Transcripts For WRC News4 At 5 20240714 : vimarsana.com

Transcripts For WRC News4 At 5 20240714

Tomorrow we dont have one. Theres only a couple of chances for a storm tomorro tomorrow a very good chance for storms. Not anticipating much in the way of Severe Weather andt continues into the day on saturday. Well be talking much more about this coming up. All eyes on these storms. Ba toward the west. Down toward the culpeper moving on lin. Right. Thank you, doug. We have some new on a story we brought you as breaking news yesterday. Eoiwo gng tgeto. Tat hinside third street tunnel. He remains in serious kchbl chris gordon is going to be working that story. Coming up shortly, the driver of the gold suv was shot after a fender bender with another car. Today were hearing from his cousin who saw the entire thing unfold. Reporter well, the driver who was shot here in the third street tunnel yesterday evening has lifethreajuning ines. Now, i spoke with his coworker, a friend of his, who was the passen igevehicle, and he says they tapped t used word tapped the car in frontof them, leading to an argument that turned violent. This man says he was riding wi the driver who was shot. They were in ar bn brown pathfinder. The driver jumped out, lunged at the driver like she intended to strike him. Nd then the passenger got out and i thought he was going to get her out of the way and tell her to calm down and before i know it, i heard the pow. The man fired the shot. Fv 2yep. Then what happend . They jumped back insidee th car and left. He reporter itness tells us this detail as he previously shared with atinvests. I tried to get the tag number, but they had something on the back of their car and i couldnt see the tag. A this is example of why not everyone should own a gun. Op have to st guns from being in our city where minor incidts, minor disputes can erupt in gun violence. The gun man who drove away is wanted for assault with intent to consider. Investigators are making good pros in this case. They believe it will be closedt n arrest. Thats the latest. Ba ck to you. Thank you. D. C. Police believeey th may have cracked a series of Sexual Assault cases aft m a allegedly assaulted people in the northwest. It goes back 20 years. The suspect was already incarcerated at the time we were ble to identify him as being involved in theseases nch we were able to get an indictment. They charged him with burglary, child Sexual Assault, and sexual abuse. D. C. Police say all of the attacks happened in the neflt. Investigators say in some b instances heroke into homes in the middle of the night, sexually assaulting his vtims at knifepoint. When a teenager is arrested, there is a high chance theyll commit crimes in the future. Its cled the school to prison pipeline. It snowballs io a juvenile ecord and its a dispthing of. One woman saidshes going to break that cycle. I just dont care. I didnt care about nothing. Reporter she could have gone to jail but ane Program Changed her life. My grades got better. Reporter shania yates, now a senior in college was also spared a juvenile record with a program. Now she runs one. They put me here. Reporter this woman announced her office will take a role in funneling more juvenile defenders into these programs instead of jail. What we want the young people to know is the young people care about them and were giving them the best possible chance for success. Its not in the system. The syst does not breed success. Reporter a number of Police Departments, not profits are partnering with the effort. One said it starts by decreasinw arreststhin the school system. I guarantee you theres not a Single Person in this room whos made a mistake. Reporter between 2015 and 2016 in the stare of mand, 21 of the children who were arrested live in Prince Georges County. 66 of those were there. The inversion begant oday. The state Attorney Says while there are juveniles that need to be pros indicated kat t the fullest extent, its the nex bowie state and Howard University are also partnering in this effort. You y soon be able to import prescription drugs from canada. A proposal from the Trump Administration would allow stat, pharmacists, and wholesalers to import drugs. The agency will work on safety o guidelines r drug manufacturers who want to import a any. However, these drugs would not include hiv drugs or controlled substances, and that includes insulin. In fact going to canada for insulin is a popular choice for some americans. It costs about 4,000 if you dont have insurance. But in canada, the price for a 90day supply costs just over 300ll dors and its. Getting this medication is a ottter of life and death. Youve to. When your incident is ought inch. I h enough to last me that day in my pump. 70 million americansave to take ins slin to manage their diabetes. K woodstoc0 organizers say theyre pulling the plug on their event. We told you an hour ago they would not host the event at meriweather in columbia. Its one of the worlds most consequential eventsbut they struggled to find a venue and big named acts like jayz starting pulling out. New trouble for capital one. The suit is alleged capital one failed to take reasonable care in protecting the students personal information. Capital one admitted it didcl inude Social Security and bank account numbers. Only on nbc 4, we hear fra a paramic who was assaulted and robbed while pushing a patient into the hospital emergency right. Its an event he would not expect. It happened on ther gnds. Am wished. Trying to to steal a womans lawn ornaments. And right around prince w n. This storm moving up toward