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>> now, abc 7 news at noon, on your side. jummy: thank you for joining us. we begin with the start of what could be an explosive trial in baltimore, caesar goodson chars in the murder of freddie gray. serious charges -- facing the most serious charges, brad bell is live in baltimore with the latest. brad: the charges depraved heart
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is the officer that was driving the police transport van, he is the one that in the other two trials was responsible for the safety of freddie gray. the morning was spent on a motion hearing, defense attorneys arguing that a judge that the case should be thrown out, charges dismissed because the prosecution held onto evidence that would have helped the defendant. ultimately, the judge said to the state, you have been hiding evidence, do not do it again, tomorrow, tell me if there is anything else you have been hiding, then the trial started with opening arguments, the state saying that this officer, caesar goodson, have an opportunity and the responsibility to protect and save freddie gray in that police van. distressedred gray's , he should put them in a seatbelt as
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regulation but he failed. the defense arguing that that is not the case. this is a good officer, a good man, who did not buckle prisoners when he felt there was a danger as permitted by police policy and that, in this case, freddie gray had been acting up and there was a danger to officers. as the opening officers are now concluding, witnesses will begin , the biggest witness will be officer william porter, compelled to testify by the court. may be the most important one as this trial moves on. , justow, getting started came out of the courtroom as the opening arguments were concluding. we will be back this evening with much more on this story. in baltimore, brad bell. .ummy: thank you for the latest metro, almost to the first week of the safe track maintenance program and soon face to will
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on those commuting from prince george's county, we learned how the county plans to get people to the work -- to work, sam sweeney has the story. prince george's county on deck to feel the pain of safe track as northern virginia drivers deal with the hectic commute, local leaders want to minimize the headaches of this looming shutdown. outside the new carrollton metro's nation, leaders reminded the public that this is not single tracking like we see in northern virginia that a complete shutdown from eastern market to benning road, the blue, orange, and silverlight from june 18 to july 3, some of the alternatives additional marc train's, shuttle buses, additional rush-hour buses, the leaders stressed that prince george's county has a knock -- a high number of federal workers and if you can telework, do that. the fewer the people, the fe
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>> for too long, we have had to deal with issues involving the metro system, high time we fix it, that is what will happen. in order for that to happen safely and for folks to get back , we had to have a temporary sacrifice. sam: a number of alternatives, depending on where you live, for a list of closures and alternatives, check out a website, wjla.com. reporting in prince george's county, sam sweeney. jummy: we have everything you need to know that say track on our special metro page on wjla.com, for updates texted to 817. phone, text metro to 43 turning now to the war on terror, in alexandria man back in the u.s. this afternoon to face charges after he left the country to join isis. they say the
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terrorists, he surrendered himself in northern iraq back in march claiming he was no longer interested in the islamic state life. minister, the prime and lawmakers responded swiftly to yesterday shooting spree in tel aviv that killed four people and wounded 16. the israeli military moved into the hometown of the two gunmen who are cousins and field it off no one -- shielded it off, no one in and no one out and re-freezing work permits for relatives of the suspects and 83,000 travel permits that were issued for ramadan. crime, -- a's average this is a savage crime, murder in the heart of tel aviv, we will take the necessary steps to attack the attackers. jummy: the israeli military on high alert, adding additional battalions in the west bank, the prime
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determine israel's next steps. president obama and senator bernie sanders have gotten together today at the white house, sanders has vowed to state in the race, even though hillary clinton is the democratic party presumptive nominee, the president is expected to congratulate sanders but assess his role as a unifying figure. is,ident obama: my hope over the next couple of weeks, we can pull things together. jummy: the president expected to endorse hillary clinton in the coming days and this afternoon, sanders will hold a rally in southeast washington, d.c. john gonzalez has more. john: president barack obama meeting with bernie sanders at the oval office this afternoon. >> like he is living young, like bernie, hanging out in the club. john: bernie sanders telling his supporters that we will continue to fight for every vote in every delegatee
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, did not expect to have two candidates that i did not like. john: with the primary five days away, bernie sanders acting like he is in it to win it, and meeting today with democratic senate leader harry reid before taking the night off -- before having a rally at rfk stadium. president obama: the role i will play in this process is to remind the american people that this is a serious job. .ot reality tv to john: bernie sanders lost california by 13%. hillary clinton: i look forward to work with him to unify the democratic party against the threat that donald trump poses to our country. make sureers wants to the party does not turn its back on his progressive agenda. he has not fared too well
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african-american population exceeds 10%. in washington, d.c., it is about half, 49 percent, the rally starts at rfk at 4:00 this afternoon. gop's today, the presumptive nominee will meet a large number of campaign donors at trump towers, the first of its kind meeting another step forward for donald trump as he fills out his operation toward the general election, he had originally hoped to raise $1 billion but after his controversial comments about a federal judge, political reporting he may only raise about one third of his goal. to the forecast, a live look outside, here at the white house , people vying for that spot, you cannot ask for much better weather than today. a look at our forecast. doug: if you have not been outside, looks very summery but it does not feel like it. mid-70's for the next couple of hours but it will warm up.
