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Transcripts For WJLA ABC7 News At 5 20170227

Families in the school and people who work here. And for the students ultimately. This is a terrible situation that exists we have to field these kind of threats. Stephen the f. B. I. Is trying to track down who is responsible, where they are coming from. We talked to a number of people including parents who we will hear from next hour about what may motivate the threats. They tell us they think in their opinion it is the climate into the country today. That is the latest. Reporting live, stephen tschida, abc7 news. Alison a third of the way through his first 100 days President Donald Trump is expected to sign a new order on refugees and immigration this wednesday. It will be one day after the first address to a joint session of congress. This morning its all about the budget and the plan to increase defense spending. This will be paid for by finding deficiencies across the government. We will do more with less. Alison he met with the c. E. O. s of several Health Insurance companies today to talk about plans to appeal the Affordable Care act. We invite you to join us about the town hall on president s first 100 days. It begins at 7 00 on newschannel8. Larry new developments today after the Company Behind a massive recall of air bags went to court today. Takata will plead guilty to one counted of wire fraud. Lisa fletcher broke the story that the inflators used to replace the tens of millions of the faulty takata air bags were expected to fail. What is the significance of the hearing today . Lisa it resolves the d. O. J. Investigation into the exploding inflators that can send shrapnel in the drivers and the passengers when the air bags deploy. The count of wire fraud has to do with takata pr test data to the regulators. The headline was last month when the company pleaded guilty to criminal wrongdoing and agreed to pay 1 billion in fines and restitution. Todays court action closes the loop on the case. This is the largest recall in history. There are 70 million takata air bags in u. S. Vehicles making the likelihood that your car contains one pretty good. Go to wjla. Com and click on 7 on your side. You will find the link to the government website with all the link to the recall information. Alison thank you for that, lisa. Today marks one year since the streetcar started carrying passengers along h street in d. C. I was supposed to free for six months but its still free today. Brianne carter explains why. Brianne traveling down the tracks for a full year. Marking a milestone for d. C. Streetcar. A free ride down th to be free for six months but now its free for years. They say adding fares could dampen the ridership numbers that are exceeding expectations. In one year, 906 thousand passengers used a streetcar. On average now, 2,700 folks ride it daily. The highest usage is in the afternoon from 5 00 to 00 at night. Ddot says Union Station and the stop at eighth and 13th are the busiest. There are pime on it but its usually not full. David williams with the Taxpayers Protection Alliance says the project is not a success adding it is costing d. C. Residents too much. This is a vanity project for the city because it doesnt transport people from one part of another. I transports people from one part of h treat to another. Moat has had a business for 13 years and believes drivers fear of getting towed on the tracks is hurting business. The business dropped. In northeast washington, brianne carter, abc7 news. We are following breaking news out of Montgomery County where the firefighters are on the scene of the fire. This is at a restaurant in Silver Spring. Skytrak7 is live. This is the scene. You can see the fire trucks are there. A lot of different vehicles responding to this. This is at Georgia Avenue and bonnefont street. The roads are closed where the fire is now under control. No word on damage. Larry storm watch after a tornado touched coun in maryland over the weekend. No one was hurt when it hit charles county. This is some of the damage you will see in la plata. The area is no trainger to tornado stranger to tornadoes but having one in february is rare. Stormwatch7s chief meteorologist doug hill is here with a look at another front on the way. Doug it w of thunderstorms and possibly Severe Weather on wednesday. Quick look back at the marble size hailstones. David of stafford took these images. In the afternoon hours 2 45 in the afternoon, just north of la plata near rosewick road. The tornado is first observe and touched down. On the ground for 11 minutes. Moving to the northeast, doing Property Damage along the way. It lifted up crossing route 5 to zillionth Peters Catholic church. That is west of the cedarville state park. A wild storm. But very little impact outside the track of the storm. There were reports of small hail. The you showers are late tonight and an isolated one. As we see the temperatures they take off tomorrow. 68 tomorrow. 