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looking for at this point? >> right nower they're looking at surveillance video around this area. let me first tell ou, that police chief just told me how brazen it is. this is broad daylight this is s the busin district. a popular block where you have a lot of ubusinesses, and coming in the area. an historic district. and a guy walks into the barber sh n. the creation barber shop you're looking at right now on the other side of this gold van. and this manpens fire. a witness who we talked to on camera told me he heard at least five to seven shots fired. now the police chief says that four men started running away up martin luther king jr. avenue. here's what's interesting there re a lot of people outside. you had failies, people walking the street. business people. they were ducking for cover when
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these shot werre fi. now waiting to find out if the man who was killed. he'sn his late 20s, if hes wa a customer or a barber at this barber shop. we don't know right now. the police are still questioning itnesses. th happened around 3:30 today. you see this building, there's r cam right there. i counted at least five cameras. that's why police chief newsom is going to talk to his homicide etectives, review the cameras to see if the men were wearing masks on their faces. again this news is developing.ta they're ing to people right now. this area is roped off and yes police chief newsom is still talking to his detectives to gather more details. >> back to you. >> ank you, shomari. >> there's a new b scandalrewing in washington.
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some 70 membersof congress are now calling the labor secretary, alex acosta to resign. >> he's under scrutiny for his role in a controversial plea agreement for accused sex trafficker jeffrey epstein on the same day another accuser comes forward to accuse epstein of rape. acosta is defending his role. th>> is a controversy that has quickly becoming a distraction for president trump's administration. trump doesn't like that kind of stuff. co it is growing wendy and leon. secretary aa said he made a good and fair deal in 2008 when heng arraed that plea dea the man is facingch new arges and new prosecution. so the secrery is facin new scrutiny. the man who runs the u.s. labor department is trying to save his own job. >> my relationship with the president is outstanding. he has he has very publicly made clear that i've got his support.
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>> secretary alex acosta was a federal prosecutor in miami in 2008. when he cut a case for wealthy financier jeffrey epstein. ending the investigation. since becoming labor secretary acostas i under new scriny. requiringen stein is plead guilty to asex solicitation charge and serve 13 months in jail. >> you chose child rapists overc the vms in this case. >> the controversy is growing, epstein has pleed not ltty to new charges. the feds say they seized photos of underaged photos. and a woman who says epstein sexually assaulted her when she hos 15 described the encounter on the "today s" >> did jeffrey epstein rape you? >> he raped me. forcefully raped me. knew exactly what he w doing.
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i don't think cared. >> the accuser says she did not go to authorities and is not part of he new york criminal case. nbc news has confirmed she told her mother, ex-boyfriend and two close friends at the time. epstein has not responded to comments for her allegations. epstein lawyers are said toave challenged her credibility. >> so we're going to look at it very carefull n >> nbcws has learned it was president trump who urged secretary acosta to go before cameras today to defend his record. he says he was not send a signal to the president byspeaking. he also said a hend the federals prosecuton florida are trying to do the right thing. >> wendy, back to you. >> the president promised thew sho a lifetime. and the show came with a cost. today news4 is confirmed, military style fourth of july celebration drained a special fu d.c. city nd. a fund that is designed to payf
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extra security and forte anti-rror measures. the pricetag is $1.7 million. news4's mark segraves is on the national mall where the mayor's office is concerned that the trump administration won't pay it back. correct? >> that's exactly right. you know it's a lot more than just the $1.7rt million for fou of july which happened here at the lincoln memorial. it's every day that the d.c. government. d.c. police department provides security and support for federal agencies, federal events, motorcades for the presiden inaugurations state funerals, all those thi the district wants to get paid back, they say it's $13 million and if the trump administration doesn't pay it theyll be left for the d.c. taxpayers to pay it. >> events like saturday's protest on pennsylvania avenue that sparked confrontations on far right activist. require lots of police and other secy. chris rodriguez director of
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d.c.'s homeland security agency says that security can cost millions for sangle event. like president trump's july 4 rally at the lincoln memorial. >> our initial tally for the fourth of july costs were six times larger than in previous years. >> state funerals. in past years, previous administrations have reimbursed the district government to cover those costs in a letter, d.c. mayor bowser to president trump bowser writes that the district hasn't been reimbursed and it's costing d.c. taxpayers millions. according to bowser, the federal government provides the district with a $13 million annual budget to cover those costs, but hasn't been making the payments, like the 2017 presidential inauguration which cost the district 7.3million. the city was never repaid. july 4, cost $1.7 million. which depleted the currnt fu bowser said if the feds don't
