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WUSA Wusa 9 News At Noon December 11, 2015

Scott broom is in town with more on this reporter you could call it a retirement, but really, hes stepping aside from the Police Department to take an inbring position as director of Public Safety here here in Prince Georges County. While other Police Departments are inty under turmoil, here, things are going extremely well. Since 2010, crime has dropped 41 . Here are his thoughts as hes leaving office. This Police Department is in good hands with the chief. Hands down, my choice to replace me, but theres, theres depth all through this department. This department is good in its leadership for the next 20 years. Reporter so thats the out going chief introducing his new interim replacement. County executive here in Prince Georges County says he plans to make the appointment permanent by taking it before the county council as soon as possible. Scott, one question before you go ; according to the washington post, they are using the word retirement. Has he actually said it and if so, i wonder if that translates into getting Retirement Benefits even though hes going into another position. Reporter the finances are not clear but it is officially a retirement from a long 30 year career in Law Enforcement and a step into a new role. Thank you scott. Other news now, d. C. Drivers be ware, d dot is planning to slap violaters with hefty fines of up to 1,000. Reporter triple a calls these fines excessive and wonders how people of modest means can afford to pay them when an unpaid ticket in the city doubles in 30 days. Violate traffic laws in d. C. , prepare to dig deep in your wallet. Exceed did limit by 20 miles per hour, a thousand dollars. Rolling through right on red, 200. If youre speeding by a reck or reck wreck or blocking a bus, 500. Better enforcement would help. If thats inside a neighborhood, i would say thats fine because people want safety in their neighborhood. I do agree some kind of control is needed, but a thousand dollars is bad. Reporter why . Because people die, no reason. My granddaughter got hit by a car crossing on east capitol. I thank god shes alive. A lot of times people ignore the cross walks or ive had people say expletives to me when im on the cross walk and its my right of way. Reporter traffic deaths were up 16 in 2015. D dot is trying to make our lives safer on foot and on two wheels. Its not a done deal yet. The proposals will be posted today with a 30 day Public Comment period to follow. To learn more on how you can weigh in, go to our wusa9 mobile app. The university of marylands byrds stadium is no more. At least not the name. An hour ago, the board voted to change the name to maryland stadium. Critics say hairy curly byrd worked to keep black students off the campus when he was president. He kept the school segregated until the court order to force enrollment. Sentencing was handed down for a 19 year old who killed his friend and then set the body on fire. The man pleaded guilty of murder. Guidelines for sentencing call for a range of 18 to 26 years. Mcneil was found dead in an alley last june where the two men shared an apartment. After the murder, is suspect told police the victim was his best friend. Four vehicles crashed on the wilson bridge this morning. The crash shut down several lanes of the interloop for three and a half three and a half hours. A scary School Bus Ride in fairfax county. The bus hit a guardrail along the southbound side of 395. 13 students were transmitted to a transported to a local hospital for treatment. A spokesperson says the injuries are not life threatening. Its unclear what caused the driver to lose control of the bus. Funeral arrangements for a Montgomery Police officer noah leotto are being worked out. He died yesterday e nearly a week after a car struck him during a traffic stop. County police chief tom manger says there needs to be some changes when it comes to state drunk driving laws in maryland. The state of maryland has some of the weakest penalties for drunk drivers. Until they take this crime seriously, there is no justice for these families. Reporter plus say the man whose hit the officer is now charged with dui. Today is a budget deal deadline for the federal government. Even though no deal is in place, there will not be a government shut down. House Speaker Paul Ryan says he will push through the bill to extend funding for a few days. Maryland representative Chris Van Holland says he wants Governor Hogan to explore every possible state action to stop gun sales to dangerous individuals, particularly those on the fbi terror watch list. He sent a letter to the governor yesterday making that request. And connecticuts governor is calling for the same thing. He talked to federal d hes talking to federal government right now trying to make it happen in connecticut. When the nra can stop the congress of the United States from passing common sense legislation, were in trouble as a democracy. Over hemly, people want to see some level of background checks on a universal basis. The fbi is going be returning to a lake today just 3miles from the massacre in san bernardino, california. They are looking for a missing hard drive from a computer belonging to the killer, Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife tashfeen ma look. Reporter the fbi says it has searched the park where this lake is