larry: no sign of escaped inmate david watson. a new word of warning what from the sheriff department familiar with how dangerous watson has been. the wizards get bowled over in beantown. what went wrong. more trouble on the track. metro dealing with smoke and a ton on the blue line as face ii -- phase ii of surge 14 kicks in. the news starts now now. >> abc 7 news at 6:30 on your site. kimberly: people took advantage of a beautiful day. a few severe weather warnings to our west it just pop up. josh

them. josh: for most of us, things are starting to quiet down, in line with what it was hoping. settling in for a more quiet evening. our storms are working their way from the southwest of the northeast. al right in line with stationary boundary set up across our area. few showerseft is a as we get closer to frederick, maryland and into western maryland to the south of hagerstown, hanging onto a few showers. for the rest of the evening, i am really expecting things to stay predominately dry. everybody looking at the southerly breeze as that warm air starts to move in, keeping temperatures in the mid-.80's 85 in orange and. -- warrenton. the warm air six around tonight and again tomorrow, another day in the 80's. from the 80's to around 71 at 4:00. 72 tomorrow morning. starting off a very mild.

evening, more thunderstorms can move through. some severe. more on the timing of that coming up. you can download the stormwatch 7 app and get severe weather alerts to your phone. it is available in the app store and at google play. kimberly: lots of flashing police lice this afternoon in arlington. police were called to an apartment in balston for a fight. when they got there, a man in a car try to back up into an officer's vehicle. that officer jumped out of the way. the driver sped away in officers chased him to columbia pike and walter reed where he hit a car and took off running. officers were able to arrest him. they say they do not believe he was connected to that apartment fight. developing now, nearly an entire weekend has come and gone of david watson. he escaped on friday outside a psychiatric hospital in

to explain why police are emphasizing just how dangerous he could be, because of his past. ryan: you will see he has that tattoo on the back of his neck that says evil. this is a guy who is accused of trying to murder officers. kimberly: one under his eye. ryan: police are making it known that watson is downright dangerous. law enforcement sources telling us he is a confirmed gang member and they are just only to get him back behind bars. as of this afternoon, there have of wasson.htings the ground search was called off. the 28-year-old is serving a sentence of 100 years for attempted murder and has been charged in maryland for trying to kill a police officer. says watson used a 12 gauge shotgun and fired into the homes of several deputies in. 2012 but watson was found incompetent to stand trial in maryland twice. on friday, he was on his way to

a psychiatric evaluation when he push the guard to the ground and ran into the woods. tonight the sheriff tells me he is closely monitoring the situation and warning his deputies. h a guy like him, um, mental statusi, he obviously feels he has nothing to loses. he's a very dangerous individual. we're taking every precaution we can down on the eastern shore. that lawre told enforcement sources have been notified all across the country. a massives still search and there is that $5,000 reward for information. kimberly: you worked there. what you think about the fact that they cannot find him? ryan: the sheriff says they have no idea to think that he could be there. tisit's a possibility for he has family in laurel, delaware. the county about a half an hour

it is a large area. he could be there. he could not. they are taking every precaution to kimberly: if you want another look at david watson all the photos police have shared with us, head to wjla.com. and you can be the first to know when there is a break in this case. sign up for text alerts. we have new information tonight about that apartment fire. and that commotion in southeast d.c. d.c. police say the woman taken away from the haley terrace apartments after catching fire was charged with arson and assault with a dangerous weapon. a fight over hair products between two transgender women slashed withtting a kitchen knife. she called 911. jeremiah litman barricaded herself inside and that is when police say she set the apartment on fire. an

the north korean peninsula. national security advisor mcmaster insist the u.s. will honor its agreement with south korea for a new missile defense system. the president said the south should pay the u.s. $1 billion for defending against missiles from the north. presiden>> what is a relationshp en the thaad, will b renegotiated as it is going to be with all of our allies because what the president said is, he will prioritize american citizen security and interestss. . kimberly: mcmaster said everything from more economic sanchez to military action is being considered to stop north korea's nuclear weapons program. the focus on day 101 is similar to the first 100 for the trump administration. repealing of replacing obamacare. still a priority. the president said a replacement bill not covering pre-existing conditions -- reports are false. presid

conditions are in the bill. i just watched another network than yours and they were saying it was not covered. version ofhe current the house bill would require insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions, but does allow for charging people higher rates. the other option would allow states to opt out of coverage guarantees if they met certain criteria. metro dealing with some tract problems. firefighters spent part of the afternoon investigating reports tunnele inside a between capitol heights and -- it close for an hour and reopened 5:00. ledger described the issue as a track problem outside addison road. firefighters believe an arcing insulator was the cause. for the third time in recent days, an insulator cost track problems between french of heights -- --

heights. arcing insulator and smoke in the tunnel were reported in the very same area yesterday. the next phase of safe track in today.icked now through may 14, there will be no service. bu shuttle service will be available between those stations. sphase one saw no rail service from greenbelt to prince george's plaza. coming up, catastrophic damage in several states after flooding and massive tornadoes. the vision today for so many, finding anyone who might be trapped. where's frank? it's league night! 'saved money on motorcycle insurance with geico! goin' up the country.

