rainier police and getg you updates as we them. live in mt. rainier, justin finch, nbc4. back to you. >> thank you. >>> road repairs that started this week could require crews to temporarily shut down a busy highway in fairfax county. we're talking about route 50 near fair oaks mall. an underground pipe that cares has become corroded and part of the road is sagging. wtop report v-dot may closed all lanes o route 50 in th area to install a pmanent replacement pipe and that work could start as early as next friday night. >>> v-dot is looking into ways to make repair work safer for crews and for drivers. starting this summer, it will deploy rble strips to work zones on two-lane roads during the day. the sound -- the rumble sound should give crews a heads up about oncoming vehicles and give drivers another signal to slow down. accidents in work zones last year left more than 1200 injured, 9 people dead and including some drivers. >>> we want to get you right to new video into the newsroom overnight showing possible meteor sightings. looko e right of your screen. now a viewer

this is the former headquarters of rainier technology in cambridge england the company used to. plastic spinal implants rainier was one of thousands of small businesses in europe that were trying to break into the medical devices market. about ten years ago started testing plastic disks and baboons. after several months the animals were euthanized and autopsies were carried out. the results of the autopsies were later leaked by a whistleblower. dr long is looking through them right now the documents showed that there were serious problems with the disks. it's clear from these studies that the implants did not become properly integrated into the spinal system vic's nish or. later i noticed similar complications in my patients who've been given these discs but you know what inputs and. tom. but the company apparently ignored these results despite the warning signs. brainier no needed to carry out a series of clinical tests on humans some of those tests were conducted here with pro spine facility in southern bavaria. it's not clear whether the clinics chief physicians was informed

after just three months rainier had the test results it needed to start marketing the plastic disks that was probably not enough time to evaluate the procedure properly. i was kickboxing back then and after the operation i felt five got i by the kennedy know so i went back to work i didn't think anything could go wrong plus i seen come very close there's a robbery in this interview a rainier sales manager touts the positive results of the test on people like andrea. what have you seen in your clinical studies today well this is where we want everybody to go quite excited actually because the clinical study which headline study that we've done which is something the seed of which you quickly mention. has dramatically exceeded our expectations the patients that we've been privileged to meet in fact of all those who you know know. just a few months after his operation brainier requested and got approval from the british standards institution or b.s.i. . it appears that b.s.i. did not take into account the problems with the animal tests or the brevity of the tests on humans. b.s.i. later tol

rainier. >>> it'sow 6:05. n learning details about thest devaating fire at notre dame cathedral in paris. continued safety concernsill prevent crews from going back inside to investigate for several hours today. pasian authorities are ruling out arson and possible terror-related motivesor causes. for now they're treating the fire as accident. "the boston globe" reports nearly $1 billion has already beenon ded for reconstruction efforts. >>> take a look at this footage taken inside the kennedy center last nit. three young adults were trapped in an elevator 30 feet below ground. huone was >>> the search continues for a n that attacked and robtd a 94-year-old woman. she sur viefrd the attack and now she's telling news 4 apput what haed. >> he got my arms gripped behind me and said he g had a and i want your cash. i was shocked, really. i screamed, i guess, but at that point nobody could hear me. >> the woman does not want to be entified. she said a man attacked her as she was walking from the cleveland park metro

rainier. look closely, the pickup backs up into the store to 'tis the atm inside. one try did not do it so they did it again. then the robbers pulled and pushed the a.m. machine trying -- atm machine trying to loado t on t the truck. no success. this was the fourth such incident in prince george's county in just over a month. pat collins spoke with prince george's county police. they think the crimes are connected. >> reporter: it all happened on wednesday. >> they all happened on wednesday. >> reporter: why? >> we're not sure at this point. that's under investigation. we're not sure if there's a reason to that, or if it's just coincidence. we te not sure, buthat's something we'll be looking into. >> here's another look at the surveillance footage here. prince george's county police sayhe thieves actually waited follow police left -- waited until police left the area to do the crime. we're told the store clerk was sauf sauflted during ththis. ey are lookingnto similar atm-related crimes. >>> a mancr desibed as emotionally disturbed was st. ted outside of patrick's

