we're going to warns our viewers to be careful if they're traveling anywhere. here's a look at one of the warning, severe weather until 5:0015, city of alexandria, arlington the district and prince george's county and within these storms winds gusting to about 60 miles an hour, a lot of heavy rain fall with this and also a lot of lightening imbedded in these storms. we also have a severe thunderstorm warning until 5:45 for anne arundel, calvert and prince george. you can see that this is a pretty strong line of storms coming through here. a lot of pounding on roads as well, and a lot of lightening imbedded in this, take a look. we're going to track some of his for you and let you know just what is next and who is going to be in the line of fire. so cap springs you have to be on the watch-out. upper marlboro as well as shady side and what's the other one there? sell bee, just off b

these storms are heading in your direction, and as i said, a lot of lightening and then the strong gusty winds. since we've had downed trees in some areas, we can't rule out downed power lines, before the night is over with these as they can't to plow their way through because these storms are extremely strong. as we take a wide look out. you can see just how far reaching this system is. continues to impact areas well to the west of us as well. we've also just had a severe thunderstorm warning issued now for arlington. that warning is also in effect right now. and so these are just going to continue to pop up as the system continues to move its way to the east. and i wouldn't surprised if we continue tonight to see those warnings stretching all the way across the bay. entire area is under a severe thunderstorm watch in effect through until 9:00 tonight. and once again, with the passage of this frontal system, which will take into areas of tonight into tomorrow, we'll seehe

that will continue to pack up and impact us right through tonight. we're going to keep an eye on it and let you know if there are anymore updates with warning as we head through. gary will be in later with more details. sarah? >> thanks. we have new information tonight in the murder of two montgomery county high school students. these are the three men arrested in the case. if we could take a look right now, please. jose can ali, roger garcia. all dieted on weapons charges. police say the teens who were killed on the eve of their graduation met the men expecting to sell theme tickets instead, police say they were robbed and shot in their car. all three suspects being held without bond >> nude photos exposed, a congress woman is doing damage

control. the aids were indicted this week. tisha lewis is live with the name of stacy plaskett heard of wrong reasons, one former e - staffer facing up to five years in prison for cyber stalking. he's the one who apparently leaked the photos. the staffer who lied about it facing up to 20 years for obstruction of justice and we're talking about nearly a dozen nude pictures and also there's video involved that was passed around to politicians, members of the media, even opponents, all of this after the staffer reportedly volunteered to fix his boss' iphone. >> in when you have her latest posts, congress woman stacy plaskett said her policy was invaded followed by an smear campaign and defamatory reports about her and her family. this comes after former staffer was indicted

he reportedly took private nude images and video from her cell phone, mccul alum's dubious activities apparently took place in march, 2016 >> i don't think you should have naked pictures on your phone to begin with. and if you do, i don't think people should leak it. if you don't the naked pictures you wouldn't have leaked it. i don't think you should have nude pictures on her phone either way, if she didn't have that she wouldn't be caught >> court documents say she gave the aid her phone with instructions to take it to an apple store and have it fixed. instead, created a fake e-mail downloaded images and forwarded them to politicians and media >> it's absolutely not ok. they were trusted with information, they abused that trust. then took that information that they had that was damaging. why it's damaging is a whole different story. they

somebody else. they committed a crime. i mean, straight up, like that's just not acceptable. i know it's not a sign of the times, it's a sign they're jerks, bad people. it's a sign they committed a crime. >> former congressional staffer door recent brown lewis was also indicted. she's charged with obstruction of justice for reportedly misleading investigators about the case, and deleting text messages. >> is it her phone or was it given to her as part of her job? if it's her own personal phone, then there's absolutely wrong with it. if, however, it was given to her as congress as part of her work, probably not. that being said, it doesn't give her staffers the right to give that information to someone else. >> reporter: and we did digging tonight and fox 5 local news can tell you that we have learned that the photos and videos and this incident involved

