attempted abduction of a child on a metro bus. jonathan: daring rescues in texas right now. help, from to schools to our restaurants, ways to help the victims right here in the dmv. tim: metro transit police say that a seven-year-old boy was almost abducd

and it could be a game changer in the fight against childhood cancer. the new therapy called a breakthrough, next. >> now, abc 7 news at 11:00 am on your side. jonathan: the scenes playing out absolutely surreal. a tropicalt now depression, but continued devastation in texas. nancy: the death toll more than two dozen come with more than 30,000 people unable to go home. we have been tracking the latest on harvey. rich? richard: horrible new reports, the death toll at least 31 now, the floodwaters beginning to recede, but still so much devastation. 52 inches of rain. houston still a city largely underwater. >>

neighborhood things are getting worse. richard: 13,000 rescued so far, including this nursing home in beaumont. patients chartered to the hospital. >> they gave me a ride on the boat to get here. richard: rescuers marking evacuated homes with a "c" for clear. 40,000 homes destroyed in houston alone. ing waters revealed a grim discovery come inside that van, a family of six. >> in the front seat with my brother. he and mom and dad were underwater. richard: fema operating 230 shelters, housing 30,000 people. >> i'm ok. ready to go home. out -- homes are floated flooded out. richard: fay

mcdaniel's all the tv reports, found her at the shelter, and took her home. reality, 80% of affected homeowners do not have flood insurance. jonathan: the scenes are just tough. these images showing the desperation of people forced out of their homes from hurricane harvey, a bowling alley turned into a makeshift shelter, dozens of people calling it home, sleeping on the lanes. rescuers are working around the clock to help people, but they are still trapped as we speak. nancy: 7 on your side with ways to help from home. prince george's county schools now download dating -- now donating 1000 backpacks to houston. staffers will now fill the backpacks with school supplies and send them to the houston independent school district. ceo kevin maxwell hoping to to support,000

district. jonathan: tomorrow night's dinner plans can help the victims of hurricane harvey. several d.c. area restaurants are donating proceeds to relief efforts tomorrow. list intots, a long the district and surrounding cities. ben's chili bowl, just to name a few. there is a complete list of participating restaurants, and more details on her website, wjla.com. nancy: and help the victims of hurricane harvey right now by texting the name harvey to the red cross. every little bit helps. and we will be teaming up with the salvation army and our parent company matching the first $100,000 of donations. the first stormwatch 7 forecast at 11:00, hurricane harvey now downgraded to a

it remains a depression with winds of 35 miles per hour, gusting to 45, drifting to the east northeast at 9. that moisture heads are way friday and saturday, but nothing strong. the latest indications come off the coast of africa, there could be a major category two storm by this weekend, with its sights set on the east coast. a major storm by the weekend. that is for the eastern half of the united states. again,the 60's refreshing, pop open the windows. tomorrow a nice day, but changes on the way for the holiday weekend. jonathan: the police are searching for a woman who they say tried to of duct a seven-year-old off a metro bus. nancy: riders intervene to help the child get to school safely. tim barber has the investigation happening now. tim? tim: this is eighth

street, where good samaritans helped the seven-year-old boy off the bus. the suspect got on the bus about a mile south of here, near eastern market. the 92 bus comes every 10 minutes. us morning, one of them turned into a crime scene. >> as a mother and grandmother. transit police said that a seven-year-old boy was riding to school with his 13 year old sister when a woman tried to abduct him. >> a lot of people see yet but don't respond. thank god somebody responded. tim: the suspect is described as a black female aged 30to 50 between 5'2" and five feet tall and between 160 and 170 pounds with a short brown afro. >> you have to be careful with your kids because of the things that are going on in the world today. tim: we are told the attempted abductor asked where his parents were. then he said -- then she said when i get off this bus, you're coming with

