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Not a reflection of the over 1700 men and women that serve our Community Day in and day out with professionalism and integrity integrity. Reporter officer conway is the father of the two children at the hrt heart of an ugly exwife krystal who remarried. Krystal and her new husband Navy Reservist robert mange drove to the mcdonalds inrom norfolk virginia, to pick up the children. Instead of delivering her grandchildren to the couple Caroline Conway allegedly shot them, killing robert maky. Her son brought her there but stay nd the car with his two children. The evidence in this case and i reviewed this matter with the Sheriffs Office clearly indicates that mr. Conway was involved in this crime to the xpent that he helped make it helped try to cover it autopsy after the fact. Reporter conway lived with his parents at their home in gilford drive in waldorf. Its really unbelievable because they were such i want to say people of integrity a really good family, like a neighborhood watch. They were out observing. See thing thats were going on. I just couldnt believe this situation that happened. It was just unbelievable. Reporter Police Officer Richard Conway and his mother caroline have both been to court. Theyve been denied bail and will remain in custody waiting for their trial. Thats the latest live in waldorf. Jim, back to you. Thank you chris. We go now to principal georges county bureau chief tracee wilkins. She has a look at mince georges county. These are some of the cases weve covered in the last six months involving charges for Police Officers with the Prince Georges County Police Department. In march, corp will ral Jesse Stewart was charged with reckless dean angerment. Stewart was a member of the hyattsville fraefrpt. Hes accused of hazing pledges in his home. That same month, officer santiago was indicted for assault amidst misconduct in ofrs. Hes accused of pointing his gun at the head of an unarmed man a year ago. In october two Prince Georges County officers were indicted. Jerry thomas was charged with misconduct. This video shows him hitting and shoving a handcuffed 15 year old in 2012. He entered an alford plea in the case last month, meaning he doesnt admit guilt but believes there is enough evidence to convict him. Hell be sentenced next month. In a separate unrelated kies, School Resource officer Charles Piccard was charged after Surveillance Video showed him assaulting a Suitland High School student before arresting him back in 2013. He was recently convicted and will be sentenced in july. A fifth officer was pulled off of the job last november amid assault and Disorderly Conduct charges in atlantic city. Police say steven varg ga attacked somebody offduty. Its important to note that in all of these cases the Prince Georges County Police Department did its own investigation and turned the cases over to the States Attorneys Office for prosecution. Doreen, back to you. Tracee wilkins, thank you. Now to texas. Relentless rain for a Third Straight day. And the damage there almost unimaginable. Tonight the death toll is climbing too, as new pictures of the devastation emerge. Nbcs jay gray is in the hardhit town of wimberly texas. Jay . Reporter hey, doreen. Yeah, the damage stretching for miles. Ill show it how it happened. The blanco river is almost inside its banks at this poinltd as you come across the debris field, youll see slabs where cabins once stood. This river was climbing at more than 25 feet in just an hour tearing apart homes and families here. From the air and in the light of day, the streets of houston look more like canals after flash floods swept across the area overnight. More than ten inches of rain in some areas in just hours. Cars, trucks even tractor trailers were no match for the rising floodwaters that overwhelmed dozens of city streets. Response teams carried out more than 500 high water rescues throughout the night and into the day. Just use good common sense. Stay in stay out of the high water. Dont drive into the high water. Reporter in wimberly texas, the among the missing two family was children. My sister will always be my sister. Reporter laura mccomb made a trant frantic call to her sister. The house we were in, the roof collapsed and we are now floating down the river. Call mom and dad. I love you. And pray. Reporter her husband jonathan was found almost 12 miles downriver. Laura and their two kids still listed as missing. The blessing in all of this is that she is with her children. And she is with her babies and she will be with her babies always in heaven. And we know that as a family. Reporter a family like this area torn apart by the water and still searching for answers. And search teams stress this is still a rescue and recovery mission, one that forecasters will continue with more significant rain over the next several days here. That is the latest live in wimberly, texas im jay gray news4. Jay thank you. Another scene from wimberly, lester holt is getting a firsthand look at the devastation. Tune in for his reports when he anchors nbc nightly