personal phone. as for mcum he's scheduled for monday, brown lewis appeared in court earlier this week and is scheduled to be back in court on wednesday. tisha lewis, fox 5 local news. ♪ ♪. a maryland mother is pleading for help tonight finding the person who murdered her son last saturday morning. >> someone shot and killed anthony russell outside a hyattsville apartment complex. his what will was stolen and today, his mother returned to the place hoping to find more information, paul wagner has the story from hyattsville. >> reporter: this is where anthony russell was found shot so death on the steps of t apartment block. his mother had just left a dice game in northeast washington and fears he may have been followed here and robbed. >> i can't even express how badly i want someone to come forward. we need

he did not deserve to be executed the way he was. he took four gunshots to his chest. you know, it's my prayer that anybody who has any information the slightest information to call crime solvers. >> reporter: terry sally came back to the complex where her son i was killed in hopes of learning something new, she put up flyers and questioned residents as they came and left. sally said she knows her son was at a craps game in northeast until about 2:00 in the morning before coming to this complex. she said he parked his scooter and was found shot to death around 5:00 a.m. last saturday morning. to should people said they heard the shots but did in the call the police. anthony russell may have been shot a couple of hours before his body was found. prince george's county police chief hank said the violence in the county evened o

put all officers on 12 hour shifts >> it's been falling, and i want to be clear, when we went into this initiative, we were flat, essentially in the same place for crime this year as last year. we weren't experiencing a huge spike, way ahead in anything. and we seen a lot of activity calm down, i'm hearing if things from the officers on the street. that's who i rely on. >> reporter: prince george's county police say they need much more help in this case, witnesses to forward, there is a cash reward of up to $25,000 and you can remain anonymous. reporting from hyattsville, paul wagner, fox 5 local news. coming up, a second arrest. >> two suspects being charged in the homicides of four missing men in pennsylvania surprise admission to where the bodies were located. that's a dramatic si there showing the moments a giant sinkhole swallows up several homes

mat? >> reporter: a large family packed in a car heading home to iowa when there's a medical emergency involving this little guy. you'll like the way this turned out. one woman contacted us to make sure those who rushed into help were thanked. we're going to have that coming up talking about this weather and seeing the storm conditions everywhere, it's even having effects on metro getting word that there's problems on the orange line, there's single tracking underway between west falls vienna affecting commuters in northern virginia, if you know anyone coming home, expect it to be a long commute. a tree fell during the storm. cameras moving around a little bit but the sky is out there with the rain, the storms knocked down a tree in that area, we'll keep you updated throughout the course of the next 90 minutes or so, stay tuned, back after this.

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a person of interest was taken into custody in the investigation into the gruesome murders of four men >> the unidentified person was detained in philadelphia. it comes on the heels of cosmo dinardo admitting to killing those four men and the location of the bodies. >> reporter: the man jailed in the case of four missing pennsylvania men, tells authorities he's involved in their deaths. >> i'm sorry. cosmo dinao,

the admission takes death penalty off the table >> he admitted to being part of or committing murder. >> all four >> yes. >> the 20-year-old has a history of mental health issues. he was already in custody before the confession held on $5 million bail after being charged with trying to sell a car belonging to one of the victims after that man's disappearance. >> why did he do it >> just left. he gave that full confession. i'll leave that for the district attorney to determine what's appropriate to tell. >> reporter: dean finocchiaro and 22-year-old marking sturgis and 21-year-old tom mi went missing last week, setting off a multi-agency manhunt. investigators finding human remains on a 90 acre farm in solesbury township about 30 miles outside philadelphia. the farm belongs to dinardo parents, cadaver dogs leaving them to the grave >> it's tough. i think anybody who's been through a tragedy like this can imagine. it's really

