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kimberly: we have to talk about the weather, i guess. the: still some rain of forecast tomorrow, i do think we will see sunshine sunday. monday looks better, but the days you have to hold out for, tuesday and wednesday, mid-80's, feeling more summerlike by the end of the week. kimberly: we will have the
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kimberly: at this hour, still no sign of the black boxes from egyptair flight 804. investigators have started to recover debris. marcy gonzalez looks at what has been found. are nearing the final transmission of the pilots. >> good night. reporter: moments later, warnings from the airbus a320 data transmission system, seven and all noting laboratory -- laboratory smoke. another warning of avionics smoke below the cockpit, where electronic equipment is housed. aboutst message warning flight control systems before the airplane vanishes from radar. experts say it raises the possibility the cause could be
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bomb. >> could a fire over take the crew in a matter of moments? >> the smoke could. the smoke is what brings airplanes down, fire in the cockpit. reporter: french investigators say they are not jumping to conclusions. now waiting for the black boxes to be found. ships able to scan the floor of the mediterranean sea are searching as search teams recover evidence of the disaster, shreds of meta-with the egyptair logo, in uninflated life vest, and the personable longing of passengers loaded onto a ship for investigators to analyze. french officials met with family members of some of the 66 people on board, sharing condolences and stressing there will be no definitive answers until the black boxes are found. kimberly: developing right now, a warning for parents about her next-door's an
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a student, claiming to have kidnapped their child, demanding a ransom. no money was exchanged because the parents determined the call was a scam and the child was safe. the archdiocese would not name the school, but some parents have received e-mails warning them about the scam. alarming testimony on capitol hill this week about a looming threat -- cyber attacks specifically targeting our nation's power grid. as scott thuman reports, some say we are not prepared. scott: concern on capitol hill wednesday -- how vulnerable are the power grids and infrastructures? a cripple entire cities through cyber attacks? a chair said yes and too few are paying attention. >> these are real threats that we need to take serious and anticipatend
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when a software glitch triggered a massive blackout in northeast, paralyzing new york, airports were shut down, trains halted. 12 people died and took days to restore the electricity. natural disasters also pose threats to the grid, and now the potential for true taxon facilities, some secured only by little more than a chain-link fence. >> not too many folks have been paying attention. ted koppel testified about his year-long research for a book "lights out." ted: we are good at reacting to crises. in the wake of 9/11, tens of thousands of men and women reacted, but we are not good at preemptive action. scott: according to "usa today," they said there is a cyber
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days on our power grid. >> people are not taking this thread is seriously. congress was8, presented with 15 recommendations on how to better secure the grid. all these years later, none of them have been done. scott thuman, abc 7 news. kimberly: major changes in d.c. a law struck down again, a judge saying it is too strict. sam ford spoke with the city's top lawyer and found hundreds of residents are waiting for a permit application to go through. sam: the judge says the right to bear arms is for self-defense in it outside of the home, striking down the d.c. law. people have to come to this tiny room at police headquarters and give a good reason for concealed carry permit. so far the city has only approved 74 such permits, while there a pending applications for 175 d.c. residence and
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non- residents. >> i think a good reason makes good sense. >> why would we do that? sam: d.c.'s attorney general. >> we are moving expeditiously. sam: other judges have ruled the opposite. majority, and that will validate this requirement. sam: a mclean, virginia, gun dealer. >> we are getting people getting the concealed permits. sam: this long-time resident, a life and are a member, says he has been denied once. >> i'm going back down. i want a license. sam: today the office was awaiting guidance. this is the camera they used to take pictures for people getting permits. about 74 people in the city have a concealed carry permit.
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there will be a lot more and they may have to have a bigger office. reporting from northwest washington, sam for abc 7 news. kimberly: coming up next on saturday news extra -- a popular ph tourgery that adds oom, your backside, but what about the risks? fitness trackers are great for keeping you one track, but who else is keeping track of them? how that information could be used against you. josh: it will be tough to get outside tomorrow, more rain sunday. a big improvement through the week.
