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WUSA Wusa 9 News At 11pm April 27, 2017

News after some scary moments in the sky. 56 people headed to ft. Myers, florida are safe and sound. They made their way down the i 95 corridor when their plane hit a bird. They turned around, it landed safely at dulles. An american tells us all those people will be it in florida tomorrow morning. U no to the talk about the metro sick and now to the talk about the metro sickout. Is it true some metro workers will have to give three days notice if they will be calling in sick. Lots of questions tonight. We ask transportation reporter pete to separate fact from fiction. A lot of rumor about this standup. A very high number of sick requests for friday. 500 of them. Metro has denied them all. Workers are protesting the new sick policy the agency has. It is true in some cases workers must call out sick e workers say they are just following that policy. Metro spent wednesday night doing everything they can to derail the threat of a sickout. Riders like john jan questions how they can keep moving. Is this real . That will make people mad. Reporter the president of metros Largest Workers Union is angry too. Jackie jeter says the new absentee policy is too complex for employees. Excused absences like doctors appointments need to be requested three days ahead of time. Unexcused absences like when you call out sick the same day are still allowed to a point. Were tired of the employees taking it on the chain. Reporter metro says they have denied almost 500 sick requests for friday. Jeter just responded to metro leaders. In a letter she asked if they will take responsibility keeping sick workers from a doctors care. The agency insists if this comes to pass, service will not be impacted friday, but riders now feel theyre pawns in a battle of wills. This is the pr kind of stuff. You dont believe them . Not at all. Reporter metro changed the rules, all to save money due to overtime. Too many people are calling out sick. From july 2015 to june 2016. Employees took a combined 181,000 sick days. If those days are people it would be three times the population of rockville. Wusa9. And that is a lot of hours. All right right now new information about a disturbing story you saw first right here last night on wusa9. We have learned about that man that 25yearold dc man charged with trafficking a child for sex. And now it turns out joshua gibbs contact add 13yearold girl through instagram according to police. R the cops, and they were the ones to show up to meet that suspect, not the teenage girl. Well this huge fire that did 40 million in damage to a College Park Apartment building might have been an accident. John henry is there with new details. Reporter a county spokesperson says they are leaning towards this fire being accidental. It is too early to determine the exact cause. Thats because they cant get inside the building. There is still some fire and the structure is still unsafe. There is a crew actually keeping an eye on things. You can see a ladder above the apartment complex. There are still a lot of questions swirling around College Park Following mondays devastating fire at the apartment building. The university of maryland Nicklas Bentley has one. Where will you live . I would love to stay in the college park area. Reporter he planned to move in this july. But when he learned about the fire on twitter monday he learned that probably wouldnt happen. My friend was like nick your apartment is on fire. Im like i see that. Reporter we know th would get his application fee and deposit funds back within the next five business days. They also wrote on facebook they would not meet their goal of opening the center in july. Unfortunately for nick some of the other apartment complexes in town hes reached out to have already built up. So having to kind of start that whole process again especially like a couple of weeks before finals start is a little bit stressful. Reporter either way hes staying optimistic he will find a new place right here in college park. I survived college this long. Ill pick myself back up. Reporter the university of maryland also told us this week they would work to assist any students whose plans were impacted by the fire. However it remains unclear at this point if any students have reached out to them for help. From college park john henry wusa9. We are still working to learn how many other people are in the same boat. We know plans originally call for them to have 275 still offered roughly 120 units for lease on their website. There is a story on our wusa9 Facebook Page that has launched a rather deep conversation online. It is about selfing when they take off their condom during consensual sex without telling their partner and brags about it online. Our digital team asked should this be a crime . Well jenny wants to know why is this stated as a question . No, it is not consensual at all. They will only have sex if a condom is worn, then purposefully taking it off violates consent. Rob is with her. That changes the original agreement of the act without the other persons knowledge. But heather asked how is this any different from a woman lying saying she is on Birth Control when shes not. And you are also talking about an app out there called face app. It takes your photo and changes it. It lets you age yourself, stuff like that. But its what happens when you hit the make me hot filter has people fired up. Check this out in order to make yourself hotter the app appeared to lighten your skin tone. And now the apps founder renamed the feature and then apologized for it calling it an unfortunate side effect of the software. You want to talk about those stories head over to our wusa9 Facebook Page. President Donald Trumps tax returns. Are we ever going to