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Wrong early with Montgomery County police in 1975 focused on a man with a microphone instead of the long haired man seen staring at the sisters at the mall. Court documents suggest welch actually went back to the mall after the abduction and talked to police and they let him go. Now in another Court Affidavit released today police say that another of welchs relatives also talked about those bloody duffel bags. She says that they refused welchs request to wash the bloody clothes that were inside those duffel bags. She says that he told her, welch told her, that he had had some hamburger meat that had gone bad and that thats why those duffel bags were bloody and why the clothes inside were bloody. Now police also say in some other search warrant returns unsealed today that they fond some bone fragments up on a found some bone fragments up on that mountain. Live in wheaton bruce leshan, wusa9. Welch is in a delaware prison now for sexually abusing another child. No word on how welch reacted when he was told he was indicted, but he has insisted to the Washington Post he had nothing to do with their death. Two suspects taken into custody at the scene of yesterdays fatal Wheaton Metro garage are now charged with first degree murder and Police Identified the victim as 20 yearold eric melgar. This is the man believed to be melgar. Montgomery county police say he had several outstanding criminal charges against him. 19yearold douglas chase of d. C. And 18yearold Brent Sanderson are both charged in this homicide and documents say police recovered a gun in one of the suspects backpacks. They also say they found five shell casings near the victim. 1 witness says he ran one witness says he ran for cover after hearing multiple shots fired. Actually i get really sick nervous because you never know if a bullet is going to hit you, kill you. You dont think this kind of thing can happen in an area youll always in, so when it does, its kind of like a shock. To me its the most important thing to know and the Police Department is on top of it. Police are investigating this as possibly gang repeated but say it is still early in the investigation. Both suspects are due in court for a bond hearing tomorrow afternoon. A maryland woman is dead after just trying to change a flat tire late last night on the suitland parkway. Her name was tomika early. She was 32 years old from suitland and she was killed after a man allegedly plowed into her with his car. Our Andrea Mccarren is live from the crash site with more on how it all happened. Andrea . Reporter derek, tonight 52 yearold robert paris of southeast d. C. Is charged with Second Degree murder driving under the influence and fleeing the scene of a collision. Police say robert paris of southeast d. C. Was behind the wheel of this blue pickup truck traveling at a high rate of speed when he slammed into tomika early. The suitland woman was at the side of the road changing a flat tire on her van. Oh, no. Im sorry to hear that. Reporter d. C. Court records reveal paris has a lengthy criminal history dating back to 1983. It includes multiple charges of driving under the influence. He needs to be locked up. He needs to throw away the key. He does not need to be on the streets anymore at all driving, period. Reporter according to investigators, paris attempted to flee the scene but ran into a white lexus before hitting a utility pole. The driver of the lexus was not seriously injured. Started chasing people down for instead of chasing people down for marijuana, you need to be chasing these drivers down for alcoholic intoxication when theyre driving. Reporter the incident happened around 10 18 last night and shut down suitland parkway at stanton road for six hours. This crash is still under investigation and d. C. Police would like to hear from anyone who may have witnessed it or has any information. Reporting live from southeast d. C. , Andrea Mccarren, wusa9. Thank you, andrea. And as you mentioned, if you can help those investigators, call 2027279099. Anonymous information can even be texted to 50411. Well, a judge denied bond for the mother and uncle of a 9 yearold boy who police say was beaten to death after eating a piece of birthday cake without permission. 26yearold Aryanna Garcia and her 23yearold brother jay cab barajas were Jacob Barajas were in a courtroom today charged in Second Degree murder and first degree child abuse in the death of her 9 yearold son jack. He was regularly handcuffed to a chair and beaten by his mother, her boyfriend and her brother. 20yearold Mitchell Yates is wanted in Frederick County for fleeing and eluding police. The Frederick County Sheriffs Office says they were pursuing him early Tuesday Morning after receiving reports that he was driving under the influence of alcohol and holding his girl friend and they found the vehicle, but so far she have not found him or his girl friend. Well, president obama held a News Conference today to defend the Nuclear Deal Reached with iran. Now the president says the agreement is the best way to assure iran does not get a Nuclear Weapon and that the deal is not built on trust, but verification. If iran violates its commitments, there will be real consequences. Nuclearrelated sanctions that have helped cripple the iran economy will snap back into place. On capitol hill some lawmakers are vowing to kill the deal. It would take a 2 3 majority in both the house and senate to override a president ial veto. President obama said he will personally try to lobby lawmakers to win them over. Also today in the News Conference the president was asked about bill cosby. The president said he will not revoke the president ial medal of freedom, but he also said the country should have no tolerance for rape. If you give a woman or a man for that matter without his or her