outside now. boy, coming down out there. we are tracking this. where do they stand now? >> heavy rain. severe thunderstorm warning in effect for fairfax, arlington and alexandria. until 6:15. this does not include the district. central d.c., downtown d.c. looking at heavy rain. strip away the watch box until 9 segmenter tonight. head in closer. strongest storms over the d.c. metro area. another batch of the stronger storm northern montgomery county. that is arlington and alexandria. this will move toward the east southeast. 25 miles per hour. producing heavy rain. wind gusts up to 30 and

the biggest problem is flash flooding. and the lightning. it will continue as we continue through the next half hour and 45 minutes. heavy rain out there around the alexandria area. head to reagan national airport. heavy rain. can't imagine any plains are taking off right now. pushing east around tysons corner area. things are going to slowly improve as we move through the next couple of hours. more on that coming up in a few minutes. leon: brad bell leading the steam coverage in waldorf where the home is in ruins because of the storm. what a mess there. >> oh, leon. i speaks to the power of this weather. this is what happened. this tree in the bad yard fell on the house, fell through the power lines and that sparkled the fire. we can show you video of what

firefighters are still on scene trying to put the fire out. what a freak accident as we say. this is one of the few areas in the neighborhood where the power lines are above ground. trees falling in the house. bursting into flames. the good news is nobody was home. so we talk to witnesses and they said that this happened at the height of a freakish storm. >> you heard the hail come down. hailing and thunder and badly. the next thing you know i go check on the dog and i come back, you can't see anything outside. we look outside. smoke. everywhere. >> the flames were going 30 feet in the air. the cell phone video as well. nobody is home at this house. the rest of the neighborhood suffered no damage. they talked about hail. i haven't seen cars or anything damaged by tha

this. >> richard reeve spending track in mobile track 7. he steps in now with the latest. rich, where are you and what do you see? richard we are in town center boulevard and this street looked different. check this out. this is a tree that split apart. a live tree. the trees that fall down are dead. this is live. let's show you the video of what happened on this street. a bunch of trees fell down. a mother and son were driving along here. they are exactly the wrong place at the wrong time. their car got crushed underneath. underneath the tree. amazingly they are fine. tree buried

this is incredible. clogged with the trees and the car is trapped underneath. come back live and show you the car is towed away. look at that. that is the car. just a little bit of damage on the windshield. scrapes on the roof. that is it. a more can for the folks. if we back up here we can see how the street is pretty much wide open now. a lot more trees in the area. and more work to do. leon: wrong place and wrong time but lucky. there are homes in the dark. there are 31,000 now without power. montgomery county has over 7,000 without power. 4,500 without it in prince george's county. northern virginia is down to 6,300 outages. half as many as they had half an hour ago.

power of the storm watch 7 weather team with you wherever you go. download the weather app for the android or iphone now. happening now the detectives are going door to door in a neighborhood where someone tried to snatch a boy out of his bed. this happened in fairmount heights. tim spoke to the boy's father. this sounds like a nightmare come to life. >> this happened in the middle of the night in the 7-year-old's bedroom that is just beyond the window right here. wayne thought his uncle was messing with him but the prince george's police department said the person who grabbed the boy's arm was attempted child abductor. detectives are looking for 6-foot tall african-american who is 300 pounds. he was wearing a white shirt but that is all the information investors have. they

neighborhood, looking for clues to talk to neighbors. >> my son is traumatized. i mean i am hoping for something happens to get the person that did that. >> the window right here was unlocked last night so we are asking the parents about that. we talked to the detectives about the fingerprints and the surveillance video. we have the latest coming up at the show tonight at 10:00 and 11:00. reporting live from prince george's county, tim barber, abc7 news. leon: thank you, tim. less than 24 hours after four gun control bills failed to pass the senate, bipartisan group of lawmakers unveil ald new proposal. this measure would allow the attorney general to block gun sales to anyone on the no fly list or the so-called selectee list. anyone on the selectee list requires additional screening at an airport before being allowed to fly. the bill follows --

an appeal. >> i'm sick of the shattings. i'm -- shootings, sick of the vigils and the homicide victim support groups and the claims we will do something about it. i'm sick of the partisan rhetoric. i'm sick of getting to the end of all of it and not doing something about it and seeing that happen again and again. leon: there is bipartisan support for the bill but despite that it's unclear if they can get the 60 votes it needs to pass in the senate. the face of the bill in the house is less certain. still ahead at 6:00 -- why the rabbi who admitted to spying on women as they undress say he should be free from prison. plus the fire leaves a barn in ruins. what is unusual about this fire is authorities search for a cause. first, though, the question looming over transformer fire that filled clarendon with smoke. coming up next at "abc7 news

