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WJLA ABC 7 News At 600 March 29, 2014

That driver tonight. One person was killed in Apartment Fire in southeast washington today. A wet start to the weekend. You will need the umbrella if you are heading out tonight but tonight, many people are wondering whether or not the entire weekend will be a washout. Lets go to steve rudin. Right now, we are looking at rain and showers that are beginning to diminish a little bit at least for the time being. If you take a look at the radar, you can see temperatures are 55 degrees at Reagan National. 53 at dulles. A lot of the cooler off to the west. Winchester is in the middle 40s. This is what it looks like out there. The heaviest rain lifting off to the north and east. Most of the rain has stopped to the west. We are looking for additional showers and periods of rain overnight and into the day tomorrow along with temperatures that will remain below than average. This is our hourly forecast. You can see into early tomorrow morning, temperatures will range from at least 45 to 53 degrees. We are talking about a big warm up brighter skies and the seven day outlook. I will tell you when to expect 70 degree readings sooner than later. Todays weather hampered search efforts for a little girl. Police spent the past few days searching kenilworth park. Only divers returned to search in the pond. A foot search will resume on monday. Rudd has been missing for about a month. She is believed to be with kahlil tatum who worked as a janitor at the shelter where she lived. He is wanted for murder of his wife. We will keep you updated for the research of the young girl. You can see our social media platforms. One person has died in a morning fire in southeast washington. Firefighters have been rescue some people from the building on stevens road. Northwesta is live in were one of the victims is being treated at the hospital. Not seeingators are who was killed in this fire but here is what we know the woman being treated here is a 25yearold woman who neighbors say is the woman who jumped into the burning building. She was just trying to save her family which includes her mother and a fouryearold son. The sun was starting to come up, firefighters say both floors of this apartment were burning. It was like an explosion. Of this neighbor heard the screams. Helpmeet, my fire call the fire department. A womanis a picture of who says it jumped out of the second floor. I saw a lady falling out the window. I saw the fire coming out of the bottom window. Her head was burnt and her arms. Adults and two children were taking from inside the home. Motherthese adults was a who was battling cancer. A woman says a neighbor tried to help. He couldnt go in because the smoke came out. Hours later, in the background you can hear amanda sobbing. She says she is her best friend. I want to know if my best friend is ok. This is the second house that just got burned within a month. It is kind of sad. I pray for the family that they recover. Family tellinge us that her and her son are in stable condition. We are waiting to get an update on the condition of others. To a separate hitandrun case that left two men dead. Police need your help finding the drivers that are responsible. The latest happened before when a clock this morning. Prince georges county police say a man from florida was trying to cross the road when he was hit i get light pickup truck. The driver did not drop stop in the victim was not in a crosswalk at the time. He died at the hospital. A father of a young man killed in a separate hitandrun incident. This was in laurel last night. A fight inside a house built into the parking lot. Cauley struck him in a man with his suv. Police now the lookout for cauley and the rest warned. The victims father is devastated and puzzled because the two men were friends since childhood. Began with a fight that started in a home that spilled out onto the street. When officers arrived here in l 24yearoldfound Matthew Cavin unresponsive, struck by a car. I cant believe what is going on. I thought they were friends. Cavins father is devastated and puzzled. Is man behind the wheel antione cauley. They have an arrest warrant for him on the charge of murder. After the two men fought, cauley struck cavin with his car. I dont know what went on last night with that. You dont do that. You dont run somebody over twice in a parking lot. They wouldnt let me see my son last night. That totally broke my heart. Police are not saying why the two men were fighting that this happened once before a couple of weeks ago but nobody expected this. I just want justice done. Cavin is the father of two young children, a sixyearold girl and a threeyearold boy. He was a professional painter. Police are looking for a jeep looking for a champagne or white colored suv, possibly a ford expedition. If you have any information, call laurel police. Thank you. Air force one is expected to andrews. Ase he returned from a trip i nen europe. The president called on russia the whole back its troops in crimea and to respect ukraines sovereignty. Asn kerry rerouted his plane he was flying home to the u. S. He flew to paris with a meeting with his russian counterpart. Coming up, more tragedy for the u. S. Naval academy as it deals with the death of a second student in less than a week. New details on a man considered a person of interest in about murders and a exaggerator. See how the community you are watching abc 7 news at 6 00. Bassere has been a never another tough loss for the u. S. Naval academy. A midshipman died today. It comes nearly one week after he suffered injuries on a skateboarding accident while away from the academy. Grief counselors are available. Of ais the second death student from the u. S. Naval academy in less than a week. Another one died tuesday at after practicing at a football practice. An extradition hearing scheduled for monday in West Virginia for Charles Severance has been canceled. His attorney asked the court for additional time to prepare his case. Severance is a person of interest in three alexander homicides. Attorney called the charge a sham implants the fight extradition. Ends today and april 1 primary in the district. Theill learn who will win chair for mayor. Vincent gray is running for reelection. He faces seven challengers. Face a Council Member who was running as an independent in november. Today marks one week since a inslide devastated a town washington. At least 17 people were killed and about 90 others remain