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Transcripts For WUSA Wusa 9 News At 11pm 20150425

The 40s with by nightfall temperatures in the 40s with rain across the entire metro area. Well come back and take you through sunday and see if we can salvage part of the last half of sunday and have your 3 degree guarantee. A ride on the metro turns violent and the worst of it was caught on camera. The man youre about to see knocked out another at the top of a metro escalator is still on the run tonight. Mola lenghi is at the Eastern Market station where the attack happened. Reporter it started as an argument here in this metro tunnel and quickly escalated leaving a 69yearold man knocked out right here and a much younger man on the run. Are you kidding me . Reporter pretty rough. Holy cow. Reporter thats one mans first reaction to seeing what you might consider graphic surveillance video. According to metro, a 69year old man says as he was getting off a train at the Eastern Market station today he was shoved by a young plan. The two continued arguing on this escalator. Before the young man is seen spitting and then swinging three punches and knocks the 69 yearold plan out. He is 69 years old. We found this very disturbing. Reporter the man who threw the punches bailed and blended into foot traffic on pennsylvania avenue. Theres a sense its not as safe as it used to be. Reporter Martin Walter lives in the neighborhood and uses the Eastern Market station every day. Never seen anything like that here. Usually quiet. Im really surprised. Reporter you feel safe using it usually . Yeah. I come back at 2 00, 3 00 in the morning on weekends and no issues. Reporter but it only takes once to become a victim. Now authorities are looking for this suspect. We know the face in some of these images is not as clear as it night be, but were hoping someone might be, but were hoping someone recognizes the somebody based on what hes wearing. Reporter a dark sweatshirt with white lettering on the back and sleeves as well as red, black and gray high top sneakers. Metro says in assault does not appear planned, looks like a spur of the home sort moment sort of thing that stemmed from the argument. The victim suffered facial injuries, was taken to a hospital but looks like hell be okay. If you have any informationed about the attack at the Eastern Market station today information about the attack at the Eastern Market station today, Police Contact metro transit police. We are monitoring the developments in baltimore tonight where protests against the Police Custody death of freddie gray could come to a head tomorrow. Today baltimores Police Commissioner cast off calls for his resignation and he vowed any officers who harmed freddie gray will be prosecuted. Cell phone video of the 25year olds arrest shows gray dragging his legs as they put him on the paddy wagon. Commissioner Anthony Batts said they still dont know exactly how or when he suffered that deadly spine injury but admits mistakes were made. We know he was not buckled in the transportation wagon as he should have been, no excuses for that, period. We know our Police Employees failed to give him medical attention in a manner multiple times. Baltimore police are asking for help in finding the witnesses you see in this image including one man they say recorded the arrest from the middle of the street. Craig boswell is in baltimore tonight. Reporter six officers involved in the arrest in transportation of gray are suspended with pay. Protesters are pressuring police to charge them. They cannot be business as usual on saturday in baltimore, maryland. Activists want to shut down the city saturday with a massive rally. Grays death sparked a week of angry mostly nonviolent protests, but now theres a concern out of town demonstrators may have other plans. We specifically are not planning civil disobedience. We dont know about others who are doing it, but we know that their motive is the cause for justice. Grays funeral is monday. The Police Investigation into his death is expected to take at least another week. Were monitoring new developments in that Deadly Police shooting in tulsa, oklahoma. Reserve Deputy Robert bates is charged with manslaughter in the death of eric harris. The attorney for the family of the man killed has documents that claim bates only required a fraction of the required training. There are also claims officers were intimidated to alter Training Records and some deputies described his behavior in the field as scary. However, bates attorney said the report was incomplete, flawed and filled with misstatements. Tonight a lot of Starbucks Stores have been giving away free coffee. Other locations have shut down early. Its all because the sales registers are on the blink at 7,000 companyowned stores coast to coast. Starbucks says its not a computer hack. Something simply went wrong during a routine system refresh and engineers are currently working on a fix. Some new information tonight on the growing controversy over the movie american sniper and university of maryland. A Student Group canceled a planned showing of the film after complaints of some Muslim Students. Hank silverberg is out at College Park Campus where that decision has drawn a lot of backlash tonight. Reporter Muslim Students say they have been getting nasty tweets and emails and facebook posts since the movie supposed to run here was canceled. Tonight they canceled a News Conference to talk about it were told under pressure. The concern was the safety of the students on campus. Reporter the movie loosely based on the real life story of american sniper chris kyle lab controversial since it came out. Has been controversial since it came out. We recognize the film itself was about a