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Henson Creek Apartments in a building very much like that. Lets show you the videotape. We actually have three different angles of the incident taken from cell phones. And what you can see is the man. His name is deion giles and he has been confronted by a security guard. Not a police officer. A security guard. And he says what are you going to do . Pepper spray me . Well yeah the guard did pepper spray him and then they chased him up into the stairwell, kick him, punch him. Another guard joins in. And they tase him. This is what mr. Giles said he endured. So the whole time, im still right here. Theyre still tasing and the whole time im sitting down and im handcuffed on one arm. Theyre still pepper spraying me tasing me hitting me with a baton. Brad we spent much of the day trying to get to the bottom of what happened here. Mr. Giles says he has been harassed by this guard for several weeks now. We went to the Security Company. Security company said come on over. Wed like to show you our body camera video and when we come back to share more of this story at 5 00 youll see a segment of that body camera video but listen to this the video stops just before the beating captured on cell phone camera begins. Thats the story out here at the henson Creek Apartments. Back to you. Alison thank you. Lets get back to doug now. As we mentioned, the temperatures will drop quite a bit today. Scott very cold. How long will that stick around, doug . Doug looks like several more days. It will be colder tomorrow night than tonight. Real chill in the air behind the cold front. Lets get you started. Also a few areas of showers lingering behind the cold front and dropped temperatures. Nothing particularly heavy. A little cell now will be moving through dale city shortly. We expect a shower to come to an end over the next couple of hours. We have the wind advisory in effect in Higher Elevations north and west of the metro area. That will continue a few more hours. Even the lower 70s earlier. Still 70s well south and east of washington dropping into the lower 50s and upper 40s farther to the north and the west. The winds, theyve changed direction. That has brought in the cooler temperatures. Wind speeds now 20 Miles Per Hour at Reagan National. 14 at washington dulles. So well see some clouds and then a few areas of sunshine through the evening hours. Well hold in the lower 60s and then later tonight, temperatures will plummet 34 to 45 degrees by morning. Well check out those chilly temperatures and a mention of frost in our forecast too, coming up in a few minutes. Alison . Alison ok. See you soon, doug thanks. A foster father in Stafford County is charged in the murder of an 11monthold baby. Police say 33yearold david markison severely burned karon mason while giving the boy a bath in january. The boy died more than a month later. He was placeed in a foster home in july by the fredricksburg home for social services. Scott the man who tried to kill president Ronald Reagan is back at a d. C. Courtroom. At issue whether he can spend more time at his mothers house in williamsburg virginia. Hes lived at st. Elizabeth Mental Hospital since a jury found him not guilty by reason of insanity. He is currently allowed 17 days a month at his mothers home. Alison Anne Arundel County police and the f. B. I. Are offering a 20,000 reward in the Dunkin Donuts murder case. That announcement was made in a press conference earlier this afternoon. He is wanted for the april 12th death of his wife. Her body was found in that hanover shop where the couple worked. Scott french investigators say they have foiled a planned terror attack on several churches. Alison police say they arrested a man in paris with an arsenal of weapons. Abcs Marcy Gonzalez has the latest developments. Reporter a close call in paris. Authorities stopping what they say could have been another Charlie Hebdo type of massacre. A man caught by chance just as investigators say he was about to launch a terrorist attack on churches. In contact with another person who may be with whom they exchanged information on the arrangements of the condition of an attack. Reporter before he could, french say the 24yearold suspect shot himself on sunday. They claimed he called for help and when police arrived, they followed a trail of blood back to his car. There and in his apartment, they reportedly found combat weapons, ammunition a bulletproof vest as well as documents about alqaida and isis and an outline of his plan. The suspect, an algerian Computer Science student was already on a terror watch list because he allegedly wanted to go to syria. Much like the Boston Marathon bombers on law enforcements radar screen but not to the level that would justify any sort of ongoing surveillance. Reporter before he was caught police say he did take one life. Shooting this 32yearold mother to death choosing her at random they say because he wanted to steal her car. The suspects name has not been released. Were told he is not cooperating with investigators who are still trying to track down any potential coconspirators. Marcy gonzalez abc 7 news. Scott the vatican says pope francis will visit cuba before arriving in the u. S. In the last week of september. The pontiff has been credited with restoring relations between the u. S. And cuba. The pope is scheduled to visit three u. S. Cities this fall including d. C. , new york and philadelphia. Alison there is a big hangup over a plan to build a cell phone tower beside a germantown middle school. They held a town hall that generated mixed reviews. Kevin lewis is live to explain the controversial decision at hand. Kevin . Kevin hi there, alison. This is what the cell phone tower at the Elementary School in germantown looks like. As you can see, its fenced off but still close to the school and measures more than 100 feet tall. Many parents at nearby middle school are speaking out hoping to prevent a similar tower there. As it stands 11 Montgomery County schools have cell towers. If approved, it would be the 12th. With the Parents Coalition of Montgomery County and she argues school with high poverty rates are more likely to get stuck with these controversial antennas. Now, according to nccss own data, 81 of the cell phone towers are at schools where at least a third of the students are eligible for free or reduced meals. To put that in perspective here less than 5 of students at walt witman school in bethesda are in financial need. Weve never seen a neighborhood in Montgomery County say yes put a cell phone tower on our neighborhood school. My question is why do we keep doing this . Why do we keep torturing neighbors . Why do we keep torturing our parents . Our neighbors have spoken loud and clear. They do not want these on their local school sites. Kevin now, mcps contends the cell phone Tower Program makes money netting nearly 900000 last year alone. Administrators also insist they listen to parents telling us by email if the community does not want a tower at their school, it is not built there plain and simple. Were live in germantown, im kevin lewis abc 7 news. Alison all right. Lets move on to sports now fortunately you can say its a great time to be a sports fan here in d. C. Scott you could. The nats the caps, the wiz, all energized after big wins last night. But the teams acknowledge there are