Transcripts For WUSA Wusa 9 News At 6pm 20151012 : vimarsana

Transcripts For WUSA Wusa 9 News At 6pm 20151012

Stories downtown dc where an elderly man in Critical Condition after being struck by a police cruiser. What youre looking at right now is cell phone video taken by the witness moments after that collision. Police say that the man was in that crosswalk at the intersection of connecticut and l street northwest when he was hit. Now according to a witness and police on the scene, that the cruiser hit that divider after he tried to avoid that man. And one witness told wusa9 that the cruiser seemed to be going more than 89 miles an hour. As they say they believe that the officer was responding to a call. He was taken to the hospital with nonlife threatening injuries. We have new information on wusa9. Com. One of the investigations. A crash report repaired by Dc Police Say that it might have caused last weeks collision between that fire engine and a dc police car as the police car and the firefighter suffered. The fire personnel reported an air leak and a faulty valve bracket on the fire engine, but the firefighters were told to wait for a response from a foreman as to when to have it fixed. The Fire Department says they are now checking the brakes on all of its vehicles. Dc police are also trying to find the man who attacked a woman after climbing in to his car mistakingly thinking it was uber. The woman says that the driver held her at knife point and sexually assaulted her very Early Saturday Morning on macomb street northwest. Uber says you should always use your app when calling for a ride and check the picture and license plate number. It is disconcerning that there are people out there that are pretending to be someone theyre not. Make sure and check their license plates. Its not easy, but it must be done. Share your estimated time with arrival with friends as they could actually track your trip on a map in real time. Voters will get the first chance to seat democratic president ial candidates debate one another tomorrow night as the candidates prepare to take the stage, a new poll shows both the democratic and republican front runners are scoring high in a category they would rather avoid. They say they are eager for tuesday nights debate. Im looking forward to the Democratic Party finally joining this game and having a debate on how they would solve their nations problem. Reporter martin omalley, gym webb and chaffey hope to grab the latest. Reporter they show clinton has increased her lead over sanders, but it shows only 35 of primary voters would see her as honest and trustworthy, just two points ahead of donald trump. For voters from bothparties. I dont think that youre a friend to woman. [ applause ] i knew i shouldnt have picked her. Reporter but trump has a strong base of support. You know what it is a tea party. Ill tell you about the tea party. These are peopl in all fairness. Now cnn will host tuesday nights debate. Showing clinton with a commanding lead in their early voting states of South Carolina and nevada. Now to new developments in the search for a speaker of the house. Detectives say that he will run for speaker, but only if wisconsins paul ryan does not run. Flores is among the handful of lawmakers angling for the job as they were thrown in to chaos as you might recall when the majority leader pulled out of the race just hours before the vote. Now that vote has been postponed indefinitely. Former congressman john dingell out. His wife said he underwent the procedure last week. The 89yearold michigan democrat was the longest serving member of congress in u. S. History. His wife was elected to his seat last year after dingell decided not to seek re election. Authorities in turkey picked up four suspected isis militants. Yeah a funeral was held today for one of the 97 people killed. So far no one claimed responsibility for the attacks, but turkeys Prime Minister says that isis is to blame. U. S. Air force cargo ships dropped small arms ammunition to syria. A spokesman for the u. S. Military command in charge said that the group that received the supplies are fighting to remove isis. Which falls in line with the obama administration. Sharing the common goal of defeating isis. The mayor is urging people to be on alert following a series of stabbings. Police shot and kill add palestinian man who stabbed an israeli soldier on a bus, then tried to grab his gun. That soldier is recovering. Two palestinian teenagers badly injured both israelis. The vatican opened their first homeless shelter. They celebrated mass with the shelters first guest and volunteers today. All the shelters expenses paid for by donations and proceeds from sales of people parchment. Still ahead tonight in sports, the Athletic Director for the university of maryland will speak out on the firing of the schools head football coach. And any positives to take away from the heartbreaking overtime loss to the undefeated falcons, we think so. And a beautiful, beautiful evening now. It will be cool tonight, but not as chilly as it has been. In fact downtown looking at the low temperatures around 50, maybe 59. But 55 in leesburg and olney. 