country place apartment complex have been allowed to walk in and out. not allowed to drive. show you what is going on now. the power crews are shoring up the power line that snapped earlier today. what happened at 1:00 today, somehow, that power line fell to route 29 in burtonsville. it got caught one a truck. thankfully no one was injured. the truck caused the power line to move. causing the power pole to snap. or bend at least. not snap entirely. the power crews able to shore up the power pole. route 29 got closed at 2:00 this afternoon. at the worst possible time for rush hour. it's been closed since. a mile or two in both directions to the north and the south. traffic on 29 obviously a major thoroughfare has been shut down completely. a major inconvenience during the rush hour. obviously a big inconvenience for the residents who want to get in and out

apartments. we spoke earlier today with ivan brown caring for 84 -- yvonne brown carrying for 84-year-old evelyn wallace who needed her oxygen to be refilled in her apartment. >> i'm trying to get her into her house. the oxygen is very low. we had no idea the accident is going on. i have to get her in a house or get another oxygen tank. i don't know what we'll do. >> miss brown decided to take her to the fire department to make sure that everything was safe. what you are looking at now are residents of the country place apartment complex. they are temporarily not allowed to go inside. as the fire crews are shoring up, the power crews are shoring up the line. we expect the foot traffic will be allowed to continue. it's happening now. they have just been told they can walk back inside the apartment complex. i'll told that the power is on inside

now when is it going to be good news for drivers? word how long the crews will be out here and when most importantly at the moment, when route 29 in burtonsville will be open back up. we'll follow it and bring you updates when they are available. larry: some credit to the crews making quick work of it. thanks. breaking now, news on the russia investigation. special prosecutor robert muler is convening a grand -- robert mueller is convening a grand jury. that indicates he wants to subpoena records and take witness testimony. alison: a shocking scene. police car running off the road. the officer at the wheel passed out from carbon monoxide fumes. that was the first of several problems. all tied back to ford explorer interceptors. tonight police departments are taking action to protect the officers. our maryland b

bell leaving the "7 on your side" i-team investigation here. brad? brad: so what we found is most police departments in area have some for the ford explorers. about all of them are monitoring the situation. we are here in montgomery county in rockville. this is the garage where they take care of the police vehicles. this is one of those ford explorers police interceptors on the rack. under near larry is the superintendent, the supervisor here. he has a little camera that is looking up. he is spotting right here on the screen. you can see it a crack in the exhaust manifold and that is what they are looking for. that is what they are concerned about. montgomery county owns 108 ford explorers. many are the police interceptors like this one. so fleet managers paid close attention to reports around the country, including austin, texas that

poisoning made the cops sick and caused crashes. here every explorer is getting looked at. >> we are inspecting them for the penetrations in the cabin per the technical safety bulletins that we have already received. we are inspecting the manifolds. >> the exhaust manifold inspections using a special camera that turned up an alarming problem. cracks. >> this one here because we have black around it looks like it possibly could be leaking exhaust. >> with the inspections not yet complete it appears that most of the explores have potentially dangerous problem. >> up to 80% of the fleet of the ford explorers have cracked manifolds. brad: elsewhere they made the modifications made by police to install special equipment for leaving holes in the body to allow exhaust in. montgomery county director of general service believes the manifold leaks could be just as bad. >> the exhaust fumes are coming up from the

the manifold. and are immediately entering in the driver compartment. >> that can be dangerous. that is why vehicles like this one that have the crack are taken out of service. at this point for this car it's a warranty repair. ford issueded a statement saying they are working with the transit safety administration. working with the police departments. this has not turned into a recall. but the federal probe, the federal investigation is now looking at a total of 1.3 million ford explores. certainly here in montgomery county and across the area is something that those who run the cars are watching very, very closely. in rockville, brad bell, abc7 news. larry: do we have any idea what is causing the cracks to form? brad: we don't. if you know anything about the cars, exhaust manifolds used to be cast iron. cast metal. now made of steel. they just seem to be happening and they are really hard to spot.

