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today women across the country rallied in defense of their right to abortion. pushing back against a flurry of new state laws restricting or even outright banning the procedure. >> backers oe new laws have made clear their goal is to argue their case before the supre that is exactly where one of today's largest demonstrations >> derrick ward was there and he joins us live with more. derrick. >> reporter: we have a much more sedate scene outside the supreme court no but during that protest passions ran the gamut. be it a street corner in arlington or on the steps of the highest court in the land. a wave of anti-abortion laws in the state legislature have stirred up a tide of counter prosts not likely to wane
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until the matter is settled by law, if then.un heds of pro-abortion rights advocates rallied at the supreme court. >> there's so many things being rolled back. >> and there are those who chose to stayay awrom the throngs in front of he sbreem couupreme co >> i had this happen to me wh w i young and i have to fight. >> they worry about who is excluded from the argumentd worry about those who have just as much as steak as anyone else. >> there's trans men and non-binary people. >> here where the passions range, someating so complic, so painful and so personal is not fully understood by those who fight to live it, a woman's right to choose. >> no woman wants to do this. it's not like getting your teeth cleaned. it's unpleasant.
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se >> reporter: t laws were written to lead to challenges in the supreme nourt. of that has happened yet, but it will. look for more of that kind of passion outside the high courts. >> derrick ward, thank you. now to the bombshell late today from immigration and customs enforcementou calling the prince george's county detention center for releasing s two teenager now accused in a brutal gang murder. leon harris working this story from the live desk. raising a lot of questions with this one, leon. >> it really does, jim. we're trying to get answers from both sides involved. we're going to start o by saying we've reached out to prince george's county corrections department and they say they're still working on their response to ubu i.c.e. says that two ms-13 gang suspects who are now accused of killing a 14-year-old girl and dumping her body in a creek backilin a were in custody last year. i.c.e. says that back in may of 2018 prince george's county
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police took them into custody fortempted murder. suspected gang activity. i.c.e. says it then filed detainer with the department of corrections because neither of those suspects were in the country legally. but i.c.e. says the department of corrections in prince george's did not follow that detainer. instead, releasing th suspects without notifying i.c.e. now, fast forward a year up to now. both men are suspected in the murder of 14-year-old ariana diaz. i.c.e. released a statement that reads in part, quote, these individuals had d violent criminal behavior before and because they were released in spite of the lawful detainer, they were afforded an opportunity to take a life. i.c.e. is now trying to detain those two suspects again. both of them are bac c intody in prince george's county. as we look forward tonight, we will definitely keep you postn,. doree back to you. >> leon harris, thank you, leon.
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prosecutors re upset tonight that a frederick, maryland, pediatrician accused of sexually assaulting several patients has been given a chance at release. dr. torrez bond has been reset at $400,000. he was indicted on 65 newa ches after 11 new accusers came forward. today bond is in addition tohe $100,000 bond he already paid after the initial rape charge. here is what one mother who moved her children out of his practice had to say outside the court. >> he had his back to you a lot and as a parent you don't think about what you're not seeing on the other side. >> torrez now cannot practice medicine and cannot have unsupervised contact with a minor. as of now, he is still in jail. he was one of theo notorious dug kingpins in our region linked to as many as 30
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murders. now rayful edmond is serving life without parole for his crimes, but federal prosecutors want that to change. they say edmond should be released from prison because of his help as a informant. as news mark segraves report, not everyone agrees. >> it was the mid 1980s. the crack cocainec epidemi was fueling the rising murder rate. a murder rate which doubled in just one year as rayful edmond oversaw one of the ggest drug operations in the country based in northeast d.c. taking in millions of dollars each week according to lawme enfor official whose said edmond was linked to as many as 30 murders. edmond was never convicted of any murders, but was senttoced life in prison i 1990 for drug charges. according to court b filings, the same prosecutor's office that put him in prison, edmond had spent much of hisfr time prison helping prosecutors put other drug dealers behind bars. for that cooperation,
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prosecutors say edmond should reduced.life sentence today d.c.'s attorney general karl r-- he should be allowed to testify at any hearing on edmond's possible release. >> the rayful edmond enter price is a notorious enterprise and im think it'srtant that the court did what it did to really seek the input of district residents. >> edmond's mother and sister were both in the courtroom today. edmond appeared via video conference. his attorney says it's time for the former drug dealer to be set free. >> over the last 20 years, what we can publicly say, what is public is that mr. edmond has tried to make amends. he's cooperated with the federal government for two decades and provided so much information that the federal government deemed it necessary to tell the court that he should be released early. >> so mark, where does this go from here and what's the likelihood that edmond would
