Transcripts For WRC News4 Today 20151226 : comparemela.com

Transcripts For WRC News4 Today 20151226

It is kind of foggy and ee e eerie, dare i say even a little sexy out there this morning, amelia . I agree with you, wendy. We are dragging areas of fog out in the Shenandoah Valley right now. Its damp from the rain we had yesterday. Todays the day you want to keep that small umbrella handy, scattered showers possible, really at any point. Its only going to be light activity. Heres the latest on storm team 4 radar. Most the area is dry. You can see light rain moving through far western maryland. This is continuing to advance up into pennsylvania. A wider look at the picture. You can see really no rain on the map track moving into the area. You will want to have an umbrella handy and jacket as well. It will be noticeably cooler with temperatures in the 50s throughout the day. 59 degrees is currently the temperature. As we work our way through the Morning Hours, temperatures will actually slowly fall. By 9 00 a. M. , 56. 11 00 a. M. , 55. David ill have more on record warmth returning to the area coming up in my full forecast. Amelia, well check in with you then. Thanks. A violent night after christmas in the district. There were two shootings overnight, the first in northeast. Police were called to 48th place just before 1 00 this morning. Its there they found the man. He had been shot several times. Police say hes in stable condition at this hour. No word on a suspect or motive. Around the same time, someone shot a man severalc times, thi in southwest, on 1st street. The victim is expected to be okay. Police on the lookout for two suspects. Investigators believe a white sa sedan may be involved. 11 people rescued from the collapsed mine in china. 18 are still trapped that rescue effort has been going on since early friday morning. Crew members did send down a camera and saw three miners walking around, confirmed that 11 are not in danger. They also know where the others are trapped and they have made contact with them. Pulling them out is going to be dangerous because of the risk of a secondary collapse. A magnitude 6. 9 earthquake shook parts of pakistan and afghanistan overnight. Dozens injured as walls and in some cases, entire homes, just collapsed. This is in the northern pakistan city of peshawar. 41 people were taken to area hospitals. The quake began just after midnight and lasted just under a minute. Police say they have a killer off the industries in falls church. Investigators say it started with a Christmas Eve party, ended with murder. Jackie bensen with who police say is responsible. Reporter a 911 call led police to the Falls Church Area where they found the body of Edgar Armando Serrano of annandale. When we arrived we found an individual who has died with trauma to the upper body. Were currently investigating that death. Reporter serrano was pronounced dead at the scene. Just prior to the fight, the victim had been at a Christmas Eve party at a home just around the corner an camp alger avenue. They believe 39yearold santos Narcisco Osorio chased the man down the street and attacked him with a sharp object. They suspected early on that the two knew each other. Investigators need the publics help with information about this beimb. Anyone with information is asked to call Fairfax County police. In falls church, jackie bensen, news 4. A driver going the wrong way on the beltway killed a man on Christmas Day. I victim was from ft. Washington. Maryland state police say the man was driving the wrong way on the interloop and ran head on into moreno dunns car. Paramedics air lifted the other driver to the hospital. Engine related problems forced a plane from virginia to return to rochester, new york. The faa says commute air flight 8535 declared an emergency around 3 00 just after takeoff on friday. The plane had been heading to washington dulles airport. The faa is investigating this morning. A developing story this morning. 15 people are dead after storms and tornadoes slammed several southern states. The deadly storm swept through mississippi, tennessee and alabama yesterday. Nbcs mark pot per has the latest on the cleanup. Reporter in holly springs, mississippi, families spent Christmas Day trying to salvage what they could. The grinch who stole christmas. But spared our lives. Reporter the season of giving took on new meaning in this community. Merry christmas to you. With donations pouring in, christmas toys along with food and clothing. We came out with the clothes we had on our backs. When something happens like this, we all come together and make sure everybody is taken care of. Reporter around clarksdale, as many as 20 homes are gone. My heart goes out to these people. Theyre in pain and it hurts me to see them suffer. Reporter so far, 14 people are confirmed dead across three states. The youngest was 7yearold nicholas pulmori who was killed in mississippi. Theres a parent out there who doesnt have their kid. Reporter max and Ellen Croxton died in her home, their daughter took to ajebook, adding i know i will see them again one day. It doesnt make the heartache any less painful. In tennessee, 70yearold antonio and his 69yearold wife annie were killed. Three teenagers also died in that state. The warm weather system that spawned these twist ares are blame for the torrential rain in georgia. Thats our picnic table thats on the deck. Reporter that trapped dozens in their homes. In alabama several families had to be rescued and millions are bracing for more flash floods through the night. Mark potter, nbc news. At 6 07, today a first of its kind interfaith celebration happening in the district. Celebration of the birth of jesus and the Prophet Muhammad will take place today. That happens on the steps of the lincoln memorial, kicking off at 1 00 this afternoon. A 3yearold American Girl wandered away from her familys hotel in austria Christmas Eve. Police were able