Right now with new video and the at the scene. Check out this video showing toppled over like twigs. Torn off homes. There are reports of dimesized hail. Many homes were destroyed in this area in new orleans east. Irefighters are searching the debris for survivors. Right now, the mayor there says so far no hurt but word of anyone trapped or killed. This thing comes up on you in and within literally seconds you lose everything that you have so of course the first about is we care whether theres loss of life. We also want to muck sure taken e who is hurt is care of. Crews are working restore power across the region. Were watching closely for video. And new pleasant in prince georges county. This is the second murder in the in just a gas station days. Theren, what is happening right now . Now we can right show you the investigation continues. It is down there near those gas understand this fight between the two individuals began. T was over beyond on the grass over there closer to the Dunkin Donuts where the victim was discovered. Earlier today of just how active the investigation was here at this station. A lot of people concerned about just what had taken place. Took off. T apparently this is what seat pleasants police chief had to say about down here earlier today. 1,200 hours, officers in progress a fight call. Upon arriving on the scene the ictim was laying on the ground suffering from injuries to the upper torso of his body. Local transported to a hospital where he was pronounced deceased. Justorter now the word on what caused that death either stab wounds, cuttings, or some blunt force trauma. But we assume at this time it was some form of a stabbing killed this individual. Also investigators are saying be do not consider this to a random act. In police speak, that saying that these two individuals most likely knew each other and this was indeed incident. Ed thats the latest. An be the first to get update on breaking news even when youre away from the tv. Abc7 text alerts at wjla. Com texts the Montgomery County fire suvfs lewis has this story. Locked. Ythings garage. Ter a wide open ransacked the ly chiefs unlocked Fire Department stealing 25,000 worth of dispatch radios and other electronics. Of money. Lot reporter the chiefs to hbors say police managed catch the crooks driving through gathersburg. Fire Department Sources say sense of irony here as the chiefs notorious for crews to always lock the fire station and department vehicles. Youre always going to have world. Ople in the theyre out there. Do. Atter what we reporter kevin lewis is live chiefs neighborhood this afternoon. Were they able to recover any of the stolen equipment . Jonathan, we know officers were able to recover some of the ricey Technology Including Something Like this emergency radio right here. We reached out to the fire for tment today looking more information. So far its not gotten back in with us but without the Gps Technology inside of that this would have been a lot tougher of a case to solve. Right. Kevin, thank you. The Vice President votes in affirmative, and the nomination is confirmed. The d there you have it, senate has confirmed schools devos as ivist betty education secretary. Opinion. O know your vi p a 50 50 tie. The first time a Vice President had to break a tie on cabinet nomination. Devos tweeted after the i appreciate the senates diligence and im honored to serve. And improve options outcomes for all u. S. Students today, a strong stance against any privatization of schools in maryland. Brad bell with the teachers fight today. Reporter as education betty devos was being betty devos was being confirmed, this kids were quietly working away, learning a little math. Ten, whats next . 20 or 15 . 15. 15. Unawareer the students of the battle brewing around them. N annapolis the head of the Teachers Union angry. Who doesnt mebody know anything about how our Public Schools work. Than rter backed by more two dozen law makers she blasted maryland Greater Public funding to charter, religious, and other private schools. That doesnt bode well for our Public School students. Reporter here theres a very on the t perspective matter. They say public funding for this private school is helping the community. School administrator eric he hopes for more support. Im a big believer in this school and i would love for kids opportunity to go to school thick this. Views and differing philosophies. At 5 00 well look closely at for school dollars. Senator Jeff Sessions took a step closer to becoming the Law Enforcement officer. Voted in favorly of devos moments before his tally still on in h is great falls for a 50yearold woman right now. Missings sometime last night. They found her car parked at the the falls scenic lot on virginia side. Right now theyre using swift boats, walking the woods. Also have a helicopter for her but so far no sign of her up next, the 100,000 cheato. And barack obama like youve never seen him before plus, vacation scams. Three things you need to watch out for so your next trip is one to remember. We all remember president obama like this, suit and tie. The formernever seen president like this. What a difference a couple of weeks make. Obama soaks in every bit of his post white house vacation in the Virgin Islands with his who D Richard Branson happens to have his own island. The two had a kite surfing competition. The former president won if case youre wondering. Relaxed. So happy and hes in pretty that day. I know. [laughter] what a blast. Nice. All right. Ways a s a lot of vacation can be ruined but paying for a place that doesnt ven exist, i guess that could be the top of the list. According to the hotel and association, 15 million rental scams last year alone 1. 