Transcripts For WUSA Wusa 9 News At 5pm 20140723 : compareme

Transcripts For WUSA Wusa 9 News At 5pm 20140723

Was saying he was homeless, needed some diapers for his daughter. Reporter workers on landover road got parker the diapers and he left. Just before this story flashed across the tv screens that are always on next to the registers. It popped up on the news and i was like oh my god. Reporter parker had actually taken the baby and walked a few doors down before his picture came up on the tv news. One of the employees walked down here, started talking to him. Tried to stall him while the others called 911. Police arrived within minutes. They went running after him. With the baby on his hip. He was running with the baby on his hip . He fell on the baby. Reporter Metro Transit Police say the baby is okay and that parker is under arrest. The most important thing overall is that mother has her child. Yes. And nobody wants anybody to lose a child. Reporter thanks to some fast thinking workers, this little girl is back where she is supposed to be. In landover, bruce leshan, wusa9. Happy for the happy ending. Parker has been charged with parental discussion. Later, we will have a conversation with cleveland kidnap victim michelle knight. Jan . Right now, six people are facing first degree murder charges. Police say they killed a 54 yearold man in suitland. These people ranges in age from 17 to 23 are in custody charged as adults and held without bond. Here they are on the screen. Investigators say they admitted to the involvement. The victim has been identified as amos jones. He was stabbed to death over a comment he made about a girl. Police are on the hunt for a former redskins titan fred davis. He is wants for an assault. Police are not releasing many details except the incident happened at 3 30 in the mornhim in february. And a Northern Virginia woman is under arrest tonight on terrorism charges. She and four others are accused of transferring money to the terrorist grown up alshabaab. Prosecutors say she was the leader of an alshabaab fund raising. Muna osman jama. Thousands of people were late for work this morning. This happened in alexandria, virginia where commuters complained someone forgot to paint lines on the road while realigning the lanes for construction last night. You could see how that would be a problem. Scott broom is live with what drivers and vdot have to say about this today. Scott . Reporter the workers who are realigning these lanes last night just didnt get to it. They were unable to finish and they left a section of the roadway about a thousand feet unmarked overnight last night. As you just reported, what a complaint to the morning commute today. Delays well past rush hour between little river turnpike and seminary road as roads were closed to fix the foulup. Orange barrels helping drivers navigate where crews shifting lanes for a construction project overnight simply failed to paint the lines needed to mark a left hand boundary. It is wasting gas and my time. Reporter resulting in confusion and delays frustrated drivers and an accident during the effort to fix it before noon today. Even the way they have the cones set up, it is confusing. It seems never ending. It is crazy. Reporter the crews are restriping and shifting lanes here as they prepare to construct a new hov ramp. It does not take much to disrupt traffic on overstressed commuter routes like this one. All right, so rush hour back southbound is moving smoothly. Northbound is not in rush hour, so the barrels seem to be working okay and traffic is moving. Vdot now promising that the crews will be back out tonight to lay down that missing stripe, that is weather permitting. There are some storms on the map, but if they get the line laid down, lets hope tomorrows commute is not as confusing. Scott broom, wusa9. This time it wasnt the sun, or the rain, but the stripes that caused or the lack of them that caused the huge mess. Thank you scott. Luckily, nobody was badly injured in that. But the whole thing may sound familiar to seinfeld fans. Two markers right at line marker 114. I dont know what that is, but it is a parking lot out there. Somebody screwed up on that one all right, and just three days left until the opening of metro silver line. We will take a look at what it will cost. Some commuters taking the bus in conjunction with the new silver line train. U. S. Capital police say they caught another person trying to enter the u. S. Cannon house with a gun. Ronald prestige was arrested when he tried to take the gun through a Security Check point. Cannon was shut down briefly as he was taken into custody. A staffer was taken in for similar charges at cannon yesterday. We have new information on yesterdays Deadly Police shooting. We know the names of the officers involved in silver springs. Officer Michael Damsky has been on the force less than a year. Investigators say Donovan Bateman was acting erratically and threatening employing with a knife. When he wouldnt listen to officers demands, one of them shot him. Officers damsky and lee are on administrative lee. Donald trump was in washington to break ground on a new post office building. The impact they plan toe have along historic pennsylvania avenue. Reporter the residents of dc, what will they see . A lot of taxes an jobs. Lit be great. Reporter billionaire donald trump was front and center outside the Old Post Office building today. Lots of local leaders joined the trumps for the Ground Breaking of the new hotel. A single room inside the five story hotel will cost 700. An unbelievable location. An unbelievable building. The physical beauty of it. The grandeur of it. The views being the tallest building in dc. The views are largely unabout instructed. Reporter that project should generate some 100 million new tax dollars. 