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WRC News4 Today At 6 October 21, 2016

In southeast. Look at the video here and you can see for yourself. Right around 10 00 last night, someone began to fire out on the street in the 2500 block of naylor road. Some of bullets went through the window there. You can see the shattered glass pierced the window and went into an apartment complex. Some of the bullets lodged in the walls. People were home at the time including a family with a person, a woman with a couple of kids. Fotu a very, very scary and dangerous situation and there was another shooting that happened about the same time around 10 00 last night as well. That happened in the 3400 block of 12th street in southeast washington. Someone opened up opened fire on that block and a number of cars were shot up in that incident. At this point, investigators are trying to figure out what, if any connection there is between simply dont know at this point and no information about the motive behind this and theyre looking for help from the public. Anyone who has information, youre asked to give them a call. Good thing here is that nobody was injured. Back to you in the studio. Thanks, megan. Im molette green at the live desk. We have sad news out of afghanistan. Were learning details about a fort hood soldier killed. This is a picture of 26yearold Sergeant Douglas hood press release said he died encountering Hostile Forces. Riney a resident of fairview illinois deployed in june. He received the purple heart, bronze star, and four army achieve meant metals to name a few. Back to you now. Thank you. Another family is grieving right now for an american soldier who died as well. We have not learned the name of the Service Member who was killed in iraq yesterday. Bombing. Nbc news learned the soldier was operating with iraqi forces but it is not clear if that soldier was involved in the offensive to recapture mosul from isis. A judge will sentence a man for raping a woman in the hill east neighborhood of southeast. Supervised probation when he cutoff his bracelet and broke into a home and raped her last year. Pitt must be incarcet capable of raping another woman or harming another person. A jury is recommending 60 years in jail and a life time supervised release should he be released after his sentence. Another reminder to get your air bags checked. An 11th american has died because of a ruptured air bag. The california woman died last month after a crash. Her civic had been recalled in 2008 but the air bag was never double check if theyre in your car. We have a link in the nbc washington app. The clock is ticking for people in virginia to register to vote. You have until midnight to sign up for the november 8th election. The original deadline was monday. A judge extended it because of computer glitches with online registration and high demand. The Virginia Department of elections website is back up and running. You can also register in person at Registrars Office until 5 00 p. M. Ifu they apply if youre changing your address. Donald trump and Hillary Clinton are back out on the campaign trail today. Last night, they shared laughs. They sat just one seat apart at a new york Charity Event. During speeches, they poekd fun at each other and their own campaigns. Donald looks at the statue of liberty and sees a 4. Torch and tablet and changes her hair. Michelle obama gives a speech and everyone loves it. My wife, melania gives the exact same speech. While it was mostly laughs, trump received a few boos after calling clinton corrupt. Today they will be campaigning against one another across battleground states and well tell you where theyre headed ahead at 6 30. A firefigh the man who evacuated a building just before it exploded explains what happened before he blacked out. Vulgar images and racist graffiti, find out what is next for the People Police say did this to a historic Virginia School house. . . Stand by me . . 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We have the Weather Underground network checking in this morning. We have thousands of reporting stations. The local ones in the low to mid60s. A balmy morning. Dry for the morning commute. A little bit of sunshine in and through the 8 00 hour, then by noon time, jumping into the mid70s there. Get up to around upper 70s near 80 around 3 00. By 5 00, when youre headed back home, the roads likely will be wet and back down into the 60s as showers will be coming in from the west. Storm team4 radar not showing anything locally but we have them way off to the west. They are advancing into the mountains now, getting closer to us by later this afternoon. Hour by hour tiing is coming up road before the spur is where it is being reported as a crash there this morning. Doesnt seem to be slowing things, though, too much yet. Northbound gw parkway before sprout run parkway. Still have the lane stopped. That should be out of the way here soon. Northbound sudley at 66, the southbound crash at sudley unable to turn on 66 and northbound 28 at 50, a crash involving a motorcyclist. Well check out as 270 travel times look good. Top of the beltway, everything looks good as well. 66 in to town, no problems at 95 quantico to the beltway going to take you 24 minutes. Listen to our friends on wtop 103. 