to get up and look and spot the thing. they don't know why. larry: all right. brad bell. thankses. jonathan: two people critically hurt after firefighters had to cut them out of twisted metal that was a car. this happened in southeast d.c. it's the result of a carjacking that started miles away. they spotted a blue car stolen. then they t-boned the acura. two people were seriously hurt. the men in the stolen car tried to walk away from scene but they were arrested. alison: tonight a d.c. firefighter is in critical condition after being hit by a ladder truck on the scene of a fire. 28-year-old dane smothers was hit by that truck after he arrived at a fire scene in the 800 block of f street northeast. he had surgery at medstar washington surgery center. smothers has been on job for three months.

years. tonight there are new details emerging about the spotsylvania county home where police say a man kept his girlfriend and children under lock and key. police say the 43-year-old moore kept his girlfriend and two sons ages 8 and 11 hostage essentially for two full years. an arrest warrant says that moore held them captive by force, intimidation or deception. the police say the children told them they had never gone to school. >> i'm shocked that it would happen this locally. it's also pretty awful. awful thing to happen to them. larry: the woman was hospitalized with an injury from the assault. the boys appear healthy are with other family members. trapped 30 feet above the ground. the race to save a man from broken bungee court before he passes out. alison: and the bizarre story that matches a literal highway act. jonathan: the "7 on your side" health matters team is helping you g

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jonathan: look at t. see if you can make sense of this. that is a car dangling from a power line. trapped there in a storm. really. how did it happen? three people were inside the car. none of them hurt. police are still trying to piece together how they got the car up on a wire like that. alison: now to this. this is a terrifying scene. a bungee cord ride malfunctioned. that is never good. this man was left. you see him there dangling 30 feet in the air. it was for 20 minutes. he was hanging there. he twisted and fighting to breathe and keep cramps at bay. they finally reached him wit

freedom. >> be safe, be safe. >> i lay down on the ladder. -- he let me relax and catch my breathe. alison: but the ordeal wasn't over. they also had to help his friend and the ride worker because they were trapped in a raised cage. they had to repel to safety. ahead at 6:00 -- a life changing surprise. parents kept from the four children. and their reaction all caught on video. jonathan: look at this. a night lesson that has -- flight lesson that has gone horribly wrong. what we know about the frightening scene and the story that goes with it next at 6:00. alison: you still have time to get health questions answered. the "7 on your side" team has dermatolis

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jonathan: caught on video. the crash of a small lane. it seems like it has no power and it drops in line of trees. we have learned that the two men on board were a flight instructor and a student. the instructor has critical injuries. the student is banged up but will be okay. not clear who was flying the plane or what brought it down. alison: wow! back at home now. jonathan: actually, look at this must-see video. this is in utah. he walks in a store. we was threatening the store clerk. the woman in store runs and locks herself in the office to call the police. she wasn't hurt. the guy is not all there. he is impersonating the reaper there. he damaged cars outside before the police cornered him. they arrested him. alison: a dramatic reversal of a frightening diagnosis. the c.d.c. now says a dog that died after staying at a doggie daycare in the district did

they are calling the initial test a false positive. stephen tschida has reaction there the frustrate and the relieved put -- pet owners. stephen: these are the dogs that spent time with fred, the bulldog that began exhibiting signs of rabies and died en route to a vet. d.c. department of scientists ran tests on fred's brain and both came back positive for rabies. >> i was a little panicked. stephen: this led to an urgent call for the rabies boosters and it caused panic and concern since fred had been vaccinated for rabies. then last night the centers for disease control announced its test came back negative. >> both people were so relieved at this point for the public safety reasons and for their own dog. stephen: it wasn't just dogs who got rabies shots. people as well including the staff here at dogma.

it than really need it at the end of the day. i'm glad i got it. stephen: some dog owners question how the city could cause so much concern over a dog which did not actually have rabies. but others say they understand why the city may have rushed the call for rabies boosters for dogs and shots for people. >> you can't blame them for panicking. there is no cure for it. you die. stephen: a mystery does remain. what killed a year and a half old bulldog that appeared healthy until days before the death? stephen tschida, abc7 news. alison: now the story of the day. an amazing moment captured on video in texas. this is where a couple decided to adopt a little girl but they didn't tell the older children until the big moment arrived. >> oh, yeah! >> she said your new baby

