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and mississippi southeast. this all happened at 3:45 this afternoon. now, moments ago we heard from both the mayor and the police, they said that apparently there was an argument out on the street. then gunshots. the two african-american males seen leaving the scene in a dark colored toyota corolla vehicle. a lot of folks say the students walk back and forth on the street. coming to and from school. certainly a safety concern for many here. authorities now looking for the two suspects. we will stay on the developing story. reporting live, richard reeve, abc7 news. jonathan: thanks. we are following breaking news from seat pleasant where an arrest has been made in connection to a house fire that killed two people. thomas deal from d.c. is accused of setting that fire at a vacant home. the victims have now been identified gary driver and derek mcdowell. both of prince george's county. a motive still in this case has not been reveale
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racing to be ready. mechanics shoring up cars and farmers protecting the plants and the entire bracing for the first blast of winter. jonathan: if you thought it was cold now it's nothing than what it was. they are going to activate the hypothermia alert. that so so no one is out in the cold. this is prompting an alert that is serious. bill: tomorrow is the wind chill factor. not the air temperature. this is how it feels. 23 to to 33 degree range. it's cold out there. it's chilly outside but not bad. 48 at dulles. mid-50's around the district. wind chills that are only a few degrees shy of that. that is because the winds right now are not all that strong. a few light showers.
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here is where we are watching. freeze watch in effect. freeze warning in effect. no matter how you slice it, it's chilly. we will be talking about that and we will break down the wind chill forecast for you. that's how you should plan to dress. jonathan: computer alert for a change coming to i-66. starting december 4, the busy commuter route will include tolls. they have been testing this for a while and now it is real. express lanes run from the beltway to the roosevelt bridge. "7 on your side" with sam sweeney live in the mobiletrak7 to explain how it works. sam? sam: they have been testing it. they are almost over. they will begin taking a toll on december
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take a live look. the traffic is moving on 66. that is not always the case. that is what ddot goal is. they want the traffic to move at 45 miles per hour minimum at any given time. more congestion builds in this part of 66, they will raise the price. before during rush hour if you weren't allowed to drive here if you were the only person in the car. now you will drive by yourself. but you have to pay a toll. if you have more than one person in the car, you won't need to pay a toll. you just flip ez pass over to the h.o.v. setting. this begins december 4. only ones exempt are buses and motorcycles. no longer those who have hybrid vehicles. you will have to pay as well if you only have one person in the car. this is from beltway to route 29 in rosslyn december 4. reporting live on 66, sam sweeney. back to you. jonathan: get ahead of the traffic problems using the abc7
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just tap on traffic to access road maps, the live cameras and even check mote row status -- metro status. nancy: just in, driver behind this chaotic scene at the u.s. naval academy died. this is the parking lot between the pray mare school and the golf course. academy says the driverer was not a cadet nor an instructor. the investigation continues. high-flying rescue in southeast d.c. the man in the basket is a construction worker hit by a steel beam. in is second place southeast and the worker is expected to survive. jonathan: developing now u.s. senate candidate and the "ten commandments" judge roy moore in alabama accused of sex crimes. a woman told the "washington post" in 1979, moore kissed her, undressed her and made her perform sex acts when she was 14 years old. he was 32 at the time. prosecutor as well. other women now have made simir
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and counting are already condemning moore. >> if there is any stress of truth he should resign. jonathan: the special election in alabama is less than a month away. moore's campaign called called e report garbage and the definition of fake news and intentional defamation. >> one of the virginia most powerful congressmen calling at it career. bob goodlot will not seek re-election. his district includes front royal and much of western virginia. the third most powerful committee head to step down in the past week. nancy: not guilty plea from the man accused of attacking his neighbor and u.s. senator rand paul. >> 17m2909. nancy: the attorney for him
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calling the entire thing trivial and a mistake. senator paul says he had six broken ribs as well as fluid in his lungs. he said the neighbor ambushed him when he had ear protection on to mow the lawn. jonathan: new developments of the massacre inside the texas church. the church's pastor says the building will be demolished. 26 people were killed. more than 20 others were wounded when a gunman opened fire in sunday's services. a plan is discussed to turn the site into a memorial. nancy: all week we exposed major failures to allow the texas gunman to buy the gun in the first place. nathan baca uncovered an air force report showing it knew it had serious problems. >> this is the form the air force security services center should have filled out when devin kelley was convicted of domestic violence in 2012 and it should have been filled in with his criminal
