The president in no way compromised in this. Some of the allies are already rethinking whether or not they should share information or what kind of information to share with the united states. Late today there were reports surfacing that some of that Sensitive Information came from israel. The white house is not commenting on that. Tap danced when asked directly about that. The reaction is whitespread. The Team Coverage continues now with stephen tschida. What they have had to say about the controversy. There is a lot of concern on the street about the future of the democracy. When you venture in the tourist areas this is a different story. President trumps warm relations with the russians so intimate the Washington Post reports he disclosed top secret information to them. In washington they set up another round of the handwriting on capitol hill. On the street of the city, concern for the future of the country. It makes me nervous. Its reckless. Once you venture out of d. C. There is a different take. Tourists are skeptical. Its a bunch of news stuff. Did he actually do that . When talking to the Trump Supporters its apparent that the white house strategy declaring any unfavorable reporting seems to be paying off. Reporting live. What is the law when it comes to this sort of classified information . Nancy chen has this side of the story. Two questions here. Did the president break the law and did he compromise the national security. We heard that President Trump shared the highly classified intelligence with the russian officials in a meeting in the oval office. The White House Security officials are backing the president saying he was never told where the information came from. The president was meeting with the foreign minister about the terrorist threat. This is the context of the information where it was holy appropriate to share what the wholly appropriate to share what the threat was. Anybody in the government and youd talk about the possibility of a serious crime. The president has the ability as a legal matter to declassify anything. At any time. The c. I. A. Chief mike pompeo set to brief members of the house intelligence committee. We have more and what happens there Hillary Clinton is launching a program called onward together and its aimed to encourage people to get involved, organize and run for office. Tonight the list of candidates to lead the f. B. I. Is dwindling. John cornyn withdrew his name from the conversation. One of seven people that interviewed over the weekend. The congress from South Carolina took himself out of the running yesterday. Larry in north carolina, three people died after an accident with three tractor trailers. This happened in lumberton north of the state line of South Carolina. So you could see its part of carolina. Three other vehicles were involved in the crash. Hurt. New information about the bus accident on i95 in Havre De Grace monday morning. Today four children and a teacher are still in the hospital. The charter bus flipped in a field trip from philadelphia to washington, d. C. Police said the bus was clipped by a car trying to pass him. Larry new developments out of Prince Georges County where the search for a killer is over. They found Kenneth Kelley in a he nel in suitland after receiving a tip. He was convicted of killing five people in a drunk driving accident but never showed up for the sentencing. They never ordered him to wear a g. P. S. Monitor when they granted him bail. He shouldnt have been let out in the first place. He went on the run. A clerical error may be why he wasnt given a monitor. This time around hes not entitled to a bond hearing. Northwest to tell you about. The Police Need Help tracking down an assault suspect this morning. This was in the 1800 block and the man approached a woman about 2 00 in the morning. Pushed her to the ground and grabbed her in an attempt to sexually assault her. If you saw anything police want to hear from you. Bill cosby telling siriusxm host that he likely wont testify in the upcoming Sexual Assault trial. He suggested racism could be behind the slew of the allegations against him. There are so many tentacles, so many different nefarious is a great word. I believe that some of it may be that. Larry jury selection set for next week. Folks could be seen billowing at baltimore at a recycling plant. The fire crews are on the scene to work on the hot spots. The cause is unknown but the investigators do not believe its suspicious. Larry you want to keep water handy tomorrow. The heat will return to the area. Doug hill is in the weather center. Are any records in jeopardy . There are a couple of shots and maybe at dulles to tie or break the record. Last may in 2016 we never hit 90 once for the month. We might do that two days in a row tomorrow and thursday. The humidity levels are still there is southerly wind coming up the water. That is overnight range with the partly cloudy skies. Then the temperatures start to climb. 