bethesda resident andrew noticed. does it hit you all at once? i can't go on this sidewalk. >> there you go. walking on the old sidewalk or riding. you have to figure out a new route. >> reporter: take a look at how big a stretch of work is happening right now. there are active work zones day and night from cedar lane and 355 through downtown bethesda at the d.c. line. signs, signs, signs, tell the tale. 45,000 vehicles alone come through here every day. >> going this way to cross that street. we have to find a way to go around. >> reporter: he works in bethesda. he doesn't know which entrance he will be able to use from day-to-day. >> we get an e-mail saying entrance closed. change the way you get to the building. >> reporter: the next project, overnight work that will close lanes to be ripped up and replaced on wisconsin avenue between old gorgetown road and bradley lane. crews may shut down a lane in the middle of the day as they work here. back in bethesda, all the roadwork is here t sidewalks being redone. a lot going on. when will it be fin

we are out of bethesda, montgomery county. we came, the county didn't -- the city didn't call us, we came on our own to clean it up so people can get through. >> reporter: here is a sample of what we have seen so far today. a tree down at mcarthur boulevard in glen echo. a car just getting by there. nobody passing through at elgin lane and powell road. that tree goes from one end to the other. and now, take a look at river road and wilson in bethesda. tree limbs down, wires down. you can imagine the mess it created there. now back live in the 5600 block of bradley boulevard where you see this huge tree limb dangling across a nest of wires here. they are pulled taut. we are waiting for pepco to come here to remove the limb and free those wires. hopefully, again, without incident. reporting live from bradley boulevard, i'm pat collins, news 4. >>> a good time to remember our interactive map. you can see exactly when the orms are rolling over your neighborhood. you will find it on www.nbcwashington.com. >>> he was the light of hi

. >> reporter: starting tonight in bethesda a major road construction project begins. >>> hamas rockets from gaza reach further into israel than ever before. >> reporter: there was a protest on capitol hill. we'll tell you about it coming up. >>> hello, i'm bruce johnson. thanks for joining us. a severe thunderstorm watch for our area has just expired but more severe weather appears to be on the way for monday. first alert meteorologist erica grow is here with more on our yellow alert. erica. >> bruce, we're watching the last line of thunderstorms push toward the eastern shore of maryland and off into the delmarva peninsula. they're still under a severe thunderstorm watch in portions of maryland and delaware but our severe thunderstorm watch, as you mentioned has been allowed to expire. this is a three-hour loop. those thunderstorms moved through very quickly at 40 to 50 miles per hour, and they left quite a bit of damage. just south of hagerstown, look at all these storm reports. trees and wires down. there's a lot of folks what do not have power right now in the hagerstown area, in th

then the original boathouse out of sight at the bethesda terrace. a did not want you to see anything but nature. beautiful structure, simple construction. it showed off its construction beautifully. very modern, 20th century flat roof. van buren, hello. this was used as a promenade. people could observe what was going on on the water. a very modern idea. like everything made of wood in central park, lack of maintenance meant this gradually fell apart and was ultimately demolished. and today, the boathouse is an early 20th-century construction. and when you came up the mall, why were you coming up the mall? was it idle curiosity? you were coming up the mall because directly ahead of you in the distance you did not see bethesda terrace, no, but you saw in the distance belvedere castle. you would be coming up with a -- up the mall mall like coming up the rhine river or the hudson river. you would see a castle in the distance and be fascinated and pulled up the mall. all of a sudden, you would be on bethesda terrace, walk up the bow bridge and onto the

horace holmes is live in bethesda where a tree went down across a busy road. >> we're here on bradley boulevard and you can see with those heavy winds and the strong rain, what it did to this tree right here. it just snapped late this afternoon. it came down, all of bradley boulevard, closing it down for a short period of time. the county crew came up and they were able to move most of it to the side and they just reopened bradley boulevard. now we're going to talk more about the;yÑ problems that we he here, just a couple miles from here, another big problem on river road. huge problems on river road. northbound lanes are shut down as they repair a power line that went down in the storm. and on the beltway at river road, the two left lanes of the inner loop are shut down because of high water. that's causing huge backups all the way around the beltway and all the way down river road into the district. look at these pictures captured by news chopper 7. power line went down on top of trees near daniels run apartment complex. as you can see that caused a small fire on the lines and the t

look at the impressive rain totals so far today. .75 in college park. .70 in bethesda.fredericksburg coming in it little over .40 inches. we'll look at the full forecast and when the storms will come to an end and what to expect for the next seven days. >> as the storms pushed through several massive trees came crashing to the ground. >> one landed on a home in silver spring. jay korff is there with a look at the damage first-hand. >> really spectacular scene, terrifying one on the backside of this property on woodmore drive in silver spring. i'm going to step out of the way and ron will walk up. you can see this massive tree. in fact there's three of them. two maples and an oak. we're told by the tree service company here, they are on the front side of the property, that that's about seven tons of wood, branches and leaves on top of this home. thankfully there was a huge canpy and it protected the hope -- canopy and it protected the hope from being crushed. if that huge section of tree were in the middle of the house, if it didn't have the canopy it would have sliced t

