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Transcripts For WRC News4 At 6 20240622

Around western virginia but we will be clearing out, the humidity way up. We will talk more about the oppressive conditions. The heat wave thats on for the workweek in just a few minutes. Now to the story of a woman who tried to save her husbands life by step nothing the middle of a violent attack at a maryland church. She was severely injured herself for doing that a man her prayer group waited to finish dinner and then suddenly lunged at her husband with a knife. 63yearold chung wong park was killed. 58yearold is fighting to survive. We have information from Court Documents that shed some light on why it happened. Police say song sue kim told them he wanted to retaliate against a korean for the way all koreans had treated him. He reportedly told police he had this thought in his mind for eight years. Before the wife stepped in, he stabbed park 11 times. Meagan fitzgerald has more on this attack that occurred inside the Anna Prayer Mountain Church in frederick. Reporter anna Prayer Church is a place of peace and love. This place is pretty popular among, you know, korean, you know, community. Reporter it is where kim has come for more than two decades but on monday he came to provide comfort to his community. Thats unthinkable really to us you know . It shouldnt happen. Reporter sunday night, around 7 45, Frederick County deputies got a call of a stack, when they arrive ted church, they found a husband and wife, both missionaries from south korea, lying on the floor with multiple stab wounds. On arrival, we found a very bloody crime scene. We found the two victims. Reporter Frederick County cher riff Chuck Jenkins says the suspect 30yearold song su kim came out of the kitchen. The wife was attacked second. The husband first. Reporter the wife was trying to save her husband and almost died in the process the sheriff says. Meanwhile, investigators say kim made his way down the Church Driveway where he called 911 to confess. Identified himself, said he was on the roadway waiting to be arrested. Reporter now, people in this congregation are waiting for answers while they continue to pray for peace and healing. We have to pray more hard. These days, these society. Now the bar of words between president obama and republican president ial candidate mike huckabee. The former arkansas governor is taking fair for invoking the holocaust while criticizing the iran nuclear deal. But he is just one candidate feeling the heat right now. Steve handelsman is livescorecard. Reporter thanks. Huck bind a lot of other republicans trampled by the rush to trump figure they cant get noticed unless they are provocative. Hillary clinton figured she has got the democratic nomination has her own problems. She is upside down in popularity with general election voters. She has still got a big lead with democrats in New Hampshire and in iowa, where Hillary Clinton today made a pitch for climate control. I want to get back to our country setting big, ambitious goals. Reporter but she got bad news as her email controversies continues. Clintons unfavorable ratings are 20 above her favorables in a new nbc marist poll. This has to give her supporters some amount of pause and some republicans a little bit of hope. Reporter Donald Trumpy states but polls show him leading in New Hampshire and almost tied for the iowa lead with scott walker in the 16candidate gop field. And the party chair sounds okay with trump. He is speaking out to people think in many cases, with both parties. Reporter frustrated rivals are desperate to get attention. Mike huckabee invoking the holocaust, charged the Obama Nuclear deal with iran that marched israelis to the door of the oven. From ethiopia, the president fired back. Ridiculous, if it werent so sad. Reporter barack obama knows poll problems. His were in the upper 30s, lower 40s in iowa and New Hampshire in 2011, but he went on to win both states in 2012, the kind of comeback that Hillary Clinton is counting on. Love the bike racks. Reporter but every major candidate, excluding democrat bernie sanders, is more unpopular than popular now in the key early states. Bush, walker huckabee rubio, trump and clinton. Im steve handelsman, news4. Doreen back to you. Thank you, steve. Witnesses to a Controversial Police shooting appear before a special grand jury in Fairfax County today. About 20 people were subpoenaed. The special grand jury is looking into any wrongdoing by county Police Officer adam torres who shot and killed john gear two years ago. Torres claimed gear appeared to be reaching for a weapon, however other officers say gear did not make any threatening moves. The county paid gears family nearly 3 million to settleyear. A missing war veteran has been found alive. He was trapped under a fallen tree and this evening we are learning what may have prompted him to take a latenight stroll near his home. Someone spotted larry sade along ardmore road in spring dale maryland, just a few blocks from where he lives. Tws4s pat colins this afternoon. Pat . Reporter wendy, the missing man is missing no more found alive this afternoon in the woods about a block from his home. Imagine this spending an entire week in the woods, wedged beneath this fallen tree. That appears to have been the fate of 66yearold larry sade. Found this afternoon by the Prince Georges County firefighters. Im just happy man, we found him. Thats the bought to. Ttom line, happy we found him in one piece. Reporter mr. Sade lives in this elder care home in the spring dale section of Prince Georges County county. Early last monday, he simply walked away from the place. Everybody has been shocked about him being missing. Reporter larry sade, his friends say