announcer: from abc7 news, this is a breaking news alert. michelle: it's a bizarre story out of los angeles. a standoff between police and singer chris brown at his home looks to be coming to an end. jonathan: this was just moments ago. a chopper was over his home recording this as he appears to be walking out. brown had been refusing to come out of his house after a woman called 911. leon harris at the "live desk" this afternoon. what is happening there? leon: this is a fluid situation. what we've been watching here is the los angeles police have been executing a search warrant to go inside chris brown's home after getting a call at 3:00 in the morning from a woman inside who alleged he held a gun to her and was threatening her. we understand the standoff now has been playing out since then. we are talking about ten hours now. it may look like it's coming to a close now. moments ago we saw what appears to be chris brown coming out of the house. the reports i'm hearing now he went back inside with his lawyer mark garragos. half

there. we saw the police frisking them and interrogating them now. we understand that brown has not been macedded under arrest as of this point. but we also heard that a duffel bag with weapons and drugs were tossed out of the front door by chris brown to the police there. so right now the police are inside questioning him. this began about 3:00 in the morning when a woman made a call to 911. as the standoff played out throughout the day, chris brown would not come out and did not allow the police to come in and question him initially. he took to instagram and posted a number of rants. this is part of one of them. >> barricaded myself in my house. have you seen my house? i'm going to barricade myself in my palace. leon: that is a small portion of the rant. if you want to hear more check it out on the w

wjla.com. small caution you might not want children around you when you do play it. he uses serious explicit language there. again, we are watching this as it plays out. you see it on the screen. the police are now inside the home questioning chris brown about the incident this morning where he allegedly held a gun to a woman's head. right now we are still waiting to get more information from the l.a. police. we will let you know what we learn. back to you. jonathan: thanks. another story we're following on metro regarding this year's marine corps marathon. metro will not open at 5:00 in the morning like it has in years past. it has not run extended hours since safetrack got started so there has been no extra service after concert or sporting events and no extra service before big events like the marathon. it will open sunday but the marine corps marathon and the events are the last weekend of october so there will be more eight car trains running when metro is up and running. also right now at 4:00, it's a

but will we see the same thing a year from now? michelle: that is a big question today. that is ocean city behind us. one of the reasons that governor larry hogan and the comptroller want school to start after labor day. it's gorgeous. jonathan: it would give students and parents another week to enjoy time on the beach. it's the subject of the instapoll as well. should schools wait until after labor day before going back to class? michelle: go to wjla.com/votenow to weigh in and we will show the numbers live as you vote. as brad bell reports, educators are he about -- hesitt about change. brad: for most kids the bell has rung. back to school. summer is over. hit the books. but tonight the maryland governor and the comptroller, the tax man, would rather they hit the beach until after labor day. a popular idea with some parents. >> give the kids extra tame to get

prepare and have a final plan for the summer. brad: they called a mysterious press conference on the ocean city boardwalk tomorrow. saying the long-sought idea to mandate a post labor day start date will move ahead. >> it gives us a better summer. i enjoy spending time with them. brad: ocean city businesses long pushed for a longer start date for the school. and it would mean $74 million in revenue statewide. the bill has never made legislative support. if he makes the move tomorrow he will face opposition from legislators who believe this is when the school ought to start. they include the superintendent, board of education and the teachers union. the union s

to mandate school start on hotel rooms and selling ice cream cones. a notion that has support among parents. >> it's a selfish reason to have kids wait. summer is long enough. no need to prolong it. brad: the governor will announce the plan tomorrow at 1:00. in cheverly, brad bell, abc7 news. michelle: the king's dominion law in virginia mean they go to school a week from today. send us your pictures by going to burst.com/wjla. click on the back to school bubble. jamie: on the subject of a week from today, the tuesday after labor day infamous known as terrible traffic tuesday. well, turns out the past few haven't been any worse than normal commute. when school is in session, will this be different this year? abc7's transportation reporter brianne carter has this

