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WRC News4 Midday May 11, 2015

Kristen, good morning. Reporter large crowds at the rosalyn station this morning. This is one of the shuttle buses trying to get people where theyre going. Shuttle buses throughout the morning. I talked to a woman here in this line getting on the shuttle bus to foggy bottom who says she has been dealing with this for over two hours. Its been a long morning for everybody here. Major delays this morning. We met a lot of frustrated riders who cant get where theyre going. The orange blue and silver lines are suspended between foggy bottom and Arlington Cemetery and foggy boss tom and clarendon. Metro tells me there was no fire just smoke. Also from metro, no passengers were in darchger near the problem. Huge crowds trying to get on shuttle buses and figure out which ones are going exactly where. Im hearing from people its difficult to get information at times. Adding to the delays today. Blue and silver lines are single tracking between edison road and stadium armory for an unrelated problem. Metro tells us that maintenance crews are working on the situation right now but they can not give us an idea of just how long people are going to be waiting. Barbara, back to you. Breaking news just into the newsroom. A Fatal Police Shooting overnight in Prince Georges County. Were being told a sheriffs deputy was involved in the shooting in the 900 block inally road just down the street from fedex field. More information as we get it. Back to you. Were following a developing story in Montgomery County. Police are trying to solve a mystery behind who killed this couple. It happened at their home on ridge drive. Megan mcgrath spoke with the couples neighbor this is morning and joins us live with how the community is reacting. Megan, good morning. Good morning, barbara. Investigators returned to the house on ridge drive just a little over an hour ago and they are actually still inside. Neighbors say they cant believe it. They say dick and jodi velardo were well known and well liked and some are nervous about the fact that no arrests have been made. Okay we apparently are having problems with that tape, but this began to unfold over the weekend the weekend. When the childrens parents didnt show up as planned and the family members were unable to get ahold of them thats when the concern was raised. Family members came here to the home you see behind me on ridge drive. Thats when they made the grim discovery, dick and jodi were found dead at the home. Were told by police that dick velardo was found slightly backside and that jodi was actually found inside the home. All police are saying is that they were suffering from trauma to the upper body. No information about motive. We dont know if they were targeted or weather that was a random act of violence. No information about suspects. So still active. They are inside continuing to collect physical evidence we are hoping to learn more as the day progresses as you would imagine, people in this neighborhood nervous about what happened. A developing story now to our south. Searchandrescue crews reason looking for people in the city of van, texas, about an hour away in corsicana one person died in severe flooding there. Two other people died when a twister whipped through a Mobile Home Park in arkansas. Millions of people are still at some risk for Severe Weather today. We could see a few showers in our area as well. Chuck, good morning. Good morning, aaron. A cloudy and warm and humid day across our area here for the middle parts of may. Your weather headlines for today, clouds for sure humidity season has clearly begun. Well be near 90 degrees tomorrow. Question is will we get cooler . Temperatures are close to 08 in the metro, 78 downtown, 79 in winchester. Cooler in st. Marys county where rain drops are falling. So your afternoon planner, warm humid, shower and thundershower chances. Not looking for anything in the way of Severe Weather around here. This show you storm team 4 radar and give you an idea of futurecast when the rain moves in and out of your neighborhood. Thank you, chuck. Several charities will benefit from princes big rally for peace concert in baltimore. Prince played the Royal Farms Arena in baltimore. The concert drew thousands of people. Many attendees wore gray to honor freddie gray who died in Police Custody last month. And grays death sparked protests in baltimore youll remember now. Six Police Officers are facing charges because of his death. According to prosecutors, the officers didnt buckle gray into a police van which led to the spinal injury that killed him. The Baltimore Sun says an investigation revealed several nearby Police Departments use vans without any seat belts. The sun says howard and Anne Arundel County police are on that list. Both departments told the paper suspects have strapped in the vans they are strapped. Howard police said its considering adding belts or padded safety bars to its vans. Dont be surprise if the phrase reopening day is trending on twitter later today. Orioles fans are using it to rally the city ahead of the orioles game. The orioles will play at camden yards for the First Time Since the violent protests in baltimore ended. The last time the orioles played, the team beat the white sox without any fans in the stand. That was back on april 29. The orioles take on the Toronto Blue Jays tonight. At the live desk, i want to show you a problem on the inner loop of the beltway. Right now we have a dump truck that has overturned. We have the three right lanes blocked. Looks like one may have just reopened in the last second here. Two left lanes getting by. No