Transcripts For WUSA Wusa 9 News At 5pm 20170420 : compareme

Transcripts For WUSA Wusa 9 News At 5pm 20170420

Files that they snared from drop box to look at and they are leaving over the possibility of more charges because they havent even seen all the evidence yet but they have seen enough to lock up spates and charge him. Reporting live at the Bradbury Heights Elementary School in capitol heights, scott broom, wusa9. Just keep thinking about those kids there, scott. Thank you. Well, today is april 20th or 4 20 which is a day celebrated by many marijuana lovers. And to commemorate the occasion, advocates for legalize pot were out handing out free joints to congressional staffers and reporters on capitol hill. The giveaway happened on a city street next to the u. S. Capitol. Activists say they are well within their rights. Capitol police, though, didnt see it that way. Seven people got arrested on possession charges and led away. Boo. Boo. Boo. Are you [ booing ] though it is against the law to possess marijuana on federal property, activists expect more arrests during a show of massively disobedience next week. They plan to smoke marijuana directly outside of the east front of the u. S. Capitol. A new poll finds support for legalized marijuana is at an all time high. 61 of the people surveyed say pot use should not be a crime. Thats 5 more than last year. 85 of the people poland favor medical marijuana use. And just 33 say marijuana should not be legal. We want to know what you think. Should Recreational Marijuana be legalized across the country . Log onto wusa9. Com vote or use our app and let us know what you th legal here and whats not. Wusa9s Stephanie Ramirez is going to break it down for us. As long as people are being safe and if its legal, then why not . Do you smoke marijuana . Sometimes. What do you feel like when you smoke it . It heaps me relax. It helps me get rid of my anxiety. So i like it for that purpose. Reporter but you cant smoke marijuana in public like in a car or on a street where you could be arrested. How do you feel when you smoke marijuana . I dont like it as much. Since i was already paranoid, i didnt like becoming more paranoid. Reporter are you familiar with the Marijuana Law in d. C. . I know its tolerated, basically, that you can have a certain amount on you. Reporter do you know that amount . An ounce . Reporter 2 ounces. Okay, yeah, Something Like that, something little. Reporter do you know the legal age . Im guessing 18 . Reporter 21. 21 because overseas its 18. So okay, 21. No, i didnt know that. Reporter so when you were younger, did you smoke marijuana . No, believe it or not, i never smoked marijuana and i was asked that question for security clearances two different occasions and they wouldnt believe me because i said i have never smoked at all and, you know, they didnt believe the answer so i had to repeat myself and they finally and i finally convinced them. Reporter times have certainly changed. The law says you can cultivate up to six Marijuana Plants in your home. What do you think of that . [ laughter ] im just trying to understand the reasoning behind it. Thats the main thing with me. So like who is to say i cant give it to my friends, a Birthday Gift . Reporter you can give it to a friend legally but just an ounce, as long as no money, goods or services are exchanged and the friend is 21 or older. Stephanie galehart, wusa9. So lets get back to the results of our poll here. We asked do you support the legalization of Recreational Marijuana . Lets see what the screen is a little bit bigger. 63 of you say you do support the legalization of marijuana in the country. We are tracking a few thunderstorms in the area. Topper is over in the Weather Center and, top, what are you seeing on live doppler . Getting pretty heavy out to the west of us. In town pretty good shape. A dry commute for the next couple of hours in town but off to the west, especially out toward west of culpeper, along i81. Zoom in a little bit. We had pretty good storm south of 81 just north of harrisonburg and to the west of culpeper, it one time had hail in it and was a severe thunderstorm and still a Severe Thunderstorm Warning until 5 30 for rockingham and shenandoah county. Hail, we will see that tracking off to the east, hitting luray at 5 28. Only moving at 10 to 20 miles an hour, and all the way to warrenton if it holds together by ab pretty good sized hail in here, 2inch hail according to our first alert live doppler so thats probably on its way across route 11 right now. I think thats the main reason its been issued as Severe Thunderstorm Warning. Either has to have hail an inch in diameter or bigger, size of a quarter or winds up to 58 Miles Per Hour or higher and i think hail made that criteria. This is a pretty good storm too and not a warning on this but this is headed off to the east. Over toward remington at about 5 56, elkwood at about 5 49, a brief heavy rain as you go across 522 and eventually could cross over 15 about 6 00. We will come back, we will talk about how long the showers and storms will be in the forecast tonight what, other problems you may have for the morning commute and we have some good news about the weekend. We will take it, top. The long search is over for a tennessee teenager who disappeared with her teacher in march, chad cummins and 15year old Elizabeth Thomas were discovered in a Northern California company monsoon last elizabeth will be reunited with her family soon. The maryland man behind a two day reign of terror in the region expected to plead guilty. 