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kimberly: d.c. taking top honors once again is one of the most fit cities in america. the past nine years, the american college of sports medicine has put together the american fitness index, ranking fitness in the biggest metro areas in the country. d.c. metro leads the pack for the third straight year. minneapolis-st. paul, denver, portland, and san francisco share the top five. augmentation surgery, also known as the brazilian butt-lift, is the fastest-growing cosmetic surgery. i got to go inside the operating room to show the upside and
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some of the video link which you are about to see and hear is graphic in nature. this maryland mother offour is minutes away from a three hour $9,000 surgery to make her butt bigger. what are you hoping the final result will look like? >> the hourglass. kimberly: frustrated she has not been able to get the results at the gym, she wants results like this. when the patient says i want a butt like serena williams, what do you tell them? >> cannot do it. kimberly: he paints a realistic picture. it is a transfer of fat via lycos section from your stomach, leg, back, and arms to the buttocks. he warns of risks, from happiness, lopsided this, to weight gain, too rare but serious conditions like blood clots, stroke, even death. not to mention all the fat that you injected into your backside ca
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but goes away. in my practice, i don't see that. 50% of the fat will be reabsorbed. kimberly: this patient would welcome any boost. >> we always talked about how flat it was. it's not like i'm getting kardashian, it is just normal. kimberly: the style in the 1970's was slim. the 1990 super skinny. today, curvy is cool, lincoln park to celebrities. society of plastic surgeons reports a 35% increase in butt lives in the last year. kimberly: does it surprise you that every 30 minutes somebody is getting this operation? >> absolutely. kimberly: but dr. benjamin does not what you to be surprised. if you are considering making your bottom bigger, time takes its toll, and it will
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nature runs its course, even if what was done was unnatural. >> exactly. that's very harsh, but it runs its course, yes. kimberly: dr. benjamin says that he loves the surgery because his patients do, but he has another caution. beware of companies that want to finance your surgery if they are charging more than 20% interest. it may disappear before your debt does. still ahead -- millions of americans could see a boost in their pay. change that will go to affect -- going to affect and was eligible for it. plus, when will the rain finally move out? the forecast coming up.
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kimberly: some say that she is the better half of the "house of cards" power couple. is demanding equal pay for her role in real life and that is what she will get. she one of the same as costar kevin spacey. she found out that her character was more popular than his, which is when she made the demand. during season three, she made $95 million, spacey got million. a major change in overtime pay affecting more than 4 million u.s. workers. the labor department is expanding
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to sala raid workers who make less than $44,000 per year. it is roughly double the current threshold. the change goes into effect october 1. it is expected to affect the workers the most. glad that some people get a boost. and i'm glad we will see warmer temperatures thursday. josh: it is hard to believe as rainy as we have been this month, today, just .6 inches in , annapolis over one inch, but big numbers. when we consider we are still behind for the spring, an inch -- 1.4 inches behind a most what would be normal. we have a lot of days where it has been cloudy, gray,
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does not really help with the rainfall totals. what we need is a quick heavy thunderstorm to move through, and that is when the numbers get closer to normal. hard to believe, but still technically behind where we would like to be for the year. i think we will enjoy the sunshine for the end of the week. baltimore, 55 culpeper. the temperatures stay cool tomorrow is the cloud cover sticks around. most of the showers breakdown, but overnight still have a spot chance, more likely to see the rain tomorrow morning. unfortunately, timed pretty much on their with anything in the morning. now, this wave of low pressure moves in, taking over, and then we have the morning showers pop up. 8:00, they are here, on and off pretty much all day. it will stay cloudy and cool and you will need the umbrella. a seco
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more rain monday. we start out drive monday morning, 8 a.m., going to school, looks ok. are headingpeople home, showers pop up, just after lunch time, a chance monday afternoon by the evening for a few thunderstorms. after that, that is when we find the dry weather moving our way. the rainfall accumulation through the day, a lot of us will see close to a half inch. another good soaking tomorrow. when we factor in monday, looking closer to an inch. picking up quite a bit of rain the next couple days. tomorrow comes up in mind we have the d.c. bike ride. we are looking for on it off showers, close to 60 the highs tomorrow, 57 luray, 60 frederick and d.c. the seven day forecast, going up 25 degrees by the end of the week. the rain the next couple days,
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that you collect could be used against you in the court of law. run, count.lk, with the flick of your wrist, you can track every step. wearable devices like fitbits are helping millions get healthy. but how the steps might be shared in court -- >> this is like the black box data on a vehicle. jennifer: may stop you in your tracks. >> we are voluntarily allowing people to track everything. jennifer: in pennsylvania, reported crime rocked the community. a woman claimed a stranger broke in and sexually assaulted her. >> not something that you would associate with this of the woods. jennifer: local police took issue with parts of the story. they said the facts were not adding up. detective chris jones of the woman's
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>> if you are telling the truth, you have nothing to worry about. jennifer: she collected the information. the device had captured the woman's movements. >> she said she had gone to bed, and/or about a thousand steps after the time when she went to bed before she called in to the police. jennifer: 1000 steps detectives show she wasthat walking around, staging the crime scene, when she said she was sleeping. the woman was charged with filing a false report and tampering with evidence. >> another tool to get to the truth. this prince george's county resident loves her fitbitm but had not thought about locator data captured by gps signals, wi-fi access points, and cell towers. >> i did not know anyone else had access to it. jennifer: on the fitbit website
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only shares data when it is reasonably necessary to comply with the law, which can include subpoenas or warrant." >> i'm not totally against the police using thed data. jennifer: making it a tool to keep you fit and honest. >> the truth comes out one way or another. fitbitr: in a statement, said when they receive a subpoena, their legal team reviews it and notifies you. to use the personable wearable technology in the courtroom is not know. cell phone tracking is a common tool used by the police. jennifer donelan, abc 7 news.
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