Transcripts For WRC News4 At 6 20150102

He literally came here to raise peoples consciousness. He lifted so many people. Reporter within hours of his disappearance, his wife and friends mobilize add massived a massive surgery. Emily told us her husband had sent three Text Messages after he had gone on his hike. This was his last picture he send to her. He captioned it looking down on you. It was a reference to the yoga retreat in the background. But it carries much more significance than that tonight. Also today tstart of a new era in d. C. Politics. Muriel bowsers was worn in ap mayor. The democrat succeeds vincent gray who leaves office under a cloud of controversy. Reporter Muriel Bowser is now the mayor. Glod god bless the district of colombia. Reporter sworn in after two years of campaigning for the job and seven years after the former mayor tapped her to succeed him. Super proud. Ive known mayor bowser since she was a first term commissioner. She is exactly what d. C. Makes d. C. So fanfantastic. Glad to be here to be a small part of it. Reporter also in the crowd tony william who is endorsed bowsers campaign. Not only building on our successes, youre learning from all our mistakes. And shes doing it very well. Reporter bowser greeted her friends and family after taking oath. Its a new day in washington. A fresh start for all of our families that call d. C. Home. Reporter and to seal the deal bowser accepted the citys sale seal from vincent gray. Vincent gray still has some Unfinished Business that federal investigation into his 2010 Shadow Campaign is still ongoing. Theres also some new leadership in the district today, three new counsel members were sworn in. Charles allen was elected to lead ward six and Alyssa Silverman is the new at large counsel member. The district also has its first elected attorney general. Before now d. C. s attorney general was appointed. Some wicked bad weather to tell you about. Speed and Road Conditions leads to two massive pileups in New Hampshire two. Both involved at least 35 vehicles vehicles. In one of the accidents a car slammed into a tractor trailer and burst into flames. Were seeing a similar scenario in the southwest. Drivers are having a tough time navigating the ice covered roads there. In north texas and oklahoma temperatures stayed frigid. Officials issued an ice storm warning until tomorrow morning. Its now headed our way. We have a Winter Weather advisory. I think tomorrow as this starts just about everybody will see at least some sleet around the area. It will not last long though. This is not a system im too concerned about. As you just talked about, that rain that were watching move our way is towards missouri back down towards texas and even atlanta. There will be enough cold air in place that we will see some sleet and ice. Not around the d. C. Metro area as far as problems go. The only area we could see those problems is where we do have that Winter Weather advisory. Frederick county hagerstown and back down towards West Virginia. Im going to show you who i think has the best chance to see this when it comes through. And then ill show you how temperatures skyrocket and then come crashing right back down. And just into our newsroom new photos of two men who are wanted in connection to the stabbings at mcfaddens last weekends. Five people were stabbed at that bar in foggy bottom saturday night. Mcfaddens had to shut down and lost its like kor license james brady died in past summer but the medical examiner said his death was directly related to being shot in 1981 and ruled it a homicide. Officials reopened the case against john hinkley. He will not face any new charge. He was found not guilty by reason of insanity. Jim hanly is here with the fallout. Reporter its the first retaliation against north korea, at least publicly because of the hack against sony. It targeted the countrys Intelligence Agency and ten government officials. They take effect immediately and will the deny access to the American Financial system and will bar them from entering the u. S. Its believed that north korea targeted sony over the release of the interview. North korea has denied any vomit and has not responded to those latest sanctions. Now to the search for answers in that air asia crash. The u. S. Navy recovery teams help recover pull another 21 bodies out of the java sea. But now the storms are bang ss ss are back and its preventing drivers from inging divers from searching the ocean floor where the fuselage may be resting. Reporter they were able to get three large pieces of the wreckage out of the water today to take it away to be examined as soon as possible. They are still focusing on an area underneath the water about 100 feet down where they believe the fuselage is. They have not been able to get down with divers though, because the weather is just too bad. They are listening for pings from the black boxes. They did the same thing during mh 370. But the weather is a huge problem. Thunderstorms just ripped through here and its slowing the entire Recovery Process down quite a