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Tonight in the murder of a 10weekold baby. A judge is allowing the rockville mother out of jail as long as she has no contact with children and pays an 800,000 bond. But her partner is not going anywhere. Hes been given a 5 million bond and Stephanie Ramirez learned more details in this incredibly sad case. I sat in todays hearing and learned some things you may find disturbing. I found out 10yearold Aaliyah Thompson had two ribs broken and the abuses against this baby do not end there. Reporter on april 18th 24yearold Robert Davidson posted these pictures on his Facebook Page saying its a girl. Just 10 weeks older Aaliyah Thompson died. Her death ruled blunt force injury. Her parents lived minutes away from the court. I had tears in my eyes when i found out what happened. It was just heart wrenching to know Something Like that was going on that close. I come to see my friend on a regular basis and check on her. I feel like, i wasnt paying attention . Reporter june 23rd the Police Responded to a 911 call of a baby unresponsive. In Court Documents we learned davidson later admitted to aggressively shaking aaliyah that day and on other days dropping her several times letting her roll off the couch and sexually assaulting her. Davidson is charged in her death, sexual and physical abuse. Thompson is facing child abuse and neglect charges for allowing the alleged abuses to occur. The only thing i can say is how can Something Like that go on . The baby was only 10 weeks old. She was absolutely beautiful. Two people that did it. We have to be aware of things, especially when it comes to children and the way society is now. Because thompson has an opportunity to get out of jail, that does not mean the judge is taking this lightly. Shes been ordered, no contact with children. This includes a child she has thats 5 years old. More details of what we learned in court today including information about the father and what other neighbors tell us they heard at that department complex coming up at 6 00. In Montgomery County district court, Stephanie Ramirez, wusa 9news. Just an incredibly sad case. Both of those parents are due back in court for a preliminary hearing on september 18th. A wild ride on wall street. The Dow Jones Industrial plummeted more than a thousand points this morning then pulled back only just to fall again. At the end of the day all three major stock Market Indices were down more than 3. 5 . Lets take a look at the closing numbers. Dow industrial down 588 points. S p down 78 points. And the nasdaq down about 180 points. Derek is standing by with more. Today was a bad day for markets, in fact all over the globe, all tied to worries about china where economy is growing. Their stocks tumbled 8. 5 in what some traders there dubbed black monday. Its the second largest economy in the world. From 2007 they were the life raft to the world economy. That trade is no longer there. Here in this country losses from friday and today pulled u. S. Markets in to bonafied correction territory. Thats when the traders say markets lose 10 of their value or more. Some traders say this is what they live for. This sort of drop they say represents a great opportunity to buy more stocks. If you can stomach it. Right now were tracking heavy downpours in the area. First alert meteorologist Howard Bernstein is in the weather center. What are you seeing right now on first alert doppler . North and west of us we have quite a line of showers. Not too much lightning. This is slowly moving east, only about 15, 20 miles per hour. Were getting heavy downpours from that. I want to take you to montgomery, frederick, carroll county. Heavier cells here from clarksburg up toward hyattstown. This first batch is moving east. Rockville, 5 33. Columbia, 6 18. Behind it, back in to loudoun county, this is like the second heaviest shower. This is moving to eastern louden and eventually fairfax and montgomery again. Theyre going to get more heavy downpours at 5 36. Rockville, 6 12. The southwest of that this line continues. Now weve got a little bit of lightning here. This is warrenton. Heres front royal which is already west of it. Its slowly marching to the east. Plains, about 5 24. Warrenton, 5 33. Midland, 6 06. Hey market, 5. If you do have evening plans we could have a couple showers, isolated thunder lingering through 10 00, 11 00, 12 00 especially south east of town. Nice weather starting tomorrow. Lets go to Prince Georges County where a woman is charged in the murder of her husband. Aracely mendosa is charged with first degree murder. Police say she got in to an argument with her husband. The husband left the home and went for a walk in the neighborhood. Thats when alvarezmendosa allegedly got in her serve and intentionally ran down her husband. A police chase in Prince Georges County. Police say it started when at least two men with guns robbed the Verizon Store on spartan driver. They took off in a black dodge charger, taking the icc to i95 and thats where police lost them. No one was injured at the store or highway. Meantime, the violent summer in dc continues tonight. Four more people were killed over the weekend, pushing the total number of homicides to 102. If this keeps up, dc police says the city will be on pace to have its deadliest year since 2008. The latest homicide happened sunday afternoon when a man was stabbed to death during a basketball game in northeast. That suspect is still out there and the president of the Citizens Association says this problem extends beyond drugs and guns. Those arent new issues. I say the number 1 issue is poverty and unemployment. I dont have an option to sit back and do nothing. None of us do. May or bowser is adding outreach to the areas most affected. Detectives hope a 25,000 reward for information that leads to a conviction in a murder case will help them track down the killer still on the run. If you