Jonathan there is growing concern about the health of john mccain. He is hospitalized at if Walter Reed Medical Center and he is increasingly frail and not speaking up as much as he has in the past. It comes a day after former Vice President joe biden a longtime friend of mccain in the senate consoled his daughter megan mccain on the view. Its not about me. Its about everyone. No. It is about everyone. But look. One of the things that gave beau courage my word was john. Your dad, you may remember when you were a little kid. Your dad took care of my beau. Your dad when he was working with me became friends with beau. Beau talked about his courage. He said the hospitalization is for side effect of brain cancer. They expect him to be back at work alison ryan is 47 years old but he has served for 18 years. Another story we are following tonight the repeal of the Net Neutrality. Amidst the controversial move by the s. E. C. , threats and protests are growing against the move that some fear could transform the internet to a pay to play system. We have what that means with nathan baca. Ill going to try to explain the Net Neutrality in a nutshell. Say you like to watch the youtube videos on your phone. Verizon excuse me, google owns youtube. This i so they are competitors so todays action is verizon could slow down if they wanted to google video in favor of their own video service. Wi knead to ache a break recess. But before the vote unusual interruption. Hearing room cleared. Because of an anonymous threat. Police found nothing. Outside, dozens of protesters made noise to get attention of the commissioners. This is Public Agency serving private interests rather than the public. We will be suing the f. C. C. And edging the member of the congress to rally the public. After the vote we talk to the f. C. C. Chairman. What will the action do they have told us that the rules are standing in the way of them building out the network. Dont expect the internet to change immediately. If you heard about the threatened lawsuits. There may be an action from congress. Alison snow is on the ground and winter is in full force in maryland. We could see that soon. Bill good evening. We are looking at snow to roll in afternoon tomorrow. Its not much coming up on the lain here on the radar. If you look to the line between maryland and west virginia. We have snow. Keep an eye on that. Grab your coat. In the 30s. Drop below freezing. This is a good night to go out and check out the holiday lights. Tomorrow afternoon. A few snowflakes. We break down the timing and will look to the weekend. See you then. Family that is trying to keep warm ended up rush fod if hospital when the furnace began leaking Carbon Monoxide in the home. Looking at the house you cant tell anything happened except for the crew. This morning in the house on northeast d. C. A woman her and child were overcome by the Carbon Monoxide. Sickened and taken to the hospital. They called 911 in time and they will be okay. The firefighters realizing that the furnace was to blame for the elevated Carbon Monoxide level in the home. The surface was old and if problem was obvious. It carried the Carbon Monoxide through the house. This is the flue the pipe to carry it away from the furnace. This is a reminder to everybody. There are ways to get in the home but the only way to detect it is to have a working detector. She already bought one. Fortunately the mother and the child are okay. The c. O. Detector to hooked up. In northeast, brad bell, abc7 news. Larry 40 people looking for place to stay after a fire forced them from the homes. This is happening at an apartment complex on whitfield chapel road. 14 units were damaged and no one was seriously injured. This was an electrical fire that started accidentally. Alison tragic update to a story we are following in silver spring. The killing of an 88yearold woman was a murdersuicide. Rose dyer and her 61yearold son garvey dyer shot her to death and turned gun on himself. Anyone who knows what led up to this to give them a call. Jonathan new develop in the a story we followed in southeast d. C. Police say an employee at a school for children with the disabilities shot video of a student undressing and shared it on social media. We have more. This is a prime example of oversharing on social media. The aide is 23yearold krisha garris. She was arrested and charged with voyeurism. This happened on december 1. While the student was in the bathroom having her tube and diaper changed. The tube delivers nutrients to her stomach. She communicates nonverbally. The students age is not relief but we know she has cognitive level of an monthold. The school says the employee was terminated immediately. Just take a look at some of the details. In an interview with the police the aide telling them she had a stressful day and was looking forward to started the weekend. He is