Baltimore officer accused in freddie grays death continues this morning. Edward nero is accused of assault, Reckless Endangerment and misconduct in office. News 4s chris gordon is in baltimore covering the case for us. He has the latest on who we may see on the stand today. Reporter the prosecution is presenting a bioengineering expert who testified that the broken neck that freddie gray allegedly sustained in the Police Transport van is very similar to an injury that one would get diving into a shallow pool. This comes on day three of testimony in the trial of officer edward nero. He is charged with assault, Reckless Endangerment and misconduct. Now, the prosecution is expected to call a very unusual witness today. A fellow Bike Patrol Police officer, Garrett Miller, who was with nero when freddie gray was stopped and handcuffed on april 12th, 2015. Testify in this case. He was the one who actually stopped gray and put handcuffs on him. And he also faces criminal charges and a trial in july. The prosecution could wrap up its case today. And then it will be the defenses turn to present witnesses. Thats the latest from baltimore. Chris gordon, news 4. Prosecutors are asking that a 17yearold accused of murder be tried as an adult. That news just in from Prince William county court. Police say the teen killed 14yearold eric kokocrespo last week. Prosecutors call it a serious and heinous crime. The 17yearold will be back in Court Next Month ncht right now jury selection is underway for a Fairfax County lawyer accused of terrorizing a mcclain couple. Andrew schmuhl charged with abduction and Malicious Wounding for a 2014 attack on another lawyer and his wife. Schmuhls wife faces the same charges but be tried separately. At the time of the attack she had just been fired from the victims law firm. News 4s Northern Virginia bureau chief julie carey has covered this story from the beginning. Shes in the courtroom right now. Follow her on twitter for updates on this case. A woman killed in connection with the Maryland Shopping Center shootings will be remembered today as a beloved chemistry teacher who pushed her students to do their best. Tonight there will be a individual vigil for gladys. Police say two weeks ago her estranged husband shot her outside high school in prince georges county. And Funeral Services begin today for claudina, visitation begins tonight at st. Jude Catholic Church in rockville. The funeral mass will be held tomorrow. Originally from bolivia and accomplished the american dream. She was a nursing assistant who planned to retire within a year. The shooting of a little boy while playing over the weekend has some d. C. Residents upset about ongoing violence in their community, but theyre thankful this morning that an offduty emt was there close by to help. The 7yearold was shot in the shoulder saturday in a southeast d. C. Community, but he is expected to be okay. The first person to arrive at the scene was veronica bask baskerville, she was at a baby shower at a church in the area. When she heard the shots, she grabbed her medic bag and sprang into action. I ran out the church, ran to my car. And i got my bls bag and i went to work. Meanwhile, people who live near the scene of the shooting say they want a crime camera in their neighborhood. Right now 13 Law Enforcement officers are being awarded the highest honor in the land. Were looking live inside the east wing of the white us hes honoring with the medal of valor today, quote, exhibited exceptional courage regardless of personal safety in attempts to protect or save human life. Police Sergeant Robert wilson died in the line of duty, he will be receiving the honor p t posthumously today. Gorgeous day, chilly start, bright sunshining down on capitol hill. Theres the newly restored capitol dome gleaming in this golden sunlight. You can see a lot of the scaffolding is starting to come down, lower elevations there on the capitol dome. Its really wrapping up now. Their total restoration. So youll be comfortable in long sleeves, slacks and sunglasses. Youll definitely need them for the rest of the day. Well have the bright sun with us. Temperatures right now mid50s in washington and nearby suburbs. Upper 50s around the bay. Farther north and west mid 50s after that very cold start in warming up nicely there. Rain on the way. Ive got new arrival times and departure times, thats coming up in just a few minutes. All right, tom. Well, if youre planning to go to the Washington Monument, you may have to wait for that for a while. Officials closed it on sunday due to power problems. And they are making repairs to the elevator power supply right now. The monument has been closed several times in recent months because of escalator problems. Officials say they will reopen it as soon as those repairs are done. Metro back on track following some weekend problems. The first issue happened at the lenfant station yesterday. Crews extinguished smoldering debris on the tracks. And an insulator had to be replaced. Yesterday crews were called in for an arcing insulator there. Metro says there was never any smoke or fire at that just into the live desk, u. S. Military beefing up its fight against isis in libya. The pentagon along with other world powers saying that its ready to supply that countrys government with weapons to fight the Islamic State and other terrorist groups. Right now libya is under a u. N. Embargo to keep lethal arms away. Now, the plan signed off by the u. S. And 15 other nations