some challenges ahead. So lets get to sports director tim brandt now here to explain that for us. Tim lets be clear about this now. Washington did not win any titles last night. But if you dont think it was historical you have to admit it certainly was monday monumental. The caps and wizards beat and the nats beat their old nemesis, st. Louis with a walkoff home run. Believe me conclude fans started celebrating. Jackie pulled off her own triple play last night. I may have had a radio or two listening to the caps. Listening to the wizards. Tim jackie was at the nationals game last night tweeting out this photo as she tried to keep up with washington history in the making. One for the record books. Tim jackie wasnt alone. Fans all over were glued to their sets as the capitals the wizards and the nets were all must see tv. It was packed. Noise coming from the hockey game. Noise coming from the baseball game. Noise come from the basketball game. Great day for washington. Tim while the wiz won their playoff game the caps had a flare for the dramatic. Wrist shot coming scores obviously was a huge night. I mean, when all three games ended within 10 minutes of one another, the entire restaurant erupted. D. C. Trifecta it was awesome. Tim finally, the nats capped things off a d. C. Trifecta. Hat trick. Hashtags aside, this is history. Its never happened before to have three teams playing at the same time, two in the playoffs. Everybody wins. Two that go into extras. We have extra innings and we have hockey overtime. It was historical tim historical indeed. If you look at my hair, i can have some historical perspective. Born and raised in the d. M. V. And i have never in my lifetime seen this. First in war, first in peace. Last in the american league. Now we have this. Scott more this weekend. Tim absolutely. Absolutely. This could build to a crescendo. How about three titles . Scott i like the way youre thinking. Tim optimism. Alison you have to be positive. See you soon, tim. Thank you. Coming up here on abc 7 not news at 4 00 its no surprise that taxpayers look forward to their refunds. 7 on your side to explain why. It was scary. Our Patio Furniture flew off the balcony. Scott it was the cruise that couldnt end soon enough. What passengers are now saying about enduring a rough storm at sea. Reporter all the speed cameras in d. C. Are not bringing in the bucks like they used to. So the city is putting more of them out there on the street. Im Stephen Tschida. Alison new video in the sentencing phase of the boston bombing trial. Jurors will determine whether tsarnaev receives the Death Penalty or life without parole. 2500 Cruise Ship Passengers back on dry land tonight after living a nightmare for two days. The carnival spirit was caught in open waters during that Violent Storm off the coast of australia. The boat was slammed by 30 foot waves and 60mileanhour winds. That made the entire ship a dangerous place to be. My suitcases are flying out of their cupboards and the tv was flying down. On the glass, being pushed out and smashed all over the place. Chairs over like lollipops. Alison the storm was so severe that the sydney harbor port was forceed to close. That ship had to wait out in open waters. Amazingly, no reports of any injuries. Scott . Scott drivers now have to watch their speed, new speed cameras are up in the district. Revenue for the existing cameras is down. Stephen tschida live in the district. Stephen . Stephen scott, six new cameras going on line at the stroke of midnight. This is one of them right here. Theres two, one northbound and one southbound. Now, these cameras go on line just as we have learned that theres been a sharp reduction from fiscal 2014 from 2013 to 2014 more than 75 million from speed camera tickets in 2013. Just over 7 million in 2014. Some motorists say theyre catching on. Right here on my my here so i slow down to the right speed. Stephen if you want to learn more about where those new six speed cameras are located in the nations capital, go to our website at wjla. Com. You can find those locations there. Reporting live Stephen Tschida abc 7 news. Scott all right. Time for a check on the traffic situation. Lets get to jamie sullivan. Shes here with all the details. Jamie seeing a lot of red this afternoon, scott. Thats partially because of our typical afternoon commute and then weve got a few problems. This is the area for you on the inner loop. Basically from college park getting into lanham that weve got congestion on the inner loop of the beltway. I want to focus on this slowdown heading outbound on 50 just before 197. Its a car fire. There are two lanes blocked off and were seeing this yellow behind it. So definitely quite a bit of congestion. Now, lets move to look at some congestion. This is actually going to be a live look for you right near seven locks so both the inner loop and outer loop quite congested right now. Pretty typical for you in that stretch a little closer to the American Legion bridge. As we move to take a look back at our maps well show you what weve got as far as congestion for you heading out of the city. G. W. Parkway mainly just before the beltway. Outbound on 66 through falls church and you hit those brakes again once you get outside the beltway. 395, same thing. I want to move into the d. C. Area so weve got police activity. That is closing down 14th and 15th street northwest right near the National Mall right at constitution avenue. Now, again, all lanes are blocked so in this area definitely want to avoid it. Thats a look at traffic. Back to you guys. Scott thank you jamie. Alison weatherwise, we got the big chill coming in here. Doug yeah already starting temperatures dropping. Cold front, not thunderstorms. The storms dissipated before they got here. We got some rain and now the storms are getting stronger. Theyre getting pounded right now. Things are going to calm down. Theyve been breezy and cooler. Lets get started with a look at the camera. This is at oakdale high school. Weve started this time lapse 10 30 this morning where its bright and sunny. As the cold front approached, were seeing the clouds starting to rapidly increase through the Morning Hours and before you know it we had ourselves showers moving through the area and theyre gone. Just to the southeast in Frederick County right now so the skies are kind of dark up there. Skies will clear this afternoon for the next few hours, scattered showers around the metro area. Most of the region theyll move through and then well continue to see the clearing trend and the cooler temperatures as we head through the overnight hours. Right now in the colder air coming in, were picking up a few snow showers here and there. As we get to the next couple of days there will be chances of patchy frost in some areas well outside of the city. But definitely a chill in the air. The chill will remain for several more days. Still have a wind advisory. Higher elevations north and west of the city. Will stay into effect until 8 00 tonight. Higher elevations could pick up wind gusts at 40 miles an hour. Temperatures in washington in the lower 70s to start the day. Even colder in the mountainous areas. By tomorrow morning, north and west in the suburbs will be in the mid 30s. Lower 40s for most of the area. And then for the next seven days, we keep the trend of cooler than average temperatures for a while. 