anchor: a deadly rash of shootings in d.c. neighbors tell us what they heard. the video of what led to one deadly double shooting. starting a new job. advice the president's new chief of staff on the eve of his first day. and what a difference a day makes. after a saturday filled with rain and gray skies, mother nature delivers a spectacular sunday. 6:00 30,bc 7 news at on your side. -- at 6:30 on your side. kimberly: thanks for joining us. i am kimberly suiters. right now, police are actively investigating yet another deadly

northeast. us with what he has learned. i'm wondering if these trends are related, brian. brian: kimberly, we are hearing that is quite a possibility. heommander telling me believes this shooting could be connected to another block party where a shooting happened earlier this morning. canot new information we tell you. a 17-year-old was killed out here. his family identifies him as jermaine richards. he was here this afternoon visiting friends. a very active scene. d.c. police out here in the 4400 block of the street. latest shooting after what has been a very violent weekend. the second homicide today, on the other seven. what led to another deadly double shooting in northwest. >>

i am devastated. i never had anything like this happen ever. her sense of security is shattered after two men were shot on the front steps of her home in the 4800 block of kansas avenue northwest. >> it was so close. brian: neighbors heard the sound of gunshots ricochet off the block around 2:00 this morning. >> they woke me up when the shots fell. brian: surveillance cameras captured the victims sitting and waiting for a bus when another man comes up. he orders them into empty their pockets. second later, both men get shot. one victim fell on the steps. the other stumbled around back and was pronounced dead on scene. >> he must have fallen goes the blood is from the back to the front on the street right there. brian: the violence started before 10:00. two men shot near the ecuadorian embassy on 15th three northwest

another man was shot in northeast and around 1:00 this morning, another man shot at a block party near 45th treat northeast. -- 45th street northeast. >> i hope this does not happen anymore. brian: d.c. police still working to talk to witnesses to get more information. seven people now shot since 9:00 last night. of the 7, 2 have died. no arrests have been made in any of these incidents right now. the chief taking to twitter this morning before the shooting happened, tweeting out that he is very disheartened with the senseless shooting. anyone with any information tonight is being urged to come forward. that is the latest. ryan hughes, abc 7 news. montgomery county police have released a sketch of the man they say sexually assaulted a woman after leaving a bar in gaithersburg. take a close look at your scre

police say the woman met a man who looks like this at quincy bar and grill and left with him early wednesday morning. that is when police say the man forced her to an area and raped her. he is described as an hispanic man, 20 to 30 years old. 200 pounds. call police if you recognize him. a six-year-old man -- 60-year-old man stabbed. montgomery county police say it happened after 11:00 last night. by the shot -- police are looking for a 15-year-old suspect tonight. skies, andlear unseasonably cold temperatures. it is hard to believe. it is the end of july. the heat and humidity will come creeping back in. meteorologist josh knight can tell you exactly win. josh: -- exactly when. josh: l

daylight this. pretty much start to finish. in alexandria.es even in the places we did get into the low and mid 80's, the lack of humidity makes it feels so nice. what do we have to thank for it? high pressure. sinkingnd drier air into the region. not a lot happening on satellite and radar. leesburg, 82 degrees. in some of these areas, it feels a degree or two cooler because the air is drier. very comfortable for us throughout the rest of the evening. many of us stopping to the 50's and 60's for tomorrow morning. you get a refreshing start to monday, but then the heat starts to build. i will outline all of that for you, coming up in just a bit. kimberly: that is the message posted in downtown ellicott city just one year af

street. remember the human chain they made to save people stranded in the fast-moving water? there were others hunkering down together, waiting for the deadly storm to pass. two people died in that flood. a third person died weeks later while helping to rebuild. the community spent the weekend commemorating the losses and new beginning. developing now, secretary of homeland security john kelly is preparing for his first day at the new white house chief of staff. tonight, he is getting plenty of advice. think he has not to protect the justice department and protect bob mueller and the investigation is going on. a the president ought to go different direction and more discipline, more structure in there. afterly: kelly takes over one of the most volatile weeks of the trump presidency. one item on the retired marine general's agenda, what to do about health care. >> we need to go back to committee to the h

committee, identify the problems, carefully evaluate possible solutions through hearings, and then produce a series of bills. kimberly: today, white house advisor kellyanne conway said the president will decide this week whether to end reimbursements to insurance companies. those payments reduced amount of -- the amount that obamacare people pay. thene duke will become acting secretary of homeland security. duke has nearly 30 years of government experience, holding high-level positions in dhs under presidents george w. bush and barack obama. duke was confirmed to her current position in april by a in the senate. 700 55 is the number of american diplomats vladimir putin is kicking out of his country in response to new sanctions on russia.

that is roughly the same number of russian diplomat in the u.s. the expelled diplomats must leave russia by september 1. vice president mike pence is in in aia, the first stop three country visit to eastern europe. while the purpose of the trip is to reassure allies worried about russia, vice president -- the vice president addressed aggression by north korea. vp. pence: the united states of america is going to continue to marshall the support of nations across the region and across the world. and to further isolate north korea economically and diplomatically. kimberly: the pentagon says the air force conducted a successful test of a missile defense system over the pacific. flew overb-1 bombers south korea in a show of force after the north's latest ballistic missile test. coming up on abc seven news at 6:30, scared off by fire. what caused an entire state to

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20 people were treated for minor injuries and anxiety. the tomorrowland website says the states caught fire due to a technical malfunction. fire fighters are looking for an official cause tonight. a developing story now. shot duringtourist a robbery of his vacation villa is recovering in florida. 57-year-old mike jones confronted that masked gunmen when he got shot. burglars got away with one laptop computer. >> when you come here, do not automatically assume nothing can happen to you, because we have criminals. kimberly: jones is from the d.c. area and is recovering in fort lauderdale. police trying to look at surveillance video to get a clear identity of the suspect. five weeks ago, and alabama man man shotn alabama during a robbery.

