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WRC News4 Today At 6 June 22, 2024

A look at your bus stop Weather Forecast in the next weather and traffic on the 1s. Whats happening now, melissa . Update on the 95 northbound situation. We are still quite slow. Getting a tiny bit better. 95 north at courthouse road, got the crash on the shoulder. It was a semi in the center lane. Still going pretty slowly as youre headed northbound. The problem is in fredericksburg, northbound here after stafford as you approach triangle. After that, its not so bad. The travel times are fairly good from quantico northbound. 70 south, to clarksburg and then some red line delays to shady grove from earlier delays. New this morning, d. C. Police investigating two shootings that happened hours ago. One on florida avenue in southeast d. C. , a man was shot on Frederick Douglas place. Molette green has more on the violent night. She is at police headquarters. Molette . Reporter yeah, aaron, two shootings as you mentioned coming just hours after the Police Chiefs latest appeal to the public to help put an end to this wave of violence in the city. D. C. Police telling us the man shot in southeast was hit in the stomach, was conscious and was breathing when he went to the hospital. No word on suspects. Police scoured that scene there in southeast d. C. , Frederick Douglas place where all of this happened. Then around the same time, another shooting in northeast on florida avenue. That victim was conscious and breathing when they found him. We had a chance to look over the numbers that d. C. Police put out about the numbers of murders this year alone. 94 in the capital city compared to 72 last year around the same time. D. C. Police say they have made some progress in arresting suspects. Well, well check in with molette throughout the hour. Police in northwest d. C. Put out new surveillance video. Take a look at your screen here. This is related to a deadly shooting. The six different men with all persons of interest in a shooting that happened on 7th street northwest last weekend. Police say a gunfight broke out by the shaw metro station. Matt shlonsky was caught in the middle of it and died. If you think you recognize any of the men in the video, call d. C. Police. Im Meagan Fitzgerald at the live desk. We are following a developing story out of bangkok. Officials just released images of a suspect in mondays deadly bombing at a shrine. Now, thai police are looking for this man, seen wearing a backpack and yellow shirt. The images were captured from television footage near the shrine. The explosion killed 22 people including nine foreigners. 120 others are injured. Officials say in a separate incident today, a man threw a small explosive device from a bridge. It landed in the water and no one was injured. Meagan fitzgerald, thank you. 6 04. Developing in indonesia, the search and rescue team did reach the site of the plane crash today. Crews uncovered the black box there and that should help determine what caused it to go down. All 54 people on board died. Thundershowers in china complicating efforts from the deadly warehouse explosions. Teams specializing in handling hazardous chemicals are scrambling to clean up that blast site. 700 tons of sodium cyanide were stored at the warehouse when it exploded last week. Almost 70 others are still missing. We are told at least one person who works for the company that owns that warehouse has been arrested. Today, more testimony expected in the murder trial of an oxon hill hotel manager. Prince georges county police say Deandre Weems attempted to rob the Clarion Hotel two years ago. They say jesse chavez tried to stop him and weems shot him in the chest. Chavez died. The hotel worker who weems threatened with a gun testified yesterday. Chavezs mother could take the stand during the trial. And in another courtroom, a suspect in the murder of a Mary Washington student will be arraigned. Today, steven briel will head back to court in fredericksburg. He strangled grace mann back in april, police say. They were both students at the university. We are learning that his lawyer may ask for a Mental Health examination. You can check out the nbc washington app for updates later this morning as we continue to learn more. And developing this morning, a former Fairfax County Police Officer is behind bars on murder charges. Adam torres turned himself in last night after a grand jury charged him in the death of john geer. He was on the job when he shot and killed geer two years ago. Torres said that deer gear was reaching for a gun. Coming up, derrick ward has more on why hell stay in jail for a while. A controversial vote for lawmakers in frederick county, maryland. The county will vote on whether to revoke the all english only ordinance. That law requires county business to be conducted in english. Supporters of the english only law say that it allows the county to avoid printing documents in multiple languages which saves money. Several Council Members said theres no evidence to support that. The president ial candidates in iowa continue today. Marco rubio and john kasich will take voters questions. They had strong performances at the first republican debate. The state Department Says as many as 305 of Hillary Clintons private emails may have included classified information. Thats about 5 of the emails the state department has sifted through so far. The revelation came after clinton said in an iowa radio interview she never sent or received any emails on her private server that had information clearly marked classified. A 1yearold left home alone. So what does the little tyke do . Calls 911, of course. That story and a recent rash of child neglect cases in Prince William county. This