Transcripts For WUSA Wusa 9 News At 6pm 20170323 : compareme

Transcripts For WUSA Wusa 9 News At 6pm 20170323

More time to negotiate. The House Speaker is trying to work on the support of moderates while winning conservatives. This is a bad day for them. Its bad if they win or lose because of the destruction of the lives of american people. Reporter democrats are referencing the nonbudget Office Report which estimates 24 million americans will lose coverage over the next decade under the plan. According to a poll, 56 of americans disapprove of the republican healthcare bill. Only 17 are on board. Among republicans, only 41 supports a proposal. 24 oppose it. Seven years ago today, president barack obama signed that Affordable Care act. President donald trump went on twitter to criticize what he calls totally biased fake news reports of story. James comey confirmed this week an investigation is underway into whether mr. Trumps Campaign Associates coordinated with russian officials in effort to sway the election. Today the chair of the House Intelligence Committee privately apologized to Committee Democrats for not consulting them before telling the president incidental communication of him and associates might have been collected by intelligence agencies during the white house transition period. Just a judgment call, you know. There was a lot going on yesterday and thats a judgment call on my part. At the end of the day sometimes you make the right decision. Sometimes you make the wrong one. You have to stick by the decisions you make. The odd favored judge neil gorsuch Winning Senate approval to Supreme Court but will first have to wait out a democratic filibuster. Chuck schumer says he will lead a filibuster to the president s nominee. Republicans warned they might change senate rules to allow simple majority 51 votes needed instead of the usual 60. This would mean gorsuch could be confirmed with no democratic support. The white house calls the stance disappointing. Learning more about the american killed in yesterdays london terror attack. Cochran from utah was with his wife celebrating their wedding anniversary. A teacher from spain and British Police officer also died. Today a 75 year old man died of his injuries. Police shot and killed the attacker khalid masood. He was not the subject of any current investigations. I will continue to focus on motivation, his preparation, and associates. Investigators arrested seven people during over night bridge where pedestrians were mowed down and parliament is back in session. Police in belgium may have prevented a deadly scene. Officers managed to stop a car that was racing through a busy shopping area. People who were walking jumped out of the way and no one was hurt. Police arrested the driver on suspicion of driving at a crowd. He is a 39 year old french resident. His first name is muhammad but his last name is not clear. It was not released. Police say they found knives and a pellet gun in the car. A 19 year old in israel arrested for phoning the recent string of bomb threats against Jewish Community centers and day schools in the u. S. And abroad. The unidentified man is jewish israeli with dual american citizenship. His arrest is a result of an investigation by fbi and israeli authorities. Investigators have not revealed a motive. The suspects lawyer says the man has a serious medical condition at new at 6 00, more about the visiting artist who was tied up and stabbed to death in a basement apartment in northeast washington. She had dinner with her colleagues sunday night, was set to leave monday morning. When she didnt return phone calls her colleagues went to check on her. Reporter this is a troubling story. One of the colleagues is a visiting professor. She worked in his North Carolina art studio and came to d. C. To help chin launch an art exhibit here. The two had dinner sunday night. He tells us it was filled with love, laughs, and a promise. She said, dont worry. I am not going to just leave like this. Reporter when chin did not hear from her, he went to see her stopping apartment in northeast where friends who just moved out two weeks ago let her stay. She could have stayed with anybody in d. C. That knew her. But she preferred to be independent. Reporter there police say the 34 year old was discovered bound and stabbed to death, her car stolen, a possible suspect spotted at a convenience store. Reporter she was a feminist she was a feminist, wanted to end violence against women, always fought for the rights of others. For example she would be first to point out to the victims of violence in d. C. Are disproportionately people of color. She lost her mother at a young age and i think it led to her strength. Reporter we spoke via face time to her mentor in cincinnati. Many people in cincinnati have come to me. All i can do is break