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ng for u. rine ki training. now his family is speaking t news 4 about the terrible moment they learned the news. brazen murder. new p details about therson gunned down while leaving work. the latest on the search for her killer. >> and the sinking continuesor drivers on the gw parkway this morning. ate road work continues today for a sinkhole eveloped under the busy road. good sunday morning to you. and happy mother's day. iank you for being here us. i'mdam apsstu mother's day to y
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too. m david culver in for meagan fitzgerald this morning. that's enh an akeshff on mothe . we have lauryn ricketts with us as well, celebrating mother's day. oshe's like a mother tus. >> more like sisterly sometimes. >> yeah. like a younger sister actually. >> oh, my god, thank you. >> we're tieing all of this together into the weather,ry lau a lot of rain out there the last couple of days. more of the same? >> more of the same all throughout the day.or yesterday ffirst half of the day, not looking too bad. as we head into yesterday afternoon, yesterday evening, that's when w started toee that rain come. just hasn't stopped quite yet. rain showersro continue thh much of the day today unfortunately for your mother's day. lots of fog out there as w il. so you're getting out on the roads early, this is what you're going to encounter. look at this, sibility down at reagan national airport now. waves of rain continuing to sweep through the area.
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that's what we're checking out right now. and that's what's going to be on tap for much of the day today. a frontal system stalled across our area, waves of low pressure will ride along it like a train and that's why we're seeing some of those increased rain chances hroughout the day. visibility down, all throughout the region. again, be careful with some of thso fog out there, of the wildlife out there. we will continue to watch that -- watch the temperatures, we'll time out when that rain is finished. that's all coming up in about ten minutes. >> lauryn, thank you very much. meantime, want to tell you m about a localine killed in a training accident in california who had deep ties to our area. >> this is really devastating. this morning we're hearing from the family of first lieutenant hugh conor mcdowell. he grew up in chevy chase, d.c., graduated from st. john's college high school in northwest. michael mcdowell spoke to us from skype from his california hotel room, the proud father said his son was a leader and exceptional marine.
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conor died late last week after his armored vehicle rolled over. his dad recounts that tragic day that three marines showed up on his door with the devastating news. > they started to say the words, the president of the said, stop, please tell me my ae >> you sawck in the bacdowell's his mom. conor was t coupl child. he leaves behind his fiancee. the family plans to honor their son's legacy by helping others who need finanal assistance to join the marines. there. one we're learning more about the murder of a local woman who h j the victim's husban ch,well known ar polay sotni bettr of bowie.
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jumped ttnesses who saw the incident and trying to he shooter. attoh tweeted thoughteage on the day jennifer was killed co re faithful is never an a ri loyalty is ever. there has been no arrests in jennifer's murder and no one has been named a suspect. a major break in a wood bridge murder case. a man is locked up in d.c. in a jailrgia. on justin mirek. h sangled angela he extto story o
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more vigorous an rigorous in how we make the roads safer. >> how is it that all of these charges are getting off. is it the torneys? is it the judge? >> atstate'srney who prosecutes this ce, and all dui cases and a number ofegal analysts including the ar association all point the systngerge's countyg sayint is george's c in the state, they used byl we investigated pushed all ses d menu, defense attorney with. and helped to doge and avoid getting jail time. they cled it a rocket docket, the court ses moved cases in prince goved quickly
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likeot other deer onhighway. indian head and we found nobasle driving dra indce county, indi highway goes into charles coun . over the same set of months, several people who were arrested for dui crash or not went to jail. >> there has to be changes and we do know there are more speed cameras, calls for -- promises from local officials to step up enforhement. are t going to be changes in the way the cases are prosecuted? >> yes, state's attorney now prosecuting prince george's says therior state's attorney and sheoth handle the cases seriously. just pointed the finger, blamed for it. the judge -- the maryland court system says not only are they king changes to the system, but already made it.
