it started thursday night when officer david reed found a woman frantically crying in a parking lot in the white of shopping center. her one month old little girl was not breathing. officer read immediately took action, taking the child into his arms. officer: i struck the back of the baby between the shoulder blades and the baby took a deep threat then began to cry. kellye: the baby is doing just fine with family members. mother is in the hospital. the police are investigating what went wrong. coming up -- reliving history, the amazing look back at what is being called our nation's greatest generation and how a teacher and veteran made it all come to life. devon: combined heat, humidity called fronts storm chances could be coming. the forecast coming up. kellye: a day to remember the nations capital is vintage warplanes was dover the national mall. 50 planes were flying to mark the 70th anniversary of victory in europe day. people gathered along the national mall andy world war ii memorial to watch the hour-long flyover. and you do not have to be on the mall to see the show. abc 7 cre

police officer david reed found the girl's mother crying hysterically cradling the unconscious child. reed revived her and both the girl and mother are in the hospital. police at this hour aren't saying exactly what happened. alison: and a memorial to our country's greatest generation. in the skies right over d.c. today. dozens of world war ii era planes flew over the national mall. the event was to mark the 70th anniversary of v.e. or victory in europe day where the nazis surrendered to the allies in world war ii. scott: triple-a expects more than 3 million americans will travel for memorial day this year. that is the most travel since 2005. americans taking a trip of 50 miles or more will go up nearly 5% over the holiday weekend. estimated 33 million will drive to their destination making for crowded highways. triple-a says the number of people flying should rise 2.5%. speaking of travel jamie sullivan is here to tell us what it is like on the roadway. jamie: it's a typical afternoon for us with congestion. the commute into the d.c. area using 395 may be a little more congested. cra

it started last night when officer david reed found a woman frantically crying in a parking lot at a white oak shopping center. her 1-month-old little girl was not breathing. officer reed took action taking the baby into his arms. >> i struck the back of baby between the shoulder blades and the baby took a deep breath and began to cry. kimberly: the baby is now with family members and doing fine. her mother is in the hospital. police say they are still investigating what went wrong. next on "abc7 news at 6:00" -- >> they were converted to a million dollar mansion rented out for party event but the attorney general says it's against the law. the homeowner is responding only on abc7 news coming up. kimberly: plus chief meteorologist doug hill will tell you what the subtropical storm off the coast of carolina means for our weather. robert: i'm robert burton outside m.s.g. for game five. i will take more than goals to win this one. it will probably take defen when you own a small business there's a never-ending list of small things to do every day. appointments... orders... deadlines...

officer david reed found a hysterical mother holding an infant. he took the infant and strubs her between the shoulder blades at that moment and she woke up and started crying. the baby is recovering with family. >> those big beautiful brown eyes looking at you at the hospital. i was very thankful to be part of that. anchor: police are not saying why the child wasn't breathing. mother remains in hospital and authorities are investigating the circumstances. anchor: it was a heart breaking night for caps fans. the caps dropped game five in overtime falling to the rangers 2-1. but they are still alive in the series. let's get to robert burton with the very latest from new york. robert? robert: yeah. all is not lost right here. however i know fans are thinking how do you lose this one? they pretty much had it in the bag until less than two minutes to go. chris kreider of the rangers tied it up. let's go into madison square garden. it was the captain of the new york rangers, ryan mcdonagh. talk about being clutch. right here sneaks one past braden holt

david cameron and the anti-europe uk independence party. and the coalition partner and also in the mix the marshal party, the breakout star of the election. in the u.s., small parties reed little to no influence andtivity historically, it's the same in britain but the parties are changing. expecting to win 35% of the vote, the small parties are poised well above their weight. they remember expected to post a lot of votes from the tories. they probably won't win more than a handful of seats but it may cause cameron's party to lose many seats that were once considered safe. in scotland, the seats currently held by labor it may make them the third largest party in the next parliament, as labor wants to build a coalition government. and pending the outcome of the election and the shame of the potential coalition whether britain remains part of europe to the healthcare system to uk's private shield. >> a change in leadership could mean a big change in british foreign policy. but that has not been a big factor in the uk. lawrence lee takes a look at why. >> the commonwealth office in london is having work done on it. it's a good time for it. the civil servants work goes on ho

reed was actually a tribute to him. >> he's faced a couple of tough health issues. suffering a stroke. here to break it down dr. david samati. beau biden was facing brain cancer. let's talk about brain cancer a little bit. how deadly it is. how treatable it is. what he was facing in this five-year siege of the disease. >> in 2010 he had a mild stroke which seems to be probably not related to what we're seeing here today. he recovered from that stroke. in 2013 he was diagnosed with this small mass brain tumor at surgery at md anderson. at that time -- >> that's a big cancer center in texas. >> absolutely. it's a big medical center specializing in cancer. the surgery did well for that and he recovered that and he was going well until this spring had another recurrence and that sometimes unfortunately can happen with these brain cancers. we see about 70,000 new cases of brain cancer in a year. 14,000 deaths from this type of cancer and when it comes back and when it recurs depending on what type of brain cancer the prognosis is very poor. there's about 120 different types of brain cancer out there. sometimes, even benig