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WRC News4 Midday October 10, 2014

Meagan. Reporter police are still on the scene. They have been hour hours collecting evidence. It looks like they are about to wrap up. It went as a 911. Homicide detectives called and the person shot several times died. This is now a murder investigation. As word spread through the neighborhood, relatives rushed for information. There is not a lot of information. It happened at 7 30 inside an apartment on ivanhoe southwest. The man was shot several time. They are looking for witnesses who it lead them to the gunman. They are hoping because this happened when people were on the way to work or school they will find something helpful. Were trying to locate additional witnesses, anybody that knows anything. 7 30, people might have been going to work. They might have been out here and seen something. Right now no lookout for a suspect, no motive in this. They havent released the name of the man killed. Anyone with information, youre asked to call metropolitan police. Reporting live in southwest, megan mcgrath, news 4. Thanks. Right now the museum hosting a memorial for former White House Press secretary james brady. Brady died back in august. Vice President Joe Biden will speak at this event. Richard jordan has more on that as he speaks to us from the live desk. Richard. Quite a moving tribute. Several former press secretaries as well as the Current Press secretary. You can see them paying tribute to james brady, former press secretary for ronald reagan. It was in 1981 when he was shot during an assassination attempt on reagans life. Brady was left partially paralyzed from the shooting. Nancy reagan could not attend the service but the letter she wrote to bradys widow was read aloud. Jim was a patriot. He loved his country and was proud to serve. Ronnie insisted he remain press secretary for the full eight years because it was the right thing to do. The white house did not seem complete without him. There was a letter from former president bill clinton read at the service. Vice President Joe Biden expected to speak shortly. Brady also remembered for the legislation that he helped to pass what was called the brady bill that requires background checks for anyone buying a handgun and the White House Briefing room is named after him as well. Thats the latest from the live desk. Barbara. Thanks, richard. New this morning childrens rights activist Malala Yousafzai and kasatyarthi won the nobel prize. Yousafzai shot in the head by taliban gunman. Satyarthi at the forefront of a global moment on child slavery and child labor since 1980. The prize will be presented in oslo in december. Right now rain moving into the area. Meteorologist Amanda Siegel joins us with the forecast. Good morning. For the rece of the day looking at soggy conditions. Right now on storm team 4 radar im tracking rain mainly in virginia. For the most part light rain in loudoun and Fairfax County. Scattered in those areas but a more steady rain as we look west in areas of fauquier, winchester. This rain continues to move in over the next couple of hours. You can see plenty of moisture to deal with. Were looking at a soggy friday. Keep the umbrella handy, not just for the rest of today but tonight and tomorrow morning as well. Future weather by noon. Everybody pretty much seeing light to moderate rain at that point. Then we continue to see rain into the evening hours 5 00 here. Now, after 5 00, well start to get a little bit of a break. Scattered showers, barbara, from 6 00 to 8 00 p. M. After 8 00 p. M. Steady rain moves back in. Coming up ill let you know when well dry out tomorrow and my latest updated orioles forecast for tonight. Thanks. Montgomery county Police Investigating a hitandrun in silver springs. Police say around 7 30 a pedestrian was hit by a car at old columbia pike and Briggs Chaney road. The car took off after the crash. D. C. Principal died this morning. Back to richard at the live desk. Richard. Right now grief counselors at Duke Ellington school of the arts even though there are no classes today. It was already a scheduled day off for students. Overnight the principal of the school died from an apparent heart attack. Hed been with the school since 1995, became the principal just this year. A few moments ago we heard from d. C. School chancellor henderson. Just a huge loss to the community. Staff and students are devastated, parents, alumni, entire community are devastated by this. The grief counselors will be there at the school until 5 30 this evening. They will be back on tuesday. There are no classes on monday because of the columbus day holiday. Barbara. All right, richard. Thank you. Two bold Thieves Robbed 10 students at Catholic University campus. Off Taylor Street northeast. The students say one man got a gun. The suspects got away with iphones, backpacks and credit cards. None of the students was hurt. Now to a news 4 iteam special investigation. The fbi is conducting dna testing on an unidentified man that could be William Bradford bishop. We brought this to you live yesterday as john does body was exhumed from a Small Cemetery in alabama. Bradford bishop allegedly murdered his entire family inside the home in 1976. In april the iteam added him to the most wanted list. He man bears a striking resemblance to bishop. No longer giving updates on uva students on hannah graham. They will now give updates once a week until graham is found. No one has seen the teenager in almost a month now. Right now your private information may be in the hands of hackers. Coming up, the local dairy queens part of another data breach. Well keep you updated on the situation on wall street after a crazy week of ups and downs. Right now stock prices mixed. Were actually seeing gains in the dow after yesterdays