committee's investigation. this is a live look inside the white house as we await president trump to speak. we have it all. reporter: there has been bipartisan praise for appointment of the special counsel with one notable exception. president trump tweeting eight's the singest greatest -- tweeting it's the single greatest witch hunt of a politician in history. defending his white house in the face of the announcement from the department of justice. the appointability of robert muler to take over the investigation into russian meddling and possible collusion with the trump campaign. over on capitol hill. >> if the president has nothing to hide than he and the republicans in congress should welcome independent investigation to remove all doubt of a cover-up. reporter: early and consistent praise for the decision coming from both sides of the aisle. >> this is an investigation involving russia,

another country interfering with our elections. the intelligence committee is the best place for that. reporter: even those against a special counsel still like the choice. >> i don't think appointing a special counsel was necessary but if one was going to be appointed i think bob mueller is an excellent choice. reporter: the man who picked mueller, rod rosestein briefing senators behind closed doors today on his decision to appointment the special counsel and the role of the firing in james comey. >> it was a counterintelligence investigation before now. it seems to be now a kremlin investigation. >> in a lunch today with network anchors president trump said the special counsel hurts our country terribly calling the entire investigation a pure excuse by democrats having lost the election. jonathan: the instapoll is active now. what do you think of the finite -- appointment of a special prosecutor. is

right move? we have joined by brad garrett. it's good to get your appointments on these things. your impression of mueller's appointment? >> i can't think of anybody better to pick than bob mueller. think of his experience. 13 years as the f.b.i. director. long-term federal prosecutor, u.s. attorney in two districts. he knows the f.b.i. he knows the prosecution and the judicial system. he knows politics. but he is a straight shooter. it's a unique combination in somebody. great pick in my view. jonathan: i have heard a lot of people talk about a special prosecutor. be careful what you wish for. the net that will go out on the case will be big. i could include everybody. democrat, republican, it doesn't matter. anyone with contact with the russians will find out what the contact was and what it entails. what do you think will map with the investigation? what is your best guess? >> my best guest is mueller will get to the bottom of whatever this is. now, inea

anything? that is the other possibility. conversations they would like to figure out if they were truthful or accurate or not, there may not be a tape of them. this case will take months and maybe a year or two before you get some real answers. jonathan: talk about the best case/worst case. worst case scenario we are talking about collusion and votes stuffed in boxes. best case it's just propaganda that went out there and influenced people's decision at the ballot box. does that sum it up? >> maybe. did money get exchanged? were there promises made? if i get elected you'll get "x"? it will look at those things. it goes beyond to you help me get elected. now what can you do for me? it could be a quid pro quo situation. who knows? i'm guessing, of course. those are things you are looking for. jonathan: timeline. quick answer what do you guess? >> a year to two years. jonathan: wow! brad, thank you for that. appreciate it. whatou

life fixture now. we are waiting for president and the president of columbia to come out. they are doing a joint best conference. we are waiting for the q&a to take place after they make the initial comments. when that happens we'll take it live. moving on. republican congressman jason chaffetz the chair of the house oversight committee says he will resign before the end of his term. he earlier said he wouldn't seek re-election in 2018. he recently subpoenaed james comey's home mow and invited -- comey's memo and invited the f.b.i. director to testify next week so now it's not clear who will lead the committee. nancy: eye catching cover of the "time" that is depicting the white house of a russian makeover. the cover comes amid escalating controversy over the trump administration relationship with russia. this isn't new. in the opening month of trump's presidency, "time" rolled out a series of politically focused covers featuring the 45th president

in a critical light. there is a lot to keep track of. don't niss updates on the cotial and the f.b.i. investigations into the president's campaign and michael flynn as well as potential ties to russia. go to wjla.com/text. >> i haven't been to war but you saw the debris. i saw the car flip over and leave the ground. i'm in a convertible with the top down. >> you can see the tears in his eyes. recount of what happened yesterday. he survived this yash on route 50. it looked like a bomb torn the cars apart. brad bell has more from the man that walked away from the crash. that is him. brad: tony knows he nearly died yesterday. >> i'm grateful is that i am still here. yesterday afternoon he was heading east on route 50 and

enjoying a drive in the convertible from the home in bowie to cambridge. literally in the blink of an eye, everything changed. >> i looked over and in a blur i could see a car coming the opposite direction. as soon as i looked, i saw it make contact. >> slammed into stanley's before it came to a rest. the cow killed the wrongway driver. 22-year-old laura ashley murphy and the man she hit head on. murphy's 14-month-old baby max survived. according to sources is recovering. what stanley and the police are trying to figure out now is why did the crash happen at all. >> it was crazy. it was

