>> now abc 7 news at noon on your side. >> a storm watch alert. the storms headed our way. heavy rain and potentially damaging winds are hours away from hitting the d.m.v. we are getting you ready for this, brian? brian: a few thundershowers firing off to our north and west but as we go through the afternoon we believe there will are more to develop and why we're on weather alert this afternoon. let's start you off with the headlines for the day ahead.

hot and humid out there and feels like 104 at this hour. strong storms are possible as we head through this afternoon and less humid weekend headed our way and currently now as we look outside at the numbers, we're checking in at 90 degrees, stifling 90 degrees and the radar not too active right now. you have to head up to 270/70, east of hagerstown and haguersburg is where they're seeing the storms and through the afternoon they'll become more widespread between 7:00 and 8:00 tonight. the biggest threat is heavy rains and damaging wind. isolated hail not out of the question and isolated tornado risks are low and we'll be on top of it throughout the afternoon. just make sure to have your storm watch 7 app loaded on your phone and you'll be good to go. we're on deck and the team will be here throughout the afternoon and be on guard. you definitely don't want to overdo it this afternoon. it still is hot and it's a two-parter, the high he'd and humidity followed by the storms. once we get the storms out of here wre

more comfortable upcoming weekend. back to you. adrianna: you don't want to miss updates on this storm so take us everywhere you go and sign up for alerts at wjla.com/texts and we'll message you any important storm watch 7 information. happening now a 17-mile march just getting underway and the protest stretching from the n.r.a. in fairfax to the department of justice in d.c. and all with response to the acquittal of a minnesota officer of the killing of philando casteel. john gonzalez is live with what the protesters are demanding. julie:: the storms aren't stopping the john: the storms aren't stopping the protesters and they've marched two miles from the national rifle association on lee highway and they're

getting shade and water and getting a couple minutes' rest and then will continue marching. it is members of the moms demand action, black lives matter, and the woman's march, the same movement that organized the rally the day after the inauguration and is close to 18 or 19 miles. again, from the n.r.a. all the way to downtown d.c. to the d.o.j., condemning gun violence from the sandy hook massacre to he philando casteel trial. >> especially in the sum of resistance you'll ee protest being met with the counterprotesters we've seen here today. john: it's hot and a long rally, logistically, how do you get everyone to the d.o.j. safely? >> people are going to walk and we have a lot of sidewalks we'll be on and a lot of water and prayer, freedom songs. we've done this. the group i work with, justice league, we walk from new york city to washington, d.c. it was 250

that bad but we're going to support each other on the road. john: back at the n.r.a. headquarters, there were counterdemonstrators, some heavily armed and most carrying second amendment posters and now have been left behind as this group starts their march. we can tell you that there are about 15 fairfax county police officers riding along, following this group. they'll go all the way down route 29 into d.c. they are staying on the sidewalk here in virginia so no road closers but once they get into d.c. you can expect some of those road closures including the key bridge, m street and of course pennsylvania avenue. reporting live, john gonzalez, abc 7 news. adrianna: thanks for the update. more delays on the metro. trains are single tracking between foggy bottom and clarendon and delays are possible on both directions of the blue line because of this problem as well. and also developing right now in montgomery

and police cruiser up in flames on haney avenue in damascus. crews telling us there with us an explosion from ammunition going off in the cruiser. two people in the hospital being treated for smoke inhall lation. they're looking for what caused the fire. a trial is underway for a man accused of killing a caterer. bonds testified he stabbed the man in defense. bonds who was a fairfax county parks employee disrupted a wedding party at eleanor laurence park ultimately leading over a dispute over folding chairs. new developments now in the case of four men who disappeared in pennsylvania. 20-year-old cosmo dinardo confessed to killing the men and burying their bodies on his family's farm. according to a source close to the investigation, he said he killed them after feeling cheated and threatened during three drug deal with those men. >>

confession, mr. dinardo was promised by the district attorney that he will spare his life by not invoking the death penalty. adrianna: dinardo has agreed to plead guilty to four first-degree murder counts. now to the health care bill saga on capitol hill. senate republicans are scrambling to drum up enough sport for the latest version of their bill to repeal and replace obamacare. abc's emily rau has more now from washington. emily: will the changes in the latest senate health care bill be enough to tip the scale? the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell unveiling a new version of the bill. it's already getting pushback from within the party but on fox news friday, senator lindsey graham saying it's a big improvement. >> here's what i hope we can do as republicans, offer an alternative to obamacare that makes sense and will actually help people. emily: the revised version is an attempt to win over moderate g.o.

obamacare taxes on the wealthy and puts aside $70 billion that could help americans cut for high premiums and gives $45 billion to help fight the opiod epidemic. >> what do you think? >> i don't know. emily: for conservatives not happy with the first version, the new bill would allow insurers to offer cheaper plans that don't emily: for cover essential health benefits like maternity care or ambulance service. but a big sticking point remains, deep cuts to medicaid, initially projected to be $800 billion. >> we're still working on ways to ensure that folks currently getting coverage under expanded medicaid have options that are accessible and affordable. emily: president trump is applying pressure to get the bill passed and tweeted this morning senators must get this done and do what's right for the people. they'll have the weekend to mull it over before returning on monday. emily rau, abc news, washington. adrianna: straight ahead on

