Comfortable. You get outside the beltway and temperatures are on the cool side. 61 at dulles as well as in gait, 57 in manassas and the temperature in annapolis is 69 degrees. A good one. Mostly sunny, 74 at 9 00. By noon well get up to 82 degrees with partlycloudy skies. 86 and partly sunny. That means more clouds and sunshine by 4 00 and that should be our High Temperature for today. More clouds and chances of rain this weekend. Details on that coming up from the belfort furniture Weather Center with your sevenday forecast in a few minutes. Lets keep it a quiet start with friday morning starting out with no problems on the inner loop and outer loop. All lanes are running and open without any delay. 395 in virginia, southbound, there had been a work zone around glebe road and they should be wrapping up soon. Northbound lanes are uneffected and wide open. No problems at germantown continuing all the way toward the blain divide. Gettinggetting to the district w york avenue no problems. Back to you. Thank you. We want toot get to get to the breaking news coming into the district at 5 02 this morning. Police say two juveniles are in the hospital after being hit by a car car in southeast. Both victims have nonlifethreatening injuries. Theyre still trying to determine if the driver stayed on scene. While you were sleeping the World Health Organization declared the ebola virus a Public Health emergency. The outbreak is the longest and largest in history and they say the world needs to take a dramatic response to stop th spread. They issued similar warnings for the swine epidemic in 2009 and polio back in may. A major step for Marriage Equality in virginia. John gonzalez live outside the Supreme Court this morning. This decision could really affect the entire country. It really could and the question this morning is will the 14th amendment finally state center stage here at the u. S. Supreme court. Virginia will formally ask the highest review of their Marriage Equality case. We understand that virginias attorney general will file the petition today to settle once and for all the constitutional issues with the law. Virginias petition will be one of the first in the nation following utah earlier this week. Last week a court of appeals judge ruled that the samesex marriage ban in the commonwealth violates the u. S. Constitution. The Supreme Court has already issued a stay in similar cases in recent years but virginias seems to be more complex. Legal questions like whether a state can prevent states samesex couples from marrying and whether states can refuse marriages from other parents of the country. In virginia 2500 samesex couples are raising children reporting outside the u. S. Supreme court, john gonzalez, abc7 news. Everybody will be keeping an eye out there. Thank you so much for that. Switching gears now. Maybe youve heard of this show if you have netflix. House of cards . Everyone is watching this show. It films in baltimore but this week the crew is heading to the the district. That means major headaches on the roadways. Well have more on that youre watching good morning washington with autria godfrey, jummy olabanji, and jacqui jeras, weather. This is good morning washington, on your side. Well lets hope youre one of the millions of people who like the popular netflix show, house of cards, which i still have not seen yet. It will make it easier though with the news the production crew is filming a mock motorcade in the nations capital. For a complete list of closures head to wjla. Com. Avoid the district. We have been talking about it all week long and today is finally the day. Your chance to do a world of good for someone in need. Come to the National Harbor where were teaming up with w. T. O. P. And the red cross for the summer of hope blood drive. Plenty of us will be donating too and we would love to meet you. Jack and i will be there and jummy and i will be here at 1 00. So get a coupon and a doughnut and some ice cream. And jacqui jeras will be there as well. Absolutely. Well be giving out autographs as well. I dont know thats a consolation after giving a bit of blood, but ive worn my sleeveless for easy access. Its all for a good cause. So hopefully youll be out there and meet all of us, the good morning washington crew. Brian van de graaff by the way will be out there early this morning at 9 00 or so. You can see the satellite radar picture bringing the clouds to the south and west of d. C. , and thats going to be kind of the sweet spot for getting some wet weather in here this weekend. A disturbance is now making its way to the ohio river valley, will be pushing in that direction bringing in more cloud cover for the region for this weekend. This is just one computer model forecast, but they are starting to sink up a bit. First of all you can see the cloud cover coming in this afternoon and for tonight and you can see some rain showers making their way into southwestern parts of our viewing area. On saturday will be one of our better chances of rain, but still only about a 30 , and most of that i think will stay south and west of d. C. There you can see a few showers possibly as we head into sunday morning as well. So its not going to be a washout. We have to watch that exact track of low pressure because if it deviates a bit that will have an impact on the weekend forecast. More on that in a few minutes, but lets get a look at the roads. Were off to a very good start and hopefully if folks have the day off, heading out on a trip. So far your lanes are open and good and moving well through the area. No problems in the inner or outer loop. Heres a shot of colesville