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There was talk that Something Else could have killed the people on board. Take a look. The impact destructtive. The house shook. The noise heard for blocks. A bang. I heard that and said probably our electricity will be turned off. The nissan slamming into a tree at 1 00 this afternoon. Killing the passenger, 58yearold sonya smith of baltimore. Leaving the mail driver in critical condition. The kitchen window where the car is. His motherinlaw saw it sailing by. Imagine preparing dinner and a car comes through and hits the street. They thought there were injuries not from the crash but Something Else. They now believe it was not due to gunshots. We believe its the result richard still a strange situation. This is a straight road. Its under investigation. It sounds like the loudest slap of thunder i could imagine. The 2013 to the 2016 Nissan Altima are part of the air bag recall. We dont know what year the car was. If we find out that is part of the investigation, we will let you know. In laurel, richard reeve, abc7 news. Lindsey investigators are looking into an accident. They say 26yearold was hit by a tractor trailer. He was walking to get fuel after the survivor ran out of gas. They are trying to figure out if he was on the shoulder or the travel larry the d. C. Police are investigating a shooting that involved two drivers. Neighbors are stunned because it happened 9 30 on saturday. A block away from the old Walter Reed Army hospital on busy Georgia Avenue northwest. At all hours it buzzes with activity. Now that it happened on a holiday, i dont feel safe. According to a d. C. Police report on Christmas Eve a driver making a turn passed a red sedan going the opposite direction. Sedan began honking. The victim tells police he thought nothing of it. He pulled up to the Apartment Building to pick up a friend. That is when he says the red sedan pulled up next to his vehicle. The suspect wearing a ski mask leaned out the passenger side window and started to fire at him with a silver handgun. Residents heard several shots rapid fire. Police recovered seven. 40caliber casings and the victims car was hit four times. The passenger was not hurt. But the motesive still under investigation. They informed him it was reported as road rage. This raises legitimate concerns among neighbors for Public Safety in the community. A block away they are redeveloping the walter reed sites and overall crime is down. Hectic and wild. Its calmer than it was. Police are looking for a female driver and a male gunman. The suspect vehicle is described as a red sedan. We are hoping to learn more about a Deadly Policeinvolved shooting. They say gerald hall re responded to domestic disturbance. They were wearing the body cameras when they opened fire. Lindsey this marks 20 years since jonbennet ramseys death. Court documents unveiled a few years ago showed a grand jury wanted to indict her parents on abuse charges in 1999. Patsy ramsey died ten years ago and was buried next to her daughter. The death is still unsolveed. Larry the president elect is still in florida for the holidays and received a standing ovation at a church service. He has two cabinet positions to fill before inauguration on january 20. Keeping the president out of harms way is a monumental task. Kristine frazao looks at the unique challenges the secret service faces for the inauguration upcoming. Kristine the parade route ceremony is 15 city blocks from the u. S. Capitol to the white house. The roughly twomile trip down pennsylvania avenue according to a retired secret Service Agent is nervewracking. It takes a toll on an agents mind like no ther assignment. The whole world is watching and leader of a free world. What better time to make a statement. Planning for it changes little. What does change are emerging threats. Like the deadly terror attack on a Christmas Market in germany. They will block access and there will be hundreds of thousands of people expected to line the national mall. Similar to the security measures we observed a few weeks ago at the masseys thanksgiving day parade. The secret service does a lot of there are so many what ifs right now. Even the political activists and the filmmaker Michael Moores tweet to followers is in the mix. Now he is calls for civil disruptions on inauguration day. Unheard of. The estimate now is 15 to 20,000 Security Experts from multiple Law Enforcement agencies and the National Guard will be tasked for securing the area on january 20. Added stress for the secret Service Agents this time around is Donald Trumps flair for the unpredictable. Will he get out when the secret service dictates or when he wants to get out . The advice for trump is listen to the secret service. In washington, im Kristine Frazao reporting. President barack obama is reflecting on the eight years in office as the second term winds down. This week