high-speed interstate highway. the head on collision was devastating. she lost her life. her infant child transported by hospital the hospital. we do not have the condition. it took hours for the person to be extricated. id required a go team that is typically a surgeon and a nurse that have to come out and provide surgical solution to entrapment. the investigation is just now beginning. we ared to it could take five hours. >> the only good news we have gotten in the last few minutes is they have been able to open up

at the crash scene. the bottom line is this area gridlock. every single major road, non-neighborhood street. the road and the avenues around town are all stopped. there is just no place to go. this is over the severn river, and route 50 is a mess. 450 is also tied up in this. this is going to be hours. alison: terrible crash. thank you. we are following this breaking news out of arlington where there has been an indent involving a police officer at i-395 and globe road. -- gleer road.

another is treated for injury to the leg. larry: right now a major mess in northwest. d.c. water working to fix a broken water main on arthur andersen boulevard at q mccray street. breaking news from prince george's county where an officer was found guilty of assault after hitting a suspect with the cruiser. nancy chen has dash cam video from the incident. >> this video in court is very dra it maic. we want you to know that the man hit was not hurt. the dash cam video showing him driving after the suspect and

hitting him with his cruiser. if jury found him guilty of second-degree assault. he will be sentenced in july and face ten years in prison. larry: thanks. this is from the newsroom as well. new video of the man police suspect of breaking into an apartment building and sexual assaulting a woman. this happened sunday may 7 in arlington. if you recognize the man please call police. >> this is taking hours. alison: 44 years ago today the senate started hearings on the watergate scandal involving president nixon. tonight members of the judiciary committee are asking for memos from former director comey and any white house recording of his conversations with president trump. we are

more. scott: the senate intelligence committee asking for information from the former director comey. there is a hearing for wednesday from jason chaffetz wants to say he wants james comey to testify in public. we don't know if that will happen. this is after bombshell in the media alleging there is more to look into. the president spoke about this today at a graduation ceremony for the coast guard. this is what he had to say. president trump: you can't let the critics and the naysayers get in the way of your dreams. the people understand what i'm topping. this is the most important thing. i didn't get elected to serve the washington media or special interests. i got elected to serve the

country. that is what i'm doing. >> we treat classified information with the appropriate respect and follow the rules. alison: this comes on the heels of the report that there is a memo that comey wrote after meeting with president trump in february. he alleges according to the reports that the president tried to get him to end the investigation into national security advisor michaelflip and whatever russian ties he may va had. we will dive into that at 6:00. in the meantime we want to hear from brad bell. >> is any of this eroding trump's support from the base voters? we have come to centreville that voted 2 to 1 this favor of trump

made about it. we are starting to hear people wonder who they can believe. >> most trump supporters are steadfast. >> give up a $1 billion -- he was a millionaire and gives it up. to get the country straight and everybody is down on him. >> i voted for trump. i think people should give him a chance. >> those who never liked the president still don't. >> i'm embarrass and scared for the country. >> most of the people we speak to in this small town tell us the pattern of claim and counterclaim has them questioning everything. >> we have too many viewpointers and we don't have reliable sources on anything. >> we may worry about how much rice is in the bowl.

people are questioning what they can believe. >> meanwhile, president trump was greeted by protesters in connecticut that stood outside the coast guard academy in new london as trump delivered the commencement speech. this is the first time he has spoken publicly since the latest round of allegations against him. >> senator thom tillis says he is doing fine after he collapsed running a race in d.c. he said he just overheated. another person had a heart attack and was flown to the hospital. alison: it wasn't too hot but the mercury rose fast throughout the day. doug hill is in the weather center. did we break any

>> we did. this is 95 in leesburg. 89 at reagan national. winds blowing across the water to lower the temperature. this is what we is so far. 91 at reagan national. this is tie for the baltimore a new record at washington dulles. later we'll have the official numbers and look ahead to the weekend and ten days in that forecast coming up in ten minutes. larry: see you then. a strong reaction from viewers that you saw last night showing how security guards treated a woman outside the hospital. she was a patient. i-team reporter scott taylor spoke to the hospital. what did they say about it? scott: it all went down right here.

