Right now on news4 this week, investigations going digital. Ho a local Maryland County is using digital forsics to solve crime cases. Also a witness to history. A longtime d. C. Journalistre ects on the 50th anniversary of the washington plays and the stories told about the lgbtq community. Plus women giving back. Aan local orgation helping to provide clothing for women, and how it inspired one woman to help others in need. Announcer welcome to news4 this week. Hello, everyoneeo im l harris. There is a new team of cyber sleuths in Charles County. The Sheriffs Office there just opened up the doors to a new Digital Forensics lab in waldorf. As derrick ward explains, this new invtigative tool is the result of Lessons Learned from a disturbing case in the county. As technology grows, the Sheriffs Office and Law Enforcement entities have to grow alongha with technology. Reporter the Charles County Sheriffs Office just unveiled its new Digital Forensics lab in waldorf. Its meticulous work. N
Again, around 60 degrees through the morning. Grab the umbrella before you leave. The colder air gets here tomorrow, though. Well take a look at that straight ahead. Lets take a look at the friday commute. Its wet, melissa. It is wet out there. After 95 maryland, its blocking the lane. Beltway overall looking good. Heres a big problem in gaithersburg for a lot of folks on 28. 28 at schiffley square, were shut down both directions because of a pole and wires down. Pepco on the scene trying to get this wrapped up quickly. Your all the mat, great seneca highway instead. 95 north of Prince William parkway, wet and foggy in some spots. As far as travel times, in maryland, just fine. 66 and 95 in virginia good as well. Listen to wtop zye103. 5 fm wheu hop in your car. Thanks, melissa. We begin with a developing story where reaction has been swift following President Trumps explosive comments made about not directly disputing the expletivefilled language yoous in the oval office yesterday. Du
I think well see flooding for the next several hours where were seeing flooding now. Never try to cross a flooded street by car or by foot. Computer chaos. First United Airlines and then the new york Stock Exchange. Computer glitches took down the wall street journal too. Causing hassles and heartaches. Lets go straight to debra alfaron where shes standing by with the story. Debra. Reporter to be clear trading on the floor of the Stock Exchange was halted. You could still trade electronically. Thats where 75 of the trades get done these days. If youre shaking your head with all these coincidences you would not be alone. Heres how it went down. A few hours of this this. This new york Stock Exchange shut down trading on the floor at 11 32. It remained down for 4 hours. The exchange blame ed d this on internal technical issues. This is so newsworthy the white house chimed in. Theres no indicator that it was malicious. There was no coordinated cyber attack. While a 4hour outage seems like
He pulled over in the southbound shoulder of i95, when another vehicle that was traveling in the southbound lanes left its lane hitting the police cruiser, then the trooper and the other car that he pulled over. Again, the trooper was rushed to baltimore shock trauma. The other two were taken to Howard County hospital. Still unclear what caused that driver to leave her lane or how fast she was going but state police say all of this highlights the dangers of their job. Its always dangerous out there. One of the most Dangerous Things we do every day is when we get out of the vehicle conducting traffic stops. One of the reason some laws have been passed and kind of give us that barrier protection. Again, we want to continue to reiterate to the public as they are driving up to keep an eye out for us. Know we are out there trying to do our jobs. Reporter im told the state trooper who was injured has been with the Maryland State Police department for about a year and a half. Live in Howard C
And business backlash sending you to court. I thought he was too pushy. How to keep from getting burned the next time you post a review online. The live desk tonight with a developing story. Former president george h. W. Bush is in the hospital right now after he broke a bone in his neck. Bush was at his summer home in maine today when he fell, breaking a vertebrae in his neck. His spokesman just tweeted out that it was not life threatening, and the former president is in stable condition. When he is able to leave the hospital, mr. Bush will have to wear a neck brace. He turned 91 last month. And just last week he appeared at several Campaign Events for his son jeb. He is being treated by doctors right now and a Spokesman Says he doesnt expect this to be a long stay. At the live desk, im chris lawrence. Thank you, chris. Its one of many fast growing neighborhoods in the district. But since the july weekend, gnomenoma has been in the spotlight because of crime. Three murders including t