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Night. Leon today, we are finding out that that attack could have been much worse. Michelle we are in dallas with the new information. He said he has a gun, run reporter an emotional glimpse into thursday nights deadly ambush in dallas from one of the survivors. I saw another officer get shot. Right in front of me. Reporter Shetamia Taylor was at the protest downtown with her sons when she was shot in the leg. Saying officers saved their lives. The officer jumped obvious top of me and cover jumped on top of me and covered me. They had no regard for their life. They stayed with us and surrounded my son and i. Reporter she is treated in the hospital, three of the seven Police Officers injured are now recovering at home. Their colleagues still collecting evidence at the scene as investigators reveal new findings about the lone sniper. The Dallas Police chief saying on claimed he wanted to murder white Police Officers, after recent case of Police Killing black men it appears he started planning the attack much earlier. We believe that the deaths in minnesota and the deaths in louisiana just sparked his delusion to fast track his plan. Reporter the chief saying johnson left behind a rambling journal and where he was killed by Police Written the letters r and b in his own blood. We are trying to figure out through looking at things in his home what the initials mean. Reporter the feeling here in dallas is that people are hopeful as they come together while grieving. The first funeral for the fallen officers happens on wednesday. In dallas, abc7 news. Leon well, the days following the dallas shooting a remarkable show of emotional support for Police Departments. Michelle many who are calling for change in the wake of poce protesters we have seen are pleading for compassion and peace. Alison that has spread really all across the nation. Here locally in alexandria. This note left on a police cruiser. A simple thank you note. Someone has gone one step further in beltsville. Brad bell has the 911 call that really caught police offguard. Tell us about it. Brad it happened over the weekend. A guy simply picked up his phone to call police and say thank you. He also said a few more things. We are in his neighborhood. He lives up here in the apartment. We ask chief to show up and say thank you for call were about to play. Curtis felt he had to do something about the way things are in america right now between police and the community. I believe a lot of discourse and dialogue needs to be had. So as a small gesture he picked up hus called the dispatch center to say thank you to the police. You all are really under duress. I dont have a whole lot. But any officers in the vicinity, this is a safe place. Im a minister. I have water and tea. You are welcome to come to this place. I just wanted to say for all the things negative there are good things about Police Officers as well. To get past those things i want to do my part to try to reach out. Brad bean says he sees both sides. He says as a black man in america he has been profiled by police but he wants officers to know they are appreciated. Now the police want him to know the feeling is mutual. That means more to us than they could know. The kind gesture reminds us we have their trust. Brad as we said, chief Hank Stawinski heard the message and he was touched. He is expected out here any minute. When hope to bring you the meeting and share with you the thoughts about the kind gesture. In beltsville, brad bell, abc7 news. Michelle brad, thank you. The protest that started in dallas before the shooting were prompted by twoing doesnts in which Police Officers killed black men in louisiana and minnesota. One of those men Philando Castile was shot during a traffic stop outside of saint paul. His girlfriend Diamond Reynolds turned on Facebook Live and streamed the aftermath. Today he is was on Good Morning America and explained why she immediately turned to facebook. I knew people would choose sides. I knew they wouldnt see me as being the person who would be telling the truth. Because of that, i chose to in that moment record the immediate aftermath because i wasnt able to record in the moment because i didnt want to put m but i knew that by recording i would be able to have my side brought to the table. The officer may be watching this morning. What would you say to him . I would just like to say that im very hurt that he would take my best friend away from myself. And my daughters role model away from her. Its just very unfortunate that things had to resolve like this. I just want justice to be served. Leon the governor of minnesota has been watching this case closely as you might imagine. His name is mark dayton. He said race did play a factor in Philando Castiles death. He said if castile were white he might not have been pulled over in the first place and said there is a double standard when it comes to policing. Families are wondering how to discuss the issue with their children. In black communities part of the discussion includes what to sam ford has that story. Me and my son had a talk the other night. Reporter tyreke is the manager of the barner shop in suitland and the father of 14yearold jayden who hangs around the shop sometimes. The events in equilibrium, minnesota