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WRC News4 At 6 May 23, 2016

Cooperate with the government if he is contacted about it. Were going to continue to follow this developing story on our app and tonight straight through news4 at 11 00 at the live desk. Breaking news tonight about an attempted rape on metro. Transit Police Arrested this man last month. They say his name is john hicks. A woman says hicks held her at knife point and tried to rape her on a red line train on april 12th at 10 00 in the morning. The woman says he forced her to perform a sexual act on him. Police quickly identified and arrested hicks. They charged him with attempted rape. They say he may also be responsible for an unrelated sex assault in montgomery county. Now to our weather. Some strong storms have been popping up across our region, but the rain isnt out of here just yet. Lets get the latest on all this from doug in the weather center. Right now, towar towards Calvert County and prince georges county. It is now going severe as it intersects with an outflow boundary from other storms we have seen. This is the storm right here. Northern portions of Calvert County. You can see that orange watch box or warning box. That is for eastern portions of Calvert County and extreme southern portions of prince georges kouncounty. Huntingtown under the gun. Moderate to heavy rain continues to be likely. Well have the latest with storm team 4 radar and well show you whats coming baltimore is calling for patience as the Legal Process plays out. A second officer charged in t in the death of freddie gray was found not guilty. It comes more than a year after grays death in police custody. Chris gordon joins us live from baltimore with the ruling and the reaction thats still coming in. Chris . Reporter well, officer edward nero chose a nonjury trial. Today, the judge kacquitted him of all charges, including assault and risking freddie grays life. Officer nero is not guilty of Reckless Endangerment or misconduct for failing to seat belt freddie gray in the Police Transport wagon a year ago april. Judge barry wa officer nero could reasonably expect that the van driver would be responsible for seat belting freddie gray. Gray suffered a broken neck that led to his death. The trial of police waha wagon r Caesar Goodson will begin in just a few weeks. Well have to see whether or not theres a change in the judge that handles these cases. Reporter other legal analysts says the judges decision is so skillfully crafted it wont be questioned. We learned very little about how this judge would decide future cases. Reporter freddie grays funeral last year resulted in rioting and protesting. I think we have a right to be upset, but dont hurt yourself and your community and dont do anything to get locked up. Protesting a fine. Reporter the lawyer for freddie are satisfied with the verdict. The judge did an amazing job not only of correctly applying the law and the evidence, but of explaining in detail. Reporter although officer nero was found not guilty of all criminal charges, he is still on desk duty at the Police Department and faces the possibility of disciplinary action. That is the latest live in baltimore. Caesar goodson is the next officer to go on trial. He was driving the Police Transport van where prosecutors say freddie gray was critically hurt. His trial is supposed to start two weeks from today. Two more officers head to trial in july with the final two trials scheduled to start this fall. For more indepth coverage of the case, open up the nbc washington app to see minutebyminute timeline of freddie grays arrest. Service back to normal on the trains had been single tracking for an hour this afternoon after a report of an arcing insulator. That insulator has since been removed. The Transit Agency says it wont be able to fix a section of track near Mcpherson Square as quickly as first thought. That means another slow roll for passengers on the blue, orange, and silver lines. Reporter thats right. The issue has to do with a section of rail around a tight curve here at Mcpherson Square. That means another week of working on the problem. On metro, the red blinking platform lights now take on new meaning. Stop and slow. I think metro needs to get it together like yesterday. Reporter riders feel yet more maintenance pain as a piece of rail known as a rail along a curve at the Mcpherson Square section needs more work. These repairs expected to last through the end of the week and that is in addition to trains that are already going slower here to reduce the draw of electricity from the third rail and reduce the risk of fire. You know how metro trains usually just shoot out of the station and then go pretty fast . Take a look whats happening here right outside Mcpherson Square. The train leaves and then it kind of slows down to a slow roll. Goes into that tunnel there. Then almost comes to a complete stop and just slowly rolls along as it goes through this section of track. These are the speed restrictions that are in place right now. Yeah, there is just so much maintenance that has to be done. Im not sure how theyre ever going to catch up or if theyre got the money. Reporter a lot of pain felt this week will be similar to the upcoming huge safetrack maintenance plan. The general manage about the need to get all the maintenance up to the right level. The key is once we do this we cannot