>> reporter: dinardo reportedly told investigators a co conspirator was involved and that the men were killed after drug deals. the da has not confirmed this information. in solesbury township, pennsylvania, rick leventhal, fox news. that's a sinkhole swallowing not one but two homes in land lakes florida about 30 minutes north of tampa, started about the size of a swimming pool. grew to about 200 feet wide and several people had to be evacuated because they don't believe the damage isn't fully over yet and the hole could continue to grow. >> the hole is still growing. as you can see the houses are still falling, we're worried about how many more houses it will take, right now, it's taken two complete houses, it's moving to the southeast there going towards that next house, it's a typical florida neighborhood. houses are close together, we're afraid we're going to lowe's at least one more home >> the

brought in a g o specialist to try and fix the issue. no word on the cause of a house fire in demascus maryland. it happened along haney avenue little before 3:00. the fire left very little behind, houses damaged as well as a police cruiser you see right there >> our understanding is all of the weapons were not in the cruiser, properly secured but there was ammunition in the car. and once the fire spread from the house to the cruiser. the ammunition exploded as the fire department was arriving. they could hear that. any time there's a car fire, whether a cruiser or not. you got gasoline tires that explode. with a fire that heavy, they're the inherent dangerous >> two people were will have to make it out and taken to the hospital and treated for smoke inhalation. a woman reached out to fox 5 in the hope of than thissing people who believes helped saved

>> her son became violently ill foam to go the mouth, what she didn't know is there were good people nearby. >> matt ackland had a chance to speak with her and share that story. matt. >> reporter: she had really good people. here's a picture of xavier in the hospital, on wednesday, his mother was overwhelmed by the help she got when her son got so sick. the family inside their car, there's two adults and four young kids. they were in their car, they were approaching 295 when something went very wrong. >> he went in the ambulance. >> reporter: 3-year-old xavier is a happy boy now. feeling much better. but that surely wasn't the case wednesday around noon as his family was heading back to iowa. they were just getting on 295 at pennsylvania avenue >> i heard xavier making a gargling or choking sound, i thought he was playing

actually foaming at the mouth, lips were blue. and he wasn't responding to anything i was saying. >> reporter: xavier's mother hit the brakes, stopping traffic behind her. she pulled xavier out of the car to see what she could do. that's when she saw a couple approaching. >> i don't know if for sure the couple spoke english but they knew enough to understand that there was panic and helped us, they brought ice water. >> reporter: jessica was panicking on the home with 911 when more help arrived >> he wasn't in a marked car so i don't think he was on duty but he got out and asked us a bunch of questions, kept checking his breathing, made sure that we were already calling an ambulance. >> reporter: an off-duty firefighter rushed into help. instead of waiting for an ambulance, he calls co workers he knows are nearby >> he calls the paramedics he works with and asked them to come up.

>> reporter: xavier was rushed to children's medical center. jessica says appears he had some kind of seizure, temperature spiking to 104 degrees. he's ok now. but jessica wanted people to know it's because so many people rushed in to help. >> i really just wanted to thank all those people, because we're not from there. i was panicking. i didn't know what was going to happen next, where we were going to go. you know, they just made sure that i knew that they kept saying, you know, we're going to take care of your son. >> we were skyping, two, three minutes, she finally had to put him down. how great is that? she said she got in touch with us because she says you hear so much about the bad news and people are helping. she said i just wanted these people. it was a couple. two people, just random people got out of their car, an off-duty

police officer and wanted them to be recognized. they didn't got out and not only helped him but she was so stressed out helped relief relieve >> have we been able to track them down >> we're doing our best. mayor's office is working with us and the office of communication trying to figure out who it was. we do know that it was one npd officer apparently off today trying to get in contact with him. as far as the firefighter and the two people, we don't know, maybe someone will see this and heard the story and we'd love to talk to them. good story, i love to hear about things like this >> thank you, matt. sitting inside of that and i don't know what i'm going to do. >> a dream turns in a nightmare. wedding dress chain. alfred angelo closes its doors without warning leaving brides in a panic >> a big dispute between two

lawn. what sparked this neighborhood feud? . president trump in paris, the bastille day celebration that ended on a somewhat somber note when we come back.

