Wossen assaye at this exact moment . We hope to get some answers from the u. S. Justice department. Excuse me the u. S. Marshals service in the next 15 to 20 minutes. Well bring the latest information for you coming up in an hour 59 clock 00. Jeff goldberg abc 7 news. Alison the university of virginia released a new interim policy on Sexual Misconduct and gender based violence and its effective immediately. It was prompted by a federal investigation. The policy includes detailed descriptions of reporting procedures and sexual assaults and misconduct education at the university. And it also requires complaints be examined by the universitys fulltime investigator or an external investigator with relevant experience. Leon well d. C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has her way, the city wont be putting the brakes on its planned streetcar project. Alison thats right. During last nights state of the district address, she promised to finish that streetcar line all along eighth street and actually to even expand it into georgetown. Chris papst is live in northwest with more. Chris . Chris the mayors streetcar vision comes to life it will expand the project by three miles from Union Station west here along k street and it would end at this intersection which is wisconsin avenue. Now, the mayor gave this address last night during her state of the district speech. It was her first one. She said she is committed to getting the streetcar on a street running and eventually expand the project into georgetown. That, of course, got a lot of peoples attention after 200 million and many years, the streetcar along eighth street still is needing passengers. To expand the project into georgetown would cost another 50 million to 60 million a mile. Youre talking upwards of 380 million. It is a project that the georgetown Business Improvement district does endorse. We think theres some things that really make sense for streetcar in georgetown and were going to actively work to make those changes possible. You will notice theres one major difference from what it looks like down there on eighth street. Live in georgetown chris papst abc 7 news. Leon thanks, chris as you can see out there looking at his live shot, it is gorgeous out there today, isnt it . Alison it is. Really, really nice day. Leon really cool but lots of sun out there. Alison sun helps a lot. Doug hill is here to tell us about the warmer weather on the way. Doug this year, no april fools joke from Mother Nature either. Thank you for that. Thats good news. Lets take you to the rooftop camera 20 to 30 stories here in rosslyn. Beautiful view. Lot of blue skies and a few fair weather clouds. A little bit of a breeze and a little cooler than average temperatures. Take a look at the satellite image. That satellite, what youre picking up north of washington, that gray color, low level clouds, that is it. It is gorgeous. 60 degrees at Reagan National and 57 in frederick. 60 degrees in fredricksburg. We expected it. But well make all that back tomorrow. Another warm day on the horizon. But for now, gusty winds out of the northwest bringing in cool dry air. The winds will diminish tonight and temperatures will cool off a bit overnight with clear skies. And i think generally settle near 40 degrees in the morning. A warming trend. With that will come some rain. Theres the weekend outlook for easter sunday. Plus while were having beautiful morning, parts of the country having bad flooding. Steve rudin will update us on that in a couple of minutes. Alison. Alison thank you. Montgomery county Public Schools continues its search for a new superintendent. The board of education received a new report on community input. It is posted on the superintendents search website along with a list of desired characteristics for a new superintendent. Various Community Representatives will be involved in the interview process when the finalists are selected. Leon . Leon alison a d. C. Police officer was honored today for stopping the gunman behind the Washington Navy yard shooting. Dorian desantis received a congressional badge of bravery. Jeanette reyes was in baltimore for the ceremony. Jeanette in a touching ceremony this morning he accepted the congressional badge of bravery for his lifesaving actions during the navy yard attack. 12 people were killed and several others injured during that shooting rampage in september of 2013. Officer desantis was one of many officers who responded. He fired the shot that killed gunman aaron alexis after taking a bullet in his vest. Congressman elijah cummings, senator ben cardin and chief of police kathy lanier talked about the bravery, quick thinking and humility of officer desantis. This is about people needing your help and both sides of the door. Trust me its much more rewarding to be able to help people than be on the other side of the door. Hes received numerous medals and commendations over the years. As you can see hes very quiet and humble about everything. He put his life on the line and he saved so many lives. Jeanette officer desantis is eligible for retirement but tells me hes in no rush to leave just yet because he loves his job that much. Reporting in baltimore, jeanette reyes, abc 7 news. Alison two men are in custody in loudoun countys largest drug