good morning, america. breaking overnight. crime scene in chaos. international investigators blocked from the shirt where flight 17 crashed and burned. >> the debris field goes miles. >> but our reporter was able to get in. the shocking things we've discovered as the world waits to find out who did this. northwest burning. tens of thousands of acres of flames and out of control. forcing residents to run, some 100 homes have been destroyed. >> all you could see was fire just everywhere. >> so when will the hot, dry, windy weather end and finally give firefighters a chance to gain the upper hand? caught on camera. the video sparking outrage this morning. a father of six dies after being arrested on the sidewalk by new

york city cops. >> i can't breathe. >> street protests expected today over whether officers used an illegal choke hold to bring him down. and killer caffeine. a teen's death linked to a product 25 times more powerful than your morning coffee. what you need to know this morning about the fda's important new warning. hey, good morning, everybody. right to the breaking news on flight mh17. ripped out of the sky over ukraine. here's what we know. president obama pointing the finger at rebel fighters in eastern ukraine, fighters who are backed by russia, he says they used a russian made surface-to-air missile to shoot down the plane even perhaps with russian technical support. >> we also know one american was among the victims. quinn lucas schansman was 19 years old with joint u.s./dutch

citizenship, 1 of the 2 the 8 dead including 80 children. three of whom were infants. also this morning, growing international outrage over the fact that rebel fighters in eastern ukraine were not allowing investigators to reach the scene of the crash. we have team coverage of what is a fast-moving story at this hour and begin with abc's kirit radia who was able to reach the scene and what he found was shocking. >> reporter: good morning. i'm standing right in t the mide of where the bulk of the plane landed. as you can see almost nothing survived. just a part of the landing gear, part of the engine and burned body parts everywhere. this morning, international investigators complain that the rebels that control this area won't give them full access to the site. the smell hits you even before you see it. jet fuel and death. the wreckage still smoldering. every white flag a body part. among the debris a child's toy, a backpack, someone's suitcase. anywhere else in the world the

crash site would be roped off and crawling with investigators. not here. only a few rebels to keep watch and local emergency workers. international investigators still haven't arrived. the team who arrived last night said the rebels did not grant them full access. president obama says the u.s. has evidence the rebels shot the plane down. >> evidence indicates that the plane was shot down by a surface-to-air missile that was launched from an area controlled by russian-backed separatists inside of ukraine. >> reporter: one rebel blasted those claims. [ speaking a foreign language ] >> reporter: telling us it was the ukrainian military who did this. among the dead an american student on his way to join his family's vacation. >> it's so senseless what happened. >> reporter: also killed three infants, almost bringing the u.s. ambassador to the united nations to tears. >> as we stared at the passenger list yesterday we saw next to three of the passengers names a capital "i."

as we now know the letter "i" stands for infant. >> reporter: back at the crash site the rebels say they'll facilitate an investigation. but so far that has yet to begin. it's been raining here today and all of this evidence and so many of the bodies are still laying out exposed to the elements. now nearly 48 hours after the crash. dan and bianna. >> a complete disrespect for the dead. kirit radia, thank you. let's bring in colonel steve ganyard in london. steve, good morning. the fact that the crime scene is so to rowly unsecured. how badly does that set back the investigation? >> dan, i've got a little bit of a different take on this. you know, i think the past 24 hours we've had the president come out and confirm and awhat happened. that is that a surface-to-air missile system that was russian in origin brought this aircraft down and so i think we really know what happened. getting to those black boxes isn't going to tell us much. the black boxes will only say this was a perfectly good

airplane right up until the impact of that missile. getting to the crash site could provide some forensic evidence, perhaps things like residue from explosives or some metal fragments but i think right now what we really need to do is get to the crash site and preserve some of the dignity of the dead and their loved ones. >> hard to call that anything other than an outrage. given this situation and given that we're in an active war zone how do we get to the bottom of this and find out who is to blame? >> right, that's going to be the challenge because we know that the rebels had this weapon, we know that it came from rebel territory and saw two weeks ago nato intelligence officials were briefing they saw the russians giving training to the rebels on this sophisticated tactical mobile surface-to-air missile system. so there are lots of pieces of evidence now but i think we're going to shift from a mind-set of a crime scene investigation to an intelligence investigation to try and figure out how was these missiles came to be into rebel hands and it'll probably

