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i'm debra alfarone. >> i'm derek mcginty. the administration believes personal info for more than 4 million current and former federal employees may have been hacked. garrett haake has followed the story for us all day. he is live in the satellite center with the details. >> the hackers targeted the office of personnel management. that's essentially the hr department for the entire federal government. once they got inside the network they were able to snoop around quite a while before they were eventually detected in april. by then it was already too late. personal information for at least 4 million current and former government employees is now in the hands of hackers. government sources tell cbs news the hack began in china,
i'm debra alfarone. >> i'm derek mcginty. the administration believes personal info for more than 4 million current and former federal employees may have been hacked. garrett haake has followed the story for us all day. he is live in the satellite center with the details. >> the hackers targeted the office of personnel management. that's essentially the hr department for the entire federal government. once they got inside the network they were able to snoop around quite a while...
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our debra alfarone talked with some of the federal workers today. they is -- she is live right now. [ audio difficulties ] >> i'm not willing to talk about it because of my employment. >> i'd rather not say. >> reporter: even though their personal information may likely be exposed. several government employees we spoke to kept their feelings underwrap hours after the breach was announced. >> the news came out today, so they'll be letting us know. >> reporter: evidence points to china-based hackers once again. china's thirst for our info is nothing new. a data breach this size is. >> it affects me. i'm scared to death. i don't know what's going to happen. i don't know what they're going to have, what information they have, what they'll use it to do, how to even monitor it. >> what worries me is one, the amount of information with all the federal employees out there. it's a serious matter and with the way this continues i don't understand why they're not taking this more seriously. >> reporter: the hack took place in december, was uncovered in april a
our debra alfarone talked with some of the federal workers today. they is -- she is live right now. [ audio difficulties ] >> i'm not willing to talk about it because of my employment. >> i'd rather not say. >> reporter: even though their personal information may likely be exposed. several government employees we spoke to kept their feelings underwrap hours after the breach was announced. >> the news came out today, so they'll be letting us know. >> reporter:...
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it's your choice, not anybody else's. >> reporter: debra alfarone, wusa9. >> who says you're not beautiful ♪ ♪ who says ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪. >> what a great video. the kids wanted to point out one of the students in that video, bailey bates, just moved. so she couldn't be part of the story. >>> we begin with breaking news of a massive sinkhole that swallowed a truck in bethesda. thanks for joining us. i'm derek mcginty. >> i'm lesli foster. our mola lenghi just got to the scene in the 4300 block of splayford road with more on the damage there. >> reporter: this was a pretty standard water main break and this whole behind me was a pretty small hole at one point. it was small until a pickup truck drove over it and into it causing the road to cave in nearly swallowing the truck. no injuries here, just the mess that you of see. the water main itself is relatively small, just an 8- inch pipe causing all this damage. you can see some of the break there swallowing up or nearly swallowing up the truck. not a whole lot of water was gushing out of the break. it appears the driver thought he could ma
it's your choice, not anybody else's. >> reporter: debra alfarone, wusa9. >> who says you're not beautiful ♪ ♪ who says ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪. >> what a great video. the kids wanted to point out one of the students in that video, bailey bates, just moved. so she couldn't be part of the story. >>> we begin with breaking news of a massive sinkhole that swallowed a truck in bethesda. thanks for joining us. i'm derek mcginty. >> i'm lesli foster. our mola lenghi just...
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. >> i'm debra alfarone. there's severe thunderstorm watches and warnings throughout the metro area. chief meteorologist topper shutt is tracking the storms. where are they right now? >> they're everywhere. look at these severe thunderstorm warnings across much of the metro area of d.c. stretching back to manassas and culpeper. the duller yellow is a severe thunderstorm watch until 11:00. this bright yellow is now a severe thunderstorm warning. now when we click you folks out in jefferson county around berkeley springs and martinsburg and frederick county, you're no longer under the severe thunderstorm watch. the watch goes until 11:00. because it covers such a large area south and east that's why. we feel the threat will be over about 9:00 in the immediate metro area. wind gusts at national 48 miles per hour in the last 20 minutes. let's look at radar. a tremendous line of showers and storms pushing through, a lot of lightning, hail, damaging winds. frederick county, you're all right. leesburg you're in good
. >> i'm debra alfarone. there's severe thunderstorm watches and warnings throughout the metro area. chief meteorologist topper shutt is tracking the storms. where are they right now? >> they're everywhere. look at these severe thunderstorm warnings across much of the metro area of d.c. stretching back to manassas and culpeper. the duller yellow is a severe thunderstorm watch until 11:00. this bright yellow is now a severe thunderstorm warning. now when we click you folks out in...
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i'm debra alfarone -- thank you for joining us. i'm debra alfarone. >> and i'm derek mcginty. >> we just canceled the severe thunderstorm warnings for montgomery and frederick county. we're looking at a tremendous complex of thunderstorms in terms of lightning, hail and wind, severe weather near baltimore with another tornado warning for baltimore county and harford county. here is the line of showers and storms almost solid from northeastern maryland through baltimore across i-70 into howard county and back across the river into loudoun county. look at the lightning, unbelievable. that's as dangerous as anything else. you hear thunder, you can be struck by lightning. please get the kids indoors. right now we have heavy rain and frequent lightning in frederick across parts of tuscarora and frederick and parts of germantown. we'll zoom in and talk about the warning. this is the only warning in effect now up into baltimore. it does extend back into frederick county. that will go on another half hour. frequent lightning and damaging w
i'm debra alfarone -- thank you for joining us. i'm debra alfarone. >> and i'm derek mcginty. >> we just canceled the severe thunderstorm warnings for montgomery and frederick county. we're looking at a tremendous complex of thunderstorms in terms of lightning, hail and wind, severe weather near baltimore with another tornado warning for baltimore county and harford county. here is the line of showers and storms almost solid from northeastern maryland through baltimore across i-70...
