Transcripts For WUSA Wusa 9 News Sunday At 630 PM 20160605 :

Transcripts For WUSA Wusa 9 News Sunday At 630 PM 20160605

Wires down there. We have a couple of showers here just on route 50, mainly east of buoy headed towards annapolis. A few sprinkles towards laurel. You can see this here. Potomac now approaching the American Legion bridge a couple of heavier cells. Off to the south is where we still have a little bit of lightning showing up south of midland towards culpepper. This is all moving east at about 40 to 45 miles per hour. So we are thinking its going to be fredericksburg at about 7 05. In Southern Maryland especially st. Marys this activity in the north nen that could get southern st. Marys with north st. Marys. Your west of the blueridge, its over for you. Temps mid 80s south. Still potential for a couple of strong storms here. Rain cooled lowtomid 70s. It could have been worse than it was. I think a lot of us have dodged a bullet. I am coming back in a few minutes. Some changes next weekend that i think you are going to like. Power lines have been knocked down by falling trees in upper montgomery county. Reporter debra, Severe Weather to blame on all of this. Crews are there as we speak. Someone is driving down. That is brink road here. There are several tree branches. Brink road near whiteman road in gaithersburg. Less than an hour ago bad weather came through and knocked down several tr it was so severe the line actually burnt right through the asphalt and the current fried a well pump controller. That caused smoke to fill up a homeowners basement. Thankfully, the home didnt catch on fire. But a lot of Power Outages in the area. 1100 customers are without power right now and they hope to have that restored by 8 00 tonight. Debra, back to you. Thank you so much, stephanie. And the widow of a highly decorated navy seal killed on his bike last summer is speaking out. Only on 9 and she is hoping someone will return her husbands stolen ghost bike. Stephanie ramirez bridges us that story from bethesda. Reporter that ghost bike was right here. She notice it had missing just before she came to wash the flag that was over the ghost bike. She is the widow of a retired navy captain tim holden who died early in the morning last august. He was riding his bike when he was struck and killed by a 22 yearold driver in this area. A member of the Cycling Community arranged the ghost bike as a reminder to share the road. Pam holden and her brotherin law hope its returned. We used to go there every day. Its tragic that someone felt it necessary to take the bike, which means so much to our family. Its disgusting. Reporter that person you heard from there, he is an avid cyclist and the person who put up the ghost bike here. Tonight at 11 you will hear more from him and the family and their words to the person or people who may have taken this cyclist memorial. Stephanie ramirez, wusa9. This is not the First Time Police had stolen ghost bike. Police are offering up to a 10,000 reward for information leading to an arrest. The flight carrying the body of muhammad ali has arrived in louisville, kentucky. He will be laid to rest on friday. Billy crystal and president bill clinton will deliver eulogies at an inner faith service. It will be streamed online. Before the service alis motorcade will travel the streets of the city so people can pay their respects to the greatest of all time. Meantime, fans in alis hometown paying tribute to the three time world heavyweight champ by leaving flowers and balloons at his home. The small pink house where he learned to develop those boxing skills has now been turned into a museum. Did you know muhammad ali weighs fame was born in d. C. . The founder of the nation mosque was the one to give it today members shared their stories with wusa9s ellen brian. At one time we were going, you know, back to the hotel, and he is dancing and put up his dukes. I put up my dukes. [ laughter ] he hit me on the arm. I said, thats it. Reporter members at the nation agencies mosque remember their friend muhammad ali as a jokester. The first question, he said, well, mr. Ali, can you tell us what was your hardest fight . And ali paused and he said, that was my first wife. [ laughter ] reporter the laughter was constant as they told stories about ali. Man they consider to be the biggest influencer of the islamic faith in america. He made it possible to change our names. When he embraced something, something his faith, and then he began to stand upon that, it took him to a world stage. Reporter along with the laugh ster, they remembered his love for kids. I loved seeing the way he could embrace a student. Just hug that child, you know. Reporter and his out spoken confidence. Predicting fights. Predicting the knockouts. This guy is fabulous. So we are very proud of him. Reporter he became Close Friends about ali and last