700 construction jobs and 500 permanent jobs when completed. General Services Administration will continue to own the Historic Building which sits on pennsylvania avenue between the u. S. Capital and the white house. Conium in. Reporter the trump fa was awarded a lease for the property which could run 100 years. Donald trump jr. North of 200 million going in here. Perhaps closer to 250 when we are done. Reporter the transformation into a Luxury Trump Hotel will be by 2016. It was totally underutilized. It has become an eyesore. Certainly inside. You will see the best hotel in the United States and possibly the world. Reporter they will see the finest hotel in the country. Lit be great. Thank you everybody. Reporter it was no mention of president ial politics by the former president ial candidate at todays event. Bruce johnson, wusa9. And dc mayor said if the fbi decides to move out of their headquarters on pennsylvania avenue, there would be no shortage of proposals to build new housing there. We are just Getting Started on wusa9 news at 5 00. We will tell you why this video of kim jung un is causing a stir. Some heavy storms here. A little southwest of whine chester, we will come back and track these. Some gusty winds up to 40 miles an hour. The first plane carrying remains from the downed malaysian jet arrives in the netherlands on a day of mourning. The latest on the crash investigation coming up. The faa says it will keep u. S. Commercial flights out of israels skies for at least another day. The agency extended that suspension hours after rocket fire from the gaza strip forced travelers to run for shelter at israels main airport. Secretary of state john kerry took a military flight to tel aviv where he is meeting with leaders to try to find a peaceful end to the fighting between israel and hamas. Safety investigators are on the scene of another deadly plane crash. This one happened during a typhoon in taiwan. 50 people were killed when the transasian Airways Plane attempted to land. A dozen others were hurt. Investigators say it crashed and caught fire while making a second landing attempt. It is a day of remembrance and grief in the netherlands. The country that lost the most people on the downed malaysian jet liner. The remains of 200 of the 298 victims arrived from ukraine on a national day of mourning as the investigation as to who shot down the plane continues. As mark albert reports from washington, some u. S. Lawmakers dont want to wait to punish russia for its alleged involvement. Reporter when the bodies of those killed on malaysia air flight 17 arrived at the dutch base wednesday afternoon, they were given military honors. The victims died in a war zone. Flags of the 11 nations whose citizens perished were lowered to half staff. And mourners lined the miles long route as the hearses passed by. They brought the children back. That is the important part for the family. Reporter but the bodies of up to 100 of the passengers are still missing. At the crash site in eastern ukraine, investigators resumed the search for remains and whatever evidence remains from a trampled crime scene. The black boxes show no signs of being tampered with. Russia bears some of the blame they say, though the pro russian separatists did it. They could do it without the support of president putin and the russian government. Reporter meanwhile, fighting continues. Missiles from russia brought down two fighter jets from ukraine. Mark albert for cbs news, washington. And ritters reuter is saying they have an interview. He believes the missiles have been sent back to russia to remove proof of its presence. This is a yellow alert day. Now here is wusa9s first alert weather. First alert topper shutt joins us now. Big storm to the west. A Severe Thunderstorm Warning issued for several counties. We loo look at that in a minute. The heat index over 100. Dew point 70. Winds out of the south about 11. Here is a look at the radar. You can see this solid line developing. We have hing it since 2 30 and it has grown in intensity and coverage as well. Essentially from hagueerstown to i81. This storm has a lot of lightning in it and the potential for rainfall rates over an inch an hour. And this box down here that you see with this severe warning. This is a polygon you have to be in this box to get a call. This warning continues until 6 00 p. M. I dont believe precipitation rate will make it 15 inches per hour, but it will be at least an inch an hour. Really along i81 corridor. Where is it headed in middle town at 5 34. And milldale. This has flash flooding possible. Be advised. Get the kids inside and dont try to drive across flooded streets. This one we are tracking headed toward frederick. They are moving east at about 20. So frederick about 5 52. Then woodville, about 6 30. This is moving essentially around i70. You have folks traveling between frederick and baltimore, that will get a little dicey. Yellow alert for storms. Heavy rain and high winds. Early evening commute is okay if you can get home quickly around rockville. Or into reston. After that, 6 30, look at these lines of showers and storms. I agree. I think it was underplaying it yesterday. Look at all the reds and yellows. That will be an intense line back into frederick, fairfax county. By 8 00, it is moving through district, 9 00, it crosses 95 and hammers southern maryland. You guys in charles county, get ready. They could linger for a while. Some heavy activity. Maybe, by 11 00, you can walk your dog if you are north and west of town, but not southern maryland. The yellow alert continues until midnight. 70s to start tomorrow. Dont look for a rush of cool air tonight. 77 by 11 00 and 79 by 1 00. Good news is it doesnt get that warm tomorrow. 84. And less humid. Clouds will be thinning out. Fantastic on friday. 