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WJLA ABC7 News At 5 April 7, 2016

That is as Law Enforcement officers are trying to crack down on the a. T. V. s that are terrorizing the drivers and the police in area. This is days after they cornered an ambulance with an injured child inside. Sam sweeney has the new unified effort to fight back. Sam . Sam well, good evening. Police say that the crackdown has already begun. The goal is to identify the riders, seize their bikes and destroy them. Now they are asking for the publics help and they are willing to pay you. Surrounded by Law Enforcement from around the area, cathy lanier says the dirt bike game will end. We have had enough. The community has had enough. The riders that we can identify, we are going to aggressively prosecute. The bikes we have seized will be destroyed. Sam the past weekend, m. P. D. Police officer was surrounded and dragged by a gang of riders. Back in march, on carrying a sick child was stopped, surrounded and then had its driver side door opened by an a. T. V. Driver. Police had to come free the ambulance before it could continue to the hospital. I know we have had Police Officers injured. Now increasing incident involving the First Responders nearly 100 have been arrested this year and 400 bikes have been confiscated. 85 of them will be destroyed next month but police are searching for hundreds more. We are offering 250 for people who identify the riders in cases or the location where the illegal vehicles are stored. Sam if you think you know someone you could be entitled to 250. Im sam sweeney, abc7 news. Leon a look at the few of the pictures that sam mentioned. We built a Photo Gallery of all of them on the website at wjla. Com. Alison the rain moving in has put a hold on the nationals home opener. What is the latest here . It will rain for a while. We got Severe Thunderstorm Warning. If you want to take it full screen to look at the area with the heaviest rain. It is highlighted in red color on the screen. That is where the heaviest downpours are. Moving northeast now at pretty good clip. Now Severe Thunderstorm Warning is in effect for charles county, Prince Georges County, and lets see, we also have northwestern st. Marys county. Calvert county, Southern Anne Arundel. Part of eastern fairfax including the city of alexandria until 5 45. The best news i can tell you, you can see the box there. The area under the warning now. The individual storms there are moving to the northeast at 50 miles per hour. You will get strong wind gusts but it will move through the area quickly. Here is an animation. You can see where they are moving. Moving through waldorf in a little bit. Moving through the district. Another batch of heavy r everything headed to the coastal section of anne arundel and annapolis and onto to the eastern shore. There are more patches of showers to the west that will come through later but nothing as heavy as these. Timelines for you. It will get through clinton at 5 13. Melwood in Prince Georges County at 5 22. Dunkirk and calvert at 5 31. Deale in Southern Anne Arundel county at 5 42. We will watch the showers and the storms and get you a fresh update in a few minutes. Leon you got it. Not just the opening day game that we are worried about with the rain coming through. Traffic with the heart of the rush hour now hitting us. Jamie, how is it looking . Jamie of course you can see behind me a solid red line. We will start in mclean. This is the capital beltway. Using the waze map. Wazers check in with the delay. One of the waze showing us this is what it looks like. Not moving very fast at all. I want to show you a live look. Seven lost road and river road you can see a very slow pace. Ee usually dont see the inner loop this heavy but this is both the inner loop and outer loop. Its Single Digits in most spots. 9 miles per hour. The northwest corner we typically have a heavy traffic. If you mix in the rain it will get heavier. Of course we have the earlier crash on 395. On the freeway, heavy traffic. Trying to get anywhere closer toward nats park. The problem is we have so many people right now south capitol street to Douglas Bridge and the freeway. Very backed up. To crashes to report right now. When you mix in the rain we will deep updating you. Alison a mess out there. As we said the rain moving in has put the hold on the nationals home opener. Robert burton is there. He is live outside what is turning out to be a soggy nats park. Hey, robert, what is the latest . Robert well, yea as you talked to doug there is a rain delay. It could be raining for a while, maybe we could see a cancellation. We dont know that yet. We do want to talk about dusty baker. At 4 00, we talked about him being late to nats park. He was late to the pregame workouts. He doesnt like to use g. P. S. He likes to keep his mind sharp before opening day. However, when you take a look at this gate you get butterflies. Why . You wonder if fans are coming into another disappointing season and you wonder are they coming into another season successful . We dont know. It doesnt help that we have a rain delay. So dusty baker, he is super nervous. He talked to the media before the game today. Manager baker we got a lot of, got a lot of fans. We have more fans. I know a lot of people pulling for us to win. This is when you get fidg and nervous in the home opener. I oh enthe weather subsides. Robert again we have a rain delay. We dont know how long it is. The game is tied 33 in the second inning. Daniel murphy the newcomer, baseclearing triple. Welcome to d. C. , mr. October. Back to you in the studio. Alison okay. Well check in with you again. Thank you so much. Frightening end to a field trip in Fairfax County after a school bus and a police car collided. Sending four people to the hospital. It happened just before 1 00 on backlick road in springfield. Diane cho has the latest. Diane we are told the officer