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WRC News4 At 6 April 19, 2017

Kids play on the playground every single day. Every day. And he lives right in the back of us. Reporter police are very concerned that there could be more victims so theyre asking parents to have a conversation with their kids. If they suspect that they were harmed by this man theyre asking them to Contact Police right away. Jim. Thanks megan. A sad story with no winners is how some people are describing the death of Aaron Hernandez. He used to play for the new england patriots. He was found in his jail cell early this morning. Jay gray is at the Correction Center in massachusetts now with more. Jay . Reporter its a shocking end to what his former head coach called a traj rick life. Hernandez found dead inside his prison cell here just hours before belichick and some of his former teammates celebrated their latest super bowl win at the white house. Less than a week after an emotional celebration charges, former new england patriot Aaron Hernandez is now dead. Found early this morning inside his prison cell after an apparent suicide. It was my understanding that he was in solitary confinement. Reporter behind bars since 2013 when he was arrested then eventually convicted in the shooting death of his friend and Football Player owe din lloyd. Prison Officials Say they tried to block his cell from the inside before hanging himself with the bed sheet. Within a jail cell, its a more shocking because you would think that there would be people paying attention, watching whats happening. Reporter his family and legal team say theyre shocked and surprised by his death ashl as hernandez began the appeal of his murder conviction. His attorney in a written statement saying, aaron was looking forward to an opportunity for a Second Chance to prove his innocence. Hernandez played his last game as a patriot in 2013. Teammates were at the white house celebrating their super bowl championship. Sad story with a sad ending and really no winners. Reporter tonight his attorneys are calling for a transparent and thorough investigation into hernandezs death. And prison officials do say that their investigation into the circumstances surrounding hernandezs death is continuing right now. Doreen. Thank you, jay. Were hearing from bill oreilly tonight on the sex assault allegations that drove him off of the Fox News Channel today. He just released a statement saying that it is in his words, tremendously disheartening that he and fox are parting ways due to what he calls completely unfounded claim. The Oreilly Factor has been a fox flagship for 20 years. His downfall began april 1st. The the New York Times reported oreilly and fox news have paid nearly settle harassment complaints from five women. Oreillys ratings remained high but dozens of advertisers abandoned the show. Fox news channel Parent Company announced oreillys departure. We asked you on our nbc washington Facebook Page if you agree with Fox News Channel decision to part ways with bill oreilly and so far most of you say you support the Networks Decision to cut ties with the long time host. A significant Foreign Policy development to report tonight. Late this afternoon, secretary of state Rex Tillerson issued a stern warning to iran. He said president Trumps Administration is rethinking the nuclear deal, especially in light of a long list of what tillerson called provocative actions. Blayne alexander is on capitol hill now with our report. And jim, this is just the latest in a string of Foreign Policy decisions by a president who is still within his first 100 days of today secretary of state Rex Tillerson announcing to the world the u. S. May be ready to throw out the iran nuclear deal. Whether it be assassination attempts, support of weapons of mass destruction, deploying stabilizing malishas iranian spends its time disrupting police. Reporter ones that do not violate the agreement negotiated by president obama. A deal that President Trump has repeatedly called weak. We buy them off for a short peered and someone has to deal with it later. Reporter this as the white house faces tough questions over war ships that were reportedly headed toward north korea. The president telling fox Business News last week. We are sending an armada, very powerful. Reporter but now revealed the strike group was actually going into the opposite direction, toward australia. What part is misleading . We were asked a question about what signal is sent . We answered question. Timing. It makes it look as though the United States did not have intent, it did not follow through, it did not have determination. Reporter back at home, the president claiming victory in georgias highly watch congressional race. Tweeting glad to be of help. The democratic challenger winning 48 and forcing a june runoff in the deep red district. Democrats calling that a win. And the white house says the president might go down and campaign in that regionoff election if needed. Today the leading republican in that race says she welcomes the president s help. Live on capitol hill, blayne alexander, news4. Scott macfarlane, u. S. Secret service Just Announced restrictions for the public on the south side of the white house. Starting tonight, 11 00 p. M. Secret service is going to restrict access to that sidewalk on the south fence line of the white house which is frequented by the secret service says no additional barriers will be installed. Right now as the news4 iteam first reported theyre in the process of adding security, new fencing to the north side of the white house. Planning to build a higher fence with a higher base in an attempt to keep jumpers off white house property, doreen. Thank