that's the deal for people living in huron drive in oxon hill. at least can tell you, at least 10,000 gallons of sewage water has spilled from this broken pipe. signs all along here, warning people to stay away. the problem is that 14 inch broken sewer line. this could go on for days we're told. it's a big fix. wssc is working to redirect the waste water around that broken pipe. however, that could take a while. they're setting up several thousand feet of temporary pipe that goes from the leak to the nearest manhole. getting that bypass system operational, again, could take days. in the meantime some sewage has gone into oxon hill creek. wssc tells us they're concerned about that, and they're monitoring that situation. now to mention forest hills elementary school is right here. right close to this leak. you can see their play ground is there, basketball courts and the football field. so a reason to be concerned. now, wssc does tell me that there is no impact to drinking water. which obviously is a relief to people here. but this situation once t

a main is leaking along huron drive off of a field near forest rights elementary school in oxen hill. kristin wright has this developing story. >> reporter: well good morning, aaron. at least 10,000 gallons of sewage has spilled. there are signs here posted warning people to stay away because this is all happening right behind homes on huron drive. this could go on for days. the problem being a cracked 14 inch sewage line. it's a big fix. wssc is working to redirect the waste water around that pipe. they're setting up temporary pipe from the leak to the nearest manhole. wssc is telling us that getting that bypass system operational could take days. in the meantime, some sewage has gone into oxon hill creek. forest hills elementary is nearby. so wssc said they're concerned about sewage getting into the creek and they tell us they're monitoring that situation very closely and aaron and eun, they're telling us they want to stress to everyone, they want to stress that this pill is not -- spill is not impacting drinking water. >> all right, thank you. >>> it's 5:02. we are hearing what led

back in the late 1800's, actually, the first idea of having a port huron south florida to move mostly the fruits and vegetables that were being grown and in south florida, to move them to market and the rest of the united states as well as into the caribbean. back in, you know, 1893, there was a fort lauderdale trading post, which was on the river which was just north of port everglades and that is the boehner commerce for moving goods in and out of what was then the everglades, and that led to naval. in 1913, a cut was put into the beach to allow small boats to go in and out of the lakes into the ocean. that was the prelude to the major projects, which started an authorization by the state legislature in 1927 to proceed with a port here, what is now port everglades. in february 1928, president coolidge pressed the button up in the white house and a destination eventually occurred to open the trap to turn into a navigable channel. acres were purchased to be the start of the port. as of today, the port is 22 hundred acres, so it has grown a little but over the years, but not that much.

they were taken to port huron morning claire ron hospital.rraigned friday is now facing three felony charges including fleeing police and attempted murder for nearly running over that officer. >> drivers filling up in new jersey may have to get used to seeing a new sign at the gas station. self-serve a new bill being introduced could have drivers pumping their own gas in the garden state. new jersey and oregon are the only states with laws that require attendants to pump the gas. the new bill would make it legal for drivers to fill up themselves. critics are saying that having attendants pump the gas for drivers is safer. >>> a local veteran's dying wish isgranted. why this military uniform means so much coming up. dave? >> we wake up tomorrow morning things will be calmer than they are this evening with cloudy skies, maybe some patchy fog and one or two light showers out there. temperatures only dropping into the upper 60s in the philadelphia area. suburbs 67 degrees. more rain in the seven day forecast. i'll show that you coming up a little

the sewage spill the right behind homes on huron drive. george mcdermott has lived here a long time. >> you know, in 50 years i've never had water behind my house. water comes down it goes right in the sewer, it's gone it's over with. >> reporter: but a buried sewer line is cracked. waste water is spilling into the ground coming up above ground and getting into oxon run creek, all near forest heights elementary school and the kids playing fields. have you ever had a problem like this in those 50 years? >> not in 50 years. no. >> reporter: wssc is still setting up 7,000 feet of temporary pipe to reroute the spill to a manhole. but the sewage water will keep leaking until that bypass system is fully in place on friday. >> to me they're doing the best they can possibly do. >> reporter: the good news is, the leak has not impacted the drinking water or forest heights elementary school. wssc tells us by the time they're able to stop the leak friday p more than 25,000 gallons will have spilled. kristin wright back to you. >>> i'm melissa mollet a

