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right now at 11:00, miami heat. >> what's been missing is courage. >> i want to say, there are three women up here who have woman'sretty hard for right to choose. >> this democratic party has to be strong. >> the 2020 circus begins. >> wewill not build walls. we will not put kids in cages. >> if you did your homework -- >> when somebody comes across the border, not toa crimze

them. > this president and his chicken hawk cabinet have led us to the brink of road. >> that is a sign of weakness. >> i think we should be the party that keeps what's working and fixes what's broken. >> tonight we' live with team coverage. who scored wins? who missed the work? and what's on tap for tomorrow? >> our live coverage from miami starts now. ♪ >> we come on the air with a live look fr miami. the first ten democratic candidates just finished battling in the first debate of the 2020 election. it was two hours of plans, promises and policy from ten hopefuls who want to turn the white house blue next eovernment. >> immigration,th care, gun rights and of course president trump were the hot topics tonight.

news4 is covering this debate. here's our coverage from the press center. so much to unpack from round one here. >> reporter: so much ground covered here tonight. obviously we also saw a l of attention paid to president trump early on in this debate, but the candidates here tonight, we knew that elizabeth warren was coming in as sort of the one to beat going into this debate and we wondered whether she would deliver with high expectations on her, i think she did. we also saw we were expecting the other candidates to breakthrough, to be present and shown in this debate tonight and to do of them were abl just that. we're going to dig a little deeper in some of the more gated exchanges. first we want to a lay of the land, exactly what we saw tonight. for that jay gray is with us i hereside the spin room as well. good evening? >> you talked about warren being the driver in this

debate, round one, and that seemed to be the case, at least initially, she did mthst of talking and when the other candidates were responding, they were talking about what s said. this was two hours driven by the issues here. no real personal attacks, no r works, but certainly all ten of the candidates on stage were looking to separate themselves in what is aow d democratic field. >> reporter: hoots and hollers as the candidates take the stage and then the official start of the race for the white housr nd one of the democratic debate opening with a rapid fire for the. >> we need to make structural change in our government, economy. >> reporter: candidat stibcking to the time limit on a range of issues. there were a few swipes at president trump. >> this president is literally every singleay ten minutes from going to war, one tweet away from going to war, and i

don't think we should conduct foreign policy in our bathr we -- >> andtching from air force one on his way to t g-20 summit in japan, he post boring. >>'m i rfo i've spent a big chunk of my life studyinges why familigo broke, and the number one reason is the cost of health >> the discussion turns to health care. >> i think the choice is fundamental. >> the back-and-forth continuing. [ speaking foreign language ] >> as the talks shift to immigration. >> we end the i.c.e. policies. >> reporter: the issues like gun control, supreme court appointments and climate change continuedba to drive the dete. >> a member of congress, i helped introduce legislation that would ensure we don'tki seeng asylum and refuge in

this country -- >> i'm talking about everybody else -- >> but you're looking at one small part ofthis. i'm talking about a comprehensive rewrite of our immigration laws. >> reporter: a crowded field searching for any way to grab the attention of voters. surrogates and representatives from the campaigns claiming victory of course. and, aaron, we get to do it again tomorrow with ten more democratic white house hopefuls. >> going to be a busy night here forjsure. gray for us here in the spin room. we're watching some of he surrogates and some of the candidates coming into the room. and i think it's worth pointing out some of the other exchanges that happened. i think the immigration exchange was one of particular interest. we saw several of the candidates oloffering their pies and going after each other a bit on

how they wanted to deal with some of the issues around immigration. and in particular today, after we saw that image, that photo that came out earlier today of the father and daughter who died trying to across the rio grande river on the southern border, there was an exchange that started with that, take a listen to wh theysa had to about immigration and migrants. >> that image of the faily, is heartbreaking and should make us all mad. >> i will make sure that we end the i.c.e. policies and the customs and border policies that are violating human rights. >> when somebody comes across the border not to criminalize desperation, to treat that as a civil violation. >> for allhe american citizens out here who feel the american dream is not working for you, mi the imants didn't do that to you. >> i think you should do your homework --if

