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Transcripts For WRC News4 Today At 6 20160412

And on the cold side, upper 30s to near 40 by this time tomorrow morning, but that comes with sunshine. And now new trouble on the commute. Bringing news on the roads here. Big problem 95 northbound at Franconia Springfield parkway, we now have a five mile backup. This has grown very quickly. You only have the right side of the roadway getting by that one right lane. No word on how quickly this might be out of the way. Well send chopper. Red line delays to shady grow because of a malfunction at woodley park. Inner loop after st. Barnabas, crash on the left side. 301 north at Pointer Ridge road, left lane blocked there. You can see the rain all over the place. 270 at old hundred, it is raining especially northern part of 270 making for a messy morning commute. Going to talk more about the breaking news coming up. And d. C. Police just confiran metro station that left a 15yearold dead. Lets check in with molette green live now with new information. Reporter good morning. We just got this new information about 30 minutes ago. We got confirmation from police, they arrested an 18yearold northeast man in the stabbing that the Deanwood Metro. Later today, we expect to hear more from police, a possible motive in the case. John evans is the second teenager killed it at the deanwood station in as many weeks. He was just 15 years old. His family tells us he was in town only to make a court appearance. But all of that came to an end when someone stabbed him as he made his way through a fare gate and headed toward an escalator. His mother spoke to us after learning what happened to her son. Just took a part of me cant get back. Im sure take there is no good reason he would tell me why he did it. Take there is no good reason he would tell me why he did it. I pray for him and i pray for his mom. Evans stabbing comes just three weeks after another teen was killed at the deanwood station. Shot and killed there. It was an arrest made in that case. And both of these cases, there have been concerns raised about the lack of a Police Presence at the Deanwood Metro. Again, were outside Police Headquarters where later today d. C. Police are expected to give more details in this arrest. Back to you. Breaking new tails abodetai brussels terror attacks. Angie goff is at the live desk. Two men tied reportedly to this apartment that served as a hide outto one of the suicide bomb irs. Also hearing that o was supposed to blow positihims but didnt follow through with the plan. Both charged with terrorist murders and accomplice. 32 people died in the two attacks in brussels on that day last month. He is accused of beating up his wife, but today the Anne Arundel County sheriff plans on go back to work. Sheriff bateman says he will only handle administrative tasks. Police charged bateman with Second Degree assault after finding his wife with injuries to her face at the family home on sunday night. The share river denied the attacking his wife. Parents of officer noah leotta recognized for helping pass one of the toughest drunk driving laws in the country. At the final hour, maryland state lawmakers passed noahs law named in honor of Police Officer noah leotta who was hit and killed by a driver. The bill requires anyone convicted of drunk driving with a 0. 08 or higher blood alcohol level to have an ignition interlock device in their car. Hes a hero in all of this. I just had to do this for noah. I said that, you heard me say that a long time ago. And i would always fight for him. As part of noahs law, if someone refuses a breathalyzer test, they will either have to install an interlock for nine months or have their license suspended for that time. All the bill needs now is governor hogans signature. And noahs law came at the end of a marathon final day for lawmaker. The General Assembly also passed a new criminal Justice Reform bill, that aims to reduce sentences for nonviolent drug offenders and focus on treatment. A plan to change how officers in maryland are hired, trained and disciplined also today to celebrate equal pay day, president obama will designate a new National Monument to honor the women equality movement. The Belmont House served as headquarters for the National Womens party since 1929. Today it becomes the belmont paul womens equality National Monument named for alva belmont and alice paul. And today hundreds plan to protest for a second day in a row, 400 members of the group democracy spring were arrested yesterday and Capitol Police are bracing to make more arrests came. The group wants lawmakers to vote on Campaign Finance reform. They say money has too much influence on elections and Congress Needs to protect american voting rights. The group is planning sitins all week. 6 06 now. Governor mcauliffe is vetoing legislation that would allow the electric chair as the method of execution. Instead, mcauliffe proposed to keep the names of supply lethal injection drugs secret. He says yesterdays proposal would protect the businesses from public scrutiny, perhaps making the drugs more readily available. Two people will receive awards for their help in the arrest of Jesse Matthew jr. Last month the charlottesville man pled guilty of firstdegree murder in the deaths of both Morgan Harrington and hannah graham. Yesterday we learned a local Crime Stoppers branch will award a shtwo residents who helped le to his arrest. A Prince Georges County school will be closed for the day. There is a water main break in clinton, maryland. School district says Surrattsville High School has been closed for today. Making ends meet while out on Maternity Leave. A growing trend among mothers. Also ahead, a pair of metro stations may soon have new names. The changes that could be made and why ride and breaking news on the roads, a major backup on 95 in virginia. Dell have 95 northbound in virginia, we just got all of the vehicles off to the left side. It is still slow for about five miles headed northbound there. Its a little slow through woodbridge, it opens up and then gets slow again. Southbound bw parkway at 450, police activity. Re red line delays at shady grove. 