Magazines. That rifle had been stolen from an unmarked Rockville City Police car. It was a quick thinking School Resources officer who saw some suspicious activity and moved in to close the case. Thankfully we had the sro there, you know, who potentially couldve stopped a tragedy because we dont know what this individuals intention was. Reporter as news of this gun incident spread, we gathered reaction from parents today. The car was stolen too. Whoa. Reporter and the gun was stolen from a police officer. Whoa. Its shocking to hear and its sad to hear. Reporter your daughter, are you worried for her safety here . Always and here and any place, thats why im here ten minutes before dismissal. That child made some bad choices at a really good school. Reporter you worried . Reporter Montgomery County superintendent thanked Law Enforcement today and described the incident as serious and said while the gun never entered the School Building and remained in a car parked on a remote part of the campus, he says this is in inexcusable. Police continue to investigate the case. Doreen, back to you. Thats pat collins reporting live. Amtrak and Marc Services running again after a train hit and killed a pedestrian in bowie but you can expect delays because the trains are still single tracking. The amtrak train hit the person about 3 00 this afternoon. It happened between the sea brook and New Carrollton stations. The person was trespassing. The news4 iteam reports there have been at least 55 injuries or deaths in maryland, d. C. And virginia since january of last year involving people trespassing on the train tracks. This is what frustrated students loo across campus. Concern is rising at American University following the hate crime on monday. Bananas hung from nooses threatening a black sorority. Our wendy rieger spoke to the head of that sorority. Youll get her reaction but first hes Kristen Wright where students tell us theyre worried about their safety, kristen . Reporter well, some student groups of color have come up with a list of demands for the administration here at au. It is a long list including expelling whoever is responsible for the banana incident if, in fact, it is a student and above that, those students want to know if that person is expelled. Now also today for the first time were hearing directly from University Administrators since this weeks hate crime. Students takin are being tested in many ways. About to graduate, phil caper says he found himself nervous when walking on campus alone at night. My number one concern is just like for one who did this. Its dis heartening that someone would do this. The person of interest in a hate crime at American University. Campus police say theyre following tips and leads to find out who hung bananas on nooses and marked them with aka a wellknown africanamerican sorority. And now, more frustration among several students groups of color that plan to meet with administrators. Word that the meeting wasnt happening spread very fast. Livid when i woke up to the text this morning. It was all caps. Inning not believe they cancelled on us. This is ridiculous. Reporter a University Spokesperson said administrators wanted to include other student leaders and the timing for the meeting just didnt come together. The university invited students to a small com instead. It was not open to the media, but administrators who were there later told us they are frustrated too. I had a difficult time trying to not only wrap our understanding and learning around but also to the point of taking action. Reporter capers, from the south, says au cannot stand for this. My dad called me after this incident, he went to the university of north carolina, they used to hang nooses from the trees and the fact that this is happening now, you know, and he went to college in the 80s is just crazy. Its just disheartening. Reporter Kristen Wright, news4. Meanwhile for the first time we are now hearing from the young woman targeted in mondays acts of hate. Her name is taylor dumpson, shes au Student Government president. Shes the first black woman to hold that role and just moments ago she spoke to our wendy rieger. Shes an extremely poised, bright you africanamerican woman president of the Student Government would come with a lot of challenges. She admit she wasnt expecting these hateful acts as we all saw on monday. She is crediting her parents with teaching her how to be a leader and now is her time to rise to the occasion. They raised me for times like this because they recognize that we did not grow up in a post Racial Society and there were going to be situations where i would have to stand my own and they were very much prepared for that. They prepared me for that from a young age. This is a time to let that shine and let that show. Reporter what would you stay to those students who say theyre out of here . As a student who their freshman here who wanted to transfer, i can speak to this on a very personal and real level that staying here was one of the best decisions i ever made because at the end of the day going through the adversity that i faced in the past three years has molded me into the person i am and the leader im becoming. I wouldnt wish this any other place because i dont think i would truly b now if it werent for this university. Shes from maryland. She is studying law. Shes pleased with the universitys response and she feels supported. She also said that at 2 00 tomorrow afternoon there is a meeting at the mary gradon center. A meeting for everyone on campus and anyone in the public that wants to attend. They want to have a dialogue and listen to people and