located, searching the lake is the next step. We did have a lead that indicated that the subjects came into this area. Reporter the fbi continues to interview farooks friend enrique marquez, the man investigators say purchased the rifles used in the attack. Cbs news has learned hes telling authorities he and farook abandoned a planned attack in 2012. That same year, a separate attack was thwarted. There may be connections that are multiple degrees of separation, weve got to find that out. Reporter marquezs family were surprised to find him involved. One described him as goofy and door dork can you dorky. Im really out of shape, but im sore now. Im really, really sore. Reporter marquezs mother wont say if shes had contact with her son since the incident but she images hes scared. [ inaudible, heavy accent ] reporter she says he was a good person in the house with me. He would take care of me when i was sick. His mother also said she was unaware of her sons marriage to a russian immigrant who is related to farook by marriage. Friends say the couple did not live together. That was John Blackstone reporting. The funeral for the first shooting victim took place yesterday. There are several more scheduled in the days ahead. Stunning new numbers on just how much money isis gets through illegal oil sales. One Treasury Department official says it could be up to 40 million a month. That adds up to about 500 million a year. The u. Ays. Ss the Syrian Government is one of the biggest buyers too. Coalition forces are bombing isis oil fields but the terrorist group has learned how to adapt. We over estimated really, the damage that we did, the long term damage and under estimated their ability to adapt to that. The u. S. Government says syrian locals set up crude refineries before selling it to traders. Coming up on the news at noon, trumping trump. New surveys show his opponents are starting to gain ground. We have the latest. Plus, with open arms, first wave of Syrian Refugees its the holidays. Which means a house full of people who all want to get online. So its the perfect time for verizon fios. It has the Fastest Internet and wifi available. With speeds from 50 to 500 megs. And right now, youll get 50 meg fios internet, tv and phone for 79. 99 a month online for your first year. And with a 2 year agreement, well give you all the premium movie channels for a year. Plus, 400 dollars back. So go online or call now. Get out of the past. Get fios. After 141 days on the International Space station, spacecraft landed safely on earth hours ago. The crew members made a rare night time return. They touched down at 8 00 a. M. This is the sixth night landing in space station history. With the crew back on earth, the Russian Space engineers will set their sights on launching three fresh station crew members to boost the labs crew back to six. A new country and a new life the first wave of syrian retch yu gees are in canada. Refugees are in canada. 163 syrians greeted last night. A former Oklahoma City Police Officer is facing more than 200 years in prison after being convicted of rape charges. He was accused of sexually assaulting 13 women in low Income Housing areas where he was patrolling. Turning to campaign 2016. Changing poll numbers have put a candidate on a collision course with donald trump. Reporter ted cruz is on the rise in the race for the gop nomination. The latest cbs news poll shows the senator gaining 12points from october and is in second place. He now has the endorsement of a prominent social conservative who has backed the last two iowa gop winners. I really believe and expect senator ted cruz to be the nominee. Reporter donald trump remains the first runner, but cruz doesnt seem worried telling donors that trump and ben carson will fade. I will believe that gravity will bring those campaigns down. People are looking for who is prepared to be commander in chief. Who is prepared to face the troubles we face. Reporter this morning, trump fired off a tweet saying looks like ted cruz is getting ready to attack. Im leading by so much, he must. I hope so, he will fall like all others. Trump has seen challengers rise in the polls before falling even after making controversial statements like this weeks call on a ban on muslims coming into the country. We just cant afford anymore to be so politically correct. Reporter while a majority of americans tell the news they disagree with the proposal, the opposite is true when you talk to republicans. 67 of people polled say trumps proposal to ban muslims would go against americas founding principals. Still ahead, backyards looking like lumberyards of a rare tornado rips through Washington State. Here, it looks wonderful. Fire up the grills. Its springtime in december. Weve got 50s and a few low 60s. Were talking 70 degrees readings this weekend. Ill let you know how long look, the wolf was huffing and puffing. Like you do sometimes, grandpa . Well, when you have copd, it can be hard to breathe. It can be hard to get air out, which can make it hard to get air in. So i talked to my doctor. She said. 