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WJLA ABC7 News At 4 November 3, 2016

Virginia. At one point the driver of the hyundai, noticed broken glass in the passenger side, thefront of the vehicle. Noticed an injury bleeding on his finger. At that point he realized something happened, something entered the vehicle, the hyundai. He pulled off the beltway on braddock road to this shell station. Recognized, called the police said he was injured. Police were able to surmise there was some sort of a projectile fired into that hyundai. Possib or a b. B. Gun from another vehicle. They were able to track down the other vehicle in a white chevy track, sufficient to a restaurant in i haveianna s. U. V. To a restaurant in vienna. Pull over the vehicle on vehicle description and license plate. We dont know if the drive and the suspect, the victim and the suspect knew one another. As far as i know there is no prior relationship between dont know the reason or the motivation behind the road rage incident or anything like that. Jeff obviously police still gathering information. The good news is only a minor injury suffered by the driver of the hyundai. The 4monthold not injured. Again, the police were able to track down the driver of the owe vehicle, the s. U. V. Speaking with him. He is cooperating at restaurant in vienna right now. Thankfully, no serious injuries as a result of the situation but the Police Continue to investiga led up to and what happened in the likely road rage incident. We will bring you more information as we get it. Alison thank you, jeff. Be the first to get updates on the breaking stories like this. Log on the wjla. Com text and enter your phone number. Well send you updates to your phone. In other news, Melania Trump husband republican president ial nominee donald trump. Today giving her first big speech to supporters solo. Lindsey mastis has the highly anticipated speech. Lindsey this is the first time that Melania Trump gave a speech since attending the Republican National convention. She was accused of plagiarizing a speech made by Michelle Obama the last time around. Today the Melania Trump said the u. S. Got too mean and too rough and she focused on motivating the this is not an ordinary campaign. Its a movement. A movement for people to feel included, inspired and involved. I have seen it firsthand. Lindsey donald trump tweeted about the event watching from North Carolina. I just check and he posted a picture inside the private michelle thank you. Meanwhile, donald trump is in concorde, North Carolina. This is a look at him live speaking to the folks there at the rally. He is scheduled to hold another rally later today. Earlier today he was in florida, a be day for him. Jacksonville, florida. He wrapped up in North Carolina he is heading to selma, North Carolina to continue spending a lot of time in the Battle Ground state. Jonathan lets talk about North Carolina. Both candidates are crisscrossing the state. Tonight clinton is in a rally with williams and Bernie Sanders on the same stage. Earlier she was attending an early voting rally in North Carolina. Michelle each and every day leading up to the election we are gaining the elocator rate. Today votetrak 2016 is in georgetown. Maryland bureau chief brad bell is there now. Here we are five days out from election day. Brad you know what . They are intently involved in this election. We have arrived here in the votetrak 2016 hummer. Were at the Early Voting Center at the georgetown recreational center. You see the signs and there is table on the right with the republicans and a table on the left with the democrats. They are all campaigning to reach each voters before they cast a vote. They are focusing on another aspect, one part of the community much talked about this election of marylands registered voters 200,000 are latinos. Not a big number. But if you talk to the director and the democratted a slow kate they want to be heard. Economy, jobs is very important. Jonathan. Brad he says he has been hopes his vote sends a message. I respect the laws of the country. I follow the rules and try to do the right thing. Brad torres says less than half of the eligible latino voters are register he is going door to door to convince people to get involve and fears other will try to intimidate latinos at the polls. We will be there to make sure the community brad inside the votetrak 2016 hummer, that is the computer and the story we are working on at 5 00. We will talk about the voter turnout at this Early Voting Center and the others around the state. They are setting records. Maryland has never seen anything like this before. In georgetown, brad bell, abc7 news. Michelle follow votetrak 2016 hummer on the campaign trail to the white house. Tomorrow brad goes back to many firsttime voters will cast the ballot. Jonathan another Beautiful Day outside. It may be november. Look how gorgeous the capitol looks. One of those days where it was warm. A brief shower blew through did not get in way of the record heat. Chief meteorologist doug hill. This is a day you wish everybody had a couple hours for lunch to get out and enjoy it. Doug that would be nice. Temperatures in the lower 80s. 83 in reagan normal. Broke the record high o now the area of showers we had earlier is off to the lower Eastern Shore of the delmarva. Southern maryland. North of the Northern Neck in northern virginia. That whether continue to move out. Therefore, there are other for however, there are other areas of shower along the cold front itself moving to southern pennsylvania. See how it works out. Sprinkles may come our way at 7 00 or 8 00 and that will be through and the skies will clear. You can watch the radar live on the phone. You can download it now and track the weather on your phone. Available at app store and