outlook. brianne: the big question is whether or not safetrack will play a role in this. initially safetrack was not expected to have a surge come tuesday after labor day. but the kristing surge will be in place. that question and the piece of the puzzle remains. what we know according to data by the transportation planning board they say the traffic nightmare so many expect -- so many expect dubbed terrible tuesday may not be that. what they have seen in the data four of the past five years the tuesday is no worse than any of the other days in that ramp-up we see from august to september. there are so many people on vacation and the school is ju

but now it seems a perfect storm on tuesday. congress and federal workers are back. many vacations will have seized. also all classes will be back in session as well. so there is expected to a slowdown, especially in the morning. >> especially in the morning, the traffic going up significantly between an average day in august and september. it is from 15 to 45%. the increase in those two months. >> brian: so what we understand is if you sit in traffic for 45 minutes to an hour, expect that to be anywhere from 90 minutes or more. that is as we see the switch from august to september. we will have more at "abc7 news at 6:00". reporting live, brianne carter, abc7 news. jonathan: thank you very much.

me? looking from space down to us. that is a giant eye of the hurricane. this isn't the only hurricane in the ocean now. hurricane's madeline and lester are in the pacific. gastelum is in the at lan -- ghaston is in the atlantic. three of them. chief meteorologist doug hill has been busy with all of this joins us with the forecast. that is a lot of color. doug: hurricane gasston is that size. it's pushing or propagating ocean swell to the coastline. it's contributing to the waves and rip currents. now two disturbances we are watching. one south of the hat ris area. this first tropical storm is hermine and the next one is ian. they both have the separate issues here. this is the reason that the redski

game moved tomorrow night instead of thursday. upper 80's but it will be muggier tomorrow. we will be watching for the isolated shower and the thunderstorms late in the day west of washington. we'll talk about it in a few minutes whether any of the tropical weather could affect us by the holiday weekend. michelle: thank you. last night at least 30 people got out of their cars to help when a tree fell on a man's car on beach drive in d.c. that man was rushed to the hospital with life threatening injuries. q mccray is not far from where it happened. i didn't come down due to bad weather yesterday. does it have other people in that area worried? q: let me give the viewers at home a live look where we are. we are live off of b

there is still part of the car here. the hub cab and the front fender. across the street you will notice where the tree used to stand before this freak accident. we got to check this footage out. d.c. fire and e.m.s. were first on scene. the camry involved in the accident with the roof missing. it was sawed off to save the driver. the driver was heading northbound here around 6:30 yesterday. the peak of rush hour. out of nowhere the tree came crashing down on top of the car. this is a hefty tree. nothing that a few people could lift up. the first responders were happy to see people help them out. >> the amazing part of the story, 30 people with the park police officers that responded lifted the free off the car and rolled it out from underneath the free, allowing

take him to a local hospital where he was treated. q: this is another live look at the debris. the man's name has not been released yesterday but i know currently he is in critical condition at a local hospital. i spoke to a couple of the good samaritans who helped out yesterday. they are praying for his quick recovery. is there a safety issue? are trees going to continue to fall on all the passing traffic? i spoke to ann arborist. you'll hear from him later. q mccray, abc7 news. michelle: thank you. cathy lanier is stepping down in the coming weeks. she is reflecting on a career that even she as mitts was a long schoth -- admits was a long shot when it began. she talked to our sister station newschannel8. today she said becoming a mother

chief lanier: as a teenager, no common sense. being a teenager you know everything. once i had my son everything in life became about taking care of my son. everything in life was you got to take care of him. so it was get back to school, get an education, get a good job. make sure that you can provide for him. make sure he goes to college and has everything he needs. so i started working with that in mind. you kind of put your head down and you work. michelle: check out the entire interview online at news8newstalk.com and see how she responds about questions about who might become the next chief. jonathan: coming up next at 4:00, for us the reason the final redskins preseason game is moved up a day. michelle: next, a fiery wreck involving nearly a dozen cars. the story behind this heart-stopping video. that's next. jonathan: hit the easy button for being laz

ahead of the competition. michelle: a big reveal on "good morning america." cast of season 23 of "dancing with the stars" revealed. coming up.