>> you did your homework on this issue you should know -- >> reporter: this is an issue that has been high up on the list of prioritieth obviously case here on the debate stage tonight as well. and very likely to be an issue hat we hear a lot about tomorrow night when another set of candidates take the stage here in ami. >> all right, aaron. ndizabeth warren was center stage tonight the front-runner in the polls, did it seem like any of the other targeting here? >> reporter: i wondered if that would be the case as we came into tonight, elizabeth warren and beto o'rourke right in the middle of the stage, the higher pollers of this particular night. i don't think there was a target on her. if you're thinking about who were the breakthrough folks tonight, again, we expected amy klobuchar and cory booker to

have good nights, but bill de blasio and julian castro were able to breakthrough tonight. >> you're right, aaron. thank you so much. well, thing that was memorable was something a lot of people would like to forget about. >> you saw and heard the audio t problems th caused a lot of talk on social media tonight. leon harris joins us with what went wrong. it was a long few minutes there, leon. >> yes, it was. i think we saw maybe the longest commercial break in network television history tonight. chuck todd was taking over the second half of the debate but as he started asking his questions, the audiencethere in the theater and the viewers at home were hearing voices and it happened to be the voices of the earlier moderators. >> what happened happening? >> we are hearing our colleagues' audio. if the control room could turn off the mics. >> it was really weird.

it sounded likehe t place was haunted. we could still hear the previous commentators. they went to a commercial breakd and theate continued after that, but not before some people on social media poked fun at the patuation. one reporter comd it to a morning conference call when you wish everyone would put their phone on book. and here's another tweet that really caught our eye, washington post" reporter joked that the russians hackedhe nbc debate control room. you can expect to see a lot more jokes like that in the hoursle ing up to tomorrow night's debate. and i bet those technicians have a ugh time sleeping between now and then. >> and/or two. even the president weighing in on twittern tonight o this one. >> we're optimistic that there

will be noob audio pms tomorrow night. round two is on tap tomorrow. and aaron will continue our coverage life from miami. look for his live reports tomorrow afternoon and then watch the debate with us at 9:00 p.m. back close to home, we gotew some reaction this evening from the mourning mother of an innocent killed as a suspect sped awayro fm police. this is brittany burks. she moved here to fulfill her dream of becoming a dentist. she died on monday night whe a car slammed into hers. >> here's a meage from the victim's mother. >> devastated. it's my only child. >> jen hides her pain behind her sunglasses. her only daughter, 27-year-old briany burks is gone. >> we had so much fun. she would always say, mama, when are you coming back down.

>> reporter: coming back to d.c. brittany was a howard university dental student. she was killed in a horrific crash after she was rear ended on the baltimore/washington parkway. ft she shouldn't have been out of the house dark. i tell her all the time. >> rerter: bassett was speeding away from the cops from northeast d.c. police chief says it's too earli in theestigation to speculate what led up to the crash. >> it's very concerning, the thisrmation that we have t point. i don't want to prejudge it. we're goi to waintil we information. >> reporter: whileofficers investigate, the suspect is behind bars and brittany's mother remembers her best friend. >> she was a real sweet, real good spirit about her. news4. ari stone,

burks, howard university classmates are grieving. they describe her as a hardrk who dreamed about becoming a dentist. still ahead tonight, a scooter scare caught on camera. >> a rider hit and sent flying.i the wld video you'll only see on news4. us a faceoff on the field, congrs convenes on the ball field. who came up on top? pretty good crowd out there. and temperatures wellbove average, 91 degrees today. morrow we go even warmer and i think even more heat, we're talking heat and humidity. all of that plus your frth of juouly

back with another live look from miami, the first night of the democratic debate has wrapped up now. we're only halfway through the first faceoff. >> tomorrow night ten more candidates willa t the same stage. aaron will be there through it all. look for more of his reports tomorrow morning. news4 today gets started at 4:00 a. 4:00 a.m. a park police officer who shot and killedn back in 2017 says he opened fire in self-defense. news4's jackie bensen has uncoveredne some w information tonight in this high-profile case. >> in his first filing as being

named in a civilsut, the lawyer for officer lucas vineyard denies all allegations of wrongdoing saying the 25-year-old's injuries were the result of his own tentional, illegal or otherwise wrongful condt. the filing claims vineyard filed in seth-defense. family says he was unarmed isat night. the information confirmed in the pice report. this is cruiser dash cam video from the pursuit. last october, frustrated at thef pace o investigations that include one by the justice department civil rights divisn, ghaisar's family seeked a civil lsuit. the suit seeks damage. lawyers said they expected a decision from the justice twortment as to whether the

