boulevard in langely park last sunday morning. bell rolled up. flashed a badge. told him he was in a dangerous neighborhood and offered him a ride home in the car. a police model ford crown victoria complete with the police lights. instead, detectives say he drove him to a nearby location and sexually assaulted him in the backseat. >> this young man was preyed upon. and the manner in which bell presented himself didn't allow for the victim to offer any questions. he came up to him. i give me your i.d. pats him down. richard: he faces assault charges and the victim took a picture of bell's license plate as he drove away. that is how they tracked him down. inside the car they found two other driver's licenses. they are concerned there are

they are investigating that right now. live in palmer park, richard reeve, abc7 news. nancy: rich, thank you. a federal grand jury indicting a potomac doctor for prescribing amphetamines, specifically adderall to patients who didn't need. according to the indictment dr. vaughn wrote the prescriptions to four women at two hooter's restaurants. he lost his medical license and he faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted. larry: there is new information tonight as the "7 on your side" track allegation that teachers and staff at ballou high school were faking grades of students so they would graduate. jonathan: the i-team learned 98% of the students from the d.c. public school enrolled in the university of the district of columbia are in remedial classes. nathan baca is live outside the school with an update for us. nathan? nathan: that is right. virtually every student who graduated from d.c. public schools and came here to u.d.c.

to catch up. we know that. the i-team obtained interim u.d.c. documents. >> jasmine, a d.c. public schools graduate and now learning biology at u.d.c. presentation says 126 of 128 d.c.p.s. graduate needed remedial courses. that is 98%. >> it makes me feel disappointed. but then again that is not surprising. for the d.c. public schools we don't get as much better education as a school that will probably be like a private school. >> joe weeden says this should raise parental alarms. >> it's shocking. we put a lot of faith in the schools to make sure the students are ready for the career college success. it's clear that is not happening. >> u.d.c. says it wishes the fewer students needed catch-up courses the university is

>> any college would prefer that. but you have to remember this is a partnership. we take the students where they are. nathan: d.c. public schools chancellor wilson tells us he is hoping that students who believe they did not get the education that they needed to contact the public schools they want to hear from the students. we have the contact information on the "7 on your side" story in the abc7 app. reporting live, nathan baca, abc7 news. jonathan: thank you. the ice team started to look into the claims that students graduated despite missing 75 school days in the senior year alone. a former teacher turning whistle blower said part of the problem is pressure for the teachers to get good marks on their own evaluations. >> there was a lot of pressure surrounding that. the whole thing on there like this percent of your kids have to be passing with a "d" or higher. not just that. there is a portion that says

percentage of kids in your class attending to get this score. so it's like you are putting all of these uncontrollable variables on the teacher. larry: you can hear much more from the teacher's interview clicking on "faking the grade" that you find on the news app. nancy: all of this comes a month after allegations of grade fixing in prince george's county schools. today the prince george's county chapter of the naacp delivered a letter to maryland governor larry hogan saying it has no confidence in the leadership of the county to fix the problems. the governor says he will take the meeting and he told maryland bureau chief brad bell he will consider all options. >> there are serious concerns. serious wrongdoing. widespread. that is what the investigation found and what the naacp believes and the school board believes and the independent investigators believe. it's beyond me why the county refuses to do anything about it. nancy: abcertain

inflation -- absenteeism, grade inflation and other issues, we want to hear from you on what is happening in local classrooms. you can e-mail us or call us, the number on your screen. jonathan: developing now, russell simmons is stepping away from the companies after being accused of sexual misconduct. the screen writer wrote in an essay published today in the early 1990's simmons offered her a ride home and took her to her new york apartment against her will and had sex with her. she is the granddaughter of lena horn. nancy: matt lauer issued a statement saying, "some of what is said about me is untrue or mischaracterized but there is enough truth in the stories to make me feel embarrassed and ashamed." that statement one day after the "today" show abruptly fired the host following accusations of inappropriate sexual behavior.

