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WUSA Wusa 9 News At 11pm April 19, 2017

And sanctuary, but for whom. Our wlaus are designated to help helping people, not actually gangs. This week with the president caught our eye. The Obama Administration allow ed bad ms 13 gangs to form in cities across u. S. We are removing them fast. That begs the question are anting ware city sanctuary cities paving the way for gangs. It is used to refer to cities, towns and counties that have policies in place limiting the way police will cooperate with federal agencies that target undocumented individuals for deportation. A short time later the president got some backup from his attorney general, jeff io sanctuary cities, dangerous dangerously undermine this process, harboring criminal aliens only helps violent gangs like ms 13. Just nine miles away the city of hyattville made it official and joined the list of sanctuary cities. Are the leaders worried about what you just heard . Stephanie went to find out. I think they have a lot of People Living in fear, so its time to pick sides. Reporter job is to collect trash, maintain roads. They opted in an 82 vote to put a longstanding practice on the books and prohibit from enforcing the law. We cant have a portion of our residents scared to approach police officers, if they are victims of crime, if they are witnesses. What about gang 13 violence. Connection between sanctuary cities and gang activity. Hidesville police say they havent seen one ms 13 homicide this year. All you have to do is see indictmentings, drug activity, connecting them to gang activity. This is over the span of some six years. This is hidesville, more recently in areas considered not sanctuary cities like montgomery and fairfax county. They do say they share information with ice and will honor criminal detainers. I think this is a tremendous tremendously positive thing for hidesville. The City Ordinance does not in any way impact the hidesville Police Department to investigate criminal activity. Hyattsville has a large immigrant population it depends on. One last note on this topic. The Gang Task Force director least eight gang related murder s since the fall. We now know the army crew member with when that black when that black hawk helicopter crashed. His name is jefferson parishny tomlin. The other people, terry. And wanted for killing a retired man and posting to facebook, caught thanks to a fast thinking person in a drive thru. He ordered Chicken Nuggets and friez they regular niezed them and they recognized him. We told him it would be a minute for his fries, we contacted police. He didnt want his fries, took his six piece and head back on the road. Police caught up with Steve Stephens and after they rammed his car, the suspect took his own life. Possession ofmpeii tells us the fight to clear his name, a friend grabbed his gun during a fight and possession of ssession of. He was set to report to prison yesterday. But new jersey governor Chris Christy stepped in and commuted his sentence. He got that good news from his attorney. They spoke to stephanie. The attorney then says the governor gave you clemency. At that time we were still driving, but then i had to pull over. I really had to pull over. Still . In tears and grateful to you, grateful to your team, grateful for everybody that showed us support. It was extremely overwhelming. He still has a felony conviction on his record. He has now applied to the governor for a full pardon. This next story has been blowing up, perhaps you have heard it. A pair of parents pulled pranks on their young kids and post them on youtube, but are they going too far . You decide. I bought this here invisible z ink and im going to spray it on the carpet and start freaking out. What the heck is this. I didnt do that. You tell me what you did. I swear to god. Poor cody. Thats one of many similar video videos, but you got the idea and the dad has a message for all you haters. Back our house. This is our family. This is our family, nobodys going to approve of every single person. And you cant touch our family. Exactly. So dont judge them. There is quite a conversation happening about this on our face back page. They crossed the line here, feel badly for those bad kids. Courtney backed her up and post posted i thought pranks were supposed to be funny. Let us know what you think. Go to our Facebook Page and i posted it online. Controversy at the easter egg roll, i will verify whether it happened or not. Tia saw this. A Facebook Post that says trump bullies a child at easter egg roll and then laughs. And right under the post you see monique wrote he and the kids cry crying. Here is the article i found on if you only knew. Com. This website looked sketchy, so i went to its home page and its not the donald trump fan truck site. Truch liesing k trump attacks canada and on and on. But thereis a twist here. Look at this tweet from politico. The president signs a hat for a boy and tosses the hat into the crowd. There is video. Watch this. So from that angle, yes, it looked like the president took the kids hat, signed it and tossed it to whoever wanted to ed to catch it. But hold on to your hats. Editor at nightly news. Watch it here. Im going to go step by step. Its a wider angle. You see the president walk