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WRC News4 At 5 March 16, 2015

Like i said, as a parent, you want to protect your child and i felt like i wasnt there. So it looked awful. Reporter vanessa says she believes the attack on her son was carried out by students from a rival high school, students who were retaliating after a recent fight at Potomac Mills mall that drew police. Vanessa says her son was not involved in that incident but saturday one oe attackers asked him earlier in the evening if he played basketball for freedom high school. He answered yes. And vanessa thinks he was targeted because of that. Im a forgiving person, but this has to stop. It has to stop. And you cant go around randomly picking kids just because. Reporter now, vanessa hopes by calling attention to the attack someone might come forward and name names. Now, the victim stayed home from school today. His mom wanted t talk to school administratorbee returned. On news 4 6 0 ill tell you about his plans going forward. Reporting live from dale city, julie carey, news4. Im Scott Mcfarlane at the live desk pap major Police Presence in herndon right now where a body has been found. Well show you new video of the scene just in to news4. Police say a mans body was found in a wooded area near folly lick stream off hidden brook drive. The man has trauma to his upper body. It is unclear whats happened to that man. News4s shomari sto en route to the scene as we speak. Well push you any breaking updates to your nbc washington app. Back to you. Well, his job is to help protect americans from terrorists, bu now a state department worker stands accused of spying on women here in the district. Daniel rosen was arrested just last month for soliciting sex from a minor. News4s Mark Segraves is live with an update from d. C. Superior court. Reporter y, wendy. Daniel rosen d his wife just walked out of d. C. Superior court. Daniel rosen told the judge hes not guilty. Police say that he secretly videotaped at least 24 women in their bedrooms and bathrooms while they were undressed. Police say these videotapes go back as far as 2013. Assistant polic chief peter knewshen told reporters the way rosen recorded these women was particularly disturbing. The videos appear to have been taken through curtains and shades that werewn. The camera was utilized in ait could see through small areas in the windows. Reporter ce say at least 40 videos of at least 24 different wom were found on rosens cell phone after he was arrested for those virginia charges of trying to entice a minor to have sex with him over the internet. And in some of the videos police say rosen himself can be seen touching hims in an inappropriate manner and he can be heard talking sexually on some of the videotapes. Now, so far, police have found at least two victims to come forward, but they hope theyll find more now that this case is in the news. So far hes only been charged with two counts, one of voyeurism and one of stalking. The stalking charges come because to seven of these women he went back multiple times to videotape them again over at least a sixmonth period. And that makes stalking charges according here. He has been released to home confinement. Coming up at 6 00 why the prosecutors said that rosen could be a threat to the Community Even from his back porch. Jim, back to you. New developments tonight in the trial of a man charged with killing a Georgetown Law School student. Rahul gupta was just found guilty of firstdree murder for killing mark wahl. Prosecutors say bb h several mewi a butcher knife in fwup thats Silver Spring apartmen in 2013. Gupta reportedly said he thought his girlfriend w cheating on him with wau. Zachary kiescis going over key pieces of evidence now that were just released for the first time. His live report coming up later on news 4 at 5 00 tonight. New details tonight at 5 00 from the National Institutes of health. The condio of an American Health care worker bei treated for ebola is apparently worsening. The patitsas from serioo critical. Few details have been released so far about that patient, but we do know that they were working with a bostonbased nonprofit called partners in health at an ebola Treatment Facility in see area leone. 11 other worker who is came in contact with thna also being brougk t u. S. So far, none has shown any symptoms. An annd man charged with stealing hard top roofs off mazda miatas and selling them on craigslist is facing six felony counts. Brian dor is facing three grand larceny. He was arrested over the weekend. Ke cseoohe men in this surveillance video. Montgomery counicte us they assaulted a man who was out walking his dog in bethesda. This happened back on february 267th. While the man was out far stroll on linden lane. They left him battered and bruised. The thieves took his wallet and his cell phone. Police investigators say they used the victims credit cards in largo and in green belt. Metro Transit Police are searchingg r wo who stabbed a stati manager. This is a picture of the woman from surveillan video. This happened sunday morning at the stadium armory station in southeast d. C. Police say the woman asked the station manage if she could ride for free. He said no. And police say thats when the woman spat on the man and then stabbed him with a kitchen knife. That manager expected to be fine. A major change tonight in the u. S. Attorneys office here in washington. U. S. Attorney ro meacham is stepping down after five years that have focused on public corruption. News4s tom sherwood first reported this resignation on twitter today. He joins us now with what it means on the Ongoing Investigation i former mayor vincent gray. Tom . Rob meacham has quite a scorecard of corruption convictions, t gray case, its still open. U. S. Attorney ro meacham, hes leaving office april 1st after five tumultuous years as federal prosecu here, running the largest