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Transcripts For WJLA ABC7 News At 5 20170302

Taken the view this is a false comment. That is not my intent. That is not correct. I will write the Judiciary Committee soon, today or tomorrow and to explain this system for the record. Scott so the issue is the white house is trying to turn off the faucet, drip, drip, drip about russia. Michael flynn had to resign after supposedly misleading the Vice President about the conversations he had with the russians. Now people are wondering was there anything sinister, nefarious, illegal between Jeff Sessions as a senator and russia . He says no. People will continue to push for investigation. Larry what is next . He will recuse himself. We know that much. What the next in this saga . Scott he will address a letter to the Judiciary Committee explaining why he testified way he did and try to set the record straight. Why he omitted the information. However, youve got intelligence hearings in the house side that and the facebook still investigating. At this point, the administration, the white house insisting there is nothing to indicate there was collation of any sort. But democrats not going to take that one for their answer. They will keep pushing. Keep pushing. No question. Scott thuman, thank you. We appreciate it. Mike carterconneen was outside the department of justice today as several hundred protesters gathered and called for Jeff Sessions to resign. Jeff sessions lied to the American People and he must resign immediately. Mike outside the department of justice, democratic members of Congress Demanded that attorney general Jeff Sessions resign. Protesters chanted lock him up and passing cars on pennsylvania avenue blared their horns. As the chief legal officer you cannot maintain your position by breaching the law. Mike protesters say they are outrage by russian interference in the 2016 election and allegations of contacts between the trump mp i am worried that the chief Law Enforcement official who is responsible for Holding Everyone in the country accountable is himself is corrupted. Mike the demonstration was organized by move on and other progressive groups. He lied. We need to get rid of him. The Trump Administration has a staff infection. Mike speakers include jamie ra isekin who was he can raskin who was heckled. He called the crowd paid protesters. This is baloney. They wont accept the election results. No one has to pay me to be out here in the freezing cold. I should be at home working, home schooling my kids. Feel free. I will you my address. Send the check. Mike this protest happened before the attorney general announced he would recuse himself. But the protesters today made clear they would not stop demonstrating until after j sessions resigns. Reporting outside the department of justice, mike carterconneen, abc7 news. Alison thank you. We want to get back to breaking news from oxon hill, maryland, and Annalysa Gayle at the senior Potomac High School where a teenager has been killed. Annalysa . Annalysa that is right. The boy in his teens was shot and killed just outside the Southview Apartments in the 1400 block of southview drive before 3 00 p. M. Neighbors believe it was a driveby shooting but police are trying to figure out if it was random or targeted. There are several kids in the neighborhood that tell me they are worried it was one of the classmates potentially. They are hoping to find out more about what happened exactly. We heard from a neighbor a few minutes ago. He was telling me, he was trying to help this boy after he was shot. Unfortunately that teen passed away. Police are here on the scene trying to gather more information. So far, no suspects in the case. No arrests. Well have more as soon as we know it. Live in oxon hill, Annalysa Gayle, abc7 news. County police may have prevented a major disaster. A man enraged by a child custody case threatens to kill his wife and young son and blow up buildings across the county. But tonight he is in police custody. Montgomery county reporter kevin lewis is live in georgetown with how it all went down today. Kevin . Kevin hi, alison. Vigilant officers and Technology Led to a quick capture this morning. I can tell you one of the mens alleged targets, this Child Care Center in georgetown where his young son attended. Abc7 was on the scene as police placed him in handcuffs. 9 45 a. M. , sources say a disturbed father threatened to harm his wife, 3yearold son and a Montgomery County Circuit Court judge. The same sources say the man also claimed he was going to drive a vehicle filled with propane tanks and then blow up two buildings. The m. S. L. International Child Care Center in georgetown where his son attended. Plus the 51 Monroe Building in downtown rockville where Montgomery Countys Child Support offices are housed. Police scoured the area. Later cornering the man along falls road near i270 in rockville. Traffic was blocked for hours as a remote controlled bomb squad robot made its way to the mans black v. W. Sedan. Opening doors and scanning the underbelly. A technician then removed items from the vehicles trunk before giving the allclear. Part of this may stem from a divorce. Kevin police say the man was livid about the ruling in a recent Child Support and custody case and the ripple effects on his life. He may be claiming he is not eligible for a tax return as he may be behind in Child Support payments. Kevin now police tell me detectives are still interviewing that man. Once criminal charges are filed they will release his name and well learn a lot more. Live in georgetown, kevin lewis, abc7 news. New information tonight, Fairfax County police named the officer involved in the chaotic scene in january when a man