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>> this is a breaking news alert. adrianna: d.c. police have made an arrest over a week after a one-year-old boy was caught in the crossfire of a shootout. from police say quarters with more on the person in custody. q: the police chief peter newsham just ended his news conference about three minutes ago and mentioned the arrest of a 39-year-old derek watson of northeast d.c. one of the
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wanted in connection with the shooting of a 13-month-old boy. he mentioned that this man whose -- is still on the loose. the second gunman also wanted in connection with the shooting that involved this little boy. quite, 13s jeremiah monthsold -- white, 13 old, in his stroller in his backyard when these two men got into an argument. they pulled out guns and started shooting recklessly near the intersection of 13th and i street northwest in a parking lot behind some townhomes. search,week, a long today peter newsham announced the arrest of derek watson. we will show you the picture live, they are now searching for
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if you have any information dout this man whereabouts, not hesitate and call the metropolitan police department as soon as possible. that is the latest live from metro pd headquarters, i am q mccray. adrianna: two developing story out of culpeper county were a traffic stop turned into a shooting investigation. it happened at the intersection of gary bell park and griffins bill rhodes, virginia's police say they pulled a driver over around 11:00 p.m. last night and during the traffic stop, they said the driver made a deadly threat and the officers opened fire. the deputies on modified duties while the investigation continues. onlinennected with us and on social media whenever breaking news happens, gets text alerts to your phone or tablet. sign up for it at wjla.com/text.
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a chance for a few pop-up storms again this afternoon. doug hill is here with a check on the forecast. this timeccentric as yesterday with plenty of clouds and sunshine, warm and humid. if we get the same pop-up thunderstorms, they are likely to be isolated and slow movers. at the moment, 80 degrees at noon at reagan national and 88 in leesburg. warmer, current feels like temperatures is 97 in washington, quantico, fredericksburg, up and out i-95, 96 in leesburg and 86 in winchester. today is not the hottest and most humid day, that will be the featured tomorrow and thursday, probably friday. another high heat and humidity. nothing locally on doppler. west of interstate 81, a few showers starting to pop
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induced or created by the elevation and the mountains. a 30% chance with a few pop-ups through the afternoon. 90 degrees this afternoon, 92 by 4:00 and they will feel like more like in the upper-90's. we will check out the weekend and a couple of minutes. john gonzalez is here with a story about the damage yesterday any laytonsville area of montgomery county last night. >> things getting back to normal slowly and laytonsville, maryland, this area got a lot of rain, over 4.5 inches of rain. three separate sections of woodfield road were closed overnight. we are set up at one of these spots where there was flooding, one of the creeks jumping its banks and you can see some of the residue, what is left over of standing water. you can see the ground and how it is flattened, looks like someone combed the
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all the rising water that came over onto the roadway. they had to close woodfield road at three locations, there were so many issues many drivers we spoke to found themselves having to deep tort more than once. -- detour more than once. >> they have everything blocked off than the water is high. floodwatersst grading problems in montgomery county, also down the trees and power lines. i do not live far from here and the rain came down fast and coming down hard. they reopened woodfield road, but you still have some titles and mud -- puddles and mud. traffic back up and running, a fast-moving storm that left its mark last night. now, back to the drawing board
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start from scratch after the republican health care bill to replace the affordable care act fell flat. that brings us to our question of the day, do you agree with the call to completely repeal obamacare and start from scratch? /votenow and let us know. >> republicans needed 50 of the 52 gop senators to get the health care plan through, they lost to from the beginning and two more last night, meaning the bill is dead. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell issued a statement saying the republican plan to repeal and replace the affordable care act will not succeed. >> we have never seen a president put forward a major legislative peace in his early days and have it with such derision and fear. jerry morantion of of kansas and mike lee of utah slammed the brakes on one of president trump's todd bowles.
