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feet tall as they crest the hillside. it's frightening. q: ashes fly as wind gusts up to 50 miles per hour. >> there is a plethora of the premium wineries all over the place. a lot of the people haven't picked grapes yet. >> threatening the silverado resort that hosted a p.g.a. event over the weekend. california governor jerry brown declared a state of emergency for napa and sonoma. to streamline aid to firefighters and recovery. you are looking at the live pictures. at least 1,500 structures have been destroyed because of the fires you are looking at right now. that is the latest from the "live desk." q mccray. alison? alison: quite a scene out there. keep us posted. meanwhile here it's rainy, gray, dreary day at home. this was because of nate after the hurricane came ashore on the gulf coast this weekend.
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stormwatch7's steve rudin, is a cooldown coming? it's muggy. steve: humid and uncomfortable. it will stay that way for the next hour or two. look at the feels like temperature. this is typical of what we'd see toward the middle and the end of august. this feels like temperature is 93 at reagan national airport. feels like 95 in fredericksburg. a slow cooldown on the way this evening. around 80 by 7:00. middle 70's by 8:00. 9:00 still in the middle 70's. a little fog likely develop after midnight. i don't think this will allow major travel delays early tomorrow morning but you might want to leave a little extra time heading out the door. looking ahead to game number five. yes, a game number five in d.c. that thursday night. plus the next best chance for rain around the d.m.v. more on that and looking ahead to the upcoming weekend in a few minutes. alison: we will see you then. the weather team will have the latest when the weather changes.
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the stormwatch7 weather app. larry: what is in a name? today is recognized as columbus day but there is emotion as the d.c. council moves to possibly replace columbus day with indigenous people day. we are live in northeast with more on the effort and the reaction. stephen tschida? stephen: a lot of people fired up over the issue. they are stopping by and sharing the opinion. this is since the city council began looking into making this the last city designated columbus day. for years at the base of the statue people come together to honor the man whom the city is named. christopher columbus. movement underway to make this the last columbus day in the hat-trick of clum -- day in the district of columbia. >> if indigenous people want their day i'm all for it. but leave columbus day
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>> we don't rewrite history by erasing it. >> they say when italian immigrants confronted racism and discrimination, columbus became more than a symbol of pride. >> it was an example for them. bravery and courage to overcome. what they faced as well. >> for native americans, christopher columbus journey marked the beginning of a tragic period. >> all he did is initiate mass murder. >> the d.c. city council considering legislation now to replace columbus day with indigenous people day. something several cities across the country already have done. >> i think it's high time that native people in this country are recognized. the great historic injustice isn't celebrated. stephen: those out here today say regardless of what the d.c. city council does, they will be here in front of the statue on the second monday of
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tschida, abc7 news. alison: thank you. we have new developments on the las vegas massacre. eric paddock, the brother of the gunman stephen paddock spent the weekend trying to help investigators figure out why his brother killed 58 people and wounded hundreds more. in a deposition from 2013, paddock admitted to having a doctor on retainer taking valium for anxiety and gambling most of the night and sleeping during the day. the west virginia woman killed in the las vegas massacre was laid to rest today in martinsburg. 50-year-old michael denise burds and her husband where there when paddock opened fire. the husband survived. and jason aldean returned to las vegas. they took a picture and visited with the shooting victims at the hospital. aldean opened "saturday night live" with tom petty's won't back down in t
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larry: boosting minimum wage is a subject of debate. today in montgomery county it has one of the highest minimum wage in the area. but some think it needs to be higher. montgomery county reporter kevin lewis explains why it's a tricky balancing act. kevin: pinal county minimum wage is -- montgomery county's minimum wage is $11.50 an hour. tied with prince george's county for the highest in maryland. >> i think we can do better than that. >> yet, counselman george levinthal wants it bumped in increments to $15 an hour by 2022. >> people are paying vastly more than 30% of the rent. they are stretched to afford groceries for the family. forget about affording healthcare. they can't afford it. transportation is a burden. >> i have had small business people came in the office. show me the books. if you do it at this paisley lose my business, i will lose my home. >> counsel p
