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Transcripts For WUSA Wusa 9 News At 5pm 20150326

Material team at the scene. Noah was last seen by his mother sunday morning at the home. The disappearance led to searches day and night carried out by teams of Law Enforcement officers and hundreds of volunteers who combed several square miles looking for noah. Thats what we now know. We compact more details in about an expect more details in about an hour. We have a crew on the way to dublin. Some startling new information about the final moments aboard the german jetliner that slammed into the french alps. Investigators say the copilot intentionally brought that plane down. Andrea mccarren is live at the white house following the developments there, disturbing information, nonetheless. Reporter it is, jan. White house Officials Say there is no link to terrorism, but they are fully aware that that french investigation is just Getting Started. We do know that copilot was in the United States last year and trained in arizona. A very, very shocking situation. Reporter the cockpit voice recorder reveals copilot Andreas Lubitz locked the germanwings captain out of the cockpit after he apparently left to use the bathroom. Investigators say the captain is heard pounding on the cockpit door as passengers screamed. No word, no word during the lubitz trained at a Lufthansa Flight School in arizona in 2010 a pilots license issued by the faa and was last in the United States in october, 2014 on a crew visa. Unlike Many American carriers, european airliners generally do not require two people in the cockpit at all times. Lubitz had been flying with germanwings since september of 2013. Here at the white house president obama offered french authorities any assistance they may need in their investigation. Reporting live from the white house andrea mccarren, wusa9. French authorities notified victims families what was on the cockpit recorder before the details were made public in. Germany a moment of silence was held this morning for the 16 students and two teachers who died on their way back an Exchange Program two of the three americans on that doomed airbus were from Northern Virginia. Yvonne selke and her daughter emily who lived in nokesville being remembered. Surae chinn is there at Sacred Heart Church in manassas. Reporter the Faith Community is mourning the loss of yvonne and emily selke. The family has been coming to sacred heart since the early 90s. Father mike says theyve left an incredible void in their parish. I couldnt believe that i was reading names that i recognized. I was almost unable to speak. Reporter parishioner and staff at Sacred Heart Catholic Church are overcome with sadness and loss to their Faith Community. Yvonne selke, a long time government contractor, was employed by booz allen hamilton. In church she was a prayer listener helping children learn their prayers. She was described as a faithful volunteer. The music director remembers emily in her childrens choir. I remember how much she loved music and how she wanted to be there and rarely missed a rehoarsal. You celebrate the sacraments together and events in families lives together and you become family that way. Reporter but father mike pisan admits he doesnt have a lot of answers for his church family. It was like a sucker punch right in the gut when i heard, why . What . I said yeah, even priests ask questions like that. Were not supermen. Were human beings and it hurts. Reporter on the parishs Facebook Page someone writes so terribly sad. May they rest in peace. God bless. Another comment, may god grant them and all those who parished eternal rest. Theres evil in the world, but the one thing that as catholics we believe is that god can bring good out of any tragedy. Its unsettling, but the gospel says you know not the day or the hour. Reporter father mike opened his church with extended family and friends of the selkes. He has reached out to the family. They have not yet accepted or received. Father mike is giving mourning their loss and missing them greatly. The third american on that flight has been identified as 37yearold robert oliver. Breaking news out of new york city, Emergency Responders are on the scene of whats believed to be an explosion and a building collapse, that happening now in manhattans east vallage. The Fire Department is reporting multiple injuries. The fire has torn through at least two buildings. One of them is a mixed use residential and commercial building, no word what caused that explosion. Check out the flames, fully engulfed. Dozens of uva students to support the students bloody arrest by alcohol officers sparked outrage. Peggy fox is in charlottesville where she talked to a student who witnessed the arrest. Reporter that student is also a good friend of martese johnson. He was here today along with about 150 other supporters. Cour standing room only crowd of supporters most wearing black in solidarity said the uvas walked through that door, all these students, ones he knows and doesnt know, just knowing a lot of us skipped class or came early to be with him. Reporter the bloody arrest of the 20yearold third year uva student by white abc officers has sparked outrage here and across the country. The Civil Rights Movement is not over. The fight for justice and equality is not overto try to do here the rest of our time at the university of virginia. Reporter the president of the student ncaa chapter is a close friend of johnson and was with him that night. To really not be able to do anything but be standing right there, its a terrible feeling. Reporter johnson was charged with public intoxication and obstruction of justice. Abc officers say he was