saw him at his house a year ago. He was like a big brother. I met him when i was 19. I did not expect over the years to build a relationship. And even though his body is gone, he has left the body of influence of love. And several members of the nations mosque will be attending alis funeral later this week. A fallen Prince Georges County firefighters name has been added to the Maryland Fire Rescue Services memorial in annapolis. John olmschneider died april 15 while responding to a call. The 37yearold husband and father was shot to death when he and another firefighter forced their way into a home to check on someone reported to be in need of medical attention. Fellow firefighters kevin swain was wounded in the attack. Coming up on wusa9, word that Richard Simmons is hospitalized. We are going to have the latest on what some are calling his bizarre behavior. And we will get a peak at one of the biggest comic and the wolf was huffing and puffing. Well, when you have copd, it can be hard to breathe. 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Richard simmons is reportedly hospitalized this evening for bizarre behavior. This just three months after Close Friends raised concerns he was being held hostage at his Hollywood Hills house. According to tmz, the 67year old fitness guru was taken to the hospital friday night after someone at his home, quote, became sufficiently alarmed to call 911. Now, the biggest annual comic and Pop Culture Convention wrapped up a little over an hour ago. Some 50,000 people attended this years awesome con at the Washington Convention center. This threeday event look how cute featured costume characters from comic books, television and movies as well as panel discussions, celebrity guests, collectible toy and artwork. One Luke Skywalker fan summed up his experience. Awesome. Seeing the captain america show, that was really inspiring. Teaching us how to do all these amazing things. How you can create your own costume. It was really amazing. I wonder how many people people said awesome there today . The first awesome con took place in 2013 and was an immediate success. The event quickly grew into one. Largest fan conventions on the east coast. Okay. So the question, have the storms passed . Howard is going know you can keep your financial big picture under control. Know you can see how much you have to spend keep track of what youre putting away. And know youre budgeted for the great escape. Thanks to virtual wallet by pnc. Today is a yellow weather alert day. Now here is wusa9s first alert weather. A lot of people wondering whats going on in different areas. If it hit you, you know about it. Oh, yeah. These were heavy rainmakers. We saw some damage out in montgomery county. Hagerstown, westminster area, alto air, they had some wind damage. We kind of lucked out. But we are not done completely yet. Another hour or two. But we have a wonderful picture to show. You someone is done. Lets check this out. Adam had the showers. And then they got rewarded with this. Beautiful rainbow. Its pictures like that that make the storms worthwhile. Exactly. If you got any of those, tweet them to us wusa9. Two lines of showers and storms. The one that was giving us headaches earlier to the north. This second one may bring a shower later tonight. North and west of d. C. , youre done for Severe Weather. Dont worry about it. South and east we are tracking showers and storms here. These are just popping still along route 50 here and just moving towards annapolis. Everything is racing to the east at 40 to 45 miles an hour. Howard county you are pretty spring, college park, belts villa couple of showers are racing to the east. Some very heavy rain coming down briefly there, back to the American Legion bridge in parts of bethesda. Now towards Prince William county. From manassas, these have been providing quick rainfall. Get ready for that. And also the south seeing a little bit of lightning there down towards luis. Everything is racing east. Quantico headed your way. It will be there at 7 07. Dale city 7 02. La plata also. Dunkirk 7 47. And one last stop on first alert doppler, headed tarts saint towards southern st. Marys. Lighter showers towards leonard down. As far as the watch, more montgomery, lauden, northwest of the blueridge no longer a concern. Once this last line of storms passes we will be in much better shape. You can see why. We are cooler. Low 70s here where the watches drop. Lowtomid 80s down south. That is enough fuel, if you will, to keep the storms popping for another couple of hours. Michael son weather camera, mostly cloudy. A little bit of rain activity came through. 