jonathan elias, back to you. leon: thank you. leon: the proverbial air came out of the patriots' balloon because that is when roger goodell announced he will uphold brady's four-game suspension at the start of the season. the new england patriots quarterback was suspended after investigation in deflated balls. the nfl players association is saying that oil will challenge that suspension. kimberly: more breaking news out of d.c. where several people are treated after a pepper spray incident on a metro bus. kellye lynn is live in 3000 block of georgia avenue with the latest. what happened? kellye: i am at georgia avenue. this is bus 79. the bus where this happened. male and a female got in a verbal confrontation. the female sprayed the male with pepper spray. both fled the scene. six people transported to the hospital including three children and three adults. right now the investigators are here talking to the individuals who were on the bus. at the time this happened. we have investigators from the d.c. metro police department as

and we have comedian jesse elias from the at&t stage. wanda sikes and jesse dean martin. >> jimmy: earlier this year our first guest ended his long run as don draper on "mad men" with a coke and a smile and unfiltered lucky strike to top it off. next, he plays the voice of herb overkill in the new animated adventure "minions." it opens in theaters july 10th, please welcome jon hamm. ♪ [cheers and applause] >> jimmy: how you doin'? >> doing very well, thank you. >> jimmy: you must be very happy. i'm making assumption, but you must be very happy, because you have this great show, and people really, really love it, and it's one of the classic show, but sometimes these shows don't end well. >> right. >> jimmy: and mad men had such a great and clever and perfect ending. >> thank you. that's very kind of to you say. >> jimmy: it really was great. >> i was happy with how people appreciated how it ended, too. sometimes you do what you do. and then sometimes people are angry or they're disappointed or whatever. but people were very, they got it.

i'm jonathan elias. back to you. leon: thanks. if you owe the state of maryland money you will probably find out about it soon. the state's ability to track down people is improving with the technology. item investigate chris papst found out that he owed the state money that happened 17 years ago. >> unsettable. >> way back john carroll would cruise in the 1986 audi but he learns that the maryland has no record of the car insured for a ten-month period. starting in 1998. the result is a $2500 fine. >> i have always been covered. >> he says he lived in the current connecticut home since leaving maryland in 1998. he believes the insurance wasn't properly transferred. but after 17 years he switched insurance company and no longer has the record to prove he had coverage the whole time. >> it's four cars ago. it's impossible to prove that. >> "7 on your side" reached out to the collection unit. they couldn't about the about this case. but the director told us that the notices are typically sent out yearly. he admits they have had troub

jonathan elias. back to you. maureen: thank you. the u.s. secretary of transportation is demanding urgent changes at metro. he met with closed doors with the leaders from virginia maryland and the district. stephen tschida joining us live with reaction. and the possible next step. stephen: the principals wouldn't elaborate on what they discussed but the problems with the metro is sew veer that the transportation secretary is calling for action. >> leaders of three government united in a single quest. >> we are working from the same page to make sure that our system is the best that it can be. >> but a plague of problems persist from metro. the system still is reeling from a smoke incident in january near the l'enfant plaza station that left a woman on the yellow line train dead. and the troubling findings from the investigation. poor communication, lack of coordination. and corroded and a crumbling infrastructure. >> of utmost concern to all of us is safety. >> today, two governors and mayor called for swift action to rectify problems. >> th

the very latest i'm jona elias. back to you. >> thank you. coming up on "abc7 news at 5:00" -- move over rusty. another animal from the national zoo is ready for the spotlight. leon: months after an abc7 investigation on high fines on local toll lanes we are hearing that the problems may not be getting better. kellye: the donald hear what he said about his comments on immigrants and another project in d.c. leon: tracking a line of storms moving toward the area. we will check in with doug hill in a few minute. don't kellye: negotiators reach a nuclear deal after 20 months after on-again off-again talks. as mary bruce reports not even is pleased with the deal. mary: negotiators emerging this morning after 17 days of tense talks finally with a deal to block iran from developing a nuclear weapon. president obama: today because america negotiated from a position of strength and principle we have stopped the spread of nuclear weapons in the region. mary: a diplomatic triumph. in a compromise on a major sticking point, a long-standing arms embargo o

