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heavytr rainanded people in this water. see hcu re crews helped. more than a a yearfter this deadly attack on a group of counterprotesters in charlottesville, the man behind the wheel is finally set to go to trial. and the holiday shopping blitz isn't over. after black friday and small business saturday, we have you to be ready for the cyber monday deals coming which might start before monday. >> everyday has a theme coming up as we welcome you in on this
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sundayg. morn good morning, adam tuss has the sunday off. i'm dav lver. >> and i'm angie goff. right, becausehen we have giving tuesday. i don't know what's next? wild wednesday? >> wine wey. >> oh, wine wednesday. >> at least that's how lauryn ricketts always talks abobr it. >> i'lg my box to work. >> she has a few boxes. >> a lot of people were like where's the rain? you said it was coming and boy did it c. e do >> i was sitting at home and people were like is it coming late? and ihewas just on cusp of the beltway. i knew once it got here it would be a nasty day. it just took a while to get re. that was good. you could get out in the morning and go deal with things before the rain settled in yesterday and man did we deal with that rain for a good deal of the afterno
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afternoon. flood warnings up through carol county and baltimore county. so, again, lingen, there's g to be flooded roadways, there's going to be road please abide by all law enforcement signs and rules out there. nothhowing up on the radar right now. currently those temperatures around 40. some temperatures may be in the low 30s, so watch f out forsh freezes for the rain we had yesterday. take it careful on the roads. this afternoon maybe better. we'll get mild this afternoon and pretty warm. we'll talk about those temperatures coming up. >> thanks so much, lauryn. flooding from yesterday's rain mades the mes of roads and prompted are ue. the twitter video from montgomery county fire and rescue shows peopleeing rushed to safety after water surrounded a community center during a one-year-old's birthday party. the floodwaters kept rising several feet, causing two dozen people to be rescued from the
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even event. >> i road in the raft and everybody had to walk behind the raft h id the babies and everybody else had to walk behind in the water. >> crews continued water rescues late into the night. some cars were stranded like the one on woodrn road. take a look at these pictures. this comes to us from d.c. crews were on the scene of a fire at a high-rise building in northwesla they say thes started in the trash chute around 10:45. emergency crews had to check out one person who had minor injuries. an updata-te to a story we' been following. the victim of a hit-and-run crash in montgomery county has died. 24-year-old mario andres rivera crashed into an embankment a
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got out of the car and then was hit. they're still looking for the driver. the murder trial of thepe on accused of ramming his car into a crowd of people at the unite the rally is set to begin. investigators say he was one of the white nationalists rotesting the removal of confederate general robert e. lee. police say he rammed his car into rpcountesters and killed 33-year-old heather heyer. field's attorneys haven't given any idea of what his defense would be. marcel dustin was driving home from a concert in 2008 when someone opened fire on the car and he was shot in the he r. despite tn and cold, his mom and dad joined family and friends at the spot on central after where the car stopped.
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>> unfortunately, we don't know what happened or why he's not here andan we just to keep it out there, maybe somebody will come forward who saw anythin that day. >> hisve killer has been caught. the detective assigned to the case was at the vigil and saide there o new leads. a fund-raiser for victims of gun violence are still happening this weekend. the owner's son is one of the victims. police say 22-year-old tom marmot was killed by random fire in the trinidad neighborhood last month. he was a social worker. the fund-rais started friday night. door donations will be going to theonprofit every town for gun safety as well as the profits for t rest of theweekend. >> if you pe're in bethesda tomorrow, don't be alarmed if you hear explosions and sirens.
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there will be rock blasting at wisconsin and elm street. each explosion is expected to last only a few seconds and may be felt nearby and cause metro trains in the area to top momentarily. 6:06. as you prepare for your work week, we have an important metre nder to pass along. the yellow line shuts f down two weeks starting tomorrow. the blue line will pick up the slack, taking riders and from th franconia, springfield, and huntington stations. dat lasts until december 9. a big for businesses that hope to cash in on the holiday weekend. the annual small business saturday attracteded hun to d.c.'s union market. ntil waited in lines doors open yesterday morning. small business saturday started nine years ago. 70 small businesses packed into the market and sold everything from candles to jewelry,is everyone cas trees. small business owners say places like this help them get the word out about theircompany.
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>> i just launched my company in september so exposure would be the biggest challenge so that' for people to interact with my product. it's something you immediate to smell and be in touch with. >> the national retail federation estimated 67 million people plan to shop on small business saturday. but tre's still a big day of deals left on the calendar. cyber mondayrt sales sta in less than 24 hours. here are tips to make sure you are ready. first, map out a plan. you need to think of the internet as the biggest mall eve er. you can't be everywhere at the same time. second, update your account. it's something that could cost you to miss out an a deal if you waste time doing it tomorrow when other buyers are clicking away and filling up their cart. third, don't miss out on credit card rewards. if you have a choice between
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using a credit card or debit card, go with the credit card tomorrow. fourth, don't pay for shipping. most retailers have deals on that. and don't forget to download apps. downloading a store's smartphone app can show you deals and some will show up on the app before the web site. i find o we have a list of different shopping apps that can help you on black friday. >> good tips there. i'm all abouthe credit card points. >> yes, you are. that's how you fly everywhere. 6:08 is your tim on this sunday. two maryland counties are suing claiming big banks targeted minority with risky and expensivemo gages. the lawsuit accuses wells fargo and bank of america of predatory and disagiminatory mor lending. they say the banks are to blame
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for high foreclosure rates that are hurting county finances. n>> the cause to take care of your parents virginia nursing homes is skyrocketing. according to the richmondimes dispatch, the annual nursing home stay is up more than 7.5% from 2017 to 2018. that adds up ton more t $100,000 a year. a survey says fewer skilled workers are driving up the cost. this is interesting. in montgomery county, a first of its kind. a first in the country. sometudents won't have to fake being sick so they can skip school and exercise their rht free speech. the "washington post" reporting that the montgomery county school board plans to admit cal pr to lists of excused absences. high school students would be allowed three days a year for civic engagement. >>g. interest i'm sure there's -- we'll get quite the feedback on that
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we got a good dose of rain last night and through the day yesterday. no rain is outf here and we're looking at drying conditions, however are in the 30s in some spots so i'm worried about a flash freeze, especially on bridges, ramps and overpasses but nothine out happening right now. total rainfall we had yesterday well over an inch in somespots, i don't know why quantico isn't report iin
