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WUSA Wusa 9 News At 6am January 19, 2015

Hill Baptist Church in northeast with more. Good morning. Reporter good morning. At this very hour one week ago today carol glover was probably getting ready for work just beginning her commute on metro. She never knew she would not be returning home that day. We all know now she died on that smoke filled train monday last week. In the afternoon she was heading home from work. Now, her family members and her friends will come here to this church on capitol hill to say goodbye. Well they are now a pal orgiesing to the family of carol glover and to all metro riders, a letter was printed in an ad in sundays Washington Post, metros leadership promises full disclosure and cooperation with the investigation and they say they will take immediate action to address any interim recommendations writing, we know we have to redouble our efforts to learn from this and take every step necessary to make sure it doesnt happen again. They really need to make a better effort than letters. I guess its a good thing. It doesnt make up for what happened. Its just words on a paper. This is washington d. C. An advertisement just seems about the wrong way to go about it. Whats that going to do for the riders for where someone died . I think 82 people were hospitalized. I dont think thats the right way to go about it. We need to see change. Metro says theyre working on that change though they know it hasnt happened as quickly as many would have liked. Another person wants change. Thats one of the First Responders and we sat down with them and spoke exclusively with one of the firefighters who responded andreas crude folks from that train. Hear from what he has to say in the next half hour. Back to you. Delia, thank you reporting live from northeast d. C. This morning a man suspected in a deadly shooting at an area motel is on the run these morning. It happened at the brag motel on crain highway in Upper Marlboro where police found the body of 31 year old james birch. Birch lived in harwood and investigators say they do not believe this was a random killing. Fire invest it gators are trying to determine the cause of an explosion that rocked a Downtown Washington office building. It happened at 16th and k yesterday afternoon, two people were seriously hurt when a boiler exploded. Police had to shutdown part of k street during the investigation. This morning a Civil Rights Organization which is closely aligned with the National Football league is calling on the Washington Redskins to change the name. They picked this particular day to speak out for a reason. Nikki berdine is live outside fedex field to explain. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Thats right the alliance picked today, Martin Luther king jr. Day to voice their opposition to the name and they are asking Dan Schneider to change the Redskins Team name. Now, the reason this is significant, the Washington Post is reporting that the alliance has come forward and are asking for change because this group has long within affiliated with the nfl and theyve actually been instrumental in getting the league to hire more minorities and they really brought about real change and this isnt the first time the group has taken issue but the redskins earlier this month filed a complaint about how the redskins conducted their search for a genearl manager. Now the alliance is doing this in honor of Martin Luther king jr. Day and the name change debate has been a hot topic in washington and across the country as the president , u. S. Senators and other advocacy groups are all coming forward asking Dan Schneider to change their name. According to the post the group said in a letter that we have to take a stand. The name has to be changed. Meanwhile, redskins spokesman tony wiley said they are disappointed with the groups stance. All the while they said this entire time their name has been to honor native americans. No word if this latest groups stance will do anything to change the name. Of course well keep you updated. From fedex field, nikki berdine, back to you in the studio. Meanwhile thousands of people across the dmv are making this Martin Luther king day a day of service. One notable event is being organized by the group city year. The d. C. Mayor will help kickoff the day of Service Project this morning at eastern high school. This day of reflection and service will also be commemorated at the Martin Luther king jr. Memorial that starts with a wreath laying ceremony later this morning. A peace walk and Martin Luther king day is also planned for this morning at 11 00 a. M. On Martin Luther king jr. Avenue and milwaukee place, southeast. The marching band will be there along with representatives from the areas asian, jamaican and African American communities. Drivers can expect street closing in the area. The Leisure World community in Silver Spring is also hosting Martin Luther king day event. There will be an inner Faith Worship Service at 10 00 a. M. At the inner faith chapel and the service will feature the music of Everett Williams at United Methodist church in washington Leisure World residents will also be doing a reading of kings words. Its six after the hour after a successful debut season of thursday night football on cbs the nfl will continue its partnership with the network during the 2015 season. Don champion has more on what to expect. Reporter get ready for more fireworks and action on the field. Thursday night football will return. Thursday night football is unbelievable. Its great. Everybody is here. Fans loved it and now the nfl announced it will continue its