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>> we have to repeal obamacare. >> that will not happen for a while at least, mitch mcconnell says the senate will soon vote on a bill that will delay the repeal for a two-year transition and he republican party railed against the aca four years and donald trump made it a main campaign pledge. what happened? >> donald trump, in his ability to speak to the common man, does not have any idea about health care policy. >> instead of attacking msnbc anchors and all of these dalliances we have on twitter, he should have been driving and trying to force senators to half to go along with the republican health care policy. >> president trump tweeted that republicans should repeal failing obamacare and work on a new health care plan that will start from a clean slate. democrats would join in. mike pence agreed with the statement and said in action is not an option.
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see what happens when the republican majority leader puts the repeal bill through, it passed in 2015 largely because of many of the senators knew it would be vetoed by president obama. this time around with president trump, that will not be the case. reporting on capitol hill, sam sweeney. adrianna: vending machines could be getting healthier and prince george's county. a bill to expand healthy drinks and snack options is up for a final vote and requires at least 50% of items of vending machines on county property meet the american heart association nutrition standard. similar bills have been passed in montgomery and howard county. -- a fairfax county school principal is arrested for assaulting a student. the principal at carl sandburg middle and alexandria is charged with misdemeanor assault and battery stemming from an incident with a 12-year-old girl in the school cafeteria in
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the botox after she refused to pick something up. he was placed on administrative leave. a community meeting to address the hiv-positive former teacher's aide and coach accused of sexually assaulting boys. he was arrested last month and police believe he sexually assaulted at least 10 students at benjamin stoddard middle and at his home. he is accused of producing child pornography. the meeting begins at 7:00 p.m. at the first baptist church of st. charles. firefighters d.c. are recovering from their injuries after a dozen people are left without homes after a massive rift through three row houses in northwest. suzanne kennedy was there as crews battle the flames. >> take a look behind me and you can see the fire started in the rear of these row houses in the 200 block of morgan street northwest in the shaw neighborhood. residents
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awoken around 1:00 a.m. as firefighters responded to what ultimately would be a two alarm blaze. and 20 piecesrs of equipment were brought in to fight the overnight fire. authorities say it started on the rear ports been spread to adjacent rowhouses with a total of four units impacted. investigators are trying to figure out the cause of the blaze which many people on this block witnessed. >> the fire was bad and you could see the flames. it all got really crazy really fast. >> the trees were burning and the kitchen which is connected to the backyard was full of smoke. >> i could see the flames coming out of the rooftop. a lot of smoke, mostly smoke. >> heavy damage means that at least a dozen people are without a home today. there were no injuries to the people who lived here.
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the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. in northwest washington, suzanne kennedy. adrianna: coming up at noon, a hair-raising explosion on a freeway, the search for what caused this wild scene. and what happened, the storm of questions surrounding the police involved shooting death of an australian woman in minnesota. you know what they say -- kids will begin, but does that go for the animals. the chaos animals cause a business owner. here is the traffic. , a heavy rideoon in a few spots, not bad 66 near vienna, a pretty good ride. looking good off the beltway. 270 southbound with a bit of trouble pass route 109 down
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route 80, delays as a pick up the work zone. the right lane, picking up cones right now past the scene. they are not quite ready with the work zone just starting to be picked up. pass clarksburg, things open for both directions with no incidents. capital beltway, temple hills road, the overpass for branch avenue, a crash on the outer loop, two right lanes blocked, a lot of volume towards the screen but that will be a short stretch of delays considering the length of the beltway. 301, traffic alternating over the bridge for the mids -- midday work zone and we will be back.
