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WJLA ABC7 News At 5 May 19, 2016

Multiple pieces of evidence to include child pornography. Evidence that child pornography was not only being possessed by also created. Bailey who in the maryland president ial primary was elected as a trump delegate to the Republican Convention remains behind bars. First Court Appearance not expected until next week. Now mr. Bailey is from a family that has been long active in republican politics here in southern maryland. His father served several terms on the Charles County school board and was the republican nominee for the fifth Congressional District race in 2008. His home was also searched as part of the investigation. No charges filed against the father. In waldorf, brad bell, abc7 news. Leon okay. Thank you, brad. We are covering metro tonight now with new information about metros safe track plan. That is general manager paul wi Transit System on track with maintenance. Much of it overdue. Transportation reporter Brianne Carter is live in arlington with a look at the revised plan. Brianne the trains running six to eight minute as you see on the board. Imagine they were running every 18 minutes or even longer. What that would do to a commute. And tonight we have learned along the orange and the silver line, riders will have to be the first one to find out. A major metro disruption, now days away for tens of thousands of rail riders. It will probably keep me from going downtown. The final version of the metro longterm maintenance and repair plan starts with two weeks of roundtheclock single tracking on the orange and the silver lines from ballston to east falls church. That work will be followed by the first of five shutdowns. Starting june 18, trains will not run between Eastern Market and benning road or minnesota avenue for 16 conseciv days. The first two safety urges will be done on part of the system identified by federal investigators for needing immediate repair. There are options. I would like, i really would like to see the system fixed. General manager Paul Wiedefeld knows this will be tough for commuters. But he is advising riders to come one a plan before the nearly yearlong work begins. What we are trying to do, there is a snowstorm coming in august, i can tell you the dates. Start to think about it. This plan is modified after the f. T. A. Responded about the original draft plan first out on may 6. Coming up tonight at 6 00, we talk to the general manager about could the plans possibly change or last longer . We have that answer. Reporting live, Brianne Carter, abc7 news. Leon thank you. Take a look at this, folks. An survivor that burst into flames on capitol hill this morning. This happened behind the hyatt on first street in northwest. Not far from the capitol building. There and put the fire out. Luckily, no one was hurt. It made for a frightening scene there. Sources tell us that the faulty brakes were to blame for that. Now we turn to new developments in the investigation into what happened to egyptair flight 804. In the 24 hours before that plane disappeared, it went to cairo, egyptian, and understand thia before heading to paris. In the last two hours a senior official in greece disputed the debris found between crete and cairo came in a plane. Kenneth mouton explains why terrorism is not ruled out. Reporter technical malfunction or terrorism . Crews discovered life jackets, debris and the wreckage of egyptair, some say. Having different action or terror attack is higher than the possibility of technical. 66 souls, mostly egyptians. No americans were on the flight. The air bus a320 flying at 37,000 feet. And a half hour away from landing before it van gnashed from radar. Aviation experts say early indication point to a bomb on board. If it ends up being in the cargo bay, that is a dirty baggage handler or someone with access. Presumptive g. O. P. Nominee tweeted, looks like another terrorist attack. When will we get tough, vigilant . Hillary clinton responded again. It shines a bright light on the face we face from organized terror groups. Reporter the white house says t. S. A. Has been working with foreign airports and have made important security enhancements for u. S. Bound flights. Flights that original from Charles De Gaulle to the u. S. Have additional screening that may not have bee president obama is getting update from the National Security team. Reporting in northwest, kenneth mouton, abc7 news. Alison now a story you will see only on 7 tonight. What happens when the flame of passion burns out . Well, in this case, one georgetown relationship, it burned something else. That is exactly what 18yearold hopesy enriquez did. She burned her exboyfriends car. She scornfully admitted to doing it when they arrested her he cheated on her. I honestly did not think she would do Something Like this. I dont care how mad you are, you dont just set someones car on fire no matter what the situation is. Alison that is the ex right there. He says he is now Auto Insurance purgatory. He also says he thinks she needs to have a psychiatric evaluation. Leon nothing like young love. All right. Maryland governor larry hogan signed noahs law that requires all firsttime d. U. I. Offenders inm ignition interlock device before driving. Its named after Montgomery County Police Officer noah leotta who was killed in december by a drunk driver. Coming up at 6 00 tonight, brad bell is getting some reaction from leottas family. And he will also tell us when this law goes into effect. Alison you saw this story first on 7. Piles of mail being scooped out of the storm drain right there. So now the neighbors wonder if the mail they are missing ended up down a drain. D. C. Bureau chief sam ford broke the story monday and joins us live from northeast