news live from texas tonight at 7 00. Two women helped pull a child from the water and gave cpr, but they couldnt save a second grader who fell into a Swimming Pool. It happened at the lorton Station Community pool yesterday. Another Virginia Bureau reporter david culver just spoke to a woman who tried to save that child. They tried. They did their best. It wasnt enough. Reporter amanata porter and her husband can hardly move. Both wanted us to know theyre grateful to those who tried to save their daughter, fatmata, they call her effie. As a parent, you want to know what happened when Something Like this happens. You want to know wharter what they know is he fif spent part of the day at lorton Station Community pool with friends. Around 4 00 panic set in. Then i just bolted and i just ran. Its like my mother instinct kicked in. Reporter roamy hopper, a Military Spouse trained in cpr was there with her kids and husband. Her knees still scraped up. Said she and another mom worked together trying to resuscitate effie. We kept trying to pump her pump her breathe her breathe. Reporter medics took over but couldnt bring her back to life. I wanted so bad to save her life. Reporter effies little brother, her best bud, according to their mother, pointed out to me his sisters picture. Love your kids. Always kiss them good night. Tell them how much you love them. Reporter a grieving moms message to you. And to her daughter . I love you, effie. You always be in my reporter i did reach out to Pool Management here. They tell me theyre still investigating and would rather not comment until they finish that investigation. Police meantime say there is nothing suspicious when they look into this as of yet. Theyre still investigating as well. And that mom who tried to save effie, shes put together an effort to raise money for the family. You can learn more about that on our nbc washington app. Search it now, go ahead and look up lorton drowning. Back to you. Thanks. For the second day in a row a young swimmer is in the hospital after being pulled from a pool in rockville. The boy was 13 years old. He was saved from the manor woods pool this afternoon. They say he was under water for about a minute. Lifeguards resuscitated the boy. He was conscious on the way to the hospital. Witnesses say that boy may have had a seizure. At another Swimming Pool in rockville tonight, this little boy is doing much better. R. J. Smithnelson was unconscious when he was pulled from his Community Pool yesterday afternoon. Neighbors performed cpr, and he was resuscitated. News4s megan fitz zwrairld talked to the little boy. He said he wasnt even in the pool when his ordeal began. I tripped over my feet and then i fell in the pool. Reporter then what happened . I couldnt breathe. Coming up in our next half hour, more from megans interview with r. J. Plus, what parents need to know before heading to the pool or the beach this season. Temps today feeling more like july than may. Doug says the heat and humidity wont be easing up anytime soon. Ill tell you its a warm afternoon. In the shade not quite as bad. We have a little breeze, that always helps. Temperatures right now 87 degrees, that wa was the high. High in leesburg 90 fredericksburg 89. The heat index got over 90 for a time this afternoon. Also, a few showers and thunderstorms, look toward luray, some of that activity that will try to make its way into Northern Virginia over the next couple of hours. That well tain to watch for you. Tonights hid lines, hot and hiemdd humid, you know that. Best Storm Chances over the next couple of days ill have that forecast for you then a rather unsettled weekend. Well talk about that. If you have plans this weekend, ill have that forecast in a couple of minutes. Jason rezaian is the Washington Post tei rain bureau chief. He was locked up in at thattehran in july without access to a murder, then with espionage. His trial got under way today and his family says that trial is a sham. Steve handelsman on capitol hill with more on this story. Very disturbing. Not what we would call a trial. It went on for about two hours today and its not clear what happened in the proceedings before a notoriously hardline judge in tehran. Then the trial was adjourned and its not clear what will happen next. Why . Because this is a closed trial. Jason rezaian is back behind bars charged basically with gathering information about irans policy and politics, in other words reporting but theyve charged him with espionage. His boss back here in the u. S. At the post slammed what he called the shameful acts of injustice that he says continued. Rezaian, just 39 years old, was born in the bay area. He went to the land of his parents birth after becoming a reporter for the post. Steve handelsman, thank you. Knocked out cold and robbed for the 1 in his pocket. New at 6, the reaction in the neighborhood after nobody stepped in to help on a busy sidewalk. Reporter as many as 19 homes may have been targeted by the same burglar or burglars. Coming up, ill tell you what type of home they were looking for and what they wanted once