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pay, the fund will have a $6 milliondeficit by september. >> that means the district will have to assume the costs of not only providing first amendment and special events security throughout the district. but also for the president's personal protection. motorcade. vice president. members of his family. the districtl have to assume thstse c >> the white house did not respond to our requests for comment on this story. il can tu this this is not new or unique to the trump administration. this has been an ongoing battle between the district government and the federal governmeye. for s. but this is the first time this is the deficit has grow this great and that the federal government has pushed back on reimbursing the city.es that's thet from the lincoln memorial. >> thank you. mark. >> a local police department trying to a clear their for officers and when they should and shou not interact with
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ice. his is e focus of a new training video. the police officers saying they should not iooperate with.e. unless it is a criminal matter. >> a closero l from darcy. >> this video going to be played during roll call at the beginning of each shift to make sure every officer is on boawi th the policy. the chief wants to make sure residents, immigrants here in prince george's county don't end up in the hands for the wrong reason. >> at the crossroads farmers icrket in langley park they're cooking up delus food on this steamy day and selling local produce, it's packed with people some of them who live in fear of i raidsand deportations. >> everybody needs an opportunity and in this country. so i don't know what's going on.
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i know that is more better, soon. >> the prince george's county police department is trying to calm some of those fears. eie chief announcing that officers are b barred from serving immigrants with federal ivil warrants, including deportation orders. he says some residents were mistakenly referred to i.c.e. after interacting with police. >> we welcome it we think it's important for municipal government. police agency, not only to put politics in place, but to also train their implement. >> t that after several people were referred to i.c.e. after interacting with the department. >> all the police officersss acro the department are aware of it and they had the ability to study it and know it. that way they can implement it once they're on the streets and that's h ae victory for our immigrant community. >> the chief says that the ficers were getting criminal
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and civil warrants confused in the national crime information center database. >> i have no doubt that these officers orated in good faith. believing the information listed indicated the individuals were warranted.op toeth me the fear of raids is real and the police policy will help people feel a little safer. >> casa has been handing out these small cards to immigrants here in prince george's county. asically tells them what they should say and not say when they have contact with law enforcement. back to you. >> dorothy spencer, thank you, darcy. developing tonight people along the gulf coast are drying to up and clean out after heavy rain and flooding. >> that's a water spout. a watertornado. >> this snurns this morning. this is bad enough. but it's only a lot worse could be on the way down there. the national hurricane center is
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tracking what could bneome hur barry. n track to hit the gulf coast late they are week. >> amelia draper will give us an update on the tropics, but doug kammerer, we understand we could see rough weather of our own this time tomorrow. is this the stuff that's in new orleans right now? >> nothing to doh with t at all. but we are tracking a good chance for severe storms during date tomorrow. storm team 4 not in weather alert now. alert will be in weather tomorrow. we've got a cold front making its way toward us. here's the storm coming through, two, 2:00, 3 :00, watch what happens, a ton of rain, severe potential is way up during thea rnoon and tomorrow. the biggest potential will be the potential for flash flooding as well as strong winds. storm predicon center has it all in a slight risk. meaning a good chance for severe thunderstorm warnings to come out during the afternoon. heres are the biggest risks. ot will be heavy rainfall with
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the pntial for flash flooding. winds will be a big issue as well. hail and tornado threats much lower. down to the south. you're talking about new orleans, gulf of mexico. hedifferent set of scenario going on down t we're tracking the tropics. this could become barry lar tonight. >> t biggest concern with the storm system is going to be rain. water in genera check itout. here's the latestto on srm team 4 radar. whatwill become barry, as doug said tonight or throughout the day tomorrow. the biggt threat is going to be flooding concerns. especially into parts of louisiana. new orleans saw about 6-10 inches r n. earlier today. we think what's going to happen over the next few days, on into he weekend. parts of louisiana, new orleans, going to sew anio additl 10-20 inches of wafl in the city. the mississippi river has been running high since the beginning of the year.