5 fm when you hop in your car. Aaron . Will do. Thank you. Ten minutes after 6 00, new york giants kicker josh brown will not be playing this weekend as the nfl opens a new Domestic Violence investigation. Brown was arrested last year for an incident in Washington State involving his exwife at information and suspended brown for one game. Now browns journal entries and emails have come to light. In those messages, investigators claim the 37yearold admits to physically and verbally abusing his exwife. The giants and the league are reviewing his case. Other players are reacting to this news on social media, ravens wide receiver steve smith had strong words saying if it was his daughter, brown would be in the injury list. He later apologized for being extreme but said a man who hits a woman, quote, isnt a real man. Browns teammate victor cruz said i never stood behind josh browns actions and dont stand for Domestic Violence in the least bit. Basically he will stay out of his teammates personal lives. This month, were focusing on Domestic Violence with our safe at home campaign. We visited leesburg where a teacher is proudly displaying her works of art on the walls of Domestic Violence victim to artist that gives her work meaning. Im hoping that maybe somebody will look at some of my images and see themselves and realize there is help. There is support. There is also a story to go along with her paintings. Those hang on the wall as well. The paintings are dedicated to all Domestic Violence survivors. If you are someone you know is dealing with this issu Resources Available to you. Check out the nbc washington app. Search safe at home. Developing now, fire crews are franticly searching for an 84yearold man who is missing in a giant fire. He is the only person unaccounted for after the fire broke out in los angeles last night. It took more than 100 firefighters and three helicopter crews to put out the flames. One woman was taken to the hospital for smoke inhalation. He is a husband and a father of three and this morning, a fire lieutenant peter saint john was one of the First Responders who got to the scene of a gas leak at a building on wednesday. A Construction Company says the subcontractor hit a gas pipeline during an excavation. John ran between nearby buildings pulling fire alarms to get people out. It was during that that the powerful gas explosion happened. He was thrown across the street and right into a chain link fence. An intense situation doing his job. I feel like im not a hero. I just did what everyone else would have done in that time. It is our job to go in and protect the citizens and that is what were doing, making sure everyone is safe. Got to love these guy thats think this way. They say everyone would have done this. I dont think they would. That is why we have the first it is 6 14. Amtrak is back in service along the northeast corridor. A train heading here . Washington hit someone on the tracks. This happened between new york and philadelphia late last night. No one was hurt on the train. It is not clear, though, whether the person on the tracks is alive. We also dont know why they were there in the first place. If maryland and virginia dont pay up, metro could cut service. If state leaders dont approve more money. Jack evans says service to the d. C. Mayor Muriel Bowser agrees. She thinks they should Fund Sales Tax to metro should be more aggressive. Nobody wants to write metro a blank check. Were calling on them to tighten their belts. The transportation secretary wants to see major improvements to metro before talking about more money. Ahead at 6 30, adam tuss breaks down how metro riders are service cuts. More information on the charges five teens are facing for spray painting graffiti in ashburn. They are charged with vandalism but not a hate crime. It doesnt meet the legal requirements for a hate crime. The vandalism was discovered on october 1st. A few days later, the Community Came together to repaint the historic building. Interim d. C. Police chief peter overall since last year. He tried to reassure residents after a deadly stabbing. They addressed this after a class mate stabbed another on a metrobus. The stabbing was not random and neither is most crime in the district. I wanted to let folks know. People get nervous and think they could potentially be the we believe were random in any way. Chief newsam says homicides are down 12 . Check out the new Outdoor Recreation store in northeast washington. Rei is celebrating the grand opening today. Instead of cutting the ribbon, theyre cutting a web of climbing rope. The location at the former uline arena is where the be theyre planning outdoor classes all weekend. I bet theyll play some beatles songs. New guidelines on when and how often your kids use media. One big change, when to introduce that technology to your children. Previously, the American Academy of pediatrics suggested no media before age two. Now, they say kids as young as 18 months can learn but not before then and children 2 to 5 day. Most importantly here, it should involve high quality programming. Play the games together with your kids, look at social media together with your kids. Watch the news together with your kids if that is what you want to do. The recommendations say you should guide your children and not use screens as a members is also recommended. There wont be any costumes or exchanging of candy this halloween for an Elementary School in connecticut this year. The schools principal sent home a letter to parents explaining her decision. The reasons include safety concerns and even the concern that some students may feel excluded during the celebrations. Some parents fully support the decision. If there is one child that feels excluded and not comfortable, i think it can be now, there are parents that think this is an over reaction but at this rate, the school is offering fall theme parties so all kids can participate and have a good time. All right, 18 after the hour right now. Big smiles from both tom and