huge losses. Stay with us. Stay with us. Well be rig in cases of rape and incest, just stay with us. Well be rig like the rightwing republicans in congress. They want to overturn roe v. Wade. So does she. I think roe v. Wade should be overturned. Barbara comstock even voted with rightwing republicans to require women seeking an abortion to undergo transvaginal ultrasounds. Thats all i need to know. Im john foust and i approve this messge. Announcer youre watching news 4 midday. Today a new rule that allows you to use your phone during takeoff and landing is being challenged. A threejudge panel in d. C. Will hear from lawyers from the countrys largest flight attendants union. They say faa changed steps by law. Use of personal devices can distract passengers from Safety Information and those devices can become dangerous projectiles. Another data breach at a popular restaurant. Dairy queen said Payment Systems were infected with backoff malware. Take a look at this map, 395 locations, including five in our area has been infected. Three in Charles County maryland and one location in both Fairfax County and Loudoun County each. Dairy queen says customers names, card numbers and expiration dates may have been compromised. They do not believe Social Security numbers or pin numbers have been stolen. Dairy queen believes the data breach has been contained. You can get details including exact location and date of the breach just head to nbcwashington. Com and search dairy queen. To a developing story in missouri, people arrested in st. Louis over the shooting death of an 18yearold by an off Duty Police Officer earlier this week. This is the second night of unrest in a row. Police say before meyers was shot and killed on wednesday, he fired three shots at the officer. The officer fired back 17 rounds. Investigators are working to determine whether the officers behavior was appropriate. This protest comes two months after police in ferguson, missouri, shot and killed an 18yearold, michael brown. Today a group will kick off a week of resistance demonstrations there. The protest begins with a march to the office of the prosecutor. Thats where the group will demand officer Darren Wilson be charged. There will be a special ceremony tonight followed by candlelight march to the Ferguson Police station. Right now the u. S. Military is on the ground in west africa trying to help stop the spread of ebola. Here in the u. S. A joke about ebola left people trapped on a plane while hazmat inspected. Coming up what a passenger said to set off that scare. Rain moves in as we head into the afternoon hours and continues for saturday morning. Future weather at 7 00 a. M. When does it come to an end on saturday . Were following a number of developments on the ebola this morning. Lawmakers will meet in dallas this afternoon about the disease. A House Committee field hearing will discuss efforts to contain this outbreak. Also right now a team from the university of merrill is leading the testing on an ebola vaccine in the african country of mali. In liberia, six u. S. Planes now in the socalled hot zone to help get marines and supplies to remote areas there. A man could face charges for claiming he had ebola while on a crowded airplane. Check out the flight crewss warning shortly after his comments. I want everybody to sit. I need your attention. Its going to look worse than it is. This was on a us airways plane, Us Airways Flight out of philadelphia headed to dominican republic. The man sneezed and then joked he had ebola. The flight crew took him seriously and called in a hazmat team. Us airways said it followed guidelines for u. S. Disease control and prevention. Hospitals in the region are practicing now their response to a possible case of ebola. Just yesterday a team of doctors, nurses and Emergency Responders held a drill in fairfax. This hospital used undercover patients to test staff reaction. Were told each employee has a job action plan to follow in case of a real ebola situation. U. S. Officials calling on turkey to take more active role in targeting isis. Defense secretary chuck hagel said hed like the u. S. To have access to an air base in turkey. Hell make that request during discussions with turkish officials. Hagel also wants turkey to train and equip moderate syrian forces. Another warning about a possible isis attack in canada. This after chat picked up online and assessed by canadian and u. S. Intelligence. Officials told nbc news so far this is all just talk. There were no specific threats observed and no talk of anyone coming here to the u. S. To carry out an attack. They have been watching videos, listening to ideologues, listening to their peers talk about this, do this. Use one of the weapons you can have at your disposal. Just this week British Police arrested four men believed to be plotting a public attack on a london street. New this morning north Korean Leader kim jongun missed another major event adding to speculation hes losing control of the country. Reuters said if kim is still in control of his country butas been absent from the public eye because he has hurt his leg. At a public event in july kim was walking with a limp. He reportedly hurt his leg while inspecting military exercises. Theres been no mention of kim in north koreas state media since september 3rd. Also new this morning, there are reports north and south korea have traded fire after the north shot up a north korean propaganda balloon. South korean and north korean defectors release balloons carrying antinorth korean leaflets into the north. North korea said it would consider any more releases like this an act of war. This morning president obama is in los angeles after attending a fundraiser at the home of gwyneth paltrow. For more on that joined by carrie, political writer. Good morning. Good