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is 6:00 a.m. m aaron gilchrist. >> i'm eun yang. it's monday morning. start of a new week. hope is alive. >> hope is alive? nd we arey is dawning here working for you. >> wow! you need to sing now. i got a hint after song there. i feel like there needs to be something extra day. >> let's see. rainy days on monday? >> no. ♪ a beautiful morning >> thanks, aaron! >> that is from oklahoma." i like it! walking on sunshine for today! that is my favorite song of thea skies are clear. first rays of monday morning sunshine starting to hit the higher buildings in downtown washington. temperatures are still in the comfortable range for this mning. but we are going to get more summer-like heat starting today and the rest of the week likely
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o be above 90 degreesow inn th it. mid-60s? the shenandoah valley. mid-60s in the western and northern suburbs. a little closer to 70 downtown egheow t in beautiful leonard town, maryland. for today more than enou sunshine this morning to get temperatures up to around 90 degrees today before some storms start to dotnd the laape late in the day. i'll show you future weather and look into the weekend coming up. for now, let's go over to melissa walking on sunshine. >> it's nice. i like it. inner loop a problem on the dwright side of the roy. that is the earlier crash and all of those delays still hanging aund. outer loop through that section is looking okay. a motorcycle crash here on the left sidew of the ro and only getting by on the right. haymarket crash on the right.
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beltway inner loop and outer loop, no other issues. video oof social media a man tasered by metro transit outrage. sparking >> a witness recorded the confrontation inside the u street metro station over the weekend. "news4 today" justin finch is live with details how this all unfolded. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. here is what we have learned so far of that metro transit tlice. they were calledthe u street metro close to six p.m. on saturday for reports teens thre threatening. two teens were arrested. a man and a number of metro transit police officers, this video captured by a metro ridho cell pne. he is appearing to step in after
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officers have taken two teen boys into custody. there an exchange. you are seeing those from intense to intentionally physical. officers are using a taser to subdue him. the two boys were eventually released. no victim of this was ever found. we spoke with thoseo two bys after they were released andho went to their families. >> i was trying to tell him something and i ju got there and it was just getting off the train. >> it made me like mad, but it happened all the time. >> reporter: we do have a statement from metro transit police laying out their side it reside, in part. it reads, in part.
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as we come back out here live the investigation is under way and metro saying the interest this videoo was garnered online has played a role in that investigation and they will take this clip, plus witness accounts, as well as all of the facts and begin to go into their investigation. live on u street,ti jus finch, news4. back inside to you. we are staying ontop of another developing story in the district. one person isin custody at a d.c. officer is on leave following olofficer-inved shooting. this started when police responded to a report of a suspicious carr ea sunday morning along alabama avenue southeast in the congress heights neighborhood. officers stopped a car that fit a description. dur, g that traffic stopc. police say one officer fired his gun. 48-year-old dond willis ran off but later turned up at the hospital. willis faces several charges. the officer is on administrative leave. t news morning, we are learning more about the major
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traffic delays on i-95 on sunday. a pederian was hit and killed by a tractor-trailer. this happened ju before 2:30 the afternoon near the rest c area in howardounty. police say it is still unclear y w the man walked onto the highway. today, family and friends will pay their lastcts to a prince george's county woman whdied while on vacation i the dominican republic. the memorial service for cynthia day will be held at the first st hurch in upper marlboro at 11:00 this mning. she and her fiance both died while on vacation last month. officials in the dominican republic say they dieor of respiraty failure. their families are questioning those findings. also today, former nationali security adser michael flynn is expected back inourt. this will be the firstime for him in court since he replaced his legal team. he asking a judge to delay his sentencing once again. he pleaded guilty of lying to the fbi as part of the russia investigation. back in december, a judge elayed flynn's sentencing
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give him more time to cooperate ith investigators. this morning, tension between u.s. and iran continue to escalate. today, president trump could impose more sanctions on the tountry. the u.s. is tryinripple iran's economy to stop its nuclear weapons buildup. last thursday, the president cnaled off strikes after a val drone was attacked. he said he felt theack would have led to the loss of lives, which he deemed disproportionate to downing of an unmanned drone. >> if you want to talk about it, good. otherwise you can live in a shattered economy for a long time to come. i'm not looking for war. if there is, it will be obliteration like you've never seen before. >> the president said he doesn't want a war and is will to hold talks with iranian officials. now to decision 2020. an important week for the democrats running for president. the large field of candidates will face off in their first dibate. >> they will be ded into two groups and debate over two nights.
