student took at picture of her special needs son using the urinal, his bare buttocks exposed and posted to snapchat. the photo went viral. >> the kids today post things for a reason. we want something out of this. that is what i would love to know from the child, what was the child looking for? kevin: half confused and half mortified the victim with cerebral palsy and autism is frightened of returning to class. >> you want protect your kids and do what is right and tell them everything will be okay. social media yaw can't just go online and grab it and take it off. kevin: the photo taking teen wrote this apology letter saying he takes full responsibility, knows it was morally wrong and also asking for forgiveness. >> this child needs more than a slap on the hand. kevin: the victim's mother says words of remorse take make up for taking and then

disabled. >> i would like to see the child registered as sex offender. if they ask why, because. it's in the restroom. you invaded my son's privacy of using a urinal. kevin: snapchat allows users to take screen shots so that means the photo may be around for quite some time. reporting in montgomery county, i'm kevin lewis. back to you. leon: thank you. montgomery county police tell us that the teen who took the photo is now facing peeping tom charges. the case is in juvenile court. as for montgomery county public schools, they e-mail damascus high school parents today about the bathroom bullying incident but only after we started asking questions. alison: it was a big day today in vote 2016. donald trump of course passed the big number. the 1,237 delegate market needed to clinch the republican nomination. nationwide survey of unbound delegates by the "associated press" gave him one more than what he

this is the number. 1,238. our political correspondent scott thuman is here. what does it mean for the crazy race? scott: crazy. the man who has been called the presumptive nominee for months is on the race of clinching the nomination. >> if i didn't win by massive majorities, i wouldn't be standing here talking to you today. scott: a few weeks shy of one year since he announced his plans to run, the billionaire is the last man standing. the original massive 17-person republican field. he celebrated at a campaign stop in north dakota today. >> the folks behind me got us over the top. scott: now he turns his focus to the democrats. >> believe me, i'll beat hillary. scott: what has been an ugly campaign from

with nasty nicknames, raucous rallies and controversial comments. >> they are bringing drugs. they are bringing crime. they are rapists. scott: trump has the goal gaits to secure the nomination -- delegates to secure the nomination it still doesn't mean everybody is on board. speaker of the house paul ryan still seems hesitant to endorse. >> what i'm most concerned about is making sure we have real party unity. not pretend party unity. real party unity. we need to win the election in the fall. scott: so trump will remain the presumptive nominee until they officially cast the ballot at the convention in july. alison: what happens between now and then? scott: he will be campaigning. in fact in an hour, he is in montana. tomorrow san diego. sunday he says he will be here in our area for the rolling thunder rally that goes down at the national mall. we are still going to see a lot of him between now and july. but not

floor. alison: thank you for the update. take a look at the democratic side. hillary clinton has 2305 delegates. bernie sanders has 1639. it takes 2383 to win the democratic nomination. leon: all right. tens of thousands of people are taking to trains, planes, automobiles to make the memorial day get-away. they are estimating 38 million americans will travel for the holiday weekend. a million of them from here in the area. busiest time suspected to be between now and 8:00 p.m. you have been warned. we have team coverage of the roads for you tonight. brad bell near the chesapeake bay bridge. brianne carter in mobiletrak7 on i-95 in virginia. jamie sullivan monitoring all of it from the studios here. but the day got off to a sc

someone threatened to jump off the eastbound stand. police stopped traffic for an hour until officers were able to help a helicopter pull him to safety. brad bell live on the left side of the bridge with a look at that and how traffic is looking now. brad: well, we start with good news. i'll step out of the way. look at this beautiful sight. the chesapeake bay, the chesapeake bay bridge and prettier is the fact that the traffic is flowing smoothly. you said it at the outset. this is expected to be a busy travel weekend. these days the weekend starts thursday night. people hitting the road. one is that gas prices are down. and it's been so miserable so if you get a beautiful day and beautiful weekend people want to get away and head to the beach. that is the local tradition. the traffic is another tradition. we talk to travelers toda

