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guide me through this process. t>> new developments in a horrific crash tha killed five children. >> today police said the mother behind the wheel was not only drunk, she'd been using marijuana t. dominique taylor turned herself in yesterday. she appeared in court this afternoon on a long list of charges. two of the five children killed in the crash last month were her own. her boyfriend was also in the car. died a few weeks later. prince george's county bureau chief tracee wilkins is live in upper marlboro with more on what happened in the courtroom today. tracee. >> reporter: a lot of disturbing details revealed in what was already a disturbing case. there were a couplef family members in there who wanted to speak on behalf of taylor. but after hearing all theec prosution has to say about this case, they decided not to speak. a judge called dominique taylor a danger to the community and ordered her to be held in jail on $100,000. earlier this week she was
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indicted on 12 charges that killed six passengers in h car, including her two young children. she tned herself in on charges yesterday. taylor's daughters were killed in the crash along wh their cousins, a 14-year-old, 6-year-old and 15-year-old. 23-year-old passenger cornell sin died fm his injuries a few weeks after the crash. taylor was the only survivor. today in court her attorney argued that his client should be released from jail because she das a spinal cord injury, aeck ee i mjuultiple surgeries. the state countered that argument saying taylor was exaggerating her injuries. an assistant state prosecutor said taylor was in court for a hearing last week and lunged with someone. she was using a crutch with no brace last week.n in additio taylor's blood alcohol level being twice the
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legal limit at the time of the ces of there were also t marijuana in her system. the state's attorney's office had this to say about earlier ng this case this week. >> even within all that tragedy, we have to do our job, we have to seek justice, we have to hold individuals who are at fault accountable. >> one question here. what was the child support hearing about? >> reporter: the father wanted to amend child support so he no longer had to pay it and she wanted to pmake sure she got he back child support payment, payments that the father did not make and that happened a week ago. >> such a tragic story all the tracee wilkins, thank you. storm team 4 tracking chances for potentially severe storms. you see the system already forming on the radar. look down south there around memphis. that's what could be bringing up
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possible tornado around this time tomorrow. let's get to chief meteologist doug kammerer. what's the timing on all of this? >> i've g timing on all of this is tomorrow afternoon. we're not expecting tornadoes, so that's one thing we're going to be watching. could be an isolated chance. this is going to be a rain and wind threat. here's the storm itself right now swirling right around middle rock and memphis. strong stos to the south. that upper area of low pressure that will move in during the day emorrow. we'v got a couple of showers now in towards our northern zone. but what i'm watching, once aga again, this area right here around memphis that's going to move our way. as it does, we could see sunshine. we might see a line of storms develop and that line will not only have heavy rain but windy conditions. i'll take you hour by hour tomorrow. >> before we let you go, with the storm coming in tomorrow, who is going to get hit the
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hardest? >> right around the d.c. metro area, especially towards par of southern maryland, maybe parts of the northern neck as well. everybody has ahance for stronger storms, but i think it's those areas around and east of washington with the bestan for severe weather. i'll break it down for skpu i'll show you the risks as well where you live. >> you'll have a bus day tomorrow. stay ahead of any severe weather ta tomorrow with thebc washingto app. if bad whether breaks in your neighborhood, we'll send you an alert to your phone. an elderly man is dead after an early morning fire at his southeast washington apartment. the victim is glen washington. he lived alone in a first floor apartment on oakwood street. d.c. firefighters say they were called there around 4:00 this morning after reports of a fire. they were able to get the man out but he died at the scene. s woman who knew washington remembers him a a friendly usighbor. >> he was j an overall nice
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guy, outgoing. ed rybody in the building l him. he kind of stayed to himself, but i was his friend. he would come over and sit with me and we would cookout over there. he was a really nice guy and he will be much missed. >> the cause of the fire is still under investigation. crews say there was a smoke detector in the apartment, but they believe it may not have been working. no other apartments were damage. we've got some new video of a raging house fire in prince george's county. hothe family w lived inside this did manage to escape in the nick of time. a volunteer firefighter shot this video as he approached the fire. it's just off largo road in upper marlboro. you can see this home full engaged. the flames appeared to start i the attic. the cause is under investigation. a fallen marine with local ties is being remembered at a service right now in the bronx. staff sergeant christopher slut man w
