And by the way, nih Just Announced the first Clinical Trials in humans that costs money. Thats why my Administration Proposed an urgent request for more funding back in february. Not only did the Republican Led Congress not pass our request, they worked to cut it. Them they left for summer recess without passing any new funds for the fight against zika. Our experts at the nih and cdc, th have been doing their best in making do by moving funds from other area. Now the money we need is rapidly running out. The situation is getting critical. For instance, without sufficient funding, nih critical trial Clinical Trials and the possibilities of a vaccine which is well within reach could be delayed. So this is not the time for politics. More than 40 u. S. Service in 50 u. S. States we know of more than 1800 cases of zika connected to travel, to infected areas, including nearly 500 pregnant women. Zika is now present in almost every part of puerto rico, and now we have the first local transmis
Moving red line train back in april. Metro is being criticized for not informing riders right away when these crimes happened. How did we not hear about the rape that we learned about earlier this week until six weeks after it happened . Reporter metro tells me any Violent Crime will be reported to public on the same day if it doesnt hinder the investigation. In this case, because the victim didnt report the crime immediately, it took additional time to investigate and release the information. At d. C. Superior court, darcy spencer, news4. A federal grand jury has indicted a taxi driver from virginia on charges of conspiracy to support isis. Police arrested al hasan back in january. He is accused of helping a friend trying to join the terror group and then lying about it to the fbi. He drove that friend to the richmond join isis. As the nation gets ready to honor the men and women who have sacrificed their lives for our country, president obama went to hiroshima japan to call for an en
You saw that video. Very tense moments for students on the ucla campus. 43,000 undergrads getting ready for finals next week. Theyre put in lockdown. They got emergency text alerts telling them to barricade the doors and dont let anybody in. That all happened this morning and two hours later we were told by lapd that the suspect was one of the two dead in the initial shooting, that it was a murdersuicide, and the shooting scene was contained in one small office in the engineering building. That information came along with the news that there was a note and a gun also in that room. What the note says we dont know. We dont know the relationship or the identities of the two men who were killed in this murdersuicide this morning who died, but thats the situation here. Now, we should tell you that they did spend several more hours aftr campus safe just sweeping through the building to make sure all the students had the word that they were okay and also looking for evidence in the adjacent b
Im scott macfarlane. His death shocked the world back in april. First at 4. We now know what caused princes death. Tests found the music icon died of an accidental overdose of the powerful painkiller fentanyl. It is typically used to treat patients with severe pain or to manage pain after surgery. A strange turn in the investigation of that murdersuicide at ucla. The Los Angeles Police say the gunman left a kill list at his home in minnesota. That list included the name of a woman who was found dead in minnesota as well as the name of the professor killed yesterday at ucla. Mainak sarkar drove to los angeles and before killing himself. The hit list included the name of another ucla professor who is just fine. Police are also looking for the vehicle sarkar drove to los angeles. We now know the name of the man killed in hyattsville on his way to play basketball. The victim was gunned down after an argument with a suspect who was inside a parked car. Tracee wilkins talked to people who he
Cooperate with the government if he is contacted about it. Were going to continue to follow this developing story on our app and tonight straight through news4 at 11 00 at the live desk. Breaking news tonight about an attempted rape on metro. Transit Police Arrested this man last month. They say his name is john hicks. A woman says hicks held her at knife point and tried to rape her on a red line train on april 12th at 10 00 in the morning. The woman says he forced her to perform a sexual act on him. Police quickly identified and arrested hicks. They charged him with attempted rape. They say he may also be responsible for an unrelated sex assault in montgomery county. Now to our weather. Some strong storms have been popping up across our region, but the rain isnt out of here just yet. Lets get the latest on all this from doug in the weather center. Right now, towar towards Calvert County and prince georges county. It is now going severe as it intersects with an outflow boundary from ot