and dallas in the past week seized their attention and made police etiquette if you will an important discussion. I just want him to be respectable. You know what im saying . Be respectful. Do what you are supposed to do and hopefully we dont have to encounter too many police. Sam but for his son, the message in an encounter with police is selfcontrol. Follow instructions. Dont say nothing out of the way. Do what he says. Leave it at that. Sam you figure it will be okay. Hope so. Sam but his dad says he has dealt with irate Police Officers before and wants his son to be prepare and not to overreact. Were still going to have to deal with it one d sam that is how a father who is a barber sees it. For an exd. C. Cop who is also a father, for him its a different story. They should havent to have the conversations. Be respectful. Sam a retired d. C. Cop now part owner of a Security Company said he never had that conversation with his son. You tell your kid when you see the officer on the ground, put your hands on top of your head, throw your hands up, dont shoot. What are you going to tell him . Just be respectful. Sam a dad who was a cop for 27 years. But some, the comfort factor isnt there, story from fathers to their sons. Sam ford, abc7 news. Alison so here at home, people are once again demanding justice for a mentally ill inmate who died in police custody. More than a year ago in northern virginia. A group rallied outside the Fairfax County courthouse just this morning. Protesting the death of 37yearold natasha you might remember the story. She was tased to death while jailed there. They called for the six deputies involved in the death to be fired. Stay with abc7. Even when you are not in front of the tv. We will provide updates on air, online and through the app as we track protests across the country and the breaking news in michigan. And whatever may happen here. Leon . Leon moving on to other news in the war on terror. The u. S. Is increasing its commitment. Sending more troops to iraq. Defense secretary ash carter arrived in baghdad today what where he announced 560 American Forces will help the iraqi forces in the fight. He explained the mission this way. This contingent will help the iraqis establish springboard for their offensive in mosul. Leon mosul has been in the hands of isis for more than to years. A matter of days agoi forces by the u. S. Air strikes were able to retake the air base from isis. Alison british Prime Minister David Cameron is set to resign on wednesday. Resign on wednesday, which is much sooner than thought. He will step down so someone else can see them through brexit. Taking over his spot is teresa may, the first woman to lead the u. K. Since margaret thatcher. Coming up next at 4 00, i didnt take long for criminals to get in on the pokemon craze. First we will tell you what the new app is and the dangers for those using it. Leon are you angry about starbucks raising the prices again . You may feel differently when you find out where some of the money is going. Doug for early july its comfortable outside. Low to mid80s. Comfortable wind levels. The change in the wind direction will change everything. 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Nows the time for a better moment of proof. Ask your doctor about victoza®. Minnesota breaking news. In michigan, three people are dead. Including two deputies and a gunman. One other was hurt. Well follow the story and bring you updates as they available. Leon a wildfire burning out of control. See the pictures here . The flame shooting up the mountainside. 75 miles outside of colorado springs. Firefighters have not been able to put a dont into it. Reverse 911 calls are going out to everyone three miles of the fire and are told to get out of there if they can. Now a new story about the popular app pokemon go. The story of our instapoll is have you played pokemon go . Michelle a lot of people are auking around with their heads buried in their phones. We want to know if you are putting all of your energy into this game. Alison buried more than usual. Police across the nation are warning people about the game. Saying it could make them the victim of a crime. Sam sweeney shows us what is happening. Sam good afternoon. If you were out over the weekend looking at people or jumping in the air and looking like they were playing tennis with their phones you werent alone. There is a brand new app called pokemon go and it is taking over not just the u. S. But parts of australia and europe. The idea of the game is to get gamers off the couch and outside. Its called pokemon go. The whole idea is working. Its now one of the hottest downloads on itunes. The g. P. S. Based game looks similar to google maps and it forces users to travel around the neighborhood, collecting virtual pokemon characters at park, mall, street corners and train stations. It didnt take long for thieves to figure out where people might end up in their neighborhood. This weekend, three people were arrested for robbing gamers of their phone and wallets in missouri. And there is also another case in iowa. Well, now police and nintendo are urging parents to go out with their kids. For older kids and even adults to tr friends. Especially to new and up familiar places. We have reached out to several Police Departments