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actually ever be released? >> well, jim, there's aong way to go before that. in fact, the judge made very clear and so did prosecutors that even if the judge were toto rule ay that edmond's sentence should be reduced to time served, he still faces years additionally in pennsylvania after he got caught selling drugs while he was in prison. so even if he were released froc federal tody, he had to serve 30 years in pennsylvania. pennsylv prosecutors are also considering the possibility of reducing his sentence there. i can tell you this, regardless of what happened, randul edmo is coming back to d.c. he appeared by have conference today because he's in witness rotection in a prison somewhere, but the judge wants him in a courtroom in october for the next hearing. brayful edmond is comingk to washington, d.c. >> we know you'll be following. marksegraves, thanks so much. now to the esidential rawer struggle that's pushing some democ who argue it's time to open impeachmentdi
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procees. congressman jamie raskin of maryland is one of those democrats. he says he's opposed to impeachment right now, but he argues an impeachment inquiry should begin to give democrats access to information for investigations. this as former white house bpunsel don mcgahn defied a congressional suoena to testify today under orders from president. t usan mcbegnnis is on capitol hill where they moved to increaseehe prssure. >> it was in front of anempty chair but mahn defied that subpoena. two more have been issued to h hopeicks also annie donaldson, former deputy white house counsel underdon mcgahn. they are supposed tosubmit documents and also make appearanc before the committee. two more subpoenas now have beei authozed, but not yet issued. reince priebus, he was chief staff. steve bannon, the former white
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house chief strategist under president trump. all of this setng the stage for more standoffs against the white house as me democrats here talk impeachment. >> on capitol hill today, another hearing with another key witness a no show. upon president took it himself to intimidate a witness has a legal obligation to be here today. >> former white houseounsel don mcgahn subpoenaed to testify before the house judiciary committee instructed by the white house to defyit. >> this committee will hear mr. mcgahn's testimony even if we have to go to court t. secure it >> lawmakers want to hear from mcgahn directly after he testified about presidential obstruction to special unsel robert mueller. republicans say democrats are trying to make something out of nothing echoing the esident's mantra. >> there was no cousion. there was no obstruction charge. there's nothing here. >> white house attorneys argue mcgahn is immune from
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congressional subpoenas. experts disagree. >> haalso today the president appealing a federal judge's ruling that could give them access to his financial records. the ruling a blow to the white house. the appeal a opossible testf the president's intention to fight all congressional oversight. and that has several leadingra democ now pressing how speaker nancy pelosi begin an impeachment inkwequiry along wi so rank and file democrat. >> i believe we have come to the time of impeachment. >> the president of the united states of america needs to be impeached. >> ar gowing chorus, but a leader still unconvinced. speaker poles is meeting with democra tomorrow to determine whether or not to start imachment proceedings. the pressure is ratcheting up, but some democrats don't want
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that. meanwhile, esident trump is getting set to h well known in virginia to coordinator his immigration policy. his top choi appears to be ken cuccelli, the former attorney general of the commonwealth. the new york times first reported that cuccinelli met with president tmp yesterday in the oval office and that disappointment could come this week. cuccinelli initially came to mr. trump's attention as a political foe working on behalf of the texas senators ted cruz working on the primaries back in 2016. now cuccinelli appears on cable television and his hard lime immigration views are aligned with the president' stillto come on news 4 at 6:00, a virginia woman who loved her pet to whath. a healthy dog was put down and cremated according to her own's dying wish. plus washington's new archbishop promises . transparency david culver joins us live next with the challenge facing wilton gregory. and the tornadoes weren't as bad as many fears, but the flash
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flooding in oklahomaoed to s harrowing rescues. what's the latest on the severe weather in the south? >> stilloing out in the plains. we'll continue to see that. thingsarming a bit. 73 the high temperature. that actually came at midnight. it's been cooler than that all day. a pretty nice view outre the
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visit the usaa poppy wall of honor this friday through sunday on the national mall. tonight washington's half a million plus catholics have a new shepherd. >> most recently from atlanta he became the first ever african-american archbishop of washington. >> david culver reports now it's a leadership role that must
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start with healing. >> i resolve to serve faithfully the spiritual needs of this local church. >> a new beginning for cathol os in nation's capital. archbishop wilton gregory accepting his position to leadt local church holding high a mandate from pope francis himself and acknowledging the recent pain caused by church leaders. >> we claerics have been the sourceof this current tempest. >> he speaks in after a devastating church scandal, most recently the defrocking of ex-cardinal mccarrick and the resignation of the outgoingp bisho accused of not doing enough to punish predator priests when he served in pittsburgh. >> cardinal weurl has been and remains a cherished friend, a colleague now for many years.