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they're moving forwall 24 circuit court judges can hear and rule on dui case so perhaps a little more variety in the punishment to come out. >> some of theee cases have b just heart wrenching, three children killed lastcember, and one of the wrvwed, a woman both a daughter and a cousin on 2 10, one of those cases happened right where the children died. what a what do these families want to see happen? >> enforcement, theye want to se cases adjudicat gorously, peop from that road r it isjust an infamous h been anditbest. t moreo offi towaol i think they change in the roadtselfgh be necessary. >> all rig another family dealin with
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edy. nearly one year later we e ng f who died in aat francona a storyosaw ly on 9-year-old wesley eed o changes ay state wide. the family will stand hind the governor as he signs a new bill into law designed to protectch other ildren. what is that going to be likel >> so it wasreaking as whenevery firsts mentioned, may 18th is the day that he passed. so all of this whole year has been those firsts. and i think for them knowing
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a phone call in the middle of the night -- >> you think it is an emergency. >> you fear the worst. they know this. the scammers know it. so they'll ring it once and maybe they'll ring it twice and then stop. maybe n you think, oka that was a fluke, you look at your phone. you -- it will happen again. and then at this point, you think, maybe now i need to pick it up. when you pick it upre you a calls.ed, you're going to startd e once yo ctly. what al ese are calls. so people are saying that it looks like a like local call an ou ehose things is in the middle rf ognize, oe day, you nev. if it is portant enough and it
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is someone you know, let it go to voice mail, listen to it and then call them back. >> sotimes tempted to answer just to beg them to stop ca calling. >> don't. >> that's what you don't want to do. >> exactly. >> scott, got that? >> i do.ph the e rgs in the middle of the night, not going to hear it. too late at night. got to have some me time. >> wait until you have teenagers. >> father two of young boys. >> right, right. >> here is something else to be at least aware of. the vrbo rental, we recently discovered a coirmation on the home rental site isn't necessarily a confirmation. so many people turn to these home rental sites when hotels are not an option. you found a case involving a virginia woman who discovered the hard way you can't count on a website to honor a confirmation. >> vrbo, sovrbo just a started new brand and they're now called
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emotional interview. >> reporter: speaking to us via skype, the father of conor mcdowell sthai up at his door o thursday. >> they started to say the words, the president -- and i said, stop, please tell me my son is still alive.te >> repor but they were there to break the tragic news that conor had died in a training accidentat camp pendleton in california. mcdowell spoke to us from his hotel room in california. you could see his wife comforting conor's fiancee. >> he was a leader. he loved leading the young kids. >> reporter: conor grew up in chevy chase, d.c., and graduated from st. john's college high school in northwest. his dad says he always wanted to be a marine. conor graduated from the citadei tary college and became a
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marine corps officer in may of 2017. a military statement says a light armored vehicle rolled over killing conor and injuring several fellow marines. >> he died pointlessly. did someone milwaukeeake a mist? was the equipmenifaulty? will not bee is a v doll s marry his soul mate. now they're thinking about the legacy his son leaves sobehind, the age of 24. patriot, patriot ayeporr: darcy spencer, news >> conor'snly h leed finaneyre doing all they can to comfort and support his if fiancee. back rents hope to fly
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probation. >> i think the office did a good job in bringing forward the cases but i think thejustice system did not take these cases serirerter a analysts say three year span reviewed the ui s in pnce j george's one judge ran what isnf imally known in the system as dockve casesfaster. and known forennces in thname of sp? >> not at .all, no ve.don't see jail concer rdd's listickna tlienient. maryland been using a unique system for s
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>> glad your dress ll cheery and bright. >> this is my mother's day dress. >> mine too with the pink tie. i don't know what's going on here. this is bright and cheery. >> not really. >> i like that. >> the gray clouds e.outsid >> happy mother's day, you have cats. >> i do have a cat. >> one cat. >> yes.>> that co happy mothefo the moms out there. >> they're going to stay inside. >> brunch or lunch inside. movie day. to a movie. we'll watch periods of showers, no brunch oue, no dinner outside, rain showers will continue throughout the day. it could be heavy at times, could be light at times. just depends on what time of day. >> david will be watching beaches inside all day >> that is a film. underrated. >> my mom loves that movie.