shot two of his brothers and set a town home on fire in herndon. Officer Lance Guckenberger is a member of the countys special operations division. Police say it is the third time he has been involved in a shooting incident since joining the department 16 years ago. For a second day, a grim reason behind why a popular Fairfax County park was closed as Police Search for human remains. Cheryl conner is live with more on todays efforts. Cheryl . Cheryl well, larry, Fairfax County police acted on a tip. That is what led them here to homes run park in alexandria. You can see that we are on the top of the hill looking down. This is our best Vantage Point as the f. B. I. Helps out Fairfax County police using the final hour of daylight to the search continues for a second day. Fairfax county police asked the f. B. I. To assist with looking for remains in homes run park in alexandria. I wouldnt have thought of it. Cheryl we walked a path of the park that led up to the Law Enforcement at park lawn pool. This is the backyard for many neighbors who enjoy the treelines ands the streams. Im sad. Im sad that it is here. And that we are going through this again. This woman who only wants to be identified as lois lived here for 45 years. She is familiar with case from last year tied to Human Remains Found at Holmes Run Park and conviction of six ms13 gang members. I think it happens probably at night. We dont ever see gangs of people during the park in the day. Cheryl this is a con scene. Being surrounded by nature and the hustle of detectives. Fairfax brought in the homicide and the gang units. Their focus is now Holmes Run Park after not being able to locate remains at lemon road park. I have never had any problems in this park at all. I walk here with my 6yearold son all the time. Cheryl we dont know how much longer police and the f. B. I. Will stay out here but we are told the search could last for an extended period of time. Live in alexandria, cheryl conner, abc7 news. Alison okay. Thank you. Quite a roller coaster weather ride this week, right . We hit 80 yesterday. Then the severe storm. The Severe Weather moved in. Now we are talking about snowshowers in the forecast. Doug, what is next . Doug well, its crazy, isnt it . This is a transition day. We had gusty winds. The wind advisory was canceled this morning. Now its breezy. Beautiful sunshine. A few fair weather clouds. As we go through the evening the winds will c diminish and tomorrow they will pick up once again in the day out of the northwest, due to the low pressure area, a fast moving alberta clipper. There is snow west of the mountains but none of it is making it east of the mountains. That will change tomorrow as a disturbance heads our way. We will wake up to temperatures in the low to mid30s. Then we see temperatures in the 40s. The same time as the disturbance comes in. Let me show you what it looks like. Temperatures are 40 at 5 00. 36 to 40 degrees. The temperatures will warm up in the lower 40s. We will have areas of the snowshowers or snow flurries across the area at the time. Not everybody will see it. If you are not in a snowshower or flurry area its partly sunny and breezy. But chilly with the temperatures in the lower to middle 40s. We check on the weekend in a few minutes. Alison okay, doug. We will see you then. People are picking up the pieces after wicked weather tore across the country overnight. The fast moving system caused whiteout conditions you see in michigan. Leading to t drivers. Today crews are surveying the damage after 20 tornadoes struck across several states including this video from illinois. At least three deaths resulted from the storms. Larry a chilling email as Police Search for the sender. The leader of a Government Watchdog Group protesting the president s policies talks to us about the threat. Thats next. Alison plus, snatching up the cash. Still ahead at abc7 news at 5 00, how a high school is catching in on snapchats wall street debut. We made a joke. Its clear. The mouse cant enter the u. S. Air space without a passport. Larry it wasnt a snake on a plane that oh, how waso good en house . Did you apply . Oh, ill do it later today. Your credit score must be amazing. My credit score . Credit karma. Its free. Thats great um hm. Just whip bam boom, its done. That apartment is mine credit karma. Give yourself some credit. Alison tonight, police in winchester are searching for the sender of an email, threatening a woman leading a group in protest of trumps policies. Larry Richard Reeve talked to the woman about the chilling email. Richard this is the email that the leader of the group received. You can see it here. She says there is threatening language in here. She got the message after a meeting of her group was covered by the area local newspaper. Lisa holiday, a register republican, is the founder of indivisible winchester. She insists the group is not an but is resisting the trump agenda. Not in opposition to the president but of his policies. Last month they held their first public meeting. About 10 o people attended about a hundred people attend and the local paper covered it that included her name. Days later she received an email telling her to stop what she is doing and if she ignores it there will be a price to pay which im sure you will regret. She sent it to the Sheriffs Office who is trying to determine if the message reaches the level of a criminal act. Investigators are trying to find the source of the email. Once i read it over a few times i started to get alarms. When i ran it by a few people, especially people in Law Enforcement, their reaction was strong, too. So i started to go okay, its time to start locking my doors. Holiday says she has no intention of stopping the Political