u. S. Attorneys office in the country prosecuting internatna national and local crimes. U. S. Attorney eric holder praised his unassailable integrity relentless determination, a a passion for law and justice. But left unfinished is the fouryearold ititi into a Shadow Campaign that helped elect vincent gyor in 2010. Six people have pleaded guilty in the Shadow Campaign, including businessman jeffrey thompson, who funded the operation. Prosecutors say gray knew about it. But gray denies wrongdoing and has not been charged. The scandal helped gray lose his reelection last year to reform candidate muriel bowser. In other Public Integrity cases, meacham successfully prosecuted kwame brown, former Ward Five Council member harry thomas, and former atlarge Council Member Michael Brown a otr public officials. Today mayor bowser praised meacham for both his crime and community work. I think ron has been a tremendous publi servant and leader in the district of columbia. Reporter a the ongoing gray investigation, bowser said the city has moved on and she welcomes any resolution of that case. Ive always said that the u. S. Attorneyas to do his job, follow every lead and investigate, an cant put a time line on that. Reporter b others are putting a time on it. Coming up at 6 00 calls for gray to be charg or let off the hook. Jim, wendy . Tom sherwood. Montgomercountys budget plan is going to go easy on some home owners. County executive ike leggett just releasedissal call farg 1 cut in the property tax rate. Compare that to prince georges county, whi calls for a 15 hike. Montgomery couis also proposing a 4 drop in garbage fees and a 2 pay raise for county workers. And more is gng spent on affordable hou libraries and business develme one may wonder how is it were able to p all this together with raising the taxes. Onea strong indication we could not obtain nine votes through raising taxes. Number two i said before that we will raise taxes again on the property taxe and my assumption is well probably have to do it next year. The county Council Still has to approve this budget. Live look right now at at national harbor. Weve got a little bit of sun starting to set t there, a little bit of gray. How is it looking to you, doug . Looking pretty good. Depend on where you are because weve got some incredibly warm temperatures and then we have some very cool numbers as well in the same region. Lets show you outside right now. We are dealing with sun and a temperature thats risen to 67 degrees here in d. C. 76 in roanoke. Its even around 80 towards culpeper. But look ocean city, only 46 degrees there. So much colder closer to the water. Ill show you those local numbers coming up. Todays headlines, great today and then turning colder by this time tomorrow a its going to get down right chilly as we make our way through midweek. Speaking of that, mixture of rain and is the sword, snow. Its in the forecast. Ill show you when. Still ahead changes that could make it safer for people who walk drive, or bike in the Tysons Corner area. Our adam tuss strapped on a helmet got on his bike to check out the challenges. The insanity over march madness. Its almost here. What singer ashley judd plans to do after her march madness tweet got some unwelcome attention. And a major boost for an effort to reduce a Critical Evidence backlog and take sex offenders off this is Scott Mcfarlane at the live desk. Chopper 4 over a major water main break in berwyn heights. Just inside the beltway not far from the beltway plaza mall. When the images come to you wait till you get a load of this. Thats the wat mn eak at the interseio of Cunningham Drive near berwyn road. You can see the muddy water rushing over th street. Were working to learn how many people may he water but it also has a major impact on drivers in a area. Berwyn heights, a water main break just inside the bheltway. At the live desk im Scott Mcfarlane. Actress ashley judd tells nbc shes pressing charges over cyberbullying judd watched her beloved kentucky wildcats win the s. E. C. Championships yaynd she tweeted about m madness. But some people werent pleased with what she had to say. Today judd said she was called a whore and threatened with sexual violence. Msnbc eec j release a statement later today. It is estimated that 1 in 6 women is sexually assaulted and today a major investment to get their attackers off the streets. 41 million is being earmarked to accelerate the testing of an estimated 400,000 rape kits that sit unprocessed and untested in warehouses across the country. Heres news4s Kristin Wright with more on that. Kristin . Yes, 400,000 untested rape kits. The concern here is just how many rapists that leaves free on the street to attack again. Reporter an estimated 400,000 rape kits could be sitting untested in crime labs and police store rooms across the country. Vice President Joe Biden and senator Barbara Mikulski visited the Maryland State Police Forensic Science lab in pixville. 41 million in federal money is budgeted to help reduce the national backlog and supporters say that will help lock up rapists before they strike again. There are number of women innocent women, who would have been protected if such heinous rape and Sexual Assault had been investigated by of the rape kits that are l rept a started nonprofit natashas justice project. She was raped at gunpoint in new york. The victims body is a crime scene. Reporter he k s for almost a decade before her attacker was convicted. Delay cost other women. For the 9 1 2 years that may rape kit sat and collected dust the man that raped me was on a nationwide crime spree. Reporter th Maryland State Police lab in pixville says they do not have a backlog. Delegate Karen Lewis Young of frederick count the extent of the problem in the state isnt known. So shes calling for an audit. The bill would require Police Agencies to repo untested evidence kits for Sexual Assaults