will face charges for civil rights violations. a spokesperson for the u.s. attorney's office in d.c. tells news4, there are no updates at this time. in northwest, jackie bensen, news4. >> only on news4, a surveillance amera caught a car slamming into a scooter. v theideo is hard to watch. a car making a left turn hit the woman. shervived. she was struck yesterday morning. the driver said she didn't see fe scooter rider, but police cited the driveror not yielding the right-oway on that left turn. officers are urgingde to wear helmets and to stay on the right side of the road. lawmakers picked up the bats and gloves and put aside the partisanship. >> they took to the diamond for the congressional base all game. thennual game has taken on

added significance, two years ago, steve scalise was shot a duringpractice. he was back on the field tonight and he scored a run. the bartisan affair raises cash for a local charthy. democrats beated the republicans, 15-7. >> quite a turnout too. >> and they had a h night to be playing baseball. >> here's the thing about the heat, once the sun goes down, it's at least comfortable. you don't have the humidity. and at's what's going come into the picture during the day on friday and saturday.hu midity is the thing that kills out there and wetoe going ee that coming in over the next couple of days. however, lk're not taing about that life threatening heat index kind of weather. it's going to be on the hot side and this heat wave is going to continue, but just like today, it's hot, but you can get relief in the shade. we've got plenty of shade, the entire earth is covering the sun, tt's why we got the

shade. nyway, 81 degrees right now, winds out of the southwest at 6 miles per hour. going to be a warm night. baltimore, 72 degrees. your morning forecast, here's what you need to know, a very warm start to the day,ut you're not going to change too many things from what you did today, highs in the low 90s, big heat is yet to come. no rain right now. your wednesday looking dry today and your thursday looking dry as well. we will see an isolated shower tomorrow, but most of the area dry, that's what we saw aoross ur region today. back to the west, not a lot of big storms. you see some in the middle part of the country, but they're not goto be able to push into our area. what will be able to push in is the heat. we've been on the cool side from denver, up towards chicago, new york, boston, the heat has been done to the south and we've been rit around average, a lot of cooler days, though, but the

heat, that's building in across the country and take a look at the high temperatures today. the 80s and 90s starting to move in. 89 degrees in chicago, 92 st. louis, and of course for us 91 degrees. the heat is moving in, building across the nation and it will continue to build and across our area. your planner tomorrow morning, p waking 75 degrees, nice and mild. humidity not too bad. if you're thinking ofet gng lunch out doors, have a place to go in the shade. the temperature around 88. 94 deges around 4:00. and an isolated shower mostly to the west. 94 on friday. here's with the humidity starts to get us, 94, 98, 99, 96 on saturday. that index coming up around 100 degrees. 93 on nday. 30% chance of storms on saturday, 40% chanc on sunday.

still warm on monday and right back into the mid-90s as we make our way towards the fourth of july. hot and humid next week for sure. tomorrow is backyard weather day. if you want me to come to your backyard, all you got to do is going to my facebook page. i'll bring an umbrella, apparently, on -- >> is that to shid the sun? >> because hs a metrologist, he's always prepared. >> always ready. thank you, doug. we're going back down to miami ere the nats are playing cbetter. ld washington reel in the fish and capture a series win in miami? >> sports is next wi th

>> announcer: this is the sports desk. >> the nats did good tonight against a bad team. >> the nats looking pretty hot in miami. they're looking confident. and that confidence is continuing to build, granted the nats are playing one of the worst teams in the league. now, he's finding his stride again juste right time, corbin taki f theield. it's miami who gets on the board first.ro 2-0ma ins. in the sixth washington gets on board. game tied at one and just two batters later, two on, he doesn't miss this one.a

towering home run to right, gives his team a 4-1 when you're in miami, you dance to celebrate. corbin goes seven innings. nats win it 7-5. the team pleased with corbin's performance. > i think how big of a competitor he is. he's a bulldog out on the mound. our pitching staff, they want the ball and it's fun to play behind them. all o his pitches were rganized and kept their guys off balance. got to keep thishing rolng. >> eastern conference player of the week, she won an mvp, and she's playing at mvp level this season. she's schoong one of the players who the wasraded far. a game hh 22 points and she wasn't done.

later in the fourth, with the mystics up five, she beats the shot clock putting this way. mystics win 81-74. d.c. unitedaking on older city wearing special kicks and how about thisomtrike fr rooney, united plays one ahead, rooney comes up with it. see that the keeper is out of his net blasting it right past him. isn't that insane? d.c. united wins 1-0, but that was absolutely amazing. also u.s. men soccer beat panama 1-0. >> you don't practice that kind of stuff. >> wow! >> that was wild. in a game. >> fun to watch. we're gog to be right back.in paword for the cable bill?rol.

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