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leon: you can see people scurrying around with the umbrellas. they will need it. heavy rain coming down now. steve rudin has more on that. in the meantime, the investigators don't know what sparked a fire in an underground transformer room. no one was hurt but thick black smoke hovered above clarendon boulevard for hours as the firefighters battled the flames. crew was reagan national airport called in to help and they had to use the same foam and the chemicals on the plane crashes to put out the flames. 200 customers are without power as a result of the fire in clarendon. new develop in the the race for the white house. clinton entered june with more than $42 in the bank. trump had $1.3 million. the review of the filing found trump campaign spent $6 million paying his own companies and family members for the

within hours the #trumpsopoor trended on twitter. michelle obama joined millions using snapchat. he made a first posting including a behind the scene for shoot of carpool karaoke. the first lady joined the app to promote her upcoming trip to liberia, morocco and spain. follow her. michelleobama. coming up next at 6:00, what happened a week ago that makes the fire that destroyed the barn really unusual. we are on severe weather alert. where the biggest risk is now and whe

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leon: intense flames caught on video tonight destroying a barn in fairfax station. and creating a bit of a mystery. this barn you see here in flames was only being used for storage. it burned to the ground this morning. no one was hurt. however, that same barn caught fire exactly one week ago. the roof was damaged and ruled as an accident. this time the power was disconnected from the structure and the cause of

montgomery county police say this afternoon's storm slowed efforts to find a burglar in sandy spring. newschopper7 out over the scene as the officers search the lehigh drive area. one person, maybe more broke in two homes and stole a teal colored sedan. several other burglaries in olney recently including one where firearms were stolen. pictures that the police want you to see. look at this. the man in the images is accused of grabbing 11-year-old girl's back side at the target on district avenue in mclean. the victim told her father and he told the police. the incident was captured on video. if you recognize the man, police want to talk to you as soon as possible. the prominent rabbi who admitted to videotaping nude women at ritual bath says his sentence should be over. 13 months after rabbi barry freundel was sentenced his attorney is arguing for the sentence to be reduced. d.c. bureau chief reports that the arguments pl

camera for the first time. >> he is not just barred from bringing a legal claim, my sentence is illegal. >> a live stream video from the d.c. court of appeals attorneys argue before a three-judge panel over rabbi barry freundel's claim that his six and a half-year sentence for voyeurism is illegal. freundel was a long-time rabbi at the georgetown synagogue pleaded guilty to using this clock camera to spy on 52 nude or partially nude women. they were taking part in a sacred ceremony called the mikvah. people were outraged. >> his career is over. he had the confidence of his congregation. now that is gone. >> before the judges today his attorney jeffrey harris argued the sentence of 45 days of each of the women spied on adding up to more than six years was excessive. he said the council law made the act criminal, not the number of people spied on. >> so what is the difference

people and pointing a camera at six people? >> the government attorney kept reminding the judges freundel was not found guilty but pleaded guilty. >> you admitted to 52 violations of that. you don't preserve a right to come in later. >> they ask the government tough questions and they asked me tough questions. where they come out we will find out when they where it. >> member of the panel will issue the opinion or the opinions in the coming weeks or months. the tone and the tenor of the questions or the comments today mean anything it does not look good for the rabbi. reporting from northwest washington, i'm sam ford, abc7 news. leon: all right. get to the weather right now. look at this stuff behind us. barely see. steve: the heaviest of the rain is moving out of the district. they have canceled the severe thunderstorm warning for arlington and fairfax and alexandria. good news there. we are making a little progress. but they added a new warning for loudoun county. you can see it here as we show you

