Whats in it this time, and can it pass . Plus, a dangerous heat wave blarn kets the blankets the east coast. Nevada declares a marijuana emergency. And an american surprise at wimbledon. As Venus Williams tries to extend her own historic run today, thursday, july 13th, 2017. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today. Its 7 00 on the west coast on a thursday morning. Nice to have you with us. Nice to have you with us on a very busy news morning. A lot of breaking news overnight. Starting with major developments in that search for four young men who vanished near philadelphia. Police have now found the body of one of those men along with human remains buried in a farm in whats described as a common grave 12 feet deep. Nbcs Stephanie Gosk is live at the scene. Whats the latest . Reporter good morning. This is really news these family members were dreading. This is now offi
County firefighter died. Erika gonzalez was live at the conference. Reporter these are female firefighters and paramedics saying they reached out to the media because they wanted to see the positive come back into the light and said they would only speak to us about their positive experiences with the Fairfax County Fire Department. As a woman i am not afraid to come to work, and i am not ashamed to be a member of this Fire Department. Reporter firefighter paramedic alicia is one of the members of the Fairfax County Fire Department that chose to speak out today, disheartened, she said, by the way the department is being portrayed. The spotlight on the department was cast about a month ago after the suicide of firefighter paramedic Nicole Mittendorff and allegations that disparaging comments were being written about her by coworkers on an Anonymous Online platform. The Washington Post reports last week the fire official in charge of professional s morgan, was put on leave after inapprop
Running a 3month long sting operation in which he said he was thinking about carrying out an attack similar to the 2009 shootings at fort hood which left 13 people dead. On saturday, jello purchased an Assault Rifle from blue ridge in chantilly which was cooperating with the fbi. The weapon was made inoperable he was arrested sunday. Rabs to the shooting of an reaction to the shooting of an ice cream vendor who was ambushed after he went to park his truck on independence day. Friends of the vendor are shaken up. Reporter they are badly shaken up, a cash and carry business, the robbers knew where to carry off this ambush, the vendor hit 9 times by gunfire, he is in Critical Condition this afternoon, nearly 24 hours after shot here. Charles heard the gun shots and ran to the injured vendor, surprised to see a familiar face, the cousin of an acquaintance. He said i think im going to die. I said you are not going to die. Reporter the vendor was hit by 9 gun shots and survives today in Crit
Funding for the program after the School System failed to address the allegations. A School Board Member is calling for an external investigation. It is important that we hold folks accountable. Who knew what and when . I want an external investigation to figure out what happened here, why the board was not notified, what are we doing different to ensure our students are safe . The school ceo says teachers suspected of taking part in problems highlighted are no longer at head start and the entire staff has been retrained. Head start classes resume next monday. Also from our Prince Georges County bureau, a shooting investigation. Deputies are out around the area along joplin street in st. Pleasant where they found a man inside a car with gun shot wounds to his upper body last night. They rushed 37 year old oscar garcia to the hospital but he died. There is a information that leads to an arrest and conviction in this case. New information on a metro derailment. We are talking about the o
Shomari stone is headed to the mall to see what he can learn. Theres another security scare on capitol hill, a day after police shot a man at the capitol visitors center. Minutes after the center reopened to tourists this morning, two suspicious packages turned up on the grounds, visitors were kept away and streets closed while police cleared and checked the unattended bags. Were line onle hill tonight looking at yet another security situation. Darcy . Well thats right. Things are pretty much back to normal here on capitol hill. There were a couple of questions, some threats this morning, they thought there were two backpacks, as it turns out everything has been deemed safe. The suspect charged in with yesterdays gun incident remains in the hospital at this hour. Now, lots of tourists turned out today for the reopening of the capitol visitor center, they told us they felt safe because of all the security and the law that suspect, larry dawson, is a 66yearold minister from tennessee. He