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as doreen anchored their broadcast this evening. lambert got to speak with evan joins us outside for studios in northwest. evan. >> reporter: as you can imagine, it was an extremely tough day here for jim vance colleagues at nbc 4. i spoke with doreen, his co anchor of nearly 30 year, she shared with me what she'll remember most about her colleague and friend. >> he came from plumbers. that's how he would put it. >> reporter: nearly 30 years, she saturdays alongside dc news giant. jim vance. but she said what exemplifies the man was his ability to unpoll jetcally himself. >> a particularly tough news day for one reason or another, he'd say at least we're not carrying a bathtub up the steps, which is what he watched his grand feather she said vance took time to mentor everybody from in persons to his co anchor >> i learned so much from working alongside vance. i think the most important thing i learned from him over the years is how important it is to be true to yourself, to be your authentic self on the news. >> reporter: they knew

doreen caught up with them at the first global challenge and she's here now with their story. they finally made it. >> they finally made it. i've got to tell you, i don't think i've seen anything quite like the scene that's unfolding at this competition downtown. picture constitution hall, so many people are familiar with that from graduation ceremony. picture it downtown, full of teenagers from 160ish different countries. they're all excited to be here. they're all speaking in different languages, all once meeting each other and excited to learn about everyone else's robot creation, it is quite the scene. they've all worked really hard to reach this competition here in washington, but nobody has worked harder than these young women from afghanistan, twice they've traveled 500 miles from their home to apply for visas to visit the u.s. for competition. twice they were denied. president trump intervened at the last minute and the team arrived here very late f night into saturday morning. it's not that long ago that girls in afghanistan weren't allowed to attend school. it was fo

doreen gentzler has more. >> senator john mccain's office says that the senator has been diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor known as a glioblastoma. there are two types of brain teu morse. aggressive. this is what senator mccain's office says he has. his are the most aggressive type of primary brain tumor. with this diagnosis, his freemt is likely to include radiation and chemotherapy. the senator will soon be 81 years old. it is likely that the treatment would begin with radiation. his doctors say he's recovering very well from the surgery that he's had and also that his underlying health is excellent. that could certainly work in his favor and eun and aaron, we know that john mccain is quite a fighter. >> thanks to doreen there. fighter and tough are words that a lot of people from both sides of the political aisle use to describe senator mccain in tweets of support. president trump, former presidents and members of congress put aside politics to wish him well. we also heard from his daughter meg and a posted tributes to him on their social media pages. >>> i'm erika gonzalez at t

our thoughts are with his family, the news 4 team, and especially with co-anchor doreen gensler.since 1989 was paired on the air with vance along with in the days past sportscaster george michael. they were a dream team. and weatherman bob ryan. making television magic for decades. always with honesty and integrity. ♪ music edible arrangements for summer. order in store or online. theso when i need to book tant to mea hotel room,tion. i want someone that makes it easy. booking.com gets it. and with their price match, i know i'm getting the best price every time. visit booking.com. booking.yeah! >>> craig melvin is here. take it away. >> good afternoon. craig melvin here. live at msnbc headquarters on a busy tuesday. health care decision day this afternoon republicans putting that health care bill um for a vote despite all signs pointing to its failure. what bill is it? >>> and back to the hill.

but listening to jim deliver it and doreen, i just felt was a magic team. >> even though vance was sick, he made it a point to be there at the unveiling to talk about the honor. it was a proud moment most of us will never forget. >> we learned a lot about jim vance himself not only from being around him and with him here at the station, but he often posted things online and maybe we saw a lot of him through his tweets. take a look at this. this is what jim vance resist. people knew that he loved cars and he was in indianapolis and had to spend some time, of course, riding in the race car. that's such a great moment. take a look at this. everyone knew he loved riding harleys. it was just a part of who he was. he found a teddy bear and he named it and then he took it on a ride with him on his motorcycle and he, of course, said that the teddy bear snored and we have one more that we wanted to show you. he always thought about our colleagues. we can't get it to you right now. we're going to try to show you more of these tweets throughout the newscast today. we have so many fond memories of

former staffer doreen lewis was also indicted. she's charged obstruction of justice for reportedly misleading investigators about the case and deleting text messages. is it her phone or was it given to her as part of her job? if it's her own personal phone, then there's absolutely nothing wrong with it . if however it was given to her by congress as part of her work, probably not. but that being said it still doesn't give her staffers the right to give that information to someone else . teisha lewis, fox5 local news. >> and i believive heard teisha say that it was her personal phone yesterday and her report at 5:00. apparently there were some fet ohs or images of her whole family, children as well. so that does seem -- -- we will be right back after this. >> we're having too much fun here on a sunday night - i keep thinking it's sunday. it's saturday. >> what is wrong with me. >> i was saying on my sunday i have a pool party and it looks like it's going to be a nice day to hang out. it is national ice cream day on sunday. y'all ar