>> the big question is why was she driving that way? live. on bush's frontage road here next to route 50. if you look left you can see how you could end up in the wrong direction on route 50. we are now being told this is where in fact a young woman did start driving in the wrong direction. so many questions. why. why did she continue on for nearly two miles? when we come back at 5:00, we will new 911 tapes. to shed light on what happened here. you will hear from rescuers. it was tough for them. nancy: also new at 4:00, 80% spike of the sexual harassment at the anne arundel county schools. 214 this school year compared to 118 from

we have asked more information from the incidents. when we get the information we'll have an update. covering metro now. alison: we are nearing the end of metro's safetrack program. it isn't xed to end june 25, surge 16 on the red line. it begins june 17. bus bridges will fill the gap. metro says it will have completed three years of traffic work in one year when they are finished. this is a day you want to find shade. the summer preview continues. heat and humidity. with that comes a chance of pop-up storms. doug hill has more. doug: we have a pop-up thunderstorms. that is the theme throughhe

most of them are watch of the metro. if you look at the computer model guidance it suggests that some will continue eastward to the metro area. maybe 8:00 8:30, 9:00. in if forecast we had warm and humid and better chance of the widespread thunderstorms storm. good eye on things. it will be muggy tonight and warm, too. 90's west and northwest of metro. 86 at reagan national. 80 at kwan i can toe -- 80 at quin tyco. the hourly forecast keeps it warm and muggy with the showers and the thunderstorms isolated. hold in low 7 o's overnight. warm night. one more hot and humid day to go. big changes in the weekend. that's in ten minutes. >> thank you. we have breaking news out of new york city. this right here. chaotic scene in times square. a car running right into a crowd there, killing one person and inquiring several

others. -- injuring several others. michelle marsh is monitoring this. michelle: the driver appeared to be intoxicated when he drove the wrong way, jumped the curve and nowed down 23 people. one died and 22 others are treated. many have seriouses. police are calling it an accident. witnesses describe it as pandemonium. a couple of hours ago they identified the driver and richard rojas, a 26-year-old naver i have veteran. he tried to run from the scene was he was tackled by a traffic agent. he is in custody and undergoing tests to determine if he had drugs or alcohol in his system. they do not suspect a link to terrorism based on the information they have so far. if any new information comes in about how this unfolded we'll have an jut. in the satellite center, i'm michelle marsh. nancy: thank you. we want to take you live

the white house where president trump is holding a news conference with the colombian counterpart president juan santos. if they hold a question and answer session with reporters we will listen in. if he addresses the investigation and the special council appointed. we will -- special counsel pointed. we will bring it to you. jonathan: a popular swim coast mugged and paralyzed from the race down. determined to walk again. but bureau chief sam ford reports that the coach lapsed yesterday. this -- the coach suddenly collapsed yesterday. this is heartbreaking. sam: this is a heartbreaking story. popular coach at the rumsy pool on capitol hill. he lived here on the forest hill apartment over here. he was walking past the united medical center on the d.c. side. family members said he was walking home from the store in the wee hours of april

two men jumped him on the sidewalk. he fought back until they shot him once in the back paralyzing him. they went through his pockets and they found nothing and fled. this happened in front of the united medical center across from his home. emergency personnel responded quickly. five weeks later family members he was doing well in rehabilitation and suddenly yesterday hi collapsed and died. >> i hate to sound sellish. that was my baby boy. a good guy. of all the people on the earth to leave the earth early why did my son -- he didn't bother nobody. he didn't bother anybody. this hurts. sam: police have made no

including the kids who loved him. we will hear more about his fiancée who tried to save his life when he collapsed yesterday. reporting live from southeast washington i'm sam ford, abc7 news. [gunfire] >> two shots fired! this is unbelievable. coming up next at 4:00, the traffic stop that goes wrong. and the split second reaction may have saved the officer's life. >> in europe it costs a tuition but in maryland it's free. the difference of cost if you need a life-saving flight. alison: and look carefully. did you see that? former president. and his attempt at a photo bomb on national tv of. that is just ahead.

