announcer: now "abc7 news at 4:00". on your side. jonathan: right now at 4:00, it is officially summer with weather like the stuff we've got outside. now everybody is trying to beat the heat. alison: well, we avoided the summer swelter until now. michelle: now the question is how long will it last? thank you for staying with abc7. you know, it's that time of year when we start to get the temperatures that feel like they are approaching 100 degrees. jonathan: you knew it was coming at some point. now we're all starting to melt. we have team coverage for you. chief meteorologist doug hill is tracking the heatwave. alison: meteorologist steve rudin and tom roussey are out in the heat where people are trying to keep cool. doug, this isn't the worst of it yet. doug: not really. temperature and humidity wise. it will get hotter before it gets cooler later in the weekend. 91 at reagan national ir

dew point is 69 so it feels somewhat warmer. it feels like mid-to-upper 90's across the entire area right now. because of the extreme heat, look at the numbers. low 90's across the board. 97 in college park. i don't think so. every now and then a sensor will be crazy. what is not changing are the temperatures for the next few hours. if you combine with humidity, it's uncomfortably to oppressive hot and humid. nats have a game coming up in a few minutes against the brewers. steve rudin is next door at yards park. people dealing with the heat and humidity? steve: doug, there is no better place to be when it's hot outside than here at the yards. with our brand new stormtrack7, a phenomenal machine that can do a lot of things. people are enjoying the heat and the humidity and trying to keep cool in the fountains. the heat index values are in the upper 90's to 100 degrees

now, it will only get hotter as we move to the end of the weekend to the first half of the upcoming weekend. a lot of enjoyment here. a lot of folks are keeping cool. the kids are having fun. hey, kids, are you enjoying the heat? >> it's hot. but the pool feels good. steve: awesome. thank you so much. there you have it. kids are out here. adults are out here. doug is going to be back in a few minutes and talk about how long the heatwave will last. let me tell you. this will be a long stretch of days and a lot of hot weather to enjoy. i say "enjoy" a because we don't have a choice. back to the news desk. jonathan: now you have to run through the water, steve. michelle: maybe later. jonathan: he may. now that the heat is here. not a surprise but a shock to all of our systems after relatively getting off unscatheed so far this summer. michelle: also had different -- jonathan: thresholds. michelle: that's the word i'm looking for. we want to know how hot is too hot? that is what we want to

wjla.com/votenow and participate. as you vote the numbers will change live on your screen. so you can check in right there. the thing is we all know it will get worse. tom roussey -- jonathan: 75 degrees. that is a good one. alison: i would love for it to be 75 degrees. get out to tom roussey. i know he wishes it was 75 degrees on the mall. how are you doing out there, tom? tom: it's so not 75 degrees out here. even in the shade right now. we have a lot of people on the downtown mall today. let me show you the popular spot on the mall today. you look to my right in the distance there, the most popular spot on the mall is the shade. anybody who can find some shade out here. that said with the humidity, honestly, it's a break but it's not that much of a break. there are a lot of tourists out here. here is video of locals as well out today. smithsonian held the annual picnic for employees as well as volunteers. a lot of people attended in the hot sun. you know, you talk to locals and they say thi

the summertime. that said, it has been a mild summer so far. even featuring the coolest july 4th in 75 degrees. to suddenly get a heatwave like we usually get in theer, it feels bad -- in the summer, it feels bad. people are trying to cope with it. >> i have an umbrella. i have a purse that has a pocket in it, that has a compartment for my frozen water bottle. it was frozen. so i don't have time to pass out in the heat. tom: all right. back out here live. the folks look like they are from somewhere else right here. possibly denver by one of the football uniforms. that is interesting. we found out today as we talk to folks on the national mall, how bad you consider the heat is depending where you are from. natives say it's what they expect in summertime but it feels bad because it's been mild until now. we talked to folks all over th