he spoke with his former senior on David Axelrods popular podcast about something he is taking pride in. President obama overall, this place never got cynical. There were time eswith were aggravated or frustrated. We never had the fire snuffed out. Thats a point of pride for me. That tells me that there is a whole generation of people who worked in this administration to keep on doing stuff in the future. I dont think they come away from this this feeling like Government Service doesnt work. Politics is terrible. A new poll is blasting the belief and finds 55 of americans believe things will be better for them in 2017 than in 2016. That is up larry the day after christmas and the third day of hanukkah. The rush is on to return what wasnt popular to find something new. One day after receiving the gifts is the day to get them back. Pair of boots to macys. To the stores. Now is the stuff to get what you really wab for christmas. Its easier to pick out your own clothes than other people buy stuff for you. The storm of returns hit the mall like a blizzard. Its surprise estimated 20 of all returns happen in the Holiday Season. 60 billion in merchandise. There is the unofficial holiday happening here. The search f getting what we didnt get for christmas. For christmas. Meanwhile in Old Town Alexandria the day after christmas means half off on all christmas stuff. We have ornaments for the christmas tree. We are newlyweds and we dont have many at all. It was good. Best ever. We are grateful. Hopefully the Holiday Season didnt done yet. They are buying. Not returning. Not yet. Knock on wood. The traffic has been nasty here all day and it is expected to be that way for a couple of days. Coming up at 6 00, what do you do if you get a gift that you dont want but you are looking at the person who gave it to you . Interesting answers coming up at until then jeff goldberg, abc7 news. Lindsey thank you. Plenty of people looked to get out of the house on the holiday. Coming up at 5 30 we look at the other options besides hitting the stores. Coming up at 5 00 Freedom Freedom the local fan res take the death of George Michael. What they are doing now that they did for prince and david bowie. Holiday blizzard with problems across the midwest. The japan Prime Minister heading to the u. S. And the historic stop he is lindsey 7 is on storm watch in north dakota. People who live there had a white christmas. Perhaps too white. One of several states in the Northern Plains and the upper midwest to be hit with the blizzard like conditions. A major highway had to be shut down because of the snow. It i kellye a town of michigan forced to evacuate as a massive sinkhole threatens to bury a number of homes. Elizabeth hur has the latest. Elizabeth with a house literally sinking in the ground a state of emergency is in effect in frasier, michigan. We kept running in and out. Until the Police Officers told us we couldnt go in. Its too dangerous. Elizabeth he is one of the 20 people evacuated after the neighbors home began cracking and falling. Its very scary. There were so many cracks. You could see the basement was shifting and moving. That was saturday. The update from the city leaders on monday was grim. We are small town. Something big has happened. A giant sinkhole. This is the same general area of a massive sink hole in 2004. This time around there is another raw sewage building up. That is one solution but facing strong opposition from residents nothing is off the table warning the public to stay away. Stay out of the area. Let the people get their job done. We dont want a devastating situation to become a tragedy. Elizabeth the sewage problem is a Health Concern but it is also softening the ground to cause the sinkhole to fall faster. Elizabeth hur, abc7 news. Lindsey a lot of celebrations were canceled in philippines after a typhoon ripped through the area. Ferry delays stranded more than 12,000 holiday travelers. We have lucked out. Doug we havent had any big issues and in the next ten days no big problems either. Just a change in temperature. Start you off with people traveling. If you have family and friends heading back home im sure you are concerned about the travel. We have maps hear to show what they are dealing with. Its nothing violent or terrible. Just messy on i95 especially in the morning. We will deal with that but it should pass through in the morning. The middle of the country is high and dry with the temperatures continuing at or above average. Another cold front will bring us rain and snow. Hint of what is to come later in minneapolis. Partly sun northern planes. Warn out about the roller coaster weather and the temperatures but that is what we have here. 40s in the evening and then at 7 00 before the sun comes out. It will be 56. Areas of showers. The cold air lingers behind the cold front, it will get warmer after the cold front. 