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WRC News4 At 6 May 6, 2015

Immediately, he was the father a husband, a well hiked colleague from a family of firefighters. Our coverage coverage starts now. Reporter you can see the black bundling is up on the up on engine six of the fire house right now. While many are remembering kevin mcrae as a leader and a mentor and the city is remembered him as a hero. Many who knew him well say theyll remember his sense of humor. His smile and his positive attitude are the best things about kevin. Reporter dozens of his friends and colleagues stood at attention and saluted. His body was transferred from the hospital today. Firefighters have spent the day consoling one another. It has been nearly eight years since a d. C. Firefighter died in the line of duty. The fire who died his cousin james mcrae. The mcrae family has suffered a lot. This is the second time this has happened to this family. Kevin mcrae is one of the few members still on the department 24 years later. Kevin was also available to help somebody to teach them. Whether it is going over the side of a building on a rope or how to search in a burning building to find a victim. He had done of a of those thing and at an extremely high level and he taught others to do it. Mcrae is survived by his wife and three children as well as his mother. D. C. Firefighters are now wearing the traditional black ribbons to honor their fallen brother. It is a painful reminder of how high the stakes are. Reporter kevin mcrae his team will be receiving counseling. The men and women who went into that fire this morning. He is the 100th d. C. Firefighter to die in the line of duty. And his death comes 159 days exactly to the day of the first d. C. Firefighter to die in the line of duty. Back to you. The people firefighters raced to rescue from that you know building are grateful to be alive them escaped the flames but many cannot get back into their homes now. Theyre still talking about the terrifying moments. Reporter it was difficult for many who have special needs. Most will be allowed back inside this building in about an hour. But not those who live on the top floors. 9 and 10. Thats because the fire damage is too extensive up there. Flames and smoke poured out of the penalty in floor apartment where the fire started. Two d. C. Firefighters collapsed. One is kevin mcrae who died. The other is in serious condition. Two residents were also transported with injuries. For those tenants who escaped the fire they say they feel very fortunate. I thought i wouldnt be caught up in the fire. The elevator nobody can use the elevator so i had to rush by the stairway. Family members called. The neighbors called me. Somebody came and knocked on my door. Me being difficult to get with my chair. Reporter coming up at 6 30 we will hear from the woman who lived in that apartment where the fire started. They call her miss ruby. And well see how she is doing. If she can understand how this started. This afternoon a group of High School Students gathered to support lieutenant mcrae. Dunbar high school is across the street from engine six. It is the school from which mcraes son will soon graduate. The students and dunbars principal walked from the school to the fire house today to pay their respects. In Community Leaders were quick to show support on twitter. Tonight we look at how many dont succumb to jersey from the fire. It tore her city apart. The. Hes been for this all along since everything blew up in baltimore. It was here in washington that former u. S. Attorney general eric holder unfolded a similar study for ferguson. Now his successor Loretta Lynch looks likely to approve this for baltimore. The National Guard is pulled out. And baltimores state of emergency today is lifted. But mayor stephanie rawlingsblake said the federal government now needs to investigate her police department. Baltimore continues to have a fractured relationship between the police and the community. Reporter the Justice Department is already investigating whether freddies rights got violated by any of the cops charged in his death. The new probe would look at the pattern of policing in baltimore. Who gets stopped, arrested treated aggressively. The record is disturbing. 100 lawsuits. We have now over the last four or five years. We have paid out for excessive force. . The probe found a pattern of raes. Whatever they final we need to do. To have a department that our citizens deserve. Im determined to get it done. Reporter the police and many complain. Comes are being send out. It has taken decades to grow and it will likely take decades to repair. Reporter the federal investigators will look at thousands of police records. Theyll try to quaunl identify how baltimore was being policed before the explosion. News4. Steve, thank you. Tonight were learning how a School System is responding to a teacher accused of sexually abusing a 9yearold student. Pat collins is in landover tonight at paca elementary school. Reporter for more than seven years, hes been a teacher here in Prince Georges County. Only the as he criminal suspect. The charge. Sex abuse of a minor. The suspect, a teacher. Shown here in this Prince Georges County police video. He is identified as 39yearold irwin mcnaya. As he science and math instructor at the William Paca Elementary School in landover. According to court documents, he had inappropriate encounters with one of his students. A 9yearold boy. Police say it included kissing and touching. The time frame for this situation, the boy says it began in september of 2014. And lasted through february of this year. And there were at least five instances in which this abuse is alleged to have occurred. This from the Prince Georges County School System. It says it is cooperating fully with the police investigation. That teacher magnaye has been placed on administrative leave. I think they need to investigate these teachers more than what theyre doing now. Reporter the teacher is being held without bond pending further court action in the