Transcripts For WRC News4 Today At 5 20170302 : comparemela.

Transcripts For WRC News4 Today At 5 20170302

Five adults and three children had to be taken to the hospital and being r being treated for carbon mob oxide exposure. D. C. Police got a call saying people had fainted. Their Carbon Monoxide detectors had gone off. We are being told this morning all the adults and the children are expected to be okay. Thank you, erica. Were following breaking news concerning attorney general Jeff Sessions. He is under fire from democrats after his spokes woman confirmed that he spoke with the Russian Ambassador twice last year while he was senator. Sessions was a top policy adviser for the trump campaign. That is one of three major headlines this morning. Sessions did not disclose the meeting during his confirmation hearing. He said he never met with russian officials to discuss issues the wael wall street journal examined contact sessions had with russian officials. Some Obama Administration officials worked to preserve evidence of russian hacking. In our next half hour, we go live to capitol hill where news 4s Edward Lawrence will break this down for us. Hell have more on what the attorney general is going to do in light of these reports. A grim search will continue today in Fairfax County. Local and ferls agents are looking for human remains. Now with more on the tips that led police to this park. Justin. Eun, police are taking these tips quite seriously after a series of gang arrests here in Northern Virginia. And so for a second day, Fairfax County police and search crews will resume their search in the specifically around the 6,000 block of crater place. The initial search involved lemon run park, but nothing was found there. The search themselves are significant because two years ago, police found remains of two people, both reported to have been bruthsly murdered and this new search comes after the arrest of several suspects in the death of a Fairfax County man in january. Also, his case has been linked to that 15yearold Alexandra Reyes found dead in springfield, virginia, just last month. Her family says she had been a target of the gang ms13. We are told federal investigators will be with them. Justin, thank you. Also in northern vi is involved in the murder of a man at an arlington house party. Theyre still looking for the shooter. Monique williams is charged with accessory after the fact in the killing of michael gray. Investigators say Jason Allen Johnson is the trigger man. Johnson is accused of shooting gray last month in an arlington fashd. A new plan to turn penalties into parks in downtown bethesda could move forward today. To add five acres of green space, you would vo to lose 500 Parking Spaces off wisconsin avenue. These Parking Spaces, if they end up going away, the county says they could be replaced possibly by putting parking under any new parks. A portion of the reconstruction project is being how much longer people will have to use alternative routes. Good morning. A few months more, not a good situation for people who use beach drive. Look behind me here. You can see the close on your. All the barrels and the barricades and the signs. Beach drive closed between rock krooel creek and tilden. It was supposed to reopen in the spring, but we have now learned that that is not going to happen. Folks are going to have to wait a few months more. Krngters will do some multi tasking here. Thats going to be more efficient. But it is going to drag out the timeline. Were going to be extending that timeline, what we understand, until august. The good news here is work crews will make improvements to the bike path that runs along beach when all is said and done and things are back to normal, we will see an improvement not just to beach drive, but other spots along that stretch, including that bike path which has been in rather bad shape now for a while and it is heavily used. In the long run, transportation officials hope it will be quite an improvement. Hope its worth it, megan, thank you. A lot of people thought they wouldnt hear the s word for a while. Its been a wile, but snow . Yeah, we have snow showers in the forecast for tomorrow. Believe it or not, they will be passing snow showers. We dont expect much, but temperaturewise across the area. Coming up, lauren is back to talk more about that and well talk about snow chances for your the push to maid paid sick days a workplace staple. Prodders, shuckersers, and sniffers, [ inhales ] all giant produce is triple checked. Farm, crate, and store. Were focusing on fresh. So you dont have to guess. My giant. 