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WJLA ABC7 News At 5 December 11, 2017

Information as to how to make a homemade bomb. Authorities expressing some relief saying the situation could have been a lot worse. This was an attempted terrorist attack. Thank god the perpetrator did not achieve hills ultimate goals achieve his ultimate goals. Im david daniel, abc7 news. Within the minutes of the explosion in new york, metro told abc7 its tightening security. Terrorism analyst brad garrett tells us that is a must in the era we live in. Washington, d. C. Is an attractive target because its the seat of the government but it is a symbol to the bad guys if they could pull off something here that might be cool. If we have anything it will fit some version of what happened in new york today. Meanwhile, signs of the security abound here at the Christmas Market in downtown d. C. Concrete barriers and the armed officers at ev corner. Get alerted to the news as it breaks wherever we are. The news app. Its free and available in the app store and google play. Nancy update now on the Anne Arundel County woman critically injured in the massacre in las vegas. Family members say tina frost is home from the holidays. She is taking a break from the intensive rehab but is expected to continue her recovery and continue rehab. Alison no more oped. That is a warning from a federal judge to Paul Manafort in a hearing this morning. The judge did not penalize the former Campaign Manager for an oped he ghost wrote. Manafort and his business associate rick gates will remain under house arrest until a hearing in january at least. They both face dozens of charges from conspiracy to money laundering. Nancy a woman says she was attacked by what she thought was the it happened a few blocks from the u. S. Capital. Brianne carter has more on what police are saying. Brianne the police are not confirming if the man was a driver for a forhire company. Authorities say it was in this area that the car was driving when the man pulled over and attacked the woman. According to police the woman believed she was getting a ride from a forhire driver. The driver pulled the car over. The man grabbed her and attempted to reach down her pants. The Woman Tells Police she began screaming inside the car the man strangled and punched her several times. This is a horrible thing to have happen. I hope people definitely pay a lot of attention to the woman escape and the man drove off. They havent confirmed if he worked for a forhire company and no word if she used an app to call for a ride. The reason i like the ride sharing apps is because there is a record. You know who is expected to pick you up. A record of where you are going. Brianne carter, abc7 news. Alison this is just in. University of Maryland Police looking for a voyeur. Friday night a student at Hagerstown Hall said someone with a phone was peering over the stall in a bathroom. She screamed. That person left. The police searched the area but they did not find the voyeur. Nancy massage therapist accused of sexually assaulting women will plead guilty. His accuser went public as a National Lawsuit against the spa chain. Alison in bethesda, a makeshift memorial. Hugs and tears and questions at the students at Walt Whitman High School comes to grips with the loss of a classmate for the second time in two weeks. Navid sepehri was found dead and brad bell joins us where the sign yours body was seniors body was found. There are so many questions still unanswered. Brad a lot of questions are unanswered and it doesnt look like we will get the final answer tonight. This is where the body was found. Im walking through here and it is easy to trip and they are looking into the possibility that there was a party and he may have been running from police but its not known for sure. All day the young people are coming here to the place yesterday the police found the body of their friend. 17yearold navid sepehri. They bring flowers and try to remember the High School Senior they called nav. They all declined to speak out of respect for the family. The principal sent a letter home asking those who knew the teen to celebrate his love of art and commitment to others. He was last seen saturday and sunday he was reported missing and they began to search and found the body here. How he came to be here two miles from the house and a mile from where he has been seen is unanswered. The memorial next to the Swimming Pool continues to grow. Friends continue to come and go. Neighbors calling a crushing scene. This is close to my heart. Its very sad. The police are waiting for the results before they can find out if alcohol may have been involved. The playlist say they seized a pound of marijuana, bag of cocaine and 10,000 cash. If drugs were not in the daycare facility. Alison lets switch gears to talk about the weather. Looking outside, most of saturdays snow melted away. But it doesnt mean to warm up yet. Good evening, everyone. This time last week we talked about the three cold fronts coming through in the extended forecast. We had two and now we are looking for the third one on wednesday. It will cool us off. How about this . 44 outside now with a feels its not bad at all for this time of year. We are dropping to the midtoupper 30s. Outlying areas around the metro region. Stay in the low 40s. Overnight we are going to get down into the 20s. That is not the right one. Low to the upper 30s. How cold it will get on wednesday. Timing as well. Michelle thank you. Nancy a new warning as the fastmoving wildfires exploded again inside southern california. This hour, thousands of people are told to flee. Even the alisters are not immune to this. In las las los angeles, 2,000 me firefighters join the fight. Ferociously and continues to show no sign of letting up. My neighbor pounded on my door at 3 00. Debbie, get out pushing its way. Among them actor rob lowe. Praying for people in the area. Hope everyone is getting out safe like we are. This time lapse video. 