terrorism. jeff goldberg has been watching the developments all day. jeff, what can you tell us now? jeff: the suspect is in custody in roanoke. but at this point the f.b.i. is not commenting on any details of the investigation. the big question of course at the moment is whether or not this is another attack by a so-called lone wolf inspired by isis. >> soon after the arrest of the 20-year-old wasil farooqui it was clear to local police in roanoke this was likely not a typical domestic crime. >> we thought it prudent to notify f.b.i. because of the potential for it being a terrorist incident. jeff: saturday evening at the pines apartment complex farooqui attacked a man and woman with a knife. a couple police say he did not know. witnesses say he shouted "allahu akbar," "god is great" as the stabbing unfolded. >> two victims. one with a leg laceration.

police. jeff: authorities say after the incident farooqui fled but later showed up seeking care for the injuries at the same hospital where the victims had been taken. farooqui was arrested soon afterwards. the suspect has been on the f.b.i. radar for some time. according to the abc news, farooqui traveled to turkey in the past year and may have tried to sneak into syria. >> i think this is what we are going to have indefinitely. >> terrorism analyst and the former f.b.i. agent brad garrett says farooqui seems to fit the profile of an ideal isis recruit. >> a radicalized person just randomly going out and looking for victims. which from a law enforcement perspective is one of the bigger nightmares. >> farooqui is charged with two counts of aggravated malicious wounding and held without bond in roanoke. police say the recovery of the two victims is coming along well. live in the newsroom, jeff goldberg, abc7 news. leon: thank you, jeff. american

the patrol was struck by a roadside bomb. this happened today in southern afghanistan. six afghan soldiers were also hurt in the attack. this bombing comes a day after the u.s. officials say they sent 100 troops to the city to fight the taliban. the name of the soldiers -- rather the names of the soldiers have not been released yet. president obama toured a baton rouge suburb today. the region recovering from the trills of gallons of rain that pounded louisiana. 13 died and more than 60,000 homes have been damaged or destroyed. the president had a message for the people of the state. president obama: we are heartbroken by the loss of life. there are people who are desperately trying to track down friends and family. we are going to keep helping them every way we can. leon: the president also brushed off criticism that he was late in coming to the region. instead he praised the response and the coordination of local, state and

leon: residents of an explosion in silver spring are about to receive much needed payout. also tonight, montgomery county police identifieded the remaining of the two youngest victims. 8-year-old david morales and 3-year-old fernando orellana. kevin lewis has more. kevin? kevin: right now the second of three evening meetings is taking place inside of the long branch community center. many of the 136 displaced people are inside describing how they want the donation money divided. it will be paid out later this week. 13 days since fire ra advantaged two building -- fire ravaged two buildings at the flower branch apartments. tonight we learned more than $500,000 in donations have been raised. the money will be split between the 55 displaced households but not evenly.

family size, funeral, medical and property damage cost will determine individual payouts regardless of immigration status. as the clean-up continues, we have also learned only 26 of the 55 households impacted or 47% were actual leaseholders. in other words, montgomery county has had the tough task of finding alternative housing for the 29 non-leaseholding families. the plan is to provide them with three months of free rent at other local apartment complexes, paid for by state emergency ad grants. durant of casa de maryland says it's the least society can do. >> it's hard for the people to find affordable housing. i mean that is part of the problem in this area. so, yeah, i think it will be difficult for them going forward and we are here to help them out in any way we

kevin: to that point financial advisers are also at tonight's meeting. they are helping the victims figure out how to budget the thousands of dollars they are about to get. we have also heard reports that scammers and sketchy lawyers have been preying on the victims. officials are certainly keeping a close eye on that. we are live in silver spring. kevin lewis, abc7 news. leon: thank you. mayor bowser picked a chief to fill the top cop position when lanier

the study that shows the damage it causes is worse than previously thought. also next at 2:00, do you remember what happened almost five years ago today? the fects of the 5 hadn't -- the effects of the 5.8-magnitude earthquake that day. reporter: why uber could cost you more on the next trip. we will explain why coming up. doug: we enjoyed another gorgeous august day around the capital. see how many more of these we can rusting up in extended

