Transcripts For WJLA ABC 7 News At 1100 20150418 : vimarsana

Transcripts For WJLA ABC 7 News At 1100 20150418

I think he a patriot and im proud of him. Anchor what his wife is saying about the incident. This is a breaking news alert. Anchor that breaking news from southeast washington where police are on the scene of a stabbing in the 600 block of alabama avenue. The victim was unconscious and not breathing when emergency crews arrived there on the scene, we have been told. No arrests have been made but were keeping our eye on the situation as it happens live in southeast washington. Stay with us for updates. An allout manhunt in fredricksburg after a College Student was found dead in her apartment. Tonight, a suspect is charged with murder and police are trying to unravel how it happened. The victim has been identified as 20yearold grace mann of fairfax. Police say her killer is 30yearold steven briel roommates and students at the university of Mary Washington. Richard is live with what police are saying. Richard students are heartbroken. Grace mann was known as a popular student who lived in the offcampus house with the man accused of killing her and two roommates. Were told this was no personal connection but there are a lot of questions tonight. Homicide detectives, police tape and bags of evidence. Signs of a terrible crime in this quiet 46 fredricksburg neighborhood. Its horrible. Richard the university of Mary Washington community in shock and mourning after the death of 20yearold student grace mann. Seen a couple of girls crying and they brought the girl out on a stretcher. Richard Police Called to the house blocks from campus friday afternoon. The roommate found her unconscious, started c. P. R. But i dont have information about what happened to her. Richard authorities arent commenting on published reports that man mann was asphyxiated. Police say they found evidence tying the murder to her housemate, steven briel. After a twohour search, deputies spotted briel outside this church and took him into custody. Now, amid so many questions, the community is trying to cope. Dumbfounded when everything is drawing to a close, a loss comes out of nowhere. Richard mann was on a junior, on a president ial commission about sex assault. One thing authorities have not talked about is a motive. No comment on that so far. Briel now in jail on murder and abduct charges. Were told counseling sessions will be made available on saturday. Anchor this just in now from Montgomery County where fire crews have evacuated people out of an Apartment Building in Silver Spring because of a Carbon Monoxide leak in the 7700 block of eastern avenue. They initially arrived on a medical call, when authorities discovered the gas leak. At least one person was taken to the hospital. A woman found dead in arlington and her children spotted wandering outside in the yard alone. A neighbor called 911 after seeing the kids, aged 3 and 5 by themselves. Inside the building, the body of their mother 42yearold bonnie black. Police following up on leads. Theres a protective order against the father. I dont know of the possible custody arrangements between her and the children at this point. Anchor the estranged husband has not been named as a suspect or person of interest. If anyone has information youre asked to call police. Concern among parents as a karate instructor is accused of creating child porn and police say they believe the young men seen in the videos in this mans possession were his students. Live in chevy chase, our reporter with more on this case and how it might span the globe. Reporter this investigation began in south dakota last year when police tipped off police in Montgomery County that someone here was uploading child porn and the investigation stretches all the way to eastern europe. Montgomery county police have launched an International Manhunt for the 26yearold charged with eight counts of possessing child pornography. Investigators say they also found videos that show he may have victimized some of his students. In those videos, the suspect was inappropriately touching these victims and they were engaging in sexual acts. We dont know who the males are. We know the videos took place that the karate studio in chevy chase. Roz this former student says hes stunned and horrified at the accusations. I was shocked when i heard about it because i was a student for a long time. I looked up to him. I wouldnt expect in a million years he would be capable. Roz investigators seized Electronic Devices from his home. Police say he admitted to creating child porn but fled the country before there was an arrest warrant. He was a student instructor, then partner at the studio. Police tell us they believe the videos they found were shot here before october 2011 and theyre asking any victims to come forward. Police believe he may be in the republic of georgia. He was born there. He has family there and two months ago told the online publication, bethesda now he came here with his parents who were diplomats when he was 5. Anchor showers have cleared out of the area, giving way to what looks to be a gorgeous saturday. Steve is here with more now. Steve it is looking fantastic maybe not so great for the day on sunday. Lets backtrack. Look at the temperatures outside. 