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>> 6:00 on this sunday morning. here's what we're following for you. breaking from overnight, president trump crossing the n.er into north korea to meet with kim jong u the latest on the historic meeting at the demilitarized zone. ic back in the distr hundreds rally against i.c.e. after two people were detained. they want officials to sanctuar more of the good time had at the first pride parade. breaking news. here is the his tore i can meetingou missed. president trump with north korean leader kim jong un at
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dmz and then crossing the line into north korea,e becoming th first sitting president to visit the repressivent c. the meeting taking place after meetings with south korean president moon. more on that in a few > nutes. >>rst, welcome in here on what is shaping up to be a busy sunday morning. thank you for being here with us. i'm adam tuss. look who's here. >> i am tracie potts in for meganksoday. thanfor joining us. it's going to be a hot one. this heat wave. >> i know. there is one person to turn to for the answers, especially when we are dealing with and down weather. lauryn ricketts, who is here. it has been quite hot. >> absolutely. 96 degrees was ouremperature yesterday, guys, and that was the warmest we have been so far this year. i think it's going to bta e cooler today. when i say it's cooler, temperatures around 90. degrees let's take a look outse. that sun coming up 20 minutes ago. beautiful start to your sunday
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morning. now, not beautiful everywhere. rain showers in some portions of r area. here in d.c. 73 degrees. the sun just came up. it's going to be a beautiful day. and we are seeing a north wind at 5 miles an hour. that north wind going to suppress that humidity as we continue through the day. again a few rain showers just to the south and west right now. you them coming through cu culpeper. most are organizing in the shenandoah valley. we are looking at those to continue to move out of here. everybody else seeing sunny skies. we could have isolated storm later today. let's talk about the fourth of july and another heat wave in about ten minutes. back to the breaking news. resident trump became the first sitting commander in chief to cross into north korea. >> amazingistuff. thappened after an impromptu invitation on twitter from the north korean dictator to meet
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with president trump at the dmz. this is a meeting that is really drawing a lot of interesting comparisons here. the concrete section where the two are standing is the demarcation line sep ating north and south korea. now shall the president has accepted kim jong un's invitation to cross over. the two b then walkedck across the line for a sitdown where the north korean mia was not allowed in. >> and it's just an honor to be with you. it was an honor to step over that line. i was proud to step over the line. i thought you might do that. wasn't sure. i was ready to do it. i want to thank you. it's been great. >> american press was also not allowed in the rm much longer. the two met for over an hour, the president saying he did invi invite chairman kim to the united states to the white house. president trump did hold a press iconference earlier w the president of south korea, but there were no questions from ths pr for the sitdown with kim and the human rights abuses in that
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country, they were not addressed either. the president did answer a few questions with president moon afterwards and is set to be back in d.c. later this meeting. thiwas the third meeting between president trump and president moon. decision 2020. backlash this morning against president trump's son after he questioned whether democratic senator kamala harris is a black american. donald trump jr. re-tweeted a fringe alt-right activist. the activist said, kamala harris is not an american black. she is half indian and half jamaican. i am sick of people robb bg americanlacks like myself of our history. donald jr. later deleted the tweet. the attack is false. harris was born in california to an indian immigrant mother and black jamaican immigrant father. several democratic presidential todidates are already coming her defense. senator bernie sanders called the president's son a racist and others compared the smear to the
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birther attack against former president obama by donald trump before he ran for president. and those democratic candidates are going to be a topic on "meet the press" this morning. chuck todd and the panel there will take a closer look at the winners and losers from this week's democratic debates. "meet the press" starts at 10:30 right after news4 today. heavy rains may have played a role in a tragic crash on the beltway that killed a toddler in prince george's county. yesterday we learned the 2-year-old of oxon hill passed away. friday she was riding in a car with her family on outer loop nr branch avenue.ar another c slammed into their vehicle from bhind causing a chain-reaction crash. medics took the little girl's mother andar 5-ld sister to the hospital with injuries. 6:05. hundreds of people braved the tand against a i.c.e. here in d.c. this protest comes after reports that i.c.e. detained two people
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last weekend. they are spreading the word they run an emergency hotline 24/7 so people can callorelp if they are arrested. yesterday we talked to an ocumented immigrant. she wants people to know she is a loving mother and good person and every day she lives in fnstant fear. >> very scared me. when i'm driving or walking i'm scared to the i.c.e. coming behind me or to my job. and they take me for the port. >> the protesters say hey want to see stronger laws put in place to protect immigrants. they don't think d.c. does enough to enforce its sanctuary city stat ncoe the untdown on for the fourth of july. even though we have four days left until the holiday crews are setting up all of the launch points for the big show. e folks who make the fireworks say this year's event will be the biggest in d.c. history.
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this new lawn site is bigger than the old one meaning it can fit more fireworks. also, the show will be about three minutes longer than before. >> you spend so many months planning and prepare. i gets it's like awedding sh, l right? >> now, even though the show was moved, organizers say you can still see it from all the old spots. they also plan on opening extra places for people to watch like at the lincoln memorial. the fireworks are set to go off a little after 9:00 p.m. from west potomic park. montgomery county fire and rescue swift-water rescue has trained near great falls on the potomac river. the river presents different challenges including different levels in the currents there, but they have got it down to an average of ten minus from the time they get a call to the time they hit the water. some of yesterday's practice included members of the people going overboard and being pulled
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back into the boat. the leader of the group says if you have never been on the rivee befoou need to be prepared. >> this is definitely not novice if you have never done it before, i would get an organized class and make sure you are prepared physically and mentally. >> nowth part of e training also included the use of a helicopter which can help spot a person in need. the frederick county community said their final goodbyes to a career firefighter. drone video shows the solemn procession for michael powers yesterday morning. a full escort took his body from the liberty townir fouse to his final resting place. powers spent more than 50 years as a volunteer firefighter. end anned to retire at the of this year. maryland governor larry hogan ordered flags lowered on wednesday to honor his service. powers died earlier this week. he suffered a heart attack while responding to this fatal crash in unionville.
