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$2 million in winnings, and a spot in sports racing history. >> i never even -- nobody wins -- you don't -- i don't win the derby. i don't know anyone that'son the derby. this isn't something that happens to people that i know. >> reporter: after an ending that's never happened in the 145 years of this iconic race. jay gray, nbc news. >> and now at 5:00, justice for the families of twooung murder victims. >> this has been two years in the making, the two fairfax county residents found murdered in december of 2016 just days before christmas. >> police say the suspect fled to ethiopia. he wasct indi for that crime three months later and now after more thantwo years on the run, he's behind bars on u.s. soil. >> after two years and nearly six months, justice day has arrived. >> our northern virginia bureau chief, julie carey, joins us live from fairfax county's
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courthouse with details. julie? >> reporter: well, the accused k ler's name is yohannes. rearrived back at adullesport on a special fbi plane. he has returned to the united states forinhe first time decade there's been a successful extradition from ethiopia and now either tomorrow morning or wednesday morning he'll be here at fairfax county couce to fa two. charges yohannes in custody on u.s. soil after spending more than two years in ethiopia in an attempt to escape justice. he's now fac charges of killing two young fairfax county residents back in december of 2016. anok yohannes was shot dead in hisringfield home. kedes' body found in a backyard in burke. within days, detectives identified yohannes as the alleged killer. t >> as soon ashat connection was e made, hwas already wheels up out of the united states. >> reporter: the distance did not deter investigators. they built their case and
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indicted yohannes in march of 2017. the fbi and department of justice office of international affairs began to negotiate with etpian authorities to convince them to take the accused killer into custody to allow him to be extradited. ia, been big news in ethi first when he was arrested, then returned to the u.s. >> if criminal attempt to run from their crimes, we will work tirelessly to bring them to justice no matter where they try to hide ander no matt how many years it may take. >> reporter: police refused to provide details about the crime tself or the motive but this search warranttained by news4 reveals he had gone to hanok's home expecting to buy ugs. instead, hanok was shot to death, the bullet cartridges found lying around his body, a marijuana, a scale in a backpack. kedes' family has told "the washingtn post" she was with yohannes that night. went to the homes of both victims today and spoke to family members there, but they did not want to be interviewed
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on camera. one of the cousins tells me they are very, very relieved the accused killer is here now and in custody. back to you in the studio. >> julie carey, thankyou. a smoky fire at a plant nursery could be seen in the skies around burtonsville, maryland, earlier this afternoon. take a look. chopper 4 here above the scene at bell nursery as flames recor in a storagebuilding. that building housed equipment, fertilizer, and pesticides. roads in this area had to be f closed a while. boy, that is just billowing up there in a big way. bell nursery, by the way, is a al home pplier to l depot stores. no one here was injured. it's a video used to teach diversity and inclusion at the epartment of housing and urban development, but recently, some employees have complained something in the video wasf ofsive. it made the video ineffective. news4's megan fitzgerald explains the controversy and the new action that hud just
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announced to address this problem. >> be kind to your brothers. >> reporter: for decades, jane esliot's controversial blue eyes, brown ey exercise has been used to expose the damaging impact of discrimination. >> is therenyone in the united states that we do not treat as our brothers? >> reporter: she was third grade teacher who conducted thin social experimt with her class just after martin luther king jr. wasssassinated. she told blue-eyed students that they were better and smarter than the kids with brown eyes and noticed how their learning and behavior changed. in the end, the students learned firsthand what discrimination felt like. >> it's hard to watch. >> reporter: this video was also used as part of a training for some of the employees at the ngdepartment of housind urban development, or hud. ross gilmore says the powerful message the clip delivers was lost. >> we were shown video that contained the n-word and that made me feel real uncomfortable. >> reporter: the n-word was used
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twdece by stus in the video when the teacher asked them to describe how black people are mistreated. gilmore says before hud played the video, employeesere told the clip contained offensive language and were given the option to leave. >> several people left prior. others left in the middle of the clip. >> reporter: bu the fact that it was played unedited was very upsetting. we contacted hud about the video and a spokesperson says the new, inclusive quotient training at hud is being modified today to ensure that future training essions main effective, not offensive. the 12-minute video included in the whour sessionl be edited today. that's good news for employees like gilmore who were deeply offended. >> it's just wrong. people of color have come a long way to still in this day and age think it's okay to say that word. >> reporter: megan fitzgerald, news4. >> gilmore says he did file a complaint internally and with his union a the union is