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ahead of those debates, most of the candidates spent the weekend in south carolin that included former vice heavy h t enbi izmments about his ability to d work with known segregationists. >> you got to deal with what is in fnt of you. what is in front of you is a bunch of racists, we had to defeat them. >> the upcoming debates will be held in miami and we are committed to bringing you complete coverage of decisi 2020. i'll be reporting live from miami as 20 democratic candidates go head-to-head on two ni bts. coverageins on wednesday evening and you can watch the debate here on news4 wednesday and thursday nights at 9:00. the publisher of capital gazette is pushing for a national memorial for fallen journalists. friday marks one year that a gunman opened fire in a newsroom and five journalists died.
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they are trying to create a fallen memorial here in the district. he said the memorial would honor journalists who sacrifice their lives in the name of a free press. a man convicted of killing a woman during a white nationalist rally in charlottesville in 2017 is pleading for mercy. josh fields, jr. plowed intopr counteresters with his car killing heather heyer. he will be sentenced on friday. histtorney is arguing that he had a traumatic childhood he doesn't deserve prosecutors said fields showed no mercy when he used his car to kill heyer. two days after an explosion at a philadelphia oil refinery, the last of the flames have be putout. we brought you this story as breaking news onfriday. several small fires have been burning since then. the philadelphia energy solution refinery is known as the largesu single sce of pollution in the city. investigators are conducting air
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bality checks and, so far, the air has noten found to be unsafe starting today, union er workers at shofood stores in the region will begin to protest trying get answers. they want answers what will happen to the store's future. armacies last month. employees say the company h mor stores will close. the shoppers in hyattsville is expected to close permanently today. this morlovers in this area the gym hard this morning. national capital bas due battle took over the streets in d.c. this weekend. >> chefs from around the country came to the district for the 27thal competition. profits from tickets sold will benefit the capital area food bank and the united service organization. >> neat plates and forks andt wha not? what kind of barbecue battle is
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th that? >> you try so start out ze civili next, a warning for anybody who buys baby formula. a brand sold in a big box store is being recalled. what you grad should be doing today if they are trying to land a job. a mother who is healthy in her 30s battles back from a stroke and now she is warning other parents about the common occurrence doctors say caused her condition. >> good morning, everybody. i'm meteorologist chuck showerg our direction out west and i'll tell you
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let me give props to the players! >> friday on this broadcast, you saw philadelphia eagles safety and prince george's county rodney mccloud honoring his alma mater dematha >> i have a problem with those alma mater and dematha to say. lot of fun out there. campers focused on more than just football the kids received visual and dental exams and learned about overall health and wellness. all important things for young athletes who want to make it big. nice to have him come back. later today, we will find out which country will host the 2026 winter olympics. e international olympic committee is expected to vote. it is between sweden and italy. sweden owns the most olympic gold medals of any nat hn that hasnosted the games yet and italy has hosted the games twice. the announcement is expected at noon.