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for the first time ever the city of annapolis has hosted a pride parade. ♪ >> thousands packed the streets of marylans capital to celebrate diversity yesterday. organizers said they had 50 floatnd groups rns a organizations participating.as there w a big festival with dozens of vendors. organizers are looking forward to planning next year's event. if you watched the washington misticks play yesterday, our own meagan fitzgerald and her fianceelly heath were the honorary captains at the team's annual pride game. kelly actually used to play with and against some the players here. she proposed to megan several weeks ago. megan took the opportunity to s expressport for the lbgtq community when she announced she was eaged right here on news4
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and we here at news4 could not be happier for them both. pretty good seats for the game, too. >> yeah, reallyts good sea. megan looked dressed up. >> didn't she? she looked good. >> you areitting courtside, you've got to look good. all right. time right now is 6:10 on this sunday morning. a live look at our front yard here in northwest d.c. a little bit of a breeze. 73 degrees. will it be aother hot one? will it be aother hot one? lauryn has a look at th full e
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not looking too bad right now. we have some cloud cover out there, wpecially south andt much that's where we're seeing a few showers. the good news is today falling humidityto still going e warm, temperatures around 90 degrees. again that dropping humidity. however, another heat wave in the wo you are going to feel it this
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week where we will have daily chances of afternoon rain and even a few storms. temperatures now fairly mild. temperatures in the upper stories and lower 70s right now. 80 annapolis. by 9:00 around that 80 degree mark. plenty of sunshine. a little breezy out there. if you are brunching out there, 70s and 80s today. weather it's going to be comfortable. grab those shades. a few isolated showers through central shenandoah valley could skirt into fredericksburg. course, culpeper seeing a sprinkle or two. we are dry after tothis. ay temperatures 91 degrees. it's going to be breezy out there. the humidity is dropping. let's go ahead and start this on tuesday. our futurecast. today's going to be dry. tomorrow's going to be dry. heat and humidity come back tuesday and we have daily chances of rain. chances of storms on tuesday afternoon, on wednesday
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afternoon and by the time we gen friday. of course, thursday's fourth of july. we could have a few showers and thunderstorms for that. it is going to be hot and mggy this week. tomorrow comfortable with temperatures in the upper 80s. tuesday that's when the humidity starts to come back wpeh temtures back into the 90s. we stay in the 90s for wednesday, thursday, friday, saturd, sunday before those temperatures start to drop. speaking of thursday, fourth of july, temperatures are going to be again starting off in the 80s, 70s and 80s through the morning, and we could have storm chancesin heading the afternoon and evening around that firework time. guys. >> that's always the case. it's always the case. >> hot and >> yeah, i know. thanks. repo"reporter's notebook is next. >> see you then. good morning.ts esporwill soon become a billion dollar industry and more franchises are doing what they can to protect their most valued
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commodity. teams turning to professional yelp to keep their pla in the game. and we are in the middle of a heat wave right now. heat waves in parts of the cotry and in europe are becoming more extreme than ever, partly because of our changing climate. ameliaraper and news4's cory smith are here to talk about some of the big stories of this basteek. how significant is this heat wave we are in right now? >> the good thing is we are not considering it dangerous. we get into dangerous heat where you factor in thera tempere and the humidity and it feels about 100 to 105 degrees. it's the duration of the heat, pat. we are talking about the f tential for two weeks temperatures at or about 90 degrees. as we talk about our changing hi climate, t is something that we're continuing to see. the extremes are getting more extreme. where we might s have beforeen maybe a week of temperangres runni at 90 or higher, now we are talking about maybe two weeks, maybe ten a little bi
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longer. >> summer is just starting for us. >> absolutely. we began summer last friday. the average high is 87 to 88 degrees. we are running anywhere from bive to ten degrees ae normal. when you talk about running above normal for two weeks and then you alsohink about nighttime temperatures not cooling off that much, this is when it starts to get more unusual. >> what do we expect or you expecting for the rest of the summer? >> as we always say --? >> more bugs? >> more bugs. with more heat, we get more bugs. and what we say is the trend is your friend, right? we are consistently looking at warmer temperatures here. we really don't see any reason for that to change. as far as the rayful goes, in f that remains to be seen. >> a little dry? >> yeah. i have to ask you about whas going on in europe. in some places the temperature is 20, 30 degrees above normal? >> it's crazy what's happenin europe.
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we have france, poland, the czech republic, germany setting record hot temperature month of june there. and a lot of these places don't have air-conditioning. it's not just europe. when you think to this year, first there was india where they had nearly three weeks of temperatures around 110 degrees in parts of the country there. new delhi approached the all-time record high temperature at 123 degrees. am and then we saw that heat out west. think san francisco where they had their earliest 100 degree day ever on record. and san francisco in june you think the june gloom, nice comfortable air. this is attrputed to high ssure. high pressure isn't anything new, but with our warming temperatures we're these heat waves are lasting longer and getting more intense. >> we have to get used to the new normal. >> i have to get used to the new normal. >> a lot of sweating going on. i want to talk about a hot
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industry. esports is super hot right now. believe it or not, to be a top gamer these gadays you have to in good physical shape. franchises are calling on medical doctors to keep esports athletes at the top of their games. gamers are prone to serious injuries. tell us about it. >> when you thinof esports, the cynics say they are justti sitng on the couch playing video , right? when it's your profsional career,pl you are aying just like we are at work eight to ten hours a day. they are playing video games ght to ten hours a day. think about that. youre sitting down a majority of the time. your fingers are constantly moving. your vision is consntly impacted by what you are seeing on the screen. that can adam. i spoke to one guy. he says he can feel a tingling in his fingers. s his backarts to tighten up. there is time he has look away from the scten, look a something far off to reset his eyes. so medstar health has stepped gn. they are offerin services to
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these players. nutritionists, orthopedists, sports psychologists to keep them in tip-top shape. while it seems like fun and games, it is their job and they want to perform at their highest level like any athlete. >> and they have mental health issues as well? >> they do. >> it's focus? >> rit,ight. focus and, i mean, there is a lot riding on the line on these tournaments, the seasons. this is theirli livehood. this is how they make money.ut just think abo the stress that that brings on tyou and speci especially when you a going head to head with somebody in a competition. we are seeing a lot of athletes acr s many sports turn psychologists to help theatout. >> wh do the doctors who are treating these gamers advise parentof gamers to do? >> basically, it's the same advice that has been given since the dawn of video games. turn it off. you know, that's one thing the doctor said. the doctor has the athletes come from tota me health and work out once aweek to stay active.
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it not only promotes the physical alth, but mental health as well. she sd parents be aware of how much time kids be spending on video games obviously. the biggest impact that the doctor was said was the vision aspect and good posture. just let them be a kid. >> good advice. we were talking about $1 billion industry. >> and more people are getting involved in it. more kids are go to be trying to play video games, maybe i could turn this into a career. >> who knew? >> kids are making $75,000 in a day playing games. >> and it makes see. en there is that much money being put into it, you want to make sure everybody is in good mental and physical alth. >> is tracking like any professional spor professional franchise from atletic trainers toports psychology. really fascinating. >> going to talk more about fascinating chaweges in the her when we come back.
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$46 billion industry having heavily impacted by warming waters. warming is affecting certain species of fish and forcing some states to alter fishing regulations. what are some of the ways we are seeing warming impact the fish and fishing? >> what happens is when you have these warming waters it stresses the fish out. so they have to migrate, if that's a possibilitywfarther toards the north, or if they can they are struggling to survive and they might be dying off. some states when temratures areetting too warmer putting a ban on fishing in fresh waterar as. and looking at the numbers, it's amazing. just doing some research on this, all u.s. coastal waters have warmed since 1901. all five of the great lakes have warmed in the last 25 years. like lake ontario warming the
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most. >> do we see the impact here? you know, we love our rockfish in summertime from the bay. they seem to be plentiful. >> we are seeing -- we are basically seeing warming waters everywhere. er course, the waters are warming the farth north you head. the arctic ocean is warming faster than any other place in the world. but overalle again wre seeing warming in all bodies of water. i think this is just another metric that goes to show when we look at the numbers we are seeing warming with our climate. and, yes, the earth goes through cycles. we have had warming in the past. we have had cooling. but at the rate we are seeing the warming due to our e greenhousgases is showing up every way you slice the numbers s, in r it's in our wate our streams, rivers, in theo ans or in the atmosphere. >> yeah. i want to switch gears here and talk about a new law in virginia. couples who use surrogates to become parents in virginia can now rest a little easier. l a new signed by the governor updates the state surrogacy laws