59 tomorrow. Partly cloudy and windy throughout the day. Still breezy on friday about 60 degrees with the sunshine. To be a partly sunny and cool weekend but a little disturbance could give the showers saturday night through sunday morning. Clearing late sunday and into monday, tuesday and back to sunshine and temperatures getting a little closer to where they should be this time of april. Alison well get back there soon. Thank you. Scott coming up on abc 7 news at 4 00 real life drama for actor ben afleck. How hes responding after requesting a show remove the discovery that his ancestors own slaves. Let her know that daddy is always watching. Alison taking hovering to a new level. How one dad is making sure he can watch his daughte scott actor ben afleck is talking about a controversial appearance on the Television Show finding your roots where he asked producers to remove the discovery of his slave owning ancestor. As brandy hitt reports, pbs is launching an internal investigation. Im sure that theres so much of people that gets lost over time. Reporter ben afleck is apologizing and says hes embarrassed for asking the pbs program finding your roots to edit out the discovery that one of his ancestors had owned slaves. The oscar winner posting on facebook i regret my initial thoughts that the issue of slavery not be included in the story. We deserve neither credit nor blame for our ancestors. It certainly seems ben afleck was remorseful about the action he took. Whether the program did the right thing is a whole other question. According to private emails between the host and sony head Michael Linton that were stolen during novembers hacking scandal, sony reportedly told gates to honor aflecks request and the show aired in october without the reference. Pretty interesting character. Reporter gates defended the episode earlier this week telling abc news his story wasnt as interesting about the other stories about slave owners that we did use. Pbs is launching an internal review. That decision may have violated their standards. And despite the controversy, the future caped crusader says hes proud to have participated in the show. Ben afleck says it is up to finding your roots to decide which ancestors to include. But he admits to lobbying the host the same way he lobbied directors about which takes to use in his films. Brandy hitt, abc news, los angeles. Alison still to come here at 4 00, some of Prince Georges Countys finest honored for some work in their tough situations. A look at this years valor award honorees. Scott a store clerk wasnt going to let a robber hit and run with his store. How he fought back and okay, i need a better pizza. One made with only real cheese. And dough that rises naturally. With no chemical leaveners. A pizza my family will love. announcer freschetta naturally rising crust pizza. No other pizza tastes like freschetta because no other pizza is made like freschetta. And try great tasting gluten free freschetta. Ask for it at your local store. Alison Prince Georges County honored outstanding Creek Apartments<\/a> in a building very much like that. Lets show you the videotape. We actually have three different angles of the incident taken from cell phones. And what you can see is the man. His name is deion giles and he has been confronted by a security guard. Not a police officer. A security guard. And he says what are you going to do . Pepper spray me . Well yeah the guard did pepper spray him and then they chased him up into the stairwell, kick him, punch him. Another guard joins in. And they tase him. This is what mr. Giles said he endured. So the whole time, im still right here. Theyre still tasing and the whole time im sitting down and im handcuffed on one arm. Theyre still pepper spraying me tasing me hitting me with a baton. Brad we spent much of the day trying to get to the bottom of what happened here. Mr. Giles says he has been harassed by this guard for several weeks now. We went to the Security Company<\/a>. Security company said come on over. Wed like to show you our body camera video and when we come back to share more of this story at 5 00 youll see a segment of that body camera video but listen to this the video stops just before the beating captured on cell phone camera begins. Thats the story out here at the henson Creek Apartments<\/a>. Back to you. Alison thank you. Lets get back to doug now. As we mentioned, the temperatures will drop quite a bit today. Scott very cold. How long will that stick around, doug . Doug looks like several more days. It will be colder tomorrow night than tonight. Real chill in the air behind the cold front. Lets get you started. Also a few areas of showers lingering behind the cold front and dropped temperatures. Nothing particularly heavy. A little cell now will be moving through dale city shortly. We expect a shower to come to an end over the next couple of hours. We have the wind advisory in effect in Higher Elevations<\/a> north and west of the metro area. That will continue a few more hours. Even the lower 70s earlier. Still 70s well south and east of washington dropping into the lower 50s and upper 40s farther to the north and the west. The winds, theyve changed direction. That has brought in the cooler temperatures. Wind speeds now 20 Miles Per Hour<\/a> at Reagan National<\/a>. 14 at washington dulles. So well see some clouds and then a few areas of sunshine through the evening hours. Well hold in the lower 60s and then later tonight, temperatures will plummet 34 to 45 degrees by morning. Well check out those chilly temperatures and a mention of frost in our forecast too, coming up in a few minutes. Alison . Alison ok. See you soon, doug thanks. A foster father in Stafford County<\/a> is charged in the murder of an 11monthold baby. Police say 33yearold david markison severely burned karon mason while giving the boy a bath in january. The boy died more than a month later. He was placeed in a foster home in july by the fredricksburg home for social services. Scott the man who tried to kill president Ronald Reagan<\/a> is back at a d. C. Courtroom. At issue whether he can spend more time at his mothers house in williamsburg virginia. Hes lived at st. Elizabeth Mental Hospital<\/a> since a jury found him not guilty by reason of insanity. He is currently allowed 17 days a month at his mothers home. Alison Anne Arundel County<\/a> police and the f. B. I. Are offering a 20,000 reward in the Dunkin Donuts<\/a> murder case. That announcement was made in a press conference earlier this afternoon. He is wanted for the april 12th death of his wife. Her body was found in that hanover shop where the couple worked. Scott french investigators say they have foiled a planned terror attack on several churches. Alison police say they arrested a man in paris with an arsenal of weapons. Abcs Marcy Gonzalez<\/a> has the latest developments. Reporter a close call in paris. Authorities stopping what they say could have been another Charlie Hebdo<\/a> type of massacre. A man caught by chance just as investigators say he was about to launch a terrorist attack on churches. In contact with another person who may be with whom they exchanged information on the arrangements of the condition of an attack. Reporter before he could, french say the 24yearold suspect shot himself on sunday. They claimed he called for help and when police arrived, they followed