rainier.morning. >> the pickup backs up to dislodge the atm t inside store. one try didn't do it so they did it again. then the robbers pulled and pushed the machinir trying t hardest to load it into that truck. but no luck. they left a mess and the money behind. this was the fourth church incident in prince george's county in just over a month. news4's patke collins spo with prince george's police. they think the crimes are connected. >> reporter: they all happened on wednesday. why? >> we're not sure if there's a reason or ju coincidence. that's something we'll be looking into. >> you can't take your eyes off of watching the video here. prince george's countyice say the thieves waited until the police left the area to do the crime. that's what you should do if you're a thief. the store clerk was assaulted during all of this. police are nowki wor with several jurisdictions investigating similar atm-related crimes. >>> 6:51. back to the forecast with meteorologist lauwhn ricketts. are we talki

so rain jackets will come in handy today, it's cooler and cloudier and its rainier the 3 factors thatre certainly change from at least sunday when it was warm and sunny can did continued areas of rain throughout the afternoon not going to be nears heavy as areas to the east will be though thunderstorms possible into the afternoon for central valley areas on up into the western slope of the sierra so compared to that our activity pretty calm when we move into tomorrow morning. you're still going to look at some areas of rainfall but the showers are going to start to light now can tomorrow into the afternoon. we start to take a break from the rain you see radar clearing out that's before thursday showers to back into gear and that the us rainfall the week long that's not expected until friday. so from start to finish we do have a lot of activity to be talking about pretty unsettled weekend. a good one for some binge watching. if that's what you want to do upper 50's low 60's for most of our daytime highs mid 60's and san jose fremont 6664 degrees. tomorrow, we see those morning showers

change iran's foreign minister has said keeping the strait of hormuz open is in the interests of a rainier national security care about zarif was speaking in new york after the u.s. withdrew waivers which allowed for some countries to by iranian oil round responded by again threatening to block the goals which is the world's main oil shipping route it is in our interests are not it's our national security interest to keep the persian gulf open to keep the street again much open we've done that in the past we will continue to do it in the future but the united states should know that the straight talk almost a how to talk to dawlish protecting the straight talk much and that is iranian. mo now from a diplomatic editor james bay. well he says that iran has done absolutely nothing wrong iran entered into what he describes a treaty formally it wasn't actually a treaty with the international community including the united states and it's the u.s. that has ripped up that deal it's the u.s. that now is removing those waivers for eight countries to still trade with iran on oil and he made the poin

we have the story from mount rainier. >> for months now in our area,s thieveave been using stolen pickup trucks. ramming them into 7 elevens. dislodging atms and trying to make off with the money machine. they have done it four times this year in prince george county. and each time they have done it on a wednesday. what's up withlhat? >> they appened wednesday. >> why? >> we're not sure. that's under investigation. we don't know if it's a reason or. coincidence >> queue the surveillance videoe a ladr rack on top. boom. it backs into the store at the dislodge the atm inside. one try didn't do it.so boom. they did it again. then the three robbers pull. and pull push. and try to get that money machinento that truck. nothing. they leave the mess and the money behind. >> people say why try to steal an atm inside a 7 eleven when there's an atm across the street right outside. but take a closer look. it's welded to the pipe. the pipe is w filledith concrete. and there's one here. and one over there. you need aherman tank to get at that baby. by my count the beatm rob have hit about eight times

sunday likely to be rainier than that. unfortunately. i know a lot of people don't like hearing the words of rain on the weekend. we'll try and get it out of there. here's your five-day forecast then for the work and buschoolweek. le up this morning. a little april fleece not a bad idea today. temperatures this afternoon, 66. tomorrow, starting off with clouds, we could have sprinkles overnight into very early tomorrow. but your tuesday afternoon will be warm and dry with a high of 84. wednesday, sunshine, 81. 87 on thursday. there maybe spots near fredericksburg or richmond that my get to 90 on thursday. then rain chances and more typical early may temperatures by the end of the week. back to the news. >> thank you. >>> now, if you think gas prices are too high, you're not alone. >> if you want to save, you have driving ons than just around town looking for the best price. coming up, we'll show you. >>> and then o later today "ellen, kwt " kourtney kardashi stops by catching ellen up on all things kardashian. it airs at 3:00, then news4

