live in burtonsville, maryland, jeff news. nancy: i'm nancy chen at the "live desk" where we are following breaking news in the investigation of the russian interference in the last presidential election. "wall street journal" reporting special counsel robert mueller has empanelled a grand jury in d.c. the move suggests that he think he is will need to subpoena record and hear witness testimony for the investigation. there is a lot to unpack hear. we are working to learn more about the story and we'll bring you details as soon as we get them. at the "live desk," nancy chen, newsom. larry: thank you. the trump administration says baltimore is at risk of losing out of a new program designed to help cities struggling with gun violence. u.s. attorney general jeff sessions says it is one of four cities that will be ineligible for the program unless they give up the sanction ware city status. the new program specifically helps fight drug trafficking and the gang crime. letter from the justice department says the cities have until au

alison: things slowly getting back to normal in burtonsville, but it was a wild night. a fallen power line, shutting down a road and blocking people from their homes. jeff goldberg has the latest on the situation. jeff: when residents of the country place apartment complex realize they cannot get home because of power line problems, few were as concerned as this 84-year-old whose oxygen was running low. >> i just took one of my pills. >> right now i need to take her to the fire department, just to make sure she has enough oxygen. jeff: worked faste crew to fix the problem. the authorities say after 1:00 a 129 clip thee cable tv line in burtonsville, causing it to fall in another line that caused the poll to snap. there was massive rush-hour delays. >> have to be patient and wait. jeff: about 6:00, power crews finished repairs and people were free to go in and out. followed soon after by the reopening of route 129. >> i'm glad everyone is safe. jeff: jeff goldberg, abc 7 news. jonathan: do you ever snoop when you see somebody texting on an airplane? one woman caught a me

what happened at 1:00 today, somehow, that power line fell to route 29 in burtonsville. it got caught one a truck. thankfully no one was injured. the truck caused the power line to move. causing the power pole to snap. or bend at least. not snap entirely. the power crews able to shore up the power pole. route 29 got closed at 2:00 this afternoon. at the worst possible time for rush hour. it's been closed since. a mile or two in both directions to the north and the south. traffic on 29 obviously a major thoroughfare has been shut down completely. a major inconvenience during the rush hour. obviously a big inconvenience for the residents who want to get in and out apartments. we spoke earlier today with ivan brown caring for 84 -- yvonne brown carrying for 84-year-old evelyn wallace who needed her oxygen to be refilled in her apartment. >> i'm trying to get her into her house. the oxygen is very low. we had no idea the accident is going on. i have to get her in a house or get another oxygen tank. i don't know what we'll do. >> miss brown decided to take her to the fire dep

get to the breaking news from burtonsville. jeff goldberg is on the scene where the power lines came down on columbia pike. the poles look like they are coming down as well. this is a mess. >> a total mess. the crews are dealing with the situation right now. what we are told by an officer, there was a power line going across 29. fell. a truck driving in one direction or another caught the power line causing the power pole to bend there. that is what crews are dealing with there. this is a dangerous situation. we don't know what caused the power line to fall. 29 is closed in both directions. this is obviously causing a in addition to the disruption causing to the residents here that live at the coupes place apartment complex -- country place apartment complex who can't get inside the apartment complex. people living inside the complex who cannot get out. i want to walk down here briefly. i'm here now with ivan brown who is caring for 84-year-old evelyn wallace. and miss brown, you tell me that miss wallace, her oxygen is running

things back to normal this morning in burtonsville after a wild thursday it began just after one when a truck on route-29 clipped a t-v line 22-feet above the road. this caused a cable to snap, and a pole to bend. the pole closed roads, blocked people from their homes and cut off power to the nearby community. it was especially critical for 84-year old evelyn wallace whose oxygen was running low. power crews were able to clear the scene and finish repairs around six last night. a 7-on-your-side alert now and a major crackdown to tell you about on illegal robocalls. the f-c-c is hitting phillip roesel of "best insurance" company with a hefty 82-million dollar fine. officials say he used a method called spoofing --- or disguising the origin of the calls to make them look like they are coming form different numbers. officials say he's responsible for 2 n robo calls. at one point 200-thousand in a single day. regulators now want to warn consumers to stay on high alert for this and similar scams which claims you owe the i-r-s money. coming up at six: a teenager who encouraged her boyfriend

chinese restaurant worker in montgomery county fought back in the pfirman section of the county near burtonsville. police say the gunman pepper spray a male worker and pointed the struggled with him and police say he hit her with a gun and used pepper spray before taking off with cash. if you have information about who he is, call police. larry: a 17-year-old passenger detained at san francisco airport detained for jumping out of an airplane, caught sliding down the wing to the tarmac with a construction crew detained him until police arrived. he was not injured and airport operators -- operations were not affected. hundreds of people, a nightmare on the tarmac. people onre on this, a sweltering plane for hours. airline: six hours, the blaming the airport. storms forced a plane from brussels to montrÉal to land in ottawa and passengers spent six hours on the tarmac, they said it was hot with no air conditioning and no food. air transit blames congestion at the gate and delays to refuel the aircraft but the ottawa airport authority says a gate was ready and up to the airline to give the order to g