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WUSA Wusa 9 News At 5pm February 6, 2015

At 6 00 well talk to the basketball coach here at Frederick High School, his thoughts on how his players are exercising leadership and showing the school how to rebound even as Police Continue to hunt for the shooters that struck here wednesday night. Scott broom, wusa9. Wusa9 reporter mola lenghi will be out at Frederick High School tonight. Right now Prince Georges County homicide detectives are investigating the death of a woman in adelphi. Police were asked to check on the womans welfare this morning. The call took them to an Apartment Building along the 9200 block of edwards way. They found a woman unresponsive suffering from upper body trauma pronounced dead a short time later. Police have not released her name and say at this point they have no suspects and no motive. Right now isis is claiming that an american hostage it was holding in syria, kayla mueller, has been killed by a jordanian airstrike, but National Security advisor susan rice says the u. S. Does not have any evidence to verify that isis claim. Were obviously very concerned about the reports that have come in in recent hours. We do not at the present have any evidence to corroborate isils claims, but obviously well keep reviewing the information at hand. Jordan also says it is skeptical of isis claim. Kayla mur elleis an arizona native. Her family says shes been doing humanitarian Work Overseas and was taken captive last august in aleppo, syria, while leaving a hospital operated by the Group Doctors without borders. A d. C. Teacher accused of fondling a student is out of jail but still facing child sex abuse charges. Leroy ware allegedly admitted to investigators he put his hands down the pants of a 4th grader in northeast. The 9yearold alleged his special ed teacher touched him twice inappropriately. The principal of minor sent a letter home to parents. Ware ducked cameras and declined to speak coming out of the story. Bruce leshan will have more at 6 00. A woman on life support after being tased by Fairfax County sheriffs deputies. She was a jail prisoner on her way to alexandria. On january 26th a Fairfax County Police Officer arrested her on a warrant from alexandria for assaulting a Police Officer there. Then this past tuesday sheriffs deputies were attempting to take her to alexandria when they had to tase her. Captain tyler cory said she would not comply with orders and physically resisted. She was very combative and not willing to be properly secured and prepared for the transport. We did end up deploying a taser device. At that point she did cooperate and was compliant. She was checked by our medical section, cleared medically. Sometime between that taser incident and the transport itself which is minutes that latched. Elapsed. A few minutes elapsed. Deputies did administer care and emergency crews were called and she was taken to a local hospital. Theres major developments in the case of a man shot and killed by a Fairfax County Police Officer. Peggy fox will have that story at 6 00. Police need your help to find more than two dozen additional male victims of the socalled beer pong rapist. 40yearold Joey Poindexter took videos of his assaults spanning the past 10 years and it is very possible those men may not even know what happened to them. Debra alfarone reports from mooneys pub in college park where poindexter was known to go. Reporter if you met 40 yearold Joey Poindexter at this bar across the street or any other beer pong tournament across the country, police want you to watch this report. It took atom of Police Officers to help a team of Police Officers to help convict poindexter of sexually assaulting five men and they say hes assaulted many, many more. Now meet two Montgomery County Police Officers who worked on this day and night. It was months of coming through video that was frankly the most disturbing evidence ive ever come across. Reporter evidence that was the key to convicting the so called beer pong rapist of sexually assaulting five men. Corporal Dave Marshall of the Montgomery County Police Department said it all started when 1 victim spoke up in 2013. We had him place a recorded phone call from our office to the suspect. If it makes you feel any better, i dont have [ bleep ] aids. Reporter police moved in and arrested 40yearold Joey Poindexter for sexually assaulting that victim. To say it was an aha moment is an understatement. Its a sinking feeling in your stomach. Reporter this detective searched poindexters phone and hard drive and found dozens of videos of the beer pong enenthusiasts raping male victims, some a decade ago, but who were they . We went to looneys on a beer pong night. He was popular in that environment. Everybody knew him. Reporter in fact, this is Surveillance Video of poindexter leaving looneys pub in college park with the victim who came forward clearly incapacitated. It took months of investigation. Some video didnt show faces, then the wrenching task of telling these men they had been rape. Some of them just wanted it to go away and pretend it never happened and others wanted justice. Reporter sadly this is not over. We will respect the victims privacy the best we can, but we still know theres over two dozen other victims. We believe that there may be victims throughout the country. Reporter thats because poindexter traveled across the country to go to beer pong tournaments. If you lung out with him, drank hung out with him, drank with him and passed out in his company, 2407736122 is the direct number to call. Jesse matthews trial in Fairfax County has been delayed. Matthew is accused of sexually assaulting a woman in 2005. That trial was set for march. No new date has been set. Matthew is also accused of abducting uva student