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why wouldn't you want to save money and make your house look great? to save money? i love to save money. who doesn't li floor and decor. you have to see it to believe it. right now at 6, take a look at storm 4 radar. the system headed out west is headed our way. moments ago, prince george's police telling news4 a 14-year-old honor student was killed in a hit-and-run yesterday. and terrifying moments for an arizona family. theyay police pulled a gun on them and threatened to shoot. sbelieve it or not, thi confrontation was over a doll. >> news4 at 6ar st now. >> good evening.
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i'm erika gonzalez. we are showing you a live picture er the tidal basin. most of you saw maybe a few clouds today, a droplet or two. some of the folks in montgomery and prince george'ser county w drenched today. joining us with rain chances for tonight. >> just as many of us have been dry, wly're actual going to stay dry. we didn't get everything we needed to see the storms drop.da ra completely quiet literally 30 minutes ago. we have one shower that pulso upgomery county. it was coming down on them out there. good news is we're dry now. we are looking dry through the overnight hours. i don't want to rule out that chance for one stray shower to pop, one storm especially west. temperatures tonight dropping into 70s. stick around. take a look at this. we have a round of heavy showers tracking tomorrow afternoon. some of that could prove to be
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severe. i'll have details and ming on this. back to you. thank you. we have disturbing new information on the death of a ld 14-year-oonor student. just moments ago, prince george's county lice are saying the boy was killed in a hit-and-run yesterday. the driver who had struck tbo had stayed on the scene, theio informatn we got last night. darcy spencer is at the scene of the tragedy near bowie. r >>orter: that 14-year-old was struck and killed in this intersection saturday afternoon. he was one of four chidren in the family. you can only imagine what they're going through toy on father's day.me a gofund set up for the family of 14-year-oldl kamahas already raised more than $11,000 of a $20,000 goal. his mom told me he just finished 8th grade at georgetown day school where he was an honor student and ran track.
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he was killed in the bowie area of prince george's county, not r from hishome. the prince george's county police said the driver did stop. neighbors say they'veeen complaining about this intersection for years. >> speeding is a problem. cops come out here ayotte to, i guess you coulday s catch the speeders. there's a lot of accidents. we're always like, when is somebody going to put a four-way stop or traffic signal. >> reporter: prince george's county police tell me this crash remains under investigation. no charges have been filed. darcy spencer, news4. >> that new bit of information we got minutes ago that theer driv who struck the teen left him for dead. the family of the 14-year-old has set up a gofundme to raise money. to learn how you can help, open our nbc app and search "honor student." it has been a particularly violent week in t district. someone has been shot, killed everyday over the past five day,
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the longest continuous stretch this ye the latest victim was killed nhis morning i a neighborhood on 4th street and galveston in e the ce identified as jackson. and a second victim, a woman shot multiple times. it is fog to be a big week for president trump officially aunching his re-election this month and many americans want congress to hold impeachment o predings. 27% of americans now say there is enough evidence to begin impeachment hearings now, up 10 poi from last month alone. that according to the new nbc news "wall street journal" poll. most of the growing support comes from democratic voters. as the campaign heats p,u the possibility russian interference in 2020, they'll lose large. in a hostile foreignr powe successfully attacked our
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democracy in the last election nd no indicatio they will back off from trying to do it inrñ next election. >> what happened in 2016 what the russians attempted to do with our elections when barack obama was present doesn't happen in 2020. >> president trump's reelection announcement is in florida on tuesday. another day of massive protests in hong kong today. pro democracy aivists are calling on the country's leader to resign and worried about china's expanding influence over the country. the protest began when the china backed government pose a controversial extradition bill that would make it's easier to send fugitives to china to face trial, activists concerned about human rights violations and activists want taken completely off the table. what you're seeing is apime lase video how quickly the people filled in for that protest and out again.