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jonathan: this may be hard to watch. >> two shots fired. jonathan: the deputy made a courtesy traffic stop to see if the driver in the survivor needed assistance. the man got out of the s.u.v. with

tried to knock him in the head. as the officer was going down he drew his pistol and shot a guy in the shoulder. literally in a split second. you can see the driver in the red shirt now on the ground. the driver is facing first-degree assault charges. lucky the officer reacted quickly. alison: wow! unbelievable video. the man who operated the amtrak train that went off the rails two years ago is now in police custody. brandon bostian turned himself in, in philadelphia after he was charged with involuntary manslaughter. in may 2015 the train was headed to new york from d.c. going 106 miles per hour on a 50-mile-per-hour curve and crashed in philly. eight people died in the accidented. 200 more were injured. alison: the former chairman of fox news roger ailes passed away. nancy: we learned he fell last week hitting his head and never recovered from it. he started fox news almost

built it not to just a cable news rating leader but profound influence on the right wing of american politics. ailes resigned last july amid several sexual harassment allegations against him which he denied. update now on the death of rock star chris cornell. soundgarden's lead singer hanged himself in detroit. he was 52 years old. he was one of the leader voice of the 1990's grunge movement. in 2001 he joined audio slave that broke up in 2007. jonathan: it happens every may, not just the preakness but questions if it will stay at pimlico. deteriorating conditions at the track surrounding it has someone wondering if the second crown will move. we go to baltimore. >> because of the aging track there is buzz about whether preakness may be moved to laurel or elsewhere. >> no one wants to see it leave the state. it's an

it has been here for so long. >> they are committed to keep preakness at pimlico but it would require a strong partnership with a price tag of $350 million. >> i love picklyco and i love the hisser -- i love picklyco and i have been to the preakness. but it's 11 days of the year. >> they are focused on the big weekend and they are hoping for a turnout as many as 40,000 for black eyed susan day on friday and the big day on saturday, perhaps as many as 13 o,000 fans. president trump: i respect the move but the entire thing has been a witch hunt. there is no collusion between myself and my campaign but i can always speak for myself and the russians. zero. i think it divides the country. i think we have a very divided country because of that and many other

so i can tell you that we want to bring this great country of ours together, john. i will also say strongly we have had tremendous success. you look at the job numbers and you look at what is going on. as we discussed before. you look at what will be happening. we'll incredible numbers with respect to the success of general mattis and others with the isis situation. the numbers are staggering how successful they have been, the military has been. tomorrow as you know i'm going to saudi arabia, i'm going to israel. i'm going to rome. we have the g7. a lot of great things going on. i hate to see anything that divides. i'm fine with whatever people want to do. we have to get back to running the country really, really, really well. we have made tremendous progress in 100 some odd days. tremendous progress. you see the job numbers and the production starting. the plants

i am proud of it. that is what i want to focus on. believe me, there is no collusion. russia is fine. but whether it's russia or anybody else, my total priority believe me is the united states of america. >> president trump and president santos, can we say that today we are setting a new road map in the relationship between colombia and the united states which are the commitments? you were talking about the con flict. many deaths, human rights violations.