have people listen to them. She certainly sounds like shes got leadership qualities. Quite impressive. S she really is. Its been five days now since an inmate escaped from custody in maryland and police think theyre closing in. Somebody reported seeing a suspicious man around the Clifton PerkinsHospital Center in jessup. Thats where the prisoner imagined to break free. Chris gordon joins us live with the renewed search, any progress . Reporter there is some re about that 911 call, a local employee made to Police Reporting that he saw someone he didnt recognize wearing a white hard hat and vest here along dorsey run road. Police arrived to discover that a hard hat and safety vest had been stolen from the Storage Building about a mile away. Police ramped up this manhunt after a caller reported seeing a man behind a building. The man ran when he was spotted. Police believed that man is escaped prisoner david watson. We established a per rimer immediately upon learning that there was a siting in the area and we are confident that we are in the place where he was last spotted and most recent to be known that he was here. Reporter a helicopter flies above the woods around Clifton Perkins hospital. Todays search was propriempteda single uncorn firmed report. When he got Corrections Officers since friday who transported him to the perkins Psychiatric Hospital for evaluation. Watson faces charges. Hes serving a sentence of 100 years in delaware for attempted murder. Theres a reward for watson who has distinctive tattoos on his face, neck and body. Today at this nearby 711 a customer thought she spotted watson. A saw a white gentleman with tattoos. He was a skinny guy. Jessup Elementary School spent the day on lockdown with all activities kept inside. Police found what they call a nesting place, a place where someone may have stayed in the woods because of bedding found there. Police search near train tracks along a creek bed where footprints were found. Police open Manhole Covers searching drains and tunnels. When we have him in custody we will be 100 confident of his location. Until then we are going to continue to search until we find Reporter Police say they are following up every tip they receive thats the latest live in jessup. Back to you. Thank you. Unusual passionate testimony today from former fbi director james comey, the fbi director now when he tried to explain the most controversial letter he has ever sent. That letter informed the House Oversight committee that he was reopening the Hillary Clinton email investigation just before the president ial election. Comey has appeared countless times before congress. Hes known in part for his low key responses to tough questions. Not today. When he defended his handling of the clinton investigation. Why didnt you just do the investigation as you would normally with no public announcement . I stared at speak and conceal. Speak would be really bad. Theres an election in 11 days. Lordy that would be really bad. Concealing in my view would be catastrophic. This is terrible. It makes me mildly nauseous to think t some impact on the election, honestly it wouldnt change the decision. Democratic senators pointed out that the fbi was investigating the Trump Campaign at the time but did not disclose that. Director comey noted that he did not comment publicly on the clinton investigation until it had been underway for several months. The senate has until friday to approve the spending plan that would remove the threat of a Government Shutdown through september but the focus right now is on the health care fight on both ends of pennsylvania avenue. Blayne alexander is live with the latest details. This story keeps evolving. Reporter the white house insists and has continued to insist that President Trump is not forcing a vote on health care and says the gop leaders will only go when they feel they can win. Today new life for health care reform. Two key republicans announced they have flipped to a yes after an Oval Office MeetingPresident Trump. He said that this bill would be just as strong on preexisting illnesses as obamacare. I want him to keep that pledge. Reporter congressman fred upton offered the amendment that could be a game changer, setting aside 8 billion to ease insurance costs for those with preexisting conditions. Democrats say thats not enough. It will make it impossible for millions of americans to afford the Health Coverage they desperately need. This is deadly. Reporter the bill would dismantle obamacare but republican supporters promised to keep the most popular parts. Coverage for people up to age 26 on their parents plan, check. No discrimination based on gender, check. The nays are 118. Reporter also on the house floor a vote to keep the government funded through the end of september. The trillion dollars spending bill agreed on by both sides but ending in a political fight oefrt border wall and whether President Trump got the money wanted. There are various types of walls that can be built under the legislation that was just passed. It allows us to do that. Reporter 1. 