Transcripts For WRC News4 Midday 20180112 : comparemela.com

Transcripts For WRC News4 Midday 20180112

We want to get to the latest to taublg about trump how he described the curse word for haiti and african nations. This morning he denied it. Admitting though his words were tough. But now democrat senator dick durbin said he was in the room and heard the president use the words multiple times. News4 tracie potts has the latest on the hill. Reporter at a meeting democrat aide said this used this language expletive countries saying why they should admit these people instead of places like norway. Can you think of any employer walking into and saying this and not being fired . Reporter he says the language was tough, but this was not the language used. Never said anything torey against haitians except it is a poor country. Denied using those words. It is not true. He said these hate filled things and said them repeatedly. Reporter saying the president should apologize. Should we have an n word to be a racist. Reporter it comes amid protecting 800 immigrants in march. Off track. Reporter also off track the president s tweet criticizing a Government Surveillance Program just as they were to renew it. President is supporting the vote today. The bill is passed. Reporter mr. Trump tweeted a correction and the white house blamed the media. Lawmakers did say they were close to a deal after what was reportedly said in the m meantime the hay ee ambassador are getting lotsd of emails saying thats whatnot what they think about haiti. Tracie potts, nbc4 washington. Shocking and shame fuful, t say if the comments are true as described there is no other word for this but racist. He also said the comments go against the values that the world has been striving for since world war ii and the holocaust. We will continue to follow this story on the president s alleged controversial comments. You can also led to the nbc app for the latest. New this morning we are getting a look at the suspect in the double stabbing. Hes been accusing of assault and attempted murder. Police say the stabbing happened in a fight over a female student. This morning the prince county ceo and police chief greeted students walking into the school. Tracee wilkins who was there when the officials arrived. Tracy, whats happening there. Reporter the superintendent along with the cheech came back here to Central High School walking the hallways. It is a very different scene now from what we had here yesterday morning when police were all around the outside of this school, parents were concerned, trying to reach their kids. All thu knee is that there had been a stabbing inside of the school. Police chief and the superintendent of schools walked the hallways of Central High School today. And i felt we needed to be reassuring to the staff and parents and kids that everything was fine and safe. Reporter this after a knife fight. And assault and weapons charge. Police say it started with a fight over a girl that escalated. It appears martinez a fight became so vicious that the person felt like they had to take a weapon into that. Reporter the two injured students who began the altercation are africanamerican, they said last year they had tension between africanamerican and latino students. There has been a couple of times where there has been some issues there, but weve done interventions and work here at the school. Reporter the school once named one of the nations best is still according to the superintendent. Ive talked to some of the folks on my team to see what we need to do, if anything, to work with students to make sure that everything is fine. Reporter the superintendent is saying that while of course he is not happy that this unfolded inside of the school, he is pleased at the way the Police Department and principal responded. He wants parents to believe that everything is back to normal inside of thati reporting live in Capital Heights oim tracy wilson. Back to you in the studio. Thank you, tracy. Turning to the weather there, you can see the wind blowing and rain coming down. Yeah, wet out there. Ce sheena, looks like it might be wet all day. Yeah, spotty showers unless you are on maryland and shore, grab the umbrella before they left today. Most of the rain up in charles county, near annapolis as well and along the eastern shore. You can see yellow along Prince George county. Aside from that, look at the temperatures, enjoy them, mid60s. Wait until you see what happens this weekend. Ill show you a cool down coming up ahead. Ts, many metro riders were late. It happened about 24 hours after board came preliminary approval to a refund plan. Metro station with updates. So riders already asking for the money back . Reporter thats right. You Better Believe it. Passengers were demanding refunds this morning. I talked to some who were late, 45 minutes, maybe an hour for them time is money. But they have to understand, they are not going to be getting their money back from today because this proposal has not yet been voted on by the full metro board. An Emergency Response in bet da, fire Officials Say smoke into the tunnel, train stopped for a short period of time. Caused delays hand single tracking on the red line during the commute. I love the metro but when it goes down it goes down. Reporter er hour, making them late for work and doctors appointments at the medical center. I should have been here an hour ago. It impacted me big, so ill probably have to reschedule my appointme appointment. Im trying to get to work. Reporter and you are late. Ive been late an hour. Reporter on thursday a Metro Board Committee approved a rushhour promise to refund passengers delayed in these types of emergencies. It boils down to this, if you are delayed for more than 15 minutes your trip is on us. Reporter they wish that policy was in effect right now. I need a reimbursement and free lunch. Yes, absolutely. Ive been on tra trahat trai almost an hour, a whole hour, i want my money back. Reporter now, heard that from some other passengers as well today, i want my money back. Now metro board is expected to vote on this