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WJLA ABC7 News At 5 April 29, 2016

And he said this is part of the investigation but he is angered by fairfax underground. The you have an anonymous post that people can say anything and its not true, its not factual, its wrong. Terrible. Jeff the operator of the blog saying he is not shutting down the site. He says he will only remove the post if Nicole Mittendorffs family asks him to do so. Furthermore he says he will not give up the i. P. Address of the person or the persons who commented or wrote about Nicole Mittendorff unless he is issued a court order and forced to do so. Meanwhile, chief Richard Bowers has a list of different changes he is bringing to the Fairfax County Fire Department he says will address issues of the harassment and bullying head on. Well have the list coming up for y until then live in fairfax, Jeff Goldberg, abc7 news. Alison solemn job in Prince Georges County today as a workman added the name of a fallen firefighter to the memorial outside the Fire Services building. The name added is that of john ulmschneider. He was the firefighter shot to death while responding to a call earlier this month. A candlelight vigil planned for 7 00 p. M. To honor the man known to his friends as skillet. Leon now to a breaking news story in Prince William county. Tom roussey just arrived at the scene of a homicide investigation. He checks in with the latest. Tom, what is the story here . Police believe the victim is a woman profited missing under bizarre circumstances earlier in week . Tell us about that. Tom they believe a woman who vanished two weeks ago. Cotton mill drive and griffith in the lakeridge area. Police shut the street down here. The reason is that the womans body according to police w found in a Drainage Ditch down the hill over there. You can see we have a lot of police on the scene. Still investigating right now. Here is a picture of the woman they say the body is presumed to be at this point. Lopez who was 36 years old. Lived in alexandria. Initially her family reported her missing out of alexandria but eventually the case led police to Prince William county. Last seen the night of april 17 at a c. V. S. Less than two miles from where the body was found. Then Police Believe she drove to her workplace, which is very close to here. Only about maybe a quarter,. 3 of a mile from where the body was found. She was not seen again. Her family reported her missing two days after she disappeared and was last seen on video at that c. V. S. Earlier today around 11 00 in the morning, Police Someone was walking by and found the body in a Drainage Ditch that could not be seen from the road. We talk to the Prince William Co Investigation goes from here. The autopsy is completed either tomorrow. It will tell us a lot hopefully. To tell us when and how she died. We arent ruling anything out. Tom you can see police starting to roll up some of the crime scene tape on the scene. Basically, they say its possible whatever happened to her happened to her sometime after she left that c. V. S. And went near her workplace on the night of the 17th. But you heard him say they are not ruling anything out. They need the autopsy to determine the time of death to piece it together. But they say they are treating this as a homicide at this point. Reporting live in lake ridge and Prince William county, tom roussey, abc7 news. Leon thank you. Keep us posted. Meantime, we change gears to switch to the weather. We have been dealing with a cool gray day outside. Chief meteorologist doug hill joining us. Do w the weekend is over . Doug not going to happen. You could get a brief glimpse of the sun but rain is the lead weather story in the weekend. For the moment its cloudy. 55 in reagan national. Per analysis tent clouds keep it cool and damp. Current conditions include temperatures in the 60s. If you go far enough west, luray and 63. Petersburg, 65. Metro under the influence of winds off the Atlantic Ocean to keep us pinned in the lower 50s. Mid50s at best. We have seen clearing skies at times. West of interstate 81. But the persistent flow of winds keep us locked in low clouds. So tonight is drizzle and fog. A few showers later tonight. Tomorrow we may get through the day without rain until late in the day. For this evening, drizzle and fog. Late night showers. Wake up to cloudy skies and do better temperature wise on sunday. Even then showers and thunderstorms in the forecast. More about the timing of those showers for the weekend in a few minutes. Back to you. Alison okay, doug. Thank you very much. Fairfax county Public Schools the school board has directed the superintendent to start school before labor day. That is despite a law restricting such moves. John gonzalez live with what families need to know about this. Hi, john. John how are you . Fairfax County Schools have always started after labor day. In fact, take a look at the calendar here. This school year started september 8. Well, now School Officials are considering starting well an entire week earlier. Listen to why the county doesnt need the state approval. Virginia Largest School district is making a major change. Forcing its 187,000 students to come back to class before labor day. This is a good time to relax and hang out, you know, with the family and stuff. John a questions that students will ponder for a year. Here are the key dates. This fall the school year will still start after labor day on september 6. But then the 20 year will start a week earlier on august 28. Once the pool open at the end of may they are ready for summer. I think starting at least a week the last week of august wouldnt hurt. John nearly twothird of the Staff Support the early start. 