you, scott. President trumps job Approval Rating climbed this week although its still in negative territory. The University Just released a new poll say 40 approve of the job mr. Trump is doing while 56 say they do into the proved. Two weeks ago mr. Trumps Approval Rating was five points lower. Mr. Trumps numbers appear to have been helped by his decision to order missile strikes after the chemical attack on civilians in syria. American voters support the strike by a two to one margin. Compared to 31 who do not think it was the right move. Most polls have a margin of area of plus or minus 3 percentage points. Looking at weather now. Were all concerned about all this pollen out here. Doug tells us that might be a problem thats about to go away, right doug . Thats right. Especially coming up later this weekend when we have a lot of rain in store for at least part of the weekend. Today we saw a couple of showers. Temperatures below average and below where they were yesterday. Yesterday into the 70s, today only in the 60s. 61 in hagerstown. Look at roanoke only 568 degrees. Back to the west thoerks, temperatures close to 80 and those 80 degrees temperatures will move our way tomorrow. What else were going to be seeing, some shower activity across our region today. Most of that out of here but im tracking showers and thunderstorms right around cleveland. These are going to move down across and into our region during the Morning Hours tomorrow. So much warmer tomorrow with a chance for some showers, maybe even a there. Heavier weekend rain and yes a soggy sunday. Ive got it all for you. Ill come back in about ten minutes. All right. Thank you doug. Were all struggling with the pollen but really its playoff fever that has taken over all of us. Takes huge night for the wizards and the capitals. Its got us all choked up. Caps up north. Thats where Carol Maloney is. Her voice is good to go. Reporter we have a couple of them warming up. A couple of big players warming up on the court behind him. He had 32 points a playoff career high in game one. If you watch game one hes pointing to the court a lot. This is my house. Were hoping in game two they game the home cooking going again. So its the wizards and the hawks game two. While he arrived with his game face on. He knows that tonight just like off season he and bradley lots of pressure on the shoulders of these two guards in game two but they tell us moments like these, well, thats what they play for. We both understand whats at stake. We both understand that the team will move unless we do and unless were on the same page. We got to continue to show up each and every night. As far as having the city behind us, thats a great feeling. Its a lot of pressure as far as young guys. At the end of the day its something we love to do. Reporter the wizards feel like they have the city behind them and that may be the only good thing about the caps being on the road is that they dont have to be around all this angst. You cannot overstate the importance of game four for the caps up in toronto. Taking on the maple leafs, trying not to lose their third game in a row and getting on the brink of elimination. Sherree burruss is north of the border and she will join us live with the players. Ive heard thats coming up r theyre opening the gates and the fans are flooding in and the excitement is building here. Im Carol Maloney. Back to you. First on news4 a big shakeup to how Police Respond to crime in the nations capital. How the move impacts the mayor who plans to run for reelection. Its a walk to prevent suicide. This is the second one at wood Grove High School but this year the message spreading even farther. And well tell you why this is a dark day in history for two reasons. Also emotional tribu april 19th 1995, the nation was horrified by the deadly act of domestic terrorism in u. S. History. A truck bomb exploded at the alfred b. Murray building in Oklahoma City. 168 people were killed that day. 19 were children. Timothy mcveigh was executed for the attack today as they have every year since that bombing 22 years ago. People in Oklahoma City held a remembrance ceremony. 35 of the victims worked for the housing and urban development. Today the current hud secretary dr. Ben carson spoke at the service. Timothy mcveigh a because of the fiery wako standoff that ended on that date two years earlier. It was back in february of 1993 that federal authorities attempted to raid a ranch in texas looking for alleges weapons violation by a religious group known as the Branch Davidians. A gun battle erupted, four federal agents and Six Branch Davidians were killed. On april 19th, the fbi launched an assault in an effort to end a 51 day standoff. A massive fire broke out possibly set by the Branch Davidians themselves. 76 people were killed including the leader of their group. A few thousand High School Students in louden county took class outside today. Their subject was suicide prevention. David culver joined some of them and explained why ones reporter a path gym wood Grove High School students going for a midday walk. Im walking, its cold outside but im walking for a purpose. Reporter for some walking for a certain anxiety written on a piece of paper. What do you think stresses people out today . I think the main thing is school. All the work and everything that gets piled on. Every year in high school theres a major jump in work and stress but then theres also things like sports, friends, relationships, so i think everything just piles up and just gets too much for some people. Reporter it was all too much for ryan bartel. 