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Transcripts For WRC News4 At 4 20240714

23yearold zspears. She was found shot and killed and her body found just off of Eastern Avenue and 59th avenue. Police say the tnsgender woman had been shot multiple times. In march just a few blocks away another transgender woman was found shot to death. He murder is still unsolved. The two women knew each other according to Prince Georges County police, but they say its too early to say the two murders are connected. What i can say to you, tracee, is that its unusual like e had two murders this in a couple blocks of each other. What we will say to the community thats out there and look out for each other. I still cant say that these two cases are related to each other. Its something that we e looking at very closely. But the key to that is that the women that are out there i know from interviews from the detectives speaking to them. Like i said, its a close group that look out for each other. We ask them to continue doing that. Prince georges county police, fairmont Heights Police allteling me that is an area that is known for transgender rostitution, a lot of sex workers frequenting that area. Police are aware. N, y have been cracking d trying to have programs to help move somewo of these n out of that life. Prince georges county Police Investigating this case but urging community to stay as close as possible and lto look out for one another as they try to figure out whats going on. Im troiacee wilkins, back to y studio. A disturbing crime in crystal city. Police are looking for the man who followed a woman off metro y and sexual assaulted her. The attack taking place just as many people were headed to work on thursday morning. Vi surveillance o from inside the crystal city metro captured the suspect right before the attack. Arlington police say he followev detim into a billing on jefferson davisrive, cornered her in an elevator, assaulted her, then ran off when people walked by. It just seems very odd that i cant be safe going to work or coming home fromk,wor in the morning, especially. 8 30 in the morning. Everody is movi around. And there were a lot of people moving around in the area at the time. Arlington police are hoping someone recognizes the and gives their investigators a call. D. C. Police are looking for a man who escaped custodyte yesay. Take a look at the screen. Here is a picture of eric mcnair. Police say he was being treated at htaard University Hospi when he escaped. Someone spotted him getting into a black hyundai near the area of 9th and s streets in shaw. Call d. C. Police if you know where this man might be. We now know at least seven american tourists have died in the Dominican Republic in the last year. The ratest a Staten Island woman who had a heart attack during her vacation. This all comes as the new york rtpost repos that boot leg booze coul have playe a role. The sentence among some of the dead were consistent with poisoning from methanol or pesticides. Three more people have beeno arrested in cnnection with the shooting of former baseball star david ortiz. That brings the total number of those arrested to nine. That includes e alleged gunman. Poli say the group was offered almost 8,000 for a coordinated hit on the former red sox slugger. Two of the men arrested most recently are already in prison for other crimes. Not clear how the men were involved in the ortiz shooting. A small token of appreciation to david ortiz is on display at the National Portrait gallery. The gallery acquired this silhouette portrait of ortiz a few months ago but now it is o currentlyn display in the gallerys recently acquired hallway and its going to be on view there through november 3rd. Turning now to the weather. An usually cool day author this time of year. Cool and not humid. We kind of like that. Storm team 4 meteorologist Doug Kammerer in the storm center. Dont tell us big changes are coming this way. Weve got warm air making it our way. For those of you t waiting for heat, and theres a lot of you, yeah, i know pat wants it. Temperatures the next couple days close to 90 as we make our way in toward the weekend. The weekend right now really lookingd. Goo i want to take you first of all coming up in a minute, but look at these numbers. All across the midatlantic. The average High Temperature 84 degrees. Right now were at 77 d. C. , 74 in hagerstown. The wer picture here showing not much in the way of clouds at all. Theyre all to the north with that system that passed through yesterday giving us the chance for strong to severe storms yesterday. That front is moving off. Cooler air is behind us. Out to the west you can notice another system moving our way. Clouds and rain. Well talk about how rain could affect your fathers day. Ill see you back here in a few minutes. Ug thank you, do less than an hour ago we learned arlington public schooln willd a new superintendent. Dr. Patrick murphy has announced hes going to be retiring from the school system. Hes been with Arlington School since 2009. Before that he served in various other education roles throughout the state. Murphy will leave the Arlington School system officially in september. Today we are hearing from the father of a high schooler e severely injured in a shark attack. The girl is still in the hospital from the attack two weeks ago in north carolina. Za erika gonz is with us from the live desk with news from the father. He helped save her life. Yes, and there was not a dry eye in the house. Paige winter hasg lony to go after the attack at ft. Make on state park on june 2nd. Winters injuries were so bad do that ors had to amputate her leg and perform surgery on both her hands. The father described the flurry of chaos and how he went in to the water to save his daughter. It didnt take meseconds. It was just an immediate d thing. I went straight to where the pink was and i dove under and i grabbed her. When i pulled her up a shark came up with her and i it with everything i could. And it let go. I listened to every word she said. Every movement of her lips. Every