impression on the d.c.'s heat. there were varieded list of impressions. you will hear it on the 5:00 news. reporting live on the national mall, i'm tom roussey, abc7 news. michelle: thank you. stay with abc7 for updates on the heat and the next chance for storms on all platforms. that is facebook, twitter, wjla.com and the stormwatch7 app. all there for you no matter where you go. all right. developing around the nation now. deadly police shooting caught on camera. the video too graphic to show the conclusion. alton sterling pinned and then shot. as elizabeth hur reports, the investigation into what happened leading up to the deadly decision is just now getting underway. >> he is 15 years old. >> overcome with emotion, 15-year-old cameron sterling broke down in front of the camera. >> as a mother, i have now been forced to raise a son who

happened to his father. reporter: his father alton sterling shot and killed by police. >> get on the ground. reporter: the takedown caught on cell phone video posted online showing officers now identified appearing to wrestle with sterling. then opening fire. >> they shot him? my goodness. reporter: police say the officers were responding to a disturbance call. >> the call came from someone who sta black male selling cd's and wearing a red sweatshirt threatened them with a gun. >> according to a witness, sterling did have a gun but did not reach for it. >> prompting hundreds to protest and the naacp to demand police release all video. >> there is body camera footage. that footage may not be as good as we hoped

the police chief to re-sign. >> i'm not retiring. i'm not resigning. reporter: not going anywhere and promising a thorough investigation. the chief went on to say video from the store and the officer's body cameras have been turned over to the justice department. and the two officers have been placed on administrative leave. in new york, i'm elizabeth hur for abc7 news. alison: meanwhile, a major shift in strategy in the war on terror. president obama announced today the troop drawdown in afghanistan will slow. 8,400 american troops will stay in afghanistan through the end of the president's term. that was supposed to come down by 3,000. the president made this pledge. >> as president, commander-in-chief, i made it clear i will not allow afghanistan to be used as safe haven for terrorists to attack our nation again. that is why i constantly review our strategy with my national security team. al

maintains the u.s. is not in a major ground war in afghanistan. jonathan: well, in vermont, the f-35 strike fighter hasn't arrived yet. but residents there near burlington international airport are trying to keep it away. far away. the folks who live near there fear the noise will be too much. a federal judge heard arguments that the military just glossed over that section of the environmental impact report that addressed the noise that the fighter jets would make. the first wasn't isn't expected until 2019. unclear when the judge will make the ruling. concerns of lead in the water on capitol hill of all places. testing is beginning today at the house cannon building home to offices and staff for the representatives. our representatives. roz plater on capitol hill now. this is the oldest congressional office building in d.c. curious, have they got any preliminary results back yet? roz: well, indeed it is the oldest and being r

if you will, rebuilt inside and out. that may be part of the problem. we will tell you more about that in a second. there are nervous staffers here. some of whom are pregnant. they don't know how serious all of this is. they say some of them they are having trouble getting information about the process itself. in fact, the first official notice about this went out only to the chiefs of staff. workers here tell us that the problem first surfaced about monday last week in the cannon house office building and they were told that testing found five of the 26 drinking water sites had lead level above the e.p.a. limit. the fountains have been turned off and signs posted and bottled water is provided for staffers. unclear how long it has been going on but the drinking water got a clean bill of health in 2015. the working theory is the lead is coming from the construction going on at the building.

>> we think it comes from within the complex itself. roz: they were notified that the testing would begin in the basement of the rayburn building and free for the staffers and the representatives who want the test done. in the meantime we are told it takes 72 hours or so to get the test results back so a lot of people will wait to hear from that. coming up at 6:00, you will hear from the chief of staff who pushed forward to get the testing done. his wife works with the building along with him and she just had a baby. they were very concerned about that. we have more from them coming up at 6:00. now we are live on capitol hill, i'm roz plater, abc7 news. jonathan: thanks. coming up for us here at "abc7 news at 4:00" -- the new sex abuse scandal involving th

doctors. >> today is the best evidence ever that we have seen that our system is absolutely, totally rigged. it's rigged. michelle: also fall-out from the f.b.i.'s decision not to indict hillary clinton. who congress is calling to testify in clinton's new attack on donald trump. alison: and this will just give you the chills. a kidnapping attempt caught on camera. who ran to help takedown the suspect coming up next.

