in the gilchrist came to the chapel for buddhist services at which time they observed gilchrist and inmate ] go to the tv video cabinet to watch religious tapes. i observed gilchrist on his knee and face and hands when [ bleep ] in the crotch area hands rubbing the area and the head was moving back and forth. any comments? >> i am just going to say not guilty. it didn't look like what it was. the video cabinets, he was standing there watching a movie, rewinding it, and i was in the bottom half of the cabinet looking at videos we haven't seen and the officer came walking by. and i knew it looked bad. i said there was nothing sexual going on. >> there was nothing sexual going on? >> no. >> you were putting movies away? >> the officer said he saw your head moving back and forth and your hands were in -- >> my hands weren't in his crotch, but we were talk, yeah. i move a lot when i talk. >> all right. any other comments on this? >> no. just that i ask be to somewhat lenient or something because i have been good. >> certainly seems like that there's sufficient evidence that there was sexual goi

inmate gilchrist came to the chapel for buddhist services.imately six to eight feet from the annex room where an inmate and gilchrist, i observed gilchrist on his knee, his face and hands were in pendleton's crotch area. signed off. >> i'm going to say not guilty. it didn't look like what it was. the video cabinet is tall. he was standing there watching the movie, rewinding it. i was in the bottom half of the cabinet. i was putting away videos we had already seen. and the officer came walking by. i knew it looked bad. i told him right -- >> certainly seems like there's sufficient evidence that there was something sexual going on. i'm going to find you guilty of group violation number 15, sexual misconduct. it is a class "b" which can be up to 90 days. i'm just going to go with 60 just like you had on the last one. 60 days disciplinary detention. do you wish to appeal this decision? >> no. >> no appeal? okay. >> he's going into dd because he was found guilty of disciplinary problems. so he is allowed two sets of clothes, two toothpaste, two de

i'm aaron gilchrist. >> and i'm eun yang. welcome to "news4 today."t's wednesday, august 26th, 2015. we're happy you're here? >> me? >> both both, you and you. and chuck bell as well. >> you have good

i'm aaron gilchrist. >> i'm "e.rerika gonzalez. change of plans this weekend, we'll tell you the handful of metro stations closing starting tonight. >>> and the honor students are preparing to give for a beloved principal after his death. >>> a man arrested four times for threatening to assassinate u.s. presidents. who local lawmakers say dropped the ball. but first, let's check in with tom kierein. >> with pleasure this morning. we have got beautiful weather moving in. this flag at union station on capitol hill is flapping a little bit, a bit of a breeze coming in out of the north and west. that is bringing in the lower humidity. your friday headlines, a mild morning. much less humid afternoon. beautiful summer weather coming in and then a dry pattern is going to be setting up here for the next seven days. temperatures getting much more comfortable now. metro area, right in washington, eastern southern suburbs, low 70s. still humid around the bay. we're down into the 60s, most of maryland and virginia and into the mountains only a

i'm aaron gilchrist. >> i'm erika gonzalez. we want to get straight to your weather and traffic on the 1s with tom kierein tracking all the wet weather coming our way. >> we had one line of showers come through in the last couple of hours. now it's moving off to the north and east, now in northern anne arundel, bowie up to crafton and up to columbia and howard county. elsewhere, the pavement is sort of damp in northern virginia. but it's still wet in prince george's county. it looks like this area in green under a flash flood watch could get some heavy downpours that may cause some high water and includes fairfax county, all of prince george's, anne arundel, southern howard. watch out for high water tonight. now the main threat is that heavy rain from storms coming through. there's a moderate threat for some wind dusts that may cause some brief strong gusts and the very low chance of any tornados or hail. but praa pretty good chance of heavy downpours this evening. stay with storm team 4 as well as our nbc washington app. we'll

