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WRC News4 At 4 April 23, 2015

Of the injury. If gray wasnt belt in, it would be a violation of Department Policy issued just nine days before the arrest. That requires all prisoners to be restrained by a seat belt. Now, there are new protests going on right now in baltimore, and tonight a local church is holding a Prayer Service for grays family. Wheel have more on that later. For also first at 4 today, a change of venue for charles severance, the man accused of three murders in alexandria. The judge moved it to fairfax county. He is accused of killing three women between 2003 and 2013. Prosecutors laid out many of their evidence including an incredibly ballistics connection between the murders. Northern Virginia Bureau chief julie carey join\s us at 5. Were tracking developments in the sentencing of David Petraeus. He just learned his fate in a North Carolina courtroom a judge sentenced him to two years of probation and a 100,000 fine. Now, petraeus could have been sentenced to as much as one year in jail. The sentencing comes two months after petraeus pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor charge in a plea deal with the government. Prosecutors say petraeus shared classified material with his mistress paula broad well. She was writing his biography at the time. As president and as commander km in chief, i take full responsibility for all our counterterrorism operations, including the one that inadvertently took the lives of warren and giovanni. I profoundly regret what happened. The president admits an operation targeting al qaeda accidentally killed a husband and father from rockville. Warren weinstein was working in pakistan when he was taken hostage. His family in maryland fought for three years more than three years for his release. Now word of his death. News4s chris gordon has reaction from family and neighbors. Reporter this is the home where dr. Weinsteins family lives along brad drive in rockville. They received the news of his tragic death last night. They are not home today and asked the public to respect their need for privacy. My name is Warren Weinstein. Reporter since dr. Weinstein was taken hostage in 2011, his family has kept a positive attitude. The tree in front of their rockville home was decorated by neighbors on the third anniversary of his captivity. The yellow ribbons have faded and now so has his wifes hopes. We are all very devastated that her hopes arent going to happen. You know, that his return is not going to occur. And i just i mean, she and her daughters need to be able to grieve. Reporter dr. Weinsteins wife elaine on behalf of her daughters and families issued a statement saying there are no words to do justice to the disappointment and heartbreak we are going through. We do not yet fully understand all of the facts surrounding warrens death. The president is taking full responsibility for the counterterrorism attack on the al qaeda compound that accidentally killed weinstein and italian hostage giovanna laportela laportea laporta. On msnbc Benjamin Cardin is asked about how this mistake was made. Andrea thats why i asked for a full report. I want to know exactly how the attacks were orchestrated, how they verified information and if it could have been done differently. Reporter all new at 5, ill tell you who the weinstein family blames. Thats coming up news4 at 5. President obama apologized and took responsibility but Warren Weinsteins death is raising new questions about u. S. Drone policy. Steve handelsman is working thatting angle of the story on capitol hill. He reports in the next half hour. Fairfax county police are investigating a double shooting in reston. A couple in their 30s were both shot in their home on branly park court about 2 30 a. M. A neighbor tells news4 theyve been married for about a year. At last check, both were hospitalized with life threatening injuries. Investigators believe its domestic and theres no threat to the community. The family of Michael Brown the unarmed man killed by a Police Officer in ferguson, missouri is hoping a lawsuit will bring them justice. Browns parents are seeking 75,000 in damages. Lawyers say they will show new evidence in the case. Their lawsuit targets the city, the police chief, and the officer who shot brown. They also want a court order they say to stop police from discriminating against africanamericans. When is america going to challenge the Standard Police narrative when they kill unarmed people of color . The Justice Department and a grand jury decided not to prosecute the Police Officer who shot brown but the Justice Department released a report last month citing racial bias within the Ferguson Police department. The nation has a brandnew attorney general with the help of ten republican votes, Loretta Lynch won confirmation today. She is the first africanamerican woman in the nations top Law Enforcement post. Shell replace eric holder who today described lynch as a gifted attorney and a dedicated public servant. Talk about a messy morning rush. Things are back to normal right now on i95 in Prince William county but this chopper 4 video shows the big mess on the roadway early this morning near the dale boulevard exit. A tractor trailer overturned in the northbound lanes and spilled blue ink all over the highway. Virginia state police tell us the truck collided with the tractor trailer in are front of it. Crews got busy cleaning up all that ink but at one point it caused a sixmile backup. Ugly. Slow down if you or a loved one is driving in the city. Six new speed cameras are now sending out tickets. The grace period inded today, meaning no more warnings. One is up on kenilworth Avenue Northwest and in northeast Eastern Avenue and ft. Lincoln. Two on south capitol street and one on branch avenue. The speed limit at all locations is 25 miles an hour. The change is next month if you use the van ness metro station on the