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WUSA Wusa 9 News At Noon May 16, 2016

High school recently, dc educators say we must make sure kids get to and from school safely. They are encouraging everyone to join the man the Block Program today, to ensure safe passage and send a strong message. Delia goncalves has more on the story. The man the Block Program started right here, at the Richard Wright public charter school, and it is a very personal one. We look at this group of kids standing behind me, and they should be worth something. Dr. Marco clarks former student 15yearold john evans was stabbed to death at Deanwood Metro in april two weeks after devon tay washington, another 15year old, was gunned down at deanwood. Police arrested suspects in both cases. 90 of our kids across the city are remarkable and we need to start celebrating them. What about those kids that really come to school every day, and do what they are supposed to do . If were asking them to come to school, every day, we should at least make sure they can get home safe. Lark and his students are getting clark and his students are getting ready for the man the block ra afternoon, a citywide effort with two dozen Charter Schools involved. The idea is to get community members, men and women, to form a human chain of protection and support, for kids walking home from school. Sometimes you just dont feel safe. You dont know who is around the corner and what is around the corner or what is waiting for you. The motivation to know someone is coming out to help you, and that they care for you, you know, is a big thing. Again, dr. Clark asking all of you to consider volunteering at 3 00 p. M. At a local participating school in dc. To make sure our children get home safely. Delia goncalves, wusa 9. This little boy didnt get home safely. He was caught in the crossfire of a shooting saturday. And luckily was helped by an offduty emt. Ver ron ka bass kerrville was at a baby shower at 12th Street Southeast and heard the gunshots and went to find a bleeding boy in a womans lap and grabbed her trauma kit from the car and was able to it was hard but in that situation, i could feel myself getting ready to break down, but i had to say hey, you got to get it together, you got somebody who needs your help. Lets go to work. Other crews arrived and the boy was taken to a nearby hospital. Doctors expect him to survive. Two services are scheduled today, for victims at two day shooting spree earlier this month. Family and friends pay their final respects to 65yearold claudine molina at Saint Jude Catholic Church in rockville today. She was shot and killed on the sixth of may in a parking lot outside an aspen hill giant store. Police say the 62yearold suspect killed her and other people. And the River Park Community will honor those who tordils first victim, the estranged wife gladys, and shot may a in the parking lot of parkdale high school, where gladys taught science for more than this evening, inside the school for her. Turning to the race for the president ial nomination, donald trump is on the attack, after a New York Times article, outlining instances that some say showed trump being demeaning to women. Well, he calls the article a and the Democratic Candidates square off against each other in oregon and kentucky tomorrow and over the weekend they took shots at trumps candidacy. He is a loose cannon who has said take muslims out and withdraw from nato. The list is long. If they want the strongest candidate to defeat donald trump, Bernie Sanders is that candidate. Hillary clinton is campaigning again in kentucky, today, while Bernie Sanders heads to puerto rico, which holds the Democratic Caucus june 5. You can stay up to date 24 7 on all of the developments on the road to the white house. On our free undervalued and underappreciated. That is how some teachers at a few area Public Schools in the district are feeling. More than a dozen teachers hit the streets to rally for better pay and other solutions to lingering problems. Mikea turner explains what is going on. Reporter some teachers at Thompson Elementary School here and some other schools in the area are not happy. Because they say Dc Public School officials and the chancellor walked away from negotiations years ago and now demanding a new agreement. What do you want . Contract. When do you want it . Now. The Washington Teachers Union joined forces with this group of frustrated teachers from Thompson Elementary School in northwest, monday morning. They are protesting for higher pay and a new contract. The contract not only provides for our salary which is a contentionous point today. Teachers have not had a raise since 2011 and the neancellor has suspended toth and 5th grade to 4th and 5th grade students and he says he and others feel unappreciated and with the cost of living on the rise, it is a struggle to survive. The past few years the average teacher salary has done gown by 2400. The Spokes Person for the Dc Public School says the negotiations have been going on since 2013. Scwution discussion was called off when they could not reach an agreement. We are asking the chance lore to come back to the table and value teachers. In a statement the School System says quote we have disappointed we have not made more progress to date and hoping to resume more negotiations in the near future. The teachers say they are not giving up, if their their demands are met, they say they will continue to make their voices heard. Reporting from the district, mikea turner, wusa 9. The chancellors last offer to the union was a 1 raise for teachers, over six yes. Rally at the school on wednesday. We have just learned the man who tried to run over two Prince Georges County Police Officers has entered a plea. Gene Thomas