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plus democrats divided over their next move after the mueller report. new tonight calls for one former trump aide who spilled for the special counsel toesfy before congress. and disturbing video of a deadly crash over the weekend and the driver who police say just walked away from the scene. >> announcer: nuews 4 at 6:00 starts now. i> here in washington sidwell friends school in mourning tonight. the school lost a student to the devastating easter sunday attacks in sri lanka. >> a fifth grader was among the 300 people killed. news 4 aimee cho was live forws not the school with how the student is being remembered tonight. >> reporter: jim, just a heartbreaking loss for this school. kieran schahafritz de zoysaas studying there but was planning on returning. eople killed the in the attack. nearly 300 lives lost in easter
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of them a s, one fifth grader who had been looking forward to the future. today they sent a letter to the parents saying kieran was passionate about learning and he was excited about returning to sidwell friends this coming year.l we are beyond sorry not to get the opportunity to welcome kieran to the middle school. as the students mourn their loss, grief could also be felt over in frederick, maryland. >> i think the first feeling sense of shock. >> father pereira grew up in sri lanka and attended one of the churches that was bombed. his mother was there and suffered a head injury. >> i got in touch with my mom. she was crying. just crying and crying. >> reporter: father pereira had just been home a few months ago hoping the church celebra its 150thanniversary. >> i'm not even prepared to accept the fact a simple place like that could go through some much tension and violence.
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>> reporter: he says all his family members b survived he lost many of his childhoods friend in the attack and as more names of victims are released he worriesw he may k them too. back in sidwell friends, as they also grief, the school says they'll meet with students tomorrow to talk about their tragic loss. and the school also says they plan to off grief counselors tomorrow. live outside sidwell friends, aimee cho, news 4. >> such a sad story. thank you. there was anothevice found today. let's turn to the live desk and leon harris with the latest on the investigation into these deadly attacks. >> sri lanka' government admits they had warning of the attacks. it changed days before the tragedy. terrorists targeted churches on the holiest day of the year and they also went after ritzy hotels. the bombings killed 290 people injuring hundreds more. at least four americans among the dead. the government has imposed a
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state o mj temergency to try an get a handle on public security. blaming a little known domestic group. officials are saying the organization h to have had some kind of outside help to pull it off. leaders have launched an investigation into the attack and the rnings. the live desk, leon harris, news 4. now to thorny questions facing b facing democrats. attorney general william barrhe says t evidence does not establish obstruction of justice, but mueller described ten incidents in which the president may have obstructed justice by trying to sabotage the investigation. the report strongly implies the evidence of obstruction is substaial and that the decision is up to the congress because it has the power of impeachment. that leaves democrats trying to decide what to do next. blayne alexander is at th w whie househ more on all this. hi, blayne. >> reporter: while they're trying to figure out how to move forward or wther to move forward, democrats have certainly taken plenty of other
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action. today the chairman of the house judiciary committee jerry nadler issued his second subpoena in less than a week. this one to hear from the former white house attorneyon dcgahn because of those explosive details laid out in mueller's report. of course that first subpoena is for the full rort without redactions. a sunny day at the annual white house easter egg roll. and president trump displaying a brightutlook despite renewed talk of impeachment among democrats after the mueller's redacted russia report. theresident tweeting only high crimes and misdemeanors can lead to impeachment. there were no crimes by me, so you can't impeach. an pushing back on some of the report's findings that painted him in an unflattering light. >> are you worried that your staff is ignoring your orders with the mueller report ? portrays >> reporter: democrats divided
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on impeachment. some pointing to mueller's findings around the issue of obstruckst of jue. >> if proven some of this would be blimpeac yes. others more cautious. house democrats out on recess huddling to discuss the mueller report. . it comes as attorney general william barr has made a different version available with ewer redactions for top lawmakers, but democrats not going to view it. instead holding out for the full unredacted report. republicans slamming that as playing politics. e> i do encourage my colleagues to come her and do so. >> reporter: house democrats not slowing their push to investigate president trump despite a new legal challenge from the president's lawyers. suing to block a subpoena from the house oversight committee for years of financial records from the president's businesses. and about thatsu law. the president's attorney jay
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kesec r iliar --low issued a f meanwhile the chairman of the house oversight committee maryland congressman cummings fired back. >> thank you, blayne. all lanes of the outer loop of the beltway are back open. chopper 4 flew over the cleanup. we saw cleanup crews get that dump truck back up rightfter it turned over and spilled a load of dirt across several lanes. traffic had to squeeze by from about 2:45 to 4:30 this afternoon. maryland state police are investigating the crash. >> what a mess. that took a while. this next story includes video you may find disturbing. a man walking on the sidewalk in southeast d.c. killed when two carsid co. because of the nature of this, we're just showing you part of it. eillance have here shows the
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impact followed by a man appearing to casually walk away from thescene. tonight we're learning about the victim and hearing from those who live nearby. news 4's megan fitz jaagan fitz our story. >> he was just walking. it could happen to yone. >> reporter: it will likely be a while before she can get the sound and images of what happened steps away if her house out of her thoughts. g >> i was cryint that time. it was really sad. >> reporter: it happened in the afternoon on easter hunday. here surveillance video captured it all. you can see the 31-year-old walking down 16th. seconds later and on the right-hand side of your scene you can see a silver car speeding down "d" street blowing through a stop sign, colliding with another vehicle which then slammed into seck. the driver of the silver car gets out of his vehicle and walks down the street. meanwhile neighborsush to the scene. desperately trying to help flip that white car back on its wheels. >> he didn't stop.