case. Back to you. The people investigating whether the new England Patriots that intentionally deflated footballs before a championship game say that the team probably did it. They also say the quarterback probably was aware of it. Reporter 243 pages, jim, i got it right here. The investigation that lasted nearly four months and produced this. The report singles out three people as quote, probably responsible for the deflated balls. Just to recap, in january during the afc championship game against the colts, the patriots were accused of using underinnatd balls to gain an advantage today. s report says it was more probable than not that the patriots inflated the balls. This included some incriminating Text Messages between a locker Room Attendant and an assistant. You it was conclude that had tom brady was generally aware of what was going on. He has depends that in the past. The patriots oernl bob kraft released a statement saying he doesnt agree but he wont disagree with whatever they decide. Thank you. A mothers the student body faculty and staff. A mothers plea for help. Her sons disappearance. Why the timing has so many people worried. A crackdown on what they call tow spotting. A story weve been following for years. Now there is a decision about whether a towing company can target drivers. Reporter a d. C. Police officer accused of trying to kill his wife. Im tra live pictures in oklahoma. A tornado emergency has been issued. Thats more severe than a Tornado Warning. Well have coverage in a couple minutes. A d. C. Police officer is on trial for the attempted murder of his wife. He took the witness stand today. The case is in the hands of the jury and were hearing from an alternate juror. Tracee wilkins in Upper Marlboro with more. Reporter he is facing seconddegree murder charges in addition to four other counts. My understanding, the jury has ruled on four of those counts. One is still up in the air. Theyre going to come back tomorrow and deliberate and decide what that will be. We spoke with one alternate juror who. He already made up his mind before he was asked to leave the jury pool. Were prayerful in this trial hell be acquitted of all the charges. Reporter the last time he stood trial for trying to kill his wife. This time i find him not guilty. Reporter this alternate juror says it is not clear to him. I dont think he meant to kiss his wife or meant to harm her in any way. He was acting in selfdefense. Reporter betty said her husband of 20 years, sam sonl laurnls, lawrence violently beat her. Sam sonl is accused of spraying his wifes face with lie sol, pushing her down the steps, choking her and holding knives to her neck. None of his dna was found on any of the alleged weapons find inside their home. That swayeds juror. The evidence with the finger prints and people who testified. I found him not guilty. Reporter it is clear there was domestic disturbance that left her with injuries. But was she hurt on that you recall or part of the selfdefense . The new jury of eight women and four men has yet to decide. Obviously there is a distinction and then participating inparticipate in deliberations. That was the attorney responding to what the alternate juror said he believes there is something to actually deliberating listening to what other jurors think about the case. Sam son is on suspension with pay from the d. C. Police department. Were expecting the jury to render their decision tomorrow. Back to you. Thank you. There will be no change to a maryland state law after a towing company went to court saying it was unconstitutional. It is a story the iteam has been covering more than a year. The owner fought the laws which includes tow spotters. An Appeals Court has dismissed the challenge saying g g cant challenge the law because nobody has ever prosecuted the company for violating the company. You can read more about it by clicking on investigations. The government is loosening some restrictions on the use of commercial drones. Today the federal Aviation Administration announce ad program called path finder. It is going on allow several company to use drones for farming. Railroad inspections and news gathering purpose. The faa will still require operators to stay within view of their drones at all times. Back to our weather for the second night in a row. Showers and even some storms are fire up across the area. Doug is tracking it all from the storm center. We do have an intake. Weve got this line of storm continuing to make its way on through. The best news about this is we saw Severe Weather a little earlier. I think were about done with the Severe Weather. Still some strong storms and very heavy rain coming down along 270. Northern portions of Loudoun County along 15 as you move over. And then right along 270. Well do a little bit of a zoom here. You notice right over the clarksburg. Thats the h rain. And it continues to fall. And then right south, along river road. Around this area. More heavy rain crossing into loudoun and fairfax county. We continue to see that. No real heavy storms. That was the area they got hit really hard earlier. The strongest storm is right now over Rappahannock County. All of this to the south. This is all part of that line as it moves to the south. Waiting to see. Thats pennsylvania and it could dip in. Thats the wider view. We have more storm well to the north. Were not quite done with these storms just yet. Speaking of storms. Were not the only one dealing with these. Veronica has been tracking this. They really have been getting hit hard down there from texas all the way north up toward kansas. Take look at the live images. This was a wall cloud. Ominous sky for sure. This is just to the area in and around Oklahoma City which we can show you that radar in just a second. It is an enhanced version of the Tornado Warning used by the National Weather service for highly populated areas. For Oklahoma City now. The tornado emergency issued in rare occurrences where they are expecting widespread damage. For Oklahoma City now, tornado emergency issued. We can go back to showing you the images and of course what we have around here. Still some storms that continue to fire up. Oklahoma city to the south is the town of moore which was devastated by an f5 a few years ago. That storm is very close to tracking over that area. Were just dealing with some thunderstorm area. Activity and some very heavy rain. If youre heading down. A lot of people heading downtown. Youre going to get wet for sure. We have a lot of rain moving in. The temperature tomorrow 80 degrees with some sunshine but also some cloud cover. Yeem degrees on friday. 