we begin our team coverage with maryland bureau chief brad bell. brad? brad: this is where the violence ended. the giant grocery store is where the third of the three murders happened. the suspect did not run far. shortly after the murder, they spotted his car in this parking lot, and then they spotted him in this boston market restaurant. what the suspect did not know was that somebody who took a seat near him was a police officer make the arrest. the capture of eulalio tordil happens just after he strolls out of the restaurant. watch the security camera video. as soon as the suspected killer is in the small silver car, the police move in. they slam into the car. within seconds, our cameras are there as tordil is led away in handcuffs. >> he was just walking up to the car. rad: a relatively peaceful end to a violent spree for you. >> some guy came in and told us there had been another shooting outside of macy's. less than an hour later, at this giant and aspen hill, a person is shot and killed. the police realized that tordil is the likely suspect in al

brad bell, our maryland bureau chief islive in aspen hill. brad, you were at high point high school yesterday when this began. through to the press conference. there anything you heard from both police chiefs today in the past half hour that caught your attention? brad: yeah, a number of things. one of them is something that we knew and we were reported a little bit earlier today. gently. this guy, mr. tordil, wanted to go down in a blaze of glory. police had intelligence about that. i heard it from sources. chief tom manger without wanting to go into too much detail said that was in fact the case. we know there was planning here. this is a man if we look back the last couple of months we know his life was falling apart. he was estranged from his wife. she was in court trying to go back to her maiden name. she order -- protective order against him and that affected him at work. we know he was forced to go to work -- sources filled me in about this more -- and turn in his badge and gun. he had to face his supervisors and do that. additionally t

abc7's brad bell has more on this video and what caused the wall to collapse. brad: the video is eye grabbing. first in slow motion and then the wall comes down. just missing the alert driver in the silver s.u.v. it draws a reaction from everyone we slow it to. >> it came right on down. bam! especially wild for ron to see on camera, because he saw it in person. >> i was right here. just like explosion happened. the w ground. i never seen anything like it in my life. >> it was the facade of an old toe mow toe packing -- tomato packing operation. vacant, under construction amidst the retail development. the theory of what happened is the recent rain softened the ground in the section of foundation sagged. there is a clue in this angle. watch in slow motion. the bottom actually falls before the rest of the wall. >> we are just looking to support the building. it's off the corner anyway. >> for now the street remains closed off as the engineers decide how the rest of the building can be made safe. it seems the video neighbors have their own opinions. >> just knock t

brad bell explains why not all of the homeowners will ever be satisfied after the slope failure. brad: two-year nightmare for the people of the piscataway hill neighborhood. starting with a landslide or smoke failure as the engineers called it. it happened after a period of heavy rain, may 2014. five houses on the ridge top deemed unsafe. >> walking for six months. it was taxing to bring in everything we needed to and from the trash out and the groceries in. brad: today robert riley and his neighbors finally able to exhale. >> i am pleased that the neighborhood is back to normal and we are able to get to our houses. brad: it cost $15 million to fix the small neighborhood road making this the most ex the history of prince george's county. today they declared may 2 piscataway hills day. baker crediting aggressive residents for making sure it got done. >> it's not easy when it's personal. nothing is more personal than your home. than your livelihood and the quality of life. >> resident debbie among those celebrating. >> it's quiet. the best community i could dream to live in. our nei

naspen hill, brad bell, abc7 news. maureen: thank you, brad. as we told you eulalio tordil was arrested right in front of our cameras. in the chaotic moments before that, kimberly suiters was at the scene. police told her and her photographer to get back and get down. kimberly suiters is live now with what she saw and experienced. kimberly suiters? kimberly: that is right, maureen. we want to gi we came to the giant justures we were out in the open. ouli came to us and said we telieve the shooter is in we put our live struck right here in the kohl's parking lot. come back to me. 3:la this afternoon. live on our air. we will show you in a moment the tense moments where the police told us to get back. get down. and this is why. just at 3:45 in this parking lot here, 50 yards from us, is where the arrest happened. take a look at the video we were able to capture and show you live as it happened this afternoon when tordil was surrounded by montgomery county police officers. some undercover. some in uniform. he came they were able to arrest him. it