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we are counting down to the summer olympics in tokyo. can you believe that? a warning who gets their baby formula at walmart. a major recall has been issued for a brand exclusively sold there. parents choice advantage infant formula milk. a new consumer repo suggests there may be metal foreign matter inside thouss.ds of bottle mp reports yet but the coy that makes the formula says it wants to be cautious. if you have that baby forla, and get a rn refund at any walmart. we don't normally associate coughing as a possible cause for a stroke but that is what happened to a texas mother. 38-year-old jeanette church considered herself too young and too healthy to have a stroke, but several weeks ago, she experienced several unusual symptoms. first, she suddenly lost sight in one eye. her left hand became numb. and she couldn't talk normally.t she immediy called 911. t >> paramedics were asking so
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many questions and i was frustrated because i knew all of the answers and it seemed like it es taking me forever to g them out. >> the doctors say jeanette har a small n an artery in her neck. that allowed blood to pool and eventually cut off blood to her brain. jeanette says she suffered heavy coughing two weeks prr to the stroke and that may have caused the problem. >> good news r your wallet. the cost of filling your tank is dropping big time. a survey from a leading analysta says price of a gallon of unleaded gas on average is 22 cents lower than this same time last year. the lundberg survey looked at prices across the cotry over the past two weeksf our teamporters and anchors and producers and photo journalists, our production folks, our promotion folks all took home 33 awards total at saturday night's capital emmys. a great night. >> it really was. >> news4 won in 11 categories.
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including best morning newscast! thank you, team! best evening newscast and telemundo won 24 awards including excellent best sports and weather anchor. our chief photographer won ge tedes award for his outstanding career. he survived cancer and the attack of the summer olympics i atlanta. >> you're a fabulous host. >> thanks. a lot of pressure in front of your peers. >> here. >> tnice thing about these awards. they are judged and voted on by our peers and they recognized our work, our morning team more than two dozen strong is what it takes to put this newscast together every day. it's a teamr effort fo all of us so we appreciate and applaud all of our coworkers who make this thing happen every day. >> very proud. >> m wee it look easy, don't we? >> to our producer, hello there.
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thanks to all of those guys. >> thank you very much. >> i wonder if i can get a free lunch? i'll walk around. >> i bet you could get a free lunch because you're chuck bell! do you know who i am he just walks in. >> that's how i open everyr. doo i got to do this on thursday last week. i got to host a pride ent for the department of justice. >> wow! >> look how official i look in fronts of a podium! >> do you! >> eagle there. the bureau of prisons invited me to talk at their pride month event. a lot of us don't know that is a ting. t is almost 80,000 government employees they are in charge of taking care of 180,000 federal prisoners, not just lock them up but how to take care of them and make sure they get the mental health they need and they get proper diet and education. 95% of federal prisonersare released back so it's important to make sure they are taken good care of mentally and physically
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so they b.e doing a great jo thank you for inviting me down there on thursday of last week. right now so nice outside this orning. youed to get out and enjoy. . extra time outside this morning because these mfy mornings are about ready to be a thing of the past. forecast today dry weather the first half of the day. an increasing chance for thunderstorms later on in the day today. that is pretty much it. rain chances e going way down. 50% today and barely 20% for rain tomorrow and dry thereafter. warm area is leaving the severe weather across parts of the texas gulf coast to new orleans avnd couldsignificant flight daze there. for us showers in ohio now are the leading edge. the warm front and coming r thgh. it will bring the humidity back during the day today. as that warmer more humid air rolls in,d rain an thunderstorm 2:00 in round 1:00 or the shenandoah valley and could reach the i-95 corridor in timet for afternoon and evening commute and that thunderstorm chance will be hit and miss up
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until about midnight tonight. s ourere weather risk is low but not entirely zero. doug isn back from vacatiorch and he' this afternoon and he'll be here to keep you safe. his afternoon and he'll be here to keep you safe. melissa mollet how is the monday commute? >> good morning. taking a look at first 4 traffic. chopper 4 over this problemun northbo 95 near the dale city truck scale. a motorcycle crash. you can see the response blocking two leftanes here. you're only getting by on the right so quite the delay heading northbound 95 near the dale city truck scale. southbound is open. express lanes might be a good option for you today because os look at th backups. they are building pretty quickly. taking a look elsewhere here.
