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WRC News4 Today At 5 February 29, 2016

That was the essence of ashley and who she was. And service was in her very being. Weve lost somebody and im sad and im mad. Just know that we all miss you. But we will revisit where this accident took place. Two communities in mourning today after five violent deaths over the weekend. We begin with the shooting of a Prince William county Police Officer. 28yearold Ashley Guindon made the ultimate sacrifice on her fist day on the job. Officer guindon was shot and killed responding to a domestic disturbance call in woodbridge. Two other officers were also shot and wounded. At a vigil last police chief remembered how much guindon wanted to be a Police Officer. It was in her blood. She felt a passion for doing it. And she felt like she hasnt give it a fair shot. Those were her words to me the day we rehired her. Officer guindon was sworn in on friday. She served in the Marine Corps Reserve for six years and interned in 2011 with the police department. And in just a few hour, the suspect will make his First Court Appearance. Ronald hamilton is charged with killing officer guindon and his wife crystal. With more on the charges achd hamiltons military background, we have derrick ward live in woodbridge this morning. Reporter yeah, we are just a few hours away from his initial appearance in the courthouse here in manassas. As you said, hes facing some pretty serious charges. Among those charges there is a capital murder charge in connection with the it is unclear whether there will be military charges or any kind of procedure there. And where they will fit into the whole scenario with the charges that will be brought here today. Well have that hearing for you later when it happens. Were live in manassas, derrick ward, news 4. And the two other officers that were shot are in the hospital. The chief says that they have a long road to recovery ahead of them. They are currently being treated at Inova Fairfax hospital. And we will be at the suspects First Court Appearance today. Watch news 4 and our app for any breaking information. A Community Gathers to remember the family including a teenager killed in a horrific crash this weekend as his sister continues to fight for her life. Today will be a students and staff at Walt Whitman High School. Last night there was a gathering to honor the family. Megan fitzgerald live with how the school will deal with the tragedy. Reporter yeah, you can bet it will be an emotional day today and in the next several days ahead for many of the students here at Walt Whitman High School. Theyre having to cope with the fact that they lost one of hair fell their fellow classmates and what will happen with his sister is still uncertain. But grief counselors will be on hand today as students return back to school. And we want to show you this is where it all happened. It was saturday evening at around 7 00 on river road. Montgomery county police say 17yearold tommy bark dehas dough, his sister and parents were in a car heading to a school play when they were struck near pyle road in bethesda. Investigators say tommy and his parents didnt make it. Last night a vigil was held for a kind guy with a bright future. I know youre watching from somewhere, and just know that we all miss you. Reporter now, we understand that there will be grief counselors as we said today to help students cope with this. We also understand that tommys sister who is a sophomore at Walt Whitman High School is in critical condition, but her uncle is telling us that they are cautiously optimistic that she will survive and make a recovery. Now, coming up this morning at 6 5, well have an opportunity to speak with the School Principal on how the school will move forward in these tragic days ahead. Back to you. Megan fitzgerald live for us. Thank you. The two leading president ial candidates have set their sights on voters in our battleground state of virginia. Hillary clinton will hold rallies in fairfax this afternoon and then norfolk later tonight. E saturday. Republican frontrunner donald trump is in the southwestern part of the state today. He will speak with students at Radford University around 10 00 this morning. Senator marco rubio battling for virginia votes, as well. He crisscrossed the state on sunday losing his or course after three sold out rallies including this one in loudoun county. The florida senator is sticking to his all out assault on donald trump. From roanoke to northern virginia, he vowed to never let the Republican Party be taken over by a, quote, con artist. Hundreds of delegates are at stake in tomorrows republican elections. Winning virginia is especially important because voters control a big chunk of those delegates. All nine of the States Holding primaries tomorrow distribute delegates differently. In virginia, they are distributed proportionately. There is no threshold a candidate has to meet to earn a delegate. Angie goff is live at a polling place in fairfax this morning getting you ready for tomorrow. Her live report in about 10 to the minute with our nbc washington app. Just search candidate tracker. There are some hit and miss showers moving across our area. Chuck bell tracking how much an impact they will have on the commute and when we can expect some heavy hours in the next few days. And after years of delays, its the first week day commute with the new street cars. Where you can catch a ride and how much it will cost you. The bigger the burrito, the bigger the fun. Dunkins new grandde burrito a breakfast burrito packed with big southwest flavor. Go grande with veggie or sausage today. America runs on dunkin. 