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i don't think -- >> your mom and i have that in common. >> yeah. she's coming over, actually.ngt visibility is low. you walk outside, you're going to see it already. but, again, just notice especially with the wildlife out there, that visibility is going to be rather lofo with the and it is going to hang around through much of the morning. rain is going to hang around for much of the day. we have rainll day? yes. periods of rain. there could be some periods of y time, but mostly rain. any strong storms, no? no storms out there today. we could see one or two, pecially south and east of d.c. southern maryland, for the most part looking at dry conditions. sorry, just rainy conditions. no storms. are we dry for monday? no, we still have rain leading into the overnight and in through much of the day on monday. w dohave any rain next weekd? andttrain.oakness i looking itm
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that's why we see reinforcing shots of moisture in terms of rain. current temperures out there now, 50s and low 60s. this is where we are staying throughout the day today. we also have a little bit of a well. be dealing with that. northeast winds 5 to 15. grab that rain jacket, that sma'l umbrella, youl need it out there this morning. temperaturesper 50s to right around 60 degrees. little on the cool side there. hoy sgoi to be chilly at times. eezy at times out there. just not a good day to be outside. let's time everything out you. brunchtimllng t as we head into get a little breil gto be damp d
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still dreary outside. even into the overnight we're seeing some rain showers. they'll continue through your monday morning. rain showers will start to taper an out. we have rain showers sunday and monday, but we're dry starting. n is we ed a little bit of a streak after temperatures in the low 60 your monday. and then we start to dry out on tuesddn and weday. we have a chance for some rain showers as we get into your thursday. small chance, verysmall chance and then as we weekend, w did you know comcast business goes beyond fast with a gig-speed networkadnced . wifi to keep everyone connected.
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as well. iiis is another beach, last summer, hawa >> how about that? >> celebrating her birthday. >> i want to be there. my mom was right here on setu actly not too long ago. >> yeah. >> came in for the studio tour. mama tuss, seeing where it all goes down. >> she makes a better co-anchor than i do here. >> may. >> she probably keeps you in your place. >> she is very good at doing that. and has been for a number of ars. >> you know who is good at ke keeping us in our place? >> who's that? >> the moms behind the scenes here, naomi and k tonyaping us in line. happy mother's day to them. >> and all the mothers out there for sure. mh more ahead on "news 4 today." >> we'll check in with lauryn rioetts who will break the mother's day forecast. hopefully it will look better than that.
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"news 4 today" starts now. >> heading into the 7:00 hour here on "news 4 today." here's what we're following for u. a local marine killed in training. now his family is speaking to news 4 about the terrible moment they leanened the . >> brazen murder, new details this morning about the woman gunneea down lving work. we'll have the latest on the search for her killer. >> ani thating feeling continues for drivers along the gw parkway this morning. the road work continues today for a sinkhole. that's under that busy ro
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want to welcome you in here, almost 7:0 and happy mergeother day to all the moms out there. i'm adam tuss. >> i'm davidculver. let the sinkhole there, we hade us know when>>maybe. little playthat. soti esnowevents.im transportation a rain causes some issues out there as well, also contributes to potholes and sinkholes. who is blaming you? we're not bl ing >> it is a mess out there, though. >> you can't blame me for that. going for a moment. we have got rain out there ca e causing a mess on the roadways as well. not onlywith the sinkholes and the potholes we have out there, those are a mess. that's what we get here. but we aret looking a some foggy
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conditions. slick conditions out there. and even breezy conditions. we have some fog warnings on some area bridges out there because of the lowvisibility. look at this. this i twhat it is going look like through much of the , morningthrough much of the day today. not the prettiest of days. rain showers continuing to push through th region. and waves of raintontinuing hrough much of the day today. because of frontal systems stalled across our area, areas of low pressure, right along that front. and that's going to reinforce our chances of rain pretty much all day long. 58 degrees now. as goodeoi14iles an ho. when are we going to we'lfuture cast in minutes. >> we'll c b then. thank you very much. want to tell you about a local marine who haodeep ties t area. story. family of
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chevye, tenant hcdowell. d.c. skype rom htel room. poud fathes s a leadernd exceptional marine. heed diedecntst showed up on his door with sad >> they started to the wo president --nd said, stop, please tell me my son is still >>live. just devastating to hear. nd aaee. the couple's only we're learning more thof locala belt. news 4 confirmed the victim's
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husband is chris known actor in the ghana.nman she died at sne. wi who saw the u incident in the hopes of tracking down the shooter. attoh tweeted out this message saying, quote, when it comes to relationships remaining faithful option, but a priority. i ever. arrests in m anehas as locked up for killing n another man iprince william county. on friday, police arrested the suspect justin mirek. detectives say he strangled and stabbed angelo blakely to death late last month. police found the victim's body in the woods.