the damage atspot the home of his father-in-law in north bethesda. the police say that two explosives were set off, one by the front door, one by the garage. set themthat cassell off. he has been in a bitter divorce battle with his wife as well as a custody dispute over their two young kids. saysfriend of cassell's she wants people to know what she is hearing on the news does not jive with the man she knows. >> he is a good person. i want them to know he is a caring friend, he is a good father. >> the police believe that explosivet off the devices at 2 a.m. yesterday. >> he went to the gate and identified his son-in-law trying to break into the home. >> montgomery county police say that cassell was later tracked to a relative's house in fairfax county. he is facing felony arson and use of a destructive device charges. montgomery county police are expecting cassell to be extradited to maryland from fairfax county within the next few days. tom roussey, abc 7 news. >> the search is on tonight for a missing boater near the francis scott key bridge in bal

there's a stretch of bethesda going through road work grow b pains right now. itis between cedar lane and western avenue. we found road projects on every single block. work is starting to repave wisconsin avenue to bradley lane. some people don't know what entrance to use to their building from day-to-day. >> i'd get an e-mail saying this entrance is closed. change the way you get to the building. >> transportation reporter adam tuss takes a look at the work in bethesda and tells us when to expect it to be finished. >>> new addition to pizza hut's me it's not pizza. >>> uber is family friendly. will you cross when you hear the catch 22 at play? i'm erika gonzalez, i'll have that story, coming up. >>> a former university of virginia dean headed to prison for nearly a decade. barbara harrison is at the live desk with details coming in. >> jim, michael morris is sentenced to 106 months in prison after being convicted on child important charges. morris pleaded guilty in april to three counts. at the time of the arrest he was the associate dean of the school of comm

we did have some trees down in bethesda and some power lines down. we're looking at a third round of storms. this is the second round stubbornly moving off to the east. these are not going to be severe. notice the red and the orange. these are pretty heavy, just to the west of leesburg, rain can beat the band and even a storm about to approach frederick. we'll kind of storm-track these for you. they're moving east at about 20, germantown at 11:47, if you're trying to walk the dog there, have him do it quickly. by rocksville, 12:14 and silver spring, going to get hit again about 12:45. just heavy rain. i don't think anything will be severe with those but heavy rain the next few hours. we'll see some partial clearing and by 5:00, not as muggy. 72, upper 60s to mid-70s. comfortable by 7:00 and just down right pleasant by 9:00. we have more storms on our first alert seven-day. >>> storms served up a little bit of everything. lightning slicing the sky over calverton, maryland. fierce winds pushing blinding sheets of rain. all that rain, as you can see, pu

high temperatures tomorrow around 90 degrees in d.c. 89 in bethesda. 91 in burke. let's take a look at the next seven days. we have warmer weather moving in. i mentioned that high of 90 tomorrow, but sunday we go to 95 degrees on sunday. the heat index approaching 100 again. same deal on monday. a little bit on the warm side with high temperatures into the 90s. a good chance of storms on monday. better chance of storms coming up on tuesday, and next wednesday, thursday, and friday, we have some fantastic, fantastic weather. okay. back live here, guys, if you want me to come out, obviously you can do that. send your pictures just like they did to my backyard weather -- facebook.com/doug. we have two of the three musketeers. i need a costume. >> i could probably fix you up with one. >> let's do it. yes! we'll do that next. oh, wait. the show is over. >> there's still time, doug. we'll make time for that. >> show's over. >> all right. >> that's the first time in history doug wanted less time. >> yeah. >> here's what's coming up in sports. >> we're only talking about l

let's take a look at the traffic here on river road in bethesda. getting around our region is always a bit of a challenge, and you might want to make it a little bit ease wrer for the people that you are on the road with. the drivers we talked with today certainly had some suggestions. >> put the blinkers on. >> use your signal. >> are you in the left lane, right? i'm about to go straight, and all of a sudden they decide to turn left. >> like, get out of my way. i have something that's important, and you are not important. get out of my way. >> back here now let's take a look at the traffic along river road in bethesda, and everyone trying to get along here. now, coming up news 4 tonight, an interesting look at this whole situation. we're going to ask drivers to take a look at their own driving habits. something that they could change themselves that might make the whole experience better for everyone. in bethesda, adam tuck, news 4. >> well, we have lots of sunshine. lots of blue sky out there today. didn't seem as humid. >> can we make it through