in hand lamb, brad bell, abc7 news. leon: speaking of pay raises, a scheduled one may be for virginia employees. if the state revenue doesn't catch up with the projections by june. virginia secretary of finance says they are hopeful that april and may will post higher than expected revenue. maureen? maureen: g.o.p. candidate for president donald trump wrapped up a meeting with former secretary of state henry kissinger. the presumptive republican nominee met with the 92-year-old at kissinger's manhattan apartment. it lasted an hour and came after trump released the name of 12 potential supreme court nominees that include three federal circuit court judges two appeal court judges and six state supreme court justices. with her v delegates short to secure the democratic nomination for president. the count includes pledge delegates and super delegates. senator bernie sanders is campaigning for a second day in california. yesterday he won the oregon primary and believe he is has a chance to win california june 7. leon: coming

brad bell, abc7 news. leon: okay. learn something new every day. alison: yeah! a dozen. om heaven for one minute and saw $75 a dozen. right back up he would go. he would go over again! alison: wow! doug: it will come down. it's the way it is. >> are they worth it? brad: yeah. when i was a kid you could buy, in the late '50's get bushel of crabs for $18. good crabs. big ones. alison: changed. brad: it's worth it. get into it. the weekend is getting closer, closer, closer. probably getting more genuine. you got a lot of things playing this weekend. start off with this. the clear skies. clouds to the west. that is where the leading edge with more moist air is. tomorrow and friday we will have more humid, warmer weather. it will feel like summer. maybe the afternoon thunderstorms. we are not getting anything like what they are dealing with in the central plains. you saw the video from the huge tornadoes yesterday. show you one more from kansas. there are a couple of storms there now. the video from the chasers is getting so much more dramatic. it looks as though tomorrow cond

brad bell is live outside the school. brad: we have changed our angle. saw a group of sunts led away. we understand some kids are sheltering in place. we just met this gentleman. you say that you heard some of this. tell me what you heard. >> i was, i heard a gunshot. i'm like that can't be a gunshot. i will go get my son and go to school. he goes to high point but leaves right before. i'm like j.j. come here. then like no, this is time to go. nonchalant. when we go inside, i heard him say breaking news, something happened here. i couldn't believe it. i thought it was like a car backfiring brad: you heard gunshots. were they inside the building? >> it had to be outside. i was loud. it was loud. brad: your son is a student at the school? >> yeah. he goes to high point. in ninth grade. brad: what is in your heart to hear a shooting at your son's high school? >> crazy. when i went to high school here i never went through that. a fight here and there but not gunshot or anything like that. i don't know. brad: all right. thank you, sir. i appreciate you talkin

in upper marlboro, brad bell, abc7 news. scott: all right, brad. today, a warning from parents from arlington police. someone is children into his truck. several incidents and several children repoing it. one thing in common, that truck's description. northern virginia bureau chief jeff goldberg is live to explain what to look out for. jeff? jeff: well, it has the recent incident that happened last wednesday. a girl was walking home from washington lee high school after school got out. down here on 13th street. she was walking this way. a man drove right up to next to her. she then turned direction to get away from him. scaring off the man. she says she had seen the man behind the vehicle, behind the wheel several times before. four incidents happened in the past two months in arlington. other sightings including last week on the north park drive where elementary school age children saw a man driving a dark blue pickup truck slow down next to them as they were walking home from school. in april, two additional reports of a man in a dark blue pickup

brad bell has the breaking bowie. brad: quite a scene. take a look out here. you can see the remnants of what was a pursuit by the metropolitan police out of the district and into maryland. we can show you some video of the scene. the focus of the pursuit, seemingly this white dodge charger. its side window broken out, its front tires flat. large numbers of police officers on scene, people also gathering on the bridge to take a look. we talked to one man who came to see what was going on, because he says he was nearly hit by the car. >> how fast was he going? >> yeah, he was really doing that. >> and then what happened? >> then the police cars followed up. br one person was transported away from here. at this hour, police are starting to clear three lanes of route 50, now open eastbound at this point. it appears as though the rest of the highway will be open soon. from prince george's county, brad bell, abc 7 news. >> hump day is here, but the unsettled weather, it isn't going anywhere. sorry, folks. more rain moving into the area right now. chief meteorologis

