announcer: now "abc7 news at 4:00". on your side. >> my friends, my brother -- alison: right now at 4:00, a sit-in on the house floor over gun control. >> to make it real. we have to occupy the floor of the house until there is action. jonathan: that is congressman john lewis a civil rights leader pulling a page out of the movement. a literal sit-in going on, on the floor of the house. alison: house democrats urging a vote on gun control measures in the wake of the orlando attack. jonathan: moments after that, the house adjourned while democrats were still there sitting on the floor. cameras went dark. but those on the floor were told to turn the phones off. jeff goldberg is on the hill now with the latest on the movement. what's happening? jeff: jonathan, the sit-in is still going on. it has been going on now for four yeah hours. no signs of stopping at any point soon. house democrats still inside the chambers, sitting in. they

democrats including barbara mikulski of maryland and tim kaine of virginia. here now that the sit-in began forcing house republicans to gavel the house out of session. >> the chair would ask members to please leave the well so the house may proceed with business and decorum. to clause 12a of rule one the house stands in recess subject to the call of the chair. jeff: certainly a chaotic scene inside the house. certainly unexpected when this all began at 11:30 this morning. 60 house democrats sitting down on the house floor, purning for votes on gun control legislation. they have repeatedly been chanting "no bill, no break." many house members posting pictures on twitter and facebook with the same hashtag. the cameras have been shut down inside the chamber. house democrats are

control bills including legislation to prevent suspected terrorists from buying firearms, expanded background checks. some calling for vote eson assault weapons ban. many democrats are speaking in the chamber in the sit-in about the impact of gun violence in the home districts and calling for action. >> mr. speaker, i would ask that all of my colleagues join me on the floor. >> on occasion, mr. speaker, i have had what i call

for months, even for years, through several sessions of congress i wondered what would bring this body to take action? what would finally make congress do what is right, what is just, what the people of this country have been demanding and what is long overdue? >> upall the gun bills offered so far, none of them would have stopped the heinous situations that occurred. jeff: a powerful moment on the house floor with congressman john lewis leading the charge in the sit-in that is still going on now. the number of democrats in the house and the senate continuing to grow. we have even seen senate democrats bringing care packages of food and drinks inside to democratic members in the house. of course, this sit-in follows the fill buster in the senate

senate that happened last week. we're at four and a half hours of the sit-in. it's been going on and no sign of it stopping anymore? soon. live on capitol hill, jeff goldberg, abc7 news. jonathan: thanks. former house speaker dennis hastert reported to federal prison to serve 15 months after pleading guilty in the hush money case. he was accused of paying to cover up sexual abuse while he was a wrestling coach at an illinois high school. hastert arrived at the prison in a wheelchair in minnesota a couple of hours ago. alison: now we turn to breaking news out of the district today where the d.c. police are searching for a missing 9-year-old girl. her name is sophia proctor. she was last seen with her mother julia on 14th street northwest. this was yesterday afternoon. police believe she is still with her mother and they are looking for two of them. take another good look at the pictures that we have up here now. we have them posted as well on the facebook and twitter pages. jonathan: we are getting more breaking news right now in the newsroom from arlington where washington boulevard and the

down. police activity is going on out there. we are working to gather information on why they were called there and ultimately made the decision to block all traffic in the area. it comes at a bad time in the afternoon. we have more information as we get it. at 4:00, clean-up continues across maryland, virginia, d.c. from the severe storms we saw yesterday. alison: you will remember one warning after another coming in as the storms tore across the area. each one moving through. the damage soon became clear. flooding at a metro station. trees splitting homes. and slamming onto cars. thank you for staying with us for our extended storm coverage. jonathan: we'll begin with meteorologist steve rudin. more severe weather is coming our way. steve: we have to wait another 12 hours or so. no problems for this evening or for most of the overnight hours. if you are going out for a swim. temperatures around 85 degrees or so. added clouds move