36 do not. You might be asking doesnt state law require School Systems to always start after labor day . That socalled cave dominion law . We were told in an email, we are eligible for prelabor day start based on the number of snow and bad weather days accumulated in recent years. Its essentially a waiver. Personally, i prefer to stick with tradition. John the torre says reason is to give additional instructional time before winter break and extra time to prepare for mandated statewide exams. Id rather be done earlier with the year than later. Late june, which is the case this john school lets out on the 23rd. Before you go canceling those Kings Dominion plan or the trip to the beach or those summer camps. This mean they are flexible and they can end school earlier. Back to you. Leon Arlington Public School notifying the staff of another data breach. Second time in two weeks that Tax Information for 40 employees was exposed. It affected 28 employees last week. Alison carey davis is asking asking the council n asking to look at video from shows alleged hate crime attack. A muslim woman said she was approached last thursdays by a trump supporter who began to yell racial slurs. When the Police Arrived they said nothing could be done because of freedom of speech. But when they left the woman said the trump supporter poured unknown liquid over her head and the incident is being investigated as a hate crime. Leon back now to the developing story we are tracking on the dam pain trail. That was the scene and the sounds coming out near san francisco, where tense protests arrested outside a trump speech. The scene grew so big, so quickly that trump himself was forced to stop on a highway behind the building to take around a jersey barrier to get inside the hotel through a rear entrance. Alison all right. The chief Political Correspondent scott thuman is here tracking this. We had a similar situation last night. So two in le scott yeah. That is what you have the wonder now. This is the beginning of a trend . There is unrest. People who are displeased with trumps philosophies and the things he says at rallies and speeches. You just wonder are we going to see more of this coming up . It was interesting today. We saw police in riot gear at times having physical confrontations with a crowd that seemed to grow with every half hour. It seems another couple hundred people might have shown up. We are trying to get as close to donald trump as he made his way in the hyatt as possible. They never got to him but it doesnt seem to be the point. A growing unrest. One donald trump addressed when he gotnside to the podium today. Mr. Trump that was not the easiest entrance i have ever made. Oh, boy. Felt like i was crossing the border, actually. You know . True. Scott a joke that would not be laughed at by many of the people outside. In fact, most of the people seemed to be upset with him about his immigration stance. Plenty of people with mexican flags and dump trump. He has safely left the area and got on the plane after the motorcade and got him back to san franciscos airport. He has taken off. But now we are just watching to see what happens next. There is a vote may 3 in indiana. Then, of course, california state, a state that hasnt been in play in the public primary process in over 40 years give or take, will be voting june 7. A lot of us wondering will it be the day he possibly gets that magic number of 1,237 . Leon thank you, scott. Alison thank you. Leon the most interesting job in town. You know that . Scott im a lucky man. Leon at least in this building. Of course, donald trump will be a big topic of discussion sunday when full measure with Sharyl Attkisson moves to the new time. It comes your way at 10 00 a. M. Focus will be the two trumps. I have never seen a human being eat in such a disgusting fashion. This guy takes a pancake and he is shoving it in his mouth. Its disgusting. President . I dont think so. I will not hesitate to deploy milita force when there is no alternative. But if america fights it must only fight to win. Leon in the course of a few days we saw the offthecuff donald trump and we have seen the whole campaign playing out and trump reading a major Foreign Policy speech from a teleprompter. That difference could signal evolution of trump between now and the critical primary in may and june. Full measure the one change to Trumps Campaign that could explain this and help predict what may come next. Alison still ahead 59 00 using tea to make a statement. The response protesters received when they presented bottles of brown water to d. C. Leaders. Leon plus on video, a single punch ultimately ends one life and changes another one forever. Why the judge says that the man who threw the pnc alison first, though, it was a bizarre and a dangerous move. Threatening to detonate a bomb. That was actually chocolate. While dressed in an animal costume. Well talk to the suspects best friend. What he is saying next on abc7 news at 5 00. [gunfire] alison a tense and bizarre scene. Man in an man mall costume shot by man in an animal costume shot by police after hours to set off a bomb in a police station. The bomb ended up with chocolate bars, Circuit Board on life vest. Leon the suspect alex brizzi recovering from the gunshots. John rydell who works at the evacuated station, our sister station wbff spoke with brizzis best friend. You have to tell us what did he have to say . Well, alex brizzi is well known in Howard County where he grew up. In fact, friends describe him as being intelligent and creative but they say he decided to drop out of high school in the 11th grade and he wanted to become a barista. They comic book conventions, which could possibly explain the costume he was wearing when he entered the tv station yesterday. But lucas, who lives in Silver Spring says