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WRC News4 At 6 July 25, 2014

Grande are the smugglers and rafts they use to ferry over drugs and the children from central america. We have seen a tremendous spike in activity. Reporter the goal is to end the surge of kids. At the white house, the president shared his idea with the president s of guatemala, el salvador and honduras. In honduras racked by Gang Violence an obama Pilot Program would offer hearings to kids seeking asylum who claim theyre in special danger. There may be some narrow circumstances in which there is humanitarian or Refugee Status that a family might be eligie for. If that te,ul be or them to be able to apply in country. Reporter the few who would qualify come straight to the u. S. The plan is the rest would say they wouldnt qualify if they did come to the u. S. And would be deported. And so the hope is they wont try to come. Many democrats like the plan. The first thing is, protect the children, have them come. Reporter most republicans want faster deportation. Not a program to bring in children. Processing these kids as refugees in their own country and then assisting them to come in to america. Move them back to their home countries, which is where they belong. Reporter for now, many more children are coming than are going back. President obama said today that number, the number of kids coming illegally to the u. S. From those three Central American countries is down about 50 . Republic repah are divided about what to do to get the number down lower and it is very possible congress could leave on a summer break next week without approving any new plan to deal with this border crisis. Im steve handelsman, news 4. For the third day, the bodies of the victims of mh17 have arrived in the netherlands. The arrival ceremonies have been somber in an attempt to give the dead the dignity they. Those bodies are being taken to a Dutch Military facility for identification. 193 of the nearly 300 victims were dutch. Meanwhile, investigators have found more human remains and a new section of the wreckage in eastern ukraine. A german tv crew took this video of a large piece of fuselage found in the woods near the crash site. Mh17 arrived at kuala lumpur for the last time today. Malaysia airlines is retiring that flight code. The service from amsterdam will now operate as mh19. Were getting a first look at the scene of an al algarie crash. All 118 people onboard were killed. Nearly half of them were french citizens. Terrorism hasnt been ruled ow, but Officials Say bad weather is most likely the cause of this crash. Just before they lost contact, the pilots had asked air Traffic Controllers to change their route because of heavy rain heads down, hands up that was the scene on a flight that left canada this morning. But was turned back when a passenger said he had a bomb. The plane was over West Virginia when it was turned back to canada and two u. S. Fighter jets were scambled to escort it to toronto. Tom costello is working on this story for nightly news with Brian Williams immediately following our broadcast. Residents are hoping two attacks on women will prompt change in their area. Both cases happened in the past couple weeks just a few blocks away near a metro station and a popular trail. News 4 derrick ward live with a warning from police. Derrick . Well, were on jamestown road in hya ttville station. Now on july 10th there was an attack here and on the 23rd a few blocks away and they believe it may be the work of the same attacker. News of an attempted assault here on this stretch of jamestown road in hyattsville prompts but not a surprise. This happened before. We had robberies through here in the past. Daylight, mind you. Reporter e latest attack here happened under the cover of darkness on july 10th. Just after 10 00 p. M. A woman was walking alone and she just left the metro station when the man jumped out of the woods. Approached her and she got on the phone like she was calling her boyfriend. Reporter she got away and the man ran back into the woods. Police believe another attack on july 23rd could be the work of the same suspect. This time it happened at about 12 50 a. M. Just outside of the woods. Same description. About 58, 170 pounds. He approached her, said, whats up . And he physically attacked her. Reporter this time the attacker tried to rip the womens clothes off, but she also screamed and got away. Residents of the area where the attacks occurred cant escape the fear and some will be changing their routine, like this woman and her daughter. Unfortunately, that will cut out our evening walks and Early Morning walks and things like that. Reporter for those was that cant be avoided like back and forth to the metro station, its a walk buddy or nothing. Her son will be escorting her to and fro. Im more concerned for my mom here. Luckily i dont really walk around at night because im normally by myself. Reporter as for ms. Medley sadly she thinks now with at least one close call. Hopefully it will make a differencher sorry, we cant hear derrick ward. That was derrick reporting from hyattville. The house passed a resolution barring president obama from sending forces to iraq in a sustained combat role without congressional approval. They need Senate Approval before going to the president s desk. Mr. Obama has ruled out sending combat troops to help iraq fight extremists but lawmakers say they need to reassert their c control. Imagi taking one of those gift cards you have in your wallet and doubling, tripling or even quadrupling the value without paying more. Thats what a local computer whiz says hes managed to do. But his boasting has made him the target of a federal probe. Northern Virginia Bureau chief julie carey spoke with him and has the story from fairfax county. Reporter ahktar was 19 years old when he and his twin brother graduated from george mason university. A computer whiz, he founded a hacking club on campus, earned a masters degree by age 20 and as this thank you letter shows, even