plus pepco to the rescue. the emergency overnight and the potential life-saving move taken by a couple of nearby power workers. but first - summer is moving fa st! its already august! the month tens of thousands of local students head back to class. good morning washington. toss to veronica seasonably warm around 90 next few days slight rise in humidity this week isolated t-storm chances today: mostly sunny to partly sunny, isolated pm t-shower can't be ruled out (20%), warm highs: upper 80s winds: nw 5 mph tonight: partly cloudy lows: 66-74 winds: light wednesday: partly cloudy, isolated pm thunderstorms 30% highs: around 90 winds: south 5-8 mph breaking now at 5:xx - a shooting in the district, leaving 5:xx - a shooting in the district, leaving one man hurt. and that victim, getting some unexpected help before police arrived. melissa dipane is live in southeast.. breaking tragic new developments in loudoun county. a mom and two children- missing since friday - found dead in a car. police believe 27-year-old

. >> and discussioning 68 million rate increase requestioninged by pepco. the council president plans to fight the rate increase and the company request to hike up monthly energy rates by $7 a month is not justified. public service commission is expected to recall on pepco rate hike request this fall. >> let's get a check of today's forecast. good morning to you michael thomas. >> good morning to you wisdom and maureen as well. today is a drier day. good news there. be a mix of clouds and sunshine. not sunny, bright, beautiful, good day nonetheless. satellite and radar showing rain moved out. again clouds, mostly high, thin, left out. there today starts with a good amount of sun. as we head into the afternoon we'll get a little more cloud cover in place. 64 the current national feeling cool and pleasant. dulles 61. check out bwi in 50s this morning. light jacket to start the early portion of the day. temperatures warming up through the 70s this afternoon and i don't think we'll make 80. most of suburbs won't. 72 at 11 and 77 at 2 and 78 by 5 and harvey has

last october, you the may remember pepco -- you may remember pepco cut the power out here that caused a two weekend ohm nation and lots of i -- condemnation evictions occurred but a court intervened and force the power company to turn the power back on. here we are a year later with a very similar problem. this time it's fire safety. we'll let you know what they determine and whether or not the people are going to have to leave immediately. reporting live at the lynn hill condos in temple hills, scott broom, wusa9. >> as scott said keep you updateddened the story and normal i it -- on the story and follow it on the mobile app. >>> in a crazy case of role reversal a 13-year-old boy has been charged with abduction in prince william county. police say he grabbed an adult woman who was walking outside and tried to drag her into the street. this was in woodbridge, virginia on elm farm road near the intersection of pennington lane road. the victim a 36-year-old woman told investigators it started when the teen began following her on his bike before he grabbed her. fortunately, she was able

. >> pepco requesting a rate hike.lding a public hearing to discuss the details of its proposal. pepco's plan is to raise distribution rates $68.6 million. it says the typical customer would see an increase of about $7.37 or 5.5 percent per month. the hearing is set for 6:30 p.m. at the largo student center and prince george's county community college. >> ivan rodriguez comes home for a special dedication. the baseball hall of famer will host the ribbon cutting ceremony on a new little baseball field in annandale, virginia part of the legacy fields program through the washington nationals dream foundation. the program renovates one local youth baseball or softball field every year and today's ceremony will kick off at 10:30 this morning at mason district park. >> ♪ >> we are just four days away from the zip trip finale. this friday september 1st, fox5 news morning is going to be live at the national harbor. tucker barnes going get it started for us at 6:00 a.m. and then the rest of the fox5 news morning team is going t

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as far as this building, if you the ecall back in october, power was also cut off by pepco because they said they had a hefty bill. we'll be here for that inspection tomorrow morning and be sure to bring you those them.s as soon as we know live in temple hills tonight, anna-lysa gayle, abc 7 news. jonathan: no word upon what sparked a fire on a school bus olney. they firefighters got there. most of the damage is in the ear of the bus around the engine area. it closed georgia avenue in both directions during rush hour. an infamous case of school sex abuse coming to a close today. teacher's aide sent to prison for 75 years. a pleaded guilty to abusing dozen children as young as 9 years old. hat happened while he was arden. in glen >> a man that age can do that to women out e young here, it don't make sense. have gotten 100 years in my opinion. alison: in court, he repeatedly and he was not a monster said that he is ashamed of what he did. his lawyer claimed he was a a man's body with an i.q. of 63. he was tence means likely die in prison. still he faces another trial on charges related to

nine months ago, pepco cut the power in a telling dispute. the complex's board of directors will have a press conference sometime tomorrow. we'll bring you the dough limits from that news conference. back-to-school time across the region with a few transportation updates. in prince george's county, technology lets parents track schoolbuses in real-time. you can download it from the apple app store or google play. it will let you know of the buses running late or where it is full stop the details are on her website at wjla.com. perkn the district, a big for students at d.c. public schools. mayor muriel bowser giving them free rides on metro. that starts monday. the mayor says extra security measures will be in place to make sure that students feel safe and comfortable while writing the trains. we want to see back-to-school photos. just take the pictures, because i know you will come and share .com/wjla,us at burst and you may see your cute little ones on the air. steve: the beach forecast come if you held off going because of the storms earlie

