Here near good hope road in southeast. Police say she was an innocent bystander caught in the crossfire as she waited to transfer buses for the ride home. Charnese in the wrong place at the wrong time. Reporter uncommon ground for milton who spent a life doing right. What does one feel with a sense of sadness and emptiness that you just lost the most precious cargo god has ever given you. Reporter gunned down in her way home from work caught in the crossfire of a shoot in southeast. For those who did this there is no anger. I fear for them and i pray for them. Reporter while police look for them the main suspect, a black male, dark complexion, long dreadlocks believed to be in his teens last seen riding away on a dirt bike. My daughter lived a great life. The unfortunate thing is that two cowards yesterday took her life. Reporter charnese milton was many things. She had a condition of aspergers and individuals thought she would never get beyond kindergarten. Reporter she earned a masters degree in communication in syracuse, sang in the church choir sound mornings. Her jovial fashions of leading with her one fist pumping while dancing. Reporter writing she found her voice reporting for d. C. Publications, the hill rag, an east of the river magazine. She was an excellent reporter. Reporter an important voice silenced says mill tons editor. Miltons editor. Charnese was a life that really mattered because she really did things that impacted other people. She had a approximation for finding good a passion for finding good news in southeast d. C. While other people find trouble finding any of that. Reporter while trouble found her wednesday night, miltons parents remember what happened before. She was our baby. She was covered with love throughout her leaf and she always did her best. Reporter a life though cut short still fully lived. She was able to bring joy. There is no sorrow in that. Reporter the suspect was on a dirt bike. Chief lanier talked today about the districts recent problems with young people riding dirt bikes in neighborhoods creating a hazardous road situation, riding through neighborhoods committing crimes and as we saw last night, perhaps a deadly crime. Live in southeast im mola lenghi for wusa9. Southeast has lost a gem for sure. Thank you. Police say there were witnesses to the shooting who can help provide information, but they have not come forward. So police are pleading with people to do so and reminding them they can remain anonymous. From our Prince Georges County bureau a somewhat surprising and controversial vote on property taxes tonight. Turns out the countys low rated School District will not be getting nearly as much money as the county executive hoped. Hank silverberg has reaction from outside Eleanor Roosevelt high school in greenbelt. Reporter Prince Georges County ask 23rd out of 24 School Districts is 23rd out of 24 School Districts in maryland and Rushern Baker had ambitious plans to improve that performance, but those plans seem to have been shattered by the county council vote earlier today. If you do a tax increase do, it for education, not park and planning. Reporter baker said a proposal to raise property taxes by 4 will not do. We really need the 133 million, but at minimum we need the 65 million. We did not get that. Thats disappointing. Well look at the budge overall and take it from there. Reporter School Budget overall and take it from there. Reporter school superintendent. The most common factor left out is the needs of our children and the way to move this School System and county forward. Reporter among the public mixed reaction. Theyll pay more in taxes either way. I would say that not having a good Education System absolutely affects the entire community. I will say that, but again its easier to be selfcentered and looh, i get to keep more of my paycheck. Im glad its not the 15. The 15 increase on the property tax for now is kind of stiff. I think its ad about decision and i a bad decision and i uphold whatever it takes to make the schoolwork. Reporter baker does have line item veto power, but he says hell take a few days to decide if hell use it. There are enough votes on the county council now to override any veto that Rushern Baker might come up with. Hank silverberg, wusa9. We should note that original request from baker was for 133 million, more for schools. The Council Approved just 34 million more. A commuter alert for the memorial bridge. Starting before rush hour tomorrow morning both curbside lanes and 4 feet of adjoining sidewalks will be closed. Those lanes will stay that way until emergency repairs to bridge are completed. There will also be a 10ton limit across the entire length of the bridge which eliminates most bus traffic. Engineers recently found corrosion problems on the bridges load bearing support beams and some deterioration of the