bust in history ronald delaspada and Luis Gore Garcia were arrested at a hotel in sterling. They found several drugs in the room. Six pounds of marijuana and 60,000 in cash. Police say further arrests are possible. Leon the white house has a new tool in the fight against cyber hackers threatening National Security. Senior political reporter scott thuman live at the Capitol Hill Bureau for us this evening. He has the details on the executive order president obama signed today. Scott . Scott yeah leon this is a first. A sanctions program aimed at other countries or criminal groups within those countries who are behind these cyber threats. These cyber attacks. Some people say they are the most dangerous among them. Threats that we face today as a nation. We are talking about those trying to steal sensitive information, shut down Computer Systems or threaten our infrastructure like power grids. So the president issued this order. Its very interesting. If these attacks that weve seen in the past kind of like some say what happened with Sony Pictures last year. If they are dreamed a National Security or economic threat then the u. S. Can now impose sanctions, financial sanctions. For example, the u. S. Can then freeze any assets or funds that the offender has within the United States. Thats one of many options but the white house clearly very frustrated that it has been targeted so often. Russian and china are supposedly two of the largest offenders or suspects in this but the white house, the president saying theyve had enough and now this Brand New Program unlike any weve seen here. The president hoping that this will serve as a major deterrent. Alison . Alison ok, scott, thank you very much. A Virginia State senator from loudoun county, the target of an isil threat . Senator Richard Black says Capital Police in richmond tell him he was featured in a magazine that was published by isil that lists him as the enemy. According to the Washington Post, the magazine also featured former president ial candidate rick santorum. Leon coming up just ahead here at 4 00 a local leader weighs in on that controversial religious freedom law in indiana. Find out if Maryland Governor larry hogan is going to join the list of those banning publicly paid travel to the hoosier state. Reporter a substitute teacher pleads guilty to child sexual abuse and the principal and his school, prosecutors say he chose not to report the crime to police. Im kevin lewis in rockville. That story coming up. Alison 7 on your side with an alert of how thieves are targeting the elderly and wiping out their life savings. Leon the first wife of the former Beatle John Lennon died of cancer in spain. She was 75 years old. The couple met at arts school in liverpool and married shortly before the beatles shot to fame. They divorced in 1968 and in fact, that divorce prompted Paul Mccartney to write the beatles classic hey jude to help their only son cope with his parents separation. Alison Maryland Governor larry hogan denied a request to ban state funded travel to indiana over the controversial religious freedom law. They contacted the governor yesterday pushing for the ban. A spokesman told the Washington Post the governor believes a best way to make change is through an engagement of ideas and not disengaging from those they disagree with. The district has already implemented that ban. Meanwhile, lawmakers in indiana are working to fix that controversial bill. Leon as abcs Marcy Gonzalez reports, pushback on the bill is leading to a domino effect in arkansas. Marcy legislators working to fix indianas controversial religious freedom act that sparked outrage across the country. Opponents claiming that because the state doesnt have an antidiscrimination law protecting Sexual Orientation under this new law, Business Owners would be allowed to turn gay and lesbian customers away. The owners of memorys pizza in indiana say they wouldnt do that but would refuse to cater a samesex wedding. Were not discriminating against anyone. Its just thats our belief. And everybody has their right to believe anything. We definitely agree with it, though. Marcy indianas governor mike pence clarifies that was never the laws intention. The religious freedom restoration act was about religious liberty. Not about discrimination. Marcy those kinds of concerns prompting the governor of arkansas to refuse to sign a similar bill sending it back to legislators saying it should more closely resemble a 1993 federal religious freedom law. To do that though changes need to be made. Marcy just as businesses put pressure on indiana lawmakers, the same happening in arkansas. The c. E. O. Of walmart the nations biggest employer based there now speaking out saying the bill as its currently written threatens to undermine the spirit of inclusion. Indiana lawmakers are working out new language for the law that could go to a vote as soon as tomorrow. Marcy gonzalez, abc 7 news. Alison and maryland senator ben cardin is leading the charge to catch criminals who have hurt or killed police officers. This socalled blue alert measure would create a nationwide system to find and arrest violent criminals and it would send alerts when Credible Threats are made against Law Enforcement officers. Leon all right. Time now to get a first