morning, hundreds of troops are now pitching in to put out the exploding wildfires in washington state. And an ava and i needed a little vacay. But we needed to watch our spending. Meaning i needed to watch nikki. Shes the spender. Im the saver. So, mobile banking from td bank helps me keep track. For both of us. She was just browsing. We gotta go. Im ava. Im nikki. And we bank human at td bank. What . Youre watching news4 today. In Prince William county, police had to deal with three child neglect cases this past weekend. Police arrested a 56yearold woman in woodbridge after she left a 1yearold baby at home. And in nokesville, a suspected drunk driver was arrested with a 12yearold Family Member inside the car sunday night. A 24yearold was charged with felony child neglect after falling asleep and letting a 3yearold wander into the street. That happened in dale city. Right now, wildfires continue to rage across near an area where several resorts are located in washington. This video was shot from a boat on lake chelan. You can see how close they are to the buildings along the shore. The fire has already charred more than 155 square miles and destroyed around 75 homes and businesses. About 2,600 firefighters are battling the wildfire. Theyre trying to establish a line to keep the flames from reaching downtown chelan. Now, a mandatory evacuation older remains in effect for more than 2,900 people. Time to get a check on the bus stop forecast. Tom kierein is in the storm team 4 Weather Center with everything we need to know. Good morning. Look at the sky, its like cotton candy on this tuesday morning. A nice pink glow there, turquoise background. Many students are back to school this morning, it will be in the low 70s between 7 00 and 8 00 and then it will get uncomfortably humid between 8 00 and 9 00. Partly sunny by then. Temperatures in the upper 80s. A look at the Storm Chances, next weather and traffic on the 1s at 6 21. Now melissa has an update. Brandnew crash here at the charlestown pike. 95 northbound at courthouse road, that crash is now cleared. Thats great of course. Still slow though out of fredericksburg all the way through triangle this morning, then it kind of opens up, 270 south top of the beltway, outer loop on time. 66 inbound and 95 north, from quantico to the beltway youre fine. Remember to listen to our friends from wtop 103. 5 f. M. When you hop in your car. Melissa, thank you. Happening today, in North Carolina a Police Officer accused of killing an unarmed man could learn his fate. Whats expected to happen in the case in a matter of hours. Also happening today, a decision on what some call viagra for women. But will the fda give that littl hey terry stop they have a special so, what did you guys think of the test drive . I love the jetta. But what about a deal . Terry, stop its quite alright. You know what . We want to make a deal with you. Were twins, so could you give us two for the price of one . Come on, give us a deal. Look at how old i am. Do you come here often . He works here, terry you work here, right . Yes. Ok lets get to the point. Were going to take the deal. Get a 1000 volkswagen reward card on select 2015 jetta models. Or lease a 2015 jetta s for 139 a month after a 1000 volkswagen bonus. Im Meagan Fitzgerald at the live desk. Were following a developing story out of wichita, kansas. A man is in custody after he brought an improvised explosive device to a womans clinic that provides abortions. Now, on monday, police say an onsite Security Guard inspected the backpack and they found that explosive device along with some knives. The building was evacuated. No one was injured. Back to you. This is a mild mannered type of man. He loved his kids with a powerful love. Thats what he was on his way to do. D. C. Family distraught over a husband and father who was stabbed to death. We first told you about this stabbing last week. D. C. Police say hector felix stabbed Eric Lee Smith in the heart at a bus stop on h street northeast. This happened after smith bumped a little girl with his bag. You heard from smiths widow there. Heres what his children had to say. Im going to miss him. Im just going to give him a big old embrace. He was a good dad. He is a good dad. Hes a great dad. Outstanding dad. Outstanding father. Smiths family says theyre now struggling to pay for his funeral. They started a gofundme page. We put a link to that on the nbc washington app. We did check for you this morning, its only raised about 190 so far. Well, a father facing murder charges for the death of his 5 week old son. Police arrested 28yearold robert smith sr. Yesterday. News4 cameras were there when Police Responded to the home on 9th street northwest. It was for an unconscious baby at the time and the childs death were told was suspicious. The infant died from blunt force injuries. Closing arguments start in a few hours in the case of a white North Carolina Police Officer. Officer Randall Kerik faces voluntary manslaughter charges. The officer didnt need to kill Jonathan Ferrell they say in 2014. They say he feared for his life when he responded to the breaking and entering call. New debate this morning over how to keep the six Police Officers who face charges in the death of freddie gray. He died in april after a spinal injury he somehow got during this arrest. Now the Baltimore Sun reports that a defense attorney for one of the officers filed a series of subpoenas that would force prosecutors and a medical examiner to attend hears as witnesses. Doing that could get them sequestered from the rest of the case. This afternoon, a sitting congressman is headed to court to fight charges he used grants and charitable donations to replay to repay a 1 Million Campaign loan. Pennsylvania congressman