recorded the video to document her stressful day and captured the video, want to go home. She has been terminated and she has only been there for a little more than a year. We have more at 10 00 on newschannel8 and 11 00 on abc7 news. In newsroom, annalysa gayle, abc7 news. Alison terrible story. Thank you. A former massage therapist at massage envy pleads guilty to sexually abusing three women. In each case Habtamu Gebreslassie admitted to improper o jonathan reminder that the d. C. Police are hunting for an uber driver accused of sexually assaulting a woman on sunday morning near the capitol. Uber says it deactivated his driver account. Brianne carter is talking to the victim of the attack and that is coming up at 6 00. Alison but still ahead at 5 00, rioting or practicing the First Amendment rights. The question a jury is about to decide in the ain august ration day protest. Jonathan plus, brazen thieves go to ra store to catch an employee on a ladder by surprise. What they made him do, next. Alison why southeast washington only fullService Hospital is going to stop delivering babies. A lot of my paycheck. Jonathan community demanding answers from metro after left them and the homes rattled. Your brain is an amazing thing. But as you get older, it naturally begins to change, causing a lack of sharpness, or even trouble with recall. Thankfully, the breakthrough in prevagen helps your brain and actually improves memory. The secret is an ingredient originally discovered. In jellyfish. In clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve shortterm memory. Prevagen. The name to remember. The freestanding, cordfree vacuum that can live anywhere because it has two rechargeable batteries. That means you can always be charging, welcome to hasslefree runtime with shark. It has been a y residents complained about the home vibrating and cracking in the walls. The new 7,000 series trains are to blame for this. Tonight, the abc7 transportation reporter sam sweeney asks metro why they are not responding. Its brought a lot of my paycheck. I can show them to you. It doesnt matter where you are, you can see the damage, the cracked walls and the broken floors. What happened to the pictures. It fell off the wall and broke up. Fell off this wall. The wall here. Smith and the neighbors say the extreme vibrating started rattling the home as soon as metro began using the 7,000 series rail cars last year. We know when the new trains are coming through. They hired a Third Party Company to investigate over the summer. Today we asked why. We will get back to them shortly. With the preliminary findings. We will be doing it shortly. The consensus is metro is not taking it seriously. Trains are running at reduced speed. The vibrations has gone down. As soon as the testing concluded the speeds went back up and the vibrations increase cig cantly. Metro denies that claim. In the meantime, the neighbors in petworth wait for answers and watch the homes crack away. In northwest washington im sam sweeney, abc7 news. Larry there is good news for the metro riders. The Free Wifi Service available at the 30 underground rail stations. It was available at six stations before today. Good way to pass the time. You have to have that working. Is it going to snow . Not a big snowstorm. This is around the west virginia, the maryland line. It looks fine but snow flakes out there. Take a look. There is not much going on. Its typical to get the cold air and a lift over the mountains. Not a big deal. The clouds work in the area. We have snowflakes tomorrow between 12 00 noon and 5 00. There is not a ton on the map. We dont see a big weather system through the area. When we have those real little brief snowfalls, those will sometimes be more flettenning at times. Not saying tomorrow. But at times. What we are looking at is the temperatures that drop. We watch the air temperature. This has an effect on what is going on in the sky and the road as well. Everybody is at or above freezing. There are a couple of spots to the west below. But the winds are five to 15. Wind chill factor is lower than that. For tonight, we have clouds that are working in now. The clouds will break. We call it a partly to mostly cloudy night. You want the cocoa. Tomorrow, we are going to see the clouds work on in. I think tomorrow is a raw day. Well below normal temperature wise. We could get to noon and then see snow bands pop up. Some of this is triggered. Not much expected to the west. In is something that you say okay. Its not that impressive of a map. It will cut out by 5 00. Future cast has it gone. You go that is not a big deal but there could be snowflakes on the slippery side in the spots tomorrow afternoon. That is what we are watching. Get you the info. The extended forecast. To 30 chance of snowflakes from the metro to the east. Saturday is great. 