[captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] jummy: and breaking right now. d.c. police investigating a hijacking involving a metro bus and a pedestrian was killed in the process. this is all unfolding within the last hour on minnesota

police say a suspect is now in custody and our stephen tschida is live with all the details we just learned from the chief. stephen. stephen: jummy, the chief talked with us about five minutes ago. let's bring you up to date what's going down here on nannie helen burrows and minnesota avenue. you can see the bus over at the far end of the gas station. that is where the person who is believed to have car jacked or hijacked this bus struck a pedestrian here at the gas station. that pedestrian was killed on impact. if you look over to the left, you can see the chief, representatives of metro transit police as well as the investigation under way. this went down about 10:30 from here. not far from here a man got around the bus. he lingered around the driver. he eventually attacked the driver with some kind of web, possibly a screwdriver or pliers. the driver fled the bus. the man, the suspect here took off with the bus, drove it here

where he boarded the bus and then drove up into the gas station. that is where he struck this pedestrian fatally. the suspect was taken into custody. he was described as very agitated, very angry. we believe he was also taken to the hospital. the very latest here in northeast d.c., one person killed, suspect in custody after allegedly car jacking or hijacking a mess row bus. that's the latest, jummy. back to you. jummy: stephen will bring us new details on this story as our broadcast continues. in the meantime, we switch to metro and the probable cause of the deadly metro smoke incident coming to light. right now the national transportation safety board holding a meeting on the finding from its investigation into that january, 2015, incident. they also released some brand new video of the arcing incident at mcpherson square back in march. and our sam sweeney is in the newsroom with the new information we're learning. sam. sam: jummy, this is a disturbing report from the national transportation safety

program is fundamentally flawed, has been for years and continues to be a serious problem. one ntsb board member went as far to say that wmata has a learning disability. take a look at some incident of the l'enfant incident showing dozens of safety failure. water leaks played a major role in the smoke incident that took place back in january of 2015. the report goes on to say, if metro had stopped all trains at the time of the smoke incident, the train never would have been stuck in that smoke-filled tunnel, possibly saving that woman's life. the ntsb also states, metro has no written procedure to properly use ventilation fans inside tunnels, and then it goes on to say that the train operator could have shut down the ventilation system onboard that train to avoid those cars filling with smoke. also alarming, there are no smoke detectors in these tunnels. metro relied on passengers and train operators to notify metro of smoke

and this video, brand new of the fire incident that took place back in march of 2014, in the mcpherson square metro station. luckily in that incident nobody was killed. jummy, the overall fear of this report, metro put passengers in dangers and continues to put its passengers in danger because of the failed safety program. this ntsb meeting is ongoing. brianne carter is inside that meeting. she will be tweeting about it all afternoon. she'll have a live report coming up on the news at 4:00. reporting live in the newsroom, i'm sam sweeney. back up to you. jummy: a new look at the moment a c.s.x. trail derailed sunday morning. these dramatic images were captured from cameras near the rhode island metro station. you can see the 16 freight cars quickly pile up there. right now crews are cleaning up the spilled chemicals. coming home tonight, there will be three departures out

silver spring on the brunswick line. 5:39 and 5:34 and the 881 will hold for 340eu7bs and leave at 7:04 this evening. well, the severe weather threat, thank goodness, is now over. don't put that rain gauge away. our chief meteorologist doug hill is here. doug. doug: we have plenty of rain opportunities today and tomorrow. maybe by the weekend things will brighten up for us but still after last night's storm, we can deal with a little bit of light rain. the issue going forward is we may have some heavier downpours at time. the cold front, there is two of them. very fuzzy looking on the satellite and data. but they're in a position, along with a daytime heating, to provide maybe some more downpours. 69 at reagan national. you can see the cloudy skies. temperatures across the area fairly mild. not that far from our average highs this time of the year in the upper 60's. a little cooler in frederick and

61 and 62 degrees respectively. so today we'll keep it mostly cloudy. we won't be surprised to areas west of washington to peak in the 70's. we'll get back to rain and maybe an isolated thunderstorm for this afternoon. right now doppler radar pretty much a clean sweep. a few little sprinkles here and there. this afternoon more rain definitely in our forecast. we'll fill in the details for you in a moment, jummy. jummy: as mentioned, the cleanup continues right now after those storms last night just battered the y. they brought baseball--sized hail, flooding and even strong winds. many people waking up this morning with trees just littering the roadways. some of those trees landed on cars. the owner of one car spoke exclusively to our john gonzalez about this pretty scary experience. john: you know, some in these southeast d.c. neighborhoods there is debris all over the place. we heard folks say they felt

years in this area. take a look at this fence to this home, no match for the massive trees that came crashing down, ripping down powerlines along the way. the ground just so saturated from all that rainfall and the severe winds, well, it created quite a mess and well, if you think the fence is impressive, take a look at these vehicles. three cars with significant damage. two of them really a total loss. you have one vehicle, the moon roof is shattered. this vehicle here, we spoke to the owner last night. he told us he just bought the car a few weeks ago. it in fact still has the temporary tags. just an unfortunate situation. it has pancaked, just flattened. across the street you have a nissan. same situation. tree came down on it. the vehicles were parked. no one was inside. >> the tree was right above the roots and for some reason yesterday when i got out of my car, i said to myself, i hope the tree