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>> you're watching abc 7 news at noon, on your side. adrianna: developing now, an attack on a holy sight in israel. three are dead after three palestinian assailants opened fire inside a shrine compound. the attackers used weapons stored inside that compound. police chased the suspects to the temple mount where they were killed.

and today marks the one-year anniversary of the deadly truck attack in nice, france. people are laying panels on the city's promenade to honor the victims. by the end of the day the panel will choose a message chosen by the victims' family members. 86 people were killed and hundreds hurt when a terrorist purposefully drove a cargo truck into a crowd of people during bastille day and the attacker was killed in a shoot-out with police. and there's this video caught on camera, of course. lawmakers come out swinging and believe it or not, this is actually round 2 for the second day in a row, legislators in taiwan ditched the yeas and nays and went for the chairs and the right hooks. this entire brawl happened on live television. one party refused to let the premiere deliver a report and it escalated into that. imagine driving along when suddenly you have slime and eels all over your car.

take a look at this video. a truck carrying 7,500 pounds of eels slipped on a highway spilling the slimy animals everywhere. troopers say the truck driver failed to stop when a transportation worker told him to and it led to a four-car pileup and that disaster on the roads. luckily, though, no one was seriously hurt. some jaw dropping video out of florida. take a look at this, all that destruction is being caused by a sink hole and happened in the land o'lakes neighborhood and you see two homes have buckled and complapsed and actually one of them is in the hole. surrounding homes are being evacuated. no injuries have been report sod far in that situation. prince george's county, a new class of police recruits laced up and hit the streets for a one-mile run, part of an annual event and it gives a whole new meaning to street

>> this is a big event in prince george's county. the police chief has done this nine other times and called the chief on the go event and the goal is to really come out and meet the people in the community. take a look over here. we also have the recruits out here. prince george's county police has about 1,700 police officers on the street right now and they want to bump those numbers to 2,000 and these are the men and women who are next in line to get the badge. and then you'll look over here, we also have the prince george's county fire department and the mobile command center so you can come out here and check out some of the equipment and learn maybe how to do c.p.r. and get a bite to eat, get some coffee. of course you can come out here and meet the officers and the chief himself. he was doing the run earlier this morning and now he's going to be here until 2:00 this afternoon to actually meet people in the community. you'll do all your regular activities out here? >> everything we do in the office but we do it from our command post and let the community see how we come what we do and make ourselves

it's not easy to get the community meetings in the evenings or weekends and sometimes in the morning. but maybe during lunch and why we move it around the entire county. people who work over here are stopping by to do something and get lunch and then come over to say hi. >> police have been criticized for not making a good connection with the community. how have you seen it make a connection to the community since you started it? >> it's been the continuation of ongoing campaign. the chief began a really concerted effort to bond with the community. chief on the go is just one of the ways i tried to advance that idea and make ourselves more accessible but at the end of the day having these young officers you were just pointing to to see that our most important relationship is with the people who support us and whom we derive the authority to do our job from. we don't impose the law, we enforce the law. so they see that up close at the beginning of their career so now i've got generations of officers who are young and growing who get it and that's what's most important to the department. >> thanks for your time and

if you want to come out and meet the chief, you can do it. e're at the place where target and jcpenney are located. reporting live, i'm sam sweeney, abc news. adrianna: they'll be there until 2:00 and storms are moving through? brian: through 8:00 or 9:00 this evening. a few are firing off to the north and west but out ahead of that i want people to know it's another hot day and feels like 104 right now so you don't want to overexert yourself. thunderstorms will come through and pack a punch so it's a weather alert day. good news is it brings a much better weekend. there's a payoff. looking at the capital wheel at national harbor, 0 degrees but when you factor in the mugginess, it feels right now ike 104 degrees. that is intense out there, folks. it feels stifling. you see that south-southeasterly breeze at 9

that heat. the numbers, 99 is the way it feels in manassas and culpepper and 101 in fredericksburg and martinsburg, our friend in west virginia, it feels like 96 degrees this hour. the heat and humidity are strong and the thunderstorms will start to fire off. you see the radar, not a lot of action. one cell in baltimore pushing over the bay and a few more deeper in west virginia but this cell in hagerstown just fired up and when we'll see a few of them pulse up and pop up and bring in heavy rains and thunder and lightning at times, coming in through lewis town and north of frederick. that's what we'll continue to watch for throughout the afternoon. here's our future cast which takes the weather now and tries to push it forward the next couple hours. what you'll notice is we head in the afternoon and a few more showers off to the north around 2:00 but a little closer to the evening rush, a few more thunder showers firing off, gaithersburg and fairfax and winchester and warrenton. 6:00 or 7:00, a line of heavier showers through the district to baltimore and along the

