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Right now on news4 this week, a false alarm. Well explain what sent joint base andrews into lockdown right before a scheduled active drill. Big money. A bridge in danger of closing finally gets a federal grant for muchneeded repairs. And fireworks in the fall. It wasnt the prettiest show ever. But it did happen, despite a dreary fourth of july. Announcer welcome to news4 this week. Hi, everyone, im chris lawrence. We start with a day of confusion at joint base andrews. A scheduled drill, an arme...

The traffic is about to get much, much worse. News 4s meegan fitzgerald, how bad is it going to get . Reporter well, you know, ive got to tell you, aaa said now is the time to pack your patience because its going to get bad. Around 2 00 is the hour folks can expect gridlock up until around 9 00 this evening. They tell us some 917,000 people are expected to take a road trip to where theyre going to go. Ill step out of the way and show you the good news. Right now, its pretty smooth sailing on the...

That was dysfunctional. And so the commission took years to respond but it finally did and we acted initially to take care of interstate rates a few months ago. We acted again to look at the entire we passed an order looked at entire portfolio, meaning intrastate rates. Right now parties are poised to challenge that. So we have already published in the federal register which gives them a green light to move forward and they are moving forward and we are responding to some petitions for stay. Hos...

The 96 act said we want competition competition. Some places it has worked. Some places it hasnt. This is one place where it really hasnt. We think consumers would have more choices and lower prices if we got competition into that space. The first question is is there a market for set top boxes . The answer is really in terms of what is delivered over the cable network, no, because the box is actually a component of the network. Thats the most efficient way to design and deliver Cable Television...

A lot of us have been advocating for a long time that the two leaders of this government project that theyre working together and with the internal dynamics and as we say it is unlikely to have been. But there are some things regarding Strategic Communication and People Like Us point out not of government itself. What have we done and what are we attempting to do . And a lot of the frustration with this government is that it doesnt understand that sense of crisis and those uncertainties. That is...

They will face in the world series. Theyre getting ready for game one against the royals. The mets are hot. The temperatures are not, though. Chilly start to the day. 41 degrees outside right now in the city. Theres a chill out there. We are dealing with that chilly start and then the clouds build later on today. Its one of those days as the sunshine fades away as we head into the afternoon. Theres some rain as well, a rain chance. Well talk about that in just a few. Its very quiet out there. Lo...

That he wanted to harm or indicate in any way that he wanted to harm any of the protectees of the president. Walking, and there was a bulge in the back of his jacket. As ive been briefed here. And the officer approached him, and noticed that he had a hatchet in the back of his pants. As i was briefed. The hatchet, my understanding, in d. C. Is not in violation of the law, if its considered to be used for campingtype activities. And thats what his individual indicated he had the hatchet for. The ...

And then i mentioned the 21 days added on, we need to fight against that and try to inject reasoning into that. The infrastructure, so i have been kind of not intentionally but finding myself playing a role of a spoiler in some of the meetings like this. Not that im opposed. Sometimes there are realistic expectations. These are the sorts of settings. This is an ebola treatment center, the upper one is in the creek and the epicenter of the outbreak. Many other pictures, of course. These vary a lo...

[captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] cspan, aup on hearing on the International Response to the Ebola Outbreak africa. Then alison mcfar lane, the head of the Nuclear Regulatory talks about the challenges facing the agency. And later, a House Foreign Committee examines the influx of unaccompanied minors at the southern u. S. Border. The next on washington journal, senator ron johnson of wisconsin issues before session wind down this and whats ahead with the new congress in ja...

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