rainier. we brought this as breaking news yesterday morning. look closely at the pickup. itacks up into the store to dislodge the atm inside. now one try didn't do it, so they did it again. then the robbers pull and push the atm machine trying their hardest to load it into theuc tr but no luck. they left a mess and the money right there. this was the fourth such nccident in prigeorge's county in just over a month. news4's pat collins spoke wite' prince geocounty police. they think the crimes are connected. >> reporter: it happened on wednesday? >> they all happened on wednesday. >> reporter: why? >> we're not sure at this point. that's under investigation. we're not sure if there's are ason to that or if it's just coincidence. we're not sure, but that's something we'll b looking into. >> here's another look at the video. the thieves waited until police left the area to do the crime. we're also told that the store clerk was assaulted during all of this. police are also working with several jurisdictions that are investigating similar atm-related >imes. >> a man described a

mozambique's government has people to move to higher ground as to wrenshaw rainier lashes the north after another cycle and slammed into the country at least five people are sort of died an aide workers say entire villages have been wiped out warnings as well of widespread flooding to come or a burden many reports. many people living in macedonia state when cycling can it hit with heavy rains forecasts they're trying to rebuild their homes as quickly as they can. the other day we stayed outside next to the big trees that's where we took shelter right there with all the rain. others here lost their businesses and livelihoods. lost everything i do not know what i can do since that day i've been sleeping outside sleeping in the cold little was spared by the storm including a maternity ward. where the experts say it was the strongest like her own ever recorded in or the most. kenneth stormed in with two wrench will rain and wind surges of up to two hundred eighty kilometers per hour tearing off roofs ripping up trees and downing power lines. on the island of off mozambique the red cross says

rainier. police say this is the fourth suchrime inhe county in just over a month. all of them on wednesdays. police tell news4 they believe the crimes are connected. >>> it's 4:36. many of you remember the tragic story of wendy martinez who was kill by a stranger while jogging near logan circle last year. she'd been out running because she was training foros then marathon. this past monday, h fiance ran that race this is video ofaniel hi ope reaching the ten-mile marker and hugging wendy's family. he also carried a sign that read "love wins, wendy wins." daniel says while he may have been physically running by himself, he wasn't alone. [ cheers ] >> at some point in the race when i realized it was really tough -- i don't know, one of my muscles -- i was starting to feel pain. i looked at the sky, and i saw wendy. and i just felt her presence everywhere. >> by running that race, daniel was also raising funds for the wendy martinez legacyu project. yo can find more information about the foundation on theonbc washingtapp. >>> a health warning this morning in maryland.

and this is just the beginning of what we're going to see because tomorrow looks like the rainier day. even the mist and drizzle yesterday. yesterday was supposed to be our driest day of the week, plenty of clouds. we've been missing the sun, the vitamin "d." it looks like we'll have to wait a while for that. 55 in campbell. 53 in santa clara. it is a mild start with low 50s around san pablo. 52 for you in novato. the golden gate bridge, nobody's there but you can see the pavement is wet. mist and drizzle this morning, scattered showers throughout the afternoon. rainy and windy on friday. our storm impact scale is a 1 with light to moderate showers anywhere from a tenth to .2. we're looking at more showers. as we go through the rest of the day, they're scattered out there. this is 9:00 tonight. as we go through the overnight hours, this is when things begin to get interesting tomorrow afternoon, 1:00. ts t weit the game. we'll look for rainy conditions then, scattered showers today. here are the amounts, about a half inch in santa rosa through friday night. highs today in the mid-60s

we are looking at still moreclh few showers today leading up to a rainier friday. >>> in the westbound of highway 80 through hercules before pinol valley road. eastbound direction the headlights are moving just fine. six vehicles involved. you can see the backup is starting to build. a good alternate for you but not a great one. going to have to slog through that leaving san francisco very slow. an overturn south 101 near cesar chavez. >> a new report released shows the crew onboard the max 8 did exactly what they were supposed to do but could not get control of the plane. serena marshall is live with more. >> reporter: this was the second disaster for the max 8 in a matter of months and led to the worldwide grounding of the aircraft. it was the crash in march that led to the death of 157 people onboard and this morning the ethiopian transport ministry's initial findings show despite doing everything right the pilots couldn't recover the aircnose d >> the crew performed all the procedures repeatedly in contr. >> reporter: the reason for the crash a damaged sensor. it is called an angle

