loss. five people died in a deadly crash sunday. remained the hospital, some in critical condition. the most all the victims were on a church van. tonight, members of that church sat down with each other to help families heal. tom roussey was at the emotional gathering. late tonight, the police identified the driver of the truck as a 30-year-old from chillum. this happened as the van was headed here where the church rents space. tonight, erybodyot together for the first time since sunday's accint. sunday, the service ended early when they learned of the crash.

plan toas a family that move home to el salvador in a week. a six-year-old also died. her sunday source teacher said she had a learning disability but did not let it hold her back . roughly one of every seven members of this riverdale church n, including marco rodriguez, who was nine months pregnant and lost e baby. her in her six-year-old daughter are both in comus. we are trying to speak to everybody. tom: members say the small church is like a family, which will need help. we have learned some area churches are coming together to try to help the church come nojo

also pay for the funerals of those whdied. tom roussey, abc 7 news. right now, investigating a small plane crash that killed nine in ohio. it happened as the jet was taking off from dayton. the plane clipped a utility wire and crashed into a small apartment building. fortunately, nobody on the ground was hurt. all, it just dropped out of the sky. >> it sound like gunfire. leon: in tsb investigators are arriving on the scene tonight. field: it was a smaller today, the top eight candidates on the stage in milwaukee, and the subject was the economy. senior political reporter scott thuman is in milwaukee with highlights.

still tough to tell who was a clear-cut winner in this debate. there is a clear-cut target -- hillary clinton. the candidates wanted to make sure this was as not as much finger-pointing and name-calling in their own party, instead taking aim at the democratic leaders. that is until the topic of immigration arose. inthey are doing high fives the clinton campaign right now when they hear this. we have to win the presidency. we all know that you cannot pick them up and move them across the border. it is a silly argument. >> we have to stop illegal immigration. it is hurting us economically. it is causing tremendous difficulties with drugs and what that does to many of our inner cities. >> when i look at some of the

like hillary clinton, who sits and presents herself as a government official of a terrorist attack, and then she diderybodye not, where i come from the call that a lie. scott: strong words. reporting live in milwaukee, scott thuman, abc 7 news. discovery, a man with a gunshot wound found inside of a car in springdale. the car hit a tree. the police say the victim is in critical condition. the tactics are working to determine a suspect and motive. the man has not been identified. alexandria, a murder victim has been identified as jose perez. k

he suffered upper body from a, but the exact causenot been rev. if you have information, call the police. 1 brendan wilson, killed one euro ago near woodbridge high school. for the family the law still stings, and they gathered tonight. richard reeve was there. richd: one year ago, our lives changeforever. emotions poured forth. will not stop until i get justice for brandon. richard: friends and family of brendan wilson gathered at a school shortcut nicknamed "the cut" where he was gunned down a year ago. >> i know he was ambushed. i know he was shot several times. richard: the police have arrested four people, including the accused gun man, calling

this a drug related homicide. 's mother said her son may have dabbled with marijuana, but that he was the victim of a bully that got out of control. >> i don't know why the guns got involved. achard: amid tears come special marker was dedicated to remember wilson. >> i don't know why this happened to him. richard: the trial for the accused killers begins later this month. although many are calling for justice, many say it will never replace the young life lost. richard reeve, abc 7 news. alison: rich, thank you. aman arrested for firing slingshot at the white house. adam wilson was taken into custody by secret service this afternoon. he is charged with assault with a dangerous weapon. pennsylvania avenue was briefly shut down but it has reopened.

project along i-66, vdotn officials met with vienna residents to talk about the highway transportation -- transformation project, adding bus service and creating new parking lo ficials are still taking publomnt on this. construction could start as soon as 2017. week, i-66 was named the worst freewain america. alison: montgomery county police -- montgomery county schools are closing schools for a major islamic holiday. kids will be often teachers will have a professional workday. this is scheduled for september next year.- alert aboutumer smart tvs, turns out they may be watching your every move. they found that video smart tvs share information with advertisers about viewing habits

and then they can find you on your phone and other devices. the tracking is part of interactivity, turned on by default on 10 million televisions. you have to opt out to dodge the surveillance. vizio says the inat not personal and a share to help companies make better decisions. coming up -- we have a cooldown coming. skies will clear, and we may have a chance of a thunderstorm thursday. the timing coming up wizards did not make a strong case for kevin durant tonight.

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with 61, we have cooldown. the satellite an radar, not a lot going on now. the moisture has lifted off to the north and west, greasy, but

that will allow the skies to clear nicely overnight. the temperatures early tomorrow morning, 44 degrees of the suburbs, downtown d.c. between 5 0 and 52. futurecast through the overnight, grab your sunglasses, sun and clouds through the day, looks fantastic, highs will above average. midday, midmorning thursday, we look for a line of showers, maybe and in bed thunderstorm. nothing severe, but thursday, take the umbrella out the door. the forecast through the day to mark him a chilly start, a chilly start, upper 40's, near 50 degrees. 61 by noon time, still a good deal of sunshine. 5:00 am at before highs tomorrow pursing 65. the next seven days, showers, am

embedded showers possible thursday. by the weekend, highs in the middle to upper 50's with nighttime lows in the 30's. we reward back into the lower 60's early next week. the toyota sports desk, brought to you by your local toyota dealers. erin: embarrassing -- that is the word to sum up the wizards' performance. at against the thunder. kevin durant did not play because of a hamstring injury. he was good while he was in, though. 2-2 from beyond the arc as the thunder rolled. the caps on the road, at detroit, scoreless in in the third. takes the block down the side, fires from the impossible angle and scores. somehow just squeezes past braden holtby and the caps lose, 1-0. and bryce harper was named a finalist for the national league

m.v.p., the winner to be announced november 19. alison: that sounds good. embarrassing is never good. surprise, that is it for the news at 11:00. thank you for joining us. alison: coming up next -- potential health concerns tied with crum rubber fields. we have new information, details next in a 7 on your side special report.