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andot prts the parental rights of same sex and single parents urrogates. it's called jacob's law. and tell us what jacob's law changes, cory. >> it bring virginia's surrogacy laws in line with adoption laws. you had two fathers using asu ogate in wisconsin to have their third child. a judge came in six weeks before the child was born and stripped the fathers of their parental rights. went through a lengthy court battle.ul the courtmately sided with the parents. they had a beautiful baby boy named jacob. they wanted to make they filed a billn that basicaly says it is unconstitutional to strip a person of their parental rights based solely on their sexual orientation or marital status. the tought for the fathers of jacobisas that th judge in wisconsin basically just stepped in at the 11th hour simply because they were aex same
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couple and they just wanted to make sure into could not happen in virginia and now th have this law. >>t whawas that like for them, their family? >> they already two girls. so therewere alady dads. but they were looking forwar to having a little boy. i can't imagine a judge coming in and saying are about to have in six weeks is not going to be yours. it's going to be an orphan because i don't agreewith your lifestyle. they said the day that the judge ruled in theiror favfter being through appeals courts, they both broke itwn and was good to see, you know, a couple years lateror governoram signing the bill that has their son's name on it. >> and their family is living happily ever after? >> living happily ever after. jacob has two big sisters he gets to grow up with. his dads rickay and j are really happy that this bill passed on a bipartisan level. so you have support from all democrats in the house and senate and are coupleblicans
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signed on as well. that's how politics is supposed to work. >> it's refreshing to see that happen these days. turning back to the weather. last friday meteorologists around the world came together to show the global warming trend to actually put it on display, and they do this with stripes. it's called show your stripes. this campaign is, involves colorful graphics that tell a story? >> it's a way to visually show the warming temperatures. ogw, the pin that meteorolts were wearing, and this was across the world with this, show your stripes and unite campaign, the global temperatures from 1850 to 2018. nd basically it showed the annual average temperature and the stripes from the global temperature went from blue to very distinct red. so just kind of showing folks that it's very clearswe are ing a warming trend. it's not something that scientists are debating in the
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scientific community. >> or meteorologists. >> or meteorologists. we all agree on it. and being ontelevision, we are basically thetation scientists, and meteorologists are coming together to say, you know, brin awareness and this isn't something that we are debating. it's not political for us. >> i found it interesting as i looked at some of the stripes from various parts of the country and around the world that they are different, b they tell a similar story. tell us how they vary from one end of the earth to the other. >> globally, it's very clear win are s a warming overall. the district shows a very clear warming trend. the numbers from the district started in 1872 and went to 2018. you can see here that maryland and virginia show a bit of a warming trend, but it's not as distinct as the district and globally. then we have the arctic ocean, which as i said earlier is warming the fastest compaheed t any place on earth. the stripes with the arctic ocean are alarming, actually. >> you all get together every
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year? th is this the second year? >> yes, the second year that meteoroogists have participated. it's nice to have this campaign out there and to see so many meteorologists come together. chuck bell participated as well this year. josef martinez participated with our sister station telemundo. the rest of the were off or they would have participated as well. >> all of you showing your stripes? >> yes. 's>> thanks. interesting. we will continue our conversation here and on our news programs about the changes in our climate. love it. >>ank you both. and that's "reporter's notebook." thank you for being with us. news4 "today" continuesow. just about 6:30 on this sunday morning. here's what we' following for you. crossing the line. president trump becomes the first sitting president to go
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into north korea when he met with kim jong un at the dmz overnight. more on that breaking news coming up. and disturbing details. new reports say the man accused of killing a missing utah ollege student once asked a contractor to install a soundproof hidden room in his home. and the fall out in college park. how the school's leaders are handling of a football player's death could put other students at risk of losing federal financial aid. >> announcer: news4 "today" stw.ts no and it's 6:30. we want to welcome you in on this sunday morning. thanks for bein here with us. i'm adam tuss. >> i'm tracie potts in for meagan fitzgerald who is hanging out at the game. >> yeah. >> she was having fun. >> but so this heat, what is going on? no relief today. looks like back in the 90s. i'm blamingauryn ricketts. >> i blame her all the time. did we break the heat wave? >> we could break it today. are going to reas
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be in the upper 80s. you have to have threeif consecutive days above 80 degrees. we are back into it. a lot of 90s on that ten-day forecast. out there right nowwe have got a lot of sunshine. it's beautiful out there. we are seeing some rain showers through the south and west. be tiful conditions out the right now. just a gorgeous look over the potomac river early on this sunday morning. 73 degrees. now, you ca see the winds are out of the north. that is good. s at means that the humidity going to trop a little bit. so dropping humidity won't quite be as muggy and sticky out there today thank goodness. us far as your wake-up weather is concerned yoan see the temperatures are already going to be in the 80s by 9:00. we have a little bit of cloud cover out there, but less humidity as we continue through the day now, we have a few rain showers to the south and to the westin lpminto liou ray. some through cueper county. this is scooting dthwn sou of 64. we will start to dry out throughout the day today.
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let's talk about the 90s. let's talk about fourth of july forecasts not only here but at the beaches. that's coming up. >> all right, lauryn, thank you very much. breaking news from overnight. president trump become ting the first sitting commander and chief to cross into north korea. >> it happenedan after improvement uom invitation fr the north korean dictator to meet with president trump at the dmz. is is that meeting. the concrete section where the two are standi is the demarcation line separating north and south korea. the president accepted kim's on invitati to cross over. then the two walked back across the line for a sitdown in which north korean media was not allowed in. >> if it was not for our -- between the two of us, it would not have been possible to have this kind of meeting. so i would like to use this strong relation to create more good news which nobody expects. >> american press u ered out
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the room shortly after that, but the two men met for over an hour. that wasn't the plan. it was supposed to be a few inutes. the president said he did invite chairman kim to the united states for a visit at the white house, but he didn't elaborate further on that. president trump held a press conferece earlier with the president of south korea but there were no questions from the press for the sitdown with kim and the human rights abuses in that country thatere not addressed. he answered a few questions with presint moon afterwards. he is set to be back in d.c. later this evening. theatest development on the president's trip and more on this week's first democratic presidential debates. tll that coming up la this morning on "meet the press." that starts at 10:30 this morning right after news4 today. heavy rains may have played a role in a tragic crash that on happened the beltway on eriday. it killed kila toddler in princ george's county. we learned 2-year-old leelete
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andargie of oxon hill passed away. friday she was riding a car with her family on the outer loop near branch avenue. toanother car slammed that vehicle from behind causing a chain-reaction crash. medics took the little girl's mother and 5-y the hospital.to they had injuries but they are pected to be okay. we are learning new and disturbing details about a man suspected of murderg a missing utah college student. authorities arrested the man. mackenzie lueck was last seen july 17th phone records show ajayi was her last phone contact. our affiliate station in utah spoke to a ntractor in the area. he said at one point ajayi asked him to build a secret room in his basement. >> he asked me to build a weird room. i told him no. my heart dropped. i am like, h way. >> t is not ajayi's first run in with the law.
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police say it received a rape complaint against him in 2004 but the female victim did not wish to pursue charges. authorities intend to charge him with aggravated murder. new this morning, the university of maryland is facing aajor risk. the school could lose an acredit station unless changes are made. according to o news partners at wtop the middle states commission on higher education put the university under warning on friday. thefhave to march o next year to meet certain demands including being more transparent. the university was placed on review november because of how there board of gents handled the death of football player jordan mcnair. if the school uses the rsity andtion the uni students would lose out on federal financial aid. this morning a person is on he mend at the hospital after a fire tore through a home on glen brook road ina firfax county. fire caused a lot of damageth t back of this house. take a look.
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investigators are looking into the cause. also in fairfax county an update on that massive fire that ripped through a home in the great falls area. chopper4 captured the flames shooting through the roof of this home on clarks bran road. it happened friday night. investigators say one firefighter had a minor injury. two people inside escaped without getting hurt. we are still working to find out what caused that fire. the frederick county community is saying good-bye to a career firefighter meanwhile. drone video shows the solemn procession for larry powers yesterday morning. the liberty town fire thousanho his final resting place where there was a ceremony. powers spent more than 50 years as a volunteer firefighter and planned to retire this year. maryland governor larry hogan ordered flags loweredwn nesday to honor his service. powers died earlier this week. he suffered a hear attack while responding to this fatal crash in unionville.
