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Transcripts For WRC News4 At 5 20150522

Over the next 24 hours the search would lead police from d. C. To brooklyn new york, and then back to the d. C. Area. Last night, the Capitol Area Fugitive Task force tracked wint to this hotel in college park. As the task force was preparing to move in wint and several women got into this white car. Police followed the car into the district, using as many as 20 Law Enforcement cars as well as a helicopter. Then police moved in on the white car and the box truck it was following. Wint surrendered without any resistance. Sources say he was not carrying a gun. A large amount of cash was found inside that truck. The door was open to the box truck, and i saw a wad of cash in the side compartment of the door. Reporter wint is charged with first degree murder. He made his first court aappearance this afternoon. Mr. Wint is now incarcerated and held without bond, but our work is not done. We will continue to investigate this case and bring all charges that are appropriate in the coming weeks. Neighbors have been reacting to wipts arrest. News4s Megan Fitzgerald is outside the home in northwest with more on that. Reporter chris, i tell you, as we learn more and more about what happened inside this house behind me here, neighbors say its increasingly difficult to drive past, let alone even walk by the house. Many folks describe this last week as traumatizing to say the least. You might think things are normal around here, but that couldnt be further from the truth. I dont know what normal is. Reporter for the last eight days, neighbors trying to live their daytoday lives cant help but think about what a happened in inside this home. Just to know what happened to them is just heart wrenching. Reporter its why many cant look away and others have stopped to pray. So i just stop for a few moments and thought about them and reflected. Reporter and now that the suspect, 34yearold daron wint is in custody, theres some relief around here. The fact that hes arrested, yes. It makes me feel a little more easy. Hopefully the Justice System will work out. Reporter but as for normal, these neighbors are still trying to figure out if that will ever be possible around woodland drive. Its too much. Really have not had a chance to really absorb it all. Reporter and i tell you one of the neighbors we spoke with said he actually finds some solace by just standing on the corner and saying prayers. Coming up is the aix, we spoke with a longtime friend of vera figueroa, the housekeeper found dead inside this home. He talks about his relationship with the woman he called a great friend just moments before he entered her viewing. Live in northwest washington, Megan Fitzgerald, news4. Megan thank you. And we just posted a new story on our nbc washington app that collects everything we know about daron wint. You can go there during the break to read what weve learned so far. A local man stopped for a Traffic Violation is stunned and peppersprayed. Right now police have released the video that led to an officers resignation. News4s ma let green is in our newsroom with the story. Pat, we just got our hands on this video from Fredericksburg Police showing one of their officers using his stun gun or taser on a man before pep irspraying the suspect in what police are calling an improper use of force. All of this happening during a traffic stop on Jefferson Davis highway. We see in this Police Body Cam video the first two officers on the scene of the may 4th traffic stop with their guns pointed at the driver of a hyundai. Sergeant crystal hill yells at 34yearold david washington of frez ricksburg to get out of the car. Put your hands in the air right now put them in the air reporter but he doesnt respond. Minutes later, a third officer sean jergens, arrives. Get out of the car. Reporter you can see officer jergens quickly using his stun gun on the man. But it didnt make proper connection. And then theer peppersprays him before they are able to get him out of the car. Washington could be heard moan ing ing. Officers handcuffed washington. You understand why you had to get sprayed . You werent listening to us. I have an ambulance coming to help you. I need to know whats wrong with you. Reporter then got a medical attention for the effect of to remove the taser prongs attached to his skin. Now, in this statement Fredericksburg Police say the use of force did not follow Proper Police training or policy. Now, the officer who used the stun gun and pepper spray resigned from office last week. And charges against david washington are pepding. Coming up at 6 00, more on what david washington told the officers at the scene about his condition. Back to you. A little boy is safe right now after being abducted at a metro station by his father. Damian good was taken from the king street station in alexandria just after 8 00 a. M. This morning by his father dajuan goode. The boy was found safe at his grandmothers home around noon. Dajuan good was arrested a short time later. Investigates are trying to figure out how this fire started in southeast d. C. This morning. This is cell phone video of the vane on 7th street just after 3 30 a. M. Firefighter as rived to heavy fire coming from the home. Fortunately they were able to knock it down fairly quickly and no one was hurt. In Northern Virginia weve learned the name of a man who was killed while crossing the street. His name is nor ray morris, 44 years old. A tractor trailer hit him this morning in woodbridge at Jefferson Davis highway and Prince William parkway. A few hours later chopper 4 found squad cars still on the scene. Police say morris was walking in a crosswalk but he didnt have the signal to cross and the traffic light for the truck driver had already changed from red to green. A Prince William county woman