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>> welcome to "on the money." i am sure in everson. small businesses going big-time. how they are going social and mobile. his america suffering labor pains? we look at the state of the labor market with labor secretary tom jerez. major swings up and down. should you pay attention to the noise, and what does it mean for your retirement plan?
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we will take you inside cuba. what has changed, and should you be planning a vacation there anytime soon? money," yourn the money, your life, your future. sharon: what do a wine cellar and hair salon have in common? they have jumped on the technology bandwagon to make their traditional businesses more modern, more mobile, more social. their small shops try to keep up with the bigger players, and that is our cover story this week. businesses, three different strategies to keep up with the times and stay in business. >> social media is the best thing to ever happen to small business. you used to have to get through these gatekeepers. if somebody is on social media, you get to them. >> i'm answering e-mails more
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than an answering phone calls now. >> this fourth generation jeweler still makes to reveal fashioned way, but is using social media to reach her companies target audience. >> women can relate when you see a picture of an hearing -- it's no secret that we've been frustrated with this apartment for a long time. posted anice union poll today, asking officers if they have faith in chief cathy lanier. >> we want to make sure the chief and the leadership of the city and citizens understand we are frustrated with what is going on. we need to move in a new direction immediately. >> jefferies believes chief lanier cannot be held chiefly responsible. >> police officers can only do so much. once they are arresting people and people can go to court, the
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judge is the side them to let them go back into communities where they can commit the same crime again. i don't think that's a police chief issued. >> while today's findings will not be released until tomorrow, when they are released, it will make a clear statement of whether or not chief cathy owner is respected by her officers. i am kevin lewis, abc 7 news. >> d.c. police investigating another shooting, this one near the anacostia metro station. you can see a car with its windows shot out. this was around 3:30. police tell our cruise that there were no life-threatening injuries. a prince william county man safe after spending three days missing in the backwoods of maine. 78-year-old john lyon of dumfries was found hours ago in baxter state park. is experiencedn tiger. he left three companions on
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thursday afternoon and apparently lost his way. service plane and 90 game wardens, dog teams, and volunteers spent most of the day looking for lyon. are already dealing with heat and humidity, and some rain is headed our way. there's also a good chance it will hit during your monday morning commute. meteorologist devon lucie is timing this out for us. day for montgomery, prince william counties. city of manassas, loudon county, tomorrow, you are back to school. some sunshine was out, 90 today. 88, gaithersburg. 86, manassas. 86 degrees, exactly how we look outside. you can see the cloud cover has moved back to washington. that has kept the temperature under the degrees. humidity, you thought -- you probably felt that backed up.
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mid-to-upper 60's. right into the satellite and radar together, we are tracking this rain that is going to be moving up towards washington. it's that area of low pressure streaming up. the latest information is, we will bring that rain late tonight. for the bus stop forecast tomorrow, i would prepare for light scattered showers to be around. not real cool, so you don't have to keep -- [indiscernible] kellye: thank you. happening now, a hit and run turning deadly, and police are still looking for the driver. 39-year-old sandra luna was hit while crossing annapolis road in new carrollton. she died of her injuries this week. diane cho is live tonight with where the investigation stands.
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sandra luna and her daughter split up the day she was hit to run a couple errands, and they were supposed to meet at the bojangles where she worked, but luna never showed up that day. >> i think of it when i wake up and go to sleep. diane: for this 15-year-old, life will never be the same again after losing her mother and best friend. >> i miss coming home, seeing her, being with her, waking up with her. i miss everything about her. her world diane: was turned down on july 15, a day that will forever haunt castro. it happened a mile away from inir home on annapolis road new carrollton. police say 39-year-old sandra luna was trying to cross the street just after 7:00 when she was hit by a car. authorities say the driver never
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stopped. luna was not in a crosswalk. they thought she was somebody's mother, sister. diane: her mother was rushed to the hospital. luna's second grandchild was born. it's been pretty hard. she said luna was a devoted mother who would do anything to make her happy. coma for the last six weeks until she passed away last tuesday. >> i just want the person to get caught. diane: police don't have a lot of information to release about the car involved. they say they are looking for a dark colored toyota. if you have information, you are asked to call the prince george's county police department. kellye: in roanoke, tears but also laughter as people remember alison parker and adam ward. the two were ambushed on air, shot and killed by a former
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colleague unlike tv, but as jeremy roth shows us, tonight's ceremony wasn't about how they died. it was about how they lived. alison saw their mission to awaken us to what was good in life. jeremy: two journalists placed -- gone much too soon. >> i want to play softball with adam again. i want to see alison dance. the two were gunned down tuesday. the shooter faxed a suicide note to abc news, outlining his racial motives in the killings. flanagan took his own life as police approached. >> you always think there is a tipping point. >> we cannot be intimidated. we cannot be pushed aside.