conyers is in the hospital tonight. diagnosis? stress. his attorney says the michigan democrat was dizzy and had chest pains this morning. tonight minority leader nancy pelosi and house speaker paul ryan among those on capitol hill calling for the colleague to resign after accusations of harassment. conyers says he is staying put. >> put out a statement. looking forward to fighting this terrible. nancy: in the statement a spokesperson says senator al franken takes thousands of photos and never intentionally engaged in sexual misconduct after an army veteran accused the minnesota democrat of groping her during a photo op in kuwait 14 years ago. she is now the fifth woman to accuse him. larry: the white house will not confirm or deny reports that secretary of state rex tillerson could soon be out of a job. according to the "washington post," "new york times," and others, tillerson would be replaced by c.i.a. director mike pompeo.

house chief of staff john kelly includes arkansas senator tom cotton taking pompeo's job at langely. >> when the president loses confidence in someone, they will no longer serve in the capacity they are in. the president was here today with the secretary of state. they even gauged in a foreign lead -- they engaged in a foreign leader visit. they are continuing to work together. larry: tillerson's tenure included public disagreement with the white house. pompeo meantime has a close relationship with the president, giving him his daily security briefing. nancy: parliament renewing call for the prime minister to revoke invitation to president to visit the u.k. that is after trump retweeted videos posted by far right group. >> he is either racist, incompetent, unthinking or all three. >> the leader of the group that the president retweeted convicted in the u.k. of religiously

harassment and none of the videos have been verified as authentic. at the moment, theresa may says the invitation stands. jonathan: another invitation stands is the president trump to deliver "state of the union" to joint session of congress. today paul ryan formally invite 2 the president to speak on january 30. nancy: we are following breaking news from delaware where a 4.4-magnitude earthquake hit near tore. -- dover. some people in maryland reporting it was felt as far as our area. no report of damage yet. this is just coming in the newsroom moments ago. we will follow the story for you throughout the newscast. larry: that will get your attention. right now the first family is getting ready to light the national christmas tree for the first time. this year's celebration includes performances by the beach boys, mannheim steamroller, wynona and kathy lee gifford. nancy: not a bad night. but meteorologist josh knight is standing by in the weather center to track the chance for

hopefully they will hold off until after that tree is lit. josh: that is exactly what i am expecting to happen. they are pretty far off. barely to western maryland. still quite a bit to go. i don't think they will be here until 8:00. so good news there. temperatures are in the mid-50's for most of us. so relatively comfortable considering december starts tomorrow. tomorrow. we have a chance of rain that is holding off after the time frame. by tomorrow we are back to sunshine. but a lot cooler. we will talk more about that in a few minutes. nancy: thank you. coming up at 5:00, making progress. the amazing report on a maryland woman shot in the head in las vegas. >> plus american airlines suffering an embarrassing computer glitch yesterday giving pilots too much time off in the holidays. now it has been 24 hours. what has happened? what

i'm sam sweeney with the latest update coming up. jonathan: later for us, some people take time to decorate. others want to look without the work. meet decorators that are ready to help. nancy: going back out to the white house. president trump approaching podium for the national tree lighting ceremony. let's hear what he has to say. president trump: i want to thank you very much kathy lee. we are here at presidents park. we want to wish everybody a merry christmas, happy new year. have unbelievable holidays. we are now going to light a very beautiful tree. i'll ask our first lady to get ready and maybe we'll do a countdown from ten. so we'll go ten. nine. eight. seven. six. five. four. 3. two. one. [cheers & applause] trump

tonight? thank you so much. ♪ >> ♪ let every heart ♪ prepare ♪ and heaven and nature sing ♪ and heaven and nature sing ♪ and heaven and nature sing larry: it's so nice out tonight. the president and the first lady lighting the national tree out on the ellipse. a very quick speech. nancy: it was. larry: quick countdown and away he went. the tree is gorgeous. michelle: the first time president trump is lighting the national christmas tree. jonathan: a tradition dating back to 1923. nancy: this is the 95th annual ceremony. the tree comes from virginia. 28 feet tall with 75,000 l.e.d. lights. it's light up in gold, silver and white. jonathan:

