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WRC News4 Midday March 10, 2015

Ill be updating you throughout the morning here letting you know whats going on. Right now a group called d. C. Fen tack ticks. The Group Says Police unfairly target minorities during police stops. Police have died those allegations alts the police chief saying about all of this . Reporter well barbara, we have yet to hear from the chief. Shes expected to point today. Shes about the 18th speaker on the list so it will be awhile before we get to that. The meeting just started an hour ago. There are several protesters inside the Council Chamber anxious to hear what the police chief has to say. They are questioning a police outs. This is when a team of Police Officers inside a vehicle jump out to approach someone they believe may be involved in some kind of criminal activity. The protesters that group d. C. Ferguson says these jump outs target africanamericans. The police chief has gone on the record before saying this tactic is outdated that it it is not currently used within the department. Some of the people that are speaking at the hearing today argue thats not the case that this still happens today. Thats the big issue that is coming before this oversight committee. So we will hear from police chief at some point today addressing these allegations. She will address them, somethingre were also hearing from demonstrators that have gathered sayi has not forthright with the public. So mark will have more on this throughout the day here on news 4. Reporting live Richard Jordan news 4. Thank you, richard. And new tha tacoma park man is in serious condition after he breathed in too much carbon monoxide. He was going into seizetures in a home around 7 00 this this morning. They rescued him a. E wom is expected to be okay. And Prince Georges County crews are working to fix a broken water main. It should be repaired by noon today. The main broke early this morning. Crews shut down two lanes on northbound route 1 just north of the beltway in college park. And right now were working to find out what d. C. Police discovered during a hazmat investigation in upper northwest d. C. You can see the big response in this video. E fou containers with a syrupy white substance in a home on northwest. Thats near connecticut avenue and military road. No one was hurt. This is whats left of a tractortrailer that caused a train cash in north carolina. A train traveling to d. C. And then heading to new york yesterday hit the tractortrailer stuck on the tracks. One of the trains cars toppled over. Federal Authorities Say 60 people were hurt. Members of the farmer family were hg break. At impact we were thrown all over the place. This is the third serious commuter train crash in less than two months. Two deadly crashes in new york and california last month killed a total of 7 people and injured 30. Right now Montgomery County police are asking for your help to find a missing man. We put his picture and information on the our website so you can share it to help spread the news. The 67yearold was last seen just before 7 00 last night. His familys worry edied because he has dee immediately. Taking a look outside right now, the rain coming down in parts of our region. Meteorologist chuck bell joins us with how long the rain is going to last. Good morning, barbara and good morning, everyone. The cloudy skies have moved in over the last couple hours and rain drops have reached many neighborhoods here as of the 11 00 hour. This trend will continue through the lunch hour is and into this afternoon. A big area of rain just out to the west and southwest is pushing ever north and eastward. So rain drops just coming inside the capital beltway. Light rain along i95 fromwood bridge to fredericksburg. Still on the dry side but not for long. Have your umbrellas ready to go. Temperatures made it into the upper 40s in most neighborhoods to 50 in washington right now. And your hour by hour planner for the remainder ofs 50s. Showers off to the south for the next hour or so. Showers for everybody before turning to rain by 6 00. Moderate rain coming our way for this evening and into the overnight hours tonight. A steady rain is moving in. Still no cold air in sight. Well have your forecast in a few minutes to talk about a limited amount of weekend sunshine. See you soon. New an news 4 midday u. S. Representative Donna Edwards is officially running for the senate. Take a look at this. She launched a campaign web page and released this video on youtube this morning. Edwards represents parts of Prince Georges County in the u. S. House right now. Shes running because mikulski is retiring next year. If youre on twitter, you may see the hash tag notonourcampus today. They are using to to protest the racial video from members of one of their fraternities opinion the Fraternity Suspended its its members have to leav house by the end of this day. Ou says it is looking into whether of them violated the civil rights act. Its also investigating a sorority there, which it says may have been involved as well. From the live desk, monitori the Firefighters Association meeting. The messages jeb bush and jim webb are telling the group. Plus the secret Services Plan to fly drones in the dist. And were also staying on top of breaking news. D tanr has the southbound lanes of i95 shut down in maryland. Well follow that story. Well be right back. Breaking news in laurel. Chopper 4 over the scene. 