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switching has never been easier. get out of your contract with up to a $500 credit to help cover your early termination fee. go to fiosgigabit.com noon., abc 7 news at on your side. adrianna: president donald trump signing a bill imposing new sanctions on russia, aimed at punishing rusher for meddling in the 2016 presidential election which is nearly a week after the senate passed it with a vetoproof majority. the president says the bill is seriously flawed and hinders his ability to negotiate. he signed the bill despite his reservations for tightening sanctions against moscow.
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house to protect undocumented children. what is going on, melissa? interfaith leaders wrapped up a protest amending the president trump defend the deferred action for childhood arrivals act which protects undocumented children for deportation. 10 state attorneys general say the president should repeal this by september 5 or face a lawsuit. protesters say our nation has to live up to its values of hospitality and opportunity toward a better life. that is all for now. disturbing new developments in the recent north korean missile launch, a commercial flight flew over the test zone minutes before the missile landed in the sea of japan. the pentagon warning that future test could put flights at risk. the latest on this. >>
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an unarmed missile from vandenberg air force base near los angeles. it carefully calculated and far from flight pass, a sharp contrast from the north korean recent intercontinental ballistic missile test. the missile launch 2300 mile straight into space come in the middle of commercial flight path and as it descended, and air people on with 323 board of traveling from tokyo to .aris flying in the same area less than 10 minutes after the airplane passed, the missile came down and landed in the water where the airplane had just flown by th. >> the crew had no idea they were in danger. >> air france said the fly operated without reported incident. and that the airline constantly analyzes potentially danger
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flyover zones and adapts its flight plans accordingly. the pentagon says north korea missile launches are done with no coordination. secretary of state rex tillerson offering reassurance to north korea with a warning. >> we are trying to convey to the north koreans that we are not your enemy, but you are presenting an unacceptable threat to us. >> a missile launch overnight by the u.s. was not in response to north korea's missile launch but does demonstrate that u.s. is prepared and ready if tensions escalate. now, we areght watching a stunning report from thenew york times, it says justice department is preparing to sue american colleges over affirmative action. the story claims the department of justice looking at redirecting resources and targeting universities with policies that could be deemed as discriminatory against white applicants. the doj
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quick goals could be targeted. -- schools could be targeted. in minneapolis, a building has exploded at a school. one person has been killed in the explosion. not sure what caused it and we both bring you updates to this story when we get them -- when we get update. skies, it may look different in some areas later today. a slight chance of pop-up thunderstorms in our near future . chief meteorologist doug hill is here with a check of the forecast. ,oug: plenty of sunshine looking in alexandria, mid-80's. like yesterday, we will have pop-up thunderstorms, they will be isolated but if it is over you, a 100% chance of seeing it. 86 in frederick. baltimore at 87. 85 at reagan national airport.
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4:00 to 7:00 the timeframe were thunderstorms could come up and maybe they will get lucky and miss the action. they got nailed by figuring and lighting yesterday afternoon but they could pop up anywhere in the metro. we try to get a handle on which areas may have a better chance but in this air mass, everyone has equal chances of a storm. satellite and radar showing not much in maryland, west virginia, or virginia but north of the mason-dixon line, already pop-up storms across southern pennsylvania, they are pushing into the north and eased. we -- east. possibilityhows a this afternoon, mid afternoon with better chances northeast of baltimore to be susquehanna river valley and the philadelphia metro area. the possibility through 7:00. things settled down tonight and muggy overnight, 70's.