check of the traffic this evening. Or this hour. Lets check in with Jamie Sullivan to see how things are going on the area roads. Hey, jamie. Jamie couple of different problem spots. I want to begin with a crash on the interstate. This will affect you if youre heading youth outbound on 395 southbound right at seminary road. I want to zoom in a little bit and talk about delays. For you right now averaging 25 Miles Per Hour which is actually pretty typical. This is where we usually see the delays. A little more congested, again, while they are clearing it away. Lets take a look on 395 north of where the crash is to give you an idea of what weve got. This is traffic heading outbound. It will definitely be a little bit congested. Lets move to maryland so i want to focus on white oak where we have the accident still in the clearing stages. Youve only got one lane getting by so this is going to be just north of columbia pike. Northbound on New Hampshire avenue where we do only have one lane alternate. This area is very heavy right now especially on columbia pike. So for you to avoid this area on New Hampshire avenue at tracy drive use cherry hill road to randolph road and that will let you get a little bit further north through white oak. Again, this is going to be a little bit of a problem for you right now and then as far as the top side of the beltway, were seeing some slowing and very heavy for you right near the American Legion bridge. That is a look at traffic. Back to you guys. Leon thanks, jamie. Check back with you later. Alison we have a Beautiful Day going on outside. Might get a warmup even more . Doug next couple of days well get 70s. Very successive systems that come through. None of them are terrible. Rain come for saturday sunday and clear out for easter sunday. Still in the details for you. Around the area beautiful sunshine and got a rooftop camera pulling in to the west. The buildings out there looking at Baileys Crossroads nothing more than a few fair weather clouds, delightful afternoon. 60 degrees at Reagan National. The air is very dry. A little breezy on this first day of april. Temperatures ranging from the mid to upper 50s. 60 in washington. 60 in quantico and fredricksburg. 57 degrees in frederick. I told you yesterday i was going to show you this map that it would be colder than it was the day before because the day before, the map showed it was warmer than the day before. Getting this drill . Thats what i mean by the success active successive patterns. Tomorrow well be 10 to 15 degrees warmer than we are at this time. This is what happens in early spring. We get the rapid turn around. None of them extreme. Would not mind being like indianapolis with 80 degrees right now. Look at duluth farther north theres a lot of warm air and it work in here. Well be near 70. Eventually well have to deal with some rain. Were seeing that on satellite well to the south and west. Plenty of clear skies for a big chunk of the northeast. Rain now in missouri and yesterday and this morning, some of that rain was very heavy in the southern plains. Steve rudin outside to tell us about some folks that got a little more than they bargained for. Steve normally this time of year central part of the United States is Tornado Alley with spring and temperature fluctuations with the cold air and warm air. Nothing in terms of Severe Weather in terms of tornadoes but heavy, heavy rain in Oklahoma City yesterday. Look at this. They had localized flooding at expressways and streets. They picked up officially about an inch of rain there. And fortunately, things are drying out nicely for them right now. But they have lots of people who were stranded in cars. A lot of cars were actually destroyed because of the flash flooding and thats something that we should be mindful of this time of year even here in the washington, d. C. Area when you hear about the flash flood warnings. Thats the time to seek Higher Ground because they can happen very, very quickly. Lets get a tip to whats going to happen for the rest of the week and into the Easter Holiday weekend. We head back inside with doug. Doug steve thanks a lot. Futurecast shows us conditions by noon tomorrow bright sunshine with that sotherly wind so bringing in warmer air. Near 70 in the afternoon. Maybe a few more clouds again early friday. As we hit friday morning after sunrise, rain will move in. Warm front will come in. That will bring rain and later friday night, a cold front will augment the rain. Good news is this story has a happy ending with clearing skies during the easter weekend. So for tonight, clear. Light winds. Chilly temperatures. Near 40 degrees by morning and through the day tomorrow lots of sunshine. Breezy wind and 70 degree temperatures and then push through the rest of the day friday with isolated thunderstorm with a cold front possible friday evening. The rain will end early on saturday and then see clearing skies. Highs in the upper 50s. Warmer, lower 60s with sunshine on easter and then on the opening day for the nats on monday, it will be partly sunny and 64. Few showers late at night. Better chance into tuesday morning. Mild temperatures all the way through. Alison very springlike. Doug i like that. Alison were ready. Sugarland star Kristian Bush is promoting a solo project