anxiety. >> if we go early in the morning, really early. >> when we come back at 6:00, we will tell you more about the strategies that people are telling us about. good news here again, flowing smoothly at the bay bridge. there is a backup to get to the toll booth. and another backup on approaching the severn river bridge. we want to go to jamie sullivan for a look at the traffic report. she will tell you about the backup. jamie: all three lanes are slow approaching the severn river. the bay bridge

it's just under an hour on the baltimore washington parkway. up to 50 to baltimore. if you have to catch a flight you will need the extra time to get to b.w.i. closer to home you can see leaving the d.c. area, yes, it's very heavy. getting to the wilson bridge on the outer loop. bumper to bumper. then you get a break in prince george's county. brianne carter is in mobiletrak7. she is near the wilson bridge. check in. >> we are

alison: thank you. "7 on your side" now. if you are hitting the road from weekend, a.a.a. says gas prices, this is good news, at the lowest level in 11 years. the national average today is $2.31. that is up a penny since yesterday. but still down 42 cents from a year ago. in the d.c. area, average of $2.29 for a gallon of regular unleaded. throughout the next hour we'll show you some of the cheapest places to head up north, south, east or west over the weekend.

i-95 south. that is before richmond. you can find the lowest gas prices wherever you are heading at our website. wjla.com. leon: we haven't seen that in a long time. people are taking to the skies for long weekend. after the long lines around the country t.s.a. is working to speed things up. we have done a lot to mitigate it. people will see the volume in the airport. this is a record travel volume here again. leon: today senate appropriations committee approved the addition for the t.s.a. budget to go through staffing, k9 and security technology. what is the weather like when you leave and get where you are going? >> our chief meteorologist doug hill is here with a check on the

doug: thousands are on the roads. many more tonight with the cardinals and the nationals. the weather is perfect for baseball. in the low 80's for the first pitch. holding in 70's for most of the game. big travel day tomorrow looking good. away from washington by car or rail. 76 degrees in the morning with sunshine. hitting the upper 80's in the afternoon. late afternoon and everything, 30% chance of showers and storms. if the delmarva beach is your destination, looks great saturday. sunshine and 74. clouds and slowly increase sunday and 70. chance of a late day shower. on monday it looks as though we will see chances of showers 68 degrees. maybe thunderstorm later in the day. we will keep a close eye on that. if you are staying around town for your own backyard. beautiful outdoor saturday. 85 with sunshine. 82 and sunday. muggy with a southeasterly wind. we have a chance of showers or thunderstorms late in the day. monday is cloudier. it will be in the 70's. better chance of showers and storms. alison: thank

in the case of the 38-year-old who was sentenced to 50 years behind mars in march. he was retry and found guilty of the 2001 murder of his 15-week-old son. this was to collect insurance money. the infant's mother wept as she requested the maximum punishment saying she hopes he rots in jail until the day he dies. >> he won't admit to what he did. he shows no remorse. he doesn't shed a tear. he laughs. >> 50 years behind bars really is a significant amount of time to ensure that there is the turn in the community that he is rightly punished and justice is served for this family. alison: so a 20-year child abuse sentence will run con current with the murder sentence. he will be eligible to apply for parole in 11 years. leon: coming up at "abc7 news at 5:00" -- one year later.

the police after being used as a human shield. >> she is remember as mama mareed. i'm cheryl conner at arlington national cemetery where one of the first women burieded at the cemetery. we talk to her family coming up. alison: later, spelling it out. we will take you to the finals of the national spelling bee. leon: but first, forget about cat fight. how about a bear fight? what a woman captured the video has to say about what went down in her backyard.