800 structures there had been destroyed with 18,000 still at risk. Some residents returning home to find nothing left. My gosh monday, is there is hope for the rest o crews gained the upper hand on fires. The smoke clears and the devastation remains. Im heartbroken. We are thankful that we are alive. That is the most important thing. The reason its so tough to fight the fire it is burning in the areas never burned in recorded history. The state spent 34 million to suppress the fire. Alison back at home no word what sparked a house fire on Loudoun County sunday night. The body of the man and his dog were found in the home on taylor town road. An Alarm Company alerted them to the fire. The flames were so intent they battled it from the outside. The victims name has not been released. Coming up here at 5 00, protecting against terror in the u. S. What we are learning from todays failed attack. Plus, how a little girl turning to duct ta alison the program turning to pets to improve the schools for everyone. In takoma park, someone is vandalizing decorations. A cinch is out there. The pol your brain is an amazing thing. But as you get older, it naturally begins to change, causing a lack of sharpness, or even trouble with recall. Thankfully, the breakthrough in prevagen helps your brain and actually improves memory. The secret is an ingredient originally discovered. In jellyfish. In clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve shortterm memory. Prevagen. The name to remember. The freestanding, cordfree vacuum that can live anywhere because it has two rechargeable batteries. That means you can always be charging, even while youre cleaning. Welcome to hasslefree runtime with shark. Alison two sub chron tackers were working on scaffolding when it collapse and the other worker is treated for a leg injury. Their names have not been revealed. Nancy quite the scene. Outdoor christmas decorations, torn apart, crushed and scattered down the street. Electric wiring broken. Alison this happened in two takoma park neighborhoods minutes apart. Richard reeve is live at takoma park with the latest today. Any leads at this point . Richard yeah. Police dont have too many leads. Look at this. This is most of the damage along grant avenue in front of this house here in takoma park. Most cleaned up. But the ornaments were crushed earlier and up and down the street. This wasnt the only neighborhood someone began tossing the decorations down the street and egging at least one house. Ten minutes before, police tell us decorative lights were pulled down and electrical cords for cut. Young people were involved is the suspicious but no one knows for sure. They came home to find the neighbors yard a mess. It was ripped apart. All the electrical wiring was broken. We found pieces down the road. There were footprints in the snow everywhere. Richard neighbors tell us there have been vandalisms and the breakins in the cars in recent years but certainly nothing like this. Coming trying to enlist the help of residents to stop this vandalism. In takoma park, richard reeve, abc7 news. Nancy always a challenge to see this this time of year. Alison absolutely we had snow on saturday and it was per pect. You didnt have to worry about driving. It didnt cause trouble. In time for the holiday season. Nancy the first of the season is nice. Bill its nice, especially like over the weekend. You talk about if roads, not bad at all. Picked up two inches of snow officially. At dulles it was four inches of snow. A recordbreaker out there. Alison okay. Bill but still, good on the roads. Its an important thing. Alison if only it was always like that. I know. This is night. I was running late because i have had a weather issue with the computer. See if it will cooperate with me or not. Temperature wise, 44 degrees. 8 00. The morning low was 35. Over talk about the numbers. Or we wont. We will come back and do weather. We had a big cooldown in sight. Wait. I have tough coming off the phone. Im a mess. We had a big cooldown coming in for us on wednesday. We will talk about a cooldown and see you in a few minutes. Alison feels like a monday bill it is monday how about that. Alison i want it to keep going. Fun to watch. Nancy save him for now. Still ahead for us, a little girls love for her grandfather has he turning to the duct tape to fight cancer. Alison plus, a Lesson Learned after a terror, failed terrorist attack. Bill we went and i knocked the computer around but i want you to stand by. 44 is the temperature now. Gorgeous evening out there. With the whel wheel. High temperature today got in the upper 40s. Keep in mind the normal is 48. So the weekend was above normal. Or outside the normal. Show you for the record. We had no snowfall out there today. We picked up two inches for the month at reagan. Record for the day. And the last time we had a snow fall greater than that, earlier in the season was in 2007. We had 2. 6 inches of snow. Its been ten years since we had this much snow. Its not a ton. But since we had this much snow this early. For the season, we are above almost an inch ahead of schedule looking at the overall numbers. No snow tonight. 45 at 5 00. 43 by 6 00. Low 40s by the time we get to the 7 00 time frame. 30s now for the luray up to winchester. Hagerstown at 43. The number is chilly. Its december but its not way down. Not the mid20s or anything like that. If you go out tomorrow early a great majority will be at or above freezing. Notice the snow over the mountains. In the daytime. So we get in the afternoon. This time tomorrow night you will start to notice a huge difference. Especially if you account for the winds that are blustery. If you go out tonight, light jacket you are fine. Tomorrow at this time you will be starting to new york on the door of the freezing mark. Certainly talking about the wind chill factor. A big difference. A few clouds in the morning around 4 temperature. That will occur early. Not at 3 00 or 4 00. By wednesday from the inside looking out, a beautiful day. The north winds are dropping the High Temperature to 32, 33. Around the freezing mark. Looking at the fields like temperature, not going to get out