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Transcripts For WUSA Wusa 9 News At 5pm 20150408

West. Because its moving into this marine layer, this colder more stable atmosphere. Its going to move eastward and move into the 40s and 50s. We wont see anything too terribly heavy. Bad news weve got a nats game tonight. This will move due east and head into leesburg about 6 47 and chantilly 6 58 and into downtown d. C. Between 7 30 and 7 41. So pretty much during the start of the game. Wear something warm and that will repel water. Temperatures now by 8 00 will be in the upper 40s and low 50s. You can see the rain, heavy activity just to the north, leesburg in yellow up toward frederick with temps of 50 or 51. By 10 00 most of the activity pushes across i95 and across the bay, but we arent done. Well come back, talk about a yellow alert for friday. This time its not for showers or drizzle. We pop back in the warm sector, some big storms possible on friday. Well explain. A mysterious death of a Loudoun County High School Student has a community saddened and confused. 18yearold madison small got sick suddenly and died tuesday. Students returned to Broad Run High School today without their beloved friend and classmate. Surae chinn joins us outside of the ashburn school. Reporter its been a somber couple of days at Broad Run High School. Friends are using the weplayfor24. That is madisons softball jersey. Her teammates couldnt bear to come to school today, but they couldnt be alone either. We still think shes going to be on the field tomorrow playing with us. Reporter madisons Softball Team spent the last 24 hours together laughing, crying and sharing memories. Never failed to brighten your day and i think all of ashburn would agree with that. Reporter suzanne gobsteen texted madison monday and all seemed fine. That night her friend didnt feel well, went to the hospital and by Tuesday Morning she had passed away. Principal david spade had to tell his School Madison became fatally ill. One of the things ill remember about her is i would stand in the hallway every morning before school. She was willing to stop and kind of make contact and sort of say i appreciate you. She was the best leader you could ask for and she helped us on and off the field, every single one of us, and she touched every single one of our hearts. Reporter her teammates remember her fierce competitive spirit and that distinguishable pink bow shed wear at softball games. Shes are the girls who know her well. Even though who didnt wrote heartfelt messages on a school banner. Flowers were left at her desk in 1st period. In place of the game last night hundreds came to pay tribute at the softball field and even dad had a message to her daughters community. Life could be short. We found that out today. Make the most of it. Love each other. I know we all know that shes going to be on the field with us looking over us, laughing at us when we mess up and making a point of knowing that shell be there and she loves us and we love her. Reporter madisons death remains a mystery. Her dad said all of her organs shut down. Grief counselors will be here the rest of the week. The principal wants madisons friends back on the field as soon as possible. The team said theyll play their home game monday wearing no. 24 on their jerseys. Back to you, jan. The Northern Virginia district of the chief medical Examiners Office is now conducting an occupancy, but Public Health and the Loudoun County School District said smalls illness poses no risk to other students or the community. If you left the nats game monday to find your vehicle missing, that is because ddot is cracking down on parking around the stadium. A new measure is catching people by surprise and not in a good way. Stephanie ramirez was down around the ballpark today. Reporter if youre headed to a game, forget these. Its the white temporary parking signs youll want to look out for, ddot announcing online this season meter parking around the stadium will be enforced during nationals game days on sundays and holidays, both previously free days to park at the meters for those traveling to d. C. And those who live in the area. Its really not cool. Its going to be really frustrating. Its hard enough to find parking already. I know a lot of people who drive to the games. Its not fair. Reporter a ddot spokesperson said they started enforcing these changes last year but stopped for some reason. Its back again. If you think parking in the Residential Zone 6 is a way to avoid meter trouble, ddot is cracking down there, too. Its terrible. On game day i cannot leave this property, go to the Hardware Store because if i leave, when i come back, no place to park. Reporter these two in zone 6 welcome the crackdown one describing opening day. It was chaos. There was one tow truck would pull off and another one come around the corner. As a long time d. C. Resident with two children in the Public School system i really do appreciate the Revenue Generation that will come along with it. Frustrating. Reporter on the other side of the stadium . Park somewhere else or catch metro. Enjoy the game. Reporter of course, ddot wants you to take metro or another form of public transportation. The first home game on a holiday is set for thursday, april 16th. Expect Parking Enforcement to be in full force then. At nats stadium stephanie ramirez, wusa9 news. Ddot says at least 16 nats games will fall on sundays and holidays at nats park. There are several new developments in the case of a Police Officer charged with murder in the shooting death of a black man in north sheryl ton, south carolina. That