5 billion earmarked for Border Security not the wall itself. Lawmakers working together to keep the government open while still arguing over which side got the best of the deal. Blayne alexander, nbc news, washington. Have you seen the Jefferson Memorial lately . Theres still mold on top of it. The situation so bad scrubbing it off is just not working. The extreme measures now being taken to got it off for good. A 27yearold man is gunned down at this Prince Georges County gas station while filling up his tank. Coming up, here from a close family friend. And we are looking at a Beautiful Day out here across the area on our wednesday, plenty of sunshine, but look at this storm right here making its way into the Center Portion of the country. This storm will change our weather for weeks. Youre updated forecast, ill see y narrator the time is always right to do what is right. Ralph northam. Army doctor during the gulf war. Volunteer director of a pediatric hospice. Progressive democrat. In the senate, he passed the smoking ban in restaurants, stopped the transvaginal ultrasound antichoice law, and stood up to the nra. As lieutenant governor, dr. Northam is fighting to expand access to affordable healthcare. Ralph northam believes in making progress every day. And he wont let donald trump stop us. Hey allergy muddlers are you one sneeze away from being voted out of the carpool . Try zyrtec® zyrtec® starts working hard at hour one and works twice as hard when you take it again the next day. Stick with zyrtec®. Muddle no more®. Try rhinocort® allergy spray for powerful nasal allergy relief. He stopped at his neighborhood gas station and was shot and killed by somebody trying to rob him at the pump. Police say wayne pope was targeted at random and the gunman is still o megan is there with reaction. Reporter we spoke with a next door neighbor who says hes known wayne pope for the last two decades. He describes him ads a nice guy who will be missed by many. We talked about going fishing again real soon. Reporter Cecil Watkins has known 27yearold wayne pope since was 7 years old. He says he was a good man who would always swing bit neighborhood to visit his mom. His mother was very attentive to him. She loved her son and i believe he loved her. Reporter but now shes grieving. Prince georges county police were called to this exxon station on silver hill road just after midnight. They say pope had gotten out of his car to fill up his tank when he was approached by a man with a gun. Detectives believe the suspect was trying to rob the victim. During that struggle ensued and the suspect shot the victim killing him reporter investigators spent hours on scene collecting evidence, trying to determine who killed wayne pope. Now Police Believe this suspect was in his teens or his 20s. They say he was last seen with a black backpack. Theyre asking anyone with information about this murder to contact them right away. Thank you. We have new information tonight about that family under fire for posting videos on youtube that many say show them abusing their children. Want to play games . Lets play games lets play seems abusive at it right now. Thats mike martin appearing to smash his sons xbox. Someone else eventually comes in to show the boy its just a prank. The martins claim the kids are in on the joke. Their biological mother says show physical and mental abuse. She has emergency custody of the kids a on her lawyers youtube page. Its going to take a lot of counseling to help him. Family counseling to get us all back on track. Its a close tight knit family. Now the martins posted an apologize on youtube and say theyre also going to counseling now. Theres another hearing this friday. Its up to a judge to decide who gets custody. As most of us were sleeping last night or commuting to work this morning, police were standing guard as a tribute to fallen officers. They took turns standing watch as the Montgomery CountyPublic Safety memorial its for the counties 20 Fallen Police men and women are remembered. They recognize offers from the Montgomery County police department, park police and the sheriffs office. The 24 hour vigil began tuesday and ended this morning with a special ceremony. Were respect and some happiness as well to remember them as they lived. National police week begins on may 14th but jurisdictions across the country will hold memorials throughout the month of may to honor those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice. When we come right back on news4 at 6 00 tonight. The new move in maryland to limit how much time your kids spend taking tests. She pleaded guilty here at Fairfax County court to driving drunk and crashing into the chief of police. Just ahead on news4 youre going to hear from the chief on that case. He also opens up about some new results when it comes to a unit within the department that fios is not cable. Were wired differently. Maybe thats why weve been ranked highest in Customer Satisfaction by jd power 4 years in a row. And now you can love fios too. Get 150 meg internet, tv and phone. With a twoyear agreement. Its the only internet with equal upload and download speeds. Cable only offers upload speeds that are a fraction of their download speeds. Plus get hbo for a year and free multiroom dvr service for two years. And Verizon Wireless customers can stream tv on the fios mobile app, datafree. Get the best. Go to getfios. Com. Have you heard news4 is going sugarfree this week . We started the challenge on monday and were documenting the experience online. Oh, yes, we are. The goal no more than 40 grams of sugar per day. Not only are we in so are our good friends on the morning team and you can say were having a bit of fun with it too. Doreen and i sent eun and aaron cupcakes while they were fast asleep. They did not cave. Allegedly they didca surprised us just about an hour ago. Take a look. Good try but your sabotage efforts are not going to work. We did not eat one cupcake. We know you were in on this too, doreen. Check your head sets out in the hallway. We used the cupcakes for target practice. I hope you enjoy those pizza which are loaded with sugar. We have another little surprise for you. Take a look. And