side" for help. nathan is getting results for them tonight. nathan? nathan: you can see where washington gas has been working on this street. you can see where the patch work has been done. for months residents said they smelled the powerful order. people think twice about walking outside because they keep smelling natural gas. michelle is worried. >> terrified. especially now that i'm pregnant. i think there being a fire, explosion and not getting to the baby. >> on her mind, last august's explosion that killed seven people at the flower branch apartments also in silver spring. >> we think about an explosion. we are concerned. they dug up the street so many times. >> she is talking about the repair work done by the washington gas. we reached

councilmember tom hucker and got quick action. >> i learned about it this morning. >> i cammed the vice president washington georgia and he told me they got it expedited. >> the residents won't be satisfied until a full pipe replacement is complete. >> i don't feel safe. i needs to be fixed. it needs to be replaced. not just repairs not working. >> looking down menlo a you can see is patch work that washington gas has been doing. however we did get ahold of washington gas. they say there is no imminent danger but say it's now a priority to fix this. they say in a week or so ago they will start work here to replace the pipes. reporting live in silver spring, abc news. michelle: in california a gas leak blamed for this explosion that ripped through a family's home. in this case a contractor hit the gas line. when a gas company worker arrived he orderedve

just minutes before the blast. no one was hurt. jonathan: we want to update you about the steam pipe explosion we have been following in the past 48 hours. there is growing concern that amongst the dirt and as fault thrown across the city block because of the explosion there may be asbestos as well. the crews working to clean the damage have picked up low level of the car sin gins. pipes from -- carcinogens. pipes made from the era typically had asbestos in insulation but so far the air tests have come back clean. michelle: developing now. more than 40 people arrested after staging a die-in at mitch mcconnell's capitol hill office. many removed from the wheelchairs when they refused to move themselves. others pulled themselves from the wheelchair and laid in the middle of the hallway. this come as republicans reveal a bill to repeal

support it as written. scott thuman breaks down what is in the legislation and the battle it faces. >> the president said the senate bill needed heart. the way this bill cuts healthcare is heartless. scott: democrats quickly demonized the proposal and the president praised it. admitting that it's far from final. >> a little negotiation. it will be great. >> the "associated press" says it would end the tax penalties for people two don't buy insurance. slow the roll back of medicaid but with deeper cuts. unlike the house bill, sub diddies for those who buy private insurance on the income not just age to help those who don't make as much. there is some say a trickle down effect. >> the president of congress said the top priority is boost employment and strengthen the economy. this bail peers to do the opposite. >> the nonpartisan school of pu

initially it could mean a boost for the economy, both version of the bill would mean job losses. nearly 1 million by 2026. >> if the doctor's office revenue goes down they have to cut expenses. one way is reducing the number of the people staff. the net effect is the business active any the retail and construction and every sector of the economy suffer a little cut. >> for the next few days or week expect wrangling over the versions but it won't be easy. on senate side it would take three republicans to break with party and put the repeal efforts in real jeopardy. scott thuman, abc7 news. michelle: we have in addition of legislation and a link to read it for yourself. head to wjla.com. jonathan: there are no recordings of conversations between president trump and fired f.b.i. director james comey. at least as far as the

president knows. mr. trump admitted today he did not record the conversations. he famously tweeted that comey better hope tastes didn't exist. remember that? a white house insider told bloomberg the original claim was a bullying tactic to ensure comey told the truth while under oath. michelle: new video of the wannabe veg -- vigilante who will spend four years in prison for firing a gun in d.c. pizza shop. video shows edgar welch drive from north carolina to d.c. he was headed to comet ping-pong he thought to rescue child sex slaves. children never existed. they were part of a fake news story they called "pizza gate." at the sentencing today the judge said she believed welch is a good portion but added the actions were breathtaking ly reckless. jonathan: steve scalise continues to improve. he was shot eight days ago when a gunman opened fire on congressional baseball practice. house speaker paul ryan

>> his spirits are up. talking, doing well. he sends his regards and his thanks for everyone's thoughts and prayers. >> the blood drive was held today on capitol hill in honor of scalise. search members of congress tweeted pictures of themselves donating blood. michelle: cindy weakened to tropical depression but the impact is still felt along the gulf coast. it's moving inland after making landfall this morning. some communities were hit with a foot of rain despite massive flooding. despite the storm getting weaker flash flood and tornado watches are in effect going into tomorrow. doug: some of the moisture left over from cindy will be headed in our direction. it will team one a cold front. tomorrow night to early saturday heavy rain. i will tell you about that. jonathan: ahead, trapped between the draw and the bridge. how the van ended up in a top spot and complicated rese.