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boeing'seo admits the company made a mistake in how it handle problems with its737 max jets. den miss mullenberg admitting the mistake and how they handle the problem attic cockpit warning system. he told reporters today boeing's communication was not consistent and boeing didn't tell gulators more than a year that a safety indicator in the cockpit did not ork. two max 737s crashed in indonesia and ethiopia, killing everybody d. boar >> they were vicious and they were out for blood. they were untrained. >> cameras catch police confronting a pregnant woman and her two young kids. what led to the confrontation. what the chief of police is sayin about the officer's actions and what the family plans to do next. on this father's day, hundreds of couples in d.c. and maryland had a little something take-off.
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officers can be heard swearing at the couple to comply with officers, guns drawn there. the woman who was pregnant was hoering her daught and another child and didn't put the youngest one down for fear the concrete was so hot it would burn the child. her 1-year-old in the car watching all of this unfold. >> they never went to the dog. automatically came by force. they were terrorizing my family. i felt hopeless and defenless. >> according to the police report one of the officers feared the woman was reaching for a weapon. phoenix's police chief waiting on what hi,pened. >> like you, am concerned about the language and actions of thefcer. i assure you this incid t is not representative of the majority of phoenix police officers w serve this city. >> the mayor of phoenix even, kate gallego is commenting
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saying, i am deeply sorry for what this famly went through and apologize to our community. this is not who we are and i refuse to allow this typ of behavior to go unchallenged, end quote. in other news tonight, a special mass at d.c.'s basilica of the immaculate shrine recognizing hundreds of couples celebrating milestone adversaries. archbishop gregory oversaw this ranging from 25 to 75 years, part of the annual jubilarian mass. of the in attendance, more than 300 couples marr years or more. they offered a piece of advice being married so long. >> try to understand each other and love. love have been always together. >> good words there.
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there were 10 couples being recognized f having been married for 70 years or more. what a wonderful example they set for us all. we take you live out to reston. some of you saw some rain today. samara is standing by with what you canxpect tonight and the start of your work week. virginia's attorney general sparking a debate over sparking a debate over when was the last time you felt... free. time to uncover that feeling again.
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there's a new call to decriminalize small amounts of marijuana in virginia. it's coming from the states attorney general, mark herring, wants to see changes in the wealth laws that willal ly lead toiz legag the drug. we talked to some virginia residentsbout that today. >> the opinion piece of virginia nrk herringre appd in the daily pressewspaper pointing to the current poli that criminalizes all amounts of cannabis that he says isn't working and sites statistics have first time have skyrocke d skyrocketed and first time offenses resulting in jail time. at this point, it's just an idea. details haven't been worked out. what's the buzz on the streets. >> i n seet for medical
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uses. >> times have changed and more accepted. >> reporter: and cross the river to d.c., it's codified. it's legal to possess 2 ounces or more inover 21 and grow some plants in a residence. they believe there should be restrictions inirginia as well, certainly an age restriction. >> yes. we have teenagers and we just heard a story lkey're tag about at the age 20,rhe bain is still forming and understandt how i affects your brain for the long term. >> reporter: any relaxing of the laws wouldbe accompanied toco urage use by minors and floated the ideas of overturning convictions and expunging records of those already serving time orviave conions of what he characrizes reasonable amounts. >> i definitely think the criminal justice system has been overbearing on the use of drugs and cannabis. by all means. >> people should have the r ht to use cannabisesponsibly and
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shouldn't e tend the war on drugs. >> reporter: thatfirst ble on virginia will be in the statehouse in richmond. far, no timetable for that. derrick ward, news4. let's take a look at the weather now. dad saw maybe some cloudy skies, maybe even a few showers, depending where you live. let's get the timing what ofpens tonight and the star the work week. >> tonight, i canosay m of us are in the all clear. i'm still not ruling out one or two showers popping an interesting pattern all day. i thought i was going to be seeing a little more storms but we didvy get hea rain falling into montgomery county and prince george's earlier. take a look at this radar, pretty dry out there. we will stay pretty dry through theovernight hours, in the futurecast. here's 7:00 p.m. the showers already moved out. little bit slow.