>> i pray that it's not totaled. john: another big problem has been the power outages in the area. at the height of the storm, thousands, reported over 6,000 power outages this morning. dominion power about 1,000 without power. many in the dark this morning, but at last check, most of those homes have been restored. back to you inside. jummy: well, jamie sullivan joins us now with how the cleanup is impacting the roadways. anything still tied up out there, jamie? jamie: well, of course. jummy, i do want to begin where we have the closure with the police activity on minnesota avenue. currently blocked off right now sheriff road, nannie helen burrows, it's that stretch that's blocked -- helen boroughs, it's that stretch that's blocked off. it may be closed for quite a while. as we stick with the d.c. area, talking about the g.w. parkway heading northbound before the

down to one lane. virginia, we do have the one accident. that should be in the clearing stages soon, and we're not seeing a backup because of it. a lot of green on our map. little bit of volume the third street tunnel. if you are going to be traveling along the capitol beltway, nothing to report right now little bit of road spray. on the red line, that scheduled track work between friendship heights and medical center. until 3:00 this afternoon. the train will be turning back at farragut north. and this shows you what we're working with, very light volume. looks great getting to the american legion bridge. jummy: we are following this new developments on the war on terror. officials say a navy seal has been killed in combat by isis forces in iraq. the military has not released a name. the service member was an advisor to kurdish forces. official say the navy seal was killed "by direct fire" after isis forces penetrated the front line. the u.s. responded to the attack with a fighter pla

drones which dropped more than 20 bombs. turning now to the race for the white house and conflict on the campaign trail as the candidates face off in today's primary in indiana. but as karen traferse report, both hillary clinton and donald trump are closer to locking down their nominations. >> will indiana be a make or break state in the race for the white house? donald trump: indiana is becoming very important. i love it. >> ted cruz says he can still win the nomination if he loses tonight. he said his runningmate carley fiorina went out to a pancake restaurant this morning to try to lock down votes. in south bend donald trump fired up supporters. the election is all but over if he beats cruz. >> he's choking like a dog because he's losing so badly. we have to put him away tomorrow, folks. you have to go out and vote. >> substance and leadership

the polls. senator cruz: bullies aren't strong. bullies are weak. bullies are cowards. bullies are scared. senator sanders: thank you. >> a tight race in indiana but bernie sanders is facing long odds overall. he needs to win 92% of all remaining delegates to win the nomination. and hillary clinton already looking ahead to next week's contest started her day in west virginia. hillary clinton: it is breaking down barriers that stand in the way of individuals getting ahead and our country getting ahead. >> both ted cruz and bernie sanders say if they lose in indiana they'll keep up for their fight for their party's nomination but the delegate mass be a brutal reality they will soon have to face. karen travers, abc 7 news. jummy. jummy: coming up on abc 7 news at noon, a jaw-dropping scene in north washington.

plus, the battle of the bulge, a new study on why many have trouble keeping off the weight. and doug on when we will see round two. plus, a metro bus hijacked in northwest d.c. a pedestrian skilled coinled the scene. we'll check back in on that breaking news coming up.

>> yeah, we are on the scene of a hijacking bus that went down this morning. nannie helen boroughs, you can see the bus there. stephen: a man boarded the bus, got into a confrontation with the bus driver. the passengers fled. the suspect apparently

he fled. the suspect took the bus here, pulled into this gas station, struck and killed a pedestrian. that is the very latest here. the suspect was taken into custody. the chief spoke with us a while ago. she said all those involved in the situation adults, the suspect and all of the individuals involved. the driver, obviously, and the individual, the man who was struck and killed. more on this as the day progresses. reporting live, stephen tschida, abc 7 news. jummy: another story, three people recovering this afternoon after the s.u.v. they were in slammed right into a house in fort washington. it happened around 3:45 near allentown and tucker roads. police say the car slammed through the front door and halfway down into the basement. the house fortunately has been vacant for years and may not have to be torn down due actual that accident. the smell of alcohol was very strong near that

though. aztec nothing gets better and better, you might wonder just how good is it when it comes to tracking -- as technology gets better and better, you might wonder just how good is it when it comes to tracking terrorists. the compound in west virginia is where they conduct some of the work that is done in their effort to keep the country safe using biometricing and facial recognition technology to try to track criminals in investigative situations. >> the individual they are trying to identify on the left and we will submit this photo into our n.g.i. interstate photo system. the gallery comes back ranked in in order of 50 candidates and then we can do a side-by-side comparison to determine whether there are any velingtive leads contained within that gallery for the individual they are looking for. jummy: tonight at 5:00, find out why privacy groups are concerned about this technology. meantime, the t.s.a. is apologizing after