coming around Georgia Avenue. Those are the headlights from 95 towards 270. No problems to report so far this morning. Around the Woodrow Wilson bridge, youre in good shape too. Both lanes both directions open so far. We have some unbelievable video just coming into the newsroom this morning. You have to look at these flames engulfing cars at a scrap yard. We have a full story about this coming straight up. Welbe right back. [bell rings] [prof. Burke] at farmers,we make you smarter about your insurance,because what you dont know n hurt you. What if you didnt know that taking pictures of your belongings helps when you have a claim . Or that farmers offers a policy that will replace your car with a new one if its totaled within the first two model years. And that parking near a street lamp deters thieves . The more you know,the better you can plan for whats ahead. Talk to farmers and get smarter about your insurance. We are farmers bum pa dum, bum bum bum bum [announcer] call 1800farmers and see how much you could save. Welcome back. President obama authorized airstrikes against militants in iraq if necessary. Its reported isil is closing in on the city where the u. S. Has an outpost and consulate. The president authorized an air drop of supplies of water and food for thousands trapped on a mountaintop. Cross border attacks this morning resumed after a threeday truce expired and broker talks on a new deal hit a deadlock. Militants from gaza fired first with 21 rockets against israel. Israel says they responded with strikes to gaza. Concerns are for tensifying about the Ebola Outbreak in west africa. While you were sleeping the World Health Organization declared it an international Public Health emergency. The agency says an extraordinary response will be required to stop the spread of the deadly virus. Prince georges county police are still searching for a man who assaulted a jogger. The woman was attacked thursday around 6 30 a. M. Around Silverado Court in mitchellville. She was hit with a stick several times before she was able to fight him off. Attorney general mark herring will file a petition with the u. S. Supreme court on Marriage Equality. It will ask the higher court to hear and settle the constitutional issues regarding samesex marriage for the commonwealth and the rest of the country. Last week the 4th court of appeals agreed with the ban of samesex marriage being unconstitutional. What once was hurricane iselle is now a Tropical Storm. This happened just minutes ago. Iselle is about 50 miles from hawaii with 70mile an hour winds. About 5,000 people in hilo are without power. Some roofs are damaged and trees are down and roads are closed. You can hear the wind in this video. The National Guard is standing by right now. Hurricane julio is not far behind its forecast to pass just north of hawaii this weekend. That was downgraded just a few moments ago to a Tropical Storm, but could it pick up strength if. 50 miles to the close is pretty close to it and its already interacting with lands and with the topography there it will continue to break it down. But its certainly still causing some problems. Were only talking 4 Miles Per Hour below hurricane strength. By the way if something has been downgraded to a Tropical Storm that keeps the record going there have been no recorded hurricanes ever making land fall on the big island. So here we go. Another big Tropical Storm. Its been 22 years since theyve dealt with one. This is the time of year if the tropics are get to get active, the peak month is august and there will be four to five on average throughout the month. You can see the satellite looking less impressive, so additional weakening will be expected. We have about six hours or so with these terrible condition ons the island then it will track south. You go see julio on its heels. A major hurricane with winds of 115 Miles Per Hour. That will track north of the island. We have to watch for an impact, but right now we think pretty minimal, especially compared to what iselle is going to be. What a great day it is going to be on your friday. Hopefully all smiles around with 71 degrees at reagan national. We have a northeasterly wind at 6 Miles Per Hour. Temperatures outside the beltway on the cooler side. 59 in gait, hagerstown, 55 in winchester, apin manassas. The temperature in easton is 63. Things are going to change through the day and towards the weekend. While i think well be waking up with plenty of sunshine, we expect some cloud cover to push in especially late tonight. This area of low pressure across the nations midsection will be tracking near our region but most of the rain will stay south and west of d. C. This is our futurecast showing accumulated precipitation, s welcome back into good morning washington. Im jack taylor. Not a big story this morning trafficwise at least. Well see if we can keep it that way. Youre on good shape on the in good shape on the beltway. Headed toward Georgia Avenue no problems. Around river road either direction between 270 and the American Legion bridge traffic continues to move well and headed between tysons and springfield, the beltway down here, braddock road looking good. Both lanes open and running without any early delays. A change for frederick fredk County School students this year. Buses will now display a route number in windows just like you would see on city buses. In the past each bus had a Different Number and School Officials say this will make it easier for students tomorrow exactly which bus to board. An unusual site a junk yard in texas. It became engulfed in flames after flames spread to the scrap