pushes for exemptions to that embargo. Im angie goff at the live desk, pat, back to you. Thank you, angie. The president ial candidates are campaigning across the country today while Hillary Clinton holds events in kentucky, senator Bernie Sanders is holding a town hall in puerto rico. Heres a live look nbcs Edward Lawrence has more on sanders pitch to voters, plus Donald Trumps new feud over an old topic. Reporter senator Bernie Sanders needs 65 of all remaining delegates to catch Hillary Clinton. That is why we need your help big time right here in kentucky. Reporter if sanders kentucky and oregon on tuesday, he says he can get the unbound superdelegates to change sides. Clinton just wants to move on and talk about the gop presumptive nominee. So what you hear from donald trump is not just offensive, it is dangerous. It is dangerous. Reporter president obama echoed similar warnings during his commencement address at rutgers university, never mentioning donald trump by name. The world is more interconnected than ever before. And its becoming more connected every day. Building walls wont change u÷9z that. Reporter meanwhile, trump took to twitter last night saying newspaper reports listing names of Vice President ial running mates are wrong. This as the party is starting to rally behind their presumptive nominee. This is way early and still already were seeing convergence on the part of the electorate with donald trump. Reporter for republicans only voters in oregon will make their choice on tue. Hes on twitter. Reporting in washington, Edward Lawrence, nbc news. More and more Police Body Cameras are now being used. After the break were going to show you how the video can be easily misinterpreted. Take a look at this violent crash caught on camera. What happened to the cars hit by the trucks wreckage. And baseball highlight being clicked on over and over again this morning and how the players some scary moments for drivers on the new yorks tapanzee bridge. Rolled over during saturday mornings rush hour. Five vehicles were hit by debris, but no one was injured. Authorities believe the crash was caused by a failure of the trucks suspension system. Boston surgeons have performed the First Successful penis transplant in the u. S. Doctors calling this a surgical milestone. Many of these patients suffer in silence, and for years its been like that. And i think now hes found a voice to come out to say how much he has really found hope in this type of procedure. This is 64yearold thomas manning. He got that donatedr years after he lost his penis because of cancer. He is only the third man in the world to have this surgery performed. It was a 15hour operation and manning says that he is talking about it, hes going public because he wants to inspire others to stay hopeful about recovery. Pat, barbara. Today, d. C. Students will have a safer walk home. Officials are launching a program called man the block. 1,000 city leaders and volunteers will monitor streets throughout the citys eight wards in order to make sure students can walk home safely. This Program Starts this afternoon. In developing news now, a Carnival Cruise ship has returned to port in texas without one of its passengers. Cruise line Officials SaySurveillance Footage shows 33yearold samantha broburg falling off the ship friday morning. The ship was on a fourday mexican cruise. The mayor of Greater Manchester engl bomb scare that caused a high profile soccer match to be postponed. It happened on sunday just minutes before Manchester Uniteds last game of the season was just about to begin. An employee found the device in a bathroom forcing thousands to evacuate the stadium. Children were frightened, but orderly. Rushed us away from the Stadium Police conducted a controlled explosion of the device and determined it was a training device accidentally left there by a private company during an exercise. The match has been rescheduled for tuesday. New numbers show crime rates across dozens of cities on the rise already this year. The fbi says the viral video effect could be to blame. It says some People Police rather are afraid to approach criminals fearing the video will end up on cameras or the internet. But still communities are pressing for police he said she said that often takes place after confrontations. Some question whether the video itself can be deceiving. Reporter youre watching what looks like an aggressive confrontation. Caught on police body cam. Many departments across the country saying they increased transparency and ho officers accountable. These cameras are the future of policing. Reporter and they are helpful, like in texas. Put your hands behind your back. Reporter dash cam video showing a cop taking down a suspect, seemingly out of nowhere. But from the body cameras angle a clear view of the suspect attacking the officer first. And in ohio drop the knife reporter a body cam capturing this officer pleading with a knife wielding man. The camera confirming the officer needs to use force. But do they always tell the whole story . Today we have some revealing demonstrations for you. This is seth, a law professor here at university of South Carolina. Also a former police officer. Youll be playing the cop. Ill be playing the suspect. And you were saying sometimes Police Body Cameras can be misleading. Thats absolutely right. Theyre a great tool, but like any tool they have limitations. They can be deceptive, they can fail to capture important information, and sometimes they can