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.

beautiful sun shining day. why not go to beachs? we had all this rain. the first day of good sunshine is the beach day today. let's go. >> no strategy. get in the car. driver that way. you hope you don't hit any traffic. you go on in. that is it. brad: back live. looking at the toll booth. i have been covering this story for a lot of years. one of the things i'm noticing now is almost everybody has the easy pass. they just move right on through the toll booths. that has to keep things moving better here than they did in years past. the problem area as you will hear in the full traffic report is now in annapolis where if you look at the travel map, you will see a lot of red on the roadways. i said i'm bringing you good news. all good at the bay bridge. brad bell, abc7 news. leon: all right. let's see if we can keep the good news rolling. the team coverage continues with mobiletrak7. and

reporter brianne carter. can you top that? brianne: i'll try, leon. we are on 95 north. we went south to quantico to see if we had any better luck for people heading north to the beaches. take a look. it looks great out here. what we are starting to see in the southbound lanes is the volume starting to build. if you are heading out 95 south in virginia, just heads up we are starting to see the main lane that the traffic is starting to build. if you are in the easy pass lane or the express lane you will pay for it. starting at the top to get to stafford. we saw $19.50 to use the lanes. but boy are they moving tonight. that seems to be the best bet. if you are heading south to stafford or fredericksburg away from the city. as brad mentioned, the transportation and planning board saying tonight this was going to be the key time for people who were going to be getting away for the holiday get away. we are just star

some of that volume build in tonight at this hour. certainly if you haven't headed out already on to the trip. you haven't had a chance to load up car yet and you can delay it an hour, that will be your best bet. we will continue to keep an eye on it. back to you inside. maureen: all right. thank you so much. now take a wider look at the area. jamie sullivan is on traffic watch for us tonight. jamie? jamie: of course, brad bell, he was at the bay bridge and he talked about how the heavy traffic through annapolis, the rowe boulevard. it's volume. it's not bumper-to-bumper. just inching along. we are moving. but, of course, if you get close to the by a bridge take a look here. you get a great idea. we are very, very loose. continuing then past the bridge. so here we go. this is a bigger picture for you. this is typical as far as what we see in an afternoon rush. the northwest corner is heavy. slowing on 66. same on 395. the bottom side of the

a look at the american legion bridge. again, every afternoon i talk about how heavy this traffic is. currently it is. we have not seen any major accidents. happy to report that. 270 volume. same on 9 it 5 in maryland and -- 95 in maryland and virginia but it's not terrible. happy to report that. back to you. maureen: thank you. we want things to go very, very well for you on the road. and remember that you can take the power of abc7 with you. just download the abc7 news smartphone app in addition to the latest headlines and connect it to the traffic watch and the storm watch resources. leon? leon: whether you are hitting the road tonight, or tomorrow, folks there is a chance you could be hitting storms along the way. chief meteorologist doug hill here with what to expect. doug: absolutely. if you are traveling west on 66 or 50 heading to interstate 81, that is where we are finding showers and storms.

they don't show sign of coming too far east of i-81. the rest of the area will be fine. sunny and mild weather through the everything hours. again the motion of that should keep most of it well west of the metro area. so for most of us this evening it's clear and mild overnight. 59 to 67 degrees. tomorrow is big get-away day for more people. if you're traveling on a friday look for sunshine through the day. temperatures are warm in the morning. hitting 88 in the afternoon. 30% chance of storms once we hit the afternoon and the everything hours. if you are staying home going to the mountains or the beaches we have you covered and the updated forecast in a few minutes. maureen: thank you, doug. milestone today in the race for the white house. there will not be a contested g.o.p. convention. "associated press" delegate count shows donald trump has enough delegate to clinch the nomination on the first ballot. trump told supporters he is focusing on his likely democratic op

clinton. leon: good samaritans credited with helping save aviators of a midair collision. they were training off the coast of cape hatteras. those on board managed to eject. nearby fishing boat rushed to find survivors. coast guard stepped in. rushed them off to a hospital to be checked out. turns out they all escaped with only minor injuries. ahead at 6:00 -- maureen: bears brawling on someone's back patio. why the woman who shot the video says she stopped recording after a few seconds. leon: police a woman known as "mama marine" laid in rest in honor. what made her decision to join the marines so remarkable. maureen: only on 7 -- mother's outrage. >> when i heard about that, it of course made my world stop instantly. maureen: why a picture caused her son with special needs to be terrified to return to school.

