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care. and the president ways in after a 10 stay in boston as thousands marched -- after atense day in boston as thousands marched against hate and racism. good evening. i'm kimberly suiters. we begin with a severe thunderstorm warning. let's get right over to stormwatch 7 meteorologist josh knight. josh: the lightning often the distance, a great shot at the capital wheel. all of the lightning starting to come together. we have been watching these work across the area, predominantly just the light showers, but this will start to intensify in the southeastern part of prince george's county, calvert county, as well as southern anne arundel county and charles. most of the lightning from the capital shot, just about to move towards dunkirk. abouthe size of
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diameter, and damaging wind gusts not out of the question. especially as the storm moved to the east, dunkirk, anywhere in yellow, take cover. the good news is these are moving quickly and just about all of us trying out soon. 11:30, this pushes out and most of the overnight will be drive. that sets up for a really nice sunday. just another 30, 45 minutes for the storm. 73 tomorrow morning. humid and, but less even sunnier than today. the eclipse, there could be a few hiccups in the forecast. police are.c. searching for a gun man after a child was shot at a community center in southeast. melissa the pain -- melissa dipane he has more on what happened. was first on the scene of the shooting that appear to take p
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humanities center on 41st street southeast, where the police confirmed an eight-year-old child was grazed by a bullet. the call came in about 8 p.m., bystanders say there was a neighborhood cookout underway. we arrived and saw the police marking shell casings. the eight-year-old victim is said to be ok, suffering not life-threatening injuries. he or she was taken to the hospital and will be just fine, but the police have not released any information yet on the shooter. live at the seventh district police headquarters in southeast, melissa dipane, abc 7 news. kimberly: just 24 hours ago, prince versus county police announced the arrest of antonia williams. they say that he stabbed and killed three young girls, all under the age of 10. we do not know why he did it or is accused of doing it. the police said that williams' mother came home from work and found the children dead in bed
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she called 911. investigator said that williams remained at the home and clinton and confessed to the killings. neighbors say the family moved in only about four months ago. >> two of them in the morning come out and play in the yard. they were around and about. that is what we were used to. >> i'm so sad, man. what else can i say? kimberly: all day long neighbors have dropped off flowers to share condolences. williams now faces several murder charges. breaking news on your cell phone. just go to wjla.com/text to sign up. the clock is ticking for management of the lynn hill condos in temple hills. to fixve until tuesday what officials are calling significant fire code violations. if they don't come it would be the second time in less than a year that residents are forced to leave their homes. amy aer
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resident who is stepping in to help. amy: officials say it is in disrepair. residents say it is falling apart. >> it's garbage. they should knock it down and renovate. amy: now the countdown is on to fix it. >> if we don't do anything, nobody knows that we care or will help. amy: she has lived in the condominiums for about a year off and on. she says she and a small group of others spent saturday morning cleaning the building from the top floor down. >> just trying to at least by sometime to be able to move out. a listat is because of of fire code violations posted yesterday are not asked by tuesday, residents will have to leave. >> this was all the way down the hall. amy: she showed us the progress. >> we cleared out
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trash room today. it was full of food and trash. amy: there are some improvements on the outside. for instance, this area where i'm standing just yesterday was filled with garbage and debris, even a toilet. system and fire doors need to be working properly. all doors and vacant units need to be secured and cleaned out. a staff member told our team they were holding a press conference saturday. we were not able to attend. we tried following up with property management. a staff member told us to call back monday. amy aubert, abc 7 news. kimberly: an expedition has found the wreck of the uss indianapolis. days after delivery components for the first atomic bomb come in japanese torpedo sank the ship in 1945. while most of the 1200 sailors and marines
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16 died from exposure, dehydration, and shark attacks while awaiting rescue. the indianapolis it's three and a half miles -- the indianapolis sits three and a half miles below the sea. posts are named for confederate generals including the country possible are just, fort bragg, fort hood, and fort benning. a group of house democrats has proposed a bill to rename the facilities. one week to the day after the white nationalist rally in charlottesville turned deadly, more protests, the largest in boston. under lopez takes us inside the protests and reaction to them. linda: a tense day on the streets of bos