bit. Weve learned that president obama called senator hairy reed at the hospital and wished him a speedy recovery. He was using an exercise resistance band at his home when it snapped yesterday. Reed fell down and broke several ribs but were told he hit some other exercise equipment as he was falling and he broke multiple bones near his right eye eye. He was released from the hospital today and his office says hes going to head back to d. C. This is not his first time getting injured while exercising. In may of 2011 he slipped while running in the rain. He returned to the senate floor just days later with his right arm in a sling and a large bruise over his eye. Three teenlagers were stabbed at a party. A vairginia tow truck driver is killed on the side of the road. 1600 pennsylvania avenue it could soon get a facelift. What were learning about plans to revamp the how can i avoid maintenance fees . Why would you want to avoid them . Because i dont want to. You know what . Im gonna bring my maintenance guy in here to tell you all about it. Roddy so, uh, without your fee your checking chamber cant run smoothly. Every time you put money in it causes, uh. Deposit friction. Gotta get some fiscal lube on there. [ male announcer ] its time to bank human again. [ defeated] okay. [ male announcer ] avoid monthly maintenance fees at td bank with a minimum checking balance of just 100. Td bank. Americas most convenient bank. Were getting closer to seeing some big changes to the white house grounds. The secret service is meeting behind closed doors with the two Government Agencies that would have to approve raising the fence. In a story, scott says there is new pressure coming from congress to make some very specific changes. Reporter the secret service has been under scrutiny for weeks about whether it should raise the white house fence to prevent this from happening again. Youll recall a man recently jumped the fence and darted through the white house front door. We learned the secret Service Staff has met in two recent days with two agencyies that would have to green light any changes. No formal questionsrequests were told but its still possible a plan will be made. The agency gets tied new bureaucracy. The fact that we can talk about this stuffer in common sense terms and wonder why it wasnt implemented is the problem. Reporter the agencys acting director in late november strongly indicated to congress hes thinking about similar changes. There are some other things we are looking at to included a just either height of the fence or some modification to that fence. Reporter congressional taf staffers tell us they say it will happen within the next few weeks increasing the chances the iconic white house fence will look different quite soon. The political world is mourning mario cuomo today. Mr. Cuomo was governor and was considered a liberal lion. Democrats pleaded with him to run for the white house, but after many deliberations he declined. Cuomo died on the same day his son was sworn in for a second term as the governor of new york. His inspiration and his legacy and his experience is what has brought this state to this point. Mario cuomo leaves behind his wife of more than 60 years and five children. He was 82 years old. This one is foeng to be very similar to the ones that weve already had and none of those have had a major impact on the area. This one is happening on a saturday so once again you can kind of go i really dont want to leave the house today. 44 degrees. So that tells you were not dealing with any wind right now. Wind will be a factor though as we make our way over the next few days. Its chilly but thats what we expect this time of year and temperatures today were at or a little bit above average during the average. You have to go way down towards the southwest to see that moisture streaming in. And he is that moisture back towards arkansas back towards missouri. As temperatures continue to cool well get down towards that freezing mark. Thats why we have that Winter Weather advisory. But once again, does not include the d. C. Metro area. I do think we imll see sleet even around d. C. But it should not cause any problems. Back to the west and freezing rain maybe a tenth of an inch in some locations. So use caution. We could see some of those roads get a little bit on the slick side. But again i dont think this will be a huge deal. When you look at the shower activity come through around 8 00 this isnt a wide spread area of rain moving in. This is going to be pockets and periods of rain. It could be all sleet at the start, even sleet inside the d. C. Metro area. Then as we warm by around noon. Down around fredericksburg not seeing that rain and then in the afternoon its just showers. Tomorrow is a great day to stay indoors and maybe take the decorations down. Future weather showing on sunday. We had some showers early in the morning and then we start to see them get out of here before another little round on sunday. Most of sunday will be dry. Showers that move through will also create a little bit of windy conditions. Well see temperatures that are skyrocketing. But overnight tonight theyre on the cool side. 30 in martinsburg. High temperatures tomorrow afternoon, upper 30s to lower 40s so with temperatures like this the roadways should not be much of a problem, especially those primary roads. Saturday afternoon your travel wet roads, thats really about it. Exercise could be a little tough outdoors. But you may be able to get it in this between showers. Temperatures on sunday up to 66 degrees. And you say, hey, nice and warm for the winter. But not so fast. We come right back down the roller costar. 