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>> butome have criticized him for his lack of transparency, something gregory has promised to do better at. >> he's said it's my j to tell you the truth. i think if he follows through, that will gog a lon way to repairing the breach of trust. >> a trust he needs to straestah among his priests as well. >> i think they're going to be ank with him, but at the same time will give him the information that he needs to make the best decisions possible. >> i want to be a welcoming shepherd who laughs with you whenever we can, who cries with you whenever we must, and who honestly confesses his faults and ilings before you when i commit them. not when they are revealed. >> so many catholics are feeling hopeful about the new archbishop. as he said, where he'll start, where he'll begin his work to rebuild people's trust?
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>> doreen, the reality is his time as archbishop in atlanta is any indication, he's going to be in the front lines. with be meeting parishioners and priests and hearing them out and taking action based on what he says. one priest visiting from chicago told me that you guys have a good one here. you hit it out of the park with this choice. a lot of catholics hoping that is the case and hoping he can bring catholics back into the pews. >> sounds like he is going to be good listener. david culver, thank you. the issue nearly took down theovernor of virginia and tomorrow we will learn the answer to a key question. how did a racistap photoar on ralph -- governor ralph northam's college yearbook page? the photo shows ain man black face next to a man in ku klux klan and appeared in e medical school yearbook bck in 1984. it brought calls for his
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resignation. northam first apologized, then denied being in it. the school authorized an independent investigation to find out what happened. the results of that ti investiga are being revealed tomorrow morning at the school in norfolk. wirthern virginia bureau chief julie carey be there and we'll have coverage here on news 4. he played on some ofhe most vulnerable in our community. now he will spend the rest of his life in prison for assaulting two senior citizens. it also marks the first of its kind in maryland in terms of identifying the attacker. news 4 pat collins reports. >> reporter: sentenced to life for rapping two senior citizens in their germantown home. both of the women now deceased, but the granddaughter of one the victims talked today.sh asked not to be identified. >> it helped us know that our
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ermmunity is sa and no one else will have tgo through this experience at the hands of this man. >> alexander targeted senior women. one victim 86 years old. she wrote a poem about what happened. >> the time was hell. i did not think i believed in you, but now i do. you made the choice to prey on elder elderly women. >> the other victim 68 years old. he raped her in june of 2010 and then came back and raped her again in january, 2011. she was very vocal about getting this rapist locked up. >> i am deterned to do everything i can to see to it t this arroganttle twerp doesn't get away with it. >> both women lived across the street from each other in germantown. now, police worked the scenes top to bottom, but it was a dna hit from a jean logical service that located three distant
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familial matches. police used that information to track down suspect marlin michael alexander. >> this is the most heinous of crimes, because these women fi couldn't ht back. they were elderly women. they were infirmed. >> reporter: according to court documents, on alexander's laptop, police say they found numerous ptures of elderly women in pornographic and sexual positions. in rockville, pat collins, news 4. >> we sometimes take first responders for granted. barry murphy doesn't. f d.c.ire and ems saved his lifet after he wen into cardiac arrest. murphy and his wife stopped by engine company 28 today on connecticut avenue in northwest d.c. to let them know just how much he appreciates them. he and his wife had been out for a 4 mile walk when he felt chest
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pains. he went home d collapsed. his wife performed cpr until medics arri sd. heys he went from no pulse to speaking. >> they did a fabulous job. they got there so quickly and i'm here today because of it. hooked me up to a defibrillator, gave me a shock. they're telline today all the stories about how i sat right up and told them to get out of my house, i was fine. >> cardiac arrest is reversible in most victims if you treat it quickly. firefighters say you should call 911, begin cpr immediately, and contue until first responders arrive. >> he's a lucky man. it's a story we all from over the weekend. a billionaire philanthropistng payihe student loan debt of an entire college graduating class. elill to come, one of those graduates t news 4 what it means to him. >> i'm ada tuss. a metro rail car stays open and
