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WJLA ABC7 News At 5 May 18, 2016

The Attorney Says his client is remorseful. From the day this happened through this day, he has had problems handling what he has done. Kevin his Defense Attorneys went on to say that the client supports the d. U. I. Laws in maryland including noahs law. Luis reluzco will be sentenced in august and faces up to ten years in prison. Were live in rockville, im kevin lewis, abc7 news. Alison kevin, virginia is making some changes to its ignition interlock law. The measure is designed to stop drunk driving, of course. This week governor mcauliffe approved an adjustment to mandate those devices come with cameras. That will ensure that the person who is operating the car is also the one taking breathalyzer test. In maryland, Governor Hogan is set to sign ig neg interlock tomorrow in annapolis. Leon to breaking news now about the fiery crash at the silver diner two weeks ago. The man hit by the hummer died. Jeff goldberg is live outside the restaurant tonight and he has had the latest on the sad development, jeff. Jeff they have announced that 76yearold andrew sheren died after injuries from the fiery crash from two weeks ago. Witnesses tell us that mr. Sheren was walking in the silver diner and pinned between the hummer s. U. V. And that white column in between the two doors. Here the video we have seen. His wife had made it inside the moment before he was walking in the diner. Suspect and the driver of the hummer, Benazir Bhutto of springfield is abutoh of springfield. He had been on bereavement leave. We dont know why he drove in diner and tried to light the vehicle on fire. He is charged with the Malicious Wounding and felony destruction of property. The charges are likely to be upgraded as a result of the fact that mr. Sheren has died from this crash. The silver diner opened up a few days after crash. No official word from the diner as a result of todays news about the death of mr. Sheren. Speaking with employees inside. They are heartbroken to hear theer thal news. Alison allegation of bullying in the Fire Department swirled to surface since the death of nicole mittendorff. Before we covered the development in the silver diner crash, Jeff Goldberg was there when some of mittendorffs colleagues came forward to defend the department. Jeff in the month since mittendorffs suicide its difficult for everybody. Jeff female firefighters in the county believe the department has unfairly been portrayed as unfriendly place for women. As a woman, im not afraid to come to work. I am not ashamed to be a member of the Fire Department. In general i have always found the department very supportive. Jeff following mittendorffs death last month, blog posts on the website fairfax underground raise questions about bullying against women in the fire house. The post dating back to december were purportedly written by male firefighters and were critical of mittendorffs personal actions and behavior. Last week, fairfax co lawsuit claiming that for years she was subjected to Sexual Harassment and a hostile work environment. Just yesterday the Fairfax County board of supervisors agreed to fire a Third Party Consultant to assess working conditions within the department. Focusing on equal employment issues, Mental Health assistance and morale. Board chair thinks an independent perspective is needed. And even if she does believe the culture is healthy and strong. I expect that we will learn of some situation where that is not the case. We want to know that and address it. We are a family. Like any family we have some black sheeps. Jeff these firefighters say the socalled black sheeps i have had nothing but positive experiences. Jeff will not break the family apart. Jeff goldberg, abc7 news. Leon online threat raising concerns on a number of different campuses today schools in fredericksburg today and Even Harvard Business School had to evacuate buildings there for a bomb threat. In bowie closer to home, someone took to twitter to threaten high school there. Maryland bureau chief brad bell is live in bowie. We look at the calendar. You have to wonder if this is a matter of kids trying to get out of tests or whatever. What are the police doing about this . Are they taking it seriously . Brad they have no choice in this day and age to take it seriously. Something else about this Incident Police thought they knew who sent the tweet. As it turned out they didnt. They have not identified the person so they dont know the intent. One other thing, power of social media. I will do a quick demonstration. I will send a tweet of my own. When come back after the story ill show you what has happened since, the point police are make when kids send something, everything is out of their co at the bowie high school, heavy police presence. Police officers at the ready just in case. Reaction to a single tweet. This one posted yesterday by someone calling themselves unknown kid 18. Threatening. I will be shooting the annex up. Dont come to school. It got a reaction. The School Resource office every and detectives questioning a number of students tracing the source of tweet to a certain wifi location. Tracking the sender. The tweet shared among the school community. The principal sending robo call declaring it a prank. Police however have no choice but to take the threat seriously. And beef up a message of their own to students in the social media age. They need to remember that the internet is forever. When you put something out there, you cant untweet something. You cant call it back from the internet. The society we live accordingly if there is a threat. According to the School System attendance today is near normal. The school day. And dismissal at 2 25 without incident. Now joining you back live, i sent that tweet just a little over a minute ago. It has been retweeted four times. There it goes again. The bottom line is when a young person hits send on this thing they have no idea who is going to see it. Police absolutely have to take et virally because this entire community can feel worried about what they have read on twitter. Bottom line today, nobody