knowledge a drug and then have sex with that person without consent, thats rape. This country, any civilized country, should have no tolerance for rape. A Sexual Assault Awareness Group has petitioned the white house to revoke the medal amid allegations of sexual misconduct, but the president says theres no precedent for that and no mechanism to take back a medal. After whats been a wet july so far get ready for what may be the nicest day of the month. First alert chief meteorologist for shut here with a picture perfect forecast. Its not going topper shutt here with a picture perfect forecast. Its not going to last that long. But its going to be a reprieve. Let me show you live doppler 9000. Were still tracking one storm which is tracking over 66 headed actually toward the stadium about 6 33. Its not stupor severe but has heavy downpours with it. Eventually i think it will go across 95. Right now its moving across 29, moving across i66. Thats about it. Were still left with a great, gr that. , by 10 00 tonight were clearing out, temps in in fact, by 10 00 tonight were clearing out, temps in the low 70s. 50s up toward hagerstown and cumberland. By 8 00 we are still in the 60s. The heat and the humidity is just around the corner and well tell you when they arrive when we come back. Coming up somebody breaks into a library, but this person wasnt after books. Up next, though, local transportation officials talk about widening one if your weekly commute takes you around the beltway, mdot says starting tomorrow night there will be three lanes closed on the outer loop of i 495 in Montgomery County near connecticut avenue and that is so road crews can do some much needed emergency repairs to the bridge over connecticut avenue. The closures start at 9 00 with one lane closed and they move to close three lanes by 11 00. Meantime virginia transportation officials want to talk about widening the American Legion bridge. Thats the bridge that connects maryland and virginia on the capital beltway over the potomac river. Some 220,000 cars cross that bridge every day and vdot says a wider bridge would ease some of the congestion. That bridge was built in 1962 and vdot says it will likely need some rehab in the next 10 years. Caught on camera, somebody worms his way into a library, but he sure wasnt looking for books. Heres some Surveillance Video from inside the Deanwood Library in the 1300 block of 49th street in northeast. The burglar gets in through a window, but he heads right to a desk and grabs computer equipment. Then he comes back and does the same thing. Police are looking for any information that might help catch the person in the video, lo kind of mask there. Coming up the Kennedy Center announces its 2015 honorees. But researchers are looking into why many we got the new tempurflex and its got the spring and bounce of a traditional mattress. You sink into it, but you can still move it around. Now that i have a tempurflex, i can finally get a good nights sleep. When i flop down on the bed, and its just like, ah, this is perfect. wherever you put your body it just supports you. Like little support elfs are just holding you. I can sleep now through the night vo change your sleep. Change your life. Change to tempurpedic. At Devry Universitys Keller Graduate School of management. You can learn to unlock the leader inside you. So if you want to own the room not just be in it. Youre our kind of different. Keller graduate school of management. Learn more at keller. Edu in todays health Alert Research shows even more lifestyle change is needed for some cancer survivors. Studies show Breast Cancer survivors tend to put on more weight than women who are cancer free. Melissa mcguire was diagnosed with Breast Cancer five years ago. The 46yearold has the brac gene which makes her high risk for breast and ovarian cancer. I opted to have a hysterectomy and was prescribed hormonal drugs tamoxifen. And right after she says she started putting on weight. I gained 30 pounds in the course of probably a year and a half. New presearch from Johns Hopkins Cancer Center shows that Breast Cancer survivors gabby rates at a higher weight gain weight at a higher rate than women who never had the disease. When we looked closer, these are were primarily women who had chemotherapy and negative estrogen disease. Metabolism is interrupted leading to weight gain. We know that increases in weight gain can be associated with other chronic diseases. Melissa says losing the weight has not been easy, but she is trying to eat right and exercise. You really have to take charge of your own lifestyle and your body because the doctors arent there with you every day giving you medication or holding your hands to keep your weight down. Its something you have to do yourself. And previous studies suggest Breast Cancer survivors who gain weight have a higher risk of recurrence. Hed already been on the job more than enter 20 years when the lyon sisters more than 20 years when the sisters disappeared in Montgomery County. This Police Officer started his career with the Montgomery County Police Department at the bethesda station and today 60 years later his fellow officers, family and friends turned out at that same station to pay tribute to him. On behalf of all the men and women of this Police Department, thank you for your service. Thank you for everything that youve done for this profession, for this Police Department, for the residents of this county. We all owe you a huge debt of gratitude. Congratulations. [ applause ] yes, we do. Jack cox is the longest serving member of Law Enforcement at a single maryland agency. The Kennedy Center has announced the latest recipients of the 2015 lifetime arctic achievement. Singer songwriter carol king, filmmaker george lucas, broadway star cicely tyson and the american rock band the eagles are this years honorees. The 