sidewalk. they were not happy with what they saw on the video. this shows how the security guards treated a woman in a wheelchair yards from howard university hospital. guards wheeling the woman down the street and stopping. the woman tumbles out on the sidewalk. the guards ton and walk away. the people watching can't believe it. >> the hospital is now conducting an investigation. the spokesperson says what you see on the video doesn't follow normal procedures when discharging a patient. >> it's horrifying to see what happened to this particular patient.

i am very concerned about the patients and what happens to the community. >> the guards have been taken off the regular duties pending the outcome of the hospital investigation. what happened to the patient? a lot of you are asking that. we are trying to work that out and find details now. hopefully we will have it at 6:00. alison: thank you. we want to get back to the breaking story from the top of the newscast. water main break at mcarrest chur boulevard and q street. richard reeve joins us live. what is the situation now? >> you can see the water crews behind me. this takes out the middle of the road. this is a huge gaping place. there is the d.c. water folks across the street. you can see how the sidewalk actually buckled from this. this

noon. a 30-inch line. they don't know what happened. they know this metal line but they don't know what caused it. we want to bring you down here for a second. you can see the force of the water, the mud and the debris everywhere. if you pan up, you can see how the road buckles. toward the pickup truck. that is the force of the water. they are talking about a thousand gallons every minute. the water stopped but they have blocked off the road between the reservoir and fox hall. shut down completely. that is backed up fox hall a lot. but right now they are saying it may be an overnight repair operation to deal with the road repair. and the pipe repair. reporting life from northwest, richard reeve, abc7 news. >> as soon as i looked out, my first thought was it was

stream flooding again. larry: it wasn't the stream. what swallowed this car in ellicott city this morning? >> well, they are taking down the wizards after they no longer have a chance at the playoffs. and the wall, one that to,000 people voted about is about to go up. i'm sam ford. that story is next. on abc7 news. alison: then a little later, the fallout from the fight. just who was throwing some of the punches outside of an embassy? >> run in the house. i didn't think we'd make it. larry: but first, cleaning up from the storms in the face of potentially m

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larry: back now with a "7 on your side" health matter. the c.d.c. is warning tonight that some test for led poisoning may not be accurate. all four tests that used drawn blood may give results too low. it could take back to 2014. the c.d.c. says those that were tested that way may need to be retested. led exposure can cause serious long-term health problems. alison: for the second time in less than a year water rushed down the street of ellicott city but this time mother

q mccray shows us what happened. q: this is the scene that residents woke up to. water gushing down the street and a car swallowed by a sinkhole. >> sure enough. my car with heart rushing out. q: authorities got the call about the water main break at 3:30. by 7:30 her car was towed away. the water continued to rush down main street. the howard county bureau of the director compared the force to a straight train -- freight train. >> we are in the process to shut it down but we is to do it slowly so we don't break other. >> they can't help but reminisce about the flood on this street on august 1. the roar of the water unnerving to say the least. >> as soon as i looked out, my first thought was it was the stream was flooding again. so i pan niched. >> as the water

with the break, power crews made sure that the pole didn't tip over. >> closer look at the pole. we tilt up and you will notice how they are stabilizing it. the crews tell us they have the water main repaired by the evening but the road won't reopen until tomorrow. i'm q mccray, abc7 news. larry: well, they paid $1,700 to memorialized a loved one and now ocean says are asking those who bought the benches to fork over at $110 o to restore them. they can pay for cleaning, donating the bench to the city or taking it home. if the town can't reach the owner the bench will be removed and stored. >> we are on storm watch monitoring the aftermath after deadly tornadoes hit the plains. over night, more than 25 reported tornadoes touched down from texas to wisconsin. the storms are blamed for killing two people and damaging some 100 homes. dozens were hurt and the number is expected to rise even me

through. larry: feels like every week we are hitting a part of the country. >> reaching the peak of the severe weather system. it was in the texas, oklahoma panhandle and it has shiftedded north and iowa and nebraska is getting the worse of it. we will share it on radar in a minute. it's beautiful if you like the warm weather. we'll show you a time lapse at the earth and the space lab in frederick lab where it's 90 degrees. the sun was easeer to rise. it went wright up as it normally does. 91 now. the winds are away from the water. this is nice. nice for outdoor

the heat is widespread. back west. it's a little different story. we have another day, day and a half. to deal with influence of the high in the lat lan tick. we will watch it dissipate tomorrow. this is the area over iowa especially that is really under the gun. there are several active tornado warnings across southeastern section of iowa. we will keep an eye on that. from the system comes a cold front late friday afternoon. the forecast mainly clear skies.

