- it's a game of opport ities, you know, the opportunity, his
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you know, he's been wanting an opportunity for awhile and he finally gets that portunity. it's your chance to shine. >> i want to talk about the caps again real quicy. fantastic game, but they donated half of their 50/50 raffle from tonight's game to the synagogue pittsburgh, fantastic effort. and almost raised $20,000. >> wow. >> for the tree of life synagogue. >> that is awesome. >> heart's in t right place. >> and the rivalry is only on the ice. >> exactly. >> absolutely. >> absolutely. >> tnk you,ha >> absolutely. >> tnk you,ha (music throughout)
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