Transcripts For WRC News4 Today At 5 20151118 : comparemela.

Transcripts For WRC News4 Today At 5 20151118

Hold up in an apartment. This is just north of paris. Take a look, it appears a Police Officer just taken away in an ambulance there. Earlier a woman suicide bomber blew herself up as police moved in. We know that five people were taken into custody. The main target of this raid, finding the master mind behind the paris attacks that killed 129 people on friday. Now were still waiting on word from police on whether the main suspect was caught. Stay with us for this developing coverage. Now lets check in with chuck. Thanks, angie. Clouds have thickend overnight and its not raining yet, but oh, its likely to be raining before you come back home later this afternoon and evening. It is an umbrella ready day today. Heavy rain late tonight into tomorrow morning. Keeping you updated on that. Tomorrow will be a weather alert day. How much rainfall might we get . Most areas around a half an inch to an inch. Some of these darker colors into the blue ridge into Southern Maryland could get as much as an inch of rain tomorrow. Then your weather headlines for today, rain chances increasing. Heaviest rain tonight. The weather alert. 40s in the chill, mild 60ed with the rain this evening. Several commutes are likely to be impacted. Which one takes it on the chin the worst . 10 minutes now. Lets get into todays commute with melissa. Can we hide our ears cover our eyes and plug our ears. We know it will happen tomorrow. Right now have the emergency road work 370 eastbound and 355 north frederick avenue. Sounds like part of the ramp there to 355 is blocked here this morning. 66 looks good. So does 95 there in virginia. No problem here principles gorges county. Earlier problem on suitland parkway is looking good. The latest after terror in paris. We told you about the Early Morning raid at the top of the newscast. There is also a new search for another assailant. Intelligence reveals three attackers carried out the shootings at a sidewalk cafe on friday. One of them is still on the loose. On capitol hill new revelations that u. S. Intelligence knew of some of the paris attackers. All but one of them was on american no fly list and overseas russia and france both pounding the isis town of raqqah with airstrikes. President obama says the u. S. Welcomes help from russia. U. S. Homeland security jay johnson will brief lawmakers. The fbi is in overdrive this morning. Agents paying special attention to about 800 names on the terror watch list, all of them linked to syria. The fbi started investigating, rather intensifying surveillance on 50 known terror suspects already in the u. S. Right now d. C. Police are taking new threats extremely seriously. Here is chief cathy lanier. When people are pushing that agenda, the fact that they might take action on seeing that video, we have to take all of that seriously. We talked to tourists who said they are not concerned. A couple of d. C. Area schools thought differently and canceled field trips. New security measures at college park. The report of a suspicious package stopped a vre train. Police gave the all clear later. Secretary of state john kerry and john brennan will brief lawmakers today. We expect two separate discussions here, one on the u. S. Hostage policy and the other on the process of radicalization. Passengers who were on a plane from dulles to paris are now in a hotel in nova scotia. This after their plane was diverted over a security threat. Weve also learned that the fbi searched that plane and another air france jet that was diverted and they found no explosives. The second plane was also headed to paris from los angeles. Investigators have not given details on the original threat so far. Kristen wright though is at Dulles International right now gathering more on this developing story. Shell have another report for you in less than ten minutes. Eun. Thank you, angie. It is 5 05. Classes canceled for a third day at washington college. Police agencies from pennsylvania to maryland are searching for a student they believe has a gun. 19yearold jake con marberger is a sophomore. He took a gun from his parents home over the weekend and disappeared. The college is asking students to leave campus completely and go home. The decision on when to reopen will be considered on a daytoday basis. A 16yearold d. C. Girl is headed back home after surviving six days alone in the mountains of tennessee. Search crews rescued ava ezekiel yesterday. On facebook her mother wrote she was weak but in stable condition. She went missing last week while hiking with classmates from a boarding school. A quick thinking victim turned the tables on a man that flashed him. He snapped a photo of a man who flashed him peeking through his window. He walked up to the mans door, made sexual gestures and exposed himself. This happened in the 7200 block of Whispering Oaks way. He was wearing a Navy Blue Jacket with the words woodstock student. Call police if you have any information. And then there were 14. Louisiana governor bobby jindal dropped out of the race for president. He said, quote, its just not my time and thanked supporters on twitter and facebook. He raised little money and never made it on the main debate stages. He refuses to support donald trump but told nbc news he will back a republican nominee. Fairfax mayor scott silver thorn said he will keep working during his cancer treatment. The mayor announced he has neck cancer at a Council Meeting last night. He said the cancer has not spread and his prognosis is good. He decided to go public because of Maryland Governor larry hogans decision to do the same thing. U 5at district is breaking ground on a state of the art fire station at the former walter reed site. This comes as were learning the details of a multimillion redevelopment deal on that campus. It promises jobs and affordable housing. News 4s derrick ward with more on this. Derrick, good morning. Reporter good morning, aaron. Well, you know we know about the changes that weve seen along Georgia Avenue, especially around the kentworth area with the subway station and a lot of development there. Its coming north up Georgia Avenue near the walter reed site. This building will be the first thing well see when they tear it down. This used to be temporary housing for walter reed visitors. Theyre going to turn this into the new fire ems station engine 22 station which will be state of the art fitting in with the surrounding buildings and the surrounding community here. That will be the most immediate sign, but of course the big news up here is another big deal and that is the city agreeing on a price of the walter reed campus. Its a sprawling campus. 