. -- western fairfax county. living in those locations has to watch out because this is the old tornado warning. as it moves to the south and east around 20 miles per hour, it is still containing a punch. it has damaging wind gusts possible. you have quarter-sized hail possible. -- if we headr back over to our weather graphics system, can see the mainline. it is really beginning to set up and push into the region as we speak. it has moved all the portions of cleveland, ohio earlier today. we're talking 10:00, 11:00 this morning when it was starting to warm. now this whole line has gotten closer. it is about to head over the mountains, and into the i-81 corridor, the shenandoah valley. it first.s will get the next 45 minutes or so, it could even be sooner than that. particularly in winchester. as we get closer to time and closer to d.c., we will have to wait for that to get here. it is moving around 45 miles per hour. if we can check this out, it should put us closer to d.c. in the 8:00 hour. 8:56, but that could

reporting in fairfax county, suzanne kennedy. jummy: the orlando nightclub massacre has reignited the gun debate, washington, d.c. police chief was on news talk on our sister station news channel 8 and talked about the similarities between active shooting incident in the district and other mass shootings. -- the typically all vast majority of the deaths take place in 10 minutes or less. a lot of lives lost quickly. think will find here, the initial burst of gunfire and a gunman, especially with that type of weapon, that this gun man had, could take a lot of victims. jummy: the chief mentioned how the nightclub attack seem to influence -- the endless fight terror groups. new information on a story you saw only here, involving a friday, a, on grandmother was demanding answers after she says her special-needs grandson was physically abused by a school bus attendant. another student at that school was left on the bus yesterday. his mother's said the seven-year-old fell asleep and woke up to an empty bus and was stuck for an hour unti

fairfax at 9:00. quantico just before the 10:00 hour.this rain exits washington, i think for the most part we're mainly dry from here on out. at least tonight not the unfortunately over the weekend. aside from activity i just tracked for you, really nothing else to the north. the main weather event right now moving out of the district. that heavy rain continuing to fizzle out . by 9:00, we're mainly dry. tomorrow looking like the better weekend day. sunday is going to be a storm team 4 weather alert day with some strong to maybe severe thunderstorms in the forecast. especially during the second half of the day. next week looking gorgeous. unfortunately, we can't have that weather this weekend. tomorrow we'll wake up to around 70 degrees. limited clouds. best chance for seeing sun tomorrow looks to be around the midday and early afternoon hours. by 4:00 p.m., we'll hit our high of 84 and the chance of some thunderstorms. some heavy rain is possible because of the humidity. otherwise at 8:00 temperatures t right now, we're in the 70s. 73 i

it includes fairfax, falls church, alexandria, arlington, city of fairfax.in fairfax county, also includes alexandria. arlington and fairfax city until 6:15. we have a thunderstorm capable of producing 70-mile-per-hour winds with half-dollar size hail. that is going to continue to move on off toward the northeast. excuse me, the southeast at 25 miles per hour. you can see the map we made for you. d.c. the district at 6:15 or so. the district is not under the warning but it is going to see or will see the strongest storms. d.c. anda flash flood warning for fairfax, prince william, loudoun and fauquier counties until 8:30. we will track the tomorrow moving south and east at 25 miles per hour. more in a few minutes. alison: thank you. heavy black smoke flowed through the streets in arlington this morning after a transformer vault caught fire. this happened at the market common in the clarendon section of arlington. amy aubert has an update on what happened. amy: black smoke pouring through clarendon boulevard. neighbors capturing the entire thing on video. >> w

celebrate fairfax, it's actually the county fair for fairfax county and that's all about community, it's all about families. plenty of things to do for anybody. it's not just families, the concerts in the evening but we focus on educational programs, educational activities, interactive, creative building. we have an entire section called innovative action avenue. we have a kid way midway, we have taken the carnival and broken it into two pieces so the young families don't have to worry about being in the middle of all the little kids. that's tied to one sight and we have -- site and we have the pony& rides and petting zoo, a the dock dogs championship. plenty to do out here. >> reporter: you are going to provide a lot of water for people out here too? >> absolutely. one of the most popular places is the fairfax water tent. they have 35,000 cups, receive neither cups they have -- souvenir cups out here and they give away free ice water through the entire day and that will be a popular space. >> reporter: thank you for joining us. tickets will be online if you want to get them at a better

tell us what happened here. >> this morning around 2:45 units from the city of fairfax and fairfax countyesponded here to 10171 mosby woods drive for a garden apartment fire. when units arrived, they found smoke complains on second floor. they advanced hose line and conducted search. during their search, they did find one male that they removed from the building, tried resuscitative efforts but were unsuccessful and he has died. >> chief, i know it's early in the investigation. but what you can tell us about the person who tied in this incident and what you think may have been the cause of the fire or of his death? >> right now the city of fair fairfax county fire department and police department are working hand-in-hand cooperatively to determine the origin and cause of the fire. so it's still too right now we don't have much information that i can share on the family, just that our thoughts and prayers go out to their friends, family and loved ones mourning their loss here this morning. >> and how bad is the extent of the fire? do other residents have to leave and find another place to