across the d. C. Area. None of them have been able to confirm whether there have been any robberies related to the brand new app over the weekend. Reporting in gaithersburg. Im sam sweeney, back inside to you. Michelle the pokemon go phenomenon is out of control. There has been a surge of trespassing there. Parents should encourage the children to avoid the actions for their safety and enjoy the game responsibly. Leon okay. Michelle the police are getting involved. Clearly its an issue. Leon have you played it . Alison i havent. Michelle i know people who have. It seems like its really addictive. You want to keep going. Alison i saw somebody put on twitter hey, this is the first time i have been outside in that is the positive. The side they are trying to push, that people would get out. Leon good idea. Get off the couch. Michelle time for a check of the traffic situation. Angela foster joining us in the abc7 traffic center. How is it looking out there, angela . Angela relative decent start for the afternoon rush hour, michelle. We are looking at building volume around the area. Get out of town roll call for folks heading out of the city. Its toward the capital beltway. That is where you will see the brake lights there. We had a crash blocking the right side of the roadway, adding to the congestion woes. If you are making a city to the park, drivers are stalled on the br one of the travel lanes. We have delays in both directions on the southeast southwest freeway. We are getting wrd of a crash on the capital beltway out of bethesda. Of course, the inner loop is crawling toward bethesda. Delays starting at the dulles toll road as you cross the American Legion bridge. Checking the major interstates heading from the capital beltway. Interstate 66, we dont have major problems to report. There are delays that are starting inside the beltway. West falls church as you make your way to 495. You are heavy and slow. Southbound 95. Once you leaf the springfield mixing bowl. That is the latest on the roads for now. Back to you. Alison thank you, angela. A stellar discovery for nasas hubble space telescope. This starlike cluster here is a dwarf galaxy. Situated 14 million light years away from us. The nearby gi feeling gas from the dwarf galaxy and it is preventing new stars being born in the dwarf galaxy. Leon so there is crime in space. You cant escape it no matter where you go. Doug 14 million lightyears away. Think about how far it is. That is traveling at 186,000 miles per second. For 14 million years. That is the existence that has but its gone now. Alison hard to fathom. I know. Michelle the weather is great. Doug gorgeous. Early july, temperatures in the 80s, and low humidity. Enjoy it. The winds will be turning more to the southeast for the rest of the week to bring us higher temperatures and humidity levels and a chance of showers and thunderstorms. A live look the high school in laurel. Gorgeous. Comfortable weather. If you are Outdoor Dining in town or even on your own porch or backyard, you will have perfect weather. Light winds. Low humidity levels. Temperatures are dropping to the middle to the lower 80s. Enjoy it. It will be kind of sticky again. The dew point is the real temperature in the summertime exactly. Temperatures in the 80s. Dew point in the 50s and 60s. That means its comfortable. Later in the week the dew points is 70 degrees. That is where you will feel the oppressive level of heat and humidity. I will feel like its close 100 degrees again later in the week. Tonight clear and mild. 64 to 71 degrees. Clear skies tonight. Pick up a couple of fair weather clouds tomorrow. Maybe isolated thunderstorm, too, in the afternoon. Especially in the western zone. We get through the day wednesday probably a better chance by wednesday afternoon on scattered showers and thunderstorms. Across different p the next seven days, see the temperatures slowly ramp up tomorrow and wednesday and in the 90s. Even a stray shower in the forecast for friday. So, pretty much the next seven days at one percentage probability of another, there will be a chance of scattered showers or thunderstorms. Really think more about august than july. Its long ago i stopped worrying about why things happen the way they do. Michelle even though it is comfortable outside today, who could turn down a free slurpie . Its july 11. That means they are free at 7eleven. Convenience store celebrates the birthday every year giving away free slurpies. This year marks the 89th birthday. The free slurpies end at 7 00. Get there soon. We have one not far away. I could walk. Alison i saw someone walking with one coming into work. A leon who knew that 7eleven was 90 years old . Alison good point. Leon coming up at 42 00 one of the worlds top golfers is passing on rio. Why Jordan Spieth is withdrawing from the olympics. Alison we told you about starbucks raising their prices soon. Well let you know where some of the extra money is going and let you decide if its worth it after this. Michelle we continue to follow breaking news out of southwestern michigan. Four shots at a courthouse. Two deputies are dead. Stay with abc7 for updates throughout the evening. But how did we end up here . His mom thought he had the flu and that he was covered by the meningococcal meningitis. Vaccine he had