Meddle in local affairs. How children are crossing the border with drug smugglers and gangs. How easy it is. Im derek mcginty. And im jan jeffcoat. Bad weather has finally moved out. Yeah, not before it did some damage. Check out the rain pelting down on i66. Traffic is a mess in manassas. Windshield wipers could barely keep up. This would be the third day in a row weve had bad weather. Was it as extensive as it was last night . Not quite as widespread. We did have some trees down in bethesda and some power lines down. Were looking at a third round of storms. This is the second round stubbornly moving off to the east. These are not going to be severe. Notice the red and the orange. These are pretty heavy, just to the west of leesburg, rain can beat the band and even a storm about to approach frederick. Well kind of stormtrack these for you. Theyre moving east at about 20, germantown at 11 47, if youre trying to walk the dog there, have him do it quickly. By rocksville, 12 14 and silver spring, going to get hit again about 12 45. Just heavy rain. I dont think anything will be severe with those but heavy rain the next few hours. Well see some partial clearing and by 5 00, not as muggy. 72, upper 60s to mid70s. Comfortable by 7 00 and just down right pleasant by 9 00. We have more storms on our first alert sevenday. Storms served up a little bit of everything. Lightning slicing the sky over calverton, maryland. Fierce winds pushing blinding sheets of rain. All that rain, as you can see, pulling in the flash floods. All that rain pulling down the power lines like these. With the wires landing on a tractor trailer in bethesda, and a tired old tree sent crashing on a house. Lou watched it fall from the kitchen window. I watched it kind of escalate from outside, because we have a back porch, and kind of just watching it blow and blow and blow and all of a sudden, like wham, it all came at once, just one big gust. The good news there, no one was hurt. Its a great way to stay on top of our weather, downloading the wusa 9 weather app. Its free. Go to the Google Play Store or Apple App Store and download it. It is an old fight with new players as we take ribt of a a little bit of a break right now. Dc continues to push for greater home rule over local affairs while some members of congress continue to dabble in those very affairs. Reporter its been called bullying by dc mayor vincent gray, el norhomes norton referred to the actions befitting a tyrant. So many in the district are crying foul. She should have no role. In my view, these congressmen and or senators who include themselves into local matters are just looking for publicity. Midstride in decreasing marijuana, andy harris introduced a bill in congress prohibitth using taxpayer dollars to decriminalize small amounts of pot. I dont usually get involved in dc affairs but this was so egregious. Reporter the white house administered this statement. They allow dc to spend its local taxes and other federal funds without approval. The president sides with dc and agrees gop shouldnt trample home rule with writers attacking criminal marijuana and abortion laws. Abortion laws are on dcs rands radar. Former dc attorney general peer nickols, whos been pushing for greater overall autonomy for years, says when he was ag, members of congress let it be known if they wanted to get a voting representative in congress, there might be something the district could do. But perhaps woe might agree to a gun proposal by far right congressmen who wanted to do away with all of our gun regulations. Its absolutely insane to do away with gun regulation in the nations capital. Its not their business. Reporter technically, it is their business, but the question is, should it be . Whether its maryland, oregon, ohio, or wherever theyre from, they should focus on constituents locally. It should be for dc residents, and congress are loyal to their own districts, not the district of columbia. Reporter budget autonomy is the discussion. Passed overwhelmingly by council and dc citizens. It was stopped by the attorney general who says he feels the measure is unlawful. Now, this budget autonomy, which they say is central to the fight, will be hashed out in court. New tonight, graphic pictures of a teenagers private parts will not be used to make a case against him. Originally, prosecutors said they wanted to photograph the 17yearold in an aroused state so they could prove who was the one who sexted his then 15yearold girlfriend. As you can imagine, a whole lot of folks had a lot to say about that. Today, prosecutors said theyre not going to require those new pictures or use the pictures taken of the team after the incident. A Montgomery County switch coach accuseded of assaulting a child, christopher hulot, at Fairland Aquatic Center in laurel has charges going back three decades. A woman says she was repeatedly abused between the ages of seven and 12. Prosecutors agree not to seek more than 12 years in prison after a plea deal. A trial date has been set for charles severence. He will be going on trial on a charge of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. In alexandria, police say hes the primary focus of their investigation into three unsolved murders spanning a decade, but hes yet to be charged in any of those crimes. 93,000, thats how much was raised for former Virginia GovernorBob McdonaldsLegal Defense fund between april and june. The mcdonalds spent this morning in federal court attending a Pretrial Motion hearing. Both go on trial for corruption charges later this month. So far, more than 250,000 has been raised for their legal fund by supporters. We take you back to the immigration crisis, an estimated 57,000 unaccompanied children have flooded across the us border from Central America since october. They are overwhelming the courts immigration system. So to speed up deportation, republican senator john cornyn of texas and qualar of texas has offered to send 40 Immigration Judges to border towns. They call for unaccompanied minors to have a preliminary hearing within seven days and will be sent home immediately if they dont have a special status or qualify for asylum. This is a road map toward a solution. Its maybe not the only road map but if somebody has a better idea, well listen to it. I will not vote for a blank check for the president. Lawmakers are still considering that administration request for 3. 