doubt, this is going to take time to clean up again. Aaron. Tonight the wizards are playing in a game that could put them aahead in their playoff series. The team playing the Atlanta Hawks as the verizon center. The wiz could give themselves a 31 series lead with a win. If they lose its tied up at that point. The caps fell into a tie in their playoff series too, now theyre headed to a crucial game seven in new york. Theyre playing the rangers this wednesday. Captain Alex Ovechkin already predicting the caps will win that game. If they do it will be their first visit to the playoffs third round in 17 years. As they say, go caps. Unexpected and terrifying. Singers tumble to the ground as a stage collapses under them and its all caught on camera. Plus it was once the king of all reality shows. The final season of the popular it looks like American Idol is coming to an end. Fox confirmed its cancelling the show at 15 years on the air. Idol launched the careers of Kelly Clarkson Carrie Underwood and, of course Ryan Seacrest too. Now, this is just one ax in whats known as up front week networks announcing whether theyre keeping or cancelling different Washington Post put up the list of everything coming back or going away. You can see some of the nbc shows here for example. We learned the blacklist and the voice as well as law and order svu are coming back next year. Law and order 16 seasons well be seeing there. Wow, no wonder she wanted to lead. Thats pretty good. You may want to check out this video on youtube to hear all of owen wilsons wows. Turns out hes said wow a lot in his nearly 20 years in the business as they say. In the mashup he says it more than 50 times. You can count for in less than an hour, a community in mississippi will gather to honor two Police Officers killed in the line of duty. Last night, a group of First Responders held a candlelight vigil in hattiesburg. They offered prayers and support for the officers families. Also today, four people charged in connection with the deaths of the officers will make their first appearance in court. The towns mayor says the officers were shot and killed during a traffic stop on saturday night. The officers pulled over a car for speeding. Called for backup. As he called for backup the assailant actually entered the car and started shooting. A man and woman face charges of two counts of capital murder. Two other suspects face lesser charges. Starting today, if you take the fredericksburg line on vre, youll wait longer for your train. Youll see delays between 30 and 45 minutes in each direction through may 21. After the 21st delays will be 10 to 20 minutes. Vre is building a third track between db. C. And richmond. Csx will do upgrades throughout the month. We have a mostly cloudy skies overhead and whats left of Tropical Storm ana now down across parts of southeastern virginia northeastern parts of North Carolina and the clouds that you see outside here in the moat roe metro, those are the outer edge clouds related to that storm. No rain in the metro area just yet. You can see clouds are moving from east to northwest, an Unusual Movement of clouds. As far as rain chances, there are a few showers already. These showers are coming northbound up the bay so theyll reach up towards edgewater and annapolis here over the next little while. Eventually our rain chances in the metro will go up as well. Theres the front to our west so even neighborhoods to the west have a chance for a few showers as well. Future cast and the weekend coming up. Look at that you can hear people screaming when a stage collapsed in southwest china. Take a look. You can see about 80 singers go straight down. With two suffered serious injuries. Six others were also hurt. Its National Police week. After the break, whats being done to honor those who have died in the line of duty. Stay with us. Well be right back. Im Melissa Mollet at the live desk. Breaking news we want to update you on this deputyinvolved shooting in landover from last night. This was at 10 00 last night. Apparently prince georges deputies got a call for a Domestic Violence incident. They found the suspect related to this incident in the 900 block inaof naally road. Two deputies killed the suspect after he fierped at their car. One deputy we understand has been on the job for five years, the other for six years, both of them on administrative leave pending this investigation, that area right near fedex field. Prosecutors in boston in the marathon bombing trial rl calling rebuttal witnesses. The defense rested its case less than an hour ago. Lawyers for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev called more than 40 witnesses during this penalty phase of the trial. After closing arguments jurors will decide whether tsarnaev should spend the rest of his life in prison or be executed for those attacks that happened in 2013. Three people died more than 260 were hurt. Right now, the 36th annual washingtonarea Law Enforcement Memorial Service is going on here in the district. This is part of National Police week. Officials are honoring two Law Enforcement officers from our area who died on duty. Now, because of this service, d street and indiana from 3rd to 6th streets northwest are closed until 2 00 this afternoon. Police week started with a motorcycle ride. You can see here dozens of officers and supporters participated in the 20th annual law ride yesterday. They road from rfk stadium to the national Law Enforcement officers memorial and a lot of them told us theyre remembering their own colleagues who died. We get an opportunity for the family the Law Enforcement family, to come together again, we see a lot of old friends and meet