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WRC News4 Today At 5 December 8, 2015

Spotsylvania county Sheriffs Office is asking for your help. Katelin akens is missing. Yesterday someone found her luggage in the Drainage Ditch right outside fredericksburg. However, akens family last saw her about 40 miles away at the francona Springfield Metro station. They say she was heading to Reagan National airport to catch a flight. Also in spotsylvania, investigators are now looking for a suspect in a murder. They say that Heather Ciccone was found dead inside of a car on piney branch road. County detectives say she was in the drivers seat and had severe trauma to her upper body. Ciccone was 21 years old. And 5 01, a change in the defense for first officer charged in freddie grays death. Trying to prove that gray was hurt before he arrived. Porters lawyers are shifting the blame to officer Caesar Goodson who faces the most serious charge. Scheduled to go on trial next month. An expert medical witness claims freddie gray likely would have survived if he had immediate medical attention. Donald j. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the United States until our countrys representatives can figure out what the hell is going on. Donald trump claims the ban is needed because a large number of muslims living in the United States hate america and have no respect for human life. Coming up at 5 30, tracie potts will break down the new controversy and how it is dividing some in his own party. We have new information this morning on the San Bernardino shooting. A judge orders the suspects 6monthold daughter to be placed in foster care before being adopted by extended family. Were learning that county employees underwent active shooting training inside the same conference room. Last wednesdays rampage took place. The fbi says the couple was seen at multiple shooting ranges practicing with rifles. One witness said he saw syed farook a couple of days before at a shooting range. Heads of the agency will tell the subcommittee how they plan to protect the United States from aviation related terrorism. Todays hearing comes three months after an inspect general reports cited the agency for several procedural failures. After that hearing, all security screeners and management with the tsa had to be retrained. You may encounter new security checkpoints on metro. Theyre looking for possible explosives, also more than 20 canine teams doing sweeps. Leaders from d. C. And virginia and maryland are working to find ways to improve business. Muriel bowser, Terry Mccauliff and mike miller are hosting the First Capital Regional Business forum. Business owners meet in Fairfax County. They have a chance to bring up development in Job Opportunities. Also talk about challenges that they face. Four d. C. Council members are pushing to stop the exelon, pepco murder. They arg the merger was initially denied and then later approved after mayor bowser renegotiated a deal. The final decision on that merger is expected next year. The redskins, not too happy right about now. And good unbelievable. Really unbelievable. A nail biter, but the cowboys won the game with that field goal with just ten seconds left to go. The teams traded the lead multiple times. In the last couple of minutes, kirk cousins says the season is definitely not over yet. Fourth quarter still out of us, wont be an easy road, but still meaningful games where we play for something and it is all out there in front of us. Certainly is. The redskins, the giants and the eagles are tied. And the cowboys are one game back now. Unbelievable. But we have a bright spot to share with you. A member of our news 4 morning team had a special night. Check it out. Take a look. This is our traffic reporter melissa mollets son, he got to do the coin flip. Thats amazing. Every redskins fans dream. Good to see everybody back, even though we couldnt get them in there. Go brennan. We have breaking news in the Oscar Pistorius case, why he was just granted bail despite his new murder conviction. If you use i66, you probably have thoughts on the plan to add tolls. Where your voice can actually be heard later today. Lets peek at the temperatures. Most of you are going to see temps in the 30s and 40s if youre just walking out to the metro. Chuck is fine tuning your commuter forecast at 5 wove breaking news about an hour ago, a South African judge grand bail to Oscar Pistorius. That is pending sentencing for his murder conviction. The Supreme Court of appeal convicted him of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp of 2013. The conviction overturned a lower courts conviction of lesser crime of manslaughter. Sentencing now set for april. You can weigh in tonight on a plan to add tolls to i66 inside the beltway. That plan would mean tolls for drivers on week days, peak periods and peak directions. Some could pay as much as 300 bucks a month to use the lanes. A Public Meeting at 6 00 tonight at george mason high school. The commonwealth transportation board expected to make a final decision on those tolls. Tolls are one way to get around the traffic, but you also got to deal with the weather. If you plan on driving early this morning, going to be a quick, cold walk to the car. Temperatures back down to the 30s this morning. 