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Transcripts For WRC News4 Today At 5 20170424

Graphic, it will be in the 50s. Ill change that 84. That was fridays forecast. Cool and wet today. Steady rain likely for tomorrow. Probably staying on the cloudy side. The rain should be coming to an end early wednesday. 80 plus starting thursday into the weekend. Lets go over to melissa mollet. 270 going to have the right lane blocked southbound. Inner loop at little river turnpike. The rest of the beltway and even through that area looking quite good here this morning. No major slowdowns. Everything is still moving. 66 west before glebe, right. In bound 66 fine. So is in bound on 95. All of that showing rain falling across the area. Bottom of the beltway through Prince Georges County clear. So is 95 from 32 down to the beltway. Aaron . It is 5 02 now. This morning dc Police Investigating a small crime in the palisades neighborhood. A man stopped at a gas station on mcarthur boulevard. A suspect hopped in the mans bmw and sped off. He didnt get far before he crashed a car and went down an embankment. The cars owner ran to the crash site and started fighting with the suspect just as police arrived. Gas station attendant said this all happened so fast. He had a lot of money when he came in the station. Evidently that was put in the car at some point and that was stolen with a suitcase. Now the Police Report is not clear about what was taken, but the 24yearold suspect from pennsylvania was charged with robbery. Police were also reportedly searching the area for a man who ran off with a bunch of crash. Police are searching for this girl. R she was last seen on savannah terrace. Youve probably seen these missing teen cases shared on facebook. One post in particular went viral last month. It had a lot of inaccurate information in it. All this week were clearing up whats actually happening and taking a tough look at dcs plans to keep our kids home. President trump marks his first 100 days in office on saturday. Today though foreign matters will be at the top of his agenda. Hes expected to speak with german chancellor angela merkel. He will hold a working lunch with ambassadors of the countries of the u. N. Security council. North korea could be a big topic of discussion there. Another big issue the president will have to deal with is the possibility of a Government Shutdown. Congress has to reach a deal to fund the government by friday in order to avoid that. The white house has complicated negotiations with demands on items like the border wall and increased military spending. News 4s tracie potts has more on where it stands coming up a goff at the live desk. Good morning, eun. In fact we have new video out of france. Protestors clashing with police. Several hundred demonstrators rallied in bastille square. Marine le pen made it to the runoff vote. Shell face off with emanuel macron. The election will happen in may and macron and le pen against it, the results should have real implications for the future of france. Back to you. Angie, thank you. Happening today, if you take i395 in the district, things are going to look different. Today will be the first morning rush with that newly opened ramp that allows drivers to merge directly on to massachusetts avenue to 395 south instead of having to use the third street tunnel ramp. This is dollar Capital Crossing project. You can plan ahead by opening the nbc washington app. We have all the details you need as well as the ongoing construction there. Search i395. Zwr. Five minutes after the hour. The quest for the cup. Fans are celebrating the big victory. The team is headed to round two of the playoffs. Doesnt this sound so good . This was last nights overtime victory in toronto. News 4s Carol Maloney breaks down the amazing victory. The capitals players who only scored two goals in all of last years playoffs scored two here in toronto sunday night. Marcus johansson nick named mojo. He and his mojo working scoring both goals in a 21 series clinching win. Marcus johansson pushes the caps through to round two. Its been a tough fight. I think toronto played really well. They gave us everything they had. A lot of credit to them for that. We stuck with it, pla we deserved it and we fought hard for it. Every game, one goal, five overtimes. Listen, margin of error is tiny, tiny, tieby. Sometimes its just a couple millimeters here and there. We came through in the last few games when we had to up the ante. We got the big goals when we needed them. Up next a rematch with the Pittsburgh Penguins. Bring it on. Game one thursday at Verizon Center. Thats right, carol. Bring it. Here is the schedule. Games 1 and 2 at the Verizon Center thursday and saturday. Saturday can be seen here on nbc 4. Games 3 and 4 in pittsburgh on may 1 ths and 3rd and if necessary game 5 on saturday may 6th. Game 6 monday may 8th in pittsburgh and a potential game 7 at the Verizon Center on may 10th. Its con five is may sixth but six is monday. Too many numbers for this hour. As for the wizards, this he will play tonight in a pivotal game four. They lost saturday after they were not able to recover from a fast start by atlanta. They play tonight at 8 00. The wizards lead two games to one now. The week is off to a pretty chilly start but we could be into the 90s by the weekend . By the weekend, yes. We have to get through the rain and Cool Temperatures today and tomorrow. Use the umbrella, rain boots, raincoat as we go through both today and tuesday. Windshield wipers will be working. Take your time on the roads. In a few minutes chuck and i will be back with the timing of this. People jumped to safety after a fire broke out in their apartment building. And shocking video of a little girl who falls out of the back of a church van. How shes do youbusted tail. Rd. And impressed the boss. Maybe, its time to be your own. Transform your career with strayer universitys mba program today. Lets get it, america. This is the silverado special edition. Man this is one gorgeous truck. Oh, did