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WRC News4 At 11 April 20, 2016

Just before landing at the bay bridge airport. Donald trump and Hillary Clinton take another big step toward their partys nominations tonight before president ial politics come to maryland. News 4 at 11 00 starts now. A big victory for transgender student in virginia. A federal Appeals Court said he can use the boys restroom even though he was born female. The impact is having an impact far beyond the one district. Reporter we have reaction from people here in Northern Virginia who have been following this case very closely. Im an educator and know no child can learn in an environment where they feel physically uncomfortable or threatened. I dont think also thatten students can learn when their bladders are full an reporter the case of 16yearold transgender student gavin glim sued for discrimination for not allowing him to use the boys restroom has been followed closely in this Fairfax County home. The mother and brother supported him through his transition and the joys and challenges that it brought to his world. Its awesome because its a huge step forward for the transgender community. It means we are welcoming transgender people in the world like they should have been originally. The Appeals Court upheld the regulations that required Public Schools to treat transgender schools consistent with their identity. The ruling applies four states in the same federal judicial circuit including north carolina. It likely means that states controversial transgender bathroom law passed last month cannot be enforced if Public Schools including colleges and universities. We have individuals that are happy. Theres uncomfortable and that discomfort sometimes has a source in fear and misinformation. So i foresee that as well. The school board can i peel this to the full Appeals Court or to the u. S. Supreme court. Live in arlington, news 4. We just got new reaction to the newsroom from the student at the center of todays ruling. Gavin said that he has fought for this because he feels he should be treated like everyone else. To anyone asking why, why its a big deal, i would say well, you deal with that, you be isolated from a one specific location and have you branded as someone who is not fit for that location and see how you feel about it. The gloster County School district put a policy in place requiring students to use the private single stall restroom. Tonight the ntsb is trying to figure out what caused this plane crash in stevensville, maryland. The single engine plane crashed in to a field here and caught fire. This happened 200 yards from that runway you saw as the plane was attempting to land at the bay bridge airport. Just before 1 00 this afternoon. A man and woman were killed. They have not been identified. The plane was operated by the Flight School at the airport chesapeake sport pilot. A Man Associated with the school said none of the students were on board at the same of the crash. Search teams will return to the Shenandoah National park in the morning to continue the search for a missing firefighter. Tomorrow will mark one week since nicoles family last heard from her. Her car was found parked near the White Oak Canyon trail saturday evening in Shenandoah National park. Today her husband spoke for the first time. He thanked the search teams and everyone who has helped to sprehe missing wife. Id like to thank the over 10,000 visitors who have liked our facebook site find nicole an the continuous awareness of her disappearance by sharing the site. She is a Fairfax County firefighter a prayer vigil will be held tomorrow at her station. The public is invited to join. You can find the details on the nbc washington app search vigil for nicole. Im Chris Lawrence at the live desk. We may be hours away from the first criminal charges coming out of flints toxic water crisis. Nbc news confirms three officials will be charged tomorrow. Two of them work at michigans department of environmental quality. One works for the city. Michigans attorney general is promising a significant announcement on wednesday afternoon. The Flint Water Investigative Team has should be blamed for the contamination. Lead leaked and exposed thousands of children in the city. Some say flint got false low lead readings because officials didnt test the homes most at risk and part of the investigation focused on who misrepresented that testing. Big home comings tonight for republicans donald trump and democrat Hillary Clinton. The front runners won their home state by huge margins tonight. For trump, the question is whether this win gives him the boost he needs to win the nomination before the gop convention. News 4 Steve Handelsman is live in new york city to break down the numbers for us. Steve . Jim, thanks. This is where Hillary Clinton celebrated her win in the midtown manhattan. Not far from here the trump tower, the republican front runner celebrate a victory that for him looks even more reporter he had to win big in his home state and donald trump did in the new york primary. I can think of nowhere that i would rather have this victory. So we love you all. Have a great evening. Reporter getting almost all of the 95 delegates up for grab in new york can keep alive trumps hopes to get the votes before the convention. Kasich vows to fight on after his second place in new york and cruz is campaigning in pennsylvania where the primary vote is next tuesday. Bernie