We will be sending it back to you in studio but kevin lewis life in chevy chase. Maureen thank you, kevin. More breaking news. This time in frederick county. A person has died and another was flown to the hospital after a headon collision between a. T. V. And an survivor. A. T. V. And s. U. V. Both victims were in on the a. T. V. Those in the s. U. V. Are treated but expected to be okay. Leon this is the first weekday test for Metro Safetrack plan. Maureen this morning the commute seemed to be okay other than confusion at the ballston stop. We want to know how it is going for the evening commute. Leon find out with the transportation reporter. Brianne carter has been up with the rider since this morning, live at the foggy bottom with how it is going. How does it look out there . Brianne well, at this hour, what we expected, some slowdowns and delays for riders. But many saying that that is what they expected this morning. And again but metro general manager stressing this is just day three of more than 300 when it comes to safetrack. Per flexed perplexed passengers on the first weekday of the safetrack singletracking. I thought washington, d. C. On that side. I went to that side. Then i heard silver on this side. So we came on this side. Brianne even with the metro employees directing riders downtown washington, d. C. On this side. Brianne many were caught offguard when it came on which platform they needed to be on to catch the correct train. Abby took the bus to her station to avoid commuting chaos. I chose to take it today. Usually i walk but it takes longer and i want to get here earlier. I will probably stay at work an hour longer so i miss the rush. This is the first day. Ref learning on the curve as well as we are learning on the curves as well as the customers. Brianne on the train west of ballston. The system wide dip was just 1 . Metro officials hope for repeat tomorrow. I want toial everyone. Whatever you did today do tomorrow. As for what is happening at ballston, we understand that talking to the general manager he has more people to clear up the confusion. They will look at having additional people in the offpeak hours. But they are stressing this is day three. We continue this until next thursday. Then it is on to the next phase. There are 15 different safety surges part of safetrack. Reporting live, brianne carter, abc7 news. Leon thank you. Safetracks impact wont be limited to commuters. Businesses all around the region will also feel the impact. Those located near busy metro station fear a drop in foot traffic. Others say midnight closures on friday and saturday night will mean mo the Greater Washington board of trade is working with the businesses on a game plan. Part of the advice is communicate. They are still open for business in safetrack. Communicate you may have specials or there may be opportunities to shift appointments if you are an pointment related business. Understand what safetrack is about. Leon uner is reporting increase in its business. So get all the safetrack information you need on the special information page we have on wjla. Com. You can also get updates, text directly to your phone. Text metro to 43817 to sign up. Maureen . Maureen a bartender run over because of a 33 tab. That is the tab the police say a hitandrun driver ran out on at a rockville restaurant. The woman. Montgomery county reporter kevin lewis has the story you will see only on 7. What if the bar tender had a child or even gauged . A human being. Run her over because of a bill. Kevin millers ale house, scene of a dramatic dine and dash. Police say 22yearold tracy and Three Friends entered the sports bar, racked up 33 tab and left without paying. A female bartender chased the collegeage kids in the parking lot but tracy was already behind the wheel. She threatened to call the cops so tracy hit the gas and plowed into the woman who hit the cars hood and tumbled in the street. No good. They ought to be put away for a long time. They took off. Wow im flabbergasted. She could ha 33. A Howard CountyCollege Student and babysitter. Despite visible car damage her father says his daughter is innocent. This woman had fractured bones, contusions, bruised lung. How else would she get the injuries . You believe this is a Conspiracy Theory against your daughter . I think [inaudible] kevin Staff Members here say that the injured bartender moved back to los angeles to be closer with family while on the mend. For Tracy Carillo she faces 23 years in prison on charges of firstdegree assault and theft. Reporting in rockville, im kevin lewis, abc7 news. Leon new developments in ohio where charges will not be filed against the mother of a young boy who fell in a gorilla exhibit at the cincinnati zoo. Prosecutors say there was no evidence that the woman was negligent with her 3yearold boy ran off. The boy climbed a fence and fell in enclosure. A zo the gorilla to save the child. Maureen as we reach the final two in the race for the white house, a website is canceling advertising deal over Donald Trumps controversial contract. Today is the first day of ramadan. How a company allows their employees to observe coming up. Leon plus, Tropical Storm colin moves across florida. A look at what is happening south. Doug clouds moved in some part of the area but its delightful. We look ahead to the next seven days still to come on abc7 news at 6 00. Know youre budgeted for the expected, and the unexpected. Know that at least the process of buying a new home can be clear and simple. 