and giving a fan to win a v. I. P. Experience with him at a concert in atlanta. You also get to spend a day with kristian in his studio. If youd like to enter go to wjla. Com contest. You have until april 12th to enter and good luck leon ahead here at 4 00. Left him in the schools care and they sent him home. Leon a mother is upset over how a d. C. School sponldresponded to her childs medical emergency. What happened and the voice mail that the mother later received from the principal. Jennifer have you gotten a phone call or letter and wonder if its a fraudulent scheme . We have experts here. Im kimberly so im working from home. I get on a video conference. Th my boss, and my bosss boss. But i forgot to attach the presentation it sends in a flash, good thing i have fios. I dont and it was takining forever. We dont miss a beat. Im yelling at the kids to get off wifi. Get off the movies get off the video games i think i got a promotion. I think i need a new job. Are you guys hiring. Why settle when you can have you have fiber optics with a two year price guaranteed. Fios. The fastest, most reliable internet. Leon 7 on your side to help you keep your money out of the hand of thieves. Alison as weve shown you in several reports recently these often use the telephone, of course, to target victims. Our consumer investigator kimberly suiters is live in our help center with more today. Kimberly . Kimberly yes, we dont want you to be fooled on this april fools day. And a lot of people in our area are targeted. Im learning especially that the elderly in our area are repeating a lot of schemes in the mail that they tend to fall for. Were showing you some extreme examples here, cautionary tales. The man youre about to hear from lost nearly half a Million Dollars and his home. Autria godfrey has more on what you can protect yourself. 1986. Autria norman is understandably upset as he looks at the maryland home he shared with his wife for 22 years. One he lost to foreclosure in a scam that all started with a phone call. They told her she won 2 1 2 million sweepstakes. Autria but first, the scammer told him to spend 2,000 to pay for taxes on the winnings. After he agreed they started asking questions. They get information from you and then they take that information and turn it around and use it against you. Autria like the fact that his wife lucinda was in a nursing home dying of cancer. If i just sent them this money, then i would get this sweepstakes and i would have money then to bring her home. Autria desperate to make that happen, norman refinanced his house and continued to send payments as the crooks strung him along. In the end, he not only lost his wife to cancer, he was out 400,000 and his home. Its really sad and disgusting that, you know, someone is taking that much from someone who has worked so hard. Autria these crooks are tough to track down often because they run these scams outside of the United States. But Officials Say there is one big, huge glaring red flag. No legitimate lottery will ever ask you to send them money so that you can collect your prize. Autria godfrey, abc 7 news. Kimberly just today, gladys in Northern Virginia alerted us to a similar situation. She won 2 million but she has to send in 12. 99 first. Thats a big red flag. We have experts here from the f. T. C. , the Better Business bureau, aarp and the postal inspectors are here in full force. They want to hear from you coming up at 4 30. So write down this number. 7032369220 for our Consumer Protection phone bank. We dont want you to be fooled. Back to you in the studio. Leon all right. You got it kimberly. Coming up, a scare in the skies. What were learning about a near collision between two planes at the United Arab Emirates. Alison heading from the classroom to a prison cell. Details on the plea deal reached today with the substitute teacher charged with sexually assaulting leon today a Montgomery County substitute teacher admited to violating young girls. Alison he faces up to five years in prison when hes sentenced in may. Kevin lewis explains why his boss allegedly did not report this crime in hopes of avoiding a scandal. Moving forward, weve got to do a better job kevin Montgomery Countys top prosecutor confessing the jose penedas case isnt pretty. In november Police Arrested the substitute teacher for groping three 12yearold girls, following Media Coverage a fourth victim now 23 coming forward. Victim four said he touched her in 2004 while she attended middle school in gaithersburg. Today, prosecutors admitted that the then principal told both the girl and the mother to keep quiet because he did not want to start a scandal or tarnish his schools reputation. In turn, mcps kept penada on the substitute roster. That was a mistake. Kevin today, they told us were not going to comment on the specifics of a case involving a current or past student. However, if any members of our staff becomes aware of an allegation of child abuse or neglect, theyre to report it directly and immediately. Bottom line is we know it should have been reported and it was not. We have to move forward from that. The precise reasons why that person is to report they have to answer to themselves. Kevin currently in the state of maryland, its illegal to stop someone from reporting a