maryland bureau chief brad bell has late-breaking details from waldorf. brad? brad: well, take a look at this. we are on a country road here about ten miles from waldorf. this is came early in may. and where they found mr. bailey's property. 75 acres. behind this gate. video surveillance the sign says. a police dog it warns. well, in there, when they did a search warrant, we are told that a.t.f. investigators found essentially a bunker loaded with guns. and ammunition. much of that illegal. they also found what is believed to be an illegal casino with slot machines. a gaming enterprise. poker rooms. additionally they found some alleged child pornography. and mr. bailey is charged with possession of that child pornography with producing child pornography and possession of that machine gun. this is why the a.t.f. says they take it so seriously. >> the machine gun and the type of ammunition, the explosive ammunition shipped a.t.f. takes the offenses seriously. it was important for us to find out who was responsible for trying to ship the things illegally to make s

but brad bell will kick off the coverage. live here in bay bridge. how is it looking now? pretty good. i'm at the toll booth now. tonight i'm the bearer of good news. you can see no lines. people moving smoothly across the bay bridge. you know this is thursday. not friday. we have been told that tonight is the busiest travel time of the holiday weekend. 38 million americans expected to hit the road. that is more than we have seen in 2005. one of the big one is the gasoline prices. they are 30 suspects a gallon less than last year. the other one i'm saying is simple human nature. people are seeing sunshine finally after all of this rain. people we talk to said if there is any traffic out here they are not worried about it. they want to get to the beach.

in rockville, brad bell, abc7 news. leon: coming up at 5:00 -- >> metro riders may soon need another way to get there. i'm chris papst. coming up, what option are the safest? >> you may sit in them daily. slow down, delays, congestion. the number one bottleneck in coming up, the cost of that congestion. alison: reminder for you, the phone lines are open right now for you to ask the verinarian. our phone banks will be open until 6:30. all you have to do is call 703-236-9220. to speak with one of the vets in the abc7 help center. we'll be right back. leon: a little rain is a recipe for gridlock on the road. in maryland a group is taking a closer look at the worst bottlenecks and working on ways to fix them. transportation reporter brianne carter live with number one. brianne: imagine this. 80 hours of lost time sitting, stuck behind the wheel. that is the same thing as losing two weeks of vacation. now we know the number one spot where it happens just down the way here along 270. where the spur happened right at the beltw

brad bell is there. how are the kids doing now? brad: well, it was a scene here earlier today. the problem was a concoction that the kids apparently made up involving alcohol, cough syrup and a type of candy. take a look at the video. you will see. multiple fire trucks, ambulances, police cars, as many as a dozen young people sickened after they drank this cocktail if you will, brought to school by a fellow student. the fire department had to be called. >> they were in the nurse's office. but nonetheless, the nurse's office was overwhelmed. we did call this what we say mass casualty because of the multiple patients. none of the students' injuries were life threatening. it was a sickness. brad: so when we come back at 5:00, we will tell you about this mix. it has a name. it is dangerous. a lot of information is available to young people about it online. that is when we come back at 5:00. in white oak, brad bell, abc7 news. michelle: thank you. updating a developing story now from greenville, south carolina. a gun going off in a school. we now know that a boy accidentally shot hi

maryland bureau chief brad bell joining us live from annapolis. this is quite the assignment. going out to watch the angels practice. i could think of worse things to do. brad: you know what? it's always been an interesting job. it keeps me coming back. isn't it great to talk about something fun like this on a beautiful day? we are at the scenic overlook at the world war ii memorial outside of an entire area back here was covered with lawn chairs. happy people. all looking into the sky to see the blue angels. take a look at the video. we can show you this as well. another great vantage point we have with news chopper 7. not too far away. had the cameras trained on the show. absolute spectacle. i have to admit i'm a real blue angels geek. ten years ago i was lucky enough to be offered a ride in blue angels 7. that is the one plane with two seats. it doesn't perform in the six-plane show. it knocked me unconscious twice because of the g-forces. so i have tremendous respect for what the pilots do as they perform these maneuvers over whatever show they are. but this is really a spe

