Transcripts For WRC News4 This Week 20161126

Power and of course the parade held to celebrate our new president. But that process takes a lot of planning. About a year out, when you get about a year out from inauguration, thats when you start to go hot and heavy into the planning. You bring additional Staff Members on. Reporter Major General bradley bebber along with other members of the military inaugural support team, discuss their planning process for the 58th president ial inauguration, something they say has been in the works for five years. Well, on so well have 1500 Service Members lining the route. Weve got our ceremonial units that will march and lead the parade. Reporter while the band and Service Members practice their songs and formation, we got a look at what it takes to get the inaugural horses ready for the big day. These animals have to be be trained very rigorously. They actually are desensitized to crowds. Reporter desensitizing these their trainer ruben foyer showed us part of what they do. Its very unnatural for a hoss horse to accept the sound of something rustling. Reporter he says the sound of bags frighten horses which could calls them to buck and become dangerous. He jumps it at a little bit. Reporter so he uses bags and other tools to show what the horses can expect on january 20th. I dont want him scared of having a flag above his head like this rfrnlt its a long process to get ready for the day the new president will be be or be ready. Megan fitzgerald, news4. Things we never think of. Now to maryland where legislators are considering sweeping changes that could affect how you drive near schools. News4 has learned the state wants to reduce speed limits near every school in mont goomry county. It would drop from 25 miles an hour to just 15 Miles Per Hour. Scott mcfarland has more. Reporter Christina Morris war was on her way to Seneca Valley High School four years and killed. Her mother says she remembers the tragedy as if it were yesterday. I saw my daughter laying there on that hospital bed, and i went over and i kissed her. They told me i wasnt supposed to touch her, but i said this is the last time im going to see my child so im going to kiss her. Reporter the driver was not cited but a review of county records show christina is one of 34 schoolage pedestrians hit by cars near Montgomery County schools just since 2011. Maryland state now considering new rules of the road in a county in which so many huge schools sit along huge busy streets. New legislation said to be debated in annapolis in january would allow Montgomery County officials to reduce the speed limit to 15 Miles Per Hour within one mile of every elementary cool, a mile and a half within each middle school and two miles near each high school. County keown shill member craig rice says the lower speed limits could make walker safer for the to which so many schools sit. It certainly is a challenge for us and its certainly something where we dont want to impede the efficient flow of traffic. Theres got to be a fine balance. Reporter the legislator must approve the limits and the county would have to pay for the new signs but christinas mother is already a sigh porter of the changes. Slow down. Theres no need for everyone to be rushing to get if you think you need to rush, then you might need to leave home a little earlier, you know, to get there on time. News4. Last winter, our area had to dig out from a blizzard that dumped almost 2 feet of snow in the area. Its time to get your car ready to drive in snow again. News4 traffic reporter Melissa Mollet turned to the experts for some answers and they say the time to prepare, right now. Reporter with winter fast approaching, heres what you need to know so you dont become a stranded statistic. The battery is the heart of the car. Once it dies, nothing happens in the car. Checked. Take a look at your coolant levels. Make sure your washer fluid is topped off. Reporter and a good gander at your tires, often the most neglected part of the car. When you have a sudden drop in temperature, you lose pressure in the tire. Reporter underinflated tires can wear quickly and lead to a crash. Holly painter with Firestone Complete Auto Care says its important to know exactly how much air those tires need. You look here, the place card in the door jam a you the actual pressure xh mine is 32 psi. Reporter next up, check your tread. No 2k3wrid means slipping and sliding, the old penny helps. If you can see the head of the penny, you need tires. Reporter rubber belts and hoses dont really like the cold weather either so check those and this is the emergency roadside kit. Everyone should have this in his or her car. Reporter were talking a first aid kit, flashlight, water, snacks, drinks, a battery better, that means no need for another car to help out. Melissa mollet. Well, it is legal in the district, but not every landlord is thrilled with tenants who grow marijuana. Coming upg, well show you a new group connecting growers with a new place to live. A recent d. C. Law made it legal to gro practice still