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repo you could see under an inch and a half in the d.c. area and now we're leftith flood warnings. we have flood warnings aoss e area and coming down into the eastern panhandling ofin we vi and portions around nassas so be careful there are flood flooded roadways out there. we're warming up today. it will be a nice warmup as well. get your decorating done today. much cooler on tueay and all sunshine into wednesday with temperatures in the low0s? spots so i am worried about flash fleesing. take it easy on bridges, r and overpasses. temperatures will warm into40 t through the morning headed into the mid to upper 50s. tomorrow mid-50s but we have rain showers possible throughout the day and you can see we're
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ty tonight but tain arrives overnight. you may have a wet commute tomorrow morning and the rain gets out of here through the early afternoon. anything we see will be rain and light. temperatures will be in the 50s not only today but tomorrow. we are dry wednesday and thursday. >> still question marks on friday and saturday. . right now we're keeping it dry. >> 6:15 which means itor time for "rrs notebook." >> we'll be back in 15inutes with more of today's top stories. good morning. f you missed black friday, no worries. black friday is no longer just a one-day deal. in fact, shopping for the holidays isn't what it used to be, nor is travel for the holidays. ing us are consumersan hogan an traffic's melissa mollet. thank you for being with us
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susan, i never get up at the crack of dawn the day after th,ksgiving to sh i refuse to do that but i have friends who do on a regular basis and i need to a little for the holidays but you say not to worry, i haven missed anything? >> not at all. black friday is no longer just friday. it goes on for about five to six days. we have cyber monday,f course, coming up, too and these stores want our business so they won't just keep it to one day. if you've noticed, black starts in october, you'll start hearing people say you don't have to wait for blackfriday, we he deals going on now. >> so what's the point? do you just d it because everybody else -- >> because you want to camp o witheverybody. >> experience the cold? >> i don't know. the only reason why i go is because i have to cover it otherwise you wouldn'tet me caught dead in a mall at 4:00 in the morning. but it's thehe create hype and
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they do have door buster deals. but for the most part these retailers are desperate for our money and they'll hold out for thele >> melissa, do you get up at the crack of dawn? >> on a normal day but not black friday. i used to love covering black friday because it would be fun and all the people would be out and exciting and in line overnight and then i would get inside and shop and do a story for 100 and go home but i couldn camp out. >> melissa, it isn't just our shoppi habits that have changed. our travel trends have dayed. people used to leave the day before chefstmas, the daye thanksgiving, now they're leaving two days ahead. hanksgiving we have seen terrible traffic tuesday which has kick into gear a year
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and a half ago. so we see a lot on tuesday because folks think "let me beat the traffic." i' afraid we'll start filling into monday and it will be a week of thanksgiving travel which is tough. i think we'll stay where it's a day or two days before. with christmas it depends on the day christmas falls. with it being on a monday or tuesday like the last couple years, people leaving on a saturday or sunday it's easier because 'sistributed more even evenly. not the oh, my goodness, it's thanksgiving thursday. >> don't worry so much about the day. travel as early as you can in the morning or as late as you can at night. i know that's hard with littl kids but if they can sleep in thecar, even better. then you don't have to deal with the madness. >> so if you want to fly, it used to be cheaper to fly on the
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holiday and i was telling you before we startng this mor tried to get plane tickets to go to las vegas to see my dad onvi thanks day and i thought i'd get a big discount because it's the holiday and i didn't necessarily find that was the case. >> i think 's supply-and-demand. airlines are getting savvy to know that a lot of us are willing to fly on that holiday and because of that they'll up their prices. i was telling people to buy about three months out, but i got really cheap deals. my son was flying friday night and coming back next sunday. those are the o hours. that's when you find the good deals but airlines know. they watch our buying habits and ickets, even the train to go and take a train on thanksgiving or this holiday, they up their prices. >> once you figure it out, they
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figure it out. >> there is goo news back on the road. >> it always surprises me when see anything go down around holiday travel. if i see gas go down i think what is going on? normally we see this spike. a record numberref people supposed to be on the roads for holiday travel in holiday -- in general. i have a bad time keeping track because it seems so crazy to me. when i was in colle which wasn't that long ago i remember like 99 cents per gallon and i thought oh, this is rough. but now it's a lot of money to get from point "a" to point "b." >> and when you talk about supply and demand, there's record travel this year. lots of people are getting out
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there on the roads so youig expect that gas prices would go hi higher. let's talk strategy for a moment. so blackriday is gone, cyber monday tomorrow, christmasnd chanukah are coming. you say that whether you're shoppiri for blacky or for christmas you need a strategy, make a budget, make a list, and do some comparison shopping. so walk us through these big steps. >> absolutely. i make a list, i d't always do the budget. >> they go hand in hand. so often we do stories in january and february about people who have gotten into so much deb because you get carried awe way. as much as t we want give and give, at the end of the day we're hurting ourselves comend januaryebruary when the bills come so making a budget and making a list and sticking to it does helpat nav that. also, doing this -- it won't help this yearrut next y
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planning ahead does certainly help. if you know y children or your loved one wants a particular item, you alwaysatind of for that to go on sale but when w the here and now and going forward, the comparison shopping, the amazon factor, so many retailers, the brick and mortar stores are vying for our business so look at deals. if you're going out to a particular mall and there's a best buy, d negotiating with them. put them on the defensive.lk in with another store's coupon or flyer and say they have this at tics what can you do for me. pretty much they will try to match or even do better for you. there are amazing apps out there, too, so iou're arming yourself today on sunday to go out shopping, dowoad -- i hav three of my favorites, one is
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shop savvy. what they do there is update news about the best deals going on at a number of differentnd stores you can actually use your phone to scan bar codes and it will tell you where that particular product is for sale around you. if you don't s it there in a better deal, go somewhere else. the coupons app,ro code, if you're shopping tomorrow online or today, use the promo code. you should never pay for shipping. promo codes often give you free shipping and bradsfield is a great web site. i've been using them for years. ouey will do the home work for you. ife looking for a computer they will take the guess work out for you andve they deal alert so if you're looking for -- like my kids love north face. if you put that on brad's deals they would alert you if they dinga deal and they wi your phone and say there's a north face available right now on sale at blah store.
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so you have to d your home work first. >> shop savvy, coupons apps. >> the coupons apps and brau s deals and n do -- also go on a web site, brad's deals but they have a c app y upload as well. >> i'll do the uploading while we take a brea stay with us. hey! hi! congrats on ranking highest by jd power for internet service satisfaction this year. oh, thank you! and on being ranked #1 in customer satisfaction compared to cable. well, the 100% fiber-optic network deserves the credit. and he's humble! so umm... i should probably go get started.