50 degrees is about as good as its g its windy out there right now, lauren. The winds werer so strong last night. Were talking about winds gusts up to 40, 50 Miles Per Hour this morning. Watch out for the trash as you put it on the curb. Windchills are in the 30s. About 10 00 a. M. , we have that wind advisory up and theyll continue to diminish a little bit throughout the day. Really not falling and diminishing until 6 00, 7 owe oclock tonight. Melissa has a look at your traffic right now. Right now, taking a look here, the belt away looks pretty good. Inner loop and outer loop, looking nice. Youre flying in just fine. Outbound looking quite good here this morning, so no major problems there. Well take a look at 270, coming up. Melissa, that you can. Lets get back to Erika Gonzales following the ict storms. We are getting new video into our news room of Severe Weather in missouri. Take a look and listen to this. Hail hum haddeling that region. This is in missouri. But this is the damage and much of the south and the midwest, states like missouri, orr oregon illinois. A deadly trail of twitters. But a deadly couple of days with Severe Weather. We understand three people have been killed after tornados went through those states. Again, Severe Weather in much of the south and the midwest. From the live desk, im Erica Gonzalez. It as as story that caught national attention. Two Virginia Tech students accused of killing a 13yearold. Now were learning 20yearold David Eisenhower will not go on trial until november. Eisenhower kidnapped and killed nicole after meeting her online. Her body was killed three days after she went missing. He was charged with helping hide the body. A Prince Georges County mother is pleading for help to find her daughters killer. 18yearold shamika woods was shot sunday morning. She was found lying in an intersection by a neighbor. Her mother wants the killer to hear this message. Youre heartless. You took someones life. You took my flesh and blood. You took my older, my first born. Prince georges county police are following up on leads in this case. Theyre asking anyone with information to give them a call. Its 5 12. Lawyers for Joaquin El Chapo approach. S lawyers are calling on President Trump to deport him back to mexico saying he is in the United States illegally. The president pledged to deport undocumented immigrants to committed illegal acts. Former president george bush is warning against isolatation. Last month, Vice President mike pence reassured allies in europe about the United States willingness to maintain international partnerships. President bush says its was not his intent to criticize his successors at the white house and hes optimistic about the future. And president bush will be making his first appearance on the Ellen Degeneres show today. Hes opening up about his relationship with the obamas and a funny moment from President Trumps inauguration. Ponchos seem to be a problem. Had you is that the first time . Yeah. First time put ago borchbo it looks like it. You hold an umbrella over your head, you dont have to use a poncho very much. I like that, he is taking it in stride. You can see him today on ellen at 3 00 p. M. According to the new york post, joe bidens son is dating the widow of his late brother, beau biden. The bidens are quoted in the report saying the pair is incredibly lucky to have found love during a very difficult time. If you work full time, a bill hogan says his version of the bill would ease the burden on small businesses. All this week, weve been helping you destress and its almost friday. That should help. If i missed it, angie goff has the four things to know. At the Family Therapy center in ash burn, children use art therapy to sketch and sculpt what is stressing them out. Kind of really gets my, like, emotion out. One common activity is called the emotion barometer. Kids filled out the chart and pick an emotion to help them work through trauma. At just pedestrian cade in bethesda, theres a class just for kids. Be calm and learn about minefulness without any faithbased practices. Organization visits schools throughout the area. The first attempt at shutting out your stress can be simply realizing its there. And theres waste to relieve it at home. Here is a few apps you can share with your family. Stop, breathe and think, settle your glitter with, and smiling minds. We asked you to share your ways of relaxing. One of you tweeted us, keep calm and pet the cat. Check out this one, too. And pet the cat. That can sometimes be soothing for you until the cat is like and grabs your face. Thats a problem. Lets see. This one says hey, guys, when you need to destress, i cook. That is a good one for some folks. Or that adds stress. You cook for yourself, some comfort food, not the cat. Use lessstress and nbc 4 d. C. Opinion. Im going to stic local business res already cashing in on all the excitement. Two new pop up bars are already open. This is the same bar that does all the fun stuff during christmastime. Same bar now changing for Cherry Blossoms. Look for a super mario brothers theme. By the way, we have a lift of the big gates for the Cherry Blossom festival as the dates have been moved up. Blooms are predicted to happen between march 15th and 17th. Well, you know, its going to get colder. We saw it coming. That will never happen. Dont trust them. You can foster one. Just go foster a cat. It is going to get a lot colder as we go through tonight. Today well start with this morning because it is blustery outside. Were not talking about blustery with temperatures in the 30s. Were in the 50s. Well, mostly the 40s. But around 50 in the district. So your morning compute, the impact this morning, not too bad, but it is very gusty out there. So while youre driving, you might feel the car tug a little bit. But recess, a jacket possibly because its so windy, kind of chilly. If youre exercising long sleeves, the evening commute is still blustery as we go through the evening hours. Win gusts, anywhere from 20 to 30 Miles Per Hour. This morning, we have a wind advisory, so we could see gusts near 50 or higher until about 10 00 a. M. Temperatures are feeling like the 30s in gatingers brurg. Approximated at dulles and frederick. In the district, 50 degrees is the temperature. 