It woke me up this morning. There was a loud noise. Police, it was the fiery end to a carjacking that occurred a few minutes before and several blocks away. The suspects stole the vehicle from an owner at an intersection after implying that he had a weapon. A minivan ando the driver of the minivan chase down the suspect crashed into the mcdonalds. The suspect had a much simpler explanation. He said it was just an accident and that was it. By thesuspect was shaken accident and try to make a run for it. He went down that way. Police arrived on scene shortly after and arrested him. There was one customer in the drivethrough lane that was injured. She was taken to the hospital with nonlife threatening injuries. Reporting in prince georges county, jeanette reyes, abc 7 news. Of laytonsville road are still locked between road. Road and a car crashed into a pole, bringing down some wires. There was a small brush fire. Crews are working to clean up that mess. Some good news, and a good start for metro silver line. After tallying up the final tripss, they had 31,000 to or from one of the new stations. Riders were impressed on how the line ran on its first commute. We take a look outside at the capitol building. You can enjoy some cooler and drier weather today. Jacqui jeras has a look at the first forecast. A great day out there. Looking for an excuse to go outside between shows this morning. So beautiful. We had some temperatures on the chilly side. Bwi at 59record at degrees. The less, 57. Dulles, 57. We are warming things up. We are up to 72 degrees. It is cool for this time of year. Be five to 10 degrees below the seasonal average. Travel across the country will be no problem up and down the eastern seaboard. Midwest isre in the controlling the eastern half of the country. A few delays will be possible in denver we will keep an eye on a few delays will be possible in denver. We will keep an eye on louisiana. 75 and mostly sunny at 7 00. Ostly clear skies how long can the beautiful spell last . We will let you know with the seven day forecast. We want to turn to the latest on the middle east crisis. At least 100 palestinians are dead after israel as collated its military offensive. Brianne carter is monitoring the developments from the live desk this noon. Another day and another rejected ceasefire in the mideast crisis. Hamas rejecting a call from palestinian leadership. According to resort reports, palestinian leaders offered the truce after confrontations with hamas and islamic jihad. To have ansrael international mediation. This comes as we continue to see these images. At least 100 palestinians have been killed in israeli air strikes and tank shelling. You see the cnn reporter was live on tv this morning. The blast went off behind him. More than two weeks ago, the fighting started. About hundreds of palestinians and israelis being killed. We will monitor this throughout the day. Thank you for that report. Virginias first couple walked into the courtroom separately. Promoteegedly helped williams products. He is expected to testify under immunity. Turning to another developing story, the issue of whether a state can ban samesex marriage could be one step closer to the supreme court. A federal Appeals Court struck down the ban. State bans on samesex marriage continued to fall across the nation, setting up a likely showdown at the supreme court. Yesterday, it was virginias turn. The majority agree with marriage between one man and one woman and we are disappointed the court would step in. Under state law, such marriages performed in other states are not recognized. They say it infringes on the fundamental right of citizens to marry. Three more cases are pending. In the last year, samesex marriage proponents have more than 20 legal decisions around the nation. Opinion the reasoning behind it could come under the courts decision. It seems inevitable this issue, whether states can ban samesex marriage or it will end up that supreme court. I am not sure it will survive the height and scrutiny. Virginiaex couples in cannot get married right away. The ruling will go into effect later. Lowwage employees are on strike this noon. More than 200 workers walked off the job at several locations around the district this morning. This was the scene outside union station. Some members of congress joined in on the protests. They say the executive order raising the minimum wage to 10. 10 an hour for federal contractors does not go far enough. The senate will vote this afternoon on a bill extending federal infrastructure funding until next spring. Opponents of the bill gathered near the capitol this morning. The school bus crushed by the replica of a falling bridge. They want a deal that funds the highway trust for several years. We are following new developments in the scandal at the veterans affairs. Mcdonnell will replace eric shinseki, who along long report long wait times. Still to come, i am dumbfounded by the situation. What practice landed one lover in jail. To passa sad update along about a deadly plane crash on a Florida Beach. Look outside, pretty warm out there. The suspected sex offender involved in a shootout with new York City Police officers has died. He started firing at officers yesterday when they tracked him down. For moreen a fugitive than two years in a subject of a sex assault case in california. He was profiled on cnns behind. That led to a call revealing his whereabouts. Family and friends are mourning the death of a nineyearold georgia girl. She was walking down a Florida Beach when a small plane made an emergency landing. She and her father were hit. The scene. The family was on vacation. The safety board is investigating the crash. Are stillof people without power this noon after a tornado hit right outside of boston. It was one part of the wild weather that stretched from new england to nevada. Marcy gonzalez has more. Clean up after yesterdays severe weather. More than two inches of rain fell in an hour. Andresult flash flooding mudslides, leaving homes damaged and roads impassable. More flash floods are expected in mexico in new mexico and colorado. The threats sending travelers running for cover. Three more tornadoes touched down yesterday in massachusetts. It included an ef2. 