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you need me to watch the van? no, i'm good! 100% fiber-optic network. 100% phenomenal. switch to fios, the fastest internet in the us, and get internet for as low as $39.99 per month. melissa, we talked about shopping apps. give us gas apps. who doesn't want money back in their wallet. i use gasuddy online before we had the apps to search that way as well which was always helpful but one like a lot for
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traveling, it's called i exit. d you can type something in there. my kidsk love mcdonald's or ch e. cheese and i have to hit a few on the long trip. you put in the the and it tells you in seven miles you have a chuck e. cheese more to four mil you'roing to have a mcdonald's so then kids can kind of help count down and chris lawrence was talking abo his kidike that as well. that's helpful for him when g. travel >> you travel with kids. so what are the ts? for families that travel by car, any tips on when to leave and hock to >> leave as early as you can and late as you can. i want the kids sleepg in the car. if you're going anywhere, them being tired is a good idea.ry you want edy to have a toy, their favorite blanket, favorite pillow, favorite stuffed animal, snacks, snacks, d moresnacks. that's for car or airplane. we went to san diego wit three kids. >> i remember that. >> and i had enough food i thought for entire plane but my kids ate all of it, the three
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of them. theother thing i when i travel, and this wouldn't matter whether you're going by car or plane, i put everybody'sac clots for day in a large ziploc and label it so if i'm yelling from the shower to my husband put barrett's dress on her and he's like what's that? no, no, s its monday a.m., monday p.m. it sounds totally crazy and you can reuse the bags. >> great idea. >> and then it stacks right in ther there. e >> it soundeptionally organized. >> well, then you get there and somebody throws a ago and you don'tisnow where that >> it's the strategy. >> we talk about scams. are there any big ones? >> we're talking about downloading apps s be careful of lookca alike apps e often times scammers will do that. so make sure when you go to search for apps make sure the spelling is correct, t logos are correct and cross reference
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it online and make sure that that is the case, too.en ou get an e-mail, never click on a link within an e-mail about a deal. often times that's fishing scam. go to the web site itself. >> returns and warranties, how do we make those simpler to deal with? >> dthis whole shopping season often times returns are different, policies are different, as arent war policies. so make sure you are reading the fine print. i always ask when i'mt the rash r cash register. often times during this period th make them shorter, they say 30 days. find out. if it's a credit only or exchange only you want to know that and make sure y get gift receipts for people you're jving to. >> don'tt assume okay, i'll bring it back when i get ready. >> and you're buying them earlier so if it's a 30-day
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return poly you'r not giving the gift until after christmas or on christmas you msed that you want to find out what that is. >> melissa, i have to ask this about traveling in general. when the holidays are over and it's back to the maddeni commute, how are traffic trends changing in general? it seems the earlier you leave the heavier the traffic is. the whole point of lving earlier to avoid the traffic. >> i've been doing traffic five years now at channel 4. over the past five years the morning commute has about 10 minutes. so what i used to say was happening at 6:00 a.m., a backup along 27 headed southbound, i'm now saying it at 5:45 or5:50. people shiftheir schedules to beat the traffic but when everybody shifts their schedule it doesn't help anyone so it's trending earlier and the ening commute, too. the rush hour around here is like 3:30 to 6:45.
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a massive rush hour. >> is there a way to beat this re we just going to have to live with this? >> tuesdays are always the worgs da f -- worst d traffic. that will be your longest commute of the week. even going in later might be a good idea. switch with your spouse, say this week i'm going to get the ki the school bus, i'll leave later. tradeoff. ve to do it with my husband, it's hard but in the end it rk >> there's a payoff. >> i think. rabow at t end. >> melissa and susan, thank you so much. >> you're welcome, p. >> happy shopping and traveling. that's "reporters' notebook." i'm mpat lawsonoduse.
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news 4 t continues. heavy rains trapping severan folks i montgomery county. howescue workers were able to save everyone from a child's birthday party. protesters hit the streets in alabama after police say they may have killed the wrong person in ang shoo still no arrests. and teams scoring moren points i overtime than regulation and lighting up the scoreboard with record numbers. we welcome you in on this sunday morning, good morning, i'm david culver in for adam tuss. >> and i'm angie goff. rise and shane. we have made it to sunday. so far it looks like thingsr wil be bet than what we had to deal with yesterday.
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we're lookingt a nicer day, one that might be dry. >> which is aef re lauryn ricketts was talking about the weather alert day yesterday and the rain in as we give you a live look outside. what a beautiful start to your sundaymorning. you can see reagan national airport there. >> a we knoweagan national will be busy but you know what i'm happy about, >> what ice th's that? >> 60 degrees. we're getting there, right? >> we'll be close. s mperatures will be in the 50 for daytime highs which is above normal for this time of year. sun c ying up, saw the beautiful sunrise so we haver anot minutes of this beautiful glow out there. enjoy it. un will dry us out. we had light winds last night, we hon chillytions last night so we were able to get a little bit of a freeze in some areas because temperatures drop.
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we have flood warn, thehave le go of those flood warnings, but we're talking about manassas d manassas park. there could be road be careful. not only because of flooded roadways left over from last night but tperatures are dangerously close in some spots to that 32 degree mark so some low-lying areas could be at the lowehe end of 30s so we may have frozen roadways, bridges, rampoverpasses. be careful early this morning but by this afternoon we're warming up. more rain headed our way for tomorrow. that's in just a few thminutes. >>ks, lauryn. local rescue crews with rafts guided by flashlights rushed to save people caught in fast-movin wate >> darcy spencer spoke with some of those rescued last night and has the story from chevy chase. >> reporter:loodwaters several feet high surrounded this chevy chase community center. it forced the ecuation of two
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dozen people attending a birthday party for a one-year-old. this twitter video from montgomery county fire and rescue shows crews in action, bringing people attending the party to safety. these women were among those rescd. >> i road in the -- whatft is i? the and everybody else had to walk behind the raft. i they would two kids, the babies we had and everybody else walked inside the raft in the water, in the puorles. >> repter: montgomery county used rafts t get everyone to safety. they stayed warm and dry in a warming bus. what did you think as you were walking in the water and people were i rafts. that couldn't have been the way this was going to end last night? >> no. thought we were going to a party and going to get food forhe next day. >> reporter: some cars got stranded. this is woodburn road in annandale. the driver had to be pulled from the car.
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back in chevy chase, everyone will have a story tell. i wouldn't forget that if that was my kid's party. >> the good thing is they're safe and sound. maybe wet feet but we were able to get them ousafely. >> reporter: the party must go on. i'm told the party was going to be moved from the community center to the mom's house.n, agt will be a memorable one. in chevy chase, darcy spencer, news 4 today. we have an update to a story we have been follming. the vicf this hit-and-run crash in montgomery county has died.li say around 10:00 last sunday night 24-year-old mario antonio andres rivera crashed into anan embankmen and was thrown out of his car. he died last iday. investigators believe a dark-colored ford mustang may d have been invol the crash. they're looking for that driver.
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f> demonstrators in alabama marching saturdaylowing a deadly officer-involved shooting at a mall. poce believe now the man they killed is not the gunman. officers kild emantic fitzgerald oanbradford on ksgiving night. investigators say police were sponding to a shooting that left an 18-year-old and a 12-year-old wounded. poce initially said bradford shot the teen after b fight they retracted that statement and are now searching for the actual shooter. >> it could have been my daughter. it cld have been anyf us given the situation. so with that being said, we have to come to a place to ask for more than what'sei b done. >> reporter: you can see protesters are furious, demanding the police department release body camer video showing bradford being shot. > happening tomorrow, the murder trial for the person accused of ramming a car into the crowd of people at the
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violent unite the right rally in charlottesville. investigators say james alex fields jr. was one of the white nationalists protestin removal of a statue of confedate general robert e. lee last year. police say that afternoon fields rammed his car into a crowd of counterprotesters and killed 33-year-old heather hey. fields' attorneys hasn't given y idea what his defense might be as he appears in court tomorrow. officials in california hoping to get the deadly camp fire obtained. this started on november 8. there are 84 confirmed deaths and more than 400 people are still unaccounted for. two rainstorms that hit last week helped slowhe flames. firefighters have the camp fire % contained. they believe it should be fully contained by tuesday however a contained fire is still burning and fire officials say they'll
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be work tong fig on the fire fo months to come. a stark report from the feds predictss weather cri like the california wildfires will only get worse. the climate change reporthe war in t years to come more frequent and devastating weather events as the average temperature continues to rise. the report highlights staggering consequencesnomic with rising sea level costs and infrastructure daenge. prestrump and the white house pushed back on the report ces are theese inst most extreme scenarios. >> we do have an impact but i don't believe the impact is nearly what some say. >> house democts who take control in january plan to hita climate head on. we'll hear there are chuck todd as he heads into the studio. perhaps you missed college
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football last night. lsu and texas a&m needed seven overti figure out a winner. teams were tied at 31 when the fourth quarter ended but more touchdowns and two-point conversions ballooned the score. in the end, texas a&m won 74-72. it's the highest-scoring college football game in the country ever. the game lasted five hours.ok los like folks stayed through it. >> unbelievable. my husband was up watching that. >> that's why he's not up right now. >> itay have been a dream but i think he woke me up to show me the end. unreal. let's take a live look outside. it looks like a beautiful sunrise on the way to help wake us up on this sunday g.morn a mild day ahead but lauryn ricketts is tracking more rain as we look forward into the work week. week.
