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bringing the pressure to senate republicans to put their foot on the gas and deliver. it has been a very busy day on capitol hill and down the street on pennsylvania avenue, the president saying all morning that republicans need to step up to the plate and this is a very big day. the vote that will happen this afternoon is a procedural vote that will bring the health care debate to the debate stage. that is not sound like a big deal but it determines the fate of any major health care reform, at least in the near future. it is so important that john mccain flew back from arizona a week after being diagnosed with brain cancer. republicans need 50 of the 52 gop senators but nobody has seen the legislation. andblicans that -- democrats do not know what they are voting for. >> this is so strange, a game show when i was a
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number one and door number two, show,lking about a game talking about health care and the fact we do not know what we are voting on is strange that today is a procedural vote, can they get 50 to say we moved to the bill? sam: just in the last few minutes, the republican majority leader mitch mcconnell -- told rand paul this will be a full repeal which means that rand paul is now a yes vote, much different than the last couple of votes. senator john mccain will hold a press conference and when that happens, we will let you know. reporting live in the capitol rotunda, sam sweeney. adrianna: former trump campaign manager paul manafort reportedly met with senate investigators this morning according to a spokesperson for paul manafort. senatemes after a intelligence committee issued a subpoena for him to appear at a hearing tomorrow to answer questions on russia's meddling into the 2016
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election. this as the president continues his attack on jeff sessions. suzanne kennedy with more on the tweets aimed at jeff sessions this morning. >> the assault on his attorney general resumed this morning, the president saying in the 6:00 hour, attorney general jeff sessions has taken a week position on hillary clinton crimes, where our emails and dnc servers and intel leakers? whatresident has explored consequences may before firing the attorney general who was one of the president's earliest supporters. last week, the president told the new york times that he would have never given jeff sessions the attorney general job if he knew he would recuse himself from the russia election probe. the president also called his attorney general beleaguered. there is some speculation that donald trump is trying to get the attorney general to quit
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possibly replacing him with former new york city mayor rudy giuliani or senator ted cruz. in northwest washington, suzanne kennedy. now,nna: happening right all hands on deck to clean up storm damage across parts of maryland. this is the aftermath of an ef2 tornado. john gonzalez is live in queen anne's county, it looks like they have a way to go until things get back to normal. ,ohn: it is all hands on deck the power company crews working 16 hour shifts. we are live and what used to be a popular farmer john's produce market. it is now decimated. part of the structure still standing, kind of, and this icebox on its back. what used to stand right here, the rest of the structure but that was thrown a good 60 yards back into the woods. we are seeing more and more of
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this is in a bay city neighborhood down the street. ,ome after home looks like this the massive tree coming down and the home is a total loss. a sign says we are ok, that is what is morocco's, no one was -- that is what is miraculous, no one was killed, winds up to 125 miles per hour over a two-mile span and only 150 yards wide. some homes and businesses untouched. others just feet away of --erate it -- of literate it obliterated. >> never sought any tornado when i lived in texas and two drive-through one night after it happened was amazing. yesterday morning, it almost took your breath away. do think this how this could come through and not destroy more houses. john
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tornado started as a water sprouts and was the strongest tornado in maryland since 2004. marilyn governor larry hogan has promised assistance and more than 70 crews with maryland state highway administration and transportation authority are on the ground trying to clean everything up. there is some progress this afternoon, most of the power and water east of the bay bridge as been restored. reporting live, john gonzalez. adrianna: thank you. no wild weather like that is insight. we finally have a break from the heat and humidity. brian van de graaff is here with a look at the forecast. >> looking nice this afternoon, just some scattered clouds and a nice northwesterly breeze, the direction of wind bringing in the drier and more comfortable and. -- air. temperatures very
