according to a criminal complaint, loudoun county contacted i.c.e. that placed immigration detainer on rivas-mendez monday, two days ago. on monday afternoon while being transported from loudoun county to the ice facility in -- the i.c.e. facility in fairfax, authorities say rivas-mendez told officers his handcuffs were too tight. officers stopped the vehicle on the dulles greenway in the ashburn area and opened the door. after loosening the first handcuff, rivas-mendez allegedly struck an officer and escaped on foot. the pursuit lasted for more than an hour but he was taken back into custody. this morning another immigration detainer was placed on rivas-mendez. but before he goes through immigration or deportation proceedings for the sixth time, he will have to face charges for taking off from officers on monday. live in alexandria, jeff goldberg, abc7 news. alison: thank you. this month work will begin to elimination a major bottleneck for northern virginia commuters. the work is focused in crystal city at the intersection of 23rd and south eades s

. >> thank you very much, mike, right now waking up problems many in loudoun country. route 9 charles pike lane in both directions closed. use caution. there see the red yen yellow on the map up picturing eastbound commute. we'll tell you when we clear that owe way. rest of wednesday commute hot and sticky and rain could be moving in again. the entire hill all brims including wilson looking good problem free mcclain, questions @erinfoxdc twitter. >> and the nation's opiate crisis continues to get worse. >> and multi-million plan to cleanup the chesapeake coming worthless in years. >> timep is 4:37. back in a moment. >> time is 4:39. the stories you're engaging with most. >> probe into fbi director robert muller can bring focus to russian operations. with efforts to ibt fear with the 2016 election process. organized it's too early to say how or if russian criminal networks work into the medalinging investigation. >> and backlash in the opiate epidemic. within the past year, 25 civil case as cross the kupty were filed against drug makers, two congressional pan relz exami

the census county loudoun county takes the top spot. median household income is $125,000, home value almost half a million. home, schools and department of homeland security. falls church, fairfax, prince william and arlington counties, montgomery, calvert and howard counties in maryland. we have posted the entire list >>> talking more trouble for metro. what a new review is uncovering about employees and overtime abuse and the action the agency is now taking. >>> a sign of freedom and a community coming together. how neighbors are showing their pride after flags were found d.rn and burne >>> disturbing and disappointing, how he feels after a review found an employee abused overtime. the metro employee was a track supervisor now let go. they found the supervisor was getting paid significant overtime earnings including for times that employee was not working. other employees are also under review for similar practices. metro's union says on twitter that it's not commenting because the person was likely not represented by the union. >> im

. >>> it looks like loudoun county is the richest county again. the median household income is just below $126,000. close to 10,000 residents commute into the district for work. >>> other wealthy d.c. suburbs include fairfax, arlington and howard county. loudoun is always at the top of the list. what do you mean? >> believe it. >> ask her for some money. >>> it's 5:00 a.m. that breaking news coming out of montgomery county this morning. take a look. this is where a fire has spread from a home to a police car. >> news 4's justin finch just arrived at the scene there. we'll check in with him in a second. first, we want to bring you up to speed on the friday forecast on this weather alert day. >> sheena parveen is here and an update from first 4 traffic we have another alert today. it's not just for the heat this time, it's also for storms this afternoon. we could see potentially strong to severe storms as we go into the afternoon hours. but starting off with your friday, it is another very warm, humid morning out there. 80 degrees now in the distric

this is happening out in loudoun county where the preparation is under way. responders there for preparing for any potential trouble. >> even with a harness on, most of us would likely pass after jumping out of a window head first. it's just another day of training for these recruits. their curriculum rapidly expanding. >> everything from liquid propane gas rescues, but this is certainly different. >> he is referring to this. it's a metro rail training simulator. >> there's no rail lines in loudoun county. >> they will use this to prepare for the silver line. preparedness doesn't wait. >> we will train from potential terrorists attacks, and a smoke that when building a simulator like this, the details, well, they matter. fire and rescue wanted to have an old railcar to use for training. everything from the distance from the car to the fence line, and the drop below. you don't always have a platform to step on to. >> they need to be able to climb on it so that's why there's no steps on it. this is designed to be not as a train station. this is men the to be th