on google play. Our hourbyhour forecast tonight, it will turn cooler but not dramatically. Its just that storm temperatures arent going to recover that much. A lot of sunshine. Chill in the air. Will it last through the weekend, through election day . We have that in the sevenday outlook coming our way in eight minutes. Alison we will see you then. Thank you. Two days argue it was a horrific two days ago it was a horrific accident. Six People Killed when a school bus and collided in baltimore. Tonight we are learning more about the driver of the school bus killed in the crash and his experience behind the wheel. Ryan hughes at the abc7 live desk now with the developing story today. Ryan, what have you learned . Ryan we learn towed today from the Motor Vehicle administration that the School Bus Driver Glenn Chappell was operating the bus on a suspended commercial drivers license. Abc7 obtained these two letters from the m. T. A. Sent to chappell in july. Another one in september exam certificate was about to expire. The video from the scene on tuesday is horrific. The Baltimore Police say the school bus hit a car, crashed into a pillar and barreled in the m. T. A. Bus. Six people including chappell were killed. According to the m. T. A. Every c. D. L. Driver must have a medical examine certificate on file. Its a federal requirement to make sure you are fit to drive. The m. T. A. Says chappells certificate expired a of this year. Today we are hearing from his daughter two claims that her father did not have any medical issues that she was aware of. We want to wait to see what the medical examiner says. Thats what we want to know. We dont know. We dont want to speculate or whatever. If there was a medical emergency then we will find out. Ryan its still unclear if chappell had a medical issue on tuesday morning. Weeking before an autopsy comes back with the results. Now the ntsb is part of this investigation. Today, we also reached out to the bus contractor that chappell worked for. A. A. Affordable transportation service. As soon as we mentioned why we were calling them a worker hung up the phone. Live in the satellite center, ryan hughes, abc7 news. Michelle the idea of a gondola over the Potomac River could be a reality. Gondola to connect georgetown to rosalyn is feasible. It would cost 80 to 90 million and take two years to build. Public meeting will be held tonight at 6 00 at the georgetown theater in northwest. Jonathan its funny when they say its feasible. If we can paut man on the moon we can make a gondola. Michelle next at 4 00 alison 7 on your side with jonathan then there is this. Cubs win the world series. Jonathan cubs and win the world series hasnt been used in the same sentence in a hundred years. Next for us the celebrations planned in chicago. The alist invite. There is a planned celebration in d. C. Park Police Respond to an officer down. He was air lifted to the hospital. On the issues, Barbara Comstock and donald trump are the same. Comstock and trump promote deportation and reject any comprehensive Immigration Reform. Both oppose background checks that keep guns from suspected terrorists. And comstocktrump were prepared to shut down the government just for politics. Time for Luann Bennett comprehensive Immigration Reform now. Common sense gun safety laws. Bennett tells congress do your job. Im Luann Bennett the cubs win the world series jonathan it was a game for the ages. An epic game. Look what happened out in front of wrigley. This is 12 40 this morning. They had a rain delay. I went to extra innings. It was insane. After 108 years the drought for the cubbies is over. Your chicago cubs are the world series us. Alison there is a live picture right now of Wrigley Field. A lot of people celebrating. Jonathan some people never left last night. Alison the victory parade will take place tomorrow in chicago. The mayor of chicago said there is no specific route. Just go stand anywhere and you will see it jonathan. They dont have experience with this. Michelle it has been a while. People are still partying in chicago as we mentioned. As Richard Reeve shows us celebrating as well. We are at the billy goat tavern in downtown d. C. There is one in chicago. I bet you can guess what the cubs fans are tackling about. Along with the sizzle on the grill there is a taste of victory at the tavern. This watering hole for the cubs fan still wowed by the world series win. The manager doesnt have a man cave at home so he has filled this bar with the memorabilia. Not only that, there is tantalizing connection, the curse of the billy goat. Legendary to cubs fans. The tavern owner who was asked to leave Wrigley Field in 13945 world series because of the smell of his goat leading some to believe the continuation of the drought is the uncle of the owner. He says its time if curse was lifted. Incredible. Pandemonium. Champagne going off. Bill murray, win for him and chicago. So much emotion. Coming up at 5 00, hear from the fans talking about what is it like the day after. In northwest washington, Richard Reeve, abc7 news. Jonathan you have heard a huge cubs fan is that guy. Bill murray. The express on his face said it express on his face said it all. He also walked on the field. Wanted to honk ben zobrists then he interviewed them in locker room as a pseudo fox reporter. He said i have been a cubs fan longer than you have been growing than beard, which is only two months. Michelle president obama is from chicago but he is a white sox fan. He did take to twitter with this actually yesterday. It happened at cubs win world series. That is changed even this southsider can believe in. Nice invide. You know they do. Hillary clinton is a cubs fan. She tweeted they did it. 108 days later, the drought is over. Way to make history. Fly the w. Jonathan a ton of the bandwagon cubs fans. Time to get traffic situation and jamie, you go out today and you saw a lot of people the blue cubs fans. Did you see it on the road . Jamie yeah. I wasnt one of them. Im from cleveland so i was cheering on my night. Trying not to look. But im excited though for the city of chicago. Closer to the baltimore parkway. Nothing typical. If you are traveling around the beltway, the bottom is not we are going to be the heaviest right now. There is volume as you travel through the stretch to silver spring. 