. >> former congressional staffer doreen brown lewis was also indicted.re was no answer at a home listed for her, charged with obstruction of justice for reportedly misleading investigators about the case. and deleting text messages. there's nothing wrong with it. >> reporter: again, we've learned that it was her personal phone, now, if this sound like some type of reality tv drama unfolding, this may help you understand why juan mccullum, the aid was once a contestant on the former reality show i love new york, so he's no stranger to controversy, he was also on the hill 50 most beautiful people of politics back in 2015. this is quite the fall from grace, charged with two counts of cyber stalking, punishable up to five years behind bars, as for the other, brown lewis is facing up to 20 years in prison and she is facing two counts of obstruction of justice. tisha lewis, fox 5 local news. >> that's really strange twist of a story. following for you. >> also seeing gwen tolbert a little bit rn there as we're taking a look at tisha lewis's live shot >> most o

his long time news partner doreen gentzler will air a tribute to jim vance, friday night at 7:30 righte on nbc 4. invite you to join us. >>> when we come back tonight on news4 at 11:00, a story you'll see only here on news4. a father in maryland finds himself the hero. >> this only happens on tv. >> how a recent costco purchase helped him save a man's life. >>> and another deadly wrong way crash on a busy road. drivers say it's a confusing stretch. why >>> for the second time in about two months there's been a deadly wrong way crash on route 50 in raised. authorities tell us christine parks was driving eastbound here in the westbound lanes near the bay bridge, going into annapolis early this morning. she crashed head-on into a car driven by hui xu. they both died on the scene. police tell us alcohol may have played a role. in may, two people were killed in a similar wreck. drivers tell us route 50 can be confusing. >> i'm not exactly sure if it's a flaw in the map. >> it's kind of scary because right around here, the exit to get onto 50 towards the bay bridge, kind of iffy. easy to tak

doreen gentzler has more on the diagnosis and the potential next steps. >> aaron and eun, senator j senator has been diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor known as a glioblastoma. thi they start in the brain and are rare and more aggressive. this is what his office says he has. glioblastoma, sadly, are the most aggressive type of brain tumor. with this diagnosis, his treatment is likely to include radiation and chemotherapy. he will soon be 81 years old and it is likely that the treatment would begin with radiation. his doctors say he's recovering very well from the surgery that he's had and also that his underlying health is excellent. that could certainly work in his favor and eun and aaron, we know that john mccain is quite a fighter. >> that is the word, fighter and tough. those are words a lot of people from both sides of the aisle use to describe senator tweets of support. president trump and former presidents put politics aside to wish the long-time senator well. we also heard from his family, his daughter megan and his wife cindy posted tributes to him on their social media pages.

juan maccallum, and doreen brown-lewis. authorities say that they started passing the photos around online. so, how did they get their hands on thos pictures? get this, the delegate had saved them on her phone. saved on the phone. and then, she handed that phone to the staffer to take to the apple store for repairs. now according to the u.s. attorney, that is when they saved the photos and videos and share them to embarrass their former boss. >>> there's a lot of talk on social media about a comment from president trump caught on a facebook live feet where he makes a comment about the appearance of the first lady of france. listen. it certainly is not the first time the president has commented on the appearance of a woman with cameras nearby. he and first lady milani at -- melania trump are in france, celebrating bastille day. >>> tracking metro, stop us if you have heard this one. you are about to pay more. this time, it is for parking at stations. a pilot program could soon. we found out metro's money problems could make

