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	<title>Gas station employee shot on the job in Northeast DC</title>
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<p>A woman working at a gas station in Northeast D.C. was shot by a man during a disagreement, authorities say. </p>



<p>The woman was shot just before midnight Wednesday during the woman&#8217;s shift at the Exxon at 1396 Florida Ave NE. A man at the gas station was having trouble using the ATM. </p>



<p>The woman was shot through the cash transfer tray that&#8217;s attached to the store, according to police. </p>



<p>The woman&#8217;s brother, who also works at the gas station, said his sister has trouble speaking English and the customer and his sister couldn&#8217;t communicate well. </p>


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<p>The situation escalated to the point where the woman called her brother to let him know what was going on. Then, the brother got a call from police, who told him his sister had been shot. Her brother said she was shot in the shoulder.</p>



<p>The shooting victim was conscious and breathing and was taken to a hospital, police said. </p>



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<p>Police are still searching for the suspect. </p>
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<li>Cooling breeze today</li>



<li>Chilly mornings returning</li>



<li>Weekend looks great</li>



<li>Elevated fire danger</li>
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<p>D.C. fell just short of 80° on Wednesday but fear not, warmer weather will come back again next week. </p>



<p>For now, it&#8217;s back to average with chilly mornings and cool afternoons. A cold front came through overnight so we will have to contend with a steady northwest wind Thursday. </p>



<p>Sunny skies and very low humidity values, combined with the wind, will lead to an elevated fire risk this afternoon. Use extra caution if you&#8217;re doing any outdoor burning and be mindful not to toss cigarette butts out the window. They belong in the ashtray. </p>



<p>After three days in the 80s this week, staying in the 60s on Thursday will feel extra cool. The wind will die down after sunset and Friday morning will start with many of the rural areas in the mid-30s. </p>



<p>Friday will be a perfect October day: sunny from start to finish with afternoon highs in the mid-to-upper 60s. Another cold front will come through Friday night so the gusty northwest winds will be back on Saturday with highs near 70°.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-nbc-section-heading">Weather radar</h2>


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<h2 class="wp-block-nbc-section-heading">The weather looks cool for Marine Corps Marathon over the weekend</h2>



<p>Sunday is the Marine Corps Marathon and this year&#8217;s weather will be much cooler and drier than last. Temperatures will be near 40° in the staging area near the starting line with a light north breeze. </p>



<p>By noon, it will be in the mid-50s without a cloud in the sky as the four to five-hour finishers cross the line at the Iwo Jima Memorial. </p>



<p>Next week still looks to remain completely dry. Highs will start out in the 60s on Monday, get back to around 70° on Tuesday and could still reach 80° on Halloween! </p>



<p>The tropics are quiet for now but there are some signs that another storm could form late next week</p>


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<h2 class="wp-block-nbc-section-heading">10-day forecast</h2>



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<h2 class="wp-block-nbc-section-heading">Quickcast</h2>



<p><strong>TODAY:</strong><br>Mostly Sunny<br>Breezy<br>Much Cooler<br>Wind: Northwest 14-24 mph<br>Chance Of Rain: 0%<br>HIGHS: 62° &#8211; 68°</p>



<p><strong>TONIGHT:</strong><br>Clear Skies<br>Colder<br>Breezy Evening<br>Chance Of Rain: 0%<br>Wind: Northwest 5-15 mph<br>LOWS: 36° &#8211; 44°</p>



<p><strong>FRIDAY:</strong><br>Mostly Sunny<br>Seasonable<br>Light Breeze<br>Wind: Southwest 4-8 mph<br>Chance Of Rain: 0%<br>HIGHS: 65° &#8211; 70°</p>



<p><strong>SATURDAY:</strong><br>Sun And Clouds<br>Seasonable<br>Breezy Afternoon<br>Wind: Northwest 12-22 mph<br>Chance Of Rain: 0%<br>HIGHS: 66° &#8211; 72°</p>



<p><strong>SUNDAY:</strong><br>Mostly Sunny<br>Chilly<br>Light Breeze<br>Wind: Northwest 5-10 mph<br>Chance Of Rain: 0%<br>HIGHS: 56° &#8211; 62°</p>



<p>Sunrise 7:27 Sunset 6:17<br>Average High: 67° Average Low: 49°</p>



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<p>The parents of a fallen Marine are getting ready to lace up their running shoes in honor of their son, 21-year-old Corporal Spencer Collart, who was killed in an Osprey crash in Australia in August 2023..</p>



<p>“When I get frustrated I just kind of imagine him running next to me and with me,” said his father, Bart Collart.</p>



<p>With every step, he says he feels closer to his son.</p>



<p>“We’re just doing whatever we can to talk about him, to remember him,” he said.</p>



<p>And more than a year after he was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery, his parents are honoring him by running in the Marine Corps Marathon.</p>



<p>“When it actually clicked, it was fairly soon after Spencer’s funeral, and I don’t know why I just felt that I had to do something for him, to kind of honor him,” his father said.</p>



<p>“He hates running. I couldn’t believe it when he said he was going to run,” said Alexia Collart, Spencer Collart’s mother. “It’s 26.2 miles, I’m going to do the 10K and he’s going to do the full 26.2.”</p>



<p>The Collarts sat down with News4 at their Arlington home ahead of their big race weekend to talk about their son’s legacy.</p>



<p>“He’s inspired us, and we’re doing our best to keep moving forward and remember him while moving forward and to live life,” his father said.</p>



<p>“That was what he would want,” said his mother. “He would not want us to not be living our lives and to be sad. I know he would want us to be out there doing things.”</p>



<p>And as their family finds the strength to move forward, they’re turning their pain into purpose..</p>



<p>Bart Collart is running through Team Taps, raising $8,000 for the nonprofit focused on providing resources for grieving families of fallen service members.</p>



<p>Survivors say the Washington Liberty High School graduate died a hero trying to save his fellow marines.</p>



<p>His proud parents say that was just a small part of who he was.</p>



<p>“He’s a knucklehead,” Alexia Collart said.</p>



<p>“He was only 21, and everybody talks about what a hero he was and he was,” Bart Collart said. “He was just an amazing kid. He loved his job and his corps and everything he was doing, but the fun thing for us is remembering the little knucklehead moments. He could be really silly and he would be a lot of fun.”</p>



<p>He says it’s those fun memories that will carry him across the finish line.</p>



<p>“We feel like he’s watching somehow,” Alexia Collart said.</p>
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<p>Vice President Kamala Harris called former President Donald Trump a “fascist” at a CNN town hall Wednesday in Pennsylvania — echoing his onetime chief of staff&#8217;s criticism as she makes a more vocal pitch to voters that he is unfit for office.</p>



<p><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/harris-seizes-on-critical-comments-about-trump-from-his-former-chief-of-staff-222520901596" target="_blank">John Kelly</a>, a retired four-star Marine general who was Trump’s longest-serving White House chief of staff, <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/john-kelly-says-donald-trump-meets-definition-fascist-rcna176706" target="_blank">came forward this week</a> to warn that his former boss meets “the general definition of a fascist.&#8221; And he said that in private conversations, Trump admired dictators and said he wished he had military generals as loyal as Nazi leader Adolf Hitler&#8217;s.</p>



<p>Harris said Kelly’s comments, coming just two weeks before the election, are “a 911 call to the American people.”&nbsp;</p>



<p>“We must take very seriously those folks who knew him best,” she continued, referring to the numerous&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/former-trump-press-secretary-stephanie-grisham-endorses-harris-convent-rcna167476" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">former Trump advisers</a>&nbsp;who have broken with him and warned the public that he should not be trusted with power again.&nbsp;</p>



<p>“Do you think Donald Trump is a fascist?” host Anderson Cooper asked Harris.&nbsp;</p>



<p>“Yes, I do. Yes, I do,” she replied.</p>



<p>Later, she used the word herself to refer to Trump for the first time in public, saying voters care about “not having a president of the United States who admires dictators and is a fascist.”</p>



<p>“I believe that Donald Trump is dangerous,” she continued. “As the president of the United States, the commander in chief, he’s saying to his generals, in essence, why can’t you be more like Hitler’s generals? Come on!”</p>



<p>Harris has more forcefully been arguing in recent days that Trump is unfit for office. On Wednesday, after Kelly&#8217;s remarks became public, she gave remarks to emphasize them and criticize Trump.</p>



<p>Harris noted she has the support of Republicans concerned about Trump’s authoritarian tendencies, such as former Rep. Liz Cheney, who has been&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/liz-cheney-issues-dire-warning-fundamentally-cruel-trump-agrees-s-fasc-rcna175193" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">campaigning for her</a>&nbsp;this week. And Harris vowed that, unlike Trump, she would be a “president for all Americans.”</p>



<p>Trump posted to X and Truth Social moments after the town hall ended, arguing that Harris &#8220;sees that she is losing,&#8221; so she &#8220;is increasingly raising her rhetoric, going so far as to call me Adolf Hitler, and anything else that comes to her warped mind.&#8221;</p>



<p>Harris did not call Trump &#8220;Hitler&#8221; but rather said the American people &#8220;deserve to have a president who encourages healthy debate, works across the aisle, [is] not afraid of good ideas, wherever they come from, but also maintains certain standards about how we think about the role and the responsibility and certainly not comparing oneself in a clearly admiring way to Hitler,” in reference to Trump&#8217;s&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/video/harris-slams-trump-for-reported-praise-of-hitler-while-in-office-222488645711" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">reported</a><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/video/harris-slams-trump-for-reported-praise-of-hitler-while-in-office-222488645711" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">&nbsp;comments</a>&nbsp;about Hitler.</p>



<p>In his social media post, Trump did not directly respond to Harris&#8217; calling him a &#8220;fascist.&#8221;</p>



<p>After the town hall, Harris spoke directly with an attendee who asked her about abortion — telling him that she wasn&#8217;t trying to convert him to her way of thinking and that her abortion position wasn&#8217;t about disagreeing with anyone&#8217;s religious views but instead about keeping the government out of the decision.</p>



<p>With less than two weeks until Election Day, polls show a deadlocked race, with analysts saying it is essentially a coin-flip, with each battleground state able to flip either way.</p>



<p>Later in the town hall, Harris opened up about her religious faith in&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/harris-goes-church-highlighting-absence-religion-2024-campaign-rcna176045" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">a way she rarely does</a>.&nbsp;</p>



<p>“I do pray every day. Sometimes twice a day,” she said, before she recounted her childhood church in Oakland, California. “I was raised to believe in a loving God. To believe that your faith is a verb. You live your faith and that the way that one should do that is your work and your life’s work is to think about ways you can serve that is uplifting other people.”</p>



<p>Meanwhile, halfway across the country in Traverse City, Michigan, Trump used a 90-minute speech to continue personal insults, calling Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Harris’ running mate, “a sick guy,” referring to Harris as “a low IQ individual” and adding, “This woman is crazy.”</p>


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<p>Trump also repeatedly criticized Detroit, the biggest city in the crucial swing state of Michigan, saying that “it’s been decimated by stupid politicians.”</p>



<p>“For 40 years, I’ve been hearing about Detroit’s coming back. Never came back,” he said later.</p>



<p>Trump’s speech, often meandering, hit many of his usual talking points, demonizing migrants as coming from prisons and insane asylums, highlighting cases of crimes allegedly committed by migrants and spending a lot of time discussing the southern border.</p>



<p>“I will rescue every town across America that has been invaded and conquered, and we will put these vicious, bloodthirsty criminals in jail or kick them the hell out of the country,” he said about migrants.</p>



<p>During a part of his remarks discussing Hurricane Helene’s flood damage, he referred to the disaster as “a water hurricane,” a comment the Harris campaign quickly highlighted on social media.</p>



<p>Trump also called Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard to the stage to address his supporters. Trump has frequently touted their support, arguing that it shows his supporters come from left-leaning backgrounds, too.</p>



<p><strong><em>This story first appeared on <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/kamala-harris-calls-trump-fascist-argues-dangerous-unfit-office-rcna176713" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBCNews.com</a>. More from NBC News:</em></strong></p>



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<p>When Ashaki Robinson moved to Bowie, Maryland, from Michigan, she could hardly believe all the concentrated Black wealth around her.</p>



<p>“Not just middle class but, like, rich Black people,” she said.</p>



<p>Like many in her community, Robinson is a federal worker. She’s a social science analyst for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and spoke with the News4 I-Team as a union representative. She said she feels lucky to have a job with strong meaning to her and knows many federal workers feel the same way.</p>



<p>HUD&#8217;s mission is to ensure fair, safe and affordable housing for all Americans. Tucked inside the Project 2025 document of more than 900 pages, former HUD Secretary Ben Carson calls for putting political appointees in top positions and scaling back affordable housing.</p>



<p>The Project 2025 conservative plan for any incoming Republican president was penned by the right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation. The guidebook has been published every four years since President Ronald Reagan.</p>



<p>National civil rights organizations from the NAACP to the ACLU have spoken out against Project 2025 and the sweeping changes the document proposes for the federal government. The groups are opposed to calls to reverse civil rights protections and privatize or dismantle agencies including the Department of Education.</p>



<p>These groups also warn Project 2025 would have a disproportionate effect on African Americans.</p>



<p>The nation&#8217;s largest population of wealthy Black people live in the D.C. area, especially in majority-Black Maryland counties such as Prince George&#8217;s County and Charles County. Many of the region’s middle-class and upper-middle-class Black families have been built around federal work, and the government is the area’s largest employer.</p>



<p>Of more than 2 million full-time federal workers across the U.S., more than 300,000 are concentrated in the D.C. metro region.</p>



<p>The News4 I-Team asked experts on both sides of Project 2025 how the dismantling could affect the D.C. area’s Black middle class.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-nbc-section-heading">What Project 2025 could do to federal job protections</h2>



<p>The document lays out the return of former President Donald Trump’s Schedule F executive order, which was reversed by President Joe Biden. It would strip job protections from career officials in policy roles, make it easier to fire civil servants and require loyalty to the president.</p>



<p>“People shouldn&#8217;t have to sell their souls to do a job,” Robinson, the HUD employee, said.</p>



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<p>Horace Cooper is chairman of Project 21, a program for Black conservatives at the National Center for Public Policy Research, which supports Project 2025.</p>



<p>“Prior to the adoption of these civil service rules, people were appointed and when elections changed, they lost their jobs,” he said.</p>



<p>Cooper said bringing back Schedule F would make Trump more effective if elected, even if that means some workers would lose their jobs.</p>



<p>“I watched in the first Trump term, seeing how many government employees announced that they did not agree with the priorities of this administration and stymied them as a consequence,” he said.</p>



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<p>The Heritage Foundation declined the I-Team&#8217;s request for an interview. The project&#8217;s leader has since left the foundation.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-nbc-section-heading">‘What’s going to happen to my household?’</h2>



<p>Though former Trump officials helped craft Project 2025 and the plan praises Trump’s administration, the former president has distanced himself from it. He said in his debate with Vice President Kamala Harris that he had not read the document and will not read it.</p>



<p>That hasn&#8217;t washed away the concerns of unionized federal workers like Aleseia Saunders, a mother of three who works for the Department of Education – which Project 2025 says should be entirely dismantled.</p>



<p>“What&#8217;s going to happen to my household? What&#8217;s going to happen to my paycheck? What&#8217;s going to happen to my career?” Saunders asked.</p>



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<p>Many of Saunders’ relatives also work for the federal government, including her parents and siblings. She said they constantly worry and talk about what will happen.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-nbc-section-heading">How government jobs helped build the DMV’s Black middle class</h2>



<p>Eric Bunn, the national secretary of AFGE, the largest union for federal employees, is fighting Project 2025 and informing members of potential job loss if the plan is implemented. He said government jobs helped build the Black middle class that thrives in the DMV.</p>



<p>“The migration of employed workers coming from the South to Washington, D.C., or this area here was to get a good government job, just like the migration to Detroit in that area was auto workers,” he said.</p>



<p>More than 18% of federal workers are Black, according to the most recent statistics from the Office of Personnel Management. That’s higher than the proportion of Black Americans that make up the country’s population, at just over 12%.</p>



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<p>Black Americans have been drawn to federal jobs in part because of benefits that have often eluded Black employees in private workplaces, Howard University political science professor Marcus Board said.</p>



<p>“They have worker protections, federal worker protections, that are guaranteed by the federal government, and so it&#8217;s one of the few places where they can be sure that they&#8217;re going to be supported, protected and taken care of,” he said.</p>



<p>Some federal workers see Project 2025 as a direct attack on Black Americans and members of the Black middle class affiliated with the federal government.</p>



<p>“I think that’s an accurate read,” Board said.</p>



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<h2 class="wp-block-nbc-section-heading">Why Rep. Ayanna Pressley calls Project 2025 ‘policy violence’</h2>



<p>Rep. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts is a member of a Democratic-led task force that held hearings earlier this year challenging Project 2025.</p>



<p>“It is their pathway to enact widespread, wholesale policy violence,” she said.</p>



<p>In an interview with the I-Team, Pressley called federal jobs “a ladder up and a pathway to the middle class, to self-sufficiency and economic progress for Black Americans.”</p>



<p>Project 2025 threatens the lives many Black federal workers have built, Pressley said.</p>



<p>“You&#8217;re talking about deep budget cuts, hiring freezes. It&#8217;s just a damning document. And I have every reason to believe that they would make good on it,” she said.</p>



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<h2 class="wp-block-nbc-section-heading">Why a Black conservative says ‘Do not rely on the government’</h2>



<p>Cooper, of Project 21, was senior counsel to former House majority leader Dick Armey. He argues African Americans can&#8217;t rely on federal jobs and says more Black federal workers need to shift to the private sector.</p>



<p>“How can you count on government employment being around forever?” he asked.</p>



<p>“Do not rely on government. Why? Because you can&#8217;t rely on government. Is it a decade? Is it a century? At some point, it&#8217;s going to be government that you&#8217;re sitting there relying on that pulls the rug right out from under your feet,” Cooper said.</p>



<p>Leaving the federal workforce is not an option some employees want to consider.</p>



<p>“It has created such a stability. People talk about my ‘good government job.’ My good government job has paid for a lot of things,” Robinson, the HUD worker, said.</p>



<p><em>Reported by Tracee Wilkins, produced by Caroline Tucker, shot by Jeff Piper and Steve Jones, and edited by Steve Jones</em></p>
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<p><em>The following content is created in partnership with Kaiser Permanente. The editorial staff of NBC Washington had no role in the creation of this content. To learn more about Kaiser Permanente,&nbsp;</em><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://medicare-aep-midatlantic.kaiserpermanente.org/caregivers/" target="_blank"><em>click here</em></a>.</p>



<p>Taking on caregiving responsibilities for a loved one is a rewarding experience but can also impose financial challenges. Many caregivers, particularly family members, may find themselves balancing their caregiving duties with financial strain. Discussing compensation for caregiving can be a sensitive issue, but it&#8217;s an important conversation to have, especially when the caregiving role extends over a long period of time.</p>



<p>For new caregivers, understanding how to navigate this complex terrain is essential. Whether you are helping a parent, spouse, or another family member, there are several ways to receive compensation depending on your situation.&nbsp;</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-nbc-section-heading"><strong>Private pay from the care recipient</strong></h2>



<p>In cases where the person needing care is mentally sound and has the financial resources, they may choose to compensate a family member for caregiving. This arrangement works similarly to hiring a professional caregiver. If you are stepping into this role, it is crucial to treat this agreement like a business relationship to avoid misunderstandings. Consider setting up a formal contract that outlines the scope of caregiving duties, the compensation rate, and the working hours and flexibility. You may want to seek the help of a legal professional to draw up a contract that reflects both parties’ expectations. This not only protects you but also ensures transparency, especially if other family members are involved.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-nbc-section-heading"><strong>Medicaid programs for caregivers</strong></h2>



<p>If your loved one is receiving Medicaid, you may be eligible to receive compensation through state-specific programs. Some states allow Medicaid recipients to hire family members or friends as caregivers through programs like Medicaid&#8217;s Cash and Counselingor Self-Directed Care initiatives. Cash and Counseling programs allow Medicaid beneficiaries to decide how their care funds are used. This might include hiring a family member as a paid caregiver. Self-Directed Care gives the care recipient more control over their personal care, allowing them to select and pay their caregivers.</p>