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so they could also be dealing with flooding from the mississippi river. as well as some storm surge flooding. serious situation going on iadown into louis right now. the hurricane hunters are getting the latest track of the storm. doug h that at 6:25. w ll he used to be a school guidance counselor until police said he met women on tinder and raped them. >> when we come back, what man is now admitting and the important safety advice for people using data apps. >> we'v reported on students being murdered walking to and from school in d.c. now a councilmember is proposing legislation to try to keep students safe. comingup, he's explaining how it will work and how much it will cost. >> the one of a kind
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in montgomery county, a osecutors are saying that a former school guidance counselo was using popular dating app .as his hunting ground cused of sexually assaulting two women he met on the app tinder. >> we have the details. >> 35-year-old colin black was a guidance counselor at albert einstein high school in montgomery county. until his arrest in 2018. he is now pleaded guilty to rcing a woman to have sex with him after meeting her on tinder. >> tinder is called a hooking up app. it's an app where people get together so they have the can have a sexual affair. it's important to realize that
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no always means no. >> the police report says black arranged for a lift to transport the victim to black's residence. three women went to police complaining that cin black sexually assaulted them after meeting him on tinder. >> to were able obtain a conviction on second-degree sexual offense. twice. we got one fore a jury and one that he pled to later and were holding the third case in inactive docket so woe could bring it up later should anything happen with the first two cases. >> i went to the courthouse to the montgomery county rape crisis center. asking what advice they have for women who use dataingps ap to protect themselves from this kind of sexual abuse. >> it'sor impnt that you meet in a public place. you let someone know where you're going. u maybe want to come up with some kind of safety plan with this person. eafriend. >> we srched the tinder website aound they offer
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similar safety tips. meet in public and stay in public. tell friends and family about your plans. and be in control of your transpoatrtn. >> ischr migrant ch ildren being h in an arizonar borde station are speaking outg alleginhat they have been the victimsofsexual assault. erica gonzales in the news room has more on this story this evening. >> the allegations are disturbing. to say the very least. some children detained at the yuma border station say they've been seedually assault by customs and border protection agents. and that is not all. il've already learned of poor conditions at facies in florida and texas. some of the video you're see something from inside a mallum detention center. these new claims have been collected by government case workers visiting the yuma, arizona we should note here that we do not have video yet from inside this facility. but there are reports of unsanitary conditions and
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mistreatment. 16-year-old guatemalan boy says he and others were foed to sleep on concrete. their mats removed when they tacomplained about the e of food and water. 15-year-old girl described an officer groping her and laughing with other agents during a pat-down. a cbp spokesperson says all of those in custody are treated with dignity and respect. and said the allegations will be fully atinvestiged. acting secretary department of homeland secretary calls the reports unsubstantiated. justecently congress passed an emergency funding bill after months of reports on overcrowding. from the news room. i'm erica gonzales. back to you. >> thanks, erica. two d.c. students murdered on their way to and from schoole this ar. now there'sne a push to provide safe passage for students especially for those who live in high ime neighborhoods. news4's megan fitzgerald ha
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more. >> two d.c.udigh school stts robbed of their chance to live their dreams. both boys murdered in may of 2018, in o different crimes. shortly after leaving school. >> terrible. yes, absolutely terrible. >> tyshonn perry was 16 and an honor student. jalen wheeler, a freshman at the ballou who loved football and his family. >> yesterday, at large d.c. councilman david grasso introducedegislation and a different approach the city can take to protect young students. >> right now they're afraid to go to school and that'ot just n acceptable so we see our tenants rates are down. anxiety rates are up. >> grasso sponsoring the safe passage act. he says it would bring city agencies together toigure out ways of effectively making sure students get to and from school safely. >> adults that are hired to be
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on th sstreet withdents as they're going to and from school. that's one area where we could see a lot of >>improvement. e's proposing a freetl shut service at metro station that would take students to and from school. many d.c. parents and neighbors we spoke with think it's a good idea. >> for them to get some type of protection it's a good idea. going back and forth to school. we need to keep our kids safe. >> legislation that gasso says would cost millions of dollars to implement. he said if it saves lives it's worth evy dollar. >> we're talking in the millions. i think it's going to be in the millions of dollars. this is a $ billion budget. i don't see why we can't carve money tout make sure students e safe on their way to and from school. >> mother nature destroyed a painful reminder of one neighborhood's segregationist past. coming up, why some people in that neigorhood want to see it rebuilt. and storm team 4 issued a
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stop claining about what we have because the stuff in new orleans -- there are people in kayaks in thedd mi of the street. >> it could get worse. >> we'll be watching it closely. mississippi river could crest over the levees. >> we don't want to see that . again >> from all the rain this year. they're dealing with that. we'll be seeing picturs. he potential for this storm to ical storm tomorrow morning n.