red line. Monday, metro will begin work to replace escalators in the west Side Entrance, the udc side. Now, to do the work, metro has to close that entrance possibly for three years. It means some riders will have to cross busy connecticut avenue and use the east Side Entrance during the project. Students its convenient for us to be able to come out on this side of the street. But in the grand scheme of things its just walking across the street. If its for a good cause, ill support it. Look both ways and cross the street carefully. Metro says those escalators have been operating since the station opened in 1981 and theyre just worn out. Checking the weather now a breezy, chilly day. And its going to get even chillier tonight. Lets get the weather word from storm team4 meteorologist Veronica Johnson in the Weather Center t. Was blustery out there today. Wasnt it . Im using the word cold for tonight. Ive broken out the long sleeves again. Little bit of a change in wardrobe. Always different than what we tell you about it which was of course yesterday. The cold air coming than when you feel it. Boy, the change is here. Take a look at the freeze warning. These are the areas where temperatures will drop down to around the freezing mark, right around i81. Your counties up there washington areas of Frederick County, carol county, baltimore county. Make sure you cover those tender plants. Frost and freeze conditions in those areas. Of course its been blustery today from 74 to 57 in just a couple of minutes. Ill give you an hourbyhour forecast and show you just how low the temperatures will go and the coldest spots and how long it will take us tomorrow before it will feel a little better. Thanks. A bus filled with students catches fire. And they were on their way to the district. Up next, the terrifying scene along the interstate and what those students saw just moments before their bus went up in flames. And the prosecution rested its case in the boston bombing penalty phase. The emotional testimony from one of the final witnesses. Scary moments for a tour bus full of students headed here to washington this morning when their bus caught fire. Yeah. They were traveling here on interstate 70 in western pennsylvania when the bus driver noticed smoke. All 50 students from the Kentucky Middle School made it out safely. Local school buses picked them up and took them to a nearby rest stop to wait for a new charter bus. The defense in the boston bombing trial will begin to permit its case next week. They will argue the jury should spare the life of dzhokhar tsarnaev. The prosecution rested after three days of graphic testimony that often brought the jury to tears. Today a military combat surgeon described the injuryies to 8yearold Martin Richard. The doctor said his death was not instantaneous and said the boy would have felt, quote, visceral primal pain before he died unquote. The Richard Family was not in the courtroom today. Now to a developing story involving a foiled terror plot in france and the woman arrested is a mother of two. Shes a close friend of the man already in custody. He was caught this weekend only after he accidentally shot himself in the leg. Police say the man planned to open fire on a church during sunday services. The french Prime Minister says its the fifth terror plot stopped since januarys deadly attack on a newspaper and market. Well, its not the emergency a local Police Officer was expecting to find. A pregnant woman in her car about to give birth. Hear from both the officer and the new mom. Plus we have our seat belts on, but the bump that was kind of like a roller coaster ride. But not nearly as fun. Passengers describe what it was like to be on a flight with so much turbulence even veteran fliers got sick. Were coming right back. Announcer youre watching news4 at 4. And were back with a Police Officer going above and beyond while escorting a woman to the hospital to deliver a baby. They never made it to the hospital. Instead, she gave birth on the side of the road along georgia and dennis avenues in Silver Spring. Wendy rieger is in the newsroom with new reaction from the officer who helped with the delivery. Well, that new mother and baby boy are doing well, to start with. And to think it all started with a routine traffic stop. Officer dan campbell was on patrol around midnight pulled over a speeding car, and the driver pointed to his passenger and yelled baby, baby. When the officer realized the woman was in labor, he turned on his siren and his lights, told the couple to follow him to nearby holy cross hospital. Then he explains what happened next. Came across the front of the car, i could see that mom had her legged up on the dashboard and i could see that the baby was crowning already, being delivered. I was able to put on my gloves and at that point mom did all the work and a beautiful baby boy came out. Officer campbell says they are trained for this and yet not really prepared to deliver a baby on the street. This, by the way, is the couples third child. Back to you. But the first that way. Thank you, wendy. Imagine being on a flight with turbulence so severe it feels like king kong is shaking your plane and everyone around you is getting sick. Well, this happened overnight when a delta flight from paris to newark encountered a dangerous weather system. It was so stormy to land in newark or new york so the flight made an Emergency Landing in boston, more than 200 miles from its original destination. You could feel like king kong pikd up the plane and shooked it like there was no tomorrow. It was up and down and left and right and around and around, out to sea, back to sea. Everybody was calm because everybody was sick. Boy, paramedics boarded the plane when it finally landed in boston took at least two passengers with minor injuries to the hospital. Scary stuff. Yes. And cold stuff. You said it was going to get cold. Right. But its always different when you feel