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WJLA ABC7 News At 4 February 10, 2016

School headquarters in upper marlboro, brad bell, abc7 news. Michelle thank you. New at 4 00, the body of a body was found inside a home on van buren street in northwest washington. The sibling of the child made the discovery. Stephen tschida has more. The details are horrifying. We are hearing there were younger children at the home . Stephen yeah, very disturbing situation, michelle. Six children under the age of 10 inside this home behind me here on van buren street. About 7 00 this morning a call came in about an unresponsive baby. One of the young siblings discovered this baby. We have video of the investigation as it continued today here in northwest d. C. We spoke with investigators. They told us that they do not believe there was an adult inside the home at the time that that call about the unresponsive baby came in. We also spoke with neighbors. They say they are stunned. They say there is a mother who lives here and a who lives here. They say the grandmother was attentive of the children. We also understand there were two infants, twins and that obviously one of those twins is believed to be the baby which died. We spoke with one neighbor, cheryl owen, who talked about the grand mother and how well she cared for the children. Im in total shock because i know the family. I know two of the babies, the newborn, they are not that old. I think less than six months. I know they are twins. One of them is named noah because my son is named noah. A cute little boy. Stephen yeah, again, very disturbing details. The investigators are talking with the adults who lived in the home. They dont believe they were there at the time. As far as the cause of death, that will be determined by the medical examiner. Reporting live, stephen tschida, abc7 news. Jonathan thank you very much. We are also following breaking news in springfield where police right now are investigating a stabbing. Michelle lets go straight out to jeff goldberg. What ca now . Jeff well, michelle, we are at the corner of bonnie mill lane. This is a very active scene. You can see the 10 or 12 investigators congregating around the sidewalk area where we believe the stabbing took place. Here is what we know. The call came in at 1 45 this afternoon, call of a stabbing to an adult male to his upper body on the sidewalk area. The adult male victim was 19 years old was rushed to Inova Fairfax hospital with lifethreatening injuries. Police say the two male suspects fled the scene in either a blue honda or toyota. Fairfax county police say this is not a random event. Meanings, likely the suspect and the vehicle knew one another. A helicopter was also in the area looking for the suspects. Back here live you see the active police presence. Obviously collecting clues, collecting evidence to what took place here. Ain suburban area of springfield. One man in the hospital with life threatening injuries as the search for the suspects continues. We will continue to follow the story and bring you updates when they became available to us. Live in springfield, jeff goldberg, abc7 news. Jonathan okay, thanks. We are following breaking news out of North Baltimore where two Sheriff Deputies were shot. Leon harris has been following the breaking newsroom in the details and he joins us with the latest. What can you tell us . Leon a lot of moving pieces happening in the story. We are trying to put everything together for you. The shootings happened in shopping complex. It at boulevard at fox hill, if you know that area. At this point, here is what we know. We know two deputies are in the hospital after being involved in that shooting. The suspect is dead. Police are telling us right now they are not looking for any additional suspects. Now details on who opened fire first or what led up to the shooting, that not yet be released. We are still worng information once we learn more in the newsroom. Back up to you. Jonathan thank you very much. We are also following a developing story out of annapolis where the Charles County dive team pulled two bodies out of the severn river. They have not identitied the bodies identified the bodies yet but they have been searching for two missing duck hunters that went missing in january. If we get an update, we will pass it on to you. Michelle two days after the potomac spill, they are looking into what leaked in the river. The substance has been contained while samples were sent off to a lab for testing. We are expecting an update on what exactly it is shortly. Well have that for you as soon as we get it. In the meantime, d. C. Environmental officials are warning you not to eat striped bass also known as rockfish caught in d. C. Waterways. Its a popular fish to catch and eat in this area. It is chesapeake but there is no mention of fish caught there. There is a warning to limit consumption of other fish caught in d. C. Coming up at 5 00, we will let you know what is being found in the fish. Jonathan well, the Obama Administration is including 29 million in the in addition in the fiscal budget for chez peek watershed. They chesapeake watershed. They say it will help protect habitat and historical sites. Under the proposed spending plan the National Park service and other federal agencies would receive the funding. Lets take a look outside this afternoon. If you got outside, what a beautiful day. Beautiful blue skies. Nice sunshine. But some of the coldest winter air is arriving and soon. Chief meteorologist doug hill has the timing for us. It was actually cold out there today. Doug the arctic air proper isnt moving in until early saturday morning. So we are going to stay cooled get colder. A little sunshine left. Clou across the area. 28 in hagerstown. 32 in National Football league. 33 32 in leesburg. Winds are a factor. Sustained winds are 9 Miles Per Hour in manassas. 