this case, a good citizen did the right thing and really drew attention to that little house in bethesdaland. >> the neighbor said they hadn't seen the family in a week and the papers and mail were backing up. normally the family would actually tell the neighbors that they were going out of town, they were going somewhere. >> i received a call on the police radio, i was working that beat, and they told me to go to the residence in bethesda. as soon as i got in there, the whole thing was just, you know, awful to even look at. just blood dripping down and pooling up on the floor. it was like a horror house. >> montgomery county authorities picked up the flyer that we had left at poch hardware, and the neighbors identified it as the bishop family. >> the whole family was described repeatedly by a number of people as being the perfect foreign service family. brad bishop, rising star in the state department, trophy children, beautiful wife, talented, bishop's mother living with them. >> the victims of the crime were bishop's mother, who was 68 years old, annette bishop, who was 37 years old,

diseases that have been successfully wiped out by modern science which is why a recent discovery in bethesda maryland so disturbing to see earlier this month scientists announced that six seal via. and according to the centers for disease control or c.d.c. the vials have been there since one nine hundred fifty four and before this discovery of the only known samples of smallpox left in the world were at high security labs in atlanta and russia now thankfully because the vials were sealed it's extremely unlikely anyone was exposed material but the fact that a live smallpox virus was just sitting there for decades without anyone's knowledge begs the question of just how secure the known stockpiles of these potential bio weapons really are not to mention the unknown so the smallpox incident comes on the heels of eighty six workers at the c.d.c. possibly being exposed to anthrax after a mistake and release of dangerous spores into the air although anthrax exposure is not contagious the disease can cause fatal respiratory collapse within days just weeks after the incident the c.d.c. announced tha

. >>> vials of smallpox found at the national institutes of health in bethesda earlier this month led to an investigation which revealed even more problems. >> the federal scientists who discovered the smallpox vials also found 300 other undocumented vials. the food and drug administration officials say the vials list the names of other contagious viruses. >> some have been sent to the cdc for testing. others were shipped to the department of homeland security. the new revelations raise serious concerns about the government's ability to secure hazardous pathogens. >>> montgomery county police need your help bringing a silver spring teenager home. >> 15-year-old teresa pacheco was last seen june 28. her family says it's not like her to take off. if you have any information about teresa or where she could be, please call montgomery county police. >>> 6:06 now. a bowie man has been convicted of molesting an 11-year-old boy at a public pool. the victim who is now 14 testified that michael brochu offered him a bar of soap while in the shower and touched him inappropriately. the abuse happe

. >>> a team of developers wants your input on the future of downtown bethesda. they're hoping a beer and banter event can help generate ideas. they want to hear creative thinking from millennials who live, work and play in bethesda. they will pick up the tab on the beer and food and give away free stuff, too. you had to register before monday for the event. it starts at 5:30 tonight at the street sense real estate office. >>> historiclegend. but this morning, a mistake is what is trending on social media. before we get to that, let's start with the salute to the real captain. >> the captain from the new york yankees, derek jeter. >> jeter went out with a bang getting two big hits, but after he said good-bye to the crowd, cbs news tweeted michael jeter takes a bow. michael jeter is an actor who died in 2003. you may recognize his name. he was in the green mile and the third injujurassic park movie. cbs later apologized for the mistake. >> you you really are left to wonder how that kind of that is gets made. derek jeter is a name -- if you know anything at all abo

. >>> this weekend cnn will feature a decades old case out of bethesda in hopes of finding the suspected killer. bradford bishop is now 77 years old. in 1976 detectives believed he killed his mother, wife and three young sons. he has been on the run ever since. sunday at 9 p.m. on cnn the hunt with john walsh will bring new attention to this . case investigators are hoping in the world of social media they'll catch a break and catch him. >>> police in hyattsville want you to be on alert for a man attacking women near wooded areas. the first assault happened july 10th and the second happened july 23rd. in both cases the women fought back and the man ran to a wooded area nearby. hyattsville police are trying to find that man and urge all women not to walk alone in those areas, especially at night. >>> there's a couple bizarre criminal stories out of maryland tonight. >> a man robbed a cecil county bank while wearing a dress and wig. some folks are calling this guy mrs. doubt fire. investigators say he's really 34-year-old kent buckston of delaware. they believe the sky was the dress when h

on july 1st, an fda researcher cleaning out a cold storage closet in a lab on the nih bethesda, maryland, campus, found a number of vials from the 1950s. some of the vials were labeled typhus, infrienda, and murchs but six sealed tubes were labeled var yoela, the scientific word for smallpox. smallpox was appeared irradicated in the '80s and are only supposed to be stored in two places, in the cdc in atlanta and a lab in russia. the vials were first moved to a safe location on the nih campus. then late yesterday, the fbi oversaw air and ground transport of the virus to cdc headquarters. overnight testing confirmed the presence of smallpox. it will take up to two weeks to determine if the smallpox virus has any ability to grow. in any case, the plan is to destroy it. a cdc spokesman told me, it's a fascinating discovery for scientists, the equivalent of finding a babe ruth card in the attic but he said there's no public health threat. >> john, thank you very much. germany discovered the golden touch in the world cup finals today. the host country, brazil, just never had a chance. every ti

