The attacker was long gone. The victim managed to get home where a relative called 911. But the lapse in time provided the suspect around 45 minutes to get away. As of this afternoon he remains at large with worry that he could attack at random again. You have an individual waiting at the bus stop. Somebody just comes up and grabs them. Takes them into a wooded area and sexually assaults them. Its one of the worst things to probably have happen to you. Im surprised to hear that. You dont expect it in gaithersburg. We hear it other places but im surprised that it could happen here in our neighborhood. Kevin now the victim says her attacker is a young black male with a skinny build. But more specifically he was wearing a dark colored checkered shirt or jacket. If you were in the area around 5 30 a. M. And you saw anyone matching description, call the police. We are live in kevin lewis, abc7 news. Cking the tropics as Tropical Storm nate moves over open water. Right now along the gulf coa
July 6, 1892: Readers of The Comet learned about several items of local interest. âA little child of David and Harriet Baker died the latter part of last week aged 15 months.
âGeo C. Potts, Vice President of the Watauga Company, has been for some time at Hotel Fairmount where he is expecting his daughter to join him soon.â
âThe bricklayers will begin work on the Reece House in the morning and will push the work until the building is completed.â
âIn the presence of the workmen and several spectators, Mrs. A.M. Reece laid the first brick of the new building, which is to replace the one burned and deposited beneath it in Italian detail 1767, and one of our pennies dated 1892, and by her act declared that Phoenix-like the old building should rise from its ashes.â
day for me thelma butler says valentine s day will never be the same and who could possibly blame her for feeling that way. i feel sad when the valentine s day comes. exactly three years ago, thelma was supposed to have valentine s day dinner with her 47 year old daughter pam. a very sharing and caring person. but pam never showed up prompting a search for answers that continues to this day. its been so hard, just very very hard. pam butler was last seen on february 12, 2009, a few days before she was actually reported missing, heading home from work in northwest washington she picked up her mail and went inside her house and that was it. horrible, disaster. i can t think sometimes, i just break down and cry. surveillance cameras showed pam butler entering her house that night but she s never again seen leaving it though technically butler s disappearance is considered a missing persons case and d.c. police say they ve long believed pap was probably murdered.
radar and i ll show you why. a weak frontal system approaching from the west and north. will not cool us off but squeeze out more showers and thunderstorms. so bring along an umbrella. and by the evening commute we have to look out for the potential for strong storms. steve mentioned the warm temperatures. currently 76 at reagan national. 76 in fredericksberg. hagerstown is 73 and in ocean city 76. our forecast high, sorry about that, 94 degrees. i mentioned the possibility of some showers and thunderstorms. winds light out of the south and west at 5 miles per hour. not much relief in sight. we ll look at the five-day forecast. we have more heat by friday and saturday. those details are coming up. let s get to on time traffic and lauren demarco. inbound route 50, john hanson slow from 202 to kenilworth. let s look at new york at bladensberg, usual volume there coming to us from trafficland. you can see the left of the screen. folks headed inbound on new york, no accidents o
and then clouds and thunderstorms this afternoon as mentioned. 94 degrees and a lot of water if you re out and about during the course of the day. more details on the forecast. near 100 by saturday. i ll have those details coming up in a few minutes. back to you guys. can t wait for that one. thanks, tucker. our top story this hour, the possibility that an agriculture department worker was fired over charges of racism, there is the chance she may get her job back. but there the controversy might not go away. the folks who forced her to resign didn t have the full story and now the obama administration is in a tough position and doug luzader is live on capitol hill with more. doug, good morning. reporter: good morning. and now the secretary of agriculture is saying they re going to look into this and kind of open an investigation to see if this was handled properly at the very least. there appears to be a rush to judgment. you have heard of a lot of layoffs, have y