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5:00 a.m., a little bit of clouds. back west, 81i- a chance for isolated shower to pop over. the real threat doesn't move in until tomorrow afternoon. okay? rook at that timing. 3:00 p.m. tomor estimation. 3:00 to 7:00, fair game. you can see a line of showersin movthrough, a second round, 7:00, 00,9:00 and tuesday the rain threat remains. the showers we're seeing tomorrow as well as the storms, th se are heavy andong to severe. talking damaging winds with this. we could see very heavy blinding rain and hail tomorrow. keep that in mind. right now a 86 degrees and mostly cloudy. right now, as we move into tomorrow, temperatures tomorrow headed to near 90 degrees in the district. it says 88 but i think we could push for 90 by tomorrow afternoon. a look at the forecast by the numbers. 76 to start, a warm start to the day and we're finishing pretty
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warm as well, near 90 and that chance for showers rising through the evening. that evening cmute home, your ride into work will be fine. the ride home may prove to be an 10-day outlook the next couple of day, they are washouts but bring with them the chance of showers and stor. emperatures a little bit all over the place. 90 on monday and 80 on wednesday and we go from mid to upper 80s towards the end of the week. >> are you thinking on that severe weather widespread or -- >> yeah. i think that storm we see tomorrow will be more moderately widespread than isolated. all right. thank you very much. still ahead, father's day to remember. and wom and wom en
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father's day, going to nats park.oo washington tk a beating on w ard'arbacks are either part of empire or apoi-logize. i am your father still applying today. kid with the nats throwing out thfist pitches. matt scherzer's daughter trying to be like daddy and highlights there. as for the game, suzuki, big day. suzuki takes advantage! knox it to right. two runs come in. f suzuki, 2or 3. also had a solo shot in the fifth. nats take a 3-1ead. red hot, anthony rendon! 3hout-out to the lone star state. or 5. nats up 10-2 at that point.t
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slugf continued in the eighth. matt adams already a 3-1 shot at this, in the third, now adds a grand slam, career high seven rbis. nats win, 15-5. after that game all the guys thinking about father's day memories. >> it means a lot, especially having my father inan the st three years ago made it a yearly thing no matter wheree're at he comes out for fathes day, something special to have a game tke this, career high ribis ane here. it was s cool topend father's day with the family see. can't wait to have a talk with my son. baltimore taking red sox. father's day on fedora. those look hot. bases loaded for mookie betts and sshes it over jonathan
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veor. look at this and how close he was, making the catch, a tough break. red sox beat the birds, 8-6. in case you didn't know the u.s. women's national team is here to remind you they are really really really really good. the u.s. n their open world cup matched by a record breaking score, 0,13- they caught heat for. tthy are more the american men have scored in every world cup since 2006 combined. >> say it again! >> the u.s.an secure a spot in the round of 16 with a win against chile today. chile sends it out. carli lloyd buries it. and aoressage f all those hating on the american celebrations. last matc out? lloyd gives them what? a polite golf clap. savage. more fom u.s. davidson, corner kick. 2-0, davidson was not done.
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35th minute,up serves this one to lloyd! her second goal of the games move her to third on the u.s. all time scoring list of acres and wambach and scores in the world cup games, and t take on swedenhe next thursday. capitals not waiting to sign carl haglund to a deal. props to getting him back. a huge [music playing] (vo) this is matt andfe rl. have until naptime is over. and ty this is rachel depositing a check without leaving the house. have you seen my debit card? (matt) [whispers] no. (vo) this is rabiel turning off her det card. (matt) [whispers] babe. (vo) and back on again.
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moerage choices, smaller portions, less sugar.ba lanceus.org tonight massive new protests in hong kong. organizer say up to 2 million demonstrators to turn out to call on hong kong's lead tore step down. despite her rare edge. as he preparing to launch his 2020 campaign, president trump ces a lesson he learned from president nixon. >> i know whey? i saw richard nixon go around firing er ody, and that didn't work out too well. after the tense video showings phoenix police officers hold ago family at gunpoint. >> [ bleep ] get your hands up. >> [le
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