Transcripts For WRC NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt 201704

WRC NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt April 22, 2017

Pominville. Jason zucker back of the goal. Good read by parayko. Parayko comes up with it. Out of the reach of jason zucker who gets to it. Hell grind it belong long. Berglund. He sets up edmundson and out they come. Patrik berglund has it for st. Louis. They scale it in. Dubnyk will leave it there. Just about eight minutes gone in overtime. Through center. Mikael granlund a chip. Bortuzzo for st. Louis. Forecheck by zucker. Left there. Gunnarsson hardpressed. Puck is available. Underneath the attacking forward. Moving in on the play. They tie it up for a faceoff with 11 59 left in overtime. Mikael granlund had the puck underneath him. Thats why well get the faceoff. Brian if you think about both clubs and how they deploy their defense in this game, the blues, big minutes for their top four. Theyve pd those guys bouwmeester, pietrangelo, edmundson, parayko. Under ten minutes for both gunnarsson i should say bortuzzo just over ten minutes coming into the overtime so obviously when youve got your big guys playing a lot of minutes and hesser pair getting out there, its a situation where you want to take advantage of that. Right now its bouwmeester and pietrangelo out there. John puck was frozen by granlund. Thats why we have the neutral zone faceoff. It comes back. Pietrangelo, pack to the outside. Koivu onside. Niederreiter, here he comes. Knocked down by pietrangelo. Koivu in deep. Out of the corner. Mikael granlund. Out in front. Never got there. Broken up by bouwmeester. Getting to it is koivu. Granlund battle along the boards. Niederreiter in control. Nino niederreiter. Taken down. Gets back up. Bouwmeester. They rally f deep. Niederreiter holding onto it. Muscled again by bouwmeester. Getting to it is pietrangelo. Up the gut. All the way back down. Icing will be the result with 11 12 left in overtime. Brian i know bouwmeester took a couple late penalties in that third period but the instances there where niederreiter were not penalties. Niederreiter simply lost his footing. With that icing both bouwmeester and pietrangelo have to remain on the ice. St. Louis use thard timeout at the end of the third period. John faceoff won by hanzal. Ryan suter blocked. Coyle. Parise in back of the goal. Good stick by pietrangelo. Zach parise gets to it. Sends it back for ryan suter. In deep for coyle. Now hanzal grind it away from pietrangelo. Hanzal locates it again. Parise off the end wa. Off the side of the goal. Schwartz, right place right time for st. Louis. Tarasenko back out. Ryan suter, Martin Hanzal now. Turnings it over. St. Louis will start ahead. Bouwmeester d to d. Pietrangelo sends it back. About halfway through overtime. Goes by paajarvi. Dubnyk. Sobotka. For st. Louis. Hanzal stays with it. Sobotka, out in front. The pass. Paajarvi, scores Magnus Paajarvi the st. Louis blues win in overtime they win the series in five. The st. Louis blues will march on and see the Nashville Predators in round number two. Magnus paajarvi, left all alone out in front, 10 18 left in overtime. Brian the Minnesota Wild gave all they had in coming back in this hockey game with the blues, sticking with it, a turnover by devan dubnyk along the wall. And look at the play by Vladimir Sobotka. Protect the puck. Get that puck to an area where you can find paajarvi. This is all sobotka right here. Hes able to find his seam, drive it. Finds paajarvi in front. Some loose coverage by the Minnesota Wild. And paajarvis able to put this home past devan dubnyk. But credit goes to Vladimir Sobotka as we see this celebration on the bench of st. Louis, a fantastic series win for the st. Louis blues. John what a moment for Magnus Paajarvi. Gets the goal at 9 42 of overtime. And the st. Louis blues oust the Minnesota Wild,he an outstanding, grinding, defensive series with outstanding goaltending at both ends. Now we see the great moment that concludes every playoff series, the handshakes between the two teams and the ultimate signs of respect. Jake allen, who started this series with a 51save performance. A goaltender who had lost his way halfway through the year reestablished his game, led his team down the stretch, was at the forefront of everything good that happens to the st. Louis blues. The Minnesota Wild fought through all kinds of adversity. Devan dubnyk did what he had to do in this series but especially in this game, fall beg hind 31, losing eric staal, a top center, leading goal scorer in the series. Fighting all the way back. Mikko koivu, jason zucker with a goal, forcing overtime. Its Magnus Paajarvi who gets it. And vl started the scoring in this one, and young paajarvi, a young player coming out of the Edmonton Oilers organization, 26yearold finn, his greatest moment as an nhler comes here in game five and seals it for the st. Louis blues. There will be a salute here from minnesota from their crowd after the handshake, which continue clutds now. St. Louis doing an outstanding job to restructure their season. Coaching change, mike yeo taking over for ken hitchcock. Outstanding final count in overtime, st. Louis 4, minnesota 3. Up next, except on the west coast, its your local news. Tonight at 8 00 eastern on nbc, the stanley cup playoffs continue as Henrik Lundqvist and the rangers look to clinch the series as they take on the montreal canadiens. For Brian Buscher and our entire crew here in watching the excitement of the stanley cup playoffs