it, right . Yeah at least thats true even for us forecasters. We forecast it and were like oh its really cold out here. Yeah, when you have a cool air mass like this, what you dont want are the clouds and the wind. Weve got all three of them today. You can see on satellite and radar the ripples of clouds right through most of the area with the exception of extreme southern maryland. Thats where theres been a little bit more sunshine today, central virginia, too. Ill put it in motion. You can see even a little bit of green. Thats where weve had sprinkles come through the area, just enough moisture getting squeezed out of the clouds. The other thing, of course is the wind. Not a tremendous amount of wind coming through the area, but these are the gusts which have been blowing around 20 to 25 Miles Per Hour right through the area. And while our wind will start to subside well never see the winds go completely calm. That could be be an issue tomorrow morning. Were 58 breezy 45 and breezy by 11 00 p. M. Still some cloud cover at 11 00 p. M. I think well clear a little bit by morning. One thing is for sure, cold is the word with an exclamation this time of year so late in the morning for april. The windchills 26 to 43 degrees with the actual air temperature dropping to freezing to around 38 degrees. Now, youre going to think maybe i should break out the coat for tomorrow morning. You might want to adjust the thermostat before bed. Around bedtime 45 degrees its the locations to the north and west where well focus in because this is 5 00 a. M. The windchill temperatures right around freezing to just above freezing. Its northern montgomery county, Loudoun County to the north and west, a cold pocket here. Again, we mentioned that you might want to krofrcover your most sensitive plants early tomorrow mork. This is 7 00 a. M. , 32 in faith urzburg it feels like, reston and falls church fairly low windchill values for early tomorrow morning. I dont think its until around 9 00 10 00 a. M. When things will start to feel a little better. Yes, tomorrow we are going to get more sunshine across the area. Still a breezy one though tomorrow, kind of like today but more sunshine. 49 by 11 00 a. M. For partly sunny, a High Temperature of 56 by 3 00. Throughout the day still some clouds tomorrow. Still some wind. Dont think well have any sprinkles but just a wee bit more sunshine. Well take that because right now the weekend is looking soso. Some of the new data coming in showing more clouds and a little more rain. Of course, tomorrow its back out to the warm jackets, maybe even some coats. I saw a little bit of everything today folks wearing today. I know a little bit of a confusing weather day. 54 to 60 degrees, again cool for the afternoon breezy again. Well talk more about the weekend coming up in a few minutes. All righty. In just a few hours, things are really going to be rocking at verizon center. Oh, yeah. Here we go, folks. Game five between the caps and islanders. Dianna russini, jason pew getting us ready for the big game. Reporter guys, no question tonight is it going to be rocking. Fans playing off that momentum, the caps able to get in the overtime win back in long island. Reporter no team in this series has won backtoback games caps trying to do that tonight. When a series is tied at 22 sevengame series, whoever wins game five goes on to win the series 78 of the time. Huge game tonight. Reporter jason, its no secret right now that in the nassau coliseum the fan wrzs were crazy. Some of the caps players saying they were a little rude. Were hopetion the fans bring some of that heat. Coming up at 5, you will hear from the caps players on what they are specifically looking at from the fans here at the verizon center. Well send it back to you. Thanks, guys. A violent brawl caught on camera camera. All happening on a subway platform. The incredible pictures and why police didnt have a chance of catching the suspects. And viral video of a u. S. Marshal knocking a phone right out of a womans hand. A new look at what happened there and the u. S. Of. More Police Officers stand watch at a philadelphia subway station after a violent teen brawl. Some may find this video disturbing. We warp you. About a dozen teams are seen beating two others tuesday afternoon. A girl videotaped this. The attack lasted just over a minute. Police arrived gist after the teens took off. The victims never reported it. Police are now working to track down the teens behind the attack. They hope extra officers will help subway passengers feel safer. And now to this video thats going viral online, a u. S. Marshal destroys a california womans cell phone. But he didnt destroy her memory card. For the first time were seeing a new perspective. The critical moments before the marshal pulled the womans phone right out of her hands. Hey i have a right to be here. Reporter about six minutes into the video is the first confrontation between beatrice and a Law Enforcement officer. We blurred his face because were unsure if he was under cover. Youre in the way of our investigation. Im not in the way. You cant push me back. I need to film, and i have a right to film. Im watching. At this point you hear the officer tell her to go across the street. This is being filmed. This is unsafe right now. Youre right in the line of fire. Go across the street film all you want. Why is this happening . Theres a bunch of people in every corner. She was half a football field away from the scene. She zoomed in when two officers approached her. You need to stand back. I dont feel safe. Then keep going. You need to stand back. I dont feel safe with you getting closer to me. Youre making me feel unsafe. And i have the right to be here. You need to stay away from me. I dont feel safe with you close to me. You need to start moving away from me. You need to be at least a couple of feet away from me. I have a ri

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