For not having some kids celebrate for religious reasons. Richard a lot of the students unhappy, too. This is the last year they go to the school. In two weeks they have a fall Harvest Festival where all is welcome. Live silverthorne, richard reeve, abc7 news. Michelle thank you. The allimportant question is what for the weekend. Larry chief meteorologist doug hill has a look at the forecast. Doug a look at Potomac River in the city its fine. The winds are diminishing. Maybe 10 to 12 miles per hour. Right now all across the area, check out the numbers. Everybody in the midtoupper 50s. Once we get past sunset after 6 00, the temperatures will fall quickly. They are expecting the 55 at 7 00. Time we get to 11 00 and the kids fast asleep or sleeping six inches above the mattress from the sugar. That could be a possibility. 50 degrees. Overnight we drop to the upper 50s. To upper 30s in some areas. A comfortable night. The first day of november looking ahead. A day like this one. There will be substantial changes in the weather pattern by the middle of the week. We will speak in more details an throw numbers in the forecast in the uber driver stepped in front of the taxi cab to stop. A girl hit by a car and the uber driving trying to help. Michelle died of a heart she is thanking him for the fact her daughter is alive. Some said he was a hero. He was. If it wasnt for him teresa says her 6yearold daughter scarred and home from school today is blessed to be alive. She and her daughters took a uber home. A passing taxi stopped for her and the baby but did not see the o i dont know what he was doing. He wasnt paying attention. He hit her. The driver got out. The uber driver stepped in front of the taxi cab. Under there. He fell and had a seizure. The driver later died at a hospital. Doubt in her mind that the uber driver was a hero. The mother is sorrowful but grateful that the driver stepped in to help. Michelle a deadly crash today. Four cars were involved in this. One person is dead. Two others were taken to the hospital. Disturbing arrest in Fairfax County. This man is charged with Sexual Battery of a child. He was a soccer coach, teacher and karate instructor for kids. Stephen tschida has more on the investigation. Stephen renzo Garcia Davila worked as martial arts instructor here. He freelance girl told authorities she had been touched inappropriately. He came to the school twice a week. Popular martial arts instructor, renzo Garcia Davila allegedly molested a 6 yord girl, something those he worked for find incomprehensible. We cant believe it. Arts at the lead by example taiwan doe center. He coached kids soccer and twice a week held a class at the Montessori School of fairfax. We never let him be by himself. The door is open. There was there. She and the other employees say they are having a hard time believing he could commit the crime of which he is charged. Because he worked with children, the Fairfax County believe there may be other victims out there. To where this took place, not new developments in a murder case from the summer. Judge ruled that seconddegree murder charge against kempton bonds will stand. He is accused of killing d. C. Chef tyonne johns in august. It came after cell phone video was shown in court to show the fight between bonds and johns at a wedding reception at a chantilly there is fair probability that malice was present at the time. He could have kicked her or smacked her or strangleed her or bunched punched her. Thats malice. Michelle bonds is free on bond but has a bond review november 28. Larry now to the race for the white house. Justice department saying it will dedicate resources to the new clinton email investigation and criticism of the f. B. I. Director james comey mounts. Connected review of email possibly connected to Hillary Clinton. Jonathan elias has more on why some are calling for his regular us resignation. Some say he shouldnt have made the disclosure so close to the election and some say he violated the hatch act to prevent members of the executive branch from engaging in activity that could impact the some are critical of the decision to send out the threeparagraph letter on friday. The white house even weighing in. I will neter defend nor criticize what director comey has decided. To communicate about the investigation. Jonathan they said they would try to quickly review the estranged husband. Number of the emails could be in hundreds of thousands. In the letter to congress komen said the f. B. I. Is not to determine if the emails are significant to clintons use of a private server while secretary of state. We will follow developments in newsroom but now back to you. Larry thank you. Little more than a week to go, Clinton Campaign is telling reporters to ignore distractions and stay focused. President obama hi campaign trail for clinton in four battleground states this week. Starting tomorrow in ohio. The Trump Campaign hopes renewed focus will allow it to win blue states. That is why trump is in michigan today. Tomorrow he and running mate mike pence will be in wisconsin. Michelle every night we explore what matters to voters. Tonights votetrak 2016 is in hagerstown, maryland. Election and what that means in the race for the white house. That is coming up at the bottom of the hour. Larry coming up, the video is hard to watch. Terrifying moments as a plane caught fire in chicago. All due to the cell phone of a passenger on board. Michelle plus double whammy for metro. They are frustrating riders as it tries to balance