5 11. Today jurors could get the case of a daycare worker accused of abusing nearly 20 toddlers in Prince William county. Kierra spriggs faces 57 charges, 19 are felonies. Both sprigs and sarah jordan were arrested in 2013 after complaints from parents at minnieland academy. Earlier this year jordan was convicted of all charges depends her. Against her. The are hitting the street again today. Crowd give them good review and people get another chance to ride them starting at 6 00 a. M. Rides are free for all passengers. Lets turn right to your forecast right now. Chuck bell helping you get out the door. Thats right, commuter forecast time. Commuters need to know you will need both the umbrellas and the sunglasses today. Rain chances are inbound and will be breaking up as they come east of the hadnt willmountain cant give you the all clear just yet. You will need umbrella this morning, but a tshirt later today. Temperatures theyre 50 this morning, so hardly cold at all. Up into the low 60s depend today. So it will be a fantastic finish to an otherwise cloudy start to your monday. Another check of the weekend forecast and a chance for snow later on. Thats coming up in ten minutes. It is traffic time. Good morning. There at Prince William drive, westbound lanes are blocked. Eastbound lanes are open. This is because of a crash investigation there. Outer loop local lanes after route 1, alexandria left side still blocked there because of that crash and you can see perhaps a little bit of the slowdown here kind of coming there on the Woodrow Wilson bridge. 66 as wap he wiles mill road, n problems. 70 down to the spur going to take you 27 minutes. You are on time. Going to take a look at bw parkway coming up in a couple minutes. It is one of the biggest deciders in decision 2016. How president ial candidates are rushing to get ahead in virginia with super tuesday only a day away. And oscar goes to the biggest night of hollywood, the upset surprises and winners who took home gold. Ill see you at home. The egg mcmuffin. Made with a fresh cracked egg and real butter. Only at mcdonalds. Im lovin it. Friends do not let friends vote to con artists. The last thing i am is a con man. The only candidate in a position to beat trump on super tuesday is us so lets stand together. We are going to compete for every vote in every state. Were not taking anything and were not taking anyone for granted. Over 800 delegates are at stake and we intend to win many, many of them. Virginia carries a lot of weight. Angie goff is in fairfax this morning. Virginia is a battleground state. Angie, good it is. Especially t minus one day. A lot of attention here in virginia. Take a look at this map. We had candidates from both sides hitting the trail hard trying it to lock it in the undecided voters. Hillary clinton will rally here in fairfax this afternoon were here at the fairfax elections office. Then she will head to norfolk later. Recent poll numbers out showing that both front of runners are expected to win here, but we know that marco rubio spent a lot of time here over the weekend making four stops. Hes been working the state pretty hard. And bust, virginia will prove to be a real big test for him after the huge loss to Hillary Clinton in the South Carolina primary. Just a reminder to break it down for you, 49 republican delegates at stake here, 95 on the democratic side. And 15 superdelegates, as well. A key battleground state indeed. And Election Officials here expecting turnout tomorrow when the polls open up at 6 00 a. M. Across the state of virginia to be big. Reporting live here at the Fairfax County government center, back to you. Angie, thank you. Developing this morning, a strange turn of events in Charles County where Maryland State Police say a motorcycle crash may actually be a homicide. The crash happened sunday afternoon on route 5 near old leonard town road in hughesville, maryland. Investigators say the victim died after being thrown from a motorcycle that went off the road. But after a forensic exam thai n examination, police say the man may have been shot. Police in Prince Georges County are investigating a shooting in upper marlboro. The victims were taken to the hospital. The bullets apparently hit two houses on that street, as well. No one e it is 5 20 now. Some maryland lawmakers want to set up a state run Insurance Program to help workers who need unpaid leave. The insurance would be for employees who take off for family or medical reasons. Tom hucker positions this is a great idea and has invited the legislation sponsors to explain their proposal. It will happen at the Silver Springs civic center this morning at 10 00. Coming up on 5 21 right now. Weather and traffic on the 1s. A warm 54 degrees outside our studios. I like that. Storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell here now with your forecast. Good morning, everybody. Yeah, yesterday turned out to be a winner. Today will be a nice day as well later, but we have clouds running if here this morning with at least a chance for some showers between now and about 9 00, 10 00 this morning. Nothing major. But there are at least chances for rain today. May want to have the pocket umbrella ready to go. Rain chances are higher the tart north and west you live or travel from the d. C. Metro a. Lower down to the south. Probably not much of a rain chance at all today. Fredericksburg and southern maryland. But a little better chance out toward winchester and hagerstown and frederick. Rain chances this week, take its between 30 and maybe 40 . Again, higher rain chances the closer you get to the pennsylvania border. Dry day for most tomorrow. Rain chances come in after dark tomorrow. Rainiest day of the week this week likely to be wednesday. Cooler but dry on thursday and then on friday, a chance for what could be a little combination of rain or snow. Well keep a close eye on that. For this morning, here is the reason you have the rain chance for the front half the