horace: welcome back. horace holmes in the "7 on your side" help center. we are here taking your questions at 703-236-9220. panel of experts dealing with schemes to rip you off. especially the elderly. schemes and scams. you think you have been taken advantage of, give us a call. these folks are here to helm you out. 703-236-9220. we will be here until 6:15. alison: thank you. see you in a little bit. "7 on your side" for the memorial day get-away. let's do another check

prices. this one is if you are heading west on 66. the lowest price we found for unleaded gas on gasbuddy.com is at the 7-eleven in front royal. $2.05. leon: we did travel of our own today. what we knew it or not. we went from seattle to san juan. alison: two beautiful places, by the way. not a bad trip. doug: we are in good ship. we made a nice trip here. and it's summertime here. let's get started. live look at the western part of the area. temperatures are delightful. look at the mountains. 77 in west virginia. showers over the mountains. look for most all of them will stay over the higher terrain now. closer to metro we have hot stuff. 90 in leesburg and manassas. 88 at reagan national airport. 88 at andrews. the you showers and the -- the

down the area. it's moving with a southerly wind. southwest irly wind north -- southwesterly wind north. we don't have to worry about anything other than isolated shower west of town. told you yesterday it's a big break-out day for possible tornadoes in the central and the southern plains today. all the area in yellow. part of the state from iowa and kansas and all the way south and west. all the way to the foothills and the rockies. tornado watches in effect. number of tornadoes reported recently with numerous tornado warning in effect across kansas. that is something to watch. we will watch this area. this blob, a huge area of showers and heavy thunderstorms over the atlantic ocean and:30 of the bahamas. it appears that an area of low pressure is forming up. the national hurricane center is going to send a hurricane aircraft in the system tomorrow to look for sign of tropical development. the computer model shows it will de

storm and monday could be approaching the south carolina coast. even without that the increase in the southwesterly winds are more clouds and increasing showers and beaches in our area sunday and monday. if the system develops in a full-fledged tropical storm, that will change the equation. especially for people along the carolina beaches. we will keep on top of that and report back findings. around the chesapeake bay, if you are on the bay the winds are out of the south at 5 to 10 knots. 82 degrees either side of the bay. sunshine on saturday. few clouds sunday. still nice around 79 degrees. monday is clouds increasing and showers and the storms likely. bay water in the 60's. that is nice. if you go to the pool opening this weekend that is nice saturday. probably the sunniest day of the weekend. by far is saturday and 85. 82 on sunday. maybe a late day storm. monday increasing clouds. showers and the thunderstorms are more likely. highs expected in the 70's. if you are headed to the mountains it looks okay. showers and storms there

on monday. notice temperatures start to fall as well. not a washout for the holiday weekend. we'll take it. alison: see you in a little bit. the memorial day get-away starting to hit the stride. leon: mobiletrak7 is out in the thick of it. still ahead here we will get update on hot spot and jamie sullivan on traffic watch. alison: first a look at what is coming up on tonight on abc7 -- head to wjla.com. sign up there for the fan blast. that the best way to get update on the favorite shows. and any information on contests as well.

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leon: the flags are being installed there. lining the grave at arlington cemetery ahead of memorial day. today we observe a special burial for special woman. cheryl conner was there when one of the first female marines to serve in world war ii was laid to rest. tonight, 7 salutes her and her fami.

["taps" ] >> they called her momma marine. cheryl: arlington national cemetery gives momma marine her final tribute. she is now burieded with her husband, leaving behind her son and daughter, two stepchildren and grandchildren. >> she waited for marines to take women. so she didn't go into the army or the navy. cheryl: that was 1943. she spent most of her years in new carrollton waited for a sign and quit her job and signed up. >> she said they were taking women. she went in and she signed up. instead of getting on the bus and going to work. cheryl: at age 21, she was off to a military base in california to replace the men on the front lines in world war ii. her grand daughter is inspired. >> she took a train across the country to join the base in san diego. five or a seven-day trip. >> two years of active duty and six more in

reserve. she met her husband also a marine at the jerry lewis telethon. her friend is another trail blazer. >> many of them. cheryl: momma marine celebrated many firsts including the first female commander of the american legion post in greenbelt. at arlington national cemetery, cheryl conner, abc7 news. alison: wow! lovely story. leon: got a chance to acknowledge that moment. and the life of service. alison: exactly. we will do more about memorial day because coming up on "abc7 news at 5:00", we will take you back to arlington. we will have a closer look at the effort to get a flag on every grave before memorial day. >> plus, before the unofficial kickoff to summer. look at the beach

