autria: hot out there.

devon: heat and humidity. high temperature of 92, will feel like 95. next rain chances overnight sunday into monday. wednesday, thursday could be close to 100. the heat index could be 105. thursday night, keep an eye out for the weekend. autria: saturday news extras next.

[captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] autria: president obama is making history as the first u.s. commander in chief to visit kenya.

there was one subject that turned his warm welcome icy. reporter: the people of kenya lined the streets saturday to cheer for president obama as he made his way through the capital nairobi. the words from the kenyan president for the american leader. the nation's first visit from a sitting u.s. president. for president obama it marks much more. president obama: obviously this is personal for me. there is a reason why my name is barack hussein obama. my father came from these parts. reporter: the visit reminiscent of a family reunion. friday night, he hugged his half-sister when he arrived at the airport. then he met dozens of members of

his extended family. president obama has been here four times before, but this is his first time as president. saturday he ran through a list of events, but things got a little tense when the talked about terrorism and gay rights. president obama: they will be treated differently or abused because of who they love, it's wrong. >> but i also think we don't share our culture, our societies. reporter: security is tight with many roads shut down. one highlight of the trip is expected tomorrow, when president obama will address thousands of cakenyans in sports arena. autria: thousands of commuters bracing for possible service cuts to major public transportation systems in our area. marc and vre say if does not act, it is a possibility.

brianne carter looks at the potential crush for commuters. brianne: thousands upon thousands of riders rely on these rails, but at the start of the year they could have defied a way to get to in from work. >> it would be terrible. brianne: officials say they could potentially have to stop service for marc and vre if congress does not install new safety technology. it is known as positive train controls to detect a locomotive's location and speed and adjust to prevent collisions. vre and marc officials say the technology will be on the trains by years end, but it will not be on some of the tracks. the tracks are owned by others like amtrak, csx, and norfolk southern. csx says they will not have it installed on their rails by the deadline. >> i cannot imagine them not

getting to fredericksburg. brianne: this woman says she relegated to fredericksburg knowing that she could take vre. >> it will take some alternatives. autria: following a similar story on metro. the federal transit administration says they need time to make safety upgrades which will likely mean service cuts. metro is looking at single tracking his early as 8 p.m. it will also mean more midday and weekend work. they are focusing on safety improvements after the deadly smoke incident at l'enfant plaza. an update on maryland governor larry hogan's health. he says he is feeling strong after a second five-day round of chemotherapy. he said he is happy to be heading home to annapolis. he thanked his doctors, nurses and supporters. hogan was diagnosed with

non-hodgkin's lymphoma in june. a bizarre story from silver spring involving a man that neighbor say is far from friendly. brad bell explains the abuse that land at the neighbor in jail. brad: according to one side this picture shows him knocking down his neighbors fence, then belligerently blocking a neighbor's driveway, and this one is not exactly offering a friendly wave. >> he has thrown stones, he has threatened to shoot him. brad: the family lawyer says it is a five year saga. the family sued the man for harassment. a judge ordered anger management class. then he relied in court about taking them and was convicted of perjury. according to the montgomery county sheriff, he tried to avoid arrest. >> he made that neighborhood a nightmare.

brad: can i come he sits in jail and his wife is claiming the law has it wrong. >> this is ridiculous. brad: this is the family's backyard, and over here is where the other family lives. they say the whole issue started with a dispute over this property line. >> frustration between neighbors. brad: while we talked two other neighbor said they were good neighbors. tonight, he sends -- he has a possible two years in jail for perjury. >> we need to give people back peace in their community. brad: brad bell, abc 7 news. autria: coming up -- on alert. a local community keeping and i on another case of rabies -- case of rabies. and later, a family catches two

sharks on the east coast, caught on video. devon: man. more heat and humidity, tracking storm chances as well. the forecast coming up. ♪ ♪ ee-e-e-oh-mum-oh-weh ♪ ♪ hush my darling... ♪ ♪ don't fear my darling... ♪

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autria: this video from ocean city, a family caught two

sharks. the incident could happen more often with shark sightings in recent months. >> another shark in ocean city maryland. reporter: a night to remember. 84th street in ocean city, just after 10:00 wednesday night. this family reeled in a six foot shark, identified by the baltimore national pike worried him as a duckie, just 75 yards from the shoreline. that is not where the story ends. >> they put on a life vest, took at a sea kayak, went offshore further, dropped bait in the water. there was a full-sized fish on their. it was a nice chunk of meat. reporter: not long after midnight -- shark number two is

on the hook. >> the biggest fish i ever caught. reporter: the family in brand-new territory. >> we only started fishing for sharks 6, 7 years. reporter: shark sightings becoming more normal than rare this summer, and this family is not finished. >> we are trying our luck again, no doubt. autria: coming up -- taking a look at the forecast.

