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WRC News4 Today At 6 April 21, 2016

At the baseball game tonight. Amelia is talking commuter forecast in ten minutes. For traffic, here is jack taylor. Were still dealing with an incident in hagerstown i70 toward route 40 near exit 32. Only the right side of the roadway is getting by. We have a huge delay unfortunately building early. Tractor trailer accident occurred and a mile of the guardrail, about half to three quarters of the guardrail damaged. So authorities remain on scene. We also have accident activity on the dulles connector road eastbound on the ramp to 66 east. Authorities headed to the scene. It may have been a deer head by a motorcyclist. Also sounds like a new crash on 15. Traffic will have to alternate. Police arriving so be cautious in the area. Now to a developing story in arlington shooting at a burger king on columbia pike. Megan mcgrath is there with the latest. Reporter well, just a few minutes ago, police cleared the scene behind me and we now have all of the lanes of columbia pike opened here. Were in the 3600 block of columbia pike. Earlier this morning, though, we did have some closures after a shooting occurred right here in the area of the burger king and there is also a barber shop next door. We could see fire crews here on the scene a little while ago, hosing off the sidewalk in front of the burger king. Now, this all began to unfold at around 10 30 last night. Police say that there was some sort of an argument, it turned physical. And then escalated from there. Eventually shots were fired, one man was hit by a bullet. The update that we have is that that person, that victim is going to be okay, that they are expected to survive. No word on any arrests. As you saw in when we were First Arriving here on the scene, there were three are cars that were being towed from the scene on flat bed trucks. Obviously part of the investigation. In terms of what led to this argument, this fight that then took a violent turn, were still trying to piece all of that together. Thin with information, call arlington police. Its 6 03. Developing right now, d. C. Police are working to find out who is behind a deadly shooting. They say a man was shot and killed this morning on 16th street southeast. The shooting happened at around 1 30 a. M. P a male died. We dont know whether a man or child. Firefighters a battling a massive fire at Shenandoah National park. Its scorched more than 6600 acres. Country are tighting the flame. Strong wind and dry weather could make it worse. National park service believes that the fire was caused by a person because there was no lightning around on saturday when the fire began. The search for a missing Fairfax County firefighter heads into day six. Search teams will head out to the Shenandoah National park this morning to look for nicole mittendorff. O lord my god, when i in awesome wonder family, friends and colleagues gathered for a prayer vigil in Fairfax County. Virginia state police say they are following up on more than 100 tips and leads. Theyre still trying to put together a time line of her movements. We now know she called out sick for her shift last wednesday. Almost a month after a man was found dead in his burned out home in march, mobry county police now say his death is a homicide. Police say multiple injuries to his body. A 10,000 reward for information is being offered. And annandale man is dead after a confrontation with Fairfax County police. It all happened yesterday afternoon. 45yearold Paul Gianelos wandered away from a group home outing at roundtree park. Gianelos is described as having both developmental and physical deposit a disvakts. A veteran officer said he found him and gianelos became com bass difference, so he called for backup and a witness says it took four officers to subdue gianelos. Once the head medics arrived, they observed him appearing to have cardiac arrest and cpr was started immediately. He died at the hospital. The state medical examiner will determine the exact cause of im Kristin Wright at the live desk. We go to hruse houston right no. There is serious concern about two dams there and whether they can withstand all of the flooding. U. S. Arm corps of engineers say theyre 20 years past life expectancy. Meanwhile more flood warnings have been issued in the houston area and more rain is coming. Well watch it for you. More than 100 people are missing in ecuador now five days after a giant earthquake there. The new death toll as of last night, 570 people. Countries from all over the world sent aid, volunteers who arent looking for survivors are working to clean up the damage and get food and water to the people who need it the most. They say its been difficult to reach everybody. The florida man who his by row cgyrocopter on the c lawn will learn his sentence. He pled guilty to operating without an air mans certificate. He says his flight last april was meant to draw attention to Campaign Finance reform. The pharmacies that provide execution drugs to virginia are now allowed to keep their identities secret. General assembly passed a proposal last night. Governor mcauliffe says keeping the pharmacies secret will protect them from public criticism and help the state maintain a steady supply of lethal injection drugs. Opponents say the state should not be allowed to take human life under avail of secrecy. Today we expect volkswagen to officially announce how it will compensate drivers affected by the emissions test cheating scandal. Last year the german automaker admitted to cheating on the tests for some of its diesel powered cars. In San Francisco today the company is expected to announce that it will spend 1 billion to compensate hundreds of thousands of drivers both w offers and repairs. The caps coming home. They lost last nights game against the flyers. Closing out sear rries at home be fun. If you want ticket, they will cost you about 100 online right now. Hot tickets. The teams are playing at the Verizon Center at 7 00 p. M. Didnt have a sweep, but still looking good. All i want to say is that the flyers might have the caps right where they want them. Okay. Im not listening to that, adam tuss. Go caps. Im from philadelphia. We wont hold it again you. Thats okay. I dont think we have a chance at coming back, but well see. And thats what the playoff beard is all about. We were wondering what was happening with your face. No comment. Really . All right. 