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Transcripts For WJLA ABC7 News At 4 20170112

You can see the entire front of this very large home similar to one Still Standing next to it has been wiped out, along with an entire family. Its unbelievable, man. I try my best. I try my best, lord. Brad a Facebook Live video captures the horror. Spencer robert had just seen flames tearing through his neighbors home. He saw a mother and three children make it out but he knew there were more kids inside and there was nothing he could do for them. I heard the kids crying. My daughter heard them. They said, help, help. We couldnt save them. Brad the fire raged until floors collapsed with six children ranging in age from 9 months to 11 years old trapped. Through the day, firefighters have combed the debris by hand as neighbors have looked on. Im in shock. Im praying for those babie pray for them. Brad the mother who remains in Critical Condition is kate malone, a longtime staffer for representative Elijah Cummings. She was home with her nine children when the fire broke out at 12 30 a. M. Her husband was out working a night job. The family destroyed. Baltimores mayor left nearly speechless. Babies who havent started their life. Mother who work hard and dad wasnt home at the time. Brad back live, the firefighter, investigators combing through the rubble of the home. They are looking at sources for the fire and they are looking at the electric space heater in use at the home. When we come back, we will tell you more about the story and the heroic efforts of the 8yearold girl who managed to save two northeast baltimore, brad bell, abc7 news. Alison thank you for that report. Michelle new at 4 00, a church on fire in prince georges county. The Fire Department shooting this video that you see here. On addison road in seat pleasant. Flames were roaring out of the windows as the firefighters rushed in. The fire is now out. But its unclear just how much damage was done. Jonathan now to a story abc7 broke last night. An arrest in the Westfield Wheaton mall double murder. Anglo jackson 17 years old is charged as an adult with both murders. Kevin lewis got the tip yesterday. This is one of those situations where the family is coming forward saying look, they have the wrong guy in this case. Kevin the family said that Angelo Jackson was recording a rap video in a stu murders took place. The family is working to get video a time stamp on it to prove the alibi. However, major crimes detectives in Montgomery County arent all that convinced. They claim mall Surveillance Video clearly shows jackson pictured here stabbing the two men. Both in their 20s to death. They are also a number of eyewitnesses. Today in court, prosecutors resurrected jacksons juvenile arrest that includes 2014 guilty convictions for attempted robbery and assault. Jacksons oldest brother admits the 17yearold has a checkered past but claims he is a good kid, interested in poetry, video games and rap music. Jackson was a junior at richard mon high school and had been Montgomery High School and had been working in the holidays at the j. C. Penneys store in the mall in gaithersburg and the family called the allegations ridiculous. We were wi afternoon at 3 15. He was home. When he left home he went to the studio. I have footage of him being in the studio. That is all im going to say. Everything else will be said in court, sir. If the family has something to exonerate their loved ones so be it. But out this time we believe the individual deserves to be charged with two counts of first of degree murder and we move on from there. Kevin the police have not released the mall Surveillance Video, nor has jacksons family presented us with the rap video. Seeing one, preferably both would help clear a lot of it up. Live in rockville, kevin lewis, abc7 news. Alison thank you. We have new information. Prosecutors want life without parole for the man accused in a deadly twoday shooting rampage across Montgomery County. Eulalio tordils capture happened live in may on abc7. He was in court this mornin five people killing three of them. Among the victims, tordils estranged wife. She was killed in the parking lot of High Point High School in beltsville. Switching to the weather. Did you catch the sunrise this morning . If not we will speed it up for you. A perfect start to one of the nicest january days that we have had. Doug hill with the forecast. Doug we are in the 70s in many areas. 71, 72 for washington. The record is 76 degrees. Set in 1890. No record but man, a beautiful feeling of the early spring. It will change as the cold front comes in tonight. 70 at dulles college park and quantico. Heading through the evening we have partly cloudy skies for a while. Temperatures will stay mild. The breezes will pick up out of the south and the southwest. There is a cold front on the way. That will change everything. What that cold front will wind up doing is dropping temperature now we will stay probably in the 50s tonight. Then we have Winter Weather, snow, sleet, freezing rain to deal with here on the day sunday. That is it for now. Alison okay, doug. Thank you very much. We want to show you this. Right now president obama is honoring his righthand man for the past eight plus years. That is, of course, Vice President joe biden. He just received as you can see there around his neck the president ial medal of freedom. They have become great friends holding the top office in country. It was a surprise for him. President obama set this up and filled it with supporters of the Vice President. He is about to take the microphone if we want to listen in to hear what Vice President joe biden has to say just after receiving the president ial medal of