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WRC News4 At 5 February 1, 2017

He was arrested the same day as will campos. The fbi showed him pictures of the meetings. At one point during years of federal investigation, campos wore a wire and cooperated with the fbi. His son said his dad is not to blame. Hes been doing it for so long, and who knows really the damage that hes really done. He pleaded guilty and entered a plea for his part in the ongoing federal probe into corruption and bribery. The arrest is linked to the Prince Georges County raid, that resulted in four initial arrests, of Board Members and businessmen. Both aiello and campos are looking at the possibility of years in federal prison and hundreds of thousands of dollars in restitution they have to pay back to the court. Reporting live in greenbelt, tracy wilkins, back to you in the studio. Breaking news out of prin several High School Students in oxon hill, this crash was in the 1500 block of iverson street late this afternoon, police tell us all three students go to potomac high school, they were taken to the hospital with what investigators believe are nonlife threatening injuries. The driver of the car that hit them did stay on the scene. We have a crew headed to the scene, well bring you a live report as soon as it comes in to news 4. Breaking news from the white house, were awaiting the arrival of President Trump in delaware, this was an unannounced trip, the president was seen leaving with his daughter ivanka just before 4 00 this afternoon, nbc news has learned the president is headed to dover to witness the arrival of the remains of Navy Seal William ryan owens, owens died on sunday during a raid in ail qaeda. Delaware representative chris coons and defense secretary james mattis are also on this trip trip. Turns to threaten u. S. Friends and allies in the region. The Obama Administration failed to respond adequately to tehrans maligned actions. As much today, we are officially putting iran on notice. National security adviser Michael Flynn blasting the Previous Administration and iran for testing a ballistic missile. Those comments the situation in iran may be the first major issue facing former exing Ceo Rex Tillerson in his first days in office. Tillersons nomination passed with four democrats voting to confirm it, including mark warner and West Virginia senator joe manchin. Its been a busy start to the 115th congress in more ways than one. Protests have interrupted a number of confirmation including this one for Jeff Sessions on january 11th. There was one arrest reported by Capitol Police that day. The spike in arrests of protesters who actually disrupt formal proceedings on capitol hill. Scott joins us now to explain. Hi, scott. We found in january alone, u. S. Capital Police Arrested 55 people for disruption of congress. The protests that actually interrupts a formal hearing or session or event in the capitol. That includes arrests yesterday near a confirmation hearing for a cabinet nominee. The january arrests are more than five fold increase from the nine arrests for disrupting congress in all of 2016. 2016 had a lighter and lower profile congressional calendar in the last year of a president ial administration. And the final year of the 114th congress. Among the other arrests this month, disruptions and confirmation hearings for Jeff Sessions and secretary rex tillerson. U. S. Capitol police do train for how to handle protests inside hearing rooms and the u. S. House chambers, they do reach out to likely protesters in advance to ensure disruption is minimal. Scott mcfarland, thank you, scott. Fresh off his prime time debut, President Trumps nominee for the u. S. Supreme court is beginning to make the rounds on capitol hill. Neil gorsuch had his first meeting today with mitch mcconnell. In the meantime, john roberts weighed in saying, the nearly year long vacancy has caused them to spend more time discussing cases. Roberts made those comments at the university of kentucky, but did not make any mention of nominee gorsuch. Marylands attorney general wants to know how President Trumps immigration order is being carried out in that state. He sent a letter asking Homeland Security today. The city of tacoma park has been a sanctuary city for decades. Theyll hold a teach in and forum. Kristen wright has the details. About a third of our population in tacoma park was born outsite of the united states. We are a city of immigrants. Reporter tacoma park is a sanctuary city, one of the first. This promise to protect undocumented residents goes back to the 1980s, when the city welcomed refugees fleeing war and violence in central america. We would like to see us go down a path where were not tearing apart families, scaring people but really bringing people together. Reporter theyre having a teach in for rez didnts saturday, so all immigrants know they are protected here, despite threats to cut federal funding. We halr the city council as we begin our budget discussions, figuring out how we would have to priorityize things to make sure those programs continue. Reporter lelo gonzalez is a proud american citizen, but on his mind lately, the days many years ago, when he was living in the country undocumented. All those memories come back. Tacoma park is home. When they declared this a sanctuary city for American People who were running because the war, i felt myself more now on that breaking news from our national zoo. Ollie the bobcat has been found on zoo property. The national zoo just tweeted out this picture there in a crate, well call that a crate, thats what i keep my dog in. Two days. The zoo was about to hold a News Conference now that it has ollie back home where she rightful ly belongs. I dont know how happy she looks, theres another picture where she looked kind of ticked off. She looks calm, thats the important thing, right . Get her back in her enclosure. I dont know if ive ever seen a cat smile though, so theres that. Temperatures today, much colder to the north, much warmer to the south, right in the middle, we are. 50 degrees the High Temperature today. 