[captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] 7 news, this is a breaking news alert. lindsey: breaking news involving a 10 situation in howard county. police are searching for an inmate who escaped. q mccray is at the live desk with breaking details. >> the prisoner is a patient who escaped from a hospital. you are looking at the pictures. we know that the search continues for him in h

it is of a correctional institute or the prisoner was being held. he somehow escaped from clifton perkins hospital center. he got away and howard county police are pulling out all the stops trying to find him. they pulled over a big rig and searched it. ,fficers are suited and booted carrying high-powered rifles and searching vehicles. they say he got away in a wooded area near the hospital. this is the picture of the guy they are looking for. his name is david watson, 28 years old described as five feet eight inches tall and a hundred 40 pounds. he was last seen in the area of dorsey run road which is near the hospital in a very heavily what it

serving time for the attempted murder of several police officers. if you see him, call police. do not approach him. a breaking news situation and we will do best to bring you the latest details on the search throughout the day and this newscast. stay with us. back to you. lindsey: day 99 of 100 and on the hill, the house passed a spending deal to keep the government open for one week and it is up to the senate passed the short-term deal as lawmakers work to a final agreement on a $1 trillion package financing the government for the rest of the year. we are monitoring the situation. scott joins us live. what is the latest? >> a lot of moving

the house passed it one hour ago. .n overwhelming margin the senate taking it up as we speak. it looks like it will get through, which is good. it will go to the president. it does not solve the problem because some members have pointed out that we were all were two weeks and come back and could not get this done. we are kicking it down the road for one more week. they have to get something long term in place by the end of the fiscal year, end of september. a lot of work to do on capitol hill and no closer on seeing eye theye on the issues, like funding to build a wall and health care. lindsey: what are the chances the senate tackles this today and get something done? >> producers tell me the senate has put this through. it will be taken care of, as expected. no one was

capitol hill, just a matter of being frustrated. they said the senate has passed it and the house took it up one hour before hand. that is the point, waiting until the last second to get these things through. there is no longer panic. in 2013, we had a 16 day shutdown the cost taxpayers $2 billion according to the office of management and budget. they are no longer word. -- worried. can they get on the same page on the bigger items, like health care, like a border wall, if not, what is the long-term perspective? lindsey: we have one week. scott, thank you. is chairing a special meeting of the united nations security council. josh explains the purpose of the discussion today. with

military presence in the region and the trump administration calling north korea an urgent national security threat, the president tough talk towards kim jong-un went a step further in an interview with reuters thursday night. president trump: there is a major,we could have a major conflict with north korea. absolutely. >> rex tillerson said the same thing friday morning when he addressed the un security council. >> the united states cannot idly stand by, nor can other members of this council within striking distance of north korean missiles. >> the u.s. has moved an aircraft area group and a nuclear submarine, and now a missile defense system to south korea. it is a billion dollar system, phenomenal, the most incredibly quick that you have ever seen. >> the south koreans have no plans to pay for the system. the crepe administration is also ratcheting up

administration is praising the chinese president. hoping his country will do more to pressure north korea. i hope thent said president of north korea is rational, noting he took over at a young age thomas saying he is 27 years old, his father dies, he took over a regime, say what you want, but that is not easy, especially at that age. rex tillerson urge the un security council to act before north korea and who impose increased economic and diplomatic sanctions on the regime. weather.turning to the the heat is on and it will feel like summer for a day. doug hill is here. possible record-breaking heat? doug: record high tomorrow is 91 and we could break it or come close. live in

playing golf. either he or she is playing golf because they hurt our incredibly accurate forecasts or maybe called in sick. that would be a condition. 80 and mornington. mid-80's,imb to the well above average high of 70 and well above average through the evening and into the nighttime hours. 10:00 tonight, 74 degrees. plenty of sunshine. an area of showers and storms in nebraska through kansas and into sections of illinois. that will steadily pushed eastward and a few shower and thunderstorm chances overnight but nothing too slow west out tomorrow with possible record heat and sunshine. we will wrap up the rest of the weekend in 10 days -- and 10 days in nine minutes. lindsey: a group of middle school students are found sharing a xanax laced cocktail in a classroom. we are getting an idea of where the drug may have come from.

sterling. >> this is what authorities say doing, takingre liquefied synnex and using an eyedropper two-putted two water bottles. bottlest it into water which is getting some of them in trouble. 100 people attended a meeting at riverbend middle school to learn more about the drugs being taken at school. seven students sent home one week ago after discovering that discovered to be high. it was high school students who either sold or gave the drugs to the middle schoolers. similar incident at the high school last friday. parents are concerned about the drug use. >> it seems crazy that that would be happening. that the children will have access, that they would want to do anything like this. i do not think they understand what they are doing. it is pretty scary. >> the

sheriff's department is working with the commonwealth attorney to try to determine whether or not criminal charges will be filed. in sterling, suzanne kennedy. >> a tropical or as he maker -- a traffic alert, saturday night cruise will shut down a lane of southbound i-95 at navassa creek bridge in dale city, just south of potomac mills. while that goes on, express lanes pointing south. normally they would switch to northbound on saturday afternoon which could cause serious delays in both directions, saturday .ight and all day sunday lanes will reopen on monday at 6:00 a.m. business as usual in the metro on the rails this morning after hundreds of metro workers threatened to have a sickout. our transportation reporter has the details. >> friday morning metro commute for buses and trains looks like a typical morning at the the and a metro sta

this comes after metro says hundreds of workers had called out sick, saying they were not going to show up for work today. the largest union says there was never a plan sickout and metro officials received 500 west you have the day off. that requests to have a day off messages rise between the union and management. local 689 will continue protests against the metro new absenteeism policy request. required metro employees 72 hours for a sick days. employees can still call out sick, the policy is for appointments and can -- and they can still call in sick. back to the commute, it was typical for many metro riders. a shutdown on this section of the red line yesterday, today, much smoother sailing.

