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"news 4 today" starts now. new this morning, one man is dead a a crash in prince george's county. we're learning new details. a day at the lake turns deadly with one man drowning. we're going to tell you wwe he into the water in first pl e. blossom watch. the cherry blossoms are reaching ak bloom in just a couple of hours. >> they're looking pretty good. want to welcome you in at 10:00 on this sunday morning. thanks for being here with i'us. adam tuss. >> i'm meagan fitzgerald. when a difference a day makes. yesterday was amazing. >> a little work to do. you say we went through the rais and the sun i going to come out. >> it will come out this afternoon. andean on -- i'm going to
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show you these temperatures, especially west of us. i kno our friends are waking up in the shenandoah valley, ,udoun coun frederick county, maryland, it was 664 this mo this morning. that front is creating some spectacular clouds. you're literallyching some of the clouds moving, the front moving through the area when you look up. i got several pictures on my facebook pe from people out in dulles and out in west virginia, beautiful. beautiful down there by the tidal basin. today may be the day to go after the rain clears. we're seeing the rainof pushing to the east of i-95 now. clouds still in place between 81 and 95. look to the west of i-81. starting tee some sunshine. that sunshine will continue to move and overtake our area as we go through the remainder of the day pretty much. here is the you can see it right there. the back edge of the front moving through right
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look at our temperatures. 58. start at 64. winds have shifted. here we go. talked abo this an hour ago out of the south, now out of the northwest, stay out of the rthwest. look at temperatures. shenandoah valley in the 40s. stillhe getting southerly wind, you're in the 60s. everybody will drop throughout the day today. wait until you see the windchillsomorrow morning. >> not going to look. all right, thank you, lauryn. one man is dead after an overnight crash in prince county. this man was driving along richey road in forestville around 1:00 a.m. it smashed head on into e.other vehicl he was pronounced dead at the scene. police are trying to figure out what led up to this crash. a tragedy unfolded at a popular park in norern rginia. a man jumped into lake braddock to save a dog. new this morning, we just arned he was 28-year-old nahia trend of burke.
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police tell us he never made it back to shore.nc darcy s is in burke with the details. > yellow police tape surrounds lake braddock, it is off limits despite the beautiful weather. that's because something trac happened here. fairfax county police say a man apparently drowned trying to rescue a dog from the chilly waters. >> detectives are still looking into that aspect. initial reports are that he did go into the water to retrieve a dog. just don't know if it was his dog or s>>ebody else's. eporter: police were called here after 5:00 for the report of a missing swimmer. boats and rescue swimmers went in, they found the man's body m about utes later. they say the dog was found and is okay. >> the best of my knowledge, i lived in this community now for 19 years, i've never heard of something like this happening. >> reporter: john johnson heads mmunity braddock association, he says people use the path around the lake to exercise and walk their dogs. says the lake is not very
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deep but it is very cold this ti of year. >> i think it is tragic. the worst thing that you want to happen is for some tragedy to happen to a member of your wmily. it is always worn it happens to a child, but it is equally bad wh it happens to adult. my heart goes out to the family. >> reporter: police worked well into the nighttime hours on , saturdllecting evidence and talking to potential witnesses. theye expecting to release additional information sometime today. in fairfax couy, darcy spencer, news 4 today. >> we're told by picehat that 28-year-old was going after his dog. so it was his dog. >> that makes sense. makes sense. >> so sad. all right, you're looking at pictures f here ofe in the district where ten people were displaced after the fire damaged much of their home. residents escaped here on 54th street in southeast yesterday. .c. fire tells us the fire started on the first floor of
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this two story house. no one was .hurt and no word yet on what started the fire. >> a complete mess on some train tracks in utah. investigators trying to figure out what csed more than 20 railcars to come off the tracks yesterday. some of those cars were carrying propane tanks, which were damaged and some of them leaked. no one was hurt. it is smooth sailing on the baltimore-washington parkway now. all lanes are back open. look at thatraffic going smoothly. for the past few days, portions of the roadway have been closed for eme pothole repairs. chopper 4 capturing the workers doing their thing friday night. gcrews were improv conditions for drivers who had to deal with popped tires and brutal repairs are meant to help improve conditions before a laer repaving starts next month. if you want to learn more about the potholes and the larger fixes on the bw parkway, head to the nbc washington app. search potholesou there andl find a wealth of information.