95 southbound right as youre approaching the icc, this overturned tractortrailer block all southbound lanes. It is juta a sixmile backup. Heres a shot of 95 south at 198 and then take a look here. Some northbound lanes there also closed here. Alternates 29 or route 1. Right now on the phone is the Prince Georges County assistant fire chief. If you can take us through this and the process for you guys a point here. So after 10 15 or a little before we received a call for an auto accident with an overturned tractortrailer. They discovered it was leaking biodiesel on 95. Our Hazardous Material crews worked to slow down the leak that we had in that tanker and were working to contain the runoff. Additionally they are evaluating the driver for injuries. What can we expect as far as the clean up process . Something like this takes a a long time. What can you tell folks about whats happening on the ground right now the initial actions are to keep the product from going further and spread inging further. Onceco they will remove any remain remaining le liquids. Any idea of a time stamp . An idea of how long you think this will be closed . It will definitely be a few hours until we can gee complications is once you shut the roadway down it creates gridlock. We have to do some maneuvering with the traffic to get the trucks in. Paul gomez, thank you for g us. Well check back with you a couple times throughout the day. Ill take it from there. Here at the live desk we continue to monitor the International Association of l forum now happening at the Hyatt Regency in d. C. Jim webb addressed the crowd a little earlier. He just got done. We also heard from former governor jeb bush who sent in a video message. Firefighters embody the best values of our nation, service, comm and unapologetic patriotism. I stand before you as a lifetime union member. Committed supporter of collective bargaining rights. Both webb and bush there are thinking seriously about a r governor Martin Omalley takes the podium this afternoon. New this morning, were learning more about the secret Services Plan to fly drones over d. C. Apparently the operation is intended to find ways to find ways to interfere with rogue drones. Just last month a man crashed a drone on the south lawn of house. Consumer level drones are powerful enough to carry small amounts of explosives. The drones will be flown between 1 00 a. M. And 4 00 a. M. Over the next few weeks. And were staying on top of that breaking news. An overturned tanker has the southbound lanes of i95 shut down in laurel, maryland. Melissa mollet t that crash. Well bring you more, stay w. Breaking news once again in laurel. 95 southbound at the icc, overturned tractortrailer with a large biodiesel fuel spill. They are trying to handle that now. Lots of crews on the scene. Taking a look at the gridlock. 95 south just a mess. They are trying to push everybody off on to 198. We have a sixmile backup. Northbound also slow in spots. Your alternate is 29 or route 1. Going to be updateingen you on this it throughoute going to check in with angie with a developing story at the live desk. Whats happening . Right now, we want to take you live to the National Cathedral where the Funeral Service for the cardinal has begun. John kerry just stepped up to the pulpit sharing some words. And Eleanor Norton will be speaking as well today. Brook was the countrys first black senator. He died on saturday. He represented massachusetts, but he grew up around this area. Actually he graduated from y so a lot of family and friends there to pay their respects today as well. Thank you. President obama is on the road to promote affordable education. Hes heading to atlanta to promote his u Americas College Promise Initiative at georgia tech. The Program Allows tf commu to students who qualify. He will also announce a student aid bill of rights encourage agencies to help young people repay their student death debts as w we learned that former secretary of state Hillary Clinton will answer questions about the current email controversy. Joining us is Political Editor for nbc news mark murray. First, let me ask you about the announcement by Donna Edwards as shes going to seek the senate seat. Its not a surprise. We have Chris Van Hollen and Donna Edwards. The question is who else gets in the contest . A twoontwo this oneonone race would be interesting. If you see more folks get in that could tilt the balance of power to one or two of these and make them the favorite in the contest. Would you have expected anyone to have announced this quickly after mikulskis announcement . You have to get your ducks in a row right away. Hillary clinton has not l so far but shes expected to this afternoon. To me its going to be more interesting on the questions that she ends up getting and the answers that she gives arent going to be as important as the action Going Forward. In a lot of ways her being able to say heres how people can get access to my e emails to know i wasnt hiding email from congressional folk investigators or anyone else. By doing Something Like turning over her server to the state department and saying here is a fair arbiter of the emails, she can allow starting her defenders and democrats to say Hillary Clinton is taking action to put this in her rear view mirror. Im going to be looking forward to the actions shes proposing. Some people have suggested she turn over her server. You think thats in the cards . So shes taking action that satisfys peoples curiosity about the emails. She ha emails. The question is are there other emails that she hasnt turned over . How did she do in the nbc poll . Democrats universally are backing her. 86 will support her bid for the presidency. Only 13 say they wouldnt. Almost universal support from democrats. So winning over democrats isnt