6 08. Enjoying a steak dinner could be a painful experience if you happen to be bitten by a tick. The unusual allergic reaction that is spreading. Another beautiful morning as we start to see the sun working its way up behind union station. Amelia see balangal has your co forecast. Plus learning a life lesson the hard way. Eth Delores Kelley although we were all one maryland, our schools werent treated the same way. Narrator with neighborhoods getting unequal funding for schools, something had to be done for our children. Kelley it didnt matter where chris was from. He knew that we couldnt leave a child having less just because they lived in a region that was poor. Joanne benson he has not just talked about it. He is going to stand tall for all children to succeed. Im Chris Van Hollen, and i approved this message. Welcome back. Outside on the weather deck, a nice sunrise for the most part, clear skies. A bit of a breeze. Just a little on the cool side. But as you head into work, the weather having a low impact on your commute. Definitely want the sunglasses with temps around 50. Well continue to track the breeze throughout the day today. At really nice day, warmer than yesterday with highs mid70s. And clouds increase throughout the day. There is some rain in the forecast tomorrow. Chuck will have more on the timing of that and when you could also be dealing with a few rumbles of thunder. Definitely need the rain since march 1, rainfall deficit now just over 3 inches. Well send it over to jack taylor at wtop. I guess well enjoy the dryness this morning. We had an earlier incident 15, two lane road, so when anything happens, traffic alternates. We believe lanes may have reopened. Eastbound route 7 before the battlefield parkway, accident activity along the left side of the roadway. Two right lanes are getting by. Sounds like we still have the incident in hagerstown causing huge delays i70 east near route 40 with only the right lane getting by. 6 13 now. A shopping trip t a woman says a man robbed her at gunpoint at the Westfield Montgomery mall parking lot. We first reported the incident around the holidays. And now police are releasing surveillance pictures of the getaway car and Surveillance Video of the suspect using the womans credit card. The victim says she hopes this will help police catch the criminal. Total amount is almost 5,000 for me to replace everything. I mean, yeah, my purse, my wallet, three credit cards, cash and gift cards. The the victim says shes diabetic and the robbers also took her medicine. Today we will learn if congressional lawmakers will help fund the fight against the spread of the zika virus. President obama is asking for nearly 2 billion. Democrats now say some lawmakers may propose to partially fund the president s request. And the zika virus has some Baseball Players worried about games played sources have told yahoo sports that players with the pirates and marlins have raised concerns. Sources say there are no plans to cancel their games at this point. Around 400 cases of the virus have been confirmed in puerto rico. In news 4 your health, alga allergy experts fear this could be the worst allergy season ever. There is a surging number linked to the outdoors and were not just talking about pollen. A tickrelated meat amor eor a has been spreading. When a tick bites a deer it instructed alpha gal also found in certain kinds ever meat and dairy. When transmitted to human, some people develop an allergic reaction to red meat and a dairy products. The onset of the allergy is between 3 and 6 hour after being exposed to the there are more than 3500 cases across the country. Experts say the best prevention is to avoid ticks when outdoors. Basically if this tick bites you, it will make you sick when you eat red meat. So very odd allergyinducing bug bite. Alpha gal needs to get out of here. One more thing to worry about. I like high hot dogs, my cheeseburgers. Well, this morning r. I. P. China is trending. Everyone is wondering joan lauer. She was found dead last night. She was 46 years old. And there is even more ahead today for johnny football. A texas grand jury will hear testimony about former Cleveland Browns Quarterback Johnny Manziel accused of hitting his exgirlfriend during a night out in january. A decision on whether to iic on monday. A mom in minnesota is calling herself the meanest in the world. The label comes after she tried to each her daughter a lesson. After her teen daughter acted up one too many times, she listed her pickup truck for sale. She did it in opens of teaching her daughter and other teens a lesson. I hope that she realizes that, you know, that its okay to discipline your kids and its okay to have expectations and its okay for them to have consequences. The mom, amy, had more than 400 responses to her ad and more than half were parents saying good for you. You know there is going to be a lot of comments because anytime we talk about parenting, people want to chime in. Every family has its unique message. You dont want to you just dont know what the needs are. I see a lot of cars for sale in my future at high house. Absolutely. I dont think that that is a bad tactic. Are you going to buy a car for them in the first place. Thats the question. The list goes on and on. Lets turn our attention to the weather. Chuck bell, are you going to buy us a car today . No, i just figure adams parting style, hes standing with a baseball bat sayingou boys, you stay away from my daughter. When it comes to the boys, oh, my goodness. Good luck with that. Theyre adorable. And one quick correction, baseball game which i so lovingly mentioned is tomorrow night, not tonight. So dont go to the nats park looking for a game because it wont happen. Got a good looking sky out there early this