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kellye: calls for change in the ranks of d.c. police, the wave of violence this weekend, a new vote being tallied that could have big implications in the department. 58-year-old hiker from dumfries found alive and say. the amazing story ahead. kellye: and storms on the way. we are tracking when they get
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here and what you will dealing with on your way to work. the news at 11:00 starts now. >> now abc 7 news at 11:00, on your side. are lookingpolice into shootings in southeast just blocks apart. knownger away shot and we the shootings were connected in the girl is expected to survive. this is rounding out a volatile weekend in district, 13 people shot since friday night, at least two dead. all of this despite the all hands on deck effort by mpd to curb the violence. a vote oflso no-confidence on chief cathy lanier from the police union. matt has the latest. matt: another weekend of violence in washington, two more shootings tonight, bringing the weekend total to 13. the police union has voted no-confidence in chief lanier. the nice shootings took place
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about a block apart on k street in southeast washington. the victims were a 13-year-old girl and adult male. both were conscious and breathing when taken to the hospital. >> it is something we have been frustrated with for a long time. matt: this happened despite the all hands on deck. the police union says given the increasing levels of violence, the time has come for major changes in the police department, the strategy and the top brass. conducted an online vote of no-confidence in chief cathy lanier. >> we need to move in a new direction. we want to make sure the chief and the leadership and the citizens understand we are frustrated with what is going on and we need to move in a new direction. response to the no-confidence vote, chief lanier said, "i find the timing of this interesting as this is the first all hands on deck weekend this year. i realize officers do not like
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their schedule disrupted and i try to minimize it, but when we have violent crime we have to make the sacrifices that we swear we would make when we this job." there is another vote expected tomorrow morning. investigators are trying to determine how a man's body ended up in a shallow grave in montgomery county. hunters discovered the body in germantown. there is no word on a cause of death. it is not known if the body has been identified. a hiker from prince william county recovering in a hospital in maine. john lyons spent three days lost in the wilderness. teams found him alive and well just a little while ago. roz plater is in the newsroom. roz: incredible, and his neighbors and dumfries are thrilled. is quoted inhiker the paper in bangor, maine, as saying he kept going because he
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was not ready to die. few days, searchers on the air and in the rough terrain of have's baxter state park been looking for hiker john lyon. finally, sunday afternoon, a chopper crew spotted him on a rockslide, alive and in a good shape. >> he was trying to do the right thing, getting into an open area to be seen, and he was successful. roz: he had been hiking with a group thursday. when they stop for lunch, he broke ahead. into teamsrganized and scoured the area all weekend until they found him about two miles from where he was last seen. to havere very happy this turn out the way it did. he is in good shape. roz: nobody may be happier than his neighbors. >> i'm very happy they have been found. lost,mazing that he got because he is a very good hiker. >> he went to mount kilimanjaro
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for his 75th birthday. he is an avid hiker. >> he has walked the appalachian trail. some scratches, pumps, and bruises, he was taken to the hospital to be checked out. the forest ranger said he was with three friends also from virginia. they should all have quite a story to tell once they get back home. abc 7 news.roz: kellye kellye: hot and humid this weekend, and rain is on the way come on track to make for a wet monday morning. devon lucie is timing it out for us. when are we going to get the rain? devon: afternoon, evening time frame. tomorrow morning could be as early as 6:00, spotty, may be steady. just wet roadways. , charlesy county
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county, prince william, loud and county, all beginning tomorrow loudoning county -- county all beginning tomorrow. the high temperature sunday into the 90's. the clouds in washington held the temperature under 90. still 80 degrees reagan national. the high humidity, i know that you felt a comeback, the best measure of the dew point to pitcher, measuring the invisible water vapor in the year, the higher the numbers, the more humid it feels. rain showers coming in. everything is coming together. speaking of the children going back to school tomorrow, may not need the rain jacket, maybe just a small umbrella or a hood. mostly cloudy the better part of the day, holding temperatures just under 90. going into september, the heat
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and humidity back in full force, feeling more like august. the complete forecast from the belfort furniture weather center in a few minutes. kellye: thank you. brain cancer claimed the life of legendary horror director wes craven. he died surrounded by family. he is best known for "a nightmare on elm street" and the "scream" movie franchise. former maryland governor marvin mandel has died at the age of 85. he served as governor until 1979. he left office amid a corruption scandal, maintaining his innocence. his conviction was later overturned on a technicality. called himrry hogan a leader in friend. a memorial service for two murdered journalist, honoring alison parker and adam ward.