here we are. Courtesy of your favorite barista. Are you kidding me . These are worse than pizzas. These are wicked. Theyre ice cold. These are mermaid frappuccinos. Does your daughter like these . What is that . I hear your will power crumbling, handly in the face of this deliciousness. I can resist. I can resist. You know, how much sugar is in there . Im about to drop my entire no sugar bout and swoop it up. If i was going to have the sugar in have a pint of ben jerrys. Its only 50, 60 grams. Its like two days worth according to this contest. What youre saying is youre not going to do it. I can resist. I got to tell you. Thanks for the gesture. Theyre not going to give up. Aaron is very dedicated. Hes dedicated to breaking you. I heard him hes in negotiations buying a Dunkin Donuts franchise just to get you. Thats really cold. We got to get even. Yeah. Monday we can have these. Doug, hell eat anything. I would definitely i had some of that. I saved mine, guys. I saved my picture. Its a good look on you. No practice with that. Somebody did put one of these guys, i dont know who put that there. Thats my next couple of days theyre going to be a lot cooler and we are in a pattern right now thats going to be changing over the next couple of days in a very big way. Lets show you how were looking across our area. Plenty of sunshine right now. You just saw me outside a minute ago. It is simply beautiful. Look at the colors of the potomac and grass and trees. What a great time it is around the d. C. Region. 65 winds out of the northwest at 12mileperhour with all that sunshine. Temperaturewise now were at 59 in winchester, 66 frez ricksburg, 66 towards annapolis. Now were below average today but still quite nice. The last six the last seven days have been in the 70s, 80s and even the 90s. Boy is that going to change in a big way and all thanks to a storm way back to the west. Here it is right here through kansas city, through parts of st. Louis. You can see it dragging in this colder air here down towards little rock. Temperatures here are the in the they should be in the 70s too. 48 right now in st. Louis, 50 in indianapolis. Friday is warm. Then the cooler air settles on in here. First off on future weather, most of tomorrows dry if not the entire day. I was doing Facebook Live talking about this. Notice when the clouds move in around noon tomorrow, we see the clouds thickening during the late afternoon. Someone was asking about softball games tomorrow night, i think youll get those in no problem. The rain starts around 10 or 11 00. Look at the heavy rain early on friday morning. Friday mornings commute could really be delayed here right on through 10 00. Seeing some showers. They move out but then the upper level lows still allowing some showers and thunderstorms to develop during friday afternoon. So fridays going to be one of those days that really changes things on how we do things. Its been very warm. I mentioned the 60s, 70s and 90 degrees day we had a couple weeks ago. Say goodbye it sits here. It sits here for days, if not over a week. The pattern locked in place. Much cooler temperatures in there and lots of clouds too. The sunshine that weve seen over the last few days that is going by the way side. One more day tomorrow, sun early and then some cloud cover dry all day long. The rain moves in tomorrow night way high of 75 and look at these numbers here. Hard to even hit 60. Our average high in the mid70s will be about 10 to 15 degrees below average. More on the rain, the timing of it and how much youll see in your area at 6 48. My rain boots were just starting to dry out too. A glimpse into the future and were going for a test drive. Tonight how you can get paid for changing your car into a smarter vehicle. A local couple in a billing battle with the v. A. After they laid out thousands to bury unclaimed veterans. Dontel business deal and you dont hold up your end of the deal. [ female announcer ] are you one of millions of women embarrassed by hair loss or suffering from thinning hair . You have a personalized, proven solution right here. Welcome to hair club. I had my selfconfidence back. My husband was like, thats my wife. [ female announcer ] hair club offers a wide range of private, designedforyou Hair Loss Solutions, each of them proven and backed by a 100 satisfaction guarantee. Call or go online for more details. Do you realize how nice it is for someone to walk up to you and say, my god, you have the most beautiful head of hair . 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All this comes as the counties releasing new numbers on their newly launched dwi squad, our virginia reporter david culver is live now outside Police Headquarters with the surprising statistics. David . Reporter jim, in that squad you mentioned it launched late last year and as the chief of police puts it, this is essentially a squad of Nine Police Officers whose sole focus is to hunt down drunk drivers. These are the numbers we learned today. The first three months of this year they already made 128 arrests of drunk drivers. And as we learned here today as well, for the police chief, its personal. I had extreme pain in my lower back, excruciating pain from the front of out the back like an arrow. Reporter physically he says hes doing okay. Every time he passes a wreck hes reminded of this december crash. He just stopped at a red light when the car behind him plowed into him going 45 miles an hour. I got on the police radio and told dispatch ive been involved in a crash and i would check on injuries. I asked are you guys okay, and she replied, yes, were okay. Reporter police determined the