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Additional charges dropped tonight or tomorrow. Herndon high school placede th former drama teacher on leave when this broke in april. He talked about the timing, school is out as of last were. Youve got to worder how long have police known that students were victims and a lot of parents had no idea. Thats a fantaic question, jim. We asked the mayor in the press conference and he said it had nothing to do with the end of school. We wanted the community to know this when we did. There was another update in april and may. At both of those press conferences, the major stood at the podium and said there is no connection to herndon high school. Ad that point the amount of images theyve h time to go through, there was no connection to the high school and no reason to believe that any of those devices were ever brought into herndon county. The major stood up hwae he disappointed to learn that theyve found images an video to dicate there was a lot of recording going on inside of the school. Dre wilder, than you so much for clearing that. Well check back in with you at 6 00 t. Tonigh rain out there, and Amelia Draper is tracking t our western zones will see the most rain tonight. D. C. Metro and areas to e east youre dealing with showers. Ive drawn a line on storm team 4 radar, if youre to the best of this line the might have the dry. Every one is dry aside from light showers in the panhandle of West Virginia im tracking rain farther west. This will eventually move into the region. With that being said, heres your evening planner. 6 00 p. M. , showers west of washington. By 8 00 is when you have the best chance of showers for the metro rea. And i think the nats are playing tonight. Could they see a bit of a rain delay . I cant rule it out. But im not seeing a postponement by any means. We not worried about any severe storms, just rain that could be heavy west of washington. But windy, storm team 4 weather lert for some severe thunderstorms. Well ju 4is about two weeks away and were now learning more about President Trumps plans for the holiday. S italled salute to america. The event will include a military tribute and flyover. Speech from the president at the Lincoln Memorial. As we told you theres a new location this year to watch the fireworks, news4s Mark Segraves is live from the Lincoln Memorial with the big reveal. Were finding itmore every day as we get closer it looks a lot like what the president wanted in h celebration. A flyover, military bands, military parade and President Trump will be here at theln linonument as well. Its wednesday a tradition in washington, d. C. For generations, the annual fourth of july firework on the National Mall. President trump has been hinting about big changes to the celebration, including last night at his reelection ckoff in florida. By the way, on july 4 in washington, d. C. , come on down were going to have a big day. Today the roim released some details. The parade downsunami avenue will begin about 11 45 a. M. The slew to America Program which will include the president s speech and the capital fourth concert on the lawn of the capitol at 8 00 and the fireworks just after 9 00. As well asn congress the d. C. Mayor have expressed concern that the president mighi politize the fourth of july. I wont be attending if that helps you out a little bit. Were a city where people can givespeeches, exercise their First Amendment rights and certainly thehi host of t event is the federal government. It is the National Park service. And the president has made a decision to give a speech on that day. Visitors of the Lincoln Memorial had mixed opinions about he president giving a speech here. Hes the president , this is the National Mall so for that, i think its, its a wonderful thing. Everything with him is politics. Theres not just a celebration, so i would like to see mre celebrating the 4th and not so much of im running for office again. Congressman steny hoyer issued a statement saying he has concerns with the president giving giving aeech here. Youll hear from him at 6 00. D. C. Police just released what their restrictions will be for the potomac river. The fireworks are going to be set off from the river. So ifyou go to our website. A detailed map for boats along the potomac river. Mark, thank you. Hope hicks appeared up on capitol hill today to face some questio o from members the house judiciary committee. But members left the dclosedoor hearing lets than satisfied with the lack of her responses. Some democrats accuse theer fo white house director, for refusing to answer even basic ones about her time on the white house she did respond to questions about her time during the 2016 campa n. Prior to the hearing the white house instrted hicks not to answer questions, saying she was immune from answering. A hearing on a descendants slaves should receive reparations, it marked the herst ring on this issue in more than a decade. Senate majority leader had this to say about the topic ye terday. I dont think reparations are something that happened 150 years ago for whom none of us are living and responsible is a good 80. Weve tried to deal with our originally sin of slavery, by fighting a civil war and passing landmarkci il rights legistion, welected an africanamerican president. Leon aairs is here with more. Today marks the day in 1865 when nformer slaves i texas learned that they had been emancipated two years earlier. Supporters