yard. Plumes of thick black smoke could be seen billowing for miles. Crews from two Fire Departments battled the blaze. The good news is there are no injuries to report. Religious leaders and immigration activists held a individualt outside the vigil outside the building. Activists are upset the law doesnt guarantee minors legal representation. A florida woman serving her country in afghanistan had a different mission. She wanted to return home early and surprise her family. Staff sergeant lurhonda henkins showed up at a West Palm Beach restaurant and shocked her mother and family members. You can see the look of shock on their face. They werent expecting her to come home until later this year. My babys home. I thought you come home for my birthday. There are your friday chills. Sergeant hankens, this is her third tour in afghanistan. Thank you for your service. The look on their faces, the pure shock just gives you chills. Fighting the tears. This is the best day of the week to get outside. Yes, but youre going to want to enjoy it while you can because we do have some changes on the way and jacqui is next with everything you need to know. Captioned by the National Captioning Institute www. Ncicap. Org live, from the abc7 broadcast center, this is good morning washington, on your side. Happening right now, a search is on for a suspect. Well tell you what you need to be on the lookout for after a woman is attacked while jogging. Good morning, washington. Im jummy olabanji,. And im autria godfrey. First things first over to jacqui jeras, tracking what is set up to be a gorgeous friday. A lot of people are probably going to be a little under the weather today. I feel a sore throat coming on, how about you . Its going to be one of those nice days. I get to do weather outside at noon at National Harbor today. If you want to come and give blood, please join me. A good day to do that. A good day to do anything outside. And this will be the last picture perfect one, but the weekend wont be terrible either. 59 in gaithersburg and 57 in manassas. Our weather headlines for today will be our last picture perfect day. Were expecting more cloud cover to push in for the weekend but peeks of sunshine here and there, especially north of d. C. We have rain in the forecast for both saturday and sunday. But the large majority is going to be well to the southwest of d. C. Were tracking it very closely. Ill show you the futurecast coming up in a few minutes from the belfort furniture Weather Center. Right now lets get more on the roads and the friday commute. For a friday youre in great shape moving around the beltway, inner and outer loop, and the beltway. Eastbound the georgetown pike, a vehicle hit a guardrail. The vehicle almost cleared itself out of the roadway. At this point the guardrail appears to be sticking out into the eastbound lane. Across georgetown and the key bridge youre looking good and running without any kind of problems this morning. Thank you. 5 31, we want to get to breaking news this morning because while you were sleeping the who World Health Organization the World Health Organization declared the Ebola Outbreak a public emergency. It is the longest and the largest in history and the who says the world needs to take urgent action to stop the spread. They issued similar advisories for the swine flu in 2009 and polio in may. John gonzalez outside the u. S. Supreme court this morning with details on a decision that could affect the entire country. Thats right, ladies. Good morning and the question on capitol hill this morning, will the 14th amendment finally take center stage. Virginia will formally ask the countrys highest court to finally review its Marriage Equality case. We understand attorney general mark herring will finally file a petition to finalize the constitutional issues with this law. It will be the first in the nation following outlast week utah last week. A judge ruled that a ban on samesex marriage violates the constitution. It appears virginias case is complex. Legal questions such as whether a state can prevent samesex couples from marrying and whether states can refuse to recognize marriages from other parts of the country. While the debate goes on in virginia several thousand samesex couples are raising children without a stay. Samesex marriage will become legal in virginia on august 18. Thank you. Prince georges county police are still searching for a man who assaulted a jogger. A woman was attacked around 6 20 thursday morning around Silverado Court in mitchellville. The suspect is described as black in his mid20s about 58 with a thin build. He had on a black hat, hoodie, black shirt and black running pants with a white stripe. If you have seen him, call police. Half hour ago, hurricane iselle was downgraded from a hurricane to a Tropical Storm. A look at its impact on hawaii. This morning trouble in paradise. Two storms threatening hawaii. Tropical storm iselle barreling towards the island, packing powerful winds, high surf and heavy rains. Older homes could have structural issues. Flying debris for windows. Julio is not far behind. Forecast to pass north of hawaii this weekend. On the big island people were bracing for the worst. Ports are shut down, schools closed and shelters open. The National Guard is standing by. Were really at the beginning stage of this. Really like in the First Quarter so lets be sensible and stay calm. Before iselle moved in, tourists and residents scrambled. Hawaiians are not used to hurricanes. The last one was in 1992. This is my first time here, well boarding up the storefront for the hurricane. The lines for gas are