crime but back in 2004 that law wasnt on the books so even if prosecutors wanted to they say they cant charge the principal in question. In rockville, im kevin lewis, abc 7 news. Leon the district has a new acting u. S. Attorney. Vincent cohen once serving as the assistant attorney since 2010. Before then he worked for eric holder and in private practice. He succeeds ronald machin who resigned after five years in the position. Alison lets switch gears now and turn to the weather. Get ready for the trip to the 70s. Temperatures in the 70s finally. Leon groovy, man. Sorry. Alison close enough. Leon meteorologist doug hill. Hey, man, whats the word . Doug i wouldnt mind going back to 1960s and 1970s for a bit as long as i know what i know now, it would be good. Well take a look at the rooftop camera, switched it to the west along the potomac. Kennedy center in the foreground and a lot of sunshine. Few fair weather clouds will dissipate and go away after sunset and we expect clear skies tonight. 60 at Reagan National. 57 degrees in frederick and 54 now in annapolis. Satellite and radar, not much to see. Just a few little tracings of some of those fair weather clouds. We expect a quiet, clear and cool night. Tomorrow, get a sunny day. We get gusty winds out of the south and temperatures to 70. Into the 70s on friday. But a warm front will bring a good chance of rain and maybe some thunderstorms late in the day. The rain expected to end saturday morning. Clearing saturday afternoon. Cooler warmer into the 60s with sunshine on easter sunday. On monday maybe some showers late in the day but generally partly cloudy for the nationals. 64 more showers possible into tuesday. Good stuff. I like talking about mild temperatures. Well do it again for you in about 20 minutes. Leon . Leon see you then. In the meantime a mother is outraged after she says an Elementary School in southeast washington sent her son off to the hospital by himself. John gonzalez explains what happened and what the school had to say about it. Then he went into a panic attack because he couldnt catch his breath. John it sounds like a bad april fools joke. This mother gets a call from her sons school saying they put him in an ambulance by himself. Left him in the schools care and they sent him off. John the principal later called the mother to apologize profusely and making it very clear this is not school protocol. Talk to my staff and kind of reiterated what our policy is. And i wanted to talk to you and apologize on behalf of the school for that because that is never, its never been the way that we have dealt with any of our situations with students who we called an ambulance for. John it was yesterday morning in southeast d. C. School called her at work and said he was choking and having an asthma attack but doesnt have asthma. She told them she was on the way but by bus, it could take a while. Thats my only child. What do you mean no one went with him to the hospital . John the mother asked for an incident report for what happened yesterday. She told she couldnt have one and she was referred to the Security Company that handles d. C. Public schools. The staff here promised the young mom this will never happen again. Dominique collins says shes not satisfied with that. Strongly considering pulling the child from the school. A School Spokesperson told me on the phone shes looking into the matter but added, the priority in a situation like that is getting the child to the hospital as quickly as possible. No administrator. No book bag, no coat, no nothing. John in southeast, john gonzalez, abc 7 news. Leon wow yeah. A maryland woman says she paid more than 6,000 to a contractor who never finished the job. Alison as 7 on your side trouble shooter Horace Holmes found out, that contractor has been at the center of one of our investigations not once but twice before. Horace at the center of our 7 on your side trouble shooter report, a contractor that weve seen here before. Robin ford and her husband were desperate to make a major repair to their home. They found a buyer for but when they hired their contractor they say they got more than what they had bargained for. Ford says she was moving quickly towards the date of the closing with the buyers of her home but nothing would be finalized until she was able to correct a sinking foundation. Thats when she hired a local contractor who was referred by a Family Member and paid him 4400 downpayment. It was supposed to be a simple fix. But this is what she said the contractor ended up doing to her kitchen floor. Then she says he asked for more money to finish. We gave him the 2,000. And then he didnt do anything else. Horace when ford called us we discovered her contractor had been the center of previous 7 on your side investigations and wait until you find out what we found out this time around about him. Well tell you that and well tell you who he is tonight on abc 7 news at 5 00. Leon the worlds oldest person has died at the age of 117. He died of Heart Failure earlier this morning. Recognized by the guiness World Records as the worlds oldest person in 2013. In fact she was the last living japanese person born in the 1800s. Shes survived by four grandchildren and six great grandchildren. Alison unbelievable. Leon isnt it . Alison look at that. Well a midair scare in the United Arab Emirates as two planes nearly collide. One of the carriers involved is calling it an air Traffic Control incident. An emirates plane was returning when it got too close to a plane traveling in the opposite direction. This was over the indian ocean. Both airlines though are insisting that safety was not compromised. And still to come at 4 00 a 7 on your side consumer alert about whats in your mail. How thieves are using letters to take your money. 