most likely point back to moscow. >> why would it be in anybody's interest, though, to shoot down a commercial airplane? why do youny they would have done this? >> right now i can only imagine that it was not done delibera deliberately. if they were given a little bit of training they probably weren't told how to use the capabilities of that system to determine the difference between a commercial and a military aircraft. they probably just saw a blip on the radar, locked on and pulled the trigger but i think what happened here is that mr. putin gave some delinquent children a can of gasoline and matches and he's now shocked to find out that they started a fire. >> horrifying. all right, colonel steve ganyard, our aviation consultanting reporting in from london this morning, thank you. >> our thoughts and prayer, of course, with the loved ones who lost so many people and bears reminding this is a human tragedy. nearly 300 lost souls and starting to hear some of their stories and the twist of fate surrounding that doomed flight.

circumstances keeping some people off the plane saving their lives while others wound up last-minute passengers. abc's david wright has their incredible stories from kuala lumpur. david. >> reporter: good morning, bianna. across this country, flags at half-staff, people here still grab 8ing with the disappearance of malaysian air 370 now mourning the loss of flight 17 too and we're hearing stories today from the lucky few, ticketed passengers who ended up not getting on board that plane. barry and izzy sim tried to fly out on mh17 but the flight was oversold. there weren't enough seats for them and their baby. >> i was going to change my luck to be on malaysian airlines and we couldn't get both on the flight this morning so we changed it to the klm one. >> reporter: that decision saved their lives. >> just shock you get the sick feeling in the pit of your stomach. >> we were supposed to be on that flight and obviously, you

know, something watching over us and say, no, don't get on that flight. >> reporter: australian newly wed simone and juan had tickets on mh17 coming home from their honeymoon. >> we have some pretty good guardian angels. >> and ended up flying home a day early worrying about getting over the jet lag for work. >> feeling lucky but at the same time hard to believe for these families that, you know, expecting their loved ones to come home. >> reporter: flight attendant san ji singh swapped on to it in the last moment. in march his wife also a flight attendant swapped off flight 370. she lived. he's gone. marten is lucky twice. he was booked on both flights and ended up not boarding the fateful flight. here in malaysia there's truly a sense that lightning has struck

twice. the agony still fresh for those flight 370 families, now dozens more sharing their grief. dan? >> lightning striking twice, david wright, thank you. this is a disaster that could change the face of commercial aviation. the flight path over eastern ukraine was technically open for business on the day mh17 was shut down. dozens crossed the space that day and planes regularly fly over war zones all over this planet so could this crash change that and what kind of impact will it have on us flyers. jim avila is at reagan national airport. jim, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, dan. we board a flight we know where we're going but we rarely think about the route the pilot is taking. for the shootdown of this passenger jet that may change. add ukraine to a growing list of hot spots international airlines are required to avoid. north korea, yemen, the sinai peninsula and syria. a big chunk of airspace.

so why did malaysian air flight 17 pass over a combat zone thursday? because that area wasn't closed down above 32,000 feet and the doomed 777 was flying at an unrestricted 33,000 feet when the missile brought it down. abc news aviation consultant john nance says it may have been flying legally but it was still flying unwise. >> when you're flying over a war zone it doesn't matter if somebody says, well, you're okay above 32,000 feet. maybe you want to be more conservative. >> reporter: after the missile strike all airspace over eastern ukraine was closed. an expensive detour for airlines who lose time, about ten minutes to fly around the combat zone and $1500 per flight in fuel costs. but despite the cost in time and money, this week, the biggest aviation lesson may be more caution from regulators and pilots in times of war. >> we've got to be much more