in the frame and freeze it right there. See, the president is taking the hat look at the kid in the light blue shirt and long hair. He is handing that hat to the president. The president is going to take it, get a marker and sign that hat and in just a second here toss it into the air and freeze it again. See the kid with the hair and light blue shirt, same dhad hand handed it to the hat. He is the same kid that caught the hat. So i can say this is false. No one was bullied or laughed at, at least not on this caught on camera. If you have a story you want us to verify, send me a message at facebook at at dam dam or at dam long goat. During the evening rush, its always because of a problem on the rails. This was the busiest line and busiest time, lesli because a small rail bolt caught on fire. Now, this sound familiar because you have heard it before. Now the irony, spent the day say saying how reliable the rails have become. Reporter the tuesday evening refresh your rush wasnt on the red line. Riders by dozens took to twitter to express their frustration. Even our own Diane Roberts. Reporter my trip to my getting off point, like walking there, getting off the train and walking home is about 17 to 20 minutes approximately. And today it took me over an hour. Reporter the platform at gallery place and metro center were choked with riders. Ark briefly caught fire. Tuesday night firefighters then metro crews had to inspect the tracks for me it wasnt awful because i didnt have to get somewhere. I was done with where i had to be. Reporter a similar i think incident produced this now famous video last year. Rd since metro has been trying to win back riders. Early they tweeted new reliability numbers. Metro says with older cars being retired there are fewer delays. Tell that to tuesday night commuters. Its really frustrating. Reporter train started moving again around 7 00 tonight. Pete wusa 9. Former president gorge w. Bush is in the hospital again recovering from mild pneumonia. The family says the treatment went fine and he is resting. An old converted car wash will reopen as the first drive thru marijuana shop. Its in shard parachute, colorado and its called tumble weed with a dj and tshirt give giveaways and thank goodness food truck for whoever get the food truck post munchies. Flooding the campus at Georgetown University today. Sold by the founders of the school returned to the school that their ancestors built. And the mother of this little cuety says she is alive because of the very institution that sold her great great grandfather into slavery. We will have her story next. And for one group of people, it wasnt what president road that mattered. It was what he didnt say. Looking at clouds rolling in. A little chilly, talking about is mid50s at 6 00. Couple sprinkles at 9 00 and by noon a couple sprinkles possible. 66 to 62. We will explain white we did not issue a yellow why we did not issue im proud to announce we are about to take bold new step s to follow through on my pledge to buy american and hierp american. Thats President Trump on the road in wisconsin. He visited a tool factory and signed a executive order for his buy american, hire American Campaign promise. Well, sort of. It doesnt take any direct action. It does call for reviews from federal agencies and review for visa program. Its a visa for highly skilled workers. It allows to hire foreign work workers, to pay those Foreign Workers less money than they would american workers. In georgia a democrat hoping opposition will send him to gong. John opens he can take the seat once held by tom price. Votes are still being counted in that special election, but early returns show him in the lead. If he gets the majority of the votes tonight, he will claim the seat. Otherwise a republican challenger in june. The past met the future at Georgetown University this afternoon. It was a deeply emotional moment. The jesuit order thaun founded, apologized to 272 people slaves in 1988 to s. The ceremony comes two days afterser and one easter and one day after emancipation day marking the slavery in 1862, eight months before the emancipation proclamation. One who was present says the school has been doing penance for years and her family is proof. Bruce has her remarkable story. Reporter jessica cannot stop crying, cannot stop hugging georgetowns president. Was this everything you hoped for. It is more. Reporter in 1838 basing bankruptcy the jesuits who found founded georgetown saved this slaves, including till sons great, great, great grandfather. They were sold into even worse depravation on the sugar cane plantations in louisiana. We betrayed the very name of jesus. The priests have now apologized for auctioning off their parishioners. We are profoundly sorry. But till son says she cannot be angry. My daughter knowing my and ancestors are the reason i get to hold any younger daughter. Jessica says her first child, a boy, died soon after he was born for a disease for which there is no medical treatment. Three years later she had a little girl with the same disease, but the girl was cured, thanks to research here at Georgetown University. I cant be mad because im happy evy get to play with her and hole her. And i put these flowers here. Little charles till son is buried in southern louisiana next