i say theres only one special edition . Because, actually theres five. Woman ooohh uh man 2 hooooly mackerel. Man 3 wow. Man 4 nice. Strength and style. Which ones your favourite . Come home with me make a strong decision. Find your tag and get 16 below msrp on select silverado 1500 pickups in stock. Find new roads at your local chevy dealer. All right. Take a look at this pretty scene. A sea of tulips at Skagit Valley tulip festival. This is north of festival is designed as a driving tour, but this morning take a birds eye view from a drone. The festival is in its 34th year. Tulips as far as the eye can see. Meanwhile here you can tiptoe through the mud. If youve ever been to amsterdam, let me tell you something, the tulip festival in the netherlands. Always one upping. You want to see Something Better than washington state. We have beautiful tulips around here, too. There are nice ones up there near the netherlands ka ril on. You can see them here in beautiful northern virginia. Today will not be a day for tiptoeing through the tulips. A muddy splash. Today and tomorrow, too. Well have great actutulip grow weather. Taking a look right now at metro. We have blue and silver line single tracking just between these two stops here. Well talk about between addison road and morgan road. Thats because of a deer hit there a short time ago. Beltway looks good. Everything there has cleared out of the way. Had some earlier issues there on the beltway that are now gone. 395 to 14th street bridge, no worries there. Aaron . Melissa, thank you. It is 5 12 right now. This morning 11 families in Prince Georges County are without homes. Their apartments were destroyed in an Apartment Fire in Fort Washington, maryland. News 4s justin finch is live on the scene this morning with the latest. Justin . Reporter eun, the damage is dramatic. Perhaps you can see that top floor balcony is gutted by fire down there and also on the ground. Crime tape still cordoned off the area. This fire was so bad that residents are trapped on their balconies. Cell phone video showing the fire ripping through the roof at this glen rock glen rock avenue. This fire broke out on sunday morning and by close to 8 30 a. M. The Prince Georges County Fire Department says the switchboard was flooded with calls about this. Neighbors working quickly had to help each other. A woman lowered an 80yearold woman to the ground out a back balcony and on the front third floor balcony neighbors say a woman was forced to toss her children into a neighbors arms. Residents said they heard her screams and request to call the 911. I heard this lady say, help me, help me, get my kids. Call 911. I saw guys running over there. She started tossing them off the balcony, tossing her kids. Reporter now five people were checked out on scene. Two were taken to the hospital. No serious injuries here. We do know some 30 people have been displaced and the cause of this fire remains under investigation. In Fort Washington, imti back in to you. Justin, thank you. Coming up on 5 14. The former teacher who disappeared with his teenage student will appear in court. Tad cummins will appear in court. Cummins kidnapped Elizabeth Thomas on march 15th. Hes expected to make his first appearance in court today. This morning on the today show well learn more about who tad cummins is. His sister daphne quinn sits down for an exclusive interview. Hes done this horrible thing that he has to pay for, but hes still my brother and i love him. You can watch the entire interview coming up on the today show right after news 4 today. Arkansas is the first double execution in that state in more than 16 years. Jack jones and Marcel Williams are set to be the second and third inmates to be executed this month. It is part of the states plan to execute inmates before one of its lethal injection drugs expires. On friday a federal judge rejected a request to stop the executions based on the health of the inmates. The requests were sent to an Appeals Court. The executions are set for today. Today a marijuana Advocacy Group will be back on capitol hill. We told you about the group last week when they handed out free joints near the capitol. Seven people were arrested on april 20th. The event was meant to get the attention of lawmakers who they say are interfering with states that have legalized marijuana use. Congress was not actually in session on friday. Today lawmakers return and the group will be back for rescheduled 4 20. The group is planning mass chaos at 4 20 p. M. Insulin has doubled. The high drug prices are the results of the approach the u. S. Has taken to granting government protected monopoliemonopolies. The Insurance Companies should take a responsibility because they play a role in negotiation price joos about 60,000 children are taking to the emergency room each year because they found medication that was left within reach. You can help prevent these tragedies by getting rid of unused medication. Susan hogan has a look at why this is the per week to think about cleaning out your medicine cabinet. Reporter listen to this. Consumer reports found in a recent survey that 19 of people have not cleaned out their medicine cabinet in more than three years. This saturday is called drug take back day, and its a Good Opportunity to get rid of those old prescription drugs you have hanging around your house. Your medicine cabinet can become a dumping ground for old drugs. Consumer reports says the risk for accidental poisoning for kids increases as every bottle of pills you keep. Overthecounter medications can be an issue. Those leftover pills are far from harmless. Taking them incorrectly or accidentally could be deadly or land a child in the e. R. If you cant drop off your unwanted drugs this saturday, heres how to safely dispose of them. Be sure to remove any personal information from the bot am first and then mix the drugs with something unappealing like coffee kbrounds, kitty litter and seal it in a plastic bag and drop it into the trash. A vermont store has launched a new product involving bears. These teddy bears embrace differences. Each one is customizable to match the type of limb loss of people who will receive them. One woman who lost her leg to bo bone cancer was glad to hear about this latest offering. It helps you to accept your body the way it is missing a limb, and thats a very, very difficult thing. Its a very traumatizing event to lose a limb. The Amputee Coalition expects by 2050 3. 