i'm aaron gilchrist. >> i'm eun yang. welcome to "news4 today" for this thursday. it is august 27, 2015. >> your headlines in a minute. but first a check on things on with chuck bell in your hour by hour forecast. >> good morning, aaron and eun and welcome to your thursday, everybody. off to a delightly cool start this morning. 65 downtown, but 59 in college park. silver spring, 61 reston town center and bristow and bull run. 60 degrees on the nose at dulles international airport. here's what the sky will look like for the day. mostly sunny today. looks like a very nice blue sky kind of an afternoon. temperatures in the 50s and 60s this morning. 79 at lunch time. 82 by the time you're coming home from work and school. and 77 by 8:00 tonight. a perfect day to be outside today. a perfect day to do anything except sit in traffic. melissa mollet with more on that. >> it's never a perfect day to sit in traffic. no good time for that at all. branch avenue at auth road, a bit of a slowdown there near the beltway. top of the beltway, no problems. b.w. parkway, 95 and 29 fl

in washington, aaron gilchrist, news 4. >> great story, a look into the future. >>> we are looking live outside right now. it is the last saturday for summer break for many students. a beautiful shot of national harbor. >> lots of zooms into that ferris wheel. the first week back for those folks mike sticky. amelia is back with when we could >>> new this morning, an egyptian court sentenced three al jazeera journalists for being part of the muslim brotherhood and damaging national security. they denied breaking laws. defense attorney miss clooney sends a message that journalists can be locked up for simply doing their job. >> there may be a solution for those of you struggling with high levels of cloes roll. the food and drug administration approved a drug yesterday. it lowered bad cholesterol by 60%. if fda says the drug is going to cost $14,000 a year. to take it, tough give yourself a shot. >> the next story is not from a teen magazine. researchers say the way you eat pizza says something about your personality. they break it down into four groups. if you fold your pizza then eat it,

. >> aaron gilchrist takes a look at one program helping those who serve find not only work, but a step toward a career. >> reporter: i.t. work is a far cry from his last job. he spent eight years in the marine corps and two years in iraq. >> i experienced a heavy emotion that i felt at one time, maybe one day in iraq every day, over and over again. >> reporter: after leading the marines in battle, he returned home to find a new career in the private sector. he bounced from one job to the next and discovered a reality he wasn't prepared for. >> a lot of people say thank you. >> we bring them on as fully salaried, fully benefits, then we start to train them. if they make it through the training, they are ready to be deployed. >> reporter: he's hired and trained many former military as they head the vocation, education and training service members program in 2018. >> accomplish the mission at all costs. they cover each other when someone is out, even after obtaining my message. it was still a difficult process for the simple reason i didn't have the experience, hands on experience. >> rep

i'm aaron gilchrist. >> and i'm eun yang. welcome to "news4 today." it's wednesday, august 26th, 2015. we're happy you're here? >> me? >> both both, you and you. and chuck bell as well. >> you have good news for us? >> i do have good news. thank you very much. welcome, everybody. a beautiful day coming up from the weather department today. 61 in gaithersburg, 63 in brandywine. sun's not up for another hour and a half. temperatures will stay in the mid-60s through 11:00. and then 70s. planning out the afternoon, sunny, warm, low humidity. temperatures hovering in the low 80s with 100 sunshine for the afternoon and thinning out to evening. sun's down at 7:48 this evening. holding temperatures in the 80s through 7:00 and back to the low 70s by 7:00 p.m. emilia siegel has that school forecast. >>> right now, we want to stick with the biggest issue that is going to be the biggest problem probably throughout the morning. at least let's hope so that no crashes top up. the ramp from southbound gw parkway to inbound key bridge shut down. inner loop and outer l

i'm aaron gilchrist. >> i'm angie goff in for eun yang. looks like the heat and the stickiness continues but relief is in sight. >> tom kierein has a look at your forecast. tom? >> at least not as hot, courtesy of some showers moving in later today. right now, getting some showers in west virginia, thundershowers up in western pennsylvania. they'll stay well to our west this morning. leading edge of that, just beginning to come into the panhandle of west virginia. they may be getting closer maybe to martinsburg and winchester, luray. maybe around noontime. that's the new hour by hour timing here as we go forward into the afternoon. maybe those thundershowers there by noontime. 1:00 or 2:00, and then it looks like a few scattered thunderstorms, right in the metro area between 5:00 and 6:00 p.m. then as they move off to the east they dissipate into mid evening this evening. so stay with us here. storm team 4 will get you updated. if you hear thunder get inside and see if there are any threats in your neighborhood by later this afternoon. mel

