Race ended ended with a chase aa crash that barely missed a woman. We spoke to the woman rich has her nearmiss. Nancy, tt the truck right here. Part of the carjack car hit here. A trail here where you can see the stolen vehicle ran along the sidewalk and slammed into this tree. But the chase wasnt over. Here is what happened much earlier in the day. You see the scene at telegraph road at 6 00 this morning. The police say the gunman identified as 23yearold john russell walked up to a 36yearold woman behind the wheel of her nissan s. U. V. She was stopped at the traffic light. Ordered her out of the car. She complied. Then police say he drove that car to nearby Edgehill Court where we are. The officers there attempted to do a traffic stop but russell sped away driving down the sidewalk before a h cars including the one i am standing. Before he slammed in that tree. Using the k9 and the helicopters the officers spotted russell walking near north kings highway where he was arrested. Twohour ordeal before the all clear was sounded. Any idea what the persons motive or the story, why he was doing this . I dont. Detectives are interviewing him as we speak. They will try to determine that. He has been charged with a multitude of offenses. He faces carjacking and weapons charges. Look at the impact of the car in the tree. He is in jail tonight and faces a Court Hearing in the morning. Richard reeve, abc7 news. Jonathan at this hour, police are getting tips and so far they have not made any arrests in a violent attack of a woman in this is the man they are looking for. He looks agitated in the elevator waiting for the door to open. He is accused of posing as a minutes worker and posing his way to victims apartment on key boulevard in rosslyn sunday morning. If you recognize the man, these are clear pictures or if you saw something suspicious on sunday police want to hear from you. A former episcopal bishop wont get out of prison early. Today a parole board denied heather cooks request for early release. Cook is serving sevenyear sentence for to 14 drunk driving crash that killed tom palermo while he was riding his bike. The parole board said she took no responsibility for her actions and expressed no remorse for the killing. Michelle watch girls run across the street when the survivor slammed into them. One of the little girls is trapped underneath the tires. That is when more than a half dozen people race over and literally lift the s. U. V. Up saving little girls life. Had no idea who he was helping. We all help and when we finally got it up. Somebody pulled her from under there. When i seen who it was, it was my little cousin. I didnt know what to do. Michelle that must have been a rush of emotions there. The 9yearold girl caught under the tire has critical injuries but she is recovering. Her older sister escaped with bumps and bruises. Jonathan 7 on your side with an explanation of what is becoming expensive trend. Surging prices on the beltway express lanes surging past the 20. They post it. But the question is why . This is a oneway trip. Northern Virginia Bureau chief Jeff Goldberg has been tracking this for weeks and he joins us with what he has found. What is the deal . Jeff the goal of the hot lanes is to keep traffic moving at 55 to 60 miles per hour. During the times when traffic is heavy like now in the rush discourage more drivers in the hot lanes which means traffic goes faster like it is going now. In the last few weeks prices are on the rise and a lot of people are taking notice. These three commuters are facing a dilemma. Take the 495 express lanes or hot lane from virginia to work in bethesda or sit in traffic in the regular lanes. So it is always a bet der six based on time. Its just the cogs for the time. Cost for the time. Jeff they noticed the cost spiked a lot. From 17 or 18 for a oneway trip at rush hour to 21, 23, even 29 or 30. Its horrifying. Jeff each tried to leave earlier or later to use the hot lanes at times when the prices might be lower but it has not made much of a difference. At work it worked for a few weeks and then everyone else ha jeff when traffic is light in hot lanes so are the tolls. But in the morning and the evening rush hour when 495 traffic is heaviest, the hot lanes are more expensive. Mike is with transurban the company that operates the express lane. He says increase in overall traffic has been driving factor behind the increase in hot lanes traffic. Which is up 20 in the last year. More people are choosing to come back to express lane. They save time and find value for the days pay. They have people who are willing to pay what they are asking. If they have that they will continue to do what they do. Jeff this is a live look at the hot lanes