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the heat, the humidity did not stop water rescue training on the potomac river. >> nope. yesterday montgomery fire and rescue swift-water rescue teams brushed on their skills. derrick ward explains the leader of the group has a warning. >> reporter: it's the kind of day that people who can, take to the water. there are few places more picturesque. >> a busyeason for us, rescues, and service needs. >> reporter: we are familiar with the potomac river. it's a whole different river, different levels and dangers. >> the seriousness of the river is vedangerous. there are a number ofwn drogs from people swimming, from boaters. >> reporter: the swift-water rescue crews have it done to ten mines from getting call to water. t t helps them to stay ready for flooding operations when a street can become something of a
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rapid. sometimes they grd overboa with their efforts, quite literally. that's part of the practice. of course, thatud incles people eo boats and emergency vehicles. it also includes pple in the air. the best safety tip of all so you don't need to marshall all of these resources is to know our own capabilities and limits and to know the river. >> this is definitely not novice water. if you have never done itefore ge in an organized class and make sure that you are prepared both physically and mentally before you make the trek to this section of the water and get yourse in trouble. >> reporter: derrick ward, news4. for the first time ever the city ofri annapolis hosted a pde parade.ac thousands pd the streets of maryland's capital to celebrate diversity yesterday. organizers say the event exeeded their expectations. there were more than 50 floats, groups, and organizations participating and there was a big festival with dozens of
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vendors. organizers s they are already looking forward to planning next year's event. and it was a hot one for that one. it's probably going to be a hot one today as weldy alrea 73 degrees as we take a look at national harbor on this sunday morning. whatever you are planning on doing toda y make sure duck into some a/c as well. lauryn
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hey, not even 7:00 a.m. and it's already a pretty big day in global politics with the president meeting in north korea at the dmz overnight. >> we have that breaking news to talk about. that's not all you need to keep up wh. moderator of "meet the press" chuck todd is joining us now. what do you make of this overnight meeting and the president crossing over into north carea? what we pull out of this? >> know the president likes big show whiy things, right? this is a nice shiny metal
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object. it looks luke an accomplishment of some sort. look, he is still uttalking, b these north korea talks have gone nowhere. the last, you know, so they agreed to do more tks. the last negotiators that the north koreans had he killed. so this is sort of an awkward, okay. yeah, the last didn't go so well. now you are having a new set of talks with new set of people. but i think the h presidentas viewed -- you know, it's funny about his sort of obsession with trying to continue to get meetings with kim jong un. the single best moment of his presidency as far as job approval ratings are concerne andr polling and others have been that fist time he sat down with talks with him. i think he keeps trying toap recre that moment. that was sort of, you know, his signature. see, i do things differently. it was the first time that the i public s oh, that wasn't such a bad way of doing things differently. i think he keeps trying to recapturethat moment. it's hard to get it a second, third, or fourth time.
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>> so the substance of whatm co out of this still up in the air? >> veryep in th air. look, yobviously, ifou're nglking, you're talking. there is nothi to criticize. i don't thk anybody is down on talking. the question, isea it lng anywhere, or the north koreans just buying time while they continue to develop what they want. >> yet we have seen the missile tests continue. >> short term. he shrugs it off. he says, well, they are not real nuclear tests. >> you are back from miami? >> yes. >> that was quite the experience for you. i said to you during the break, i didn't envy you to like wrangle all those characters in. >> it's not something i'd love to try aiain. >> feel like we learned a lot from these debates. >> look, our goal, i thought we did the best we could under the circumstances th all the ndidates and the parameters us. the dnc put on i felt like our goal was to present an opportunity for the candidates to introduce thelves, who are thiey and what they stand for.
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at the basics we found out who they were and what they stood for. we better uerstand what the dividing lines are, ik. th we better understand where this party, where is the energy of the party, certainly what the andidates think, the energy of the party is as far as the base is concerned. in that sense think it served as sort of a reset of sorts, okay? we know where biden is. we kno kamala harris had a moment that lived up to the hype that this said, hey, she is going to be someone to watch. oh, oay, yes, she is. we have learned all of that. i think the question now is, okay, let's see how biden handles this moment. i think now the burden is on him next more than anybody else. >> it seems like she knew that, too, to go after him. >> she was ready. no question. she was ready. and i think she also knew she needed a moment herself. she had great announcement and then sort of not much else since wit elizabeth warren sort of becoming the candidate with all
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the plans, pete buttigieg, you know, gett some. so she needed a momt to sort of, to get herself in there. and she certainly got it. but to me the biggest story is joe biden looks vulnerable. and so if that's the case, then there were 19 winners of the debate and one loser, right? all of them can look and say, hey, this isn't over. >> there is alway that next debate. >> exactly. >> all right. chuck, a lot to talk about today. ander. you can see "meet the press" every sunday 10:30 after news4 "today." all right. a new law in virginia will strengthen surrogacy laws for gay and straight cups. >> cples. lecob's law was named after this 3-year-old litt boy. his fathers spent years trying to get custody of him. cory smith explains that it's a fight they say no one should have to go through.
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>> reporter: if you had to define the happyfamily, you couldn't do much better than thn clan. fathers jay timmons and rick olson, 7-year-old ellie and 9-year-old c.j.iand this lle guy is 3-year-old jacob. it's hard to imagine why anyone would want to tearhais loving family apart. a judge tried to just six weeks before jacob was to be bornia a surrogate. >> he leftacob an orphan and put us on a four-year horrific journey. >> reporter: along the way rick sacrificed his career at capital case. to fight the attorneys >> we would be thinking there would be a knock on the door and somebody would come to take our son. >> reporter: they would win permanent custody. of jacob we asked jay to take us back to that moment. >> so it was -- it was a happy riay. that's ght. >> reporter: happy ending, story over, right? wrong. tay and rick thought if this
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could happen to m, it could happen to another family. so they shared their story with rick sullivan. he filed legislation to protect the rights of same-sex couples and single parents who use a surrogate and it made it to governor northam's desk. >> we are actually doing it. there was a lot of opposition from some very misinformed people. >> reporter: all that work, all those sleepless nights brought them here. in front of family, friends, and their son's schoolmates. theaw that bears jacob's name was ceremonially signed into law. >> we want our children to have a home where theare cared for and loved. >> reporter: a loving family that's a bit bigger and together forever. >> this day w a long time in coming. >reporter: in arlington, cory smith -- >> you want to say anything? >> you guys happy? >> jacob rules. >> reporter: news4. >> so cute. all right. time right now is 6:48. you can see behind us already looking like hazy out there. >> i take it back.
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i am not goingto blame you for the haze. but can you do something about it? >> yeah, i will do something about it. >> i can let you in on something.m you can bla her. i blame her all the time. >> listen, 96 degrees yesterday. 91 today.ng but i'm goio take away the humidity a little bit. >> thank you. >> the breezy -- >> that's good. >> same deal tomorrow. but the end of this week, i mean, the temperatures go back -- >> d.c. in july. >> good hair day/bad hair day? >> a good hair dang starti tuesday. that's what we're talking about. tuesday. not today. we have th breezy conditions out of the northwest. that's suppressing that humidity. so it's going to be a nice beautiful day. look at that right on cue right there. that plane ming across the potomac river. rain showers to the south and west. other than that, not that bad out there.e our averagmperature this time of year 88 degrees. 91 today. we'll drop it into the mid-80s
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tomorrow. then back into the low-to-mid 90s tuesday and wednesday. we stay in the 90s for a good little while this pcuming work week. current temperatures out there right now 68 gaithersburg, 74 baltimore. look at that. annapolis on the water 88 degrees. ss the 60s and 70s ac board. maybe headed to the golf course today. listen, low humidity, beautiful breeze out there out of the north and west. oing to be fairly comfortable out there. it will be hot, especially without that shade, even though that temperature is going to be esound 90 degre t won't have the humidity but it's still goingo be warm out there. you can see most of us are dry right now. the clouds are suppressed to south and west. a few leftover sprinkles headed to i-64 arld the charlottesville area. we are dry out there and we will continue to be dry throughout the day. i am going to keep an isolated chance of a storm. sue he that dissipating as it's moving to the south and east. now, most of that left over from the frontal system that came through yesterday.