we could see loudoun county. we did have one around the sterling area, a little one now. look at this one, just to the east of shepherd's town area and then this guy, the strongest storm now, not severe. but a lot of lightning with this right over chevrolet, right around the area, you can see route 50 as it makes its way out of dc. and if you make a line here, this is actually a little bit of a line that's trying to make its way down towards dc. we could see more showers develop in this area here. so don't think you're out of the woods yet, we're down towards the area, may see a few more storms as we move on through the rest of the night tonight. we hit a high temperature of 90 degrees down to 87 now. but could be near 100 by the end of this week and it could be prolonged hea last week, only hot, guys. >> we're getting use to this, almost. thank you, doug. >>> terrorism has been ruled out after a security scare on capitol hill today. >> well, tonight things are slowly returning to normal as we learn more about the man who plowed into a barrier and a police cruiser. this h

we t river between loudoun and montgomery counties.re's a new debate about building a new potomac river crossing. of course we have so much development in our area, especially around the dulles area. all these homes and businesses out here around the route 7 corridor. a lot of those people have to get over across the potomac river to montgomery county and vice versa. now montgomery county is saying, hey, all this agricultural preserve over here, let's not ruin this. a new potomac river crossing would absolutely bring traffic through this area. you would ruin areas like this, which are picturesque. you'd have to build new highways and you'd be talking about tens of thousands of cars a day that would have to come through here. take a look at some of this land from the ground and you see how picturesque it is. if you drive across the legion bridge, you know how backed up that is and transportation planners are saying something needs to be done to ease the gridlock. loudoun county leaders thinks a new crossing needs more study. saying no w

c the loudoun county health officials to understand the cause and resolve the situation as quickly as possible. the company says the symptoms are consistent with norovirus but, "norovirus did not come from our food supply and it is safe to eat at chipotle." less than two years ago an e. coli outbreak at chipotle led to temporary closing of all locations nationwide. followed soon after by a noro-virus case in boston. >> i don't know how they will bounce back for it again. >> i have to find some place else to go. >> many disappointed customers came here. jersey mike's sandwich shop a few doors down. >> we are a very busy restaurant but getting an extra business, you know, the first part of the week is great. jeff: the loudoun county health department has no confirmed cases of norovirus connected to the chipotle but the county is helping the employees fully clean the restaurant and get it ready to reopen tomorrow. in sterling, jeff goldberg, abc7 alison: republican efforts to repeal and replace obamacare appear dead for the time being. hours after a billion replacing the affordable care

developing this morning, three members of a loudoun county family have disappeared. the loudoun county sheriff's department says courtney ash was last seen leaching a relative's home friday night. she was supposed to bring her son and a cousin to a relative's home in leesburg, they never arrived. they're likely in a blue ford taurus with virginia tag 9844. >> in the district, police are asking for the public's help finding the people responsible for a series of shootings. ten people were shot in less than 24 hours in 7 separate shootings all over the city. two people died. the first one happened on saturday night. that gunfire didn't end u 3:00 p.m. on sunday. deadly shootings on camden and coral street. the police chief tweeted he was disheartened with the senseless shootings. >> these are some of the challenges that we're here for. we have to continue to engage the community. put a squash to many of the issues that are happening. >> now, the police department has increased reward money offered for the tips that lead to arrests here. you can find the amounts on the