out in if you can Say Something to the person who is out there . There are no words. There are no words. To take this gift of a life away. To the person that did this to her, you are too late. You failed. She was already liberated and emboldened so many people to fight for their beliefs. Her spirit will continue. Reporter i am told friends at the university of cincinnati and beyond are working closely with her family and theyre hoping to have some kind of memorial for her next week. Delia goncalves, wusa9. The possible suspect may be traveling. D. C. Police remain the sole agency on the case and tell us theyre not working with regional partners or the fbi. We are told to be ready for a warm up just in time for the weekend. Topper shed the coat on the weather terrace. Its going to be nice. It will be a slow process tomorrow. By afternoon high temps tomorrow are 64 downtown, 66 fredericksburg, 72 cumberland. Well come back though. We may have to pay the price with some showers. Well tell you which of the weekend days will be the best to grill out. Metro fares are going up starting this summer. Board members voted today to increase peak rates by . 10. Off peak will go up by . 25. Bus routes will be canceled and wait times between trains could be up to 15 minutes. As you can imagine, this is frustrating. If i am going to pay more for less service, that doesnt make sense to me. I totally understand. Also there are observations pences tied to delivering the service. Expenses tied to delivering the service. It has to come from somewhere. The increases start in july. Well have all the details on our website and our wusa9 app. A Police Officer and three civilians fatally shot during a domestic few locations. A 15 year veteran officer was fatally shot wednesday as he responded to an apartment complex near green bay. Before that, police discovered two other people had been killed at a bank and law firm. The gunman suspected in all three slayings was taken into custody after a standoff. A chicago grand jury indicted a former Police Officer on additional charges in connection with the deadly shooting of a black teenager. Jason vandyke is facing 23 felonies including first degree murder and aggravated battery in the 2014 shooting of 17 year old will a quan mcdonald. Video shows him shooting the victim 16 times. The head basketball coach John Thompson is out. John thompson iii. There is some reaction to the firing. Well bring it to you. Backlash at a Montgomery High School where a student reported being racism, hate filled calls flooding a high school after the reported rape of a 14 hundreds of people have called including one who threatened tooo sht all illegals. Bruce leshan reports the schools are urging people to calm down. Someone called and said they were going to shoot illegals in the schools. Police have stationed more officers and patrol cars at the high school but do not believe that this is a credible threat. We know that this is a heated issue. Really take a step back because safety of the students are most important. If people are making threats, we cant keep schools safe. Reporter anger and protests have spread to carter Rock Springs Elementary school. An suv carrying u. S. Education secretary betsy devos had to thread jostling protesters from opposing sides as she headed into the school to read to 2nd graders. Even before she arrived, devos released a statement saying r girl reportedly raped last week if the boys bathroom at Rockville High School allegedly by teenagers milian and montano, immigrants awaiting deportation hearings. Governor hogan who was with devos claimed earlier that milian and montano were in the country because of obama era amnesty for unaccompanied minors. He is now condemning the calls. We call condone hate speech like that. The governor says it has to stop. Bruce leshan, wusa9. Secretary devos left the School Without talking to reporters. The defense attorney for one of the two suspects accused of raping a 14 Year Old Girl inside Rockville High School says the client is innocent. The reported rape has attrac suspects are not from the country. 18 year old milian was in the country illegally but because montano is a minor there is less information about him. The defense attorney for milian says the sex was con sensual. Reporter how can it be consensual if shes 14 years old. There may not be a four year age difference between the two which is required by law. Students made posters and hung them up in school today to show the victim shes not alone and they are all in this together. Jury deliberations in the criminal trial. Accused of covering sexual abuse of minors by jerry sandusky. He is now serving 60 years in prison. Spanner is facing up years if convicted. Two others linked to the case accepted guilty pleas and await sentencing. A man released from prison is back into