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Transcripts For WJLA ABC7 News At 4 20160425

And was approached by a guy they say was trying to rob them. The senior put up a fight. And was stabbed in the leg. He is expected to be okay. Michelle . Michelle new developments in the case of underage drinking that spilled into the front yard of a home. Montgomery county dropping more than a dozen charges against a father accused of letting teenagers drink in his home. Montgomery county reporter kevin lewis broke the story of his arrest first on 7. Now he explains why the charges are being dropped. Kevin this is the multimillion dollar bethesda mansion where police say kimiavy hosted a high school drinking party. Cops say a number of teens were boozing on the home front lawn. The youngest partygoers 15 years old. So investigators pinned 13 counts of allowing underage possession of alcohol against the owner. He faces potential of 32,000 in fines but today we learned the Montgomery County entire case against the selfdescribed entrepreneur, citing a lack of evidence. Kimiavy the state Attorney Office claimed had no idea the kids were drinking until the Police Arrived and added he never supplied the alcohol. He is a trustee at the prestigious holson arms private school in bethesda. A number of parents demanded his resignation online in light of recent deadly alcoholrelated incidents across Montgomery County but holtonarms kept him at his post. Today we spoke with one of kimiavys two Defense Attorneys by telephone who told us prosecutors made the right decision. They say their client looks to put this behind them. Kevin lewis, abc7 news. Jonathan developing now, police are investigating a murder at public park in Montgomery County. 18yearold Oscar Benitez was assaulted at the park in montgomer he died at the hospital. Investigators say two others were injured in connection to the incident and they do believe it was gang activity. Michelle in Fairfax County, police say the death of a 21yearold man is suspicious. Family member found lee inside a home on gresham lane in centreville on sunday. Police will only say lee suffered trauma to the upper body. Neighbors say they heard screaming coming from the town house. Now police are looking into the victims past to piece things together. Jonathan more than 200 firefighters helped fight the flames at this house on joint base anacostia this morning. That fire was going through the roof when the firefighters got there. This was on gallery court. No one was home at the time of the fire. Some first responders, though, had to be examined at the scene. None were hurt. The cause of the fire is still under investigation. Michelle more track troubles on metro this morning. A cracked rail on the red line came after a weekend fire that drew the attention of the federal Transit Administration. Transportation reporter Brianne Carter the problem. We have a delay on the red line. There is a cracked rail on this side. Brianne a slow start for thousands of riders this morning after a broken rail near Dupont Circle caused single tracking on a section of the red line. Four full trains went through. While i was waiting there for 25 minutes. Brianne the problem for some riders to find alternate way to get to work. Michelle carter grabbed her keys and decided to drive. Its sardines city. Really packed. You are squeezing on for dear life. Today is not the day for me. Brianne at one point in the repairs trains bypass two stations. But by midmorning service was back to normal. The problem comes on the heel of saturday night smoke incident also along the red line. Riders were evacuated as they say smoke started to fill the tunnel. The Transit Administration continued to inveig of an arcing insulator. Overhaul needs to be done. They just need to get it done. That is what g. M. Paul wiedefeld is working on. He is expected to lay out a longterm Maintenance Plan in the coming weeks to outline how to get metro back on track. In northwest washington, Brianne Carter, abc7 news. Jonathan well, today was a good day to walk. What a gorgeous day out there. Good start for the workweek. Tuesday could be a whole other story. Chief meteorologist doug hill checking in now with what we can expect with the forecast. Doug hey, jonathan. Tomorrow we will have maybe temperatures warmer than today. Sunshine till we hit the afternoon. Then it could get interesting as well. Potential for showers and the thunderstorms will ramp up. At the moment, live look at the weather bug camera at Montgomery County in rockville. 79 degrees right now. Breaks of the blue sky among the overcast condition. Very mild. Temperatures ranging from the low to mid80s. 84 in charlottesville. 81 in leesburg. 71 in washington. 76 in baltimore. The fo cloudy and mild. Overnight lows upper 50s to mid60s thanks to the southwesterly wind. Through the day tomorrow we will watch the surge of the warm air. 82 to 84 degrees. Partly cloudy skies. High pressure offshore. Frontal system will start to approach. As we get through the afternoon that is when we see increasing chances of the showers and the thunderstorms and potential that any develop could be heavy. For more on that, the timing and a look ahead to the end of the week and the weekend in a few minutes. Michelle thank you. Mood is flat in new england tonight. It stems from a federal Appeals Court ruling that patriots Quarterback Tom Brady must serve a fourgame suspension for deflategate. During the 2015 a. F. C. Championship game, members of the Indianapolis Colts accused the patriots of using deflated balls. Todays ruling reverses the decision of an earlier Appeals Court ruling. Jonathan well, we are now under 15 hours away from the polls opening in maryland. This afternoon, Ohio Governor