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-- slulean was k in a roadside bombing. d was a member of the volunteer fireartment here in prince george's county and a veteran of the new york city fire department. as his body was driven to new york from delaware, firefighters saluted from overpasses along the way. slutman will be buried nexty uesda at arlington national cemetery. he leaves behind a wife and three daughters. breaking news, courtroom coastinvolving a maryland guard officer accused of stockpiling weapon. >> christopher hansen compiled hit list and looked at two supreme court justices. >> scott macfarlane h been following since the beginning. scott was at a hearing this afternoon. what can you tell us about what happened? >> people were surprised by what happened. the judge has raisedhe possibility hassan could be released on bail before going to trial in the case. hassan is charged with firearms
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violat, federal firearms violations. he is not charged with a terror case, though prosecutors have alleged he was plotting an attack. the judge raised concerns t prosecutors haven't given enough evidence to require hassan to remain in jail until trial, but there will be a future hearing on all this. the defense must first layout some case of how they can keep hassan from jail and that hasn't happened yet and there is no date for that. there is a possibility hassan could be released before trial. at the live desk, i'm scott macfar ne. back you. >> thank you, scott. new calls today for the embattled mayor of baltimore to resign after the fbi swooped into the city today and seized boxes of documents fro multiple locations. agents moved in early this morning searching mayor catherine pugh's two homes. the home of a former aide and the mayor's lawyer were also searched. n explains howe
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the mayor's children's book is at the center of thisda scan >> reporter: a state probe into the business dealings of baltimore's mayor has now expanded into a sweeping federal investigation. this morning fbi and irs agents raided severallocations, including the homes and city hall offices of mayor krcatheri pugh as well as her lawyer's office. >> we knew it was going to come to th b,ut we didn't think it would be so high scale. >> pugh, who is on leave for health raeeasons has resisted calls. she is under fire for the sale of her children's books which she sold to a health plan that does business with the city. she also sold to the university of myland in a deal worth half a million dollars while she sat on the hospital's board. >> thisel has gone on entiry fa o long and unfair. >> reporter: the entire y baltimore citcouncil, maryland
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house of delegates, business leaders and now the state a governor who tweeted the mayor has lost the public trust. she is clearly not fit to lead. despite the looming scandal, mayor pugh indicates she plans to return to office whileim balte grapples with the urowing controversy srounding its mayor. dan sheneman, nbc news. we are end of the hockey season. it is officially behind us now. thanks, washington is starting to look forward to redskins football and the skins could build on their future tonight in the nfl draft. more than 1,000 fans are flocking to nashville and so is news 4 cory smith. did you catch up with any redskins fans down there in music city? >> i'll tell you what, music city is alive andas nille is bathed in burgundy and gold. we still have a few hours before the redskins are on the clock, so i took a little time to enjoy e city. taketake a look.
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nashville, tennessee. the music city, home field of honky tonk and the grand old opry. here 32 teams will start their journey to the top of the nfl. only one will reach theummit. new faces stir old feelings ofh . could this be the year? >> every year it's always a newn ch, any given sunday. >> reporter: here fans young and old hail together as a family. making the first memories of what they hope is an unforgettable season. >> i just recently moved here and then when i heard i texted him and said dad, you need to comee'out, going to the draft, we've never done this before. >> mickey grubs took thing a little further. thanks to some new ink, he'll never forget draft weekend. >>hat' t tshe old style logo. got i yrdteesay
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. fits well. her name is rose. i trade to parlay it. >> reporter: what will the burgundy and gold do? maybe walk the line, beef up the vefense, or perhaps an offen lineman will fall from hog heaven. or maybe they'll take a gamble on an unknown staror des the big stage. e dwayne haskins would b a nice add. >> anybody but a quarterback. >> do whatever, please, to win. >> reporter: the decision is not up to the fans. do you trust dan schneider and others to make the right decision? >> no, of course not. >> reporter: we'll continue to have coverage of the nfl draft as we count down to pick number . leon, mickey's got me thinking, ifshe redskin win the super bowl this year, i will get a redskins tattoo. >> be careful what you ask for here. you're on, man. good stuff. thanks, cory. a new warning from the cdc.
