news at 11:00, on your side. jonathan: we start with stormwatch. they were fast and furious storms during the rush-hour, sending debris flying, and people were scrambling for cover. and another hot, steamy, sunny day in d.c. crews are surveying the damage, but we start with steve rudin who tracked the storms all afternoon. he is here with good news for the weekend. steve: great news through the overnight and into the day tomorrow, the temperatures are cooling down into the 70's, although the heat index values make it feel warmer. at least we have the extreme heat and humidity out of the way. a few scattered showers across extreme southern maryland, not amounting to a whole lot more. tomorrow, instead of a high

upper 80's, near 90, and the heat index near 90. coming up, the next round of hot weather and the next best chance of thunderstorms. all of that in a few minutes. jonathan: some of the damage left behind, look at the size of this tree,. a big cleanup underway. nancy: tim barber shows us the scene. jonathan, there was still a lot going on out here. they are actually removing branches from this massive tree, right into the wood chipper, chopping them up. the base of the tree crashed onto this subaru station wagon and into the homes. they have got most of the branches away from this massive tree, the windows blasted out of the front of the house. the gutter is hanging off the roof, and to the

picking up with a crane one of the branches they hacked off with a chainsaw. two homes were damaged. the home on the left, the person was home and heard this. he said it found it like a branchville, not a tree crashing down. -- it sounded like a branch fell. >> heard a crash, the power went out. within realized we had a big problem when we looked out the front door because we could not look out the front door. tim: this is all that is left of the tree. crews expect to have this cleaned up tonight. tim barber, abc 7 news. jonathan: tim, thanks. the weather made for a frustrating commute on the metro after a train struck a tree branch that had fallen into the path of the train near dunn loring. there was minor damage to the train, and the conductor of the train slowed the train

impact, probably saw it coming. nobody was injured, but after an hour delay, riders were taken off the train and put onto another. nancy: and amazing rescue at the height of the storm, a family paddling in the tidal basin when the heavy rain ,wind, and lightning hit. rescued them and took them safely to shore. stay aware of the weather by signing up for text alerts at wjla.com/text. jonathan: breaking news in mclean, the police investigating two bodies found inside of a home. tom roussey is live on the scene. tom: jonathan, still a very active investigation. let me show you the home. homicide detectives are inside, and also the two bodies of adult females found here, the bodies still inside.

like on the scene earlier. according to fairfax county police, this happened on dean drive after they got a call a little after 2 p.m. it is not clear who called, but the caller said some he might be killed in the house. when they got here, they could not make contact with anybody inside, so they basically broken and discover the bodies. this home is within a stone's row of kent gardens elementary, also very close to mclean high school. neighbors say this kind of thing is unheard of here. >> you don't expect things like this to happen, especially in an area like this. and then something like this happens and you don't know how to process it. right now i'm in shock something to doors down for my house occurred. really scary. >> there was a grandmother, mother, and daughter who want to the local elementary school with my daughter as wl.

kept to their cells. >> -- to themselves. >> one of the theories is perhaps a murder suicide. not confirmed. om: one resident said there was a grandmother, mother, and elementary school-age daughter who all lived fearful stop it's not clear if the adult victims are the residents of the home. the police said the little girl was not here when they arrived and they have not heard she is reported missing, so they think she is ok. live in mclean, tom roussey, abc 7 news. nancy: a mistrial in the murder of a koetter in chantilly. -- of a caterer in chantilly. the jurors not able to come to a verdict. anna-lysa gayle is live in fear airfax with the latest. anna-lysa:am

tears after the judge discolored a mistrial. the caterer was stabbed to death nearly a year ago during a dispute. [commotion] >> police! police! police! bonds walked out tonight essentially a free man. that heators say stabbed the caterer in chantilly. prosecutors say that the caterer started the argument. after six and a half hours of deliberating, the jury could not come to a consensus. here is what a pastor of the victim had to say. >> i am disheartened to here once again justice is not revealing in our country. it saddens me to think that