news4's aaron gilchrist is at our live desk with more. >> we got the update on the investigation fromirginia state police and buried at the bottom of an emafls the p-mail paragraph -- now, we don't know if that means vester flanagan actually reached out to or contacted any of these groups. it is clear though, some of his on session with terrorists showed up in his writings. now, other news to come out of that e-mail today, police say that flanagan fired 17 shots at allison packer and adam ward in that attack the other afternoon. doreen, back to you. >> aaron gilchrist, thank you. >>> a force of nature, that's how andy parker is describing his daughter, alison, the reporter who was gunned down during a live tv interview. parker spoke late this afternoon saying he hopes the shooting will renew gun control efforts and push for background checks. he says he visited wdbj-tv where alison worked and met with her co-workers as well as virginia governor, terry mcauliffe. >> this was alison's home, her home station. and i, you know, met the people that she worked with and the people that really

i'm aaron gilchrist. >> i'm eun yang. welcome to "news4 today" for this thursday. it is august 27, 2015. >> your headlines in a minute. but first a check on things on with chuck bell in your hour by hour forecast. >> good morning, aaron and eun and welcome to your thursday, everybody. off to a delightly cool start this morning. 65 downtown, but 59 in college park. silver spring, 61 reston town center and bristow and bull run. 60 degrees on the nose at dulles international airport. here's what the sky will look like for the day. mostly sunny

i'm aaron gilchrist. >> i'm angie goff in for eun yang. welcome to "news4 today" and the heat continues to build as we get our workweek started. >> get ready for it. tom kierein is in the storm team 4 weather center to tell us how hot get. >> you can see the hot and the humid. there's haze hanging in the air over northwest washington. there's tenleytown and bethesda. and we have a mostly clear sky, but it's hazy this morning. a warm morning, your headlines, hot afternoon. then our storm chances will be increasing over the next several days, beginning tomorrow. right now it's warm and muggy. in the upper 60s

i'm aaron gilchrist. >> i'm eun yang. puddles are drying up this morning.hings will warm up without yesterday's humidity. >> storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell is here with the weather headlines. chuck? >> that's right. all the good news in the forecast is that temperatures will be at or below average for this afternoon. and more importantly, the rain chances are gone. and the humidity is leaving as well. last of the drops out to atlantic city. couldn't rule out a few stray sprinkles across southern most st. mary's county. but by and large, 99% of us will be rain free for today. temperatures 71 in washington. 63 in manassas and ashburn. 61 in front royal and martinsburg. a nice start this morning. here's the way your day breaks out hour by hour. temperatures staying in the mid to upper 60s through 7:00. mid to upper 70s by 11:00 and then full sunshine, low humidity. temperatures mid 80s and a perfect night for doing everything from backyard barbecuing. how is the ride on 270? >> it is good this morning. no problems re

i'm aaron gilchrist. now at 5:00 a.m. as the murder rate ticks up, the men in this video could help solve an american university man's death near the shaw metro. >>> and a police officer behind bars this morning. what court documents say he did wrong in a shooting death. >>> and we're talking about the weather, of course, aaron, this morning. tom, over the next couple of hours it will get hot and muggy. then we'll cool off, right? >> showers may be moving in later today. right now though we're starting off with maryland 95 north at route 100, there's when lane -- i got to do the traffic. awesome. >> that was very good, tom. i can come and do the weather. >> starting off with -- yes, melissa now your time to do the weather. >> 68 in frederick. >> see, what a team. we are a team. it's in the 60s and 70s in the region. here is the hour by hour forecast over the next six hours. partly cloudy through the morning. no travel problems weatherwise for the morning commute. by 9:00 it will be around 80 and by 11:00 a.m., into the mi