this is a new warning, it includes clark county, also loudoun county. the winds up to 60 miles per hour, and heavy downpour. on our stormtracker, headed toward middleberg in about three or four minutes. could it affect dulles? flights coming in and out. fairfax, shortly after 7:00 tonight. so just keep that in mind, it will die down as the sun goes down. it's a little cooler d.c. north. still looks like it's 100 degrees in waldorf. 95 tomorrow. 98 on thursday. 92 friday. even low 90s over the weekend. the good news is, it will not be as humid over the weekend. here's a look it's going to feel like it's 88. we'll tell you when that goes above 100 tomorrow, and it could approach 110 on thursday. >>> lots of new developments to break down tonight about donald trump jr.'s meeting with the russian lawyer. today in a surprise move, the president's eldest son posted an email chain that spells out why he agreed to hear the russian lawyer. tonight, there is information that robert mueller's investigation plans to look at the meeting and the emails. there are gro

the stronger storms are across loudoun, fairfax and montgomery counties at this time. not moving very fast but they are moving forward the district. we'll follow them and give you a fresh update coming up next. steve: just want to give you a fresh update on severe thunderstorm warning now posted. it includes the district, montgomery county, loudoun, also fairfax, arlington, falls church. this is now until 5:00. this storm is moving at just around ten miles per hour. it's not very fast. head to the weather center and i will show you what is going on. reston here and we will look for all of this to move to the east. so upper northwest d.c. to the cherry dale area. you will look for the stronger tomorrows to move overhead within the next 45 minutes or so. wind gusts upward of 60 miles per hour are likely. with thunder and lightning. we will put it together and bring you a fresh update for the storms moving our way this afternoon and evening. jonathan: can you imagine if that was your house? do you kno happened? that wasn't a demolition crew. that was a giant sinkhole that

we will see rain showers scooting down hagerstown, frederick, coming through loudoun county and loudound into the winchester area. area of low pressure sitting off to the west. that rain with that low pressure is going to be dragged right through the d.c. area. so some heavy rain around hagerstown area. this is the little rain shower i'm talking about scooting right around where tracie's live shot was. that's moving pretty quick. a nice down i-95. here is an upper level low trying to get its act together. that's doing to get pivot down enthusiastic virginia and eventually take some of this rain with it. so we will have those rain chances mainly because of that area of low pressure. a flash flood watch in the darker green. neon greens are flood warnings. flood warnings are for rivers and streams already out of their banks or at flood stage right now. anne arundel county around bristol, shut down, upper marlboro, a lot of flooding around that area, the district. you can see by martinsburg having some problems as well. '60s and '70s. boy, is it chilly right now. pool time, might not be the

clarks gap road in loudoun county, that crash cleared out of the way this morning. taking a look elsewhere, 270 flying down from 70 new york city problems from 70 to the spur. you are nice and on time here this that, of course, is good here. northbound vw parkway,that has cleared. so has 50 at 197. aaron? >> melissa, thank you. >>> a sitcom from the '80s and '90s that some are doing in real life. the golden girls trend taking hold for older women. >>> also ahead at 5:00, a warning for a lot of you before you hit the road for work. why you may want to stay out of the left lane. >>> we continue to follow the latest developments out of north korea. take a look at this video just in out of the fios is not cable. and we believe everyone deserves faster internet. so with fios gigabit connection, you get amazing download speeds up to 940 megs 20 times faster than most people have. and it's just $79.99 a month online for the first year. switch to fios gigabit connection with tv and phone for $79.99 a month. plus hbo for one year and multi-room dvr service for two years. all

until 2:45or howard, loudoun and montgomery county and here they already received more than 2 or" of rainfall already and getting additional rainfall after t that. here's a look at other neighbors with some of their numbers fair from 3" to over 5" of rainfall and this was all from earlier today. once we get through tonight into tomorrow we can and these numbers are certainly going to rise. future cast 4:00 in the morning still getting hit well to the west and we have some as well to south of us and then it moves fly and as we get through into the afternoon hours and early evening it starts a move a lot more southeast of us and we get a clearing. sunday is the day when finally we'll have dry weather. here's a look at weekend for alfred rocqomore cast. tomorrow, 7. look at rainfall. cooler. it will heat up to sunday and at least sunshine in just a few cloud. here's a look at "fox5" accuweather 7-day so still in the rain as far as saturday is concerned and once again we still have warnings and watches to be concerned with and we dry out sunday 82 and then if you take a look at week we h