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when the country was celebrating thanksgiving, the president went after the court's chief justice. >> this is one of a few back and forth the president seems to be getting into as we came into the holiday weekend. breaking it down for us, moderator of "meet the press" chuck todd joining us ahead of this morning's show. chuck, we had this fightin and forth with chief justice roberts. then we had the president going and supporting the saudi arabian royal family in the khashoggi incident. what do you m of this. >> it's a continuation of attacks on his own government, his own institution, here he ise going after judiciary. this is the second time he's sided with a basically a world thug over the cia, did it once with putin,t standing n to vladimir putin in the helsinki summit and this time with the khashoggi murder he's standing by a -- one might call this
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person a diator. i don't know if you would call it a monarchy state, the saudi crown prince and so i think it's more of the president's on institutions, attack on his own government. the undermining of the credibility of these institutions with his own folks, people that de't l this president are with these institutions but what he's doing, the damage he's doing by attacking these institutions, we know the people that support him just go right down that rabbit hole with him and that should be the concern. >> and along those lines, we have to rememr thathe federal scientists released this climate repoer. >> yet anohing where he attacked his own government. >> so now they're down playin -- the president and the white house -- are down playing this report but aside from the timing of itall, the fact that it was released on the middle of black friday wurch i'm people can read into that the
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way, they want what does this give the democrats? it seems like they pounced right on this. >> look, i think you'll have a couple democts for president who run as one-issue candidates who say every decision government makes has to be done through the prism of worrying about climate ychange. read this report, 13 federal agencies, this thing cuts across every walk of life. it cuts across all parts of our economy. so there isn't one of these things where you can have a climate -- sort of a climate change policy initiative and over here a health care initiative. everything is so interconnected -- what this report shows is how on intected it all is. >> 1600 pages. t >> ink it's going to mean you're going to have a much more concerted effort by at least a handful of candidates to make climate change the prison with which we look at the policy challenges over the nt couple
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decades. nkether that gets traction i don't know but i t it's a serious enough issue that you will have candidatesakttempting to it their issue. >> and you have a couple scientists o "meet the press"? >> no bill nye but we'll do our best. w >> as long as avoid math and science, we'll leave that to you. chuck todd, we catch you at 10:30. "meet the press" right after news 4 today. we'll see you then, chuck. thanks, wci appe it. 6:46, your time now, a local man says he has a great deal to be thankful for. >> aan local oation helped him rebuild his life when it was falling apart. news 4' nicole jacobs has the story. >> i had no job. >> reporter: to say mustafa is thankful is an understement. >> i alive. >> reporter: he's seen it all as a father and a adviser to the
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military in iraq. he spent 11 months out of the year f nine year >> i went through things that i would not have imagine in my worst nightmare. >> reporter: it was ato struggl reintegrate back into society. thwas ptsd, addiction to prescription medication and a painful divorce. >> i was in a dark place, became depressed. >> reporter: at the bottom of that depression, he found his saving wgrace. hout friendship place, i would not be sitting here. >> reporter: friendship place, e nonprofit organizatio that gave him financial stability,ch searor employment and coaching to provide for his family but that amounted to much. >> humanity, compassion and grace. >> reporter: days away from g anksgiving, friendship place is addinto the blessing of theon se having already delivered hundreds of thanksgiving iaskets to tho need. >> we connect them to hope. we give people opportunities and help people rebuild theireyes.
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>> reporter: mustafa is one of many success stories. rebuilt his life and starts a new job in the new year and for that he is thkful, now seeing the light at the end of the darkness. >> no matter what happen in life, don't give up. keep going. >> reporter: nicole jacobs, news 4. >> showing a lot of gratitude there. we're grateful for this beautiful sunrise on this sunday morning. >> it's a new day. >> it's a new day. yesterday finally rain got here and then it just didn't stop. >> it was a downpour. i, me you -- it felt like it endd never >> i look outside -- i stayed inside all day. >> it was great to p. >> that's why you look so refreshed. >> l slept eight hourst night. i was like is this? it was great. yesterday once we got the rain in here, if you want to stay inside, not great for small busisses and n great for people that had some flooding issues because we had that snow
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that still didn't melt across parts of our region. we had that, that was melting. we had the leaves that were clogging drains and quick rain thatoved in. we picked up over an inch. a lot of places picked up anch and a half so leading to that led to flooding issues and we still have flooding issues this morning but we also hav a beautiful sunrise. you can see the plane on cue on the right side of your screen. beautiful. sunoming up in 10 minutes officially. look at that, i don't know what happened to my background. i don't know what happened, but you can still seet, some icy spots, flooded roads, more rain moves in during the overnight. as far as the radar is concerned, there's nothing on. however visibility may be on the low side so be careful. thers our system to the north east right now flying up througo on; up through maine. hopefully travel won't be too much impacted as that mes off.
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now we're looking at snow across portions of the midwest, so if you're traveling this way, even in chicago, you know how it is in chicago at o'hare there could be delays but across the united states, really not looking that bad. flood warnings have expired and canceled a few up towards b baltimor flood warnings out there, still flooded roadways so be carefulg, travel not only because of that but temperatures are dangerously low. a little too close for comfort for me for right around thatfr zing mark in some areas down by manassas, culpepper, everybody portions o upp montgomery county. temperatures may be in the low 30s s we could have icy spots from a flash freeze we got yesterday so be careful traveling around bridges, ramps, overpasses, driveway, esidewalk. thould be icy patches out there. as far as wakeup weather is concerned, those temperatu is will be the low 40s, we're warming up at 9:00, we'll have the sunshine t headed in mid
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to upper 50s. tough travel around this morni because of flooded roadways and possibly icy spots. as far as sunday outlook is concerned, decorating, great day it. go ahead only because temperatures will be in the mid s. upper 50 it may be muddy but it will be dry. new england and the mid cause a problem. now tomorrow mid-50s. we have rain showers possible. we are d today but cloud up later on tonight and rain moves in by daybreak tomorrow. we will have showers. buton't rain the whole time showers at least through tomorrow afternoon scooting out of here by tuesday morn looking better on tuesday with plenty of sun. but those temperatures drop otu day and we stay in the 40s wednesday, thursday, even into friday, saturday. next chance of rain, sunday there could be an issue on friday of taking i out. that will be something to watch. right now it looks like we could have rain bysunday.