12yearold on the phone hiding in his moms bedroom. There is a man in his house. Leon you want to talk about a terrifying ordeal . A child left alone to deal with a burglar. But what a dispatcher did to keep that boy safe. Alison 7 on your side to help with questions you may have about scams out there that are targeting you and your family. Leon thats right. Kimberly suiters is live in our help center to learn how thieves are using mail to steal your money. Tell us about that. Kimberly its april fools day so our theme here dont be fooled. Our phone bank is open. You can call the number on your screen 7032369220. And coming up right now one of the scams that we want to show you. The sheer volume of mail sent to her mother should have been a red flag to the gaithersburg resident. This, for example, would be maybe a days worth of mail. Maybe two days. One day i counted that she received 85 pieces of mail. Kimberly all scams. Letters supposedly from Readers Digest and the i. R. S. Offers of cheap jewelry and all of the letters promising big prizes including new cars. Her mother betty fell for all of them and wired away her retirement savings. We believe she lost somewhere north of 200,000. Her life savings and they left her with nothing but debt. Seniors in this country are under attack. Basically, from fraud sters operating lottery fraud schemes from outside of the country. Auto youll be involved at some point. The question is do you want to be involved when theres something to preserve so you can take care of your parents . Or do you want to only be involved after everything is gone . Kimberly these scams have become such a problem nationwide that postal inspectors have launched a website devoted entirely to keeping you from becoming a victim. This is the deliver and trust. Com launched by postal inspectors and it offers tons of helpful information, tons of tips. Your rights, what you need to know and it breaks down the types of fraudulent sweepstakes, lottery scams and all the different ways that these con artists are trying to take your money. Its deliver and trust. Com and theres no better resource when it comes to keeping your Family Members from falling victim. In the newsroom autria godfrey, abc 7 news. Kimberly no better resource than 7 on your side to help you out right now. We have five members of the Postal Inspection Service here right now plus the b. B. D. Plus the f. T. C. Plus the aarp. Call this number. 7032369220. The lines are remain open until 6 30 tonight. Back to you in the studio. Leon thanks kimberly. Up next on abc 7 news at 4 00 forget about iphones and laptops. Theres thieves out there targeting another item in your vehicle. You should be able to feel confident without having those being stolen. Alison coming up why the third row seats in your s. U. V. Is such a hot item to steal. Reporter if you are a crab lover, this is a story that youll want to hear. A new study found if you go to a restaurant in our area and order a crab cake its very likely not made with meat from one of these blue crabs. Im brad bell. Coming up at 5 00 ill tell you what youre really getting. Alison some terrifying moments for a 12yearold locked inside his home with a burglar. He was alone at the time but he had one person helping him through the ordeal. Did you see did he have a weapon in his hand or anything . I dont know. Alison the dispatcher talking to luke fornier who locked himself in his mothers bedroom after a man smashed a window and came inside. Luke was whispering, as you could hear there, because he didnt obviously want to be heard. Well, thats when the dispatcher came up with an idea. Dont have to talk. One for yes and two for no ok . Youre home alone . Youre in a room . Is it a bedroom . I had decided to go to the silent call procedure and continued to ask the questions to make him more comfortable. Alison this went on until the police arrived. When they got there the suspect was gone. Thanks to luke not for long because his description led police right to that suspect. Officers arrested him and they found various items they believe were stolen during breakins at more than one home. Leon good work. Theres a new breed of car thief out there swept this time around this version doesnt want your whole car. Just the seats. Check this out. Security footage capturing these guys in dallas taking the removable third row seats out of an s. U. V. In the owners driveway. Once the teen gets in it takes him 40 seconds to swipe the seats potentially leaving you with a hefty replacement bill. I could understand if my purse or wallet or d. V. D. S and ipods are stolen. These are the seats to your vehicle. You should be able to feel confident without those being stolen. Leon this type of theft is a problem nationwide that people are getting hit especially