received. Until 2014 there were. No vaccines for meningitis b in the u. S. Now there are. While uncommon, meningitis b can. Lead to death within 24 hours. Trumenba is a vaccine for 10 through 25 year olds to help prevent group b meningococcal disease. Trumenba should not be given if you had a severe allergic reaction after a previous dose. Most common side effects were injectionsite pain, fatigue. Headache, muscle pain, and chills. Ask your doctor about. All the risks and benefits of trumenba and tell them if youve received any other meningitis b vaccines. Meningitis b can be spread by typical sharing behaviors. A spoon. A kiss. It all started here. It might have been prevented with trumenba. Ask your doctor about trumenba. Alison 7 on your side is after popular breakfast taken off the shelf. They are recalling the crusties blueberry pancake mix. The company says the blueberry nugget in the mix is made with a flour that was recalled. Remember that . By general mills. Over possible e. Coli contamination. If you brought it. Call the Consumer Relations Team to receive a refund. Alison here is a story that will perk up starbucks employees. In a memo sent to all u. S. Employees, c. E. O. Howard schultz announced a wage hike. They will l stock awards for employees who have been there for two or more years. So altogether the changes will boost between 515 . Leon golfer Jordan Spieth burst onto the scene a couple of years ago and quickly rose to the top of the world ranking. At number three, he would have been the biggest star at the rio games but he is not going citing health reasons. He is expected to speak on it tomorrow. Each of the top four golfers in the world are avoiding rio. Other news from the sporting world. Tim duncan of the San Antonio Spurs is retiring. Quietly dominant over 19 years. He will go down as one of the nba greatest. He was selected to 15 allstar teams and most importantly, won five world championships. Just ahead on abc7 news at 4 00 a local woman wants to know what happened to her car. Weeks after she bought it, it disappeared. It wasnt stolen. She called 7 on your side to try to unravel the the metro commuter buses are busy as another metro track surge begins tomorrow. Im jeff goldberg. We will tell you why this one is different. Thats coming up. Michelle also we continue to follow the breaking news out of southwestern michigan. Four shot at a courthouse there. Two deputies dead. Stay with abc7 for updates throughout the evening. Ow. Are you okay . Yeah, i just got charged for my credit monitoring. Thats how i know its working. Ah. You know you can go on creditkarma. Com and check it out there. Its completely free. Really . Yeah oh, that didnt hurt at all. Yeah, completely painless. Credit karma. Give yourself some credit. Announcer from abc7 news this is a breaking news alert. Scott this is scott thuman in the newsroom. With the breaking news update. Out of southwestern michigan where two bailiffs have been killed at the courthouse close to the indiana border. Two bailiffs and a Deputy Sheriff wounded. We understand the disturbance, the local tv report began on the third floor of the courthouse. There was a shootout and the gunman was killed in that shootout. This is according to governor rick you can see Law Enforcement trying to assess the situation. But the threat has beenrallized at this point. Four been neutralized. Four people shot, two bailiffs killed and a deputy rushed to the hospital who is in stable condition according to the local media. We will have more at the top of the hour at 5 00. The breaking news coming in the newsroom. Back to you. Leon thank you. Michelle we keep going from one tragedy to the next. Thousands of americans continue to protest against police brutality. Alison the protest sparked by the recent killings of two black men by officers prompted Community Leaders to hold meetings, town halls and discussions all across the nation. Leon even here. Elizabeth hur show us some of the protests that continue. Reporter calls for peace from knoxville to philadelphia and across the country. Protests. We ask that you bless them. Reporter with the nation on edge. People feeling hopeless, people feeling hopeful, people feeling disrespected. Reporter emotion on overdrive following the Police Shooting death of alton sterling in louisiana, Philando Castile in minnesota and the five Police Officers gunned down in texas. [gunfire] over the weekend rallies turning violent like this one in saint paul that injured almost two dozen officers. Authorities say that thousands of demonstrators block highways and bridges from los angeles to baton rouge are staying peaceful. The communities and the city leaders are searching for the community. You see an abundance of white people as well. Because of that, its to tell everybody this is a united nation. Our community leader, or police, protesters, our citi our support as we resolve and move forward together. Reporter the attorney announced he is recusing himself from the alton sterling case. Citing a professional relationship he had with the parents of one of the officers involved. We are told the investigation will be handled by the justice department. In new york, im Elizabeth Hur for abc7 news. Michelle stay with abc7 even when you are away from the tv. We will provide updates on air, online and through the apps as we track protests across the country and if any popup here. Doug is back with us. What a great way to start off the week. Doug not a lot of july days like this in washington. Temperatures are comfortable. Its comfortable. Not particularly hazy. We are looking at the udvarhazy center near dulles. You can see the blue ridge. Great visibility. Enover if minute. You will enjoy every couple of days. The winds will turn south. That will raise the humidity levels a little bit here. As far as numbers go, 84 at 7 00. 