for the third year in a row molly schuyler won the this year downing 21 burgers, with the buns, in ten minutes! the mother of four takes home 15 hundred dollars. this morning a lot of people will be heading out on the water to relax and enjoy the holiday. our john gonzalez is among them - he joins us live on the potomac coming up at six a deadly accident blocking baltimore >> now, "good morning washington" on your side. we begin with a breaking news alert. x breaking new, a deadly train wreck setting down roots. what happened that sent an suv onto the roads and the backup your are dealing with now. >> and north korea is one step closer to the u.s. >> celebrating our independence. asing a look at festivities you wake up to celebrate the fourth of july. it is a great start to the day. adrianna: the day is going to be pretty solid until 2:00?

molly schuyler. over the course of ten minutes ate this many hamburgers. this is video from the contest that took place at z-burger. they have been doing this contest from 2009. they have folks in their first contest to highly competitive eaters in world. molly schuyler ate 21 in ten minutes but she was disappointed because she ate seven more last year. >> it affected me this year. i know i can eat a lot. i ate 22 1/2 pounds i rib in milwaukee. >> she does this for a living. for her efforts she won $1,500. you saw they were using water like this to try to help the burgers go down easier. but still, 21 in ten minutes. as you will find out at 5:00 from a d.c. based contest tant who entered her first contest. it's harder than it looks. i'm tom roussey, abc7 news. jonathan: how many of those could you down? michelle: three and i'd be done. nancy: with training i could get five burgers in ten minutes. jonathan: 21 burgers. what is wrong with her? nancy: wow! more power to her. michelle: imagine her at thanksgiving. see a list of all the july 4th events across t

for third year in a row molly schuyler won the d.c. eating contest. this year downing 21 hamburgers with the buns in ten minutes. 21. she was off by seven this year. the mother of four takes home $1,500 and keeps the title. i hope she doesn't have a tummy ache. michelle: her kids must be so proud. jonathan: so proud. another contest is the mets versus the nats. michelle: this is a good one. erin hawksworth is live at nats park for us. erin: a burger sounds good. the game is underway. stephen strasburg on the mound and he is e so is max scherzer. you will hear from the n.l. player of the month up for years, fios has been promising fast internet to small businesses. but for many businesses, it's out of reach. why promise something you can't deliver? comcast business is different. ♪ ♪ we deliver super-fast internet with speeds of 250 megabits per second across our entire network, to more companies, in more locations, than fios. we do business where you do business. ♪ ♪ the moment you could put this iyourselfment. in the driver's seat of a new mercedes-be

. >> molly schuyler took the top spot there.n the competition for the third time eating 21 burgers in 10 minutes. >> athlete. >> athlete. >> yeah. >> marathon runner. not marathon runners. >> she trained hard for that one. >>> all right. a more sophisticated story now. today is actually a very special fourth of july because it's also the 20th anniversary of the arrival of pathfinder on mars. >> pretty cool stuff. there were some big cheers at nasa's jet propulsion laboratory when they learned that that lander had successfully made it and it made quite an entrance, i might add. >> pathfinder bounced onto the martian surface then opened to release its sojourner rover which conducted numerous experiments before they went silent. the lander and rover sent back more than 17,000 pictures from the surface of mars. >> still sounds like an amazing accomplishment today. i wonder how they felt about it 20 years ago. >> yeah, unreal. >> big deal. >>> finally, some fun fourth of july fun facts, shall we? did you know that only john hancock a

tom: but a later named molly schuyler who took them all down for the third year in a row. are the bur but in ten minutes she was able to eat 21. she thys she had an -- she thinks she had an off day. >> i was sluggish this year. put away 28 last year. >> 21 this year >>> looks good doing it. >> she ate 21 burgers. i'm just like -- where did it go? >> d.c. born and raised, beasley says the parents used to call her a human garbage disposal. so she figured she could do this. >> you think what the heck, it's a little hamburger. >> there is no keeping up with molly. >> she is on ten. i'm on three. i tried to make a double burger. that is it. i can't go no more. >> just in case; the paramedics were on the standby but they weren't needed especially for the champ who is the top ranked competitive eater in the world. >> a couple of years ago somebody bet me i shouldn't eat a five i did it for the heck of it. i find out i can make more money doing that than a job. >> tom roussey, abc7 news. kimberly: no time to recover from that. the damascus water tower won't get a planned makeover