In favor of d. C. Statehood. The state of vermont which i represent has about the same number of residents that washington, d. C. Has. Except we have two United States senator and one congressman. D. C. Does not. There is something wrong with you. Not very good. Richard sanders is painfully obvious about the thought about the d. C. Statehood and very blunt in his speech about trump saying he feels that trump would be a disaster if he was elected president. The rally begins at 7 00. Sanders will begin speaking at about 8 00. Live from r. F. K. Stadium, richard reeve, abc7 news. Leon thank you. New details tonight on the race for the white house. Senator sanders not the only one making headlines now. President obama announcing today his support for Hillary Clinton. Maureen of course, this happened hours after house with the clinton democratic rival senator Bernie Sanders. We have team coverage. Lets continue now with jonathan elias. Jonathan . Jonathan it was a big day. A busy day in politics. First, Bernie Sanders was visiting white house. Then president obama came out after that and endorsed Hillary Clinton officially. Its not a big surprise. Sanders did thank the president for his impartiality in the process with the primaries and said he would help do whatever it takes to beat donald trump. In his endorsement of Hillary Clinton, president obama praisessed her experience, determination and compassion. President obama i want those of you who have been with me from the beginning of this incredible journey to be the first to know i am with her. I am fired up. I cannot wait to get out there and campaign for hillary. Jonathan after president obamas endorsement the twitter battle began. Trump tweeted out obama just endorsed crooked hillary. He wants four more e obama. Nobody else does. Hillary tweeted delete your account. This is just getting started. Obama will campaign with clinton next week. Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren will endorse clinton. We expect the endorsements to start flooding in. It should get interesting between the endorsements and between her and trump. Back to you. Leon thanks, jonathan. Folks, mark your calendars. Next thursday we will dive deeper. Watch the live town hall event focused on the role that women will be playing in the 2016 election. That is one week from tonight. June 16 on the sister station newschannel8 coming your way at 7 00 p. M. Maureen . Maureen we have breaking news from rockville where a former Wootton High School quarterback was just sentenced to four years in prison for a crash that killed two wootton graduates. 19yearold samuel ellis pleaded guilty to two counts of vehicular manslaughter for the crash in North Potomac river a year ago. Alexander murk and i will li li and calvin li were killed in the car crash. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison with 16 years suspended. The teens had been drinking at Underage Party and jonathan elld higher blood alcohol limit. Leon in baltimore, the trial of the officer who is facing the most harsh charge in the freddie gray case began today. Caesar goodson drove the van of which freddie gray suffered a spinal injury and he is charged with seconddegree murder. Prosecutors say that goodson took gray on what they call a rough ride and intentionally speeding through stop signs and rounding corners to cause gray to bounce around in the back of the van. The defense denies the claim to say that the officer did nothing wrong. Covers metro tonight. The agency safetrack plan at the spotlight. As commuters make adjustment to for closures today th to talk about the project. If you ride this time of night you will notice fewer people riding with you. The agency said today ridership is down 40 between 6 00 and 7 00 p. M. Stephen tschida explains. Stephen safetrack, metro awaited and dreaded massive repair of the entire rail system. Some say it is making getting around a lot more difficult on and off the rails. The buses are very delayed. There is tons of traffic on the streets and a lot of cars. Reporter metro g. M. Painted a rosier picture saying the riders heeded the warning about the first repair on the orange and the silver line. We have had 25 drop of ballston. When you look at the hours, we saw a drop of 41 , 6 00 to 7 00. Stephen a sign metro passengers are altering the commutes or staggering the commute times. Some metro Board Members said today that buses will not be able to pick up the down. They say the public needs to be informed. That message has got to get to folks very clearly. Stefs metro unveiled a snappy video to keep on top of the process. There are a lot of questions about why it took so long to shore up a crumbling system. Its a shame we got to the point where it was loss of life and overall crisis. No answers but plenty of reassurances. Everything i see right now is moving in the right direction. As far as giving employees the opportunity to get out there to do the work, to do the proper inspection. A lot of commuters are bracing for a difficult year ahead. Stephen tschida, abc7 news. Leon we have everything you need to know about safetrack on a special metro page that we put together on wjla. Com. So you can check it out. But if you want me texted directly to your phone, just text metro to 43817. We will keep you informed there. Maureen he was in the right place at the right time. Coming up, the man who saved the victim in the stanford rape case. What he said he was thinking in the moments before he intervened. Leon Loudoun County deputy officer charged with animal cruelty. How they stumbled on the disturbing revelation. Maureen in the newsroom, the Children National ask the pediatrician. Do you have a question about your Childs