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they were led to mik's home in northwest d.c. he e extradited from d.c. to virginia to face second degree murder charges. update to a story out of howard county. a woman killed and a man badly hurt in their home. police arrested 22-year-old blson lemus. they say heak into a couple's coupapartment a week a. he stole jewelry and a cell phone. 36-year-old amanda nicole harris died there. 42-year-old william james webb remins in critical condition. police say it doesn't appear hathat that suspect knew tt couple. 7:04, little more detail to that story we told you about at the top of the show. all this wet weather causing major problems along the gw parkway. a five mile stretch of that road will be closed for several days because of this. a huge sinkhole. crews spent hours yesterday working to fix it opened up on friday night. the northbound lanes of the parkway are shut down from chair dge road to the beltway. national park service says the
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sinkhole was caused by a0 foot deep brick inlet tha failed. >> both this and the previous sink hole that happened in march were caused by large rain events. it is all about water moving off the roadway and into the drainage system that is builtd uner the george washington memorialrk pay. >> the park service hopes to have one lane open by monday morning. we should tell you the south bound lanes should not be impacted, should be able to smoothly go down those. >> second time in two months that sinkhole opened. there this morning, four hostages including an american woman are back home after being held captive in west africa. france's president greeted the two french nationals and the south korean that was being held. two french commandosie dd while trying to save them. both french citizens vanished while during safari. their tour guide was found dead
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and it is believed that al qaeda or isis uld be behind the attack here. not clear where the american or when the south korean went mi missing. a maryland pediatriciancu acsed of raping a female patent, placed on house arrest. the frederick news post says he wasas reled from jail after posting bond on wednesday. he faces multiple charges including second degree rape involving an 18-woar-old an. the judge declined to determine if torres could continue practicing medicine while in the judicial process, leaving that to the medical board. he has practiced medicine for 40 years. a guarantee by the acting s defensecretary patrick shanahan, he visited south texas saying there will be no withdrawal of u.s. troops until the brder is secure. he visited u.s. forces in the south texas town of mcallen yesterday. shanahan spoke to border patrol agents there.
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on friday, he said $1.5 billion will bfo used r border barriers and for security operations. >> i won't be reprogramming any more money for the border wall. weh very smart people hinpa the dertment and we found ways to dohis without havingny impact on readiness. >> about 4,000 members of the military are at the border now. they e helpingrder protection with logistics such as transportation and puttinging up barriers. they are t allowed to act as law enforcement, though. a major part of the air show at joint base anews is canceled today because of this nasty weather. ar show officials say there will be noerial demonstratns that show. rain and overcast skies will make this impossible. you can s all go to t field, though, and check out se of the vintage planes on the ground. >> that's cool. it isli hoday celebration change that has people talking around here. the fyrth of jul fireworks, they're going to beng movihis year after 15 years on theo natinal mall. the national park service says
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the fireworks will be launched about a mile away in west potomac park. president trump wants a bigger celebration, so this is being dubbed a salute to america. there will be the traditionalrt concen west lawn of the capitol and possibly a second stage of entertainment. the president may deliver an address from the steps of then liln memorial as well. and in a statement, the park service said in part this move will allow the national parks service to open new areas of the national mall to spectators including the area around the lincoln memorial reflecting pooe so morele may enjoy the performance. a lot of you have commented on thisory in our nbc washington facebook page and topry sto in our app. go to ta app to lern more about all of it. also g today, therand reo n reopening of the international spy museum is happening. this officially opens to the public later this morning at 10:00 and since today is mother's day, get this, moms, you can call in advance to get a free ticket. go.there you
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>> we have got the links and more information about these kinds ofvents in our nbc washington app. e?er been th >> the spy museum? >> a lot of fun. search for your weekend to find out how you get a free ticket. >> all right. 7:09. speaking of mother's day, consumers expected to buy more than $2 billion woth of electronics for moms thi year. we have a warning about a veryp ar device, you're looking at it right there, that could hurt you. we're goingo explain next o we're goingo explain next o "news 4 tn od