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Clean up is under way in Washington State after it was battered by a rare tornado. The Pacific Northwest has been slammed by wicked weather for the last few weeks weeks. Its ripping whole trees up dude. Reporter thursdays tornado had winds topping 104 miles per hour. It uprooted dozens of trees. It does appear a tornado did go through. Multiple trees down, multiple lines. Reporter about 36 homes and a pair of businesses were damaged. Vanessa works at a mini mart. The wind came through the doors, pushed those doors out, in and back out and then water started pouring through the roof. Reporter wooden stakes sliced through one home like daggerses. It looked like the wizard of oz out here. There was debris flying everywhere, trees flying down the road. Reporter heavy rain and winds have been pounding the northwest for a week now. Some areas have been soaked with as much as 18 inches of water. Construction crews have been working around the clock to clear mud and dirt from mud slides that have closed roads. A normally 40 minute commute took more than 3 hours thursday. Some 555 miles south . California sierra mountains, it isw as much as 3 feet are forecast. It went from blue skies to dark. It was like being inside a clothes drier with gravel inside. Look at these pictures. You know, it was somewhere out there, a monster snowstorm. Up to more than 2 feet of snow. I wonder where these are from but they are beautiful. Around here, it feels more like may or maybe an early october day. Its going with to going be gorgeous this weekend. Yeah, last season it was january before we got our first snow. Yeah, i went through some old social media post and we had a big storm in march. Yeah, sometimes february and march is when we get our big storms. Were having spring like weather now through the weekend. Even when with w we get a front even when we get a front next week, well be above 60. We start out with some filters sunshine. We have a lot of high level cloudiness. This is in some cases giving us mostly sunny skies, other cases, mostly cloudy. Highs in town, mid60s. 50s this evening. If you have date night or whatever, you should be in good shape. Records for today are 68 in washington, 71 saturday and sunday. Those are the record highs the forecast temperatures will be close today and tomorrow. Sunday, i think will be the best chance to tie or break a record. Not that we cant do it tomorrow, but the average also, only 48 so way above average. Right now, were up to 65 in frederiksberg. Its 52 on the bay. A very comfortable day. You see that filtered sunshine im talking about. It was sunny five minutes ago, now its mostly cloudy. 56 officially cloudy but its a thin overcast. When we get rain in here monday, i think monday afternoon, monday evening, could see heavy downpours. While theres a lot of clouds across the country, not much moisture. You really got to go west. Its the west coast lit up with green from san diego to seattle. Lets build that snow pack up and you can see another branch of the jet coming up here that will bring another storm system to the west in a day or two. In the meantime, these features with the high clouds, this is what gives forecasters headaches. When were forecasting and the 3degree guarantee has been a struggle. We kind of pull our hair out because those are tough to forecastment a little cloudiness this time of year, it will cost us a few degrees. It looks dry and relatively mild. If were not 65, were 62. Front stays to the north. We are look nice start your saturday. Tomorrow, maybe some fog off to our south and east over toward the bay and again on saturday night into sunday morning. The mild air is in place. All of this weather out west is going take its time moving here. Even sunday afternoon and monday, were seeing it move into the ohio valley and tennessee monday morning. I think this will be here monday with showers and potential thunderstorms. 65 today, 40s to near 50 tonight. Tomorrow, 68, and a record tying 71 on sunday. Unless those early clouds hold us down. Monday, showers and storms developing, 68 and still in the 60s tuesday and wednesday. Were go we stop arthritis pain, so you dont have to stop. Tylenol® 8hr arthritis pain has two layers of pain relief. The first is fast. The second lasts all day. We give you your day back. What you do with it is up to you. Tylenol®. And sometimes i struggle to sleep at night,blind. And stay awake during the day. This is called non24. Learn more by calling 8448242424. Or visit your24info. Com. Its one of the hottest Holiday Gifts this season. Apparently too hot to fly. Delta and United Airlines are joining a growing list of airlines when it comes to banning hover boards as checked in carry on luggage. Theres worry that a lithium ballet reed power inside Battery Powered in them will catch on fire. A dad spoke and amazon listened. It renamed the amazon mom program to amazon family. A group of dads asked them to change the name and it looks chelsea [ sighs ] its a good tree. Adam its a great tree. Chelsea [ chuckles ] can we stay like this all night long, please . Adam yeah. Are you kidding me . After all your effort decorating this place, we can stay here as long as you want. [ knock on door ] chelsea [ chuckles ] seriously . Adam yeah, all right. Ill ill get it. Whoever it is, ill tell them to scram. Chelsea [ chuckles ] adam dont move. Chelsea okay. Sage oh, thank god. Heat. Adam you, uh. Werent sitting alone in the park again, were you . Sage no, no. My heats off in my apartment. But, um, im interrupting something. I should go. Chelsea no. Its its okay. Uh, whats going on . Sage i did something crazy. Adam what did you do

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