michelle: the next round of celebrities are red deto step out of the comfort zone and in the dancing shoeing.

including ryan lochte, the man behind the rio olympic scandal, vanilla ice, former texas governor rick perry and music legend babyface. season 23 of the series premier is september 13. right here on wjla. watch all the action on abc7. to see all the contestants that were announced just go to wjla.com. jonathan: well, the growing concern about active shooters now has more and more people seeking ways to protect themselves in a worst case scenario. joce sterman with the new digital partner circa has a firsthand look at a program that teaches people to try and take down an active shooter if there is, if that is the only choice they have. joce: this is active shooting trainer. i feel awkward. a man landed on my ankle. we are in the safety of a gym

marietta, georgia. but there is a dark reality. what we're training for happened then a man with a gun is coming for you. joce: most people hide and hope. >> it's not a tornado drill. joce: they are teaching through a program called alert at texas state. >> you may get hurt and you may die. if you do nothing you are going to get hurt and you are going to die. joce: critics say this training gives people in crisis a one-track mind. >> they become acclimated to the idea that anybody with a gun is an active shooter. >> so a suicidal kid, angry parent with a hammer, gunman with an assault rifle get treated the same. mike doran evaluates school crisis response says

shooter training was a thing. >> looks out completely the or scenarios more likely to happen. >> potential for lawsuits from ohio to oregon. people filed because of the training trauma and pain. in iowa, insurance group says it paid $300,000 in training injury medical claims. >> we are seeing bizarre behaviors unintended consequences. joce: but they don't see et as a liability issue. this is about saving your life. >> it's never your turn to be shot. i'm not going to wait in that line. you are not going to race in that line. joce: i'm joce sterman for circa. jonathan: part of the training they tell you there are literally dozen of things around the office and the classroom even in a public bathroom to help you fight against or fight back against an active shooter. if you want to find how they can give you some defense go to circa.com. video there on the active shooter sto

everyday items can help you get out of this kind of situation. time to look at traffic. jamie sullivan is keeping an eye on details and it's easy if they're moving that slowly behind you. jamie: i know. a lot to talk about. this is heading outbound. the up is shining in your eyes -- the sun is shining in your eye as you are trying to travel. you miss in a crash and that adds to the congestion. so it's a little heavier on 66. bottom of the beltway is heavy while trying to cross the wilson bridge. we have accident activity on 295. this is on the outer loop. you can see the volume here. the slow traffic for four miles and only averaging 4 miles per hour. the big picture look a lot of green inside the beltway. another slow spot is on the inner loop heading north. getting into bethesda. we are seeing traffic in the

now. back to you. michelle: residents in tampa moving to what is tropical defession number nine. the game for the redskins have moved up to tomorrow. when you are talking about the redskins and they are not usually thinking tropical depression. they're usually thinking touchdown. doug it's a good call. but there could be rain and breezes to deal with. we'll keep an eye on that. start with the happy news. beautiful, warm, sunny day. with the clouds out there now. the temperatures are plenty warm. one more hot and humid day tomorrow before a substantial change in the weather pattern that i know you will

89 at reagan national. if you are dining out tonight a good call. temperatures in upper 80's at 6:00. fall to the middle. lower 80's by 8:00. a delightful evening around the area. the wake-up temperatures from the mid-to-upper 60's. a range of mid-60's to the lower 70's downtown. that is how we start the day on wednesday. let's get the latest. there will be a substantial change in the weather update in the afternoon at 5:00 whether or not this depression is upgraded to the tropical storm. a chance it could happen this evening, if not later tonight. the good news is this will move quickly and not have winds around the center. much past 50 miles per hour.

