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Transcripts For WRC News4 At 5 20160620

He has a knife. He assaults her. She breaks away and grabs her ipad. She used the ipad to get help. She was incredibly brave. She saw her opportunity to get away from him and she did. She should be commended for what she was able to face in this incident. Reporter by the time the cops got here yesterday morning, the suspect had made his escape. Now at 6 00, advice from the cops on how to stay safe. Ill see you then. Wendy, back to you. Pat collins. Thank you, pat. Well, this is it. Its the first big test. Phase two of metros safetrack program. The disruptions are everything we warned you that would be. Service along three lines heavilyi impacted as crews make repairs to this vast system. Four northeast d. C. And Prince Georges County. There is frustration. Got to get up early in the morning. How much earlier . An hour earlier. Its been crazy. Now i have to go from addison road to benning road. Then catch the shuttle. Adam tuss live at one of the closure points, Eastern Market in southeast d. C. How is it looking there . Whats the mood . Reporter not so bad. Everyone in an accepting mood. People continue to stream in and out of the station here. This is really what youre dealing with. Not so much the rail site, but the buses. Everybody coming and getting on and off these shuttle buses here. Weve heard it over and over again. One metro train can carry about 100 people. One bus only 50 people. I have to tell you a lot of people didnt even want to with this today. They stayed away from metro all together. Metros safetrack its a little confusing down here. Reporter causing a huge shift in travel patterns for hundreds of thousands of commuters. You think theyre doing the right thing by all these shutdowns and fixing the rail . They have to fix them sooner or later. Its been 40 years, right . Reporter no rail service between Eastern Market and minnesota avenue and Eastern Market and benning road. That has essentially cut off a lot of direct rail service from Prince Georges County to the district. The arii aerial bridge has been area of repeated breakdowns and delays. Maintenance personnel working in the hot sun to fix it all. Prince georges county executive baker. Today it went pretty well. We didnt hear as many complaints as we have heard the past. Reporter also in Northern Virginia no rail service between Arlington Cemetery and rosslyn. Its turned many commutes upside down and caused some big delays. Some of the platforms seem a lot more crowded than normal. Reporter metro ridership numbers show some of the stations directly impacted saw a 65 decrease in ridership. Meanwhile other commuters switched lines like to the green line, for example, to get around these slowdowns. And back out live. You see this crowd of people waiting to get on shuttle buses. This is what youre going to be dealing with at the closure point with this next surge that lasts until july 3rd. Coming up at 6 00, metro says pretty much everything going to according to plan today. But we did find out about a breakdown with a piece of multimillion dollar metro equipment. Tell you about that next hour. Youre fired with less than a month before the Republican National convention. Donald trump is shaking up his campaign in a big way, dismissing his Campaign Manager today, corey lewandowski. He has been with trump from the start. Trump defended him when a reporter accused lewandowski of grabbing her. The decision is based on recent slumping poll numbers and image problems. Earlier today lewandowski said theres no bad blood. Ill support donald trump in any endeavor he has. If i can play a role if in this campaign whether it is formal or informal, that would be an honor for me to have. On the democratic side with Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders not suspending his campaign, it means he still has his secret service detail. That is costing taxpayers 38,000 a day. Hes given no indication of dropping out before the through july. Trumps comments on the campaign trail have cost his Party Something at the upcoming convention. Apple will not provide monetary or Technical Support this month, which cited the presumptive nominees comments about women and minorities as the reason why. Trump called for a boycott of apple products because of the companys battle with the government over software encryption. Hillary clinton and outside groups supporting her campaign have outspent trump and his allies in the battleground states by a massive margin. Smg delta finds that for the month of june Clintons Campaign and its supporters spent more than 23 million. Trump, on the other hand, spent nothing. President obama and supporters only outspent mitt romney and his camp by about 7 million. A Baltimore Police officer fag will learn his fate on thursday. That announcement on the verdict came from the judge after hearing closing arguments in the trial of scaesar goodson. Reporter this is the third trial of a Baltimore Police officer charged in the death of freddie gray. So far there have been no convictions. Today a small group of demonstrators gathered at the courthouse. They say Baltimore Police murdered freddie gray. Yet the courts are letting them walk free one by one. They caused freddie grays death. That was the first crime. The second crime is the way the prosecution is putting this case on. Reporter during closing arguments, prosecutors said the evidence shows Police Transport wagon driver gave freddie gray a rough ride, running a stop sign