concrete deck. This work should begin in july and take between six and nine months. Tonight there is passionate reaction from all sides following a controversial decision by metros governing board. It is banning all socalled issue advertising on metro for at least the rest of the year. The moratorium comes after anti islamic activist Pamela Geller applied to metro to place ads on buses and trains of a cartoon of the prophet muhammad. That cartoon was the winning entry in the recent jihad watch muhammad cartoon contest in texas. That is where Police Killed two men who attacked a Convention Center where the contest was taking place. Dennis haster served as house speak are from 1999 speaker from 1999 to 2007. Hastert was indicted today on federal charges accused of covering up huge cash withdrawals cover ing up someone he had wronged. According to that federal indictment, back in 2010 John Dennis Hastert agreed to provide someone only referred to as individual a 3. 5 million in order to compensate for and conceal his prior misconduct against individual a. The indictment doesnt say what that misconduct was but notes the two have known each other most of individual as life and that the individual is from the same illinois town where hastert was a High School Teacher and wrestling coach from 1965 to 1981. From 2010 to 2012 the indictment says hastert made 15 50,000 withdrawals of cash from his local Illinois Bank and gave the money to individual a, but when Bank Representatives questioned hastert in 2012, he began withdrawing cash in increments less than 10,000 because banks are required to report anything larger. By the end of last year hastert with h withdrawn more than 1. 7 million had withdrawn more than 1. 5 million. Fbi investigators talked to him and he said he did not feel safe with the banking system. The fbi said that was a false statement punishable by two years in prison and a 250,000 fine if convicted. Hes charged with structured withdrawals and worked as a lobbyist since leaving office but resigned following todays undiameter. From behind bars a d. C. Woman is looking at 18 to 20 five years in prison after bleed 25 years in prison after pleading guilty to the death 6 capital hills attorney death of capital hills attorney david messerschmitt. She admitted stabbing him in a hotel room back in february. Police said messerschmitt posted an ad on craigslist looking for a same sex hookup and galvin answered the ad intending to rob messerschmitt but stabbed him with a knife. Nobody ever intended for this to occur and my client expresses sympathy and empathy for the victim and the family. That family includes messerschmitts widow kim vong. Johnson is looking at a maximum sentence of five years behind bars. D. C. Police released the name of the driver shot and killed today along northbound i 295 in southwest, 50yearold Pedro Alvarado of alexandria. A car followed alvarados suv from virginia into d. C. , riddled it with bullets and ran off. A passenger is expected to recover. It happened before 9 a. M. Police believe the shooter was driving a dark colored sedan. 2027279099 if you have any information for police. You can find more information on our wusa9 app. D. C. Police investigating a possible connection between a string of street robberies in southeast this morning and a police chase that ended along suitland road in Prince Georges County. As the cops were investigating the robberies, they suspects in a civil dodge charger. The officers gave chase silver dodge charger. The officer gave chase and took one suspect into custody. They are looking for at least one more who got away for now. A Bank Robbery Suspect from arlington faces a lot more charges. Wossen assaye escaped from custody last march from Inova Fairfax hospital and led police on a ninehour man hunt. At the time he was indicted for one count of bank robbery, but now hes been indicted in six cases going back to 2013 and faces escape, kidnapping and assault charges. The record rainfall is adding insult to injury in texas where the state has gone from drought to getting way too much water all at once. In wimberly, texas, the blanco river is slowly receding, but in other parts of the state the risk of dangerous flooding is just beginning. A voluntary evacuation is underway in wharton where the Colorado River is expected to crest early tomorrow night and many residents are heading out. The best thing to do is just leave. 