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WRC News4 At 5 July 14, 2024

Wilkins. Ou in the studio. Tracee, thank you. Now to breaking news out of Montgomery County this evening. News 4 has learned that some of the fourin suspects volve in a gunt shop heis have been arrested. We are still working to learn who they are. Were expecting more informatioo from gomery county police any moment now. The ners comes just hou after chris gordon sat down with acting police chief marcus jones. Acting police chief marcus jones went to the united gun shop in the predawn darkness to look it over for himself. Five thieves fleeing in a stolen vehicle crashed into a Police Cruiser responding to a burglar alarm. Damaging bo vehicles. The officer shot killing one of the suesects. Jonelieves that all four of the other suspects will be caught and thatso they will al be tied into a similar Gun Store Heist in laurel on wednesday. Wereeriously giving that a look and working hand in hand with Howard County and agf because agf wasvolved in both of those investigations as well. Chief jones says the exact member of weapons stolen from the two gun stores this week is still being determined. Wesl continuoufind guns that are involved in some of our criminal activity such as shootings and homicides, that these guns are illegally bought from street sales. Chief jones has been a Montgomery County cop for 33 years. Hes the first acting police chief to come up through the ranks. Chief jones is acutely aware of cocen criticism from some members of the mmunity accusing the Police Department of racism after the publication of this recent video of an officer usingthen word. I asked chief jones for his reaction. I was angry. I was disappointed. I had a lot of feelings that in my tenure i would have neverve bel that i would have seen this on my Police Department. O cmi 6 00, how he plans to rebuild Community Trust in the Montgomery Countypo lice department. Chris gordon, news 4. Chris, thank you. Lets turn now to our fecast and storm team 4, guess what, tracking a weekend warmup after a spectacular day out there today. T i going to keep on rolling on. Doug kammerer is in the storm center with a look at what is coming our way. Give us the good news. I want to be onhat boatright there. Wouldnt that be nice today . A beautiful afternoon. It was a little breezy earlier. The wind is starting to relax a little bit. Still gusting upwards of 20 miles an hour. Up to 79 now at this hour at thp t. So some very nice weather here. Ocean city coming in at 7 75 hagerstown. Not a single 80 degree temperature anywhere across the midatlantic. Thats really hard to get this time of year, but weve got it with plenty of sunshine. As we look towards what were seeing, plenty of sun, yes, we saw the storm system comegh thresterday give us severe weather. That storm system is off the coast. Tracking another storm system back in the middle of the country, that will more clouds and warmer temperatures and a chance for some thunderstorm activity over the weekend. Ill how you when and break it down for you and talk more about fathers day. See you back here inb at 15 minutes. He is the latest victim of gun violence in the district. Police say damon bell was found shot to death iside a car along West Virginia avenue in e trinidad neighborhood early this morning. The number of homicides across the city now over 70 this year. Near 50 of those in ward seven and eight. Now mystics guard natasha closh said s had enough. She took to instagram after learning about a School Window that had been shattered by gunfire in d. C. She said leaders need to come up with some sort of a plan or shes not going to be talking about anything else. Cory smith has new reaction from cloud an the mayor. Reporter natasha cloud is the latest athlet touse their platform for activism. Now shes hoping her words will lead to immediate action. Kids cant even feel safe to go to school right now. Reporter that was point guard natasha cloud making a plea to d. C. Mayor muriel boer d counselman treyon white to put forth solutions to stop the violence. Cloud spoke out after visiting Henley Elementary School thursday just 24 hours after a bull ret ripped through this front window while children were inside. When youre talking about changing the culture, ending the cycle, when youre talking about empowers students and giviop them ortunity, it starts with their education. Clouds aea also cme with an ultimatum ahead of tonights game. A response by tomorrow morning with a solution. I will only discuss this topic until it is fixed. Reporter today the mayor nd res. More people being outraged about accessto guns and the caress use of guns in our city i think the better. Reporter though the mayor would not commit to meeting with gloud, treyon white asked her to stop tweetin and gin hjoin his efforts. White said, quote, we are getting more teens and returning community be in the to address the neglect and social ills that influence violence. We had a strategy meeting last night and i didnt see people that tweet. Years from now treyon white will be here commitd to serving. Dont tweet. Join us. The mickystics have a gram a tonight. Were going to see if we can talk to natasha about the response. It feels like weve seen a new person announce a bid for the white house every other week this year. Now iw just under t weeks well have our first chance to hear from most of the democrats hoping to make donald trump a oneterm president. Nbc news has announced the lineups for the first debate of the 2020 president ial race. Is thime a two night event with ten candidates apiece. Elizabeth warren is the highest lling candidate for the first night. The second night will include current polling front runner joe biden as well as several others close behind. Bernie sanders, kamala harris, and pete buttigieg. Four candidates did not meet the criteria for this debate. You