60s tomorrow afternoon. Not bad locally especially. Look for clouds and showers. The timing on the future cast is showing 7 30 and 8 00. The showers through the area. Not a solid line. And then in the afternoon the sun is out and well be in the 60s. Clear tomorrow night. Wednesday looks bright and sunny. The winds will catch up with us a bit out of the west northwest. Highs in the 40s. Normal temperature day on thursday. Another cold front late thursday with more showers. That is why we do the roller coaster thing here. Lets look ahead to tell you what we expect through the day tomorrow. Showers end in the morning. Breezy and mild. The highs are around 61 degrees. The rest of the week and the weekend we will see another cold front to give us showers late thursday. On friday is cooler. 40 with sunshine. Increasing clouds late in the day. A system coming through thursday morning but some suggest it could come in late saturday night. If it happens some areas north and west could have a snowshowers. This is monday and a lot of things could change but i want to give it to you as you make the plan for the end of the week and the weekend. The numbers up and down. Dont hurt your neck. They go up and down. There you see in the tenday outlook the weekend. Then next week a chance of the showers lingering to monday and partly cloudy. Temperatures are a few degrees above average. We will take that. I think about new years day. You want everyone to be safe on the road. I never want to hear about the rain after midnight. I hope it holds off till 4 00 or 5 00 in the morning. We will adjust timing as week goes on. Larry thank you. Lindsey ban kimoons tenure as the u. N. Secretary general ends at the end of the year. Larry but find out how he plans to call at it career in style. Lindsey later we will take you to a kwanzaa celebration on the 50th anniversary of the celebration first observance. Larry but first look back at the viral stories of the last lindsey this is a look at what is coming up tonight on abc. Larry it seems like each year we see more and more trends as the stories spread online. Back for the most shared posts in 2016. A year chock full of the viral trends. Are you ready . Pokemon go. The digital kavenger hunt scavenger became visible overnight. Because we cant have nice things that led to the discovery of dead bodies, people being robbed and drivers playing when they shouldnt. Kansas College Freshman became overnight star after a thief broke in the vehicle and stole a kitkat bar leaving behind a note that said basically give me a break. I was hungry. I caught the eye of the kitkat maker and made it up with over 6,000 of the snacks. Sweet justice. 2016 is known for the election and election is known for the debate the debates will be known for the bone. Ken bone. He was a viral ken came out on top. With a huge social following and his own izod commercial. After a 3yearold child fell in a enclosure in the cincinnati zoo they had to shoot and kill a gorilla named harambe. It sparked debates, protest, snarky memes and justice for harambe a handle still trending online. A womans case of the giggles led to stardom after a mom chuckling at the chewbacca mask became the laugh around the world. She enjoyed her 15 viral minutes, doing the talk show, the tooning the claim of fame on her arm and meeting the real chi bahca. Whos laughing now . 2016 saw the viral trends nobody wanted. Case and point, those creepy clowns. Sightings of clown masks started in South Carolina but popped up around the country with no education. Most posed no real threat. But 2016 finished with a trend we can all enjoy. Mannequin challenge. They were striking a pose with the squads. The more bizarre and the better. Celebrities, athletes and president ial candidates got in on the action. Or inaction. Im jeremy ross reporting. Lindsey some great moments. Larry fun. Lindsey chewbacca mask is my favorite. Larry that is my favorite. We did our own man quen challenge. We had man mannequin challenge. Lindsey the handstands are amazing. Still ahead at 5 00 realize who she was. Like a cement block i had no idea. Lindsey a stranger stops by. Larry and trip by japans Prime Minister one for the history books. A busy day off. Merry christmas and happendy new year. Im coming to you deployed in the middle east. I want to do a shout out to my family across the united states. I miss my husband and kids. Missing my family but rocking the mission. Coming to you from the a. O. R. Happy holidays. Lindsey rocking the mission. Good for her. The day after christmas is typically filled with happy returns for for those who would rather be anywhere than a shopping mall, having a federal holiday fall on the 26th make it tricky. Brianne carter is live with the other options that people found today. Some of the tasks you d shut and closed. Those that werent shut were along the national mall. We had museum open. Folks from the tennessee to the philippines