And say goodbye to cable. Visit verizon. Com holidaydeal call the Verizon Center to get americas fastest, most reliable internet. For customers with disabilities at 8009746006 tty v. Hurry, sign up today so your home can be ready the moment you plug in those awesome new holiday devices. Getting fios for the holidays. Thats powerful. Right now at midday were following breaking news. Buildings at Harvard University were evacuated. Police are investigating unconfirmed reports someone placed bombs around the campus. News 4 is live in Fairfax County as the recount to find who the next attorney general is going to be. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to news 4 midday. Im barbara harrison. We begin with angie goff at the live desk. Right now police at Harvard University are sweeping four buildings after unconfirmed reports that explosives were placed on campus. We want to take you live to the scene right now. The buildings were full of students about to start their finals. What we can see on t
Like that. Also, the sudden surcharges taking everybody by surprise. Were going to tell you about the new credit card fees across 40 states. Are you about to be charged up to 4 on your purchases just for using the plastic . Oh no. Also coming up American Idol under fire right now. A group of contestants have just filed a legal complaint against the show reportedly saying they were kicked off, not because of their voices but because of their race. Wow. Lets get right to the ice storm thats been making all the commutes so dangerous and messy across the midwest and the east coast. Sams been tracking the latest overnight and has the latest. From virginia, all the way to boston, it will eventually be rain. But take a look at the pictures out of iowa and youll know that driving on any amount of ice is a problem. In some cases, it will take the ice you see on this to change over to change over to wet road surfaces. You can see the areas of purple, thats ice, mixed in with the blue, thats rain
Im Elizabeth Prann, thank you for joining us. Nice to be with you at home. A lot of news to get to im leland vittert. Leland just after noon in boston, a speech rally has officially begun at the Boston Common in the heart of that city. Its been put together by selfdescribed conservative activists. Meanwhile, a counter protest march is making its way up towards the Boston Common, thats made up of leftist groups like black lives matter, and hundreds of police are in the middle. Our own steve her harrigan there as well as this develops on the streets of boston. How, steve. Leland, these are the counterprotesters and this crowd goes back for about eight city blocks. Weve heard some police estimates of the crowd as perhaps more than 15,000. We have seen the numbers grow throughout the morning and ive got to tell you, so far it has been organized and peaceful. Loud and almost a festive air so far. Were seeing people carrying signs against White Supremacy and against President Trump, weve see
A threat to themselves and to others. Jesse Casey Stegall is standing by in santa fe with the latest. Casey . And, jesse, the students here were just about two weeks away from the end of their school year. Everyone knows how that goes. Folks, we have heard from, say they were excited about their upcoming summer break that everyone had been working for. Remember this happened at a high school. So, graduation, Commencement Ceremonies around the corner. Its an exciting time of year, but everything changed this friday morning when Authorities Say 17yearold dimitrios pagourtzis, a student at santa fe high walked into that art class and opened fire, killing 10 people. Seriously injuring 10 others including the School Resource officer credited with helping stop the shooter. He is in surgery, listed in critical condition. Authorities now have the teen in custody as well as two other persons of interest who are being questioned to see if they were connected. Texas Governor Greg Abbott meantime
Books of the ruppercaseletter in shock. You have the governor, the Lieutenant Governor, and the state attorney general facing what could be careerending controversies. The attorney general, he second in line pretty sad when he was a 19yearold undergrad that he and his friends were brown makeup and dressed up as a reference to a party. In a statement, he said it was a onetime occurrence which has haunted him for years. He said as the young man added callous and inexcusable lack of awareness and sensitivity to the pain my behavior could inflict on others. This conduct is in no way reflective of the man ive become in the nearly 40 years since. He continues, honest conversations and discussions will make it clear whether i can or should serve as attorney general. One of the states to Democratic Senators reacted to this news a short time ago. I am shocked and incredibly disappointed. This has been an awful week for virginia, but i am just getting the original reports. Lieutenant governor Ju