announcer: you're watching "abc7 news at 6:00". on your side. leon: troubling discovery about the zika virus. study from brazil shows the virus can cause more damage than just microcephaly. the doctors looked at scan of babies born with the virus and found damage to the other part of the brain as well. florida confirmed more cases of the mosquito borne virus. one near tampa, 250 miles away from the other cases in miami. concerns prompted a family to relocate to our area. this is gigi and jared. they packed up their belongings and

florida. she is 16 weeks pregnant. the decision was difficult but the family has no doubt it was the right one. >> the c.d.c. said no pregnant woman should go to miami, did a county. >> this is another child. i protect the child with my life. leon: gigi and her 1-1/2-year-old son will stay with her parents. jared will stay in florida and travel back and forth as needed to protect the family. the number of hepatitis a cases linked to smoothies now stands at 17. fourcases are in northern virginia. all of them are tired to a strawberry supplier used by the tropical smoothie chain. symptoms range from headaches to nausea and jaundice. tropical smoothie cafe says they are using fruit from a different supplier. there is no specific treatment for hepatitis a. it usually goes away by

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leon: you can blame the airlines and not the weather for most u.s. flight delays. the f.a.a. says airline miscues are the biggest causes of flight delays in the u.s. miscues include the computer glitches that grounded thousands of passengers this summer. almost six out of every 100 flights are held up by factors attributed to the airlines. airline cause delay total 22 million minutes last year. 2.2 million more than all over categories combined. from traveling by air to traveling on the ground. the next time you take a ride in uber x you may be paying more. transportation reporter brianne carter has how much and the reason behind the rate increase. brianne: joan uses uber x to get to the nearest metro station

cause her more. uber raising the minimum fare by a buck from $5.35 to $6.35. >> it's still totally worth it. brianne: according to uber the shorter trips will be the most impacted because the riders have to pay a higher minimum even if they just go a few blocks. up aer says the move likely won't have a major impact on folks using uber for the entire commute. those trips tend to be longer. >> i prefer uber over taxi. i have no problem paying the extra dollar. >> brian: for drivers the small -- brianne: for drivers this could add up. >> i see the drivers are coming from. they have to do this a lot. they are doing it to make money. if they are not making money, obvious they up the fare. brianne: uber says the idea came from feedback from drivers who are doing more of the short trips. uber says it the trips it won't impact is uber pool when you share a ride with others. d.c. isn't the only one

the increase. uber says the minimum fare is happening happening in 24 cities and comes amid other changes, instant pay, commercial free music and gas station locator in the drive app. in arlington, brianne carter, abc7 news. leon: howard county leaders are discussing the next step in recover friday last month's devastating flooding in ellicott city. today marked the first day of the entire main street area is off-limits. that is done to allow for critical infrastructure repairs. i could cost $22 million. >> if you don't have a real reason to be here don't come just to gawk or sightsee. many of you have asked how can i help? well, that is one of the ways. leon: main street is going to be closed to vehicle traffic in the foreseeable future. they hope to open it up to pedestrians in three weeks. it's been five years since a magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck the washington region. as the quke

mineral virginia, 80 miles southeast of washington. that whalings doesn't closed schools and -- the whole incident closed schools and cracked monuments across the region. $34 million damage done to washington's national cathedral. some work has been done but $24 million in repairs are still needed and may take ten more years. the washington monument was closed for three years after the quake and the elevator there still a problem with the monument which is now closed because of the elevator. students are now home after the first day of school in prince george's county. the school district is the second largest in the state. abc7 was on the bus with a number of students as they started the year. it wasn't just prince george's county that started today. algany and clark county started as well. we are getting plenty of back-to-school pictures from this is emen

starting third grade. this is day one of the 2016-2017 school year for leilani. thank you for sharing the pictures. share your pictures with us by going to burst.com/wjla. not a bad day to sit at the bus stop. doug: no. funny how time changes. for adulters the first day of school is bitter-sweet. adults it's good but as a kid it's the worst day. they are happy. good. i'm happy for them. good school year for the kids. get started. quick look at the weather on tuesday. it's gorgeous. you are looking live for crestwood middle school. i guess they are practicing football there. for august it's great weather. listen, last week think how tough it would be for anybody in the sport uniform competing outside. but today it's just downright comfortable. number wise on the almanac page, 84. i show you this. another rare day. we are below av

