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WJLA ABC 7 News At 400 October 7, 2014

Himself, look out. Thats not always good. So gio against boldosong. Jekyll and hyde. He is 04 in the month of september. Had a terrific august. First pitch 9 07. You mentioned this is a late game. Well, i have to tell you, tell the fans to stay with it. They left early the other night. Let me bring in Horace Holmes who has been with the nationals throughout the season and is live outside at t park. Whats the mood of the team today . Well, here we go from San Francisco, tim. One last time with the team feeling a lot better about themselves than they did yesterday. They just arrived a little while ago. Weve got some video of them arriving on the team bus just a couple minutes ago here at at t park stadium. That seventh inning last night in which they scored three runs, that was the breakout they were waiting for. After the game the players and manager Matt Williams talked about keeping the momentum on their side. We find ourselves in the same position we were today. You know, if we lose tomorrow, then its all over. So we, you know, were in the same spot. We feel good. You know, getting this win. It was big. And the momentum shifted a little bit. But its up to us to keep it on our side. Now, it was a real Party Atmosphere in the club house after the game. They had the smoke machine and the strobe lights going. Thats what they do after every win. There was loud music going on. Theyre feeling really good about today. One bit of news were hearing is we look forward if we get through tonight, there are reports that manager Matt Williams has already decided who the starting pitcher is going to be from game five if they should get to that back in washington and the reports are that its jordan zimmerman. I think thats a great call. As for the smoke, dont go crazy, folks. This is something as you heard horace say, this is something to do all the time. The best part about last night they kept the cork in the champagne for the other guys across the hallway. Here is the attitude. Theyve got to say, look. Were going home tonight regardless of what happens in this game. We might as well bring the giants with us for game five. All right. Hopeful signs there to question about the redskins. Did you see hopeful signs there as well . Yeah. There was a lot of good in that game. What upsets me is everybody seems satisfied with the fact they played well against one of the best teams in football. The world champions. I dont think you can be satisfied with that. A lot of times or especially early on the defense, theyve got a lot of guys that look like tarzan but play like jane. You cannot let that guy run around with the football. This is a quarterback that is extremely mobile. You have to contain him. The outside guys, im going to call you out, basically kerrigan and arakpo, you have contained responsibilities and you have to keep wilson in the contained pocket. There were moments they looked really good. No question. We saw some great things out of kirk cousins. Yeah. He finally freed up after about the first quarter, kind of got into the rhythm of the game a little bit and that is all positive. Okay. Absolutely. All right. Well see you again in a few minutes. The nats big win really helped energize fans who are confident this team will keep fighting now. Heres the big story trending on social media today. Hi, kai. Lets take a look. Lets go next. And ill be cheering them on from my couch. Lets go, nats tim says, nats win tonight and i can see the giants collapsing in game five. This is tims 52nd birthday. Happy birthday, tim. Joe says, go, nats, go. Pretty simple. Join the conversation by going to our wjla Facebook Page. We know nats fans will be up late for the game tonight. You know it. All right. Thank you. Our Team Coverage here from San Francisco continues. John gonzalez went out to talk to giants and nats fans about the series. Well have that at 4 30 and then Suzanne Kennedy and Horace Holmes will be back at the park live at 5 00 and 6 00. You know, yesterday we had some fans saying it was critical for the nats for the temperatures to be above 80 degrees in San Francisco and so maybe that paid off. Yeah. So what will the weather be like in San Francisco tonight . It always matters. It does. Douse hill is here with the San Francisco and the d. C. Forecast. Well, around San Francisco, sure, the mid 70s during the day and tonight cool as well. Lets give you a look at what conditions are expected. A few high clouds over at t park. Mostly sunny. Game Time Temperature at dinner time a little after 6 00 pacific time will be in the lower to mid 70s dropping into the 60s and southwesterly winds. Weather should not be a problem whatsoever in the city by the bay. Here we have a little sunshine. Temperatures upper 60s to about 70 degrees. And rain around 1 00 is off to the west. Actually two lines of rain moving in ahead of a cold front. That will be with us that first batch probably the 7 00 to 8 00 hour in the metro area with scattered showers. Later tonight the second line, little heavier line of showers. The cold front south moving from cincinnati to columbus to lexington now. That will move in. So thatll be a late night and overnight weather story. 73 reagan national. 68 washington dulles. 