can see it all right here on nbc 4 june 26th and 27th. Just in time for the current president s 73rd birthy, the folks at the daly show were in townal with what theyre cling a gift of sorts. They created apopup exhibit calling it a mobile president ial library. On display . What else . President trumps many, many tweets. Many of them have been separated into insults orat ones th include the word sad. This the showroom just a couple blocks fromhe white house. Its open throughe th weekend. You need to know about some changes in the works for this celebration july on the mall. The display is ming to the west potomac park area. The fireworks vendor says heyre going to go off closer to the northern end near the baseball amond. The display will be over land and not on a barge. The new location allows more seats on the lawn and its also near the reflecting pool. Virginias Lieutenant Governor says hes trying to clear his name of Sexual Assault allegations but a lawyer for one of his accusers says the way hes going aboutt amounts to a political stunt. Attorneys for Justin Fairfax sent a letter to prosecutors offices in massachusetts and men h carolina where two allege that fairfax assaulted them. Fairfaxe wants tha. S to open criminal probes, something he says would pve his innocence. He spoke exclusively with our julie carey about the effort. Ive been ready from day one. Ill go under oath with Law Enforcement uer penalty of ilrjury and i would hope the accusers would beng to do the same. Thats how were able to get to the truth in a respectful way. If he wants to clear hisame before the public, which he says that he wants to do, he would agree to a hearing before the virginia legwelature. re told one of the womens attorns has had a preliminary conversation with the d. As office but so far neither of fairfaxs accusers has brought forth an official criminal complaint. What it meant to unite a community erads to controvy. Ahead, why some are saying a councilman needs to step down because o what he wrote on a document presented to the descendants of a lyhing victim. A consumer alert tonight. San hogan reports on a new feature in cars and how its designed to keep you safe. Plus the furniture distributor opening up shop in our area where youll soon be able to shop at wayfair. First, heres melissa with a look at your weekend traffic. Because of the summer shutdown still under way, yellow and blue line, we have sick stations sth of Reagan National still shut down until september 8th. Franconia, van , king street, braddock road and theng huntin. On the green line trains every 24 minutes will be single tracking. As for the orange and red lines, regular seerice, silv line single tracking. Now, downtown closed roade, wis 7 00 p. M. Friday to 5 00 a. M. Saturday, 17th between new york and constitution and 18th between virginia avenue and e street northwest because of a avie shoot. Couple of other closures saturday from 1 00 p. M. To 7 00 p. M. , indiana avenue and c street near judiciary square. The last one for you right now, closed 70 saturday to 5 00 a. M. Sunday morning. Constitution avenue from 3rd to stronger is blasting her tumors. Witht risking her bones. Its training her good cells. To fight the bad guys. Stronger is less pain. New hope. More fight. Its doing everything in your power. And everything in ours. Stronger, is changing even faster than they do. Because we dont just want ayour kids to grow up. We want them to grow up stronger. A consumer alert that impacts your safety. A major car manufacturer announced it will start installing Safety Devices in the wake of dozens of accidental deaths. Susan hogan is working for you with this new development. Were talking with Carbon Monoxide deaths rod overs, two issues linked to death and injuries when drivers leave their cars idling by mistake. At t said it will start installing a new automatic park feature designed to reduce the risk of a car rolling away when a driver forgets to put it into park. The other shuts off the engine if its left running addressing a problem that has led to a number of Carbon Monoxide poisonings. The most recent case, a colorado couple died when they accidentally left their Toyota Avolon running in their garage. According to a Safety Research group, the first known toyota keyless c. O. Death occurred3 years ago. Since toyota has been linked to 17 more. Other automakerdi inclu ford and gm added these safety features into their vehicles several years ago. By the y, the estimated cost to add an engine s toff device per vehicle. Lane shift for tons for to the fast lane, we know where theyll be building the first ones. Ryland will be partnering with a private company to operate the lanes. Lawmakers in Montgomery County tell us traffic will oem conly if the entire stretch is addressed from the beginning. The next stretch of tol lanes would be the beltway. Heads up if you driv the dulles toll road, access road or beltway in the Tysons Corner area. Some ramps will be closing overnight next week because of of construction on the jones ramp connector project. Ramps are off the toll and access to the beltway south. Theyll be closed from 10 00 p. M. To 4 00 a. M. The online home goods store wayfair is planning to open a popup store in tysons this summer. Waair, youve got justhat i need. The shop willet you get a look at hundreds of affordable pieces of decor and you can start 1th. Ing there on august the lapup will last for three months and excuse me while i put thn my calendar now. Youll be there lining up with lots of people. Its going to be nice because you actually see. Is it a light blue, dark blue, is it tan or gray . You get to sit on it and everything else. We know bullying is a problem in schools and on social media. In wisconsin theyre looking at a way to charge people. The superintendent shared it middle revealed school girl had received handwritten notes from other