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WJLA ABC 7 News At 500 March 24, 2015

Mindlessly and if you think its ok to say. To think that this type of violence behavior is ok that just demonstrates the culture that we live in. Reporter now School Officials told me today that some members of that Club Rugby Team said that many were not at this event that happened. But they said this was a team all 47 members, signed that code of conduct. And so the team had to go through this together. Reporting live brianne carter, abc 7 news. Leon thanks, brianne. This controversy at the university of Mary Washington didnt happen in a vacuum. It follows high profile fra ternlt scandals across the nation in recent weeks. At least three fraternities have been suspended or outright disbanded because of actions or comments made towards women and minorities. Alison . Alison leon we have an update tonight on that bloody arrest of a university of virginia student right outside of charlottesville bar. The universitys board of visitors is applauding Governor Terry mcauliffes decision to order an independent investigation. Youll remember Martese Johnson needed 10 stitches on his head after abc enforcement agents arrested him. Agents claim johnson had been drinking and was beligerent. However, witnesses say thats not the case. So governor mcauliffe has ordered a full review. We are also hearing for the first time from elizabeth daley. In 2013 she was arrested by armed undercover abc agents outside of charlottesville store. They accused her of being alcohol underage. She was instead carrying a case of water. Charges against her were later dropped. In a statement that was released just this morning, she writes im disheartened to see what has transpired this past week. Im hopeful this new investigation will focus squarely on abc and its policing actions. Abc 7 will continue to follow this story. Leon 150 people are presumed dead after a german jetliner crashed in the french alps. The black box has been recovered as the painstaking search for answers begins. Ryan nobles updates the recovery and search effort. Reporter horror for the passengers and six crew members on board the Germanwings Flight from barcelona to dusseldorf, germany. The airliner then left this height after one minute to went straight down. Reporter the first reports from the crash site are devastating. Helicopters flew to the scene and rescue crews described the plane as obliterated. With human remains strewn 700 meters from the wreckage but search crews did find one of the aircrafts socalled black boxes. Many of the victims including the group of 16 School Children are german and the countrys chancellor Angela Merkel promised her full support. We will do everything to get the help that they need in these difficult hours. Reporter france will lead the probe into the crash of the airbus 32211 where radar shows a sharp gradual descent a halfhour before it took off. If pilots were in control of the airplane, theyre responding to some sort of emergency. Reporter the crash site is difficult to get to and the weather is expected to turn for the worse. Making it impossible to land helicopters and allow recovery crews to safely navigate the treacherous terrain. A difficult but necessary process to prevent whatever went wrong from happening again. In washington ryan nobles abc 7 news. Leon theres a chill in the air. More changes are coming. Eileen whelan is in the stormwatch Weather Center with a first look for us. Eileen . Eileen spring is a transition season and well be going through quite the transition over the next few days. And right now outside, from our rooftop camera, were sitting at 46 cool degrees. About 10 degrees cooler than where we should be this time of year. We have a good bit of high cloudiness out there. Weve jumped up to 40 degrees in baltimore. Hanging steady in the upper 30s right now. Milder farther south, luray and culpepper checking in at 52 degrees. I want to show you our storm scan. Notice some of those very very light rain showers popping up over southern ohio and indiana. That moisture will be streaming eastward and i think may greet us with a few sprinkles come early tomorrow morning. So as youre getting out the door on wednesday morning, grab the umbrella. Tonight, temperatures will be in the mid 30s so another chilly morning to start and i think if we get throughout the afternoon hours, more clouds than sun and highs tomorrow around 50 degrees but 70s by thursday and also on thursday if the strong cold front comes through, we could be dealing with some storms and well talk more about those Storm Chances from the belfort Weather Center in a little bit. Alison thank you very much. See you soon. We have new video of what happened outside of the white house the night that the two secret Service Agents allegedly showed up to the scene of an investigation after a night of drinking. This comes as Congress Demands answers from the director of the secret service. Stephen tschida live outside of the white house with some of those answers today. Stephen . Stephen alison, the director of the secret service has appeared on capitol hill three times in the past week or so because of the events that took place here along 15th street across from the white house on the evening of march 4th. This whole area is under intense surveillance, cameras all around here. The video provided for todays hearing came from the metropolitan Police Department and not the secret service. Surveillance video from a controversial march 4th incident shows two senior secret Service Agents drive up to the white house and apparently disrupt an active investigation into a possible bomb. The two senior agents are suspected of drinking at a retirement party. Does this committee have all available video footage