i'm jonathan elias back to you. kellye: thank you jonathan. update on sweet briar college in virginia. the school says nearly 300 women are scheduled to enroll in the upcoming academic year. that includes returning and new student. sweet briar president phillip stone calls it a starting point to get the 114-year-old college back on track. the private liberal arts college was scheduled to close in august but a last-minute settlement saved it. two local school systems are changing the rules when it comes to exams. leon: rebecca cooper takes a look at one that is saying bye-bye to midterm and finals. rebecca: too much time spent testing and too little time spent learning is a problem. now montgomery and loudoun county moving to do away the final exams. the former montgomery high school student says now that he is in college it wasn't just the material he learned from the final exams that helped but other important life skills. >> it's getting the time management, dealing with the stress. dealing with being organized. all that stuff. that will eve

i'm jonathan elias. we are following a situation in hartford county maryland, at the rock state park. beautiful park. a lot of folks like to go out there. great trails along deer creek. apparently a 16-year-old boy out on one of the rocks and fell off one of the rocks. right now as we speak a technical rescue is underway. we saw teens that -- teams that looked like they pelled to the position where the young man hay have fallen and teams trying to come up. it's a precarious spot. not easy to get to at this point. don't have a position on the 16-year-old. this is going on rocks state park in hartford county maryland. the highest cropping of rocks is a popular spot. 190 feet off the river. with those outcroppings about those heights, very dangerous situation. technical rescue underway. jonathan elias abc7 news. leon: coming up at "abc7 news at 5:00" -- shutting down. a look at where interstate 66 is closing down and when you should plan to take another round to get around. kellye: plus -- >> what do you th

jonathan elias? jonathan: we are getting the information that charges have been dropped against a maryland delegate accused of flashing her ex-husband in a height in front of his house. ariana kelly of bethesda was charged with indecember scent exposure and trespassing and accuse of flashing her breasts after dropping two young children off at the ex-husband's home in june. the ex-husband used the cell phone to record the incident. from the beginning kelly's attorney disputed the charges saying that the divorces are punishing and difficult. the charges have been dropped and the state attorney office said it's better suited for family court. prosecutor said it's a domestic squabble more than a criminal act. jonathan elias. leon: coming up at "abc7 news at 5:00" -- they say you have a better chance to being hit by lottery than winning the lottery. find out about the odds of getting both to happen to you? kimberly: wow! cab drivers fight for their place in the face of growing competition. leon: later --

jonathan elias back to you. leon: thank you. warning about dangerous heat. more than 100 degrees. maureen: now more with doug hill on what you should know. doug: the heatwave ends after tomorrow's temperatures in the lower 90's with the high humidity. it ended in a big way. this video was shot on the coastal highway in ocean city. this su going southbound to 121st street. there was tremendous rain. close to threeinches close to four at time in hour and a half. the flood out like this is pretty dramatic. but while that was happening barely a few drops of rain. it's concentrated and very dramatic. so that is the latest. the rain and big storms off the coast. we are stuck with the heat and the humid. if you factor in the heat it feels 103 in washington. we will talk about the end of the heat and what is next in the full forecast in a few minutes. maureen: thank you doug. the heat put a damper on businesses. like food trucks around the area. others like the frozen yogurt shop and swimming pool had a booming business. across the area people found ways to stay cool. there is a list of c

jonathan elias, abc 7 news. montgomery county also developing, the fbi says it what it plans to attack americans over the july for holiday. -- the fbi says they thwarted plans to attack americans over the fourth of july holiday. first, brianne carter is on the national mall with what we know about the foiled plots. brianne: maureen, 10 people were arrested within the weeks leading up to the fourth of july holiday. that holiday where lots of people were on high alert. many talking about the possibility of a threat. we know that 10 arrested. this news coming from the f ei director earlier today -- the fbi director james cody earlier today. he would not give additional information about possible attacks or targets. he said some of those who were arrested, it was believed perhaps they had been planning something, but others were arrested in connection with other things beyond terrorism charges. that is what we know as a result of all this. nothing was mentioned in terms of specific locations. the identities were not