they got inside. And the city is going into your pocket again. Its going to cost you more to park, day or night even late tonight the d. C. Council is weighing two options that would make it more expensive to come into the city, paying more to park and paying a higher sales tax. One watch dog group says any increase would be a good thing for some city residents. News4s Mark Segraves is along wisconsin avenue in northwest with the big decision coming tomorrow. Mark . Reporter thats right, it will be up to the d. C. Council maybe members all 13 of them will get to vote on this tomorrow. Theyll have to choose between mayor bowsers plan to raise several taxes or the d. C. Council chairmans plan to increase the number of hours that parking meters are in effect and to increase parking fines. Either way, its going to make it more expensive for lots of people who drive into the district. Mayor Muriel Bowser wants to raise the sales tax to 6 just like it is in maryland and Northern Virginia. Bowser also wants to raise the tax on parking lots and garages. We believe that we have put together a fair and balanced budget that addresses the priorities of the residents of the district of columbia. Reporter several members of the d. C. Council are against raising taxes. Foed Council Chairman fill mendelson proposed extending the hours parking meters are in effect in areas like adams morgan, georgetown and the Downtown Business district. Meddleson also wants to increase the cost of all parking tickets issued in d. C. By 5. Our revenues are growing by hundreds of millions of dollars a year. We dont need to be raising taxes. And in fact the recommendation that the council is considering doesnt require us to raise taxes. Reporter well know tomorrow when the Council Votes which proposal becomes law. Fiscal watch dogs say either choice is good news for the districts less fortunate. More money to thing thats are important to the d. C. Residents like affordable housing, Homeless Services and services to crime victims. At thats all great news. Reporter for a complete list of the areas that could be impagted by the changes go to nbcwashington. Com and search d. C. Parking. Cabbies in the district are going to court. Theyre suing Services Like uber. A few months ago, those cabbies conducted some protests tying up traffic all over town. Theyre upset with the law passed by the d. C. Council that allows ride for a fee services, serves like uber a law that aweallows them tocapital. The cabbies say that puts them at a competitive disadvantageous because they have to follow more strict requirements. A lawsuit was filed in federal court last friday. Dougs here with a check on our weather forecast. Hello summer. Hello summer. Thats what it feels like. They call memorial day the unofficial start of summer. Mother nature said, lets do the whole thing. Lets start it off the right way. Pools opened up. Any day this week you can hit the pool. Its that warm as temperatures are averaging very close to the highest our temperatures average, 88 degrees, in the middle of july into early august. Lets take a look and show you whats its look outside. Warm for sure aloft sunshine. Temperature of 85 right now but look at the heat index around 89. That tells you we do have a mril bit of the humidity in the atmosphere. Doesnt feel too bad. Were not talking about a heat index of 9 knife but its still quite humid. 88 in leesburg, 84 toward culpeper, 85 in huntingtown the cool spot along the water annapolis coming in at 79 Patuxent River at 80. We are watching a few stormses nothing around the d. C. Metro area, but one shower in Prince William county, another to the south and west. That area of storminess, watch it kind of just develop here with the clouds. That area of storminess will try to move in through parts of Northern Virginia mostly west of i95. Loudoun county, falkier county maybe western Fairfax County over the next couple of hours is something well continue to watch for you. Dont expect anything strong or severe. Just expect brief heavy yawn pour or so. Back to the west weve been watching this frontal boundary, look at all the rain toward atlanta georgia, the same system that came through houston and parts of texas over the last couple of days. This pattern wants to remain. More storms in texas, more warm air arpd more moisture pum mg into our region. Were in for a rather hot and humid week i think. As far as the radar goes tomorrow around 2 00, a few showers on future weather. Tomorrow afternoon a few more showers, maybe a few thunderstorms. Once again, im not expecting too much in the way of coverage, a little bit better coverage tomorrow than today. 90 degrees in culpeper tomorrow 91 in fredericksburg, 87 in gaithersburg a cooler 86 along the water. I do think well get to 89 in d. C. That heat index tomorrow could be 92 93. So we are inching up. If youre thinking about getting in some exercise, go early. Try to beat the heat. Muggy at 74 degrees at 7 00 a. M. The heat index will be an issue early, spaerl erbil. 