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WRC News4 Today July 14, 2024

Today. Clay anderson here with a look at that. Good morning. Great saturday morning to all of you, a theme for this weekend, no excuses, no apolog ts as far as weather is concerned, bright sunshine across our area right now. H low idity, temperatures warming up into the 8 and its june. Outside right now we are uowing yowhat we see and, ain, sunshine across the area, thses some cloud well to our south and west nt it will conue to remain to our south and west throughout the day today. In fact, 6currently, we are degrees currently is the temperature across our region right now. And for the forecast this is what we do expect, folks are outside already and you should get out both today and tomorrow. Temperatures in the low 80s today, mid80s for your sunday. If you like the heat and humidity, adam, weve got that fo you coming up in the extended forecast. More details in a bit. Back to you. Clay, thank you very much. In rs few hou delicious smells will take over downtown d. C. The National Capital barbecue battle iseehappening thisend and with an event tis huge of course there are road closures. Take a look at the map here. We have outlined the streets shut down. Several around constitution and pennsylvania avenues. The event begins at 100 this morning and lasts until 9 00 tonight. If you cant make it today youll have another chance tomorrow. In battle will be from 11 00 the morning until 7 00 p. M. Calls for justice continue this morning in the deaths of two transgender women. Last night an emotional crowd filled dupontcircle condemning the recent violence. More than 200 people kwaegathero remember, shot and killed monthe apart in th same area of maryland. One speaker mentioned how she was threatened just this week by a man yelling antitransgender and antigay slurs. I also survived an atta is week. I was chased. I was followed. I felt unsafe. Organizers say the next step is to harness the political ower of all the groups that gathered last night. Meantime, d. C. Police need ye publics help to solve an attack on aoung gayouple of u street last weekend. Charges were later dropped. Those were just two of the victims that night in a series of assaults and robberies. D. C. Police say at least fi crimes occurred in that area within 75 minutes. Police say the people seen in these photos right here, take a ok, are persons of interest in the crime spree, including the attack on that gay couple. We, justice is served. Thats the feeling this morning among the people closest to wendy martinez. September led last while jogging in the logan circle neighborhood. Anthony crawford accepted a plea deal to spend 30 years in prison yesterday morning. Prosecutors say he stabbed martinez seven times while she was out for a run last fall. There were lots ofar te inside the courtroom yesterday. And after it was over they spoke to wendy martinezs fiance. I hope that he usine s this time to reflect on what he did. He basically ruined his life for nothing. I hope he can w make peaceh god and really use this time to reflect on what he did. Crawford will be formally sentenced in september. Well, this morning, the search is on for a rape suspect in reston. The terrifying attack happened t near Harris Teeter there. A woman was ambushed from behind and raped near reston parkway. She was in a ditch without her phone. Officers are looking for a man who looks like this. Take a look at this sketch. They believe the suspect is in his 50s or 60s with wavy gray hair. The woman had been talking to the man the Grocery Store prior to this attack. Its 6 04, an updaton an arson case in southeast d. C. One suspect is identified as 31yearold lakeeta hazelwood. Surveillance vid showse suspect throwing several matches and then flames erupt inside the door. You can see it here. My goodness. Hazelwood is wanted for arson. A second suspect isseen in the Surveillance Video as welat therson has not yet been identified. Well, d. C. s longest serving lected official is set to be removed as the chair of the councils powerful finance and revenue committee. That word from the co chairman after federal agents searched the home of jack evans yesterday morning. Now, on thursday evans announcee that hould resign from the metro board of directors over ethics olations. The d. C. Council is also planning its own probe into possible corruption here. Evans has been ward 2s Council Member since1991. Meantime, President Trump kick off his reelection campaign, promising to deport millions of uocumented families, and some of those raids will start this weekend. We are told. Sources tell nbc news tha i. C. E. Agents plan on targets as many as 2,000 immigrants on sunday morning. The raids will take place in several major cities across the country. Now, in recent years deportations have dropped because u. S. Authorities are run out of space to hold immigrants ordered to be shipped out of the country. Ay well, if you are near the National Mall tont be alarmed if you find yourself in one of those situations where your phone starts screeching with an emergency alert. D. C. s department of Homeland Security is doing a test involorng cell phones on near the National Mall. Now, if youre in that area around 11 00 this morning your phone could buzz loudly and receive a message. District leaders say, dont worry, its only a test and who get the alert dont need to do anything at all. The latestmaon thesive fire that rocked a Refinery Complex in south philadelphia. Explosion say the has been contained but its not yet under control. The blazerupted early yesterday morning and shook homes across the region. Officials say is a vat of