from that evening . It does not, sir. Stephen the video played today is from the metropolitan Police Department, not the secret service. It automatically records over its video every 72 hours and no one raised a red flag. We destroyed the evidence. And that completely isnt that is just mind boggling we might do Something Like that. Stephen the video shows the government vehicle pushed past the orange barrier in place because of the investigation. The vehicle comes within feet of the suspected bomb. Secret Service Director Joseph Clancy underwent gruelling questions and criticism. We are supposed to be guarding the president of the United States of america were better than that Stephen Clancy endeavored to down play the seriousness of this incident. The initial reports of a vehicle crash were inaccurate. There was no crash. Stephen obviously, there was no bomb in that incident. This is the latest of a string of incidents involving the secret service that led to the resignation of the former director last fall and we also want to point out that one of the senior secret Service Agents involved in this most recent event actually reportedly is in president obamas security detail. Reporting live Stephen Tschida abc 7 news. Alison all right, stephen, thank you. Amazing video now. With an equally amazing outcome. Look at. This a Prince Georges County deputy was responding to a call late last night when he lost control and crashed and that sent his cruiservertical. Straight up against that utility pole. Incredibly, the deputy walked away as did the driver of an s. U. V. That was also involved. Leon Early Morning crash claimed the life of an 81yearold Silver Spring man. He was hit by a pickup at the intersection of university boulevard and arcola avenue in wheaton. He died several hours later at the hospital. Police have not said if he was in the crosswalk when he was hit. The driver of the pickup and a passenger were not hurt. Alison more ambulances are on the street in d. C. Tonight. And this is at the order of d. C. Mayor Muriel Bowser. It comes after a series of stories right here on abc 7 about slow response times to emergencies. Across the district. Now, in some cases it took more than 20 minutes for an ambulance to arrive. Mayor bowser said today that 25 more ambulances are now operating. Thats 10 more than before during peak hours. Tonight on abc 7 news at 6 00, sam ford will break down how this change is possible and what its costing the city. Leon a d. C. Woman is happy to be alive after this happened. A construction barrel crashed through her windshield as she drove through the third street tunnel. Now, an investigation is under way into just how that happened. 7 on your side trouble shooter Horace Holmes live at the scene with what hes found. Horace . Horace leon youve seen these construction barrels all over construction sites around town, the orange and white barrels. Well, temecular daniels said she was traveling on 395 about to get into the third street tunnel when one of them crashing through her windshield. She says it all happened so fast. Came straight down from the sky. And i was driving and once they hit me i was screaming and swerving. Horace she thinks a construction barrel came from off the overpass but she knows it came crashing down right on the roof of her car and bounced smashing the windshield on the passengers side. It came from out of the sky and went straight into the window and i was trying to stop the car. It flipped out and flipped over and rolled in the middle of the highway. Horace there is construction going on up and down this stretch of 395. And it really is hard to find one of these orange and White Construction barrels. We werent able to find any of those barrels here on the e street overpass above 395 and found no one who knew anything about what happened to daniels on sunday night. Nevertheless daniels believes whatever caused one of these barrels to fallar also almost cost her her life. Im just thankful that i didnt die. Horace a lot of questions but another one is how could one of these barrels get over this railing and on to 395 . The barrel is not light, as you can see, and you can see the railing is high. Daniels doesnt think this is an accident. Police are investigating. Reporting live in northwest, Horace Holmes abc 7 news. Alison keep us posted on that one. The u. S. Will keep just under 10,000 troops in afghanistan through the end of the year. President obama made that announcement during a News Conference with afghan president ghani at the white house. Ghani requested a slowdown in the withdrawal of u. S. Troops. He says Security Forces are dealing with the spring fighting season and recruitment by the Islamic State as well. The white house said troop levels in 2016 will be based on conditions on the ground. Well, the u. S. Future in afghanistan will be among the key issues discussed tonight. In our latest roundtable on the new terror threat. Were also going to take a look at the threat posed by isil as well as the current u. S. Relationship with israel and iran. All of that tonight at 7 00 on our sister station, newschannel 8 and also on line at wjla. Com. Leon still ahead on abc 7 news at 5 00, whats being blamed for a sink hole that swallowed this car and when d. C. Will begin its own blitz against potholes. Alison a warning. After four holdups on a popular bike trail. One victim describes the moment she came face to face with a man armed with a knife. Reporter they may not be here yet but take a look behind me the buses are. Im suzanne kennedy. Ill tell you what kind of problems the drivers of those buses are experiencing. Ill have that story coming up. Leon and the National Park service lays out a plan to deal with canada geese on the National Mall. Leon border collies could soon be roaming