. >> pepco is requesting a rate hike.ng tonight to discuss the details of its proposal. pepco's plan is to raise distribution rates by $68.6 million. it says the typical customer would see an increase of about $7.37 or 5.5 percent per month. the hearing is set for 6:30 p.m. at the largo community center in prince george's county community college. >> ivan rodriguez has come home for a dedication. he will host the ribbon cutting ceremony on a new little baseball field in annandale, virginia. it's part of the legacy fields program through the washington nationals dream foundation. the program renovates one local youth baseball or softball field every year. it kick off at 10:30 at mason district park. on the web the stories you're engaging with the most this morning on social media. >> fema officials calling harvey the worst disaster in the history of texas. could, to texas governor greg abbott thousands of national guardsmen 20 helicopters 60 boats and high water vehicles have all been deployed but because of rising water r

last october the fire department tried to condemn the building after pepco and washington gas cut utilities. a judge ruled against it. jones says he rents from a condoner. >> th know anything. >> reporter: the fire department says it's not safe, but it is still a home. stephanie ramirez wusa9. >> a tough situation for people there. >>> well first thing tomorrow an attorney for the residents plan to file an injunction to allow more time to move out. social services and the red cross are helping people find places to stay. people who live there are being told to take important documents and medications with them. >>> new tonight disturbing details in an even more disturbing story. this is william aitcheson who temporarily stepped down as his role as catholic priest. aitcheson admits to burning a cross on the lawn of a newlywed couple. he even pleaded -- pleaded guilty of charges to threatening on killing loretta king. they received no charges of racism. >>> a landmark restaurant that sava business. it's the shrimp boat plaza on benning road in northeast. the new owner met with ward 7 leaders

because pepco is going to come in and shut down electric. we were prepared for that. but then here comes the fire marshal. out of nowhere. we didn't even see that coming. so it was really not well coordinated. >> reporter: many owners are blaming prince george's county officials for failing to come up with some kind of solution in the past few years. grants, loans, a redevelopment offer, or some other way to resolve this situation here and bring the complex back the life. right now be-- to life. right now behind me we have u- haul talks and we have the red cross -- trucks and we have the red cross here and who are offering immediate shelter and hotel rooms and trying to help people who qualify with both assistance to places. the doors are closing right now here. and police are standing by to keep people out of the buildings as they begin to get moved out. probably once and for all from here at the troubled lynn hill condo complex in temple hills. reporting live, scott broom, wusa9. >> thank you scott. >>> in just a few minutes, president trump will arrive in reno, nev

pepco crews are trying to figure out why there are some scattered power outages in the woodley park neighborhood not too far from the metro and that restaurant row on connecticut avenue. crews expect power to be back on around midnight. >>> now a followup to a story you saw as breaking news last night on the news a 11:00, that grim discovery in a small creek in loudoun county. sheriff's deputies have not shared the identity of the three bodies they found near that car last night, but all signs point to them being the mother and two kids reported missing during friday's flooding. that car first discovered by family members of theirs who had driven down from new jersey to search for them. >>> we've got more breaking news tonight this time from capitol hill and health insurance reform might not be dead after all. groups in the house and senate from both parties have started some casual talks about a new way forward. they call themselves the problem solving caucus. they're trying to he threat by president trump to cut off the money the government gives insurance companies to keep premiums down. >>>

they were forced last fall because of a billing dispute with pepco. a fraction of the people who moved out have moved back in and now the issues are fire safety related. here's a list of changes that must he made in order for tenants to be allowed to stay here. all fire alarms must be working. the doors to vacant units must be secured. trash must be removed. fire doors must work properly. fire department is scheduled to be here this morning. i have reached out to a spokesperson for the five are meant to find out exactly what will be this morning. whatare not satisfied with they see here. tenants will have 24 hours to move out. reporting live in temple hills, suzanne kennedy. the clock is ticking. thanks, suzanne. larry: johnson and johnson, forced to pay nearly half $1 billion. eileen: today is going to be the hottest day of the week. laterl peak around 93 this afternoon, feeling like 100 degrees at times. let me draw your attention to ,he west area chicago, detroit both in the upper 70's and the air mass will move in our direction. most of us will be

nine months ago pepco cut the forcing people to move out for more than a week.e officials say they found major safety issues there. we'll break down the problems and what comes next. reporter: those who call these condominiums home say it's falling apart. >> there is literally mold on the walls, holes in the ceiling, like you could see the sky. >> garbage basically, garbage. knock it down and renovate. reporter: the prince george's county office the fire marshal slapping the property with what officials are calling unsafe fire code violations. the fire and e.m.s. department release this had video from inside the hallways. >> the building is in disrepair. as you can see, yes. what you see on the outside is reflected on the inside as well. reporter: specifically the department says the fire alarm system needs to be working. all doors to vacant units need to be secured. trash and debris in those units needs to be cleaned up and fire doors must work properly. if it doesn't happen by tuesday, residents will have to leave. >> short notice of people to make the situati

