noon," onbc 7 news at your side. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] jummy: police are investigating a shooting involving one of their officers. investigators say the opposite was responding to a disturbance call between a man and his mother. our jeanette reyes talked with that mother today and has the latest on this case. she knew something was very wrong the moment she came home from work. >> usually he would say hi for

me and i would say hi. jeanette: her 25-year-old stepson lives with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. she says he has never been violent until monday evening at 6:30. she was in the room with her best friend when suddenly, the stepson broke the lock on the door and versed in. he was shaking. she said he may have stopped taking his medication. me!"omebody is talking to he suddenly bolted out of the room, possibly looking for something in a house. or the horrifying screams on the other end of the phone and call the police. an officer arrived and went up the stairs. quiet whenly authorities say suddenly the man appeared and lunged at the officers, sending him coming down the stairs. >> he came out with a knife and

immediately, he backup for me and that he fold down. i hear shots and i was screaming. police say the man was flown to a local hospital suffering from nine left threatening injuries. she and the officer had minor injuries. she insists her stepson has never shown any kind of aggression toward her. neighbors tell me they usually see him sitting on the steps listening to music, describing him as a good kid. prince william county police tell me an investigation into the incident continues. reporting in prince william kenny, jeanette reyes, abc7 news. jummy: a special grand jury has indicted a former fairfax county police officer for second agreement of it all this comes two years after he shot an unarmed man in springfield good video taken in the moments just before the shooting show him standing in the doorway with his hands up just before officer adam torres shot and killed him. federal and local prosecutors

accused fairfax county of obstruction, saying officials were free used to turn over documents during the two-year investigation. was an eight-year veteran at the time of the shooting and right now he is being held without bond. police are releasing some new surveillance video in a homicide investigation and they need your help in identifying and locating three persons of interest in a homicide which occurred back on july 22 on the 400 block of e street northwest. the victim was found suffering from multiple stab wounds and later died from his injuries. investigators are offering a reward of up to $25,000. d.c. police also releasing this surveillance video of suspects in the murder of a former congressional intern. this footage shows burglary suspects from a crime scene. the people in the video are seen taking off from a car and investigators say it looks like the car seen leaving the scene of saturday's murder.

matthew schloss to killed outside the shop metro station. police do not believe he was the intended target. lanierlice chief cathy is talking about the recent increase in violence across the city. she joined our burst of weight on our sister station newschannel 8 this morning. she says that while the number of homicides in the district has increased 30% compared to this time last year, she blames the problem mainly on violent offenders released back on the street. huge lanier: we are seeing numbers of repeat violent gun offenders out in the community, some under supervision, some not. but the numbers are really just staggering right now. jummy: we will have more on how chief lanier plans to combat the spike of homicides. you can watch that tonight on abc7 news at 4:00 and 5:00. a second explosion rocked bangkok today, but luckily, no one was hurt in the latest attack. it comes as police in thailand have potential leads on the

suspects in yesterday's bombings. police are looking for the man seen in that video wearing a yellow shirt outside the hidden tryin -- hidden shrine. backpackn taking off a and putting it down and walking away. the bombing killed 20 people and injured more than 100 others. authorities in indonesia recover the wreckage of that plane that crashed into the mountains on sunday. they are now hoping that the black boxes will help them figure out exactly what caused the crash. the air cross -- aircraft lost contact with control is about half an hour into the flight. the bodies of 54 passengers and crew members have been recovered . firefighters are struggling to contain nearly 100 large wildfires burning in several western states. the department of defense is stepping in to help. for the first time in nearly a decade, the federal government is putting 200 soldiers on the front lines. about 75 homes

and businesses have been destroyed and dozens more are threatened. even with military help, some fear it will not be enough. air quality alerts are popping up as the smoke from the wildfires move across the country. here at home, with temperatures cool down a little bit compared to yesterday, but the chance of showers and thunderstorms increasing this afternoon. doug hill has a first look at the forecast for us. doug: very warm and muggy right now. not high heat, but uncomfortably muggy outside. increase in cloud cover is a losing battle as showers move ,rom west to east and right now no lightning being detected, but heavy rain right in the vicinity and a little to the south. the precipitation is stripping slowly to the north and northeast. there are other areas of bring you keep an eye on as well. you see scattered across south and virginia and moreover southwestern virginia. we will not have rained every minute of the day but over the next several days we will have showers and