there is plenty to be done. >> a very serious problem. we haven't really seen a problem like that mr. president in decades. in terms of the kind of violence we are witnessing -- jonathan: president trump is hosting the president of colombia and the joint press conference. we were waiting for the q&a to take place. out of the gate the president addressed issue with russia and the special council that has been assigned saying it is distracting from the work that needs to be done in the united states. the concil will get to bottom of that. it could take months or years. we have more on the press conference after they wrap it up. but talk about what all of us felt today when we walk outside. nancy: the heat. jonathan: sponge effect. doug: pretty much. washington, d.c. downtown got a break. wind direction blowing across the

mid-to-upper 80's in washington. it's a little break we got. humidity is not so much. we didn't get that break. but look at this. 86. 93 in frederick and 93 in culpeper. 91 in hagerstown. if you look at winchester what is up with that? 79 degrees. this is adding to the moisture in the air. the heat index are 94 in leesburg. 91 in baltimore. 93 fredericksburg. the direction of the wind, this time of year is so key because the water temperature mainly in the upper 60's right now. the air cools off quickly when it flows over the water. more in the summer not a profound effect. heavy rain near brunswick in maryland. that will cross over the north to washington county there. could be more trying to take shape. overall c

thunderstorms. they are not organized, not in line. we could see more coming through the next few hours. keep it in the forecast. it's going to remain warm and muggy overnight. back near 90. chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon with a cold fronted. cooler over the weekend. morning showers. high of 73. is a peek of sunshine in the afternoon. the cloudiness with the peeks of sunshine coming through. we will see the temperatures drop from 89 to 90. monday hitting 78. clearing and 78 on tuesday. through the balance of the work week next week we will see the temperatures in the low to mid-70's. chance of storm on wednesday. looking to the

weekend sunshine and 80. only if that holds true. stay with us. "abc7 news at 4:00" continues after this. >> this major mess could lead to commuting chaos if you are heading in or out of the district. we tell you how long it is expected to last coming up. "tom went to washington to take on the insurance companies and the credit card companies and the wall street banks... that's what tom perriello is about." progressive causes have been my life's work. i'm tom perriello... and before and after congress i led non-profits to battle climate change, poverty and president bush's attacks on civil rights. now i'm running for governor to reduce economic inequality. because together, we really can build a virginia that works for everyone.

as you look back over the past six months or year, have you had any recollection where you wonder if anything you have done has been something that might be worthy of criminal charges in the investigations or impeachment as some on the left are implying? president trump: it's totally ridiculous. everybody thinks so. we have to get back to working the country properly and take care of the problems we have. we have plenty of problems. we have done a fantastic job. we have a tremendous group of people. millions of people out there looking at what you had just said. and said what are they doing? director comey was very unpopular with most people. i actually thought when i made that decision and i got a very, very strong recommendation as you know from the deputy attorney general. rod rosenstein. when

actually thought it would be a bipartisan decision. because you look at all the people on the democratic side, not only the republican side that was saying such terrible things about director comey. then he had a poor performance on wednesday. that was a poor, poor performance. so poor, in fact, i believe and you'd have to ask him -- i don't like to speak for other people -- but i believe that is why the deputy attorney general went out and wrote his very, very strong letter. on top of that after the wednesday performance by director comey you had a person come and have to readjust the record. which many people have never seen before. because they were mistatements made. i thought it was terrible. we need a great director of the f.b.i. i cherish the f.b.i. it's special. all over the world. no mte

the f.b.i. has not had that special reputation with what happened in the campaign. what happened with respect to the clinton campaign and even you could say directly or indirectly with respect to the much more successful trump campaign. we are going to have a director who is going to be outstanding. i'll be announcing that director very soon. i look forward to doing it. the people in the f.b.i. will be very, very thrilled. concluding we look forward to getting this whole situation behind us so when we go for the jobs, go for the strong military. when we go for all of the things that we have been pushing so hard and successfully including healthcare, because obamacare is collapsing. it's dead. it's gone. there is nothing to compare anything to because we don't have healthcare in the country. aetny p

other insurance companies are pulling out. we don't have healthcare. obamacare is a fallacy. it's gone. we need healthcare. we need to cut taxes. we'll cut taxes. if i get what i want it will be the biggest tax cut in the history of our nation. that's what i want. it will bring back companies. it will bring back jobs. we lost so many jobs and so many companies to countries that are not so far from you, mr. president. they are very close to you, actually. and to many other places throughout the world. we will change that. we will have expansion. look at michigan and ohio and the number of jobs announced in different fields. that is what we want to focus our energy on. there was no collusion. everybody, even my enemies have said there is no collusion. so we want to get bac

