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WRC News4 Midday April 18, 2017

Capitol grounds. We saw another portion of the branch collapse as well. It is still an unstable, unstable tree. The man was pinned under a large portion of the tree for a period of time. He was given cpr. He was unconscious at the time. They got him out from under the tree and transported him to a local hospital. He is said to be in Critical Condition. Here along independence avenue, a large portion is closed to the public. A large contingent of u. S. Capitol police are investigating. There are tourists at the u. S. Capitol but they have to walk around the area. The part of independence is closed from Second Street to first street in southwest. About three or four blocks of independence avenue closed off after a large portion of the tree fell on an adult male. We dont have his identification at this point. We dont know if he was a staffer here or a tourist. It appears he was alone. He is in Critical Condition at a local hospital as the u. S. Capitol Police Continue their investigation. Thats the latest live at the u. S. Capitol. Back to you. Chris, thank you. Switching gears now, time to get a check on our weather. The nicest day of the week so whats changing, sheena . The changes that youll notice is sunshine. 67 degrees in the district. Were seeing plenty of sunshine right now. A fantastic day setting up for the area, light wind out there, too. Mid60s around lunchtime. If youre dining out, today will be the day to do it. Right around happy hour, low 70s. Dinnertime, temperatures in the upper 60s before the sun starts to set. Nice weather today. Tomorrow, though, well see changes. Cloud cover has moved in and it will be back. A closer look at that when we come back. Police are investigating a School Bus Fire around 7 45 this morning in the area of Point Lookout road and fairgrounds road. The Sheriff Office says the bus was taking students to Leonardtown High School when the entire bus began smoking. The driver pulled over and everyone got off and then it caught fire. Luckily, no one was hurt. Well, if your sense of safety was an important topic in Montgomery County today, they e decided to upgrade security at jcc. Reporter melissa, good morning. The unanimous vote happened a few minutes ago. People of Montgomery County. They keep hearing threats after threats at the Jewish Community centers. Police have responded to the sixth bomb threat in four months. They had to spend an extra 40,000 on security. Todays vote should help ease some of that. We spoke to two Council Members who said they voted for the extra funding. Heres what they had to say. All of us are concerned about the safety for all of us and its an opportunity to make certain that everyone is safe. These are prudent expenditures to make sure our Jewish Community and Sikh Community feels safe in Montgomery County. Reporter and now that the money has been approved, it will be given to Jewish Centers in bethesda and rockville. Thats the very latest. Were live in rockville. Meantime, a bill has been approved to require more Healthy Options in countyowned vending machines that limits the amount of sugar, salt and calories available in machines. The changes apply to county buildings, including rec centers and libraries and parks. The army will be back on the scene of the a deadly Helicopter Crash that went down on a golf course in Southern Maryland. T the. Reporter today, Army Investigators will begin their investigation combing through debris and reviewing other factors to determine why the black hawk took off only to crash in Southern Maryland. It was left in pieces monday afternoon. This video from Southern Maryland shows the rubble. This was an hour southeast of the district. It was a training flight. The Army Officials are now saying it was in a group of other helicopters. Witnesses recall that blackhawk flying low before ultimately crashing down to the ground. We saw it dipping very low and my comment made a comment look how low it is and then it was going side ways and then started to go backwards and then it went down. Reporter three members were aboard. One died on the scene and two others taken to a trauma center. One in serious condition, the other in Critical Condition. Their names will be released once their families are notified. Justin finch, news4. Depending on where you live, youve likely seen a fly above because they are part of the crew for the army. Officials say the Army National guards uh60 fleet is the oldest in the army. More than half of them started flying 30 years ago. Its not clear if the aircraft that crashed was one of the older models. Well, as we all know, its tax day. President trump is facing new calls for releasing his tax returns. The white house is citing an ongoing audit to explain why they cant be made public. News4s tracie potts has the latest. Reporter as millions scramble to meet tonights tax deadline, President Trump faces this every other president has shown their tax returns and i think theres something in there that he wants to hide. Reporter and now this. Arkansas republican tom cotton explaining why there unlike his predecessors, wont release his tax returns. Hes still under audit. The president s view on this has been very clear from the campaign and the American People understood it when they elected him in november. Reporter heres candidate trump. As soon as the audit is finished, it will be released. Reporter and then after he won the presidency, this its under audit. Reporter President Trump describes the tens and thousands of protesters as being paid. I dont know whether hes disrespecting all americans. Reporter he urges people to buy american would no indication that