war hero. The concern was the possible backlash on the Muslim Students on campus in light of recent incidents. Reporter shes referring to the murder of three Muslim Students at the university of North Carolina at chapel hill. Who put the pressure on cancelling the News Conference is not clear. A spokesman for the University Said they had nothing to do with that, but the university has been getting email and tweets from alumni criticizing the cancellation of the movie, one saying as a 9 11 victim, i am deeply saddened and insulted. Chris kyle is an american hero. On campus students are very aware of the controversy brewing for weeks. I can see how that would be a movie where people would say i dislike how the group is portrayed, but just because you are the one that has that opinion, you cant say thats how everybody will think about it. Youve got to let people form their own opinions about things. I dont see why its controversial. Maybe it has to do with the war in the middle east, but i dont understand why that has to offend people like its propaganda. Reporter the movie will be shown this fall for free with a discussion time held afterwards. An officer manager for mississippi senator thad cochran has been indicted for possession of drugs. Officers raided his home yesterday and he allegedly told investigators he imported the drugs with china with plans to give them out in returns for sex. Senator congress ran said pagan has been suspended of all duties pending the outcome of the investigation. A judge gave dean lee bener a life sentence plus 215 years for abuse of a child. Prosecutors say bener routinely gave the child alcohol or marijuana and threatened to kill the boy or his family if he told anyone about the abuse and would even hold a gun to the childs head. At sentencing bener maintained his innocence. Tonight were following another case of a School Employee accused of sexually abusing a student, an oxon hill man, a paraeducator in Silver Spring and police say he kissed and fondled a 13yearold girl repeatedly in a school stairwell where there were no cameras. They say he also went to the girls apartment complex and fondled her there. I im very, very upset about whats being im very, very upset about whats being said about my nephew. I dont believe its true, but if it is true, i wish he would have told somebody so we could have got him some help. Police say it began in january, but the school contacted them as soon as it learned these allegations. Wilson is charged with several counts of felony child sex abuse. It was one of the most anticipated interviews ever. Olympian and kardashian patriarch bruce jenner revealing at 65 years old hes always felt he was a woman. Its still a bombshell even though we heard it was coming. Debra alfarone watched and has the highlights and reaction and a lot of very interesting conversations going on as a result of this. Absolutely. Bruce jenner lit up twitter. Most of the tweets were support i, some snarky supportive, some snarky, but you just couldnt look away from the interview. The anticipation, the speculation, the secret and finally the interview. Headlines have been swirling for months about bruce jenner coming out as a transgender woman. Here are the highlights. Diane sawyer asks are you a woman . Bruce answers yes. For all intents and purposes, i am a woman. Bruce also says ive always been very confused with my gender identity and then adds what im doing is going to do some good and were going to change the world. Jenner also says hes felt like this since he was very young. Hes taken hormones in the past trying to transition but stopped. He also says hes heterosexual. Hes attracted to women. Experts found out gender identity is completely separate from sexual orientation. With this comes great responsibility. You have the responsibility to be their force in a way many of us cant. Reporter brian John Ellicott is transitioning from female to male. He made headlines when he was kicked out of a mens changing room at a pool in new york. Hes using the pronoun they to refer to jenner, as is common practice when talking about transgendered people. They have the ability to do great things for everybody, for our youth. We have universities committing suicide youths committing suicide on a weekly basis on this point. We have transwomen of color being murdered. We have guys like myself who dont have access to everything we should have. So theres a bigger discussion that i hope that theyre ready for. Jenner refers to his female side as her. Tonight glad said today millions of people know someone that is transgender and he welcomes jenner into the community and echos jenner has a great responsibility and im calling jenner he because thats how jenner wants to be referred to. Ellicott says when you transition, it really teaches you who your friends and family are. This was huge for the transgender community. It was just rivetting because you try to understand. He was saying its apples and oranges to talk about whether or not hes heterosexual or homosexual and he still likes women and doesnt like men, has never been with a man. What we do know is that was a very brave and compelling interview. A lot more to understand i think for everyone else. Theres so many people in the community, these different shows, transparent, won lots of awards, golden globals, lavern cox on orange and black, a lot of things being talked about tonight. Coming up the national air and space museum helps celebrate the 25th anniversary of the hubble telescope. But first while Fairfax County teachers struggle financially, county leaders just gave themselves a big only on 9 tonight the Fairfax County School System has been called world class, but some teachers are saying its not living up to