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WUSA Wusa 9 News At 11pm December 20, 2013

40 million target shoppers ar risk tonight. U e yoone of them . By gunpoint he rjcaacked a woman from this wells fargo and that began from authorities describe as a 1 man crime wave that included carjackings and armed robberies throughout the region. Plus would you buy fruit from a produce stand if you knew it was stored in a back alley . Oh, Christmas Card from the redskins, happy holidays. What if you got a card from your other local sports teams . What would it say . Well tell you coming up in sports. Good evening to you. Im derek mcginty. Im jan jeffcoat. A 28yearold man will spend the next 38 years behind bars for a crime spree that took him around the region. Youre about to see incredible video and hear a firsthand story how byron govan carjacked his victims and used those stolen cars to commit numerous crimes and stay out on the run. Heres mola lenghi. Reporter authorities describe him as a one man crime spree only getting bolder after each crime he committed. Gun in hand byron govan walked into businesses and robbed them. Hes a one man crime spree. Reporter armed robberies, armed carjackings, assaults. He stole credit cards and cash that he spent in grocery stores, malls, bars and restaurants. When he said i have a gun, i thought i hope you dont use it. Reporter molly hack was carjacked by gunpoint by goa van. I was at govan. I was at congressional plaza at 10 p. M. Which was a bad idea, but i felt comfolertabau becse it was a safe oareaf. , repr orte it was late dark, no one was around or so she thought. Howell parked and got out to d e atm leaving her purse an keys in e thcar. I heard the isnoe and looked to my right. There was a man in myr cain the driver seat. Went over there. He locked the door. I said take the money and leave thcar. He said i have a gun and he drove off. Reporter he would soon cash several of her checks and use her car for an Armed Robbery of an annapolis rite aid seen here and an alexandria Dunkin Donuts authorities say. He drove all over the place using my car for all sorts of crimes. Reporter sometimes criminals get emboldened by their seemingly successful attempts at getting victims to hand over their cars, hand over their belongings. After five weeks in howells car he torched it to get rid of the evidence. Brandnew prius of. Reporter hecarjacked someone else it. Could have been anyone else. He was just waiting for somebody to come along. Reporter is it unnerving, scary to think it was you who came along . He scared me a lot. Reporter for months she lived with that fear. I was afraid that he was going to come to my house or my office, so i had the locks changed. I had additional locks put on the home. I got a burglar alarm. Reporter today that fear has been replaced with caution, but unlike govan who will spend decades in prison houk admits she got off easy. Im lucky i was not harmed in any way physically. Reporter govan still faces charges in the alexandria Dunkin Donuts Armed Robbery. If he is convicted, he could face more prison time. Im mola lenghi for wusa9. Dozens of passengers are hurt after a ceiling collapsed in the crowded Apollo Theater in london. A bomb threat in st. Marys county, maryland, those stories making headlines tonight in your world in 90 seconds. Emergency vehicles clogged the streets of Central London after reports of a ceiling collapse inside the apollo ceiling. Several thought the collapse was part of a show. We are treating 95 categories, four more serious. The other are walking wounded currently being treated. In leonardtown st. Marys county this morning the courthouse was locked down and searched, the High School Put on lockdown, a major reaction to bogus phoned in bomb threats. It has changed tremendously. University of maryland policy security analyst says minor incidents are now magnified. Video shows the suspect moving farther up the bus pulling the gun again. Thats when passengers had enough. Horrified passengers scrambled to get off the bus. They held the man down until Police Arrived and took control of the scene. Governor elect Terry Mcauliffe said today neither he nor anybody on his behalf lobbied the Justice Department to delay an indictment of Current Governor bob mcdonnell, but the Washington Post reports that the governor and his wife would have been indicted this week. Some arctic air across the Northern Plains states, but it stays locked up there and we continue with a strong southwesterly flow through the weekend. A new report says the fake interpreter at Nelson Mandelas Memorial Service has been committed to a psychiatric hospital. It caused an uproar earlier this month when deaf groups called him an imposter and said his gestures were meaningless. The day after he blamed his bizarre sign language on schizophrenia. In addition to checking off everything on your holiday list, you may need to check your bank and credit card statements right away. 40million target shoppers could have had information stolen, one in eight people. Tonight the secret service is trying to figure out who is behind it. Somebody broke into the companys computer system. When shoppers swiped their cards, the hackers got their names,mb nuers, expiration dates and security codes. Target says anybody who shopped at their stores between november 27th and december 15th is at risk. If you shopped online, youre fine. The company has set up a special number to call. Its 8668528680. Notice anything funny on your accounts . You want to contact your bank or Credit Card Company right away. You may need a new card. Meantime Prince William and kate are also the victims of hackers. The british tabloid news of the world is accused of hacking into the couples private voicemails while they were dating. One message the prince calls Kate Babykins and in another he says he was almost shot by blank rounds during a military training exercise. These revelations come during the trial of several former news of the world employees. New tonight at 11 00 a machine who caused an explosion at a lorton Sandwich Shop is headed to prison. Horace thompson jr. Was sentenced to five years today. He set off a device that was so strong it blew the door off its hinges and the shops owner was burned and so was thompson. A driving instructor from ashburn has been charged with sex Crimes Involving two of his own teenage students. 