78 on wednesday. Wednesday afternoon with warm unstable air. Under a chance of Severe Weather. We talk about that in the weekend and the next ten days in nine minutes. Alison 78 on wednesday. Thank you. We have new information in a deadly shooting. The f. B. I. Is now investigating it as a possible hate crime. The suspect made his First Court Appearance in kansas city this afternoon. His name is adam pureton. He is accused of shooting three men at a restaurant last week killing one of them. He told the indian immigrants to get out of his country. It was rage and malice in an individuals heart that killed my friend. Killed our friend. Last night hundreds of people attended a vigil for the victim. Larry bill cosby was back in court this morning as a judge ruled in his favor agreeing to his sex assault case decided by an outside jury. That means no one from Montgomery County, pennsylvania, can be selected lawyers asked to have it moved to philadelphia or the pittsburgh area to make it easier to find unbiased jurors. Prosecutors fought that motion. Alison we have update for death of a rapper. The place arrested dante brewer and 18yearold Deshawn Watkins in connection to the murder of swipey. Swipey was gunned down in august outside an apartment in suitland. Police linked brewer to the crime through his ankle bracelets g. P. S. Watkins was arrested carrying a Company Connected to the crime. They are searching for three other suspects. Hours after the Surveillance Video angelica barahonarivas was released, the Family Member tells us that the missing 18yearold is safe with Family Members in new jersey. We are waiting for police to confirm that. Montgomery county police were concerned about her whereabouts after her cousin Damaris Rivas was murdered in Fairfax County this month. Nearly a dozen people have been arrested in connection with alison Gang Violence and the Opioid Epidemic have been some of Terry Mcauliffes top concerns in office. His term is almost up. The serious battle is brewing amongst democrats who want to succeed mcauliffe. Jeff goldberg explains how President Trump is playing a major role in race for governor. Jeff with the legislative session over, Lieutenant Governor is free to campaign for governor at events like this. Tour of an i. B. E. W. Training facility in manassas. But before election day in november comes the democratic primary on june 13. It is all about the economy. If you talk to the average person on the street, they want a good high paying job, access to affordable quality healthcare. But a mild mannered moderate is being challenged by tom periello. The former congressman from charlottesville tamping into the antitrump energy that is infusing the left. We are paying close attention in washington but we have to take care of virginia. Jeff he says he is doing the same but the vocal resistance to the president is gaining traction. Being clear that virginia will be a firewall against the hate and devicetive politics of devicetive politics of trump. Virginia and new jersey are the first states to hold races for governor following a president ial election. Races that are often a referendum on the new president. In many ways it matters left who the democrats nominate and who the president s nominate than how trump is doing in Public Opinion in the state in october. Jeff a primary battle is heating up on the republican side. Gillespie is the front runner and wagner and Corey Stewart are in the race, the chairman of the Prince William county board of supervisors. Live in the newsroom, jeff goldberg, abc7 news. Alison thank you. Coming up at 5 00, watch your parking meters. Where the rates are pay. Larry later, breaking ground on a new stadium in the city. You will not succeed without youth voices being at the heart of how we respond to the problem. Alison plus, rising up to fight teen homelessness. There is mistake. Moonlight, you won best picture. Larry but first, why the blunder that everyone is talking about wasnt the only issue on oscar night. This is not a joke. Im afraid they red the wrong thing. This is not a joke. Moonlight won best picture. Moonlight. Alison wow even if you didnt catch it live at the oscar last night chances are you have seen the video of the one jaw dropping moment. Larry yes. We lived through it several times. Amy aubert joins us now to explain what exactly went wrong on one of hollywoods biggest nights. Amy . Amy one wrong envelope led to a lot of confusion on stage. But that is not the only headline from oscar 2017. The Academy Award amy for best picture. Amy that felt like an eternity. Cmon. La la land. Amy an announcement gone wrong. Sorry. No. There is a mistake. Amy not long after la la land producers accept the award, confusion on stage. This is not a joke. Moonlight won best picture. Amy presenters Warren Beatty and faye dunaway were given the wrong envelope. Today they released this statement. The presenters had mistakenly be given the wrong category envelope and when discovered was corrected immediately. La la land winning big regardless taking home six Academy Awards. La la land. La la land. La la land. La la land. Emma stone. I realize a moment like this is a huge confluence of luck and opportunity. Amy the best picture blunder wasnt the only of the event. During the the wrong picture popped up. Photo of jan chapman, a producer still alive, shown next to pattersons name. Passerson was a Costume Designer who passed away in october. Now, here is how the major blunder happened. There are actually two identical envelopes for each category. One for each side of the stage. The presenters were handed the wrong envelope. It was a sealed envelope for best actress, which was the previous award. Alison of course. My goodness. Amy awkward moment. Alison it was. I felt bad for Warren Beatty and faye dunaway. Amy exactly. Alison it wasnt their fault. You wouldnt expect to get the wrong envelope. Larry how do you make up for that error . With all the people there, in the middle of the speeches and then to say i thought, i give the producer of la la land credit for saying here it is. Here is the card. Here. See. Here it is. You guys come up. You deserve it. Everyone was saying how much they the award. Alison amy, thank you. Larry Lindsey Mastis picked up the Team Coverage from the newsroom with the social media reaction to the flubs. Lindsey when it comes to jimmy kimmel, he is blaming steve harvey for this one. That is what a lot of people are talking about in the whole misuniverse controversy. Steve