butane nited the refinery causing a series of explosions. No major injuries reported. Thisncident comes two weeks after another small fire broke out atty that same facili well, today marks a decadce sin the deadliest incident in metros history. Hard to believe that ten years has gone by. Two trains collided on the red line between the fort tottenham and tacoma stations. The metro has never gone back to automatic operatis later thi morning a ceremony will be held at legacy Memorial Park in northeast d. C. To remember the victims. Our digital team has put together a page looking back at that tragic day. You can search metro crash to see moron that. Time right now is 6 07. A prominent businessman with deep famioar rs in Northern Virginia is going to spend at least the next six years in prison. Todds hick was found guilty of several fraudulent schemes and cheating investors out of millions of dollars. Officis say he used that money on things like personal vacations and tickets to games. Yesterday at his sentencing he apologized. Hits family found hit contracting a Major Construction firm in Northern Virginia. Fallout ters morning aft the va is considering closing its Medical Clinic in southeast d. C. The facility serves about 2,000 vets a year. The agency says the are fewer patients and new difficulties finding employees. A decision is expected by next month but d. C. Delegate told the house panel the clinic should stay open and she says the facility is losing patients because services have been cut. This facility is, from your point of view,er undused. Its open only about three days a week. So you see why its not being used. You have to keep track of when the facility is open in the first place that leads to a vicious cycle. Now, the vas say its trying to cree a partnership with another hospital in d. C. That would serve that. Our news 4 iteam is busy working on halfhour special to air this weekend on nbc 4. Theyre digging into the threeyear long investigation pital here in va h in d. C. Tune in for under scrutiny, inside the d. C. Va tonight. That comes up at 7 00 tonight. The Supreme Court has handed down a number of decisions as the the justices near the end of their term. They topped out the murder conviction of a man in mississippi. This is all due to efforts to keep africanamericans off the jury. The court cided 72 that Curtis Flowers rights had been violated. Hes already been tried six times and could now face a seventh trial. There are still several high profile Supreme Court decisions that have not yet been handed down. One will decide whether the 2020 census can include a question about citizenship. Another is a maryland gerrymandering case involving a district with stretches from Montgomery County to western maryland. Ready or not, amazon is on the way, and it means a transportation transformation is coming as well. After the break were going to see how brids and sidewalks are changing right under our soon bringw it coul soon bringw it coul a new way to get to reanag when crabe stronger. Strong, with new nicorette coated ice mint. Layered with flavor. He its t first and only coated nicotine lozenge. For an amazing taste. That outlasts your craving. New nicorette ice mint. A lot of people are braying fompthe amazon it in Northern Virginia as we get closer to the tech giant moving in with us. You dont have to look hard to find visible signs of change when it comes to transportation in places like crystal city. I got to spend time in the area this week to see how your commute could be changing. Sparks and cutting. Banging jackhammering. Lifting d hauling. So sometimes you have to walk away from the windows so you can actually focus. Sophia scott worked on the ninth floor of a nearby building here in crystal city. All the changes have been well, a lot. Lets just say lunch hour hasne the same. But this one theyre they started from the top down so as the been t like this for past couple of months. Reporter this truly is an ea thats being retrofitted. Take a look at the south clark and bell street bridge, demolished. The car is not the main focus here in crystal city. So often we do stories about bridges coming together, its not evy day you see one coming apart and will stay apart forever but this is the new crystal city, a completely changing landscape, areas opening up ahead of amazons arrival. How do you see this place changing . What do you think its going to become . Its amazing watching whats going on right now in the t what has been, about six or seven months since amazon made the nouncement, its goin to be a bustling city. O reporter plans to build a pedestrian bridge Reagan National airport to be closer to reality. Walking to and from the city on a dedicated bridge, that doesnt happen often but first the construction. Its just a lot of noise too. Its a lot of noise. Reporter tory wilson will see the benefit of a second metro entrance to thecrystal city station. Coming of this entrance here alone is in the morning terrible, its terrible. Everybody trying to stampede over each other to get to work on time. Reporter for now a neighborhood ing reimagined and redesigned day by day. Well, residents in virginia can have their voices heard before amazons first phase of development. Next month theres a Public Meeting in Arlington County, it will review whats going to happen during construction on south eads street. The meeting location has not yet been made public. The county is asking people to rsvp. Live look outside right now, downtown the National Mall, the ons oming up in the na capital this morning, its shaping up to be a nice morning. What will the rest of the day and the weekend look like . Clay anderson hasour forecast Clay Anderson hasour forecast y i wanted more from my copd medicine. Thats y ive got the power of 1 2 3 medicines with trelegy. The only fdaapproved 3in1 copd trtment. Trelegy. The power of 123. Trelegy 123 trelegy. With trelegy and e power of 1 2 3, im breathing better. Trelegy works 3 ways to. Open airways,. And reduce inflammation. For 24 hours of better breathing. 