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thate will be here eisenhower executive office building later on. you can certainly tell there is about tovel meeting happen here. an unusual amount of security, the secret and service surrounding the white house complex. in just about two hours all 100 board a bus at the u.s. capital and make sure way here to the eisenhower executive office building. now the administration has four officials that will be riefing the senate. secretary of state rex tillerson, james mattis, jose and the director of the national intelligence, dan coats. themeeting will lay out military's acts in north korea and also the pentagon's view on the situation. there insituation north korea and on the korean peninsula as a whole is changing rapidly. in the last 24 hours or so the korea installed a major missile defense
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controversial move in the eyes of china. they expect this system will be them.o spy on also we have a nuclear submarine off of the coast of south korea with tom hawk missiles and uss vincent is pulling into the waters. so a lot is changing and to be discussed in the meeting. they come out with a much clearer plan on where the northstration stands on korea. and the house, the four top senior administration officials will leave the building and go the u.s. capital around 5:00 and brief all members of the u.s. house of representatives. certainly a busy time right now capital.tion's reporting live, sam sweeney, abc7 news. to you in the studio. >> sam, thank you. and president donald trump is his taxunveil part of plan today, he is promising quote maybe the biggest tax cut ever. we have more on what the
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includes. reporter: as the government that 100-days and mark is just days away, this morning the pressure on for tosident donald trump deliver hoping to make good on a signature campaign promise. >> there will be a major tax reduction. >> we're simplifying the tax code. its going to be so beautiful. way down forcoming individuals. reporter: today the president is expected to unveil what he the biggest tax cut we've ever had. his treasury secretary and a top on capitol hill trying to drum up support. done.ting tax reform reporter: sources tell abc7 news the tax reform plan will tax rate fromate break15% include a tax for childcare expenses and cut individual tax rate. >> we are going to keep our promises all of the promises that we made. are going to massively reduce
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reporter: the opposition already in overdrive. >> according to albuquerque one estimate is saying an early version of the pro's plan $6 trillion in lost revenue over 10 years. we'll be monitoring the from the trump administration. stay with abc7 news and all of them for latest developments. turning now to the weather. this is a live look outside. little cloudy, but some sunshine will be peaking through soon. here with a look at your forecast. doug. a matter of time here before skies brighton in your neighborhood. west from washington you will see sunshine sooner. lower 60's. farther from washington, culpepper getting sunshine now. temperatures responding. our average high in washington degrees. the sun is high enough and strong enough once the breaks through temperatures warmup quickly. we will call for high72
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sunshineee some through the early afternoon and probably mid to late afternoon as well. and then as we look ahead here the overnight, partly cloudy skies. fog.ook for a patch of overnight lows 55 to 62 degrees. as we head through the day tomorrow a change in the wind direction. storminess off of the coast. and temperatures will start climbing. 80's, that in the forecast. next 10 days coming up in teng minutes. lindsey. >> doug, thank you. a link laced with drugs and a sterlingnd classroom. seven students were sent home bend middle school after sharing the drink. that's not the only place where the substance was found. kennedy has more. suzanne: authorities are trying to figure out how the students prescription medication and whether or not any charges will be filed. takenities say they were xanax and mixing it in water bottles and then drinking the to geton in order
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friday from river bend middle and sterling. and examined by the nurse, determined to be okay. and sent home with a parent. sheriff department is saying there was an incident a few atrs later down the road potomac falls high school. two students acting strangely day. sent home for the this parent of a high school aged student is concerned. scary.s because we is all have the medicine cabinet. september -- worrisome that they spread it around. don't drink anything that you is.t know what it it is worrisome that they brought it to school. live in loudoun what to dodon't know with your leftover prescriptions. the county is partnering to hold a drug buy back event this saturday at the public safety center. in sterl
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abc7 news. metro.ring a dispute over the agency's policies. it could take a toll on your friday commute. feders are saying they are up. they are ready to take a stand by not going to work. now a spokesperson for metro's largest union is saying they are out,ware of a planned sick but they did say the union is looking at every legal action to a hostileat they call work environment. in response to this, metro is staffing to address a possible sick out. and a spokesperson is saying have received a high number of arsentence requests for friday. metro is increasing staffing to avoid a disruption in service. happening today, preparing for a terrorbility of attack in the metro area. full-scale exercises across the region today. john gonzalez has more. describeds is being
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drill. of thee members military, park police, different personal, emergency personnel from washington, d.c., maryland, and virginia. we have at in prince george's county. this is an all-day operation. six different locations in an to prepare the public a cortsssibility of naded terrorist attack in the region. enforcementd law personnel will be responding to simulated attacks, including andiple locations scenarios. here is how the chief describes the day. our response to an emergency situation involving multiple locations. you see happening around the -- world at this time. sure that we make can respond effective and efficiently. john: hundreds of police
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volunteer actors will take part drill. all day sources telling me two of the locations include the park and george mason universities. if you see activity around those alls keep in mind this is part of a crucial drill today. in prince georges county. news.onzalez, abc7 >> and coming up on abc7 news at video.hocking this is caught on camera in china. a little girl is hit by a car and runover twice. what is next is a miracle. plus a former star of the bachelor free on bond after being arrested in iowa. charges he'se facing. and later a whole new spin on your über ride. why the company wants to put commuters in the friendly skies. break.ore we head to a check on the traffic with angela foster. >> thank you so much, we are a few work zones tying us up for the midday ride.