38th annual national Kennedy Center honors celebration airlines on cbs on sunday, december 6th. Always watching always tracking, wusa9s first alert weather, d. C. s most accurate. Hi. Hello there, sir. Im happy for carol king, big talent. Looking the eagles, too. Eagles are good. I never gave them their due. You know what . Were going to have our 3 degree guarantee and were feeling pretty good today. Derek wants to spoil it all the time. Wait a minute now. You said 87. Did we drop that far . Right now were live outside and were down to 84, so we shall see, but if its 84, were still in pretty good shape because we went 87. You said 91 earlier. No. That would just kill me. Winds north, northeast at 9. The dew point is coming up to 70. Trust me, its going to fall because drier and more comfortable air is going to move in overnight. Heres the radar. We have one little shower now weve tracked really from southern Frederick County across the river through loudoun and now fairfax and now its entering southwestern fairfax south of 66 and actually headed for Prince William county. Its a pretty good little storm, nothing crazy severe, but it has some pretty good rains in it, rainfall rate over an inch per hour, raining at george mason and fairfax and the heaviest rain now down 123 toward clifton and it is going to move essentially due south. So its headed essentially all the way south through Prince William county even toward Lakewood Estates at about 6 15 on our storm tracker, so should there be by now. So the good news is, though, the main headline is rest the ac tonight, simply gorgeous, friday warmer but not humid and heat and humidity will return this weekend and set up camp for a while. 10 00 tonight were generally clear, temps in the low 70s in the burbs, mid70s downtown, but by 6 a. M. Everybody is in the 60s and 52 in oakland tomorrow morning and even by 9 00 were still in the 60s. So the kids going to camp may actually want a sweater or sweatshirt. By lunchtime were back in the 70s with sunshine, just a really spectacular day. So 60s to start, 71 at 9 00, 75 at 11 00 and 79 at 1 p. M. With sunshine. Still nice on friday, 86, hot again on saturday, isolated storm, were 93 and heat and humidity remain with us, hot sunday, monday, tuesday, wednesday. The nats in town through next wednesday. 90 on wednesday, better chance for showers and storms wednesday, nats on 9 friday and again sunday if you cannot make it to the park 36789. Bryce harper did not exactly tear it up last night, but thats okay. But hes everywhere, man. He was there. He was there and hes one of the faces of baseball. Can you really get enough of bryce harper . Major League Baseball cant and the viewing public cannot either, harper and marvel now wusa9 game on sports with dave owens brought to you by xfinity. Welcome to the slowest sports day of the year. Three of the four major sports are out of season. The one thats on baseball is actually on a break, too. Espn is actually broadcasting the corn hole championships. That is true. Im not going to go there. Instead how about a little we . The nats returning from the mid year siesta. Thats coming up friday. The nats have been on a slow methodical rise up the charts, gang, despite all the injuries, too. Theyve got the fifth best record in all of baseball and arguably the two best players in the league, those guys right there, scherzer and harper. Still theyd like a little more breathing room between them and those pesky mets. Wed like to have a few more games up on the mets, but were here right now. Weve put ourselves in a good position for the second half. Weve got to enjoy our days and come back ready to play. Speaking of bryce, he represented the dmv in the all star game last night, many more to come in his future, of course. He told reporters you can forget about him participating in the home run derby until the allstar game comes to d. C. In 2018, but hes become one of the faces of major League Baseball, of course. Theyll be pushing harper and other young stars during last nights baseball game. Espn did this profile piece on harper along with Marvel Comics from boy to young man to star. The profile has a Marvel Comics theme and part of it is animated, the superhero harper in it talking about his journey to the bigs. I started playing with my brothers t ball team actually. My dad would go over to the other coach, hey, i got a 3 yearold. Dont get me wrong. Hes a little bit bigger than most. The coaches are thats pretty young. These kids are 6 and 7. Hes like no. Hell be fine. Hell be okay. Got out there at 3 and started playing t ball. Harper and the that it is back on wusa9 friday night as the nats start the second half of the season facing the l. A. Dodger, coverage at 7 00, natson9. Finally dez bryant of the cowboys today inking a deal today, 45 million of it guaranteed, just like lesli foster. Really . This bumped it up to about 14 million. Megatron makes about 16, l deal getting done before the 4 the deal getting done before the 4 p. M. Deadline. Dez was saying he wasnt going to come to camp if they didnt give him a new deal. They inked him a new deal. They had to. Hes one of the best in the business. Thats it for us. The cbs evening news is next. Well see you pelley the president warns killing the iran deal would risk war. This deal is our best means of assuring that iran does not get a Nuclear Weapon. Pelley also tonight, mr. Obama weighs if on bill cosby. Ill say this. Pelley deadly flooding in the south. Well have the search for the missing. How a jailed mexican drug lord went to the shower and made a clean getaway. U and america discovers a new world. Plutos day in the sun. This i captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley today president obama gave a spirited defense of the nuclear deal with iran, even as republicans surround to kill it. Be barred from building a