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alison: come take a look at this. terrifying crime caught on video in california. sees the little child there. the little girl over by the door. watch this. a man tries to kidnap her right there. she 4 years old. this was at a cell phone store. the girl was standing by the front door as her mother was waiting in line. the door opens all of a sudden. the suspect grabs her and tries to get away. the girl was able to quickly escape and race back to her mother's arms. neighbors nearby heard the commotion. they stopped the guy. mom clutching her children. jonathan: holy cow! alison: a powerful moment there. sitting down, embracing her kids in shock and relief. the whole thing caught on camera. michelle: it really happened in the blink of an eye. alison: goodness. michelle: so

not notice what happened had her daughter not been able to fight back and run back to her mom. jonathan: one, it's infuriating. you want to get ahold of that guy. it's reassuring watching how fast the others responded to get the kid back and get this guy. alison: she had her hands full with the other baby and waiting in line. a lot of times people are on the phone. it's easy to take your eye off for two seconds. jonathan: great video to see that it happens that fast. now a stunning new report. thousands of doctors across the country accused of sexually abusing the patients under their care. alison: some are still prac tigs, treating patients -- practice, treating patients. reporter: at mount sinai hospital in new york city, dr. david newman's work in the emergency room once made him prominent nationwide. but now dr. newman is in disgrace, under criminal

sexual abuse of four women. including one he allegedly drugged in the e.r. he has pleaded not guilty. >> do you have anything to say to the people who alleged to abuse them? >> no comment. reporter: dr. newman's license has been suspended and he is far from the only one accused of such crimes. for the last year, investigative team at the "atlantic journal constitution" put together the first of its kind list of the cases over 16 years involving doctors who sexually abused their patients. >> some of these doctors are the most prolific sex offenders in the country. with hundreds and in some cases thousands of victims. >> victims like erin of oregon. she testified while recovering from anesthesia. >> i remember him kissing me on the lips. then manipulating, physically manipulating my hand to basically

reporter: the anesthesiologist dr. frederick field was sentenced to 23 years in prison for assaults on 12 women. >> he said, "it's okay. this is just how we wake you up." reporter: many doctors get off easy. including this one who lives in this house in california. dr. motta once praised as a great humanitarian in congress pleaded guilty to six felony counts with sexual contact with patients in 2011 but received only probation. no prison. when we went to see the doctor, he refused to show his face. but maintained his innocence. >> did you abuse your patients? >> no. >> you deny that? >> no. i'm not going to make any comment on that. you will twist things. >> i'm not going to twist things. you are hiding behind a door here. i want to ask did you violate your oath? did you violate your patients? >> i won't make a comment on that. jonathan: that was

reporting. each state has different rules and regulations for what information is made available to the public about doctors and their backgrounds. a huge fire torched an apartment building in california. look at this. not much left there except for the skeleton of the building. it was under construction so nobody was inside. however, it did spread to other homes next door forcing a lot of folks to evacuate. the good part in this no injuries have been reported. alison: a "7 on your side" consumer alert of sorts. this one is for all of you fans of mcdonald's all-day breakfast. the mcgriddle will be added to the all-day service this fall. so if you haven't had one, it's basically a breakfast sandwich and pancake serve as the bread. that is why they are called mcgriddle. mcdonald's all-day breakfast has been a huge hit. it launched last year and it has been credited with helping increase sales dramatically. michelle:e

day. jonathan: egg mcmuffin at 6:00. dinner of champions. alison: it's nice if you work a weird shift. jonathan: look at the traffic situation now that jamie sullivan is keeping an eye on the roads. jamie: we have a couple of closures. i want to start in the district of course with the nats game underway. well, you know, we are seeing half street closed. it will be closed until two hours after the game. but not just the side streets. we have big delays heading inbound on 395. the freeway is congested. not a terrible ride heading in the city. mainly the afternoon traffic heavy heading outbound. this is 395. all of our lanes completely slow. no crashes to report in this. again extra congestion because of the game. if you are traveling then along the beltway, bottom side, seeing the slowing at 14 miles per hour. that northwest corner, take a look here. you can see near river road. we have the volume on the inner loop. we are okay on the ou