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debra alfarone wusa9. >> and that is great advice, even when the temperatures are not sweltering. >> everybody could use a check up every once in a while from two friends. >> exactly. we had trouble yesterday. a 3 degree guarantee because of the smoke. we went for a high in the lower 90s. we think that's okay as we'll let you know at 11:00 tonight and we went to 93 today. we are feeling pretty good. let's just say that. >> probably not 89. >> no. in fact right now it is still 90. but i want to point that out. i think that i also mentioned this earlier at noon that it is just not comfortable at all, just really miserable with the winds out of the south at 11:00. the best time to exercise is in the morning that you don't want to do it at this time of the night and the air quality is not great. 72 to 82. we're going to flirt with record highs tomorrow. and the 90s will continue throughout the weekend. a lot of them all over the place, depends on where this front ends up, staying just north of us where the 90s will continue all weekend. with that said the high is to beat tomorrow for tom
debra alfarone wusa9. >> and that is great advice, even when the temperatures are not sweltering. >> everybody could use a check up every once in a while from two friends. >> exactly. we had trouble yesterday. a 3 degree guarantee because of the smoke. we went for a high in the lower 90s. we think that's okay as we'll let you know at 11:00 tonight and we went to 93 today. we are feeling pretty good. let's just say that. >> probably not 89. >> no. in fact right now...
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our debra alfarone talked with some of the federal workers today. they is -- she is live right now. [ audio difficulties ] >> i'm not willing to talk about it because of my employment. >> i'd rather not say. >> reporter: even though their personal information may likely be exposed. several government employees we spoke to kept their feelings underwrap hours after the breach was announced. >> the news came out today, so they'll be letting us know. >> reporter: evidence points to china-based hackers once again. china's thirst for our info is nothing new. a data breach this size is. >> it affects me. i'm scared to death. i don't know what's going to happen. i don't know what they're going to have, what information they
our debra alfarone talked with some of the federal workers today. they is -- she is live right now. [ audio difficulties ] >> i'm not willing to talk about it because of my employment. >> i'd rather not say. >> reporter: even though their personal information may likely be exposed. several government employees we spoke to kept their feelings underwrap hours after the breach was announced. >> the news came out today, so they'll be letting us know. >> reporter:...
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. >> i'm debra alfarone on georgia avenue in northwest dc by one of the senior cooling centers in the district. where todd was -- today was annual senior day where there we met about 1,500 seniors who were beating the heat gracefully and they shared their time tested tips with us. >> don't get excited when the weather gets warm. i just go with the flow. >> keep a lot of water. >> yeah, but you've got to be in a cool place. >> it is slowly under your chin. >> reporter: they would dodge their rays by standing under the tents today where the dc office on aging says we all need to check on the seniors in our life and seniors need to take the precautions. >> go to the nearest mall and go somewhere to be comfortable. don't go out there and cut grass when it is 90 degrees, stay cool. >> we'll have a list of all the senior cooling centers like this one behind me on our app. >>> you're trying to play beat the heat too to get that right. >> yes, we are. the smoke got in the way as we're in pretty good shape with a high of 93. dulles came very close to the record high. so far only 92. just misse
. >> i'm debra alfarone on georgia avenue in northwest dc by one of the senior cooling centers in the district. where todd was -- today was annual senior day where there we met about 1,500 seniors who were beating the heat gracefully and they shared their time tested tips with us. >> don't get excited when the weather gets warm. i just go with the flow. >> keep a lot of water. >> yeah, but you've got to be in a cool place. >> it is slowly under your chin. >>...
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i'm debra alfarone. >> i'm derek mcginty. the governor described his cancer as aggressive and advanced, but he's not going to let the diagnosis slow him down. governor hogan is ready to tackle this next challenge and he already has a bit of of humor about it. >> reporter: governor larry hogan says he has dozens of tumors inside his body right now, stage 3, possibly stage 4 nonhoggins lymphoma. he says it -- non-hodgkin's lymphoma. he says is t is treatable and he -- it is treatable and he is planning to work through chemotherapy and radiation. >> this cancer is very aggressive but also responds very well to chemotherapy treatment. the best news is that my odds of getting through this and beating this are much, much better than the odds i had of beating anthony brown to become the 62nd governor of maryland. [ applause ] >> over the coming months i'll be receiving multiple very aggressive chemotherapy treatments. most likely i'm going to lose my hair. you won't have these beautiful gray locks. i may trim down a little bit, but
i'm debra alfarone. >> i'm derek mcginty. the governor described his cancer as aggressive and advanced, but he's not going to let the diagnosis slow him down. governor hogan is ready to tackle this next challenge and he already has a bit of of humor about it. >> reporter: governor larry hogan says he has dozens of tumors inside his body right now, stage 3, possibly stage 4 nonhoggins lymphoma. he says it -- non-hodgkin's lymphoma. he says is t is treatable and he -- it is treatable...