belligerent. Jenkins disputes those allegations. He not belligerent. It was at a. 02, his bac. Reporter jenk friend did not trip. That is false. He was forced to the ground and that is what caused his laceration on his head and caused the bleeding. Even more disgusting lack of concern when that blood started to flow. Reporter johnsons attorney said his client is not guilty. Its our goal to continue to fight for martese and conduct our own independent investigation as well. Reporter granted the prosecutions request for a continuance to give the Virginia State police more time to investigate the actual arrest. That investigation was ordered by the governor. Governor Terry Mcauliffe also ordered abc officers to undergo more training in many areas including use of force. Many people we talked to today believed the policing power should be taken away from the abc. Im peggy fox reporting live in charlottesville. Martese johnson is supposed to be in court may 28th. Thats when well know if the prosecution intends to move forward with the charges. The university of maryland student who sent a racist and sexist email to fellow members of a fraternity will not be returning this semester. The school said the decision was mutual. The email was sent over a year ago in january, 2014 but came to light recently. The student also said in the e mail there should not be consent for Sexual Activity with women invited to frat parties. Kappa sigma suspended that student and the school is investigating. The national zoo is stepping up security for the season for trips there. Debra alfarone is live with what to expect the next time you visit. Reporter your bag might be looked through the next time you come here. It was almost a year ago when two people were shot theyre the entrance during last years near the entrance during last years African American family event and zoo officials are taking precautions to make sure nothing like that ever happens again. Somebody got shot. Reporter it was during the annual African American family day last Easter Monday that shots rang out. People ran and a picture perfect day turned into the video seen the country. Two people were hurt. A 14yearold boy was arrested. The zoo is making changes this year. Weve outlined that they may have backchecks, wand checks. We dont know how long the lines will bag checks, wand checks. We dont know how long the lines will be, but well do the best we can. Reporter this is what Police Presence looked like last Easter Monday. Because of spring break, a larger crowd plus a history of violence. Im no more worried here than anywhere else. Reporter today the rain may have kept many visitors home. The ones we talked to didnt seem worried. We just considered that a rare event and that could happen anywhere, movie theater, school, work, so its part of the risk you take living in a free country. Reporter this years event will take place monday, april 6th. I called the metropolitan Police Department and asked if they are doing anything different. They say they have a plan and cant comment on that. Debra alfarone, wusa9. You mentioned the new plan comes after months of study and analysis by the zoo with the help of its security consultant. Theres some encouraging news for the ebola patient treated at the National Institutes of health upgraded from critical to serious condition. The america Healthcare Worker who tested positive for the ebola virus in sierra leon was admitted a couple weeks ago to nih. The worker is the second patient with ebola to be treated at the bethesda campus. We are just Getting Started on wusa9 news at 5 00. Dea agents accused of having sex parties with prostitutes overseas, Craig Boswell brings us the latest at 5 30 on the investigation. Topper is back with more on the thunderstorms heading into our area after the break. Reporter relief does not begin to describe the feeling that the baby is okay. Im scott broom at the shady grove medical center. Coming up the mom who gave birth on the shoulder of i70 and the dad tell their story. Right after the break how you ride on the metro is about to get safer and more comfortable in a matter of major improvements are coming to metro. April 14th in with the new 7000 series trains featuring digital Video Surveillance vails systems and something called Surveillance Systems and something called anti climbers, better seats, wider aisles and digital map displays and those sometimes announcements, no more. Theyre supposed to be easier to hear were told. Former u. S. Congressman jesse jackson, jr. Out of prison. His release comes a year and a half after jackson pleaded guilty to illegally spending 750,000 in Campaign Funds on personal items. Jackson will serve the remainder of his sentence at a Halfway House here in d. C. The cleanup is underway in parts of oklahoma today following a series of devastating tornadoes. One person was killed, several others injured when eightier ripped through a Mobile Home Park when a twister ripped through a Mobile Home Park in oklahoma. The storm ripped the roof off at least one Gymnastics School while kids took cover in the basement. That lead us to today because that very same system is on its way here. Dont think well see anything like that, but could see some pretty good downpours. Folks getting home at 6 00, 7 00, 8 00, could get caught in some heavy downpours and get ready, a temperature change. Two steps forward, back. Right now it is spectacular. It was the warmest day. We hit 75. Were still at 75 now. Average high is 60. Dew point in the upper 50s, a pretty moist air mass and its becoming a little more unstable because of the sunshine and strong southerly wind. Thats why were concerned about some thunderstorms this evening