that standard. Theyre angry over pay and some qualified teachers are leaving. Reporter one of those teachers is lori wagner who holds a masters degree from georgetown and is highly regarded. She said its tough to leave, but the last straw was the county supervisors vote to give themselves pay raises. Seniors, this is your last chance to be out there, make your mark. Lori wagner teaches english and leadership at mclean high school. She was also the swim coach. She strives to be the best teacher, the best coach, mentor, educator she can be. Shes just like someone you know you can come to when you have a problem. I didnt want to come anywhere else when i interviewed at Fairfax County. I loved it here. Reporter but that Fairfax County luster has faded. After 11 years here wagner and her family are moving. When i look at arlington which is closer to where i live, i would be making so much more money there. Reporter how much. Anywhere between 8 to 20,000 more. Reporter wagner makes almost 71,000. At a recent public hearing she and other teachers blasted Fairfax County supervisors for not fully funding schools and teacher pay raises but recently voting to increase their own pay from 75,000 to 95,000. By failing to invest and fund your teachers, youre losing good talent in droves. Im a good educator. You cant afford to lose me, but i can no longer afford to stay here. Reporter data gathered by the Washington Area boards of education looked at teachers salaries for fiscal year 2015. It shows Fairfax County teachers with a masters degree and 10 years on the job rank second from the bottom when compared to 10 other School Systems in Northern Virginia and maryland. Fairfax teachers with bachelors degrees rank fifth in pay. Between daycare costs, housing costs and all the other things that are so much more expensive here. I feel like a hamster on a wheel. Im spinning and spinning and going and giving all i have to my family and my job and im not getting anywhere. Now the reason fairfax teachers have not received significant pay raises in the last seven years since the recession is due to a drastic drop in revenue. Teachers say the county needs to enact a meals tax to pay for raises, but a lot of residents are suffering from low pay and nobody wants higher taxes. Lori wagner already found a new job in North Carolina. The national air and space museum invites you to its Udvar Hazy Center tomorrow to celebrate the 25th anniversary space telescope. Tonight the museum hosted a tribute to the tell cop at the national mall. It was 25 years ago the telescope headed for the heavens on a ride aboard the shuttle discovery. Since then hubble has sent back amazing images like this. Always watching always tracking, wusa9s first alert weather, d. C. s most accurate. 3degree guarantee. Give it to us. It was cold, as you know, but i was still sweating today. We went for a high of 60 today. Many areas held in the 50s. 62 was the official, so we get a correct stamp. High tomorrow 58. Lets start with a live look outside, our live michael and son weather cam, still 54 downtown, still very dry in terms of the air mass. Humidity only 30 . Winds have calmed down west, southwest at 6, but some of the clouds will keep temps up tonight. Then theyll work against us tomorrow and keep clouds down. We do have frost advisories in effect for Montgomery County and Fairfax County including some areas just inside the beltway and freeze warnings Frederick West of route 15 in Loudoun County and points west out toward winchester and martinsburg. Again the clouds could save us, but i think some areas will have a frost and freeze tonight. Headlines look like this. Finish your outdoor chores or activities by 5 00 tomorrow. Earlier if youre in culpeper, maybe later in youre in frederick. Yellow alert saturday through sunday morning, probably see rain and showers end sunday morning. Rather chilly, highs in the 50s north and west tomorrow, heaviest rain appears to be saturday night with lows in the 40s. Got an email from someone who works here. Theyre camping along the appalachian trail tomorrow night. Thats going to be ugly. 8 00 tomorrow, clouds, low to mid40s. By 3 00, 4 00, rain into fairfax, manassas, raining in fredericksburg. If youre north and east of town, you have a little more time. Annapolis and bowie you probably have till about 5 00 or 6 00. 8 00 still rain across much of the metro area, upper 40s, low 50s. Sunday this may be optimistic, but i agree with the overall trend. Its pulling the clouds south and temperatures will be warmer. We should go back to the low 60s sunday afternoon. Thats good news because im heading out for the point to point sunday in middleburg. 43 7 00, 48 at 9 00, low 50s by 11 00, dry through 1 00. Well keep the yellow alert for a while sunday. Well see the sun set. Temperatures in the low 60s and low monday as well with a few showers. Upper 60s tuesday, maybe 70s wednesday, perhaps showers wednesday night, upper 60s thursday and mid60s on friday. I know its cold, but Severe Weather season is upon us and we have a Severe Weather special tomorrow night at 7 p. M. , kind of cool, check it out. The wizards, man. He said cold and i was thinking no, the wizards are hot, playoff basketball. Wizards hosting the raptors and there were two guys who gave a great effort, paul pierce and now wusa9 game on sports brought to you by xfinity. No team in nba playoff history has come back from being down 30 to win a seven game series. That had potential to be great news for the wizards as they entered their game three of the post season tilt with the toronto raptors. Garry williams no doubt looking for greivis vasquez. Unfortunately all anyone could see was a blur by the name o

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