continuing closer to the american legion bridge. in virginia, traveling on 66 heading outbound. a little bit of sun glare and slowing here near nutley street. no major crashes. back to you. jonathan: thanks. severe storms tore across the upper midwest hitting minnesota very hard. they get big storms up there. this is rural halloway. a twister touched down but this is well west of the twin cities. strong winds tore down strees. and as you can see the downpours flooded streets. that would be a sewer system that is backed up. that is never good. michelle: you don't want to play in it. jonathan: not so much. storm drains get full. michelle: they have the wet weather. we have all the heat. we asked earlier how hot is too hot? is this too hot for you guys? alison: yeah. jonathan: you feel like a human sponge. you like this, don't you? doug: born and raised here. i'm used to it.

lizard. doug: i'm glad to be inside today. leave it at that. it's summertime. this is what it's all about. we tend to have stretches in an average summer, get four or five days days in the upper 90'. we are in one of those stretches now. it will get hotter before it gets cooler. time lapse at nationals park. low cloud. patches of fog with the high humidity levels. then the sun comes up and opens up the skies a bit. then we get more cloudiness forming. bottom line is partly cloudy and hot and humid. that covers through saturday here. there are varying chances of isolated thunderstorms in the late afternoon and evening. the key number for me is a feels like temperature. real number on the dew point temperature and air temperature. it tells you what it feels like. feels like 97, 98. 96 in washington. we are dealing with something warmer than the average summer day. that is the trend through tonight. any relief from showers an

that is south in virginia. we have been watching a line. this is hooked up to the remnant of the line that came through minnesota last evening. that is moving east. this is warm and a humid air mass, i wouldn't be surprised if a couple of us saw a shower or a rumble of thunder in spots overnight. tomorrow we have a better chance of scattered afternoon showers and storms. tonight we call it partly cloudy. warm and muggy. light winds. overnight low is 72 to 79. warm overnight readings. the future heat index take you through the afternoon hours to watch the numbers here which will drop and only in the 80's tonight. by tomorrow morning we will already have heat index values or feels like temperatures in the lower 90's. we will get up around 100 for the afternoon. no relief coming our way until we hit the weekend. it will happen saturday. i don't have timing exactly right but at some point saturday a front will come through to bring us drier air and the cooler air comes in on sunday, monday, tuesday. check the numbers. 93 degrees. that is the high

tomorrow. 94, 96. cooling back in the 80's as we head through the early part of next week. that is the very latest. back to you. jonathan: thanks. coming up next for us at 4:00, the must-have christmas item. now you probably should get rid of the thing. the new round of recalls and the problems with the hoverboards. we have that coming up. alison: and the first full day of metro safetrack surge number three. we will tell you how

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jonathan: f.b.i. director james comey will likely face tough questioning on capitol hill tomorrow. he will testify before house oversight and government reform committee. lawmakers plan to ask comey why he chose not to recommend hillary clinton be charged for her e-mail scandal. there is no slowing down on the campaign trail. both today, donald trump and hillary clinton both of them on the offense. alison: they picked the backdrop carefully. michelle: mud slipping continues. we head to the campaign trail. reporter: hillary clinton's campaign hit the jersey shore. standing in a shadow of the now closed trump hotel on the atlantic city boardwalk clinton delivered some of the harshest attack on donald trump. >> make sure never has the chance to bankrupt america t