did Cybersecurity Research for the defense department. My mission is just to see where loopholes are. Reporter but that mission to use hacking to find system weaknesses has landed him in deep trouble. This search warrant l by a federal agent shows he is now being investigated for computer fraud. Last month after starting a new cybersecurity job, he bragged to a colleague about a code hed created and then enabled him to take an ordinary 25 gift card and add value to it. What i would do is take, buy a card and then have that card for a certain value and then have it reloaded online. Bypass the whole financial process using bid squatting. Reporter his coworker told a manager and a Homeland Security agent came to ask questions. At first telling him he was being considered for a higher position. Ahktar said he still dt he was ing investigated when secret service and Homeland Security agents came to this house on july 17th and wanted him to explain even more about his code, but yesterday he learned he was in trouble when agents showed up with this search warrant. This docume shows the dozens of computers, phones and other Electronic Items seized. He was fired from his new job. Now he waits to see what investigators determined. He calls his gift card experiment cyberresearch. He had planned to use his own company warden systems to approach retailers with a proposed fix. I am a researcher. I have been researching the field for a long time and a lot of my work shows it. Ive been just doing research. Im not a malicious guy. Reporter julie carey, news 4. The devastation is clear from the air, but tonight were hearing some incredible stories of survival near a virginia camp ground where a tornado killed two people yesterday. Our affiliate spoke with two men who road out the storm in one of the worst places possible. Im pretty lucky. Reporter brother zach and ray road out thursdays tornado in one of the last places youd want to be. We headed out, it was pretty, we put the net out and we got that little alert on our phones and we tried to pull the net in as quick as we could and once we got the net in, we tried to get to a creek and then take cover. Reporter the two had had been fishing about 30 minutes when the storm closed in on them, it was too late to get out of there. Just started lifting up and just rolled right over and i kind of went underneath the boat and he got out first, he was on the bottom of the boat already and i was kind of struggling to get there and he grabbed me and pulled me up there. You were trapped under the boat . For a couple seconds. It took me a minute to get out and then i pulled myself out. We had our boots. Pretty scary. Reporter the rescue came from two fishing buddies who had to rescue two other boaters. What were you thinking when you saw them . So close. Reporter when they got to shore, they called their family, ray and his wife have a son and a 3weekold baby. The two brothers were struck by how quickly the community responde everybody is out. Everybody does good. We usually dont have many situations like that around here. But when they do, we have people to help. Theyve wrapped up the second practice of Training Camp for the redskins. How did they look today . Lets check in with Dianna Russini live in richmond. Day two. Happy friday. Good weather certainly ensures good football. What a difference one day makes. The field looked absolutely beautiful today after yesterdays rain storms. And head coach jay gruden was much happier with the teams performance today. Robert griffin iii was happier today and less problems with dropped footballs on the field. He made his own observations today. Coming up in just a few minutes, well tell you which receiver stood out and ill give you a little hint, it was not jackson. So well have that. For now, live in richmond, Dianna Russini. Another twist in the courtroom. What is next for the officer on the other side of the law even after prosecutors didnt get what they wanted. A cold case and from th vatican city to the east coast the nearby destination that a d. C. Cop accused of trying to kill his wife is in jail tonight his bond revoked just one day after a mistrial. Samson lawrence violated the conditions of his bond. Tracee wilkins has the stor they got what they want. They want him locked up, thats what they got. Reporter a lifelong friend of Samson Lawrence now being ordered to stay away from his wife and 17yearold daughter. You got a mother father that cant get along. Husband and wife. They cant get along. Its a sad situation. Reporter the court ruled that lawrence violated two stay away orders when he continuously texted, called and visited his wife and daughter. Mr. Lawrence was told to stay away by the court. That was the condition of his bond. Reporter lawren seen here in the vest yesterday was on 200,000 bond after he was accused of violently beating his wife more than 20 years. According to the state an argument over installing a projection tv resulted in lawrence spraying his wifes face with lysol and pushing her down steps and hitting her with a pendant lamp and choking her and holding knives to her neck. After a threeday trial and several hours of deliberation a hung jury last night that could not decide if lawrence was guilty of attempted murder and assault charges. He was looking at the possibility of life behind bars. The case will now be retried. I think its a waste of resources. I also think its a case thats not going to get any better. Reporter lawrence defense Attorney Says poor evidence and a lack of dna is what caused the hung jury. Today the judge said he didnt buy lawrences version of what happened with his wife credible. As part of the reason lawrences bond was revoked. Thats why were doing a jury trial and not a court trial. Reporter the new trial is planned for late november. Mr. Lawrence is expected to stay in Prince Georges County jail. Im tracee wilkins, news 4. The pope could make a visit to the u. S. Next year. The archbishop of philadelphia says he plans to attend the world meeting of