3 inches of rain fell today in shallowwater, texas. The same system drenched lubbock. Scientists say texas rivers are so swollen they may not return to normal levels until july. Some of those towns actually wiped out a four year drought in less than two weeks. Thats a little too fast. Our wakeup weather, pretty much the same deal, 60s and 70s to start and warm in the 70s by 9 00 9 00 under partly cloudy skies. Well come back, give you the 3 degree guarantee and look ahead to the weekend. Up next we dig deeper into the secret world of biohazard risks the cdc is investigating how the u. S. Military managed to send live anthrax spores from a utah army base to a civilian lab in maryland and possibly many others. Cbs news confirmed the Defense Department used fedex to ship the anthrax. So far nobody has shown signs of anthrax exposure. However, more than two dozen people are on antibiotics as a precaution tonight. Disease experts say while it is highly unusual for live samples to get out, the safety protocols worked. We have several layers of security and the receiving laboratories also did their quality control, discovered that they were leave and everything was halted. The armys top general says the technical process of killing the anthrax may have failed. He does not believe human error had anything to do with the mistake and the pentagon says there was never any risk to the public. The cdc is investigating what happened. Even before news began to break about the live anthrax samples being sent to labs across the country our Investigative Reporter russ ptacek was already digging into possible biohazard risks at area labs. Reporter live anthrax in maryland and government officials still wont tell us where that lalocated tonight. This is a program shrouded in secrecy and this weeks scare prompted a worldwide review, but as in the cases youre about to season, officials identified no risk to the general public. Across virginia, d. C. And maryland we identified 26 biohazard labs and reviewed safety records, nih bethesda and nih fort detrick in frederick where they handle smallpox, monkey pox, west nile virus, tuberculosis and more. These documents show hundreds of Safety Incidents since 2013. In one case at nih a ferret innoculated antibodies bit a workers palm. Our news partner at usa today found monkeys living at the tulane, louisiana Primate Center while living in an outdoor breeding colony were accidentally infected with bioterror bacteria. Theres very little detail readily available. Reporter usa today reporter Allison Young uncovered more than 200 labs operating across the country at a biosafety level 3 and 4, the highest risk levels, and since 2003 the government has cited more than 100 of those labs with a potential bioterror agents inside for serious safety violations, but this is the blacked out redacted document the usa today wusa9 investigation received on those locations, the sanctions and risks. It sounds to me like with all the information you found the years that you spent on this project, theres still not enough information to know whether or not we should be scared. I think that thats a very good point. The issue of transparency is a real issue in this area. Reporter add to that imperfect lab say. Says harvard professor of epidemiology. They dont there are says harvard professor of epidemiology. They dont even know how many labs there are. Reporter a worker was stuck with a dirty needle from a primate. The cdc said web loo the Current System of inspecting we believe the Current System of inspecting laboratories is adequate, but we are always open to the need for improvement. The National Institutes of health who help set National Safety guidelines refused to be interviewed. Im Investigative Reporter russ ptacek, wusa9. To learn details about the research occurring at high containment labs across the country or to see safety records, go to biolabs. Usatoday. Com. Well have this information on our wusa9 app. Tonight we have not one, but two National Spelling bee champs. The annual contest took place at National Harbor ending in a tie and the cochampions are vonya shevashanka and voku vencatachulum. You are the 92nd amazing champions of the scripps National Spelling bee. Congratulations [ cheering and applause ] congratulations to him. Those names were tough and i did practice them. Vonya is a 13yearold from olathe, kansas, his sister won the spelling bee in 2009. I think about how much work goes into actually getting to the spelling bee and these kids work so hard and do it year after year after year. Its like being a football player. It is so impressive. The brain cells, theyre powered up and working. Its tense. I mean its tense, especially if youre a parent. How many brain cells does it take to put together a 3degree guarantee . Seven, maybe eight . Maybe nine on a good day. Lets talk about the 3 degree guarantee. We did okay barely. We are 253 in may. Lets start with a live look outside, our live michael and son weather cam, temperature 77, muggy, winds light southwest at 5, humidity way up there, more like july, and does appear this may will be our second hottest on record. Exercising in the morning is better with this type of pattern, temperatures and air quality. You want to jog or bike ride do, it in the morning. Bus stop temperatures 65 to 78, almost 80 by 9 30, 10 00. Hot and humid tomorrow, afternoon thunderstorms perhaps developing earlier and moral widespread on friday. Weekend humid with more thunderstorms, not a washout but again as we go through each day the chances will increase. 