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Transcripts For WRC News4 Midday 20240622

Police returning to the Central Gardens of apartments. This is where the two Security Guards were shot overnight. You can see the officers are putting three men in handcuffs. These three individuals were then taken by police from the scene. Now this happened just about an hour ago not far from where the shooting happened. These men were over by the pool area just behind the building where the shooting happened. Police, we should say, put out a tweet just a short time ago saying that there have been no arrests in connection with the murder of a Security Guard in Capitol Heights and they will announce any significant updates as they happen. It was 1 00 in the morning. Two Security Guards were here doing their jobs. They were working when somebody opened fire. This woman lights a candle near the spot where the two Security Guards were shot. She said the guards were friendly and there to protect them. They were kind. They just had to do their jobs. Reporter it was 1 00 in the morning. The Security Guards were on duty at the Central Gardens apartments when someone opened fire. One of the guards was killed and police say this was no random act of violence. At the time of the shooting, it appears the guards were inside their vehicle doing paperwork. And it appears they were targeted . Yes, maam. Were two cars were towed from the scene. Investigators left with several bags of ed as well, includeing what looked like a bullet proof vest. Regulars say the guards are armed. Its unclear if either of the victims returned fire. Its so sad. Reporter this woman didnt want her face shown but she says the guard who was killed was a young man and a dedicated father. The sad thing about it, he was so young. His daughter is about two or three years old. He would talk to us. Reporter and police say that after the murder, a black Dodge Charger was seen speeding away from the scene going toward central avenue. They are asking any witnesses to come forward. Police saying at this point no arrests have been made. Back to you. Also happening right now in Prince Georges County firefighters going through an Apartment Building that burned this morning in New Carrollton. Just off annapolis road inside the beltdway, were waiting to here what caused the fire and whether or not anybody was hurt. And this just breaking now. We understand that five vehicles carrying the four marines killed in chattanooga are on their way to virginia from tennessee. We do not know exactly where those bodies are being carried to. We understand that the suspected shooters body is also in this caravan being accompanied by police cars. At the same time, were learning more about two of the marines who were killed. Skip wells was 21 years old and from georgia and Thomas Sullivan was 40 years and from massachusetts. Served two tours of duty in iraq and earned a purple heart. A againman opened fire on thursday killing two marines. We are working to find out more about the other two marines who were killed. The t gunman was killed in a fire fight with police. This morning the fbi is digging into the the life of Mohammad Youssuf abdulazeez. They say he was not under fbi surveillance and was not on any watch list. The fbi is looking into his past travels to the middle east. Officials say several years ago his father was investigated for a potential connection to a terror organization. Nothing was found. This morning childhood friend say they never expected anything like this. I want people to know that he wasnt always like this. He was a completely different person growing up. You can usually get a creepy vibe off of someone. He did not put out that kind of vibe. In our next half hour, well have a live report from tennessee where more on how investigation v investigators are looking into this suspects social media activity. Looking outside right now, some ominous clouds across the area. You can see here a live look with the capitol. No rain in the storms. Scanning the sky, everywhere is dry. Lone showers in maryland and for the most part dry today, maybe a mountain shower or thunderstorm that would be west of i 81. A mix of clouds and sun shine into the afternoon hours. Heres sky cast at noon. Some peeks of sun shine. The humidity is back. Coming up in about soten minutes more on temperatures and what you can expect for the high and this weekend potentially a sixday heat wave. Not looking forward to that. Right now police are trying to figure out how a woman lost control of her car before killing and hitting a mother of hit. It happened yesterday wheaton. The 83yearold driver lost control of her car and hit a utility pole and struck the woman. Were learning several pedestrians have been hit and killed by drivers in that area. Police could like to hear from you if you were in the area. We are two hours of the from a nasa releasing two new images of pluto. Nasa is taking questions today from the public. You can tweet them your questions using the hash tag ask nasa glnchts nasa nasa. A terrifying tornadoes new today on news 4 midday were hearing accounts from people who say the storm destroyed we following the stories youre clicking on this morning. The lock necessary monster might not be real. Shocking i know, but theres a marine expert who says it is likely a very large cat fish. Specifically, its most likely a wells cat fish which can grow up to 13 feet long and weigh more than 800 pounds. You cant eat that one. If you stay at the henna hotel in japan it features a robot. The robots greet you and pour your coffee and do the cleaning. The hotel also says it uses face recognition instead of room keys. Henna translate into strange. Tms noticed earlier this week if you were trying to use the hash tag Caitlyn Jenner nothing would column column column. Instagram blocked the ability to see recent texts and photos because there was a comment