think you can help, text your tip to 50411. A bunch of riders were late to work today because a pedestrian was struck and killed by a train early this morning. It happened near the leland road station. Fredericksburg vre trains were delayed up to two hours. Tonight fredericksburg line trains are operating on an s schedule. Theres been a lot of talk about drones causing problems for airplanes but what about prisons . Maryland prison Officials Say this drone was used to smuggle drugs to two inmates in state prisons. It was apening at two was happening at two prisons near cumberland. They were planning to pilot the drones saturday night. Theres a phrase i often use with my staff. We have too many acronyms in our business but this one, ycmtsu. You cant make this stuff up. No, you cant. Police also recovered some drugs and a handgun. The pandemonium continues at the national zoo after the panda gave birth to twin cubs evening the weekend. A lot of people having babies these days. Animal fans packed the house today. How are the mom and cubs doing this evening . Theyre all doing well tonight but those cubs are still fairly young and vulnerable so its a high risk period, which is why vets are continuing to watch them 24 7. Hundreds of people in the last hour swing by here just to check out the web camera. Reporter its these two panda cubs that have them oohing and ahing over them. Theyre watching the panda and her cubs on the web cam. Once you catch a glimpse of the little one, its hard not to break out a smile. Theyre really cute. I havent seen panda cubs before. I thought it was so cute because i love pandas. That was really cool. Reporter but its been a long two days after delivering twins. Staff tells us the twins and mom are healthy but last night she didnt want to let go of one of her cubs. Instead the vets tended the smaller one all night and two fed it formula. This one of the many reasons the panda exhibit is limited to just the web cam. I hope theyre healthy and everything goes okay. Reporter to ensure everything stays okay, zoo biologists and vets are closely watching the cubs, alternating time each cub gets with the mother to make sure they eat right and bond enough. Something parents say they personally understand. Like any mother, i think anybody would want their mother to have the same bonding time. Reporter and with any family, when you have two little ones, juggling time can be a challenge. Its hardworking for a panda to be a mom. [ laughter ] its hard to give your attention to everyone. Its really kind of cool, special, because it doesnt happen all the time. You just heard it. A lot of parents are relating with the mother and everyone in love with the two little cubs. Theres more good news tonight. Were told from the vets that the mother has been very loving with both of them despite having a rough night last night. First she had the first cub. Then waited a little while and had the second cub. That would have freaked most of us out. You think youre having one then two come . Its a double blessing but you know. Once the cubs have had enough oneonone time with the mom theyll be able to go back to the exhibit. But its going to be months before they can go outside and we can all see them. Were just Getting Started on wusa 9news at 5 00. A maryland firefighter killed two motorcycles crashed in to each other. Scott broom tells us about the heroic hubert erickson, jr. Plus changes for students on this first day of class. Howard is back with more on tonights storms and a look at your work week forecast. A casino tour bus takes out the wall. At least nine people were hurt this afternoon when a casino tour bus crashed in to a building in queens, new york. First responders had to free the driver who was pinned in the wreckage but Authorities Say none of the injuries are lifethreatening. The crash caused major structural damage to the building which houses a law office and some apartments. Red or ready or not, its that time. Back to school for dc area schools. The students are going to see a lot of changes this academic year. Theyve got their backpacks on and heads held high. First day jitters be gone. Theyre ready to go back to school. I want to see how different its going to be from middle school and elementary school. I can learn new things and meet new friends. Reporter first off, more kids. Enrollment is up by 1500. And every sing le school will offer at least six a. P. Classes. Plus a new curriculum called cornerstone, lessons that are more hands on. There are four more schools. At Woodson High School this morning a couple extra guests helped ring in the new year. Mayor bowser and councilor announcing new things in the school that will focus on engineering and i. T. I want some mayor in the future, maybe even me, to say that i have filled the dc government jobs with dc residents. Reporter but its not all good news. Parents have rising concerns about their kids safety in the midst of dcs crime surge. They go to school and come home, thats my main concern. Reporter educators say they hope the new Kids Ride Free Program on metro and buses will help. No reason to be walking really far to a bus stop or metro stop. Our bus stop is on the corner. As for making the school year a successful one, that is up to the kids. Im looking forward to having a great year. What will make it a great year . If i do good. [ laughter ] reporter dc Public Schools also created new teaching positions. Frederick county students went back to school today as well. All students in Prince Georges County head back tomorrow. Back to school and back to work. Jan is back. We havent seen you since may. I feel like its been forever. It has been forever. How are you . Im doing great. The babies are so good. I think the older one was ready for mom to go back. This is the little one. She looks like shes sideways now. Shes a bundle of joy. Shes healthy. Shes a solid citizen. Ive held her. She is holding her