washington with an update for us today. Sam . Sam as people in this northeast neighborhood learn what happened, they are wondering whether a particular letter or a particular check was in that mail. Who are they hiring . Sam Frank Matthews who lives here finds some humor in the fact a local postal employee may have tossed enough mail in the sewer to fill 25 garb service retrieved over two days this week with the help of d. C. Water from catch basins. For other businesses and residents it shouldnt be in the sewer. Sam Kimberly Mitchell wonders if they tossed her refund check. It saddens me that somebody thought it didnt need to be delivered and it could be floating around anacostia river. Sam as of today the Postal Service is still saying the investigation is ongoing. No charges have been filed. Nor will they say who did it. Everyone agrees it was not the regular letter carrier because he was on vacation. Resident Vincent Wright says for at least a week some received no mail. This neighbor here, myself, i believe others said they were missing mail as well. Sam as abc7 reported on monday wright was snaking out a clogged drain for his neighbor when the mail came up an and raised the alarm. Once the d. C. Water helped retrieve the u. S. Mail it alsod the drain problem. They must have used a power vac and pushed it through or sucked it out. Its all clear now. Sam now Postal Service spokesman today said that investigators today turned over most of the mail to Postal Service employees so that they can begin the process as he put it of determining what is suitable for delivery. He said a lot of it is just too water logged. Residents with questions can call the consumer Affair Office at 2026361200. Reporting live from northeast washington, sam ford, abc7 news. Alison lovely outside today. Leon after the sun finally got its act together. Like an old lawnmower. Kept starting and stopping, stopping and starting. Looking go chief meteorologist doug hill, what is the word now . Doug enjoy it while it lasts. Enjoy it now. Alexandria, 70 degrees. Tomorrow is beautiful and warmer. Saturday not so beautiful. Rain is the weather story on saturday. Shortterm, overnight. Clear. Cant rule out patchy fog. 47 to 53 by the morning. The reason its sunny and pleasant is the High Pressure. It will move overhead and offshore. That is going to open the door for rain. Heavy at times throughout the entire day on saturday. Tomorrow a perfect forecast for bike to work day. 50s in the morning. Mid70s by the afternoon. Leon thank you, doug. A week after he announced he was retiring from 60 minutes, tonight the world is paying tribute to morley safer. Safer joined 60 minutes two years after the show debuted on cbs. Staying with the weekly news magazine with 46 years. He interviewed jack and catharine hepburn. Even miss piggy. Cbs aired hourlong special on his career this past sunday. He was 84. Alison coming up here on abc7 news at 5 00 she says her stepfather helped hold her hostage for one year. Leon the trial accused for attorney who helped take his wifes former boss hostage. The bizarre evidence coming to life against Andrew Schmuhl later. Alison first, you know about the skills on the field. Find out how bryce harper carrying through on the promise to make baseball fun again for the fans. Mike im mike carterconneen in ashburn, virginia, with preview of redskins themed restaurant and details on surprising leon back with a bit of history for you. 15 years ago today apple opened up the first retail store. Guess where it was . Of all places its in Tysons Corner in virginia. Today they have 479 stores in 18 countries. Alison the the apple store . Hard to imagine. Where did people wait in line . Well, for many years now, American Indian groups across the country have called on the Washington Redskins as you know to change their name. Calling it a racial slur. As mike carterconneen reports a New Washington post poll found nine out of ten native americans say they are not offended by the name. Not only do nine out of ten say the Team Name Redskins does not bother them, more than 80 said they would not be offended if someone not native american called them that word. It doesnt surprise me. Some look at it as a badge of honor, too. The group changed the mascot and proud resilience does not give the nfl a license to continue marketing, promoting and profiting off of a dictionary defined racial slur, one that tells people outside the community to view us as mascots. Some questioned the poll. Post reporters defended the survey. Random sample of the selfidentified native americans. The owner vows to never change the name. With the lawyers petitioning the Supreme Court asking justice to weigh in on a pending dispute over the teams trademark. But they are going to open a Team Restaurant with teamthemed items on the menu. A couple of miles from the headquarters they defend the name. High School Mascot were indians. Never been on the defensive. Its been redskins my whole life. Tradition. Mike even here, some say they empathize with the native americans who reject the name. Some say its offensive and i agree with mike carterconneen, abc7 news. Leon one sports fan was offended last night in the natsmets game. Ramos launch at bat in the stand accidentally. The boy caught it and thought he would get to keep it. Ah rude awakening for him when the security came over and said no, the bat has to go back to wilson. League m. V. P. Bryce harper, though, didnt like the idea and he had one of his gameready bats delivered to the boy instead. And baseball made fun again. By bryce harper. Doug did he hit a ball . They kept walking him. Leon four times. Alison weather wise this is turning into a nice afternoon. This morning wasnt that pretty. The skies brightened a bit. They showed weather magic and how to make a cloud inside a bottle. Showed a cool video that shows the behind the scenes stuff here in the storm watch 7 weather center. How we do the graphic and make maps and how we get on tv to show everyone at home. After a little bit she took them outside to learn about the mobile weather. At the abc7 storm chaser. Jackie said the kid was polite, happy, friendly. Good kids. Thank you for that. Meanwhile here we are happy about the shortterm because we have more partly sunnyware ahead. The time lapse for you from Damascus Elementary School in north Montgomery County. Cloudy this morning. The sun broke through. 