hannah graham. A health alert from the university of maryland tonight. They are dealing with many flu cases now. In a memo to faculty and staff David Mcbride is asking people sick to stay away from campus and also asking teachers allow flexibility for students who need to stay home because of the flu. A young Washington Capital fan has been in Critical Condition since a sledding accident left him in a coma last wednesday. The Team Immediately rallied behind the boy and his family. Word has been spreading on twitter with the prayforbman. Surae chinn is live at the Verizon Center. Reporter the puck drops later tonight and you know the family will be watching in the hospital. Benstons uncles sat in icu last week and decided to put this Twitter Campaign together, pray for b man. They didnt use twitter before or hardly ever. Now they are believers in the power of their social media and their special nephew and this nephew is making small progress daily. From that moment it was really like all we could think about. Were calling a game and all we can think about is this young boy. Reporter wes johnson, the capitals announcer, is using his voice to spread support for 6yearold benston shone and its working. Caps player tom wilson tweets after tuesdays win verizon was rocking, now time to pray for b man. Caps players are not the only ones tweeting. Nationals baseball star bryce harper sends his well wishes. The tweets come from across the globe. The little boys uncle tweets ice hockey player tom wilson before a caps game. B man is fighting with you. Benson is pictured wear benston is pictured wearing a caps wristband in icu. The toughest thing you can imagine is Something Like that happening to any child. Reporter the family has been updating the boys condition on carepages. Com. Benston started opening his eyes and moving his fingers it says and when wes johnson brought ovies game stick from his mvp season to the hospital yesterday, something amazing happened. And his eyes were looking over towards it and back. Every day a little bit more. These brought ovie and the caps some luck. Lets see if some of the vibes will work for benston and ever since then weve had players, ted leonsis put out a call for prayer on his blog. Reporter it all began when a teams blog russian machine never breaks posted his story. Word spread quickly of the boys tragedy of sledding down a driveway and was hit by a passing car. Hey, benston, were all thinking about you here. Reporter johnson, who unleashes the fury at caps games produces this video for benston. Hes the one doing the real fighting. The roles are reversed. He used to cheer for the caps. Now were cheering for him. Reporter we hope benston is listening. We have no. 43 here, tom wilson, to say hello. Tell me why did you get involved . Its pretty crazy what twitter can do these days. We just want him to know and the family to know all the guys inside the locker room are really pulling for him and were aware whats going on. He seems like a great kid and hopefully he can win his fight and pull through. Reporter what do you want to say to him if hes listening . Just to keep fighting. Its awesome. Every given night were playing for him and theres a couple guys that have kind of been aware of whats going on. We just want him to know were playing for him. Its pretty sad to see that happen to a kid. We all had great childhoods. Hopefully he can pull through here and continue on as an everyday kid. Reporter thanks, tom, and best of luck for you tonight. The family is so thankful and say they are so touched by all the responses theyve received. I know were all praying for him here as well. If b man is watching, were pulling for you. Stay strong. We are just Getting Started on wusa9 news at 5 00. A Fairfax County Health Worker responded to the low measles vaccination numbers in some of the schools there, that story coming up at 5 30. Im meteorologist topper shutt. Were looking at a very nice finish to the week. You think its warmer today . It is. Were 8 degrees warmer in d. C. Than 24 hours ago, 13 degrees warmer in pittsburgh and cumberland. Thats coming our way. Well talk about how mild it will be over the weekend. Plus how president obama said the u. S. Should handle the global crisis. Im going to talk with face the nation host bob schieffer. Right after the break some frightening moments after a bomb scare near an alexandria a bomb threat cleared alexandria this morning. Investigators and bomb sniffing dogs searched building. After they failed to find any explosives everyone was allowed back inside. Look at this mess left behind after a car crashed into a hydrant. This was this morning on veerling drive near notley road and you can see whats left. After being closed for some time the area is now open to drivers. A new document from president obama declares the u. S. Must not overreach with problems around the globe. The president also says the u. S. Will continue to shift away from ground wars and focus more on specific Counter Terrorism operations. Joining us now with more is face the nation host bob schieffer. Thanks for joining us. First i want to know what you make of the president s statement because this week was a real game changer with jordan stepping up its attacks and support seems to be building here at home with congress for more force. I think we have seen a real change in the attitude especially in jordan. You know, jordanians were very worried about participating in these airstrikes. Theyd been urging the government, in fact, not to take part. Since then there have been demonstrations on the street. I think people in jordan are reacting much the same way that americans did after 9 11. I suppose if theres any good news in this week of absolutely horrible news, that would be it. I think this killing, this