hard in california and texas with this. On craigs list and ebay we found hundreds of ads for third row seats selling up for thousands of dollars. Boy. Michigan woman who became the subject of a cruel internet name gets help from a stranger. This woman was made fun of on line because her van was missing a door. Alison a man saw all the mean comments and decided to fix the van for free. Troy campbell has the story. Theyre taking pictures. Ok, well thats fine. You know . But then i get home and theyre posted on facebook. Troy devin doesnt own this van but was driving it when this picture was taken showing up on facebook. Now, the van actually belongs to this mother of five, amanda ma examine xfield. We had to drive without the door. Troy for more than a year people have been recording video and taking pictures of her as she drove her doorless van because her family couldnt afford the repair. After dozens of comments were posted on facebook poking fun at her mismore fortune, a different type of post appeared. A man wanting to help her. Instead of looking down on them try helping them out. Troy following his mothers passing last month, hes been inspired to help out others in his late mothers honor. Public comments were insults and being mean and i got on there and offered to help. Coworker said get a hold of him. Hes willing to help you. I got a hold of him and everything he offered, i just cried. Troy on saturday the two met up and this door as you can see here has been replaced. No more public humiliation. I could not believe that somebody out of the kindness of their heart would help someone like that that they dont know. Troy even in the coldest months of the year, maxfield said shes had no choice than to drive the van. With that door replaced, she hopes to be able to help someone else the way barber stepped up for her. I actually cant wait to pay it forward. I cant wait to help somebody like hes helped me. There is people out there that are doing good deeds not just me but other people. Hopefully this influences other people to do the same thing. Leon very nice. Glad he didnt play an april fools trick on her doing Something Like that. It is april fools day today. Amazon decided to take advantage of this day and play a joke on its customers. Take a look at this. The websites home page went retro, the look they had back in 1989. Dont worry, though the links still work and you can still shop for those of you who must. Alison dont you feel old in 1999 was retro. It wasnt that long ago. Leon i still have shirts and shoes from 1999. Coming up here on abc 7 at 5 00 this evening, something that is no april fools joke. Find out why a third of the crab cakes in maryland may not actually have any maryland crab in them. Alison plus local students voice their support for a special needs student whose family is fighting for his varsity letter. Leon you want to hear this folks, National Park Service Updates its Cherry Blossom forecast and well tell you when theyre expected to hit peak bloom coming up tonight at 5 00. Alison ok. First, lets find out if this nice weather is going to continue or get better even. Doug more or less. Temperatures will get warmer but then some rain. That will get cooler after we get warmer again. Its a repeat cycle in early spring. Its all good. No major storms, nothing bitterly cold. First up give you a live look from National Harbor on our h. D. Web cam looking across the potomac and through the wheel and up river towards our area. Theres Woodrow Wilson bridge that you see in the background there. A few fair weather clouds. Thats it. Sunshine, temperatures definitely cooler than yesterday. But ill take it with the sun. 58 at Nationals Park right now. 56 degrees at manassas. 53 in middletown. Thats in Frederick County maryland and 54 degrees right now in chevy chase. Temperatures have cooled. Well get past that. Temperatures tomorrow a good 10 to 13 14 degrees warmer than they are right now so well take that as well. 60 at Reagan National. 54 in annapolis. 53 degrees right now in lexington park. Plenty of warm air off to the west of this building. Really impressive temperatures. Kansas city 79. 80 degrees in minneapolis. All the warm air pushing in our direction. Were working with a warm front that is responsible along with an upper level system to create all heavy rain and the flooding in Oklahoma City as steve showed you a little bit ago. This is the leading edge of the warm front. That will play a role late tomorrow night and friday and a following cold front coming from the upper midwest will combine to give you the cold front and warm front. High likelihood of rain here thunderstorms and should move out and heres the futurecast. Few clouds midday tomorrow. Mostly sunny. Sotherly winds pushing us to 70 degrees. Clouds will roll in overnight tomorrow night and by friday morning during the commute rain likely. That will come in and kind of augment the rain later on friday and probably give us a thunderstorm on friday night and that will be that. As far as whats coming next . Take a look. For tonight, well see temperatures dropping to 49 degrees by late tonight. 62 for a high at midday tomorrow. And then things will you know be pretty. 