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parents who oid a lot research to figure out the right car seat for yourki . but to research the rules for using one of those car seats in an uberr lyft and the answers aren't clear. >> there's a lot of gray are there. now news 4's transportation reporter adam tuss explains the car seat confusion and why no one knows what t rules are. >> reporter: a sleeping baby is a beaut thing and a safe baby,well, that's a he is fromty -- necessity. but when it comes time to put thremonth-old lola i an uber or lyft, who provides the car seat? the parent? >> i'm confused about that so i avoid uber and lyft when i'm traveling with my children. >> reporter: or the driver. >> then i get there and find out they have a small child. off small child, you need a car seat. >> reporter:here's plenty of gray area. in two-thirds of the u.s., no child seat is required in taxis and the laws are muddier with rishare. we read the laws with d.c., maryland, and valentine's day valentine's day and the
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clear understanding for who is responsible to provide the car seat. pam higgins it a p time lyft driver. she says she's i don't know sta -- constantly gettings requestr drivers where a parent has a small child. >> i won't take them. the liabilities are too much for me then it leads to riders being angry and youw don't kno what you're going tout get o here these days. >> reporter: while you request services like uber family, it's not always an option in alles st this has become such an issue that virginia tech just put out a new heudy. >>'s a lot of confusion among parents and drivers as to when specifi laws and rules and regulations apply. >> reporter: whether or not you provideeaour own car for your child or not, here's the simple fact of the matter,hey work better in protecting your kids. studies show that it works. the centers for disease control and prevention reports car seat useis reduces the of injury in a crash by aut 80% compared to seat belts alone.
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your best bet? that would be to always have a car seat. but that's not always an tion. in the meantime, it seems everyone wants a better understanding. >> it's crazy to call people ina e, do you have a child, do you have a child? you can't do that so i have to pull up and see what i get. >> reporter: hopefully what everyone gets ise a s trip. adam tuss, news 4. >> that's true. just tried to get a car seat to head out and there's nothing available with an uber x. you can get uber black, whichs mo expensive. >> the reality, is we have so manyurisdictions. search "car en nighttime nasal congestion closes in, breathe right strips are designed to simply
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heavy rains washed out parts of montgomery county. see how rescue crews helped people who got stuck. more than a year after this deadly attack on counterprotesters in charlottesville, the man said to be behind theet wheel is to go to trial. after black friday and small business saturday, we have some tips for you to be ready for the big cyber monday deals. we welcome you into news 4 today on sunday morning, november 25, adam tuss has the
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morning off. i i'm david culver. >> and i'm angie goff. look at the sunrise behind us. it's going to be a good day. layn, you said some of us are seeing the flood warnings still effect. >> absolutely. those temperatures are in the w 30s and i believe those elevated bridges, ramps,or passes, decks on the icy side. we have a light wind last night so we didn't have too much time dry out but beautiful sunri sunrise. the plane taking off right now, trut there today and i'll show you aap in caseou are traveling. we're looking goochlt it had rain is gone, high pressure in charge. here's the system that passed throughyesterday. could have delays. just checked out boston, they're good but there could be delays if you're headed towards maine.
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we are looking at snow comin through the heartland through nebraska, omaha, kansas. thereould be delays in chicago. they're having a sprinkle but you know how chicago is temperatures up 40 degrees right now. we're looking at 40 at 7:00 a.m. . temperatures will keep going up from there. we'll talk about how warm it's going to be today. >> flooding from yesterday's rain made the mess on the roadways and prompted a rescue. this is showing people being rushed to safety at a eoe-year-old's birthday party. two dozene had to be rescued from the vent. >> i road in the the raft andls everybody had to walk behind the raft. i ty would two kids and everybody else walked inside in the water in the puddles.
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>> scary moment there is. rescues tinued water late into the night. cars were stranded like this one on wood burn road in annandale. the driver had to be pulled from the car. i want to show you this all new this morning. these a pictures from d.c. fire. crews were on the scene of a fire at a high-rise b northwest. they say the flames started in the trash chute on m street. ey got the flames knocked down. emergency crews had to check out one person whoor had min injuries. and an update to a w story have been following for you. the victim of this hit-and-run crash in moptd gulf of mexintgo. around 10:00, mario rivera crashed into an embankment and wa thrown out of his car. crews rushed him to the hospil bute died on friday. investigators believe a dark colored ford mustang may have been involved in the crash. they're looking for the driver. the murder trial for the
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person accused of into a crowd of people at the violent unite the right rally in charlottesville is set to begin. investigators say james alexfi elds jr. was one of thealhite nationists protesting the removal of a statue of confederate general robert e. lee. police say that afternoon fields rammed his car into a crowd of counterprotesters and killed 33-year-old heather field's attorneys haven't given any hint as to what his defense might be when he appears in court tomorrow. loved one gathering to honor a young man that was killed 10 yearsago. he was driving home from the a concert in 2008 when someone opened fire on his car. last night, despite the rain and cold his mom and dad becocame t have a vigil. >> we want to keep it out there and maybe somebody will come
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forward who saw anything that day. >> marcel's killer has never been caught. the detective assigned to that case was also at the vigil ands there are no new leads. a fund-raiser forviictims of ence is happening at roofers union this weekend.on the owner's was one of the victims. police say r-22-yd tom marmem, a social worker and the son ofroofer's unions roger marmet. the door donations will going to the nonprofit every town for gun safety as will the profits from theof reshe weekend. so normally around here if we hear sirens and explosions we'd be worried but officials are warning torrow in the bethesda area don't be alarmed along the purple line. this is for construction needed to remove rocks. the blasts are plannedor 9:30 in the morning and around 1:30
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elm sconsin avenue and a street. each explosion is expected to last a few seconds butt y be felt nearby and it could cause metro trains to stop momentarily. as you prepare for your work week, we have an important met reminder to pass along. the yellow line shuts down for two weeks starting tomorrow. repair crews will be working on a bridge er the potomac river. the shutdown lasts until december 9. a big day for becauses th b that hoped to cash in on small business saturday. hundreds waited in line at union market until darr doors opened yesterday g.morn 70 small businesses packed into the market. they sold everything from candles jewelry. even christmas trees. all business owners say places like this help them get the word out. >> ih mid-company in september so exposure would be
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the biggest challge so an event is a way for people to interact with my product, especially candles, it's somethingme you need to and be in touch with. the national retail 76 eration estimated some tullion people shopped on small business ay. there's still a big day of deals left on the calendar, cyber monday dealstart in less than 24 hours so we want to share tips to help you get read you want to make a plan, think of the internet as the biggest mall ever. you can't be everywhere at the same time in t mall and you either. it online, so map out what sales you want to hit, update your accounts, it's something that could cost you to miss out on a deal. if you waste time trying to do it tomorrow when other buyers are clicking away. don't miss out on credit card rewards. off choice between using a credit card or debit card godi with your c card tomorrow. and, fourth, don't pay for shipping. most retailers have deals on
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free shipping. if no making your purchase tomorrow should be plenty of time for regular shipping to arrive for christmas. download the apps. downloading a store's smartphone app can give you extra deals on top of what they're offering and some deals with show up on an app before it appears on the web site and susan hogan mentioned this in reporter's notebook, you'll want to google the name of the store and a code and a lot of times they're posted ons s like retail me not. that can give you extra savings. >> you mentionedan s hogan. up next on news 4 today, a local business owner accused of taking money from seniors and not delivering their medical equipment. susan hogan is working the story what's a gig of data?