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don't wear it too tightly and give your wri a rest. they recommend wearing the band loosely enough so it can move back and forth on your wrist. ed to give o off rich williamson a refund in exchange for the device, but he declined. >> and if you ask me, am i going to put my fitbit back on, the answer would be abtely not. >> doreen gentzler with that report. this is not just a problem with fitbit. there have been online complain with other fitness trackers as well. the doctors sayleou should be to fit one fingerot inches away fr ur 'mse >> in his wri wen stopped wearing the derice. >> interesting. time now, 7:14. better weat this mother's day. damp, dreary, raw
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it is nasty out there. good part of the day yesterday, dry. ehowers movingheay today.noon n monday t some foggy and wet conditions outthe. let's show you right now, visbility. it ida. quite a bitm menbit. all across the area. be careful as you make your way mother's day ning. periods of raintoday. hth day tomorrow. we' a ac the area. we're going to have wav low tha, rain dayi all the
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but, again, just dreary, drizzlyhroughouta rain could be moderate and at mes. expecting that through lunch time. may a little dry period this afternoon, as we continue through the evening, but then again, more rain as we head into the overnight and rain showers, light stuff through your day on monday. we will finally start to dry out and clear up as we get intomo ay night. really not until then. by tuesday, we are dry with partly sunny skies. current temperatures out there now, this is about as good as it is going to get. temperatures in the 50s to around 60 degrees out there. upper 50s, rain chances throughout theday, chilly throughout the day.t and a l breezy as well. northeast winds at about 5 to 15 miles an hour. now, temperatures stay below normal. our average temperature for this time of year, 74 degr we made it to 82 on friday. yesterday wasn't that bad. we made it into the 70s
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yesterday. then the rain and now cooler . conditio low 60s today, tomorrow and even tuesday as we dry out. we scoot you around 7 degr0 deg by wednesday. the week, we'll see the temperature move in that direction. forgot to change this again. this is for tomorw. temperatures in the low60s. light showers continuing for tomorrow. dry on tuesday. for now, some of the guidance has us with a few showers that are hanging around on tuesday. i'll keeping us dry, but that's something we'll have it watch for. by the time we get to wednesday, we'll have some sunshine, slight chance of a showe as we get into your thursday. and we dry out as we head through friday. d into next weekend. more news on
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cras >> a meteor illuminating the ght sky over the city of chicago. one man able to capture this through his doorbell camera. watch this top left rt of your screen here. that's a meteor streaking across the sky. a man in chicago suburb capturing a light show there. i'm sure he's probably asleep during this time. the skies are prime for spotting meteors. it is active until the end of the month. and the best time to go outside and try to see it is before dawn. >> a new york waiter turns into a good samaritan meantime. >> armando found $420,000 check and returned it to the owner. how about that? >> new york city pizzeria waiter was -- really that much? my goodness. >> yes, it is. >> $423,000. >> he was cleaning a table when
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us, is that. anwe wish we had we something >> are you talking to you too. of m goto find one -- >> mama ricketts, send lauryn a text with your picture, put it on tv >> she's not up yet. 7:30. b look at that rain drop over rur shoulder. you always haven coming down on your head. >> nice t >> let's go ahead. listen, we have showers that dntinue throughout the
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today. rain showers, periods of rain on and off through the day today. just not a beautiful view of whatsoever. it is not going to be pretty all throughout the day today. plenty of clouds. we see rain and this is again just going to continue throughout the day. it could be dry at times, wet at times. but we're going to continue to see waves of rain throughout the day. low visibility outhere this morning. that fog is with us this . morning again, that's what you're going to be running into as you make your way out the door possibly heading to church services or what have you. 58 degrees now. we have got northwest -- northeast wind at 20 miles an hour. we're seeing some breezy conditis as well. that will continue. let's talk about had 24 rain is going to get out of here. just look at that. we'll time it out and let you know when we see some sunshine. >> we wa g to shiftears to what is a very toughstory, devastating one.
