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WRC News4 At 5 July 13, 2016

An alert victim, some quick thinking Good Samaritans and some fastmoving cops, they had this case closed in no time. This 34yearold man captured and cuffed right on the spot today and charged in connection with an upskirting incident. It happened at the Arlington County courthouse metro station. Police tell the story this way. A woman gets off the metro. Ridi. She gets the sense that something isnt right. She looks behind her and sees a man who has a cell phone up her dress and is taking pictures. She confronts him and then up here on the platform, they say that man takes his cell phone and smashes it on the ground. That draws the attention of a couple passing by, and they come they surrounded the suspect. They made sure the suspect was unable to leave the scene. Police arrived within minutes and we were able to take him into custody. Reporter Arlington Police, metro transit police, they converged on the scene. They had this man in custody in no time. We just obtained Surveillance Video of the whole incident. Its something to see. Ill have that for you coming up at 6 00. Wendy, back to you. Pat collins, thank you, pat. Lets head up to chopper 4 and look at a fire at a nursing home near the grovener metro station. The flames started in the attic, firefighters say. Staff evacuated the building and the fire was quickly knocked down. Everybody is back inside and safe. Right now, some of the suspects who fired on d. C. Police in two shootings are in court. One of the incidents led to the Mark Segraves joins us live outside superior court and tells us what Court Documents are saying about what went down. Mark . Reporter first suspect in the Early Morning shootout with police, alverson appeared on crutches. We learned for the first time moments ago, he was actually shot himself during that shootout with police. He was shot in the ankle. Here is what were learning about that tape. He told police he admitted to robbing four people on a Basketball Court after he robbed them of their cell phones, he had them lie down on the ground and fired his weapon into the ground and then took off. When Police Arrived on the scene, he commandeered an suv with five Innocent Police in it. At that point, he opened fire on police and police returned fire. He then shot his way out of the car. He blew out the back window by shooting out that window and fled. He ran home, had his younger brother call an ambulance. It was at that time at the hospital that police connected the dots and ar without bond. That was just the first of two incidents yesterday in which police were shot at. First an Early Morning shootout in southeast. Police say a gunman with hostages in this suv exchanged gunfire with police. Later that day, congress was put into lockdown while in session as police were chasing two gunmen in this car from southwest d. C. Into northwest, near capitol hill. During the chase, Police Say One of the suspects leaned out of the window of the car and shot at police. No one was hurt in either incident. Theres no way to tell people what it feels like to have people shoot at you. Theres no perspective. Officers are in good condition. Im glad they are. And we have the people responsible, and im glad we machine gun, range in age from 18 to 20. In fact, the person with the gun was a 19yearold, kiante edwards. Theyre due in court at any minute. Well give you an update about what happened when they stand before the judge. Quick question. Do we have any idea what the motive was in that incident, why they were carrying those guns or what they intended to do with them . Were hoping to learn that when they stand before the judge. One of the suspects, one of the charges he is facing is an unlawful entry charge, which indicates there may have been some type of a breakin or forced entry that precipitated the chase that led from southwest over toward northwest. Jim . Thank you, mark. And t officers killed in last weeks ambush are laid to rest. Some members traveled to dallas to pay their respects to those fallen officers. Friends remembered senior Corporal Lorne ahrens being a larger than life man, both in stature and personality. Sergeant michael smith, who worked for the department for 28 years, was a military veteran. Hard worker, always looking out for others and at the funeral for transit officer brent thompson, his daughters gave a final tribute. One thing i would always say to my dad when he walked out the door was, goodbye, daddy. I love you. Be safe. And tonight we say our final goodbye, daddy. We love you. Be safe. Funerals for the other two officers are planned for friday and saturday. Things are now back to normal after a bomb threat shut park today. Chopper 4 here over the scene in the largo area this morning after bomb squads find two suspicious packages. The park was shut down almost four hours. Its a hot one. Hazy, hot and humid. Downpours today, bethesda, one downtown and a few off to the east. Culpepper at 101. 97 right now, 98 in frederick. Thats hot, right . It gets a lot hotter tomorrow. We could see the heat index over 100 in many areas during the afternoon tomorrow. On the radar, still tracking a couple of downpours here. One just to the south of annapolis. Another one right around laurel, making its way buoy. Ill update you on how hot things get and how many days we see 90 degrees or above in the tenday forecast. New fallout from a news 4 iteam investigation. Congressional Committee Says immediate action is needed to ensure the safety of government workers. Lawmakers cited what the iteam Scott Mcfarland revealed last night. For a second time in a month an employee was arrested for carrying a gun inside Agency Headquarters. Scott joins us from the newsroom now with new reaction to this. Scott is this. Wendy, headquarters of the Homeland Security in d. C. Is expected to have security on par with the white house and pentagon, socalled level five security. When two employees were caught carrying guns inside it caught congress