<p>Each state has its own eligibility rules, so caregivers will need to check their state&#8217;s Medicaid policies to see if they qualify. It’s also important to consider that Medicaid programs may have restrictions, such as requiring certain training or certifications for caregivers, and caps on compensation. Regardless, Medicaid programs can be a lifeline for family members who want to care for loved ones themselves, but do not have the time or resources to do so without compensation.&nbsp;</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-nbc-section-heading"><strong>Long-term care insurance</strong></h2>



<p>Some long-term care insurance policies include provisions for paying family caregivers. If the care recipient has such a policy, review the terms to see if family members are eligible to be compensated for caregiving services. Typically, these policies cover services like assistance with daily living activities, personal care, and homemaking.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-nbc-section-heading"><strong>Veterans’ programs</strong></h2>



<p>For caregivers of veterans, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) offers several programs that provide financial support. Veteran Directed Care allows veterans to hire family caregivers by offering them a monthly budget to manage their care. The Aid and Attendance benefit offers additional payments to veterans who need assistance with daily activities, which can be used to compensate a caregiver. The Program of Comprehensive Assistance for Family Caregivers provides a stipend for caregivers of veterans who were injured or became seriously ill in the line of duty. These programs are designed to provide veterans with more control over their care and ensure that caregivers are supported financially.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-nbc-section-heading"><strong>Area Agency on Aging programs</strong></h2>



<p>Area Agency on Aging (AAA)is a generic term for public or private non-profit agencies designated by the state to address the needs and concerns of older persons at regional and local levels. While these agencies do not directly pay caregivers, they can connect patients and caregivers with local and state programs that offer compensation or subsidies for caregiving. In some cases, AAAs may have grants or respite care funding that can reduce the financial burden on family caregivers. They also offer education, caregiver training, and support services to help you navigate the caregiving journey more effectively.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-nbc-section-heading"><strong>Tax credits and deductions</strong></h2>



<p>While not direct compensation, some caregivers may be eligible for tax credits or deductions that help offset the cost of caregiving. For example, if you are caring for a dependent, you may be able to claim tax credits for expenses related to their care. If you&#8217;re covering medical expenses for a loved one, you may be able to deduct these costs on your tax return if they exceed a certain percentage of your income. Consult with a tax professional to determine if you&#8217;re eligible for these benefits.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-nbc-section-heading"><strong>Approaching the conversation</strong></h2>



<p>While caregiving is often seen as a labor of love, it is a responsibility involving emotional and physical labor that can be financially taxing. Caregivers, too, need the resources to care for themselves, and ensuring that everyone involved feels comfortable with any financial arrangement requires a delicate approach. Consider framing the conversation around the long-term sustainability of caregiving and ensuring that you’re able to continue providing the best care possible.&nbsp;</p>



<p>Whether through private pay agreements, state Medicaid programs, long-term care insurance, or veteran support services, there are options to help alleviate the financial burden for family caregivers. Knowing your options and discussing them early can lead to a fair and sustainable caregiving relationship that benefits both you and your loved one.</p>



<p><em>For assistance with life care planning, access to telehealth services, and caregiver support, Kaiser Permanente is here every step of the way.&nbsp;</em><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://medicare-aep-midatlantic.kaiserpermanente.org/caregivers/" target="_blank"><em>Click here</em></a><em>&nbsp;to learn more about Kaiser Permanente and how they can support you and loved ones throughout your caregiving journey.</em></p>
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<p>A D.C.-based pizza chain is removing a controversial item from its menu after protesters demanded an apology over &amp;pizza&#8217;s ad campaign that made light of the late &#8220;Mayor for Life&#8221; Marion Barry&#8217;s drug use.</p>



<p>&amp;pizza promoted a new menu item Monday called Marion Berry Knots, a dessert with marionberries. The dish is “so good it’s likely a felony,” a press release said.</p>



<p>“For a good time, it’s the powder that’s the ultimate headline grabber. The Marion Berry Knots have enough powdered sugar that will have customers bumping elbows to order and even force the DEA to look twice,” &amp;pizza said in ad copy full of drug references. </p>



<p>&#8220;Candidly, we made a mistake,&#8221; &amp;pizza CEO Mike Burns began a statement Wednesday afternoon. &#8220;And for that, we sincerely apologize.&#8221;</p>



<p>The statement comes a day after Burns doubled down on the item: “We’re talking about a marionberry, that’s spelled with an ‘e’. We stuff that into a knot, drizzle it with icing and then top it with powdered sugar. It’s delicious – we can’t wait for D.C. to try it.”</p>



<p>On Wednesday, Burns wrote the item would be removed &#8220;effective immediately.&#8221;</p>



<p>&#8220;While humor was our intent, it was regrettably off the mark,&#8221; the new statement said. &#8220;[&#8230;] The parody of the former Mayor and portrayal of substance abuse was wrong.&#8221;</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-nbc-section-heading">Demonstrators protest outside &amp;pizza shops</h2>


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<p>Demonstrators gathered Wednesday morning outside the company&#8217;s location on U Street, calling for &amp;pizza to remove the dessert from its menu and apologize.</p>



<p>Many people who spoke with News4 Wednesday said the ad was in poor taste. One protester described it as &#8220;degrading&#8221; to Barry&#8217;s legacy.</p>



<p>&#8220;Also, to his family. You have to think about his family, as well. &#8230; We have to think about &#8211; we&#8217;re on U Street right now and this street carries a lot of history,&#8221; protester Austin Lee told News4.</p>


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<p>Someone vandalized the chain&#8217;s location in the Skyland neighborhood of Southeast D.C. Yellow and orange paint was splattered all over the windows of the business Wednesday morning.</p>



<p>“We have read the countless messages and social media posts and understand the frustration this has brough forth – especially to the Barry family,” Wednesday’s statement read.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-nbc-section-heading">Barry&#8217;s career and legacy</h2>



<p>Barry got his start in politics as a civil rights activist and remains revered by many Washingtonians. A statue of the four-term mayor stands outside the Wilson Building in downtown D.C., and Southeast D.C. has Marion Barry Avenue SE.</p>



<p>He was arrested in a hotel room in 1990 in a videotaped drug sting by the FBI and D.C. police. Barry famously complained that his ex-girlfriend, an FBI informant, had set him up. Out of 14 charges, a jury convicted him of a single misdemeanor possession charge.</p>



<p>Barry was sentenced to six months in prison, released in 1992 and won the Ward 8 D.C. Council seat. He returned as mayor for a fourth term in 1994 and remained influential until <a href="https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/marion-barry-district-councilman-and-former-mayor-dies-at-78-2/1980661/">he died in 2014 at 78</a>. Next month marks a decade since his death.</p>



<p>D.C.’s NAACP branch on Tuesday called on &amp;pizza to take the “inflammatory, culturally insensitive and drug-use insinuating” item off the menu and to “issue remuneration to support substance-abuse prevention in all cities within the &amp;Pizza marketing area.”</p>


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<p>NAACP DC President Akosua Ali said in a statement Tuesday: “The life, legacy, lineage and name of Marion Barry deserves to be remembered as a pioneer for economic development, real-estate development, black business empowerment, youth employment and as the Mayor of the people. Mayor Barry taught us the power of economics and today, we call on the community to demand &amp;Pizza right this egregious wrong.&#8221; </p>



<p>&amp;pizza is “spitting on Marion Barry’s grave,” <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DBbQgEOR_s9/?hl=en">community activist Ron Moten said on Instagram</a>. “[…] We cannot continue to support people who disrespect us.”</p>



<p>Moten said discussions are underway for a boycott of the chain, which opened its first location on H Street NE in 2012 and now has locations in D.C., Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.</p>



<p>Former D.C. first lady Cora Masters Barry was hurt by the menu item and campaign, a representative told News4. She was flooded with calls from community leaders and residents who “expressed disappointment and outrage by the promotion’s interference,” the representative said. She “requested that the attorneys for the Estate of Marion Barry Jr. look into the matter and act accordingly,” the representative said.</p>



<p>D.C. restaurant owner <a href="https://x.com/DC_Peyton/status/1848567885481816422">Peyton Sherwood said on X that &amp;pizza “crossed a line.”</a></p>



<p>“Barry’s life was about opportunity, dignity, and equality for everyone in Washington, D.C. To reduce that legacy to a crass ad about his darkest moments is not only offensive it’s cruel,” he wrote. “It disregards the immense good Barry did for this city and the battles he fought on behalf of all its people.”</p>



<p>&amp;pizza said it is reaching out to community leaders to &#8220;identify how we can work together to make a positive impact.</p>



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<p><span style="font-weight:400">Stop, drop and roll on up to see </span><a href="https://www.eonline.com/news/1407885/heres-why-jelly-roll-missed-the-2024-peoples-choice-country-awards">Jelly Roll&#8217;s</a><span style="font-weight:400"> new look.</span></p>



<p><span style="font-weight:400">The </span><a href="https://www.eonline.com/news/1401054/jelly-roll-reacts-to-katy-perrys-hope-that-he-replaces-her-on-american-idol" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span style="font-weight:400">“Wild Ones” singer</span></a><span style="font-weight:400"> — who is currently on his Beautifully Broken tour — recently shared an update about his ongoing weight loss journey, revealing that he has now lost 100 pounds since his last tour.</span></p>



<p><span style="font-weight:400">“Next year when y’all see me, you won’t recognize me,” Jelly Roll said in an Oct. 23 </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DBZwSPqs_6Y/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span style="font-weight:400">Instagram</span></a><span style="font-weight:400"> video recapping his lifestyle changes. “I’m going to get under a pile of weights in a way that I never have.” </span></p>







<p><span style="font-weight:400">And while the 39-year-old — whose real name is </span>Jason Bradley DeFord <span style="font-weight:400">— has already hit his “goal,” he plans to continue working on shedding the pounds until the final stop on his international tour.</span></p>



<p><span style="font-weight:400">“When I see y&#8217;all in March for Canada dog,” he continued, “y&#8217;all aren&#8217;t gonna recognize me, bro.” </span></p>



<p><span style="font-weight:400">As for how the “I Am Not Okay” singer has achieved this weight loss milestone? His nutritionist </span>Ian Larios <span style="font-weight:400">shed some light.</span></p>



<p><b><strong><a href="http://eonline.com/news/1408880/jelly-roll-announces-hes-leaving-x-slams-it-as-the-most-toxic-negative-app">READ</a></strong></b><a href="https://www.eonline.com/news/1408880/jelly-roll-announces-hes-leaving-x-slams-it-as-the-most-toxic-negative-app" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><strong> Jelly Roll Announces He’s Leaving X, Slams It as the Most “Toxic, Negative” App</strong></a><span class="credit"><strong> </strong></span></p>



<p><span style="font-weight:400">“We just passed the halfway point of tour and Jelly has been crushing it,” Larios said in the video, noting the musician has opted to “walk in the arenas” before concerts as well as take up basketball and boxing to stay active.</span></p>



<p><span style="font-weight:400">The chef — whose client list has also included </span><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.eonline.com/news/1397782/conor-mcgregor-shares-rare-comment-about-family-life" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight:400">UFC</span></a><span style="font-weight:400"> fighters like </span>Daniel Cormier<span style="font-weight:400"> and light heavyweight champion </span>Jamal Hill <span style="font-weight:400">— also detailed Jelly Roll’s recent change in diet, listing one of his favorite pre-show snacks as a banana with manuka honey, stevia and dark chocolate.</span></p>



<p><span style="font-weight:400">In addition to the high-protein meals he has taught the country star to make, Larios has been supporting Jelly Roll as one of his biggest cheerleaders.</span></p>



<p><span style="font-weight:400">“The habits he’s been building are truly life changing,” the nutritionist wrote in a Sept. 16 Instagram post. “He’s doing this while also changing lives on this 56-city tour. Excited for him to show the world he’s just getting warmed up!” </span></p>



<p><span style="font-weight:400">And Jelly Roll — who married wife </span><a href="https://www.eonline.com/news/1405935/jelly-rolls-wife-bunnie-xo-faced-death-scare-after-misdiagnosed-aneurysm" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bunnie XO</a><span style="font-weight:400"> in 2016 — celebrated the encouragement, commenting, “LETS GOOOOOO BUBBBBAAAA.”</span></p>
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<p>An amazing discovery along the shores of the Chesapeake Bay dating back 10 million years soon will be displayed to the public in Calvert County, Maryland.</p>



<p>Along the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay where more than 30 miles of cliffs – some as high as 100 feet – generations of people have been finding fossils, especially shark teeth that date back millions of years to the Miocene era.</p>



<p>Calvert Marine Museum Paleontology Collection Manager John Nance began searching that shoreline for shark teeth when he was a young boy.&nbsp;</p>



<p>“I got started with my grandfather,” he said. “He would take me out to the beach when I was a little kid.”&nbsp;</p>



<p>For the past eight years, Nance and other scientists have been searching and finding teeth that belonged to the same shark – a giant megalodon that swam in the in the waters that is now the Chesapeake Bay 10 million years ago. Over the years, Nance found one or two teeth from the shark. Then two years ago, he got lucky.&nbsp;</p>



<p>“We found the holy grail of collecting for Calvert Cliffs,” Nance said.&nbsp;</p>



<p>“This one is off the charts; it’s an unbelievable thing to discover,” he said.</p>



<p>While searching for shark teeth, Nance came upon an injured baby deer along the shoreline.</p>



<p>“And I come across this little, tiny day- or two- old fawn that was on the beach, and it was crying. Could actually see its mom at the top of the cliff,” he said.</p>



<p>As he was helping the deer, Nance looked down at his feet and couldn&#8217;t believe what he saw.&nbsp;</p>



<p>“It’s just astonishment,” he said.</p>



<p>Nance was standing on a motherload of shark teeth.&nbsp;</p>



<p>“By the end of the day when we finally had to call it quits, we had found 17 teeth that day,” Nance said.</p>



<p>The teeth came from a shark as big as a school bus.</p>



<p>“Around 50 feet long – give or take – and we know that because the teeth, the largest teeth that we have&nbsp;are around 5-and-a-half&nbsp;inches, and so sort it’s of a roughly 10 feet for every inch of shark’s tooth is the length of the animal,” Nance said.</p>



<p>Nance and his colleagues at the museum collected 53 teeth from the same megalodon. The odds?</p>



<p>“Astronomical,” Nance said. “It’s, it’s extremely rare. So there’s only a handful of other known megalodon associations in the world, and so this is now one of those, those handful.”</p>



<p>In addition to the fossils being found in the same area, other <a href="https://www.calvertmarinemuseum.com/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=502" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.calvertmarinemuseum.com/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=502" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">characteristics strongly suggest they came from the same shark</a>, according to the Calvert Marine Museum. </p>


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<p>The museum won’t say exactly where Nance found the teeth. For anyone going to look for themselves, it’s important not to trespass and never to dig in the cliffs, which is illegal.</p>



<p>The teeth will go on display at the Calvert Marine Museum Solomons next month.&nbsp;</p>



<p>As for the newborn fawn, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources was able to reunite it with its mother.</p>



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<p>According to the airline, the new technology will alert gate agents with a sound and a boarding pass message if a passenger tries to scan their ticket ahead of their assigned group. </p>



<p>&#8220;We are in the early phase of testing new technology used during the boarding process,&#8221; the airline said in a statement <a href="https://www.today.com/video/airlines-test-new-tech-to-stop-passenger-from-cutting-boarding-line-222460485799" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">to NBC News</a>. &#8220;The new technology is designed to ensure customers receive the benefits of priority boarding with ease and helps improve the boarding experience by providing greater visibility into boarding progress for our team.&#8221;</p>


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<p>The tech trial has so far been tested at New Mexico&#8217;s Albuquerque International Sunport, Tucson International Airport in Arizona and Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Virginia.</p>



<p>American Airlines currently allows families traveling with children under 2 years old to request an earlier boarding group at the gate. Families with older children will also be able to request to board earlier though whether that&#8217;s granted will depend on the gate agents. </p>


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<p>Court documents reveal more details about a house explosion that killed a volunteer firefighter earlier this year in Sterling, Virginia.</p>



<p>Roger Bentley, a former employee of agricultural retailer Southern States Cooperative, was indicted on charges of involuntary manslaughter, &#8220;unlawful release of hazardous materials, namely, liquified petroleum gas&#8221; and related charges, Loudoun County officials said Tuesday.</p>



<p>A leak from a 500-gallon underground propane tank caused the explosion that destroyed the house on Silver Ridge Drive on Feb. 16 and killed 45-year-old Trevor Brown, the Loudoun County Combined Fire and Rescue System said. Eleven first responders were hurt. Two people who lived at the home got out before the blast, but suffered minor injuries.</p>



<p>According to the indictment, Bentley was not properly certified to transfer the propane that leaked before the explosion.</p>



<p>The owner of the home that exploded had called Southern State Cooperative earlier in February to have someone service the tank, which hadn&#8217;t been used in a while, according to a search warrant filed in the case.</p>



<p>A propane delivery driver who filled the propane tank six hours before the explosion discovered the leak, the search warrant states.</p>



<p>The document goes on to say that Bentley arrived at the home a couple of hours later to assess the situation and allegedly told the homeowner they were going to let the tank leak out the remainder of the propane.</p>



<p>&#8220;It was all avoidable. It was unnecessary,&#8221; a neighbor told News4 on Wednesday. The resident did not want to be named.</p>



<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s unfortunate. I mean, it seems like there were so many places where this could’ve stopped,&#8221; resident Debbie Voloshin said.</p>



<p>Firefighters responded to the home in the 300 block of Silver Ridge Dr. about 7:50 p.m. after the homeowner called 911 to report the smell of gas.</p>



<p>Loudoun County’s Hazardous Materials Response Team and other emergency responders were called in to help.</p>



<p>Firefighters wearing personal protective equipment were inside checking for occupants and trying to control the leak when something ignited the propane and caused the explosion about 8:25 p.m.</p>



<p>During one of several mayday calls, a first responder said a firefighter was &#8220;trapped by debris.&#8221;</p>



<p>“The house is pretty much leveled,” a firefighter said during a dispatch call.</p>


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<p>News4 tried reaching Bentley for comment on the indictment but has not yet heard back.</p>



<p>In a statement to News4, Southern States says it has cooperated fully with federal and local investigations.</p>



<p>The statement goes on to say, “Based on our own internal inquiry into the incident and an extensive review of our safety protocols and training, particularly as they relate to the handling of propane consistent with the industry’s Energy Compliance Manual, we have made what we believe to be appropriate personnel changes in the region.”</p>



<p>Brown, a fourth-generation volunteer firefighter, was survived by his wife and three children. He had moved away for a job at some point, and returned to the volunteer fire department as soon as he came back, Sterling Volunteer Fire Company Assistant Chief Clyde Buchanan previously said.</p>


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<p>Chopper4 footage showed a lot covered by shattered wood and charred rubble. The force of the explosion sent debris flying into the branches of nearby trees.</p>



<p>Neighbors feel strongly that Brown should be remembered on the spot where he lost his life trying to protect the community.</p>



<p>Homeowners Association President Steve Honard has created a fundraising campaign with an ambitious goal: to create a little, peaceful park where the house once stood — a place that would honor Brown’s memory.</p>



<p>“We really don&#8217;t want to see a house built there because it is to us kind of like sacred ground,” Honard said. “It&#8217;s like these people, these first responders, come out here and one of them gave their life to help us.”</p>
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<p>One week before Election Day 2024, Vice President Kamala Harris is set to give a &#8220;closing argument&#8221; speech to the American people from the National Mall.</p>



<p>On Tuesday, Oct. 29, Harris will take the stage and use the opportunity to try to sway still-undecided voters to cast their ballots in her favor, three sources familiar with preparations confirmed to NBC News.</p>



<p>The Harris campaign expects to draw nearly 8,000 people to the National Mall, according to a permit application filed with the National Park Service on Oct. 18. </p>



<p>The staging area on the National Mall will live between 7th Street and 4th Street, according to the permit application. That&#8217;s the part of the Mall near the National Gallery of Art and the National Air and Space Museum, closer to the U.S. Capitol than the Washington Monument.</p>



<p>The event almost certainly means road closures and emergency no-parking zones immediately around the National Mall for security purposes, though sources said that final logistical details have not been nailed down.</p>


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<p>According to the permit application, setup for the speech will begin on Oct. 27.</p>