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launching its own investigation. here in the district, police are dealing with a particularle vio weekend with at least a half dozen shootings, including one murder. this evening, we're also learning about another troubling incident involving a 13-year-old. our patcollins is live in kennel worth. pat, what have you learned? >> reporter: well, jim, this is re it happened. this is where they say a 13-year-old teenager was shot andnd wou while eating a slice of piwaa. yot to know what it's like to live in this kenilworth neighborhood, spend some time with gwendolyn allen morton. is there a lot of violence in this neighborhood? >> hell yes. >> repoe?er: lot of gunfir >> yes. every night. you're lucky you ain'there -- sometimes it be broad daylight. >> reporter: 45th anddo las street northeast. witnesses say it was around
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10:30 at night. they say a 13-year-old boy was on the corner with some friends, that he was eating some pizza, and then -- and then two guys, two guys come out from this alley t up street. they had hoodies on their head. they had guns i their hands. think stopped here and then they opened fire. and they openedn fire om? >> yes. why, i don't know. >> reporter: how many shots? >> about six. five or six. >> reporter: how many times was he hit? >> three places. i couldn't -- only one i seen was the one on the side. >> reporter: ms. morton says neighbors didn't wait for an ambulance. they acted on tir own t save the teenager's life and drive him to the hospital. >>verybody was getting worried that the little boy was losing too much blood so they kept sticking shirts,ts jacke and stuff in his side. took four people to pick him up
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to put him in the car because be the tim we call the ambulance and the police, no one showed up, so they got tired of waiting. the little boy was beeding so bad, we didn't want him to die right there so they took him out, they got him in the car, and put him in the car. >> reporter: now the fire department says the ambulance was here about fiveinutes after it was dispatched. the police department says the teenager's in the hospital. he's expected to survive. so, what was the motive? who was the target? well, the cops are still working on that. wendy, back to you. >> pat tcollins,ank you, pat. also in the district, police now have a man in custody in onnection to the murder of an infant. officers arrested cornell holton for the death of a 3-month-old, skyler newma this occurred in march. police found the infant unconscious at a home on g street in southeast.
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the baby died a few days later at the hospit and according to court documents, the baby died from blunt force traum to the head. president trump's former fixer and long-time personal attorneys now a federal inmate. michael cohen reported to a ur and aoday about an h half north of manhattan. he'll be serving a three-year sentence after pleading guiltyt tax evasion, lying to congress and campaign finance violations. hat last charge, by the way, related to hush money payments made to women who alleged affairs with president trump. >> i hope that when i rejoin my family and friends that the country wi be in a place without xenophobia, injustice and lies at the helm of our country. >> cohen wilerbe sving a sentence at the same prison as a promoter from the notoriously disastrousyr f music festival as well as this guy, mike "the situation" sorentino from "jer
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vooe shore." a boy. pri e harry andghan markle's first child has arrived, big party in the uk today, people taking to the streets to celebrate. nbc news keir simmons joins us from windsor to tell us what we know about this newest little guy. >> reporter: the little boy was born in the early hours of this morning. the duke and duchess of sussex making the announcement on instagram. it's a boy, the notice said. and more traditionally on a notice on an easel at buckle ham palace. he weighs 7 pounds, 3 ounces, prince harry walking out to describe he and meghan as absolutely thrilled. >> i'm very excited to announce that meghan and myself had a baby boy early this morning, very healthy boy. mother and baby are doing incredibly well. it's been the most amazing experience i could ever have
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possibly imagited. >> repor the queen, prince charles, prince william, members of princess diana's family were all told of the birth before the announcement was made. is his little thing absolutely to die for so i'm just over the moon. >> hip hip hootey. >> repor there were cheers in the streets, town cryers announcing the news around gondsor. >> bless america and god save the queen. >> it was great. great reason to celebrate. so exciting. t absolutely amazing. >> it'she best. >> reporter: now we wait to hear a name. >> the baby's a little bit oirdue so we've had a lle bit of time to think about it but yeah. that's the next step. >> reporter: keir simmons, nbc news, windsor. >> well, the brits certainly do know how to celebrate, don't they. >> they do. that's a happy harry there. >> we could learn a little bit from them. we'll have more on that reaction coming up on nightly news with
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lester holt. >> that's 7:00 after news4. less than a month after winning a green jacket,iger ods comes to town to receive a different honor but it doesn't come without some criticism. >>elnd we have a devoping story out of montgomery county, where police now say they know the circumstances behind body that was found in a bag at a bus stop in bethesda. and working for your health tonight at 5:00, 5:45, the warning for those of you who wear those fitness trackers around your wrist. rain yesterday, sunshine today, but the clouds and the y rai know they're coming back. back. i'll show you when, not you've got the ingredients. now all you have to do...