66 at the bus stop. 82 at the recess. The highs we forecast across the area are 95 in fredericksburg. 93 in washington. We talk about the heat and how long it will last and when the heat goes away and when it comes back in the tenday outlook in nine minutes. Larry with the online flights delta is the best according to the government rankings. The report released today says united and American Airlines are not far behind. For the negatives, Virgin Airlines is the highest rated delayed flight. Spirit airline has the highest consumer complaints. Alison covering metro tonight. For the 15th safetrack surge. This started this morning on the orange line in Prince Georges County. Right now there are five stations closed and they have been replaced by the bus bridges. The transportation reporter Brianne Carter with a check of how things are going. This is just after 5 00. It looks like no one is here. That is the good news. Some didnt go to other stations because they knew nothing about this. The stations shutter for the latest round of the 2446 hour track work. There is no rail service from New Carrollton to stadium armory. The shuttle buses run between the stations. You can just plan to get things got off to a smooth start this morning but we still found folks unaware of the disruption. Smith noticed something wasnt right. He called his wife who was also confused. Get home on a shuttle bus. She did. Only not wanting to wait for the next shuttle, she was headed to another station. Im going to landover so she wont have to wait. Bus should be moving. So the good news is they were able to meet back up. Metro Officials Say this morning that some ajis sant stations not the ones closed were at the capacity for the parking. Folks went to another line to avoid this altogether. Remember this will last a month ending june 15. Stay with metro if there is a problem with metro. Stay up to date at wjla. Com text. If you lived in the house for decades and then they showed up to start put in a sidewalk would you think finally . Or would you think they aric taking my land . Im sam ford. That is next on abc7 news. Days after protest of a Confederate Monument in virginia we look at the cloud the commonwealth cant seem to shake from the past. Kellye im kellye lynn. You wont believe what the great graped grandmother accomplished in spotlight on education. Larry the cicadas are back. But hang on. They werent supposed to be here for a couple more years yet. Horace we have folks here for scal for action. Perhaps you had a car that was a lemon. You dont know what to do. Or there is a problem with a contractor you have hired to work on your home. 7032369220. Calls and help you out. Back to you, larry. Larry all right. Talk to you soon. The type of cicadas respected due back for four years arent due back for four years but people are seeing them in part of the area. Richard reeve is live in arlington where people are feeling the crunch under their feet. Richard . Richard larry, that is right. A producer was kind enough to let us use her backyard. Look at this. You can see the cicadas right here. They are just the shells. Some of them on the tree. We are told this is a preview of what is to come. Last night they emerged from the exit holes. Richard theyre back periodic cicadas which usually emerge from underground every 17 years are making an early showing this summer. Noisy critters werent supposed to appear until 2021. They shed the skin. The males climbing to the tree tops. Noisily trying to attract the eggs falling to the ground. They are bureauing underground and feeding on the trees. Some believe the early show global warming, a natural competition or a way to avoid predators but no one knows for sure. This is what we call acceleration of brood 10. We last saw it in 1984. We expect it for 2021. Trillions of cicadas. Richard back live, look at this little guy actually climbing up. In some cases there are thousands of these in his neighbors trees for example. But others are completely clear. Expect a lot more of this to be happening as the summer goes on. Coming up at 6 00. We will hear from a young woman who has a unique relationship with the critters. Reporting live, richard reeve, abc7 news. Larry i that story. Alison one cicada came out for the closeup to be on the news. Larry curious. Doug what bike red eyes you have what big red eyes you have. Alison yikes feeling like summer. Doug upper 70s to 80. Comfortable humidity levels but it will change tomorrow. Increase in heat and the humidity. Thunderstorms by the end of the week and cooler by the weekend. That is the game plan here. We start with a live look outside. Gorgeous now. Again across the area. We look to nearly cloudless skies off the campus in laurel, maryland. Its gorgeous. But we are keeping an eye on part of the country where it is anything but. The texas, oklahoma panhandle, the southwestern section of kansas. All kind of severe thunderstorm wornings in effect. This thunderstorm warnings in effect. This cell from amarillo to clairidon, texas. Give you a this is what happens when the hot and humid air is unstable from dry area pushing west. Chasers and everyone watching this storm, we have had a number that tried to form up. We havent had confirmed tornadoes yet. We are in peak Severe Weather season. The bulk of the action is 1,500 miles away from us we are in the season, too. Once we get the hot days underway, Severe Weather is always a concern across our region. Meanwhile, back to happy news. Warm temperatures. Comfortably so in the upper 70s to 8 o now. 80 in manassas. 