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kimberly: there was a brief power outage near nationals park. a circuit breaker briefly knocked out power in southeast. nearly 900 customers were impacted by the brief outage. power was restored by 11:00 a.m., couple of hours before the nats played against the rockies. school is just weeks away and the

resource center in southeast gave kids the chance to compare early by letting them stuff their backpacks with hensel, -- rulers, andebooks, so much more. the iconic wooden roller coaster was built in the mirror image of the coney island cyclone. the classic roller coaster has given nearly 9 million rides sends it opened in 19 -- since it opened in 1990. it will be replaced by another thrilling audition. -- thrilling addition. josh: nothing like a wooden roller coaster. kimberly: minor concussions, those kind of things. of fun.ts today was the perfect day to go to the park. tomorrow, the family has another nice one for something like that. water rides, more enjoyable tomorrow. let me show you what is going on for you. 80 degrees in bethesda.

keep showing the golf courses because what a perfect day to be out there doing that. or just about anything. temperatures slowly coming down for us. beautiful shot for us, looking across the water. you can see from the national harbor, 83 degrees. that northerly breeze making it feel cooler. 82 degrees across the area. our dew point today, hanging in the 50's. that is how we measure how much humidity. very comfortable area. as we work our way into tomorrow, it starts to kick back up. the key, almost uncomfortable -- y, almost uncomfortable. really soak it up. the rest of the evening, perfect to be outside. 72 degrees at 9:00. gether night where you can fresh inside as well. waking up tomorrow morning indeed, a little bit warmer. tomorrow morning, mid 60's. once you get outside of town, temperatures start out in the

cool in some of these areas. temperatures do not drop off in some of these areas. they temperatures in the 80's at this point. hard to cool off too much. warmer examl be today, but really nice, so if you are getting out of the office and enjoying some of the sunshine, the earlier you can plan that lunch, probably better. 85 degrees by 2:00, so it hurts to get a little bit sticky, a little bit hotter. we are up to around 87 degrees. 84 degrees for an annapolis tomorrow. a bit cooler as we get off the -- get onto the other side. to put into perspective, today we talked out around 82 to 83 degrees. tuesday, 88 degrees. we are back towards the 90's by the time we get to wednesday and thursday. the temperatures are very close to what is normal for this time of year. today's temperature, closer what we would see in early september. i hope you really enjoyed it. the heat starts to build back in. we bring in a few

for you by wednesday and a lot of the area is going to stay dry. to get a decent shot for rain, looks like we are going to hold off until friday and into saturday. the cold front will come through them, cooling is off some, but bringing us our best chance for rain. the timing is up in the air, but if you have saturday plans, you might want to have a rain plan ready to go. kimberly: we don't want to think about that yet. just holding onto the gorgeousness of today. robert: gave him a break today. that is ok. much-needed break. redskins get the day off. then, he puts himself in the history books. that is next in sports.

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start time, pushback to 7:40, however -- a special morning. making his major league debut with mother in the crowd. she is in tears. betty is a former first-round pick. bottom of the third, 4-1 rockies. ryan zimmerman drives on the opposite way. he then passes frank howard as the all-time d.c. home run leader. 238 that point. he struggled in his debut. laura not a rodda gives -- nats drive game one. rangers. adrienne joins an exclusive club and lines a shot down the left field line for a double and hit number 3003 31st player in baseball history to accomplish this. beltran celebrating with his family on the field. the rangers giving

now, they lead 10-6 in the ninth inning. the baseball hall of fame. ivanovic has is now part of the baseball him on salary. he played with the texas rangers, but is probably best known in washington for catching stephen strasburg's fourth team major-leaguehis league debut. other members of the class include tim raynor, bud selig, -- josh are we start the second quarter. 37-26, mystics. big with the block. mystics on the move. she had a huge first half, fourth her three-pointer of the game. second half alone, she went 14 for 22. 30 points. that is a

mystics win this 1, 77-70. in football, after three long days of hardware, the redskins finally get a break. today was the first day off since camp started. they will get back to work on monday. they have their walk through a 10:30 in the morning, and at 3:00 p.m., -- ,> this was there one day off coming up, and i wanted to have two the days of practice and jump back into it. try to get them every three to four days. these guys are working extremely hard, and it can be beneficial to their legs and bodies. robert: much more tonight on sports sunday. you want to hear what they have to say. scott abraham brings us another rising star. all that and more, on abc seven sports sunday at 11:35, right after the news. do not go to bed yet.

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kimberly: we were just talking about the water in the canal, and it is not really -- the last fewter days. hopefully, a little bit of a flow to it. we are also talking tennis, with some of the match is really underway tomorrow. the heat filled back in for us as well. your best chances to see rain issues during the tournament look like wednesday and as we get closer to the semifinals and finals, friday into saturday. 30% chance wednesday and again on friday. your best chance for

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