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$15 an hour but he would prefer it phased in gradually. end goal of 2024 instead of 2022. >> it's true people work too hard for too little. it's true in my opinion that if you do this too quickly you will harm the people you are trying to help and you will harm small business, which in montgomery county is big issue. kevin: the minimum wage issue will come before the full council by the year's end, at this point there is no predicting what the outcome will be. i'm kevin lewis. abc7 news. alison: developing now, president trump released 70-point enforcement plan for immigration reform to congress. he tied the daca renewal in to it. we have more. >> the plan to curve illegal immigration is laid out. to congress. >> it's to get
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>> they worked on trump's campaign and in the trump white house. much of this plan was being crafted. >> the offices of the custom and border patrol and i.c.e. prevented from doing their job. this 70-point plan gets them back to being able to use powers they have. >> the powers include more resources to return illegal border crossers. to restrict grants to so-called sanctuary cities. harsher penalties to those who overstay their visas. it encourages merit-based immigration over family based migration. but the proposal includes completing the construction of a border wall, which senator chuck schumer said the president agreed to leave out when they met about the matter last month. >> we will never be for the wall. it's expensive. it's ineffective. and apparently it's not being paid for by mexico
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nancy pelosi said the list goes beyond what is reasonable and failed to represent any attempt at compromise. it is hard to say where the white house 70-point plan goes from here. what it means for the 800,000 daca recipients. so far the plan received praise from cabinet secretaries but we heard very little from members of congress. reporting in washington, i'm kristine frazao. larry: turkey is urging the state department to reconsider suspension of the turkish visas. the u.s. made the decision following last week's arrest of a turkish man working for the consulate in istanbul. they claim the man had connection oslast year's coup but an allegation that the u.s. says is baseless. alison: look at this. scary moment. fire erupts underneath an american airlines plane. the flight to los angeles was canceled, of course. the loaded equip
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fire while moving cargo to the belly of the plane. one person was hurt. boarding had not started so there were no passengers on board at the time. larry: coming up at "abc7 news at 5:00" -- a t.b. scare in a local school district but the people got this last year. why it's just now being announced. alison: a hollywood movie mogul out of a job. the latest for the fallout of weinstein and the explosive sexual harassment allegations against him. larry: in the breast cancer awareness month we look at the impact on a diagnosis and how it can change a woman's work life. alison: we continue to follow this. breaking news happening in california. you can see the helicopter here zooming in on the homes there in this area. wildfires in the northern part of that state. hundreds of homes, businesses are destroyed. people are evacuating. we have learned one person is dead. we will keep watching this. we'll be right back. your brains
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residents died. survivors were evacuated from the facility. the nursing home has closed and all the employees were laid off. larry: wow! well, the environmental protection agency administrator will scrap the clean power plant. scott pruitt making the announce. at an event with coal miners in kentucky. the obama-era rule is supposed to limit greenhouse gas emissions and it's been hung up in court since last year. alison: steve is here now to talk about the weather. it feels strange now to be october and be so muggy. steve: the second week of october. yesterday, we hit 745 degrees. the -- 75 degrees. the average is 71. if we are doing that at night. my goodness. heat index value in the middle 90's. alison: the rain feels strange, too. so dry. steve: now we had rain yesterday, rain today and now more rain in the forecast. and then on wednesday. more on that in a moment. outside we go. looking good. bay bridge for
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columbus day. clouds are hanging out for the time being. we'll see mostly cloudy skies later tonight. 85 degrees at this hour at reagan national airport. what is going on out there? 84 at dulles. 86 in fredericksburg. 88 in charlottesville. the cool spot on the map is oakland, maryland. 68 degrees. look at the dew point levels. normally we are in the 60s and it feels sticky out there. middle the summer. end of july. early august. dew point in mid-70's. 77 for the dew point. leesburg, with the moisture in the air. 7at reagan national -- 75 at reagan national. heat index values in the 90's. manassas, reagan national, andrews, fredericksburg, above 90. leesburg may be overdone a little bit. but whether you are in the middle 90's or 99, it feels the same. it's hot, uncomfortable. a lot of kids are out there coming home from the after-school