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listen to wpot 103.5 fm when you hop in your car today. the ext on news4, earning degree was one thing. now it's time to get a job. >> that the hard part. we are working for you recent grads who are looking for employment. a self-proclaimed self-architect offers hints for landing the nterview and handling rejections. on "ellen" check out a 10-year-old rapper from annapolis. then after that is news4 at 5:00. at havertys we know
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welcome back. forpehousands of ople college is overow nt's time to get to work. >> finding a job after you cross that stage may not be as easy as you think. katie zachary has details on how new grads can overc>>e the odds. ou're done with school and you have that degree. now what? a recent survey found that students expect, on average, to obrn 60 grand a year when they get that first jbut statistics show they will likely earned 50,000 closer on average. experts say if grads have not found that big job now, don' despair. paul inciarte mentors young college grads and say they should be realistic out how it will be to land that job thatey th want. ing a job is not easy. it is a job. it is a full-time job. a 10-hour a day job and you need o put in the effort and yu
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need to plan and you need to focus and you really need to get to work to find a job. >> reporter: new grads will likely face a lot of rejection. inciarte says it's important to learn from thos disappointments. >> think of rejection as building blocks toward success. ask for feedback. i mean, feedback is going to u provide yor building blocks to get you and acquire the job you want. >> reporter: another key is to do your homework. research the company you want to work for. >> get the historical background and look at where they are looking to go in the future and how i guess your skills and your knowledge can apply to building that organization. >> that was katie zachary reporting.es to further strs this is a critical time in one's reer. a 2018 study from gallup shows people who are employed right out of school will earn more over their lifetime than those who don't find employment rit away.
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work it to build up some skills and get that interview and get a job. still ahead. fed up. people in the area saying the noise caused by helicopters is increasingt >> a new repsigned to find out what is now planned and tell you when it begins. a devastating apartment fire forces dozens out on the streets. we will have an update on t investigation. a beautiful start to a onday morning. temperatures are in the 60s for most now. a hot one. uternoon highs near 90 degrees before storm chances come on in. more about that the next half h r. tur gardening
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team 4 meteorologist cck bell. >> a beautiful morning outside. just a couple of fair weather clouds drifting on through. these are cumulus clouds and tell us weather folk that means warmer, more humid air is moving back into the region. that will play a big part in our forecast for today and the rest the week. right now a few cool spots out there. howard county 59his morning. 66 stafford. effic 63 in manassas. cute little lyric here. 4 1/2 years old and perfect lap dog. i know because lyric is sitting on someone's lap. go there and rescue a dog that is available for adoption. afternoon highs near 90 today. this is the first of what will be any, many hot days this week. extended forecast coming up. melissa? good morning. real delays here northbound on
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95. this is near the dale city truck scales. a motorcycle crash. there is the motorcyc there. left side of the roadway is still shut down. four mile backup as you're heading indiana boup. y -- inbound. it is slow and you can do the express lanes.-- inbound. it is slow and you can do the express lanes.-- inbound. it is slow and you can do the express laneinbound. it is slow and you cthe express lanes. l hay market only getting by one lane there. a video of a man tasered by metro transit police is sparking outrage online. >> a witness recded the confrontation inside the u street metro station over the weekend.ll >> a right, all right.
