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WRC News4 At 6 June 21, 2024

Eightinch water main. And so the street here was flooded. Theres a lot of mud and rocks and debris here now. So basically, there was a flood here on this street and then this sinkhole opened up. We also have some cell phone video that was sent in to the station a little while ago, we can show just how dramatic it was, again, as the situation was unfolding and as the street was being flooded and this big hole opened up here. There was a pickup truck as well as an suv that were both stuck in the sinkhole. A tow truck came through here just a little while ago, got both of the vehicles out. The good news is no one was hurt. Back to you. That is good news. Darcy spencer, thank you. Now to our weather. High heat and humidity all across the region. Its not letting up yet. Yeah we have got Team Coverage. Lets start with doug in the storm center. Hey, doug. Talking about this heat, continue to see it the next few days. Today, most likely the hottest and the most humid. Out there today saw a high temperature, 92, 93 degrees. Heat index, 101 earlier. Take a look at the numbers, 92 washington, 93, fredericksburg. 88, gaithersburg. 82 in leesburg. Had rain move through and Even Stronger showers. Look at the line of showers and thunderstorms moving through the strongest of which right now in through Fairfax County, through the manassas area, Prince William county through the city of fairfax within the next 10 to 15 minutes much not severe but these are fairly strong very heavy downpours along 66 and 29. Then follow right on down toward manassas. So, manassas really getting hit very hard. If you are in southern porings of Fairfax County around fairfax, burke, Woodbridge Mount Vernon this is coming your way. Continue to keep you posted on these storms and let you know when the heat may break in my forecast. Thank you, doug. The heat wave is taking a toll on a lot of us but especially hard on those whose job requires them to be outside in it. News4s Mark Segraves continues our Team Coverage from the national mall. Hi, mark. Reporter hey, doreen. Some of us have to be out here working in this heat, unlike the weather people back there in the cool studio. We take a look at the mall. A much different picture than last hour. Clouds are rolling in. It is a little breezy. There are more people out here enjoying it. But earlier to the heat was at its highest and the is up was just beating down believe it or not there were people out here exercising and, yes, working. Youre not out exercising, are you. I am. Did you know its 95 degrees . It is a time issue with me. Trying to squeeze it in. Reporter for kids, todays heat was a great excuse to play in the water. Or to get some ice cream. Are you loving our weather . No. But im about to love this ice cream. Reporter but for some people today was just another day at the office. Yeah the heats kind of killing us. Like 88 humidity, it is 94. It is rough. You are out here . Where is your water bottle . Right here. So you are hydrating . Yep. Absolutely. Reporter most jurisdictions in our area declared heat emergencies and opened cooling centers. Mayor Muriel Bowser urged residents to look out for the elderly. Make available cooling centers. We ask residents to help us identify people who might be in need in a home that we dont know about who need attention. And then we would get people out to assist them as well. Reporter and remember our pedicab driver . He says there is an upside to todays heat. I got to imagine the tips are huge today, right . Yeah. Definitely. People trying to get out of the heat. Big tippers . Especially the top, getting them out of the sun. Reporter so, big tips for that pedicab driver today. Now, i can tell you some good news. I talked to a spokesperson for d. C. Fire and ems who tells me they had very few calls heat related today, actually only five and none of those were serious. Doreen, back to you. Mark segraves, thank you. You should know that several cooling centers are opening up across our region. For more information on those, head to the nbc washington app. Someone shot and killed a young mother inside her up apartment in maryland and tonight, we are learning more about why they targeted kaya wilson. Even as the man who was charged in her death walks free. News4s Meagan Fitzgerald is live in Upper Marlboro with details. Reporter it was an emotional night for the family of Kaya Williams as they walked out of this courthouse last night. They were hoping justice would have been served for their daughter, who was gunned down in her apartment. Instead the only person charged with her murder is a free man. A day before kaya wilson was gunned down in her oxon hill apartment, a murder took place just outside her building. A large fight broke out in the Colonial Village apartments in oxon hill a man by the name of jack carry butler was stabbed. Reporter johner reporter john erzen with the state Attorneys Office says the suspect thought that was her boyfriend, levy. He went inside looking for levy, he wasnt home, so wilson was killed instead. Her four Young Children were in the same room. The oldest, a 7yearold girl called 911. Reporter levy had nothing to do with the stabbing death of bells friend. Court documents say a witness gave a detailed description of the man who really stabbed and killed jack carry butler. His name is Michael Neely and he lived in the same building as levi, kaya wilson and her four little children. Nealy was sentenced to 30 years in prison but he is appealing that sentence. We understand that the children of wilson are still struggling emotionally from being in the room with their mother while she was being murdered. Reporting in prince georges, Meagan