and making a wide right tn. Dozens of questions. Judge williams really grilled the state as to where is the evidence that a rough ride existed. Reporter prosecutors say goodson never seat belted gray in or transported gray to a hospital when he said he wanted to go. Goodson faces charges of seconddegree depraved hard murder, manslaughter, and reckless endangerment. The officer could be guilty of most, if not all, of the charges. Reporter this trial is a mustwin for prosecutors. If they cant win on this one, i think they have little chance of succeeded on the cases of the balance of the defendants. Reporter the judge will deliver his verdict in the goodson trial thursday morning. Reporting from baltimore, chris gordon. News4. On our front porch grill today. That was before we fired up the grill. It was cook out there temperaturewise then. Is it sizzling yet . It is definitely sizzling out here. Temperatures near 90 degrees. The humidity not too bad. Summer begins tonight at 6 34. Now look. This is our grill. You guys mentioned thats our grill. Look at the guy right next to that. That is big bertha. Big bertha has a lot of chicken in there. Were going to talk more about what were doing out here. This is for the giant barbecue battle this weekend. Yeah, its on the hot side. One thing were not seeing is thunderstorm activity. No storms out there right now on storm team 4 radar, but i want to show you the wider view here. Look around to the chicago area. Chicago, cleveland, cincinnati. Thats where we have a slight risk of Severe Weather today. That risk and that front moves our way dur t 24 hours, thats what were going to be watching. Lets talk about this. The headlines for tonight. Nice weather. Summer starts at 6 34. Thats when things start to cool just a bit. Strong storms possible for tomorrow. We could see more storms possible during the day on thursday. A little bit of a stormy week here. Well talk about the chance for some Severe Weather coming up tomorrow and on thursday in just a little bit. Well have much more thats a chef right there. Were talking to her at 5 25. Are those peaches on there . Yes. Ive never seen peaches on a grill. I learn so much. She could barbecue the 4x4 on that grill. Good point. Just to make your traffic traveling stuff even aggravating, Memorial Bridge, it could be on the verge of a shutdown. Theres a very real danger on this bridge. The mgm Employment Center will offer training for those terested in working aint and we just couldnt say thno to that face. Ns then we wanted more of that local flavor so betty says. Oh yeah, thats betty. Youre going to want to do this alligator thing. And betty didnt lead us wrong. A little later we passed some dancing. And who doesnt like dancing . Especially when its followed by fireworks everyones nola is different. Follow yours. Its our new intern, barts first week here at td bank, hes a robot from one of those other banks. I am banking assistance registration technology. Wait, wait, wait. But you can call me, banking assistance registration technology. Hi amy. Thank you. Thank you. That is not protocol manager jenna. Thats ok bart, it is here. At td bank we do things differently, like having the longest hours of any bank. Dont just bank. Bank human. It was a big day down at the harbor. It is expected to create thousands of jobs in Prince Georges County. The mgm at National Harbor began the process of filling all those open positions. Tracee wilkins live at the harbor with a look at whats available and how you can apply. Reporter youre looking at 3600 jobs here at mgm National Harbor. It is coming along very quickly. Theyre looking at an opening date sometime in december. It is time to start training and hiring folks to fill these positions. With 3600 Jobs Available at mgm National Harbor, workers have to be trained somewhere. The former Thomas Edison Elementary School is where you go to learn the casino industry. Today a tour of the former Elementary School fully renovated by mgm. 5 million. Several months. I remember what it was like before they took it over. It hadnt been used. Reporter baker says hes looking forward to what this Employment Center will mean for the countys future in gaming. We made it very clear to them we want them to hire locally, including in the top ranks. They have made a commitment to me that theyre going to do that. Reporter while the Dealer School has been opened for weeks, the new Employment Center fully opens this friday and will also teach hospitality classes specializing in food and beverage services, marketing, valet services. Were hoping the service part of it is something people from Prince Georges County will benefit from and this will grow our tax to some of the folks who will benefit from this through the agreement the county made between mgm and the county before they started to build the new m kbrgm National Harbor. After theyre done with that school, theyre going to turn it back over to the Prince Georges County school system. Kids will have an almost brandnew school. Are they a good living wage with benefits . Can people really make a living at mgm . Reporter they say these are not jobs theyre offering, but career opportunities. The guy who is over table games at mgm started out a different job in the company and was able to make his way through the company to a dealer. Then eventually the head of table games. This is something mgm prides themselves in. Rates and benefits. There are some new concerns tonight, as you can imagine. Americans and their attitudes towards their muslim neighbors. The