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bedroom. tonight investigators release new insight into the case while searching for new clues in this year-long mystery. >> plus, an update on the manhunt. oss? >> a puzzling mystery. police tell us it is definitely not a cold case. >> homicide detectives going door-to-door canvasing this neighborhood for clues. for a year now they have been pounding the pavement searching for amber stanley's killer. i would absolutely say yes, we are close. our homicide detectives are investigating each and every lead. >> 10:30 the night of august 22, 2012, a gunman ran upstairs and shot and killed the 17-year-old in her own bedroom. >> i try not to think about how
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she was murdered. i don't think about that. i think of everything before that, all the happy times. that's what helps keep me sane. >> so far investigators do not ave a suspect. some in the neighborhood are still on edge. >> police are trying to put neighbors at ease. >> this was an isolated incident. i would say this community is safe and they shouldn't worry. >> having detectives out in the neighborhood is comforting to her mother. her honor student with so much promise is dead, and she says the killer must be caught. motive, police say they may not know until they find the killer, and they say
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finding the killer is their laser-like focus. >> thank you police hoping the arrest of a man had mep them find a miss -- will help them find a missing teenager. she was on her way from lynchburg. her car was found three days later in charlottesville. the f.b.i. says they are following leads. her mother is holding out hope that her daughter will be found alive. >> it is like our hearts have been ripped out of us. >> around the town of living livingston, pink ribbons are hanging. >> rain overnight. chief meteorologist doug hill tells us when we can expect rain.
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>> from the weather center, skies are cloudy. south of washington, just moving out of the mount vernonon area, south of prince george's county, along 66 toward front royal, there have been lightning strikes. a bit of thundershowers from frederick county, not far east of harpers ferry. separate batches of rain. some to our south. a chance of more of this later tonight but especially tomorrow. there is a cold front moving into the area, and that cold front will change everything. 72 in frederick. 77 in annapolis. muggy late tonight. a few isolated showers. temperatures hanging tough for one more day, and then the cool stuff up in michigan is heading south. >> thank you. >> new at 11:00 now, the martin luther king jr. likely will not
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be ready for the march on washington later this month. workers have been removing an indescription, but construction has now stopped. the contractor does not have insurance to finish the sand blasting. on workers accidentally stained it a brown color during the blasting process that was different than originally planned. >> also new tonight, an exclusive abc 7 investigation into how a mistake could have put the health of the president and first lady at risk. the ambulance scheduled to come any the motorcade broke down. the latest black eye to paint the department. >> as president obama travels to and from the white house, the number one concern of his motorcade is keeping the president safe. one critical constant is an ambulance, trained in the event
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of a medical emergency. on august 8, as the president and first lady were leaving the white house to celebrate mr. obama's 52nd birthday, medic one ran out of gas. fire officials say the vehicle was towed and is being repaired out of sight. fire officials say the crew should have but did not fill up the tank that day. sources say the fuel gauge had been broken for months and had not been repaired. >> why did it run out of gas? did it have a faulty gas gauge? >> for months, tommy wells has been critical of the department for not correcting a fleet in disrepair. >> this highlights that we are not where we need to be. >> according to an official press report, the ambulance left at 5:30. another ambulance was dispatched and arrived at the white house at 6:58959, nearly 20 minutes
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later. long n, the motorcade was gone. when the motorcade left, multiple sources say medic 7 was ot in the motorcade. it likely had not been through a security sweep and therefore could not be used if something had happened to the president. >> where that motorcade went through, we should note that due to safety and security reasons in regard' president, a spokesperson for the secret service declined to talk at all about this story and this incident. as far as the fire department, officials with that agency are investigating. they have told us the crew aboard medic one could face harsh disciplinary action. >> jay, thank you. >> only on abc 7 tonight, the pilot forced to make an emergency landing talks about the moments before he put his
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plane down in front of a fredericksburg gas station. that pilot tells us dense fog forced him to change course, but before long, his fuel levels dropped dwrussly -- dangerously low, and he had to act fast. >> i could see the lights on the ground. >> well, the plane was damaged, but orlando was not hurt. he took off from tampa and was headed to charlottesville. >> new at 11:00, a man accused of robbing an elderly woman and punching her in the face. this happened outside the food lion in woodbridge. he hit the woman in the face and took off with her purse. he's being charged with robbery. >> a college athlete, brandon banks, charged with rain. he's one of four players from vanderbilt university accused of raining a 21-year-old woman.