110 acres. D. C. Will be buying 66 acres of those of that land from the army to the tune of 22. 5 million. There are going to be 3. 1 million square feet of Residential Office and retail space and 21 new housing units, about 15 of them they say will be affordable. Officials will be able to break ground on this later today. We are live in northwest. Derrick ward, news 4, back to you. Derrick, thank you 56789 08. New information on the investigation on two popular Fantasy Sports websites. Why authorities are now looking into yahoo grab the umbrella. You might need it on your walk to metro. Chuck will let you know if the rain will impact your commuter forecast. The bizarre result were lear new information about the investigation into two big Fantasy Sports sites in new york. The new York Attorney general is now examining yahoo s daily fantasy game in addition to draft kings and fan duel. The attorney general said draft kings and fan duel constitutes illegal gambling in new york and has to shut down. Its not clear if he will take action against yahoo . Yahoo says it does not comment on legal matters. Comcast, the Parent Company of nbc sports and nbc 4 is an investor in fan duel. Heres a new one, a man faces charges for using a sandwich as a weapon in northern virginia. A sind wish. Police in the city of fairfax arrested jonathan magnus. He threw a sandwich at another man during a fight at a pizza restaurant. No pizza . Officers caught up with magnus and filed dui and assault and battery charges against him. No peppers. Lets check your weather and traffic now. Chuck bell is in the storm team four weather center. Straighten your act out or ill get day old french bread and youll be hurting. Nothing showing up on radar, just some ground clutter. Later on future weather model bringing in chances for mist, drizzle and sprinkles as early as 8 00, 9 00 this morning. Becoming more likely later on. Weather slowdowns, nothing major on the way in today but yellow lights for this evening as the rain begins to increase and red for tomorrow, especially tomorrow morning as it could be very heavy rain. Weather alert day coming up tomorrow. Commuter forecast, cloudy, dry, 40s this morning. Showers possible by later on this afternoon but temperatures up near 60 degrees. Have your umbrella and your raincoat ready to go for today. Well Start Talking about the weekend cooldown in ten minutes. Melissa, hows traffic on a wednesday. Right now rolling along just fine here. Live look at the Woodrow Wilson bridge. No matter if youre headed to maryland or virginia, youre going across nice and easily this morning. Top of the beltway looks nice and clear. Bw parkway, 91, 25, everything northbound, southbound dont have any problems here this morning. Big look at the beltway, inner loop and outer loop rolling along okay as well this morning. Earlier road work is now out of the way and 270 at Montrose Road, any bit of volume heading southbound nothing is going to slow you. Northbound nice and clear as well. Ill see you in ten minutes. Were monitoring some new developments from the live desk on the airstrikes underway against isis. This new video just coming in. And a shocking new study when it comes to College Students and rape. The story all of you parents will want to hear. Just in, new video of airstrikes in syria. These air assaults targeting isis strong holds this morning. It involves ten fighter jets and two isis command centers were destroyed. France has launched a series of airstrikes over the last few days in retaliation for the paris attacks which isis has claimed responsibility for. Aaron. All right, angie. Thank you. 5 18. Passengers stranded after air france grounded two flights bound for paris. One of those flights took off from dulles. News 4s Kristen Wright is at dulles with whats happening there this morning. Kristen, what can you tell us . Reporter hey, good morning. Perhaps a few nerves for sure at Dulles Airport this morning, especially at the air france counter as the day goes on. There wont be a flight leaving for paris through air france until this afternoon, but meanwhile those passengers who were diverted are still in nova scotia at a hotel. Air France Flight 55 bound for paris from dulles was diverted to nova scotia last night after someone called in a bomb threat after takeoff. All 234 passengers got off at the airport there. They were checked out along with their luggage. The plane was inspected. Nothing found. Same situation aboard an air France Flight that left lax, los angeles, for paris. That flight made an Emergency Landing in Salt Lake City last night. 473 people on board. Authorities inspected the plane, passengers luggage and nothing found. Telling nbc news that so far there was no evidence that either threat was credible. Back to you. Kristen wright live for us at dulles. Thank you, kristen. A university in california is remembering the american victim of the paris attacks. 