i'm jonathan elias. back to you. maureen: thank you. developing now concerns over dangerous drugs. we have seen a spike in overdoses and crimes fueled by synthetic drugs. leon: last week, d.c. mayor muriel bowser signed emergency legislation to fight against the drugs but the efforts don't stop there. maureen: d.c. bief sam ford is live with what is happening tonight. sam: i'm outside the ame church where the community members trying to get the message to young people that k-2 is not marijuana. it's not sure what k-2 is. but it's dangerous. they are sponsoring the meeting to look at a growing problem. k-2. >> the chemicals are unknown and dangerous and people are dying from it. >> they transport 7-15 people a day because of the k-2 overdoses. an example of k-2 run amok is star burst plaza at the heckinger mall northwest. images of martin luther king and rosa parks down on the names like bizarro on top of piles of trash that are allow ed to collect here. kathy is a commissioner near here. >> we have a public safety crisis. people are doled out on k2 and it is a public safety and a p

in the meantime i'm jonathan elias at the breaking news desk. back to you. leon: thank you. northwest right now a transformer explosion inside a former d.c. school seriously injured three workers that happened in the basement of the former shaw junior high school in northwest washington. we are told the firefightersed that the use thermal cameras to find one of men strapped in what they transcribed as a smoky maze. hundreds are without power and air conditioning in silver spring after a second fire in three days. the basement electrical fire cut off power to the apartment. it's not clear when power will be restored. kimberly: federal investigators are on the scene after deadly midair collision in south carolina. f-16 fighter jet collided with a cessna near charleston this morning. the fighter pilot ejected safely but two people on the single engine plane were killed. no one on the ground was hurt. the f-16 based at nearby shaw air force base. leon: two suicide bombers struck near kabul. no coalition members were injured. the attacks come amongst the major developments in afg

jonathan elias. abc7 news. back to you. maureen: thank you. more breaking news from the white oak area of silver spring tonight. news chopper 7 live own the siever of the apartment in columbia pike where a child fell from a window possibly a sixth or ninth floor window. the child is being evaluated right now. in word on the child's condition. we are told the screens were missing from the window of that apartment. leon: federal investigators say lightning may have caused a fire at a black church in south carolina. still authorities aren't ruling out anything after fires in six other predominantly black churches that occurred in recent weeks. last night's blaze at the mt. zion a.m.e. church happened 20 years after the ku klux klan burned the church to the ground. >> to arrive andee is church in flames again -- and to see the church in flames again gives you an ill feeling. >> we were resilient then. we will be resilient now. leon: of the six other recent fires of black churches investigators say with the of them were caused by arson. the other r

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. >> last september michelle and elias in portland oregon received their own cease and desist letter.> i have the letter from the united states olympic committee telling me to not use our name anymore. it's come to the united states olympic committee that you are operating a restaurant in the portland area under the name olympic provisions. we request that you ultimately discontinue after the federally protected mark. >> we came up with that name because we were in the olympic mills building an old cereal mills building. >> you don't own the word olympic. hello. if anyone owns it be with the greeks own it. >> we were baffled for sure. initially we figured there was a way around it. >> and i had called my attorney. we just might not deal with it. he's like you do realize they can seize your profits from prior years and your assets. i was like okay well, that's out of the question then. then i was like we'll fight it. then my attorney informed me that no one has ever to date been successful. people with a lot more money than our company tried to fight this and have not won. so the chanc

john: elias that people say when they tried to do get a job. .ple are out of the workforce. somewhere retired, some are disabled. millions say they want to work they can't find a job. i interviewed some of those people outside a government office right near here, that awards benefits to people who cannot find jobs. what should government do to help people in need? >> give them money. >> they need to find more jobs. john: have you looked for jobs? >> yeah. john: no jobs around? >> no. john: there are no jobs around? >> i don't think so. there wouldn't be this line out here if it was. john: i asked my team to check that out. within a few blocks of the welfare office they found lots of businesses that want to hire people. >> yes. we are hiring. john: this frozen yogurt store wishes more people would apply. >> we need two or three people all the time basically. john: so does the burger joint. >> hiring for cashiers chefs and prep cooks. john: of 79 businesses that we asked in less than two hours, 40 said they would hire. 24 said they'd take people wi