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nancy: new information tonight as american airlines works to make sure it has enough pilots for all the holiday flights. the airline says at this point just a few hu

unassigned but the pilots association begs to differ. sam sweeney live at reagan national airport tonight working to get to the bottom of this. sam? sam: nancy, american airlines thought the skies were clearing. they said in the last 24 hours they filled thousands of flights with the pilots for the month of december. but late this afternoon, the union representing the pilots said that is not true. >> the threats of flights canceled would make my job and my life difficult. >> hundreds of the pilots stepped up to fill open flights. while others believe they will get all the passengers to the destination. >> it's embarrassing for the airline. it will cost them money in terms of the extra money for

if there are people not booking flights on american because of it but in the end they will probably get where they are going. >> but in the end the union representing the american pilots released a statement saying thousands of flights are unstaffed and it's concerned about the potential of a significant schedule disruption and american says that is disingenuous and there are reserve pilots ready to fill the void. >> the unlon pointing out what the airline has done. they expect it this is going to be okay in the end. but the union is doing their job. jonathan: a sigh of relief. that could have been ugly. >> didn't work out. >> how often this might have

about it because twitter wasn't around. jonathan: the nice part -- nancy: everyone wants to be home for christmas. jonathan: at least they caught it the weeks before. >> we are talking about the possible showers coming our way. josh: they are crossing to west virginia. by the time they get to us, really light. not packing a punch. timing is gold for most of us to expect it predominantly later this evening closer to 8:00 and 9:00. we are watching as the line of showers is moving our way. a cold front farther west. that is going to bring us chillier air for the next few days as well. zoom in. not many of us dealing with the rain. morgan town heavier now and around d.c. it's quiet. run through the future cast again to finalize the timing. few showers in the shenandoah valley by the time we get to 7:00. a few may sneak in early. we will go closer to 8:30 is when i think we s

starting to move through. you notice they are here for maybe a half an hour to an hour. that is about it. 9:00 they will continue to mauve east. as we get closer to 10:30, 11:00, not having a problem. so really a small window that you have to dodge rain tonight to let out the dog before going to bed, most of us are already done with the showers. heading out to dinner or anything like that, dry weather. 7:00 to 8:00. we head to tomorrow morning and we will start off cooler. not bad. not looking to hit freezing mark tonight which is nice considering we will get a little bit of the moisture out there. we are at 37 in winchester tomorrow. cool but it's not too bad. the problem, i guess you can say problem, we don't warm up too much. we have sunshine but we top out around 53 degrees. heading to the weekend it's cool still. 52 on saturday. that is the big day for the national harbor. dry and partly cloudy.

but it's not 70 degrees like yesterday. 56 on sunday. we will hang on to the mild numbers on monday and tuesday. this here, the next chance of rain for tuesday and wednesday is a stronger cold front. let me show you those numbers. next weeks late thursday and friday and the weekend is when we will see the temperatures drop off. michelle: i'm michelle marsh. there is an earthquake near dover, delaware, and it's 4.4 magnitude and could be felt here. the epicenter is described sioux miles east of it. the powe

significant. it wasn't until august of 2011, the last time a quake hit our area. it was magnitude 5.8 in virginia and d.c. as far away as north carolina. that earthquake damaged the national monument and the national cathedral. we checked with the cathedral and there is no damage from the quake. we are checking on the washington monument. they didn't even know. as soon as we get an update and the pictures of potential damage you will see it here first. jonathan: that is a sizable quake for the area. you could walk around with the cracks that you didn't see before. it can cause the 2 x 4 a

new information about any cuts that the president plans to make to the national monuments. why this flu season could be the worst in years. >> a look at what is coming up tonight --

we want to update you now on breaking news regarding an earthquake that hit the state of delaware. it's felt in our area and well north and northeast of delaware. this is from the united states geological survey. where this earthquake was centered around dover, delaware, here but all the light blue spots that you see here are reports that have come to the u.s. joe logical website of the people who felt the earthquake. notice that it's felt way up around the new york city area. a lot of folks around the philadelphia area felt it as well. our area across the chesapeake bay felt it as well. there are reports from anne arundel, montgomery county, and even down into virginia here. the darker the shade of blue, which this is darker. that means they felt it stronger according to the united states geological

