from abc 7 news, this is a breaking news alert. jummy: we are following breaking news from montgomery county. the police officer hit by a car during a traffic stop last week has died. he was taken off life support this morning. montgomery county bureau chief at thewis is live hospital with all the breaking details for us.

kevin: early this morning, his family made the unthinkably hard decision to take the 24-year-old off of life support. simply put, his condition had not improved over the last six days. around 10:00 this morning, montgomery 20 police confirmed to us that officer noah leotta had passed away. there are at least a dozen squad cars parked in the hospital's frontline. department brass and the honor guard providing his family and themselves with comfort. noah leotta, a sherwood high school in montgomery college graduate, joined a police department in january 2013. he was deeply interested in enforcing drug driving laws. he was on a traffic stop along rockville pike last thursday night when a 47-year-old only man struck him. police believe that man was drunk. not two hours ago, chief tom majors said in a statement he loved his job and a misrouted in

level of enthusiasm that drove a work ethic and professionalism that we can all aspire to. these qualities made him the man and police officer that he was. the procession will lead noah leotta's to the chief medical examiner's office in baltimore. that will pass the fourth district station where he was assigned. live in bethesda, kevin lewis, abc 7 news. jummy: so tragic. thank you for the update. we also following a potential lead in a heartbreaking cold case. relisha rudd went missing last march when she was eight years old. d.c. police announcing a new search for the little girl today. john gonzalez has the new information that led to the searchersss. corner where retailer walmart was going to build a store, the project fell through.

today, the construction site is where fbi, d.c. police, and a range of searchers are scalping for clues. a, we are not aware of relish she was missing for three weeks after she had actually gone missing. we are going through that through a variety of different technologies and video and information that saw mr. tatum. now analyzing some of the information, we have a couple of different places we want to look at. john: with the assistance of k-9ce recruits and a k-9 units, searches have begun for relisha rudd. she was last seen with mr. tatum, the character of the homeless shelter where she and her family had been stating in march of last year. the searcher yo is the one, we accept the reality that the chances of finding her does diminish. we do by children after many years. john: police believed tatum shot and killed his wife and then himself. is remains leaving very little

clues about the whereabouts of the precious girl with a beautiful smile who would have celebrated her 10th birthday last month. four different groups and about 80 different people will be conducting what is known as a grid search here for the next couple of days. i asked the chief if there will be point where the department said the search is over. will not stop until all efforts have been exhausted. jummy: right now, firefighters are investigating a deadly fire. we know one person was killed and another is still unaccounted for. the fire started early this meadeg on old can'mp road. the home was completely gutted. addressd to structural issues before they could search for a possible second victim. still no word on a cause. the fbi continues to dig up new details on the couple who

launched that terror attack in san bernardino. they are trying to unlock the secrets on the couple's phones and other devices, but as marcie gonzales explains, the suspect made it especially difficult to find. >> today, the fbi digging into whether farook and mialik plotted to carry out other attacks. the man accused of buying the assault rifles used in san bernardino said he and farouk plan an attack in 2012. investigators finding pictures on his phone of the san bernardino high school, a place he visited at least twice as a health inspector. authorities are still working to salvage other details after the couple not only try to destroy the digital devices, but encrypted much of the data as well. >> there is no doubt that the use of encryption is part of terrorist tradecraft now. >> the fbi believes they may have been radicalized by 2012.