officer charleston, south carolina. That officer Michael Slager has been fired from the force. Walter scotts family has been promised a Police Escort for the funeral. The mother and father were wonderful people and the other family was there. Theyre suffering. Mayor summey says all the patrol officers will now be outfitted with body cameras. Officer slager pulled scott over saturday for a broken taillight. Slager claimed he feared for his life as the two men struggled over the officers taser. Video recorded by a bystander shows scott shot eight times as he ran away. People accused of traveling to spotsylvania to meet up with the girl and she was an undercover cop. Tyler martin, john howell, toby parker and robert chataan a catanzaro catanzaro. Congressman Chris Van Hollen is going to be the running ton the next senator even though to be the next senator even though Donna Edwards is running, too. Reporter the county executive not only crossed political boundaries, he crossed racial and gender lines in this endorsement today which surprised a lot of people here. Im very surprised. Reporter constituents at Prince Georges County surprised by what their county executive Rushern Baker did today. My good friend Chris Van Hollen. Reporter baker foreswearing the politics of race, region and gender by choosing congressman Chris Van Hollen of montgomery over Prince Georges County congresswoman Donna Edwards to fill the u. S. Senate seat vacated by the retiring barbara mikulski. Or do i spend my time raising hell . Reporter the longest serving woman in u. S. Congress history. Lots of women here would like to see the arc of history continue with another woman in the senate. Because females rule. I thought definitely he would go with edwards. Reporter many others would like to see more history with the first African American to be an american senator. That would make Donna Edwards the easy doris. For baker to make, but the county endorsement for baker to make, but the county executive specially close to van hollen. The Ranking Member on the Budget Committee is a very important thing for us in the state and county. I know hell do the same thing on the senate side. It was an easy decision in this respect that i dont know him as a name, a congressman. I know him personally and i know the working relationship. Reporter Montgomery County executive ike leggett backed baker up today saying van hollens record on diversity is beyond question. The Edwards Campaign released a Statement Today saying, she has the backs of Prince Georges County voters on issues. Scott broom, wusa9. Donna edwards has been endorsed by other key players in Prince Georges County politics like the Council Chair mel franklin. New information on the officer who shot a man inside a home in crofton, maryland, over the weekend. The officer is lieutenant harry peterson. Two officers responded to the home saturday after receiving a call the suspect planned to hurt himself or family members. Once inside the home cops say the suspect dallas michael ruff pointed a weapon at them that was a realistic looking air rifle. Lieutenant peterson shot ruff who is in stable condition. Hes charged with first and Second Degree assault and reckless endangerment. One u. S. Serviceman is dead, two others injured after an afghan soldier opened fire on them in jalalabad after a meeting between afghan provincial leaders and a u. S. Embassy official. American troops immediately killed that afghan fire. We are just Getting Started on wusa9 news at 5 00. Theres a new metro station getting closer to reality. Bruce leshan tries to find out if the proposed potomac yard station would really be worth the coast. Plus why Marion Barrys widow is suing the woman who donated a kidney to the late mayor for life. Plus topper is back with more on tonights yellow alert and when we could finally see a day of sunshine. Even though this surveillance camera captured video of two vandals defacing this synagogue, ill which car company is the first and only to offer builtin 4g lte wifi in cars, trucks and crossovers . Ranking from top to bottom. Im gonna say mercedes is the innovator. Bmw just because theyre pricey. The final answer. Wow. cheers chevy. This model has the wifi in it . Yep thats the dream to have wifi in the car. Get cash back for 15 of the msrp on select 2015 models. Thats almost thirtyseven hundred dollars on this chevy malibu. Find new roads at your local chevy dealer. Gaithersburg police are asking for your help in solving what theyre calling a hate crime. Debra alfarone is live by the synagogue on main street. Reporter theyre looking for the two people that the surveillance camera caught right here on video, but two things are standing in the way. One of the individuals had a skull looking kind of design. The other had one of that scream movie that came out in the 90s on their face. Reporter these two made sure to wear facemasks. Still police say that dont deter them. Were looking at video footages from other businesses, residences that may have cameras. Reporter the vandals left the temple covered in 11 swastikas painted in white just hours after it was announced that next week is holocaust remembrance week here. Its Something Police are looking into. I think its just mischievous kids that wants to play and make some bad jokes for the neighborhood. Reporter a day later members of this community repainted and offered signs of support. To some its still amazing this kind of hate happens here in 2015. Obviously its pretty sad that Something Like this is lapping in our neighborhood, actually in our area. I think unfortunately any type of racism, especially antisemitism