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they died in the on-air ambush last week. the roanoke symphony orchestra provided the music. the general manager of the station called them remarkable journalists and people. wednesday,urs into one of my reporters asked if i was angry. i thought about it for a moment and i said, yes, of course. i was angry at the miscreant. i was angry at the mental health system. i was angry over the easy access to weapons. i was angry about, well, being angry. i try not to be angry at god, but anger, what a destructive force. kellye: ward's funeral is scheduled tuesday. parker's family is keeping their funeral plans private. we have continuing coverage of the story and more about the memorial service on air and that wjla.com. in prince george's county, the
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police are looking for a driver involved in a deadly hit and run a new carrollton. a woman died tuesday more than a month after she was hit crossing annapolis road. life has not been the same for her family. she was in a coma for six weeks until she died. now the sadness turns to mourning. >> i miss coming home, seeing her.waking up to i'm is everything about her. kellye: the police believe the car that hit luna was a dark colored thtoyota. a rare sight in the skies, the blue angels flying over the to gone for a team photo shoot. it featured six jets in a special formation with a seventh nearby to take shares. .hey were up about 30 minutes
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kellye: check this out, if four alarm fire forcing dozens to evacuate an apartment in rochester, new york. the people there say the fire alarms did not go off and crews had to go door to door warning people to get out. more than 100 firefighters fall ablaze. 18 of the city post county fire companies responded. -- 18 of the cities 20 fired up responded. chris christie made a comment about tracking people whoever stay their visa in the same way
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that fedex tracks packages. >> they don't have a label on their wrist? we can do it,: and we have the technology. kellye: fedex has not commented on the idea. ther founder and ceo is sponsor of one of the top political rates. governor scott walker said he is up for building a wall with the u.s. border in canada. the 14th amendment or anything else, until we secure the border and enforce the laws we should not be talking about any other issue. a comparison, the u.s. border with mexico was 1900 miles long. the border with canada is 6500 miles long, including alaska. bernie sanders is chipping away
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at hillary clinton's lead. he has 30% support behind clinton's 37%. she has lost one third of our support since may. in january, he was pulling at just 5%. vice president joe biden who is not declared came in behind sanders in the polls with 14%. just threebama needs more votes to guarantee congress will not derail the nuclear deal with iran. today, the organ senator became the 31st democrat to soup the agreement. the president needs 34 votes to uphold the veto of a proposed resolution against the deal. a dozen democrats have yet to say how they will vote. congress has until september 17 two way in. -- to weigh in. known onceley is now again as denali, the obama administration changing its designation. called the knowledge in alaska, the federal government has
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referred to it as mckinley since the 1970's. beginsw, prisoner obama a three-day to an alaska focusing on climate change. a brand-new look at the national zoo's panda cub. they are still shots from the thea camera when mei xiang cub down to eat. his trademark fuzz is coming in with black markings. mei xiang was given sugarcane, her first meal since giving birth, and both mother and baby are doing quite well. they sure look like it. devon: they have a really big cheering section, the united states and the world. kellye: a lot of people watching. devon: a big cheering section for the weather we just had the previous week. not the case the next several days. we may have possible showers tomorrow. the light rain is going to be
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just that, spotting in nature, light, a little nuisance. it still appears the latest information just in that we have scattered showers later instead of earlier. we are thinking it might be in the middle of the morning commute, 6:00 a.m. until 8 a.m., pushing away towards new time. live doppler, the local doppler radar. spotty showers activity southern maryland, eastern shore, nothing reaching the ground yet. heavier showers in west virginia, very isolated in nature. indications are with the rain. the real-time temperature, 80 reagan national. still humid. a different vantage point this time of night, looking back over the nation's capital. the lincoln memorial the center, the capital wheel in the distance. the highs sunday, 87.