fatah is an 11term democrat. Prosecutors say he funneled money to pay for his sons student loans. Fatahs son is under indictment in a separate but related case. In news4 your health this morning, Drinking Coffee may help people fighting colon cancer. Researchers in boston say stage 3 colon Cancer Patients who drink four or more cups of coffee a day were less likely to die from the disease. The new study says that patients who drink coffee are less likely to have the cancer return. Cancer experts say the study needs some more research. Today the fda will make their final decision about that little pink pill some call the female viagra. Flibanserin works in the brain to increase the womans desire to have sex. This drug would help women with an extremely low libido. That pill could be sold if the Manufacturer Limited the pills risk. The fda has rejected the pill twice since 2010. Well, this next story is for any parent whos having trouble getting your little one to go to sleep. Apparently theres a new Childrens Book that promises it can help. In fact, this swedish book says it will put your child to sleep in minutes. It is called the rabbit who wants to fall asleep. The author says it works by using psychological and positive reinforcement techniques to promote relaxation and to induce sleep. Now, the today show is going to put this to the test. Tune in to find out if this book really works. Its right here at 7 00 on nbc4. Well find out if you can read a specific book and get it done. What do you think . Going to work . This is a parents dream. I wonder if it works on adults . I need that sometimes. For myself. You know . With these hours its kind of crazy. But yeah, thats going to be really interesting. I mean, how kids they love characters. I find that they tend to listen and repeat some of the characters more than they do when it comes to the parent. Who knows . This could work. Tune in at 7 00. See what happens. I want to get you up to speed on the forecast this morning. Tom kierein we hope hes awake. Are you there . Youre tracking some Storm Chances over the next week. Yeah, we have an increasing chance later today. And especially tomorrow and thursday. So grab the umbrella, keep it handy. You dont need it now as we look around our region. Were off to the mild and muggy start. In the upper 60s and near 70 for near washington and maryland. Low to mid 70s on the Chesapeake Bay. Now the storm team 4 radar is showing some showers here, West Virginia and up into western pennsylvania. The bulk of this is staying well to our west here for the morning hours. But eventually, leading edge of this, now coming into the southern Shenandoah Valley. That may make its way closer to winchester, perhaps martinsburg and warrenton. Even into culpepper over the next few hours. But the greater chance is later this afternoon as temperatures climb. Still mid 70s, partly sunny noontime. Warm and humid, the mid 80s. Not as hot as yesterday by 2 00 or 3 00. Then those maybe passing showers and thundershowers coming into the metro area around 5 00 to 6 00 p. M. The sticky humidity with us now. It will only get more uncomfortable to oppressive on wednesday and thursday. The humidity will be increasing. Temperatures though will not. Well be in the upper 80s each afternoon. Increasing chance though of an afternoon storm on wednesday. Might get a morning shower but a greater chance of midday showers on thursday. And then finally a break from the humidity on friday. Partly cloudy, mid 80s. More humid over the weekend, but not uncomfortably sew. Another chance of storms coming in on monday. Got a new model run coming in now with new hour by hour timing for those storms later today. Ill show you that coming up at 6 31. Melissa has a new crash now. Whats going on with that . Brandnew crash in gainesville, at linton hall road. This just popped up here. We also again have that accident from earlier in purr sillville. Eastbound 9 is blocked because of that accident. Sounds like its serious, police directing folks through the westbound lanes to get eastbound. Taking a look at 95 here in virginia, you can see getting a little bit better here. 95 northbound from fredericksburg to stafford, now were going about 38 Miles Per Hour this morning. 66, no major problems into town or out of town. Looking pretty typical right now. B. W. Parkway, 95, 29, everything here nice and green. Top of the beltway just a tad slow, outer loop approaching georgia. Beltway at landover road, no major issues. Back in ten minutes. 6 24 now. Today, Opening Statements start in the trial of a teenager charged with rape in new hampshire. 19yearold owen labrie is charged with raping a 15yearold freshman. He said hes not guilty. Prosecutors say he allegedly assaulted the girl on the concord campus of the elite st. Pauls school. It happened days before he graduated. One man has died, another remains in Critical Condition after a Suicide Attempt at the university of honolulu. The 24yearold man was trying to bring in a teenager who was on a window ledge. That ledge was on the 14th floor of a dormitory building there. Both men fell to the ground. The teenager remains in Critical Condition. This happened on sunday. Neither of the young people were students at the university. The man convicted of the Boston Marathon bombing is now asking for a new trial outside of boston. Lawyers for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev say quote, continuous and unrelenting publicity surrounding the bombing meant jurors in boston could not be impartial. The lawyers say jurors were also inundated with social media posts. He was convicted of 30 federal charges and he has been sentenced to death. We have an update for

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