st. Mair. This time toward spotsylvania and orange county. This is moving southde of fcks inbird. Flash Flood Warning for this evening. Storm team 4 tracking the orms to our west and south, which means theyre packing a lot of water. Doug is back in a couple ofes mi with this forecast. This is a growing probl and its interesting. Its facing Police Departments across the country and in our region. Not en gh recruits toep up with the demand for ne officers, and in our area, the four largest Police Departments all shortstaffed. But news4s Mark Segraves is about to tell you, d. C. Police is w change that. Reporter if you want to be a police officer, there are dozens of departments in our region to choose from. Thats part of the problem. Local Police Departments competing with each other for re uits. Just a few weeks ago Prince Georges County showed up in the district where d. C. s mayor was speak trying to lure officers to maryland. Mayor bowser heard firsthand why they chose this police department. She would like to see m p. D. Reach its goal of 4,000 swo officers, but right now theyre just under 3,800 officer. Many people have a negative look at police. That could play a role. Were in a retirement bubble. Reporter that retirement bubble is significant. Of 800, almost 300 are eligible to retire. M p. D. Isit recrug in places you might not expect. Getting into Elementary Schools and making sure that our youn people know that the police are here to help them any, this is a great d,nd career. Reporter for smith, its easy. He was to be in the neighboood where he grew up. If you want to see the staffing lels for your po department go to nbcwashington. Comand Search Police staffing. In the district, mark tonight is the second and final night of the democratic debate. You may have seen it. Ten candites took the stage with health care as the main focus between the partys moderates and lib rats. Tonights big topic could end up being race with cwith kamala arris and cory booker challenging Bernie Sanders. Were joining by mark murray. There was a lot of deba about what themocrats should stand for. Who do you think made the most convincing cases . Al ly tuweac con ivincing cases on both sies. Having Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren leading, theyre getting most. At the other hand, you end up having people th came from the w pragmaticing of the Democratic Party talking about the john keyynys,former maryland congressman and hickenlooper, the former colorado governor, Pete Buttigieg who came from the lemidd oer area. Leftr to me this is the fundamental divide in the Democratic Party and will make the debate. There will be more attention with joe biden taking the stageo ght. Lets talk about tonight. Kamala harr Kamala Harris stole the night from joe b en ine previous round a few weeks ago. Who are you watching to challenge the frontrunner tonight . Cory booker. Kamala harris is going to beon side and cory booker on the other. Hes beenin telegraph he wantes to go after bidens bill. As you mentioned, Kamala Harris, i wouldnt be sewer prized if we wouldnt d up seeing an act 2a2. So its not going to be easy for joe bideds he n a better debate performance tonight. But flanked by both booker and harris, hes going to haves work cut out if him. Thanks so much. L there wil be more later and at ws4 at 11 00. Lets get to the area and the rains. Some have been kind of dramatic, doug. Get choked up about it. Whats azing, you look at the pink. You notice around the d. C. Area, severe thunderstorm watch, but no storms around. Theyre down to the south now. Calvert county seeing a pretty good storm. Severe thunderstorm warning for spotsylvania. I talked about this as soon as i ame in with Amelia Draper earlier today. Cloud cover arou d. C. This was around 2 00. This helped with the instability around the d. C. Metro area. We did not see much sunshine at a until after 2 00 or 3 00. Sunshine to the south. Sunshine t s theth earlier and that helped to produce the thunderstorms and thats why wem have th outside right now. Lets take a look and show you rmere the heaviest storm is. Look at this sto an incredible amount of lightning right now. Then another one. If you livelong Prince Frederick and this is routere. This is moving in toward the chesapeake. Its moving very, very slowly and dumping a lot of rain. Look at this storm. Look at all the intense lightning here. A ill zoom into this areo. This is coming right toward spotsylvania and its going to clip the city of fredericksbug. You may already be seeing some rain. Most of the the strongest part with the strongest winds will be just to the south around spotsylvania. Its going orosser on i59. I95. More rain possible in this area. But more back toward Shenandoah Valley area. This has weakened. This is alldo moving to the south. I dont see much if anything in the d. C. Metro area over the next couple of hours, but im going to be tracking it just in case we see these storms develop more toward the mrth. E storms as a result of the frontal boundary area. Meander around the region for the next couple of days. Thats why we have a chance r right fohe next few days. Heres Something Else going on. We have a Flash Flood Watch until 8 00 tonight. I think they cancel this. If they dont cancel this, im not expecting much at all in this area. Were seeing ssible flooding down to the south but no more in the d. C. Area. I think the threat is going on. Temperatures tomorrow, 88 degrees. Partly sunny. Relly im only going with a 30 chance of storms. Most of us should remain on the dry side during the day tomorrow. 86 degrees on your friday. 