feel of the early summer as well. by 8:00 we are in the mid-70's. the winds turn southwest. places like reagan national could be warmer tomorrow than today. the picture will change for friday. we'll have a better chance of showers and storms. on friday close to 9 o degrees. 819 the computer pick for the number at the reagan national airport. this is the view tomorrow morning. feel like the 70's but in the day it feels like the lower 9 o's in many locations. the scold front i explained to -- the cold front i explained to bring us storms friday. it's south of us on saturday. we have a different wind direction. it's closer

the average is up to 77 degrees. the race begins a it the preakness on 6:45. it will be comfortable. it's good for the horses and the jockeys with the temperatures not on the hot side at all. 93 followed by 89 saturday. a stronger cold front comes in and then through the middle of next week shower and the storm chances. 70's in the day and 60's at night. alison: not bad. thank you. still to come here. a campus divided. larry: find out why they could separate for two commencements this year. >> she had to be doing 70 miles per hour. she hit the hill and she was almost airborne. alison: but that is just the start of a

find out what the driver had under her shirt that had the police scratching their heads. larry: a great story. look at what is coming up tonight on abc. alison: and autria godfrey has a preview of "good morning washington." >> thank you, alison. tomorrow on "good morning washington," trouble keeps mounting for the trump white house. we get you up to speed on the latest jaw-dropping scandal breaks overnight. >> plus, freeze your fat to lose weight. is it worth it? >> stay with us for traffic and weather every ten minutes tomorrow morning starting at 4:25 on "good morning washington."

alison: yesterday marked five years since the father of the godfather of go-go. he has been memorialized with a park in the district since his death. there is spoke lace to land on the mural at the side of ben's chili bowl along u street in d.c. today the crews started to paint over john wall and bradley beal after the wizards lost in the playoffs. so we went to the d.c. landmark to find out what is next. >> chuck brown left us five years ago this week. today on ben's chili bowl wall the workers were busy taking down the washington wizards, the playoff hopes

making way for the long promise mural of the heroes. >> i got a hint. chuck brown will be on the while. >> she didn't say that officially. some 20,000 people voted who should be on the wall. >> he voted on the wall but he can't remember who. >> do you know who chuck brown is? >> let me think. >> they were googling. >> the godfather of go-go. >> that is right. >> do you know who the godfather of go-go is? >> no. >> chuck brown! >> [laughter]

place with figures on it for the end of the month. >> who is on the painting, virginia? >> you have to wait until the end of the month. >> he tried. he was persistent. still ahead, plenty of offices help pay for metro or parking if you drive to work. should people who walk or bike get the same benefit? >> why the turkish president bodyguard apparently is seen beating incident protesters may get away wit

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larry: back with an update on several breaking news stories we're following at this hour. a busy day. two lanes of eastbound route 50 reopening in the last few minutes after a deadly crash. investigators say 22-year-old laura murphy crossed the center line and hit another car head on. she was killed. a this-month-old infant in her car ising with treated now tonight.

stephen tschida has new information. stephen: condemnation all around today from the state department, the mayor, the chief of police over the bodyguards of the turkish president apparently assaulting peaceful demonstrators. we are also hearing how dim loy mattic immunity may protect the bodyguards from charges. the vicious assault on the protesters near the turkish embassy. >> my daughter is 7 years old. she was screaming. it was terrible. >> it came from the turkish president's tayyip erdogan's security detail. >> they were bodyguards. >> today the state department condemned the attack and sent the government a statement about the concerns. peter newsham weighed in about what his officers encountered when trying to contain the

violence. >> the police involvement was dicey. >> the district leaders condemn the incident. something some say is too common in turkey. >> this happens in turkey all the time. every day. >> the nine people injured in the attack were treat and released from the hospital. aside from the diplomatic immunity coming into play here, as far as the bodyguards, some of them anyway could already be back in turkey. reporting live, stephen tschida, abc7 news. alison: thank you. new information on the woman killed by m.p.d. we learned she is 41-year-old isabelle duval of winchester, virginia. they showed up for report of a car crash and they were met by duval holding a gun. >> after