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i'm debra alfarone. >> i'm derek mcginty. the office of personnel management said a massive data breach involves some 4 million workers including people who don't even work for the feds anymore. the agency found out about the hack in april when it began upgrading its cyber security, but it was too late for that. opm did not say specifically what information the hackers got their hands on, but it could include everything from names, social security numbers. the fbi, department of homeland security are investigating how it may have happened and how much the cyber they've may have gotten away with. the washington post is reporting the hack originated in china. we'll bring you the latest tonight at 11:00. >>> a woman who says jesse matthew sexually assaulted her in fairfax county 10 years ago will be allowed to identify him in court y during trial. judge made that ruling about 90 minutes ago. the defense argued detectives urged the woman to look up pictures of matthew which might influence her ability to positively id him. the ju
i'm debra alfarone. >> i'm derek mcginty. the office of personnel management said a massive data breach involves some 4 million workers including people who don't even work for the feds anymore. the agency found out about the hack in april when it began upgrading its cyber security, but it was too late for that. opm did not say specifically what information the hackers got their hands on, but it could include everything from names, social security numbers. the fbi, department of homeland...
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i am debra alfarone. that most recent shooting happened two hours ago on 21st street and betting road northeast. an adult man expected to recover from minor injuries. it started when seven people were shot early saturday. then early this morning investigators say four people were stabbed near 7th and 8th streets in chinatown. police are still on the hunt for suspects. >> reporter: this all happened at around 2:30 this morning near the 800 block of 7th street northwest. this is just right across the street from the verizon center and the four victims included three men and one woman. dozens of people had no idea they were walking right over the bloody footprints of bare feet on the sidewalk sunday afternoon. earlier this morning police tell us this is the area where someone stabbed a woman in the shoulder and neck. a man in the back of the head and another in the arm. they didn't describe the fourth scrimmage's injuries or provide any details on what could have started this, but just word of a multiple sta
i am debra alfarone. that most recent shooting happened two hours ago on 21st street and betting road northeast. an adult man expected to recover from minor injuries. it started when seven people were shot early saturday. then early this morning investigators say four people were stabbed near 7th and 8th streets in chinatown. police are still on the hunt for suspects. >> reporter: this all happened at around 2:30 this morning near the 800 block of 7th street northwest. this is just right...
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. >> i'm debra alfarone. >>> tonight gay couples in all 50 states have the legal right to get married. >> look at the moment the decision was announced from the supreme court. [ cheering and applause ] >> this decision affirms what millions of americans already believe in their hearts. when all americans are treated as equal, we are all more free. >> as you just saw, thousands cheered as the interns ran out clutching copies of the court's 5-4 decision that will force 14 states to stop enforcing bans on same sex marriage. president obama called it a victory for america. >>> the case the justices decided today began when a man sued to have his name added to his late spouse's death certificate. >> let's take a closer look at the actual opinions from the high court. justice anthony kennedy wrote the majority of the opinion and authored key supreme court decisions in gay rights in recent years. he concludes by saying they ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. the constitution grants them that right. >> on the other side chief justice john roberts said the constitution had nothing t
. >> i'm debra alfarone. >>> tonight gay couples in all 50 states have the legal right to get married. >> look at the moment the decision was announced from the supreme court. [ cheering and applause ] >> this decision affirms what millions of americans already believe in their hearts. when all americans are treated as equal, we are all more free. >> as you just saw, thousands cheered as the interns ran out clutching copies of the court's 5-4 decision that will...
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. >> i'm debra alfarone. we'll have more on that in a moment. >>> but first another round of severe weather is heading our way and it could hit at the worst possible time. first alert chief meteorologist topper shutt has more on the yellow alert. >> it's 84 right now. we'll drive a cold front through this atmosphere tomorrow afternoon. that will spell heavy storms and severe weather. let's start with futurecast at 3:00. notice showers up near frederick and gaithersburg and the more colors, the heavier the activity. 4:00 it's now approaching the beltway and also out into montgomery county and loudoun county. we're seeing more oranges and yellow, still 95 downtown tomorrow at 4:00. by 5:00 showers and storms across much of the metro area now south of 66 into southern maryland and down 95 almost to fredericksburg. then you saw how it got really red between 5:00 and 6:00. it blossomed through charles county. by 6:00 it's 91 downtown. by 7:00 all the severe weather is south of us. that's good. some leftover shower
. >> i'm debra alfarone. we'll have more on that in a moment. >>> but first another round of severe weather is heading our way and it could hit at the worst possible time. first alert chief meteorologist topper shutt has more on the yellow alert. >> it's 84 right now. we'll drive a cold front through this atmosphere tomorrow afternoon. that will spell heavy storms and severe weather. let's start with futurecast at 3:00. notice showers up near frederick and gaithersburg and...
