Transcripts For WRC News4 Midday 20161028 : comparemela.com

Transcripts For WRC News4 Midday 20161028

Breaking news out of metro, news4s transportation reporter adam tuss broke the story 30 minutes ago. The Transportation Agency is eliminating 100 jobs. The positions being impacted include management and employees represented by a union. Metro general manager Paul Wiedefeld has hinted in previous days of tough decisions that are coming because of the budget gap. The employees impacted today and are represend be able to apply for other jobs within the transit agency. News4s Melissa Millay is at the live desk with more. From the live desk, two people hurt in a csx train accident. Take a look at the video just in. Heres what we know. This collision took place at a track interlocking in chester, pennsylvania, theyre still obviously on that train and are going to be there for some time. The train was traveling from headed from canada to atlanta. A total of four employees were on these two different trains here. Two of them again had to be taken to the hospital. No word at this point on their injuries. As soon as we get any more information about this train accident well let you know. Barbara . Thanks, melissa. Well today Vice President ial candidate mike pence returns to the campaign trail after a rough landing in new york. It was raining outside when the indiana Governors Campaign laguardia. More than 40 people were on board, but no one was hurt. The governor spoke on the today show saying he was grateful to everyone who has reached out. It was ten seconds of uncertainty. As the plane came down and weve just been so moved by the outpouring of concern and prayers, but were all fine and ready to hit the campaign trail again today. It seemed like the First Responders were literally around the airplane before it came to a plane recorded the rough landing. Passengers say they felt the pilot slam on the brakes and could smell burning rubber. Planes were prevented from landing or taking off at that airport for about an hour. Theres no time for the candidates to slow down ahead of election day. America heads to the polls in 11 days. Its a busy weekend for the candidates and their teams. Pence is expected to make stops in pennsylvania and North Carolina today. Trump has rallies in New Hampshire an Hillary Clinton will be in iowa. And former president bill clinton will make several stops across pennsylvania. No snow on the ground yet, but one agency is getting a head start on precautions and preparations, Prince Georges County firms are hitting the streets this morning. Its kind of fun on this dry run. There on the front. All of this part of the countys efforts to make sure they know how and what to expect to clear those roads on a real snow day. The roads are clear on this morning. Our driver, vanessa, has her hands firmly on the wheel of a big plow truck and at any moment shes ready to push the salt button. It comes out frash to treat the roads. Shes been at this in these trucks r drive a snowplow. Her plow is ready at any moment. On this dry run shes looking for potholes, manholes, anything that could be in the way along the route. Her biggest issue, though, on a real snow day people in her way. Staying out of the way. Pedestrians staying out of the way. The dry run of drivers, roads, is their road map to success. Really big deal and the key is to prepare. To be prepared before the winter season begins. When it snows, we want our roads to be cleared as soon as possible. And thats why this check that happens before sunrise is so important. So that the 150 drivers today checking their routes know what to expect when the real snow starts to fall. News4. We are actually going to warm up for this weekend. Lets check in now with storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell. Good morning, barbara. Our camera, out here, tower camera doing the shimmy shimmy shake on a strong northwesterly wind this morning and into the afternoon. Current wind speeds, 25 Miles Per Hour down at national airport. So quite a breeze out there today. Temperaturewise, were going to stay on the cool side of average today. Only to the upper 50s, maybe skies are mostly clear, theyll be Crystal Clear for your friday evening plans. Temperatures into the mid 40s by 11 00 tonight. Something is coming up on monday, hashtag bekind. Can you read those, barbara . Be kind. Thats great. I could not read it. Ill get my glasses. It will be clearer on social media. Developing this morning, d. C. Police are trying to track down a man they say stole an officers gun. Library closing up at the Dorothy Height benning neighborhood last night. The man went up to the officer, stole his gun and radio. The library is opening for early voting today. The search continues for two suspects allegedly involved in a sexual assault. Police say it happened in the Falls Church Area of Fairfax County late saturday night. The 50yearold woman didnt know her attackers. Were told the woman and restaurant. She said she was assaulted inside a van and threatened with a gun. The victim was forced outside of the van along route 50. The man accused of brutally murdering a d. C. Family and setting their home on fire will be in the court. It was one of the biggest stories in our care when it broke in may of 2015, daron wint is accused of killing this couple, their child and their housekeeper at a mansion in northwest d. C. D. C. Police charged wint with the help of a dna from a slice of pizza that was found at the scene. Wint pleaded not guilty to 20 felony charges earlier this year. Metro track safetrack surges phase 10 will be under way. For 24 days there will be no noma gallday. The Marine Corps Marathon is only days away, news4s Megan Mcgrath joins us live from clarendon. Of course the Marine Corps Marathon is on national harbor. But through a special promotion, some folks are picking up their pain work here and numbers at pacers world in arlington. Runners, metro is not opening early on sunday. So youre going to have to make arrangements, if you live or work along the marathon route, there will be lots of road closures. Number and packet at Pacers Running this morning, he came from st. Louis to run the Marine Corps Marathon and hes ready to go. Ive done new york and chicago and this is next up. The weather is going to be great and im excited to see all the monuments. 