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>> the growing threat from so-called kissingbugs. where they've been spotted and why these are causing a stir. then as a virginia widower turns his griefnto giving back. >> and a new vid of deadly storms to our south. coming up next, where the system go fromeres h did you know comcast business goes beyond fast with a gig-speed network. complete internet reliability. ce advanced voi solutions.
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storm team 4 radar, doug is tracking chances for some sere weather tomorrow. he's back in less than two minutes to show you why tomorrow is a weather alert day. that storm system you saw there on the radar heading our roway already png deadly down there in the south. tornadoes cutting a path of destruction, destroying homes and knocking out power and the heavy rain eating rising blood waters. we know at least five people were killed. nbc's jay gray reports. wind and water, the weapons of choice for mother nature during a violent attack. >> i thought e it was thend of the world. i literally thought it was the end of the world. >> a snding of thuerstorms flooding parts ofnd texas a louisiana, spawningdo torna. ripping apart communities and claiming at least five lives. >> it was terrifying. i couldn't believe it was really happening. >> homes and businesses peeled or n, debris scattered miles.
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from the air, you can see the path of a twister that cut through louisiana. this cell phone video captures a toado near college station, texas. all across the strike zone power lines andoa rdway signs seered at their base, sheet metal wrapped around trees. other areas swallowed by cleanupting rains as the and recovery now begins. the storm system continues its march toward the northeast. jay gray, nbc news help. well, turning to our weather, it's going to turn ugly tomorrow. >> yeah. it's going tbe a little stormy tomorrow. that's something we'll be watching. i don't think it's anything like we saw last week, but we have a chance for strong and severe storms during the day tomorrow. my temperatures today quite nice. actually a really nice afternoon. we saw a high of 73. we do have cloud cover those clouds coming courtesy oft
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that systemhat will move in tomorrow. there it is. we've got the clouds right now in our current temperature sitting at 75 now. 75 degrees. winds out othe southeast at 7 miles an hour. even with the clouds, we've got 75. current temperature around the area, h we go at 72 degrees. culpeper, 75. leesburg, 72. 73 right now toward the kentucky river. notice the 60s. hagerstown 62. 62 back towardssb marting. this is where we've seen the rain today. you can see that rain. yesterday i told you we would have the rain. best chances from d.c. north and westward, especially around frederick, hagerstown and martinsburg. even some shower activity around d.c. itself. you can see some showers in and around the arlington area. some steadie rain up towards jefferson county, west virginia. right along 340 between frederick and around charlestown. this is all movg off towardth east.
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montgomery county, youl see shower activity. carry the little umbrel larks yo -- umbrella, you may need that. here's what we're watching tomorrow. this is the spin. i'm not even lking at this. this is the severe weather happening now. a severe thunderstorm watch. a severe weather froto is going ome from this system here. as i show you what's happening, we're under what's called a slight risk from d.c. south and eastward. deth atrasthlu southern maryland andl of southern virginia, including parts of ocean city, over toward the eastern shore. just a general risk of storms here. we're aooking atund d.c. north and westward. really slight risk means we're most likely going to see at least one or two severe thunderstorms. let's gover the timing. tonight a couple of showers. carry the umbrella if you're hae heading one to din here's tomorrow morning. some showers, maybe even heavier
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showers coming through in some areas. not everybody is going to be seeing it, but i do expect to see showers during t morning a.sh. 11:00 , more shower activity. we'll call this periods of rain is what we'll see. then we get to two ok2:00. this is where week see some sunshine. if we get any sun at all, that's only going to help to add to the instability and atmosphere and allow these showers and storms to become a little bit stronger. look at 5:00 here. look at this line that develops right around our area during the 5:00 hour. this is during peak heating. this is with some of the sunshine and with se warm temperatures, so we could see some fairly strong storms tomorrow afternoon. coming up in about 20 minutes, risk for about the those storms. here's the best news. it's out of here. if you've got dinner plans on dinnernight, date night, and a movie, looking pretty good. the rain moving out of here and we will be looking better. high of 73 tomorrow. showers and storms the heaviest
