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WRC News4 At 4 April 26, 2017

Off for school. K9 officers walking through the park. Police finished their search of the area just before the school day ended. Investigators say nothing was found but theyre on a heightened sense of awareness. It was just last month that the officers found the remains of two people less than a mile away. Now the principal did send home a letter to parents letting them know that police were searching the area but she ensured them that it had nothing to do with the middle school. Back to you. Thanks so much. A quick look now at some of the days other top stories. The Trump Administration revealed the president s plans to simplify your taxes. There would be a three tax bracket instead of the current seven brackets with the highest of 35 . Now the standard deduction would double for married couples to 24,000. Charitable giving and mortgage interest would still be deductible. The business tax rate would drop to 15 and the debt tax, thats going to end. Fox news channel kelly wright has joined the lawsuit accusing the Cable Network of allowing Racial Discrimination during a News Conference today wright seen there on your left said he could no longer sit in silence. The lawsuit now includes 13 former and current employees. Fox is denying the accusations. The director of the movie silence of the lambs has died of cancer. Jonathan demme won an oscar for that film. He was 73. Hundreds of First Responders and volunteers are taking part in emergency terror drills across our area today. Six large scale drills happened in d. C. , maryland and virginia. The goal is to help organize the response to a coordinated terror attack here in the National Capitol re. The unusual high volume of sick calls metro had for this coming up weekend. Now the Transit Agency is bracing for a possible sick out. Its a bargaining chip whose locked in contract negotiations right now and our chris gordon got the union side today. Here it is. Reporter we came here to the headquarters of Transit Union local 689 to ask if there is a planned sickout and how it will effect metro riders this weekend if there is one. Were not calling a sickout what members have done is abide by the rules and regulations that were set forth. Their absenteeism policy requires that any one whose going sick callout three days ahead of time and thats what they did. Reporter so we should expect regular Metro Service this weekend as far as you know . As far as i know but i dont know how many people called out. Reporter metro unexcused absences and that it is trying to cut down on workers taking excessive absences. Ahead what metro is doing to prepare for a possible sickout this weekend. Back to you. If the Virginia Governor has his way his wife dorothy will be running for Congress Next year. He talked about a possible run by his wife today on midday. He cast virginia votes for Hillary Clinton during the democratic convention, it would be her first run for elected office. Im encouraging her. Shes interested in doing it. She has led the effort in virginia, 8 million more children this year will have access to a Healthy Breakfast inn the schools but her focus will be all about children and education something shes fought for her entire life. She would run in virginias tenth congressional district. That seat republican representative. 21 men and women honored today in alexandria all part of the valor awards. Member of the Cities Police department, sheriff and fire and rescue saluted for their acts of bravery over the past year. News4 today erin gill crest, it was the 34th year of this ceremony. To storm team 4 now and some more big changes headed our way. Its been four days, i have found my shades and im wearing them because on cue that sun is coming up, is that right . You said about 5 00. You couldve given them to me, im the one outside. Im coming out at 5 00. You looking good, though. The sun making its way out now. We did talk about this yesterday. Thats exactly what were seeing. Lets go way up high, couple hundred feet up and you can actually look off towards the west and notice that we are dealing with the notice some sunshine starting to move in, the blue skies as well. 69 degrees the current temperature. Winds out of the northwest at about 6mileperhour. As we continue to making our way on through here do we have nope. Okay. And take a look at what were dealing with. Sorry. Satellite radar. Theres that storm system were watching making its way off toward the east and as it does so were seeing the blue skies moving on in behind it. Temperaturewise 69 degrees d. C. , 77 in elkins and 80 down near roanoke. Well talk about how long the 80s stick around and how high with go as we head toward the weekend. But one day this weekend a little bit different than the other. Thank you, doug. Its a game changer for your wardrobe. Amazon says its ready to help you pick the Perfect Outfit by doing someone no one else has done before. Fix is about to get a whole lot easier. Why our area is among the first to test out some new technology. Also, shes best known as a real housewife, what this reality tv stars doing here in d. C. And what she tells news4 about whats next forer show h are you one sneeze away from being voted out of the carpool . Try zyrtec® its starts working hard at hour one and works twice as hard when you take it again the next day. Stick with zyrtec® and muddle no more®. Wearing jeans today, they could be part of a worldwide movement. April 26th is denim day. Its a chance to stand in solidarity with victims of Sexual Assault by wearing jeans. Heres a look at a few tweets weve gotten today or tweets out there about the campaign and how people are using social media to take part today. The movement is in response to a case in italy 18 years ago, a court there overturned a rain conviction because the teenage victim wore tight jeans. The court said her parents were so tight the suspect probably couldnt take them off