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it happened in the dorm room. he is charged with five counts of aggravated rain and two counts of aggravated battery. he was released on $250,000 bond. >> tonight a brewing controversy within redskins camp between a star quarterback, robert relationshipon iii, and shanahan over playing time. the song i have stuck in my head is, "put me in, coach." >> yes. you know what it was? a collision of opposing wills. a headstrong player and a headstrong coach. mike shanahan said he doesn't have a problem with him playing in week one. the coach was adamant about him not playing at all in the preseason. >> robert griffen iii wants to call an audible. >> i want to play. >> that's not part of mike
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shanahan's rehab gameplan. he stated from the outset that rg-3 will not play during the preseason. >> hopefully he's running for the first game of the season. if there are no setbacks, he'll be ready. >> today griffin was cannedied with his thoughts on the plan and is clearly chomping at the bit for shanahan to loosen the reins. >> i don't like it, but i understand it. i don't understand all of it. >> that's my job is to not necessarily do what he likes but do what's the best thing for him and this organization. >> the two will have to agree to degree, because neither seems ready to budge. >> he wants to play in a preseason game. is that a possibility? >> it's a hard "no" right now. >> rg-3 put the coach in a tough spot this afternoon.
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shanahan ended up defending himself and he was unhappy about it. there -- he has to realize, it is a long, long season, he said, and he didn't make it through last year. >> he has to understand that he is not softening up on that "no." >> no, not at all. >> new at 11:00 tonight, new information about a man that abducted a 17-year-old girl. >> and someone charged with a string of 11 killings. the nest has been getting a little too quiet of late.
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behind bars. a jury found whitey bulger guilty of extortion and murder. he was described as vicious, violent, and calculating. families say this verdict gives them verdict. >> i think there was justice today for me. maybe not for some of the other victims. >> the rest of them will have to live with every day of the fact they lost a loved one. >> he didn't take the stand in his own defense, but his attorney said he knew he was going to die in prison. >> 16-year-old hannah anderson reunited with her father after a massive manhunt ended with her cap tore being caught. randy hicks reports. >> for my daughter, the healing process will be slow. she has been through a tremendous ordeal. >> a kidnapped teen is home with her family in southern california following a weeklong manhunt that stretched all the way to idaho. >> i am proud of her, and i love
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hir -- her very much. >> she was spotted with her 40-year-old accused kidnapper last week in the rugged backroads of idaho. >> i seen a lot of fear in her eyes. i didn't like what i seen in his eyes. >> he said she appeared scared and kept looking away. >> he was taking her up to those idaho mountains. >> they saw her on the amber alert. and the f.b.i. hostage rescue site.ound dimaggio's camp he was shot and killed when he refused to surrender. >> after her recovery up in idaho she was first told about the deaths of her mother and her little brother. >> a close family friend of the dimaggio believe murdered her brother and mother before setting fire to her home
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in san diego county. >> it has been hard to put the murder of my daughter and my grandson on hold to focus entirely on hannah and get her home. >> her father believes the flood helped savertslerts his daughter, and he urges other people to pay attention to them so others can be saved. >> a federal judge dismissed charges of racial discrimination against paula deen. asspeblingts of the lawsuit include sexual harassment are still spending. her career went into a tailspin when she admitted to using racial slurs during lawsuit depositions. >> george lucas is a new father. they welcomed a new daughter friday. she was born through a surrogate. the 69-year-old film maker already has three children, all
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adopted. he's chairman of dreamworks animation. the couple married back in june. congratulations to them. all right. storms out there. >> a rumble of thunder overnight. a better chance of storms overnight. just a delightful air. beautiful year, and i've been here most of my life. always we have late september-early october, these strings of nice beautiful days. we have a preview of that coming up. time lapse from arlington, virginia. clear for a while. this evening, the clouds thicken a bit, and we have a few showers out there tonight. 75 degrees out there at this moment. 87 degrees the high today.