a trail of blood back to his car. There and in his apartment, they reportedly found combat weapons, ammunition a bulletproof vest as well as documents about alqaida and isis and an outline of his plan. The suspect, an algerian Computer Science<\/a> student was already on a terror watch list because he allegedly wanted to go to syria. Much like the Boston Marathon<\/a> bombers on law enforcements radar screen but not to the level that would justify any sort of ongoing surveillance. Reporter before he was caught police say he did take one life. Shooting this 32yearold mother to death choosing her at random they say because he wanted to steal her car. The suspects name has not been released. Were told he is not cooperating with investigators who are still trying to track down any potential coconspirators. Marcy gonzalez abc 7 news. Scott the vatican says pope francis will visit cuba before arriving in the u. S. In the last week of september. The pontiff has been credited with restoring relations between the u. S. And cuba. The pope is scheduled to visit three u. S. Cities this fall including d. C. , new york and philadelphia. Alison there is a big hangup over a plan to build a cell phone tower beside a germantown middle school. They held a town hall that generated mixed reviews. Kevin lewis is live to explain the controversial decision at hand. Kevin . Kevin hi there, alison. This is what the cell phone tower at the Elementary School<\/a> in germantown looks like. As you can see, its fenced off but still close to the school and measures more than 100 feet tall. Many parents at nearby middle school are speaking out hoping to prevent a similar tower there. As it stands 11 Montgomery County<\/a> schools have cell towers. If approved, it would be the 12th. With the Parents Coalition<\/a> of Montgomery County<\/a> and she argues school with high poverty rates are more likely to get stuck with these controversial antennas. Now, according to nccss own data, 81 of the cell phone towers are at schools where at least a third of the students are eligible for free or reduced meals. To put that in perspective here less than 5 of students at walt witman school in bethesda are in financial need. Weve never seen a neighborhood in Montgomery County<\/a> say yes put a cell phone tower on our neighborhood school. My question is why do we keep doing this . Why do we keep torturing neighbors . Why do we keep torturing our parents . Our neighbors have spoken loud and clear. They do not want these on their local school sites. Kevin now, mcps contends the cell phone Tower Program<\/a> makes money netting nearly 900000 last year alone. Administrators also insist they listen to parents telling us by email if the community does not want a tower at their school, it is not built there plain and simple. Were live in germantown, im kevin lewis abc 7 news. Alison all right. Lets move on to sports now fortunately you can say its a great time to be a sports fan here in d. C. Scott you could. The nats the caps, the wiz, all energized after big wins last night. But the teams acknowledge there are some challenges ahead. So lets get to sports director tim brandt now here to explain that for us. Tim lets be clear about this now. Washington did not win any titles last night. But if you dont think it was historical you have to admit it certainly was monday monumental. The caps and wizards beat and the nats beat their old nemesis, st. Louis with a walkoff home run. Believe me conclude fans started celebrating. Jackie pulled off her own triple play last night. I may have had a radio or two listening to the caps. Listening to the wizards. Tim jackie was at the nationals game last night tweeting out this photo as she tried to keep up with washington history in the making. One for the record books. Tim jackie wasnt alone. Fans all over were glued to their sets as the capitals the wizards and the nets were all must see tv. It was packed. Noise coming from the hockey game. Noise coming from the baseball game. Noise come from the basketball game. Great day for washington. Tim while the wiz won their playoff game the caps had a flare for the dramatic. Wrist shot coming scores obviously was a huge night. I mean, when all three games ended within 10 minutes of one another, the entire restaurant erupted. D. C. Trifecta it was awesome. Tim finally, the nats capped things off a d. C. Trifecta. Hat trick. Hashtags aside, this is history. Its never happened before to have three teams playing at the same time, two in the playoffs. Everybody wins. Two that go into extras. We have extra innings and we have hockey overtime. It was historical tim historical indeed. If you look at my hair, i can have some historical perspective. Born and raised in the d. M. V. And i have never in my lifetime seen this. First in war, first in peace. Last in the american league. Now we have this. Scott more this weekend. Tim absolutely. Absolutely. This could build to a crescendo. How about three titles . Scott i like the way youre thinking. Tim optimism. Alison you have to be positive. See you soon, tim. Thank you. Coming up here on abc 7 not news at 4 00 its no surprise that taxpayers look forward to their refunds. 7 on your side to explain why. It was scary. Our Patio Furniture<\/a> flew off the balcony. Scott it was the cruise that couldnt end soon enough. What passengers are now saying about enduring a rough storm at sea. Reporter all the speed cameras in d. C. Are not bringing in the bucks like they used to. So the city is putting more of them out there on the street. Im Stephen Tschida<\/a>. Alison new video in the sentencing phase of the boston bombing trial. Jurors will determine whether tsarnaev receives the Death Penalty<\/a> or life without parole. 2500 Cruise Ship Passengers<\/a> back on dry land tonight after living a nightmare for two days. The carnival spirit was caught in open waters during that Violent Storm<\/a> off the coast of australia. The boat was slammed by 30 foot waves and 60mileanhour winds. That made the entire ship a dangerous place to be. My suitcases are flying out of their cupboards and the tv was flying down. On the glass, being pushed out and smashed all over the place. Chairs over like lollipops. Alison the storm was so severe that the sydney harbor port was forceed to close. That ship had to wait out in open waters. Amazingly, no reports of any injuries. Scott . Scott drivers now have to watch their speed, new speed cameras are up in the district. Revenue for the existing cameras is down. Stephen tschida live in the district. Stephen . Stephen scott, six new cameras going on line at the stroke of midnight. This is one of them right here. Theres two, one northbound and one southbound. Now, these cameras go on line just as we have learned that theres been a sharp reduction from fiscal 2014 from 2013 to 2014 more than 75 million from speed camera tickets in 2013. Just over 7 million in 2014. Some motorists say theyre catching on. Right here on my my here so i slow down to the right speed. Stephen if you want to learn more about where those new six speed cameras are located in the nations capital, go to our website at wjla. Com. You can find those locations there. Reporting live Stephen Tschida<\/a> abc 7 news. Scott all right. Time for a check on the traffic situation. Lets get to jamie sullivan. Shes here with all the details. Jamie seeing a lot of red this afternoon, scott. Thats partially because of our typical afternoon commute and then weve got a few problems. This is the area for you on the inner loop. Basically from college park getting into lanham that weve got congestion on the inner loop of the beltway. I want to focus on this slowdown heading outbound on 50 just before 197. Its a car fire. There are two lanes blocked off and were seeing this yellow behind it. So definitely quite a bit of congestion. Now, lets move to look at some congestion. This is actually going to be a live look for you right near seven locks so both the inner loop and outer loop quite congested right now. Pretty typical for you in that stretch a little closer to the American Legion<\/a> bridge. As we move to take a look back at our maps well show you what weve got as far as congestion for you heading out of the city. G. W. Parkway mainly just before the beltway. Outbound on 66 through falls church and you hit those brakes again once you get outside the beltway. 