other driver, Christy Edgar had been drinking. When i had her get out of the car she was stumbling around and i had to balance herself on the car. Reporter just a few weeks before the accident, Fairfax County police launched their dwi squad funded by a state grant. It targets intoxicated and drugged drivers. And those nine dedicated officers are trying to make the roadways safer for our community. Reporter 128 arrests in the first three months of this year. In march alone, the squad caught those are 50 people the squad has taken off the road in addition to what our great men and women do on a patrol daytoday. Reporter as per edgar in court today her attorney began consulting with the prosecutor. A few minutes later the defense agreed to plead guilty. Deputies took her into custody to start serving her first of ten days in jail. I hope that its a Lesson Learned that it never happens again. Reporter as he was leaving the courtroom today, i did catch up with james love. Hes the defense attorney representing edgar. He told me that on behalf of edgar this is an unfortunate situation. He says that hopefully his client is going to get some treatment adding that ultimately she just wants to put all of this behind her, jim. All right. David, thank you. More learning, less testing. Thats the mantra behind the new maryland law that takes effect june 1 rt. The state board of education now has to limit standardize testing to 2 of a classroom. Lawmakers drafted this bill after teachers, students and parents complained that after preparing cuts into classroom time. The 2 limit on testing will not include teacher developed quizzes or advanced placement assessments. We told you about that black mysterious mold spreading all over the thomas Jefferson Memorial. News4 has learned their finally may be a new way to fix the problem. Tom sherwood shows us how the high tech scrub down is going to work all null at 6 00. Reporter the title basin seen for a zilion photographs, in the distance the Jefferson Memorial gleaming in the new day sun, gleaming except for the mold over the year that spread all over the exterior surface. The tourists noticed. Did you even notice it until i told you how ugly it was. I did notice it but i thought that it might have been chipping on the paint. Reporter its not paint and its been hard agents that wont damage the stone work. News4 called in u. S. Park Service Spokesman for surprising update. Last august the park service was searching for chemical cleaning agents. We got literally hundreds of responses of offers of products and assistance. Reporter but none were safe enough for the 75yearold stone work. Now the park service is seeking bids from firms that can do high tech laser cleaning. Its a huge project and of course we dont know what it looks like until we actually evaluate all the bid proposals weve got. Reporter the laser deep clean suggests maybe its a space age cleaningup. I would like to think its going to be something sexy Like Star Wars storm troopers or sharks with laser beams. Reporter it wont be that exciting and the cost not confirmed yet, just know it wont be cheap. In the district, tom sher news4. Facebook is now hiring thousands of new workers. How this move will impact what shows up in your feed . New Car Technology is amazing and what it can do. Here in Fairfax County today were taking a look at some of that like avoiding a collision. What your car can now talk to the other car about . Im adam tuss, well explain t explain it all coming up. I just heard it down there sharks with lasers on their heads, how about that . Pretty cool story there. As far as our weather, cool too but in a much different way. Real cool as far as temperatures go. My forecast ill see you back here in Award Winning interface. Award winning design. Award winning engine. The volvo xc90. The most awarded luxury suv of the century. Facebook is bringing in reinforcements to help crackdown on user content. The big move is in response of high profile incidents of people sharing video of murders and sue sides. Its hiring about as monitors to scrub its sites for questionable content. Ceo Mark Zuckerberg said today the rfr will help remove things like hate speech and child exploitation. Fairfax county says it is on the cutting edge when it comes to selfdriving cars and the county wants to leave the selfdriving car revolution. Today some of the latest technology was on display in fairfax. Our transportation reporter adam tuss went along for the ride. Reporter cars that can talk to one another. Car braking ahead. Warning. Reporter and cars that can talk to the road. Road work ahead. Reporter thats where were headed in the coming years but today, this technology on display on a closed course. One of the Amazing Things about cars these days is theyre starting to be able to talk to one another. This car is now going to be able to talk to a car that it almost hits. Lets show you how this works. Were going to go at a high rate of warning, so do we, the car goes by, no collision. Its going to do a flashing sequence that indicates it recognizes us. Reporter sensing a car ahead thats stopping fast and being able to react. Hes going to hit his brakes hard well be notified here. Car braking ahead. Tolling that weve grown. Reporter here in Fairfax County the push is for real world information that can make our trips better. Researchers continue to use the county as a testing ground. Its sort of makes sense of Fairfax County has been an i. T. Leader. Reporter you may not know but some major routes are already equipped with technology that can share information with selected cars. Its on interstate 66, a