20 in winchester. That is driving the wind chill down the way it feels outside. Winds and cold air are with us for a while. Later this evening, patching of flurries are coming this way. We will give you more on that and the lowdown on how cold it will get this weekend. We will do it in a couple of minutes. Jonathan look forward to it. Thanks. No secret the big changes have been in the works for interstate 66 inside the beltway. Exactly what to do and the politics surrounding it have been arlington and other counties weighing in. They are at odds on what to do. Brianne carter is joining us with a compromise brianne a compromise and also a historic move. Eastbound lanes of 66. You can see the traffic moving. But for any of you driving in the morning you know there are choke points along here. Now according to lawmakers in virginia they have a plan to try to alleviate that. Earlier today Virginia Governor Terry Mcauliffe saying the relief will come as they widen interstate 66 inside the beltway. The bipartisan agreement would widen the eastbound lanes of 66 from the dulles connector to exit 71 in boston. This project is part of a Budget Amendment that needs to make its way through the general assembly. The price tag is 140 million. Currently the solo drivers are not allowed to use the lane in rush hour. Will pay the toll to get on. Tolls set for 2017 are still expected to be that way. While construction on the widening is underway. Take a listen to what the governor had to say. Governor mcauliffe this agreement will accelerate the widening of the choke point while beefing up transit improvement for the brianne the officials said the revenue from the tolls will go back to the transit projects. Not even is on board with this. Coming up at 5 00, hear why some say this is not the right move. Reporting live, brianne carter, abc7 news. Michelle thank you. Abc7 just learned republican candidate Carly Fiorina has suspended her campaign for president. The former hewlettpackard ceo made the announcement on facebook. Fiorina is the second candidate to drop out today. While there is no formal announcement, new Jersey Governor Chris Christie is expected to suspend his campaign. The campaign trail ran away doubling up on john kasich. Many expected senator marco rubio to show well. But everything changed after that debate. Bernie sanders win over Hillary Clinton clinton had hoped to close it to single digits. But that did not happen. Jonathan the man convicted of killing senator robert f. Ken xy making his 15th appearance before a parole board. Sirhan sirhan shot and killed him in the Ambassador Hotel in los angeles. Kennedy was celebrating his california primary win. Five years after that, he t anas the assassination of his brother president kennedy took place in texas. Well let you know what happens in the case. Now to the war on terror. Hundreds of american soldiers are going back. They will deploy them to the southern part of the country to push back against the taliban. This is expected to be the biggest outside of afghanistan since 2014. Mich two animal shelters merging in d. C. Big plans coming up. Jonathan plus, the reunion seven decades in the making. A world war ii veteran travels halfway around the world to find one who got away. How it was made possible. Thats coming up. Michelle plus, Driverless Cars a step closer to being common on the roads. What feds are saying about the computers that drive them. Jonathan rallying in annapolis for change. Fallen off the officer. What it could mean for the d. U. I. Convict moving forward. Michelle the washington Animal Rescue lead and the Humane Society are merging and planning to expand. What does it mean for the nearly 200 employees working at the five current facilities in the area . Today at 5 00, mike carterconneen will have an update and explain the changes coming. Jonathan the water crisis in flate, michigan, not just in flint, michigan, are not just affecting people who live there. Mechanics say its causing fire chief warning that the problem is getting worse and it could be deavor stating to the department. Because they have already spent 65,000 on repairs to just one of the trucks damaged. Michelle a 7 on your side consumer alert now. The takata air bag recall is expanding. Daimler and Mercedes Benz issued recalls on some 840,000 cars and vans in the u. S. Because of takata air bags that may be defective. Honda, ford, nissan, toyota were forced to issue recall because of the air bags that can explode without warning. They have caused at least ten deaths worldwide including nine in the u. S. Jonathan also on the road big win for Driverless Cars. Federal Highway Safety officials are siding with google saying computers that will control cars to the future can be considered the actual driver of the vehicle. So that is important because it is the distinction that means years down the road a human may the wheel if there even is one in the car. So you might just see a car go by with nobody in it. Michelle that will be strange. We have drivers on the roads right now. Jamie sullivan is keeping track on where the backup are. Jamie there is someone in each one of these cars. Trust me. Route 50 is quiet now on the beltway without any issues. No delays whatsoever. I want to move to the maps because where we are seeing an issue is southbound on the baltimore washington parkway. Heading south from route 32, trying to get closer to the capital beltway. Accident blocking one lane near 197. 6 Miles Per Hour. This is a fourmile backup. My suggestion as an alternate is bail out at route 32. Take it to 95. Then continue south from that point. This stretch will take you 40 minutes. Just getting closer toward the on the beltway we are in good shape on the outer loop through montgomery county. Tonight, around 9 00 p. M. , not 9 00 a. M. , until 5 00 a. M. They will close four lanes to the 270 spur. Overnight project they have in place. Not bad in district. Little volume but that is it. Look at traffic. Back to you. Jonathan thank you. Today is crossing forward appreciation day. Two local crossing guards are recognized by vdot as the best in the commonwealth. Christie coats works in loudoun to help students get to liberty elementary school. You have lawrence dicknorton who directs traffic at stafford senior high school. They are one of six crossing guards to be recognizedded for the war in 2016. Jonathan in war, relationships are made overseas, lasting ones. World war ii veteran in one get away before finding out his true love is in australia. Great story. Damian ryan shows us how the journey seven decades in the making made possible. As love stories go, what an ending. A hug and a kiss 70 years in the making. 