82 in fredericksburg and frederick. 78 in washington. 75 in annapolis. We get through the evening hours, the temperatures will stay mild. This is the mildest night we have had in a stretch with the overnight readings that are dropping in the 60 it. 63, 64. That is the range of the wakeup temperatures with the mainly clear skies. Tomorrow could be a record setter. High forecast record, the forecast record highs tomorrow are in jeopardy at r starbucks was giving away free coffee today. Larry well explain that. How many films can you name that are 75 years old that are generations. There arent many. Alison plus did you hear the programming announcement . Rosanne coming back to abc. The original cast will reignite for eight episodes here on abc7. Larry right now lets look at what is coming up tonight on abc. Alison and Autria Godfrey has a preview of tomorrows good morning washington. Thank you. Tomorrow on good morning washington top secrets exposed. Washington demanding answers. Hoy to get runway clothing at rental prices . Is it worth it . Stay with us for traffic and weather every ten minutes starting at 4 25 on good mornin larry spotlight on education, a great grand mother showing a 79yearold woman after years of work now is a college graduate. All her life she has had a love of learning. I will always have decide to know things. She grew up poor in segregated alabama. At a tame when the Educational Opportunities were hard to come by. At 18 she got married and settled in maryland where she raised three children around worked for government. She decided to pursue college for herself and her family. Its more amazing. The great grandmother earned two Associates Degrees from Prince Georges Community College but she didnt stop there. Five years ago she enrolled from Online Program at the university of maryland to volunteer college. Where she received a bachelor in computer studies. At 79 years old she is the second member of the family to graduate from college. How many people at that age will go back to school . Very few. You can do it. It doesnt matter if you do it in two years or ten. Just work toward having the knowledge is everything. Upper marlboro, kellye lynn, abc7 news. Larry wow she benefited from great tutors over the years. Now she wants to give back and become a math tutor herself. Alison fantastic story. Congratulations. Larry absolutely. Alison definitely. Still ahead right here. We were packed in there like sardines. Alison what a man brought with him to graduation to cause more of a hit than a buzz. In the phone bank today. Experts to help you with the consumer problems. 7032369220. Back with more in a minute. Symbols like this have been standing for decades. Got heated more and more in the recent past. It reinterrupted prodders, shuckersers, and sniffers, [ inhales ] all giant produce is triple checked. Farm, crate, and store. Were focusing on fresh. So you dont have to guess. My giant. Stronger is blasting without risking her bones. Its training her good cells. To fight the bad guys. Stronger is less pain. New hope. More fight. Its doing everything in your power. And everything in ours. Stronger, is changing even faster than they do. Because we dont just want your kids to grow up. We want them to grow up stronger. Alison we are back with an update. We just got this video in the this is of the person there who tried to jump the white house fence. That is video of the person taken into custody. This happened along the north fence which is along pennsylvania avenue. The person did not make it past the bike rack. Larry the Loudoun CountySheriff Office releasing this picture, the scatch. That police say this man grabbed a woman yesterday from behind. This happening on the tall cedar parkway at edgewater street. If you see him give the Sheriff Office a call. Charlottesville debates on what to do with the Confederate Monument. The issue has deep roots in virginia. A candidate for governor is hanging his hat on it. Thursday a meeting will be held on renaming high school general. Northern Virginia Bureau chief Jeff Goldberg is live in alexandria and he is Digging Deeper in the issue. Jeff . The candidate is the republican Corey Stewart and the high school is in fairfax county. There will be heated emotions on thursday. This is the confederate statue in oldtown alexandria. The city council hoping to tear it down for some time but unsuccessful in doing so. Now the heated debate