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e dozens peo say a local businessman deceived them. and the cplaints against access mobility go back years. the owner isinccused of t thousands to install medical equipment like stair lifts and wheelchair ramp bus never delivered. >> after our story aired he paid those customers back but complaints continued to roll in. susan hogan is a here with story you'll see only on news 4. >> reporter: one by one they showed up with that oxygen tank, walkers and canes. but the effort was worth it. why are you here today? >> to stop him. >> to stop this man. >> it's one thi to ste from people, but to steal from people who are in dire st that's even to me one more step lower. >> reporter: news 4 people brought them back, all of them
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customers of jim clure. he say they to they say he took their money and never did the work. this woman says after she paid him in april, she never saw him again. >> he reassured me he'd be out early the next week. he never came. >> reporter: and never refunded her money. kathy's dad died five months later. >> i give money with. >> reporter: sue gill and her husband paid $8,000 for a lift from access mobility, clure promised it would be installed september 6 or 7. everyday he'd send text message, oh, my wifeeg hurt, my daughter's birthday, i'm sick. >> reporter: suk had to carry her husband up andown the stairs for weeks until he died one month later. >> he fell so many times. bruises everywhere. cuts i the head, everything.
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>> reporter: one heartbreaking story after another. >> molly harnett. >> judy harris. $12,000. >> paid up front $2, 500. >> $7,625 for a walk in tub. >> reporter: all with similardi s. >> i always thought i was too smart to get taken. >> reporter: bane rector pa clure $4,400. he nevertaot his lift but he did get a refund. and when she he shared the e-mails, we got a surprise. a different company name. 2911 mobility. we did digging and found out this business was created in july and access mobility closed. news 4 scoured through court records in virginia and ov disced 48 civil cases filed against clure, some dating back ten ars. many cases were dismissed, some because clure eventually paid the debt, other because he t didn't hav money to pay and then there are a few where he
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couldn't even be found to be serve served. >> howoany people have gone court and just because he can't be served papers they just blow it off? >> reporter: we also contacted the attorney rages office. their consumer protection division has received 11 complaints against access mobility. clure worked with them to resolve seven cases, one was unresolved and three are still open. and check out this warning on the better business bureau's web te. it alerts consumers to a, quote, pattern ofomeriousaints against access mobility. >> we're trying to tell the consumer, hey, we've seen erece0 complaints against this company, all similar in nature. >> reporter: the bbb tells us they reached out to clure hveing to res the issues but -- >> he stopped communicating. >> if somebody canin keep h complaints, how can he keep doing this?
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>> reporter: but all of the complaints against clore may have caught up with him. we've learned he's facing criminal charges. four felonies in stafford county, accused of taking money unr false pretenses. we reached out to clore. he didn't want to go c onera but he told us he's filing chapter 13 bankruptcy and pla to refundll of his customers. however the ones we spoke with say they just want one - thing >> we just want it stopped. i don't expect to get a dime back. >> susan hogan with that report. it appears clore's 2911 mobility web site has been taken down. virginia state officials confirt clore does have a contractor's license as required by law. >> h susanan asked the attorney general's office if it was investigating further and i would think not comment. 7:15 is your time on this g.sunday morn let's give you a live look
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fi what has been left inside. >> but for one southern california ulcouple, they never imagine what they would discover. nbc's tammy leier explains. >> reporter: call it a modern day treasure hunt. >> $145 there. >> reporter: bidding on storage units without knowing what is inside. dan dawson recalled on facebook being at an event earlier this month when a womanpproached him. >> she says i want to tell you this story. myusband wor for a guy and he bought ani ut from you and it had a safe in it reporter: but this wasn't safe. ny >> inside the safe, normally they're empty but this time it wasn't empt it had $7.5 million. >> reporter: $7.5 milon in cold hard cash. but the story has ather twist. dotson says the newer os got an a call from the att
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representing the safe's original owners requesting their money >> they offered $600,000 and they gave them back $6.3 million. >> reporter: dotson asked viewers what they would do. one wrote "i would feel too guilty." another one said "if they had that much money,ould r why wouldn't they pay for the storage unit?" for o luck treasure hunter, it was the find of a lifetime. >> my question is, is the money clean? i need to know that it's clean before i try to keep even one dollar of it. >> it raises a lot of questions. i wonder how the original owners finally realized? >> he said it was a mterious phone call. >> i wouldn't go public with it. i would have never said anything. i would have take than money and moved to australia. >> but it was on tv. >> oh, it was? it was on an episode of "srage
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wars?" oh. >> plus people that got $7 million, they have a way to find you. nell find you. >> that's what i'm saying. >> what a great story, though. >> do the right thing. mild day ahd? >> temperatures in the 50s. maybe a degree above normale aver temperature is 55, maybe 56. >> take us there. >> so temperatures out there today will be around seasonable averages for this time of year. i don't think everybody will make a run at that 60 degrees mark but all of us will be in the 50s. look at this,it's gorgeous outside. sun came up about 20 minutes ago on the dot. 7:01 was the official sunrise and it's a great day. enjoy today because look what happens over the next couple days, oh, yeah, right back down. temperatures tomorrow still in the 50s but we'llra have . 40s into tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday, saturday, so,y again, en this out there
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today. current temperatures out there right no we' at 40 in washington, 40 in baltimore. i am worried about some frozen slick spots out there, some icy spots, especiall by manassas park through fauquier county, everybody through fredericksburg, spotsylvania, spofford county. that's where temperatures are around the freezing herk. so will be low lying areas through loudoun county that count have cyspots. bridges, ramps, overpasses are elevated so they freeze quicker. so, again, be careful out there. plus we had fog, low visibility. hour by hour temperatures, b 8:00 temperatures still right around 40 degrees. we take a big jump tough mid-morning and by 2:00, 3:00 in the afternoon, it will be nice. temperatures in the mid to upper 50s. again, if you're planning to chop down christmas trees, do it this afternoon or decorating do it this afternoon. winds will be light tay and we don't have rain. dry conditions out there. here's the system that passed through yesterday. still up through the north and
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east. i was just looking through boston, doesn't seem to be any airport delays. i'm sure there will be a few through new york and possibly through chicago because they're getting light rain showers but other than that, that's pretty much what's going on across the united states. stillround herehat's going on is still flooding issues. we still have flood there through manassas and prince william county so please listenin to all wa by local law enforcement. drown.round, don't please be mindful of that. temperatures today mid to upper 50s.it ae tough travel this morning but as far as your unday outlook is concerned, decorating, great day. getting trees, it will be muddy but dry and for traveling, of course, new england and midwest issues. tomorrow morning by daybreak we'll have some rain that will continue into tomorrow afternoon, tapering off through the middle o the afternoon. but then by tuesday we'll be dry we have the 60% chance of
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rain, just showersi, nothing steady. temperatures in the 4en through thof the work week. keeping friday dry but added rain for sunday possibly leading innd moay. moreew am i saying it well, l'chaim? l'chaim. maybe you're making merry. l'chaim! or maybe you're making cocoa. don't spill it. maybe you're with the family you got. (all) ooh! or maybe the one you've chosen. it's culture salad. maybe there's lights... there's definitely lights. maybe there's one less this year. or maybe one more. (singing) our holidays don't all look the same. and maybe that's what makes us great. make the dream yours. ikea.