76 at 11 00. It will drop to 70 by morning. 60s in the suburbs. The next few days we will see the wind change. It will become warmer and more humid. Upper 80s tomorrow. Wednesday, a slight chance of thunderstorms tomorrow. Better chance on thursday. Still a chance on wednesday. Better chance in the wednesday night thursday time frame. You will notice a big jump in temperatures between tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday where we get back in the 90s. Keep 93 in the forecast for friday. Only an isolated shower chance there. We will begin the weekend. 30 chance. Warm and sticky near 90 degrees. Might back off to the upper 80s. Pure summer weather but at the beaches for the next seven days. Leon . Leon good. Now, she had her car for six weeks and she went out to jump in it an alison it wasnt stolen. The bank had not repossessed it. What happened . Michelle our viewer called 7 on your side and troubleshooter Horace Holmes looked into the twisted tale. Horace bennett couldnt have been happier when she purchased her first car. On the website. A good looking car s. U. V. Perfect to get her three small children to daycare and her to work and back every day. There is nothing wrong with the car. It was fine. Horace everything was fine for six weeks. It wasnt stolen. I automatically assumed that the bank had it. Horace just two weeks late on the payment. But the bank told her they didnt have my car. Horace she called rockville auto. The bank held the lien on the loan and told her they werent looking to repossess. They were looking for answers. Took the car. Horace he says he worked for the company for 11 years. They do a Good Business. I dont think it is. You dont think its a Good Business . No. Why not . Because [inaudible] horace but she came here a few weeks before to us get the personal belongings out of the car. But rockville auto said they moved it to a used car lot a couple of miles away. We found the doors locked. The lot empty. And signs on the windows advising customers with questions to call telephone number. Which by the way, belongs to the rockville auto group. Now nobody answers the phone there. So where are all the many of them were towed away by the bank finances rockville auto. The same company that financed bennetts auto loan. But west lake insist they dont have her car and doesnt have it now. Nowhere on the account does it say anything about repossession. Horace she has to catch uber or bus every day to get to work and get her kids to school and back home. 7 on your side wasnt able to get her money back. But they agreed to refund her first car payment and pay her for two car seats she left in the car when it was taken. In all 800 she can use to another car. Im grateful for that. Thank you. Horace i feel bad we couldnt do more. Bennett got 800 and west lake has forgiven the loan. That is a good thing. She is still out the 2,500 she paid for the down payment. At this point, ne side has been able to find rockville auto or bennetts car. If there is something you want us, 7 on your side, to look into, call the tip line on the screen. Or send usen email to tips wjla. Com. Leon nice work. 7 on your side now with a help matter report. About the dangers of the teens and ecigarettes. The ecigarette shootage led to nicotine use that hasnt been seen since the 1990s. Alison metro transitioned from three to four overnight. The difference is one station but the impact is larger. No trains will make it from the city to the national airport. Jeff goldberg is at the Pentagon City station. This is definitely hav huge impact. Jeff huge impact. Because you have so many more passengers going to the airport from the north than the south. Here at Pentagon City well see commonly, the last week in stage three as people get off the metro and going to express shuttles to get them to braddock road that was critical in surge three. It will be critical in stage four starting tomorrow. Surge four, rather. It will last for seven days. Metro will close the blue and yellow line between Pentagon City and reagan airport. It will impact 85,000 trips a day. Phase three wrapping up today. Closing the yellow and the blue lines between airport and braddock road. But its more of an inconvenience for travelers. Metro says six times more customers access the airport from the north than they do from the south. We spoke from the local commuters. Not necessarily travelers preparing to adjust for the week ahead. Yeah, it i had to pay for parking today and friday i had to pay for a taxi. Getting up earlier and getting home later. The crews are out there working around the clock and doing work they couldnt do without having one of these shutdowns. Jeff here is this. Metro wants the commuters to go from Pentagon City to the airport and braddock