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Transcripts For WRC News4 Today At 6 20240622

Per hour. Back in ten minutes with more on the metro issue. Thanks. As melissa just mentioned happening right now, metro having some problems as it tries to roll out the newest 7000 rail car at the greenbelt metro station. We want to get to Meagan Fitzgerald with more on what happened before the rail cars get there. Whats the issue . Reporter well, a lot of folks are frustrated because theres an issue with the train that stalled on the tracks. Its monday morning, they were excited to ride on a brandnew 7000 series train. But if you take a look here, youll see thats not happening any time soon. Metro officials tell us that some sort of an issue with this train here. Not able to function properly so passengers had to get off and theyre certainly not happy about it. Now, it was around 5 35 when we noticed that the train was stalled. Passengers waited inside for a few minutes before metro employees told them they had to get off the train. Were told theres some sort of a mechanical issue that metro officials are trying to work out. Were not sure when the train is expected to leave the tracks, but that means those new 7000 series trains wont be making their debut until this problem is resolved. Many riders say theyre just fed up. Absolutely its not right. Because you sit up here and thats first train you pull out is one that breaks down before it even gets off the platform . Come on, man. No, this is ridiculous. No. Reporter yeah, shes not alone, a lot of people frustrated. At around 5 30, those brandnew 7000 trains prepared to roll through here. But until this train is moved off the tracks that train, that new train is going to have to stay there. Well be out here monitoring this situation and bring you updates coming up at 6 30. Back to you. Meagan fitzgerald live for us in greenbelt, thank you. A man going on trial for a robbery gone wrong in oxon hill. Deandre weems shot a Hotel Employee and he died. The lawyers will make their opening arguments today. Chavezs mother may take the stand. And d. C. Police are trying to track down a burgundy chrysler in connection to a deadly shooting. Matthew shlonsky died when he was caught in the middle of gunfire two days ago. Shlonsky was not targeted according to police, instead he was on his way to meet a Fraternity Brother when it started. When youre down, hed bring you up. And now he ended up being at the broken pipe yesterday when two of the trucks fell through the street. You can tell through the pictures. This is near the intersection of duncan avenue. It caused two small sinkholes. Thats when the trucks fell in. We are told the broken main caused silt to wash into the pond. Five people are now dead after a jet and a plane collide. You can see the broken plane here, its in a quarter mile area in san diego area. Ntsb is saying that the planes were approaching the runway when they ran into each other. They were possibly all military contractors with bae and one person in the single engine cessna plane. The press corps is expected to swarm new york city as donald trump reports for jury duty. Just yesterday he unveiled the specifics of his immigration plan. This is his first big policy paper and a its already a controversial one. Trump said hed reverse president obamas executive orders on immigration and deport all undocumented immigrants. Trump spoke exclusively with nbcs meet the press. We have to make a whole new set of standards and when people come in youre going to split up families. Youre going to deport no, chuck, well keep the families together. We have to keep them together. But they have to go. Trump says he will build a broader rather a wall and force mexico to pay for it by impounding remittance payments. He will triple the number of border patrols and defund cities that dont cooperate with federal immigration roundups and he says hell end birth right citizenship. Today in iowa one of the rising stars of the 2016 campaign will hit the stage for a q a with voters at the state fair. Carly fiorina is climbing in the polls and she will speak at noon and scott walker will also take questions. He was at the top of the polls in iowa until a surge by donald trump. A big announcement is happening in largo today. Prince georges county executive Rushern Baker is expected to announce a major increase in county jobs. It is the first big increase in more than a decade, according to the executives office. Baker is making that announcement at 1030 this morning. Why hundreds of people are marching to the Nations Capital right now and what they want to accomplish. Breaking news on the rails, we are singletracking on the yellow and green lines, causing some big problems. Not just because of this. Also delaying that new series train coming into the station. Also it is a big day for washington. The legend you can hear on your radio today for the first time in youre watching news 4 today. All right. So theres a lot of excitement in our area today. Radio legend Donnie Simpson is back on the d. C. Airwaves today. Simpson came out of retirement to join radio one. He will host the Donnie Simpson show on magic 102. 