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jeremy: in an excuse of interview, barbara parker said her family will advocate for gun control reforms and to keep firearms out of the hands of those with mental illnesses. >> if you are a parent, if you are a mother, can you look your child in the eye and say, we are willing to allow you to be collateral damage in order to keep what some people perceive as their constitutional right. parkers say they know their work will take a long time, but -- >> they messed with the wrong family. kellye: stick with abc 7 for the latest developments. we have continuing coverage on air. you can see more about today's service right now on wjla.com. right now, the blue angels are flying over virginia and d.c. they go until about 6:45.
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the team plans to make several passes in the area of reagan national, as well. still to come, moving forward with 2024. the new word from the west coast as the u.s. preps its bid for the olympics. also new at home, a fresh look at d.c.'s newest panda. what they are telling us about the cub. chris christie is speaking out tonight on explaining what he meant when he said the government needs to treat meant when he said the government needs to treat immigrants l wow. this thank you .ectacular. we worked with a designer from havertys for a complete refresh. you must be happy to get out of that tiny house? yeah you know when we alized how great the furniture could be, we knew we wanted more space. how much more space? we went from a hundred square feet to... three thousand! (whispers) three thousand! we still have the original structuture. she uses it as a yoga studio. it's more like a tool shed. reesh your space with an extra one-hundred dollars off every thousand at havertys.
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spending the day with my niece. that make me smile. i don't use super poligrip for hold, because my dentures fit well. before those little pieces would get in between my dentures and my gum and it was uncomfortable. even well fitting dentures let in food particles. just a few dabs of super poligrip free is clinically proven to seal out more food particles so you're more comfortable and confident while you eat. so it's not about keeping my dentures in, it's about keeping the food particles out. >> you are watching abc seven news at 6:30 -- on your side. kellye: republican presidential candidate chris christie comments he made about tracking people who overstay their visas like fedex packages. >> they don't have a label on their wrists. >> we can do it, and we should
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bring in the guys from fedex. i don't mean people are packages. let's not be ridiculous. founderthe company's and ceo is the father of one of christie's top political aides. all signs point to los angeles replacing boston as the u.s. choice to bid for the 2024 summer olympics. the u.s. olympic committee and city officials have come to a tentative agreement. all that is left is for the l.a. city council to sign off on the bid. a vote is scheduled for tuesday. countries must submit bids to the international olympic committee by september 15. los angeles is trying to join london as the second three-time coast -- coast. still to come, d.c.'s panda cub like you've never seen him before. what these pictures are already telling us about him. it potentially rainy commute tomorrow morning. who is getting hit the hardest, and when everything will start to clear out.