inside there today. The postholiday hustle and bustle. Creating a busy day downtown. From gliding around the ice to hitting the payment some have chance on this day off to get the legs moving. We wanted to exercise. The family with pennsylvania wanted to check out the city after visiting family in maryland. We came on down. It was a good time to see everything. It seems that many folks took advantage of the museums being open on this federal holiday. Lines in the National History museum this afternoon. We couldnt get in. It took a long time to get a parking spot. Free parking around the city spots were at a pr weekday backup on a day that many had off from work. Some chose to kick back and relax and take in a movie on the last week of the year. Things you need to know. Metro bus and metro rail today are operating on a sunday schedule. Reporting live, brianne carter, abc7 news. Lindsey checking the top stories this is one of the biggest shopping day of the year. The day after christmas. Or retailers call it gift card redemption days. People are flooding the stores to return gift that were not a hit or just didnt fit. Larry the police are investigating a car crash along summerwind circle. A woman was kill and a man is in critical season. Police who died as sonya smith of baltimore. Lindsey there is an update in the Deadly Police involved shooting in northeast d. C. The Police Officers say they shot 29yearold gerald hall after he refused to follow commands to drop a knife he was holding. Police say hall stabbed to woman in the forearm before they showed up. The cops were wearing body cameras that will be reviewed part of the investigation. Larry developing news out of florida. Two people died. Another is missing after a car crashed in a canal near i95 in fort lauderdale. The man got out of the car to safety but reported there were three other people in the vehicle. The crews found the car and the occupants but the third person is still not been found. Lindsey new information about the Russian Military plane that crashed on sunday morning. Divers found jet fragment in the sea. They said the discovery was made a mile away more than 80 feet under the sea. All 950 people aboard the jet are believed to have died when it crashed two minutes after taking off en route to syria. Update on a plane crash that killed a Brazilian Soccer Team last month. Columbian aviation officials confirmed that the plane ran out of fuel. 71 people died when the charter flight crashed trying to land. Larry japans Prime Minister is in hawaii getting ready to do what no one in his position has done before. He will visit pearl harbor the first since the 1941 attack. He will visit with president obama who is vacationing with his family in hawaii. The memorial will be closed to the public in the visit. Lindsey in the holidays memories are made at the dinner table. Help us to give a dining room ta nominate a veteran at wjla. Com 7salutes to nominate a deserving veteran. Larry bitter sweet celebration for Nebraska Family this weekend. It was the first christmas without quainton after he died in a fight in a bar in louisiana. He would have just turned 26 years old. The woman giving his donated heart surprised the family by coming to the birthday celebration. Clinton is living inside someone else. He is given a chance to live like she deserves. There is not enough word to thank the family. Without them we wouldnt enjoy the day today. Larry janet smith was given the heart days before her 50th birthday. She says she can think of no better way to spend the holidays letting the family beating one more time. Lindsey what an incredible story. Coming up on abc7 news at 5 00 50 years of celebrating. We will take you to a kwanzaa celebration right here in our area. Have you seen this man . He is wanted in a it shooting. New life for the amazon boxes around house. How to turn them into a donation to a good cause and it wont cost you a dime. That is coming up at 6 00. Doug if you headed out the everything it will sty dry. Tomorrow morning the rains are coming. Scattered showers tomorrow morning with the cold front. Overnight rising showers by dawn. We will clear out and a Beautiful Day tomorrow. If clouds increase in the afternoon. Late at it night the possibility of rain. If it happens before midnight, areas north and west of washington could see a snowshower mixed in. First day of 2017 more rain a at times with a high of 47 degrees. Stay with us. Abc7 news at 5 00 continues aft q welcome to the 7 on your side fighting back wall of justice. Im q mccray. We have five fugitives on the wall. He shot a person and allegedly injured two others. The police say sherdil is wanted for two counts of militia wounding. Arlington county Police Search for sharbeed for larceny. The Arlington Police are also on the look out for seren ab brown for robbery and grand larceny. Put the wall of justice in motion and the shot is sharbib. They think he may have more than one vent. We believe he befriended an acquaintance. Sold him a vehicle and he is accused of stealing the vehicle back. Several vehicles were recovered by Arlington County police and on the way to be shipped overseas. He is 31 years old 5. 