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back now with severe storms battering the southern plains against tonight. >> at least a dozen tornadoes have touched down ripping apart homes and moreould be on the way. that's not the only >>not atosee. stormser h also bring i flooding rain, some of the worst of it in oklahoma where teens saved a womanif clinging to l to the branches of a tree. >> emergency crews say there have been too many rescues to count., incrediblythough, there have been no serious injuries. >> yeah. >> that's amazing. >> it is. it really is amazing what's been happening wi this. the torns, adoes, we had the outbreak we were expecting for weeks. we re looking last weekand saying this is not going to be good on monday. fortunately most of them missed the populated areas. one of those tornadoes was a big
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one. looked like at least a ef-3. q realuite amazing. wnu shift that d by about two miles and you have a completely different story. very lucky this timeround. however, it's not done yet. it is still going on. for us we're not dealing with any of that around our region. we're seeing beautiful weather. sunshine today. high temperatures 20 degrees cooler than where we werees yrday. yesterday we hit 90. right now we're at 72. take a look at the rest of the numbers. 71 martinsburg. 73 annapolis. nice everywhere. no rain here.ag n, all of the action has been in the center portion of the country and this is where that storm continues to sit and spin here. numerous tornado watches around the st. louis area down towardsu part of missri and arkansas. severe thunderstorm watch including tornado warnings in parts ofllansas and sti seeing snow on the back side. i just saw a report out of the denver area. 14 to 20 inches o snow.
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numerous trees down. this is just south of denver in an elevated portion along i-25. again, this whole system will move to the north and east. it will bring us a chance of showers and storms, but n i'm expecting much. these are the number of tornadoes we've seen over the last two days. a tornado out ieak. as mentioned, we are not seeing much in the way of injuries. i cannot tell you how extremely happy i am to heawi that this kind of tornado outbreak. 90 in nashville. 88 in atlanta. that warmer air will start to make its way back across our region. one more day tomorrow with temperatures in e 70s. 76 degrees. fr average high is 77. 86 on friday. 87 on saturday. really nice as we head towards memorial day weekend. what do we want for memorial da? weekend we want summer like temperatures. ooks like we gotl
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specialty store prices. at ross. yes for less. you're watching news 4 at 6:00. imagine riding metro and seeing this. well, the train is moving. an open door. >> it happened over the weekend. today metro decided to pull hundreds of similar rail cars he right off t tracks to make sure it doesn't happen again. >> our transportation reporr adam tuss explains how this could impact riders in the coming days. >> this is not supposed to happen. a metro rail car rolling fast out of the station with one of its doors swinging wide open. >> that's scary. that's very scary. >> this vid posted by a ride over facebook and shared with wamu radio. the incident actually happened sunday. t metro wasn't alerted unl monday. it prompted metro today to pull all similar rl cars known as
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3000 series rail cars out of the metro fleet. that's significant because it means metro is down about 15% of the daily rail cars. why wasn't action takeat immey on sunday? we asked the metro general manager. why it's under investigation to see if there was a mechanical issue, was there human error, what played into this. that's what we'll find out with the investigators. >> aboutil 284 ra cars now off the tracks and that led to some longer waits for riders. >> i'm 15 minutes late because tf the train but i did text him. i w for four trains from cleveland park. >> here's the thing we don't knon. how much lgerhe 3000 series rail cars will be out of service and how much longer the other rail cars have to pick up the slack. >> kind of ridiculous. metro riders expect a lot of the service here and hearing that kind ever makes me a little bit. scare >> the general manager saying this move to sideline trains shows metro has a renewed safety culture. it also shouldn't have a big impact on the upming blue and llow line shutdown.