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been a bad season. everal teenagers are behind bars this morning after a massive disturbance in baltimore county. it all started after a march madness party at east point mall in dundalk on friday. police say after the event, a fit broke out in the parking lot, they say some people damaged mall property, you're taking a look at this pfture someone's busted out windshield, sent to us by a woman. also, aolice sayut 300 teenagers were involved and nine people were arrested w theye charged as juveniles and released to their parents o guardian the navy s.e.a.l. charged with fatally stabbing an injured iraqi wr prisos no longer being held in the brigg. >> this comes hours after esident trump tweeted about him. the attorney of special operations chiefd edw gallagher confirms he was moved to the barracks at a marine corp air station in florida. this comes after the president tweetedavn of gallagher moving, saying it honors his
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past service. gallagher is accused of stabbing an islamic state prisoner under his caren 2017 along with shooting two civilians in iraq and opening fire on a crowd. he has pleaded not guilty to these charges. getting a whole lot nicer and pinker outsideround the tidal basin. the cherry blossoms are here and peak bloom is expected to hit tomorrow. >> todays not a baday to go down there. if you decide to head out now you might have to dodge some rain drops. i don't believe our derrick ward has the umbrella back up. >> i d't have it up. it is still close by. if you do manage to come down today, you will be subject to the nature. the wind picks up, the rain picks up, but then it goes away. wear a jacket or something like that. the blossoms are still beautil, even when the sky is
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gray. they have their own light. it justit adds a nice le tone to everything around here. to an already picturesque scene. you want to ee picturesque, look at video from yesterday. that is when the sun was out and the weather was beautiful. crowds were a bit heavier than right now. they could pick up. reter today, we' expected to get some sun again. that's going to make it a more easant experience and like of a been saying, what better place to be when the sun finally does come out. picture that makes this even more picture perfect. we're live here along the tidal basin, derrick ward, news 4.ck o you. >> i'm getting my thesaurus out this morning. >> no kidding. don't touch those cherry blossoms. >> we saw people picking the cherry blossoms. >> yeah, yeah. we throw rocks at themut they still do it. i don't know. >> thank you. >> one guy took it away and was smelling it. my goodness. >> too much. >> that is a no-no.
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time is 10:08. still ahead, if y want to see some beautiful trees there are -- they're along the tidal basin a showed you. we have more news ahead. stay with us. [phone ringing] remember the way we used to do things? hey man... like connect with friends? dig it! or get in shape? or sell a house and pay a real estate agent a big commission. [crash] atedfin, we charge you a 1% listing fee. and because redfin.com is america's #1 brokerage site our agents get more eyes on your home so you sell for thousands more than the one next door. don't get stuck in the past. sell with a redfin agent.
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welcome back. the next time you stop by the national arena, it may look a little different t w. over 100 folks with the tree experts donated their time to help fix up the grounds. they prunehetrees, and help treat diseased trees. one landscaperold us it was an honor for him to be there. >> we're lucky enough to work on the oldest and largest organisms on the planet. r goal is to make the trees look beautiful here and make sure they're going to be here for a long time. >> this is the third time the
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group volunteered at ttu ar arboretum. >> nice. >> good for them. that's nice. we're taking a live look outside. you justhan't get enof this. >> beautiful. >> so pretty. so beautiful. >> love it out there. 10:12. we'll take a look athehe crry blossom forecast when we come back with lauryn. when will the b mueller repor released. chuck todd joins us live in studio toalk about the latest poll that is out this morning. that's all when we come back.
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take take lo aa loo this incredible video here. trailers destroyed in its path, tossin them around. is happened friday afternoon in colorado. about an hour south of denver, motor homes tumbling over as the storm made its wayhrough that area. so far no reports of anyone getting hurt. that is good news. i remember when i used to report in denver, i reported in 80-mile-per-hour winds, that's just the most i've ever covered. >> in denver. >> yeah. in boulder. winds are no joke. >> yeah. >> we, you know, we'll see breezy winds. we're already seeing wind gus out there. hour. 30 miles an and on wtop and they were asking me if this is going to be impactingyhe che blossoms. some of them are going to float away with the winds. we'll have theds w all day today, all night tonight and through much of tomorrow.
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bu the temperatures not going to be a big facr in that. we're not going to be that cold. we're getting cold. but it needs to be 27 degrees for the pedals to start to 'rll. not going to make it down quite that low here in the district. outside the beltway, yeah, you will be in the 20s. it isoing to be chilly tomorrow morning. and we have the winds so you got windchills. you can see it is a beautiful day out there, we still have the clouds in the tidal basin area, still have the cloud in d.c. i love this game. everybody playing meteorologist for a second. let's find the front. >> i can't see it. >> you can't see it at all. supereasy. it is the blue part. the cold air moving in behind the front. so, again, frontal system, cold front, just cold air mass moving, so that's what we're seeing right there. it is taking over the warm conditions. say good-bye to the 60s and 70s. this frontal system sweeping through, creating spectacular clouds out there. it is sweeping through. and it is t the rain with it. you can see the back edge here
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when i get closer. already along i-81, suhine, the rain is pushing out. the rain is done. so once it finishes with your location, it is scooting out, no more rain for wetoday. will have some sunshine. so there is in good news. it is chilly. mid-60s. look what happened i the shenandoah valley, to the upper 40s, here in d.c., 64 to 58 in anour and half n southern maryland, you're on your way down to the 50s. winds picked up as well. were out of the south, bringing us nice warm air. now they're out of the northwest. we'll cool down quite a bit behind that front. winds gusting up to 30 miles an hour. lo the windchills. windchills now. 39 in martinsburg. thosell winds are r wreaking havoc on this area. because of the big shift in temperatures. winds are going to be up to 30 miles an hour.
