[captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] news at noon, on your side. foranna: the search is on four men who stole u-haul truck and try to use it to take an atm. ryan hughes is there at the scene and this

before the nats host the first postseason game of the year. ryan: that's right, adriana. the brazen these tried to use the stolen u-haul truck in the depths of the night to pull off a smash and grab, but they struck out. this is an active scene seven hours after the attempted robbery. police and fbi have been taking photos and gathering evidence all morning long. this is what is left of the atm machine. crews have been out here for the past 30 to 45 minutes hauling nothing away. it was destroyed. -- hauling that thing away. it was destroyed. used to be4 suspects stolen u-haul and ram to the atm several times with the back of the truck. a burglar alarm went off around 4:45 this morning, and that likely scared of them away. they did not get away with the machine, but they managed to get

truck. we just confirmed that the u-haul truck was stolen from the location just around the corner on south capitol street. it was stolen overnight from the back lot. we spoke with workers there who tell me to our cameras pointing down into the lot. they are looking at the video to see if the suspects were caught on camera. a lot of construction going on in this area. one guy told me he had multiple cameras on top of several buildings at the location. he is also going through the video to try and see if they capture the suspects. police tell us they would like to put the images out there later this afternoon. is the lead agency with investigation, trying to track down the four suspects who remain on the run this afternoon. we are live in south beach. ryan hughes, abc7 news. adrianna: thanks, ryan, for the update

missing teenager from norfolk. forreport has increased information that will lead to finding ashanti billie. she was last seen going to work at a subway shop in the norfolk military base last monday. she never showed up for work or classes that day. her phone was found in a dumpster a day after her disappearance, and car several days later. offering $20,000 for information leading to her. people in puerto rico are still coping with a lack of power and food more than a week after hurricane maria. officials say 10,000 containers of relief are already there on the island, but have not been delivered to residents. the problem, a lack of fuel and delivery drivers. president trump has waived the shipping restrictions yesterday and is sending three-star general to coordinate relief efforts. switching gears to weather in our area command lot chillier this morning as he walked out

alex liggitt is here with a check of the forecast. alex: i thought it was really nice this morning. beautiful conditions, clear skies, cool fall-like temperatures. temperatures 65 degrees in montgomery college and rockville. let's take you over to look at other areas. 66 in hagerstown. warrenton at 71 degrees. culpeper, 68. quantico, fredericksburg, 60 degrees. 69 in the nation's capital. should reach the mid 70's -- 73 at 3:00. 4:00 or 5:00 or so, mid-70's. mid 60's at 9:00 tonight. cooler day. temperatures average in the mid-seventies. we should be right around there. national forecast, clear and cool tonight. the breezes from yesterday have diminish across the region.

that is about it. 69 at first pitch. mid 60's for the middle and the tail end of the game. a little on the cool side. we are watching the next frontal , stretching from pennsylvania into the ohio valley. towards the d.c. metro by tomorrow. we will get it bite tonight late. approachingowers the cumberland valley, also portions close to hagerstown. those will diminish in intensity as i get close to the d.c. metro. over the past several weeks i don't think we will get any rain out of it, but we will have a couple fall days in store for the weekend. i will let you know the high forecast temperatures and whether we have a warm up the next couple weeks. adrianna:

developing right now, new turmoil in the trunk administration. health secretary tom price is apologizing to taxpayers taking more than two dozen work trips on luxury jets. the fourth cabinet secretary admitted to taking government chartered planes. the latest drama out of the white house. reporter: the art -- they are using luxury charters and taxpayers are picking up the tab. choosingecretaries private fights over commercial. of health and human services tom price responding on fox news after flying for work at a cost of more than $400,000. price now regretting the fight and paying the cost of his own seat roughly $52,000, and mere 15% of the total. clearly devastation by paying for my portion of the trips these are huge

unprecedented, as i am told. reporter: also unprecedented our cabinet secretaries flying noncommercial. just 24 hours ago, president trump offer no defense. price isn't alone. treasury secretary steve mnuchin under internal investigation after he requested a government plane for his honeymoon, and took a costly government judge of kentucky with his wife, with a view to the eclipse. epa director scott pruitt facing questions of $50,000 worth of flights on a chartered jet and government plane. the latest secretary under scrutiny, interior secretary ryan zinke. the powerful house oversight committee is opening a bipartisan investigation, asking for travel records from all federal agencies since the inauguration. anthema: the issue of protests was still at the forefront during thursday night football did the packers and bears did