<p><a href="https://www.nbcwashington.com/entertainment/the-scene/world-culture-festival-on-the-national-mall-what-to-expect-from-massive-performances-to-road-closures/3428227/" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.nbcwashington.com/entertainment/the-scene/world-culture-festival-on-the-national-mall-what-to-expect-from-massive-performances-to-road-closures/3428227/">Previous events hosted on the National Mall between 7th and 4th streets</a> have closed portions of 3rd, 4th, 7th and 9th streets to vehicle traffic, and limited or eliminated parking near Independence Ave., Constitution Ave., Madison Dr. NW and Jefferson Dr. SW.</p>



<p>The Harris campaign declined to comment on the event.</p>
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<p>Early voting in Maryland begins Thursday, Oct. 24. </p>



<p>During that week, you can vote at any early voting center in the jurisdiction where you live. Each voting center is open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. <a href="https://elections.maryland.gov/elections/2024/2024%20Early%20Voting%20Centers%20v1.pdf">Here&#8217;s a full list.</a></p>



<p>The last day for early voting is Thursday, Oct. 31.</p>



<p>The 2024 general election is Tuesday, Nov. 5. Polls will be open that day from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. As long as you&#8217;re in line by 8 p.m., you will be able to vote.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-nbc-section-heading">2024 Maryland voter registration info:</h2>



<p>You can<a href="https://elections.maryland.gov/voter_registration/application.html"> register to vote</a> or <a href="https://elections.maryland.gov/voting/absentee.html">apply for an absentee ballot</a> online. The deadline to register to vote or update an existing registration for the upcoming election was Oct. 15 — however, you may still register after that date and vote using a provisional ballot.</p>



<p>If you think you&#8217;re already registered but want to make sure, <a href="https://voterservices.elections.maryland.gov/VoterSearch">you can do that online here.</a> </p>



<p>Same-day voter registration is also available.</p>



<ul>
<li>Register during early voting by going to an early voting center and bring a document that proves where you live. </li>



<li>Register to vote on Election Day and bring a document that proves where you live.</li>
</ul>



<h2 class="wp-block-nbc-section-heading">Requesting a mail-in ballot in Maryland:</h2>



<p>The deadline to request a ballot by mail is Oct. 29. Your request must be received by 8 p.m. </p>



<p>The deadline to request a ballot via the internet must be received by 5 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 1 for a request sent in the mail, or by 11:59 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 1 for a request sent by fax or <a href="https://voterservices.elections.maryland.gov/OnlineMailinRequest/InstructionsStep1">submitted online</a>.</p>



<p>Here are your options for submitting your completed mail-in ballot:</p>



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<li>Bring it to your local general registrar&#8217;s office by 8 p.m. on Election Day (Tuesday, Nov. 5)</li>



<li>Bring it to a drop-off location. (Check the instructions provided in your mail-in ballot mailing for the locations.)</li>



<li>Return it by mail. Your filled-out ballot must be postmarked on or before Election Day (Tuesday, Nov. 5) and received by your general registrar&#8217;s office by 10 a.m. on Nov. 15. </li>
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<h2 class="wp-block-nbc-section-heading">Maryland voter ID rules:</h2>



<p>Voters can provide a valid form of ID or a copy of a government document that shows their name and address. These documents must be dated within three months of the election. </p>



<p><a href="https://elections.maryland.gov/voting/election_day_questions.html">Here&#8217;s a list of valid documents and IDs to bring.</a></p>


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<h2 class="wp-block-nbc-section-heading">Who&#8217;s on the ballot in my area?</h2>



<p>In addition to the presidential race, Maryland voters will be selecting their choice for one U.S. Senate seat and their U.S. House representative. If you&#8217;re not sure what congressional district you live in, <a href="https://redistricting.mgaleg.maryland.gov/PlanViewer-SB1012-Congressional/#SB1012-2022-Md-Congress">you can check on that here.</a></p>



<p>There are also many local races. <a href="https://elections.maryland.gov/elections/2024/primary_candidates/gen_cand_lists_2024_1_by_county_ALL.html">Look up candidate lists for your jurisdiction here.</a></p>



<h2 class="wp-block-nbc-section-heading">Election Day 2024:</h2>



<p>The 2024 general election is <strong>Tuesday, Nov. 5</strong>. Polls that day will be open in Maryland from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. As long as you&#8217;re in line by 8 p.m., you will be able to vote.</p>



<p>You can find your Election Day <a href="https://voterservices.elections.maryland.gov/PollingPlaceSearch">polling place here.</a> </p>



<p>Same-day voter registration is available in Maryland. <a href="https://elections.maryland.gov/voter_registration/">Here&#8217;s info on that.</a></p>
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<p>A suspect sexually assaulted a woman early Wednesday morning at a bus station in Silver Spring, Maryland, police say.</p>



<p>Shortly after 1 a.m., a woman reported to Metro Transit Police officers that she was raped at the Paul S. Sarbanes Transit Center on Colesville Road in downtown Silver Spring.</p>



<p>The victim told officers she interacted with the suspect earlier in the day, police said.</p>



<p>Later, the suspect found her at the transit center and sexually assaulted her, according to police.</p>



<p>Authorities haven&#8217;t released a description of the suspect or anymore information about what happened.</p>



<p>Metro Transit Police is asking anyone who knows or saw anything to call 202-962-2121.</p>
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<p>Officials in the District are getting ready for the looming general election, prepping for everything from peaceful celebrations to a repeat of Jan. 6, 2021.</p>



<p>Some of the people who live near the Capitol are also preparing. That includes one family that&#8217;s taking a pretty drastic step to avoid any trouble.</p>



<p>On Tuesday, a few blocks from the Capitol, nearby neighbors celebrated the beautiful fall day by walking their dogs and taking their children out to play &#8212; despite growing concerns about what could happen between Election Day on Nov. 5 and Inauguration Day on Jan. 20.</p>



<p>Cassie Miller lives in that neighborhood, blocks from the U.S. Capitol, with her husband and their young son. It&#8217;s the same home where they lived on Jan. 6, 2021.</p>



<p>&#8220;Being close was very scary,&#8221; Miller said. &#8220;We&#8217;ve got a young son now too. That makes it a little bit different. I think really just concerns for him, you know, the multiple assassination attempts now. I think you know that the violence possibility has grown.&#8221;</p>



<p>She&#8217;s not the only neighbor with concerns. Another resident preferred not to show her face or share her name with News4.</p>



<p>&#8220;I am concerned about, you know, my safety, obviously. In this neighborhood close to Capitol Hill, that people may become violent against our property, obviously against people, most importantly,&#8221; she said.</p>



<p>Miller is so concerned about what could happen around the Capitol that she and her husband made a major decision.</p>



<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve decided to move out of Capitol Hill, just based on concerns for Jan. 6 and any events that may happen around that time, having lived through it the first time,&#8221; Miller said.</p>



<p>After years of calling Capitol Hill home, she and her family moved on Tuesday.</p>



<p>&#8220;I think the &#8212; the unrest last time, you know, it wasn&#8217;t really as organized as it is now. And so we decided we&#8217;d rather be safe than sorry,&#8221; Miller said.</p>



<p>D.C. Chief of Police Pamela Smith said she has recruited about 4,000 police officers from across the country who will be sworn in to help with Inauguration Day security.</p>



<p>D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is also concerned, and on Tuesday she and her team briefed the D.C. Council on security plans from Election Day until the inauguration.</p>



<p>That included the possibility of requesting National Guard troops.</p>



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<p>&#8220;We have not yet made a request, but we have been actively involved with DOD and with how that planning happens,&#8221; Bowser said. &#8220;And when we have a specific request, we will advance it. We may even do something that we haven&#8217;t done, is kind of advance a preliminary request so that they can start planning. And if we need to dial it up or dial it back, we&#8217;ll do that.&#8221;</p>
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<p>A man has been charged with involuntary manslaughter and failure to control the unauthorized discharge of hazardous materials in the February explosion that killed a volunteer firefighter in Sterling, Virginia.</p>



<p>A leak from a 500-gallon underground propane tank caused the explosion that destroyed the house on Silver Ridge Drive on Feb. 16 and killed 45-year-old Trevor Brown, the Loudoun County Combined Fire and Rescue System said in a release on Tuesday. Eleven first responders were hurt.</p>



<p>Roger Bentley, a former employee of agricultural retailer Southern States Cooperative, was indicted on charges of involuntary manslaughter, &#8220;unlawful release of hazardous materials, namely, liquified petroleum gas&#8221; and related charges.</p>



<p>News4 is trying to reach Bentley for comment on the indictment but has not yet heard back.</p>



<p>&#8220;Our folks were in that house when it exploded,” Loudoun County Fire and Rescue Chief Keith Johnson said after the explosion. &#8220;Probably lucky we only had one fatality.”</p>



<p>Two people who lived at the home got out before the blast, but suffered minor injuries.</p>



<p>In a statement to News4, Southern States says it has been cooperating fully with federal and local investigations.</p>



<p>The statement goes on to say, “Based on our own internal inquiry into the incident and an extensive review of our safety protocols and training, particularly as they relate to the handling of propane consistent with the industry’s Energy Compliance Manual, we have made what we believe to be appropriate personnel changes in the region.”</p>



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<p>Brown, a fourth-generation volunteer firefighter, was survived by his wife and three children. He had moved away for a job at some point, and returned to the volunteer fire department as soon as he came back, Sterling Volunteer Fire Company Assistant Chief Clyde Buchanan previously said.</p>



<p>Firefighters responded to the home in the 300 block of Silver Ridge Dr. after the homeowner called 911 to report the smell of gas.</p>



<p>A 500-gallon underground propane tank was found near the home after firefighters arrived about 7:50 p.m., officials said. Loudoun County’s Hazardous Materials Response Team and other emergency responders were called in to help.</p>


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<p>Firefighters wearing personal protective equipment were inside checking for occupants and trying to control the leak when something ignited the propane and caused the explosion about 8:25 p.m.</p>



<p>During one of several mayday calls, a first responder said a firefighter was &#8220;trapped by debris.&#8221;</p>



<p>“The house is pretty much leveled,” a firefighter said during a dispatch call.</p>



<p>Chopper4 footage showed a lot covered by shattered wood and charred rubble. The force of the explosion sent debris flying into the branches of nearby trees.</p>



<p>Neighbors feel strongly that the sacrifice made by Brown should be remembered on the spot where he lost his life trying to protect the community.</p>



<p>Homeowners Association President Steve Honard has created a fundraising campaign with an ambitious goal: to create a little, peaceful park where the house once stood — a place that would honor Brown’s memory.</p>



<p>“We really don&#8217;t want to see a house built there because it is to us kind of like sacred ground,” Honard said. “It&#8217;s like these people, these first responders, come out here and one of them gave their life to help us.”</p>
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<p>Halloween is almost here, and spooky season is in full swing.&nbsp;</p>



<p>Aside from the usual neighborhood trick-or-treating, many activities throughout the D.C. area are perfect for families and young children.&nbsp;</p>



<p>Mark your calendars for these events. Most of them are free, and the others cost no more than $35.&nbsp;</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-nbc-section-heading">Kid-friendly Halloween events in Washington, D.C.</h2>



<p><a href="https://dprhalloween.splashthat.com/">Halloween at DPR<br></a>Events at various locations and dates through Nov. 2, free</p>



<p>D.C.&#8217;s Department of Parks and Recreation has planned more than two dozen Halloween activities across the city.</p>



<p>Movies, trick-or-treat events and a haunted house at Barry Farm Rec Center are all on tap before Halloween even arrives.</p>



<p>On Oct. 31, try out a <a href="https://dprhalloween.splashthat.com/">Halloween Silent Disco</a> at Edgewood Rec Center, costume skating at Kennedy Rec Center, plus other costume parties and safe candy giveaways at other locations around the District.</p>



<p><a href="https://www.anacostiaparkcommunity.org/upcoming-events/thearc-trunk-or-treat">THEARC Trunk or Treat</a><br>Fri., Oct. 25, 5:30 to 8 p.m., 1901 Mississippi Ave. SE, free</p>



<p>Enjoy candy, games and drinks at the Town Hall Education Arts Recreation Campus.</p>



<p><a href="https://www.kennedy-center.org/nso/home/2024-2025/nso-halloween-spooktacular/">NSO Family Concert: Halloween Spooktacular</a><br>Sat., Oct. 26 at 2 p.m. and Sun., Oct. 27 at 4 p.m., Kennedy Center, $25.30+</p>



<p>Enjoy the musicians in their Halloween attire as they play classic and new Halloween-themed songs. The Sunday show is <a href="https://www.kennedy-center.org/visit/accessibility/sensory/">sensory-friendly</a>, so it may have lower volume and lights.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-nbc-section-heading">Kid-friendly Halloween events in Northern Virginia</h2>



<p><a href="https://www.fxva.com/event/childrens-science-center-haunted-lab/23289/">Children’s Science Center Haunted Lab</a><br>Daily through Sunday, Oct. 27, Fair Oaks Mall in Fairfax, $15 per visitor</p>



<p><a href="https://www.childsci.org/events-programs/special-events">Spooky science activities</a> include a haunted lab and a scavenger hunt. Some families may qualify for discounted admission through <a href="https://www.childsci.org/plan-your-visit/museums-for-all-program">Museums for All.</a></p>



<p><a href="https://airandspace.si.edu/whats-on/events/air-scare-2024">Air &amp; Scare<br></a>Sat., 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, free but parking is $15</p>



<p>Explore the spooky side of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum&#8217;s outpost in Chantilly. Enjoy Legos, a singalong, stories and a space suit dress-up station.</p>



<p><a href="https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/parks/burke-lake/ghost-town/102624">Ghost Town</a><br>Sat., Oct. 26 starting at 11 a.m., Burke Lake Park in Fairfax Station, $15</p>



<p>Wear your costumes to enjoy Halloween-themed (but not spooky!) activities. Explore themed activity areas, play mini golf or take a spin on a train, carousel rides and a bounce house.</p>



<p><a href="https://tallshipprovidence.org/">Spooky Sailing: Halloween Howl</a><br>Sat., Oct. 26, sailing at 10 a.m. and 11:30 a.m., Alexandria Waterfront, $20</p>



<p>Board the Tall Ship Providence like a pirate and stay busy with rotating crafts and activities throughout the hour. No need to worry about seasickness: The boat will stay at the dock! </p>



<p>It&#8217;s recommended for children from ages 1 to 13. Guardians can join for free.</p>



<p><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/halloween-at-the-boo-ro-tickets-1020757080907">Halloween at the Boo-ro</a><br>Sat., Oct. 26, 1-4 p.m., The Boro Tysons, free</p>



<p>This pet-friendly party will have a mobile grooming truck and pet costume contest, but there&#8217;s plenty for humans, too!</p>



<p>Watch a magic show by Adam Stone, get a tarot card or palm reading, do crafts, pick up candy, put on glitter tattoos and get silly at a dance party for children.</p>



<p>For the grown-ups, Halloween cocktails will be available for purchase.</p>



<p><a href="https://www.oldtownbusiness.org/event/family-trick-or-treat/">Old Town Alexandria’s Trick or Treat</a><br>Sat., Oct. 26, 11 a.m. &#8211; 4 p.m., pick up your map at Pippin Toy Co. (1310 King Street), free</p>



<p>Bring the children to go trick-or-treating from boutiques and restaurants.</p>



<p><a href="https://visitalexandria.com/events/del-ray-halloween-parade/">Del Ray Halloween parade</a><br>Sun., Oct. 27 starting at 2 p.m., along Mount Vernon Avenue, beginning at E. Bellefonte Avenue</p>



<p>Show off your family&#8217;s costumes and enter contests, including one for pets! For an extra challenge, join the Halloween scavenger hunt.</p>



<p><a href="https://www.mountvernon.org/plan-your-visit/calendar/events/trick-or-treating-at-mount-vernon">Trick or Treating at Mount Vernon</a><br>Sat., Oct. 26, 2 &#8211; 6 p.m., Mount Vernon, prices vary</p>



<p>Collect candy at President George Washington&#8217;s former estate with entertainment and activities from centuries ago.&nbsp;</p>



<p>Tickets for adults (ages 12 and up) most $30 for the general public and $17 for members. For kids, it&#8217;s $25 or $10 for members.</p>



<p><a href="https://www.novaparks.com/parks/carlyle-house-historic-park/events/halloween-hunt">Halloween Hunt</a><br>Thurs., Oct. 24, 10 a.m. &#8211; 2 p.m., Carlyle House Historic Park in Alexandria, $2</p>



<p>Pick up a worksheet and explore the garden of Carlyle House while learning about Halloween in Alexandria around the 1900s.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-nbc-section-heading">Kid-friendly Halloween events in Maryland</h2>



<p><a href="https://friendshipheightsmd.gov/events/fall-festival-is-a-family-friendly-event/">Friendship Heights Fall Fest</a><br>Sat., Oct. 26, 1-2:30 p.m., Hubert Humphrey Park in Chevy Chase, free</p>



<p>Enjoy empanadas, sweet treats and performances from Bluetrain Bluegrass band. You can also bring a canned good to contribute to the food drive.</p>



<p><a href="https://www.hyattsville.org/813/Halloween">Treat-O-Rama and Trunk-or-Treat</a><br>Sat., Oct. 26, 4 &#8211; 8 p.m., Hyattsville, free</p>



<p>Dress in your favorite costume for the Treat-O-Rama in Driskell Park including a candy giveaway. If you want more candy, head over to the Hyattsville Police Department’s trunk-or-treat in Northwestern High School’s parking lot. It&#8217;s just a 10-minute drive north of the park.</p>



<p><a href="https://www2.montgomerycountymd.gov/mcgportalapps/Press_Detail.aspx?Item_ID=13387&amp;Dept=72">Montgomery County Recreation&#8217;s fun, safe Halloween activities<br></a>Through Oct. 31, various locations, free</p>



<p>Haunted houses, candy giveaways, game nights and even a haunted house for kids 12 and up are happening all around Montgomery County.</p>



<p><a href="https://glenechopark.org/fallfrolic">Fall Frolic at Glen Echo Park</a><br>Sat., Oct. 26, 1 &#8211; 4 p.m., Glen Echo, free</p>



<p>Activities include decorating a trick-or-treat bag, a fall photo-op and a costume contest.</p>



<p><a href="https://md-mountrainier.civicplus.com/Calendar.aspx?EID=1769&amp;month=10&amp;year=2024&amp;day=26&amp;calType=0">Mount Ranier Halloween Parade and Trunk or Treat</a><br>Sat., Oct. 26, 5 &#8211; 9 p.m., Richardson Park and Thomas Stone Elementary School</p>



<p>The parade starts and Richardson Park and concludes at Thomas S. Stone Elementary School, where kids can trunk-or-treat and eat free food while supplies last.</p>



<p><a href="https://www.nationalharbor.com/events/harbor-halloween/">Harbor Halloween<br></a>Sun., noon to 3 p.m., National Harbor</p>



<p>Get in some early trick-or-treating at <a href="https://national-harbor.s3.amazonaws.com/images/Harbor-Halloween-Participating-Stores-Map-2024.pdf?v=1729631192" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">dozens of businesses,</a> then watch a pumpkin carving contest and “Hocus Pocus 2” screening.</p>



<p>Bring your pet in costume to “pawrade” on the Plaza Stage at 2:45 p.m.!</p>



<p>Plus, kids in costume can get a free ride on the Spirit Park Carousel from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. Dogs and costumed kids also ride free on the Capital Wheel with a paying adult from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.</p>



<p><a href="https://montgomeryparks.org/trains/">Halloween Eye Spy trains</a><br>Oct. 26 &amp; 27 various time slots between 9:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Cabin John and Wheaton, $6 or $8 per person depending on cabin</p>



<p>All aboard the Halloween-themed mini trains. Every rider gets an &#8220;Eye Spy&#8221; card to look for pumpkins, ghosts, black cats and more. Kids under 2 ride free.</p>



<p>&#8220;The train stations Día de los Trenes (Wheaton) and Trainsylvania (Cabin John) will be decked out in seasonal decor,&#8221; Montgomery Parks said.</p>



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<p>A former Prince George&#8217;s County police officer who claims she was retaliated against and forced to retire filed a federal lawsuit.</p>