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The campaign underscores the dangers and the difficulties the journalists face around the world. This is just the second time in the newseum eightyear history no n displayed outside. Inside the newseum, the roanoke tv crew gunned down in a live report was honored today as the newseum rededicated the journalism memorial. The name of reporter Alison Parker and photographer adam ward were added to the wall along with those of 18 other journalists killed while covering if the news in 2015 and their names and photos join 2,200 others on the memorial. Leon a big week in the race for the white house. Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton needs just 23 delegates to become the first woman to lead major party ticket. She is expected to become the democratic nominee when the polls close tomorrow night. Clinton and senator Bernie Sanders are still campaigning in california tonight. Sanders says he hopes to upset clinton in the stit and give the campaign in the state and give the campaign enough momentum. There are reports that obama may wednesday. Buzz need is ending relationship saying that donald trump is opposed to the freedom of the site employee in the united states. They go on to write, we dont run cigarette ads because theyre hazardous for our health and we wont accept trump ads for the same reason. They say it is a business decision and wont affect the coverage of the trump campaign. The r. N. C. Spokesman said they never intended to use buzz feed ad space. Politico is reporting buzz feed already had strained relationship with the trump campaign. Maureen on this first day of ramadan, see how a local Construction Company is making it easier for employees to observe on the job. Will this week bring more rain . Doug is back with what to expect. In this modern day coliseum a group of gladiators carrying on their shoulders the legacy of a nation, and. 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Maureen our amy aubert caught one a local Construction Company doing everything it can to allow muslim workers observe on the job safely. Amy gerald knows what it is like to work in the heat. Look how heavy it is. Amy the field superintendent observed ramadan for 16 years. When it comes to fasting from sun up to sun down, he knows what to expect on the job. I know how to judge my body, drink plenty of fluids and watch the temperature and everything. Amy his boss also observations the month. And says safety is their top priority. Go home every day. That is a motto that we talk about. Amy they are handing out breathable shirts and extra towels. Especially for those employees working in the heat. Fasting throughout the month. Those observing also encouraged to pray throughout the day. Banniker workers tell me for the entire 30 days of ramadan they can pray anywhere they feel comfortable on the job site. My lord sustain me throughout the day and sustain everything i do. To give him his due time is very important to me. Amy the company says seven employees observe ramadan. Muslim person comes to our company and says hey, look. I like to pray in the middle of the day and i fast in the month of ramadan. As the president of the company to offer these type of things its, it mean the worldor me the world to me. Amy amy aubert, abc7 on floridas governor declared a state of emergency as the Tropical Storm colin tropes torrential rain drops torrential rain in the state. Flooding is expected but the rain is welcome news. Ok whatter ifs across the aquifers are low on water. This is the fifth day of hurricane season. Already getting action. Maureen too much water for them. Doug the good news is colin is moving quickly for the gulf Tropical Storms. It will be heavy rain but get in and out in the next 24 hours. Get started with a look here. High clouds around the area. Comfortable temperatures and humidity levels. The numbers are in the low to mid80s. Sunshine through the high clouds. The temperatures are very comfortable. Low to mid80s now. The pollen count is not so comfortable. High grass pollen and mold spore. Weed in low category. Moderate for the free pollen in the region. Before the clouds moved in Reagan National. There are the averages. June is turning out to be a mild month. Andrews is at 82. 