78 by 9 00 a. M. , 86 by 1 00. We warm very quickly during the day tomorrow. That impact is going to be on the low to moderate side for the most part. 89 tomorrow, about a 50 to 60 chance of afternoon storms, mostly i95 to the west. If youre east of i95 little less of a chance. 87 on thursday 86 on friday. Little lower humidity thursday and friday. Then it comes right back for saturday. High temperature of 88 degrees on saturday a 30 chance of storms. 85 on sunday. The front moves through, could bring us a storm on sunday. Then look at next week, high temperatures back down to around 70. Much cooler air behind that front. If youve got plans to head toward the beaches, ive got that forecast for you coming up at 6 flief. Thanksing doug. Coming up tonight, a legal victory for a local couple who captured National Attention for their parenting style. Reporter since this last weekend, Montgomery County fire crew responded to three near drownings. 7yearold r. J. Spoke to us after he was rescued from the bottom of a pool monday afternoon. First responders say there are things parents can do to make puerto ricos Healthcare System is on life support. Putting three and a half million Puerto Ricans at risk. Its an outrage. Puerto ricans are us citizens and pay the same medicare taxes, but receive only half the federal healthcare funding as the other 50 states. The headlines tell the story. Unfair treatment from washington. Thousands without medications. Its a crisis that could imperil the whole economy. President obama must act now to protect care for three and a half million u. S. Citizens. Before its too late. Some neighbors are on edge in Fairfax County after burglars were targeting specific homes and making off with very specific items. Northern Virginia Bureau chief julie carey reports that police are linking as many as 19 burglaries in a pattern that theyre seeing over and over again. Reporter aragon smith is often home during the mornings but one day when he stepped out brief live back in october, burglars stepped in. I got back at 10 45, and the door was open. Im like they had 15 minutes maybe tops, and they were in and out. Reporter still, like a lot of the homeowners who have become victims he didnt even realize there had been a breakin until his wife came home from work that night. Her whole dressing table was just cleaned gone. Reporter their losses, more than 35,000 in jewelry and silver. Silver thats been passed down through generations. They headed straight for our silver and thats what sucks. Greatgrandma brought it over on other lap on the boat. Oh man, we cant even get that. Its hungarian stuff. Reporter news4 has learned from Court Documents of the 19 burglaries that could be linked homes are in the West Springfield Fairfax Station area and seven are in subdivisions just off ox road. Most of the homes have long driveways and back up to wooded areas. Losses are big. At this home, they got away with 110,000 worth of jewelry and flatware. Smith wishes there had been more of a community alert. I think the whole area should definitely have been notified a little bit more. Reporter but Fairfax County police say they do post breakins on their website every day and they say the bad guys often know how to stay a step ahead. If they pick one house here, another house on another part of the county it is difficult to link them by there was a large yard or they back to woods. Thats a lot of Fairfax County. Reporter police stress they havent given up trying to solve these subdivision burglaries but right now they dont have any suspect description. In Fairfax County julie carey news4. Announcer next, disturbing video, a man attack and robbed as witnesses look on. Now police are on the hunt for the suspect. The message they want you to hear tonight. And crucial testing finally finished inside a crowded d. C. Shelter. See the new developments in the story we broke first on news4. Plus a desperate rescue. I tripped over my foot and thend i fell in the pool. Reporter how a neighbors quick thinking announcer youre watching news4 at 6. Now at 6, our team of reporters uncovering new leads on the days top stories. First, a man knocked out cold on a busy sidewalk in broad daylight. Surveillance cameras caught the attack and what happened next shocked bystanders. The guy walked back and took 1 out of victims pocket. We are in southeast with more, derrick . Reporter jim, we actually have moved now to the Violent Crimes division here. They are investigating crimes like this. Indeed, this one. It is shocking indeed what happened on that video but whats just as shocking to a lot of people is what happened afterward. There is nothing unusual or untoward about people just congregating on a sidewalk on a balmy spring evening. We dont know what the principal characters here exchanged words about, but whatever it was, it led the man in the red shirt to react seemingly without warning and with violence. Its something hard to watch. Reporter especially when you consider that the victim, a 63yearold man, takes a hard fall and doesnt move afterward and nobody assists him. The only attention he gets while hes down cops from the man who knocked him