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all hight. hey he hey! hey! hey!>> witnesses say the man who was tasered was coming to the defense of tn teeboys. transit police say they were responding to a report of ki with sticks threatening metro riders. boys said they did nothing wrong and they were released without being charged. officers say the man w was tasered ignored warnings to move justin h will join us live fick. in a few minutes with a full uport. on workers today at shoppers grocery stores will begin to protest. >> several stores have closed and those protesting want to know if they are next.ee aho is live at college park where one of the protesters will take place. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. workers here tell me they are frustrated. sehe shoppers food warehas not told them anything and they they will lose their jobs. it's been months since the parent company announced it is
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trying to sell all of the locations but stilld no w what exactly will happen to the 34 stores in the d.c. area. all this week, employees planning to protest. they are members of a union united commercial food workers but t union has not heard of any upcoming layoffs. we know the shoppers food warehouse is hyattsville is closing today and the company e hopes to s all locations by march of next year. but this morning, workers still haven't gotten any specifics .at to expect we spoke to one employee who has worked at shoppers for 15 years. >> we are just reading up on whatever the website says. ghsaved enou money to actually prepare t find a job. >> reporter: he also told us he has started looking for a new job but hasn't been able to find anything yet. all of the pharmacies inside the shoppers food warehouses have already closed. some store locatns have converted to giant grocery
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stores. >> thank you. it was a year agthat white house press secretary sarah ok sanders to to twitter telling her followers that ani vasgid a. at the time there was concern that the incident would hur tourism in the area but a new report suggests that was not the case. co-owner of red hen in livingston who asked her to leave. it is reported that the lodging and taxing revenues are remaining steady. and she and her family will head back to her home state of arkansas where she is considering running for governor in 2022. looks like you can use cash on metro buses. metro ended its cash-free program yesterday and it was operating on limited route 79 between sier spring and downtown d.c.
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the purpose of the program was to speed up service on board. metro has not said yet what the impact of the cash band did for ervice times. also today, former national security adviser michael flynn is expected back in court.g he askin judge to delay his sentencing once again. he pleaded guilty of lying to the fbi as part of the russia investigation. in december a judge delayed his sentencing to give him time with variations. ri> today, a memorial service will be held for ae george's county woman who died while on vacation in the minican republic. cynthia day and her fiance nathaniel holmes were found dead in their hotel room. the authorities say they died of respiratory failure. y is questioning the results of the findings. investigators are trying to figure out what led to major e fire alosion at a south philadelphia refinery. this happened friday morning in philadelphia. five people were hurt and
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remarkably, no one was killed. people who live in the nearby area are worried about air quality. but over the weekend test wag done and everything appears to be safe. james fieldjr. is asking a judge for mercy. he is the man convicted of killing heather heyer and o injuring manythers when he drove a car into a crowd of counterprotesters during a white nationalist rally in charlottesville. his sentencing scheduled for friday. his attorney saysields had a traumatic childhood and doesn't deserve life in prison. 6:36. we know every year, hundreds of thousands o dresses are worn to proms across the country. somand o more than others. >> is definily caseor this dress. this is 17-year-old christina malot and a dress she wore to her prom at freedom high. her dress is made entirely of ductape! you can't tell, can you? because of the success she has had in creating it, she is a
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finalist at thet suck at prom contest that celebrates dresses and tuxes made out of ct tape. $10,000 will be awarded to the best dressed and tux. c voting for theontest ends on friday. >> one of the more prettier dresses that we have >>seen. aybe a career out of it in her future. >> a warning ahead for all of us parents of teenagers. more young people are drinking under age. >> the risk it imposes to their long-term health. d.c. sports hall of fame incted new members this du
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it includes veterans with ptsd and more likely to from suicide, accidental injury or diabetes or liver disease. doctors have a message to parents. ta to your kids about drinking. studies have shown that those who drink at a younger age are more likely to abuse alcohol later in life. pediatricians are urgsc to reen their patients for alcohol use and tt them know the impact that drinking has on the brain. as uncomfortable as it is and reluctant as your child is to not listen to you, you want to continue to give those messages hoping they will listen. >> if you don't have the conversation, somebody else will. growing concerns in the heart of steel country after fire knocked out a pollution control system. >> some residents outside of pittsburgh say the air is making them sick. this is the second time fire destroyed pollution controls at the same steel plant . six months after the first fire on christmas eve high levels of a respiratory irritant were spewed into the air almost four months. pollution controls were finally put back on in april but a week ago, another fire did the same thing. the pollution controls were back within a day and the coe ty deemed r safe.
