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WUSA Wusa 9 News At 6pm March 3, 2017

Hunt. Hes using twitter to call out Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer for this picture with Vladimir Putin taken during the 2003 trip to new york. Schumer wants a special prosecutor to now determine if if sessions has compromised a federal investigation into russias meddling in our election. House and senate gop leaders are said to be working on a bill to repeal and replace obamacare. But senator rand paul of kentucky wants to see the bill but says he cant find it. He turned his twitter feed into a search for that piece of legislation. Photos were posted from the Supreme Court to the congressional hearing rooms and statutory hall with the words show me the bill. As of 6 00 p. M. Tonight there was no indication that senator paul had be shown the republican proposal that would repeal and replace obamacare. Pictures of white house Senior Advisor Kellyanne Conway kneeling on a couch in the oval office got a there are calls for louisiana democratic congressman Cedric Richmond to apologize for this comment he made about those images. And you even mention kellyanne and the picture on the sofa. But i really just want to know what was going on there because, you know, i wont tell anybody and you can just explain to me that circumstance because she really looked kind of familiar in that position there. But dont answer. I dont want to refer back to the 90s. Now you saw congressman richmond motion to senator tim scott. The congressmans comment came after senator scott talked about the history of the couch in the 1990s. Seemingly referring to the bill Clinton Monica lewinsky scandal. The louisiana gop is demanding an apology calling the comments sexist, demeaning and deeply offensive. The at is calling on him to do the same. He released a statement saying his joke was misinterpreted. Kellyanne conway is opening up about the pressures of working in the world of politics. In an interview for cbs sunday morning, Nora Odonnell asked if shes considered making a political run. Its not just the fire in your belly. You have to have the bile in your throat. This isy think many good women do not run for office. Bile in your throat . Just to swallow so much. The country looks at you through this negative lens and corruption and cronyism and youre lying and you want money and youre motivated by power. She also explains why she gave up money, privacy and time with her family in new jersey to take the job at the white house. Thats this sunday morning at 9 00 on wusa9. A st. Louis man is being arraigned in connection with at least hes 31yearold juan thompson. Investigators say all this started with thompson cyber stalking an exgirlfriend. He made threats against Jewish Community centers and named her as the culprit. In some cases he tried to make it appear she was framing him. Investigators finally questioned thompson about dozens of headstones overturned at a Jewish Cemetery near st. Louis. In montgomery county, a show of solidarity with the Jewish Community. Maryland senators were among the federal, state and local officials at an interfaith gathering to denounce the recent wave of antisemitism. Truly we are brothers and sisters of one human family. Its at times like this that we know that better than perhaps other times. So its important for us to be hanging on to that. Todays gathering took place at center of greater washington. Were following a developing story. A horrible after School Accident has killed two young people. 17yearold driver collin bepot and his 17yearold rear passenger desmond dock book died many that crash. 18yearold Caleb Marshall is in the hospital now with serious injuries. Just look at these pictures. Just torn that community apart. Students from nearby west lake high gathered at that intersection. We had two pass. Two more pass, itd be the fourth death. I dont think everybody is ready for that. Just heart breaking. The car involved in that accident was literally torn in half. Investigators have not yet determined how fast it was going when it hit the utility pole. A medical examiner is working to remain to identify two sets of remains found at Holmes Run Park who they think it is just yet. Theyre telling our Stephanie Ramirez this is tied to gangs. We heard a public plea from the Fairfax County police chief calling for participants to get more parents to get more involved for their kids. For the community to come together. Fairfax county police and the fbi say last night investigators discovered not bodies but two sets of human remains inside Holmes Run Park. They started searching a couple of days ago off a tip and said right away it was gang related. The chief took that one step further saying the scene will most likely be connected to other murders in the region. I would not want my kids growing up in this area, no. Theres violence everywhere. Definitely be aware. There needs to be no fear in calling Fairfax County police and asking for us to intervene with our young people to get them investigators are still here working at another portion of the park. The chief is asking us to report any anything suspicious and also investigators say to look out for graffiti. That could be a sign of gangs trying to mark their territory. Stephanie ramirez, wusa9. More than a dozen people are in custody for the murders of 15yearold Alexander Reyes rivas and 21yearoldyearold christian rivas. Those two cases are believed to be connected. They stretch from montgomery county, maryland to fairfax and Prince William county. The first weekend of march is going to feel like winter. Chief meteorologist topper shutt tracking the colder than normal temps on the terrace. The weather cant seem to match the calendar. Its going to feel more like january, early february this weekend. Were tracking a couple of snow showers. One moving through south of leesburg. About to county. One east of i81. Well kind of zoom in. This is over toward winchester. This is going to move through sterling across the dulles access toll road. Head into tysons on our storm tracker. Just conversational. The real story is cold. Temperatures right now, 34 in gaithersburg. 