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during the afternoon. some strong, possibly seveat. th why we're calling tomorrow a weather alert day. yes, weather alert day for your friday. some of those strong storms. i behind we get rather breezy and cool on saturday. high of 68. not going to feel quite thatnd warm a cool to the north and west. 74 on sunday. that's looking pretty good. monday a little bit on the cool side tooer tempures only in the low to mid 60s. the rest of the 10-day forecast, and again, the timing of the storms, we're back in about 20 minutes. you probably heard by now. former vice president joe biden is making a r for the white house in 2020. >> new reaction to this campaign message and the b momentiden says he knew he had to throw his hat in the ring. first we ar in the community. a sneak peek at new interactive display that thely famian check out
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vi inia before. it's produced by dallas artist carmen menza. >> carmen is a visual arst, so she has choreographed a light show. we'll be able to dance, gesing, up on the stage if you feel like it, and interact with this light show. >> to find out about the schedule and event, search our app. in prince george's county, a community event aimed at reducing the number of deadly news 4 molette green is working for you on details about a new campaign to keep you safe. working for your safety this morning, kicking off with the state's attorney's ffice and she's backed up out here on the side of the road here at 301 with county and state police as well. thssage, of course, is to drive focus, sober, and safe. very important message to push. >> absolutely. my office is responsible for
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prosecuting at-fault drivers, but wenow for most of these families the justice would have been if their loved ones were still here, so we're sending t at message, put on your s belt. make sure that you're not driving impaired, and ensure that you're not on your phone. simple things, but it can save lives. we're commied to sending that message. >> i know just this week we have been talking about in the news that tragic crash involving those five children who died at the hands of a suspected drunk driver. at this weekend's event on saturday at 9:30, you'll have experts there to talk about the consequences, what happens after the crash a the consequences of those things. >> absolutely. we will llso havee demonstrations from our maryland state police and our county police, so we are reallyte exci we'll also have student performances. >> that's going to be really fun. okay. all right. it's a very important event with a lot of fun infused in it on this saturday. so come on out.
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back to you. >> than, molette. and tomorrow molette takes us inside an innovative literacy lab run by a group of young men in the district. the group works with preschoolers teaching them how to read. the awesome community effort oodtomoow > justs n ewahead, check your fridge. an e. coli outbreak is spreading and kiit's connectedoround beef. five years after a dump truck hit and killed one arlington mom here, her husband is opening up. talking about how he's turning
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now as we near the bottom of the hour, a tragic crash led to an arlington man becoming a single father of three. >> his wife of ten years was killed by auc passing dump trk. five years since her death he's turned to crafting a legacy out of a cause dear to her heart. davi culveras the story. virginia r: insid hospital center nurses and doctors rely on the latest technology to see patients both in purpose and virtually. >> we check in with them,arow their blood sugars doing, how is their blood pressure. >> reporter: michelle runs patient care and says a recent flow of donatio made much of this possible. rosvi pdexp who struggle financially access
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to more. at effort and generosity to help new moms sparked by a tragedy that happened on this street five years ago and today it forever changed neal lawson's life. >> you go into survival mode. >> it kicked in in 2014. a passing dump truck hit 39-year-old jennifer lawson as shwas getting the couple's youngest child into their van. >>ng a could present and hate could present. it just >> reporter: instead he turned to his faith and focused on raising h, three but he wanted to do more. he launched the jennife lawson foundation. donations that go here. >> i was very humbled. i met neal shortly after everything happened and he said we want to help. what can we do? >> reporter: knowing the struggles jennifer went through with each pregnancy, neal hopes to ease financial burdens for expecting moms so they can focus
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their health. >> he provides thethbility for ese patients to have something they other would not have. >> reporter: out of a tragic death, a legacy that fosters new life david culver, news 4. >> the jennifer bush lawson foundation has raised some 700,000nd in t $700,000 in the last five years. while you were sleeping, thieves were out hard at work breaking into several vehicles in the ashbuno area. the loudon county sheriff's office is hoping that someone out there can recognize these suspects and help them out. take a look. most of the vehicles were unlocked and parked in driveways or along the street. me of the stolen credit cards were used in maryland. in a few cases the vehicles were damage possibly in the efforts to steal them. and now there are 20 hoping for a big run in 2020. former vice president joe biden