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hate and racism. the boisterous crowd fearing that white nationalist would small -- join a small group of conservatives. the police avoiding clashes by thwarting the small group away. >> you are violating my rights. linda: the police remainingcalm, even when taunted. president trump weighing in with a series of tweets saying, looks like many anti-police agitators in boston. the police are looking tough and smart. thank you for stop later applauding the protesters speaking out against bigotry. boston's mayor and police commissioner agreed. >> sharing the message of love and not hate. >> nobody got hurt or killed. linda: the police watching
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the country. the police arrested at least six people at the statue of a confederate general and slave trader. more than 1000 protesters rallied in struts of privacy in austin, and nearly 500 protesters gathered at a houston park to push for the removal of a confederate statue. about 75 counter protesters also turned out. barricades and police officers keeping the sides apart. kimberly: a pioneer in civil rights and comedy has died at the age of 84. gregory broke the color barrier in nightclubs in the early 1960's. in 1962, he became the first black performer to be interviewed on "the tonight show." he was shot while trying to defuse the watts riots. was this year he memorialized on the mural outside of ben's chili bowl
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the consumer alert about what not to do after answering your phone when you find out it is a robo call. and it is all hands on deck for the eclipse. how towns in and near the path of totality are getting ready for millions of visitors. and now we wait. find out if anyone is holding the winning powerball ticket, next.
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kimberly: d.c. police made a quick arrest after a stabbing at a library in the shaw neighborhood. two men got into an argument, leading to the stabbing. the victim's injuries were not life-threatening and the suspect is in custody. developing outcome a florida community is mourning. investigators do not know why the kissimmee police sergeant and officer were shot last night. howard died earlier today.
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scene. the police took a man into custody. investigators say that miller recently underwent a mental evaluation. cars left teetering after the wall of a multistory parking garage collapsed. the police in nottingham, england, said that the wall fell. nobody was hurt and at this point no cars were too badly damaged. road closures are in place as engineers inspect the structure. you have heard of the leaning tower of pisa. a small oklahoma town has its own leaning tower. an old grain elevator is in a slow-motion fall to the ground in the town of adams. people living there started to notice the tower leaning a few years ago. now it is quite the hot spot, a must shoot photo in this little oklahoma panhandle town. just don't stand near or under it. a 7 on your side consumer alert -- the volume of robo
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in the month of july alone, 2.6 billion robo calls were made nationwide. % increase from two years ago. >> i wanted to slam the phone. i just want to tell them stop calling me, but it's a machine. kimberly: and your words can be used against you. to cut down on the robo calls, make sure that you are on the do not call list and do not pick up a number you do not recognize. if you get a robo call, don't push any buttons or say anything, just hang up. the three amigos are back together again. in a rare public expression of bipartisan friendship, the three amigos -- arizona senator tom mccain -- tweeted this photo with fellow senator lindsey may joet -- lindsey graham and lieberman. in another photo, mccain and lieberman
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river with the caption "where's lindsey?" josh: we still have the severe thunderstorm warning near dunkirk, calvert county, and ultimately into the bay in the next 20 minutes to stop otherwise things are starting to calm down and setting up for a nice sunday. right now, the temperature is working their way into the mid-70's at reagan national. ,ow that the line has broken thunderstorms have moved through, we are looking for the dew point to drop and the humidity will come down. it's more comfortable tomorrow. still hot, but not as muggy as today. the line has worked its way across the area, really lucky at fedex field, just a few light showers, the heaviest rain staying further to the south. the heaviest rain south of the