students encouraging to take her own life. That proposedrdinance would fine parents 50 for a 50 offense with additional costs totaling me than 300. Fathers day is right around the corner and one father from southeast d. C. Has a lot to celebrate. He and his son were once homeless, but with help from bright beginnings, a Resource Center that leon harris has highlighted in harriss hero, their lives have changed for the better. Aimee cho has this story of a fathers journey. If sou needmeone you can count on, look no further than antoi antoine robinson. Hes the proud parent of this little guy who just turned 3 a few days ago. I was raised without a father and that made med press har to want to raise my son andth be e best that he can be. Youd nev guess from the smiles on their faces not too long ago robinson and amir were homeless moving around om place to place. At tim it got real hard. I kept getting rejected, but my motivation was my son. Thats why he came here to bright beginnings, to take classes and to learn how to juggle being a parent. As he teaches amir to throw the Perfect Pitch and put together puzzles, he says he hopespo reak stereotypes about southeast. Theres a lot of people out here thinking fathers like myself are not in their sons life. Im here to tell you its not through. Binson did so well is parenting classes, bright beginnings hired him to do maintenance. He and amir are no longer homeless and when hes at work, s it a point to help other fathers be someone youun n on. I just want to motivate and uplift any father thats in the community to do better because i know they can do what im doing right now. In southst, aimee cho, news 4. In robn is a fulltime student at udc and hes thinking of majoring in facilities maintenance. Happy early fathers day to him. Good for him. What an inspiration. Role model wo. Ve got that weekend warmup on the way just in time for fathers day. Doug is back with a look at attter temperes and a possible heat wave. Cominccupy newup on news 4, this construction project will impact neighborhoods around the district for the next seven years, but it will impact you know reliable support when you have it, and that dependability is what we want to gi our customers. At comcast, its my job to constantly mand to help provide prev, the most Reliable Service possible. My name is tanya, i work in the Network Operations center for comcast. We are working to make things simp, easy and awesome. Bright behind us. Yes. Its beautiful. Friday, after 5 00. Nice night to haveat drinks or e outside, maybe on your patio or your deck. Going to be a little cool once the sun goes down, but a lot of people like that. Eating outdoors tonht is gveing to be ry, very nice right on into the day tomorrow. Today is actuallythe eighth dayn this m with below average temperatures. We havent en much of that over the past couple of years, especially not in the month of june. Take a look out there. You wouldnt know it. Its a gorgeous afternoon. Another post card type of day. We talked about this the other day. On tuesday, we said friday, today, would be ather tuesday. Tuesday was beautiful as well. Right no sittingat 79. Winds out of ste northwe at 14 miles per hour. Still gusting to about 20 milds. 78 down to the south. No 80s, though. Av the age High Temperature is 84 degrees, so 5 degrees below that. Nothing on the radar currently. Wer snot going toe any chance for rain or thunderstorms. Really i think over the next 48 hours, that includ of fathers day for most of us. Were going to talk about that in a second. First off, though, clear skies ound our area. The wider picture showing the storm that brought us the front yesterday that did provide some thunderstorm activity during the afoternoon. A l of severe thunderstorm warnings yesterday afternoon. Now tracking another system in the middle prt of the country. Not very strong system, but it u is moving way with more cloud cover. We will see more clouds tomorrow. But all i all, still a really nice day. Any rain chances stay to the north. What about fathers day . Fathers day everybody wonderinl we heres 7 00 a. M. On fathers day on sunday. Cloud cover as our storm system moves just to thenorth. Hagerstown, maybe showers early in the day. We kind of clear out here. We still see a chance of shower h our nortn zones. We clear out sunshine. The heat builds, humidity starts to build. 3 00 we are stilldry just about everywhere and then we have a better chance of seeing showers and storms west of the blue ridge around 56 ok 00, even 6 0. Unen the rain tries to make its way through aro 7 00 or 8 00. If youre thinking about barbecuing, dad, youre doing he barbecue, you might want t think about doing it earlier, maybe 5 00 instead of 6 00. I do think were going to see those showers and thunderstorms come through. Any storms that do developonill be he stronger side. Your pool forecast looking pretty good if youre heading to the pool tomorrow. Beautiful and breezy. Your green as well on sunday. Most of the day nice and hot. A perct day to go to the pool. Monday afternoon storms probably not the best day at the pool, but i still think you can probably go for part of it, especially early in the day. As we make our way through the next couple of days, what are we seeing . Temperatures going back above average. 91ndn moy. Rather unsettled as we make of week. Doug, thank you. Ahead at 5 00, a magical citizenship ceremony. How David Copperfield helped the stars align on a ed, white, and blue day. This is pretty cool. Plus an event meant to call attention to a troubled past ends with controversy. Leesburgto town council memb doug was resign from his you know when youre at ross and you find. Hmmm. At a price that has you, like. Okay. Thats yes for less. Ye say to the latest spring trends at 20 to 60 percent off Department Store prices every day. At ross. 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