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WRC News4 At 6 March 28, 2017

The districts security hub in rockville. The control room for all of its cameras in all of its schools. And saw, though there are many angles, there are only a handful of employees to watch the cameras in realtime. Even then only a small handful of schools or vantage points can be viewed at once. Lots of emails from parents about this story. One saying, if the schools are going to check their security, they ought to check social media policies too. And another said portable classrooms are a concern, theyre further from the quote, seeing eyes of other people. And one parent tweeted at nbc washington saying, this should have happened on day two of the incident, not scheduled for april. The inspection of all 25 high schools expected to be completed in about four weeks. All middle and Elementary Schools by the end of the school year, which is mid june. Its a huge undertaking. 200plus schools, including also the offices and nonschool buildings. Inspection . Montgomery county or bring in outside help . Both. There will be outside consultants brought in, but the School District has its own multi Million Dollar office of School Safety and security that will help with this. All right, great work, scott. Thank you. More details are emerging from another story from our schools, the diary of a maryland student who was allegedly plotting a deadly attack at Catoctin High School in thur mont. Nichole cevario named three people in the diary and wrote about being the first woman to carry out a mass shooting at a school. Today the Frederick County sheriff told news4 the students father noticed a change in her behavior before he read her diary and contacted the authorities. Still ahead, well take a closer look at the warning signs all parents should be aware of. Thats coming up on news4 at 6 30. Shared it on my Facebook Page, some of the new details were learning about an artist who was murdered in the district. Tonight a m i investigators say he tortured and stabbed her to death, then stole thousands of dollars from her bank account. The suspect was picked up here in our area, but he was wanted for violating probation in tennessee. Lets get the latest at d. C. Superior court. Pat collins standing by. Hey, pat. Reporter chris, were learning a lot more about what happened that deadly day on 14th street. It was around 10 00 in the morning. Corrina mehiel was getting ready to take a trip to north carolina. She was loading things in her car. She went from her apartment to her car, back and forth, back and forth, when apparently she was targeted by a man who wanted access to her atm. According to court documents, Corrina Mehiel was tied up and tortured in what could have been an attempt to get her atm p. I. N. Number. The medical examiner says there were wounds to her neck that suggest some sort of torture. Corrina mehiel, found murdered last week in a basement apartment of a town house on 14th street northeast. The 34yearold artist, tied up and stabbed to death. The suspect, 28yearold elhaj toure. Police have a picture of him using miss mehiels atm at various locations from arlington to elk ridge. Theres also Surveillance Video that shows him lurking about her block on the morning of the murder. And driving away in her 2004 toyota prius. Now, this happened in the 600 block of 14th street northeast. Not far from the fashionable 8th street corridor. The arrest has brought a sense of relief to the people who live there. A sense of relief. But still, you know, it doesnt help settle what happened to that poor young woman. You know they made an arrest. And it was good. Im really glad. And now with the arrest . Um, i think people are up to their normal selves and just happy that even though that is so sad that that happened, that hur hearts go out to the family, hopefully it will give them some closure. Reporter murder suspect toure officially charged and held without bond tonight, pending further court action in the case. Doreen, back to you. All right, pat collins, reporting, thank you. More showers moving through our area. You can see the rain on the radar. Doug is tracking it. Whos getting the rain and when is this going to move on out of here . Most of the day its been parts of Northern Virginia and Southern Maryland seeing it. Mostly south and west of d. C. But now even north of d. C. Starting to see showers for frederick and montgomery counties. Fairfax, around herndon, these will try to move through, but the heaviest rain for around front royal, maybe even a rumble of thunder here, all part of a bigger system, which is spinning off to the north and east. As it does so, its going to bring changes in here the next couple days. Highs today in the 70s. Tomorrow in the 60s. But still a great looking wednesday. But much cooler late week. Well talk about that and weve got a lot more rain on the way. That coming late week as well. Talking about the weekend, ive got that forecast, but any time you want to know what our forecast is, because we put it in ourselves, go to the nbc washington app. You can do that right now. All right, doug, thank you. To politics now and new claims that the white house tried to block testimony in the russian hacking investigation. Today, press Secretary Sean Spicer called the Washington Post report 100 false. He said the russia issue is a crisis manufactured by the media. If the president puts rus tonight, thats a russian connection. Report the facts. Every Single Person who has been briefed on the subject has come away with the same conclusion, republican, democrat, im sorry that disgusts you. That exchange lit up social media, it comes amid growing calls for the republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee to recuse himself from the investigation. Nbcs Blane Alexander has the latest developments. Good evening to you. The chairman says he can and is leading a fair investigation, but some members of his own committee disagree. On capitol hill, the calls are growing louder. Are you going to recuse yourself from this investigation, sir . Excuse me. Is that a no . Reporter devin nunes, a republican, facing questions from both sides, as to whether he can lead a fair investigation into Russian Election tampering and possible ties to the Trump Campaign. Well, i think he put his objectivity in question at the very least. I damage. Reporter nunes is facing two issues, having announced the president and his team may have been caught in u. S. Surveillance. Then revealing just this week, that he got that information while on white house grounds. Raising questions about its source. Everything is unusual about this. I mean, it is profoundly inappropriate to say the very least, what has happened. Reporter today, former acting attorney general, sally yates, along with former intelligence official James Clapper and john brennan were set to testify. But last friday, nunes postponed the hearing. The president himself ignoring questions but tweeting overnight, trump russia story is a hoax. If the president puts russian salad dressing on his salad tonight, somehow thats a russian connection. Reporter despite confidence from his own party. Chairman nunes is doing an outstanding job. Reporter democrats led by Ranking Member adam schiff recuse himself from the russian investigation. Today a new poll shows that 70 of virginia voters are in favor of a special prosecutor coming in to investigate any possible ties between the Trump Campaign and russia. But chris, those requests, along with requests from democrats may fall on deaf ears. Today a reporter asked nunes if he plans to stay on as chairman and continue to lead this investigation and he responded, why would i not . Chris, back to you. Thank you, blaine. President trump continues to struggle with low Approval Ratings in virginia and across the country. The president now his 37 approval in the commonwealth and 59 of folks in virginia disapprove of the job hes done. 55 of virginians think the country is headed in the wrong direction. Half the people polled say the state itself is headed in the right direction. It started with a call about a stolen bike, it was a policeinvolved shooting, and it all unfolded in montgomery village. Kristin wright joins us live from gaithersburg with more on this investigation. Kristin . Reporter well, yeah, a call for something as simple as a stolen bike ended this way, but police here say the man who called them for help just turned on the officer. Every Montgomery County Police Officer out on patrol wears a body camera. And this time police say the camera worn by officer Matthew Mcgowan shows that the officer came under attack. This footage shows exactly what happened between the two. How it was a surprise to the officer, and it was unprovoked. Reporter police say the officer got the call for a stolen bike. Police say he was talking to the man who called police, Richard Tilly and writing up the officer mcgowan, five years on the force. Complainant lunged at him with an open knife. The two began fighting physically and the officer fell or was knocked down to the ground. Reporter police say thats when mcgowan fired multiple times, killing tilly. Police are investigating why tilly suddenly turned on the officer. We doug into Richard Tillys past. He was arrested for Armed Robbery in Montgomery County last year and spent two months in jail. But then the case was dismissed for fingerprint issues. A post on his Facebook Page from april of 2016 says, they arrested the wrong person while i sat in jail, the real suspect has been at large for four months. I lost everything. It goes on to say, my job, my home, and four months, ill never get back. Tilly was never convicted. He spent two months in jail because he could not make bail. Now, howar investigate this shooting as per policy, the agreement with mounl county as to not have an apparent conflict of interest. Officer mcgowan is on leave and that is department policy. In Montgomery County, kristin wright, news4. Drop the gun drop the gun . A deadly confrontation captured on body camera video. What investigators are saying about the officers action. And a new move to take away your privacy online. Well break down the ruling and how it impacts you. Three iraqi refugees living in Fairfax County are charged in federal court with lying about their relationship to an alleged kidnapper in iraq. Ahead, how in Northern Virginia, high profile case of immigration fraud. Three iraqis facing charges for lying about their familys past to secure a future as u. S. Citizens. Is centers around their ties to a kidnapping suspect. Chris gordon has the developments on this from alexandria. Whats the story . Well, doreen, investigators found fingerprints at the scene of a kidnapping in iraq. The fbi says the fingerprints match one of the three r alexandria today. They are charged with concealing their relationship to an alleged iraqi kidnapper, who held an american captive. In one of the military raids carried out by u. S. Forces in iraq, American Contractor roy hal umz and other captives were freed from an underground bunker in 2005. Hallums had been held hostage almost a year. Today in court, three iraqi refugees are charged with making false statements to obtain u. S. Citizenship. Yousef almaj danny, had eel mass any and his wife are charged with concealing their relationship with the alleged iraqi kidnapper. An fbi affidavit said the men are his