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WUSA Wusa 9 News At 11pm May 19, 2015

Please do not try to cross a flooded street by car or foot. Further south germantown, rockville, heavy rain right now. A little lightning showing up but primarily just heavy rain with these storms. They are slow movers, a lot of moisture essentially moving east on our storm tracker, headed for rockville at 11 48, washington at 11 12 and dayton at 11 22. Look ahead. Hot again with thunderstorms tomorrow. They will not affect the commutes. Nice but cooler finish to the week. Memorial day weekend looks good, not storm free. Saturday looks best, thunderstorms on sunday and memorial day but not a washout. Well come back, talk about a potential problem tomorrow morning and it is not thunderstorms and well have the 3degree guarantee. It has been four days since savvas and Amy Savopoulos were found murdered in their home. Our ellison barber is live. Reporter the house behind me looks a lot how it has the past few days. The front road in front of the savopoulos house was blocked off. Police had a dog here and earlier in the day in Prince Georges County searching the area where thursday night police found the familys blue 2008 porsche. It was recovered on annapolis road in Prince Georges County, maryland, and it had been set afire. Reporter in a new video you can see flame enguffing the car and black smoke filling the air above it. Police are asking for any information related to that car. We are asking anybody that may have seen that car between wednesday, the 13th, and thursday around 5 p. M. Reporter for now police have not identified a suspect. All theyve released is a grainy Surveillance Video of a person running with their back to the camera wearing a dark hoodie and holding what looks like a white bucket. Neighbors are still wondering what police know. I assume they have a lot more information than theyre giving out. Reporter for the most part, theyre still in shock. Our grandchildren and children have called. Yeah, its been stunning. Stuff like that doesnt happen around here. Reporter police finished investigating at this house around 8 p. M. Today. We saw them carry a bunch of bags in and out of the house. Weve been seeing them do that the past couple days. One officer thought theyd be here collecting evidence well into next week and what weve been and thats certainly what weve been seeing so far. There are some report that the person or persons who carried out this heinous crime came into this home wednesday and held the family and their housekeeper hostage through the night. A spokesperson for the d. C. Police said they could not confirm this or comment on any other details of the case. From our Prince Georges County bureau new details about a man who police say sexually assaulted a 12yearold girl. It happened in her forestville Apartment Building last week. Our mola lenghi is in forestville tonight where the victims mother came face to face with the attacker. Reporter the new information came to light after the 12yearold girls mother spotted the suspect near the Apartment Building where that 12yearold was assaulted. The mother confronted the suspect here on this road. She actually brought him down to the ground before he was able to get away. Shes lived in these forestville high rises with her husband and daughter less than a week, but Shalana Hunter is have, doubts. I dont even having documents. I dont even want to live around here due to that. Reporter she heard what most folks in this development are talking about, a 12year old girl sexually assaulted in an Apartment Building hallway last wednesday morning. Police say a young man followed the girl onto an elevator. When she got off, he got off, forced her onto the ground and sexually assaulted her. Its absolutely disgusting. Yes, its very conditioning. Reporter why is that . I have a 6yearold and a 3 yearold and they play outside and its very close. Reporter Police Released this Surveillance Video of the suspect described as a 5 2 to 5 3 black male, 18 years old with dreadlocks and a birthmark or scar on his face and a tattoo on his neck and a scar on his shoulder. The mother of the 12yearold girl saw the suspect walking in the street and tackled him. He got away. They need the police around. Did you see police today . No. Theres no police. Even after this situation you would think. Reporter in the encounter with the suspect the mother was not hurt, though police say they do not encourage people to engage suspects. They are asking for the publics help, so anyone with any information is asked to contact authorities. A reward of up to 25,000 is being offered in the case. You have any information call crime solvers at 1866411 8477. A former Fairfax County Police Officer is accused of using county gas pumps to fill up his tank for personal use. Lon goldberg has been indicted on embezzlement and misuse of public funds. Investigators allege he stole more than 2,500 gallons of gas. The investigation began last october. He was placed on leave and then retired after 28 years on the force. We are now hearing from the retired Montgomery County Police Sergeant whose tip helped Police Connect a suspect to that mothers day murder of dick and joanie vilardo at their home in rockville. Big preis investigated a burglary of that couples home 17 years ago and he remembered that it might have been connected to scott tomaszewski, then a teenager nextdoor. Tomaszewski facing murder charges in the vilardo killing and investigators say tomaszewski admitted to killing the couple during a burglary attempt according to our participates at the washington post. Ma partners at the washington post. It was really heart warming to hear that i was able to contribute to something positive coming out of something that was so tragic. Police