vance's co-anchor, doreen gentzler sat next to jim vance for 28 years through tough and bad times. >> i am very sad about it came sooner than we expected, but i am also remembering all the wonderful times we have had together. i have been watching videos of vance and george michael and bob ryan. all of us together on the set and remembering how much if up we had. we covered a lot of serious news this 28 years, and i want people ton is that vance felt the pain in all of those stories that we covered over the years. but we also had, had a great team and i was, it was an honor to get to work with him for so many years. the best gift i got from was he, without really saying it, he taught me that the most important thing we could do in our jobs was to be our authentic selfs and, you know, he never -- everyone who worked with him always understood how, where he stood on everything. >> after 45 years, jim was the voice of the people. they honored him at ben's chili bowl by putting him on the famous mural on the side of the building. our hillary lane was out there today hearing from people ab

vance and doreen would hand off news 4 at 6:00 every night with lester holt.nd although lester anchors for new york city, he and vance got together a few times. >> you might expect these two veteran news men to get it off. lester joins us now to share his thoughts about our colleague. lester, we've met with you a couple of times ovee couple of years. >> we've had occasions rite there in the studio when i would drop by and we were shooting some promos together not that long ago. let me just say, first of all, that we are all one big family at n bbc, our hearts go out to r colleagues. we feel this incredible loss. a couple observations about jim, others would probably remark just his cool. and i say that in all the way ways. his calmness, his warmth. what i always saw with jim is a guy that have kind of cracked the code at what we do. he understood this connection that we truly are coming in people's living rooms and in their kitchens that we are -- you know, the last time we were together, i saw the streets of washington. i saw people come up to jim like an old

. >> doreen, in fact, that was the very first question today from an american reporter during that joint news conference as president trump was confronting the controversies surrounding his oldest son, yet he pushed back hard on what he calls a big deal over nothing. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: speci g first lady welcomed by the president of trump ahead of the field day. but amid the circumstances, president trump, once again, forced to answer questions about russia and his own son. >> i have a son who is a great young man. he's a fine person. >> during joint news conference, president trump pressed about a campaign season meeting between donald trump, jr. and a russian attorney said to have damaging information about hillary clinton. >> from a practical standpoint, most people would have taken that meeting. that's very standard in politics. politics is not the nicest business in the world. but it's very standard where they have information and you take the information. >> and making an unexpected claim, blaming the obama administration for letting the russian attorney into the country. >> somebody

. >> hi doreen and leon.here is what i'm seeing, really heavy areas of rain and thunderstorms just exploding back to our west, but metro area, most of northern virginia, you're looking out the window and saying the sun is out, more weather heading into your area the evening and overnight hours so here is what i'm tracking right now culpepper areas, notice it's very heavy -- lots of bright colors here on the radar, it is coming down in buckets in parts, a lot of lightning, too. so i'm going to take you to this area right now. show you the latest. notice we're seeing a lot of red there. moving towards culpepper. heads up in these areas. culpepper under severe thunderstorm warning until 6:15, parts of madison county, including madison continued to be under tornado warning. the shape of the st,

doreen has more the approval of the first new drug in almost 20 years that treats sickle cell anem anemia. >> also tonight a story i just focused. he had no break outs. it's dc academy. >> a -- in southeast dc, the driver didn't stop. burgess johnson, tonight, is on life support. his family says, a . >>> the family of southeast drgs c man is heart broken tonight and asking for help to find the person who hit him with a car. burgess johnson was on his bicycle last week when it happened. he's still in the hospital on life support and isn't getting any better. news 4 kristin wright is live for us at the intersection where johnson was struck in southeast. kristin, you spoke to johnson's sister today. how is the family coping now? >> reporter: yeah, this is really tough for the family. a few of the neighbors have come out asking us how this man is burgess johnson was riding his bike right here. we believe these are the markings from the police investigation. now, johnson's family says he is in very bad shape, but that knowing who did this might help give them some closure. >> someone to leave