arms on the sidelines to show unity. some fans did, but many went for the traditional hand over heart. today the debate is not just about professional athletes. montgomery county schools is giving guidance for high-school football games, and says that students are allowed to opt out of patriotic exercises like the national anthem without facing punishment. developing right now in haymarket, a man wakes up to the sound of shattering glass, his home filled with fire. the cause, smoldering cigar placed in a planter. kevin lewis has details on the damage that was done. miss the is harder to charges second and third levels of this townhome that sent this fire, so fresh in the air. a couple lived here. last night around 10:00 come the husband was enjoying a cigar on the back deck, his wife out of town.

planter, thinking it was out. 3:00hours later, around this money from the men woke up in his third floor bedroom, his house on fire. he called 911, and remarkably, got out with minor injuries. he is already out of the hospital. firefighters are credited with keeping flames from spreading to the garage. and a jeephite car wrangler, full of gasoline, and skate. county code requires new construction to include firewalls. the benefit on display here, as neighboring townhomes are barely damaged. >> right now, the conditions we are under in the area the past two or three weeks have been pretty dry, low humidity. fire pots that are usually used to discard smoking material are very dry. plants and flowers aren't growing, so people aren't watering the plants, so even drier. kevin: the damage is estimated at $450,000 and a mixing wished cigar

planter -- and on a singer's cigar was placed in a dry planter. officials recommend putting them out in water and storing them in a metal container. kevin lewis, abc7 news. >> now i'm going to read is teleprompter. please forgive me. shout-out to d.c. public schools. here we go. publica: he put d.c. schools on the map, and today we say thank you. comedian dave chappelle in an hour will be honored at the duke ellington school for the arts. tofamously gave a shout-out the school at the emmy awards. hold auriel bowser will special presentation of gratitude. elle graduated from duke ellington in 1991. coming up, and armed robbery at starbucks foiled. all thanks to quick thinking and

find out how he is being thanked for this. the juice almost loose. we are days away from o.j. simpson's released from prison. how he wants to spend the rest of his life as a free man. first, check on traffic with eric smith. >> we have a doozy today. tough one on the beltway outer loop of bethesda. is being forced to go north on 270 because the outer loop lanes are completely blocked with the vehicle fire. they should be extinct right about now, but traffic is at a standstill, practically. jump ontoe forced to 270 northbound. take a look at the delays as a result. chevy chase, connecticut avenue, traffic barely moving at this point. going back even further, seeing the huge backups

just before university boulevard. this is a major deal for the outer loop. to avoid this as best as you can. that is often the traffic center.

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[knocking] we're early! hurry in now to save up to $1000 in bonus discounts at havertys. life looks good. adrianna: now to the latest on o.j. simpson's release from prison. after nine years behind bars, simpson is days away from being a free man. he wants to return to a normal life as best he can. reporter: o.j. simpson's movements after his expected release from the nevada prison system was the biggest secret in sin city. his best friend for nearly two decades says that

out, he will not be shying away from the public eye. >> not going to hide. he is going to do the same things he always did. reporter: simpson was granted parole in july after a fiery hearing in which the hall of fame running back said he was one of the best prisoners ever in nevada. inmate haste any represented -- i don't think any inmate has represented better than i. i've done my time. reporter: by all accounts he has an unblemished prison record. he is currently sequestered in protective custody. >> he is going a little crazy because he is in solitary. he is a people person, likes to talk. reporter: simpson says he wants to live in florida near his children, but his attorney says that the paperwork to get him there hasn't been filed the output his friend doubts he will get in trouble again. >> how he wants to do is spend time with friends and family and play golf. now,ter: but for

lot to adjust to come like new technology. >> 10 years ago, there was no iphones. he has never used one of technology before. reporter: he says simpson is looking for to spending time with his family. >> he hasn't seen his sister, his kids. adrianna: remember this armed robbery attempt back in july we told you about? the man credited with stopping it all is being honored. cregg jerri is being recognized by the fresno police department after he took on a robbery suspect in a starbucks in july. the robber was even carrying a knife and gun. the suspect was arrested, and officers are calling this man a hero. braver than i am. alex: you walked in, you want a cup of coffee -- adrianna: i know, exactly. alex: yeesh. adrianna: today is a very nice day. much cooler. you like that. alex: i enjoy it. coolest morning of the past two and a half weeks. it has been a while since we had