brad bell is on scene. still a very strong police presence there. what is going on out there? ad: this is the old executive office building. you are looking south on 17th street. the uniform officer officers at the ready. they are telling folks that the road is closed. you can't head down there now. what we understand at this point is the person approached the most. carrying a weapon and was told to drop it. did not. kept approaching. uniform secret service officer opened fire. the person is critically injured. the important thing to know is that the person did not get in the white house. secret service telling us that no one they protect was affected in any way, shape or form. we are hoping to get a briefing from the spokesperson at the u.s. park police at this location. when we have that we will get back with you as soon as we can. the roads are closed. the police still on high alert. back to you. michelle: thank you. jamie sullivan standing by. is all the activity by the white house the other roads? jamie: of course. we have closures in that area. i'll get to that. i want to

in waldorf, brad bell, abc7 news. leon: okay. thank you, brad. we are covering metro tonight now with new information about metro's safe track plan. that is general manager paul wi transit system on track with maintenance. much of it overdue. transportation reporter brianne carter is live in arlington with a look at the revised plan. brianne: the trains running six to eight minute as you see on the board. imagine they were running every 18 minutes or even longer. what that would do to a commute. and tonight we have learned along the orange and the silver line, riders will have to be the first one to find out. a major metro disruption, now days away for tens of thousands of rail riders. >> it will probably keep me from going downtown. >> the final version of the metro long-term maintenance and repair plan starts with two weeks of round-the-clock single tracking on the orange and the silver lines from ballston to east falls church. that work will be followed by the first of five shutdowns. starting june 18, trains will not run between eastern marke

leon: brad bell has the latest on a shooting. what are you learning? ad: this is a gut wrenching scene. directly across the street is the home of a victim. meaning, well wishers and the family gather there. they have had to look out to see evidence of the crime. a woman falls to her knees. a loved ones muse. and a another man gunned down with him. the friends and family gather in grief to learn detail of the double murder. >> nice guys. three people had been to the casino in baltimore. at 4:30 a.m. as they pull up to one occupant's house on gateway boulevard in district heights. they come under fire. it appears to be a targeted attack. the motive not entirely clear. the car crashes into a tree. one man died in the car. another man is in the run but falls and dies in this alley. a woman survives. >> she is talking about the violence and the killing. the number of the murders in the county on pace to surpass last year's death toll which topped the year before. this neighbor awake by bullets. >> in the summertime you are out here and trying to have a nice

in annapolis, brad bell, abc7 news. leon: how about that? brad showing skills there. we have to have him talk to the nats. beautiful day for graduation wasn't it? the sun continues to shine right now in the 5:00 hour. chief meteorologist doug hill with a look at how long the sunshine and the hot temperatures will stick around. doug: it will stay mighty warm tomorrow. then it will change noticeably on sundays and monday. right now sunshine. we are monitoring the showers and storms west of town. i want to take the opportunity for the latest on what we have been watching what the hurricane center is watching. they investigate the aircraft today. they believe that over the next 12 to 18 hours it will become a low-end tropical storm named bonnie. it slowly makes a trudge to the south carolina coast. notice that it is going to take till sunday afternoon to make landfall. a lot of rain. not particularly high winds. a lot of ra the week. at some point it will make a right-hand turn. indication showers starting to pop up. a few parts of the area for the next few hours. that is

maryland bureau chief brad bell has the complete story for us. brad? brad: michael faces the most serious charges but his younger brothers facing serious charges today. conclusion. this, of course, all having to do with the march 13 attack. bizarre attack in palmer park. carried out allegedly by the ford brothers on the district iii police station. michael ford standing in the middle of the street. firing a gun. while his brothers watch from a car. one of them malik ford videotaping the whole thing. the incident ending when another police officer mistakes detective jacai colson for the shooter. it's a case of friendly fire. officer colson killed by a fellow officer. as we said all three facing serious charges. the state's attorney laying them out this afternoon. >> there are about 55 counties against cedric ford. -- against michael ford. second-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder. the grand jury returned indictment in the case of elijah and malik ford also include conspiracy to commit murder. brad: the charge is a bit of a surprise for malik and