270 looking good. Of 66, youre on. 95 take a look, an hour and a half just a mess as youre headed northbound. Remember listen to wtop 103. 5 fm when you hop this your car for the latest specifically especially on this problem. A 98 minute commute, that is ugly. Right now the update on the weather is that it is cloudy, mild and it is wet outside. Camera views show all cloudy skies and radar tracking light to pockets of briefly moderate rain. Steadiest right at the heart of northern Montgomery County, right over central portions of Prince Georges County, as well. So have your umbrellas with you. Your commuter forecast mild and showery. Temperatures mid60s this morning. Clearing out turning breezy and cooler this afternoon. Temperatures falling back into the upper 50s to near 60. A look at the weekend in ten micht minutes. Federal Health Officials say the zika virus is even scarier than originally thought. Researchers now say unborn ie pregnancy rather than just the first trimester. The mosquitos that carry the virus have now been found in 30 states including d. C. , maryland and virginia. The biggest risk may be for pregnant women along the gulf course. Houston, new orleans, maybe tampa, we are highly vulnerable to seeing zika virus transmission. The more and more we learn, the more and more you get concerned about the scope of what the virus is doing. Health Officials Say they dont anticipate a widespread zika virus in the u. S. , but Everyone Needs to be prepared and he had indica educated. Cardell hayes is accused of willing will smith. The suspects Attorney Says another car hit hayes first and hayes was following smith to get information. The former nfl player was shot six times an update to the story out of texas where Police Officer was accused of slamming a sixth fwrader to the ground. The officer has been fired. The superintendent of the School District said what the officer did was, quote, absolutely unwarranted and fired him. The district also said the officers report didnt tell the whole story. The student was not seriously hurt. A southeast neighborhood shaken by the shooting of a little girl received some good news. D. C. Mayor Muriel Bowser visited residents last night to announce the arrest of 27yearold michael wiggins. Police say a stray bullet from his gun hit a 7yearold girl last friday on knox place. She is still in the hospital in fair condition. The secret service says he tried to jump the white house fence last mocht anth and now a arrest warrant has been issued for jose fuertes for not showing up to dourt. He was arrested on bike racks that serve as a barrier. He was charged with a misdemeanor. Today adam thiel will be named philadelphias new fire ghigsner. Hes the Virginia Deputy secretary of Public Safety and home lachd security right now. Before that he was the alexandria fire chief for about seven years. Were monitoring what could be a critical meeting in the nomination process for Supreme Court nominee merrick garland. Judge garland will meet with Senate Judiciary committee dhar than Chuck Grassley this morning. Grassley has the power to decide whether the senate will hold a confirmation hearing for the Supreme Court nominee. Many republicans say president obama should not be allowed to fill antonin scalias seat. Retired Navy Destroyer scheduled to be scrapped, we now know when the display ship barry will be kochoez. It will be saty increased security has made it more and more difficult for tourists to visit the ship. To metro station names help you figure out where youre going . Adam tuss tells us why the rans its agency is thinking about a couple of name changes. Reporter with all that is going on with metro these day, you might be saying a name change isnt the most important thing on the books. But two pretty busy stations could be getting name changes according to a presentation this thursday. One right here at foggy bottom, they would like to add Kennedy Center to the name of the metro station here to give it more of a sense of place. And the other station name that could be changing, national mall, they want to add that to the smithsonian station to see if that would work and make it information a clearer understanding and examination for riders. These name changes come up periodically. Well see if they get approved. If they do, they wouldnt take effect for a couple years when the next phase of the s line comes on line. In northwest, adam tuss, news 4. There is now evidence of brain injuries in living nfl veterans. According for new research by the American Academy of neurology, 17 out of 43 retired Football Players who were tested showed signs of traumatic brain injury. This is the first time any research has used living players. One way of reducing the danger is eliminating tackling during practices. A step some Ivy League Football programs are already taking. In nenews 4 your health, you smoke, you may have a tough time finding a job and when you do, you may earn less than nonsmokers. Researches at Stanford University say smokers earned about 8,000 less per