of if low 20s. A chilly day. Snowshowers thursday and friday. At this point it doesnt look like a big system. With the chilly temperatures much more of that will stick to the ground than we had over the weekend. We are watching for snow thursday and friday. The weekend is dry. We are rebounding to the upper 40s and that will feel mighty toasty to the low 30s. College students can tremendous pressure pursuing a degree. Ment to, kellye lynn takes us to university of Maryland College park where they turn to pets to reduce stress. A k9 connection at the university of Maryland College park. We have studies. You need relaxation. Kellye its offered through the wags for wellness program. We know stress is the number one impediment to the academic success at the university of maryland. For some students dogs are the stress release. Pet visitation are three times a month. One of the busiest times at the beginning of the semester. I have a dog myself. I havent seen her in a long time. Its great to be able to be around other dogs and pet them. It makes your day. Makes me happier. The volunteer Therapy Organization people, animals, love. Pets that adore the attention. Sometimes we see up to 200 students in a session. That means that many more hands to love them. To all involved. Nancy a great shot. This is so much fun and kidd oshea is joining us from the capital one arena and watch for the stars is on. If you dont know camilla, she used to be the fifth harmony. A big deal. Well talk to her coming up in a bit on abc7 new alison also coming up, duct tape can fix anything its said. And a little girl hopes it will help fight the cancer attacking her grandfather. Women ban together to take on the president. What they want done after they say trump sexually harassed them. We are following the developing story that failed terror attack in new york. The lesson we can learn to protect against the next o announcer youre watching abc7 news at 5 00. On your side. Alison this is Surveillance Video that shows a moment the homemade explosive went off near the Port Authority bus terminal in new york city. Handful of people including the suspects were hurt in the blast. Tonight the suspect akayed ullah is in custody. He legally came to the United States from bangladesh seven years ago. The suspect reportedly told police he was inspired by isis online. Kristine frazao coverage. This was an attempted terrorist attack. Another intersection blocked off. Another suspect in custody. From another attempted terrorist attack in this country. The device is based on a pime pipe bomb. This act less than six weeks after the last one in new york city in which eight people were killed by driver of a rented truck. New york is an an attractive target. They want to attack high concentration of the unarmed civilians. That is why places like Union Station in washington, d. C. Are so heavily policed and protected. Planned terror attacks are never carried out, the vast majority are disrupted by authorities. The number of disruptions we have seen around the globe is a testament to effective Law Enforcement intelligence work. The global reach of isis is largely intact. Remindser of the reach of the socalled Islamic State and the modern day landscape to mick this reality for millions. This war doesnt have a front line thousands of mimes away in the middle east. The front line of this war is when you leave your house in the morning. This has also changed the role of everyday americans. You dont have to carry a badge or a gun to be part of the threat. Always be prepared to respond. In washington, im kristine frazao, abc7 news. Our conch of the attempted attack coverage of the attempted attack in new york continues at 6 00 when we look at the precautions taken in washington. Nancy a group of women who accused President Trump of Sexual Harassment and assault are joining together to call for a congre story from the live desk. Q at least 16 women accuse im of Sexual Harassment or abuse. This never included a man lining us up to look at us like we are a piece of meat and it never included a man coming in the backstage while i was naked under a robe. I read the account of the story who mirrored my own i finally felt absolved of the guilt i somehow projected an image that made me an easy target. I ran into him again. He remembered me. So that stuck in my memory. The accusations range from Sexual Harassment to Sexual Assault including unwanted kissing and took place before trump who denies the accounts became president. I just checked online. He hasnt tweeted or made comments about the accusations today but White House Press secretary has. Millions of strangers touched by the story of a tennessee boy enduring horrific bullying at school. He is too scared to go to lunch. Out of curiosity, why do they bully . Why do they do it . The pieces that are finding a way to be mean to. Its not okay. Turning to duct tape of all things in a fight to save her grandfathers life. 9yearold is selling flowers that she makes out of the fixall tape and turning the money over to cancer research. How about that . Her grandfather two is fighting blood cancer says the two of them have such a bond. Even stronger than duct tape. I am very proud of her. I always have been. I love you. I love you, too. You are awesome. They can find a cure and people with cancer will get better. She is asking for nothing but duct tape for christmas to make as many flowers to sell as possible. Nancy that is so great to see. Alison warms your heart. The 4yearold reading so many books the neighbors had to rush over with more. Alison in the wall of justice. A big arrest to tell you about. And the hunt for around armed man. Nancy coming up, flags a it half staff across maryland. How an f. B. I. Agent and fire marshal are being remembered after a tragic accident. Alison in prime time tonight good evening. This is a great night to go out and enjoy for this time of year. Mild, at least where we should be. The normal highs of 48. 10 00 is 39. Its 38 by midnight. That is where we will en

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