41 on monday 35 on tuesday. You start to say, wow, 35 thats pretty cold. How about 21 . It gets a lot colder. 21 on thursday. 28 on friday. The coldest air weve seen since last january. Brutal cold. And this is the big one, winds gusting upwards of 30 miles an hour on wednesday and thursday. That will keep windchills between five and 15 degrees. Her husband was shot and killed two years ago and shes still searching for justice. Head from thear from the victims widow. Something keeps popping up at the security checkpoint here and the. The tsa is on high alert for hidden weapons, weapons some passengers have no idea they are even carrying. Its a problem for agents across the country and at Reagan National are seeing. Reporter canes that double as swords or knives are showing up at tsa check points but the tsa has a new saying. Twist and inspect. Reporter if you get caught with one of these in new york city accident or not, youll likely be arrested and never see the cane again. Actually, this style is fairly popular. With an ornate handle. Reporter is this a give away that theres something inside a dragon . I think so. Its a more menacing head that you would use. Again, you twist, untwist, unscrew it. And look at that. Reporter oh my goodness. Many have been given as gifts or bought at yard sales and a lot of olderstyle canes come with this type of defense feature. I think for the most part you say whats that, its a rock, whats in it its a rock. So you say its cane whats it in . Its a cane. So the question seems odd to begin with. Reporter the tsa also says its seeing a Record Number of guns brought to checkpoints. At Reagan National news4. Some big changes are coming at one stop on the red line. Next week they will install six new escalators. That project is expected to last three years. At any given time two of the escalators will be shut down. They went into service more than 30 years ago. Metro is tracinge ing trying to replace its oldest escalators. A man had a metal turn signal rev moved frommoved from his arm after 51 years. His other injuries were so severe that the doctors never noticed the turn signal embedded in him. He first found out about it 15 years ago after setting off a metal detector but only had it removed this week after it actually started bothering him. I was amazed to see how corroded it was. I was going to make a key chain out of it the but as awful as it looks, i dont know. Art is recovering well. Three localattacked after a hotel Drinking Party turns into chaos. And confusion over a state law meantsafe. Why its creating danger on. Well it proved to be a bad combination. A group of teenagers Drinking Alcohol and parties in a hotel room on new years day. And it ended early in morning when three of those teenager were stabbed. Reporter police say the three teens were stabbed here at the Hilton Alexandria Mark Center hotel. It happened about 1 30 this morning at a party where there was under aged drinking. The security i think they have to watch it here and make sure its safe for other people. Reporter do you feel safe here . I dont know how. Well this can happen anywhere so i dont think its something to worry about at thissenthis point. Reporter we didnt know there was a party. We werent serving them liquor. Heres how police say it happened. An adult female a 21 years old woman rented two rooms at the hotel and they were adjoining rooms for a party. There were numerous under age drinkers at the party. Someone showed up with liquor. There was an argument over that liquor and the stabbings occurred after that zblncht. Reporter the police say there are two suspects but they are not releasing descriptions at this time. One of the stabbing victims is in serious condition, he is 18 years old. The other two have nonlife threatening injuries. Reporter police are hoping that the witness accounts from that party will lead to the arrest of the two suspects in these stabbings. Were getting some new Details Details tonight about a man gunned down in a parking lot in prince georges county. He was killed in a shoot out. Police say he does not live there. Powell was arrested at Reagan National airport last year after he was stopped at a security checkpoint with a loaded gun. Whoever shot him yesterday, still on the loose. Fairfax county police may have trouble identifying a man who robbed a bank this morning. He was wearing a fake beard. Pulled a gun, demanded money from the teller and got in a vehicle driven by another guy and the