budget shortfall. We have the latest the abc7 family to yours. We will check in on the halloween fellstives throughout the hour with the stormwatch7 forecast. You can plan your night of Northern Virginia, on the issues, Barbara Comstock and donald trump are the same. Comstock and trump promote deportation and reject any comprehensive Immigration Reform. That keep guns from suspected terrorists. And comstocktrump were prepared to shut down the government just for politics. Time for Luann Bennett comprehensive Immigration Reform now. Common sense gun safety laws. Bennett tells congress do your job. Im Luann Bennett michelle breaking news. Gas line exploded south of birmingham. Smoke can be seen for miles. There are injuries but we dont know how bad or how many people are hurt. We will follow the story and bring you developments as we get them. Safetrack surge 10 started today. But in the meantime there is a battle over the budget. Yesterday came word hundreds of jobs could be lost. Brianne carter tells us what is next as metro tries to recover from financial and safety woes. Brianne a Budget Proposal that impacts everyone who uses metro. Those train riders and also those who use metro bus instead. The new Budget Proposal put out by the general general manager and he says what is behind the proposal is reliable service. So now he will live up to the service they promise to provide but also work to fill 300 million budget gap. He is calling for longer wait lowperformance bus route and eliminating 1,000 positions. The 1. 8 billion budget includes fare hikes from 525 cents. Now today, met res Largest Union said metros Largest Union said they dont agree with the plan. They called it a death spiral. They had this to say when reacting to the cuts. We are here to tell the general manager we dont agree with the budget cuts. Cuts. The fare increases. The widening of the times on the subway. There has to be another way. Everyone has to step to the plate. You are look at a 300 million hole, on the jurisdictions and the customers to step to the plate. And the unions as well. Brianne what do riders think of the proposal . We have more at 6 00. Brianne carter, abc7 news. Michelle get up to the minute updates on the commute by texting metro to 43817. Larry halloween means the end of october and end of a ride of steves spooky spots. I enjoy seeing the crazy spots. Doug last one tonight. Michelle the guy who had adoreable braids. Doug hes with ed. In herndon now. Its spooky enough now but after its dark and lights up. Whose head is in your hand, steve . Stephen steve i dont know. But they are all lined up. The theme is decapitation. Take that for what it is. Lady bug and batman. He is scared. Did he get candy . Kids and Live Television probably not a good idea. Lets come back here and talk to the homeowners in herndon. You have been doing this for over 30 years . Probably. Steve a long time. You have had the first trickortreaters. How many do you think you will see tonight . A lot of people walking by. They are commenting that they are coming here. Steve this is more attention. What do you have set up new new for the kids we have a fake skeleton that rises by himself. Steve thank you for inviting us. Well have more in a bit but first lets talk about the halloween forecast for kids and adults. For those who are trickortreating rateer, we are talking middle 50s. No heavy jackets over the halloween costumes. Lets head back inside. Chief meteorologist doug hill . Doug have fun. Well check back with you. This is that time where the colors are coming on quickly. The updated leaf report is moderate color d. C. , south and east. High collar across the mountains. This is the weekend to really enjoy whatever fall color. We have a lot of great pictures. This is the last week to put in your entry for the fall foliage contest. The final winner on good kids. When i was a kid and all my kids were growing up, there was the battle that you made them wear a coat under the costume. It would ruin everything. Dont make me wear a coat the winds are light. This is what you got. Temperatures are in the 50s. Its not freezing cold. A lot will be all right. 43 in winchester. 44 in hagerstown. Few areas of 30s across frederick county. As couple of spots in burtonsville and college park could drop as low as 39 degrees. The day planner for tomorrow, the temperature wise is similar to today. The more we work through the afternoon we have sunshine develop. Then mild weather for wednesday and thursday. Some of the clouds ahead of the front, the winds change direction. Low to mid70s for wednesday. Upper 70s on thursday. 63 tomorrow. 74 on wednesday. 78 on thursday. The weekend its autumnal for the first weekend in november. We are turning the clocks back one Hour Saturday night return to Eastern Standard Time. Michelle its never too early to Start Talking about the weekend. Doug no excuse if you are an hour behind everyone else. Michelle still ahead, wide Share Services discriminating against some. What evidence shows about the . . Know you have a dedicated advisor and team who understand where you come from. . . Know you can craft an Investment Plan as strong as your values. . . Know that together, you can establish a meaningful legacy ment . Team. Michelle a robbery leads to a chase that led to a crash in waldorf. It started at a robbery with a business. When they pulled over the suspected car they found it had stolen tags and the female driver had expired license. Off before crashing into a dump truck along crane highway. The