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mark. definitely a fresh breeze and low humidity. partlyht, clear to cloudy, comfortably cool, light winds. good stuff tomorrow. the weekend, watching saturday, people head to the beach tomorrow, perfect driving conditions. saturday, showers and storms, a slight risk of severe weather in the areas in yellow north and west of washington, through its opinion and new york state. time for traffic. jamie: no big issues but this is the season that we see barrels, cones, this is university boulevard, you see the barrels, you can get by. maybe a little bit slower than what we arse used to. now, along the top side of the beltway, moving well, near georgia avenue, and accident reported, you are still able to
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-- enter -- -- southbound for the capital beltway, midday would , the only spotk where we have the heavy congestion, the midday roadwork at the mid--- third street tunnel, slowing you down, typical. 50's on 66. a better idea of what a nice drive that is, no big issues as far as accidents, ok on metro, just the say track plan, nothing additional to let you know about. jummy: thank you. a cab transported -- driver transported to the hospital while passing out while driving, they say he lost can't just missed on the gw parkway, -- lost consciousness on the gw parkway, a passenger to
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unknown. new developments in the shooting of a sheriff's deputy in stafford county, he has successfully undergone surgery and is expected to make a full recovery. he was responding to a call on tuesday when authorities say he was shot four times by an 18 your own man, the man charged with attempted capital murder. -- 18-year-old man, the man is charged with attempted capital murder. police on the scene of a quadruple shooting yesterday in northeast, handing out flyers of the suspects in the areas of north capitol street and new york avenue where four people were shot all standing outside a liquor store in the middle of rush-hour, all are expected to survive. here is a closer look at the photos. police will hold an emergency meeting tonight at the fifth district community room, underway at 7:00 this evening. up, a virginia woman comes face-to-face with a robert , she puts her own life at risk to stop him. the
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suspect off. the family of muhammad ali upset over something happening involving tomorrow's memorial service to honor the legend. back, ther, fighting
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>> you are watching abc 7 news at noon, on your side. jummy: a husband and wife and virginia did not back down when someone tried to rob the restaurant, the suspect entered crazy wings in norfork, pulled out a gun and demanded money, the owner was not willing to go along, she fought back, trying to grab the gun, her husband came r
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him and cut him. it turns out the gun was not a fake. the robert was arrested with a cut to his back. a rear admiral in the u.s. navy expected to plead guilty for his role and a bribery scandal that has rocked the navy. the lawyer for him says his client will admit he made false statements when questioned about an investigation to a foreign contractor, the contractor allegedly won favorable treatment for his company by bribing naval officers with prostitutes, travel, and other gifts, he was the highest-ranking servicemember charged in connection with that investigation. ali's family says it is deplorable that people are trying to profit off tomorrow's memorial service
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boxing legend, yesterday more than 14,000 tickets given to the public for free, the tickets went in hours and many of those tickets are sites -- on sites like craigslist, being sold for hundreds of dollars, here is an exchange between a scalper and an undercover news crew. >> i have 24 tickets, only down to 10 tickets. jummy: ticket scalping in louisville, kentucky where the service being held is illegal. if you do not have tickets, we will have complete coverage of mohammed ali's memorial service tomorrow at 2:00 in the afternoon, watch it live on our sister station news channel 8 or streaming on her website, wjla.com -- on our website, wjla.com. another decent day, so much cooler getting up this morning. doug:
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comfortable, enjoy it, in the middle of june, we will not have many more cool mornings. jummy: i am ok with it. doug: let's see if we get more days like this, 71 in the world, sunshine everywhere you look, a few shreds of high clouds. if you woke up this morning and went outside, you have a problem with sinuses, this is the courtesy to let you know mold spores were off the charts, everything else not as offensive in the allergy category. when you have wind like this, it mixes the air, any environmental average -- allergies, the wind will mix them up, a gust in the past hour in 32 in leesburg, 29 in frederick. not longer hour gusts ago at bwi thurgood marshall. today, breeze northwesterly 10 to 15 through the afternoon and gusts at times that 20 to 25.
