Stay connected with the stormwatch7 weather team through wjla. Com or the facebook and the twitter feeds. Our download the stormwatch7 app to get it at your fingertips. Ill be overwhelmed. I have to start my life over again. I had a life. I got locked up. I had this life. Now i have to start another life all over again. Leon today, Keith Harward starts rebuilding his life after 33 years in prison for a crime he didnt commit. Suzanne kennedy in the newsroom now with a look at what led to his exoneration. Suzanne admit head committed the crime would have helped keith avoid the Death Penalty but he refused to do that. He knew he was innocent. He held out hope all the years he would be exonerated. I knew i was right. The 60yearold former navy sailor was wrongfully committed of a newport news rape and murder in 1982. He has been locked up ever since. At one point facing the Death Penalty. This week after d. N. A. Evidence exonerated him the Virginia Supreme Court threw out his conviction. Today he walked out of prison knowing his name had been cleared. The detectives all through the whole situation tried their best to convince me to admit to something i didnt do. I said i would not do it. He was convicted using bite mark evidence some that say is flawed. How many more do we have to find to eliminate the unreliable evidence to be used where the life and liberty are at stake. Suzanne harward spent much of his adult life incarcerated. He left overwhelmed and joyful but with o what hurts the most is my parents arent here for that. They knew. It killed him. It broke their hearts. Kimberly the d. N. A. From a crime scene was determined to match another sailor on the same ship at the same time of the crimes and who died in 2006 in an ohio prison. Harward left southside virginia early this afternoon. Bound for the hometown of greensboro, North Carolina. Live in the newsroom, suzanne kennedy, abc7 news. Leon no doubt have a great night sleep tonight. In another murder case closely and much more closely watched, they are waiting to see if he will get a new trial. This is the focus of the first season of the serial podcast. The lawyers argued for a new trial. 17 years after the murder of his exgirlfriend near baltimore. Kimberly . Kimberly we are keeping a close eye on Prince Georges County where an inhome daycare worker is being charged with killing a little girl in her care. Maryland bureau chief is live with the latest. Court documents i reviewed say the medical examiner determined that the little girl died of Blunt Force Trauma to the brain. Sources tell me the injuries were consistent with a violent shaking of the child. Beatrice manning called the Unlicensed Day Care Center she ran in her home little giggles. For 14 years she cared for children and the neighbors say she has a great reputation. My thoughts are this. She has been a good neighbor. It appears she has been an excellent day care provider. Tonight, Beatrice Manning stands chargedded with firstdegree murder and child abuse. Accused of killing a child left in her care. 9monthold Savannah Wright. We knock on mannings door. A voice on the other side asks us to leave. The police tell us their version of events. December 2 is when Savannah Wright was dropped off to her daycare provider. 7 00 in the morning. Brad by 11 00 a. M. Its alleged Beatrice Manning is calling 911. Savannah she says is unresponsive. By 5 00 p. M. The hospital calls police to report the child has brain damage. She dies two days later. When the medical examiner rules death a homicide, manning is arrested it happened in the hands of someone entrusted with her. Someone supposed to take care of her. The last one to harm the children. The mothers Facebook Page a tribute to the child. Mannings neighbors sticking by their friends. She is a great person. And i dont have anything negative to say about her. Brad the warrant this week. She was booked and tonight she has been bailed out of jail. She is free. Pending her trial. Brad bell, abc7 news. Kimberly in arlington they are looking for a man who tried to lure two kids in a pickup truck. The boy and the girl say it happened in the 2,500 of eighth road south. That is north of busy columbia pike. Little girl says she has seen this same man three times. Police only have a vague description but the man was in a blue or a black pickup truck. Leon Surprising Development today in a case against a teenage charged in a deadly crash. Two people died when samuel ellis got behind the wheel after a High School House party. Kevin lewis is live on the story. What is the development here . Kevin samuel ellis was scheduled to begin a fiveday jury trial on monday but out of the blue he walked into court today with the attorney and the loved ones. Once inside he admitted to a judge that he drove drunk and in the process killed two friends. Ellis pleaded guilty to vel lar manslaughter and vehicular manslaughter. Prosecutors dropped three lesser charges. Its not uncommon to know goshate a plea negotiate a plea. Kevin ellis and Three Friends left a high school Drinking Party driving down a windy road, ellis crashed. 