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fewer rail cars would be needed during that period anyway.th along arch line, adam tuss, news 4. >> you heard adam mentioning the summer shutdown. it's happening in just a few days. some commuters are getting creative to help others get round. some newhov slug lines are opening up. they'll be along the id-395 corr at franconia springfield, van dorn street and landmark mall in the morning. in the afternoon 19th and "f," 14th and madison. we have other work arounds for the shutdown on our nbc washington app. ju search metro shutdown. only on news 4 this evening a prince george's county animal control officer'ic q actions may have saved a food delivery driver's life.an merican bulldog attacked that driver last sunday in upper marlboro chewing off part of his ear. an officer shot and killed he dog when it lunched at hiau we cght up with the driver
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today. he had his head wrapped here covering more than 60 stitches and staples. he only speaks chinese. his son translated what happened to his dad by phone. >> the dog was running out f theuse and pushed my father down to the floor. >> he says he works for china taste restaurant. we contacted the restaurant but they denied one of their drivers was attacked. he says he didn't know how he'll pay for his medical bills. now to th smith sewsonian's response to the qutions about the sackler gallery who owns perdue pharma who makes oxycontin. they've been marketing the powerful pain killer and misleading the kubl about tpubl addictive properties. the met announced it would no
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longer accept donations from them. the smithsonian announced a similar policy today. however, the sackler name will remain on the gallery here. nsmithsonian officialsote that artur m. sackler donated more than a thousand works of art and he died well before oxycontin hit the market. they say the donation agreement requires the smithsonian to designate the facility as the arthur m. sacerallery in perpetuity. morehouse college graduates are still beaming after that surprise announcement by their commentment speaker this weekend. >> this is my class, 2019. my family is making a grant to eliminate their student loans. >> by noow you kn the name billionaire unve billionai billionaire investor pledged tens of millions to make sure they're debt free. today cory ith spoke to a
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local grad about the impact of that generous gift. >> i feel like i've been awake for three days saying i just want to be in bed. >> he returns to his anacostia neighborhood a college graduate. he left morehouse in atlanta with a bachelor of arts in english, lifelong friends and -- >> no debt. what more can i ask for? >> all courtesy ofrobert smith who after speaking with students the day before turned the sunday commencement speech into the surprise of a lifetime. >> my family is making a grant to eliminate their student loans. > in a matter of five seconds, it went from everybody sitting there to shouting. i was sitting in the fifth row, so as r as we were concerned, it was oh my gosh, it was huge. >> as for the proud pents in the audience. >> what did he just say? >> for you to see another parent or another b family absolved of
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this financal debt was just so gratifying. >> in an instant, the debt of nearly 400 students was set to be paid in full. to quinton,ey while the mon matters, you can't put a price on inspiration. >> in the same way we say education is meant to inspire, he inspired all of them, even the ones who aren't in that class. >> the money does come with one condition and it's founded in the moreuse tradition. pay it forward.qu nton is well on his way. he'll be back in the classroom e teaching midd school. >> it really just allows us to live the mission that morehouse college has preached to us so d rly, with disciplined minds of leadership. >> and for these graduates, this ending could not have been a better start for the rest of their lives. cory smith, news 4. >> a nice head start. >> what an incredible gift. coming up next, the story we've beenou telling y about since late last hour. loving your pet to death.