isnt allowed in a lot of apartment buildings but now theres a group helping to group up renters with landlords who allow it. For me, its like meditation. It just put me in a peaceful state of mind. Reporter Jamie Edelman moved all the way from florida to the Nations Capital to join the marijuana movement. I studied horticulture at the growing. Reporter so jamie and a friend who is a realtor started a Facebook Group for friendly housing in d. C. , matching up tenants who want to grow legal amounts of marijuana at home with landlords who dont mind. You know, theyll say, were look forge a place, we want a twobedroom with a basement for growing. Well go into our database and well find somebody that has, you know, the criteria theyre looking for. Reporter d. C. Is a town of and row homes its up to landlords to decide if they want tenants growing on their properties. Ashley stafford just joined 420 friendly housing. Its genius. You cant get mad. You just have to try to do what you can to shutter the stigma. Thats what im trying to do. Reporter jamie says theres a big response to his Facebook Group. Were finding responsible people that want to do things legitimately. News4. So you head out often vacation and your car stays parked in the garage. Coming up, well show you a new program that put your car to work and gets you some cash. Plus, the news4 iteam uncovers a growing fire threat that could be hidden inside the walls of you love allday breakfast. But you dont love that you cant get all your favorites. But now you can get more of what you love. So you can find Something Else to not love. Like hearing the sound of your own voice. softly like hearing the sound of your own voice. Get more choices you love, now with all day breakfast. Would you be willing to let a stranger use your car while youre out of town . Well, thats the idea behind a west Coast Private car sharing busine a here in the Nations Capital. Heres how it works. Reporter click the app. Open up the car you choose. And drive for a few hours a day or a week. But the car in this case a tesla model x parked on a residential street in the district does not belong to a rental company. The private owner rents it out when hes not using it, earning 60 of the rental fee, in this case 31 an hour. Around 5. You look on the app and see all the cars, and you can rent the one thats closest to you or the one that you like. Reporter d. C. Getaround manager jay suber mann yam says most people want to know who pays if the car is damaged. If youre a renter and youre not covered, youll be covered by the get around policy. If youre the owner, your car and the trip is also covered with a full 1 million full collision coverage. Reporter the app shows what cars are available and where. It opens up t black box installed inside the vehicle and provided by getaround. It can be turned off by the car owner. Every renter goes through a driving record check to make sure theres no duis or unsavory driving history. And renters also have to put their credit card information which corroborates with their drivers license and facebook log in. Reporter guess around already has hundreds of cars in the d. C. Area with things like airbnb and uber common place, its probably not surprising seemed open to the idea. I think its a great idea. Im a frequent user of airbnb, why not a car . The folks at get around estimate that 80 of their renters are between the ages of 21 and 35, people who have chosen not to own a car. Jackie bensen, news4. Wow. What type of sighting is on the outside of your house . What kind of insulation do you have between your walls . Fire experts say it could make a fire spreads. Tisha thompson and the news4 iteam show you why a growing number of fire chiefs say theyre tackling a type of fire that spreads so quickly they worry they cant get there until its too late. 911. What is your emergency. Reporter its the fire that changed everything for loudoun countys fire chief. The house next to us is on fire. Reporter a cigarette on the back deck lit a flame that the ten minutes to arrive. Firefighters raced inside. Mayday mayday reporter but within minutes the fire flashed over the entire floor. Trapping them on the second story. All units evacuate the building immediately. You may not be able to get out because the way were seeing materials burn. Reporter chief Keith Broward said four firefighters were badly burned but survived. He worries fire like this are becoming more com a combination of vinyl siding and modernday insulation. We cant get there in time. Reporter chief braugher showed us picture after picture of recent external fires in virginia he says clad in vinyl siding and Energy Efficient insulation. Weve seen them go to flashover, full involvement in as little as ten minutes. Reporter steve kisher conducted a 2year Million Dollar study of the insulation and siding used in modern day construction to see how long it unattended cigarette to turn into a dangerous attic fire. Typically there are not smoke alarms or sprinklers in the attic space so you can have a fire developing overtop