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WUSA Wusa 9 News At Noon May 4, 2017

Im andrea roane. House republican scheduled a vote for the plan to repeal and replace obamacare. After months of negotiations, gop lawmakers now said they have enough yes votes to push through the legislation. As weijia jiang explains, still, it faces an uphill battle in the senate. Reporter it ends today it will and today reporter lawmakers started debating on the house for the republican plan to repeal and replace obamacare. House leaders called for a vote after winning over lastminute holdouts. We will have the boat. This will pass. Reporter the bill would reduce subsidies for low income americans and eliminate taxes on the wealthy that pay for them. It would try to encourage young people to buy insurance by offering an agebased tax credit for people making less than 75,000 a year. States can choose to allow insurers for people with preexisting conditions, but only if the states set up high risk pools to help with the cost. It is still in there. The Insurance Company can charge whatever they want. You have cancer that will be 100,000 a year for your policy. Reporter democrats said republicans are rushing to pass a bill without waiting for the independent Congressional Budget Office to assess the impact of the plan. What is the rush . Wait one week to get a cbo score . Why is that such a radical idea . Reporter republicans said something has to be done. They claim obamacare is broken. We have to make sure this passes. It will collapse and they dont have healthcare. Reporter gop whip john cornyn said the house bill will have to go through considerable changes in order to get the 51 votes needed to pass the upper chamber. Weijia jiang, cbs news on capitol hill. Republicans are using roles known as budget reconciliation to avoid filibuster in the senate. This would mean they need only 51 votes to pass the bills. Four things about the Gop Health Care plan that could affect you the gop plan would reduce obamacare subsidies for lower income americans and eliminate taxes on the wealthy used to pay for them. Instead, people making less than 75,000 a year would get agebased tax credits. The bill seeks to lower premiums by allowing states to opt out of the minimum coverage rules that include Maternity Care and emergency services. States could also allow insurers to charge higher rates for some with preexisting conditions, but only if the states that have high risk pools would help people afford it. The healthcare vote has a lot of people talking on social media and the views are apparently one sided against the plan. The richest most powerful country in the world plays games with healthcare was one tweet. Shirley our reps will do the right thing. David tweeted, care, ultra wealthy become the ultimate welfare queens and insurance doesnt have to cover sick people. How does that work . Download the wusa app to follow the latest on capitol hill and get live updates on breaking news stories and join in the conversation, too. Lawn mower. Lawmakers are voting and President Donald Trump will watch from new york. He returns to the city for the First Time Since taking office and is speaking aboard the uss intrepid to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the battle of the coral sea, a major world war ii battle and the United States and australia joined forces to stop the Japanese Navy and make it retreat for the first time during the war. Australian prime minister, malcolm turnbull, will join the president. Today is a national day of praynd an executive order to scale back and Obama Administration edict that religious organizations provide Contraception Services to employees. It would establish broad exemptions for people and groups to claim religious objections. Some groups objected to the executive order, claiming it is state sanctioned discrimination against the lgbt community. The national day of prayer is an annual observance on the first thursday of may and invites people of all faiths to pray for the nation. It was created in 1952 by joint resolution in the u. S. Congress and signed into law by president harry truman. New at noon, these are live pictures from the house triangle on capitol hill where some congressional members are expressing outrage over racially motivated hate crimes that targeted the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority at American University. Will be there are members of the historically black sorority founded at Howard University in 1908. In the meantime, the search is on for this man. Bananas were left hanging from nooses on a campus. There is a 1000 reward for information leading to an arrest. The university of Maryland Police in college park are trying to find out who left a noose in a fraternity house. The website said it was found friday afternoon in the phi kappa towel house. University president , wallace loh, issued a statement calling the incident distractible and saying an investigation is under way. The number of complaints involving racial harassment and post secondary more than doubled over seven years from 96 in 2009 to 198 and 2016. Aside from the incidents at American University on the university of maryland, swastikas were carved at the university of denver last week. A five day manhunt for an escape to maryland prisoner is over. Using night vision