proactive about staying clear of any possible hot zone in terms of combat on the ground. >> reporter: but in the air all those simultaneous war zones on the ground carve out thousands of miles through a popular air corridor with some of the world's heaviest traffic. pilots, passengers and airlines thinking a lot more about what's below us as we fly in the air. dan. >> thinking a lot more about that flight path. all right, jim, thank you. that concludes our coverage this morning of malaysian flight 17 and we'll continue with all breaking news and top developments on abc news and abcnewcom but turn to the massive western wildfires. the worst tearing through washington state, some 100 homes destroyed. hundreds of square miles blackened by the flames that firefighters are struggling to get under control. abc's brandi hitt is on the front lines in pateros, washington, with more. >> reporter: imagine coming home and finding this, your house is gone. the only thing left a metal staircase as this fire continues

to spread this morning more evacuations are now under way. this morning, fierce flames are tearing through central washington. the complex fire exploding overnight to more than 160,000 acres and destroying some hundred homes. the town of pateros so ravaged a metal billboard seen here is melting away. >> all you could see was fire everywhere. >> you just watch my friend's house go down. >> reporter: alex hernandez had to break the horrible news to his friend over the phone that a fireball wiped out his home. >> we thought we had it saved last night and it's gone now. >> reporter: this morning, two more nearby communities are now being evacuated as a wall of fire bears down on these residential areas. and stubborn wind-whipped flames push fire crews to their limbs. >> right now they're just stopping the fire from spreading any farther down the road. >> reporter: it's been a hellish week of wildfires barreling

through tens of thousands of acres across five starts. leavenworth, washington, is one of the hardest hit towns. >> it really looked like the cauldron of hell to see flames everywhere. >> reporter: take a look at this a charming state park reduced to ashes. >> the state is doing everything humanly possible to reduce the risk of the fires. it is still extremely acute. >> reporter: the flames are also downing miles of power lines and leaving an entire town of 600 people without electricity. >> all the power and water is off. we heard it's probably going to be up to a month before we can get some electricity back. >> reporter: residents are praying for rain but preparing for more heat and gusty winds today and in this brutal battle between firefighters and mother nature, one fire chief says mother nature is winning, dan and bianna. >> brandi, thank you. striking to hear that man describe it as the cauldron of hell. there was a lot of other news breaking overnight. for that including the latest on hamas and the battle against

israel in the gaza we'll get it over to ron claiborne. >> hey, good morning to you, dan and bianna. good morning, everyone. we begin in the middle east where there's renewed heavy fighting between israeli forces and palestinian fighters as the israeli military pushes deeper into the gaza strip. israeli commanders say the expanded air and ground offensive could take a couple of weeks. the death toll on the palestinian side estimated at about 300 people. one israeli civilian was killed about i a rocket attack and a null of israeli soldiers have been injured. this comes as u.n. secretary ban ki-moon heads to the region to try to broker a cease-fire deal to end the bloodshed there. potential legal problems for the automaker subaru. a federal lawsuit is accusing subaru of failing to tell customers about a defect that could lead to engine failure while the vehicles are being driven. the model affected are the 2011 through 2014 forest, legacy, t outback and crosstrek as well as

the 2012 and 2013 impreza. they're demanding a recall and unspecified damages. president obama will meet with leaders next week to try to carve out a plan to curb the inflex of child migrants coming into the u.s. with a meeting in washington, d.c. with leaders of honduras, guatemala and el salvador and comes as the administration tries to win approval in congress for 3$3.7 billion to expand border security and deal with that immigration crisis. quite a rescue in pennsylvania. 14-year-old boy got trapped inside a vertical structural beam of the elizabeth bridge. the boy climbed into the 18-inch diameter beam, don't ask why. and he was then unable to move. it took 20 agencies 2 1/2 hours to free him using a harness. he suffered only minor drapes. his father welcomed him home by telling him, imagine this, he's grounded. a couple caught on surveillance video allegedly stealing a replica of a baby dinosaur from the museum in

north carolina have turned themselves in. logan richie and larissa lovaka are afacing felony charges. he shoved the dinosaur valued at $10,000 into her bag. if i'm not mistaken that was a replica of the late crustacean period, not the early crustacean area. >> more valuable. >> i remember that. yes. those are some bad dudes. we're not done. police say the video after was released. the dinosaur was found in the back entrance of the museum. someone brought it back. and some kids in east texas are lucky that they escaped the jaws of this huge eight-foot-long alligator swimming in a pond near their home in wood.com when -- oh, the gator chased them out of the water. wouldn't want to mess with that. wildfire officials came in and took the gator away to a local alligator farm. so they say.