hurt. Police have backed down. Dismissal, the school day, everything went fine. In bowie, brad bell, abc7 news. Leon all right. Thank you, brad. The 1900 block of h street and 1800 of northeast is back open after a tree fell this morning. It hampered the morning commute. This has been r road has been reopened. The skies reopened briefly. We saw sun this afternoon. Alison it was nice and bright. How long will it stick around . Chief meteorologist doug hill is here with a check on the forecast. We love that, doug. Doug it was a nice break. Probably most areas wont see much sunshine for the rest of the day. May not see much more until tomorrow afternoon. In the shortterm encouragement in the forecast. Watching showers all day to the west. Moving northeast. Not to the metro area. While there is a chance of isolated sprinkle or shower, this evening and tonight better chances anything like that will hold off until much later tonight. Zoom in and show you the areas. The winchester, this is all west of the metro washington area. Pullback on the doppler to show there are a few more showers downstream. Keep an eye on it. Perhaps tomorrow morning there could be an isolated shower. After that, a dry day. 47 to 55 overnight. Morning showers. And then we will see the cloudy skies and maybe afternoon. Weekend check in a few minutes. Alison well see you then. Meanwhile tonight, developing, two powerful earthquakes again rattled ecuador. The first measured 6. 7. Near the area where a 7. 8 quake just last month killed hundreds of people. Another earthquake hit measuring 6. 8. Its not known how much damage was caused by the quake. Leon officials at medstar georgetown joined forces with c. S. X. And the government to take part in fullscale disaster emergency drill. The training that ended an hour ago had the crews from each department responding to hypothetical train derailment. We are told that the exercise is not in response to the recent events in d. C. Alison the Obama Administration is changing the rules when it comes to how more than 4 million americans get paid. Jonathan elias at the live desk to explain the new overtime and it will affect a lot of people. Department of labor is expanding mandatory overtime pay to include people who make less than 43,476 a year. That is about 913 a week and double the current threshold. So that means that 35 of salaried workers will be eligible for overtime pay. Their employers will now pay them time and a half when they work more than 40 hours in a week. Vice President Joe Biden talked about the plan in ohio today. You work 60, 70 hours a week and not compensated for it. You lose the opportunity to improve yourself or spend time with your kid. Jonathan the biggest impact are retail and the restaurant industry. Labor secretary perez says some chains pay lower level managers 25,000 a year but expect week. So tonight at 6 00 we will get reaction about a local Restaurant Owner what it could mean for business. Im at the live desk, jonathan elias, back to you. Alison thank you. This just in to us here. Linkedin says a 2012 Security Breach was actually worse than previously believed. That business social media site says 117 million email and password combinations for compromised. The hack happened and the company said it was 6. 5 million. Linkedin says it is working to determine how many passwords are still in use and they are contacting users to change them. Leon missed it be that much. Alison just a little bit. Leon 17 million. Wow coming up at 5 00 still two years out the hottest ticket in town. Im mike carterconneen in the newsroom with a look at the length people are going to, to get their hands on hamilton tickets and the online li leon plus, long lines in chicago. What does the t. S. A. Plan to do to making easier this summer. Alison fruit juice . Im kimberly suiters. 7 alison coming up tonight the office of human rights ruled a manager at a starbucks in Dupont Circle used a homophobic slur against a gay couple. Michael campbell and angel rivera filed a complaint saying the manager called them names, chased them from the store and assaulted campbell. The couple said it happened when he introduced him as his boyfriend. The manager who remains on the job denies the allegation. However, this is not the first time he has been aused of using been accused of causing hateful language. A prior customer stated he was in fact called homophobic slur. Alison this comes after a twoyear investigation. Leon a parent reached out to 7 on your side with concerns about cleaning product that was found on t popular store. Consumer investigator kimberly suiters now is here with a look at the concerns. Kimberly does it look like fruit juice or floor cleaner . Its a cleaner and it is sold in Home Depot Stores and online. Its called mixed fruit. All purpose cleaner. It comes in bright colors and a person said it reminded them of gatorade. A concerned parent reached out to let us know about the cleaner and the colorful packaging and fruity pictures. On the bottle it says on the bottom there keep away from children. But a customer commented on home depots website. That it is a good cleaner but has terrible packaging. Writing, my daughter commented twice we forgot to put the juice away. Even i had to do a double take it was cleaner and not just says the woman. If you have little ones in the home like i do, this is a very big safety risk. I called the local Home Depot Store and the person i was talking said, it does look like it. And that is not the official response. Home depot said they appreciate the concern and they will take it into account. This product should be kept safely out of reach regardless of packaging. Also when we talk to home depot we asked if a lot of people complain and they said no, just the one you saw on the website. We will keep you posted to see if other consumers are speaking out. Alison see if they make changes. Leon the minute i saw that, that is the first thing i saw it look like gatorade. Kimberly they are probably going for the natural part. Its nonchlorinated, nontoxic to that level. But not something you want to mistake for a drink. Alison no. Leon who would think fruit