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police say it appears to have been the result of a domestic dispute. ews4's amy cho is live in ilthesda with new detas on an >>rest in allf this. amy? reporter: wendy, jim, an 18-year-old arrested. he's accused of helping a mother and son kill the mother's boyfriend then dump his body at the bus stop on old georgetown road right ovethere. a body found curled up in the tal position wrapped in a bag and discovered at a bus stop. police say that man was 25-year-old francisco de la cruz from college park. according to police, he was dating this woman, 37-year-old jenny james, and thewo had a domestic dispute before he was ailled. police say they ths and her 17-year-old son, jose, worked together to kill de la cruz. th mother and son allegedly killing him in his ohome in college park, then dumping his body in detheolbethesda. pe have arrested 18-year-old
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juan rivera, an acquaintance of the other two. and police say they think that mother and her son have left the ara, but they're asking anyone with information to please call enlice. jim, . >> all right, aimee cho. thank you. loudoun county teacher who sent a racy photo to some of her students and solicited sex from two of them has accepted a plea deal now.li n briel pleaded guilty today to contributing to the delinquency of minors. she was sentence to a year on probation and a suspended sentence of three yearsn jail. briel was a marketing teacher at loudoun county high school until last november when she was suspend because of that investigation. and the man who's suspected of trying to setre in the national archives in d.c. is under arrest after a grand jury m.st indicted the news4 i-team scott macfarlane was first to break this story, federal investigators saying that jacob wallace set a gasoline canister on fire outside the archives in d.c.
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the feds said he called them to admit the crime, saying he was trying to get the government's attention. but then, he started denyi it. in the next hour, president trump is set to honor one of the greatest ingolf, tiger woods. woods will be receiving the president's medal of freedom, the nation's highest civilia honor. leon harris is in our news room with a preview of this. >> he wendy, tiger woods is going to join the ranks of the three other golfers to receive presidential medals of freedom.h award comes less than a month after tiger woods earned his fifth green jacket hed a win at tasters tournament. president trump said the next day he called woods to let him know he would be giving him the that victory seen as a major comeback for one of the sport's greatest who has faced personal aha professional rdships. seems like it was forever ago back in 1997 when he became youngest and the first afran-american to win the masters.
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the white house says that wood is inspirational for his tenacity, wl power, and unyielding drive. now it's worth noting that someo critics t out that woods is also a frequent business associate to the president's private companies. bloomberg's reporting that woods, through his company, pgr design, actually designed trump world golf,o sche open later this month in dubai. the only female athlete to ever receive the medal of freedom was billie jean king. it is re that we use the term icon, but in this case, it is more than deserved because of her impact on gendereq lity, social justice, and all of sports. the one and only bjk came to washington to share her mories of winning 39 grand slam titles and inspire a whole new generationof athletes, most of them not old enough to remember that historic "battle of the sexes" back in 1973 when at 29, she defeated bobby riggs as 90 million people watched.
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i had the chance to sit down and talk with king here in town as she was honored by the washington tennis and education foundation this weekend in d.c. they serve hundreds of children on and off the court every year in southeast washington. bjk, as she's known, talked about her personal triumphs, blic access to tennis, and how women's sports in general needs to grow. >> i can talk to the children but i need to talk to the parents too because the parents are either what we used to call helicopter or snowplow parents. doesn't work well. really so much pressure on the young people that they feel it. ty feel their parents, they feel them wanting to win. you got to stop all that.s my parent never asked my brother and i whether we won or anything like that, ever. never. and that's why randy and i lovee the pssure in sports. my parents were the opposite of >> women's sports is just taken off in recent years, and what are the challenges?