i bet you never see that alligator again. back to you. >> all right. a little bit of cynicism at the end of the newscast. ron, thank you. we do have an important health warning this morning. the fda telling americans to stay away from pure powdered caffeine. this is a dozen types stronger than what's in your coffee cup being blamed for the death of a teenager in ohio and rochelle franzen has more. >> we know about caffeine and caffeine pills. this is caffeine powder and potent and widely available popular with athletes. health officials now say small amounts can be deadly. that after an ohio teen overdosed. logan steiner was a standout high school student and wrestler in ohio. just days away from graduating in may when his brother found the teen unresponsive at home. his death shocked the community. >> he was just a terrific kid. i mean, they loved having him there. >> reporter: the autopsy report that followed was even more

shocking. the county corps row another finding the cause of death a lethal amount of caffeine in his system, more than 2 times the amount found in a typical serving of coffee or soda. his family learning after his death he was taking caffeine powder. >> leads into cardic arrhythmia, speeding heart and leads into seizures and those are two things that took his life. >> reporter: it is a popular stimulant experts say easily available in pure bulk form online and is not illegal. the fda warning this morning even a teaspoon can pack a lethal punch of 25 cups of coffee. >> we found out that this was being sold in bulk form in a powder form and it was being used by young people and it was just to give them an edge because most of them like all of us thought, well, it's innocuous, it can't hurt you. >> reporter: and the fda says it is still investigating caffeine powder and may consider taking regulatory action. steiner's death has also triggered ohio lawmakers to look

at possible legislation. >> unfortunate. we haven't heard of this so let's bring in abc's chief health and medical editor dr. richard besser. your take. >> i think we've developed a cavalier attitude around caffeine. low levels in adults, it'll make you more alert. help you focus. but this isn't low levels this. is a high level and what we're seeing is thousands of people ending up in the er every year because of taking in too much caffeine. this product, one teaspoon with the amount of caffeine that's in 25 cups of coffee. >> what makes the powder so much more potent. >> it's pure caffeine and what we know from that is, you know, you drink too much coffee you may get jittery but you take too much of this and it's truly toxic. you'll get disoriented. you may have irregular heartbeat. you may have seizures and it can lead to death. this is a very serious issue and it's legal. >> as michelle said the fda is

look nothing this but you think they should be tougher on this thing. >> well, the rules that govern supplements and products like this are an absolute mess. the fda considers this a food product so manufacturers can put it in everything from waffles to syrup, supplements can use it, as well and they don't have to tell you how much is in there. "consumer reports" said the labels are often very misleading. it's an area where fda will do more research and hopefully the rules will change. >> you think you walk into a store, something is over the counter, it's not going to be dangerous, right? >> in particular for children. adults have a much higher tolerance than children. the academy of pediatrics want parents 0 know energy drink, cav green, not good for kids. >> adult, stick to coffee and tea. >> that is's the way to go. >> thanks so much. a check of the weather and welcome back meteorologist julie dire da from our abc station in miami. wplg. good morning. julie. >> we are expecting to continue to watch the fires roar over the northwest and have fire warnings

in effect for northeastern washington. very dry air mass, low humidity and high winds are expected again for the northwest. a big concern for the firefighters out there. with those increasing winds and low humidity not good news for our friends across the northwest. the southeast where we wish we could take the rain across the southeast coasts and take it to the northwest. they are expecting more rain. flash flooding possible up to 2 inches from new orleans all the way into the panhandle. that will start up towards the mid-atlantic states into the end of the weekend but check out what a refreshing day it is for the northeast. temperatures well below average feeling more like fall instead of summer. that's a look at the national >> gd morning. clou start to the d day. a cool startrt. tetemperatures in the 60s. herin washington but temperatures aren't going to rise all that much today. look at the rain in the southeast. huge sprinkles to us for us this morning out to ththe west