is in jail accused of attacking a man with insect killer. A 40yearold man says he and Shanika Davis were arguing at a home in brist tol. The Man Told Police davis attacked him so he locked himself in the bathroom. Investigators say davis dismantled the doorknob and sprayed the insect killer in the hole. Davis faces several charges. More local children are eating their Free Public School breakfasts and lunches. A previous news4 iteam investigation revealed 60,000 d. C. Area School Children skip their taxpayer funded free or reduced priced meals last year. 12 months later, progress to report in Montgomery County public schools. School records show 3,000 more children are now eating the free meals compared to 2014. The district says its now serving breakfast in actual classrooms in 78 of its schools in order to boost participation. Well, lets take a live look at the u. S. Capitol where crews are making final preparations for sundays memorial day concert on the west lawn. Gary sinise will host and its free. Gloriaest testen estestefhan. Pbs will broadcast it live. On monday, the National Memorial day parade kicks off at 2 00 p. M. The route starts at 7th and constitution avenue and ends at 17th street right in front of the white house. World war ii veterans will serve at the grand marshals of that parade and bigll korgan of the Smashing Pumpkins will perform. Floods devastated their neighborhoods and some say county leaders are leaving them high and dry. Why they say the situation has turned from bad to worse. Reporter oh, im live in ocean city, maryland, right now. A Beautiful Day. Ive got my thrashers french fries. Im just looking for people to share them with. Anybody want some thrashers . Oh, my cousin wants some. Ill be back in a minute. Ill have the complete forecast for you in just a couple of minutes. See you in a minute. Well, this video will make your stomach drop. Well take you inside a cockpit of a world war ii plane as things go terribly wrong. The thousands of people watched vintage planes perform in historic flyover a couple of weeks ago, but one plane had to make an emergency landing. This is new video from inside the cockpit. Just as the pilot crossed the key bridge, smoke started filling the small plane. Hydraulic fluid was leaking, but at the time he didnt know that thought maybe he had an electrical fire on board. The pilot has to break off formation and heads toward virginia crossing the 14th street bridge. He radios in his emergency and somehow manages to maneuver over to Reagan National airport where hes able to set down safely. Wow. A shocking and upsetting discovery today in Charles County. A toddler found dead in a swing at a local park. Coming up at 5 45 derek ward joins us with what we are learning about the little boy and how the neighborhood is reacting. Well, last spring a slope collapsed and left neighbors stranded and without a home. Now residents in ft. Washington say they are facing a mountain of debt. Fema was supposed to pay them to move out. But as Tracee Wilkins tells us homeowners on piscataway drive say thats not happening. So all of this was walkway here. Reporter someone stole part of the flagstone walkway from the front of tracys house, keeping this is hard since she is not allowed to live here anymore. Its tough. It is tough. Reporter last year tracy and four of her neighbors here on piscataway drive were told their homes were uninhabitable after a slope failure. To date they have no water and sewer but still are paying the mortgages here. Its like theres two of me. I pay to live here and i pay to live some place where i cant live. Reporter county offered to pay for the homes with county and fema money but theyre probably 8,000 short of paying that mortgage off, and thats just insane for me. Reporter just yesterday talks with the county to negotiate a larger payout fell through and according to tracy the county is now saying if you dont take the fema money, you get nothing and then were going to fake your property anyway. Reporter due to ongoing litigation, the county says it cannot comment, but tracy says theyre claiming to use police power. It will allow the county to take the homes level them and leave tracy and other homeowners with serious debt and no money for a fresh start. Its inconceivable to say, no only are you going to lose your house, but you have to put cash on the table in order to leave. Reporter john is fighting to help his neighbors stay in their homes and says the county is not doing the right thing. They can offer enough money for people to leave. We were forced to introduce attorneys into this which is absolutely was uncalled for, but i had to do it. Reporter a state engineer decided this portion of piscataway drive was not safe for folks to live on, but the people who live there got their own engineer and he has a very different opinion. Coming up the 6, well tell you what he had to say. In ft. Washington, Tracee Wilkins, news4. Well, Hillary Clinton says she is glad that some of her emails are going public and hopesed state department will expedite the release of the rest. Were starting to dig through the roughly 800 pages of messages released this afternoon, all of them previously released to the House Committee investigating the deadly attack on the u. S. Mission in benghazi. Now, preliminary reviews of those emails suggest they do not contain any revelations that could damage her bid for the presidency nor do they appear to support contentions from credit sicks who say she was negligent. Voters in ireland are heading to sleep after an historic day at the polls. They could wake up to find out if their country is the first ever to legalize same sex marriage by popular vote. An approval would also mark a big cultural shift for a nation thats been staunchly catholic. Opinion woelpolls have indicated a majority of people would vote yes to legalizing