Transcripts For WUSA Wusa 9 News At 5pm 20160713 : compareme

Transcripts For WUSA Wusa 9 News At 5pm 20160713

Spokesman said an investigation is under way to figure out who placed the bomb threat here at six flags in the first place. We did reach out to six flags about what happened today. All they would tell us is that the park would be open until 8 00 tonight. A yellow weather alert, a few storms on a hot, icky day. Topper shutt is live. And what are you seeing there on first alert doppler . One, two, maybe three storms. Most of us getting off easy. But a couple of storms possible southwest of town. At culpepper and warrenton. And by far and away, heaviest storms are east of town. East of 95, in fact. This is south of laurel. This could track and get pretty close to bowie in the next 30 minutes. Right now, just heavy rain. Dont see much lightning with that. No warnings on that. A little lightning there. And this will move off to the south and east for the north beach. In fact, fair haven on the storm tracker. Expect heavy rain to get there around 5 05. Yellow weather alert for today. We talked about this yesterday. Just kind of a lowimpact on the wet commute. Low impact, gusty winds probably the biggest impact we have will be moderate risk or slightly less than moderate risk and heavy rain inside these storms. By 8 00, most of the showers and storms gone. Temps still in the low 80s. Well come back and talk about whether or not well see any record highs tomorrow. And just how high the heat index will go by tomorrow afternoon. Great job. Crews are working to extinguish a fire at the Bethesda Health resource center. Long stretch of the road is closed on georgetown road. So far, no injuries. To Prince Georges County now, where we are hearing from the house mate of a man killed in upper marlboro. It happened overnight west of route 193. Grainy vaughn said the victim was not know what happened. But is thankful. I could have been here. I could have come in any time during the night. Police are trying to figure out what happened. But they say this does not appear to be random. If you have any information, Prince Georges County police would like to hear from you. New concerns tonight. About train operators blowing through red lights. Now, theres a federal investigation into a new incident that happened this morning on the yellow line. Wusa 9 transportation reporter pete monteen is raising questions about your safety. Pete . Reporter the train was pulling into in station, right at national airport. Metro is worried its train operator blew through a stop signal. The feds call it a serious problem. And now they want to put the brakes on it. Reporter it was the middle of the morning rush. Now, metro wants to know if its ain operator was, too. Of whats happening. Donna deambroseio is taking the yellow line home. Shes happy to have missed what happened here. Metro is investigating if its operator blew past the platform. These red lights signal an operator to stop. Metro thinks that did not happen. Warnings went off in its control center. The train operator has been pulled from duty. That was the right thing to do. Send a message, right . Safety is first. The federal Transit Administration is now investigating the incident. It says theres been 50 red signal violations in five years. And theyre on the rise. It called that a serious safety concern.  just last week, there was a red signal violation on the red line. Metro says it was a near miss with another train. After that, the operator was fired. I wish they were paying a little more attention. Reporter metro hired an outside firm to analyze red signal violations. Operators simply tuned out. Train operators cite what they call a bigrush culture. Just makes me wonder that you dont know how to follow instructions . Reporter just another problem on these tracks part of the blue and yellow lines are shut down because of metros big safety overhaul. The train itself was moved in about a half an hour. Pete monteen. Wusa 9 am. Luckily, there were no injuries, no damage. And by the way, phase 4 of metros big Maintenance Plan runs there through monday. Got more information and a complete schedule on our wusa 9news app. Funerals were held today for three of the five Police Officers who were ambushed in dallas last week. Thousands of fellow Law Enforcement officers came from across the country to pay their respects. A gun salute honored officer one of five Police Officers killed during a sniper attack last thursday. We said, goodbye, daddy. We lo you. Love you. Be safe. Another funeral mass was held for Sergeant Michael smith. His sister called the former army ranger a man of action. The family of loren ahrens made their way. A week after police shot and killed. Sterlings son saying his dad was a good man. Yes, you can protest. But i want everyone to protest the right way. Protest in peace. Not guns, not drugs, not alcohol, not violence. Everyone needs to protest in the righ no violence. None whatsoever. Alton sterling was shot and killed last week outside of the batoge rouge convenience store. Police maintain he had a gun. Someone vandalized a Police Memorial statue in richmond. A big red x, spraypainted there across the chest and statue, and the words justice for alton was based at the memorial. They said the act not relationship between the police and community. Police are holding an event aimed at bolstering their relationship with the community. Its called take back the streets. And its going on right now on 8th street near r. Streets are blocked off. The event runs through 7 00. And turning to the latest now on the campaign trail. Donald trump is expected to friday. Fueling a lot of speculation that his choice may be hoosier governor michael pense. We had a great conversation about the country. Youll be calling up mike pence. I dont know whether hell be your governor or your Vice President , who the hell knows . Reporter Hillary Clinton delivered a speech today, calling on unity, while talking about trumps divisiveness. Leading battleground states are florida, ohio, pennsylvania. Friends are gathering to remember