peers could even think he was not guilty and a person lost her life. she lost her life. justice is not prevailing for certain communities in our country. attorney said,s' "we are hopeful the commonwealth will consider strongly their failure to obtain a verdict in this case. this is a matter that needs to be concluded so his family and the family of miss johns can move forward." prosecutors are planning on retrying the case. both sides will meet in august to come up with a new trial date. anna-lysa gayle, abc 7 news. nancy: d.c. police are looking for a thief with expensive taste. some he broke into the headquarter restaurant early sunday and stole several bottles of

bourbon. it is so rare there may not be another bottle of it anywhere. even if they find the thief, they are afraid they may not get the booze back. jonathan: the fbi finally caught up with the american league bandit. every time they take a picture of him, he had a ball cap on. he's accused of targeting 12 banks in northern virginia and maryland. no word tonight on what charges he will face. a metro boss fired, accused of abusing overtime for stop metro said he was getting overtime money even when he was not working. amid an ongoing investigation into overtime fraud. metro says that other workers are also wonder administrative review. jonathan: a bizarre investigation ensure all's county, a service worker was bitten and trampled by a camel. he suffered serious injuries

charles county. >> i did not even know they bite. jonathan: the performances were canceled because of a permit issue. guard will best blocking access to the potomac this weekend in the area of the trump golf course in sterling. they say there is a security issue which could expose the president when he is golfing. the coast guard will announce the closures over a radio, but the area may only be shut down while president trump golf. jonathan: the administration is fighting back against a setback on the travel ban, a federal judge expanding family members who are permitted to travel to the u.s. from the six muslim countries to include grandparents. the white house has filed an appeal with the u.s. supreme court. we will keep you posted. developing now, look at this, a florida neighborhood being

it started with a small hole, then another home was torn apart and sucked in. 11 families are being forced from their homes as a result. tonight the massive sinkhole outside of tap, florida, is growing, swallowing two houses and threatening more. the family of this house getting out minutes before the ground gave way. >> so emotional. i started crying and everything. we got the dogs out. we cannot save anything else. jonathan: the home sinking into the mud. earlier, they were calling 911. >> there is a sinkhole next to our neighbors house and it's eating the house completely. jonathan: within minutes, it was crumbling. the sink hole spread across the street, already over 250 feet wide by 50 feet deep.

evacuated with whatever they could carry. >> they are fearful. we cannot get clear answers because this is mother nature. jonathan: there were early signs of a sinkhole here five years ago. that house stabilize just last year. officials want to make sure the sinkhole has stopped expanding, then they will try to drain it. very dramatic. jonathan: can you imagine? establishing a military branch for future wars in space. nancy: it is real and making progress on capitol hill. jonathan: no progress for these lawmakers, this massive fight going on in arlington. nancy: and back here, a new grant helping

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nancy: a deepening mystery over this car crash in michigan. the police said that as a stolen car that ran into a tree and flipped. officer say that four

people all got out and ran. there is an ongoing search for them. jonathan: this is not a bar brawl, this is government in action, a parliament in taiwan. a fight broke out for a second straight day today, squabbling over and infrastructure project. cheers used as weapons, some members being escorted out by security. i think it mix it more interesting to watch the political process, though. and here is something you cannot do -- you do not show up to jury nd.y with a beer in ha this did not go well. he shows up with a beer, gets arrested and charged with public intoxication. the police say he was slurring his speech and was unstable on his feet. a big red. is getting to celebrate landmarks. and there is a milestone in the lgbtq community. tim: our

full of history, but sometimes history -- >> to a lot of people, it's more than just building, it's about culture. tim: the office of planning is helping preserve that culture with a new $50,000 grant. >> we are losing a lot of rapid change in the city. tim: it will preserve lgbtq history before disappears, similar to the work the district has done telling the stories of african-american culture. are developing an historic context study which identifies the themes and eras and people. tim: such as the aids crisis and the original whitman walker circle dupont neighborhoods, and this home. he made the first equal rights based on sexual orientation and persuaded the american psychiatric association to stop defining homosexuality is a me

