sides of potomac cracking down. jonathan: they caught a rider and they are throwing the book at him. >> it took a while for this guy to be processed and brought to arlington. it happened last week. now he is facing serious charges. this happened at the intersection in south arlington. >> they are so fast and so loud. it comes from nowhere. >> a groupof a.t.v. riders on

of an arlington police officer on north courthouse road. he followed the group west on 50 to washington boulevard toward 395. they realized the rider dropped the phone. the police were able to track the phone to 24-year-old stefan williams of d.c. who police say was live streaming the illegal a.t.v. ride. >> we know the individuals are doing it for showmanship aspect of it. >> according to the d.c. court records a man believed to be the arlington suspect has a long criminal history including a charge for a separate illegal a.t.v. ride last month. >> i feel bad because they are in a

>> williams is in jail without bond. facing four serious charges that could put him in prison for up to 11 years. arlington police say they want the case to serve as an example that the illegal a.t.v. riding can have serious consequences. live in south arlington, jeff goldberg, abc7 news. jonathan: thank you. d.c. police have 90 pictures of the a.t.v. riders they are trying to catch. all the pictures are on the website. go to wjla.com. michelle: a day you can see the heat i rising. the heatwave will get worse before it gets better. doug hill is tracking it in the stormwatch7 weather center. tomorrow it will get dangerously hot. people need to take it seriously. doug: tomorrow is the peak of the heatwave. higher temperatures and higher dew point and higher heat index values. the national weather service have issued h

in the metro area there are times that the heat index, the way it feels is 105. that is not good. we are at 94 in reagan national. a cooler breeze off the severn river that will knock annapolis temperature down to 87 now. but the feels like temperature is more important. feels like 103 in leesburg. 99 in the capital. these heat index values will drop over the weekend. that is good news. the weekend forecast coming up. jonathan: thank you. questions about the russian election interference and meeting with a russian lawyer dominated the confirmation hearing for a new director. nominee christopher wray disputed the president's claim that the special counsel's investigation is a witch hunt.

>> i would not have influence on the investigation to the extent i'm supporting it. at the end of the day it's his investigation. >> it's been filled on interim basis since the president fired susan g. komen during fired james comey in may. mitch mcconnell has updated healthcare bill tomorrow. a previous version by democrats and conservative republicans as well. mcconnell delays the recess by two weeks to work and wrap up the healthcare. >> that extended senate session has staffers feeling like the grinch stole the summer break. some are calling it christmas in august. stephen tschida has the story. stephen: the capital doesn't go dark but it gets quiet in august.

>> if the senate gets down to work it might mean more money who earn the living toiling on the hill. >> it's good for was they will oak for august. >> it's already dead at the dry cleaner. but now they hope to see customers in the doldrums of august thanks to the staffers sticking around. >> if the customers stay here. yeah. >> even the uber drivers. >> if they are busy, the business sticks up. >> chances to fill the seats in august may have increased a bit. wi learned late today the freedom caucus, conservative branch of the republicans causing for delaying the start

house. jonathan: steve scalise is out of the i.c.u. but he is still in serious condition. he underwent surgery last week because of an infection. michelle: signs of a cease-fire in d.c. are showing up all around the d.m.v. her brother was killed in 2007 and said a 72-hour cease-fire in the first weekend of august would celebrate life, not death. more than 180 people have been killed in baltimore so far this year. prince george's county the police are working 12-hour shifts there in response to a spike in the murders. 12 people have been killed in 11 days.

jonathan: a fire that raced through a building killing 80 people. ahead, a first look at the escape route that led dozens to safety. michelle: the new move that could have robert e. lee

michelle: the plan to remove statue of robert e. lee from city park does not violate law. in a court filing they said the law against removing a war memorial implies to monuments installed after the law was passed. the lee statute dates back to 1924. dueling protest over the statute's fate. the removal is being challenged in court. hearing scheduled next month. jonathan: technology is allowing us to get a conversation with a holocaust survivor. there is a hologram that can answer your questions. >> what nightmares did you have after? >> i have a nightmare of fire and not -- finding myself in a gas chamber and being gassed. jonathan: the hologram built with the help of a survivor who spent five hours a day

answering every question you can imagine so the developers could develop this program. that program will be available at museums worldwide later this year. you will find more online from the web partner circa.com. michelle: only on 7, georgetown man accused of taking nude photos of two teenage girls out on bond. police say mark weikert, a professional photographer secretly recorded the teens as they changed for photo shoots in his home. he ran dark photography signs out the home that he shares with his wife and son. two sisters ages 13 and 14 discovered his hidden camera and told their mom. police say they are concerned there could be more victims. jonathan: well, ground is broken and the construction will soon be started on a new training center if the prince george's county police. this is interesting. called a tactical village. simulated community to allow the police to train the real li

life backdrops. the first responders will be able to use it as it opens in stages in the next few years. michelle: ahead at 6:00, elephant drowning at sea. heroism that saved its life caught on video. jonathan: first, the s.u.v. flips and the dog inside runs for its life. only on 7, intense search and the reunion for the b