overnight. we'll turn mostly cloudy in the morning. by 4:00, 5:00, 6:00, we are watching for the storms to approach from the west. some of the storms are likely going to contain gusty winds. more importantly heavy rain. this is what it looks like on the future cast. we are here at 6:30 in the everything. a few clouds here and there. a little bit of a lull. as we head through the early morning hours tomorrow, 5:00 in the morning, western maryland to harrisenburg and woodstock. this zips south of us. yet another round of strong storms expected as we move through the midday hours to the early afternoon. give you the exact timing and what to expect once they move through and the upcoming weekend in a few minutes. jonathan: 24 hours ago richard reeve was in bowie. trees were littering the scene. one was on top of a car. alison: a family on the way to a piano lesson. they were fine but t

damage. richard reeve is back where a tornado touched down. is that right, rich? richard: this is right. you can see the trees and the power lines have taken the brunt of it. this is hobbs road. this is shut down. the neighborhood is sealed off. there is debris like this everywhere. thousands of houses are still without power. these are the sounds and the sights of a post-tornado clean-up. glen ellen, maryland. high pounds toppled a massive tree. samantha was with her brother in the laundry room when the storm roared through at 1:30 tuesday af

it made it more scary. all you can hear is the glass shattering. >> this is hob road but more like a tornado alley. the utility crews are scrambling to make repairs. almost no one has electricity. for some it should have been worse. >> no one was hurt and no one died. no one had serious injuries. this is one of the power polls they are bringing in to replace the busted ones. i wish i could give you a sense of scale. how large this is. we are told this clearing down the road goes down for a mile. 2,100 people without power. reporting live, richard reeve, abc7 news. alison: a lot to clean up. thank you.

perfect example of why you need to stay connected with the storm watch 7 team. on facebook, twitter. the stormwatch7 app and wjla.com. even when the power goes out you can get live updates. you just need a cellular connection. make sure you have a full charge before the storms hit. stay connected with abc7. abc7 first broke the news that d.c. school students would be tested for lead. you will remember that. now changes how they will define elevated level in the water. lowering the threshold to raise red flags. but as d.c. bureau reporter sam ford reports there is a safety measure going into place at all schools and rec centers. sam: filters like these are installed in over source and building that accommodate children. 4,000 in faucets and points citywide. >> oil will take public school, libraries and rec

school board. sam: kevin done hue says it will cost -- donahue says it will cost millions of dollars. it used to be any lead level for 15 parts per billion is unacceptable for young. now any level one part per billion requires abatement. >> six of the sources had higher lead levels on the second test than the first. >> councilmembers heard the parents frustration with the lead testing program. many were from logan at the montessori. the parents are worried and they embrace the filter program. >> if they are on every source and replaced regularly this is a good first step. over time we know this is costly to replace lead pipes but as we remediate and modern size schools they should be replaced as well. >> anytime in the testing we see a result that is above th

action. that means replacing filter to make sure it's not a defect in it. sam: we are in front of the cleveland park library in northwest. they recently had a test here. they did not pest positive for lead -- not test positive for lead. no particular problem. but now it doesn't matter. this is one of the filters. about $50. there are a lot of these going into d.c. public buildings. whether there are high lead tests or not, d.c. wants to have these in every fountain, every faucet where young people might drink water. they're about $50. reporting live in northwest washington, sam ford, abc7 news. alison: all right, sam. thank you very much. covering metro now. they hired a new chief operating officer. joseph leader will take the position beginning august 1.

he has served as consultant to wide wiedefeld. until this year he was vice president for the new york city subway system. also today marks metro darkest day. i was seven years ago when that deadly crash happened on the red line between fort totten and takoma park. it changes the way they organize which cars will run on the rail. faulty track circuit and part of the automatic train system were blamed for the crash. jonathan: coming up for us at 4:00 -- dealing in detergent. the growing problem of counterfeit laundry problems and the dangers of using them. alison: you can stay frozen in line. the hitter rick wait time for the ride at disney world. jonathan: satisfying the sweet tooth for girl scout cookies. why you don't have t