keep on the track we are on. the track we are on is record-setting. that is what we want to do. we want to break positive records. thank you. nancy: that was president trump answering a question asked by our chief political correspondent scott thuman. scott was asking about the russian investigation as well as the special counsel appointed happening right now. so that is something we will follow to bring you the latest on throughout the day. meantime crews are out in full force fixing a major roadway. still shut down because of a massive water main break at macarthur and q street. brianne carter shows us that this one may take a while. >> heading anywhere near macarthur in the district? you are likely facing serious traffic delays. this is the culprit. take a look here at the major hole along macarthur boulevard that still sits after the massive water main break. ey

be this way until friday. you can see that the crews are working hard to get repairs done as soon as possible. traffic disruptions are expected to continue through the rush hour friday morning. officials say it was a pipe that was more than 150 years old that ruptured on wednesday. the pipe was installed in 1860 before the civil war. the cause of the break, well, said to be just that old age and likely mother nature as well. now here is what we know about the closures in the area. it's between q and elliott along macarthur boulevard but that means that the surrounding roads are picking up the traffic. so you should expect slowdowns along fox hall road if that is part of your commute as well. d.c. water officials telling us that they expect the delays will not only continue through this evening but

they expect a friday morning rush to be impacted. brianne carter, abc7 news. nancy: next at 4:00, you might never need one. but if you do there is a huge differentiation in the cost for riding one. we dig in cost of the life saving flights. >> take cameras, a laptop and police have a way to catch bad guys but there are privacy concerns. we'll explain in a live report coming up. alison: new at 5:00, weeks after the tunnel collapse at a nuclear facility what the workers there say we should all be more concerned about. we have that story when i join you back tonight at 5:00.

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>> president trump says the appointment of the special council to oversee the investigation of russia in the interference of the 2016 election, "hurts our country terribly." we want to know what you think. the abc7 instapoll right now is active. 14% agree with the president saying it's a witch hunt. 86% say it is the right move. michelle: update now to a story that abc7 has been following for 24 hours. arlington police shot a driver who truck an officer with his pickup truck in a traffic stop. jonathan: this all happened on

just about this time yesterday. michelle: richard reeve is live to explain what the police used to pull him over in the first place. rich? richard: the technology is the automated license plate reader. they have a super fast digital camera. they attach it to a laptop to identify and the find suspects. they did that yesterday here when they had a shootout in arlington. but is there are privacy concerns. it was a violent ending to an alert. police opening fire after a fleeing suspect pins an officer against a car. authorities alerted by one of these. >> an alert from a license plate reader that advised a suspect traveling on i-395 was wanted. richard: the suspect was wanted on outstanding drug warrant. he died from the wounds. caught in a general police sweep using an automated license plate reader, a.l.p.r. for short. a device attached to a

can take thousands of images and convert to store them in a database. >> it assists to us check license plates as they come in. the reader does not capture any personal data. >> the aclu filed legal challenge. the group says it is not concerned with the technology itself but the idea of storing the data for long period and sharing the intel among police agencies. >> we are deeply concern about the privacy rights of the ordinary citizens. the alpr cap moors the information. richard: they say they keep the information private and the data is rolled over every 60 days but the aclu says it will press on. in a case against fairfax county they are due in court tomorrow. michelle: thanks. ahead at "abc7 news at 4:00" -- rescue crews across maryland unlike any other. how they are able

emergencies. and the patients don't pay a dime. kidd: good afternoon. i'm kidd o'shea. i just got done watching a sneak peek of tonight's "scandal." i will share it with you up next. it gave me chills. will it do the same for you? "abc7 news at 4:00" continues.

michelle: a "7 on your side" consumer alert. mortgage rates appears to stabilize. the average 30-year rate barely inched down. 4.02%. last year the same loan would have come in with an interest rate nearly half a percent lower. nancy: those signing up for unemployment insurance fell. it's the longest streak in 1970. next at 4:00, no exercise or diet and you will still lose weight. applause all around for that. does it sound too good to be true? the supposed solution. we have asking is it worth it? jonathan: but first, rescue program in maryland that truly is one of a kind.