arrested tomaszewski on saturday in juneau, alaska, where he was on a cruise with his parents. He is due in court there tomorrow for an extradition hearing. Late today weed the fbi found we learned the fbi found no ed that the windshield of that derailed no evidence that the windshield of that derailed amtrak train came from a firearm. An assistant conductor on the train 188 told investigators she did remember a radio conversation between engineer Brandon Bostian and the regional train operator whose train was hit before the deadly crash, but taraji unanimous train operator told the ntsb he but that regional train operator told the ntsb he doesnt remember any such communication. The federal government cutting off the. I of those military style equipment to state the government banning giving the military style equipment to state and local governments. Militarized gear can sometimes give people the feeling like theres an Occupying Force as opposed to a force thats part of the Community Protecting and serving them. American cops dont need grenade launchers and bayonets to keep us safe. The shift from seeing police as warriors to seeing police as guardians is a game changer. It shouldnt be given out helter skelter to every police force that asks for it, nor should there be a blanket prohibition for it. The way Law Enforcement deals with large demonstrations like the ones we saw in ferguson and baltimore may soon be changing beyond just the equipment used by police. Lawyers have reached a settlement with u. S. Park police over a 2002 protest in Pershing Park that will limit the Tactics Police can use to break up big protests. Tonight garrett headache shows us how these new guide Garrett Haake shows us how these new guidelines could become a national model. Reporter late september, 2002 demonstrators clash with police around the district in the leadup to a world bank and inf meeting. Police made hundreds of arrests including many at Pershing Park next to the white house where they surrounded peaceful demonstrators and hauled them away on city buses. Were reporters from university of maryland diamondback and they just arrested us when we were trying to report the story. Reporter have you been back here in the last decade . I havent. Reporter john cantando stopped to watch the demonstrations on his way to work. It was the essence of sort of americans gathering to voice their concerns on a range of issues, world bank, globalization, the war. You saw the buses coming in and it really did turn into something of a nightmare. Reporter demonstrators sued claiming d. C. And park Police Arrested them without warning or regard to who was breaking the law. Police couldnt have possibly known that day more than a decade ago when they cleared out this park, they set something in motion that could change how these large demonstrations are policed nationwide. In a settlement park police agreed to a series of reforms for large protests, no more surrounding demonstrators. Each arrest must have probable cause and police must warn demonstrators and give them a chance to comply. I think this is coming at a critical time. Reporter this attorney believes if the federal park police responsible for the countrys most sensitive real estate can abide by these rules, so, too, should police in ferguson or other cities. This shows its not constitutionally necessary. Its not required. Its not lawful. Reporter changing the rules of engagement in police from confrontation to come. Garrett haake, wusa9. D. C. Police enacted similar reforms several years ago which attorneys and demonstrators alike credit for the many peaceful protests in the district that do not end in arrests. Dozens of citizens are worried enough about Police Tactics in Fairfax County to show up at a forum and make some noise about it. The forum was sponsored by the Police Practices review commission. Some citizens spoke out about police brutality, others about the way officers handle those with Mental Health issues, price privacy concerns, for example, scanning drivers licenses when theres no investigation. We worked on what would have given police a safe harbor to collect license plate data for seven days and keep it beyond that if they had an active investigation and then push it. The aclu has sued saying the storage of the license plate data violates state law. A police dog put the bite on a driver that led police on a high speed chase along the streets in southern california. After the driver hit a utility pole he and the two passengers ran. Police quickly captured the passengers. A Police Chopper spotted the driver sneaking into a backyard shed. Police surrounded the shed and called in the police dog. The dog virtually pulled the suspect out and the officers arrested the man. Coming up tom hanks gives David Letterman a how to lesson on those selfie sticks. But first new laws let some people use marijuana extract as medicine, but theres no legal way to get virginians with epilepsy are now legally allowed to use the oil from a marijuana plant to help reduce those seizures. But as peggy fox reports, they have no legal way to get the oil. The pharmaceutical drugs doctors prescribe to control Jennifer Collins seizures caused her to attack her mother and father. The psychotic side effects were so bad jennifer and her mom moved to colorado for a year to try a form of cannabis oil called thc a. It worked, but back in virginia crossing state lines to get jennifer that oil could get them arrested. Like any teenager, 15yearold Jennifer Collins loves to hang out with her friends, but her life is far from carefree. I could be taken away from my family. No kid should have to worry that her mother getting her medicine could put her mother in jail. Reporter jennifer is deeply worried about the consequences her family could face for