extends through clark county and loudoun county. go to the big map to show you the picture. the yellow box here, the polly -- polygon is under warning until 6:15. there is plenty of thunder as the storm moves east/southeast. some of the rain spreading east of leesburg. closeup now to show you a timeline that is around 5:47. 6:05 for middleburg. then broad run at 6:26. a lot of lightning and the possibility of hail. a little hail that is to make a move across 17. so we will see this system hold together a little while longer. the bigger question is will the entire area of the showers make it to the d.c. metro area. we are seeing the northern end that is starting to dissipate a bit. but the southern section with most of the activity looks like it will make it maybe even to prince william county and farther west there are more showers and storms to keep an eye on for later this evening. isolated to scattered will be the coverage of the storms. the temperature wise and the humidity wise this is what it feels like outside right now. 95 in washington. 96 in quantico. it feels like

now a loudoun county sheriff's deputy could be in trouble after being carjacked and having his service weapon stolen. the deputy was off duty at the time and in his own suv. investigators say the deputy had dropped off the man at a convenience store when he realized his cell phones were missing. he confronted him. that's when police say the guy stole his suv and service weapon and eventually crashed nearby. police say 22-year-old zachariah -- was taken into custody after trying to steal another vehicle. the sheriff's office started an internal affairs investigation. the deputy was on sick leave at the time >>> assisted suicide is now legal but it could be a matter of time before congress steps in to stop it. the death with dignity act became official yesterday. auto doctors can prescribe life ending drugs. the patients must be over the age of 18 and have fewer than six months to live. it will require the approval of both the full house and senate and president trump to repeal. >>> from chopper 4, you can see how picturesque the area around the potomac between loudoun and montgomery cou

loudoun is always at the top of the list. what do you mean?>> believe it. >> ask her for some money. >>> it's 5:00 a.m. that breaking news coming out of montgomery county this morning. take a look. this is where a fire has spread from a home to a police car. >> news 4's justin finch just arrived at the scene there. we'll check in with him in a second. first, we want to bring you up to speed on the friday forecast on this weather alert day. >> sheena parveen is here and an update from first 4 traffic

this is an hour's worth of loop and you can see how this is got on enhanced here just sort of loudounnd south of accokeek and south of waldorf and this is creeping towards the district. in prince william and fauquier counties showers almost now to 66. you get to midland and quantico, there northern stafford. we have some heavier showers from amosville as well. but those have fallen apart over the last hour trying to redevelop toward marshall up 17. east into charles county and also into parts of now calvert county. look at this port huntingtown some scattered light to moderate showers around you. in frederick you have some heavier showers earlier. a lot of that is weakened but in western loudoun and right over strasburg there, where 66 goes into 81 seeing some showers popping. so like yesterday although not as intense we've got the atmosphere percolate asking it's going to percolate a lot more tonight and tomorrow. in fact tomorrow, scattered showers and storms. here we are, in july. and we're going to struggle to get into the low 80s. that doesn't happen often around here. winds will

. >>> the man that escaped deportation in loudoun county only to be recaptured is headed back to court today. the man appeared on wednesday and asked for an attorney. his preliminary hearing set for 2:00 this afternoon. he has been deported five times before his escape. >>> molette green at the live desk. a train going through penn station to face big delays this morning. new jersey transit saying north jersey coastline train with nine cars, it was traveling in hudson river tunnel towards pen station when the derailment happened. this was just after 9:00 last night. about 180 passengers and crew members were on board. no one hurt. new jersey transit saying it's working with amtrak which owns and operates the station to find the cause of the delm station. back to you. >> thank you. >>> 4:35. they may not know their names or faces but last night neighbors in charles county prayed together for the ten boys reportedly abused by a teacher's aide. >> allow us to be servants, lord, to those young children, lord, whoever they may be lord, and to their families. >> local ministers and the women