and early tonight. Right now heres radar the past hour. Most of the showers and storms light at this point and right around i81, winchester back south into the harrisonburg area. Heavier activity toward elkins, orange and yellow. That indicates a little more oomph to the storms. Were in pretty good shape for a while, but if youre not home in 30 minutes in hagerstown youll have a shower and winchester and strasburg. Inside the beltway and immediate metro area were dry another hour or so. Some thunderstorms. Those could be heavy, not too much in term of wind damage or hail. Bus stop temperatures 40s tomorrow. Bring an umbrella, kind of a miserable raw day. We decided to issue a yellow alert friday morning because the rain and showers will hang on a while. Prepare for a wet commute to work. Grab a coat, much colder tomorrow, almost went cooler, kind of wrestled with this idea. Im going to put colder so you get the impression its going to be colder tomorrow. If i put cooler, you might try to sneak out without a jacket. You need one tomorrow. 8 00 tonight futurecast orange and yellow from gaithersburg across the river into fairfax and southeastern loudoun county. These recall the leave downpours im these are the heavy downpours im thinking will occur through the nighttime hours. By 10 00 were not done with the moisture. We have another batch overnight and by morning 5 30, 48 downtown, 41 in gaithersburg, 42 in frederick, a little snow toward westminster possible. I decided to hold off putting that in the forecast till saturday. By 9 00 most of the rain on the east side of 95 covering much of charles county, Prince Georges County, bowie, and also covering much of the southern part down towards fredericksburg. By lunchtime everything is about to move out. Temps arent moving much, still in the 40s. We might scare 50 tomorrow maybe by 4 30, 5 00, just enough late march sun to hit 50 and then temps fall again. Day planner, wet at 7 00, 46, still wet at 9 0045, cloudy at 11 00, still 45. Some breaks in the clouds by 1 00, only 47 degrees. Were almost losing 30 degrees tomorrow. Yellow alert tomorrow early for the rain and showers and then snow and rain showers saturday, yup, 43, still cool sunday but right, low 50s. Next seven days monday were going in the right direction upper 50s, upper 50s tuesday, a few clouds. I think the fronts will go through dry. Low 60s on april fools and near 60 on thursday, rain developing late in the day. This next story is pretty cool. Ill just have to pray this doesnt happen to me. Pay attention. The mom who gave birth on the shoulder of 270 this morning just a mile short of the hospital is talking to us tonight and so is the dad. Relief doesnt begin to describe what theyre feeling right now. Scott broom is live outside shady grove medical center. Certainly call this a special delivery, scott . Reporter it definitely was. Listen, being born on the side of the interstate without any rescuer around before they there is just part of the story because this baby came out backwards, a potentially dangerous come indication that thankfully worked out just fine. Meet Jacob Kenneth nelson. We left the house and mom amanda. By the time i got in the care said to my husband you need to drive really fast. Reporter bewildered husband jon nelson. All of a sudden my car starts dinging and i look at the dash and the seatbelt light is on. I look over. Shes taking her seatbelt off. My water broke. When that happened i felt something coming out. Reporter they were at shady grove exit 27haso out. I asked my husband to pull over. He gets out of the car. He determined it was a foot and it was blue. I had a first aid kit in the car from when we went camping out. I took some of the medical tape and doubled it over, tied off the umbilical cord. We were sitting on the side of 270 a couple minutes by ourselves with the dispatcher who was telling us how to tie ofthe ep the baby warm. It was an adrenaline rush. I was just trying to do the right thing at the right time and afterwards kind of all the anxiety hit me when i started thinking about what could have gone wrong. When i saw it was his foot coming out, i was extremely nervous because i know it can be risky to deliver a baby in that way. Reporter this was a breech birth, a few weeks early. The baby is fine, 6 pounds, 6 ounces. Its the couples third child, so shes had some experience with. This amanda is a 5th grade teacher at Lucy Barnsley Elementary School in rockville. She felt a little bit of rumbling last night she says. Because it was early she just didnt Pay Attention to it and by the time the labor got serious it was too late to get here in time. Jan, thats your lesson. If you feel it happening, do something about it quickly. Yes. It will not be on the set. I can tell you that, scott. Reporter well, thank you. You never know. Moments ago we did receive a call the family made to 911. There was one very scary moment. Hes not crying or anything. Help me, please. Is he out . Did you already give birth . Hes out. [ crying ] is he crying . Yeah. Breathe, little boy. There you go. [ crying ] breathe little boy. [ crying ] everyone is healthy tonight. Congrats to them. Speaking of babies on to bear watch. We got a sneak peek at two new cubs at the national zoo. Theyre andean bears, extremely rare. Their names mean unique and loving in the andes region. Theyll be on display till sunday. New rules to protect you from predatory payday loans, details in consumer alert. A governor takes Emergency Action after a in one year 5. 6 million hospital workers helped perform 26. 6 million surgeries liver 3. 7 million babies and treat 133 million e. R. Patients. 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