road. They want the localized commuter buses between Pentagon City, crystal city and the airport to be designated for travelers. They know the commuter buss to the airport will be busy and crowded. So if your commuter is going through Pentagon City and braddock road, go on the commuter buses that bypass the airport entirely. Let the shuttle buses through the airport. Be for people using the airport. Live in arlington, jeff goldberg, abc7 news. Alison thank you. Reminder for those who have not done it yet, sign up for metro text alert logging on to wjla. Com text. You can just text the coming up i suffer from shortterm memory loss. Alison maybe is why so many have been back to see finding dory over and over again. Coming up, the Box Office Record it has helped disney shatter. Michelle still ahead facebook tracking software is not just tracking your web browsing. How it tracks your movements and how to turn it off. Im heading to the newsroom to prepare for abc7 news at 5 00. We have obtained a powerful video. A man comes to the rescue of a person being beaten in attempted robbery. Where it happened and what the person who shot the video is saying at 5 00. Alison between finding dory, utopia and the sungal book Walt Disney Pictures is having a successful year. Finding dory brought in 50 million at the worldwide box office. That helped disney break a record set last year. Disney reached 5 billion globally faster than the previous record holder, universal studios. Wrapped up their season in celebratory fashion. They returned home after stunning france to capture the first ever european championship. What makes it more impressive . They won despite the star player Cristiano Ronaldo exiting early due to injury. The win stopped france from threepeating. That was huge all right. Next for us on abc7 news at 4 00 facebook is tracking you not just online but in real life. The information is com michelle backing to breaking news from michigan where two deputies were shot and killed at the courthouse in the southwestern part of the state. The gunman is also dead. We learned in the last ten minutes one other deputy was injured. According to a sister station reporting from the scene there. This is video of the scene from a few minutes ago. We understand the situation is under control according to the governor. We are hearing that the injured deputys condition has stabilize so that is some good the past week. We are working to gather information on potential motive for the shooting. That is not clear at the moment. Well have much more and an update on this story right here at abc7 news at 5 00. Alison meanwhile, facebook is being sued by an israeli rights group for 1 billion. Now this is on behalf of victims of attacks carried out by hamas. The claim is that the social networking site provides militant groups with a platform for spreading violence. Arguments include its a violation of the u. S. Antiterrorism act because hamas can apparently spread messaging there on facebook. Israel is trying to contain what it sees as incitement online. Michelle privacy advocates are worried about the facebook latest tracking software. Its not just cookies and your Online Movement but the physical movements as well, where you are and where you shop. Consumer reporter john disable it so you dont waste your money. John if you are on facebook, the site knows a lot about you, your friends and interest. Now its keeping tabs of where you are. Some people find that scary. We are now entering a world predicted in the minority report. Welcome back to the gap. John in it, tom cruise walks in stores and is instantly recognized and targeted. It sounded far fetched until now. For some generations that is really uncomfortable. John they are talking about the facebook new tracking feature. Using your phones Location Services it targets users nearby a store and then tracks to see if you visit that business. Another thing that facebook will know about you. Created a huge fatprint for yourself and facebook is taking advantage of that. John the logical next step is to push alerts on your phone as you enter a store. You will get a push notification to your phone that says oh, John Matarese checked in here. Or there is a special deal on shoes. John some are okay with that. If they target it toward me, its fine. But others are creeped out. You dont like the idea . Not at all. Its too much. Before you get too panicked there is good news. One facebook insists it will keep you anonymous when it shares the data with stores. Two, you can turn it off. Facebook does allow you to lock services. Go to the Facebook Settings and click drop down under privacy. Go to setting and look for ads. Choose no. Facebook will no long and target you. I like being able to choose if i want that information out there. John a simpler option turn off the Location Services completely. Unfortunately that interferes with mapping, weather and driving apps that knead your exact need your exact location. Good to show so you dont waste your money. Im John Matarese, abc7 news. Michelle all right. Storm watch. We dont want to hear about storms. Doug no we want to talk about the weekend michelle we love it on a monday. Alison talk about it on monday. Steve in the summertime and you like the heat and humidity, its a break for the upcoming weekend. Between now and then well watch closely for you. A lot of people going to the pools. 