[captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> from abc 7 news, a breaking news alert. adrianna: a gruesome discovery in prince gege

children found dead inside a home. we are live in clinton where police are beginning to investigate. >> it started earlier this --ning,; 30, we can show you 7:30, clinton, maryland, three children, one of them may be as young as six years old but no confirmation. three children found dead inside a home in clinton, maryland when an adult came back to the house about 7:30 this morning. we had video to show you. we understand this is a homicide investigation. the cause of death was promised to the body. a to the body with a k-9 scene looking for evidence in detail. waiting more information -- waiting for more information from investigators. more evidence to be

this is an intense investigation with three children, very troubling for the investigators, and we will be on this throughout the day and bring you the latest throughout the day. adrianna: more breaking news -- a robbery, assault, and crash in an annandale shopping center. we are live where that went down. >> a very active investigation, let's walk you through the chaos this morning, it started at about two blocks down the way on middle river turnpike where a driver says they were stopped at a stop light and heard a chaos. several cars were rammed by a suspect. the suspect got out of the car, ,rabbed the dog inside the car and coming here to this shopping center. police have most of it blocked off.

carjack a woman. a security guard from inside of a bank at the shopping center got involved. there was a scuffle and the suspect made away with the keys of a security guard car. that is when the suspect got into the security guards car and rammed into cars in the parking lot of this safeway shopping center. live, at the edge of the shopping center, the silver car with damage on the end, that is the security guards car that authorities say the suspect was in. we talked to a driver who had damage to his car and said he is ok. here, but height continued over there, the suspect stole another car apparently and got involved with another accident down there with three cars, so i hear. i hear that he is in custody. back here

custody. as the what lead up to the original reason for the crashes that happened originally down the road from the shopping center, police say that is still part of the ongoing investigation. in total, they say 12 cars were damaged. adrianna: thank you. turning to the weather, we are on storm watch, severe storms expected to come through part of , drive this afternoon for now but could look worse in a few hours. molly cochran is tracking the forecast. molly: tracking a threat for gusty thunderstorms later today. is hot, veryit uncomfortable with dew points in the upper-70's. we are under a heat advisory until 8:00 tonight. our feels-like temperature's right now, already feeling likable digits with frederick, leesburg, torch fredericksburg and culpeper, if you have ar

your time outdoors today. you can see still very dry in the d.c. metro, sunshine as compared to clouds early this morning. to our west, showers and thunderstorms will bubble up after about 2:00. d.c. metro under a slight risk for severe storms to date with heavy rain and gusty winds, frequent lightning and flash flooding some of the main impacts. 2:30 this afternoon, baltimore to the metro, seeing shades of red, orange, and yellow. through the evening commute, 5:30, 6:00, as you start the commute home, allow for showers and thunderstorms heading into southeast maryland and back toward waldorf. we will monitor this as we go through the evening. download our stormwatch 7 out to track the showers -- app to track the showers and

the full forecast in a bit. adrianna: breaking news overseas, police in finland have shot a man accused of stabbing at least six people, one of the people stabbed is dead. it happened in a city with the finnish media saying several victims can be seen lying on the ground in a central part of the city. the attacker was shot in the leg and arrested. we will update you as we learn new details on that situation. an update on the terror attack in barcelona, spain with the death toll now up to 14 with one of the victims and american. more than 100 other people are recovering from injuries. molly hunter has details on the sweeping anti-terror operation going on right now following two separate ramming attacks. the bloody aftermath of another terror attack in the heart of a european city. the streets filled with tourists on a warm summer evening when terror struck.