harvey reached out and said call me, Warren Beatty. I can help you get through this. Same with miss universe. Have your people call our people. We know what to do. They have already had to deal with this situation. But the producer that you talked about jordan horowitz he is humbled because congrats to moonlight, a beautiful picture made by even more beautiful people. There is a lot of love all around. We have Barry Jenkins with moonlight saying wow, i am slipping slowly in perspective, reflection. Much respect to that dude. Back to you. Alison he was the hero of the situation. Larry he was. Alison that was really awkward. Larry yeah. Alison all right, doug, were you up doug no. I was up for a while. Alison we were here waiting to do the news afterwards and our jaws dropped. Doug i got up and clicked on abc7 this morning id found out everybody was like really . Really . Alison i felt that way when you said it will be 78. Doug it doesnt make sense but it is. Today we hit the mid50s. Tomorrow the upper 6 os. The upper 7 os briefly on wednesday. A live look at national harbor. Cloudy day. We have seen some on radar but the air is dry so its not reaching the ground. Later tonight, isolated shower. Better chance of showers tomorrow everything. The high likelihood of the rain and the thunderstorms. Some could be severe wednesday afternoon. Quantico, 56 in fredericksburg. Tonight is cloudy. Tomorrow we will break in the sunshine for a while. Southerly winds will help bring the temperatures up quickly. 68 degrees during the afternoon hours with the chance of afternoon showers. The satellite and radar, it its not much reaching ground. Oak stations underneath observation stations underneath this and only a couple of spots reporting live rain. Mostly cloudy skies. Isolated shower is not out of possibility. We have a spring feel for the last day of february. The showers will get closer Late Afternoon and the late evening. They are in the forecast tomorrow night. Then on wednesday we have a chance in the morning of going into sunshine for a while with the southerly winds. We will really warm up and the cold front approaches and just before it crosses we expect the likelihood of the showers and storms to develop. The possibility of some could be severe. As far as what is going to happen beyond that, once the line of showers and storms moves out, its a rapid change. We will have a cooldown for a bit. Wednesday is the day we will Pay Attention to. Tomorrow, showers not much consequence put us under a slight risk for Severe Weather on wednesday. Tomorrow they will update the forecast again. A moderate risk of heavy rain. But high in to the moderate risk for the large hail and the damaging winds. Isolate tornadoes in the low end of the moderate risk. Something to keep an eye on and the timing is midtoLate Afternoon through early everything on wednesday. That shows up in the seven day at this point. Thursday is 54. Colder on friday. Interesting little thing we are watching. Weather disturbance could come through friday morning. Not impossible. There could be rain drops or snow flakes but it will turn partly, sunny and breezy in the afternoon. Another over the weekend. We have 40 on saturday. 60 for sunday. We warm up next week and the middle to the end of week cooldown. Right now the cooling down to the upper 40s. Below will march come in like a lamb or a lion. We know the answer. Alison thank you for the sound effects. Larry my pleasure. I worked all day on that. Alison see you soon. One of the most popular phones in history is poised to make a comeback. Larry plus a local dog is a star after the oscars. Sam parents say when they stop in the morning to bring the children to school, they often get tickets. Im sam ford. That story is next. Alison but first, here is a look at what is coming up tonight on abc7, including the First Episode of when we rise. Larry after that, abc7 at 11 00. Stay tuned for Jimmy Kimmel Live for a full oscar breakdowns. The guests are two of the yeah. We love low prices. No bones about it. Thousands of blue tags. Thousands of low prices. My giant. Fios is not cable. Were wired differently. So we wired the wagners house th 150 meg internet. Which means that in the time it takes mr. Wagner to pour a 20oz. Cup of coffee, tommy can download 40 songs, and jan can upload 180 photos. 12 seconds. Thats the power of fiber optics. Get 150 meg internet with equal upload and download speeds, tv and phone for just 79. 99 per month for the first year. Cable cant offer internet speeds this fast at a price this good. Only fios can. Extended bonus buys only at my giant. Nt. Larry beginning today parking in d. C. May cost you more or less money. Think of it as surge pricing. When demand is high, prices are higher. In offpeak times, the parking prices are lower. They will reevaluate the rates every three months. Alison some d. C. Parents say they were not parked at meters but outside the Childrens School and hit with sam ford is here to explain why. Sam im outside an Elementary School in northwest along busy rhode island avenue. Many parents at the school are livid. They say Parking Enforcement lays in wait for them to drop off the children in the morning. The school has prek classes with the children as young as three years old who must be delivered to the classrooms. Parents complain they are inside and they are often giving out tickets for parking in 50 tickets for parking in a school zone. Twothird of the children are under 6. We are not going to stay in the car and let them go in the building themselves. I have three i have contested. We dont have the answer yes. But we dont have the options to park and drop off the kid. If you are trying to drop of

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