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football and soccer and lacrosse. make sure they have water to move through the everything hour. take a look at the temperatures. 7:00 around 78. middle 70's by 8:00 and 9:00. added clouds. it will stay warm and humid. likely see patchy fog develop late tonight and early tomorrow morning. i don't believe it will cause any travel delays. be forewarned as you move through the day, that overnight you could run into patchy fog. few showers out there now, mainly across montgomery county. a lot of this is not amounting to a lot at all. we so the showers dot the radar for the next hour or so. nothing to become severe. we are traveling. we are expecting anyone traveling on 270 between germantown, gaithersburg, clarksburg. it may slow things down temporary lu -- temporarily but not for long. traffic is light due to the columbus day holiday. it's partly to mostly cloudy skies now. moving through the overnight
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fall in the middle 60's in the suburban locations. downtown d.c., closer to the bay. 68 to 70 degrees. patchy fog. winds are calm. waking up tomorrow morning for tuesday. grab the sunglasses. you will need it throughout the day. temperatures in the 60's early on with the highs rebounding to 80 to 85. depending on the clouds later in the afternoon, it may cool temperatures a little bit. any way you look at it, it's well above average for this time of year. next best chance of showers come moving in the day on wednesday. wednesday night to early thursday. once we get this out of here we will look for a really nice end of the week. beautiful weekend ahead. showers, unsettled weather wednesday and thursday. isolated showers continue on friday. beautiful on saturday and sunday. highs with the upper 70's and the lower 80's. then we cool things down tuesday, wednesday, thursday next week. we are back in the upper 60's for daytime highs. we will see temperatures in the 5
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that is not until next week. nice. a.c. if you have it. keep it on. alison: yeah. steve: i'm not going to complain. when it snows thanksgiving weekend we are all like what is going on. alison: exactly. that does feel like forever since we had rain and that changed yesterday to this morning. larry: richard reeve talked with the local farmers to find out if the crops were impact impacted. richard: northern virginia farmers keep a close eye on the oil and the -- soil and the sky. >> there are a lot of challenges with that. richard: literally too much rain in late june and early july. so much so that tyler had to replant the pumpkin crop. now he worries that the strawberry plant get enough water. >> set up the irrigation and use the irrigation to get the moisture. >> in the last five weeks trace amount of rain here. >>ne
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the field surface here. it keeps them moist. no matter how dry it gets out here. richard: at least it helps but in this case timing is everything. >> we had this drought in the end of june through july. it would be a serious matter there. >> wayne's family has been farming around berryville, virginia, since 1960. he not only worries about his crops but also livestock. he feeds 80 cows. and stockpiles corn and stalks under the horizontal silo. >> i have hay if it does get dry. we have corn solid. the ear and the stalk chopped. >> with luck he could stockpile 500 pumpkins but neither will know the impact from the drought until the crop cash is in hand. richard reeve, abc7 news. larry: still ahead, one of america's coolest neighborhoods is in our backyard.
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>> special story about the fauquier county residents coming together and filling the truck with supplies for puerto rico. coming up in a few minutes we will give you the back story and tell you what is inside and when it is supposed to arrive when abc7 news continues after the break. alison: say it ain't snow? coming up, where it went from spring to winter overnight. larry: oh, boy. abc7 news, the most memorable year night on "dancing with the stars." the good doctor is at 10:00. then stick around for abc7 news at 11:00. nic speak of what we work on for tomorrow on "good morning washington." >> thanks, guys. tomorrow on "good morning washington," computer scans are nothing new but -- >> your computer alerted us it's infected with a virus. >> the frightening talking scam that could cost you everything. >> i let them go in the computer. >> keep it here every ten minutes tomorrow morning at 4:25 on abc7's "good morning
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mississippi. it flooded several casinos. >> you helped us get supplies for those affected by hurricane maria in puerto rico. sam sweeney shows us who made unbelievable donation. >> fauquier county came together for this. take a look at this truck. after seeing the phone bank at abc7 last thursday with the hispanic national law enforcement association, and prince george's county, they have been collecting all of these items from the fauquier county public schools at the warrenton farmhouse. a ton of people came together to bring shampoo, bottled water, dog food and motorized boat. ramen noodles to get to the people of