woman was critically hurt. The man ran away and is still on the run. Larry bombshell new testimony in the case of a mother murdered in arlington. Bonnie blacks husband is on trial accused of stabbing her to death. Michelle as Northern Virginia bureau chief Jeff Goldberg reports the hearing revealed disturbing material. Jeff Arlington County investigator testifying about illicit pictures found on thumb drivers found hidden in david blacks home. The Digital Forensics investigator testifying that the detectives found two thumb drives in his sock drawer last september where there were thousands of pictures and video of bonnie black without wearing clothing getting in and out of the shower or on the toilet. They believe the pictures and investigators also took david blacks cell phone from his home during the search. David black is charged with first degree murder in the brutal stabbing death of his estranged wife bonnie. In april 2015 in her home in south arlington. The couple, parents of two Young Children were going through a contentious divorce at the time of the crime. As you can imagine the developments created an awkward environment inside the courtroom. David blacks parents hanging whole system about the thumb drives found not looking up at any point. Also today jurors hearing from the d. N. A. Expert as the prosecution continues the try to build a case against black. Coming up, robbed by a ninja turtle. Costume crime has Police Searching for suspects. Why there is a baby boom at hospitals this week. Announcer youre watching abc7 news at 5 00. On your side. Final full week of the president ial campaign with more controversy. Michelle hillary is taking on that renewed f. B. I. Investigator into her email server while donald trump attacks. Larry we have more. Reporter both the clinton and the Trump Campaigns are feeling the aftershocks from the friday f. B. I. Surprise. Happy halloween, everybody. We are doing great in every poll. Amazing. Right now the f. B. I. Is searching through thousands of emails aid huma abedin but its unclear if any of them will show wrongdoing there are signs it could damage her popularity in the polls. Currently a onepoint lead in the Washington Post poll out today. Donald trump riding momentum to the traditionally Democratic State by michigan. A state that hasnt gone red since 1988. The American People are the clinton warning a Trump Presidency would lead to dangerous world. Lets not get distractioned from the choice in the election. Releasing a controversial ad. To see it coming forward is scary. Reassuring the supports about the f. B. I. Investigation. Im sure they will reach the same conclusion they did when they look at my email for the last year. There is no case here. And continuing to question james comeys decision to speak publicly about the Ongoing Investigation this close to election day. I will neither defend or criticize what comey decided to communicate about the investigation. There is criticism from highranking justice officials who are calling comey to publicly comment on ongoing ja in hagerstown a heroin epidemic has taken hold and many say the economy needs help. So will impact the election in a week . Brad bell is live with the latest. Wondering how it will affect things. Hagerstown is beautiful and historic. Many of the buildings date before the civil war. But we are talking about this election so we want to give people an opportunity to be heard and they had plenty to say. There is growth in hagerstown. You can see it the new homes, many d. C. Commuters seeking lower cost of living. Jobs in hagerstown. The huge state prison complex most people say it is not enough. The Economic Issues are important to people. They want more growth. Some of the higher paying jobs are scratched and bring lower paying jobs. Brad the slow economy can lead to other issues. Retired cop kevin simmers think its a factor in the recent opiate crisis. The heroin problem is off the cha brad his daughter died last year at the age of 19 of a heroin overdose and he is now raising money to build a Treatment Center in her honor and hopes the election makes a difference. The biggest problem is lack of services and lack of the Treatment Facilities available. Both candidates talked about it. But well see. This mother is with clinton. Many more signs supporting donald trump. I hope trump wins. We need a drastic change for the country. I do not like hillary at all. So when we come back we are giving people an opportunity to get up on the soap box to be heard. What do they makeo controversy with Hillary Clinton and the f. B. I. . Thanks. We check in on the top story. Parents of the students who attend cloverly elementary are holding a Halloween Party off school grounds. The school is opting to throw fall festival to make it inclusive for every opportunity. Angry parents took their children out of school early to attend their party. Metro with a proposal to service 10 cents a ticket and it would close station and reduce service and lay off a thousand workers. This is meant to make up for gap in the budget. Fairfax county police say a man who worked as a martial arts instructor, montessori teacher and soccer coach touched a 6yearold girl inappropriately. Renzo Garcia Davila is under arrest and charged with sexual assault. The victim told an adult about the alleged assault saturday. Michelle this is a story you saw on 7. Last week the power was turned off and they were told to get off. Now Washington Gas is starting to turn on the gas again in units where