30,000 runners are participating. All hoping to go the distance. But for this years Marine Corps Marathon getting there may prove to be a challenge, too. Unlike previous years, metro will not be ferry runners to the starting line. And phase 10 of safetrack means the brookland and rhode island avenue stations on the red line will be closed. Heather jaf is is running this year, while she lives nearby, she wishes metro could be more accommodating to the thousands of people who dont. I know metro is having trouble. I wouldnt want to be in charge of metro for sure. But it will be really nice if they could accommodate the people who need it. Be mindful of road and bridge closures. There will be a lot of them. Just look at the map. Busy sections of arlington and d. C. Will be affected. So you have to plan ahead. Well i work in georgetown, so it will make it a little more difficult for me to get into the office. I dont know which roads will be closed, ill have to make do with whatever it is. And to move people around, theyre going to be a shuttle buses and there are going to be kiss and run dropoff areas and uber zones. We have a complete list, everything you need to know on our app, nbc washington app. And were expecting to learn more about the Transportation Plan and how people with get around after a press conference at 12 00 p. M. This afternoon. Back to you. News4s jim hanley will be at the marathon for the start and finish. Are at the race, join us at mile marker number 4 to cheer on the runners. These guys only have a couple of days to get their game faces on, the redskins are in london for their royal road trip. Youre looking at new video of the Team Practicing today in london. Theyre taking on the a 9 30 a. M. Game. When they got into heathrow this morning about 2 30 fans were there waiting for them. I mean ive been following this team since before i could walk. Ive been going to games my whole life and flew you know thousands of miles to come see them. I dont know if we get this kind of opportunity to see the guys, how often do you get the chance to walk past kirk cousins in the street. The players stuck around, signed autographs, took pictures all kinds of stuff on social media how excited they are, photos with fans and a video of somebody sleeping. Our favorite one is the video of kirk cousins that you see there in multiple corners, hes asking, are you fond of that . Instead of, you like that, you like that you can check that out on social media. We wish them luck. But were watching a developing story out of north dakota. Police in riot gear using pepper spray and firingff protesters are demanding. Plus a small glimmer of hope of the residents of a Prince Georges County condo development. The effort to keep them in their homes even after power and gas were cut to that development. And a celebration at the National Museum of african art. Hear from the director of the fios is not cable. Were wired differently. So we wired the wagners house with 100 meg internet. Which means in the time it takes mr. Wagner to pour a 20 oz. Cup of coffee, tommy can download 30 songs, and jan can upload 120 photos. Hurry, our best offer ever ends soon. Police in riot gear used pepper spray and fired bean bags at protesters who are rallies against a pipeline. The Dakota Access pipeline is being protested against, Police Arrested 141 protesters yesterday. They say the protesters lit fires, threw rocks and one fired Chandra Levys mom said she wont read gary condits new book. She reacted to the claims that condit never had a relationship with her daughter. It wasnt a madeup thing, they werent just good friends, i know otherwise, because i did talk to my daughter. And i found out who she was dating. Secreve condit was once a suspect in levys disappearance, but eventually was cleared. This year prosecutors dropped charges to retry ingmar guandike. It will be a cold and dark weekend at the lynnhill condos, today. But theres still no power, theres no gas there. Its been shot off until the Condo Association finds a way po pay Utility Companies more than a million dollars, for now, residents struggles continue. We need some action. The lights are still out. Its cold. The gas is off. I just thank god that we have an place to sleep tonight. The Condo Association and the Utilities Companies are scheduled to meet before a leaders are working to figure out a way to get power restored before then. Well if youve never visited the smithsonians National Museum of african art youve missed some truly outstanding work from the hands of artists and craftspeople from the continent of africa. Not to be confused with the new africanamerican museum of history and culture, this museum, also on the national mall, was the first museum in the u. S. To include contemporary museum first awards dinner happening tonight are Museum Director janeta cole and marcus samuelsson. It sounds like its going to be an exciting night tonight. Whats going to happen . This is our inaugural africanamerican arts dinner. Were so honored to be able to lift up some of the most exciting and really important artists on the continent. Were also going to do something rather different, were going to honor the Ford Foundation for all of these years of doing