63yearold is accused of killing his estranged wife in Prince Georges County and two strangers in Montgomery County. He was a former officer with the federal protective service and he faces a heavy prison sentence. Our Editorial Partners at the Washington Post say hes expected to plead guilty in Montgomery County next week. The agreement does not have an impact on the charges that he faces in Prince Georges County. More changes at the white house today. All designed to keep people from jumping over the fence. Starting last night at 11 00 youre no longer allowed to walk on the sidewalk thats along the south side. Thats right here just north of the ellipse along e street. If you want to view the white house from this angle, you have to stand on the other side of e street. At ellipse there, thats what we are talking about, very close to where the National Christmas tree stands. This is what it looks like right now. As you can see there are jersey walls up to keep you away and very clear signs that say restricted area, do not enter. But if you stand across the street, yeah, you can still see the white house. And we should say that there have been no changes on the pennsylvania avenue or the north side of the white house. President trump sitting down for his first meeting with the italian Prime Minister today as he looks to build International Relationships to deal with global crises. The administrations trade policies may be creating more distance with other countries. Greg boswell reports from the white house. Reporter President Trump welcomed the italian Prime Minister to the white house for the first meeting between the two leaders. They are expected to discuss trade and security ahead of next months g7 gathering in sicily. We are going to sign. Reporter earlier the president hosted steel executives in the oval office as he signed an order launching an investigation into whether steel imports are threatening u. S. National our economy and our military. This is not an area where we can afford to become dependent on foreign countries. Reporter the president also took a swipe at canada for policies he says are hurting u. S. Dairy farmers. We cant let canada or anybody else take advantage and do what they did to our workers and to our farmers. Reporter at the same time, the white house is looking for a unified front with u. S. Allies as it faces the crisis in syria and pressing china for help, reining in north Koreas Nuclear ambition. President trump insisted his trade probe was not targeting chinese steel. This has to do with worldwide, whats happening. Reporter but mr. Trumps commerce secretary says chinese steel exports have continued to rise and now 26 of the u. S. Market. Craig boswell, cbs news, the white house. Both china and russia were part of a unanimous u. N. Security Council Resolution condemning north koreas recent attempt to launch missile, demanding it conduct no further Nuclear Tests and threatening more sanctions. Police arrested one man but still looking for two others connected to a murder in college park. 27yearold William Moore of dundalk, maryland is charged with firstdegree murder. 36yearold rally farley was shot and killed in an apartment on milestone way last month. Police released some video of two other people walking into his Apartment Building just before that shooting and 25,000 is out there for the person who can lead police to those men. The traffic is moving on the beltways inner loop again after a large truck flipped over near the suitland parkway. Two cars were also involved in that crash. This backed up rushhour traffic for 8 miles. We are told two other people were hurt but they are going to recover. Tonight we are keeping Maryland Governor larry hogan and his father in our thoughts. Larry hogan senior suffered a major stroke on saturday. Sadly his condition has gone down hill since executive for prince georges as well as a maryland congressman. Governor hogan cleared his schedule to be with his father. We are excited to tell you about this next story. A team of College Students got together to do something incredible for a young fairfax musician born with a partially developed left arm. We are going to tell you about that. Plus the redskins, they will be doing something on thanksgiving that they have never done before. We ever going to have all that in just two minutes. A new beginning for a Fairfax County girl who as we speak is getting a brandnew prosthetic arm made and designed by College Students. This is her love and peggy fox brings us her incredible story from the campus of george ma reporter five Biomedical Engineering students here at George Mason University have changed a little girls life forever. They designed and 3d printed this prosthetic arm so she will be able to play the violin like never before. Very, very excited. Reporter the whole team and their advisors are practically giddy with the outcome. This bright pink prosthetic arm with an attachment for a violin bow, custom named for 10year old isabella cabrera. We told her she can only say i cant let. Reporter she joined the Strings Program in franconia last year. The fact she was born with a partially developed left arm did not stop her. Maybe she is going to seem nervous but she wasnt like that at all. She was making jokes and laughing. We were the ones who were nervous. Reporter her music tehe out of pvc pipe. A mason alum, he asked the Engineering Department if a better one could be made and dr. Lawrence bray knew definitely it could. When did the lightbulb go off when you said this could be a great project . A Youtube Video about isabella playing with the old prosthetic and that sold it for me. Reporter you can do better . Yes. Reporter she pitched it to a group of seniors working on their cap stone project and they were sold immediately. We were brainstorming ideas right away. We were aiming to take the strain of her shoulder to make her as comfortable as possible. She is amazing. Reporter over the past year they met with isabella several times and already made two prosthetics, each one better. In all 19 pieces designed and 3d printed out, then carefully pieced together. Now they think they have got it just right. I want her to play the violin and love playing the violin and be excited and i can do anything she wants. Reporter coming up at 6 00, you will see isabella try on her brandnew prosthetic arm and we will see how she does playing the violin. At George Mason University, peggy fox, wusa9. Cant wait. The bio Engineering Department already received questions from other people, another group of students could soon have a new project on their hands. A very good night for washington sports teams and their fans. The caps even their stanley cup playoff series with the toronto maple leaves with a 44 victory. With the series tied 22, the next Game Tomorrow Night at the verizon center. Thats w herethe wizards beat the hawks from atlanta 109101 last night. Washington has a two game lead as the series, its going to shift to atlanta on saturday. Well, atlanta coincidentally, that is where the nationals throttled the braves last night 144. Both bryce harper and Ryan Zimmerman not grand knocked grand slams. Foe history, the Washington Redskins will host a thanksgiving day game except its going to be at night. They will welcome the new york giants to fedex field on november 23rd this year. The nfl added that night game to compliment its traditional doubleheader hosted by the Detroit Lions and the dallas cowboys. This will be washingtons 10th appearance on turkey day but the first time that it will be a home game. So does the redskins playing at home on thanksgiving day, is that going to change your plans at all . Heres what some of you are saying in tonights our city, your voice. Yeah, i would watch the game. Im going to watch it with my family. So i wouldnt come out to fedex field just to watch the game. I would still watch it with my family. I think its going to be really a lot about the anticipation, so i think leading up to the game its going to be a game time decision. I will not. I will be at home with the family, probably watch the game on tv and most likely change it later on in the day. Oh, i would try. I would try , the biggest fan like in my household but if they wanted to go, i would definitely go. Redskins fans are committed fans if theres a game here on thanksgiving, the stadium will be packed. It will make a difference. Im sure the weather will cooperate all those months from now. I think its perfect for tv that you can sink into the turkey coma during the dallas game and come out of it at kickoff. And you come out of it and have your turkey sandwich. We are tracking thunderstorms, some heavy west of town and we are going to keep the chance of a shower or thunderstorm in pretty much all night. Our michael son weather cam. Inside the beltway beautiful right now, its 81. Dew points low 60s, not crazy humid, winds out of the south at about seven. Okay, heres the big picture in the radar. We zoomed it out now. Along i81 this is the same storm we showed you earlier, Severe Thunderstorm Warnings for rockingham an until 5 30. That had hail in it earlier, still a pretty good storm west of culpeper. Lightning, indicates that one is getting stronger. This one actually around new market is pushing off to the east but seems to have lost its hail. It had 2inch hail at one point in time. Now i think its pretty much not a huge deal. Now it kind of shifted to this storm west of culpeper, north of ver, hail 1. 1 inches in diameter. They probably will issue a warning on that because that is one of the criterion for a severe thunderstorm. This is a pretty good storm, though, especially across 234, almost to 522, pretty close to culpeper and you see the Lightning Strike there and heavy rain, and we are talking pretty heavy rain just to the south of slate mills, going to head towards boston soon and griffinsburg in about 15 minutes. The red is rainfall rate of almost an inch per hour. Put down heavy rain and a tiny bit of flash flooding as it moves off to the east. Track this towards remington about 6 08 and midland about 6 24. They are moving between 10 and 20 Miles Per Hour. Not like the ones we had that outbreak that were moving 50 Miles Per Hour. So we are going to keep showers and storms in tonight and then patchy fog after midnight. So those areas that see the showers, just add on 10 minutes to your commute tomorrow. Youre going to have fog if you had a shower tonight. Bus stop temps 60 to 74, patchy fog, even warmer tomorrow with more showers and storms, not a washout, not a bad day at all. Not a yellow weather alert day yet. And the weekend is wet but not a washout. 10 00 a. M. To saturday to 1 00 p. M. Sunday we will have on and off showers and rain but you can get stuff done. If you have to play golf you could. Heaviest rain overnight on saturday and at one time we thought we would have over an inch of rain. Now we are talking closer to 1 2 of rain on saturday night which we still need. A wet weekend. Tomorrow 83 but then 62 on saturday, 65 on sunday, we tuesday. So by 10 00 tonight most of the showers gone for the time being and still very mild, 70 in leesburg, 71 downtown and then by 6 00 much like today, we may have Early Morning showers, bu

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