[captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> now, abc 7 news at noon, on your side. jummy: we begin this noon with a plea from the man who opened fire inside the seas, it pizzerias. .- d.c.'s comment needs a real stephen joins us with the latest. >> edgar welch pleaded guilty to two counts, admitting that on december 4 -- and we have video from that day -- he drove from north carolina to upper northwest d.c. to comment pizza, entered the establishment with an assault rifle and handgun. customers and

fled, find child to molesters from a fake new site he read. he shot up the restaurant, never found anything, and then surrendered. today he pleaded guilty to transporting firearms across state lines, and assault with a deadly weapon for pointing a rifle at an employee. he will be back in court on june 22, at which time he will be sentenced to between 18 months and 60 months in federal prison. jummy: thank you. it is now do or die, not too far away on capitol hill. to gop's health care plan replace obamacare expected to be voted on sometime this afternoon. you are taking a live look inside the house for, president trump already demanded the vote be made today.

high-stakes decision. stephanie: for the second time it is down to the wire on capitol hill as house republicans are supposed to vote on the plan to repeal and replace obamacare, even though there is no guarantee it will pass. hrrepublicans offered today 2068, the health care act of 2017 which will eliminate washington's one-size-fits-all health care policy for the american people. stephanie: some republicans are not sold on this health care plan. >> this is not a repeal, this is a patchwork fix. stephanie: right now, only 17% of americans approve of the health care replacement bill. president trump is still demanding a vote on the bill today. >> what we you do if your health care bill fails? >> we have to see. stephanie: last

ultimatum. if the plan fails, the president says obamacare stays and he moves on to tax reform. days,ruins his first 100 which have been problematic. it makes tax reform almost impossible, the budget difficult. stephanie: they say the fight to get votes is not over just yet. >> think we had 100 members of congress to the white house yesterday. stephanie: president trump has met with many lawmakers at the white house and today we will see if those meetings move republicans any closer to voting yes on the bill. stephanie ramos, abc seven news. jummy: major news involving the keystone xl pipeline, trans canada announcing the u.s. state department has signed and issued a presidential permit to construct the pipeline, reversing the obama administration's decision to block it.

oil from canada to refineries on the gulf coast. also developing now, a domestic incident in charles county turning deadly, for shot, through the, including a toddler and a teenager. john gonzalez has more. office insheriff's charles county describing this as a domestic related incident. sidents in the neighborhood in waldorf started hearing gunshots shortly after 8:00 last night. you can see this is the townhome , cars are still parked out front. area butve cleared the inside, it is still a crime scene. the sheriff's office telling us an adult man was found dead inside from what appears to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound, and it was not until t

goodwin shotarlton his wife and teenage daughter before turning the gun on himself. the 17-year-old died later this morning, the wife was flown out in critical condition. >> they go to school together. i just saw her. my daughter is trying to understand why. people just do the things they do, you don't know why. john: police recovered a gun near the man's body at the foot of the stairs as you enter the townhome. it appears to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound. police still trying to figure out what happened late last night. that is the latest in waldorf, john gonzalez, that to you. people, including three children were sent to the hospital after a fire ripped through their home in woodbridge. seven people were inside when thfi

this morning. the flames were started by improperly discarded smoking materials left on the front porch, leading to more than $500,000 worth of property damage. all seven victims are expected to be ok. d.c. police are searching for two teenagers reported missing overnight, a 16-year-old and a 17-year-old, two of nearly a dozen teenagers missing now. d.c. police insist the numbers do not tell the full story. sam: it seems in the last couple of weeks we have been bombarded with the thinkers and flyers, and overnight these two -- missing person flyers, and overnight these two teenagers were added to the list. in reality, missing persons cases are down more than ever. these are the critical missing persons alerts, eight in just three months -- three days. >>

missing. what a lot of people believe but in fact, the belief is false. our stationed asking why we are not reporting on the so-called uptick in missing d.c. teenagers. , police actually down are simply making people more aware than in the past. >> to make sure all missing persons receive the same media attention. missing person is someone under 15 or over 65. 95% of cases have been resolved. d.c. police issue critical missing persons files -- flyers for everyone, including those that run away. >> i do not want to do the young people a disservice by reporting out on the media that they are

the case. we need to get to the root cause why so many teenagers in the district of columbia are volunteering to leave their homes. this is their cry out for help. sam: d.c. police say they take every missing persons case seriously but they want to emphasize kids are not being kidnapped from the city. jummy: as you step outside, it wet, but theis opening ceremony of the national cherry blossom festival is tomorrow. the blossoms that survived are still expected to be at peak bloom this weekend. we want to see your picture, so take them this weekend and upload them to burst.com/wjla, and you can see your pictures on air or on our website. meanwhile, doug hill has a look at our forecast. doug:

out pretty well, we have a warm front coming through bringing clouds and showers, but it is almost through the area. here is what we have, showers moving through with a warm front . got to get the warm front through to get the temperatures up, and we are seeing breaks in the overcast already. we will have some sunshine and with a front from the north, temperatures probably in the low 60's in many areas. tomorrow, still looking at temperatures in the low 70's and a little bit of sunshine a time. 42 still in washington at andrews, 43 in leesburg. 50, and with some sunshine we will see the numbers climb. we will see sunshine and a noticeable warming trend, 63. we will talk about

trend and whether the warm air will stick around for the next 10 days. jummy: coming up on abc seven news at new, terror crackdown. the latest arrests connected to the attack in london. a student choking on food saved by a classmate. the lunch room rescue caught on camera. it's check on traffic with angela foster. jamie: the friday afternoon ride complicated with the showers out there. we still have a lot of work zone set up, one on the capital beltway crossing the woodrow wilson bridge. on our big picture matt, not a lot of red but we are working on d.c. to 95 and a work zone on i-270 causing delays through germantown. take a look at the capital beltway, crossing the ameran legion bridge, that is already your afternoon delays starting on the inner loop of the beltway. we

interstate 95 southbound through woodbridge crossing the occoquan we have southbound delays. that is a look at the roads for now.

