New this morning, police saying an officer shot his gun during a struggle with a suspect. It happened on walker mill road in capital heights. Around 11 00 p. M. , an officer heard a car crash, went out to check it out. When he arrived, a man was running from the scene. According to police, the man tried to take the officers gun. The suspect was shot during the struggle and rushed to the hospital in critical condition. Right now, police are looking for whoever shot a man early this morning and left him for dead in northwest d. C. Police tell news 4, the man died just after 1 00 this morning. Derrick ward joining us now live. Derrick . Reporter good morning. We are in the 1500 block of first street northwest. You can take a look now. It is just starting to wrap up. Under the light of day, investigators are looking at the crime scene. The shooting happened around 1 00 a. M. This morning. An adult male shot three times. That person died on the scene. As you can see now, this is the grizzly
Stressful for the body. Dangerously high temperatures and uncomfortable humidity forcing people it to go back to basics to beat the heat. Hydrating. Taking breaks when we can and taking advantage of the shade. I try to stay in the air conditioner. Play in the water. This is a fun, fun way to keep cool. We keep sunscreen on and stay in the shade. We are avoiding the hot sun on that end of the park. Reporter dr. Gladder is an emergency room physician. He says typically the humidity is a bigger problem than the 90degree temperatures, when you sweat effectively. And sweating is how we cool our bodies. So our body temperatures, our core temperature rises. Reporter leading it to heat heatstroke. He says dehydrated people fill Emergency Rooms on days like this. Even if you or your child are surrounded by water, you still need to drink sop. Its your bodys best defense on a hot, humid day. Sometimes they are out for many hours and their parents arent aware that they need to be hydrated. Reporte
News4 today starts now. Welcome back to news4 today. Im david culver. Im angie goff. Right now, at 9 00 a. M. , pandemonium, one of the viewers saying, pandapalooza. I like that one. People are bursting with excitement over the new twins here at the national zoo. We have new information from the News Conference that just wrapped up. You can hear them there. Smoke and alarms going off at a metro station. Why metro insists everything is just fine. Will he or wont he . The popup meeting indicating Vice President biden may make a run for the white house. A lot to cover. We sure do. We want to start with the two new panda cubs. Thats right. Mei xiang had twins. We are putting everything we learned about the little ones on the nbc washington app right now. Theyre the size of sticks of butter right now. So we have two sticks of butter. We have news4s derrick ward live at the national zoo where they say everybody is excited. But youre hearing from officials and theyre very cautious too, right
Weekend. Thats going to be all people talk about this morning. Good day everyone. Its sunday, august 27th, 2017. What the people in texas are dealing with, life look out of houston. Looks like some flooding there on their highway. Its been more than 24 hours since Hurricane Harvey made landfall in the Lone Star State. Even though its been downgrade to do Tropical Storm, the heavy rains are expected to fall for several days now as people try to keep damage minimum. We have Team Coverage this morning. Sabina kuriakose track our people in the area helping out those in texas lets begin with meteorologist monica cryan who continues to track the Tropical Storm. Hi, monica. Hi. When we talk about when were saying a downgrade to Tropical Storm, it doesnt mean this storm is going to have less of an impact it means the winds died down bringing it to Tropical Storm category. Those winds at 45 miles an hour. But what that really does mean, though, is that the flooding is still going to be a threat
You would expect, revolving around President Trumps tweets this morning. We spoke to them here in the castro district. It appears tweets made by the president contradict tweets he made last year when he was just a president ial candidate. I think its appalling. As the country advances in lgbtq rights, this is going against the tide. We were moving forward and now were going backwards. Reporter heres president ial candidate donald trump tweeting in june of 2016. Quote, thank you to the lgbtq community. I will fight for you while Hillary Clinton brings in more people that will threaten your freedoms and beliefs. Fastforward to today with President Trump tweeting, quote, after a consultation with my generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States government will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the u. S. Military. Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medic