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WRC News4 Today August 17, 2014

Curfew went into effect at midnight. Police fired smoke and tear gas canisters into the crowd. We were monitoring a News Conference that happened overnight and still expecting another one to happen later this morning. Well get to what was said in a moment, but first, we need to get your forecast with storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell. Hey, chuck, good morning. Hello, mowlet and angie. A cloudiy sky awaits everyone this morning. The beautiful skies of yesterday are long gone. Clouds have moved in and a chance for rain drops today as well. Not a washout butll b detailing the shower chances in a second. Most of Northern Maryland in the low to mid 60s. Mid 60s in Northern Virginia, upper 60s are to low 70s in the d. C. Metro to points south and Southern Maryland where there are a couple lonesome rain drops. Southern calvert, across st. Marys county. Steadier showers in central pennsylvania headed for northern and northeastern maryland over the next bit and a few showers in the mountains as well. Hit and miss rain chances out there. Well be dealing with those off and on through much of the day. No need to cancel your plans. Warm and humid, today temperatures mid to upper 80s and an unsettled pattern. Thanks. State of emergency. Back to what missouris governor says is going on in ferguson right now. Heavy rain and state imposed curfews did not do anything to disperse protesters. One person was shot overnight while protesting. That person weve learned is in Critical Condition. State Highway Patrol officers said while they were responding to the shooting scene, protesters refused to leave. Officers began firing tear gas into the crowd and in a press conference this morning, the state Highway Patrol captain justified the use of force. Take a listen. I would say we have a shooting victim thats in Critical Condition that may lose their life. We had a subject standing in the middle of the road with a handgun. We had a police car shot at tonight. Yes, i think that was a proper response tonight, maintain officer safety and public safety. And this is new, the victim was taken to the hospital by other protesters because ambulances couldnt get to the scene. The shooter is still on the run. Meanwhile, seven people were arrested overnight. As you heard the captain there, a police car was shot at, but no officers were hit. At this time we are learning federal investigators did not want to release this. That video of brown allegedly robbing a liquor store before he was killed. According to a Law Enforcement source, they feared at the point that more violence in whats already a volatile situation could erupt. The Justice Department reportedly prevented its release on thursbut the local police insisted and released the video on friday. Sources say federal investigators had a copy of the tape, but had no plans of ever releasing it. On this sunday morning, pastors and preachers from across the country are leaving their congregations and heading to ferguson. Local pastor reverend alvin hairing is among those traveling to missouri. The group is part of a National Campaign of faith leaders who work with communities where violence has occurred. In ferguson, their goal is to use Faithbased Community activism to help start the healing process. You have a community where folks are struggling to have their voice heard, struggling to have access to the tools of power and tools of government and essentially you have a community that has been operated in very much in very real ways like a plantation. Folks are fed up, they are tired. Says his organization will try to address those underlying issues in that community and theyll stay there as long as they are needed. Coming uph morning on meet the press, missouri, state governor jay nixon will answer questions about the state of emergency in ferguson. Baltimores mayor Stephanie Rollings blake will be on the round table and see meet the press at 10 30 right after news 4 today. We are working to get to more questions this morning about how a little girl died in camp springs. She was caught in the middle of this shootout between her father and the police. A violent conclusion to a very violent chase. Take a look at this video. This is the fathers car. You can see right there a few bullet holes right through the drivers door. News 4s Darcy Spencer tells us right now how police are not sure just how the little girl died. Reporter this is the car where a suspect and his 3yearold daughter were shot to death. The question still unanswered, who shot the little girl . We dont know how she was struck by gunfire. We dont know if that was a wound inflicted by her biological father or something that occurred in the two exchanges of gunfire with police. Reporter it started at this home on farmer place. Police say the suspect shot and gravely wounded the little girls grandfather and great grandmother. One is believed to have been shot where you can see these evidence markers outside. The suspect grabbed his daughter then took off in a nissan altima. You just heard one shot . Yes, yes. Yeah. Thats all i heard, one shot. Like a pop. Reporter Police Quickly caught up with the suspect and chased him to branch avenue a couple of miles away. He gets out and exchanges gunfire with police. He gets back in his car, but then loses a wheel. He pulls over a short distance away. Thats when theres another Deadly Exchange of gunfire. Total of Six Police Officers who fired their duty weapons during the course of this ongoing exchange of gunfire. We believe that to be five prince georges officers and one maryland state