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down.n slow >> reporter: less than 24 hours later, seck'sedamily arriv on scene to see for themselves where their son was killed. he was in town visiting a friend for the holiday. he graduated from college and had dreams of becoming a mechanical engineer. neighbors are calling on the city to do something abo what they call a dangerous intersection. >> i'd like to see them improve trafficety whether it's adding some stop signs. factor.speed is a major >> reporter: i contacted d.c.'s department of transportation and heyrdelleaace bhey'kll be f pg in two additional stop signs on 16th street to make this an all way stop. they'll also be putting in speed bumpsn an effort to try and make this intersection safer. reporting in southeast, meagan fitzgerald, news 4. investigators say a woman in loudon county turned the tables on a guy who was recording her in a bathroom stall.
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according to a search warrant, the victim noticed somebody holding a phone under the publio rest stall, then waited for him to leave the bathroom and took a picture of his face on the way out. she gaveer photo to the loudon county sheriff's office and eventually deputies arrested this man, 31-year-old. the incident happened in the women's restroom at a medicalas building l month. he turned himself in on saturday. he is free on bond right now. >> good for her. well, pretty big game for the caps tonight. ext n and it's on to the round. >> and we are hoping that theom team packs se mumbo sauce, puts chuck brown on their play list. whatever it takes to make raleigh feel like d.c. >> the caps haven't won on the road yet in this series. >> sherree, they're hoping to change that all up tonight. >> yes, they are, jim. so far in this series the home teen won eve game but the
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capitals looking to change that. last week you may remember the capitals failed to win their two games in the postseason i this building. but in the regular seaso they beat carolina twice. they know they can do it. >> we've played in games where the building is really loud and rockin and we can u that. i think we need to use a little bit more of that for o game. we know they're going to be working hard. we canrg use the ene in the building. we've got to have a better start. from there it just kin of builds and have a good feeling bout what's going on in this room. >> last season washington won every game that clirnnched a series on e road. >> it's the same team that played this game that played the last game, it will be a good night. >> absolutely? e >> wll see you at >>11:00. a fuel dump and emergency
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lanning atle dul airport all because of one unruly passenger. our m scottacfarlane with exclusive details about the an who stopped a flight to london. plus one person dead and dozens more who can't go home tonight becausepa of anment fire. we'll hear from one woman who was saved from one of the burningy buildings b her son. and only on news 4, changes coming to one street in the district where you do not want to get stuck in rush hour. doug. and tracking a couple of storms. a great day out there. today tracking one storm to our east moving away. another moving our wayat l this week. this week. i'll show youpp what haens in i'm paige, ath well the little thin i like about the grilled chicken sandwich is that it's picture perfect. it's juicy and it just has all the right combinations.