out. He comes back to go 30 his pockets. He says despite how this looks, this shouldnt be a blanket indictment as a community of 8 whole thf this is not a world by itself. Some Beautiful People out here, businesses, kids. So much stuff going on thats positive. Reporter d. C. Police have made the video public in hopes of reaching some of those people. They want to speak with the man theyre calling a person of interest, the man who threw the punch. This surveillance camera caught it all. The argument and the aftermath. Police hope to catch the man who threw that punch. Boy i think they should should be able to talk about that. Reporter now the 63yearold victim in this was treated and released. He had some severe lacerations and bruises. You can go to our website and take eye look at the video, police want to catch this person. Were live in southwest, derrick ward, news4. We should learn the results tomorrow of lead paint testing at the d. C. General homeless shelter. Mayor Muriel Bowser ordered a top to bottom test for lead point after news4 reported two Young Children living at the shelter tested positive for lead poisoning. Early testing found lead paint in a cafeteria. It was closed off. D. C. s department of the environment has completed the rest of the testing and expects to release results tomorrow. Metro may not be able to afford some of those shiny new 7000 series railcars after all. News4 transportation reporter adam tuss tweeted this information as breaking news this afternoon. A proposed budget abandons plans to order 220 new cars. The Transit Agency has ordered and funded 528 new cars, but if the extra cars are not ordered, it means some of the old railcars will stay in service and puts metros goal of having eightcar trains on every line in jeopardy. The government investigation into last years deadly plane crash in gaithersburg, maryland is months away from completion. The news4 iteam learned the National Transportation safety boards investigation includes interviews with pilots who were in the area near the crash. It also involves help from brazilian and canadian officials because parts of that plane were made in those countries. That plane crashed into a house in gaithersburg back in december. A mother and two of her children were killed as well as three people aboard the plane. As we reported last night safety reviews of the Montgomery County air park are on hold until the ntsbs investigation is completed. Dozens of trains running along the northeast corridor will soon have a new safety feature. Amtrak is placing video cameras in the engineers cab to record what happens inside. The move follows a deadly derailment in philadelphia earlier this month. Eight people were killed more than 200 injured. The engineer has told investigateors he cant remember what happened. Amtrak is equipping 70 train was the cameras, 38 will be installed by the end of the year. Some relief for motorists in the chantilly area of fairfax count yit. Spring fellow road is now open. Its a new fourlane highway that serves several schools and county parks. The project is has taken nearly five years even though it finished ahead of schedule. 23,000 cars drive along spring fellow road every day. Virginia Governor Terry mccull la signed by law after a deadly year for unlicensed day care centers, including a 1yearold who was killed in a fire in middlelothian. Home Child Care Centers are required to disclose in writing they are unlicensed. By july 2016 those homes can only care for up to four children down from five. And by july 2017 licensed day care facilities will be required to run fingerprint background checks for all employees and volunteers too. You may have seen the video, but tonight hear from one of the children inside this bounce house as it went flying at the beach. Also, a big win in court for a maryland couple who have become the face of a controversial parenting approach. Doug . Were tracking a couple of thunderstorms right now in through parts of Northern Virginia including one storm, this one a new storm that does have thunder and liept ning including culpeper and rap hannah county. More storms are heading our way. Were tracking those. Tonight were hearing from one of the children who was injured when one of those inflatable bounce houses went airborne. Three kids were in the bounce house when a waterspout formed just off of ft. Lauderdale beach yesterday. It became a small tornado when it came ashore with winds of 65 miles an hour. Look at that. The house was lifted 50 feet in the air. I was in the bounce house, and then the bounce house flew while i was in there. Then i fell in the dirt. The kids suffered some minor injuries, including some fractures. City officials called the accident a freak act of nature that nobody could have predicted. Injuries in bounce houses have been on the rise in recent years. A Consumer Product Safety Commission study estimate bounce house injuries sent nearly 48,000 people to the emergency room between 2011 and 2013. The majority of the injuries were broken bones followed by bumps and bruises and then concussions. The best