Transcripts For WUSA Wusa 9 News At 6pm 20240622 : compareme

Transcripts For WUSA Wusa 9 News At 6pm 20240622

The back of the trailer. Dozens of roads are still closed because of allhe t flooding. Evacuated residents have taken shelter in a nearby school. Get ready for another wet commute. Were under a yellow alert tomorrow. Topper is tracking with doppler 9000. When and where are the showers going to hit . I think best chances are tomorrow morning and another shot tomorrow afternoon. The warnings have been extended. So you folks out toward woodstock youre extended to 8 30. Culpeper 9 30. The waters are just not receded. You can see all the symbols here indicates a report of flooding and you can see why. 4. 3 inches south of woodstock and even in this area were looking at 2 to 3 inches in the purple. So north of culpeper and 239 three to four inches of rain fell. That could turn creeks in to raging rivers in the matter of hours. These are going to go on. These are the flood warnings. 8 30. 9 30 for cul peper, rappahannock and warren. Good news, radar is pretty quiet. Couple showers out toward romney. Showers earlier headed toward winchester. Theyve dried up. Were looking at a couple sprinkles up toward baltimore. Were not out of the woods. We think showers are still going to be possible overnight. By 8 00, temps in the 70s. Most of the showers back in the mountains. Concert looks pretty good at nats park. However by 9 00, 10 00, couple showers getting close to nats park so the later taylor plays the better chance you have for a shower. By midnight some showers develop from dc northward up to 70. Well come back, talk about the afternoon tomorrow because that spells heavier activity. Dc fire and ems says overdoses from synthetic drugs are taxing emergency responders. The department doesnt have exact numbers yet but wusa 9 has confirmed a federal Halfway House in southeast has been the cause for repeated runs by emergency responders. Sources say up to 20 fire and ems were helping relieve suspected overdoses from 2k and other synthetic drugs. A spokesman from the Halfway House says on a scale from 1 to 10, the overdoses are a 9 and a half. Now asking the federal bureau of prisons for help to address the problem. Local Law Enforcement agencies tell us there are are quote, major developments in the case of the missing lyons sisters. They plan to hold two press conferences. The first wednesday, the second thursday in bedford virginia. Those two locations are important. It was back in 1975 that catherine and sheila lyon disappeared during a shopping trip to the mall in wheaton. Over the past several months the search for the sisters has focused on property in bedford. Two men called persons of interest in the case have ties to bedford. Well stay on top of any breaking development. Tonight the hunt is on for the gunman who opened fire at a house party in prince georges county. We just got new video in that was taken after the shooting happened. The gunfire erupted just after 1 a. M. On sunday at a home in whistling wood court. Thats just west of 210. Bruce joins us with more. Police say they still do not know who killed daryl king or why. The attack right in front of this house here where a Massive Party was going on. Reporter a neighbor has just sent us video. She shot while headed home early sunday morning. It shows friends desperately trying to help 20yearold daryl king who had been shot fatally. Earlier the tape shows one person running and other people walking quickly from the scene. Prince georges county police have yet to get a chance to look at this video. Right now our detectives are still working to identify suspects and motives in this case. Were asking for the communitys help. Reporter officials just taped a 250 citation on the front door of the home, alleging the owner was running a Party Business out of the house in the middle of a residential neighborhood. Neighbors say there were hundreds if not 1,000 people drinking and listening to loud music when someone opened fire on daryl king as he was walking away from the party. There had to be at least 300 people in here. You couldnt even get past there. Reporter kings aunt is also pleading for witnesses to come forward. It was a coward act because i say any time somebody is walking and you shoot them in their back. Reporter she remembers a young man growing up with a huge smile and an even bigger hug. He was just like my son. He was just like my son. Back now live, there are some surveillance cameras here to the entrance of the gated community. We do not know if the video from those cameras was recorded. Now in terms of the video shot by the neighbor, ive tweeted a link to it, ive posted it on my facebook site. Were also going to have it up at wusa9. Com. Were hoping perhaps that will lead police a little closer to the killer. Bruce leshan, wusa 9. Police are offering a reward of up to 25,000 in this case. Its happened again. A woman coming home from a Maryland Casino was robbed right in front of her house in fairfax county. This happened saturday just before midnight. The robbers shot the woman in the arm when she gave chase and doctors released the 66yearold woman from the hospital. Fairfax police say it appears those crooks followed her home after finding out she won a few thousand dollars in maryland. Many are worried they could be next. You come in and you load things in your house and you