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jo joined the crowded feel of democratic presidential hopefud. he release a video that took direct aim at president trump's response to the white supremacist march in charlottesville in 20 and it didn't take long for the president to respond. blayne alexander tracking the race for us. blayne. >> reporter: leon, that is one thinghat's already setting joe biden apart in a very crowded field of democratic candidates. rather than talking about health care or other policy issues or taking a veiled swipe at the president, today joe bid kicked off his campaign taking direct aim at president. tru joe biden is officially in. the former vice president already a front runner in aow crded democratic field launching his long-anticipated campaign with a kick off video focused not on policy, but the current president. >> if we give donald trump eight years in the white house, he will forever and fundamentally alter the character of this nation. who we are. i cannot stand by and watch that
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happen. >> reporter: casting himself as democrats' best chance to beat president trump. the president tweeting a greeting of his own. welcome to the race, sleepy joe. >> he's concerned. the president responded t that immediately and that should tell you everything ahead for this president in terms of having to deal with joe biden. >> reporter: the chair of the rnc already pouncing along with the president's former adviser s. >> no chance he can take on donald trump. >> reporter: biden sved as delaware senator for nearly four decades and has number two the nation's first black president. but in the fieldf increasingly diverse candidates, biden is a contrast and was recently saddled with accusations from women who say his contact with them while not sexual made them feel uncomfortable. at age 76, if elected, biden would be the oldest president to ever take office.
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>> america b is comink like we used to be. >> reporter: now launching his third bid for the white house. >> reblayne, he somiething the former vice president said. he intended to be the last one to endhe race to give everyone a jump on fundraising. where does he stand? >> reporter: it will not be it shows joe biden would have to raise $100,000 every day from now until christmas day just to match the some $18 million that bernd h bernie sanders has already banked. he has been in washington for t moren four decades. he is really a fixture, an establishment of the democratic party. he's got fundraising power of his own. >> senators know how to raise money. no question about that. blayne alexander, we appreciate the report. we'll talk to you later. an e. coli outbreakke lind to ground beef continues to
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expand. the cdc says more than 150 people have gotten sick? ten states, including virginia. ateast 20 people were hospitalized. investigators are stillurorking to fout the exact force of the tainted beef. right now the cdc is not recommending that peopl stop eating meat, but it's reminding you to cook to 160 degrees to kill all and any bacteria. e. coli can cause severe stomach amps, vomiting and diarrhea. a new threat out there. it's an insect. it's called the kissing bug. don't let that name fool you. the bugs are the stuff of gravitating toward people faces and when they get there they suck on your blood and they can transmit a disease which can cause hives and vomiting. long term it can cause heart problems and even death. igrate northted to because of air travel and warmer
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temperatures. there was recently a case in delaware. >> they look like a stink bug. >> keep your eyes open. a growing demand for safer streets. >> as friends grieve the lot was a young man hit and killed on easter sunday. the safety improvements in t ple lessn a week later. cloudy skies as we take a look outside. doug and amelia have an update on our chances for severe storms tomorrow. plus with warming temperatures, meteorologists are noticing a new trend with tornadoes in the united states. could we be redefining what we know as tornadoalley? i'm going t o
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our changing climate is affecting where we're seeing more and more tornadoes these days. >> that's right. meteorologist amelia draper is here with the science behind this change. amelia, what are you seeing? >> well, leon, we could seeia potenty a new definition of what we think of as tornado alley, the middle part of the country where you get cold airo coming d from canada, warm air coming up from mexico and moist airn mixing i from the gulf. that is tornado alley. fit on the tornadoes so far this year. we've already had more than 200 tornadoes so far this year in 2019. now, what isn't clear to scientists right now is how climate change is impacting wind
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shear in the atmosphere. this is what we look for and i was looking at today to etermine if conditions are right for tornadic development. with cmate change, the number of tornadoes and large outbreaks is increasing, so when you have outbreaks of tornadoes, we're seeing more tornadoes developing than years past. this is the interesting part when i talk about potentially redefining tornado alley. more tornadoes are now happening east of the mississippi. so to talk a little bit about this, g we'reng to give a quick history lesson here on the 100th meredian. an area mainly defined by agriculture. to the west it's dry. to the east it's humid. is is where we see corn being grown. what we're seeing right now is that separation between dry ande humid a as we see our climate changing, this 100th smeridian i starting to shift more to the east, and