attention. Thomas pressley, u. S. Security employee from woodbridge had a 9 millimeter smith wesson in his handbag, fully functional, able to be fired with one hand weeks after jonathan winkey, an employee who works in this home was arrested at the complex with a handgun loaded with hollowpoint bullets. Members of the u. S. Homeland Security Committee in a hearing this morning called these cases revealed by the news 4 iteam troubling. For the second time in a month employee has been arrested for tahaving a handgun. I know the witnesses will agree this requires immediate attention by the department. Officials who oversee the security of the grounds by Agency Headquarters confirm they are investigating both workers. Weve not detected anything that would lead us to believe that these individuals were planning any sort of Workplace Violence or conspiring with other. When they asked the judges permission to raid jonathan winkeys home last month, Homeland Security investigators said they did have probable cause to believe he was plotting violence. He has pleaded not guilty. When asked about winkeys case today, officials asked to brief congress in private, away from the cameras. We tracked down one of those officials shortly after to ask whether workers at the headquarters should feel safe. Were working very hard to ensure their safety every day. Screening is enhanced . Screening is enhanced. Security is enhanced. Its a very important issue for our employees. Congressional insider threat, potential attacks from people who work inside government facilities and cited another recent local case, one that captured all of our attention a couple of months ago. That part of our story on news 4 at 6 00. For now, jim, back to you. Scott, thank you. Metro is investigating what appears to be another red signal violation. This time, it h Reagan National airport station. Metro tells us it involved a yellow line train. No one was hurt. And there was no damage. Last week, youll recall, a train operator was fired after blowing through a red signal near the glennmont stop on the red line. In that case, the train nearly hit two inspectors on the track and an oncoming train. A lot more to come on news 4 at 5 00. Pokemon go players becoming victims of Armed Robbery on university of maryland campus. What happens if a utility doesnt put its downed wire back up properly . It can turn into a much bigger situation. Im adam tuss. Ill tell you all about the drama involved in this story, coming up. And neighbors in bloomingdale come together as the search continues for suspects in the murder of a local po li woman i have a masurprise for you. Are you . Man you have a surprise for me . Narrator at dominion, 1 in 5 new hires is a veteran. And when theyre away, they miss out on a lot. But they wont miss out on financial support. Because we cover any difference between their military pay and their dominion salary, and continue benefits for them and their families. Why do we do it . Because our vets sacrifice enough. Dominion. Depend on us for more than energy. Stand by me. Know you can keep your financial big picture under control. Know you can see how much you have to spend and whether you should transfer funds. Know you can easily keep track of what youre putting away. And know youre budgeted for the great escape. We want to tell you about a precarious situation around great falls. Downed utility wire thats causing multiple safety concerns along a section of georgetown pike. New at 5 00 tonight, transportation reporter tuss is checking out the scene at great falls to see if a fix can be made. Adam . Some time ago, this utility wire came down in the great falls area but it wasnt put back up properly. And if you dont put a wire back up properly, well, things like this can happen. This is scotts run. Take a look at all the debris that this wire has been catching here. And every time a new piece of debris gets caught in the utility wire, it gets a little tighter and tighter, digging into the trees, putting more pressure on the polls holding it up. The these poles are holding up power lines not far from georgetown pike. Very concerning. Absolutely. Its a safety issue. Reporter deborah has lived here almost 20 years. The tightrope situation also concerns her that the wire is catching can act like a dam. Anything that potentially helps flooding is not welcomed. Hundredyear flood area and now everything floods through. We told vdot about all this. Maintenance crews are checking into it, they say. They also say its the utilitys responsibility to move the wire first. While this wire doesnt have an exact marking, a vdot worker tells us it belongs to verizon. Privately, some at vdot say theyve contacted verizon numerous times about this. We reached out to verizon. A spokesperson says they are checking into the issue. Now ahead at 6 00, say youre facing a similar situation. How can you tell which wire belongs to which utility on the pole . Well have an explanation. Adam tuss, new 4. There will be a vigil tonight to remember the young dnc staffer who was shot and killed in his northwest d. C. Neighborhood. Seth ridge gunned down h walked to his home in bloomingdale early sunday morning. Police say he was shot several times, including once in the back. And he wasnt robbed of everything. So far, no arrests. Tonights vigil will take place in the 2100 block of first street. It starts at 7 00. People in another d. C. Neighborhood are finally getting their old street repaved. But the contractors for ddot messed up a lot of the newly laid bricks on the edges of that street. News 4s tom sherwood reports, thats not all that has gone wrong at this neighborhood at 9th and n streets northwest. Reporter its great when you get your old street new paved but not when new bricks, laid weeks ago, are destroyed this the process. Par for the course but ddot has to get on top of this. These are our tax dollars work. Reporter activist alex pedro says vdot needs to pay more attention. Theyve never come back to make sure that the streets are up to the standard