same sex marriage. But government officials and gay rights activists say theyre still cautious about predicting results. There is new support for the unexpected call for the boy scouts to lift its ban on openly gay leaders. Yesterday former defense secretary and boy scouts president robert gates says the courts may eventually force the organization to accept gay leaders anyway. One man who lost his battle between years ago agrees. Especially since the scouts started allowing openly gay youth two years ago. Even if you dont exclude a young person when they become 18 years old theyre suddenly not good anymore . Thats definitely the wrong message for the boy xoutsz of america. Any change he says should respect the religious freedom of the churches that sponsor 70 of local scout units. Right now two california men are in court facing charges of trying to join isis. The men were arrested last night, one at l. A. X. Trying to leave on a flight to israel that had a layover in istanbul. He planned to get off there and enter syria trying to join the terror group and become a martyr. The other man was arrested at an Anaheim Hotel and bought the plane ticket. Both are charged with providing Material Support to a terrorist group. Investigate rz tracked both of them through postings on social media. Well, its led to the arrest of some terrorists, but the senate is scrambling tonight to cast a vote on a crucial bill that could change the way the nsa collects phone records. Under the new bill phone data would be collected on a casebycase basis and used records kept by the phone companies. The house already passed this measure. The senate is trying to work out a deal. But could have to stay in through the Holiday Weekend to get things worked out. Problems with Blue Bell Ice Cream may have gone back further than this years deadly listeria cases. Fda inspect rz found condensation dripping in unfilled Ice Cream Containers and other residue on food containers at blue bell plants in texas and oklahoma. Those details are in newly released inspection documents that date back to 2009 and 2012. Blue bell pulled all of its products from stores last month. The company says its reviewing all of its cleaning procedures. Well, raw tuna may be the most likely culprit in a salmonella outbreak thats made a lot of people sick in virginia and nine other states. 53 people have gotten sick, most of them in california. Most patients say they had sushi that contained raw tuna. The outbreak put ten people in the hospital, but so far we dont have any reports of deaths related to this salmonella poisoning. The bizarre saga of former virginia delegate morrissey is taking a new torn. Morrissey says hell marry the 19yearold mother of his son. He says he and myrna pride want more children. Pride was a minor when the two got involved. Morrissey served jail time and lost his seat after the relationship was discovered but won his seat back and is now running for the state senate as an independent. Well, it is a day of celebration in annapolis as more than 1,000 midshipmen have now 1,000 midshipmen have now been Commission Officers in the navy and marine corps. Remember all youve learned, all youve felt, all youve breathed here at the naval academy. Vice President Joe Biden gave the commencement speech this morning at the Navy Marine Corps memorial stadium. That was the blue angels buzzing overhead. There was also a moment of remembrance for midshippman justin killed in the amtrak crash outside philadelphia. Police are forced to make life saving decisions quickly. New at 5 30, Zachary Kiesch takes you inside the new active Shooter Training in fairfax county. Reporter oh, and the sun, guys, is beautiful down here today. Plenty of sunshine bright blue skies. It cant get better than this for the memorial day weekend. But one day this weekend if youre coming down here or even back home is going to be a little cooler than the rest. Well talk about that reporter hello everybody. Meteorologist Doug Kammerer right here in ocean city, maryland kicking off our backyard weather once begin right here for memorial day weekend. Memorial day coming a little sooner. Ive got my cousin celine who a, wants to be on the air and, b, is holding my thrashers french fries. Then ive got the mayor. You may recognize him because ive interviewed him now for the last three years or four years now and he been the mayor here in ocean city since 2006. Mayor first off, thanks for having us down here. Doug glad to see you down here. Glad to see everybody down here at what looks to be a beautiful weekend. Reporter the weather is going to be perfect. As you know, this time of year can go either way. Yes, it can. Weve had shady memorial day weekends. But the forecast looks great. You can just tell the skies are clear. Its going to be beautiful. Reporter what have you guys done recently as far as sprucing up ocean city getting it ready for the year. Every year we make sure everything is done, the beach is manicured, ready to go. There are new businesses in town, some exciting new rides in town. Reporter yeah, you and i went on the cyclone earlier at jolly roger. The cyclone is one of the first cart coasters of its kind in this country. Actually three stories high five stories high. You ride that cart and they have allrandnew carts to ride. You go up on that wooden surface, its quite a ride. It really gets moving. Reporter it really is. And weve got video of that coming up at 5 45. Lets take a look and show you that forecast. Again, you could not ask for a better forecast. Temperatures right now, 79 at the airport. It is simply gorgeous, plenty of sunshine. A little bit on the breezy side but not bad at all. Take a look at the temperatures around the rest of the region. Most everybody in the mid70s right now, that even includes down

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