Transcripts For WJLA ABC 7 News At 500 20150212 : comparemel

Transcripts For WJLA ABC 7 News At 500 20150212

Diane . Leon we are now learning new details into what happened out here. We are being told that one of the suspects was hit several times by gunshots and he is now in Critical Condition. Were told it started here behind me at the Capital One Bank as the Armed Security guards were trying to take money inside to the bank, apparently those two suspects approached them and tried to rob them and at some point as the Armed Security guards are trying to get away, they ended up here across the parking lot in front of the Grocery Store. Thats why you saw those images earlier out here of the armed guard truck here parked in front. Authorities said one of the suspect fired the shot and thats when the two dunbar security guards started firing back hitting one of the suspects involved. The sheriff tells us a witness inside the Grocery Store saw the suspect running about 100 yards away to get to their car to take off. Because were so choice to the Fairfax County border Loudoun County authorities alerted the Fairfax County Police Department and gave them the description of the suspects car. Now, not long after that, they found that vehicle off old plains road in Fairfax County parkway. The driver was taken into custody for questioning and the passenger was taken to an area hospital. Probably the most brazen thing that ive been since ive been on the job. Exchange of gunfire in the middle of the day by the Shopping Center in front a bank very frightening situation. Fortunately, only the suspect got hurt. Only one of the two suspects got hurt. And no citizens got hurt. Thats a good thing. And again were told by security guards were not injured throughout all of this and again, one of the suspects is now in Critical Condition at an area hospital. The other suspect, were told is in questioning now with authorities. In chantilly, diane cho, abc 7 news. Thank you, diane. Now, as diane mentioned, Police Caught up with the suspect just a short distance away from the original scene. Jay speaks up our Team Coverage where they were arrested along Fairfax County parkway. Jay . Leon this is literally the spot where this vehicle was pulled over by Fairfax County authorities. Whats new on this scene is moments ago, with an f. B. I. Escort that red burgundy taurus was taken away by a tow truck. So yeah just as diane said Loudoun County authorities gave that bulletin for the burgundy taurus and a short time later Fairfax County police unit was able to pull over that vehicle without incident thankfully and they were able to arrest one of the men immediately. The other person has sustained a potentially life threatening gunshot wound and was medevaced off to Inova Fairfax hospital. We are just off the Fairfax County parkway northbound lanes. Its just starting to open up so i think the real issue right now is the fact that traffic is once again starting to move well just north of 50 on the Fairfax County parkway. But certainly, Fairfax County authorities and Loudoun County authorities are grateful that they were able to Work Together to bring this to a conclusion. Live in the fair lakes area of Fairfax County abc 7 news. All right, jay. Thank you. All right, lets turn now to the weather. Get ready to step into the freezer. Thats right. Temperatures could be dropping into the Single Digits tonight. Chief meteorologist doug hill in the storm watch 7 Weather Center. It sounds brutal. Freezer doesnt sound like a bad choice. No winds blowing in there. Its going to get tough. Lets get started first off from the belfort furniture Weather Center, Winter Weather advisories. This one in the form of a wind chill advisory. Goes into effect at 7 00 to 10 00 in the morning. Wind chills in the areas shaded in blue just added by the wakefield virginia Northern Virginia office so i suspect later this evening, some other counties may be added to that growing list. 30 in gaithersburg now. 28 in hagerstown. Temperatures falling north and west and that cold air is coming this way. Current wind chills 17 in gaithersburg. 14 in hagerstown. 29 at Reagan National. But all of these values will drop except the winds fortunately theyll go up. Temperatures down, wind chills down. Overnight and by the morning, temperatures at 17 above. And the front coming here saturday night, Even Stronger and colder. A lot to share in a few minutes, alison . See you then doug. Thank you. New at 5 00 action from marylands acting transportation secretary after concrete fell off a bridge on to a car from the beltway this week. Today, pete rand ordered all stateowned bridges like the one at suitland road inspected as soon as possible. That covers 27 bridges built before 1969 with traffic underneath. No one was hurt in tuesdays accident. Metro is going back to the drawing board to find ways to raise more money without raising rates. Stephen tschida covering metro tonight live from headquarters where we were expecting a rate increase today. Stephen . Yeah alison we were expecting that we spent hours inside this building waiting for metros finance committee to approve this plan but the proposal drew such sharp criticism overwhelming opposition that when it came right down to it the finance committee didnt have the stomach to approve the plan. It still could get harder and costlier to