44. Sunday we warm to normal high. Upper 40s this time of year. Heading to next week we have the mid50s on there. Yesterday we had cold mornings and the winter will begin thursday. Alison its not cooperating with the timeline. Larry two years she is off her game. No question. Alison thank you. Still ahead a new warning about the parents who cosleep with the children. This one, though, is about the parents health. Larry a little different. Also ahead why southeast d. C. Only full Service Hospital will no longer deliver babies. Alison tonight in prime time, Everyone Favorite snowman is back. That is right. Olof frozenned a censure frozen adventure. Followed by first, though, see what is on tap for tomorrows good morning washington. Thanks, guys. Tomorrow on good morning washington its the last day to sign up for healthcare through the Affordable Care act. 7 on your side with everything you need to kno plus, star wars, the the last jedi hits the big screen and cross over to the dark side of d. C. To expanse this popup theme bar. And wake up with us for traffic and weather starting at 4 25 on good morning was Service Hospital is shutting down. Alison the united Medical Center says it has no other choice than to stop delivering babies. Sam ford explains the reason for the decision and he has reaction. Sam in august, without saying what was wrong ordered the hospital to stop delivering babies and running a nursery for the 90 days. Now the hospital decided to stop. The Board Chairman admitting if weaknesses in the hospital. To bring Obstetrics Department up to what is needed for who are often the ciggest mothers and the babies would cost between 19 and 30 million. They dont have the money. The conclusion is the option to not seek reinstatement was the best option. The chair of the Health Committee of the d. C. Council and vincent gray says he is outraged. I think unconscionable. You have the babies being born. In fact we have more children on the east end of the city than anywhere else. Gray said the board should have waited until a new operator took over. They admit the obstettics dropped 20 in the last decade. Something happened to break the trust. I dont know what it is. I dont know that. In southeast washington, sam ford, abc7 news. Alison still ahead, now i find you had my third grader transferred to the second grade reading level and you never alerted me it was an issue. Alison the iteam faking the grade investigation finds the problems go far beyond just high school. Larry plus, caught on video. The thieves force a man off a ladder. What they made him do next still ahead. The trials of six of the more than 100 people charged with rioting on inauguration day. They are wrapping up. I will bring you the latest in a moment. Alison it was hours of chaos blocks away from the president ial inauguration. Soon d. C. Jurors will decide the fate of the first group of dozens of people charged with rioting. Stephen tschida stepped out of the courtroom where the closing arguments have been going on all day long. Stephen . Stephen prosecutors say it is pretty clear it was all caught on videotape. But the defense says not so fast. It is hard to prove who did what . They also argue that some of the people may have been trapped because the police werent letting them get away. A well planned riot. Even if they personally did not inflict damage. Prosecutors maintain the obscured the faces. So it would be hard for the police to i. D. Them. But the defense countered the case that relies on Police Body Cam and video is riddled with reasonable. I think the folks on trial did nothing wrong. Six defendants facing years in prison. Defense attorney endeavor to distance their clients from other defendants. The prosecutor played a lengthy video from selfproclaimed journalist alexi wood where he gleefully describes the violence. He is also heard shouting in support of what is happening. The prosecution failed to put on a case and failed to identify people properly. Failed to show them doing anything unlawful. There are six defendants. We have three more closing arguments. Tomorrow the judge will lakely send the jury home. So the earliest, we may not get verdicts until next week. Reporting live, stephen tschida, abc7 news. Alison thank you very much. Crime alert to tell you act after an Armed Robbery caught on video in the district. Here you see the two men come in, guns drawn. They barge in the Ace Hardware Store on the upper street northwest. They grab a clerk and find the man that is working on the ladder and they order both of them to go into the office. The men open the safe, grab the cash and run off. The two people were injured. The police hope that someone knows the men. Larry Maryland State Police havent determined what caused a german town man to hit and kill fire marshall and f. B. I. Agent along i270 in the crash friday. Both Law Enforcement officers were laid to rest. Tissues in