is focused in charlottesville. We live in turbulent times. That debate intensified in charlottesville where altright leader spencer posted this picture on twitter organized the socalled torchlight event. Chants of russia is our friend protesters opposed a City Council Vote to remove the statue general robert e. Lee. The move on hold by the courts. They had a message for the protesters. They dont want to debate. They dont believe much in democracy. They are interested in theat yacht ricks and name theatrics and name calling. We tried to track spencer down today but had no luck. Old town is one of the many places you find statues, roads or schools named for or honoring leaders of the confederacy. It can be hurtful. Anthony shakes his head at those fighting to preserve the confederate heritage. There is more to work toward. He thinks they should remain. You cant erase history beremoving the statute. Last fall the City Council Votedo South Washington street. But they need approval. The city may face similar obstacles. Live in oldtown alexandria, Jeff Goldberg, abc7 news. Alison all right. Thank you. Meanwhile new developments in the wantacry cyber attack. Investigators say there are indications that north korea could have been involved in the ransom wear attack. They have a history of cyber attacks. Famously the sony attack in 2014. No word if the cyber attack had anything to do with the computer problems at starbucks in the u. S. And canada today. Several stores couldnt use computers after some update overnight. As a result, starbucks gave out free coffee to customers. All stores are back up and situation. A new study shows despite increased attention, bullying is prevalent in the middle and the high schools. One out of five students say they were bullied according to a study leased by the justice department. When it comes to students identifying as gay, lesbian, bi or transgender, they were bullied. Alison it has been all over the news and the subject of fiery debate. Socalled transgender bathroom bill. Differing views on which bathroom they should use at school. We know about this. This has very little impact on our daily lives but we are giving you a unique window in the story. 10yearold haze warren was born hazel amelia warren. From a very young age she was never interested in the traditional clothes or but it became clear it was not a phase. A few months ago haze transitioned at 10 years old. He got his hair cut short and wearing boys clothes most people assumed he was a boy. We asked him do you want us to correct them and say you are a girl . He said no, i really like it. I didnt feel as happy with myself when everyone called me she or a girl. But when people recognize me as a boy, who i want to be, i was really happy. Alison so coming up tonight at 11 00, more of what the steps are for haze in the process. How the school is supporting him. Why his family says they are inspired by his strength every day. We hope you will join us for hazes story tonight at 11 00. Larry right now 7 on your side with call for action. Live in the help center to explain. 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More than a new name, a new way of seeing energy. Steve we are going to crank up the heat and the humidity. The highs tomorrow and thursday are in the lower 9 os. The heat index values that will feel several degrees hotter than that. There is a cold fron on friday. Highs saturday 73. 75 on sunday. Take you out to look at the stormwatch7 tenday outlook. The temperatures return back to near arch next week with highs in the 70s. Larry breaking news now where sher dan circle and a protest turned violent. This is a live shot. Tom roussey as you can see is just getting to the scene. What is going on there . Tom there was big dueling protests here. Step out of the way. One side of the protests. One side had folks from the nation of turkey and the other side had flags from armenia and folks in favor of the kurds who live in that section of the world. There is long running beefs and arguments going on between the folks. It erupted in violence here. We have seen the video of the fights well show you in the near future. The fights broke out. D. C. Fire telling us nine people had to be transported to the hospital. You can see the man in custody with the police. Sheridan circle in northwest off massachusetts avenue is completely shut down. We are told out of the nine people who had to be taken to the hospital seven were walking wounded. Not seriously hurt. One person was hurt with nonlife threatening injuries and another person described with the life threatening injuries from the fights that broke out between the dueling protests. Im told the ambassador from turkey lives a short distance between 23rd here and that is why this was the focus of the protests this afternoon it at sheridan circle. Reporting live alison only on 7 a battle brews over a new sidewalk. This is along madison street in northeast d. C. Sam ford went to the neighbor some residents