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and by midday, 78 right now in downtown. temperatures in the 70's are nice but the fact that the humidity is so low that things will feel more comfortable. .7 in leesburg low-70's from winchester. through the afternoon, low to mid-80's. afternoon, maybe mid-80's by 4:00 and 86 the high later this afternoon. it will feel spectacular. nationals game tonight, great night, they return to the ballpark after being gone for some time and temperatures rather pleasant, seventh-inning stretch, 70, mid-70's when you go home and a comfortable night for baseball. more class tomorrow night and heat and humidity but nice over the weekend. i will talk about that in the next 10 days in a bit. adrianna: thank you. to see more picture of the damaging queen anne's county, go
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know when storms or tornadoes or about to move through -- are about to move through your area. police have arrested another man in connection with the shooting death -- i am sorry, the shooting of a one-year-old a man taken month, into custody this morning, authorities believed he played a role in the shooting in northeast where the police found the wounded one-year-old who survived. one man was arrested last week and police still searching for another. prince william county police say they are confident the man they arrested for shoplifting and now cap a warrant for is not former cowboy lucky whitehead. the individual was named rodney darnell whitehead junior and is not lucky whitehead. the night they arrested him, hey had no identification -- had no identification, the cowboys have released lucky whitehead and the
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was mistaken identity for the -- from the time of the beginning and he was not in virginia at the time of the robbery in june. waiting for more information from fairfax cap police after they arrested the man following a scary six-hour standoff overnight. 3:30 yesterdaynd afternoon and said to it when police got a call for a domestic disturbance. officers found a man outside and his wife with minor injuries. the man went inside and refuse to come out. police broke down the door and begin looking for him. as for the crowds who gathered to watch, they were told to get out. >> they said he is armed with a gun. back,anted us to stay they said there is a man crossing the street and they told him to get out. >> i cannot get home, i want to make sure my family is safe. adrianna: police arrested the man around 9:00 last night and told us they will update the situation sometime today. we will let you know when we hear anything.
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driver caught , howmera all over the road one gets american quickly took the law into his own hands. what was he thinking? a california teenager driving drunk allegedly causing a crash that killed her sister. she live-streamed the whole thing. more on this and the disturbing trend happening across the country. better when taste it is made using music? first, a quick check on the traffic. >> it will be a mostly quiet ride today, starting up with a trouble spot on 66, eastbound traffic prior to the beltway. the car off to the right shoulder is one car left from a crash that had police on scene earlier with the right lane blocked and that is off to the shoulder, and improvement. -- an improvement.
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route 123. with everything clear to the shoulder, this will die down and westbound traffic doing just fine. around the beltway, things looking good near eisenhower avenue towards springfield. same story near georgetown, southbound on the beltway, both directions in good shape. maryland, a smooth ride on the beltway so far. that is all from the traffic center.
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is looking for answers after their 18-year-old daughter craft her car, killing her 14-year-old sister while live streaming the entire thing on social media. we had the very latest. -- have the very latest. >> with her sister riding shotgun, obdulia sanchez went on a drunk driving joy ride through central california, live streaming the entire thing. ,s they went past a black suv her 14 euros sister is heard crying out that she will kill me. is what happened -- police say that is what happened come on friday, she drifted off route one to -- 65 --1 165. the sister is tossed from the vehicle. moments later, with her sister lifeless, obdulia sanchez is live streaming again. >>
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going to jail for life, i understand that. this is the last thing i wanted to happen, ok? >> she has been charged with gross manslaughter while intoxicated. >> it is disturbing because of the careless nature of her actions leading up to the tragedy and in the immediate aftermath. >> experts we spoke to warned that new types of technology are creating -- new types of people will get innovative. a texas man took matters into his own hands when he saw a drunk driver weaving in and out of traffic. he says he was taking his family for pizza when a white mustang nearly hit them. he assumed the driver was drunk and followed him and recorded. after watching the driver fit others, he jumped into action and made a citizens arrest. >> stop it.