leave the door unlocked and you come back out make several trips from your house to the car. Police say they have few leads on the suspects though the incident does not appears to be connected to at least two other similar robberies in anen dale and waldorf over the last few months. Police in herndon on the hunt for a suspect who first offer adgirl money then tried to force her to get in. The girl was on her way to a Summer School program near the hearndon parkway. That little girl managed to get away and call the cops. How to improve the quality of life for people with multiple sclerosis. Battling this blaze out west. Topper is tracking showers headed our way just in time for your ride to work. The thick smoke is causing visibility problems for anybody out on the road. Fortunately nobody has been hurt and no homes have been damaged. Diplomats are working hard trying to hammer out the final agreement over Irans Nuclear program. Irans foreign minister says dont expect a deal till tomorrow. Several issues remain unresolved. Among the sticky points irans demand to have the u. N. s arms embargo lifted. Some of the most difficult issues are the ones that get kicked to the end. Thats why the president is going to resist any effort to fast forward through the closing. Irans president appeared to jump the gun on a deal sunday, sending and deleting a tweet proclaiming an iran deal is a victory of diplomacy and mutual respect. Tonight the u. S. Justice department offering to work with mexican authorities to help recapture a powerful drug lord who escaped from prison over the weekend. Joaquin El Chapo Guzman made his way out through a mile long tunnel that had lighting and ventilation. Authorities say he obviously had outside help. Investigators are now questioning more than 30 prison guards. Today Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai called on people to do more to help the families who had to run to escape civil war. Millions have fled the country most settling in nearby countries like jordan. Get ready for a soggy commute. Topper up with the when the where the how the showers are going to stick arou in tonights health alert multiple sclerosis affects more than 400,000 people here in the u. S. Highly anticipated treatment for ms and introduces us to the first local patient to try it. I was having difficulty speaking like my speech was slurred. Reporter in 2002, melissa gray from ashburn virginia, was having an unusual episode. She went to a doctor who simply said she was dehydrated but her family was not convinced so she went to an e. R. The cat scans showed i had like a million legions on my brain. Reporter she has multiple sclerosis. These attacks happen periodically and over the years melissa used several treatments. Dr. Creighton works on the Clinical Trial that could help patients like melissa. Theres never been anything like this. Reporter the treatment called limtrata has been used around the world for several years but its been a long road for drug approval here in the u. S. There were issues that needed to be hammered out between the company and the fda Clinical Trial design and things like that. There was a huge push from the ms community and Healthcare Patient to get this medication approved. Finally in december of last year the fda approved it. Isreally nice because its once a year infusion. This medicine works by rebooting the immune system. Kind of wipes it out, reboots it and makes a better healthier immune system if you will. Reporter melissa is the first treatment in the dc area to receive the new treatment. If this can help me, im all for it. Reporter andrea roane wusa 9. Even though it involves infusions only once a year, patient compliance is still very important as blood work is required every month. There are also a host of potential side effects including rashes, headaches, and increased risk for thyroid and autoimmune problems. A new study shows prenatal blood tests that reveal chromosome abnormalities may also show cancer in the women. If theres cancer, the tumor is shedding dna in to the mothers blood as well. Thats whats accounting for this imbalance. That study comes from tucks medical center. It was funded by a maker of one noninvasive prenatal test. Theyre back on the stand today after a powerful and bizarre explogess on a rhode island beach over the weekend. The force of the blast threw a 60yearold woman in to a rock wall. People heard the boom and then the woman shot through the air and her sister saw the whole thing. Id seen the actual rocks shift and move and i started screaming get up, get up. Pretty scary stuff. The good news is the woman is recovering at home. Authorities believe that explosion may have occurred naturally whatever that means. Natural explosion . Whatever that means. Just a bizarre story. Were looking at more showers, not so much this evening but later tonight and tomorrow. Had to issue a yellow alert for tuesday. Lets start with a live look outside. Right now not a bad evening. Temperatures are in control because of the clouds all day. 81. Relative humidity okay at 65 . And the winds east southeast at about 7. Heres a look at the radar. We still have the flood warnings in effect from woodstock to culpeper. They have been extended a little bit. This one goes till 8 30 and this one is extended till 930 for culpeper, rappahannock and warren county. So flooding is still going on. Never cross a flooded street by car, by foot. I think when you saw video earlier today that really drives the point home. Few showers tonight primarily north and west. Morning showers tomorrow and then afternoon and evening storms tomorrow. And then improving and not as hot on wednesday although we may need to keep showers and storms through the Morning Hours wednesday. 