>> now abc 7 news at noon on your side. jummy: another dreary day out there for your wednesday, a dense fog still a concern out there. the advisory has been extended until 2:00 p.m. this afternoon. our chief meteralologist doug hill is here. doug: a dense fog advisory has just been trimmed back a little bit. the rain is helping improv visibility but outside the

weather center in arlington. here's ooh look athe bell haven country club. you can see the raindrops on the camera lens. of course all you do is lift the clouds off the ground and improv the fog. the dense fog advisory is restricted now to baltimore county and anna-lena friedsam county. visibility isthere. visibility coming up two miles so progress but we will not see the end of the rain until much later this afternoon or evening. 65 at regan national. still 46 degrees in winchester, and there it is on doppler radar. i could close my eyes and touch screen and pretty much anywhere would be rain, drizzle and fog. a huge area of high pressure tomorrow will be with us. complete details on those and i think you will like what you hear. jummy: thank you doug. we turn now to the freddy gray

case. a jury has been seated in the trial of officer william porter. he is the first of six officers to go to trial. our sam swinney is in the ewsroom. >> they started with 150 potential jurors. eight women, four men and four male alternates. these jurors went through a lot of scrutiny. the trick was to find a jury and it would be almost impossible to find a juror that did not know about this case. william porter was the first officer charged with the death of gray and prosecutors say he ignored depray's pleas for

medical help from the back of that van. they say if the prosecutors fail to convict in this case it would be nearly impossible in the upcoming trials and opening statements are likely to begin shortly. my colleague brad bell is inside that courtroom. we will have updates beginning at 4:00 p.m. jummy: sam, thank you. now we turn to the war on terror. defense secretary ash carter announcing a new plan putting special forces on the ground to carry out missions in iraq and syria. we have the latest on the new military action. >> two of the world's biggest military forces are planning stepped-up action in the war against isis. here secretary of defense ash carter announcing a new opposite force. it would conduct raids, gather

intelligence and carter telling a congressional committee the u.s. is on the right course. >> we are defending the homeland ffecting isis at its core. >> right now british forces are only targeting isis in iraq. >> we should be under no illusion these terrorists are planning to kill us and radicalize our children right now. they attack us because of who we are not because of what we do. >> british prime minister david cameron making the proposal. >> the action we propose is legal, necessary and the right thing to do to keep our country safe. >> germany is also planning to contribute 1,200 troops and resources to help with the fight. abc news, washington.

jummy: we turn now to vote 2016 and republican presidential candidate donald trump will be in new york today. he will hold a rally in manassas. he is scheduled to speak at 7:30 at the prince william fair deprounds. by the way the gates open at 5:00 p.m. this evening. and a new quinnipiac university poll finding trump has a 10-point lead over his nearest republican competitors and also has hillary clinton with a two to one lead over berny sanders and shows general election voters are switching their support from the republican candidate toward clinton and anders and in a head-to-head face-off clinton would beat trump. jummy: two dogs were rescued

from a burning home. we are in landover hills with the details on that investigation. >> well, this was an intense fire. take a look at the debris in front of this home. fire investigators placing the orange sticker on the front door showing it is condemned. we are told the homeowner, a man in his 60's is legally blind. he and his oldest daughter and a dog were able to rush over to a neighbor's home to call 911. th are in the hospital now a pit bull om inand so protective of the owner crews mannot able to get to the

and daughter inside. >> i got a call from my aunt. i missed the first one saying my father was in the hospital. >> they were banging on my door hard and i asked what was wrong and looked out and saw all the smoke and flames and they asked me to call 911 then both passed out. >> it's unclear exactly what started it but it looks like it started in the atic in the rear of the home. there is a fire place back there but we are told it hasn't been used in years. in landover hills, john gonzalez, abc abc news. jummy: and police are searching for the man who shot a man in annandale. witnesses say after the man was shot they saw a woman kicking him while he was on the ground. she later took off.

there's still no word on the victim's condition. and authorities are trying to figure out what led to a deadly crash in frederick county this morning. maryland police say the car crossed the median just past route 15 and went down a wooded embankment. the passenger, 25-year-old lauren miller died at the scene. the driver 25-year-old justin rogers is in the hospital. no word on what caused that crash. jummy: and this is one of the tweets and pictures sent out by a passenger. the disabled train we're told s outside the west fair gate avenue and the breakdown caused delays on all three lines this morning. and fog causing problems. jamie sullivan has a look at the

traffic right now. until t 2:00 p.m. -- then we have fog trouble. if you are working your way closer toward quantico, the accident we have now blocking two lanes. police and e.m.s. on the scene. it's a car that spun out. with the roads wet you really need to be careful. southbound 95 slowing as you approach dale city and getting into woodbridge. let's take a live look to show you some of the activity right now. you can see we do have our left lane blocked. everyone getting over to the left-hand side. let's go ahead and move back to the map. you're going to have that road spray to contend with. i'd say leave an extra 10-15 minutes to accommodate because roads are wet. turn those highlights on and if

you travel on metro we have delays on the blue line and the stretch on the red line between shady grove and twinbrook. again, give yourself 20 extra minutes if you travel on the metro. jummy: and a call for change in chicago. the next leader protesters say should step down and an investigation under way into the entire police department plus a health alert to tell you about. the recent e. coli outbreak is worse than originally thought. we'll tell you what foods to stay away from and where they were sold. also tree lighting ceremonies this week and doug with when the