good work around the world. Now if you want to know why, this dinner is sold out look here. Look here. Everybody knows your name. Youre a james beard awardwinning chef and youre planning the evening. Work, for the continent. For you know, Amazing Museum and its an amazing programming and im so honored to be part of it. You know. You want to tell us a little bit about what youre going to serve tonight . I know its going to be a Little Pumpkin salad with some beautiful almonds, its going to be great. Is it africanthemed . I was born in the continent and now i live in new york in the d. C. Area. Red rooster. Im going to open a restaurant here at the national harbor. But i think the food of the migration, what we consider soul food always will have a tie to the continent and thats what were going to celebrate tonight. What africanamerican culture has done not only to the world, to spread the message of what people of color can do. Its always a link whether its art, music or food back to the continent. Thats something that im excite that there are two museums with african in the name on the national mall. Tell us what the difference is . The difference that our museum has existed for 51 years. It focuses on the diverse and dynamic visual arts of africa. The new museum that weve all been waiting for, is an africanamerican history and culture museum. But as the three of us know, if theres no africa, theres no africanamerican. Absolut know, we all come from that continent. Its the only place. And after 23 and me thats where we all come from. Right. So what makes our museum so very, very special i think, is that it celebrates that commonality among us. And in a period of time when were picking at our differences, we are very proud and its sold out. Its sold out. You know. Thats fantastic. Congratulations and thanks for coming by to tell us all about it. All about it afterwards. Erica, back to you. Thank you so much. Take a look in just a matter of hours, huge crowds will be here for game three of the world series. Why tonights game has some in chicago in tears. And get ready for a weekend warmup. Chuck is back with how high the . Ill get you dancing. . . To the diggy diggy diggity do. . . This is my town. If you dont know now you know. . . Do that thing that you do. . Ill get you dancing to the diggy diggy diggity do. . . This is my town. . Save five when you spend thirty winter has arrived in parts of northern new york, causing a mess for drivers. These pictures and video were snapped yesterday afternoon. Authorities in Saratoga County say they responded to more than 100 calls for disabled or crashed vehicles. We are in october. Look at that. Thats not that unusual for them. Wow. Is that lakeeffect snow in that area . No, that was just simply cold air stuck down at the ground and moisture. The rain we had yesterday, the same moisture ran up into new england and the cold air wasnt able to get scoured out in time. As a result, snow. Thats not unusual for them. Had it been columbus day, two weeks ago it would have been a little early. But the late part of october trickortreating in the snow . Man. My mom and dad grew newspaper massachusetts and my mom many years back in the 50s when she was a kid. I grew newspaper georgia, i dont know about that the and we dont have anything in the way of snow around here. Just beautiful sunshine. Hardly even a cloud to be found out there. The only knock on today is that its quite a bit breezy. Our october here we are, a couple days from the end of the month weve only had six days the entire month that have been cooler than average. Eight days that have been 75 or higher. We have a shot at least one, maybe two more of those in that entire month. We should have had almost three inches of rain. So quite a dry month. It is now 57 in washington, but theres the story. Northwest wind at 25 Miles Per Hour. Keeping it a little on the cool side. Were in the mid to upper 50s now, not much of a rise in temperatures left for us today. Upper 50s and low 60s. There goes the departing snow, still snowing across parts of the high spots in New Hampshire and vermont. For us, a chilly northwesterly dont you worry, tomorrow well be up in the 70s, pushing 80 degrees by sunday and maybe another 80 coming up next week. 10day forecast coming up. Eight and a half hours from now, two teams will take on baseballs biggest stage in one of the most historic ballparks, the chicago cubs are hosting a World Series Game at Wrigley Field for the first time in d party for 71 years. Cub fans finally getting their chance to host another world series. It is absolutely about time. Its been about time for a long time. A really long time. In fact no two teams have waited longer between world series wins. The indians havent won a championship in 68 years. For the cubs . Powerful number for the cubs. Consider this, there are 108 stitches in a baseball. The foul poles at Wrigley Field are 108 meters from home plate. The last two cubs to enter the hall of fame, ron santo and andre dawson . Numbers 10 and 8. Others say a chicago win is in the stars. Well the sun is 108 times larger than the earth. The distance between the sun and earth is 108 times the diameter of the sun. Distance between the earth is 108 times the diameter of the moon. The first manned space flight around the earth was 108 minutes long. Back on earth, the World Series Game at wrigley is overwhelming. Its something to be emotional about. It turns out there is crying in baseball. Tears of joy for fans and two teams. Taking a swing at history. In the emotion. Wow. Isnt that interesting. 108, somebody actually looked all that up. That was a little too over my head. Lets let them play the game and see how it goes. Another legal hit for johnson

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