see them, do you care . Do you think it is important and you should release them . There is a lot of talk today and the treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin was asked about the president s tax returns. The president has no intention, the president has released plenty of information. And then there was this. A lot of you were chiming on this story we posted on wusa9. Com and on our Facebook Page. It says new bill would force release of Donald Trumps taxes. So could it actually happen . Thats what were going to verify. So here is the gist. Democratic lawmakers in the state of new york have put forth a bill that woul major elected officials who appear on the ballot in new york, the president , governor, state attorney general, to release five years of their state tax returns. Here is what you had to say about it on our Facebook Page. Cindy writes lets not beat this poor dead horse again. Enough. Lets worry about pressing problems like north korea. And then john wilson says it wouldnt work. You cant make a bill retroactive. Did anyone stay awake during civics class . The long and short answer is no, false. Its highly unlikely a bill in the New York Legislature would make President Trumps tax returns a public record. First the the new york senate is controlled by republicans. They are not going to let this bill on the schedule for a debate or vote. Secondly john wilson from facebook is right. A law cant apply to something retroactively. Finally this proposed bill only affects state tax returns and would not force the release of federal tax forms. Now if you see there on tv or social media feeds and youre wondering if it is true or not. Someone might be trying to pull a fast one on you. Let us verify it. You can find me on facebook or twitter at adam longo or send me a big juicy email. The threat from north korea, how big and how bad. House lawmakers got a closed door briefing tonight from the defense and state department chiefs. Senators got their briefing earlier at the white house and they came away with some grim faces. Its just how much thought and planning is going into planning military options if called for. Reporter north korea is the most dangerous spot on the planet right now. The white house is demanding north korea end its Nuclear Program and stop testing long range missiles. Kim jongun has promised more tests and will strike first if provoked. The pentagon is moving a Missile Defense system into position in south korea and top u. S. S. Carl vincent is now within striking range of north korea. You probably read about the tax plan for President Trump today. Its a little thin on details. Its only a page long, but that one page has details about what goes away in exchange for those big tax breaks. Gone, almost every Tax Deduction that you would claim including the break you would get for state and local taxes. Here is what says so. Credits for morgan interest, foaritable giving. R the most part the fellow republicans, they like the plan. And finally some breaking news from a Trump Administration today after a day on rumors after pulling the u. S. Out on the trade agreement known as nasa. The president told canada and mexicos leaders and phone calls tonight he will not be ending americas role in nasa. Our producer scott asked topper what tomorrow morning looks like. The answer was magnificent. So tell us more, top. Yeah, it really is. We have earned actually. This is 6 00 a. M. In the morning. And the the only caveat would be some localized fog. But look at that. 63 to start downtown. 58 in gaithersburg. By 8 00 were in the 60s in the mid60s at fredericksburg. Were now in the 70s as far north as frederick and 74 in fredericksburg. Well get into the lunchtime hour and temperatures are flirting with 80. In fact already 80 in culpeper. We will come back though. We are tracking some showers and thunderstorms. Well let you know if youll make it home tomorrow night before they move in and a look ahead to your weekend. Still tweaking the forecast for that as well. A also ahead gotcha. Dc womans surveillance camera answers her questions what happen today my car . Alive and well. Police officers find a Woman Held Captive underneath a shed days after she went missing. And just before colbert. Why one young man is really right now a look ahead on wake up washington. You do not want to miss a thursday show on wake up washington. Were gearing up for a big week here. Exclusive interview with james hordon, he will talk to me about some projects hes working on. Ill plait tamborine. Yes, were going to show you incredibly easy ways to get out of it. The question though will the other person help . I dont know. All of that coming up tomorrow on great day washington. Well see you then. Your cvs pharmacy may have some explaning to do with the next story. Stephanie ramirez is in northeast dc. Reporter its one of those neighborhoods where people work hard and take care of what they own like this 98 chevy. That doesnt mean the owners were any less upset when they found this their tires gashed, the fender mangled. It makes me mad because i was doing nothing. Now i have to deal with this now. Reporter what she find was a note, nothing to let someone know this happened. Reporter the difference is this home has a camera. Reporter a Security Camera that caught the unsuspecting suspect an 18 wheeler with the the word cvs pharmacy plastered on the side. It tried to turn onto staple street northeast for about ten minutes just before 2 00 in the morning last saturday. It was such a loud bang. We thought it was a gunshot or something. Reporter dc police took a report they dont take these lightly. This time around they have the evidence. All thanks to this camera that get this the city paid for. Dc launched a Reimbursement Program last year that will give