out to sea but it is going to churn up the rip current along the beaches to the outer banks. so that is tropical depression number eight. if it traps it will be a hurricane, depending which one goes first, that one or this one in the gulf. this one has more potential and more action, energy and storms with it. potential to be stronger as it heads northeast. the latest track subject to revision here at 5:00, has it tucked up here in the big bend of florida. 8:00 thursday morning. so down in tampa late tomorrow night, gusty winds and showers are possible. it will move off the coast of jacksonville. 35-mile-per-hour winds. shouldn't affect anything on the holiday weekend but it will contribute to rip current. that is a serious threat you need to think about. check the lifeguard on the beaches before you go in the water. don't fight the current. relax, be calm. float parallel to the shore. don't try to swim in. if you swi

you can't handle the wave for help so don't go in if you are fighting that current if the rip currents are bad. 90 tomorrow. shower and storms with a cold front friday, saturday, sunday, monday on labor day. it looks spectacular. jonathan: thanks. like coffee talk from s.n.l., leesburg city or town discussing but a real discussion that is going on there. that classification could change the town as it stands now. we'll explain it to you coming up. michelle: yesterday we put a $39 water bottom the test. how about $50 deodorant? jonathan: what? >> i sniff under people's armpits for a living. michelle: that is the job. jonathan: what? michelle: he has a tough job. we will have the results which might surprise you after this. jonathan: tha

jonathan: breaking news. governor hogan announced a $5 million four-year study of looking into the project of looking into another bay crossing. there are two spans but if they added more it would reduce the amount of traffic in the area. we have more coming up at "abc7 news at 5:00" and at 6:00. so let's see. yesterday we put $39 water bottom the test. found that you really don't need to spend that much because it's a $10 bottle did same thing. michelle: today we're

ante. today expensive high-end deodorant. does spending more make a difference? we look if it passes the smell test. reporter: drugstore deodorant cost a few bucks. swipe it on after a shower and that's it, right? wrong. deodorant is a $4 billion business and growing. designers are getting in the odor control mix. $25 cashmere mist and portofino. $50 for deodorant? to learn more we head to the princeton con

>> does an expensive deodorant do something different that less expenseive brands? >> people think that they pay more for a product it will be so much better. that is just not the case at all. >> if you want to prevent sweat in the first place, rather than masking the odor try an anti-pers pir rant. >> it works to clog the pores that produce the sweat. >> he points to the drugs that are roughly the same price and have roughly the same active ingredient. aluminum. some people may choose to pay more for great spelling deodorant the experts' advice to prevent odor in the first place is antiperspirant. >> go for the box standard. >> the nose knows. >> wow! jonathan: i can't up see that. still ahead at "abc7 news at 4:00" -- apple ordered to pay billions of dollars in back taxes for hireland. why

money and may have played a role in this. that's coming up. >> town hall could be city hall in leesburg. i'm cheryl conner. coming up we talk to the mayor about his plans to save tax

announcer: you're watching "abc7 news at 4:00". michelle: back out, live pictures over artist chris brown's home in los angeles. the l.a.p.d. has a warrant to search the singer's home to look for a weapon. he is accused of using a weapon to threaten a woman. blown reportedly came out -- brown reportedly came out of the house for a short time. he refused to let people police until they showed him the warrant. he has been posting rants on the instagram account that you can see on our website. but we want to worn you there is offensive language in the rants. we will continue to monitor the situation. jonathan: the 911 call was a woman saying he held a gun to her head. that got the police response. they have been careful about not busting down the door. apparently she is out of the house an it's just chris brown inhofe side the house so they

need. in virginia a big difference between cities and towns. michelle: a big money designation. leesburg is a big town but it could become the newest city in northern virginiament cheryl conner takes us to leesburg to explain what changes could come. cheryl the four-letter -- cheryl: the four-letter town could erase and become city hall. the up to of leesburg may study what it would mean to change the status from the town to a city. >> paying two tax bills sounds ridiculous to me. cheryl: rhonda atkins lived here for nine years. she is open to the study but she is comfortable with the services around her home. >> if changing means a reduction in services. that would be an issue. cheryl: mayor david butler is running for re-election hoping the support of a study of a town versus city will be approved by the council. >> we have a police force that is effective but we pay as m

