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animals. alison: 7 on your side investigates, next. xanax cocktail being classed passed around a classroom, seven students at riverdale high school sent home. alison: and that is not the only place the cocktail was found. tom roussey is live with the investigation happening now. tom? tom: alison, xanax is supposed to be taken for anxiety, but teenagers are using it to try to get high, which apparently happened at riverbend middle school and another school just m street. am i concerned as a parent? . yes, i m concerned schools, one day, nine students, all with the drinks believed to contain xanax. i don t know what is going on. tom: the loudoun county sheriff s office believes they shared a xanax-laced drinkn the school said after finding out, registered nurse determined the kids were ok. the sheriff s department said they were then sent home with a parent. it scares me it is happening at younger and younger ages. the police department is investigating a possible ....
wizards are back home at the verizon center. changes because of early tipoff, only here on good morning washington, are we giving away tickets. we have the number you need to call, just minutes away. two tickets could be yours. wish i was eligible. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] larry: exciting time downtown here, 6:00. fearing up by then? it s going to be very slow. it s going to take its sweet time off the coast, but by gametime is how we get to the late afternoon hours we will be seen more peaks of sunshine. this morning, not the case at all. little cool, you might want to go with an extra layer. bad hair day with the drizzle in the mist, but the story this morning is that you will need to time into your commute this morning with the pockets of fog. well tod be more son the west, western maryland, western portions of virginia, areas of prince william county doi ....
to be passed sometime tomorrow. alison: are we on the verge of a metro shutdown? frustrated metro workers stormed out of a board meeting today. there is tensions between workers and metro. requests for500 absences tomorrow, and they say your commute tomorrow will be normal. tune into julie wright s traffic reports before you head out the door tomorrow on good morning washington. nancy: and developing news, more felony indictments tied to the riots after the inauguration. have been indicted on felony charges over the violent protest sin downtown d.c. january 20. the protests of inciting a riot as well as destruction of property. this happened o windows, burned vehicles, and fights with the police. one group will be arraigned tomorrow morning. endthan: a bill to conversion therapy targeting the lgbtq community has support from 70 lawmakers. takes athis as abc 7 close look at a woman who went through religion-based therapy to stop her from being gay. she shares her expe ....
it is of a correctional institute or the prisoner was being held. he somehow escaped from clifton perkins hospital center. he got away and howard county police are pulling out all the stops trying to find him. they pulled over a big rig and searched it. ,fficers are suited and booted carrying high-powered rifles and searching vehicles. they say he got away in a wooded area near the hospital. this is the picture of the guy they are looking for. his name is david watson, 28 years old described as five feet eight inches tall and a hundred 40 pounds. he was last seen in the area of dorsey run road which is near the hospital in a very heavily what it serving time for the attempted murder of several police officers. if you see him, call police. do not approach him. a breaking news situation and we will do best to bring you the latest details on the search throughout the day and this newscast. stay with us. back to you. lindsey: day 99 of 100 and on the hill, the house passed ....
rounds before he was taken down by capitol police. the security detail for congressman scalise. we are on the scene right now. reporter: as you can see behind me there is still a very heavy police presence here. we have seen some of the fire vehicles leave and others but if you look down behind me here and see where these police cars, to the left is the park and you have seen some of the video closer up. as you can tell police have moved us several blocks away. the incident under control according to police. five people taken to the hospital that include the shooter. as you mentioned, congressman steve scalise and a staffer or lobbyist and potentially one or two of the security detail that were with the congressmen and returned fire. i was able to talk just a few minutes ago to owen britain who was in the ymca right next to the park. he was walking out about 7:05 and somebody said shots are being fired. he went outside and looked outside and actually saw the man. here ....