thunderstorms. not hot, but very warm and muggy in the process. 87 at reagan national airport. seven in baltimore. 81 degrees in annapolis. dew point temperatures back in the 70's. in little bit uncomfortable. continuing to track and watch the showers. some areas may reach the mid to upper 80's. uncomfortably warm and humid day. not in the 90's. showers and storms a possibility. it will check them for you in a couple minutes. jummy: ok, doug, we will see you then. for metro this noon. it involves a brand-new state-of-the-art 7000 series car. they been removed from the tracks after crews discovered a software problem. more on what this means for riders. >> we have some good news and some bad news. the good news is the outage of this 7000 series car is not affecting commuters. the entires is that

fleet is off-line. just before the height of the rush-hour commute on monday, a train operator near the fort totten station noticed there was some sort of problem with his train. of theoaded all passengers. these trains are much more advanced than the older cars. metro is still working out the kinks. they tell us that the trains are in need of a software update. a lot of travelers here are very frustrated. >> putting people's lives at stake. every day writing the strains, trains and ise will just ride the bus to go the long way because anything can happen in that tunnel. car built in 2015 has a lot more technology and new software versus a car built in 1980. the good news is taxpayers and riders will not be held accountable for this. the manufacturer will be responsible for the software upgrade. reporting at the fort totten metro station, sam sweeney, abc7

news. jummy: we want to take a look at the roadways for you and our jamie sullivan has traffic for us. jamie: the accident in rockville, research boulevard, it is right at montgomery avenue , something to watch out for. you can see the solid green line there. looks pretty good. no delays working her way closer towards germantown or if you are getting south into bethesda. top side of the beltway looks pretty good as well. no delays for you. averaging in the 50's in the outer from 95 close to the 270 spur. parkway, in great shape. we are up to speed. accident not causing delays on the offramp from the inner loop the beltway to eisenhower avenue. everything is over to the side. let's take a live look at 95 in virginia. a crash coming in and it is being reported on i-95 northbound right near lorton.

no reports of any lanes blocked right now. you can see a little bit of activity off to the side that we have some road work in place. jummy, back to you. so much.ank you he sees looking for ways to honor former mayor and council member marion barry, and the city wants your help. our john gonzales has more on how you can be a part of celebrity d.c.'s -- celebrating d.c.'s there for life. for perhapso you do the most prominent political figure in d.c.? do you build a statue, do you rename a building for him would you create a holiday for marion barry? known as the mayor for life, passed away this past november. he was 78 years old. forum to getd a ideas and suggestions could we came here with our dry erase

boards to get your ideas. we have named it the "mayor for life" dry erase board. some marks -- "he loved the this" "good man," and woman, "my first summer job." russell, what are your thoughts? how should the city remember him? >> the city should remember barry in a big way. he should have a sculpture. john: what about a sculpture? where would you put it? >> in the heart of d.c. downtown. john: you can give your ideas. if you are not going to be there tweete on e street, us your ideas using #mayor forlife. jummy: coming up, the road to recovery. a look at the progress 10 years after hurricane katrina

devastated the gulf coast. the little pink pill. have a decision expected from the fda today and the impact it could have on women's health. plus, worse than we thought. the new details on how many people were infected by the irs hack in may and what the agency is doing about it. and keep that umbrella handy on this tuesday. doug is back with the best chance to see rain.

you are watching "abc 7 news at noon," on your side. jummy: doug is back to talk about the forecast it possible rain tonight? doug: showers and thunderstorms

-- that is going to be the pattern for couple days. clear blue skies taking a vacation. they will go down to the beach. looking live at the capital will and national harbor, it is muggy, too, without much of sunshine. 87 at reagan national. it feels like it is 93 because the dew point temperatures are so much higher. we expect to get warm days and a lot of humidity in the air as well. doppler radar, showers come in there is no thunder yet. across downpours moving the front royal area. they seem to be drifting, generally not moving much. the motion is to the north and northeast very slowly, and that is just part of the areas of precipitation we will have to be dealing with over the next several days. low to mid 80's in the region, 81 in annapolis. 87 at reagan national. 83 in fredericksburg. 88 degrees in frederick, maryland. he goes of the moisture in the air, it feels several degrees

warmer than the thermometer situation. 96 degrees in baltimore and 92 at andrews. you don't need blazing sunshine to feel uncomfortably warm and humid. satellite radar shows the wider view come of this cluster of showers moving in, more to the south and southwest. it is not going to rain all the time. we will tend to be cloudy, partly to mostly cloudy, kind of muggy. we will occasionally have these showers in areas of thunderstorms to deal with. the futurecast tracks a few more through the area at 4:00 this afternoon, and as we get into the evening hours from isolated showers or single. tomorrow, another band of showers may come through and thunderstorms. looking at what we have here, tropical depression, way out on the atlantic ocean. not big now, but just starting to organize. at 11:00 this morning this thing is located 4000 miles east, southeast of houston. cap wins at 35. -- top wins at 35.