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and then maybe a hurricane by the time friday and saturday goes around. >> plenty of sunshine. look at that. a beautiful shot right now. it is qui gorgeous. temperature sitting atle 86 to me. >> very nice afternoon. no rain, storminess. back ard petersburg.e around whre we thought they would be today. tomorrow we think they will be everywhere. let's time it out. tonigh at 11:00, no problem. tomorrow morning, waking up we might see a couple of showers tomorrow. maybe a downpour. it could be very soupy, muggy tomorrow. by noon this is when things star to heat up and the humidity. area wide showers and storms are scattered at this point. back to the west we start to see the front move our way. look at 5:00, 5:30 this is nasty weatheranging out around i-81. coming through the d.c. metro area. any time you see the purples,
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that would be severe thunderstorms coming through. very heavy rain behind it. we're going to be in this tomorrow evening for sure. around the evening rush. make your plans accordingly tomorrow. by 11:00,g it's movinout and we look better. let's track the tropics here this is that -- you can see the spin. aoa br level of circulation. the area of circulation right here, the centerti st to get some storms around it. so as of now, this is actually called potential opical cyclone ii. >> it could become barry over the next few hours. here it is right here. two, winds of 30 miles per hour. now the cuent track does bring it towards parts of louisiana together as a category 1 hurricane with 5-mile-per-hour winds a in towards louisiana. heavy rape, upwards of 20 inches.is the missppi river extremely flooded and it continues to flod. it's supposed to crept on
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saturday. -- crest on saturday. >> 9 0 tomorrow, 91 on friday and saturday. the 93 on sunday. weather alert on your thursday, more on that and more on how barry could eventually affect us in the ten-day forecast. the 50th anniversary celebration of the apollo 11 landing will belo fa. >> we're going to show you the light show on the national mall at's never been done before. about all the ways you can celebrate. but first the tragedy of that toddler killed aboard a crowded cruise ship. who the agirl's parentsre blaming now. this brick wall was built in the 1930s to september white community from the black community in arlington county this week's flash flood knocked out a huge section of it. and tonight there's a discussion, should it be rebuilt? d what's thean
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now at 6:30, flood damage in arlington, stirring up debate about a controversial landmark.r >> they talking about this. hall's hill wall. this segregation wall as it's known. it was built in the '30s to separate a white neighborhood from a black neighborhood. and this week's flooding destroyed a large section of that wall. news4's drew wilder talking with neighbors there. they're split on whether that wall should be rebuilt. >> these bricks separate tress two properties by inches. but it separates these two home owners by miles. the bricks fell into laura's
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yard and she wants the wall rebuilt. >> we had the two teachers stop by yesterday. they bring students down here to talk this to them about segregation this is only one facet of that story, but it's an important part of the story. >> the wall was builtinhe 1930s by white people to keep black people out of their neighborhoods. theresa gordon has lived next to the wall for 40 years, we would like to see finish wh the flood started. >> it should all come down and the community can be a community. >> the bigger concern here is less about the what and more about the why. neighbors tell me that usually when it rains they deal with flooding suescause the storm drain isn't enough to hand this will neighborhood. so regardless of what happens with the segregation wall neighbors want the county to deal with the storm drain. >> the stormwater infrastructure s not kept up with the development. i was not here when it happened. but my neighbor filmed this.se you've en the videos, water was rising in the entire block. >> i asked arlington county what it plans to do about the
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segregation wall and officials tell me the wall does not belong to the county it's owned by the property owners i individual section, as for whether or not the cinnty could do someth if it wanted to, officials tell me they're still looking no that. monday's record rainfall is still causing some other issues. traffic. kirby road is closed both ways between chain bridge road and chester brook road. it will remain clesed until further notice. and in montgomery county, belfast road east of macarthur o evard, closed tomorrow through saturday. people be allowed to park in the bethesda metro station in the meantime. two months after police found a man shot to death inside a burning car, they still know who did it and tonight they're going door to door. handing fut this lyer. hoping neighbors can lead them to a suspect. prince george's county bureau chief tracee wiins live in capital heights watching investigators canvass that neighborhood.