to locate her parents but get a load of what happened before that. A receptionist at another hotel found the little girl on the street, called police. The child was wearing a night shirt, her diaper, socks. Police took the girl to other hotels. No one recognized her. They eventually took her to the Police Station where she fell asleep, while police kept up the search for her family. After an hour they located the parents who thought the little girl was still asleep in her adjacent room. People gather in shenzhen and remembering the victims of last sundays landslide disaster. Sirens sounded six days after the landslide took place. The force buried dozens and 33 buildings collapsed or were damaged in the land slide. So far, 75 people still unaccount for. The landslide covered a 94acre area, causing a natural gas pipeline to explode as well. Its the season of giving but not all those gifts are real. How scammers are using stolen and fake presents to turn a profit. And the damage is done. It may have been on purpose. Why investigators think the byr,  place of a former president was intentionally set on fire. Youre watching news 4 today. The fire that damaged bill clintons childhood home may have been started intentionally. Investigators in hope, arkansas, found graffiti and think an arsonist torched the place. President clintons grandparents owned this home and he lived there until he was 4 years old. Stadium plans for the 2020 Olympic Games in tokyo getting back on track. We can show you the winning stadium design. Its a smaller, cheaper version of the original idea. Now, earlier this year, the government nixed the stadium plan as the cost kept going up. The architect says while winning the bid comes with hype and pressure, hes keeping the design ground. The stadium will cost 1. 2 billion if it stays on budget. Its december 26th which means time to head to the store and return all those gifts you dont like. Not all those returns will be in good faith. The National Retail federation estimates over 3 of the holiday returns this year will be fraudulent. Holiday return fraud is expected to cost the retailers 2. 2 billion. Lets take a live look outside on this saturday morning where it is one of the warmest holiday weekends in years. And the new year on the way. So is some change a coming. Amelia is tracking what you can expect. A little girl calls it her christmas miracle. Why shes crediting pope fra good morning. Welcome back. Area volunteers are giving food to the people who need it the most this holiday season. We go inside a program who delivered hundreds of meals to the homeless and this is still growing. Reporter more than 300 volunteers showed up at berk Community Church to make and distribute nearly 600 hot meals for the homeless. They are helping the 25th project, a Nonprofit Group started by jay harriet. Why did you do it . Because i was this close from being homeless and so the eviction notice was on my door and i didnt have anything. And so we started it, its just grown and grown. Merry christmas. Reporter meals were handed out here in Franklin Park at 14th and kay streets northwest, in mcpherson square, at a womans shelter and the homeless encampment. If it werent for the generosity of a lot of these people, a lot of us would be starving. I feel blessed. Thank you. I appreciate everything. My birthday was last night, Christmas Eve. Reporter i asked the bostic family why they volunteered. Our heart goes out to other people during christmastime, just to spread love and make sure someone else is happy. That brought joy to our heart. Ive been doing this all my life. I think its nice to give back to those who dont have as much as i do. Reporter the 25th project has a Major Charity event on the 25th of every month. For example, in february, they collect soup and socks to give to the homeless. Trying to keep this Christmas Spirit alive all year long. In the district, chris gordon, news 4. A 12yearold is thanking pope francis for her christmas miracle. c doctors diagnosed grace west with stage 4 neuroblastoma when she was 10 years ole. She went through eight chemotherapy sessions, surgery, immu immu immunotherapy. She found out she was cancer free about a year after seeing pope francis. It was a moment of victory, i beat it, i beat it, im gone. I think the pope made the miracle happen and everybody that prayed for me in the community really made it happen. Grace met the pope through the make a wish foundation. Thats a great use of your make a wish. Yes. Its the second one. There was a baby that was brought to the pope as well. And the parents make the same claim, that the baby has now been healed since meeting the pope. Always good to see a child be cancer huff free. For sure. It is wonderful. Lovely to see you this morning. Merry christmas. I feel like im in a hallucination right now but ill get over that. Its muggy out there still. Today, temperatures not really going to move too much. Temperatures are in the 50s. Well have near steady temps throughout the day. Its cooler than yesterday but its still 15 degrees above normal. Thats your first weather headline. A few scattered, light showers around today, not going to be tracking heavy rain like we were yesterday on storm team 4 radar. Near record warmth in the forecast for tomorrow, 70s for highs tomorrow. And then as soon as we go up, were back down. Cold blast makes its way into the area on monday. The weather having a low to maybe moderate impact on your day to day because of the spotty, light showers. Otherwise, its cooler, open up the windows, turn off the air, enjoy fresh air temperature right now. Washington 59, know namanassas, gaithersburg 55. Generally in the mid50s for most of us. 11 00 a. M. , temperature ever 55. A chance of showers at any poin today. Nothing heavy. By 5 00, temperature around 53 degrees. I think future weather overdoing the rain here a little bit. You still get the idea. Notice were really not seeing yellow showing up, just the lighter shades of green, that indicating the only a chance of scattered light showers. Even as we work our way into the evening hours, cant rule out isolated showers. The real weather story will be the cooler temperatures, tomorrow, the warmer temperatures. 