53 in frederick and fairfax. Well come back tomorrow and tell you what it will mean with the showers behind the front. Up next lots of hugs and tears on the first discover the world animals, seen those before but sometimes they do it on their own mmm foot wow food for giants oooo no wonder no one has eaten this sandwich kids discover the world with their mouths detergent is harmful if swallowed, so keep laundry pacs up and away from children brought to you by tide seeing the latest mass shootings, volunteers, comfordogs are on campus to offer support for students. The States Government says that there are a lot of tears and hugs. Nine people were killed at Umpqua Community college. The gunman shot himself after being wounded by police. Police are searching for a killer. Two men detained for questioning after 18yearold Brent Randall has been shot to death. They were shot friday at a Student Housing complex parking lot. The third shooting within a week at a university. Police still say its not clear if those shootings are related. A suspect that killed an offduty Memphis Police officer appeared in court today. They say officer Terrance Aldridge was on his work yesterday when he got in to a fight with his neighbor. They exchanged gunfire. Officer aldridge was shot multiple times. Collar son charges of being connect the to the handgun after requesting that he leave because he was carrying a gun. He was on duty and in uniform yesterday. The employee says that guns are not allowed in the restaurant. Olive garden says that their request was unacceptable and the restaurant chain welcomes law enforcement. Protests gathered outside providence, Rhode Islands dunken donuts where a worker wrote, blacklivesmatter on a former Police Officers coffee cup. That former providence cop organized the protest, explaning the black lives slogan is antipolice. He is calling for that employee to be fired. Dunkin donuts released a statement saying they regret the incident reaching out to offer the officer an apology. Coming up, virginias elite rescue team would return from helping from the historic flood in South Carolina. But coming up next, the family of the man who walked away from an assisted living facility picnic if yonot just a meeting. Iness, own the room, not just be in it. If never settle is your mantra, youre our kind of different. At Keller Graduate School of management. Our professors bring real business challenges into the classroom so what you learn today can unck the leader inside you tomorrow. Its what makes us different. On purpose. Devry universitys Keller Graduate School of management. Learn more at keller. Edu in Prince Georges County tonight the family of the 80 yearold man is demanding answers. They want to know how that man walked away from the assisted living facility, only to be found dead three weeks later. Thats right, reporting that the family is now calling for a criminal investigation. Reporter lubin phipps family has been looking for him for three weeks. They are obviously devastated by what has happened, but they are also angry and dismayed, which is why an attorney is involved. The family attorney saying it was apparent that mr. Phipps was laying in the open for some time in an area searched before. But much of the familys focus is on the wood moore house living facility, which brought mr. Phipps to the park without any notification, where he apparently wandered away three weeks ago. Calling the death a homicide and is calling for a criminal investigation. How did this happen . It is very heartbreaking, you know, we didnt expect that his last days would be spent out there for however long he was out there. We didnt get that chance to give him the final hug. Reporter Michelle Phipps is lubin phipps daughter. At woodmore house, no one would talk about the incident, handing out a written statement saying that they are saddened by the loss of mr. Phipps and is promising to work with officials to thoroughly review the circumstances. In watkins park, scott broom, wusa9. Drug Overdose Deaths in virginia have outnumbered the highway deaths for the first time last year. Dying from the heroin use while 700 died in auto crashes. A year ago Virginia Governor heightened efforts to combat heroin use in the state. Showing the urgent need for solution to help solve the heroin epidemic. Local heros who witnessed South Carolina for the deadly floods are back home tonight. The members of virginias Task Force One did return this afternoon. They were met by their loved ones who were very emotional. Fairfax firefighters assisted local crews in the search for victims of that historic flood, but they are happy to be home. Welcome home guys. It feels great to be me with family. Reporter they even brought their own food and water. The team even brought their own food and water so they were not a burden on the devastated community that they are helping. This is great. An estimated one Million People turned out for new yorks columbus day parade lining fifth avenue to washington dozens of floats go by. Governor andrew cuomo marched in that parade. The largest celebration of the italianamerican heritage and their culture. Great weather. Yeah, you know, i wanted to make sure youre checking my blogs out the weekend. Did you watch that . I missed it. Yeah, exactly, 1979, october 10, the first measurable snowfall here in the metro area. Speaking of chillier air by this weekend probably the coldest air of the season. We might even see some frost in the burbs friday night or sunday night. Whoa. Take a look outside, it is still 71. I mean still spectacular. Fantastic. Winds out of the south at 7. Picking up a little bit tomorrow, looking at winds southwesterly at about 10 to 15. Hey the fall colors, they look like this. Fall colors are basically peaking if you go west of the divide. Now, there is some good color if you go west of i81. There is some color around manassas, leesburg, montgomery county, fredericksburg. If youre trying to plan a trip along skyline drive probably around the 21st is your bestbet. The burbs, peaking the end of october. Then downtown peaks around the 1st of november. Bus stop temperatures not bad. 55 to 64, maybe a sprinkle. Primarily west of town. Then just a few showers tuesday, still warm. Im going to keep the showers both morning and afternoon. In fact i think that afternoon i95 corridor probably a better chance in the afternoon. Not warranted of a yellow weather alert though. Then seasonable on wednesday, so it will be cooler around 70, but still pretty nice day. So tonight 10 00, 60 in manassas. Temps are not going to fall off like they did. 47 47 at national. Now we will advance it by morning a few clouds will come in. Temperatures still 55 in gaithersburg. 