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jonathan: traffic stop in the florida keys netted an unusual bust. cookie monster. but this is not the run of the meal cookie monster. c in this case is not for cookie. it's for "cocaine." the owner is charged with trafficking. michelle: pretty crafty. well, then there is this. from fauquier county. ups truck where it wasn't designed to go. fire officials say the heavy truck tried to go over a wooden bridge with a four-ton weight limit. keyword. "wooden." the driver wasn't seriously hurt but had a scare there. jonathan: would you drive over a wooden bridge with that? michelle: no way! jonathan: this is a frightening scene. jeep

mclean. michelle: adding to the driver's anxiety, the german shepherd she was watching for a deployed marine ran from the scene. richard reeve shows us the happy reunion. richard: she is grateful she survived the noontime crash. >> i was rear-eneded. the jeep i was in flipped. the window smashed. >> but when another car slammed into her from behind on busy route 12 she wasn't traveling alone. sam, 4-year-old german shepherd she was dog sitting riding shotgun. the impact shattered the jeep's windows. seconds later sam was gone. he had bolted out of a broken window. as a man heedaled her roll out -- helped her roll out of the jeep, others stemmed forward. >> we had passerby's who volunteered to look for him. >> minutes later the park police officers spotted sam sitting a half mile away on the g.w. parkway. >> he was scared. he wasin the

worried. she is taking care of sam for her son-in-law. marine officer who is deployed in europe. this pup is a furry best friend of a loved one serving his country. >> he doesn't seem hurt but we will take him to the vet anyway. >> she is okay and grateful for the officers and the volunteers she calls wonderful. who stepped up to find sam. >> he is okay now. i'm happy he is safe. >> mclean, richard reeve, abc7 news. jonathan: must-see video to share of you a daring rescue in sri lanka. look at the trunk of an elephant out at sea. sailors diving in the water to save the elephant. the animal got caught in an ocean current crossing a stream and was sucked out to sea. that is no small rescue. the elephant weighs 12,000 pounds. same as an a.v. all the guys jumped in to help and they used ropes and they sa

when he came to shore the wildlife rescue folks were there to take care of him. michelle: great to hear that. check out the flames here. shooting through the roof of the hyattsville home. it happened overnight on willow hill drive. the couple who lives there tells us they woke up to popping noises and the smell of smoke. both made it out safely. the cause is under investigation. jonathan: still a terrifying site. months after. look at it now. chill down your spine. flames have been put out a long time. but the apartment fire in london that killed 80 people still teaching the firefighters something. the new video shos ethe effort they are going through to recover the loss. on the emergency stairs there is little sign of damage. but by the time they got to the second floor there is soot covering the walls.

michelle: look at this. this is a big one. a man caught a tornado through a corp field. this is iowa. it turned out to be important. the twister only hit a couple of sheds and other outdoor structures. no one was hurt. >> you can see when you watch it, it hit trees and it yanks the trees out of the ground. >> it shows the power and the damage. >> coached warnings in maryland, virginia and the district. parts of west virginia. >> luckily nobody injured.

friday to cool us down and drier air over the weekend. tomorrow is the five-day heatwave. and it will feel up to 105 degrees. it will extend through pennsylvania. it's feeling like 100 in leesburg. 101 in quantico. 103 in annapolis. that is the big number. 99 in washington. through the day tomorrow, plenty of sunshine. it's hot and humid. we will climb. 97, 98 degrees. we indicated that it will feel six or seven or eight degrees warmer than that. there could be isolated thunderstorms tomorrow and in the evening. in the day on friday that will change. talk about tomorrow. according to the modeling, we think around 3:00 is peak of the highest heat

themselves. 107 in dover. 106 in fredericksburg. the same for the washington metro area. a tough afternoon. plan ahead. the future cast shows the possibility of the showers arriving tomorrow. don'tsee any indication of anything severe. the best chance for that i think is north and east of metro washington. the shower and thunderstorm chances indeed. friday the chances go up. 94 is the forecast in the day on friday with the thunderstorms becoming likely in the afternoon. 89 oned saturday. with -- 89 on saturday with lower humidity. that is on average for the average high. sunday is warmer. but close to average temperatures. the humidity level under control. it may feel warmer but nothing excessive. grateful for that. looking forward to see if there are more heatwaves not so much. check it out. there will be at some point but not in the ten-day. 98 and 794. then improvement over the weekend. 91 on monday. 90 tuesday.

93 on wednesday. it looks like we top out on thursday along 94. slowly turn less intense here. through next weekend. stay with us. "abc7 news at

erin: it was fun to watch three national teammates in the usual spot behind max:00er in the all-star game last night in miami. you wonder how much effort the players would give in an exhibition game but scherzer didn't hold back in the one inning of work. you could hear him grut with every pitch. bryce harper was out there doing work, too. check out the hustle on this play in the third. harper charges hard and makes a nice diving catch to end the inning. everybody wanted to see this. that matchup between scherzer and aaron judge. scherzer won this battle with a strike-out. here is his reaction to this being just another game. >> your pride is on the line. you want to go out there and show the world that you can be the best. those are the best hitters in the american league right now. you want to compete against them and show that you can get the

i don't need anything on the line. i don't need home field. i want to go out and have success again. erin: he is awesome. at wimbledon a shocker on the men's side. top seed andy murray upset by american sam cuerry. roger federer made it look easy today against milso roanic, the canadian. like venus williams he is one of the 30-something that locks ten years young -- looks ten years younger than he is. federer is 36. he wins in straight sets as he continues to pursue a record eighth wimbledon title. i had a chance to go one-on-one with joe theismann. watch the entire interview on the website right now wjla.com/sports. jonathan: what is nice about federer. he never gets worked up. he's always calm. doug: steve is back at 11:00 with late est on the heat adv

tonight, breaking news. the new interview with president trump. defending his son, don junior saying, many people would have taken that meeting with the russian lawyer. and don junior saying in retro spect he probably would have done things differently, and he could not rule out meeting with other people from russia. also tonight, the new and chilling video emerging. a brutal attack app an m american college grad on vacation overseas, killed in an angry mob. what happened in the moments before. the images coming in right now. the fbi and authorities digging and putting up tents, searching for four young men. a former baseball player, two of them construction workers, and tonight, person of interest now under arrest. severe storms at