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leon: you're watching "abc7 news at 5:00". on your side. alison: what a learning experience for some students from our area. they made it to t

bee. but not quite to the final. jeff goldberg spent the day at national harbor where the stage is set. for someone to get the last word tonight. jeff: the words are impossibly hard to smell. but the preparation is just as tough. >> 30 hours a week. jeff: since the third grade, this 8th grader from fredericksburg dreamed of reaching the finals of the scripps national spelling bee. >> you have to determination. today she got there. >> l-y-r-a-p-i-p-e. jeff: she came up short on a tough word but she still wins. >> you study for a long time and you finally get something good out of it. that is rewarding. >> i said i would have had more kids if i known they

jeff: edwin of winchester, virginia, also got tripped up but he knows the meaning of the word "perspective." >> i'm disappointed. it's good. i went far and i made my goal which was to make it to the first final. jeff: for 89 years now kids from every state and u.s. territory have come to the national bee after winning regionals. many of them seventh and eighth graders. j.j. did not have to travel far to get here. >> it's a good experience. it's fun. jeff: but he is the youngest finalist on stage. a fifth grader at bradley hills elementary school. j.j. didn't win but he has little doubt he will r-e-t-u-r-n. >> yeah, i'll be back. alison: jeff tells us 284 contestants started the week. 84 were in the finals. ten in the finals tonight. winner will be crowned at the end of the evening. >> i'll willing to bet something our kids will be

"7 on your side" to help you spell savings now. on cedar street they are charging $2.14. you can find the lowest gat -- gas prices on your route at wjla.com. alison: there is a new welcome center. the bay country center in queen ann was closed but today the overlook center in garrett county will be open for business thursday through monday. leon: are the beaches up for the best

the search for the beach 2016. michelle: this is a big scene we see over the weekend. the weather should be perfect saturday and sunday for sun and swimming at the beaches closest to us. if you really want to taste of the best of the best, the closest bet is lifeguarded beach in outer banks of north carolina. it ranks fourth on the annual list by the florida professor who has made a career out of ranking beaches around the country. for the second year in a row, hanauma beach in hawaii is at the top. siesta beach in florida. kpalua bay in hawaii. coast guard beach in cape cod round out the top five. if you have a staycation plan ahead for next long weekend coming up. toze are the good destinations. you have been to the hawaii spot. leon: i vote we go to hawaiian one. >> let's all go. alison: how do you become dr. beach? that sounds like a great

leon: where do you get that degree? that wasn't at ohio university. i can tell you that. alison: thank you. leon: thanks, michelle. whether you are heading for the beach, bay or the blue ridge, brianne carter is checking on the traffic. moving slow there, huh? brianne: just a little bit. i'm still working on how do i become dr. beach. that sounds incredible. take a look from mobiletrak7. it's slow going to get to the beach. i have to tell you this is the first part of the backup we have seen on 95 south. approaching occoquan. getting down 395 to 95 to no point we were going 50 to 60 miles per hour. no problem. the question is where is everybody? did they already leave or are they building into this volume as we start to see the night go on? that remains to be seen. we are in the thick of it. the time when of course a.a.a. said and the transportation planning board this would be the heavy steady time for drivers out on the road. that is