of awful uploads. Were back with m it was just destruction. Theres nothing left. The everything are flattened. Theres houses moved off their foundations. I mean, it was a big one. Right now people outside chicago are cleaning up the mess left behind from a massive tornado. Lis police say the twister caused major damage. Right now no one except Emergency Personnel is being allowed in the town. So far no significant injuries reported reported. Tomorrow, not focussed on severe weather. We are focussed on the heat and humidity for tomorrow. Today the calm before the storm. Temperatures in the 70s. 79 in washington. And a high of 86 degrees and sun shine into the afternoon hours. Feels like temperatures starting this weekend on into monday over 100 degrees sunday and monday when you factor into the mugginess, we could be under a heat advisor on sunday and monday. We have your first 4 traffic and weekend work. Green line trains running on regular weekend schedule. Saturday yellow line trains every 15 minutes between hunting ton and mount vernon square. Sunday yellow line trains running every 15 minutes between hunting ton. Saturday and sunday buses replacing orange line trains between Eastern Market and New Carrollton carrollton. Vandals strike a local place of worship for a second time in a week. And something in your freezer right now police in manassas are searching for the person who targeted a Northern Virginia mosque. We are joined with more on the investigation. Now this unit is done. Reporter the latest apparent act of vandalism took out an ac unit. Workers just fixed it after someone cut into the pipes and the one right beside it days ago. This was monday morning. Reporter worshippers discovered the second incident including an electrical box found pried up during evening hours. Two days in the same week during this mosque and some no longer doubt the motive. I am starting to plooefbelieve its a hate crime. Somebody knows what theyre doing. Reporter its easy to get access to all three airconditioning units from the road. Theyre fast tracking a security plan to add lighting and cameras. Were not sure at this time whether its a biassed motive. Reporter still they say addressing the issue before it gets out of control is the right thing to do. Its incumbent on our nations political leaders to speak out against the kind of islam phobia thats growing in our nation and can lead to these kinds of attacks. Reporter the Police Stepped up controls and are on heightened alert. They tell me at this point theres nothing to indicate these cases are more than typical vandalism. In manassas, news 4. The anger and frustration very clear last night. A federal workers whose data was stolen confronted staff. Hundreds of workers gather for one of one assistance. Many questioned how effective credit monitoring can be since it is publicly known the monitoring lasts only 18 months. We know this breach affected a lot of people in our area. If you are one of the victims trying to safeguard your data from here on out we have a list of ideas on our website. You can go to nbcwashington. Com and search opm. Take a look at this nasty fight at a softball tournament in maryland. This video was taken two days ago. Police say the argument started over a player being kicked off of a new jersey travel softball team. Both men are now charged with Second Degree assault and disorderly conduct. George hw bush took a tumble. Doctors say the fracture to the vert bray will heal on its own. It didnt lead to any other injuries and were working to find out when hell be released from maine medical center. President obama called mr. Bush yesterday to wish him a speedy recovery. Heres the latest radar image. You can see the clouds continuing to form as we work into the midday hours. This is a sign of the humidity streaming into the area for the most part, mainly cloudy right now as we head into the afternoon. I think we will start to see a little bit more sun shine return. Partly sunny skies. Looking ahead to tomorrow theres a chance of a shower during the morning hours. Scattered showers likely during the afternoon and evening hours. Its hot and humid. Because of the humidity some heavy rain is possible and that could lead to flash flooding concerns later in the day tomorrow but aside from that, high winds and hail really not in the forecast with tomorrows storms. Ill be showing you future weather, timing out the storm potential in about ten minutes. New today, lets take a look inside your freezer and refrigerators. Aspen foods is recalling 2 Million Pounds of chicken. They say the raw chicken might be contaminated with sal manila. These are the ones to watch out for. The recalled products include chicken thats stuffed and bred and it also may appear cooked but its really raw. Three people have been infected so far. Earlier this week barbara foods of maine recalled 1. 3 Million Pounds of chicken over concerns. The trial of james holmes is heading into the sentencing phase now. Jurors will decide if he gets the death penalty. A jury found him guilty on 165 counts yesterday h. He killed 12 people and wounded dozens of others. Jurors rejected the idea that he was legally insane. If a single juror disagrees with the death sentence hell be sent to prison for life. New details about the brazen escape of a drug lord. It was 18 minutes before anybody was alerted about the escape of the man. Thats according to two mexican lawmakers. We know the story by now. He sneaked into a milelong tunnel saturday night and now a massive man hunt is underway. Mexicos interior minister says anybody who helped him will be punished. Suge knight is headed back to court to argue his bail in his murder case should be reduced to 10 million. Right now bail is set at 25 million million. They say it is excessive. They say it is appropriate given his failure to appear for hearings from previous cases. He has been in court for allegedly