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but these storms have really been moving off to the east. a lot of wind damage in the wake of this line of thunderstorms right now. the only active severe thunderstorm warning around here goes until 5:45. for anne arundel, calvert, prince george. a big section there. a lot of lightening in this we

wanted to take a little to tour, annapolis is not severe. maybe approaching 40 or 50 miles per hour. where the storm is severe, down here through prince george and over towards anne arundel and northwestern sections. calvert. we put the track on so you can track the most intense part of this, in this severe thunderstorm there will be wind gusts over 60 miles per hour and where these thunderstorms have been severe, is where we've been tracking the damage. a lot of trees have been left down behind these thunderstorms unfortunately. i think there's going to be power outages too. so dunkirk, tracy's landing deal and off towards the shore is headed towards the bay. eventually it will jump over on to the eastern shore, mountain vernon things cleared up. but pretty good thunderstorms coming across national. none of this is severe. we'll continue down the line here. this is moving through prince william's county and up towards fairfax, lor ton is dry now, dale see is dry but won't

long before the complex comes over notify and that is really going to shutdown the commute probably both directions with the hardest part of this rain coming through. and we'll take it even farther to the southwest, another strong cell coming there into northern sections of faulk county. heavy rain in fredericksberg, gusty wind and lightening, this is not severe. there's another storm back to the west of fredericksberg coming through heart ward now and down through spotsylvania and into stafford county and this will bring more heavy rain. i think this potentially could go severe. i'll keep a very close eye on that. you see the whole line now, it is marching off to the east, line is kind of moving to the southeast. but we still have a couple more hours to get this clear of the area and now seeing a little bit more activity firing up to the north of us. we're under a severe thunderstorm watch until 9:00. let me just show this quick. i saw a new warning, let's cover that, if

county now under a severe thunderstorm, the northern and central sections of anne arundel, that's going to go until 6:15 p.m. and that does include annapolis. we just showed you the heavy rain there. again, watch until 9:00 p.m. later on this evening, things will calm down quite a bit. we'll continue to watch the storm, back over to you. today, the president and first lady milania trump kicked off day two of the overseas trip in paris. the guests of horn at france's bastille day celebrations. >> it was a parade on the familiarize shops, which include u.s. soldiers marching to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the u.s. anniversary of world war i and celebration of the terror attack in nice last year. ♪ ♪ >> and bastille day is normally reserved for national celebrations but has now become

indelibly linked to last year's tragedy. when a cargo truck was driven into crowds killing i didn't care people. following the parade, president trump and french president emmanuel macron attended a memorial in nice honoring the victims. coming up. was a dc police sergeant recruiting cadets for sex parties. the exclusive details about the internal investigation. an award ceremony 73 years in the making. world war ii vet finally gets his purple heart at the age of 94. coming up. as we go to break an update on the orange line, single tracking underway between the west falls church and vienna stations because of a metro train outside of the done lorring station, struck a tree or you can imagine a tree likely fell on to the tracks. there you go. we don't know if that's the case, keep an eye on this for you and keel keep you updated

when we come back after this.

. in the fox 5 exclusive, a dc police sergeant is facing disturbing allegations of police misconduct. that officer is responsible for police recruitment but according to an internal investigation, he was recruiting for more than just the department. they've been investigating the sergeant and in april, investigators recommended he be terminated but sources say he remains working at the second district without any contact with the public this police powers have been revoked. >> marina marraco has the exclusive details. >> reporter: it all started with lies, at least that's how investigators first described their interactions with sarge jonathan clinicer fan ax 17 years. a salary of more than $90,000, tasked with

and outreach of mpd prospects as young as 17. according to this investigative report finalize by internal affairs, he was doing far more than just recruiting for the department. he was also recruiting and encouraging cadets and recruits to participate in sex parties. an anonymous letter sent to internal affairs in december of 2016 prompted investigators to zero in on the alleged solicit activities happening had at the police academy. these documents with the sergeant on several unknown dates and by his own admission while on duty engaged that sexual relationships at the metropolitan police academy. investigators seized recruit department's cell phone after allegations that the 39-year-old was running an invite only sex party website. forensic analy

cell phone had been used to store, schedule, range and distribute information for these sex parties, some pornographic images are both the sergeant and others are so graphic that the investigator report was manually redacted to prevent further dissimination of explicit photographs. amongst the most damning, sarge clinicer man's admission that on multiple occasions he had sex with an npd cadet while on duty at the police academy. we reach out to dc police for a response. this is a statement we had along wisdom martin. the metropolitan police department's internal affairs division investigated disturbing allegations of improper conduct involving a member formally detailed at the police academy. durng the investigation, the member was placed in a noncontact status. the investigation into the allegations has been submitted to the disciplinary review division, there was no indication of criminal conduct the disciplinarymmendation of -