custody accused of kidnapping a woman whose dramatic escape was caught on camera. And kidnapped her police say earlier this month. Surveillance cameras show her tumbling out of the trunk and running for her life. Police arrested him tuesday and he remains behind bars tonight on 500,000 bond. Towns was released from prisons on than in january after serving five years for drug possession. A story thats gotten a lot of attention. A family in aurora, colorado finally got their dog back. It took a judge to declare that the dog was not a wolf. Animal control insisted that it was a wolf hybrid which are banned as well they should be. The family provided the court with the results of a we knew that because we knew he wasnt a wolf. We were just happy so they knew. They were stating him as a wolf and they knew he wasnt. He doesnt act like a wolf. What does he act like . A regular dog. What does a wolf act like . The owner pleaded guilty to misdemeanor dog at large charge and had to promise to build a six foot fence to keep capone from getting loose again and arrested and charged with being a wolf. Dog at large. Gibe was suspected of being a wolf one time. Said no one ever. Exactly. Thank you. We are looking at warmer weather tomorrow and really warm stuff over the weekend. There you go. Lets start with our three degree guarantee. I am sweating a little bit about this. We went 50 today. We were cold to start but didnt have much wind. Its a high sun angle right now. I will let you know at 11 0 brisk, 47. The dew point is 9. Its come up a little bit but thats a dry air mass. Relative humidity is 21 . Cherry tree blossoms are okay because we will stay above freezing. Bus stop temperatures 28 to 45. You still need a coat taking the kids to the bus stop. Theyll carry it home but thats a small price to pay for the 60s. Warmer friday with a stray shower and a warm weekend with primarily afternoon showers, perhaps a thunderstorm late sunday afternoon and evening. Spring is taking hold finally. 64 tomorrow, 74 saturday, 70 sunday, low 70s monday, around 70 tuesday. It will become a bit unsettled next week with showers and thunderstorms. At 10 00 tonight we are clear with 39 downtown. By morning there will be areas below freezing but not as colted as last night with 31 in gaithersburg, 25 fredericksburg. Clouds tomorrow with a front. Even by 1 00 we are only at 50, 51 downtown. By evening, strong southerly winds get us to 62 downtown by 6 00 p. M. Tomorrow, 24 hours from now, 69 cumberland, 68 romney, 70 in petersburg. 55 with sunshine returning by 1 00. It will be beautiful saturday with 74. Even sunday will be okay, at least the first 2 3 anyway with afternoon showers and highs around 70. Next seven days we are looking at 70 with showers monday and tuesday, a possible yellow weather alert day, clearing with mid 60s wednesday and low 60s thursday. A lot of people talking about the georgetown situation. Georgetown basketball is looking for a new head coach. Jt iii was shown the door after 13 seasons on the job. We have more z2ay1z z16fz y2ay1y y16fy most of timeno pets. Cant work that way, no. Sweetie mom, stop screaming at me lean on your brakes mom there are bumps along the road of life. And for each one theres triplea. To keep your job in college sports, you have to win. Georgetown basketball was not winning so the school fired john tmpson iii. It surprised many who thought his last name made him untouchable. His dad made them the National Power and he had early success but the last two seasons, sub 500. A change was made. Ti campus was mixed. Maryland women have a big weekend ahead of them as the terps head to bridge port for the sweet 16. They will face oregon saturday morning at 11 30, an early start time. I think at this point any team in the sweet 16, theyre going to be a really good team. They had to win on dukes home court. So they have a young , team started three freshmen, have a lot of international players. Theyre not afraid of the moment. Not afraid of the moment tonight, sweet 16 for the men on wusa9 or michigan. Shoed be adoze at 7 00. Kansas and perdue. Baltimores adam jones starred for red, white, blue and had extra incentive to win. Before the game, we got a note that there were some championship shirts made. We didnt make them. And a that didnt sit well with us. And a parade. That didnt sit well with us. So we did what we had to do. Now they go back to playing for their teams to get ready for opening day in a couple weeks. Georgetown goes outside now and gets a big name or new recruits . I think they go outside of the box. We are hearing maybe johnny dawkins. Do you think John Thompson ii will have a say . I think so. Although the former commissioner is heading the search party. Could be big. A big name. Well be captioning sponsored by cbs

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