where the heavier r rain is falling. yesterday y 86 degrees today temperatureses only 80 drees. cldy skies aittle >> dan and bianna, have you been able to enjoy this beautiful weather? it's been refreshing here in the northeast. >> it's amazing. finally. >> yes, i took a nice long run outside yesterday. keep it coming, julie. great to have you back. coming up here on -- >> a long run? >> yes. >> a jog. >> silly question. let me tell you what's coming up. the valentine day's murder trial. a wild case, the alleged mistress of the man accused of killing his wife taking the stand so were these two lovers? caught on tape, did police use an illegal choke hold that ended up dying after this takedown. the protest planned after the outrage that police went way too far. plus, brad pitt makes a fashion statement. why his choice of outfit is getting so much buzz. up ahead in "pop news."

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>> gooood morning. we've had aice break frfrom summer heat three days temperatures below norming looklike we're going -- normal. sunsne will be a at a premium this weekend. get readady for gray days. temperatures on thee mild side. the winds are calm out ththere.

there is a lot of rain down to the southeast higigh pressure over new engla giving us an easterlylow for umost dry someprinkles out in the higher elevations. a few drops on our windshield this morning but most of the rain staying out in the blue ridge. yesterday,6 degrees. we should be at 89. modederate humidity. enenjoy e cooler than nonormal temperatures. tomorrow 80 to 85 and sbit afternoon. the heat and the humidity come back. look for temperatures in the 9090s with theame

shocking images. five new york city police officers tackling a man who ends up dying while in custody. the mayor of new york is demanding a full investigation and there's going to be protests planned as well. >> really horrifying. going viral making a lot of people really angry. the mayor of new york city bill de blasio postponing his vacation to italy for a day for an important meeting with community leaders. protests are expected. charges that proper procedures were not followed during the arrest. we'll have much more on this story which is breaking at this hour coming up. but first the man on trial accused of killing his wife on valenti valentine's day. >> authorities in illinois say nathan leuthold shot his wife to make way for his alleged mistress. the prosecution and defense laying out their case in court

and abc's reena ninan is here with more. good morning, reena. >> reporter: good morning to you guys. the couple met that alleged mistress when she was just a girl during a mission trip to lithuania. when she turned 18 they spons sponsored her so she could study in the u.s. prosecutors are making the case she's the reason nathan leuthold not only broke his wife's heart he murdered her on valentine's day. this morning nathan leuthold is behind bars accused of murdering his wife on valentine's day last year. prosecutors say so he could be with his alleged mistress. ina. >> the motive? his real valentine. >> reporter: leuthold called to report his wife was shot in the head during a home invasion while he was out running ear's but prosecutors say he staged the whole thing. >> i observed some kitchen cabinets open and some kitchen drawers on the floor. i felt this was not an ordinary burglary.

>> reporter: according to police it was a glock 40, the murder weapon, same type he himself owned but was missing and found internet searches for how to muffle a gun hitting someone over the had he had to knock them out and lethal injection. other defense attorneys deny any affair. the prosecution read a day planner entry from leuthold's wife saying i know you want me dead. why do you want to humiliate me by running around with a 20-year-old? >> he couldn't start his life with her until he ended de nose's. >> reporter: the alleged mistress questioned about a text message leuthold sent her just 15 minutes after calling 911. to report his wife's murder. >> do you remember texting back the word "interesting" with a smiley face. >> translator: could be. >> leuthold pleaded not guilty to first degree murder and if convicted he faces 45 years in prison. the defense says the evidence isn't there but prosecutors say the relationship he had with a