6 Million People in the u. S. Will be living with limb loss. 5 18 is our time right now. Want to turn to Sheena Parveen and talk about this forecast. What is it, april showers, right . April showers, yes. And well have plenty of may flowers, right . I hope so. To start the week, its rainy, its chilly. Its going to be much cooler as we go through the entire day. Youre going to want the warmer tomorrow. Not a great way to start the week. The good news is we will see clearing not till wednesday but then well start to dry out on wednesday. Then it gets hot later on this week. So i think the mid to upper 80s after a rainy, chilly start will be very welcome in the forecast. Locally we have a few sprinkles around the district. Off to the west, thats where we have the heaviest rain right near 81 front royal. Those areas have seen wet roads. Were seeing rain for a few hours. Over towards warrenton. Were going to get a bit of a break after the Early Morning commute. Well see another wave of rain coming in the afternoon. Big area of low pressure coming down to the south. Look at all the moisture with this. This is going to keep moving in today and tomorrow so periods of rain both today and tomorrow. Make sure you have the umbrella and the rain boots handy. 55 is the temperature in the were going to stay in the 50s through the afternoon. This is future weather, 4 00 p. M. The rain comes back into waves. Early tomorrow morning for the commute rain around tomorrow afternoon. Rain around again. Periods of rain. So for today expect those temperatures to only be in about the upper 50s with the rain. It will stay chilly. Tomorrow much of the same. Not really a difference between today and tomorrow except maybe some steadier rain through the day tomorrow. Today like i mentioned well get a bit of a break before the afternoon rain. Mid 70s with more drying. Look at thursday and friday though. In the mid 80s and plenty more sunshine to head into the weekend. Closer look at your weekend. Lets check the roads this monday morning with melissa mollet. Good morning. As sheenas been sailinying, a of rain. Metro still single tracking on the blue and silver ne was struck near addison road this morning. Heres the rain theyve been talking about this morning, chuck and sheena have been mentioning across 66, across 95. If youre leaving sometime soon youll definitely encounter it in that area. Beltway clear overall and then 270 south a little slow southbound and then it opens up back to spur. Same situation northbound. No major issues. Aaron . Melissa, thank you. 5 21 right now. This video on your screen, its tough stuff. Child is going to be okay. A volunteer firefighters dash camera was rolling when that child fell out. The unknowing bus driver kept going. The little girls parents say she has a broken jaw and will need surgery but will make a full recovery here but possibly more shocking is that it took the bus driver 15 minutes to here. Thank god the guy with the camera had the presence of mind to slow down and stop and get out. Thats really hard to watch. Thank goodness there were no other vehicles on the road at that time. This is something we report here far too often. Girls missing from the district. How city leaders are banding together to keep our kids at homecoming up in our new week long series. Be sure to join us for the Ellen Degeneres show. Ellen bringsj. Lo is on t show. Shhee welcome back. 5 25. You may remember findourgirls, missing dc girls and pray for dc. Well known people shared the missing local teens talking about an epidemic that didnt really exist. Still, one child gone is too many, we know that. It action. That is why all this week we will focus on an effort to keep our kids home. Viola davis, tiriji hen der sen. Now talking about them tmz. We have to look out for all of us. The reality, there was no spike in disappearances. Rather, d. C. Police launched a social Media Campaign back in march and that effort sparked an unintended reaction. Now city leaders, including the director of child and family services, are coming together, not just to set the record straight but to help find the missing children. We appreciate the attention and spotlight shown on our kids who are missing. Certainly we know that the response cant be any one particular agency or certainly not even government alone and definitely not just metropolitan police department. It is going to take a Community Wide effort. When local child and family agencies came together to launch the mayors sixpoint plan. Whatever we put into place we want to make sure theres an accountability piece to that as well. Next month mayor bowser will get those recommendations. The keeping our kids safe series continues tomorrow with a look at what d. C. Police are trying to do to find children and what they learn from kids that run away. Were working for you to help bring kids home. We have an interactive map with pictures on the nbc washington app. Search missing children map. Breaking out the red, white and blue after a backlash. The tribute to america from a local high school. Why students say they had to fight to promote patriotism. Good monday morning. Im storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell. We are tracking rain drops across the dmv this morning. How long will it last and how that answer coming up. Changes coming to a scene of tragedy. Whats next for this c. D. For years, fios has been promising fast internet to small businesses. But for many businesses, its out of reach. Why promise something you cant deliver . Comcast business

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