businesses. >> it's a blueprint team clinton will come back to, that trump made his millions a it the expense of the working class. unpaid bills. massive debt. layoffs. >> i want you to understand what he did in atlantic city is what he will do if he is elected in november. >> she went by picketers who are striking outside the casino. a spokeswoman for trump responded to clinton's attacks on cnn. >> mr. trump believes in putting the oxygen mask on first before helping others. >> cross a name off trump's list of potential running mates. a day after hitting the trail with him, tennessee senator bob corker tells abc news he is taking his name out of the running. >> with just 12 days until the republican convention few de

but donald trump promises thursday he will unveil a list of speakers. reporting from northwest, karen travers, abc7 news. alison: retired doctor in need of medical attention in the middle of a night out at the folger shakespeare theater. today he meets the other theater-goers he is calling heroes. the reunion coming up. >> the "7 on your side" team warned you about the fire danger. i'm cheryl conner. next on "abc7 news at 4:00", more on the recall whatcha' doin? just checking my free credit score at credit karma. what the??? you're welcome. i just helped you dodge a bullet. but i was just checking my... shhh... don't you know that checking your credit score lowers it! just be cool. actually, checking your credit score with credit karma doesn't affect it at all. are you sure? positive. so i guess i can just check my credit score then? oooh "check out credit karma today. credit karma.

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announcer: you're watching "abc7 news at 4:00". on your side. jonathan: now to the consumer alert and recall of half a million hoverboards. at christmastime, everybody wanted one. michelle: the consumer product safety commission announced today the recall addresses the fire hazard. alison: we have been chronicling the issues with hoverboards at abc7 since they first started popping up. cheryl conner joins us live with more on the announcement today. what is new with this? cheryl: if you own a hoverboard, stop using it immediately. this board has flagway written on the side. this is one of ten companies involved in the recall. today the chairman of the consumer products

of nearly 100 hoverboards overheating or catching on fire. the scientists studied the burned batteries at the research lab. >> the product did not have sufficient interim controls to deal with the overheat -- internal controls to deal with the overheating. that is evidence of the products exploding in charging and usage. cheryl: we learn this addresses the boards sold between june 2015 and may of this year. the c.p.s.c. says consumers should contact the maker of their hoverboard. each company has different steps to take. for example, this board swagway will offer repair or credit to buy a new one with the proper certification. if you want more information about the recall you can find it on wjla.com. back to you. alison: okay, cheryl.

meanwhile, i took a trip back here to the weather center to say hi. doug: nice and cool here. if you feel the glass behind the screen, the window. alison: blistering. doug: yeah. it's really hot. we are looking at the udvar-hazy center where it's hazy. or maybe it's hazy. a lot of clouds. no rain. but the heat and the humidity is here to stay. this is a real number. it's the combination of the dew point temperature. it feels 97 in manassas. 99 in fredericksburg. you get the idea. the numbers are only going to climb over the next couple of days. if you have outdoor plans and you will be outside, know what you will encounter here. hot and

city. i don't see a threat of showers through the night. overnight there is a chance of a shower. this line moving flu ohio. part of a complex moved out of the upper midwest overnight. most of the action stays south and to the west. isolated shower overnight is not an impossibility. we can plan ahead tomorrow. hot, humid and hazy. it will feel like 100 degrees. tomorrow afternoon a 30% chance of showers and thunderstorms. will take the heat through friday and saturday. but there is a pleasant change ahead. that is part of a seven-day in a couple of minutes. jonathan: thanks. you know it's starting to feel dangerously hot out there. we know that. we will continue to be this way for a couple more days as you heard. check out a list of the cooling centers in the area by heading to wjla.com. we have put them all there for you. well, a doctor quickly became a patient recently while watching a play. alison: yeah, the doctor had a heart attack. thanks to quick-thinking fellow patrons he is still alive. michelle: t

