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victims. q: he was a permanent resident here. he was a student logistics management. he drove his car in a crowd and jumped out with a bumper's knife in hand and started to slash people before he -- with a butcher's knife in hand and started to slash people before he was shot and killed by officer alan horujko who joined the police form in january of 2014. 11 peop now. the university released a statement saying the victim injuries include the stab wounds and injury by mortar vehicle. the campus was on lockdown for an hour and a half. first responders made sure the threat was over. in the beginning most o.s.u. students had no idea what was going on. >> everyone assumed it was a fire.
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q: back to artan. he was featured in the student-run newspaper over the summer quoted as saying he transferred to o.s.u. from columbus state university and described himself as feeling uncomfortable in his skin as an o.s.u. student. they are saying that the come pus is huge and -- campus is huge and there was no area for him to pray. columbus state has a dedicated prayer room. that is the latest from the satellite center. i'm q mccray, abc7 new metro employees are now weighing in and giving their own recommendations on when the metro should open and close when the safetrack is over. our transportation reporter brianne carter has details. brianne: along the orange and the silver lines. rider are dealing with the safetrack single tracking. come next summer all riders will be adjusting to the new operating hours. >> it's a concern.
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these operating hours with the weekday closings at 11:30 a.m. weekend service stopping at 1:00 a.m. trains on sunday running from 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. >> this is ludicrous. for people who drink and on the weekend, people want to have a life. it's silly to close down early. brianne: metro staff say they received an unprecedented number of comments with the 45% of the folks weighing in. choosing 1:00 a.m. as a preferred option. >> there are that are cost effective for people. in the d.m.v. area. brianne: d.c. leadership is hoping that the system will return to the 3:00 a.m. closing. saying that the recommendation falls short. adding quote we need a metro system that works for everyone. residents, worker, employees and visitors to have a metro to stays open late as the region continues to grow. the service industry push for late night closing to return. in response to the recommendation, the president
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association says we fear reducing the metro hours of the operation will slow strong momentum among the local business at a time when we have an opportunity to thrive. >> included the recommendation from the metro earlier today, a bus enhancement to sum lement -- supplement the rail service at night. we know the board and the committee will take up the issue on thursday morning. reporting live, brianne carter, abc7 news. jonathan: thank you. to g and delays sent to your phone you could text metro to 43817. maureen: now to the trump transition to the white house. the former c.i.a. director david petraeus played the president-elect a visit at the trump tower in new york. he tweeted he was impressed with the retired general. petraeus told reporters it was a good conversation. petraeus stepped down as head of the c.i.a. after having an affair and pleading guilty to
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his -- his mistress who was also his biographer. three weeks after the election and michigan certified trump the winner of the 16 electoral votes. that is one of the states that green party candidate jill stein is expected to ask for a recount. talk of the recount has the president-elect crying foul. northern virginia bureau chief jeff goldberg has reaction to the trump claim of vote including virginia. jeff: that is right. trump firing off a series of treats denouncing a recount and claiming he would have won the popular vote if not for the millions he says voted illegally. a few hours after that. trump sweeting that he was claiming fraud in three specific states. all of which he lost on election day. at 7:30 sunday night, trump sent down a tweet claiming serious voter fraud in
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california. not long after that, linda had one question. >> where is the evidence that there widespread fraud in virginia? >> she is the registrar of voters in arlington county where she says the elections employees work tirelessly to ensure their voter registration roles were accurate. she says they received no complaints act voter fraud. >> not at all. >> until trump. >> it's frustrating. election. >> they require voter i.d. for all voters something to help maintain integrity. plus they say the election observers were monitoring the polls all day and night. >> we do take a great deal of pride in running elections that the voters can trust. >> they called the trump claim of fraud unfounded. saying the election was fair and accurate. >> i think it's ridiculous. he has no proof to back it up.
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>> chad booker of alexandria worries about the consequences of the president-elect doubting election results. >> the words have impact and power. if people hear that, it could deter folks from going out to vote. >> in the last hour, senator tim kaine tweeting he called trump's claim of voter fraud in virginia shameful and insulting. alexandria, arlington and loudoun county officials each reporting to us they received no complaints about voter fraud. but if they did they would take the claims seriously. jonathan: across cuba people are reacting to different ways to the death of former leader fidel castro. he died friday at the age of 90. in havana, there are long lines of people waiting to view his ashes. he turned control over to his brother in 2008. a weak of remembrances is scheduled ahead of the funeral
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what is in an address? a lot if you are trying to win a local d.c. contract. coming up for us the i-team goes digging in the small business and where they are really located. maureen: a vicious attack on a maryland grandmother allegedly at the hands of her grand daughter. why police say she did it. steve: finally, much-needed rain on the way. i will give you the timing and the impact on the morning rush
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maureen: a 2-year-old boy died when the car slammed in the back of a delivery truck this morning and the truck was stopped at the intersection at the time. the driver was not hurt. jonathan: 2 from pasadena facing criminal charges for viciously attacking her own grand mother. police say that savannah weaver stabbed her grand mother repeatingly saying she kneaded to cut the demons out of her. she is now undergoing mental evaluation. her grandmother is recovering from her stab wounds. maureen: "7 on your side" with health news. texas, now joins florida as the only state with the locally transmitted cases of zika. the virus was confirmed last
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she had not traveled to an area where the zika is prevalent. jonathan: coming up next for us, the "7 on your side" i-team going knocking on the doors to find out if the d.c. small business awarded the contracts are based in d.c. maureen: rain is on the way. steve rudin is coming back
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maureen: well, d.c. mayor muriel bowser set a goal to give half of all city contracts to small and local businesses in the city. jonathan: as "7 on your side" government watchdog investigator chris papst found out much of the money is not local. the companies outside the district f in on washington's economic boom. chris: while staring at the bush -- >> according to the website this is their address. is there crazy -- >> crazy, man. christ listen we are watching -- christ when we are watching up to a charter street. something didn't seem right. >> star fleet transportation? >> no. >> we had a similar feeling in the busy parking lot of b.n.b. for services in forestville. full of trucks, workers and
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headquarters are in the basement of the sleepy house in southeast. >> they are not here. >> they're not here? >> they are not here today. >> both companies registered with the district as s.b.e. small business enterprises which offers them preferred access to the district contracts. 476 million worth of contracts. just last year. >> to be an s.b.e., district website clearly states that a company's headquarter and the top managers must have district d and the department that overseas program. >> she lacks the resources. >> is the system being gamed? >> we try not to make that the case but the goal is to make it fair. we work hard to make it fair. >> a number of businesses told
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appear to exploit loopholes by simply respecting space in the district. and calling it corporate headquarters. >> there is a lot of competition. >> one company we found, the website said is headquartered in california with a sat late office in d.c. >> it's owned by the same gentleman. >> language which was changed after the i-team them. >> "7 on your side" analyzed the data and found of the business, 40% share the addresses. >> thank you. >> six companies share the same suite. inside this northwest building. >> can you tell me where the suite is? we can't go to it? >> this houses 21 businesses.