of your seal and not realize its there until the ceiling drops down. Reporter kerr bir says brick, stone and stuck codont catch fire. A fire near cedar shingles and cement board called lardy board can reach an attic within about 20 minutes. But his study found a fire next to insulation could reach into the at ick in less than 11 minutes. It starts to melt and move. Exposing the foam behind it. Reporter while the combination of vinyl siding and half inch polly sty roam foam board became a fully engulfed attic fire in their study in just one minute and 51 seconds. Thats less than the amount of time youve been watching this story. Vinyl siding does not contribute to the rapid spread of fires. Reporter the president of the ul Research Project is a flawed study, and at least six trade associations including the National Association of Home Builders have expressed concerns to ul about the methodology, some bad science, some unrealistic conditions that are included in the study. Reporter her group says ul used a type of plywood not commonly used in most Home Construction in unrealistic scenarios such as a grill being pushed directly up against a house. What about this idea, though, that vinyl siding melts . Is that true . It does melt at certain temperatures. Well, it will actually melt and fall away even before it will ignite. Reporter Eps Industry Alliance represents companies producing polysty ream foam board and says, we are aware of very few home fires involving this insulation and when properly installed and used in it tells the iteam the ul report is a selfproclaimed Research Project to help firefighters understand the fire dynamics in these unique scenarios. But would welcome the opportunity to work with ul to identify appropriate test protocols for foam plastics insulation. Ul actually develops many of the safety tests Building Materials must pass before theyre allowed to be home. Kerr bir says they stand by their study, hoping it will help firefighters help new techniques to battle these blaze blazes. What theyre arriving to today is very different from what it was in the past. The vinyl siding industry says less than 4 of fires start outside the home. But fire experts say it is critical that you never put a grill near your home and keep mulch and other Flammable Materials at least a foot and a half away from the side of your house. No matter what type of siding tisha thompson, news four iteam. Well, you can see video of all the tests tisha showed in her story, just go to the nbc washington app and tap on investigations. Call it the school of the future. When we come back, the exciting new building that gives students the ability to learn the way fios is not cable. Were wired differently. That means incredibly fast 150 meg internet for the holidays. So in the 3. 7 seconds it takes gary watson to beat the local sled jump record, fly, gary, fly. His friend can download 13 versions of the perfect song. His sister can live stream it. While his mom downloads how to set a dislocated shoulder. He gets a lot of compliments. He wears his army hat, walks around with his army shirt looking all nice. And then people just say, . Thank you for serving our country . And im like, thats my dad. Male vo no one deserves a warmer welcome home. Thats why were hiring 10,000 members of the military community by the end of 2017. Students can come and go as they please, even if that means staying a of an open Concept School coming to maryland. Kristen wright shows us how Frederick High School plans to turn the tables on education as we know it. Reporter the new Frederick High School in maryland opens in 2017 with new walls, new life, and a new way of doing things. It will be a lot easier on the student athletes, take off some stress. They dont have to be coming home at 10 00 from a game. Program. This school is committed to this new approach to high school for the long haul and so is she. Im at the point in my career, 35 years in, where i would normally be thinking about retiring but im not because this is too energizing to think about stopping. Reporter students at frederick will be the first to try links or linking youth to new experiences. We want to make sure that we can bring personalized learning to a large xprensive high school, that schools wouldnt have to l school to get a personalized experience, that we can deliver that right here in a neighborhood school. Reporter this also means flexible schedules like college, internships for credit, mentors, student teacher advocates and personalized plans for success. Frederick high schools Graduation Rate of 93 is less than the county average. Will this raise the numbers in. Its all open here. You can look down on the courtyard. I think it looks nice. Building. Reporter every year the Frederick County School System will have to give the state information like test scores and date at that and surveys about links to evaluate whether the project is working. Fascinating concept. Thats going to do it for news4 this week. Im chris lawrence. 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