395, same thing. I want to move into the d. C. Area so weve got police activity. That is closing down 14th and 15th street northwest right near the National Mall<\/a> right at constitution avenue. Now, again, all lanes are blocked so in this area definitely want to avoid it. Thats a look at traffic. Back to you guys. Scott thank you jamie. Alison weatherwise, we got the big chill coming in here. Doug yeah already starting temperatures dropping. Cold front, not thunderstorms. The storms dissipated before they got here. We got some rain and now the storms are getting stronger. Theyre getting pounded right now. Things are going to calm down. Theyve been breezy and cooler. Lets get started with a look at the camera. This is at oakdale high school. Weve started this time lapse 10 30 this morning where its bright and sunny. As the cold front approached, were seeing the clouds starting to rapidly increase through the Morning Hours<\/a> and before you know it we had ourselves showers moving through the area and theyre gone. Just to the southeast in Frederick County<\/a> right now so the skies are kind of dark up there. Skies will clear this afternoon for the next few hours, scattered showers around the metro area. Most of the region theyll move through and then well continue to see the clearing trend and the cooler temperatures as we head through the overnight hours. Right now in the colder air coming in, were picking up a few snow showers here and there. As we get to the next couple of days there will be chances of patchy frost in some areas well outside of the city. But definitely a chill in the air. The chill will remain for several more days. Still have a wind advisory. Higher elevations north and west of the city. Will stay into effect until 8 00 tonight. Higher elevations could pick up wind gusts at 40 miles an hour. Temperatures in washington in the lower 70s to start the day. Even colder in the mountainous areas. By tomorrow morning, north and west in the suburbs will be in the mid 30s. Lower 40s for most of the area. And then for the next seven days, we keep the trend of cooler than average temperatures for a while. 59 tomorrow. Partly cloudy and windy throughout the day. Still breezy on friday about 60 degrees with the sunshine. To be a partly sunny and cool weekend but a little disturbance could give the showers saturday night through sunday morning. Clearing late sunday and into monday, tuesday and back to sunshine and temperatures getting a little closer to where they should be this time of april. Alison well get back there soon. Thank you. Scott coming up on abc 7 news at 4 00 real life drama for actor ben afleck. How hes responding after requesting a show remove the discovery that his ancestors own slaves. Let her know that daddy is always watching. Alison taking hovering to a new level. How one dad is making sure he can watch his daughte scott actor ben afleck is talking about a controversial appearance on the Television Show<\/a> finding your roots where he asked producers to remove the discovery of his slave owning ancestor. As brandy hitt reports, pbs is launching an internal investigation. Im sure that theres so much of people that gets lost over time. Reporter ben afleck is apologizing and says hes embarrassed for asking the pbs program finding your roots to edit out the discovery that one of his ancestors had owned slaves. The oscar winner posting on facebook i regret my initial thoughts that the issue of slavery not be included in the story. We deserve neither credit nor blame for our ancestors. It certainly seems ben afleck was remorseful about the action he took. Whether the program did the right thing is a whole other question. According to private emails between the host and sony head Michael Linton<\/a> that were stolen during novembers hacking scandal, sony reportedly told gates to honor aflecks request and the show aired in october without the reference. Pretty interesting character. Reporter gates defended the episode earlier this week telling abc news his story wasnt as interesting about the other stories about slave owners that we did use. Pbs is launching an internal review. That decision may have violated their standards. And despite the controversy, the future caped crusader says hes proud to have participated in the show. Ben afleck says it is up to finding your roots to decide which ancestors to include. But he admits to lobbying the host the same way he lobbied directors about which takes to use in his films. Brandy hitt, abc news, los angeles. Alison still to come here at 4 00, some of Prince Georges County<\/a>s finest honored for some work in their tough situations. A look at this years valor award honorees. Scott a store clerk wasnt going to let a robber hit and run with his store. How he fought back and okay, i need a better pizza. One made with only real cheese. And dough that rises naturally. With no chemical leaveners. A pizza my family will love. announcer freschetta naturally rising crust pizza. No other pizza tastes like freschetta because no other pizza is made like freschetta. And try great tasting gluten free freschetta. Ask for it at your local store. Alison Prince Georges County<\/a> honored outstanding Public Servants<\/a> today. Mike conneen introduces us to the men and women who rushed into difficult and dangerous situations in some of the most notable emergencies of the past year. Mike august 16 2014 is a day Prince Georges County<\/a> Police Corporals<\/a> will never forget. Look back and think about how the situation was. Not trying to get a pat on our back. Were trying to keep the Community Safe<\/a> and go about our day and go home to our families. Mike they were among the handful of officers that responded to a report of double shooting in temple hill pursuing and exchanging fire with the gunman who was eventually shot and killed. Throughout it all, the suspect had his 3yearold daughter in the car. Unfortunately, she was you know killed by her father. But at that time they didnt know that and they didnt care about their own safety only cared about trying to save her. Mike today, they were among the many saluted at the 38th annual Prince Georges County<\/a> valor awards. Its important for us especially as a community to thank them every day because theres act of bravery done every day. Nobody hears about. Mike the Public Service<\/a> valor awards recognize