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street where detectives are surrounding the house. the shooting happened just before 9 p.m. say nobody else was injured at this time, they do not have a suspect, and no arrests have been made in connection with a, investigation that is ongoing. at this hour, the victim has not been identified. all they are saying is he is an adult male. we will have much more as soon as information becomes available. live in capitol heights, anna-lysa gayle, abc 7 news. jonathan: sanctions against russia from president obama come including ordering dozens of people from the russian embassy in the district out of the country and denying russia's access to a compound on maryland's eastern shore. michelle: all of this in response to intelligence that hackedussians

dnc to affect the presidential election. tim barber is live in northeast washington. the maryland compound will be blocked off tomorrow. in the district, diplomats have just three days to leave the country. from his hawaiian vacation, president obama punished russia for interfering in the 2016 elections. some say the move is overdue. others are criticizing it. >> if president obama is 100% sure, i would have thought he had the maturity and foresight to bring donald trump and the process. order is incutive response to show that russians hacked into american servers in an attempt to influence the presidential elections. 36 russian diplomats are being kicked out of the country from the dcm to see to the consulate in san francisco. the executive order is also putting sanctions on russian intelligence organizations that allegedly helped with the hacking. >>

by a country that is basically a gas can in europe with an economy roughly the size of italy. russia will also be denied access to compounds in centreville, and new york. they are accused of stealing $100 million. russian president vladimir putin said he will consider retaliatory measures. president obama says the united states will also take other actions which will not be published. live in northwest washington, tim barber, abc 7 news. president-elect donald trump responding to president obama sanctions against russia. said the u.s. should move on to bigger and better things. he did vow to meet with intelligence leaders to learn more about the possible hacking. stay with abc 7 and wjla.com for updates. michelle: d.c. police

residents worried about an uptick in crime in northwest washington. shooting since saturday have the neighborhood on edge. nobody was hurt but a car was damaged in what the police believe was a road rage incident. jonathan: more than a month after a woman was brutally attacked by a man with a knife, the police say they arrested the man seen in the surveillance video. until now all they had was the video. good police work tracked him down. tom roussey is live from northwest washington with how they caught them. this was really good work on the part of the detectives. tom: they used something a lot of us have in our wallets. it was not a drivers license or credit card. the police say this is o mendoza.d ernest on the saturday night after thanksgiving, a female victim in this case was working at the grand hyatt washington hotel on h street.

when a man came in she thought was staying there. >> he pulled out a knife, pushed her against the bed, and demanded her to take off her clothing. tom: she fought back and he heard her badly, even ripping her hair out before he fled. the police found the surveillance video. by working with metro transit police, they found out something else. >> he had been using a specific metro transit card. to been tracking that card over the last 30 days and monday they hit pay dirt. >> they tracked him to landover. tom: the police arrested him and now had a name to go with the video. did they have the right man? >> through the video evidence and working with our survivor, we were able to tell the person we had on video was are suspect. mendoza is charged with assault with intent

commit first-degree sexual abuse while armed for what happened about a month ago at this hotel. live in northwest, tom roussey, abc 7 news. michelle: tom, thanks. d.c. police want you to see the surveillance video that they hope will catch the driver in a fatal hit-and-run. video struck and killed a woman monday. the woman, who is deaf, was trying to cross in the crosswalk in columbia heights. the police want to hear from you if you know this suv. and news about the mother hit by car tuesday afternoon outside of her home in aspen hill. was taking her baby daughter out of her car when she was hit. the baby was in the car seat and incredibly was not hurt. ortiz lost her left leg in the severald shattered bones in her right leg. she told family members she only has hazy memories about what happened. >>

she does not know how the baby -- she thinks she pushed the baby out of the way or something. michelle: witnesses say the car was driving erratically. so far, nobody has been charged. family members say that ortiz will be in the icu at least another week and will need multiple surgeries on her right leg. her daughter is back home with relatives. steve: the temperatures right now are in the middle 30's outside of the capital beltway, cooler to the north and west. 37.rstown now the wind gusts are increasing, especially west of town, ay, andter, lur petersburg. later tonight into tomorrow, the wind will gust around the metro area at about 30. if you have a lunch plans, in the lower 40's friday, a good deal of sunshine, clouds later t

last day of 2016 and the new year's eve celebration, plus rain for parts of the football game sunday. the timing of that, plus a big warm-up on the 10-day. jonathan: steve, thanks. on the maryland eastern shore, a queen and county deputy in critical condition after he was shot responding to a domestic disturbance call. a woman into ag has to get her belongings when the homeowner confronted the deputy with a shotgun and shot him in the stomach. his vest covered most of it, but some of it got underneath the vest. hogan fired back, killing the suspect. >> it sat on both sides, the cop doing his job. jimmy was on the other end when he came. it did not turn out too well. jonathan: hogan

surgery at shock trauma in baltimore and is expected to recover. a report released today by the law enforcement national fund has troubling findings about the number of officers killed in the line of duty this year, many of them assassinated or ambushed. in all 135 people of lost their lives, the highest in the past five years. each of those lives are memorials at the national law enforcement memorial in northwest washington. at half: flags flying staff in maryland today, governor larry hogan ordering that in honor of a soldier who died after injury sustained in afghanistan. sergeant first class allen browne of takoma park was injured in an ied blast. he died at walter reed medical center. jonathan: the story will make you smile -- a video seen nearly a million times online. a man is singing outside of the gallery place metro station.