partnership with cbs to produce and televice thursday night football for the 2015 season. For a second year, cbs will broadcast the first eight thursday night games. They will simulcast on the nfl network which will also exclusively televice eight games in the run up to the playoffs. The debut season of thursday night football on cbs saw match ups between big rivals like the giants and redskins. Cbs delivered on this promise of offering playoff caliber production every week. Weve got cameras, high end graphics, we have every bell and whistle available to our production teams to use. After the new England Patriots face the Seattle Seahawks in the super bowl on february 1 in two weeks, super bowl l will air on cbs next season. Kind of a big deal, ha . Yes. Certainly a lot of fun this year. The agreement is only for one season but the nfl does have the option to continue with cbs for the 2016 season what a season this will be capping off with the super bowl, the 50th anniversary, i like it. 6 07. A modern day bony and clyde arrested in florida. The nationals ink a deal with a former winner rumored to be valued at more than 180 its 10 after 6 00 on this monday morning. A little chilly and a couple of split clouds but mainly just a few areas near freezing right now. We will see sunshine return and its going to become a breezy day gusts to 25 miles an hour with temperatures from the mid 40s to even near 50, tracking a clipper system for wednesday and another on sunday, ill let you know exactly what that means for the forecast in about six minutes. Right now beverly has a look at time saver traffic. Beltway ride so very uneventful. We like that. The light volume within the federal holiday and national day of Service Honoring dr. Martin luther king jr. Outer loop of the beltway as you head west of college park normally a slow spot looks good at speed heading into bethesda making your way around the exit for 270, no troubles to describe for you there. There is an accident southern maryland, 373 shutdown near gardner road. Thats west of Danville East of livingston road with the crash. Were told a medivac was dispatched to that initially that shutdown the roadway. 395 heading to the 14th street bridge, hov restrictions are lifted on the interstates, a word of note though the hov express lane 95 and the express lanes of virginia will still charge tolls so just keep that in mind for your travels, the main line is moving pretty wellheading up to the 14th street bridge and downtown. Remember too roadways normally carry one way reversible rush hour traffic, do not do that. The canal road two way operational day today. Nick and andrea back to you. Thanks. The manhunt is over for two teenage sweet hearts, the pair is suspected of a string of crimes which began in kentucky and spread south. All the way to florida apparently. We have more on the couples arrest early this morning. Reporter police in panama city beach, florida took 18 yearold dalton hays along with his 13yearold girlfriend Cheyenne Phillips into custody without incident shortly after midnight sunday. They found the kentucky teens sleeping in a pick up truck originally stolen in georgia. They werent sure if anyone was in it but they saw an unmarked car and looked to see if anyone got in or out of it and they saw the brake lights come on and thats when they called for multiple units. Authorities say the couple stole three vehicles during the crime spree that began earlier this month in western kentucky. They fled two days before hays was to appear in court on burglary and theft charges. While on the run, they were spotted in a South Carolina wal mart where police say they used stolen checks. There was concern the fugitives were armed because two handguns were left in one of the vehicles they were suspected of stealing. Hays mother says phillips told her son she was 19 and that he was in love with her by the time he found out she was 13. Authorities plan to extradite the couple back to kentucky to face burglary, theft and other charges. Cbs news. Grayson county sheriff says the pair is now facing charges that include burglary, theft, criminal trespassing and criminal mischief. The 13yearold Phillips Cheyenne will face those charges in juvenile court. The town of hyattville, maryland could make history tomorrow. A final vote is planned on whether to extend Voting Rights to 16 17 year olds. If the city council goes along they would become the second municipality in the country to extend Voting Rights to 16 17 year olds. The council has already given initial approval for the measure and by the way the first city to lower its voting age is also in march land, its to came o park that lowered its voting age to 16 in 2013. Well this morning cbs sports and mlb. Com reporting the nationals are adding to their staff. According to the reports they reached a deal with max scherzer. He won the American League back in 2013 and won 82 games in his five seasons with detroit and the deal apparently is worth or runs for about seven years but we dont know the dollar amount yet. One report though does say it could be in the neighborhood of 180 million. Not a bad pay day. A lot of money. Its 6 14. Here is another look at our question of the morning. This is thought to be the most spoken word in the world. A okay, b hello or c please. Well our facebook friend lynn rodrick says hello is always nice and please is great but seriously okay has to boat them out, okay . Well played, lynn. Well played. Well have more of your responses and the correct in the news now at 6 17 at least six people are reported dead after a suspected u. S. Drone strike in pakistan. Four suspected militants are believed to