18yearold Alexander Merck and calvin lee died in the wreckage. At the plea today, prosecutors said mr. Ellis was driving the vehicle at a bare bones minimum of 65 that speed caused the car to dip in a culvert and go airborne for 110 feet. All the while ripped aid part by trees. That vehicle landed on the hood. And then slid across a residential driveway. This is a troubling and a difficult case all the way around. Its a tragedy. By pleading guilty ellis faces 20 years in prison. Both parties acknowledge the teens sentence will likely be between three months and eight years. Todays plea deal barely lasted 15 minute. They will expose new information in samuel ellis sentencing that is set for june 3. We are live in rockville. Im kevin lewis, abc7 news. Kimberly on the heels of massive inspections on metro, drivers for the district circulated buses are sounding an alarm of safety. Sam ford is live on a circulator bus. We trust your bus is a safe one, sam. I hope so. We are at nailor road and good hope road in southeast washington. For sure it is a concern. The public and the d. C. Council learn this week that the City Commissioned an audit on the safety of the circulator buses. This audit here. They found that the circulator bus flunked. You see the circulator buses mainly in and around downtown. The City Commission audit from last august showed the buses so poorly maintained and the counsel hearing today. The Committee Chairman called them dirty and dangerous buses. Members learn that the city kept the report secret from the union and the council until this week. Im happy for you to get it. Im appalled from my end of it that we didnt get it. Sam the audit shows there were 8. 2 defects on average per bus including critical defects. Unacceptable from my standard the audit wrote. Dangerous sam at a News Conference before the hearing the drivers complained about the maintenance. You dont know if the brakes will work, whether the door will catch somebody. Sam drivers say the doors often pop open. If you have people standing up and the doors pop open on their own you have an opportunity to lose people on the bus. The city ddot inspector. We are obviously alarmed by the result of the audit. It confirmed our suspicions. He says there has been a turnaround. We have seen a dramatic decrease for the defect rate. For a councilmember its simple. That is the determining question for all of us. This isnt an abstract discussion. Would you put your child on that circulator bus knowing what you know . No. Sam ddot issued another statement this everything saying it is monitoring the situation with these and monitoring the safety. On the question of pay, councilmembers seem to be stunned that the circulator drivers were get something much less than metro drivers. In some case, as much as 8 an hour less. They say they want to fix that because they figure a lot of the circulators will get trained and then move somewhere else. Reporting live in southeast washington, im sam ford, abc7 news. Kimberly stay safe, sam. Late today two congressional sub committees announced they will hold hearings next week on metro decision to shut down the entire system for a day. Remember that . It happened last month for emergency inspections. Metro general manager Paul Wiedefeld and two federal transportation officials are scheduled to testify. Leon coming up on abc7 news at 5 00 a happy, happy ending. How things are working out for violet the mastiff after being found so close to death. Kimberly plus the man in the hat. Todays big day for Police Terror attack. Leon later the popes plea. What he is calling for in the joy of love. Brianne the only local show to go oneonone with alex trebek. What is abc7 news at 5 00 . The story is coming up. Kimberly but first, take a moment to take in this lovely picture of the mornings sunrise. Of course, really freezing this morning but jennifer emailed a pic at wjla. Com. We are always happy to have you send in your pics as you see them. Wall street. The nra. Theyre powerful. They usually get their way. But not with democrat Donna Edwards. She wont take cash from wall street banks. And when washington insiders wrote a loophole to let the nra spend dark money to kill gun safety laws, Donna Edwards said no shes fighting to ban assault weapons and putting the safety of our communities first. Because to democrat Donna Edwards, the special interests arent special. We are. Working for us pac is responsible for the content of this advertising. At giant, shoppers low prices by the thousands, plus a thousand more that just dropped. All these low prices what are you trying to do, get me to feed the whole neighborhood . No. Just trying to save you a whole lot of bread. [ laughter ] thousands of blue tags, thousands of low prices. My giant. Leon this just in. Fifth time is the charge for spacex. Take a look at this. In the last half hour the Company Successfully landed a booster rocket on a barge in the atlantic ocean. Four previous attempts failed. The landing came a few minutes after the rocket blasted off up to go to space. Cargo for the International Space station. Its up the, delivered the mission. Now on the way to the station is that inflatable popup room we told you about yesterday. The goal is to see if the expandable modules like that will work in space. They will need them if we go to mars. Kimberly i think of a bounce house in space. Leon it works if you keep the air in it. Kimberly cue the music. After a week of work the stage is up and ready to go for jeopardy in d. C. What a production. Leon it has been. Speaking of which, take a look at the time lapse of the construction at d. A. R. Constitution. This is the last seven days all wrapped up in 15, 20 seconds. Amazing stuff. Get this. Today the man himself arrived. He is here now. Brianne carter is live at the theater after speaking with the one and only alex trebek. Brianne we know that he is intellectual. Quite a sense of humor that alex trebek has as well. Look where he is calling home for the next five days. Fine stage getting set. We want to ask the host what its like to be back if d. C. Im just out there doing a job, trying to have fun and keep the audience entertained and informed. And you know, i have always reality television. Brianne he says taping in the capital brings added level of excitement and nerves. I try to get up more for the shows. Because i know the audience is going to be on the edge of its seat. Brianne the audience in the next week