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WJLA ABC7 News At 5 June 2, 2016

The sister station in nashville reporting there is at least one person dead. The one person has not been identified. We do not know if its a pilot or somebody on ground. This is what we know. The u. S. Navy blue angels jet crashed shortly after takeoff. 3 00 this afternoon. Practice flight for a show they have coming up this weekend in nashville, tennessee. Here is nashville, a few miles southeast. Airport for that location. Quickly we want to show you a video that somebody took. Shortly after this plane crashed. The person took this video. Giant plume of smoke rising eerily up in the sky. You can see how big of a crash it was. How significant it was. Off of that video with the person saying, pray for the pilot. Hopefully that person is safe. One person has been confirmed dead from the abc7 news affiliate in nashville. For now, live in the newsroom, chris papst. Jonathan another developing story. Air force thunderbird jet on the opposite side of the coun a flyover at the air force Academy Graduation ceremony. That is in colorado. The pilot ejected and landed safely. There were no injuries on the ground. But president obama delivered the commencement address and was inside the stadium at the time of the crash. We are told he is expected to meet with the pilot. Michelle back at home a boat full of students in restricted part of the Chesapeake Bay. Alison the boat started sinking and a waterman was close enough to help save the day. Our Maryland Bureau chief brad bell is live in cambridge with more on the story. Brad the boat is off an island that was for years used by the army as target practice. The ground has eroded. Sea level and the tides have take an toll on the island. The tanks are now under water. Its believed the Chesapeake Bay foundation boat hit one of those tanks. Started as a dream field trip to the center for a group of fourth graders, teacher, chaperon for kent school in chestertown. A day aboard the 40foot board ends in the waters. Parent brian cole telling us everything changed in an instant when they hit the submerged object. Like hitting a brick wall. Brad everybody was thrown to the deck. He broke fingers. A girl lost a tooth. The captain briefly losing consciousness. Strike to finish was maybe five minutes. He got out a 911 call on his radio. Brad ten miles away in a watermans harbor, the crabber jeremy shockly hears the call. Taking off water. Brad with his son daniel he fires up his boat and races to the scene. Realizing its Young Children as they draw near. Not a good kids on the sunken boat. Brad they get everybody on board and race to shore. This photo of arrival. They take care of us. Medical attention and everything. The waterman. True blue americans. Anyone else would have done the same thing. I dont classify myself as a hero. Something we all do. Something is broke down we help them out. Tow them in. Brad everybody is congratulating the waterman including the Natural Resources Police Patrolling the water. That is an irony because Police Charged with waterman with possession of undersized oysters in the winter and he is due in court soon. He hopes this doesnt hurt him. In cambridge, brad bell, abc7 news. Jonathan well, we are just more than 24 hours away from the start of the Metro Safetrack program. Even if you dont ride metro you will see the impact. Live at the Eastern Market station. After d. C. Announced changes today. Tell us about them. Brianne this is the same day they handed out the panel let laying out the safety surge 1 and surge 2. They are trying to ease the commute in the next year. In a matter of hours, commuting in the d. C. Area is about to get more complicated. As metros nearly yearlong rebuilding project safetrack gets underway. The project will affect every single commuter. Even the first of 15 safety surges will happen on the tracks in virginia. People heading in and out of d. C. Will be impacted. Today d. C. Officials announce new plans to help reduce congestion for crush of commuters. Parking downtown can be difficult starting next week there will be an additional park on major eastwest routes to help the flow of buses. Morning rush hour restrictions will be extended from 9 30 to 10 00. Currently, the everything rush hour begins at 4 00. Ends at 6 30. Extend it to 7 00. Brianne ddot will put more Traffic Controllers at key intersections and adjust signal timing. Ddot will provide staging areas for taxis and carpooling. We have plan for each of the night life area to put in place to make sure we can get night life referrallers in and out of the light life areas. They are also looking at the possibility to extend the circulator bus until 3 00 a. M. Its not just those on buses and trains and in cars. Its also those considering taking two wheels. Coming up here tonight at 6 00, what ddot announced today on how to get a discounted ride using capital bike alison longterm closure and the earlier closing time will have an impact of people working at restaurants and maybe hospitals and have to use metro to commute late at night. Cheryl conner picks up Team Coverage and she has that side of the story. Cheryl Metro Silver Line came on less than two years ago. The shiny rails dont keep it off the list of needed repairs as the safe track programs begins this weekend. I have to take uber instead. Its three to four times as much if you were able to take the metro. Cheryl daniel relies on metro to make a long trip to get to the job at the prime seafood in Tysons Corner where he is a server. Huntington metro stop to the pentagon metro stop. Switch to the blue line. Pentagon to rosslyn. Switch to orange line and take it to falls church to silver. Which brings us to tys he is avoiding track work. It typically takes him an hour and a half. With the track work he is estimating three hours. Then he