it is owned and how much will ever go public. Theres been talk here on capitol hill about subpoenas for the of the investigation but there are democrats who say they wont even talk about tax reform before seeing the president s returns. From washington, im tracie potts, nbc news. Dont forget to get your tax return in. Its tax day. If youre one of the 40 million americans who have not filed that return, were here to help. Here are the four things you need to know. As long as your return is postmarked by april 18th, the irs will consider it on time. Thats good. There are post Office Locations staying open late today. It may be busy, but it will be open. You can find an entire list there online. Make sure you pay for enough postage. Dont guess. Otherwise, your tax returns will get returned. Four things to know this year. New this year, you might get a call. The irs has hired private Debt Collection agencies to send out mailings and call people who owe be careful about sharing your personal information over the phone. The city of hyattsville will become a sanctuary city. Yes, we can the ordinance was passed last night. It prevents Police Officers from providing a persons immigration status to the federal government. They say its a matter of safety that all citizens should be able to trust local Police Officers. No child, especially in elementary school, should have to ponder over whether or not think they are safe in their community. Reporter President Trump has threatened to cut off sanctuary cities. Right now, the search is on for a group of robbery suspects on sunday evening at 5 30. Police are looking for four suspects. Look at your screen. One of them in this situation actually punched the victim. If you recognize any of those suspects, youre asked to call metro train police. At this hour, the manhunt is still on with more and more reports of sightings of the man who posted a video of a murder on facebook. Police had to debunk reports that they saw Steve Stephens but there are concerns in several states. Jacob rascon has the latest on a search for a killer. Reporter investigators are chasing down hundreds of leads. More than 400 have come in from as far away as texas and philadelphia but so far none have proved credible. No confirmed sightings whatsoever since the day of the murder on easter sunday. Steve Robert Godwin on easter at random and then boasted about the murder on facebook. Police say to look for a white ford fusion, or the suspect himself, 61, 240 pounds. If you believe you see him or his vehicle, call 911 immediately or if you have information that could lead police to him or his vehicle, call the fbi tip line, 800callfbi. They are hoping that a 50,000 reward will help motivate anyone who has any information to turn him in. Jacob rascon, nbc news, cleveland. We can only hope they find him soon. That story is so sad. Much more news today ahead. Including the latest of a murder on a Fitness Instructor. Wh fios is not cable. Were wired differently. Maybe thats why weve been ranked highest in Customer Satisfaction by jd power 4 years in a row. And now you can love fios too. Get 150 meg internet, tv and phone. All for 79. 99 per month, for the first year with a twoyear agreement. Its the only internet with equal upload and download speeds. Cable only offers upload speeds that are a fraction of the download speeds. Plus get hbo for a year and free multiroom dvr service for two years. And Verizon Wireless customers can stream tv on the fios mobile app, datafree. Get the best. Go to getfios. Com. Its now been one year since a texas Fitness Instructor and mom of three was killed. Kerry sanders explains why no one has been arrested yet. Reporter this morning, one year after Fitness Instructor missy bevers was found murdered, police are one is under arrest. Security video from the church where missys body was found shows the murderer of what looks like tactical gear. It hides a lot. Are you still perplexed if thats a man or woman in that video . I am. I am. And its frustrating to say that. But even among our investigators, theres a split opinion. Reporter even the fbi, using hightech forensics, not ready to reach a definitive conclusion. Police are not able to say whether the killer was after missy. Some think she was targeted. Some think its random. Reporter and then they focused on brandons husband after missy learned that she was having an affair with another man when she was killed but police have no reason to believe that bevers has anything to do with her death. Missys family is not talking on camera but brandon did talk to us right after the many der. Look at the video. The person has a very distinct walk. That should be very apparent to somebody. Reporter police have gone over the security tape frame by frame again and again. Some even see it in their dreams. Almost as if the video haunts you when you want to know so bad whos in that video. Reporter the day she was murdered, the Fitness Instructor was alearn in the church around 4 00 a. M. Setting up for a workout class. She posted online, if its raining, were still training. Tonights workout is in honor of missy. How about that . Reporter on monday, it was raining again. Her fitness students doing their fitness exercises outside still hoping for that one clue that will allow police to solve this murder mystery. Were family. Missy wasnt a trainer to us. She was family. She was part of everything we did. Zero and liftoff of the atlas. Rocketing towards space, this happened minutes ago. The ship is loaded with thousands of supplies and even includes a way to grow salad in space. It was a perfect day for a launch. Pretty cool. Great day for metro riders. By the end of the year, theres going to be free