stephen: right here in front of the metro station at 4:00. that is when the students from the area schools converge on this metro station. the people use it say sometimes that convergence can lead to violence. a young man on the ground bleeding profusely. witnesses rushed to help and ask questions. >> is it bad parenting? >> witnesses say the victim was standing outside the potomac avenue metro station and suddenly a group of juveniles attacked him. beating him viciously. one of them is alleged to inflicted a stab wound. rescue crew arrived in minutes and rushed him to a nearby hospital. >> i mean it is crazy. it's sad. it's like a lot of security is needed at all times out here. this is not really safe. >> some of those who use potomac avenue station says when the school lets out it gets dicey and

>> out of control. a bunch of bad stuff. >> police arrested one juvenile. but tonight they are on the lookout for two other juveniles believed to be linked to the beating and the stabbing. reporting live, stephen tschida, abc7 news. jonathan: now breaking news we are following closely. service returning to normal after tragedy on the tracks. a person killed by an amtrak train in lanham. marc and amtrak service brought to a standstill for three hours but resumed in the past 30 minutes. michelle: a man is dead, gunned down after gassing up his car a mile from the home. it happened overnight at an exxon on silver hill road not far from the census bureau. started when a gunman tried to rob a 27-year-old outside the station. the man fought back and the gunman opened fire. police are reviewing surveillance video but so

>> it's too early to know why an s.u.v. plowed in a group of people at a car auction in massachusetts. two women and a man killed. one of the victims was a mother of three on the first day at work. sufficient was in an auction lane when it accelerated instead of going up. nearly a dozen people are hospitalized as a result. michelle: just in tonight. stolen assault rifle found in a stolen car parked outside of a montgomery county high school. police say a student parked it there. police arrested 18-year-old mario alvarado. police say the rifle in the trunk had been stolen last week. a stolen police shotgun was found. 15-year-old also been charged in this case. jonath

alert looking for david watson after he escaped custody. he was serving 110-year-old prison term. brad bell is on the scene. they are closing in on guy now? brad: they are hoping they are closing in on him but until they have him in handcuffs they can't say for sure. this started today when someone who works in the industrial community spotted a guy that looked like watson wearing a hard hat and a vest. not unusual except he ran in the woods. the police were called. they chased. they didn't find a man but they found an area where they believe someone was sleeping. then they learned nearby a mile away a hard hat and a vest had been stolen. so they believe this was david watson. this escaped convict. the man serving more than 10 o years for attempting to kill police officers. the hope was he was still in the woods. they could surround him, catch him. they

helicopters up all day long. but as far as we know, no sign of david watson since that sighting this morning. he is still not back in handcuffs. but again, this morning somebody said they thought they saw him. wearing a hard hat and wearing a vest and running around this area next to the spot where he escaped last friday. in jessup, brad bell, abc7 news. jonathan: as long as watson is on the run we will share the picture on the facebook page. you can, too. go to wjla.com/text. michelle: the f.b.i. director james comey is back on the hill today addressing the f.b.i. investigation into russia meddling in the u.s. election. he also opened up about his decision to reopen the investigation into hillary clinton days before the presidential election.

we apologize. we don't have that sound. comey says his team discovered thousands of new clinton e-mails and ultimately decided to tell congress they would be reopening the investigation. he also called it one of the most painful decisions he has ever made. he says in hindsight he would make the same decision. >> the ultimate photo bomb. wasn't scheduled to be there but look behind her. trump crashing a white house school choice event. betsy devos was speaking for 30 seconds before realizing the president entered the room. michelle: surprise! fire from the sky caught on video. a plane, did you see? it tears through power lines and explodes into planes on a runway. many are calling this a miracle. jonathan: life saving split second decision that saved a young child's life. wait until you see body