short supply at the funeral of sander cohen. Hundreds in attendance at the synagogue from his parents to governor hogan. He didnt have to stop surrender assistance but he did the same thing. He had been doing for most of his life. He did what is second nature. Cohens boss, the maryland state fire marshall wept recalling the 33yearold ability to lead while still having fun. Le shared stories of pranks and the time they checked in to the wrong ocean city rental home. Every will hold on to forever. Laughter. The f. B. I. Agent carlos wolff had his funeral today but in a more private fashion. The police led process requiring major roadways blocked escorted the men to the final resting places. Cohen saluting by his rabbi has a local hero. Sander died because he cared about people. He would do anything for them. In rockville, im kevin lewis, abc7 news. Alison so sad. We turn now to a very bizarre story. From japan. A 20pound window from a u. S. Marine corps health fell on to a school field. It landed directly on a ch now the child amazingly only had minor injuries. But this is just the latest in the sears of the incidents involving the u. S. Military in japan. The military members have been accused of assault. Rape and killing a man while drunk driving. Larry just ahead, people behind this amazing gift. New arm for a little boy. Alison first though we will tell you about a new warning tonight. This is about cosleeping. Not about the childs health. This is about the parents. 7 on your side. Coming up next. Snow is blowing at the Liberty Mountain resort a day ahead of the ski season opening. Im cheryl conner. Coming up, we take you to the slopes for what is expected to bill i dont see any weather related problems tonight. Jumping ahead 44 on saturday. Fair amount of sunshine. Good weekend to get outdoors. Many of you in the final weekend before christmas will get out to do shopping, that type of thing. I dont see weather related problems to prevent that on a major scale. 48 degrees on sunday. Tracking the slight chance of a few showers on sunday in the form of rain, not snow. Next week as winter starts, officially on thursday, the temperatures will go up a little bit from where they are now. We talk about that and the hourbyhour forecast that has snow potenti alison parents know, this is a common practice since the beginning of time probably. Parents dealing with us ifzy children letting fussy children letting them sleep in their bed. Larry but those who let the children sleep with them the parents could end up with depression. We have the latest twist. She the mother of two and time. I try to break them out of it early. I want them to have the attachment. I want my sleep. Did you get to sleep . I feel like i did. New research out of the letter of Maryland School of medicine in baltimore finds cosleeping may not be a good strategy. It is important to note toddlers at this age they are going to wake up in the middle of the night. They are learning to selfsoothe and butt put them back to sleep. It can have a negative effect on the mothers house. When moms thought their kid had a problem with sleeping, they were more likely to sleep with the child. That translated to a decrease in sleep. The moms got less sleep when they were sleeping in the same room or on the same bed as the child. The Research Shows it translated to Mental Health problems including the increased depression, stress and her only concern is finding a name for baby number three. He arrives next month. In baltimore, kathleen kairns. Larry children who eat their meals with the family on a regular basis tend to lead healthier lives than those who dont. Researchers found by age 10 those who ate meals with the loved ones were healthier mentally and physically. Alison all right. Coming up, a little boy born without an arm gets an unforgettable christmas gift. The group behind the special gift and how they made it. Larry first, only on abc7 iteam faking the grade investigation reveals the grade fixing problem may start long before the communities get to high school. What if more of the came from Renewable Resources . What if the electric grid could detect, fix and even prevent Power Outages . What if our grid were less vulnerable and more secure . What if all these what ifs became a reality . Well, they are. At dominion energy, were completely transforming our power grid and the way we think of energy. To move from what if to whats next. Dominion energy. Alison check out the video. Boom right there. The driver through the gas station pump. It happened in fresno. The driver wasnt alone. 