suggest something that didnt actually happen. Reporter to test them out were setting up police encounters. Seth is putting on a body camera. My producer is off to the side shooting from a distance on her iphone to give us the complete picture, like a bystander would. Scenario one, something seth calls deceptive intensity. Watch this body camera footage closely. Whats happening here . All right. Now lets look from the bystanders iphone. Thats right, no brawls here, just really bad that is incredible. What does this show us . Because of the location of the camera and the fact its looking up on you and on loose clothing makes it look like an aggressive encounter with a little more context we know its not. Reporter okay, onto scenario two. No sound. Were going to demonstrate a traffic stop. There have been so many controversial traffic stops lately caught on Police Body Cameras, and there are some officers that dont record the sound, and some departments that dont release the sound. Youre about to see what happens. It looks like a normal traffic stop until so whats going on here . A, the officer attacked me, b, i attacked the officer, or, c, the officer helped me. Okay. Now here it is again with the sound. I did write you a ticket today oh, whoa, hey, a bee just flew in your car. Its right behind you. Get out. Get out of the car. Is it off . Everything. But you wont believe your eyes in scenario three. What the camera cant see. Hey, man, police department, you okay . I dont want any trouble. Just leave me alone. Get on the ground now reporter so why did he attack me . It looked like a normal conversation. He just threw me to the ground. This is what the body camera couldnt see. Freeze, right there, i pulled a fake gun on the officer causing him to react. People think body cameras are going to be the solution to issues of Police Accountability and transparency, and sometimes they will be. Sometimes they wont be. And times theyll be outright misleading. That was jeff rossen, now research on body cameras is still relatively new, while there are no specific cases of deception reported just yet, experts believe as these become more widespread there will be. Seth, the law professor at the university of South Carolina that jeff mentioned in his piece, uses video like the judges how to interpret body cam footage. Pretty interesting. It certainly is. The great thing about baseball some would say is that you can go to the game and say i never saw that before. Well, in texas that thing was a player getting punched in the face. Take a look at this. Texas rangers and Toronto Blue Jays in an allout brawl. Going to end up with one of the players being suspended as a matter of fact. Kind of thing you see on the ice with ice hockey. They were fighting basically because the rangers thought a blue jays player showed them up in the playoffs last year. They hit him with a pitch yesterday. Then he had a hard slide into second base. Then the fight really started. Look at that in slowmo. He really took it on the jaw, didnt he . Not very sportsmanlike. No, a lot of folks looking at that video. New today stubhub is getting its logo the 76ers sold the space in the upper corner of their jerseys for 5 million a year. You wont see the ads until next fall, fall of 2017 rather. The nba is testing jersey ads just like soccer teams in other countries too, this one is only a few inches wide. A call for volunteers. The task to count bugs. Would you like to do that . The reason a good one the fight against the zika virus. Well tell you about that ncht and we want to show you this as much as possible because its not going to last. Talking about the sunshine out there today and the return of the r ai morning noon or night theres always a moment to discover visit annapolis and create your moment the federal government is seeking volunteers to track zikacarrying mosquitos here in the u. S. The invasive mosquito project is recruiting High School Science teachers and students to collect mosquito eggs. The volunteers will then upload Research Data online. The department of agriculture wants to line up volunteers quickly to start this project. Right now, parts of southeastern texas are dealing with some massive flooding. This is what it looked like in corpus christi. Many streets there completely under water. Despite warnings, drivers tried to get through flooded streets only to end up stuck. Police have closed several roads and some schools are closed for the day due to the Hazardous Conditions down there in texas right now. Our conditions are pretty nice. Today. I tell you well take this compared to what theyre having in southeast texas. I know. Weve just had rain coming down lightly. But its our stretch of days, its ts frequency of it that is sort of getting to us, i think. Its gotten to us. It has gotten to us. And around our region its welcomed sunshine, soak it up while you can. Theres a live view from our city camera. The Washington Monument gleaning in the sunshine under a blue sky. Look how green everything is. Looks like brazil, doesnt it rk barbara . Sort of. Just a little. Very little. And it is going to stay this way. Great day to get a run in between now and through the afternoon. Lots of sunshine. It will be near 60 by noontime, by 2 00 the mid 60s and mid and upper 60s between 3 00 and 5 00 and back down to low 60s by 7 00 p. M. Great day, lighter wind. Storm team 4 radar all clear on the radar right now. Dont have any rain anywhere in the vicinity. Rain arriving tomorrow. The area in green are some light showers. By 8 00 a. M. On tuesday moving in occasional light showers after that coming in from the south and west across virginia into maryland and the district. 