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WRC News4 Today April 5, 2015

Morning. Thats all right. Sometimes when youre just in the moment out there its such a pretty site that it warms your spirits if nothing else. Outside theres the picture of the rising sun as viewed from our tower here looking to the south and east. Meanwhile in prince georges county, looking north and west, theres the capital wheel. All the ice finally gone off the potomac. Finally spring time is here. 44 at Reagan National airport. 41 in front royal and winchester this morning. Plan on temperatures to be generally in the 30s and 40s for the next little bit. There will be a quick warmup to here 50 by 11 00 a. M. Outside sunshine, highs today near 65 degrees across all the metro area. Thats really nice. No weather concerns for today. Clouds come back tonight and our next rain starts moving in towards tuesday. More about that with the seven day coming up. Just moments ago pope francis delivered his easter message. Here is a look from the vatican city. The pope praying for the middle east Peace Process to be resumed and for the Iran Nuclear Framework to be successful. He called for peace in syria, iraq, libya, yemen ukraine syria and south sudan. He specifically mentioned those who lost their lives in kenya. Today a review will reveal new information about the now discredited Rolling Stone article at university of virginia back in 2012. The article suggested there was a culture of rope at the university. Columbias graduate school of journalism is conducting the review. Students protested following the article. President Theresa Sullivan suspended all social activities at greek organizations. The Rolling Stone later acknowledged and apologized for the discrepancies in the report. A man is in Critical Condition after a Police Involved shooting in anne arundel county. The mans family called for a well check yesterday but he pointed a rifle and an officer shot him once in the chest. Neighbors are left wondering why police shot so quickly. It shocked me that the officer shot so fast and acted so quickly. Police say they have been called to the house in the past related to incidents with this same man. We placed a call this morning to Fairfax Police who tell us the man remains in Critical Condition. This morning were learning why a virginia couple who confessed to locking their children in a cage will serve no jail time. A mother and father from fredricksburg admitted keeping their kids locked up in a cage day and night. The couple have two daughters age 3 and 4 years old. Their son is just 17 months old. The commonwealths attorney recommended leniency. William neely admits conditions were awful but defending his recommendation of a suspended is sentence. You have to show that their intended neglect was to cause harm. Although the children were in nasty, filthy conditions and had skin rashes, they were healthy. All three children have been placed in foster care and the parents have to pay 2500 in a fine and cant have any unsupervised contact. Kenyas president says he will take harsh measures against islamic mill tapt groups as families try to trace relative whose are assumed dead al shabaab has claimed responsibility and say there is will be more attacks. The countrys president says those responsible for killing 148 people will be punished. Five people have been arrested in connection with it. A woman is alive than tox the quick thinking of a d. C. Firefighter. Darcy spencer has more on the Daring Rescue and reunion. Reporter firefighters working to save the life of a disabled woman trapped in a burning home in northeast. She was pretty critical. She had a lot of smoke inhalation. Reporter thats firefighter paramedic zak ariu. She was unable to walk on her own. Firefighter Jarrell Lockett carried her out of the house. She was taken to the hospital in Critical Condition. One week after the call, he visited the young woman in the hospital. Shes doing much better, breathing on her own. Very emotional. She was crying and happy to see me all at the same time. I had to hold everything back not to shed a tear. It was real touching. We was hugging each other. I was so happy she was doing well. Darcy spencer news 4 today. The Major League Baseball allstar game is coming to d. C. In 2018. Several sources confirm that the league will officially award the game to the nationals tomorrow. The team submitted a bid earlier this year to host the game. Go nats. Coming up in the week ahead, tomorrow the nationals play their home opener against the new york mets. Youll have to walk through metal detectors to get inside nats park. First pitch at 4 05 p. M. Live coverage of opening day beginning on news 4 today at 4 26 tomorrow morning. Also tomorrow you can head over to the national zoo for Easter Monday a washington family tradition. This year barriers are up to control crowds and youll have to walk through a bag check to get inside the zoo. The new security measures are in response to past violence to Easter Monday at the zoo. On tuesday you can voice your opinion about metros Budget Proposal. Metro wants to extend parking fee hours by two hours at all locations. The Budget Proposal does not include fare hikes or Significant Service cuts. The information session beginnings at 6 00 p. M. Followed by a public hearing. Molette . Today officials from japan and the u. S. Will come together for the annual japanese stone land dern Lighting Ceremony right in the district. This video shows part of the ceremony from last year. The event commemorates japans gift of Cherry Blossom trees to washington. The lantern stays lit during the national Cherry Blossom festival. It symbolizing the friendship between the u. S. And