wifi at 30 more underground stations. Metro says if all goes as planned, nearly every red line station from Union Station to Medical Center will have access to that free wifi. The only exception would be parks. Metro offers free wifi at six underground stations and hopes to activate it by the end of the year. The capitols are down after another game was lost in overtime. The team is looking ahead. Reporter on monday night, another overtime loss putting the caps in a position of trailing in a playoff series. There was a rebound in the Second Period and the caps got a 31 lead but then they went into overtime where the pass was redirected into the back of the net and leading the series 21. Caps frustrated but not panicked. Just forget it and move forward. Obviously were losing the series but its not everything comes easy. Its not coming easy right now but were right there. Three overtime series. Reporter overtime in every game this series. One player telling me he doesnt care if it goes to 15 overtimes. They just want the wins. We hope it doesnt go that long for game four on thursday. Well, well have to see if its another day on the court when the wizards play tomorrow. They are facing the atlanta hawks. John wall was the star of that game. Tomorrows game is at 7 00. All right. Its one of those things that separates cabs from ride sharing services. But something about your next uber ride may have to fios is not cable. Were wired differently. Maybe thats why weve been ranked highest in Customer Satisfaction by jd power 4 years in a row. And now you can love fios too. Get 150 meg internet, tv and phone. All for 79. 99 per month, for the first year with a twoyear agreement. Its the only internet with equal upload and download speeds. Cable only offers upload speeds that are a fraction of the download speeds. Plus get hbo for a year and free multiroom dvr service for two years. And Verizon Wireless customers can stream tv on the fios mobile app, datafree. Get the best. Go to getfios. Com stronger is blasting without risking her bones. Its training her good cells. To fight the bad guys. Stronger is less pain. New hope. More fight. Its doing everything in your power. And everything in ours. Stronger, is changing even faster than they do. Because we dont just want your kids to grow up. Take a look at prince georges county. Were talking about chopper 4 near the inner loop of the beltway. Theres an overturned dumptruck on its side. Theres a threemile again, take a look at that backup were talking about. The inner loop is closed because of that overturned backup caused by the dumptruck. There is no expectation to tip your driver with uber but usa today reports that could soon change in new york city which mean it is could change in other cities, too. If youve used lyft, it already gives you the option there to tip if youd like. On sunday, the easter bunny jimmy fallon had something to say. Im not sure what was going on here but at the Washington Nationals game here, mascot got into a bit of a fight. Take a look. Here come the mascots taking out the president s. The easter bunny takes him out. On the bright side, the bunny just got a job at united airlines. The nats are back in town at the end of the month. I would think that the head is so heavy. Right. Did you see when he fell, he didnt even move. Do we know if hes okay . Hes probably fine. Hes fine and running around outside enjoying the weather. Yes. A Beautiful Day outside. Plenty of sunshine and nice today. 60 an increase in cloud cover in the morning tomorrow and the clouds stay locked in through the day tomorrow. Then we go into thursday, the 80s come back. This is quite a roller coaster ride. We go into the weekend and were watching rain and it looks like both weekend days that we could be seeing rain in the forecast. Currently, plenty of sunshine. 67 degrees. Already light winds. A nice afternoon. Temperatures in the mid60s. 66 in manassas. Look how cute petey is here at the human center. The weather will be perfect to get outside. Low 70s by 7 00 p. M. Nice and dry. The cloud cover has moved to the south. Were sunny throughout the rest of clouds moving in by 9 00 a. M. Scattered showers off to the west. A few isolated showers in the afternoon but otherwise its a cooler day, too. Mid60s tomorrow and then into thursday theres that roller coaster. Were back up around 80 degrees. Rain chance returns as we go into the weekend. A closer look at the forecast coming up. Thank you, sheena. Thank you. Were looking at a real life lesson, teaching kids about the dangers of sexting. Local middle schoolers taken out of the classroom and led into a courtroom and given a lesson on sexting. The goal is to save their reputation and keep them out of jail. David culver has the story from annapolis. Reporter at first glance, it looks as though weve dropped in midtrial to this Prince William county courtroom. They have the prosecutor, the defense and the judge. The defendant, miss wood, is charged with one count of producing pornography. This is a mock trial. I think they really need to understand the dangers of doing so. Here you go, your honor. Reporter this woman runs the program. They prep these eighth graders for their role. These are your props, okay . One thing we tell them, this is real life. This is not a tv show. All rise. Reporter the fake trial focuses on underage teen who sent a nude photo to her boyfriend. He sends it to her buddy. We were just sharing them. I didnt think it was a big deal. Reporter three of the students acting as defense attorneys. Therefore, we will ask that you find miss wood not guilty. Reporter the rest of the class watching from the audience.

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