6 a. M. Maybe a few clouds, some fog where the showers occurred earlier today around manassas and over toward southern Prince Georges County, muggy, temps in the 60s and low 70s. By 9 00 partly cloudy skies, 70s. By 1 00 we see showers and storms d. C. , up 270, out 66. By 6 00 more showers and storms. Notice some of the red, some could produce heavy downpours again. On the day planner 70s to start, muggy, 81 by 11 00, 84 by 1 00. Same story pretty much tomorrow, 89, 88 on saturday, better chance for storms on sunday down to 85. Next seven days, nats come back to town on monday, 76. Low 70s tuesday, light rain possible. Then nice on wednesday for the nats, 77, 81 with sunshine on thursday. We will be back with sports after this. Yet another morning where larry had to get us around some traffic issues. Now wusa9 game on sports brought to you by xfinity. We start with an unusual honor in sports, repeating as National Champ or Heisman Trophy winner just not easy. Tonight a maryland terrapin womens lacrosse player is in such a category. Junior Taylor Cummings was one of five finalists for the prestigious award in the same year the team won its second straight National Championship. The red hot Washington Nationals will play on without jayson werth for the time being. The National League east leading nationals left fielder apparently has fractures in his injured left wrist. Several reports claim its the t scan performed today in rochester, minnesota, shows two small fractures in the wrist which most likely happened when he was hit by a pitch in this may 15th game here. The earliest he can return will probably be august if rehabilitation goes well. The team will soldier on without werth. You can catch the next nats on 9 Game Tomorrow Night at 7 00 against the reds. Gorgeous day for a doubleheader. Os dropped the first game which are makeups for the riots in baltimore last month. Tied 33 in the 3rd in the second game. The shot deflects off gillespies glove, davis scores. Orioles win 63. Many of you have seen the cute riley curry at her deads desk, currys press conference getting us to think about other cute kids in sports and we ran across a 3yearold nats fan who has a precious version of take me out to the ballgame. Proceed, reed. Take me out to the ballgame take me out to the crowd fire peanuts and cracker jacks i care not back to go this is for the nationals get its one, two three strikes the old ballgame oh, too cute he made a point with the one and the two. Is he cute or what . Thats on the nationals facebook page. The kids are the sevenday . Its kind of a summer pattern, m. O. S. , more of the same, 87 on saturday, 85 on sunday. Right now we have not done a yellow alert. We will monitor each day for the prospect of an upgrade. Its okay for the nats game tomorrow . Theyre playing in cincinnati. Oh, they are. Thats right. There could be a shower and storm there. Thanks. Thats it for get more only with cash flow insight, powered by pnc cfo a unique suite of online tools that all work together. Get more efficiency. And insight into your business cash flow. Get more visibility into when customers view and pay invoices and how it impacts your current and future cash flow. Get more time by syncing with your accounting software. Then go home and get more sleep. Get more with cash flow insight. Only from pnc bank. There are a lot of channels on your tv but only so many you want to watch what if you could pay for the types of channels you want and not the ones you dont now, fios brings you a totally new way to customize your tv. Starting at 74. 99 per month with no annual contract. Get custom tv, including internet and phone. Price guaranteed for two years. Or get 300 back and free dvr service for 1 year, with a 2 year agreement. Hurry, offer ends june 8th. Go to getfios. Com. Cable just gives you channels. Fios gives you choice. Call the Verizon Center for customers with disabilities at 800. 974. 6006 tty v keep yourself centered. [ elevator bell dings ] breathe. Very good. Thats it. Now, just keep your head nice and clear. What are you doing . Janes teaching vega balance. Oh thats useful. How long . Wylie 43 seconds. Dont think. If you have to think, thinking about dropping will lead to dropping. What should i think about . Anything. Smores. I love smores. Graham crackers, chocolate, marshmallows. 60 seconds. Toasted on a campfire. Smores are better in a microwave. [ elevator bell dings ] its true. Well, i dont even know what to say to that. Very good. Thank you. Is agent teresa lisbon here
comparemela.com © 2020. All Rights Reserved.