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"abc7 news at 6:00". on your side. jonathan: this is must-see video. what you are looking at now, body camera from an officer out looking for two teenagers who were apparently getting trouble. he was going to make an arrest. instead he look around and one second he sees a small child standing by the pond. then he looks back in the direction. the child is gone. fell in the water. that is when the officer races to the edge. watch and listen to what happened next. >> hey! need help. call 911 for me. jonathan: now the man who the officer asked for help rushes over. takes a child from the struggling officer. this is muddy, slippery and very cold. the boy apparently slipped away from the parents frantically searching for him. he had autism. thanks to the officer's quick action that child is okay. michelle: great work. school bus burst into flames in kansas city. only a few minutes before this video.

fire. bus was filled with children. a man passing by helped the driver get all 33 kids to safetied as the bus filled with smoke. nobody was hurt. more life-saving action now. this time from a transit bus driver in milwaukee. on the route when she saw a girl wondering down the sidewalk. she realized something wasn't right. >> i'm a parent. so i knew that parent would let their children be outside in that weather. with a flip-flop and tennis shoe. no way. michelle: she was right about that. the driver brought the little girl on board the bus and called the police. it turns out the little girl was wading for her godmother who -- waiting for her godmother who promised to take her shopping for shoes. she was so excited she got up before the family and went to the bus stop to wait to meet her godmother. jonathan: picture worth a thousand words. show you this. the three teens hit the deck l

that is the barrel of the handgun. the homeowner is holding it. he took a picture of the teens. they thought about breaking in his home but didn't realize not only was he home, he was armed. he came out and told them to lay flat. took picture for evidence. he called the police. he had a picture of the officers arresting the three teens as well. michelle: still ahead at 6:00, cranes as far as the eye can see in the district. that construction is costing many something they bought but could never own. jonathan: fire from the sky. have you seen this? the plane clipping lines and exploding in front of the rush hour traffic. wait until you hear the story. what happened next and why they call it a miracle. ♪ hey allergy muddlers are you one sneeze away from being voted out of the carpool? try zyrtec® zyrtec® starts working hard at hour one

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michelle: stunning video of the crash. the engine dead, slams through a street light and rips down power lines. it explodes in a fire ball on a busy roadway. sparks fly and the flames fill the sky. amazingly the pilot and the passen

injury. jonathan: lucky day there. facebook says it will hire 3,000 employees to monitor and if necessary remove violent live streams and the video posts. this all does come after a series of the horrific incidents including last month's murder of a cleveland man and the killing of a child in thailand. facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg says the hires will be made in the next year. facebook says it has 4,500 people monitoring questionable content. michelle: trust betrayed in the anne arundel county where the officers arrested one of their own. he used the power to bully women into sex. detective is accused of coercing women in legal trouble to have sex to put in a good word. in addition to a half dozen criminal charges he has been suspended without pay. jonathan: well, secretary of state rex tillerson is trying to clarify the "america first" policy to state department workers. there is a lot of them. in the speech in foggy bottom he emphasized sometimes the policy and values can be

he recognized transition like this can be stressful. well calling it a chance to inspire and train future leaders. former president obama unveiled the design for the presidential center in chicago that will include a museum, forum and library. joined by the former first lady they announced a $2 million donation to help chicago at-risk youth. michelle: selling point for something you can't own. the promise of a room with a view in d.c. hot housing market. for many, that view is vanishing. d.c. bureau chief sam ford joins us live from southwest d.c. where the building boom is turning costly for some folks there. sam? >> the name of the building behind me is "the view" in southwest. which you can see with the construction cranes about to put up a building 30 feet away, well, the view is about to shrink a lot. development in southwest d.c. booming, reactions are mixed. >> a

it will be beautiful when it is all done. >> a city within a city. but how do you bring in all the people to the neighborhood? >> if high-rises and the wharf blocked her view of the city. the building next door replaced the church and will block the view of jefferson school. and the lawn where they used to have jazz festivals? >> it's now a high-rise. the lawn is gone. >> other neighbors put up signs. it was a play on words from the shakespeare theater that planned to put up a high-rise on the lot. you don't see people here totally opposed yet. >> it could

