brad? brad: the f.b.i. are going over the crime scene, usings do and looking for anything. they are even climbing the chain link fence looking for pieces hit by bullets. it's an interesting investigation from their perspective. they are looking for physical clues. what they want to know is what was the big clue. why did this guy open fire? at home in illinois, alexandria ballpark shooter james hodgkinson made clear his distaste for donald trump and republicans. >> 99% are getting pushed around. 1% are just not giving a damn. brad: at home he had brushes with the law and had been warned about firing a gun near his home. but he gave no clue he would attempt a mass assassination. >> nothing different in the personality characteristics from the past few weeks

>> mayor alexandria mayor bill eulle met him at the ymca. >> i saw him entering and exiting the sauna, taking a shower. >> others on the bench of the neighborhood and few noticed he was living in the van. often park next to the ballpark where he opened fire. today f.b.i. worked the neighborhood. talking to people who encountered the 66-year-old looking for answers. several telling us no explanation will suffice. >> that is not the way to fix things. >> be civil. be nice to people. brad: tonight three victims are hospitalized in critical condition. and the charity game against democrats for which the republican baseball team was practicing is going on as scheduled. >> america gets bunched, america punch -- when america gets punched, america punches back. this is a great event tonight. it goes to charity. i hope we will have

brad: one more bit of good news tonight. since the story was put together we can tell you that the young lobbyist who was helping out former staffer matt mika who is in the hospital. his condition has been upgraded from critical to serious. for this big ballpark in alexandria we are told that the f.b.i. may be on scene through tomorrow night. in alexandria, brad bell, abc7 news. jonathan: thanks. for the investigation, the f.b.i. says they now recovered two weapons from the scene. one was a .9-millimeter handgun. the other was a 7.62-caliber rifle. heavy load. the f.b.i. says both of the guns were purchased legally from federally licensed gun dealers. for those hurt in yesterday's shooting three as you heard in brad's story are hospitalized. congressman steve scalise still in critical condition after undergoing a third surgery today.

upgraded to serious condition and capitol police officer crystal griner is in good condition. vice president mike pence today visiting griner and thanking her for her bravery. he also met with family members of congressman steve scalise. three others hurt have already been treated and released from the hospital including capitol police officer david bailey. congressional aide zack barth and congressman williams. congressman williams is one of the coaches of the baseball team and he was one of the first to urge that tonight's game go on. nancy chen joining us from nats park. an hour away from the first pitch being thrown. nancy: 7:05 to be exact. the gates opened at 5:30. a half hour ago at nats park. while security is increased here, of course, given what happened yesterday this is still a fun occasion. a good occasion. there is such a storied history to the game. first started of course in 1909.

at that point. raises money for charity. this year they are getting a big boost. before yesterday's shooting about 10,000 tickets had been sold. since then another 10,000 have been sold. right now, that means $1 million for charity. congressman williams who twisted his ankle taking shelter in yesterday's shooting said all the players are looking forward to tonight. it will be a very big night at nats park. while both teams are promising bipartisan unity, one person who will not be here will be president trump. his team saying that simply there wasn't enough time in order to put together the security that was necessary for the commander-in-chief to come out here to nats park. it's going to be a big night as we mentioned. you can watch the game at the entirety. even if you are not coming out here on the sister station newschannel8. coverage begins at 7:00. back in a little bit with what is going on inside the stadium. behind me. i can tell you the excitement is buzzing. but back to you in studio. jonathan: thank you. we have

in newsroom right now. the wife of the man who opened fire at the alexandria ballpark just spoke for the first time from an illinois home. she said that she heard about what happened when an abc reporter called her at her job. >> i cannot believe and i just want you to all go away and leave my neighbors in peace. they don't deserve this. i don't deserve this. my daughters don't deserve all this. jonathan: she wouldn't answer reporters when they asked her if her husband james hodgkinson was consumed by politics? she said hodgkinson had sold everything from his business and said he was going to d.c. to work with people on changing tax brackets. they had been married for almost 30 years. well, it has been a month now since the brawl outside the turkish embassy. remember the pictures? this was an all out me lay. now 20 people are facing criminal charges as a result of that. the fight happened during turkish president erdogan's state visit. today d.c. police charging several member of erdogan's securi

protesters. the victims were kurds and armenians who opposed to turkish government. >> we have not seen this brazen level on the street of washington, d.c. by foreign government, foreign leader's bodyguards no less, ever. jonathan: two u.s. citizens have been arrested. however the rest of the security detail has returned to turkey and turkey is unlikely to extradite them back to the united states. maryland judge now considering whether to throw out beltway sniper lee boyd malvo's life sentence. malvo, who was 17 at the time, pleaded guilty to six counts of murder in maryland and was sentenced to life. his lawyer wants the sentence tossed out because the supreme court ruled that mandatory life sentences for juveniles unconstitutional. maryland prosecutors say that shouldn't apply to mall vo because his sen -- malvo because his sentence was discretionary, not mandatory. d.c. residents mourning the death of long-time city council member jim graham. graham was 71 and represent ward 1 for 16 years before