way to prevent a bounce house injury, deflate the thing when winds get up to 15 miles an hour or when you can see the tops of trees swaying. A couple in Montgomery County whose parenting style got them in trouble with Child Services are now facing fewer charges. Danielle and alexander meiteiv advocate free range parenting encouraging independence and exploration by the kids. In december, they were charged with neglect for allowing their 10 and 6yearold children to walk home alone from a park in silver spring. Investigators have now ruled out a charge of neglect in that case. But the meiteivs are still being investigated for a similar incident in april of this year. Its one of our most talked about stories online. Seven people facing charges after a senior prank at a high school in st. Marys county. It happened last week in morganza morganza, maryland. 72,000 ladybugs found covering the halls. Police say those responsible ordered the bugs online. Who knew you could do that . Then broke into the school and let them loose. So we asked what you think about all of this. Is it funny or awful . Does it rise to the level of being criminal . Take a look at the results. You can see overwhelming 86 of you think it was funny. Coming up tonight, a young boy rescued from a Community Pool. Hes talking about his a little boy playing by the side much a pool tripped and fell into the water. And what happened next could have been tragic had it not been for the action of some bystanders. I was going i was sinking. Reporter and then that must have been scary, huh . Yeah. His name is r. J. Smithnelson. He was resuscitated after he was pulled out of the pool. Still wearing his hospital bracelet today but were told hes doing okay. His rescuers were bystanders but Megan Fitzgerald reports that its often a local Fire Department dealing with those situations. Megan reports that those First Responders are getting a lot of calls this time of year correct . Reporter jim just within the past couple of hours, fire crews responded to another call of a near drowning, the third one theyve responded to since the weekend. They do tell us these accidents dont have to happen. As we open the pools this weekend, our call forz drownings are going up. Reporter Montgomery County fire rescue chief Scott Goldstein says he cannot stress enough how important it is for parents to watch their kids. Sta tais ticks prove that drowning is the second leading cause of death for children under the age of 14. Reporter sechblyearold r. J. Is the perfect example. On monday, he was at his Community Pool with his teenage cousins when he nearly drowned. I tripped over my feet and i fell in the pool. I couldnt breathe. Reporter his aunt says it was a neighbor who pulled him out from the bottom of the pool and a nearby nurse administered cpr to get r. J. Breathing again. Maybe its not a good idea to have a 16yearold or even a 17yearold be responsible. Reporter First Responders agree. Ideally a parent should be watching with a cell phone nearby. Its about having knowledge of cpr, having the right sfrgs. Reporter because it only takes seconds for a child to drown and sometimes you dont notice until its too late. Traditionally the drowning events do not have the telltale signs of flailing of arms and calling for distress. Reporter we posted seven thing uz may not know about drowning on our nbc washington facebook page. Of course, we encourage you to go there, take a look and possibly share that potentially life saving information with a friend or a family member. Reporting in Montgomery County, Megan Fitzgerald, news4. Back to you. Megan, thank you. There are so many opportunities in our area this time of year to sign kids up for swim lessons. They can start as early as when theyre little babies. And for us to take cpr, on the flip side of us. Important for parents. Indeed. Especially when it gets nice and warm. Anytime were in the 80s, they opened the pools just a couple of days ago. The pools have been packed because of the heat outside. Temperatures today into the upper 80s across the area. Right now our reston live camera looking good toward reston town center. Just a few clouds increasing south and west. Your sunset tonight at 8 23 as our days continue to get longer. 85 degrees currently, well be there over the next hour or so, then dropping to 81, muggy at 9 00, same at 11 00. The temperatures 82 in gaithersburg 85 at dulles, 84 toward huntingtown. Heres the radar. Notice just down to our south and west here we are looking at some storminess through Culpeper County, han Rappahannock County paige county, were watching these storms continuing to move to the north and east. Now, d. C. I95 i think okay. But headsup falkier county western Prince William, maybe extreme western fairfax around herndon, centerville and loudoun county. Thats where these storms are going, also clark county. Well do one more zoom. This is the north and west of luray, a little lightning here. But really heavy downpours along 340. Heres the one on 340 north of luray, then also this one Culpeper County Rappahannock County, thats the line here. You see washington where the inn and Little Washington is, right along the blue ridge. These continuing to move north and east. Most of us should stay dry but dont be surprised to see a storm. Tomorrow, scattered storms across the area. Temperatures 85 to 91 so it will be warmer tomorrow. I think a little bit better chance of scattered storms. 