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WRC News4 Today At 5 May 12, 2016

Buddy. Its not raining now, although as you can see, relatively thick fog across the area early this morning. Visibilities down to only a quarter of a mile now in winchester, three miles in manassas and three miles in washington. So that is the main issue here early this morning. The overall weather impact on your day will be fairly low. Fog and maybe patchy mist or drizzle early this morning. We will see breaks of sunshine today, its not a guaranteed dry day, though. Most of the rain is coming to an end for this morning, but there could be a shower chance coming in after 3 00 or 4 00 this afternoon. So the next 4 hours, foggy and 58 now. By 7 00 this evening, showers if not in the area will be on the way. Temperatures near 70 today. And rain likely to get your friday started. But there will be improving weather as we get towards the second half of the weekend. Weekend forecast at 5 21. So right now inner loop after New Hampshire avenue, tw the only construction still hanging around town. Taking a look up top, 29, route 1, 95, bw parkway, everything there is rolling along just fine. Looking at 66 from Fairfax County parkway to the belt way, going to take you thiyou nine m. Remember to listen to wtop 103. 5 fm when you hop in your car. And 95 north at 17, again looking a lot better than it was. We had earlier construction but the road work has cleared. Still a little slow northbound. Well take a live look at 270 coming up. He died a hero in the Maryland Shopping Center shootings. Today the family of hal cmalco n winffel will be laid to rest. He leaves behind a whif children. Made hlaysian government sa debris belongs to flight 370 and that will bring the number of pieces found to about five. All of which found in various spots around indian ocean. The aircraft as you remember mysteriously disappeared more than two years ago with 239 people on board and these pieces are the only signs of it thus far. Eun. Your time is 5 03. And right now these young teens could be in maryland after they went missing from Fairfax County county. Take a look. Fazefte lema and rudy torzano were last seen tuesday night. Detectives say the teens may have taken a cab from the fair Fairfax County area to jessup. They say lema is in need of medication. If you have seen them, call Fairfax County police. In d. C. , police want your help to find this man. Police put out a silver alert hes 86 and last seen at the y in mca in the u street neighborhood on tuesday. Hes considered critically missing. He was wearing a brown coat with a hood when he was last seen. Second Police Officer accused in the death of freddie gray is headed to court today. Edward nero has requested a bench trial. Hes one of three bicycle offices involved this grays initial arrest. Nero pleaded not guilty. Six baltimore Police Officers are facing charges in grays death. Neros trial is expected to last five days. Today marks one year since the derailment of an amtrak train in philadelphia that killed eight people. More than 200 people were injured when the new york bound northeast regional train entered a sharp curve at 106 Miles Per Hour, that is limit. Four who died were connected from our area. The New York Times reports take Congress Mandated the installation of new technology called positive train control throughout the nations Railroad System by 2015, technology that could have slowed down the train and possibly prevented the accident. Congress is now considering extending that deadline to 2020. Today in decision 2016, we could see a major clash on capitol hill. Donald trump is expected to meet with House Speaker paul ryan. At t they are set to discuss how to unite the republican party, however trump has nearly clinched the nomination running squarely against speaker ryan and Establishment Party ideas. Edward lawrence has more on the meeting plus others happening dwa today in just a bit. Democrats are campaigning across the u. S. Bernie sanders has e on june 7. Hillary clinton is thin brookly while bill Clinton Campaigns on her behalf in kentucky. D. C. Residents are at the center of what it calls an Election Year issue. Well explain that in the next 15 minutes. New toinformation in this morning. This coming from the World Health Organization. Air pollution levels rising in many of the worlds poorest cities. So while all regions of the world are affected, populations in low income cities are the most impacted. According to the latest urban air quality database, 98 of cities in low and middle Income Countries with more than 100,000 inhabitants do not meet World Health Organization air quality guidelines. However, in high Income Countries, that percentage decreases to 56 . At the live desk, im erika gonzalez. Swing and a miss. 20 strikeouts. Did you hear that . What . Yes. Max scherzer went had two no head e hitters last year. Something that only happened four times in billion history. All of baseball. I mean 20 batters last night. He struck them all out. A major league record. Scherzer says he has bigger goals. Really what you remember at the end of the year is if you win or not. If you win the world series. Thats the ultimate goal. There you go. Scherzer says playing his former team the tigers helped him amp up his arm and get ready for that start. A little competition to fuel it. Pretty impressive. And i think he tied a record, i dont think he broke it. Other guys have done it. But i love how he says this is just the beginning. The next game is always the big challenge. If youre just getting ready to leave for work, you might want to give yourself some extra time. Its really foggy in some spots. Is this a live picture outside. Cant even see anything out there. You could