36 winchester and lorh and lura. Upper 20s in the panhandle of west virginia. Seasonably colder early this morning. Cold but dry this morning. Temperatures mid30s on the way in to work and school and mid50s on the way home. Plenty of sunshine today, sun goes down before 5 00. Any weather slowdowns, nothing today or tomorrow. Little risk of a sprinkle or drizzle coming in tomorrow night. More about that coming up in ten minutes. For now, it is traffic time. Here is mellissa mollet. First crash of the morning, centerville, left lane and shoulder getting by. You can see here in the camera, that crash activity in the center of the roadway and causing delays back towards route 234. Be careful with that and pay attention. If youre from frederick, all the way down to 270 to the beltway, no problems now. Moving at posted speeds. When you get in your car morning, dont forget, tune into wtop 103. 5 fm for traffic updates on the 8s. Passengers on board a flight from the u. S. To france, theyre being rebooked after their plane had to be diverted. What forced them to make a pit stop in montreal. Dramatic new video coming in from the Pacific Northwest where portland saw record rainfall yesterday. And the threat of flooding isnt over yet. While you were sleeping, students at a local university were sheltering in place. The threat made against Catholic University. This holiday, ford americas bestselling brand is giving you more. The ford holiday sales event. With 0 financing for 60 months on 2015 f150 and focus and 2016 fusion and escape. Plus 1,000 dollars Holiday Bonus cash on 2015 focus and 2016 fusion and escape. Its the best gift ever. Now during the ford holiday sales event get 0 financing for 60 months plus 1,000 dollars Holiday Bonus cash on select vehicles. See your local ford dealer. Were following a developing story, a scary night for students at Catholic University in northeast washington. They were told to stay inside after reports of an armed suspect on campus. Molette green is live on campus where the all clear has been given, but tensions are still high. Good morning, yeah. Campus, this campus is back to normal. After a lockdown that lasted several hours here. D. C. Police and Campus Security gave the all clear. A few hours ago after telling the School Community to shelter in place through social media, posting several tweets about this. There was a concern about a potentialed arm suspect described as someone of middle eastern appearance. Campus police say a custodial worker reported being approached by a possible suspected gunman. Approximately someone between 19 and 20 years of age wearing a black sports coat. D. C. Police came here to search for a possible suspicious package. Two areas had to be evacuated. The explosives unit came in to search through the properties. No explosives found on this campus. I repeat, nothing found on this campus. Some students were studying at the time in the library. And reportedly Police Escorted them back to their residents. The all clear given several hours ago here at the Campus University of america. That is the latest there live from the campus. A muslim cab driver who was berated and attacked by a passenger in alexandria has been given 350,000 in damages. A federal jury found ed dahlburg assaulted salim. He was caught on video saying antimuslim slurs. After the video ended, salim says dahlburg punched him several times and he ed stimes. Passengers waiting to get on a new flight to paris, their flight was diverted after an anonymous threat. This is new video of police on the tarmac up there in montreal. The air France Flight was six hours into its flight from San Francisco when it was diverted there and the airline says it is trying to find out who is behind that threat. It was 5 17. A plan for high speed rail is up for debate tonight. Leaders are having that Public Meeting. They are going to talk about possible new station locations along with track and safety improvements. That meeting is set to start at 5 00 and run to 7 30 at Dorothy Hart Community center. There could be big changes in how the safety of your car is actually measured. Transportation secretary anthony fox and the national Highway Traffic Safety Administration will announce enhancements to its five star safety ratings system. That could include new technology for avoiding crashes like emergency braking and collision warnings. Right now the ratings system is based only on how safe the car is once it is in a crash. In news for your health, Health Experts say if you dont work out in your 20s, it may affect your health latern life. University of michigan researchers say when you hit 30, it is harder to burn fat and build muscle. They studied more than 5 ,000 people in the 20s. And followed them for 25 years. Those who exercised less were more likely to die at a younger age and develop heart disease. 20s, they tend to eat out a lot, cut back, you can afford a gym membership or training or help. Fitness expertes say if you cant afford a gym membership, head to the web for free workout videos. I wish i had time to work out. Thats what it is. Oregon families are packing up their homes to avoid torrential rainfall across the state. Take a look here. Water poured into this home. Several neighborhoods are under an evacuation. Right now rivers continue to overflow from all that rain there. The weather will not let up today. Rainfall will continue throughout the day and into tomorrow. My goodness. What a scene there up in the Pacific Northwest. I know. It is just the opposite right here because were going through this nice dry pattern. It looks like it will last into the weekend. It looks like clouds are breaking up. The Complaint Department is closed. Closed until further notice. If you complain about this kind of weather in december, i would like it a little colder with a chance for snow, but i refuse to complain because im saving money on my heating bill. No fog here at National Harbor in prince georges county. Nice smooth waters of the potomac early this morning. A nice low impact weather day coming your way again today like yesterday. Plenty of sunshine and temperatures running 5 to 8 degrees warmer than average today. Average high now is 49. 