73 there now. Beautiful afternoon. Tomorrow looks nice. Low temperatures, low to mid70s and sunshine. Saturday, okay. Lets talk about this. 68 at reagan national. Areas of 70s because of the sunshine. We have sunshine here around the cap stall the High Pressure clearing the skies. Cool and sunshine in the mid60s north. To the south, pocket of warm air. 78 in atlanta. This went through houston with flooding rain in houston. It dropped their temperatures. This is clearing skies from north to south. That is pushing the rain offshore. Not worried about rain today or tomorrow. However we have to deal with this. A nasty line of storm. Area of low pressure. Jump to the northeast tomorrow. The probability of rain is 100 . In the morning and through the day. The clouds will gather and through the afternoon. Overcast by the evening. Heavy overcast moving in. This is 8 00 a. M. Heavier amount south and west of the metro area. The heaviest amounts will move east. Steady rain to move eastward. That is good news if it works out. Breaks in the pattern through saturday afternoon through saturday evening. So i think it will work out. Winds are turning to the north sunday. We will still mention a chance of a shower. It should be partly sunny on sunday. Rainfall. Half inch to inch in metro area. Miranda lambert is performing jiffy lube on saturday. Cloudy and cool. We hope the rain will end by 7 00. Stay in touch 100 chance of rain then. Tapering off and ending later. Scattered shower are possible sunday and monday. Lower 70s. Warmer tuesday. Then the first time this month we will hit 80 degrees. Maybe higher on wednesday and thursday. Nice to see what it feels like. Alison how the next story. This is something. The eiffel tower in paris will soon become a vacation home. That is right. Rental company home away is taking over part of the first floor of the iconic landmark. Four winners get to stay there for the duration of the 2016 European Championship soccer tournament. 2,000 square foot space. Of course, it includes panoramic views. Sign me up. I would love to live in the while to say you did. Leon try to order a pizza there. Is it delivered there . All right. Figure that one out. Coming up, families are calling for action before memorial day. Alison that is right. The issue they want the lawmakers to tackle. Still ahead. Leon Security Guard charged with assaulting a transgender woman using a womans bathroom at a local giant store appeared before a judge a short while ago. Im Stephen Tschida. I will fill you in on what went down in a moment. 13yearold girl says she was held hostage for a year. Find out how she escaped next. Leon but first, look at what is coming up tonight on abc thope to see you again soon. Whoa, whoa, i got this. Just gotta get the check. Almost there. I cant reach it. If you have alligator arms, you avoid picking up the check. What . Its what you do. I got this. Thanks, dennis if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. Growwwlph. Its what you do. Oh that is good crispy duck. Its not easy to see it, but our kids are at risk. The sugar they consume at home during breakfast. At lunch. Or just hanging out. All adds up. These sugary drinks contain 49 teaspoons of sugar. Thats 8 times more they can have in a day. This extra sugar causes tooth decay and turns into fat, which can cause childhood obesity, and lifelong illnesses like diabetes and heart disease. When you add it all up, sugary drinks can lead to death and disease for your family. Learn more at revyourbev. Com alison we are monitoring a developing story out of ohio where a 13yearold girl says she was shackled in a basement for a year before she got away. Minnesota she said she michelle she said that she used a spare key to e now her stepfather and his doesnt son are charged with child endangerment and kidnapping. They are both held on 500,000 bond. In the last two hours, they searched the shout and found leg shackles. She says she was forced to sleep there. She had a long sleeve thirty on with the little skirt past her legs. Tore up. Her little shoes she had no shoes. They were like flipflops. You could see the handcuff marks on her ankles. Michelle police say when they found the men they were trying to leave the house. Its unsure where the mother is but the girl said she hadnt seen her mom in four years. That is the latest from the live desk. Back to you. Leon thank you. Coming up at abc7 nws a major mistake. What you answer read to know about the mistake that could put you and your childs information out for all to see. D. C. Says do not eat rock fish. Im chris papst. We will continue our investigation in this body of water. Where the popular fish are picking up the toxin. Emotionally charged testimony today in the courtroom regarding a Home Invasion in 2014. The bizarre action and suggestinos of the uspect. Thats when we continue. Thanks for coming today. I want each of you to grab a 2x8 and cut it. Youll have 2 ws to choose from. You all chose the best tool for the job. Wouldnt it make sense to make the same choice, when it comes to your truck . Absolutely. This is the 2016 chevy silverado. Nice. 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