by the next year, they were chatting online about jihad and martyrdom. united states government does not normally ask the intelligence community to look at the e-mails of somebody just because they apply for a visa. >> today, officials is still trying to determine if others were involved in last week massacre in san bernardino. the memories of which are still hunting first responders. >> it was horrific. i remember cries and moans and the smell of gunpowder. >> investigators are looking suspect may the have been messed up online specifically to start a sleeper cell in the u.s. and whether that could be a new tactic used by terry gou. -- terror groups. >> campus police in boston will soon have a firepower typically reserved larger departments. the school of 20,000 students plans to deploy semi automatic

rifles for emergencies. boston police are skeptical of saying their officers can responded to anywhere in the city within minutes. m.i.t. also equips their officers with semi automatic rifles. more defense, witnesses testifying in a trial of a baltimore police officer charged in the death of freddie gray. the divine officer william porter took the stand yesterday in his own defense. he said he did not realize freddie gray was injured until they stopped for the sixth and final time. when asked why he did not use a seatbelt, he said in 150 arrests, he never used a seatbelt. is the first of six officers will face trial. police are investigating a fiery overnight crash that killed one person on route 202.this happened at the intersection of landover road and bartholow road.

the road was closed for two hours. the driver lost control of the vehicle and crashed into a bpolpole. identities have not been released. let's see how the rest of the roadways are looking. jamie: we are starting off in d.c. first, let's begin with the police activity that is closing down the circle. you will see a lot of police activity. all of those exits are currently blocked. as we move a little closer to constitution avenue, closures in place till just about 12:15 they are about to open everything up on 17th and 18th street as well a. closures in place right now. they are about to wrap up. we do have closures will go into place again at 1:00 until 2:30 p.m. 395 into the city a slow go.

basically, you are going to hit the brakes as you approach seminary road. let's talk about how slow we are actually traveling. down to 12 miles per hour. past that point, we loosen up once you get through it getting closer to the freeway. back to you. jummy: thank you. the fog definitely did not help out on the roadways this morning. the good news is sunny skies will be helping clear it out. let's get right to doug hill for a look at the first forecast. doug: fog not an issue right now in the metro area. bright sunshine. mild temperatures outside the weather center. nicelyve the welfar turned out -- above the water turned out nicely. thick but fairly low level of fog that lifted quickly. already 60 degrees in andrews in sunshine. 52 in frederick. 54 in manassas. 56 at reagan international

airport. 60 to the lower 60's south and east of town. weather-wise, plenty of sunshine. some clouds late tonight and tomorrow. it will not have much of an effect, just cloudiness more than sunshine for a while, but we are still on track for more sun and warmer temperatures to the end of the week and the weekend. here is what we have for you as far as the numbers go tomorrow. 62 and partly cloudy. we would check the weekend for you in a few minutes. jummy: thank you. note to the race for the white house. dollars from has canceled his planned trip to israel. donald trump has canceled his planned trip to israel after benjamin netanyahu denounced donald trump's plan to ban muslims in the u.s.. >> i am doing good for the muscles. what i'm doing now is far more

important than any particular business i have in the middle east. i am doing them a big favor. jummy: he remains confident his proposal will win over voters. yahoo! news says donald trump has a plan to win 100% of the african-american vote. president obama received 96% of the vote in 2008. president obama signed a new education bill into law which replaces no child left behind. the new act gives more power to states to oversee elementary and secondary education. it encourages states to limit the times students spent on testing. students will still take federally required statewide reading and math exams. coming up, metro facing more criticism. what a gay couple claims the agency did not do enough after being attacked on the green line. being caused app by millions of teens causing some concern among parents.

>> was and girls of this country are fully prepared to track santa once again. jummy: a serious question with serious answers. christmas.feel like it is just two weeks away. doug hill will be back with how

>> you are watching abc 7 news at noon, on your side. jummy: protesters bowing to keep the pressure on chicago mayor rahm emanuel. he is apologizing for the fatal shooting of a black teenager by a white police officer, but he says he will not step down. the mayor has been under scrutiny for weeks after the

release of this dash cam video showing an officer shooting 17-year-old laquan mcdonald, who later died. home in another developing story, this involving metro, a gay couple says metro failed to help them when they were attacked by 12 teenagers. the men, who did not want to be identified, said the incident happened on a green line train in maryland. one of the victims says he was kicked and beaten when he tried to help a boy being attacked by those teens. they used the red button to try to report into the driver, but the train kept making stops and they were not sure if the police were called or not. >> i just feel like metro failed us. teens the man says the mopped the man's disability and sexual orientation. is still recovering from his injuries. a metro spokesperson says drivers ave discretion -- have