chance to say thanks for the acts. now d.c. bureau chief sam ford was there for the big thank you. sam: outside the washington hospital center just released 87-year-old edward cornfield, a retired obgyn met his two angels. >> i'm just lucky. i'm a lucky guy. sam: last month all three were attending a play at the folger shakespeare theater when cornfield collapsed of a heart attack and his friends cried for help. >> there was a noise in the audience. i thought it was part of the play. sam: a nurse practitioner realized it was real, she called 911 and came down from the balcony and started c.p.r. dillon mary who learned c.p.r. as a boy scout came running, too, starting the compression. >> one of his ribs cracked. it's supposed to happen if you do compression correctly. you are supposed to crack a rib. sam: the theater had a charged defibrillator an

days later, the doc is out. >> he has a great expectation to get back to a full life. that is satisfying. sam: among many things said how does it feel as a doctor to be a patient? >> it's lousy being a patient. but here they make it easier. sam: the hospital, d.c. and the hospital sing the praises of c.p.r. >> it's remarkable how little time it will take to learn this and an easy skill to master. the benefits are marvelous. from a crusty old man. sam: in northwest washington, i'm sam ford, abc7 news. michelle: norfolk southern settled a race discrimination case for $500,000. it will be split among african-americans who atried for track, loy boar and bridge building in roanoke. they found the rail company failed to provide equal employment opportunities in 2010 and 2011.

it's the first full day of the third safetrack surge. this one lasts a week and cuts off train service between national airport and braddock road. it's important to note you can reach the airport by rail. coming from the city. but you will need to take a bus bridge if you are taking from franconia or huntington. abc7 transportation reporter brianne carter is at the braddock road station with an update on surge three. how is it going? brianne: take a look here. all the folks with us, we are part of a shuttle bus group. all having to find a shuttle bus to take around the closure. today metro said 70% of the people who normally use this as a commute decided to find some other way to get around. still, though, there are a lot of signs pointing people in the right direction. >> everybody is going south or to the airport? south? awesome. running south. all right.

brianne: still, though, some confusion for many who did not know which direction to go in. once they got here to the braddock road station. there are a number of volunteers and employees directing riders. signs up over the station. riders found it difficult to determine which shuttle bus they needed to be on. if you need to get to the airport there is a direct shuttle bus to get you there. you can take the shuttle bus to the pentagon city station. take a bus here to braddock street to get to crystal city, metro way. the new bus rapid transit in the area is free to riders to get you there to crystal city. metro riders have mixed reaction on the first full day of surge three. some say they had to wait a long time to get on a bus at pentagon city or crystal city. others say it wasn't as bad as they expected. now today we got new information on the work done in surge two. the 16-day shut down. we have now learned that crews worked to repair

track defects that impact speed and ride quality. 235 insulators. 12 signals replaced. four switches there on the track to replace. some riders complaining that there have been issues there since the work was completed. metro says four of the eight switches there along the track were worked on. we do know that maintenance continue to work on the section will continue in off-peak hours. reporting live, brianne carter, abc7 news. michelle: thank you. a lot of you have done this already. we are encouraging you to sign up for the metro text alerts. do that by logging on to wjla.com/text. or text the word "metro" to 43817. jonathan: we have breaking news right now just coming in the newsroom. a stabbing outside the addison road metro. maryland bureau chief brad bell is on the scene. what happened? brad: we got here a little while ago. we believe the stabbing happened 45 minutes ago. take a look at the scene behind me here. you can see a number of melt row transit officers are still -- metro transit

people are coming and going from the station. you can see the metro worker pointing them in a direction. they are being detoured around the crime scene. if you lack here to the left you can see, well, a puddle on the ground. there was a metro worker out here a little while ago with a mop. trying to clean things up. now, take a look down this way. you can see on the metro platform, here comes a train rolling in. that is one of the things we have been told is service here is not affected. what we understand is that one man was stabbed in the arm. non-life threatening injuries. police believe they have made an apprehension of a suspect. we saw a man in handcuffs several blocks away from here. he was being questioned. we overheard an officer say they would get a witness to go down and try to make identification. so, stabbing just outside the metro station here. service appears not interrupted. non-life threatening and

brad bell, abc7 news. jonathan: thanks. is snapchat still okay if adults are on board? one of the fastest growing age groups to download and use the popular app. we will tell you about that up next. michelle: he is one of the biggest sports stars in the world. joseph messa -- lionel messi sentenced to nearly two years in prison for tax fraud. why he likely won't spend a day in jail. alison: protests mount after alton sterling was shot and killed by police in louisiana. we take you inside the local facility that helps police officers make the split second decision of whether to open fire or not.

