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killed 12 people. the shooter died during an exchange of gunfire with police. we're learningore about the shooter as reaction to the tragedy pours in. tonight, a closer look at the deadly mass shootings in the u.s. over the past year. and a prince georges county couple was planning a wedding. now lnned ones are plaing two funerals. the couple's mysterious deaths in the dominican republic and how relatives are remembering the victi. "news 4 at 11:00" begins with breaking news. . > today is virginia beach's darkest hour >> a municipal employee kills2 1 people in virginia beach.e thhooter died in a fierce gun battle with police. good evening, i'm i'm lyon harris. we are going to begin with the mass shooting. a federal lawnforcement source tells nbc news the name of the gunman is dwayne carddock. tonight virginia beach police have not confirmed the suspect's
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udentity but they gaves a chilling update on theense moments inside the municipal moment. the shooting started just after 12:00 -- just after 4:00 rather. nbc's chris pollone is in virginia beach. he begins our team coverage right now with more on the investigation and an update on the victims. >> repte we will get back to chris pollone's report in just a moment. but in the minutes and the hours following those tragedies, people turned to social media to find community and comfort and find ws to express their grief. our team coverage continues now with jackie benson. she is at the live desk right now to share how people are reacting to these killings. jackie. >> leon, we are seeing the words horrific and heartbreaking paired with the #virginbeach. shortly after news of the ng shootiroke, virginia beach
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edtive pharrell williams twe he is praying for the city. former congresswoman gabbie give orders, a gun violence survivor herself, sent several tweets calling for tougher gun laws. maryland governor larry hogan tweeted to virginia offering any support the state needs. we have not seen a message about e shooting from either the president -- from either president donald trump, either of his twitter accounts. as the eveng wears , we are also hearing firsthand accounts from workers who were in the building when the gunfire rang out. >> we heard a couple of shots, yeah, and -- like i said, i -- i was trying to listen to what happened and be on the phone oth 911 and we were just hoping that it would bever soon. > we heard shooting but w didn't think it was actually at the courthouse because it was kind of muffled. >> there was a lady on the st irs unconscious, blood on the stairway, blood on her, we didn't know what happened.
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one of the co-workers went upstairs to find out and she came down and said get out of e thbuilding, she had been shot. >> we saw a tweet from a son of a virginia beach police officer showing a picture of the swa team approaching the building. the text saidsimply, my dad is a hero. back to you. >> oh. and you can't help but feel that emotion from that. thank you so much, jackie. todans tragedy i virginia beach just the latest devastating mass shooting in our country in a little over aea yr. in february, a manufacring employee killed five people in aurora, illinois. in november, 2018, a man killed dozen people at a country music bar in thousand oaks, california. about two weeks before that, a ma opened fire at a pittsburgh synagogue, killing 11 people there, and in may of 2018 a teen gunned down eight students and two teachers in santa fe,xa tes. stay with news 4 here. we have more information for you
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here, available to us on the nbc washington app for continuing corage of the vnia beach shooting. keep it tuned right there. we will update you with another -- we will have more information rather for you with another update in about seven minutes. >> let's t turn nowo the weather. we enjoyed mostly clear skies today. storm teamhi 4 cef meteorologist doug kammerer is tracking another chance for rain coming in this weekend. is that the word, doug? >> that's the word, leon.re we aalking about sunday for a good chance for rain activity, but most of the weekend looking okay. look what we have out there right now, most of us dry. we saw no rain across the d.c. metro area, but down to the south, and that's what we told wyou earlier, weould see rain from fredericksburg towards leonardtown south towards the neck. that's where we have right now. down towards fredricks burg, in through carolina county, ossing into charles and st. marys counties.