10 00 a. M. Continues noontime it continues, maybe a little harder that yellow zone around fredericksburg, then it moves off to the east and crosses the chesapeake baby around 4 00 p. M. So it should be tapering off for the afternoon commute on tuesday. We have another round, another disturbance coming into the mountains by in the evening hours on tuesday and lingering into wednesday. So storm team 4 fourday forecast showers moving in after we get into the upper 60s today, much cooler tomorrow near 60. And then a little sun back wednesday afterno after the showers end midday. Then sunshine, beautiful weather, get the yard work in, get some mowing in on thursday and friday. Highs near 70, thursday friday low 70s. Right now looking like showers for the weekend, cool saturday, bit milder on sunday. All right, tom, thank you. Today, we are kicking off an stories. Consumer reporter susan hogan has important ways to keep you and your family safe. And today we start in the yard with a warning about how a simple chore can turn deadly. This morning were talking about lawn mower safety. People die every year as a result of lawn mower accidents. The numbers are staggering. Look at this 35,000 people are injured in lawn mower accidents each year. And on average 90 people actually die from their injuries. Most attributed to riding mowers. According to the Consumer Products safety commission, the fatal incidents usually include lawn mower tipovers where the victim falls under and is run over by the mower, or the victim is thrown from or falls off the riding mower. Unfortunately oftentimes the victims are children. Child can fall off, the lawn mower can go over them, or if theyre playing in the yard and you back up, your mower, especially your rideon mower you dont see where behind you. Time and time again we see kids being run over and have very serious injuries associated with that. Now, the cpsc also says toe amputations are common with homeowners cutting grass to cut down on injuries the cpsc developed federal Safety Standards for power mowers, foot shields, blade Brake Control and warning labels all part of those mandatory standards. If you want more information on choosing a lawn mower and what to look for in terms of safety features, just go to our nbc washington app and search lawn mower. And new video into the newsroom. The moment a building starts to collapse in northeast washington. It was all caught on camera. Well also get the latest on what will happen to the now crumbling building. And if youre thinking about starting a family, youll want to stay tuned for this. We sit down with a doctor who has your todo list before the right now day three of the edward nero trial is underway. Nero is charged with assault, Reckless Endangerment and misconduct for his actions leading to the fatal injury of freddie gray who suffered in the van, the police van back in april 2015. Today prosecutors could call fellow bike Patrol OfficerGarrett Miller to the stand. W news 4s chris gordon is in the courtroom right now. Hell have the latest on air and online as the trial continues. 13 Law Enforcement officers receiving the medal of valor at a ceremony this morning in the east wing of the white house. Its the nations highest honor for Police Officers. President obama says all of the awarded officers displayed exceptional courage regardless of their own safety in protecting others. Building fell apart and shutting down a d. C. Street right now. News 4s derek ward is live with an old tomato packing plant where an old tomato packing plant collapsed. Derrick, what do you know about what happened there . Well, you know, this happened yesterday afternoon at about 2 30. And this is a pretty heavily traveled street. Were at the intersection of fen wick and galadet. Take a look, this is what happened. We believe it was caused by the wind. Just imagine if someone had been coming along here when happened. Guess what, somebody was, nobody got injured, but we got the video. Take a look. It was about 3 00 in the afternoon when the wind were told took this wall down of this plant. It was built in 1937, but you see a car there coming just as a puff of smoke and wall comes down. That car swerves and avoids getting hit by those bricks. Breathtaking video. Certainly a close call for that driver. Again, no one was injured. We dont know exactly what caused it, but again, it is believed that it was the wind that had this happen. This building was put up in 1937, so its about 79 years old. Up until recently it was a produce packing plant. Its being renovated for retail space. And im told that this part of the building had actually been abandoned. The produce concern was using the far end of the building and that has been cleared, the walls have been taken down. But we have utility companies, building inspectors and Structural Engineers out here to determine what the future of this building is whether or not it is indeed safe to go on with the retailo and whether theres danger of a farther collapse. But this intersection of fenwick and galadet is closed. We dont know for how long, but its a popular cutthrough between West Virginia avenue and new york avenue. Luckily being popular yesterday didnt get anybody hurt because that was really a close call as that video shows. We are live in northeast, derrick