japan. Thats today between 2 30 and 4 30 pest at the northwest corner. It was the upset the ncaa tournament is known for. The Favorite University of kentucky lost, right, adam . They did. Take a look at how the students reacted to the teams loss in lexington. The wildcats went undefeated all season until last night. It was a very different scene, of course thats wisconsin. It was a very different scene in wisconsin. Madison, wisconsin fans rushed to the streets to celebrate. Tomorrow night the Wisconsin Badgers will take on coach k. And the blue devils from duke for the championship game. Amazing. Heartbreaking for kentucky. Developing right now, new video of a search for bodies in the germanwings plane crash. The new questions being raised after revelations about the copilot. When you think of nike you think of shoes, right molette . I do all the time. Now how the company is getting people in the district to think about commune stay when they make a big announcement this week. This is very cool a new nike factory is opening in northeast d. C. This week. The ivy city store is the First Community store in our area, different than your typical nike factory. Employees will volunteer their time with a number of local sports and youthrelated charities in d. C. It will be in the old hechts warehouse in northeast. You may soon be able to shop at a whole foods near Howard University in the district. The Washington Business Journal reports the Grocery Store will be located at a new Development Near florida and sherman avenues in northwest. No word yet on when construction will start. 7 11 now. Coming up a new effort on local highways to protect construction workers. Why cameras may be recording you when youre rolling by. Your eyes not deceiving you. What a photographer spotted lurking in the florida waters. That music is a big hint. Protesters in indiana are asking for more changes to a religious freedom law. Indiana revised the law this week to prevent businesses from discriminating against gay and lesbian customers. In response the governors of washington state, connecticut and new york all reversed travel bans to the state. Despite the changes, demonstrators say they needs to be laws to protect Workplace Discrimination against gay people. One Indiana Business owner who said she wouldnt cater a gay wedding because of her religious beliefs is getting a lot of support. In just three days a gofundme page raised more than 800,000. Memories pizza in walkerton indiana temporarily closed after people began posting scathing reviews and threatening to burn down the business. A developing story this morning as we ask the question could the copilot accused of crashing a plane into the french alps have been is stopped . However, lufthansa says Andreas Lubitz went to Great Lengths to hide his serious illness. A new video of the on going search and recovery at the crash site. The search continues for more human remains and the planes two black boxes have been recovered. They have tough physical jobs that mean the rest of us can drive around safely and comfortably. Road work is ramping up as the weather gets warmer. Before you head out the door construction workers have a very serious message for you. Reporter ask yourself seriously, have you ever thought about the people who are doing the road work . I mean really thought about them . I have five kids that i have to go home to every day, yes, i do. I have a mom, i have family that loves me. Reporter ronda outlaw is a veteran shes tough, but not tougher than a car traveling fast and carelessly. On a daily basis, what shes seeing texting, reading the newspaper messing with gps talking on the phone. Reporter this is not just a maryland issue but also a concern in d. C. And virginia. Most work zone crashes are rearend collisions make companying people arent paying attention. Were just doing our job just like every job you have to go through. Also in maryland, the state Highway Administration now uses speed cameras to send you a ticket if youre going too fast in a work zone. One camera along the beltway dished out over 72,000 speeding tickets in just about a year and a half. Bottom line, slow down, and this final message from ronda. Thank you. Shes tough. Last year nine people died in work zone related crashes in maryland. Here is a story shared more than a thousand times on our nbc facebook page. Some are calls it sharknado. This is a large school of sharks off floridas east coast. The photographer, he spotted the sharks. No word on what kind of sharks they r. Definitely getting a lot of buzz on social media. Its that time of the year when we talk about sharks. Where is the jaws music. I go to florida sometimes. We need to find out exactly where this is. There it is. Jaws, that movie is the reason i cant swim. Theyre hungry sharks. Theyre always hungry. Sharks dont really want to eat people. They dont mean to bite us. Often a case of mistaken identity. They think youre a sea turtle or something else. All that flapping and splashing. Who knew you were an oceanographer. I know a lot about sharks. Once i had a Close Encounter with a whale, but thats about it. Cool stuff. Ive been close to sharks before, but little baby sharks. They scare the crap out of you. Where theres baby, mamma shark is like where are you, where are you . Just bite him and get back to me. Outside on sunday morning. Good morning. Your Easter Sunday is finally here. A beautiful way to get it started. Weve had colder easters in recent past. 2007 was a cold easter. Sitting in bonus land territory. Clear sky, 44 degrees now downtown at Reagan National airport. Light wind out of the south averaging three miles per hour. Winds will gradually increase late later this afternoon. Southwest winds in that 10 to 15 might be range. Thats not so bad compared to how gusty it was. Peak gust at National Airport was 45 miles per hour. That was repeated in many locations. For today, temperatures 30s and 40s. Cold spots in manassas and fredricksburg culpeper, martinsburg towards gaithersburg. Everyone is in store for a huge warmup. Hourly temperatures, most everyone should be in the 50s by 10 00 a. M. And the 60s by noontime. 