120 mileperhour wind ripped roofs off homes. It flipped cars. It is unbelievable. The first tornado ever recorded there. It is not supposed to happen here. Right now, we are following some breaking news from the mac donalds corruption from Bob Mcdonnells corruption trial. Getting word from Jeff Goldberg about what is happening with the case. We want to tell you what we have learned up until this point. According to our collie, he says this morning the attorney for reen make donnell says theirhe marriage had broken down and they were barely on speaking terms. Court thattold the marine had some sort of relationship with Jonnie Williams that some would consider inappropriate. The lawyer told the court about maureen. She was protective and jealous, citing that relationship. We continue to follow the case throughout the day and update on wjla. Com. We will keep an eye on that story. Niceeather it is so outside. It is all anyone can talk about. It feels like midseptember. Our temperatures are 72 degrees at the noon hour. That is normally what our average low is. We are usually toying with 100 at this time of year. A beautiful time lapse. A gorgeous sunrise. A couple of clouds across the region. Absolutely beautiful. Our airmass is so much drier than it has been in the last couple of days. Spots along the blue ridge still have not broken the 70 degree mark. 68 in winchester. Dulles at 69 degrees. 70 in annapolis. Usually when we talk about dew points in the 50s, we think that is comfortable. We have 40s on the map. It is a very low today. Satellite and radar picture will you generally clear across the region. The big weather maker is in the Nations Capital action. Nations capital section. Midsection. We are keeping our eye on what is happening in the u. S. The first time in a while, we have an area of distressed weather that looks organized. There is a possibility in the next 24 240 eight hours it will be the next tropical storm. If so, its name would be bertha. To the west and a gradual curve up to the north. Is out there and something we will be watching closely in the next couple of days. Sunny, less human. High temperatures will be in the upper 70s to around 80 degrees. Tomorrow, mostly sunny, skies warmer. A little bit we will show you the pleasant conditions are going to stick around through the rest of the work week. To startity is going to increase. We will see a little bit of that on thursday, especially as we head towards the weekend. The humidity will move up and that will bring you a return chance of showers and thunderstorms. A nice stretch of days to enjoy. Midseptember in late july. It does not feel like summer. We are making this a summer for the heroes. We are awarding a 1000 grant to five Washington Area children who are making a difference in the community. This can be through volunteering or organizing service projects. You know an outstanding child, make sure you nominate them. Thursday, july 31. Had to our website, wjla. Com summereuros. Summer heroes. Gone but not forgotten. How a judge ruled against donald sterling, clearing the way for the 2 billion sale of the l. A. Clippers to steve ballmer. His wife made the deal after doctors found he suffered from dementia. He claims his wife deceived him about the medical exams. In other sports news, Stephen Smith apologizing after making a controversial comment about a mastic violence. About domestic violence. By alluding to a womans role in such heinous manners, going so far to use the word provoke in my diatribe. My words came across that it is somehow a womans fault this was not my intent. It is not what i was trying to say. His comment was made in response to the nfls decision to suspend ray rice for the first two games of the season. Rice pleaded guilty to charges incidents inmestic regards to his wife. A florida mother is facing a child neglect child after she allowed her sevenyearold son to walk to a park alone. She thinks he is old enough to do that. Pool,e passed the public someone asked him where his mother was and got worried because sex offenders live in the vicinity. They asked me a couple of questions. I ran off to the park. They called the cops. I do not think i was doing anything wrong. My parents wouldve been in jail every day. Florida has no law that says how old the child must be before they can go somewhere unsupervised. Those decisions are made on a casebycase basis. Godfather of gogo, chuck brown, last album is set to be released on august 19. The chuck round band will tour and do a special tribute to several events. Proclaimed august 22 chuck brown day and a Memorial Park is being created in his honor. Out with its annual list of the 50 most Beautiful People in washington. Topping that list, daniel sikes. Kimberly willingham is the runner up. The first man and first democrat on the list is devin brown and rand paul also made the top 10. Still it is getting a little bit warmer by the end of the week. Thank you for joining us. [dramatic music] [laughs] well. Whats up . Whats up, what up, what up, what up, whats cool . Whats up, how you doin . What up . How are youhow are you, girl . Hey girls, boom hi hi, erika, how are you . You can come on down. [cheers and applause] yeah. 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