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. >> i'm debra alfarone. the streets are clear now, but the cause of that massive police present isn't. garrett haake has been at sixth and maryland southwest all evening and joins us in front of the capitol gallery building. what do we know at this point? sorry, garrett has that information now. >> reporter: by midafternoon the scene had begun to draw a crowd from the air and space museum across the street. what were so many police from an alphabet soup of agencies doing at sixth and maryland? a source with knowledge of the investigation tells wusa9 there was a threat made here possibly against a federal office inside the building. mpd, capitol police and dhs agents swarmed. helicopters circled and k-9 units were deployed to search the building. eventually they found something unexpected, this man greg collins, brought from the building in handcuffs questioned and released. was he involved in some kind of plot? >> god, no. i'm just trying to get my work done. i have training this week, second floor. >> repor
. >> i'm debra alfarone. the streets are clear now, but the cause of that massive police present isn't. garrett haake has been at sixth and maryland southwest all evening and joins us in front of the capitol gallery building. what do we know at this point? sorry, garrett has that information now. >> reporter: by midafternoon the scene had begun to draw a crowd from the air and space museum across the street. what were so many police from an alphabet soup of agencies doing at sixth...
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. >> i'm debra alfarone. tonight we're tracking the potential for severe storms to start the week. >> let's go straight to first alert meteorologist howard bernstein. >> you can feel this air mass, the heat and humidity. that helped fuel the storms we had this afternoon. i do want to show you doppler 9000. a lot of activity in pennsylvania from harrisburg to pittsburgh. there's been flood warnings, severe thunderstorm warnings, even a couple of tornado warnings. these could slip down into northern maryland, eastern west virginia over the next few hours so we will watch that. light potential for the overnight. but tomorrow is another story. storm prediction center, that's the arm of the government that watches weather, out of norman, oklahoma, they've got the area from st. louis up through northern ohio right up through us under a slight risk. still that means storms could have damaging wind gusts, hail, and lightning. so that's the concern for monday afternoon and evening. we will see a few strong to severe s
. >> i'm debra alfarone. tonight we're tracking the potential for severe storms to start the week. >> let's go straight to first alert meteorologist howard bernstein. >> you can feel this air mass, the heat and humidity. that helped fuel the storms we had this afternoon. i do want to show you doppler 9000. a lot of activity in pennsylvania from harrisburg to pittsburgh. there's been flood warnings, severe thunderstorm warnings, even a couple of tornado warnings. these could...
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. >> i'm debra alfarone. more than 24 hours after last night's storm, parts of fair tax county are still feeling the effects. that's where we find our mola mole mola langy. >> reporter: trees are still down, roads are still closed, and work crews who have been here since last night are still here working tonight. >> the way it came through, just throwing everything around. >> reporter: they've always had their fears. with dozens of sky-high trees clinging to this house, they eight for years they've been one storm away from disaster. tuesday night, that storm started brewing. >> the power had just gone out so we were looking outside watching the trees here, and all of a sudden we heard a big thump. >> reporter: that was the sound of the storm coming in a branch. >> it had gone through the siding into the house. >> the winds really had to be whipping here to get it. >> oh, it was. >> especially as far as it went. >> reporter: into the house, through a car, and that's just one house. >> it crushed the fences in
. >> i'm debra alfarone. more than 24 hours after last night's storm, parts of fair tax county are still feeling the effects. that's where we find our mola mole mola langy. >> reporter: trees are still down, roads are still closed, and work crews who have been here since last night are still here working tonight. >> the way it came through, just throwing everything around. >> reporter: they've always had their fears. with dozens of sky-high trees clinging to this house,...
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. >> i'm debra alfarone. >>> first we are under a yellow alert for tomorrow as what's left of bill makes its way to the metro area. >> chief meteorologist topper shutt is tracking some possibly severe storms, perhaps some flash flooding? >> we have a flash flood watch in effect for most of the metro area 8 a.m. saturday till 8 a.m. on sunday. don't let your guard down. the heaviest rain will be north of town toward frederick and hagerstown. here's futurecast. we'll advance it to 4:00 in the afternoon, scattered showers and thunderstorms popping, 88 downtown. into the 6:00 hour showers and storm building out to the west, winchester west of i-81 and by 8:00 big storms by leesburg and winchester through luray. 10:00 temps in the 70s to near 80. it gets out of here by 1:00 in the morning. the bad news is we're looking at 1 to 3 inches of rain. we'll come back and let you know what dad is in store for on sunday. >>> let's get to the latest on the charleston church shooting. police sources say the suspect dylann roof expressed strong anti-black views while talking to investigators and was unre
. >> i'm debra alfarone. >>> first we are under a yellow alert for tomorrow as what's left of bill makes its way to the metro area. >> chief meteorologist topper shutt is tracking some possibly severe storms, perhaps some flash flooding? >> we have a flash flood watch in effect for most of the metro area 8 a.m. saturday till 8 a.m. on sunday. don't let your guard down. the heaviest rain will be north of town toward frederick and hagerstown. here's futurecast. we'll...
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hello i'm debra alfarone. >> i'm bruce johnson. we're going live to springfield, virginia in just a moment. but first no let up in the heat and humidity. >> howard bernstein tracking some strong thunderstorms tonight. what's going on howard? >> no more warnings in effect. during the 5:00 hour with these storms that came through dc over towards bowie with heavy downpours as well. now we're watching everything move from the southeast at 20 miles an hour as we may see that back in western maryland in here. that we may see an isolated shower left over here in washington and this evening as we want to point out for you in southern maryland and some heavy thunderstorms to go through. nothing is severe, but we're tracking stuff towards the shady side and annapolis. but this guy coming out of clinton and moving off towards the southeast at 20 miles an hour. we're going to watch it as it heads through huntington just after 7:00. and port republic at 7:31. to the south and southwest, a few heavy downpours you can see there and this is moving
hello i'm debra alfarone. >> i'm bruce johnson. we're going live to springfield, virginia in just a moment. but first no let up in the heat and humidity. >> howard bernstein tracking some strong thunderstorms tonight. what's going on howard? >> no more warnings in effect. during the 5:00 hour with these storms that came through dc over towards bowie with heavy downpours as well. now we're watching everything move from the southeast at 20 miles an hour as we may see that back...