to see here. again as we approach occoquan on 95 south. the express lane is moving pretty good at this point from our vantage view. take a look over there. you can see to side. they seem to be moving well. it's here in the main lanes that we are starting to see the volume build. all of that is picking up. it is expected to be a similar scene later in the everything. if you haven't left yet, if you haven't packed a kids in the car. you delay it until 9:00 or 10:00 or tomorrow that might be your best bet. we will keep an eye out for all of you throughout the night. stay here. for now reporting live, brianne carter, back inside to you. alison: thank you very much. be careful out there. whether or not you are traveling this weekend you can get traffic text alerts on your phone right from abc7. leon: if you are not traveling for the holiday weekend you might want to consider heading to the park. according to the public last d.c. third on the list with the best parks in the c

four. minneapolis, and saint paul came in first and second respectively. alison: imagine walking out of your backdoor to find this. two bears just fighting in your backyard. that is what greeted an abc7 viewer in front royal this week. diane cho spoke with her today. diane: danielle says the bears trampled through the flowers, bent the back fence and threw her daughter's toy car off the back porch. this is the video she took of the encounter from inside her home only a few feet away. she says she woke up tuesday morning after she heard a commotion outside and looked out the sliding glass door to see what was going on when she found the two bears. she says they were out there for 20 or 30 minutes before she managed to scare them away. she says this isn't her family's first encounter with bears. coming up at 6:00, we will tell you more about the encounters over the years. in front royal, diane cho, c7

leon: okay. that got my attention. alison: scary. wow! leon: glad they made it okay. alison: so far, so good. coming up at 5:00, "7 on your side" to help you avoid scams, targeting the elderly. just call this number. 703-236-9220. you can speak to an expert in the abc7 help center. sam: news conference at the site of an unsolveed homicide a year later. that is next on abc7 news. leon: coming your way at 6:00, two navy f-18 collide off of north car

steve: a lot going on as we move closer to the holiday weekend. for those going to beach tomorrow, quiet conditions. a lot of sunshine early in the morning. temperatures in the middle 70's. lower 80's for

thunderstorms pop up. but limited to 30% risk. now the weekend looks fantastic. at least the first half of it does. saturday, middle 70s. delmarva beaches. ocean city, rehoboth beach, and around 70 on sunday. added clouds on monday. chance for a few passing showers. the mountains are looking nice. nice rand warm. saturday is the best of the three-day weekend. 85 degrees. lower 80's on sunday. monday around 75. pools are opening up on saturday. arlington and alexandria. temperatures are look great on saturday. in the middle 80's. seven-day outlook shows the temperatures cooling down by the middle of next week. back in 70's. back after this.

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till 6:15 to 6:30. if you get a busy signal keep calling. we have operators ready to take your call. 703-236-9220. back to you. alison: coming up at 5:00 -- >> great preseason hype. alison: all right. can't wait to hear this one. former redskin chris cooley is always entertaining, of course. but he knows more than just football. his marriage advice for our own robert burton is coming up. leon: dear god. >> hundreds of thousands of flags placed across arlington national cemetery for memorial day. i'm mike carter-conneen. coming up, a massive job

alison: as abc7 salutes, each memorial day the hillside of arlington national cemetery become a sea of red, white, blue with american flags placed in front of each and every headstone. as mike carter-conneen reports, soldiers soldiers fromd

have the task of distributing the flags. tradition that started in 1948. mike: more than 230,000 marble headstone line the landscape of arlington national cemetery. across 624 acres a sight to see. >> to see everyone before you that has gone, fought and died, it makes you real proud. mike: in preparation for memorial day weekend, the thousand soldiers went in different directions marching in unison. >> they have 300 to 400 flags. mike: this is an annual tradition but experienced by many of the young soldiers for the first time. a number of them newly enlisted. >> honorable day. almost teary eyed. >> it's hard work. yet they call it a blessing. >> when you go to each one individually, look at each name. the medals they earned, the wars they taught in. >> give you a perspective of service and sacrifice given by each one of the brave men and women. mike: over

