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WUSA Wusa 9 News At 6am December 1, 2014

Tomorrow morning. Things start to change by late in afternoon. The 95 corridor. Heading on toward our capital beltway. Along at, outer loop west into silver spring, looking good. Check out the ride for folks headed along 66. Eastbound just pass business 234, what is left is on the Left Shoulder. The focal bunt of the delays the Prince William parkway. Continuing south, lanes are open, volume still slight. Andrea, mike, back to you. Calls for justice continue around the country in the ferguson case. This after a missouri grand jury decided not to indict officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown. Protests were held in in the morning, even on the nfl football field. The st. Louis rams showed solidarity with demonstrators. They exhibited the hands up dont shoot pose. The st. Louis Officers Association condemns that mood. Also today at the white house president obama is scheduled to hold meetings with civil rights leaders to discuss national attentions surrounding the ferguson decision and relation between Law Enforcement agencies and communities around the country. Protesters are expected to resume their demonstrations here in the district. We have more of a look at that right delia . Reporter i guess we should all be on alert. Every commuter in the dc area yesterday they shut down a major artery, they wont tell us where or when they will do the same today. They may in fact be out on the streets again. Sunday it was a small group. They made a very big noise. They created a human chain across north and southbound 3 95 essentially shutting it down. The afternoon demonstrations held up traffic. During the Holiday Drive home, you could hear the beeping there. Protesters staged a die in, by lying done on the highway. Right now we reached a Tipping Point and we are done. We will disrupt. Black people have been uncomfortable in this country for a long time. We are going to stand up, disrupt until everyone recognizes that black lives matter. People across the nation are standing together. That young man came from fergusons missouri. He has been protesting he said since the day after Michael Brown was shot and killed. Now the scene yesterday on 395 did clear about a half hour later ter afpeople were arrested. No arrests were made during similar demonstrations as Pentagon City mall. Coming up, more tension between police and the drivers. A grand jury in new york is close to making its decision in the case, which has drawn comparison to the Police Killing of michael brunt. This case involves an officer, accused in the who can hold death of a man named eric garner. The video of that arrest went viral. It shows one of the arresting officers wrapping his arm around garners neck. As he is taken to the ground, a desix is expected by the end of the year. Grievous classmates are looking for answers this morning after the body of costa karr karageorge died from a selfinflicted gunshot wound. His mother said she got a text from him last week, mentioning the concussions and he wrote quote i am sorry if i am an embarrassment. Can words really hurt you . The Supreme Court is looking at free speech and social media. Today the justices will hear arguments in a case involving a pennsylvania man convicted and sentenced for making threats against his now exwife on facebook. Good morning nikki. Reporter good morning. You are right. This case is extremely important for us all to Pay Attention to, even if you are not on social media. This case will determine if posts made on twitter on facebook on line are protected by the First Amendment. Let me give you a little bit of background on this. This started with a pennsylvania man saying he wanted to kill his estranged wife, shoot up a kindergarten class and he said he was just joking. He was convicted of violating federal law that says it is a crime to threaten another person. He was sentenced to almost four years. A federal Appeals Court said his claims were not protected by the First Amendment. It is a case we should Pay Attention to, do Facebook Posts, tweets et cetera, deserve the protection of the First Amendment . Social media posts are often impalessive and can be misinterpreted. Or must it be proven the poster actually tends to harm that partner. Outside the high court, back to you. High man is due in court this morning. Dewitt sem is accused of killing carolyn cross. Her body was found up insideler apartment on kenmore avenue. Cross was the Deputy Director in the district. The suspect lived in the same complex as cross and they dont believe her job had anything to do with her murder. Alcohol might have played a role from a deadly crash. It happened on heinz road in blossom view early yesterday morning. 