32 in frederick. 29 in hagerstown. If youre going out tonight, factor in the wind. Feels like its 19 in hagerstown. Feels like the upper 20s downtown. Well tell you which weekend day is going to be the coldest. Thats going to did you know slow internet can actually hold your business back . Say goodbye to slow downloads, slow backups, slow everything. Comcast business offers blazing fast and reliable internet thats 10 times faster than slow internet from the phone company. Say hello to internet speeds up to 150 mbps. And add phone and tv for only 34. 90 more a month. Call today. Co mcast business. Built fosir buness. In tonights health alert, the story of a pennsylvania woman who spent years struggling to lose weight. Over the course of 17 years mary clancys weight kept creeping up until she was 365 pounds. It wasnt until the 71yearold ended up in the er that doctors discovered it wasnt fat. Is was a 140pound ovarian cyst. I go to the doctor and hed say lets test and wed do tests and everything would be great. This is definitely an anomaly. Initially you can understand how it might have gotten missed. When it was a 5pound tumor. But when it was 140pound tumor, its tough to miss it in that later stage. So surgeons removed that it is huge. Impossible. Then they had to reconstruct marys entire abdominal wall and remove another 40 pounds of skin. Thats more than 180 pounds lost in one day. Literally. Half the person mary used to be. I mean its just stunning, isnt it . How do you explain i missed that. Kind of what that doctor was saying; right . An 88yearold pennsylvania woman says she talked an intruder out of raping her by lying about being hiv positive. The man forced his way into her apartment to rifle through her purse and then tied her hands together. Thats when i told him that i had hiv and my husband died of it, which is a lie. He didnt bother me. Thats when he got out the piece of wire that he had all rolled up in his pocket. Reynolds chewed off the duct tape, called for help. The suspect l why one ymca is restricting what people can watch when they work out. Up next, a not so subtle feud between a dc restaurant and one of its neighbors. Wired differently. Maybe thats why weve been ranked highest in Customer Satisfaction by jd power 4 years in a row. And now you can love fios too. Get our best offer of the year. 150 meg internet with equal upload and download speeds, tv and phone. All for 79. 99 per month, for the first year with a twoyear agreement. Ll 1. 888. Get. Fios get the best. Get fios. New at 6 00, not so subtle message. You need a boyfriend . Thats a sign hanging from a dc restaurant. Theres no love lost between these two sides of a tiny alley. This small fight is becoming a big talker. Shares how this all started. You know at first glance this seems to be an average alleyway. When you take a closer look around theres actually a war of words going on here. Like just over my lefthand shoulder, look at this sign. You need a boyfriend. Fighting words facing the apartments right next door. To see where this started, look no further than the trash. A neighbor says this all started to smell. One day he has enough and calls the health department. No major violations are found and the owner of the restaurant, rd the man who complained needs Something Better to do with his time. Hence this banner. Do you think this is taking things too far . I think its a little too far. What about your neighbor . Reporter there is a lot of anger in this town. Towards congress, the white house, you name it. On this corner of 9th and m, allison thinks this is a good dose of humor that we all need. Because its not mean. You need a boyfriend is not really insulting. Its actually quite funny. Reporter the owner told us he was trying to diffuse the situation with humor and he doesnt want to offend anyone. If you want to build some community, you need to do better. Reporter there are differing points of view as to the best way this could have been handled. Id probably just let it go. If it got bad, maybe talk to them and see how i could improve the situation. What a concept. Communication. Talking to one another. Reporter as of right now there is no indication that the sign is going to be taken down in. Man oh man. The owner tells us hes trying to stamp this fire out, not stir it up any longer. One scranton, pennsylvania area ymca is asking members to leave politics. Bans because the politically charged arguments they were causing prompted complaints. This is a safe haven and people want to come here and feel safe and be part of a community. When arguments