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where do you go from here? where do we stand right now? >> girls, weve got along way to go. we have to find out -- to make a more valuable at the pro level and once tho inspires children, but it's grreally the assroots that make the difference. that's where your true sheros and heroes are. they're the ones that make it happen for the children.>> y the way, king and her brother, randy moffett, a major lgue baseball pitcher for 1 years, grew up in the public park system and she says sports for young people will only grow with greater accessibility, courts, feeields, programs and also equipment. you should also know that nine courts will be named in king's honor in southeast d.c. and so will their initiative too keep young girls engaged on and off the court until their firsofday college. >> it is amazing. >> oh, she was. >> i was at that event with you. >> and you were watching with your mom, the "battle of the sexes." >> in 1973, i kept telling you
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during the dinner, oh my god, you didn't see a lot of female athletes. men won everything back when i was a teenager, back in -- when we were in high school in the '70s. women just weren't on the stage and we sat there scared to death recause we thought for su bobby riggs would beat her and she won. >> what a spectacle and the build-up to it. >> it was incredible. >> i can remember going to school the next day. >> it was like the gladiators, it was a spectacle. >> inspired so many young girls. >> she did it with her grit, her determination and her talent but we watched. i can still remember that night. bout pressure. >> you know it. >> and she is giving back today. >> she was incredibly engaged with those young people at that event onsaturday. i was glad i was there. etso, for br grades and to reduce truancy, a local sheriff's department makes a difference by partnering with area schools. just ahead, we're going to look at what's next for this promising program. promising program. plus, our birthday boy, doug
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>> not a good day to move, >> you were moving? >> i was moving yesterday. >> oh. you were moving on a couch. >> wasn't pretty. wasn't it relaxing? >> no, man, that was a great day. but youknow, today we got the sunshine. we have got some beautiful weather, temperatures are in the 70s right now. you can't ask for much better than this, although it is a monday. right now we've go plenty of sunshine, you see that, a few clouds, temperatures at 76 degrees, the winds are calm, it is a afternoon, look at the numbers around the rest of the area, 77, culpe2s in annapolis and hungengton. averaigh is 73. now starting to come down just a bit but we're going to be around this for the next two, three hours, right in the 70s so if you were thinking about getting dinner outdoors, backyard barbecue, looking good for that. opt rada on the radar, nothing to show. storm system that we on sunday is right out here, you
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dsn see the rotation around that moving off towarhe east out of the way of boston. this storm right here has brought some severe weather into parts of the midwest yesterday, parts of omaha and lincoln, nebraska, report tornados yesterday. much cooler to the north, much warmer to the south and we're going to get in on this warmer air over the next couple of tys. you see 80s down to the south, 88 today in 82orlando degrees right now in atlanta but only 55 in chicago. tomorrow, the warm air's going to wir out and then the cool will win out on wednesday and thursday. we will have some cooler weather making its way our way but not tow,rrow. tomorre get really warm, much warmer, partly sunny, low a humidity,ice afternoon, we'll see some cloudiness out there but plenty of sun too so a nice afternoon. 70 egrees on wednesday so cooler conditions, again, advertised 73 so we'll be below average wednesday and thursday, definitely going to be on the cool side early, could see areas of fog, even so morrow, but 40% chance of showers early on
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thursday. i don't think a washout of a day but you could wake up to some shower activy,ty on thurs a much better chance for just storms on friday and it could be just about all day off and on, rather stormy, not anticipating anything too strong or severe, but a high of 79 degreescnd a nce of storms. 72 degrees on saturday, mix of clouds and sun, waiting to see where this boundarynds because here's the boundary on friday giving us this rain, b shouldsouth of us on saturday if we're dry but we might have to include more rain showers on sunday. sunday, we get into the rain, rain and 65 just like yesterday on sunday, and next week, though, we start to break out, some pretty nice weather in tof middle next week. temperatures at or a little bit below average for much of the next ten days. >> interesting. that's different. still ahead, a mother and son arrested for stealing thousands of dollars froman elderly neighbor. >> our susan hogan working for your money tonight with four thingtto know about proting yourself. also his story captured hearts, made national headlines
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but noere are new troubles w for that football player who wasn't allowed to play because he was homeless. haafter a deadly crash heren the district, a family trying to make sense of it ale >> grat kid. outstanding. full of life. >> i'm adam tuss and i'm going >> i'm adam tuss and i'm going to tekn you ow when you're at ross and you find that perfect spring dress at that "oh, yeah" price? yes! score the latest spring dresses at 20% to 60% off partment store prices, every day. at ross. yes for less.