of thousands of visitors are expected to pass through to pay respect to loved ones. parents, sibling, spouses and comrades. >> put your boot to the stone. mike: what is striking no matter the branch or the rank each made the same sacrifice. all of them honored the same way. >> from the basic private to the highest, you know, colonel and generals. booth tombstones are the same. >> it takes about four hours occasionally interrupted by the paint sound of a bugle playing -- faint sound of a bugle playing "taps." alison: monday we hope you will join us for the nationals memorial day parade from 2:00 to 4:00 on our sister station newschannel8. leon: "7 on your side" this evening to be traveling for the memorial day holiday. if you are heading north to

pay $2.11 for a gallon of regular unleaded. you will only pay $1.99 on the turnpike. alison: get to jamie sullivan. watching the roadways getting ready to go out there and battle the traffic. jamie: that is what you will be doing if you are heading to the shore. look at 50 near rowe boulevard. this is just before the severn river bridge. we are volume. it's not terrible, though. i won't tell you don't do it. i'm not even saying that. once you get closer to the by a bridge we loosen up. a bigger picture if you are closer to home. seeing a lot of heavy traffic in d.c. of course northwest corner. but heading out of the city, 35 minutes northbound 270 getting to clarksburg. 95 northbound. trying to get to baltimore. up 41 minutes. and 16 minutes on the b.w. parkway heading out closer to baltimore. if you have to catch a flight the better option is 95. go ahead and move to the waze map. talk right in d.c.

digits. like i said a lot of people are leaving the city. 3895, heavy from the pentagon continuing to seminary. and then south from the mixing bowl heavy as well. brianne carter is on 95 in virginia. let's check in with her to see how it is. brianne: we keep asking where are all the people? they either can't get out of the city or they are coming from the other direction. mobiletrak7 is smooth sailing on 95 south. approaching dale city. 5:45 on thursday afternoon. it's unbelievable. we keep asking where are all the people? did some people delay their time or did some people leave earlier today? we know according to a.a.a. this would be the time we'd see people heading out of town. nearly a million folks from the d.c. area.

earlier today or are they heeding the warning this is the peak time and they are choosing to leave later? this remains to be seen. on 95 south quantico triangle here is not only in the express lanes moving. from the signs we saw said $19.50 from the top to stafford on the express lanes. you will pay for that as we start to see a bit of a slow down here approaching quantico and triangle. a little bit of a slowdown here with traffic right now. we'll keep an eye on it. back to you. leon: thanks. good luck. alison: how much is the weather going to cooperate? we are talking to kids, too. doug: the weather is fine. we will take care of the weekend weather at the beaches. but in the meantime, lunch box weather day. talk about the colleague josh knight. he visited

school. they had cool cloud experience. how the kids scratching their heads to figure out how to make clouds inside a bottle. he showed behind the scenes video we put together here not long ago to show how we do the weather at abc7 in the weather center. how we get it on the air. one of the hallmark to the classrooms, take the kids outside and check the storm chaser. check out the equipment inside. josh had a good time. so the kid cam was shania bennett. among the students is kamara. >> [inaudible] doug: how do you communicate with satellite in space to determine the weather? a number of the satellites we use are geostationary satellites so they appear to be in the same spot all the time. what we do is

communicators have constant communication back and forth. but others are captured from the rid owe center. it's radio contact and they control the movement of the satellite. you are tam with the directv or g.p.s. satellite or siriusxm radio where they are bounced back and come back. like a big mirror in space that the signals come in. good question. alison: very good. thank you. doug: my pleasure. leon: speaking of questions, check in with robert burton who we understand got schooled today with information from a renaissance man, chris cooley. >> it's funny. he is not married yet. he is getting married this summer. it's funny. okay. find this former

favorite chris cooley in a different slot on e espn 980. we talk about that and we talk about the redskins rookies. even his pottery shop that he has. one-on-one with mr. cooley. robert: let's talk about the redskins, the rookies. josh out of t.c.u. you have to be most excited about dockson to see where the skill level translates. he is one of the best ball adjust type of players i have seen in a long time. guy that you can take to the 20 yard line and say hey, third and ten. throw him a fade. not a lot of players have the ball skill. robert: jackson and pierre garcon and dockson. >> four guys with 40 catches that is ridiculous. i look back. santana moss, myself, in a year we were on the nfl nwo