Fitzgerald, news4. D. C. Police looking for a drive here caused a deadly crash on the suit land park watch a volvo slammed into another car near berry farm after midnight. Several people in that car were trapped. One person died. The man driving the volvo took off running and so did his passenger. Police did catch the passenger and arrested him for having a loaded gun. Developing now in upstate new york, a prison worker accused of helping two men break free has just been arrested. All this comes on day seven of the search for those escaped inmates. Investigators say there they are zeroing in on a wooded area about three miles from that prison. Nbcs jay gray is in dannemora, new york with the latest. Jay . Reporter hey, doreen. Lets start with that prison employee a civilian, her name joyce mitch, she worked in the tailor shop with the two escapees she has been arrested, she has been charged with facilitation, helping in the escape and providing contraband. There are reports that contraband included hacksaw blades and drill bits. We expect to learn a lot more about this arrest this evening. Theres a press conference scheduled for 6 30. We should hear from authorities. We do know that they are both felonies. She could face up to seven years in state prison. That as the manhunt intensifies here. Hundreds of additional officers on the ground with those that have already been here more than 800 in all. Many of them focused in an area three miles from this prison right now an area where they have been able to find bedding. They found food wrappers. They found footprints. They havent found the two escapees at this point. Seven days on the run. They continue to focus there helicopters there, dogs, all of those heavily armed officers on the ground a search they will continue through the night. That is the latest live here in dannemora, new york, im jay gray. Doreen, chris, back to you. Thanks, jay. This summer, a Catholic Priest will be sentenced for sexually assaulting a woman on an airplane it happened on aly if the from if i recall to los angeles. As the iteams Scott Macfarlane reports, this is the series of men convicted of sexually touching other passengers on flights. Reporter there have been several cases of sexual assaults aboard flights into dulles and Reagan National in recent months including one in just the past few months much the Fbis Washington Field Office told us about today that the man convicted in the case out of california is a Catholic Priest. He touched a fellow passengers buttocks, breast and group. The passenger was asleep went assault began. The woman woke up to find the priests hands on her body. In 2013, the fbi investigated a man for molesting a 15yearold girl on a play enroute to dulles and feds say these cases are a big challenge because the victims and witnesses are often strangers strangers who quickly leave the scene. If we dont find our witnesses or our victims or our suspects now an hour from now, they will literally be at the four corners of the earth. The iteams investigation into these air assaults found another problem, no federal agency is keeping count keeping track of how often this happens. Chris . All right thanks, scott. To see scotts full report and the iteams full investigation into these airborne assaults go to nbcwashington. Com and search investigations. Next at 6 00, they came to this country for a better life. But a devastating fire left a family of 13 homeless. In the middle of their tragedy, theres joy. How the actions of one military family are helping to keep them together tonight. A student attending a d. C. Nightclub dies from a Drug Overdose. We will have reaction from d. C. s department of health director. Repairing the streets picking up trash, doing the heimlich man knewer . It is all in a days work for vienna town employees. A new mill yating deteat today for president obama. He traveled to the capitol today trying to rescue the pacific trade deal, but it didnt work. The bill did not pass a vote in the house this afternoon. The president couldnt even drum up enough support in his own party. Meet the press moderator, chuck todd, is here and what does this say about the president s relationship with House Democrats . Look you cant help but wonder with the seeds of this planted seven years ago, that his courting of congress, you know, somebody tweeted me looked like he was cramming for finals. Suddenly going to the game last night because hey buddy, where have you been the last six years when it comes to that stuff. But this was not about personal relationships. This was about sort of the center of gravity in the Democratic Party has shifted dramatically left. Part of it, in congress, has to do with anybody who was a centrist democrat, they are out. They lost in 2014. So, you have got a whole bump of democrats who believe that labor will throw get them out of office, will primary them and president obamas not on the ballot in 2016. The House Democrats are. So look this is about what happens a lot in congress. It is about themselves. Their own survival. Talking about the democrats. Hillary clinton is getting ready for her first big campaign. It is, sort of the announcement, i guess. But her numbers are headed south. Well, it is really is among independents the most downward slide. Among democrats, its been Holding Steady but, look, this is she has an opportunity here. She needed to make this opportunity, one she didnt do eight years ago to answer the question, why does she want to be president . And whats interesting is what they are really pushing is that their whole goal is to you hear this a lot with candidates that are well known reintroduce her. Doesnt know the real hillary clinton. In this case, it is hillary rodham. Rebranding. Jeb bush doing the same thing on monday. You hear