Group Council on American Islamic relations says islamophobia is definitely on the rise in this political year. It says prejudice showing itself now in hate attacks. People are vandalizing mosques, bullying muslim children. We are very concerned about the negative impact this destructive phenomenon has on our safety, on the safety of millions of americans, their families, and their children. We are very concerned about the direction in which our country is going. Cair is reporting 75 groups that are contributing to this islamophobia. It is calling out the rhetoric thats coming from the campaign trail that we have reported about so much, saying muslims in a database just creates more division and more fear. New fallout tonight. A major Youth Sports Program says its beefing up its background checks for coaches and staffers, helping better protect its 23,000 local kids. A response to what the iteams Scott Macfarlane found for us last month. It was just a few weeks ago. We discovered a man who admitted to trying to sexually exploit a young boy who had been coaching youth soccer in Montgomery County months after his arrest. The league is taking new steps because of our report. Today is opening day of summer soccer camp in germantown. The Soccer Association in Montgomery County is a giant in the world of youth supports. As of tonight, every one of those adults will be subjected to ongoing background any arrests and the bosses are immediately notified. An upgrade from the system they had been using in which employees and coaches were checked only at the start of the fall season. Your report got us thinking about maybe theres a better way to do this. Reporter a coach was coaching there since last autumn even they was arrested by Fairfax County police. He pled guilty to trying to lure what he thought was a young boy to a public park for sex. He even bought a bottle of red wine with him. His arrest happened after his once a year background check. The league never knew about it and never booted him. The league said his case showed they needed to make upgrades to this new ongoing season long system of background screenings. It is monitoring our database all the time. Well know very soon if something has occurred. Reporter at opening day of er he supports the decision to make sure all the adults that work with these kids safe and secure. It is important to have qualified coaches and people with the proper credentials. The state of mind of a killer. For the first time were getting a clearer view of what happened during the orlando massacre because we are hearing or were reading the transcripts of the calls to 911. Check out this mess in Prince Georges County. Find out how this cleanup job is causing big trouble in one neighborhood. Im tom sherwood along the potomac river. The Memorial Bridge. Its beautiful, but its falling 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. Usually we ask doug whats the weather, but i want to know what youre eating because you have a bunch of barbecue grills behind you. Youre going to start with the food . Always. Dont you know us . We have four chefs out here creating different things. I have already eaten one plate of food. Dont you love when they come and make a i dont have to share with anybody. You are part of the giant barbecue battle here benefitting the uso d. C. And uso metro. This is your first year doing this, isnt it . Yes, it is. What made you want to do this . My dad is a marine and is retired. Your husband as well . Yes, he is national guard. What did you make here . A grilled asparagus with a lime pickle relish. I have a marinated pork tenderloin with a little bit of beer marinade in it. We also have a mango mint chutney. This is a first. I have never had an anchor come out during my show. Is this too big a bite . No. Watch this. I have never seen handly move so fast as when you showed him that food. Now i have to do some weather. Lets show you whats happening weatherwise out there. 90 degrees right now. Handly going to sweating a little bit. Winds out of the south at 12. Were at 88 in leesburg and 89 in fredericksburg. Its hot, but no thunderstorm activity. This evening if youre on the grill, no problem at all. Wait until about 7 00, 8 00. On the radar, nothing to show you. But take a look at the wider picture here. One thing i want you to focus on is back towards chicago. Notice that area of cloudiness and storminess. Thats some thunderstorm activity making its way down to the south and east. Thats the cold front. This is the slight risk for Severe Weather right towards cincinnati, towards st. Louis. Tomorrow that area of slight risk will move into our region. That means we have a chance for some strong to tomorrow. Thats what were going to be watching for. The best chance most likely during the evening hours. We will see the biggest threat from these storms on the windy side. Lets go to the sevenday forecast. 89 tomorrow with that chance for some storms. 50 chance for storms. 86 on wednesday. Thursday a High Temperature of 85 degrees. Friday, High Temperature of 83. The weekend looking very, very nice. Let me tell you why the chefs here are extremely excited about that. Last year it poured on this event. This year im calling for plenty of sunshine. Youre welcome. Youre welcome. Nobody is thanking me at all. Thank you. Did you bring anything for wendy . A piece of it still in my teeth. That was a huge bite for me. I tried to get security not to let him in. Well, now to a mystery in hollywood. Actor i

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