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thigh rerouted it to puerto rico. aaron, you and your family run a trucking company. what made you make it happen? >> we run aaron's towing out of fauquier county. we decided to take stuff to them to help the families out there that were without items and clothes after the hurricane. >> you got a bunch of organizations. how did you make it come together? >> my mother and father made phone calls. got in contact with the fauquier county sheriff office. they helped generate it. get it going on facebook and a bunch of other websites out there. >> good work. all of this will be loaded into another truck tomorrow morning. off to baltimore before it is put on a ship. then it will arrive in puerto rico later this week or possibly early next week. then it will bis attributed by fema officials --
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distributed by fema officials. great work by those in fauquier county. sam sweeney, back to you in the studio. >> i think trying to deal with this behind closed doors would be more productive. larry: straight ahead at "abc7 news at 5:00" -- a look at the impact as the president opens a feud with the republican senator. >> tuberculosis diagnos
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announcer: you're watching "abc7 news at 5:00". on your side. larry: on this monday, tuberculosis concern at prince george's county high school. two people confirmed with t.b. last year. the parents are just now learning about it. maryland bureau chief brad bell is live with more. brad? brad: well, school system is telling us they are just putting out word. they just got confirmation. the cases here at henry a. wise jr. high school in upper marlboro the last school year. the school system finding out about it at the start of this school year but telling us today they just recently got the diagnosis. so they are just now putting out the word. they are telling us that there were two people in the school with tuberculosis. sources telling us one of the people is no longer here. we
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really there is not that much risk to the current population. >> the risk of exposure is minimal. a healthy person cannot contract it by passing in the hallways for example. we want to make sure that the people have right information about the symptoms and cop tact the health department if you are concerned. brad: so the school system is telling us they put out the word today. they are offering the screening. there is work put in to contact those who might be affected but people who think they could have been in contact with the folks who are not identified are asked to call the health department to tell them they are from wise high school. at this point we are told there is no current risk. sources telling us one of the people sick last year is no longer here in the school. in upper marlboro, brad bell, abc7 news. larry: thank you, brad. new developments in
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water crisis. the special prosecutor announcing a sixth involuntary manslaughter charge. the chief medical executive due in court on a different charge will face the new one. this is tied to an outbreak of legionnaires' disease 2014 to 2515. alison: checking our top stories, three fast-moving wildfires burning their way through the california wine country tonight. one person confirmed dead. authorities told thousands of people to evacuate. the fires are north of napa and they have destroyed 1,500 buildings and burned 50,000 acres. dry and windy conditions make it difficult to fight the fires. larry: montgomery county council extended timeline for proposed increase in the local minimum wage. instead of going up to $15 by 2020, the bill changes to 2022 for large businesses and 2024 for small ones. it changes the definition of a small business from 25 employees to 50. alison: hardline immigration
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are being met with firm noes on capitol hill. in exchange for a deal on allowing dreamers to stay in the country. the trump administration wants funding for border wall with mexico. 10,000 new immigration agents and denial of money to the so-called sanctuary cities. meanwhile, the war of words is escalating tonight between president trump and republican senator bob corker as they try to pass tax reform. corker saying the president is a national security risk. reporter: republican infighting reaching a fever pitch in washington. president trump openly feuding with the senator from his own party. in an interview last night with the "new york times," tennessee senator bob corker saying the president's rhetoric could put the nation, "on a path to world war iii." he likened the white house to an adult daycare center. the back and forth starting after senator corker taking
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president. >> i think secretary tillerson, secretary mattis, and chief of staff kelly are those people that help separate our country from chaos. reporter: the president noticed and fired back on twitter over the weekend saying corker begged trump for endorsement and the have the guts to run for re-election. and members of trump's team hitting back. >> we have all worked with senator corker over the years. we thank him for his service but this is incredibly irresponsible. >> they were once allies. the senator considered a possible v.p. pick. but now corker who announced he will not seek a third term in office openly expressing concerns about trump. even suggesting he needs to be controlled. saying, "i know for a fact that every single day at the white house is a situation of trying to contain him." some republicans aren't happy to see this dispute spill out into public view.