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it was stalled up to the north yesterday. now it's passed. we are north of that frontal system. that's ushering cooler and drier air from the rth and west. 91 degrees today. yeah, it's hot out there, but we are not going to have the humidity. wind gusts 25 to 30ouiles an hr at times. tomorrow lighter wind and cooler, 86 out there tomorrow. plenty of sunshine again, low humidity. maybe heading to the pool. today is going to be perfect. tomorrow is going to be perfecto heating up tuesday. could have an isolated storm. now also out of the sky not only for the fireworks on fourth of julbut a 40% chance of seeing nd showers andstorms popping up around the region. it is going to be hot on thursday for the fou of july. but when isn't it? so you can see we have a chance of rain each and every day this week. that's really just those afternoon kind of typical summer variety thunderstorms coming our way, especially with temperatures in the 90s. if you are headed to the beach not looking too shabby. thursday, friday, and saturday
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low-to-mid 80s. small rain chances. again that ocean water temperature 73 degrees. so not that bad.wi that cool you off. but we are going to get a little rain to cool us off heading through this week. sunday's dry. more rain returns on monday. of savings and service. whoa. travis in it made it. it's amazing. oh is that travis's app? it's pretty cool, isn't it? there's two of they're multiplying. no, guys, its me. see, i'm real. i'm real! he thinks he's real. geico.
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their car will turn off on its own when they walk away with the key fob and that's not the case. > reporter: the culprit krm carbon monoxide poisoning. he is one of four deaths so far this year, and the numbers are rising. >> it's colorless. it's odorless. it's tasteless.o it's hard t detect without the prop equipment and those with carbon monoxide detectors in their house. >> reporter: thout a physical key, drivers may forget tohut it off. the president of safety research and strategies believes while human error placeys a role, the real issue is the car manufacturers 'designs. >> if it's left unattended for a certain amount of time that thel engine wihut down. >> reporter: this car automatically beeps if you walk away while the engine is running. and it idles for 30 minutes and shuts off. that shutoff feature is not standard. toyota whose vehicles make up half of the fatal incidents
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announced all 2020 keyless vehicles will have an auto shutoff feature. legislation was introduced this year that would force automakers to implement shutoff technology that would cost an additionalr 5 pe vehicle. ford and gneral motors support the bill. the national highway traffic safety administration warnings about the dangers of leaving a keyless car running, but does not mandate cars s tohut off automatically while idling. for tabitha it about educating consumers. >> if he could see anything happen from his death he would like to see even just one other accident be avoided. >> reporter: hoping her father's tragedy will help save lives. jo ling kent, nbc news new york. much more ahead on news4 "today." >> an hour-by-hour look at your forecast with storm team4 meteorologist lauryn ricketts. you want one of those fans ith the sfra thipray thing on it to. stay with us. she has your
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>> announcer: news4 "today" starts now. 7 on this sunday morning. here's what we're following for you. breaking from overnight, president trump crosses the border into north korea to meet with kim jong un. we are going to have the latest on the historic meeting at the demilitarized zone. back in the district hundreds swarm the streets to rally againsti.c.e. after two people were detaind.
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they want officials to enforce d.c.'s sanctuary city laws. and thousands turned out for the first pride parade through the streets of annapolis. we will show youore of the good time there. first, that breaking news from overnight. take a look here. this is the historic meeting yoi missed w you were sleeping here. president trump with north koreanim leader k jong un at the dmz, then crossing the line into north korea, becoming the first sitting president to visit the repressive country. that meeting taking place after meetings with south korean president moon as well. we will have much more on that in just a few minutes. first, we want to welcome you in on a busy morning on news4 "today." i'm adam tuss. >> i'm tracie potts in for meagan fitzgerald today. this heat wave is continuing, ut lauryn ricketts is promising some relief. and fireworks. >> yeah. heat, fireworks, a little bit of relief. so let's go ahead a talk about what's going on out there right
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now because you head out the door right now, it's not feeling that bad. usually heading out the door early the last couple of mornings we have the mugginess around. it's not tha sabby right now. beautiful sunrise earlier this morning. sun coming up just about 5:46 is when that sun came up. again great conditions out there omac overlooking the p right now. 74 is the temperature. you can see the winds out of the north. that is suppressing that humidity. so we are seeinghat humidity on the lower side already, and that is only going to be the case today and tomorrow before that humidity comes back by the time we get into your tuesday and wednesday. soes 79 degre at 8:00 a.m. we are going to warm up. it is going to be warm today with temperatures around 90. again plenty of sunshe out there, dry conditions, breezy winds out of the northwest gusting up to aut 30 miles an hour. let's talk how hot we will get as we head into the fireworks display. fourth of july, yeah, we'll talk
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about that in detail because it's going to get really warm once again across the area. oe onill show you that the ten-day forecast cng up. >> thanks. back to the breaking news. overnight president trump became the first sitting commander in er into north korea. >> yeah, this happened after an impromptu invitation on twitter this week from the north korean dictator to meet with president dmz. at th take a look. this is a meeting that is really interesting here. the concrete section where the two are standin is t demarcation line separating north and south kthea. now, president accepted kim's invitation to cross over. you see it there. the two then walked back across the line for a sitdown where the north korean media was not alowed in. >> and it's just an honor to be with you and it was an honor that you askedteme to over that line and i was proud to step over the line. i thought you might do that. i wasn't sure. but i was ready to do and i want to thank you. it's bew, great. >> merican press was not allowed in the room much longer.
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the two met for over an hour. theresident said he invited chairman kim to the united states for a visit at the white house. he did not elaborate further. president trump held a press conference earlier with the president of south korea, moon, but there were questions from the press for the sitdown with kim and the human rights abuses in that country. they were not addressed. the president did answer a few questions with president moon afterwards and is set to be back in d.c. later this evening.as this whe third meeting between these two leaders. turning to decision 2020 backlash this morning again president trump's son after he questioned whether democratic senator kamala harris is black american. donald trump jr. re-tweeted a fringe at-right activist. that activist said in part, quote, kamala harris is t an american black. she is halfndian and half jamaican. i'm so sick of people rob ng american blacks like myself of our history.