22yearold mother and the two siblings were in the truck with him. No surprise here, the Police Suspect the man was drunk. They say the blood alcohol level twice the legal limit. He is facing d. I. Charges. Larry the 7 on your side team reporting on attendance problem and grade fixing allegation at the local high school. Now parents call the 7 on your side tip line wanting answers. The government watchdog nathan baca show how some of the parents fear what happened at the ballou high happening to their children. Mother tucker walked to pick up the children at the Elementary School in washington. She is involved in the childrens education and the p. T. A. How was school . G today . Recently tucker got a report card for her son that socked her. Grade level to represent a significant gap. The surprise, fourth grader damon had been at wilson since freschool and the Previous Report card showed him at the grade level. This happened in three months. Remember this is round. You round up or you round down for this one. She calls other parents claiming they have had similar problems. Now i find out you had my third grader tested at second grade reading level and you never alerted me it was an issue. They contacted the 7 on your side tip line and we contacted the d. C. Public schools for them to find out what is done at the Elementary School to improve Elementary School. A district spokesperson wrote back anytime parents is a concern about them, they questions go to the school. At the same time, they are hoping the children will find answers she is searching for answers of her own and hopes somebody finds a way to improve the children education. This needs to be an independent investigation done to get real answers. Nathan baca, abc7 news. Larry the 7 on your side will continue to push for answers. Our investigators wants to hear from you. Email us tips about the grade fixing, the Graduation Rates or anything else that you know about in d. C. Schools. Call the consideratial tip line. A boy born missing part of the left arm has a new thanks to the Creative College students. This warms your heart. 4yearold hudson got his new arm just today. The students made it using 3d printer and the open source coating. A local charity covered the costs. They looked for many hours to design prosthetic just right for hudson. It can be modified as he gets bigger. This is perfect the way that god made him and this is something to show his friends. The prosthetics usually cost thousands after insurance. But this one was made for a few hundred dollars. Larry wow what a game changer. Alison isnt that wonderful . College students did it. Amazing. That is a great story. Larry a look at what we are working on for abc7 news at 6 00. New tolls on the i66 reaching a new high. Coming up, the price and the reaction from drivers. Plus they appear to be the older men in a church van robbing d. C. Businesses. Now they connect to crimes in another county. Enough details from a courtroom about the man accused of diving into a crowd in the White Nationalist rally. To some it is a Convenience Store and to others its more. Philly based wawa that opened the first d. C. Store today. Die hard fans were there. They packed it. On 19th street. They gobbled up the famous hoagie, soft pretzel and the coffee. It even includes outdoor cafe. We could not be prouder to be in d. C. Right he heart of the golden triangle. The improvement district. The folks have been so welcoming giving us a lot of insight on how to be a Great Community partner in the neighborhood. It has a cult following. Larry so excited. I cant wait. Alison by the way the first 100 customers got special surprises including free coffee. The shop will host a hoagie competition featuring d. C. Fire and e. M. S. With the donations to charities. A. A. A. Forecasting another recordbreaking Christmas Travel season. More than 1507 Million People get out of town. Most of them on the roads. But flying will be popular as ever with the seats costing less and booming economy. Something that will cost more is driving because the gas is 247 nationally. More than a quarter more than last year. Larry given credible images tonight from a drug raid in california. Take a look. Police say running three different sophisticatedded and the illegal marijuana grow houses. Growing marijuana is not illegal. Permits are required and the police say she didnt have a license. One of the houses was on the same block as a police precinct. Something amiss was the power bill. Right down the street. Alison okay. Lets turn it over to bill with the latest. We are wondering if we will get the snow flurries. Kept to a 35,000 power bill nobody would have looked. 37 is the temperature. Its chilly. We have a little wind chill factor. Tonight you walk out at 11 00, we are all below freezing. There is blue on the map. There is a weak weather system. This is. 01 of an inch. Its very little. But the reason i bring it up with the surface temperatures below freezing we watch it move through. This is 3 00. Pushing east. Between 12 00 noon and 5 00 p. M. To watch for the chance. There could be slick spots in the afternoon. Festive and chilly. Tonight its 29. The feels like temperatures are all below freezing. 