this will potentially develop approximately into a hurricane, so says the hurricane center, but it will be released at the end -- well east of the antilles islands of the caribbean. there is dry air in the atmosphere. we will see where it goes. my just hit the dry air and that will be that. chance of a few showers and storms, warm and muggy. look at the probability of the occasional showers and storms come up to 50% tomorrow, 60% on thursday. sunday ok until we get the afternoon and more showers. we talk about couple of russians were storms this year. jummy: we haven't. doug: quiet season because of that. you. --k, dr., thank doug, thank you. hud secretary julie castro talked about the recovery of the gulf coast since hurricane katrina. secretary castro: katrina

displaced 3000 families living in those buildings. -- new, 2015, four new attractive, mixed-income developers are a vital part of community life in new orleans. jummy: hurricane katrina killed 1800 people and displaced more than one million others in the gulf states. but hud officials say they do see progress there. abc anchor and mississippi gulf coast native robin roberts is taking a closer look in all -- at all that has changed over the last decade. she returned to the region for an abc special that airs this sunday and she joins us live with a preview. thank you for joining us. i have asked you, someone from the region, what was your biggest take away doing this special? robin: i biggest takeaways that the spirit has never left that area, that people who are not from there, they see great progress, and i do, too, but i know what is still missing, having grown up there.

but i can't help but think about the million people who were displaced, as you just said, in the entire gulf region. it takes time for that return, for people to return, for the businesses to return. there are more restaurants in new orleans now than there were before katrina. i'm not surprised by the spirit, hurry forany, in a like to be back where it was, but not reason to not be revitalized as well as rebuilding the region. jummy: absolutely. can you tell us a little bit about what we might see sunday night, preview, if you will? he talks to people there and even brought some celebrities. robin: i did, but i like the unsung heroes. i like talking about the man in mississippi who took his boat, and are only supposed to be six people in the boat, and he had 16, navigating a highway that turned into a river.

anybody and everybody who needs help -- the young woman from new orleans, 15 at the time, was displaced in houston, didn't really know about her future. she is a chef now working in new orleans. we do have this liberties as well. a have harry connick, jr., tive of new orleans. we have terence blanchard, a composer who did the score for the special. drew brees, quarterback for the saints. i mean, who wanted to play for the saints back in the day? he chose after katrina and felt it was his calling. a good mixture of people you will meet on the special. jummy: all right, raven, we are looking forward to this one sunday night. as we mentioned, "katrina --10 years after the storm," sunday night at 10:00. coming up, your information at risk. we are learning more about the data breach at the irs.

plus, making history. the major accomplishment for two women in the army, and the current rules holding them back.

jummy: a major decision expected today regarding women's health. the fda's set to announce whether it will approve a drug known as female viagra. it is estimated that one in 10 women suffer from hyperactive sexual disorder. there are questions about the drugs efficiency and safety. stay tuned to abc7 for the fda ruling later on today. seven is on your side with a consumer alert on the irs hack.

the number of americans potentially affected has jumped 334,000000 in may potential victims today. it is not just names -- dates of birth and social security numbers stolen. other information on tax forms such as salary, places of employment, where they live, whether they are married and if they have children also at risk. sources say the information stolen from the irs will allow someone to potentially get a loan, buuy house, car, even file for tax refunds posing as a victim. undereach remains investigation could two women are said to make history on friday when they graduate from u.s. army ranger school. they are the first women to , turning as same their male counterparts. in turn sends the right to wear the rangers -- earns them the right to wear the rangers patch on the uniform. secretary of defense -- carter will decide in january whether to open all -- ash carter will

decide in january whether to open all combat roles to women.

doug: doppler radar shows areas of heavy rain in the metro area will get some showers and isolated thunder this afternoon. jummy: thank you, thank you for joining us. watch abc7 news at 4:00 and have a great day.

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