63yearold Khawaja Vohra owns aali fastrack driving school. The Loudoun County Sheriffs Office is investigating whether there are more possible victims out there. Now to this disturbing story out of mississippi, Police Say Two Little Brothers were kidnapped, sexually abused and one of them had their throat slashed. The 5yearold escaped and ran for help. His 8yearold brother is hospitalized in stable condition. The man right here, this is the system, 41 years old, a lengthy record suspect, 41 years old, a lengthy record. He was released from prison in june where he spent time for racketeering. A trip from a casino had a tour bus overturn and killed one passenger and injured two dozen. It happened along interstate 15 in southern california. That bus was headed from l. A. To a casino in san diego county. The highway was wet, but police are trying to figure out what went wrong. New tonight a florida congressman busted buying cocaine in d. C. Last month says he has no plans on stepping down. Trey radel made the comments this evening coming the same day he was released from a 28 day Substance Abuse treatment program. The House Ethics Committee does plan to investigate radel and whether or not he violated rules of conduct as a result of his cocaine arrest and guilty plea. Phil robertson is getting some support tonight from some big names, this after he was suspended from the hit show duck dynasty for making disparaging remarks about gays. If you watch this show, you know phil speaks his mind, but a e kicked him off indefinitely over comments he made in gq magazine. He compared homosexuals to other sinners, namely swindlers and terrorists. Not everyone thinks a e did the right thing. Sarah palin tweeted free speech is an endangered species and bobby jindal said this. Its stunning to me after all those an particulars that molly cyrus would still antics that molly sign russ would still be on tv and Phil Robertson is getting kicked off. Duck dynasty is the no. 1 reality show on cable, but without robertson ratings could take a hit. Three food warehouses, two pizza shops, no partridge in a pear tree, however, birds and rodents and food stored in an alley. Heres Investigative Reporter russ ptacek with this weeks restaurant alert. Reporter its something we havent seen before, the store is over there. Thats the backdoor, but the food is being stored over here. In the old Union Terminal market gutter water was pouring over the partially covered produce on Fourth Street northeast where inspectors closed Mexican Fruits market citing eight Violations Including heavy rodent activity throughout the entire warehouse and vegetables and fruits being stored in the alley. The manager apologized saying the store is growing too fast and theyve brought in an exterminator. Officials also cited hot water at a very chilly 55 degrees, but when we checked i see steam. So thats good. Yeah. Thats hot. At Union Station inside the food court inspectors closed victorias citing 12 Violations Including mice droppings and a live roach observed on the service counter. We asked, but the worker declined our request to look around for improvements. On seventh street southwest food stored in the establishments toilet room. Thats what inspectors cited at pizza authentica with eight Violations Including mold on the ice machine and hot water as low as 52 degrees, less than half of d. C. s required minimum 110. Workers did not allow us to look in that bathroom cited as part pantry and part potty. And a repeat violator back in the old Union Terminal market area on fifth street northeast. Inspectors suspended china d. C. Noodles citing seven Violations Including rodent droppings throughout the facility. Do you mind if we take a look to see if its cleaned up . Were here about the Health Department closure. Inspectors shut down chining did noodles last year citing imminent china d. C. Noodles last year citing imminent health streets. Just a few doors down inspectors closed best buy meat citing 19 Violations Including gross unsanitary conditions with no hot water at any of the sings. We saw other potential problems sinks. We saw other potential problems like birds flying, perching in the rafters, the meat counters and pecking meat scrams off the floor and this meat scraps off the floor and this meat slicer. Upstairs . It looks like theres a leak come down from the ceiling which is all around here, no handle on the toilet, but no seat on the toilet. Can you see this window . You look through there. You can see where the birds are getting through. Where he did find this improvement.  