>> there is no owe program like hours. >> after an abc7 report showed you surprise medevac bills we take you behind the scenes of

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jonathan: the golden hour a popular saying in medical circles. nancy: it harkens back to vietnam war era where helicopters rushed most wounded to trauma centers. michelle: and maryland continues to replicate the model. amongst the nume raus benefits and the cost should you need a ride. >> there is no other program exactly like ours. >> for 47 years. >> march 19, 197 o was the first medevac. >> maryland state police used state owned helicopters to whisk critically injured patients to trauma centers. >> the cockpit of the aircraft. >> sergeant adam davies works at i have aiation command washington on jointed base andrew -- aviation command washington on joint base andrews. this is one of seven hangars across maryland housing the $12 million flying hospitals. >> the majority o

is a lot of the car crashes, the accident scenes. we also do shootings, stabbings. we fly heart attack patients, stroke patients. >> $47,000. >> it's going to cripple us financially. >> it's stressful worrying about it. >> i don't have the money to give them. >> last year, abc7 called attention to the exorbitant cost of private medevacs in states like virginia and pennsylvania. we found in some cases a short yet critical chopper ride can strap paints with a bill of up to $55,000. often barely covered by insurance. >> it rotates out. >> however, a ride in a maryland state police chopper is free for all patients. the aviation unit $42 million annual budget primarily funded through a $13.50 tax paid when marylanders register the vehicle each year. >> the benefit of the program

receive a bill from the state police. medevac mission, law enforcement, search and rescue. it doesn't matter. >> you're good. bye. >> we were there as trooper 2 received a mission. >> got it? >> two pilots and two medics suit up, inspect the chopper, trigger the engine and launch. in this case for 67-year-old man who had fallen from a tree. >> the estimated time of arrival is three minutes. >> dispatchers monitor the crew's progress in real time. >> landing assured. >> this is a successful bipartisan form of socialized medicine in the shadows of a divisive capital. joint base andrews, kevin lewis. >> i save lives every day we come to work. kess abc7 news. jonathan: good program there. well, it is starting to heat up outside. if you got outside you know that.

with summer comes the pool. what if you are not 100% bikini ready? i can't believe i said that out loud. it turns out an extreme way to beat the heat can beat body fat. is it worth it? horace holmes sat down and subjected himself to this. didn't you do it? the cool sculpt? horace: no. >> we are freezing fat. >> cool sculpting those if you are the right candidate. >> those within 20 to not pounds of the ideal body weight. it's simple science. >> it makes the fat cells freeze. >> in the next three to four months they die and are absorbed in the body. it works on the obdo men, love handles, under the chin and soon under the arms. >> dennis. has done it sever

fat he found impossible to burn off with diet and exercise. >> i think it took four months since i noticed they started to shed off little by little. >> it's not a weight loss procedure. >> this is dr. heinz. >> i'm the director of the weight management center here. >> in her practice, the patients lose fat the old fashioned way. diet and exercising. cool sculpting? >> if someone looked to get rid of extra fat and had a lot of money it might be a consideration. >> this person underwent the procedure as part of a report she wrote on the procedure. >> i saw results immediately. at least i thought i did. i don't know if it was i was telling myself i saw results. then it looked okay and now it looks like it did before. >> it can cost $40 o to $1,000 depending on what part of the body you are freezing fat on. everyo

agrees but is it worth it? >> if you the right candidate, yes, definitely. horace: side effects. yes. temporarily minor change in the color of where the device is applied. it's red and goes away pretty quickly. so you can have it done on your stomach, love handles, arms, under the chin. the bigger the area you want to work on the more money you will pay. this is not for everyone. tomorrow, the big makeup test. drugstore versus designer brands, can you tell the difference? is it worth it? we talk about it tomorrow. [laughter] steve: stormwatch7. we are watching active storms in oklahoma where they have tornado warnings tornadoes on the ground. you can see on the side of me there. the skies are dark there and we have more to keep you updated on the storms as they move across oklahoma. nothing like that for us. it's just hot out there now. 89 degrees at dulles. 86 at reagan national airport. 9 o at

