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people still evacuated by the fire department. this is the residential towers condo, the building on the west side of two high-rises. the fire department believes that the wind was so bad that it may have gotten into the ventilation system. and look what it did, check out this picture. the fire department did the part where the wall is pulled down, but there are cracks like this in different parts of the building. also, some windows were blown gotbecause the storm's wind into the building. at this time, a number of folks have been evacuated. the upper floors have been evacuated and they cannot go back inside until the fire department is certain things are safe, which they are checking right now. this is all the result of a storm that blew through earlier this evening. live in a delphi, tom roussey, abc 7 news. jonathan:
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severe storms brought heavy wind, rain, and hail. we may see a repeat performance tomorrow. nancy: meteorologist steve rudin, this was quick and intense. steve: and not a big area, starting over the district, northern prince george's county. this is out of here and we are drying out nicely. tomorrow, more weather on the way in terms of severe weather, stronger storms late afternoon into the early evening. look at the daytime highs, eventually in the lower 80's. tomorrow, and much-needed rain saturday night into sunday. i will give you the timing of that, plus looking at next week, some of the warmest temperatures we have seen around here in a long time. nancy? nancy: steve, thank you. top story in prince george's county where parents are on edge after a substitute teacher and coach was arrested and charged with child pornography. jonathan:
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heights elementary school. anna-lysa gayle spoke with the parents. i have to imagine they are very concerned. anna-lysa: that's right, jonathan, for some parents who knew christopher spiess, they say that the arrest confirmed their suspicion. last year there were rumors going around that the school, which now matches the charges. maryland state police computer crime unit served a search warrant and capitol heights. that is where they found video containing child pornography on christopher spiess electronic devices. are insure other parents the dark because they trusted him. anna-lysa: this woman is one of -- is the mother of one of his students. prior to thursday, he was a basketball coach and substitute teacher at bradbury heights elementary. >> it is so sad.
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a spokesperson for prince george's county public school said due to the nature of the claims, christopher spiess will no longer serve the school district. state police received a tip in december 2016. this parent now has many questions for the school principal. was want to know if she aware, if she knew anything, suspect anything. if she did, why didn't she tell us as a parent? anna-lysa: he is charged with three counts of distribution of child pornography and six counts of possession. in prince george's county, anna-lysa gayle, abc 7 news. jonathan: we are keeping a close watch with developing news in paris, france, where the police say that a man shot two police opularrs in a p forest location. one of the officers is dead, the other is seriously injured. michelle marsh joins us with the latest. michelle: we have b
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today. isis said that a fighter carried out the attack. french security forces say the man who fired the shots was not only known to them but also shot and wounded an officer in 2001. today he was shot and killed by the police. he was on the radar of the french domestic security service. the paris prosecutor said they will release his name tomorrow. a short time ago, officers searched the man's home in a paris suburb. one of the questions, did he work alone? we will bring you the latest as soon as it's available. jonathan: we are also following developing news from seattle, washington, where two police officers were shot during a robbery. the shooter in this case is dead, and a second person under arrest. they're looking for a third person still. the incident happened at a 7-eleven downtown. both
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it, recovering at the hospital. into the newsroom, word u.s. investigators are prepared to ask for the arrest of wikileaks founder julian assange. prosecutors's believe they can prove wrongdoing. they believe that wikileaks played a major role in helping snowden released declassified documents years ago. jonathan: be the first to know about breaking news by signing up for text alerts. go to our website, wjla.com /text. if there is breaking news, it will go to your phone right away. nancy: the second man accused of robbing and assaulting somebody on a red line train is in custody tonight, arrested tonight. he is one of four people who participated in the attack that happen near the wheaton station sunday. if you have information about the other two people involved, metro police want to hear from you. new infor
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truck robbery in northwest washington. we are getting our first look at surveillance pictures showing the men with guns, running out of a car wednesday. the police say that they held up a worker who was carrying a bag of cash outside of a store. so far, neither the robbers nor getaway driver have been arrested. jonathan: one step towards closure for family of a college park man. the police arrested one man in connection with the murder, but people thatill two police want to find full stop investigators are hoping this video will help lead to their arrests. tom roussey reports. tom: he was the heart of the family. 25 days after he was murdered, family who gathered from as far away as guyana and london have no answers. >>. we would like some answers tom: they hope that answers are coming. prince george's county police arrested a man in dundalk. they also put out surveillance vide