proposal in two weeks. If it passes, and you automatically get credited on your smart trip card. Its important to note you have to register your card. Register your card right now so you are ready to get that refund when and if it passes. If it dos i have a feeling theyll be hearing a lot more of that. Thank you so much. A vehicle hit a High School Student this morning and now Montgomery County Police Looking for a driver who left the scene. Paramedics took him to the hospital although injuries werent that bad. Happened near cynical valley high school. Crossing middle brook road and crystal rock drive. Last week news4 iteam told you about plans for safety around the schools. They are considering a review of pedestrian safety. Pedestrian is also a second person killed in just two days. Police tell us suv hit a Woman Working near iverson street. Investigators say the suv driver did stay at the scene. And now we know the name of the man killed wednesday night on branch avenue just a couple of blocks away. Shawn sims died at the hospital after his car collided with another vehicle near saint barn a bus road. The woman was critically injured. Now in maryland hospital they were speaking out the they did after the video went viral allegedly a woman walking the street homeless and alone. Plus not only the president s comments, we have new details about his former adviser lawyering about in the administration allege he had collusion with russia. Im Melissa Mollet with a look at traffic. This weekend every 15 minutes on the green light. Again single tracking. Every 12 to 15 on the yellow line, service between huntington line. Here this weekend, monday Martin Luther king, we do have a Different Service plan operating on metro from 5 00 a. M. To 11 30 p. M. Parking free. Thanks, melissa. Someone saw this young woman wandering outside hospital in baltimore and admit she was discharged and couldnt communicate. The hospital has released a statement saying it takes the matter seriously. And is conducting a thorough review of what happened. Former white house adviser steve bannon is set to testify before the House Intelligence Committee next week. This is part of the investigation into russian meddling in our election. Sources say nbc news it will happen next tuesday. Bannon ran the trump campai served as president s top adviser until he was fired in august. Last week, that new book, fire and fury quoted bannon referring to a meeting between russians and donald trump junior during the 2016 campaign as treasonous. Days later, bannon left his job at breitbart news. And some new information about the death of an ivy league student. Calling it a homicide. Learning more about the friend that was with him the night he disappeared. Nbc reports. Reporter parents are searching for answers after body found in lake forest, california, in a park. We want to see resolution. Reporter le they said last week he met up with a friend and drove to the park late at night. According to a search warrant obtained by Orange County that friend who said just before midnight bernstein walked into the park by himself. Unidentified fied friend he told authorities he waited about an hour and tried to contact bernstein at snapchat then 1 00 a. M. Returned to his girlfriends house and after returning to the park 3 40 a. M. Detectives noticed the friends hands had several small scratches and an abrasions which he said was from a fight club. Investigato investigators noticed what appeared to be dirt under the fingernails. He said in a fight. And during another investigator every friend the door had to touch, he pulled his jacket over his hand to prevent touching any doors. We interviewed the friend several times. That person is not in reporter investigators say bernstein was probably killed the night he disappeared but wouldnt say how he died. During a candle light vigil grandfather told friends and neighbors that heavy rains helped expose the teens body. Uncovered the grave. He wouldnt be left in limbo for years. And we thank everybody here. A dog that was near death is now standing on his own again of the in fairfax counterjust over a month ago the police found dog named max. He didnt have a collar or chip. And he couldnt stand on his own. Police officers think the retriever had been kept in a cajun has a long recovery ahead of him. It was hard. It was hard to look at him. And not be able to do anything. It was just waiting, waiting to see if the medications would waiting to see if he had it in him to fight. Despite or deal, he has plenty of quite. Police are still hoping to find out what happened to this little guy. Still has a lot of recovering to do before he goes to his forever home. His foster family. Well have the first opportunity to adopt max. What a difference a month can make. Hes already looking really good. Yeah. Hes made quite a recovery. Reporter an already devastating situation in california getting worse. Talking of course about the mud slide near los angeles. We are hoping to learn more about the people killed. Those still missing. And the massive cleanup effort alrea under way. Dy this morning rescue crews are hoping for miracles as they search for mud slide survivors in california. At this point that search is getting more desperate by the hour. More than 40 people are missing and mudslides have killed 17 people from an 89yearold man died with his wife to 3yearold girl. Mud and debris crashed through homes and boulders as big as cars on the road. After the mud poured in. We had no idea what a flash flood was until i saw this horrid raging river coming down with cars homes and damaged four to five hundred more. 101 freeway is shut down and wont reopen until monday. Still hard to believe all that devastation. That damage. Yeah. 63yearold former chef is going back to school at Georgetown University. Yes. And, yes, she is living in a dorm. She started her journey back to the classroom last year after georgetown apologized for selling slaves in the 1800s to raise money for the university. News4 Jackie Benson has more. Reporter right down there in that cemetery are the graves of the men who