Activities but you heard she will be much more watchful. Now coming up at 6 00, the police investigation. We will hear from a trump voter. His thoughts on all of this. In winchester, Richard Reeve, abc7 news. Alison thank you. If you are out enjoying a night with friends, a free sober ride home is now a screen tap away. The Washington Regional Alcohol Program announced its partnering solely with lyft. As part of the sober ride program. Before this people had to call an 800number and wait for a taxi. Now they can get a sober ride on the lyft app. It covers up to 20 ride and starts st. Patricks day. We are going to provide this not only on st. Patricks day, but cinco de mayo, halloween, december 15 through new years eve. Alison since 1993, sober ride provided 66,000 free safe rides home to wouldbe drunk drivers. Larry thankful for that. A fourlegged furry critter caused passengers on a British Airways flight. Passengers were buckled up and waiting to taxi away when they learned a mouth was on board. They joked the mouse couldnt get a visa to enter the u. S. They were moved to another plane. Mice are a problem on aircraft because they can chew through wiring. That is never good. British airways apologized for the incident. We are not sure if they found the mouse. Beware. Alison how upset would you be if that is why your flight is delayed all the hours . Larry not for 30 minutes. For four hours. Alison oh, man. This weather is unpredictable. Its crazy. Doug yeah. Keep stressing how crazy it from 80 on wednesday, in the low 50s today and the snow flurries and snowshowers tomorrow. But the key is during the day tomorrow the temperatures are in the upper 30 to the low 40s. That is not going to melt. But its psychological impact more than anything else. Lets start with a sure sign of spring. Mark sto is that a dogwood . Maybe. Im not sure. Pretty plant, maam. [laughter] there you go. Doug its that time of year. Things are running a few weeks ahead of schedule obviously. We keep an eye closely peeled on the tidal basin. 14th to the 17th is what the park service is saying for the peak blooms for the Cherry Blossoms this year. We will see what happens. But its time to get colder here. We had rain showers yesterday. Heavy downpours that q mccray got soaked in reporting live for us. It didnt make a dent. We are still in moderate drought and we dont see signs for longsoaking rains or the major storms for ten days around here. We can be deficit since january 1 of over two inches of rainfall at reagan national, washington dulles and under two at b. W. I. Thurgood marshall. Important time of year to get moisture in the soil. Dont see much of it headed this way. I do see the clear skies tonight. Temperatures will drop through the 40s slowly. Will be mostly in the 30s. 32 to 36. That is the range of the temperatures in the morning. Been tracking the snowshowers across the great lakes. Area of low pressure there. Elongated area of low pressure. Snowshowers not out of the mountains. Along and west of the mountains. But tomorrow an upper level disturbance comes swinging through and we have a chance of snowshowers and flurries but we could see snow on grassy areas but that is it. Call for increasing clouds overnight. 29 to 35 is the forecast range. A flurry or a snowshower possible west of the city with northwesterly winds of 5 to 10. The future cast gives us clues about tomorrow. In the morning, the temperatures will be in the 30s. Above freezing. We could see patches of the flurries or the snowshowers. The winds pick up in the day out of the northwest through the morning, the midday and the afternoon, that is when we will continue to see a chance of snowshowers of the snow flurries at times. Temperatures are above freezing as much, not much of an impact. Most will melt. It is still beyond that in the afternoon a couple more snowshowers. Then it will taper off and tomorrow evening the temperatures turn colder under clear skies. Tomorrow, 45 with a high for flurries and snowshowers. Future wind chill in the 20s by this time tomorrow afternoon and everything. Saturday morning its wind chills in the teens because of the gusty breezes but then we start to slowly pull out of it. For the next ten days, 45 tomorrow with snowshowers. Sunshine over the weekend but chilly in the 40s. Warming to 60 on monday. Warmer tuesday and wednesday. The next chance of showers will be tuesday. Turn breezy with another cold front by wednesday. Then we hang out around 60 degrees. You see the little clock . Next weekend is the weekend we return to Daylight Saving time. Do not say savings time youd be incorrect. Alison no s in the end. You will remind us. Doug many times. Alison broken record here. Thank you. Larry kids big and small we talk to the creators of read across america coming up. Alison and remembering relisha rudd. Coming up we take you to an event to honor the little girl who disappeared three nights ago. Larry tonight on abc7 fios is not cable. Were wired differently. Maybe thats why weve been ranked highest in stomer satisfaction jd power 4 years in a row. And now you can love fios too. Get our best offer of the year. 150 meg internet with equal upload and download speeds, tv and phone. L for 79. 99 per month, r the first year with a oyear agreement. Plus get hbo for a year and free multiroom dvr service for two years. Go to getfios. Com or call 1. 888. Get. Fios get the best. Get fios. Alison three years ago this week that relisha rudd disappeared. Tonight family and friends are gathering to remember the 8yearold. But that is not all. Our d. C. Bureau chief sam ford is live in northeast washington with what is going on there tonight. Sam . Sam alison, we are at

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