group in league. we were bad that year. great preseason hype. i love that. they have all the talent in world. find a way to get everyone the ball. robert: i was told you have a pottery shop. >> you are right. robert what is story behind this? >> cooley in leesburg, virginia. robert: where does the love of art come from? >> it's the love of creating something. so even if it is building table. to me that is art and something to look at tangibly and say i have done that. robert: i could never build a table. >> you can! that is what everyone says. i can't draw. can you follow directions? robert: i can do that. >> you can build a table. robert: i don't know if i could follow directions that well. >> wait a while before you get married then. robert: more of the interview to see that at wjla.com. he gets married this summer,

state and he made his own invitations. he did. leon: i heard he does quite well. robert: the drawings are ridiculous. he has one of jay gruden, kirk cousins life like. alison: maybe you could do your own invitations. robert: never. leon: hope he didn't draw cousins on the wedding invitation. robert: bubble thing. you like that? hope not. alison: that might work. thanks, robert. okay. still ahead, the trouble spot for the memorial day traffic rush. if you are trying to get out of town. leon: plus, potholepalooza is over. horace: don't forget you can call in the "7 on your side" help center. 703-236-9220. scam, especially scams against the elderly. if you feel you have been ripped off, give us a c

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maureen: it has been a year since charnise was killed. they caught the moment after she was used as a human shield. >> wonderful, wonderful person. sam: police chief cathy lanier came to the spot where charnise, young community journalist that the chief knew was murdered as she waited for a bus on her way home from a story. >> what i want people to hear today is we need people to continue to come forward. sam: police believe in this surveillance video from a year ago is the person who fired the shot that killed milton, intending to shoot someone else who grabbed milton and used her as a human shield. the clear message is perhaps dozens of people know who did this. and it's angered community activists. >> it's a shame in this community that we have so many people shielding these murders. these black lives

zach milton's stepfather asks people for empathy. >> that could happen to my child. that could be me. if it were me, i would hope that somebody would do the least of what we are doing here today. >> the chief said they are waiting for someone in the small group of people who know to come forward. asked why they have not so far -- >> probably because they are afraid there may be some culpability of not coming forward sooner. our message today is if you have the information, you help us bring the killer to justice you are helping us solve a problem and we will work with you. sam: a number of the officers here today will be here again tomorrow night. as they are passing out leaflets for the public to present any information they might have. that could help in solving this murder. reporting from southeast washington, i'm sam ford, abc7 news. alison: that is it for "abc7 news at 5:00". but right now at 6:00, t

where the problem areas are. as we hit one of the busiest few hours of the year on local roadways. plus, two navy jets collide over the atlantic ocean. the good samaritan who may have made the difference between life and death. caught on video. bears brawling in a virginia backyard. the moment that had a woman ducking for cover. that is on "abc7 news at 6:00". announcer: now "abc7 news at 6:00". on your side. maureen: high drama this morning to kick off one of the busiest travel days of year. this was the scene at the bay bridge after rescue crews helped a man threatening to jump. leon: they were able to pull the man to safety. tonight the focus is on cars. we will check with mobiletrak7

moments. but brad bell will kick off the coverage. live here in bay bridge. how is it looking now? brad: pretty good. i'm at the toll booth now. tonight i'm the bearer of good news. you can see no lines. people moving smoothly across the bay bridge. you know this is thursday. not friday. we have been told that tonight is the busiest travel time of the holiday weekend. 38 million americans expected to hit the road. that is more than we have seen in 2005. one of the big one is the gasoline prices. they are 30 suspects a gallon less than last year. the other one i'm saying is simple human nature. people are seeing sunshine finally after all of this rain. people we talk to said if there is any traffic out here they are not worried about it. they want to get to the beach.