two took off. Theres a renewed plea to drivers in virginia if you see lights flashing on the side of the road move other. This comes after a tow truck driver was hit and killed while doing his job earlier this week. Aj is a family man and his check supported his family. Reporter aj worked hard to send money back home to his wife and children. He was a tow truck driver for fairfax towing and recovery. This was his truck. The tow driver had a family and kids and lost his life. Reporter he was hooking up a disabled vehicle when he was hit by a box truck. The 34yearold truck driver who hit him crossed onto the shoulder. Police say that drivers brakes were bad. Hes charged with wreck edd with reckless driving. If you see lights flashing move over. Please be careful. Reporter Virginia State Police Say Many drivers dont move over or even slow down if they cant get over. A driver crash into this cruiser on the beltway. The trooper was slightly hurt. Troopers want more signs reminding drivers to move over. It is a problem here. Oftentimes when we arere out onre out on the shoulders of the roads way, a lot of drivers dont adhere to the law. Its very hard on all of us, on all of the framamily in the towing world. Aj was laid to rest today. Maryland has its own move over law. If you dont move over from emergency vehicles you could get 110 fine and a point on your license. If theres a death or a serious injury its a 750 750 fine and three points. Winter weather advisory is now in effect for tomorrow. Doug has been trarkcking the system. Early tomorrow morning is a mixture of some wintery weather. Some rain sleet and possibly freezing rain. Were watching an area down toward the south right now. Thats all making it way our way. Because of the fact weve got the moisture moving in along with temperatures close to that freezeing mark we do have that Winter Weather advisory. It will be in effect until 5 00 p. M. Tomorrow afternoon. Doesnt include d. C. Or Southern Maryland or even around fredericksburg. But even here we could see some sleet. Its not going to pose any problems though. Use caution, especially on those secondary roads and bridges and overpasses as well. Now, the next thing we watch, arctic air. Its pulled up into canada just waiting to come down. It will be here next week. Were talking about the coldest air weve seen since last january. You remember how cold that was. Ive got that forecast for you in just a minute. Silltill ahead a photographerfather i know grandmas house isnt the most exciting, but its only for a few hours. Look what ive got. When you get verizon fios, you get beautiful hd picture quality; super fast internet, and americas most reliable network. So you wont miss a second of that movie, that game they love, or those moments with family. Can we s make your house the house when you get more guaranteed from verizon fios, with tv Service Rated 1 in hd picture quality and signal reliability based on Customer Satisfaction studies, plus americas fastest, most reliable internet. 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New details in a Police Shooting in wavest Virginia West Virginia virginia. It lead to the discovery of two bodies. The bodies of a North Carolina couple were found in the suspects trunk. Two West Virginia Police Officers were injured in that shooting but their bulletproof vests credited with saving their lives. The fatherson duo from texas in police custody. The father is in the hospital with a bullet wound. Police say the suspects killed their North Carolina couple set their home on fire put their bodies in the trunk and stole their suv. Police believe it was a random crime. The boston bombing case is expected to last several weeks and could see Dzhokhar Tsarnaev sentenced to death. Reporter for more than a year and a half prosecutors have been building the case against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. An attack that left three people dead and injured more than 260 others. Dzhokhar tsarnaev is also charged with the killing of an mit Police Officer in the days following the at thetack. Many hope the trial will help bring closure of the dark painful memoryies of the attack and the days that followed. Moving on like victims of the attack. I am standing. Rebecca was just feet away from the finish line when the two bombs exploded ripping apart her left leg. For me to be that close to something that could have destroyed me it only allowed me to be stronger. Reporter this week in houston, texas, she took her first steps on her new prosthetic leg, small steps moving forward. While some 1800 miles away the city of boston hopes the start of the long awaited trial will help them do the same. A newly released 911 call revealed a Georgia Police chief accidentally shot his wife while she slept in bed. William mccollum told the operator the gun was in the couples bed and when he moved it to the side it went off. His wife remains in critical condition. Breaking nus inging news out of the las vegas where a man has been recued from a ride. He dangled there for about a half hour until