then my mind blew up. >> your mind blew up? what does it look like? >> blew! alison: the couple said they felt called by god to take in more children and they are now a family of seven. the parents say the other children spar over who gets to hold the new daughter. but they are quick to hand her off when it's diaper changing time. funny how that happens. jonathan: that is a big family. that is a herd. if you have two kids you go man to man defense but if you have seven you go zone. alison: i love the surprise. really cute. what is in store for us? doug: another severe thunderstorm warning closer to the studios here to alexandria and portions of fairfax county. let's jump into it and tell you the story. we have the existing one that we will check out over loudoun county. this a brand new. show you live look over national harbor. see the difference in the horizon. you are looking to the southwest and looking more to the west/northwest. it's very dark here. that is a very intense severe

let me show you what it looks like on doppler radar. here we are from the vantage point. looking southwest. looking at this line of storms. which is getting stronger. heavy rain. lightning and potential and the strong wind gusts with what we have seen with the strong wind gusts and the storms. large tree branches and trees could go down. the areas we are concerned about until 7:00 are at ease. bailey's crossroads will be in five minutes. the crosshairs of the storm. falls church, tysons, mclean at 6:38. 6:40 in potomac heights and 6:47 it will cross the river to montgomery county and cabin john. we have another storm farther north and west keeping an eye on as well. that is still in virginia. still in loudoun county. this runs until 6:30 for montgomery county as well. we will see what they do. they may issue or extend it. the storm does not appear to be getting larger or stronger.

winds, lightning and heavy downpours. this is the story today. storms are popping up. in the past few days we have had them. hard to tell where to put our attention. they are popping up anywhere. but right now the heaviest storms coming up to the southwest of the district. it will clip the arlington area. most of fairfax county under the gun. future cast shows the motion of the storm will continue to move northeast and settle down by 9:00 or so. it will be partly cloudy and muggy. lower 70's for the forecast. here are the numbers. 67 to 74. partly cloudy. a light southerly wind at 5 miles per hour. now the fairfax 4h fair and carnival continues. beautiful tomorrow. watch for the nighttime hours clearing, cooler and breeze i have for the weekend. the next -- breezy for the weekend. d.c. united on newschannel8 saturday at 7:00 at r.f.k. taking on toronto. beautiful weather there. the final day of the citi open is beautiful on sunday. showers and storms on monday and tuesday. look at

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erin: we begin at the citi open. midday showdown between simona halep and

duque-harino. it seemed that simona halep was on the way for the upset but she battled back to advance with a 3-6, 6-4, 6-2 victory. here is halep after the win. >> i was thinking about the french open. so now i'm done. i'm not thinking about it anymore. if it is going to happen it will happen. i don't want to chase it. i just want to win it. if i can be a number one i will be. erin: the tournament, the citi open is also about growing the sport of tennis. every day you can find a junior clinic on the side court at the rock creek park tennis center. wayne bryon, the father of brian brothers is terrific with the kids teaching them all about the lifetime sport. i'm not the best tennis player you but i want to

erin: all right. good stuff for the kids there. the nationals are off today. a good time to head out there to the citi open. alison: perfect. erin: assuming it's not raining. jonathan: a good weekend. alison: not the best time. doug: not again. but it will be better we hope tomorrow and everything. this is looking live from the rooftop camera. the visibility is dropping as the storm will brush arlington here. the rosslyn area, we will watch it and monitor it closely as we get through the next 20, 30 minutes here. severe thunderstorm warning in effect until 7:00 tonight and we'll just watch for strong winds and possibility of the wind gusts to 70 -- sorry, to 60 miles per hour. keep an eye on that. brian van de graaff is in for steve tonight at 11:00. we will tell you what to expect heading into the weekend. alison: sounds good. thank you. >> if anything should change many

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tonight, breaking news as we come on the air. the new report tonight that special counsel robert mueller, has now empanelled a grand jury in the russia investigation. the probe is intensifying. what we have learned tine, and what president trump's perch lawyer said just moments ago. also tonight, the young woman who texted her teenage boyfriend, encouraging him to kill himself. he did. well, today, the judge delivers the sentence. deborah roberts inside the courtroom. record-breaking heat. the wildfires and severe storms hitting in the middle of the country tonight. now moving east. severe turbulence after an american airlines jet takes off from the u.s. the pilot calling for help.