Supremacist dylann roof. Leaders hope the removal will help heal some wounds. This is a positive step. This is a step forward. This opens the door it opens the gate. You want this to go away quickly. I want people to remember what today feels like. Nbcs jay gray will have a live report on the flags removal coming up in our next half hour. Developing right now, the fbi says the accused shooter in the Charleston Church massacre got that gun illegally. Director james comey says a background check failure allowed dylann roof to purchase a a. 45caliber glock handgun. Roof had a previous drug possession arrest, but the fbi examiner who looked into roofs background never saw an arrest report because the documents were incomplete and inaccurate. The district is taking direct aim at city businesses that are selling synthetic drugs, like k 2 and scooby snacks. News4s Mark Seagraves breaks down this new law now in effect. Reporter mayor bowser signed the new law today which will have much stiffer
Dont even yet have a handle on exactly who is affected and that means that no letters can go out, no notification go out. Remember, this covers people who got background checks over the last 15 years. Some of them never worked for the federal government. Some of them dont work for the federal government now. So first and foremost, they would have to track all those people down once they figure out exactly who they are. In the mean tame, what do you do for them you heard from Eleanor Holmes norton, she along with democratic senators, who have large numbers of federal workers in their district, are proposing that Lifetime Protection as well as 5 million in insurance, but there is no guess even at this point whether its the three years that opm is suggesting or if they do a Lifetime Protection what that would cost or how that would even work and all of this gives new urgency to what are known vulnerabilities, obviously not just at opm but talked about vulnerabilities from every agency, no
Reporter theres a certain irony after what for many had been a long and difficult fight. I dont want this to go away quickly. I want people to remember what today feels like. Reporter there is heartache that comes with the history here, many remembering the nine people murdered inside charleston church, the alleged gunman, a selfproclaimed white supremacist. The nine who died in charleston are being honored. Those who fought during the Civil Rights Movement are being honored. Reporter still, some here argue pulling down the banner dishonors the heritage of the state. Taking it off the pole, sticking it in a museum putting it in a museum isnt going to open a dialogue. Reporter todays any indication, a dialogue will continue, even though the flags gone. Youre a heart. Youre a hater. Thank you. Thank you. Reporter but for most of the thousands gathered here, this day was about hope, not hate. We can be united. We can live in this country together. Its not a black white issue, it is a Unit
Over the last week or so, Prince William county, fairfax county, the district and prince georges county, Flash Flood Watch 2 a. M. Tomorrow morning through 3 p. M. Tomorrow afternoon. Heres a look at the radar over the past hour or so. You can see the heaviest testimony down toward culpeper, but still we talked about light showers moving in. The heavy stuff comes in overnight. Well zoom in a little bit. This has got some rainfall rates over an inch per hour around gold vein moving essentially off to the east, southeast. This will duck in between quantico and stafford in the next 40 minutes. So let me show you futurecast. Were looking at 5 a. M. , look at all the heavy rain culpeper to fredericksburg, the yellow and orange, heavy stuff. A lot of it ducks off to the south. You might not see anything in hagerstown. I think it will be a little further north than futurecast is showing here. 9 a. M. Showers essentially i66 and 50 south. By 11 00 most of the heavy activity is south of town in
Taking a live look at the city. Dark this sunday morning, october 11th, 2015. Im mir shell charles worth. Also a dark cloud hanging over the mets game last night. We have to talk about that. And the question. A lot of folks wondering what happened there. Were not started it off, were reporting it. Thanks for being with us early. Amy, were glad to have you back in the house. Night to see you at city field yesterday. Yes, lets go mets. They are getting ready for the monday night game. This morning though the particulars are looking good for the boroughs meaning we have light winds and there was a frost advisory last night. We look to the east and we have upper 40s and low 50s for long island and then northwest new jersey and temperatures are colder by as much as 10, 12 degrees. So we begin with morning lows in the low 30s and this is likely where frost was forming on the pumpkins. It goes until 9 00 a. M. This morning. It goes really from that northwest new jersey up through the upper Hu