3 billion. Lisa fletcher discovered many of with web ads art that will fool even the most seasoned traveller. Rental er is it a real or a scheme to steal your money . And her family from silver spring, maryland, it was impossible to tell. Planned a dream ski vacation. One week on the slopes in vermont. Saw it online and he sent us pictures of the outside as inside of the unit. Sent which we did. Reporter she wired the money there, it was all down hill. But not in the good kind of way. Suspectat point did you you were scammed. After about three or four ays before we left, we had not heard back from him and my husband and i looked at one another and had a feeling that been scammed. Reporter they hoped for the drove to ed and vermont only to discover people occupying the place theyd paid to rent. Looked at us and said were sorry to tell you but we been scammed. They told me that the previous winter, there were a number of who had been scammed as well. At the same place yes. They were out 1,800. He attorney general says wire transfers, cashiers checks and sign orders are a telltale youre about to get equivalent of passing cash to another individual. Once they have that cash or the orders or the cashiers check or the wiring instructions, that money is gone forever. According to the Vacation Rental managers association, nearly a third of travellers are now staying in Vacation Rental homes. 11 in 2008. Thats nearly a 200 increase. The federal trade commission for complaints related to Vacation Rental scams. From january 2014 through more er 2016, there were than 51,000. Some of which were very similar to mel lee and her family. One family out 2,500. Scammed for 500. Told to. Family was wire 2,300 to a bank in the Czech Republic to secure their home. N why is it so difficult to anonymity such great in the internet with respect to behind the individuals these companies that prosecution impossible. Legitimate add or listing and if you think youve been scammed nd live in d. C. , ag protection sumer hotline. Well link om and you to it. So a lot more people working today. Its crowded out there. For sure. A lot of people were super bowl on monday morning and maybe afternoon. This afternoon, you might be youre delays if thinking about heading home early. We certainly have some delays as well. Ents for you you can see some red spots on the map in parts of maryland and picking up for the afternoon rush. Right now we have a crash on the row lanes on the wood wilson bridge. It looks like the crash is now side ing most of the left roadway. On 210 we had an earlier issue with a stalled tractor trailer. Trying to recover from that. But its also e on the inner loop at 214, heavy from i95 out of college park as a result of this one and on the activity here eltway in Virginia South of gallows. Delays already heavy as well for maryland eling from into virginia. Loop from the er georgetown pike to the 270 spur. Dawn of a new day. Just breathtaking. This is georgetown as the sunrises. You can see the Kennedy Center in the back there. The purples and pinks in the sky water. Ing off the just makes you think of spring. Temperatures. Yes. Colors like that you think you want to get up early and watch it. About what you think time youd need to wake up. And then you just go back to holding your eyelids. Everybody weather . You dont get days where you dont get complaints in february. You never maybe everyone happy. Ts just to let you know that spring is not that far happy wi. Winter. Ot finished with in one breath record highs today smashed and the other part of thursday nce is by morning, we could have snow. Lets get started. Tell you what we expect. What is possible and likely. Are the current temperatures around the area. Temperatures. Y but when the observations are at reagan national, sometimes the temperatures spike. So theres a record so far today. They could go up another degree. Leesburg. 75 in charlottesville and fredericksburg. 71 at reagan national. 72 at bwi. Those are big numbers. Way above average. He record high 64 in washington. So far weve hit 71. So far through the evening its going to stay very mild. Numbers. The at 10 00 oclock, 63 in the city. 62 at midnight. Highs. Ve our average tomorrow through the day looking good. I will tell you theres a sprinkle or an isolated shower tonight but thats about it. Otherwise we expect partly sunny tomorrow. High. O 67 degrees for a so some areas might be in the record hunt again. At least 20 degrees above average. O heres what we have, a cold front is going to change everything late tomorrow night but in the meantime, some of the moisture drys out. Scattered shower tonight. Warm through the day. Cold air lags behind a bit. Time keeping an eye on an area of low pressure thats going to turn to the later tomorrowea night. So whats going to happen through the overnight hours tomorrow night and thursday spills in fromir the north at the same time moisture is being pumped up from area and ressure depending on its exact track de or rain. Little change to the south could mean more snow. For the metro area because air and ground temperatures will be o warm, i dont think there will be much impact. Some grassy areas could see snow. Accumulations further north especially across pennsylvania. On is for 6 00 a. M. Thursday. Look how quickly it moves out of here. Breezy and cold. It stays for some time before the next warm up starts weekend. 67 tomorrow. 