7 00 a. M. On your sunday, temperatures in the mid to upper 50s. As we work our way toward the midday hours, sky cast 4 bringing in hazy sunshine. Temperatures near 70 degrees lunch time tomorrow. Then we move into the low to mid70s, high of in washington of 72 to 73 degrees. If we hit 73 for a High Temperature, that will a new record High Temperature, even tomorrow evening at 9 00 p. M. , if youre out going for a run or walking the dog, temperatures still in the low to mid60s as we close out or start to close out 2015. Future weather showing you the wider view tomorrow if case youre traveling. Notice rain in parts of pennsylvania, west virginia, ohio. Back into kentucky and tennessee as well. Cant rule out a shower here for a sunday night. Then monday, im stopping at 8 00 p. M. In the evening. Notice in pennsylvania, the chance of a wintry mix, maybe some snow there. If youre heading to places like erie, pennsylvania, tuesday morning, still tracking a wintry mix or snow at 6 00 a. M. , potentially snow showers in State College as we work our way throughout the day here on tuesday. Rain is likely. Scattered light showers today. About a 50 chance youre dealing with a bit of rain, not a huge deal. Sunday high of 73. Mostly cloudy skies tomorrow. Cant rule out a shower on monday, especially later in the day. Its looking like rain holes off until tuesday. Look at the temperature on monday. A high of only 49. We actually see temperatures start off around 49 and then fall to 43 degrees by the evening hours. Right now, guys, new years eve, the evening hours looking dry and chilly with temps in the 40s. Thank you, amelia. It was a difficult diagnosis for a little boy from Montgomery County. How he became an inspiraeinn for others by helping families like his own. A lot of hightech gadgets on the wish lists this year. Which ones are being called a hackers dream for how easy they are to break a little boy from Montgomery County has already been through much more than a child ever should have to. News 4s Kristin Wright shows us how hes still making a difference and using his difficult experience to help others. Reporter this boy missed days like this bowling when he was sick in a hospital bed. His own immune system attacking his liver. They said i had auto immune hepatitis acute liver failure. Reporter doctors thought the 12yearold needed a transplant. I thought he had the flu. Reporter deveer is responding well to treatment at Medstar Georgetown University hospital but theres no cure and his immune system is weak. On a good day, he can bowl. Always remembering these fighting words from his doctor. She told me to make a purpose every day. And think of something you want to do every single day. I said i want to raise money for kids that have the same thing as me. Reporter dvir hosted a fundraiser. It helps families of children at the medstar transplant institute. Youth bowling coach Bill Robinson didnt hesitate to give. When you think about your health, you think about the things god blessed us with. You always want to help others who are a little less fortunate. Reporter mom is so proud. Hes looking forward to what is the next fundraiser going to be. Reporter a daily dose of medication and steroids is keeping the rare disease in check right now. c every day is a blessing fo us. Reporter dvir needs few words to explain how hes feeling. Good, amazing. Reporter on news 4 at 6 00, whats flex for dvirs treatment . In gaithersburg, Kristin Wright, news 4. Many gadgets could be susceptible to hackers. This according to intel security list. They say smart watches and those fitness trackers, among there we go. Santa claus has nothing to do with this. This is all technology here. Among the most hackable gifts. None of the elves make these. Its the blooj took conneue tooy that makes these a hackers dream. Maintain all of the materials that came with that particular product. Theyre going to outline for you some of the preset pass words or settings on those particular devices. Keep your systems up to date with the latest software. That cant also help keep all those hackers away. You may have been tracking santa, speaking of santa yes. In the skies this holiday season. Today, taking a much needed break. Hes been busy. Yes. Take a look. Norad tracker shows that santa delivered more than 7 billion gifts. Each year the north American Aerospace Defense Command switches on the site so we can track santa all over the world. You can see that he was hes been there and done that now. Now hes heading to florida. Have an umbrella handy if youre getting ready to head out. Amelia is tracking showers you might be running into today and how long theyre going to last and what you can expect in the week ahead. In alabama, a tornado tearing through a community on Christmas Day. How hundreds of families are dealing with the damage left behind. 6 30. A look at some of this mornings top stories that were following for you. Police called to 48. Place in northeast just before 1 clg. They found a man who had been shot several times. Police tell us at this hour hes in stable condition. No word on a suspect or motive. Fairfax county say they have a killer off the streets. Investigators say it started with a fight at a Christmas Eve party in falls church. They believe santos Narcisco Osorio chased the victim down the street and killed him. And a driver goes the wrong way on the beltway. This happened near the exit to branch avenue. Paramedics air lifted the other driver to the hospital. Tough news to start us off on this 6 30 half hour. Here to make us smile and take in this day after christ

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