85. Hot and more humid on saturday. Still okay. 91, not crazy humid. Next seven days, isolated storms on sunday, low 90s , a few storms on monday, 90. Low 80s next week. Thanks top. If your mail gets to your house in the evening, you get plenty of company. The Nations Capital is ranked number one when it comes to late mail delivery. Mail is delivered after 5 00 more than twothirds of the time. Northern virginia also ranks high for that. And this report comes after 26 yearold Tyson Barnett was shot and killed in his mail truck at landover at 7 30 in the evening. His killer is still out there. How many times do Police Officers say if you see something, Say Something . We have the story of a teenager who did just that to save a life. Reporter everyday, Montgomery County nicole gremard puts herself on the line to keep herself safe. But then, someone had her back. Her 13yearold neighbor saw smoke coming from her home. 911, what is your emergency . I was in shock because there is smoke rising from a house, but like, i knew what to do and stuff. And, like, just like, to tell my mom, like, and she called 911. Reporter her actions got the Fire Department there quickly and gremard who was at work at the time realized that the reports coming in for a fire were her own. Other neighbors saw the smoke and didnt call it in. Im really proud of her from a police standpoint and a human being standpoint. Reporter she got to say this at a podium today as eva was honored for her heroic actions that not only protected a neighborhood but allowed gremards dog quest to be pulled from the burning home. It feels remainsly good i can be one of those people that can help out. Reporter and the best part is it doesnt end here. The officer says she is working with fire rescue to get them at least 75 animal masks so they can better treat second dog was also rescued but later died of smoke inhalation. Meantime, a washington landmark is now offering up chili. The chuck brown band, give aways. It was located in the presecurity lower level of the dc terminal. Sounded like a big party over there. Still blame bens chili bowl on being late. You had to stop there. Protecting your kids from sports injuries, we have not one, but two doctors here with advice. Training for girls and Important Information about concussions. You dont even have to hit your head to suffer from one. Wusa9 is keeping your family safe. Also, right after the break, a hightech breakthrough in Birth Control. A in tonights health alert, a Bio Technology company is testing a contraceptive with wireless capabilities. Here is how it works. Doctors would implant this micro chip under the skin that would release hormone from the Birth Control pill. They are now making sure it cannot be hacked. The Remote Control must be put up against the skin to establish communication. We want close range communication to prevent anyone from listening in on the incrypted signal. The chip can hold enough hormone to prevent pregnancy up to 16 years so when she wants to conceive, she can turn off the device with a remote. Researchers plan to test that technology in 2016. The owner of a Denver Broncos is stepping down tonight as he continues to battle alzheimers disease. This is according to the denver post. He won two superbowls and oversaw one of the nfls most competitive franchises. Bowlen says it is not about me. We are paying about 3. 58 a gallon in the dmv. Lets take a look where you can get a deal at 5401 indian head highway. You can gallon. On the high end, it costs 3. 78 at the gulf. Flags on the brooklyn bridge. Why as many as ten people could have been involved in the daring stunt on one of new yorks most iconic landmarks. And trending now, kim jong un is furious over a viral video. What snoop dogg claims he we are tracking a big line of thunderstorms from hagerstown to winchester. That includes Frederick County in virginia until 6 00 p. M. That is a monster storm with winds up to 60 miles an hour and some frequent lightning as well. So get the kids inside. If you hear thunder, you can get struck by lightning. This is headed off toward brunswick as we get to the 5. 5 49 hour. They are moving east at 20. This storm hammering strasburg right now. We have rainfall rates 2 miles an hour. Lightning to the south and west. This will move essentially to the east as well. That will be waterlake about 5 30. Eventually into upperville. Across the 17. That storm has gusty winds and a history of winds over 60 miles an hour and rainfall rates of an inch an hour. If you are in places like upperville and cedarville, get the kids inside, we will keep tracking these for you and tell you when the threat will be over. Thank you top. Trending now, kim jong un wants to unviral this video. [ laughter ] how do you unviral a video . That is really hilarious. The video was made by a chinese man who sent it to south korea. It shows his face edited on various people dancing. This is one time we wont get in trouble for laughing in the middle of the show. People on social media in china have been having a field day. It shows him skipping on the field with osama bin laden. Dancing with president obama. They are asking to have this video removed from the internet. But if they unviral this video. Imagine what that means for the rest of us. Could we unviral other stuff . That will get more hits than ever before. Dont go look at a video we dont want you the look at. Everybody will be creating kim jong un videos now in america where they will not be unviabling anything and we will laugh at them. Sarah palin picked up a speeding ticket last week. She plans to pay the fine. She joked to tmz she was not speeding but qualifies for a race and it was not entirely her fault because she was listening to cant drive 55. All you need is context. The kids of late actor Phillip Seymour hoffman will have to work for a living. He left all the money to his wife and mother of his children. He didnt want his children to grow up to be trust fund kids. Snoop dobb might be blowing smoke on this next story. I dont know. I dont know if this is for real. Yeah. For real, right. On an episode of his ggn news show, jimmy kimmel says have you ever smoked weed in the white house . He said not in the white house, but in the bathroom. The same thing right . Snoop told security it helps him to smoke a cigarette while he is using the bathroom to get the aroma just right. Tmi right there. Security told him to light a napkin instead. [ laughter ] that goes to show you. Smoke weed in the white house bathroom and we didnt know about that before now . I dont think, i dont know. We

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