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planned for part of downtown d.c. that will impact how you get around and where you should park. >> we know this can get confusing. the area we're talking about is a very busy section of "k" street between 12th and 21st streets. news 4 mark segraves broke the news this afternoon. he joins us now live on "k" st oet with more the story you'll see only on news 4. mark. >> reporter: jim and doreen, the mayor is calling this the kchlget"k" streransit way and it plans on getting rid of the service lanes and making room for dedicated bus lanes. it's a very busy stretch of road. thee11 blocks of k. s northwest from 12th street to 21st street. 28,000 vehicles used this part of "k" street every day. bus passengers also share this road. d.c.ws mayor muriel bo is proposing a complete redesign. this is how the new "k" street will look. >> the concept that we'reok
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log at now will include bike accessibility and also safer pedestrian intersections along the entire corridor fro 12th to 20th. the plan is to eliminate the service roads on both sides of f " street as well as much not all of the metered street parking. >> it's going to be tough, butm i' pretty sure i'll just find somewhere else to park. >> we are talking about replacing curbside parking with a more functional use of that space. >> reporter: instead of the service road and street parkinge there will brop off and pickup zones for ride sharing and taxis as well as deliveries like this stretch of main avenue near the new ward. another major change, buses will be given their own dedicated lanes down the center of "k" street. right now the average bus speed along this route is three to five miles per hour. the new dedicated bus lanes wile increaus speeds by 30%. >> if my bus ride is faster, i'm
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good. i'm good with it. reporter: so a lot of us are attached to our cars. this is all part of mayor bowser's plan to get us out of our cars and into public transportation. it's a four year project that will cost about $120 million and still needs to be approved by the d.c. council. back to you in the studio. >> big plans. mark, thanks so much. an out of control passenger forced a united airlines flight to make an emergency landing in dulles airport late last week. and dump fuel from the sky before doing so. now the details were just released in court and our scott macflane is in the newsroom to explain. scott. >> jim, good united airlines flight number 5 departed thursday when a passenger caused a major disturbance just 90 minutes after takeoff. an fbi affidavit says thman was belligerent and abusive.
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he was irate his seat assignment was not being upgraded. the female passenger next to him accused him of touching her. they asked people to stand by in case help was needed to subdue the man. the pilot had to make an emergency landing at dulles and had to dump jet fueo to so because the plane was deemed too heavy to land otherwise. united airlines tells news 4 the fuel was dnped high the sky and evaporated before it could reach the ground. that man waid for three days. today a judge dismissed a formal criminal charge. in the newsroom, scott macfarlane, news 4. >> scott,yo thank federal health experts just released some troubling new numbers on the measles outbreak. they're concerned we're approaching levels we haven't seen in 25 years. health officials say 71 new cases were reported last week. 68 of those new cases are from new york. that brings this year's total to 626. the highest number of measles
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cases since 2014 when 667 cases were reported for the entirear ye. prior to that the highest number in recent history, 963 cases way back in 1994. four cases have been confirmed in marylandea so far this y >> the number of natural disasters that cost billions of dollars is on the rice. >> climate change is leading to more int storms, but we're not just talking about hurricanes. >> you may not know we've already had $2 billion disasters in the usa th.s. this year alon. >> anoth storm in february brought heavy snow tona arizo and then heavy rain across the soinh and dam wins across the northeast. storm team 4gi meteorolo amelia draper is here to breakdown what's behind all this. >> one of the major contributing factors is the warmer oceans as
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we see warmer waters. those warmer waters help to fuel hurricanes. we see rid strengthening. just last week a scientist upgraded hurricane michael thato happened lastober to the strongest category 5 hurricane based on the latest information. we're also trackingarmer and wetter conditions in our atmosphere. this leads to more intense rainfall. when we look at theun amo of billion dollar disasters from 1980 to 2018, the average ut number, abo six. then we look at just the last five years. and the number of billion dollar or greer disasters almost double that. coming in at about 12 1/2. as you guys said, we've already thad two outre this year. we had the bomb cyclone in march and that stormy in februar where we talked about some snow out in areas lik mal boibu and las veg. so far it's trending above average. ways to prevent this would be to
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rebuild our coastal marshland and also the fire prone areas making sure the vegetation is at its best. when we see those fires develop, it can also be a combatant. the bottom line is the number of billion dollar disasters, and the total amount is increasing. it's important to know when we run the numbers, theyo take i account inflation as well. >> amelia, thank you. a reminder, stay with us for our nbc 4 special report tonight on our changing climate. we're talking about how climate affects your family, your money, your health. rten your commute. it all sta at 7:30 right after nbc nightly news. still to come, a supreme court poised to take up high cases on lgbt rights. why it could be a landmark test of the court's new makeup. a great start to the week after ate tas of severe weather last friday. doug's up next looking ahead to our next chance of