9, 200 pounds. He is wanted for grand larceny auto. If you have any information about charbib contact the Arlington County police department. 7 on your side fighting back against crime. Im q mccray. Lindsey you can sign up for the abc7 fighting back against crime newsletter at wjla. Com enews. Coming up at abc7 news at 5 00 planning ahead what you need to know about metro heading to new year receivers. Another superstar singer passes away in 2016. Im ryan hughes with reaction to the death of George Michael and larry he burst on the scene in 1984 as a singer of wham. Today the world is mourning his death. He died of Heart Failure over the weekend and ryan hughes reports fans remembering the pop superstar. Wake me up before you gogo the lyrics we have come to know so well. Time can never mend iconic anthems topping charts and catapulting George Michael to superstardom. Today fans mourn his death, gather outside his home in london to pay tribute. The pop star died peacefully at home from Heart Failure on christmas day. Last christmas i gave you my heart his hit last christmas playing inside crooked beat records in alexandria. Christina buying the last copy in the store. I dm anything. I got one left. People had contacted about his records. He had a Career Planning four decades. As part of wham and finding success as solo artist. He is gracing the cover of almost every newspaper. The headline in the Indianapolis Star saying 2016 claims another iconic celebrity. The music world losing a dozen big names, prince, david bowie and cohen. The grammy award singer sold 100 million records was only 53. Ryan hughes, abc7 news. Larry playing songs, every commercial break. I have lindsey every commercial break. I have larrys top pfeiffer down top five down. Larry everything she wants. What is lindsey i like the one, its not his, elton john where they did the duet. Larry the sun goes down on me. Lindsey i am a huge elton john fan. Larry talented. We will miss him. Lindsey actress Carrie Fisher is still being treated in a hospital after a heart attack on friday. On a flight from london to los angeles 15 minutes before the plane landed. The other passengers reportedly attended to her and gave her c. P. R. Last check she is in critical condition. Her mother sent out a tweet sunday afternoon saying fisher is stable and thanking fans now for their support. Larry well, Brittany Spears is the latest victim of an internet hoax claiming she is dead. I appears that the sony music twitter account was hacked and they sent out two tweets saying that Britney Spears died. Sony is commenting on the incident. Lindsey u. N. General secretary ban kimoon will drop the ball on new years eve. Antonio gutierrez of portugal will take over as secretary gin on january is. Larry covering metro a reminder Transit System is open until 3 00 a. M. On new years new years eve. Service will be free. Miller lite picking up the tab. Thanks to them. Sign up for text alerts from abc7 news. Text metro to 43817. That is all you got to do. Easy enough. We just have to get ready for a warm day. Tomorrow is 60. Really . Lindsey im excited. Doug for a while its night. The temperature is 46. The southerly winds so the temperatures are steady and then they rise overnight. Its in the mid50s when you wake up. Early tomorrow morning the showers in the forecast. Due to approach of the areas of the rain with a front. But some is breaking up in the morning hours. The sun will come out and it will break through. We are good shape in lower 60s. It will be nice. A look at the forecast numbers in the area. 64 in manassas. In if lower 60s in the metro area. Good looking tuesday afternoon. Take a minute here to give you the ten days. The morning rain comes to an end. Its 46 and cooler with sunshine on wednesday. Back in 50s with another chance of the late day showers on thursday. Friday is breezy new years weekend. Sunshine for a good portion of saturday. Increasing clouds in the afternoon. Highs of 44. The showers linger in monday. It will turn colder by the middle to the end of next week. Back to you. Thank you. One more week to go. This is the big game. There is still a chance. You have to root for a certain team. To quote lloyd christmas. So youre saying theres a chance. Okay. You are a redskins fan. You dont want to root for dallas. That is understandable. But you dont have a choice. The skins fans need to be all about dallas. The scenario is if dallas beat the lions the redskins control their own destiny again. If that doesnt happen they have a chance. If the lions beat the packers, the redskins only have to do is b cowboys, though. Its hard to