headed south. Traffic is moving smoothly in the hot lane and the regular lanes. Transurban says if you get to a point that you have a backup in the hot lanes, that happened friday in the big rainstorm they said you can contact them to charge. Live in mobiletrak7 in fairfax county, Jeff Goldberg, abc7 news. Jonathan thanks. You can get advanced warning when there is trouble on the commute. Just go to wjla. Com text. Sign up to have our traffic watch team text you with major traffic alerts. Caught on video tonight a bizarre moment in australia. You saw it there. That is the c. E. O. Of quantis airlines giving the normal spiel. A guy comes out of nowhere and jams him with the face with a pie. The c. E. O. Is puzzled like who is this guy . Where is security . The police are questioning him. They did detain him. Not clear why he did it. The c. E. O. Did make pie jokes when he was cleaned up and said he couldnt identify the flavor of the pie. Michelle my goodness. Wow now to this. Unusual idea to fight gun violence in baltimore. Trading illegal guns for freedom. Jonathan a Police Officers cat shot with a pellet gun. The key clues to the person who did this. Doug plenty of sunshine today. Temperatures are above average. We will see the chances of rain increase later in the week. We want to check out the mothers day weekend forecast and ten day in eight minutes on abc7 news at 6 00. Did you know slow internet can actually hold your business back . Gun last week and the cats leg had to be amputated. Police officer adopted maximus as a kitten and jumped in her patrol car in a call. Jonathan well, if baltimore, days before he was recaptured last week. He is serving a life sentence for attempted murder of a Delaware Police officer and is undergoing evaluation for charges maryland. Jonathan still ahead for us at 6 00, the final decision after a twoyear investigation into a deadly amtrak derailment in philadelphia. Michelle also coming up, mustsee video of heroes in spain. How they rush to save lives even in the face of that explosion next. As a team for your health, you get the care you need to help you thrive. Visit kp. Org to learn more. Kaiser permanente. Thrive. Again, james comey, director of the f. B. I. , fired today. You can see more on this breaking news story in 15 minutes time in world news tonight with david muir. Michelle mustsee video of the firefighters earning the nickname the bravest. Watch as they pull up at a fire in spain. Look what happened. A huge fireball just as the first firefighters begin to pull someone out. An explosion. It sent everyone flying. But they dont stay down for long. In 30 seconds, all are back on their feet grabbing hoses to battle the flames. 30 people were hurt. All survived. Jonathan developing now, look at this. This is a 20 x 20foot hole in weapons stored underground. This is the site of major cleanup operation. Michelle intense flames from a school bus in western carolina this morning. Moments earlier 56 students were on board. What was key is two students in the back yelled for help when they saw smoke. A minute2 later everyone made it off the bus safely. Jonathan the engineer, remember the speeding a. M. Track train in philadelphia two years ago . He ill not face criminal charges. Eight people were killed and 200 others were wounded in the crash. Federal investigators say they cannot prove that the engineer acted with conscious disregard. Michelle a popular area for protests near the white house. Right now part of Lafayette Square is closed. As mike carterconneen found it is just a temporary move to allow for extensive renovations. Every year, hundreds of protests and marches begin or end at lafayette scare. Sevenacre park across pennsylv with major renovations underway groups gathering here will find the fencing. We will issue permits for the First Amendment demonstrations but we might have to limit demonstrators that participate in the events. According to the National Park service and the White House Historical association the park had been used as a racetrack, petting zoo, graveyard and slave market. It had also been encampment for soldiers in the war of 1812. Today is popular for the political activities. So they improving the lawn, repairing the fountains and replacing irrigation system that does not work. We have broken pipes, broken sprinkleer heads. The crews have begun to install what the park Service Calls a hightech water irrigation system. With intense jent sensors that can intelligent sensors. It knows it doesnt have to water flowers if so it reduces utility use and operating cost. Michelle all the work happens in three phases with more than a third of the park closed at any given time. With renovations expected to be done by the end of the year. In lafayette park, mike carterconneen, abc7 news. Doug we are enjoying a pleasant tuesday. The winds were light. 