call fairfax county police have you in information about this case. >> staying in fairfax county policere need your help finding a serial coffee thief. take surveillance of the suspect. he stole instant coffee pack fretz nine different starbucks in the pasting two months pretonts talk on phone until employees are distract and loads his bag with coffee pack packs. if you recognize him give fairfax county a call. >> the biggest coal mining company is questioned about climate change. >> pea body coal company is known for publicly rejecting climate change. this came to light this past spring when they filed for bankruptcy protection and coming to light that the company donated to political organizations. giving funds to twice as many republican groups as democratic ones and yesterday the supreme court threw out a challenged regulations on air pollution. 20 states filed a throughout block rules that limit he mention of mercury and other harmful by products of goal. the states say the cost is too expensive and out weigh the health benefits. they're praising the high court ruling. >> happening

this is a heavy storm into fairfax county. we've got a severe thunderstorm warning which covered prince william until 5:45. we'll come back and tell you when the threat will be over and look ahead to a possible another >>> mission metro right now commuters are getting creative. the travel track is blocked part of metro's major make over to show us the new way around it. >> this is what's happening. those coming in on the orange blue and silver lines stop at benning road and minnesota avenue. it's blocked all the way to eastern market. they are getting off from places like new carrollton and driving all the way around to green belt. >> the green line is the new orange line for pat. she would catch the train from new carrollton. now she's hitting the highway early and getting on in greeneville. >> it's the best the for me because i live in annapolis. >> metro just released new video of the track work cutting off the orange and silver line. metro says the warnings were heard. green belt has seen a 34% spike in riders at neighbori

breaking news out of fairfax county first uv at 6. overnight apartment fire leaves one person dead. >> jennifer dave sis live opt scene with the latest now good morning. >> high there residents distraught after learning a man that lived here older man they say appears to have died in an early morning fire. firefighters tell us what they got here they found the man inside his bedroom and did the best to resuscitate him neighbors saw that up fold in front of hem and unfortunately the man d we're.10,000 block of mosby wood drive in fairfax city if you look at video earlier this morning you see the fires that broke out. they say it was not so much flames but a lot of smoke billowing and heat residents could feel. many awakened by people knocking on dorz yelling fire, fire, although once they exited apartment they heard the alarm blazing. 50 firefighters from fair tax city and country showed up. 19 adults and two children were able to get out of the building and those two children ran out barefoot. everyone got out except for one man insid

we saw the strongest of storms come through frederick and go through southern maryland and fairfax. we're looking at a couple of severe storms around loudoun, montgomery county and frederick county and coming in to fredericksburg. i want to show you what's going on with these storms here. and a very strong storm right around the airport around dulles and ago onemo and take a look at the lightning. a ton of lightning throughout the day. look at all of the lightning with this guy right here and we will continue to see that as we zoom on in, where this will be heading around reston and fairfax. head's up in those areas and now widen up for me. this is now a new severe thunderstorm warning for fair wax county, most likely until 6, 6:15 and a brand new thunderstorm warning that includes fairfax county and loudoun county this until 6:15 and watch out with those locations for the severe storm as it continues to move on through. dangerous winds and golf ball-sized hail and watch out for the lightning. we'll continue to keep you posted. >> we know you will. >>> turning to the race to the whi

fairfax, on top of you in a few minutes.wers have broken out ahead, this area moving southeast, will be in washington, just a few minutes, 5:23, alexandria 5:27 to. the south, cluster of showers with thunderstormses south of fort royal, pulling out of the stafford area, charles and north western areas of st. maries, southern charles and colonial beach. leonard town 5:34, 551 and new land in the northern neck at 6:05, to the beach tomorrow, not a bad day, stay until monday, not a bad day. sunday is going the be a problem. showers and storms, 81. monday 80-81, sunday, poteia just at the beach, but here as well. prediction center has the entire area under slight risk and east of the blue ridge, delmarva, the orange enhanced risk, if you consider a scale of 1-5, that would be a 3, wind gusts and hail and isolated tornados. a yellow weather alert for sunday, potentially a red weather alert day. mid-70s to low 80s right now, see the rain that's falling in washington, 76, hit at least 80 today, east, northeast wind at 9, high humid

heavy rain moving out of fairfax, out of reston, out of bethesda.his continues to move toward the south over the next couple of hours. once this line is out of here, we're going to be mainly dry from here on out. that lone shower in the panhandle in west virginia remains a lone and isolated shower. you can see only some scattered activity up in pennsylvania, parts of western maryland and west virginia.