56 in bowie and 56 in manassas and 55 in fairfax. Some clouds kind of go overhead on 9 00. But they dont produce many showers. The sun will come back out 1 00. Probably walk to lunch. Temperatures in the low to mid 70s. Then the second line of showers by 5 00 to 6 00, essential hi east of i95. Fairfax, excuse me, Prince Georges County, charles county, even in to calvert county. Everything is in a shade of green, nothing heavy tomorrow. Then 10 30 pretty mild tomorrow night, not quite as mild tomorrow. Mainly in the 50s tomorrow night. Day plane the day planner looks like this. A couple showers tomorrow. Wednesday seasonable, breezy, 70. Then 65 cooler on thursday. Now, another front will come in on friday. A couple of showers are possible late friday, friday night, affecting friday football, but in the wake of the front, look at this only 55 on sunday, 61 next monday. And these low temperatures, saturday night, sunday morning, and sunday night and monday morning, those are downtown temperatures. So if the downtown temps are in the upper 30s, you folks in the burbs may have some frost on your pumpkin. All right. Yes. Talking redskins. They were talking fashion. [ laughter ] we were trying to find out if it is a good team or a bad team getting better. Theyre definitely better than what we have seen in the past as we have seen glimpses of this. Like we said yesterday they keep stepping on their own feet to be able to force overtime. Still heartbreaking to see that yesterday. Yes, i know. Weve seen their strives. Maybe thats a positive note to take from it at times. Some positivity here. They kept a good atlanta team. Well give them that. Redskin haves been dealing with a rash of injuries all season, but how soon will some of those key players be back on the field . We have the latest from ashburn. Plus the terps are partying ways with their head coach halfway through the injuries are always going to be a part of the game. For the burgundy and gold its been an issue so far this season and were only five games inment Frank Hanrahan live with more hopeful returns of key pieces. Reporter still the services of the wide receiver Desean Jackson because of the hamstring and tight end. The redskins offense is still very much competitive in that loss to the Atlanta Falcons tark19. With hopes that jackson could be returning soon with fingers crossed to regetting back against the jet jets next week. I think some of the guys that have been here, they see how disappointed we were as they didnt get a big win yesterday. But moving forward, theres a lot of positives to build off again. That you can keep saying that, but there are. Well get those guys healthy against the jets and play another good opponent and go from there. We just need to bounce back from it as we saw a lot of teams that are capable of doing it. Theres positives. But at end of the day, we still have a lot of stuff to do at the end of the game. And our goal is to win and retry to build everything that youll try to accomplish. You can get all the great stats, but if you lose, it really doesnt matter. Our goal is to wait. Reporter the redskins are going to need all the help that you can get against the offense thanks to a surprising 31 start and the skins, they are still winless on the road. At redskins park Frank Hanrahan wusa9 sports. Thanks a lot, frank. Mike loxley is in for now. A notsosurprising move, they fired their head coach sunday after three lopsided losses and a 24 start to the season. And now loxley and a local guy really big in to local recruiting takes over as interim head coach for the rest of the season. I asked director of athletics anderson if there is any doubt he was the guy to take over the program for now. No. Once i woke up this morning i knew i was going to go in this direction. Michael and i go back a long way. Ive seen him grow as a person and as a football coach. And so it helped me with my decision. We have six games to go. I expect for us to win all six games. And that wegore ing to compete and go to a bowl game. Of course the first day of the bye this week hosting about 60 kids from the American Hockey League at the at the kellar complex. Here is why he helps out year after year. Just a fun place, to play with the kids. Help them with hockey. So it is, for them its more fun than normal. Im happy to do it. Reporter i dont know if you remember the little 6year old girl anne as they took her out for sushi, thats where he met her at that event. So nice for him to go out there on that dayoff and help them with their sport. I heard he had a sick nasty goal on saturday. Caps looked good in their opener. So sick it was nasty. Yes. Dirty, filthy. Tomorrow were in pretty good shape just a couple showers. Not really a big deal in terms of commuting. Temperatures still in the mid to upper 70s. Thanks for watching everybody. Well see you back here at 7 00. Cbs evening news is next. Pelley stranded by the carolina floods. Well meet a teenager who became a lifeline. I look it at him being in the bible, the water being goliath. Pelley also tonight, a congressional investigator claims he was fired over the probe into Hillary Clintons emails. A new report says a rookie cop was justified in the Fatal Shooting of a 12 year old. And sounding the alarm at blue bell. The sanitation meltdown that led to death and a national recall. A lot of times when i walked in there, there was just ice cream all over the floor. Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley today the governor of South Carolina said the state is finally shifting from

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