heroic actions and Outstanding Service<\/a> across five agencies. Other award recipients included a nurse who helped the female inmate deliver a healthy baby boy at the department of corrections before e. M. T. S could arrive and several firefighters who bravely rescued 24 passengers stuck on the stalled roller coaster at six flags last summer. They are real heroes and its just my pleasure as county executive to come here and get the chance to shake their hands and just thank them. Mike at a time when Police Departments<\/a> in particular are facing mounting criticism and complaints, these officers say it feels good to be recognized for their dedication. Nationwide but do things that i did and grateful to these officers and nationwide gives us all a black eye. Mike in greenbelt, mike conneen, abc 77 news. Scott great to see. Police are looking for potential victims after a Housing Inspector<\/a> was charged in a sexual assault. The 54yearold is charged with touching a woman inappropriately during a Home Inspection<\/a> last week on eighth street south. Hes being held without bond. Police want to find out if theres any other additional victims. An Arlington Police<\/a> plan to hold a Community Meeting<\/a> tonight to ease concerns among residents after a woman was found dead in her home last week. Bonnie black was stabbed to death in her house in the Aurora Highlands<\/a> neighborhood. So far, no arrests in that case. During a meeting tonight, police plan to address safety concerns and they will update the homicide investigation. That meeting begins at 7 00 tonight at the our lady of the lords church on 23rd street south in arlington. Alison d. C. Police need your help finding the person who robbed a Convenience Store<\/a> and pulled a knife on the employees there. This happened on Second Street<\/a> in northeast sunday march 22nd. You can see here the person loading up a bag with items from the shelf and when clerks confront him he pulls on it out a large knife. If you know anything about this police want to hear from you. Scott sigh of relief tonight. The county has passed a 2016 budget without raising the property tax rate. Those rates, though, will still go up about 4 because of higher assessments. The 1. 1 billion budget will put more money into schools and Economic Development<\/a> and it freed up those funds by closing the county owned artist field. Alison lets turn to the weather again. You may need the blankets tonight. Scott doug hill has a check of the forecast. Doug turning breezy and cooler behind the cold front today. Ill start and take you out to western maryland. Garrett county in swanson, maryland. This is the sky valley lodge. Look what happened there early this afternoon with the cold front that rolled through there. Kind of got cloudy. Started snowing. Coming down a little bit. That will melt off quickly but an indication that we still have some cold air to deal with. Locally, Doppler Radar<\/a> shows a little bit of rain and a few heavier showers moving across the northern neck. Light showers moving from the southwest to northeast across our area. Give it until about 7 00 tonight and all of that should be out of the region all together. 62 at Reagan National<\/a> right now. 64 degrees at andrews. 71 at fredricksburg and 72 at lexington park. Its already in the lower 50s in places like hagerstown and martinsburg and in cumberland as well. Through the nighttime hours, the winds will diminish a bit and it will be partly cloudy and chilly. 34 to 45 degrees for the overnight temperatures. And then through the day tomorrow, lots of sunshine. It will be kind of windy still. Winds are out of the west at 10 to 20 miles an hour gusting to 30 miles an hour. Highs in the upper 50s. Well stay sunny and cooler into friday. Weekend, well be partly sunny through the weekend. From saturday night through sunday morning a passing system could give showers and then well clear out again by the beginning of the week. This is earth day and steve rudin is right now live at the southwest Community Gardens<\/a> in landsburg park. What are they getting ready to do down there . Steve yeah let me tell you i cannot think of a better place to be on earth day other than a Community Garden<\/a>. Look behind me what you see here right now, three years ago was just an empty area of land. It wasnt fenced in. None of these plots were here. And thanks to a 50,000 grant, southwest Community Garden<\/a> came into existence and now every year they have neighbors that are able to rent plots for 30. They have Community Sections<\/a> they plan a whole lot of or many Different Things<\/a> here. Joining us right now, come on in camilla, you are one of the founders of this garden. Thats right. Steve what can we expect to see this year . We have individual folks working on their own plots of tomatoes, kale lettuce, peppers anything that you can imagine and some folks on these Community Plots<\/a> closer to us here that are going to be whatever folks in the neighborhood want to plant. We did a survey recently about what folks want to see here and planting that. Steve today, earth day. And you have a big event going on over the next two hours. It just started at 4 30 and goes until 6 30. Whats going on . D. C. United is joining us today. We have some players here with us and just sort of exploring gardening. A little bit about nutrition. We have some Kids Workshops<\/a> so a lot of fun to come out and join us. Steve well be back here in another hour and 20 minutes. Things are a whole lot different when we visit with you again. Head back to the newsdesk with scott and alison. Scott metro is joining up with the nationals and cocacola to celebrate earth day. If you ride metro to todays game at nats park youll get one of these souvenir green ride, green game cups. You can bring them into the park and there you get a free soft drink. Alison you can say one robber picked the wrong store to hit. He is caught on camera being attacked by the store clerk. His father and the customer. Scott police hope the Surveillance Video<\/a> will help them catch that robber. Behind the counter. Over everybody. Reporter he is a robber that got a lot more than he bargained for and his High Definition<\/a> Surveillance Video<\/a> caught every frame of it. Yeah the video is actually really good. Reporter the investigator wendell alroflo said the video is so good it made identifying the wanted suspect a lot easier. Mckenzie, were told is the man who storms into the cashiers box at the fast track two Convenience Store<\/a>. Thats on Martin Luther<\/a> king at salinsky and happened april 7th. The cashiers father armed with a shotgun that never goes off and a Good Samaritan<\/a> who springs into action. Kind of nice actually, Good Samaritan<\/a> comes in and helps out. Reporter we talked to that man for a few fleeting moments and agreed not to show his face. He said he noticed the robber minutes earlier. Standing here standing here casing the place out. Casing the place. Reporter in the end the tree trio manages to run the crook out of the store but not before he grabs a few bucks. Cory mrk kenzy is charged with robbery and remains at large. Scott still ahead at 4 00 one dad found a creative way to keep an eye on his daughter as she walks to school alone. What he and his daughter are saying about this unique purchase. Alison and 7 on your side with a consumer