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tracee? >> prince george's county police arriving behind me there you can see the detectives, they're going to be handing outhese flyers to folks on this block. asking questions about what happened on that night in early may. right overhat way is where the body of devontae dixon was found inside the car. he was shot to death and the car set on fire. let me give you a closer look of ineos nt onde ndlinga ha e investigation and asking for anyone to come forward who may have information that can help to lead to an arrest. this all happened around 10:20 p.m. on aiken avenue in capital heights. oining us live now, devontae' mom, angel who came out here to work with police as they do this canvass. would like thing yo people to know as police are trying to ask for help in this? >> devontae. didn't deserve what happened to him.
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i am a grieving mother that's asking for help in the public. if anybody know anything to please contact prince george's county police. i was home, i put a report out and everybody on social media. saying my son was deceased, before i even was notif d. so somebody knows something out there. what happened to my son. >> people here, prince george's county police believe that lkme fohave information that can help police solve this case. can you remain anonymous and receive up to $25,000ewn rrd money if you can assist to help in closing this ongoing investigation. prince george's county police saying pt thisnt they have no leads. reporting live in capital heights, i'm tracee wilkins, back to you. >> thank you, tracee. a man caught on camera setting a fire outside of the national archives building is
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pleading guilty. aws4's scott mcfa was first to break the story. u the.s. attorney's office said jacob wallace set a gas can on fire. it happen back in april. security camera captured the suspect ruing away from the scene. this man allegedly told fbi voices. >> president trump says his piministration is hong to improve treatment for the tens of mlions of americans who suffer from kidney disease. the president signingn a executive order outloining proposals that would change the current system. that directive orders federal agencies to better educate, treat people in early stages of kidney disease. his plan calls foran incentive for people who donate organs ith reimbursements for lost wages and child care. it also has the potential to shake up the current treatment industry. >> crucially our new system will nsure that more patient
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undergoing dialysis can do rom the mfortf theio s own home. >> hhs will launch an awareness campaign. since 40% of tse with kidney dieyase don't realize th have it. the red cross is putting out the emergency call for blood donations. summer is usually a slow season for donations. this year is even more challenging. last week the red cross said it was short some 17,000 donations. if you want to help change that course,that trend, you can find a donation center by searching red cross in the nbc washington app. ave you ever been on metro. you know the g trains can crowded. now metro has a unique way of fighti it. especially when it comes to a certain male habit. >> plus, did the president illegally profit from his own hotel? nbc news justice correspondent will be here to explain why the president can't be sued. >> take a look. this is whatr the rada could
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> there are new developments in the investigation into the death of a toddler who fell from a cruise ship. >> that family is now placing blame squarely on the cruise line. >> chloe weeken died after ro falling thh an open window on the royal caribbean cruise ship "freom of the seas." police in puerto rico say the mo 18-nth-old fell 11 stories, lading on a dock below. the family says the little girl's grandfather had idea the window was open there weren't any signs indicating the windows were open. royal caribbean says it's assisting local authorities, but has not respondo allegations of possible negligence. well virgin setback onop of the nation's list of best
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states for business. the annual survey by cnbc weighed many factors like work force, the economy, quality of life and cost of doing business. virginia has been the sop businesste three other times in the 13 years that cnbc has done the survey. last year the state came inur foth place. maryland if you're ndering ranked 31st on this year's list. >> this is agn campai that we've seen on the subway stem in new york. it has to do with a topic that some on social media have take ton shaming people. call it, manspreading. metro posting thisia one on soc media. as part of a manners campaign. they're encouraging people to respect their fellow riders. ibut we should po out that this is not exclusive to guys. enyone can spread out. and also we wom have our purses and our, bags and often we- need to spread them ought over the place. >> yes. >> so it's like people, ju be aware of other people. >> the expectation is that the