families planning to take place in philly next november. It does say the pontiff is interested in visiting. During that event an official decision is expected early next year. Veronica is here with more of our weather. Delicious. It heated up later in the day a little bi. But, still, really nice. By summer standards. Not too many folks complaining about today at all. Almost made you forget about summer for a little while. But dont be fooled because that nasty, sticky summertime weather is going to return a lot faster probably than most of us want. Lets take a look outside and see whats going on around the area. Mostly sunny sky all throughout the area, very few clouds today and all thanks to High Pressure that has moved into the area. 81 degrees at Reagan International airport and the humidity still way low and dropped late last night. Little bit of a southerly wind kicking in right now at 7 miles per hour. Little bit of a breeze there coming off the water and making it feel a bit cooler. As we check out radar, this is a live scan going around on our sky 4 team radar where it is very quiet across the area, even down to the south. But come saturday, i do think that were going to start to see a few isolated showers show up even early in the day. So, here it goes. More clouds around 11 00 p. M. Midnight those clouds increasing and well start to see some light showers around the area starting at around 4 00, 5 00 a. M. In the morning. A shower here and there that could hang on until about 9 00 a. M. When we start to see the clouds break and get more sunshine in here. But nice evening for sure. 73, 78 degrees and really not too cool at all out ther but, again, cloud cover for early tomorrow morning. I can show you as i take you through the next 48 hours. Snapshop is 7 00 a. M. And you can see that painted in white. The clouds, the green and showers that im talking about. Again, not a big deal at all and still even around 10 00 a. M. Have a few showers hanging on and then by afternoon with the heating of the day, its thundershowers and maybe an isolated thunderstorm. But out of the weekend, i think saturday will be the more tame, calmer day, if you will. On sunday, some Early Morning showers, winchester, frederick, leesburg and this whole area coming through until 9 00 a. M. We get the heating and we get the storms starting to blossom and this time early and this time more widespread for the second half of the weekend. Look at this, all through the area we can see showers and thunderstorms and those storms could be quite strong, if not severe. I think Late Afternoon, early evening pretty much everywhe across the area late sunday evening. Up until 10 00, 11 00 p. M. And maybe even as late as midnight because this is one pretty strong system coming through, with the help of the humidity and with the help of upper level winds, we could be looking at some damaging winds through the area. Look at the highs for tomorrow. 90 degrees culpeper and 91 and no worries at all really for tomorrow. Building humidity. It is going to be a hot day compared to today. Those isolated showers around and bigger storms, once again, set to hit on sunday. 91, 81 degrees and 86 on monday and as we get into the early part of next week, temperatures will just drop a little bit more on tuesday. 81 the high. Look at all the sunshine, threat of storms back on friday and just a little bit, ill take you county by county as we look at saturday and another look at that Severe Weather threat for sunday. Next on the eve of the silver line, why one of the most prominent stations is still a work in progress. They should be given the best treatment. The iteam gives new information about vets being treated worse in v. A. Hospitals. Local families torn apa b overdoseeath tonotarrehing out us to after learning their kids may have now to a manhunt under way after a carjacking and crash killed three kids. That manhunt is going on in philadelphia. Two men who carjacked a woman and crashed her suv into a crowd of people this morning. Police say the suv jumped a curb and plow under to three children and their mother. They were selling fruit to raise money for their church. All three of the children were killed. 7, 10 and 15 years old. That mother and the woman who was carjacked are in Critical Condition right now. Bottom line is we have a tragedy here and we will use all the resources we is at our disposal to find the people responsible. The suspects jumped out of the suv and ran from the scene. Investigators are looking for businesses in the area with surveillance cameras hoping the suspects were caught on video. A break in the case tonight, 12 years after police found this local teen murdered. Investigators have pinpointed her killer. But the teenagers family may never get justice. News 4 Jackie Benson is live to explain that. Jack . Wendy, investigators are not going to identify the man linked to the murder of erica smith, except to say that he committed suicide during the course of the cold case investigation. Now, the shocking murder of the bright and bubbly 14yearold is believed to be linked it her acquaintance with that man which she instructed her apparently to keep secrets even from her parents. He is believed to have lured her from her home the day she disappear would the promise of shopping of brotherirthday gif they came they told us that it was my daughter that was murdered, i made it a point in my heart that i had to be strong for her. I had to be her voice. This monster silenced her voice and i was going to be the voice that people hear for her. I was going to talk for her, speak for her and i was going to fight for justice for her. Loudoun county chapman said the dedication of ericas parents inspired him to create the cold case unit two years ago. Live in loudoun county, Jackie Bensen news 4. The burgundy and gold lining up to see their team in action. Big prediction on the former quarterback on how the team would do this season. Plus flat out, gone immediately. 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