rectangle that you see over loudoun county that is orange is the newest severe thunderstorm warning until 7:00. cells moving south and east at 25 miles per hour. the rest of the area remains under a severe thunderstorm watch. that is the area in pink until 9:00. i still suspect that this watch will come down, part of it a little earlier than we expected. here is our live doppler for you. heaviest cell we saw earlier in the newscast is now moving to prince george's county. we will strip away the watch box and head to the latest warned area for part of loudoun county. this is the area that is experiencing the heaviest rain. leesburg and the round hill area. right now if you are watching us, north fork, evergreen mill you will see the strongest of the storm over the next half hour or so. sterling and reston at 6:38 and 6:49. this drifts south and east at 25 miles per hour. around the capit

because the heavy, heavy rain. heaviest rain exiting the upper northwest d.c. downtown d.c. by the white house looking at the light rain. heaviest rain moving through college park area. and the cloud tops with the storms not quite as high as they were earlier this afternoon. still 40,000 feet, as the storms move off toward the east. then you can see the lower cloud tops moving in toward the oldtown alexandria area. over to reagan national airport. cheverly will dry out shortly. the strongest storm moved east of you. lanham, heavy rain at this time. the same for woodmore. once again no severe thunderstorm warning for the area. head to old town alexandria, wilson bridge, oxon hill, gaylord resort, looking for moderate rains at this time. but no severe thunderstorm warnings. this is what it looks like as we widen the view out. the red boxes right over here and across fairfax to loudoun county are the f

warnings that remain in effect until 8:45 tonight. we are going to look for the warnings to expire this evening. then flash flood warnings -- or excuse me, flood warning for anne arundel county until later this evening. the forecast tonight. 63 to 69 degrees. the skies will clear. highs tomorrow in the middle 80's with the lower humidity. i will show you extended outlook that shows the temperatures around 88 tomorrow. the storms on thursday. feast your eyes on friday and the upcoming weekend. it gets better and lot brighter around here. temperatures saturday and sunday will be in the middle 80's. i will stay nice to monday of next week. erin: thank you, steve. a huge test for the u.s. soccer tonight in houston. hear why d.c. united head coach ben olson thinks the u.s. has the right stuff to ground messa and company when we come back.

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erin: we begin with the copa america semi-finals in houston tonight. usa will host argentina in what some are billing as the biggest, most important match in the history of the usa men's national team. argentina is not only the top ranked team in the world but they have the guy, j

is the best player in world. we asked the d.c. united players about what they think of the match. >> they have the best player in world but the u.s. has good performances lately. you watch them and they are evolving to a team who knows who they are. >> we have gotten better. that is an important thing. only they have a guy on the -- obviously they have a guy on the other side who can do whatever he wants. that magical. fun to watch him. it will be interesting to see how we stop them. >> we have proven we can hang with anybody. ecuador is a good one. smashed costa rica. no saying what could happen. erin: a very important game for team usa. the players begun to make their way to congressional country club for week's quicken loans national. golfers started to get a feel for the course today. weather cut some of practice short. fowler is ranked six in the world and highlights the field. the charismatic

struggled recently and never played well at congressional. but he is hoping his fortunes change this week. >> i love the look. i haven't played well here. this is weird. a lot of times if you like the look of the golf course and love the layout you play well. it just hasn't happened yet. got to change at some point. erin: may this be the year. nba and it already feels like k.d. to d.c. is a longshot. but now maybe even further from reality. according to espn kevin durant will be the golden state warrior's top target in free agency. which begins in ten days. that will be fun to watch. leon: boo! erin: the nationals will look to bounce back against the dodgers in l.a. tonight. first pitch isn't until 10:10. late on the west coast. leon: k.d., stay away from golden state. come home. all right? steve: all right. storms, storms go away. get rid of them in the next hour or so. stay with abc7 and

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as we come on the air tonight, we have just finished our one-on-one with donald trump. the first interview after the attack today from hillary clinton. his reaction. plus, what trump says about his campaign manager being fired. trump's disappointing fund-raising numbers. and what trump now says about clinton's growing lead in the polls. he says, not so fast. and will his children have a formal role in a trump white house? also developing tonight, the major bust just outside a major new york city tunnel. a carloaded with weapons. police say rifles, handguns and body armor. escaping the flames. we're right there tonight, as dangerous wildfires close in. emergency evacuations at this hour as a new storm now moves into the east. breaking now, the wife of the gunman in orlando, and what she has just re