70 at Reagan International airport and cooler north and west of us. 63 at dulles and gaithersburg, upper 50s in frederick, maryland. Showers remain and are well to the east of us. Skies clear moving through the overnight. Wage waking up in the morning, in the 50s and by 5 00 p. M. , temperatures near 80 degrees. Changes on the way for sunday. More than likely, parts of the area will need an umbrella. Well talk about the timing and next week coming up. Leon the man accused of shooting and killing a guard at the u. S. Census bureau has been charged with murder. Ronald anderson is also facing charges including kidnapping. Were learning the guard got into a shootout with the suspect thursday night. He was hit in the chest and later died. New at 11 00, the wife of a gyrocopter pilot who landed on the capitol lawn is speaking out. Doug hughes was released from custody yesterday, but still faces prison time for breaching the nofly zone in the capitol. Tom is live with what his wife is saying about all of this. Tom shes got a lot to say and youll hear more from her in a moment. Its been two days since doug hughes flew in over the mall, kept going, landed on the west lawn of the capitol. We havent heard much from him since then but his wife has a lot to say. I think he a patriot and i proud of him. Tom thats alena hughes, the wife of the gyrocopter pilot calling her husband a patriot. Alena is from belarus and married doug 13 days ago. She spoke with reporters while sitting next to her lawyer. My reaction, its difficult to explain my reaction. I was shock. My hands shake. Tom after driving his gyrocopter up from the couples home in florida, on wednesday doug hughes took off from an airport in gettysburg, flew into d. C. s restricted airspace and landed on the west lawn of capitol. He said he wanted to deliver letters to members of Congress Asking for Campaign Finance reform. Alena says she supports her husband but this has been tough. The couple has a 12yearold daughter. I need to support my daughter and i need to explain to her what happened because i was really worried her reaction. She was traumatized too. Tom as for the gyrocopter doug hughes flew to the capitol alena says she bought it two years ago and she did not support the purchase. She said she did not think it was a good use of the familys money. Reporting live outside the capitol, abc 7 news. Leon new information from Fairfax County where police are out with a composite sketch in an attempted abduction. Police say a like this approached a woman on lawyers road in herndon. If you have information, youre asked to call the police. New tonight, the owner of a Silver Spring nightclub is pleading guilty to trafficking drugs. 39yearold Jason Miskiri is facing life in prison. Investigators say he used drug money to open a Society Lounge on georgia avenue. He was involved in a multistate marijuana trade before his arrest in 2009. Prosecutors say he received 1 million in cash for each load of marijuana he distributed from a trafficking organization. New tonight, road rage involving a porsche and tractortrailer in leesburg this afternoon on the route 7 bypass near south king street. Police say the porsche rearended the truck while trying to get around it on the shoulder and then the porsche driver allegedly started intentionally ramming the side of the truck. No one was hurt but the porsches driver, david ray godfrey, was arrested. An 11yearold in Prince Georges County has something to be proud of tonight and we should be proud of him after a happy ending. Emanuel marshall is his name. He donated a wheelchair to 4yearold joshua romero. Someone stole romeros wheelchair from his langley park apartment complex. Marshall and his mother saw the story and called the police and police made the delivery to the romeros this afternoon. I think it was a bad person. I thought that was just horrible and i started thinking if that would have happened to me. God bless her and her son because thats amazing. Leon that is amazing. The wheelchair emanuel donated is one he used when he was younger and has outgrown it. Paying it forward. Still ahead here, new victims come forward in a groping scandal involving the t. S. A. Why one former agent is speaking out. Apple fans clamoring for the new watch. Leon new evidence in the murder case against former rap mogul suge knight. The judge released video moment that suge allegedly plowed into the victim with his truck. It will likely be used as evidence by both sides. New developments in the aftermath of a t. S. A. Scandal. Two agents at denver International Airport were busted for groping up to 10 passengers and now a former agent says hes not surprised by the scheme. Jason harrington wrote in time magzine that when an agent pats you after you walk through a scanner, its not a good reason. The District Attorney has heard from several more passengers with complaints. And if youre dreaming of owning an apple watch, you wont be able to buy one at the store. Apples retail chief says the watch will only be sold online for the next several weeks because supplies are limited. Apple hasnt said how many watches have been ordered but one researcher says a Million People placed orders for for the watch on april 10. A bostonbased Company Wants to use technology to help the parents of infants a hightech onesie that tracks the babys breathing and sleep patterns. It costs about 200 and can be customized for the babys age. Final preparations underway for a major event on the mall tomorrow, the Global Citizen earth day rally. 250,000 people expected to attend. The stage is set for performers like fallout boy gwen stefani and usher. Anyone who wants to attend is encouraged to take metro. There will be road closures in effect during the show running from 11 00 a. M. To 7 30 p. M. Anchor 250,000 people are expected. They were testing the sound system. It is loud. Really loud. Thankfully during my loud shots they toned it down. Tomorrows looking perfect. Sunday, though, not so great. Lets take a look at whats going on right now. Were looking at mostly to partly cloudy skies. Our clouds are breaking apart especially north of d. C. And with the clearing skies, our temperatures are going to slowly fall but hanging on to 70 degrees at Reagan National airport, winds nonexistent. Our high today was 79, well above average for this time of year, and 95, the record set in 1976. Allergies probably bothering you at this point, pollen count in the high category. Grasses in the low. Weeds not a problem right now. Mold in the low category. Look at these temperatures. 