in bowie, brad bell, abc7 news. leon: all right. thank you, brad. the 1900 block of h street and 1800 of northeast is back open after a tree fell this morning. it hampered the morning commute. this has been r road has been reopened. the skies reopened briefly. we saw sun this afternoon. alison: it was nice and bright. how long will it stick around? chief meteorologist doug hill is here with a check on the forecast. we love that, doug. doug: it was a nice break. probably most areas won't see much sunshine for the rest of the day. may not see much more until tomorrow afternoon. in the short-term encouragement in the forecast. watching showers all day to the west. moving northeast. not to the metro area. while there is a chance of isolated sprinkle or shower, this evening and tonight better chances anything like that will hold off until much later tonight. zoom in and show you the areas. the winchester, this is all west of the metro washington area. pullback on the doppler to show there are a few more showers downstream. keep an eye on it. perhaps tomo

alison: brad bell was on the ground taking it in. brad: they are the aerobatic team in the world. the blue angels. streak of blue and gold across the finally cleared sky. >> it's awesome. incredible. brad: the six f-18 hornets are in the air to perform for the national academy graduation, the flyover on friday and the full show tomorrow at 2:00 p.m. the local secret is they do to same show a day in advance in rehearsal. today. >> it's emblematic how the blue angels are part of the fabric of the community. the military bring positive things. >> if you want to see the blue angels fly they will be in the air again tomorrow. the good place to see them are across the river over there. route 2. brad bell, abc7 news. alison: great. reminder roads will be close for the blue angel performance. a list of those at wjla.com. leon: coming up at 5:00 dooshz >> what is this guy doing? >> a mother forced to the ground and handcuffed. what police say she did to deserve that. alison: later the "7 on your side" troubleshooter turns to you as we try to get help for a woman with a buzzing problem. leo

let's start with brad bell with reaction to this coming in. brad: all kinds of reaction. i think it is important. it is important to explain nero did not really have much to do with the arrest. he was one of the yellow shirted bicycled officers. the only time he laid his hands on freddie gray was a quick touch to lift his feet into the back of a police van. going through the four charges against him, the judge said he did not have enough to do with the arrest to be found guilty of anything. misconduct, assault, related to that assault, reckless endangerment, and misconduct related to that reckless endangerment. the judge finding that he was not enough of a participant in the arrest of freddie gray. trial,tely after this people rushing out of the courthouse. some yelling angrily. we had an opportunity to catch up with the lawyer for freddie this is his reaction to the findings. >> i found no fault with his legal reasoning. i think he was amazingly impervious to public opinion. that is the hallmark of a great judge. brad: by that, mr. murphy is saying there were an awful lo

maryland bureau chief brad bell is live in baltimore. we still have five more trials ahead. brad: that is right. that is some of the comfort people that have been protesting are drawing today. they are saying we still have the trials ahead. you saw some of the raw emotion. tonight all i the truth is people are not that surprised by today's verdict. this officer, officer edward nero, was barely more than present at the arrest of freddie gray. [chanting] brad: immediate reaction outside the courthouse to the verdict. officer edward nero not guilty on all counts. >> somebody lost their life but still nobody has been held accountable yet. what does that say? brad: the attorney for the family of freddie gray offering a different view. >> if you didn't hear every bit of the evidence, you have no rationale basis to be angry about the outcome of this case. brad: in the videos of the arrest of freddie gray, officer edward nero can be seen only briefly touching grey, lifting his feet in the police van where freddie gray would soon suffer the fatal injury in a tumble in the front of the

let's start off with the maryland bureau chief brad bell. brad, man, that rescue on the bridge, that was heart-stopping and great work by the rescuers to just comfort that guy and talk him off the ledge. brad: yeah, you know what? that is right. i have been covering the area for a long time. i have never seen that exact rescue happen before. we understand that firefighter was from a specially trained to talk to us because we are told it was a police event. you know what? memorial day traffic we have seen in recent years has picked up. thursday. not necessarily friday. that was a tough start this morning. when that distraught man took a seat on the bridge. the episode started when the police spotted the pickup parked mid-span of the bay bridge and then they found the man himself on a gritterer under the bridge. you can see him swinging his legs. news chopper 7 is there as a technical firefighter from the jones station firehouse goes over the edge himself. he shakes hand with the man and begins a conversation. these people are walking on the br