62 baltimore right now. And through the evening showers will end, the late overnight, the mention of a total Lunar Eclipse at 6 25. Its going to occur whether we see it or not. We have a chance of skies clearing just in time along the western horizon to see that between 6 25 and sunrise. Well have more about those possibilities as the evening wears on. A complete look at the weekend forecast, too, just minutes ahead. Thank you. Weve got new developments from overseas in the fight against isol. A handful of people were arrested today in the u. K. , all with alleged ties to that terror group. Our senior political reporter is live for us in the Satellite Center with these developing details. Scott thuman. Heres what we know right now out of Scotland Yard tonight. Four men have been arrested after several raids throughout the london area. Very young, two of them 20 years old and the other 21. We dont know their nationalities. Only that they are called suspected terrorists. Of course, theres been an increased fear of ongoing terrorism since the threat level there was raised to severe back in august all of this on the heels of an arrest and Court Appearance yesterday in chicago of 19yearold Mohamed Kofi Annan picked up at the airport by the Fbi Joint Terrorism Task force. They said he was trying to fly to the middle east to take up arms against americans and essentially, quote, wage jihad. Well talk later on in the newscast at 5 00 tonight about why it is so easy to recruit these socalled home grown terrorists and why the fbi had pretty harsh words as far as the terminology goes. They dont like the term lone wolf. Well tell you what they recommend. Thats coming up in about an hour. Thank you, scott. Dont forget our town hall. Your voice your future. Itll focus on the new terror threat. The townhall will air thursday, october 16th from 8 00 to 9 00 p. M. You can attend the townhall in person by signing up on our website wjla. Com townhall. Well, kendis, new hands free gadgets in your car may not always make for a safer ride. That is the result of a new triplea study. In a 7 on your side consumer alert tonight we report on the new problems created by new technology. Its ingrained in every drivers head. Dont text and drive. Dont talk on your cell phone. But what if hands Free Technology is actually worse . Triplea says that distracted driving is responsible for 3,000 fatalities each year. And in their new report out this morning it says that hands Free Technology may increase drivers mental distraction. Some of the voiced based technologies are stealing attention from the driver so theyre not paying attention to the road. Researchers at the university of utah looked at voice activated systems in vehicles from six different auto makers. Play a c. D. Oh, heavens. Calling at home. The less accurate the system the more distracted the driver. Scoring the best was toyota. Its system is about the same level of distraction as listening to a book on tape. Whatever i would say, it got it right the first time. The most distracting . The system used by chevrolet. The automaker told abc the study found no correlation to increased crash risk. Its not just the carmakers. Call home. Triplea also listed apples siri and found sending texts and surfing social media without hands or eyes was more distracting than the in car voice activation systems. Apple told abc news it has products triplea did not test that offer minimized distraction. From northwest, karen travers, abc 7 news. Our question of the day today, what do you feel is your biggest distraction while driving . Go to our abc 7 Facebook Page to weigh in and see what other drivers have the most problems with, too. Kai jackson will be back later in the newscast with some of your answers. Alison, we have this breaking news right now and it involves the dow jones this afternoon. It just closed and is down 274 points. Investors say selling off u. S. Stocks is to blame for the dramatic drop as they are having renewed concerns about the global economy. Todays drop is the lowest since the middle of august. Coming up right here tonight, how much will it cost you to heat your house this winter . Well have some predictions. Plus a school bus stolen in maryland. See where authorities found it today. And how the cost of your Engagement Ring could predict your marriage success. Interesting. Another shocking discovery at a Daycare Center. Why a mother was arrested for Daycare Center. Why a mother was arrested for what her child a shocking discovery at a daycare in delaware. A 4yearold was handing out bags of heroin to other children. All of this happened at a daycare in selbyville, delaware. The mother was arrested after her child who brought the heroin in a backpack. Well, this is the Daycare Center where it happened yesterday morning about 11 45 a. M. This is selbyville, delaware not far from fenwick island. A little girl came to school here with a backpack that was new to her. She opened it up and found plastic bags inside. She thought it was candy and started handing them out to her very young classmates. Well, the teacher here, a staff member, saw that and got ahold of the bags and suspected that it was drugs. The police were called. They got ahold of it and confirmed it was in fact heroin, 249 bags of heroin in this little Daycare Center. The Daycare Center director told us off camera that she just thanks god that no one was able to open one of those bags. Nobody was hurt. Even so, several were transported to the hospital for checkups. The Daycare Center serves the neighborhood here. We had an opportunity to talk to several people. There is a mixture of opinion. Some say theyre horrified. As a parent i wouldnt imagine how it would be to get a phone call like that. It is heart breaking. Others are defending the mother of the little girl. Her name is ashley tull. She was arrested. She has now been released on bond. People we talked to in this neighborhood say she is a wonderful mother. That her children, three of them, are her entire life. She never would have done anything like this intentionally. Coming up at 5 00, well have more on the story, including that point of view, the people