87 on your thursday, 86 friday. Then we get hot and humid on saturday with a chance for storms, then things start to cool a little bit as we head toward early next week. Were back to around 70 next monday. Thank you doug. A new development now in the fight over the districts gun laws. The d. C. Government is appealing a court ruling that struck down part of the citys concealed carry law. A judge ruled the good reason requirement was unconstitutional. That requirement forces gun owners to prove they have good reason to fear for their life or property in order to obtain a permit. Maryland, new jersey and new york all have similar laws. The judge misapplied case law and is asking for a stay of that ruling. Coming up in sports, burgundy and gold are on the field together first time this offseason. Finds out why practice could be the easiest part of right now verizon is offering unlimited talk and text. Plus 10 gigs of shareable data. 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Year two working with gruden, despite the struggles of year one, rg3 is happy to have the familiarity. Its good to have the same offense and same coaches and work through, you know, building that relationship with those guys. Its really about that doing what they ask you to do, working ong Little Things that you know you can do to get better and being yourself. The one thing you kbt do as a player is lose who you are. Ill make sure that doesnt happen. Usuallied second year you have a little bit more confidence little more air about you that you should show improvement. Lots of improvement. We have High Expectations for the quarterback position and robert in general. And we expect significant strides to take place from year one to year two. The most impressive thing i saw today, a welcome site on the field, deangelo hall, he tore his achilles in september, had surgery, then retore it getting a slice of pizza from his kitchen and had to have the surgery again. Hall participated in part of todays practice, the plan is for him to be ready by Training Camp. And he is happy just to be back. Its always gun to step back on the field and mix it up a little bixt. Its fun. Im not doing hardly anything yet, but dids still fun to be out here. I probably wont do anything initially until Training Camp so right now im just probably waiting until Training Camp to starts before i get back on the field. But physically i feel like i can do everything now. Just precautionary. Jim, check this out on our nbc washington app. We talked to pairnsterrence owe pot roast knighton, how redskins wedding landed the nose tack il here. Search pot roast. We made it easy for you right on the app. He says it it says hes 331. He looked 420. He was sitting right next to me. Oh my gosh a big man. After who wasnt there, again, it is voluntary, but Desean Jackson was not there, hell be there next week and Trent Williams missed a flight out of houston because of the batted bat bad weather. Ryan kerrigan was there but did not participate. He is recovering from a minor knee procedure. As for who wont be at the university of maryland anymore, its lexie brown, the rising junior superstar. She transferred from the terps program. The reason . She wants to play closer to home. Shes originally from georgia. Brown did it all for the terpz last season as we know all Big Ten First Team this past year averaging 13. 3 points per game. Big loss for the terps. No word on where shell transfer to. The nationals in chicago right now, delayed because of weather. Theyre scheduled to start around 7 20. Finally, its hard enough being a quarterback in this toub, but rg3 has an even tougher dad. The good news, coach jay gruden doesnt need to watch film on fatherhood. He knows a Little Something about this. Sleep in the other room. Youve got to make sure to get the rest when he can. I wont let him use baby trying falling asleep during a meeting. I love the fact i havent had much sleep for the past couple of days but still have to come talk to you giefs in practice. Its a special feeling when you can look at a kid and youre basically looking in the mirror, youre looking at yourself. Can bring a to tears. So it did. Lots of his teammates had advice for the new father. I bet they did. He was getting points for planning this right. If you think about it, by the time the season starts, the baby is past the allnight feedings. You know what im talkinging about. Those things, doreen. Did he say he loves not being able to get any sleep at night . Hes enjoying it. Hes delusional already. I know. Hes in love. Thats what sleep deprivation does for you. Hes happy. No excuses around there. Sleep in the other room. Youve got to do that. Good advice. 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