on the inner loop headed up toward 270 and toward bethesda and silver spring.inor crash west of centerville that has been out of the road for a while now. the lanes are open there. outer loop slow headed for the woodrow wilson bridge. there is a bit of a problem on the beltway in greenbelt on the inner loop just before kenilworth avenue, a crash on the right side. west of the baltimore-washington parkway, traffic is being diverted because of a longstanding crash. this is what the beltway looks like at connecticut avenue. just volume headed from bethesda into silver spring on the inner loop on the right side. and traffic on i-95 in virginia not doing badly at dale boulevard. heaviest at dumfries into the express lane merge. bob immler in the w.t.o.p. traffic center. >> appreciate it. still ahead, 7 on your side consumer alert. stub hub hacked. hear how many ticket buyers are affected by the security breach. >> i learned how to pump a tire like all the tools you use for it. >> how fixing and rebuilding bicycles is keeping some local kids on the right path all tha

we are between bethesda and rockville, but they want to rename this area and call it the pike district. >> i think it's really great. >> i'm excited. i actually just opened a business across the street because of this construction. >> i'm guessing it will be nice. at least there will be more food options and more entertainment options. >> reporter: some people worry that development will lead to more traffic. >> it's a great idea but it's very congested to have that sort of thing here. very congested. >> reporter: montgomery county executive acknowledges that improving transportation is critical will to growth, but he says these projects will benefit residents and businesses throughout the county. >> we're looking at the potential for 100,000 jobs coming into montgomery county based on projects already approved. >> reporter: rockville town square shows how a walkable mixed use development can become a destination. pike & rose hopes to take the concept to a new level. and in the process reenergize rockville pike. chris gordon, news4. >> announcer: still to come, the it keys to success.

expect delays in downtown bethesda for the next few weeks.right now there are various lane closures on wisconsin avenue between bradley boulevard and old georgetown road. the lanes will be reopened at 3:00 this afternoon. crews will shut down the lanes overnight again. they are pouring new pavement and concrete for sidewalks there. the $2.5 million project is expected to be finished in the fall. >>> well,here wre some scary moments at disney world in florida when the monorail train lost power during some severe weather. crews rescued more than 100 people. teams had to use a special rising platform to get to the riders and the riders had to climb through the emergency hatch on top of the train to get out. fortunately, no one was hurt. >>> let's check in again with tom kierein. he's been talking about some storms heading in our direction, tom? >> yeah, could get some very strong storms later this afternoon. right now the air is just filled with humidity. you really notice it when you walk out of the dry ac inside a building and then you sort of

it is looking towards the north and east towards bethesda.hat is bethesda you can see the taller buildings and you notice a little bit of shake. that is because of the winds gusting upwards of 30 miles per hour. this is down to the southwest, tysons corner. you can see a few clouds across our region. 85 degrees, a little on the breezy side. it is not windy. those winds gusting upwards of 30 miles per hour today and will be there through about 7:00 and start to calm. 75 degrees around 9:00. down to 71 and start to feel cooler around 11. it will be cooler down to 79 in leesburg. 79 in ruston and gaithersburg. 83 towards prince george's and camp springs. radar picking up showers towards the west with a system that will try to move through. that is the frontal boundary that will really cool things off. behind it after an isolated shower or two 63 in d.c. the average low close to 70. 58 in fairfax. look at areas like northern maryland, the panhandle of west virginia down to 56 in martinsburg and 56 in frederick. it will feel chilly almost like ear

bethesda 87 the high there. humidity levels, temperatures creeping up today.re noticeably tomorrow. 84 in arlington with a wind out of the southwest at 6 miles per hour. 88 the official high at reagan national. 74 the morning low. 89 and 79 on averages. another record from 1926 when it hit 103 degrees. we'll be in the 90's but ten shy of that tomorrow. 86 in manassas. baltimore at 83 and annapolis as well, fredericksburg at 83 degrees. over and over again, we've it, the temperatures in the 80's or higher with dew points of 70's or higher, it's uncomfortable. uncomfortable today. just wait until tomorrow because we'll have a steam heat day tomorrow. tomorrow, some sunshine and temperatures will sky rocket into the lower 90's. look for afternoon and evening showers and thunderstorms. some continuing overnight and thursday morning as a cold front gets through. if the timing on the computer model is right, then i think by mid-day thursday we'll start to clear out and get less humidity. thursday afternoon could turn out pleasant and friday nothing but spectacular a