running over two men with his truck. One of the men died. Knight has pleaded not guilty. Police are asking nicely for you n if you scooped up any of the money that fell out of an armored truck, please return it. Thousands of dollars flew out of the truck wednesday night in the Baltimore Harbor tunnel. Drivers stopped and began picking the money up. They say the Door Security malfunctioned. They say anyone who took some of the cash can return it without being prosecuted for theft. The led deddeadline is 5 00 p. M. Tomorrow. The mishap in the air that could have been a disaster. Suddenly it was all trees and then it was fire. Were hearing from a drive 16yearold girl who lived through a Small Plane Crash in washington state. She was flying home with her step grant parents who were killed when the small plane went down. She was with her grandparents. Saturday they plane flew into bad weather. She messaged her boyfriend at the time if i die remember i love you. She survived and her grabd grandparents did not. Shes sharing her remarkable story. My instinctual was to go straight downhill. I got this surge of will power and it was like theres no way i can die without hugging somebody again. She went two nights in the forest, fell down a cliff and scaled water falls on day three, in the woods she found a road and followed it to get help. What a story. Well, this is not what you want to see in your house. A plane propeller. Thats what youre looking at that. It smashed through the roof of a home in new york yesterday. The faa says the small single engine plane developed mechanical problems but theyre not sure why the propeller fell off. The pilot and everyone inside the home is, at the time, were told, are okay. Where you can take in a movie under the stars this weekend and will the if you like movies and the outdoors, we have an event for you. The citys 13th annual Film Festival begins today. It wraps up tomorrow at water front park. On friday the city is showing how to train your dragon two. Saturday is x men, days of future past. Its free to get in but popcorn and drinks you can purchase. Dont forget to bring your chair and blanket. Films start around 8 30, when it gets dark. And heres a look at future weather. No starting off at 5 00 a. M. The chance of showers. Otherwise a mix of clouds and sun shine. Most of the area is try. Partly sunny skies throughout the day. A little bit more cloud cover than sun. Its hot and humid, and with the heat and humidity, i think we will be tracking some thunderstorms during the afternoon hours. Here we are at about 2 00. Notice the brighter colors on future weather. 4 00 p. M. Is heavy rainfall moving through the area. Its not a washout tomorrow but if you have outdoor plans, have a plan b. Be able to move indoors quickly and when you factor into the humidity tomorrow, its going to feel like 100 degrees. In about ten mipnutesminutes, well have a look ahead. Japans Prime Minister says the government will select an entirely new design for the 2020 oh limbiclympic plans. Building costs swelled from an initial budget of 1 billion to 2 billion. The Prime Minister says hes confident the stadium will be finished on time for the games. And right now, a consumer alert for you. Scammers posing they make Little Hearts happy and big hearts happy too because as part of a heart healthy diet those delicious oats in cheerios can help lower cholesterol. Cheerios. How can something so little. Help you do something so big. We are live in Capital Heights where a deadly shooting happened early this morning in this parking lot at the central gashdens apartments. Two Security Guards were in their cars filling out paperwork around 1 00 this morning when they were fired upon. One of the guards was killed. Now, investigators say this was no random act of violence. They say the Security Guards were targeted. In speaking to residentings here, they say that Security Guards around here are armed but its unclear if the victims tried to return fire. The police who live here say the guard who was killed was a dedicated father and that he was great with the neighborhood kids too. He would interact with the kids all the time. He was very good with the kids very good with the kids. He was a good guy. Reporter and a get away car is believed to be a black Dodge Charger. It was seen going out of the parking lot and heading toward central avenue, and i should also mention that police say at this point they have made no arrests. Reporting live in Capitol Heights, Megan Mcgrath news 4. Developing right now at the live desk police are drying to figure out how a virginia man ended up dead. Police were called to his house last night in the springfield area. Police got there and they found the plan with gunshot wounds outside on his front step. He was taken to the hospital and died. Police investigating the circumstances surrounding his death. They believe this was an isolated incident and there was another man involved who they believe knew the victim. This is unsettled to see the least. Friday prayers in the capital terrain were interrupted by chants of death to america. This was after the signing of a landmark deal. This is being chanted from several hundred hard liners. Many others in iran have welcomed the agreement. We know who will be running the d. C. Dna testing lab. Jennifer smith will take the helm of the troubled agentcy. She has served as a special agent the last director of d. C. s office of Forensic Sciences was fired after a damming report on lab practices. Temperatures up and noting an increase in humidity. Yesterday a perfect 10. Right now 79 degrees in washington. In the mountains, a good place to be. Plenty of sun shine. Most of us looking at plenty of cloudiness and as we go into the afternoon hours the clouds still win out. I think well start to see a little bit more sun shine. A high today around 87. Hea

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