long and supplies like bottled water flying off the shelves. All the waters gone. More than 200,000 visitors from around the globe are on the islands any given day so officials issued warnings in multiple languages. Were getting married saturday evening at 6 00 p. M. The plan is to get married on the beach with the sunset. Tourists and residents are hoping julio passes without landing a knockout blow. There is one show online, i dont know if youve heard of it before. House of cards. I dont think anyone in this area watches anything like that. Its a huge success all about federal government here in d. C. It normally films in baltimore, but this week the crew is headed to the district. That means major headaches on the roadways. What you need to know still ahead here on good morning washington. Youre probably going to want to avoid hello, im hanna atkins and im the alternate maryland dairy princess. We represent Montgomery County dairy club. Im catherine savage. Come visit us at the Montgomery County agricultural fair august 916. Goodgood morning washington good morning to you as well. Lets hope youre one of the millions of people who like the popular netflix show house of cards. It will make it easier to stomach the news that the show will shut down roads in the district this weekend. Theyre filming a mock motorcade in d. C. On saturday. They will be on some of the busiest streets from noon to 12 00 p. M. For a list of roadways affected go to wjla. Com. Seeing all the cows and the dairy princess or alternates. It reminded me. Its National Frozen custard day, not hot fudge sunday day, which would jive with your forecast today. Good day for frozen custard, for ice cream, popsicles, any kind of frozen treat. Its going to be a warm un. I dont mind if they shut down those streets. If i could have lunch with kevin spacey it would be worth it. The dew point is 59 and the winds are light at the northeast at 6 Miles Per Hour. We have a bit of cloud cover and were reporting a bit of fog in frederick now but everybody is doing fine. Not a problem like yesterday. As we look at the upcoming hours and into the weekend, High Pressure is controlling us now, but were watching this area of low pressure across the nations midsection to track eastward and bring in a few showers as we head towards the weekend. If youre south and west of d. C. You have the best chance of getting wet and it will not be a washout. Today mostly sunny. 74 at 9 00. 84 by noon. Our high of 86. Temperatures in the mid to low 80s. Most of the rain will be south and west of d. C. The futurecast is coming up in just a few minutes. Jack, would you mind having those roads closed if you could have lunch with kevin spacey. I think that would be fine. If youre on the beltway, inner outer loop, youre in good shape. 270 south no problems out of frederick. Gaithersburg towards Montgomery Village avenue, coming up from springfield it remains light. The one incident was on eastbound georgetown pike after old dominion drive. The car hit a guardrail. The car out of the roadway but the guardrail is in the road. Virginia state authorities are now on scene. Thank you so much, jack. A rare interview from dan snyder is raising more questions than answers this morning. As the debate rages on over the redskins name. Were learning it could affect what the players wear on the field. New developments for Malaysia Airlines after those two tragedies. Your time is 5 41 and it the u. S. Military is ready to use force in iraq if necessary. President obama authorized air strikes against i. S. I. L. Near a mountaintop city in the northwest part of that country where at least 10,000 refugees are trapped. Militants are trying to take control over the Largest Electric dam in the country. It is home to key american out posts including a consulate. I have authorized strikes should they move towards the city. President obama authorized an air drop of pallets of thousands of gallons of water and ready to eat meals for thousands of iraqis stranded on that mountaintop. Israel and gaza militants resumed cross border attacks this morning. The move came after a three day truce expired and talks of a new border deal hit a deadlock. The Israel Military responded to 17 rockets with strikes across gaza. Malaysia state Investment Company wants to move Malaysia Airlines from the stock exchange. It wants the airline to be fully state owned so it can overhaul the business. Malaysia airlines was hit by two major disasters this year. Flight 370 disappeared and flight 17 was shot down over ukraine. Happening nucleaser to home home now closer to home, Anne Arundel Police issued a silver alert for a missing 79 year old. She was last scene in gambles maryland. Shes about 411 and weighs about 150 lbs. She drives a 2002 silver toyota with maryland tags. 5 46 and happening in prince georges county, Funeral Services will be held for teacher Karen Holtz Williams who was killed during a rush hour collision this month with a maryland state vehicle. The wake will take place in northeast d. C. At 1 00 p. M. Today followed by a Funeral Service at 2 00. Developing news out of northwest d. C. This morning. The American Red Cross is helping more than 60 residents displaced by an apartment fire. Investigators say 16 units were damaged when the fire broke out at the intersection of 14th and belmont. People were evacuated but no one was seriously injured. Extended practice is rare. An opportunity to determine where you are going forward. A good job of coming out and executing. It was the battle of the brothers in a game featured here on abc7. John har bow got the best of his john joe flacco