55 in richmond, that boundarys been meandering around our wreathen. We hit near 60 yesterday, today its settling on down to the south, tomorrow we will get into these cooler numbers across our region. The shower activity just up to our west. As another system moves on. Were tracking a couple Different Things here. Cooler, much chillier this weekend. Well talk about that. A big storm next week, all eyes on that sunday system, well talk about next week too. Just in this afternoon, five juveniles charged with vandalizing an historic schoolhouse in ashburn, virginia. The team spray painted antisemitic and other vulgar images on this schoolhouse last september. It once served the countys africanamerican students, the students will have to complete several book reports. It became apparent during the case that none of the teens really knew the significance of what they were spray painting. Fire started at this home in ft. Washington. Chopper 4 over the scene earlier today. That fire broke out around lunchtime, at the home on gun powder road. They saw flames shooting out of the roof and called for more units. It took about 20 minutes to put this out. No one was hurt here. D. C. Police are trying to track down two people considered persons of interest. This past weekend were told someone robbed two people as they met up with a cell phone listed on offer up. When they arrived the thief pulled out a gun, took their phones, wallets and car keys. A second person was then seen using the victims credit card. This happened this past saturday afternoon along mlk avenue in southeast d. C. Coming up on news 4, well tell you why Maryland State Police ordered an emergency inspection of all their medevac of his state of the state address today. Which they say is of utmost concern to the country and the world. Plus, a rude awakening for a man asleep inside his house. A car comes barreling through, and get this, its not the first time he talks to our pat collins about the ordeal. A test is offering new hope for women who have tried and failed to get pregnant. Well hear from a mother who was just about to giveup, and the majority of the Maryland State Police helicopter fleet is grounded tonight. We broke the story on twitter and has our report. The helicopters are less than three years old. The aw39 cost about 12 million each. A crack in the paint on one tail rotor blade was found. Then on sunday, a second helicopter was found to have the same defect. After that second one was found, the aviation command commander ordered an inspection to be conducted on all aircraft and thats whats been done over the last two days. So far, only cracks in the paint have been discovered, note in the actual rotor blades, a have passed inspections, 12 blades have been sent back to the manufacturer for more inspections. As of tonight, four of the ten helicopters are back in service. Theyre strategically located around the state. Medevac service has not been located during the service of this inspection. They have had a history of tail rotor problems, including a fatal crash in 2011 that prompted the faa to issue warnings about the air worthiness of the helicopters. Maryland state police have four choppers operational tonight, they couldnt say when the rest of the fleet would return to service. At Maryland State Police, mark sea graves, news 4. It was the first day on the job today for antwon wilson. The new chancellor of d. C. s Public Schools. Wilson was visiting schools today with the mayor who nominated him last year, hes the former superintendent of Oakland California schools, he says Public Schools gave me personally, im here only because i got a Great Public School education, i was put in a position where i was challenged, expected to do my best and supported. And so i want to make sure that education works for all of our students in much the same way. Wilson has a two year contract. Maryland governor larry hogan delivered his third state of the state address today. It was an encouraging assessment, especially when it comes to funding for Public Schools. Some Lawmakers Said a key topic was omitted from that speech. More now from annapolis. Reporter larry hogan entered saying he is hopeful for his state. He said for the third time, his budget has record funding for education. Every single penny that from the state for education is fully funded at 100 . But the democratic response criticized Governor Hogan for omitting any mention of his fellow republican president donald trump. Hes not standing up to the trump administration, hes saying nothing about the incredibly divisive and problematic policies coming out of washington. Thats what trump and the Republican Party in washington are threatening to do to maryland. Threatening to do to jobs, health care, threatening to do to the environment. State republican lawmakers say some kind of Health Care Reform is needed. If we dont make some changes, the reality, people cant afford their premiums. They keep talking about how republicans in d. C. Are going to rip the rug away from 400,000 marylanders. Ahead at 6 00 what marylands montgomery and prince georges counties, and why some local lawmakers say it falls short. In annapolis, chris gordon, news 4. Were taking a closer look at President Trumps Supreme Court nominee from last night, and some of his previous comments that could come up during his confirmation