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six flags is working with authorities and we will bring you more information on this breaking news as it becomes available. >> security searched the park and found at least one package that appears to be suspicious and out of place. out of an overabundance of caution, the bomb squad as they called to investigate the contents of the package. jummy: the public information officer and prince george's county, stay with us as we continue to follow new developments. turning to the forecast, we hear some rain on the way, doug hill is on the way with a look at our wednesday. doug: showers across the area overnight. more chances as we get through the afternoon. doppler radar shows heavy thunderstorms that developed over the western shore of the bay and now active with heavy rain on the eastern
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talbot county and dorchester county. that will be the story for this afternoon. , theore sunshine we see more showers we see come a couple of showers across mclean and headed up inside the beltway towards bethesda. more during the afternoon. temperatures, upper-80's with humidity levels rising. on the chunk of storms eastern shore headed to new jersey in northern delaware. the rest of the day, warmer temperatures, higher humidity, muggy, a good chance of scattered showers and storms this afternoon and more through the night. futurecast, scattered showers late this afternoon and this evening, a few possible later tonight and in the overnight good we will check in with the weekend in a few minutes. jummy: thank you. university of maryland police investigating a string of late-night armed robberies on campus, authorities
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game pokémon go. john gonzales has the details. john: three armed robberies tonight on the campus at the university of maryland, two of them outside of the queen anne's hall, this from one of the blue emergency police talks is where people call for help, for victims, three students at the university of maryland, the suspect targeted them because they were playinpokémon go on their phones. university of maryland police say the first incident occurred just after 9:00 last night over at tidings all and then an hour later, minutes apart, two more of these armed robberies here at queen anne's all, police believe the are connected, the suspect wearing all black clothing, including a black mask, the first incident here implied he had a weapon and during the other two robberies a handgun was seen. >>
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something like this would happen because of how popular the app is. >> my daughter plays with my husband, she is 21, he is way too old but they go out at night and go on hunts. i feel safer with that, they have the dog. and there is two of them. john: they say the suspect took off with the victim cell phones. fortunately, the students and the one friend were not physically harmed during these robberies. jummy: also following new developments in the chase that caused a temporary lockdown at the capitol on tuesday, police identifying the suspect accused of shooting police. he is start with assault on a police officer, he hung out of a winter of a moving car and fired at police in the search -- in the third street tunnel, the police never returned fire and no officers were injured. we now turn t
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ambush in dallas, funerals for three of the five officers who were killed are set to begin today. services for dallas police senior corporal lorne ahrens again one hour ago in plano, texas, the family of sergeant michael smith will have a private funeral later today and a public service tomorrow. rapid transit officer brent thompson will be buried in a town south of dallas where he lived while the other two officers will be buried this weekend. , more tension to a city on edge, police are looking for a suspect accused of plotting to kill police officers ,n baton rouge, three people 113 years old, charged and taken into custody, police say they discovered the plot after the men allegedly stole eight handguns to take down officers. >> to cause harm to police officers in the baton rouge area. jummy: this threat comes on the heels of a shooting death of alto
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baton rouge police, this morning his son spoke, making a plea to the public to protest the right way. violence,ohol, not everyone needs to protest in the right way, with these come in a violent -- peace, not in violence. jummy: he said everyone should president obama to host a meeting about community policing and criminal justice. law enforcement officials, activists, political leaders will talk with the president about how do repair bonds of trust, the meeting is scheduled at 3:00 this afternoon. the hunt is on for a killer or killers who took the life of a democratic national committee staffer over the weekend. he was walking home in the bloomingdale neighborhood when he was shot in the back. sam sweeney is live with the latest on this case. sam: friends and famil
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gather for a vigil tonight at the spot where he was gunned down early sunday morning, washington, d.c. police found him on the ground near flagler street in northwest washington, d.c. early sunday, shot in the back. we are learning brand-new details that he was stable and able to talk with police. at this hour, unclear what if anything he told police regarding this shooting, his father tells us his son died during emergency surgery later that morning, he said that his body was covered in bruises and that he thinks the person who shot his son also tried to rob .im, but his son fought back when police found him, he still has watch and wallet and police have not released much more information. they are looking for surveillance video near the scene to try to figure out who was responsible for this homicide. right now, a $25,000 reward for information
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arrest and conviction of his killer. jummy: thank you. a busy morning for firefighters in the district, they dealt with a two alarm building fire that forced some roads to shut down. suzanne kennedy is in northeast washington, d.c. with more. suzanne: cleaning up -- after an overnight fire. this is where firefighters had to access this building overnight, the fire started at 2:15 in this large commercial building, 100 firefighters were situationchallenging because the building was locked and they had to break windows to get inside. the building has a goodyear tire shop, a u.s. postal service vehicle storage facility and a wood workshop that is -- that does restoration work for government buildings. >> the woodworking is fine, the historic materials are fine.
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the materials is not. >> i was very concerned but i am relieved that none of them were damaged. started insidere the woodworking shop but not sure of the source. authorities say one firefighter did have to be treated for heat exposure, other than that, no injuries. news.e kennedy, abc 7 jummy: rescuers in italy working through the night to find any survivors from tuesday's train crash. at least 27 people have been killed after two trains collided. investigators focusing on the lack of signaling systems on the railway network, the stretch of track did not have an automatic alert for a brake system. sports news, a u.s. appeals court rejecting new england patriots quarterback tom brady deflategate
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association and brady asked for a new hearing on his four-game suspension, the second u.s. circuit court of appeals denied that today, the nfl suspended him last year but investors say his footballs were being deflated making them easier to handle, he now has to prison dust petition the u.s. supreme court for a final appeal. coming up, a new twist in the race for the white house, what poll numbers are saying or -- about donald trump in key swing states. a toddler attacked at the mall by a robot and a mother is outraged and demanding payback. >> this afternoon, not much to worry about on the roads. , heading into the district crossing the 14th street bridge, moving well. continuing on the southwest freeway, in the 30's past the pentagon continuing and into the district. on the gw
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shape, 66. 395 outbound towards -- have, scheduled until 3:30, signal repair in falls church, broad street completely block near west street, in both directions. 66 near the fairfax county parkway, moving well, outside of the beltway, no issues. traveling closer to haymarket and gainesville this evening, 66 westbound come out route 15, single lane closures at 10:00, all traffic he toured, the exits to -- you can get back on but will see delays.