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end of quote. donald jr. later deleted that. tweet the attack is false. harris was born to an indian immigrant mother and black jamaican father. several presidential democrats are coming to her defense. senator bernie sanders called 's the presidenton a racist andth rs compared the sneer to the birther attack against former napresident obama by do trump before he ran for president. and of course those democratic candidates are going to be a big toc on "meet the press" later this morning. chuck todd and the panel there will take a closer look at the winners and losers from this week's debales. they witalk about the president's meeting in north korea.:3 that's after news4 "today." heavy rains may have played a role in a tragic crash on the beltway that killed a toddler is prince george county. 2-year-old leelete andargie of oxon hill passed away. on friday she was riding a car with her family on the outer loop near branch avenue. another car slammed in their
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vehicle from behind causing a chain reaction. medictook the little girl's mother and 5-year-old sister to the hospital with injuries. time right now is 7:06 hundreds of people braved the heat to take a stand against i.c.e. here in d.c. this protest comes after reports that i.c.e. detained two people in northwest d.c. last weekend. now, sanctuary dmv is spread the lerd that they run an emergency ht line 24/7 so pean call for help if they are arrested. we had we talked to an undumed immigrant who has been in the updates for two decades. she wants people know she is a loving mother and a good person but that every day she lives in constant fear. >> it's very scared for me and also when i'm driving or when i walking, you know. i'm scared to the i.c.e. coming behind me or to my job, you know, and theytake me for the port. >> well, the protesters say that they want to see stronger laws
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put in place to protect immigrants. they don't think d.c. does rcenough to enfoits sanctuary city status. all right. ready for theol hay? the countdown on for the fourth of july. even though we have d fours left crews are setting up the launch points for the big fireworks show. the folks who make the fireworks say this year's event will be the biggest in d.c. history. this launch site can fit more fireworks. also, we're told that show will be about three minutes longer than before. >> you spend so many months planning and preparing and i guess it's kind of like a wedding, right. you have a year's worth of work and it's all gone in for us 20 minutes. >> even though the show has moved, organizers say you can see it from all theold spots. they also plan on opening extra oraces for people to watch like the lincoln memial. the fireworks are set to go off a little after 9:00 p.m. fromto west pc park. >> a busy week here in d.c. >> montgomery fire and
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rescue swift-water rescue teams brushed up on their skills by training near great falls on tho mac river. it includes the different levels, the currents there.do they have it wn to an average of ten minutes from the time they get a call to the time they actually hit the water. some of yesterday'id practice d include members of the team going overboard and being pulled back into the boayou see there. the leader of this group says if you have never been on the river, you nd to be prepared. >> this is definitely not novice water. if you have never done it before get in an organized class and make sure you are prepared physically and mentally before you make the trek to this section of the water and get yourself in trouble. >> yeah, goto be safe. part tf theining included the use of a helicopter which can help spot a person in need. so this was a first for t city of annapolis. they hosted a pride parade. take a look. thousands packed the streets of
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maryland's capital to celebrate diversity yesterday. organizers say this event exceeded their s.expectati there were more than 50 floats, ions s, organiz participating and there was a big festival with dozens of different vendors. organizers say they are already looking forward to planning next year's event. if you watched the washingtonstics play yesterday you may have seen a familiar face in the cror d. ouown meagan fitzgerald and her fiance kelly heath were the honorary captains at the team's annual priou game am see them sitting courtside looking dapper. kelly used to play with and gainst some of the players here. she proposed to megan several weeks agogh you miremember and megan took the yopportunity to express support for the lbgtq community when she announced here on news4 she was engaged on air and we here could not be happier for both of them and we're looking forward to the wedding. >> looked like they were having fun. >> definitely.
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megan is a big sports buff. that must have been cool. traight ahead on news4 today today a new chapter for the catholic chch in d.c. only on news4. we sit down with washington's new archbishop as he talks about his personal life and racism and the sex scandals that have the sex scandals that have shaken the church. december 30th is national bacon day.
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the baptist church in silver spring everyone wants to meet the new archbishop of washington, wilton d. gregory. this face-to-face connection is a priority for him. >> lteno the people. understand them. find out what's on their heaen and t try to respond as generously and lovingly as you can. that's what i'm doing >> reporter: one by one they line up to share a hug or a handshake and to pose for pictures as listens to their stories. >> okay. i'll pray for it. see what happens. >> reporter: it's been a time of turmoil for the catholic church. parishioners and priests have told him how they are fy ling. >> thent me to know how deeply embarrassed, scandalized and ashamed this past year has been for them, and they want me to know that that pain is real, but so is the depth of their faith. >> reporter: that pain stems from high-profile sex abuse scandalsnvolving gregory's two
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predecessors. first the defrocking of now ex-cardinal theodore mccarrick after the vatican found him guilty of sexually abusing children and adults. then the resignation of cardinal donald wuerl, accused of not to doing enough punish predator priests when he served as bishop in pittsburgh. >> every bishop has to be a spokesperson for the church, and that's wh i have to do. i have to do it in a particularly sensitive arena because this is the nation's capital and so much attention is paid to the eventsp that take ce here. >> reporter: people inside and outside of the church are looking for hiseadership. gregory arrives at the very first african-american archbishop here at a time of growing racial tension nationwide. >> i hope i can provide the kind of example that shows people that i can shepherd the entire church. i was not assigned just for the
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african-americans. racism is like a cancer.an it cet assiastasize, it can be dormant, but all it needs is a catalyst to allow it to erupt again. think it will be an ongoing struggle. ♪ >> reporter: he says his place now is here in the pews with his people. presiding over mass at parishes across the archdiocese of shington and on this occasion baptizing a bab and when he isot at church, he is walking among us in the city. you might find him shopping in the aisles of your local grocery store or maybe aying round of golf. >> i am a horrible golfer. absolutely horribl but i love the game. and then when i go home i like to put on casual clothes now at it's nice warm washington summer weather. i like to put on shorts and flip-flops and cook.
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>> reporter: what do you cook? >> i lived foreaour y in italy doing my doctoral studies. love italian food. the italians know how to do itr: >> reporte will we see you outbo and a in the community in your shorts and flip-flops and playing golf? >> you already have. >> reporter: i >>haven't. ome have. to be a human being. to be someone who goes to safeway and buys bananas, who goes into starbucks and has a coffee, it's a humanizing nc experiee for me, and i hope it lets people know that, first of all, i'm very much at home. i very much have enjoyed this first month in washington, and i look forward to many, many more years of service. >> if i see cardinal gregory at safeway. l >> buying bananas, right? and pasta. >> think we can get an invite? >> i don't know. you miht run into him. sounds like he is out and about in the community.
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good to hea some of his thoughts. all right. time right now is 7:16. maybe you are getting ready to head out to sunday services tday. a beautiful start our sunday, but it is going to get hot once again. and doesn't look like there is much relief in store. lauryn will have the details in the full forecast after the break. compare comcast business to your current provider. my current service provider does not pt vide half of whau provide. and to know that i could save money? i'd be thrilled. this sounds like a whole business package, which woulbe incredible. so what are you guys waiting for? let's do it. (laughs) comcast business gives you more. switch now and get fast, reliable internet for a new low price of $39.95 a month. plus, get free installation. better, faster? i mean sn me up. call today at 1-800-501-6000.
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a lot to be worked out included whg a mobile app is going to be ready to use. >> as mark segraves explains, one thing we know for sure is which teams you won't be allowed to bet on. >> reporter: sports bet something ai- multllion dollar industry. d.c officials hope legalized sports betting will brings in tens of millions of dollars in tax revenue. the council is splitwhover ther to award the lucrative contract to operate the district's mobile betting app to the same company that operates the lottery. the head of d.c. lottery and gaming testified at at if the council doesn't approve the contract next month it could be years before d.c. would have a mobile sports app. they say venues like nats park and capital one arena will be ab ie to offer this fall. >> we will be able to license qualified applicants in time to begin sports wagering in early september. >> reporter: once it begins, whether inside a brick and mortar venue or on your phone,
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some you won'te able to bet on. the proposed regulations prohibit betting on d.c.-based college sports teams and television contests with judges. no voting on "the voice" or "america's got talent" leor georgetown. why is it okay to bet on university of maryland? >> it's the access to the local players and the influence that betting could have on them. also, i don't oversee gaming in >> reporter: there is still time for the public to weigh in on the proposed regulations on d.c.-based college teams. in the distr t, mark segraves, news4. that's going be . interesting maryland and virginia are considering legalizing sports betting well. they are more than a year away, if n longer. west virginia already has legalized sportsetting at its
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casinos. interesting to follow that. >> here's my bet. >> what? >> it's going to be hot. >> you would win. >>en i don't. i wouldn't want to wager on the eather consistently. but, you know. >> yeah. >>eah. i agree. it's not an >>act science. o, it's nomt. but, i mean, obviously, we are headed into july. it's going to be hot and humidity. themperatures are going to be in the 90s. >> the humidity, like if you could work with that. >> we are going to lower the humidity today and tomorrow and thene will take it back up just in timeor fourth of july. >> yeah. >> y'all remember coupl a coupls temperatures were in the 60s. probably three years ago. it'satot going to be like th fourth of july. this thursday the heat and humidity come back. you liked yesterday, you are going to love when i have on tht -day forecast. but today we get a small break. temperatures are going to be right around 90. we were 96 yesterday with that hendex around the century mark. today without the humidity the real temperature is going to be
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the feel temperature. it's going to be hot out there. just not as muggy.l beautifuart to the morning. we have got a few clouds out there. falling humidity as we go throughout the day today. that's good news. a little on the breezy side, but we have a heat wave in the works. daily chances of afternoon storms out ere as well. so we will see some storms out there as we get into your tuesday, wednesday, thsday, friday. current temperatures out there right now in the 70s for most of us. and then 60s down in wharton. fairly mild this morning. if you are headed to the vineyards today i'd just think about things you can do outside, temperatures again around 90 degrees even out into some of the vineyards. but plenty of sunshine. put the spf on. a few sprinkles trying to move on the culpeper areaouth and west of d.c. but again for the most part we are drying. we are going to keep an isolated chancestf a rm today. dry with temperatures around 90. breezy northwest winds are going to be the culprit for getting
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that humidity on the lower side. tomorrow it's going to be beautiful, too. temperatures in the mid-80s. and again plenty of sunshine. so for your ol outlook headed today, headed tomorrow, a-okay. tuesday couldave an isolated storm getting into your tuesday. we will have rain chances wednesday, thursday, friday, saturday. all of these are going to be daily afternoon storms. so again we are not going to see rain all day every bday, we could even have some around for the fourth of julyt it will be snd humid for k.e end of this wee k.e end of this wee
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welcome bomk. here is shing you don't hear every day. a wilife rescue group is asking for an unusual donation. >> they wa women to send old bras to help fix broken turtle shells. >> huh? >> yeah, that's what it says. carolina waterfowl rescue is looking for bra fast ners. they are combined with glue to wire turtle shells back together. >> and the group says the majority of turtles hve been run over by cars or boats. so right nowis the busiest season. so any donation helps. >> yeah. the things you never knew. >> i fuld have never thought o that. >> i guess you can't just use glues on the turtles or the tape. >> no, apparently they need your bra. >>e right now is 7:27 on this sunday morning.