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conditions and dry air, a comfortable breeze. cool but noting, as cool as this morning, wake up temperatures in brentwood section of washington, 58, 54 in germantown, 55 -- 57 in dale city. morning, biking to work, very nice, 65 by 8:00 a.m., plenty of sunshine with a few afternoon clouds, led humidity, even though expecting to get close to 80 degrees by tomorrow afternoon. , sunshine for a while on saturday, saturday afternoon and evening, watching closely doppler radar, chances of showers and thunderstorms through northwest to southeast, the storm prediction center think the greatest chance of any severe weather will be mid to late afternoon, more likely late afternoon and evening from portions north of
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philadelphia to new jersey and northwest through pennsylvania, early to make any more of a call of that, south of that region, not much at all, the demarcation line in the outlook, baltimore north versus washington, d.c. and the south, isolated thunderstorms. humid and warm, 89 on saturday, 87 on sunday with no precipitation in the forecast. monday, pleasant, gusty breezes on sunday. days monday,n of tuesday, wednesday, led to mid-80's with plenty of sunshine, humidity under control for the first few days of next week. days.- jummy: pool liberty has lifted. liberty the eagle, the national arboretum, fled from his nest at 6:12 this morning caught on the eagle cam. after he took off, his parents left his perch second later, the
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fled on sunday and return yesterday afternoon. up, a cure for the back to work blues, health experts say there is an increase in the number of p
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recommends easing back into work , try not to dwell on the vacation or holiday experience that is now come and gone. easier said than done. what it comes to keeping your passport secure, you think people would have learned their lesson, but not, a massive twitter highest revealed the common backward -- password is 123456, nearly 33 million twitter customers hacked and more than 120,000 of those had that password. that is according to a security company. twitter says it is confident it systems were not breached. this afternoon, import and toical advice from four: 30 six: 30, we will host a children's national ask the pediatrician phonebank -- a great opportunity to talk to be leading medical experts about any concerns you might have about your children's health, the number to call starting at 4:30 is 703
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sacramentot in driving a wedge between two neighbors, it has either been stuck or hiding any neighbors followed out oaktree for the last 10 days, the fire department has been there twice to rescue the
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risk the fire department will have to cut the tree down with the homeowner does not want, at one point, the owner tried to get the cat down themselves. >> you would do it for your child, that is my child and i will go over it, i am not sorry i jumped the fence. jummy: the fire department says they will keep trying to get the cat down from the tree. doug: maybe it should be a house cat, i will throw that out there. jummy: put the cat in timeout. 78, a niceine today, breeze, look unity, through the overnight, clear skies, diminishing winds, 53 to 59 by monday, fairfax friday night through sunday, beautiful weather but hot and humid with afternoon thunderstorms on saturday. jummy: thank you for joining us, watch us at 4:00.
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