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death. more than 380 businesses were damaged or destroyed. the lawsuit doesn't specify how much money the businesses are seeking. jonathan: a final fare well for the university of virginia student who died days after being brought home from a north korean prison. otto warmbier had been imprisoned for tearing down a propaganda poster. his family called the 22-year-old's death murder. michelle: caught on video. the mosque where isis declared its caliphate three years ago is now destroyed. the iraqi military shared night video of the explosion at the historic mosque. they say they blew it up because collision forces were closing in which they say amounts to acknowledge. isis has been defeated. jonathan: the f.b.i. says a man who stabbed a police officer in flint, michigan, tried unsuccessfully to buy a gun. amor ftouhi has dual citizenship. he is held on a bond hearing but he was able to buy ani

stab a police lieutenant who is expected to survive. michelle: a leesburg man faces charges of transmitting secret documents to china. he was in federal court hours after the arrest. they show federal agents raiding the home this afternoon. traveled to chi,and received $25,000 for people he thought were operatives. jonathan: a boom in the d.c. rat population has the city scurrying for an answer. the high-tech solution centered on garbage cans. michelle: first a driver finds himself in a real life nightmare. the tricky solution firefighters use to get him out of this

jonathan: this is all because of a burst water main near south columbus and south 28 street. a hundred homes without water even at this hour. repairs are expected to be complete sometime around 9:00 tonight. michelle: in montgomery county, a wet mystery. police found this car almost upo

river near the edward ferry boat ramp. no one was inside. get this. the owner didn't even though the car was missing. it took more than an hour to fish the car out of the river. heart-stopping images from wisconsin. that is a minivan trapped in a drawbridge. he drove on as the bridge went up. the van was wedged between the rock and a hard place. the mistake costly. that is not a sunroof van. the first responders cut the hole in the roof to get him out of it. michelle: insurance study links legalized marijuana use to increase in car crashes. they say the collision claims rose by 2.7% in colorado, washington, and oregon. all three states have legalized recreational marijuan

pot has been decriminalized in the district but the city was not included in the study. jonathan: this supreme court says seven men convicted in a 1984 murder in the district won't go free. this isn't the case of -- this is the case of kathryn fuller whose body was found a while from the capitol. the men convicted said evidence had been withheld. some of it. the supreme court ruled 7-1 the evidence would not have made a difference in the trial. michelle: now a crime alert for this man who they say robbed a dozen banks to november. they call him the american league bandit. he has worn a yankees hat or orioles hat in each robbery. >> d.c. is in the midst of a population boom amongst its rats.

the solution says is more high-tech than a pied piper. >> the mayor came to chevy chase to talk about rats. >> we know if there is a lot of development activity and the earth is disturbed. sam: you asked people in the strip of new construction. >> we see parade of rats across our house and the neighbors. >> jeannette shank and her husband steve say a combination of new construction like the $2 million homes and restaurant careless to handle race like grease. >> this is covered with grease. >> in the last two months it's unbearable. many point to the d.c. construction boom as a rat source. the city's 311 center reports the number of the rat complaints jumped from 2300 in 2015 to 3500. 65% jump. >>

right here. >> three months ago none was here. >> the mayor and her team showed off the high-tech items to worn when trash is too high. stepped up the clean-up efforts saying the biggest issue is denying the food to rats. >> the food is not eliminated. it's hard to kill the rat. pest control. >> d.c. has a list of the strict regulations among them that a grease bin must be four feet from a wall to make it harder for the rats to get to it. the residents say there needs to be tougher enforcement. >> we have a string of restaurants not meeting the standard set by the d.c. regulation. >> workers in called are trying to convince people to drink wastewater purified to the drinking water. still wastewater. they are calling it toilet to tap. that probably wasn't a good first step. >> i was thinking, you kno