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86 degrees the high temperature. 92 at reagan national airport. 87 our average. 92-degree high temperature 23rd time this year it has been 90 or better. for the entire year, 53 days at 90 degrees or higher. 50 days in 2011. a record in 2010. we will not get on anybody's list this year, even if we have more 90-degree days, we're so low in the numbers count. a little on the muggy side. here in the district, a few showers west of town. a downpour but no lightning with that one. a few showers weakening southward toward stafford. little batches of showers associated with it. south of newark, maybe a pocket early in the mourning. -- morning.
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likely to see more showers and thunderstorms at times through the day, but especially tomorrow afternoon as this moves through. once we get through all of this, that's the time the high pressure will start to move in, and that will be kind of the edge of this cool and refreshing air mass. maybe an isolated shower left over. 68 to 76 degrees. partly sunny. upper 80's. thunderstorms possible once again. then we'll check out the next seven days. about a 30% chance of a shor shower or storm tomorrow. then showers cooler wednesday. drier air moving in. check out thursday and friday and saturday. sunshine, low humidity, only about 80. a little bit of a warm-up on sunday and monday. >> between wednesday and saturday you have nothing on there. >> nice, isn't it? it turns out that way. good football weather. >> yes. >> things are getting spicy. is there controversy between the
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try the new pretzel roll sandwiches from dunkin' -- get any bakery sandwich on a soft, warm pretzel roll today. america runs on dunkin'. >> it was an interesting day at redskins camp. reporters may be digging for a story that might not have been there in the first place. bottom line, robert griffin pr -- griffin iii will not play in the preseason. it started today when rg-3 showed some frustration with his rehab schedule. he threw a little backhanded dig at mike shanahan talking about trust and his word. shanahan his quarterback won't go 11 on 11 until later this week.
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>> i want to get out there with my teammates. i've proven i can play. i'm close to 100%. i feel good. >> i love when someone wants to play. i love it when somebody wants to be out there. that's a good problem as a head coach. you want people out there, you want people competing, you want people working hard. my job is to make sure that we do the best thing for robert. >> and mike shanahan, of course, is the head coach. >> a three-game home series against the giants tomorrow before heading to atlanta. e nats 14.5 games behind the braves, with 45 games left to play. let's go to arizona. d-backs. trouble from the get-go. pierce with a great job at first. he comes home to score. 3-2. now in the fifth inning.
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let's go to chicago. twins and white sox. look at twins in the bullpen. this is a knockout punch. the right cross to brian basic. it is a big punch. they worked on it for a year. they tried for a year to get it on the internet, and they finally did. boom! get him out of here. it made the internet. center field. watch him go over the wall. with the ball. this is the stadium, not o'connor's back yard. great stuff. great catch, and this whist whiff l ball tournament is -- this whiffle ball tournament. all for charity. they have raised $12,000 just playing wiffle ball. >> great. >> according to "money"
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>> i won't have to worry about watering my plants tonight? >> neither tonight nor tomorrow. a few showers out there. patchy showers here and there. overnight as a disturbance comes in, an isolated thunderstorm. a cold front with chances of showers and thunderstorms increasing tomorrow afternoon and evening, and then cooler. check this out. wednesday, thursday, friday, and saturday it will be beautiful. when the rain chances don't start back up, it will be very nice. thursday and friday will be worth the wait. >> all right. thank you so much for joining us tonight. "jimmy kimmel live" is up next.
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