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we did not see him rolling any eggs, but the president and the first lady did talk with visitors. this year's event includedwo new activities. musical eggs kind of like musical chairs and hop scotch. >> wll, today also the national zoo's annual family day. visitors were treated to egg hunts. live mic and an opportunity to meet scienngsts worki to protect wildlife. the zoo's family day tradition goes back to a time whenam african-ericans weren't se egg at the white h roll >> no complaints about the weather for all tse outdoor activities t activities today. it was gorgeous. tomorrow more of a summer day. temperatures in the 70s. they're not going to stick around all that long. one day of 82 tomorrow. then we shift back closer to the averageigh. the average high is 69. above that right now, current temperatures sitting at 73. that was the temperature last
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hour now with wins out of the north west. gusts over 20, 25. ittle seeing a nice breeze out there but with sunshine it has been gorgeous. and it will continue to be right on the rest of the evening hours. most everybody into the 70s. 71 huntington. 73 over towards annapolis. no rain to talk about here. we've seen showers to the north and west -- north and east, rrt. that's because of the storm. the same one that brought the torns onda friy. a shower chance yesterday. that htormas moved across our area out into the atlantic. rm.arly centered s almost like a nor'easter that's developed. not too strong. although they are dealing with colder conditions d rain from boston right on down i-95 towards philadelphia and new york. for us a few clouds here and there. to orrow that storm is out here and we're watching this next storm system move our way. this one comes through tomorrow
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night into wednesday. and then anoth one comes through later this week. not going to have a huge impact. this is what it will do tomo tow. bringing temperatures up. 86 in st. louis. 80 degrees in atlanta. 73 d.c. right now. you see the warmer weather trying to move our way with that first storm that's going to come through tomorrow night into the da on wednesday. increasing clouds tomorrow. most of the dayce sunny. ni and warm. high temperatures about 82. really looking quite nice out there. 77 on wednesday. an isolated swer. cooler thursday. high of 74. a good chance of rain on friday. we're talking showers,reezy conditions. i'll show you what that means to your weekend, your saturday and your sunday coming up at456: >> we'll see you then, doug. thanks. a chance to frayed in old car seats for something new. tcoming up 6:30, where parents can find an upgrade over the next couple of weeks. plus a middle school teacher facing charges of rape and inappropriate contact with students. how the school system is
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>> announcer: you're watching news 4 at 6:00. >> investigators are still trying to figure out the cause of a fire that killed a centerville man this morning. this blaze brokeut early this morning here at the bent tree apartments. tonight 30 residents are moving into news. apa >> northern virginia bureau chief julie carey has been speaking to some othe fire victims who were just grateful to be alive. julie. >> reporter: well, jim and doreen, hearts are heavy here
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tonight. six apartments heavily damaged by fire. others have smoke damage. that second floor unit there, that is where a m died. fire department not yet identifying him. the neighbors tell me that's his brand new jeep sitting outro f there. residents also say things could have been far worse here, but for the neighbors who were shouting and knocking on doors to warn of the danger. >> this is my living room. i just bought a new sofa and everything. is is what's left. >> he's back to take a look at his blackened apartment, all of destroyed.ngs he was at work when the fire started, his 76-year-old mother asleep inside with another son. they didn't even know their building was in flames until someone knocked on the door. a sister picksst up the y. >> he opened and he saw the flames comingrom the window. and all the room i wasn flames. >> reporter: this man dragged his mother out to safety, then
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helped rescue a disabled child next door. >> my mom called me. everything is gone. there is fire in the apartment. i just started weeping and crying and rushed to her. >> reporter: t fily heartbroken to see the destruction and to learn the neighbor who liveds upsta didn't survive. >> these things can be made again, but not the life. >> reporter: other residents, too, crediting neighbors for alerting them to the danger. >> i heard a scream outside. i opened my door. there were flames. >> reporter: her apartment didn't burn up, but everything is cover in soot with the hallways covered in debris. dangerous to walk. she was bag k what she could a salvage dropping it down to the ground. artment management tells me they are working to try to relocate all the impacted families either in this complex or another one they have nearby, but just a short while ago, that man who rescued his mom, he came