seth rich. The 27yearold was shot to death near his home sunday; as a staffer, Democratic National committee. Rich helped voters find their polling locations. Police are investigating whether he was killed during an attempted robbery. A vigil began at 7 00. In the 2100 block of first street west. As promised, a thick column of black smoke today in bowie, maryland. Results being filmed in the area of freeway airports. Smoke came from a staged plane crash. Right there near route 50. Prince georges county fire ems were there on the scene as a precaution. Film crews will return to the scene tomorrow and friday. Were just Getting Started on wusa 9news at 5 00. A marine killed in world war ii returns home. Special ceremony from Arlington National cemetery in just a little bit. Testing for zika. In parts of virginia. Topper is back with more on tonights yellow weather alert. And a look at some other things about to hit the area. And after the break. New information on a string of armed robberies that would happen at the college campus. Investigators say those robberies were related to the wthis is my dream car. yeah, i like this. Ive been waiting to get in this. Real people have a lot to say about the awardwinning vehicles at the chevy summer sell down. Wow the design is great. I love it. Number one in my book. Thats awesome if you could get 20 cash back on this vehicle, what would you do . I think im going to drive it through that wall and take it. Find your tag and get cash back for 20 of the msrp on select 2016 chevy vehicles in stock. Thats 6,900 cash back on this chevy equinox. Find new roads at your local chevy dealer. Fios is not cable. Were wired differently. So we wired the wagners house with 100 meg internet. Which means that in the time it takes mr. Wagner to pour a 20 oz. Cup of coffee, tommy can download 30 songs, and jan can upload 120 photos. 12 seconds. Thats the power of fiber optics. And right now you can get 100 meg internet with equal upload and dowloads speeds, tv and phone for just 69. 99 per month online. Cable cant offer internet speeds this fast at a price this good. Desire a scary a scary outbreak of armed robberies, linked to the game app, pokemon go. Scott broom is at the university of maryland this afternoon. To bring us up to speed on what went on. Scott . As you may know, this pokemon game, since its been released, has become the biggest mobile game app that has ever come out. It has people wandering all over their phones, in realtime, real places, trying to score points. At the university of maryland last night, it was a masked gunman lurking around, trying to score his own points as well. Fear linked to a mobile game thats gone beyond a craze. I think its dumb. I think stuff like this happens because people get obsessed with stuff on social media. I am out here when its dark. And i dont feel safe. Po have to wonder to remote location on real gps maps to catch makebelieve characters. Four people were victimized, and University Police today said three of them were distracted at the time while playing pokemon go. Today, Jackie Mcgrath walked out. This is a fun thing. Helps me get exercise, too. I guess you shouldnt be having your face in your phone, when youre walking. You should just be paying attention to your surroundings. Try not to go place where is there arent a lot of people. In short, police say being distracted by the app makes awe target. But these robberies were taken outside the dormitories on campus. I was terrified. We were at a friends house. Scared to walk around today for sure. I was just speaking with police chief david mitchell. He said one of the elements of that game is that other players can lure you out. And they are investigating here at the university of maryland whether or not that may have been the case. Last night, as these robberies were happening, tests and e mail blasts were going out to tens of thousands of students and faculty members here at the university of maryland to get those alerts also on their phones, even if they are playing pokemon go at the time. Reporting live, scott broom, wusa 9. And among the items stolen from victims last night. Investigators are trying to figure out what caused a truck to overturn in howard county. Sky 9 was over Columbia Mall rescuers found the driver was conscious inside that vehicle. He was taken out of the truck and taken to shock trauma in baltimore. Howard county police and osha are trying to figure out what happened. A changing of the guard in the uk. The new prime minister, teresa may, took over today for david cameron. Cameron submitted his resignation after the brexit vote. Other contenders dropped out. May was also an advocate of remaining in the e. U. , but she said she will respect the will of the people. Another setback for tom brady. A federal Appeals Court today denied his latest attempt to get a new hearing. Commissioner Roger Goodell suspended him four games for using underinflated footballs. Brady has one last option, a hail mary, really, to get the u. S. Supreme court to case. Scientists in virginia are testing for the zika virus. Governor Terry Mcauliffe said it is taking place in the central and southeastern commonwealths. So far, there has been 33 cong firmed cases in virginia. Pregnant women are those most at risk. But the Health Officials say so far, no one has had any birth defects. In the u. S. All of this stuff keeps coming in. Wasnt quite that exciting. I was trying to save you there. I know you were. Just a couple of thunderstorms. Not that many tot. Nigh lets start first with the 3 degree guarantee. We went for a high of 89. You know, i was going 90. And la wisdom, i went back to 89. Worried about clouds and showers and thunderstorms. I think were going to be okay. Live look outside. Live look at the weather cam. Dew points 70. That should immediately tell you uncomfortable. Heres the radar over the last hour. Pretty good storm now on the east side of 95. Pushing into much of northern sections of anne arundel county. Could set northern calvert county. And pretty good storm out toward actual pepper. Nothing severe now. By the way, you might have received an alert on your phone about a flash flood warning. All kinds of data dessemination problems. Pretty good storms. Nothing crazy. Brief, heavy downpours for this. Around 522 and 231. This is actually going to kind of drift probably north of culpepper. Muggy tonight. Ye thunderstorm. Itemo weather yellow weather alert tomorrow. Primarily for heat. Still hot friday with a few more thunderstorms am but no real relief until we get into the weekend. 