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. >> i'm debra alfarone. we are under a yellow alert for storms. chief meteorologist topper shutt says some of them could get pretty intense. >> reporter: i'll tell you what, just in the last hour we've seen some activity west of hagerstown andcome -- cumberland as everything was the garden variety showers pushing through. but now we see that activity up to the north and to the east of warrenton as this is not severe, but heavy rain. over towards hagerstown, this is going to continue to move off to the east and the southeast as they could have heavy downpours in the next hour or so. further south this is on the south side now looking at manassas, south of 66. that's moderate rainfall as that wasn't there just an hour ago either. this is approaching off the east as well headed across 95 and then dale city in the next half an hour. and our future cast is still emphatic, east of i-95, appearing that the biggest threat is east of i-95 in southern prince george's county and certainly in to the northern neck of fredericksburg south through the nighttime
. >> i'm debra alfarone. we are under a yellow alert for storms. chief meteorologist topper shutt says some of them could get pretty intense. >> reporter: i'll tell you what, just in the last hour we've seen some activity west of hagerstown andcome -- cumberland as everything was the garden variety showers pushing through. but now we see that activity up to the north and to the east of warrenton as this is not severe, but heavy rain. over towards hagerstown, this is going to...
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officer peter laboy sat down and opened up to our debra alfarone about what is next for him. >> laboy is hoping to go into photography, but to be clear, the father and husband has been traveling a long tough road. that sense of purpose that he had every day as a motorcycle officer for the alexandria police department still seems just out of grasp. >> he said i have a spot on the motorcycle unit, are you interested? i'm like yeah. >> in an hour long wide ranging interview now retired alexandria police officer peter laboy talked about now he always wanted to be a motorcycle cop. >> he says he's a former marine, once a marine, always a marine and we always say once a motorman, always a motorman. >> what he remembers about the day he came face to face with the man who almost killed him. >> the last thing that i remember, i was 5 or 6 blocks away from where it happened. after this i'm just -- i wake up in the hospital. >> how he faced that gunman in court. >> we stare at each other for about 10 minutes. >> and how he may look healthy, but the past has been tough. >> no, it's not. it's stil
officer peter laboy sat down and opened up to our debra alfarone about what is next for him. >> laboy is hoping to go into photography, but to be clear, the father and husband has been traveling a long tough road. that sense of purpose that he had every day as a motorcycle officer for the alexandria police department still seems just out of grasp. >> he said i have a spot on the motorcycle unit, are you interested? i'm like yeah. >> in an hour long wide ranging interview now...
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. >> i'm debra alfarone. that gunfire in prince george's county left one person dead and another critically injured. >> tonight police are searching for a car and at least one shooter who rolled into the park and started firing around 2:30 this afternoon. >> garrett is live in springdale where we're getting a look at that deadly scene. garrett. >> reporter: deb, we get a really good look at the seen. police say that shooter pulled into the parking lot and sprayed this entire corner with gunfire. you can see where one bullet grazed the side of this suv here. the shooter hit four people. tonight one is dead, one is in critical condition, and police are on the hunt for the triggerman. the eruption of gunfire at ardmore park caught everyone by surprise. >> we were sitting there, facing the basketball court, watching them play horseshoes. all of a sudden i heard gunshots. >> reporter: shots sent a crowd scrambling for cover. some ran inside the park's community center where a crab feast was in full swing. >> this
. >> i'm debra alfarone. that gunfire in prince george's county left one person dead and another critically injured. >> tonight police are searching for a car and at least one shooter who rolled into the park and started firing around 2:30 this afternoon. >> garrett is live in springdale where we're getting a look at that deadly scene. garrett. >> reporter: deb, we get a really good look at the seen. police say that shooter pulled into the parking lot and sprayed this...
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. >> i'm debra alfarone. tomorrow heavy rain and severe storms will be around much of the day. first alert chief meteorologist is here with more on our yellow alert. >> i don't see any rounds of golf tomorrow early or even cutting the grass. by 7:00 we have showers across most of the metro area with heavier activity to the west. in the morning hours it will be worse from winchester, hagerstown and cumberland. by 11:00 there's the yellow out to the west and by 1:00 still have showers and storms across the metro area and the warm front is not even through yet. by later in the afternoon we get into heavy activity, 77 downtown. the warm front is getting close to us. that's the focus of the possibility of severe weather. so yellow alert, severe storms, flooding, hail, damaging winds and isolated tornadoes possible tomorrow, critical time 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. the critical time for tornadoes would be late afternoon and early evening hours. good news, sunday looks pleasant and breezy. we will come back, talk about what happened saturday night with the storms and have your 3- degree guara
. >> i'm debra alfarone. tomorrow heavy rain and severe storms will be around much of the day. first alert chief meteorologist is here with more on our yellow alert. >> i don't see any rounds of golf tomorrow early or even cutting the grass. by 7:00 we have showers across most of the metro area with heavier activity to the west. in the morning hours it will be worse from winchester, hagerstown and cumberland. by 11:00 there's the yellow out to the west and by 1:00 still have showers...