presented by geico. Now at six, tracking rain in your neighborhood. See the green all over the storm team four radar. Im kristen right in tonight with storm team for meteorologist. Thanks so much for joining usz. What should we expect tonight and what about the rest of the weekend. Some good news. Weekend forecast overall going to track showers around for the next few hours. Then were going to dry o the forecast for tomorrow, it is looking mainly dry. Still not picture perfect. Plenty of clouds on the radar. Scattered showers still in the d. C. Metro area. These move out by about 9 00 p. M. See the drying back here on the radar. Show you the trend with future weather starting off at 8 00 p. M. Notice rain out of washington. Still around baltimore and parts of southern maryland. Ov overnight tonight. Stopping future weather at noon. Mainly dry tomorrow night. Do have rain moving back into the area and more rain on monday and tuesday. How to impact temperatures coming up in my full forecast. See you then. Before our next rainstorm heads download the app. Open the app now and search storm damage. New tonight, were learning re Police Say Pilot joseph brian took off from the Executive Airport this morning. About an hour into the flight, the weather started to get worse. He tried to go back to the airport, but started having engine trouble. Brian made a crash landing in a field. Hes thanking his stars hes alive. On the grass in front of the Washington Monument today protesters marched. Against the Trump Administration policies that they say will hurt our plant planet. Scientists, teachers, students, grandparents, all carrying banners and listening to speeches. News 4 derek ward talks to folks who brave the bad weather to support their cause. The earth is all arous this time front and center on the National Maul where thousands came to rally including Elementary School from new jersey. As they say, science is fast. Its not something we make up. But the people on this earth day event believe the glowing politicization of science poses a threat to all our wellbeing. I wish people would actually take the time to listen to what is being said and not just go bring the rhetoric. Science is limited to the lab. Talking city or country. I think people are seeing more and more how Environmental Issues affect them. Not only the life perspective, but from an economic perspective. Urban conservation director for the local chapter of Nature Preserve and focus on things like protecting urban water waist, protecting storm run off and education. Things now under threat to epa and other policies. People are also encouraged by when i go and say i want to talk to you about storm water, theyre telling me, i already know what it is. What are you doing about it . That gets back to what educators believe is the best fru future of science for the next generation. From d. C. To green land, people in 600 countries around the world sharing their experience as they participate. Scientist, Research Students advocates carrying a message for rallying for scientific freedom with political intervention. Dont expect to see the same people at a rally on wednesday. President trump plans to mark his 100 day in office with supporters in pennsylvania. That rally happens to fall on the same day as white house dinner. President s do usually attend. Trump and his staff are skipping the event as am the last commander in chief to miss the Correspondence Dinner was president reagan in still recovering from the attack. The former queen of daytime tv makes he her way back on the small screen tonight. Opr oprah win fri playing the daughter. Modern medicine. He died of cancer. Doctors used her unique cancer to test the polio vaccine. There were also led to breakthroughs of fertilization and cancer fighting drugs. All from her cell. Our digital team has put together everything you need to know about hen right knee yet ta this happened friday in sterling. Police say a driver lost control of this flatbed truck in city center boulevard. The truck crossed the median, smashed into the house on wesley terrace. The driver had some injuries and faces some reckless driving charges. New at six tonight, if you own real estate in arlington county, prepare to pay higher taxes. Sorry to say, the county board passed its budget today for fiscal year 20189 a is and voteo raise the property tax by 1. 5 . The tax increase will cover what is calling the extraordinary needs of Public School system and metro. D. C. Firefighters rushed to the Columbia Heights metro station this morning to investigate reports of smoke inside the stat they did find a light haze as they went inside. Now metro says an insulator is what caused that problem. A similar problem at the Wheaton Metro station. Smoke inside the station caused a briefly shutdown about 7 30 this morning. Both incidents were told have been resolved. Release on the road. There is a new faster way we hope crossing our fingers to get out of town just opened today. Our team is there with what you can expect. Plus when do we get to see the sun again, were tracking rain through most of tonight. Amillia does say there is sun and summer like temperatures in herenday forecast. T woman i have a masurprise for you. Are you . Man you have a surprise for me . Narrator at dominion, 1 in 5 new hires is a veteran. And when theyre away, they miss out on a lot. But they wont miss out on financial support. Because we cover any difference between their military pay and their dominion salary, and continue benefits for them and