up to a 500 rebate for a home or business as long as you meet the requirements and there is still a program fund. She is happy the camera caught it all, but bummed about her car. Basically we are left with either give up the title and get the kelly bluebook value. Reporter 165 towards the estimated 1,500 fix. In the northeast Stephanie Ramirez wusa9. Not a whole lot of good options there. Cvs has not responded to us, but they did contact her. Police are also investigating whether that truck was even allowed on the residential street. Lesli and i have had the honor of meeting some extraordinary heros in Prince Georges County this afternoon. They either work for agencies or their fallen loved ones did. Today they are honored for the risks they took at the honor valor award. Jacai colson and the surviving wife of firefighter medic john ulmschnieder. In all 64 men and women received honor at the ceremony. After more than 20 years of doing this job im so amazed by the heroism these men and women do when they go towards the danger and trouble and we recounted a lot of stories today, stories you dont are wired and primed to go after danger and get bad guys no matter the risk themselves. A lot of this stuff didnt even take place when they were on the job. Many of them happened upon the situations when they were off. And to hear the details of all the things they did, i know i got choked up at several points reading the narratives. Its really amazing. We cannot thank them enough for their service, their valor, and in many cases sadly this year for the sacrifice many of them made. And on the same note i talked to the Emergency Service folks today who were in the tornado, same thing, he was off duty, he was at a barbecue for the sisters house and he got everybody safe and said im leaving and his father said where are you going he said im going to work. Its not a job, but a lifestyle. It is a passion and a love. All right, lets talk about the 3degree guarantee. Im beating myself up on tomorrows threere threedegree guarantee. It worked out well. We went 573, it was 72. Lower 85 tomorrow and to 84, i know, i know, thats what i do. 84 tomorrow for the high. A live look outside at the michael and son weather cam sitting on 62. Dew points right around 60. Temps will not fall much at all. Tomorrow morning bus stop temps are nice. There could be some morning fog. Dont think it will be a widespread problem. Warmer on thursday and friday mid80s. Then showers and thunderstorms on thursday night looking more likely. But youll be home before the showers and storms roll in. In fact it will be nice sleeping weather. So were not going so were not going to issue the yellow alert right now. Primarily an afternoon and evening storm. 85 tomorrow and friday and 89 on saturday. Record high of 91. Low 80s on sunday and monday and temps will go down just a little bit in part because of a better shower and cold approaching. Tomorrow morning 5 30 to 6 00 some fog. 63 downtown. By 9 00 we are 70 in fredericksburg. By lunchtime were now 80 in cull pupper. 87 downtown, even 74 out in cumberland. Look at this 80 in petersburg. It could be really warm. Throughout the afternoon now at 6 00 in the evening showers and storms approaching. And everybody is going to be home in the metro area. By this time it is 83 downtown. 84 in fredericksburg. A little touch of june tomorrow really. These storms will hold together and they will weaken a little bit. By about this time tomorrow night well see showers towards Loudoun County back into culpeper. They will roll through the metro area overnight and then boom by 2 00 most of the showers are gone with a couple of stragglers off to the north and then were in pretty good shape for friday morning. It will not affect our friday forecast at all. We actually need the rain, its good timing. 60s to start. 75 by again. A little patchy fog in the beginning. Friday is warm, 85. We will talk about an isolated shower here and it there and much better chances on saturday. 89, well call it hot. We will monitor that for the yellow weather alert day. A better chance for showers on sunday. If you cant make it to the ballpark and a better chance on monday as they will roll through, ushering in fantastic air next tuesday and wednesday. Nats still in town. Sunshine and mid mid70s. Thanks, top. Three things have happened when you left work in ohio. Police found a woman in a pit inside a shed covered with wood and some other heavy stuff. She had been reported missing days earlier. She was taken to the hospital to get checked out. The sheds owner faces kidnapping charges. Firefighters in arizona have a new challenge tonight. This fire in the southern part of the state just doubled in size. Investigators believe someone set this fire on purpose. And check it had out. Its wildlife officers in texas someones back pool. Thats outside houston, nobody got hurt. Maybe that guy was just trying to cool off a bit. And one young dude is tearing up the streets of little rock after neighbors helped him find his bike. Youve got to hear from him in a minute. And as the underarmour slogan goes under armours slogan goes protect this house, highlights on the wizards just one win away from advancing to a conference semi. If itus usually because you were driving too fast or you didnt look before you turned or you didnt stop for someone in the crosswalk. Always be alert. Pedestrians dont come with airbags. With tempurpedic. T our proprietary material automatically adjusts to your weight, shape and temperature. So you sleep deeply, and wake up feeling powerful. Find your exclusive retailer at tempurpedic. Com youre not taking these. Hey, hey, hey youre not taking those. Whoa, whoa youre not taking that. Come with me. Youre not taking that. 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