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>> we'll check in withauryn ricketts, she'll bring us through the hour-by-hour forecast as news 4 today on this sunday morning continues. we're back right after this. when nighttime nasal congestion closes in, breathe right strips are designed to simply open your nose right back up. so with breathe right you can breathe better and sleep better. breathe better. sleep better. breathe right.
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testers hit the streets in alabama after police say they may have killed the wrong persol ing a mall shooting. this morning, still no arrest. and a late night classic in texa teams scoring more points in overtime than in regulation. lighting up the score board with record numbers. on this sunday morning, good mornin to you, welcome into news 4 today. i'm david culver in for adam tuss. >> i'm angie goff. what a weekend for football. b that waskers last night. >> i think some folks who are waking up w, perhaps you stayed up, unlikely. this thing went five lhours. werecap it for you through yourunday headlines. but starting off this with nicer weather than saturday. rainknow, but boy did that take a toll on a lot of us and the flooding. it was out of contr in some places. >> it was. finally that rain got into the area jus around 11, noon, then that continued all throughout the day,icd up over an inch
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and a half of rain in a lot of the region and with the snow cover we saw lef on the ground, oh, yeah, we still have snow ver left on the ground and withth the leave nothing from -- clogged the drains, we're seeing flooding. the creek into the eastern panhandle of west virginia through manassas, there are some flooded roadways out there still so be careful. take it easy. by this afternoon youl need sunglasses. no umbrella, save that for tomorrow. oh, yeah, more rain for then winter comes back for tuesday and wednesday. all you need today is a light jacket. it's beautiful out there right now. we could still have icy bridges and overpasses throu spotsylvania into fauquier, culpepper, even portions of frederick county. so be careful. we'll talk about temperatures and the timing of the rain for tomorrow.
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let's show you that coming up in 15 minutes. just to touch on that, that floodwater and the high water lauryn was talking abou rescue crews busy using rafts guided by flashligavs rushing to people caught in the fast-moving water. >> we have video that re this. darcy spencer spoke with those who were rescued last night. she has the story from chevy chase. >> reporter: floodwaters forced the evacuation of two dozen people attending a birthdayf party o a one-year-old. this twitter video shows crews in action, bringing people attending the party to safety. shafs -- >> i road in the rafnd everybody else has to walk behind the raft. >> reporter: montgomery county used rafts to keep everyone
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safe. a y stayed warm and dry on bus. what did you think as you were walking around the water. this couldn't be the way you thought this was going to eng >> no, thought we were going to go to a party and go to work the next day. s >> reporter:e cars got stranded. this annandale, the driver had to be pulled from the car. back in chevy chase, everyone made it out and they'll have a story to tell for years to come. >> i wouldn't forget that if th was my kid's party. >> yeah. yes. the goong t is they're safe and sound. maybe some wet feet but we were able t get the out pretty safely. >> reporter: and the party must go i'. told the party was going to be moved from the community center to the mom's house and, again, it will be a memorable one. in chevy chase, darcy spencer, news 4 today. we do have an update to a
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story we have been following. the victim of this hit-and-run crh in montgomery county has died. police say around 10:00 last sunday night 24-year-old mario antonio andres rivera crashed into an embankment and was thrown out of his ca he was rushed to the hospital after the crash but died on friday. vestigators believe a dark-colored ford mustang may have been involved in that accident and they're still looking for the driver. just after the thanksgiving, holi prince george's county family is overcome with grief. a crash kheled the m of a three-year-old little girl. last night la'shai porter's family say she was driving to bring family plate of food. she lost control on t parkway and died at the scene. poli believe spe was a factor. we are learning more about an apartment fire that forced more than 30 people out of their
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home in prince george's county. we told you about this fire in laurel around thi time yesterday. it happened friday night and forced 26 adults and hal a dozen children out of their houses. now fire inv that the fire started in an attic but they're still not exactly sure h it began. the fire and smoke caused an >>timated $75,000 worth of damage. demonstrators in alabama marching saturday following a deadly officer-involved shooting al a mall. police believe the man they killed is not the gunman. officers killed emmantic fitzgerald bradford at a mall in alabama thursday night. investigators say police responding to a shooting that left an 18-year-old aea r-old wounded. police initially saidd bradfor shot the teen after a fight but they retracted that statement and are now searching for the actual shooter. >> it could have been my daughter. it could have been any of us given the situation. so with that being said,
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to come to a place to ask for more than wt'has being done. >> reporter: those protestersk are aing for the police department to release body camera video showing bradford getting shot. happening tomorrow, the murder trial for the person accused of ramming a car into a d of people at the violent unite the right rally in charlottesville las year is finally set to begin. investigators say james alex fieldsr. was one of the white nationalistsrotesting the removal of a statue of confederate general robert e. lee last year. policeha say afternoon fields rammed his car into a crowd of counterprotesters and killed 33-year-old heather heyer. field's attorneys hasn't given an idea of what his defehee might be he appears in court tomorrow. in california, fire officials are hoping to get the deadly camp fire fully contained. the fire started on november 8 and it's become the deadliest
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wildfire that california has ever experienced. right now, there are 84 confirmed deaths fors t fire but here's thething, more than 400 people are still unaccounted for. two h rainstorms th this past week helped slow the flames a bit. firefighters have the camp fire 95% contained. they believe it should be fully contained by tuesday, however even if it's contained it's still burning and fire officials say they'll likel be working this one for several months. if you're up early with us now, you probably missed college football history last night, lsu and texas a&m needed seven overtimes to figure out who who would win the game. teams were tied at w 31n the fourth quarter ended but more touchdowns and a two-point conversion ballooned there s. in the end, texas a&m won 742, the highest scoring college football game ever. the game lasted almost five hours. ,ou said robert stayed up? >> yeah, my husband will be worthless today.
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worthless. i'm calling . but that's good football. >> and the crowds stayed, too. look at th. >> you can leave. >> no. >> you cannot leave that. 7:37. for three years, the news 4 i-team has been breaking stories about predators in the classrooms. now a new angle as we learn about the number of incidents involving female teachers. why many are getting away with it.
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>> if there's license revocation, absolutely people sh ld know aboutit. >> the news 4 i-team uncovers a string of teachers removed from local classrooms, stripped of their licenses for misconduct with . studen >> but nearly every case has remained secret, unknown to parents. >> this morning, scott mcfarland why child -teamw safety advocates worry.
