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discovery inside and out. abc 7 news at noon on your side. accused of shooting a oman in a road rage faces a judge. northern virginia person jeff in court and has new details on the case. eporter: during the hearing we got new information about exactly what happened during that road rage shooting on the july 19 off eisenhower avenue in alexandria. charged with the shooting. 58-year-old earnest
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stecco of mechanicsville, maryland. e was in court via videoconference. it started with an argument between him and two people in vehicle will who cut off whom likely on the beltway. hen the two vehicles got to a stoplight at eisenhower and clermont prosecutors say both the cars and began yelling at one another. e fired multiple shots at the driver striking her in the neck and face. 33-year-old woman from bladensburg did survive the shooting. rosecutors say that stickle fled to his home in mechanicsville and changed his vehicle before later turning in to police in frederick, maryland, in another vehicle. he had told police gotten rids of his firearm. o word whether that gun has been recovered by authorities. a defense attorney paints different picture of what happened saying the other driver of
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blocked in him making it so he vehiclet get out of his but the driver and passenger of that other vehicle got out of were yelling and threatening him and the defense ttorney says that is why he fired his weapon. we expect to learn more at the preliminary hearing which is set for .lexandria on september 12 fplt a maryland man faces charges after police say he took up women's skirts. a wonderful reported he took her picture while she was leaving the columbia heights mets row station and-- metro they caught brandon williams in the acts. police say other victims have identified and there are potentially dozens of others who took know that williams their pictures. developing now investigators
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rince george's county are trying to piece together what called this fatal cash that shut in the morning rush hour. suzanne kennedy steps away from it happened. reporter: it is significantly impacted by what happened behind in the 10000 block of riggs road. the two car collision taking around 6:40 a.m. and prince george's county police am and ntiac grand toyota camry collided and it is the pontiac was going outhbound and camry opposite direction when there was a side impact crash. one resident says he is it hasn't happened here sooner. speeding on this street all the time. lane one lane and another closer to the sidewalk -- i mean to the curb. use there to get to the bridge. whether they get
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one lane. reporter: the seconds driver was transported to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. the person of killed has not been released. no word on whether any charges against the surviving driver. atria: right now in salisbury big clean-up. and tossed like toys buildings torn apart after a powerful storm swept through. was a tornado that left this path of damage. confirmed.t to be regardless, there is a lot of work to be done. in the area is hardest hit. under water.st >> we will have it cleaned up. john: to a physical therapist office caved in. building was blown away. john: the storm didt
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discriminate. this bar's surveillance camera shows the moment it came through. destruction he tearing through the back of this warehouse belonging to salisbury university. cinder blocks thrown several twisted. metal >> blowing horizon and all of a sudden the roof went down and up foot and then a big boom. we know it was done, i went up front and a secretary and was in here and grabbed even and said if we are going to go we are going to go together. john: from the minute it came through residents and business to be the it had second tornadoes in two weeks one on kent e sland confined to a two mile swef stretch. cars flipped like hot wheels and trees and power lines snapped lives
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serious injuries. radar indicates a rotating storm around through the area 2:00 yesterday afternoon with very little warning. not a tornado was warning issued before it hit. 7 news.zalez, abc autria: after that rough weather day rday a were calmer today. doug hill has a look at the forecast. ummy: oug: just about this time meteorologists from the national weather office will be arriving the damage. we are confident based on the video and images it was a tornado, just question of 1 or 2. from john t highlighting what happened. now it is a matter of waiting clear es it clear so looking at bell hraeufrpb reagan club 75 degrees national airport and still rain on the shore. if you have friends or
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vacation they are probably not in a good mood from yesterday and today but tomorrow and will be better. clearing developing from the west and so it will be a process the next couple hours and skies will brighten and we will have unshine and temperatures responds out of the 70's into 80 this afternoon. it will be nice later. breeze making it quite comfortable. the forecast for this evening against the marlins it will be delightful upper 70's a st pitch and dropping little below that. don't want to go there because is now. then and there we will talk about great in about seven or eight minutes. >> don't forget to get our storm watch 7 weather app free for iphones and android devices. a developing story out of the white house a new poll showing approval trump's rating at the lowest since he took office but the preside
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bigger and stronger as top aides in the over stration clash foreign policy. breaks it all down. >> as president trump continues his orking vacation at in ate glob -- golf club new jersey tuesday morning he fired off five tweets three of fox news stories one citing anonymous sources and revealing information about the u.s. tracking the movement of north korean missiles. ironically president trump's u.n. ambassador was on fox and story condemning the apparently unaware it was fox news that released it. >> i can't talk about anything classified and if that is in the newspaper that is a shame. it is dangerous when things gets out in the press like that. you are not only just getting a scoop on something, you are people's lives and this has to stop. whatever the leaks are
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if somebody thinks they are getting power or fame you are putting americans in danger. last week the administration announced a crackdown on leaks but today it was the president spreading the leaked information. today the presidential tweets combative than were a were ang tone lash being ourt at bluming that will who once asserted that he served in war.ietnam he blasted what he called fake news and phony poll numbers is stronger than ever. poll puts cent cnn his approval rating at 59% among republicans. up, shocking video from the u.k. a woman minding business thrown into the path of a
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split seconds decision that may have saved her life. rage incident that could have been worse after one driver pulled out a pistol. this is no walk in the park. parts of texas falling victim to severe flash flooding. do in ny were forced to order to stay out of the path of this. >> good afternoon. it will be a busy ride. trouble on thein qu beltway past connecticut chase shut down for roads work so that will be a spot. it doesn't go much farther but that is a trouble spot with a toward university boulevard and colesville roads which is a good stretch back area.that you see the delays building. that will be a tou s