she raised her arm with the weapon in it toward the officers. >> they were wearing body cameras. this is the second police involved shooting in d.c. this year. two dogs nearly strangled to death and the man responsible sentenced. the dash cam video shows the night in 2015. terrible video when police arrested james jones for seriously injuring the two little puppies. in court today jones said he bought weed that day. prosecutors believe he was on p.c.p. he was sentenced to six months in prison. the dogs are okay and now they are in good homes. larry: a soldier convicted of one of the biggest leaks of classified information in u.s. history is now free. chelsea manning was released from kansas military prison this morning and took to social media moments later posting a

caption "first steps of freedom." the transgender soldier formally known as bradley manning was convicted of releasing documents to wikileaks. he served seven years of-year sentence. barack obama granted manning clemency in his final days in office. alison: we are monitoring a developing story tonight on the anniversary of the landmark brown versus board of education decision when the u.s. supreme court declared state laws separating black and white students were unconstitutional. today 63 years later black students are organizing what they call a black commencement. they want to recognize achievement of the black students and faculty members that may have been overlooked. 700 students and guests are already scheduled to attend. >> our champion is pranay varada from texas! [applause] >> pranay varada beating out nine students to win the "national geographic bee" final. among the other nine finalists

they competed for the second year in the row. and a sixth grader made it to the finals in her first try. >> the duckals are a big draw -- ducklings are a big draw on capitol hill but at least unlocks says the infrastructure is -- at least one lawmaker says the infrastructure is misuse of funds. how one tweet generated a lot of quacking. >> it is troubling and tragic. >> that is the response from the university hospital after a patient was dumped to the sidewalk. only on 7. the explanation ahead at 6:00. today we're gonna be comparing the roll-formed steel bed of the chevy silverado to the aluminum bed of this competitor's truck. awesome. yeah! first, let's check out the aluminum bed of this truck. wooooow!! holy moly. full on crack here. now let's check out the steel bed of the silverado.

ct more dents. no holes. current qualified lessees can get this silverado all star edition for around $249 a month. plus, find your tag and get an additional $1,500 lease cash on select silverado pickups in stock. find new roads at your local chevy dealer. steve: the weekend is almost here. but before we get to the weekend, tomorrow is a sizzler. feels like temperatures make it to the lower 9 o's. drink plenty

to find shade if you will be outside for a long time. totally different air mass for the upcoming weekend. we are near 70 for a daytime high on saturday. by sunday we will be around 75 degrees. just slightly below average for this time of year. at least we cut the humidity way, way down. take a look at the skytrak7 live over the chesapeake bay. stay with us. you are watching "abc7 news at 5:00". back after this.

michelle: we live in a generation where people enjoy posting the best version of themselves for people to see and like on social media. a recent howard university graduate who graduated with honoring opened up to her followers about her struggles. she hopes it inspires another young person to strive for success. >> my ultimate career goal is to be a political strategist. >> a goal that a 2017 university graduate says once felt like a long shot. >> does it feel real to you? does it feel like a dream? >> it feels like a dream because i'm a first generation college student. michelle: there is more to her story. she shared the deeply personal sweet that starts out with the words "absolutely nothing about my life makes

a single mother. i discuss how my biological mother when she found out, she was pregnant with me, she didn't want me so she would try to sell me to the highest bidder. i decided to discuss my biological mother and discuss me having an older sister who was molested and she died as a result of her injuries. michelle: it took courage to put out a tweet like that. >> we live in a social media generation where we are posting and posting. i post fun things. i used to be the national spokesperson for boys and girls club. they would see me post with president obama or denzel washington but i wanted to people to know behind the success there is a story. if i can do it, you can succeed as well. >> at last check, her tweet had 800 retweets. she dedicates the post to young girls. >> my mother is my inspiration. my mother, she is the one who cultivated all the dreams. >> now that graduation is behind you, what is next for you? >> my goal is to

i'll be at madrid spain and i will study for the lsat apply for law school in the fall. michelle: she says it has been a busy four years for her that she was intern at the department of justice. she interned for maryland congressman steny hoyer's office and she worked on hillary clinton's presidential campaign so she is looking for time off before she leads off to law school. she is an impressive woman. alison: goodness. larry: done a lot in four years. great story. michelle: thank you. >> i am fully aware of the weirdness of the situation. >> we will tell you why a date at a movie theater landed a woman a date in court. >> do you bike or walk to work? how you could get money to offset the talks. we will outline details of a