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fooling not just the occasional consumer but entire groups. this undercover video isn't capturing drug deals. l.a. county sheriffs say the guys dealing in detergent. >> trips are rolling in. lisa: deter jeny of choice -- detergent of choice? tide. >> without sounding scary the risks are large. you don't know where it came from. it would be like putting your family in a car that you had no idea where it came from. lisa: nick watt along for the investigation. this is sent out by the bucket load. sold at swap meets and even community fundraisers. >> there is one here for a student ministry. so, these are lucrative fundraisers. we tell them they are selling fake product it becomes an emotional situation. >> with the explosion of social media and the internet it's taken off. it has become a real problem. lisa: they look

question they are fake. >> we don't sell tide in 5-gallon buckets. lisa: they test the detergent. >> this is a chocolate stain. this is the same stain washed in water. this is washed in the counterfeit detergent. this is washed in the tide liquid. when you use the counterfeit detergent you can see that it's not that much different than just using water by itself. we found it had high water content. >> if you made just as much money selling counterfeit tide as heroin, what would you choose? the tide. you won't do 40 years in prison. lisa: in another raid at different address deepties seized $10,000 in cash, rifle and detergent. the counterfeit rings are difficult to stop and they go beyond the local level. some products coming to the u.s. from as far away as china. alison: wow!

all right, lisa. thank you. pro golfer rory mcilroy is saying he will not play in the summer olympics. the reason? zika. in a statement he said he is protecting not just his health but his family's health as well. he is not alone turning down the olympics. today arguably the most famous golfer tiger woods addressed the issue ahead of his tournament at congressional. >> it will be a spectacular event because it's the olympics. it would be better if we had more top heavy field. i understand that, i wish for me personally i wish they would have gone the top 50 guys in the world. alison: so there you have it. everybody is starting to weigh in. we have to see ahead of the olympics how this all plays out. jonathan: i guess you can't blame the athletes given the fact a lot of them aren't getting the signs

have taken to assure your safety. that is just not happening so the athletes are saying pass. alison: i know. especially if they have done these kind of things before. jonathan: right. alison: you can imagine for a first-time olympic athlete it would be really difficult decision. okay. well, let's check around here on traffic. eric smith is with us. hi, eric. >> good afternoon. tough drive through centreville. i-66. westbound. past route 28. you can see several lanes are blocked on the right side. it looks like one left lane will be squeezing by at the scene. a different angle. one left lane getting by. expect delays on the way to centreville. fairfax county parkway. it will be a positive crawl at this time. 95 northbound past fairfax county parkway is slow. southbound is more typical across the occoquan. beltway is a big mess everywhere you look. here toward the legion bridge. both directions off george wa

adding to the mess now on the inner loop past university boulevard the crash involving a motorcycle has a left lane blocked. this is all connected with those delays. that is all from the traffic center for now, though. back to you. jonathan: thank you very much. want you to look at something. check it out. infa red. these are the legs. the firefighter. for the first time in santa barbara county, firefighters are using infrared devices on their iphones to find hot spot. alison: amazing. you can see the outline of the firefighter there battling an out-of-control brush fire. as stephanie ramos reports the extreme heat is just one of the weather extremes hitting the country. stephanie: fire continues to scorch southern california. the twin l.a. area fires broke out monday charring a combined total of nearly 5,000 acres. they haven't merged but they are called the sam gibbry yell complex fire. >> we are short on resources because of the fire up north and fire down south but we are getting resources in as we spk.

stephanie: mandatory evacuations issued for 850 households with some folks being allowed to return today. relief is in sight. weather conditions may start to help firefighters as the coastal areas begin to cool the west. this is as severe weather breaks out in the eastern part of the country. in our nation's capitol, staffers at the rayburn congressional office building breaking out the mop soaking up what the severe storms left behind. flash flooding sending water gushing down an escalator at this metro station. a few miles away in maryland a tornado tearing almost 13-mile path tuesday. >> it was horrible. everything turns black. we turn the trees going left and right. stephanie: rough weather expected for east coast tomorrow. in california, cooler weather is heighting the firefighting efforts but the crews are expecting 20 to 25-mile-per-hour winds later tonight, which could stir up more flames. stephanie ramos, abc news, los angeles. jonathan: check this out. this is new video w