of measure to reparations, tan. It en after slavery, systems enforcing inequality remained. For a century after the civil war, black people were subjected to a Relentless Campaign of terror. A campaign that extended well into the lifetime of majority leader mcconnell. Who was alive to witness the harassment, jailing and betrayal of those responsible for that legislation by a government who wants to protect them. While emancipation deadusain bolted the door against the bandits of america, jim crow wedged t window wide open. Alson the panel, document reproduer Katrina Brown revealed that she learned her d ancestors habeen slave traders and came out in support of reparations, saying there are myths about the north and eopeans who came after slavery ended being on the right side of history. She argued many had the opportunities they had largely because of the economy built on the backs of slave labor. Black people dont need an apology. We need saferds neighborh and better schools we need a less punitive criminal justice system. We need Affordable Health care and none of these things can be achieved through reparations for slavery. To be clear, thewaeasure t about giving reparations, it was about studying the issue of reparations. It was introduced in 1989 by michigan congressman john conyers, he reintroduced that bileach year before he retired. No doubt the issue wont go away before the summer is out. Thats for sure. Many of the democratic candeates for presidnt have voiced their support forki into this issue of reprent tragss, its something that could come up during the ebde. Aaron gilchrist will be reporting live from miami as 20 of the democrats come face to fa over the course two of nights, you can look for his reporting, it starts next wednesday and you can watch the primetim debates here on news4 next wednesday and thursday. This weekend our area marks ten years since the major transportation tragedy. Two metro t collided on the red line between fort totten and tacoma. After an allautomatic train system failed. The system has been operated manually ever since. Our transportation reporter adam tuss says the agency is not in any rush to return to automated operation and spokes to victims families today, still dealing with the scars from that day. Ten years after that day, that awful day where nine people you see their names here on this plaque, these People Killed on the tracks below, more than 80 others hurt. He twounds are still fresh for some. There will neer be an untruths about what happened to their mother. We reached Tawanda Brown by thone she lost her daughter nicky king in crash and shes been raising nickys two boys since that day. The boys are, they were two and theyre 12 and 13. So theyre at an stage iyjcp life where theyre asking questions about their beautiful mom. Like how tall she was, or what d she like. What was her personality and what did she eat. So when they ask questions like that, it makes youuan relive atloss of the[iey one th you lo. As we approach ten years since that awful day. Metro is still showing the scars. Metros automatic control system that failed in 2009,e sending on engine into the back of ahother as never been fully reactivated. Metro sources say theres no timetable to make the switch back to automatic mode that revelation despite metro general manager making this claim to news4 last year that the youre going to flip the switch one day it will get back to ato in the upcoming year during rush hour . Yes, sir. Now that claim seeming unlikely. Meantime the families of the victims of the crash say they still dont trust the system. Theres not been a lot of change that has happened toas sure the public that this incident would not happen again. . Along the red line adam tuss, news4. After almost 60 years. A local family gets some closure, headed by the discovery, decades in the making. And theew technology that uncovered a mystery. Also after ten days of investigating, 11 arrests we can learn new details about the motive behind the david ortiz atshooting. Wh the former players attorneys are saying about it now. A building fire linked to a motoriz Scooter Company. Those electric scooters are popular ways tot around town. Overnight one of the companies that rents them in the district had a fire at a warehouse where they store thed scooters an their batteries. News4s pat collins joins us live from downtown with details of this. Pat . Wendy, this is where it happened. Skips scooter. You know metimes you can judge the extent of a fire by the amount of work it takes to clean up after theire is out. So cue the servepro bucket brigad one after another. After another. After another. After another. They picked up these air cleaners and dumidifiers and by hand passed them all down to re. Scene of the that scene, the underground warehouse of skips scooters. Skip is a popular scootersharing company that operates out of an Office Building at 20th and k streets northwest. The fire began in a bin of lithium batteries stored in the basement. The fire touched off the buildings sprinklers and there wassubstantial flooding in that basement. We dont know what caused the fire in the bin. All we know is it originated in the bin. The bin was full of batteries. In a statement the skip Scooter Company says its fully cooperating in the investigation. They say its deployed fleet continues to be tested against skips stringent safety standards. Now last september there was anotherire here. That