would be used to clean something . It doesnt make sense to me. Alison right. Kimberly it smells nice, leon. Alison good to be aware. Thank you. Leon keep an e us. Alison how about burger king . They said you can have it your way. Apparently they werent just talking about beef. One b. K. Restaurant in helsinki, finland are not just selling whoppers. Theyre selling sauna time. They opened a steam bath last year and they get 60 customers every week. It costs 250 and 300 euros per group. Something we didnt realize last night when we did the story, you cannot eat in the room. You have to do it afterwards. It costs extra. Leon okay, good. If they make eating afterwards mandatory, fine. I wouldnt want someone to eat first and then go in there. Imagine a guy that ate large onion ring next to you in a sauna. Alison no thanks. There you go. Top that one. Doug i cant do that. We will get sunshine in here tomorrow afternoon maybe. Friday is a nice day. Saturday, not so much. Alison okay. Doug okay. Monday, wi are in a pattern. This afternoon the sun broke out for a little while. The clouds have been a story most of the day. It will brighten and clearing out. But not so much. That is the weather story. Pollen count today, if you are having problem. No surprise, moderate level of tree pollen. Grasses are low. Weed absent. Mold spores in the high category on wednesday. Temperatures are below average. Average high is 76. We are in the low the mid50s in northwest. Way below there. We are 12 degrees below the average High Temperature in may at Reagan National where it is only 64. 65 in annapolis. 63 in fredericksburg. Watching the rain on most of it has been well west of metro washington. Along the i81 corridor. Moving northeast. This is along the frontal zone. The whole zone is moving eastward. The individual element of rain moving northeast. It makes sense that later tonight and tomorrow morning a few showers could crawl across the area. For the next couple of hours dry and cloudy across most of the area. The future cast shows according to this solution, some showers that are possible in the morning. Especially south of metro washington. As we work through the day, a couple more showers come in. High pressure from the north. As we get through the day, there could be a passing sprinkle. Skies will start to clear with the sunshine across the area in the afternoon. On friday, the High Pressure takes control and the high ankle with the midmay sun takes over. Low 70s and a nice day. It only lasts for a while. By friday evening the clouds are back on top of us. By the time we get to saturday. We are talking rain and the especially washington. This is 9 30 in the morning. Period of rain will continue through the day on saturday. Ending late saturday afternoon. Overnight forecast generally cloudy. We cant rule out a stray shower. Overnight and in the morning. Through the day in the morning the skies will brighten with sunshine later in the day. 68. Friday is beautiful. 74 degrees for a high. As far as the ride your bike to work day on friday, it will be fine. We will salvage one good day and keep it dry and pleasant in the 70s in the afternoon. Morning hours low 50s. Comfortable. Late afternoon not bad. The next seven days put in the 100 probability of rain saturday. 30 chances on sunday and monday. Clearing out tuesday and wednesday. Next week is a big week it leads in the memorial day weekend. Question will be sunny and warm or nasty and gross like now. Alison like it has been. You dont do the 100 often. Doug no. Leon not a good sign. Doug secret to a long career in my business. Alison never go out on a limb. All right. See you in a few. A scary situation for our good friend and a member of the abc7 team has really become a warning sign for all of us. Leon right. Plus, waiting in line to get through security is frustrating but one possible way around the problems at ohare. Alison first a look at what is coming up tonight. Stroand restoring aing a newbfathers faith. Its standing tall after one surgery. Not six. Stronger is being a typical kid. Despite a rare disorder. Stronger is finding it earlier. And coming home sooner. Stronger is seeking answers. And not giving up, until you find them. Because we dont just want your kids to grow up, we want them to grow up stronger. In your eye and then there was a dark arc in the side of my eye. I didnt know what it was. So i arranged to get a meeting with an optometrist thinking i was going to go there and cover a story that day. That was three mondays ago. It didnt happen. The optometrist sent e to dr. Spellman at the retina, the washington retina group here. And then that night he looked at my eye. He said you have a detached retina. Well have to perform surgery tonight. So that night i came here to the washington medstar hospital center. Surgery. I was stunned it was so serious. Is there you had classic symptoms, floaters followed by flashing lights and followed by the symptom of the peripheral visional loss. The excellent optometrist made a diagnosis and sent you to me. We examined you here at the retina group of washington and found your eye was identical to the one in the diagram. You had a tear in the retina up here at 12 00. Fluid was developing under the retina tracking to the center of your vision. Sam what if it had fallen . If it extended to the central vision you would h the retial detachment would not have been more difficult for me to fix but it would have been less likely to get your normal vision back as we did. But i felt we needed to do prompt emergency surgery. People go blind from this. If its not repaired you will lose your vision. Correct. This is something that was nervewracking to me. They put a gas ball in my eye to heal the retina. At that point you said i had to sit like this for 207 out of 24 hours 20 out of 24 hours a day. Yes. We performed an operation in which we went inside the eye with tiny micro instruments. We cored out the jelly that filled the center of your eye. We drained the fluid and sealed the hole in t bubble. We had to keep you face down so it wouldnt be a cataract in the front of

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