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chine, hethe swiss ma was preparing for a new route. reports are he foul ball acclimating for the upcoming climb. his family has asked for privacy and are not giving more details about his death. a technical issue delay space-x's satellite launch until tomorrow morning. there was a sensor issue which was going up for the national reconnaissance office. that agency service potential threats to the u.s. by tracking terrorists and monitoring the development of nuclear weapons elsewhere. devastation in the nation's midsection. a first look at the deadly damage after tornadoes hit and flood waters raced through. plus, dealing with a heat. now comes the rain.

ripping: wild weather across the country. ternium syntaxes texas and floodwaters submerging communities in the heartland -- texas.rnadoes in reporter: four people are dead and dozens injured when three es slammed the several towns east of dallas saturday night destroying homes and snapping trees on flipping over cars. abc's marci gonzalez spoke to some of the people hit hard by the devastation in texas. >> by the time we got the doors closed, we could hear the roar. >> god, there was stuff in the air. reporter: authorities near one of the twisters landed, touring the mayhem. >> affected areas,

it is heartbreaking. reporter: you see a tornado gutting this car dealership, flipping over pickup truck's like toys. ernestine driving out to see the damage. her son used to work here. >> i'm devastated. what could've happened to all these people that took care of us. my son could have been there. reporter: overnight, flooding from having rains sweeping across the midwest, leaving homes and cars completely underwater. heavy raina hail and pounding the state, rushing waters trapping customers inside this restaurant. >> there's people in there. reporter: this man barely making it up. . >> our biggest problem is people that do not believe is a threat. they try and cross it. reporter: in arkansas, crews searching for two children. the 18 month old girl and

a truck. their mother managed to escape. kimberly: severe weather time, right? spring. josh: for us, the mechanism is very different but dealing with the same effects, damaging wind gusts happening in parts of hampshire county and fairly in frederick county. fortunately, things are quiet now. kimberly: breezey but still warm. nice evening. if you're trying to eat on the deck, you might have some napkinsblowing away. things are nice and toasty. this boundary is set across the area and what that did is give us a jumping off point for some of our rain and thunderstorms and that is what happened in west virginia. then another storm that moves through parts of leesburg earlier today, just a couple of different severe warnings. one was a tornado

reports of hail and downed trees and power lines in this region. predominately drying out. a few light showers moving to parts of montgomery county at this point. overnight, partly cloudy skies, patchy fog part of the story for tomorrow morning. the biggest thing is going to be temperatures. we're still starting off in the upper 60's. a very mild morning. school, no problem. the issue is later in the evening. 6:30, some sun. things are dry throughout the majority of the day and then, as we get to after 2:00, stop -- some of it starts to pop up around 6:00. a lot of red and orange.these are likely to develop into some lines of thunderstorms and those will be packing the biggest punch, our best chance for damaging wind gusts. 7:00, that's moving to parts of warre

once again, it's a post dinnertime thing especially talking about the d.c. area. that line will latest you so much nicer weather as we head into tuesday and wednesday. so, monday evening is really going to be kind of the timeframe to watch the clo sest. you can see and that darker orange, the and has risk. part of our area, especially around d.c. and the west, part of a slight risk for severe weather. what we will watch for predominately will be those damaging wind gusts. heavy rainfall could come quickly. it does not list lost. -- last long. hail a slightly better chance. tomorrow temperatures go from the 70's to the low 80's. it is after that drive home we are dealing with that transfer starts. temperatures -- we are on that downward trend. if you have not enjoyed our ta

starting to feel more springlike. temperatures dip below average as we get into thursday and friday. the best days this week's going to be tuesday and wednesday. a little on the breezy side but it will be dry, and temperatures hanging in the 70's. kimberly: i see the d.c. united icon. they did well tonight. >> progress. their first road win. let's talk baseball. series finale at nationals park. the nats trying to enjoy a sweep of the mets. game one of the eastern conference semifinals. wizards and celtics. how it went down in boston.

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the wizards looking to get off to a good start in the series against the celtics. mission accomplished in the first quarter. washington came out guns blazin g. 16-0.zards led the wiz mounted a comeback. bogdonovic. the wizards only don't three -- down three. washington behind nine. al horford hits. the wizards drop game one 123-11. 1. game two is tuesday night in boston. >> our defense slipped a little bit. we gave up a lot of three. we made 19 threes today. that is way too many to give up. those chances of us winning that game as slim when that happens. >> really good driving and kicking out the threes.

initial action of them attacking us, watching live, i don't think there were a lot of contested thees. we have to make sure we clean that up going into the next game. scott: only one game. the washington capitals are in trouble. they dropped the first two thes at home versus pittsburgh penguins. now the series had north. washington fired 71 o shots on goal. pittsburgh only 45 shots. the penguins scored innine goals. not good, my friends. washington in a big hole. this team believes there is a long way to go in the series. >> we have veterans in the locker room. we're not giving up hope are getting frustrated. of 7.al is to win 4 out >>

games. we'll move forward. of course, it is -- tough. but we're looking for two it. >> this is something we will have to go through. i can tell you about this group, i have a lot of rust in thi -- trust in this group. they have responded all year. they will respond again. scott: they are going to respond. series finales between the nats and metro. the anthony rendon show. 7-5. one.n unloads the hits kept on coming in the fifth. bases loaded, rendon drives when the opposite way. high off the wall. rendon finished with a career-high 10 rbi's. the nationals blowout new york 23-5. d.c. united visiting atlanta. and the

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josh: things are going to quiet down this evening. by tomorrow evening is when another round of storms with moved through, some of them could be severe. the nicest days are tuesday and wednesday followed by a rainy end of the week. kimberly: we hope to see you back here at 11:00 tonight. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute,

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