>> from abc 7 news, this is a 7 on your side special report. alison: we have important information about the stories that you have talked to us about the most. we asked the tough questions about sports fields and injuries, and we wanted to know -- want you to know what happened sincehe story first aired. alison: there's an investigation into crumb rubber athletic fields. is there a connection with the material use their and cancer. leon: since the report aired, two u.s. senators have called for an immediate federal investigation of crumb rubber, which the i-team has discovered his own at least 50 fields in our area. alis: and comprehensive safety testing is long overdue. in fact, it has never been done.

steve powers has spent more than half of his life guarding the goal. these days, he is more concerned about protecting his kids. and athletes like him. >> i'd like to be part of the solution moving forward in parks and other facilities, moving away from crumb rubber. is shredded uper tires that is used on thousands of fields across the country, including this one in fairfax county. so to the spreads, questions about the potential impact on health. especially for someone like powers, who spent years diving onto crumb rubber before getting cancer. >> it turns out the fields i used to play on and coach on were a factor in me getting cancer. that is a tough pill to swallow. coachamy griffin, soccer at the university of washington, is keeping a list that includes

people, including 80 goalies with one thing in common. they played sports on crumb rubber fields and they got cancer. >> we are dealing with a very small sample. millions of people have played on and used synthetic turf. councile synthetic turf points to more than 50 studies that says crumb not a hazard. , not one seen nothing piece of evidence that says it's not safe. evidencetics say the has been piecemeal. no comprehensive study has ever evaluated the health impacts of crumb rubber. you think the government has failed the american people on this issue? >> caps on lily. joce: she has been fighting for a crumb rubber ban since 2006. >> we said give us 10 years and we will start to see cancer. joce: a recent yale study looked

at rubber tire in phil, finding 96 chemicals, including those with carcinogenic risk. >> the government has allowed a cancer experiment with a whole generation of children and athletes. >> it's enough to make you cry. we missed it. joce: but the fight is changing. in a congressional hearing this summer, the consumer product safety commission reversed course on crumb rubber, stepping back from a 2008 sing it is ok to play on. >> safe is something i don't think we should have conveyed. the cpsc once more testing, but it has not been done. >> why should counties be left to figure out the science? that's beyond what we can do. joce: montgomery county recently

announced it would no longer provide public funding for crumb rubber fields. fairfax county schools went all income installing synthetic turf that every high school in the district. it would not talk with 7 on your side about why, referring us instead to scientific studies. >> a central agency needs to take a hard look at this. i'm shocked they are dragging their feet not doing so. how can they not? senators nelson and blumenthal wrote a letter to the cpsc, calling for immediate testing of crime rubber crumb cdc to-- and asking the study cases to see if there is a link. senator blumenthal tells 7 on your side school districts may want to adopt a wait and see attitude before installing new fields, waiting to see the results of a study they hope will be done within a year. >> if an authoritative, exacting study is done, we will know the

truth. and they should not fear the truth. we should know it, and parents deserve it. cpsc says it needs more money and authority of congress once testing like this. a house committee has also demanded answers about crumb rubber from the epa. the deadline to provide those answers past four days ago. tonight, new rules from the u.s. soccer federation, aiming to keep kids safer by preventing and cautions. children 10ing for years and younger. alison: consumer investigator kimberly suiters looked at the special headbands, designed to prevent concussions. in soccer and other sports. the halo headbands are endorsed by two local world cup champs. but not all doctors are convinced.

>> if i had this on, maybe it was different. the problem with a headbands is does not keep the soft tissue from moving inside the head. he cannot stop that movement, from that injury from occurring. if you want to hear more of what he had to say on the topic, and the full story, it's on wjla.com. alison: up next, troubleshooter horace holmes puts local plumbers to a test in a hidden camera investigation. [door knknocking]

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homeowner as a producer and i sat in aupstairs room and watched. this plumber wants to replace the faucet hose. if you are the homeowner and are not sure what is necessary, what would you do? >> i would say this hose will cost you $45, plus our service charge. tois there some other way fix it, where you don't need to replace it? >> will have to see. >> it's not leaking anymore? >> no. >> they tour up the bathroom, took the tour about, and the radiator. plumber,hen you hire a if you don't think you will be t cleaning up something like this, you better think again. >> you have contractors coming in thinking you don't know what's happening. do wilson's is what think happened to their 88-year-old mother, who

contacted us after seeing our hidden camera investigation about plumbers. miss wilson hired a local plumbing company because -- >> the toilet would not flesh. horace: she signed a contract. payplumbers wanted her to $11,000 up front. you were the homeowner, what would you do? wilson paid the money, and this is what she was left with. not only did the workers demolish the bathroom, but they created holes through the floor into the ceiling of the kitchen. by doing that, they created another leak. the better business bureau says consumers should try not to pay a contractor more than one third of the estimated bill upfront. the wilsons say the plumbers left a month ago without a trace. there is help for ms. wilson. these plumber saw the original story and have offered to step forward. >> i cannot believe someone he would steal the money from the

lady and lever without facilities for a month. the whole team thought it would be best, we try to give back in different ways, and this will be one of them. horace: horace holmes, abc 7 news. alison: now 7 on your side with a consumer alert -- vw's effort to please unhappy call her owners is not going as well as the company had hoped, so vw is offering a thousand dollars in gift cards and bouncers to owners of diesel powered cars involved in the omission scandal. some vehicle owners say that is not enough and they want vw to buy the cars back. they are concerned they will not be up to resell the cars because of the scandal. leon: 7 on your side is here to help.

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