temperature in washington. 86 of is the average. 67 was the low. that, too, below average. at this hour we are holding about 80. with a clear sky and the light winds we will drop considerably to 59 in martinsburg. hancock by morning. 60 in berkeley spring. 60 in cumberland. hagerstown is 63. closer to northern and the western suburbs expected in the upper 50's. the metro area temperatureses are 60 in damascus. reston at 61. 6 go in pasadena to the east. 66 in the nation's capital. so here is what is happening. high pressure, large and in charge. controlling the weather. we will continue. not only for us but for much of the mid-atlantic and the northeast coastline. it's moving offshore. that will change the wind direction. it's still wide off and broad enough to keep rain off to the wrest for a couple days -- west for a couple of days but this will become more southerly in the next couple of days. that will turn winds this

warmth, more humidity. so it will warm back up. so as long as the high was overhead we were good to go. it is moving out. now it will get warmer and more humid. wednesday bus stop forecast is sweet. clear skies in the morning. about 84 in recess. then 87 in the afternoon. when they drop off a beautiful day ahead once more. the nationals host the orioles. in baltimore. the nats are tonight. game two. hope it goes better than game one. that is just me. when they get home tomorrow night and thursday, very nice. dry weather. warm, typical baseball weather at the park with sunshine. we have the buffalo bills in town friday night. preseason game number three. at 7:30. partly cloudy skies. 87 at kickoff. it will cool off after that. here we go. the nex seven days. 87, 90, 793 and 90. the warm days and a little more humidity. maybe isolated stray shower or storm late friday. the weekend is dry. but warm. about 90 degrees both

typical august weather. monday and tuesday, partly cloudy, warm and humid, showers and thunderstorms. the possibilities near 90 degrees. back to you. leon: all right. nats got to get the get-back against the orioles. erin: i know. they dropped the first one. nationals hope the rookies silence the oriole sluggers tonight. and oh, josh norman. first he called his boss horrible. what did he say today? the answer when we come back.

erin: redskins cornerback josh norman on the cover of "espn the magazine" latest issue where he was rather outspoken when it comes to roger goodell, odell beckham jr. and the redskins name. he said, "redskins is not offensive to me. i'm part native american on my mom and my dad's thing. a funny thing. redskin playing for the

about the comments. but he wasn't nearly as outspoken today. >> not right now, though. any other questions? [inaudible question] >> that is why i'm not going to answer nequestions about it right now. the questions be asked but right now that was five months ago. i don't feel like talking about that today. erin: interesting. probably good choice not to speak about it. meantime the nationals and the orioles play game two of the beltway series in baltimore. the orioles took game one last night so the nationals will turn to the rookie reynaldo lopez who dominated the braves in the last start striking out 11 batters in seven innings. the o's will counter with kevin gsoman who has been great at camden yards going 4-1 with e.r.a. under

so the pitch where d.c. united hits the road in need of points. the united play four of the next five matches on the road starting tomorrow at the mop treial impact -- montreal impact. if united are going to make the playoffs this year they need points on the road. d.c. united will play north of the boarder in montreal as we mentioned. that is a game you can see on newschannel8. the match starts at 7:30. our coverage begins at 7:00. one final note fresh from the success in rio, five-time olympic gold medalist katie ledecky will toss the first pitch at tomorrow's nats-orioles game. that will be fun for the fans to see that. leon: fun to see. should be a good night to be watching baseball. doug: good baseball tomorrow and friday. leon: sounds good. that is it for us tonight. "world news tonight" with david muir coming up next.

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tonight, donald trump taking aim. new and scathing attacks on hillary clinton. amid new reports about who got to meet with clinton while she was secretary of state. and tonight, clinton herself responding to trump's claims about her health. also tonight what we've now learned about the deadly police shooting. the young father, who was deaf, shot and killed. pouring through police videos. was he trying to use sign language when he was shot? the state of emergency. the wildfires tonight. also, the severe storms hitting the middle of the country this evening, as president obama visits the flood-ravaged south. the uproar tonight. the student athlete who walks free, accused of sexually assaulting two of his classmates. the judge tonight under fire. and american families fleelsed again?