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a powerful interview. with the father of a local marine killed in a training acciden outn camppendleton. hugh conor h mcdowell andis family have deep ties to our isarea. >> hather describes him as a broad shoulderema young n, leader and standout marine. >> dart darcy speter has this view. >> reporter: speaking to us via skype, the father of conor mcdowell said three marines showed up at his door on thursday.ed >> they start to say the words, the president -- and i said, stop, please tell me my son is still alive. >> reporter: but they were there to break the tragic nehat conor had died in a training accident at camp pendleton in california. mcdowell spoke to us from his hotel room in california. you could see his wife comforting conor's fiancee. >> what i'm proud of is that he was a leader. he loved leading the young kids.
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>> reporter: conor grew up in chevy chase, d.c., and graduated from st. john's college high school in northwest. his dad says he always wanted to be a marine. conor graduated from the citadel military college and became a marine corps officer in may of 2017. a military statement says a light armored vehicle ed over killing conor and injuring several fellow marines. >> he died pointlessly. did someone make a mistake? was the equment faulty? i will not be satisfied unless there is a very rigorous ve inigation. >> reporter: mcdowell says conor plained to stay in the marines. s we he was going to marry his soul mate. w they're thinking about the legacy his son leaves behind, having accomplished so much at the age of 24. >> patriot, patriot in the rht way.
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>> reporter: darcy spencer, news 4.no >> cowas the couple's only child. they plan to honor his legacy by helping others who need nancial assistance to join the marines and they're doing al they can to comfort and support is fiancee.ho the parents pe to fly back with their son's body this coming week. t 'll be laid to rest a arlington national cemetery. sad news from the entertainment world meantime. s tress peggy lipton hadied. her family says she died of cancer yesterday. lipton was known for starring in the tv show "the modquad" in the '60s and '70s. she married and divorced quincy jones. the couple had two daughters. lipton was 72 years old. update this morning on that deadly gas station explosion in virginia. officials confirmed three preope a dead after the massive fire in rock bridge county. the tragic scene played out friday morning near e west virginia state line.
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police say those who died have not yet been identified. that could take several days. four adults were also hospitalized after the explosion. at this hour, police are still searching for those who may have been inside. they're going to stay ol scene until are accounted for. the cause of the expln is still unknown. this next story is wild update on a chase and a shootout in l.a. you got to listen here and take a look as the news chopper pilot describes the chaos. ht look at that person shooting at officers rigow. look at that. >> unbelievable. you see e person firing. this happened on friday. the man who rode in the passenger seat in the preous started shooting at the cops. he had been wanted for the shooting death of a convenience store employee. the chase actually eded but not before the passenger fired several more rounds at officers. look at this. they returned fire, shooting the passenger, shattering the back windshield. police say one of the passenger's gunshot wounds was
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self-inf icted. he wasn the hospital. the woman driving surrendered and is in jail. several innocent drivers got caught in the cross firehere. one bullet hit next to a man's young daughter's car seat who he just dropped off. like a movie. >> that is crazy. >> back to our area now, a major stretch of the gw parkway has shut down now for several days and going to stay that way because of the huge sinkhole. crews out in full force yesterday torki yesterday working to repair this. park service hopes to have one lane open by monday morning. you can still drive the uthbound lanes smoothly. apple party in d.c., they moved into the library business. youee yesterday the tech giant's ceo tim cooked welc hundreds to the newpple store. and carnegie library in d.c. crowds packed outside the building until the door opened here. cook hugginging fans and taking
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selfies like a rock star. you cannot only buy appledu pros here too but you can also learn. they will share the old library with the historical society of washington in mount vernon square. there is a research library with panoramic pictures including those of ameliae arhart. >> it is an opportunity for us to bring a lot of d.c. history to new audiences, which for us is sort of our mission. >> good to see this building get new life. it is very cool next to the nvention center. the new building will host the daily workshops on subjects like photography and coding. for the next sek we they'll hold a storymaker festival that will feature local artists. about hal of thestore's new 225 employees are also d.c. en resid. that's very cool. wantto tell you about the start of a new chapter in life for many students in the dmv. yesterday was graduation day for students at colleges and universities akos tcross the cou
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ssim reed gave the commencement aress, hu grad, and an attorney. and stacey abrams at american university yesterday. she also received an honorary law degree. the georgia democrat urged the au grads to engage in people who challenge their beliefs. abrams ran for georgia governor in 2018. she recently said she will n make a senate run but has not ruled out running for president. 7:40. a heatedat ble over extending one of our area's busiest highways. what maryland's govnor is saying about a plan to widen roads in ouarea.