get bits of pooh in here? he said absolutely not. jonathan: we went there? few giving the water a try. those who did it said it tasted perfectly fine. michelle: first step to work on the branding. toilet to tap has to go. reclaimed water. jonathan: fresh water. if you are thirsty. doug: sooner or later. i'm sure it's clean. let's talk about the weather. hot and humid. the muggy weather continue. we have plenty of rain chances the next couple of days. the weekend will be fine. here is the story. right now is 87 in washington. hagerstown. 85 in manassas. 85 in annapolis. high level moisture in the air measured by the dew point it feels warmer. through the everything, muggy. hagerstown area north central maryland.

pennsylvania stuff. may come south. won't effect the metro area. this area will. early tomorrow morning, tropical moisture out of the gulf of mexico that developed at the same time that cindy developed. tropical depression. circulation between now and 9:00 in the morning. cold front will drop out of the northwest. and help pull in the moisture ahead of it. so the combination will give us a couple of separate times where we have showers and the storms. overnight sunrise through the rush. late tomorrow night overnight through the early saturday morning. that is the way it looks. then we will have drier air move in the picture. the future cast shows the first batch of rain by 5:00 a.m. areas of the thunderstorms, possible. 8:30 and 9:00 you get out and there will be sunshine. breezy. warm in the upper 80's. muggy. as we get through late tomorrow night, the cold front. moisture develops ahead of

moisture from what is left of cindy is drawn in. overnight, don't be surprised to see the rumble of thunder. heavy rain in the morning. this is 7:00. heaviest rains moving north east through baltimore and rapid clearing in the afternoon. plenty of sunshine and drier air. so i think it will work out just fine. combination of tomorrow morning and again late friday and saturday morning could yield two inches or so around the metro area. we keep an eye on that. the weekend will improve saturday featuring sunshine and 88. 83 on sunday. with the low humidity. monday, tuesday, look terrific. look at that. monday 82. the low humidity and the sunshine. 78 on tuesday. we start to warm up wednesday and thursday. on friday, the last day of june it will feel like summer. the same deal for next weekend. the first two days of july. upper 80's to 90 with partly cloudy skies. that is the latest. michelle: all right. thank you. exciting night. >> i am looking forward to it. markelle fultz is expected to be the top pick in

draft. what about the terp's melo trimble? what his former head coach say today about his nba future coming up n

erin: we are about 340 minutes away from the nba draft. dematha high school's own markelle fultz could be

george's county first overall nba pick. and fultz is expected to be selected by the sixers who traded with the celtics for the number one pick this week. earlier today he tweeted this -- "i woke up today thanking god for everything per usual. my life is about to change in a few hours. and i'm full of emotion." legendary broadcaster johnny holiday held his annual scholarship classic golf tournament today in college park. terps' head coach mark turgeon one of the local celebrities golfing for a good cause. it wasn't long ago that melo trimble's nba draft stock peaked after nba season but now he hopes to be drafted. >> i hope he lands somewhere where he gets a great opportunity. that is what matters. organization needs the point guard. it's really what is important. a place where, you know, he if its in with the culture of the

team. erin: all right. if you are ryan sim herman you have to represent your alma mater virginia if you are attending johnny holiday's golf tournament at the university of maryland's golf course. the nats slugger proudly wearing the u.v.a. gear among a see of terps fans. finally raiders quarterback derek carr is the nfl's first $25 million per year man. he inked a new deal today. which has redskins fans wondering how that will affect kirk cousins's negotiations. remember the deadline is july 17. jonathan: i will better quarterback on every team one a contract -- erin: and the agents. show me the money! jonathan: all right. michelle: tonight everything changes for those young men. jonathan: no question. michelle: nice. doug? doug: we have the story at 11:00. brian van de graaff is in for steve. he will track morning rain and the weekend weather, too. michelle: all right. "world news tonight" with david muir coming up next. jonathan: thank you for watching. see you back here at

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