that vdot has established. Its criminal. Reporter the contractors are also paving over manhole covers. He says he has complained for months about blocked man holes a. After news 4 inquiried about all the problems, ddot acknowledged all the damages. Ddot is fully aware of the issue and the public can rest assured that the damage will be repaired this week at no additional cost to the taxpayer. Some anxious to open sidewalk cafes cant wait for the work to be done. Kind of a win some, lose some. This whole brick sidewalk here was all done when the building was built. This is all brand new. Its not as noticeable from over here but, yeah, i wish that was a little cleaned up. Reporter tom sherw 4. In the 18 months since the shooting outside Frederick High School in maryland, police have undertaken a quiet, but large crackdown ons Gang Violence in that community. News 4 iteam investigation youll see tonight at 11 00 reveals that Frederick Police have made dozens of arrests since the february 2015 shooting that wounded two young people. Police tell the iteam newer arrests have not been related to that shooting but to a pair of rival groups fighting city wide. Those groups are believed to be responsible for a shooting outside the school. Do we even know why theyre beefing . I dont think you could ask the individuals that are involved in this activity today what originally started the problem back in the early 2000s or maybe even before then. Reporter as part of the iteam investigation we also hear for the first time from the dad who helped save those two shooting victims at the school. Thats tonight right here on news 4 at 11 00. Future making. Local kids turning heads in the sport of tae kwon do. This group competed at the National Games and, boy, did they impress. Jason pugh joins us. I received an email from a parent about a group of kids ranging in age from 14 to 17 years old. I went out to prince georges county. When i left, i left in complete amazement. The alpha omega tae kwon do requires not only great skill but remarkable self discipline. I didnt love it right away. At first i thought it was pretty hard. There were mostly boys. I was the only girl on the team. I kind of got beat up a little bit. Then i started getting better. This trains you to be humble to yourself. You can cool yourself down when you get angry. Really have to use it, if somebody comes up and tries to ht for no reason. Mental and physical benefit, gives them discipline, focused, concentrated. They become very goal oriented. Reporter recently the team won several medals in florida, including three golds. Swr Jonathan Nester won his age division and went on to compete in richmond. When you stand up on the winners stage and they hand you medals and say good job, you see everybody looking at you. Theres this amazing feeling, really proud feeling of you actually did something. Reporter some day these kids are hoping those accomplishments and hard work are recognized from the grandest stage of all, the olympic games. Like most of his teammates, jonathan will be watching rio closely this summer. I would imagine myself there. I would say if this person did this, what would i do . Im trying to just get a feel of how ev by the time i get there, i can already be a step ahead. This saturday at kims karate, kids will be recognized by city officials for their accomplishments at the aau national tournament. That will take place at their studio at 1 00 pm. Impressive. I like the whole philosophy of it, everything. Thank you, jason. Highlevel meetings are going on with the Donald Trump Campaign today, coming down to a final decision on his running mate. Nbc news senior Political Editor, mark murray, will be joining us with the latest on trumps short list. And teachers at a local elementary school, setting up a Summer Reading program for kids who need it but how did we end up here . His mom thought he had the flu and that he was covered by the meningococcal meningitis. Vaccine he had received. Until 2014 there were. No vaccines for meningitis b in the u. S. Now there are. While uncommon, meningitis b can. Lead to death within 24 hours. Trumenba is a vaccine for 10 through 25 year olds to help prevent group b meningococcal disease. Trumenba should not be given if you had a severe allergic reaction after a previous dose. Most common side effects were injectionsite pain, fatigue. Headache, muscle pain, and chills. Ask your doctor about. All the risks and benefits of trumenba and tell them if youve received any other meningitis b vaccines. Meningitis b can be spread by typical sharing behaviors. A drink. A spoon. A kiss. It all started here. It might have been prevented with trumenba. Ask your doctor about trumenba. Hazy, hot and humid. We expect that the month of july and during the summer months. Were going to be getting exactly that for the next 10 days, at least. That tenday forecast talking about that hazy, hot and humid weather. We have it now. Few clouds have blossomed across our region. Temperatures today at 90 degrees. Wi winds out of the southeast. 93 current temperature around leesburg, twin brook region. Mt. Vernon along the water 87. You see whats happening back toward anarundel county . Couple of showers have developed and stat in that same general area. Couple of showers trying to move in from the west. This is the area ive been watching. Very heavy rainfall. Earlier around anapolis. These are starting to die off a little bit. This one right here produced enough rain for a Flood Warning here. Right along the south river over toward 50. There were actually some streets closed down. One was defense highway. Thats 450. Right here, actually shut down as a result of flooding over the roadways. Heads up if youre in that area. 450 probably not the best route. Stay on 50. This will stay just down to the south for the most part. Well still see a couple of more showers, rumble of thunder throughout. Any showers downpours through the rest of the evening. Back to the west, thats

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