even else in loudoun county. cheryl: there are more than 50,000 residents the mayor says the savings could add up to between $8020 and $1,000 for taxpayers who owe the town and the county. there is no money in the budget for schools. the mayor says the residents live in the largest town in virginia and says leesburg is bigger than 70% of the cities in the state. but only about half of the council supports the switch. and the county told the mayor residents would pay more if they live in a city. the study alone would cost $50,000. but then another hurdle the state would need to lift a moratorium on towns switching to cities. in leesburg, cheryl conner, abc7 news. michelle: the weather outside is beautiful, gorgeous. you can't ask for better weather this time of year. doug: a little muggy and warm but we are still on track for

this is the first frame of the time lapse at damascus elementary school. watch as we put it in motion. the sun was in a hurry to get up there. turn into a beautiful day. a few fair weather clouds. they are not developing any rain. it will be gorgeous through the evening. check out the temperatures. 90 in leesburg now. in the town of leesburg for the moment. 90 degrees. there 87 in frederick. 87 in annapolis. 90 in fredericksburg. the forecast for the area is gorgeous. 69 to 75 by tomorrow morning. next seven days look good to me. around 90. this is the last day of the high heat and the humidity. this is the last day of the month. last day of the meteorological summer. thursday a cold front goes through the area. 40% chance of shower and storms, 84. look what happens after that. cooler, drier air moves in friday, saturday, sunday. lower 80's. 60's at night. bright sunshine. dry air. right now monday

the mid-to-upper 80's with a few clouds. plenty of sunshine. the beaches look good. steve will talk about the beaches in 20 minutes. at 5:00 we have the latest from the national hurricane center on the two tropical depressions. jonathan: good enough. we'll look forward to that. standardized testing is good but only percentage of the students passed the p.r.c. but some students are below the threshold. d.c. bureau chief sam ford report some are below 10%. sam: one of the good news stories from the testing this year is here at ketchum elementary school in anacostia. not only are most of the children who go to school here poor but a third of them are also homeless. when test scores were presented this morning they were one of the bright light. english scores up 5%. math up 18%. >> it does work. it takes a village but it definitely does work. i takes the

work -- it takes the hard work the motivatedded and the talented math teachers help the peers see the vision. sam: they are a neighborhood school and last year only 8% of the students were proficient in english. that is up 13%. last year only 16% were proficient in math. that is up to 34%. >> 33% of the students fided as homeless. >> if you teach here you have to believe in high-quality teaching. sam: there were some schools in d.c. that zero percent scored at passing level. in kethchame 60% in the reading score. and 100% increase in the math score. that was the reason for people to celebrate. reporting from southeast washington, i'm sam ford, abc7

michelle: impressive. still ahead on "abc7 news at 4:00" -- it could be a major breakthrough in the fight against zika. meds reversing the effect. the encouraging research coming up. jonathan: it might be the biggest heist in the world. 500 cows vanish in new zealand. i'm not kidding. the investigation when we return.

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michelle: all right. this sounds like a scene from a horror flick. 500 people vanish without a trace. only this time instead of people it's 500 cows that disappeared from a farm overnight. jonathan: i can understand three. but how do you get away with 500 cows? people in new zealand trying to figure out how it could happen. the manager told the police the cows were stolen. if it's true, the thieves had a lot of work to cover their and the cows' tracks. >> they have to put new tags on. the tags will turn up on another farm, joe graphical location of -- the gee -- geographical information would come back wrong. jonathan: you have to move 500 cows dad it

one cow is worth $1,600. that is about $7800,000 for the lot. cattle rustling has been going on a long time but never to that degree. that is a lot of cattle. michelle: a slow move. jonathan: wait to see how this turns out. this is new zealand. they will figure it out. michelle: yeah. jonathan: maybe they made a break for it. they are swimming to australia. michelle: an odd story. jonathan: coming up next at 4:00 -- how you could order your next pizza pie through the tv. as if the apps on your tablet or phone dialing isn't easy enough. we'll show you how it works. michelle: next at "abc7 news at 4:00", ryan lochte opens up on live tv for the first time since coming home from rio. >> the thing i told that wasn't true was -- michelle: we'll tell you. the one thing lochte admits to exaggerating and why he is competing for the mira ball in "dancing with the stars."