year than those who did not smoke. The results also showed nonsmokers were 24 more likely to get a job. The study took into consideration other factors including sex, criminal history, a persons access to stable housing. So not all women get paid Maternity Leave and that is up go fund me accounts to raise money so that they can take time off work after they have their baby. Critics say if the woman cannot afford to have a baby, maybe she should wait. Olivia sterns shares both sides of the story ahead on the today show. There are some countries including parts of scandinavia where women get a whole year paid Maternity Leave and the argument is that they create a better workforce and happier workforce an ultimately create better products because of the happiness at the workplace. Interesting that when you dont have that option, there are other ways that people are getting creative to try to make up the loss of working. Lets check your forecast now. 6 19 about on this tuesday morning. Chuck bell, we like your smile today because we know and then you hold up the umbrella. He was going on such a reminder for everyone, this is what you need first thing this morning. You wont need it all day. By later this afternoon, well turn morning raindrops in to afternoon rays of sunshine. But we wont get the big warmup. 73 yesterday afternoon, and today the warmest part of the day is right now. Temperatures in the low to mid60s already. If youre head willed out for a walk or jog, it will be a wet start, but it will be breezy and dry. So if you have a choice between running in the rain this morning or in the dryness this afternoon, make your pick. Outside storm team 4 radar here, light rain showers starting to taper off in far western maryland. Gladly that drying trend will reach us here in the metro, as well. But light pockets of rain go all the way down into Southern Maryland and northern neck. Not raining all that hard. Here is youre High Resolution computer model to help you with by 8 00 this morning, most of the rain will be out of the Shenandoah Valley by 8 00 or 9 00 this morning at the latest. By about 10 00 or 11 00, rain starting to taper off in the northern or western suburbs. Here is noontime now, rain tapering off in the metro, but steady showers continue up to about 1 00 or 2 00 this afternoon for st. Marys and southern calvert county. But even there, you should be back to sunshine by 4 00, 5 00 this afternoon. Skies clear out overnight and it will be a way colder morning tomorrow than it is now. 63 now and showery and mild here for the remainder of the morning. Clearing out, breezy and cooler temperatures falling back into the 50s late this afternoon into this evening. So if youre heading to the baseball game, hoping for another nats win, it will be a chilly one. And by early tomorrow morning, temperatures will be back down this to the 30s and 40s. A little more typical of what weve seen. The rest of the workweek is looking great. Better still, your weekend looks even better, sunshine on saturday, highs 66. Even nicer on su breaking news continues in first 4 traffic. Six mile backup, breaking news northbound here on 95, it is a mess this morning. Chopper 4 over this accident that is now on the shoulder, it doesnt matter. We still have a massive backup about a all the lanes were blocked just a short time ago. So 95 north at Franconia Springfield parkway is where this is and we have a six mile backup. Northbound near triangltriangle crash. And very slow. 01 north at Pointer Ridge drive, left lane blocked. Inner loop after st. Barnabas, a crash but stdoesnt look too ba. 270 at old run, it looks slow. We do have rain falling across the area. Adding to these messes this morning. Well take a look again at this problem on 95 at 6 31. New push to of low paid workers in our area. What Montgomery County leaders hope to raise the minimum wage to and when it could take effect. But first, not the kind of road you want to find yourself driving on. Look at that hole. A camera is rolling as a sinkhole opens up in the middle of the street. Delores kelley although we were all one maryland, our schools werent treated the same way. Narrator with neighborhoods getting unequal funding for schools, something had to be done for our children. Kelley it didnt matter where chris was from. He knew that we couldnt leave a child having less just because they lived in a region that was poor. Joanne benson he has not just talked about it. He is going to stand tall for all children to succeed. Im chris van hollen, and i approved this message. The cleanup is under way in parts of arkansas after severe storms. Strong thunderstorms and hail pounded central and southern parts of the state. More than 6,000 people lost power during the storm. We just checked, and it looks like about 1500 people are still without power. Its a good thing nobody was in the middle of this this road in central california. It collapsed. Take a closer look at the sinkhole here getting bigger. Its a 15foot deep hole youre looking at there in the city of madera. If you look closely, you can see some fragles down there dancing i was going to ask you, what is down there . Shark maybe. There is a sewer line apparently and so that and maybe heavy rain may be what caused the road to collapse. A frightening emergency landing. The plane small wheels collapsed on the runway in glendale, arizona and the nose slides right into the ground. There were two people on board, but neither was hurt. The plane also did not have any serious damage. More than just your morning latte. The new m

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