<p>Former Internal Affairs officer Lt. Sonya Zollicoffer says she was investigating allegations of assault and profiling by two white officers against a Black driver related to a traffic stop off Pennsylvania Avenue in the District Heights area in 2017. She&nbsp;alleges she discovered seven minutes of an in-car video showing the assault was missing.</p>



<p>“Missing evidence,” she said. “There was a tape missing from a traffic stop, which I was investigating.”</p>



<p>After she was promoted out of Internal Affairs, the case was reassigned.&nbsp;</p>



<p>When Zollicoffer tried to find out what happened to the video, she was charged with misrepresenting herself and conduct unbecoming an officer. She was eventually demoted and threatened with termination.</p>



<p>“This scheme sought to destroy Lt. Zollicoffer’s reputation and career all because she was trying to do the right thing,” civil rights attorney Jordan Howlette said.</p>



<p>The two officers involved in the case were later cleared.</p>



<p>Zollicoffer said she felt forced to retire after 20 years of service but was still challenging her disciplinary action.</p>



<p>She also was part of a larger racial discrimination lawsuit against Prince George&#8217;s County that was&nbsp;settled for $2.3 million. She said she didn&#8217;t realize agreeing to the settlement meant she was forfeiting her appeal of the disciplinary action against her.</p>



<p>She is now suing the investigator who recommended she be fired and the Fraternal Order of Police.</p>



<p>“[The FOP] assigned an attorney to represent Ms. Zollicoffer before the administration hearing board who was also assigned to represent the two white police officers that she was investigating,” Howlette said.</p>



<p>In 2021, a hearing board found her guilty of conduct unbecoming an officer and making a false representation. The department argued because she had been promoted out of Internal Affairs, she didn&#8217;t have the right to keep working her former cases.</p>



<p>Zollicoffer said she wants to restore her reputation, clear her name and have any negative information removed from her personnel file.</p>



<p>The FOP said it is not commenting on the lawsuit. News4 was unable to reach the police officer named in the lawsuit.</p>



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<p>D.C. prosecutors revealed Instagram messages between a group of teenage girls after they allegedly beat an elderly man with disabilities last October.</p>



<p>Surveillance footage shows a man attacking Reggie Brown last October on Georgia Avenue NW before five girls ages 12-15 later joined the man, stomping Brown&#8217;s head into the pavement and whipping him with his own belt, prosecutors said. Last week, one of the girls charged in the death testified they did it because <a href="https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/we-were-bored-15-year-old-testifies-about-teen-girls-beating-man-to-death/3742400/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">they were bored</a>.</p>



<p>“We were walking around trying to find someone to jump,” one voice memo said.</p>



<p>“We jumped somebody but killed him accidentally with some random man from Kennedy,” another message said.</p>



<p>In the trial for two of the girls Tuesday, one of the girls testified the man wore a blue coat and said Brown owed him money.</p>



<p>The defense argued D.C. police made several mistakes, like incorrectly attributing which detectives did certain actions in the case notes and not informing the girls of their rights. The defense for one of the girls also argued his client was misidentified and not present the night of the beating.</p>



<p>The girl who accepted her plea deal testified against the two girls currently on trial. During cross examination, the defense argued the witness’ testimony couldn’t be trusted and suggested she testified to get a lighter sentence.</p>



<p>“Reggie was just a sweet spirit, and what has happened to him, I can’t believe it,” said Malda Brown, the victim’s sister.</p>



<p>Brown’s family said he was battling cancer and missing fingers because of lupus at the time of his death.</p>



<p>“It&#8217;s very hard to keep living it over and over and over again, and seeing it and missing him, and knowing that his life has been taken away from him because they were bored,” Brown&#8217;s sister Nasia Israel said.&nbsp;</p>



<p>Two of the girls have pleaded guilty. One agreed to three years in a secure juvenile facility.</p>



<p>If convicted, the girls would stay in the custody of D.C.’s Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services until they turn 21, but Brown’s family feels that punishments around juvenile crime should be tougher to prevent a similar situation occurring for another family.</p>



<p>“We’re not gonna let his death go in vain,” Israel said. &#8220;That’s what we’re standing for. That’s why you’re gonna see us here every single day, and we’re gonna be trying to meet with everybody possible to see that these laws can change, so it won’t affect no one else’s family.”</p>
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<p>Vice President Kamala Harris plans to spend election night in Washington D.C., with her campaign eyeing her alma mater, Howard University, as a possible venue for her to speak from, according to seven<strong>&nbsp;</strong>people familiar with the planning.</p>



<p>&nbsp;While it’s possible the election results could be known within hours and not days, the Democratic campaign is preparing for a much longer stretch — perhaps even an election “week” — without an outcome, these people said.</p>



<p>That plan could include several different speeches and venues for delivering them. Precisely what Harris says publicly and the backdrop for her remarks would depend on how Election Day and the rest of the week unfolds, the people familiar with the planning said.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>



<p>“Bottom line: we have to be ready for anything,” one of the people said.</p>



<p>The Harris campaign did not return a request for comment.&nbsp;</p>



<p>The careful planning reflects the new reality presidential campaigns face after the drawn-out counting process in 2020, only heightened by how close the 2024 race appears to be and how long it could take for the final tallies to materialize in the key battleground states.&nbsp;</p>



<p>Howard University is currently a leading contender for Harris’ election night headquarters, but no final decisions have been made. Other locations are being scouted as well, according to four of the people involved in the planning. Two of those people said that the D.C. convention center is one of the other options.</p>



<p>The idea of spending election night where the Harris campaign headquarters is located — President Biden’s hometown of Wilmington, Delaware — wasn’t a natural fit for the vice president, who is from California. She inherited the campaign and location of its headquarters from Biden when he dropped out of the race in July.</p>



<p>If a winner remains undeclared for days, it’s possible Harris could address the country multiple times, the people familiar with the planning said. If former President Donald Trump were to declare victory before the results are in, as he wrongly did in 2020, there would be a campaign strategy for handling that, they said.</p>



<p>The Harris campaign is also preparing for possible legal challenges that could end up deciding the race and has been assembling a team of lawyers to handle the potential battle with Trump’s attorneys, one of the people familiar with the planning said.&nbsp;</p>



<p>Harris aides are also bracing for the possibility that Trump could lose but then seek to overturn the results through the courts, this person said.&nbsp;</p>



<p>Though there are preparations developing behind the scenes, Harris aides don’t expect the vice president to talk about these various scenarios on the campaign trail because they don’t want to depress voters with the idea that their ballots could ultimately be discounted somehow by a legal outcome.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>



<p>“People need to go out and vote. You don’t want people thinking about legal challenges,” one Harris aide said.&nbsp;</p>



<p>Beyond the length of time it took to call the election in 2020, the Harris team is also looking to lessons from the 2000 election as a guide and hoping to avoid a very protracted battle.&nbsp;</p>



<p>As a trained attorney, Harris herself has thought about how Trump could react in various scenarios, one Harris aide said.&nbsp;</p>



<p>And as the vice presidential nominee last cycle, she had a front row seat to how the process played out when Trump lost but repeatedly claimed he won. That began with Trump declaring himself the winner during remarks at the White House in the overnight hours of Election Day.</p>



<p>Biden, for his part, also spoke briefly on election night, slightly before 1 a.m. He appeared from Wilmington, Delaware, and urged Americans to be patient as the nation awaited results.&nbsp;</p>



<p>“We feel good about where we are, we really do,” Biden said at the time. “We’re gonna have to be patient until the hard work of tallying votes is finished and it ain’t over until every vote is counted.”&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>



<p>Biden then spoke several more times that week, both to reporters and to the nation, saying he was “confident” he and Harris would be declared the winners once all was settled but said they were still waiting for a final call.&nbsp;</p>



<p>Once that happened on Saturday, four days after the election, Biden and Harris both delivered victory speeches from Wilmington.</p>



<p><em>NBC News&#8217; Peter Alexander&nbsp;and&nbsp;Tara Prindiville&nbsp;contributed.</em></p>



<p><strong>This story first appeared on <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/harris-eyes-howard-university-election-night-headquarters-rcna176598" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBCNews.com.</a> More from NBC News:</strong></p>



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<p>A campaign by a D.C. business mocking “Mayor for Life” Marion Barry is drawing criticism and sparking calls for a boycott.</p>



<p>&amp;pizza promoted a new menu item called Marion Berry Knots, a dessert with marionberries. The dish is “so good it’s likely a felony,” a press release said Monday.</p>



<p>“For a good time, it’s the powder that’s the ultimate headline grabber. The Marion Berry Knots have enough powdered sugar that will have customers bumping elbows to order and even force the DEA to look twice,” &amp;pizza said in ad copy full of drug references. </p>



<p>D.C.’s NAACP branch called on &amp;pizza to take the “inflammatory, culturally insensitive and drug-use insinuating” item off the menu and to “issue remuneration to support substance-abuse prevention in all cities within the &amp;Pizza marketing area.”</p>



<p>The four-term mayor got his start in politics as a civil rights activist and remains revered by many Washingtonians. A statue of Barry stands outside the Wilson Building in downtown D.C., and Southeast D.C. has Marion Barry Avenue SE.</p>



<p>Barry was arrested in a hotel room in 1990 in a videotaped drug sting by the FBI and D.C. police. He famously complained that his ex-girlfriend, an FBI informant, had set him up. Out of 14 charges, a jury convicted him of a single misdemeanor possession charge.</p>



<p>Barry was sentenced to six months in prison, released in 1992 and won the Ward 8 D.C. Council seat. He returned as mayor for a fourth term in 1994 and remained influential until <a href="https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/marion-barry-district-councilman-and-former-mayor-dies-at-78-2/1980661/">he died in 2014 at 78</a>. Next month marks a decade since his death.</p>


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<p>NAACP DC President Akosua Ali said in a statement Tuesday: “The life, legacy, lineage and name of Marion Barry deserves to be remembered as a pioneer for economic development, real-estate development, black business empowerment, youth employment and as the Mayor of the people. Mayor Barry taught us the power of economics and today, we call on the community to demand &amp;Pizza right this egregious wrong.&#8221; </p>



<p>&amp;pizza is “spitting on Marion Barry’s grave,” <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DBbQgEOR_s9/?hl=en">community activist Ron Moten said on Instagram</a>. “[…] We cannot continue to support people who disrespect us.”</p>



<p>Moten said discussions are underway for a boycott of the chain, which opened its first location on H Street NE in 2012 and now has locations in D.C., Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.</p>



<p>Former D.C. first lady Cora Masters Barry is hurt by the menu item and campaign, a representative told News4. She was flooded with calls from community leaders and residents who “expressed disappointment and outrage by the promotion’s interference,” the representative said. She “requested that the attorneys for the Estate of Marion Barry Jr. look into the matter and act accordingly,” the representative said.</p>



<p>D.C. restaurant owner <a href="https://x.com/DC_Peyton/status/1848567885481816422">Peyton Sherwood said on X that &amp;pizza “crossed a line.”</a></p>



<p>“Barry’s life was about opportunity, dignity, and equality for everyone in Washington, D.C. To reduce that legacy to a crass ad about his darkest moments is not only offensive it’s cruel,” he wrote. “It disregards the immense good Barry did for this city and the battles he fought on behalf of all its people.”</p>



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<p>News4 asked &amp;pizza if they wanted to comment on the reaction to their campaign.</p>



<p>CEO Mike Burns said in a statement: “We’re talking about a marionberry, that’s spelled with an ‘e’. We stuff that into a knot, drizzle it with icing and then top it with powdered sugar. It’s delicious – we can’t wait for D.C. to try it.”</p>
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<p>Crews have stopped cutting down trees along the George Washington Memorial Parkway in Northern Virginia after residents expressed anger and frustration.</p>



<p>The National Park Service said the project was intended to &#8220;rehabilitate&#8221; views of the Potomac River between North Donaldson Overlook and Spout Run Parkway by removing about three acres of mostly non-native and invasive species of trees.</p>



<p>But a local park volunteer said workers removed trees that weren&#8217;t supposed to be cut down, causing immeasurable damage.</p>



<p>&#8220;This is so clearly wrong, what they’ve done. I feel like I have to speak out,&#8221; volunteer Glenn Tobin said.</p>



<p>Tobin has worked with NPS to remove invasive plants from a section of the GW Parkway in Arlington. He said he realized on a recent hike that many of the trees he&#8217;s worked to protect were wiped out.</p>



<p>&#8220;Finally, I realized &#8211; I’m in the forest, but it’s gone,&#8221; Tobin said.</p>



<p>The park service cut down about 300 trees along the roadway.</p>



<p>But Tobin and others said removing all of those trees could create other issues such as erosion or make it easier for invasive species to come into the park.</p>



<p>&#8220;What was approved was more selective cutting on non-native species,&#8221; Arlington County Board Member Susan Cunningham said. &#8220;It appears that there was a mistake in there somewhere. They’ll do a full review.”</p>



<p>NPS said in a statement to the public it would begin a full review of the project.</p>



<p>“This will include opportunities for public engagement, ensuring transparency and community involvement. The NPS will not remove trees to restore vistas before we consider the results of the review and public engagement process,” the statement read in part.</p>



<p>Tobin said he&#8217;s glad crews have stopped cutting down the trees.</p>



<p>&#8220;It’ll take 100 years for that forest to be re-established the way that it was,&#8221; he said.</p>



<p>News4 reached out to NPS for comment, but hasn&#8217;t yet heard back.</p>
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<p>Traci Voelke was a 37-year-old mom to two young boys when her husband, Maj. Paul Voelke, died in Afghanistan, struck by a military vehicle during his fifth deployment. </p>



<p>“I knew as soon as I opened the door and saw the green suiters. You just know what’s happened, but it’s hard to accept,&#8221; said Voelke.</p>



<p>The Department of Defense gave her a pin that entailed she was a Gold Star spouse. She applied for a special property tax exemption for her Springfield home and received it, but soon enough she found out that she was given the exemption incorrectly.</p>



<p>“I got a surprise when they said they had given me the exemption incorrectly and that I may have to pay back three years of back property taxes because Paul was not considered killed in action,” Voelke said. </p>



<p>She learned only three categories were eligible for the exemption: the surviving spouse of someone killed in action at the hands of the enemy, service members who are 100% disabled or their surviving spouses if they pass away. Left off the list: spouses of those who died on duty but not in action like her husband. </p>



<p>It was the start of Voelke&#8217;s quest to change Virginia law. She teamed with retired Col. Monti Zimmerman of the Military Officer’s Association of America. </p>



<p>“I consider this a gap that was unintentional that shouldn’t have happened this way,” said Zimmerman.</p>



<p>Zimmerman and Voelke spent years to get spouses of those who died on duty also eligible for the exemption to bring crucial financial help to Gold Star families. The two credit Del. Kathy Tran, D-18th District, and state Sen. Jeremy McPike, D-29th District, for sponsoring legislation leading to the constitutional amendment on the ballot. </p>



<p>“Filling that hole for the families is a great thing, seeing bipartisan unanimous support for it,” said McPike.</p>



<p>“I think there is a lot of patriotism in this country. We really didn’t have anybody who didn’t support us,” said Voelke.</p>



<p>Voelke is a civilian lawyer who works at Ft. Bevoir and is eager to cast her “yes” ballot.&nbsp;</p>



<p>“It’s a great sense of accomplishment. I’ve changed the law not just for me but for so many other families that are impacted in this category in Virginia,&#8221; said Voelke.</p>



<p>And she says it also proves one determined person can make a significant difference.</p>
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<p>Police are investigating after a young father was gunned down outside his home Monday afternoon in Southeast D.C.</p>



<p>Investigators say 21-year-old Malik Clark was shot and killed at around 12:30 p.m. on Bruce Place as he was walking to his car.</p>



<p>Donna Clark has been comforting her young daughter, Nicolette, as their family grapples with the loss.</p>



<p>“It’s a tough moment for me and my family,” she said. “We’re very sad. It’s a heartbreaking moment for me. I lost my son to gun violence.”</p>



<p>So far, D.C. police say a motive for the shooting is unclear, and Donna Clark says she’s not sure why someone would have targeted her son.</p>



<p>Police tell News4 they’re reviewing footage of the shooting and are looking for multiple suspects. No arrests have been made.</p>



<p>Donna Clark says she was at work when she received the call no mother ever wants to get.</p>



<p>“I had got a phone call from my mom that he heard gunshots,” she said. “She comes running outside and sees my son laying on the ground.”</p>



<p>Malik Clark was the father of a one-year-old son. His mother describes him as friendly and easy-going. She also says he was a huge football fan.</p>



<p>“He had a lot of dreams. He’s a go-getter,” she said. “He loved to be with his brothers and sisters. He loved to hang with his son. He loved that boy”</p>



<p>She says it’s hard to put into words how she feels…but she hopes police are able to track down whoever killed her son.</p>



<p>“I loved my son dearly,” she said. “I don’t know who did it. I wish they’d find the person who did it.”</p>



<p>Police are offering a $25,000 reward for any information that leads to an arrest and conviction in this case.</p>



<p>The family is still working on funeral arrangements.</p>
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<p>The D.C. Council passed a bill last week requiring schools to adopt a plan for cardiac emergencies.</p>



<p>All schools in the District —<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://code.dccouncil.gov/us/dc/council/code/sections/7-2371.01" target="_blank"> including public</a>, private, public charter, independent and parochial —&nbsp; must adopt a plan for handling cardiac emergencies by the 2025-2026 school year. The bill adds to existing legislation that requires schools to have automated external defibrillators available for athletic events and requires cardiopulmonary resuscitation and automated external defibrillator training for athletic coaches, trainers and school nurses.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-nbc-section-heading">What does this do?</h2>



<p>The <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://lims.dccouncil.gov/downloads/LIMS/54272/Committee_Report/B25-0570-Committee_Report1.pdf?Id=199435" target="_blank">bill establishes</a> guidelines for a cardiac emergency response plan (CERP). Along with a plan, the bill requires schools to have at least one AED that complies with the school’s CERP, have regular scheduled AED maintenance, and inform all school employees of the location of each AED and of the school’s CERP.</p>



<p>The bill also requires D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser to establish a monitoring process for ensuring the requirements are followed.</p>



<p>Currently, schools <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://code.dccouncil.gov/us/dc/council/code/sections/7-2371.02c" target="_blank">are required</a> to have a plan for responding to medical emergencies, including cardiac arrest, and the usage of CPR and an AED.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-nbc-section-heading">Who’s making the plan?</h2>



<p>The bill requires D.C. Fire and EMS to coordinate with the D.C. Office of the State Superintendent of Education to develop and maintain a model CERP schools can use for people experiencing cardiac arrest, particularly during an athletic event or practice on campus grounds. The model will include “evidence-based” core tenets recommended by national experts in the field who will provide guidance on how the emergency response team should operate.</p>



<p>The guidance will include information about:</p>



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<li>Who should be on the emergency response team</li>



<li>Where AEDs should be located&nbsp;</li>



<li>Staff trainings</li>



<li>Specific emergency protocol like how emergency services will be contacted&nbsp;</li>



<li>How the CERP will be evaluated&nbsp;</li>
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<h2 class="wp-block-nbc-section-heading">What are the costs?</h2>



<p>D.C. Chief Financial Officer Glen Lee sent a memorandum to D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson last month saying the funds are sufficient in fiscal year 2025 to fiscal year 2028 to implement the bill but didn’t specify the explicit costs of its implementation. He added FEMS and OSSE can develop the models utilizing “existing resources.”&nbsp;</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-nbc-section-heading">Are there racial disparities when it comes to cardiac arrest?</h2>



<p>Although rare, more than 7,000 children and infants per year in the U.S. have a cardiac arrest outside of a hospital environment with disparities among different demographics, the out-of-hospital<a href="https://newsroom.heart.org/news/a-childs-race-ethnicity-andor-neighborhood-may-influence-survival-after-cardiac-arrest#:~:text=Black%20children%20were%20more%20than,well%20after%20a%20cardiac%20arrest."> cardiac arrest rate</a> for Black children was more than four times higher than white or Hispanic children, according to the American Heart Association.</p>



