Dera derailment. And government workers who spent your money filling their own gas tanks. Theyve already cost you hundreds of thousands this year. Theres growing pressure tonight for American University to take action after anonymous racist comments on an app thats popular with college students. This isnt the first time yik yak has been a problem on college campuses. News4 shomari stone took student complaints to a turks find out how the school is dealing with it. Reporter University Students tell me they are concerned about this. We talked to the faculty and they said they understand the students concerned. Reporter a sophomore at American University, he isnt satisfied with his college experience. I think that American University champions that it is a diversive and progressive institution and you see what students really feel and what they truly have to say and emotion about students of color. Reporter these students are outra outraged, racist messages on yik yak, a popular social ap
Announcement around 8 00 this morning. Well send the alert to your phone through the nbc washington app. Right now were watching hurricane patricia. Right now its headed toward mexico. It could be the strongest storm on record to ever hit the country. The National Hurricane center is calling it potentially catastrophic. Its heading toward a big resort area. One resort is going to be evacuated. Pa treesh ya is expected to make landfall this afternoon. 4 31. Time for weather traffic on the 1s. Chuck bell has your weather. Yes, indeedy. Not too bad of visibility. You can still see the u. S. Capitol building in downtown washington. Current temperatures, how about this out the door. Low 60s in the shenandoah valley. Mid50s in the suburbs and downtown. Compared to yesterday its considerably milder. This afternoon even though were off to a milder start, well have a cooler day. North to northwesterly wind. Could be breezy at times. That will hold. Nowhere near as warm as that 76degree day we e
Breaking news. Police say in nashville, tennessee, a dice game is what prompted a shooting. One of the shooting victims died. The other two are in the hospital at this hour. Its 5 01 right now. Im aaron gilchrist. And im eun yang. If you just took the dog outside, you probably noticed a little bit of difference. Take a look at these temperatures right now. A pretty mild start to your day, but its going to get coolering and chuck says get used to it. Lets turn things over to him in the storm team 4 weather center. You sound so harsh, eun. Ite get used to it. It was a sun roof and windows open for me this morning. Less of warmup as the north breeze settles in. On the whole its going to be a low weather impact day. You wont have to change any of your plans because of the weather. A few sprinkle yoefrs night, knows are now gone. Skies are mostly cloudy but its mile. Upper 50s to low 60s right now. 57 in arlington, 55 for High School Football time tonight. Commuter impacts on your weekend i
[captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its aption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] leon we have big breaking news the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the western mexicos e slamming pacific coast. It is expected to be atastrophic with layoff threatening flooding and mudslides. Winds are close to 200 miles an what is the latest . We have a storm of biblical proportions and thousands are out of the o get path. Hurricane patricia slammed into mexico ern coast of around 7 00 this evening our time as a category five storm ferocious draws winds and 20 inches of rains acking a punch on the way to puerto vallarta. Hotels were evacuated earlier and that sent tourists racing to get out of town. Thers sheltered in place and filled sandbags and looked for supplies to try to ride it out. Unprepared. Ery first thing this morning we heard it was going to be a five. Ory so, i raced over to the market nd everybody at the resort was doing the sam
For the first time, we hear from the man who was on the phone with amanda jones just before she was killed. Delia goncalves has newly released phone calls. 911 emergency. Reporter it was a nonemergency line but the words describe an ambush when police say amanda jones was brutally stabbed to death monday night. How may i help you . Yes, i was talking to my friend on the telephone and she was getting out of her car going into her house and she started hollering and screaming and her phone went dead. I have been trying to call her but couldnt get to her. Reporter the 56yearold single mom made it a routine to talk on the phone ever since her moment was burglarized. He called police after 25 minutes of frantic calls to his friend with no answer. She was screaming to the top of her voice like she was fighting somebody. They must have been in the house when she got in there. Reporter we now know her ex boyfriend Mitchell Cole waited inside the house for 30 whole minutes before that attack. S