2014 he took his own life during his senior year at wood drove. Its absolutely his legacy. We want to make sure hes never forgotten. Reporter following the students lead launch this walk. Everyone sels has something theyre going through and thats what the dialogue. Youre not alone and someone cares. Someones out there and there for you. Reporter to have a whole day like this, i guess tlaz deeper lesson that you get in a classroom, would you say . Definitely. For the school to take out the time of the day for learning to spread this message and spread the awareness is great. Reporter this walk originated here at wood Grove High School started last year and you can see every student about 1,600 participate, this year it has since spread to other schools in the county. I wish every Single School would be on board by this Time Next Year so well see. Lets hope. Reporter as the students near the walk end they toss their cards into a pile, proof theyre not in this alone. Together they watch flames take hold of their worries, encouraging them to instead keep pushing forward. In virginia, david culver, news4. We this effort and you can go on the walk from a students perspective, just open the nbc washington app and search suicide prevention. Several religious group got together to rally outside the Supreme Court today. The justices heard oral arguments in a case from missouri that pits a Lutheran Church against the state. The court will decide whether states can prohibit spending tax dollars to support churches. This began when trinity Lutheran Church applied for money from a state program that fixes playgrounds. Officials in missouri rejected the claim. Officials at trinity say the decision infringes on their religious liberty. First on news4, changes within the d. C. Police force that you may notice. We broke this story on twitter. The police chief laying out exactly what to expect. Reporter zack Police Respond ll across the city. The new plan by new chief roughly divides the city in half with a new patrol chief in the south and north sections of the district. The division of labor was close enough. Its almost 50 50 so i think that was a logical place to draw the boundary. Itll give the community more direct access. We need more Police Presence in the community. This is the only way youre going to bridge that gap between the residents and the police officers. Reporter retiring assistant chief diane grooms under the new plan beginning sunday lamar green will oversee the North District and robert conti the south. Both officers native of the districts and veteran police officers. One of the things we want to continue on doing is just continue to build those relationships with the community. Repor Community Meetings will be held next week to introduce the new system of patrol commands. In the district tom sherwood, news4. And update tonight on the health of former president george h. W. Bush. His recovering in a hospital in houston, texas. The president is feeling better but that hell stay at the hospital again tonight. Bad cough kept him from sleeping well last week and mr. Bush was admitted to the houston Methodist Hospital on friday. He is 92 years old now. He was in that same hospital in january battling another case of pneumonia. Were keeping an eye on the radar this evening. Dougs tracking some showers and even some storms that are on the way. Reporter there are countless abandoned, vacant and foreclosed properties in im at higher risk fore as depression. Ave a stroke. Im 26 more likely to develop an irregular heartbeat. I have a 65 higher chance of developing diabetes. No matter who we are, these diseases can be managed or prevented when caught early on. Because with better research, the right medicine, and with doctors who help keep me healthy to begin with, we will thrive. Back with more about our weather. It still feels like were covered with pollen. Are you not taking showers . Havent you noticed . I wasnt you know what . The pollen, you mentioned that its been so high. When i say so high, sunday was the peak and its been the highest since four years. If youre a pollen sufferer or allergy sufferer. Out there right now plenty of cloud cover across our region and weve seen some showers at times. No rain right now and not a bad evening but again its a little cool for this time of year. If this was last month and were talking 62 at night this is a rather nice night. Temperatures around winds out of the south at about 7mileperhour. Much cooler down to the south. Charlottesville only 57 right now and most of the showers are out of here and it will stay there for the next 12 hours or so. Weve seen the clouds and again some showers rolling on through. Most of them very light. Im tracking this system right here thunderstorms here. Some Severe Weather now into portions of ohio, around cleveland. This whole area will migrate down to our region and itll be here by early tomorrow morning. Something else coming our way, nice warm temperatures. 49 in new york but look whats coming. 80 in lexington. These are the numbers well move into the day tomorrow and on friday. Temperatures in the upper 70s. I mention that rain up to the north. Here it is. Watch it, it moves our way and then gets here right around 7 00, 8 00, 9 00 tomorrow. We could see some wet roadways out there. Some heavier downpours. Notice where they are just to the west of i95 around 8 00 coming through the area and we get a little bit of a break. The more sunshine we get the better chance for more showers and maybe even a couple rum bells of thunder during the afternoon hour. Not a washout at all and most of the area stays dry for most of the afternoon. A good ideao overnight only to see more clouds and another chance of showers during the day on friday. Your forecast fo

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