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in virginia. the united states southbound slowing. and northbound 95 we have delays with a work zone. you are traveling around the capital beltway, just be springnto the silver area we have inner loop and outer loop delays. on both the inner and outer loops and of course delays on the approach. we'll be back with
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lindsey: this is heart-stopping video caught on camera in china. surveillance video shows running into a busy street. the 2-year-old is hit. she disappears under a moving car.
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and amazingly she survives. rushed to a local hospital and only suffered a few bruises.ps and the girl was with her grandmother at the time disrepresented as the girl the street. a former tv bachelor is busted. reality tv star chris soliz was arrested near his home town in iowa. he left the scene of a deadly crash. his neighbor was killed in the collision. we have the details. >> you are charged with leaving accident causing death. reporter: this mugshot, a far from the midwestern megawattler smile america grew to adore. >> i'm chris, 33-year-old. reporter: chris quickly capturing hearts as he famously tried to find love as the bachelor. >> i like farming. you plant the seat. you hope it grows. today he is but driving a very different headline. the 35-year-old farmer booked into jail
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for leaving the scene of a fatal crash. subjects that was involved just took off northbound in a red truck. reporter: authorities are at the collision happened around 8:00 p.m. on monday night in aurora, iowa, 15 minutes from chris' home. >> i believe the name on the subject is chris. reporter: documents shows that the wheel of a pickup a johnegedly rear-ended deere tractor sending both ditch.s flying into the killed in the accident, his neighbor. a 66-year-old. >> a close-knit group. reporter: the sheriff's office is saying that chris caused the hisly accident and fled to farm where he was later arrested. a publicist for chris is telling news, he was devastated to away. that kenneth passed his thoughts and prayers are with his family. for lovedmily asking ones. alcohol was found at the scene of the crash. but investigators don't know who b
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chris is out of jail on $10,000 bond. next court appearance is may 2nd. time lapse new experiment, giving a whole new meaning to "dancing with the stars." sky glow. it is a video series aimed at north americahe night skies. the project took more than three years and produced more than 3 million images from places like hawaii, california, and even canada. it is beautiful. lot of places light tolution so you are not able see the stars. doug: yeah but areas dark sky on a clear night it is spectacular. great projects. see stars tonight after being socked in the dark days.l sunshine across many areas right now. the time-lapse from the science center in prince george's county. suggest degrees. through the morning plenty of clouds. drizzle
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but you watch early breaks and blue sky developing in the area. more so the farther west you go. so the coastal storm is pulling away and our weather will if you liket sunshine and warmer temperatures. right now upper 60's in western viewing area.e 66 at reagan national. 59 withl a chilly drizzle in easton on maryland's mid shore. will continueoon to see drier air move in with north-northwesterly winds. periods ofon, longer sunshine. the metro area it will take a way. eastern and southern maryland it will take a while to clear out the skies and get sunshine. will warmup in the lower to middle 70's. systemprit is this storm creeping long. so it is finally pulling the circulation out far enough. and the motion is far enough we're getting drier winds on the back end of the system. and clearer
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temperatures. so by this evening the southerly winds will be showing up. mild tonight. partly cloudy skies, and patchy fog. tomorrow the sunshine returns. warmer temperatures. we're headed 80 degrees or higher tomorrow. and then as we go through the the afternoon or evening, a little bit cold front createme through, may isolated showers and rumbles of thunder tomorrow night. and then friday we rebuild into and very warm air and even warmer air into the weekend. so the next 48 hours. today 75. increasing sunshine. tonight.oudy skies, 62 tomorrow, mostly sunny. 85 degrees. just like summertime. the next 10 days take a look at the numbers big ups and then pretty big downs. and5 to 85 for today tomorrow. 86 on friday. 88 and kind ofudes on saturday isolated thunderstorm or two. and then as we work into sunday cooler and maybe warming up monday. and then for the middle and end of next week the temperatures will turgchillier again. we're ho
