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WJLA ABC7 News At 4 January 9, 2017

This evening, fair amount of cloudiness. We will drop in the 20s and teens by tomorrow morning but not as intensely cold. Tomorrow, look at the big turnaround we make with temperatures climbing to the 20s, 30s, close to 40. Maybe rain here by tomorrow night. The numbers you want to see. Check this out. By wednesday, 52. 64 on thursday. Then we start to turn colder for friday but seasonally colder not frigidly cold. A huge change coming over the next three days. We are not there yet. Stephen tschida will be the first to tell you. He is live in northwest with people dealing with the deep freeze. Stephen doug, it is cold out here. Check this out. The sun is out. It is shining on the houses over there. You can see bright sunshine. Come here to the ground. Right down here you see the remnants of this weekend snowfall. It isnt going anywhere. Its not melting. That says a lot. The combination of low temp painful. Cold. Cold. Stephen these workers packed on extra garb and did their best to deal with an uncomfortable situation. We just work. Stay warm. Stephen not exactly warm but not quite as cold. It wasnt just the discomfort that made outdoor life difficult for jeff. He is walking since his vehicle isnt turning over. Wind i can deal with. I guess, sometimes, im having problems with the battery lately. The truck wont start. Stephen those venturing out did what they could to keep the cold away. Extra layers. No matter what they wore most people said they still felt the winter sting. Even those from more northerly regions. Ive been down in this area for some years now. Im from the pittsburgh area. Even this is cold for even people from pittsburgh. Yeah. Its pretty cold. Stephen well, you know, im from minnesota. I spent a lot of my life in northern minnesota. Minnesota. There is no getting around it. Its still cold. But again, as doug said, it will warm up soon so we can look forward to that. Reporting live, stephen tschida, abc7 news. Alison youd be an expert on that. Thank you. Dont get caught out in cold. Download the stormwatch7 weather app from google play or the app store. Get realtime updates. Jonathan swastikas on the dumpster in arlington read heil trump. You look at what is on the dumpster someone appeared to cover it up with love and peace signs. Police are looking for who tagged the dumpster to begin with. Several j. C. C. s, Jewish Community center, across states are on alert. Someone called in bomb threats. The one in rockville was mentioned by the caller specifically. They are on alert there and at all the j. C. C. s. Police went to the one on Montrose Road to sweep it and make sure its open this evening but they are on high alert. Alison this is developing in south florida. New video of the shooting at the Fort Lauderdale airport. Tmz obtained the records of esteban santiago, iraq war veteran opening fire on friday. Five people were killed. Today, santiago went before a judge now facing three federal charges. If convicted could carry the death penalty. Terrorism charges are still possible. Michelle also developing a manhunt for a cop killer in central florida. The search forcing some schools in the orlando area to lockdown. Elizabeth hur has the desperate search. Elizabeth a somber morning for police in orlando turned into a day of an allout manhunt for accused cop killer. We are bringing this dirt bag to justice and he is going to jail. Elizabeth police say Debra Clayton was shot down trying Markeith Lloyd who is wanted in the shooting death of his pregnant exgirlfriend. She either recognized him or was notified of his presence and then went to contact him. He had a security vest on and everything. He walked right by me. I came out. Im walking down the side, past the officer. I heard him tell him to stop. He shot her. He shot her down. Took off running. I mean, unreal. Elizabeth eyewitnesses say the suspect ran away and paramedics responded within minutes. But the 17year veteran and mother of two later died at the hospital. She married her soulmate. She was a daughter. Daddys little girl. Elizabeth hours later the florida Law Enforcement community hit with another loss. Authorities say a motorcycle deputy was hit and killed by a man while work a perimeter searching for the suspect. This thing that he can do this time is turn himself in we would love to be able to resolve the situation peacefully. Elizabeth right now there is a 60,000 reward offered for this case. Officials asking the public for the help. Also reminding them the suspect is considered armed and extremely dangerous. In new york, im elizabeth hur, abc7 news. Alison back at home, a maryland caregiver could go to prison after going to exercise at the gym. Police say frank tedlore left his nearly nonverbal patient with autism in a car while he worked out. When he returned the patient was gone. Kevin lewis has more. Kevin lifting iron and craving cardio at this l. A. Fitness has frank doing a lot of explaining. The caregiveer that worked at the place for autistic adults d patient. Patient nowhere to be found. According to the Court Documents tedlor waited three hours before getting help. Officers set up a search grid using a blood hound, plus a search and rescue suspects. Hours later, they found the autistic man wandering down a street in the dark more than four miles from the gym where he first disappeared. Tedlor who Court Documents indicate made 11 an hour lives in this Silver Spring apartment complex with his mother. Investigators say the nonprofit he worked for had previously disciplined for ditching patients but kept him on staff. It seems to me there is liability on the company side. That is for other people to determine. I think its wrong. Kevin he i criminal count of vulnerable adult abuse that carries up to five years in prison. The cops also say he gave them conflicting and incorrect information, which only made finding the disabled man all the more challenging. Alison so kevin, what is the status now . Has the nonprofit fired the caregiver . Kevin you know we called and emailed multiple times today to ask that very question. So far, the Nonprofit Agency is keeping quiet. Alison all right. Kevin lewis live for us. Thank you. Jonathan the director of Prince Georges County liquor board was in court today. Bribery scandal detailed by the feds seem to grow darker. Maryland bureau chief brad bell is in greenbelt with new developments. Brad . Brad this is the guy that the federal prosecutors paint as the ringleader, the guy arrange bribes and serving as a middleman and taking a cut himself. They wanted him locked up because they said when they confronted him in december and he agreed to wear a wire to tipping people off. When we got to court today the feds said they were not going to continue to detain him. They were going to release. Take a look at the video. This is when david son carrying his 1monthold child in a baby basket was released from federal custody. He was released to custody of his wife under strict rules. He cant even have a cell phone or access to a telephone, computer, tablet, anything in his house. He is not supposed to speak with what prosecutors called an extensive list of people who may be involved in this scandallal. So that is an additional reference to the notion that this bribery scandal is going to grow from the four people who were arrested last week. Already we know of a couple of elected officials who have been implicated but not yet named. We believe that those names are going to be made public along with the charges at some point this week. The bottom line today david son has been federal cust my. Prosecutors not revealing much more about the case just yet. We will stay on this and we will be back at 5 00 with more. In greenbelt at the u. S. District courthouse, brad bell, abc7 news. Alison thank you. Coming up here at abc7 news at 4 00 police in france have arrested 16 people in the Kim Kardashian jewelry heist. Plus there was one performance this year that stunned me. It sank hooks in my heart. Michelle la la land had a record night but everyone is talking about Meryl Streeps golden globe speech, her trump tirade and the president elects response next. Jonathan still ahead for us, are you still hanging on to your new years resolution to get or stay in shape . We have five easy exercises that you cant drop. So easy. That is coming up for you. Alison today at 4 30, the f. B. I. Beefing up security for inauguration day. Inside the plans to keep the capitol minu did you know slow internet can actually hold your business back . Say goodbye to slow downloads, slow backups, slow everything. Comcast business offers blazing fast and reliable internet than slow internet from the phone company. Say hello to internet speeds up to 150 mbps. And add phone and tv for only 34. 90 more a month. Call today. Comcast business. Built for business. Michelle a big night for hollywood last night. La la land took home a truckload of Golden Globes. Alison right. But is that what everyone will remember from the Golden Globes . Jonathan everyone has an opinion on Meryl Streeps speech. We have a wrapup on the big night. The la la land. Its been dubbed the la la landslide. Taking home a record seven gold globes. Its all downhill from here. Best actress emma stone sharing spirit of the magical film. Anybody, anywhere, really, that feels like giving up sometimes, but finds it in themselves to get up and keep moving forward, i share this with you. Leading man ryan gosling dedicated the best actor honor who partner evan mendezs late brother. My lady was racing our daughter, pregnant with our second and trying to help her brother fight his battle with cancer. If she hadnt have taken all that on so i could have this experience, it would surely be someone else up here other than me today. It was a big night for tv. Tracy ellis ross won her first golden globe for women, women of color, and Colorful People whose stories, ideas, thoughts are not always considered worthy and valid and important. But i want you to know that i see you. Are you going to carry it to every Party Tonight . Im bringing it to work tomorrow. Host jimmy fallon started off with a la la land inspired open. Even lifting a former host for help. I have been waiting 20 years for this. [laughter] jonathan well, Meryl Streeps speech from last night, she was given the cecil b. Award. It went viral. When the person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country imitated a disabled reporter, someone he outranked in privilege, power and the capacity to fight back, it, it kind of broke michelle that was the beginning of two minutes in which she spoke out against president elect donald trump without calling his name. Alison trump responded on twitter. What wonder what you think about his tweets. Should he tweet once in office . Head to wjla. Com votenow and weigh in that way. Michelle we want Lindsey Mastis to join us with reaction to this feud that is playing out on social media. Lindsey in trump, as you mentioned, gotten on twitter to talk about this. This is one of his tweets or was one of his tweets that looks like we just lost the connection there. Let me try to push it back up. I will read it to you. Basically he is saying meryl streep, one of the most overrated actresses in hollywood, doesnt know me but attacked me last night at the Golden Globes. He goes on to talk about denying that he mocked a disabled reporter. Actress marlene tweeted id rather watch her tell the truth about someone mocking persons politics. Talk show host Montel Williams remarked meryl streep spoke for majority of the americans tonight. But not all of the colleagues agree with the message. Look at what actor from joshua molina, he is going off on streep and he tweets tra donald trump writing i dont agree with a lot of your policies but you nailed it on the streep thing. She is not that good at acting. When she makes a good movie, ill listen to her political views. Then he tweets about losing followers saying its worth it to be able to express my opinions freely and he even calls the streep supporters streepies. The country is divided on her speech as well. Back to you. Michelle okay. Alison strong reactions. Jonathan it will be nice when we get back to a place we dont all attack everywhere. Michelle i dont know that we are returning to that space soon, though. Talk about the kardashians. 