one the Fire Department involved a scooter that was being charged. Two res, same location, less than a year. Thats correct. And as a result, our Fire Prevention division is going to take a look at the location and see what actions we can take to avoid having such events happen down the road. Last month askips scooter caught fire outside downtown. Skip briefly suspendedop ations while it investigated that fire. Now coming up at 6 00, some safety tipslior ium batteries. Ill see you then. Back to you ys. All right. Thank you, pat. See you at 6 00. Breaking news just in, new video froad nev a potentially explosive situation here appears to have been diverted. This train carrying wom ining b Hazardous Materials derailed near elko county. The other cars werery carg munitions, hand grenades and sodium nitrat were working to find out what caused the crash. There was an announcement on the baseball legend who was shon the dominican republic. Authorities may be releasing the motives behind the shooting of former red sox player david ortiz. Theres a News Conference d scheduleor 5 30. Ortizs press release that the shooting was because of a woman are false. Ortiz is recovering in a mass has hospital. Is expected to be okay and 1 1 people have been arrested in connection with the shooting. Chances are if i broke my nose yesterday i may not be anchoring the newscast today. Would your go to work . Thats what nats pitcher max scherzer is doing today. Hes known as mad max for his competitive spirit and dave this just might take the cake. You know i got a paper t printing these papers here and i almost didnt make it for this hit. But hold the workmens compensation, im going gut thi plan. The legend, max scherzer is about togrow. A broken nose from a failed bunt attempt in batting practice yesterday, not going to stop mae srzer from starting tonight against the phillies, manager Dave Martinez confirming it an ago. Saying scherzer has a nice shiner, but no trouble breathing and he will pitch tonight. When we join us at06 well be closer to Max Scherzers first pitch. Go for the sweep of the double were not sure if hes going to be wearing a mask. I think i would be wearing a helmet at that point. Right. Catchers mask. Looking at it. Oh my gosh. Thank you, dave. See you at 6 00. T ahead at 5 00, the thing in your homet could be draining your lewa susan hogan reports on how to locate, fix and prevent leaks. Plus storm team 4 tracking another round of rain out theree folks, we timing outthe a warm one out there. Its been sticky all week. But i feel like at least here in washington, are we seeing any rain out there . Not much is showing up on the radar. Compared to yesterday. It was wicked yesterday. Yesterday we had what we call training, its like a train going down the tracks, along 66 into the metro and out towards 50. Rain just continued to impact those areas for hours. Causing the nats to postpone their game. If youwere heading home from work, iwas a mess out there. And folks to the north barely got anything at all. Theres goinerto be scatt rain out there now. A little cell just popped up on Storm Team Radar arnd reston, oakland and a chantilly area and around dumfries and the triangle area. Besides that its quiet. Someercattered showers out th tonight. That Severe Weather threat nonexistent tonight. Not the case tomorrow. Tomorrow is going to be a weather alert ay your thursday for strong, maybe even severe thunderstorms. Especially between about 2 00 and 7 00 p. M. More on that in a moment. Thats all with the cold front. Thats going to set us up for a friday. S the humidity is lower, nice and breezy out there on friday and summer official begins on friday. A nice weekend saturday and sunday are looking dry for most of us. Ta ing about tomorrow and the weather alert. Here are the impacts, heavy rain is going to be the biggest concern. Just because the atmosphere is so soupy, sorg cha with water, we could really be dealing with some downpours out there. My next concern is going to be inds gusting up to 60 Miles Per Hour and some hail and any thunderstorms. It doesnt mean that everybody is going to be seeing the impacts. Theres the chance of a storm impacts your area you could be dealing with this. An isolated risk for a weak tornado on thursday. Right now its about 90 degrees, with the thermometer reading 85, with the mugginesse tomorrowt a high of 91, when you factor in the humidity. It feels like mid 90s tomorrow afternoon. During the morning, its hot, humid, dry. Severe some strong to thunderstorms later in the day. Noon, future weather tomorrow were still dry. Once we head 2 30, notice the heavy rain into loudo and fauquiercounty by about 5 00, 6 00 p. M. , into southern maryland, heading over to the Eastern Shore and future weather has us mainly dry by about 6 00, 7 00 tomorrow. So plenty of dry time on your thursday, thunderstorms later in the day could pack a punch. 84 and nice on saturday. With sunny skies, plenty of sun on sunday, maybe an isolated thunderstorm later with a high 87. More on where we could see the thunderstorm on sunday coming up at 5 0. Metro promise as quicker commute for riders, coming up, the feature that was onceon discnued because it wasnt reliable. But is now coming back toe improvur ride. The new lease on life for a landmark thats been part of a local community for more than 100 years. And a woman shot and killed in her apartment. 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