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with another chance of pop-up thunderstorms in the afternoon. wake up on thursday, 70 in dale city. 72 in downtown washington. the next few days, hot and humid through friday with afternoon storms and saturday with drier air during the day and the weekend looks great, i will share those numbers in about 10 minutes. adrianna: thank you. take a look at this amazing video showing rescue workers pulling a man out of a 20 foot hole. .his happened a few hours ago rhode island avenue in northwest. only say a construction worker fell down a manhole and shut down traffic on the block, he survived but suffered serious injuries. neede in montgomery county your help finding a man caught on camera robbing a chinese restaurant. the gunmen pepper spray a mail clerk and pointed
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female worker but she fought back. police say he hit her with the gun moments later and use pepper spray on her before taking off with cash. if you have any information on who he is, call police. and prince george's county, this man pled guilty to punching his two-month-old son to death and leaving his body in the back of the house --hearse he was driving for a day before burying them. it carries a sentence of 40 years behind bars. amazon is breaking records with a hiring spree, they plan to hire 50,000 people beginning today and more than 1200 of the jobs in our area. sam sweeney is in baltimore with one of the largest job fairs that had people lining up before sunrise. sam: started small around 5:00 a.m. and by 7:00 a.m., a different story, candace taylor is one of
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a new job. >> i am ready and i can do this. --: the lands >> the high demand company and they need the help. sam: hoping to score one of the 1200 jobs in the maryland area, most inside this fulfillment center, the size of 28 football fields. >> a chance for growth in the area and i want to be part of that and add on to what i can do with my life. sam: qualified candidates are offered positions on the spot and fulfill most -- fulfillment center jobs pay about 30% about minimum-wage with 3200 people working at this location and she has been out of work for five months and has her fingers crossed. >> i feel great because i know i will get a job. if you could not make it or did not want to wait in the line, go online and apply a amazon.com/jobsda
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up, we are still following this breaking news coming out of minneapolis. a building has exploded at a christian school and we will have updates on the other side of the break. irritated, hot, hungry, who is to blame for leaving passengers on an airplane for six hours. a bald eagle saved from drowning , find out how it got in the water. first, a check on traffic. >> good afternoon. it will be a tough ride, this is a closure en route 301 from the toll plaza on the maryland side. it is shut down for both directions. complicatedys a spot for crashes with one lane in both directions and expect this to last a little while. , lookingnto d.c. eastbound, not bad.
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virginia, northbound, north of georgetown pike, in good shape. same story porch river road, a lot of cars in both directions but nothing bad below the 270 spur. looking good into silver spring pass connecticut avenue but wide open along 270 northbound out of gaithersburg with no issues. a good start to the afternoon and same-store northbound out of clarksburg, nothing slowing down. that is off on the traffic center.
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>> you are watching abc
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at noon, on your side. look at this event was outside of a gas station in atlanta, georgia. the woman walked to her car and the man coulter at gunpoint after taking all of her belongings, he sits there because he does not know how to operate a push to start car. he had to order the woman to come back and started for him. then he made his it away. death getaway. passenger17-year-old detained at temperatures go airport for opening a jet and jumping out, he was caught sliding down the wing to the tarmac and a construction crew on the ground detained the teenager until police arrived and he was not injured and the airport operations were not affected. a nightmare for one group of passengers on board an airtran to flight left stuck on a sweltering airplane for six hours.
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brussels to montréal to divert and land in on what an passengers spent six hours on the tarmac, they said it was hot, no air-conditioning, food, or power at times. and transit blames congestion at the gate for delays to refuel the aircraft. the ottawa airport authority says a gate was ready and it is up to the airline to give the order to deplane. the parents of a new jersey girl who committed suicide are suing her school. they say their daughter was bullied relentlessly for months by fellow classmates on social media. the school eight north their complaints, they claim and the girl took her own life in june, nine months after the family said they first contacted the school. a wedding photographer in texas has won $1 million in a defamation suit against a couple who made false claims about her business on the internet. the lawsuit claims the couple repeatedly asked
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photographer for their photos to be forwarded to them but the contract said they had to first admit an order form. they went to a new station and claim their photos were held hostage and launched a social media campaign against the photographer. >> i felt completely dead. it was my passion. i love what i did. it was really hard. my reputation was everything to me. only aa: it took a jury few hours to find the couple liable for a defamation disparagement and civil conspiracy. in canada, a bald eagle is saved after was caught swimming in a day -- bay. it looks like the eagle was doing the breaststroke to stay above water. three people gathered nearby and brought it up or their boat, it was later adopted by wildlife officials and is said to be in good
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eagle flew too close to the water and drop in while looking for fish. look at this, a great white shark is chomping down on a go pro camera off of cape cod, about 12 feet. at least it was a camera and not anyone's body. look at all those teeth. we have had a great week, we have been spoiled and i get nervous when i say things are changing. doug: that is why about five or six years ago, i made a role that i no longer go in the water unless i can see the bottom. adrianna: i cannot blame you, when you see stuff like that. doug: the rest of the week and the weekend just fine, air temperature wise, bothered by the temperature and humidity levels now, it will be cooler and less humid over the weekend.