survey. there have been reports up through baltimore. there is just one in that area. this is centered six miles northeast of dover and 7 kilometers deep, which is fairly shallow and usually means there should have been violent shaking with it. we are still following the breaking news. more reports coming in the newsroom as well cover this. but a lot of you felt the earthquake that hit the dover, delaware, area a short time ago. back to you. jonathan: thank you. jonathan: the usgs ask people to report to them so that is why it's instantaneous and the number of people and how far away they felt it. "7 on your side" this everything with the health matters. there is a warning about w

in the united states. health officials say the australia flu season just about over was the worst they have had in years. they say that the u.s. flu season often mirrors australia's. get a flu shot. wash your hands frequently. if you do get sick, don't go to work. stay home. nancy: good advice. it went from housing the caps and wizards to a place to shop. now the land in prince george's county is about to become a hospital. >> the artist rendering depict a beautiful state-of-the-art regional medical center to replace the aging p.g. hospital center. for decade it's been a dream of patients, doctors and politicians. tonight, finally the work is really happening. at an elaborate ceremony today ground was officially broken. >> we are committing $200 million

state-of-the-art facility. >> it will feature 121-story tower, two heli-pads, a trauma center, heart surgery center and host cancer program. all built outside the beltway from fedex field where the cap center used to be. the movie theaters stays but all of this is getting torn down. much already has been. this is where the front door of the hospital can be. >> rushern baker gets emotional as he talks about it. as a care-give irfor his wife he knolls the value of the quality healthcare. >> we are not building a building. we are providing comfort and hope to peole

in largo, brad bell, abc7 news . >> we have an update on tina frost still ahead. >> the i-team is still digging into the shocking investigation into kids not showing up for classes at ballou high school in the district. and still graduating. up next, a school board member is calling

michelle: i'm michelle marsh with new information on the earthquake near dover, delaware, we have been tracking for you. we just got off the phone and the police tell us there are no reports of damage. so that is a big relief to hear there is no damage. we are just getting word. we can drop the lower graphic. we are getting word this is now considered a magnitude 4.1. so it's the early stages, they are trying to figure out how powerful it was. so initially 4.4, downgraded to 4.1. if you consider the earthquake that many people recall from 2011, we want to point out that the one experience today near dover was less intense than the one from 2011. to give you pe

one in 2011 was 25 times bigger than the one today and 125 times more powerful. so that gives you an idea of the intensity and why it's pretty likely that there was no damage. as the dover police report at this time. they are checking the area. this one was felt as far away as long island and connecticut. people reported feeling a tremor. when we get more information we'll pass it along to you. that is the latest from the "live desk." back to you. nancy: thank you. "7 on your side" hearing the students not showing up for class and graduating anyway isn't the only concern at the d.c. ballou high school. the shocking riverlations are leading a school board member to ask for system wide investigation. and scott taylor joins us from the satellite center tonight. scott: it's stacked this way, mayor on tom, city council next and the d.c. state

board. the problem is some of what is going on in the schools is not relayed from the top to the bottom. ballou high school in the middle on the huge graduation scandal, now a parent is telling the i-team issues at ballou go much deeper. she says she complained earlier about the high rate of the teacher turnover. earlier this year more than 20 teachers quit. >> look of teachers and the look of the courses means you might not get in certain colleges. scott: this comes on the heel of the allegation that 26 students graduated from a high school last year everyone though they missed 100 days of classes. >> we're concerned this is a system wide issue. scott: state school board issue represents ballou high school and confirmed tanya's concerns are real. he says the district not giving

to data for each school is causing many of the issues. >> i want to see where we are failing the students. >> you are a board member and you don't know what the going on. >> exactly. that is the frustrating part. the residents of ward eight sent me to the board to get a honest deal for their children and families. it's hard when you don't have access to the information you need to make the decision. >> earlier today i reached out for comment and i got an e-mail from them and they say sorry for the delay. we have no comment. thank you for reaching out." scott taylor, abc7 news. nancy: thank you very much. if you have information on what is going on in classroom in the d.c. public schools, the "7 on your side" i-team wants to hear from you. you can e-mail us at tips@wjla.com or call the hotline, the number on the screen.