60 or better starting thursday and going through the weekend. Saturday and sunday, both now, not only do they look dry, but temperatures way into the 60s in places like richmond or charlottesville in the 70s on sunday. Very little in the way of anything, there is a slight chance of a few sprinkles here Late Wednesday night into thursday morning as that surge of even warmer air comes our way for the weekend. Pockets of fog across Northern Maryland and down to the Shenandoah Valley, zero visibility. There are pockets of fog to be dealt with here this morning. Twill be a mostly sunny day today after a chilly start. Back with temperatures well above average today. 30 in manassas. 42 in falls church. 30 in damascus. Hour by hour, chilly 30s this morning. Little bit of fog around. Sunshine up to near 50 by noon. And mid50s for highs today all across the area. Gorgeous day coming today. Clouds thickening up. A risk of a sprinkle or two tomorrow night into thursday. Saturday, mild and dry. 67 degrees on saturday and sunday. A risk of a few showers in the Shenandoah Valley on your sunday. Complete check of the full sevenday forecast at 5 51. For now, traffic time with can kim mccormick. Problems on eastbound 66. Things have been in the center of the road, but now pushed all the traffic off to the right lane only. This is causing significant delays already this morning. So this is your road of choice. You might want to think about heading out the door now, just so you dont get stuck in too bad of a delay. So southbound, youll find a crash off on left side of the roadway. Not impacting your traffic too badly. Most of the traffic is moving in the northbound direction. You want to watch out for it nevertheless. If you are on 270, things getting a little heavier below i70, making your way to the beltway. Just your standard delay. Were getting reports of a possible crash on southbound baltimore washington parkway around 198. Be careful if youre headed out there. In the newsroom now, we are watching st. Peters square in vatican city. Pope francis celebrated mass to formally open a special new year. He opened the basilicas big bronze holy door and walked through it to symbolically mark his revolution of tenderness. Now, france launched this 12 month jubilee to emphasize what theyre saying is the Catholic Churchs merciful and welcoming side. All of this in contrast to all of the security at mass just a little while ago. Metal detectors, Police Checking bags of tens of thousands of people. Holy years are celebrated every 25 to 50 years. A man who posted a video of a suspected rape on social immediamedia is being questioned by police. Officers couldnt find the victim or a crime scene matching the video posted to the site. Florida a m says Campus Police werent able to confirm it was connected to the university or students. Wanted to make a dpifrniffer. Thats the mentor of noah leotta. Officer john womack says he and his mentes shared a passion for going after drunk drivers. Leotta was serving on the Holiday Alcohol Task force when he was hit by an alleged drunk driver. Montgomery county police say that 47yearold lewis rulisco ran into the officer. His blood test results are still pending. Officer leotta is in the hospital with a traumatic head injury. Officer womack says this didnt have to happen. You dont want it to be any dear could face the Death Penalty if convicted. Carrie stewart was a veteran of the iraq war, died after walking outside of the planned parenthood to get a cell phone call. Police say that the suspect shot him as he ran back inside to warn others. Stewart leaves behind a wife and two children. A School Bus Driver who rolled over the bus she was driving is now facing serious charges today. Accused of driving under the influence of drugs. This accident happened in colorado yesterday afternoon. We know eight students were on this bus when it veered off the road. As a driver tried to get the bus back on the road, it ended up rolling over. Five students were taken to the hospital. We know that two students were seriously hurt. An update to the alarming story out of upstate new york. Rochester police say they charged six people with kidnapping two college students. The students are seniors at the university of rochester. One was shot after they were abducted saturday. Police originally said they had four people in custody. The six they arrested are all between the ages of 19 and 26 years old. 5 26. More controversy on the campaign trail. How both sides of the aisle are responding to Donald Trumps latest comments. Were also staying on top of the radon controversy in Montgomery County, where dozens of schools tested for elevated radon levels. What is expected to happen in the classroom starting today. Take it in. Were taking a live look outside this morning. It is dry out there. But chuck bell says we could see some sprinkles in the near future. The four things you need to know about the forecast. Now at 5 30, trump under fire. Im adam tuss. The controversial comments the president hopeful made about muslims that everyone is talking about this morning. Im angie goff. Gearing up for a different kind of test. Where officials will be testing for radon in the classroom. And we are in for some sunshine today. But sprinkles are also in the forecast. We want to check in with you, chuck, for four things we need to know. Im hearing december is going on vacation. Is that what youre hearing . Okay. I think you hear it right. Temperatures are going to b

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