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some residents say they are still feeling the ecke. >> it was burning rubber paste in the back of my mouth. >> makes you nauseous. >> sometimes i feel like i'm going to faint. >> steel plant officials say they have been talking to the members of the community to figure out what could be done to make residents feel better about the plant being in their neighborhood. now here is your cnbc morning business report. >> 7-eleven is letting you order anything from the s and have it differed to locations, which includes even a park or beach. download the 7-eleven app to find a hot spot nearyo no minimum order. remember it costs $3.99. i'm frank holland with your cnbc busine report. chances for storms return to
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1 before the hour now. happening today, president trump plans to announce economic series against iran. >> this weekend the president spoke to chucked todd and said he is not looking for a war with iran but doesn't want them n developinglear weapons either. >> i'm noll looking for war. if it is, it will be obliteration like you've never seen otfore. i'm nooking to do that but you can't have a nuclear weapon. >> over theweek, the president announced he would delay planned immigration raids designed to round up thousands of undocumented people living in this country.
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>> we are joined by kristen welkil with deta on the delay. >> reporter: good morning. the raids were set to target ten cities across t country on sunday. the president pulled back hours before that self-imbode deadlinn d coming after house speaker imnancy pelosi urged h to chance course during a phone call. president trump is demanding democrats to negotiate a border deal or see deportation rates to go as planned. nbc news is told the raids were called off in large part because details released to the m dting and in't have the plans in play to detain the immigrants. now the question is whether thes trump admation can get the deal at once. there is argument in washington that sun likely. democrats and republicans could strike a deal to overhaul -- unlikely overhaul the asylum
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laws in would weeks. . what ismore likely they could approve more ndfug. that and more is coming up on "today." >> thank you. quick reminder. 20 of the democrats running for president will meet in miami this week. they will pa part of the first democratic presidential debate on "news4 today." i will be there live and you can see my reports starting wednesday evening. a videoat circuling social media of a man taser by metro transit police is sparking outrage. >> the incident was record by a witness inside the u street station over the weekend. vestin finch is l with us with more details. >> reporter: good morning. metro transitli po confirming what is an investigation is under way. prompted partly by the vuteo
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you're ao see taken by a metro rider here at the u street metro station close to 6:00.m. on saturday. witnesses say the man in the white shirt was trying to intervene and help after two teen boys wer taken into custody. a number of metro transit police officers were on hnd but tensions between that man and those officers did begin toca eslate and turning physical here and endi with a taser being used to subdue him. the man and those boys were eventually released. we spoke to those boys' families after they arrived home. >> you see how i feel and it's not my tears for these two boys but my tears for all of the youth that i know that are encountering this. >> reporter: as for why those boys were taken into custody in the first place, i turns out police were called here for reports of teens harassing and
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threatening some passengers with sticks. no victims were found and the boys were released andll of this is under investigation at this time now. justin finch, le on u street.e back insto you. >> thank you. ea have led the government accountabilwiy office ll start a study on helicopter noise this fall.on "the washingtost" says that a k in january, there was spike in complaints over the noise generated by helicopters in areas ofnorthern virginia, d.c., and maryland. many people say the noise ismi beco louder and lasting longer. much of it is being attributed of military exercises and transportation he ips. but the reason for the spike is not known. a> overnight, we learned new details about shooting near the national portrit gallery that happened after 8:00 last night in northwest. police say two people were pughting when one of them lled out a gun and fired a round. the victim is expected to be okay.