rainier. start to finish, about six minutes. cuthe surveillance video. look closelys at thi pickup truck with a ladder rack on top. book!ksnto the store that dislodges the atm inside. one try didn't do i so, boom, they did it again. and, boom, a third time. then, the three robbers pull and push and try to get that money machine into that truck. nothing. they leave the mess and the money behind. now, i really shouldn't tell you how muchoney is in these atms, but a source gave me a range of how much cash is involved. i wrote it down. is that a lot of money? >> wow! that's a lot of money. >> reporter: police believe this is the same group of robbers who have been targeting atms at 7-11s in our area. by my count, there have been eight atm s jobsince the first of the year. thieves using a stolen pickup. robbers smashing into thest e, dislodging the atm, and then trying to make off with that money machine. they get away with the cash about 50% of the time. >> it appears they know what they're doing? >> to get away withs it thi many times, they've been very luc

i think the rainier half of the weekend will be sunday. >> all right.su a littlen, a lot of smiles on the plaza. an we've got miss dylan dreyer. >> hello. i just showed up. >> how are u? >> and since i'm here, can i do the crowd moment toy? >> absolutely. >> hi, good morning. where are the fluccos? we found them? hi, guys. so tt's not a last name. it is actually your mascot? >> yes. >> what is a flucco. >> it's technically a flying shoe. bu name comes fluvanna and county put together. >> what are some of the things you're checking off here? >> last night we saw a broadway play. and today we're tring the n studio. >> well, you're starting off in the right place. you made it here this morning. thanks for being here. rip back. it's a flying shoe. who knew. >> love it. guys, coming up, ifou suffer from headaches or back aches, knee pain, a lot of us d't want to rely on medication to cope. this segment could be for you. dr. oz has the scoop on yoga, acupuncture. even virtual reali could help with pain. he's got treatments for us. >>> then a new way to think

while along the shore do expect 50's from stinson beach on up to point raise today that one of her rainiere start that way but skies will clear into the afternoon come thursday and friday showers return, especially on friday saturday dries back out before showers on sunday. rob. >>all right john. no major hot spots to worry about right now we just have to worry about the rain that's moving and you know that's going to impact your commute and make things slower and it's already flow right at the richmond, san fell bridge to traffic your craw falling on west 5.80 leading up to the goes back beyond harbor. 12 minutes and growing for your average drive time from the pay gates out i want to want check in the bay bridge. we have much heavy traffic into san francisco except for the carpool lanes with the other lanes cash payers fast trackers that traffic spills into the oakland may so very busy and now we're up to 20 that was quick, it's growing for your average off to fremont street. all right, here's an accident not really calling it a hot spot, but it's a slow spot and it's definitely unexpect

rainier was hit and thieves left the atm bend in this case and the week before the 7-eleven in upper marlboroetidn't g the atm there either but a week before that the atm was stolen from the 7-eleven on edgewood road and college park and two weeks before that this atm was stolin from a 7-eleven in lanham. each case involving large vehicles smashing into the store front to swipe the atm and all except the mostt recase happened in the early hours of a wednesday morning. and so as you could see right now, this 7-eleven and the tied s station is closed this morning but when they help police in this case, cameras here right above this store front andimed right at the window area where the truck went in today. we could tell you in this case that police are looking into several factors, erhaps these are part of the same crews that have been hitting the other 7-elevens in prince ge age's county maybe they are behind this one as well. police say in this case if you are perhaps in the area or saw g anything toive them a call. back inside to you. justin, thank you very much. >>> this morning we