discretion. the driver says he went to the metro station where police were nearby. napoli consumer alert. millions of teenagers are using an app that allows them to share their every thought and feeling anonymously. it is called after school. while it was designed for high schoolers, there is no way to guarantee an alternate using it also. the site is being used for bullying, sharing sexual content, and making threats. after school said it has added content filters where users can flag inappropriate messages. the 12 states in the pacific northwest are on alert. more rain is expected to pummel that region. washington has declared a state of emergency. days of rain have led to mudslides and flooded rivers and have been blamed on the deaths of at least two people. and entire hillside crashed through a waterfront home. you see the video right there. wow.

rain is expected to continue to the weekend. just vastly different from what we are dealing with here at home. degrees.shine and 60 jummy: we are dry. doug: pretty typical pattern for the pacific northwest where it gets beat up by this kind of weather pattern we have and we are on the much warmer side of things. upper-level changes we will have more in this and they will have more of that. towill take you to virginia see if they had any fog this morning. started out pretty enough. just a touch. many areas had that spot fog briefly. a warming trend across the area at this hour. reagan national and 56. -- at 56.

breezes are coming across the river cooler. 62 in burke. 61 in chevy chase. 60 and margot. dell city at 59. everyone will be close to or above the 60 degree mark. a very pleasant day, unlike yesterday when the fog seemed like it would never lift out of here. temperatures for the eastern two thirds of the country, wow. but only 50's and 60's. this looks like an early november map. further west and into the mountains, then you get extremely to whether. huge -- you get extreme win we get more of this stuff. acrossittle systems zip the country and a little shower or sprinkle possible monday.

otherwise, enjoy the sunshine and warming trend. it will be pretty impressive. let's take it one day at a time. our average high temperature is 48 degrees in washington, d.c. today, 12 degrees above average. 14 degrees above average tomorrow. so it goes through the weekend. upper 60's saturday and sunday with sunshine. monday, a chance of scattered showers. 66. cooler air coming in at night. look at tuesday and wednesday. normally you get a cold front sweep through with gusty winds and it gets cold. not this one. over 50 still. 59 tuesday. 58 wednesday with partly sunny skies after the cold front monday. and maybet cold snaps snow, who knows, but for the short term, this is the pattern we will see a eating. -- we will see repeating. jummy: the fall is holding strong. in the district, the annual police department -- about 100

preselected children shopped with the d.c. police officers. they shopped at walmart in fort totten. event is aimed at fostering strong relationships between police and the community. good to see that there. with this was only two weeks away, the senate armed services committee says it has its eyes on santa. tom cotton richard ross about it during a hearing yesterday. >> you are sure the boys and girls are fully prepared to track santa once again. >> i don't have a complete intelligence report, by understand the reindeer have been fed and are prepared for the delivery of all of those gifts to those who have been naughty.not jummy: norad has tracked santa on christmas eve for years.

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nominations were announced this morning. nominees for best drama include carol, mad max, revenant, room, and spotlight. on the tv side, streaming services like amazon and cable dominated. empire was the only program from a traditional broadcast network to be nominated in the show categories. among the surprises, no nominations for johnny depp. matt damon's film the martian nominated as a comedy. the popular podcast serial is back for season two. the second season will focus on the high-profile case of a sergeant who left his post in afghanistan in 2009 and was held captive in afghanistan until 2014. the high-profile case is different from the first season, which focused on the little known case of adnan sayeed, a

baltimore man i accused of a murder. the beautiful weather continuing today.

doug: the sunshine is back. we will hit 60 today. 40's tonight. low 60's for friday. even warmer for the weekend. jummy: we cannot wait.

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