<p>For young athletes, sudden cardiac arrest is the <a href="https://www.uchealth.org/today/sudden-cardiac-arrest-in-athletes-is-rare-and-hard-to-predict/">leading cause</a> of exercise-related deaths, but <a href="https://www.childrenscolorado.org/conditions-and-advice/sports-articles/sports-safety/athletic-trainers-cardiac-arrest/#:~:text=However%2C%20in%202019%2C%20research,if%20they%20used%20an%20AED.">more than 80%</a> of them survived if an athletic trainer administered CPR or used an AED.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-nbc-section-heading">How do leaders feel?</h2>



<p>“MSDC supports appropriate public health measures such as access to timely care,” Dr. Ashesh D. Patel, the president of the Medical Society of D.C., testified during a public hearing in July. “Nothing can save a life more in an emergency health situation than proper training and adequate resources.”</p>



<p>Last month, the Council Office of Racial Equity said the bill’s requirement of each school having a response plan will likely decrease racial disparities for D.C. residents of color given it increases the emergency response protocols and increases survival rates.&nbsp;</p>



<p>“Because of the efficacy of CERPs and due to the racial disparities that exist in cardiac arrest occurrence and outcomes, measures taken to improve the District’s emergency cardiac response interventions — as proposed by the bill — are particularly important for Black residents, Indigenous residents, and residents of color, both in District schools and on District school grounds,” the report said.</p>



<p>Andre Edwards, the assistant fire chief for EMS operations in D.C. Fire and EMS, said the department supports the legislation and the District-wide focus on cardiac arrest survival resulted in 69 patients being discharged from the hospital — the highest number of survivors since the department started tracking it in 2011.</p>



<p>“Improving patient care and outcomes, including cardiac arrest survival, is a key priority of Mayor Bowser and Fire and EMS,” Edwards said at the hearing.</p>



<p>ANC Commissioner Adam J. Prinzo testified the bill is “a crucial step toward improving public health outcomes in our community and our schools” and commended Jude Maboné, Miss D.C. 2023, for using her <a href="https://www.heart.org/en/news/2024/03/26/pageant-queen-had-6-heart-attacks-by-age-18" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">platform to advocate</a> for cardiac education.&nbsp;</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-nbc-section-heading">What’s next?&nbsp;</h2>



<p>The bill was sent to the mayor’s office Thursday, and Bowser has until Oct. 31 to sign or veto it.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>A man who had lived in the United States for less than a year was shot and killed in September at a tire shop in Capitol Heights, Maryland.</p>



<p>Anthony Okoye was 41.</p>



<p>Two men have now been charged in his murder, Prince George’s County police announced Tuesday.</p>



<p>Avery Eccles, 42, of Upper Marlboro, and Ronnell Hardy, 43, of Capitol Heights, are suspected of killing Okoye at Ameritech Tire on Marblewood Avenue during a dispute over payment for tires, police said. They both were charged with first-degree and second-degree murder.</p>



<p>Police had asked for help identifying two suspects seen on surveillance footage. A tip provided to Prince George’s County Crime Solvers helped lead to their arrests.</p>


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<p>Officers responded to the tire shop at about 6:30 a.m. Sept. 14 and found that Okoye had been shot. He was taken to a hospital, where he died.</p>



<p>Okoye moved to the U.S. to provide for his family in Nigeria, <a href="https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/suspects-wanted-for-shooting-killing-employee-at-prince-georges-tire-shop/3720494/">a friend previously told News4</a>.</p>



<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s here to make money for his, to uplift his family,” he said.</p>



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<p>The tire shop was open 24 hours but the owner said he would reduce the hours because of safety concerns.</p>



<p>Anyone with potentially relevant information is asked to contact police.</p>
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<p>A suspect has been arrested and charged with killing a man near a shopping center in Largo, Maryland, last month, police say.</p>



<p>Malik Watson, 21, was charged with first- and second-degree murder in the shooting death of 27-year-old Craig Rogers II, Prince George&#8217;s County police said Tuesday.</p>



<p>Shots rang out the afternoon of Sept. 20 in the area of Largo Center Drive and Arena Drive-Medical Center Drive near Largo Town Center, police said.</p>



<p>Officers found Rogers on the road suffering from gunshot wounds. He died at the scene, police said.</p>



<p>Watson and Rogers knew each other, police said. Detectives are still investigating a motive for the killing.</p>



<p>Police are asking anyone with information to call 301-516-2512.</p>
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<p>A man was shot and killed in Landover, Maryland, on Tuesday, and police say they&#8217;re searching for multiple suspects.</p>



<p>Shortly before 9:30 a.m., 18-year-old Kesean Pollard of Landover was in a car on 75th Avenue going toward Landover Road, when the suspects drove up and shot at him, Prince George&#8217;s County Officer Emily Austin said.</p>



<p>Officers found Pollard dead inside a car a short distance away on Old Landover Road, Austin said.</p>



<p>Video of the black four-door car shows its back driver&#8217;s side door and window riddled with bullet holes.</p>



<p>Austin said police were still working to get information about the suspects and the vehicle they were driving.</p>



<p>Police did not say who was driving the car carrying Pollard or whether they stayed on the scene after the shooting.</p>



<p>Numerous investigators were at both the scene of the shooting on Landover Road and the scene where the Pollard&#8217;s body was found.</p>
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<p>Protesters are demanding an apology and a D.C. pizza shop has been vandalized amid the controversy over &amp;pizza&#8217;s ad campaign that makes light of the late &#8220;Mayor for Life&#8221; Marion Barry&#8217;s drug use.</p>



<p>D.C.-based &amp;pizza promoted a new menu item Monday called Marion Berry Knots, a dessert with marionberries. The dish is “so good it’s likely a felony,” a press release said.</p>



<p>“For a good time, it’s the powder that’s the ultimate headline grabber. The Marion Berry Knots have enough powdered sugar that will have customers bumping elbows to order and even force the DEA to look twice,” &amp;pizza said in ad copy full of drug references. </p>



<p>Demonstrators gathered Wednesday morning outside the company&#8217;s location on U Street, calling for &amp;pizza to remove the dessert from its menu and apologize.</p>



<p>Many people who spoke with News4 Wednesday said the ad was in poor taste. One protester described it as &#8220;degrading&#8221; to Barry&#8217;s legacy.</p>


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<p>&#8220;Also, to his family. You have to think about his family, as well. &#8230; We have to think about &#8211; we&#8217;re on U Street right now and this street carries a lot of history,&#8221; protester Austin Lee told News4.</p>



<p>Someone vandalized the chain&#8217;s location in the Skyland neighborhood of Southeast D.C. Yellow and orange paint was splattered all over the windows of the business Wednesday morning.</p>


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<p>Barry got his start in politics as a civil rights activist and remains revered by many Washingtonians. A statue of the four-term mayor stands outside the Wilson Building in downtown D.C., and Southeast D.C. has Marion Barry Avenue SE.</p>



<p>He was arrested in a hotel room in 1990 in a videotaped drug sting by the FBI and D.C. police. Barry famously complained that his ex-girlfriend, an FBI informant, had set him up. Out of 14 charges, a jury convicted him of a single misdemeanor possession charge.</p>



<p>Barry was sentenced to six months in prison, released in 1992 and won the Ward 8 D.C. Council seat. He returned as mayor for a fourth term in 1994 and remained influential until <a href="https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/marion-barry-district-councilman-and-former-mayor-dies-at-78-2/1980661/">he died in 2014 at 78</a>. Next month marks a decade since his death.</p>



<p>D.C.’s NAACP branch on Tuesday called on &amp;pizza to take the “inflammatory, culturally insensitive and drug-use insinuating” item off the menu and to “issue remuneration to support substance-abuse prevention in all cities within the &amp;Pizza marketing area.”</p>



<p>NAACP DC President Akosua Ali said in a statement Tuesday: “The life, legacy, lineage and name of Marion Barry deserves to be remembered as a pioneer for economic development, real-estate development, black business empowerment, youth employment and as the Mayor of the people. Mayor Barry taught us the power of economics and today, we call on the community to demand &amp;Pizza right this egregious wrong.&#8221; </p>



<p>&amp;pizza is “spitting on Marion Barry’s grave,” <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DBbQgEOR_s9/?hl=en">community activist Ron Moten said on Instagram</a>. “[…] We cannot continue to support people who disrespect us.”</p>



<p>Moten said discussions are underway for a boycott of the chain, which opened its first location on H Street NE in 2012 and now has locations in D.C., Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.</p>



<p>Former D.C. first lady Cora Masters Barry is hurt by the menu item and campaign, a representative told News4. She was flooded with calls from community leaders and residents who “expressed disappointment and outrage by the promotion’s interference,” the representative said. She “requested that the attorneys for the Estate of Marion Barry Jr. look into the matter and act accordingly,” the representative said.</p>



<p>D.C. restaurant owner <a href="https://x.com/DC_Peyton/status/1848567885481816422">Peyton Sherwood said on X that &amp;pizza “crossed a line.”</a></p>



<p>“Barry’s life was about opportunity, dignity, and equality for everyone in Washington, D.C. To reduce that legacy to a crass ad about his darkest moments is not only offensive it’s cruel,” he wrote. “It disregards the immense good Barry did for this city and the battles he fought on behalf of all its people.”</p>



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<p>News4 asked &amp;pizza Tuesday if they wanted to comment on the reaction to their campaign.</p>



<p>CEO Mike Burns said in a statement: “We’re talking about a marionberry, that’s spelled with an ‘e’. We stuff that into a knot, drizzle it with icing and then top it with powdered sugar. It’s delicious – we can’t wait for D.C. to try it.”</p>
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<p>Jeffries has been arrested in West Palm Beach, Florida. Two other associates, Matthew Smith of West Palm Beach and James Jacobson of Wisconsin, were also arrested in connection with sex trafficking charges.</p>



<p>They are expected to appear in federal court in Florida and Wisconsin today, and arraigned on a later date in the eastern District of New York.&nbsp;</p>



<p>Jeffries was the CEO of the popular clothing brand from 1992 to 2014.&nbsp;</p>



<p>Jeffries, Smith and Jacobson each face a single count of sex trafficking as well as 15 counts of interstate prostitution tied to 15 alleged victims.&nbsp;</p>



<p><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/national-international/abercrombie-mike-jeffries-matthew-smith-indictment/" target="_blank">A federal indictment</a> alleges Jeffries — along with Smith, his romantic partner,<strong>&nbsp;</strong>and Jacobson, who was described as a recruiter<strong>&nbsp;</strong>—&nbsp;operated an &#8220;international sex trafficking and prostitution business” from 2008 to 2015.&nbsp;</p>



<p>It alleges that they organized “sex events” in England, France, Italy, Morocco, St. Barts and New York for Jeffries, Smith and “others.”&nbsp;They “employed coercive, fraudulent and deceptive tactics in connection with the recruitment, hiring, transportation, obtaining, maintaining, solicitation and payment of the men to engage in commercial sex.”</p>



<p>The men who attended the events allegedly were led to believe that it could lead to modeling opportunities or help their careers or “that not complying with requests for certain acts during the Sex Events could harm their careers.”</p>



<p>The men were required to sign non-disclosure agreements and surrender their wallets and cell phones during the events.</p>



<p>Jeffries, Smith and Jacobson also allegedly recruited, hired and paid an exclusive set&nbsp;of household staff to “facilitate and supervise the sex events.” The staff provided Jeffries, Smith and the men who attended alcohol, muscle relaxants known as &#8220;poppers,&#8221; lubricant, Viagra and condoms, among other items. Either Jacobson or the staff paid the men for attending the sex events, the indictment said.&nbsp;</p>



<p>Breon Peace, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, said in a news conference that Jeffries and Smith spent millions on the sex trafficking enterprise — from paying staff, paying for travel and paying to maintain secrecy.</p>



<p>Peace said the operation used a referral system and interview process, during which the men that were allegedly preyed upon were not informed about the details of the sex events before attending. During those “tryouts” of potential candidates, Jacobson typically had candidates first engage in commercial sex acts with him, the indictment said.<strong>&nbsp;</strong></p>



<p>At the events, the men were pressured to drink and consume poppers, and &#8220;on more than one occasion when men did not or could not consent, Jeffries and Smith violated the bodily integrity of these men by subjecting them or continuing to subject them to invasive sexual and violent contact by body parts and other objects,&#8221; Peace said.</p>



<p>&#8220;Powerful individuals, for too long, have trafficked and abused for their own sexual pleasure young people with few resources in a dream, a dream of securing a successful career in fashion or entertainment,&#8221; Peace said. He warned anyone who thinks they can exploit or coerce by using the &#8220;so-called casting couch system&#8221; that they should &#8220;prepare to trade that couch for a bed in federal prison.&#8221;</p>



<p>Peace said his office became aware of the alleged crimes through media reports.&nbsp;</p>



<p>The news of Jeffries&#8217;<strong>&nbsp;</strong>arrest comes one year after BBC News<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-66990622" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">&nbsp;published an explosive report</a>&nbsp;that said&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/abercrombie-fitch-ceo-mike-jeffries-investigation-abuse-rcna118789" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Jeffries exploited men at sex parties he hosted</a>. That report said 12 men described attending or organizing events that included sex acts for Jeffries and his partner Matthew Smith, and those events took place from 2009 to 2015. Some of the men who spoke to BBC said they were exploited or didn’t participate willingly.&nbsp;</p>



<p>Jeffries’ attorney, Brian Bieber, told NBC News at the time that Jeffries would not comment on reports about his personal life. Abercrombie &amp; Fitch said the company was “appalled and disgusted” by the allegations in the BBC report.&nbsp;</p>



<p>Bieber told NBC News on Tuesday in response to the arrest: “We will respond in detail to the allegations after the Indictment is unsealed, and when appropriate, but plan to do so in the courthouse — not the media.”&nbsp;</p>



<p>Shortly after that report, Abercrombie &amp; Fitch and Jeffries were sued for allegedly turning a blind eye to Jeffries’ alleged misconduct. That civil suit alleged he sexually abused numerous men after luring them with the promise of coveted modeling contracts,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/27/abercrombie-sex-abuse-lawsuit.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CNBC</a>&nbsp;reported.</p>



<p>“Today’s arrests are monumental for the aspiring male models who were victimized by these individuals,&#8221; attorney Brittany Henderson, who is representing victims from that class action lawsuit, said in a statement Tuesday.&nbsp;</p>



<p>&#8220;Their fight for justice does not end here,&#8221; the statement said. &#8220;We look forward to holding Abercrombie and Fitch liable for facilitating this terrible conduct and ensuring that this cannot happen again.&#8221;</p>



<p>When asked if the alleged sex trafficking enterprise possibly continued after 2015, Peace said the investigation is ongoing, and encouraged&nbsp;any victims or any witnesses to come forward.</p>



<p><strong><em>If you or someone you know is the victim of sexual assault, the National Sexual Assault hotline is available 24/7 at 1-800-656-4673</em></strong>.</p>
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<p>A Baltimore man accused of assaulting opposing fans after the Ravens’ game against the Washington Commanders in the city on Oct. 13 was arrested Monday, Baltimore police said.</p>



<p>An arrest warrant was&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ravens-video-assault-warrant-rcna175991" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">issued for John Callis</a>, 24, after cellphone video of an assault on two men in Commanders jerseys went viral. The warrant included allegations of first-degree aggravated assault and second-degree assault, police said.</p>



<p>It wasn&#8217;t clear whether Callis was released after his arrest Monday. An attorney for Callis did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday night.</p>



<p>The victims seen on video were identified only as 23-year-old men.</p>



<p>Police allege Callis was the man in the video wearing a Ravens jersey and walking in the Federal Hill neighborhood, known for its nightlife, sports bars and historic architecture, a few blocks from M&amp;T Bank Stadium, where the Ravens had just defeated the Commanders 30-23.</p>



<p>In the video, the man in the Ravens jersey kicks one of two men in Commanders jerseys who face him as he approaches. The Commanders fan is dropped with a punch as the other lunges at the Ravens fan, only to be thrown into a brick wall and ultimately felled.</p>



<p>The man in the Ravens jersey raises his arm and high-fives someone off camera while shouting, “I don’t lose!”</p>



<p>In court documents obtained by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wbaltv.com/article/john-callis-turn-in-police-video-assault-football-fans/62670738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC affiliate WBAL of Baltimore</a>, police said the suspect assaulted two of three victims twice after they returned to the area to retrieve a cellphone believed to have been lost during the initial altercation.</p>



<p>Video appeared to reflect only one of the two alleged encounters.</p>



<p><strong>This story first appeared on&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/sports/nfl/baltimore-ravens-fan-arrested-alleged-assaults-commanders-fans-rcna176520" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBCNews.com</a>. More from NBC News:</strong></p>



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<p>The vehicle began sinking in the dark water, and two Virginia State troopers arrived as water was filling the compartment of the vehicle.</p>



<p>Video from a highway traffic camera shows from a distance how Virginia State Troopers Alexander King and Brady Foret pulled beside the retention pond as the SUV was sinking.</p>



<p>It was dark, about 9:30 p.m., and they knew they had to work quickly.</p>



<p>Two passing motorists, one a U.S. Capitol Police Officer on his way to work, offered assistance.</p>



<p>“We asked them, ‘Hey, you know, is there anyone in the car?’ And they said, ‘Yes, there&#8217;s a female just still trapped in there,’” said Trooper Alexander King with Virginia State Police. “So we said, ‘Okay.’ So then we took off our vests, took off our gun belts and handed the radio to the Capitol Police officer.”</p>



<p>A woman, described as being 40-years-old, was in the driver’s seat. When the troopers realized the water was quickly filling up the passenger compartment, they jumped in.</p>



<p>“Almost her entire front up to her driver doors were completely submerged, and then water had filled the back seat in the trunk, and so it was just slowly filling up, so the sunroof was the easiest point of access to get to her,” King said. “It was a big shock to us because we didn&#8217;t know that there were ponds deep enough for cars to submerge on the side of 66.”</p>



<p>Because temperatures have been dropping overnight, that water was cold. The two troopers and the driver were checked out to see if they had suffered from exposure from the cold water.</p>



<p>Virginia State Police say that the crash remains under investigation.</p>
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<p>Residents of a Leesburg neighborhood are still buzzing after learning a homeowner had installed an alarm near a campaign sign that some feared was an explosive.</p>



<p>The sheriff’s office and fire marshal were called in on Saturday and determined the device was not dangerous and was placed on private property.</p>



<p>There is a series of trip wires and on the trees, something called perimeter alarms containing blank charges. There are also cameras.</p>



<p>An attorney for the homeowner told News4 the equipment was installed recently after the anti-Kamala Harris sign was vandalized.</p>



<p>The large black banner says “Day one for me was Jan, 2021” and shows an image of Harris holding a sign that says “I helped create this mess!”</p>



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<p>On Saturday, a family who lives in the Woodlea Manor subdivision called the sheriff’s office after their children began exploring the fishing line trip wires and found the devices. The family worried the devices might be explosive. The fire marshal responded too.</p>



<p>A sheriff’s office spokesman wrote to News4, “The first marshal determined what was attached to a tree was a legal device intended to be loud if the nearby sign was disturbed.”</p>



<p>The sheriff’s office recommended the homeowner put up no trespassing signs since it wasn&#8217;t clear the sign is on private property.</p>



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<p>When the family also contacted the Woodlea Manor conservancy home owners association, board member Charlie King went to investigate himself. He said politics had nothing to do with it.</p>



<p>“Nothing would have happened if there wasn’t a booby trap,” King said. “That&#8217;s the difference. I don’t care about the sign – I care about the booby trap.”</p>



<p>King said he and the homeowner had a contentious conversation. King then posted about the sign and the devices on the HOA&#8217;s Facebook page.</p>



<p>“My thought was the parents ought to tell the kids to keep the kids out of the area until the sign goes down,” he said.</p>



<p>Neighbors are now weighing in on the Facebook page, with some thanking King for the warning and others saying he was out of line.</p>



<p>“My issue is really how it&#8217;s been handled,” said a woman who asked News4 to not identify her because of possible repercussions at work. “I think it’s more politically driven than safety-driven.”</p>



<p>The attorney for the homeowner told News4 the alarms are meant to alert him to anyone tampering with the sign and added, “It’s just an alarm, not an incendiary device. If you don&#8217;t like the candidate, you can vote for someone else.”</p>



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<p>The homeowner has now added no trespassing signs, as the sheriff’s office advised.</p>