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in our area to help alleviate congestion. >> not everybody on board with this. nicole jacobs explains theco ntroversy and the governos respon response. >> reporter: rush hour -- c almost constant traffic. >> reporter: -- be a nightmare. >> the traffic isco ngestive. >> reporter: ask anyone who travels the gw parkway or interstate 270. >> traffic in maryland is bad. the beltway, 270,t is not good. >> reporter: a $9 billion proposal to alleviate all of this congestion pitched bygo rnor larry hogan is raising high brows and tension. >> th h proposal been managed like the runaway bus in the movie "speed." it is our job to slow it down. >> reporter: a quickly planned meeting held sunday shows the scope of the frtration and rd of the governor's plan to widen parts of 270 and the bw
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parkway while also adding tolls is spreading. >> we pay enough taxes as it is around here. >> reporter: the governor fired back. through a spokesperson he called the meeting a roadkrall ly and released a statement reading these anti-congestion relief rtivists show noard for the hundreds of thousands of marylanders stuck in soul crushing congestion. maryland has outgrown f,its says some commuters, wondering how they will adjust and wherey the put everything. >> they're trying to build up to be able to, you know, make more space for more people. but our infrastructure is old now. >> reporter: nicole jacobs, news 4. >> that's going to be an interesting one to follow, for sure, over the next couple of years. taking a live look outside as we open up the window on this mother's day. yeah, not the prettiest start here to our day. you look at nationalr, harbo rain drops out there, but will they be going awa
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>> reporter: it was mayor bowser's turn to paytribute. >> you make us d.c. proud. >> reporter: rashima and her younger brother and her mother spent five years without a place to call home. >> it hadn impact on me and myov younger brotheng house to house, couch to couch, hotel to hotel and then finally making it to the shelter. >> reporter: she stayed focused on one thing, go college. >> i knew education is the only way out. >> reporter: she graduated valedictorian and got a full scholarseop to grgetown university. but melton knew the hard work was just starting. >> i was there with the most elite people, you know, in the country. it was, like, i'm this girl from south d, graduated from anacostia high school, i don't know if i'm able to, like, meet these standards. i question myself a lo i doubted myself. >> reporter: she may have
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doubted herself, but she never gave up. next week she'll get her diploma to georgetown. >> a struggle, it has been a journey, and this is just me making it to the finish line of one of the races of my life. i know there is many more to come. >> reporter: she has a job lined up and plans to go to law school. >> i want to advocate and be able to make a change to put action to my words. >> reporter: this fall, she says heshe'll be focused on younger brother edward, who also got out of the homeless shelter and into college with a football scholarship at syracuse. >> it brings tears to my eyes. we're doing something that we didn't think we would do and people didn't thinke could do but we're doing it. >> reporter: in the district, mark seagraves, news 4. >> love her story. >> yeah. she'll graduate next weekend. a lot of commencements were this weekend. one yesterday in colorado, a snowy mess. >> oh, yeah. >> here, a rainy mess. >> yeah.