it happened near south county high school in fairfax county. police are still trying to track down the suspect. >> reporter: that 16-year-old was on her way to south county high school when this happened on a -- happened on a wooded path down the street from the school. it's an area that plenty of students and neighbors use all the time. the path is located near monican and silver brook road. a man grabbed the teen from behind in the waist area but she did the right thing, she fought to get away and screamed. police tell us she was able to take off towards the school where she found a resource officer for help. there was a search for the suspect in the area but he fled. >> i thought this neighbor who was a very trusting neighborhood. >> i don't understand it because all men -- or all of us have a woman as this violence against women is unbelievable. >> reporter: the school sent out an e-mail to parents and staff earlier today warning them about the incident, although i still talked to a few students who hadn't learned of it yet. school staff ar

arlington and fairfax stepped up their bus service. this is so metro can do three years of maintenance in less than one year, a project today metro says carries $60 million price tag. >> we are all learning lessons. we will lenger what is coming. >> brian: this is a full list of what you are facing. it will kick off tomorrow but may feel normal with the single tracking on the weekend. it will be monday morning and then it will impact the entire system at some point throughout the n months. are riders really prepared? we will have more on that tonight at 6:00. reporting live, brianne carter, abc7 news. alison: okay. you mentioned monday morning. the full brunt of the first phase of the safetrack plan will be felt in the first rush on monday. jay korff spent his day sifting through exactly what commuters need to know to prepare. he is in the newsroom. jay, the short message is the commuters need to prepare before monday. jay: indeed, they do. we know the coming days and the months will be difficult and trying. we here at abc7 news amasse

fairfax county police are here, but, again, there have been no incident.e tomorrow morning, they are planning an act of civil disobedience. they say some arrests are expected back to you. >> darcy, thank you. and fairfax police and firefighters got together to show their support for the victims in orlando. dozens gathered outside jeb stuart high school for a group photo. some waved rainbow flags and held a large american flag. the photo was taken notice air by the fairfax one helicopter. >>> new at 11:00, a 19-year-old man tried to steal a police officer's gun to kill gop presidential nominee donald trump. that's according to a federal complaint filed today. that incident happened on saturday during a rally in las vegas. michael sanford faces one count of attempting to commit an act of physical violence on restricted grounds. the complaint said sanford noticed the gun was in an unlocked position and grabbed the officer's hollister and the gun's handle with both hands. >>> he's fired. donald trump let go of corey lewandowski. paul manafort will take over. n

. >>> to fairfax now where a fairfax city man is being remembered today as a proud marine corp. veteran. bill patton died early this morning after a fire in his apartment on mosbey woods. andrea mccarren is live with the story. >> reporter: tonight his many friends here are in mourning. bill patton was a proud marine corp. veteran who loved his family and the army. >> he took a lot of pride in this place. he really did. >> reporter: patton was a heavy smoker who early this morning, firefighters believe that a cigarette caused the fire. a neighbor is being called a hero. she heard his beeping spoke detector and he called for help saving his wife and children: ironically the smoke detector was installed by firefighters a year ago when they responded to a medical emergency and noticed he didn't have one. >> he would always come in with his wife, all the time. >> reporter: patton's wife died just a few months ago, his friends say he was still consumed by his grief. >> i feel sorry, i really do. i mean, he died young. but i place. >> reporter: in just 20 minutes from now, fairfax cit

it's closed in both directions between fairfax county parkway. you can detour around that if you're headed north or south, best bet tell graph road 613 or 95. volume is light. so this isn't causing backups yet but we will let you know if it changes. >>> let's see if we can forward our map. aside from that hear that you need to avoid, traffic is moving along just fine on 95. we're not seeing any problems as you make your way out except for this road work 27 at morning star drive. back to you. >>> thanks a lot of erin. coming up. the daily show catches slack on social media for immediately after the supreme court's abortion ruling. >> jaylen know survives a once in a lifetime wild ride. . >>> a live look, a little wet out there. it's going to get better. 4:37. temperature, 74 degrees. fox news this morning back after this. ♪ ♪ check of trending, using real time news tracker. >>> the sponsoring decision to strike down an abortion law, could dozens of other similar state laws under the microphone. in six of those states, there is ongoing litigation a

fairfax county still in until thursday. happening in kids. watching showers spilling out of mountains of west virginia and should fall apart and can't rule out one or two along the i 66 corridor the next couple hours. last stuff this morning. later this afternoon cold front sags southward we can run into trouble with stronger showers and thunderstorms. early to mid afternoon. here's a look what is going on. cold front sweeping down to warm, humid air nass place. that's always recipe for thunderstorms this time of yea year. high pressure briefly taking control between. we'll have a lot of sun to start the day. maybe clouds to end the day tomorrow. we'll be warm. not as humid as today. here's a look at future cast if you plan your afternoon today. by 9:00, mix and clouds and sun out there. time we get to lunchtime hour few nor clouds and threatf storms really starts to fire. here we are 1:00 couple scattered storms again some could be on the strong side and keep that chance of storms going right to early evening hours there's evening commute at

