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it is 8:00 in the morning, a on a large lot in this very rural area, someone breaks into that home, the female homeowner shoves him come up which is him back. -- pushes him back. the male homeowner appears with a weapon, fires back hitting the suspect in the leg. the suspect does not completely retreat. he goes outside briefly, grabs aps of metal that a piece of metal and charges back into the home. who is ahomeowner former fbi agent fired his weapon again, striking that suspect in the head. the suspect was able to run from the home and a short distance from that house dropped in the yard and was taken to shock trauma.

telling us they believe this is a cut and dry case of self defense. investigation is still underway. the homeowners are being questioned. they believe this was a rifle use of force by a man defending himself, his wife and his home. we are also following developments out of delaware. involving that hostage situation at a prison. that situation is now over. a correctional officer has died. amy: officials releasing new information in that hostage situation within the hour. hostageentifying the and an employee pronounced dead early this morning. floyd had been with the department for 16 years. they outlined a timeline of events that led up to finding

sergeant floyd and another employee rescued and taken to another hospital this morning. two additional hostages were released wednesday. the building was secured around 5:30 this morning. >> at this time, i'm not able to give you a motive for the attack. i'm not able to give you a description of the weapon other w that we are aware some had sharp instruments. i have not been presented with what they are. amy: officials told reporters that they lost a family member and are sending prayers to the fallen correctional officer's family and the other rescued this morning. we want to move to some tough talk from president trump. the president broke away from using the medical in and sted comments on

governments of iran and australia. talk.ng diplomatic president trump: we will straighten that out. you hear about the tough phone calls i'm having, don't worry about it. >> the president calling his tough talk with world leaders necessary. president trump: we are taken advantage of by every nation in the world virtually. >> trump has taken on countries like mexico come iran and australia. administration agreed to take thousands of illegal immigrants from australia, i will study this them deal. to recitaleant refugees -- re-settle refugees. hours after his executive order banning refugees to the u.s. indefinitely. >> i can assure you the relationship is very strong. i stand up for austral

>> the trump administration sending a message to iran. michael flynn putting them on notice, saying after i ran's test of yet another ballistic missile, all options are on the table. >> iran continues >> to threaten u.s. allies in the region. >>a draft circulating within the ministration's version about religious freedom come outlining the potential weakening of protections designed to shield lgbt individuals from discrimination. president trump: freedom of religion is a sacred right. threat. a right under >> if the executive order becomes reality, some private copies may not have to provide contraceptive coverage to their employees. order has been restored the universityf of california berkeley a

throwing fireworks. this is in response to a controversial editor for breitbart who had been scheduled to speak on that campus last night. thats police had to put campus on lockdown. how did president trump react to those protests? "if uc berkeley does not allow free speech and practices violence on innocent people with a different point of view, no federal funds." >> my faithful followers come i clearly see a perfect, clear shadow of me, six more weeks of .inter it shall be -- punxsutawney phil saw his shadow this money come indicating six more weeks of winter. -- this morning, indicating six more w

one person who is very accurate with the forecast, doug hill. we are still six weeks away from spring officially starting. 2, 26 more days and this month and then 20 days to the first day of spring is 46 days. that's about six weeks and a couple days. we know that he saw his shadow again. we have a couple extra numbers here we can share with you. the club has been keeping , herds of punxsutawney phil has seen his shadow 85% of the time. that's about 40% accuracy. four of the last 10 predictions in washington came true. a downturn in temperatures coming our way.

in fredericksburg. at 46 degrees. we will see clouds and sunshine and temperatures will be cool. a couple degrees above average. then, we start to see a chill come in. how cold? any wintry precipitation involved? in montgomery county come a family learns a hard lesson about fire safety after flames significantly damage their home. dozens of firefighters from other counties were brought in to put out the flames. everyone made it out safely. this could have turned out a lot worse. a family was open up by a neighbor. the houston not have any working smoke detectors. the fire is being blamed on an overloaded chimney. house did not have a working smoke detectors.

robbed, this time it was a cvs in silver spring. the suspect was caught. is this the same person responsible for the other drugstores being robbed in the past few weeks? the big question for investigators is, are these cases related? there were six robberies at pharmacies last week across prince george's and montgomery county. also a 7-eleven hit. it was believed that all those were related. cvs was hit at 4:15 this morning. they were able to capture the suspects. they were armed and demented cash but did not get anything. then they took off. police took this very seriously. investigators working the scene for hours trying to collect evidence and to see if they are related. ve

have those suspects at police headquarters and are working to find that out. as soon as we have new information, we will pass it along. nobody was hurt. the pharmacy is now reopened. up, getting paid to lose weight. how one woman took off the pounds and made her wallet heavier. president trump goes on the attack against arnold schwarzenegger during the national prayer breakfast. the terminator just fired back. we will tell you what both men said. wright to show you julie meeting running to vote -- ronnie as she did traffic. >> are you going to give them the traffic report?