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kellye: brand-new look at the national zoo panda cubs. the zoo posted photos online. shots taken from the panda cam, and you can see his trademark panda fuzz coming in, black markings forming around his eyes and ears. he was given some sugarcane. this is her first meal since giving birth. we are told mother and baby are doing very well. devon: already on solids? that's amazing. nameless panda, but we know you are a boy. a littleom needs sugar. after you give birth, it comes in handy. devon: if only we could have .ept that a great weather
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unfortunately, we get the opposite, heat and humidity back . we are going to track some shower activity. doppler radar will show you a couple sprinkles up high in the sky are trying to move in, of operating before they hit the ground. you can see there's something trying to move in. we will go in closely and go to storm 17 doppler to show we've gone past the mason-dixon line. we are trying to move and more moisture, but nothing is reaching the ground. we've got some cloud cover starting to stream in. washington, under 90 degrees. we've got some serious heat moving in towards the south. bigger picture, what we've got is a cold front out there, and clearly this spin is streaming moisture our way. that cloud cover plays an important part in the outlook. it might hold temperatures down. bigger picture, as we go to
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start out this work and school .eek, it will be hot and humid monday is going to be about tracking the rain coming into the forecast. cross-referencing where the rain is right now and how fast it's be a good looks to outlook. futurecast has been one of the forecasts to show the rain could start to move in. this isn't going to be happy or anything. light, spotty, steady showers, but it could mean some wet roads. it could mean some wet bus stops . all the way up through the morning time frame to 5:00, as high as 10:00, 11:00, watch out for that. this is the exact same forecast we ran overnight to the early morning hours. these are upper 60's to 70's. by the afternoon, there's a chance of an isolated shower, but it's more about a warm day. cloud cover should hold temperatures under 90 degrees,
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.ut some spots showing sunshine widely isolated scattered showers and storms. the first day of september is one of our hottest days to come. 90's, actual air temperatures. factor in the humidity, closer to 100. the hottest day coming wednesday, and as we get towards the labor day weekend, more scattered storms could be moving in. tuesday to thursday, you can insert a 20% chance of an isolated storm. we are starting september like we would've thought most of august would have been. mixed up. is all speaking of all next up -- [laughter] >> so much confusion regarding rg iii's concussion peerage a gruden clears up the misunderstanding. reports of the r
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>> and now the toyota sports desk brought to you by your .ocal toyota dealers robert: as we saw last night, rg iii sat out because he wasn't cleared of his concussion. for was he? so much confusion leading up to saturday. the redskins announced rg iii was cleared to play saturday. the next day, he wasn't cleared. if you are rg iii, you have to have a massive headache. according to adam shepler, the redskins had been hoping to end the rg iii era but have been getting resistance from ownership. here is jay gruden on the concussion confusion. youe are all as confused as are. i know people want to make it out that we are incompetent, but we are not. this had nothing to do with us. i've always been told i have the
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final say on who plays quarterback, and i know that hasn't changed. scott is part of our organization, as his dan snyder. we will all talk about it. we are going to put the best 53 on the field who we think is going to win against miami. no hidden agendas whatsoever. this is a washington redskins decision. we will make the right one. family.one big happy we spoke with former redskins legend joe theismann before the game, and he said kirk cousins should be the starter week one against miami, not because he's better than robert but because of health reasons. a slow start yesterday, but eventually he came along. colt mccoy took advantage of his minutes, throwing two touchdown passes. >> for me, it's about controlling my attitude, preparation, effort, and playing the best i can play. there are too many things in this league that you can't control. you will driver sets -- yourself nuts if you focus on those things.
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he made the most of it. they are competing. you can see it out on the field they studied. they prepared. they got themselves ready to play. robert: in baseball, the nats are 5.5 games back from the mets. they took a game to from the marlins last night. they were hoping to take their fourth straight series. 3-0, jayson werth drives one to left center. it's out of here. nats down 3-2 after that blast. the nats get a big inning in the fifth. ian desmond singles up the middle. bryce harper scores. this 17-4. on to win little league world series championships, japan and crushes one to deep center field. it's a three-run shot. japan wins the little league world series 18-11.
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that shouldn't be a baseball score. in a final note, dj turner of dematha will undergo surgery to prepare for broken down in his right leg. he will miss the remainder of the 2015 season. we wish him a speedy recovery. as for rg iii, we just want to see him do well somewhere. kellye: not necessarily on this team. robert: even if he
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bergeron: here's a sneak peek at tonight's "afv." we dare you not to laugh. [ man laughs ] oh! [ laughs ] man: catch! welcome to "america's funniest home videos." and now here he is, the host of "afv"... ...tom bergeron! [ cheers and applause ] oh, thank you. and thank you, annie, for that lovely introduction.
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