this from the same thing from them, their people. You know, all they know, just know his last name dont know who jeb is dont know floridas jeb. And i think thats the same thing here. This is hillary rodham, the daughter of dorothy rod large the story they want to tell tomorrow and hope that that starts at least to do a better job of making people feel as if, okay she has a vision of why she wants to be president. More to come on sunday morning with chuck todd, meet the press sunday morning at 10 30 here on nbc4. Now to some breaking news on that Government Data breach. Lets go to consumer reporter erika gonzalez, at the live desk. The office of Personnel Management just confirmed to news4 background investigations for security clearances and other background checks may have also been breached. This information, hearing this from nbc news, involves or part of what we know is a standard form 86. It includes very personal information on people being hired. Officials say they do not know at this time how many people were affected but this could mean additional people beyond the originally estimated 4. 2 million. As soon as we have more information on this of course, we will let you know right here on news4 and across our social platforms as well. Back to you. Seems like it is often the case that the Security Breaches start. Become a lot bigger. Then they get bigger. We got some storms out there that you are keeping an eye on doug. Those storms coming through the heart of Fairfax County, in through portions of Prince William county as well. Talked about the chance of storms yesterday, said there would be one or two. Theres one and then theres two. That is it and thiss going to be the case move on through the rest of the night too right now about the heat and humidity and of course those few storms just down to the south of the washington, d. C. Area. They are coming through the beltway though. You can see the line of storms that developed a little bit earlier, the line kind of falling apart, a few storms still going on right now we will zoom in on these storms, right through central Fairfax County over the city of fairfax, those continue to move off to the east and will be approaching the beltway here in the next five minutes actually, on the beltway. You can see all the lightning associated with these, too. Shower activity the storm here earlier, really dying off it makes its way toward bethesda toward the great falls area shower activity here, but the rain and the heavy storms just down to the south. Now, on this trend, about 25, 30 miles a hour, around franconia, 6 26. 6 29, alexandria and clinton maryland at 7 00, in through Prince Georges County. Rather 495 here the belt wake American Legion seeing the rain going to be dealing with some wet roads there over the next hour or so, right on through mcclain, down through fairfax. Look at the city of fairfax very heavy rain right now, right along 50, right along 236, right along 495, continuing to see that rain. Look at burke. Heres burke center park wake braddock road, heavy rain, a lot of lightning here in this area. Farther down to the south, manassas was getting hammered the last half hour or so starting to move out of manassas off toward the east, right along the river, so going to continue watch this moving off toward the east about that 20 to 25mile trend. You can see where it is going here i mentioned, toward Prince Georges County and mount vernon in toward Prince Georges County. That is the only one in the game. We have a couple other showers out there, but nothing really to worry about the other thing we have been looking at is the heat and the humidity. Look at the heat index, high of 97. Saw heat index earlier of 101, the warmest we have been. Manassas, way down though as a result of the shower activity only down to 75. It will continue to be hot and very humid as we go on through the night tonight and really, as we go on through the next seven days temperatures tomorrow, 92 degrees, 40 chance of storms mostly in Northern Virginia, not too worried about the rest of the area Northern Virginia, southern maryland, best chance tomorrow, another chance sunday high of 90. 91, monday 92 tuesday hit 90 each day there, we continue to keep the heat wave alive, wednesday, thursday and fray day temperatures still on the very warm side, the humidity will stay up right on through the end of next week. Again, we will continue to see a chance of showers and storms just about every day for the next seven days. The summerlike pattern wants to stick around a while. No end in sight at this moment. Thank you doug. A Howard University alum at the center of a growing controversy. Tonight, the backlash amid reports that a civil rights leader lied about her own race. And they captured headlines the day they were born. Not just in d. C. , but across the country. Now nearly 20 years later ever since the thompson sextuplets were born we have been following their story, we were with them at george up to university hospital, with them for birthday parties and tonight catching up with them as they prepare for an exciting new chapter. Been a little more than 18 years since the thompson sex ten lutz made history. Talk about time flying, now time for another milestone. Two of the girls are getting ready for graduation day. As news4s zack Zachary Kiesch shows us a great time to reflect on the familys amazing journey. Anybody can do t. Reporter today a reason to celebrate, graduation and celebrations. This is Emily Thompson Octavia Thompson Richard Thompson Stella Thompson who is graduating, used to cry and ann marie thompson. Reporter Jackie Thompson and her five surviving sextuplets took the world by storm on may 8, 1997. And i first had my

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