getting in the abc7 newsroom from yesterday's flooding of the metro station in cleveland park. it starts off slow and then picks up speed. first look inside. people are standing in the water. trains had to bypass the northwest washington red line stop while the crews made repairs to the escalator. i did dry out or in the process of doing that. metro tells abc7 there is no long-term damage done to the escalator. look at the guy standing to the left at the top of the escalator. wearing shorts. alison: on the escalator. jonathan: she is getting a selfie. alison: taking a lot of pictures. jonathan: everybody going about their business like no big deal. that is a big deal. a lot of water. alison: guy in the business suit going up the steps. steve: expensive shoes were ruined and suits for that matter. alison: what a mess! steve: there were reports of during that time period upward of four inches per hour fell. over a small area. i have never seen anything like that on the metro system and i have been here for 20 years.

crazy. alison: what about tomorrow? steve: the big storm a ways off. it's around the chicago area and beginning to develop. this is the storm that will slowly migrate or quickly migrate to the area heading through tomorrow morning. the movement from the storm may be as fast as 70 miles per hour. jonathan: wow! steve: once it gets cooking over illinois, indiana and ohio. it should settle down as it moves to our area. still looking at a lot of rain. for us, though, national harbor. what a difference 24 hours can make. we don't have the sunshine out there. at least it's dry. you can get out there and enjoy and take care of errands you have to run this afternoon and into the evening hours. the area in green is a flash flood watch that goes into effect later tonight and daytime hours tomorrow. we look at the heaviest rain around i-81 corridor during the next 24 hours or so. we will focus our attention to the west of us, around indiana. the strongest storms are set to develop moving

the storms will slowly advance east. the areas you that you see in red, we don't see it often. severe storms prediction system. that area is the likely to see the strongest storms. as we swing things over to our area until 8:00 tomorrow morning. we are under a slight risk for the d.c. metro area. adds -- as the storms move to our area. overnight low in the morning to 60's to lower 70's. grab an umbrella. pack your patience with you especially as we move through the early morning hours. heaviest storm moves south of us. yet another round of showers and thunderstorms likely to develop as we move through the afternoon hours. we will see things clear out of here. moving into the day on friday. better weather conditions for the upcoming weekend. for tomorrow, showers and thunderstorms. the next seven days

daytime highs in the 80's for the upcoming weekend. temperatures to upper 80's by monday and tuesday of next week. a quick note. g.m.w. starts at 4:30 a.m. veronica johnson, and eileen and jackie will all be on duty tracking the storm. alison: thank you. all right. well, there are long lines and then there are long lines. jonathan: i want you just to look at how many people are lined up here. this is disney world. the wait time for the new "frozen: ever after" ride as long as -- ready for this -- five hours. wait times, that would be the subject of tonight's abc7 instapoll. we are curious about this. alison: what do you think about the long lines? grab your phone or tablet. go to wjla.com/votenow. here is the question. how long would you wait in line with your child? the ride opened yesterday. people waited for an ice age you co

the #frozeneveryafterwaitlines got started with people there posting the times. today abc7 got in touch with some of the people on twitter in the lines. they weren't as long today. some say it took only three hours. jonathan: only. you could play a round of golf in the time it takes to get through the lines. we found out that the ride shut down at noon for a few hours but it is now back open. again, we have been asking you on our instapoll how long would you wait? i ask you, first, look at that. two hours. most people say they would go to two hours but four hours isn't going to happen. how long would you wait with your kids? alison: i don't know. little girls will watch "frozen" 800 times in a row. i'm sure waiting in line five hours is not a big deal. jonathan: half hour, hour? alison: you know how hot it is there? jonathan: humid, too. alison: uncomfortable. that is what you are there for, i guess, to see the smiles on the kids' faces. jonathan: after five hours the smile goes away. 15 minutes. pillsbury is giving us a way