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i'm debra alfarone. >> i'm derek mcginty. within the past couple hours heirloom of severe weather rolled through the d.c. area. now most of it's -- a line of severe weather rolled through the d.c. area. now most of it's moving out. >> topper shutt has what that means for your morning commute. >> good news now, no severe storm warnings, but there is some pretty heavy rain through southern maryland. you can see all the red. that's rainfall rates over 1 inch per hour from dunkirk to prince frederick to leonardtown back into much of charles county. we'll zoom in more and give you rainfall rates. this is impressive, just west of huntington 2 3/4 inches per hour of rain. there's no lightning or hail but flash flood still possible. here is some of the damage reports, nothing crazy like tuesday or last saturday, but we seem to be in a pattern of severe weather. we had a 41 mile-per-hour wind gust at quantico at 10:01 and a 41 mile-per-hour wind gust at 8:00 at swan point that. storm produced hail across 95 and weakened going into sou
i'm debra alfarone. >> i'm derek mcginty. within the past couple hours heirloom of severe weather rolled through the d.c. area. now most of it's -- a line of severe weather rolled through the d.c. area. now most of it's moving out. >> topper shutt has what that means for your morning commute. >> good news now, no severe storm warnings, but there is some pretty heavy rain through southern maryland. you can see all the red. that's rainfall rates over 1 inch per hour from dunkirk...
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debra alfarone is off tonight. at this hour david sweat is recovering from surgery at albany medical center in new york. doctors will only say tonight that he is currently in critical condition after being shot and captured earlier today. kenneth craig has more on how sweat was caught just two days after his escape partner, richard matt, was shot and killed by law enforcement officers on friday. >> the nightmare is finally over. >> reporter: a new york state trooper spotted david sweat walking down a street sunday afternoon in constable, new york, about two miles from the canadian border. police say sweat who was unarmed, took off running but didn't get far. >> at one point the sergeant decided to discharge his weapon, hitting mr. sweat twice in the torso. >> the convicted cop killer was rushed to a hospital. >> the three-week manhunt has had residents in this area on edge. >> everybody around here has been pretty nervous, and family everything is going to get back to normal. >> reporter: police believe they know h
debra alfarone is off tonight. at this hour david sweat is recovering from surgery at albany medical center in new york. doctors will only say tonight that he is currently in critical condition after being shot and captured earlier today. kenneth craig has more on how sweat was caught just two days after his escape partner, richard matt, was shot and killed by law enforcement officers on friday. >> the nightmare is finally over. >> reporter: a new york state trooper spotted david...
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i'm debra alfarone. >> i'm derek mcginty. the governor described his cancer as aggressive and advanced, but he's not going to let the diagnosis slow him down. governor hogan is ready to tackle this next challenge and he already has a bit of of humor about it. >> reporter: governor larry hogan says he has dozens of tumors inside his body right now,
i'm debra alfarone. >> i'm derek mcginty. the governor described his cancer as aggressive and advanced, but he's not going to let the diagnosis slow him down. governor hogan is ready to tackle this next challenge and he already has a bit of of humor about it. >> reporter: governor larry hogan says he has dozens of tumors inside his body right now,
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. >> i'm debra alfarone. >>> tonight gay couples in all 50 states have the legal right to get married. >> look at the moment the decision was announced from the supreme court.
. >> i'm debra alfarone. >>> tonight gay couples in all 50 states have the legal right to get married. >> look at the moment the decision was announced from the supreme court.
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. >> i'm debra alfarone. there's severe thunderstorm watches and warnings throughout the metro area. chief meteorologist topper shutt is tracking the storms. where are they right now? >> they're everywhere. look at these severe thunderstorm warnings across much of the metro area of d.c. stretching back to manassas and culpeper. the duller yellow is a severe thunderstorm watch until 11:00. this bright yellow is now a severe thunderstorm warning. now when we
. >> i'm debra alfarone. there's severe thunderstorm watches and warnings throughout the metro area. chief meteorologist topper shutt is tracking the storms. where are they right now? >> they're everywhere. look at these severe thunderstorm warnings across much of the metro area of d.c. stretching back to manassas and culpeper. the duller yellow is a severe thunderstorm watch until 11:00. this bright yellow is now a severe thunderstorm warning. now when we
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i'm debra alfarone. bruce johnson is off tonight. let's get right over to first alert meteorologist howard bernstein in the weather center. when are they going to start, howard? >> probably mid-afternoon. the late afternoon, rush hour and drive home after work, after school is when we've got that threat. tonight the severe weather threat is across the midwest, lots of storms rumbling there toward indianapolis north of st. louis south of chicago. that's all ahead of a cold front. that will be in our vicinity in the afternoon tomorrow. while today temperatures struggled they got to 79. tomorrow we could be 10 degrees warmer. that will help fuel these storms. this yellow area is the slight risk for the storm prediction center. it's the first level of risk. it goes from slight up to moderate and high. under a slight risk we get damaging wind, large hail, slight chance of a tornado, but the wind and hail threats are the main concern for monday afternoon and evening. monday morning you get up, by 9:30 we'll be in the low 70s, lunchtime low
i'm debra alfarone. bruce johnson is off tonight. let's get right over to first alert meteorologist howard bernstein in the weather center. when are they going to start, howard? >> probably mid-afternoon. the late afternoon, rush hour and drive home after work, after school is when we've got that threat. tonight the severe weather threat is across the midwest, lots of storms rumbling there toward indianapolis north of st. louis south of chicago. that's all ahead of a cold front. that will...