catch a metro train. Not happy with the idea of fares going up. The proposal still is on the table. Metro needs to come up with 46 million in fiscal 2016 to cover a reduction in revenue from the jurisdictions it serves. Heres the current plan. Raise fares 10 cents. Run fewer trains and eliminate Late Night Service and reduce low productivity bus routes. Essentially, cut the bus routes with fewer passengers. Not in favor of that either. The proposed cuts and fare increase drew sharp criticism from the Business Community which maintaining fewer trains will cut into profits. Passengers fear metro will get so expensive, it will put more cars on the road. People who use Public Transit and, you know, more expensive to do that than drive. The board listened and delayed a vote. The likely alternative getting area jurisdictions to kick in more cash. District is prepared to pay its share of whatever is necessary to avoid any service cuts or fare increases. If it will help improve the system and it will, you know increase you know or decrease train delays and make traveling experience a better thing for all of us i dont think theres any reason why we shouldnt all be a contributor to that. Ok. So metro has two weeks, 14 days to come up with an alternative method to generate 46 million in savings and new revenue. Now, if it doesnt find another method this plan this controversial proposal will likely go on to the full metro board. Reporting live, stephen tschida, abc 7 news. Ok stephen, thank you. One more note here today, the National Transportation safety board gave abc 7 a chance to see some of the damage from that deadly smoke incident on the yellow line last month. These areortions right here of the third rail cover board and the electrical system components from the tunnel near Lenfant Plaza station. Were going to have much more on all of this coming up tonight at 6 00. Update now to a story that weve been following. D. C. Father has pleaded guilty to answer in the death of his infant son. 20yearold brown appeared in superior court today. Browns plea means that he could face between four to 10 years in prison. His 1monthold son was found unconscious back in october when Police Responded to a home on Trenton Place in southeast washington. The infant later died at the hospital. A federal Appeals Court will hear an appeal of the decision to hold the Dzhokhar Tsarnaev trial in boston. He, of course, is the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing. Tsarnaevs lawyers have pushed for that trial to be moved out of massachusetts for months. Jury selection is under way. The first u. S. Court of appeals will hear that case next thursday. And witnesses say many people were killed in an explosion in a crowded market in nigeria today. We vaenhavent been able to get any firm numbers on number of People Killed or injured. The militant Group Boko Haram is suspected in this attack. A man is expected to find his trial date tomorrow. Jesse matthew is facing rape charges from a case in 2005. That trial was supposed to start next month but pushed back after the defense requested more time to prepare the case. Earlier this week matthew was indicted on firstdegree murder charges in death of Hannah Graham in charlottesville. A vigil is set to begin at Dupont Circle in an hour and a half for three university of North Carolina students who were shot and killed this week. Services were held today in Raleigh Raleigh for the victims. Police say that Craig Steven Hicks shot the three after an ongoing dispute over a parking space. But their families insist the killings were a hate crime against muslims. Well as the anniversary approaches of the disappearance of ralicia rudd from a homeless shelter, d. C. Mayor Muriel Bowser unveiled her plan to get families out of shelters and into permanent homes. Sam ford explains bowsers plan to solve the citys homeless problem. The playground outside of the homeless shelter was built in memory of the 8yearold who hasnt been seen since march of last year. Today, mayor Muriel Bowser launched her initiative to get homeless families out of shelters and hotels and into permanent homes. Help them identify Units Available across the district of columbia. She plans to hire who she calls navigators or home finders to work with inspectors or social workers whose jobs are to get into homes, people like 22yearold Alison Thomas who has an 11monthold in her arms and is 8 months pregnant. She had been staying at one of the citys motels for homeless families until bed bugs drove her back to her godmothers couch. Its stressful because i cant be on the street with a baby. Running the show for the mayor will be the one who said she cut the Homeless Population by a third for the obama administration. The solution that works for veterans works for all people. D. C. s Homeless Population is actually down since she disappeared a year ago from 827 to 760 today but still, far too many and bowser like her predecessor wants to close d. C. General. D. C. General was built as a hospital. And as such it is not the optimal environment to raise families. And were looking live at the relicia rudd playground. 