autria: some of showers unexpectedly, mother nature throwing a curveball. devon: a surface trough. it's kind of like a cold front coming just not a change in temperature. anyway that you look at it, they are gone. it was very small in nature. that was over bethesda, chevy chase, silver spring, college park, northwest d.c. the high temperatures saturday 90 degrees. misery loves company. jacksonville mississippi little rock, arkansas, 99, 100. it felt over 110.

excessive heat warnings, the heat advisory that we had last week. what we are watching is the next weather front north and west, coming closer sunday. sunday is not a lot more hot in the way of heat and humidity, similar to standard a -- similar to saturday. overnight rain chances sunday into monday. the next two days, backing up and starting over. the high-resolution forecast coming in. tomorrow morning, starting off mid 60's, the humidity holding overnight, the temperature up. tomorrow, widely scattered showers and storms. though storm should weaken overnight sunday into monday.

that is what we are tracking. humidity is what most of the immediate metro gets. 92 feeling like 95. the cold front will be weak, could spark a time storms as soon as midday, all the way into the afternoon, evening, 40% chance of scattered storms 92, feeling like 95. the higher humidity, a lot harder to law. -- a lot harder to cool off. warm and humid sunday, not hot. overnight rain chance, could be a nuisance rain. the daytime storms monday afternoon, evening. extreme heat and humidity wednesday, thursday, the air temperature will be near 100 the heat index over 105. we break the heat wave thursday night.

autria: focusing on the work week. monday morning, eileen whelan will be tracking it. giving us homework. 7 on your side after yet another rabiod bat was found in a montgomery county apartment complex. troubleshooter horace holmes is back on the case with the new concerns. horace: residents of this condominium building were caught by surprise. >> we have lived here two years now, have not even seen a bat. horace: a bat was found in one of the apartment, carrying rabies. >> the property has to look into it and everybody else. horace: this is the second time in less than a month at a rabid bat was found in her apartment in montgomery county.

last month, a woman discovered a bat in damascus. >> i came out in there was a bat flying through the living room. horace: the housing department condemned her apartment in june. two weeks later, another rabid bat in gaithersburg. two days ago, a bat was discovered in one of these buildings on good fortune boulevard in gaithersburg. >> they are not supposed to be in the house. autria: be sure to let us know how 7 can be on your side. call the tip line, 866-236-3401 or send the story ideas to tips@wjla.com. maryland's top agriculture official says the bird flu was expected to spread to the state by this fall. they told the daily times of

salisbury the disease is a serious threat to the state's $1 billion point the industry. the disease has ravaged poultry farms across the nation. an estimated 48 million birds have been killed. the epidemic has caused egg prices to jump more than 80% from may to june. coming up -- a major milestone for a big project in southeast. how it will benefit the anacostia

autria: singer chris brown has finally left the philippines. a legal complaint left him stranded three days. he performed tuesday but was barred from leaving the country after concert promoters said he owed them money. that was after last new year's eve. once that issue was settled, he was allowed to leave. a new study finds a possible link to your smartphone and happiness, or lack there of. researchers tracked the habits of 28 people across the country, ages 19 to 58, and they could predict with an 86% certainty whether they suffer depression because people are more depressed use their mobile phones more. mission complete, a two-year, form i'll journey through the anacostia river tunnel system.

we explain why that is such great news for the district. reporter: this has been years in the making, the ladybird tunnel slowly emerging from the ground as we speak. probably wondering, what is ladybird, why should you care? the project is all about cleaning up the anacostia river and the potomac. ladybird is a boring machine that takes 100 feet underground still cutting through, creating tunnels for the past two years. the purpose of this is to essentially not to have to pour billions of sewage and storm water into the rivers when it rains. the water will be channeled through a four-point five-mile tunnel to a treatment plant. >> the anacostia flows into the potomac, which flows into the chesapeake. we are all interested in the viability of the chesapeake. the chesapeake is in bad shape

so this helps the cleanliness of the chesapeake bay. jeannette: ultimately, the potomac river will be swimming hole and fishable. this project will be completed by 2018.