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by with his mom and his van and he said he is still not sure where he's going to stay tonight. was headed back over to the management office to see if they had an answer for him. back to you now inhe studio. >> tough road back for so many. julie, thanku. hoping a surveillance picture leads them to the man they say shot two people at a funeral. this is a picture of the suspect depues want to find. the shooting happened saturday at the funeral for trevor frazier. frazier was one of two young men shot and killed in capital heights elier this month. deputies tell us saturday's shooting happened after some sort of argument at the funeral service. both victims are expected to survive. if you recognize the m in the photos, you're urged to call police. for the second time in less thanrs two y a woman was raped near a bus stop in montgomery county. the latest victim g o a ride-on bus lateaturday on watkins mill road in montgomery
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village. she says she ran when she noticed a man following her but he caught up with her and knocked her down. the victim tells police the man dragged her away from the street and raphe this is a sketch of the suspect wanted in a similar attack from october, twoech2017 in the same. no one has been prrested in the ious case. police have not said whether saturday night'sac att and this case are connected. students at a local middle school are reading a jarring letter. a former employee is accused of raping a student. derrick ward has our epreport. >> rter: this is very disturbing. charles county sheriff troy berry is talking about the allegations and charg ainst 23-year-old anthony t. williams. he was an instructional assistant at the middle school in waldorf. mart of his job wason moring studentsho were placed in in-school detention. allegations were made by a
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female student at the school,th then ano student came forward. >> we knew there were two allegations to be inappropriate texting and also some inappropriate content. >> reporter: police say the textg happened at school. the inappropriate contact didn't. a school spokesperson tells us as soon as thenvestigation was begun, williams was put into an administrative position. he was removed from the school. he didn't s in the administrative position too long either. williams quit within two weeks of the investigation sherting. facing a charge of second degree rape and fourth degree sexual offense. he was arrested by charles county deputies and then released on bond. williams began working with the school in september of 2018. school spokesperson says he underwent a thor row background check and passed. a vigil just getting under way for a young engineer who was murdered. a coalition of african-amecan urches is holding this candle light vigil for tyreke hudson. police tell us the 22-year-old
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was shotpr to death in an voekt voe -- unprovoked attack earlier this month. investigators have charged his neighbor in the murder. hudson was a software engineer who was starting a job at the north drummond facility. that was right near annapolis. news 4 darcy spencer is at the vigil. the supreme court will decide whether it's legal to discriminate against members of the lgbt community in thepl yhtdves eswo because of their sexual orientation is o a form ses discrimination banned by federal law. lower courts have been divided on this iss c. theases will be heard in the session that begins in october. this will be the first major hot button issue the court has taken up since justice brett kavanaugh joined the panel last fall. he replaced retired justice anthonyy, kenn an influential
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swing vote in lgbt cases in the past. new 4 is starting a new ommitment to reporting on climate change. and zbl ait begins tonight on e day with our half hour special. coming up at 6:45, adam tuss shows us what metro was doing tt cu its carbon footprint and what that work had to do with all this water. plus gas prices are climbing already. now the trump administration is taking a harder line against iran. mwhat it couldn for what you pay at the pump. temperatures today in the70 s, but what that means is the temperatures over the next couple of days, when will you need the umbrella next? need the umbrella next? i've gt tt forecas f
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you've probably noticed gas prices out there climbing steadily. now energy experts are warning us to be ready for a surge this summer. due to a change in u.s. policy on iran. president trump's administration is about to start enforcing sanctions ones counthat import oil from iran. the move comes neay a year after presidere trump wit from the iran nuclear deal the white house is hoping to force iranian leaders to negotiate a new deal, but the move could also tighten the oil
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supply. that's likely to lead to higher prices during summer driving season. need a new car seat for the drive you'll beak tg? a car seat for the little one or an old one you're not using? now is your chance to trade it in for a discount at target. announcing the car seat trade-in event. taet will accept any used car seat including infant seat, convertible seats, car seat bases, and even car seats that are expired or damaged.e in exchang you'll get a 20% off coupon toward a new car seat, stroller, or select baby home gear. target has recycled more than half a million car seats and starting this trade-in p three years ago. >> sounds like a deal. coming up,ro m chooses earth day to release the first ever energy actioan pl. up next, transportation reporter adam tuss explains what it means for riders. >> doug's got a 10-day forecast with a theme starting to emerg for our fridays this spring.
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a look now at the day's top stories. tragedy and sri lanka is really hitting home tonight. theda easter suny terror attack killed a local fifth grader. kieran shafritz de zoysa attends sidwell friends school. he was studying overseas. he was expected to return to sidwell this fall. the bombing took the life of nearly 300 people.