cookie cravings throughout the year. alison: they are asking girl scout cookie baking mixes including the care mel and the coconut cupcake mix. thin mins brownie. cup take mix, coconut blondie mix. sounds good. retail price is $3.29. that is cheaper than the cookies but you have to make them. jonathan: you have to freeze a thin mint muffin. coming up for us at 4:30 -- the daring south pole rescue in the dead of winter. 70 below zero. dark 24 hours a day. winds. we will take you to the bottom of the world and explain why they are not out of the woods on the rescue yet. alison: first, we honor our coaches of the week. the father-son duo leading d.c. women pro team. the mystics.

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ecstatic. wow! good for them. all right. time now to recognize some of the great teachers and mentors from the area. this week it's truly a family affair. a father-son duo leading the washington mystics. here is robert burton with the coach, in this case, coaches of the week. robert: this week is all in the family. mike and eric thibault. the father-son duo on the sideline for the washington mystics. >> it's cool we ended up being able to work together. robert: mike didn't always see coaching in the cards for his son. >> it's interesting because once early in his career i tried to talk him out of it. he is a terrific writer. started out in college in journalism. kind of got out of it. but he always had basketball in his blood. once i saw his passion for it and how good he was, i stopped doing it. he had to do what he loved. >> h

life and given me the freedom to do what i want to do, basketball or anything else. never pushed me toward it. >> right away down here. right away. >> i almost didn't hire him in the sense you worry how people view it, nepotism. i have older players in connecticut who told me i would be crazy not to hire him full-time. so i think that part helped get me over it. i hope he has learned good things from me and that i can leave some good impressions with him. i probably will appreciate even more when i'm away from it some day. robert: with the coaches of the week i'm robert burton, abc7 sports. alison: coming up next on "abc7 news at 4:00" -- the daring rescue at the bottom of the world. >> the dark is not the issue. it's about the cooled the weather. alison: just how cold it gets and keeping that plane flying at the bottom of the world. update on the rescue in progress at the south pole coming up next.

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announcer: you're watching "abc7 news at 4:00". on your side. jonathan: the landing of a medical rescue plane at the bottom of the world. antarctica was successful. a rare rescue missioned tried a couple of times before and now it's on the return trip home from the bottom of the world. rescue plane on its way to a medical facility facing a harrowing mission in the antarctic winter. 24-hour darkness and temperatures averaging high us - averaging minus 70 degrees. the plane made two landings after touching down at in the south pole to pick up two patients in desperate need of medical attention. the crew is on the way to touch down at the northern edge of the con innocent. a trip that takes a grueling nine to ten hours. >> a bit of daylight. definitely not the extreme temperatures and stuff. so, getting in there wil

little easier. of course, it is on the way home. i don't think there will be the same level of stress going to the pole. >> the dark is not the issue. it's about the cold and the weather. jonathan: two specialized twin otter turbo prop planes made the flight from the southern tip of chile crossing the atlantic to antarctica. one plane flies the final leg to the south pole. >> it's not ideal to be flying in the winter in antarctica. there is a reason we don't generally fly this time of year. jonathan: with careful monitoring every smile the plane is expected to land late this afternoon. >> on the way back with a good weather window. jonathan: once the medical and the flight crew are able to rest they will depart apt arkca for south -- antarctica for medical attention that couldn't be provided on the remote

steve: barbecues this evening, no problems. take advantage of the nice weather this evening. middle 80s at 6:00. lower 80's for the 9:00 hour. the sun will set past 8:30. the future cast moving to early tomorrow morning. if you have to wake up early, be on lookout for stronger storms with a heavy rain to the west of us. 5:30 6:00 in the morning for the rush hour commute. most of this should remain well south of the immediate metro area. fredericksburg south to the richmond area. heaviest rain. not over with it yet. we have another round of strong storms. potential as we move to the afternoon hours and into the early everything. a lot depends on the track of what is going on to the west of us around the chicago area. how far a frontal system moves to the north or the south. that will determine whether or not we see the strong storms around the immediate metro. we are looking at potential for heavy rainstorm morning. and storm afterno.