freedom. [applause] vice please, thank you. Roshetti, youre fired. [laughter] Vice President biden hes my chief of staff. I had, i had no inkling. I thought we were coming over, michelle, for you, joe and barack and i and senior staff to toast one another and say what an incredible journey it has been. Mr. President , the part about my leaning on jill. I have also leaned on you and a lot of people in this room. Look around the room and i see great friends like ted kauffman who has had so much wisdom. Mel. I look around here and im startled. I keep seeing people i dont expect. Madam president , how are you . Mr. President , look at my new boss over there. But you know, i get a lot of credit i dont deserve. To state the obvious. Because i have always had somebody to lean on. From back that time in 1972 when the accident happened. I leaned on i mean a literal sense. Chris, mel knows this. Id on my sons beau and hunter. And i continue to lean on hunter who continues to in a bizarre way raise me. I have leaned on them. And, you know, mr. President , you observed early on that when either one of my boys would walk in the room they would walk in and say, dad, what can i get you . Dad, what do you need . Then jill came along and she saved our life. No man deserves one great love, let alone two. But Everybody Knows here i am jills husband. Everybody knows that i love her more than she loves me. With good reason. [laughter] she gave me the most precious gift. The love of my life, life of my love, my daughter ashley. I continue to lean on the family. President , you kidded me once. You heard that in the preparation for the two debates, Vice President ial debates i had, i only had two, that beau and hunter would be the last people in the room and beau would say look at me dad, look at me. Remember. Remember home base. Remember. So, and the secret service can tell you, mr. President , that beau and hunt and ashley continue to have to corral me. We are at the National Parks and i was climbing up on top of a bridge to jump off the bridge with a bunch of young kids jonathan we are listening to Vice President joe biden who just received the president ial medal of freedom, the highest civilian honor anyone can receive. He was told to come down idea that president obama was waiting there to give him this medal and give him this recognition. If you would like to listen to this more we will continue to have it streaming for you on the website wjla. Com and facebook. Com wjla. A lot going on in the capitol. The u. S. Senate took the first step toward appealing the Affordable Care act, obamacare. It does not repeal it but it sets the stage for the republicans to start the process. What does it mean for the coverage through the a. C. A. . Amy aubert explains. Amy it all happened in the early hours of the morning on thursday. It gives instructions to the committee to come back with how, what it would do to repeal obamacare. Amy alice, former vice chair works as senior fellow of the studies of the institute. If the Affordable Care act is simply repealed, 30 Million People would be effected. It would be quite chaotic. For that reason, i think there isnt going be a simple repeal. Amy she says nailing down a timeline is hard but says she doesnt think it will happen without a replacement. Everybody, republicans and democrats, especially republicans now that they are in charge would like to avoid a disaster on their watch. Amy she says a sensible replacement would be finding a way to keep those who have coverage insure and fix some of the problems. I wish that senate would and the government in general would leave the Affordable Care act in place. The Affordable Care act has helped so Many Americans and it has come at the cost of so Many Americans. There are pros and cons to either amy now she says if the Affordable Care act is simply repealed, around 20 Million People who are now insured would no longer be covered. But again, she doesnt think it will happen without a replacement. Amy aubert, abc7 news. Michelle also on the hill today, another trio of hearings including familiar faces. General james mattis, ben carson and compman mike pompeo up for top spots in Donald Trumps administration. As Kristen Holmes reports, mattis is a step closer to clearing hurdle for the nomination. Reporter he took his hot seat taking seat in front of the committee. It would be the highest honor to lead those who volunteer to support the constitution. He strayed from trumps position on multiple issues from relations with russia and putin we have to e to. There is a decreasing number of areas where we can engage cooperatively. To nato that trump called obsolete. I would see us maintaining the strongest possible relationship with nato. Mattis retired in 2013 faces an extra hurdle. Convincing all of congress to bypass a law requiring military officers have a sevenyear rest period before serving as secretary of defense. It will be the mission and my onus if confirmed to ensure the agency remains the best in the world. Trumps pick for c. I. A. Director, representative mike pompeo also indicated stark differences with the president elect. Pretty clear about what took place here, about russian involvement in the efforts to hack information and to have an impact on american democracy. Reporter and assured the committee he would not illegal interrogation tactics like waterboarding. Dr. Ben carson trumps pick for housing of urban Development Also on capitol hill thursday. I would enforce all the la reporter in washington, im Kristen Holmes. Jonathan coming up next at abc7 news at 4 00 Metro Safetrack plan for 2017. Alison and a wellknown ice cream shop closing the doors for more than the winter. Michelle Lisa Fletcher joining us. What are