are being, you know, are taking place over politics and things like that they dont feel safe. Definitely stop all the problems here because thats what everyone is fighting about about changing the activity channel, they stop that problem it wont happen any more. The cable news ban has been well received for the most part. Members say the gym should be a place to work out your frustratio scared this morning at Trump International hotel in new york city. A small electrical fire broke out on the 47th floor of the 52 Story Building in central park. This is not the trump tower in midtown manhattan where the president has a residence. Firefighters put out the flames. One person suffered minor injuries. Firefighters from 11 jersey shore communities were called to battle a blaze in the Historic Community of ocean grove. Thats just south of asbury park. The fire started in a vacant hotel, quickly spread. Four homes were destroyed. Three others damaged. Two firefighters injured here. Houston Police Arrested two suspects after a wild, high speed chase today. The driver hit at least two vehicles and kept going. Smoke pouring out of the back. The suspects bailed out. Officers tackled one of them. The other suspect ran off. They were able to track him dc got a whole lot of traffic fines. Theyre still steep. For driving 25 miles an hour over the speed limit thatll cost you 500. Passing a car stopped for a pedestrian at a crosswalk or intersection, thats another 500. There are new fines for pedestrians or cyclists too. Im obviously a pedestrian right now, i just got off my bike. I drive my car. If you dont like the fine, dont dont break the law. Dcs transportation director says 25 miles over the limit is an egregious offense as driving drunk. Country. If you know youre going to get a ticket you probably wont break the law. So slow down. I guess so. Topper. What . You pass me all the time on the way home. You call me old lady johnson slow. Speed racer. Why old lady johnson . It is cold. It hasnt really matched the calendar very often. Its 39 right now. Winds are gusting to 33. Dew points 10. Its a dry air mass. Couple snow showers still. This one still moving across into Fairfax County. One moving east of i81. Well track this one. Its into Fairfax County. Not a huge deal. Just a couple flakes. It might make it to tysons and fairfax in the next 10 minutes. The main headline tonight is just breezy and colder. Talking upper teens in the burbs. Breezy and cold tomorrow. Windchills, mid60s to mid30s. Mid20s to mid30s. Want you to focus on those numbers. Cold on sunday. Light winds. Thats good. Milder next week with some showers by tue. 10 00. Most of the burbs, upper 20s to around 30. By morning, 22 in gaithersburg. I think well be maybe 19 in places like, well certainly damascus. Maybe even leesburg could be 19 or 20 in the morning. By 10 00 were still in the 30s. By lunchtime only 40 downtown. Folks Frederick North and west will hold in the 30s tomorrow. At least upper 30s. By 5 30, were still 40. Tomorrow night, by 9 30 were 27 in gaithersburg. Temps are going to fall like a stone tomorrow night with dry air, clear skies and no winds. 20s to start. Only 40 by 1 00. And breezy all day. Still cold on sunday minus the winds. Milder on monday. 60. Next seven days. Showers on tuesday. Still mild. Low 60s. Right now well keep wednesday, thursday, friday dry. Temperatures in the upper 50s to around 60. Some high school basketball. Big time hoops. We have bragging gh line in high school ball. Wilson facing gonzaga. Dc state semis. Stronger is blasting without risking her bones. Its training her good cells. To fight the bad guys. Stronger is less pain. New hope. More fight. Its doing everything in your power. And everything in ours. Stronger, is changing even faster than they do. Because we dont just want your kids to grow up. We want them to grow up stronger. It is what you play for each level you go up to be known as the best and in local Boys Basketball a chance to make clear who the cream up crop is starting tonight. As part of game on varsity, got a huge matchup this evening. Number 7 wilson will face number 2 gonzaga. Theyll meet this evening on georgetown campus. Hernandez cant believe the tigers won the dc t itlefor the fist time in a long time. Felt like it was a gift. Still surreal to me that it really happened, you know, because i found out i thought it was 1977 but it was 1984. I was 1 when it happened. For us to win it now and in the 33rd year. It just felt good. I did something for wilson that a lot of people couldnt do. State of maryland. Knocking out whitman last t. Nigh now the rockets will face tomorrow. Maryland women always get it done. Set to tip again tonight quarters in about five minutes. I do not expect them to get upset against minnesota. Theyre on fire. We are wishing them all the very best tonight. Top, you want to take us out . Really cold. One of our coldest weekends in a while. Weve been spoiled of late. 43 tomorrow. 43 on sunday. With winds tomorrow, its going to feel like its in the 20s and 30s. Tomorrow night, kind of concerned about some of the vegetation. So far ahead. Strawberries and peach trees, its going to be mid teens tomorrow night. We go back in the 60s flexion week. Just in time to go to work. Exactly. Perfect timing, topper. Cbs is captioning sponsored by cbs

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