a couple hours later several burglaries on huron in san jose. the morning has already been busy, especially with all the officers that were needed to nab the four robbery suspects this morning. >> we probably have in the neighborhood of about 26 to 30 police officers here. primarily from san jose pd. we also utilized a canine officer and two extra officers from santa clara and another canine officers from sunnyvale and two officers from sunnyvale. >> reporter: mutual aid was needed initially this morning here in san jose. they also tried to launch a helicopter from the chp because the san jose police helicopter was not functioning. neither was the one from the sheriff's office. so they called the chp, but they couldn't fly because of the weather conditions early this morning. but the good news again, police were able to nab four suspected robbers. they're still looking for the buglar from on huron drive. that's the latest. nbc bay area news. >> a sign to him that they're coming. >>> just into our news room. release in the south bay. campbell pol

a sewer main is leaking thousands of gallons of waist water along huron drive in oxon hill. tracee wilkins just talked to the person who discovered this problem. >> reporter: i know that people here are really happy that this rain is washing away some of that smell, hopefully. it was the smell that helped this neighbor discover the problem. >> you could smell it. >> reporter: doug waller says he was cutting grass on wednesday when -- >> it smelled like sewage. >> reporter: that's when you noticed something bubbling from underground. >> it's been going on i don't know how long. but that's what i first noticed it friday. >> reporter: wssc spokesman says the crack in the 14-inch sewer line has spilled 10,000 gallons of sewage. workers are laying 7,000 feet of temporary pipe. that work could take days. and then the work to repair the actual line could take several weeks. >> it probably is a lot of damage but i don't know how long it's been leaking. >> reporter: the leak is located behind homes on huron drive off of a field near forest heights elementary. some of the sewage has g

neighbors in the neighborhood of north huron drive had complained about the smell since sunday. 15,000lons of sewage had leaked there. tonight the leak is stopped and the ssc says the drinking water was not affected the >>> new tonight politicico says pentagon workers used government credit cards for adult entertain mentd. the detailed findings are fpt -- expected to be made public in coming weeks. stay with abc 7 for any updates the >> and a claim that isil has traped soldiers in 15 different states including in america. the f.b.i. says it's following people with ties in almost every state in the union. the u.s. hozz now identified the top four leaders of the terrorist group gand -- and $20 for help no find them. >>> chilling news about that germanwings plane. on an earlier flight the pilot altered the flight plan and locked the pilot out. >> and police say a woman's boyfriend held her family hostage at knifepoint. unable to call for help, she ordered pizza for the children and included in the app was a desperate pleament >> the order comes through and she had edited her ticket. on th

polic say a black man driving a chevy silver regard silverado at huron. >>> an injured suspect will soon jail. he hit a minivan injuring three people inside in a stolen cement truck. it started in colma when an officer saw the truck moving through a housing complex. the officer ran the plates and learned it was stolen. when he attempted to stop the truck, the suspect tried to ram the patrol car and then a chase ensued. >> there are a lot of diesel that spilled on the street. an accident investigation team is conducting an investigation. and making sure that we properly clean up the scene and that there's no further fuel spilled on the street. >> the people who were in the minivan have minor to moderate injuries. the suspect will face charges including assault on a peace officer >>> new at noon a second person has died from a house fire in oakland. three people were inside a home on 89th and plymouth when it started to burn. one woman was dead when firefighters arrived. two others taken to the hospital. firefighters are still trying to figure out how that fire got started. >>> firefighter

the leak was discovered near the 100 block of north huron drive in oxen hill this past sunday. crews estimate the sanitary sue overflow will exceed 10,000 gallons. the contractor is setting up equipment to pump waste water around the leaking section of pipe. again, wssc officials warn it could take days to complete the bypass operation. >>> a day off for students at a silver spring elementary school. sky 9 was above flora singer elementary where flooding occurred inside overnight. it appears a water pipe gave way. >>> meanwhile, the university of maryland is about to give students one more reason to choose wisely when selecting their majors. the cost of tuition is about to go up for some of them. nikki burdine explains from college park. >> reporter: the possible tuition increase at the university of maryland wouldn't affect every student here, just those in three majors. computer science, engineering and business. not surprisingly, those students aren't happy about the idea. >> that's ridiculous. >> kind of sucks. >> why do we have to pay more? >> reporter: for students like k