:00 upper 90s to around 100 degrees and tomorrow no relief tomorrow either, heat indexes tomorrow doreen gentzler rally 100 degrees or higher. remember in the heat drink plenty of water, take your shade breaks and ac breaks. check on your elderly and make sure your outdoor pets have extra water and shade out there because they will need it. 95 the forecast for today, rain chances today very, very slim, indeed. almost no chance for rain thursday or friday. saturday and sun both near 100 degrees. heat index near 105 perhaps higher than that but there's a chance for some cooling thunderstorms saturday and sunday afternoon. now let's go over to melissa mollet and shoulding up. >> starting with the rails, track yellow and blue lines single track between national airport and track work. 66 at 29 centreville, you were getting by on the left and noits gone. inbound 66 before 234 there, sudley had the crash on the right shoulder. no problems 95 northbound or southbound there in virginia. southbound 295 before nannie helen borroughs that broken down tractor-trailer. beltway overall rolling around

we continue to honor jim's legacy, we hope that you'll join us for a special broadcast hosted by doreenance airs tomorrow at 7:30 here on nbc 4. as vance would have said, we invite you to join us. >> 1977, 40 years later. >>> amelia with a check on our weather, we've got some rain en route and boy it's going to be a while before it gets out of here. >> it's going to be rainy tomorrow and heaviest most rain falling. on into saturday morning. even tonight a few isolated showers across the area, take a look at what i'm tracking right now. this one loan thunderstorm kind of hopping a ride on 66 and making its way towards the district. i think altogether it just pass toward the bottom of the beltway on into prince georges kountsco. only at about 15 miles towards the east southeast. here are impact times middleburg right around 6:30. the dover area about 6:40. with the storm, so stay tuned and will be putting that information on facebook and twitter. keeping a close eye on this system and it's part of the system and also we're going to see some development within it that's going to bring us r

his long time news partner, doreen gentzler will anchor a special broadcast. it >>> good morning. 6:40 on a thursday in the nation's capitol. we're working to get you ahead of the weather. thursday, going to be a nice enough day. those two things eventually lead to rain chances. today's highs, mid to upper 80s. rain on friday and saturday coming up. >>> hey, chuck. in vienna. chopper 4 -- north of the dulles toll road. a tree down. they knocked it out of the park. travelers once again open. marylanders, nb in the baltimore washington parkway. the vehicle fire afterwards. lanes open but very heavy and slow. aaron, eun, back to you. >> jack, thank you. >>> angelina jolie is opening up about her diagnosis of bells palsy. in an interview with vanity fair, jolie has been diagnosed with hypertension which is linked to bells palsy. it can cause one side of the face to be temporarily paralyzed. ak punkter helps the condition. >>> new this morning, could a rocker be on his way to kid rock is exploring a run for the michigan seat. he hasn't made up his mind yet. he's go

doreen brown, upper marl borrow, obstruction of justice charges.ictment took nude pictures of the iphone of a member of on social media. he allegedly sat brown lewis some of the pictures and she taped long statements to authorities who were investigating the case. now, the indictment does not name the actual lawmaker, but, again, more is elected to come out about this case. >> i can't wait to walk in winter wonder land. i'm starting to play christmas songs to cool myself off a little bit. >> a lot of people were doing that on my facebook page and twitter page. it's not too long up till we see this. few years ago when we had the nice little blizzard. that was a beautiful blizzard. wasn't it great. that great blizzard of 2016. let's take a look and show you what's happening out there now. far cry from that for sure. we're in the one of the hottest times of the year near the dc metro area. you can see it right now, and looks and current temperature sitting at 94. winds out of the southwest 14 miles an hour. i did see, we have hit a high temperature so

. >> doreen gentzler will have more on the girls and the competition tonight at 6:00. >>> how is this for good sportsmanship. when the team from iran couldn't get their materials into the country, students from george c. marshall high school in falls church stepped in to help. using skype, they took instructions from the team in iran, they were able to help build the robot, very nice. >>> a superstar accused of running a cult and luring in young women. now r. kelly is ready to address the story trending on your facebook page. >> reporter: houses impacted by a raging fire. that story coming up. >>> i'm meteorologist chuck bell. temperatures in the mid to upper 70s inside the beltway. cooler in the shenandoah valley. it's going to be a ♪ ♪ award winning interface. award winning design. award winning engine. the volvo xc90. the most awarded luxury suv of the century. this july visit your local volvo dealer to receive sommar savings of up to $4,500. >>> the health care bill collapses and a row house fire sends d.c. firefighters to the hospital. >> we're tracking two stories we'll be track