heat index values are warmer than that. tracking showers and thunderstorms this hour. now moving toward the north and east. this is to the south of frederick. if you are driving from frederick to clarksburg that is where you are running into problems. no warnings on this. we are expecting the heavier downpours to move toward the north and east. around the capital beltway no worries at all. langry park, college park, walker mill, old town alexandria or tysons it's dry now. we can't rule out chance of pop-up thunderstorms moving through this everything. the temperatures will slowly fall through the 80's. look at at the future cast. i calls for showers and the storms for the day tomorrow. in the afternoon hours the cold front moves through the area. once we get it out of the way we look for the cooler conditions for upcoming weekend. tomorrow 80's to 9 o. let's talk about the weekend forecast. lingering showers saturday morning. i don't think it will amount to

temperatures should make it to lower 7 o's. lower 7 o's on sunday. but still mostly cloudy skies. the average high is 77 degrees. so after record-breaking warmth yesterday will cool things down for the upcoming weekend. michelle? michelle: thank you. we have autria godfrey with a first look at the friday wakeup with "good morning washington." >> thank you, michelle. tomorrow on "good morning washington" don't miss rapidly changing fire storm, the new developments happening every day in the trump white house. >> plus is it expensive designer makeup worth it? keep it here for traffic and weather every ten minutes tomorrow "tom went to washington to take on the insurance companies and the credit card companies and the wall street banks... that's what tom perriello is about." progressive causes have been my life's work. i'm tom perriello... and before and after congress i led non-profits to battle climate change, poverty and president bush's attacks on civil rights.

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kidd: time for your "scandal scoop." we talk about kerry washington on g.m.a. talking about the next season the last season of "scandal" and how the cast reacts to the news. >> i think we are all a little sad. but also we feel grateful to have the information. sometimes as an actor you don't know when you are out of a job. so it's nice to go into the last season knowing it's the last season. because we are already talking about how it will be no holds barred better than ever. >> now to tonight's episode. get ready for incredible two hours of scandal right here on abc7. we have your exclusive sneak peek of the episode. momma pope

jake and his team try to stop her from taking out melie. >> wait. are you seeing this? >> that is mellie's inauguration parade route. >> really? kidd: i don't know about you, but that gave me chills. don't miss an all new "scandal" two hours tonight at 9:00 on abc7. that is your "scandal" scoop. larry: a stream of new details after pedestrians are nowed down in sometimes square. what we know about the man behind the wheel. >> all three lanes eastbound, going westbound and totally out of control. larry: just released 911 calls moments before the deadly

wrong-way crash on route 50. champion makes a comeback after he moves to a forever home. >> "7 on your side." >> in the last 20 minutes, president trump awe dressed questions about a special prosecutor. questioned a -- questions asked by our own scott thuman. tell us what happened. scott: well, look. there is no denying that the white house is besieged by controversy the last couple of days but it's best illustrated by the naming of a special council. look into the russia investigation to find out if there is something improper but something illegal that took place in the administration. prior when it was a campaign when the russians. so i asked the president about that and also about whether or not he tried to influence the investigation into michael flynn putting the pressure on the former f.b.i. director james comey.

comey in way, shape or form to close or back down the investigation into michael flynn? also you look at back -- >> no. next question. there was no collusion. everybody, even my enemies have said there is no collusion. we want to get back and keep on the track that we are on. the track that we are on is record-setting. that is what we want to do. scott: we wanted to get the president on record with the particular question and did so. of course, that may be something that comes back into play as the investigation by former f.b.i. director robert mueller into what may have happened with the administration and russia moves forward. we will have more tonight at 6:00 on special prosecutors, special counsels. what exactly do they do? look at the history. where they have succeed and where they have not. that's at 62:00, larry. >> it's always nice to have less drama. but theoi