firefighters were able to move a ladder truck into position and rescue him. No word on what caused or whether he was seriously hurt. Shes looking for justice two years after her husband was gunned down in the district. Plus an out pouring of support as investigators ring ring . Progresso its ok that your soup tastes like my homemade. Its our slow simmered vegetables and tender white meat icken. Apology accepted. Im watching you soup people. Make it progresso or make it yourself you say avocado old el paso says. Zesty chicken and avocado tacos in our stand n stuff tortillas. record scratch you say and n stuff tortillas old el paso says. Start somewhere fresh. For the redskins may have finally figured out they may need some help evaluated talent. Theyve got to get players in this organization. Thats the biggest mistake theyve been making not enough good players on this team. Everyone wants to know where the Organization Goes after this according to espn the skins are ready to offer aj smith an enhanced role with the organization. Smith is the former general manager for the san diego chargers. Rahim morris may fill that coordinator position. Morris has been with the staff for the past three seasons as a defensive backs coach. He spent three years in tampa bay as their head coach. Down to college football. College Football National championship game is set in the rose ball. The duction flew right past florida state, 639 total offense for the ducks. They blew out the seminoles 29game winning streak. The buckeyes took down top rankedrank ed alabama. The buckeyes will take on organize for the national championship. Head coach, check out his reaction when he heard how badly oregon beat florida state. Oregon won by 40 . 50 5920 . Weve got to go. One of the biggest games of his coaching career and hes that was a very honest reaction. Oregon and highohio the second and third ranked teams in the country. The 2015 winter classic went down to the wire against two of the hottest teams in the league. Washington d. C. Turns into the nations hockey capital. The caps did come through thanks to some guys who have been there before. Scoring his third goal in two winter classic games. Former black Hawk Troy Brouwer had a story book finish to this one. He knows the whole experience will help his team come playoff time. Any player that gets on the big stage and is a part of it grows as a person as a player. And we needed more of that in the organization. Weve got some young guys who have been there. Weve got some older guys who have forgotten and are relearning that a little bit. To have this stage, its important for what we want to do. Meanwhile today one last game being played on the outdoor rink. The Warriors Ice Hockey Program encourages and trains u. S. Military members who have been injured while serving their country. Just a great great new years day at nationals park. Billy joel was there, according to doug. And he looked awesome. Billy joel was there last year though. Lets talk some college basketball. Maryland is getting set for their second big 10 Conference Game against minnesota. Sur sur passing everyones expectations this weekend. This early success in college park has not gone unnoticed. Im excited to play in front of our fans. I guess this kind of woke them up again and showed them how tough we can be. The season is such a grind. Theres so much. Youre going two semesters and different breaks. You just do what you can. Its hard to keep the guys playing at a high level. Were just going to try to figure out a way to beat minnesota. Third quarter the stags starting to come back. Harvey is a sophomore guys. Big time throwdown there. The stags with four. Sierra canyon closes this one out with defense. Harvey driving again. A shot gets blocked by cody riley. Hes one of the best in the country. They fall to sierra canyon. The final score 6560. Just amazing to watch these high school kids. They look like College Players out there, so talented. Theyre both named billy. Well see you a hey guess what day it is . . Hump day hummmp daaay its hump day yeah hey Mike Mike Mike Mike Mike Mike Mike Mike Mike mike mike. Hey he knows hey guess what day it is hey camel guess what day it is its not even wednesday. Let it go, phil. If youre a camel, you put up with this all the time. Its what you do. sigh if you want to save fifteen percent or more car insurance, you itch to geico. Its what you do. Ok. On the broadcast tonight, piling up and piling on. Ice, snow and freezing rain unleash havoc on travelers in New Hampshire to texas. And the worst is yet to come. Bitter arctic air pushing into much of the country. Retaliation, the u. S. Strikes back and is now punishing north korea for its alleged cyber attack on sony. Pricey prescriptions, generic drugs are supposed to be the cheaper alternative, so why are we now paying so much more for then. With or without him, u2 fans worry about the future of the band after lead singer bono makes a startling admission. And Progress Report a school for children who fled one of the most dangerous places on earth is now