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>> you are watching abc 7 news at noon, on your side of. answers: a search for in the case of australian woman shot dead by police she called for help. more reaction from her family and an update on this investigation. >> should -- he was supposed to marry his fiancée next month. >> difficult to fathom how to go forward without her. families justine's questioning why police would shoot and kill his future bride and their daughter after she called 911 for help. >> we only ask that the light of justice shine down on the circumstances. >> it was saturday night at 11:28, she called police to report a possible assault in the alley behind her home. four minutes later, officers report that had opened
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incident and both officers body cameras were turned off. independent investigators are now working the case. >> i have the same questions everybody has, what happened? >> the minnesota star tribune say she came out in her pajamas and approached the suv 100 feet approaching the driver side and the officer in the passengers seat reportedly opened fire, shooting her two times to three times. sources tell abc news hour -- that the officer who fired identified as a 31-year-old two-year veteran of the force. records show he has had three complaints filed against them and to our open. investigators say no weapons were found other than the officer's guns. the officers attorney says the family is in his prayers adding that he joined the police force to
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out of china, and incredible explosion after a truck slams into another one parked on an expressway. no one was hurt by one vehicle was carrying steel products and the other just paper and paint. the cause of the blast under investigation. it is being called a miracle, a man caught up in the same floodwaters that killed nine people in arizona survived along with his dog. he nearly broke down with the motion describing the moment he thought he would not make it out. >> you make the wrong step and you get sucked under. you pray you make the right decision. i do not want to seem ungrateful for being alive but i just wish they were to. o. adrianna: he and his dog made it safely
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a powerful current and one person still missing from the flood. must-see video out of colorado, a goat breaking into a business. just watch as it ramps his head into the glass door and eventually shatters it. with other goats behind it but the same goat came back and decided to break the other door. something made him angry, maybe they set up shop in his neck of the woods. doug: i am trying to think been i do not know. i wonder if the goat had a vendetta been i would not want to get a goat of said. upset. adrianna: summertime pattern. doug: the storms were such slow movers yesterday they dropped a lot of rain. any of the storms today will likely have the same kind of form and the slow movers with a lot of rain.
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cooler at there chesapeake bay and wind direction coming out of the east and southeast during the day and that is giving temperatures cooler -- keeping temperatures cooler than a few miles inland. around the area, plenty hot, feels like 97 at reagan national. heate in the middle of the that will continue to expand laterally and vertically in the atmosphere over the next couple of days for the hottest and most humid day still to come in this weather pattern. 92 today and it will feel like 96 or 97. a chance for a few slow-moving thunderstorms. seeing a little clouds barely but you can see the wind direction at cloud level coming of the south-southwest. on the other side of the mountains, mountaintop development of showers and thunderstorms pushing to the southwest. these are being induced by the height of the mo
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have no mountains so we wait for a trigger of the atmosphere this afternoon that could produce showers and storms. this afternoon, a few here and will have mountains more thunderstorms this afternoon because of a lack of strong wind blowing at the service or overhead. in between shower chances, just a very hot and very humid through the afternoon and quite muggy tonight and tomorrow. another chance of thunderstorms tomorrow afternoon with a high of 96 tomorrow and on thursday, 97 on friday. the best chance of thunderstorms wednesday afternoon, and we cannot rule out thunderstorms isolated thursday and friday. chances are down to 20% in the summer heat will go through the weekend and beyond. check out these numbers, pretty impressive, the average high is 89. these numbers to start with are a little bit above average and more noticeable about average and you factor in on top of the
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level which will make it feel 3,ter in the week like 102, 10 so tough for the next couple of days with chevron storm chances to the weekend and early next week and by the middle of next week, we may get a nice break with cooler and drier air throughout the area. we can hope and pray, we need a break. back in: coming up, r. the spotlight
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got a greater report claims a parent was concerned that their daughter was being held hostage that police say they found no evidence of a crime when they contacted the daughter but the author of the article thinks otherwise. >> it is stomach turning, the most the stomach part besides these women thing possibly in peril is that the entertainment industry continues to cosign r. kelly. adrianna: he has had legal issues in the past come in 2002 he was charged with child pornography but acquitted of the charges. after these allegations, police say it is a case of a mother who need to come to grips with the fact that her daughter does not need to be bothered -- want to be bothered. all of the women are of age. now bute to come, sunny a chance for a few storms this
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