their families. Why do we do it . Because our vets sacrifice enough. Dominion. Depend on us for more than energy. Stand by me. Traffic news 4 team is there getting reaction from drivers. Will it make a difference . Well, people are certainly hoping so. We were right here when it opened about an hour, hour and a half ago. We want to show you a live picture from the truck right now. Show you what it likes to run show you what it likes to get on the new 395 ramp. Expected to help drivers get to southwest water from easier from the downtown area. Pulling up here to the new traffic signal on massachusetts avenue. The project has been going on for a couple of years. People we spoke to today say they are tired of all of this construction. They are happy that its going to be over. And its supposed to ease congestion here. Make it safer for drivers. And it also replaces the third street tunnel onramp which is going to be shutdown and demoli demolished. While im happy to have the construction done, im not too thrilled with the aesthetic look and difference in the area. I understand its a new development and everything, but for the residents. For those that have bought, its cheapening Property Values in ways that wont be advantageous for us. I hope the ease. That is the problem. A lot of horn honking and angry commuters. It will be great when it opens. Showing live picture. Driving into the tunnel area, new 395 south ramp. Give you an idea what its going to be like. See its brand new. The barrels are still up leer on the sides of the roads. One thing to keep in mind is that the downside, the drivers who are going westbound on that massachusetts avenue are going to have find a new way to get on the freeway. Again, youre hanging it right here live in 395 south ramp. Making it easier for drivers going into Northern Virginia and west water from front from the downtown area. Back to you. Now your storm team 4 forecast. Thanks, darcy. Driving around today definitely dealing with wet roads and chilly temperatures as well. Low to mid 50s. 54 degrees right now in washington. Overnight lows falling into the 40s. So while you may h air on earlier this week, might be turning the heat on in your home overnight tonight. Take a look at hourly planner. 7 00 a. M. Most of us are dry. 47 so heading out early on your sunday is one a warm jacket, sweatshirt, that sort of thing. Maybe sunshine around the morning hours. Mid 50s by noon. 59 degrees at 4 00. Showers mainly south of the area for the Late Afternoon and evening hours. Then moving into the metro area here and north of town. Sunday on into early monday. Take a look, the weather having a pretty low impact on your day tomorrow. In you are traveling heading down to fredericksburg or further south, you will encounter rain. Most of us looking dry. Out door exercise. Cool and cloudy, nice running weather. Taking the kids to the playground. Want the light certainly more of an outdoor day tomorrow than it was today. If you have to cut the grass tomorrow, you can enjoy the lower pollen levels from the light rain showers we had today. Thats a really good job removing the pollen from the air. Take a look at your outdoor eating forecast for the beginning of the workweek. Monday and tuesday, were going be tracking more rain at times. We definitely need the rain. Under moderate drought. Need about 69 inches of rain in a month time to get rid of drought. Were looking at 12. 5 inches over the next few days. Good news there. Wednesday the weather does start to improve. Sunshine returns and temperatures warm back up. Take a look at warming trend. Before we move, cool more, 59 tomorrow. 56 on monday. 57 on tuesday. Again, good chance for rain at times. Monday and tuesday. Sunshine on wednesday. Maybe a thunderstorm around on thursday, low 80s. Mid 80s friday, next saturday, well be near 90 degrees for the first time this year. So cool and cloudy this weekend. Next weekend more like summer. Got it. Thanks amilia. News 4 working for you by working in our kbhunt community. This morning or team volunteered at johnson middle school. Part of comcast care day. This is 16th annual comcast cares day. More than 100,000 come cast employees, friends and families volunteered on projects across the country. Back on the court as we speak. Not going great. We have first half highlights of the game t wizards have won both games against the hawks. Playing in atlanta. Against the team december vat sprath for a win. 5 30 tipoff tonight. Wizards lethargic in the the firth quarter. Gives atlanta 102 lead 10 minutes into the game. Tim hardway junior. 11 point lead three minutes i later in the quarter, Dwight Howard has been struggling all series. Lays down the law. Hawks flying ahead by 20 at the end of the first frame. John wall still doing wall star things. Like a magician behind the back with the throw down. Wall also ends the First Quarter with amazing threepointer from the quarter. Currently half time with the wizards trailing by 18. Kristen, back to you. Thats it for the news for now. Thanks so much for joining us. See you tonight after hockey. 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Also in the second, third and fourth rounds, you have the 17th pick, an extra pick in the fourth round by virtue of a previous trade with the jets. The redskins have two in the fourth round. They also have a pick from the saints, they dealt their pick in the fifth round of the 49ers. Got two picks in the sixth, including their original 17th

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