involved, two middle School Student and a chaperon were taken to the hospital with nonlife threatening injuries. Traffic was backed up on backlick road. While officers swept up debris trying to figure out what happened after a school bus filled with students in a Fairfax County Police Officer collided. The i was like what happened . Diane marquez saw the officer get out and ask the bus driver if she was okay and then pulled in the accident herself. The officer car is completely trashed, as you can see. The bus doesnt have much of the damage. Police say the officer was going northbound on backlick road, a oneway road in this area when the bus driver stopped at the stop sign and tried to get across going westbound on floyd avenue. The officer was unable to avoid the collision and struck the side of the school bus. It was loaded with students, teacher and chaperon. The students were heading back from a field trip when the accident took place. He got a call from his wife telling him what happened when his son was on the bus. What . Check it out. I was coming home. I actually was in maryland. So when i was coming home, i figure id stop by to see what the damage looks like. Still here. He the parent says his son was not injured in the accident. Police say once the investigation is over they will determine which driver was at fault. In springfield, diane cho abc7 news. Leon 6yearold boy is recovering after being shot twice in the arm during a home invasion. This happened just before midnight in what home on foote street in northeast d. C. Police say two people forced open the door of the home and then opened fire. Everybody is so puzzled. I guess she was home. I guess somebody kicked the door in. Started shooting. Im like maybe, what if it would have hit him somewhere else . He is just a child. He still has to live his life. Im just, im just puzzled. Im puzzled right now. Leon so far police have not revealed any details about the suspects. But the investigators say they believe the home was targeted in some sort of a dispute with a neighbor. Alison police are hoping sur catch a purse snatcher who may catch you by surprise. Take a look at the video. Police believe the woman here pushing a stroller with four kids in tow. Swiped a purse at a bus stop on division avenue in northeast. She was later caught on video at a nearby metro station. If you recognize her, please call police. Leon still ahead at abc7 news at 5 00 how relisha rudd is being remembered as the renewed search for the missing girl finishes up a second day. Alison plus, Bernie Sanders goes on the attack as Hillary Clinton takes the subway. The new twist in the fight for the white house. Leon a sudden storm rips the roof off of a building in the area. Now we are tracking another round of storms moving through the region. Right now what to expect in the coming hours. Alison first, though, new details in the crash that claimed a Police Officers life. What we just learned about the driver. That is next at abc7 news at 5 00. Wall street. The nra. Theyre powerful. They usually get their way. But not with democrat Donna Edwards. She wont take cash from wall street banks. And when washington insiders wrote a loophole to let the nra safety laws, Donna Edwards said no shes fighting to ban assault weapons and putting the safety of our communities first. Because to democrat Donna Edwards, the special interests arent special. We are. Working for us pac is responsible for the content of this advertising. Noah leotta. In this just released report. Police alleging that the man accused of killing noah leotta had at least six beers and four shots and had smoked marijuana before he got behind the wheel of his honda c. R. V. Relzco said he often smoked marijuana before he drove and before crash he saw Police Lights but couldnt tell which lane they were in. That was december 3. Noah leotta had taken license and registration from a car he pulled over on rockville pike. Got back to his police car and opened opened the door and prepared to get in. When the suspect slammed first in the police car. The report saying people were rushing to help and over the radio officer down, officer down, officer down. He was struck from a drunk driver and died from the injuries. Brad his father rich is using what happened to his son to push for tighter drunk driving laws in maryland. Noah recognized that drunk drivers are really domestic terrorists. With the legislature in session for another four days noahs law the bill that aims to require ignition interlocks for everybody caught drunk driving is not yet done. A joint Senate House Committee must meet to iron out differences between two versions of the bill. Governor larry hogan now joining advocates pushing for the tougher senate version. I hope we get the strong version but anything is a step in right direction. Time to crack down on drunk drivers. The sus court date scheduled for next week. In rockville, brad bell, abc7 news. Leon no jail time for the son of former Virginia Governor bob mcdonald. A judge sentenced Robert Mcdonald to sixmonth suspended sentence for d. U. I. Charge. He entered an alfred plea, admission of guilt without acknowledgment of the evidence against him. He was fined 250 and had the license suspended for a year. The younger mcdonald was hit with a d. U. I. In 2014 and last november when he refused to take a breathalyzer. The refusal charge has been deferred for a year. Alison afternoon storm leaving wire and debris scattered across a roadway. Heavier storm ripped the roofing off a warehouse. Fallen transformer damaged nearby vehicles. Officials say there may be damage to a cell tower in that area. Leon nasty stuff out there. Moving through. Doug just had a call there was hail not long ago in enough to cover a back deck. We have heavy storms. Start with a look at image right now from our if we could go to the two sources you mentioned before. Cheverly first. Then go to can we do that . All right. This is Prince Georges Hospital center in cheverly. Prince georges county. They were on the backside. The heavy storm went through there. It looks calm. The traffic is moving well. Trees are not moving at all. We will take you live outside the studio here in arlington. You can see the rain coming down. The heaviest rain passing through now. People walking, no umbrellas blowing around but you can see it is still raining in the area. Now go back to the weather computer to show you a live shot from national harbor. Where it is raining steadily now along the potomac river. Up town a bit where the stadium is. Got the tarp on the field from the heavy rain in that area. This is the reason. This is the radar. More heavy rain coming through. Severe thunderstorm up to 5 45 in this area. A pretty good line of storms getting stronger as it pushes northern charles, st. Marys county. Southern anne arundel county. More showers to follow. We will zoom in and give you timing information on the line of storms that is continuing to intensify the closer it gets to the chesapeake bay. As we do it, give you times here. Prince frederick in Calvert County at 5 16. Later in north part of Calvert County at dundirk. Londontowne 5 47 as this is moving northeast. Behind the batch of heavy rain there is another area of rain we are watching developing north of charlottesville. That is going to move northeast to the area. More scattered showers. The best we see is shower, a break, showers, a break, showers, a break. Eventually tonight it will clear out. The High Pressure starts to move in the area. Becoming clear to partly cloudy and breezy. 35 to 42 by morning. Westerly winds at 10 to 15 miles per hour. The future cast shows sunshine tomorrow. Then as we get through the day the winds will b the west. We get to saturday, Early Saturday Morning the clouds come in. We have areas of rain moving through the area. Northern part of the region snow. The cold air pours in overhead, we are going to see through the afternoon period of rain and the snow mixed in the metro area. Finally ending. As we get through saturday night. Tomorrow is not a bad day. Partly cloudy, breezy cool. Highs in the upper 50s. We will get to saturday. The nasty day with partly cloudy, windy, chilly, period of rain and snowshowers. Sunshine, cool weather sunday. Monday is windy and warmer. We get cooler in the 50s by tuesday, wednesday, thursday. Alison to keep things interesting. Leon the rain is making it more than interestinger the traffic situation. Jamie is watching that for us. Jamie it is. I want to start with the waze map to give you a good picture. Virginia is what i want to focus on. That is where we see accidents and the slow spots. Northbound at the 14th street bridge. Our wazers are reporting an accident. Its there right at the 14th street bridge. Lets talk about the b as i pull out a little bit, it doesnt start here. We see the heavy traffic heading northbound from duke street. And heading south it doesnt stop right at duke street. It keeps going all the way south to the mixing bowl. So again, 395, a big trouble spot for us. Lets move to talk about how slow we are otherwise in virginia. The outer loop from van doran street to wilson bridge is 15 minutes. 20 minutes is the average outbound on 66 from the capital beltway continuing to the Fairfax County parkway. Again, 395. That is the big trouble spot. 45 minutes just getting from the 14th street bridge to the mixing bowl. You continue southbound on 95. Approaching the occoquan. Starting near for mixing bowl. Just under 20 minutes. Again, virginia is where we see the most crashes and the slow spots. Be careful out there. Back to you. Leon all right. Thanks, jamie. Speaking of the slow spots here is a place where it will be slowing down in a little bit so folks can get in there and have some fun. A live look inside d. A. R. Cons we are getting ready for jeopardy return to d. C. They will be inside there live. The set is coming alive now as taping starts this weekend. It runs through the middle of next week. Check out the live stream of this construction project. Check it out on wjla. Com. Its been fun to watch it in the last few days. Make sure you tune in tomorrow morning as good morning washington gives away the last set of tickets to view a taping of the show. That gets underway at 4 24 a. M. Tomorrow. Alison got to love the music. Leon everyone knows it. You know what it is when you hear it. Alison it will be fun to have them in d. C. Still ahead at 5 00 the massive Worldwide Air bag recall claims another life. The minor crash named for a womans death and what the family is saying about the air bag recall. Leon the new feud between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton. Their war of words coming up next. Alison t. G. I. T. Tonight on abc7 ranking from top to bottom. Company of the year . Luxury cars just seem like they would be top awarded. Better be some awards behind what you are paying for, right. The final answer. Chevy. The most awarded car company two years in a row. Wow, its like a luxury car. I was shocked. I mean its like, this is chevy . For a limited time, get cash back for 15 of the msrp on most remaining 2015 chevy vehicles while they last. Find new roads at your local chevy dealer. Time magazine called Chris Van Hollen a hero to environmentalists, education groups, and gun control advocates for his accomplishments as a young legislator. Now a respected leader in congress and key ally of president obama, protecting planned parenthood and social security. Chris van hollen is the only candidate who fought the wall street banks and the nra. And won. Thats why hes endorsed by the post as the talented successor to senator mikulski who will deliver results. Im Chris Van Hollen, and i approve this message. And turn for the white house. Leon this time the war of words playing betwee

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