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>> you are watching abc 7 news at noon, on your side. jummy: a new phase beginning this afternoon in the post brexit era, david cameron resigning today. he will step aside after losing the campaign to keep britain in the european union, he will take on his final session of questions before traveling to buckingham palace to formally tender his recognition. theresa may will become the new prime minister, the first female prime minister since margaret thatcher. we may soon know who donald trump will choose as his running mate, rumors flying as the announcement that it could come this friday at an event. the big news is a new abc news poll that shows him a winning in key swing states. the latest on the 2016
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pence, don't mike know if he will be your governor or vice president. >> the one-time reality star could appear with his number two as early as friday. newt gingrich: like the apprentice, you find out who the last one standing is. >> newt gingrich appeared on foxnews news but the networks is fitted him as a contributor over speculation he is on the vice president short list. another man auditioning is indiana governor mike pence who got his shot last night. mike pence: donald trump gets it. >> a poll shows the general election race between clinton and trump in a dead heat in several swing states, florida, she lost her eight point lead one week after no federal charges in a private e-mail investigation. clinton got the bernie sanders endorsement but will she went over the young supporters. hillary
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our country desperately needs your voices and involvement. >> the democrats say they are stronger together to defeat donald trump but this morning, donald trump is that war with ruth bitter ginsburg who told the new york times i cannot imagine what the country would beat with donald trump as president. back onrump fired twitter saying justice ginsburg and by rest all bite making dumb political statements, her mind is shot, resign. this playing out a few days before the republican national convention in cleveland. consumer news, supposed to be the best shopping day for amazon customers but online shoppers had trouble snagging deals. called friday style sale prime day, available to prime to socials, they ran media saying
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things to their cart, the biggest sales day for the company despite the setbacks. did you get anything? doug: no, i am married to the official shopper. the heat and humidity back. feeling like summer but monday and tuesday were very nice, not so much comfortable longer. , lived in bethesda, congressional country club, the sunshine will come back shortly, the pattern we will have, areas soonere guys and clouds, or later they will built into showers and possibly thunderstorms. temperatures as of noon, mid-80's in many spots. airpast couple of days, dry , we know that because dew point temperatures not in the 50's and 60's but now in the 70's, 75 in washington, 85 degree temperatures makes it feel like 90 degrees. a bit
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as far as dew points, drier, 69, dew point at hagerstown. the moist air is headed your way. this is yielding over the eastern parts of the area, heavy showers and downpours and thunder on the eastern shore and closer to the metro, little showers, one developed in northwest, upper northwest washington that moved to the northeast near chevy chase and kensington, a few more north of deal city, the pattern during the afternoon, not widespread showers and storms but scattered showers and thunderstorms. shows this as well, intermittent sunshine, clouds, pop-up showers and storms, not anticipating severe weather but the air is moist and unstable and any of these cells could produce very fast lightning and heavy downpours. we may see a few of those into the evening and nighttime as the unstable air continues and tomorrow we start off fine, temperatures will take a job tomorrow, 90's
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and friday. overnight, partly cloudy and muggy, a few showers and maybe a thundershower will end overnight, 68 to 75. 50% chance of showers today, 30% tomorrow, no rain on friday, hot sunshine. 94. the weekend, and early next week, around 90 degrees saturday, sunday, monday, could have stray storms saturday and more -- the citi open is saturday. temperatures very warm and muggy by the afternoon, near 90 and the slightest chance of a shower. worried more about the heat and humidity that the thunderstorms on saturday. jummy: thank you, the solar cairo,laying arrived in egypt wednesday, the second to last flight of the around the world trip, it's part of spain july 11.
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jummy: we want to update you on the breaking news from prince george's county, six flags america in largo has been closed because a bomb threat, authorities say employees have been allowed back into the park which a not open when a threat was called in. we plan to bring you more information as it becomes available and go to wjla.com for the latest.
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protect a shopping center in california injured someone, a tyler. -- toddler. the robot ways 300 pounds. a month 16-month-old have a collision with the robot. >> it hit my son's head and he fell down facing down on the floor. the robot did not stop and it kept on moving forward. jummy: she says a security guard told them it was the second time --s happened and now she is the company that built the robot has yet to respond to messages. coming up, a final check of the rainy forecast.
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jummy: it is fair to say the new game pokémon go has become a national obsession, it seems to be no end to places you will find people playing the game come a cemetery in alabama saying is off-limits, they say people have been aimlessly driving and walking around burial plots with a phone in hand. >> can i not be on camera? >> i would appreciate it if you let the grounds. go to a municipal park. jummy: the staff sent a request to the developer asking to be removed from the
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the request was under review. saying the same thing at national parks around here. doug: the next game will involve zombies. the same idea. crazy. let's talk about the weather, storms on the eastern shore, storms through the afternoon locally as temperatures climb, humidity levels, 87 today, thunderstorms. tomorrow, 95, thunderstorms. roddick, no rain, hot, 94 to weekend, partly sunny, an isolated shower or storm on saturday, highs of 90 degrees a better chance sunday but more humid sunday been saturday. jummy: thank you for joining us, be sure to join us at 4:00.
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