her problem. Well talk tomorrow about hows faired. For more from mark and the rest of the nbc News Political Team check out first read on nbcnews. Com. In just about an hour a Bipartisan Group of senators are expected to take a big step forward for medical marijuana in the u. S. Three senators will introduce a bill to end the federal prohibition on medical marijuana. Patients doctors and businesses in states that have already legalize ued medical marijuana could then participate without fear of federal prosecution. Republican senator rand paul who is considering running for president is one of the bills sponsors. Mothers in virginia can now breastfeed their children in public places. The governor signed a bill into law. A mother of three helped push for that change. The law will take effect july 1st. Now there are only two states e country, idaho and south dakota where mom cans not legally breastfeed in public. Were also staying on top of breaking news. An overturned tanker has ti95 shut down in laurel maryland. Melissa mollet is staying on top of that crash and well bring you more when it comes in. Stay with us. Breaking news on 95 and maryland. We are talking about southbound lanes at the icc. This tractortrailer is across the road here. Fire rescue says they are trying to clean up the biodiesel that spilled because of this crash. All lanes shut down. Take a look at this right now. 95 south at 198 completely jammed. Same thing when youre looking at northbound lanes. Some lanes totally shut down because of this crash. Alternates will be 29 or route 1. Thank you. You s letter from a familiar company is landing in a lot of local mailbo looks like a big payout. The check is 1,995. 15. S that goodlooking check. It has my name, my address, it has my zip code on here. The check is in the mail. But shoul do about it . Tonight at 5 00, Erika Gonzalez sits down with a my quest. Its one of the latest scams targeting consumers tonight on news 4 at 5 00. If you thought entertaining yoe r sno days was a major task wait until you see this story. Harry smith has a wild tale. Reporter if you think you have had had a rough winter check this out. A bald eagle in pennsylvania provides a perfect example of parental perseverance. Deep in the nest are two eggs. No way, no how was that bird beginning to leave that spot. And to think ben franklin wanted the wild turkey to be our national symbol. As we have complained about too many snow days in the digging out of cars and driveways across the country eagles have beenht s and pesky predators. In iowa one day its an owl. On another a raccoon. Eagle parents divide the labor, both male and female take turns on the nest. And once you start wat hard to stop. Die hard eagle cam viewers are called eagleholics. The warmer weather brings hope the worst of it is over. We will look to see the eggs hatch in about two weeks. Harry smith, nbc news. Were staying on top of breaking news. An overturned tanker of i95 shut down. Melissa mollet is staying on top of this. Stay with us for more news on okay, i need a better pizza. 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So what we do is try to manage the traffic as best we can with the detour route, which is northbound 95 off on 212. You can work yourself over to route 1. They have adjusted timing to give the traffic a little more green time to facilitate a better flow. Traffic is being diverted on to maryland 198. So your best bet today is to plain and simply do not go near i95. If you have to, take the beltway around up to i70 and then head east. And maybe even 295, u. S. 1 or 295 also good detour routes. Try to avoid 95 at all costs. All right, thank you for joining us. Good information ob on the detours. Well be updating folks throughout the morning. Ri is the stand in the trial of the Boston Marathon bomber dzhokhar tsarnaev. The agent is being questioned about a r former al qaeda leader and a reference to dying young. Also in court today jurors saw images the note he wrote inside the hull of the boat where he was captured. The note said quote, there is no god but allah. Meteorologist chuck bell joins us now to talk about the rain how long is it going to be with us. Is it falling in the district . Its just starting to reach northwest washington. Theres a f drops on the camera lens. This is going to continue for the next several hours as rain continues to overspread the entire area between now and 1 00 or 2 00 this afternoon. So that big spill on i95, im sure they have the absorbing kek calls on it now. That will be important cg and fast. Reagan national a lot of the ice is starting to diminish. Good riddance to the grip of old man winter. 50 degrees at reagan national. Not much of a wind to contend tt will remain the case for the rest of the day. Temperatures in 40s in nosh maryland. 43 in front royal. 50 in washington. Thats the warm spot. 46 at clinton. 45 in st. Marys county. 41 in annapolis. Temperatures arent going to budge much. We might go up a couple degrees before the rain really starts to set until and once it does youre going to need the raincoat and boots for the rema. Need them tonight too on your tuesday night and youll need them tomorrow morning. Hometown forecast in virginia today, showers already in place. Up to 54 for a high today. Temperatures in the mid40s. Rain ending early tomorrow morning and mi60s. Look at that big fetch of moisture out of the gulf of mexico pointed straight into the deep south and parts of the ohio valley. Thats coming our way. Rain is moving into atlanta. If youre changing planes later have a delay o or

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