firefighters here in the 10,000 block of van thompson road in fair fairfax county station. we know they have been dealing with this for the last couple hours. you can see the smoke still rising from the heavily damaged structure as we pull out. we know heavier response on the scene because there is a rule area. they don't have many fire hydrants around, so they had to pull in a lot of trucks. no one hurt, though. we're till working to find out if any animals were inside the structure. by a mountain lion. >> your son got attacked by a mountain lion? >> you heard part of the 911 call for help after a mountain lion attacked a 5-year-old boy. the boy was playing in his yard friday night when the lion charged. the boy's mother was able to pry her son away from the animal. the mountain lion responsible for the attack is now dead. >>> rescuers are getting closer to a sick scientist at the south poll research station. one plane will fly to the station, but if anything goes wrong, the second will be ready to go for its own search and rescue mission. this mission is being called risk

live in fairfax, kristin wright, news4. back to you. >>> returning to the terror attack io the gunman omar mateen is speaking out. in an interview yesterday he said he can't forgive his son for carrying out this attack. >> right now i don't forgive him. i don't know what he did, why he did, but it is unforgiven to hurt your own family. we live in the united states as a family. >> while he refused to answer questions about his son's wife and what she may have known about the attack, in a "today" show exclusive, you'll hear from the first responders to the shooting on sunday morning. that comes up right after "news4 today" at 7:00 a.m. >>> 5:16 now. a federal court will hear a legal challenge to the purple line today. friends of the capital present trail are pushing to protect two species of protected anthropods that live along the connect prince george's and loudoun counties. >>> and the mgm harbor casino is still under construction. governor hogan is expected to make a transportation announcement this afternoon. >>> and mor

overnight tore you a peace vigil honoring or land owe night club victims continues at this hour in fairfax county outside nra headquarters organizer from code pink are calling for ban on assault rifle began 8:00 with unveiling of 49 pink harts and made to honor each of them with a name and picture of victim. the names of victims were head off 202 marking exact time the massacre began as people held cappedlees out nra headquarters and later this morning civil owe bead yans is set for 9 a.m. when staff is set to report to work. >> capitol hill gun control measures stalling in the senat senate. the vote was in response to orlando night club shooting to strengthen background check including background checks for people on the terror watch list. a small group of senators is now working on bipartisan compromise that could be voted on as early as today >> all right let's get to you belgium hours ago security alert. man taken into custody after report of suspicious pack am. he was not carrying explosives but had a fake bomb belt cop takening salt and cookies. they were under terror alert level sin

volume building prince william to fairfax country parkway 20 minutes and then again through fairfax you back up more. taking a look at maryland overview 95 southbound icc to beltway still clear and 270 jammed up 80 to truck scales and again more congestion as you make your way past the spur and 50 usual delays 202 to 201 steve and allison. >> zipcar launching new ride sharing service in d.c.. it will allow members to take one way trip or baltimore with dedicated parking spot included in destination. it also is bit of added bonus during the metro safe track work. >> it's 6:18 coming up next something for all busy moms out there. machine that will fold your >> in less than six hours maybe. >> we'll take a look. >> first popping bottles, josh kelly, check this out. going foretrick starts and pops bottle of campaign before he blows the smoke. >> so to celebrate that's her share. >> what? ♪ i hate the outside. well, i hate it wherever you are. burn. "burn." is that what the kids are saying now? i'm so bored, i'm dead. you can always compare rates on progressive.com. oh, that's nice, dear. bu

i spoke to the spokesperson for fairfax county schools. he says they will now come backc and take a look at this path ant this area to see if it is safe,e in their opinion or will theywil grant exceptions to the parentse who want to get their studentsdt on the bus who live within that 1.5 million area? life inar fairfax county, paul wagner, fox5 local news. > well, in light of all the metro repair work, the d.c. department of home homeland security issued an alert. the agency is advising all of us to update our evacuation plansln but metro may not be a way to w get out of the city. tom fitzgerald is life at the metro station tonight. >>reporter: a pretty goodgood reminder of what we're talkingwr about here.e back after 9/11 there were a lot of families in the d.c. area d.c that tommed talked to each about what to do in an evacuation, how to get out, what they would do. for a lot of folks that planh included metro.etr but tonight, emergency officiali officials here in d.c. are warning folks who you have not updated that evacuation planvacu

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traffic is moving fine in fairfax. 29 cruising at speed. this ongoing overnight roadwork that has not cleared yet. 395 that is on the southbound side between seminary road and duke street notice to the fourteenth street bridge look going quiet east and westbound no problems there things southeast moving fine no issues sutland parkway. that lied past quiet is quiet now. flowing freely down past the spur things look going over the american legion bridge also flowing now and wide view to she you it on the map. we're quiet traffic will not slow you any questions @erinfoxdc we'll keep you updated back to you mature and and wisdom. >> a virginia school board traps top prior force veem court to choose a side in debate about gepder and rank. >> larry hogan making a crucial decision he says benefits consumers in the fight to clear the air in the free state. >> here's a quick look at today's stock futures. foxp news morning back in a second vo: for dominion, part of delivering affordable energy includes supporting those in our community who need help