hearings. Neil gorsuch is known as a reliably conservative judge. A recent study in the journal of law, economics and organization places him further on the conservative spectrum than the late antonin scalia. One of his most well known rulings had to do with hobby lobbys challenge to the obama mandate on contraception. The law doesnt just apply to popular religious beliefs, calling protection of unpopular ones as some of its most important work. His home state just legalized assisted suicide last fall, in 2006, he wrote in a the topic, all human beings are intrinsically valuable. And the intentional taking of human life by private persons is always wrong. And among his more conservative comments, 2005 National Review article, where gorsuch suggested liberals are relying too much on the courts, rather than elected leaders and ballot boxes to advance their social agenda. Weve been asking all afternoon, should the Senate Confirm the president s pick for Supreme Court justice. Taking a look at the results just in now. Nearly 50 now say no. Housekeepers and guest room workers at Trump International hotel have voted to join a union, and this could create a conflict of interest for President Trump. He put his sons in charge of managing his business interest but has refused to divest from them. Hell appoint top members of the National Labor relations board, which rules on unions and employers, 40 workers have already voted, another 80 workers and bartenders will vote next week. The president kicked off the start of black History Month, meeting with africanamerican supporters at the white house. Among those at the table, former alexandria vice mayor bill cleveland, and two former Howard University students. The president says hes proud that the nation now has an africanamerican History Museum on our national mall. He pledged to honor africanamericans. More and more. Big announcement from one of your favorite chocolate makers, theyre moving in. The new nessly and how our region will benefit. No working phones in one local always wins. Especially in my business. With slow internet from the phone company, you cant keep up. Youre stuck, watching spinning wheels and progress bars until someone else scoops your story. Switch to comcast business. With highspeed internet up to 10 gigabits per second. You wouldnt pick a slow race car. Then why settle for slow internet . Comcast business. Built for speed. Built for business. Gray and cloudy and gloomy, not too cold at least . Yeah, we got a break in that direction, doug. At least we made it to 50 degrees today, many areas south and eastward much cooler because of the cloud cover, take a look outside right now, the clouds havent been giving way to much son. We saw a little bit earlier today. Weve been cloudy most of the afternoon, temperature 50 degrees right now, sun going down 234 about 7 nu heres the current nubers, and again we are fairly cool, 45 in martinsburg, 43 as well down toward the pawtuxet river. 41 over there toward cambridge. Rain or snow, not much going on here, it looks like some sprinkles trying to get in here toward the shenandoah valley. Where we are seeing it, back to the west. See this right here, it looks like theres something wrong with the radar screen, this is what happens when you get this westerly flow. It hits the Allegheny Front which is 2,000 feet above the plateau down here. Areas like wisp, timber line all seeing snow. Kanane valley has seen a lot of snow in the last several days. Theyre dealing with some snow. If you want to see it, go about 2 1 2, 3 hours back to the west, back toward frostburg. You could see it in our area. Satellite and radar showih a little moisture train making its way across our area. If the mountains werent here, we would be getting in on the rain and snow today. The mountains drying it out. Tomorrow, a little different scenario, back down to 45, partly sunny, blustery afternoon. The winds will be upwards of 15 to 20 miles an hour, that will put wind Capitol Hills in the 30s just about all day. A high of 41 on friday, a little bit of a windchill there, 38 on saturday, saturday is going to be a cold day about 38 for a high, were going to see winds gusting 15 to 20 miles per hour. Windchills will be in the 20s all day. Saturday the coldest of the two days for the weekend. We have a 30 chance of rain snow for super bowl sunday. Yeah, 45, were going for a high, though. That means most of it could be rain. Flurries to the north, sprinkles south. No road issues. Now bowl sunday. Anybody going to those parties should be okay. Watching that bigger storm as we make our way toward the middle of next week, still going for a high in the 60s next wednesday. Still got that roller coaster going on. Down and up, and then right back down late next week. Thats february. Welcome. A car crashes into a mans home here. Things like that happened, but the man who lives here says its happened here five times. Holy guardrail. That story coming up. Plus, weve got the latest on that breaking news from the national zoo tonight. Well hear from zoo officials about how they found that missing bobcat ollie. And the new test that can dramatically improve the odds of pregnancy for women who have tried and failed to conceive. I checked, everythings there. Wait a minute. Hey. Hold on, i can explain. You better have a good answer. Switch to geico and you could save a ton of money on your Car Insurance. Ing a wire. Haha, what . Why would i wear a wire . Geico. Because saving fifteen percent or more on Car Insurance is always a great answer. Right now at 5 30, a test that is changing lives, the new hope its offering for women who tried but failed to become pregnant. We begin with that

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