to the maryland state attorney genera this is an issue that affects all of us not just survivors of rape and the men and women that support us but the general public. Tonight 6 00, why so many rape kits sit untested. Wendy . Kristin right, thanks. And the university of oklahoma just hired a highpowered to help deal with that sae fraternity scandal. Prominent atto michael barrage is also a former federal judge. The school s out a Statement Today saying he will help advise o. U. On legal matters. The university has come under fire after a video surfaced showing members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon repeatedly using the n word udent who is led that racist chant havbe expelled. And the school has ties with that chapter. News for your health tonight, there could be big progress in the work to find out what causes autism. And it could start with an early diagnosis. Doctors at the university of california at san diego believe they found genetic biomarkers for autism. They studied children from 170 pediatricians and say those biomarkers and bod preticketed which kids would later show signs of autism. A diagnosis could be as young as one but the autism could be there much earlier. So our studies this study as well as othertuare showing that abensn prenatal life, probly in the second or third trimester. Early diagnosis means that you get the social skills training and are able to walk your child may thugh what the expectations are coming up. The study only focused on boys. Autism is four times more common in males. Researchers are alady doing work on blood diagnosis for girls. A local Police Department just got a new bloodhound puppy and they wa you to help them name him. Take a look at the newest member of Carroll County sheriffs office. Hes cute. Hes 4 months old. Hes going to do what bloodhounds do. Hes going to search for missing persons. Hes going to track down prison escapees hel investigators look for leads in criminal cases, and hes going to be cute the whole time hes doing it. So what do you want to name him . Email ccsopuppycontest. A major bank settles a lawsuit today with the mortgage crisis. Thousands of area home owners may benefit. How to find out if youre one of them. From winto potholes and now this. Why you need to play closer attention to the sans the next time vanuatu needs the worlds help now. Those words tod from an eyewitness surveying the damage to that South Pacific nation after a powerful cyclone hit this weekend. 90 of the buildings in the capital, gone. The destruction stretch the entire length of that country. So far the death toll stands at six, but thats expected to rise because emergency officials had not been able to get to the more remote areas and the communication sy is down. How awful. Oh my gosh. That was a category 5 storm that came through wind upward of 185 miles an hour, and they had 26foot sto surge. Vanuatu is one of those islands. They have yet to get to some of the islands moreremote. A tough time for them. For us it is amazing what the difference in t temperatures are across our region. Theres nearly a 30degree temperature swi even 40degree difretwn w some locations. It all has to do with this guy right here. Take a look. The sunshine. That sun making its presence felt today. Definitely feels more like spring across our area and its about time. Temperature at tpo h now shot up to 67 degrees. Those winds are calm. Were dealing with partly to mostly cloudy sk the resofhearea in culpeper, they w 82 earlier, 49 in annapolis, 44 patuxent river. Much colder rig there along the beaches and right there along the chesapeake. 35degree tempe difference between culpepe patuxent river. But most ery the warm side for the most part. The areas down to the south, those are the areas that saw the sunshine. So a good day. Get your car washed the next couple days. We will be dry through the day on thursday. Next chance of rain or snow coming up on friday. Storm team 4 rad not much to show you on the radar today. We have some cloud cover making its way in from the northwest. We have a couple little systems that are goingo try to work their way through. But the big system up toward the north. You can see it around indianapolis. Thats a cold front. Its a strong one. Lit move through tomorrow and you i mean notic a big difference. High temperatury7 up in hagerstown, bhat number will fall during the day 71 down towards fredericksrg 68 in the city. Again, temperatures will fall as we move through the afternoon, so the first pa of the day is really going to be very nice, nice and warm. Take a look at those hourbyhour forecasts. Great at 9 00 a. M. 55 degrees, windy by noon, around 65 and we will see those winds gusting 20 to 30 Miles Per Hour during the day tomorrow. Breezy and much cooler around 63 in the city but up to the north and west, it will be in the low 50s at this time. By 8 00 in the low 50s, too, down to about 54. Temperatures lle tomorr and quickly fall as we move through the aer say goodb t t 60s and 70s. Impact forecast tomorrow, well caught it low. We wont have a huge impact on the day for the weather but it will be a great start, becoming windy with tho temperatures that will be falli throughout the afternoon. High temperate tomorrow 68, but then 34 overnight wednesday night so we go from 68 to 34. Temperature swing in 24 hours. 50 degrees on your wednesday rather breezy on wednesday 49 degrees on thursday. We will see plenty of sunshine thursday. Then on friday 46. But i think we start the day in many areas with some snowfall. This is somethi well have to watch out for for sure. The atmosphere definitely warm they are time of year. So its going to be hard to get some snow, but we could get snow early on friday should mix or change to rain with a high of 46 degrees. Friday also th first day of spring. First weekef spring. Not bad on sat

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