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you will see that rain as it moves to the east.ac i will it out as well for you on sunday. if you have plans on sunday, maybe hittinghe pool, i've got your forecast. >> thanks, doug. we have breaking news now. a police-involved shooting in a major higay here. chopper 4 over the scene moments ago on route 50 near davidsonville road. someone was just medevacced from the scene. we got off the phone with arundel police hotel us the westbound lanes are open but the west lanes remain closed. once again, a police-involved shooting on route 50 near davidsonville road. we will stay on top of the story and bring you updates tomorrow morning on news 4 today. now, this wee former special counsel robert mueller refused to exonera presint trump on questions of obstruction of justice, but the fall-out from mueller's statement is going to be felt for months to come. today chuck todd joined us on
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news 4 at 6:00 to w explainhy that moment on wednesday is so impactful. >> i do think it was a reminderr here muellave voice to it, right, which is sort of -- it is one thing to see it on paper, that if we could exonerate the paper we would have said so. it is another to hear it. look, bill barr clearly misrepresented what mueller intended to say. wecan -- on that score we can s, ate barr's other decisi but he said no evidence. mueller said insufficient evidence. that's a huge difference. >> on sunday morning chuck will be speaking with white house chief of staff mick mulvaney, presidential candidate beto o'rourke and former acting fbi director andrew mccabe. "meet the press" starts at 10:30 after news 4 today. now, district leaders are getting ready for a 4 h of july that will be unlike anything we have seen here in recent history. the president is expected to speak at the lincoln memorial, t andt means the fireworks will be in a different location
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this year. but as our mark segraves found out, district leaders still haven't received much guidance from the fs. >> reporter: this has been the scene on the 4th of july for decades, hundred of thousands of people gathered on the national mall. the big finale, fireworks around the washington monument. but the trump administration is working on major changes to the event, but so far d.c.'s mayor and the head of moat row who are responsible for much of the logistics and support for the event say they're still waiting on details from the federal government. but they have teen toldhere will be big changes this year. >> the latest that we've heard is that there will be a speech and that the location of the fireworks will be moved. so i don't think wee havhe fine details of the plan yet. >> the head of metro says the transit agency is also waiting for more details from the feds. >> we are all working through this right now.il we w adjust. you know, as obviously we do a lot of issues, different events throughout the year, so we will
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adjust. but right now it just has not been finalized yet. >>bowser said because president trump plans to speak to the crowds, her agencies are preparing for more road closures than on a typical july 4thth ank the lihood there will be protesters, and that could mo require police officers. >> we have to have more resources likely to support the event, police resources to support the president's movements, rope -- additional s road closure if needed. and if we have first amendment activity, we, of course, would supporthat, and we will not have any diminished resources in our nfghborhoods because o it. >> reporter: at west potomac , parkrk segraves, news 4. a spokesperson for the department of the interior tellt news 4 thaty are working to expand access on the national mall for greater public participation, and they continus to work toe the success of the event and to execute t president's vision. their words. now, newdetails tonht
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about a local couple found dead whilth vacationing ie dominican republic. this couple is from prince georges county and they were staying at a resort in ply au nueva romana. shomari stone joins us with the latest on the victim'ys famil members who are saying they are in shock overhis. shomari. >> it hurt. >> reporter: dejaun hoechlmes "hamilton" hamilton is filled with sadness as her eyes fill with tears. >> i will never see my son again. >> reporter:r father, 63-year-old nathaniel holmes and his fiance cynthia daye were fo d dead in the dominican republic while owe vacation thursday, the same day they were supped to fly home to prince georges county. >> i was waiting for him to come home today because he said he om was going to ce see the baby today. >> i was numb. i'm still numb. >> reporter: cynthia's sister