. >>> a huge repaving project in downtown bethesda has been delayed.w the work will start this weekend on sunday night. lanes will be closed overnight sunday through thursday through the fall. >>> three soldiers from the army's old guard are out of the hospital now this morning. they were lowering a flag on joint base henderson hall in arlington last night. lightning from those strong storms hit nearby but it was enough to cause minor injuries to those soldiers at the flag pole. they were treated and quickly released last night. >>> well, we can see more lightning today as it's a weather alert day again. we'll check in with storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell for the latest on the forecast. when do you think we'll see lightning, chuck? >>> thunderstorms are likely the develop after 1:00 or 2:00 this afternoon and continue until 9:00 or 10:00 this evening. so that will be the timeframe to be most alert. the biggest risk for severe weather is east of the blue ridge that does include the d.c. metro area and down into parts of southern maryland and much

tomorrow morning 60s, 67 downtown, 60 in bethesda, 61 in leesburg. by 8:00 tomorrow sunglasses, perhaps a sweater, 60 five in gaithersburg and leads -- 65 in gaithersburg and leesburg and by 10:00 it's in the low 70s, very comfortable. by 1:00, 81, you'll stay cool, in the upper 70s north and west of town. this may be a little underdone temperature-wise, but still a very comfortable day. we have a dry air mass. that means it cools off quickly and warms up quickly but stays comfortable. by 5:00 81 downtown, generally clear skies across the world, by 8:00 it's 76 and even tomorrow night certainly cool enough to take your jog or bike ride in the evening. 74 by 9:30 tomorrow and by 11:00 tomorrow night walking the dog 60s again in the burbs and low 70s downtown. looking at really a nice stretch of weather. for tonight clear skies, cooler, 58 to 66, winds calming down northwest at 10. by morning mostly sunny, a refreshing start, almost like we're in vermont or connecticut, 58 to 80 for temps and by afternoon, partly cloudy, warm but still not humid, high

set back in 1988. 85 bethesda, high of 88. 81 degrees at children's hospital in the district. 81 degreesin springfield. aretemperatures comfortable, lower to middle 80's across much of the area. quantico at 83, winchester 82. as we widen the view, the cooler, drier air to the north, the upper peninsula of michigan, 71 degrees. tuesday could be looking at highest only in the upper 40's, lower 50's, well to the north. the satellite radar, high pressure will bring comfortable conditions overnight. a bright full moon later tonight. tomorrow, a good deal of sunshine, a chance of a passing shower, less than 20% chance. outside right now, the temperatures -- the cloud cover beginning to dissipate as we move through the evening. the futurecast looks like this, as we move through the overnight into the day tomorrow come a good deal of sunshine, daytime highs eventually into the middle to upper 80's. a beautiful day sunday, the wind changing direction out of the south and west. the humidity will increase, daytime highs approaching 90 degrees. if that is not hot enough, monday we are talking about

bethesda looking at 71. our final stop is at 14th and k. northwest. now at 74. they had a morning low of 63 in the district and now 78 for the high. temperatures cooler off to the west of us. 73 in manassas. 74 in up napilous. these -- in annapolis. these dew point levels unheard of for this time of year. this is what we normally see in october in washington. here we are at the end of july, upper 40's, lower 40's. the cooler air is here for one more day and then changes are on the way. this cooler air slides off toshed the northeast. you can see the warmth beginning to build south of us. they will lift northward and we will see the warmer temperatures into the day tomorrow with highs well into the middle and lower 80's. just a few clouds here and there for the overnight hours and our futurecast with ilshow mainly -- will show mainly clear skies as we wake up tomorrow morning, a few added clouds later in the day and maybe even a few pop up showers west of us into the mountains. this will be wednesday night into thursday morning. i don't think it will amount to a

>> we have been following sergeant john tech since he legislate bethesda naval hospital four years agowith him when he moved into the first smart home, and now we're documenting as he prepares for this cutting-illinois do you are double arm transplant in boston. he was serving in afghanistan when he became a quadruple amputee. >> we were knocking on everybody's door, we're their help you, turned around my sergeant, took a step, and just, wow, just couldn't hear anything after that. i was instantaneously a triple amputee. i was just feeling this immense amount of pain and burning, just like, yep, this is it. i was like, don't want to die here. i can't die here. wake up, two and a half months later in bethesda naval, found out i floatlined three times, once pronounced dead, had over 28 surgeries. >> he has come a long way since he was first injured, and before he was put on the tran plant list he wants to get married. he plans to marry his fiancee, stacy elwood, on november 1st. they met on match.com two years ago. she is an ucu nurse, has three children, which john has adopted as his ow

downed trees blocking roadways in bethesda.the night cleaning up that debris. >> trees under assault in new jersey as well. a powerful storm ripped this tree out of the ground sending it crashing into a home in vorhees. luckily no one was hurt. >> in maine, flash flooding left cars stranded on the streets in madison. >> craziest flood pictures of the day, though. from idaho. 2 inches of rain soaking rexburg in madison county. over a foot of water making the main roads impassible. >> unreal what's going on. indra petersons is tracking it all for us. you were on vacation, you came back to us and you came back to cover what seems like storms all across. >> we are still talking about these showers. and yesterday, it's hard to understand that several inches of rain can bring so much rain. but it's about the short period of time that rain falls. look how explosive these storms were as that cold front pushed through. we had that cold air and that moisture with the jet stream, everything lining up to produce he have rain out there. the