missing. We have more. Firefighters in washington state. It was one week to the exact moment that a massive mudslide wiped out homes in this town. People were urged for a moment of silence to those grieving the dead and many did. I prayed. I cried. I lost family members are still missing. Saturday is another day for searching for bodies in the devastated town. The rain that fell on friday continued into the weekend turning the mud on the ground into even more of a quagmire. Search and rescue teams continue to look for signs of life but the hope for finding anyone alive is slim. I think we have to expect the worst. Officials say First Responders are tireless in their effort. Everybody is tired. There are people out here that you cant get to go home. Officials say they plan to continue their daily briefing, including one scheduled tonight. It is expected they may provide new details on a met on the number of people killed. Aftershocks are rattling Southern California tonight after the regions second moderate earthquake in less than two weeks. Anwe might be experiencing earthquake here. Quake magnitude 5. 1 struck just after 9 00 last night. Centered about 20 miles southwest of downtown los angeles. Some buildings received structural damage forcing some people from their homes. No one was seriously hurt. It caused a rockslide and water main breaks as well. This comes days after a magnitude 4. 4 quake on a different fault. There was no word of objects recovered from the indian ocean are from Malaysia Airlines flight 370. The plane disappeared three weeks ago today. The recovered objects are red and white. Flight 370s fuselage was red, white, and gray. They could be from the plane but also trash floating in the ocean. Coming up, a jury start to the weekend. Will we need the umbrella tomorrow . It was a great day to stay indoors. Not dealingwe are with snow so it is not so bad. Love it byg to tuesday, wednesday, and thursday. 56 degrees at this hour at Reagan National airport. Thewinds are out of northeast at 10 and look for the winds to increase as we go through the day tomorrow. It will be gusty winds. 53 degrees is our current reading in the district. About 4 10 of an inch of rain. Official totals a little over half inch at Reagan National. 51 this hour in germantown. About 8 10 of an inch has fallen so far in fairfax. 60 degrees was the high. Slowlytures are going to fall as we go through the evening hours. 55. Ssas line 55 at 64 in fredericksburg and 54 in lexington park, maryland. Mid 60s to around 70. We are talking upper 30s at the great lakes. We had a stationary front that will not move all whole lot over the next 12 hours in an area of low pressure just off to the south and west which moves overhead for tonight off the coast tomorrow. We are going to keep showers in the forecast, even a chance of some snow well to the west of us across extremist western maryland. ForWinter Weather advisory higher elevations. Nothing for us closer to d. C. A little bit of a lull behind it, at least for the next few hours. Will fall intos the 40s to lower 50s. Here is that Winter Weather advisory i am talking about. Garrett county, extreme western Washington County for the overnight and into the Early Morning hours of tomorrow. Showers sticking around for tonight into the day tomorrow. We will see winds that are going to pick up so it will feel a little cooler than her actual the time i our actual daytime high. The rain and showers and clouds out of here by monday and are temperatures will also warm up. 45 to 53 degrees and then for the day tomorrow, temperatures in the 50 to 55 degree range. We may see slightly cooler temperatures off to the west. The windchill factors will make it feel more like the 40s. We havent seen Something Like this in quite some time. Talking upper 60s to around 70 tuesday, wednesday, and thursday. We knew we would eventually get here. Uvas brush ing the ncaa turn it tournament would go on. You would hear from the cavaliers after last nights ncaa sweet 16 game. And now the toyota sports desk. Last line may have been a big disappointment for virginia basketball but they having gone this far in years. The cavaliers have gotten back into the national picture, they just havent got back to the elite eight. Here is the alleyoop to branden dawson. Virginia made it interesting. Five seconds to go, now come knocks down the three malcolm knocks it down the three. Gary harris missed the free throw on purpose. Advances beating virginia 6159. We were giving hugs to each other. I am never going to be able to play with these guys ever again or these coaches. It is something i am extremely grateful for. We just wanted it for each other. We didnt want the fame that came with this. We wanted to do with the right way to go as we were capable. Today was a measuring stick for the caps. The Boston Bruins are a really good team. Gets hisand then he own rebound. It was 30 boston. Green out in front and cuts the lead from three to one. The best team scores again. Lose 42. The caps they are still in the playoff bubble. Today couldve been a nice day for baseball but the exhibition game between the cart the nationals and the cardinals were raained out. Manager Matt Williams says it is for caution precaution. Like ound learning at an athletic facility, lots of activities and programs. Ian desmond was on hand. A lot of room in this place. Of the Nationals Open monday in new york. I like our club. I think we are going to do things right to get where we want to go but i like the looks of it. We are ready to go. D. C. United playing in the rain. United pounding away. This looks like it was going to be the gamewinner but chicago scored late and 22 with the final. The womens ncaa tournament also going on. Notre dame winning today. Nowirish move on, they are 350. Washington is for in new york. Temperatures are better. Millions of people around the world are flipping the switch and turning off the lights for one hour tonight. It is part of the annual earth hour. Famous landmarks expected to turn out the lights include the empire state building, the eiffel tower, and buckingham palace. We need the lights because it is so dark out there. Temperatures tomorrow will be in the 50s. We will call for showers and periods of rain throughout the day. This improves monday. Tuesday and wednesday upper 60s to around 70. This is world news. Tonight shaken. The california earthquake. The tonight the mounting after shocks. The quake hitting as school

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