has to walk from this station up to his job. According to the trip finder if he left he would get to huntington and he would miss the train. Riders are told to check the website to know when the last train leaves the station. Safetrack means metro closes at midnight even on the weekend instead of staying open until 3 00 a. M. In tysons, cheryl conner, abc7 news. Alison thank you. We have details on wjla. Com. While there, sign up for the metro text alerts. Jonathan a man accu metro station is in custody. This happened on the platform at Lenfant Plaza last night. Metro Transit Police say this guy, 18yearold jose pleitez grabbed a womans behind and then he raced off. Well, they raced him. They caught him. Michelle new development tonight and new bombshell in the ucla campus murder. Alison a third person now dead. This was hundreds of miles away. A kill list was found and the shooter mainak sarkars minnesota home with several names. One woman on the list was found dead in brooklyn, minnesota. Ucla Professor William klug was killed on the shooting. The gunmans car is still missing. We believe the vehicle will be unoccupied. We dont believe there are outstanding suspects. We believe that the vehicle may contain establish motive. Alison another person on the kill list who works at ucla is okay today. Jonathan well, right now we are on storm watch. Rain and a chance of storms moving in the area. Chief meteorologist doug hill joining us now with a check of the forecast. What we see closer to the metro area. Light showers. Slowly drifting off to the east to the metro area. Farther west. A heavier band of storms to south side virginia. A warm pattern. Daily chance of showers and the storms. Overnight, 63 to 70. With showers and the storms late night and overnight. Patchy fog and light winds. Check out friday, the weekend and seven days in a few minutes. Alison thank you. New information about the death of prince. Autopsy results showed the ta overdose of the Prescription Drug fentanyl. That is a powerful synthetic opioid, many times more potent than opium. Report this afternoon says the death was accidental. Prince died at his paisley park home april 21. At the age of 57. Jonathan coming up for us at abc7 news at 5 00 the redskins getting ready for the next season. But find out what one trainer did that could put some nfl players personal information at risk. Alison plus, we tell you about the drastic measures a Famous Museum is taking in the face of massive flooding. 7 on your side helps residents get rid of a nuisance neighbor. That story is next when abc7 news great time for a shiny floor wax, no . Not if you just put the finishing touches on your latest masterpiece. Timings important. Comcast business knows that. Thats why you can schedule an installation at a time that works for you. Even late at night, or on the weekend, if thats what you need. Because you have enough to worry about. I did not see that coming. Get Better Internet installed on your schedule. Comcast business. Built for business. Vo for dominion, part of delivering Affordable Energy includes supporting those in our community who need help. Our Energyshare Program does just that, assisting with bill pay and providing free, energysaving upgrades. Its more than helping customers, its helping neighbors. Stand by me jonathan 7 on your side tonight after a neighborhoods call for help. The problem a massive dead tree that was hovering over several houses in one potomac neighborhood. Montgomery county reporter kevin lewis is live now. This has been going on for over a year. Kevin yeah. Absolutely, jonathan. This is a limb that snapped off the tree only two days ago. We another tree. Im 511. The limb is well over twice my height. We think this could come down at any time. Kevin for more than a year, this troubled timber shed a number of thick branches. Anybody who happens to be there gets hit. Parent james edward. Someone could lose their lives. Kevin and ryan say multiple limbs have come crashing in their yards. Both are fathers of Young Children. Sum etime they want to be outside. You dont want them outside playing with this every over your head. Kevin they called Montgomery County 311 to request the dead tree be cut down. But a year later no progress. We think it is important to try and, you know, follow the appropriate protocol. But at a certain point you realize that you are not getting anywhere. You have to try to make yourself heard. Kevin so he your side. A day later arborist surveyed the tree to promise to have it cut down by the end of next week. There is a lot of punting back and forth. The response this week since calling 7 on your side is fantastic. They were out here twice today. If they follow through and take it down in the next few day or weeks, aplus. In the last week. But this has been a yearplus in the making. That is not good for a tree of that nature to the serious damage. Kevin one more look at the dead tree. Montgomery county spokesperson says it stems from confusion over whose property the tree was on. That spokesperson telling us a crew armed with chainsaws and cherry pickers will be out here tomorrow to begin the big project. Live in potomac, im kevin lewis, abc7 news. Alison thank you. At least six people are dead following severe flooding in europe. Several rivers flooded from paris to bavaria in southern germany. That is an area wide. Thousands of people trapped in the homes by the fastmoving floodwaters. In paris, boat tours have been canceled. Some rail lines shut down. How about this . The museum is moving artifacts upstairs. Jonathan in texas, they are declaring 31 counties disaster areas. In the houston area alone hundreds of people had to be evacuated because of flooding on the brazos river. Stay with us. We have more on the flooding in teg later in the newscast. They have had to rescue people from their homes because it has