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four days after congresre ceived that redacted version of the mueller report, democrats are conducting the conference call to determi their next steps. in the meantime, the housedi juciary committee just sent a subpoena to former white house counsel don mcgahn.n he's bee ordered to testify on the 21st. mcgahn told special counsel team that president trump directed him to fire mueller just weeks after the investigation began. neighbors credit neighbors for keeping a deadly centerville apartment fire from getting even worse. one man is dead and several families are without homes after the early morning fire on bent tree. circle some who live in the billing say they were alerted to the fire by their ngghbors poundin on their door. now to a closer look at our changing climb as we celebrate earth day here. one of the largest contributors to green house gas emissions comes from our srs. >> that'here metro comes into play as our transportation reporter adam tuss shows us now.
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the transit agency wants tome beco the greenest mass transportation system in the country. >> reporter: this bubbling mixture of iron, muck, and water isn't exact what you envision when you think of the metro system, but it is climate change in action. it's part of a larger mission that metro is now taking on to cut its energy use in carbon footprint, a plant so involved it could be the equivalent ofki tang 35,000 cars off the road per year. >> every person isy affected b climate change and so this is t somethhat we've put a focus on. >> reporter: more on that in a second. let's look at the overall picture of transportation in the environment. from planes to trains to cars, ehe travel choices we make every day do hav a direct impact on the planet. consider this. according to climate central, cars and trucks account for nearly 1/5 of all u.s. emissions. your vehicle spews out about 20 pounds of unwanted carbon
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dioxide for every o gallon gas burned. that's about a pound of carbon dioxide for every mile you drive is going that straight into the atmosphere. what can you do about it? leave the keys at home for starters. >> every metro rail trip uses 40% less green house gases than if you were torive in a car all by yourself. >> aside from helping take cars off the road, metro is now rolling out its first ever energy action plan. day.sed today on earth it takes a lot of energy, of course, to power all those trains and buses. this is a serious internal check up in to see how metro can cuti energy consumption which in turn reduces green house gases. >> t'well, as simple as changing light bulbs. we are changing every single light bulbs in the system. >> some other strategies, capturing and storing the energy when trains break, using more solar panels, buying electric buses, even looking at more tficient bus boarding and payment systemso cut down on idling. take a look at this. metro has tan he a ton of
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rain and ground water. think othe metro system as a huge french drain for the region. there's a lot of water coming in. certainly this past y r we had a lot of water in the region. once that water gets into metro'sproperty, metro then has to treat it and thatater has to go back into the environment clean. almost 1.5 million gallons a day.y >> the agenc as a whole is looking at stainability as something impornt to metro and to the entire region. >> we hope you'll keep it here on channel 4 after nbc nightly news. at 7:30 we have a news 4 special report about our changing climate. we'll be looking at the effects felt across the dmv and beyond. >> impacting so many foamily. >> we feel like it's in the distant future but it' affecting all of us right now. >> it really is happening all around us. we know the capitals are on
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tonight. go ahead and dvr it. right around first intermission switch on over. you can watch that. >> that's a plan. >> i got your plan. you only need the third period anyway, right? >> right. that's all you need. out there right now, pretty nice nditions. high temperatures in the low 70s. we like today. 73 degrees on our monday. 70 degrees by 7:00. dropping through the 60s. it will be a nice night tonight. a nice cool evening. efb into the l-- everybody into the low 70s. the only exception in annapolis right there along the water at 69. even last hour they were at3. gorgeous. our average high is 69. we're a little bit above average for the day today. on the radar, not much to show in our area. we don't have any storms around. we had that big storm on fridayi believe or not, it's actually still sitting right off the coast giving some shower activity up to philadelphia. pret interestingook on the
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storm there. for us they didn't give us much at all other than some nice weather. sunshine, you see what's happening. 73 in d.c. only 58 in new york. much cooler up towards boston withrohe rain f that storm sitting there. 77 degrees in ocean city. 73 right now in rich mon. w theer picture showing much warmer air back to the west and that's what's coming our way. we're going 80s tomorrow. going for a h temperature of 82. nice at the bus stop. 6:21, that's what time the sun comes up. 57eg des. 74 by recess. we've got 82 degrees by the time we're picking up the kids. a beautiful tuesday for sure.ll i reathink most of this week is looking pretty good out there. high temperature on tuesday. like i said, 82 degrees tomorrow. sque this is a cold front that'sg goino come through late tuesday into wednesday. another during the day wednesday. most of the day dry. any chance of showers will be down to the south. 74 on thursday. pretty good day there too after a cool start. friday looking good.