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quarter sized hail around bethesda and two funnel clouds. one around morganza and the other port tobacco. not just a sng temperatures. i will show yous what else coming up in a few minutes. >> thank you. a teenager facing child porn charges is back home tonight. now that prosecutors say they won't request explicit photoses of him for evidence. prosecutors in prince william county wanted two sets of nude photos of trey simms. now they say photos already taken won't be used and a second search warrant will be dropped. his aunt says they hope to get all of the charges dropped. >> i don't think all the stuff that's gone on is legal. that's my opinion. i hope he gets the justice he deserves. >> they agreed not to use the pictures because they have a strong enough case without them. >> thooefs are skimming into bank accounts across northern virginia using high tech pictures. tonight a stafford man said his account was hit three time miss the last week. he has advice for us. david culver joins us with more. >> steve was watching last night when he

of the deadly small pox virus is discovered at the fda lab at the national institute of health in bethesda, maryland, that only the center store disease control in atlanta and vector lab is said to be in control of the virus. it's the only human infection to ever be eradicated. we'll have more on this discovery on air and online at 6abc.com. >>> police responded to help two people who ran into trouble on the delaware river this morning, chopper 6 hd was overhead as two personal water crafts were towed in at 8:00. one person swam to the shore and called for help to assist a second person, that person was waiting on a small island on the river, no word on if there were any injuries or not. >>> police in buck county are working to solve a deadly shooting that happened overnight. police say that 24-year-old tyrone moss was dead at the scene. 29-year-old joshua johnson was shot in the head, and rushed to the hospital, 24-year-old duffy was shot in the back and is in the hospital. police are working on figuring out the motive and searching for suspects. >>> philadelphia police are questioningwit

it's actually the connection between the very popular bethesda trolley trail and we saw countless runners and bicyclists not stop before entering the trail and at least one driver not stop as al the >> jonathan had an unwanted seat to tragedy. he was driving this red compact when he stopped for a 10-year-old girl, her uncle and other cyclists. >> ar i stopped i heard a slyke screech of tires. >> he watched as the 10-year-old girl pedaled into the intersection and then the driver of this black cadillac drive alongside him. >> she was badly injured. >> knocked unconscious, the still-unidentified girl may have been saved by this helmet. >> she's in series but stable condition. >> distraught, the cadillac's driver dropped to the curb, in tears. >> it's under investigations. >> neighbors describe the crosswalk near tuckerman lane and kings rideing way as a gauntlet. they point to driver speed as a problem. >> the speed here is supposed to be 35 to 40 but a lot of times they're going 55, 60 miles an hour. >> the problem is they don't have a proper stop sign. the cars just go through the crosswa

bethesda, maryland is number two. that's followed by brooke line, massachusetts. >> san rafael is number four and let's not forget walnut creek. >> the movodo site said it used information like home prices, household income and the number of art galleries to calculate each city's snob factor. >> debate that among yourselves. >>> let's talk about the weather forecast. let's not worry about snobby. we should worry about wet and rainy. >> hi, sandhya. >> nothing snob be about our weather forecasts. as we look at live doppler 7hd, we will start to turn up the heat. the temperatures will sore over the next couple days. right now patchy fog is showing up along the coastline and as you look at our current water temperatures, although they are still running higher than average this time of year in the low to mid60s, check out bodega bay. it is 58 degrees. for several days we have seen the numbers in the 60s. the fact that it has come down and indicating that the dryer air is moving in. the humidity has been dropping. by the w

over two inches in bethesda, chevy chase, manassas, and fort belvoir. temperatures have fallen to around 70 degrees. a few lingering showers and thunderstorms remain, most of them located just to the west of us in western loudoun county. they are moving up toward the east just around 25 miles an hour. now getting ready to move into leesburg. over to prince george's county, these showers moving up toward the north and east are not going to amount to a whole lot as we move through the next couple hours or so. then the skies will begin to cool with temperatures falling into the 60's. the forecast for tomorrow, and a look at the weekend forecast with a few showers and thunderstorms once again. >> we have been hunkering down for multiple days of severe weather here, but across the nation this has been a week of weather extremes, starting with hail in wisconsin and severe flooding in parts of new england. i-95 shut down because of flooding in new haven. in the western u.s., the word is that haved wildfires consumed 35,000 acres in oregon. people in chicago ha

