Transcripts For WUSA Wusa 9 News At 6am 20150317 : vimarsana

Transcripts For WUSA Wusa 9 News At 6am 20150317

You head home from work or school. Even through your lunch hour things will be pretty comfortable. Were starting off with a few clouds. Winds are light to breezy. Theyll be windy this afternoon. 49 degrees. Its comfortable out there for sure. Look whats headed our way with northwesterly winds. Its into the 40s for detroit. Thats whats headed our way for tomorrow. Back up to the upper 60s today. Heres how were dealing with temperatures right now. 42 reston. 51 arlington. Chevy chase up 47. The winds are going to pick up. Youll just feel the cold air ushering on in. By tomorrow morning were back to the 30s so its going to be a big drop off. Heres your planner. By 4 00 looking at 62 degrees. Already into the 40s with clear skies by 10 00. Good morning, larry. Whats going on . Good morning. Looks like things are shaping up getting active on 66. The eastbound side it markham and delaplane where we have a car that spun out of control blocking the left lane in that area. So you want to be mindful if youre going to be traveling out there. Meantime lets show you how things are shaping up on 66. Just east of sudley road. You can see a number of cars starting to make their way toward d. C. And towards the beltway as well. We got word of an accident taking place on the southbound side of the bw parkway at 410. Sky 9 is in place. That is the accident right there. I know its hard to see with the lights out but not causing any major delays at this point. But you can see cars are being mindful and vigilant of the situation thats developing out there. So if things happen to change on the southbound side of the bw parkway, of course ill be sure to let you know. Coming up at 6 12, well show you how things are shaping up on metro. We continue to follow a developing story from Dulles International airport. Late last night, a united jet returned to the airport shortly after takeoff. An Airline Spokesman says a passenger on board flight 1074 to denver did not follow crew instructions. The boeing 737 returned to the gate. Police took that passenger into custody. And then the person was taken to the hospital for an evaluation. The flight did take off again just after midnight and it landed in denver earlier this morning. A d. C. Police officer in serious trouble this morning. Officer darrell best has been arrested and charged with sexually abusing a minor. Nikki burdine is live outside the d. C. Police headquarters with more on the suspect who is also a local pastor. How did police learn about this . Reporter police learned about this over the weekend when the alleged minor, the alleged victim in this case filed charges against officer darrell best. And these are disturbing charges when they involve anyone, but especially when they involve a person in a position of power and trust as darrell best is. Hes a Police Officer with mpd and also a pastor at this church. Take a look at this video. This is the church in southeast called goda Second Chance ministry. Its an all girls church. The alleged victim is a 16year old girl. She says the abuse happened on three separate occasions and it started in december of last year. Officer best lives in Upper Marlboro and he was arrested yesterday. He is facing sexual abuse of a minor. Right now mpd is investigating and theyre asking anyone with information because as we know so often in cases like these, additional victims come forward. So theyre asking for anyone with information about officer darrell best to come forward or you can call 2025766768. That is the youth investigations division. Back to you in studio. Nikki burdine live outside d. C. Police headquarters. D. C. Police are trying to identify a woman or women seen on cell phone videos in various stages of undress. Now theyve link add Senior State Department official daniel rose ton have taken those videos of about two dozen women. They were taken through the windows of their homes along the U Street Corridor in mount pleasant. Rosen is already facing charges of soliciting a juvenile for sex in fairfax county. In the the latest cases hes now charged with voyeurism. Montgomery county police say the shooting of a man near downtown Silver Spring is a random crime. It happened during a robbery attempt last night along piney branch road. Police say the man was walking toward dale drive when someone came up behind him and shot him. The victim is in Critical Condition and no arrests have been made. A new bill being considered in maryland would increase the penalty for hazing. Testimony in this bill is scheduled for later dacht the hearing comes one later today. The hearing comes within day after a College Lacrosse team, a member was suspended for hazing. Whats the penalty now for hazing . Reporter right now if youre found guilty of hazing, that is a penalty of about 500 in a fine and six months behind bars. Lawmakers say that certainly does not go far enough and that is why they will have people testifying today in annapolis. I can tell you over at the university of maryland baltimore county, thats where they have a situation where the women lacrosse players were sending Text Messages threatening some of the freshmen players on the team and those women players have since been suspended. Now, the other cases of hazing are more physical, but theyre still just as damaging. Take a look at this picture. Even blurred out, you can see the intense bruising left behind after kevin hayes said members of Alpha Phi Alpha at bowie state beat, body slammed and paddled him. He and Johnny Powell who allege the abus by Alpha Kappa Si in annapolis city will both testify. They say they were hazed and harassed when they blew the whistle. Why come forward . Kevin hayes says im coming forward