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>> the local teager whomade headlines last year after he was kicked off the high school football team because he was homeless, he's now accused -- an accused kilr. >> we first told you about jamal speaks last year. well, today, he faced a judge accused of killing his 18-year-old girlfriend, nih floyd, in fort washington at a house last month. >> prince georges county bureau chi tracee wilkins is live with new reaction from the victim's family. >> reporter: yeah, we followed up on the death of saniyah floyd the day after it happened. there were a lot of questions about whether this was suicide because police say that's what the scene was set up to look like. butno w, this football player is being charged and he's also being held in jail without bond. >> to know saniyah was to love her. >> reporter: her family never believed the young, vibrant 18-year-old killed herself. >> so you all knew from the beginning that something wasn't
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h.ght. >> yea she would never do anything -- never do anything to put herself in harm's w. never. we all knew that was a lie. >> reporter: police say her boyfriend, jamal speaks, shot and killed saniyah but tried to make it look like she shot herself. according to charging documents, she sused a gunshot wound to the back of her head and it would be physically impossible to be self-inflicted. police say jamal admitted to his role in her death. n the midst of you all knowing something wasn't quite right, did you ever think jamal was the suspect? >> no. we just -- we just knew what was told to us. >> repmater: speaks local sports headlines back in september. he was kicked off of the high school football team in d.c. because they could not verify his address. he said he was homeless. today, his crying mother said she can't believe her son will be in jail instead of graduating in a few weeks. >> my child was sitting in jail, supposed goduate next month, and go to the prom, i just paid
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for senior pictures. >> reporter: she says her son and saniyah dated for years. she says she feels like shest someone too. >> he'd been with her since they were 11 and 12 years old. >> reporter: for the floyd family, a bond has forever been bron. >> to know that they're lying, they're plotting a scene to make it seem likeomething that we knew it wasn't. it's just sad. it's just sad. they took an angel from us. >> reporter: now, speaks was talking about being recruited by temple university and being ffered a full scholarship. we spoke with the university and a spokesperson tells tusat while they were looking at speaks at one point, he was not offered a full scholarship and is not expected to attend that university. reporting live in upper marlboro, i'm tracee wilkins. >> thank you, tracee. there's still no sign of an
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suv that plunged into the potomariver nearev rooselt island late last night. search aer recov crews returned today. a p d.c.ice boat combed the area where a witness says the car floated by. that witness says they do not know whether there was anyone inside the suv. a 24-year-old man hit and killed in a crosswalk in southeast d.c. is being remembered tonight as a good person who was on the right track. he was killed along southern avenue at beck street and southeast friday night. the community wants safety improvements here. our transportation rporter adam tuss joins us to show us why the road is particularly challenging there. adam? >> reporter: that's right, jim. an all too familiar scene and take a look. this is southern avenue right here beckreet where this 24-year-old was hit. tonight we're hearing from his family members. they want something to be done along this stretch. pick upan see, cars can speed down the hill here and
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that's why it's so dangerous. >> great kid. outstanding. full of life. >> reporter: damon came here to see where his 24-year-old nephew, joshua lorenzo williams, was hit and f killed lateday night. >> i enjoy the neighborhood. >> reporter: he lives nearby and driving us around shows us the dangers of the road. >> thisar'sspeeding. it's 30 miles anou yeah. 30 miles an hour. that's clearly over 30 miles an hor:. >> reportehis is a picture of joshua now from his gofundme page for his fuceral ser he was hit and killed around midnight friday while trying to cross here at southern avenue at beck streetn i southeast. after the driver of this 2015 buick encore hit him,er the driv ran away. >> it completely surprised you. completely surprised me. >> reporter: damon trying to
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ke sense ofit all. >> when i met him, it was like meeting him, like i had known him for 30 years.at greid. definitely on a good track, great path, and all, and for his life to be shaved at such a young age, you know, by a hit-and-run driver is completely unfortunate. >> reporter: residents here along southern avenue say the road used to be filled with potholes and was fixed. now that it's smooth, drivers are treating it like a runway. >> all we can do i hope. you know, they put some stop signs or some speed bumps or something around here. >> reporter: some here won't even use their driveway that leads to southern avenue. >> it's hard to back up out and with cars just running straight, gunning straight down t street. >> reporter: meantime, josh 's family wants anyone who knows anything to speak up. >> please come to the police. you said it's d.c. police? t comethe police and let them avow what you know. >> reporter: wee been