. >> good morning, i'm aaron gilchrist. now at 5:00 a.m., pack a lunch, stuff the backpack. many of you are waking up and getting into the back to school routine. and there's extra protection on the roads helping d.c. students get to class safely. >>> we're learning about a huge fire at an apartment complex in prince william county. let's go to the live desk for an update on that. angie? >> we have this developing story out of prince william county. a firefighter recovering right now after a fire tore through an apartment complex in the lake ridge area. take a look at this map. this is along the meandering way. crews arrived within minutes of it breaking out. you can see from this picture here, the fireball shooting from the roof. the fire's contained to one building but we have up to 18 units evacuated. dozens are gathered in a clubhouse nearby. getting aid from the red cross. now, we know that meagan fitzgerald is headed to the scene, hoping to find out what started this fire. >>> it is now time to check the forecast. storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell tracking what kin

i'm aaron gilchrist. >> i'm eun yang. welcome to "news4 today." all that in a minute, but first let's check in with kristin wright and a live update at the newsdesk. >> a student who was shot at a college campus, just last night, has died we have learned. this is new information from what we told you at the top of the show. police swarmed savannah state university in georgia last night. the campus was on lockdown. someone was shooting in the student union. the student who was killed was a junior from atlanta. no word on the shooter at this point. we just know that police are investigating. back to you. >> all right, thank you. >>> let's turn things over to chuck bell now. he's breaking down the hour by hour forecast. >> all right. a beautiful way to get your friday morning started. your weekend just one little old work day away. 54 now out in the panhandle of west virginia. 59d in culpepper. 65 at reagan national. hour by hour through the day. skycast 4, mostly blue skies again for your friday. temperatures upper

i'm aaron gilchrist. >> i'm erika gonzalez in for eun yang.the weather. >> tom kierein is talking about some showers. >> yeah, came through the metro area, getting some moderate rain right here in the area in orange in prince george's county. this stretches all the way from where 301 meets route 5 and all the way up to near bowie, laurel, that's tracking right into anne arundel county. also this one area of some downpours now near laytonsville and that's moving away. later today, late afternoon and this evening some heavy downpours in this area. in green. could give us some flash flooding, including the immediate metro

in washington, aaron gilchrist, news 4. >>> we are 15 minutes away from the start of the "today" show4. let's see what they are working on. >> let's get to new york and check in with our friends. good morning. >> good morning, guys. ahead here on a saturday morning, we are following developing story. a sheriff's deputy gunned down overnight in cold blood. he was filling up his patrol car. the killer is on the loose. a massive manhunt is under way. we are going to get to the latest in that story. >>> all eyes focus on erika as it takes aim at florida. the governor declaring a state of emergency. this is happening as we remember hurricane katrina which struck the gulf coast ten years ago today. al roker is live this morning in new orleans with a look at how that city recovered. >>> the rich and famous are flocking to nevada's desert this weekends. maybe you have heard about burning man, which gets bigger every year. why it's the hottest ticket in town. >>> one man's dream comes true. he gets to dress as a teenage mutant ninja turtle for his wedding. why would his girlfriend say yes? we

i'm aaron gilchrist. >> i'm angie goff in for eun yang. welcome to "news4 today." looks like the sticky weather is hanging around. >> that's right. let's start with tom kierein and your hour by hour forecast. >> good morning. starting off morning, yeah, that humidity still hanging in the air and the storm team 4 radar showing some showers, some thundershowers, west virginia and pennsylvania. most will stay well west of the metro area for the rest of the morning. the leading edge of this, a few sprinkles from near luray and to the west of winchester. that may track closer to hagerstown and martinsburg over the next few hours, but elsewhere, around the metro area it will stay dry for the morning commute. temperatures right now are mild and muggy. in the upper 60s to right around 70 degrees. there's that predawn glow, live view from our tower camera. mid 70s by 10:00. hitting mid 80s by noontime. partly sunny sky. a look at your bus stop weather forecast in the next weather and traffic on the 1s. what's happening now, melissa? >> update on the 95 northbound situation.