planned and better spread out. if someone was thinking more of the neighbors. >> we are across the street. i want you to see this used to be a traditional church building. you can see the crosses now. it is a church building and 107 condos that are selling according to this sheet here between $400,000 and $1 million. you can see everybody including church is cashing in, in the big boom here in southwest. reporting live from southwest washington, sam ford. abc7 news. jonathan: all right. thank you. michelle: unexpected shower has shut down the smithsonian's national museum of african-american american history. a sprinkler head burst overnight on the third floor soaking the floor. no exhibits were damaged. but the museum is still drying out. it's not clear when it will op

out as well. with the wind it is easier to do that. michelle: kind of killly out there. doug: it is. 50's to lower 60's. but sunshine. it's warm in the sun but it will change quickly. tomorrow and tomorrow night and friday heavy rain and thunderstorms. maybe one or two inches of rain. we need it. we are in a drought situation. this is time lapse of the weather camera. this is on the campus in sterling. 62 now. look at the sunrise. count it down. after 6:00. three. two. one. it is off. there it goes. be back in the same spot tomorrow. or close to it. i think so. plenty of sunshine. look how green it is. beautiful day. cool. 62 in sterling. around the rest of the region at 6:00, the temperatures are 59 in winchester. 64 in warrenton. baltimore at 65. to the mid-shore and eastbound, 64. 66 in quantico.

tonight is mostly clear and cool. gusty winds will diminish. later tonight it will drop off. by morning some of the outlying areas through the valleys and the mountain valleys especially north and west of washington. until we get to 7:00 or 8:00 when the elements converge on the area. moisture from the gulf and the atlantic and the result will be rain. check out the future cast. 9:00, the cloudiness increase from the west and the winds pick up from the east. breezy. but moist air flow that is coming in off the atlantic. feed in developing storms. southwest viewing area, 8:30 tomorrow night. rain. overnight ran and thunderstorms spreading across th

ever 0 for the low -- 60 for the low. we might get a break and then more thunderstorms in the afternoon. the key for this is the latest projections are we could get two inches or more over part of the irsia. in the thursday night to friday event. the next ten days. 68 tomorrow. the clouds increasing. scattered showers and cloudy. 63 on saturday. dry on sundays and 63. chilly monday and tuesday. finally with a couple of showers next week slow and the steady moderation of temperatures back to the 7 o-degree mark. jonathan: how about the wizards? they could have closed the door. robert: there is a lot of stress coming from the area right now. wizards had several chances in boston last night. scott brooks looks at the key to bounce back.

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robert: caps have breathing room after the overtime win over the pens. back tonight and the puck drops at 7:30. there is a lot of talk between the teams after the

crosby would leave the game. jay beagle says it's good playoff hockey. and that's how they play in the postseason. hard hits between the teams that don't like each other. but others disagree. >> if you think that is clean he is an idiot. >> he said if you think that is a clean hit, you're an idiot. >> ouch. i'm hurt deeply. if he wants to settle it we could play mario cards. he knows where to finds me. we'll take it there. robert: a classic game. well, they had several chances to steal one in boston but they are down 2-0 coming back to d.c. isaiah thomas lit them up for 53. they have to win both here. if you lose one back to boston down 3-is. you don't want to do that. scott r

bounce back at home. >> we feel confident playing in the home building. we are excited for tomorrow night. our guys are excited. playing in front of the crowd. we have had success here during the regular season. we had success in the playoffs. we have success in the playoffs and so we are excited about tomorrow night. robert: nats host diamondbacks. first pitch 7:05. zimmerman named player of the month for april. jonathan: congratulations to him. you said it best about the wizards. stop a guy 5'9" from scoring. 51 points. 5'9". robert: it's so easy to do that. jonathan: they are trees. >> send him a message. michelle: not with the elbow. robert: i didn't say "elbow." doug: steve is here at 11:00. robert: send a message. put mustard on it. michelle:

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