acquiring this thc a oil. It has significantly reduced her 300 daily seizures and eliminated the grand mal seizures and all the rage. Ive never gotten high off of marijuana ever and i have several times off my pharmaceutical meds. They made me hallucinate. Reporter shes allowed to have and take the oil in virginia without threat of prosecution, but theres no legal pathway to get it. Its ridiculous that we have to go through so that we have to go through and so many people in this country to get to such lengths to get medicine when its so easy to get medicine like oxycontin or valium. I need the lawmakers to be more open minded and see up close what is actually happening when people take this med. Reporter thc a oil is not heated, so it does not have the hallucinogenic properties of thc. The drug is classified as a schedule one narcotic which practically prevents the fda from approving research on it. Congress says its waiting for the fda. The fda says its waiting for the dea. Peggy fox, wusa9. Everybody is waiting and while that goes on the Collins Family tells peggy they wish president obama would issue an executive order so that thc a cannabis oil is legal to buy and that they dont have to worry about being arrested. Only three more late shows till David Letterman is going into retirement and tonight Actor Tom Hanks makes his 60th and apparently final guest appearance. Hey, can i get a selfie . What is this . Rita announced when they first came out that we will never ever get to have a selfie stick in the house, but you know where they sell them, dave . They sell these selfies all over florence which was the birthplace of the renaissance. See there, tom and dave get a selfie on the third to last late show with David Letterman right after our newscast. This is a yellow alert day. Now heres wusa9 first alert weather. Still sweating that 3degree guarantee or are you good . Still sweating. Are you ready for this . We thought we were in good shape today. We went for a high in the upper 80s, average high 77. That should have been safe. No. 92. Whoa it felt every bit of it out there. I would like to point out dulles number of 89. I would like to point out in chicago it was 83. 87 was our forecast, 90 to 84. I get it. We were five off. You could use other locations. In New Hampshire of it 87. It was 87. New hampshire wouldnt make any sense, derek. Hes actually arguing with me on. This. In some respects dulles would probably be the best place to use because its more of what people experience. Not too many people in national airport. Lets start with a live look outside, our live michael and son weather cam, heavy rain, winds not a problem, no hail, a little lightning, 77 at national, winds northeasterly at 14. Look at the radar over the past hour. A solid line of showers, very heavy rain, nothing crazy severe, but we still have the Flash Flood Warning for eastern Frederick County till 1 45. I think this will be out of here by the morning commute. I think well see fog tomorrow morning. Fall in line right through rockville down through town and across 95 into now what is western charles county, but this is very heavy rain, pretty good lightning, too, in rockville and potomac and Silver Spring and down to the south. This is moving east at 17 miles an hour. Morning and evening commutes generally dry tomorrow, which is good news which is why weve not issued a yellow alert tomorrow, fog early. Bus stop temperatures 66 to 78, cooler wednesday through friday. Weekend looks good, thunderstorms on memorial day but not a washout. Day planner muggy to start, low to mid70s, almost 80 by 11 00, 83, maybe a shower at 1 00. Best chance of showers tomorrow is east of town, 76 on wednesday, cooler, only 73 on thursday with some clouds, not a bad day. Next season days looks like this. Friday in great shape, gorgeous end of the week, mid70s, cooler saturday and then sunday we could see a thunderstorm. You could probably grill out. Nats on 9. A better chance for thunderstorms on memorial day but not a washout. We talking baseball because basketball season is over . Basketball is over. Hockey is over, but the nats or fire. Theyre good, back home, got the yankees coming up next week. They have the night off tonight but bryce harper still making history anyway. Plus the wizards clear out and focus on the offseason, but good news regarding john wall. Sports is next. Now wusa9 game on sports with Kristen Berset brought to you by xfinity. Well, this wasnt the way it was supposed to end, but what we got was eerily familiar. The wizards lost game six in the second round to the eastern conferences top seed to end their season last year and again this year. However, the heartbreak hurts more this time around. The wizards spent the day having to talk about it once more. They arrived at the Verizon Center to gather their belongings. Many players say they feel if it wasnt for john walls injuries, they would be preparing for the conference finals. This was one of the most successful season in 35 years for the wiz which makes the early exit tough to accept. I play this game because i love it, not just for the money and fame. This is what i like to do every day i wake up. So to lose when you have every opportunity to win and you could win, its tough. My personal goal was for us to get to the finals and i still believe we could have done that and i think we can make it next year, too. Thats going to be my ultimate goal. Reporter we did get some good news. John walls injury may not require offseason surgery. He will head to cleveland this week or next to see a specialist to determine the best course of recovery for those multiple fractures. On fire, scorching, raking, a few words used to describe bryce harper lately. The 22yearold is playing out of

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