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and opened today. seats are also used on the plaza. alison: okay. different. larry: yeah. alison: well, do you take metro? drive? bike? walk to work? well, one d.c. councilmember thinks you should get cash help from the employer no matter what the answer. transportation reporter brianne carter's that the ro posed benefit for using our own two legs. brianne: driving to work an get a portion of the parking paid for by the employer is what genre lies on every day -- john relies on every day. >> i come in earlied i would prefer to drive in. i have an emergency. it's easier to get home. >> it would require them to have the same benefit to get to work with the money to bike or walk. >> if the only thing give y

drive to work. but there may be other options to take the metro or ride bike. >> the bill is not only for the employees but relieves congestion. >> but it doesn't have the requirement that the benefits have to offer. if you offer a parking sub diddy now you have other interpretation as well. >> you have to go through the numbers. >> he offers a metro benefit. >> a good idea if someone is walking to work. >> a bizarre

viral. a lot of drinking and it involves a bearded dragon lizard. a woman went on a driving trip and she stumbled out of the car and the officers noticed something odd. >> a lizard. >> a lizard? >> a lizard. >> that's odd. >> i don't know why she would have a lizard under her shirt. >> she had a lizard stuffed inside her bra. a breath test revealed her blood alcohol content was twice the legal limit. the lizard is now in the custody of animal control. the stories he could tell. alison: the lizard? larry: yeah. alison: oh. okay. if you want to know those stories. larry: well, may help with the police report. at what point do you -- okay. alison: i don't think we want to know. well, listen to this next one. a texas man takes a woman out on a date. okay? instead of

made in heaven it turns out it's a match for the courtroom. brandon is suing the pa-year-old woman, his date, for $17.31. that is it. he says she needs to pay up because she texted in the movie they were seeing and she left him at the theater. take a look. >> it's principled action against a person who exhibited insulting behavior toward me and toward everyone else. alison: the woman says she ditched the date because his behavior made her uncomfortable. she asked her for the cost of the ticket but she said no. then the lawsuit happened. the two met by the way on a dating app. called bumble. [laughter] i'd love to see if that lawsuit goes anywhere. larry: yeah. yeah.

larry: remember when the daredevil nick walked across niagara falls on a tightrope? his wife can do one better. erin plans to dangle by her teeth from a helicopter as it flies over the falls. this is planned for next month on the fifth anniversary of her husband's walk. alison: can you top that? doug: no. i can't. i'm not even going to try. today was time for josh knight from the abc7 weather team to visit the school in arlington for a lunchbox weather program. while inside he shares the weather experiment to answer questions, talk about the

one of the most popular things is the tornado machine that simulates development of the tornado. the kids have questions. took them outside to see the stormwatch7. >> we have a question -- >> do people ever tease us about getting the weather wrong? how much time do i have here? all the time! the thing is that even our wives and the husbands and the mothers, friends, you name it. it comes with the territory and this job. 99% of the time it's friendly questions and friendly remarks of every now and then someone is really mad. helps to be 6'1". alison: social media must have really increased that more. doug: yeah. a lot of it was anonymous. whatever. part of the

we report it the best we can. that's it. you have to have thick skin. alison: you do really well. we do our best. thank you, doug. wizards' season might be over but there were positives. it all starts at the top. larry: yeah. robert burton now has the latest on that. robert: certainly starts at the top. it was the year that wasn't expected. the odds were against scott brooks when he took the head coaching job with the wizards. one win away from the eastern conference finals. not bad. that is why he is our coach of the week. >> for scott brooks one full year in books as the wizards head coach. so far he is off to a good start in d.c. one game away from the eastern conference finals. not too shabby considering how the season started out. >> i was hired and going in the season with nine new players and john coming off two knee surgeries and h