66, we are seeing heavy volume starting near the beltway and continuing outbound. We take a live look at the traffic on 66. As you head out, you get a good idea of the volume. No crashes, though. That is a look at what we h jonathan how long have you been a cubs fan . You see she was wearing the tribe protest. Alison our weather is fantastic. Doug we set a record today. High. 83 is the official high. I will show you the old record. We will talk about the the old record on their record at the b. W. I. And reagan. Winds blowing as much. We warmed up to 83 degrees. Even at 779 in washington. Fredericksburg, joint base andrews and annapolis. 72 in frederick. We often see a cold front on the map, blue line and the blue triangle. You get a sense of a sharp line. Cold front is the leading edge and cooler and a drier air mass. Its wide. We see it with the showers developing ahead of the front. We have a chance for showers tonight. Depending the model, all the rain or its this pattern and this model, developing heavy rain from here. More substantial rain. We will monitor this for you in the next few hours. In any case tomorrow we its sunny and breezy and chilly. High of 60. 62 on saturday mostly sunny both days. For early november its beautiful weather for outdoor activities. Monday, 62. Election day forecast. It will turn cooler as we head through the middle and the end of next week. Seven days in a row without rain. We need rain at that. Triia time. 65 degrees . 72 degrees . Think about that. Think about that. Coming up in 11 minutes and ten seconds. More or less. Back to you. Michelle next on abc7 news at 4 00 7 on your side Health Matters report. Alison well have health for new mothers to answer questions you may have from pregnancy to the pediatric care. Jonathan president ial candidates all o candidates are desperate to win that state. I believe america is already great. Yes, we have our challenges. We must give every child a great education, build an economy that works for everyone, end tax breaks for companies that move our jobs overseas. By working together, democrats and republicans, thats why we must defeat those who want to turn americans against one another. Im chris van hollen, and i approve this message, because united, michelle we answer questions from child birth to pediatric care and much, much more. Kimberly suiters on the 7 on your side health center. For one of the guests this is a Serious Mission for her. Kimberly right. It is a Serious Mission. Its personal. You will hear a lot about that in the next two hours. This is the phone bank. Help for new moms. I was inspired by a wonderful arlingtonian, Jennifer Busch lawson. Devoted mother who tragically lost her life struck by a childrens Elementary School two years ago in february. You may remember, in 20134. Joining us now is her husband who developed a foundation in her name. The Jennifer Bush Lawson Foundation because of love for your wife but for her love for helping others. You discovered since her untimely passing a deep need for help. Every year there are about a thousand kids who are four years or younger who are in the same demographic and there are a lot of people who dont have the same access that many of us enjoy. Kimberly right. What is your foundation able to do for the families . We are able to provide funding for things like cribs for children who dont have a safe place to sleep. This year, we are providing funding for 12 months of in arlington. We are providing transportation and help people navigate the system. Kimberly neil will be with us for two hours as we take your calls. We have areas from area hospitals and nurses and midwives. The number to call if you need help or know someone who needs help who is about to be a new mom or is one, 7032369220. The phone lines will be phone in the next few minutes al until 6 30 tonight. Reporting live in the newsroom, kimberly suiters. Back to you in the studio. Jonathan great resource. Thank you for that. Facebook made new friends. Actually several million of them. Well tell you how close they now are to getting over that 2 billion user mark. Its fall but the temperatures climbs climbs in te record books. Im Cheryl Conner live in rosslyn. Well tell you who had to work harder on the warm day. Frustrated but its causing concern for people in a nearby neighborhood. We explain why coming up onen abc7 news at 5 00. Why are yoch i wanna see if it changed. Credit scores dont change that much, do they . Really . Ill take it. Sir, your credit. Is great right . When was the last time you checked . Yeah, id better check my credit score. Here, try credit karma. Its free. All right. No more surprises. Im Hillary Clinton and i approve this message. And i wouldnt lose any voters, okay . And you can tell them to go f themselves you know, you could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of r wherever. You gotta see this guy. Ahh, i dont know what i said, ahh. I dont remember. Announcer youre watching abc7 news at 4 00. Alison doug is back. Doug the Storm Watch Weather Team will pick a winner for this week. The final week for the contest. Tomorrow morning, good morning washington will announce the winner and show the pictures and send them momentum from the weather center

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