up, heart stopping moments when the tree goes down onto a busy highway, all caught on camera. a maryland college student dangling upside down after losing control of his car and flipping it. how when apple watch helped save his life. let's get a check on the roads. noon hour,very busy a lot going on around the capital beltway, clearing an interlude crash on chevy chase as you press connecticut avenue. , cannote in forest hill see it on the mat but pennsylvania avenue eastbound lanes blocked as you approach the busy intersection. on the live camera, eastbound and westbound lanes of 66, westbound on the right side, very heavy delays because of this collision after you pass

dealing with a beltway collision in prince george's county, lanes closed on the outer loop through landover as he passed 202 landover road.

>> you are watching abc 7 news at noon. on your side. lindsey: we continue to follow breaking news in howard county. the man they're looking for is on your right, an inmate who escaped. his name is david watson, a 28-year-old described as five foot eight inches tall, 140 pounds. if y

this is in howard county, the last area he was seen was dorsey run road, near the hospital. he escaped from the hospital. he was serving time for attempted murder of police officers. if you see him or know where he is, contact police immediately. we are back with must-see video from washington state. the moment when a tree fell on a busy highway. amazingly, the massive treat ms. most of the guards except for one, a previous that hit a -- prius, that hit a car, the woman expected to recover, experts a rotting wood caused the tree to double. a college student in maryland say his applewhite saved his life. that apple watch saved his life, he wrecked his car and it rolled over twice i

tend inside by the seatbelt. he turned to his watch. >> i was just dangling down and hanging out. i was trying to figure out if i could get out and i said i would have to hang out. i press down the side button for six seconds and it called 911. lindsey: the watch since a text to his emergency contact and his father rushed to the scene and rode with him to the hospital. .e only suffered minor injuries the united states postal service is releasing the new stamp, an image changing moon stamp that will commemorate the first u.s. visible solar eclipse since 1979. it is printed with a special ink that changes images when you touch it. it will be released on june 20 and the long-awaited eclipse will be visible august 21. you will have to travel, it will be seen

to south carolina. a lot of people are trying to make -- you included -- plans to go see it. doug: we found a place to rent for the family and will bring the whole family, a 20 minute drive for where the total darkness will be for a couple of minutes. i am excited. they say will be another one in 72 years but i will take a while guests that i probably will not see that when -- that one. lindsey: cryogenics. doug: this is exciting also, if you like summer weather, this will feel like the last weekend in june rather than the last weekend in april with temperatures at record heat or close to record heat tomorrow. a beautiful shot in laurel. a few fair weather clouds and sunshine. temperatures on the move. the pollen count, i told you this was coming, high tree pollen and high grass

and high mold spores. withis the time of year the sunshine and moisture, last week and come early this week so wet and cool. fortunately, no strong winds. temperatures staying warm, low to mid-80's. warm tonight and muggy. temperatures show that by the time we get through the evening, temperatures not dropping that much, 80's. after 6:00, a slow drop their the 70's. and storms inwers the midwest right now. ,n this warm and humid air mass probably survive the trip eastward over the mountains and into our area at 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning. if you hear thunder or rain, that is what it is from, the remnants of this system moving through the area, staying warm overnight, not below 70 in many areas for the low-end tomorrow during out quickly in the morning and warmed it up and maybe around the

91 is the forecast for d.c. which is the record high. lower-that is in other spots -- lower 90's in other spots. 89 tomorrow at bwi. we will see what happens. dulles and i 87 at think that will be broken. it will stay warm through sunday. tomorrow.nd 91 overnight showers and thunderstorms. tomorrow afternoon and evening, pop-up thunderstorms. a bit cooler on sunday, low-80's with a chance for more afternoon showers and storms and more showers and storms and gusty winds on monday at 83. uber tuesday, wednesday, thursday, and i've whole lot cooler into the next weekend. -- cooler tuesday, wednesday, thursday, and a full lot cooler into the next week and. -- next weekend. lindsey:

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lindsey: we continue to follow breaking news out of howard county. on your left is a live look at joseph prison. this man, david watson, 28 years old, last seen in an area near the hospital. he was being transported there by the skate. serving time -- but escaped. serving time for attempted murder, if you see him, call police and media late. -- call police immediately. doug: the nationals are back, first pitch come 82 and sunshine, very warm, perfect night at the ballpark, hot tomorrow, afternoon storms sunday and 84. lindsey: thank you for joining us and watch us at 4:00.

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