surveillance video. if they find a, we will bring it to you on this broadcast as well as wjla.com and social media. live in northeast washington, tim barber, abc 7 news. jonathan: two schools, one horrific crime, bowie state university in the university of maryland paused today at12:05 to remember the life of lieutenant richard comments, who was killed on the college park campus in may. >> the problem has to be recognized. jonathan: the man charged with collins' murder is a longtime university of maryland student with suspected ties with a white supremacist organization. arey: police in arlington investigating a man who exposed yesterday.a woman the police say the man came up behind the woman, exposed himself, and brushed against her. they are

information to come forward. jonathan: the police say that they caught a woman who threw a cup of urine onto a bus driver last week in. opal browne is facing an assault charge. she relieved herself on the bus, then through the cup of urine onto the driver as she was getting all. the driver was not hurt and was taken to the hospital for decontamination. and just into the newsroom come a federal judges blocking most of the controversial texas law that would have allowed police to check a person's immigration status during routine contact. supporters and opponents of the law are gearing up for a court fight that is expected to last years and eventually could end up in the u.s. supreme court. travel tosident trump springfield, missouri, as part of a push for tax reform. the president renewed his call for the warring the tax rate from 35% to 15%. th

leaders in congress have yet to agree of the details of a plan. >> i want to work with congress, republicans and democrats alike, on a plan that is pro-growth, pro-jobs, pro-worker, and pro-american. nancy: overhauling the tax code may have to wait. congress must still vote on raising the debt ceiling and passing a budget before the end of december -- the end of september to avoid a shutdown. jonathan: the pentagon says it has more troops in afghanistan than previously disclosed, meaning that 11,000 americans are still fighting in america's longest war. that number is expected to grow following a new strategy in afghanistan. athelle: i'm michelle marsh the live desk. a day after it launched three ballistic missiles, north korea is threatening to launch more missiles into the pacific ocean. the u.s. is responding by testing its missile defense systems. defense secr

diplomatic options, but president trump tweeted a statement saying, "talking is not the answer." the white house is the president and japanese prime minister or work together to put pressure on north korea. at the live desk, i'm michelle marsh. jonathan: senator john mccain heading back to work him his office saying that he will return to the u.s. senate next week when congress is back in session. he announced in july he was undergoing treatment after being diagnosed with brain cancer. concerns at aead local school district. what stafford county wants parents to know. nancy: and a hacking danger and crucial health advice, half a million americans having to update pacemakers. jonathan: and we continue to track the devastation of hurricane harvey. we will have a live report, next.

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tested have one or more water leadains or taps with above the epa considered safe levels. stafford county schools say they have shut down all of the fountains and taps and posted signs nearby to warn people. there is a complete list of the schools with elevated levels on her website at wjla.com. nancy: health matters with a new era in childhood cancer care. the fda approved treatment that genetically reengineer's a patient's blood cells to transform them into an army of leukemia fighters. >> this helps years later, which helps us think this is potentially a cure for some of the kids, which is exciting to us. >> it's really exciting because the treatment i got other kids will be able to have the same kind of treatment and same outcome i did. nancy: the hope is that there be will be used to fight other cancers.

million. the company behind it says it is front to find ways to make it more easily available to patients, regardless of the cost. and the fda telling nearly a half-million americans to visit their doctors. each of those people has a pacemaker at risk of being hacked. hackers get the radically manipulate the pacemaker or drained the batteries. doctors can update the pacemaker's software to correct the flaw in just about three minutes. jonathan: we continue to track the tragedy of hurricane harvey. some of the images in the , emotional, raw difficult to watch, families rescued, little kids ring rescued in helicopters. at this hour, tens of thousands remain in shelters. one of the most crowded is the houston convention center, where

paint the picture of what is happening right now. this is almost six days after the storm. reporter: that is right, jonathan. here there are still about 8000 becomes, and it has somewhat of a transient center. some people have been able to go back to their houses, the school buses are still coming up on a regular basis filled with evacuees. behind us, it's very uplifting. all of these donations, and this is just one of the donation spaces within the convention center, dozens of like us and pillows, baby clothing. you do not have to be an evacu ee to get the supplies. we have had people come in who just need essentials. because of