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that's because there's a dangerous double standard. >> a local music teacher and choir director is facing child sex charges tonight. >> repter: sadly, it's become almost weekly news. he's accused of sending ri inapprope pictures to children. >> reporte local teachers busted for inappropriate or abusive relationships with students. but that's not the whole story. the news 4 i-team will show you why there are more cases that never make it to the airwaves -- until now. is it aost always men? >> no, about 30% of the incidents are female teachers or staff members. >> reporter: virgimma wealth university professor cheryl shakeshaft has led studies on teacher sexual misconduct cases and says there's a double sendard when teacher is male. >> people are more likely to think that a male who sexuall abuses a female student is -- that that's more harmful than a female who sexually abuses a malestudent. >> reporter: when the i-team investigated the 20 most recent teachers whose licenses were
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canceled for revoked for sexdu misc we found six involve feed male teachers. do you think it's oka when it's a teenaged guy? >> no. i don't think it's right either way. >> reporter: alex cornbrooks attend lead high school when the school district said his former math teacher admitted sending racy pictures of herself in a thong and inappropriate e-mails to another boy. in 20 >> you'd hear things about mostly past students, people that already graduated that had some sort of relationshipith her. >> reporter: the school district's report says it investigated, confirmed the pictures and started revocations of her license. >> there were rumors going ound that time this happened. >> reporter: the teacher resigned and relinquished her license but other students and parents never heardbo aut it. authorities said they didn' have enoug evidence to file criminal charges.ou would yr parents like to have seen this? >> i believe they would have really appreciated seeing th. >> reporter: same story this summer when a stafford high
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teacher wasus a of sending naked photos of herself to a male stud pt. according ice records, the case hit a brick wall. e.e student not agreeing to help the detect still, the teacher resigned and canceled her license. are teen boys less likely to notify somebody about this? t yes, for reasons. one, they're questio ng themselves, they say well, gee, this really upsets me but i'm supposed to be happy about it and so they're afraid of ridicule. and then they'refraid that they'll get in trouble. >> reporter: these cases reveal something else, too. even if a school district has enough evidence to revoke a teacher's license for sconduct, you may not hear about it, even if you have a child in that school. the i-team surveyed every local school district and each said it would not notify parents about a teacher losing a license unless police made a criminal arrest. virginia's school district says thei state law prohibits doing so without the teacher's
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permission. >> a loudoun county teacher under arrest, accused of having a relationship with a student. >> reporter: like this month's case involving kimberly winters, criminally charged withaving a sexual relationship with a juvenile and expected in court in january. but we found at least six other recent cases with a female teacher accused of sex misconduct thatedrema secret and seven of the 14 most recent cases involving male w teachee never publicly repoed by schools. the i-team found sometimes the truth doesn't come out for years. >> the stere is that every boy wants to have sex when he's a teenager and getting to have sex with a teacher or a staff member is like a bonus forhe boy. >> reporter: last yeai, frfax county police investigated a case against an edison high school county teaer admitted to having an affair with a t. stud
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the report says amy zelaya admitted to having sex but the former student refused to help local police pursue charges because it turns out he'sow married to zelaya. scott mcfarlane reporting there. . amy zelaya gave up her virginia teaching license. the i-team spent monthsea tryin to her and her husband for comment, calls, e-mails, everyone a lnd-writtenter but didn't hear back. she has since sought and been issued a teaching license in missouri. as for the case of kimberly winters who is charged, her attorney says she is not guilt and plans to plead not guilty in an upcoming court appearance. we're looking at 7:45 on this sunday morning. a nice mild dry day is ahead. ast yn and your sunday for is next.
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it never should have happened. >> that's whathe father o a university of maryland student is saying after his daughter died from complications from the adenovirus. >> the k virusled 11 children in new jersey, now a freshman from howard county is the newest victim. >> her family believes mold may have played a role in her at >> reporter: olivia's family bscribes her as autiful free spirited teenager in her
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university r at the of maryland. now her family and the campus community is mourning her loss. she died at a hospital sunday from complications related to adenovirus. >> our sympathy goes out to the family and we feel so sad along with them, though not possibly to thehaegree of they're experiencing. >> reporter: olivia had a weakened immune syste due to crohn's disease. she had been sick since the beginning of the semester and developed pneumonia. her dad told me when they found out she had enovirus, she was already in the icu. he said now they know what it is but it's too late. she's already on a ventilator. her lungs a already compromised to the point she's on ventilator support just to get oxygen into her blood. perigal said olivia had mold in her dorm and questions whether that could have contributed to her illness. e into they let kids m a dorm that had mold. they didn't tell students or families there was mold until
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after a number of complaints, including my daughter. dr. m mcbride told there are five other cases of adenovirus. >> there both on and off campus in residents that have had difficulty with mold and those that haven't so i seem there's a consistent connection between mold exposure and adorovirus. >> rr: olivia's dad said he wants to see the university be more ansparent and release information about potential health risks quicker. h won't safe his daughter but hees it could save another life. darcy spencer, news 4. >> the unidrsity of maryl is closed for the holiday but the school says it's using this time to do cleaning. >> the university is encouraging students to be extra vigilant about washing their hands and covering their coughs to any spread of illness. 7:50 right now. we want to check in with lauryn who says it will be a beautiful day. >> is that true, lauryn? >> a great day.'l
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get sunshine out there today. i saw people get out early, take advantage of the morning, specially when it wasn't raining. but if you're still doing that today, i'll show you the best time decorating today, this will be a great day for it. let me tell you, it looks like we may have rain next weekend. i have rain in for sunday. i may have to put in the for saturday as well so just keep that in mind as you're wondering whether you should put it off to next weekend as we enter the first weekend of deceyber. you should get it done this weekend because temperatures will be mild today. mid to upper 50s so getting trees, the other thing, it might be muddy but we'll b dry and traveling not looking that bad. we have problems through new england and through the middle part of the united states but that's about it. we're warming up today. it won't be bad. we'll be dry the rain returns overnight. we'll have showers through your day mondayte nothingy like we saw yesterday, just showers. cooler for tuesday and wednesday.l weave sunshine coming back the middle part of the week.
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it's beanoiful right we have sunshine out there. current temperatures, 40 degrees in d.c., however, i have heard of icy spots from my buddies on facebook tking about icy spots down through stafford county, even spotsylvania cnty where temperatures are around the freezing mark so, again, bridges, overpasses,ck untreated surfaces, driveway be careful. plus we have fog so agd insult to injury, just take your time out there. but we will warm into the 50s today. anything we do have, will hopefully dry out. we have snow through nraska going through kansas and into chicago, there could be a few delays throughout the day in
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aicago but looking good across the united stat here not looking too bad. still have flood warnings, the eastern panhandle of west virginia through portions of fairfa county, bull run cek around manassas so beul car out there with any flooded roadways. mid to upper 50s, becoming nny, little treacherous travel this morning. by monday will be our only chance of rain. here's the rain. let's tim it out. no rain today but the clouds fill in later on tonight, then rain arriving by daybreak, showers here and there throughout the day tomorrow, nothing too hey, maybe a quarter of an inch, it will be out through tomorrow afternoon, we clear out tomorrow night, maybe a breeze from time to time. temperatures still in the mid-50s tomorrow but most ofin that e through the mid-afternoon. then we dry. tuesday, wednesday, thursday. temperatures will be in the 40s. now friday i do not add rain for friday but there is some hts could have some rain showers coming through on friday.
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i'm keeping it dry h bute rain for sunday so keep that in mind if you want to put off decorating uil next weekend. mo this is not a bed. it's a revolion in sleep. the new sleep number 360 smart beds are on sale now during ult sleep number week. it senses your movement, and automatically adjusts to keep you both effortlessly comfortable. it can even our feet to help you fall asleep faster. so you wake up ready to spin into the holiday season. don't miss ultimate sleep number week. it's the last chance to save 50% on the new
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it would be a terrible mistake. >> really warms our hearts. >> make sure that you're not buying any romaine. >> i got here at 4:30 a.m. good morning and welcome to "sunday today" on this november 25th. i'm willie geist. i hope you had a great vi thanksging. as you head out on the roads or airport, you may face nasty weather. there are winter weather w advisorih some areas forecast for half a ft of snow. dylan will have everything you need to know before you get going >today.
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