dont want it. Sam the mayors halted the contractors because the homeowners are livider. They are digging in on the property. With no conversing between the government and the ddot. They are talking about the sidewalks they came to start putting in. Its in the front. The city stuck this letter in the gate saying a sidewalk was coming. You dont want a sidewalk . No. For what . She said years ago she planted a bush. They asked where she wanted it replaced . She wouldnt. The contractor is they took all my yard. Any impact on the private property will be restored. That may be the law but for the residents its not neighborly. Who gets asked for a sidewalk . Im sam ford, abc7 news. All right. To be continued. Alison meanwhile, today the Kennedy Center announced David Letterman will get this years mark twain prize for american humor. He looks different these days. He will receive the 20th twain prize in october. He has a beard now. Larry i first saw it, where is the beard . Exactly. We deserved. Speaking of late night he jokes he will never be asked back but the oscar organized dont agree with jimmy kimmel. He will be back to host hollywd you are to be congratulated. Yes, congratulations. Congratulations. Thank you very much. Alison celebrating 75 years since the release of bambi. It took more than five years to make what became animated classic. Last night a special screening was held in hollywood with men who were just boys when they recorded the voices of bambi and thumper. I remember being on the set. I remember going in the sound studios. They were recording it on big disks. Animals get shot and traumatized and they dont get up. Here comes bambis father. Get up. You must get up. I had been shot a couple of times. I remember one of my sergeants saying, think about that for a second. Alison that is donnie who spent decades in the marines. That is what he is talking about there. He was just 6 years old when he was the voice of mamb bambi. So interesting. Larry amazing. Its common for students to decorate the caps and the gowns for graduation but a Texas Southern student decoration was a bit lively, shall we say . Look at this. Denzel young was wearing his 3yearold python to the ceremony at Texas Southern university. He was able to hide the snake under the gown. But the students in the section noticed right away. No use in freaking out. We are packed in there like sardines. Graduation. Nowhere to run. I told everybody hey, this is my graduation. Ill do what i want to do. So im going to bring it. That is what i ended up doing. Larry young says he was known on campus as the guy who brought his snake around. Day on campus. I would get up and run. Alison i know larry ill stand to the side. When you call my name ill jump in line. No way. Alison creepy. We want to show you a different sort of green unveiled in arlington today. This is beautiful. A green wall. Its right inside 1000 wilson boulevard and designed to help filter the buildings air. This is the second largest wall of its kind in the country. Its called a living wall. Its right here in our lobby. Larry i saw them working on it and i didnt understand what it would be. Love it. Doug cool idea. Alison absolutely doug you know what today is . Alison lunchbox weather. Fantastic. Doug a great day, too. Eileen headed to Cherry Run Elementary School in burke this morning for the lunchbox weather program. While there she talked to the fourth graders about what meteorologists do every day and how we get the weather on tv for you. A number of the science experiences that are always a the chasers in amarillo, texas, chasing one there. We took them outside and information about the erwith. The kid chasm was run by holden. We have a weather question from maria. Im maria. Im in fourth grade. Can outer space affect the weather or earth . How . Can it change the environment completely . That is a tough question. Can the weather in space affect the weather . If so, how . Tough question. A lot of answers to give. Best way to describe it is the fact that in space, really doesnt have a huge impact that is local daytoday weather. Whether it affects the climate is under investigation. The sun is driving force for weather on earth. That will be an area of research in the next 15, 20 years there will be more learned. The intersection with the upper atmosphere with the sun and the radiation and the solar heat is a subject that needs to be investigated here. A deep thinking fourth grader. Way to go ja trying to stump you. She was. Alison thank you. Larry check in with erin for sports. Erin the wizards started the season 28, many counted them out but john wall and company turned it all around, eventually made it to the second round of the playoffs. They forced a game seven against the top seed boston celtics. But in the end, they fell short. Players held their exit interviews today. This is what almost looks like. Made a run. We will come back better next year. Erin they almost made it to the first conference