. >>> a woman and two kids are missing in loudoun county right now. courtney ash was last seen friday in ashburn with her son cameron and her nephew jalen. they were supposed to go to a home in leesburg but never showed up. the sheriff's office said they are believed to blue ford taurus with virginia tags. if you have any information, call the loudoun county sheriff's office. you can find their info on the wusa9 app and website. >>> coming up this week tomorrow a new chief of staff for president donald trump, john kelly, previously the secretary of homeland security, will begin his job as top advisor to the president. he replaces reince priebus who resigned last thursday and more talk on healthcare. >> president trump tweeting today don't give up, republican senators. the world is watching. repeal and replace. three proposals from the gop failed in the senate last week. >> on tuesday it's national night out. police departments across our area are holding events and inviting their community. it's all aimed at improving the relationship between the poli

happening today-- a loudoun county chipotle will re-open after a health scare. here's what we know. at the location on route 7 in sterling.. multiple people reported getting sick after eating there. they say -- they experienced fever, nausea and vomiting. chipotle says -- it worked with the "county health department" to resolve the situation, and get the restaurant sanitized. the health scare though delivering a big blow to the entire company. chipotle's share price dropped more than six percent after word spread yesterday. coming up-- new details about the controversial shooting of a yoga teacher in minnesota. police say they heard moments before opening fire. - code orange air quality alert today - oppressive heat & humidity through monday - heat advisories may be issued late week/weekend - heat wave breaks next week today: hot and humid. mostly sunny to partly cloudy. highly isolated t-storm. highs: 92-95 winds: sw 5 mph tonight: mainly clear to partly cloudy. warm and very humid. lows: 71-77 winds: sw 5 mph thursday: still very hot and humid. partly to mostly sunny. feels like t

. >>> the man who escaped deportation in loudoun county this week only to be recaptured is haekds back to court. more lo mendes appeared and asked for an attorney. his preliminary hearing set for 2:00 this afternoon. he was deported five times before monday's escape. keep aon on courtroom today. >>> i'm molette green at the live desk. with some breaking news. just learning about an apartment building collapse in italy. want you to take a look at video just in. it's a five-story building that went down there. you can see the structure is partially collapsed. this is near the southern italy city of naples. rescuers are digging by hand to find anyone trapped. firefighters believing up to seven people are buried in the rubble there in the town. witnesses say there was no exclusion before that collapse. only that a train had just passed by. we're going to keep you posted on this. back to you now. >> thank you. >>> it's 5:06. they may not know their names or faces but last night neighbors in charles county prayed together for the ten boys reportedly abused by a teacher's aide. >> allow us to

. >>> the man who escaped deportation in loudoun county only to be recaptured is heading back to court. marlon rivas-mendez asked for an attorney. his preliminary hearing is set for this afternoon. rivas-mendez was deported five times before monday's escape. keep an eye on the nbc washington app as we learn more from the courtroom today. >>> the man responsible for days of panic and confusion in prince george's and montgomery countys will be sentenced. as part of a plea deal, we expect the man to be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. last month he pleaded guilty to shooting and killing his estranged wife and two strangers last year. the killings happened over two days. darcy spencer will be in the courtroom for today's sentencing and follow her on twitter @darcyce seven people have been shot and killed in prince george's county. we learned the identities of the latest two victims. we brought you this story as breaking news yesterday. prince george's police say philip michael and kenneth edmonds were part of two groups arguing with one another that started wi

the search happening right now in loudoun county plus - a new chief of staff taking the reigns today. the challenges john kelly is facing at home and abroad as he moves into the west wing. and you can't ask for much better than this - sunny, warm, and low humidity. veronica johnson is tracking a near perfect start to the week. good morning washington. i'm scott abraha. last day of the month, first day of the work week. and i'm adrianna hopkins - autria and larry have the morning off. toss to veronica