i mean, inside the beltway, we have 50s in college park. 58 in bethesda. 50s in latensville and even down in wood bridge and waldorf, we are talking 57 degrees for lows. even on the bay it's in the low 60s. so low 60s to start. only 73 by 11:00. and only 78 by 1:00. that is a good deal and still not humid. now the next three days, got a shower on thursday possible. 86. but not enough to make your change your plans at this point. a shower or thunderstorm possible. not enough to make you change your plans either. next seven days, nats at 9. a slight chance of a storm. 85. better chance of storms on sunday. the two weekend days and upper 80s to near 90 with isolated storms on monday and look at that. no 90s on the seven-day. back to you guys. >> all right, this is a huge story today with lots of bombshells. the corruption trial of former virginia governor, bob mcdonnell on going in richmond. >> and peggy fox has been going there since the beginning and what happened in court today. what a day. >> yes, a bombshell was, the defense strategy. maureen mcdonnell's

before heading out for a bite in bethesda check out the june 18th closure violations at the harp and fiddle on cordell avenue. the app shows it's out of compliance for hot and cold running water and rodents and insects. prince george's county hasn't gone digital yet, so we tracked down paperwork on a recent closure at good danny's restaurant on st. barnabus road in temple hills. inspectors reported rodent droppings observed in several places, flies and refrigerators observed at 49 and 52 degrees. grab your smartphone and frac recent inspections. text food -- track recent inspections. text food to 25543. we'll send you a link. all the restaurants passed reinspection and they're back in business. i'm investigative reporter russ ptacek. >>> if you've got complaints about today's weather, there is just nothing we can do to make you happy. it was a picture perfect day >>> gas prices driving you crazy in virginia can vary greatly. we'll help you find the best places to fill up. let's head over to burke, the express stop at 9550 old keene mill road, 3.53 for a gallon of regular unleaded. th

bethesda, maryland is number two. that's followed by brooke line, massachusetts. >> san rafael is number four and let's not forget walnut creek. >> the movodo site said it used information like home prices, household income and the number of art galleries to calculate each city's snob factor. >> debate that among yourselves. >>> let's talk about the weather forecast. let's not worry about snobby. we should worry about wet and rainy. >> hi, sandhya. >> nothing snob be about our weather forecasts. as we look at live doppler 7hd, we will start to turn up the heat. the temperatures will sore over the next couple days. right now patchy fog is showing up along the coastline and as you look at our current water temperatures, although they are still running higher than average this time of year in the low to mid60s, check out bodega bay. it is 58 degrees. for several days we have seen the numbers in the 60s. the fact that it has come down and indicating that the dryer air is moving in. the humidity has been dropping. by the w

they're getting 3,000 a month for a studio apartment in bethesda, that's fine.but i want you to contribute to our other needs. affordable health, housing. you're going to make a lot of money in a shalleck administration, you're going to make a lot of money, but we want some pay back for this great county. and that's my view of this. i want the private sector to be a partner, not an enemy. and unfortunately so many of my democratic friends hear the word business, that's like a dirty word. and i just have the opposite view. >> you also want to cut spending. >> yes. >> talk about ways would you do that. and one of them is salaries and benefits. >> we have a $5 billion budget. that's with a "b." and over 70% of our budget goes to salaries and benefits. the school board gets 2 $2,500,000. when you're spending that much on salary and benefits you can't do the things that i'm talking about. university, things like that. so we've got to take a close look at salary and benefits. but in addition to that, we've got to cut nonessential services. how many cars does the count

. >>> a startling discovery at the national institutes of health in bethesda, maryland.pox virus. they were discovered in an old storage room. it's unclear whether it's alive. it's being tested. at the cdc in atlanta. smallpox was declared eradicated in 1980. and british researchers say they have come up with a blood test that can predict the onset of alzheimer's. more than 5 million americans have the disease. alphonso van marsh reports. >> reporter: vivian hill and her sisters lost their mother mary to alzheimer's disease. >> it's horrible knowing that once you're diagnosed with it it's a slow horrible journey. >> reporter: now researchers at king london's college say they're developing a blood test that can help families coping with the disease. they found ten proteins in the blood that could reveal early changes in the brain related to alzheimer's before a patient has symptoms. scientists hope their findings will eventually lead to patients being put on drugs early to delay or even stop the disease. >> you take a drug and in effect you would have the clinical symptom