93yearold thomas last held his sweetheart 88yearold in london shortly before dday in 1944. The relationship was lost in the fog of war. Each going their separate ways to opposite ends of the world. They moved on, married other people, but that link was never lost. Well, he was real fun mel fellow. I remember that. The gettogether swept people away. Stopping up funds for the air fare to find his fair lady. It was a 17,000kilometer journey from the u. S. To adelaide. Three days it took the war vet to get here. What is the first thing you are going to go . Im going to give her a squeeze. Now he is back in the arms of one that got away. He is not letting go. Michelle that will warm your heart on this cold day. Lovely to see them together. Keep the moment alive and apart for the next five days. Doug valentine story. Maybe flurries out there. We are tracking stuff on the doppler radar. We have a snow overnight, a band coming through. Start with a time lapse from spotsylvania. If yu was a little snow. Also that in the bottom of the screen. It didnt take long for that to go away. That was it. The sunshine came out. Warmed up nicely in the upper 30s. This hour is 35. Clouds are rolling right back in. This is from the patches of the light snow. Snowshowers and the flurries coming across the mountains. We will check it on radar in a moment. Get set on the numbers. 36 on Reagan National. Getting cold in the west. 28 in winchester. 28 in martinsburg and hagerstown. We get through the evening, the breezes will stay up. The temperatures, though, will come down in the teens. 22 in the brentwood neighborhood. 20 by morning. In ash burn. Here is a little bit of snow we are seeing. Some of this is not reaching the ground. The air is dry. However, some of it is. Each back that comes through will make it more likely in the next couple of hours to few snowshowers in the area. I dont think it will cause major disruptions at all. If you are headed out tonight i dont want you to come out a dinner or theater and say hey, you didnt say it would snow. I am. Get in and out quickly as the back emmoves across virginia. High pressure builds in. Cold temperatures and the gusty winds. These are the future wind chills. Going to feel like 9 degrees early. 8 30 in baltimore. 8 in winchester. 9 in manassas. 11 in the city. Chills will stay in the teens all day long tomorrow. Really cold air doesnt arrive until the weekend. That comes in late friday night. Flustery winds. Partly sunny skies. Highs in the low to middle 20s on saturday and sunday. Get into monday we will warm up a tiny bit. Late monday and tuesday another storm system may pass to the south. We have a 30 chance that there may be a rainsnow mix. The big story is f that will move in saturdayed and sunday. Jonathan in vermont they are getting ready for 25 below for the temperature. Doug they can handle it there. Jonathan better them than us. Thank you. Michelle coming up at 4 30 today, a bill to prevent d. U. I. Convicts from getting behind the wheel drunk a second time. It is named for a fallen officer. Jonathan local leaders are addressing zika and how our areas brought back cases from south and Central America and i lead the 11 oclock news with stories of gun violence. Through the beltway sniper crisis. In congress, ill fight to expand background checks on guns and ammunition, ban assault weapons, and mandate gun safety locks, because too many kids die from accidental shootings. Lets show the nra were not afraid of them; as democrats, as americans, as parents. Im Kathleen Matthews and i approve this message. Heart disease shows up in many ways. Michelle we are holding a phone bank today on heart health. Alison starling is in the help center where the phone lines open in a few minute. Alison they will open at 4 30 and stay open for you until 6 30. As you said, its american heart month. We are really happy today to provide experts here for you to talk about this very serious topic. You know the American Heart Association has helped here to provide us with doctors, nurses, survivors. Other professionals here to answer your calls. The number is the phone lines open in a few minutes. Back to you. Jonathan coming up at abc7 news at 4 00 the cruise liner that sailed in a winter storm that packed Hurricane Force winds. When it is due back in port coming up. Kevin im kevin lewis in annapolis. The bill that would save hundreds if not thousands of lives because of the simple announcer youre watching abc7 news at 4 00 on your side. Jonathan officer noah leotta was killed last year when a suspected drunk driver ran into him on rockville pike. It raced questions about maryland laws that some say allow convicted drunk drivers allow them to get back behind the wheel too easily. Now leottas parents are taking change to annapolis. Kevin lewis has the story for us. Kevin in kevin jonathan, there is a push for a new law. It all centers on this gadget. Called ig anything interlocking device. It works like this. You get in the vehicle. And blow into this gadget. If it detects alcohol your car wont start. If it doesnt, there is no issue. You can drive wherever you want. The bill has hit snags for eight years. Now the leotta family is saying enough. It took something horrific like this to officer noah leottas father is tackling annapolis politics. The end game . Stricter d. U. I. Laws. He might be here today if that was in that persons car. This is the technology that everyone is talking about. The interlocking device. Very simple technology. According to mothers against drunk driving, 25 states, each highlighted in red mandate all convicted drunk drivers use an interlocking device to operate their vehicle. But for some reason, maryland hasnt gotten on board. I would like to know who is preventing this from happening and

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