a sewer main is leaking near huron drive. wssc says the crack in the 14 inch sewer line spilled 10,000 gallons of waste water. some of the sewage made it into oxen run creek where we saw children playing. look at that. there are signs urging people to stay away. doug walllard discovered that leak on friday. >> a lot of damage, but i don't know how long it's been leaking. >> now workers are laying 7,000 feet of temporary pipe to redirect the sewage. that work could take days though. then crews can begin repairing the broken sewer main. >>> a big honor for alex ovechkin as the team tries to keep rolling tonight. ovi is one of three finalists for the linsey award. given to the top player in the week as voted by other players each year. ovechkin has won three times before. the caps face the new york rangers at 7:30 tonight. and ovi has been scoring like a champ seriously for the entire postseason. >> let's hope the champ follows for a few more games here. >> yes. >>> well, what's bringing elton john and pastor rick warren today?

people enrolled and the infrastructure to support it. >> well, we continue to have delays at port huron and detroit. you're making great strides to expedite that. it costs money. it costs a lot of money with the delays and based on how the system works now. are there additional resources you need or just a matter of time to implement the systems? >> it is additional resources also. we have mentioned earlier we have a work load staffing model that takes all of the activity an officer does at a port of entry, takes the average time it takes to do it, takes how many times a day it is typically done and comes up with the amount of hours to run a port of entry. and divide that by the available work hours of an officer and we come up with the staffing number of what we need to run based on the work load for that port of entry. we can mitigate that need for new staff by some of our business transformation improvements that we make. so things like one of our current efforts is the trucks pull up, and are still paying cash, couple of dollars in change to pay the user fees to cross the border rat

the negotiations started between the three countries and huron and fall of 2003. the iranians really suspended the enrichment activities. some people said that the opportunity was missed at this point. that would be for historians to say. but everything stopped in 2005 when mahmoud ahmadinejad was elected. between 2005 and 2012, there was no negotiation whatsoever. as the french negotiator between 2006 and 2009, -- we went, the five of us. the american negotiator went with us. we want to tehran in 2008 with a letter signed by the six ministers. we made a lot of different proposals to try and avoid the question of suspending everything. at no moment between 2005 and 2012, the iranians even cared about the negotiation. there was no negotiation. the first hour was about cyrus the great, the second was about -- the third hour was about the rights of the iranian people. that is the reality. in 2006, the americans, the russians, and the chinese joined us, which led to the first resolution. july, 2006. it was to suspend the enrichment. they did not do it. they were the d

an underground sewer line broke along huron drive in oxon hill. today sanitary commission said it takes two or more days to install a temporary pipe to divert the waste water to a nearby manhole. this is happening behind houses and near a play ground at forest heights elementary. >>> disturbing new findings about the deadly jetliner crash in the alps. did the co-pilot do a practice run? the evidence investigators just found aboard a may not and why it almost went unnoticed. >>> and elton john's fight for global help. the message for lawmakers. >>> and we've got some hefty storms out there right now. prince william and montgomery a new warning now. new severe thunderstorm warning for montgomery as well as fairfax county until 4:45. these storms headed to the east toward glen echo south kensington wheaton and aspen hill could be producing some hail as well as higher winds. also some lightning and >>> was he rehearsing? that's one of the questions raised in an interim report on the crash of germanwings flight 9525. in the flight to barcelona, immedia

a rupture in a 14-inch pipe near the 100 block of north huron drive was discovered sunday. most of the wastewater lab contaminated, but some of -- has been contaminated, but some of it is still reaching oxon run, a tributary of the river. it is part of a different system than the drinking water. >>> in tonight's consumer alert another down day on wall street after janet yellen said stock values were high and warned of volatility when the fed began to raise its benchmark interest rates. the dow fell 86 points, the nasdaq slid 19 points. >>> a new report by the consumer financial protection bureau shows 26 million americans have no credit history, none at all. the survey says another 19 million people are considered unscorable because they have insufficient credit histories or old reporting information. now these individuals are put at a significant disadvantage because they have very little chance of establishing lines of credit which are the key to so many things. >>> the obama administration approved the first ferry service between florida and havana and it could potential