bethesda, maryland, campus found a number of vials appearing from the 1950s, some labeled "flu" and "mumps." but some were labeled "variola," the scientific word for smallpox. smallpox was declared eradicated in 1980 and samples of the virus are only supposed to be stored in two places-- the c.d.c. in atlanta and a lab in russia. the vials were first moved to a safe location on the n.i.h. campus. then, late yesterday, the fbi oversaw air and ground transport of the virus to c.d.c. headquarters. overnight testing confirmed the presence of smallpox. it will take up to two weeks to determine if the smallpox virus has any ability to grow. in any case, the plan is to destroy it. a c.d.c. spokesman said a fascinating discovery for scientists, the equivalent of finding a babe ruth card in the attic, but said there's no public health threat. >> pelley: germany discovered the golden touch in the world cup semifinals. the host country brazil never had a chance. every time the germans took the ball, it seemed to go in. four goals in six minutes. the final was 7-1. in the finals, germany will fac

that fund-raiser will be held for john jennings in bethesda. fellow musicians are banning together to help jennings and as mark seacle graves reports he's not the only musician our area is helping out. ♪ >> reporter: john james has been writing, producing and playing music for decades. ♪ too long since somebody whispered ♪ most notably with mary chapin carpenter. bill says jennings and chapman carpenter wrote their first songs together decades ago. >> that became chapman's first album and the relationship. >> reporter: but now jennings has been diagnosed with cancer. taken a toll on his abity t earn a living. >> i would be touring with mary chapin when she's recording and doing recording projects but i couldn't have a choice in that. being sick has put me on the dl for a while. >> reporter: jennings considers himself lucky and knows he's not alone as a musician facing a debilitating disease. his good friend and nationally renowned celtic singer grace griffith who lives in our area is battling parkinson's. >> it's getting to the point where she

construction crews have started resurfacing work in bethesda.this is a stretch of pavement between bradley lane and old georgetown road. the crews will work sunday through thursday during off-peak hours. the work won't be done until late fall. >>> doesn't get any easier in northeast d.c. you'll have to watch where you park in and around the h street/benning road corridor. the streetcar team will be out in force making sure drivers obey the parking rules. they'll ticket and tow anyone who parks outside the white line. they are trying to get drivers used to sharing the road with streetcars before they actually start running. >>> target fired a security officer at one of its local stores, but now he says it's retaliation because he caught a sheriff's deputy shoplifting. the security guard told the washington post the incident happened at the leesburg store in may. he says target fired him within days of filing the shoplifting report and giving police the security video. target told the guard he violated procedure by not filling out paperwork before

. >> scott, plenty of work for those tree guys as trees went crashing down in bethesda in the afternoon storms as well. we found some serious damage on bradley boulevard. stafford road and wilson lane, once again, the good niewrksz nobody hurt. >>> new tonight, montgomery county changing school boundaries to help an achievement gap among some minority students. several council members called for boundary changes after studies found minority achievement went up when they went home. closing the achievement gap a moral imperative. >>> d.c. police are changing their story and their policy in the wake of a wusa9 investigation on officers running red lights. originally, police said the reason for throwing out tickets uncovered in our report was because they were all on what they called, valid police business. for months, police denied our interview requests, but investigative reporter pursued d.c. ice police chief for answers and tonight you'll hear her acknowledge that her own officers broke the law in some cases. russ joins us with more. >> we focused our investigation on police cars caught

workers found hundreds of vials of potentially deadly germs at the national institutes of health in bethesda. in all, there were 327 vials. many of them labeled dengue, influenza and "q" fever. the vials are now being tested. and that disclosure came hours after the director of the centers for dd control and prevention in atlanta testified on capitol hill. among the questions, the recent mishandling of live anthrax. >>> a highly regarded neurologist is out on bail tonight after he was arrested and charged with prescription fraud. his name is dr. sam oraee. he's been practicing for more than 20 years. a recent search warrant found he'd been writing prescriptions for narcotics without performing the necessary medical exams. this all comes as part of an operation called dragon slayer. that operation is set up to target distributors of pain medications in prince william county. and it has resulted in dozens of arrests. >>> a cell phone camera captured this takedown. now nearly a month later, we've learned the suspect in a brutal beating is still undergoing a mental evaluation to see whether or n

before heading out for a bite in bethesda check out the june 18th closure violations at harp and fiddle on cordell avenue. the app shows it's out of compliance for hot and cold running water and rodents and insects. prince george's county hasn't gone digital yet, so we tracked down paperwork on a recent closure at good danny's restaurant on sanity barnabus road in temple hills. in -- st. barnabus road in temple hills. inspectors reported rodent droppings in several places, flies and refrigerator temperatures too low. you can track recent inspections in d.c., virginia and montgomery county. text food to 25543. we'll send you a link. all the restaurants passed reinspection and they're back in business. i'm investigative reporter russ ptacek, wusa9. >>> keeping your family safe, wusa9 first alert weather. >> 83 today to put that in perspective, average high 89. 55 this morning at dulles, tied their record low, 75 right now, dew point still in the 50s, health 48%. the clear skies and -- relative humidity 48%, the clear skies and 63 in reston, 64 at dulles, 66 toward bull run, very nice. hea