i'm aaron gilchrist. >> i'm erika gonzalez. let's get straight to tom with your answers in your weather headlines. >> oh, that beneficial rain we had yesterday in some of the heavy downpours that caused the flooding that is now long gone. it's now crossing out of delaware bay. heading out over the open waters of the atlantic and behind that to our west. we have a clearing sky, all dry now on the storm team 4 radar on this friday morning. and the temperatures right now around the region are hovering in the 60s. low to mid 60s with the lower humidity. near 70 in washington. low humidity now pushing into prince george's county and around the chesapeake bay. that's capitol hill now under this partly cloudy sky and temperatures will stay mild through the morning. turning less humid even during the afternoon. even lower humidity moving in and then the dry pattern is setting up here. it will be in place for the next seven days. a look at your drive time forecast at 6:11. melissa, chopper 4 up over the beltway. >> up over the top of th

news4's aaron gilchrist has a look at where the money is going and what may very well be the future ofphilanthropy. >> it's one small step for man. one giant leap for mankind. >> reporter: words that resonate across time, images that left the people over the world in awe. neil armstrong in 1969, the first man who set foot on the moon. armstrong's suit spent 30 years on display, teaching tool after making history. then in 2006, it was locked away. >> we have discovered over the decades that some of the materials in the suits are deteriorating. >> reporter: behind these doors in virginia is a massive state-of-the-art vault where the suit is being preserved but the smithsonian wants the public to be able to see it again. >> what we are hoping to do with the neil armstrong suit is about put it on display in a case that will have its own air handling system. >> reporter: but the institution doesn't have money for that the cash that comes from congress nice keep the museums open and operating, so, a third of the smithsonian's budget has to come from somewhere else. >> we have to go out to fo

i'm aaron gilchrist. >> i'm angie goff in for eun yang. welcome to "news4 today" and the heat continues to build as we get our workweek started. >> get ready for it. tom kierein is in the storm team 4 weather center to tell us how hot get. >> you can see the hot and the humid. there's haze hanging in the air over northwest washington. there's tenleytown and bethesda. and we have a mostly clear sky, but it's hazy this morning. a warm morning, your headlines, hot afternoon. then our storm chances will be increasing over the next several days, beginning tomorrow. right now it's warm and muggy. in the upper 60s and near 70, right near the bay, 70. it's near 70 in the shenandoah valley, but out of the mountains low to mid 60s on this monday morning. next weather and traffic on the 1s, your drive time forecast. melissa checking on some problems on the rails. >> yes. problems on the rails on marc. grab that extra cup of coffee this morning. you'll have a few extra minutes. penn south 401, running 20 minutes behind. not giving us a reason, but the

. >> i'm aaron gilchrist. welcome back to "news4 today." 5:30 right now. >>> storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell looking at what is happening today weatherwise. good morning to you. >> good morning. tuesday off to a quiet start as far as any weather slowdowns today. nothing to worry about from the weather department. we have all of the green lights. melissa mollet will let you know where the yellow and red lights are in a second. 66 in hagerstown. 59 in luray. 61, culpepper. 71, washington. 73 in edge water, maryland. the sun is up at 6:31. temperatures near 70 on your way out the door. and a gorgeous afternoon coming up. temperatures will be up into the upper -- low to mid 80s for later on today. a gorgeous day. there's your area wide high temperatures. low to mid 80s. plenty of sunshine. nothing to worry about whatsoever. so there's all good news. now, what about the red lights? 270 is a parking lot by 5:30 most mornings. >> most mornings about this time is the time to start to see some slowdowns. no worri

. >> good morning, i'm aaron gilchrist. welcome back to "news4 today." we want to get it started this half hour with a look at our weather headlines. >> storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell tracking what kind of day we'll have for back to school. chuck, good morning. >> back to school. the only thing good about the first day of school, you know you didn't forget to do your homework at least once. back to school, keep a close eye out, everybody, for extra kids along the sides of the road -- on the way back into school. kids, you need to know you should have your umbrella ready to go because there's a chance of a shower or thunderstorm coming in on the way home today. nothing to worry about on the way out the door. and bus stop forecast, mild, 69 degrees this morning. plan on being around 90 degrees for later on this afternoon and again, that does come with a chance for thunderstorms. not looking for a big threat in the way of severe weather, but any time we'll have kiddos dodging the drops we like to make sure they know all about it. that little -- you n