way the wind blew her hair. I just took it all in. Still at to listen to. The doctors say paige could be discharged to rehab next week, but recovery is going to tak a lot longer. A go fund me account has been set up to help with medical costs for winter. Coing up little later in this hour, jay gray will have much more of this emotional news conference, including a videoge messarom paige herself. Back over to you all in the studio. Thats a tough story, erika. Y thank. To the persian gulf where tensions are rising over whos to blame for the attack on two oi tankers. Japanese owner of one tanker says it was hit by a flying pretria projectile. Thatnt coadicts today the milita military released video pat urports to show members of irans revolutionary guard removing an unexploded mine from one tanker. Iran is denying any involvement in the attacks on thursday. We have learned the name of a man found shot to death in ds inside a car in d. C. Damon bell had been shot multiple times. This is the crimece s along West Virginia avenue. Oce have not released any other information about the shooting and so far no one has been arrested for it. To the local professional athlete, now calling out d. C. Leaders over the recent rashof gun violence plaguing the city. Washington mystics guard took to ivinstagram to del an ultimatum. She says the city needs to put forward Real Solutions or it will be all she talks about with reporters from now on. Cory g cory smith is live with this story. What prompted this decision on herpart . Reporter well, pat, this all started yesterday. Natasha cloud, point guard for the washington myscs wasti vising Henley Elementary School and we actually have video of what it was that set her off. Take a look at this. You see this window here . Well, its being replaced at the school because it was shattered by gunfe earlier this week while kids were inside. Its not the first time this has happened. That led cloud to call out mayor Muriel Bowser and councilman treyon white on social media. Take a listen. When youre talking about changing the culture, when youre talking about ending thee cycle, wyoure talking about empowering or children and giving them opportunities, it starts with their ucation. D our kids cant even feel safe to go to school right now. Reporter tay mayor bowser reonded to clouds criticism and that ultimatum. Listen to what she said. And i think more people being outraged about access t guns and the careless use of guns in our city, i think the better. Reporter now, we reached out to councilman treyon white for a response but we have yet t hear back. However, he did respond yesterday and basically told natasha cloud to stop tweeting and join his antiviolence efforts. The mystics will have a game here tonight in southeast. Ewe expect to h from natasha cloud at about 5 30 when the locker room opens up for media well continue to cover this story and have more for you on news 4 at 5 00 and 6 00. Back you. Shes raising her voice about a very vexing no one will disagree with her. Citizenship celebration, this one done with magical twist. Congtulations. Tommy mcfly is there with a famous illusionist surprises 14 new american citizens. Plus unwelcome guests. Hackers steal personal information from a popular eviteebsite. And weve just learned which and weve just learned which new hbo show is going you knss when youre at ro and suddenly realize great minds shop alike . Yes. Thats yes for less. Yep yes, yes, yes ,yes, yes. Yes. Seriously, 20 to 60 percent off Department Store prices every day. At ross. Yes for less. Exactly what you need. Yes. For your growing family . Thats yes for less. Erything your pet needs at 20 to 60 percent off Specialty Store prices. At ross. Yes for less. A bit bezy out there today. Heres a look outde. Eug is helping you plan your fathers day wekend. You want to hear his full forecast coming up in a couple of minutes. So if youre in Town Planning to take a trip to the mall or to the white house tonight ortomorrow, a film for there could block offeom s an hbo mini series. It is called the plot against america. Closures start at 7 00 tonight and go until 5 00 tomorrow morning. Parts of 17th street, 18th etreet, constitution avenue and indiana avenue arll going to be closed. Well, as we commemorate flag day, 14 people in the district saluted the red, white, and blue in a very spe way. Thats right. They became alcitizens. And their ceremheny was ld in a pretty cool place. The signature sewnimithsonian m it was incredible to see 14 people cross the finish line of a journey that can take years to become an american citizen a todays swearing in ceremony was anything but ordinary. You mighas even say it magical. Yep, thats David Copperfield bringing the tracadabra the ceremony. He ewinveiled a n illusion finding the missing star to the star spangled banner. This is about unity, bringing strs together, thetars of a flal together that were separated. It shows the symbolic way of how were Strong America as we get together and be united. Congratulations. Youre now citizens of the United States of america. It was no trick as people froms 14 countrook the oath of naturalization becoming american. It was really grateful and an honor to become a citizen. I love this country. I learned to love the country. It hasnt hit me yet that fuwa become a u. S. Citizen, but iave become one now. Opportunities exist here, freedoms exist here unlike a. Yplace in the world news 4. Congratulations all. And they got a little bit of vegas. What an interesting way to celebrate their new citizenship. Whoer can forget coppeld . Doug, its june and it feels like october. Its really weird. I say weird because we saw some really warm april, extremely warm may. June so faras been on the cooler side of things. We there are again today. Tomorrow well get back to average. Erature is high te 84 degrees. Right now 77. It is beautiful. Winds out of the west 15 miles per hour, but yeah, wheres the heat . Thats what a lot of people are asking me. Pools the heat for the over the next couple of days. I think were going to get it. Look atthe wind gusg 20 to 30 miles an hour during the day. Gusts up to 35 miles an hour. Starting to calm down just a little bit. Well see that right on through the night tonight. 