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>> y much fun terday. >> what do you expect when you go to school in colorado? come on. that's what you get. sunshine in california, snow colorado. b that's great. >> not a thing. >> i have to give a commencement address and a couple of eeks? >> i heard. i forgot. you told me about that. >> lake braddock. >> yeah. patriots center.my >> oh, gosh. >> i can't wait to see your words of wisdom. >> i have a lot of wisdom. >> bite your tongue and -- >> scraping the bottom of the one. with that >> scraping the bottom of the barrel, absolutelght. that was fuy. love you guys. thank you for the supput. >> yogot it. we'll be in the back heckling you. >> nice weather today. cece weather today, lauryn. >> it is not ni out there, adam. we have rain. >> you clearly missed my sarcasm. >> i know., listen guys, rain throughout the day today. unfortunately for your mother's
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nday, period of showers going to be the best day to go outside. i don't think you'll need me to tell you that. walk outside, realize we have the fog, the wet conditions. no storms, though, so that's good. we'll see showers out there. we coul have a thunderstorm in your northern neck. this is going to be the showery activity that we're seeing out there right now. dry for monday. no, we still have rain swers continuing overnight and through much of your monday. we'll dry out late monday night. and into tuesday. but the good news is not looking like rain for next weekend. of course we have the running of the preakness. hopefully we'll be dry for that if that forecast stays on track. waves of rain pushing through the area right now. stalled frontal system. areas of low pressure are riding along the front just like the train and that's reinforcing some of the moisture that we're seeing out there. again, this will happ all day today. fog, definitely a problem out there this morning. low visibilities, we have some
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ng wargs on area bridges. so,again, be careful as you make your way out the door early on this sunday morning. waves of rain continuing through noon. there could be dry times throughout the day toda also, rain steady at times throughout the day today. don't thi the flooding concern is going to be a big threat out there. just because most of this is going to be on the light side. we could haveat isol flooding as we go through tomorrow. for most part, ponding on the roadways. right now, keeping tuesday dry, though some models are suggesting some of the moisture rotrying to hang ad for tuesday. more clouds and sunshine on tuesday, but right now, dry as we get into your wednesda and thursday. temperatures out there right now in the 50s. that's pretty much where they're going to stay throughout the day today. we already hit our daytime high, the low 60s. right now, in the 50s, that's where we'll stay. low 60s for tomorrow with rain chaees. dry as w head through this week. maybe a small chance of rain on thursday. just looks look a small chance. just looks look a small chance. we got more ws on the
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>> she is. >> incredible human being. >>in a sa to deal with me. >> this person had to deal with you for most of your -- >> that was also a beach theme, down in ha. >> i got a picture, guys. >> you got one? >> i got one. >> oh! >> your wedding day. >> i know. i knew we had pictures. this is easy. that's my mom right there. that's me on my wedding day. >> you look beautiful by the way. >> oh, my god, thank you. >> one more quick one. my mom, at the station. >> i didn't see her. >> on the set. here is mama tuss. she visited the station. >> doesn't represent ego at all. >> no. >> thank you all of the moms for all you do out there. and on this day, though, it is going to be a little wet. >> i know. we have showers out there.
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all throughout the day today. we already hit our daytime high. temperaturesround the 60 degree mark here in d.c. mostly in the upper 50s. periods of rn allay today. and even into the overnight. we'll have showers around through tomorrow. temperatures in the 60s. tomorrow, we dry out late monday night, keeping tsduery d soree some sunshine and then thurs cy, smallnce of rain. thursday is weather day. so all of us will be out there. >> i didn't get the invite. >> that does it for "news 4 today." thank you for joining us. >> rainy day. >> rainy day. join us again at jardiance asks... when it comes to type 2 diabetes, are you thinking about your heart? well, i'm managing my a1c, so i should be all set. t actually, you're still ask for a fatal heart attack or stroke. that's where jardiance comes in. it reduces the risk ofasying from a cardiovcular event
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