23yearold Nohemi Gonzalez was eating at a restaurant when she was shot and killed in paris on friday. Youre looking at the vigil for her at cal state last night. There were hundreds there, many of them who knew her. You will always be missed. Thank you for setting being an exemplary person to our generation. Several former teachers and friends spoke about gonzalez at a separate vigil in los angeles, showed solidarity with the french people following the attacks. A news 4 your health now. The dangers behind smokeless tobacco. Users are exposed to more nicotine and dangerous toxins than people who smoke regular cigarettes. Data came from blood and urine samples of more than 20,000 adults. New research into rape on college campuses. These numbers may alarm you. Researchers at Brown University say 15 of women are raped while incapacitated, meaning drunk or high, during their first year of school. Scientists talked to 500 college freshmen. They said the ones who were rape victims before they started school are more likely to be assaulted again. Right now the death toll is rising in Washington State after terrible storms hit the northwest. Three people have died. About 300,000 are without power now. The deaths were from falling trees, trees that fell on to cars. Winds up to 119 Miles Per Hour were recorded south of seattle. That rain is going to pick up overnight. Flooding could become a problem overnight. Now 5 21. Time for weather and traffic on the 1s. Trying to find out about the rain moving into our area right now. Meteorologist chuck bell. Hey, chuck. Good morning, aaron and eun. Rain drops are a big part of our forecast for especially the second half of the day. So you will want to take the umbrella. How much rain . Take a look at how big the storm system is coming our way. This big swirl of storms and snow in the midwest, yeah, those are blizzard warnings out there across parts of the high plains in nebraska and kansas. Its cold, cold, cold on the back of the storm. That will be part of the weekend forecast. Ahead of it, a big surge of warm air and moisture will bring rain and mild rain at that. Mild enough where we might have some rumbles of thunder this time tomorrow morning and then p a we head towards the weekend. Well be well into the 60s, both today and tomorrow. Our average high is 57. Thats way above average. Then cooler air starts to arrive on friday and the weekend will be downright chilly. Highs as we get towards saturday and sunday only barely into the low 50s despite the northwest breeze on saturday. Sunday quite cold, indeed. Most areas, even downtown locations likely to be below freezing sunday and or monday morning. Thats the weekend. What about today . Temperatures now are in the mid to upper 40s. Cloudy and chilly outside this morning. No rain yet. Take your umbrella. Light rain and sprinkles possible late this morning until lunchtime. Light rain late this afternoon into early evening. Turning into heavier rain late tonight. Heres the way future weather handles all of this. Cloudy for now. You can see the chances for drizzle and sprinkles up through the early and mid afternoon hours. Then turning into light rain after about 8 00, 9 00 tonight. Overnight tonight into tomorrow mornings commute, heres 6 00 a. M. Tomorrow morning, heavy rain coming right through the heart of the metro. It will be a bigtime impact on your thursday morning commute. Showers taper back to just light rain by late thursday afternoon on into the day on friday. Heaviest timing of the rains for tomorrow, 2 to 5 a. M. In the shenandoah valley. 5 00 to 8 00 a. M. Around here. 7 00 to 10 00 across Southern Maryland. Seven day forecast, 60s with the rain moving in. Near 70 tomorrow with the heavy rain in the morning. Breezy and turning cooler to chilly friday night into saturday. Could have wind chills in the 30s by friday night for high school football. How much rain should we expect . Thats in a few more minutes. For now heres Melissa Mollet with trouble on the beltway. Trouble on the beltway outer loop at Georgia Avenue, brandnew report of a disabled vehicle. Not exactly sure where it is. Hopefully off to the shoulder before you head out that way this morning. 66 here at 123, no problems eastbound or westbound there in northern virginia. Taking a look at 95 now northbound, quantico to the beltway going to take you 18 minutes here this morning. A little slow southbound because of late clearing road work you saw a second ago. Right now northbound to the beltway you are clear here this morning. Remember to listen to our friends on wtop when you hop in your car. Right now prince gorges county looking good. Everybody behaving themselves there and 270 at Montrose Road rolling along just fine. See you back here at 5 31. Thank you, melissa. Police in the district need your help after a deadly shooting in the northeast. Called to new york avenue around 10 30 yesterday morning where they found a man shot outside a motel. He was shot several times. He later died at the hospital. Police have not released the name of the victim and there is a 25,000 reward for any information that leads to an arrest. Former boy scouts are suing the organization over allegations of sex abuse by a former scout master. The former scout master died two years ago. 17 men say Donald Dennis molested them over the span of a decade during scout events. Besides the National Boy Scouts it seeks damages from the yankee. Don was an opportunist. He didnt have any boundaries. He would take boys to the back woods at these campouts and he would molest them in the woods. The lawsuit is seeking damages. In a statement boy scouts of america says it was only just aware made aware of these allegations last month and had never before received any reports or accusations. It is 5 25. Developing in the philippines, new protests against the Asia Pacific Partnership summit that started today. Take a look, you can see police dressed head to toe in riot gear to confront the demonstrators. Around 30,000 soldiers are also there. The companys meetings are at the summit trying to create more free trade in asia. The protesters say the meeting is a way for corporations to protect

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