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sonia jackson says she confirmed with the u.s. embassy that the couple was found deahe in tir hotel room at the resort playa nueva ramona in the southeast part of the island. >> that's m sister. >> reporter: relatives tell me the couple was engaged. their facebook post this week showed them happy. >> she w having a good time she was enjoying herself. >> reporter: no nathaniel's sister says she talked to him a couple of days ago. >> he was having a great time. >> reporter: the dominican today, a news agency, reports theodies showed n signs of violence. the medical examiner's office will conduct an autopsy to determine the exact cause of death, and then the family will bring the bodies b to the u.s. for burial. meanwhile, dejaun holmes hamilton wants the mystery solved. >> it should have never happened. i >> reporter: upper marlboro, shomari stone, news 4. a long-time municipal employee guns down and leaves 12
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state of shock. >> this is the most devastating day in the history of virginia beach. >> reporter: after a man walked into a municipal office building and started shooting. >> shortly after 4:00 p.m. this afternoon the suspect entered building two. he is a long-time employee of eablic utilities. i will not rel his name at this time. he immediately began to indiscrlminately fire upon al of the victims. >> reporter: employees say it was a normal friday afternoon until a little after 4:00 when they heard theka unmistable sound of gunfire. >> we heard shooting but we didn't think it was aually at the courthouse because it was kind of muffled. >> we just heard people yelling and screaming to get down. >> reporter: in the chaos city employees tried to hide or escape, unsure where the gunman was. ri >> we bded ourselves in the office. we put the desk up against the door because we didn't know ie they weroming in or anything. >> reporter: police quickly responded and confronted the shooter. >> i can tell t youhat it was a long gun battle between those
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four officers a that suspect. >> reporter: police shot and killed the shooter. he was carrying a .45-caliber handgun with an attached sound suppressor and seval extended magazines. when it was over, the horror apparent, 12 victims dead, at least four others rushed to ca lohospitals for treatment. >> we have found victi ms on all three floors of the building as well as one victim who was outside. >> reporter: those who survived stunned. >> but i'm still shaking because it is just entirely too much killing going on. >> i just -- i don't know what kind of person would do something like that. >> reporter: as the reality of what happened sets in, police will try to answer the biggest v question oyone's minds, why. chris pollone, nbc news. an unprecedented show of unity as people from all over the district came together on one street in southeast this evening. news 4's jackielsenson tel us
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they joined forces to call attention to two problems causing senseless tragedies in >> reporter: the 2700-block of martin luther king avenue southeast is no safe place for pedestrians. all that stands between people crossing the busy street from tis bus stop, far frohe nearest traffic light -- and the vehicles barrelling toward them is this scuffed-up, outdated crosswalk. >> i have zip ties if we need more zip ties. >> reporter: they hung a pair of white painted shoes, ghost shoes, to remember a woman whose name has not been released who was struck and killed here may 18th. >> if our city can't provide fundamental safety, then we're failing everybody. >> reporter: from there, they n walk dow the street to add their voices to aally against the gun violence that has claimed more than 60 lives i the district this year. >> my name is maurice -- >> reporter: 15-year-old maurice scott was among 23 people shot in the city over memorial day
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weekend. he and a friend were standing in front of a convenience store on wheeler ro southeast whe scott was struck and killed by bullets intended for someone else. >> it means a lot to me. it is so much support, to know that the community is coming together to help stop the violence. >> reporr: the organizers say that they hope power comes from the combining of the two causes. in southeast washiton, jackie benson, news 4. >> loved ones tell us they plan to have a vigil for maurice scott tomorrow night. three, two, one, let 'em ! have fun, guys. >> all right. that was our guy, storm team 4 meteorologist doug kammerer, chief meteorologist i should ssay, counting downo people could come in to wolf track, they were there to see the sammy hagar show this evening.
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you got a chae to counthem in. that was cool. >> as long as i grew up there, i think i went there as a kid one ime, that place is amazing. that place. i cannot wait to take my wife and watch a concert, my kids to watch a concert there. it is a perfect place. i mean i probably -- >> even if you don't count people in? even if you don't do the countdown? >> i actually have to pay for the food next time, s-- >> this dude was eating everybody else's food. >> there was some shrimp i had at o point and the photographer was like, no, we have to go, i was like, but the sh imp. out there it has been a beautiful day for the most part. there was rain in parts of the area, butfter the heat wave, we're back down into the 80s. average high temperature right now 80 degrees. for the , that was 8 high today. 85 also in ocean city.at th was a nice beach day. if you are heang down to the beaches, the beaches looking great. right now, a very nice night. current temperatu sitting in the 70s.