si if you recognize that man they t want you to call police.ol >>> let's go to fairfax,let's gr fairfaxounty police areco looking for a man they say t exposed himself to a teenaged ta girl at a school bus stop. now, police say it happened ina the groveton section of fairfax county on fair haven han avenue. this is a composite sketch ofke that if you have any informationmati you're being asked to callsked l police. >> all right.>> all right. in the rails for the white r house, hillary clinton pickingai up several major endorsements.or president obama and formerand f democratic presidentialresident candidate martin o'malley both t endorsing clinton withinit minutes of each other. each oth. clinton also picked up endorsements from vicersements i president joe biden and massachusetts senatorid elizabeth warren.ar >> on the republican side, maryland governor larry hogan refusing to openly endorse his party's presumptive presidential candidate.id yestenerday hogan declined toeco say whether he thought trumpug was fit for the presidency p saying "i have nothing to dooo with donald trump. ." ho

tell us whated. >> good morning 2:45 units from city of fairfax and fairfax country were spotted here10, 171 monthsy woods drive for apartment fire there was smoke coming from the apartment and they advanced hose line conducted search and pulled one male out of the building unconscious. they tried to resuscitate him and were unsuccessful and he died at this time. >> he died at the scene. is it a challenge in apartments to keep the fire from spreading hoy did you do that. >> we got luckych the window in the apartment deposit fail and therefore was contained t apartment apartment and didn't cause additional damage ar allow the smoke to get through the other building and get to the other of course pants. >> good news for residents they're outside now and may belittle time before they go back to their apartments the damage was contained to the one apartment building where that one gentleman died. back to you guys. >>> all right. still developing out there more at the details as they come. day four of the note row safe track program and agency urging riders to do what they do for yesterday

fairfax county and then headed all way back towards royal. these are the storms we'll continue to stay on. you can see what is shaded yellow in west virginia. those are severe thunderstorms already. already creating a lot of lightning out there. if you haven't had a storm yet and you are in our area, go ahead and get those kids inside. go ahead and come inside. you want to go ahead and revise your plans for this evening because this line is headed our way. it is knocking on the shenandoah valley's door right now. it will continue to move east into d.c. now we have seen some rotation in that as well. we'll have to continue to watch that to see if any more tornado watches or warnings pop up is the severe thunderstorm watch. that goes until 10:00 p.m. tonight. we're going to continue to watch this until the threat is over just to keep you safe. doug and i will be here. we have our interns that will all continue to watch it for you. we still have that tornado warning right there. here's the radar right now. you can see baseball-sized hail. the na

we're not far from fairfax county or nova fairfax county hospital. this down beverly drive here right off of tolbin road in the annondale section of fairfax county. you can see the police officer standing there inside the yellow crime scene tape. he is been stand there quite some time. what we understand this happened at that house just beyond where he is standing. let's show you video that we shot earlier today. fairfax county police responded gunfire was reported inside a single family home. and that is in the 3400 block of beverly drive. police say one victim was found inside the home and one outside. the children whose ages are still unknown ran out when the shooting began and were later found by police. neighbors were urged to stay inside about an hour while police searched the area to make sure the man in custody was the only person with a gun. >> the man who was found outside was he shot outside or inside and ran outside? >> we're looking into exactly where the two people were injured. i'm not sure whether it was inside or house. i just know t

we are at celebrate fairfax. this is fairfax county. this is critical for the election in november.oth of the presumptive nominees were in washington, d.c. today. giving speeches and taking aim at one another. donald trump speaking to the faith and the freedom coalition. group of religious and social conservatives saying he wants to respect and defend christian americans ands saying christian presidency would mean radical judges and open borders. hillary clinton meanwhile giving a speech today at a planned p event saying trump presidency would be detrimental to women health rights and criticized trump opposition to abortion rights. a clinton backer in northern virginia thinks her tone is the right one. trump supporter says his candidate is what voters want. >> they are worried about the unrestrained illegal immigration and national security issues. the last thing they are concerned about if the comments were politically incorrect. >> careers built on boorish behavior, xenophobia and division are not worthy of virginia or the united states. jeff: food cooking up here at the fairfax e

and one attempted robbery in fairfax in arlington counties. huie has allegedly been robbing area banks since june 2014. leon: feels like we have been stealing something from mother nature the last few days here. the weather has been so nice. you lived in seattle. this is more like what you had there than this time of year here. alison: it's beautiful there in the summer. low humidity is nice. we wish it wasn't going to end. steve: enjoy the weather tonight and get out to take advantage of it. look at the temperatures out there. in the upper 70's, to the lower 80's throughout the area. it will stay that way through if you are planning to grill out this evening, 80 by 6:00. in an hour, 80 degrees moving through the 7:00, 8:00 hour. the baseball game first pitch at 7:05. the temperatures upper 70's. slowly falling through the 70's. by 11:00 by the time the game is over. we see temperatures around 70 degrees with a few clouds here and there. show you satellite and radar. not a lot going on. let me tell you, we have rain on the way tomorrow. i will