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today, overnight tonight, and tomorrow morning. however, winds cal after 2:00, 3:00 tomorrow afternoon. anthe windchills tomorrow morning, wait until i show you this, 57 degrees your daytime high. here we go. this is what it is going to feel like tomorrow morning. 20s and teens. so teens outside the beltway. as winds settle down, the windchill will be closer to that temperaturend our temperature tomorrow only around 50 degrees. that's it. sunny ski tomorrow. and breezy. so for your cherry blossom oun,ook, this aftern we will have some sunshine later this afternoon. windy and cold. tomorrow morning, freezing cold, beautiful sunrise tomorrow morning. but, again it going to be eezing cold with the winds gusting to 30 miles an hour. we start to see winds die down. as i said, the pedals fall at 27. we won't be there tonight. we're going to be in the low 30s. not even around the freezing
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mark. pedals will be fine. the wins will take some of the pedals away. breezy tomorrow, temperatures around 50.ng trache coastal storm on tuesday, keeping us dri. we start to see temperatures, going rain for friday. >> tha you very much. the country is waiting for the full report. a week ago we were just getting word about some of the contents of the mueller report. we still don't know everything that is inside it. >> joining us now to talk all about it is moderator of "meet the press," chuck todd. th attorney general is saying that a version of the report will be publied in mid-april. everyone is hanging on, trying to see what will tha show but a new poll is out, what are people feeling about th l? e we should be hearing i got you babe, like groundhog day. here we igo. think, first of all, we're going to be debating the release of the full mueller rort for months. whatever gets released is not going to satisfy democrats and until somebody gs to see the
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full redacted report that is beyond bill barr, i think we'll have thisdebate. what is interesting is 31%, the number of people who said they hadn't really spent a lot of time focused on the mueller report. it is a reminder it is the extremes that have been very focused on it. also means is that our numbers haven't changed. people, still a plurality of people. 25% to 30 believe it does clear him of wrongdoing. a mass of people don't know because theyaven't been paying attenti attention. it is a reminder to both parties. there is this mushy middle that tuned it out for some reason. maybe because they're waiting to read the report themselves or maybe because they care more about health care or tor economy tariffs, whatever. pick your policy issue. they maybe just exhausted from all of it. >> yes. thank you. speaking of health care, the president talked about repealing
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re act.ordable this is really setting off some alarms on both sides, right? >> i have two senators on, we er and about mue immigration and health care. senator barroso and the reblican sidef the i'll uncomfortable with trying to claim they can write health care alternative. and then you have senator durbia on the democc side, licking his chopsanting to get on the health care issue. it felt like an unforced do you know when we began the obamacare debate, 2009. ten years the republicans promised an alternative to obamacare. they cannot comep with a plan. they have yet to do it h they ten years to do it. to put the burden on themselves again politically seems like an unforced error, why capitol hill republicans are very nervous. >> a the lo too.eople concerned >> senator barroso said the lawsuit won't go anywhere.
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just in to our newsroom, maryland state police say they have rescued stranded boaters in anne arundty co officials had to airlift three people out of a marshy area with helicopter after two boats that they were using started taking on oswater. boaters were taken to a nearby elementary school where they were checked out by rescue crews. so happy they are okay. your time now is 10:25. here are four things you need to know this morning. cherry bloss season is here. crowds of people headed down to e tidal basin to see the flowers. peak bloom is expected to hit tomorrow. fairfax county police say a n drowned while trying to rescue his dog yesterday. we have learned that h was 28-year-old najit trin. th r dog was safelyovered from the lake. cre are busy putting out this overnight fire, happened on
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rthwest georgia avenue. one firefighter was treated for minor oinjuries. else was injured. a man is dead after an ovnight crash on prince george's county. he crashed head on into another vehicle along richey road in forest ille. that roa back open in both directions. and probably a nice day to get outside and see the dherry bl. cherry blosso >> i'm looking at some of the people from our camera over here. we have got sunny t skiess afternoon. believe it or not. we had rain showers this morning. we'll have the winds. winds gusting up toil 30 an hour. brisk and blustery this afternoon. sunny ses and then overnight tonight, clear and cold. you wake up tomorrow morning, windchills in the 20s and teens. don't put away the winter gear ye tomorrow winds settle down by 2:00 or 3:00. tomorrow afternoon, good time to e them, full sunshine tomorrow, beautiful sunrise too in case you're headed out tere. ann tracking a coastal storm for tuesday, temperatures move back up through friday. friday, rn showers possible.
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and some sunshine on saturday and sunday. >> 72 by sunday. >> yeah. t hopefullse pedals just hold on to the tree, hang tight for another week. hey, here is another live look around the tidal basin as we got people out and about. honestly, right now, mig be th better time to go. >> not bad. don't drive down there. >> no. whatever you do, don't drive. >> "meet the press" up next. have a great >> thanks for joining us.
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this sunday the fallout. president trump claims victory over the mueller report. >> total exoneration, complete vindication. >> allies line up to defend. >> and what did we hear this week? no collusion. no obstruction. >> a total vindication. >> and the president goes after his opponents. >> little n pencilck adam schiff. >> the democrats push back. >> the president has not been exonerated by the special counsel. >> and condemn mr. trump's conduct. hink it is immoral. i think it is unethical. i think it is unpatriotic. and, yes, i think
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