we did find this improvement. That makes three warehouse closures all within about a block of one another. We have no way of knowing what restaurants they serve. Im Investigative Reporter russ ptacek, wusa9. All the restaurants did pass reinspection and are back in business. If you would like to be the first to know which food establishments in our area are cited for violations, you can follow russ on twitter or friend him on facebook. Our give joy campaign gets donations from around the world thanks to a viewer who wanted to give area kids a need a piece of her own special a subaru. Are the hands that do good things for the whole community the environment, seniors, kids, and animals. Thats why we created the share the love event. By the end of this year, the total donated by subaru could reach 35 million dollars. You get a great deal on a new subaru. Well donate 250 dollars to a choice of charities that benefit your community. It feels good to be a helping hand. Thanks to you our give joy campaign was an incredible success and we are continuing to see acts of kindness and generosity from viewers who want to continue helping kids in need here in our own community. This is Kathy Jackson i want to introduce you to, a mom who gave to our joy drive, whose story was so inspiring we had to share it. Kathy jackson grew up giving pajamas every Christmas Eve, a tradition she carried on with her own family. Im an adoptive mom with three kids i took out of foster care and one of the things when each of them came to me, they hadnt had pajamas. What began as a mount of joy turns into a source of point of joy turns into a source of strengths and happying for kathy when she underwent healing for kathy when she underwent a bone marrow transplant. All i could wear was pajamas, so my friends sent me a lot of pajamas. So her boys started a Facebook Page called the d. C. Holiday pajama drive. This year they received nearly 1500 pairs from as far as alaska, hawaii and australia. I started thinking that kids in shelters and families in shelters are just in as much need as kids in foster care. So lets give joy. Kathy saw our give joy drive on tv and donated 150 new pairs of tjs for children in volunteers of america programs hoping these traditions and memories last a lifetime and remind us all tonight to be thankful for what we do have. Kathy, thank you so much and how touching is that, that her and her three boys that she adopted out of foster care are now giving to our joy drive. Now all those kids you see from volunteers of america, those programs will have pjs for christmas. Something to wake up and run down and any other pajamas there . They have adult onesies, too. You probably dont want to say it out loud. That little girl looks so cozy in her onesie im thinking they got to have those for adults. Just because they have it. We were at 61 today. Thats a harbinger of whats coming our way. I think well break some records this weekend. We should top into the low 70s on sunday. Lets start with a live look outside, our live michael and son weather cam, national airport, still 48 downtown. Thats a bargain for this time of year and night. Relative humidity 52 , not bad, winds south at 10. The winds will be out of the south or southwest through the weekend. Theyll also increase in intensity and speed through the weekend. Satellite picture radar combined, a lot of clouds rolling through. Notice all the precipitation confined to Northern Illinois back into the great lakes, but these high and midlevel clouds is where we went partly cloudy, going to have more clouds tomorrow than today. That will keep temps down a little bit, but were starting out higher tomorrow than we did this morning. Bus stop temp 32 to 42, breezy and warm again but more clouds on friday, still a great finish to the week. Breezy and warmer saturday, record highs possible both saturday and sunday. In fact, the record high at dulles on saturday is only 60. That certainly is in jeopardy. Record high in baltimore is 62. Downtown 68. Thats probably safe on saturday. Well see about sunday. We should be in the low 70s sunday. Talk about december, is this really december . 44 on wednesday. Thats a long time ago. 61 today, 61 friday, 65 on saturday and were going 71 now, actually raised sundays mperature to 71. Overnight partly cloudy, just chilly, 32 to 42, winds out of the southwest at 10. Now tomorrow morning temperatures in the 40s, downtown temps, so 30s in the burbs, but 43 by 7 00, 51 by 11 00 and 55, breezy and milder by afternoon. Next three days 61 tomorrow, 65 on saturday, 71 on sunday. Yes, thats a lightning bolt there, some thunderstorms possible. I think we might make it through the redskin game, not going to make it through the ravens game dry. Ravens game starts at 4 25. You can watch that here on channel 9. I think well see thunderstorms during the ravens game, cooler monday, mainly mountain snow showers Christmas Eve day, 39 but cold, mid40s for christmas and near 50 thursday and im working to put a blog on this date in 2009. A fantastic storm, 16. 4 inches at national, the only december storm in the top wow. It was great. Golfable sunday you said earlier. You wouldnt believe it with our warm weather, but we did find 1 place in town covered with ice. We is not our Debra Alfarone to the gaylord resort to check out their winter wonderland, 15,000 square feet of Holiday Themed Ice Sculptures kept at a chilly 9 degrees and weve got three towards for you, ice ice baby. Reporter all right, stop, collaborate and listen. Ice is back at the gaylord convention. What youre seeing now took about 30 days to carve. We brought this 34 artisans from harbing, china. Reporter santa and reindeer grab and hold your eyes tightly. Its so cool. Reporter flow of people wearing bluecoats daily and nightly. I think they look adorable. Reporter will it ever stop yo after the new year, dont have no fear on the high slide. If you want to go down the slide you have to wear the coat. Reporter the Christmas Tree is tall. Its all ice and insane. You can visit new york

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