michelle: brad bell is in northeast for us. truly a split second from tragedy there. brad: absolutely amazing, wasn't it? this is the scene now. it is still a this area is littered with bricks and mortar. no one wants to get close enough to the building to clean it up. you can see the bill whole there -- see the big hole there. it wouldn't have been that big of a deal. this building is an empty shell. but when we got a look at the video, we got a surprise. watch the security camera video closely. the big brick wall to the right. a crack begins to open. just as that silver s.u.v. appears. and then it falls. as a massive slab. somehow the driver has the presence of mind to move out of the way quickly enough as the wall sends debris and dust flying. another angle from a high mounted camera. look at the number of cars that pass by just before the wall crumbles. fortunately nobody is hurt. including ron torres, who watched from his perch a half a block away. >> i started to glance over. windows, started collapsing. like an explosion happened. the whole wall caved into the g

maryland bureau chief brad bell was in the courtroom when the verdict was read and has the latest. i had to be quiet a scene. brad: it was quiet a scene. it didn't last long outside the courtroom. tonight there is peace and quiet at city hall, at courthouse and across town. for officer edward nero, he did walk out of the courthouse a free man. he knows he will not be facing any jailtime. he is not entirely out of the woods yet. he still faces interim police review. the dramatic moment in court. judge barry williams reading the ve his eyes as he realizes what is about to happen. judge williams, not guilty on all four counts. nero exhaling and seeming to tear up. then issue a statement that he and his family is elated that the nightmare is over. outside the courthouse a different scene. small but a vocal group of protesters profess ageer -- profess anger at the verdict. >> you look at the flag. liberty and justice for all. when do we start? brad: naacp president unhappy with the verdict but urge respect for the system. >> in baltimore it is history we got this far for police to be on

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brad bell was inside the courtroom in baltimore for trial. in the arrest of freddie gray, officer edward nero is one of the bicycle officers in the yellow shirt. he is at the back of the police van. he puts gray in leg shackles and lifts his feet in the van as gray is placed in a facedown position. in opening arguments prosecutors claiming nero didn't care about departmental policy requiring seat belt use for prisoners. and is guilty of reckless endangerment. and as attorney and trial-watcher explains committed an assault because officers checked gray's pocket. >> was the search of freddie gray after he was initially detained legal or not? >> nero's lawyer firing back that no crime was committed even if the police were under new orders to seat belt prisons. >> a violation of a police regulation does not amount to criminal offense. brad: the most dramatic moment in court. video of a police reenactment of gray's time in police van with the police cadet playing the rol move around the van despite being in cuffs and shackles. it is believed that

brad bell was in the courtroom. what are the take-aways from today's argument? brad: three things at this hour. the state revealed the claim against officer edward nero. the first point they are not saying he physical hurt freddie gray in any shape, or form. they claim when he searched gray it amounted to unwanting touching and that is a misdemeanor assault. defense firing back saying if nero is guilty of anything at all it's slight violations of departmental policy. and that those not criminal matters and shouldn't be in court. the third point at this stage of the trial. the judge, the man at the heart of this, judge barry williams. this is a bench trial. no jury. he must decide guilt or innocence. he has been with this case through the motions. he knows just about everything there is to know about it. but he must set aside his knowledge of certain bit and pieces of evidence. certainly an interesting trial. it is still going on right now. it started at 9:30 this morning. we will go back in. we will come back at 5:30 with a complete report and we will tell you ab

we begin with maryland bureau chief brad bell in court for the hearing four hours ago.rad: we were in court. tordil appeared via closed circuit tv. he had his hands cuffed behind his back. as the state's attorney told the story of crime he lowered his head down, down, down. like that. he listened as the state's attorney said what you just told us. that ultimately he was caught police believe because he lost his ammunition. and the glasses he needed to drive. before his dramatic caught-on-camera capture friday afternoon, eulalio tordil had plans to die in a gunfight with police. >> there were some notes seized after the first killing in prince george's county that indicated that the defendant might be suicidal. or might attempt to be involved in a shoot-out with the police. >> montgomery county state's attorney john mccarthy revealing today after a bond review hearing that tordil was in near constant motion last thursday night. at the all