who know the mother and the little girl the best. In selbyville, delaware, brad bell, abc 7 news. The Virginia Department of health is monitoring cases of enterovirus 68 in several locations were told including northern virginia. Now, state Health Officials will not disclose specific details citing patient confidentiality. Children with asthma and other Health Conditions are especially vulnerable to this. As you may know, a 4yearold new jersey boy died from the virus last week. Is the first death directly linked to the illness which has sickened hundreds of people nationwide. In Anne Arundel County Police Recover a stolen school bus and arrest two people in connection with the theft. Take a look at this picture of bus 874. You can see the back window cracked. Police also said it had front end damage from crashing through a gate. The bus was taken from a lot in crownsville early this morning and later discovered abandoned on governor bridge road and Strawberry Run in davidsonville. No children were onboard when it was stolen. Police minority releasing details about the suspects. Time now for us to take a look t whats happening in traffic. Well go to jerry booth in. Wtop Traffic Center. How does it look . Northbound on 270 a big problem at middle brook road with a closure because of a vehicle. Theres a fire. No e. T. S. As to when the lane will be opened. Downstream from this northbound 270 near Montrose Road you have the accident activity along the left side, an earlier overturned vehicle. Its been uprighted and for the most part travel lanes reopened. Along 95 in virginia, separate stretches through springfield and new england, through dale city and south of triangle with your travel lanes open and along 66 westbound again delays in separate stretches through vienna and fair oaks and centreville through manassas again with your travel lanes open. Jerry booth in the wtop Traffic Center. Thank you. Lets talk about the weather now. We had a rainy, kind of cloudy day mostly today. Sunshine outside right now. Wel get some rain and then clear out by tomorrow and by the end of the week more rain. Every day something a little different here. No clearcut pattern in control for very long. Okay. That makes your job harder. It does. Thats why its all white hair and im only 32 years old. All right. This is one of our new weather cameras at Cardinal Ridge Elementary School in centreville, virginia. Early this morning, kind of, you know, breaks in the overcast and really cloudy for a while and a couple sprinkles here and there. The early afternoon started to clear out. Well stop the animation because that was the story across most of the region. Clouds and the sun and now clouds are going to resume streaming from the west ahead of a cold front thatll bring us a couple chances of showers tonight. 73 at reagan national. 64 gaithersburg. Bwi, Thurgood Marshall 67 degrees. 69 in annapolis. 78 degrees the warm spot in fredericksburg. We had plenty of cloud cover to the west. A cold front kind of a complex system with an area of low pressure spinning across the ohio valley and that shoots northward and will push all of this eastward tonight. So at the moment you can see on satellite we have fairly clear skies, patches of clear skies in the metro area but the overcast now just crossing interstate 81. The shenandoah valley. We have the first batch of rain to deal with probably coming into our western suburbs a little after 7 00 tonight. The evening showers and then around 2 00 comes the cold front later tonight. 11 00, midnight. Even the early overnight hours. If everything works as scheduled, everything should push through by 5 00 or 6 00 in the morning. As youll see here in a few minutes the 5 00 or 6 00 time period is pretty important to a lot of folks. This is future cast. This is one model we look at that simulates the weather in the atmosphere. I can show you a few other models that show different solutions. Being the Eternal Optimist well stick with this one. Did pretty well last night. Watch the times. 8 00 and patches of showers. Then as we go through late night the second area comes through toward midnight a little after and then it all kind of speeds off to the east with clearing skies before sunrise in the morning. Clouds out west dissipate. As High Pressure builds in tomorrow i think well have a lot of sunshine. Breezy, warm, in the 70s. A Beautiful Day thursday and another system to bring rain here for the day on friday. In the meantime the reason we mention morning is because early tomorrow morning, 6 25 a total Lunar Eclipse, totality at 6 25 a. M. Sunrise at 7 11. You have to realize it will reach totality only about 45 minutes before the moon sets so you have to be on pretty high ground with good, unrestricted visibility of the western horizon to see it. If things work out and the skies clear well get a view of it. There is a lot more about this eclippings. Check it out on wjla. Com weather. All kinds of information and background on the eclipse. Cool scientific words that you might wind up seeing on jeopardy one day. You never know. Itll be fun. They dont happen often. If things work out right well get a good view. Thanks, jeff for putting that in there for us. Sounds good. Coming up on abc 7 news at 4 00 a family is confronted by police and the situation escalates to a broken window and use of a taser. Was this Excessive Force . You be the judge. Plus, a local cleaning woman what she is accused of taking from her client. So, expensive isnt always better when it comes to Engagement Rings and weddings. Good to know. The results of a new study wont actually surprise you. Well explain whats in a ring. We are asking the question today, d

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