you working on . Lisa in the past 48 hours a million vehicles added to the takata recall. After the break we will show why so many of the jonathan it has been a summer staple in delmarva for 15 year delray for 15 years but the owner of the dairy godmother is going to sell the business. The biggest recall in American History is getting bigger. Ford and honda now expand the number of the vehicles in the latest round of the takata air bag replacements. Our Senior Investigative reporter Lisa Fletcher. She broke the story last july that even the replacement bags will eventually have to be replaced themselves because they are defective. Now the recall is getting bigger. She joins us now with more on the story. The story gets bigger and bigger. Lisa ford expanded it again this morning and added 18,000 vehicles to the inflated recall for north america. They can send shrapnel to cause catastrophic injuries and death. But honda has been the most impacted by the air bags. Honda added 702,000 vehicles to bring it to 11. 4 million hondas and acuras on the recall list in the u. S. While this phase of recalls was planned the ford vehicles and the 772,000 hondas were added to it based on what honda says were recent defect Information Reports from takata. We dont have time to read the entire list of the newly added vehicles and the model years but it does include certain acura m. B. X. s, r. L. And t. S. X. s, c. R. V. , pilots, civic, ridgeline, cross fit and even gold wing motorcycles. For ford it includes mustangs, fusions, rangers, lincoln and g. T. s. This is by no means a complete list. Go to wjla. Com for the specific details. The vehicles added this week are for the pass have already had your vehicle in to get the drivers side replaced. So do go to the website and make sure you get your vehicle in as soon as possible. Michelle thank you, lisa. Meanwhile, environmental regulators are accusing another auto maker of installing software that can cheat emissions test. The e. P. A. Says Fiat Chrysler installed software on 100,000 diesel powered cars and trucks. The vehicle include 2014, 2015, 2016 model year Jeep Grand Cherokee s. U. V. s and the dodgeram 1500 trucks with the 3liter diesel engines. Jonathan while talking about the recalls the company that makes nutella is fighting claims that the hazelnut spread can cause cancer. I it uses palm oil but when heated it could h carcinogens. They have launched campaign to ensure that the spread is safe to eat. Alison the moon is a very old soul it turns out. A new analysis of the lunar rocks brought to earth by the apollo astronauts is the moon was formed 4. 51 billion years ago. The previous studies have come up with similar estimates. Others have argued that the moon is actually younger. Jonathan wait, so its not made of cheese . Alison it didnt mention that in the study. Michelle boy, everyone is talking about how warm it was. Its hot in here. Normally you can hang meat in here its so cold. Its warm here because its warm outside now. Doug yeah. Lower 70s around town now. Alison crazy. Doug this is a oneday deal on the spring like weather and then it will change starting storm and then on saturday. That might be taking it to an extreme. Look at the numbers. 17 in springfield. 70degree reading is common. We did spike up to 72 in the city in washington earlier. But its 70 in ashburn. 69 in largo. Waiting for a cold front. This is one of the things that will start to control the weather overnight and tomorrow morning. Once it comes through the temperatures will steady off and start falling. Most of the rain is going to stay north. There is a chance overnight as the front passes we will see showers. The winds will go from the gusty southwesterly winds through the evening and they will come out of the northwest after the front goes through. We will get sunshine tomorrow. The temperatures will hold steady and fall we think in the afternoon. Hitting the lower 50s and falling. We hit the Late Afternoon clouds are increasing. Any other time of january, tomorrow is nice weather day. But after todays Beautiful Day it will start to feel chilly. Colder tomorrow night as the front continues to move south. Wind direction to the north. We will get a steady supply of the cold dry air pushing in later tonight and through the weekend it will develop along the fronted zone to push the moisture north as the cold air comes in from the north to the south. That combination will set the stage for a wintry mess. It may begin just after midnight saturday morning. By the time you get up saturday morning we have a wintry mix. Slow, sleet, freezing rain. Moisture coming this way. Cold air not moving anywhere. That will continue at times to early sundays. It will be slippery around the area. We will have impacts here with the moderate chance of snow. Especially the outset. Freezing rain the biggest threat with the sleet. Eventually whatever is left, they will change the rain when the temperatures warm up. Quick look how we will go. Colder. Likelihood of the wintry mix on saturday rain sunday. It looks cloudy and chilly for Martin Luther king day on monday. Chance of showers. Impressive warming trend. The Inauguration Day weather is partly cloudy with the highs in the midtoupper 50s. Jonathan thank you. Coming up next a for the second year in a row an nfl team is moving to los angeles. The chargers bolt. The team fans, what they did . We tell you coming up. Michelle live look at the west front of the capitol. We are eight days away from Inauguration Day. Ahead at 4 30 the look at the Group Planning disruptions to as ceo of exxonmobile. E us governments interest. Instead, tillerson sided with putin. With billions in r

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