severe thunderstorm warning in effect for fairfax, arlington and alexandria. until 6:15. this does not include the district. central d.c., downtown d.c. looking at heavy rain. strip away the watch box until 9 segmenter tonight. head in closer. strongest storms over the d.c. metro area. another batch of the stronger storm northern montgomery county. that is arlington and alexandria. this will move toward the east southeast. 25 miles per hour. producing heavy rain. wind gusts up to 30 and the biggest problem is flash flooding. and the lightning. it will continue as we continue through the next half hour and 45 minutes. heavy rain out there around the alexandria area. head to reagan national airport. heavy rain. can't imagine any plains are taking off right now. pushing east around tysons corner area. things are going to slowly improve as we move through the next couple of hours. more on that coming up in a few minutes. leon: brad bell leading the steam coverage in waldorf where the home is in ruins because of the storm. what a mess there. >> oh, leon. i speaks to the power

manassas, faulkier, fairfax, loudoun. this will move across i-95 with gusty winds and heavy rain. >>> all right. in terms of storm damage. yeah. we already have storms in before hagerstown. the reports on wood briar golf course. the storms have gusty winds, damaging winds. and now, i think they even have a little hail and strong and heavier rain as well. watch goes until 10:00. some of the warnings go now until 6:15. >> all right. thank you, topper. a fascination with frank sinatra is connecting a popular professor atub brain injury. >> bureau chief peggy fox is here to explain this popular encounter. >> bob mcconnell is a popular critical criminology professor. he came across an adfor brain services, looking for someone who loves frank sinatra, to volunteer sometime with a woman who also loves old blue eyes. >> reporter: haley learned to love frank sinatra as a child, when her parents would play his songs over and over. that was before she suffered a brain injury from the heart attack she had when she was only 14 years o

if you know anything call the fairfax county police department.orting live tonight in mcclain stephanie gearhart. >>> we go back to the orlando nightclub shooting ahead and we will hear from a hero that went all out to save a survive er. << and why gay men are not allowed to donate bloods. >> reporter: victims are being treated and we will talk to former police chief val demmings that was in office for three years and and we just couldn't say thno to that face.ns then we wanted more of that local flavor so betty says... oh yeah, that's betty. you're going to want to do this alligator thing. and betty didn't lead us wrong. a little later we passed some dancing. and who doesn't like dancing? especially when it's followed by fireworks everyone's nola is different. follow yours. alright guys, we've brought you to this construction trailer to talk about trucks today. which truck brand offers engines with best in class v8

an active flash flood warningla for the city of fairfax until 8:30:00 p.m. don't want you to be out on the roads. stay away of standing waters. we've had reports of trees down. 24 rain totals from earlier today one to three inches. we have more rain on top of whaf already has fallen. the severe watch remains in effect until 9:00 tonight. i think we could see more storms this evening as the front has stalled and it's going to take k while to get through.et temperatures are in the 70s right now. reel quick let's show you the rest of the forecast for tonight. we will see dramatic through the overnight hours ashr we clear out and see some niceie weather through the next 24t 24 hours. so luckily the seven dayil forecast shows beautifuleaut conditions here on wednesday, dryer, cooler, 88-degrees. it stays warm, though, as we goe through the rest of the weekend. in the weekend it looks who the, but also really nice. we just have to get there. we'll keep up with the storms. if any other warnings are issueu i will be back here as well ass the rest of the 6:00 p.m. ne

b it will be run by metro, alexandria, fairfax, arlington counties. they're a ultimate getting into the act of this to get you around those closed stations. and then two weeks from today, on july 12 everything shifts northbound from here at reagan. there will be no metro rail from reagan up to pentagon city. s that also going to mean that the crystal city station is going to be shut down altogethen because there will than noe trains at all. the first group of passengers ps will bear the brunt of the surgeon. they're going to feel h this t pain and there's going to be a lot of them. airports tell us 800,000 people use this airport at reagan national over a two-week periode that's nearly now passengers we talked to wheo they first revealed it a week from today, they say they're not looking forward to it, but agait they understand that metro was m in bad shape and these repairshe are needed. ne it's already bad so i'm having a little about it of patients, expect to get out later. it's an inconvenience and it shouldn't be under stated but by the same toke

victims heard banks call fairfax county police if you have any information. >>> police in fairfax county need your help take a look at the sur don't care oh yeah that's a good one there, police say he stole instant coffee packets from anyone different starbucks in the past two months. pretend to talk in his phone until store employees are distracted and loads his bag if you recognize him or had coffee with him give fairfax police a call. into by him a cup. >> all right. talk about forecast gorgeous day. i mean picture perfect. >>> it really was just fantastic, i think we'll have another really wonderful day tomorrow. take advantage of it. get windows open. later this week a little bit unsettled thursday friday and maybe as as early as wednesday night. we'll enjoy what we got right now. good to get a break from that high heat and humidity. it was swelted over the weekends that was the, saturday was the hottest day we had since september it breath away. tonight is such a pleasant change. a lot of you were really refreshed today enough to send us great pictures on twitter for starter our sk