goggles, Howard County officers captured david watson, hiding inside an 18inch drainage pipe. In 2012 he was charged with shooting at the homes of Law Enforcement officers. The judge ruled he was mentally incompetent to stand trial. In 2013, he was sentenced to 106 years in prison for opening fire on the home of the Bethany Beach Police Sergeant and at the time, guards transported the 28yearold watkins to the hospital with psychiatric evaluation orders. Rain is on the way and we have allyson with the first alert forecast. Not a yellow alert . It is coming tomorrow morning with a wet friday morning and a lot of rain that would probably make a slow commute. We are starting off cool, cloudy and breezy. It has been windy for three days. Today, with the wind and cloud cover moving in the head of the system, it feels kind of cool. It is a pleasant day with high pollen levels and we are waiting patiently for this rain. 64 degrees with wind out of the southeast at 15. Despite the clouds, the winds out of the south will help us get a few more degrees closer to 70 degrees this afternoon. If you are going to the nets game, grabbing your keys, the first pitch is at 1 05. The cloud cover is here and it will feel cool. Grab a light jacket for later this evening. Here are showers approaching west virginia. The bulk of the rain will be here in time for tomorrow. Weve had rain showers trickling in but the heaviest rain showers are arriving in the morning commute and will be here between 4 00 and 10 00 tomorrow. That is the heaviest rain and we will talk about isolated showers lingering through the day. Futurecast is 2 00 a. M. Off to the west with rainfall amounts the latest forecast can be had on the wusa9 app. Theyre not just giving a helping hand. A group of teenagers is building it, first. Evan koslof shows us the Cool Technology they are using to help people who need it. It was the coolest thing ever. Reporter you could call this a handson approach. You wont break it. Reporter armed with a 3d printer and goodwill, these kids make a difference. We are building a hand for somebody who doesnt have limbs. Reporter that sixthgrader, and you heard her, she said a hand. They are building a prosthetic for a boy theyve never even met. This 10yearold boy lives in new mexico and was born without a hand. It feels good knowing we are helping somebody with a disability. That is perfect. Found at the Alexandria Country day school. Can i have elastic . Reporter with help from theirs teacher, scott lieberman, theyre building the prosthetic from scratch. It is cool that the technology is getting so easy that i can introduce them to his 3d printer project with very little support. A little guidance and direction and they are off and running. Reporter as for charlie, he said the lesson is for patients. It is about troubleshooting and if you get it wrong, try again and find a way to make it work. Reporter their hard work paid off. The prosthetic is now ready to be shipped by the way, that funky coloring of blue and orange was on purpose. Young christian is a broncos fan. Its really exciting that he can go to school and instead of feeling different, feel special and show it off and potentially catch a ball, hold a cup, open the refrigerator. These are things we might take for granted and he ul week. Reporter in alexandria, evan koslof, wusa9. We partnered with a group called enabling the future and have 16 designs available online. All you need is a 3d printer and these devices can be made for less than 50. Most of us cant go a day without it and if you leave your cell phone behind, it is a big problem. In this weeks Digital Detox series, we are introduced to a man that isnt and the reason he wont. The unit is talking with someone who used to be a leader for ms13. Take a listen. We will do the recruiting and theyre waiting for a chance to shine. We go behind the scenes and investigate ms13 and our kids. Try new Flonase Sensimistgies. Instead of allergy pills. It delivers a gentle mist to help block six key inflammatory substances. Most allergy pills only block one. New Flonase Sensimist. Welcome back to the news at noon. Most of us cant go a day without it and if you leave your cell phone behind, it is a big problem. We are so attached to our devices. In this weeks series, we are introduced to a man who is in because he never owned one. You ask all that is possible . Take a look. We have mikea turner. Reporter somehow, he has gone a lifetime without it. I never had a cell phone. I do not want a cell phone. You couldnt give me a cell phone. Reporter no one, not even his wife his wife of almost 52 years can change his mind. I see people all the time. I go to the mall and restaurants and people are always on their cell phones. The biggest waste of time and energy and money that ive ever seen. Repr the answer is simple. If i needed to get in touch with someone, i could call someone on my landline, or if i were at home, i could use the computer. I can send emails. Or, i could borrow someone elses phone. Reporter that is his game plan but there are times when it didnt work. A few weeks ago, his wife was in the hospital and the computer was down in the landline at their home in Northern Maryland only makes local calls. What did he do . I made a phone call, locally, to my son and daughter inlaw in maryland and asked them to forward the messages to children