morning. Do need the rain, though. Its been quite drive around here. Today will make nine days in a row since we had measured rainfall. Were almost an inch behind for the month and more than 3 inches behind now over the last six weeks. So we do need the rain. Best rain chances for us come tomorrow. A little chance in the morning and better chance tomorrow afternoon as rain out across the ohio valley now inching in our direction. These are still just false returns here. Light to far western maryland. So future weather then, only chance for rain today is there hagerstown to frostburg to maybe as far south as winchester. Tomorrow morning here is 5 00 a. M. Tomorrow, little chance for a sprinkler or light rain hour in the morning. Then drying out through about lunchtime before another better chance of rain comes in tomorrow afternoon. Here is 4 00 tomorrow afternoon. Showers couldnt rule out a rum b rumble or two of hunger. Not looking for Severe Weather. Most important of all, we should get the rain out of here just in time for the weekend. Today temperature 49 now, well be in the hid to mid to upper 5 9 00. Only shower chance right along i81. 7day forecast then, 70s today, 70s tomorrow with the rain coming in, dry over the weekend. And the next really warm day comes up on monday when we should make it up to 85 degrees. So that speaki speaking of nice, how about that thursday morning commute . Jack taylor at wtop with all the latest. Thats coming up in just a second. Again, baseball game not coming up today, thats tomorrow. And coming up in the second half however of the show, i was at an event last night emceeing the dash d. C. Folks. District alliance for state housing. I have some great pictures of beautiful women and people doing the community a great service. Well show you those coming up. Jack taylor, there you are. Here i am. 270 southbound, a live look at traffic trying to move out of frederick. Purely volume at this hour. Beautiful day from what im hearing from your forecast. Wont be like this tomorrow, but well do what we can today. Hagerstown i70 east near route 40, still have accident activity blocking the left side leaving Virginia Battlefield parkway eastbound 7, accident remains along the left side of the roadway. And causing a little early and abrupt delay. Neighbors prepare for the worst, a quick thinking decision that kept some kids safe during an attempted abduction. Plus your electric bill could soon be on the way up. The rate hikes pepco issking to a new information this morning about the two people who died in a Small Plane Crash near the bay bridge. Police say richard hess, the pilot and his trend, janet, were killed when their plane crashed in a field on tuesday. Witnesses say the plane burst into flames when it hit the grnd. Ntsb is trying to figure out what caused the crash. This morning were hearing part of the 911 call that led to the arrest of the Anne Arundel County sheriff earlier this month. Is this h this is his wife callingor help. Whats going on . He just punched me eye. You can hear her there saying he punched me in the eye. Sheriff ron bait than was arrma arrested on Second Degree assault charges. County politicians issued a statement calling for his resignation. Elsie bateman who made the 911 call also released a statement that seemingly contradicts the claims she that to dispatchers saying, quote, at no point did ron punch, hit or kick me. Sheriff bateman is working in an administrative capacity right now and is not allowed to carry a weapon. Bad news for pepco customers and your wallet. You could be in for a rate hike. This is coming less than a month after it was acquired by exelon. Pepco wants a 10 increase for customers in montgomery and prince georges county. If approved, the average monthly bill would go up by about 15 a month. The money will be used to support reliability and technology investment. Pepco says the increase is not related to the merger and would have been made regardless. Well, toay england celebrating her 90th birthday. Happy birthday, your royal highness. Or your royal majesty. I dont know. Prince william second in line to the throne says shes like any other grandmother and he has been told off by her many times. I think she is pretty strong willed. Queen elizabeths son prince of wales has recorded a special radio broadcast for the day from hennthehenry the 8th. Gun salutes will a laytake plac. And we recognized police officers, Sheriff Deputies and firefighters for their life saving actions while theyre on and off the duty. I want to say thank you to the Alexandria Chamber of commerce for holding the event. And it was just such a great showing of this brother hood of people who risk thr there is something about putting a uniform on and those families know that they put their lives at risk. And you said people were coming up to you, wanted pictures of you. I have to give a shout out to the barnacles. Their son officer matthew barn cal won a silver medal for going this to that burning car and pulling out a woman and she survived. The race for the white house is shifting its focus to our region as several president ial candidates make the rounds in maryland. Where theyre speaking today and the deadline you have to meet if you want to vote early. And gearing up for the olympic games. Traditional ceremony that just took place as we approach 100 days before the rio olympics. And sun is up in our eastern sky right now. A beautiful looking way to get your thursday started, but it wont stay thiet ill let you know when you will need to finally break out kids he came here from rocky married 27 years. Raised 6 kids. Including 5 boys. Glenn we loved having him as part of the family. Its what you do. Kids in congress, dad will protect president obamas legacy. Hell fight for jobs and protect Social Security and medicare. Glenn ivey will never quit on you; and we should know, were his kids. Glenn im glenn ivey and i approve this message. Ill take on the republicans for all of us. Im Kristin Wright with this just in. Arlington county Police Investigating death of

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