people are still living. Powered was restored last friday. Major Ridesharing Services may be discriminating against they canceled rides for men with black sounding names more than others. It may be easier to get a ride if you remain anonymous. Uber and lyft both deny discrimination. Larry police are searching for three suspects who robbed a woman wearing halloween costumes. This happened last night on 300 u street northwest. Uber when she was pushed and punched in the face. The suspects ran off with her purse. They are asking everyone to be on the look out as you go out tonight. Michelle there is the local hospitals that are busy this week. That is because we are at 40 week since the blizzard that covered the area in snow last january. We have new parents in our area. The hospital says on average they are pretty sure it will be an awkward story for the new son. It will come up and be a topic to embarrass him with, im sure. Michelle with another winter and president ial inauguration around the corner we could have a similar conversation a year from now. Still ahead for us at abc7 news at now over. The surprising clue that led police to shootout with suspected killer in oklahoma. Plus q have you seen this man . He is wanted for sexual assault. New at 6 00, a frightening scene. A group of men pulling someone into their trump trunk. The information from police about what happened that was steve im abc7 steve rudin in herndon, virginia. Halloween, they are getting ready for it hire. Houses are decorate and the kids are getting their costumes ready. A lot to do. Take it easy and dress warmly. The stormwatch7. Calling for temperatures in the upper 50s. Middle 50s as the hours roll on in the 8 00, 9 00 hour. Lets talk about the upcoming weekend. Daylight saving time comes to an end. That means the sun will set at 6 03 on saturday. The Daylight Hours slink getting closer to winter. Across the bay, 10k and sunday, the temperatures on upper 40 to 50s. In the end we have temperatures around 60. Take it slow on the roadways this everything. Q welcome to 7 on your side we have five fugetives from the local Law Enforcement on the wall. Two are new, including one who is wanted for assault a member of his family. Prince William County Police Department says Louis Antonio perez is accused of sexual assaulting a 9yearold girl in his family. He is wanted for aggravated Sexual Battery and indecent liberties. Arlington county police are searching for saul marin orellano for malicious woundings. D. Harrod scales is wanted for assault with a dangerous weapon. They are also looking for Sedona Whitfield for aggravatedded assault while armed. And Antoine Collins were assault with a dangerous weapon. Put the wall in motion and the spotlight is on howard scales. Metropolitan Police Search for scales avel he stabbed a pedestrian. Scales is responsible in the district as he passed an individual on the sidewalk and strike him with an object which is a knife. He caused a significant laceration to the back of the neck. Q police say scales is 34 years old, 58, 165 pounds. He is wanted for assault with a dangerous weapon. If you have information, contact the metropolitan Police Department. 7 on your side fighting back against crime. Im q mccray. Larry h chilling spree of violent crimes. Tonight he is dead after a shootout with police in oklahoma. Michael vance live streamed his escape from Police Custody last week. Theres another car. Right now, this weekend they caught up with vance and he died in a shootout with officers. One officer was hurt in the to recover. Vance wanted for carjacking and shooting three people and murdering two relatives. Coming up at abc7 news at 5 00 a heartwarming story of . Eeeeohmumohweh . . Hush my darling. . . Dont fear my darling. . . The lion sleeps tonight. . [snoring. ] . Hush my darling. . [snoring. ] . Dont fear my darling. . . The lion sleeps tonight. . [snoring. ] take the roar out of snore. Larry an spiring story from missouri. Most kids think of themselves on their birthday but not brandon. He used party to raise money for Memorial Fund of sheriff deputy named brandon. She told me 335, i was really excited. He wants to be a firefighter the next one is not science fiction. Instead of coworkers they have cobots. They can lift thing and spot mistakes and alert humans as problems. They are treated like people. They all have human names. We have a check of traffic with jamie. Jamie the closure since this afternoon on branch avenue is still in place. The police are doing investigating on surratts road. All traffic is being diverted. If you are heading south you you dont have to use more caution than you would but the side roads and the secondary roads you need to be careful. Everyone the trying to get home. We are seeing the volume on the inner loop north from tysons to the 270 spur. This is at 6 00. Plus a violent robbery committed by a ninja turtle. We have that ahead. Larry check on the trickortreat forecast. Its a struggle. Its tough for the parents to decide. Tough for the kids. The winds are light. It will be in the 50s tonight. We have clouds but that is it. Its very quiet and look at the tripped for you for a few days. Feel like november 1. A surge of temperatures in the 70s. This is one of the civilian timesly mention this. We fall back to Eastern Standard Time so we turn the clock back an hour before you look at the comparison. Sunrise and sunset. Replace your batteries in the smoke detectors and Carbon Monoxide detectors and if there is any candy left, saturday