breaking news tonight, a white nationalist rally turns deadly in charlottesville as a crowd of protesters is plowed into by a car. -- and tornado touches down in fauquier county. now we are under a severe thunderstorm watch. different severe thunderstorm warnings, one near leesburg, the other near frederick county. up told have wind gusts 60 miles per hour and large hail. more on that coming up. >> from abc 7 news, this is a breaking news alert. kimberly: i'm kimberly suiters.

turned violent in charlottesville, va, one person killed, 19 others hurt as a car rammed into people. governor terry mcauliffe and other officials are about to hold a news conference. following has been this news from the live desk. some very intense video and scenes from charlottesville. amy: absolutely, and at this hour, the person who rammed their car into the crowd is in custody. a warning tonight because the video you are about to see is so graphic. the quiet college town of charlottesville, virginia, turned into chaos. upset over the decision to remove a statue of confederate general robert e. park, whendowntown suddenly a car came barreling down the street, ramming into the protesters, running them over. others forced to jump out of the way.

you could see people laid out on the streets, paramedics working on them, people wrapping up their legs. amy: the charlottesville mayor said he was heartbroken a life has been lost. i urge all people of goodwill, go home. virginia governor terry mcauliffe declared a state of urgency. the crowd was ordered to disperse. >> leave the area or you will be arrested. trump condemning the violence, but urging both groups to set aside their differences. >> this has been going on for a long, long time. there is no place in america for this. what is vital now is a swift restoration of law and order and the protection of innocent lives. rally after a friday night march by white nationalists resulted in fights with protesters countering the event. reaction from virginia'

senators, senator mark warner saying that virginians more the life taken, saying that he condems the violence. senator tim kaine said that people who come to virginia to spew hate and incite violence have no place here. we will bring you the latest on abc 7 news and online. the live desk, amy aubert, abc 7 news. kimberly: people across social media were quick to condemn the violence. president trump also tweeted about the clashes saying, "we must all be united and condemn what hate stands for. there is no place for this kind of violence in america." first lady melania trump said, "our country encourages freedom of speech and communicate without hate in our hearts." vice president mike pence also tweeted that he stands with potus against hate and violence. we are

closely following the developments from charlottesville, and q mccray is just minutes away from the scene. he will have live reports tonight and updates anytime. just go to our website, wjla.com . this just in, more breaking news from charlottesville, crews are on the scene of a helicopter crash west of the city. it went down in the woods near the bird would golf course. no word on injuries or fatalities. we will follow the story and bring updates as soon as we get them. we are on storm watch tonight. after violent weather rolled through last night, we are back under a severe thunderstorm watch. meteorologist josh knight has a first look at the forecast. what can we expect tonight? it is so humid, it feels like something is coming. josh: and that is where we get the fuel for they thunderstorms. the sunshine destabilizes the atmosphere. what happens, the weather service puts out this severe thunderstorm watch.

separate warnings, and in both of those we could have wind gusts up to 60 miles per hour and possibly some hail. this goes all the way up into new york. this is a busy weather evening for a lot of the east coast. zooming in, this continues to drop to the southeast. are where weeyes have a lot more lightning, the storms intensifying quickly. zooming in, damascus, and working towards columbia, the warning continues to the southeast. the storm could pack damaging wind gusts, a lot of big oak trees. these are the things that will come down in the storms. in that box, take cover. leesburg also in the crosshairs. moving just at 20 miles per hour, so not too quickly, but theburg about 6:33 for storm to continue dropping to the southeast. anywhere in

but fade out quickly. we have to watch these closely. videoo want to bring new from fauquier county, where the national weather service has tornadod an ef-0 touched down in broad run. this is the third confirmed tornado in our area and a little less than three weeks. ryan hughes is on the scene now, surveying the damage. moore is headed that way, ryan. ryan: reign as the last thing that anybody wants out here, josh. this tornado was only only ground for about three minutes, but it for a path of destruction more than a mile long. this is some of the damage we came across. look how close this tree came to almost landing on that home. families had to take cover knowing the tornado was headed towards them. another round of violent weather. >> it sounded like a freight train coming. ryan:

service confirming an ef-0 tornado touchdown friday evening. >> god was with us. ryan: the storms and heavy winds pushing trees down onto cars. >> came across the top and straight through the woods. ryan: the twister narrowly missing this person's home. >> went up the street and got under a bridge. the tornado came by and cap to lifting the rear of the truck. >> we opened the front door and there was literally a river in front of the door. ryan: her backyard is 20 part. wind flippedour furniture and ripped roots out of this tree. families in haymarket are also cleaning up mother nature's mess. asinsaws could be heard people were cleaning. heavy rain causing major flooding outside of th