trooper. Reporter the gunman is dead, his daughter more tally wounded. She died at the hospital. Theyre trying to figure out whose bullet struck the girl and whether the officers who fired knew she was there. Theres a lot of crosscommunication going on there. I cant say they knew or didnt know the girl was inside the car. Reporter Darcy Spencer, news 4 today. Right now, the officers who fired at the car are on administrative leave. News 4 has learned the man who died had a history of problems with the home in camp springs, including an accusation that he once cut the phone lines there. We expect to hear more from Prince Georges County police later today. You may have to rethink Family Vacations to ocean city. Why renting a beach house could soon be out of the question. Plus, just how quickly you could hear a decision. And the return of weather that feels more like august. More humidity means more chances of rain. Chuck is back to tell us what that means for your sevenday forecast. And we are staying on top of developments in ferguson, missouri. A tense night between police and protesters. Keep it here for more on this breaking news situation. It makes me happy to go on the computer. I like feeling smart. Internet essentials from comcast has brought lowcost Internet Access to over one million lowincome people at home. Internet essentials helped me progress in my schoolwork. It helped my grades move higher. Together with Time Warner Cable, we can bring the internet to millions more. It helped me a lot. Comcast and Time Warner Cable. Together is better for more people. Many of you travel to ocean city on your Family Vacation and you may have to change your plans if you decide to rent a house for the week. The Baltimore Sun is reporting ocean city is considering banning housing rentals in certain communities after they got complaints of rowdy parties and crowded streets. The citys planning and Zoning Commission will discuss several options at a hearing later on tuesday. That is going to largely alter a lot of plans. Lot of people not going to be happy about that. All i know is that we used to go there for beach week. Oh, yeah. Back in the day and you would be part of the youre part of the problem. Part of the problem. Its a lot worse im sure these days, right . Right. A good day to head to the beach. I feel like we need to take advantage of this awesome weather weve had, right . You bet. Summer will creep back up on us. For better or worse summer is all but over. Two weeks left in the month of august and it will be labor day weekend. Thats it for summer. Weve gotten away with a summer not filled with 90 degrees days like weve come to expect. Only 17days this summer have been 90 or higher. Compare that to the summer of 2010, we had 67 days over 90 that year. 17 seems like a paltry number. 50 days fewer than the 2010 summer. I appreciate it. Heres a look outside this morning. Theres the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in northeast washington. A bit of a patchy orange in our Early Morning sky, otherwise mostly cloudy out there. No rain really to speak of on the radar just yet, but that may be changing a bit as we go later on today. 73 at national airport, 68 humidity. The humidity is a little higher now than yesterday and thats just going to continue to creep up up up as we go through the rest of the day. 64 now in leesburg and martingsburg, 63 in winchester, 64 front row, get over into the old line state of maryland and from rosariville to brandy wynn upper 60s and upper 60s in our bayside communities annapolis to the islands. Hourly temperatures, low 60s and 70s for now. Well see a quick rise, mid 70s by 9 00 a. M. 80 degrees before noontime and most of the afternoon is going to be plenty warm and humid around here, temperatures mid to upper 80s. So thats going to feel a little bit uncomfortable. Heat index pushing 90 degrees across Northern Virginia. This little area of low pressure and a cold front to our north, thats going to make sure that our skies stay mostly cloudy today. Not much in the way of sunshine. But rain chances, though that looks like its going to be a big chance for rain, its really not. A lot of this is going to try up as it comes down over the masondixon line. Rain chances today will be highest across Northern Maryland and theres still at least a chance of rain here in the metro area. Our rain chances are 30 in the metro, more like the 30 or 40 range across Northern Maryland. The weather impact on your day, fairly low. Hit and miss rain chances. Best timing for the rain about 2 00 and 8 00. Heres our future Weather Forecast. Cloudy skies, mainly dry up through 1 00 this afternoon, but here at 3 00, theres that hit and miss rain shower chance that fades away after about 7 00 or 8 00 this evening. Heres your first check of the sevenday forecast. For better or worse, its going to look a lot rainier than its going to be. Theres a chance for rain today, tomorrow, tuesday, wednesday, thursday and i honestly could have put it on friday and saturday as well. High pressure just down to our south is going to keep the humidity pump going. Rainiest days likely to be tuesday and wednesday. Wow. Summer is still here. Its still here. You can wear shorts in the rain, thats summer. Thank you, chuck. Next up, reporters notebook for you. That is a look at stories affecting our community now. Were going to be back in 15 minutes with more on the mornings top stories. Good morning. Welcome to reporters notebook. Im pat lawson muse. We begin this morning in virginia. Where the prosecution rests. Rising Credit Card Debt loans and phone calls were front and Center Last Week at the trial of former Virginia Governor