reporting in northwest, kenneth mouton, abc 7 news. jummy: abc 7 wants to connect you with the candidates. e-mail us at your voice at wjla.com. new at noon, former fairfax city councilmember stephen stompers -- stephen saunders has been sworn in as mayor. stombres has previously served as chief of staff to eric cantor. a special mayoral election is set for every 11. we will take you to california next where a wildfire crisis has engulfed part of the state. tens of thousands have been evacuated. and hard times have hit the baltimore mom some called a hero during the freddie gray riot after she pulled her son away from the chaos. and we are seeing one issue on the capital beltway. that is a crash in the express lane traveling on the inner loop at little river turnpike. we had all lanes blocked. now it looks like we do in fact have one lane getting by. it is just the left lane that is blocked, the express lanes. the right lane gets by. in the main lanes, a lot of people looking over. not a huge backup. we are still in the 40's. but you wi

kenneth mouton, abc news, washington. >>> 4:50. in sports tom korun talks to the bucs coach about how the weather could affect final roster cuts. >> reporter: good morning. big night tonight for about a dozen buccaneer players, they are against the washington redskins at raymond james stadium. again, one major obstacle tonight will be the weather as rain and wind expected for the game. how bad will it be? we're not sure but buccaneer head coach koetter knows how important this game is to the players. which is why they try to get it in with this tropical disturbance bearing down on the area. >> there's still guys that the game is really important to as making practice squad, getting picked up by other teams. it's the same for both teams. so -- appreciate everybody's hard work. a lot of changes had to be made to get it done. >> reporter: the buccaneer/redskins game once again tonight 8:00 at raymond james stadium. not thursday as originally scheduled. hopefully the weather will be decent enough to the players don't get hurt and the f

kenneth mouton has more. kenneth: donald trump's campaign chairman paul manafort is out of a job. under scrutiny for alleged payments you may receive while representing a pro-russian ukrainian leader. he denies wrongdoing. mr. trump: sometimes in the heat of debate, you don't choose the right words or you say the wrong things. i have done that. kenneth: the brash, tell it like it is republican speaking, but not issuing as specific apology. the candidate trying to strike a more presidential look. and this may be the person behind it. >> i hope everyone has criticized him at some david, for being insensitive or mocking someone, shows some recognition and forgiveness. kenneth: the hillary clinton camp launched harsh criticism, calling it an act. the chump campaign put out its first out of the general election, a $4.8 million ad by that will run in four states. a change in policy that the clinton foundation will no longer accept foreign contributions of she becomes president. >> say it ain't so, cindy. >> it's a really nice weekend. cindy: i know, i know. hey, but we have great weathe

kenneth mouton, abc news. emily: that's really dramatic. cindy: if you go all the way back to the first of the year in boston, we had not had 20 inches of rain yet. an entire year. we have the opposite problem here, right? summertime meteorological he is june, july, and august. we have a couple months to go. if we do not get an inch of rain , it will be the driest summer on record. the least amount of rainfall we we stand at this level, pretty impressive stuff in the record books. really impressive rainfall around here. does not look like we will be seeing widespread rainfall anytime soon. we are watching this area of moisture, st. louis. this will be working our direction tomorro with some severe weather as well. these thunderstorms may pack a hunch. a marginal threat of severe thunderstorms and the primary concern is the humidity comes away up again and there will be heavy rainfall. also lightning, just like we saw over the weekend. and the potential for damaging tomorrow particularly during the afternoon and evening. blue skies, clouds s

kenneth mouton, abc news, washington. >>> police in texas caught a man and woman up to no good in a vacant house, then realized the woman was the realtor who had just sold the house. neighbors spotted flashlights in the home in the houston suburbs had weekend, called police and when officers arrived they say they found at first they claimed to be married and just bought the house. the jig was up when they had to show their id's. >> shocked an amazed but not surprised. >> police say they also found marijuana in sealoff's car. the new homeowners filed trespassing charges, said they didn't approve of the realtor's -- uh, housewarming. >>> ivan cabrera here with the forecast. >> let's check in on the temperatures in the low 80s now. nice moon still visible as we head into a new moon. looking at temperature now in the low 80s. it's humid. have you been outside? going to be even more so later this afternoon with temperatures climbing in the 90s. it's going to be another steamer. however unlike yesterday i think the dry air on top of us that didn't allow for thunderstorms to develop, it's eroding

kenneth mouton has the latest from the campaign trail. kenneth: donald trump's so proclaimed extreme immigration plan to defend against terrorism. >> time is overdue to develop a new screening test for the threats we face today. i call it extreme vet proposal to give a test to people coming from known terror zones is getting criticism. trump expanding his temporary ban on foreign muslims to include entire regions. >> only those who we expect to flourish in our country and to embrace a tolerant american society should be issued visas. kenneth: constitutional lawyers say it is legal but the use of the supreme court would likely step into limit trumps plan. hillary clinton's campaign released a video and called trumps plan a cynical ploy to escape scrutiny of his outrageous proposal to ban an entire religion. joe biden spending his first day on the campaign trail with clinton pounced to read >> trumps ideas are not only profoundly wrong, they are dangerous and un-american. kenneth: clinton's super pac plto of virginia, colorado and pennsylvan

kenneth mouton has latest. >> reporter: italian natural disaster. rescue crews on the scene helping the injured and searching for survivors in the earthquake in central italy. overnight dark images started to come in of the damage. the quake hit while people were asleep. 3:30 a.m. local time. the epicenter, the town is just 100 miles north of rome that also felt the tremor for at least 20 seconds. tourists eve reed and their family woke up to the beds shaking. panicked, wondering what was earthquake, don't panic. >> reporter: initial reports, hardest hit areas where the death toll is rising. most of the historic city destroyed and residents buried under collapsed homes and building. equipment is moving in for rescue and recovery teams. megan williams who felt it in >> reporter: it's an mountainous area. it's not an easily accessible area. >> reporter: this part of central italy has seen several significant earthquakes in the past century. in 2009 a quake killed nearly 300 people. now tragedy has struck again. that area is also dealing with aftershoc

cannon mountain reports hillary clinton mouton reports hillary clinton continues to deal with the fallout from her private e-mails. kenneth: the gop nominee who says he is not changing his campaigntyle -- >> i don't want to change. kelly and conway p. job amid a barrage of negative stories about his past. the associated press reports manafort help the pro-russian political group in ukraine secretly route at least two -- $2 million -- a possible federal felony. campaign shakeup he h every african-american citizen struggling in our country today who wants a different and much better future. kenneth: trump who is declined to speak at naacp and early league events made his comments in front of the nearly all-white crowd in wisconsin. a contrast to hillary clinton investigation into her private e-mail were being handed over to congress. the fbi also recovered thousands of clinton possibility did e-mails. the state governments as those work-related e-mails will bemaha possible release date next week. antoinette: three people including a young girl are in the hospital after a crash in roxbury. the girls dad shoving her out of th