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watching some high speeds on this road today. now, no new information from police about this case, but remember, it was ait-and-run so they do have the car in question. enhat should give them plty of clues. guys, back to you. >> adam tuss, thank you. a program that's meant to put more mentors in schools is expanding in prince georges county. it's called the positive day program. day meaning deputies assisting youth. the sheriff's office stard this program several years ago with deputies in small -- in a bunch of middle schools but now they've partnered with the school system to have deputies in every middle school. the deputies are meant to provide an extra outlet ofup rt before, after, and of course during the school day. we are now in one of the most importanthe months of muslim calendar, the celebration of ramadan began at sunset sterday and runs through sundown on june 4th. for the next 29 days, muslims all ove the world will fast from dawn until dusk and gather
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for nightly feasts. ramadan commemoras allah giving the first versus of the koran to the prophet mohamed. obs tving ramadan is one ofhe five pillars of islam. a firefighter's death moves a friend to action. jt ahead how his plan to honor help llen is going to other firefighters in the future. >>gplus, 2019 shapin up to be the year of the crab. the good news for the chesapeake bay and one of your favorite seafoods. oh, yeah. that's what we're talking about. normally i get crabs for my birthday so we'll see what happens there. tomorrow, weller above ave going below average, wednesday and thursda that means clouds, a good chance for some smour activity and then we track toward the weekend. we'll talk mu more about that. are you trying to get out in t this is not a bed...
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chances are your child has a hero or two. many of them arese tho teaching your kids in the classroom. all week long, we are honoring teachers. news4's molette green kicked off our celebration in fairfax county at hayfield secondary school for teacher appreciation week. >> reporter: it is so wonderful be able to spotlight the teachers at this school and teachers in general. what do you think about being a teacher and bein celebrated this way? >> i definitely really appreciate it. i love getting to work with these young people and seeing
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them grow and ma and it's just aia wonderful experience. >> reporter: thank you for what plu do every single day with our young pe our greatest resources, right, are the teachers and what you do to pour into them. we're celebrating you toy. hayfield secondary, home of the at? >> hawks. >> tomorrow news4's molette green will be innt momery county. see whatn she has i store for teachers at st. mary's school tomorrow on news4 today. all right, a paleontologist with virginia tech is being credited with the discovery 92 million years in thein mak check it out. the remains of what has been dubbed something i cannot pronoce. >> don't even go there. keep reading. >> experts tell us it's a relative to one of the most well known apex predators, the tyrannosaurus rex. i can say that one.
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unlikes much larger cousin, this one likely only grew to be about three feet at the hip aab ut nine feet in length. i hope their relatives aren't listening and i just butchered their name. that's about the same size of just the t-rex skull. sterling nesbitt found the fossil in one -- when he was just 16 years td. t's pretty incredible. at the time, scientists hadn't classified this kind of dinosaur and thought it may have been a raptor or similar creature. >> it's a ra sukityosaurushazeli. >> you tell us what you want to callyw it. any, working for your health tonight, the warning for those of you who wear those fitness trackers around your wrist. plus a mother and son accused of stealing thousands from their 93-year-old neighbor. from their 93-year-old neighbor. >> susan hoganxplains what e [phone ringing]
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we're working for you tonight with a warning about how easily criminals can defraud elderly people. today, prince georges county announced the indictment of a mother and her son team, accused of stealing thousands from an m elderly wo. susan hogan is in our news room to explain how it all works. susan? >> reporter: okay, so, jim, thia started innocently enough. prosecutors say terrance and barbara stevens were asked to neighbor.e mail for a well, that neighbor was 93 years old and was in the process of moving to an assisted living w,cility. no prosecutors say the stevens were supposed to give the mail to a relativ of that elderly woman. while they delivered some of the mail, they are accused of notng delivell of the mail. prosecutors believe the stevens used bank statements to get account iormation and stol
