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anchor: a congressional intern shot to death near a metro station. how friends are remembering him and the latest on the search for the killer. a close call in one neighborhood. a small plane crashing behind homes. prepare for more sweltering temperatures throughout the work week. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] questions, sadness, and anger after an american university graduate was killed outside the shot howard metro station last night. the man was shot to death after leaving a party. tonight police continue their search for the shooter. reporter: this is how matt's
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friends remember him. the 2014 american worked as a consultant at deloitte. spoke twod the world, languages, and was a star hockey player per on saturday night he was shot and killed outside the shot howard metro station. his college roommate was in the hospital moments after doctors try to save him. >> you can't describe that loss spirit you feel like everything has sunk out of you, especially someone who was so kind and was an innocent bystander. hadriends say that shlonsky just left a party at a local bar when eight shots rang out. witnesses say a burgundy chrysler 300 with maryland tags fled from the scene. >> a should have been a great day but it ended in tragedy. reporter: matt intern for u.s. senator rob portman from ohio paired -- ohio. the senator released a statement saying that matt was a talented
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young man with a bright future who was taken from us to send. tonight npd are offering a reward of up to 25,000 dollars for information leading to the arrest and conviction of matt's killers. i'm sam sweeney, abc 7 news. anchor: breaking news from suitland. police are on the scene of a shooting at the bradberry recreation center. one person was shot in the parking lot. that person was taken to the hospital and is in surgery. at no point -- at this point no details on what led to the shooting or suspects. at search will resume daybreak local time for any survivors of a plane crash in indonesia. villagers say they saw the crash -- plane crash into the side of a mountain. air-traffic control lost contact with the flight during severe weather. aviation experts say while the plane has a good safety record, the airline does not. >> this particular airline has more than a spotty record and the european union will not even
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let them in because of their safety compliance record in the past. anchor: there were 59 passengers and five crew members on board. the passengers are believed to be from indonesia. a scare for homeowners in prince george's county, a small plane crashing behind some homes in bristow. diane cho is live in bristow with more of what we are learning tonight. the plane landed in this wooded area just about 20 yards away from these homes here . we are learning that the plane lost power just before it came crashing down. >> i'm shocked. this is not something you see all the time. reporter: the view from this angle shows just how close the plane is to the fence line, narrowly missing the homes on the other side. >> we heard a loud crash. it sounded like a truck just drove right into our car. reporter: by the time he ran outside, he noticed one of the
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wings ended up in a tree. pilot. to check on the faa, the pilote was practicing approaches at manassas regional airport on sunday morning when suddenly the single engine plane went down just after 9:00 in bristow. >> you appear to be low. do you need assistance? reporter: in this audio you can the the pilot talking to air-traffic controller confirming she needs assistance .oments before the crash >> climb to 500 feet. climb to 1000 feet at 500 feet per minute. reporter: the air-traffic controller continues to tell the pilot to climb, but she doesn't respond. >> definitely very lucky to be alive. kellye: the pilot has been
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identified as 50-year-old karyta barnes. be ok.expected to luckily no one on the ground was injured throughout all of this. a number of homes were injured or it --injured. diane cho, abc 7 news. kellye: even warmer temperatures are ahead and meteorologist devon lucie is here. reporter: tomorrow is looking to be even hotter. widelyan behind me, isolated showers mainly north and west of d.c.. the community just southwest of dulles in loudoun county. 94 and washington. cumberland and 95. real-time temperatures still around 90 degrees if not into the upper 80's. there is the humidity too. that shown is a measure of the dew point temperatures.
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these are pushing mid to upper 60's in some cases. the heat index, when it more accurately feels to you when you combine heat with that humidity. looking ahead to the next three days, showers and storms will seem to be more likely as we go middle to end of the week. we will track this heat for you and these rain chances in your entire seven-day work asked -- forecast. kellye: president obama is her membrane civil rights activist julian bond -- remembering ci vil rights activist julian bond. it was a major figure in the civil rights movement in the 1960's. bond was the founder of the southern poverty law center. bond served as a professor at american university on the university of virginia. another civil rights activist was honored this morning at the washington national cathedral, a carving of jonathan daniels was added to the cathedral's human
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rights porch. joining the bus, other well-known figures including rosa parks and mother teresa. daniels, and a piscopo seminary student, was shot and killed in 1965 shortly after being release d from jail. daniel was 26 years old. the problem was traced back to a computer issue at the air-traffic facility in leesburg. the glitch was fixed yesterday afternoon. some passengers did not reach their destinations until today. >> we had to spend the night in pittsburgh, which was annexed rights in itself, but made friends with people on the experience in itself, but made friends with people on the flight. there is nofaa said indication it was caused by an accident or by hacking.
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coming up, donald trump finally mapping out his foreign-policy. hear his plans on immigration. oh my gosh, it's the guy from last night. what?! can i jump on n your wi-fi? yeah, you can try it. hey! i had a really good time last night. yeah, me too. the only thing is that... the only thing is what? what the only thing? oh my gosh he's married. he's a kleptomaniac. he's a pyromaniac. he's a total maniac. hey! hey! go back to your wife you sociopath! leave slow internet behind.
