Transcripts For WUSA Wusa 9 News At 5pm 20140806

Or less legal f. Would allow residents to grow as many as six plants for personal use. It does not legalize the sale of marijuana. If the measure passes it sets up showdown with conservative members of Congress Like andy harris of maryland. D. C. s representative Eleanor Holmes norton. Im not sure what hes doing for the people of maryland but he sure is keeping watch over the District Of Columbia and we resent it. Reporter norton says theyll bitterly fight any effort bycongress to interfere. Its important that people vote and stand up to this kind of interference. Reporter adam is chairman of the d. C. Cannabis campaign. If we pass it here, it will force the federal government to look into the issue and they may have to reschedule marijuana nationally as a result. This is in some ways the water look for people who would waterloo for people who would keep it illegal. Nobody in congress is second guessing the other states decisions. Voters go to the polls in d. C. On november 4. In the mcdonnell corruption trial today, a staffer testified what a nightmare it was to work for former virginia first lady Maureen Mcdonnell. Peggy fox just walked out of the courtroom minutes ago and joins us live outside the richmond courtroom with the latest. Peggy . Reporter maryshea sutherland did not like working for Maureen Mcdonnell. In fact on the stand just a few minutes ago, she said that Maureen Mcdonnell berated her one time because the chef served some bad shrimp. She was so unhappy with the job that she was looking for a new job, and one of the people she was talking to about employment was jon any williams. Jonnie williams. Maryshea sutherland who was chief of staff to Maureen Mcdonnell mcdonnell reporter how did it go this morning . [ inaudible ] reporter painted an ugly picture of the first lady. She said mrs. Mcdonnell yelled and screamed often at her and other staff members. She said she told the governor that she never treated anyone the way she treats us. Sutherland went with mrs. Mcdonnell on that shopping spree in new york where Jonnie Williams dropped 20,000 and bought two Oscar De La Renta dresses for the first lady, including one she wore to her daughters wedding. Supterland said mrs. Mcdonnell was thrilled because she got to keep the dresses. Sutherland said she told another staff matter about the check williams wrote for the daughters catering bill because she didnt want to be the only staffer to know about it. About the Governors Mansion launch product for Jonnie Williams product, sutherland made the prosecutes point that it was an official event. Maureen was angry when her husband was not going to be available. He adjusted his schedule to be there. Sutherland also denied there was anything romantic about Jonnie Williams and mrs. Mcdonnell and said that Bob Mcdonnell would even write her love poems. A doctor from uva who attended the party, a party for which Jonnie Williams got to invite whomever he wanted. Maryshea sutherland said she and williams planned that [ inaudible ] after she set up the launch party and it was successful, he pulled the plug on her new job. She was very angry about that. Coming up at 6 00, ill tell you what happened to the dress Jonnie Williams bought mary shea sutherland, the 1600 dress. Im peggy fox reporting live in richmond. Thank you. Joining us for some more insight on the trial is barrack cohen. Thanks for joining us. Thanks for having me. We just heard from Maureen Mcdonnells chief of staff on the hot seat, on the stand today saying she was security detail had to be called. Talked about their lavish shopping trip with Jonnie Williams. How damaging will this be for the defense . This is good evidence for the prosecution. Its not the end of the day by far for the defense. What the government has to do is prove beyond any reasonnal doubt that Bob Mcdonnell is guilty of bribery and theyre not there yet. Youve been on both sides of this before. Youve been a prosecutor. Youre a defense attorney. At this point in the trial what grade would you give them . I would give both as. Everybody is doing a great job. Theyre doing the best with the evidence they have. Little setbacks here and there, things hurdles, proving points. Its part of the game. Its what they do for a living. Earlier you said one piece of this case that hasnt got an lot of play can whether Bob Mcdonnell, if anything he did was actually an official act. Why is that so crucial . To prove a bribery defense, you need three things, you need to prove there was an offer. You need to prove whether its circumstantial theres acceptance and an official act for that offer. You can see the government trying to prove you have Jonnie Williams. But youre saying that right now proving there is an official act, there had to be an official acceptance or you have to see the actual act . Circumstantial evidence of an acceptance is fine but you have to see some kind of act. It would be the bribery offense they need to get Bob Mcdonnell convicted. Its just not there yet. At this point do you think we would have already seen that at this point in the trial . They have more witnesses coming up. At the end of the day the judge will give his instructions to the jury. Ledefine what an official act is and the offense is going defense is going to stand up and try to argue cons vinceingly convincingly. So far theyre weak. Thanks for joining us. Thank you. A violent car crash leaves a 27 yearold man dead and