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behind closed doors would be more productive. >> christian holmes, abc7 news. larry: president trump is planning an executive order to allow americans to buy health insurance from policies outside the home state. it follows several failed efforts in congress to repeal and replace the affordable care act. the hope it would create competition and bring down premiums. the president could sign the order next week. the oldest current member of the u.s. senate running for another term. dianne feinstein plans to seek a term. in the tweet, the 84-year-old said a lot more to do. combating climate change. access to healthcare. first elected in 1992, special election. the ranking democrat on the senator judiciary committee. still ahead on abc7 news, the cost of breast cancer. new diagnosis can be life changing and job changing. q: have you seen this man? a woman jumped from a second story window to get away from him. the
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alison: ahead at 6:00, look at this video. a man jumps on to the hood of a school bus and begins screaming at the driver. what set him off and the legal problems he is now facing. larry: the gubernatorial election is one month away. tonight, ralph northam and ed gillespie face off in the third and the final debate at the virginia college at wise. watch it on newschannel8 at 7:00. we'll be right back.
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steve: all right. let's talk about what is going on for the day tomorrow. another warm and another humid day. we have a good amount of sunshine. however, a chance for isolated shower that may pass through. only 10 to a 15% chance. we will see anything at all. highs make it to 80 to 85 degrees. moving through the late afternoon hours. let's talk about the
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nice, beautiful weekend ahead. average high for this weekend is 69 degrees. we will see the temperatures in the upper 70's on saturday. lower 80's on summed. it -- lower 80's on sunday. it will stay dry. so great for football games or hanging out outside. upcoming weekend nearly perfect 10. stay with us. you're watching "abc7 news at
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cnarrator: ed gillespie and i wants to endis ad. a woman's right to choose. ed giof a woman'sd put thpersonal decisions,rge not women and their doctors. as governor, ed gillespie says, i would like to see abortion be banned. if ed gillespie would like to see abortion banned, i would like to see i would like to see i would like to see that ed gillespie never becomes governor.
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q: welcome to "7 on your side" fighting back wall of justice. i'm q mccray. here is the wall of justice. five fugitives. two are new. one wanted by the feds and the other kept a woman captive in her own home. nicole liverette faces a first-degree assault charge and lawrence jacob is wanted for fleeing and eluding police in a traffic stop. they want williams behind bars for a number of outstanding warrants including assault with a dangerous weapon and burglary charges. johnson faces a malicious wounding charge for attacking a woman in prince william county. arquetta is wanted there, too. let's put the wall of justice in motion. tonight the spotlight is on. detectives say johnson beat up a woman
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>> during that encounter she was involved in a physical alternation with her friend. where she bit her friend on the arm and pulled her hair. >> she has been on the lam for six months. >> she is probably in the area. but none of her friends or her family have come forward with her location. >> johnson is five feet. 120 pounds. black hair, brown eyes. wanted for strangelation. if you have any information about johnson give the police department a call. we will have another edition of the fighting back wall of justice next week. i'm q mccray. larry: university of maryland student attacked with a baseball bat. the police say the attack happened outside a student union after two students got in a verbal fight with a passing car. police say the suspects are not students and will face charges. the injured student was treated and released from the hospital. alison: still tom co, life-changing nw
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alison: "7 on your side" in health matters now. diagnosis of breast cancer can be devastating. the new study finds a treatment that a woman chooses can make a difference in their personal and professional lives. breast cancer is a diagnosis that estimated quarter of a million women will receive this year. life changing news. but now new research tells us it might be job changing as well. for most early breast cancers surgical options include mastectomy or the modest options like a lumpectomy. researchers writing in the journal "cancer" want to know what effect they have aside from the medical impacts. they work at 1,000 women working full or part-time before early stage breast cancer diagnosis. seven months after diagnosis one in five wereno
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part-time. full-time workers drop from 84% to 65%. women were more than twice as likely to stop work after a single mastectomy. three times as likely to stop work after double mastectomy. compared to those with breast can serving therapy. for some it's a reminder that cancer treatment affects all parts of life. so talk to your doctor to find the approach that works best for you. new today, researchers developed a test to accurately predict breast cancer risk for women who don't test positive for the braca i and ii genes. it will enter clinical practices in the next six months. larry: dove soap is apologizing for the mess it made with the new ad. fire storm of outrage spreading on social media after the i ad shows black woman in dark brown shirt to show a white