day today. A cool front zipping our way. Cool instead of cold because even top behind the front well be back up into the 60s once again. So timing out the rain showers as they come into the area between about now and 7 00 along i81, frederick, maryland. And 8 00 and 9 00 inside the metro area. So you may need the umbrella quickly for thorn. Not a big threat. Rainfall amounts will be out the door weather this morning, temperatures are in the 50s already. These temperatures now are 20 to 30 degrees warmer than yesterday morning. Manassas is 27 degrees warmer thousand than the same time yesterday. So much milder start will allow for a delightfully mild finish. Highs take up in the low to mid60s, but it will be blustery at times. Could have winds gusting to over 40 Miles Per Hour at the high spots. And then again a chance for rain on wednesday. All rain wednesday. There is the chance for rain snow combination coming up on friday. All eyes on the weekend on a monday, both days look dry. Crash update now. Brand new crash in derwood. No word on how bad it is, but muncaster road at least a couple lanes blocked. 66 east before the beltway, the right side blocked because of a the beltway here this morning. Little river turnpike there at Prince William drive, again all westbound lanes blocked because that crash. Eastbound lanes are open. Doesnt look like any eastbound lanes should be shutting down because of that problem. 95 north bound going about 60 miles about per hour after woodbridge. Bound going about 60 miles about per hour after woodbridge. Brch bw parkway rolling along just fine. Well, im here at the academy awards. Otherwise known as the white peoples choice awards. You knew he had to do it. From the very first moments of the show, Diversity Took Center Stage at the academy awards. There a lot to talk about and not just chris rock. Lady gaga. Vice president joe biden. Of course the winners, too. Jennifer bjorklund is in hollywood with some of the big stories from the big night. Good morning, jennifer. Reporter good mng they are wrapping things up here. The hard hats are out, the high heels have gone home. And it was a really, really interesting night. If you think about some of the surprises, one of the biggest ones was best picture. Everybody was expecting one thing and they got another. Spotlight was a film about boston globes investigative reporting on sex abuse by Roman Catholic priests. Spotlight won for best picture this was a surprise. A lot of people thought it would go for. Referee of revenant. And mad max won six technical awards. And director a second year in a row. He won last year for bird man. So he got two in a row, which is a very rare thing to do. Best actor went to dicaprio, finally. It was his sixth nomination. Best actress went to brie larson for the movie room. Both of those very much expected. Revenant winning in big categories, but not best picture. All right. Thanks, jennifer. And also featured in the annual Golden Raspberry Awards for the worst films of the year, best actor nominee Eddie Redmayne was given the worst supporting actor for his performance in jupiter ascending. He was nominated for best actor for his work in the danish girl. And then Sylvester Stallone also the razzie redeemer. And he was a favorite to win the best assuming actor for his work in creed. He did noet i saw 50 shade of grey. Why would you do that . I had to go. You had to go . Dragged. A birthday, but it wasnt that good. Developing this morning, more violence in syria. Even with the cease fire now in effect, take a look, you can see smoke here and the destruction from sfrooiks reported there this weekend. The cease fire took picture saturday long after fwoesh ya negotiations. Right now its not clear who was behind the latest attack. A Prince Georges County Police Officer finds himself on the wrong side of the law. Officer olaseha was suspended after being arrested for a domestic disturbance. The three year veteran was off duty at the time. The victim was taken to the hospital mm. A gorgeous weekend, but how long can we expect the temperatures to stick around . Chuck is updating the four things you need to know about the forecast. And were staying on top of two major developing stories. Tragedy for the Prince William county police department. What were finding out about the man accused of killing an officer and his wife and in Montgomery County, a high school deals with the loss of a student. Kathleen matthews imagine paying 20 more for a cup of coffee just because youre a woman. So why does congress think its ok that women get paid 20 less than a man for doing the same job . Ill fight for pay equity, to protect planned parenthood, choice for women, and expand paid and family leave. Now some politicians will belittle this as a womens agenda. More proof that we just need more women in congress. Im Kathleen Mathews and i approve this message. Services recently asked patients to rate the quality of over 3. 500 hospitals. Fewer than 6 received 5 stars. Among them was Cancer Treatment centers of america in philadelphia. Cancercenter. Com slash eastern. At 5 30, two communities, two tragedies. Prince William County officer killed on her first day on t today. And a difficult day as a Montgomery County high school deals with the death of a student. Good morning to you. Im eun yang. And im aaron gilchrist. It is 5 30. Well start with four things to know about the draforecast and chuck bell. Good morning, everybody. Hope you enjoyed your weekend. Yesterday sure did turn out to be a beauty of a day. A lot of folks running around yesterday as i was out knuckleh. Best rain chances inside the beltway between about 8 00 and 10 00 this morning. Breezy and mild this afternoon. Another chance for mid week raindrops and a chance for lat

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