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new york city and boston, not often they are warmer than we are. the heat that is building in the midsouth, towards the plains, eventually will until the 90's, moving our direction. is not moving through, but it enhances the chance of showers with the week system. most of the rain is still well to the south. possibleicture, rain the next few days, then it is about the heat and humidity. that is money going into tuesday. getting closer, the exact same forecast, reset, restart, overnight into the morning. light rain activity, 8:00, spotty showers coming in. , maygoing back to school get away with just a hoodie. upper 60's, lower 70's. it will be comfortable. tomorrow was warm. , as expected,r
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keeping us just under 90 degrees. tuesday, one of the hotter days. very hot and humid this time of year. 95.ould be close to that would be 10 degrees over the average for this time of year. friday, through sunday, chances of isolated storms because it will be hot and humid. the likeliest rain days tomorrow morning. weekend,ff labor day next weekend, scattered storms friday. possibly saturday. we may break the heat wave saturday. kellye: tell the earth, did you miss rg iii yesterday in baltimore? devon: no, cousins did well after the first pass. been a roller coaster. so much has happened in the past three days with the redskins.
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>> and now that the auto sports desk, brought to you by your local to go to dealers. robert: another chapter to the opera come espn reporting the redskins are pushing for the end of the rg iii era but there is resistance from ownership. and confusion saturday, the redskins announcing he was cleared to play on friday, but the next day he was not. now here is jay gruden on the concussion confusion. people have to understand this has nothing to do with the redskins. i know people want to make out we are in competent, but we are not. this was a totally independent doctor. i have always been told i have the final say on who plays quarterback, and i don't think that has changed.
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of the part organization, as is bruce allen and dan snyder. we will put the best on the team that we think will win against miami. there is no hidden agenda. this is a washington redskins decision. i have total faith we will make the right one. robert: no rg iii last night, so kirk cousins had a chance to show his stuff. a slow start, but went 20-27, 190 yards. and colt mccoy had a couple touchdown passes. a good night for the backups. aboutfor me it is controlling my attitude, preparation, and effort, playing the best i can, letting the chips fall where there may. there are too many things you cannot control. you focus on what you control and not worry about the best. has beenden: kirk taking reps with the first team in their computing.
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they have studied, prepared. they are ready to play and they played well. robert: baseball, the nationals 5.5 games back behind the mets. leaves tonightrg after four innings with back tightness. third, marlins up three-zero. jayson werth, deep left-center and out of here, to run shot. the get a big inning in fifth. ian desmond singles up the middle, bryce harper scores. the nationals take the lead and go on to win 7-4. with any player, there is prodding that needs to be done. thatbody is, "i'm good," is the nature of a player, but s, then tell with your eye feel for the breaking ball and changeup was not there. he was looking uncomfortable.
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we will give him some medication and see where he is in a couple days. robert: soccer, d.c. united, the united down 2-0. the past to bradley wright phillips. his second goal of the game. red bulls win 3-0. the mystics on the road against the seattle storms. out,ystics down 4, kicked the storm up by 7. they win 69-59. women's soccer, the washington spirit is tied with the wind at 2-2 in the second half. drama, drama, more drama for the redskins. kellye: we have gotten our fill of it. robert: even the preseason. kellye: and likely more to come. straight ahead, a close call in the water.
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kellye: we are seeing drizzle? producerr morning show said there is fine drizzle coming down in spotty showers tonight. we have rain in the forecast ight.row, but it is very la there could be wet roadways for the morning commute. may cause a few extra minutes spent on the road. check in with eileen whelan tomorrow morning, she will track
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[captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] kellye: heavy weather making headlines in the country, storms hitting the southwest and florida. and no fewer than three major hurricanes are churning in the pacific. richard has the latest on the wicked weather. tampa, the remnants of tropical storm erika blows soaking rain over florida with more flooding. a.we are in zone richard: more than 15 inches of
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