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page shirt to show a third woman. it starts with the line "ready for a dove shower?" >> we are putting out an ad to tell young ladies your darker skin is not beautiful. this is a tone deaf ad. larry: the ad was quickly removed and dove shows it was trying to show dove body wash is for every woman but the company says it missed the mark. alison: good news for drivers. gas prices continue to follow a month after hurricane harvey knocked some of the refineries offline in the gulf. gallon of regular averages $2.57 nationwide. that is a five-cent drop from last week. however, gas is still at least 30 crepts -- 30 cents more expensive than a month ago. three are still offline and ten others are at reduced rate. >> economists richard thaeler is recipient of the nobel prize in economics. he was lauded
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choices are not always rational. >> you know, i have been at this for 40 years. it was really out in the wilderness 40 years ago. it has been a long journey. i'm happy about that. larry: for the second year in a row the nobel prize winners are all men. in response the committee that choose nobel prize winners will meet this winter to discuss ethnic and gender diversity issues. alison: preparations underway for opening of the wharf. thousands are expected to descend on the d.c. waterfront beginning thursday to check out the first phase of the 24-acre redevelopment. in addition to new restaurants it will be home to the anthem, a 6,000-person concert hall. drivers should prepare
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changes to accommodate the crowds. we should tell you one of the top ten coolest neighborhoods in the country is right here in the backyard. larry: pretty cool. capital river front and yarth park ranking number six on the list. top three neighborhoods on the list east liberty and lawrenceville areas of pittsburgh followed by avondale in chicago and point loma in san diego. alison: what do you think? larry: how about that? alison: nice. larry: cool. alison: the yards park area has something for all ages. you know, it's kid friendly and a lot of great restaurants. larry: it's close to metro. it forces you to walk. get out and walk and enjoy. they have done a great job with it and still building. alison: good stuff. still ahead tonight at 6:00, the red cross puts out a call for help after another natural disaster. fighting back after hateful message attacked a political candidate. we will show you the artist's unique response to act of hatred. we are following a big developing story, the wildfires turning dely
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startling new images. new information coming up at 6:00. larry: from temps in the 70's to snow. not here. it happened in colorado overnight. sometimes it feels like that. winter storm warning accompanynying the first snowfall of the season in central colorado and southeast wyoming. they are expecting snow to fall all day but it is expected to melt because the ground is warm. alison: you had me nervous for a second. larry: steve will tell us. we will go from 85 to -- steve: i hope so. larry: not overnight. >> no. warm for the everything and another warm day tomorrow. look at the temperatures. hard to believe this is the second week of october and we are talking middle 80's at the reagan national airport. 86 at warrenton and 82 at winchester. feels like temperatures or the heat index values will make it feel hotter than that. still hanging on to the lower
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closer to the bay. they feel like 95 degrees. 84 for a feels like temperature in winchester. cooler off to the west of us. for this evening it's going to stay warm and humid. keep the a.c. on and grab an outdoor cold drink or go for a walk to the ice cream shop. temperatures are falling to the middle 70's moving in the early evening hours. 8:00 or 9:00. the temperatures are still around75 degrees. waking up tomorrow morning it's warm and humid. not as sticky as earlier this morning but still around 70 degrees downtown d.c. planner for the day tomorrow. highs make it to 80 to 85. we may see a stray shower pass through. the chances are immaterial willed. it's only 10 to 15% risk. most of you won't see anything at all moving through the day tomorrow. highs are cooler to the west of us. lower 80's to cumberland and
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head back to the news desk. alison: steve, thank you very much. "7 on your side" now. it's national pizza month. larry: yes! alison: your favorite month. larry: every month. alison: a new nationwide poll from california pizza kitch found if americans could eat one food for the rest of their lives, it would be pizza. larry: yeah. 80% of those surveyed would be willing to give up taxi and ride sharing service, social media, coffee and bacon for a year to have free pizza whenever they want. survey found the rock is the top celebrity people would want to eat pizza with. how about that? americans spend $47.50 month on pizza. that is $570 a year. alison: sorry. the rock thing. [laughter] erin: where did that come from? alison: i understand liking pizza but i don't think i coul