we want people to look at him. >> he has worked for fairfax county since 2004.ng a background check as recently as 2013. his linkedgrin page said hemgh= worked with children and he is facing two counts. >>> a woman killed in a deadly crash in montgomery county. investigators are trying to figure out if another wreck that happened one minute later is connected to( that original crash. victoria was killed when she hit a tree this morning on randolph road here. the driver of an suv on the same road slammed in to pole near new hampshire avenue. that driver and a passenger were  afterç officers found drugs in the suv. the second phase of metro's safetrack program gets underway you know by now all of the station unless this area will be shut down for two weeks. as you can see it keeps thousands of riders from prince georges county from getting in to the heart of the city. that leaves jammed commuter routes like 0.i-295, route 50 495, the beltway, to pick up the slack. >> it's going to be serious dw traffic, which is going to not allow people to get to work on time

thank you. >>> fairfax county police want you to take a look at this picture.y believe this person is connected to a groping incident over the weekend at the target store on district avenue. an 11-year-old girl said a man touched her bottom and the surveillance video backs her story up. the suspect left the area driving a burgundy ford mustang. >>> a series of changes brought on by a shooting have received fine approval in fairfax county. it is the way officers are trained and the way the department communicates with the public. most of the changes were recommendations from a commission formed after a man named john gear was shot and killed by an officer back in 2013. officers are receiving more training now on how to de-escalate situations and there are new guidelines for transparency in the department. >>> it's a story that you are still talking about on facebook tonight. activists protesting outside the national rifle association headquarters in fairfax calling for an end to gun violence and assault weapons. 18 people were arrested for blocking the nra entra

you are going to find it blocked between the fairfax county parkway and jeff todd way. the water is in the process of receding. it will be a while. plan ahead. also in montgomery county, authorities are dealing with downed wires. a pickup truck hit a power pole. lewis dale road. you may find in the area. >>> it's 4:33 and prince george's county police want you to take a good look at the man in this surveillance footage. they say this is the murder suspect who shot five people in district heights. they were all inside a home on orleans avenue friday night. three died. moments after the murders, the suspect seen in this video with a distinctive walk was caught on camera with a gun in his hand. investigators say the same man was seen on camera at a nearby convenience store a half hour before the shooting. police went door-to-door last night asking for help. >> any help as far as a description, body language, anything of that nature. >> police handed out a flyer with pictures of people killed here. alan wade roulet, gray and parks. >>> it is 4:33 and happening today members

live from fairfax county, tim barber, abc 7 news. leon: thank you, tim. next to the breaking news we started the hour with, the police on the scene of a shooting in district heights with multiple victims. we are getting more information about how many victims there may be from tom roussey. tom, what's the latest? tom: told you a few minutes ago we would get more information and we have gotten the information. as expected, it's not good. what's going on behind me, i will step out of the way, but three people are dead at the scene, five people in total were shot according to the police a little after 9:30 p.m. five people shot, three people dead, another victim taken to the hospital in critical condition, the fifth victim we are told is in stable condition. at this time, here on orleans avenue in district heights, this is a triple homicide. just a very bad scene in prince george's county for stop as far as what lead up to this, why this happened, that is still the early stages of the investigation, so we don't have that information. one inople shot, critica

coming up, i'll tell fairfax county retired teachers who still substitute teach may leave for good. >>> would've got a lot more to tell you about as we continue tonight. live from the nation's capital. you're watching the news at 6:00, >>> you're watching w usa 9 -- wusa 9news at 6:00. a a lot of wrong reports about in germany. >>> after early reports from local tv stations, saying some 25 people have been hurt, police now say nobody was injured when a man entered a movie theater with a weapon. authorities believe he did fire shots before he was shot and killed. >>> in southern california tonight. cleanup is under way. after at least 25,000 gallons of food oil spilled from a pipeline right into a ravine. they're still investigating exactly what caused the problem. but it appears that is what happened out of the pipeline. >>> voting on whether britain should stay in the union or get out. advocates say think part of it costs too much and gives control of too many issues. costing each family an average of $6 those a year in lost income. here's why the so-called brexit vote matters here a

we begin with those fireworks at that fairfax county school board meeting. the board agreeing last year to include transgender students in the nondiscrimination policies. tonight was about taking the next step. parents who oppose it say they didn't get proper notice about the agenda tonight. jackie bensen spoke to two fathers escorted out by security. she is live for us in falls church with the story. >> reporter: when it came to the public comments at the meeting there were, as you said, fireworks. >> discrimination is the moral basis for every decision. discrimination is moral. human rights for our children! >> after a dozen people made public comments urging the fairfax county school board to craft a policy that would ingr auditorium started to yell after a transgender man who identified himself as a coach finished speaking. >> you didn't give us notice. >> reporter: later another man who refused to give his name spoke to reporters saying they had not been given sufficient notice the matter was on the agenda in time to speak. >> let him be uncomfortable u