3. It will run from 3 00 to 7 00 p. M. Welcome back. I want to show you some time lapse video of a storm angle that you dont typically get to see. This is video of a Lightning Storm sweeping through southern florida. You can see as the clouds roll through lightning lights up the sky there. Thunder and rainstorms also expected to continue in the Singer Island area throughout the rest of the week there in florida. Always amazing to see that sort of video when you can slow it down, it gives you a a spekd lar a spectacular view. It looks like a movie set. Like its fake. So we want to get our drive time forecast. We know people will be using that a. C. On overtime today. Dont have to worry about the storms at least but that heat for sure is working overtime. Tom kierein is in the storm team 4 Weather Center. Your weather and traffic on the 1s at 6 11. I saw a live view from the tower camera. No storms, nowhere in the region do we have showers or thundershowers. So for the midday and the afternoon commute, we have green lights weatherwise anyway for traveling and driving in. Youll be driving into the hazy sun heading east today. Well be in the mid 70s or so for the next couple of hours. Headed to 90 by noon. Definitely have the a. C. On in the afternoon, mid 90s. Factor in the humidity, it will feel like 100 degrees this afternoon. A look at the Storm Chances for the week, thats at 6 21. Breaking news with melissa. Breaking news right now on the rails, yellow and green line, we are singletracking between greenbelt and college park because of a disabled train this morning. Also 270, looks quite slow through germantown. Looking getter from above. We had an earlier crash at 118. Southbound is not so bad. Southbound lanes taking you only 16 minutes. Thats on time. Outer loop, top of the belt, no issues. 66 inbound and 95 northbound, no major problems there. Remember to listen to our friends on wtop 103. 5 f. M. When you hop in your car. Thank you, melissa. One of hollywoods leading men is in mourning this morning. The strange crime hitting his family that is getting the worlds attention. Kristin wright at the live desk with fast moving new developments in the intense search for a downed plane and what else we just learned was on board. Ill have details for you here at the live desk new details here in the newsroom. We just found out that the plane that crashed in indonesia this weekend was carrying a half Million Dollars in cash. This is an old picture of the trigana airplane on board, 470,000 in government aid to people in remote villages. The wreckage of the plane has been found. Search and rescue is trying to get to it right now. 54 people were on board. So far, there is no indication that the money is linked to the crash, but still very interesting nonetheless. The pilot lost contact in bad weather. We dont know if there are any survivors. Well find out. Back to you. All right, kristin wright, thank you. 6 16. Right now, more than 100 large wildfires are burning out of control out west from california to oregon to idaho. They are scorching acres of land. The National Guard called up to help dump water on fires in Washington State. But even that couldnt stop a fire from destroying as many as 100 homes. Well get an update on the conditions in Washington State in a live report. Thats coming up in the next half hour. Well, take a look at this. The fire helicopter was forced to make a hard landing at a Los Angeles Area cemetery while battling the nearby month abel low wildfire. Residents whose homes were damaged in the massive explosion in tianjin, china, are demanding compensation from the government. It killed at least 114 people, 70 are still missing. Crews are now racing to collect dozens of tons of one of the chemicals housed in that warehouse. With storms moving into the area now environmental officials raised concerns that sodium cyanide can release poisonous scyanide into the air. More than 40 men are walking to baltimore. The 35mile trip will take 20 hours. Marchers are expected to arrive on the National Mall around 2 00 this afternoon. More than 200 people have been killed in baltimore so far this year. Prince georges county police say a suspect and an officer a suspect that an officer shot and killed had Mental Health issues. Those are new detail since the shooting friday night. 30yearold asshams manleys family told them he was having suicidal thoughts. Officer bell shot manley on walker mill road after a struggle over a gun. Police say the suspect ran from a crash scene. Tests at the hospital show manley had opiates and marijuana in his system. This week, the woman a d. C. Police officer shot after she refused to drop a knife will be in court. Renita nettles is out of the hospital and in jail. This is on clay terrace earlier the this month. News4 went through court documents. Nettles used synthetic drugs and pcp before telling police, she was quote ready to die. There will be funerals today for the eight members of family all shot to death in their home in houston. Earlier this month, police say the mothers exhusband shot her, her husband and six children including his own 13yearold son. David conley faces capital murder charges. In court last week, conley thought the children were growing up or the up to be monsters. Service on the Long Island Railroad will be back to normal after a plane crash one person died when this single engine plane crashed yesterday morning. Youre looking at cell phone video right after the crash. The passenger survived with a broken jaw. Faa Officials Say the engine stalled shortly after taking off on long island. The metropolitan Transportation Authority said it took about 12 hours to clear the tracks. 6 19 your time now. D. C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is riding metro to talk about the kids right free program today. It includes metro rail rides for first time this year. The Program Provides Free Transportation for students to d. C. Public and public charter schools. They can take metro rail, metrobus and circulator bus for free. Mayor bowser will be on the green line to talk about the program. She said it saves families 600 a year. Look at this. This is the aftermath of a car smashing into the front of eddies carryout in gaithersburg. Nobody got hurt here. This happened at 5 30 last night. No word on how or why the driver of the car lost control. So if you can, try to get some extra calcium and vitamin d in your breakfast this morning. This is especially important for women as they get older. Findings show onequarter of women older than 65 have osteoporosis. Compare that to only 6 of men over the age of 65. Calcium and vitamin d help guard against bone loss and osteoporosis. If you were concerned, ask your doctor to