alert for tax filers. Why the i. R. S. Could decide to keep your refund . Scott if youre the ultimate helicopter parent one tennessee dad tops the list. Alison i cant wait to see this. Lauren davis explains one way a dad keeps an eye on his daughter after he decided to let her walk to school on her own. Reporter check out chris new toy, a drone he tests out in the park. Really spectacular images out of it. Reporter he is a techie he owns a Video Production<\/a> company and loves to see what he can do. You can see me and the camera crew as it hovers right above. This isnt the first time hes used to check out below. A few weeks ago when chris 8yearold daughter katie asked to walk to school on their own. Youre not going to come watch me . No, but i had another idea. Reporter he got out his drone and took video of her on the way to school. I can see at the monitor a lot of kids were pointing up. Im sure katie was like its just my dad. Reporter katie goes out and flies the drone with her dad. What does she think of that . I was like wow. He didnt tell me then and so i was pretty surprised. Reporter she says its cool but some might say shes being too overprotective. Chris says it was just for fun. But he is happy knowing shes safe. It was just kind of a thing to kind of keep an eye on. Just to make sure she was looking both ways and let her know that daddy is always watching. Alison that was lauren davis reporting. Hes had the drone for about a month and plans on using it for commercials. He has to wait on the f. A. A. To approve new laws first. Well see if he uses it when she starts dating. Hovering over the dinner table. Scott good luck with that one. Alison well we have a recall to tell you about this afternoon from trader joes. Ahead at 4 00 what the company is pulling and why. Scott take a look at this video. Memorable night for one man for all the wrong reasons. What he had to say after this scott 7 on your side consumer alert now. Trader joes is recalling more than 59,000 pounds of chicken sausage amid concerns that plastic may have made its way into those packages. It impacts eight ounce packages of sweet apple chicken sausage. They were sold at trader joes Stores Nationwide<\/a> with an Expiration Date<\/a> of april 22 25th and 29th. And some trouble for the golden arches. Mcdonalds says profits fell by 400 million in its First Quarter<\/a> alone. That is a steeper decline than all of last year. The fast food chain has struggled for sometime with shrinking sales of fewer customers. The company is working to improve its brand including raising pay testing an all Day Breakfast<\/a> menu and cutting back on chicken raised with antibiotics. Alison there are some cases where uncle sam can keep your refund. John matarese explains. John by now, you should have your tax refund for that refund should be on its way. But some taxpayers are getting a shock when they check their Bank Accounts<\/a> discovering that the government kept some of their money. If youre planning a Beach Vacation<\/a> with your tax refund or hope to pay off some debt theres nothing more frustrating than learning your refund has been confiscated but cnn money says there are four reasons uncle sam can legally keep your tax refund. Delinquent student loans. Failing to pay the obama care penalty. If you did not sign up for health care. Overdue state income tax. And past due child support. And from the doesnt that stink file, what happens if your refund is not enough to cover your debt . If you owe more in delinquent loans, taxes or child support, than your refund amount youll say doesnt that stink . Thats because the i. R. S. Will then garnish next years refund to give the rest of what you owe. Bottom line if the government or courts say you owe money, they have a legal right to dip into your refund. Dont let debt pile up so you dont waste your money. Im John Matarese<\/a> abc 7 news. Alison meanwhile, the i. R. S. s overloaded phone system hung up on more than eight million taxpayers this filing season. The problem came after the agency cut millions of dollars from taxpayer services. For those who were not disconnected, only 40 actually got through to a real person. Many of those people had to wait on hold for more than 30 minutes. Scott People Magazine<\/a> has named actress Sandra Bullock<\/a> the worlds most beautiful woman for 2015. Alison the cover was unveiled today. Heres a look at for you. Bullock who is 50 years old laughed when she heard about the honor, she said but she says she has found beauty in her role as a mother to her 5yearold son. Scott we want to know what you thought about People Magazine<\/a>s choice here. Many weighed in on our abc 7 Facebook Page<\/a>. Kim wrote shes beautiful inside and out. Good for them. Choosing a real beauty but eileen posted i think the title should be changed to worlds most beautiful celebrity. There are so many more Beautiful People<\/a> in the world inside and out. And jennifer wrote, shes beautiful both inside and out. Would have to agree. However, there are others equally as beautiful. Talking about Alison Starling<\/a> there. You can join the conversation by going to our abc 7 Facebook Page<\/a>. Well, the royal do you like that . Alison i did. That was really nice. Thank you. Scott well earned. The royal baby watch continues as the duchess of cambridge expected to give birth any day now. Alison and companies are cashing in on the excitement by making bets lots of them. Some gamblers stake nearly 3,000 that Prince William<\/a> and duchess kate will have a daughter named alice. The name game is where its at. Alice has been the big mover over the last several weeks, heavily backed into 64. On the boys side nothing too, you know stand outish. James, arthur henry, phillip are looking good value to me. Scott people are betting on the babys date of birth, hair color, weight and who will be the godparents. Alison ok. Scott always something to wager on. Speaking of chances, we want to make sure that you tune into abc 7 because were giving you a chance to win a free trip to disneyland. Alison starting monday you can watch good morning washington to learn the days magical clue and log on to the Facebook Page<\/a> to enter the contest and good luck. Scott prestigious award and a memorable fall to go with it. Take a look at the bottom left of your screen in this video. You can see harrison making his way up to accept a tommy tune award when here it goes he falls into the orchestra pit. To his credit he brushed it off and took this misstep right there all in stride. Thank goodness im alive wow it is such an honor to receive this award today. Especially after barely making it up here. Scott well, po won top honors for best supporting actor and obviously should get one for his ability to rebound, too. Solid work by him. Alison he handled that very graciously, didnt he . Wow. Lets talk about the weather because it really feels chilly out there. Scott temperatures falling. Doug the temperatures continue to fall. The next couple of nights are chilly and maybe by late friday night, some areas might have a little frost. Lets get started with the coverage here and get a look at live Doppler Radar<\/a>. The showers continue to lag behind the cold front. Theyre moving through the area. One area with a couple of heavy downpours now just to the northeast of rockville. Thats pushing through olney and continue to move up the baltimorewashington area up through the next hour or so. Not many more showers to go. By 7 00 i think pretty much everything will be east of the Chesapeake Bay<\/a> and clearing skies will develop. Clearing skies and diminishing winds tonight, temperatures will take a drop on us here. As far as whats coming next well watch for the wind advisory to expire at 8 00 tonight. Winds are gusting a little bit out there. They have not been nearly as gusty as they have been the last several hours. Earlier today, wind gus at 49 miles an hour. And 47mileanhour gust in sterling. 