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entered farley's college park to building in march. the other men are still on the loose. the police hope that someone can tell them who they are. >> find the whereabouts of these murderers and bring them to the justice system. that the mence say knew farley and came to rob him, but why they decided to shoot this eleanor high school grad and father of a 10-year-old, his family has no idea. >> is a tragic loss, and i have no reason why it happened. tom: tom roussey, abc 7 news. tonight, the federal protective service employee accused of shooting and killing pleadis expected to guilty to the charges against him. as part of the plea deal he will serve life in prison without parole. he is accused of killing his estranged wife and print ernest county, then shooting and killing twe
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montgomery county. jonathan: virginia governor terry mcauliffe has changed the death sentence to life in prison without parole. mcauliffe said the decision had nothing to do with guilt or innocence. >> my sole decision is the jury was given false information that one of the people involved had totally made up, and that is not a fair system of justice. jonathan: the man was scheduled to be executed next week for hiring another man to kill his girlfriend in 2006. and arkansas'- first execution in many years could take place literally at any moment. nancy: it has only been operating for three months, but already 128 dangerous drivers are off the road. we are talking about the dwi
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enforcement squad. stephen tschida has that story. there were more than 50 arrests in march alone? stephen: that's right, just a handful of police officers, but they are bringing a lot of impaired drivers off the roads. >> people swerving, speeding, driving way under the speed limit. members of thene fairfax county police department dwi enforcement squad are focused on the signs of a drunk driver. >> through the end of march, my officers arrested 128 impaired drivers. officers madenot up one quarter of all dwi arrests in fairfax county this year. this officer is on the road during prime time for drivers under the influence. >> generally between 11 p.m. and 2 a.m. loud thea grant out dwi squad to be set up, which is proving effective in getting impaired dri
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>> i average one arrest every day for me. there are a lot of people still driving intoxicated. stephen: stephen tschida, abc 7 news. jonathan: the continuing fight over obamacare could lead to a government shutdown as early as next week. congress has until next friday to pass a spending bill. the house could also vote on a new bill to repeal and replace obamacare. >> as far as keeping the government open, i think we want to keep the government open, don't you agree? jonathan: some republicans want the spending bill to end subsidies to insurance companies that are a big part of the affordable care act. democrats have vowed to block any bill that does not continue in payments or funding -- or includes funding for the border wall with to go. the president's remarks came during a joint press conference with italy's prime minister. the president said iran is violating the spirit
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nuclear deal and he is confident china is doing what it can to stop north korea's nuclear ambitions. as was the 15th visit i-4 and leader since president trump took office. nancy: new information about the virginia teenager at the center of a transgendered bathroom debate. gavin grimm has been named one of "time magazine" list influential individuals. jonathan: he was fighting back against a policy that prohibited him from using the bathroom of his choice. this fight recently made it to the supreme court, but the justices declined to hear the case, sending a back to a lower court to decide. nancy: bill o'reilly is not walking away at the had it. jonathan: he is walking away with millions. the staggering payout, next. eyes onnd it was all when they were born. tonight, what went wrong here.
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has passed away. he made the announcement on facebook a short time ago. the elder hogan suffered a stroke over the weekend. governor canceled hundreds of events today to be with his father. larry hogan senior was 88. a nationwide manhunt is over after a teacher accused of kidnapping a former student is now in custody. cummins and-- thad nearlyth had disappeared six weeks ago full stop they were found in northern california. the police acted on a tip. >> it only takes one tip. and this is yet another example of the value of the public helping us to rescue a kidnapping victim. nancy: the cabin was more than 2000 miles from where they left in tennessee. the police arrested cummins after sticking out the location for several hours. jonathan: a major payout may
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anchor bill o'reilly. there are reports he will be walking out with $25 million. this after claims that sexual harassment claims are growing. >> i was getting off the elevator and he said, looking good, girl. and the hairs rose on the back of my neck because i knew that grunting and groaning was going on. jonathan: she said that o'reilly also called her "hot chocolate." last summer, the chairman of fox news left with an exit package worth $40 million after several women made sexual harassment allegations against him. must-see video from southern california. look closely. that is a semi dragging a car. the car is wedged. the driver rolled down his hello,, like, frantically
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all of this as others are trying to get the trucker's attention. finally somebody pulled in front of him, forcing him to stop. he said he did not know there was anybody back there. that was his excuse. an investigation happening after a gun made it through security and onto an airplane. the weapon belong to a police officer in california. he made it through security at lax, did not realize her gun was in her bag until she landed in taiwan. nancy: what? jonathan: she notified security and tsa admits procedures were not followed. nancy: you think? jonathan: and she had a connecting flight. a dramatic rescue high above the national arboretum. eaglesone of the bald got its leg trapped under the nest. it was not able to get free. a rescuer climb to the nest, free the eaglette.