brothers. They concealed their relationship with majid almarchand danny who the fbi said admitted his role in the kidnapping. When the three citizenship, their relationship came to light. The fingerprints of yousef taken for his citizenship application match fingerprints on a document found at the bunker where the american was held hostage. John swirling, a lawyer with 47 Years Experience in criminal defense and federal court. He has no connection to this case. He says a defense lawyer can question what the fingerprints really mean. The fingerprints on the document found at the scene of the kidnapping. Then the question is, well, how did the document get there . When was the fingerprint left on the document . Was it a year before the incident . Was it during the time of the incident . Was it after the incident . We just dont know. Reporter the three iraqi refugees have lived in Fairfax County for almost ten years. They have family and Young Children here. If they are convicted of lying ton face possible imprisonment of up to ten years and deportation. Chris . Thank you, chris. It was a bb gun, but they didnt know that. And now weve learned there wont be any charges for the d. C. Police officers who shot and killed a 63yearold man. We showed you this video last summer of a standoff between the officers and sherman evans. Investigators say evans called 911 to report a man waving a gun outside a building in northeast d. C. When officers arrived, they saw evans with the weapon. They ordered him to drop it you about say he didnt. And even pointed it at them. The officers shot evans and discovered he had a bb gun. The u. S. Attorneys office said they acted in selfdefense. Im susan hogan at the live desk. Just moments ago, the house of representatives voted to scrap fcc privacy rules. This is a big victory for Internet Service providers like at t, verizon, and nbcs owner comcast, advertisers. So whats the impact here and what does it mean for you . Well, were talking about your digital footprint, that all of us leave, that big Internet Service providers would love to cash in on. So when you answer medical questions online, where you bank, online dating, what you do on your apps, even our private emails, all of this information can now be sold by Internet Service providers without asking for your approval. Democrats fought vigorously against this, but the house voted along party lines to repeal these rules with only the president s signature needed to make it official. Back to you. Thanks, susan. They used to have to ask our permission. Were also following breaking news. Nbc news is reporting the chairman of the Democratic National committee has launched a major reorganization of the party. Tom perez has asked all current dnc staffers to submit their resignation by next month. Hell decide who willta structured. Nbc nightly news will take a closer looks coming up right after news4 at 6 00. His bill to make maryland a sanctuary state has people talking. But hes surprised that the Justice Department is it focusing on it. Jeff sessions warned that the federal government could pull grant money from cities and states that dont follow federal immigration laws. Ramirez doesnt see it as a lack of cooperation with the feds. Rather, he says his bill is all about creating trust between Police Officers and the people they serve. Its reasonable. What we dont want is people to be afraid to call Law Enforcement. And what we dont want is Law Enforcement to not be able to interact with the community. Ramirez tells us hes happy with the version of the bill that the house of delegates passed, but even if the bill moves past the state senate, governor larry hogan says hell veto it and democrats dont have the votes on override more than a thousand new jobs are coming to Frederick County, virginia. Amazon is opening a new center to pick, pack, and ship larger items, like big screen tvs, kayaks, patio furniture. Amazon says it chose the area for several reasons, including its infrastructure and workforce. There are already three Similar Centers in virginia. Amazon hasnt announced when this new center will open. It began as a breakin, police think, but spiralled into something more and much worse. A look at the damage inside a local familys home and why some say it should be investigated as a bias crime. Coming up on news4, new information, what the father new before he rea his d not much of a chance to try out our umbrellas. No, a brief break if anything. I got a weather term for you. Ready for this . Yeah. Tell all your friends chris, you just went, yeah. Let me try to muster more enthusiasm. I knew you couldnt wait for this part of the show. I want to show you whats going on. We got the clouds, we also have kor puskular rays, raies from the sun. You can see them. Thats my name see right there. You got the rays coming th those are called kor puskular rays. Krep uskular or corp uskular . Krep uskular. It looks like a beam of light going all the way down. Theyre also in the blood stream. Theyre also called sun beams. That works for me. I thought they were cool. All right, fine, im not teaching you guys anything else. 72 degrees right now, and well still see some showers around 7 00, there may still be some around 9 00. Most of us will be dry by this time. Temperatures dropping through the 60s. Still 72 now, quite nice. 72 in d. C. , 68, annapolis. 70 in fredericksburg. Really thats where weve seen most of the rain in Northern Virginia. Weve seen it in front royal in the last few hours. Up to the north, martinsburg, hague haguerse hagerstown. Sprinkles in county. This is where were seeing a little shower on route 50, oak tan and fairfax, to Tys

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