root for dallas. Its fun to watch until the bitter end to see what happens. If dallas slips up against detroit then detroit has to beat green bay. We still have a chance. Regardless of what happens we take care of the giants. When the dust settles we will see where we are. On the college level, the terps moving in the right direction this year making it to a bowl game. The quick lane bowl against boston college. Johnson goes 62 yards for the score. Military bowl in annapolis is tomorrow. Williams the last living medal of honor recipient from the battle of iwo jima from world wear ii. He said world war ii. He said he was glad to be there. There are people who stand and always say my flag. Thats my flag. We need to honor those among us who made that supreme sacrifice for us. Thank you very much. Imagine being in that room in that speech. We had Woody Williams on good morning washington. I asked him his memorable moment. He said he was supposed to do the coin flip and the other coach wasnt told so he flipped the coin. He is the last medal recipient from give him the coin just slap it out of his hand and say i got this. Give it to him. Here. Just that easy. Tomorrow at annapolis, wake foresttemple. It should be a good one. It should be good. Awesome. All right, man. Talk to you soon. Okay. Well, tonight marks a day after christmas. The third night of hanukkah an the first night of kwanzaa. Today represents unity. This is the first night of kwanzaa. Music is underway. People are in the seats. Im Cheryl Conner in northeast. We take you to larry right now a celebration is about to begin in d. C. Marking the first night of kwanzaa. That is the 50th year of the cultural celebration. Cheryl conner is live where the party is about to start. Cheryl . Right. You can see plenty of people have taken their seats here at the four Walls Education Center in northeast. They are waiting for people to go up on the stage. There will be dancers and drummers. You can see around the wall here there is an africanamerican marketplace. Food is sold. Merchandise also. This is one of many kwanzaa events happening throughout the area. We want to take you to one from earlier today that not only entertained by educated kids. Happy kwanzaa. Christmas is over but the kwanzaa celebrations are getting started. This is day one of seven. Culture queen with Culture Kingdom Kids got the young one up and moving at the busboy and poets in northwest. Kwanzaa now marketing 50 years of celebrations. It started to reaffirm africanamericans with their african heritage. We sometimes are not always educated about who we are. Kwanzaa is a ti time to learn who you are, where you come from. A candle is lit every day between december 26 and january 1. With a meaning assigned to each one. Day one is unity. There is collective work and responsibility. Collective economics. Purpose. Creativity. Faith and what was one that stood out to you. Selfdetermination. Some parents are just learning about the holiday for the first time but they want to get involved to help their kids understand the culture. I only heard of it. But were not that spiritual. This is a selfaffirming holiday. One we can talk to ourselves about ourselves. Celebrate who we are. With the kwanzaa celebrations there is a big push to not only understand what the seven days represent but to support the black owned businesses. We have a list of all th celebrations happening in d. C. Throughout the week on our website. Wjla. Com. We are live in northeast washington, Cheryl Conner, abc7 news. Larry thanks. That is it for us at abc7 news at 5 00. Right now at 6 00, the rush to get home from the holidays. We are live with the conditions on the roads. And the major road blocks facing millions traveling nationwide. Plus, a crash kills one in laurel but its no simple Traffic Accident and why its become a civil investigation. How you can turn the boxes stacked up waiting for the recycling truck in a gift for those in need. Announcer now abc7 news at 6 00. On your side. Michelle first, buckle up for a temperature roller coaster and a chance of rain on the horizon. Stormwatch7s chief meteorologist doug hill is chacking conditions for us. Get this straight. We are looking at earlier we get warmer temperatures . Doug yes. It happenses now and then because the cold air is lagging behind the surface cold front. Before that even happens we are going to turn warmer on our own. Have a warm front tonight. Its not what you see too commonly. It happens. Its been cloudy all day in alexandria to give you a time lapse from the belle haven country club. Its light but all Things Considered a pleasant day. Through the need time hours, the temperatures you expect to drop. No, they hold steady. Then they will rise. Rise another 10 degrees or so in the metro by the morning. 44 in aspen hill. In the late everything hours it will climb and hold the 40s. Overnight we launch ourselves