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Good evening this is c.t.v.

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News for Friday August 23rd I'm Janine
Samuel and I'm Patricia Van thank you for

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joining us tonight plans to build

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a 4000000 square foot Amazon
distribution center in the West Valley

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a community have been scrapped the warehouse
was approved by the Prince Georges

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Planning Board last month despite strong
opposition from residents county executive

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Angela also Brooks announced in

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a statement that the company would no
longer be pursuing the site while it was

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widely reported that
the warehouse would be

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a help for Amazon the company never
officially acknowledged its plan for

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in-store just County man spend several
months behind bars after he's falsely

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accused of smuggling a
liquid meth into the u.s.

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Leon Houghton brought his favorite
honey back to the States after he was

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vacationing in Jamaica and
December However u.s.

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Customs and Border Protection
detained Houghton at b.w.i.

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Marshall Airport after the honey he brought
back tested positive for meth he was

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arrested and he spent several months in
jail for felony drug charges we spoke with

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about how this incident affected him
through my life like a woman that I'm

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a true than in life. That it was

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a clean compliment settled on the equipment
and food the Pima bills and most of it

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and it was 7. Stuff because it's
messed me up and missed my life.

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And it's even though I know that
I mean that the game get become

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a feed on the Form

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a little bit of money just because I'm
struggling hot nor is released from jail

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after

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a 2nd test confirm that that honey
was not. Do you ever receive spam

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calls are calls from unknown numbers if
so you're one in an estimated 4700000000

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Americans who received

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a robo call in July Well there may be
relief in sight 51 attorneys general and

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12 of the country's largest telephone
companies are joining forces to come by to

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combat the spike in spam calls
across the nation under

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a new agreement mobile carriers
such as 18 t. Comcast Sprint t.

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Mobile and Horizon will implement free
call blocking technology and deploy

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a system that would label calls
as real or spam we caught up with

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a few people in Largo to see if they
have received these annoying calls in

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a week at least 3

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a week wow and then do you know like what
they're for do you listen to them I have

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because we made

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a joke about it at work they're telling
us that security card has been suspended.

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So security number I get that
tell me that they want to give me

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a lower interest rate on

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a Master Card So those are the 2 that I
get frequently and I get that call every

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day about the Master Card and we also
understand that somebody is making money to

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intrude opponents like that so. I wish
they would stop it why no it isn't.

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What do you do when you get
those call so if I don't know

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a number of business it in my phone I don't
pick it up I let it ring in the From

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interested in

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a call back to see what it's about if I'm
not interested I have an i Phone I just

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put it in black right. Now as you just heard
some people are taking the issue into

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their own hands but these new measures
will improve the government's ability to

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find and penalize scammers that continue
to doubt consumers and record numbers at

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this time there's no deadline by which the
telecom companies must have the robocall

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protections in place. A McGovern county
business owner pleads guilty to conspiracy

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and fraud charges 65 year old Ivan 3 main
who owns 3 construction companies and

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a gun Mary in Prince George's was accused
of charging for work that was never

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performed through

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a nit mid the acts which netted him
nearly $2000000.00 that occurred between

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20152017 as part of the plea agreement
he must pay restitution to the victims

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throwing faces up to 20 years behind bars
when he is sentenced in January. More

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than 80 people are indicted in connection
with an online scam that stole millions

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from victims across the United States Federal
prosecutors say fraudsters allegedly

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used online romance scams along with

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a scheme that targeted the elderly and
companies that I knowingly facilitated

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illegal transfers of money Melissa Wright
is in the newsroom with more on this

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story officials say 2 men both Nigerian
born citizens were the suspect ringleaders

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in

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a scam who along with several accomplices
still more than $6000000.00 through fraud

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and attempted to obtain an additional
$40000000.00 more the Federal Trade

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Commission is warning people
about these games and I have

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a few tips that may
help you avoid becoming

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a victim the very 1st tip is to take
your time slow down when you get to know

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someone you've recently met on the
Internet they say to attempt to develop

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a relationship before sending any money the
2nd tip is to avoid avoid wiring money

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or putting money on

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a gift card and also as once again to never
send cash to someone you've just met

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recently over the Internet and the 3rd
tip is if you feel like you've been

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a victim the ask you to contact your bank
as to see if you can set up some sort of

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a cancellation so that that money is
not transferred the 4th tip which is

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a really good one is to talk to friends
and family if you're feeling an easy or

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nervous about

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a transaction they say that if your
intuition is telling you this could be

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a scam that you should listen and that
could potentially save you from being

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scammed out of thousands of dollars
from the news room see t.v.

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Melissa right. Well

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a new study is out telling us what we already
know about area traffic according to

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the 21000 below the report
conducted by the Texas a and m.

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Transportation Institute
motorists in the d.c.

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Region encounter some of the most grueling
commutes in the nation their report

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found that commuters here
spend an average of 102 hours

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a year in gridlock making hours the 3rd
worst behind Los Angeles and San Francisco

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the report indicates it's getting
worse the $100.00 in 2 hours is

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a 21 percent increase
from 10 years ago and

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a 54 percent increase since
1997 the report does offer so

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a solution to the problem the
Institute says the nation needs

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a mix of more roads transit and reducing
demand through telework as well the

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smarter land use.