julie: i was taking it back. she's representing boston. that's what i'm talking about.

announcer: you are watching abc 7 news at noon, on your side. on a flightngers from zurich to los angeles got a bit of a scare before their anght was forced to make emergency landing. they were getting a left engine malfunctioning message and passengers looked outside and could see fuel coming out of the wing. flight toted the canada. >>

rescue plan is. nobody has left the plane. that is scary. the mayor of that town tweeted that the passengers were fed and given a tour of the city before the plane took off and took them to l.a. after a bit of confusion come it appears first lady melania trump will in fact moved to the white house. suzanne kennedy has the latest. it was a surprise to many when melania trump chose not to immediately take on the role of first lady, instead deciding to stay in new york city with her son. son and his wife will soon be moving into the white house. melania trump will move down here when baron's school year ends. mrs. trump has started to assemble her staff.

assistance will be her chief of staff. rumors surfaced yesterday that mrs. trump was considering not moving down here at all, instead staying in new york city. an announcement was quickly made following the tablet report that she indeed would be moving here. whether he was lonely without his wife and son, the president said it just allowed him more time to work. the white house has not announced an exact date as to when mrs. trump and their son will move down here. back to you. jummy: some people are asking when the white house will open again for public tours. the trump administration has yet someone -- a point someone in charge of big events every year like the easter egg roll

to ensure is working that the white house visitor's office is fully staffed and operational in the next coming weeks. in the show, we mentioned that president trump attended the national prayer breakfast. chance tot resist a take a shot at the man who replaced him on "the apprentice ," arnold schwarzenegger. >> they hired a big movie star, arnold schwarzenegger, to take my place. we all know how that turned out. the ratings went down the tubes come it's been a total disaster and i want to pray for arnold. jummy: shortly after that, arnold schwarzenegger had an offer for president trump. >> hey, donald, i have a great idea. why don't we switch jobs? take over tv because you are such an expert in ratings and i

again. president trump is still listed as an executive producer on that show. would you rather be president or host of "the apprentice?" doug: i would do the apprentice job. jummy: me, too. here,we are in fine shape quite weather, sunshine today and tomorrow. we will be on this roller coaster, getting way warm for a few days next week and then wait colder by the end of next week. frederick, 41 degrees. plenty of blue sky and a bit of cloudiness. temperatures continue to climb into and through the 40's. the cold air is pretty close at hand here. 46 in warrenton. indegrees

washington, d.c. a frontal zone stuck way to the south. the clouds. -- the clouds will slowly push out of the area. snow showers across pennsylvania will stay there. northwest winds will get a bit breezy today, maybe 15 miles per hour. it will slowly bring in the colder temperatures that will be with us through the evening and the next few days to the weekend. we do have a chance by sunday at a sprinkle. plenty of sunshine after morning cloudiness. temperatures climbing to about 40 degrees. the same deal on saturday. plenty of sunshine come a bit of a breeze, but definitely on the cold side.

as we get into sunday, we will see a little turnaround here with some clouds moving towards us as a disturbance approaches. today, partly sunny, becoming breezy. wins 10-15. , 10-15. we drop into the mid-20's tonight. 40 degrees tomorrow at best with the clouds and sunshine. as we head through the weekend, 38 on saturday, may be a flake or shower, but 45 on sunday. down and then bounce up tuesday and wednesday to 62. then they get colder by the end of next week. abc 7 news at noon continues after this.

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jummy: punxsutawney phil is not the only groundhog to watch. the dmv has its own expert. john gonzalez caught up with potomac phil. >> it is quite a celebration in dupont circle today. we have the top hats. we feel like we are in punxsutawney, pa. this is not the same groundhog from up north. this is known as the national groundhog, this is potomac phil. ng theirundhogs seei shadows. six more weeks of winter here in bc this is a nonprofit that's been going on for six years in dupont circle. this is april. you are from new jersey. you are a bit of a groundhog aficionado. you been traveling different groundhog days. and i have of mine traveled to diff

for 12 years. we've been to canada, we've been to florida, we've been all throughout the east coast. we still have to venture over to europe and in the west coast groundhogs. every year, we go and see a different groundhog. this is definitely more top hats than we've ever seen. >> what about the political predictions? >> potomac phil predicted that we will have six more months of political gridlock. >> we've been asking folks to tell us what their prediction is. one gentleman said it will be cloudy and dark. back to you inside. jummy: he needs to check out the festival in florida. six more weeks of winter. doug: good luck with that. today, we have temperatures in the 40's. jummy: we will see what 4:00. thank you for joining us. have a great day. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is

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