finals in 19 years but instead of game planning for game one, they are stuck playing the whatif game. Its crazy to sit here now and say if, if, if. We lost. The season is done. I felt like we were right there. I think that is the worst thing. Especially the day after. Its like man, we should be in cleveland now preparing for them. Its a far too familiar ending for washington. This is the third time the john wall era wizards failed to advance past the second round. Every year you learn. Tired of saying the same thing. We have to do a better job of closing our games. We close the game it would be we have to come back here to fight back. Find a way to win on the road. Erin only time will tell how different the roster will be next season. The biggest question being the return of restricted free agent otto porter. I will give it some time. Give some thought about what will happen this summer. I havent thought about it. The core of the team will remain wall and beal. And who knows . Maybe next year will finally be their year. Next season it will be totally different. We have to remember that feeling we have now. And be better next year. Erin i still have that feeling. So depressing. They had a lead. It was close. Focus on the nats now. Larry have to play defense for 48 minutes. Cmon, guys. Erin didnt look lake the same team. Larry tough. Thanks. Well, you know all about the hearn don climb. Alison but next we take you to at the u. S. Naval academy. Larry join me tomorrow morning on good morning washington. We will be giving away 100 every ten minutes. Yeah the benjamins tomorrow between 6 00 and 7 00 a. M. See ready or not, here i come. Ek. anyone can dream. Making it a reality is the hard part. Northrop grumman command and control systems always let you see the complete picture. And were looking for a few dreamers to join us. Alison the end of the school year means end of plebe status for 1,200 men and women at the u. S. Naval academy in annapolis. But mike carterconneen reports they must first endure a grueling 14hour day of socalled sea trials. Mike like the sea trials are the ultimate test of each Naval Academy plebe class. This is something pumped up. Hyped up throughout the year. Mike the class of 2020 is relieved the first year is almost over. Its really exciting. Big weight off my shoulders. Mike the led by the upper class midshipmen that know firsthand the physical endures and the mental toughest in needed for each challenge. They represent the company and deal with pride. Before the ship goes out to sea, they are going to test sea trials. Between the activities there is very little time for rest. They are expected to run from station to station. If you are a marathon runner, today might not be as hard as for other people but there is a significant amount of running. Up at 2 00 a. M. And going nonstop from 3 00 a. M. To 7 00 p. M. Entire day designed to test the teamwork and reinforce the unit cohesion. The unit with the best performance is recognized with the iron company award, and the first attempt to place a plebe hat at the top of the herndon monument. That event officially sending the plebe year set for monday. In annapolis, mike carterconneen, abc7 news. Michelle break now people were left beaten and bloodied as protests collide in northWest Washington. Jonathan and abc7 exclusive. Guards appearing to dump a woman on the sidewalk and then walk away all outside of a d. C. Hospital. A Daring Rescue at 14,000 feet. Even took my chair out. Put a harness on me with extension strap. Michelle the extreme lengths to get a helicopter to the highest point in the continental united states. From abc7 news, this is a breaking news alert. Jonathan the breaking news now, nine people hurt as protest turns violent. Michelle this is happening in north West Washington near turkish ambassadors residents. Tom roussey is live there now. What is the latest . Well, the president of turkey just came out from the ambassadors residence. Ill get out of the way to show you the crowd here to greet him. Behind the crowd. Itsee the sheridan circle. You can see video from earlier. A fight broke out. You had a big crowd of folks propresident of turkey. Turkish flags. Crowd with armenian flags. Long running beef between the two groups of the people and the countries. It erupted here this afternoon. Who started it is a matter of perspective. But the group im talking to here on the proturkish side said one of the folks were hit with a megaphone and fights erupted after that. We can tell you one person we saw taken to custody. We dont know if he is being charged officially but nine folks had to be taken to the hospital according to the d. C. Fire. One of them with potentially d. C. Fire had life threatening injuries. Another with what are considered serious injuries. We come back here live and there are a lot of police along 23rd northwest off the sheridan circle. Still folks who came out to greet the president of turkey in town for visits to the white house as well