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rescue a driver. no one was killed in the crash but ten people were taken to the hospital. the mayor is trying to identify the people in the video to recognize them for the rescue efforts. michelle: now to a "7 on your side" consumer alert. brussels just ordered apple to pay $14.6 billion in back taxes to the irish government. that is the biggest single bill for corporate tax avoidance in e.u. history. the ruling brings an end to a controversial sweetheart tax deal that sees apple pay 2% corporate tax in ireland. that is far lower than the country 12.5% rate. the e.u. found ireland gave inappropriate state aid to apple. both will appeal. jonathan: a promising new lead to tell you about in preventing spread of zika. scientists are learning three existing drugs could counteract the effects of the virus. they know this. the experiments have been done in a petrie di

but the result some of the effects of the virus are we versed. what is not clear is if it could help a growing fee cuss and prevent microcephaly. in his first live interview since the olympics embattled swimmer ryan lochte did sit down with "good morning america" and he admits he made a mistake and takes full responsibly and says he is ready to move on. one way he will do this is complete in a different forum. >> 12-time olympic medalist ryan lochte turned international sensation not for his stall lar swimming in rio -- stellar swimming in rio but for telling a public lie on nbc. >> a guy pulled out a gun. he cocked it. put it to my forehead. jonathan: now he wants to set the record straight calling calg what is reported about the infamous incident. most caught on the surveillance video at a gas station in brazil is not all true. >> the thing that i told that wasn't true was having the gun pointed to my forehead

cocked. that was overexaggerated. the story about me and have losing the bathroom is absurd. it never happened. jonathan: lochte and teammates initially claimed to be robbed at gunpoint. he says he was intoxicate and made a big mistake. >> the past two weaks have been the lowest point of my life. it's been really hard. jonathan: the olympic star had $1 million worth of endorsement deals but has since been dropped by four sponsors including ralph lauren and speedo. he agreed to be part of "dancing with the stars" before the scandal broke and says he is sticking with the decision to move on with his life. >> this is perfect with the show. because i want to put that behind me. everyone has to be sick and tired of hearing about this. i am. i want to move forward. jonathan: brazilian authorities charged lochte with filing a false police report. his lawyer says they

plan to cooperate. michelle: under armour is looking to expand in maryland and bringing new jobs with it. they plan to open distribution warehouse at the site of a former steel mill east of baltimore. it will have a thousand employees and scheduled to open in summer of 2018. papa john's is trying to make it easier to order pizza. as if it's too difficult right now. it's become the first national restaurant brand to launch apple tv app for ordering. so you can order pizza from the tv. is that danger. jonathan: danger. michelle: if the appetite strikes in the middle of binge watching. jonathan: danger. michelle: i know. they are offering discount for the apple tv orders there. too easy. jonathan: pretty soon all you have to do is wink at the tv and the pizza will sho

>> via a drone. jonathan: exactly. the arrow pointing right at an old star. but this one has astronomers befuddled. they don't like to be befuddle. nasa-led team of researchers suggesting that the massive star in our galaxy might be a proto star. that is one that is still in the making. meaning it's being born. ten times as massive as the sun. think about that. it's not a typical proto star but they can't quite explain it yet because it has features of a young and old star. go to hollywood. we have a bunch of people like that. michelle: benjamin button of stars. jonathan: old and young at the same time. steve: isn't that cool? you see the little dots, and they are looking at that one star. >> they say it's bigger than the sun by a bunch of times. it has to be huge. steve: amazing. cool stuff. all right. so we have hot weather again for this evening. another warm day tomorrow. but things will cool down a little bit. good p

cooldown is the delmarva beaches. rehoboth beach, delaware, 78 degrees. winds are out of the southeast at 6 miles per hour. a lot of folks are getting ready to pack up and call it a day. the beach forecast for the holiday weekend. 79 on saturday. 79 on sunday. lower 80's on monday. keep in mind we are looking at dangerous rip currents. be careful out there if the trap control storm -- tropical storms pass off the delmarva coast. 90 in leesburg. 89 in reagan national. southern maryland in the upper 80's. we have quiet and dry conditions across the area now. as we move in the day tomorrow another warm and a humid day. temperatures approaching 9 degrees. we -- 90 degrees. let's talk about labor day. we will see highs in the middle 80's. this will stay dry out there on monday. the outdoor activities, barbecues are a fi