connection with a little girl. >> ♪ every step gayle talkeda-lysa with the girl and her mother to erenadeho said the sara is what the world needs now. anna-lysa: in this section of chinatown, one thing you can always count on is music. >> ♪ the world will change my name is kenny. i've been doing music since i was five years old. anna-lysa: he goes by the stage name kenny sway and spends the day performing for anyone willing to watch. wednesday afternoon, he caught m eye. evelyn's the 11-year-old who suffers from

raleigh, north carolina. >> we want to get a drink and we heard the music. anna-lysa: her mom was standing by her side when this happened. >> she kind of walked up to me. i pulled her in. ♪ evelyn held onto his hand as he ciare serenaded her. it was streamed live on facebook. it has more than 900,000 views. it's a moment that mary evelyn is proud of. >> a lot of tensions in our world, especially racial tension this year, and we believe in love for everyone. >> i love you! michelle: such a sweet little girl. jonathan: she has an infectious sm

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new york city police say they are prepared to secure the new year's eve celebration in times square. today's preparations included a practice confetti drop, but it was all business for the police department. they deploy dozens of sanitation trucks as roadblocks to stop vehicle attacks like we saw in germany and france. the police do not have credible threats but took recent events into their planning. >> this will be a very well protected event, with multiple layers of security. detaile: the security will include 7000 police officers walking the streets and perched on rooftops, as well a

teams in a command center that will monitor hundreds of surveillance cameras. and public transportation in our area new year's eve -- metro trains will run until 3 a.m., and after midnight you can ride for free. jonathan: 22 days until donald trump's inauguration and hotels are starting to sell out. you want to stay in the district, it could cost thousands for a luxury room. if you stay just a bit outside of town, compare the numbers come it costs $1500 to stay at the mayflower and oxon hill, in, $350 at the comfort which by the way is twice the normal price. center of the the first serial podcast, found guilty of killing his girlfriend in 2000, has been serving a life sentence ever since. in june, a judge overturned the conviction, rolling his attorney

ineffective. day the judge denied sayed bale as he awaits his new trial. learning morere tonight about the stunning loss of hollywood's leading lady, debbie reynolds, who died just one day after the passing of her beloved daughter, carrie fisher. the tributes are growing at this hour to the mother and daughter with an incredible bond. there was no denying the close bond between debbie reynolds and carrie fisher. both were considered hollywood icons, but it seemed to most important roles were as mother and daughter. >> i worship my mother. michelle: the inseparable duo died just one day apart. fisher died tuesday at 60, a nearly 24 hours later -- >> she said she missed her daughter and wanted to see her again. michelle: reynolds suffered a stroke while planning her daughter's funeral. >> she

sister, more than anything. and fisher'snolds relationship not always so warm. the highs and lows were documented in fisher's book and movie, "postcards from the edge." at one point they were estranged as fisher suffered and battled from substance abuse and mental illness. eventually mending their relationship, they became closer than ever in their final years. they even live next door to one another. >> mommy, i'm home! said ae: todd fisher beautiful love story to witness in my 58 years. i miss them both so much. fisher is survived by her daughter, 24-year-old billy lourd, and debbie reynolds' son, toodd. jonathan:

broadway has hit the record books. "the lion king", earning more than $105 million. it became the first broadway show to earn $3 million in a single eight-show week. "hamilton" will be at the kennedy center for 14 weeks in june 2018, and yes, that will be a hot ticket. steve: stormwatch 7 radar shows storm showers moving to the west. a frontal area, don't be surprised if you see flakes, but not much around the immediate metro. the wind will really pick up the next few hours. 4, mainly lows 28 to 3 clear skies, the windchill factor will make it feel like the 20's with wind gusts near 30. tomorrow morning, 33 bethesda, reston, college park and

marlboro. if you have plans tomorrow morning to walk your dog or go to the metro stop, bundle up because the wind will gust. a winter storm warning well to the west, geary county, western allegheny county, could see five to 10 inches of snow by this time tomorrow night. they'll be in the higher elevations. if you are going north and west of d.c. tomorrow, expect travel delays. futurecast from stormwatch 7, the areas in blue is where we will see the heaviest snow. nothing around the immediate metro area, but the wind will finally give up just a little bit later tomorrow night into early saturday morning. when gusts friday about 25 to 30 miles per hour. noontime, 30 to 35 miles per hour, slowing down by dinnertime. early saturday morning, not quite as windy, but the window picks up again new yr'

30. lower 40's, mixture of sun and clouds friday. new year's eve, upper 30's near 40. high temperatures eventually near 50 degrees. and the redskins football forecast sunday, showers late in the day, 43 to 49 degrees. outlook, daytime highs near 65 tuesday, colder air arriving late next week with a chance of wintery weather. jonathan: amazon is known for being on the cutting edge of technology. michelle: its latest patent will make you scratch your head.

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braden holtby the. the caps take another loss, 2-1 in the shootout, their fourth loss in five games. even though maryland started the season 12-0, the terps new they had a challenge tonight welcoming the uconn huskies to college park, who are on an 86-game winning streak entering tonight. the terps within five late. uconn with the dagger. uconn wins by just six points. pretty close. i don'tnk we handled -- think we handled coming out at halftime very well. we learned a lot about our team today. we learned about our freshman, who were's insatiable. -- we learnedly, about our freshman, who worse insatiable. >> unfortunately, these games are few and fa

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