swimmer amy van bruin said agents humiliated her. she is paralyzed from the waist down after a 2014 a.t.v. crash. she says a t.s.a. agent rudely grouped and humiliated her at the airport in denver. >> they go around your breast. they basically go under your butt and they touch things that are not appropriate. and it's really embarrassing. jummy: in a statement, the t.s.a. says in this case, quote, our officers did not follow correct screening protocols. overnight, telling ruling saying she septembers the t.s.a. -- accepts the t.s.a. apology. another big story we're following, of course, the weather. last night was crazy, doug. i'm sitting at home watching you all night. doug: i have seen a lot of crazy weather in my lifetime but last night takes the cake. it was bizarre. normally when we get strong damaging winds we get lines or

they're much more predictable and they will come in waves. you get the hail. this was popping up dissecretly. the hailstones bigger and bigger. the lightning, the sky conditions. just take a minute and share with some of the work our viewers were kind enough to ake pictures and send to us at pics@wjla.com. this is on the bay. got scooped up handfuls of the hail that went through. this is marble size. not far away in rockville, peter sent this bucket of hail and these were about the size, we had reports of golf ball. a fuel baseball-sized hail stones, stuff you don't see very often. and joseph sent this. he's sent a couple of incredible pictures that was rolling across the nation's capital. a lightning strike. it was just a bizarre set of storms and kept popping. i can tell you that the threat for

this is no longer in existence here. however, we're going to have more opportunities for rain. maybe enough rain to cause localized flooding in spots in a few days and can't rule out a few isolated thunderstorms. we'll be talking about this storm for a long time. coming up on abc 7 news at 4:00, 5:00 and vi, a lot more videos and pictures of hail. at the moment fairly quiet. drab and damp with temperatures in the upper 60's. radar not showing much except a couple showers here and there and sprinkles. we are looking at the cloud cover off to the west. in this air mass, we have two cold fronts draped over our area. neither one of them very strong, but just enough to agitate the atmosphere and behind the first front, the air is sinking a bit so it clears a bit and then we have a second one. so this combination with a little bit of sunshine breaking out to the west may pop up a few heavier showers or isolated thunderstorms as we head through the afternoon hours. starting to see some of that over eastern west virginia.

warnings but we'll track it close low. our future cast shows this afternoon, evening, a few pop-ups of showers and thunderstorms continuing into the evening and nighttime hours as well. tomorrow we'll start midnight, just after midnight, the same kind of pattern here. maybe a little brief break in the overall number of showers tomorrow. but more tomorrow night, thursday and friday. rainfall chances anywhere from an inch down to a half inch, 3/4 of an inch. quick look at the seven-day as i scamper back to the desk. scamper is probably not the right word but here's what you see, temperatures near 70 today. lots of rain chances but i'm focused on saturday, sunday and monday where we'll get sunshine and warmer temperatures. jummy: i look forward to monday. all right, doug, thank you. coming up here on abc 7 news at noon, a new study shining light on the struggle to lose weight. >> i got my life back. jummy: why that feeling doesn't

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we want them to grow up stronger. jummy: 7 is on your side with a health matters alert now and a new study shining light on why millions of americans struggle to lose weight. abc scott goldberg explains. scott: in the fall of 2009, danny cahill won season 8 of abc's reality tv show "the biggest loser" after shredding an astonishing 239 pounds in seven months. but as the years passed, 100 pounds crept back despite his efforts to keep it off. >> i was exercising three or four times as much as the normal person and as that stopped the weight creeped back

she lost nearly 75 pounds but has since regained 32 of them. >> i didn't people know i was on "the biggest loser" because i don't look like that anymore. scott: they followed contestants from the show. they found all but one of them gained much of the weight back. while scientists point out further research is needed, they concluded the contestants' own body were to blame. according to the study, they had normal metabolisms for their size before the show but after the show they continued to slow down, the mechanism for them to return to the original weight, further compounding the problem, researchers found the a p had plummets levels of hormone that leaves them hungry. >> it is metabolic adaptation. >> and producers of "the biggest loser"

trying to look into it. >> we're still trying to figure it out. scott: medical experts say obesity need to treat with chronic illness with medication and in some cases surgery. scott

>> we just spoke to a witness of an incident that went down at 10:30. the possible hijacking or car jacking of a metro transit

it wound up here. a pedestrian in this gas station struck and killed. the suspect taken into custody. we believe taken to the hospital as well for a psychological evaluation. all involved, adult male. that's the very latest from northeast. reporting live stephen tschida, abc 7 news. jummy: thank you. and the latest on wjla.com. final check of the forecast. doug: let's look at the satellite and radar here. the rain has moved off-shore. we'll look for a possibility of more showers for this afternoon. maybe an isolated rumble of thunder. more rain in the forecast today, tonight, tomorrow and even into friday. jummy: all right, doug, thank you.

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