46 in leesburg and also in germantown and temperatures have dropped in many areas now in the lower 50s. Definitely a chill in the air. Still holding tough with 64 at Reagan National<\/a> and the farther north and west you go the chillier it gets. By earlier tomorrow morning, its going to be chilly. If youre headed to game night, it will be breezy and cooler at nats park. As far as showers, i think, by 7 00, the shower threat will be gone but a definite jacket or sweater tonight as temperatures will fall through the 50s and the breezes will make it feel just a bit cooler. As far as temperatures go in the morning, 43 at Reagan National<\/a>. Mid 30s suburban areas. Just as cold and colder tomorrow night and the same on friday night. Next seven days show a little bit of a warmup coming. As far as the sun goes it will be out tomorrow and it will be windy. Highs of 59. Breezy still and sunny on friday. Saturday and sunday will be partly sunny but a little passing weather disturbance gives a slight chance of showers, periods of light rain saturday night or sunday morning. Clearing sunday afternoon. Monday and tuesday look good. Mid to upper 60s. Back on track a little bit with more springlike temperatures. Alison sounds good. Thanks, doug. Scott coming up at 5 00 one day after Fairfax County<\/a> announced a settlement in the death of john geer prosecutors say they are not done investigating the case. Find out what theyre planning to do. Alison plus grab the kleenex. Well look at why this springs pollen is such a sneezer. Scott and right in time for bicycling season one popular company is pulling models off the road. What you need to know before you ride coming up tonight at 5 00. Alison all right. Lets see how the ride is looking on the roadways. Lets get a check on traffic with jamie sullivan. Hi there. Jamie its a slow one, alison. Good way to put it. As you can see behind me, a live look shows you the beltway near good luck road and slow. Yep, thats a good way. You know weve got the congestion for you on both the inner loop and outer loop. I want to focus on the inner loop and lets move to the maps. Show you why you see extra congestion, getting closer to route 202, a disabled vehicle. This is half a lane blocked. Its just adding to our congestion. Heading out of the d. C. Area were slow. Northbound 295 and then even southbound working your way a little closer towards oxon hill and the beltway. Were heavy for you bottom side of the beltway, mainly just on the outer loop from right near the springfield interchange continuing to the wilson bridge. I want to zoom in on the area where we typically see the heaviest volume. Almost in the Single Digits<\/a> for you near the American Legion<\/a> bridge. I want to zoom in, though and show you a live look right near river road. Weve got the heavy traffic for you again both directions. You can see here right near river road how slow we are. So a lot of slow traffic. Really no accidents. Just that one disabled, though. Thats a look at traffic. Back to you. Scott ok coming up next on abc 7 news at 4 00 several Wounded Warriors<\/a> made a stop in d. C. Today as part of a journey from new york city to atlanta. Scott a fitting farewell tonight for a pop culture giant. The movie star says star trek 3 will pay homage to the late leonard nimoy. He is writing the movie now and says star trek is nimoys legacy. He was 83 when he died in february. He calls him immortal in the work that he did and the effect that he had on people. Star trek 3 will be released next year. Special mission for several Wounded Warriors<\/a>. Theyre on a 911 mile journey that included a stop in d. C. Today. Alison Brianne Carter<\/a> spoke with the men about their cause. Brianne running with stars and stripes in hand, they arrived at the marine corps memorial this morning. The group including 11 former and active u. S. Service members are collectively running 911 miles from new york to atlanta to raise money and awareness for a military Rehabilitation Program<\/a> for brain injuries and post Traumatic Stress<\/a> disorder. The Share Program<\/a> at the Atlanta Center<\/a> provides free individualized counselling for veterans struggling with socalled individual injuries. On each one of these rides, each one of these men is wearing one of these. A 22 pound vest to represent the 22 veteran suicides that still happen each day. What we hope is that you know, we might reach someone who has a need for the Services Provided<\/a> through share. Maybe were running through a small town in virginia and theres that soldier sailor marine, airman crying out for help and feels he has nowhere to but its turned on to the program that way. Brianne they will wrap up their journey this sunday in atlanta and by then they hope to have reached their goal of raising 250,000 to put towards treating the men and women who serve our country. In arlington, Brianne Carter<\/a>, abc 7 news. Alison tased beaten and pepper sprayed. Hes demanding justice today. It was hurtful. It was painful. Alison these area kids paid to play in a basketball league. As the league went belly up what about their money . 7 on your side finds out where they go from here. And allergy sufferers may be suffering more than usual these days. Whats causing the spike in pollen and when relief is on the way. Alison a man living at a Prince Georges County<\/a> apartment complex is attacked by two security guards. He says it is just a pattern of harassment there. Brad bell is live in temple hills with the video youll see only on 7. Brad . Brad yeah alison it is a violent video and it took place early this morning 1 00 a. M. Over here at the hansen Creek Apartments<\/a> and as you said the victim alleges a pattern of harassment beginning with the lease violations written up by a particular security guard. The man says he complained yesterday and he believes last night that guard was looking for a confrontation. The cell phone video shows two security guards kicking and punching deion giles after he has crumbled to the floor. His eyes already burning from pepper spray. I couldnt breathe. I thought i was going to die. Brad it got worse. The video also shows the security guards identified by their employer as michael bell and jabari bishop using a stun gun repeatedly on giles. Today, his eyes are still burning. They tased me once and tased me here and tased me in my back. Brad the allegations was that he was driving the car in the complex without a permit. Those officers are placed on administrative suspension without pay. Brad he runs the Security Company<\/a> for which both the men in the video work. When informed of what happened he invited us to his Laurel Office<\/a> to view the security guards body camera video of the incident. 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