in washington will be ten times the size of the audience in the shows los angeles studios. Sitting down oneonone we ask if trebek has preshow rituals . I try to drink a lot. Im a 2 milkman. Brianne he says he researches the clues and have preshow meeting but often doesnt prepare his show opening remarks until right before he walks on set. I say okay, what am i going to say today . Maybe this is a good point. Brianne i got to take a turn on the jeopardy set to write my name on the consistent screen get set to the perfect height. Then the questions started rolling in. D. C. Hosted the power players tournament . What is four times . Maybe one of the only questions i could answer on the jeopardy game board. How would alex trebek do as a contestant . I know very little about the current entertainment scene. Particularly pop music. I know who some of the stars are. But i dont know their music. Im fairly well versed in movie trivia. American history. Geography. Those would be my favorite categories if they came up. Brianne one of the other interesting facts we learned today, one thing that alex trebek says can do to clear his mind, ironing. Yes, get the wrinkle out of shirts. The taping begin tomorrow. First up are the power players. Reporting live, brianne carter, abc7 news. Leon that place will be packed. Part of c and d street will be closed f next week or so for the taping. Make sure you get the specific timing for the closures. And also that time lapse we showed you of the stage being built. We have it available for you now at wjla. Com. Kimberly throughout the hour well play jeopardy with jonathan elias. Jonathan play the game at home. He won 74 matches, walking away with more than 2. 5 million of jeopardy money in his pocket but not included the extra 2,000 he made for coming in second in his 75th episode. The music is full. The answer is leon tan jennings. Thank you for picking the only one i knew. Kimberly good job jonathan two more coming. Leon he lost to watson, too. Didnt he . Put up against watson the ibm computer . Jonathan yes. Kimberly well done two men who knows almost as doug hill. Doug worry about playing against watson. Im playing against a groundhog in pennsylvania. He promised it would look like this. Id take todays weather in a heartbeat over what is coming this way tomorrow. Enjoy this, folks. It will change. 53 at the Reagan National airport. Temperatures below average. The average high is 64 degrees. If you see the numbers in the 40s. Low 50s. Well below average. Thats the beginning of the story because of a cold front headed this way. The first effect felt overnight west and north. Actually southwest of metro washington where a freeze warning is in effect from midnight tonight. Until 9 00 tomorrow morning. The forecast is pretty straightforward. It will be cold with the increasing cloudiness before sunrise. Freeze warning west. 32 to 38 degrees by morning. Early in the morning 4 00, 5 00, 5 30. Part of the area may see a rain shower or a snowshower. Go to the source of the cloudiness. In chicago land. Upper level storm system pulling in cold air. I check the chicago airports. All of them are reporting rain now. 42 degrees. But shortly snowshowers will mix in and the whole kit and kaboodle is headed to our directions. We have time and showers of snow mixed in. Its not raining all day long. The future cast shows that by 7 30 in the morning, we will have had a band of rain and or snowshowers moving through. The cold air is mixed in. If you wake up at 8 00 or 9 00 it may not be doing anything. Cloudy and chilly. As the cold air is worked in the system, more chances for the rain chances and now isers every now and then through the afternoon. What is consistent is increasing winds and the chilly temperatures holding in the 40s. Gusty winds over 30, to 35 miles per hour. Wind chills tomorrow afternoon and the everything will be in the not a Great Outdoor weather day. But it will of it out of here late on saturday night through the overnight. We will wake up to sunshine on sunday. We will get clouds coming in. It wont be as chilly getting through sunday afternoon. As far as the individual wakeup temperatures. Tomorrow we have a few areas near 40. The locations will be closer to freezing in the valley. We get through the afternoon to see 30s for the highs. 30s to 40s. Mid40s at best around the metro area tomorrow. By the time we look south, not much different. Everyone in 40s. We are locked in the cold flow of winds anywhere we look. Anything to that, if you are headed to the nationals, tomorrow at 4 zerd, be breezy, cold, rain or snowshowers possible. Only in the 40s. If you go to the united game the same story for tomorrow afternoon. By the way, watch it here on abc7. Looking through the next seven days you will see the warmup finally. One day in the 60s. Rain monday and tuesday turning cooler and not colder thereafter. Kimberly if this is a bad florida for a few days . Sorry. Leon good friends dont rub things like that in. Thank you, kimberly. Kimberly youre welcome. Leon thanks, doug. A new poll showing how much animosity is brewing in the president ial race. Kimberly we are going to have that plus good news before you mail your next letter. That is still to come. Leon a look at what is coming up tonight on abc7 yvette i was running for my life. He was flicking matches on me. My exhusbands intentions were to murder me. Glenn i made sure yvettes abuser went away for good, and put in place tougher sentences, because Domestic Violence can never be tolerated. Yvette mr. Ivey showed compassion. I felt like i could trust him. Narrator glenn ivey. As states attorney, a proven leader. In congress, hell combat Domestic Violence, and protect president obamas legacy. 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