Health . Call and get an answer right now. Number on the screen. Pediatric experts will take calls for another 25 minutes. Until 6 30 tonight. Doug a matter of when, not if we replace the gorgeous weather with the heat and the humidity of summer. You might be surprised on the forecast coming up leon an alexander man charged with providing Material Support to isis. Mohamad khweis was flown back to the u. S. Last night from iraq. Kurdish forces captured khweis in Northern Iraq in march. He told his captors he had gone there to join isis and was willing to become a suicide bomber. Prosecutors say that khweis traveled to syria las with isis through social media. Meantime, hamas issued a statement praising yesterdays terror attack in tel aviv. Four israelis there killed when gunmen opened fire in a cafe. One of the suspects clearly caught on camera as you see there. Both men have been arrested and detained by authorities. Today the Israeli Defense minister visited the Shopping Complex for where four people were killed the day before. In response, israel shrinking dramatically the number of palestinians being allowed to enter the country in ramadan. Maureen . Maureen the university of Stanford University swimmer sent to jail for six months for raping unconscious woman. Apparently only serve half that time. Records show brock turner is scheduled to be released three months into the sentence. County jail inmates in that part of california usually serve half their sentences if they keep clean records. Turner was convicted of assa party last year. Two passing bicyclists saw the assault and stepped in to help. After he stood up, we saw she wasnt moving at all. We talked to him briefly. He started to run away. My friend peter ran after, caught him. I attended to her quickly and we stayed until the police came. Turner blamed the incident in part of what he called stanfords party culture. Prosecutors found cell phone photos and videos of turner using drugs even though his lawyer claimed turner never used illicit substances. Leon coming up in our 6 00 hour this everything, stinky mail. Sam you may recall the story of the mail dumped in the sewers. The Postal Service has dried some of it out and delivered it. Im sam ford. That story is next. Maureen it was the day to eat outside. A nice day for lunch and the breezy warm weather. Doug hill is tracking when the humidity will make a comeba thope to see you again soon. Whoa, whoa, i got this. Just gotta get the check. I cant reach it. If you have alligator arms, you avoid picking up the check. What . Its what you do. I got this. Thanks, dennis if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. Growwwlph. Its what you do. Oh that is good crispy duck. Stroand restoring aing a newbfathers faith. Its standing tall after one surgery. Not six. Stronger is being a typical kid. Stronger is finding it earlier. And coming home sooner. Stronger is seeking answers. And not giving up, until you find them. Because we dont just want your kids to grow up, we want them to grow up stronger. Vo for dominion, part of delivering Affordable Energy includes supporting those in our community who need help. Our Energyshare Program does just that, assisting with bill pay and providing free, energysaving upgrades. Its more than helping customers, its helping neighbors. Stand by me leon right now d. C. Police searching for the gunman responsible for yesterdays northwest. This morning officers were handing out flyers with images of the shooting suspect in the area of north capital street at new york avenue. Four people were shot there standing outsidal of a liquor store in the middle of a crowded rush hour. All are expected to survive. These are photos of a person of interest are the police are labeling him i should say. They will be Holding Emergency Meeting tonight at 7 00 to tell us more about this. Stay with abc7. We will have continuing coverage. Maureen . Maureen this is just in the newsroom. Loudoun county sheriff deputy is accused of killing his pet dog. Deputy dustin moon faces charges of felony animal cruelty after an internal investigation found that he killed the dog between february and march and threw the body in a dumpster. The case began in an investigation into an unrelated administrative violation. Moon was released on bond and is on paid administrative leave. Leon now time for us to circle back to something we talked about earlier. A story you saw first here only on 7. Was found blocking some d. C. Residents sewage line. Maureen sam ford went back to the neighborhood to find out if the residents have gotten any of their mail yet. Here is what he found out. Sam at businesses like precision towing, that repairs d. C. School buses they finally received mail last week that had been dumped by an errant letter carrier in the sewer. It came after the Postal Service pulled 25 bags of dirty mail out of storm drains in the 4300 block of douglas street northeast last month. The problem came to light after a resident was snaking out a drain for his neighbor and the mail started coming up. He followed the trail and found more mail. Down in the rubber bands down there, another stack right there of magazines. Sam gutierrez is still missing some personal items. Mike of neighboring a a towing got back mail as well. He says after talking to reason for this is laziness. Purely being lazy. Being lazy. Thats it. Didnt want to go to work. Went to sleep. Put the mail inside the sewage. Kept on moving. Got paid for it. Sam the posting service has two tiers of workers. The letter carriers and the carrier assistants who make much less and allegedly one of them dumped the mail here. The Postal Service has yet to say who that is. And whether it plans to