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WRC News4 Today August 2, 2014

Morning. Hi, molette. Reporter good morning. Neighbors came o to find this man who was shot here in this parking lot died at the hospital. Behind me you can see the dumpster where the crime scene tape is trashed. If you physical me you can see the sterile bandage kits in the street here. Evidence of the attempts to save that young mans life last night. Lots of Police Activity just after 11 00. Prince georges county police this morning looking for suspects, looking for a motive here. And neighbors that i talked to say they did not hear any arguing, just a flurry of shots. Just heard several pop pop pop. And i was hoping it was fire crackers, but i said, uhoh, it might be shots. And it was, like, way after dark. Reporter now, police have not identified the victim, but neighbors tell me the young man appeared to be in his 20s and they dont believe he lived in this apartment community. No suspect, no motive as i said before. Neighbors tell me they dont believe that there is any gang or drug activity within this apartment complex, but several of them told me that there is some trouble just outside this community along the main road. There are some problems and those may have bled into this Community Last night. We are live in greenbelt this morning. Im molette green, back to you. Thanks. New this morning, a metro train hit and killed a man in northern virginia. This happened around 3 30 this morning. Between the franconiaspring field and van dorn stations. No passengers were on that train. It was empty and we know that service this morning was not impacted because of this. Meanwhile, the name of the victim has not been released. Right now two americans infected with ebola are headed to the United States. Dr. Kent brantly and Nancy Writebol are expected to land hours from now. They were infected with the disease while treating patients in africa. Ebola includes fever, muscle, pain and vomiting. However, the americans will be in a specially isolated unit at Emory University hospital which is in atlanta. Were one of only four institutions in the United States capable of handling patients of this nature. Take a look. This is one of the special rooms brantly and writebol will be in. They will be the first patients ever to be treated for ebola on american soil. You may be wondering with such a dangerous disease, how are the americans getting here . Especially without spreading that virus . Nbcs Stephanie Gosk shows us the plane bringing them over. Reporter the medevac is a tightly controlled process led by the state department and the cdc. Dr. Brantly and writebol will be flown separately on noncommercial planes like this one with multiple layers of protection to contain the virus. The gurney will be in a secured plastic tent, the patient enclosed in another layer of plastic. And anyone in that part of the plane covered head to toe in hazmat suits and gloves. They will land at the air force base not far from emory hospital. The center is close to the hazmat containment unit in nebraska. They are equipped with air filtration units. The patient is contained at all times. Doctors at emory say its enough protection. I will be one of the individuals who will be coming into direct contact with the patients. I have no concerns about either my personal health or the health of the other Health Care Workers who will be working in that unit. Reporter zpodespite assuran, it is triggering anger and fear. One saying its just a bad idea, plain and simple. I dont have a problem longs cdcs involved. I feel theyll take the right precaution. Reporter and it might be the best chance of survival for two aid workers that went to africa and now need help themselves. Nine in ten people who get ebola die from it. Right now the death toll in africa has topped 700 people. Officials are looking for an israeli soldier believed to have been captured by hamas militants. Its believed hamas abducted one of their soldiers ending a ceasefire. Hamas says theyre not aware of any capture. In the past few hours we have seen air strikes in gaza city. Multiple strikes hit a highrise office building. Overnight israel began its air strikes in gaza. Palestinian leaders say at least 35 people di in those strikes. We have a Traffic Alert for you this morning. It is 9 06. If your saturday plans take you through route 1 in hyattsville, youre looking at a massive water main break. Right now the water main is back in service. All the customers have water again. On thursday more than 6 million gallons of water rushed down rhode island avenue and created a massive hole that crews are trying to fill. You may want to drive on kennelworth avenue to avoid that area. Another Traffic Alert to tell you about in the area. Repairing a sinkhole in the Columbia Heights neighborhood. Columbia road between 13th and 14th street will be closed because of these repairs. You may want to avoid the area. Well, a car stuck in flooding with that water rising fast. Take a look at this video. Were going to show you some efforts to save a woman trapped inside that car. Questions of corruption and even fidelity coming out about Bob Mcdonnell. The revealing text messages, photos, and other evidence. Some valuable information up next. How to add onto the savings on School Supplies aside from this taxfree weekend. We are already talking back to school. Today could be a great day to do a little backtoschool shopping. It is virginias taxfree holiday this weekend. And you wont have to pay sales tax on most school and office supplies. This also counts towards clothing. Even winter gear like coats and gloves. To get the discount, each school item cannot be over 20. An article of clothing cant be over 100 bucks. Now, if you are looking for the best deals, the tax holiday is only part of the equation. Kelly grant shares tips to maximize your backtoschool savings. Reporter 16 states will host taxfree holidays to give help on backtoschool items. You think these are huge everything