leon: only on 7, a mother demanding action because her son who has special needs says he is terrifying to return to school because of bullying that took place there. this started when a student at me -- damascus high school took a picture of the stu

buttocks exposed. the picture went viral. we protected the mother's identity to protect her son. >> you want to protect your kids and tell him everything will be okay. with social media you can't just go grab it and take it off. this child needs more than a slap on the hand. >> the mother says she wants the teen charged as a sex offender. right now he is facing peeping charges in juvenile court. he has written a letter of apology. so far the school has not taken any disciplinary action. maureen: a former loudoun county p.t.a. president is facing charges he embezzled $13,000. 51-year-old was indicted last week. he came under suspicion in march after unauthorized charges were nowned in the organization financial records. fairfax county police are looking for a woman who may be able to help find the suspect in a recent homicide. today

sketch of the woman they emphasize is not a suspect. investigators say she was in the area before 24-year-old tarreece sampson was killed. sampson, fairfax county classroom assistant shot to death friday outside of alexandria. leon: metro passenger is treated for injury suffered in an attempted robbery. this happened after noon at the l'enfant plaza station. police say the suspect knocked the victim on to platform in the robbery attempt. metro police quickly caught the suspect. the victim is now being treated for minor injuries. maureen: up next at 6:00, bears fighting. julius outside the woman's backdoor. the reason she said she stopped taking the video after a few seconds. leon: hopefully to run away. maureen: yeah. leon: doug hill has a look at the beach forecast. we'll find out where and when a potential named storm could affect your plans. maureen: "7 on your side" protecting senior citizens. every day seniors are targeted by identity theft schemes and other scams. if yo

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geico. expect great savings and a whole lot more. maureen: memorial day tradition on some of the most hallowed ground in this nation. the army's third infantry regimen the old guard placed flags on each of the 230,000 marble headstones at arlington national cemetery. the mission takes four hours. tens of thousands of people are expected to visit the cemetery in the coming days. a trail blazing woman is joining the ranks of those interred at arlington national cemetery. >> mama marine, her final tribute. at 93 -- maureen: burial service held today for a woman who was one of the first of her "jeopardier" in the marine corps. known to friends as "momma marine" joined the corps as soon as it began allowing women in 1943.

take women. she didn't go into the army or the navy. >> they were taking women so she signed up instead of getting on the bus and go to work. maureen: she is burieded beside her husband who she made in the marine corps. leon: the family has to be so proud. maureen: wonderful story. leon: driving to d.c. these days should be a smoother ride than other a month ago. the final numbers are in. d.c. crews patched up 16,500 potholes in potholepalooza. this year's blitz lasted 43 days. that means the crews were filling 380 potholes every day. maureen: a memorable sight for a front royal resident this week. she walked to her backdoor, looked outside and saw this. two bears fighting on her patio. our diane cho talked to the woman behind the video about what she did next. diane: imagine being woken up to this. >> pretty wild. diane: danielle says that

exactly what happened to her early tuesday morning so she immediately started recording. >> i could see the other one start coming out of the woods. what you see is what you got. diane: she says she was standing inside of her home a few feet away before she eventually turned off the camera, scared the bears would come crashing through the sliding glass door. >> i was worried about what would happen. they were going to get more serious about fighting. diane: they trampled through the flowers, bent the fence and threw her daughter's toy car off the porch. she says the bears ended up sticking around for 30 minutes before she started banging on the door scaring them off. but this isn't her first run-in with bears. this is video she took last year of the bears gathering around their chestnut tree. >> my grand dad would sit on the porch. after a while he got tired of trying to scare them off. you know? it wasn't working. they would still come

diane: this is from another encounter when the bear walked up to eat dog food left outside. >> that is not a dog. diane: she said the roaming neighbors never bothered her grand parents while they lived in the home over the years -- >> there you go. diane: -- now they have reason for concern. >> smaller children. they don't know better yet. diane: in front royal, diane cho, abc7 news. leon: can you imagine if they had crashed through the sliding glass door? maureen: goodness. leon: explain that the claims adjuster. maureen: don't want to think about it. doug: scary. maureen: beautiful day. doug: warm. it starts off nice. we have concerns later monday. we are talking about all week that it would go downhill on us. maureen: don't want to hear it. doug: i know. great at the beach. ocean city, checking there all afternoon. one of the beach front weather bug cameras on the boardwalk at second street. lack at the temperatures. 69 degrees. this is why the wind direction in the summert