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>> when we called, no phone rang, no answering machine and no callbacks. >> what do you think? >> we need to actually investigate that. chris: what we did find is plenty of the small business owners who thanked us for digging in. >> it happens a lot. >> i hope the story gets out. more people need to know. it's not fair for the local people that work hard. >> you point out something that is >> chris papst, abc7 news. jonathan: harvey went on to tell the item that the investigators now look in the same companies that abc7 highlighted in the investigation. chris will have a followup when we find out more. >> the capitol christmas tree arrived in d.c. the 80-foot angleman spruce was delivered at idaho. it will be lit on a ceremony at december 6 on the west front lawn on the capitol.
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people's tree began in 1964. >> with are collecting gifts for toys for tots. go to wjla.com/toys for more information at how you can help. jonathan: we team up with the marines to do that. it's a great event. when we need umbrellas? >> no umbrellas. but a thick jacket. gloves. people dropping them off and giving them to the worthy
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>> going well west to kentucky and tennessee. this moves our way to next 24 to 48 hours. night time lows in the 40's. we move through the morning at 3:00 a.m. the temperatures begin to increase. it's something we don't see this time of year or that time of the evening or the overnight. 66 the future cast from the storm watch 7:00. veronica and eileen will get you through the rain. it's not major but we haven't had a lot of rain of late, every drop will count.
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kids. the further south and east looks okay. drive time home, jamie sullivan will have the traffic report. told i don't want is going to bring hier rain and a chance for thunderstorms. the colder air. that is going to funnel in behind it. you difference. how much rain are we talking about? from now until thursday morning, we could be look at an given to an inch and a half around -- an inch toage and a half around the immediate metro. the further north to the mason-dixon line could be looking to the inch and a half to two inches of rain. cooling down to the middle 50's on thursday. lower 50's on friday and the first half of the weekend looks great. around 50 on saturday. chance for a few showers on sunday.
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we head to early next week. jonathan: didn't you think the skins were going to beat dallas? maureen: i did. ii was disappointed. robert: they should have. like the first time. separated joint for reed. when do we expect him on the field? and bradley beal dropping cash for misconduct. it's okay.
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robert: we start with hoops. bradley beal fined for graving the neck fornier friday against the magic. tonight they are home hosting one of john wall's best friends. they used to run and gun in college days in kentucky. he said it's good to see him but at it ath tip-off it changes. >> it's fun. he is my brother. we compete. when we get between the lines. everything goes out the window. go and try to get the best out of each other. he will be physical. talk trash, i will talk my trash and come out with a win. >> a lot of trash talking. >> a shoulder injury kept jordan reed on the sideline in
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park. auntliesting thanksgiving for the tight end -- an interesting thanksgiving for the tight end. two touchdowns but most of it happened after separating the a.c. joint in the first half. status for sunday's game in arizona is in doubt. >> they are not going to put me >> how much does he change the offense? >> he plays better when he is hurt. i'll have to knock his shoulder out again when they put it in there. robert: don't do that. a sight you don't want to see today after desean jackson had a break-out game sunday. this happened in the workouts. after a rep, seems to be in
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the ground rolling around. so after practice desean said it is just monday. we have a long week to go on sunday. jonathan: that is not what you want to see. >> hopefully doing fine. maureen: thank you for bringing us up to date on the injuries. robert: no problems. steve: we have rain on the way. it will arrive in the morning and stick around through the day tomorrow and another round of the rain on wednesday. it could be lo cooler on thursday. windy with the temperatures in 50's. lower 50's monday. toys for tots looking good around 50. cool temperatures. near average for this time of year. maureen: "world news tonight" with david muir coming up next. jonathan: thank you for
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. tonight, breaking news. we're on the scene right now. the horrific attack at a major american university. the suspect plowing into pedestrians, then going on the attack with a butcher's knife. multiple victims. and what we've just learned about the suspect. also breaking tonight, the recount battle. the first state set to begin. we're there tonight with new reporting. drawing outrage from some after tweeting claims of voter fraud elsewhere with no proof. and could there be any change in the outcome of the election? severe storms at this hour. a tornado watch right now. heavy snow, rain and ice. that system marching east tonight. the record-breaker. holiday sales already. and now, it's cyber monday. the best deals you can still get tonight. and the missing mom mystery tonight. three weeks after she vanishes,

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