new friends. This week there will also be a bike ride, a wreath laying and a candlelight vigil to honor fallen officers. We now know when a d. C. Firefighter who died on duty will be laid to rest. Lieutenant kevin mcraes funeral is on friday. He collapsed during a call to 7th street northwest last week. Several d. C. Leaders and firefighters will join mcraes friends and family at the d. C. Armory friday morning. Anyone can attend his viewing at 9 00 there before the Funeral Service which begins at 11 00 a. M. Good morning once again, everybody. Heres the way future weather is breaking down our rain chances as we go forward through the afternoon and into this evening. Rain creeping its way up across parts of Southern Maryland and im not 100 convinced futurecast has a good handle on what will be going on here. I think those showers are going to make their way into annapolis and the inner harbor of baltimore and may creep on to the eastern sides of the beltway. So those areas of green are where it will be raining but i think those rain chances may extend farther than that. By 8 00 9 00, that cold front coming in from the west may wring out a few late evening showers or a rumble of two or thunder out west of town but on the whole rain chances are not a guarantee for everybody but they are a bit of a likelihood. On the hole well call it 40 chance for rain today, highs low to mid80s. Near 90 tomorrow. Cooler before the weekend gets here more about that coming up. Chuck, thank you. New today, d. C. Has some of the nations highest prek enrollment levels in the country. More than 75 of fouryearolds in d. C. Have access according to the National Institute for Early Education research. The group crunched the numbers for every state and found big disparities in enrollment and quality. They say Family Income levels and state funding are both big factors. Nationwide 29 of all fourth graders are enrolled in a statefunded prek program. Thats more than a million kids. Hitting home runs may not be Bryce Harpers only monacos royal twins were baptized yesterday. Princess gabriellea and prince jacques wore matching dior undergo. Their mom is a former olympic win isser who married Prince Albert of monaco grace kellys son. She reportedly chose the materials for the gowns for her babies with their extraordinary embroidery designs. She also wore dior for the special occasion. Her fitted skirt and jacket combination was accessorized with a hat and knitted gloves. Youll have to stay up late if you want to watch the nationals game tonight. Theyre on the west coast to face the arizona diamondbacks. The game begins at 9 40 p. M. To get things started in style, nationals outfielder bryce harper posted this on instagram. Check him out. You see him there playing the guitar with showhair. Bryce is coming off of a week where he hit six home runs in three games. The first time anybodys done that in a decade. Well see if he can keep it up in the week ahead. He kind of looks like chris isaak . You remember him . From the top of his head . Well, the poofy hair and the guitar. Were you aware he played the guitar . I didnt know it. I didnt know that either after the break, why a family with an Hillary Clinton is calling for guaranteed leave in a new mothers day video. The clip has been viewed more than 26,000 times. Clinton tied the family leave to middleclass struggles. At a time that s exciting and joyful i see so many women who are just distraught. They have to immediately go back to work. They dont know how theyre going to manage. Clinton says theres more the country can do to make life easier on families. Its a message Clintons Campaign likely wants women voters to hear. Their support is seen as critical in the 2016 election. Aaron . Right now, the application period is open to add new sports for the 2020 summer olympics. Those games are being held in tokyo, japan. Baseball and softball are considered favorites to be brought back to the games. Both sports, of course are big in japan. Other possibilities . Squash karate cricket as well. Well find out which sports made the short list coming up in june. Can chuck . Im pulling for karate myself mostly. Outside we have plenty of clouds out there but they have not really inhibit it had warmup much. Temperatures are close to 08 in and around town and there are breaks of sunlight getting through a mostly cloudy skies. 81 at national airport, 79 in leesburg and winchester. 77 in fredericksburg. In maryland rain drops have been falling across st. Marys. There it is on team team radar. Below huntingtown towards leonardtown and california maryland, down towards the Pawtuxet River naval air station, the rain is already falling. We may have slow downs on the roads because of rain showers and a Late Afternoon thunderstorm chance but tomorrow and wednesday back to green lights and thats all good news. Back to you. Change chuck. An oregon mother says she and her family were kicked off a flight because of her autistic daughter. This is video of the incident. Dr. Donna beagle says her 15yearold daughter with autism became agitated during the flight because she was hungry. Flight attendants gave the teen some food and she calmed down. A short while later the pilot announced an energy landing. Officers escorted the beagle family off the plane. In a statement, United Airlines said the crew made the best decision for the safety and comfort of its customers. Dr. Beagle has filed a lawsuit against United Airlines. We have breaking news we have been following all morning. The chaos on metro after Train Service is suspended between foggy bottom and Arlington Cemetery and between

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