he was a vietnam veteran. And it wasnt like him to go for a walk certainly not by himself, or at 1 00 in the morning. Recently, they say though, he was diagnosed with cancer and they say that might have something to do with what he did. Imelda clark runs the elder care home. She says there was some other Health Issues as well. He also had dementia which i dont think he was being treated for. Once he went for a walk he became completedly confused, just couldnt find his way back. Reporter tonight mr. Sade is in the hospital for treatment. He is expected to survive. His week in the woods. Back to you. Pat collins thank you, pat. Funerals today for Jillian Johnson two killed in last weaks Movie Theater shooting in louisiana. Friends remembering johnson as a talented artist and singer. Breaux, a radiology student, who had been planning her wedding. Nine others were hurt in that shooting. As the victims are being laid to rest, we are learning more now about the gunman in that awful attack. Detectives say john houser planned the rampage meticulously. He wrote the exact date time and movie he was planning to hit. Investigators are also focusing on housers Mental Health. Atf investigators say he legally purchased the gun in alabama last year, but in 2008, Court Records show his family had him committed to a Psychiatric Hospital in georgia. The apparent oversight happened despite new safeguards adopted after the Virginia Tech massacre. 40 states including georgia, now authorize or require the reporting of Mental Health records to a federal database for background checks. Its not clear why housers hospitalization did not turn up database. There is a new push now for the district to rejoin the chase for the 2024 olympics. News4s Pat Lawson Muse is in the newsroom to tell us why bostons loss could be d. C. s gain. Pat . Reporter wendy, boston mayor marty walsh refused to allow his taxpayers to foot any part of the bill for the olympics so today, boston and the u. S. Olympic committee agreed to pull the plug on bostons bid for the games. And that could be good news for d. C. Council member jack evans tells us that washington was the best choice from the start and he says the district is still interested in getting the bid. In previous arguments, the district has said that d. C. , maryland and virginia are more than well equipped to handle the event. The city argue that our region has about 130,000 hotel rooms and more than 136 million square feet of retail space. The district also called itself the most walkable city in the u. S. At the time, d. C. Was competing with boston, San Francisco and los angeles to land the 2024 games. So we will see what happens. And we wanted to know how you felt about todays developments and about the possibility of the district getting back into the olympic competition. So we asked. You a caught on hidden camera why a new effort to crackdown on aggressive towing may not be helping you any time soon. Spray painted with the words black lives matter, tonight, the growing debate over what to do with this controversial confederate statue outside a local courthouse. Imam julie carey outside Loudoun County, where a county a county executive called the act of cran valvandalism despicable. Chris gordon has more. Reporter recent controversy focused on this confederate memorial statue in rockville, maryland. The issue, should it stay or go . Overnight, it apparent lives the target of vandalism. Black lives matter and other graffiti at the base of a confederate statue that sits outside the rockville courthouse, it happened overnight and we first told but it in our nbc washington app. The memorial was erected in 1913, 50 years after the battle of gettysburg for the purpose of nationalism and reunification. Montgomery county executive ike leggett, who has been planning to remove the confederate memorial from its Current Location wants who as far responsible for this vandalism caught. Maybe the cemetery in bellsville, some other place, but i dont believe with crating it off and putting it in storage. I am a defendant of both confederate soldiers and slaves. Reporter tony cone is with the man nair rah foundation, dedicated to the preservation of underground railroad history. Variety of ideas have been discussed, battlegrounds, graveyards, public spaces. Reporter susan cook sauderburg included a picture of rockvilles confederate memorial in her book les we forget she doesnt want to see it moved. Im a historian. I have to say no. It is an artifact of history and it belongs where it was placed in the center of the city. Reporter the decision to remove the memorial has been placed on hold. The county executive tells me the costs could run upwards of 100,000. Reporting from rockville, chris gordon, news4. Voters are divided on whether the Confederate Flag should be removed from the state license plates. According to the quinnipiac poll released today 46 support the removal, 45 oppose it. Voters mr. Also asked how they think their local leaders are handling their jobs in general. Governor Terry Mcauliffe has a 50 Approval Rating senator tim kaine, 52 , senator mark warner 59 . Turning to our weather now its been a wet, noisy afternoon depending on where you live. Intense thunderstorms just dumped rain on some of us. Take a look at this video from d. C. This is on ohio drive. You can see the water just pouring from an overpass and flooding the streets below. Turn to Veronica Johnson to find out what we are seeing as the night progresses seeing the sun most areas. There we are. Gone from thunderstorms to sunshine. This is what we have got activitywise the showers and the storms that came through d. C. Those really faded quickly down through the northern neck, some storms, pretty quiet got this one little cell