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adrianna: he pulled the driver out of the car and held him until police arrived. he was extra motivated to make the stop because one of his best friends was killed by a drunk driver. ,o a scary moment in the air united flight forced to turn around and make an emergency landing after an unruly passenger tried to storm the cockpit. on a plane from houston to new the back rowman in started yelling and hitting the wall of the plane before she bolted towards the cockpit. hassan hundred jumped into an action, anti-filter before's -- and tackled her before she reached the front of the plane. , it was noter down easy, she was in a psychotic state and very aggressive. adrianna: the airplane return to houston and the woman was hospitalized. no word on whether charters will be filed -- charges will be filed.
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said the secret to making better whiskey is music. ♪ not often see a barrel of was the rocking up to a dance next what this company has experimented with using music to change the taste and feel of their risky. they say the sound waves help age the barrels which results in more flavor. >> how can we get the infraction between the liquid and wood to behave in a different way? we thought we could excite that by using sound vibrations. adrianna: favorite is one that into barrels to test it and the one listening to music actually tasted better every time. do you buy it? news but would say #fake i am not sure. adrianna: to get your name out there? brian: a marketing
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ploy? adrianna: i do not know. brian: a gorgeous day, enjoy it. nice tomorrow. i'm settled thursday and friday but the payoff this weekend. ocean city, a few extra clouds. a front hanging along the coast. more clouds along the shore. beachrees, people on the taking advantage of the midday. mid and upper-70's right now area wide, below average. 83 degrees at the bay. mid-70's from culpeper to leesburg. oakland, farn western maryland, upper-50's. dew points in the 50's and low-60's, mid-50's, a good measure of the moisture content and when these numbers are in the 50's and 60's, ple
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it feels nice. it will feel nice to the evening and into tomorrow. humidity will go back up as early as thursday and into friday. some scatter clouds out there but not rain producers. highs iniddle-80's for the afternoon before 70's later tonight. a comfortable and cool evening. scattered clouds coming through and the wind is coming in and out of the north-northwest, pulling in a few clouds from that direction. northeasterly tomorrow and a little more cloud cover. other than the partly cloudy sky today, no issues this evening. tomorrow, wins more north-northeasterly which brings more clouds tomorrow. there could be a sprinkle -- a couple of sprinkles along i-95, few and far between. there will be some more clouds and temperatures in the mid-80's.
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the start of the nationals game. tomorrow morning, cool in the suburbs, 50 in winchester. to the west, open some windows. tomorrow, mid-80's with clouds, heat and humidity thursday with storms, possibly some strong into the evening. friday, not settled with scattered showers and thunderstorms. saturday and sunday, nice for the citi open tournament at the tennis center. week,in tournament next temperatures nice, upper-80's and seasonable and good as far as humidity level. adrianna: i will be there monday from 2:00 to 4:00, no rain? ?rian: you are good, can i come adrianna: absolutely, we will get vip treatment. up next, how close one company is to micro-chipping its
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even when life isn't. i'm going to the movies with britney. hurry in...these savings end soon. havertys. life looks good. adrianna: a big move at an office that could change the way a lot of us work. a company -- a tech company in wisconsin in wisconsin is offering to implant tiny microchips in its employees that will allow people to unlock office doors and make purchases. we have the story. >> like a scene out of 007. employees at one wisconsin tech company willingly making that fantasy a reality. putting microchips in their own bodies. what can employees say when you brought them the idea? >> half of them said yes with and five seconds. >> the
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wife and kids preparing to implant these chips between their four fingers and thumbs so they can do everything from by snacks in the break room to login in the morning, to unlocking doors with just a swipe of a hand. what did it take to persuade the holdouts? >> basically, we had to explain to them, there is no tracking of the information, it is not gps. >> the radiofrequency technology approved by the fda will be inserted with a small needle by a licensed technician. some internet experts warn the convenience could come at a cost. survive thousands of years as a species without a microchip. microchipped. come, a bitill to of a break from the brutal heat but it will not last long. a final check of the forecast coming up.
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