night is a good idea is to throw it away and be rid of it. My house its all gone by tomorrow. Im finished. Larry the candy never lasts beyond tonight. Tomorrow call the dentist. Erin in sports, norman ripped officials after a 2723 tie with the bengals in norman yesterday. Norman flagged five times in the game. Four times for illegal use of hands. Another for defensive pass interference. Two of them were declined. After the game, norman was angry and called one official he sucked. Ill be honest with you. Straightforward. He was terrible. I feel like he should be reprimanded. Larry the redskins is back home now and will take time off to relax in the bye week. No rest for head coach jay gruden today. He had a Conference Call with the media and was asked if normans critical comments of officials will make him more of a target. He cant be any more targeted than he was yesterday, that is for sure. So, josh is his ow he speak his mind. He felt strongly about the way he felt. He put it out there. He is frustrated after the game. One thing to have one or two calls. He had quite a few that could go either way. Erin norman said rewatch the game film on the plane and it was a take them out back barnyard slobberknocker. Appetite salutes you. 100. This will make you smile. Alex ovechkin created a lasting memory for a young boy in canada. Look, he spots a young boy. The boys name is cash so he got an extra stick and gave it to cash. Cash made a video sand sa so ovechkin saw it and invited them to the caps game in calgary. Awesome story. For more go to the website wjla. Com. I love when the players do that. The kids remember it forever. Awesome. Larry really. Michelle i love the viral video he did. Adorable. Larry josh norman, he was handy. Erin we have to see what happens moving forward. It will be interesting. Larry get checkbook out. Michelle tonight, terrifying video from inside a plane on fire. Tonight a passengers footage of what it felt like in total . . Know you have a dedicated advisor and team . . Know you can craft an Investment Plan as strong as your values. . . Know that together, you can establish a meaningful legacy with the guidance and support michelle the developing news. Scary moments in florida as a possible bomb threat delayed a Spirit Airlines flight. The pilot declared emergency at the airport yesterday. Passengers say two people were escorted off the plane. That is after sam world cup reported one someone reported that one of them was writing a tech message referring to a bomb. They were questioned. No word if they werage thatted. Developing after chaos at engine issue caused a plane to catch fire. Forcing terrifies passengers to evacuate. One man is sharing video from the height of the panic. We look at the footage from inside the plane. Cell phone video from inside the plane. The man kept rolling the video even after he realized the situation had grown intense. Explosion rocked seconds before takeoff. It came to a halt and then the call to evacuate. The rush for the exit. Some passengers pleading to go faster. Now today, a call from some aviation analysts for stricter control on bags. Especially in emergency situations. There is an emergency now. If something happens here im videos such as this reveal passengers clutching bags as they race to the exit, possibly slowing everyone down on the way off the plane. Without an emergency it takes forever to get off a plane. People bring on bags. Not one but a couple of bags. The man who shot the video communicated only with abc7. He is so shaken by the ordeal he declined to take a la he instead spent the weekend in chicago recovering. My gosh, my gosh. Had the pilots not aborted takeoff when it did and the plane becomes airborne, it might have had a more tragic ending. Stephen tschida, abc7 news. Larry well, you can see the full cell phone video taken by the passenger. Go to the website wjla. Com. That is it for abc7 news at reports of a massive gas explosion outside of birmingham. New information coming in. Covering metro. This is a death spiral. We dont agree with it. We think it is harming the public. Larry the drastic cut on the table at the Transit Agency that will affect riders and workers. And costumed criminals attack a woman in northwest washington. One described as a ninja turtle. Announcer from abc7 news this is a breaking news alert. Jonathan the breaking news comes to us 20 miles south of birmingham, alabama, where there are reports of a major gas line explosion. This is the scene from birmingham looking out at the plume of smoke. Hospital spokesperson says five people have been hurt as a result of this. Emergency responders from the surrounding counties are heading to the scene. We will bring you more as we learn it. Transit agency future as the general manager Paul Wiedefeld warn of cuts. Snapshot of the budget shows it includes eliminating jobs, outing service as wells increasing fares. Abc7 transportation reporter Brianne Carter breaking down what is on the table and what it could mean for riders. As riders along the red line deal with commuting changes today, every metro rider could see changes under proposal. What we are trying to get to is reliable service. Brianne all while closing a 300 million budget gap. To do that, the general manager is calling for the longer wait times between trains on all lines except for blue. Riders would see shorter wait. Cutting lowperforming bus routes and eliminating a thousand positions. It also includes fare hike
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