42 thursday with snow, rain, or a mix in the morning. Colder noticeably thursday afternoon and friday. Look what happens on saturday. Boom. 58. Sunday. Still 57 on monday. And for valentines day, 49 degrees. Then we go through next week and stay above average but not quite as warm. Sunday. At that crazy. We were Walking Around in shorts today. Everybody was. Down. Dows coming up at 4 30, a deadly shooting. Left in the cycle road. Plus, Breast Feeding someone lses child without permission and it was caught on camera. And why the child ended up in the hospital and how this unfolded all ion at a daycare. Thats all just ahead. Were hosting a Heart Health Phone Bank today. Have assembled doctors and nurses focused on preventing stroke and heart attack. Free e here for your oneonone consultation. Were going to open up the phone lines in just a moment. In the meantime look at these facts. Heart disease is the number one death of people in the u. S. Spine an all cancers combined. 0 of heart attacks can be prevented through Lifestyle Changes like diet and increasing physical activity. History is a y very important risk factor. If you have questions about your to heart health, the number call is experts will be here from 4 30 until 6 30 tonight answering your questions. In the studio. 4 00, at on abc7 news at tornado outbreak in the deep south. Parts of new orleans. A quick update there. And on our forecast next. Speaking of forecasts. Take a look around. Its a Beautiful Day outside and people on the National Mall are enjoying every minute of it. Well have a live report on what doing coming up. Mayor, former. C. Council chairman suffered a big defeat in the council today. Why are you checking i want to see if it changed. Credit scores dont change that much do they . Really . Ill take it sir, your credit. Is great, right . When was the last time you checked . Yeah, i better check my credit score. Here, try credit karma. Its free. Alright, no more surprises. Credit karma. Give yourself some credit. Parts of eastern new orleans ripped apart from a strong storm through the area. Four tornado hit southern louisiana. He storm flipped over cars, ripped off roofs, and broke tall power poles off their foundations. The citys mayor says there are dozens of injuries including two serious. So far, no reports of death it has taken a tie breaking vote from Vice President pence to confirm betsy devos as secretary. Her faced criticism over support of a reformer who will be a great education secretary for our children. Is she the right fit . Wjla. Com votenow. Police say that they were orced to shoot a man this morning. His motorcycle was left lying right in the middle of the street. Blocked off 13th and good hope in southeast. With the eetah now moments leading up to the officer. The investigation following gun fire in the midst of a crowded street. Im so disturbed, man. Just glad i aint get shot. Reporter the scooter on the round abandoned when the man driving it ran for cover. Next thing i know shots got fired. Next thing i know dude got shot in front of me. Reporter witnesses say a stole something from a woman. They waved to police in the area as henfronted the suspect took off. Investigators say when officers man, they ordered him to drop a gun and at some point the shooting started. Gun aint real but they told him drop it. They shot it. As far as i know the suspect did not shoot but it appeared he had a weapon. Reporter the man who was shot remained in Critical Condition at last report. In surgery for much of the day. As far as the determination the gun recovered at the scene was real or fake, no word yet but we expect to something from police soon. Doug, i know our luck is out but we need to take a moment to take this in. Yeah. Going to let you down gently. Today, lower 70s. Tomorrow, upper 60s and then bottom drops out. Reston and in frederick. Record setting. Numbers currently but when we review a little bit later and get the official high update our y we may record High Temperature list a little debt. What were going to find in the weather. Ght is mild temperatures for lows, 5. Thats about as cool as its get. G to than ourdegrees higher average high. 67 tomorrow. Partly cloudy and breezy. Then tomorrow afternoon a cold front comes through. Starts night cold air to pour in and a low pressure area develops to the south. Likely giving n us a good chance well go from today to rain and snow or wintery mix across parts of the area thursday morning. Shows a brief somehow her is possible late tonight and through the day tomorrow mild of a atures but a bit breeze out of the south and partly sunny skies. But then it changes with cold air arriving late tomorrow night. Snow to the north. To fall res will start by the time you wake up thursday morning. The north and west. Temperatures will be warm so were thinking most of it is melt locally. Further to the north and west, theres the possibility of accumulation at higher and if you go far enough north like pennsylvania, southern new england, there could be a substantial snow storm there not here. Our side and n that may wind up with most of this melting away. Lot of people curious to see on the would feel like National Mall. There. A tough deal out reporter [laughter] you see the smile on my face . Be here today. You predicted all of this saying it was going to be warm today. Is. Let me tell you, it didnt take any time to find people enjoying temperatures right notice. Its really warm out for february. Unusually warm. And a whole lot of people are the g advantage of unseasonal temperatures like this group