in virginia the loudoun county school system has grown the fastest. they have opened two new public schools last year and four more are slated to open next year. >> four things to know. police arrested a day care worker. >> police say a wrong way driver was involved. it happened early this morning in fort washington. both drivers died. why one of them is going in the this is at least a deadly crash on indian head highway this year. >> six months into the first year in office and he's going on a starkly different direction with messaging. he's hired wall street billionaire anthony today to run his communications team. former press secretary sean spicer's abrupt resignation today is reportedly a direct response to his arrival. >> spicer's resignation came after what was decided as chaotic morning for press in the west wing. including it being slammed in the face of the white house correspondent. here is nbc national correspondent peter alexander with first impression of spicer replacement. >> good evening tonight, a stunning staff shuffled here at the w

it's just another day of training for these loudoun county groups.ir curriculum rapidly expanding. >> everything from simulators, and liquid propane gas fires and everything like this, trench rescue. but this is different. >> and he's referring to this. it's a metro trail simulator. >> this is something we have not dealt with. there's no rail lines in loudoun county. >> responders will be preparing this for silver line emergencies. preparedness doesn't wait. >> w to the other. >> from potential terrorists attacks to insulators, and the spoke that may rise. >> when building a simulator like this, details matter. they wanted to have an old railcar to use for training, and they want to position this car on tracks so it was similar to what you would find in a real life scenario. everything from the distance to the car to the fence line, and the drop below. you don't always have a platform to step on to. >> they need to be able to climb on it, so that's why there's no steps on it. this is designed to be not as a train station. this is meant to be the one

. >>> three members of the same family have disappeared in loudoun county. the loudoun county sheriff's department says the last time anyone saw courtedly ash was friday night. she was supposed to bring her son and his cousin to another family's home. they're likely in a blue ford taurus with vuv-9844 tag. >>> disheartened that's how the police chief says he feels after a weekend of vile also. ten people were show the in less than 24 hours, two of those people died. justin finch joins us from police headquarters to explain how police plan to curtail this violence. justin? >> reporter: hey there, pat. good morning, as the shootings were coming in, some may have noticed they came in without any suspect information. that can be troubling for police who are trying to solve these crimes as they are happening, but they do believe in these cases there could be witnesses, people who saw or heard something, and they're hoping those people will come forward. mapped across the district, a string of shootings, ten people were shot, two killed. >> i was sitting in my hou

we know that something that loudoun county detectives are looking into.want to give you the information about her vehicle. it's a 2002 ford taurus, blue, and it is said to be license plate vuv hi 9844. so i'm told that detectives from the loudoun county sheriff's office spent much of the day yesterday going up and down any of the possible routes that would have taken them from here in ashburn to ad address in leesburg trying to see if there's any clue as to where this car might have gone. they're also asking the public in addition to looking out for the vehicle, looking out for these people if they see anything along these roots that may perhaps light might look like a car that went off into a ditch or some tire tracks, things like that, to please report that as well to the and one last thing, guys. we always ask about first of all the amber alerts. a number of people mentioned that online asked why there wasn't an amber alert watch we're told is she had permission to carry -- to transport the nine-year-old cousin and because the boy was also the five-yea

the loudoun county health department tells us more than 135 people reported feeling sick after visiting restaurant on triple 7 road. the customers were at the restaurant between july 13th and 16th. health officials believe the norovirus is to blame for the outbreak. >>> all right. let's take it outside for you. another humid day out there. people really digging out and cleaning out >> looks like we may have break coming up. let's check in with caitlin >> yes, thankfully we do have a welcome break from the heat. the humidity and the thunderstorms beginning tomorrow. but we've got the final push of some in stability out there. that's a cold front producing strong thunderstorms south of philadelphia back down through northern sections of delaware. and same area hit last night parts of queen anne's county, mostly clear in dc, a couple of cells across southern maryland, including one over la playa nasty line of heavy rain and lightening with a history of producing damaging wind gusts when is it moved through more western sections of both columbia and ellicott city. mainly encompasses delawar