Im Richard Jordan at the live desk. New on news4 midday, president obama signs an executive order that offers new protection to members of the lbgt community. Its an executive order that prohibits discrimination on the basis of Sexual Orientation and gender identity. This is for federal workers and federal contractors. President clinton already offered federal employees protection and president obamain colluding gender identity and extending it to include federal contractors, just federal workers. Thats the latest here at the live desk. Back to you. Now to the developing story, the israelgaza conflict is in its bloodiest days now. Israeli air strikes pounded gaza this morning. The New York Times is reporting the Israeli Military stopped two advances into its territory via tunnels from the gaza strip. Gaza returned rocket fire in southern israel. Air raid sirens blaired over tel aviv as people on the street ran for cover. More than 500 palestinians and 20 israelis, including two civilia
It is getting more humid. Short sleeve day. Possibility of an isolate the thundershower popping up. There is the cloudy sky over washington now. Temperature graph hour by hour today, holding in the low and mid 70s between now and 8 00 a. M. A little sun breaking out. By noontime, partly cloudy, low 80s. Mid80s by midafternoon. An isolated thundershower mainly west of the metro area. And for the afternoon commute, an isolated thundershower rolling over may provide a low impact for the afternoon commute because i dont think these storms are going to be severe. Potential looks very low. Coming up, a look at where the store storms may hit first. Metro is in the final phase of testing trains on the silver line. You can take a look here. Right now the empty silver line trains will run rush hour service along with other trains and that means delays. Megan mcgrath live at the Franconia Springfield station. Reporter with the coming of the silver line, there will be more options for riders and s
Story of adult twin sons found locked in a basement. Im derek mcginty. And im lesli foster. Parents janice and john land face imprisonment and abuse charges in Montgomery County after police found their adult sons with autism locked in the basement of their rockville home. Mola lenghi is in that neighborhood tonight and joins us to tell us more about why police went to the home in the first place. Reporter the home youre talking about is this house here behind me where police say they found the two 22yearold, twins, locked in the basement against their own will in what they describe as deplorable conditions by their very own parents. The house is now condemned. The twins are being evaluated. The parents are out on bond. This began early thursday morning when Montgomery County police came to serve a warrant for an unrelated incident. The States Attorneys Office in Montgomery County says as officers walked through the house, they stumbled upon a door in the basement bolted shut from the
Leaders in ukraine. Providing some meals ready to eat. Some first aid kits. You can just imagine why putin is shaking in his boots. Massive wildfire raging in washington. It has now been deemed the largest in state history. And the middle of the country, states under advisories from texas to wisconsin. Overnight from north dakota an israeli soldier has been reported missioning as israel continued its bombardments of gaza. The 15yearold New Hampshire girl missing for nine months is now back with her family. Investigators have not said where Abigail Hernandez has been. Theyre still investigating. I cant wait to see her. Police are searching for a pair of mafblg masked robbers. A fiery crash between a train and a tractor trailer. Amazingly, the truck driver survived. All that the man will lead them to dance. Deep left field, back, leaping and he made the catch all that mattered Prince George, he turns 1 today. With his parents. Prince george is walking. What a relief to know that members
And that was what prompted my direction to say we are going to overhaul the standard performance contract for Medical Center direct recent visitor directors because we are not going to have a contract with their result is aligned with the patient outcome. I think is going to take some of those kinds of structural changes as well to ensure we get people focused. The last thing i would say is this. You know, we are so focused on wait times. As we think about how we teach timeliness of that is in the future, the centerpiece of that is a much more robust focus on patient satisfaction. I think that helps us resent her back on the veteran we are serving in notley cannot wait times in the 700 other metrics that weve got people. Those types of responses should be the driving force to whether someone gets a bonus or how they are compensated. Yes. The spec or general reply to us at it is led to more layers of administrative aspect rather than actual care and that really is a concern. I had a mee