drive a lot of the showers and storms may come together and string a line together and drop through the area off to the south and east and by later tonight things will calm down. we're calling it a cold front but it's not bringing colder air, just going to bring lower humidity. heavy rain, win gusts could be a part of this equation through the latter half of the day. hail a small chance and tornados we can't 100% rule that out but it's isolated, the forecast, mid 90's into the 80's with scattered thunder showers but those that come together could pack a punch. 69-75. tomorrow we'll be in the upper 80's and it will be a warm day with partly sunny skies and the humidity will be low and the air much drier and definitely feel more comfortable and that's good news as we head through your saturday and sunday. temperatures in the 830's to low 90's, feeling much more comfortable as we head into early next week, that's when we see the heat build back in and another chance for showers and storms. the weather alert all afternoon, we're on top of it and we'll keeyo

adrianna? adrianna: thank you, brian. after serving nine years in prison will football legend o.j. simpson, one of the most famous criminals in america, go free? days before his parole hearing, "20/20" is going inside the crime scene and talking to his friends and accomplices revealing new information. deborah roberts is here with a preview. thank you for your time. deborah: good to be with you. we were fascinated by what we found out when we started to look into this case. so many people had heard about this botched robbery in nevada and didn't know exactly what happened. tonight we let you meet some of the men who went along with o.j. simpson that night and many of them paid a hefty price and they lost friendships and they lost relationships with family members, they lost homes and lost their living. many of them of course have great regrets about that and they tell us how they came to be. it's not exactly what you think. it was not this big planned, organized kind of thing, a

heist. instead, some of these guys didn't even know what they were getting into until they got there that night. we also talked to them about the prospects for o.j. simpson getting paroled. what do they think about it? you'll hear their thoughts on who they think o.j. simpson is and what they think could happen to him next week when the parole hearing happens. we thought of the other trial as the trial of the century, this may be the parole hearing of the century. adrianna: very true. any insight into what life in prison has been like for o.j.? deborah: i spoke with one of his dear friend, a doctor, who has been his friend for years and visited o.j. quite a bit in prison. believe it or not, even though he is in prison, this doctor said that he still maintains that same exuberance and he's still the juice even though he's behind bars but yet still a guy who is lonely for his family, desperate to be paroled and get back out into society

he's not exactly doing hard time but he's still in prison. adrianna: doing time. all right. thank you so much, deborah roberts, for your time. that special we're all looking forward to airs tonight at 10:00 right here on abc 7. still ahead here on abc 7 news at noon, a veteran with a purple heart. that story coming up after the break. stay with us.

adrianna: today a big honor was presented to a world war ii prisoner of war. a 94-year-old lieutenant from college park received the purple heart. ryan hughes was there at the air force memorial for the ceremony. ♪

ryan: a special ceremony for a man whose love for his country never faded. he received a purple heart for his courage for service in world war ii. >> i have so much love for this country. mom my mom was the same way. ryan: he enlisted in the air force and became a part of the bomb group that flew missions over nazi germany in the b-17 mischearge during the war. in april of 1944 his plane was shot down. he was wounded and became a prisoner of war. more than 73 years later, he is being recognized and was awarded the purple heart at the air force memorial in arlington. >> we had the opportunity today to remember him and to remember those like him. ryan: he now lives in college park and was surrounded by his family and friend. he's a part of the greatest generation and says his greatest accomplishment is his service and marrying his

wife. >> the only honor that i feel that i had the privilege of serving this country in wartime. ryan: he has a lot of love for his country and family. in five days he's turning 95 years old and says the purple heart is the perfect gift. in arlington, ryan hughes, abc 7 news. adrianna: mother nature is still bringing the heat today and is about to drop some storms on us, too. what you need to know about the rain heading our way. coming up next.

adrianna: a galaxy far, far away is coming to life. disney unveiled models of the "star wars" themed park coming to walled disney world and disly land in to 19. the two models show what will be the main part of the 14-acre areas. it will give you a chance to pilot a millennium falcon and put people between the fight of the first order and the resistance. i'm a huge nerd, i love it. i love all-star wars except episodes 1, 2, and 3. brian: we talked about how it felt like 104 and there's a heat advisory now out for the metro area. we have a heat advisory for the metro areas in stafford and spotsylvania. it will feel like 104. the whole team will be here to keep an eye to the sky. adrianna: thank you for joining us this midday. be sure to

>> hi, everybody. i'm marie osmond, backstage here at flamingo hotel in las vegas, and i just have to say that i am so excited that "millionaire" has come to las vegas. i mean, come on, you are gonna love being on the strip. i mean, we're practically next-door neighbors now. but really i want to say best wishes for yet another great season of "who wants to be a millionaire." [dramatic music] ♪ >> hey, everybody. welcome to the show. it's celebrity week las vegas on "who wants to be a millionaire." [cheers and applause] and we are continuing celebrity week with a returning contestant who is a winner of "america's got talent" and now performs his show, "magic reinvented nightly." it's over at the link hotel.