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has his final day. marci: boarding his flight back to rome. francis: may almighty god bless you all. three-citymentous trip to the united states. celebrating mass with hundreds of thousands of overjoyed people , packing this philadelphia parkway. hours toed in line for get through security checkpoints, just to catch a glimpse of the papal parade and hear his message echoing through the heart of this captivated city. our father in heaven. marci: he started his final day meeting with victims of sexual
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abuse, promising accountability within the church. pope francis: god weeps. abuse ofexual children. these cannot be maintained in secret. marci: the pope t demonstrating his passion for the disenfranchised, visiting a prison. pope francis: above all as your brother. and handshake as heartfelt as those he felt with the littlest of the crowd. leaving, theyople were loudly clapping, this time not for the pope but for law enforcement that help to make this a safe and successful papal visit. gonzalez, abc news. kellye: relive all of the
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historic visits online. just go to wjla.com four video, photographs, and more. house speaker john boehner said today there will not be a government shutdown. the pronouncement comes two days after he stunned many by announcing his resignation. we have reaction and a look at what happens now. emotional john boehner told reporters turmoil and the house led him to decide it was time to go. speaker boehner: i don't want my members to have to go through this. i don't want the institution to go through this. especially when i knew i was thinking about looking at the door anyway. been underas pressure from conservatives in his own party to take a stronger stance in support of their issues, like blocking funding for planned parenthood. gop presidential candidate ted cruz credited the conservative movement for forcing boehner's hand. yesterday, john
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boehner with speaker of the house. y'all come to town and that changes. reached ahner decision after presiding over a rare joint session of congress during pope francis' address. he said the decision was simple. i woke up, went out to starbucks to get my coffee. i got home and thought, i think today is to the day. president obama praise speaker boehner and sent a message. president obama: we can have significant differences on issues, but that does not mean you shut down the government. steve: talks on who will replace speaker boehner are underway. kellye: many believe that his departure reduces the chances of
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a government shutdown. some republicans are threatening to shut down government if planned parenthood is not defunded by october 1. shut down,ce would in many ways, and hundreds of patients, both kids and adults would not be able to get important treatments for of diseases at nih. a measure would have defunded planned parenthood for year, so congress could investigate the allegations around the sale of fetal tissue. gave theesident obama first of two speeches at the united nations. tomorrow morning, the president will address the full general assembly. russian also meet with president vladimir putin for the first time in more than a year. he will also meet with the cuban leader raul castro.
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to make a "major announcement" to more about mars. they say they have solved a mystery about the red planet, but will not say what that is. one might speculation ranged from the discovery of water to aliens. as a has scheduled a news conference for tomorrow morning. after thems for vw omission scandal. the legal battles they are facing and what people who own one of the millions of cars facing recall need to know. devon: aliens on mars. we will be tracking the weather monday. a round of syria showers and storms. kellye: 7 on your side with a
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consumer alert. the epa is taking new steps to stop emission test cheating after volkswagen was caught cheating the last seven years. they want to step up road tests of all new and used cars. they also began to test -- will want to begin testing for all light vehicles on the road to check for similar violations. as the epa increases oversight, volkswagen is cleaning house, appointing a new ceo. kimberly suiters has the details on what you can do if you have one of the cars in question. from the college park physical therapist thrilled to
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buy the car of the year -- >> i feel like they made it up. kimberly: and the person thought they were going green. repairfalls church car shop that services and sells them, will this make it harder for you to sell? >> absolutely. three local people out of hundreds of thousands of diesel drivers nationwide now wanting volkswagen to pay. the change.org petition demanding a no fee buyback program. that would satisfy this person he was holding a $20,000 carlin. >> i want them to purchase the car back. kimberly: the first class-action suit for consumers has been filed by a firm in maine with a d.c. office. >> cheaters should not keep their profits. generally: this retired -- but the class-action
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may not hurt as much as a billion-dollar fine. >> i hope that they get fined big-time by the epa. he will wait for the recall letter. ia software, came v so will the fix, although there mileageubt that gas will suffer. kellye: another german automaker is facing allegations over emissions. a german magazine said that at model reached -- breached in missions on its road tests. the automaker denied manipulating any tests. women made- two history completing the elite army program. a member of congress is now questioning their estimates. and the forecast is coming up.
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total lunar eclipse. the clouds came in. across the region, it depended on your local spots, the cloud cover. this will all be done in about an hour. what has determined the weather the last several days has been the low-pressure way up high. that has been to the west. that is getting weaker, finally getting rid of that. northeast wind finally transitioning to more east, northeast wind. the transition to southeast breaks more clouds, we get some sun, temps up. we will get a healthy dose of showers, possible thunderstorms. a strong cold front trailing from the low-pressure. that is the big picture. its backup, reset the forecast. rain chances, temperatures. tomorrow, showers to
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the west, upper 50's, low to mid 60's. leave the jacket at home, especially downtown washington. it will be warmer in the afternoon. the southeast flow kicks in, isolated shower across the washington metro. 80 degrees washington. eastern shore, no rain all upper 70's. to further west with cloud cover, rain chances are greater. tuesday is the likeliest rain event in a long time. early indications are the showers and storms will be in the west by the afternoon evening, nighttime timeframe. showers, a possible thunderstorm near midnight. 80 degrees. washington actually fiveegrees above the average five.
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every forecast supporting we will get the storms between tuesday come if not tuesday lingering into wednesday. the high temperatures all the way down into the mid-60's. the low temperatures, tuesday at 71, the high temperature will be under that the rest of the week. withe: 7 on your side health matters. the american college of cap situations and gynecologists says doctors should recommend more long-term birth control to patients. reversible, contraception can dramatically reduce the number of unplanned pregnancies. types of long-term birth control include iud's and contraceptive implants that are 20% more effective in preventing pregnancies than the pill. cvs is expanding its sale of a drug that reverses opioid overdoses, including prescription pain medicines that are addictive.
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the drug to combat overdoses is becoming available and a dozen states, including california, new jersey, and pennsylvania, but not maryland or virginia. cvs says 44,000 accidental overdoses happen in the u.s. every year. still ahead -- they made history once. now these female veterans are doing it again.
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once proof that standards were not changed for the first female graduates of the army ranger school, requesting paperwork documenting the soldiers' performance. the pentagon said the women were held to the same standards as men. the secretary of the army said he will comply with the request. therst of its kind event in u.s., the all female honor flight. diane cho was there as they arrived in the nation's capital. reminiscing about what it was like when they join. >> we could choose where we wanted to go. diane: these are all veterans. behold, i was lost in the woods. diane: sharing a bond only they could understand. >> it was very male-dominated. that was the way the times were. diane: beverly was in the army
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nurse corps during the vietnam war. >> took care of a lot of young burns, bad burns. diane: she was part of the first all women's honor flight. honored nor never respected as veterans. were: most senior veterans paired with a younger veteran, some of which served in iraq and afghanistan. of the oldern awe vets, and the older vets are in awe of them. diane: they stopped by the women in military service memorial.
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ceremony with the first ladies of china and the u.s. cute. devon: love to see that they did the naming early. forecast, much-needed rain on the way. it will not happen tomorrow, stays dry, pretty nice, average high 75. tuesday, wednesday, will under average, the high temperatures dropping into the 60's. showers, possible thunderstorms tuesday afternoon, tuesday night, showers into wednesday morning. friday, saturday, possible, small chances. eileen whelan will have the updates, tracking the cold front's arrival. kellye: have a good night.
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