82 on saturday. 83 on sunlds. Maybe an isolated shower on saturday and sunday and then much warmer as we head toward monday and tuesday. This is like a summer forecast. Some hotter weather and some chances of storm, too. All right. Thanks. Relief is in sight for people in a neighborhood. A sewage problem that has been going on for days will get fixed. Everywhere you turn theres some type of construction. How much longer for all of a developing story from Stafford County and here in washington, too. The family of a missing man, 33yearold lance buckley, is appealing for help in finding him. Buckley was last seen yesterday morning on his way from Stafford County to Howard University in the district. He is set to graduate on saturday with a ph. D. From howard. Police know he picked up his graduation packet on campus and then disappeared. His mother says it is not like her son and is appealing for help. We are just desperate to find lance and we really need their help. We really need them to just reach out and think, was i there, 50 seen him, did i interact with him. Were just pleading for the publics help. Deputies tell us lance may also be in possession of a firearm. They warn they dont believe as he threat to anyone else. They want to you call them if you know anything. Fairfax county police track a school thief who stole from a disabled student. They found it was an inside job. Investigators used the find me app to track down the students stolen ipad. It led to the home of the lead custodian. A search warrant we pulled said he allegedly bragged to others about stealing stuff from the school. Officers arrested him at his reston home today. The former speaker of the house has died. Jim right was the first to be driven out of office in midterm of he served 32 years in congress before he replaced tip oneill as the speaker in 1987. Two years later, wright was charged with 69 violations of house rules on reporting and accepting gifts. He left office in 1989. He was 92 years old when he died. We are developments on the big story of the day. A firefighter has died in the line of duty. Well go back to the scene and hear from the woman in whose apartment that fire started. Were keeping a close eye on this. Showers and storms moving across the i dont know if we can do that. That radar continuing to show very heavy thunderstorms across our region. Making their way right down on 66. They will continue to do so. Montgomery county seeing that rain. Back down toward Rappahannock County fauquier all seeing the heavy rain. Well see it down to the south. Moving right through the metro area within the next 15 minutes to about a halfhour. Right toward the south. This is the biggest storm right here. Notice all the lightning with this. This is in little washington. Thats where it is. Around 6 32 toward the boston area around 6 40. And toward culpepper at 6 45. Were tracking these storms. Well continue to do that. We begin with a developing story out of the district. A d. C. Firefighter is being honored after he lost his life on the job. Lieutenant kevin mcrae had been a firefighter in the district for 24 years. He joined as a teenage cadet. Mce. R. A. And other firefighters battled a twoalarm today. He collapsed after leaving the building. He is the 100th d. C. Firefighter to die in the line of duty. Were hearing from the woman who lives in the penalty in floor apartment where that fire apparently started. Her name is ruby morgan. They call her miss ruby in those parts. She banged on doors, telling everybody that her place was on fire. The red cross is now helping the residents there. Chris gordon on seventh street northwest with more on this. Reporter youre about to meet miss ruby. She was kind enough to talk to us on probably one of the most difficult days of her life shelf lived up there on the ninth floor of the apartment building. Fire investigators are looking for a cause. Ruby morgan said she heard a loud noise and then saw smoke in her apartment. She said she thanks god she made it out alive. They said somebody died and all that. Im real sad about that. Reporter firefighters saluted their fallen brother, a tribute to lieutenant kevin mcrae as he was driven past the scene of the northwest fire where he lost his life this morning. Flame and heavy smoke shot out of the ninth floor apartment. D. C. Investigators are trying to determine the cause of the blaze with the help of atf investigators who interviewed ruby morgan this afternoon. Did you cook anything this morning . Nothing. Reporter for breakfast you ate . I ate rice chrisrispies. Where did the fire start . I dont know. I smelled smoke and got out. When will you be able to get back in . Where will you live tonight . Going to my daughters house. For some of the disabled residents, getting out was challenging. All i know is i was asleep i hear the alarm, i cant walk somebody knock on the door. Next thing i know we looking out and theres fire roaring out of the building on my side of the building. Now we are back live. They tell us they expect to know the cause of the fire within the next couple hours. Residents, at least most of them will be allowed to move back in if they live on floors 18. Theyll be allowed to move back in within the next hour or so. Thats the latest. The family of the d. C. Firefighter who died today knows this kind of tragedy all too well. It is hard to imagine what they must be feeling. Before today, the last firef

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