melissa. I think it is because it is friday. It is. The forecast today, at least the first half of the day, it isnt looking too shabby. Were off to a dry start and it is a bit breezy on this friday morning and kind of we still have august like conditions starting off this morning, were reaching our average highs for this time of the year, predawn on this friday morning. And as we take a look at your fitness forecast for the morning, going to be a good morning for a run or a bike ride through the noon hour, well be near 70 by 9 00, mid70s by noon time. Off to our west, the showers will begin to come in, sunshine in the immediate metro area. The showers moving in after 3 00 p. M. Team4 radar. Were all dry. Dont have any problem as weather wise for the morning commute. There are showers here, downpours here in ohio, in pennsylvania. West virginia, down to southwestern virginia. These are advancing off to the north and east and the new hour by hour timing here, just coming in, showing the areas of showers in the yellow it is harder rain. The green, lighter showers into the shenandoah centrally as of 11 00 this morning, com time and crossing the blue ridge into fredricks town into warrenton. Then into metro area into fairfax and Prince William around 4 00 and into the district around 4 30, 5 00 this afternoon. The Eastern Suburbs around 6 to 7 00 p. M. In Prince Georges County. Charles, calvert and saint marys. They will be exiting the bay tomorrow, plunging down to the 40s, afternoon highs only around 60 with gusty wind around saturday. Lighter winds, afternoon highs both of those days in the mid60s. Near 60 as we get into tuesday and lighter wind as well. What is happening with the commute . Right now, we do have this earlier problem, inner loop at river road, that is cleared out of the way. We have a couple other issues i want to talk about this morning. Beforot three problems here in virginia right now, of course, also have the problem on gw parkway but 66 ip bound near 123. 28 north at 50, a motorcycle crash. It sounds like theyre landing a med evac there. Crash in the right lane on sudley. Crash can not turn to 66. A lot happening here this morning. New york avenue at florida avenue, also have a report of a crash there this morning that now at least except the top of the beltway looking slow right now over from 95 to 270. More on the problems in virginia coming up. All right, thanks so much. You know, sometimes we have a late night but this is for a good cause. The Posse Foundation power of ten event. It provides scholarships to students academically minded from urban communities and get over lookedy universities even though theyre smart and well deserving, posse sends ten kids at a time on full scholarships. If kids go with their posse, the chance of graduation, much greater, deb. Jarvis honored for her commitment. Great organization. When you hear the testimony from kids, one student who graduated, her parents were refugees from burma seeking political asylum. To hear the stories always really great. Fantastic, yeah. All right, 6 22 now. Cover your ears, eun. We knew this was coming. We have to say byebye to bao bao. What is next for our pandas at the national zoo. My baby girl. Bernie sanders has a new beef. Why he is launching a new political attack. And a new state of the art hospital in Prince Georges County. . Ill get you dancing. . . To the diggy diggy diggity do. . . This is my town. If you dont know now you know. . . Ill show you a new move. . . Check out the diggy diggy diggity do. . . Im gonna flippity flop to that clickity clock. . . Were staying out tonight. Wont leave. . . By now, i hope youve figured it out. . Apparently Soda Companies are feg francisco area. Bernie sanders is not happy about the ads going out to voters there saying he is against the soda tax measure on the november ballot. The senator says he is all for the measure adding that consuming too much sugar is a Serious Health problem. Sanders opposed the soda tax in philadelphia calling it a regressive tax and thought it would hurt consumers. He says the bay area tax would be much lower. Became an internet sensation paid a visit to our town. At some point it can only get so surreal. So, you probably remember ken bone even if you didnt ask him the second question at the second debate. He went to washington for a get out the vote ad. He is under fire for inappropriate comments on reddit. He hasnt said we only have a few months before the National Zoos giant panda bao bao leaves. She is three already. How did that happen . The agreement with china say all bears born here will move to china before they turn 4. Bao bao will turn 4 next august. The zoo says it is better for rt pandas to travel during the i do. Poor little girl. Right now the zookeepers are trying to get her acclimated for a travel create. The keepers at the zoo did an amazing job getting her prepared for a life in china. Metro riders are fired up. We will take you to the marathon meeting where customers sounded off about a plan to cut service permanently. A dramatic change in the weather ahead. We have detailbo know. After decades of waiting, Prince Georges County is getting a new hospital. Getting a new hospital. How hethcare is goingal on issues that matter to northern virginia, Barbara Comstock and donald trump have a lot in common. Bill oreilly overturn roe v. Wade; thats a specific thing that you would do . Trump well, overturn or overturn. Comstock i think roe v. Wade should be overturned. Trump and comstock. Trump im totally for defunding. To defund planned parenthood. Northern virginia, we need

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