be among the victims. Officials say the strike targeted a suspected militant hide out near the after began border into an area known as stronghold of taliban and al qaeda operatives. There is word a possible plea deal is off the table in the case of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects. The Associated Press reports the Justice Department is now pushing for the Death Penalty should Dzhokar Tsarnaev be convicted. Opening statements are set for a week from today in the case against the 21 year old defendant. Only three federal inmates including Timothy Mcveigh have been put to death since 2001. Well People Living in one west african country, mali, are breathing a sigh of relief. The Health Minister announced an end to the ebola outbreak. No new cases have been reported over the past 42 days, that the period required for the World Health Organization to declare an official outbreak being over. Meanwhile pope francis we love you. That was the cry from hundreds of children in the philippines as the pope boarded a plane headed back to the vatican. Pope francis visited the philippines during a week long trip and drew what phillipine officials believe was a record crowd of 6 million faithful during his visit manilla. Icy roads are blamed for a string of deadly crashes on some of philadelphias most heavily traveled highway. At least one person was killed and 30 others hurt in one pile up on i76. There were other pile ups involving over a dozen cars on i476, i95, the highways were shutdown while the scene was cleared. So ice not really the issue for us . A little bit. Weve got areas hovering right near 32 so there will be some slick spots, maybe a parking lot or sidewalk so take it slow to be on the safe side but as far as wind nick was referring to that kicks up over the next few hours and going to be a breezy day, 2025 miles an hour. Doppler 9,000 shows a few sprinkles, wet flakes coming through during the overnight and Early Morning. Nothing near d. C. At the moment but as i zoom in youll see the rain we had earlier is now on the Eastern Shore and a little bit of rain or mix in northeastern maryland between eastern and chestertown, and now seeing a few returns coming from just north and east of winchester so if think was even wet flakes mitching in at the moment that wouldnt be out of the question. For today, well were looking at temperatures climbing into the mid to upper 40s with sunny skies, really looks like a fine afternoon and tonight were going to go partly cloudy upper 30s by 9 00 down into the upper 20s and low 30s. Temperatures now in the 30s to low 40s, 42 at national, later 49 becoming sunny and breezy 32 tonight as we head into the day on tuesday, a little sun but increasing clouds upper 40s and by wednesday clipper brings passing rain or snow showers really not enough to warn a yellow alert at this point. Thursday and friday a little colder around 40, fine saturday and a chance of flurries and upper 30s sunday. 6 20, beverly farmer happy monday. Indeed happy monday. The lighter volume out there given the federal holiday and national day of Service Check out the ride for anybody driving the beltway in Virginia North of springfield, its looking good remember though the 495 express lanes, 95 express hov lanes will still charge a toll today, 66 hov restrictions are not in force today because of the federal holiday looking good, manassas in toward vienna heading into falls church no early issues there and the continued crash investigation a stretch of 373 west of danville at gardner road likely to still be blocked with that serious crash. Thanks for joining us this morning, wusa 9 will be right you wouldnt do half of your daily routine. So why treat your mouth any differently. Brushing alone does less than half the job leaving behind millions of germs. Complete the job with listerine®. Kill up to 99 percent of germs. And prevent plaque, early gum disease and bad breath. Complete the job with listerine®. Power to your mouth™. Also try listerine® floss. Its advanced Technology Removes more plaque. 6 24 is stories. Boko haram terrorists kidnapped dozens of people sunday, following days of attacks in nigeria where boko haram became known worldwide after ceasing hundreds of school girls. The attacks last weeks included two explosions carried out by child suicide bombers. Thousands of people in pakistan and afghanistan are protesting against the cover of the charlie help doe newspaper after the terror attack at their paris office surviving Staff Members put the profit mohammed on the front page. Protesters in several cities burned the french flag. Norwegian journalists report syrian town of kobani is virtually deserted, fighting between rebels and isis has left large parts of the town which is empty which is right at the turkish border. The 60,000 people who live interested have almost all fled in the four months of fighting and those who do walk the streets risk stepping on or kicking an exploded grenade. Back stateside, gas prices are at five year as weve been talking about but as a result of the falling price of crude oil were seeing thats kind of varying state to state area to area. Jill wagner looks at why prices are varying so much from state to state. What actually goes into the cost of gas . Reporter recent College Graduate says every time she fills up her gas tank lately it costs less. Gas prices have fallen by more than a dollar a gallon from a year ago. Im saving 20, 30, its really good. She pays more in new york than drivers in states like texas, oklahoma, or even new jersey just a few miles away. Prices can vary really pretty sig

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