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the controversy caused by a virginia won's dying wish. and they are the screeners who keep us safe when we fly. don't why some say the tsa work crisis. in and much cooler across our region today, but the temperatures going bac up as we head towards memorial day weekend. we'll talk about what you can expect tomorrow morning for the bus stop and what you can expect for that weekend forecast too. right now a great
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there are new karconcerns at a work force crisis. twmakers noted tha tsa airport screeners play an important role in keeping air traffic safe for all of us, but retention is a big problem in part because the average starting salary is $35,000 a year. nbc news has learned the department of homeland security is requesting $232 million from the tsa to help fund border operations. >> reporter: the baltimore city government is still being held hoage by a ransom attack that knocked email and payment systems offline for about two
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weeks. e hackers demanding $100,000. the city refuses to pay. he attack ground real estate transactions to a halt, but as of yesterday, the city had developed a manual work around for property sales. security experts say the threats from ind of attack is growing. pete williams is working this story for nbc nightly news and that's ahead right after this broadcast. when we come back, a hlthy dog euthanized because her owner wanted to er buried with h. >> hear from the people who fought against it and why it's not always illegal. >> we did suggest to them they could sign the dog over on numerous occasions because it's a dog
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this next story is about people who le their pets perhaps a little too much. a virginia woman who caused a stir with her last wishes. >> her wi left the very specific instructions about her dog. the animal was to be placed in her casket to be buried with her. >> the problem was, when the woman died, the dog was still alive and healthy. >> as kurt from our nbc station in richmond reports, the request created moral and lal questions. >> in the always crowdeder chesteld animal shelter surrounded by strays and cats
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sat a very special dog. not your tycal pound puppy or mongrel, but a well-bread animal. she was a pacmpered and much loved dog. in fact, you might say she was loved to death. emma arrived at the shelter mach 8th. during her stay the personnel had several discussions with representatives of the dead woman's esstattate trying to ta them out of euthanizing her dog to be laid torest with her maeer. the momnt she left the shelter she was taken to a local vet to be put down leaving workers heartbroken. >> we did suggest they could sign the dog over on numerous occasions. it was a dog we could easily find a home for, but ultimately k they came back in on march 22nd and redeemed the dog. >> afwar emma euthanized her remains were taken to a pet k
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crematn center all in accordance with the dead woman's will. >> it's not legal to put an animal in a casket and bury him. >> the president of the virginia funeral director's association and owner of morris funeral and cremation services. when you walk in, you'll probably be greeted by one of his chocolate labs.e while is the personal pet, he is a highly trained and certified therapy dog. he's there to help clients through their grief. you'd be hard pressendto fi a funeral director more pet friendly than this one. just ask him to slip the remains in grandma's casket. he won't do it. >> i am licensed by the state of
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virginia. i cannot do it. >> fining a vet to euthanize a healthy dog or cat won't be easy. pets are personal property in the eyes of the law and putting down a healthy dog cat is by no means illegal. t.ill, many vets have ethical issues with i >> whenever we're faced with euthanasia, it's a very eyond nal situation and everything that we talked about that we need to do ethically and we've taken an oath to do. it's something we take home too. it weighs on us a professionals. >> but he does real well. >> larry knows where he's coming fr a. many years before the law changed, he helped make arrangements for a client whote wan her elderly dog euthanized and buried with her in the casket. it's something that still haunts lar to this day. >> and knowing that while we were taking care of her, that poor dog was being euthanized, even after i saw his temperament and g,everythin i still ached over it, you know. >> while virginia code forbids
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pets to be buried with humans in commercial se -- bing news, the prince george's county department of corrections is responding and disputing i.c.e.'s claim that it wrongly releasedwo ms-13 gang members from custody. >> leon harris has the update from our live desk. leon. >> we just got our hands on the statement from the department of corrections and it claims they neve released th two ms-13 gang members who are now accused of murder. instead officials say the suspects wereransferred to a venile facility and officials there were the ones who let the two go. let's rewind this. the suspects are now accused of murdering 14-year-old ariana diaz and then dumping her body in a creek in riverdale. last year i.c.e. said it issued a detainer to the prince george's county dpts of
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corrections whr the same pai was taken into custody in another case. i.c.e. says the department of corrections wrongly released the two. the department of corrections, though, released a statement that reads in part a court order resued in both individuals being transferred to the youth detention center. they remain detained in that juvenile facility until the disposition of their cses earlier this year. now the next step is for us to reach out to the youth detention center. we're going to keeporking the story. we'll bring you updates as we get the information in here. back to you in the studio. >> still lookingfor answers. we'll look for an update. doug is back with a check on our weather. >> i just checked it. it's great. >> awesome. >> today was wonderful. >> coming off yesterday, yesterday our first 90 degree day and normally 90s come in a row. not this case. that was ahead of the cold front. behind the cold front, nice and cool. that's the area we have out
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there today. beautiful afternoon temperatuwi e. sitting at 72 degrees right now. dropping through the 60s, maybe into the upper 50s for many of :00, 11:00.k consecutive in gaithersburg right now. 71 ft. be-- rain chances are ve low. we've gone from extreme rain over the last year and now as i said in my summer forecast, we're going to start going the opposite direction i think going a little bit dryer than average as we me our way through the rest of may here and into june. we've hadome high clouds streaming out ahead of that next storm system. that huge storm in the middle other past country whichiis sitting and spinning severe weather into parts of the oust. louis region,nd kansas city. snow still just no the north and east of denver. this has been a monsterf a
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storm. for us it's going to help the drive in. it's going to help to drive in some warmer air over the nexp cle of days. again, what a day yesterday was. snow, tornadoes, and a tropical storm. we had a tropical storm that was andrea. the spin is right there. now it's what's called a post tropical cyclone, but still it was the first named storm of the season. it is diminishing and no threat to much in the way of lan. it's going to bring breezy conditions. 56 degrees at the bus stop tomorrow. 68 by recess. 76 by the time we're picking up the kids. look at this. sun rise tomorrow at 5:50. sunset tonight, 8:20n the evening. i love that. we've got 8:20 or later for the next two months. 87 degrees on thursday. 86 friday. 87 on saturday. starting off memorial day weekend, great and then a good chance of a fewhowers and storms coming up on sunday and monday. once again most of the time we should be on the dryer side. temperaturest the nex two weeks of at or above average all the way through the next ten days.