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investigation. they have this form, r-84, never sent to the f.b.i. gun purchase database. >> if this doesn't happen fast it can have deadly consequences. >> kim leads the national network to end domestic violence. >> whether it's military law enforcement or civilian law enforcement, if they don't collect the data, if they don't collect fingerprints at the time, years later it's almost impossible. >> "7 on your side" discovered a 2014 letter from the air force to the pentagon's inspector general that said 329 former navy and air force members had missing fingerprints and criminal reports because many of them were no longer service members the air force says its only option to track down the air force former personnel to ask them to volunteer the fingerprints. that effort largely failed. the air force asked for permission to stop trying. how many fingerprints failed to correct is revealed in a separate undisclosed report that "7 on your side" is working to find out. devin
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bought a gun from anybody other else other than licensed dealer. but because they didn't send out the form he didn't even have to try. nathan baca, abc7 news. jonathan: this case has folks wondering what in the world? she threw urine on metro bus driver and now the judge throwing the book at her. we tell you the sentence coming up. nancy: massive pro
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nancy: a raucous scene on capitol hill today as the students from around the country protest support of daca. students from nine area schools walked out of class as well to join the demonstration. daca protects immigrants brought to the united states illegally as children. president trump announced he will would end daca. jonathan: new tonight bail denied to the man accused of helping plan the 2012 attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi. the attack killed four americans and including our ambassador. the attorney claims that his client is only guilty of looting that burned out building. nancy: a repulsive attack, that is word from the judge who threw
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that threw urine on a metrobus driver. >> it pierced the heart of the operators that do the job on a daily basis and day after day deal with assault. nancy: in addition to jail time opal brown will serve probation and be banned from the bus line. jonathan: coming up for us, powerful images. he unleers gunfire on a.t.m. the bank he targeted and the major failure coming up. >> the rare honor people who ran toward gunfire. likely to prevent massacre in alexan
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what if there was only one haircut? now what if there was only one mattress? one is not a choice. choose your mattress with tulo. everything you want in a bed, in a box. jonathan: no question there was minutes of pure terror when a gunman released hail of bullets on a congressional baseball practice in alexandria. so nice to see scalise up on his feet now. moments after the gunfire rang out, the officers returned fire and ran in harm's way. nancy: true heroes. five of the officers received a rare award and cheryl conner
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cheryl: still leaning on arm crutches and he moves slower. >> thank you. cheryl: representative steve scalise gives credit to the officers for every step he takes. >> these five brave men and women prevented what would have been mass execution. cheryl: crystal griner and david bailey, capitol police officers and three alexandria police officers. there these men and women we are honoring today ran toward the threat. >> today, no political divide. >> seeing steve buzz around on the scooter of his makes us feel grateful we even root for lsu if it doesn't conflict with our own interests. >> to see him healthy and walking is to see our prayers injured. cheryl: in june scalise and others practicing for the congressional baseball game when a gunman opened fire. >> special agent griner was sh
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returned fire to try to stop the shooter. >> today she walked with just a cane. representative scalise was shot in the hip. two others were injured. officer bailey's mom traveled from brazil to be here. >> he has never given me problems. he was a very good boy. cheryl: all five were awarded the medal of honor. >> the chief of the capitol police says the medal of honor only awarded a handful of times and typically only goes to capitol police officers. cheryl: exception for exceptional work. on capitol hill, cheryl conner, abc7 news. nancy: we congratulate them as well. meantime this video. it's impossible to forget rival texas motor clubs in deadly shoot out. today the first case went to the jury. nine people were killed. one was charged with directing the criminal activity that led to the brawl. he argues hea
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self-defense but could face life in prison if convicted. jonathan: "7 on your side" with a crime alert. i want you to look at something. this man here standing in front of the a.t.m. with a gun opening fire with a machine. this is sunday morning when the captures captured the scene on b.b.&t in mountain vernon. in front of a grocery store and only a block from a school. despite the assault from the a.t.m. the would-be thief got away with nothing. nancy: man fighting back against porch pirates found the crime tighting tool target of a -- crime fighting tool the target of a thief. this is all caught on camera. yeah. that is thief stealing a doorbell surveillance camera from a home in portland. the camera's backup battery kept it rolling until it left the wi-fi range to give a clear image of the thief. so far, no arrests. two hours after hitting the streets, the first