jonathan: it seems like adults are taking over social media. your parents and grand parents are probably on facebook as well. michelle: i chinned snapchat -- i joined snapchat. 38% of mobile user tas to 34 -- user -- 25 to 34 doubled. even north of 34 years old there is a 5% increase in snapchat users. i took me a while to figure it out. but we have a lot of young folks here to help me out. jonathan: it js

young people will migrate. michelle: coming up for us at "abc7 news at 4:00" -- women make up a majority of the electorate. what are the key issues for the largest voting bloc? new survey sheds light on that ahead. steve: i'm steve rudin live at the yards with my new friend here. we are enjoying the hot weather. i will only get hot

jonathan: well, it's not for lack of trying. nobody won the megamillion jackpot again so now it's $508 million to be exact. the next drawing is friday night. good luck. michelle: your chance to take home a couple hundred million continues tonight as well. the powerball drawing for $257 million. jonathan: these are serious jackpots here. well, one of the biggest sports stars in the world. lionel messi will be avoiding jailtime despite a nearly two-year sentence for tax fraud. in spain, prison terms that come in under two years can be served as probation. messi and his father w

earnings if offshore accounts. he is the second highest paid athlete according to forbes bringing in more than $81 million. he is paid almost everything he owes back and will appeal the sentence. michelle: in the 2012 presidential election, women made up the majority of voters. 53% to 47% of men. women have actually outnumbered men since 1964 when it comes to casting ballots. so what do women voters want? how has their role evolved? our national correspondent takes a look. >> we need to stand with her across party lines. >> they may still make up a small portion of those who serve in washington. but when it comes to who gets them there, women play a major role. jennifer lawless directs the women in politics institute at american university and says in general, female voters want the same kind of things that male voters want. >> they want a strong economy. they want to feel safe. they want to make sure that our children are going to wind up with

the current state of affairs. >> how it breaks down can depend on background. republican women naming national security as a top concernla. ty know women citing im -- latino women citing immigration. more women voted for the democrats than the republicans every election year since 1984 with reagan. but there has been a shift since one outspoken woman came on the national stage. >> it turns out the women of america aren't finished yet. we can shatter that glass ceiling once and for all. >> i think sarah palin were critical for a lot of women who got involved in the tea party. rarely did they see women pro life, pro gun, cast on the national stage. >> melissa is the author of the new book "tea party women." mama grizzlies, grass roots leader and changing face of the american right. the height of the movement it brough

fold. >> they didn't like the culture changes they saw. they had economic anxiety. i think they felt that the tea party was a way to express the concerns. reporter: but she admits the tea party movement is fading and with hillary clinton at the top of the ticket, the face of the electorate may be changing once again. in washington, abc7 news. jonathan: let's get back outside to meteorologist steve rudin. we know it's hot out there, especially when he heads to a fountain. michelle: we were wondering if it's too hot for you out there. have you reached your breaking point, steve? steve: no, it's actually not so bad. keeping cool over here in the fountain. everyone is enjoying themselves. right? having a good tame. five blocks that way nationals park is rocking. today is salvation army day. they had hundreds of kids out there. they joined to sing songs as they moved into the entrance. take a listen for yourself right here. there you go. we had th

they sang earlier in the -- or i should say before the game. so a lot of festivities out there. a lot of fun. most of the people i'm sure enjoying the warm weather considering how cool it was. let's talk about the current temperatures. we are well in the upper 80's to the lower 90's. 98 in leesburg. 96 in reagan national airport. 99 in fredericksburg. 92 over in southern maryland. the next few days the heat, the humidity, you are going to feel it. 93 on thursday. that is tomorrow. middle 90's on friday. the heat index values closer to 100 degrees. then saturday will go down probably as the hottest day so far this year. high temperature around 96. heat index values railroad 99 -- values around 99 to 103. seven-day outlook. hot weather for the next three days. we cool down on sunday. upper 80's on monday. near 90 on tuesday.