16 people arrested and taken in for questioning for their possible roles in the october Armed Robbery of the reality star Kim Kardashian in paris. The pocket you recall a group of Armed Robbers described as Police Officers stormed her room, tied her up and locked her in a bathroom. They stole 11 million of jewelry. The Police Tracked down the suspects using d. N. A. Left at the scene. Alison 7 on your side with a consumer alert today. If you are waiting for the famous l. L. Bean boots you ordered, it could be a while. 51,000 orders on display. They will arrive in coming weeks. Ten years ago orders were fewer than 100,000 a year. This year topped 500,000. We have a look at the commute with jamie sullivan. Jamie we are seeing the big delays already. This is seven locks road. Heavy congestion. We are usually only seeing it on the inner loop. Lets talk about the crash we have. As you head south past the American Legion bridge and the g. W. Parkway, that is where we have the accident. It has a left lane blocked. Because of that we are seeing the backup. We have another slow down, that is outbound on 66. You can see the volume right here. With that it will be heavy. Sun glare, this is nutley street. Outer loop on the northwest corn rer the heaviest crashes due to the crashes. Back to you. Jonathan thank you. Its chilly out. Doug its only three days for the deep freeze. Saturday, sunday, monday. Jonathan people will tell you its been months. Going on forever. Michelle it seems so abrupt. Doug behind the system to turn in the big snow system up the coast, it brought in cold air. That will move out. That is a lack jack breaking. We are looking live at the capital wheel. The visibility is unlimited and unrestricted. Clear skies for the moment. Its so cold. The average highs this time for january are just above the 40 degrees mark. Ref way below that. 26 now. Southerly winds. Wind chills are coming down now. Dew point is 4 degrees. The air is dry. Southerly winds are the key to drive up the temperatures. But it is a problem. Ice in spot, snow in spot. The temperatures in the mid20s now will drop tonight. Area that get the clear skies we are in the middle teens. Other areas in the lower 20s. For the next few hours we are in the 20s. Partly cloudy skies. Southerly winds increase in the day. The upper 20s. High pressure will get out of the way and the winds will increase. We are close to 40 tomorrow. On wednesday, we have showers and lower 50s on wednesday. Behind the front we get warmer temperatures in the 60s by thursday. So, a big change coming here over the next several days for sure. By the end of the week it turns colder. Not terribly cold. Not frigid but colder. 40 chance of rain on wednesday. Look on friday. Then we start to slide backwards saturday with a minutery mix. Wintry mix. Next week we will be in the 50s. It wont be terribly warm but it will above average and we can say byebye to the deep freeze. I bet before winter is over another comes back. Jonathan you think . Doug i think. Jonathan we will take it to the bank. Thanks. Coming up at 4 30, 11 days until inaugust raig day. We are learning more about equipment that the bureau is stocking up on to respond to a worst case scenario. Michelle first, dont give up on the resolution to get in shape. 90degree angle. Nice and relaxed. Then just breathe. Michelle tough to breathe in that position. The five simple exercises to get you started and keep you motivated after fios is not cable. Were wired differently. So were offering incredibly fast 150 meg internet, hurry, freddy, youre gonna miss it coming. I cant believe he is doing this. Its so fast that in the 3. 7 seconds it takes gary watson to beat the local sled jump record, held by gary watson. Fly, gary, fly. His friend can download 13 different versions of the perfect song. His sister can live ream it. While his mom downloads how to se a dislocated shoulder, all at the same time. Gary. This is your last chance to get incredibly fast 150 meg internet, tv and phone for just 79. 99 per month online for the first year, g offer ends january 21st visit getfios. Com or call 1888getfios to learn more. Thats 150 meg internet, tv and phone for 79. 99 per month. Only from fios. Michelle working in partnership with our Parent Company Sinclair Broadcast Group we believe it is our privileged to keep you informed about health matters. We are helping you stick to the resolutions. We are giving you five key exercises to a healthy 2017. First up, arms. Bicep curls can be done with hand weights or resistance bands. Bring the tubing up to 90 degrees and lower nice and slow. Aim for three sets of 12 to 15 reps. To tone your legs, try wall squats. Imagine there is a chair underneath you. Quads are parallel to a ground. 90degree angle. Nice and relaxed. Then just breathe. Hold the pose for 10 to 60 seconds depending on your fitness level and repeat twice. Lifting the right leg off the ground as far forward as you can to 45 degrees and come back to starting position. Do three sets of 12 to 15 reps for each leg. Follow that up with planks to target the core. Straighten your arms. I like to push my pads in the mat. Hold the pose for 10 to 60 seconds. Rest and repeat twice. Finish up with this. Knees bent. Lift your toes. Extend the arms out. Chest lifted. Hold this pose for 30 seconds and extend your arms ten times only each side. Rest and repeat twice. By following the five moves and watching what you eat, you will be off to a great start this year. It is important to understand that everyone can do this. The great part is you dont need a lot of equipment. Power just because someone is thin doesnt mean they are healthy. She advises people to focus on lean muscle and eating a healthy diet. 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