horrendous thing, burning this man alive that isis tried to pull off this week has backfired and i think it is going to make a difference. Were going to have our people, holly williams, our correspondent who has been in iraq all week just 4 miles from the front lines with isis will be with us sunday for the latest in and charlie daggett, our correspondent in jordan, he will be there with the latest on the public move there. Jan, one other thing were going to talk about on sunday is this measles epidemic. Dr. Anthony fauci, director of National Institutes for allergy and Infectious Diseases will be with us. We want to talk to him about is there a real danger of a nationwide epidemic here. This thing is very serious. Good to see you. January was another big month for job growth. The Labor Department says 257,000 jobs were created, but the Unemployment Rate is up from 5. 6 to 5. 7 and that means people are still looking for work, but there is some good news when it comes to paychecks. Wages climbed in january by the largest amount since 2008. Always watching always tracking wusa9 first alert weather. He apparently didnt get the memo. But he got photo bombed. Go to twitter, folks, check it out. Ive been tenaciously looking at the weather maps looking for a snowstorm. Lets start with a live look outside, our live michael and son weather cam, temperature 38, dew points single digits. Remember this time yesterday they were below 0, so a pretty darn dry air mass. Winds turned south, southwesterly at 8. Granted thats a warmer wind. Right now well say lows in the 20s tonight and watch the dew point because last night at 11 00 i had to adjust the lows down. We went 8 to 18, could be sprinkling of teens, but generally about 10 degrees high are. Right now 34 in garrett higher. Right now 34 in gaithersburg, 37 in fredericksburg, 39 in culpeper and la plata. You still need a coat tonight. Milder this weekend. Make some plans, take a walk on the canal, bike ride. This is kind of nice. Were talking 50 on saturday, near 60 on sunday. Light rain returns on monday, but its still mild. All the arctic air is staying to the north. You probably would be wise to bring an umbrella as you head out the door on monday. Futurecast 28 tonight in gaithersburg and frederick, a few clouds overnight into the morning. This may be a wee bit overdone on futurecast, but by 7 00 its 30 downtown and everybody else mid to upper 20s, 26 in leesburg, manassas, 25 in culpeper and hagerstown and cumberland. By 10 00 in the morning were rebounding pretty nicely, back in the 30s to near 40 downtown and then by 2 30 its 51 in culpeper, 49 in manassas, 47 in frederick. Maybe folks north of town will not make 50 tomorrow, but still a pretty nice saturday. By saturday night 10 30, want to go out, even warmer tomorrow night. Lows in the 30 tomorrow night, 307 at 10 30 in gaithersburg, lees 37 at 10 30 in gaithersburg, leesburg and manassas. Right now partly cloudy, not as cold, winds southwest at 10, 28 downtown, 24 rockville, 22 in leesburg, low 20s in olney and laytonsville, 25 college park, 24 bowie, 29 in annapolis. Tomorrow morning partly cloudy, cold start 20s and 30s and nice finish by afternoon, partly cloudy, milder, quite pleasant, high temperatures around 50, winds southwest at 10. Break it down for you, 30 at 7 00, 35 at 9 00. Were at 42 by 11 00 and 47 under partly cloudy skies at 1 00, not bad. Sunday even better, milder, 57. Clouds come in late, holding rain off until monday, not a huge event, still in the low 50s monday with light rain and showers. Next seven days pleasant on tuesday, upper 40s, low 50 os wednesday. We do see arctic air 50s on wednesday. We do see arctic air returning on thursday, friday in the low 20s for highs. Well sit in with a local band keeping their fingers crossed to win best album gold. Meet the members of dirty kitchen before they walk down the red carpet tonight at 11 00. They are amazing. Youll love them. Salons and j. C. Penneys are getting a makeover with help from a popular magazine. Plus whats behind the sudden spike in gas prices . Well tell you in tonights consumer alert. After the break a new app designed to others. Now, americans everywhere are discovering that. Spoon after spoon. Dish after dish. Time, after time, after time again. Deliciously creamy galbani ricotta inspires meals, and moments, that are simply better. Mmm, galbani sfx kiss . Italys favorite cheese brand. Now, americas number one ricotta. Its kind of like having an extra parent in the car. Researchers at university of minimum anyone created a new smartphone minnesota created a new Smartphone App to keep teen drivers safe on the road. If the Young Drivers dont comply with the rules of the road, a text message is sent to their parents. Parents who stay involved in the management of their teens driving and really want to know whats happening when theyre behind the wheel can reduce their rates of crashes. The Smartphone App is not available just yet. In tonights consumer alert stocks closed lower at the closing bell of wall street, but it was still one of the best weeks in several months for the market. The dow was down 60 points, the nasdaq dropping 20 points. After dropping for a record 123 weeks gas prices are on the rise. Analysts say the price bump is normal this time of year because this is the maintenance season for refineries. Aaa midatlantic says the National Average for a gallon of regular gas is 2. 15. In the washington region the price is 2. 16 and thats an 11 cent increase from last week. J. C. Penney is partnering with the celebrity fashion magazine in style to give its hair salons a bit of a makeover. The retailer says the revamp on its 850 salons is to attract younger customers. J. C. Penney is already the larges

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