82 at Reagan National airport. Through the everything, we will see just high clouds at times. The temperatures will be comfortable. Mild temperatures. In the city we think late tonight in the mid70s. Overnight, in the city very close to the 70degree mark. We will see upper 60s in the suburban areas. No rain expected tonight. The winds are 5 to 10 Miles Per Hour range. To the north we have showers. We will deal with these tomorrow as a disturbance that we call a trough of low pressure. That will move in tomorrow. We have sunshine. In the afternoon we may have scattered showers and the storms to hit mid80s. This band of clouds extending south to the rain area that produced by the Tropical Storm colin. Not the most unusual looking storm because there is no can see on this satellite image. On the visible satellite. A little better circulation. Most circulation is on one side. Its rammedly moving out. That is key. That said, the torrential rain now along the coast. St. Augustine through jacksonville and hilton head to savannah and charleston. That area will get more heavy rain in the next 12 to 18 hours. The track and the information. Top wind is 50 Miles Per Hour. There is the center. All the rain is here. That will track northeast at 17, 18 Miles Per Hour. Now is up to 23 Miles Per Hour. It will be a quick mover. That is going to keep the rain down. Some areas will get four or five inches of rainfall before its offshore. It will weaken quickly by the end of the week over the oakland water of the atlantic. Tomorrow sunshine. Then a chance of the afternoon showers and the thunderstorms. Breezy with a sprinkle possible wednesday. Cooler and 76. Beautiful thursday and friday. 78 to 80 degrees. Just a chan thunderstorm on saturday. 84. Pleasantly warm and comfortable through sunday and monday. That is the latest. Back to you. Leon all right. Erin everyone has their favorite muhammad ali story. We have heard several in the last few days but not one like this. A pro boxer had a premonition. Job will want the novec team hits the home field to score big with Energy Savings. Bob readies a power strip to turn off items when not in use. Carol signals bob to use an led lightbulb. Bob gives the nod. The energyefficient led is put into play. Oh, wait, theres a runner on the move, turning the power strip off the novec team has hit Energy Savings out of the park. Novec, your notforprofit electric cooperative, providing winning ways to save. Erin local pro boxer Anthony Peterson crossed paths with muhammad ali after mike tyson fight in 2005. Little did he know 11 years later he would have a premonition about the greatest of all time. I am muhammad ali. Erin Anthony Peterson says he grew up idolizing muhammad ali. I started learning about ali in 1992. I was seven years old. In foster care. I was watching cartoons in one room. And my other brother is watching tv in the other room. I hear a man, i am the greatest. His voice sounded so confident. I wanted to see who that was. Erin but this pro boxer insists his connection to ali is even more profound. I had a premonition. It st but it started to get heavier and heavier as time went on. I had to share it with people that i knew. Everyone peterson said ali came Erin Peterson said ali came to him in a dream. It was so real. He came to me and talked to me and told me it would happen. I came to everybody and told them. Like yo, ali is going to die in a few days. I am telling you, i was serious. They are like why do you say this . This is sometimes last week, early last week. I text everybody i knew. We are about to lose the great one. Be ready. Erin anthony says he has many socalled premonitions. Unfortunately this one came true. A lot of things that i see, have premonitions on i never speak on it. When i speak on it, somehow it comes to reality. This is a reality i didnt want to face. Erin that is pretty powerful stuff. As we m clinton, Bryant Gumbel and Billy Crystal are giving eulogies on friday. Leon if he has a premonition about the power ball let me know. Maureen he is not your fortune teller. Please. Leon hook a brother up. Doug the next seven days, lucky seven. Tomorrow is partly seven. Warm and 84. Chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Breezy on wednesday. 76. Cooler thursday and friday with the sunshine. Looking ahead to the weekend. Partly to mostly sunny saturday. Could be isolated thunderstorm or two in the afternoon. Sunshine on sunday and monday. Brian van de graaff is in for steve tonight at 11 00 and he will check out the chance of rain over the weekend and talk about the cooldown for the middle of the week. Maureen looking forward to that. World news tonight with david muir is coming up next. Leon see you at 11 00. As we come on the air tonight, a state of emergency. The Tropical Storm about to hit. Major flood warnings and watched from the south, stretching up the east coast. Bracing for tornadoes and blinding rain. Also breaking, donald trump on the phone with his key supporters, talking about the judge born in indiana with mexican heritage. Trump doubling down on what he said. Tonight, muhammad alis daughter now sharing personal photos, just as the list grows of the dignitaries now expected in louisville to honor the greatest. Growing anger tonight over this college swimmer, convicted of sexual assault, now sentenced to six months in jail. Why what his father said is now causing outrage, and the victims post, now read by millions. And the air scare. Firen