we will talk about the weekend forecast coming up in a few minutes. jonathan: all right. it's an election and you are bound to hear this. it is the economy, stupid. if you win on that topic you have a good shot at the white house. that is what many think. it's gusting nasty -- it's getting nasty. we the bat of the business records. >> hillary clinton continues to try to turn donald trump business brand against him at a rally in raleigh. >> donald trump and i disagree on a lot of them. one of them is simple math. >> trump is attacking clinton's character and leadership. >> hillary clinton may be the most corrupt person ever to seek the presidency of the united states. >> he is going after he personally because he has no answers on the substance. >> each alleging the other would be a dangerous choice for head of state. >> clinton has opened the

islam. >> here is the bottom line. economists left, right and center all agree donald trump will drive america back into recession. >> earlier clinton visited the capitol where she met privately with house democrats before this. >> where is our courage? >> a rare show of protest democrats staging a sit-in over the lack of gun control legislation. >> rise up, democrats. rise up, americans. this cannot stand. >> guns and the economy are two of the most critical issues heading to the november election. clinton today, rather than talking about donald trump got in wonkiness of it outlining a five-point plan to improve the economy. reporting from northwest, abc news. alison: a political note. two days before the deadline and reversing his pledge not to run, florida senator marco rubio plans to seek re-election. many republican colleagues encouraged him t

believing he is the party's best chance to keep the seat. still to come here, new emojis and twitter is out with a spinoff app and features, while it's for ultra popular users. jonathan: the smut-sniffing mutt. can he detect porn on the hard

jay: this is jay korff live in arlington, virginia, with breaking news. we gave you an update earlier on a traffic mess on washington boulevard route 27. we are south of 50, north of 395. i will pan off. you can see the police active it there rally. washington boulevard, washington 7 is shut down. off about a hundred yards on the other side of the road, you can barely see a station wagon blocked by the vehicle. that is the source of the investigation. we have been here for ten to 15 minutes to see what is going on. at this point, arlington county police have not released anything officially. we know that the spokesperson is being rebriefed. we expect an update shortly. we know at some point the authorities stopped the vehicle. and a tremendous amount of police presence came in the area. there is ambulances, t

if we can pan to the right you can see another vehicle that stopped on the opposite side of washington boulevard. if we actually pan down, this might be difficult to see. literally just below us is another vehicle with its door open. it look like there is some damage on the side of the road. so we are not sure exactly what happened here. but we have three vehicles. we have a tremendous police presence. we are just west of fort meyer. this is an area to avoid. there are a lot of traffic issues. we will try to get to the bottom of what the police investigation is as soon as possible. reporting live, jay korff, abc7 news. jonathan: thanks. twitter now spun off a new app. they are calling it "engage." alison: this is just for people to see things that happen on your own account and monitor your own account. so that said, it is really for people or brands with very large following. so it's really not much of a wide audience. there is a timeline. data app that lets you track in real

are viewing your tweets. jonathan: there you go. new emojis is a big thing. they are on the way for the iphone and ipad users. the unicode body approved 72 new emojis. who knew there was a board to approve them. they will find their way to the ios 10 cycle. they are sneezing face, drooling face. selfie. boxing glove and face pump. apple ban objected to the two others. rifle and the modern decathlon. they didn't want them. alison: thank goodness for drooly face. we can all use that. jonathan: coming up for us at "abc7 news at 4:00" -- can a dog sniff out porn on your computer or a significant other's? we will introduce you to one dog trained to do just that. >> residents of this building in northwest

thousands of dollars. they are going to gather here in a few minutes to take action. we will tell you what it is up next on abc7 news. kellye: i'm kellye lynn in sterling. i will tell you how a simple playground bench becomes a symbol of friendship. that story is c

jonathan: tenants say the land lord owes each of them thousands of dollars. they are only getting deteriorating conditions in the building. alison: that is why they are about to gather outside the northwest apartment building to protest. "7 on your side" troubleshooter horace holmes joins us now to explain what is going on right now. horace: this is a building here, 1320 nicholson street. this is a sign, the protesters or the tenants are holding up to gather here in a few minutes. some of them say they are owed up to $8,000.