10 00 tonight. Still 81 downtown. Most of the showers over with by 10 00, 11 00 tomorrow night. Still 77 in rockville. And 79 in silver spring. Pretty muggy. By morning, not much better. 76 doubt. 74 in fredericksburg. And 73 in manassas. And 73 in sterling. By 9 00, were in the mid80s almost. Low 80s across the board. Temps are really going to soar tomorrow very quickly. 1 00, were 93 downtown. Maybe a sprinkle here and there. But by and large, a fair amount of sunshine. Very hot and very humid tomorrow. By 6 00 tomorrow night. 24 hours from now. 94 in manassas. 93 downtown. And 93 also in silver spring. Couple of showers and storms begin to fire along i. Driven tomorrow afternoon. By tomorrow night. 9 00. Temperatures still 88 downtown. 85 in manassas. And by that time, future cast trying to develop the storms to cumberland, back across the divide. Not exactly sold on that altogether yet. Tonight, though, we are sold on this. Isolated shower or thunderstorm until about midnight. Those temperatures in 70s. Winds up to southwest at about 10. On the day planner. Downtown temps. But still talking low 70s to start. Upper 70s downtown to start. And look at this. Low 80s at 9 00. Almost 90 by 11 00. And 93 by 1 00 p. M. Friday, still hot. 95. Not quite yellow weather alert worthy. Not quite hot enough. And not enough. Enough storm coverage. And well monitor for a yellow weather alert. Okay. Sunday. Hot. 90. Isolated storm. Back to the mid90s on monday. And then back to the 80s on tuesday and wednesday. Nats in town, essentially through next wednesday. Thank you, topper. Straight ahead. Cracking down on water crooks in maryland. Why these thieves are putting the public at risk. Feds want info from tesla on its selfdriving cars. And nutrition labels on beer. Well have details on tonights consumer alert. Okawhoa ady . [ explosion ] nothing should get in the way of the things you love. Get americas fastest internet. Only from xfinity. Fios is not cable. Were wired differently. So we wired the wagners house with 100 meg internet. Which means that in the time it takes mr. Wagner to pour a 20 oz. Cup of coffee, tommy can download 30 songs, and jan can upload 120 photos. 12 seconds. Thats the power of fiber optics. And right now you can get 100 meg internet with equal upload and dowloads speeds, tv and phone for just 69. 99 per month online. Cable cant offer internet speeds this fast at a price this good. Only fios can. An american was among six people gored during todays running of the bulls in spain. Endured 39yearold Matthew Laban in the thigh. Laban and the other runners are expected to recover. The next to last day for the running of the bulls festival. Last year, thieves stole around 125 million in water. Today, the fire chiefs from the county announced the kickoff of their water Theft Prevention initiative. They say crooks are damaging the hydrants and putting the public at risk when theres a fire. When we have to abandon this fire hydrant and go almost feet away to the next fire hydrant to get that water supply established, were going to have an impact in minutes. To our ability to establish this. Those thieves are on in landscaping and construction companies. Theyre filling up their pools. Stealing water could last you up to 1,000 in fines. You can give a call. Or send them a tweet, wssc water water. Give up the details. Federal investigators want tesla motors to do its emission. They said the camera could not distinguish the right kind from the and they want to extend customized delivery. The agency began that Experimental Service two years ago. Carriers apntparestly arted dropping off customers groceries and dry cleaning, along with their mail. And youll soon be able to read the calorie count and other nutritional information before you take a sip of beer. Four of the largest brewers have agreed to put the details on their label. Eight out of 10 beers sold in the u. S. Now have labels. They have to. I have to say. Stight ahead. Three people shot in virginia. And the whole thing captured on a Facebook Live feed. Donald trump and riewghtsd bader ruth bader ginsburg. Right after the break, a marine killed in an infamous world war ii battle is buried in arlington today. Hearing from family members next. Plus, the amwer a amber the 6 week old has been located, with raking breaking news. Out of hyattsville, maryland. This amber alert we first told you about at the top of the show. There it is. 6weekold, liz catoon taken safely. Fbi agents have recovered that young girl, after a search that has gone on amber alert initiated for two days. After the mother had apparently taken off with that young girl. These is exclusive video into our newsroom. She was evidently taken from a home oning river turn on little river turnpeek. Andrea mccarren is live on the scene now with information for us. This is an afternoon i wont soon forget. This 6weekold baby, the subject of an amber alert this afternoon, has been found. She has been taken into custody by federal authorities, safe and sound. A very Dramatic Development this afternoon. We were very pleased to be here and see that the baby was okay. To back up a bit. We followed like a lot of folks in town. An amber alert that came out this afternoon. Searching for a mother 30 years old. Flora, who was believed to have abducted her 6weekold baby liz. The search was on for her. As well as a missing Toyota Sienna blue van with virginia tags. We came upon some information this afternoon that we felt compelled to share with police. We learned a potential location where the mother was. In maryland. We aler

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