doesn't seem like it's going definitely a rainy day out their golden gate bridge is one of those rainier spots been taking a look at this for you throughout the morning because it's been changing quite a lot now you can see bolt hours so conditions of lined up out there obviously plenty of low clouds and you've got some missed even or you're not seeing rain showing up on the radar. >>but where the rain is currently falling as on parts of the santa cruz mountains out towards highway one between morgan hill and san jose and then the most significant stuff is still out into the delta rio vista down to brentwood. antioch discovery day and a little still hanging out around calais how as well. he had a little bit further north just some light showers around youngsville napa up in the northern part of tu napa county res when the 50's it's business as sual on these usually you do have temperatuies in the same range, it's something that we've just gotten used to so far this winter season. take one of those days that you had about a month back when it was rainy cloudy and cool that's what we've go

but on into wednesday thursday and friday sort rain in last week's rainier conditions for drier weekhis week as for tonight's rainfall really trace amounts to be expected. a 10th of an inch and half moon bay and santa rosa jumt trace amounts, lighter stuff elsewhere. your daytime highs are going up he can arrange of 60's up and down the pacific shore we're going to see some fog year skies today, especially right along the shoreline. foggo burn off alongside the bay into the afternoon will give way for temperatures to be sent to the upper 60's if not the mid 70's in the south bay with milpitas in san jose each up to 75 is pay looking at low 70's and although certainly some low visibility to start you can enjoy some partly cloudy skies into the afternoon followed by a few showers after that points as we close out your monday. next 7 days looking cooler and breezy year. but i think the thing that we're all going join more than anything else is all the sunshine were about to see tuesday wednesday thursday friday into saturday, all looking really nice with those clear skies so keep the ja

some spots and it was a day of change leading up to today which is cloudy or cooler and about to be rainierh dry this morning we are keeping a close eye on the radar as shower activity is set to be on the increase this afternoon. we're sitting right now you are seeing just a couple light showers in eastern contra costa county up to the north or some light rainfall from fairfield over to vacaville and then on 12 over to rio vista so definitely one of those mornings that you want to take it a little bit slower in the north bay as we're continuing to look at just a few light showers up there like you've been talking about all morning. the heaviest of rainfall that's not expected until afternoon. so keep the umbrellas with you on this monday. robert. >>also watch your speed don't forget the headlights wipers you know what to do in the rain is moving in right, here's a live look at the return center fell bridge still very busy not really improving much i wish i could give you better news but we're still at a crawl and its back from arena through the tolls 2 minute span before traffic starts to l

rainier police -- now let's check o your commute with melissa mollet and your first 4 traffic.homa there in northeast because of that gasti staon fire. are blocdd. eastboopen, but that investigation could be some time. rthbound 95, live look there. not so bad. southbound wisconsin at old georgetown, two right lanes blocked by th accident. >> thank you. >>> we've been investigating proble hospital in d.c. for more than two years now. now there are new c of vets turned away or forgotten. >> the news4ti i-team getng answers and working to protect our heroes today at 5:00. we'll take a break and c >>> temperatures out there right now in the 50s. we're going to have a spread in temperatures today. north of d.c., in the 60s. south of d.c., temperatures in the 70s. d.c. will fall somewhere in between. clouds increase for everybody later on this afternoon. maybe a few sprinkles north, b that's not going to be the exception, not the rule. passinghower tomorrow morning with a bit of drizzle. dry tomorrow aftendoon. hot a humid. severe weather alert on friday specificallyoo friday afternu

so when we say the on rainier little bit is just going to dry out for us in the journal pattern of thingsr not going to warm up you'll see in the seven-day forecast so i guess not too bad on that front in was doped also be somewhat dry. but that's way you can kind of tell because temperatures are really in a jump too much, jumping a little bit and central valley and 80 for fresno today, 73 for sacramento, 78 for bakersfield, central coast, not bad. monterrey about 69, although that source of moisture is dropping to the south so it may impact a little bit along central coast, 77 santa barbara 71 meanwhile for l a x, future cast for again today the job is to clear things out we can see that in the east south. and the peninsula. also a little bit around the north bay that happens late afternoon so it's not going to be real quick. then the clouds fill back up again. there's grizzle business or light rain really kind of holds off for much of the day until the afternoon evening commute. morning commute tuesday morning. okay that's the wrinkle and then after that point it should start to dry out