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i'm debra alfarone. >> i'm derek mcginty. the office of personnel management said a massive data breach involves some 4 million
i'm debra alfarone. >> i'm derek mcginty. the office of personnel management said a massive data breach involves some 4 million
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hello, i'm debra alfarone. bruce johnson is off tonight. for the first time in nearly four decades, we have a triple crown winner. the long, long wait for a winner of horse racing's most coveted prize and today at the belmont stakes. wendy had prime seats. >> here it is, the 37 year wait is over. american pharoah is finally the one. american pharoah has won the triple crown. >> american pharoah galloped into the history books with saturday's belmont stakes. winning the triple crown. >> i am incredibly excited. i've never been so excited in my life. >> 37 years in the making. it's incredible because who knows when the next time somebody is going to win. >> the last time a horse won the triple crown was in 1978. when affirmed captured the kentucky derby, preakness, and belmont stakes. since then, 12 horses were in the winner circle for the derby and preakness, but failed at belmont park. >> the event was a sellout for the first time in new york racing association capped attendance at 90,000. >> this is the winning ticket. >> they placed bets
hello, i'm debra alfarone. bruce johnson is off tonight. for the first time in nearly four decades, we have a triple crown winner. the long, long wait for a winner of horse racing's most coveted prize and today at the belmont stakes. wendy had prime seats. >> here it is, the 37 year wait is over. american pharoah is finally the one. american pharoah has won the triple crown. >> american pharoah galloped into the history books with saturday's belmont stakes. winning the triple crown....
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. >> i'm debra alfarone. we are under a yellow alert for storms. chief meteorologist topper shutt says some of them could
. >> i'm debra alfarone. we are under a yellow alert for storms. chief meteorologist topper shutt says some of them could
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. >>> i'm debra alfarone at arlington elementary school and i will tell you why these kids are singing their hearts out coming up. >>> weatherwise going to be another steamy one. i'll tell you about the threat for thunderstorms as well in the first alert seven-day forecast. >>> good sunday morning. thank you for waking up with us. no better place for sunday morning television. wusa9 and cbs this morning. i'm mike hydeck. >> and i'm meteorologist erica grow. >>> in for another round of thunderstorms. most of us were spared. you didn't have any rain yesterday? >> no rain. tons of humidity, it felt like it was going to percolate any minute and then nothing. >> today similar to friday where we had more activity. however, we could see some severe thunderstorms. the conditions are ripe for maybe some heavy downpours, some strong winds and maybe even large hail. the criteria for a severe thunderstorm includes 60-mile- an-hour wind gusts and quarter sized hail. i think it's much more likely we would see 60-mile-per-hour gusts or maybe even higher as we head into the afternoon and early evening
. >>> i'm debra alfarone at arlington elementary school and i will tell you why these kids are singing their hearts out coming up. >>> weatherwise going to be another steamy one. i'll tell you about the threat for thunderstorms as well in the first alert seven-day forecast. >>> good sunday morning. thank you for waking up with us. no better place for sunday morning television. wusa9 and cbs this morning. i'm mike hydeck. >> and i'm meteorologist erica grow....
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hello i'm debra alfarone. >> i'm bruce johnson. we're going live to springfield, virginia in just a moment. but first no let up in the heat and humidity. >> howard bernstein tracking some strong thunderstorms tonight. what's going on howard? >> no more warnings in effect. during the 5:00 hour with these storms that came through dc over towards bowie with heavy downpours as well. now we're watching everything move from the southeast at 20 miles an hour as we may see that back in western maryland in here. that we may see an isolated shower left over here in washington and this evening as we want to point out for you in southern maryland and some
hello i'm debra alfarone. >> i'm bruce johnson. we're going live to springfield, virginia in just a moment. but first no let up in the heat and humidity. >> howard bernstein tracking some strong thunderstorms tonight. what's going on howard? >> no more warnings in effect. during the 5:00 hour with these storms that came through dc over towards bowie with heavy downpours as well. now we're watching everything move from the southeast at 20 miles an hour as we may see that back...
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i'm debra alfarone. >> i'm derek mcginty. garrett haake is live in the newsroom with more on what happened and who could be at risk. >> this one is big. the office of personnel management announced tonight its servers have been breached exposing data of at least 4 million current and former federal employees to hackers. the agency said it learned of the breach in april when it began upgrading its cyber security, but by then it was too late. the hackers got access to what the agency calls personally identifiable information. that could include everything from names to social security numbers. they aren't being more specific now. the office of personnel management said they are working with the fbi and department of homeland security to figure out exactly how much information about how many people were affected. right now that 4 million employee number seems to be the low end estimate. our partners at the washington post along with several other news organizations including the wall street journal are reporting this hack likely
i'm debra alfarone. >> i'm derek mcginty. garrett haake is live in the newsroom with more on what happened and who could be at risk. >> this one is big. the office of personnel management announced tonight its servers have been breached exposing data of at least 4 million current and former federal employees to hackers. the agency said it learned of the breach in april when it began upgrading its cyber security, but by then it was too late. the hackers got access to what the agency...