from brazil. Sleeves y packed short for this winter trip. Its really surprising for us. The good to stay here in winter in america and also use the ame clothes use in summer. February i was expecting it to be colder. Temperatures are over 60 for a good part of the dmv. Of the National Mall and it will be hard to find anyone with a coat. Cyclists, walkers are out and about. Photographers know a good shot when they see it. Know good weather too. We knew we were going to do a photo shoot. T was between doing it inside or outside. Red,orter those ladies in they thats how warm it is out here on the National Mall. Its so warm, shoes are optional today. Which brings me to my next question. What does this warm weather mean biggest the attractions here on the National Mall . The Cherry Blossoms . Story for on that our 5 00 oclock newscast. Stick around for that. From the latest live warm d. C. Weather. Back to you guys in the studio. Go, loosen your tie and unbutton that top button now. Reporter [laughter] i was thinking of doing that. Oclock comes 0 around ill be all miami vicing it out here. All right. Thank you. It is warm out there. A nice day. Pictures of live our phone bank down stairs. Can help you with Health Matters and heart Health Matters. Die from Heart Disease in our country than all he cancers a mother is furious it happened at the Daycare Center where they both work. Surveillance video that shows what happened. Reporter in this cellphone from of security footage inside the early school, prek fellow daycare seen she barely knows is breast fooding her tree month son. He couldnt defend himself. Reporter on friday the woman suggested a remedy for constipation. She said she had a son and she want me to breast feed him and i said no thats nasty. Caseys son is andose intolerant friday night. L shehe did it with ease like does it normally. Human ter health and services gave them superior ratings. The woman is licensed and for more childcare than a decade. The woman was fired but now she charges. Ice press my only, you know, did you the breast you put to my son, you also made my son sick. I would hate for anyone to have through what we have had to go through. Local police are investigating the incident as a abuse case and no charges have been filed yet. You. Back to thank you very much. 7 on your side now with a consumer alert. Vizio paying 2. 2 million to settle a lawsuit that claimed the company was spying on its customers. Regulators say that vizio data through ing smart televisions without the consent of the customers. Settlement, the ompany agreed to delete all information collected. If you are out of work right now and are looking for work, there might be something out you. E for the number of openings for million. , 5. 5 total hiring was at about 5 and quarter million for the month. The number of people who quit their jobs fell. The Unemployment Rate is 4. 8 . Are making a ubs come back. The last one in manhattan closed theredecades ago but soon will be one just blocks from times square. A lounge, e restaurant, game room. Were told, will have updated modern outfits. Not sure what that means. The club on west sophisticated in the world. Those who dont want it disagree. A cheato t for us, harambe. Ks like how much would you pay for it . 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Right now fairfax city voters are picking a new mayor as the stands accused in a drug case. E have an update on who could we are doing a Heart Health Phone Bank. Call, mber to {703}23692 {703}2369220. Have assembled experts. Tell me theyre seeing people not complying with their medications leading to heart attacks. Surgeon is telling me more women are report aring the needs others before their own. Symptoms loss of function. It in case you think doesnt apply to you, theyre young as 20. N as how your smart phone could be skyrocketing your phone bill you have no idea. The phone definitely uses ata when youre sleeping and not using the phone. The data drain warning. Thats tonight at 11 00 oclock. A consumer alert thats going to save you some money. Residents are today. G a new mayor you might remember Scott Silverthorn stepped down after accused of selling sex for meth. Reporter it is a special election that less than a year voters in the city of fairfax likely never mayor. Shocked. Saddened. Upsetting. July he was ast busted in an undercover county n by Fairfax Police accused of trading with phetamine for sex other men. He is a fairfax native in his hird term as mayor resigned shortly after the arrest. This was crazy. Who would have thought. Reporter she has lived in for 30 years and believes this election is much needed. Get our reputation back. Make a clean slate. On. Reporter on the ballot today, meyer, demarco, david ellie schmidt. Many voters have sympathy for him. Him. D bless i forgive him. Reporter but are ready to the future of fairfax. Out to scott and his ttorney about the election but they had no comment. Well, it appears that people are not enrolling in virginias universities like they used to. This school year 1. 5 down. Lot. S a thats despite increase in the High School Seniors who could enrolled. Fouryear schools saw an increase. Its the Community College taking the big hit with little more than a half million class this year. If orange is the new black, is the virginia, pink new orange. Virginia legislators passed a hunters to wear blazed pink during deer season. Require hunters to wear orange the blaze pink part of an effort to try and encourage and hunt as well gm made a record 12 billion coming in after tax just under 9. 