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guys areu sosed to be chivalrous and allow you to -- >> don't start mansplaining. we have enough with the man spreading. we areoing to show you the out of the world tributes to apollo 11, 50 years after man walked on the moon. tomorrow is going to be a storm team 4 weather alert day. doug is tracking something we don't need. tdt'has
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and maryland after a federal a lawsuit rt toss that challenged the president's ownership of that hotel.t he lawsuit claims the president is violing the constitution's emoluments clause. when he profits from foreign and state government visitors, who visit that hotel. maryland and d.c. argued that the hotel was competingunfairly with national harbor and the city's convention center. nbcst jice correspondent pete williams here to break it down. tearly the judges were not impressed by arguments being made by the district of maryland. ianwas a unimous decision. >> a three-judge panel on appeal from a judge in maryland who had ruled in favor of ts lawsuit. what the three-judge panel said is there are two problems with the lawsuit. first they said number one, you can't prove that the foreign officials and the state official who is are staying at this hotel were doing itsimply because they wanted to curry favor with
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the president. maybe th liked the hotel. maybe there were a lot of other reasons. secondly a bigger problem they said is let's assume they're right. let's assume that peer were staying at that hotel in order to get money to the psident or curry favor with him. how could a court fix that? what the appeals court said if we were to rule that the president couldn't receive anyci finan benefit from that hotel. people might still say at the hotel to curry favor with him knowing it's still owned by his family. w thatld still hurt the business for the d.c. and maryland convention centers and the national harbor. so for all thoseeasons they tossed the lawsuit out. karl heracine, t d.c. attorney general and the maryland tok say they'll they can go to the court of appeals or the supreme court. >> it's in their court to decide if they want to do something next. >> it's their decision to decide this there are other emoluments claus cases pending. most o notably filed by
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members of congress had who sayo the ctitution says the president can't receive an hmolument without the permission of congress and t say they're being left out of this process. >> pete williams, justice correspondent and of coue much more ahead on "nbc nigly news" with lester holt coming up. next week is the 50th anniversary of the apollo 11 moon landing. it was a time that the entire country came together. watching those small steps and hearing the famous words from neil armstrong. this is just one of the wheys t smithsonian plans to mark the anniversary. the washington monument will essentially being a rocket. news4's derek wa has more on the celebrations. >> it's hard to believe it's een half ain century s a massive saturn 5 blasted three americans into space on their way to the moon as the world watched. >> not many houses, households
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in israel had tv sets so i was at my grandma'snd we went to the neighbor's, especially to see the launch to the moon and it was very >> next week people around here will be able to get excited all over again by a life-sized image of the saturn rocket on the national mall. >> the saturn 5 rocket is 363 feet tall. perfectly. >> special screens set up along the mall will show mission images. cluning the lunar landing. >> one small step for man, one giant leap f manwind kind. >> it will be a first for the monument. >> if that's not reason enough for you to be looking up over th next few days, here at the r national cath is a whole other reason to cast your guys skyward. >> amid the splashes of light os ne. the space window stands out with its haunting mix of darkness and sght. >> itves as a shrine to the o couragef man and his space. tion of >> in the center, a moon.
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a sliver of moon rock dedicated by a nasa astronaut on the five-year anniversary of the moon landing. some aances from the cathedral to get it into place. >> we promised the white house, we promised the smithsonian and all parties thatbe. including houston's space laboratory, we would take good care of this rock. >> s yme 50ears after man took that giant leap on the lunar surface, you only need to travel between thnational mall and the national cathedral to enjoy a unique celebration of america's forays into space. 4.rek ward, news >> i got goosebumps knowing the moon rock is in the national we didn't know that. it's so wonderful. >> we've got to get down there.k >> loat it. >> look at the whole display that's going to be there. very cool. >>'lcar pool. >> i'll call uber.