come up so fast. Alison around here, humid, summer like. Its april and may where we had the stretch of 15 Straight Days of rain. But the rain was right. These peak are having the downpour. Jonathan five to seven inches in system of the storms. Lets get started here. Plenty of sunshine in metro. Live look from the weather bug camera atop Allegany High School in cumberland. If you look on the lefthand side, that is unmistaken live image of the thunderstorm. Watch it from Higher Elevation and probably eight to ten miles away from the Vantage Point here. Plenty of rain. A lot of lighting and thunder with it. Keep an eye on this cell, what the edge of it looks like. We look at it on doppler radar. Southwest of cumberland. There are others. If you get close to charlottesville they have torrential downpour and thunderstorm. You see dot of red and yellow indicating that the storm are developing a bit. Leading edge is west of warrenton. Later in the everything at 11 00, midnight, metro area could see shower or thunderstorms as well. Heavier area out the moment is north and West Cumberland to pennsylvania. Meanwhile we look off the coast. This is bonnie. Tropical depression. But this could get stronger briefly as it heads over the atlantic ocean. We could use rain to get over the pollen but heavy moisture in the air. Very little rain. With that, high level of ground pollen and mold spore. Moderate range for tree pollen. Temperatures with the clouds and sunshine mix, lower 80s. That is what we expect. Slightly cooler than yesterday. 75 at annapolis. 77 from baltimore. Cooler east. As far as bonnie goes the latest Hurricane Center has it offshore. 60 miles northeast of cape hatteras. According to the computer models it will develop to lowend Tropical Storm again. It will maintain in the afternoon and downgrade. Get a kick across the gulf stream. Hit the cooler waters farther east to begin to fall apart midnight tonight. Showers in the area. Possibility. Overnight fog. Tomorrow more showers and more storms. Better chance that the frontal zone crosses in the area. Better chance tomorrow than today. Early saturday things clear. With the sunshine in the saturday forecast we will have a chance of the scattered showers and the thunderstorms. Mostly high of 84. Sunday could be active weather day. A lot of ingredients. Warm front is coming through to put us in warm humid air. In the afternoon approaching the cold front that could produce heavy to severe thunderstorms. Damaging winds a possibility. Behind that a fresh air mass comes in. Delightful here. Alison not bad at all. Still ahead at abc7 news at 5 00 the rules of the road are simple. If you see a yellow light, you go slow. When it turns red yo he knows the rules of the road. We will tell you how the little guy let the father know the rules apply to him. Alison coming up tonight at 9 00, game one of the nba finals on abc. John legend will sing the National Anthem before the Golden State Warriors and the cleveland court. Warriors came out on top in the same matchup last season. They are hoping for repeat. Jonathan in todays abc7s instapoll asking you which team you are rooting for in the nba finals. Were about to open live voting at wjla. Com votenow. So long as you are ready to see the results live. That is how it happens. Alison some diehard kevin durant fans are hoping to lure the nba star back to washington. So they started a to gund a go fund me account asking for 20 million to convince him to sign with the wizards in the offseason. We all know that kevin durant is local. Went to high school at montrose christian. Organizers of the push say if durant comes they will donate the money to his favorite charity. In the last two days they raised grand total of jonathan wait for it. Alison 52. Theyre close. Its the thought that counts. Alison good luck. So the nfl combine is a for future nfl stars to shine. Jonathan a redskins trainers mistake putting the information of thousands of players who attended the camp at risk. Alison Horace Holmes is here to explain how it happened. Horace since the medical record affects thousands of nfl players and others who tried out for professional teams. According to information obtained through the Nfl Players Association and the Washington Redskins this happened in indianapolis. This happened at the combine, an vent where representatives from all the nfl teams and the former College Players who entered the draft gather for tryouts. Police in indianapolis say someone broke in the car of a redskins trainer and stole a back pack. Inside that back pack was a laptop that contained the medical records of perspective players and a number of current and past redskins players. The Nfl Players Association learned of the crime and released a statement saying the backpack contained Password Protected but unencrypted laptop with copy some of the records of the combine players dated back to 2004. Talking about potentially thousands of records. Players right now are participating in offseason practices in redskins parks and none of the players would speak with us. But the Team Released a statement saying horace the redskins say steps have been taken to make sure it doesnt happen again. They are consulting with the health and Human Services and the union is taking the manter seriously. Alison you can see why. Jonathan dont leave your backpack in the car. Tuck it under the seat. Horace especially if it has something precious inside. Alison thank you. Jonathan we said it was instantaneous. Who are you picking for the nba finals starting tonight, game one . The results. This is a complete turnaround. At 4 00, golden state was getting 60 . Clevelandwas 40 . Now wait. Ju a right back to it. Alison listening to you. Jonathan now its bigger. 80 20. Golden state fans are voting. Go to wjla. Com votenow. Alison

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