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this map here is showing the uptick ine tornadoes hern parts of the gulf, up through parts of kentucky, even indiana and illiwais. we're al going to have tornadoes in tornado alley, but we're also seeing more tornadoes now off to the east. >>ti fascina. >> 100th mer riddian. >> dates back to the 19th century. >> i won't look at a globe the same way now. thanks, amelia. >> thanks for the history lesson. we're working for you with ways you can helpchrotect our ging climate. consumer reporter susan hogan is here to show you how to power your home with solar energy without adding a single panel. >> tomorrow will be a weather alert day and you can see why on storm team 4 radar. doug and amelia be back to track these sysms and our chatenc
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school teacher indicted on child porn charges. he's also accused of trying to have sex with a minor. the indictment accuses the springfield man of trading and possessing child pornography using a cell phone and a laptop. we are working to get a response from the district and working to learn how long he worked there. from the live desk, i'm erika gonzalez. back over you to. so you want to support clean energy and save money on your electric bill but solar panels aren't an option for your home. what if we told you that you could go solar without installing panels and without paying a dime? consumer reporter susan hogan is working for you with how you can get in on just such a deal. trading left in the fast lane for life in the bike lane. >> we're witen one mil of
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news is committed to bripgibrip bringing you coverage of our changing climate. >> we put together an entire web page. it's all right there in our nbc washington app. go to the site and search changing climate. really great page too. you go through this page and s all the specials that we have done, the special we did earlier this week, and then each one of the stories that are there asit well w links that can help you out. i'm glad we're doing it. again, on our webryte. ve easy to see. >>hat do you s on the radar for tonight? >> tonight not bad. depending on where you live. i think it's okay. talking to you folks up around frederick, up around northern montgomery county, you're seeing the shower activity. you can actually see thi as we see a nice plane going by. we've got sunshine here, but look off in the distance. we've got darker clouds. that's a result of the rain
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that's moving on in here. temperatures have responded to the s'r. we at 75 degrees right now. really a beautiful afternoon. reston at 73. keep the umbrella handy just in case. we do have the showers, frederick, leesburg around hagerstown, even a coupleri sples around d.c. those are now pushed off toward the east. it is these areas i just talked about. i notice this area of rain right here moving in towards northern portions of montgomery county. just about everybody is seeing light rain. i think stay justorth of winchester and frederick county will continue, but you did see showers out there earlier. we are seehe showers moving to our northti and we'll cone to see that trend here. the next area, however, moves in during the day tomorrow. this is the area right here. you see that spin in the atmosphere? this is going to come through during the day. as it does so, we're going to see a good chance for shower activity during the morning hours and then during the early afternoon.
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you notice the rain coming down. we get a little bit of breakno arou, 1:00. if we get enough sunshine, and i think we could get a little bit, we'll see this line develop. look at this line coming through. that's where we have the chance for severe weather right during the evening rush and amelia, we're talkingdbout a g chance. some of these storms could be on the strong side. we're notin anticipating anyth like what we saw last week with the severity, but a chance for some storms to be quite strong. >> right. that time period with future weather is between 1:00 and 6:00 gem. the big concern i'm seeing going to be some heavy rainfall that could lead to isolated flooding. even if you're just driving around, you're going to see visibility reduced and potential for hydro planing as well. the next concern, i'm seeing strong gusty winds that could lead to wind damage and there is the threat for isolated weak tornado out there, something we can't rule out. it's not a huge concern. not a tornado outbreak. as the kids are at the bus stop tomorrow morning, really no worries for severe weather. maybe a few spotty showers out there, especially if they get on
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the bus a little bit later. sunrise at about 6:15. there is a chance for showerst recess. it might be indoors on friday. 73 for ah. h those after-school activities impacted by heavy rain and potentially a few rumbles of thunder. they be canceled or moved inside. on friday there's a chance for morning showers. then we track rain and hunderstorms between 1:00 and 6:00. around an inch of rain is possible. as far as the strength of the winds, anywhere from about 50 to 60 miles an hour and of course that could produce some wind damage out there. and then kind of chilly out there on saturday with windy to breezy conditions throughout the day. i think 68, you want the wind breaker, but we are dry on saturday. then on sunday with a high temperature of 74. still a little bit breeze oh sunday too. that 68 a little deceiving. we are weather alert tomorrow.