slip back to where we were. We have to continually do this. Reporter metro opening to turn a corner, but for right now a slow process. Again, so another week of slowdowns here near Mcpherson Square on top of the slowdowns that were already in place for the orange, blue, and silver lines in the downtown core. Back to you. Tonight, theres new information about voters and their concerns with donald trump. A new nbc news wall street journal poll shows that 6 in 10 voters are very concerned that trump doesnt have any experience in either government or the military. Nonetheless, the same poll shows trump closing the gap with Hillary Clinton. Brian moore is on capitol hill now with more on all this. Reporter jim, Hillary Clinton and donald trump have a lot in common right now, but not all of on friendly turf in detroit with the Service Employees national union, Hillary Clinton slammed donald trump. Were not talking about any ordinary antiunion, antiworker republican. A lot of republicans themselves say donald trump is a disaster waiting to happen to america. Reporter she hit him hard on immigration, the minimum wage, and his economic plans. How can anybody lose money running a casino, really . Reporter the latest poll shows trump is gaining ground. The two are locked in a statistical dead heat. Still 60 are concerned about trumps lack of military or government experience. Trump is courting conservative skeptics and his search for a running mate is key. Senator bob short list. This was a meeting between two people who didnt know each other except over phone calls getting to know each other and thats it. Reporter clinton races Bernie Sanders to the primary finish line. Clinton voters do like sander. Reporter sanders says hes not giving up. Democrats are handing sanders a huge olive branch. Five seats on the Convention Committee to draft the partys platform. Two of virginias Top Republicans are asking the states highest court to block hundreds of thousands of felons from voting in november. They say the governors executive order restoring the Voting Rights of convicts who have served their sentences is an unconstitutional abuse of power. They also believe it is a political move to help democrats win the white house in november. The order impacts more than their time. As of last week, nearly 4,000 had signed up to vote. The question remains was it terrorism or technical failure. Tonight, lingering questions five days after an egyptian airliner went down in the mediterranean sea. Surveillance video captured the attack as police look for clues if this is connected to another crime involving a d. C. High school student. An attorney and his wife were terrorized for hours inside their mclean home. The trial continues today for the suspect Andrew Schmuhl. Coming up, one of the victims talked about how his life has changed ever since that night. And not one severe thunderstorm warning, but now two. The second issued for Culpeper County. This one moving off to the south and west. Another around southern prince georges county, Charles County, northern st. Marys police are looking for the suspect in a string of violent crimes. It started with a robbery at a Jewelry Store, then turned into a police shootout, and ended with a carjacking. Pat collins outside dubai Jewelry Store in springfield, virginia, where the wild scene pat . Reporter jim, by my count, this guy is good for about five felonies in just a matter of minutes. It was a Jewelry Store robbery that led to a gunfight that had not one, but two getaways that ended in crashes. And today the suspect is still at large. This is what it sounded like on the police radio. Shots fired. Brookfield plaza. Black male, face covered. Reporter the dubai Jewelry Store in springfield, virginia. They say a masked man wearing what looked to be a ups outfit comes in and robshe place. He shouted dont move, ill shoot you. Reporter the robber goes from showcase to showcase dumping judump ing jewelry into a duffle bag. The robber here, the cop over there. Someone driving by gets injured by one of the another round ends up going through the plate glass window of a vacant store. They patched it with plywood now. The gunman drives away, but he doesnt get far. He crashes here at Spring Village drive about a mile from the robbery scene. Then he carjacks a cadillac and makes what you might call a second getaway. Back to the police radio for another lookout. Subject is going to be described as a black male in a ups uniform wearing all brown. We dont have a direction of travel at this time. Reporter the second time he didnt get very far either. You see, he cracked up that cadillac in these woods about a half mile from where he stole it. The gunman gets out of the car, grabs the duffle bag, and continues to run away on foot. Now they say the bystander who was wounded in the shootout here has nonlifethreatening injuries. As for the suspect, that suspect is still at large. Jim, back to you. A man shot outside a White House Security checkpoint last week is still in Critical Condition tonight. The secret Service Agent shot a man named Jesse Olivieri on friday after Officials Say olivieri pulled out a gun and then refused to drop it. Investigators searched olivieris house in pennsylvania. They found no connection to terrorism. They believe it may have been an attempt at suicide by cop. Internal emails obtained by news4 shows the u. S. Secret service is