portion of 66 and the parallel routes of 29 and 50. We also have a few devices on route 7. Reporter you can also allow groups like Virginia Tech to fully wire your up to 300 bucks per month for. Just check their website. In Fairfax County, adam tuss, news4. Also tonight a billing battle, jody flesher and the iteam have a look at whats coming up next. More trouble for the v. A. As the news4 iteam uncovered thousands owed to a local couple that paid to bury unclaimed veterans. They have a lot for what theyre doing but unfortunately, love wont pay the grocery bill. We cut thr are you one sneeze away from being voted out of the carpool . Try zyrtec® its starts working hard at hour one and works twice as hard when you take it again the next day. Stick with zyrtec® and muddle no more®. Dont tell me were in a business deal and then you dont hold up your end of the deal. The v. A. Medical couple to bury veterans who died and they were still owed thousands of dollars with the v. A. Refusing to pay up. That is until the news4 iteam started asking some questions. Jody fliesher is here with what took so long and why the couple called the delay to those vets. Were talking about a military family with three generations of service, so when asked to perform burials and arrange fun ralz the mason were proud to do it but after laying out thousands of their own money they were instead buried in red tape when they tried to collect. Reporter its an honor earned by every deserving veteran, even those whose families cant afford it or arent around to say goodbye. When you hear the bugle off in the distance there tear comes to your eye. Reporter sometimes roger and Christina Mason are the only ones there to see it or accept the folded flag. And i think about it reporter that affected you. A lot because of my own children and grandchildren, just because they serve this country. Reporter roger mason has been in the funeral business for 30 years and in 2015 washington, d. C. V. A. s center asked him if he could bury veterans who died there and they were unclaimed. There wasnt even a question. I can see what scars they may have from war, so i can imagine what they went through. The veteran deserves this. Reporter veterans like harry actualson who may not have been surrounded by his own family in later years but had developed a church family. Very colorful guy. Always talking, a a conversation with a stranger. Reporter the pastor calls mr. Tulson smart and opinionated. His kenlworth neighborhoods called him the mayor because he talked so much about politics. We loved him. One of the hardest home goings of the church. Reporter the pastor say the macens were a huge part of making that happen. I thought it was awesome. They have a love for what theyre doing but unfortunately, love wont pay the grocery bill. Reporter in the last two years the masons have picked up eight veterans, prepared their remains, purchased cassets and arranged a ceremony. They kept performing Services Even as the bills were raking up and the v. A. Wasnt paying. Put us behind a little bit. Im sure theres some firms out there who would just say were not getting paid were not doing it. Reporter but cristina but the principal. I would do it knowing that i wasnt getting paid for. I would bury the soldier. But dont tell me were in a business deal and then you dont hold up your end of the deal. Thats different. Reporter the couple spent months mired in paper work on phone calls even inperson pleading for their payments. We get run around instead of getting an answer. Reporter for thor short of a few partial payments, theyre still waiting on roughly 16,000. These guys protected your country, they gave up their lives, they gave up their body parts. Im very disappointed in the v. A. That now you wont take care of your own. Reporter the news4 iteam spent weeks tracking down who was responsible for the payments to the masons calling multiple agencies to find out what led to the hold up. After we started asking questions, the voys were suddenly approved. A v. A. Spokesman said the monies on its way. Its something that should be addressed. Reporter despite the billing battley again. They deserved to be buried. They deserve this honor. The assistant director of d. C. s v. A. Told me those Funeral Services should have been hired through a contract using a Competitive Bidding process. He wasnt sure why that procedure wasnt followed but said it would be Going Forward to keep this from happening again. And were happy to report, this afternoon, the masons finally received their money from the v. A. That was a lot of money. It was. To read more about our investigation visit the nbc washington app there you can also send the iteam any tips youd like us to investigate. Thank you, jody. Doug, is back with more about our weather and more about this big ole downpour were looking at tomorrow night . Tomorrow night and into friday morning. Friday morning, not good hair day, thats friday morning when you step out the door because thats rain going to be coming down. Not only not a good hair day or driving conditions either. Right here. This is just a beautiful shot out there down towards national harbor, perfect conditions. Wouldnt it be great to be on the capital will right now. Look at the potomac. We got winds over 25mileperhour right now. Those winds beginning to die down now. Weather twin brook coming in at 65. 64 in centreville. That rains not coming till tomorrow from a system thats back to the west. Its only 49 degrees in st. Louis right now with rain. That is nasty and were going to see that rain move our way. 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