Transcripts For WJLA ABC 7 News At 500 20240622 : comparemel

Transcripts For WJLA ABC 7 News At 500 20240622

They are encouraged to bring the rain weather, rain clothing, ponchos. You are allowed to bring small collapsible umbrellas inside the stadium as long as it can fit inside a small bag. 16 x 16 or a small purse. Fans are told not to wear flipflops. Wear comfortable flat shoes, especially if they have field tickets and if it rains tonight. They cannot bring backpacks selfie sticks. Beach balls or large signs. As far as a backup plan we reached out to the concert promoter to find out what might happen if the weather turns severe. We did not hear back in time for the broadcast but the nats organization said rain or shine the show will go on tonight. A spokesperson saying the show will go on the safety of the guests is of the utmost importance. We are prepared to local fans under cover until the storm passes. We heard from d. C. Fire and e. M. S. Saying that staff from the Fire Marshal Office will be on site to assist with evacuation if necessary. There is enough space on the concourse to house thousands according to d. C. Fire. Fingers crossed that is nothing to worry about. The gates open at 5 00. The show is underway at 7 00. Worth noting that metro has an extra hour of Late Night Service available tonight. The last train is leaving the navy yard station at 12 39 a. M. Reporting live mike conneen. Leon here is hoping you dont have to shake too much off tonight. See what happens with the rain. You can stay connected with the storm watch 7 team and monitor the facebook and the twitter feeds or download the storm watch app on the smartphone or the tablet to have it at all times. Dont touch me. Dont touch me. Kellye emotions running high at the metro station. The man who shot the video said he was assaulted by the station manager. Brianne carter is trying to get to the bottom of what happened. Brianne it is important to note this happened in may. But was recently posted on social media. Talking to the man who shot the video because he was up there on the platform waiting for the train when he came downstairs to try to get his daughter to use the restroom. Also important to note we understand in ting to both sides on this issue that it lasted much longer than this oneminute video. Hey hey hey. T touch me. Dont touch me. That is the word of a man at the metro station during an argument with a station manager, an argument he caught on camera. The man who doesnt want to be identified tells abc7 he asked if his daughter could use the station restroom, the station manager started yelling at him. He is going to have an accident. She will have an accident. Did you hear what i said . The father claims he was told the restroom was closed for cleaning but asked if his daughter could go in for one minute. The father then claims that the station manager continued yelling so he got out his camera. The father claims that the manager finally let them in toward the restroom but as they approach the restroom the father claims the manager began flipping out. You disrespect me. Tonight reaction from the riders who use the station every day. Im surprised this man reacted like that. It is surprising. I never had problems at the station at all. Hetero officials apologize to the man and said in a Statement Today that the behavior is unacceptable to us. Appropriate action being taken. Just in the last ten minutes i spoke to a relative of that station managers. She has never seen anything like that and been an incredible employee 57 that he has been employee of the month in the organization. Metro issued the statement to us tonight but she says the relative is saying this is not something that she has seen before. From this individual. Reporting live Brianne Carter abc7 news. Leon thank you. D. C. Chief of police told abc7 she was concerned about the prevalence of dirt bikes heading in the summer months. Today they tried to crack down on the bikes that are illegal on the city streets. D. C. Bureau chief sam ford live to explain what happened today. If they confiscate the dirt rider they could confiscate the atv and the rider could face a list of problems. Cat and mouse dame for years. Most of the time the police wont chase them. The risk of the bystandersing hurt is too great. Today, Public Safety chairman introduced a bill he hopes to get the illegal bike riders attention. We need to compensate them. Make sure that the people who have vehicles register them so we can track them. The bill targets illegal dirt and a. T. V. Riders starting at 250 fine and 30 days in jail for the first offense. Up to 1000 in six months for a third offense. This will be hard to stop what they are doing. They used to doing it. They will keep doing it. Do you ride them . Of course i ride dirt bikes. What is the joy . They are fun. Increasingly you will see them in groups riding no helmet or license plate and no concern. Last september a woman was hit and critically injured at a cross walk at alabama and stan top southeast. Theyre dangerous. They have no respect for other drivers on the road. If the bill passes its not year what impact the law will have. Police have to catch them first and duffy like the chief is opposed to the cop chasing biker. If police catch them the penalty under the bill would make them hurt. If young woman was hit in the intersection here at stanton and alabama. Reportedly at the time the dirt b laughed, hopped on with another dirt bike rider and fled the scene. According to acquaintances the victim, the young woman recovered from the injuries. Reporting live, sam ford, abc7 news. Leon thank you. Another d. C. Councilmember is taking aim at the street prostitution tonight. Jack evans introduced a bill he calls honey, i lost the car. This measure would require police to tow an impound car of a socalled john. Evans says