Bob Mcdonnell and his wife. Prosecutors provided details about the couples finances, their debt and how loans from Jonnie Williams helped reduce that kebts. They provided records suggesting the governor possibly knew about money from williams and the phone calls between the mcdonnells suggest they werent estranged during key periods as the defense has suggested. Joe madison, what are your thoughts about the evidence and testimony presented . I think the jury is going to have a hard time being convinced that they were so estranged they didnt know about each others finances. You would almost have to be separated from your spouse to be if that position. And, you know, this doesnt play well with the governor if he seeks reelection and the reason i bring that up, can you imagine the campaign of his opponent. You dont even know whats going on in your own household with your expenses, let alone trying to run a country or a commonwealth. What are your thoughts about the prosecutions case as we begin to start the defense . I think what the prosecution is trying to show, as you mentioned earlier, this couple did know what was going on, they were still a couple. When the trial began, they came into the court separate, i think they were trying to give the impression that were having problems, you know, mrs. Mcdonnell had a crush on Jonnie Williams and i think what youre seeing here is that it doesnt look like thats the case. If you go from having debt of 91,000 one year and the next year youre down to 31,000 and youre getting loans from Jonnie Williams, i think the prosecution is showing that heres the trail of togetherness for lack of a better word. And i think once the defense sort of takes over, theyre going to have to try to knock down a lot of that evidence thats been put before the jury and the public in many ways. Dave . And theyre going to have to try to knock down the perception that is growing here and the perception from the people that i talked to who watched trials is very bad. Its an unseemly amount of money that the governor and his wife were getting. But the question comes back to, and i raised it last week, where is the pro quo or the quid in the pro quo. Did the money affect the govern governors ability to be a governor and did this lead him to give Jonnie Williams special favors. He did have the party for him. There was stuff put on the program, at the dinner table, but the defense will focus on that and use that as their main kujle against the prosecution. Let the wedding bells ring, samesex couples could begin exchanging vows in virginia. A federal Appeals Court has refused to stay a decision lifting the ban on gay marriage. Earlier this month, the Appeals Court ruled the ban is unconstitutional. Virginias attorney general says licenses could be issued this week. Looks like it could be a really busy week in virginia . Well, it could go to the Supreme Court, but the attorney general really isnt saying well appeal to the Supreme Court. I think what youre seeing here is this sort of is a slow ball thats moving. And i think virginia is probably sort of getting on board and the officials and attorney general is saying, do we want to put our frgs into fighting something energies into fighting something, do we want to waste our time taking this to the Supreme Court when we see 13 other states and the district of columbia, theyre already there. So it may sort of be moving in that direction and i think because the attorney general isnt clearly saying we will appeal this to the Supreme Court, hes really saying something. And not saying anything. What do you think about that . I think virginia or elsewhere as this snowball keeps moving this is heading towards the Supreme Court and we could have a showdown ruling there or we could have a preliminary ruling as before. Bowsers growing war chest. Muriel bowsers fundraising is ahead of that and her economy stigs. She still has more than 1 come to spend between now and november. David catania has 463,000. Carol schwartz reported about 65,000, half is her own money. Adrian seniority raised 5 million in 2010 and lost. How would you compare money in that race to this race . Its different in the sense that venti was sort of running against his the own his own image the image he was projecting out to the community that he was sort of there was distance between him and the community. Bowser has the money, shes defeated the incumbent, so shes really not running against anyone really but herself. I think her aim is sort of ive got the money, we can slow walk this. I know that there will be debates at some point but because she has enough money to sort of outadvertise ka tain ya and Carol Schwartz it makes it a little different that shes already run the primary where ventis situation was a little different because it was animag joe, shes got the money, but shes also got a delap taipidat southeast Washington Building managed by supporters and accusations she stood in the way of how that project has been managed and then shes got the mayor and David Catania calling for hearings when shes rejecting the idea. I think whats going to happen is, when we really get into the heart of the campaign and that will be after september, there will be the debate, all of this is going to come out in the debates and shell be able to defend herself. She may take a couple hits, but let me tell you, money is the mother milk of politics. We know that. And she is way ahead. Plus, shes a strong democrat. And that is going to play also in the district. And dave, Union Leaders endorsed her this week as expected because they tend to be democratic. But the cur

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