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a live look outside at our fronn la here in northwest d.c. a little bit of a breeze, but how hot will it get today? lauryn's got the answer whether we come back. ♪ ♪ start the car! start the car! the ikea summer sale. wooooooo! save up to 50% off select items in store only june 26th to july 7th. ikea.
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disturbing details. new reports say the man accused of killing a missing utah college student once asked a contractor to install soundproof hidden room in his home. and the fallout continues ie collegark. find out how the school's leaders handling of a football player's death could put students at risk of losing federal financial aid. >> announcer: news4 tsoday" starow. and thanks for joining us here on this sunday morning. bright and early.us i'm adam ts. >> i'm tracie potts in foran meitzgerald today. thanks for joiningus. no relief from the heat today. >> no, not at all. >> maybe the next couple of days? >> we are definitely in the middle of a heat wave. that might be breaking in the future, right, lauryn. >>emperatures are going to be around 90 degrees. what constitutes a heat wave is three days at or about 90 degrees. we have had th. 96er yestday. we may break to today.
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still going to be hot. t good news about today. >> it's not going to be that humid out there. we had a frontal system that gh passed thresterday. may have seen a few storms out tv. for the most part we are going conditions. now, the last time we were in the 80s was mondayf this week. temperatures were at 88 degrees. but tuesdaywe 90. esday 91. thursday 92. and then yesterday we were at 96. so aga we are not doing too bad today. re not going to have that humidity. but the humidity will come back. another little dip tomorrow and then back into the low-to-mid 90s for your tuesday and wednesday. we carry that all the way through fourth of july. eamperatures out there right now you are hd out to walk the dog, get some coffee, beautiful out there. no rain to be concerned about cn culpepernty and 64. central shenandoah valley, ray, we are dry. not all week. we could have rain especially for fourth of july. m we will talkore about that coming up. >> all right. thank you very much. meantime, back to that breaking news from overnight.
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president trump becomingrs the fit sitting commander in chief to crossn into orth korea. >> the president invited the north korean dictator to meet him at the dmz earlier this week on twitter. heres so video of that meeting. the concrete section where the two are standing, that is the demarcation line separating north and south korea. the president accepted kim's invitation to cross over. e two walkedback across the line for a dsitdown that's where the north korean media wai not allowed >> if it was not for our excellent relation between the two of us, it would not have been psible to have this kind of thing. so a strong relation to create more good news, whichobody expects. >> american press not allowed ih the room muconger. the two met for over an hour. the president said he did invite chairman kim to the united statesfor a visit at the white house.
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he didn't elaborate further on that. president trump held a press conference earlier with the president of south korea, but no hequestions from t press about the sitdown with kim and the human rights abuses in that country. also not addressed. he answered a few questions with president moon afterwards and he is set to be back in d.c. later this evening. this was the third meeting between the two leaders. the latest developments on the president's trip and more and this first democratic presidentialebate coming up later on "meet the press" at 10:30 this morning after news4 "today." a little bit closer to home now. heavy rains may have played a role in a tragic crash on the beltway that killed a toddler in prince george's county. yesterday we learned 2-year-old leelete andargie of oxon hill passed away. now, on friday she was riding in a car with her family on the outer loop near branch avenue. another car slammed into their vehicle from behind causing a chain-reaction crash. medics took the little girl's mother and 5-year-old sister to
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the hospital wit injuries as well. we are learning new and disturbing details about a man suspected of murdering a missing utah college student. on friday authorities arrested , ayoola aja former member of the utah national guard. he is accused of killed 23-year-old mackenzie lueck last seen alive on june 17. orthorities say phone rec show ajayi was her last phone contact. our affiliate station in utah spoke with a contractor in the area. he says at oneja point asked him to build a secretse room in nt. >> he asked me to build a weird room and i told him no. i am like, ns way. >> thi not ajayi's first run-in with the law. police say they received a rape cplaint against him in 2004 but the female victim did not want toue purs charges. authorities say they intend to charge him with multiple counts, including aggravated > murder. >>ll, new this morning the
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university of maryland facing a major risk. the school could lose theirac editation unless changes are made there. according to our news partners at wtop the middle state's commission on higher eone ti eareer to meet ceduludig gca tna the university was placed on review in november because of how the board of regents treated the death ofotball player jordan mcnair. if the school loses the accreditation the university and students would lose out on federal financial aid. a person on the mend at the hospital after a fire tore through a home on glen brook road in fairfax county. fire caused a lot of damage to the back of the house. this happ yedesterday. investigators are looking into the cause. also in fairfax county an update t rippedmassive fire t through a home in the great falls area. chopper4 captured the flames shooting through the roof of the home onch clarks bran home
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friday night. investigators say one firefighter had a minor. injury two people inside the home ho escaped witut getting hurt. outre still working to fi what caused that fire. well, the frederick county community said good-bye to a career firefighter. take a look. drone video shows t solemn procession for larry powers yesterday morning. a full escort took his body from the liberty town firehouse to his final resting place where a ceremony was held. powers spent more than 50 years as a volunteer firefiplter and ned to retire thisry year. and governor larry hogan ordered flags lowered wednesday to honor his service. he died earlier this week. he suffered a heart attack while responding to this fatal crash in unionville. >> so sad. well, the heat and the humidity did not stop watere res training on t potomac river. >> yesterday montgomery county fire and rescue swift-water rescue teams were brushing up on skills near g falls. as our derrick ward explains the
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leader of this group has a warninif you have nevereen on the potomac. >> it's the kind of day that people who c take to the water and there are few places that are more picturesque than the potomac around great falls. >> a busy season for us for rescues and for service needs. >> arporter: yes, we e familiar with the potomac river. it's synonymous with washington. here it's a different river. different levels, currents, and dangers. >> the seriousness of the river is very dangerous. there are a number of drownings every year in is stretch of water from people swimming, boaters. >> reporter: the swift-water rescue crews train to keep sharp. they have it down to ten minutes from getting a call to hitting the water. honing thesekills also helps them to stay ready for flooding operations when a street can becom kg of a rapid.ey sometimes tho overboard with their efforts quite literally as part of the practice. of course, that incdes people in boats and emrgency vehicles. >> they also include people in the air.