77. Feels like 79. This is one way you can tell we are not too concerned. Northnorthwesterly winds kicking up behind the line to 25 miles per hour. Futurecast shows the line quickly pulling away. You may have a stray shower overnight north and west. Tomorrow looks pretty good. In the afternoon in the mountains could we see a popup shower . Yeah. I am thinking by tuesday as another front approaches its going to be warm tomorrow, well into the 80s, tuesday may have a couple of afternoon showers and then finally drier air will trynov in for wednesday and thursday. And wednesday and fantastic. For tonight the early storms south and southeast. Partly cloudy. Stray shower. Down in the 80s. Tomorrow morning i think a good deal of sun. 70s rising towards 80s by lunchtime. Midtoupper 80s tomorrow. Quite warm with the stray shower in the mountains. Look at the threeday forecast. Tuesday 85. Refreshing wednesday. Yes. 77. I am going to keep thursday in the 70s as well just for you, debra. And by friday with the nats coming back for a homestand, a game on wusa, 84 and toasty next weekend. 80s, may flirt with 90. I love that kind of weather. You do love it. I do. I love this story. When a bunch of fiveyearold girls decided they wanted to have a dressup Princess Party i would have gone one little girl stood out from the arielles and belles. This little dancer. She stood out as her dad says it was her idea. Her inspiration was really just her love of hot dogs. To that the internet responded and the hashtag hot dog princess started to trend. The end. I think thats a adorable. You have to stand out. You have to be who you are. Dont be like everyone else. The nats are trying to stand out. Trying to salvage a game in cincinnati. It was a wild one. We will see if the nats stand by me vo for dominion, part of delivering Affordable Energy includes supporting those in our community who need help. Our Energyshare Program does just that, assisting with bill pay and providing free, energysaving upgrades. Its more than helping customers, its helping neighbors. Stand by me now wusa9 game on sports with frank hammer han brought to you by xfinity. Baseball is a simple game. You throw the ball. You hit the ball. You try to score runs. But something the nationals have struggled to do in the first two losses at cincinnati. So could they finally break out against the reds on sunday afternoon . Yeah, series finale. Trying to five run fourth inning. Ben revere capping off the rally with a single in the sixth. Nationals now 95. Wilson ramos rbi to score murphy. That run would be huge. Bottom 9er. Applebaum in for the save right. Now 109. Bases juiced. He gets ivan dejesus to fly out. Nats hang on for the 109 victory over the reds. I was trying to remain cool and try to think positive, you know. Thats what you got to do. I mean, this is similar to one that, you know, we let get away in miami. Bases loaded. Nobody out. So, boy, that was some game. All right. Series finale birds and yankees. Bottom down 10. The bases juiced. Matt wieters singles up the middles. Two runs come home. A third scores on an error. Birds rally 31 victory. Tennis anyone . Novak djokovic is the best player on the planet. He is 29 years old. He has not won a french open in his illustrious career. So would the 12th time be the charm for the joker . Taking on andy murray. Right now five elite players in tennis. Two not in the tournament because of injuries. Federer and udahl. Four set win over murray. He draws a heart in the red clay. Djokovic has won 28 grand slam matches in a row. First wimbledon in 2007 when i clinched the number one and right there. So, yeah, i am just going to try to cherish those moments and enjoy it. Golden state trying to defend its nba title and the selfproclaimed King Lebron James trying to dethrone the warriors who look good in the game one victory the other night. Game two is tonight still in oakland in this best of seven series. Golden state looking spry. Quickly people are saying the cavaliers have no shot in the series. I think they have got a scott. What does redskins coach jay gruden think . I wouldnt bet against steph or lebron, to be honest with you. I love watching that series and those players play. Bigtime players making those big plays. Fun to watch. Coaches being very president ial. He is not going to make a prediction there. Staying the course right down the middle. I still like cleveland. What do you think . Yeah. I am a steph curry fan. Oh, you are . Okay. Yeah. What do you think . Thats why true.  a lot of fun to watch. Tell us about what we got going on the rest of the night. We will wrap up the showers and storms over the next couple of hours. If you are south and southeast a chance for a couple of storms. Tomorrow warm. 88. 85 tuesday. A couple of sweet days wednesday and thursday before some heat returns next weekend. Absolutely. Thanks for watching. We will see you back here at 11. Dont forget you always get updates on its here, but its going by fast. The opportunity of the year is back the mercedesbenz summer event. 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