even in high school he knew that alex was struggling with mental illness. He always said he was crazy. Nobody actually believed him. I think i was 19. He is two years younger than me. He asked me to take him to the doctor because his dad couldnt take him and he was afraid to go by himself. I said okay. Ill take you to doctor. We went to baltimore and agreed to see the psychiatrist. Thats the day it hit me. Okay. He wasnt lying. John friends say they are very grateful that alex survived this ordeal and even though he faces multiple criminal charges, they hope that he gets the help he needs. Live in elkridge, abc7 news. Alison thank you. Well, d. C. Mayor m made her last stop in a weeklong Spring Cleaning campaign. She took part in arbor Day Celebration at ketchum Elementary School. They planted trees in an initiative to get the District Residents take part to keep the city clean. Leon odd thing is a couple of days ago we were past wearing jackets like that outdoors. Now were back into it. Alison shockingly cool out there today. Doug we are used to the average temperatures in the lower 70s. We see warmer weather early next week. But until then its unsettled through the weekend. Tell you the weather story on friday getting ready for weekend. Try to give you the best we can. There are showers this evening. Mostly dry. But cloudy and cool tomorrow. Sunday looks like we have morning shower and thin later afternoon and the evening showers and the thunderstorms. As far as the number goes we are in good shape. Even though it is cool, dont have to get the wind chill chart out yet. But all day long for the past two days, the farther west you go the warmer it is. There is Sunshine West of blue ridge in spot. East of blue ridge is a matter of consistent winds out of the east and northeast from the Atlantic Ocean across the Chesapeake Bay to keep the area cool. Wind speed is 5 to 7 miles per hour. Not a heavy breeze at all. Satellite and the radar shows no rain in our area whatsoever. Just cloudiness. There is patchy drizzle but the droplet of the driz are so small they cant be picked up by radar. We know from hourly reports from the different locations that is an issue during the day. It will be tonight. Just to the west, these are the areas of the clearing skies with the sunshine and the warmer temperatures because of that. There is a big Storm Brewing in the Southern Plains again today with the tornado watches widespread over oklahoma, texas, eastward, northern loz, southwestern arkansas. Number of warnings active in northeast texas. Farther east from nashville to storms. Some of that energy is pushed east. I dont think we will see much of that either. What we will see is more of the same tonight with the rain well displayed to the north. We have a stationary front to the south. And southwest. Future cast as we start the ride through the weekend here, we will stay cloudy and cool tonight. As we head through the overnight, a couple showers later tonight. Getting through the day tomorrow we will pick up more moisture. Probably not until lateen and evening. Cloudy and cool. Most of the day should be rain free. We hit Late Afternoon and the evening, nighttime hours and the chances of the rain start to overspread the region as the front heads back. Warm front. We will find sunday the areas of showers through the morning. Right now it looks like the front will go through early afternoon. We may break into partly sunny skies in spots. As we head through the Late Afternoon and the evening another chance of the showers and thunderstorms across the area. Our forecast then as we head through the overnight hours patchy fog, cloudy. Isolated showers. Drizzle. Ath northeast. Low temperatures 45 to 51 degrees. Morning low across the rest of the area, range from 40s. Well see a little sunshine. During the day tomorrow itll be near dulles where its open house 2015. Wind tunnel. Early afternoon. Meantime the threeday outlook. We have morning showers and then back to 70 monday afternoon. Alison it has become a big concern in d. C. Following the situation in flint. Revolutions by abc7. Leon talking about the drinking water. Just ahead the d. C. Leaders respond to protest that presented each with a bottle of brown water. Alison first on video. Now the man that threw the punch learned his fate. Why leon the single deadly action that changed lives. The fight outside a bar that end with a punch that turned deadly. The fight on video but the victim didnt die there. He died months later after returning to school. The man who threw the punch answers for the crime. Maryland bureau chief brad bell explains why it will not include time behind bars. This video captures the moment after he is hit with a sucker punch in the middle of the drunken brawl. You can see his friends trying to bring him around. That was march 2013. Colleging time at College Closing time at the college bar. He suffers brain damage. He recovers and returns to school. But as the photos show, he is never the same as before. Later, he dies and the fellow student who hit him is charged with manslaughter. There are no winners in this case at all. Brad he pleads guilty to the crime and today faces sentencing. The state asking for six years in prison. We felt that jail time would have been appropriate given the loss of life. Brad defense attorney disagrees. This was a one punch after my client had been kicked and stomped. My client truly, people dont want to believe it but truly is remorseful. He does care. The sentence three years probation. His family having to endure seeing the video all over again extremely unhappy with the sentence today. Often time people come out of the courthouse and stop to share their opinions with us. His a

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