have not been able to get out and get what they need, maybe had light flooding. people have been getting stuff and leaving. the scenes here are very uplifting. despite thetivity dire circumstances. when we first got here, there were school buses with people getting off. we saw a family with three young kids carrying three garbage bags full of stuff. two police officers went right up to them inserted talking to the kids, gave them stickers, temporary police badges, and within moments the kids were laughing, chasing each other around. this was just one example of what we have seen. the interaction between volunteers and evacuees and law enforcement, it is really uplifting seeing people in their worst moments getting the help they really need. jonathan: kristen, we appreciate you taking the time. heartwarming and hard-working as well, thank you. nancy:

underway to figure out how to best protect d.c. in the event of severe weather or extreme flooding. tom roussey joins us live from the tidal basin to explain the measures already in place and those to come. tom? is: of course, nancy, d.c. not right off the ocean, so it is not likely to experience a storm like hurricane harvey. that said, it is considered a high risk area for flooding. we wanted to find out what happens the next time the tidal basin waters overflow and start going that way. many walk by without realizing what it is. >> this is the 17th street levee. tom: and the next time there is big flooding from the potomac, it will likely become famous. the levy was finished in 2014. this video of a practice run shows what it is like when the wall is put up. >> within 24 hours we can bring it down and put a wall across 17th straight. tom: along with the

world war ii memorial, the levy would protect huge parts of downtown and federal triangle if the tidal basin overflowed. >> seventeenth street is one of the lowest points in the city. tom: other areas have protection, such as the georgetown floodwalls, but are we still vulnerable? after the devastation of hurricane sandy in new jersey, the federal government wanted answers for the east coast. the army corps of engineers found the cd be a high risk area, so it recently launched a multiyear study of the entire metro area, focused on protecting monuments and transportation and they also want to protect places like the navy yard on the anacostia. a spokesperson with the u.s. army corps of engineers told me today the big study that is being done of the area is likely to take two or three years to finish. reporting live at the tidal basin, tom roussey, abc 7 news. nancy: on

alexandria are expected to become a thing of past. the city redeveloping its waterfront, raising the feet.ine by up to four that is expected to largely eliminate flooding like this. about the weather and the remnants of tropical depression harvey, working our way, we are not looking at anything severe this weekend. nightome rain over friday through saturday, off on on -- off and on showers, but nothing severe. tonight, 71 degrees, a light wind. a very comfortable evening. slipping back into the 60's, refreshing tonight when you head out of the morning. a light jacket early on. highe anticipated tomorrow, a few degrees shy of where we should be. friday and saturday, we get the influx of east, northeast wind, holding the temperature back.

friday, we will be damp. not until the nighttime, and with the off and on showers, saturday, low 70's. thursday is the best pic of the next three days. the second half of the holiday weekend, sunday and monday looking pretty stellar. the radar right now, watching a few showers north and west. we can do this again tomorrow, but highly isolated, culpeper, orange county. meanwhile, the circulation of harvey swirling, the moisture pulling from the gulf. this moisture lifting our way. this will be headed to the west of us by the weekend. rains in the heavy portions of mississippi and western tennessee. in the carolinas and

through saturday is when we have the off and on rain. 3, 4 inches of rain through portions of arkansas and tennessee. around here, i'm thinking roughly an inch. the next couple days, tomorrow great, 82, just a stray shower chance. friday, at nighttime, the rain moves in. the three-day holiday, saturday is the wet day. sunday we approval stop monday, labor day, it will be nice here and at the beaches, monday the be

nancy: uplifting video, spider-man making kids smile at the houston convention center. a lot of families lost their homes escaping harvey, so this superhero provid

ofathan: and the last dog dozens that were sent to our area in the wake of harvey's destruction has found a home. they love each other already. nancy: and for the latest on hurricane harvey and ways to

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