must go sales, but how much are you saving really . Maybe not that much. Keep that in mind as youre filling up your cart. If those School Supplies or sweaters arent already on sale, then youre probably in the back to school rush. All right. That was kelly grant reporting. Now, we picked up a lot of School Supply lists. To see what theyre asking your children to bring on day one. Its not quite the list were used to seeing. Do they even use erasers here . I see one here. But they also require usbs so thumb drives. And tissues. I dont know if they expect the children to cry. I see trapper keepers are not on there. Did i just date myself . I dont see that. You e probably dont know what it is. I can google it. And the lists appear to be longer and more expensive. When you take into account theyre doing the ear buds and usb drives, its going to add up. If you live in maryland, your taxfree weekend starts august 10th. And runs through the 16th. If you didnt catch all of that, we put the details of the taxfree weekend on our website. Our digital team has hooked you up. Head to nbcwashington. Com and search tax free. New video this morning shows what could happen if youre high up on a roller coaster and then something goes really wrong. Were going to show you a few brave souls now living by example. Chance of a shower in the forecast for today. A better chance youre dealing with rain tomorrow. Ill be walking you through your weekend forecast hourbyhour with future weather coming up. Star witness Johnnie Williams will take the stand a third time in the Bob Mcdonnell corruption trial. Williams is testifying under immunity for the prosecution. Julie kerry says he is also facing intense cross examination. Most recently lawyers showed williams and virginias former first Couple Exchange 1200 texts and emails in two years. Bob mcdonnell spoke to reporters as he left the courtroom. Confidence in my legal team has done a great job. We look forward to having the truth continue to come out and prevailing. One of those digital exchanges that came out happened back during the 2011 earthquake. Maureen mcdonnell wrote a note to williams that said, quote, the earth just moved and im not even having sex. End quote. Among all the evidence is a picture of Bob Mcdonnell driving in Williams Ferrari and the ex governor showing off a rolle ex williams gave him. For everything on the trial, get to nbcwashington. Com and search mcdonnell. A court gave simms a oneyear probation. Hes accused of sexting with his girlfriend who is also a minor. Prosecutors wanted to take explicit pictures of the 17yearold and compare them to the ones he sent to his underage girlfriend at the time. They backed off that controversial search warrant. This has been hard the past couple months and hard on me. They asked simms to do 100 hours of community service, stay away from his girlfriend. Simms is expected to be back in court a year from now where the judge could decide to dismiss those felony charges all together. New this morning, take a look at this video showing a dramatic water rescue out in arizona. You can see the rescuers there in the yellow pulling a woman to safety. She drove into the high water last night. You can see part of her car right there under the water submerged. She wasnt hurt. This area apparently is known for flash flooding. Officials say they are called to water rescues in this area quite often. Water troubles in california, students, faculty, and staff at the ucla campus are checking their cars this morning hoping they still work. After this huge water main break drenched them. Flooded parts of camp talked with several drives who didnt know theyd be walking or driving home. Reporter tow trucks on the west side have been quite busy. A steady stream of them dropping off cars trapped in ucla. Are you feeling pretty fortunate . Yeah. My other car got damaged awhile ago. Its good this one, like, survived. Im feeling better than the people who unfortunately may have gotten their cars ruined in the flood. But it was an amazing event to actually witness it. Reporter during the flooding they moved their cars from the bottom of the parking structure to the top. That likely spared the cars from damage. Those at the lower level remain stuck there most of them inoperable. Well have a lot more damaged cars numbering about 400. Theyll all be towed to another location. Reporter there was a bit of suspense. The difference between being told your car is okay and actually seeing it. Im very glad. And im glad that its not really it doesnt look like its hurt. Im glad they said it probably isnt. So thats great. Well, a group of thrill seekers have quite the story to tell this morning after they had to walk down a roller coaster. Yeah. You read that right, you heard him right. Walk down a roller coaster. This happened at six flags in new jersey. Take a look at this video. Few dozen people there marching down the track. This is because the ride broke in midair. The coaster was on its way up to the peak height of 230 feet. A power failure caused this problem. Thankfully nobody was hurt. What they had happen here, park officials actually got up there and escorted them down so they didnt just start doing this on their own. Still, its crazy. Im not going anywhere. Im not walking down there. Im staying in the spinning teacups. Close tore the ground. As youre riding in a roller coaster and its picking you up, you think i hope i never have to walk down those. Being seated is one thing. Big thrill seekers. It stopped right before the peak and it was supposed to drop. So they missed the big rush. They got stuck up there for hours. Moving onto weather, i saw you tweaking the forecast. So improving the forecast for today. Were seeing a little bit more sunshine. Partly to mostly cloudy skies. Ive also lowered your shower chance to a 30 chance. So most of your day will be mainly dry. Were dry through the lunchtime hours. But because of that threat that youre dealing with, a light shower this afternoon or evening. The weather could have