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you want to make sure you stay with us. anotherool day on monday. 74 on tuesday. back to 66 on wednesday. really watching wednesday to see what happens here, but a chance of showers fwednesday, chance o showers thursday and friday. also a chance of thunderstorms on friday as we do see temperatures close to that 80 degree mark. so looking like we would get a little unsettled as we h towards the first portion of may. that's right. may starts next weekend. >> all right. thank you, doug. you bet. question for you. what happens when you put kids in charge of weather? >> gosh, no. you should know this. well, you get some dance moves with the 10-day forecast, like this. even amelia is dancing. >> this is actually the son of one of our directors. they're roaming around our studios for take your sons and
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there are calls for improved new safety measures after two deadlyrashes in the district. >> news 4 jackie bensen shows us how people are fighting for change. >> the d.c. government that didn't do anything. >> people who liver 16th and "v" street southeast spoke with emotion as they talked abo the crashes, the close calls, and the terrible death easter sunday of 31-year-old abdul seck. the chain reaction crash that took his life w captured by security cameras. the driver who caused it ran a stop sign a high speed. evening during this vigil, some drivers con to go right through them forcing d.c. police officers to stand in the street to enforce the law. >> we also have a culture of drivers who do not understand that you are behind several p
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thousandnds of metal. a pedestrian, a biker is not a threat to you. you are a threat to pedestrians and bikers. >> reporter: the numbers show they sufferedhe most traffic fatalities in the zridistrict. 11 of the 36 traffic deaths. residents as well as the principal of a nearby elementary school express frustrationy' saying theve repeatedly asked for crosswalks and traffic calming measures, among them a friend who hosted abdul seck for a visit. >> i just hope he didn't have to lose his life for theseaphanges to hn on the street. he was a good person. he had so mh goals going on in his life. his life shouldn't have been cut short the way that it was. >> thawas jackie bensen reporting. tomorrow the cycling community is holding a rally in northwest d.c. >> news 4 at 5:00 starts right now. right now at 5:00, storm team 4 keeping anye on a line
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of storms. the latest on the arrival and what it could bring us when it gets>> here. a man on a mission. >> we will always have this hief and we will alwayse this loss and it's something that's a part of me. it's something that's a part of my children. >> how ts widowed father ofaf three is crting a legacy out of a cause that i dear t his late wife's heart. plus a workout without anyc of the al work. >> it's the e divalent ofng 20,000 situps in a 30 minute period. > and people are seeing results. doreen gentzler shows us what it's all about. we're beginning with new developments in the case of a mother who was behind the wheel during a horrific crash. >> today prosecutors said she wasn't only drunk. she was using majuana too. >> dominique taylor's two daughters along withhr other children and her boyfriend all killed in that crash. >> she was ordered to stay in jail as the judge called her a
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danger to the community. >> prince george's county bureau chief tracee wilkins is joining us live fro that court. tracee. >> reporter: a lot of sad details revealed of what was already a tragic case today. at one pointne the attor for dominique taylor asked if they could lower her bond to $10,000 so she could afford to p it d get out of jail. the judge said absolutely not and left her in jail on that $100,000 bond. dominique taylor f sittingront row at the funeral for the children she allegedly killed in a car crash. day a judge called taylor a danger to the community. she ordered her to be held in jail on 100,000$100,000 bond. earlier this week a grand jury indicted taylorrg on 12 cha related on a crash that killed six passengers in her car, including her two young children. she turned herself in on charges.
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