so this wont happen to the next person. Well hear much more from him and his attorney who says this kind of akivity activity has to stop. Its a matter of life or death. Back to you in the studio. Delia, thank you. Benjamin netanyahu cast his ballot early in todays race which will determine whether he gets to keep his job as israels Prime Minister in a massive voter and a massive voter turnout is expected. The gap between netanyahu and his main challenger isaac herzog is very close. Reporter as polls opened this morning in israel, both Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his top challenger isaac herzog made a lastminute push for eart votes. The two com party votes. The two competitors have taken opposite positions on a crucial issue. Netanyahu says if elected he will not create a palestinian state, a reversal from his past position. The stangs puts him stance puts him at odds with the Obama Administration which has called for a twostate solution. Thats something well continue to work with the International Community to achieve diplomatically. Reporter herzog promises to work to restore relations with the palestinians, an approach that peoples to israelis who want peace. If youre a left wing near israel, someone who among other things believes there has to be peace with the palestinians with two states created side by side, then frankly youre angrier than ever at netanyahu and youre sure to go out and vote today. Reporter netanyahus recent address to congress opposing Nuclear Talks with iran worsened already strained relations with the white house. He certainly thought that would help him in his Election Campaign look strong but a lot of israeli voters, according to the polls, felt uncomfortable that netanyahu was allowed relations with the u. S. To get sour. Reporter the state Department Says the u. S. Will work with whom ever wins. Whomever win. Susan mcginnis, crk news, washington. Cbs news, washington. Prince charles and his wife are expected to arrive in washington this evening. Preparations are already under way at mount vernon, just one of the the many sites theyll be visiting. For the head grounds keeper, its a momentous occasion. He was there for prince charless first visit in 1970. Someone that will be future king of england, pretty impressive and its really exciting. The royal couple also plan on meeting with president obama, visiting the thangs archives, and the shakes spear National Archives and the shakes spear theater shakespeare theater. Archbishop wuerl will celebrate mass. In keeping with the holiday spirit, a bagpiper will be there, traditional irish stepping from the kids will be there. It is 6 09, a 24yearold n. F. L. Player with a very promising career decides to call it quitser. And a number of you are taking to social media to voice your complaints about potholes. Larry will have a look at some of the best posts and the worst pits coming up. Absolutely. Heres howard with the lovely forecast for today. Yeah, nice and warm this afternoon. Midday. Well get into the upper 60s, even low 70s in spots like fredricksburg and culpeper but theres colder air coming. It will be here for the drive home so get ready for the big changes headed for the middle of the week. See you on the other side 6 12 on this tuesday morning. Some spots are really chilly like in Prince William county, we have manassas at 39. Just up the road, haymarket, bull run in the low 50s. We have 44 alexandria and 40 in reston this morning and even off to the east Upper Marlboro 52 with 44 in bowie. A mild day. Some of us may get toward 70. Theres colder air lurking i dont like that term. Well tell you how long its going to be around with your sevenday forecast in five minutes. You have the cold air lurking. You have the traffic moving. Kind of a different combination right there. If youre going to be hopping on metro, looks like the trains and buses all running on schedule. No problems there. Marc train also doing really well. You shouldnt have any issues getting to where you need to get going on time. For those of you traveling southbound on the bw parkway at 410, want to give you a live look from sky 9 where were keeping a close eye on that accident there. Now moved to the shoulder. All lanes open but we are see something residual delays. Andrea and mike, back to you. Wusa9s pothole patrol is in bethesda now visiting old georgetown road again. If youve ever been there, you know this area south of ryland drive, youre going to want to slow down if youre driving in the center lane near this spot. Its a huge pothole that formed in what appears to be a recent patch job. We reported this location to Montgomery County and maryland state officials with hopes ltheyl get it fixed soon. If you have a pothole you want our Pothole Patrol Team help get fbied, go to tellwusa9. Com or get fixed, go to tellwusa9. Com or tweet us using the hash tog potholepatrol hashtag potholepatrol9. We are driving all around town trying to find some of these to warn you ahead of time. Larry miller is following your pothole complaints on social media. So what do you have for us now, larry . We have one that i even shot yesterday myself. I hopped out of the car. It almost took my tire out so i wanted to make sure other people know about them as well. Two taking place on waterside drive as you make the commute from massachusetts avenue to waterside drive. To potholes there. It was so deep, they actually put a cone inside of the pothole. So were talking about massive craters out on the roads. This one, as you can see sad face there because unfortunately the potholes are certainly not a matter that people are happy about. He says these craters are located at 3535v street in northeast d. C. He sent us others. This one at bacon road in beltsville. So he said that these craters out here are having a Significant Impact on peoples tires, causing all kinds of problems and even the other report that i shared with you guys last week, that craters this big ruins suspense and costs drivers anywhere from hundreds to even thousands of dollars in repairs. He gave us another picture here of the same street, different pothole but it looks like these things are certainly something that drivers just have to be mindful of. Of course well continue to let you know how these things shape up and hopefully they get patched up soon. The hub caps sit there like a graveyard. Ive seen tires snap off the sides of a car. Thanks, larry. One of our local march madness teams has an Early Morning departure to their tournament site. Plus, where getting a drivers license also means youre automatically registered to welcome back. Im Nick Giovanni in the newsroom. 