." >>> hello there, i'm pat lawson muse. this will be a great week to consider making room in your little new fur friend. this coming saturday shelters hereun and a the country are teaming up with nbc owned tv stations and telemundo for a whole day of adopting. it's the fourth annual clear the shelters day. they'll waive or reduce their adoption fees. last year more than 1,300 animalor founder homes in the washington area. joining thus morning are lauryn lipsy, vice president of community programs for the humane rescuealliance, gina harder is senior manager of public relations for the animal welfare league of alexandria, and wendy wayrick from hills pet nutrition, inc. welcome to "news 4 your subrnda" han 61,000 pets across the tion. what's your goal this year and what's new? >> we have more organizations involved in our area. we're going to beat 1,300. i know our shelter is more full than it's been in a really long time. there will be plenty of animals looking for homes. >> shelter pre some of the best pets ever. just about

i'm pat lawson muse. she's a high school student, former high school student, with a passion for helping people and it's not just a feeling. she turned her passion into action, forming her own foundation dedicated to preparing inspiring and guiding economically disadvantaged students beyond high school and on to colle and on to careers. it's called the heart ofab th foundation. joining us now to talk about it are jasmine w mccoy is founder of the heart of tab that foundation and patricia williamh a president o foundation. welcome, ladies. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> so started heart of tab that, jasmine, which is ano rofit, when you were a 12th grader at hope in arms. >>yes. >> how did this happen? when did it happen. >>o that's right. >> in your head. d in my hea it really started when i was mucher you than that, i had a passion for giving. it was a value thawas instilled in me at a young age, especially as someone who was a recipient of so much generosity, being involved in nonprofits simil

i'm pat lawson muse. it's been a special summer for students taking part in a local program in prince george's funty that works hard to keep those studentsm losing in summer what they gain during the school year. it's called summer bridge academy. it uses summer camp to stimulate the interest in s.e.m. our guests are with community youth advance and joining us now are a site coordinator, cindy martin is director of academic programs, and also with uss t morning is sheritala iter, a site coordinator. welcome. i know you finished up successful summer bridge session recently. 200 students. tell us how summer bridge works, cindy? >> it's a program that's open to students. they engage in academics and have summertime fun. in the a.m. students are in class, in math and literally and s.t.e.m. programs. in t afternoon we offer them a tsbust number of programs in culinary s.t.e.m. and sports. so they can have academic and summertime fun. >> which grade are your sdents in? >> we started them k through 8 during the

. >> i'm pat lawson muse.in we beg with event planned this weekend. marking one year since the deadly clash between white nationalists and counterprotesters in charlottesville. >> virginia's governor and the city of charlottesville have declared states ofn emergency case people show up and things get out of hand. >> and soon we'll be gettingn update from d.c. officials about the plan for the rally here. >> let's get right onews4's megan mcgrath live in northwest with what is planned. megan? d morning.r: well, g in about an hour, the mayor and representatives from several fferent law enforcement agencies will be gathering here in northwest. they're going to be participatin in a round table discussion with community and faith leaders. they'rekioing to be t about exactly what's being done, how they are preparing for thee unrprotests.ally and all is quiet around house at the moment, but sunday will bring a potentially volatile mix for the unite the right rally and coterprotesters. vernment agencies are coordinating to make sure that the violence that erup

. >> good monday morning.i' pat lawson hughes. >> weng begin with a develo story in northern virginia. one child is dead. another seriously hurt after a shooting at an apartment complex near tyson. >> police just released this photo of the woman accused of shooting those children. her name is vonica young blood. >> we have more now from fairfax county. >> i have the subject in orstody. >> rr: late last night the search for a double shooting suspect came to an end. >> i s like three or four police cars were there. and they were ba to open the door. ngandg theiny askedin me ask to because i was looking out. >> reporter: sam irsays he didn't know what or who police were looking for about 10:30 last nigh now he knows. fairfax county police annouing veronica young blood of mcclain was captured just about an hour the unthinkable late night shooting at the post tyson corners apartment complex. officers found two children shot. >> one was taken to the hospital and one was pronounced deceased on scene. within an hour our officers were ableo take her into custody. >> reporter: the 33-year-old i

. >> good morning, i'm pat lawsone arrod ramos faces five murder counts in the case.pleaded not guilty. but manyave asked why police couldn't have intervened before the shooting when ramos has made so many threats through the year jody fleischer is with us ts morning. jody you said you talked to att localney who said he lived in fear of ramos for years. but maryland law left authorities powerful in this case. >> one of the things and he really wants to push to get this law changed in the coming session, the law defines electronic communication as being sent from someone to someone, he felt like if you post a threat onluine, that leaves a gap as to whether something mighte threatening, en you post something on twitter, you're not posting it fr somebody to s for all the public to see. >> so that's a balance between wh is free speech or threaua >> nobody ay says this is a threat. it's kind ofbjtive. it's kind of when you look at obscenity, you know i when you see it. legislators need to take alo ha at the law and define it as to whether the victim feels threatened or whe

. >>> good morning, i'm pat lawson-muse. for the second time in less than a month, strikes at the the washington archdiocese. this time the jury is deciding on dail -- some of it happened during the nearly two decades, but cardinal donald ward was the -- churchde l accused of a calculated coverup. this has got to be tough for t church as a whole and asrticularly for catholics here in thengton area. >> yes. >> just a couple of weeks ago it was cardinal theodore mccarrick after being accused of sex abu e abuse. >> it's hard to read, 900 pages, 1,000 pages, every one of them se to be a horror. these the washington, d.c. area is impacted too. it was our cardinal, our archdiocese bishop cardinal ward, his name appears more that 100es in the report. and the question is what was h culpability in allowing these problems to fester. i know the archdiocese of washington have had a very -- their press release t hast feel. reality check, here's what's wrong about this report a how we have been put improperly out of contex f thatls so pol

lawson mousse. a>> veronic youngblood is behind bars facing a murder northern virginia bureau chief julie carey joins us live with the new details? >> reporter: julie? >> reporter: leon and pat, theo apartmentex where the shooting took place right through the trees there, blocks away from tyson's galleria. police were called there at so:25 last night and found two children have been shot inside an apartment. one was pronounced dead at the scene. this is the woman now accused of firing theho fatal that claimed her own daughter's life, 33-year-old veronica youngblood. court records reveal she's a mother of two and a few years ago in the midst of a contentious divorce her ex-husband got this protective sder against her. police sayte law prevents them from identifying the two victims, but the dispatch call suggests both are youngblood'ss daughter news 4 confirmed her youngest daughter 5-year-old brooklyn lo youn died from a gunshot wound to the head. the other girl, an older child, is in a life-threatening condition. afr the shooting youngblood fled toun louounty and knocked on an acquaintance's door and miss were called and hat's when this woman was arriving back to the neighbo