thought it was a good idea to sell my family. Reporter from her dorm room. This is the tiny condo. Reporter she can look down on the graves of the jesuit priests who owned her ancestors 2016 and after much prompts from students, Georgetown University publicly apologized for ugly history of slave ownership. Shore ka lone a chef remembers reading about something in the newspaper. But it was only last year after getting a call from a gene logical researcher that she learned her great grandparents were among the slaves sold to plantation owners in louisiana by the jesuits in 1838 to raise money for Georgetown University. To be able to connect in america who owned your family, who sold your family, and why, to it be able to put that together, never associating it with my family. Reporter when she learned part of slavery reparations, she hesitated, but then she thought it would be great to see them going through their life. Well, my grandmother always told me i was a queen. And she knew her grandmother, mary ellen queen. Reporter she says she feels their spirit cheering her on. I couldnt do this or be here without feeling them. Reporter she has a little bit of time before she has to declare ha major, but right now she says shes leaning towards history. Jackie benson, news4. What a story. Pretty darn inspiring as well. Well, turning to the weather and rain, how much of this stuff will we get, sheena. Well get more this afternoon and mainly tonight. I have to applaud chris he actually brought his umbrella today. She told me she would laugh at me all day if i didnt. So good thing you te involved. Youre welcome. Because you needed it this morning. Right now not looking at too much around the district but later today more rain moving in. 62 right now. Look at how mild it is outside. Over cast skies with spotty rain. Most of the rain is in maryland. Buie breaking out of that heavier rain, but Calvert County pretty heavy rain currently. This is all making its way from south to north. So that rain in the forecast. If you are east of the district. Otherwise a little bit of a break before rain this afternoon and evening. Look at the back side, a lot of cold air rushing in. We have a wintry mix with pink and then snow on the very back edge of it. Parts of the area early snow showers. Mainly pretty far west and north. Ill show you that. As we go through the afternoon we rain afternoon drive. More as we go over night tonight. Heres 5 00 tomorrow morning still spotty showers. Take a look as we look across 81, wintry mix there possible. Maybe some brief snow showers. Quickly clears out and then we go into saturday afternoon and temperatures falling. So in the morning well be right around 40 degrees, but then go through the day well be dropping around freezing. Most of your saute though nice and dry after the morning hours. Sunday will be cold. 29 degrees. Mostly sunny. And looking next week a couple snow chances were watching. Thank you. Like a roller coaster looking at that forecast. How an online conversation turned into a real life murder. Plus continuing coverage of the president s remarks about haiti on the same day the country marks a devastating chapter in its history. Detectives still working to identify a murder victim in waldorf. Women discovered last night on Old Washington road but didnt have any id. Megan mcgraph talking to investigators. Reporter returned to the scene to canvas the area where the victims body was found. They are looking for any clue that might help them identify her. At this point they simply dont know who she is and they really need some help from the public here. It was about 9 00 last night when a person driving by, this is Old Washington road here, right by the park and ride, near the intersection of small wood drive, a car was driving by, and thats when they found the victims body lying in the road. Unfortunately no identification on her. No purse. No wallet. No id. So they do not know who she s estimate shes between 40 and 50 years old. Black female with long braids. But thats all that they know about her at this point. Now the hope here is that someone from the public will recognize her tattoos and her earrings and perhaps give them the break they need in this case. She was wirg sweater, gray eleggings. She did have tattoos a cheerub angel. So the key here they believe is really getting help from the public. Anyone who recognizes the tattoos or perhaps the earrings and can make some sort of connection, give them a call and help make an id. In waldorf, megan mcgraph, news4. Today makes 8 years since a massive earthquake rocked the island nation of high tee. The magnitude 7 quake impacted nearly 3 Million People leaving as many as 150,000 people dead. The haitian people are still recovering from the damage. And these people is the explosive president s words. Reporting that he used expletive to describe those countries. Getting a lot of coverage. Cnn don lennon and cooper. Take a listen when he gets somewhat emotional. I was there when a 5yearold boy named moni was rescued after being buried for seven days. Do you know what it takes after being buried for seven days . Meanwhile calling president the racist. The remarks was disgusting. The president has denied calling other countries by that expletive. Well, we have valuable resource right here amongst us, chris, you covered the earthquake for cnn eight years ago. You were on the ground for quite some time and you saw how it devastated the people many of whom are still suffering. Yeah, its hard to know where to start. I think you learn a lot about people when you see them at their absolute worse. And as much as haiti had experienced, this by far was the worst. It was overwhelming, i mean, i cant even describe to you the smell of those bodies piled there in the streets, street after street after street. And a lot of those families living there trying to live there, you know, their relatives, dead relatives literally rotting on the streets next to them. I saw people with bloody knuckles and hands, clawing through the wreckage trying to dig

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