<p>Both King and the family of the children who discovered the alarms were issued no trespass orders from the sheriff’s office.</p>
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<p>Like so many parents we&#8217;ve met, first lady Suzanne Youngkin admits she didn&#8217;t know enough about fentanyl until tragedy struck.</p>



<p>“My interest in fentanyl was really born out of grief,&#8221; Youngkin told the I-Team during a visit to the NBC Washington studios.</p>



<p>In 2020, before her husband, Glenn, was elected Virginia&#8217;s governor, Greyson Mazich, a close family friend, died of fentanyl poisoning. Mazich was just 21 years old.</p>



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<p>“I had a lot of learning to do. I didn&#8217;t really understand the fentanyl crisis,” Youngkin said. “We see across the commonwealth that very few communities are immune from this issue.&#8221;</p>



<p>In January 2024, the first lady launched the It Only One Takes One initiative. She has traveled Virginia sounding the alarm just one pill with a few specs of fentanyl can kill even a first-time user. As she met with the I-Team, Youngkin noted how similar stories of tragedy can be.</p>



<p>“I watched the series that NBC and Telemundo were doing on fentanyl. I was just torn up inside about the family whose young son had graduated and yet his diploma was delivered to them instead of him.&#8221;</p>



<p>That young man is Malcolm Kent, <a href="https://www.nbcwashington.com/investigations/he-never-saw-his-diploma-how-fentanyl-is-devastating-dc-area-families-and-schools/3732667/">he was just 17 when he died of fentanyl poisoning</a>.</p>



<p>&#8220;When I went in to check on him the next morning,” his father, Absolon Kent, told News4’s Tracee Wilkins, “that&#8217;s when we found out that he had passed away during the night.&#8221;</p>



<p>His mother Thurraya said, &#8220;He never saw his diploma. They came and presented it to us.&#8221;</p>



<p>“These sorts of stories, I hope, will motivate people to take action, will motivate people to talk to their young people about this problem,&#8221; Youngkin said.</p>



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<p>Youngkin talked to her own college-age son about the risks of fentanyl. She reminded him 7 of 10 pills of any kind seized by the Drug Enforcement Administration contain fentanyl, and she’s doing more.</p>



<p>Youngkin knows, even with a slight dip in Virginia’s fentanyl overdose deaths, it&#8217;s still too hard for families to get help. She&#8217;s adding her powerful voice to the chorus of people pushing for more.</p>


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<p>“I don&#8217;t think we can keep up with the demand [for treatment]. I&#8217;m being perfectly honest,” Youngkin told News4. “One of the things that practitioners tell us all of the time is that they are semi-designed for substance use disorder among 16, 17, and 18-year-olds. Never before have they seen demand for 10, 11 and 12-year-olds. That&#8217;s what we&#8217;re experiencing in Virginia. We&#8217;ve got to do a much, much better job of figuring out how we can meet the needs of young people where they are, with the right help at the right time.&#8221;</p>



<p>We&#8217;ve added a link to <a href="https://www.itonlytakesone.virginia.gov/reach-out/">Youngkin’s It Only Takes One initiative</a> to <a href="https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/resources-how-to-find-help-in-the-dc-area-for-youth-fentanyl-users/3732524/">our resources page on fentanyl and families</a>. We know finding help can be hard. We&#8217;ve collected resources from across the DMV hoping to at least make the first step a little easier.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-nbc-section-heading"><strong><em>If you need help for a young person struggling with fentanyl use in the D.C. area, many resources are available. <a href="https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/resources-how-to-find-help-in-the-dc-area-for-youth-fentanyl-users/3732524/">Go here for information on how to find help</a>.</em></strong></h2>
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<p>A fender bender wouldn’t normally catch the attention of the News4 I-Team. But what happened to Tamara Meyer wasn’t normal.</p>



<p>Sitting on the back porch of her home in Potomac, Maryland, Meyer recalled what happened this summer as she visited a mall in Montgomery County.</p>



<p>&#8220;All of a sudden I was jolted,&#8221; Meyer said.</p>



<p>She was parked in the mall parking lot when another car crashed into hers.</p>



<p>“I couldn’t believe what I was seeing,” she said. “I saw no one in the car. There was no driver, no passenger. It was an empty car that was driving itself into my car.”</p>



<p>She said the Tesla scraped the back of her car as it pulled out and “kept going after impact.”</p>



<p>Photos of the Tesla given to the I-Team by the driver showed it had more extensive damage. As for the Tesla driver, “He was shocked as I was,” Meyer said.</p>



<p>“It’s not supposed to do this!” she recalled him saying.</p>



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<p>The operator of the Model Y Tesla told News4 he was using a feature on the app he had never used before called Summon. With the push of a button, the car is supposed to come to you and park itself.</p>



<p>Tesla put out an updated version called Smart Summon, which allows the car to steer itself and find the driver within 200 feet using the phone’s GPS.</p>



<p>But there have been some roadblocks. Searching online, the I-Team found drivers trying it out with some bumpy results – from running stop signs to hitting signs to getting into close calls with other cars.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-nbc-section-heading">‘Not ready for prime time’</h2>



<p>On its website, Tesla points out the apps are a beta feature, meaning they’re still in development.</p>



<p>“They&#8217;re just not ready for prime time,” said Michael Brooks with the Center for Auto Safety.</p>



<p>Brooks told the I-Team he believes releasing any beta feature to the public is dangerous.</p>



<p>“They&#8217;re releasing them too early before they&#8217;ve been, you know, validated as safe – before they&#8217;ve been validated to work properly,&#8221; he said.</p>



<p>The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) labels the Summon apps as &#8220;Level 2 advanced driver assistance systems,&#8221; which also include features like cruise control and lane centering.</p>



<p>Companies are required to report crashes with vehicles that have the technology.</p>



<p>There have been 932 crashes since 2023 with vehicles that had Level 2 features, though the data doesn&#8217;t include which feature, according to <a href="https://www.nhtsa.gov/laws-regulations/standing-general-order-crash-reporting#data">the NHTSA’s most recent standing general order</a>. Tesla greatly outnumbered other manufacturers with reports.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-nbc-section-heading">The I-Team saw Smart Summon in action</h2>



<p>The News4 I-Team wanted to see how the Smart Summon feature works. We traveled to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, the organization known for safety ratings and crash testing vehicles.</p>



<p>David Aylor, vice president for active safety testing, demonstrated using one of their Tesla Model 3 vehicles.</p>



<p>“I’m going to open the app and open the summon feature,” explained Aylor. “I’m going to hit ‘Come to me.’ As long as I hold this button down, the vehicle will move. If I want the vehicle to stop, I need to release the button.”</p>



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<p>On that first try, the car, in a parking space located about 200 feet from the I-Team, came without any issues. When Aylor added a simulated pedestrian, the car drove around it.</p>



<p>But not all the demonstrations went as smoothly. During one try, the Tesla turned toward another car as it made its way between two rows and didn’t seem to know which way to go.</p>



<p>Another time, Aylor stopped the vehicle when it turned toward an SUV. On the final try, the Tesla hit the curve.</p>



<p>&#8220;The whole concept of beta is, it’s still learning, Tesla is still learning, right? It’s using these scenarios to learn from that,” Aylor said.</p>



<p>Tesla did not respond to the I-Team&#8217;s emails. But <a href="https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/modely/en_us/GUID-9A8A9E74-FDAF-4278-BD92-FCB58A4266BA.html">online the company says when owners use the apps</a>, they must familiarize themselves with limitations of Smart Summon, that the app is intended for use only in parking lots and driveways on private property, and that the operator must maintain a clear line of sight and continually monitor the vehicle.</p>



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<p>Meyer’s crash in the mall parking lot was a first for her insurance agent and the Tesla driver’s insurance agent. Crashes like these are raising questions, especially in the insurance industry, when there’s no one physically behind the wheel.</p>



<p>“We’re sort of in dress rehearsal for that now because of all these different features that are there,” said Bob Passmore with Property Casualty Insurers Association of America.</p>



<p>Something every expert told the I-Team is even as technology improves our experience on the road, the driver must be in control.</p>


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<p>“There’s just no replacing an attentive and engaged driver, whether you’re holding an app in your hand or something in the car or you’re sitting in the driver’s seat,&#8221; said Passmore.</p>



<p>The Summon and Smart Summon apps in older models uses ultrasonic sensors and cameras to bring your car to your location. In September, Tesla released a newer version of the Summon app called the Actual Smart Summon. It uses just the vehicle’s cameras, since it no longer uses the sensors.</p>



<p><em>Reported by Susan Hogan, produced by Rick Yarborough, and shot and edited by Jeff Piper</em></p>
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<p>In the long term, there’s a lot of funding that’s going to be needed, and running trains an hour earlier on weekends would cost about $3 million per year. It’s unclear how that cost would translate to riders or taxpayers.</p>



<p>In a document posted on Metro’s website, the transit agency says it will likely face challenges doing some maintenance across the system unless billions more dollars are directed toward the transit agency. There likely will be more calls for things like a sales tax designated for Metro.</p>



<p>“We need a dedicated, predictable source of revenue,” Metro CEO and General Manager Randy Clarke said. “It’s a public service, and we’re not going to solve everything on fares.”</p>



<p>The Metro Board will talk this week about the early opening and long-term funding needs.</p>



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<p>Officers found a man suffering from gunshot wounds at 16th Street and Kentucky Avenue SE about 9:30 a.m., police said. The man, who police haven&#8217;t named, later died at a hospital.</p>



<p>Witnesses said they heard two people arguing at the intersection before shots rang out.</p>



<p>The suspected shooter took off in a black Mercedes, police said.</p>



<p>“I was in the living room watching TV and I heard six gunshots,&#8221; resident Mark Smith said.</p>



<p>Smith said he went over to his window to see what was happening. He saw police arrive moments after a car sped off.</p>



<p>Neighbor Bruce Edwards checked his truck after the shooting to see if it sustained any damage.</p>



<p>“It’s kind of shocking because usually nothing like that happens around here that often. We hear gunshots, but it’s never this close,&#8221; he said.</p>



<p>Police are still working on piecing together what led up to the shooting, but said it was a targeted, isolated incident.</p>



<p>Detectives could be seen examining a dark grey Mercedes Benz at the scene, but it was unclear what role — if any — it played in the shooting. The car was later towed away by police.</p>



<p>As police cleared the crime scene, some neighbors were left feeling uneasy.</p>



<p>“It could’ve been me, because I’m a walker. It’s kind of scary, but you’ve just got to be aware of your surroundings. You don’t know who’s around, who’s walking by, who’s driving by. You just gotta be aware.<br>I guess that’s the world we live in, unfortunately,&#8221; Mark Smith said.</p>
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<p>Washington Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels was forced to leave Sunday’s game due to injury, but could the ailment spoil a showdown with <a href="https://www.nbcchicago.com/tag/caleb-williams/" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.nbcchicago.com/?s=Caleb+Williams" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Caleb Williams</a> and the <a href="https://www.nbcchicago.com/tag/chicago-bears/" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.nbcchicago.com/?s=Chicago+Bears" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Chicago Bears</a>?</p>



<p>During his Monday press conference, Commanders head coach <a href="https://x.com/Commanders/status/1848448279656165814" data-type="link" data-id="https://x.com/Commanders/status/1848448279656165814" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Dan Quinn revealed that Daniels is “week-to-week” </a>with a rib injury, and while he didn’t rule out playing the rookie quarterback this week, he did say that the team will be cautious with their handling of the situation.</p>



<p>“We’ll take him through all the steps at practice. We’ll assess how he’s doing. We’re hopeful he can play, but we’ll be sure to take every precautionary step and do everything smartly for the player and the man,” he said.</p>



<p>Quinn said the injury is not considered to be a long-term issue, which is good news for a Commanders squad that sits at 5-2 and is atop the NFC East after a 40-7 thrashing of the Carolina Panthers on Sunday.</p>



<p>Daniels only managed two pass attempts in the game, but Marcus Mariota stepped in admirably, with an 18-of-23 performance for 205 yards and two touchdowns.</p>



<p>Mariota would in all likelihood be the starter for Washington against the Bears if Daniels can’t play.</p>



<p>The matchup between Daniels and Williams was a highly touted one for the NFL, with the league flexing it into a 3:25 p.m. kickoff slot for Sunday to set up a showdown between the top-two picks in the 2024 NFL Draft. Williams, who won the Heisman Trophy in 2022, was selected No. 1 overall by the Bears, with 2023 Heisman winner Daniels going No. 2.</p>



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<p>A Northern Virginia massage therapist is accused of sexually assaulting two clients last month.</p>



<p>Picard Johnson, 31, who worked at Massage Envy at the Shoppes at Foxchase in Alexandria, faces two felony counts of object sexual penetration, police said.</p>



<p>Massage Envy’s website says if a customer makes an allegation of sexual assault, the franchise must give them a brochure with contact information for the owner, a sexual assault hotline and local police, but employees are not required to call police themselves. </p>


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<p>“It is our policy to respect the victim’s privacy and their right to decide whether they would like to report,” the website says.</p>



<p>Instead, Massage Envy says the franchise should conduct an independent third-party investigation. If the therapist is found guilty, they’re fired, and not eligible for rehire at any location.</p>



<p>“This is a problem that Massage Envy has been dealing with for years,” attorney Adam Horowitz said.</p>



<p>Horowitz said his firm has represented about 50 people around the country in civil suits against Massage Envy for sexual assault. In the majority of cases, the company has settled, he said.</p>



<p>“They put out a lot of PR statements about preventing sexual assault, but it continues to happen,” Horowitz said.</p>



<p>In 2018, an employee at the Massage Envy in Tenleytown in Northwest D.C. pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting three customers. <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/massage-envy-worker-gets-5-years-for-sexually-assaulting-three-customers/165291/" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/massage-envy-worker-gets-5-years-for-sexually-assaulting-three-customers/165291/" target="_blank">That employee was sentenced to five years</a>.</p>



<p>In a statement, Johnson&#8217;s attorney from Maronick Law said: &#8220;Mr. Johnson denies any allegation of improper action in his role as a massage therapist. He is a professional who has sought to do a good job for his clients and to act in a reputable manner. He looks forward to his day in court to refute these allegations.&#8221;</p>



<p>News4 reached out to Massage Envy’s corporate office for an interview or statement but has not heard back. A person who identified herself as a manager at the Alexandria location declined to comment.</p>



<p>According to the company’s website, its businesses are all independently owned franchises. In response to allegations of assault in 2017, the company said allegations of assault were “heartbreaking” and “even one incident is too many.” They also said they would be requiring annual background checks for all massage therapists and partnering with the anti-sexual violence organization The Rape, Abuse &amp; Incest National Network to do a review of its policies.&nbsp;</p>



<p>Detectives are searching for anyone who visited the Massage Envy location at Foxchase between Aug. 1 and Sept. 26 who had any inappropriate contact with Johnson. Anyone who did is asked to call Detective Vanderah with the APD Criminal Investigations Bureau at 703-746-6678. Information can be provided anonymously.</p>



<p>Victims&#8217; advocates have been assigned to help the victims receive resources and assistance, police said.</p>



<p><em>If you or someone you know has experienced sexual assault and would like to speak with someone or get resources, you may contact the Alexandria Sexual Assault Hotline at 703-683-7273.</em></p>
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<p>Six days after a powerful explosion leveled a home in Haymarket, Virginia, a dog was found alive in the rubble, fire officials say.</p>



<p>Two couples and their young children who lived in the home on Coby Hunt Court managed to escape the house unharmed before the explosion reduced their home to an unrecognizable pile of debris the morning of Tuesday, Oct. 15. They thought their three pets likely died in the blast, which shook the neighborhood.</p>



<p>“Nothing’s going to bring them back unless somehow they made it out alive, which I hope they did, but who knows where they are,” said Jarrett Struniak, who lived in the home with his fiancee and 3-year-old daughter.</p>



<p>On Monday morning, firefighters found one of the animals — a brindle pitbull named Brandy — alive.</p>



<p>“The explosion was six days ago, so we were kind of shocked to hear that there was a dog possibly there still,” said Gavin Morrison with Prince William County Fire and Rescue.</p>



<p>“Usually when we do make pet rescues and people rescues, it’s at the time of the incident, said Lt. Mark Waldrop with Prince William County Fire and Rescue. “To go back six days later and get the dog out was a great feeling.”</p>



<p>Prince William County Fire and Rescue said they went back to the home after someone called Monday and said they could hear a dog barking from underneath the rubble. Crews freed the dog and fire officials said she would be reunited with her family.</p>



<p>&#8220;She appeared to be in good shape and showed her happiness of being freed by rapid tail wagging,&#8221; Assistant Chief Matt Smolsky said in a statement.</p>







<p>Waldrop says the actual rescue was pretty straightforward. Thankfully, they could see and hear Brandy, so once they stabilized the structure, they just had to coax her out.</p>



<p>Understandably, she was a little shaken up, but they quickly figured out a way to win her over.</p>



<p>“Dog treats and some ham turns out it ended up being the best,” said Andrew Silvernale with Prince William County Fire and Rescue. “We were able to get the dog to trust us a little bit. The owner was there.”</p>



<p>Brandy was taken to the vet, but officials say it looks like she will be okay.</p>



<p>“Just happy for the family,” Silvernale said. “After going through something like this, to be able to give them something to look forward to, something to hold on to, it means a lot to us as well.”</p>



<p>Firefighters say that the rescue took about 30 minutes.</p>



<p>“It was really nice,” said Carl Nunziata with Prince William County Fire and Rescue. “Animals are members of our family.”</p>



<p>“Makes you feel good about your job when you do stuff like this,” Waldrop said.</p>



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<p>Fire investigators said on Wednesday a private contractor who was working on replacing the water line to the home hit and ruptured a gas line.</p>



<p>Firefighters came shortly after 4 p.m. and evacuated the home, along with the neighboring houses. Washington Gas arrived to the home about an hour later to make repairs, but the home exploded a short time after, fire officials said.</p>



<p>“I mean, honestly, you can see everything go away in an instant and you realize you have nothing,” Struniak said. “It’s frustrating and demoralizing.”</p>



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<p>Struniak said he was relieved his loved ones were OK.&nbsp;</p>



<p>“You can&#8217;t really do anything about it. You can be angry, but what’s that going to do? You’re being angry at the wind,” he said. “The silver lining is that nobody was hurt. Not a firefighter, not a city worker, not a single person in the cul de sac was hurt, and that’s really great in itself.”</p>



<p>Crews spent much of the day Wednesday sifting through the wreckage.</p>



<p>The blast rattled neighbors, some of whom were standing outside at the time.</p>



<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m standing there and my back&#8217;s to it. It&#8217;s just this boom!,&#8221; neighbor Rob Karas said. &#8220;Last night my whole back hurt and I was in pain. And it blew out my garage and then there was some debris.&#8221;</p>



<p>&#8220;I just heard a loud boom and I screamed because I got really scared,&#8221; neighbor Mouna Karas said.</p>



<p>Struniak said the work at the home was supposed to be a routine repair. When workers hit the gas line, he said he had no idea there would be an explosion.&nbsp;</p>



<p>“You could smell gas and they were addressing it, you know, nothing, it wasn&#8217;t shut down,” Angie Rick, another neighbor, said Tuesday.</p>



<p>Investigators are still working to learn what ignited the explosion.</p>



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<p>Jayden Daniels will undergo further tests Monday after leaving the Washington Commanders’ game against the Carolina Panthers with a rib injury, coach Dan Quinn said, repeatedly adding he had no further update on the rookie quarterback&#8217;s status.</p>



<p>“I can not give you an update on Jayden, but I will just as soon as we find out,” Quinn said Sunday after Daniels was injured early in his team&#8217;s 40-7 win. “I’ll give you some updates just as soon as I find out tomorrow, but I do not have any tonight.”</p>



<p>Daniels&#8217; mother, Regina Jackson, posted on social media the simple message, “He’s fine.” Part owner Magic Johnson posted he’s “praying that Jayden Daniels’ injury is not serious!”</p>



<p>Seven games into what is turning into a season with playoff aspirations, the Commanders are 5-2 but so far have no clarity about Daniels.</p>



<p>“Obviously, it’s going to take some time or whatever it is,&#8221; said veteran Marcus Mariota, who replaced Daniels and threw for two touchdown passes and 205 yards. “We have no idea. But I think he was in good spirits, and for the most part you just check on him, how he’s doing and we’ll take it day to day.”</p>