the National Mall in order to scare away national geese. They are looking for a way to keep geese and their waste away from the memorial reflecting pool. We have complete details on the proposal including how you can make your voice heard right now on wjla. Com. Alison . Alison as we head towards the peak of Cherry Blossom season theres actually a shortage of Parking Spaces downtown. That shortage means problems for all the tour buses that bring millions of tourists and, of course, their money to the region. Suzanne kennedy live along the potomac with the impact its already having. Suzanne . Suzanne alison this is the scene right now all over town. Motor coach afteroach after motor coach. And take a look at this sign right here. This is what theyre dealing with. Restrictions like this when it says three hour parking all other times. What theyre dealing with is either parking restricts or not enough Parking Spaces and they dont know what to do about it. With the beautiful blooming blossoms of spring comes a burgeoning number of tour buses. Its the busy season when all the seventh and eighth graders come. Suzanne michelle is here from toledo, ohio and spends much of her day to try to avoid getting a ticket. A few between because theres hundreds of motor coaches here and not enough parking for us. Suzanne if she and her coworker arent counting down to minutes where they have to move their buses theyre driving around looking for a space. That means hours going in circles and money out of their pockets for gas. Probably losing 50 to 100 a day on just the fuel. If you cant park the bus. Suzanne critics today are calling for Long Term Solutions to the Cherry Blossom parking crisis for both the motor coach industry and tourists. They say that means more parking, not more tickets. The way the district government and the park service and others involved have chosen to address it to this point is by monotizing it. By writing tickets. Suzanne the d. C. Department of public works which hands out tickets in the district says it tries to increase access by encouraging turnover in this area. That means they monitor it closely and encourage people to move along when their time is up. As for the buses, they say they need to park at r. F. K. Stadium. The bus drivers say thats too far awayment they cant manage their pickups and get back and forth to r. F. K. Stadium. Authorities are hoping some sort of solution could come up and that doesnt mean more ticketing. Reporting live in southwest washington suzanne kennedy, abc 7 news. Leon thanks, suzanne. Looks like some sun is starting to peek out there. Eileen its a nice change after a gray, cool day. Ill show you the time lapse with clouds giving way to more sunshine in virginia and just towards the end of this time lapse, youll see that skies brighten and we get blue skies. Thats the nice end to kind of a cloudy and unseasonably cool day here in the nations midsection. 46 degrees at Reagan National right now. 52 in luray and culpepper. Jumped to 50 degrees in baltimore after being in the 30s all day long and so our average is in the upper 50s and were well below that today. But some changes on the horizon as i kind of show you the wider view. You can kind of see where this front is set up with temperatures well into the 70s over tennessee, arkansas and even into georgia. Get farther towards the north still in the 30s new york city only at about 44 degrees but were going to start to tap in to some of this warmer air come thursday as a warm front lifts to our north. But also with that front does come the chance for some showers and even a few thunderstorms. As of right now, here are some of those showers and im pointing these out because they may be bringing some showers come early tomorrow morning for the commute. You can already see some of those showers moving into southern west virginia. So i think more clouds beginning to increase overnight tonight. The highest likelihood of seeing rain will be especially southwest of the d. C. Metro area but it may impact the morning commute a little bit. But the reason were so cool is High Pressure to the north and thats reinforcing some of that cooler air and its bringing us an easterly breeze so bringing those cloudier conditions and keeping us quite cool. Its tonight that this warm front looks a little bit closer to u us that chance of showers. Its not going to really lift north of us until thursday so weve still got one more cool day tomorrow. Highs will be right around 50 degrees. Ill show you our futurecast here. So ive started this tomorrow morning. And this futurecast actually doesnt even pick up on any rain. So its going to be very hit or miss. And any of the rain that develops will be very light. One other thing that i want to mention before i forget is along the i81 corridor is if temperatures get too freezing where they may in the valleys and Higher Elevations any precipitation may fall as freezing rain. If you travel i81 in the morning, keep that in mind. Other than that, mostly cloudy during the day. Temperatures near 50 degrees but Late Wednesday overnight, thats when that warm front lifts to our north and thats when we tap into the warmer temperatures so 70s come thursday. I think in the morning, there may be some showers especially along and east of i95 and then its a cold front gets closer to us through the Late Afternoon and evening, more showers and maybe even a few rumbles of thunder and then as the cold front passes late thursday into friday, we tumble back into the temperature roller coaster back into the 50s come friday rather. So tonight, 35 degrees in the city. Farther west as you get into the valleys and high elevations. Maybe closer to freezing and the showers arriving by dawn. Tomorrows

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