college student was much more than just a sponsored student. >> i know you'll follow it. thank you. let's turn to refinery for another update of the morning's top story. >> good morning, everyone. we begin in ukraine and the outrage over international investigators being blocked from the site where the malaysian airliner crashed and burns as president obama says it appears they used a russian surface-to-air missile to shoot it down. firefighters in the west are battling several raging fires, the worst whipping through washington state. 1 roo homes there have been destroyed and hundreds of square miles are now blackened by the flames. three states are suing the makers of a 5-hour energy drink for deceptive and misleading advertising. it accused of not having accurate evidence to back up claims of boosting evidence without the crash that typically follows a caffeine high. and finally, take a look at this. a rare baby rhino born at the san diego zoo six days old this plaque rhino spent the day as

young rhinos do, exploring its new surroundings, black rhinos are critically endangered species. there are only about 5,000 left in the wild. >> so cute. >> it's amazing how you can take any animal no matter how fierce and make them a baby and all of a sudden they're cute. >> oh. >> even ron thinks he's out. >> that is fantastic. i like that little pet rhino. >> yeah. >> till they get very big and then, boom. >> i got that. >> they kill you. way to end a happy story. >> it got very dark in here. >> real dark. let's get a check of the weather over to wplg by our meteorologist julie durda. ron. >> wow. i didn't even know -- all right. ron. tell us how you really feel over there. all right, well, good morning, america. we are waking up to some very comfortable weather across the midwest. now, you have seen temperatures in the 50s for overnight lows with highs in the 70s across the whole midwest throughout the week. the warming trend begins now and

instead of feeling like fall here comes summer. highs today in the low 80s. a live look outside. look how gorgeous it is out there. now, i got in trouble by seeing bright sunshine so i'm not going to sing it. absolutely gorgeous so let's move on. we are expecting a warming trend to begin as we go into early next week and do have an excessive height warning in effect. minneapolis, you will definitely feel like summer on monday. a temperature of 94 degrees. kansas city, the 90s. as we get into early next week, detroit, where is this heat coming from? all from the southwest. check it out, temperatures well into the triple digit it? s and phoenix, las vegas, yuma, ray nice coastal area would be san francisco looking at comfortable conditions and california, 78 in los angeles. i believe ron took a nice vacation there. >> good morning, wasashington. a clou weekend but a cooler than normal weekend. temperatures today 78 to 84

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don't touch me. >> this is the shocking and really wrenching video gone viral of new york city police tackling a man on the street. they say he was resisting arrest for illegally selling cigarettes. >> five police tackling him and eric garner who repeatedly complained he couldn't breathe suffered a heart attack and died at the hospital. the mayor is promising a full investigation as ron is here with more on the story. hard to watch that video. >> bianna, not just growing outrage but growing controversy over this incident which took place on new york city's staten island. the suspect in a tense standoff with two police officers who

were trying to arrest him then a struggle and an hour and a half later that suspect dead at a local hospital. now come questions, did police follow standard arrest procedure or did they go too far? this video taken by a bystander capturing the drama as it unfolds. >> let go. >> watch. it shows two plainclothes police officers confronting 43-year-old eric garner, his crime, allegedly selling loose cigarettes. >> i'm minding my business. please leave me alone. >> reporter: finally the officers try to physically arrest him. garner appears to resist. >> one officer puts his forearm around garner's neck as other officers join in to wrestle the man down from the ground garner cries out -- >> i can't breathe. i can't breathe. >> his eyes rolled back of his head and then he just was not responding whatsoever. >> garner was taken to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead about an hour later. his cause of death unknown.

>> nobody should have to die while being arrested. but mr. garner's medical condition may have been the cause of it and not the action of the officers. >> reporter: the mother of garner's infant daughter anguished and angry. >> they murdered him. they hurt him. they killed him, you know. >> new york police commissioner william bratten acknowledges the video appears to show a police officer applying a choke hold on garner, a move prohibited in the nypd. >> it is defined this would be a choke hold. >> reporter: now police and prosecutors work to find out why this arrest resulted in the suspect dying. new york city's mayor says he calls it troubling. he was supposed to leave for vacation but posedtpon it for one day and on staten island protests over the incident are planned led by the activist al sharpton all of this while