703-340-3170. jonathan: the maryland woman who was shot in the head in the las vegas massacre is out of the hospital and in rehab tonight. friends and family and strangers gathering to raise money for tina frost's care. kevin lewis has more. kevin: this is so neat to see the dining area and the bar filled with people over the last few hours. take a look. barely an open seat in the joint. this event came about because the owners of this green turtle know the frost family and they simply want to help out. >> today, 20% of every tab at the green turtle in maryland, directed to las vegas shooting victim tina frost, who today we learned has been upgraded from the hospital to an inpatient rehab center. >> it's great for the green turtle to do that. >> jack kept a close eye on tina's are coverry. >> -- recovery. >> she is a hom

and from the area i grew up. she went to a school not five miles from me. >> green turtle staff believe today's gross sales will top $14,000. thanks in part to the redskins-cowboys game. >> it hits home. you see the stuff on the news but it's over there. when it is something that happens to here, changes perspective. >> tina frost who turns 28 saturday isn't expected to attend but her family members, including her father rich will be here. >> pretty, nice, smart, good athlete. >> adele's daughter went to anne arundel high school with tina. >> it is great to see she is recovering as well as she is. hopefully everything will be okay at the end. >> family friends are setting up an auction now as we speak. you can see

cards water bottles and the t-shirts that say "tina tough. stay frosty" are up for auction. i'm kevin lewis, abc7 news. jonathan: nice to see the community come together. hope they raise a ton of money. nancy: i love that. thank you, kevin. jonathan: talk about what happened on wall street today. they are clapping and they have good reason to. wall street record keeps rolling. dow gaining 330 points to close above 24,000 for the first time. analysts say the possibility of the senate passing a tax code overhaul is behind this boost. nancy: all right. help the local kids hit the jackpot this holiday season donating to toys for tots. join us saturday at the national harbor. we will be there from 11:00 until 3:00. for more information check out the abc7 smart phone app. jonathan: developing now on monday president trump will announce dramatic cuts to a pair of national monuments in utah. the size w

with the monument cut in two. and the staircase is going to be divided to three smaller monuments. native american tribes and environmentalists will go to court to try to stop the proposed changes. coming up for us. a hunk, a hunk of burning question answered. find out why elvis presley started wearing the wild jump

steve: i'm abc7's steve rudin live at the national tree lighting ceremony. the tree is a glow. winona on stage and performing her heart out. let's talk about the weather for you. thank goodness we have the rain holding off. it's now entering western maryland, garrett and capital gains counties. not going to be a -- gainesville counties. not a problem tonight but if you are out

morning hours grab an umbrella. talk about the forecast this everything. the temperatures drop in the 50's. the next three days, tomorrow lower 50's. don't forget toys for tots on saturday. national harbor between 11:00 and 3:00, lower 50's. back to middle 50's on sunday. stay with us. you are watching "abc7 news at 5:00". we a

jonathan: we have been following breaking news. there has been an earthquake east of the dover, dels. 4.1 magnitude. but that is a sizable quake. that could do damage. although no reports are coming in of yet of damage. but a lot of people might come home to find cracks where there weren't there before. nancy: joining us is dana, geophysicist with usgs to give us perspective on this. thank you for joining us. talk about how rare this is in that location. >> well, since 1990, we have had three earthquakes bigger than magnitude 3.0. 3.2 in 1990 in new jersey. 3.8 in 1973 in new jersey. about 30 kilometers north of this one. so it is relatively rare to have a quake of this size near dover. jonathan: i know you get the usgs you get immediate reporting that comes in. people will call, tweet or tell you in some form or