ward, news 4, back to you. Very scary, derrick, thank you so much. One of the stars from the wire is facing simple battery charges this morning. Police arrested Wendell PierceEarly Saturday Morning at the atlanta loews hotel. Atlanta police have not provided details about what led to the arrest. Hes in atlanta filming a new movie. He most recently played Supreme Court justist Clarence Thomas in the hbo documentary. New results spotting dangers of teenage driving. Nbcs Erica Edwards shows us why parents have good reason to be concerned and what they can do to protect teen drivers. Reporter images of teenagers acting reckless while in c are unnerving. As are the latest statistics on fatal crashes involving teens. Our sons and daughters are dying in car crashes at an alarming rate. Reporter safekids worldwide reports six teenagers are killed each day in a Motor Vehicle crash. And almost half of those accidents the victims are not wearing seat belts. A new safe kids survey of nearly 800 teens and their parents finds teenagers would be far more likely to buckle up if mom or dad made it a family rule. Put your foot on the brake. Reporter kids and families with established rules and agreements about safe driving are ten times less likely to speed, text while driving, drink and drive or skip seat belts. Its not enough to have an informal discussion. You need to have a formal agreement. You have to enforce it. And you have to model good behavior. Reporter most surveyed teens said their best driving experiences are when their parents are passengers, suggesting its moms and dads even if its not their foot on the gas pedal. Erica edwards, nbc news. In news for your health, planning a pregnancy full time for women but there are some steps you can take now to make the experience a little less stressful and a little safer for you and your unborn child. Dr. Mary jane is a Board Certified obstetrician and gynecologist here this morning with us. Thank you so much for being with us. Pregnancy is one of those things that just happens for most women. How important is it though to plan it . Planning is very important because we do know there are things women can do for their health and for the health of the baby that they can do in advance. Does it matter whether youre an older woman . Well, good health is good health. As far as trying though the younger you are in general the quicker things will work. And if a couple is trying to get pregnant and say theyre in their 20s, okay, then its okay to wait a year, keep trying, have un the end of a year of trying, then lets get going on some testing. However women 35 years of age and older and shes been trying for six months, we would encourage her to check in with her Health Care Provider to get some testing done. Okay. One of those tests involves an ovulation test. Absolutely. You dont have to have problems with infertility. Some people like to optimize their chances and there are really some clever gadgets women can use at home to check on their ovulation. There are ovulation digital predictor kits. We have one sitting here in front of us, First Response ovulation test which is easy to do and you can see, okay, this is the time, lets g for it. So thats easy to do. Lets talk about vitamins, folic acid for example. How should a woman take this before pregnancy . And how much . Absolutely. Indeed even if a woman isnt planning for pregnancy but lets say shes not using birth control, not a bad idea to be on a vitamin with folic acid in case it does happen. There are plenty of pregnancies that happen when youre not thin a least 400 micrograms a day which is the amount in many vitamins out there, we have some right here that indeed 400 micrograms a day will basically help really reduce the risk of having a baby with a birth defect such as neural tube defect in a lot of others as well. Important detail there. Habits, drinking and smoking f you do these things when do you stop . Ideally if you say i want to try pregnancy, as best you can. Right then and there. Lets talk home pregnancy test, there are so many, do they work, reliable, how soon do they work . They are amazingly reliable. This is what astounds me because when i started practicing obstetrics we had to wait for the rabbit died. We used to say, to tell when somebody was pregnant. But now you have kids for example the First Response home pregnancy test kits will tell you you are pregnant six days before your missed menstrual period which is amazing, the first day of your missed menstrual period yu that youre pregnant. And theres a new addition to the First Response pregnancy test kits. And thats the pregnancy pro, which is really clever because that is the first and only bluetooth enabled pregnancy test you can actually download an app onto your smartphone and it will give you help, give you instructions on how to do the test. And the test itself is connected to the bluetooth and it basically can entertain you while youre waiting that three minutes while youre sitting there like oh my goodness am i or am i not and you can watch waves or kidvideos, a lot of education. Then once you find out whether youre pregnant or not, you can go ahead and get a lot of information right on the app as far as how to continue with a healthy pregnancy. Everything is digital. Its amazing. It is amazing. Doctor, thank you so much and thank you for bringing some of the newer products. Of course there are many out there but these are a couple very interesting ones, and new ones. Thank you so