division, npd will take appropriate disciplinary action, we reached out to jonathan clinicer man who told fox 5 by telephone his lawyer was asked him not to comment the sudden closure of a well-known wedding brides store has brides scrambling to get their dresses, alfred angelo shop filed for bankruptcy. the store called some brides while others found out on social media. there are more than 60 stores nationwide and hundreds of other shops also is sell their gowns, we spoke to a pretty disappointed bride to be who ordered the dress at one of their shops in springfield >> my best friend called saying tat the store closed, and they don't know if they're ever going to reopen and declared bankruptcy. my dream dress is sitting inside of that store. i don't know what i'm going to do because that was the dress i planned on getting married in. i don't know if i'm ever going to find anything like it.

unhappy brides, but many alfred angelo employes learned yesterday they no longer have a job. so far, the company has not put out an official statement on the issue. >> the only way we stop this, the only way we save our country and our freedom is to fight this violence of lies with the clenched fist of truth. on the nash rifle association of america and freedom's safety place >> ads like this one sparked controversy beginning gun control advocates, thousands gathered at nra's headquarters in fairfax for a demonstration. there's a look from above. the organizers of the women's march helped put this protest together. demonstrators are marching from fairfax to the justice department in dc about 17 miles, we caught up with some demonstrators today. >> people are righteously fighting against these two very provocative videos that

has put out, which is calling for their supporters and people that support trump to go after -- to attack in various ways, the people who are resisting this horrendous program >> everybody can benefit from more stringent gun controls. and i don't think there's enough, there's too many killings. >> the demonstration continues tomorrow with a rally at the justice departments. we're at fox 5 had the distinction to attend a heart warming award ceremony at the air force memorial in northern virginia >> a member of what is called the greatest generation spent a year as a prisoner of war in germany was finally honored for his war time sacrifices. bob barnard has the story. >> reporter: it's an award ceremony 73 years in the making. >> unfortunately, there's just a few of us left. >> reporter: 94-year-old john petty valano, a retired

for westinghouse long time resident of college park maryland finally being honored with a purple heart earned during the deadliest days of world war ii. in the spring of 1944, flying in a b 17 flying for tress, part of the mighty eighth bomb wing, john petty vilano. a 22-year-old and his flight crew made an emergency landing behind enemy lines after being blasted out of the sky by german fighters >> it was a fateful day. >> reporter: captured and forced to match 300 miles to a nazi camp, lieutenant suffered frost bite was liberated a year later. >> i just have so much love for this country. >> reporter: air force major james jacobson doing the honor >> on behalf of a grateful nation, thank you to lieutenant petty

our freedom, for forging our air force and setting the standard by which our actions, deeds and character will be measured. >> reporter: his family says like many of his generation, john petville never really talked about his war time experiences didn't seek to receive medals that's why this honor comes so a late in life >> my country has honored me. but i have such love for this country that the only honor that i feel that i have the privilege of serving this country in war time. >> reporter: father of three daughters with five grandchildren and two great grandsons, this is john petville the second. >> reporter: days away from his 9th birthday, john says he's a proud american, part of a generation that is dying all too quickly. >> i have

forward to, my wife is in arlington cemetery resting there and i will join her. >> reporter: is the air force memorial in arlington, virginia, bob barnard, fox 5 local news. >> we thank him for his service and sacrifice, there's nothing more you can add for sure. coming up, they're calling it selfie incrimination >> a woman's attempt to take a selfie at an art exhibit ends in disaster resulting in $200,000 in damage. a dispute between two neighbors spills over on to the lawn and we'll tell you what sparked the feud. gary? >> thanks of course big thunderstorms coming through, severe ones, we'll show you that on radar, let me show was these thunderstorms have done with temperatures dropping them down -- we were 94 degrees and now we're 73 in the district. so cooling relief at least temporarily, plus we'll be talking about your weekend forecast coming up. stay with us. gyph us. gyp