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shuttle bus in las vegas got in an accident. it made a planned stop yesterday and the truck driver didn't see it and back into it. "no driver," it says. jonathan: clearly. nancy: but no one was hurt. clearly it did not work out that well for the first trek. humans are needed. jonathan: that is not the bus' fault. it's the driver who said i didn't see it. it's a bus! what were you looking for? bill: i chuckle because the irony about it. jonathan: maiden voyage, off to auspicious start. nancy: growing pains. bill: the big story the temperatures. here is what it looks like right now. national harbor. a chilly night. it's not bad. colder tomorrow. we'll get to that in a second. 48 is the temperature outside. winds are light. the humidity levels are not bad. current temperatures 45 in winchester and 45 around
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culpeper at 50. light jacket. you will be good to go tonight. what i want to do is show you the hour-by-hour wind chill temperatures. this is how it feels. when you add the wind in the equation to look at temperatures. you go out tonight. in the 40s. 30s out there at luray. but the winds kick in. the front comes through. man, tomorrow morning, watch the difference. we get you out the door. you head to work. maybe you work outside. 18 in leesburg. 26 in d.c. manassas, 22. these are the morning wind chill temperatures tomorrow morning. we go to the lunch hour. still windy. 10 to 20 miles per hour. chilly day. we have widespread wind chill factors below freezing. frederick is 25. annapolis around 26 degrees. that is 12:00 noon. it's going to be at or below freezing for everybody. that is t
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6:00. high school football games you want to layer up for this. 8:00 at night. wind chill factors in the teens. ultimately dropping down to the low teens with the wind chill. the low themselves are near freezing mark. there is a freeze warning in effect. that the pink shade. everybody else under phrase watch. watch means conditions are favorable. warning is it's happening. watch is in effect for tomorrow night. they will move it to a freeze warning almost no doubt. so we put a weather alert on there. if you go out tomorrow that is typical, light jacket and you are hanging out. it's dangerously cold with the wind chill factor. we want to alert you, that you need to bundling up. i don't think that is overstated tomorrow. 26 tomorrow morning. that is the coldest times. the winds are not as strong. wind chill factor is not as low. we warm it up a little on
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versus ball thing didn't work out. wall outscored lonzo but they lost the game. so the matchup isn't getting the buzz. right now the wizards are focused on what is getting a win. not what is going on social media and underestimating teams. >> we have a big target on our back. we did the same target and we stuck up on teams. now they are sneaking up on us and we have to be prepared to be ready for the situations. got to talk. got to believe. got to be confident in yourself. but if you don't back it up, there is no point in doing it. robert: redskins have vikings on sunday. momentum on the redskins side after winning in seattle. that was almost a week ago. minnesota doesn't care about any of that. however, could that momentum help the redskins at home? players aren't counting on it. >> they can but we don't want to lay and rely on the game. there is only, we only have one season. >> i look at it as man, i'm at home. coming out
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guys something to cheer for. they are -- i will give them a show. robert: finally when you thought ezekiel elliott was good to go for fantasy. yank them back. suspension back on. hearing set for december 1. jonathan: why couldn't it happen when i played a team with ezekiel against me. robert: it never works out. >> how many teams? >> five! >> i thought it was 20. jonathan: five! nancy: two words. bundle up. bill: yeah. like i said before it's not overstated. temperatures tomorrow with the wind chill that will struggle to get above freezing at any time period in the day. we are talking 3:00 in the afternoon. we have plenty of sunshine. so you look out the window, beautiful day from the inside looking out. but deceiving. it will be chilly. jonathan: bring the dogs out. don't let them sleep outside. nancy: bill, thank you. "world news
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tonight, breaking news. the new allegations late today, leveled against two major figures. first, the man known as the ten commandments judge, roy moore, running for senate. now, accused of sexual contact with a 14-year-old girl. also, the famous comedian, louis c.k., and new allegations tonight of lewd conduct. late today, president trump's former long-time body guard and what he now says about the president in moscow, and the alleged offer of five russian women. brian ross reports. your money. and the scramble over taxes tonight. republicans in the senate and their own plan just out moments ago. who wins, who doesn't? and will there be a showdown? snow and freezing
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