11 00, 63 at delles. The same at gaithersburg. 59 at frederick. 62 in hagerstown. Widening out, theres not a lot of cool air out there, not a lot of mild air but well take the push of cooler air overnight and then High Pressure settling in west of us to bring us a nice day tomorrow. As the area of High Pressure moves away clouds will increase. On satellite radar, earlier, somebody saw spotty showers, all moving east. Most of the action suppressed to the south of us, that sinks the large dome of High Pressure that will give us a nice first half of the weekend. Nighttime lows around 58 degrees. Partly cloudy skies with mainly clear skies waking up early tomorrow morning, winds out of the north and west. Heres the dome of High Pressure that brings us quiet conditions tomorrow, warm day with highs around 80 degrees. Once it moves out of here, watching areas south and west of us with a warm front bringing unsettling to our atmosphere late sunday into monday and thats why we have rain back in the forecast. For tomorrow, 79 degrees, lots of sunshine, warm day with winds out of the north at 5 to 10. If youre going down to the National Mall for the earth day festivities, dont forget sunscreen. Extended outlook, middle 60s on sunday monday, lower 70s, possible rumble of thunder. We stay near average most of next week in terms of temperatures but one out of two days for the weekend nearly perfect, ill take it. Leon rumble thats what we want to hear about now. Did they handle their busy . I think it was the socks. I wish you could see them. Slow start for the capitals game and a goalie called up from hershey. And now, the toyota sports desk. Anchor no Braden Holtby in front of the net for the caps tonight. Instead, philipp grubauer, called up from hershey to mind the nets. It was about desperation for the caps because it would be a nightmare going to new york down 20. You have to be desperate when youre down 20. Kicking it off for the caps, karl alzner scores. Caps within one. Later in the second period, caps trailing 31. Matt niskanen cant get it to go but ovie all over the rebound, he puts it back. In the third on the power play and its Nicklas Backstrom right down main street. Caps tie it at 33 after that. Heres your chance to convert. About 12 minutes left in the third. Jason chimera scores the gamewinning goal and game two 43. Also dont forget about grubauer, filling in for Braden Holtby. Overall, it was a good night. We spent a whole year here trying to say, you know what, when the games arent coming to you the way you want them, dont change everything thats working and you believe in what youre working with, stay to the plan. Just because it doesnt work right away, doesnt mean its not working. You just got to keep doing the same things and the right things and i thought we did. Anchor next up, the caps are headed to new york for game three. Puck drops at noon. The nats are starting to look alive starting with bryce harper tonight against the phillies, the first inning no score and harper unleashes on this one. Thats gone. Threerun shot. Nats open up a 30 lead over philadelphia. Meanwhile, they pay him well and he pitches great. Eight innings, nine ks, one run, dominates and gets his first win as a national, max scherzer as they win it 72. And red soxos Xander Bogaerts bloops it to shallow right and a walkoff for the red sox. Mike napoli scores and boston wins it 32. It seems like yesterday 21yearold Jordan Spieth earned a green jacket at augusta. Now hes going for another title. He shot nine under 62 at thed r. B. C. Heritage but was three over 74 yesterday, leon. Eight shots behind. He was tied for 93rd. Today, nine birdies and no bogus. Bogeys. Right now hes in contention, tied for seventh at six under six strokes back from the leader. You got to laugh at that. The wizards for toronto for tomorrows game one of the playoff series against the raptors. Tipoff for that one at 12 30. We got the caps to worry about now the wiz. We could be nervous about that. Leon start knocking on wood now. Do you have wizards socks . Anchor ill work on that. Leon coming up, a soldiers surprise, the creative way he shocked his son. Leon the search for a maryland karate instructor charged with child porn, the top trending story on wjla. Com. Also, a generation donation. A 4yearold boy gets a new wheelchair after his was stolen. A beautiful saturday ahead of us. We can read those stories and steves forecast and more on wjla. Com. A young boys school is bombed and it has a special memory that hell keep with him forever because his father, a soldier, game him the surprise of his life. The third graders dad was deployed for months in kuwait but showed up today to surprise his son on picture day and photo bombed his son. When his 8yearold son stepped in front of the camera, he turned around, his dad was Photo Bombing him. James bass is on leave after a year abroad. Theyll have a great time. Thats it for us. Leon great weekend ahead . Steve looks really nice tomorrow. Lots of sunshine, daytime highs near 80 degrees. 15 degrees cooler on sunday with showers late in the day thunderstorms on monday dicky from hollywood, its Jimmy Kimmel Live tonight dwayne johnson. Rihanna. And music from death cab for cutie. With cleto and the cletones. And now, after all is said and done, heres jimmy kimmel [ cheers and applause ]

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