at that mountain, took a minute to get adjusted to one another. robert: but they did. the players bought in. they definitely improved. >> your judge the job as a coach based on wins. he had a lot of wins. we went to the second round. >> go out there and play, play with confidence. have the confidence. >> the two stars john wall and bradley beal have no complaints. >> he gave us encourage. and to us we could compete and do anything. made us a better defensive team. >> i love him. he gave everybody confidence and freedom. on both ends of the floor, especially offense. at the same tame he knows when to have fun and be serious. >> i get to live in a special place in the world that i love and the players love it. >> the off-season there is always work to be done. >> well, football, the news coming out about tom brady via his wife. she was a guest on "this morning" and say tom suffered

brady had a concussion last season. according to david p. woods of "the score" he hasn't been listed on the injury report with a concussion for four years so that means he has been playing with it. brady hasn't missed a game due to injury since 2008. so, there is no doubt this guy is a tough guy. shouldn't be playing with a concussion if it's true. we don't know if giselle saw the injury report or knew it was a concussion anyway. alison: there is a protocol, right? robert: definitely. you have to sit out. larry: well, her husband. she would know the difference in the behavior. robert: absolutely. she wants tom to have fun in the later years. larry: sure. robert: this is the story. alison: all right. thank you. well, back at home. you know the duck ramps that are popping up on capitol hill? it turns out not everyone is pleased about this. larry: why it is making big waves at the reflecting pool

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alison: while some of you are worried about cicadas people in london have their own insect problem. a swarm of bees and wasps passing through the southeast part of the city in amazing numbers. some people marvel at the scene, others were trying to get away and out of the bees' way. pedestrians crossing the road are being told to approach with caution. larry? jonathan: looks like a movie scene. larry: there are issues that congress can argue about. you probably don't expect ducks to be one of them. as mike carter-conneen reports at least one lawmaker is drying foul over new duck infrastructure on capitol hill. mike: they go wild over the ducks on the capitol reflecting pool. >> i like to bring the kids to see the animals. like the circle of life. >> between the pictures of the capitol and the ducks they are snapping photos of the duck ramps that were suggested by the d.c. group city wildlife because the ducklings

climb over the pool's edge. >> if they can't out of the water they can die of starvation or drown from exhaustion. nobody wants that to happen. mike: either they don't understand oh they work or they don't want to get close to the groups of school children but the ducklings don't seem to use the new ramp. is this a new bridge to nowhere? >> it's sad. the ducks are swimming away from it. silly. >> to be fair, they are fairly new and the video proves the ducklings have used them at least once. >> it takes wildlife a bit of time to get used to new things. >> meanwhile on twitter, north carolina congressman ruffled feathers criticizing the infrastructure spending. if it looks like a duck and walks like a duck it must be government waste. he might be kidding but that one sweet generated a lot of quak -- quacking. >> lighten up and have fun. >> it's unclear how much they

cost. >> they waste money on everything else. many don't care. >> leave the ducks alone. >> #leaveducksalone. mike: on capitol hill, mike carter-conneen, abc7 news. >> breaking at 6:00, police open fire on 395. a person critically hurt and what we learned leading up for it. >> calms for impeachment and calls for calm and the breaking news rounding the white house. >> also breaking now a devastating crash. major roadway had to be shut down for hours. how this happened right now at 6:00. announcer: from abc7, this is a breaking news alert. michelle: we begin with breaking news from arlington where there has been a police involved shooting. this is at 395 and gleeb. a suspect struck an arlington county police officer. officer fired. >> the officer exited the vehicle. the suspect struck one of the officer. the officer has been transported

serious condition. the officer then produced the firearm, fired at the vehicle. the suspect is shot and transported to the hospital in life threatening conditions. >> no question surrounding this. no word on what the police officers responded to. we are looking at a live picture at the scene. this is all near the best western hotel in arlington if you are familiar with the area. we of course will continue to monitor the breaking news. >> also developing this afternoon, new video showing why a prince george's county police officer was convicted of assault. watch this. this is tough to see. one officer is chasing this guy on food. the other officer in the car slams into him. that is officer juan hernandez chasing that man down. amazingly the guy wasn't hurt. officer hernandez will be sentenced in july. he does face up to ten years in prison. also breaking a lot of news going on this afternoon. eastbound 50 starting to reopen in arnold. there is an aftermath of a