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i'm debra alfarone. >> and i'm derek mcginty. scott broom with more on this shocking announcement that i think caught most everybody by surprise. >> reporter: it did. it was a very horrible and also surprising announcement this afternoon. this is a type b nonhodge lins lymphoma the -- non-hodgkin's lich open a the governor said. he's going -- lymphoma the governor said. he's going to begin his treatments immediately. >> a few days ago i was diagnosed with cancer. it's an aggressive b cell non- hodgkin's lymphoma. i'm going to face this challenge with the same energy and determination that i've relied on to climb every hill and overcome of obstacle that i've faced in my life. the good news is that although i've learned this cancer i have is a very aggressive one and it's spread very rapidly, it's also one that responds very aggressively to chemotherapy treatment. the best news is that my odds of getting through this and beating this are much, much better than the odds i had of beating anthony brown to become the 62nd governor of m
i'm debra alfarone. >> and i'm derek mcginty. scott broom with more on this shocking announcement that i think caught most everybody by surprise. >> reporter: it did. it was a very horrible and also surprising announcement this afternoon. this is a type b nonhodge lins lymphoma the -- non-hodgkin's lich open a the governor said. he's going -- lymphoma the governor said. he's going to begin his treatments immediately. >> a few days ago i was diagnosed with cancer. it's an...
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. >> and i'm debra alfarone. doppler has doppler 900 that could show you your evening. >> reporter: all the severe weather for the time being is south of us. the bad news, this will impact your ride home no doubt. pretty much wet roads up 270 and up 95 as well. we'll zoom in a little bit and get towards rockville and germantown. we'll zoom in a little bit more. everything pushing off to the south and the east as these showers are benign, intensifying over the next couple of hours. that's why we're concerned about them. but just a little activity, and in poolesville. certainly enough to slow you down. and that we would have that anyway. the severe thunderstorm watch, the threat that we would agree with it. and over in to the northern neck, technically it does include st. mary's county until midnight. not to say that we cannot have the severe weather outside of this, but that this will show you and i think that it will be a pretty, i agree with it. that most of the severe weather will be south of us tonight. we'll
. >> and i'm debra alfarone. doppler has doppler 900 that could show you your evening. >> reporter: all the severe weather for the time being is south of us. the bad news, this will impact your ride home no doubt. pretty much wet roads up 270 and up 95 as well. we'll zoom in a little bit and get towards rockville and germantown. we'll zoom in a little bit more. everything pushing off to the south and the east as these showers are benign, intensifying over the next couple of hours....
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. >> i'm debra alfarone. craig boswell has reaction from the historic decision today. >> reporter: same sex marriage is now the law of the land. it was a little too much for pam yorksmith who sued to have her name added to her son's birth certificate. >> overwhelmed and overjoy and really proud to be an american today. >> reporter: the 5-4 decision fell along conservative liberal lines with justice kennedy giving the swing vote. he wrote marriage is a fundamental right in which homosexual couples must share and it would be a violation of equal protection to extend that right only to heterosexual couples. >> within just a few sentences i was crying. >> reporter: the lead plaintiff in the case sued to have his name added to his late spouse's death certificate. >> if it weren't for knowing him and loving him, i would have never become part of something like this. >> reporter: president obama praised the decision of the court. >> this ruling will strengthen all of our communities by offering to all loving same se
. >> i'm debra alfarone. craig boswell has reaction from the historic decision today. >> reporter: same sex marriage is now the law of the land. it was a little too much for pam yorksmith who sued to have her name added to her son's birth certificate. >> overwhelmed and overjoy and really proud to be an american today. >> reporter: the 5-4 decision fell along conservative liberal lines with justice kennedy giving the swing vote. he wrote marriage is a fundamental right...
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i'm debra alfarone. >> i'm derek mcginty. topper shutt is tracking those storms now on the way. where are they now,ton? >> they're still north of town. so far, so good. we've only had one warning today, and that was in st. mary's county. these are heavy storms north of frederick, thou crossing over i-70, but nothing severe. i've checked for hail and damaging winds. do not seat. therefore, there's no severe thunderstorm warnings issued. this is a heavy storm around gettysburg. heavy storm moves through frederick with heavy rain but that was it. this is still producing some pretty good rain around walkersville and hansonville. this is going to move off to the north. but again, no hail and no gusty winds. that's good. we are looking at this storm now, just into portions of west virginia, in the panhandle, headed toward oakland, west virginia. also headed towards hedgesville. everything is moving off to the north and east. good news, nothing severe as of yet. the watch goes until 9:00. so the potential is still there, although i think the ingredients are wakening. 8:00 tonight on th
i'm debra alfarone. >> i'm derek mcginty. topper shutt is tracking those storms now on the way. where are they now,ton? >> they're still north of town. so far, so good. we've only had one warning today, and that was in st. mary's county. these are heavy storms north of frederick, thou crossing over i-70, but nothing severe. i've checked for hail and damaging winds. do not seat. therefore, there's no severe thunderstorm warnings issued. this is a heavy storm around gettysburg. heavy...