<p>Daniels, who ran for 46 yards on the Commanders’ first offensive snap, took multiple hits on their opening drive — including a head-over-feet tumble on that play. It was not clear exactly when he was injured, with Quinn only sure it happened on that drive.</p>



<p>The No. 2 pick out of LSU and 2023 Heisman Trophy winner appeared to be in pain when leaving the field following a third-down completion before Austin Seibert’s field goal that gave Washington a 10-0 lead. He initially went to the bench but relocated to the blue medical tent for evaluation.</p>



<p>After Andy Dalton’s second interception of the first quarter, Daniels left the tent and went back onto the field to throw a few passes. He returned to the sideline and slammed his helmet to the turf before returning to the tent, and Mariota took control of the offense.</p>



<p>“When you see him go down, that’s tough for us,” top receiver Terry McLaurin said. “Marcus did a great job coming in.”</p>



<p>Towel in hand, Daniels then walked off the sideline and down the tunnel to the locker room. </p>



<p>“We warmed him up, he threw some, we took him to the tent and the next step was, ‘We’re going to take you inside and get images there,’” Quinn said. “And he’ll do some more images tomorrow.”</p>



<p>With Washington up 27-0 at halftime, Daniels returned to the sideline in the third quarter wearing sweatpants and a hoodie, and the team ruled him out soon after. He spent the remainder of the game chatting with teammates on the bench.</p>



<p>“We won’t put (Daniels) or any other guys into a space where they could jeopardize something,” Quinn said. “I don’t have any information medically, so please don’t speculate on that.”</p>



<p>Daniels came into the game as the favorite to win offensive rookie of the year honors. He threw for 1,404 yards, ran for 322 and was responsible for 10 TDs in his first six games.</p>



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<p>A piece of crime scene tape remains at the scene of a deadly shooting at Lloyd Apartments on Manor Road in Alexandria.</p>



<p>It happened just before 8 p.m. Saturday.</p>



<p>Police say the victim is 23-year-old Carl Harris of Alexandria. They were still searching for a suspect.</p>



<p>“I was sitting in my living room and I heard these shots,” said a neighbor. They didn’t want to be identified, but they say they heard four shots. </p>



<p>Shortly after the shooting, police say Harris was brought to the hospital, where he died.</p>



<p>There were several police officers back on the scene Sunday, speaking with potential witnesses and canvassing the area. </p>



<p>Neighbors say the police presence and the tragic shooting are unusual for the community.</p>



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<p>“I’ve been living here a long time, and it’s been pretty much quiet,” said a neighbor. “Every now and then there’s isolated things that happen, but it’s pretty much a quiet neighborhood.”</p>



<p>Alexandria police are asking those with information to give them a call. Tips can also be made anonymously by calling 703-746-6883.</p>
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<p>A 3-month-old puppy named Pepper has been reunited with her family after she <a href="https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/father-searches-for-puppy-stolen-from-boat-in-navy-yard/3743913/?os=fuzzscanazstr&amp;ref=app" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/father-searches-for-puppy-stolen-from-boat-in-navy-yard/3743913/?os=fuzzscanazstr&amp;ref=app" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">was stolen off of a boat</a> docked in Navy Yard.</p>



<p>The puppy is in good condition, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.</p>



<p>On Saturday, a good Samaritan returned Pepper to the family after purchasing the Cane Corso puppy from an online ad before realizing she had been stolen, according to MPD.</p>



<p>Edward Matthews — Pepper’s owner — and his son and nephew had sailed up from Prince George’s County on Oct. 11 to have dinner in D.C.’s Navy Yard neighborhood. Matthews has moored his boat at the dock within sight of the restaurants and Pepper safely secured in the boat’s cabin.</p>



<p>At approximately 9 p.m. that evening, police responded to reports of theft on the 100 block of Potomac Avenue Southeast. There, they discovered the boat broken into and Pepper gone.</p>



<p>Matthews had put up posters around the neighborhood and MPD published pictures of the dog.</p>



<p>The case is still under investigation, and MPD is offering a reward of up to $1,000 to anyone who provides information that leads to the arrest and indictment of the person responsible for the crime.</p>



<p>MPD is encouraging anyone with information to take no action but call police at (202) 727-9099 or text their tip line at 50411.</p>
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<p>Jayden Daniels&#8217; health was the first thing on Marcus Mariota&#8217;s mind when he went into the game for the injured rookie quarterback. Then he just played football like he has his whole life.</p>



<p>After Daniels left with a rib injury, the Washington Commanders routed the Carolina Panthers 40-7 on Sunday behind two touchdown passes from Mariota and a 67-yard pick-6 of Andy Dalton by Dante Fowler. </p>



<p>“It takes a little bit to kind of get your feet going and all that, but, yeah, you’re just thinking about the player first and then from there you just go out there and try to to execute,” said Mariota, who was 18 of 23 for 205 yards with TD passes to tight ends Zach Ertz and Ben Sinnott.</p>



<p>Concern over Daniels&#8217; status overshadowed the victory after the No. 2 pick and offensive rookie of the year favorite left with a rib injury. His mother posted on social media that “he&#8217;s fine,” but coach Dan Quinn said only that he had no update and that Daniels would undergo further tests Monday.</p>



<p>The Commanders (5-2) did just fine without Daniels for a vast majority of the game after he had a 46-yard run and completed a couple of passes on their opening possession. They already led at that point thanks to Fowler&#8217;s pick-6, Andy Dalton&#8217;s first of two interceptions, the second by Emmanuel Forbes, who returned from being a healthy scratch last week.</p>



<p>After after catching his first interception of any kind in the NFL, Fowler saw open field and thought, “It’s time to go score a touchdown.”</p>



<p>“Man, it was like I was in a dream,” Fowler said.</p>



<p>The defense dominated, allowing 180 yards, stopping seven of 10 third-down chances and sacking Dalton twice. </p>



<p>With Mariota running the show, Washington chugged along and racked up 421 yards against the Panthers (1-6), who allowed the most points through of any team in the Super Bowl era through the first six games of a season. </p>



<p>“Between giving the ball way and just not being able to get off the field, I think they scored on all but one drive,” said Carolina coach Dave Canales, who committed to Dalton starting next week over 2023 No. 1 pick Bryce Young.</p>



<p>Brian Robinson Jr. also ran for a touchdown in his return from a knee injury, which caused him to miss the game last week at Baltimore — his team&#8217;s first loss since the opener. The 27-point halftime lead was the franchise&#8217;s biggest since being up 28-0 on Dallas on Dec. 18, 2005.</p>



<p>Carolina&#8217;s lost season continued five games into Dalton supplanting Young as the starting QB. Dalton finished 11 of 16 for 93 yards, and Young entered in mop-up duty with 4:55 left, completing two passes for negative yardage.</p>



<p>“It got out of our hands quick,” Dalton said. &#8220;We have to look ourselves in the mirror and say, ‘Why do these games keep going like this?’ I think that’s the biggest thing.”</p>



<p>Chuba Hubbard was limited to 52 yards on 17 carries after averaging averaging over 100 over the past four weeks. He ran for a touchdown early in the fourth quarter long after the outcome was decided and fans who were doing the wave earlier long departed to beat the traffic.</p>



<p>“At the end of the day, we won handily and I think the defense did an unbelievable job,” said Terry McLaurin, Washington&#8217;s leading receiver with six catches for 98 yards.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Injuries</h2>



<p>Panthers: RB Raheem Blackshear left with a shoulder injury from a kickoff return midway through the third quarter. &#8230; TE Tommy Tremble (back) was inactive after being listed as questionable.</p>



<p>Commanders: In addition to losing Daniels, rookie LT Brandon Coleman was concussed in the first half. </p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Up next</h2>



<p>Panthers: At Denver next Sunday.</p>



<p>Commanders: Host Chicago next Sunday.</p>



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<p>AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nfl</p>
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<p>D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has proposed legislation to buy Capital One Arena for $87.5 million after months of negotiations to keep the Washington Capitals and Wizards playing in the District. </p>



<p>Under Bowser&#8217;s proposal, D.C. would buy the arena from Monumental Sports and Entertainment, which owns the Washington Capitals and Wizards. Then, the District would lease the arena back to Monumental for $1.3 to $2.5 million  per year through 2050.</p>



<p>The proposed $87.5-million purchase — which would need to be approved by the D.C. Council — is part of D.C.&#8217;s <a href="https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/heres-whats-expected-to-change-in-dc-under-new-deal-with-capitals-wizards/3578714/?os=ixglowljw&amp;ref=app&amp;=1">$515 million plan to transform the downtown arena and the Gallery Place complex next door and keep the teams in D.C. through 2050</a>.</p>



<p>All of the money would be put toward the revitalization projects, according to the <a href="https://lims.dccouncil.gov/downloads/LIMS/56399/Introduction/B25-1004-Introduction.pdf?Id=199640">proposed legislation</a> and sources familiar with the negotiations.</p>



<p>Bowser and Monumental Sports and Entertainment CEO Ted Leonsis announced details on the public-private partnership in a press release on Monday.</p>



<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The $87.5 mil is part of the $515 million deal. All $515 mil we’ll be used for improvements and upgrades to the new arena and is expected to be exempt from taxes according to the new legislation<a href="https://twitter.com/nbcwashington?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@nbcwashington</a> <a href="https://t.co/CbMZVU1fgB">https://t.co/CbMZVU1fgB</a></p>&mdash; Mark Segraves (@SegravesNBC4) <a href="https://twitter.com/SegravesNBC4/status/1848126010555801644?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 20, 2024</a></blockquote> <script src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>



<p>“We’re keeping Washington’s teams where they belong – here in the Sports Capital, and we’re doubling down on having a world-class destination and entertainment district in the center of DC,” Bowser said in a press release Monday. “We know that when our Downtown does well, our city does well. This catalytic investment is an investment in our residents and businesses in all eight wards.”</p>



<p>Leonsis said: &#8220;Our vision for a wholly re-imagined sports and entertainment destination will be ambitious, reflective of our community, and designed to ‘wow’ our most ardent supporters as well as casual fans.&#8221;</p>





<h2 class="wp-block-nbc-section-heading">Capital One Arena would have more concessions, player spaces</h2>



<p>The $87.5 million used to buy Capital One Arena would be reinvested into the project, Bowser&#8217;s office said in a release.</p>



<p>Plans for the arena include an expanded main entrance on F Street NW, wider concourses and more elevators and escalators. The company is planning to increase its concession space and the number of bathrooms, Monumental said in a release.</p>



<p>The Capitals would get a new film room in their locker room. A new players&#8217; lounge, a dining space and a lounge for their family members are also in the works, according to Monumental.</p>



<p>Exansion into the Gallery Place complex next door would also allow more space for hospitality staff.</p>



<p>However, Leonsis said Monday the Wizards will not build their new practice facility at the new arena as originally planned, but they will move out of their facility in Ward 8. The team is currently looking for a site somewhere in D.C. It may be at the former RFK Stadium site, if the District gets full control of that land from Congress.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-nbc-section-heading">What Capital One Arena construction will mean for summer games and concerts</h2>



<p>As for the Washington Mystics, they&#8217;ve been playing some of their bigger games at Capital One Arena. But once construction begins, the arena will be closed for three summers. Leonsis said they are looking for locations to hold some of the bigger Mystics games and indicated those might be played somewhere outside of D.C. during renovations.</p>



<p>In addition, no concerts or other events will come to the arena during those summers of construction, keeping about 30 concerts per year away.</p>



<p>However, the Caps&#8217; and Wizards&#8217; schedules would not be impacted.</p>



<p>&#8220;This will be the largest investment made in an existing arena in the country,&#8221; Leonsis said. &#8220;It&#8217;s going to be messy. It&#8217;s going to be long and hard three years of deconstruction and then construction. But we&#8217;re up for that task.&#8221;</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-nbc-section-heading">Deal could keep Wizards, Caps in DC through 2070</h2>



<p>Monumental&#8217;s lease would last through 2050; then Monumental would have the option to renew the lease five times. Each leasing period would last four years, giving Monumental the option to stay through 2070.</p>



<p>In a letter to the D.C. Council, Leonsis said Monumental has agreed to spend at least $285 million on the revitalization project and pay for any cost overruns.</p>



<p>The arena would also be exempt from taxes, according to the proposed legislation.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-nbc-section-heading">What comes next?</h2>



<p>The plan is subject to review by the D.C. Council. In a letter dated Friday, Bowser asked D.C. Council members to approve the sale and pass the Downtown Arena Revitalization Act of 2024 during their current session.</p>



<p>&#8220;The surrounding neighborhood will also benefit directly from a modernized building exterior, new entrances, and improved public realm that are worthy of the vision set for the future of Downtown DC,&#8221; Bowser wrote.</p>



<p>The D.C. Council will hold public hearings and then vote on this sometime before the end of the year. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson said in a release that the Council would move expeditiously to get the deal done by then.</p>



<p>If the legislation does pass before the end of the year, Monumental is set to begin the design process this winter and kick off construction in early summer 2025, according to a press release.</p>



<p>Bowser said the project would create thousands of construction jobs and generate $21 million in tax revenue over a three-year construction period.</p>



<p>Not long ago, the arena&#8217;s fate was in question for months after Leonsis and Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced a plan last December to move the Capitals and the Wizards to a proposed $2 billion sports and entertainment complex in Alexandria. However, <a href="https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/northern-virginia/monumental-move-dead-caps-wizards-not-moving-to-alexandria/3577653/">facing opposition from leaders in both D.C. and Virginia,</a> that deal fell through.</p>



<p>Alexandria officials then <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8IDokk3250" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8IDokk3250" target="_blank">announced in March</a> that they would stop negotiations, and D.C. and Leonsis reached the deal to keep the teams in the District. </p>



<p>The District pledged $515 million to keep the teams downtown.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-nbc-section-heading">&#8216;I want the money to go into the building, and the city owns the building right now&#8217;</h2>



<p>The reason the District is working to buy the arena is so Leonsis and his partners won&#8217;t have to pay taxes on the $515 million the city is giving them. Both Leonsis and a deputy mayor insist this deal is the only way to ensure that all of the money is spent on the project.</p>



<p>&#8220;We shouldn&#8217;t have to defend it,&#8221; Leonsis said. &#8220;It&#8217;s, all the money is going into the building as opposed to paying taxes. Isn&#8217;t that isn&#8217;t that strategically like the right thing to do?&#8221;</p>



<p>The District has always owned the land on which Capital One Arena sits, and Monumental has always paid to lease that land.</p>



<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t want the money,&#8221; Leonsis said. &#8220;I want the money to go into the building, and the city owns the building right now.&#8221;</p>



<p>The deal just released to the public Monday has the District buying the arena and then leasing it back to Monumental Sports for the same rate Leonsis and his partners currently pay to lease the land the arena sits on.</p>



<p>&#8220;We anticipated and we are now effectuating the transaction that allows $515 million to be invested into modernizing, transforming and expanding the Capital One Arena,&#8221; D.C. Deputy Mayor of Economic Development Nina Alpert said. &#8220;This is the best structure to effectuate that.&#8221;</p>



<p>Alpert said transactions like this, known as sale leasebacks, are &#8220;very common.&#8221;</p>



<p>&#8220;And as Mr. Leonsis said, it is what enables an efficient use of public money to be fully reinvested in this project as opposed to going to other uses,&#8221; she said.</p>
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<p>The search is on for a puppy allegedly taken from a pet store in Northern Virginia.</p>



<p>It happened this week at the XO Pups store in Chantilly. Fairfax County Police are reviewing surveillance video after the store owner reported a 10-week-old Maltipoo stolen.</p>



<p>The owner of the store, Ayman Koshok, says lots of people come into the store to admire and hopefully pay for and leave with a new furry friend.</p>



<p>Surveillance video inside the store shows the moments two people can be seen with the maltipoo puppy. Koshok says the duo grabbed the puppy from the back before taking off from the store.</p>



<p>Koshok says a kennel tech was in the back working and a manager was working with another customer when the puppy was taken away.</p>



<p>“What they did was absolutely wrong, and it’s a crime,” he said. “They will be punished for it,”</p>



<p>Security camera video shows the pup dangling in one of the hands of the alleged suspects behind a wall in the store before another camera angle captures the duo making a run for it out the front door.</p>



<p>“We’ve never had an issue like that happen here before, so it’s really unusual and unexpected.” Koshok says. “It seems to me like these guys had a plan. They premeditated what they wanted to do.”</p>



<p>Koshok says the puppy along with its siblings arrived at his store two weeks ago. The pup is valued at $4,000.</p>



<p>He says his number one priority is “how the puppy is doing, and we want to make sure that it’s okay.”</p>



<p>This remains an active investigation, and Fairfax County Police say they are reviewing the surveillance video.</p>
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<ul> <li>Even as inflation measures have eased, the high price of goods and services across the U.S. economy continues to pose a burden for individuals, businesses and policymakers.</li> <li>Since prices started spiking in early 2021, food inflation has surged 22%. Eggs are up 87%, auto insurance has soared nearly 47% and gasoline, though on a downward trajectory recently, is still up 16%.</li> <li>So far, rising debt hasn&#8217;t proved to be a major problem, but it&#8217;s getting there. The current debt delinquency rate is at 2.74%, the highest in nearly 12 years.</li> <li>Amid the swirling currents of the good news/bad news inflation picture, the Fed has an important interest rate decision to make at its Nov. 6-7 policy meeting.</li></ul>

<p>Just because the <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/federal-reserve/?__source=OTS%7Cfinance%7Cinline%7Cstory%7C&amp;par=OTS&amp;doc=108049268">Federal Reserve</a> is nearing its <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/id/10000793?__source=OTS%7Cfinance%7Cinline%7Cstory%7C&amp;par=OTS&amp;doc=108049268">inflation</a> goal doesn&#8217;t mean the problem is solved, as the high price of goods and services across the U.S. economy continues to pose a burden for individuals, businesses and policymakers.</p>

<p>Recent price reports on goods and services, despite being a bit stronger than expected, indicate that the rate of inflation over the past year is getting close to the central bank&#8217;s 2% target.</p>

<p>In fact, <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/11/the-federal-reserve-may-have-pretty-much-just-hit-its-2percent-inflation-target.html?__source=OTS%7Cfinance%7Cinline%7Cstory%7C&amp;par=OTS&amp;doc=108049268">Goldman Sachs recently estimated</a> that when the Bureau of Economic Analysis later this month releases its figures on the Fed&#8217;s favorite price measure, the inflation rate could be close enough to get rounded down to that 2% level.</p>

<p>But inflation is a mosaic. It can&#8217;t be captured fully by any individual yardstick, and by many metrics is still well above where most Americans, and in fact some Fed officials, feel comfortable.</p>

<p>Sounding like many of her colleagues, San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly last Tuesday touted the easing of inflation pressures but noted that the Fed isn&#8217;t declaring victory nor is it eager to rest on its laurels.</p>

<p>&#8220;Continued progress towards our goals is not guaranteed, so we must stay vigilant and intentional,&#8221; she told a group gathered at the New York University Stern School of Business.</p>

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<h4 class="wp-block-heading">Inflation is not dead</h4>

<p>Daly began her talk with an anecdote of a recent encounter she had while walking near her home. A young man pushing a stroller and walking a dog called out, &#8220;President Daly, are you declaring victory?&#8221; She assured him she was not waving any banners when it comes to inflation.</p>

<p>But the conversation encapsulated a dilemma for the Fed: If inflation is on the run, why are interest rates still so high? Conversely, if inflation still hasn&#8217;t been whipped — those who were around in the 1970s might remember the &#8220;Whip Inflation Now&#8221; buttons — why is the Fed cutting at all?</p>

<p>In Daly&#8217;s eyes, <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/18/fed-cuts-rates-september-2024-.html?__source=OTS%7Cfinance%7Cinline%7Cstory%7C&amp;par=OTS&amp;doc=108049268">the Fed&#8217;s half percentage point reduction</a> in September was an attempt at &#8220;right-sizing&#8221; policy, to bring the current rate climate in line with inflation that is well off its peak of mid-2022 at the same time as there are signs the labor market is softening.</p>

<p>As evidenced by the young man&#8217;s question, convincing people that inflation is easing is a tough sell.</p>