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this is the xfinity sports desk. >> the redskins are moving on after reportedly movingck line reuben foster for the entireseason. we reached out but still no update from the tea following reports foster tore his acl, possibly additional artery damage. even with losing one of their promising defenders, practice must go on. the burgundy and gold back on the field for day two of otas where th o defense paper looks to be a force to be reckoned with despite the injury. >> we're going to be as great as we want to be. i feel like we have a lot of keys around us that we could do some great things here. >> we have a group of guysho hold you accountable. i mean, it really pushes you to be the best every day.
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the ing we always said, you should never feel comfortable. so we try and make everything and everybody uncomfortable in the building. that's just our goal every day to make it as uncomfortable as possibleto help promote growth.c >> they're b on thursday. but the indianapolis 500 takes a great deal of. will the driver has to power through 200 laps. the defending 500 champion, but the race on nbc this sunday. stopped by our studios talking about the emotion of winning this iconic ace. >> it was awesome. it was my 11th a drive you don't really recognize it as a successful driver until you win that race in indy car. although i've won a lot of races and championship, winning that race was so satisfying. >> all the emotion. >> yeah. in victory lane.
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>> that's what he's supposed to do. >> it meant so much to mme, and my wife. we've spoke about it so many time. h >> then theyd you this jug. it's real milk? >> real milk. you have to drink it. you actually g to choose what milk you want and i -- whatever. i don't care what it is i will drink it. if i get to be in victory lane in indianapolis, i'll drink the milk. >> you've got to stick with tradition. also a big weekend for the maryland women's lacrosse team playing in their 11th straight final four. facing northwestern. their only loss this season. one thin woging rking for maryl after falling short last ar, e terps excited for another crack at the title. >> that's the reason when i came here obviously that i wanted to be in the final four for this experience and i'm overwhelmed, but very excited about this opportunity. obviously it's so nice to be just up in baltimore and having this fan base in maryland there.
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>> there's no better place forle peophat support maryland lacrosse and the university of maryland to come out and watch a great weekend of lacrosse and support the terps. we're looking forward to having a great crowd thera lot of red in the stands and a lot of people fired up about maryland atletics. >> that's kathy reese and the terps. this spring she became the latest toryland coach have her own ice cream flavor on campus. we have kathy's recent victory swirl. reese's peanut butter cup pieces and a chocolate swirl. you dug inli earr. you still digging the ice cream? >> that's delicious. where can you get this? >>nion dairy up in college park. >> really good. >> i've got to sample some of this. >> this beats a t-shirt any day, right? >> you can't go wrong with chocolate and peanut butter. tais is excellent. >> we'reing our dinner
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breaking news tonight. a n.owing path of devastatio there are new tornadoes on theod ground and a major f emergency under way. people swept away, trapped in cars, clinging to trees for dear life and neighborhoods destroyed by i feroous outbreak of twisters. >> it was so scary i just thank god we're all okay. >> and tonight the threat is far from over. protests erupt or the abortion flashpoint from the steps of the supreme court to cities all across the country after a wave of restrictions on ortion abortion rights advocates taking to the streets a new escalation in the be subpoena showdown tween the white house and democrats as don mcgahn is a nohow. hope hicks now ordered to tengify, and nancy pelosi fa
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