he was also the whitman-walker aids clinic for director, a position he held for 15 years. >> jim was everything we needed in the beginning of the epidemic. he was tough. he was smart. he was difficult. he demanded answers. he demanded action. jonathan: there is no cause of death being given yet. it was announced. but friends say graham had been in poor health for several months and been in the hospital more often than he had been out of it. we do continue to follow a developing story out of mount erie. this is where a fire consumed a 10,000-acre business, 10,000 square foot business. images show the crews battling the flames and trying to make sure it didn't spread to surrounding homes. you saw how close the homes were. no reports of injuries and so far police and fire have done a nice job of keeping the fire contained. a massive fire more than a dozen people killed and now a new twist in the investigation in london. look at this. a

after the terrifying crash. it was all caught on video. doug: a little warm and muggy this evening but all the thunderstorm activity well west. some of that will visit us tomorrow. higher temperatures and high humidity. it will feel like summer in the ten-day outlook still to come at "abc7 news at 6:00".

jonathan: check out this video. you see the woman hanging off the side of the car? the car is dragging her down the santa ana freeway in california. she refused to let go for hundreds of feet. the reason? road rage. witnesses say the woman being dragged got out of her car and started to beat on the black car's windows. that is when the driver took off. she wouldn't let go. final she did. she was not hurt. not a smart move. now must-see video. at first this is nondescript. cars traveling down the highway. just what you would see at night. but the dash cam is rolling and it changes in a hurry. watch. [tiring screeching] that is a wrongway driver. you can see how fast everybody was going. amazingly the driver who shot the video escaped without serious injury. for wrongway driver he jumped out and ran. police still have not caught up with him yet. they did find drug parafa nailia in the car and

believe -- paraphernalia in the car and believe the driver was high. coming up next the investigation in a fire that consumed the entire apartment building. the blimp caught fire. what happened in the fist place. now back to nats park and there is a banner that is part of a get well card. we have more on that and look at what is happening at

jonathan: this was some scene in wisconsin. fiery crash. u.s. open golf tournament is where it happened. that was the backdrop. witnesses said they saw an advertising blimp flying overhead and it began to burn and rapidly deflate. crashed in a field about a half mile from the golf course. the pilot was seriously burned. nobody else on the ground was hurt. nobody on board besides that pilot which is a fortunate thing. update on a deadly apartment fire in london. the criminal investigation is underway to determine what caused the 24-story high-rise aparm to be consumed by -- apartment to be consumed by fire. the death toll right now is at 17 but they expect the number to rise because they say 100-plus people are still missing.

drones to try to search the top floors of the building because much of the building isn't even safe enough to enter. >> we are angry. i'm not going to lie. the locals a ringry. this could have been -- the locals are angry. this could have been prevented. lives are lost. jonathan: the fire brigade is calling this recovery operation and no longer a search and rescue operation. well now that ballpark ambush that targeted members of congress. the attack is not stopping tonight's charity baseball game. nancy chen joining us live with the latest. nancy: good evening. we are 45 minutes right now from the first pitch at 7:05. a big night at nats park. 20,000 people are expected to attend the game. that is double the size of an average crowd here. we have a banner from abc7 newschannel8 for six people who were hurt in yesrd

coming by signing this, sending well wishes. we will take it to capitol hill when we are said and done tonight. meanwhile it is heating up inside the ballpark where the players are warming up. someone else inside, tom roussey has a look at what is going on in there now. tom? tom: let me get out of the way. the first pitch is an hour away. this is what is going on, on the field at nats park. this is a number of the folks playing in the game. gathering on the field. this promises to be a very emotional night in light of what happened yesterday. it promises to be a bipartisan night i'm being told. this is always a bipartisan event. people from both parties get together to raise money for charity. i'm told this year it will be especially so. now a lot of the folks even who were involved in yesterday's shooting on the field at the time are here. not all of them could be

at the left, doing a different interview, zack barth, the congressional aide was shot yesterday. in the orange and the black ball cap. with the representative from texas who he works for who is playing in tonight's game. so we have a lot going on here. the first pitch an hour away at nats park. reporting live inside the stadium. i'm tom roussey, abc7 news. nancy: thank you. the sister station newschannel8 will carry the entire game live as it happens. if you can't make it down watch on tv. it will just like being there from the comfort of your own home. reminder, first pitch is scheduled for 7:05. a big night here at nats park. send it to you. jonathan: thank you. the weather is important tonight for the game. it looks nice. doug: it's summary. warm and humid. no rain chances tonight. tomorrow there is rain chances around. tonight we are in good shape. get off and running on thursday evening forecast. we start with a time lapse from the rooftop camera at nationals park where it is