27 and 7. 26 at 8 00. Cooler at 9 00. We will look ahead to weekend forecast and more in a few minutes. Back to you. Alison thank you. Robert, what is going on tonight . Robert another one of our young stars doing big things. Look forward to that. There is a gang of players that played Division One College ball in the nba and overseas. The list gets longer and longer. This team player is on the way to keep the tradition going. Erin hawksworth. Erin brandon can play several positions and is one of if Top High School basketball recruits in the country. I will go down low and i try to guard a guard. Guard a little person. Guard somebody that is 50 pounds heavier than me. I try to do anything that coach wants me to do. Whether he plays the shooting guard on small forward, he is eager for senior about. This moment and this last year with the guys. It will be fun. Slater has a special bond with the head coach. If you make it, goes to 60. Coach was telling me he met you when you were 7 and you were crying because you lost a game by one point. I was sobbing. He came in and like helped me. He is like its okay. He has no problem showing you his softer side. Were all in this together erin but on the court, he is as serious as they come and is committed to play for villanova next year. Im really excited. This is one of the best feelings in my life. Congratulations. You are this weeks team player. This is Marquis Morris and his twin brother makes it special for the family. Remaining balance for gifts at a northeast philadelphia walmart. So customers came to find out they didnt owe anything. That was a great gift. Alison thank you. Larry still ahead at 5 00, feeling the force. The line started forming this afternoon. They are waiting to see the star wars movie even though it doesnt start until after 9 00 tonight. Im tom rou larry disney is buying fox for 50 million. This is what would happen if it moves forward. Disney would get the movie and the t cable network, f x, National Geographic and 50 ownership of hu will bu. Fox would keep the broadcast network, fox business and fox sports. The deal coincides with a force for the film industry. It will premier tonight nacewide. Jonathan but only one local theater will do for the premier. Tom roussey joins us from the uptown in d. C. Where the original film premiered 40 years ago. Alison wow larry tom . Tom i just talked about it. I have a button from the premier. These folks have a ticket but they want to get a good seat. This is getting amazing reviews. The excitement is high no matter these folks are waiting for the 9 20 showing. What makes it worth sitting in the cold all day . We bought tickets when they first came out. This is a fun experience. Tell me what you are doing . We are playing epic duel. Three players are going now. One person m. I. A. But the way it works is you are a star wars character and you play cards to try to kill each other. Heck of a way to pass the time. Why not . No better time. Lucky as the guys are there is a group they had to pay to see a double feature and take the day off work. But there is a group watching the movie inside as we speak. That is the first showing. They watch episode 7 and now watching episode 8. Showing there is literally three tickets left but there is a showing at 12 45 a. M. In the morning. Reporting outside the northwest theat, im tom roussey, abc7 news. Breaking news from charlottesville. The stronger charges that are filed against one of the men who participated in the unite the right rally. Michelle police in spring georges say the men who used church vehicle could be connected to crimes in their county. Jonathan a toll surge again. If you thought 40 was crazy wait until you see what we found in the mornings rush hour. Announcer from abc7 news, this is a breaking news alert. Michelle breaking right now, the charges were upgraded against the man police say was behind if wheel when a car slammed into the counterpte the courtroom all afternoon. What do we know about the new charges . Just moments ago we learned that the charge against james alex fields has been upgraded to firstdegree murder. It was Second Degree murder. The charges have been upgraded. They are certified. Grand jury empanelled on monday to hear evidence in this case. Take a look around. You can see Police Presence here. There are barricades. Much of the media is way back there. That is because was a fairly finance day in court tense day in court for the four hearings. We had several issues where we had witnesses being escorted inside the courthouse by the police. That is how concerned they were about the security. Earlier in the day, there was a journalist that got in to an argument with a white supremacist who has been attending the hearings. Police quickly moved in and broke that
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