43yearold Lisa Ann Smith was killed in the crash. She was a passenger in a Ford Explorer driven by a 29year old man. The suv ran off the roadway and slammed into a tree and a light pole. The driver was taken to the loss. To the hospital. Investigators are trying to find the cause of a threecar crash in bethesda. It happened near Westfield Montgomery mall over the weekend. An 88yearold new jersey woman was killed. She was the passenger in a toyota camry that collided with a ford pickup and mercedes. Another adult was taken to the hospital. Heres something to be aware of if you take metro to work or school. There could be cuts in service unless local governments increase subsidies to the transit agency. The paper says metro drafted a budget that includes a 10 increase in subsidies from these area virus connection. The problem is operating costs continue to rise. Shots are fired at a young reporter from West Virginia while he is interviewing a witness to a crime. Wusa9 is back, right after this. 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They have had all their lanes open. Heading into the bridge accident on the georgetown pike so far so good on the beltway west past New Hampshire avenue. Andrea, mike, back to you. A Television Reporter got the scare of his life during an interview on the streets of charleston, West Virginia. That was sean clancy interviewing a witness to a shooting when suddenly someone fired three shots in their direction. The reporter said he just froze right after you heard the first shot. I go to hit record on the camera and i say can you tell me your first name and spell it and pow, pow, pow goodlinesssy says he saw three or four young men fleeing the scene. He did not see who was holding a gun. The dc board of elections plans a meeting this afternoon about the council seat held by the late marion berry. It starts the process toward holding a special election to fill that seat. And plans are in the works this morning to rename a dc street after berry. They say that would be the best way to honor his legacy is that they are suggesting h street after the death of dmartin luther king. He is credited with helping to revitalize that area. You see the fact that eighth street and bening road is undergoing such a positive reign jestment. Now the petition for the street renaming gains more than a thousand signatures in just a week. Heres another look at the question of the morning. About 75 of americans own one or more of these but never use them. Is it a record player, a v c. R. Or cassette tapes . Cheryl jones wrote b, but who owns one because we have dv rs now and everybody dvrs everything with a push of the button. Well be right back. Thank you for watching wusa9. A remote that lives on your phone. More wifi in more places. A Movie Library you can take wherever you go. Internet speeds that have gotten faster 13 times in 12 years. At comcast, were creating new possibilities. 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This morning another clash between police in hong kong and hundreds of pro democracy protesters. Demonstrators try to surround government headquarters, pushing past police lines and blocking traffic. The protesters wore surgical masks and hard lats while chanting quote i want true democracy. The fbi has joined the search if a missing college student. Shane montgomery is a senior at west chester university. The 21yearold was last seen leaving a bar thursday morning. Detectives searched the water of his a nearby canal. The search resumes today. This morning new parents are warned about unsafe bedding for infants, bedding that could lead to suffocation. Researchers say too many parents are putting their babies to sleep with pillows or blankets. More than half the parents surveyed in 2010 made that very mistake. The study is published in todays pediatrics. The nfl is planning to change its personal policy conduct conduct policy yet again. A judge called the increase of suspension for ray rice arbitrary. She determined race never laid about what happened in february. The nfl expects its newly revisited policy upon announced end of the week. Jay gruden is still searching for answers. But no longer for a quarterback after a play like this by colt mccoy. He secured at least one more start. He threw for 392 yards which is more than the redskins put up in the last two games combined. Andrew luck had four deep balls of 30 yards or most after the loss gruden said mccoy will get the start again coming up next sunday against st. Louis. Mike andrea . It is sad to see those highlights and watch the game. They are building. We have been talking about the weather. Before i said a roller coast and then whiplash. We go to the highs and the lows. I cant confusing. It was beautiful yesterday afternoon. Today is going to be a warm day, relatively speaking. Talking mid to upper 60s. Tomorrow stuck mostly in the 30s. Beautiful skies this morning, sunrise at 7 08. 67 by 1 00. But then in the afternoon, as a cold front comes through, it is going to shift the winds around, bring more clouds, even a couple of showers to finish out the day. Cleveland 52. We are talking 40s and 50s locally with some breaks in the cloud cover. Germantown is down to 44, springfield is at 47. In washington 53 degrees. Mild there now. There is the cold stuff. The showers stay into our north and west. Mainly the other side of the appalachians midday. Not widespread. A few showers for the afternoon. Widespread this evening. South of town. The moisture comes in for the southwest. Tomorrow morning potentially looking at snow and sleet across areas to our north. Especially the northern shanendoah valley. A few flakes mixed in, in montgomery. The sleet mix, the pink area is mainly sleet. Slight