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little bit because that kind of long stretch in the 60's more clouds and more drizzle and damp stuff. that is 10 days away. heard enough getting the next few days right, heads alone 10 days out. thesey: the plan for goes.d and see how it doug: good plan. lindsey: the wisconsinerederize for game five of the plaintiff oprun. tip-off tonight against the hawks is tonight at 6:00, and it tricky for fans to get the verizon center in times. the head coach, scott brooks is suggesting that you take the day you need to, because the wizards definitely need you there. >> the probably throws everybody isittle bit off because it an hour early. but we need to get it out there it is important for them to be there. our crowd has been great. work.on't go to lindsey: you heard him. get there early. if you can't make it to the phone to make
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our live reports tonight at abc7 news. well, the future of über is in the sky. the ridesharing company announced it is developing new service called über elevate network. über is saying it is working to flying cars that will cut an hour 1:40 commute to 15 minutes. technology you need to make this happen exist today. themter of bringing together. >> this is a new type of vehicle that are going to be much, much than a helicopter and much more efficient. lindsey: you better hope you run out of gas. suber has yet to say what the will look like, but it will be ready to launch in 2020 in dubai. a new fashion trend it started a firestorm on social media with many weighing in on whether dirty denim will be the new black. jeans are for sale on nordstroms website for $425. is department store
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they are meant to resemble rugged american work wear. jeans drew a scathing review rowe,ebook from mike who hosts the show dirty jobs he says they are a costume for people. still ahead on abc7 news at she, serena williams admits made a big mistake.
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lindsey: news from the sports world for you now. humidity that serena williams made her pregnancy announcement public by accident. was taking a personal photo of her baby bump on that? the wrongressed button and made the post
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that photo of the tennis superstar was captioned 20 weeks and made headlines. williams plans to return to the becoming a mom. and now to major league couplel's newest odd there. are reports that retired yankee's captain jeter and jeb are teaming up the buy the miami marlins. derek jeter the superstar known for putting his body on the line to make clutch plays throughout his hall of fame career with the yankees is up with jeb bush. the former florida governor and one-time presidential canthat president donald trump famously called low energy on the trail.n >> please clap. reporter: baseball's new odd a groups part of joining forces to buy the miami $1.3 billion
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it may seem unlikely that jeter owning a teamt one day. >> the ultimate goal is to be an owner. to call the shots. reporter: and bush's family with baseballory as lengthy has their history with politics. owner of thert texas rangers in the 1990's before starting this political career. and george h.w. bush played baseball for yale in the 19 40's. the details of the deal are being hammered out, but bush the lead partner, and picking jeter as his running mood.s a smart >> baseball minded as good as what he has done on the field. fieldtranslates on the
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people wimple come to the ballpark. lindsey: talk about skill. syracuse, new york, was able to pull off two incredible featsats 1. he bowled a perfect 300 score in 90 seconds rolling 12 straight strikes on 10 straight lines and pumped it off running to lane, is that cheating? doug: no that is an interesting thing to do. i don't know how many people that.do i have two strikes out at that, i would be good. clearingk today, skies, temperatures in the 70's. 80's tomorrow and friday sunshine and summer weather returns. lindsey: be sure to watch abc7 news at 4:
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