have a longer drive to work. A closer look at that and whether you will need the wipers this morning as well. And its a new grading system that would allow some students get a d but then wiped up with a b. The changes under way at some area schools. Reporter another tough week for metro and now federal transportation officials are getting involved. Im gan mcgrath, a live mere 5 11 our time. Want to get a check on weather and traffic. Amelia draper is live on our weather deck to find out if there is anymore rain. You dont need an umbrella this morning, but there isom be dealing with that as you head into work this morning. But eats not as cool as it was yesterday morning. Temperature right now in the upper 50s. Coming home, temperature around 71. Some showers are possible by the Late Afternoon hour, but more likely during the evening hours. So not the best day to get the car washed. There is also more rain in the forecast tomorrow and saturday, a as well. Chuck has the timing on that coming up. But for now, how are the roads looking . Right now a couple of new issues here. Outer loop ramp to clara par ton parkway, the ramp blocked because debris. So trying to get that out of the way. Northbound xwchltgw parkway bef spout run, the right side blocked because of Police Activity 37 and inner loop road work should be wrapping up pretty soon. Inner loop and outer loop looking quite good. 270 at montrose road, no worries there. A live look at 66 coming its beings 5 13. Federal Transit Authority is ordering metro to make immediate repairs to fix the tracks. Megan mcgrath is live to break down what is in store for both workers and riders. Reporter well, you can see the entrance to the largo up to center station here behind me, the station opened its doors just a while ago and were starting to see riders turn up. These reiders among those affected by the problems yesterday. Take a look at the video. You can see workers on the tracks. This was yesterday. They were trying to repair problems, get things back up and running. But it took long enough that we saw all kinds of delays, single tracking. Its been a tough countple of weeks for riders, several disturbing incidents including one caught on tape. Sparks and a flash happening right by a platform at the federal center. Now the federal transportat they are calling on metro to make changes to metros newly released safe track plan, thats the major long term overhaul plan that was just unveiled by metro. The fta says immediate repairs need to be made in three areas of track before the safe track program can begin. This is it the areas that were talking about on this map. Medical center to van necessary o van ness, on the red line. Potomac avenue to the d and g junction between stadiumarmory, benning road and men men aveni avenue. And ballston to East Falls Church on the orange and silver lines. They want the repairs made as quickly as possible and theyre calling on metro to tweak their long term safe track plan. We will be talking to readers, give you their reaction coming up in the next hour. Back to you. It looks both metrorail and metrobus are ow ridership compared to the same time last year, folks made 12 million fewer trips, thats about 5 . Metro says one of the big causes was the january blizzard that forced them to shut down for two days. That cost the Transit System nearly 7 million in fares and parking fees. D. C. Police are investigating a triple shooting in southeast. Police say around 4 00 p. M. , someone started shooting on ninth street southeast. Officers found two men shot at the scene there. Another man walked himself to the hospital. You wi all three are expected to survive. The shooting was less thp haan a mile away from another deadly shooting yesterday. Were working to learn whether the two are connected. Emotional moments for loved ones as they learned of a double murder in district heights. Prince georges county police say kevin muse was killein a robbery yesterday morning and samuel page also died. A third man who was in the car a 25,000 reward is being offered for information that leads to a suspect. It is 5 16. Today d. C. s mayor will break ground on the new mew midtown center. That kicks off 11 30 this morning. When construction is complete, it will be the home of fannie mae. Looking live at Reagan National airport, we expect a protest today over an airline that could soon land flights here. The Obama Administration recently gave Norwegian Air the green light. But some organizations say the airline ignores u. S. Trade policy and undermines fair competition by skirting tax and labor laws and hiring temporary workers from asia. Protests are set to begin shortly after noon right in front of the white house. The new grading scale in Montgomery County could make it easier to your ghild to get an a. The School System says quarterly grades will be averaged and rounded up to course grade. For example a student can get an a in the First Quarter and b in the Second Quarter but still earn a find grade of a. This comes after the School System did away with final exams in favor of quarterly tests. You can take a look at the entire system on the nbc washington app, search grades. 5 17. And im not working on a story. Reporter the united food and commercial Workers Union organized this protest here at the giant Corporate Headquarters in landover, maryland. Theyre delivering petitions with hundreds of signatures against the merger of the European Corporation which operate giant and food line. The union fears could be closed or sold. I have two kids, 9 and 3. And it will be terrible. Thats what i depend on. My husband went pack to school, so it will be rough. Reporter giant says the federal trade commission is reviewing the proposed merger. And at this point, it does not anticipate any store closures as a result of the ftc review. This is chris gordon, news 4. 