a low impact on your day. More clouds around the d. C. Metro area than areas back to the west. So a little bit more sunshine there. Here on storm team 4 radar, its dry right now. Again, its going to be mainly dry until about 1 00, 2 00 p. M. After that well see light showers. No thunderstorms are in the forecast for today. Heres a look at the satellite and radar. You can see we are getting in on sunshine. Thats going to help our temperatures to warm to around 80 degrees. With future weather, notice its keeping us dry at 10 00 a. M. Once we hit 3 00, some light showers are possible. So ive been saying this all morning. Its not a great pool day, but you have other plans outside, the weather should be just fine. Nationals game tonight, there will not be a rain delay even if you see a light shower. Temperatures for the game in the low to mid70s. Heres future weather for tomorrow on your sunday. Mostly cloudy skies tomorrow. And once again some scattered showers and even thunderstorms tomorrow are likely. Mainly during the afternoon hours. We see that trend here on future weather. Is tomorrow going to be a washout . Absolutely not. Theres a better chance you are dealing with a bit of rain tomorrow on your sunday. Better day to get the Grocery Shopping done. 73 degrees is the temperature right now in washington. 78 for our high today. Thats a good 10 degrees below average. Tonight the nationals game taking on the phillies, temperatures starting off in the mid70s. Low 70s by the last out. So if you get chilly, id recommend bringing a light jacket to the game. For tomorrow, a high of 81. Mostly cloudy skies on monday. Notice the humidity a little bit more as well. A high of 87. 90 on tuesday. Mostly sunny skies. Tuesday is the pool day this week or the beach day, for that matter. Chance of storms on wednesday and thursday. Nothing major right now in the forecast with highs in the mid to upper 80s. All right. Thanks, amelia. So you swipe your debit card but dont have the money in your account. This morning a closer look at how much Overdraft Fees can cost you. Plus how some banks are trying to help you out. This one might have you itching a bit. A Popular Airline admitting it has bedbugs. Tradingin or selling your car, truck or suv . Webuyanycar. Com takes the hassle out of selling in just 3 easy steps. One, get your free online valuation. Two, book an appointment. And three, pick up a check at your nearest buying center. Find out how much your car is worth at webuyanycar. Com well, listen up. We have a consumer alert for those of you who own a gm car, truck, or suv. Federal regulators and General Motors say the companys recall site may not list all of the cars that need recall repairs. The national Highway Traffic Safety Administration says gms search system is incorrectly telling some owners that their cars are not involved in recalls if parts for the repairs arent ready. The agency asked gm to fix that problem. They said it should show owners any recalls regardless if the parts are ready or not. So United Airlines dealing with a bedbug problem. Dont worry though. The Little Critters have not been found on the carriers planes. However, bedbugs have turned up at the companys headquarters in chicago. The pests were found at some cubicles on one of the floors. United airlines brought in some exterminators to get rid of the problem. Well, watch your small purchases because they can add up. Thats new advice from the Consumer Financial protection bureau. They say most debit card overdrafts, when you swipe for more money than you have in your account, happen on purchases 24 or less. And youre spending more on the fee than the actual purchase. Make some room. The area youll want to avoid where some 60,000 people are attending a convention today. Plus the return of a popular mobile app. The game you can once again download. Plus why the creator pulled it off the market in the first place. Now to richmond. Im in richmond where fan Appreciation Day has kicked off. Right now the gates are open, but the players arent quite out at fan Appreciation Day at redskins Training Camp. Joule le kerry is there. Youre covering big trials. Then at the ultimate tailgate. It sounds theyve got the band out just for you. Reporter were going to call this the pregame festivities. Because they are underway here. And good news even though its cloudy up there, the rain has held off. You can see that the pand is on the field. The cheerleaders are on the field. They are warming up this crowd. Not all the fans were waiting for this moment. They got started early this morning with a breakfast tailgate. Listen to this. That gentleman and his kids drove in all the way from norfolk today. Hes been at Training Camp all week but they couldnt wait to get here this afternoon. In addition to the band, the cheerleaders, the big moment comes at about 10 30 this morning. Thats when the team takes the field for a twohour practice. All fans will get to hear from head coach jay gruden. We ran into one couple that came down from washington, d. C. They havent been to a fan Appreciation Day since back in the days it was out in ashburn. They came for a getaway weekend and they cant wait. We are washingtonians. Were having a ball. Rg3, baby, all the day. I feel a selfie. Reporter and i think you might be getting a glimpse here at what i was telling you about. One of the youngest redskins fans here on the field. Little spencer. 1monthold. Mom and dad brought her down to get her first taste of all the redskins excitement. You can see tossing some tshirts back there getting everybody fired up. Theres one thing theyre not going to need here today. This is the cooling zone. I dont think we have to worry about anybody getting overheated. Again, everybody excited about whats yet to come today. We will have a full report tonight on news4 at 6 00. Too much fun out there. And that little baby, so precious. Youre never young enough. Sleeping amidst all that noise. Impressive. Thank you

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