chance of freezing rain and rain south and east of i 95. We finished the day with some showers. Could be slippery in spots tomorrow morning. Mainly north and west. 67 today, an afternoon shower turning cold. Rain sleet and snow far enough north and west. 39 tomorrow. The morning mix the afternoon showers a yellow alert day. Wednesdays back in the 50s. Thursday, friday, through the weekend. Isolated shower slightly better chance for showers sunday. Howard Something Else you dont want to hear. A problem heading into the district. Inbound new york avenue before you get to south dakota after the district line, a crash reported blocking at least a couple of lanes. Inbound 50, caution for the delays that are growing to get to new york avenue. Inbound lanes of route 4 building volume toward andrews. I27 0 spur getting down through rockville and bethesda. Lanes are open, there is a crash on Montrose Road east of East Jefferson. That is a check of your timesaver traffic this monday morning. Thanks for watching wusa 9 inova. Join the future oftinge isthats prhealth. E medicine. Welcome back to wusa9. Our time right now is 6 25. Heres a quick look at some of the things you may have missed this week. Grief counselors have been called to a nordstroms testimony store after a worker was shot black friday. Nadia was 22. He had been stalking the woman. A steady stream of shoppers unaware of the shooting tried to get into the store saturday, only to find it closed. A maryland surgeon who died of ebola is being remembered as a tireless, selfless ad is have cat for those who are less fortunate the 44yearold died after treating ebola patients in his native sierra leone. Cigarette smoking has dropped to a new low among american adults. The latest numbers show smoking dropped from nearly 21 in 2005 to just under 18 last year. Cigarette smoking is the leading cause of preventable death and disease in the United States. As you know, today is not just monday. It is cyber monday. It is another key shopping benchmark for retailers. Fewer people are going into the actual stores on black friday. It is hard to keep up nick. This is the Biggest Online shopping day of the year. It is well underway. Matt has been following these deals for us over the last week. Reporter i would say this year and thankfully, we were correct in our predictions, which means i still technically have a job tomorrow wednesday will be questionable. Is cyber monday so much more large in terms of savings on black friday. They ruined it, they started the deals on thanksgiving. And three weeks before that they hadearly black friday deals. A month before that, they had a whole month of savings. Cyber monday you are in control, it is available at the click of a mouse. Take a look, we have been studying every stat to make sure you save more money than anyone else in the country. 10 better as a whole on cyber monday versus black friday. Also brings more laptop deals and more digital deals. If you are watching us right now you have a huge advantage. 6 00 a. M. All the big deals were loaded up on to wusa9. Com. The best deals sell out by 9 00 a. M. All signs point to this being the best cyber monday in terms of traffic and on wusa 9. Com, boots 76 on. Down to 19 bucks. Iphone docks, 80 off. Today again way better than what we saw black friday. And the dyson deal. This is the most highly trafficked deal in the dc area today. It dropped to 999. 80 bucks less than we saw black friday. I am wishing you a very happy cyber monday. Appreciate you sharing the insight. Looks like the deals are there for taking. Take a look at this. Is this a beautiful start to our monday morning . We will all enjoy some unseasonably warmer weather today and take your ipad outside and do signber shopping. Tomorrow the cold air is coming back. Yesterday was so nice. This morning is great. Lots of sunshine is expected. Things are quickly going to change. Lets look at the temperatures out there. It is pretty comfortable out there. The clouds roll in as early as 11 00 to lunch time. We are going to stay well above average before the cold front arrives. Fairfax 55. This afternoon, rain arrives, then also heavier rain turning to wintry mix later on tonight. Lets go to time saver traffic with beverly. Reporter good morning checking out the ride. It becomes stop and go most of the way around Georgia Avenue and silver spring. Eastbound monday transocean road east of East Jefferson street. An accident in the rockville area. Check out the ride on of 6 on 66. More heavy traffic into fair oaks, vienna and falls church. Inbound lanes on 50 you are lined up for a crash right before south dakota avenue smack dab in the middle of the roadway. Today president obama convenes his cabinet along with civil rights leaders and Law Enforcement officials to does the after father of ferguson, missouri. This weekends resignation of officer Darren Wilson does not seem to have dampened the call for justice. And five st. Louis rams Football Players angered local police there by striking the hands up dont shoot pose as they started the game. While the ferguson protests in dc havent been violent they certainly were disruptive this weekend. Dc police ended up arresting some of the loca

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