80s. Mostly sunny skies until 8 30 when the sun will set. Winds are about 3 miles per hour. Tomorrow, dress comfortably. More humidity. Chance for thunderstorm, highs in the upper 80s. Best chance for the showers and the thunderstorms west of we have city open on saturday. Temperatures are 80 by midmorning. 87 by 1 00. This is on saturday. Comcast filmfest. At Old Town Alexandria on the water front. Saturday is around 8 30. Its free. Go enjoy. Going to the delmarva beaches. Friday is 90. Added clouds on saturday. Chance for a thunderstorm or two. 87. On sunday we are in the upper 80s. The water temperatures moving upward. That is good news if you like to get out there and twim in the ocean. I swim in the ocean. Take you out to look at the next seven days. If you are staying closer to home, a mini heatwave with temperatures 90 degrees for three days in a row. 94 on thursday. 93 on friday. Upcoming weekend, temperatures around 90 degrees. A chance for a few thunderstorms. Nighttime lows in the 70s. Alison okay. Sorry you dont like the ocean. Steve i know. Alison coming up next here at abc7 news at 4 00 we will show you how hundreds of volunteers at Arlington National cemetery, but they are not just anyone. We show you who answered the call to ensure that the grounds are always in top sha when you have type 2 diabetes, like me, hi, im dominique wilkins. Theres a moment of truth. And with victoza®, a better moment of proof. Victoza® lowers my a1c and blood sugar better than the leading branded pill, which didnt get me to my goal. 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Taking victoza® with a sulfonylurea or insulin may cause low blood sugar. The most common side effects are headache, nausea, diarrhea, and vomiting. Side effects can lead to dehydration, which may cause kidney problems. Nows the time for a better moment of proof. Ask your doctor about victoza®. Michelle hundreds of volunteers have been giving back at Arlington National cemetery. John gonzalez shows us who and how. John a Beautiful Day for landscaping. The renewal and remembrance event here on the hallowed grounds of Arlington National cemetery underway. Look at the activity going on behind us. As you walk or drive along the more than 600 acres here at arlington. You will see the folks in the green vest. Vollen tears. Hundreds of them. Landscapers, veterans, even with their children volunteering their hard work and their time. They are doing everything from cutting the grass, close to the tombstones here. They are trimming trees and laying bricks and fixing the roads here. Busy day. But its all for a good call. Lets talk to john jaes retired army veteran. Its very special, john. At the end of the day for us its all about service. When we wear the uniform of the United States army or navy or the Marine Corps Air force we are in service for 330 million americans. Here today, we have 400 professional landscapers from 31 states. We can provide a day of service to help unify the grounds for brothers and sisters below the headstones. For the volunteers here its a way to say thank you to the more than 400,000 Service Members laid to rest here. In the busiest time of year for landscapers, they have no problem coming out and spending their day at such a special place. Back to you inside. Leon tonight, after a week full of shock, anger and retribution, the Little Things make a difference for local police, including a heartwarming 911 call. A fever is spreading and your kids are probably under its sp abc7 goes on a pokemon go adventure. And a man all alone he calls 911 for help. That never arrives. Side said spoke with the solved the mystery of the lost call. Announcer from abc7 news, this is a breaking news alert. Leon we begin with the breaking news we have been following from western michigan. Two bailiffs kill and a deputy injured at a courthouse. Scott thuman tracking information from the live desk. Scott several civilians were injured in the shootout that began Late Afternoon in the courthouse. This is not far from the indiana border. Some of the reporting is coming out of south bend where they claim that reports indicate a man was essentially headed to jail. He was going to go to jail. Perhaps he got a gun away from a bailiff or a deputy and that is how it all escalated two bailiffs shot and killed. A Deputy Sheriff also shot. He has been sent to the hospital in stable condition. Were hearing that several civilians were injured in the shootout. Eventually the gunman himself was killed. The governor says the scene is completely secure. As we see in the video the Law Enforcement is on the scene with a heavy presence. But not running around. It looks like the threat has been removed and it was just one lone gunman. Other reports indicate it happened on the third floor of the courthouse that might lead you to believe the gun was taken from someone allowed inside the courthouse there. This is something that is still breaking. We are waiting for new information that comes from authorities there. They planned a 6 00 p. M. Press conference. We keep an eye on that one as we try to determine more. There is no correlation evident at this point that it has anything to do with what we saw in dallas, or from th