district's history. tim: tim barber, abc 7 news. jonathan: interesting headline from the house -- they passed a defense bill to create a space corps. the new military branch would be dedicated to fighting wars outside of the earth's atmosphere. the white house has already said they oppose the idea. fans ofn exciting news, "star wars" got a first look at the disney world and disneyland star wars worlds. riders will get a chance to pilot the millennium falcon and another will put you in the middle of a fight against the first order. these do not open for another two years, but i'm sure that is not stopping the biggest fans. jonathan: good stuff. this guy went to war at the age of 19. he now finally has a medal that he earned more than 70 years ago. nancy:

that oversight at the air force memorial today, where the lieutenant from college park received a purple heart just birthday.e his 95th he was a bomber crew man in the army air force during world war ii. he was injured when his airplane crash landed in a mission over germany in 1944. >> i just have so much love for this country, and i've always felt the same way. i had the privilege of serving this country in the military. nancy: the military was previously unable to present him with the purple heart during the war because he was a prisoner of war. gone, the storms are long and in national harbor things have settled down nicely, the high today 97 degrees. the heat index by use at 3 p.m. were 107. long gone tonight and for the day tomorrow. the rain totals, three quarters a

national, close to a quarter inch at andrews. cooling into the 70's most areas, dulles, manassas, fairfax, cold paper. the feels that -- fairfax, culpeper. , afeels like 78 degrees temperature change from 24 hours ago of 10, 15 degrees cooler closer to the beltway. stormwatch 7 satellite and radar, showers hang on and extreme southern maryland, not amounting to a whole lot more. not expecting anything to become severe. closer in, waldorf finally beginning to dry out a bit. we keep the showers for another hour or so. hughesville light rain, mechanicsville a heavier downpour at this hour, but not lasting very long and definitely not severe. around the beltway it is dry, the skies gradually clearing. nighttime lows come upper 60's, middle 70's.

weather to open the windows, but if you like it warm and muggy, tonight might be your night. futurecast for the day tonight, looks a whole lot better tomorrow. not as hot and humid. a nice mixture of sun and clouds through the day, daytime highs eventually into the upper 80's, close to 90 degrees. the heat index values, instead of being 105, tomorrow lower 90's. the 10 day outlook from stormwatch 7, 91 sunday, upper 80's and a chance of storms monday and tuesday. back in the lower to middle 90's wednesday and thursday of next week. we the following weekend, keep the 90 degree-plus trend going. a little break from the heat wave, but some are far from over. jonathan: this is something without was cool. moved -- all being they even have t m

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nancy: a happy update about this little guy who was abandoned a storage container in col umbia. jonathan: eddie's family brought him back to howard county animal control to say he is healthy and happy come and a lot bigger, surrounded by loving family at a good home. nancy: i'm sure he is getting a lot of treats. good for him. robert: baseball is back. jonathan: seems bryce harper like a little break that he got. robert: yes, bryce harper breaks out in cin

>> and now the toyota sports desk, brought to you by your local toyota dealers. action,nats back in pulling the reds tonight. runner on, bryce harper, and we have liftoff. his 21st long ball of the season. nats up 4-0. batter,ame score, same

same result, straightaway center. nats win, 5-0. the john deere classic, patrick rogers had a day. , and threet away inches, but who is counting. hole. true, buirdies the he is the leader after two rounds. heartbreaking story from canada. a fan had a chance to win $1 million. he needed both teams to return the kickoff for a touchdown. winnipeg returned 114 seconds into the game. the second quarter, toronto returns one. but the second return was called back for an illegal block. jonathan: boo. robert: it was not a complete bust. they were invited to canada's version of the super

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nancy: oh, my. what a day. steve: it's friday. five consecutive days of 90 or better. today the heat index value was 107. jonathan: wasn't that special? steve: with a high of 97. yeah, it felt great. we are looking at cooler air, if you want to call it back, moving in tomorrow, lower humidity, 89 degrees. near 90 sunday, but the weekend looks picture-perfect. nice july weather, whether at the mountains or the beaches. 50% chance

monday, then back into the 90's most of next week into the following weekend. jonathan: is this a pattern where these storms just pop up? steve: more than likely. jonathan: jimmy kimmel is next. nancy: have a good night.

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