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a good chance for rain on friday. i walked in the n isroom. walked the studio before this and both doreen and jim asking me, what time does it end and jim says what time does it start? they obviously have opposite plans of what they're doing today. it's looking pretty good either way. you may need t umbrella during the day. if you have dinner plans, you may be okay. that's something we're tracking for you. saturday. chance of showers coming up on sunday. 70 on monday. then look at this. the warmest airf the year possible. next week 87 tuesday. 86 on wednesday. but notice it comes with a good ance for some storms as well. that's something we'll be tracking out there for you. again, doreen, i'm assuming nner plans. tennis? >> right on both counts. >> you missed a wild friday night. >> i did. for sure. amelia had everybody covered. >> they did. they did a great job. thank you, doug. coming up, the capitals trying to d somethinghey were pretty good at last year.
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switch to xfinity with this great limited time offer. plus, get your choice of dvr or a speed upgrade free for a year. click, call or visit a store today. >> announcer: this is the xfinity sports desk. >> boy, would it be nice to have a repeat of saturday? even some of saturday would do the trick. le city is behind that. everybody is getting more aggressive and more physical. listen, it is often said, and i'm about t say it again, a playoff series does not really begin until the road team wins. tonight in t ralei capitals and end ance to begin their series with the hurricanes. maybe j it'sust the capitals way. home ice is nice, but they're
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road warriors. they had as many home wins as roader wins? remeast spring in the capitals a perfect 4-0 on the road. all started woon they tk out columbus in six megas. then it was the finish that everyone dancing in thetr sts. kuznetsov with the penguins, beating in overtime. then you have the bird. sent the pens packing in game six. took the lightning in the eastern confere won in tampa. las vegas, the franchise had the first stanley cup and won and celebrated where? on the road after game five in las vegas. what does this all mean? i have no idea. but i enjoyed recapping it. sh sherree burruss knows what thisi team is ting ahead of game six. >> so far this series the capitals struggling to win games a this building so much so playoff tradition ended. the first two games in raleigh a player started with a hot lap.
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after droppin those two ilatead of one pyer taking the first t lap aroundhe rink, everyone did. kind of slowly. the fun isn't over. just more focused. >> we are a pretty fun group, but this time for that, it's time to keep it tight. 're got guys like kuzie and burky here for that.s but it' big game and we've got to make sure that we're dialed in and we're ready to ig. >> ton washington looking to play the exact same way they did on saturday. that shut out win laid out a blueprt for how the caps can win and eliminate carolina. >> you s o itn our third goal. you saw it after the fnst period lot of our fore-checks. no matter who you are, it's not so much fun going back every ti and getting hit. it's a big part of our game and we try to keep it going. >> that's the key and that was what i really want to take from that games we've got to be at that level. at the very least tonight,
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twee we want to have success in this building. >> with a w capitals will advance to the secondifound for the fth straight year. to you. >> let's get this thi done, right? we have all this capitals mania to getou setor what? football season. nfl draft starts thursday. w redskinsith nine six over seven rounds. alex smith and colt mccoy hadon seass ended by broken legs, redskins brought in case keenum. the redskins are still in the quarterback market. >> we needed a quarterback and we were able to trade for case.s but that doe not put o us of the realm of picking a quterback if there's one we like at 15. we don't know who's going to be there. we've got guys we do like. it all depends on the board. who's highest on the boardt that particular time. if that quarterback is the high skpe est and we've got a pick, nine out of ten it's going to be the
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quarte ack. >> allright. so which qrterback is it going to be? make duke's daniel jones? played f eli and peyton's old coach, or could it be dwayne haskins? soe school alum threw 50 touchdowns last s at ohio state. so many options. former redskins star santana moss says pump the brakes on the quarterbacks. >> i'm not so mh on the quarterback right now.rd i think in for us to go out there and get what we want, i think we have to build that defense. yes, we need quarterbacks, but i think rightdow we nee to win. i'm not sold on that position of as far as when it comes to the draft. i think first round w need to get somebody off, an edge rusher nd gthng'soi allow our defense to keep building. in the last few years we've been butiding in the right direcon. i think the offense not stepping up and meeting that challenge. >> we all do what we can do to difference. doug has the wings.
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