. she meant something to us, you see mobile crime here on the scene of the 13 month old now in surgery after being shot in the leg. >> we have to stop demonizing those that wear a shield. they're just like you. >> the city hired a registered sex offender assigned to jobs that may have put him in direct contact with children. the police sergeant is facing disturbing allegations of police misconduct >> cosmo dinardo admitted to the killing of those four men >> unbelievably. two homes and a bt

even though it's hot outside >> here with us, john witherspoon, good morning. neighbors in washington had themselves a little bit of a feud in washington state. somebody let it whole world now how he feels about his neighbor. the homeowner mowed this choice word with an arrow pointing to the store, the motive behind the message is unclear, there is word that the feud dates back to 2009 allegedly starting after one neighbor paint their fence lavender and fichia. >> here's whatnot to do when taking a selfie. a couple weeks ago a woman was standing at an art exhibit. she lost her balance. look at the domino effect. she fell backwards and everything else went

at least ten pedestals holding scripted crowns and head pieces, three sculptures destroyed, others partially damaged. >> it got so many likes on instagram. >> it's gone viral. >> i'm taking her side on this, they should have anchored those things down so they wouldn't tip over like >> really? >> come on. you know? >> has the heat gotten to your head >> probably. >> let's talk about we got the heat and rain coming in. >> did you see my tees when i showed you 94 just like >> bit of a sea change. >> live picture, raining down to the south and east >> i know it's pretty nasty out there. >> you don't like that >> no. >> we're just distracted. >> ok. there's multiple monitors in

studio at any given time. we're not quite sure. >> he's on one of them right now. >> not sure what's going to pop up. top ten answers, and -- here we go, there's the showers and thunderstorms now, they're calming down just a bit. we haven't had a new warning in quite a bit. we still do have an active severe thunderstorm warning, this is for anne arundel county until 6:15. annapolis, listen, this has cleared most of annapolis, it looks like the core of the storm is out over the bay across the bay bridge too. so that is a heck of a ride right now going across that bay bridge. you can how the warning extends over to the eastern shore as well. back here, we go down to the charles county. because there's a pretty good line coming into at least western sections of charles county. crossed over indian head. crossed over the river coming into western charles county now. waldorf looks like this might try and touch the southern edge of waldorf but another one is moving out of waldorf towards hughesville there. that's kind of a

of an isolated cell down towards st. mary's county. strong thunderstorm in fredericksberg wind gusts 40 to 45. you see the lightening there and the core of the storm. these storms do have the possibility of putting down a little bit of hail as well and some of it could be large, maybe up to a large mar well size hail coming across. active lightening through fredericksberg, this continues to move to the east. through the district. as a matter of fact, we were looking from the oxon hill camera down into this right here. last hour, reporting a very heavy thunderstorm at national airport. it's lightened up a bit but this is still moderate rain and still deafning enough to cause problems around the beltway. back up to northern sections of carol county. this is westminster. the core of the storm is just to the south of westminster. it is working off to the east. this one could become severe. we'll keep an eye

frederick too, a little storm between frederick and walkersville moving up highway 15. this is a smaller storm but still the core of it had very heavy rain, and a little bit of lightening too. this is one of those days where we're tracking where the most intense lightening is, because where the most intense lightening is, is generally speaking where most intense core of the storm is, all of this is moving to the east, the line trying to move to the southeast as well. all of this well ahead of the frontal system. we have a couple more hours and clear of the area and we'll watch more potential for a few storms to the north and west. they have adjusted the severe thunderstorm watch. >> here's the front, the weekend changer. this comes in tonight and as it sweeps through, it will cool temperatures down a little bit, bring the humidity levels down, in terms of where the thunderstorm watches, they've taken all of the western edge of this off. so dc is not included in the watch anyme.