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Some people wil getting down and dirty in Montgomery County. Others will be going on a food run. News 4s tommy mcfly is working for you with Family Friendly events around town for your weekend. Take a look. Mud slinging, barbecue and snacking while you run. Immy mcfly with whats up for your weekend. Pennsylvania avenue will spell like barbecue this weekend and have more traffic than usual. The giant barbecue battle is taking over from third to seventh street northwest, 30 bands, more than three and actually National Champions will be crowned in different grilling activities. Inontgomery county it is mud fest, the Second Annual mud fest. Check this out from last year, puddles full of mud in woodstock equestrian park. You can see they are already oh, yeah, they are filling up the dlpud. They are getting ready forud fest. They want you to get back to nature, sling some mud, make some mud pies and have some good old clean dirty fun with the family this weekend. Normally a run or a 5k in our area, you do the run and get a bananaor a gra jnola bar. Al. At the fit foodie fest along the 5k route you can snack on Healthy Foods when youre doing the run. Check out these photos from last year. They wt to make sure you balance a Healthy Lifestyle and you have a good balance of calories earned versus calories burned. Make sure you finish chewing before you start running again. General safety tip. And knobs washington. Com click on the scene page, weve got a look ahead for fourth of july activities for the family and 100 awesome things to do this summer around the beltway and beyond. With for your weekend, im tommy mcfly, news 4. Im going toall him up and see if he can get me tickets to the barbecue id rather do the barbecue than the mud. Im trying to identify why you want to i guess you have to be there. Looked like maybe fun for the kids too, jump in the mud puddle, Something Like that. To its all for the kids. Nice day get outside and do pretty much anything today, right . Absolutely, adam. We were just talking about this for a moment ago for Weather Forecast ers, and meteorologists, this is one of those no excuses for not going outside and enjoying the weather today and tomorrow. For june we have the ingredients for a great weekend, low humidity, plenty of sundine, ano hot temperatures. But dont tworry, is still june. We have plenty of heat to go around, well talk about that in the extended forecast. Winds are from the west at five to occasional gusts up to about 10 miles per hour. Temperatures across the board in the 50s and 60s. Northern portions of Montgomery County 59 degrees. Annapolis, warm across the bay at 69 degrees and of course to our west temperatures in the 50s for winchester. What you need to know for both saturday and sunday, take a good look, everyone, its going to feel comfortable all weekend, low humidity as i said, cool , morningsat morning jog, walk the dog, sunshine abounds whether youre working outside or having fun outside. This is the weekend for you. Well show you radar, north and south, east and west, and no rain showers to beoncerned about. Well to our west, just some passcrg showerss areas of the south and west, southern portions of the shenandoah valley. Well take you to the broader view as the streaming of showers moves across our area. We will be dominated by what we call a bermuda igh, a summerlike system which will block or holdom off sof the rain and showers. But it will be bringing in the humidity across the area. Heres a temperature trend, everyone, over the weekend and a teyond, as i , as we Start Talking about tha forecast, monday, tuesday, wednesday wewi l exceed our average high of 86 degrees. But for today and tomorrow, not ad at all. Beaches, everyone, if you are making your way to the east, delightful, 79 degrees today, about 81egreesomorrow and it will be a bit on the breezy side. A good look at the extended forecas everyone. Heat and humidity returns and as it does, chance of evening showers monday, 92 degrees, 90s, 90s, more 90s, midek into the weekend next weekend hot and humid pattern. Keep the shorts handy, youll need them. Back with more ews. Donnt this is annie. And this is annie paying back her friend for the tickets wh zelleĀ® before the previews start. And this is annie getting ready to enjoy the show. [whispers] this is your right here, right now bank. This is wells fargo. Welcome back. Toiz a toys r us stories may be making a comeback. The beloved toy store chain may be relaunching online in a half dozen stores. The new locations would be a third of the size of oldnes. A toys r us executive behind the idea is not commenting. Stay tuned for that. Looking for somethi to do this weekend. A popup puttutt course opened up in rosslyn. It features wellknown landmarks. The brain child of rosslyn business dprovement istrict. So many fun things to do here. We have the putt putt, the candy bar, a wonderful place for people to relax. Novelty candies and ice creams and for theul as, cider, beer and sangria. Its open through august 31st. Tickets cost 3. If you order online reserve one ahead of time. Otherwise, its first m first serve. Ha they should ve used david culvers face as the clown face. Taking a live look outside mor

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