>>> changes on the way for your pepco people.ossible rate increases for monk and prince george's county. they want to raise your bill. a meeting gets under way at 6:30 this evening. >>> a sign to alert you to traffic closures along beach drive in northwest d.c. is being manipulated by a hacker somebody hacked into the sign posting a profane message directed at president trump. a message saying kill nazis was posted on sunday. they're working with the operators to prevent it from happening again. >>> part of the new impact from the new ownership at whole foods. it's going to have you -- you'll see what impact on your pocket. >> shoppers are looking forward to this. cutting prices from fruits, vegetables, beef and peanut butter will be cheaper. don't expect bargains bonanza if you're going in there today. amazon is not revealing how they picked the items to discount or how much prices would drop. from the list we have, we're seeing a lot of the organic produce and proteins will be cheaper. this has some customers wondering if this

coming up there's a public hearing happening tonight about the proposed pepco rate hike its a chancehe community to voice their concerns over the possibility of more expensive electric bills. details ahead. >> a live look outside as we head to break. white house looks great its 6:14. weather and traffic coming up on the 5s next. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> hey, hey, welcome back. there you go. waiting for the sun to get up in another 15, 20 minutes. we should be in for a nice start to the day and a pleasant day. back in the upper 70's with partial sunshine. so, while lots going on in texas, locally we're off to a nice quiet start. let's get to it. i know a lot of back to school today. quiet start to the work week and to the school week ton and o getting back into the regular things here as we get into late summer, early fall. overnight temperatures back in the 60's. shape today. we got some rain showers in the forecast tomorrow. 65 early this morning here in washington. 50's off to the north and west. very comfortable. frederick checking in at 54 degrees. 57 dulles. manassas 51 this morning. 58 in

owners, and then sub renting to those not paying rent, and then they owed more than $1 million to both pepco and washington gas. they were able to work out a deal with that and then it came down to the fire code violations and that was a continuous problem, fire code violations, and every tim came in they had issues they could not afford get fixed so everybody had to leave, and that happened earlier this week, folks had to get out. >> in terms of talking to the folks that live there, are they blaming their fellow owners who weren't paying their fees or management, are they blaming officials who are enforcing the codes? >> they are blaming the county, of course. and this is a private entity and owned by at least -- well, there are hundreds of owners in this condo complex. now the question is what is going to be done to keep something like this from happening again. it's going to take some kind of legislation that looks over how these fees are managed. if you have a management company that is not doing what they are supposed to do, there's so much at stake and there's nothing that regulates th

. >>> a spokesperson for pepco tells "fox5" they also have per nrition state shut off the util today for good if that inspection does not go well. meanwhile the management also tells us they are working to sell this building. however the deal has not been finalized yet. that's the late nest temple hills. anjali hemphill. "fox5 local news". >> path forward in afghanistan. >> president focusing on needs and conditions instead of time limz. ahead at 7:30 closer look at primetime speech last night. 7:23 now winds southwest at 3 and hot one today. expect temperatures topping out in middle 90s. thunderstorma at some time adds actual storm front coming through and wake up tomorrow with cloud cover and wednesday will be a transition day before we get a real big change in air mass. and we -- pretty scored fairy 95 today to temperatures in upper 70s low 80s and quiet conditions around here. thursday, friday, into weekend look fantastic low humidity and nice early fall like weather to look forward to. 95 today. lots of water. hazy hot and humid afternoon. all right. time for jam cam. is >> i'm

montgomery county council will hold a public hearing to discuss $68 million rate increase requested by pepco and council president plans ton fight the rate hike and hiked up energy rates and it is just not justified. they're expected to rule on it this fall. >> and tucker barnes with a check of the forecast. >> nice sunshine out there early and partly sunny this afternoon. we have an afternoon baseball game 4:00. >> great. >> should be nice for it. >> awesome. not so much the game got ini but not great conditions for baseball. >> look at cool temps to start the day. yesterday we did not get out of 60s. daytime high reagan nag at picked up inch of rain. north and east of boston and cape getting lats of tropical depression number ten. you know what, it won't be partly sunny day and temperatures expected to be 10 warmer highs upper 70s for us later this afternoon. back to northern gulf still harvey a center of circulation in western louisiana and heavy reign and flooding issues in south east develop develop and good news it's snot just houston but texas and lieu lieu and florida looking at poss