, and this person is counting her blessings that this tree did not crush or home. >> it would have demolished the house and probably injured us. we are very grateful and thankful. alive, power has been restored to this neighborhood. that happened about an hour ago. but more damaging wind could be headed this way this evening. the good news in all of this, there have been no reports of injuries. live in broad run, fauquier county, ryan hughes, abc 7 news. inconvenience because of last night's rain forced the nationals to postpone their game against the giants, rescheduled as part of a day/night doubleheader tomorrow. but people at 1:05, with tickets to last night's game can use them tomorrow for the second game. when severe weather strikes, stay connected with the weather team. sign up for text alerts and download the stormwatch 7 weather app. follow us

for instant forecast updates. more information in the case of the 17-year-old girl who was shot in the head sitting in her car in northeast. the suspect's 21-year-old philip mcdaniel. he was in court today, held without bond. the police say the victim was caught in the crossfire thursday afternoon. the teenager is still in critical condition tonight, fighting for her life. >> heartsick, heart broke, you name it. it is like my own child, and she was about to go to college. kimberly: detectives are still looking for two more people connected with the crime. japan has employed patriot missiles in the western part of the country. japan says the move gives them the best chance of shooting down missiles launched from north korea. if north korea follows through on its threat to fire on guam, the missile would fly directly over japan and they fear that it could

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kimberly: returning to our top story this evening, this is live from charlottesville. we are awaiting the charlottesville police chief, al us ons, to update the situation where there were alt-right groups opposing the removal of the robert e. lee statue

a driver smashed into a car, leading to one person's death. when the new dozen people were injured in the scuffle and the car crash. a very intense scene in charlottesville. we have heard from the president condemning the violence from charlottesville. we have also heard from governor terry mcauliffe of virginia also condemning the violence. the mayor of charlottesville said he was heartbroken over what happened in his city. q mccray is in charlottesville this evening, getting updates from him through the evening. we have live team coverage of the story with amy aubert monitoring events from the live desk in the newsroom. any moment now, we are expecting to get underway with the press conference. we understand the driver of the silver car that you see racing backwards is in custody tonight. and we will continue monitoring events in charlottesville as they happen.

whenever it happens by signing up to get text alerts on news like this at wjla.com/text. a daycare worker in nevada caught on camera tossing a five-year-old child. the employee has since been fired. a closer look at the surveillance video. the mother said the daughter was playing, the girl started bickering, and that is when the worker literally at aggressively removed her daughter. butstarts to walk away, immediately turns around, this time tossing the child several feet. believeust cannot even that you saw this happen to your child and you were not even notified about it. kimberly: the mom said the child bit her tongue but is ok. the police are investigating. we are monitoring the events in charlottesville and

kimberly:

breaking news right now and arlington, fire and police crews were called to the amc theater and courthouse for the report of violence. the police have tweeted two victims are being tweeted -- treated and they have secure the building. we have a crew on the way there and will bring updates as soon as we learn more. right now we are going to switch gears and talk about the weather because we have some alerts coming out. a very busy night. what's the latest, josh? this linere watching of thunderstorms coming together and strengthen and intensify. part of the severe thunderstorm watch through 11:00, but pinpointing more extreme parts. the picture for you from rockville, where we have dark clouds as we are getting ready for thunderstorms to track in that direction. keeping and i am the system as the line of storms works across.

country. closely,w box, look but this is where we have the severe thunderstorm watch dropping into southern maryland, all the way into new york. things will leave all for along that line. this is thanks to a cold front. sets us up for a nice sunday, but we have to deal with this first. we are looking at two different severe thunderstorm warnings. i want to stress this one here, further north, northern montgomery county, carroll county, frederick county, that one the weather service says tornado possible -- not a tornado warning, but a stronger storm and a little rotation within that storm. on that one.se eye the other severe thunderstorm warning extends into leesburg. two rather strong storms, a lot of lightning with these, and this one continues to drop to the southeast, both moving at about 20 miles per hour. through the evening we hang on to this watch.

stormwatch 7 weather app, track these things on the phone if they warning comes out you will be notified. even if lightning starts to show up it will tell you right away. hanging onto that chance through 11:00, but around d.c. i think we are predominately done with that storm threat around 8:00 or 9:00. futurecast, trekking through the rest of the evening, a lot of the stronger of storms are favoring areas to the east of d.c. later, 9:30, closer to fredericksburg and southern maryland. tomorrow morning, a little bit of cloud cover, but lower humidity and ultimately should see more sunshine. sunday is shaping up to be a nice one. just have to get through the wet weather tonight. the storm chance tonight until about midnight, in the 60's. into tomorrow, the numbers work their way up to about the mid-80's. what better day, the temperature starting close to 70

warming through the day. we have a little cool down for the beginning of the work week, but heading into the back end of the week, thursday, friday, a better chance of thunderstorms and also a better chance of temperatures closer to 90 degrees. the string of cooler than normal days may be coming to an end later this week. a chance of showers tuesday, better chance of thunderstorms the end of the week. and now officially on the 10-day forecast, the partial eclipse ne xt next monday. kimberly: a second breaking news story in charlottesville, where virginia state police are on the scene of a helicopter crash just west of the city near the bird would golf course, about a mile from the campus of the university of virginia. two people died when the chopper went down around 5:00 this evening. nobody on the ground was hurt. the ntsb is investigating.