6 18. Time to run through whats making headlines right now. Testimony continues in the Boston Marathon bombing trial. Expected to take the stand, the owner of the bulletriddled boat where Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was found. The day began yesterday with an up close look at the boat. An lapd officer is behind bars accused of smuggling a mexican man into the u. S. In the trunk of an suv. The suspect is Carlos Quezada junior. Prosecutors say he and a 31 yearold woman were both arrested when they tried to cross the border with a man hiding in the spare tire of their suv. The South Pacific aid workers are getting their first glimpse of the destruction caused by this weekends powerful cyclone. Teams carrying supplies made their way to the island chain. The u. N. Reports 11 people have been confirmed dead. Back stateside, a first for the state of oregon. Anyone with an oregon drivers license will be automatically registered to vote. Governor kate brown signed the bill yesterday. She says it makes voting more secure and convenient. This will add about 300,000 new voters under the new system. A new career is what San Francisco 49ers linebacker Chris Borland is now looking for. At just 24 years old, one of the n. F. L. s top rookies from last season says he is retiring in his prime because of concerns over the longterm effects of repetitive head trauma. Hes one of a handful of players to announce early retirement this offseason but hes the first to say his retirement is specifically over fears of head trauma. And warm up the bus at georgetown. In about an hour the hoyas are going to routll o for the big dance. Their first stop portland. Theyll face 13 seeded East Washington on thursday night. Take this as a friendly reminder. Time to fill out those brackets. Well see how yours stacks up against ours in the bracket challenge. Just go to wusa9. Com. Are we supposed to be filling those out now . Its about that time. Ive got to get on it. Thank you, nick. All right, howard, we are falling back a couple of degrees, arent we . Maybe 15 to 20 as we get into the next couple of days. Today will still be a mild one. The tourney starts thursday so the playing begins tomorrow. You better get those brackets filled in. Theres some cash money prizes at wusa9. Com. So go there. Were not eligible but you are and thats a good thing. Heres our forecast for you on this tuesday. Temperatures climbing well up into the 60s. Might even flirt with 70 in a few spots but thats through the middle of the day. Then the cold starts moving in from west to northwest to southeast as we get into the late morning, afternoon. Temperatures will drop down to 65 by 3 00 and 59 by 5 00. Well be in the upper 20s and low 30s by tomorrow morning. The warm air, i mean its out there. Charlottesville 66. Cumberland 64. Locally 49 in washington. Weve got a few spots closer in the 30s like manassas. Theyre just cool for a few minutes until a a few hours anyway until we mix in. Look at all the 60s in the Shenandoah Valley already. Looks good in d. C. On our michael son weather camera. 49 with a w. Of 45 thanks to the south winds at 10. Theyre going to get gusty out of the northwest. As a front comes through, slim chance well see a shower this afternoon. Much colder air moves in later this afternoon and tonight. Tomorrows highs will only be in the upper 40s and low 50s. Well do the same on thursday. Then a raw friday with rain. Might even see a little bit of wet snow at the onset of that thursday night into friday. 68 degrees today but dropping in the afternoon. 34 tonight in town. Upper 20s in the cold spots. Tomorrow 51 but some of you will stay in the 40s in spite of the sunshine. 53 on thursday. A raw friday in the 40s. Better saturday and then chilly again sunday and monday. 6 22. Larry miller, getting busy out there. It certainly is. If youre going to be headed from frederick toward the beltway, no major issues at this point. Looks like volume starting to build up just north of clarksburg, just slightly north. If youre traving from old hundred road to montrose road, youre looking at a 20minute commute. If youre headed east 066 from lee highway to north glebe road, youre looking at 27 mince in terms of your 27 minutes in terms of your commute time. Traveling from edsall road to canal street southwest, a 12 minute commute there. For my friends in Prince Georges County traveling from collington road to brentwood parkway east, an 18minute commute. The trains, buses all running on schedule. Certainly so far so good. Back to you. A u. N. Report suggests isis is now in afghanistan. A settlement between new jersey and exxonmobil could be people of the coffee drinking world, dunkin has a dark roast coffee thats deliciously roasted just right for a bold start and smooth finish thats never bitter. Put down the dark roast youve been putting up with and reach for the one you deserve. 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