nighttime lows that will hover in the upper 60's to the lower 70's. so if you are looking to stay cool in the next couple of days, this is the place to be. the yards in southeast d.c., a lot of fun. it's free. the kids are enjoying themselves. a little bit of a wading pool just down below. let's check on the evening's rush hour commute. over to jamie sullivan. jamie: we will start off in alexandria. if you travel in the area at all on mount vernon avenue. completely closed. this is north of braddock road with fire activity. this is the photo you can see here from alexandria police that they did sweet out. of course you can see and you will probably see a little bit of smoke in the area. if you do, this is what is going on. again, best to avoid. as far as the traffic in the district we have the nats game. we are still seeing heavy volume as you head inbounds. that's mixed with a few people trying to get in the game. so heavier than what we are used to. heading outbound on 395 slowing for

take a look. here is what you have crossing the 14th street bridge with the slowing. no big issue on the capital beltway. typical slowing near river road. you can see. no crashes to report. at least along the capital beltway and on the interstates. just congestion. back to you. michelle: all right. thank you for the update. next on "abc7 news at 4:00" -- for some, sports is a way of life. >> what would i be doing if i wasn't out here? that is a great question. michelle: michael doesn't really have an answer for that. for his students boxing is more than a competition. meet our coach of the week and his mission next

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what would i be doing if i wasn't out here? >> that is a great question. i don't know. robert: but he knows the gym is where he wants to be. >> work hard. work hard. work hard. robert: that is the model of dream team gym in maryland. opened by michael, the local southpaw standout. who is 19-0 with 11 knockouts. but for penceson who coaches 25 boxers the sport is more than raising a fist after every victory. in fact he calls hims

throwback coach. >> what i mean by throwback coach, when i was small what we used to do, we had a problem. we go out and we fight it out. that would be the end of it. so sometimes kids come in, they have the same problem. i tell them to glove up. let's get it on. they glove up and realize neither one of them will back down. they are proud of what they did. they shake hand and continue to train. >> but most importantly it's family over everything. >> it's called "dream team" for a reason. maybe 25 of us but we work together as one unit. it's a team thing. robert: with the coach of week, i'm robert burton, abc7 sports. jonathan: as outrage grows after a deadly police shooting in louisiana abc7 gets an inside look at how local officers train for the split second decision to shoot or not. speaking of training -- >> easy skill to master.

>> these are the dog days. get used to it. doug hill tells us when the swelter will stop. announcer: now "abc7 news at 5:00". on your side. alison: police say they have dash cam video, body cam video and store surveillance video from the shooting that left a man dead outside of a louisiana convenience store. they say they plan to turn all of that over to the justice department now as it begins a civil rights investigation into the police shooting that killed alton sterling. our michelle marsh starts the team coverage. she is at the live desk for us now. michelle: this is just the latest in a series of encounters between police and black men. encounters that were caught on camera and ended with the young men dead. >> i have very serious concerns. the video is disturbing to say the least. michelle: that video widely shared on social media shows the final moments of 37-year-old alton sterling's li

a convenience store in baton rouge. police responding to this call. >> suspicious call of 2100. on the corner. gun in his pocket. pulled the gun on the complain tant and told him he couldn't be around there. michelle: the bystander video shows police struggling with sterling, slamming him to the patrol car and pinning him the ground. someone shouts, "he has a gun." an officer can be seen pulling something from his waist and pointing it at sterling. then you hear gunshots. i sparked a series of local protests. people took to the streets demanding action. today the baton rouge police chief named the officers involved. blane salamoni and howie lake ii. >> there is a lot we do not understand. and at this point, like you, i am demanding answers. michelle: for sterling's family including his 15-year-old son the pain is