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thousands of dollars from the elderly woman to pay their own bills. the state's attorney says she's making the case public in hopes of giving victims of similar crimes to come forward. >> let it be known that our office will prosecute to the fullest extent anyone who takes advantage of an elderly person, an individual with disabilities, and others who they may deem to be vulnerable. >> reporter: now, we've learned the stevens are now botharged with theft and conspiracy, so here are four things you can do to protect yourself from fraud. first, have a plan for diminished capability before it hits. work with your bank or credit union to make sure a trusted loved one can monitor your accounts. shred receipts, bank statements and unused credit card offers beforeng throwi them away and lock up your cckbook, account statements and other sensitive information when others will be
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in your home taking care of you. back to you. >> all right, susan, thank you. doesn't get much lower than to prey on the elderly. >> special place in hell for those people. a potential health alert. for those of you wo wear those tness trackers around their wrist. >> they're causing some people some serious pain. the maker of that popular device has b advice on thest and the safest way to wear it. >> some news4's doreen joins us now. >> explain what's going on here. >> we can't get that, right? >> they're everywhere. >> bsome accounts, more than 40% of uare usinghose fitness trackers to monitor our health and keep up with our fitness goals but for some, it come with aangerous side effect. tonight, northern virginiafa her is sharing his story and warning others about the possible risk. >> i got a fitbit for the interest of tracking my steps you get to that magic number, 10,000. >> rich williamson likeso stay active and he's used a fitness
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tracker to count his steps but almost year after wearing his new fitbit charge 2, he says he developed serious pain and numbness in his li t wrist. >> went to turn my wrist and it locked up and i had to twist. >> reporter: he says the pain was so bad it was difficult to do simple tasks like brush his hair. >> and my hand was so numb that i actually had to switch the hair brush to the other hand and then i really started to get very concerned. >> reporter: williamson had a hunch that his fitness tracker might have something to do with his pain so he went online and was surprised to learn he wasn't alone. >> when i googled fitbit wrist pain and saw there was a whole world out there of people who were experiencing the same issues at different levels, here's one that says, same thing just happened to me. it feels like nerve pa . >> reporter: dr. oliver is a spine surgeon with med star orthopedic institute at med star
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washington hospital center and he knows what nerve damage looks like. he thinks people are wearing their fitness devices too tightly. >> when you have a fitness tracker on your t and that nerve is being compressed 24 hours a day, it's just a matter of time before that nerve is going to start to t up. hence, pain, numbness or tingling or weakness going down into the hand. >> reporter: if you start to feel pain, the solution may be as simple as taking the fitness tracker off. >> number one, take it off for a couple days and just give the nerve time to rest. >> reporter: in a statemt to news4, fitbit had this advice. we encourage anyoneearing a watch or other device on the wrist, regardless of the brand, to follow four key elements the best experience. keep it clean, keep it dry, don't wear it too tightly, and ve your wrist a rest. they recommend wearing the band loosely enough so that it can move back and forth on your wrist. fitbi also offered tove rich williamson a refund in exchange for the device, but he declined.
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>> and if you ask me, am i going to put my fitbit back thon, e answer would be absolutely not. . >> to be clear, this isn't just a problem with fibit. there have been online complaints with other fitness trackers too. doctorsay you should be able to fit one finger under your watch or fitness tracker to make sure it's not toot tighand es away from inc the crease in your wrist. asor rich williamson, he says the pain in his wrist went away once he stopped wearing the device. >> take a break. >> we started looking into this and one of our photographers started having pain andumbness from wearing a fitness tracker so i think there's more -- there's more of it going on than we realize. they say to give it a rest but some people wear them to sleep. >> they advertise that they track your sleep. >> yeah, they track a lot of uff. >> who knew. >> use your head. if it hurts or if it's starting to feel uncomfortable, stop weing it and if you still have pain -- >> too bad you can't wear it as
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a nehelace. >> t used to have them that you could clip on your waist or youror bra something. >> there are options. >> thanks, doreen. crab feast in our region will be more plentiful than years past because re blue population in the bay has hit a level not seen since 2012. an annual survey estimates the current population is up from last year. it's now at 594 million. >> all right. >> and the researchers fond arly twice as many juvenile crabs as the year before. so, there. >> we saw one walking on the sidewalk. if they're out there on the oi road, i'm not to eat that one. i'm going to let it go. >> you're going to let that one go? >> i'm going to let it go but boy those look pretty meaty. you got me thinking about it. i love it. >> crab cracking. perfect day for today. if you're outside, great day to eat outdoors for sure. later this week, we do another chance for srms. hat do you know, it comes on a friday.g out there riht now, let's take a look.