is key. right now the winds are out of the south. so there are directions coming. ocean city sticks out a little bit. just across to cool it down. the water temperatures in the upper 50's. now locally we are at 88. the warmest day of the year in washington so far. 63 is the morning low. 78 and 60 are the afternoons. now at 6:00, still 90 degrees in leesburg. 87 in culpeper. 88 in manassas. 83 in reagan national. the winds are coming over the potomac near the station, the reporting station at reagan national. 87 at andrews. no water issues there. 87 in baltimore. satellite and radar shows showers and storms for the past four hours change in location. we think it will die out after sunset. probably not affect the metro area at all and stay clear. we have been hinting at this for a couple of days. area of low pressure formed in the atlantic. north and northeast of the bahamas. the national hurricane center is going to dispatch this to fly into this. there are indications that the low pressu

to tropical storm bonnie in the next four or five days and the track may take it eventually toward the south carolina coastline. now ahead of that, will see winds from the southeast. we get clouds and shower sunday and monday. beaches and here as well. this is the different model that says once it develops, where the center will go. along the coastline. that is probably going to be in the monday, tuesday time frame the way we see it now. the delmarva beaches, beautiful saturday sunshine. 74. some sunshine on sunday. 70. late day shower possible. monday looks like it will start to turn cloudy with period of shower and the thunderstorm at 68. 53 to 58 at the ocean water temperature. the mountains will be fine. sunny and 85 on saturday. low 80's on sunday. saturday and sunday there could be isolated thunderstorms. monday a better chance of storms. leave the seven-day for metro area, 80. no rain saturday. sunny. sunday, partly cloudy and cooler. showers and thunder late in

sunday, tuesday, wednesday, questionable days and there will be showers and storms on monday. possibly lingering to tuesday and wednesday. that portion of the forecast may have something to do with what bonnie does or does not do, if bonnie does or does not form. that is all i know. i've said enough. leon: bonnie will do what bonnie will do. erin: did you catch all that? leon: bonnie will do what bonnie will do. erin: the nationals' best hitter isn't playing. i will tell you why. plus, get ready for a double dip weekend in the city of brotherly love. that story when we come back.

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erin: the nationals continue the home stand in a four-game series against the cardinals. daniel murphy get a night of rest. he is not in starting line-up. last month washington swept st. louis at busch stadium for the first time since the franchise murphed to d.c. in the three games the nats outscored the cards 17-6. an exciting time for terps fans as the men and women lacrosse team head to pennsylvania this weekend for the respective final fours. scott abraham is in college park with a preview. scott: the maryland men lacrosse name a familiar

back in the final four. >> we are trying to balance a lot of preparation right now. at make sure that guys enjoy the moment. >> the terps trying to win their first national title since 1975. is there it would be amazing. i mean 41 years is a long time. >> the maryland women's lacrosse team, an absolute powerhouse. they are undefeated on the season. on the doorstep of three straight national championships. >> i think our chemistry is really unique this year. our senior class stepped up. we are very young. the guys gained so much experience as they has gone through the season. scott: this memorial day weekend the city of philadelphia is turning into terpadelphia. the men and the women's lacrosse final four is in the city of brotherly love. you better believe both the maryland programs are feeding off each other down the stretch. >> we are both having great years. it shows a lot about how maryland lacrosse is a hotbed and how we attract great

lacrosse players. scott: the terps ready to bring home the hardware to college park. scott abraham, abc7 sports. erin: "terpadelphia"? well played scott. it's now win or go home. for steph curry and the warriors tonight against o.k.c. tip-off at 9:00. itoes to show regular season doesn't mean anything. leon: i want to meet the guy that put money on that in vegas a week ago. doug: talk about the weekend. give you sneak preview. if you are hanging around home, beautiful saturday. sunny and 85. 82 on sunday with a chance of late day thunderstorm. better chance of cloudy skies, showers and thunderstorms upper 70's on monday. tonight at 11:00, steve will update the beach, bay, holiday forecast, and maybe give you food picks for the weekend. maureen: good. tell us the best barbecue. "world news tonight" with david muir coming up next.

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