the intent is deter people from picking up the prostitutes but they would be too embarrassed to lose the vehicle in the process. Kellye new developments tonight. The man convicted of killing washington intern chandra levy will stay in prison while waiting to be retried. Lawyers for ingmar gaundique appeared in court to request his release after pushing for a new trial. He was convicted in 2010 but the lawyers say a key witness in the case gave false or misleading testimony. Tomorrow is the first of two press conferences scheduled this week in the lions sisters case. They will be held in wheaton. Brad bell tells us what we could learn about the 40yearold cold case. Brad the mysterious press release promises development in the case of the missing sisters, sheila and kathryn believed kidnapped in wheaton in 1975. According to the sources it involves a legal move not the discovery of new evidence. For months now the investigation has focused on two locations and seven people. More than a year ago an imprisoned child sex offender was named a person of interest. Later his uncle Richard Welsh was also named a person of interest. Police have searched richards hyattsville home and lees twice and found propee welsh family once owned to look for the girls remains. The bedford sheriff and the Commonwealth Attorney assumed active prostures on the postures on the case pressuring those around Taylors Mountain and the welsh family to talk. You are not just helping Law Enforcement do its job. You are helping a mother and a father have peace. Today at the welsh family hyattsville home this woman declined to answer questions about the case. Saying that the police lie. They will make this press Conference Tomorrow the place where the sisters with were last seen 40 years ago. In Wheaton Brad Bell abc7 news. Leon tonight a Montgomery County man is in maryland to face child pornography charges. Jonathan elias is standing by at live desk for brand new information we uncovered about the case. Jonathan since we first broke the news at 4 00 on abc7 news we learned that the suspect a former employee of a dance School Called dance place in northeast washington. His name is bradley porter. We have a photo. He had images of child pornography at a hard drive at his home in takoma but they found him in knoxville. He has turned himself in. A spokes penn with the tans studio tans place, tells us that he is no longer employed there and never involved with kids classes. The very latest im jona elias. Back to you. Thank you. Coming up on abc7 news at 5 00 move over rusty. Another animal from the national zoo is ready for the spotlight. Leon months after an abc7 investigation on high fines on local toll lanes we are hearing that the problems may not be getting better. Kellye the donald hear what he said about his comments on immigrants and another project in d. C. Leon tracking a line of storms moving toward the area. We will check in with doug hill in a few minute. Dont kellye negotiators reach a nuclear deal after 20 months after onagain offagain talks. As mary bruce reports not even is pleased with the deal. Mary negotiators emerging this morning after 17 days of tense talks finally with a deal to block iran from developing a nuclear weapon. President obama today because america negotiated from a position of strength and principle we have stopped the spread of Nuclear Weapons in the region. Mary a diplomatic triumph. In a compromise on a major sticking point, a longstanding arms embargo on iran will be lifted over time. This is in the vested interest of even. Mary iran calling this a winwin. But not even agrees with the move. Israel blasting the agreement. Today is a much more dangerous place today than yesterday. Mary now in washington lawmakers who have 60 days to review the deal threatening to rerail it. It will hand a dangerous regime billions in sanctions relief while paving the way for nuclear iran. The president who insists the deal is built on verification vowed to veto any attempt to stand in the way. This is about thedy fintive steps that iran have to take to dismantle the system and set up inspectors to watch them 24 7. Mary in washington the president is working the phone to try to sell the deal and making a personal call to israeli Prime Minister to smooth things over. In northwest mary bruce, abc7 news. Leon all right. Turn to the weather now. Will we get drenched . Doug i hope not. There are two storms were watching both could bring storms to the area. But lets get started to tell you what we know. And what we think will happen. We start with a time lapse. From the oakdale high school. Weather bug site. This is from early this morning. Sun rise. Thunderstorms went through there. It took a while to dry out but it was a nice day across the area. Right now in the area its partly cloudy skies. That is not the story everywhere. We had showers and the thoms to the west. New Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Morgan County in West Virginia. Berkeley springs and western part of Frederick County in Virginia North of win chester and stephen city. This is the first line i talk about. Farther west the area in pink is a severe thunderstorm watch in effect. A lot of moving parts here. One thing that is done analysis tent from the marylandpennsylvania line through the area and west across the mountains and in West Virginia, Flash Flood Watch in effect until 2 00 a. M. The ground has been so wet by so much rain in the past six weeks that its not going to take much more than one heavy thunderstorm to cause flash flooding. This is the area of storms growing. Morgan county under the gun. South southwest to kirby. This is where the Severe Thunderstorm Warnings are. They are moving east at 20 miles per hour. Contrast that to the storms a little farther west. Where they are moving like 40 miles per hour. In the meantime, we are enjoying a pleasant tuesday afternoon. With the temperatures midtoupper 80s and sunshine. 