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77 deees, winds out of the south at about six miles per hour. so a nice night tonight. there hasn't been a lot of wind out there atll. area-wide temperature, 70. martinsburg, 67. fr fredericksburg, 70 degrees. a lot of people in this area, ma nasses, you are looking to the south going, oh, we have lightning out there. you may be saying, oh, this must be heat lighng. no, no such thing at heat lightning. it is lightning from a disdon't storm.s we have stormin and around charles county, you can see one developing between quantico and waldorf. one down around 301, crossover in the northern neck. pretty good rain there. lore south of fricksburg. we told you yesterday there would be the best chance of rain south of fredericksburg whichs where this is. so heads up st. marys county, calvert county, you will continue to see rain movinghe through overext couple of hours. by tomorrow morning it is all out of here. look at the storms.bi time storms again. a lot of severe weather,
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southern portions of virginia and north carolina, after we had ur severe weather yesterd which included now two confirmed tornados, one in iamsvill and one towards howard county. it was the same storm but the tornado dropped a couple of times along that path. 87 degrees tomorrow, with storms possible overnight. i'm talking about 11:00, 12:00, 1:00 a.m. and into the day on sunday. 87 on saturday. sunday, 60% chance ofain and storms, 86 degrees. i want to take you hour-by-hour sunday. sunday morning dry. here we are at noon, ry in d.c. but you see the rain trying to move in. thunderstorm activity around 3:00. aen look what happens during the afternoon,ine trying to develop, could be a strong line of storms. i'm not anticipating much in the way of sev be weather we will be watching it. behind that system, we get nice. 76 on monday, 79 on tuesday. that's actually below average as we head into june. next week, hawell, tt didn't
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is the xfinity sports desk. >> you know, the series opener tonight is in cincinnati, and the nationals had history on their se. over three seasons they won 16 of the last 20 games against thd nghe nationals put it together winni five of six games. sadly for the nationals history doesn't hit or miss. >> come on. >> "star wars" night at the great american ballpark, but -- but you know this is coming, thf ce wasn't with patrick. i had to do it. >> oh, no. >> yes, corbin tonight, firstist winning, 2-1 for curt, 5-0 at that point. red gives up 8 runs.
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one of the few bright ots, deep to center, that's gone. extends his hitting streak to 14 with three hits tonig for the nation s. a seriesopener, they struggle with those. they lose to the red, 9-3. i don't understand either. andrew kastner and the orioles hosting the giants tonight.tt of the first, orioles trailing 5-2 but bases loaded for dwight smith jr. this is a grand slam deep to center. orioles take the lead 6-5. w second inning. we have a game tied at 6-6 between the oriolesnd a giants. trey mancini, that to left center and he has just enough power to get over the fence. orioles come back from the early deficit and beat the giants, . 9-6 you know, making it to ba finals last sson why should mystics' coach told me he has a target on his back and a new home. tomorrow night against the atlanta dream, aam come true you might say. they have their own place, their fst-ever game at the
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entertainmt and sports arena in congress heights in southeast d.c. >> wow. a are talking home opener on the way and youre practicing in your own place. everybody here at the entertainment and sports arena in congresheights, it will be your own place to play a real game on saturday night. how does thathange for your team? >> it is awesome becausee finally have a home court advantage, you know. as much as i love capol one arena, with 20,000 seats, you don't have an intimidation factor when another team comes in. this new arena will be sold out, loud, screaming, fans will be right on top of the other team. so i think we gain an edge that we've never had before. >> reporter: it is not onl the game day, but it is the vib of the strut that they have coming in just to practice. >> the facility has something to do with it and being as good as we are last -- or were last yr. i will say are, were last year has a lot to do with it. hehey know they accompl a lot but they haven't gotten all the way there. >> reporter: you have been in basketball a long time.
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what gets you excited about coming into the building? >> the coach's favorite spot is on the court where you are doing your teaching. >> reporter: not talking toe? >> no. this is our laboratory, our cl sroom. so as a coach, this is your favorite spot. the players will t you it could be in the cryo therapy or in the weight room. we have a brandew video room that's beautiful. we have a new lounge that we share wit the wizards for meals. a locker room of their own. so all of those things just makes the day-to-day job easier, but getting on the court is theo important thing. >> a cool looking facility. >> and the fun starts with a block part tomorrow o. to
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