for while activity had to be stopped on the new streetcar system in northeast d. C. Bruce johnson reports speeds of more than 100 miles an hour may have been a factor. Came down the street and doing probably 120, maybe 130. Reporter the field of debris is all thats left from this high speed crash near 14th and h streets in northeast. Police say the infinity was traveling at a very high rate of speed when it failed to negotiate a curve. Then went airborne, crashed into the back of a mack truck where the driver was killed. He was flying with his lights out and lost control of the car. He traveled a good distance. He traveled almost a block after he struck the pole. Reporter the driver is identified as 27yearold Bobby Kirkland of n street northwest. His mother Jermaine Bell was overcome with brief. He was a great individual. Everybody who knew him loved him. Hes a member of the united house of prayers. He used to play in the band. Reporter the accident at 4 00 in the morning awoke residents of a nearby seniors home. I heard boom. All i seen stuff flying in the air. Reporter d. C. Police emtake sietz they were not in pursuit of Bobby Kirkland. There was no chase involved here but there was a lot of speed involved. Even if youre going the speed limit, this is a very complicated intersection. Theres florida avenue, h street, 15th street and bladensburg back there. Its a very complicated intersection within the speed limit. There was some damage from this pole being pushed into among the conditions, the Companies Must conduct extensive background checks on drivers. Anyone convicted of a serious crime will not be allowed to become a driver. The Maryland Public Service commission ruled uber is subject to the same regulations as others in the state and the commission will have new rules for the Transportation Companies it regulates. D. C. Mayoral candidate Carol Schwartz today filed nominating petitions to get on the november ballot. Shes running as an independent this time arch. Shes challenging the democrat nominee Council Member Muriel Bowser and another Council Member david cantania. This is the first time schwartz is running for mayor. Trending now, something amazing happens after this guy gets his food trapped between a train and a platform. Were going to talk about that and other hot topics coming up at 5 30. We issued a yellow alert for nuisance showers. We certainly have nuisance showers if youre headed out route 7 or 123. Its all in the light range. Eight going to wet your roads. Please turn your lights on. Well track the rest of the activity and tell you when its going to be out of here and look ahead to the weekend. Also ahead, an update on the two americans trying to overcome all odds against the deadly ebola virus. What should hackers pull off a massive online heist. Im Tara Mergener in washington. Why one cyberexpert says it wont in tonights consumer alert, there is a good chance your personal information is in the wrong hands. Tara mergener is in washington, d. C. With details about the biggest data breach in history. Reporter Russian Hackers targeted all kinds of websites big and small to pull off the largest known online data theft to date. The cyberthieves stole 1. 2 billion user name and password combinations. They collected 524 million e mail addresses from all over the world breaching 425,000 different websites. We dont know which sites have been accessed. 425,000 have been exposed. Reporter a dozen men all in their 20s pulled off the heist. The gang is based in central russia, a country now known as a breeding ground for cybercriminals. They have a really talented base. They have some Great Schools and they dont have a lot of jobs. Reporter jim lewis is a cybersecurity expert. He tracks cybercriminals around the world and says foreign governments often turn a blind eye. The golden rule for hackers in russia and in other countries like china is if you dont go overseas, youre not going to get arrested. Reporter lewis expects to see more largescale data breaches, but says only a small fraction of those with stolen information will lose money as a result. Tara mergener for cbs news, washington. This is a good reminder for awfully us to protect our information and the best way to do it is to change your pos word and make it more password and make it more complicated and avoid those sketchy websites. The thing about the password, you make them too complicated, then you forget what they are. You have to figure out where did i put that . I forgot the place where i put the password. And you write them down, you lose them. You put them in the computer, youre right back where you started. When you write them down, you have to put them in a specstart winding down . Probably 9 00 north of town and maybe 10 00, 11 00 south of town. Nothing severe but heavy downpours west. Lets start with a live look outside. Our live weather cam. Still pretty quiet downtown. Temperature wise, the clouds kind of kept temps down a little bit. 85. Relative humidity is not that high. 44 . Thats actually pretty low. Winds out of the northwest at 12. Not your typical situation in terms of when we have thunderstorms. Normally we have a higher dew point and the winds are more to the south, seeps or southwest. Some of the southeast or southwest. Some of the storms are moving into drier air. These storms moved into Fairfax County and kind of weakened. It did wet the roads and slow you down a bit. Thus the yellow alert. This is the storm weve been ki