i'm aaron gilchrist. welcome back. chuck bell, how about that change? >> all right, the change begins really later this afternoon into tonight and tomorrow. for now it's another comfy start to the day. a lot of folks have had the windows open in the suburbs in the last couple of mornings. that cool morning trend is coming to an end. 50s and low 60s now. sun is up at 6:33 this morning. 7:00 to 8:00, low 60s. and then 8:00 to 9:00, 60s. recess temperatures mid to upper 70s. dismissal time, the most important one of the day, you're done. opened of the day. i wish we had a bell here. other than me. >> we'd hurt each other running out of here. all right. still have a problem here on the roads. 95 south there at route 1. now, again, we had this crash, getting by to the left here morning. we have a one mile backup now building. hoping that's going to get out of the way soon. blue line, single-tracking between foggy bottom and arlington cemetery, orange and silver lime between foggy bottom and clarendon. all main routes into and out of town look good with the e

i'm aaron gilchrist, news4. >>> more kids, more counties headinging back to school, make sure you dressthem in the short sleeves, plenty of water in their backpack, too, right? talk about what's going on across the area. showers around hagerstown, frederick, maryland, making their way toward the south. i don't think this chance is going to last longer, maybe until 6:00 or so then start clearing out. rain chances for the workweek, right there on wednesday. there is a 30% chance then a little higher, 40 to 50% on try day. i think friday is your best chance for seeing rain move through our area now. it is definitely warm, 87 degrees, factor in the humidity, feels more like 90, 91 out there now. a shower or two until about 6 or 7:00, then looking dry, but then as we get into the late evening hours, some fog will start forming, upper 70s for high temperatures. here is a look at 4 a.m. all this that you see here blossoming, that's the fog and the visibility dropping down to about a mile to just under a mile in a few locations, like manassas, culpepper, fredericksburg, by tomorrow morning. tha

. >> i'm aaron gilchrist. welcome back to "news4 today" as we approach 5:30 on this monday morning.s of kids starting to wake unthis morning. 370,000 kids going back to school. >> let's fiend out what kind of day we'll have weatherwise with storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell. >> 370,000, that's a lot of sandwiches for sure. a lot of clouds and rain chances are pretty substantial for your monday. not a guaranteed washout of a day, but look at all of this hit and miss shower activity down to the south. lifting northbound so your rain chances increase as we go through the remainder of the morning hours. it's a muggy start. temperature, 75 in arlington. 69 out towards culpepper. so your commuter forecast, plan on a couple of sprinkles around this morning. temperatures in the mid 70s by later on this afternoon we'll have a little sunshine but i couldn't rule out an afternoon shower as well. it is noticeably warmer and more humid than in the last couple of days. highs to the mid to upper 80s. back to summer, back to school. >> i know, mine is going to kindergarten this year. >> he'll b

one person on facebook, she wrote in, i would have guessed aaron gilchrist because i would have guessed jim handly. >> look at this. this is jim handly. what happened to all that hair? >> i keep asking myself, in the sink and mirror every day. this is 7th grade down in florida, which explains that surfer dude kind of look there but, um, yeah, those days are long gone. >> your share much darker now. >> a little less of it, too. a little, right? check out on our website, we have got them all over our app and on our facebook pages, too everybody's pictures. >> we all like to go back there and have a laugh. >>> hackers expose information stolen from a cheating website. now, we have new details about the number of government e-mail addresses that may be affected. >>> tributes today for a popular principal who lost his life just before the new school year. how students at wooten high are remembering michael doren. >>> we have got a weather alert today. the threat for downpours and flash floods. >>> a heads up at 4:30, folks a weather alert, isolated storms could bring torrential rains and a t

. >> thank you, jake gilchrist. [ applause ] i really do mean thank you.t concludes the general manager's report. >> thank you. >> is there anyone who would like to make public comment on the general manager's report? seeing none, public comment is closed. item 4 is general public comment. i do have one card. tom swierk, is that correct? come on up, you will have three minutes. is that correct? >> three minutes. >> okay. >> good morning and thank you for letting me speak. i am here this morning, first of all my name is tom swierk, 20-year resident of san francisco. i live directly across from jefferson square park and i'm here today to talk about safety and 950 gothhousing which is so crucial for that park. and why is that? because it's actually not so much about an insignificant shade around 7:30 in the morning, but it's about public safety. we could go there now and find numerous empty cans of alcohol and walk the grounds of the eastern half and find syringes. it's just horrible. 20 years i have livered there. i love that park. i love puc for donating mo