in virginia. Reporter that was good enough. He likes to keep it simple. How does that make you feel . I feel at ease. Reporter we showed him what he could be missing a touchscreen to solve problems quickly. I dont know if i would trust myself with using this. Reporter he could pay bills from mobile apps. Touch id for my at t . Reporter the touch of my thumb print. Wow reporter and using face time. Hello. Reporter he is impressed, but not enough to buy a phone of his own. I am use to going oneonone and stop wasting so much time on your cell phones and on your computers. Just get a life. Reporter a little advice from a wise man who loves his simple life. Mikea turner, wusa9. Christopher does not have a social media, but will and friends. Only 40 of households have a landline and he is the father of one of our photojournalist in wusa9 and its interesting, because a new study claims people can be genetically predisposed to social media use and these are findings from kent state university. The study claims genetics actually outweigh environmental influence. It means if you are really active on social media are chances are, your parents are. It appears to be a hereditary trait. Not in my family. If you have time to kill or need a smile, check out the puppy, wusa9. Com. These are all future service dogs and one will join the wusa9 team as part of the training. They are all sleeping right now and our dog is named nigel. My personal favorite and the one i voted for. We dont know yet which one of these little guys is nigel and we will find out soon. They will grow big they were sleeping all morning. We were checking on them on wake up washington. I think they were getting some food because they were all perky and excited. They are precious little things. It is calming to watch this. We are so in love with these puppy comes. We are not in love with the forecast for tomorrow. We need a little rain. Weve seen wet weather as of late, but it is not creating that much of a difference in the drought situation. We could use a little bit more and tamara we expect a yellow weather alert day. We will fine tune this with the latest information in the next couple of hours and topper will update you again. This might be adjusted a couple hours here or there. So far, we will see a lot of rain through the Morning Hours tomorrow, may linger through lunch time and through the afternoon. The time where we see the heaviest amount of rain has been in the morning. Narrowing that timeframe, 3 00 until 10 00, we want be done with the rain, but the heaviest rain will be out of here in time for the morning commute and then showers linger. Over one inch of rain was good for the pollen, as well. We wont have severe weather, but we will see gusty conditions. Your umbrella might go inside out. Its cloudy and dry with the winds out of the south. Gusty wind will help increase humidity just a little bit for tomorrow. Showers today, right on top of us tomorrow morning and we will track this for the morning commute with clouds sticking around tonight. We will stay dry and i will show you two Different Solutions of what could happen with the showers and i will show you what i think at 2 00 in the morning with heavy rain after 3 00 and 5 30 tomorrow morning, 95, the beltway, you name it it will be wet. Through 8 00, the heavy rain will push to the north and east, drying us out and it might be aggressive for how fast it dries out. I want to show you this computer model, it shows heavy rain getting out of here by 8 00 and then we will be left with lighter showers hanging around the region. It will be misty and light with low clouds for the rest of the day and still a pretty gusty. By 6 00 tonight, one round of passing showers and by the overnight, we dry out. On saturday, isolated showers in the Late Afternoon and early evening and by sunday, a few stray showers. A little more on the west side than sunday, 67 today and through your weekend, making weekend plans, the temperatures will have more coming. Back in the forecast, next i love hanging out with my friends. I have a great fit with my dentures. I love kiwis. Ive always had that issue with the seeds getting under my denture. Super poligrip free. It creates a seal of the dentures in my mouth. 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New Flonase Sensimist you are looking live at capitol hill. Congressional members belonging to the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority expect to be a discussion expect to discuss about their time at American University. How action will be planned against hate crimes. We are dry, breezy and cloudy for the rest of the day. Clouds arrive late tonight for areas to the south and west. If you are traveling through harrisonburg, you will run through some good rain on 811th thing tomorrow morning. We will track it for you on wake up washington with isolated showers for the rest of the day and the weekend. [000 27 59;00] morning. That is it for wusa9 at noon. We will be back at 5 00. Have a great rest of your day and we will see you. Billy [ sighs ] phyllis hang on. Billy hm . Phyllis you really ready . For this relationship . You and me . No more lying . No more sneaking around . Billy wouldnt be in the middle of the lions den at jabot if i wasnt ready, wasnt sure. [ sighs ] what about you . 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