Those on the edges will be trying to make an impress wanting to their names to be memorable. We sat down with john delaney and talked to him about what his game plan is tonight. I feel like ive been preparing the last year and a half. Reporter he declared in july of 2017. Irst to announce that he would challenge President Trump. Now he is prepared to at that time debate stage on take on democrats first. We have real issues that need to be dealt with. Reporter and he has been to iowa almost 30 times. He will take what he has learned and try to talk up what he calls workable plans for improving Public Education and managing student debt, tackling infrastructure and affordable house, and what he says is thet biggessue, health care. It is a crowded field. They ontwont hany moments to make a moment, but to show their credibility to break out of the pack. L be a rter it w crowded stage. Ten candidates tonight varyingl levef name seconds to directly answer questions and make a mark. Elizabeth
sun shine. the last of the showers exiting the atlantic beaches and we re getting a few breaks in the clouds just to the south. temperatures right now are near 80 degrees. and the shenandoah valley, more sun this morning out in western maryland, west virginia the leading edge of heat beginning to push in. low and mid 80s there. in the upper 70s around the chesapeake baey where it s still quite cloudy as well. chance for storms later this afternoon. this is chris gordan with that developing story in rockville. vandalism to the confederate memorial statue. spray painted black lives matter and on the bottom red spray painting that iappears to say black lives matter. it apparently happened overnight. an uber driver came to take a look at the statue. he called the police. they called rockville city police. this is a rockville district. the montgomery county official said he will have it removed. they had a crane operator in last week measuring it for removal from this area but t
the dow jumped. china lowered interest rates. take a look at the numbers right there. up 325 points. they ve been hovering there for a good chunk of the morning. we ll let you know via alert on our nbc washington app if the market starts to bounce around. at the live desk, right now police in anna bundle county, police are on the scene, this happened in the 8,000 block of mill stone court. we know one woman was found dead inside the house around 8:00 this morning. police responded after a report of an open door. we ll pass along any information as we get it. and right now crews are workinto fix a water main break that interrupted the first day of school in prince george s county. thomas stone elementary had to cancel class because of this. we ll have more on the break and what parents have to say about this. everyone else in prince george s county, back to school, and it s going to be a little bit different this year. most students will have at least one new teacher. news
to trace where the guns came from and if they had been used in any crimes. there is into indication as to why the weapons were here, when they came to be here. that is all under investigation. reporter: so buckets, bags and violin case filled with guns and ammunition found here. police still investigating. they say there was nothing inside any of those dinners that at first glance gives themmen indication of who they belong to or why they were here. while they do praise the woman for seeing something and saying something, they say if you ever find a gun or suspicious package, call them but leave it alone. that is the very latest. we re live lehere. back to you. shots fired near a school in manassas. tonight the gunman is on the loose. david culver has the latest. reporter: we re there could be more than one gunman on the loose right now. you can see police cars still on scene. a good morportion of the parkin lot is shut off. we had chopper 4 up a little earlier and cr
situation. i know that the president denounced antisemitism last week and i would like to see more of that. and sort of finding out who s behind the calls. the flet to the school in rockdell was phoned in to the supper campus. they said there was a bomb on our premises and jewish souls would be destroyed. police were on the scene within minutes. a similar threat in fairfax, according to jewish organizations, there have been nearly 70 threats to jewish schools open community center across the country this year. and just this weekend were more jewish cemeteries in the philadelphia area were vandalized. it s anxiety provoking for the families in the school and for the students ultimately. i think it s a terrible situation that exists right now that we have to field fax counties as well as the fbi are investigating the latest threats. i m certain those facilities and the people who work and attend school there have already been advised to be aware of the surroundingin i