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nearly 60 people are trying to figure out what to do after a fire damaged their apartment complex. pictures from t george's county fire department show the damage on livingston terrace. there was a partial roof collapse. three fireghters suffered minor injuries. no residents were hurt. chuck says the heat is n coming back i a big way starting today. >> yes, indeed. we finish up the last full week of june, temperatures will feel more like the middle of summer for sure. a live picture from our tower camera here at the station looking down past the national cathedral towards downtown washington. mainly clear skies to get your monday started. zero percent chance of rain twe n nctween now and lunch time. 50% between lu and the end of the day.between now and lunch t. 50% between lunch and the end of the day. plenty hot today, 90.ch
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nce of thunderstorms starting at 2:00 in the afternoon in the shenandoah valley and potentially up around 10:00 thie eng. car washing forecast? you may want to take your chances or wait until tomorrow when rain chances start to tail away. today, the bigger severe weather threat will be way down to our south. isolated stronger storm not completely out of the question for us. but the higher chances for severe weather back across west virginia and ohio. there is nothing on storm team 4 morning. future weather to plan out your d day.ms at 2:00 stor in the shenandoah valley and 4:00 manassas and loudoun county and fauquier county. there will be a chance for storms during the afternoon and evening commute. a lite bit of break in the action. another chance for lateg ni
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rumbles and mostly dry tomorrow but maybe isolated drop or two mid afternoon tomorrow. with all ofk that in mind loo this ten-day forecast. wow. looks like summertime in washington to me. let's now go to first 4 traffic and melissa. >> 95 near the dale city truck scale still on the left side you are seeing that lef shoulder blocked by the earlier crash involving a motorcycle. at this point, this morning, we have pretty good delays headed northbound as you're heading into dale city. you might want to take thepr exs lanes and think about route 1 instead through that section because it is going to be a little bit slow.
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remember to listen to wpot 103.5 fm when you hop in your car today. bn ore sunday's game betweee nats and braves, 11 new members were added to the d.c. sports hall of fame. among this year's inductees former redskins charles mann and duke basketball star daniel ferring was honored. and another one represented the 2017-2018 washington capitals team. >>on cats to all of the
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you can learn more on "today" showinoming up few minutes. michael flynn black and ue lack inurt and his lawyer is expect to ask for a delay in the sentencing hearing following guilty plea charges that he lied to the fbi. look for updates in the nbc washingt app a memorial will be held for cynthia day who was found dead in her hotel room in the dominican republic. her ance was also found dead. his name was nathaniel holmes. later today, we will find ot which country will hose 2026 winter olympics. it is between sweden and italy. sweden owns the most olympic gold medals of any nation that hasn't hosted the games yet and italy has hosted the games twice. the announcement is expected at noon. your ten-day forecast, it will feel a lotimike summert around here. back to 90 today. there is a risk of storms later on in the day today. keep thatn mind for your late afternoon and evening plans. dry weather the rest of the
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week. no washouts thiseekend but looks like it will be a little higher rain chance on saturday. we have had 12 weekends in a row with measurable precipitation on either saturday or sunday.is th past weekend just broke that streak. >> it was beautiful. >> so nice. my goodness. this is not so nice. northbound 95 near the dale city truck scas. chopper 4 showing the delay. an earlier motorcycle crash on the left side and four mile backup. i know it's normally slow there but th is slower than normal so t you might wanttake the express lanes or route 1 can get you around it too. >> we are the proud recipients of an emmy award for best morning newscast. i want to thank everyone on this team. all of the people behind the scenes who work so hard to put this show together every single day. this award we share with you for sure, this emmy. you see the four of you out here every morning but so many people behind the scenes.
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>> it takes a lot of work to make us look good! >> the control room. >> this is an ensemble effort and ensemble award and want to congratulate our other coworkers. 33 emmyde awards aw over the weekend to both news4 and telemundo for a lot oft gr work we put on every single day. >> guard this like kramer! >> that is the news for today. we ap
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good morning. breaking overnight. trading threats. iran's new warning for the u.s. this morning after the president talks tough. >> i'm not looking for war. if there is, it will be obliteration like you have never seen before. >> just ahead, secretary of state mike pompeorriving in the middle east for emergency talks this morning. the u.s. preparing tough new sanctions today. on i.c.e. president trump delays his plans to deport migrants coast to coast. he says it will happen in twowe s if congress can't reach an immigration deal. >> flasher flood ncy. waters rising across the midwest 10.
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