>> you're watching abc 7 news at noon. jummy: illinois' attorney general has asked them to investigate the police department. she wants the d.o.j. to investigate the use of extensive force after the shooting of a teenager 16 times. top city officials are refusing calls to step down. >> i think i'm doing my job and of myto do it to the best ability every day. >> i am not resigning. there's no reason for me to resign. jummy: they are reviewing officers in the wake of that shooting.

and the mysterious death of the mayor of alaska's capitol. juneo mayor was found dead days after taking office. investigators say fisk did have injuries consistent with an assault or a fall. and a new report from the secret service shining the light on the type of people most likely to pursue mas shootings. since 2001 the report ve israelis more than half of the attacks involve so-called lone wolves with guns and say people with mental illness are no more prone than others they can range from those with a sudden change n ference those alone. the key is to get troubled

people help. and response to another jumper successfully scaling the white house fence on thanksgiving day. he wants to know why the temporary spikes added to the top of the fence did not prevent the college student from climbing it. and discouraging news you could say about water testing eight months before the olympic games in rio de janeiro, brazil. the city's water ways are as filthy as ever. the a.p. first said disease-causing viruses directly linked to human sewage and brazilian officials now acknowledge the cleanup won't happen. shows you theside f.d.a. has expanded its list to celery including more than 150,000 temperatures sold atwal

mart, safeway and even starbucks. the recall includes as a wholed kits, vegetable trays and other foods made by taylor farms specific out in california. in the day athat he had national mall will get a bit brighter as the capital christmas tree is lit and it's getting a 74-foot spruce that made the trip from alaska and took 24 days to get here. the tradition started in 1964 and tonight it will be first-timer paul ryan and he will have the help of 10-year-old anna devold from alaska. that ceremony getting under way at 5:00 and tomorrow i have the honor of representing abc 7 when the national christmas tree lit. i will be hosting the preshow before the preceremony and that will take place at 5:00 p.m.

tomorrow afternoon. hopefully we will have a little bit of better weather tomorrow than this evening? doug: it will be perfect. a bit breezy and cool but sunshine and nothing like this. this is not fun but there's still going to probably be light drizzle in the air when they light the capitol christmas tree but i think it will be fine. so let's get started and share with you a time laps. if it didn't have the banner on there i would have no idea what we are looking at. from river bend golf&country club in great falls, virginia. the fog has been diminishing so fog was uple hours ago very much out there but improvement because of a subtle change in wind direction. the farther north and

west you are of washington, the cooler it is. fairly mild metro area. 54. so we are here comfortable enough. we just have to deal with rain a little longer this afternoon. in this presentation the areas of dark green. a few moderate downpours. there is a back edge developing ahead of a cold front. as you get farther west skies are starting to clear. high pressure will build in. give us delightful weather. let's talk about the capitol tree lighting. a drizzle in the air and just a chance for a few showers for this evening. as far as what's going to happen over the next few days, a radsical change in the weather pattern.

partly sunny and breezy tomorrow but pleasant with temperatures around 50 degrees for an afternoon high temperature and as we get through the afternoon we will see those temperatures pretty much steady down, because i think we will find out cooler air will be delayed a bit not coming in until later tomorrow night so through the christmas at lighting we are looking temperatures going down to 45 degrees, not too bad and through friday and the weekend it looks spectacular. sunshine and comfortable temperatures in the 50's. we don't see any chance of rain until next tuesday. for national harbor and our toys for tots we are going to be in fine shape. cool gets you in the holiday spirit. toys for tots dropoff until 11:00 p.m. and a lot of abc 7 and channel 8 newspeople will be

there. i will be there for the great event. jummy: i will be up there saturday morning. to sports now where nba star kobe bryant is opening up about his decision to leave the game. ever since bryant decided this season will be his last fans have flocked to arenas to see the best ever one last time. although they may not be seeing his best performances this season he told robin roberts he doesn't mind hearing the negative comments. cowboy i wouldn't have it any other way. you can't expect to just take the good. you have to take the good with the bad. one thing that i can share with the younger generation is to accept it all. jummy: you can catch kobe as he takes on the washington 1/3 tonight. the uppers are going for about $56 and 200 level seats are going for around $240.

coming up on abc 7 news at noon, mark zuckerberg's huge donation and how you can be in a movie

jummy: hollywood is coming to union station, starting today matt damon's fifth untitled film movies you have to be between 20 and 55 and a member of the sag union and have head shots and be available today and december3, 4, 5, 7th and you can visit the casting

link we have provided on our website. mark zuckerberg is following in the footsteps of bill gates and warren buffett. of theirwith the birth daughter they are donating 99% of facebook shares to charity. doug is back with one final look at the forecast and when the rain moves out of here.

jummy: and abc 7 and our sister news station channel 8 are proud sponsor toys for tots. don't forget to join us this saturday at the national harbor. we will be collecting toys and we need new, unwrapped toys to go to children in need. we hope to see you there. hope you have some good weather for us. doug: today we're in the last episode of this rain pattern. once the cold front comes through we should be all right. but for the lighting of the capitol christmas tree there will be a little mist in the air but i think it will work out just fine. jummy: be sure to watch abc 7 news

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