75 leesburg, 75 over towards the river. The temperature is about 5 to 10 degrees below average today. Loocambridge. Only 72 over there towards the eastern shore. No rain. Were not seeing any rain. Thats the very good news. Ive got more good news for you. Weve got no cloud cover. Look whats coming our way. Weve got more clouds inthe recast for tomorrow, but also warmer weather and a chance for some thunderstormsn fathers day. Not all day. This is actually fathers day. Heres 7 00 a. M. Notice some shder activity an clouds early. Watch what happens here. If uve got plans, temperatures start to move up and even in the afternoon, heres 3 00. Were still dry inost of the area. Notice back towards hagerstown, winchester and martinsburg, heres 3 00. Tch what happens around 5 00, 6 00, still back to the west of the mountains. The rest of us on dry side for thers day. If youre doing a little barbecue, i think youll be okay. Heads up during the evening hours. Thats when front comes through or the next system comes through that gives us another chance of showers. The pool outlook, pool open for business for sure everywhere. Beautiful and a little breezy tomorrow, but were in the een tomorrow. Even fathers day, sunday, nice and hot. Ive got us in the green there too. You folks west of the blue e ridge, a littlit of a different story. Youre probably more yellow after you hear thunder. Make sure you get out of the pool right away. Mo day a good chance for afternoon storms. Most of the kids getting out of school now. Ut watch o for those afternoon storms. All in all a pretty good weekend and a great day tomorrow. 84. Another great afternoon. Warmer, so it could be a lot better at the cool. Lighter winds during the day tomorrow. Still a little on the breezy side as you make your way out on saturday. Sunday. 91 on monday. 87 on tuesday. Were hot and were rather unsettled weook how are starting with sunday into monday. Its really sunday best chance storms. Right on through the middlepart f next week. Look at 79 on wednesday. Another cool day. Even a chance of showers as we head towards nex weekend. All in all unsettled and slightly cooler than average a couple of days. Weve got a couple waer days in there too starting to sunday. Kind of odd to have that 79 sitting there in the middle. Isnt it . Its got 80s and 90s all around thanks, doug. You like to shop until you drop for your house and youve probably heard of wayfare. Pee popular furniture distributor isng a store in our area. What we know so far. Plus petco launches a t projecto bring power lines underground. Underground. Mark segraves explains why the big carriers are talking about their current 5g roll outs, but their efforts are limited to a few pockets in select cities or trying to convince consumers that 4g is actually 5g. Theyre neglecting small towns and rural communities, if approved, only thmbined avaif tmobile and sprint can deliver on all the spectrum bands needed to quickly bring unprecedented 5g connectivity acss the nation. Off deep woods provides long lasting mosquito protection so ou can keep living y off live on sc johnson this is how driving should feelh the tedvanced nissan leaf. Th e best selling electric vehicle of all time. S thssan intelligent mobility. Onlineome storewayfair is opening up a new shop in tysons. The new store will let you get a look at hundreds of affordablep es for your decor. You can start shop tlg auguping august 1th. There is a nationwide recall on flour that you should know about. The maker of king arthur flour is recalling bags. It is for fi pound bags of king arthur flour they have to use by december 7th, 8thnd 14th. You can throw it out or return them to the store and get a credit. So far there have not been any reports of any illnesses. Heres Something Else you need to know about. A consumer alert about a data breach. The Popular Online Invitation Company evite is warning c btomers itsn hacked. Susan hogan working for you with information you needto know abou evite. Eviteays it recently became aware of this Data Security incident onapril 17th. It involved certain customer information. The company sent out emails to all of their customers tolert them. Evite says it has no evidence that personal information was misused, but they wanted tofy no customers out of an abundance of caution. Heres what we know. The investigation uncovered malicious activity starting on about february 22nd. The hacker acquired an inactive data storage File Associated with evite user accounts. The file contained no information more recent than 2013 and included user nameai em and evite passwords. Heres the warning. What youll notice Going Forward when youre logging in, evite will require you to reset your password, so that means you should also change your password for any other acunt where you use the same one. If you want more inutrmation abo the breach and what you apn do, you have to go to our nbc washington and just search evite breach. That is so important about the password. If you use the same password as somewhere else like amazon or whatever, change it immediately. What abouthose of us who dont send but we receive eviti itations . Are we at risk . Any infemation, becaus when you receive, your email address is still in there as well. The bottom line is, tter be safe than sorry. Okay. Thank you, saw soon. Youre welcome. Great news for the weekend. Change your password. A little later on d. C. s own boys to men. Now there theirin their 70s, t go back to kindergarten where they met. And they explain how their community shaped their lives. Coming up on news 4, how this will impact neighborhoods from across the zikt for the im Erika Gonzalez in the newsroom. Youre just joining us, lets get you caught up with four things to know. Police say somebody caught and killed a transgende woman late last night in Prince Georges County. Officers found zoe spe

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