>> you are watching abc seven news at new, on your side -- at noon, on your side. jummy: two more significant arrests made in the deadly terror attack in london as we continue to learn more about the suspect behind the act. molly hunter is in london with the latest. aliasese went by many and today we are learning more about this man

heart of london. 52-year-old khalil massood was a british citizen. he had a long criminal history, but nothing terrorism related, and he was living here in birmingham where investigators were seen collecting evidence. least twocribing at arrests overnight as significant. he was known to authorities a 2000 threebut in intelligence services concluded he posed a low risk. , thousands gathered in london's trafalgar square to pay tribute to the victims, and the death toll rising. another victim, a 75-year-old man succumbing to his injuries, raising the death toll to four. get out ofo way to the way so i just put my arms forward. the card temple to me over.

: keith palmer, in what could be the last image of him, this photo taken with the u.s. tourist moments before being stabbed by the attacker. american, kirk cochran of utah, a musician is adding london with his wife to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary. jummy: closer to home, and unbelievable scene out of florida, a worker left dangling from a high-rise after the scaffolding collapses. the only thing holding him up was safety gear. fire crews responded and were able to get him down. he was able to get back to the ground. inigh school freshman wisconsin is credited with saving a friend's life after things got scary at lunch.

food and begins coughing frantically. that is when ian brown jumps up and performs the heimlich maneuver. he saved his friend's life in seconds. will said he was lucky to have a friend with training. unbelievable. so good there are young people -- doug: that pay attention. jummy: looking forward to the weekend. doug: really? i wish it was only wednesday. jummy: we talked about this, every day should be friday and 80 degrees. doug: we will be in the 70's tomorrow. it is still cold out there, looking live at the torpedo factory, air temperatures in the low 40's. the warm front is coming through, the showers are moving to the southeast, and look at these winter like temperatures on the 24th day of march.

the warm front is pushing off to the east. there was a much larger area that pushed through earlier and got the -- got much heavier as it went through the district. behind the rain we are seeing a little bit of clearing, and you get a sense of how high an arc we have. this is back to omaha, this area of generally high pressure with southerly or southwesterly wind developing, which is why a large part of the u.s. will have a warm up for the weekend. some sunshine this afternoon and struggle through the 40's and 50's. tomorrow, the best push of warm air comes in and we will be in the low 70's. on sunday, you will have to look out to the west for a disturbance sliding through that will probably br

developing during the day. today, temperatures warming up with afternoon clearing and sunshine developing. our forecast and futurecast shows temperatures staying very mild tonight. we will hold in the 50's overnight, and tomorrow a good rise in temperatures to the 70's, mountain showers possible by the evening, and sunday the better chance of showers in the afternoon and evening with some -- evening. low 60's today, low 70's tomorrow. 50%ance of rain, 40% to sunday night into monday. monday back into the low 70's and tuesday, maybe a shower or thunderstorm. by the middle and end of the week we clear out and temperatures will be pretty mild. jummy:

day? doug: no, not on that part of it. jummy: go see what you can do in the weather center. doug: it only takes two keystrokes. jummy: a memphis teenager accused of killing her mother now out of jail, so what comes next for nora jackson? pitchntdown to first brought to you by mcdonald's. there is a big

jummy: happening tonight right here on abc seven, 20/20 goes one-on-one with the woman thrown in prison for killing her own mother, but now 11 years

nora jackson is free. .ohn quinones has a preview tell us a little bit about what we can see. it is ans an -- john: unusual and baffling case, a teenage girl accused of brutally murdering her own mother. it is called matricide and it happens in less than 1% of all homicides, but it happened to nora jackson. she was 18 when she was convicted of killing her mother. then after spending all that time in prison, the supreme court of tennessee vacates the ruling because the prosecution they said made some mistakes during the trial, and now nora jackson is out, she is free, she cannot go back to prison. tonight, she sits down with us and through a tearful defense tells us exactly what happened that horrible night. did she kill her mother or did someone else do it? it is pretty amazing. jummy:

the district attorney who was involved in this case. tell me a little bit about that conversation. all right, i think we lost john's audio, but you can watch that 20/20 tonight. it airs at 10:00 tonight on abc seven. we have a big warm up coming just in time for the cherry blossom festival, final check of

now,: a little sports news a thrilling start to the sweet 16 of the ncaa tournament. 11 seed xavier emerging as a cinderella story after beating arizona. in to puta lays it them up by two, the less chance for the wildcats with seconds left. there is the three. no, that does not go in and xavier ends up winning that game. 73-71, that team moving up to the elite eight. another nail in the midwest region, oregon taking on michigan. remaining, derek walton junior drives and steps back but it falls short. oregon

win. it has been a month since bao bao left d.c. for china, and she moved into her permanent home. she will have her own housing area, and a neighbor who is also loved by d.c. residents. she will share a playground with her long-lost brother. mom is probably missing both of her kids. doug: if you want to go to the zoo tomorrow, it will be beautiful. we were hit the low 60's today, 73 tomorrow, but watch for showers on sunday. if you are planning to go to the national walk for epilepsy tomorrow downtown, should be just fine. jummy:

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