65 in town. There will be neighborhoods touching 66, 67 degrees later today. That will be very nice. Nice and sunny with a light breeze today. Not much of an impact for your weather on the day. If youre going out tonight for dinner and a movie perhaps dinnertime, 6 00 7 00, temperatures still in the 60s. A few more clouds after the sun goes down will help prevent the rapid drop in temperatures after sunset. Easy for you to say. Temperatures milder tomorrow ahead of our next rain chance which is starting o to show up across oklahoma and texas. Thats the wave of moisture coming our way. We start picking up the clouds during the day tomorrow. Then we dont have to worry about raindrops until tuesday. Sunshine and 65 today 45 when you start off tomorrow morning and near 70 monday afternoon in manassas but under increasing clouds. Have your storm team 4 weather app ready to go. Free from the google play store. Future weather, nothing to worry about around here today and tomorrow looks good as well. Try today and tomorrow. Baseball weather starts tomorrow. Perfect weather for a nats home opener win. Thats the way we hope it ends up. Chance for a shower maybe a rumble or two on tuesday. Rainiest day of the week wednesday. Hitandmiss showers as mild air moves in next week. At least the friday and saturday temperatures will be back in the 70s, but with rain chances. Well take it. Coming up how a party ended local virginia teens in cuffs. You wont believe what the fashion industry is banning from the runway. The body type france is taking a stand against next. Welcome back at 7 24. Big talk in the breek room this morning. Lawmakers in france taking a stand against ultra skinny models. Wow. The country known for its couture and cat walks have approved a bill that would prevent ultra skinny models from hitting the runway. Nbcs Kelly Cobiella has more on how the new law will be implemented. Reporter from runways to fashion spreads, thin has always been in. In france, the picture of haut couture may be about to change. French lawmakers have approved a measures to make hiring a model deemed under weight a crime. The politician behind it said models are under everincreasing pressure to be thinner. The move is meant to protect women like these models both died and both with severelyunder weight. Victoria quit after her agent told her it was good to be almost anorexic. She says the skinnier you are the more work you get. The french law would require models to prove they have a healthy body mass index to get a job. A 57 model would have to way at least 121 pounds. Anyone who hires anunder weight model could face six months in prison an an 80,000 fine. How can it not be a good thing to make people coming down the runway to look more like people that we can relate to women can relate to especially. Do you think theyre too skinny . Too, too, too skinny. Not realistic at all. If that skinny is the norm, young girls will think they have to be that. Reporter not everyone agrees. In my opinion, says the head of one model agency, theres no problem with the size of model ts, these girls are tall and thin and young. Israel passed a similar law in 2013. Models in spain and italy follow voluntary codes of conduct. The french law would be the toughest yet, even requiring magazines to disclose when a model is made thinner with photo shop. The measure goes to another vote next week and soon the french runway could have a slightly fuller look. Kelly cobiella nbc news, london. Developing this week, we saw a Historic Deal on Irans Nuclear program. What officials warn could undo the deal. A live look over the district where its really chilly on this Easter Sunday morning. Chuck bell is timing out when the warmup will start for your Easter Sunday. A 37yearold tradition carries on on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Ill have details coming up on news 4. Take a look, Easter Sunrise Service under way at the national mall. Its a beautiful day. Quite chilly this morning but important for so many people dedicated to coming out for Sunrise Service which has been a tradition in washington for so many years. Entertainment from michael tate from the news boys. Lots going on this morning. Happy easter everybody. Chuck says its a little bit chilly this morning. In the 40s, chuck . Depends where you live. In the 40s in northwest washington. In the 30s in one or two spots, close to the freezing mark this morning. In town at the National Memorial coming into town, not so bad. Our nextdoor neighbor in northwest, national cathedral, big Services Going on today. That will be 2500, 3,000 people at the mass at national cathedral. There are cold neighborhoods to be found. 36 in culpeper. Outside this morning layer up a little chilly. Temperatures in the mid 40s by mid morning and mid 70s by afternoon. Lit turn into a beautiful Easter Sunday highs today mostly in the 60s. 64 in gaithersburg, 67 in fredricksburg. Todays green, tomorrows green by yellow on wednesday. A developing story this morning, irans foreign minister says if the west withdraws from a nuclear deal the country could resume its nuclear activity. Mohamed zarif says all sanctions must be terminated when it confirms tehran accepted its nuclear commitments.

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