up until now, fairfax countyrf schools has said, no. no. jennifer lopez is livid. since last fall she and her mother have been telling fairfax county school officials and school board members that thehat path their children have to take is not save and they haven't the whatted a waiver that would allow their daughter to take the bus. the family lives within 1.5-milm circle that dictates who must ms walk and to gets to ride thehe and so the path is the most direct way to get to the school. it leads from the subdivisionhe through a wooded area to a balll field and tennis courts before coming out on a monday can road or depending on how you walk, silverbrook road. they had school officials come f out last fall and walk the path with them early in the morning so they could see it for themes. but lopez says the officials told her and her mother nothing bad had happened on the path and the pa was safe. that was until this morning. they said, ma'am, it's save i because nothing has happened. ha and that was their quote. >> that is in an e-mail here that it seems safe becau

there's an overdose just about j every day in fairfax county. a fairfax police lieutenant saii there wercee four in one day lat saturday and he actually leftcta this meeting for a about itbo because he got a call about an overdose. there were several dozen peoplee here tonight, including some boy scouts recovering addicts. people who have lost family members to drugs, including alexia springer parents. alexia was a student here at the high school.cho she died after taking prescriptions and alcohol back at a party back in march.n she went to bed and never wokeoe up. her mom told me that she now wants to dedicate her life toife spreading awareness and preventing outrage dis.ting i asked her how she was feelingg as she tonight. >> i feel great. i think that this shows thatthat there's hope for this community, for people throughout thehe country to be able to take ahold of these addictions, these drugu and kids and giving them education and support.supp there are some people who spokeo who are in your shoes. it felt good. it felt like i wasn't alone

fairfax should be too. he said the police chief is ready to start testing in the field. >> chief has been working on it for a couple years now. i think he feels very comfortable that he's ready to pilot a project of body cameras. >> reporter: the chief tells me there are a lot of moving parts when it comes to implementing a body worn camera for his department, especially given the size of fairfax county and its police force. they have to determine what point the officer will actually turn on the camera. then when interacting with a potential suspect that video could eventually be made public in which case they have to decide to show that person's face or blur it. how do you store all that video data and how long? and money. the million, costing another $4 million each year. >> it won't be inexpensive, but it's an investment i think we should make. >> reporter: the chief tells me should the county give him the go-ahead he could start that pilot program within 90 days. the county chairman says she wants this

fairfax, it could be comfortable or steaming hot.will start with a look at the highs. this is the hottest we have been all season long. yesterday 82 debras today, so far, 96. >> leaseburg 97. stay with 96 in dc, hot as we have been all year, low to mid-90s across the board with a couple of spots in the upper 80s if they got that cooling freeze from the bay. if you want a cool down, this is why people go to the mountains in the summertime in the 70s. sunny, this evening is going the be a hot one. 96, dew point 60. the humidity is down to 30%. you are going to notice the drier air by midday and the afternoon tomorrow, look at the winds, gusting to 24 miles an hour, the heat is here, a lot of spots that are awful hot, minneapolis in the 90s pushing 100 went south dakota. low to mid-90s st. louis, nashville and atlanta, all of this becomes the jet stream, finally rising to the north. dipping in the northwest and new england. they have unsettled weather. you have to watch the storms, tracking some of the alert doppler, pittsburgh towards

temperature low to mid 50s so not as cool because of the clouds but comfortable. 65 fairfax. by midmorning low 70s and lots of clouds. and by 1:00 we see some showers and storms beginning to fire but well west of downtown i don't think we'll see anything tomorrow. by 6:00 p.m. may be some storms in martinsburg and hagerstown along the i-81 corridor. baby showers west of fredericksburg and that's it. temperatures low 80s. by 9:00 showers weakening but getting closer to the suburbs. leesburg 75. manasses 75. culpepper 76. some storms could roll in overnight tomorrow. in the meantime no worries and skies become partly to mostly cloudy temperatures low 60s and winds out of the southeast at 10. on the day planner no shortage of clouds in the morning but dry and 60s to start. 73 by 9:00. 77 by 11:00. 80 by 1:00. not the prettiest day tomorrow but get stuff done outside. next 10 days, nationals in town tomorrow 4:05 game and should be okay. showers and storms west by the time the game starts and better showers and storms friday. mid-seventies and yesterday i thought the storms might

that includes fairfax and prince williams county. this is i a storm we scanned. possible prorotations between middleburg and the plains. in the course of the last 20 minutes. game is going to be tough. showers and storms on the doorstep through 8:00. temperatures in the 70s. we will come back and talk about course what's ahead for the weekend. >>> and now, to our breaking news. terror in turkey. two suicide bombers attack these busy airports. >> at least 20 are dead and the church remains in chaos tonight, with dozens more injured. garrett haake has more. >> i want to give you an idea of the layout. where this all happened of this is the airport. and where the attack took place just outside of the terminal. it appears that here, at the first mini security checkpoint, is where the first suicide bomber attacked. >> reporter: one of two suicide bombs ripped through. an apparent security video shows survivors, scattering. outside the airport, passengers fled. and described hearing gunfire and guho another suicide bomber also detonated himself somewhere inside the ter