right now around areas of Howard County producing light rain, travels east, east toward Maryland City over route 1. And some more showers and thunderstorms, even off to our west, around luray, harrisonburg right now. That is headed south toward areas like green and Orange County, toward rutgersville the next couple of minute, producing moderate to heavy rains there. Heavy rain, even some roads closed around arlington area a couple of hours ago. Temperatures way down in a hurry, dropping 15 degrees in an hours time when those thunderstorms came through d. C. We are back into the 80s, start cooling down about another hour. 70s for rehoboth and ocean city. No rain there right now. 84 degrees, we are sticky at current temperature holding so we could go up another degree before we head down into the 70s. Sticky 70s by 10 to 11 p. M. Storms will be windsing down now, but for tomorrow, we still could see an isolated shower or thunderstorm around the area. Lower chances for tomorrow. Got higher heat so the weather will have a low to moderate impact on your day tomorrow. Check out these feel like readings the next couple of days it is a heat wave for us this week another building heat wave, just at the at the front part of it. Theres the back end on thursday. The temperature on friday, 92, but with much less humidity around. So, tomorrow, wednesday, thursday, the real oppressive days that we have got to deal with, of course, thursday, the worst of it, 106, the heat index value. And that will come with some thunderstorms around the area as well. Your commuter forecast for tomorrow morning, some fog, we are warm, 78, got 84 degrees between 8 and 10 a. M. Another day also tomorrow with some clouds moving through from time to time. This is a look at what it will look like across our area 7 a. M. Watch what happens by the afternoon. Sunshine, clouds, fighting to give us a decent day much like today fewer storms popping across area, isolated chances tomorrow. Exercise early in the day. The best time period will be prior to 11 a. M. , we are at 87 degrees at 11 a. M. , upper 80s to low 90s for tomorrow afternoon but feeling more like we are 95 for a heat index reading. Here is your tuesday, wednesday thursday. Again, 96 degrees on thursday. Very oppressive with some strong afternoon thunderstorms coming through, the hottest day out of the workweek, take a look at your weekend and more with this upcoming heat wave in a few minutes. Thanks veronica. Rescue crews are expanding their search as they look for two boys missing off Floridas Atlantic coast. Perry cohen and Austin Stephan knows, both 14, disappeared during a fishing trip friday. They have been missing since they went fishing in a small boat on friday. The coast guard found their damaged, capsized boat about 170 miles north of the boys lastknown position. The families say they are confident in the teens ability to survive at sea. The family and nfl hall of Famer Joe Namath walked the beat looking for anything unusual. We believe the boys are still out there and only focus in on bringing those boys back home and thats critical. Thats critical for us. I just want them home. I know he is coming home. I just want him no home now. The boys family says the teens are experienced boaters and fishermen and not unusual for them to take the boat out on their own. A strong message for a major automaker. Tonight, the punishment for chrysler amid claims of neglect surrounding millions of recalled vehicles. Has the silver line really improved your commute . I its a road the Auto Industry has rarely been down before, massive fines, as much as 105 million, but here is the twist. Fiat chrysler will also have to buy back nearly half a million recalled vehicles. Find the list of eligible vehicles on our website, nbcwashington. Com. Its been a year and one day since the silver line started shuttling passengers to northern virginia. Metro Officials Say this would dramatically cut down on traffic, especially Tysons Corner. Adam tuss live in tysons tonight to tell us if the silver line is really taking cars off the road. Thats a right, wendy. The big take away from today is that ridership on the silver line was 30 short what was expected the first year, still, Transportation Leaders are painting an optimistic picture of whats ahead. Positive outlook. You almost cannot overstate its importance. Reporter positive outlook. Ness transitorient france sitoriented development is expanding. Reporter positive outlook. 18 billion worth of development under way near the silver line station. Happy birthday to you reporter a song for the silver line and cake even cut, crunching the numbers, the line fell short of ridership goals by 30 in its first year. On the street, talking about if the traffic had gotten any better i think bringing more people into tysons as they build more and more things around here. I dont know if you net out with less traffic and not more the roads dont get bigger, so itysons, tough enough as it is. Reporter they acknowledge there is more work to be done. I cant say definitively that the line has significantly reduced traffic over one year, but things are improving. Reporter metro says there is room to grow the ridership on the line and stations are showing strong ridership. Virginia congressman connolly says the siller are line will continue to attract people. Plans have been approved to double the number of people who live in tysons the next few years. Reporter Tysons Corner has more office space than downtown atlanta and phoenix. And leaders expect this place to turn into a true city. Doreen back to you. Wow. All right. Adam tuss, thank you. A warning to stay off some popular trails after the sun goes down. What one

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