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pretty close to my case. to put that in perspective. facebook said if all of her fans joined hands they would wrap around the world four times and if they all howled, that sounds random it would be like her hit song, the sound would be louder than 58 million planes taking off. intensive homework. the grammy award winner appeared to be blown away and posted this message for her fans. >> thank you so much for your support, for your loyalty, for your love. it's really unbelievable. thank you so much. mwah. >> that makes me love her even more. consider my like 101 million. beyonce is getting her own exhibit at the rock and roll hall of fame. costumes from her videos and super bowl performance will be on display starting this tuesday. remember this one from her music video "sweet dreams" and this costume is from the "run the world" video. also on her show is her -- i hope i say this.

givenchy gown from the met gala. technically she isn't eligible into induction into the hall of fame until the near future, 2027 but it's beyonce, she breaks all the rule. >> she rules the world. >> she goes by queen be. and brad pitt as always been style savvy but this could be his best yet. check out the t-shirt he was spotted wearing in a french airport. it appears to be a picture of the star and his fiance angelynely hand drawn by one of their kids. angelina spoke about them making homemade jewelry and stationery. this could be another design effort from one of their broad. show us pictures of things your kids have created. in-box us at facebook or tweet us at "gma." a feline for dan harris with a fear of thunderstorms. luckily this cat has the perfect escape plan.

>> and i'm out of here. that is one clever kitty. how cute, dan. >> that's very cute. absolutely. >> dan is impressed. >> she hates storms too but -- >> look at it over and over. >> three storms in a row in one night. >> really cute. very cute. thank you very much. sara, for a wonderful "pop news" as always and for personalizing it with a little cat at the end for me, i appreciate that. we'll be right back with a big announcement you do not want to miss. keep it here. ♪ at famous footwear we're not just selling back to school shoes, we're selling straight up confidence. we've done our homework to find the hottest shoes to send your kids back in style. like our exclusive shimmer print converse high-tops. anybody sitting here? only at famous footwear. famous footwear. victory is yours.

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finally this morning we have big news here that is both exsighting and a little bit sad and it involves my teammate and co-pilot, bianna golodryga. we have worked side by side for more than four years and i have enjoyed every second of it. however, you now have a big opportunity. >> we are not getting a divorce.

this is not a separation. we'll still be in each other's lives but i'm going to take on a big news role on yahoo! joining our partner katie couric and there i'll get to cover the in-depth and important stories we all love. this new position means the world to me especially because abc and yahoo! have a partnership so i will always be part of your family on camera and off. >> great, yes, i'm going to hold you to that and just want to say this is an amazing opportunity. you are going to be amazing at it. we are as you said great partners with yahoo! so you'll be back every time you score a big interview which i think will be frequent. these have been four amazing years. >> four years. >> four of the most enjoyable years. >> you never once called me bianca on air. >> came this close on a couple of occasions. so we have you for a few more weeks and when you go in early august we're going to celebrate you and toast you and roast you just a little bit, maybe bring up some of the more embarrassing

moments. >> please. >> absolutely. cannot resist it. >> the waterworks are starting so we'll end the show right now. see you tomorrow. as dan said i have a few more weeks here. >> no, really. >> no, no. >> live from the abc 7 broadcast center, this is an abc 7 news update. >> good morning. it is 7:56 a.m. i am caroline tucker. taking a look at the top stories in our region today -- today is set to be a big day for the arlington county board. they will look at special event

planning. requestl also vote on a on signs about 50 feet and funding for the columbia pike streetcar system. today marks one week from the official opening of the silver line. we are getting a closer look at some of those new facilities. and ceremony is being held. some local transportation officials will be on hand for the event. let's head over to dave zahren for a check on the weather. >> thank you. three cooler than normal days and it looks like that pattern will continue. cloudy skies. ocean city expecting temperatures only in the upper-70's. 67 and laurel. 70 degrees in bethesda. we do not need umbrellas today. few sprinkles this morning.

we will continue to see them through the morning hours. yesterday, 86. ,oday, look for upper-70's lower-80's, moderate humidity. buthine a premium tomorrow, by the afternoon temperatures 80 to 85 degrees and if you like the heat, coming back on tuesday and wednesday in the 90's. >> enjoy the weekend for now.

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