john kasich was in rockville to make a la voters. Elizabeth hur show us how the rest of the candidates spent their day. Elizabeth g. O. P. Frontrunner donald trump firing back at his republican rivals now teaming up against him. Mr. Trump it shows how pathetic they are. Elizabeth calling the new deal collusion and unvailing nickname for kasich. One for 41. One race in 41 races. Elizabeth meanwhile the candidates are defending their deal. Calling the decision to have cruz step out of oregon and new mexico and kasich bow out of indiana a Winning Strategy for the party. I think what donald trump needs to understand is he cant beat Hillary Clinton. In the latest poll out of new hampshire, he loses 5031. Elizabeth the g. O. P. Candidates taking a billionaire charles koch who supported republicans now saying that Hillary Clinton might make a better president. Is it possible another clinton could be better than another republican this time around . Its possible. Its possible. Elizabeth clinton has 80 of the goal gaits she needs to clinch the delegates she needs to clinch the nomination, her focus is shifting to november. Dont just fly the big jet in and land it and go make a big speech and insult everybody you can think of. Elizabeth for second event in a row clinton made no mention of sanders in her speech. In new york, elizabeth hur, for abc7 news. Jonathan plenty of local races at stake in maryland as well. Voters will be casting ballots for u. S. Senate as well as all eight of the maryland congressional districts. Polls will be open from 7 00 in the morning until 8 00 in the evening. Michelle tune in tomorrow night for a complete wrapup of the primaries in pennsylvania, delaware, connecticut, and rhode island. Chief Political Correspondent scott thuman has a primary day special tomorrow night at 9 00 on our sister station, newschannel8. Jonathan always exciting. The battle over a controversial bathroom law is coming to a head in North Carolina. Michelle closer look at that. And why this building is coming down in d. C. Coming up. Is it a hole in the ground where somebody started a forerest i or is this the result of a meteorite . Im brad bell in bowie where the town is buzzing about the possibilities. Jonathan but first, they say you have seen them protest. Now they want you to see the action plan. We will take you to baltimore a year after the demonstrations about freddie gray began. Michelle a quick programming note before we head to break. Starting sunday you can watch this week with George Stephanopoulos at 9 00 a. M. Then at 10 00 stay tuned for full measure trying to make me eat my greens . Low. No, just trying to save you some green. Whaaat . thousands of blue tags. Thousands of low prices. My giant. I dont believe that big money can buy votes not in our district. And i wont claim to have single handily passed just about every bill in annapolis. We cant settle for the same old politics, not when our basic rights are being threatened by trump and cruz. Ill stand up to their bigotry and be a passionate voice for maryland women and families. In tv and in business, i built relationships. As a woman in the house, ill do the same to get things done. Im Kathleen Mathews and i approve this message. Yeah. We love low prices. No bones about it. [ laughter ] thousands of blue tags. Thousands of low prices. My giant. Jonathan new developments to tell you about in the tair rice wrongful death lawsuit. There is a settlement paid over t Police Officer playing with a toy gun at a park in 2014. Grand jury declined to charge the officers. Michelle today marks one year since protesters started making their voices heard in baltimore after the death of freddie gray. It was april 25 last year when demonstrators rallied outside of camden yard leaving fans trapped at the ballpark for a while. Paul gessler is outside city hall where people are gathering today to call for the city to stand up. Paul . Paul the protests last year began with the protests here at city hall. Here we are a year later this is a rally for peace. Its a standup be more rally. You can see the organizers are expecting about a thousand people here. Here there from the left to the right we are in an empty War Memorial Plaza here. A couple of hundred people listening to each other speak. A lot a lot of local mayoral candidates and candidates for Baltimore City council. This is also billed as a get out the vote rally in advance of tomorrows primary in maryland. Especially big races in Baltimore City. Seven cammed dates for mayor seven candidates for mayor are listed among the 25 scheduled speakers here as well as u. S. Senate candidate donna edwards. Organizers were expecting a lot of people. 120 organizations represented from 250 city neighborhoods anticipated. A variety of themes from the speakers so far centered mostly on action. Action on the community policing. Action on affordable housing. Education. Employment. Social services as well as the on site Voter Assistance to get questions answered when they hit the polls tomorrow in Baltimore City. Reporting live, paul gessler. Jo memorial and they are adding names ahead of police week. 33 Police Officer died in the line of duty this year. That is only one more since this time last year. But 17 of those officers killed in 2016 were killed in shootings. Now that is more than twice as many as the year before. Amy aubert will have much more on todays tribute at abc7 news at 6 00. Michelle today marks two years since the state of michigan and the city of flint switched the citys water supply to the flint river. Today a michigan legislative committee is hearing testimony from the state department of Environmental Quality and department of health and human services. In the last two years lead levels spiked in