own. Got boxing gloves on . People are like are you trying to keep her warm . She came out with manicured fingernails. Shes got these long fingernails. Momma is so scared to cut those things. Ive tried. Its hard to tell if shes excited or upset but today she was totally fine. Byebye, mommy. Shes a great big sister. Shes going back to school also after labor day so shell be back soon with everybody else. Weve all missed you. The viewers have missed you. Ive been look ing on social media. Everybody says where are the pictures . Ive posted so many on my personal. Join us online, on twitter, facebook, weve all posted pictures. And auntie lesli has been to the house. Were talking weather. Weve got showers out there. A little bit of thunder, heavy downpours. Yesterday i was arguing with myself, should it be a yellow weather alert day . Borderline here but weve got a few coming through. Heavier downpours, especially north and west of town. A little bit of lightning north of warrenton. Want to show you whats happening on first alert doppler. South of frederick. These are 11 heavy downpours. Lets take care of business in Montgomery County. This stuff is tracking toward howard county. So its toward damascus. Germantown, another storm is coming. This is all moving east. Columbia at 6 21. Well go father go farther south and west. Leesburg, on and off showers. This stuff is moving east and its not moving fast. Only about 20 miles per hour. It gets through chantilly and tysons, 6 19. Theres thunder and lightning were seeing. Scott at sperryville wrote me a note saying how dry its been and how dry its been there. This is much needed rainfall. Weve been kind of dry this month. See a little lightning east on 66. Very heavy downpours. This is moving east. We can expect around 5 35 in warrenton. Haymarket, 555. 5 55. Low 90s in washington. Were at 88 but only 77 leesburg and frederick. Real nice in the Higher Elevations for the cooler drier air already moving in. We have a few clouds starting to move in. 88 on the hour. Dew point of 70. Really felt a lot stickier today than it did yesterday but its a oneday affair. The drier air will return late tonight. Nice again tuesday through friday. A little bit of heat building toward the coming weekend then rain chances. I know its dry and well take anything we can get right now but theyre going to stay low. So look at the forecast. Tonight a few evening showers and storms and this stuff could be on and off even through midnight south and east of town. Well see late clearing. 70 in dc. 60 in the cold spots. Tomorrow looks good. Well start the day with less humidity. Afternoon temperatures, 82 to 87. Sunny, warm and dry. Not too windy. Might have a gust of 15. On the 3day forecast, after the warm and dry tuesday, a gorgeous wednesday. 85. By the way morning lows wednesday and thursday, 50s and 60s. Thursday looks fantastic. 84. As we head toward friday and the weekend, still nice friday. Good weather for the nats home stand. On the weekend, got the game up in baltimore for saturday. 88. Should be okay, just a stray storm. Sunday and monday, closer to 90. We cant rule out an isolated storm but real nice weather about to return. Dc homeowners with not so great credit are paying through the nose for some types of insurance. Plus apple recalls thousands of iphones. Details in tonights consumer alert. You can tweet us your thoughts any time. Were on twitter right now. Oh my gosh, its the guy from last night. What . can i jump on your wifi . Yeah, you can try it. Hey i had a really good time last night. Yeah, me too. The only thing is that. The only thing is what . Whats the only thing . Oh my gosh hes married. Hes a kleptomaniac. Hes a pyromaniac. Hes a total maniac. Hey hey go back to your wife you sociopath leave slow internet behind. The 100 Fiber Optics Network is here. Get out of the past. Get fios. Tea . Now 79. 99 a month. Go online or call now. Call the Verizon Center for customers with disabilities at 800. 974. 6006 tty v in tonights consumer alert poor credit can cost you twice as much to ensure your home. A new insurancequotes. Com shows dc homeowners with bad credit pay 185 more than dc homeowners with excellent credit. Maryland is one of only three states that prevents insurers from using your Credit Information to calculate your rate. To boost yourss, pay your bills on time, try to keep those balances low and make sure you correct errors on your credit report. Apple is recalling a batch of iphone 6 plus smart phones because of a defective part in the camera that causes it to take blurry photos. Apple says this impacts phones sold between september 2014 and january of this year. You can put in your serial number and check to see if you have the problem on apples website. You can call it target gourmet. Starting in october the retailer will test out new cafe options in about 14 Stores Across the country. In comes freshy, pizza hut and de amico and sons. Its not clear if any of the target stores in our area will see the new changes. Dozens of people are out of their homes tonight after a fire in northern virginia. Remembering a heroic firefighter from Prince Georges County. Increasing questions about Vice President joe biden and whether hell seek the presidency and today the white house spokesman was pressed to respond. Im Craig Boswell in washington. I am never getting married. Never. Psssssh. Guaranteed. You picked a beautiful ring. Thank you. Were never having kids. Mmmmmm. Breathe. I love it here. We are never moving to the suburbs. We are never getting one of those minivan . We are never having another kid. Im pregnant. I am never letting go. For all the nevers in life, state farm is there. Weve got breaking news from virginia where there are multiple reports that Supreme Court chief Justice John Roberts ruled that former governor bob mcdonell can remain free while the high Court Consi

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