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the best safety aip ofll, so you don't need to marshall all of these resources, is to know your own capabilities and your limits and to know t te river. >>his is definitely not novice water. if you have never done it before get in an organized class and make sure that you are prepared physically and mentally before you make the trek to this section of the water and get yourself in trouble. >> reporter: in great falls, derrick ward, news4. all right. hey, after decades of discussion, metro takes a deeper look at extending service to georgetown. but making that change means that metro would have to build more thanust one new station. we'll explain the plan coming up next on news4.
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circle and farragut north station cooling systems on the red lean. metro stels us while trying to fix the pipes that supply ce cool air,ws hit a lamp post. metro now has permission from d.c. to removeh tat lamp post. they hope to restore the chilled air to the stationext month. as news4 found out, temperatures inside those stations canut roinely stay in the 90-degree range. >> it's hot down there. >> metro starting an afterhours commuter service. it provides a $3 subsidy towards a shared ride on lyft. the program begins tomorrow. workers can getfo subsidies r up to ten rides a week. and a metro station in georgetown? it's something sthaeps been talked about for a long time. now metro is studying whetherr not thatdea actually makes sense. >> yeah, but in order to do it you would needco a send metro station in roslyn.
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yeah. that's a lot to if through. erwent to that station this week to get a bettook how all of it would work. >> reporter: how do you gete mor people from roslyn to the district? you are not going to sosim acr the potomac? >> no. n no,. >> reporter: aside from paddle boarding, metro may be able to help. this is something metro has been dealing with for a long time. how do you get more trains from this side in rosetyn to georgown potentially going farther into the district? it's something the agency is studying. here is the main reason why metro is studyinghi t the current tunnel between rosslyn and d.c. handles a set number of trains per hour. and with the blue, orange, and silver lines trying to cram through the tnel, it's known as the worst traffic chokepoint along the metro system. take a look at this map of a
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potential new route for the blue line. a second station at rosslyn allows the blue line to split off and new stops in places like georgetown, west send, thomas circle, even union station. india booker walking across the key bridge fromeorgetown to rosslyn, she would love a new sattion. >> th would be perfect. yeah. it should be s ap there definitely. >> reporter: no the study will take about two years.a and mke no mistake. a new tunnel could cost billions. some say it would better than the current setup. >> of course i'm upset. it's not easyto ait. >> reporter: for now we wait to see if a second rosslyn station and tunnel are worth it. >> w, that would be convenient, but like -- >> a lot of disrup non. >> it'sot happening next week. >> definitely not happening next week. the study will be about two years. but it's something that they are seriously considering. if they want to fix the logjam
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drew wilder was there to see him sworn in. >> reporter: inside joint base andrews a boy lives out his dream, swearing in 13-year-old orion jolly offao b pilot for the day. first a little training in the same simulator the air force trains with. oh >> o! >> see how excited he is, it's awesome. >> reporter: he was born with a number of diseases and relies on his wheelchair and often a feeding tube nl i want to curl up in a ball and cry because you don't know what to do. >> reporter: he developed a rare and terminal might owe conned result brain disease. >> we can't ask for a day to see my child smile and be able to -- sorry, be able to do this, you know? because people don't realize, you know, what you have when you have it, and we don't. >> reporter: which is t why
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nonprofit check six and the colonel selected orion for the about biannual program at andrews. >> we can replace the bad memories with the good meries. >> reporter: orion wants to be a rescue swimmer in the coast guard. he will need a helicopter to do that. orion will need a medical miracle to join the coastard one day, but in the true spirit of the u.s. service member he is giving himself for other people right now. >> you never know. >> reporter: see those bracelets? orion makes those, sls them and donates the money to the children's hospital specifically to fund research for his disease. i make them to help me fund my care and also to share hope around the word. >> reporter: he'll only be a big deer general for one day, but hisrv e will change countless lives forever. >> good for him.
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don't you loveke stories li that? even though he is sick, you have to makees quality t for the kids, make every day count. >> absolutely. seeing him smile, the pants must be thrilled. let's talk about the weather today. we are going to be flying around. it's going to be a hot one today for sure. >> you are flying around now. >> well, he a pilot for the day, you know? >> not if you are taking your plane out, you know, for a little joyride. >you don't have a plane? >> no. >> you are not taking the plane out? >> i am picking you guys up. >> thank you. >> good to know. i don't know if i want to go anywhere because the weather is so nice. it's going to be very nice todam and torrow with low humidity. still hot.te mperatures at 90 today. our average tempers 88. we are tround normal inime of ar but but not seeing that stickiness, the mugginess that weave here, that thick humidity we tend to get in. d.c oh, it's coming. euesday, yeah, it wilack for us. tuesday, wednesda thursday,
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which is fourth of july, it's always hot and humid on the fourth of jul so we are going to see an uptick in the heat and humidity but not today. a down tick in the humidity today. a beautiful view outside righto n maybe you are thinking about getting that car washed on this sunday morning. i'd say do it because we have an isolated chanceof a shower, a really small chance today, and then also on tuesday. but thenens wit wednesday, thur friday, daily afndrnoon thustorms. the coverage similar to yesterday. current temperatures right now in the 70s for most of our area. lorton at 68. everybody else in the low-to-mid 70s. we take tha temperature as i said to right around 90 throug theiddle part of the afternoon. it is going to be rather nice out there today with plenty of sunshine. so the pool perfect. it will be a little breezy out there, but it will be perfects wi that sunny sky. now, yard work, very sunnytylow humidiput on the spf. so do exercise early or later in
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the evening. few sprinkles getting underway north of i-64 cing through culpeper. most of that has deteriorated. anything in west virginia that will stop at the mountains. not expecting much in the way of anything coming to an impact here.nc an isolated cof a shower or thunderstorm popping up, less than 20% chance. 91 is the temperature for today. breezy northwest winds gusting up to 25, 30 miles per hour. tomorrow mid 80s. it's go to be comfortable tomorrow. monday, tomorrow, is going to be gorgeous. as i said the humidity comes back. you will feel it tuesday, wednesday, definitelyy thursday, fourth of july. some storms out there. maybe you are off early in the morning outside playing golf, doing whatev, 83 degrees. it's going to be humid out there. it will feel like the upper 80s by 10:00 a.m. and close to00 the middle part of theft anoon but we have a 40% chance storms.
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thursday, friday, saturday gorgeous conditions for the maryland and delaware beaches. low-to-m0s look at that water temperature 73 degrees. just about a 30% chance of seeing some storms out there. so we have that isolated chance. some rain out there today and on tuesday, but i think a lot of us, if not all us, are going to be dry. however, we get into your wednesday, thursday, friday, evn into saturdaye have got those daily afternoon rain chances in this heat and humidity. so the 90s come back full force and again it's going to feel close to 100 degrees as we get into your wednesday, thursday, riday, and even saturday. temperatures dip a little bit through the early portion of next week. next week.
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much more straight ahead on "sunday today" today. "meet he press" will break down details from the president's meeting with kim jong un and the recap of this week's democratic presidential debate that startsght here at 10:30 on news4. if you were hoping for ak breaom the heat, ain't haputning. >> b break from the humidity is happening today. >> sure. okay. >> take that. temperatures at 90 degrees today. mid-to-upper 80s tomorrow. again falling humidity today. low humidity tomorrow. so it's going to be more comfortable out there. and then as we get into your tuesday isolated storm >> all right. thanks. thanks. keep it right
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