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it's going to be a hot next week but we have rain to get through fest. >> we'v got another chance of strong to severe thunderstorms tomorrow. potentials there for flash flooding. i don't think it will be like monday where we saw all of this lot of ing down for a the area. now tomorrow's flash flooding could happen locally. i want yo be prepared for it nonetheless. area-wide thunderstorms, a good bet. out there now, plenty of sunshine, a nice afternoon. temperaturewise, sitting at 86 degrees. heat index up to around 90 degrees. 77 byround 10:00, 11:00 tonight. 96 he'sberg. 94 inua qico and 90 towards annapolis. it's hot and humid. for today, the avage high of 9d, we're a little bow low that temperaturewise. no rain early, no rain around our area.t immediate area. we'll beki tracng storms around mountains of wes virginia and western maryland. what's expected tomorrow is a gd chance of srms and those
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storms are coming our way from the west. you can see some of them firing up along a cold front around chicago. right on down south of st. louis. a lot of rain associated with this and the potential for us tomorrow is going to be there for some severe weather. hat's why the storm prediction center has placed us, the entire area now. s in theght risk. in the area inyellow. it means that normally we'll se o to three warnings in our aroma. i think torrow we might see more than that. we're going to be watching this very closely to see how much we do have in the way of severe weather. here's future weather. 7:00 a.m. maybe some owers around 7:00 a.m. they'll be spotty. th could be fairly heavy. now noon, everybody on the dry side for the most partyou can art to see the storms developing, b3:00, starting to see scattered storms and watch this the front moves closer to our area. look at this around 6:00. haguers
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hague errs hagerstown. this line could move so we will see flash flooding. we not expecting to see what saw on monday. some areas in pacific. another area in pink that means vere thunderstorms and behind it we continue to see the rain moving through. around 8:00, 9:00. if you have plans out tomorrow evening you want to watch out for the storms, they mean business, let's take on the thursday planner. 74 warm tomorrow morning, isolated swers, possible thunderstorm, it's in the afternoon we see the storms develop. that'shy tomorrow will be a weather alert day. 91 on your friday. 91 on saturday. 93 on sund. next week, we're talking some big-time heat. making your way toward the end of next week. >> thanks, doug. confetti and champagne.is
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hey, how about this ticker tape parade today? >> that was pre >> we love it. remember last year the capitals, we have fun wi arades. we're still having fun with it. let's hope they come to d.c. a victory tourdy has alreaeen scheduled for the u.s. women'sal nation team it starts august 3 at the rose bowl where 20 years ago today the women woman their second world cup. the four other stops on the toun haveot been announced yet. details for another day. today a team that continues to climb mountains, in a canyon of heroes. confetti falling from the sky in new york city. they host the parade for the world cup champions. second straight world cup, the fourth overall. plenty to celebrate this morning in a new york the team having a ceremony at city hall. you know what, they werepr ented with the keys to the city. before even more confetti. can't have enough. confetti certainly falling and the popularity rising and the
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connection growing. >> we have been known as america's favorite soccer team. but from here on out we'll just be known as americs team. >> we really do appreciate all that it takes to shut down the b biggestest city in the world. with thestbiggest team in the world.an thyou for that. that means the world to us. >> even the cab drivers were happy. maybe not. two players from washington spirit coming home champions, marilyn pugh and lavelle. her spirit teammates were on a plane watchi and were proud to call rose one of their own. >> when rosie scored it was like a breath of fresh shair.
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deserved that completely and it was such a sweet goal, too. and she is a world- >> i was sitting with tori and my teammates, i put my hand over myce. was so excited. crazy roommate story. we're a mellow bunch. they have so much personality. they make anything very fun hanging out and hanging out in the apartment. teaching rose how to cook is exciting. so they're vy, i miss them a lot. i'm excited for themto come home. >> first they ve to to the nd espis a all over the place. the grass is fine at wimbledon. but it's not rafael nadal's best surface. even though he's number two in thewo rld, he's seeded third ato wi roger federer is the second eed, but third in the world rankings, it adds to the ticipation of nadal and federer meeting in the
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semifinals. >> fed certificate in the far court. nishikori sends a backhand to the other corner b. 37 -year-old returns it, federer beats nishikori and advances to friday's semifinals against rafael nadal. he was in the far corner. ot.ry with a dropped rafa gets there. and with match point rafa serving, query with the return and nadal ends it with the forehand. nadal ends in straight sets, will play roger ferer in the semis on friday. sw-19. postal code for wimbledon. >> thank you. dave. thanks, dave. thank you for joing us. "nightly news" starts here in 60 seconds. we'll see you back here at 11:00.
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