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year for pizza? steve: you just wake up and eat pizza. larry: bacon is the one for me. erin: as long as it didn't make me fat i'd be fine. larry: the bad part, the more you eat. erin: i wouldn't turn it down. larry: one of the best pizza cities in the world. erin: where the nats are right now. they are in chicago for what is now a best of three series. max scherzer on the mound making his long awaited nlds start this afternoon. so far it's a scoreless game in the fifth. neither team able to break through yet. with 162 games in the regular season, day off for professional baseball player is always welcomed. the nats had four days off before game one of the nlds. a time that the nationals closer sean doolittle will remember as he became the first national to ever get a ring in october. they say your feet will bring you to where your heart is. >> it came together so
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some of it. >> nationals reliever sean doolittle and erin dolan planned to get married in the off-season. but instead they decided to elope. >> we had a quick five-minute ceremonies and then we were eating tacos together as a married couple within an hour. it was great. >> they shared a rare afternoon off and quickly arranged a wedding on the national mall. >> 10 out of 10. >> pretty good. erin: how do you rank it? >> more o'ventful than most of the off-days. >> how did you meet? >> we went out for frozen yogurt and we been together ever since. >> that sounds better than we met on twitter. >> but they were set up by the a's pitcher mccarthy. >> i felt good not getting catfished with anything. brandon was friend with her. >> i thought sean doolittle was a fake name. very little on google
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the -- on you. >> you're wearing socks and sandals right now. >> who do i have to impress? i'm married. >> we wanted to share the playoffs together as a married couple and it means a lot to do it married. erin: it was so fun getting to know them. the story fell in my lap. i had it planned and then they eloped the day before. i happened to be in area we were planning to do the story. so cool. alison: they seem like a great pair. erin: they are. so fun. alison: thank you. still to come here at 5:00, out of a job. harvey weinstein company cuts ties. as a new voice join list of the possible victims. the latest just ahead.
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larry: harvey weinstein is out. fired by his own company. this comes as his list of accusers grow. reporter: the company that bears his name has had enough of harvey weinstein. they fired the cofounder citing conduct exposed by the "new york times" which publish allegations he sexually harassed employees and actresses like rose mcgowan and ashley judd. allegation spanned three decades. firing weinstein took three days. >> he has a reputation that proceeds him in hollywood. with that comes fear. >> weinstein shaped american independent films. so much so meryl streep once referred to him as "god." today he is called the behavior inexcusable and praised the intrepid women who raised their voices. a new voice joined chorus. >> we go downstairs and there are two guys in a kitchen.
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described an encounter that she said she had with weinstein a decade ago. >> that is where he cornered me, in this vestibule and leaped in and tried -- leaned in and tried to kiss me which i rebuffed. i said whoa, whoa, whoa. >> weinstein has been contrite and combative. promising to seek help but threatening to sue the paper who exposed him. people's whose career he championed are turning away. mark ruffalo called it a disgusting abuse of power and horrible. >> people believe it's important for celebrities to voice support and condemn what weinstein is accused of. >> by sunday harvey weinstein was fired by the remaining members including his own brother bob. jonathan: now at 6:00 -- >> as far
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explosive. jonathan: a dozen fires raging out of control in california and word is they have turned deadly. nancy: plus, road rage on a school bus. why he dove on the hood of the bus and the consequences he is facing. larry: they are smarter than the average bear. jonathan: how they snuck into a restaurant and then pigged out. announcer: now "abc7 news at 6:00". on your side. >> this is my neighborhood in flames. completely in flames. jonathan: you can hear it in her voice. explosive wildfires are spreading and turn deadly. at this hour, at least one person has been killed. two are hurt. in what is a
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more than 1,500 homes and businesses are gone. burned. 20,000 people ordered to flee. >> i don't know if i have a home when i go home. >> this is your life. jonathan: among places evacuated those are the gurneys and the beds removed from hospitals. we are seeing the video of an attorney mobile home community destroyed in rosenberg. i mean gone. we are told several people are missing at this hour from the community. nancy: a wildfire in california grown to 200 acres to draw close to 150 firefighters on the scene. it broke out a week ago. the rough terrain made it a challenge to get it under control. the u.s. forest service closed several trails as a precaution. today's rain brought much needed relief. not just for the firefighters out there but for the farms and the lawns in our area. steve rudin is tracking this for us. steve: shower
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