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the capital beltway. on by out of silver spring georgia avenue we are looking forward the beltway and you see through the ut power lines you see flashing georgia right on lane belonged right before the ramps to the beltway so that is complicated area northbound outs of silver spring on georgia avenue. extra volume.f bad.rwise not too this is 66 west of the beltway 95 bound a little slow and is pretty toccoquan good. we will be back with more news
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>> you are watching abc 7 news at noon on your side. melanie: video out of london side of theght-hand screen a jogger pushes a woman out of his way and she falls in the path of a bus. in a split seconds the driver of the way narrowly missing her. police are searching for the jogger. was able to walk away with minor injuries. the frightening moment on road in texas a woman pulls out her phone thinking she was ecording an aggressive driver but what she got was the scare of her life. see aid she wanted him to that she was recording him after he was driving aggressively unprovoked. when she slowed down the man pulled out a gun. been shared tens of thousands of times on facebook and police believe they driver. right now a manhunt is unr
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during a routine traffic stop in missouri. the victim's family speaking out for the gunman intensifie intensifies. reporter: a manhunt for a authorities uri call a cold blooded killer. accused of killing gary michael. >> officer down. down.r >> sunday night officer michael pulled mccarthy over because his headlights were out. mccarthy immediately got out of shot at the nd officer who was able to return fire even after he was shot. away.e suspect sped >> suspect believed to be location.rom the > he has an extensive criminal background including outstanding 2013 arrest for assault and at other criminal charges in new hampshire. >> it was
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jump out and ambush officer michael. reporter: officer michael was an army vet. stepfather of two and only with the force about a year. my hero. he's my big brother. that's it. in my world and i but i had a great time with him. reporter: family members say he to be a police officer and he was doing his dream job. investigators are working the case around the clock. melanie: we are not the only ones dealing with storm damage. this park in central texas completely washed out. hardest hit area got up to seven inches of rain pretty much no getting around here and the not any better. several cars in the houston area were left stranded as roads into lakes. those who dared to
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caution. not quite like that around here but we got good storms. jummy: the rainfall totals here idn't cause issues but at the shore it will be interesting. it is a question of how large tornado it was. melanie: in salisbury. oug: it will be pretty impressive but here it is waiting a little longer to see the sunshine. gnarly s ocean city and looking but the showers look like they have ended and it will mid to late afternoon before skies clear. ere we are waiting for things to change as well with temperatures in the low 70's just not a an city pleasant beach day. you look outside and it is going late this because afternoon the clearing will set he stage for a couple very pleasant days tomorrow and again thursday and even friday temperatures upper 70's to 80 a lot of beach sunshine. this is a look live in cumberland,
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air blue skies and drier coming in from the north and west so it will be a process as in and r air is moving we will see some sunshine. in cumberland and by morning they will be low 50's. you are seeing the breakup of now at d cover and 75 reagan national airport and quantico and 75 fredericksburg 73 in napolis and leesburg. for the afternoon we will see this clouds continue to move out and the rain is just off the coast of ocean city so it is teadiest improvement through this afternoon through it evening and tomorrow and a couple of very nice days. the time the weekend rolls around showers are back in the forecast. hour temperatures will climb to about 80 degrees ith sunshine and tonight 57 to 66 with clear skies and light winds. ooking ahead through tomorrow 83 with sunshine,
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conditions. the e the nicest day of week. the next seven to 10 days average.res well below we are not talking major storms chancese will be shower friday, saturday, sunday and monday. nominator is temperatures remaining significantly cooler than into the we heads middle -- head into the middle of august. doug.ie: thank you, to a consumer alert as families topare to get ready for back school we want to make sure you get the best bang for your buck. we checked school supply prices at wal-mart. staples and amazon and priced typical first grader. staples was the most expense after i at $65. $57.et at the lowest price was wal-mart at $53. supplies online amazon's price is a
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$108. if you are out there shopping or school pick unsome extra supplies -- up some extra supplies. wants a few days from an to help local students by stuffing the bus. on ill collect at safeway 14th straoeet southeast. other ways to help at
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for the highest offer. meet in a e to specific location. but he warns you to beware of the person you might meet. time you deal with strangers your risk level goes up. i was scared. >> she took what she thought were all the right precautions selling an ipad on offer up. in aet the potential buyer populated parking lot and brought her mother-in-law and she said they were robbed. >> the only thing they didn't take is my personal cell phone my mom's ipad we were selling. police departments see so many these crimes they are setting up safe meet-up spots like these california, connecticut and florida for buyers and sellers business.do >> criminals do not want to commit crimes at the police department. theirnow
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being caught for the crime they re going to commit greatly increases at the police department. > the app provides many of the signs for police departments telling us in addition to safety close s we have shipped to 35,000 meet-up spot signs to police departments. popular app let go says tens of millions of people of rely and buy billions dollars in secondhand items on let go every month and we test new ways to make sure the app is a safe place. can of a police station you leave? >> public place a lot of people and surveillance cameras. melanie: still ahead the weather started a bit damp but looks like we are in the clear for the rest of the day. get a final check of the
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discovery inside and out. melanie: the wet weather is behind us? doug: for a while. chance but e next pleasant weather right now image washington own county 71 and skies clear there and that trend will develop cross the area through the afternoon with plenty of sunshine later this afternoon and we will hit 81. 83 and sunny and average is upper 80's so cooler than average and we will take it the weekend to stay cool with showers and storms through the weekend. amazingly comfortable temperatures. thanks for joining us.
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