Brandon was behind the wheel of this dump truck when he tried to ram two county Police Officers in january 2015. He pleaded guilty to two counts of attempted firstdegree murder on friday. But a judge ruled that brandon was not criminalbly responsible for his actions and ordered him to a Mental Health facility for treatment. Finally, some sunshine. It feels great out here. The temperatures are still below average. But we will take it. There is not a cloud in the sky. 50 degrees. And it only feels a little cool when the winds start gusting. Nothing like yesterday. We know that. So windy yesterday. We are talking just a light breeze, 10 to 20 miles an hour. And in that case, a good gust up to 25. And looking at lows, these are very typical for mid april. We want the mid may temperatures, we got the sunshine and now we need the temperatures to warm up, so we dropped down to 45 in washington and a lot of 30s out there, and baltimore, tied the record at 37 degrees. And we are making a nice recovery, upper 50s, near 60 right now, for washington and we are going to keep on adding to that. It is gorgeous today. Enjoy it. The showers are back in the forecast. As early as tomorrow. And i will time it out for you coming up in just a bit. Next, investigators pulled the safety records for the owners of the Charter Bus Company that crashed killing as many as nine people, and it is not good. Did you know, we are giving away a brand new car on wakeup washington, four more keys left to give away. So watch every morning this week at 6 00, for the word of the day. And your chance to get a new set of wheels and the best part, you wont pay a dime. The car, the tax and the tags are all included and the Supreme Court rids itself today of a naughty dispute between faithbased groups and the Obama Administration over birth control. In a unanimous decision, the high court decided not to decide, but rather, ask lower courts to take another look at the issue and search for a compromise. In the short term, the government can take steps to make sure women covered by the Groups Health plans have access to costfree contraception. While at the same time, the group wont face fines for refusing to comply with the Administration Rules for objecting to pay for birth control. New information about this weekends deadly bus accident in texas. It turns out oga, the company that owns the charter bus that crashed and killed nine people has a history of safety issues. More than 40 others were hurt when the bus crashed and rolled over near laredo on saturday, headed to a casino when it crashed. Families of the passengers rushed to the hospital to find out if their loved ones survived the collision. She was outside. It looked like she had passed on. Again, oga, a texasbased company, owns the bus involved in the accident. And according to the associated press, last year, the company was ordered by Louisiana State inspectors to take one of its buses off the road, to fix brake and exit door problems. Cold and breezy today. More rain is on the way. Vo for dominion, part of delivering Affordable Energy includes supporting those in our community who need help. Our Energyshare Program does just that, assisting with bill pay and providing free, energysaving upgrades. Its more than helping customers, its helping neighbors. Stand by me im adam longo. Myesha mccoy watched the baltimore riots in horror. Her mom and pop pharmacy destroyed and looted. Tonight, her incredible story of Building Back up. And finding beauty in thats at 11 00. In todays health alert, cluster headaches. One of the most painful and highly debilitating types of headache, they strike quickly, and usually without warning. With no known cause, finding sustained relief from the excruciating pain of a cluster headache has been difficult. But a new medical device being tested by a local doctor is showing promise. Tension headaches and migraines have been a constant in victor basils life. But the pain went from awful to excruciating six years ago, when he suffered what he now knows is a cluster headache. It is almost like the eye socket has been constricting on your eyeball and pulsing. So that the constant throbbing, pulsing action, it feels like your eyeball is going to just burst. His pain would strike in cycles. Multiple times a day. Each lasting up to three hours. It is why some call cluster headaches suicide headaches. They are about 500,000 sufferer like victim ver a personal or Family History victor have a personal or Family History of migraines. Typically young. Typically male. Mid life. And they are typically type a behavior. Dr. Mahan shaanamma is a neuro headaches specialist who treats victor and uses inhaled oxygen and soupotrippetten to minimize the attack. The doctor is considering him a possible clinic for a clinical study, testing a new treatment option. It is an implantable device called a neuro stimulator. Almond shaped, implanted above the upper rows of the teeth, the gums, and then the electrodes will then go to the ganglionn when they feel the cluster headache coming, they have a Remote Control that is held to the cheek for 15 minutes to start the stimulation therapy. They helped abort the headache in 60 of the patients. But there were in some populations, they actually showed that the frequency of attacks dropped. The device is implanted during minor oral surgery and once in place, the neuro stimulator stays in. European studies show it is well tolerated by most patients, and its side effects are few. The doctor may know in a few weeks if mr. Basil meets the criteria for the study. And in the meantime she hopes to recruit at least 10 patients for the neuro stimulator center. If you are interested contact the inova Research Institute or check out the headache study study come. A woman in