doreen, back to you. >> they should be, thank you, on the national mall. here is the timing for tonight's event, the united states navy band performance got underway at the theater in dc. at 8:00, a capitol fourth concert begins on the west lawn and at 9:09 the main event begins, the fireworks over the mall, that show will last almost 30 minutes some road closures will be lifted starting at 10:00. others won't reopen until midnight. >> well, it's not busy right now. hundreds are going to to take in the sights along the patomic river. the coast guard and dc police have been out all day and they'll be doing the same tonight. as they make their way in over the next several hours or so. >> if you're planning to head to the mall for the fireworks tonight. metro trains will run until midnight to get you home after the show. know that the smithsonian station will not open until 9:00 tonight. it will be crowded. we've posted a list of alternative options in our nbc washington app. >> and folks, there were also free and safe rides available for driver's who have ha

coming up tonight at 5:00, doreen gentzler will take a deeper look on what you can do to reverse the condition. >>> we're hearing more about problems with hoverboards overheating. the irover self-balancing scooters have been recalled. they can heat up too much and pose a risk for smoke, fire or an explosion. this has affected about 2800 scooters sold at stores like t.j. maxx and marshals. no injuries have been reported. if you bought one between december o 016, contact the company. >>> the girl scouts want girls to embrace s.t.e.m. science, technology, engineering and mathematics. the girl scouts are rolling out 23 new badges that focus on those sukts, even daisies. they can earn badges in school subjects such as robotics. never too yuchblg you know what i mean. start them early. >>> i'm meteorologist chuck bell. outside on a beautiful tuesday morning. skies are clearing out and the humidity is going away for a day and a half or so. current temperatures notice 60s and 70s. coming back up, sheena will join me out here and we'll take a look at the forecast for the rest of the day. here

. >> news 4's doreen gentzler with how they're contributing. >> for thousands of years dogs have been our companions, our friends. they've been with us on the as it turns out, they're helping us now when it comes to curing cancer. in humans and in especially in children. this jack russell terrier is having a ct scan to find out if the mass on his hip is a malignant tumor. he's being scanned in springfield, virginia. if it's positive, boz might be considered for a trial. but study similarities between cancers in canines and humans. >> if you take a human carcinoma of bone cancer and look at that under the microscope, the pathologist can't tell you if it's human or dog. >> that's especially true when it comes to cancers in canines and in humans. i'll have the full story tonight on news 4 at 6:00. >>> from dogs with cancer with dogs that wanted to cheer up cancer patients, this happened at a cancer center in pennsylvania. two dogs were away from their owner and ended up cancer center sneaking in. you can see in the surveillance video, they received attention from employees. they were lat

. >> doreen gentzler shares a look back at his very full and accomplished career. >> we did this story in our 6:00 broadcast. you never know what's going to be amusing or terrifying. >> here's the jim vance you knew for 48 years. that smooth voice and calm presence that made us feel we would be okay. over the years, vance was who he was. you probably know a lot about him already. he wasn't shy about ri you know he rode motorcycles and cars and fishing and sports and mixing it up with whomever was reporting on sports. vance always had a way with kids. before becoming a journalist, he was a teacher in his hometown of philadelphia. he started reporting here in 1969, but from the start the bosses knew they had an anchor in the making. he made a name for himself covering stories all over the world. vietnam. el salvador. south africa. but he didn't have to go far for some of his best work reporting on the people right here in his adopted hometown of washington. think about every event, every big story that's happened here over the last 48 years. vance covered it all. the race riots on u stre

we track widespread rain that will transition over to very heavy rain in spots over night tonight, doreen. >> all right, amelia, thank you. a frightening scene at local atm a man watching from feet away while a woman takes out money. the robbery and how you can protect yourself. >>> it's a str it's pretty popular among shoppers, too. 11 years ago, this was the sight, the deadly shooting, just ahead on news 4. we'll tell you about one sister's journey and her determination to find her brother's killer. >>> the redskins' top draft pick is a tough defensive lineman. when we find out he's also bad to the bone. here from >>> i'm erica gonzalez at the live desk. in the biggest white house shakeup yet, nbc news has been able to confirm reince priebus privately resigned yesterday. he sent a few tweets a few minutes ago. we have video from the tarmac, the air force one landing at joint base andrews observation here from jacob from msnbc where you can actually see the president in the video typing something on his phone the moments before he steps down from air force one. we want to also let you li