brad bell, abc 7. jummy: quite a lesson. we switch to the forecast. the rain is back. we are tracking showers moving through the region. some areas are seeing heavy rain. what are we going to get and when does it move out of here? doug: it is in the process of moving through the area right now. a stronger cold front will pay us a visit tom will move through the area. right now, we are seeing the heaviest rain east of the city. if you little stragglers back the heinz. backlue ridge were pulled -- will pull back. we have clearing skies developing 80 miles west of the appalachian mountains. that bodes well for us. i think it is going to turn out to be a pleasant mid to late afternoon and early evening. it is going to be beautiful this afternoon. that is going to work out well if you are heading out to see the nats tonight. it is going to be a dry evening. more showers, thunderstorms, and sums on shine for the weekend. part of our saturday outlook coming up for you. jummy: right now, following a developing story. authorities in south carolina on the scene of a school shoot

in rockville, brad bell, abc7 news. leon: wow! amazing. thank you. in an hour from now the victims' rights foundation will hold a prayer vigil to honor victims of thursday and friday's shootings. looking here at live picre church in gaithersburg. where the vigil is planned. in 2002, they raised a half group for victim of the d.c. sniper shootings. our coverage of thursday's killing and friday deadly chaos continues on wjla.com. there you can find details breakdown of what the police found when they captured tordil. you can read the arrest warrant for yourself. maureen? maureen: after a five-month pause trials resume in baltimore's freddie gray case. we are not sure whether the next trial starts wednesday or thursday because tomorrow prosecuting attorneys will ask to delay the trial of officer edward nero by one day. nero is chargedded with assault. reckless endangerment and misconduct. one of the three officers seen on video immediately after gray's arrest. prosecutors say nero and his colleagues had no reason to chase and arrest gray. he senot direc

in aspen hill, brad bell, abc7 news. jonathan: now back to where it de of the arrest. you were in the area where this guy was just sitting in the boston market. you were thinking of going in there and getting lunch today. kimberly: i almost did. for whatever reason i decided not to go into the boston market right here and ducked into kohl's briefly. we may have been next to the alleged gunman tordil. we want to show you the moment right leading up to his arrest. abc7 was live on the air. we were live when the police were shouting at us to get back, take a look at the video now of the moment where police moved in, surrounded tordil's vehicle. and made the arrest. we were told, we saw undercover officers. we saw officers in plain clothes. there was no shouting. no gunfire. he came out of therca. put his hands behind his back. and they cuffed him. relatively peaceful compared to the carnage he is accused of in the last 24 hours. beingpotographer got up next to it and he said it looked like there was damage to it. whether the driver did the damage or an officer had to do t

we begin our team coverage with maryland bureau chief brad bell. brad?giant grocery store is where the third of the three murders happened. the suspect did not run far. shortly after the murder, they spotted his car in this parking lot, and then they spotted him in this boston market restaurant. what the suspect did not know was that somebody who took a seat near him was a police officer

in rockville, brad bell, abc7 news. leon: okay. thank you, brad. tonight the victims' loved ones connected by tragedy and united in their grief gather for a vigil in gaithersburg. as mike carter-conneen reports the event is hosted by the same organization that assist those impacted by the d.c. sniper shootings 14 years ago. mike? mike: in two hours it will be held here in gaithersburg at the myth dist church by the victim -- met dist church by the victims right. they raised half a million for the sniper victims and they are planning a similar fundraiser with the money divided evenly among the victims in this string of shootings to cover funeral >> my biggest regret i didn't tell him how much i loved him. >> this weekend, in montgomery and prince george's county, players were offered and tears were shed at the memoriam and investigates for those gunned down. >> a waste of life. she goes to the store and doesn't come back home to her family. mike: in two counties in two days there were six victims. three lost their lives. gladys tordil, winfield, mol

in upper marlboro, brad bell, abc7 news. jonathan: there is a warning after four cases of kids approached by a man. in each of the cases the kids gave almost the exact same story and the same descriptions of the guy in the vehicle he is driving. jeff goldberg has details. high school and elementary school students report a man driving dark pickup truck or sedan creeping up next to them and sometimes talking and sometimes not. last wednesday the recent incident outside washington lee high school. he said one time he honkedhi horn and the other time he was clearly watching her. jeff: the news to make any parent feel like vance does. >> it makes me nervous. jeff: two girls walking home from barrett elementary school when a man in a dark blue pickup truck drove beside them at a slow speed staring. vance's daughter is in the fourth grade at barrett and walks home from school with friends each day. >> we don't want her to grow up being afraid of the world. jeff: in the past few months four incidents with a pickup truck or dark blu