88 at the Reagan National airport. Pull back on thetellite and the radar. Here is the d. C. Metro. We get in the an we see the storms fire on the eastern side of the appalachians. Common phenomena in the summertime. Up related to this junk unrelated to this junk. The storms are firing you were and they will move east to northeast. There is a risk that some could get to d. C. Metro at lets say 7 00 7 15. Then a bigger concern for the line that is coming in later tonight at 10 00. That is what we are seeing now. The future cast as we analyze this going to through the evening; we update it it shows showers a storms possible. 10 00 at night. The steady, heavy lines of storms are shunted north and well southwest. Assuming the model is correct. Tomorrow afternoon, we see another chance of showers coming through. Weak showers and clearing skies. Beautiful weather thursday and friday with sunshine, lower humidity. Nice breeze good stuff. Tomorrow, partly sunny. Winds are turning northwest. In the process there could be isolated shower or two. For seven days good news here in the shortterm. Thursday and friday look gorgeous. Mid80s. Sunshine. Breeze. Low humidity. Saturday sunday, monday, tuesday, no such luck. Partly cloudy hot and humid. Highs in the lower 90s. There will be a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Leon good looking stretch. Kellye yeah. Thursday and friday look really good. Doug we will take it. I wish we could transpose saturday and sunday but it doesnt work that way. Kellye no. This is one for the history books in new england. We will get a Progress Report on a massive mound of snow in middle of july. Leon plus a way to take out the anger at being portrayed that way. Leon how a business gives people an outlet for the anger over Donald Trumps comments over immigrants. An animal breaks out of an enclosure at the national zoo. Find out how long he was on the run. Kellye a look at what is coming up on abc. Leon welcomeback to abc7 wild king dom. Two years ago rusty the panda made his way from the national zoo. And last night, a small mammal tried to follow in randys footsteps. Kellye diane cho is live roads the zoo with more on the great escape. Diane . He is making a name for himself. Most kids come to the zoo to look for animals they know. Like this guy. But last night another resident at the national zoo that isnt as well known wanted time in the limelight. A very naughty animal. Escape wasnt elaborate as the recent prison breaks we reported on. He simply chewed his way through the stainless steel mesh. The animal broke out an hour before the zoo closed monday night. It was brought to your attention after one of the guests noticed him in an area where he wasnt supposed to be behind the small mammal house. It was a shortlived life on the run for the south american rodent. He will meet his new mate. Thats why he didnt go far. He knew hed meet with the girlfriend. The staff member will review the mesh to see if there are changes that need to be made. Reporting live, diane cho abc7 news. Leon maybe he just doesnt like it on the east coast. A west coast guy. Kellye possibly. Kellye today announced the 201 envictu s games are coming to the united states. They bring together injured active duty and the veteran Service Members from 14 nations to compete in ten sports archery, cycling, track and field and wheelchair basketball. Leon coming up at abc7 news at 5 00 we need to be proud of our heritage. Leon why a man decided to walk from South Carolina to d. C. Carrying a Confederate Flag. Kellye later, paying the price. A woman turns to the 7 on your side iteam after finding the company in charge of the toll lanes may not change its way with time. What did donald trump say today about mexicans . Suzanne ill have that story when we return. Kellye right now the weather team is tracking this line of storms as it heads for the area. Doug hill is in the Weather Center with the latest. Doug two lines of storms we are dealing with. The first is sparking Severe Thunderstorm Warnings. Go to graphic. Let me give you an update. In the past minute new Severe Thunderstorm Warning is issue for shenandoah and hardy in West Virginia. Morgan county West Virginia and tiny piece of Washington County maryland. In effect until 6 00 this evening. The storms are moving east at 2530 miles per hour. Strong winds and torrential rain. There is the problem. The for reason torrential downpours. This is moving east northeast. Well monitor those. The second line of storms, farther west. The worst part will miss the area. But northern extent to Northern Virginia and pittsburgh area. That is a line that could translate across the mountain to effect the area at 1 00 or so. Each could produce thunderstorms and flooding. Well be back. Leon you got it. Less than a week after post office protested, donald trump is back in virginia to pop the cork on the next project. As Suzanne Kennedy reports, he wasnt shy about returning to the controversial comment about the immigration. It didnt take long for Ribbon Cutting at the winery to turn into a Political Campaign stop. I love the mexican people. Touch has been at the center of a selfimposed fire storm of illegal immigrants. The debate centered around his Hotel Development at the post office and whether the construction workers are in the u. S. Illegally. The president ial candidate said the workers are legal. They checked it carefully. If you find someone, let me know and well fire that person. There has never been a building built so careful with the imlegal immigrants illegal immigrants. Suzanne several highprofile restaurants pulled out of the Downtown Hotel something he says they will regret. They are going to pay me a depos

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