to some of the men and women who were sold down the river. He is there with his ancestors. His mother has gathered soil from the cemetery and brought it back to georgetown to help close the mysterious circle of history. Amidst the reunion at georgetown, till son had just one request of the university, that its researchers keep working to save precious young lives like jessica. Bruce, wusa 9. Now grappling with their connections with the trade. Georgetown is leading the effort to clear the stain of our nation ti sin. There is a book called ebony and ivory that traces slavery to the founding of many of this institutions Ivy League School schools. They used slavery to both rationalize the whole issue of slaf rig and even slavery and even schools around our area, william and mary, many schools have started to acknowledge the role statement of fact rig play played slavery played in the founding of their institutions. About time the schools step up. All right. Talk about the guarantee. We were hoping for a bulls eye. We went 71. Close. 72 at nationals, 73 at dallas. We are going to go 65 tomorrow because clouds and showers and southeast winds. Live look outside, its down to 57. Dew points are coming up, winds out of the south at 11. And clouds rolling in. Bus stop, could see a shower, not a huge deal and not worthy of a yellow weather an i letter. Cooler yellow alert. Warmer on thursday and friday. Isolated thunderstorms and then the weekend, cooler again, and wet by saturday afternoon and probably staying as a washout on sunday. We will see. Its only tuesday. 6 00 tomorrow morning, no shortage of clouds. Kind of chilly, upper 40s, the burr bs. By 9 00 a couple light showers possible, up around coolsville, urbana, up around leesburg, temperatures now 50s, not crazy warm, but by lunchtime dry off except for showers back in the mountains and temperatur i the 50s, so our temperature wont hit until 5 00 or 6 00 in the evening. By 6 p. M. See breaks in the clouds out to the west and by then temps in the 60s, maybe 64 martinsburg and 68 in [bleep] cumberland, but by 10 00, about 124 hours from 24 hours from now, 50s and 60s. Clouds will hang tough, but stay dry for tomorrow. Day planner, 50s to start, couple sprinkles, maybe 56 by 1 11 00 and it will be popping the warm sector on thursday. Some afternoon storms possible, isolated. 83 on friday. So we have some storms in the forecast, but still a very nice day for the week, especially when you contrast it to to weekend. A little bit of sun on saturday. Right now looks like rain and showers on and off all day sunday. Back maybe a shower early and 70 with sunshine again on tuesday. We need that canadian sun to shine down brightly on the cats. Even up the series in toronto, going deep into the stats. We will show you why this is a team that cant lose even here. Sports is nex yeah, i just saved a whole lot of money by swhuh. Ing to geico. We should take a closer look at geico. Boats, motorcycles. Even rvs geico insures rvs . Whats an rv . Uh, the thing weve been stuck on for five years wait, im not a real moose . . Weve been over this, jeff. Were stickers im not a real moose . Give him some space. Deep breaths, jeff. Whats a sticker . . Take a closer look at geico. Great savings. And a whole lot more. Now, wusa 9 game on sports, brought to you by xfinity. Caps fans, i know, you are struggling right now. Breathe in, and out. And before you reach for the bottle, know this. The numbers dont lie. And the numbers are on our side. Should caps fans believe this is different than the rest. Winners views yes. Why . Two words. This years caps are third in the shot attempts allowed for 60. Have a desire to defend and a work ethic second to none. Spots finished better than any point in the past ten seasons. Thats big because five of the last nine cup champions have been in the top four by that met metric. Another difference this year is that raid den has been more dominant than before. The holte finish ed third in allstate percentage, the best for any cats goalie. Very fine form. If the old adage defense wins championship is true, then the caps may be in for a long play off run this spring thand ats the winners view. This other team this week with a 2 to none t. Hawks, washington says you know what . Its the playoffs, shut up. And game one, nothing compared to past years. Games tomorrow at 7 00, toronto, Diane Roberts will be at the vet Verizon Center with both g its showing, huh . Bing bing bing, yes. 65 tomorrow, showers possible. Not worthy of the yellow weather alert. And 80s, thursday, friday with some storms. Weekend not so great. Is that what you do with the music . Di youre not taking these. Hey, hey, hey youre not taking those. Whoa, whoa youre not taking that. Come with me. Youre not taking that. Youre not taking that. Youre not taking that. Mom, im taking the subaru. Dont be late. Even when were not there to keep them safe, our Subaru Outback will be. vo love. Its what makes a subaru, a subaru. Captioning sponsored by cbs if i knew were coming i would have baked a cake, baked a cake if i knew you were coming id have baked a cake had you dropped me a letter id of hired a band, in the land if youd dropped me a letter id have hired a band. cheers and applause

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