10 00 tonight. Couple showers here and there leesburg to manassas. Theyre all light. Thats good on the legend. And then by early in the morning showers roll through. Well have a few light showers. Some of you will have wet roads but nothing heavy going to work tomorrow. By 6 a. M. Upper 60s in the burbs. 69 in gaithersburg and buoy, Leesburg Manassas and waldorf. 74 downtown. By 8 30, just a mix of sun and clouds. Temps back in the 7 a few showers will develop in the late morning, early afternoon hours. You see a little bit of yellow and orange. A little heavier shower south of manassas, 81. By 5 00 sun comes back out and temps will get a little bit warmer tomorrow than they did today because of that very fact the sun is coming out. By 10 00, remember i showed you shows showers early in the mountains. I think this may be the time of the heaviest showers from hagerstown to frederick down in to leesburg with temperatures in the 70s. That rolls through in the overnight hours. You saw a flash of red in gaithersburg. I think the best chance of heaviest it activity will be between 9 p. M. Tomorrow and midnight wednesday. Day planner. Some showers. 75 early on and 77 at 9 00. Clouds by 11 00 i think well be dry. And 83 a little bit of sun by 1 p. M. Wednesday isolated showers, 87. Thursday thats the day. Book your tee times now. Pleasant on friday. Upper 80s. Thats a pretty good day too for july. Nats on 9 and theyre in town. 92 on saturday. Isolated storm. 94 on sunday and isolated storm. Nats on 9 again. And 96 next monday with the nats in town, again an isolated storm. We have a little baseball left but its all star break time. Its time for the home run derby. We also get to see Bryce Harper Max Scherzer representing the curly ws at the all star game. The first half is in the books and so far so good with the nationals first place in the nl east. Baseballs all star break is here, and you got to hand it to the nationals despite a rash of injuries to key players nats are sitting atop the nl east and fresh while taking the battle of the beltways from the baltimore orioles. Brycare hper and max scherzer in cincinnati but only harper will play. Scherzer pitched yesterday. He was great. 26 homers and counting for bryce harper, arguably one of the most popular players in the game. Lets think about the team. Nats could make a serious run in the second half at the world series with harper leading the charge. Just the way weve been playing as a team, just the way weve been doing it all year long from our bullpen to our pitching to our lineup playing defense and things like that. Do not forget, nats are back on wusa 9 this friday night. Nationals start the second half of the season facing the l. A. Dodgers. Coverage at 7 00. Dont forget to use natson9. Home run derby is tonight. Bryce harper not in it but baltimores Manny Machado is. Machado so far has 19 homers for the birds. Theyve got a new format in the home run derby so well see how machado does this evening. They just let me know if i wanted to participate in it. I told them yeah. I was one of the chosen ones so im just going to go out there try to have fun and enjoy myself. If you havent checked out a tennis match, i suggest should. Its quite the spectacle especially at a washington castles match. They put on a show. And the home opener is tomorrow night at gws smith center. Castles have won four straight titles. They play on a unique court. Theyve got unique rules unique personalities, all about the team though and winning games together. Castles slogan is refuse to lose and most often they do not. We dont ever take it for granted but to have a team in your hometown, to win championships and have fans really excited about it is one of lifes great experiences. Golfs third major gets going this week across the pond with the british open. Many golfers use the John Deere Classic over the weekend as a tuneup including the winner Jordan Spieth who has already won the masters and u. S. Open. Then theres zach johnson who got his nerves checked settling over a putt and then this. Geez louise. Apparently that was an air canon that went off. Great reflexes. He would miss that put t and finish one back of Jordan Spieth. He said that did not affect his play, sure, it didnt. Very nice to say but might not have made it anyway. And a chance to tie at the 18th. Hes a heck of a pro. Were probably going to have to go. Pelley the f. B. I. Says he was building an arsenal. A Boston Police captains son is charged with plotting a terror attack. Also tonight the man called the most powerful drug lord in the world breaks out of prison. Scientists stumble on a genetic blood test for cancer. And to kill an american hero. Criticism of harper lees muchanticipated new book. And i do think that its painful for all of us to hear. This captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley the f. B. I. Tells us it has broken up a homegrown terror plot by an unlikely suspect the son son of a captain in the Boston Police department

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