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we are told the eaglette will go for next ray tomorrow. if everything checks out, it will be returned to the nest, safe and sound. steve: the rough weather we had earlier this evening is now long gone, will off to the north and east. skies are clearing out just a little bit, and we are likely to see some fog in the morning, but nothing that will cause any significant air travel delays. temperatures right now, near the average daytime highs this time of year, 68 degrees at reagan national. we will be lucky if we drop below 60 degrees later tonight into early tomorrow morning. tomorrow morning, a light jacket if you are getting up really early. skip the jacket if you are not outside until later. these temperatures will probably be about 8, 10 degrees warmer that time.t
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way tomorrow afternoon into tomorrow evening, and some of the storms may be come strong to severe. no problems at noon time, apple recess for the kids. maybe grabbing a bite to eat for lunch, looking fantastic. atwers and storms pop up about 4:00, 5:00, 6:00 mainly south and east of the sea, moving off to the east. -- temperatures drop, until but not until we have daytime highs in the lower 80's. a good deal of sunshine, clouds and thunderstorms later on the afternoon, early evening. a huge turnaround in terms of temperature saturday. for making it into the 50's the daytime highs. 40's to the west. a lot of rain on the way saturday night into early sunday morning. once this is gone, the sky slowly clear during the day sunday. washout sunday, we are looking at sunshine late afternoon, early eve
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could be getting an inch of rain around the d.c. metro before this moves out. the better of the two days over the weekend will definitely be saturday with more sunshine. heavy rain out of your midday sunday, highs only in the 50's. the 10 day outlook, clearing out nicely the beginning of next week, in the 60's. middle 70's wednesday and thursday. look at friday and the following weekend, middle to upper 80's daytime highs. the warmest temperatures we've seen around here in a long time. all forget to download the stormwatch 7 weather app tomorrow afternoon because we'll be looking at stronger storms national forget to download the weather app. nancy: still ahead, music to our ears. ♪ jonathan: the amazing technology, next.
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a 10-year-old from fairfax county has done something that just a few years ago what have been impossible. jonathan: today, she played the violin with both hands, because a bioengineering student at george mason university did this. she was born without a left hand and the students created a left hand for her using a 3-d printer. .> very happy, very blessed just an amazing group of people have helped me make this attachment select and play the violin. jonathan: she is 10 years old. what poise. the students spent months designing the device before creating the final product that gives isabella a new way to shine. she knew she wanted to play the violent. now she can -- she knew that she wanted to play the violin. you can'ts not that do something, it's that you cannot do
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atlanta. the spring training, dusty baker said he expected big things from ryan zimmerman this season. so far, zimmerman has five homers. a grand slam last night, and tonight zim does this, crushing a two run homer off of r.a. dickey. in the seventh, a little bit of defense. anthony rendon with a diving stop, fires a bullet to first to get the out. pretty sure they call that a web gem. often it, but the pacers gave the cavaliers the business. cavs were down 26 points, but came back to defeat the pacers. lebron james had 41 points. cleveland takes a 3-0 series lead and go for the sweep sunday. the penguins took care of business against the blue jackets. sidney crosby
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nancy: steve has had a busy night. could haverrow, another round of storms later in the afternoon come into the evening, lower 80's. cooler saturday, only in the 50's. heavy rain saturday night into sunday. look at next week, fantastic, 60's and 70's. erin: next weekend looks amazing. jonathan: jimmy kimmel's next. nancy: have a good night.
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♪ well, 420, there's a lot of the different theories, no one knows for sure. >> a lot of people say it's bob marley's birthday but the truth is -- >> i think it all has to do with marijuana. >> it's interesting. because when i think of 420, i think of hitler's birthday. >> the origin of 420 was the time of day when everybody was done working and it was time to kick back and smoke a fat. >> what time are you done working? >> i don't work, i skate. >> dicky: from hollywood - it's "jimmy kimmel live!" tonight -- earvin "magic" johnson, gabourey sidibe, "this week
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