something to do on labor day a lot going on. sunday evening, don't forget the national labor day concert that starts at 8:00. in the everything. 6:30 we'll see the temperatures in the lower 80's. 9:00 is in the upper 70's. the gates open at 3:00 p.m. take you out to look at the seven-day. dropping to the 80's through tomorrow. the next several days, thursday and friday, beautiful weekend ahead. hope you have a chance to enjoy it with the daytime highs in the 80's. nighttime low in the 60's. check on traffic with jamie jamie: we have a crash on the beltway. outer loop. look at the flashing lights behind me. it's right as you get at the wilson bridge you have the activity. bumper to bumper. squeezing by using the left lanes. the right lane just beyond this point is in fact blocked off. everyone hopping on the ramp right there. you can get on. everyone before that point you can see what a backup this is.

average. this is six miles that we are seeing the slowdown. the outer loop from the capital beltway from virginia to get to maryland and prince george's county. rough ride. the big picture look. not terrible. 66. you are heading outbound now and slowing through the vienna closer to centreville. looks like i'm not the only one watching the cameras today. we have heavy traffic here. back to you. michelle: all right. thank you for the traffic update. coming up for us safety versus privacy. how far is too far for the f.b.i.? we take a closer look at a controversial program that eavesdrops on you coming up. and then new at 5:00, maryland governor has big plans to help you get across the chesapeake bay. what he is calling for next at 5:00. jonathan: we are keeping an eye on the situation in los angeles. this is live pictures of chris brown's home. the entertainer there has been in a standoff with the los angeles police for many hours. this started early in the morning with a woman calling 911 saying he had pointed a gun a

just in the last maybe half hour police gone in the home. they don't seem like there is urgency there. he has the lawyer there. we have much more coming up.

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>> the plaintiff's attorney says everyone's privacy is compromised. >> there is no way that the police departments might collect information about them. >> they constantly seek the cell phone towers for normal use. sting ray collect data on past texts. but they block from making outside calls. >> so not just phone calls to friends and loved ones but it could mean emergency situations like 911al calls. >> baltimore residents tell me they have seen police with sting rays eavesdrop in nine-block area.

say something they will keep doing it. >> the police use sting rays in 24 states and washington, d.c. but the aclu says there is so much police secrecy using the devices, this map underestimates the use of it nationwide. at issue is the federal communication act. that is a law that anyone using broadcast signal cannot interfere or block other signals. that law applies to police as well. >> they shouldn't use the public airways without a license. >> the police would not comment but they say it's an effective crime fighting tool if used properly. >> it's a great device. but it's open for abuse. >> it will be up to the f.c.c. to determine if the baltimore police crossed the line. it tells me they should use for intelligence gathering nationwide. jeff barnd, abc7 news. leon: tonight, a family trag

intersection. six months later action to prevent another. some, though, not convinced it will work. a local olympian reunited with his lost medal thanks to a 7-year-old with a gold medal heart. direct hit. we explain the sequence. a traveler's patience tested by 47-year layover. announcer: "abc7 news at 5:00". on your side. leon: 96 u,000 vehicles use the bridge on a summer did a and in the last hour maryland governor announced the state will spend four years studying whether there should be another way to drive across chesapeake by bay. brad bell has details on the breaking news for us. brad? brad: as we head to another labor day weekend people used to the backup have to be happy about this.

the existing bridge, a land mark. structurally it is expected to last another 50 years. but the problem is the traffic. it is growing tremendously. right now 96,000 cars as you said on a summer day pass across the bay bridge. expected to grow by 30% by 2040. too many cars for the roads leading up to the bridge and the bridge to handle. so the governor said it is time to fund with $5 million of preliminary environmental study. the question, where a bridge should go? how it would get along with the chesapeake bay? there is no question that one does need to be built. >> the reality is that there is simply too much traffic and that in the years to come it will continue to get