without her help and ruled the encounter must have been conessentialial. Speaking of what to wear. Want some impartial feedback on your wardrobe. You got to have pretty thick skin for this. Echo is looking to do just that. Its a camera that sits in your closet, keeps track of your outfits and offers fashion advice based on algorithms and some new technologies. Heres how it works. You use t take photos and video of yourself in your clothing and the echo uses those maegz stored in the companion app. The style check feature using advice from fashion experts to rate your outfits. When it launches, the echo look will set you back about 200 bucks but could save you from, i guess, some fashion disasters out there, right . Yeah and who wants those . We dont need that. Mcdonalds is planning to unveil a mobile ordering and pay app later this year. Now you can get a chance to be among the first to test it right on your cell phone. This is really interesting. The Fast Food Company says this app will allow you to order your food and then pick it up at one of 50 restaurants in the metro area. The app will give the restaurant your location, so your food is fresh when you arrive to pick it up. Mcdonalds is hoping the app users wil the nationwide launch is planned for later this year. I want fresh extra large fries so i put on my facebook that this is only going to make me get fatter faster. Uhhuh. And theyll know where you are. Exactly. Follow me. Follow my fat. Time to turn your attention to the flowers and plants that are growing all over our neighborhoods and yards, but gartner be wear. Some of what you plant could make you sick. Dr. Jackie will come along and tell us about everything from plants, to flowers to bugs they attract. D. C. s missing children, the problem with that was that it spread a lot of misinformation. How police are now using online cols to track downhildren who creating a cleaner environment by using cleaner Energy Sources like solar, wind and natural gas. Weve reduced Carbon Emissions by nearly 25 , which is the equivalent of taking close to two million cars off the road. Cleaner air and cleaner water. Its good for all of us. Dominion. Depend on us for more than energy. All this week were working for you and going beyond the social Media Chatter about missing children in d. C. Were debunking the mingz and social media rumors about the number of cases. News4 justin fench reveals the biggest misconception about keeping our kids home. Reporter in the shadow of the capitol what became a National Conversation prompted by these flyers of young missing faces that many might never have seen until the metropolitan Police Department put them on social media. Do you think that social media getting more eyes on this has really people . Without a doubt. Were glad to have that attention brought to it. Reporter the thought, the more eyes, the higher the odds the missing would be found, though many came home on their own. So now people are focusing on it which is great. I think that helps us out. Reporter but then the mpd found its social media obstructed. Viral postings claimed girls of colors were vanishing in droves. Mpd counts 2. 242 missing juvenile cases in 2016 down almost 200 reports from 2015. Its about 50 50 between boys and girls and i think that one of the misconceptions it suddenly became this big deal where its been a big deal for us all along. Reporter the hope is soon no child is left to fend for him or herself. Justin finch, news4. We posted about the facts behind t washington app. Check out our interactive timeline of the key moments exploring this issue just such d. C. Missing teens. Its finally drying up. Expect things to start shooting up in the garden but if planting makes you sick like it makes me, take heart. In news for your health how to get an allergyfree garden. Dr. Jackie, when it comes to choosing what to plant, you say go for the girls. Thats right. So the reason is the girls make the fruit, the boys make the pollen, together they make a baby. But what you want to be able to do is stay away from the pollen. Go for the plants that have the fruits and the berries especially when it comes to things like seeder and junipers. I dont think i ever thought of it that way and once you picked what to plant, its all about location . Its location, location, location. Dont stick a plant right near the window or right near the youre parking your car. Dont park right underneath the tree, youre asking for it. I like plants with bright fragrant flowers, you say their pollen is different than the tree pollen. Thats right. Its heavier pollen it falls to the ground. You want things that are pretty. Doesnt make a difference if its roses or daisies but you want that to be a showy flower. The more flowers, the better. It doesnt really matter. Thats right. Thats right. Make it nice. Okay. Be wear of the bees. Bees and Yellow Jackets and all those stinging insects. Its where youre going to be stung the most in the garden. 3 of the Adult Population has actually the life threatening form of this allergy and its not just good enough to walk around with an epipen. If youve got this problem come see an allergyist. Theres therapy that can save your life. What about mulch . It smells and especially if youre allergic to mold thats the best place where the mold hides is in the mulch. Dont worry so much about what type of mold you use, just get somebody else to spread it. You also say be careful when youre using fertilizers and pesticides that keep it beautiful in the first place. Theres a couple reasons for that. If you have asthma and youre breathing in Something Like thats cause tick like those fertilizers. Second if youve got eczema and open wounds on your skin, this too can cause a contact determine tie tis, a type of allergy so be really careful about that. If you want to spend a bunch of time outside and youre having difficulties because of your allergy, your best shot is to literally take an allergy shot, so come to the allergyists