they say that the landlord hasn't returned their money. >> the only thing we ask to me it is just greed. give me my money. >> we have 50 or 60 tenants who livid in this building -- live in the building. they are expected to come here in a few minutes and start the protest. tonight we will take you to the protest and get reaction from landlord. reporting live, horace holmes, abc7 news. jonathan: the next story will get folks talking. with we heard of drags that are trained to smell for drugs or explosive. a dog in utah has a

he goes after porn. alison: this is interesting. 17 months old a black lab named url. u-r-l. get it? he can locate hidden storage devices, thumb drivers and s.d. cards and tablets. if thigh think someone has child porn they send in you urlo find it. they did the same for the dog that brought down jared fogle. jonathan: recess is intended to be pleasant part of the school day. kellye lynn shows how a bench at a virginia school is promoting kindness. >> ready. action. kellye: it's intended to act out situations that happen out here. busy playgrounds can be painful places for kids. not everyone fits in.

day. >> it would help kids be more aware. >> this york pennsylvania student credited with bringing the idea of the buddy bench to the u.s. his parents were considering a move to germany and he saw a picture in a school brochure. he was so impressed he convinced the principal to have one installed at his school. >> students that felt lonely or isolated in times like recess could sit on the bench. that would tell people who needed a friend and he could be joined by another student. >> it will help people to feel include and have more fun at recent. >> a way to foster friendship for years o

news. steve: moving through the overnight hour early on. the showers and the thunderstorms develop early morning. tomorrow the thunderstorms throughout the day and the heavier rain. get a jump-start on this at the quicken loans national at the country club. strong storms will give way to a beautiful day on saturday. 85 to 87 degrees. d.c. versus new england playing home this weekend. it will fall to the middle 70's by 10:00 at night. don't forget about the national capital barbecue on pennsylvania avenue. 85 to 87 degrees. we have more information on this at wjla.com. back after this.

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save you money. and can lead to unhealthy habits. it's many of today's coupons encourage junk food cravings. make you buy processed food. trigger impulse buys of things you don't need. and often make you buy two or three items when you just wanted one. unless you own a restaurant do you need three bottles of ketchup? all the reason the coupon craze is waning coupon values are getting smaller and most are for unpopular items. doesn't that stink? stores are limiting the number of coupons you can use per trip. sure you can still find some good coupons for tide deter jent but they are fewer and fewer. it may be a case of don't waste your money. >> tonight -- >> time for patience is long gone. we will be silent no more. leon: remaa

disobedience on the hill. lawmakers take a stand by sitting down. the clock is ticking on the clean-up after yesterday's storms. another threat now on the horizon. >> just keep smiling through it all. leon: this young man's classmates help him get a desperately needed wheelchair. a funny thing happened to everyone else. >> now "abc7 news at 5:00". on your side. >> the house stands in recess subject to call of the chair. alison: with that, the live feed from the house floor went dark. in the chamber, democrats started a sit-in. calling for a vote on gun control. georgia congressman john lewis started the sit-in now entering the sixth hour. jeff goldberg is live on capitol hill where it is no bill, no break. jeff? jeff: that is right. in the sixth hou

doesn't seem to be showing any signs of stopping anytime soon. i got a text from a source outside the house chamber telling me that that more senate democrats will join the house democrats as it flows in the house chamber well over 100 people at this point. the chant and the hashtag they are using today. no bill, no break. it was a dramatic and a chaotic scene at 11:30 this morning. 60 house democrats led by democratic and civil rights leader john lewis of georgia sitting down on the house floor. the house republicans gaveling the house out of session calling this move out of order. against the house rules. at that point, the cspan cameras inside the house were shut down. all afternooner the house democrats have been sitting on the flash, posting photo to twitter and facebook. calling for vote on gun control legislation inc