77 in the afternoon. Well take that. Alison lovely. Doug ok. Leon lets find out in the traffic in the area is as good as the weather. Lets see what the word is from Jamie Sullivan. Hey, jamie. Jamie it rarely is. Sometimes we get traffic being better than the weather in the winner time. Thats about it. Start off in 395. Usually we see the heaviest traffic heading outbound. This afternoon, its heading inbound as you approach the 14th street bridge. Youre in the single digits. Only averaging about eight Miles Per Hour and lets take a live look. I want to show you near the 14th street bridge. There is a crash reported just beyond this point so that is why its so heavy. Youve got to get into d. C. Just prepare for these delays. Were really not used to it. I want to take a shot of the beltway. This is going to be right near river road. So weve got very heavy traffic and thats going to be on the inner loop with an accident thats being reported. And we are bumper to bumper through this area especially in the afternoon. As we move back to the map, thats just really where i want to focus. 15 Miles Per Hour is what youve got and thats actually on the outer loop. The inner loop of the beltway, were slow and that starts near the toll road crossing the American Legion bridge and then continuing. So slow spots still the crash and northbound New Hampshire avenue, its open but still very heavy. Back to you. Leon thank you, jamie. Up next here on abc 7 news at 4 00, 7 on your side with a consumer alert about how you watch tv. Choosing to stream programs instead of getting cable may not be as ch so im working from home. I get on a video conference. With my boss, and my bosss boss. T i forgot to attach the presentation it sends in a flash, good thing i have fios. I dont and it was takining forever. We dont miss a beat. Im yelling at the kids to get off wifi. Get off the movies get off the video games i think i got a promotion. I think i need a new job. Are you guys hiring. Why settle when you can have you have fiber optics with a two year price guaranteed. Fios. The fastest, most reliable internet. Alison welcome back everybody. 7 on your side today to take your questions about scammers. Our experts are there right now as you can see taking your calls. And this will be happening through 6 30 p. M. Tonight. The number to call is on your screen. 7032369220. Now, some tv watchers out there are considering cutting the cable cord this year because there are so many new streaming options. Leon before you do john mat materise shows why it may not be as cheap as you think. John everybody is about to offer internet tv streaming service. Theyre all rolling out tv channels but before you cut that cable cord, a caution. With the average cable bill now more than 120 a month lots of us are curious about apples upcoming tv service. 25 streaming channels for just 40 a month. Hbo is also unveiling a streaming service for 15 a month. And in sling tv sonys new playstation view and hulu plus and netflix, you have a lot of options. But the website tech times. Com says you need to know the downsides before you give up your cable box. So from the doesnt that stink file how cutting the cord can cost you more than you think. Apples streaming tv 40 a month. Hbo 15. Netflix, 9 a month. And dont forget to include your high speed internet. Thats 40 a month. Youre now up to 105 a month which may leave you saying, doesnt that stink . Worst, tech times say none of this duplicate the full cable experience with d. V. R. On demand movies and ease of changing channels. So add up what these new services will cost. If its over 100 a month, cable may be worth keeping for the convenience. That way you dont waste your money. Im john materise, abc 7 news. He used a crowbar or whatever he used and he completely smashed the door. Leon people caught up in a dizzies sequence of events during a nine hour long man hunt describe runin with an armed and desperate prisoner. Also we gave them the 2,000 and then he didnt do anything else. Leon high and dry. A contractor and 7 on your side contract paths for the third time. And something fishy. Theres an excellent chance that crab in your next maryland crab cake is an impostor. Alison the inmate accused of overpowering a guard to face from Inova Fairfax hospital isnt due back in court until friday. Leon today, were hearing from some of the people that Wossen Assaye impacted during his nine hours on the lam. Jeff goldberg live with the update tonight. Jeff . Jeff leon, this is the annandale home where investigators believe that Wossen Assaye broke in during the man hunt and took refuge for a little while. This is the area where police dusted for fingerprints and a new lock has been installed by the owners. Thankfully, they were not home at the time. Theyre getting ready to sell the home at the moment. And this home in annandale is a couple hundred feet from the street on the other side of that home which is cherry lane. That is where assaye allegedly pulled off his second carjacking. All the activity started yesterday when bailey the dog of Francesca Morgan who did not want to show her face started acting up. Absolutely insane barking at 8 00 a. M. Jeff morgan lives on oak court in annandale next door to the home owned by her son, the house she says was ransacked by Wossen Assaye durin
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