testing its new fencing for the white house. The agency is planning to raise the white house fence by five feet so it is 11 feet tall to prevent future fence jumping incidents. The news4 iteam obtain emails detailing the plans for that fence. Some of the equipment was tested april 20th in quantico, virginia. Its Scott Macfarlane at the live desk. Information shows it is going to be a very big day on capitol hill tomorrow for d. C. Metro rail. Information into the news4 iteam says a powerful u. S. House Appropriations Committee is going to recommend d. C. Metro rail be given 150 million in the coming months to deal with safety and maintenance issues. That same committee this time last year recommended cutting the funding down to 75 million. Members of congress at the time arguing d. C. Metro rail has too much unspent federal money. The committee will recommend full funding. 150 million for metro rail to tackle its safety issues and maintenance problems. The u. S. House Transportation Committee 10 00 a. M. To answer questions about how the agency money. An egyptian aviation official says search crews are still far away from finding the wreckage of flight 804. The flight from paris to cairo disappeared from radar five days ago. 66 people were on board. Some debris and human remains have been recovered. U. S. Intelligence agencies say there is still no hard evidence that terrorism is involved. We have the developments now from cairo. Reporter today egypt general prosecutor reached out to his counterparts in france and asking them to provide any relevant information regarding flight 804 to egyptian authorities. Theyre requesting any documentation and recordings that air traffic control. They think that information may help with their Ongoing Investigation here in egypt, but central to the overall investigation it really comes down to that black box, trying to find both the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder. Were far away from closing in on the fuselage of the aircraft. What we have found is only small pieces and there is a lot to be done. Reporter egypts president says they have deployed a submarine to identify where the wreckage might be and try to identify that black box. They believe it will be critical in trying to answer some of the lingering questions about what brought this plane down. Families continue to deal with their loss. Very much the question on everyones mind still what brought down this plane. Chances are youve seen those yellow planet aid donation bins. Tonight in an news4 iteam investigation, well report why the government is giving this Controversial Charity millions of dollars. 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Heres another their colors are yellow, red, and blue, and they save you tons of green. Still nothing . Thats okay. Just go to southwest. Com for the answer. On this airlin everybody wins. [clap, clap, ding] a man was stabbed over and over again, but he lived to face his accuser. Tonight, well hear the emotional courtroom testimony and learn how life has changed for a lawyer who was terrorized inside his own home. Plus, a student beaten up and robbed outside a d. C. High school. What police are saying about a possible connection to another crime just days apart. Also tonight, the public with the first look at plans for a future metro project thats been years in the making. Those stories and more coming up at 6 30, but first heres doug with a check on our weather. Whats happening with those storms . Still rumbling on through our area. Were getting so sick of pictures like this one. We have seen the rain across our area. Im sure the nationals going to take a look down towards Reagan National airport. The rain continues to fall. It is just nasty out there across the area. Temperatures were in the 70s. Now down to the mid 60s. A couple of storms, a couple of strong storms. One severe thunderstorm warning, Calvert County. Another warning for Culpeper County and madison quantity. Lets take a look at a couple of these. See the rain around the d. C. Metro area back to the west. Some very heavy rain there. Back towards bowie and annapolis. This is a storm we have watched come all the way across the eastern portion and the bay. Look at all of the lightning with this. There has been some hail reported with this too. This is moving down to the south and east. You can see mechan mechanicsville, prince frederick. Heads up in this region. If you dont have to go out, you might want to wait a little while. Culpeper county, notice the enhanced lightning. This one moving down to the south and east. A strong storm just south of culpeper and then were watching this area of rain thatll again come right down i95 into the d. C. Metro area. Were not done with this just yet. Nothing strong or severe with those storms. This is all part of the same system that brought us rain this weekend. What that does is allows that moisture and these little areas of convergence to come together and bring us those storms. More of the same tonight right around through 7 00 and 9 00. Then it gets down by around 8 00, 9 00. Well start to see things settle down. Tomorrow morning at no problems. Well start to turn a corner. That one is going to be one that weve been waiting to turn for a long time. Tomorrow afternoon, sunshine, temperatures around 78 degrees. Look at the next coup

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