much. Thank you very much for asking me. Barbara. Its in the app, dont need a positive development for striking workers at verizon plus the trouble tourists are in for putting this bbya new video into the live desk of the scene of a fatal plane crash. You cant see much, just the smoke covering above the trees. This is in mississippi where the private plane which was headed to charlottesville, virginia, by the way, went down. The pilot and three passengers were killed. At this point very limited details, all we know is ntsb is on the scene now and crash happened just north of the local runway there. Well continue to work on finding out if any of the passengers, the victims had ties to virginia. Back to you, pat. Some Foreign Tourists learned the hard way to look and not touch at Yellowstone National park. A father and son wrangled this baby bison into their suv. A teacher on a park field trip says the pairld as you can imagine the tourists got a ticket and the bison was released back into the park where it belongs. They plan to take it home and have it as a pet. Or put a blanket on it, tom. Speaking of blankets, it is cold for this time of year. It really is. Average high this time of year is 76, and right now were still in the mid 50z. Were 20 degrees colder than our average high. You need a light jacket if youre about to head out, get shopping in, but it will be under a beautiful blue sky. The strong may sun feels nice. Soak it up because clouds will be closing in overnight tonight. Get some mowing done while you can and yard work as well. Sunny and dry. The temperatures during the afternoon in the mid and upper 60s. Well have a light wind today. Bike riding weather if you plan on a bike ride much better than yesterday when we were battling those winds. It will be in the low 60s by 1 00, but in the upper 60s by 4 00 p. M. By 7 00 p. M. Back down to the low 60si then the clouds increase overnight tonight. Dont have any rain on storm team 4 radar now, but the hour by hour timing of rain beginning to move in looks like arrival time is around 8 00 on tuesday morning. So part of the morning commute getting a little wet especially in virginia, then crosses the potomac, moves into the metro area and into maryland. After that by 10 00 a. M. Then the rest of the day occasional light showers through mid afternoon, by around 3 00 or 4 00 it starts to move off just to the east and south of the metro area. And then for a while its going to temporarily taper off. Another round of some showers, another disturbance coming into West Virginia in the evening hours will begin overnight tuesday night and into midday on wednesday. Highs tomorrow only around 60. A little sun ought to break out wednesday afternoon. The low 60s and mild weather as we end the week on thursday and friday. And then some more showers off and on for next weekend. Keep that in mind for your weekend plans. Verizon Union Officials representing about 39,000 striking workers on the east coast are set land line and cable internet workers walked off the job a month ago. Theyve been without a contract since last august. Labor secretary thomas perez met with both sides on sunday. The major sticking points, health care and pension and outsourcing of work. Also amazon set to expand number of private label goods as taking on walmart and supermarket chains. Launch several new lines in the coming weeks including tea, coffee, baby food, diapers and laundry detergents. Products only available on amazon prime. With this cnbc business report, im landon dowdy. The Film Festival celebrating successes and sacrifices of service members. This is one of the films you can see during the threeday event. How you can be part the fesofti maxx life in store and online. Find brands you love at prices that work as hard as you do. Said this is Kyle Carpenter and can you hold for the president of the united states. Thats from one of the films being shown at the upcoming g. I. Film festival here in washington. And joining us to tell us about the festival its called the sun dance for veterans are the cofounders of the festival, laura and brandon, welcome to both of you. Thanks for having us. We just saw a little bitr tell us about that. First of all its a local filmmaker, and its about corporal Kyle Carpenter who is a medal of honor recipient and the letter that changed his life when he was notified he was going to receive that distinction. So tammy actually has two films in the festival about medal of honor recipients, the other being a world war ii veteran. This is your tenth anniversary for this sun dance for veterans. How did you happen to decide to do this . I know youre the cofounders, live together, youre married. What made you decide to do this . Well, it just came out of a conversation that brandon and i had one morning. It was at that time a lot of films were coming in hollywood where they didnt portray veterans respectfully. And having been a veteran and brandon a background in pr, we realized something needs to be done. Why not a Film Festival . Lets show the other side of the story show what service and sacrifice are all about and thats how it started. How do you pick the films . Are they mostly documentariedoc . Do you do any full length motion weve had about 400 film submissions and laura and i review every single film, grade and rank each one. We look for diversity in the lineup. We look for diversity in terms of the type of film, the branch of service, the conflicts covered. So well be screening 78 films