lets get you some therapy so you can spend all kinds of time outside in the beautiful weather that they keep telling us were going to have. Okay. I believe them. Its coming. Thank you, or weve been telling you about the dangers of drunk driving for years. Now that could be taking a backseat to a new driving danger and no, its not your smartphone. The sobering new numbers that are coming out today and have you had enough rain yet. Dogs tracking a big change on the way and this one could make you sweat whatwhat made them believeace carthat a twoton behemothhop . Could compete in a track race . Or that they could take on the elite in world motor racing, and win . We may never truly understand what drives mercedesamg. Half a century of driving performance. First Lady Melania Trump is celebrating her 47th birthday today. She and the president plan to have a private celebration at the white house later tonight. According to her aides, she also had lunch earlier today with Senate Spouses at the National Gallery of art. The first lady tweeted she was looking forward to having lunch with a quote, Wonderful Group doing great things for our country. Happy birthday to her. So doug, is the drought over . No, not quite yet. Even though weve had all this rain, the surface soil is good so your lawns are doing pretty well, trees, things like that are doing well. Its the underground aquifer that take a long time. Is this sun burn im detecting . You were just out there for five minutes. You finally need the sunscreen. You will be needing that sunscreen and youll be wearing the shorts and short sleeves. You can see, some blue skies, still some cloud cover. We talked about this y still spinning just off to our east. Were up to 69 degrees and at 7 00 p. M. Well be up to 70 degrees. Just nice weather. Just walk outside right now. It is gorgeous. Actually wait for me to get done. 67 in hungtown so still cool along the water. Back to the west where we do have some sunshine, 80 in petersburg, west virginia. Now no rain right now. That area of rain is well to our north and east. You can see it there. Look at that spin. Lets go widen this out. Right here. That is a nice beautiful little spin right off the coast. That storm system moving up to the north and east. Look at the clearing skies behind it and well continue to see these clearing skies and back to the west, not much in the way of clouds at all until you get to chicago. But well get into some nice weather. How about these temperatures. 82 right now in that warmer air will be moving our way during the day tomorrow and we will be into the 80s for the next couple of days. Your forecast tomorrow, 84 degrees, sun and clouds, a great afternoon. Little bit on the humid side. Its still going to be really nice and a great day to get the car wash. Dont go, not bad, get it done. Yeah, get it done tomorrow. A perfect day for it. Nice and warm and heres the biggest factor. Dry for days so a good day to get that car washed. Next couple of days, friday still pretty nice. 83 degrees. Notice on saturday, weve got 88 degrees. That is a hot day, little bit humid too. Could even see an afternoon shower or thunderstorm. Sundayss still a tough forecast. 80 degrees is what were going for but it has to do with that frantal boundary. As we move through the day on sunday that front will be making its way down across our area. Does it move all the way through . Do we have more clouds . Does the cool weather move in here . Sundays still a even a tough forecast, its 90s down here, its upper 60s and 70s up here. So its not cold by any means. It would be a little bit cooler. Wheres the front . 90s just to the south, cooler a little bit just to the north. 83 on monday, chance of late day showers. Most of next week looking good, next thursday and friday there are some 50s but for right now enjoy those 80s. Beyonce is giving young women with big dreams a bright future. The big announcement that will impact young women here in our area. Youre probably used to seeing her throw down on the tv drama, the reality tv drama that she stars in. And shes got that cute little dog. Theres the dog right there or one of them. Today shes here in washington in our studios on some Serious Business talking to news4 about the future of the real house wives and a cause thats now at 4 30, the future of many colleges about to become the subject of a rally on the hill. And why an announcement from beyonce about a local school has people talking. Chipotle warning you to check your bank account. With warning signs of a data breech and what you should do to protect yourself. Plus shes one of the biggest stars on tv but instead of the reality tv drama youre used to seeing, shes here in washington for some very Serious Business. Announcer youre watching news4 at 4 00. Just a short time ago, the president s money men unveiled the outline of a dramatic tax reform that could bring change to every American Family and business. The white house says it will create jobs and boost the economy, critics say it will help the reach and blast a hole in the deficit. Blayne alexander is piecing it all together on capitol hill. Reporter the president s h this. In fact, they say they want to see this done by the end of the year but they do admit that there is some work to be done before this can go to a vote. Proudly dub tg the biggest overhaul in history, today the white house unveiled a sweeping tax reform proposal. What this is about is creating jobs and creating economic growth. Reporter for individuals, the proposed plan would eliminate most Tax Deductions. We are going to eliminate on the personal side all Tax Deductions other than mortgage interest and charitable deductions. Reporter seven tax brackets would be reduced to three. For married couples no tax on the first 24,000 income. Tax benefits to help with child care and eliminating the death tax. Were going to cut taxes for the American People especially low and mi

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