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the storm system, moving quickly , moving east at about 30 miles per hour. dunkirk on the far back edge of the warning, and this is working its way over towards the coast, right along the chesapeake bay. we have the showers just south and woodbridge, and dale city hanging onto a few of these light showers as well. a lot of this green is not actual rainfall. overnight, thunderstorms depart from a moving out, skies clear. we set up for a much nicer sunday. clear skies, and that is what we have pretty much all day, lots of sunshine. the only place where we get any rain popping up is further to the southwest, predominantly only western side of the blue ridge mountains. monday, a few clouds in the morning. then a few showers to watch as well. keep that in mind. we talk about the solar eclipse forecast, most of this looking like it is favoring baltimore and towards the bay,
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chance of showers not out of the question monday. looks like a better shot monday night, but at that point the clips -- the eclipse will be over. 5k sundayor the 20 k, morning, 88 degrees, lots of sunshine come a great day to be at the pool. 88 d.c., 89 culpeper and fredericksburg, 84 annapolis. monday, the chance of showers and asked her clouds, but just because the max of the eclipse see it, you will starting shortly after 1:00 and continuing until almost 4:00. even though the weather may not be perfect at 2:40, you should see some of the partial eclipse. 88 the high monday, feeling like low 90's, hot. tuesday, that should be the hottest day of the week. then we start the downward trend, close to 80 degrees towards the end of the week. kimberly: i have to ask something about the eclipse
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we will save it until the end of the show. how did the redskins look today? robert: they were eclipsed. redskins-packers, another preseason game and another preseason loss.
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>> and now the toyota sports desk, brought to you by your local toyota dealers. robert: a much better performance from the starters tonight. packers the green bay and special teams came up early. first quarter, trevor davis bybles the punt, recovered niles paul, leading to a field goal. , that bad man, got the packers on the board thanks to a couple of washington penalties, marching down the field. three yard touchdown, packers take t
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late in the second, 14-3 packers, the first-team offense still in there. kirk cousins, vernon davis hauls it in. 4,rth and goal from the cousins with the quick strike to jamison crowder for a touchdown. redskins down 14-10 at the half. third quarter, colt mccoy takes over. niles paul makes the tumbling catch. 16 yard score. impressive. 17-14 skins. but the packers go ahead in the fourth. the redskins fall in the preseason again, 24-17. coach gruden: we are a work in progress. we are trying to build something is. we deny could them done today, but we are not giving up. we have to continue with our plan and build on what we have done or have not done, learn from it, m
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for the bengals. robert: baseball, a welcoming site for the nationals against stephen strasburg returning from the disabled list. bottom of the first, strasburg tested early. slices one to right. andrew stephenson makes the great catch. strasburg liked it. he better have. solarteet on the board, to right center, gone. 2-0 padres. right now san diego leads 2-1 in the ninth., o's hosting the angels come huge night for mike trout. he homered in the first and again in the third. this one landed in the angels' bullpen, his 26th of the season. the orioles fall, 5-1. d.c. united on the road against the colorado rapids. wins have been hard to come by with this club. 28
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rapids give united a gift, gift wrap. one of the best in the business come he was not ready. into the net it goes. 1-0 united and they win 1-0. spirit one washington the road against the curis. 46th minute, nice pass by kristin hamilton. the spirit lose, 2-0. and finally, next up for the redskins, more redemption, against the bengals on sunday.
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kimberly: breaking news into the newsroom -- d.c. police are investigating a shooting near the emergency -- the emirate rec center, rather, in northwest. p.m. appened at about 11 that is near the georgia avenue petworth metro station. we are working to get as many details as we can, but we know this is the second shooting near a rec center tonight. just two days until the total solar eclipse, millions of people are invading small towns
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out, campgrounds filling up, and special eclipse glasses are very hard to find. the buildup is causing nightmares on the road. 200 million people live within a day's drive of the path of totality. officials in 14 states are preparing for what they say could be the worst traffic jam in u.s. history. >> we are ready to do that. kimberly: ok. easestates are trying to congestion by stopping construction and calling in the national guard to help with traffic control. join us for complete, coverage,s of eclipse on news channel 8 and wjla.com from 12:30 until 3:30. we will be in cities across the path of totality so that you can see the eclipse live as it happens from coast to coast, no special glasses needed.
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