feel it but maybe it knocked something overing or it caused damage. are you getting any report of damage because of the quake? >> no. we are not getting any report of damage. we are getting felt reports. they are going up to about 200 miles away from the earthquake. jonathan: a lot of folks want to know foreshock, aftershock? what is your best guess? have you established the fault line it might be? >> no. we have not seen my aftershocks. i have not seen any foreshocks. jonathan: okay. nancy: 200 miles away. that is quite a wide area that affects, we are hearing reports of it coming in from maryland, as far as new jersey and philadelphia at this point. >> that is correct. that is all because of the geology in the northeast. it's a cold crust. the earthquake is shallow. the energy is not attenuated very fast. you will feel it away from the epicenter. jonathan: now what do you do? >> we are wa

aftershocks. if we see any we are finalizing the magnitude and so far it's 4.1. we will look out if we get information about the damage in the area. i would expect if there is damage, it is close to the epicenter. jonathan: do you anticipate there are other shakers? a lot of folks at home maybe never felt something like that, on edge and need someone to tell them what is happening and what comes next? do you expect the aftershocks have weaker than the initial shock? >> that the right. usually if we have the aftershock there be a bit smaller than this one. nancy: thank you for joining us. let's get back to tom roussey in the newsroom tracking where people felt this. this was a wide area, tom. tom: definitely. our area felt it as well. we put the question out on the facebook page. we want to ask did you feel it? this is what some of you have written in.

sterling, virginia felt it. clifton, beltsville. freaked out my 8-year-old in silver spring. so close to d.c. area. rockville, baltimore. easton, maryland felt it. from what i hear some did not feel it as well so as far as video there is not much to go with so far. but we did get this. this is somewhat tongue and cheek, i will warn you. but a person filming the decorations dashing through the snow fell on the ground thanks to the earthquake. so not major damage. but enough to rattle things, knock stuff over in delaware. if you felt the earthquake, please do go to our facebook page and let us know where you live and how strong it felt to you. write to us. what it felt like to

you didn't feel it at all. reporting live in the newsroom, i'm tom roussey. >> you saw a tweet there that said it freaked out my 8-year-old. it does fray the nerves. we understand that. but we are not getting reports of anyone being injured and no damage done. nancy: we will track the latest through news app. we'll be

♪ this is thriller ♪ thriller night jonathan: hard to believe 35 years ago today. that album dropped changing pop music forever. "thriller" spent 37 weeks at number one and it included seven top ten singles unprecedented at the time including "billy jean" "beat it" and "thriller." and the best video of the time directed by very famous director john landis. nancy: what is great is the second the video started everyone started to do dance. jackson was once married to lisa marie presley. a new exhibit with artifacts from her father's famous concert tour on display. it has 200 touring items on career from 1969 to the l

there are 35 jump suits there. you might think they were for look, bling-bling. priss sill la presley said -- priscilla presley said he went to the jump suits for one reason. >> when he was performing, doing karate and lifting his leg and his pants ripped. >> that will teach you. >> the london elvis on tour exhibit runs through february. jonathan: awesome. now we have the behind the scenes story. >> pants ripping. that is what it's all about. jonathan: a beautiful night outside. national tree lit on the ellipse and good night to get outside. nancy: josh knight is tracking the latest in the weather center. josh: we are watching showers that will move through. for most of us not lasting long. they are not going to be heavy. a bit heavier for right now in western maryland. as they work their way across the appalachians a lot of that will be broken up so you end up with light quick showers. run through the future cast.

fast forward to 7:30. dry. a little bit of green. those are the spotty quick showers. for a lot of us there isn't even rain to measure. out of here by 6:00. so tomorrow we have a dry day. throughout the overnight 35 to 43. staying above the freezing mark. not looking for any freezing issues. as we get into tomorrow by the time again the sunshine is already here. but the temperatures stay cooler. closer to what is normal for this time of the year. topping out around 53. heading into the weekend it's cooler. looking at 52 on saturday. by sunday we start to bounce back up. we are looking for more rain to move in next week. we are way behind for the fall in the rainfall. so this is good. am the front and the rain it will cool off. highs top out in 40's working to the end of next week. nancy: sounds good. thank you. jonathan b