therapy taken to port huron american hospital.he was arraigned friday is now facing three felonies charges including fleeing police and attemptedattempted murder from for nearly running over that officer. >> good news the elderly couple is out of the that suspect could face a live sentence if convicted. >> drivers filling up in new jersey may have to get used to seeing a new sign at the gas station. self service serve. that's right, a new bill being introduced could have drivers pumping their own gas in the garden state. new jersey and oregon are the only states with laws that require attendants to pump gas. the new bill would make it legal for drivers to fill up themselves. critics say having attendants pump gas for drivers is safer. >>> and still ahead a house is dangerously close to collapse. families living on the edge next next. >> special needs students are left out of their high school yearbook. what the school has to say to angry parents why their children aren't includeed. ♪ >>> tragedy in north central china after a bus

tom hayden, co-author of the port huron statement, one of the founding leaders of the students for aemocratic society, part of the chicago 8 after the demonstrations in chicago, state senator and just a general voice of conscience for the american progressive movement for so long. >> i want to start off by saying how many of you i love very much and known for such a long time and i only hope that there's enough minutes and occasions here for us to get to know each other again, because we have really been through a lifetime. today, we'll have plenty of time for discussion, for panels, for observations. and at 4:00, we'll gather to march to the king memorial. and i want to just say a word about that. i know that ron dellums is going to speak to this. but why was that -- why was that chosen? it's because, in keeping with trying to make sure our history is told accurately, we have to tell it ourselves. and we have to recognize that dr. king became a martyr because of his stand on vietnam, not only because of his stand on race, justice, economic poverty. and there's been a tendency over t

hadfield: i was born in a town called sarnia where lake huron joins lake erie. the canadian side of the canadian-u.s. order in ontario. brian: what service did you go into? col. hadfield: i joined the canadian armed forces, the royal canadian air force, and sorbet t -- served a tour with the u.s. air force and 21 years at nasa. brian: how many times did you go in space? col. hadfield: i flew in space returns. the first was -- three times. the first was on atlantis. the second was to build endeavor and do a couple spacewalks. the third was to live on the international space station on a russian rocket, the soyuz. brian: what is the difference between a russian astronaut and a canadian astronaut or american astronaut? col. hadfield: very little. to take all 7 billion of us and you set tight requirements and constrictions and filter people that apply and choose 18 he tiny representative sample of humanity. that filter, whether it is japanese chinese, european, it tends to spit out the same sort of person. the language is different. but once you get all of us in a r

our number one state park is on an island in lake huron where cars are banned. >> mackinac island. >>ed one of our top ten tourist attractions. >> you can stay at that hotel. >> "somewhere in time" with christopher reeve. >> it's known for its fudge. >> we're doing all right. >> now we've got all 50 winners online but the last one here for you today is -- was voted the number one destination on the west coast. home to more than 35,000 sea creatures. >> seaworld? >> it's an aquarium on the bay. >> don't know it. >> monterey bay aquarium. >> the seals and all of that. >> i stay there sometimes because it's close to my stuff. i forgot what a gorgeous place monterey is. >> this is amazing. >> 550 speescies pacific octopus, a 90-foot-long wall to observe sharks to turtles. >> great fun, mary. >>> is it okay to talk back to fans? >> what does that mean? >> you'll have to wait for the answer. >> first, this is "today" on nbc. >>> now time for okay or not okay. sometimes when you are in the spotlightlight there are some not so nice things said. some celebs responded to their critics. is it ok

our number one state park sits on an island in lake huron where cars are banned?wn of mackinaw which is one of the top ten tourist towns. >> you can stay in the hotel. >> that's right. >> where christopher reeve and jane see more. watch that movie first. and then it's famous for the fudge. >> in that case okay. >> it is called research. >> i'm just going to try. >> we're doing all right. >> yes. >> so now we have all 50 winners online at family fun magazine do the co. the last one -- voted the number one destination by family fun readers on the west coast. and this is home to more than 35,000 sea creatures. >> sea world? >> no. it's an aquarium on the bay. >> don't know it. >> this goes aquarium. >> close, monterey bay aquarium. >> the seals and all of that. >> that's right. you know what? i stay there sometimes because it's close to my stuff. i forgot what a gorgeous place monlt ray is. >> yes. >> this is amazing. >> they have 550 species, sea otters giant pacific octopus. they have a 90 foot long wall where can you observe sharks to turtles. >> thank you so much