<p>When it comes to inflation, there are two things to remember: the rate of inflation, which is the 12-month view that garners headlines, and the cumulative effects that a more than three-year run has had on the economy.</p>

<p>Looking at the 12-month rate provides only a limited view.</p>

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<p>The annual rate of <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/10/cpi-inflation-september-2024.html?__source=OTS%7Cfinance%7Cinline%7Cstory%7C&amp;par=OTS&amp;doc=108049268">CPI inflation was 2.4% in September</a>, a vast improvement over the 9.1% top in June 2022. The CPI measure draws the bulk of public focus but is secondary to the Fed, which prefers the personal consumption expenditures price index from the Commerce Department. Taking the inputs from the CPI that feed into the PCE measure led Goldman to its conclusion that the latter measure is just a few hundredths of a percentage point from 2%.</p>

<p>Inflation first passed the Fed&#8217;s 2% objective in March 2021 and for months was dismissed by Fed officials as the &#8220;transitory&#8221; product of pandemic-specific factors that would soon recede. Fed Chair <strong>Jerome Powell</strong>, in his annual policy speech at the <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/23/fed-chair-powell-indicates-interest-rate-cuts-ahead-the-time-has-come-for-policy-to-adjust.html?__source=OTS%7Cfinance%7Cinline%7Cstory%7C&amp;par=OTS&amp;doc=108049268">Jackson Hole, Wyoming summit</a> this August, joked about &#8220;the good ship Transitory&#8221; and all the passengers it had in the early days of the inflation run-up.</p>

<p>Obviously, inflation wasn&#8217;t transitory, and the all-items CPI reading is up 18.8% since then. Food inflation has surged 22%. Eggs are up 87%, <a href="https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CUUR0000SETE?output_view=data">auto insurance</a> has soared almost 47% and gasoline, though on a downward trajectory these days, is still up 16% from then. And, of course, there&#8217;s housing: The <a href="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPUS">median home price</a> has jumped 16% since Q1 of 2021 and 30% from the beginning of the pandemic-fueled buying frenzy.</p>

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<p>Finally, while some broad measures of inflation such as CPI and PCE are pulling back, others show stubbornness.</p>

<p>For instance, the Atlanta Fed&#8217;s measure of <a href="https://www.atlantafed.org/research/inflationproject/stickyprice">&#8220;sticky price&#8221;</a> inflation — think rent, insurance and medical care — was still running at a 4% rate in September even as &#8220;flexible CPI,&#8221; which includes food, energy and vehicle costs, was in outright deflation at -2.1%. That means that prices that don&#8217;t change a lot are still high, while those that do, in this particular case gasoline, are falling but could turn the other way.</p>

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<p>The sticky-price measure also brings up another important point: &#8220;Core&#8221; inflation that excludes food and energy prices, which fluctuate more than other items, was still at 3.3% in September by the CPI measure and 2.7% in August as gauged by the PCE index.</p>

<p>While Fed officials lately have been talking more about headline numbers, historically they&#8217;ve considered core a better measure of long-run trends. That makes the inflation data even more troublesome.</p>

<h4 class="wp-block-heading">Borrowing to pay higher prices</h4>

<p>Prior to the 2021 spike, American consumers had grown accustomed to negligible inflation. Even so, during the current run, they have continued to spend, spend and spend some more despite all the grumbling about the soaring cost of living.</p>

<p>In the second quarter, <a href="https://www.bea.gov/sites/default/files/2024-09/gdp2q24-3rd.pdf">consumer spending equaled close to $20 trillion</a> at an annualized pace, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. In September, <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/17/retail-sales-rose-0point4percent-in-september-better-than-expected-jobless-claims-dip.html?__source=OTS%7Cfinance%7Cinline%7Cstory%7C&amp;par=OTS&amp;doc=108049268">retail sales increased a larger-than-expected 0.4%</a>, with the group that feeds directly into gross domestic product calculations up 0.7%. However, year-over-year spending increased just 1.7%, below the 2.4% CPI inflation rate.</p>

<p>A growing portion of spending has come through IOUs of various forms.</p>

<p>Household debt totaled $20.2 trillion through the second quarter of this year, up $3.25 trillion, or 19%, from when inflation started spiking in Q1 of 2021, according to <a href="https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/20240912/z1.pdf">Federal Reserve data</a>. In the second quarter of this year, household debt rose 3.2%, the biggest increase since Q3 of 2022.</p>

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<p>So far, the rising debt hasn&#8217;t proved to be a major problem, but it&#8217;s getting there.</p>

<p>The current <a href="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DRCLACBS">debt delinquency rate</a> is at 2.74%, the highest in nearly 12 years though still slightly below the long-term average of around 3% in Fed data going back to 1987. However, a recent <a href="https://www.newyorkfed.org/newsevents/news/research/2024/20241015">New York Fed survey</a> showed that the perceived probability of missing a minimum debt payment over the next three months jumped to 14.2% of respondents, the highest level since April 2020.</p>

<p>And it&#8217;s not just consumers who are racking up credit.</p>

<p>Small business credit card usage has continued to tick higher, up more than 20% compared to pre-pandemic levels and nearing the highest in a decade, according to Bank of America. The bank&#8217;s economists expect the pressure could ease as the Fed lowers interest rates, though the magnitude of the cuts could come into question if inflation proves sticky.</p>

<p>In fact, the one bright spot of the small business story relative to credit balances is that they actually haven&#8217;t kept up with the 23% inflation increase going back to 2019, according to BofA.</p>

<p>Broadly speaking, though, sentiment is downbeat at small firms. The September survey from the National Federation of Independent Business showed that 23% of respondents still see inflation as their main problem, again the top issue for members.</p>

<h4 class="wp-block-heading">The Fed&#8217;s choice</h4>

<p>Amid the swirling currents of the good news/bad news inflation picture, the Fed has an important decision to make at its Nov. 6-7 policy meeting.</p>

<p>Since policymakers in September voted to lower their baseline interest rate by half a percentage point, or 50 basis points, <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/26/the-fed-slashed-interest-rates-last-week-but-treasury-yields-are-rising-whats-going-on-.html?__source=OTS%7Cfinance%7Cinline%7Cstory%7C&amp;par=OTS&amp;doc=108049268">markets have acted curiously</a>. Rather than price in lower rates ahead, they&#8217;ve begun to indicate a higher trajectory.</p>

<p>The rate on a <a href="https://www.freddiemac.com/pmms">30-year fixed mortgage</a>, for instance, has climbed about 40 basis points since the cut, according to Freddie Mac. The <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/US10Y&amp;__source=OTS%7Cfinance%7Cinline%7Cstory%7C&amp;par=OTS&amp;doc=108049268">10-year Treasury yield</a> has moved up by a similar amount, and the <a href="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/T5YIE">5-year breakeven rate</a>, a bond market inflation gauge that measures the 5-year government note against the Treasury Inflation Protected Security of the same duration, has moved up about a quarter point and recently was at its highest level since early July.</p>

<p>SMBC Nikko Securities has been a lone voice on Wall Street encouraging the Fed to take a break from cuts until it can gain greater clarity about the current situation. The firm&#8217;s position has been that with <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/17/stock-market-today-live-updates.html?__source=OTS%7Cfinance%7Cinline%7Cstory%7C&amp;par=OTS&amp;doc=108049268">stock market prices</a> eclipsing new records as the Fed has shifted into easing mode, softening financial conditions threaten to push inflation back up. (Atlanta Fed President Raphael Bostic recently indicated that a November pause is a possibility he&#8217;s considering.)</p>

<p>&#8220;For Fed policymakers, lower interest rates are likely to further ease financial conditions, thereby boosting the wealth effect through higher equity prices. Meanwhile, a fraught inflationary backdrop should persist,&#8221; SMBC chief economist Joseph LaVorgna, who was a senior economist in the Donald Trump White House, wrote in a note Friday.</p>

<p>That leaves folks like the young man who Daly, the San Francisco Fed president, encountered uneasy about the future and hinting whether the Fed perhaps is making a policy mistake.</p>

<p>&#8220;I think we can move towards [a world] where people have time to catch up and then get ahead,&#8221; Daly said during her talk in New York. &#8220;That is, I told the young father on the sidewalk, my version of victory, and that&#8217;s when I will consider the job done.&#8221;</p>
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<p>The candidates for Virginia’s open 10<sup>th</sup> congressional district seat have stark differences, including on hot button topics like abortion and immigration.</p>



<p>Democrat Suhas Subramanyam and Republican Mike Clancy, who are running for Democratic U.S. Rep. Jennifer Wexton’s open seat, have very different views of how the country is doing right now.</p>



<p>A tech executive and attorney, Clancy says he’s running to “restore America.”</p>



<p>“I think we have to fight like it’s 1776, because if we don’t, we’re going to live like George Orwell’s ‘1984,’” he said.</p>



<p>Subramanyam, who served as White House technology advisor during the former President Barack Obama administration, says he wants to use his experience as a delegate and state senator in the General Assembly to find bipartisan solutions.</p>



<p>“I believe in this country and I believe we’ve taken on really tough challenges and been successful, and so I’m going to continue to bring that optimism to Congress,” he said.</p>



<p>Immigration policy is a top challenge for the 119th Congress. The candidates agree the path to legal immigration must be streamlined, hastened. Both back stronger border security, but on mass deportation of undocumented immigrants there’s a sharp divide.</p>



<p>“The undocumented immigrants here, you the reality is there’s 15 million-plus,” said Subramanyam, whose parents came to this country from India in the 1970s. “And so, we can’t deport them all tomorrow. That’s just not realistic. It’s going to be really bad for our economy. A lot of them contribute a lot to our economy.”</p>



<p>“I think we start with focusing on the 10 million that have come across illegally,” Clancy said.</p>



<p>“They should be forced to go back and follow the legal immigration process,” he said.</p>



<p>Abortion rights is another dividing line.</p>



<p>If elected, Subramanyam says he’d vote for federal legislation to codify Roe v. Wade.</p>



<p>“It shouldn’t matter what your zip code is whether you have bodily autonomy, and so I want to make sure we take federal action,” he said.</p>



<p>Clancy says the Dobbs decision got it right and states should decide.</p>



<p>“Under Dobbs it should be a state’s issue, so I would not be voting for any federal legislation,” he said.</p>



<p>On the economy, Clancy calls the President Joe Biden administration policy and its spending practices disastrous. He says continuing former President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax cuts is essential.</p>



<p>“And those tax cuts four years ago energized the economy,” he said. “It drove jobs. It created jobs, high-paying jobs. Wages went up. Inflation was way down.”</p>



<p>Subramanyam wants to find ways to boost small business and bring more federal government work to the 10<sup>th</sup> District, which includes parts of Loudoun, Fairfax, Prince William, Fauquier and Rappahannock counties.</p>



<p>“If we had more opportunities to get businesses access to capital, I think that would actually be the game changer more so than even a tax cut,” he said.</p>



<p>Project 2025 and its controversial proposals are also an issue in this race.</p>



<p>Clancy has been a supporter of the Heritage Foundation, whose members authored the document.</p>



<p>“I know my opponent keeps trying to fear monger about Project 2025,” he said. “But that’s not something I was ever involved in, and I have no idea what’s in it.”</p>



<p>“They may not like the branding, but there’s a lot of parallels between what Project 2025 is trying to do and what my opponent is trying to do,” Subramanyam said.</p>



<p>Democrats won the 10th District seat in the past three election cycles. Last year, Wexton announced she would not seek reelection after she was diagnosed with progressive supranuclear palsy.</p>



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<p>A weekend trip to D.C. took a terrifying turn for a woman from Boston, and police have opened a potential hate crime investigation.</p>



<p>Roulin Wu said she was walking with a friend in Chinatown last Saturday morning when a stranger hit her in the head with a grill without provocation and told her to “Go back to China.”</p>



<p>“Right after the incident, I was, I think I like cried for straight an hour,” Wu said.</p>



<p>“Mentally, I was taking some time to recover from that,” she said.</p>



<p>Wu said for the rest of her trip, she held tight to a selfie stick in case she needed to defend herself.</p>



<p>“I was actually thinking about I need to establish a will so that if I die, my parents can get my money,” she said.</p>



<p>D.C. police said they’re investigating the attack as potentially being motivated by hate or bias.</p>
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<p>The recalled product&#8217;s manufacturer, TreeHouse Foods, <a href="https://www.treehousefoods.com/news-and-media/press-release-details/2024/TreeHouse-Foods-Announces-Voluntary-Recall-of-Certain-Waffle-Products-Due-to-the-Potential-for-Listeria-monocytogenes-Contamination/default.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">announced the voluntary recall</a> after discovering the issue during routine testing of the company&#8217;s facility. The company says there have been no confirmed illnesses resulting from the possible contamination. </p>



<p>The recall affects hundreds of different frozen waffle products sold under a number of major retailers&#8217; brands, including Walmart&#8217;s Great Value, Target&#8217;s Good &amp; Gather, Aldi&#8217;s Breakfast Best and Kroger&#8217;s Simple Truth. </p>



<p>Other retailers that sold the recalled product include Food Lion, H-E-B, Publix and Dollar General. </p>



<p>A full list of recalled brands and products can be found <a href="https://www.treehousefoods.com/news-and-media/press-release-details/2024/TreeHouse-Foods-Announces-Voluntary-Recall-of-Certain-Waffle-Products-Due-to-the-Potential-for-Listeria-monocytogenes-Contamination/default.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">here.</a> </p>



<p>Consumers should check their freezers for any of the products listed above and dispose of them or return the recalled product to the place of purchase for credit. Consumers with questions may contact the company at 800-596-2903, Monday – Friday, 8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. (CST).</p>



<p>Listeria is a bacteria that contaminates foods and can lead to serious illness in people who come in contact with it, <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/listeria/about/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">according to the CDC.</a> </p>



<p>Symptoms of listeria illness include a fever, muscle aches and fatigue, headache, stiff neck, nausea, diarrhea and abdominal pain. </p>



<p>Those most at-risk for severe illness due to listeria include pregnant women, newborns, people 65 years old or older and people with a weakened immune system. </p>
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<p>Family after family has told News4 and Telemundo 44 that fentanyl changed their lives forever. Every loved one we spoke with whose child struggled with fentanyl use or even was killed by it said they never imagined the drug would enter their home.</p>



<p>Every parent needs to talk with their child about fentanyl. The News4 I-Team sat down with Dr. Marc Fishman, a Maryland psychiatrist who specializes in addiction treatment, on how to have the crucial conversations. Here are his tips.</p>



<p><strong>Is there a particular age at which we need to start talking about fentanyl with our kids?</strong></p>



<p>“I would say it’s not just talking about fentanyl. Back up a minute and talk about risks writ large, including other substances I think of as pre-fentanyl or pre-opioid … So, that’s nicotine, that’s alcohol, that’s cannabis … So, starting early – 11, 12, 13, before they’ve even met those risks is when to talk about it.”</p>



<p><strong>I had a conversation with my kids, one 9, one 21, and said ‘Don’t take anything from other people. Don’t take pills. Don’t take gummies. Don’t take candy. Don’t take anything because of things being laced.’ How much of an issue is this?</strong></p>



<p>“We don’t know what’s on the street. And what we do know is that things are marketed, as you say, as Adderall, as Xanax, as oxycodone, as Percocet, as whatever. And it’s often, if not always, pressed fentanyl … This is 50 times more powerful than heroin, 100 times more powerful than morphine.”</p>


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<p><strong>What warning signs should we look out for that suggest to us that our kids are using drugs?</strong></p>



<p>“We know from the data that parents are notoriously bad at recognizing and knowing when their kids have started to get into substance-use problems. So, the thing to get better at is looking for signs of change and deterioration … What&#8217;s the decline in the trajectory? They used to be into such and such fun thing – art, sports, school, friends – and now they’re losing it?”</p>



<p><strong>What do you do? Who do you call for help?</strong></p>



<p>“I would start with whatever trusted health caregiver you have access to. Is it the pediatrician? … Don&#8217;t stop until you get connected with somebody. Maybe it&#8217;s not a doctor. Maybe it&#8217;s a school counselor. Maybe it&#8217;s a member of the faith community who&#8217;s connected to a network of advice. But keep asking and don&#8217;t give up until you get a yes.”</p>



<p><strong>What do you say to parents who say, this can’t happen to my kid?</strong></p>



<p>“Well, that’s an error. It can happen to anybody. It is a common, tragic event … Don’t assume that you have some force field because of class, because of social standing … Pay attention. Talk to the kids. Have the conversations … It is an equal-opportunity evil.”</p>



<p><strong>What if you try to talk to your kids about fentanyl and they put up a wall? How do you break through, especially with teenagers?</strong></p>



<p>“You don&#8217;t need to be their best friend … Have a listening ear. Be sympathetic … Never make the mistake that they don&#8217;t carry your voice around in their heads, even if they don&#8217;t follow it immediately … You told them to be careful who you fall in love with and maybe wear a condom. You&#8217;ve given them all of that risk behavior all along. This is the same kind of thing. Stick to your guns.”</p>


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<p><strong>Can you offer some hope? Does treatment work?</strong></p>



<p>“Treatment works … One of the best things I can say to kids and their families is, don&#8217;t give up on this.”</p>



<p>“There is light at the end of the tunnel. We have effective treatments. Stay engaged. And if it&#8217;s three steps forward and two steps back, that&#8217;s OK. Keep connected. Keep coming back. Never give up.”</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-nbc-section-heading"><strong><em>If you need help for a young person struggling with fentanyl use in the D.C. area, many resources are available. <a href="https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/resources-how-to-find-help-in-the-dc-area-for-youth-fentanyl-users/3732524/">Go here for information on how to find help</a>.</em></strong></h2>



<p><em>Reported by Susan Hogan, produced by Rick Yarborough and Andrea Swalec, edited by Perkins Broussard</em></p>
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<p>Fairfax County first graders visited West Springfield High School students at their football field for an interactive learning experience.</p>



<p>Cardinal Forest Elementary School first graders were greeted just like football players, getting cheered on and high fived running through a tunnel of cheerleaders. Students got paired up with high schoolers to read while enjoying at first glance what all kids dream of — being grownups.</p>



<p>A Cardinal Forest teacher has a son on the football team, which is how this special field trip idea was born. The principals of both schools say it’s a way to build community.</p>



<p>“You saw our football players, our cheerleaders, inspiring young minds, future Spartans, to see not only can they be great on the field, in competition, but as students in the classroom as well,” said West Springfield principal Mike Mukai.</p>



<p>Senior Jonathan Evans has had practice with this before.</p>



<p>“I thought it was a fun opportunity. On Saturdays I tutor little kid is in reading and math, so I thought it was a chance to give back a little more,&#8221; he said. &#8220;t&#8221;These guys are great.”</p>



<p>This was not only a great experience for the little ones, it was just as fun for the high schoolers.</p>



<p>“I was just so excited to read to the little kids. I think it’s great to get a closer connection with them,” said Olivia Lang.</p>



<p>The excitement and admiration that the Cardinal Forest students felt was truly captivating.</p>



<p>“I love meeting the cheerleaders,&#8221; first grader Joey Catonguay said. &#8220;It’s just my dream come true. I’ve seen my first cheerleader.&#8221;</p>
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<p>A woman out walking her dog was hit and killed in Woodbridge, Virginia, early Thursday when a driver crashed onto the sidewalk, authorities say.</p>



<p>Maria Isabel Cardozo was the victim. She was 57, worked as a nanny and was married for more than 30 years, her husband said.</p>



<p>Cardozo was walking her dog on Mapledale Drive near Miles Court at about 6:35 a.m. when the driver of a Nissan Versa left the street, drove onto the sidewalk and hit her. Cardozo was pronounced dead on the scene, Prince William County police said.</p>



<p>Cardozo’s dog was later found near her home and was not hurt.</p>



<p>Charges against the driver, a 30-year-old Woodbridge man, are pending as the investigation continues. Alcohol and drugs were not factors, according to police. It wasn&#8217;t immediately clear why the driver went off the road.</p>



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<p>Flowers and a cross were placed at the scene of the crash as neighbors cope with Cardozo’s death. She was a wonderful neighbor who cared deeply about others, they said.</p>



<p>“Cherish the people that you have in your life,” neighbor Gershom Kenyata Murray said. “If you have the opportunity, hug the people that you love. You never know when it’s going to be the last time.”</p>
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