63 in rockville. Beautiful everything ahead. The temperatures will drop. We are in the low to mid60s across the region. 66 in washington. 63 at dulles. 64 in baltimore. Warmer 64 in fredericksburg. This evening it will get chilly again but not as chilly as last night. Partly cloudy. Winds turn more south. So its slightly milder direction. But the wind speeds overnight will be light. Big weather story is the stationary front that has been setting up shop for a couple of days from the southwest. Runs from illinois to southern southeastern north carolina. This side of the fr our side of front is cooler. Along the frontal zone cloudiness and scattered showers. That will continue tomorrow. We wont see showers tomorrow. Partly sunny and fairly pleasant. As we get to thursday and friday, the frontal complex will shift eastward the shower chances increase through the day on thursday. Scattered showers not rain all day. On friday it looks like we have a better chance of widespread showers around the area. Tomorrows record looks good. 7072, partly sunny. Clouds increase on thursday with afternoon showers in 68. Period of rain and 60 for a high on friday. According to the european computer model, a model we check out in the Weather Center between the time the rain starts on thursday and in to saturday afternoon. An inch and a half of rain across the area. West virginia spots show up with considerably more rain. East of the mountains an inch and a half is what we expect. We think we have a chance to get back saturday afternoon. A little bit. Highs of 59. It will be cool. D. C. United taking on philadelphia saturday at r. F. K. See it live on newschannel8. Mothers day looks brighter upper 60s to near 70. Monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday next week a significant warming trend with sunshine in case that is your cup of tea weather wise. We will see. Back to you. Michelle thank you. You know what is our cup of tea . The nats and the local teams winning. Wizards. We need caps to pull out game seven. Jonathan so exciting. Erin so exciting. A few days ago we thought the caps were dead in water. Here they are back alive. The wizardsceltics series a dead heat. How washington plans to get the upper hand in boston when we come back. As lieutenant governor, dr. Northam is fighting to expand access to affordable healthcare. Ralph northam believes in making we had a chance to win all four games. We had an opportunity to win the games everyone though we didnt shoot the ball well or play great defense. Gave us confidence what to do and how we match up against the guys. Both teams are playing hard. That cease what you expect going into the game. I expect the guys to do that. Do it again tomorrow night. Erin Ryan Kerrigan will join us tonight. So tweet us your questions or you can call in the show tonight and talk to him yourself. How awesome is that . Not to be forgotten in the capswizards mania, the Washington Nationals are in baltimore again. Tonight for game two of the beltway series. With the orioles. The birds got game one. Max scherzer hill tonight as the nats try to even things. Rooting for the nats. Jonathan scherzer has been nasty this season. Looks good. Erin awesome. Good to know after the injury. Doug weather wise we are in good shape. A few clouds. Comfortable out there. In the 60s. Drop in 50s overnight. Tomorrow, the warmest day of the next five or six. We will hit 70 or 72 with plenty of sunshine. Thursday cloudiness increases quickly and we have showers possible by the afternoon. 68. Friday may turn out to be a rainy day. Look at the high. Only 60 degrees. We think by friday afternoon. So coming up here tonight at 11 00, steve will look ahead to the mothers day forecast. Looking better. Maybe warming trend in store for next week. He will include it in the forecast at 11 00. Michelle sounds good. Thank you. World news tonight with david muir up next and theyll have details on the firing of the f. B. I. Director james comey. Jona there are always new challenges and opportunities. , at unitedhealth group, were built to help with both. Providing employers with data and insights to improve outcomes. Ensuring seniors have stability and choice in their benefits. And working with governments to expand access, lower costs and improve quality. To all those with a passion to improve health care, our question is how can we help . Unitedhealth group. Built for better health. Are you actually about to scratch it rich at Mgm National Harbor . Of course you are. Because everyone who plays is an instant winner. 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