5 billion which is the 52,000 union who will get bonuses up to 12,000 each. A record 10 s sold million vehicles last year we told you about the longest light in the world yesterday. Today the return trip. New zealand all the way to qatar but its longer because this time its against the wind. T travels more than 18,000 miles in two days landing just a few hours ago. Trip twice and you get a free ticket on the frequent flyer program. Right about that. Lot of miles. 1,700 are you telling . I sit next to you. You dont keep still. Over here the dictionary has updated dictionary. There are now a thousand new updated definitions. Seusian, photo bomb. Know what that is. Verb. Osting as a not the supernatural creature. Thats when you cut off a ontact without that person knowing you were going to cut them off. Take them off the friend list. Just gone. The new words are now spreading on social media. Sharing the heyre news on their social media pages interacting with them. Upcomingtalk about the weekend and then well talk about whats going on the next couple of days. 60s sunday. Looking really nice out there with above average temperatures returning. Temperatures out there right now. Record breaking warmth in the 70s across o lower the area. For tonight, 58 degrees. Mostly cloudy skies. Few showers. Winds out of the southwest at 10 to 15 miles per hour. Ets talk tomorrow, highs eventually make it into the lower to middle 60s and then showers begin to move in. This is early in the morning and as we head through the day tomorrow, the winds will change notice what happens. Our temperatures will begin to fall and then were looking at weather. He wet weather arrives Late Wednesday into early thursday morning. Temperatures still above freezing early on. And we stay above freezing but we could see snow especially and west of d. C. Here pecting a ton around but enough that may cause a few delays come early thursday morning. About whats going on here for your extended 67 to remember. Lower 40s thursday. Theres that wintery mix. Colder by friday. 30s. The weekend looking good. Upper 50s to middle 60s. Temperatures stay above average. Lets get a check on traffic tuesday afternoon. This afternoon folks sunglasses ed their for the ride home. Lots of sunshine. E have a few incidents, mostly some clearing up. Volume see we have heavy delays between maryland and virginia on the American Legion bridge. If we go to our live cameras show you 295 north of the beltway. The struggle here is trying to through d. C. Volume delays come from 495 as a result of the work crew. You if another one for youre headed 95 southbound stafford. It blocked a lane for a while slowing down the trip from county to fredericksburg on abc7. A Good Samaritan steps in to rider ter a metro collapses on the platform. Tonight, hear from those who stepped in to save his life and from his family. Good d a first look at morning washington for you on wednesday. Thank you, jonathan. Tomorrow on good morning the special workout for couples that will get you in shape and rev up your when you hit the gym together. Plus, dating advice from the very funny anthony anderson. For traffic ith us and weather were wired differently. Which means we can deliver ual uploads and downloads. Welcome to 8 and a half maple street. Ithalf a house. And even though it only has half a kitchen, half the closet space and a half bath, its a full house to the wilsons. Because they have fios, the only 100 fiber optic network, with uploads as fast as downloads, their half house has full internet. Cable only offers upload speeds that are a fraction of their downloads. 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As a result of starting nursing december, i had to refresh my cpr training. Reporter along side police started cpr two called tro employees 911. Im not a hero. Im just somebody that was there time. Right reporter meanwhile, hes recovering from surgery hoping to say thank you in person. This is a story with a happy ending. Were just very thankful. Alexandria, in brianne carter. An attorneyed tore through eastern new orleans. The governor of louisiana a state of d emergency as were looking at new video into the newsroom samaritans assisting an elderly woman out of the debris in new orleans. We believe she was pulled out of home. As her one of many homes destroyed. Footage shows entire neighborhoods destroyed. Cars flipped over. The worst damage is centered in east new orleans. Part of the ninth ward that was o heavily flooded by hurricane katrina. Some who lost everything in that storm have lost everything again today. The people of new orleans and louisiana are resilient and tough. Weve been through many many many things together and always have with prayers and hard work and lifting each other up. So far, there are no reports of deaths but dozens have been across the region, an estimated 10,000 customers have lost power. To doug hill in the weather center. All right. Thank you. The good news is in the past new reports of tornado on the gulf coast. However, the tornado watch along the mississippi and alabama gulf coast for another hour. Theres plenty of heavy storms. Lets change gears and talk about our weather. We made our own headlines. Set record High Temperatures as expected across the region today. National. At reagan 27 in warrenton. Pepper. Ll we beat the old record of 64 degrees with a high of 73. Record at dulles and bwi at 72. Nd when youre beating the record by seven or eight degrees in p wintertime, youre smashing it. Thats
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