now. light breeze from the east. in the day we had clouds and sunshine and haze. but it turns out to be by and large a sunny afternoon. but we still have a little haze due to the light winds. increase humidity levels. at the ballpark tonight at the first pitch it is around 80, 83. 80 through the midportion of the game. still 70's heading home. a fun time. and really good baseball weather as well. satellite and radar tracking showers and storms well west of the metro all day. the indications are the storms will stay well of the metro area. heavy downpours over garrett county, maryland, that area to west virginia. but they diminish tonight. tomorrow we have a better chance of developing showers and storms around the regions tomorrow. highs in the mid-80's before showers roll in. look at the timing according to the future cast model that shows the storm really starting to gather up more noticeably by 8:30. he

we will keep an eye on that. temperatures will fall and it will be warm with temperatures in the 70's by tomorrow night. overnight the rain should be out of here. as we get through the upcoming weekend it's warm and humid. another thing happening on the ballpark tomorrow, between 4:00 and 11:00 is truckaroo in the bullpen area. again, you have to watch for showers and thunderstorms. temperatures in the 80's. another good, fun activity at the ballpark in the summertime here. here is the weekend forecast. it will be hot and humid. no doubt about it. on saturday, partly sunny. highs of 88. feel warmer. pretty good chance of the scattered afternoon thunderstorms. in the day on sunday for father's day. partly cloudy. hot and humid. 9 the for a high -- 92 for a high. feel like 95 or 96. there could be thunderstorm in the the afternoon or everything. the extended outlook if you are looking for another stretch -- i almost dropped it but i quick reflexes for an old guy. looking for a cool weather, not going to happen. it will stay warm. temperatures 85, 88,

sunday. 88 on monday. monday you should know for advanced planning is looking mighty likely we will have maybe widespread shower activity monday afternoon and monday night as a strong cold front comes through. then look at tuesday, wednesday, thursday through the end of next week. highs in the upper 80's to the lower 90's. it's possible summer is here to stay. erin: how about the reflexes? jonathan: fumble recovery. redskins should sign him up. erin: thank you. kirk cousins learned his lesson. what lesson are we talking about? well, the mistake that the quarterback admits to making last season and how he plans to fix it when we come back.

for years, fios has been promising fast internet to small businesses. but for many businesses, it's out of reach. why promise something you can't deliver? comcast business is different. ♪ ♪ we deliver super-fast internet with speeds of 250 megabits per second across our entire network, to more companies, in more locations, than fios. we do business where you do business. ♪ ♪

erin: whether you are sick of hearing about it or not one of the main storylines when it comes to sports in the d.m.v. surrounds kirk cousins and whether the redskins will reach a long-term deal with the quarterback before the july is a deadline. with less than two months until redskins training camp begins cousins took some time to reflect yesterday on what he wants to focus on in the off-season and the inside is interesting -- insight is

>> i was almost warn out if you will before the season started because i pushed so hard to be top of my game in o.t.a. one and training camp practice one and preseason game one. i learned now after going through it one whole off-season as a starter to pace myself and to build toward week one. erin: he wants to avoid that burn-out. so the nats hit the road tonight to begin a four-game series with the mets. washington still has a healthy lead in the n.l. east. 8 1/2 games. but if the recent struggling continue the mets can make up serious ground. guo gonzalez gets the start tonight. opposite new york's robert gazelman. orioles in chicago taking on the white sox. 1-1 game in the sixth. melky cabrera singles up the middle with the bases load and that scores a pair. chicago wins 5-2. but the 0's lost 16 of the last 18 road games. ouch! one game you won't see on the leaderboard this week at the u.s. open

ewithdrew earlier today so attend his daughter's high school graduation. i love that story. jonathan: good decision. he will playing in a lot more u.s. open. you only have one graduation. erin: way to go, lefty. jonathan: good stuff. bring you back, doug. cooler tonight. doug: a little bit. the heat and the humidity stays with us. the storms in the valley will stay there. tomorrow we get a chance of showers and storms. molly cochran in for steve rudin tonight and check the timing of the storms and update a hot and humid outlook for the weekend. the forecast at the moment for weekend mid-80's, warm and muggy with the shower and the thunderstorms possible tomorrow afternoon. saturday afternoon. looks like isolated storms only on sunday. see if molly has to say about it at 11:00. jonathan: thank you. david muir coming your way next with "world news tonight." we will leave you with a shot of nats park where they getting ready to play the congressional game. it's all for charity. they are thinking

z2e2dz z1a2z y2e2dy y1a2y

♪ [doorbell] ♪ ♪ when you have doctors working as a team for your health, you get the care you need to help you thrive. ♪ visit kp.org to learn more. kaiser permanente. thrive. ♪

tonight, breaking news. the stunning medical condition revealed. severe brain damage. doctors late today on the american college student brought home from north korea. how did this happen. also late today the jurors in the bill cosby sex assault trial, revealing they are deadlocked. what the judge told them next. republicans and democrats taking the field tonight, new details on the congressman in critical condition. and major news tonight about the gunman. his wife speaking out moments ago. the white house reacting tonight to reports from the washington post that the president is now being investigated for obstruction of justice. and falling from the sky, the blimp bursting into flames, the crash and the rescue near the u.s. open. good evening and it's great to have you with us here on