sanders whose string of primary wins is broken is furious that 3 Million People who might have backed him could not cast ballots today. I would hope that in future primary elections in new york state the officials there make some fundamental changes about how they do business. Reporter new york was right for Hillary Clinton. A win in a big state after a in momentum. We have won in every region of the country. From the north to the south, to the east, to the west, but this ones personal. The race for the democratic nomination is in the home stretch and victory is in sight. Reporter more big primaries are just a week away. In the biggest of them, maryland, pennsylvania, connecticut, Hillary Clinton and donald trump are polling far ahead. Live from midtown, manhattan, Steve Handelsman, news 4. Donald trump and Hillary Clinton dont have to wait long to try to add to their leads. Five states vote a week from today, including maryland. Nearly 400 delegates will be up for grabs for democrats and 170 for republicans. We will have full coverage of the Campaign Stops in maryland right up until voters head to the turning to our forecast now, and a bit of a cool down coming our way. When you are cooling off from the 80s its tough to complain, right . Normally you talk about a 10 to 15degree temperature drop and that is significant but today 84 degrees. Look at these numbers. Way above average. The average high is 68. Today we hit 84 in d. C. 86 fredericksburg, and leesburg. Tomorrow a lot of sunshine. Get sunglasses ready. Cool start a, 47 degrees. May need the jacket when you step out the door. You wont need it tomorrow afternoon. Another beautiful afternoon and early evening. Temperatures in the upper 60s to around 70. Headlines not, not as warm tomorrow but nice. We have rain on the way and muchneeded wayne and we are tracking the weekend. Whats it have in store after the next cold front on friday . I minute. Doug, thank you. Tomorrow the Prince Georges County firefighter shot and killed while responding to a call will be laid to rest. Today, hundreds paid their respects to John Ulmschneider at a visitation at his home church here in saint marys county. John ulmschneider was trying to get in a temple hills home to check on a person thought to be having a medical emergency. The homeowner said he thought someone was trying to break in to his house and he opened fire. The captain of his station said the county has lost a true servant. He was the kind of guy that if you came up short in line for your groceries, he would pay that money out of pocket, on or off duty. If you needed help, broke down on the side of the road, hes the guy that stopped and would have changed your tire. Hes just that great of a guy. Fire departments as far as Baltimore City will help respond to emergency calls in Prince George funeral. New at 11 00, an arrest in the murder of a secret Service Agent in the district. Charles sims is charged in connection with the shooting death of arthur baldwin. Officers found him shot several times last december. That is short distance from the porg county line. Baldwin worked with the secret service but had been suspended at the time. Investigators last december told us they believe the motive may have been robbery. Next at 11 00, the ongoing search for survivors of the devastating earthquake in ecuador. New promises tonight of help from president obama. A new twist to the message of protest is already on d. C. License plates. How it could soon pack more punch. Did you see it . The lastminute save on the voice tonight. How owen made it through for one more week. The u. S. Navy scrapped a recruiting mailer today over allegations of sexism. It says it offers women opportunities most girls arent aware of in career areas that arent just for the guys. All while staying in touch with your feminine side. 200,000 people across several states received the mailer. Navy Officials Say it doesnt reflect navy values and the language in all the templates is being reviewed. With the addition of one word the d. C. Council is looking to you haven up the message on license plates. For 15 years they said taxation without representation. Now Council Member charles is proposing the tag say end taxation without reputation. It would be a symbol of the lack of Voting Rights and could draw attention to the situation. 11 of the 13 Council Members support the change. President obama called the leader of ecuador today to offer condolences and also supplies and disaster experts to help in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake down there. The damage is staggering. With more than 500 now confirmed dead. Migu reporter the coastal city is in ruins. 