or what not, its hard to hear growing up here in america. Reporter if you know anything at all this could help Gaithersburg Police find these two vandals, maybe you know someone with those types of masks, someone that bought some type of spray paint or you saw anything going on in this area around this time early Tuesday Morning, give them a call. Live from gaithersburg, debra alfarone, wusa9. Police are looking to see if they stopped anyone at the time the vandalism happened. Marion barrys widow is suing the woman who donated a kidney to the late mayor for life. Cora masters barry filed a lawsuit against kim dickens. Dickens is accused of using Marion Barrys image to help raise money for the Barry Dickens kidney foundation, a charity unded. Marion barrys estate will not let dickens use his name. The Washington City paper reports the lawsuit demands that any pro potional materials with Promotional Materials with barry on them be turned over and destroyed. Always watching always tracking, wusa9s first alert weather. , d. C. s most accurate. A little brisk today. We lost almost 30 degrees essentially from the 70s to the 40s. We knew it was coming. April can be cruel, not as cruel as march. Were looking at one more day with that marine layer. Then well bust into the warm sector on friday. Lets start with a live look outside, our live michael and son weather cam, a little dreary. Youre looking north toward the cathedral. Its 50 downtown, relative humidity pretty high, 80 , and winds still east, northeasterly at 9. Until the winds turn southwesterly well have low clouds, shower, drizzle and cool air. Heres the radar over the past hour. Were looking at the activity back to the west and it looks impressive because its warm out west of us. Its in the 70s in west virginia. These are thunderstorms from cumberland down to romney, but theyll weaken as they move into this 40degree air. Right now pretty good rain from cumberland to romney and on the doorstep of woodstock. They are moving eastward essentially. You see the yellows and orange, pretty heavy rain from ft. Ashby back toward romney, but theyll weaken going back to the east. The bad news is theyll move into the nats game early on. I dont think theyll wash the game out. Heres the Storm Tracker. Were looking at strasburg about 5 22, olney about 6 38 and fairfax at 7 14. By then it will be very close to the nats park. Game time is 7 05. Headlines, yellow alert tomorrow once again for showers and drizzle. Bus stop temperatures in the 40s. Take an umbrella and hopefully the kids wear a jacket. Morning and evening commutes are wet for most and big thunderstorms are possible on friday as we go back into the warm sector of air. The warm front will push through late tomorrow night and early friday morning. A little yellow showing up in leesburg and frederick, showers, light rain and some drizzle as we go through the 8 00 hour. Then by 10 00 most of the activity in baltimore, d. C. , east into Prince Georges County around bowie and mitchellville, maybe a couple leftover showers in silver spring, temperatures in the 40s by 10 00. Probably leaving the caps game about 11 00, so drizzle, showers, maybe 40s, too. By 6 a. M. We kind of do it all over again, light activity with temperatures mid to upper 40s to start. By 9 00 its still light, leesburg, d. C. Back to la plata, upper 40s with light rain or showers. By 1 00 a lot of clouds. We should crawl into the mid 50s at least tomorrow as a warm front pushes in from the southwest. By 5 00 tomorrow night were 57, petersburg 72 and oakland 71. That air flow keeps us cool and unsettled until we get the warm front. Tonight cloudy, chilly, showers, drizzle, low temps in the 40s. By morning yellow alert, cloudy and chilly, showers and drizzle again, 40s and 50s. By afternoon showers and drizzle. Grab the umbrella and maybe a coat for the kids, 55 to 60. Thats it. Well be struggling to get to 60 tomorrow. Heres a look at the day planner, upper 40s at 7 00, low 50s by 11 00, mid50s by 1 00. You need the umbrella on and off all day. Thunderstorms could be heavy friday, another yellow alert, 78, still nice on saturday, 66. Hope to see you Early Morning on saturday at ayed. Sunday upper 60s with sunshine, mid at the parade. Sunday upper 60s with sunshine, mid60s and by tuesday temps in the lower 80s. Still ahead why a woman fighting bone cancer was thrown off a plane while trying to return home from vacation. Some relief could be on the way if youve had enough of those annoying robocalls. Plus uber takes a bigger bite out of cabbies profits, all of those stories and more in tonights consumer alert. In tonights consumer alert there is good news as the markets made gains on wall street by the closing bell. The dow rose 27 points. The nasdaq was up by 40. So youre on the do not call list, but youre still getting those annoying robocalls. Consumer advocates want the fcc to look into blocking those automated messages altogether. Phone companies are questioning whether that could be against the law, but consumer groups say its not true and it accuses them of moving too slow on the issue. A new report finds more business travelers are choosing ride hailing apps over traditional taxis. Data shows 47 of travelers use uber and lyft instead of waiting for taxi service. That is triple the number of users from one year ago. Calling all slurpee lovers, 7eleven will sponsor its first ever bring your own cup day today. You can bring in a container no larger than 10 inches and fill it with your favorite frozen drink of choice. Youll only pay the medium prize which is

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