what's. lucky ones. >> we said run and we ran. >> the white van had hopped a curve and swerved any pedestrian boulevard. speeding down this half in red at 50 miles per hour, traveling 1000 feet before coming to a stop. the front of the vehicle smashed and the driver fled on foot. >> there were people crying everywhere. part i will not forget, the look on people's faces. >> hundreds injured and more than one dozen killed, too related attacks in 24 hours, the second down the coast in cambrils, another car ramming and issued out. realize you will be a part of this. >> the deadly -- deadliest terror attack in

but in europe, car tax happening more often -- attacks happening more often. that happened at a home initially blamed on gas canisters. , thousands of tourists are back on the street and back in the heart of the city. molly hunter, abc news in barcelona. adrianna: stay today with breaking news out of spain, get text alerts at wjla.com/text. the statue of roger taney is down for good, the former chief justice defended slavery in the courts 1857 dred scott decision. john gonzales was -- is there with more on the busy night at the maryland state house. >> this historic statue just for, history, it stood here 150 years on the grounds of the state house in annapolis, in front of the main interest of

now reduced to a wooden box covering its stone base with cruise protecting the granite from being vandalized. our cameras were rolling during the early morning with a small group of spectators who literally cheered when it was removed. crew is delicately poised of the heavy statue of supreme court justice roger taney top of it to base and onto a flatbed. a challenge for the crane because of the large trees, it is the secondr statue to come down --roger taney statue to come down this week, in 1857 he ruled against threats got, it was of, denying citizenship for african-americans. >> i do not think we should memorialize people that rose up in arms against the country. i also think that it is a slap in the face to african-americans. that is not right. >>

the statues gone, they stood for a reason and they have a meaning. you cannot change that meaning. the past is the past and that is what built this country. hogan, who once defended the statute had a change of heart this week after charlottesville. it is being stored in an archive facility in maryland and costs $80,000 to have it removed. adrianna: we are expecting a statement from the charlottesville mayor on the statue of confederate general robert e lee. we will pass the statement to you. coming up next -- an exciting day at reagan national airport, the eve of national aviation day and we are getting a very sneak peek at behind the scenes tour of the american airlines operation. a live report coming up next on the news at noon. adrianna: a preview of

the 2020, breaking down the impact of the events in charlottesville on the nation. first, a check of the traffic. afternoon, a little bit busy on this friday afternoon already. 66 eastbound towards the beltway , westbound traffic the other way is pretty heavy towards the and a -- vienna. by import route 12 -- volume towards route 123. 95 towards stafford county, looking southbound, both direction struggling a lot. four different incidences. -- for different incidences. 95 southbound before all this at route 123, pretty jammed past the octagon where lanes narrow. a shorter delaying -- play. pas connecticut avenue, not

silver spring and through college park.

>> you are watching abc 7 news at noon, on your side. adrianna: a celebration of all things aviation. sam sweeney is live at reagan national airport. this is a familiar territory for you. out on the been tarmac before. there is a picture when i was in college, i would pump the bathrooms out of the airplanes and that is what put me through college. 11 years later i am back on the tarmac at reagan for national aviation day.

at the metropolitan washington airport authority and at the -- behind the is the hangar for american airlines the american is giving tours to aviation geeks all around the world. of them andout 170 the guy who put it together is this young man, ryan ewing from senior, 18 years old, a in high school and your website gets 75,000 hits a month with thousands of twitter followers. why are you so in love with aviation? >> nothing like smelling jet fuel in the morning. this grabs people and the concept of traveling at 35,000 feet, 500 miles per hour in a metal tube or composite now, is amazing to think about. it fascinates the people joining us today for aviation day and all around the world. not most 18-year-olds are

what made you do that? >> to show up this industry -- all this industry, what better to work within with american to show operations around the globe. sam: congratulation. we will go up in the air traffic control tower, we checked out some of the airplane and we will have that at 4:00 p.m. brian van de graaff came in on his day off to check us out because he is a av geek as well. back to you. adrianna: thank you and have fun . a beautiful day to work with but things are changing soon. molly: some changes in the way of gusty thunderstorms later this afternoon. we are on storm watch through this evening. thatcomes the cold front is adding some extra energy in our atmosphere, a lot of the showers well to our west, live doppler keeping is nice and dry in the d.c. metro as of now but by this afternoon