schedule a bone density scan. Looking live at the white house now. Today, the Obama Administration expected to unveil a new initiative to fight heroin use in the u. S. By speeding up how quickly Public Health data is shared among agencies. The Washington Post reporting the new program will pair up Public Health experts and Law Enforcement officers. They will track where heroin is coming from, and where treatment is needed. D. C. Is one of the 15 areas where this program is being tested. A college on the Eastern Shore says this massive fire will not affect the operations this year. Washington college in chestertown says it rents this building which totally went up in flames. This happened two days ago. No one was inside at the time. According to our affiliate in baltimore, firefighters are working to figure out what caused the fire. Four firefighters were hurt but not seriously. Today in rosslyn your favorite food truck will have a guaranteed spot. This Pilot Program reserves 19 Parking Spaces for food trucks for four hours. The goal is to keep the peace between food trucks and the restaurants in the area. For the designated locations check out our nbc washington app. And if you plan to go out, you have to bear the heat. We are still dealing with the heat wave. It looks though like things might be wrapping up pretty soon. Heat wave wise. Whats the latest . This may be the day of the current heat wave anyway. Right now, temperatures are pleasant. Bad hair day, the high humidity will be with us throughout the day ahead. Here in the storm team 4 Weather Center looking at temperatures now at the upper 60s, near 70 in prince georges, Fairfax County. And generally in the 60s, away from the bay, generally in the low 70s. Reagan national, 72. The sun is coming up, sunrise today is at 6 23 coming up in hazy sky, live view from the tower camera. By 8 00, mid and upper 70s. Look at the temperature graph jumping to near 90 degrees by noontime, hitting mid 90s by mid afternoon. That feels like temperature near 100 with the humidity factored in. The feels like high tomorrow, a little more reasonable. In the mid 90s. Low to mid 90s, and on thursday, highs in the 80s each day. When you factor in the humidity it will feel like the 90s for much of the week ahead. Now, our next chance for i in storms any storms is tuesday evening. Most of the day light hours should stay dry. Tuesday evening, some thunderstorms may be coming through. Maybe late in the evening and then a morning shower or afternoon thundershower. Highs in the mid 80s. Perhaps a thundershower on thursday as well. Partly sunny, highs reaching upper 80s and less humid for the weekend. Partly cloudy on saturday. Highs in the mid 80s. A look at neighborhood highs for this monday, next weather and traffic on the 1s at 6 31. Melissa has breaking news. Breaking news again on the rails. Talking about the yellow and green line here this morning. Right now we still have singletracking between greenbelt and college park because of the disabled train sitting outside of greenbelt. So kind of causing a mess there this morning. D. C. 295 southbound at pennsylvania avenue, thats off to the shoulder, but theres a 2 1 2 mile backup there. Pretty slow there. Connecticut avenue at woodley road in north west, we have a report of a cyclist struck there. 66 through manassas inbound a tad slow there and 95 northbound through dale city, a little slow as well. Prince georges county looking good. No major issues and an update on metro in ten minutes. Melissa, see you thin. Thank you. 6 24. An alexandria woman is waking up after she crashed her small piper plane in bristow. She crashed it in the backyard of a home along upper mill loop yesterday morning. The state police say for some reason the plane lost power. She missed the house by about 20 yards. The homeowner says he is thankful the pilot was able to keep control of the plane. She could have tried to do something else. But she hit a tree instead of my house. To me, i couldnt be more happy that she missed my house and kept control. The pilot, 50yearold barnes was taken to the hospital in stable condition. Morgan freeman learned someone stabbed his step granddaughter to death. 33yearold edena hines had so much to offer that the world will never see. Police arrested a man at this scene in manhattan early yesterday morning. They say he was in a relationship with hines. Officers say he is undergoing a psychological evaluation and does not face charges. Today, you can say what you think about a plan to build a new power plant in brandy wine. It will provide natural gas energy. It would join multiple other power plants in the area if its approved. Now, to give your opinion about it, all you have to do is head to the Brandywine Volunteer Fire Department tonight. The Public Meeting starts at 7 00 p. M. Well, foodies, this week is for you. This week is Restaurant Week in the dmv. You can enjoy a three course lunch or dinner at a great price at any one of 250 restaurants across the region. Lunch will cost you about 22 per person. Dinner is 35. We have put the entire list of restaurants on the nbc washington app. So if theres some place youre thinking of trying and its pricey, now is your chance. When it comes to dining, so this is the perfect excuse. We made it so easy you can just go to the app, aaron, book your table right there. Its that easy. No excuses. All right. Finish this up. All right, you want me to . Its your turn now. 6 26. A military drill comes to one local community. What you hear and see could be intense. Molette . Reporter yeah, back to school before labor day. Details on the new program that has alarm clocks sounding right now for first day of school. Plus, a disturbing shooting where anyone could have been hit by gunfire. The new details we learned overnight about violence at a loca its 6 30 and metros week is off to a bad start. Right as its newest train was ready to make

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