fall is here for the next two days, at least. 56 currently on top of our building, looking west on route 50. perfect blue skies out there. very comfortable at the moment. temperatures right around the 70-degree mark for the majority of the region. 10 degrees cooler at this point and yesterday was near the 80-degree mark already. reagan national, 10 to 15 degrees below where we were at this time yesterday. this afternoon, the winds are light. we don't have the brees that we saw yesterday. 72 at 2:00. full sunshine, perfect. get out of work early, go ahead and do that, too. i give you permission. 60's by back into the the time we get to 7:00. it will be chilly as the sunsets. we are watching this move through the region later on tonight.

upper 40's company in the west of blue ridge. baltimore and 60 degrees in annapolis. you see the cold front here. a few clouds close to the pittsburgh area. tonight, we see them getting closer to our region. chance for a couple of showers. that's possibly towards hagerstown and cumberland. closer to midnight. a lot of the energy is washed out. we are so dry here. adrianna, beautiful weekend with temperatures right around the lower 70's. adrianna: happening tonight, "20/20" is digging into the 2011 kidnapping and murder of a

lifeadams was sentenced to in prison for his role in that crime. tonight we will hear from her family for the first time since the conviction. here to break it all down is abc's elizabeth vargas. thank you for being with us this new. want to know who we connect specter hear from during the " special tonight. said,eth: well, as you her family's speaking out for the first time since the trial. the verdict was reached on sunday, early this week and they decided to sentence the defendant to life in prison instead of sending him to death row. this was a case that was incredibly well covered. it made headlines across this country and even in europe. it was the biggest and most expensive manhunt in a tennessee history. a young

student who was kidnapped at 7:45 in the morning from her honto the woods, and in thes like everybody small county in tennessee was a suspect at some point or another, including the victim's phone brother. we speak to him for the first time, we speak to her parents for the first time. they are speaking out exclusively to us. more alarming, we have exclusive access to interrogation tapes of one of the suspects in this case. he is mentally disabled, and a lot of questions are being raised about the way he was handled by police, and whether or not his testimony is remotely valuable. adrianna: also wanted to ask you about holly bobo's brother being suspected of at least kidnapping her at first. what did he say about being a suspect? never suspected of kidnapping or killing her, because he was there and house when she was missing. the story he told that

morning, however, was so strange and bizarre that even to this day, actually, there are people in tennessee who find it highly suspect. it was so unusual and strange that police and the tennessee bureau of investigation thought -- they were tapping his phone and tacking his computer and laptop and accessing his bank records for as long as three years after holly bobo went missing. clint bobo, her big brother, was a person of great suspicion for a very long time. understandably, the family had a difficult time with that, and as holly's mom told me, it was hard enough to lose one child and have the other child be the target of suspicion was also more than she could bear. vargas,: elizabeth thank you for your time. "20/20" airs tonight on abc7. coming up next, daring to dream big. >> top of the catholic and that is where i am

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adrianna: happening tonight, the return of disney on ice, and this year's theme is "dare to dream." you can see them at eagle bank arena in fairfax, and that is run john gonzalez got a preview. john: dare to dream, that is the theme of disney on ice, and it starts at eagle bank arena at george mason university. they are skating in. rachel, this is your alma mater. he went to george mason university. how cool is it to be

big-time performer? >> i'm so excited. i graduated in 2011. one of my professors is coming this evening, and it is exciting to give back where i trained and educated myself. john: i don't know how this will work out -- you are about to teach me a dance. it was important for you to get the polynesian culture and the true dance down pat for the show. >> that's right, we transport wee and has weeks in -- 5 -- trained for five and half weeks in florida and wanted it to be culturally sensitive. john: i met your mercy. i will stand here. i don't have the skates on. tell me what to do here. the dance from "moanna." >> the first thing you will be doing is hitting your knees and then hitting your chest. john: i can do that. that is pretty easy so far. >> repeat. top.ext move is on john:

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about your morning run and how crips, and cool it was. alex: we will have more of it this weekend. enjoy the weekend. breezy tomorrow, and we will finally get some warmer air, if you're into that kind of thing, by the middle and end of next week at adrianna: stay with us, another half-hour of abc7 news at noon coming your way.

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