upper marlboro, brad bell, abc7 news. alison: today d.c. police charged a woman with several hit and run accidents in the city on saturday. 47-year-old bean accuse of hitting several pedestrians and vehicles in seven different places in northwest. that included two police cars. all the injuries were minor. leon: today the white house announced that president obama is going to be visiting hiroshima this month. michelle marsh has details on that move from the "live desk" in the newsroom. history being made here. michelle: it is. it has been 70 years since th atomic bomb on hiroshima. president obama will be the first sitting president to visit the city. >> the president intends to visit and send a much more forward looking signal about his ambition for realizing his goal of planet without nuclear weapons. alison: the president wants to push for global action on nuclear weapons the white house is quick to point out he won't apologize for the bombing that helped end world war ii. michelle: 140,000 peep died when the bomb was dropped on august 6

brad bell, abc7 news. alison: thank you. public students use bathroom and the locker room of the gender they choose to identify with. that is the directive from the obama administration today. it comes in the midst of a national debate, of course. after north carolina declared that people must use the bathroom. that corresponds with the sex on their birth certificate. >> what the framework does provide is advice. for how school administrators protect the dignity and safety for every student under their charge. alison: a virginia high school student born as a girl is already suing for the right to use the boy's bathroom in gloucester county. stephen tschida look at what the cases and the order could mean for local schools. >> the obama administration just took a stand on the transgender bathroom issue in a big way. any school, secondary, primary or university that gets several dollars must students or risk losing the money. >> women can be uncomfortable with that. >> we asked about the guidelines and found few to respond. >>

brad bell, you got your mallet, set to go? you are sitting down, you are in the position. brad: oh, jonathan. i will talk to you about the mallet in a minute. i have a firm opinion on what you are supposed to do with these when you eat crabs as a true marylander. the reason we are here in addition to me being able to sell this story to our producers and the news directors at mike's crab house. a beautiful day. people are out and about. we want to talk about the crab health. we got the surveys from the state of maryland. they do the mid-winter dredge surveys where they go in bay and scrape in the mud. they count the crab. this year they found numbers were up 35%. there are people happy to here that news. >> i say you use it to crack the lengths a little bit. get the big chunks out. just like that. watch this. you came from boston, lobster country. look what happens. hmm, hm ~m, hmm. i don't think i need to stop doing this. jonathan: you don't. we'll ask you a question while you are making your way in the crab there. look at that. what part do you eat? show me what you eat th

brad bell, abc7 news. alison: this just in to the newsroom. first-person look at the moment a c.s.x. train began to derail. this was in northwest washington over the weekend. so take a look at this video here that metro security cameras captured from the platform of the rhode island station. the car begins to wobble and then they begin to twist and turn and it turns into a log jam mess. by the time it came to a stop 16 cars jumped the track. now a look at the aftermath. we are told it could be days before rail travel back to normal. but the has mast clean-up that followed. brianne carter what is the latest today? brianne: the clean-up continues and the smell in the air continues as well. take a look at what is happening below us. they are working to remove the area where the track once was. speaking of the tracks the damage tracks remain. they are immediately lay new tracks here. capture on camera watch as the 16 c.s.x. train cars collide in this just release video. you can see the derailment it as it happens. now more than 24 hours after the

brad bell, abc7 news.ichelle: people living in flint, michigan may have had their rights violated during the water crisis. two years ago the city switch water sources, ending up with corroded pipes and led in the water. president obama is scheduled to visit flint tomorrow. jonathan: surveillance video that is out today has heart stopping and neighbors think that what they -- neighbors insisting that what they saw was america. we warn you, it shows a seven-year-old girl falling from a four-story building in the bronx. then she gets back up and walks away. autr see to believe. autria: neighbors believe god spared her life. how else do you explain to follow this and a little girl picks himself up? >> god works in mysterious ways. autria: a seven-year-old autistic girl somehow got out of her fourth floor window and fell to the concrete ground below. you see the child get back up and then stumble around as if trying to leap through a window or door. andear-old heard the thump thought it was garbage being thrown