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alexandria, mid-80's and through the afternoon, it will feel a few degrees warmer than the thermometer indicates because of the increased moisture in the air. ,oontime, 85 and fredericksburg 87 in baltimore and 70 night in hagerstown. -- 79 in hagerstown. through the afternoon, temperatures will climb to about 89-92. there will be chances of isolated thunderstorms, most likely between 4:00 and 6:00. we are basing that on what has happened the past couple of days and the fact that the atmosphere is similar to the way it has been the past couple of days. the tougher call is to figure out who will have the best chance for storms this afternoon . at the moment, that is folks in pennsylvania along the maryland-pennsylvania line. as we get more heat and sunshine during the afternoon, we will see storms pop-up like yesterday closer to the metro and may over downtown washington or
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eventually drift east and northeast. we get a suggestion from futurecast, that maybe the most clustered areas of storms will be well to the northeast of washington and baltimore with isolated storms around the metro. timing wise, we just don't have action in the dinner hour tonight and later towards sunset, things should dissipate across the metro. a few more storms later tonight. no changes tomorrow, same pattern and temperatures. friday, a better chance of a storm in the afternoon and lower-90's. changes over the weekend, during saturday during the day, a change in the wind direction which will bring in less humid air and cooler air. 90's, 80's. d.c. united hosting los angeles at 7:00 saturday evening at rfk. watch it live on news channel 8. the final day of citi open competition on sunday with gorgeous weather alert
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the forecast and next week, lower temperatures, a taste of southern california weather next week with highs in the lower-it is an low-to-mid the. -- lower-90's and low humidity. -- lower too mid-80's and lower humidity. adrianna: it will feel like you are on vacation. doug: accept no palm trees. goodbye, a royal prince philip will make his final public appearance, the duke has accompanied his queen since 1952. molly hunter has more on his retirement. >> a royal sendoff as france philip marks his last official public appearance. a parade honoring the royal marine. the 96-year-old has been joking about his impending retirement, recently saying i am discovering what it is like to be on your last leg. he is famous for a pickup and sometimes offensive remarks, making queen elizabeth laugh.
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first he has been by her side or the last 70 years. >> your first duty is to support the green -- queen. what does that involve? >> helping and supporting her, everything valuable to her. >> he has done more than 50 public events this year, and with the queen they do more events than any other royal. in may, buckingham palace announced he would be putting up his royal feet. all taken his total, last christmas they came down with heavy cold and the prince has been hospitalized several times over the last few years. today, looking spry for his 96 years. we will still see prince philip from time to time but the queen will soldier on alone, she is slowing down and gradually cutting back with prince charles and the young royals stepping up , taking the load off of the queen.
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adrianna: coming up, one of the most popular iphone products on the market and now thousands glitter cases are being pulled off the shelf, find out
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adrianna: a consumer alert about the popular glitter iphone cases . more than a quarter million being recalled after dozens of people say they were burned by the mixture when the cases cracked. rebecca jarvis has details. >> it is the hot iphone accessory, a liquid glitter case old online and at major retailers across the country. including amazon and victoria's secret. after reports of burns from the
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and consumer product safety commission issuing a recall tuesday. >> they can leak liquid and glitter and cause skin irritation and burns to consumers. >> the recall may for the iphone 24success, 7 -- 6s, 7, models. permanentson have scarring and another had burns and swelling to her face, led, and other body parts -- leg, and other body parts. some turn to social media about other brand liquid cases. she said posing a rash came from her case while another posting a burn from another case which is now off the market. for now butxt, nice we may be in store for a few thunde
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adrianna: we have had three good days and then -- doug: southern pennsylvania, thunderstorms later this afternoon, we could see pop-up showers in our area with 90 degrees. august weather in washington. adrianna: thank you and thank you for joining us, watch abc
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