7 00 p. M. , could see a few showers moving into the higher elevations. And then tomorrow afternoon, theres the snow shower activity were talking about some passing show showers. So if youre planning your friday early in the morning, look at that temperature. 35 degrees by 7 00 a. M. , it will feel colder with the wind, passing snow showers even by noon only getting into the mid 40s tomorrow. It will be a breezy and colder day. For today, though, 53, gusty, mostly sunny. As we go into the weekend, we do, in fact, stay dry. But temperatures will only be in about the mid to upper 40s. We get back into the 60s on monday and even warmer as we go into tuesday. Lauren will be back with a closer look at your forecast for that. Lets check the roadways this northbound and southbound everything is moving fine. Elsewhere, looking quite good. Taking a look at the top of the beltway, all of those routes in and out of town, looking good. No worries there. Down south, indian highway, branch avenue, pennsylvania avenue looking quite good, as well. And 95 in virginia, quantico to the belt away, nice and on time. Well have travel times coming up for you in just a little bit. A major win for a lorden tailor store in maryland. Why this Department Store wont be torn down anytime soon. Could metros safetrack derail your plans . What riders need to know. And it could be a pivotal decision in the Supreme Court case of a transgender boy. 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A court battle is heath up over the last remaining store at the ghost town that used 20 be the mall at white flipt. A court found the right that lorde and taylor has the right to keep the door open. Lord taylor sued them for allegedly breach ago contract that required the open through 2042. Instead, the mall emptied out and the property surrounding the store was demolished. The new decision puts a further hold on an 800 million redevelopment plan. Well, thanks to the Community Support students in Montgomery County held a successful refurbish car and computer sale. It was held last saturday at damascus high school. The students were able to sell 17 cars. There will be another sale on may 13th at Thomas Edison high school in silver spring. The students are members of the Automotive Trades Foundation and Information Technology foundation. Well, you may see a lot of doctor sus haeuss hats on your l media feed today. That is because it is read across america day to celebrate dr. Seusss birthday. And we want you to post your favorite dr. Seuss book and let us know why its your favorite. Horton hears a who is one of my alltime favorites. Always a good book. Im going to Hoffman Boston Elementary School to share some books today with. Of the young people there this afternoon. Got to get the hat on right. Today might be a good day to curl up with a good book because the temperatures are dropping already. And lauren, we could see snow in the near future . Crazy, right . I think everybody is pretty much over that hump. We have winds out there, so hold on to your hat type of weather day today. Wind gusts at just 50 Miles Per Hour. Sheena will let you know when these winds will die down. Also talking about that snow coming up on the other side of the break. Were working to get you ready for safetracks surge 13. What metro riders in Northern Virginia need to know before the weekend. And breaking news on attorney general Jeff Sessions. What were on learn background his alleged interactions with russia. On our four things to know this the thursday morning, two people were killed in a crash wednesday night. Witnesses say a corvette was weaving before it hit trees. Everything is back open. In anticosta, eight people, including three children, are being treated for Carbon Monoxide poisoning this morning. Today, neighbors living near Holmes Run Park in Fairfax County are waking up to to a lot of police. Local and federal lawyer enforcement. Theyre searching the park for bodies. They say they got tips that human remains were buried in several parks in the county. And Prince Georges County police want your help to find this missing boy right now. Take a look at his picture. Mohamed drame was last season yet evening in lanham. He is 8 years old. Good morning, everyone. Welcome back to news 4 today. Im eun yang. And im aaron gilchrist. 5 30 on this little friday. Were going to check in with melissa in just a couple of minutes for a look at your drive into work this morning. First, we turn to meteorologist sheena meteorologist. Meteorologist or that. Its okay. Good morning, ladies. Good morning. Hopefully you got a good nights sleep because that wind out everyone. We had winds gusts up to 50 Miles Per Hour last night. And its loud this morning so a lot of people hearing it as theyre about to walk outside this morning. Its making temperatures still blowing. If youre in frederick, gaithersburg, dulles, youre feeling like the 30s with the wind. In the district, 50 degrees. 45. Lorton 50 now in quantico. As we go through the day today, temperatures wont warm too much more. Only about the low 50s. Here is the wind advisory and all the counties shaded in tan. This is Northern Virginia, all

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