255 families are calling this shelter home. And the shelter space is so tight in the city that young woman Alison Thomas that you saw with the baby said she was told there was no bed bug free space in the motel. And no beds left. Thank you. Coming up on abc 7 news at 5 00 a major road in d. C. May not be closing but find out when work will be closing some lanes along interstate 395. And then a little later, the plan to push for relief for virginia families dealing with children with epilepsy. Plus with all the attention on the Measles Outbreak, find out what other ailments may be quietly making a comeback. And police find a suspected killer on of all places the second floor of the courthouse. Coming up ill explain how they say a low level clerk may be tied to a ganglan only on 7 tonight, a Montgomery County Court Employee charged with murder. Maryland bureau chief brad bell tells us how she is allegedly involved. It was a crime that horrified neighbors. Heard some gunshots. Big gunshots. That was back in december 2012. 21yearold jesse campos is murdered execution style. Shotgun. It took more than two years to build a case but last week police announced the arrests of 26yearold steven slink webster and 26yearold imani cooke. Campos was cookes drug dealer and upstairs neighbor. She allegedly gave campos cash to replenish his supply of marijuana. When he didnt pay it back its alleged webster and another man, the father of cookes children both members of the bloods gang killed campos. According to court documents, jesse campos was killed in his apartment right up here number 402. Then the killers came downstairs here to number 203 to hide out. Thats the apartment of imani cooke. Until her arrest, she still lived in that unit and since last may, worked in the courthouse in rockville in the lands record office. That means the homicide detectives who had been pursuing her for two years often walked right past her way to trials. Cooke is charged with first degree ma spokesman for the states Attorney Says she never had any access to inside information. Separate department. It has nothing to do with criminal records or indictments or any kinds of filings in the criminal justice system. Now, miss cooke used to work up here in the second floor of the courthouse in that land records office. When she comes back shes likely going to spend some time down here. Thats where the Holding Cells are. Now, were told that this investigation is continuing. There is a third person mentioned in the charging documents but not specifically named. He is believed to be the actual triggerman in this case. They also talk about a handgun used in this murder that they say matches up to a handgun used in at least one other murder in another county. In rockville, brad bell abc 7 news. Were getting a first look at an unbelievable piece of history. Now, take a look at this. Youve seen this now. This is the first known footage of chicagos eastland ship disaster. It happened 100 years ago, july of 1915. 844 people were killed when a ship heading to a Company Picnic capsized in the chicago river. The footage was dug up from a grad student who was looking for some material on world war i. This was the largest loss of life in the great lakes ever. Interesting. Incredibly great film condition for 100 years old. Yeah. Amazing. All right. Lets talk about whats ahead of us. Its going to get quite breezy and much colder tonight. And then its going to get windy and much colder saturday night and sunday. Two arctic cold fronts weve been talking about. The first one through and the next one on the way. Lets start things off. First thing is first this evening. Get a look at the time lapse from Washington Lee High School in arlington. It has been an interesting day with rain showers, sprinkles, snow showers and snow flurries. Changeable skies and gusty winds. Now more rapidly falling temperatures and clearing skies. Its all good out there except it will get mighty chilly tonight. As far as the numbers, heres what we have for you right now. 3 it 32 degrees in manassas. Feels like its 28 right now. Not really terribly cold yet. Its 27 degrees in frederick. Winds out of the northwest at 15 and feels like its 15 above. All those values are going to change. It will get windier and colder and the wind chills will drop. Because of all that wind chill advisoryies are up starting at 7 00 tonight. Perhaps more counties will be added here as we see at what rate the temperatures fall and the winds are sustained. For the moment were starting to get drops now. 28 degrees in hagerstown. 30 in martinsburg and winchester. Still 39 at andrews and Reagan National airport. Chills dropping as we expect into the teens north and the metro area now. Feels like 14 at hagerstown. 29 now at Reagan National airport. Theres plenty of cold air. It keeps building and rebuilding across central and Northern Canada so were getting a first chunk of it coming through our part of the world right now. Temperatures will continue to drop tonight. Were calling for an average wakeup temperature tomorrow morning of 14 degrees. The range is 7 to 17. Wind chill is the important number, thats what it feels like when you send your kids to the bus stop or metro, wind chills at or slightly below zero tomorrow morning. It is a cold blast. Not hyperbole. It will be a cold blast coming and tonight, theres more cold air banking up in canada. Take a look at these numbers. 16 in chicago. 9 in minneapolis. Look into canada. Farther north you go the colder it gets. Thats the cold ai

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