county owned surface lots in downtown bethesda will charge $1.50 an hour. county owned garages depending on how prime the location is will charge between $1 and $1.25 per hour. late this afternoon, we reached out to the montgomery county department of transportation asking why the increase, who approved it and how much added revenue the county now expects to bring in. so f we are live in downtown bethesda, i'm kevin lewis. alison: all right, kevin. thank you. still ahead at 5:00, it could be a major breakthrough in the search for amelia earhart. we will show you the new picture shining new light on the 80-year-old mystery. and where it's been hidden away for decades. larry: i can't wait to see that. also we talk about this here how a shoplifter got caught red-handed and held at gunpoint. still, managed to escape. brad: it wasn't just the sound of fireworks echoing around prince george's county. i was gunfire. fios is not cable. and we believe everyone deserves faster internet. so with fios gigabit connection, you get amazing download speeds up to 940 megs 2

marriott signing on the dotted line to move in a brand new headquarters in downtown bethesda. alison: that is right. the montgomery county reporter kevin lewis with a look at the blueprint for the marriott new digs. >> since 1978, marriott international has been based in this gray concrete building near the westfield montgomery mall. this week the global hotel chain. it's now a shiny structure along wood mont is there is a fitness center and a cafeteria to boot. a major draw for the growing millennial workforce is the red line. there is a ride on, metrobus and the circulator plus walk and the biking options via nearby neighborhoods and the capital crescent trail. they hope 50% of the employees will ditch the cars in the daily commute. it include 12 story 230 room flagship hotel. glistens plaza. specialty plaza shot and a guerin rooftop dining terrace in the plan -- and a green rooftop dining terrace in the plans. it's expected to cost $600 million for tax benefit for marriott and -- maryland and marriott alike. kevin lewis, abc7 news. alison: while we talk about money. move ov

live in downtown bethesda, i'm kevin lewis. abc7 michelle: now at 6:00 -- >> part of my head, my shoulder. it could have been worse. michelle: a 14-year-old still optimistic despite losing three fingers to a fireworks explosion. only on 7, the goal he says he is not giving up on. and the stranger that has this family livid. >> it's very hard for me to see him devastated by losing my kid's best friend. michelle: the painful toll after a family home is blown off its foundation. >> now, "abc7 news at 6:00". on your side. >> here we are on the hottest day of the year. turning to ice to keep cold. this was two hours ago. ice sculpture working on 350-pound block of ice outside the studio. then an hour done and melting underway on the sweltering penguin. fast forward to right now and you can see the penguin will soon be a puddle. all of that is part of living in the nation's capital. it is july. we have team coverage of the summer swelter led by jonathan elias on the national mall. jonathan? jonathan: how are you doing? it was oppress

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the traffic isat still quite busy with a lot of folks trying to get out from downtown, out to the suburbs. a few showers bethesda, silver spring, not going to amount to a whole lot through the overnight. the umbrella, grab heading out the door tomorrow. highs a little cooler, lower to middle 80's, but looking at another round of showers and storms. the timing coming up. jonathan: we are watching north korea. that is where u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson says that country conducted a test using an intercontinental ballistic missile. this. this is the kind of missile the u.s. worries about because it can reach the u.s. nancy: the united states reacting swiftly to that news. they say north korea conducted a successful test of a long-range missile overnight. tonight, the united states and south korea holding a joint missile drill in the territorial waters off of south korea. after the launch, the united states says this was done to counteract north korea's destabilizing and unlawful actions. that is what they called them. this is been called a major breakthrough, a two-stage intercontinental ballistic missile

bethesda looking at a few stars at this point. overnight, dropping into the 70's downtown d.c. a little cooler, mid to upper 60's north and western suburbs wake-up time tomorrow. tuesday morning, grab the sunglasses. you will need them all day. in the morning in bethesda, 65 fairfax, middle 60's upper marlboro and woodbridge. the futurecast shows a nice mixture of sun and clouds tomorrow morning. cloud cover about noon time, but it will stay dry. we keep the sunshine in the forecast tomorrow evening. a great night for picnics, and more portly tomorrow, lower humidity, so i's will be in the middle to upper 80's and not feeling sticky -- the highs will be in the middle to upper 80's. 86 tomorrow, middle 80's wednesday, another gorgeous day. thursday we crank up the heat and humidity, highs approaching 90 degrees. don't forget the noontime start for the baseball game thursday. it will be hot, upper 80's, near 90 friday. a cold front in the afternoon. showers and thunderstorms likely. middle 80's saturday and sunday, and we stay in the upper 80's most of next week. a hot summer day,

it t here is bethesda and washington, if you're downtown or arlington or alexandria. get inside your house or a building, make sure if you get down to lowest level, that would be great, too. i think we'll see a couple of trees down here, not a huge issue. i mean, this isn't fifth -- this is 70, 80 mile an hour winds. these are strong winds, maybe some trees down, too. and then back to the west, tracking this line coming in towards centerville, in towards the shan tilly area. the city of fairfax right on the boundary of this line, but you'll get into this action coming up over the next 15 to 20 minutes, not even close to be done yet. and we will see this right on through the rest of the afternoon today. again, severe thunderstorm warning, this one right here until 5:15, fairfax county, arlington county, dc and prince georges county as we move on through. here is the really good news, here, i'm going to go through a few of these slides here until i get to the slide i want. here it is coming into washington and you can see, here is the -- this is called the shelf cloud a

downtown washington tunnel underneath the water table before modern tunneling method became widespread use in the united states called the new as industry january mental. metro will try medical center bethesda those arcing insulators are at theirs worse. we showed the dangerous pools of weight cascading down sitting next to electrical components. metro won't know until early next year when it work on the smart part of the tunnel v to make a decision it will expand the solution to the rest the red line. >> reporter: that work will be done starting tonight to oct october. martin, the metro board is meeting on thursday and this whole idea of possibly selling naming rights to raise money for metro is going to come up. >> no one wants another fair increase, right? we got first look at documents that were prepared for the metro board. discussion will get underway on thursday. right now, metro believes only four stations have real potential to sell their naming rights. metro center, will he fan plaza downtown stations and two ones obvious, right, navy yard because of the nats stadium and also gallery place because of the verizon center. so those are the four metro is eyeing right now but it will t