moved on through. still a chance even though it's slight for more showers and thunderstorms through the evening hours. but i think most of it is done once this line gets through here. that's really really good news, 89 tomorrow, 90 on sunday, we have not changed this in several days. so definitely not as hot for the weekend and not nearly as humid either. but look what happens next week. we're talking middle 90's come back. they always do in july. wednesday, thursday, 94, 96, friday of next week, a week away for more heat and humidity coming our way. guys we'll continue to monitor the storms down in the weather center and if anything pops up, any new warnings or anything like that, we'll let you know. we'll cut in if we have to always on twitter. >> thank you, gary. i wish you all could, as gary puts the forecast up. oh, no, too hot. >> it was gross. >> gross. >> all right. coming up, the national second halfet

>> they begin a nine-game road trip in cincinnati. >> reporter: the nates get out of the box. and a drug test excuse that sounds unbelievable. but somehow it worked. i'll explain ahead in sports. nats

♪ ♪. tonight the nationals get the second half started on the road. they begin a nine-game trip in cincinnati and won't be back at the friendly couldn't fines until july 25th. they could be getting a look at their future. the nats last home game before the all-star break put up a ten spot against the braves. the nationals boast the league's best run and batting average and better on the road with a 26 and 17 record away from nats park, ex

the last place reds. over the years we've heard a lot of different excuses from athletes to explain a failed drug test. at the 2011 world cup. five members of the north korean soccer team tested positive for steroids, they said they were struck by lightening and used a chinese remedy to recover. cyclist said the extra blood was from a vanishing twin before birth. dennis mitchell explained his psitive test for high testosterone because he had sex with his wife five times the night before. his explanation, it was her birthday, the lady deserve add treat >> none of those excuses worked. today. >> do you think >> today, someone finally bought an athlete's drug test excuse. olympic gold medallist gill roberts was suspended for using a band substance, he

was a result of frequently and passionally kissing had us girlfriend ally is taking medication for a sinus infection. it worked. roberts had no idea that kissing girlfriend could lead to inguesting a prohibited substance. thus for roberts, must have been lie lightening out of a clear blue sky for him to learn by kissing his girlfriend he was exposing himself to a prohibited substance, roberts met the burden of proof. >> my gosh. >> is this my favorite sports story of the week. >> he got off from >> yes. >> i don't know what that says -- are we becoming dumber? >> i think >> going to fall for that >> all these other excuse >> go ahead. >> letting this one go >> what's your favorite excuse of all of those >> i think we know. because we laughed the hardest at it. >> thank you,

a kitten seriously injured after being hit by a car. >> story has a happy ending, stay with us. >> the cat is ok.

. let's talk about the cat, a little kitten thanks to the quick work of a fairfax county fire tech. she was off duty when spot todd can it he knows. one was seriously injured after being struck by several vehicles. took the kittens home and reached out for help. one thing led tonother and eventually the prince william brought the kitten back to health. suffering from a serious head injury but the little cat now expected to make a full recovery. and that is a happy ending we need on this friday. that is the news at 5:00.

the news at 6:00 begins now. at 6:00. new details about two former congressional staffers facing federal charges in a cyber stalking case. >> two former congressional aids are accused with leaking nude pictures and video of their boss and lying about it. they were indicted this week. we'll have more coming up. good samaritans spring into action to save the life of a young boy suffering from a seizure. and weather warnings are popping up in the region. we got you covered. the news at 6:00 starts now. a severe thunderstorm watch is in effect for the dc area, here's video from outside of our studios where we saw lightening in the distance from our tower cam. it's been a rock and rolling afternoon. >> look at that lightening, dc fire and

as well of a roof deck fire setan place in northwest as a result of a lightening strike >> metro now, we're told is single tracking on the orange line between the west falls church and vienna stations, a train outside the dun lorring station and a tree made contact with each other. it is a busy weather night across the region. let's get to gwen who is tracking all the storms, gwen are these things rolling out of here right now, they're moving fairly quickly but we still have a lot to deal with with these storms. intense and as gary mcgrady showed you last hour, those storms have a lot of lightening with them as well as a lot of heavy rainfall, let's get to it and show you radar and you can see over the bay, well to the east, we still have a severe thunderstorm warning for parts of eastern maryland, elsewhere the warnings ended, however, we're still under a severe thunderstorm watch for great area, mainly from areas to our east, the western portion now de