800 buildings destroyed. Many more on the brink of collapse. The search for survivors is painstakingly slow. Daisy Flores Gonzalez has been here since saturday. Her brother victor is missing inside of the miami hotel. This is what it used to look people are inside. Reporter the anguish on the faces is as clear as the distraction. Families keep vigils a few feet away. This 9yearold girl and 1yearold sister waiting for news on their injured mother rushed away in an ambulance. They tell volunteers they are scared and just want to go home. While rescue teams are on the ground from eight countries many say not enough is being done. Neighborhoods are decimated, countless missing and many buildings have not been checked. This is what gives many hope. A hotel worker buried for two days uses his signal phone to signal rescue teams. He is weak but will survive. Women and children are found alive and pulled from the rubble every day. But too often the news is at the miami hotel, they discovered more bodies. Daisy learns her brother victor is gone. Still she stays. Its too hard to walk away and say goodbye. Another day of dramatic rescues in texas. Historically high floodwaters continue to rise. A heavyduty truck was brought in to evacuate residents from an assistant living facility there. People were lifted from their wheelchairs in to the bed of the trucks. The death toll has now climbed to sikts. Terrible to see the trouble in houston. Water seems to be going up. The good news is it has stopped raining there. They have a chance of more rain later this week. Thats not going to make it worse but 15 to 20 inches of rain in a short amount of time, it will take a long time to recover from this as the water will eventually go down. For us, we are talking about some really nice we dont have much, at all, to complain about except for what is happening to the rest of the country. Right now 64. Winds from the north at ten miles an hour. Cooler than last night but still very nice. We are down to 50 in fled rired. 59 manassas. The one complaint that everybody has and it really is just about everybody is the allergies them tree pollen way up. If you suffer from it or the film on your car it is creating a mess. We will not see that as much as we move to the end of the week. We have a chance of rain. No rain right now. Storm team 4 radar is clear. It will stay that way the next couple of days. Heres what is happening. Cloud cover earlier is with the cold front. You can see it sliding to the south. Clear skies to the north of it. Right now cooler air coming in. Again, it will be nice. We move to the south, heres housto the houston area. Also notice around dallas more severe weather. Severe thunderstorm watch in effect to the west of the dallas area. Texas continues to get hit. Denver continues to get hit. More snow up to denver after two to four feet west of denver the last couple of days. The storm will try to move our way but not tomorrow. This is what we are looking at. A great day to get down. 47 degrees. Starting off on the cool side. 67 degree s by 11 00. 71 by 3 00. Abundant sunshine. Tomorrow will be another fantastic day. Highs in the upper 60s to low 70s like we talked about earlier, temperatures 10 to 15 below where they were today. But we are at or above average with all of that sunshine that we have going on across our region. The next couple of days we warm to the mid70s on thursday. High of 78. And then to friday. I have the temperature down to 72. Thats something we will be watching. It depends on how much rain we e. Rain, mainly on the light side. Keep the umbrella handy for friday. Could be rain just about all day long. Its not going to be a lot. Thats something we will refine, as well. Behind this front, we get cool again towards saturday. When i say cool, but very nice. Sunday in the mid70ss. We will start off on some cool notes but right now the weekend is looking gorgeous and monday, if you want the 80s back dont we all . 82 on monday. Things are looking up. Thank you, doug. Coming up, big night on the diamond for the nats. They have an inning for the at giant, shoppers low prices by the thousands, plus a thousand more that just dropped. Ou trying to do, get me to feed the whole neighborhood . 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That one to the monstrosity the outfield at marlins park ramos came in and followed with a home run of his own. Bases loaded for bryce harper. This is his second career grand slam in the last six games. Nats up 60. Harper has more home runs than strikeouts. Ryan zimmerman comes to the plate. That is a shock. Yeah. Home run 201 for him. Four home runs in the inning. The nationals for the first time, they have done that in franchise history. They win it by a final of 70. Over to camden yards, we will pick it up in the seventh. Orioles down 41 and matt sends this out of the park. He had his first home run of the year. Skip ahead to the eighth inning now. The orioles have a chance to e two on for mark trum bow and he would fly to center. The blue jays hold on to with get the win. 43 the final. Moving to hockey for a moment. A few notes about game four tomorrow between the capitals and flyers. Defense man has been ruled out with an upper body injury. He will not play tomorrow. And the same would be said about pierre from the flyers. He has been suspend for a hit on dmitri. He was hurt during one of the drills when he collided with a teammate. He was favoring his left leg and did not return to practice but his coach and teammates dont seem too concerned about his status for game four. Basically nicked up a little bit. Went off and see where he is tomorrow. You think he would play tomorrow . I dont anticipate braden not now. Showdown two top ten teams. Maryland fifth and navy seventh. Second quarter, terps lead 31. Nice feed to tim who finds the back of the net. He had two on goals on the night. Fourth quarter. Terps lead it 104. Navy grayson makes a run. Finds home. He had a hat trick tonight but he was the only offense for the midshipmen. Maryland win by a final of 105. Good game. Good stuff. Thank you. A lotf good stuff tonight. O at the river. Tarzan know where tarzan go tarzan does not know where tarzan go. 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