flints Drinking Water and several lawsuits have been filed against the government. Just last week criminal charges were filed against three people and michigans attorney general says more charges are coming. Jonathan well, people thought we had a d. C. Water problem here today. Thats when the geyser started shooting in the air at 17 and c street northeast. Good geyser. Aaron french shot the video. He tweeted to the Water Company but d. C. Water says there was no water main break. This is intentional and part of work to replace a valve on a 20inch main. Michelle all right. Now cheng out this video. Violent hailstorm in myanmar that brought hail the size of golf balls and it killed eight people this weekend. Jonathan wow michelle the hailstorms followed weeks of heatwave temperatures. And moved through five states damaging thousands of buildings. Officials from the ministry of social welfare release and resettlement say 7,500 houses were destroyed by the hail. Jonathan in southeast texas, residents there still dealing with damage after funnel clouds ripping through the area over the weekend. Cell phone video capturing this cloud that formed over league city. On the other side of the gulf freeway, heavy winds tossing debris outside of a hotel, even ripping a door off the hinges. The National Weather service has not declared any tornadoes in the region still have to investigate. Michelle for the first time in nine years, the flood gates at Mansfield Dam in austin, texas, are open. The Lower Colorado River Authority opened the gates at 8 00 this morning and they are expected to keep them open until wednesday morning. The spokesman for the River Authority say the gates were opened to keep lake travis there rising to unsafe levels. The lake levels are higher than they have been in years. Jonathan it seems a lot of activity but not here. Here we have great weather. Michelle a little scary because you feel like okay, when is it our turn . But so far, so good. Doug were deficient in rainfall. Were dry. We spent 12 days of sunshine. Now we have four or five days of the next seven have a chance of rain so maybe well make up the deficit. Could start tomorrow afternoon. Look here at the conditions in woodbridge. This is Prince William county. In the day we have had sunshine clouds, sunshine clouds throughout the day. This morning, brights blue it warmed opaquingly after a cool morning. We have only cloudiness but the temperatures are 70s to 80s. 81 in potomac and aspen hill. 75 in columbia heights. 79 in fort washington. Eastern twothird of the nation kind of feeling like april may. If you get farther north and west not so much. 54 in indianapolis. 49 in rapid city. Cool weather in the west. As long as we have a setup here with a it cantive cold fronts moving in. Some approach from the northwest. Some approach from the north. We get into an active pattern. For the day tomorrow, some of the air in the south and the west in the 80s. I will overspread our area. We will see temperatures in the lower 60s tonight. Warm up tomorrow with High Pressure offshore. Clockwise circulation of winds up the western side of the high. It will keep the frontal zone north. As we get through the day we will see a cold front approach. It will come back south of the cold front and between the two we afternoons. We will see the thunderstorms develop. With that a chance, small chance, at least there is a chance. Marginal is the official language in the darkly green shaded area, possibility of heavy to severe thunderstorms. Keep an eye or if. Best chances will tend to be north and west of the metro area. You can see in the darker green. We will keep an eye on things here for you through the morning and the midday. It should be fine. Future cast shows showers that are moving in until 1 00 or 2 00. Through the evening hours. Scattered showers and storms. A possibility through the Late Afternoon and the evening hour that a few could be close to severe levels. Showers linger to wednesday morning. Clear out in the afternoon. Temperatures, though, take a big dip after 84 degrees tomorrow. Only 64 on wednesday. Rain likely time throughout the day on thursday. Highs of 62. Maybe a shower on friday. 66. Saturday we start off great with a weekend. Sunshine, clouds, 70. More rain sunday night and monday. Rain chances. Maybe we will whittle away at the rainfall deficit here. Credit. You said sunday would be a 10. It was an absolute 10 in everybodys book. Doug good deal. Michelle now keep the umbrella handy for the rest of the week. Jonathan five, six. All right. Coming up at abc7 news at 4 00 it did come from the sky. Or did it . The investigation into what started a maryland brush fire when we come back. Kellye im kellye lynn at the takoma park where this student just got back from a dream come true getaway. Heifer but sierra club chooses jamie raskin for congress they all talk about climate change. Because only raskin wrote laws to reduce our Carbon Footprint and is leading the fight against fracking in maryland. Raskin im jamie raskin, and i approve this message. Michelle investigators are trying to figure out what sparked a forest fire off of scarlet oak terrace. Some think it may have started in space. Jonathan a big mystery right now. Maryland bureau chief brad bell went to bowie to find out what is going on. Brad the scorched earth of a bowie park, the morning after a brush fire becomes an unlikely tourist destination. People drawn to see for themselves if this Bowie Volunteer Fire Department tweet is true that a streaking meteorite blasted out this crater and started the fire. I thought wed come down here and have a look. See what the impact crater looked like. Brad there certainly was a fi

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