at this festival. Speaking of diversity lets take a look at another film. This one is called the return to iwo jima, the 70th anniversary of iwo jima. Tell us about this one. Again, this is also tammy. She actually has three films in the festival, the other is a music video, but this is about a medal of honor recipient who goes back to iwo jima for the First Time Since the war, and its really a trip about healing and coming home so long after that war and after that conflict. So we see this a lot with veterans that once they get to a certain point they want to go back to the place where they fought. And they want to try to heal the wounds of war so does this only happen in washington, or do you take this festival on the road . Actually, weve been expanding ever since our first year. We have a west coast festival in november timeframe and we also do events at military bases around the country and this years festival well be expanding to 20 additional cities at the end of the year. How many films will be shown here this time . Were doing 78 films. Wow. Weve got celebrity meet and greets. Val kill mer coming out, steven lang coming out as well, after partie parties, film maker boot camp, so many things going on. And watching with the concert with gary senise. Oh, thats right. Go to gifilmfestival. Com, youll see the entire lineup, look at trailers and pick out favorite films and join us. Which theaters do you use for showing these . The first four days were going to be in washington, d. C. , so were using a variety of well be at the angelica theater in fairfax. Great. Fantastic. So great to have you here. Congratulations on ten years with your big announcement thats coming up. Appreciate it. Thanks so much for having us. Thanks for coming. Pat, back to you. At 7 years old this little girl is showing love beyond her years to a family in alexandria. She spent a year putting together a book of bedtime stories for a baby shed never met. Those stories were for olivia, the daughter of officer orozco who died in the line of duty around this time last year a day before she was set to go on maternity leave. Cheyenne sampson was so moved by the story she asked everyone from Police Officers to School Principals to help her create an audio book for olivia. I thought that olivia might be one of the kids who would like their parents them at nighttime or someone reading to them before they go to bed. Olivias family members gave cheyenne the officers old girl scout sash as a momento. Cheyenne says she wants to be pen pals with olivia when she gets older. Wonderful story. Just would not let go, thats whats being said about a shark that attacked a florida woman. How the victim handled the unusual a morning noon or night theres always a moment to discover visit annapolis and create your moment well, this is certainly not the trip to the beach one woman was hoping for, a twofoot shark latched onto her arm while she was swimming on sunday in boca rat raton, florida. It was killed before help arrived but the shark wouldnt let go. The woman was taken to the hospital with the shark still attached to her arm. She is expected to be okay though. Wow. Can you imagine . No, i cant. Today is a big week for Television Networks to sell their fall lineups to advertisers. Nbc is the First Network to pitch its lineup. Mark barger gives us a sneak peek. Reporter the crash of the hindenberg provides the early backdrop for one of nbcs new series ff fall the time travel drama timeless following a trio of heroes pursuing a fugitive through the years. It will air mondays after the voice. Which one of you is pregnant . The voice on tuesdays. Mandy moore among the stars of the intertwined connections of the group of seemingly despair people. Nbcs back in the comedy business thursdays with kristen bell in the good place. She plays a not so nice woman gets mistakenly sent to the afterlife and does all she can to stay there. Ted danson costars in this one which will follow firstyear hit superstore. Chicago med also joins with the blacklist winding out, blind spot moves to the leadoff spot on wednesday. Another batch of new shows launches mid season including ryan in the spinoff the blacklist redemption. All shows the networks hoping blow the competition away. Mark barger, nbc news, new york. A lot to watch. Yeah, in the fall. And it feels like fall right it does. Speaking of that, tom, tell us its going to warm up a little bit. Were not going to skip over summer and go to fall. Let you know that. Thats a good thing. We have a june solstice coming. By this time tomorrow well likely have some showers moving in. Right now 60 at reagan national. 50s about everywhere else. Panhandle of West Virginia around the bay in the upper 50s as well. The storm team 4 fourday forecast with the sunshine highs reaching upper 60s during the afternoon. That occasional shower moving in around 7 00, 8 00 tomorrow morning and off and on in the mid afternoon may settle down a bit late afternoon. Then some more showers coming in tuesday night and off and on on wednesday. Highs both days just maybe around 60 degrees. Then drying out wednesday afternoon. Sun back on thursday and friday. Highs near 70 or so and some more showers for the weekend. Thats the way it looks. All right, tom, thanks. Thank you for being with us. Well see you again today on news 4 at 4 00. Dont forget you can get all your news and weather updates on our nbc washington morning. Well be here. 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