prosecute. Reporting from northeast washington, im sam ford, abc7 news. Leon im not sure everyone appreciates the services diligence. Would you want your mail if it had been in the sewer . Doug i have a few forecasts i had done i wish they were in the sewer. They were that bad. Heat and haunt humidity coming back. This pretty image walking outside this evening. You can tell how temperatures ahead. Just a few high clouds with plenty of sunshine. Temperatures will not be as chilly, quite as chilly tonight as they were last night around the area. The winds are still pretty gusty around the region. The northwest at 12 to 15 miles per hour. They will diminish a bit later tonight. There will be a chill in the air as the temperatures drop down. Now, average temperatures as you grill out this evening is 80 degrees. About now in many part of the area. We will slowly drop from the upper 70s to the mid70s. The key is here the breezes will diminish and we will enjoy the low humidity levels throughout the night. By the morning it will be cool. Once the sun gets up you see how quickly the temperatures rise. This time of year is hard to keep the temperatures cool after sunrise on a sunny day. 59 in the city in brentwood. 56 in aspen hill. 57 in the morning in dale city. 55 early tomorrow morning in la plata. So, through the morning, ti work or anywhere you want to go, it will be comfortable in the morning. Mid60s. 74 midday. 80 in the afternoon with one more day of low humidity. Over the weekend that changes. The winds turn south as we head through the late friday and saturday. That will boost the temperatures to 91 on saturday and sunday as more moisture moves in from the south and the heat for the west. Keep an eye open for possibility of thunderstorms on the afternoon of saturday. Beaches look good. Maybe late day thunderstorm as well. We will finish up with this. The sevenday. The two 91degree days that pop out at you saturday and sunday. A chance of isolated to scattered, late day storms on saturday. Breezy, turning drier sunday afternoon, turning cooler monday and tule. And then delightful weather most of the week. The garden variety thunderstorm chances by thursday and again on friday. Back to you. Leon all right. What is the word . Robert lets talk baseball. Manny machado got free seafood for life but you have to take punishment for that. You cant get food for fighting for machados brawl with kansas city. Plus, what is wrong with the m. V. P. . Steph curry explains and tell us what to expect from friday nights game four when we come back. Maureen we have ten minute left for you to call 7 on your side. Our phone bank tonight is Children National ask the pediatrician. If you have a question about your Childs Health call and get an answer right now. The number on your screen. Our pediatric experts will take calls untilc 6 30. Well be right back. Robert cant count out cleveland just yet. Dont know who would only two games in the series. Game three blowout for the cavs last night. Big reason for that could be the m. V. P. Has been sort of m. I. A. Curry is only averaging over 16 points a game this series. Cleveland somehow finding a way to make other players on golden state step up. But how does the m. V. P. Bounce back from this . Stick to my preparation and my mental strategy of staying within myself. Not overcomplicating things. Not trying to psyche myself out. Last night was a struggle. Just not being as aggressive as i needed to be. I dont know what the reason was for that. It wont be that in game four. Robert join us t four preview. Go to our Facebook Page and give us your thoughts on game four. That starts at 8 00. Football, final days of o. T. A. s, or final day of o. T. A. For redskins. The talk of this years has been the receiving corps. Paul is back. Jordan reed was amazing last year. Then there the vet. Vernon davis who could be fighting for some playing time. Im here to do my job and play as hard as i can. You know, make the plays. That is what im here for. Whatever they asked me to do. I will do it. Im not worried about anything else. Im strong believer in the harder you work with more success you will have. As a team if we continue to work hard we will do very well. Robert baseball nats go for the sweep against the white sox. I love it. Washington offense is humming right now. Three straight wins. Ten runs or more. Second team in club h make that happen. With the os, shortstop Manny Machado has been suspend ed four games and fined 2,500 for the tuesday night fight. He is expected to appeal. One more time. Whoo doug there is nothing like the sound of the ball hitting the bat. Maureen the weather is perfect for that. Doug its delightful. Talk about what we have coming up here in the next couple of days. One more day of beautiful weather. Low humidity. Temperatures starting off in the morning in the 50s. But then climbing to near 80 in the afternoon. It does change over the weekend. Heat and the humidity will build into the area. Our first 90degree day of the season is in sight. Josh is in for steve rudin tonight. He will have more of the timing of the weekend storms. Maureen you better be on the way. Well, world news tonight with david muir up next. As we come on tonight, eight years after their own bruising battle, the president now declares im with her. New details about the private meeting at the white house with Bernie Sanders and the president s message right after. He will now fight for Hillary Clinton. And tonight, donald trump firing back. Also, the images from houston. The deadly plane crash right into a store parking lot. After multiple landing attempts. Details now. The woman held hostage in an american museum. Zika in america. Contracted through a needle