upper-70's and our feels-like temperature in the triple digits already appeared frederick, leesburg, 98 in the d.c. metro with the heat advisory until 8:00 tonight. take it easy and make sure you are well hydrated with the heat advisory including all of the orange counties on our map. by 3:30, showers and thunderstorms back towards the d.c. metro with southeast maryland and also into baltimore . by 5:30 at night, a round of heavier downpours possible. this model has been overdone this morning and i do think this threat is therefore gusty winds and heavy rainfall, and for good lighting. 9:00,riday night, 8:00, the front goes to the east and pounds and some drier air behind it. the weekend is looking very nice. both saturday and sunday. headington to

we will's both days and be feeling a little bit less humid on sunday. look at your solar eclipse forecast on monday. the best time to see it at 2:42 in the afternoon. expecting sunshine through the afternoon and temperatures in the upper-80's. you can also watch live on news channel 8. the extended forecast, tracking showers and thunderstorms through the early half of the week, mainly tuesday and wednesday. still feeling quite warm. back to you. adrianna: thank you. 2020 tonight will go in-depth with the events in charlottesville this weekend -- last weekend, many calling the violent a sign the country is divided. here with a preview of the special is tom llamas. 2020 has been following these groups for six months. >> our teams have been with both sides, the alt-right

new white supremacists, and we went to their hideouts in the mountains at that in-depth interviews with them and got to know their leaders and the people that formed this movement. on the other side, the anti-fascists, who fight the alt-right and tell us that it is ok to destroy property, it is ok to punch a not see -- punch a nazi in the face, because their speech is a form of violence. we break it down and we were with them six months before charlottesville happened and show the buildup to this and the role the president played, and what happened in d.c. during inauguration with richard spencer, the alt-right leader punched in the face and demonstrations, disrupt demonstrations that had a limo getting burned in d.c. also with other acts of vandalism. we break down why this is happening and we know people on bo

are not racist or antifascist, but rather regular political demonstrators. this our breaks down the extremes of both sides. there was one point in the hour which is compelling where we bring leaders from both sides, richard spencer and lacey macauley, one of the leaders in the antifascist movement, we bring them to a park in washington, d.c. to see if they can talk things through. you have to watch to see what happens. adrianna: did you catch up with any of the people after the event central it still and get their take on how to -- in charlottesville and how was their take? >> one of the shocking things was heard was from another one of the leaders in this alt-right movement. he essentially defends the driver of the dodge charger, saying he may have been trying to defend himself. a shocking statement that completely said in front of the .amera without any hesitation that is one of the major moments in the hour. adrianna:

time, 2020 airs tonight right here on abc 7. breaking news update overseas and finland, police have shot a man accused of stabbing at least six people, two of them we know are dead. this morning with finnish media saying several victims were seen lying on the ground in the central part of a city with the attacker shot in the leg and arrested. as we get more information, we

adrianna: thousands are fitted out west to oregon where it will all be -- begin. people pouring into the portland airport ahead of the clips on monday with 14,000 travelers estimated to come to the airport for the

clipse. the number of rental cars the airport usually sees in an entire week will be this weekend . we track the total eclipse as it makes its way through the u.s. with a special report starting monday at 12:30 and watch that on our sister station news channel 8 or stream it at wjla.com. dry for now it is but will look a lot different in the near future. we are on storm watch all afternoon.

news, overreaking the scene of what appears to be an ambulance crash in aspen hill at connecticut avenue. there are some length blocked. blocked so -- lanes be aware of that situation. let's get a quick check of the weather. molly: gusty thunderstorms this afternoon with the main effect of being heavy rain and gusty wind with smaller sized hail, main time frames are 3:00 to 7:00. take it easy and download our stormwatch app. adrianna: always seems to hit during friday happy hour. molly: about 8:00, we should wind down. adrianna: thank you for watching and have a great weekend and a great friday night.

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