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kellye: morgan freeman's granddaughter was found stabbed to death on a street in manhattan a front of her apartment building. a 30-year-old man has been taken into police custody. morgan freeman released a statement tonight saying the world will never know his granddaughter's artistry and talent and how much she had to offer. a pilot is killed and a passenger injured when a small plane crashed on a major commuter rail line near new york city. the faa says the plane had
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departed from westhampton beach when the pilot reported an issue and try to get to a nearby airport, but crashed at a long island railway crossing in hicksville. by wreckage has been removed workers will have to replace damaged tracks. it is not clear how that will affect monday's commute. wildfires threaten hundreds of homes in the western u.s. tonight. a fire in central washington is destroyed at least 50 homes and vacation cabins. tankers and helicopters are dropping water to keep the flames from reaching a popular resort. in oregon, the only way to survey damage from one fire is by boat. by the time we got in the car the fire within in our backyard and we barely made it out. kellye: in california crews are battling not only flames, but trouble digit temperatures. several firefighters had to be treated for heat exhaustion. wildfires are burning also in idaho and colorado. donald trump would send american
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troops back to iraq. trump talks about foreign policy on nbc's "meet the press." the candidate says that ground troops may be necessary to fight the islamic state. trump: we are going to keep the families together. we have to keep the families together. they have to go. trump said he would and protections on people brought to the u.s. as children. pay for his proposed border wall with mexico, trump says he would impose tariffs and taxes on mexican diplomats, companies, and those crossing the border to pay for it. a programming note for dish network customers, you will be able to watch wjla for a least a few more days on dish network. companies have agreed to a short-term extension, allowing programming
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kellye: you can send your good luck wishes to donny as he starts his new job on the afternoon drive at magic 102.3. send your video, photos, x@wjla.com or you can tweet them at # donny's back . so many people are thrilled he is act on the air. -- back on the air. reporter: he will be an exciting day for us. -- it'll be an exciting day for
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us. washington. we are at least going to match that. for will be at the high end temperatures on monday. these were the high temperatures on sunday. 94, one of the hottest all the way up and down the east coast. also see heat extending midsouth to the midwest. mid to upper 80's, we are still hanging at 89. the humidity really [inaudible] the last couple of hours. weakening cold fronts in the region. one heavier shower. it is mostly about the heat and humidity building. it used a will be the first transfer widely scattered
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showers and storms across the region. towards now, reset and restart the forecast, overnight morning low temperatures the exact same forecast. note low temperatures tomorrow morning, mid to upper 60's, lower 70's downtown. look for a widely isolated shower, possible thunderstorm. as close into washington metro, at least 10% to 20% chance. some indications and some info into say 95, 96 to washington. i could feel closer to 100 -- that could feel closer to 100 when you take air temperatures into account. widespread showers and storms coming into tuesday. the heat and humidity continuing. we will keep temperatures right around the lower 90's coming in. wednesday, there looked to be
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more widespread, scattered showers and storms. thursday might be the best chance of rain coming in. the end of the week. i'm not so confident about that 89, 89. that are indications yesterday i had 93 across the board. pretty hot, pretty humid and the storms more likely as we get through thursday. kellye: can you believe training camp is almost over? reporter: i can't believe it's. your weather forecast is killing those guys. the redskins will soon be saying goodbye to richmond.
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>> and now the toyota sports desk brought to you by your local toyota dealers. reporter: redskins camp is in the books with only a scheduled practice tomorrow in richmond returning to ashburn. 2015 can be seen as a mixed bag, good and bad, promising a not so promising. position is cause for concern and in the bad category. robert griffin iii, respectable in his two series against the cleveland browns. kirk cousins and colt mccoy also managed to jay gruden's offense with no huge hiccups. here is the gm on the state of all his quarterbacks. liked it a lot. i see confidence. >> all three are competing. all three are young.
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it's a process of learning how to do our system. i'm excited about it. strasburg could not do it, scherzer could not do it, neither good gio gonzalez. rookie joe ross the latest victim. bottom of the fourth, 1-0 giants, hunter pence turns on this ross offering. drive to deep left. two-run shot, 3-0 giants. seventh, madison bumgarner helping his own cause. he goes deep. the pitcher, his fourth home run of the season. he also had an r.b.i. double. nats drop their sixth straight, 5-0 the final. orioles hosting the other day area team.
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look at darren o'day. what a catch by darren o'day, the second home run in the game for jones. orioles shut out 26 hits on their way to an 18-2 besting of the a's. washington entered the game two and a half games behind the liberty in the eastern conference. big day for point guard ivory. ivory led the way with 20 points. mystics beat the links 77-59. usa up 5-0. special moments for pittsburgh. pass, scores in her , then gets the terrible towel. what a great moment.
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more than $56 million during its opening weekend, making it the biggest opening ever for an r-rated film. with "missionnd impossible, rogue nation," followed by "the man from u.n.c.l.e." rushing to the theater to see "straight outta compton." reporter: the group, they've hit the charts. reporter: i will be in line to watch it. it's a good time to be in the theater to keep cool. sunday as we go into this monday it will at least equal today and 94. like 99 but feels more when you take into account humidity.
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bergeron: here's a sneak peek at tonight's "afv." we dare you not to laugh. [ air horn blares ] [ grunts ] aah! oh! [ laughter and applause ] welcome to... and now, here he is, the host of "afv"... all: tom bergeron! yes! thank you very much and thank you to hattie, georgia, tucker, and henry for that lovely introduction, guys.
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