66 chance of storms. 46 chance on saturday with af high o 87. Right now, sunday looking like its going to be on the dry side. The biggest threat today and again dy. Ing the da watching for seve weather on saturday. All right. Do g, thank you. Shes already somewhat of a sh fa meonghan markleants to do more. About re learning today a new clothing line that she is launching. 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This allows students to declare themselves financially independent whic makesthem eligible for needbased scs,larships and grant and this is all legal. 40 of these cases were discovered in the chicago area alone. Now, womenn i the workplace can be as fashionable as the duchess of sussex. Meghan markle announced she would be announcing her own clothing line for charity. All of the pieces f clothing will be womens rkwear and for each itemc pursed, one will be donated to charity. The collection is expected to er launch lat this year. The message is look before you lock, but not all parents are doing that, and the results ecan be dly for children. How one automaker is trying to change all that. An 84yearold woman who says what keeps her going is her garden, and figurines like these here hanging. Ut lately a thief has been coming in the middle of the night and takingr hered possessions. Its awful, you know. I cant stand this its sickening. Im meagan fitzgerald. Coming up, well tell you what shes doing to try to help police catch the suspect. This is paramedic jim campbell. This is his wallet. It went missing at the hospital after wh you might call a shove and grab. The story coming up. And this just in. Were under a severe hunderstorm. We have a Severe Thunderstorm Warning now fore parts of calv county until 6 00 p. M. Tonight. Were getting reports of numerous trees wn. Again, you have a Severe Thunderstorm Warning until 6 00 p. M. More on t honey, this gigspeed internet is ridic aously fast. We seriously keeping up with the joneses. Keeping up with the fords. Keeping up with the garcias. The romeros. Patels. Thkewahhthewahh wolans. Right. No one is going to have internet like this. Xfinity makes keeping up with the joneses simple. Easy. Awesome. Want gigspeed internet . Weve got you covered. Or check out our other amazing Speed Options at new low prices. Get started now for as low as 34. 99 a month. Click, call or visit a store today. Im tracking this storm right now. Numerous reports of trees down in and around the Prince Frederick area. Is thow extends into portions of anne arundel territory. Im tracking it south of annapolis. Its right along route 2 and up route 2 and into anne arundel and across the bay. D. C. , yeah, i think were going to get rain here in the next couple of hours. This is around the fredericksburg area or south of fredericksburg. You see the st mmoving in and around fredericksburg watch out. Youre going to see the storm moving your way verying very soon. Any more srms popping up, fredericksburg, and Stafford County could be next. Nasty. We have an update to a story from earli this week. A d. C. Paramedic was on the job. A manpe jum him as he tried to bring a patient in to the emergency room. This evenin hes talking with our pat collins about this rre robbery. This is a stoing youre only going to see on news4. S when youre going to the hospital therecertain serenity about it that you feel safe and i was absolutely shocked this happened on the grounds of a hospital. Ambushed. I would sayso. Thats tim campbell. Svyn hes been a firefighter paramedic for 34 years. 14 in new rk, 20 here in d. C. Now tim has seen a lot, but nothing quite like what happened last sunday at g. W. Hospital. You see, tim was pushing a patient on a stretcher into the emergency room here when he was approached by a guy, a guy wearing only red boxer shorts and red socks. Quickly that encounter turned into robbery. How did it go . So the first one was a light shove and the second was a mh more forceful shove as he grabbed your wallet. I felt the wallet come out. You started yelling. Stop the guy in the red shorts. The Security Guard saw him trip, picked up your wallet and escaped. Correct. He goes into the emergency room and flops down naked on a stretcher like a patient. He told the cops hed done some pcp which caused him to out. L he said he woke up in the sp hoital, didnt have any clothes on, and was told he was under arrest. Hear now from the police chief. Im glad were able to make a quick arrest. As for tim mpbell, has this advice. I think all of my brothers and sisters in the ems and fire service need to be more alert 24 7. Charged in the i ka, 49yearold lucas. Hes beng held pending a Court Hearing tomorrow. At g. W. , patnscolli news4. Just bizarre. Well, a flamingo, goose, ev humpty dumpty. Thieves swiped those lawn ornaments from an 84yearold Prince Georges County woman. She hopes police soon catch the crooks. I sit up on the porch and paint them and put them back out. Reporter for most people as they g older, doing the simple things become more enjoyable. He was like this, a big eggshaped humy dumpty. Reporter at least thats the way it is for 84yearold fern edwards. These figurines and statues mean the world to her. They were precious to me. Thats my life. I dontucave mh at my age. After you get so old, you dont have much, but they were my pleasure. Reporter but lately shes had to lockup her gate, post nd signs aven a hidden camera to cat an unusual thief whos been swing items in her garden. My goose was right here and my pelican was over there and then somebody stole i thi

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