happening tonight. scott: a big game. redskins have to pile up the wins to make the playoffs. got to get a win against the cowboys tonight. you can pretty much call it an elimination game. the redskins and the cowboys meeting tonight in dallas. the loser of the game is likely all but finished for a wild card spot in the n.f.c. both teams have been very inconsistent this season. but skins quarterback kirk cousins again having another solid year. he is now established starting quarterback in the nfl. the redskins are going to finish the season strong, cousins will be the main reason why. >> the bigger the game, bigger the show you want your quarterback to have. hopefully he will put himself in position to make plays at critical time. >> i'm getting more confident every day in his ability. he is making the right calls each and every day. a great quarterback. he is a smart quarterback. very confident quarterback. you know, we are glad he is behind us. >> one of his favorite weapons, jamis

for the burgundy and gold. the best four-game stretch of his career. in the past four games the wide-out caught 27 passes for 412 yards and one touchdown. crowder is turning heads. cowboys head coach jason garrett has taken notice. >> he is one of those guys with great quickness and elusiveness. he is hard to cover. he has a good feel for playing. he is very quarterback friendly in zones. quarterbacks like throwing to him. he is very dangerous when he has the ball in his hands. >> they need another big game from crowder tonight against the cowboys. tiger woods back on the prowl again. tiger made his long awaited return to competitive golf today at the hero world challenge in the bahamas. he played well. shooting opening round 69. tiger is only three shots back of the lead. it's his first tournament in 11 months. it's always good to see tiger woods on the golf course. really good to see for

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jonathan: another live picture of the national tree lighting ceremony. jack wagner, popular in the 1980's. on stage now with a dancing and singing number. we understand they had technical difficulties as we are having now as well. some people got up and left. there are supposed to be hundreds of people out there. some folks got up and left. the tree, a beautiful night. the president flicked the switch as he has done, presidents have done for close to a hundred years. nancy: very nice. unveiling in alexandria. after months a mural that organizers tell us is the biggest in the d.c. area is complete. jay korff has been there since day one to take us behind the scenes of the herculean task. >> we are going to do reds and pinks and yellows and greens and browns and blacks. >> for two months -- >> i think we have it all. for now. >> cindy wallace and len set

integral to the renaissance of d.c. area neighborhood. >> i get chills thinking about it. >> but the tag team project would test the renowned artists like never before. >> i love painting on large canvases but this by far will be my largest canvas. >> in an abc7 stories exclusive you will see only at wjla.com find out why and where they are painting the mural the size of a football field. >> i start at bottom, he starts at the top. we meet in the middle. >> be there when tempers flare. >> we are not always at each other's throat. most of the time but not all the time. >> find out what the neighbors think? as they watch the landscape of the community change before their very eyes. jay korff, abc7 news. announcer: from abc7 news, this is

jonathan: we begin at 6:00 with breaking news. east coast earthquake rattles the area. the trembler originated six or five miles to the east of dover, delaware. nancy: "7 on your side" team working the phones the feeds and the social media to find impact of this. michelle marsh at the "live desk" with the new information. michelle: dover police says there is no report of damage. that is good. but it could be felt as far north as rhode island part of virginia and maryland. we also talked to a joe owe physicist with the usgs. listen to what she said. >> we are not getting report of damage. we are getting felt reports that are going up to 200 miles away from the earthquake. michelle: the felt reports some people even calling in the newsroom with those. we checked in with the local law enforcement of prince george's and montgomery county.

either. but some people say they felt it. now 4.1 is significant. but if we are comparing this to 2011 and the quake that we all remember in this area, this is far less intense. get an update from tom roussey who is tracking where people felt it. a lot of reports are coming in on socia media. tom? tom: we put the question to the viewers. some of you did not feel it but a lot of you did. this is just a sample of the many responses we ret -- we are getting. you can arlene felt it and she thought it was a tree that fell in woods. dayna felt it in kensington and she said it sounded like a heavy truck coming down the street. barbara, she felt it one mile south of the university of maryland. a lot of folks in our area who felt this. this is a map of the big chunk of the region that felt it. let me go over here and hit this button. you will see the light blue.