7 billion to deal with the growing crisis. House Speaker John Boehner says he hopes to have a response to the president s request by the end of this week. Right now, Frederick County sheriff Chuck Jenkins is at the usmexico border getting a firsthand look at the issue. Jenkins is joining a handful of sheriffs across the country. While on the job, theyre requiring local police to question the immigration status of folks who might be in this country illegally. The crisis at the border is is stirring up concern at Prince Georges County where youth are being housed. It was founded by former redskins coach joe gibbs. Cory stewart says the children should be sent back. We dont want the federal government putting these kids in Prince Georges County. We are concerned it will lead to more children coming into the united states. Today, the directors directed the county attorney to work with the delegation to find out how many illegal immigrant children are in prince william, what they need and how long theyre going to stay. As politicians and the Law Enforcement folks focus on the texas borders, our texas gwinnett stations went under cover. It all starts on a train. Theres a lot of people crossing. Hey theyre floating across the border between guatemala and mexico on the river. No border guards, no passport checks, nothing to stop the flow of people, goods and drugs from farther south. But not all of the border between guatemala and mexico is a river. Heres what it looks like farther north. No border guards, no passport checks, nothing to stop the flow of people, goods and drugs from farther south. But it is a place where theres a lot of criminality, a lot of trafficking of many things, drugs, arms, people. Theres a river of drugs passing through here according to the us state department. Drugs destined for the us mean money. First they come through the honduras and then guatemala. 90 of the drugs coming to the united states, mostly cocaine, comes through this corridor, according to the state department. And the amount has increased dramatically over the last two years. Kids suffer the violent consequences of the drug business, from the cartels themselves, primarily the zeta and zinoloa cartels and the gangs that spawn from the cartels. It takes money for them to escape. The safest route, hire a human smuggler, to take you by bus up the center of mexico. It will take several days and is also the most expensive way. 4,000 to 7,000 say the children weve spoken to. If you take the road network, which is a safer and surer way, you need money. You need a smuggler whos got the route wired whos able to get bribes to the right people at the road blocks to make sure you can get through. They probably have a network of safe houses that you stay in along the way. [train horn] cheaper and faster is hopping a train, but that means sitting on top of a rail car exposing yourself to tunnels, low hanging branches and extortion from mexican gangs. [train horn] in order to get on, you have to have us money. You have to have a 100 bill on you and give that 100 for every couple of hundred miles of train track youre on, a new gang will demand a payment in order to not throw you off. The routes are so well known, some stops are like stations. Two stops are especially dangerous near mexico city, immigrants tell us. Every dot on the map is another stop. Another 100 in extortion money. Although the trains are well known conduits for undocumented immigrants, they are not patrolled by mexican police. I never got a good answer to why the mexican authorities dont guard the train. The wheels keep rolling unchecked to juarez, la rosa, laredo. Next stop, texas. That was byron harris reporting from our sister station there. Very eyeopening report there. Indeed it was. More eyeopening stuff tonight. Do you think recycling is enough to save our planet . Wait until you find out what youre going to have to do. Were talking dragging three buckets to the curb. Whos affected . But first, a heads up on a potential traffic tieup tonight and tomorrow. Work continues on the 11th street project. Tonight, d dot has closed the exit to m street southeast. Youll need to take a detower until 6 00 a. M. I suggest the susa bridge in pennsylvania avenue to 11th street and back to m. If the weather cooperates, that closure should just be for tonight. For the rest of the week, ddot will close one lane at a time from 8 00 p. M. Until 5 00 a. M. For your morning commute, im on again did your momma get that hoodie at kmart . Yeah dog. Well yo mommas so fiscally responsible. She got all that on free layaway ohhhh whistle blows shop your way members get free layaway at kmart. A new School Year Starts here. Dc residents are already asked to recycle. Did you know that soon youre going to have to compost as well . Yeah, you will. The city council has passed a bill thats going to do just that. As Christen Fisher reports, residents have mixed reactions. Reporter five years ago, San Francisco by the first big city in the us to require all residents to compost. Any leftovers gone bad in your fridge, pop them all into your green cart. Reporter several other cities on the west coast followed suit and now dc wants in. Council members passed a bill that will require all residents to separate their waste into three categories. Dc residents are already required to separate their trash from their recycling, but now theyre going to get a third bin, and that will be for the compost. How do you hold that down three flights of stairs and have it separated out . Its got to be a bit difficult. Are you okay with that . I like the idea of it. I dont know that im okay with it. I have no idea how to compost. I have to ask my motherinlaw. I have no idea. Reporter not to worry says councilwoman mary chay, who says it will likely be 2017 before the bill is in place. What well do is move forward vigorously to educate people about what it means and how they can comply. Thats what we want. I already compost so i think its a great idea. Its simple, you have a little bin, throw your stuff there, throw some grass over, some leaves. Its not really a big intellectual stepup. I think most people can handle it. Reporter not everyone shares this dc residents enthusiasm, especially when they learn that eventually they could be fined for failing to sfrat separate their trash properly. Im not excited about any more fines. Its bad enough with speed cameras and all this other stuff. I dont need a composting fine. Reporter what do you say to the dc residents who say hey, i just dont want to compost . Well, this is a new world that were in. Were all on spaceship earth, and we have to conserve what we have and keep clean what we have. Reporter in washington, Christen Fisher, wusa 9. Always watching, always tracking, wusa 9s first alert weather. High temperature today managed to make it to 89 and it was extremely humid. Live look outside. 73, notice the dew points are in the 60s. Thats a good thing. Cooler and dryer air will work its way in overnight. In the meantime, heres a look at the radar over the past three hours. Big storms to the east of town. At one time, they were hammering the district and Prince Georges County. Theyre now a little bit lighter. See these shades of green. You see the red here, thats rainfall rates. A little over an inch per hour. So some flash flooding is still possible with these. Well zoom in a little bit. Were talking about darn heavy rain to the west of leesburg and to the southeast of percyville. It will cross over the dulles toll road to 67. Right around hughesville and hammond, youre getting hammered, this will cross into leesburg proper and the dulles toll read. Goes across the river into Montgomery County, poolsville at about 11 38. So get ready, just heavy rain. We dont see any hail. I checked for sheer and that sort of thing. Just primarily heavy rain with those storms. A wonderful wednesday. Weve had three days of Severe Weather and weve earned this day. Grab your sunglasses tomorrow, lower humidity, comfortably warm. We might be able to rest the dcs tomorrow night. Lows in the bushes in the 50s. You dont see that too often in july. Sun clouds lingering west of. I95. Leesburg still in the 60s. This will be refreshing tomorrow morning when you walk out the door. 71 even at 8 30 still clouds lingering in parts of southern maryland. We begin the 10 00 hour. Everybody clear for the most part to the west of 95. A mix of sun and clouds, a delightful day. Temperatures around 80. Some of the bushes may burbs may hold into the upper 70s. You doept see that very often. Morning clouds, 83, gorgeous on thursday, 84, still not humid. Still nice on friday, 85. Next seven days. The weekend, nats on 9, saturday and sunday. Isolated storms. Upper 80s next tuesday and wednesday, a little better chance of thunderstorms monday and tuesday, rather, better chance of storms but notice, still 90s. I like it. Thats pretty nice. No big storms that weve had. Nats on nine is very cool but rg iii. Oose time. Football is here. Rg iii. Someone out there, gang, is convinced robert has returned to form. Well talk to that it makes me happy to go on the computer. I like feeling smart. Internet essentials from comcast has brought lowcost Internet Access to over one million lowincome people at home. Internet essentials helped me progress in my schoolwork. It helped my grades move higher. Together with time warner cable, we can bring the internet to millions more. It helped me a lot. Comcast and time warner cable. Together is better for more people. Now, wusa 9, gameon sports, with dave owens, brought to you by xfinitty. It is a good thing the allstar game wasnt played here. An ark and hip waders would have been necessary, topper, but it was played in minneapolis, and this was a special night. People love to hate on the yankees but you cant hate on derek jeter, right . Lets get to it. Lets show you the pictures. To minneapolis. Thats a patriotic scene. All hail king jeter. He became the oldest player to get two hits in the allstar game tonight. I think hes 80. Just joking. Cabrera hit a ball that required a pilot and a flight attendant. Its still flying. American League Leading 53 late in this game in the midsummer classic. From baseball to pig skin, it wasnt long ago the redskins needed a coach, and baylor coach briles, his name kept surfacing but the marriage never materialized. He has created quite a kingdom in waco. Griffin returned to waco last week to see his old ball coach. He worked out at baylor. He shot a commercial with former texan Charles Tillman of the bears. Robert 3. 0 i think is going to be electrifying. I think what they expect from him every year and what he gives every year, and thats everything hes got. I think this year well see a healthy robert. Weve got a happy robert. He was here all last week. I havent seen him this relaxed since he was here and im excited for him. Meanwhile, the redskins did not make out a deal with raq, meaning hell have to play for a measly 11 million. Jan jeffcoats salary. Hey, i make a lot more than that. What does that mean . Simple, the redskins arent sure hes a dominant player yet. Demarcus ware in the last five seasons, almost 13 sacs a game. Clay matthews signed a sixyear 69 million deal last season. He had two 13sac seasons, something he has never done. What you talkin about, willis . Former redskins safety brad edwards visiting our studios, he says, restoring george maven basketball to championship caliber is one of his top goals. He also bleeds burgundy and gold. 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