jonathan elias abc 7 news. kellye: it is time now for a check of the traffic situation. jamie sullivan standing by on traffic watch. jamie: take a look here and you can see a lot of volume. this is on the inner loop of the beltway working quite from virginia is at the maryland. we always see these delays. it is not went out there and we have dry roads. let's focus on the map because i want to talk about how slow we are actually moving. it is very heavy as a boot to the mapping system. it will give you an idea of how heavy we are. 14 miles per hour on the bottom side of the beltway. you do have heavy traffic just oversaw at about eight miles per hour. outbound of 395, same thing. on the pentagon continuing. the volume in maryland a 95. a slow go working your way northbound. starting at the capital beltway in continuing close to the route 32. bw parkway, same thing. a live look at 270. we look great neck -- write your 109 and moving at a great pace. at least the roads are dried and we have a nice commute. doug: temperature in the -- ocean city maryland enjoying sunshine. a

elias believes his own government's finance minister had more than a little to do with the current crisis. >> he was a man of imperial gains. you might lose banks dollars euros. but you may lose more than that. >> a healthy dose of skepticism permeated the proceedings. >> i'm still doubtful about the agreements. they just agree to agree? nothing is finished yet. >> many here feel their very existence has become more than a numbers game. despite the deal here outside of parliament there is a sense of stasis, a greek word that means among other things, stagnation. people here feel stuck. worried that their fiscal fates are tied to forces wholly out of their control. >> in life seems more dependent on the luck of the draw than ever before. >> we continue to explore how this deal was playing out on the ground in greece. let's check in with john psoropoulos. how is this deal going to be received in the greek parliament parliament? >> we've heard from various components of syriza, elements that lie far left of the party which are saying already that they're not going to vote for this deal. they

tomorrow night, we'll be joined by jon hamm, lizzy caplan, comedian jesse elias, and sheila e.he cletones. [ cheers and applause ] our first guest tonight started the nba finals this year on the bench and ended up holding a pair of trophies. last week, he led the golden state warriors to their first title in 40 years. watch this. he did it just like that. oh, reminds me so much of myself at that age. please welcome the most valuable player and world champion too -- andre iguodala. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: how are you doing? hey, look at that. oh, these are nice. wow. thank you. thank you so much for these. that is very, very sweet of you. did you check these? or carry them on? how did this work? >> we got a pretty good staff with the warriors. >> jimmy: they got them out here for you? >> made sure they got out here safely. >> jimmy: nice. i mentioned earlier in the show your son sculpted his own version of the larry o'brien trophy for you. did he spray paint it gold? >> you know, it was crazy, i'm just chilling in the bathroom. he comes in. dad, here's your card. i'm

i'm jonathan elias. back to you. kimberly: thank you. heartbreaking to hear about that. coming up on "abc7 news at 5:00" -- a "7 on your side" investigation. hidden hazard in some medications that is making people sick. why the f.d.a. says it is not going to change the rules. >> we have not one but two new faces we are adding to the fighting back wall of justice. the hunt is on. i'm jennifer donelan. the story coming up. leon: later update in the fight against terror. president obama briefed today by the national security team. what he is saying now coming t 6:00. doug: i'm doug hill. temperatures upper 80's to near it 0. both days partly cloudy. 30% chance of afternoon shower or thunderstorm. saturday evening celebrate in alexandria for the birthday with the big fireworks display. see them along madison street 9:30 when the fireworks start. taking any shower or storm activity will be over by then. in the next seven days, it shows the heat and the humidity continuing. 60% tomorrow. we will head to the weekend and it will go on to 30%. that will be it. daily chance of a l

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it wasn't until 93 by elias and i were living in a small town of belle plaine and the flood occurred into the fleet fields were left unplowed and there was an eruption of strange flowers and grasses that were 8 feet high and i was blown away by the beauty of some of these things and my neighbor thought i was nuts. the floods went away into the human destruction was over i found myself in a kind of morning to understand that lost landscape. so i traveled across the region and connected with prairie sites and it became clear to me that it would take more than a knowledge of the prairie to maintain this new commitment and connection as a writer. i needed accounts of an emotional connection even in a spiritual connection. for that i turned to the american nature writing and i found that just like the prairie in reality is endangered as a literary landscape most include very few examples of writing about the tall grass prairie for all the reasons i mentioned earlier and so i have no model or how to write about it or connect with it. i had no way to understand what that looks like so that