boca raton florida has a good excuse for not being at work today. A shark bit her over the weekend and didnt let go. The 23yearold woman was bit by a two foot nursing shark sunday afternoon. Witnesses say she was remarkably calm as she waited for help a really, really, really hard, but i am glad everything is okay. Very little blood. She was calm. Good vitals and they secured her to a splint. On to the stretcher. With the shark. And she went to boca raton regional hospital. With the shark attached to her arm. The shark has been in our park for some time. And although we have compassion for the victim, we are also sad that the shark is, urine, not going to be there any is you know, not going to be there anymore. That woman is hospitalized in stable condition and expected to be okay. A bond between a child and a pet may be hard to explain but it is so obvious when you see it. This is molly deluka and she just wants her best friend to come home. He has been in the hospital since wednesday after he was bitten three times by a diamondbacked rattle stake in tampa, florida. Molly and her grandmother were in the back jumped between him and the snake. And he has so much very venom. He sa has a steady drip of antivenom medicine. To stories you may have missed up and others picking up steam online, here is a look at what is trending with Nikki Burdine burd robotic bartender, recordsized planes and a pee pee nis transplant. Thomas in massachusetts had a transplanted penis in a 15 hour transplant, and it came from a donor, his was originally removed due to an aggressive cancer and his recovery is going well and he is expected to regain normal urination in a few weeks, with sexual function in months. And everything is bigger, down under, including the planes. The Worlds Largest plane landed for sunday in perth, transporting a Power Generator from the czech republic. It took 12 hours for the cargo to be unloaded. And to the seas where bigger is also better. The biggest cruise ship tock to the water over the weekend. The harmony of the seas, a 16 deck high cruise ship with a record 5,479 passengers. And state rooms in the harmony are centered around and outdoor area called central park. Which of course has three multi story water slides. There is also a bionic bar, where drinks are served by robots. And the in victim us Invictus Games took place in florida. And the former naval officer Steve Simmons and another officer plan to cross the finish line at the same time and steve became exhausted and mark pushed steve across the line to take the gold. The moment was praised by prince harry during the closing ce im Nikki Burdine. Now back to you. All right, what a gorgeous day. So far. Now it is a little chilly. We were in the 30s this morning. But we are at 60 degrees. It feels great out there. With all of the sunshine. And until the wind blow, lets see a little cool, when the wind starts to kick up, 10 to 20 miles an hour. But it is beautiful. Would he had a nice weekend. And we had a nice weekend. A little bit of rain. But finally, today is kind of pictureperfect. We are back to the rain chances, as early as tomorrow. And so enjoy today. And get outside, and maybe have dinner outside later on tonight. The temperatures will be comfortable. And the winds will even more let up a little bit as we head through the dinner hour. Mid60s this afternoon. Upper 60s for the washington area. And 64 for 6 00. And 8 00, yes, 60 degrees. And still pretty nice. As we head through the evening hours, the clouds are on the way back in. And southerly winds, and some clouds, and thats going to keep the temperatures out of the 30s. For first thing tomorrow morning. An our rain chances. And our rain showers headed our way for tomorrow. So yes, we have another yellow weather alert day. For tuesday, and probably another one on wednesday. And we will monitor that, though. And so, nice High Pressure keeping us gorgeous today. But you can see that green, over near st. Louis, headed our way, for tomorrow. And so when does it arrive . Really after the morning rush. The early commuters, we will show you the future cast in a moment. Tuesday and wednesday are your rain chances, scattered. It is not a washout. It is not going to rain all day. Thursday, it looks promising. That forecast, it could change, depending on where a stall boundary sets up at the end of the week, but for now, it is looking good for thursday, and especially on friday. All right, take a look at the future cast. Winds are turning a little more southerly tonight. That will help us stay in the 40s and the 50s. By first thing tomorrow morning. And cloudy skies, so between about 5 00 and 8 00 in the morning. If that is your rush hour, no problems, so it will be just pretty dry and cloudy. 8 00, 9 00, 10 00, those showers push on in. They are pretty light. As we get to the lu intensity tomorrow. The heavier rain farther south of interstate 64, south of richmond. So just some showers around lunchtime, as we head through your drive home, we are dry and cloudy and cool and easterly wind will keep us in the upper 50s. Around 60 at best. So we start the day a little wet. And end the day pretty cloudy and cool. And now, as late as 11 00 at night, more showers are on their way. And these are going to move on in for your wednesday morning. And no matter what time you commute on wednesday or where are you headed in the morning, we will be dodging a few showers. And pockets of heavier rain. From 5 00 to lunchtime, the showers stick around. And they start to let up once again during the afternoon. So it is not going to be a complete washout, on wednesday either. And 68 degrees today. It is breezy. It is cool for this time of the year. But it is still feeling

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