morning. The president s Approval Rating at an alltime low. Is he still able to bring in big bucks when he makes visits around the country . He is. Not necessarily around the country but either coast, a lot of events in new york, a lot of events in l. A. He still has a loyal Democratic Base willing to spend money on these things, concerned about the Upcoming Elections and doesnt want to see too much power shifting to republicans. Hes still a formidable fundraiser among that base. Do you think hell hit the campaign trail or leave it to this way of raising money. Hes doing a little on the campaign trail. Its in safe democratic districts hes done some stuff as well as his wife in illinois where hes originally from. Theres a democratic governor there facing reelection. For the most part the democrats who really need the help in tight races are also in states where the president is not popular. Hes more valuable to them as a fundraiser than a campaigner. At that Party Last Night at Gwyneth Paltrows house, she said she was most worried about trying to get equal pay through congress legislation. Why hasnt that happened yet . This is a controversial issue. The president s first bill he signed into law was Lily Ledbetter act, which addresses this issue a little bit. Its something that still very much divides Business Community. Republicans say an equal pay law at the federal level would be harmful to businesses, create too much litigation on the part of employees. With a divided congress its not coming any time soon. Microsoft ceo upset a lot of people, particularly women, when he said women dont need to ask for raises. He went on to say they should trust the system where they work to give them raises when they are appropriate. Whats the reaction again . I think its one of the issues that really divides people on women. Feel like the face problems in the workplace where they are not empowered to look for raises. When they do, they may be discriminated against. This sentiment feeds into that and will fodder for democrats who say there has to be some kind of law that requires this. Otherwise women will be subject to the biasses of their employers. The microsoft ceo has since apologized for the staple. Do you think lawmakers think Business Leaders take the lead in terms of womens raises . I think this, again, is one of these equal pay. This is one of these things, theres a divide as there are on many issues, republicans say this isnt the governments job. The market itself will correct for this and reward women for their pay and democrats who say theres still a lot of systemic problems in the Business Community and they have to do something to address it at the federal level. Well see if something happens before the end of this term. Another couple of months. With the divided congress it will be very tough. Thanks a lot. For more, check out first read on nbcnews. Com. Election day is getting closer. But you might see less of one of these ads in the near future. The National Democratic committee pulled millions of dollars for ads for john foust according to the washington post. Foust is the democratic nominee in virginias tenth district. The Committee Says it plans to use the money to protect seats that are currently held by democrats. You can vote for foust or republican Barbara Comstock next month. In richard, district lines setting off a legal dispute. Republicans tell the post they plan to challenge the new ruling that the Third District has to be redrawn. You can see it stretch from richmond to virginia beach. They say theres too many black voters there and not enough in the district. According to them, that benefits republicans nearby. Round two of playoffs coming up. Coming up a preview of the game and amelia gives us a preview of what our rain chances are at game time. Its a big weekend for foodies on nbc. Joey chestnut, one of the biggest names in competitive eating is going to be part of the taste of d. C. Were going to talk to him about what hes going to be shoving in his mouth this time. First a look at whats hot on nbcwashington. Com. Right now all you orioles fans are getting pumped for the pennant at noon in about 35 minutes, the team is hosting a big rally in baltimore. The os want fan to get excited before they take on the kansas city royals. They play at 8 00. Whoever wins this matchup will go to the world series. Theres a new alarm clock out that will train you not to senator while you sleep. Its called buzz pod. The alarm clock is strapped to your body. You wear it while you sleep. If you turn on your back during the night, it vibrates and makes you turn on your side. Most snoring problems come from difficulty breathing sleeping on your back. Australian engineers came up with this idea. In just a few minutes, a rare sight in the skies over the pentagon. Special planes allowed in the no flight zone. Well show you. Plus history made in West Virginia as states continue to sort out the illegal battle over samesex marriages. Rain, rain, and more rain. Storm team 4 meteorologist amelia segal back with a look at your sevenday forecast. Stay with us, well be right now pumpkin patches across the area are getting ready for weekend crowds. This morning storm team 4 meteorologist amelia segal spent time at this pumpkin maze in chantilly. No rain there but that could change. Amelia joins us now. Must have been a fun place to be early in the morning there. You have no idea. So that farm, and im going to tweet out information about it, its over 1,000 acres. Pretty much everything you can imagine they have for the kids to do. Pumpkins doing well . They are great. Youll find more information as soon as i get done with this weather forecast. It was dry there this morning before everybody will see rain into th

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