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well show you, there's the cloud cover, the sunshine. yh, really just a beautiful afternoon, tefrpds temperatures in the mid 70s, 7:00, dropping to about 75 down to about 69 degrees by 11:00. great evening, great start to the day tomorrow too. 75 in camp springs, 69 in annapolis. your weather headlines today, a warm one tomrow, temperatures tomorrow about 5 to 10 degrees warmer than they were today, dlouds and cooler weather return on wednesday then heavier rain and storms later this week. we're talking a couple of different chances for that heavier rain. nothing on the radar right now, storm team4 radar is dry, it will stay that way right on through the next couple of days here, at least through tomorrow. wednesday, a different story. we have got a front to the north. that front will eventually slide to our south again and that will give us another back door cold eront, meaning some cool weather out of the northeast, that brings us temperatures in the 60s on wednesday, but not tomorrow. tomorrow, avery warm day, 61 degrees at the bus stop, 75
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degrees by recess, 84 by the time we're picking up the kids so no problem there at all. once again, i said it earlier, no video games tomorrow. get the kids outside, just kick them out. veo games don't work, buddy. gardening tuesday, if you're gardening tomorrow, looking great as far as th temperatures go. 84 degrees business 5:00. if you have some time to get out in the garden, it's a good one. inspect th boxwoods, azal yeahs and roses. leaf bs are all active now so watch out for those and see if you need too anything to take care of those. 84 tomorrow, 70 on wednesday, 71 thursday, 79 on friday with a good chace of storms, some showers on thursday, not a washout of a day, sunday, unfortunately, right now, looks like a ewashout, but we'vot a lot of time to figure it out to figure out exactly what's going to happen for the weekend. we'll continue to keep you osted but
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it was four years ago today that a d.c. firefighter lost his life in the line of duty, but it wasn't the fire that killed lieutenant kevin mccray, it was a heart attack. >> news4's mark seagraves introduces us to two men who are carrying on his legacy and trying to save the lives of fellow firefighters. >> reporter: jonathan tate has been a d.c. firefighter for seven years, his fatherwas a
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d.c. firefighter. >> my father retired as a deputy fire chief of d.c. fire and ems. >> reporter: like te, devon mccray is also a d.c. firefighter, just like his dad was. >> i feel real privileged to be at the same fire hse my dad was in so big s es to walkin, so i try to create my own path. >> reporter: on may 6, 2015, devon's father, lieutenant kevin esponded n engine 6, to this apartment fire. lieutenant mccray died fighting that blaze. he had a heart atta d. mccray'sath moved tate to take action. >> oftentimes we pay attention to when someone dies in the line of duty from fire-related death, we do a ton of trapg ining on i but i didn't hear the conversation enough about cow do weombat heart disease. >> reporter: tate started food on the stof, a nonpro ammendale at educating firefighters on healthy eating and other wys to combat heart disease. now tate has taken his healthy lifestyle's movement one step further by buildi a new
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60,000 gym inside engine 6, mccray's old fire house. >> we wanted to honor him but we wanted to do it as a render to other firefighters that you have to be proactive about your health. >> reporter: one of the first to firefighters use the new vin mccray gym will be vde, who now serves on the same engine his father did. >> it's a true honor, to speak on behalf of the whole mcrae somily, we're overwhelmed by the thoughts thatmebody could dedicate a whole gym m to dad. >> reporter: tate plans to continue his work as a firefighter and with food on the stove. as for building more gyms at other fire houses. >> we plan on doing more but that tdes funding and we nee the help of the community. we need fe help o other firefighters. >> reporter: in the district, mark segraves, > news4. >>eaking news. >> right now at 6:00, president trump is teeing up the prsidential medal of freedom for long-time friend and four-time masters champion, tiger woods.
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>> it is e nation's highest civilian honor and the golf great is set to receive it any moment now in the white house se garden. we'll take you there live as the ceremony gets under way. more breaking news now, the su plunged into the potomac river near roosevelt island late last night has just been recovered. body s tell news4 that a was found inside that vehicle. we are still working to learn more about the circumstances. news4's jackie benson is headed to the scene and she'll have a live report coming up. justice for the families of two young murder victims. good evening, everyone. >> this has been two yearse in thmaking. two fair found murdered in december of 2016 just days before christmas. >> police say the suspect fled to ethiopia. he was indicted for the crime three months later and now after more than two years on the n, he's behind bars on u.s. soil. >> northern virginia bau
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