5 18 right the now. This week weve been looking at sleep in our secrets to better zs series. This morning were giving you the lowdown on napping. Something we know a little bit about. Thats right. Here is the thing. When is the last time to take a nap so nap . Theres at the university of maryland recommend sometime after lunch between 1 00 and 3 00. I dont know if they mean through 1 00 and 3 00. During that time can accomplish slow wave sleep and Rapid Eye Movement sleep. The next question is how long s should your nap be . Take a listen. No more than 30 minutes. Studies are consistent that longer naps run the risk of sleep inner sreinnerer sha. Thats when you wake up and youre not quite awake and refreshed yet. I feel like that all the time. Complaint fighant fight ine. Frequent napping can also protect your body from diseases. Studies show it helps reduce alzheimers and heart attacks. And coming up, well take a look at how short snaps can reverse effects of severe sleep deprivation. Weve been wearing these fit bit things. And i did an hour and a half nap yesterday according to this. Zero nap yesterday. Parameters dont necessarily match for our schedules. We work such a weird set of circumstances. When we go to sleep, when we wake up. So i dont know. Doesnt a nap sound good . I had lunch and a nap yesterday. It was a good thing. High problem yesterd my problem yesterday, the nap came way too late in the day and i had a hard time getting to sleep on time last night. So tricky. Outside this morning, it is a foggy start. This is the view from our tower looking down. There is nebraska avenue. Just barely making out the street lights here early this morning. Overall weather impact on the day, it will be relatively low. Most of the rain is out of here early this morning. Still going to have a lot of clouds around today and there will be a chance for rain before today is done. Most of it well after 3 00 in the afternoon. Nothing heavy today. For tomorrow, another chance for rain mostly through the morning commute up to about 3 00 in the afternoon. Im pretty optimistic if you have fridayht outside, friday night should be dry. Friday morning another story. Early today, here we are 240r7k, p its are in the mid to upper 50s. Kind of soupy and clammy outside. Visibility only a quarter of a mile in winchester. A mile and three quarters visibility there in gaithersburg. So stop team 4 radar shows the fading out of the Early Morning rain chance theyre fredericksburg. We should be dry from this point forward for much of the day. By 9 00, still socked in with the fog. There should be breaks of sunshine between about noon and 3 00 or 4 00 this afternoon. Peeks of sun. And then after 4 00, there is the rain chance now into the Shenandoah Valley. Potentially as early as about 4 00. If they live long enough and get in here, we could have showers around 6 00 or 7 00 this evening. If that little round doesnt get us, there is another much better chance coming in later tonight in to tomorrow. So for today, fog on your way out the door. Some amounts of sunshine, should allow temperatures up to away 70 thinking about the weekend. Saturday, showers maybe a rumble or two of hunter likely between about 11 00 in the morning and 5 00 saturday afternoon. Saturday night should be dry, then sunday, that is the payoff, every. Sunday will be the end of the rain y day stretch, but understansundays highs only in the 60s. This sleep innertia thing, can i blame that on everything . Everything. I said that happens to me all the time. Outer loop ramp to clara barton parkway, the ramp blocked because of debris. 66 to germantown road, you can see dont have any big problems there. Everything rolling along just fine here. Inner loop and outer loop okay. Still had that late clearing beltway road work top of the beltway there inner loop at New Hampshire avenue. 270 northbound and southbound, looking quite good thorp. And 95 in maryland here at 198, dont have any worries will. Live look in p county coming up. Outrage after Police Nabbed the suspects who led them on a high speed chase. What theyre accused of doing moments after his arrest. And the push to get the direct a state gets a boost. And age is just a number, you know that saying. What this 71yearold woman just accomplished that will make you believe your goals are just as attainable. FNew Hampshires governor i calling for a full investigation into this arrest. A helicopter captured officers punching a suspect who led them on a high speed chase from mass has to New Hampshire. It does not appear the plan is resisting the officers as they continue to punch him. The Massachusetts State Police says it will also conduct an investigation into the use of force. Back to decision 2016 washington, d. C. And its residents are now at the center of what the Clinton Campaign is calling an Election Year issue. Newspaper oped for the washington informer Hillary Clinton wrote she will be a, quote, vocal champion for d. C. Statehood. Clinton also slammed donald trump for not taking a definitive stand on that issue. You will remember city leaders are petitioning congress now give residents voting rights. D. C. s democratic primary is about a month away, but there are only a few days left if you need to register to vote. The june 14th vote is a closed primary. That means you must be registered as a democrat in order to cast a ballot. You have until monday if you need to dhaenk yochange your pa fill yags. Kathleen matthews says she is not done running for office. In her first interview since her last last month, she said all options are on the table fo

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