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? if you have heart failure symptoms, your risk of hospitalization could increase, governor mcauliffe: many individuals have been hurt. let me start by thanking all of our law enforcement officials. this could have been a much worse day today. i want to thank local law enforcement, first responders, all the state police, the national guard, and everybody else who has helped during today's activities. we plan for a long time for today's incidents. i also want to give a special thank you to the clergy here today to help us on the streets. i also want to think those courageous uva college student yesterday who surrounded the statue of thomas jefferson to protect that statue. and i have a message to all the white supremacists and the

who came into charlottesville today. our message is plain and simple -- go home. you are not wanted in this great commonwealth. shame on you. you pretend that you are patriots, but you are anything but patriots. you want to talk about patriots, talk about thomas jefferson and george washington, who brought our country together. you think about the patriots of today, the young men and women who are wearing the cloth of our country. globe, theyound the are putting their life in danger. they are patriots. you are not. you came here today to hurt people. and you did hurt people. but my message is clear -- we are stronger than you. you have made our commonwealth stronger. you will not succeed.

there is no place for you in america. here to bring people together. i remind you all we are a nation of immigrants. unless you are native american, the first ships that came to jamestown, virginia, in 1607, and since that time, many people have come to our country to unite us. tileiversity, the mosaic of immigrants is what makes us special, and we will not let anyone come here and destroy it. pleasece go home -- so go home and never come back to stop take your hatred and bigotry full stop there is no place. and if i could give you a piece of advice, usual time and energy to help people. come with me to help a veteran find a job

that is what we need help with, to bring people together. i spoke to the president this afternoon and we had a conversation, and i told the president that there has got to be a movement in this country to bring people together. the hatred and rhetoric that has gone on has intensified over the last couple months, and it's dividing this great nation. we need to work together. i told the president that twice. we are willing to work with you if we can work to bring people together and stop the hate speech and rhetoric in this country. we have got to bring people together. but we are a great commonwealth, we are a great nation, and we are even stronger today because of those actions of those people who came with their bigotry and hatred. would now like to introduce the mayor of the city of charlottesville. >> thank you,

great cities. we have been the home of a lot of history. we have overcome a lot in our we havey full stop overcome mccarthyism, segregation, and we will overcome this. this tide of hatred and intolerance and bigotry that has come to us, that has marched down with torches on the lawn of one of the founders of democracy , it is brought here by outsiders and brought here by people who belong in the trash heap of history with these ideas. they will be on the trashy of -- the trash heap of history, but they will not define us. we will continue to tell the and theday and tomorrow week after that in the year after that. there is a sad and regrettable discourse and politics. we have seen too much of it today.

enemies, debate has become opponents. the birthplace of democracy, it's about deliberation, action, progress, working together, and at the end of the day, if you disagree with somebody, you don't try to take them down, you agree to move forward. these folks do not agree with the rules of democracy and they are on the losing side of history. the work every building and healing is just beginning today. tomorrow will come and we will emerge, i can promise you, stronger than ever. with that i also want to thank the state government, governor mcauliffe, the secretary for all their help. my colleagues on the council, they're all here today. i want to thank the charlottesville police department and their law enforcement partners around the state protecting residents, the university of virginia. for thets break casualties and injury suffered today,

out right now for stop please send your prayers to those folks and your families and their loved ones. with that i'm turning it over to our city manager, maurice jones. thank you. >> thank you, mr. mayor. today in ao our town way that we had feared, but had never really allowed ourselves to imagine. i want to start today by thanking the virginia state police and our law enforcement officers and all the first responders who were here in charlottesville today to protect our community. the charlottesville police department and our state partners, the virginia state police, were on the scene in our community very early this morning, anticipating large crowds. law enforcement was on hand before 10 a.m. it actually began around 6 a.m. unfortunately, as we went through this

who came here to cause mayhem and chaos and mischief, and it resulted in three fatalities here in the city of charlottesville. in the days and weeks to come, our city will have many conversations in community centers and houses of worship, over fences, and at our dinner tables. i would ask that in addition to sharing our grief, looking back at this difficult and extraordinary summer, that we move forward. i asked that we consider the question of who we are as a city and who we wish to be. i would ask that we each seek opportunities to seek people to share our home insurance phil, but who are outside of our circles. i would ask that we work to build meaningful relationships and foster strong connections. withhall will be working the community to rebuild our structures and repair damages for stop

provide opportunities for our community to come together to mourn, connect, and move forward. but city hall cannot build the bonds between neighbors. or create new friendships. i'm calling on each of our residents not only here in the city of charlottesville but in the charlottesville area to come together and take all of this into our hearts and daily lives today, and to begin healing as a community. if we all come together, we cannot fall apart. we will be with you, we will be beside you, as together we write the next chapter in charlottesville's history. thank you. >> thank you, mr. jones for stopchie -- thank you mr. jones. she felt thomas, charlottesville police department. the premeditated violence that are committed he experienced is mp