and the ravens offensive first teamers looked guard driving 80 yards in their opening drive. Skins fans have learned over the years dont get too excited about the highs and lows in the preseason game results. Horace holmes has the highlights and coach jay grudens reaction following the first preseason win. Before last night, no one knew what they would get from a jay gruden coached football team. Now we have some idea, and even though its preseason, the skins look good against the patriots. Alfred morris ran hard and was effective while he was therein. What about rg3. Take a look. This is one highlight from him for the night. He wasnt in there very long. Nice pass. Looks like a touchdown was not ruled a touchdown because robertsons hand landed out of bounds before both feet were in bounds. Robinson continues to do work. Cousins was solid and third string colt mccoy was impressive. No. Q. Okay. No injuries and the coach is a happy man. A good performance and now its time to move on, unfortunately it doesnt count. Thats sports. Im horace holmes. Have a great day. A rare interview from redskins owner dan snyder grabbed national headlines. He spoke about what he said is wideranging support for the team name. But critics are firing back saying he left them with more questions than answers. So you have not heard one descenting voice from within the nfl community . Its been great support. I think that most, whether its owners or people in the league, most people understand what the team name means. They look at it as we all do as honor, respect. Sniders wife tonya spoke in her husbands defense saying hes moving the team in the right direction. There are plenty who would disagree and that would include the university of minnesota, they have asked the redskins to wear throwback jerseys when they play in november. They dont have the team name or logo. Your time, 5 50. More trouble if general motors. The latest vehicles added to its record recall list. Caught on video. The terrifying moments a truck swiped a bus and crashed into a business. What made Kerry Washington so broken . Its still here to come at 6 00. We have talked about it all week long. Today your chance to help us out and the do a world of good for someone in need. Come out to the National Harbor where all of us here at abc7 will be teaming up with w. T. O. P. And the American Red Cross for the summer of hope blood drive. There will be some of us out there to donate and we would love to meet you. Jacqui will be there around noon. I will be there around 1 00. Brian van de graaff is planning on stopping by. Hell be out there early. Youll get a free doughnut and a coupon for some ice cream and youre going to be helping out as well. Speaking of coupons, i know you love a bargain like me, there were coupons in the Washington Post for like 20 off a single item at the outlet mall. So if you want to give blood and do a little shopping. You know i love a good deal. And you have beautiful weather for when you head out at noon. Im excited. Usually were in the elements when the weather is lousy. So well be able to get out there today when weather conditions are pleasant. Things will be changing a bit as we head into the weekend. 70 degrees at reagan national. Remember about a week ago we showed you the satellite of some of the smoke from the canadian fires thats been in our area. Well that was picking up pretty clear as well. So that might be part of the haze were getting in the atmosphere. 70 degrees right now and the dew point is 50 degrees. It is comfortable this morning. 59 in gaithersburg. 55 in winchester. Annapolis a little warmer at 69. Frederick is at 62. The skies are generally clear across the region. We have reported a bit of patchy fog in frederick. Be aware of that, but no widespread fog like yesterday and most of the cloud cover is going to stay here to the south and west of the metro area. Were keeping our eyes on an area of low pressure bringing showers in the ohio river valley and that will head our way this weekend. High pressure is going to be large and in charge throughout the day today so we have no worries about that. I cant rule out a stray mountain shower, but your chancers low. But for the weekend the chances will be increasing. If youre south and west of d. C. , you have the best shot of getting wet. Notice the heavy amounts of accumulated rainfall in the central appellations. Sunday i think well see a few peeks of sunshine coming in as well. So as we look at our sevenday forecast, things are looking awfully good to end our work week on this friday. High temperatures that will make it into the mid to upper 80s overall and we expect to see those temperatures begin to cool a bit into the weekend as we get some cloud cover in here. And well see temperatures in the low 80s there and the best chance of rain will come tuesday. Saturday and tuesday are our main wet days and a few sprinkles southwest on sunday and monday. So not too much to complain about. Jack are you going to head out there at all . I may very well make it down there, unfortunately i cant donate the blood, but i would love to come and see you guys. So well see if i can get there this afternoon. So at least if youre on the beltway, the inner and outer loop through maryland and virginia, your lanes are open. The accident after old dominion drive, be careful, theres to guardrail. Hopefully a crew has flares out and a crew that can bang that out of the roadway. Traffic tracker continues to move downtown with no issues this morning. The freeway and 11th street bridge, youre in good shape. 270 south is fine out of frederick. Continue southbound towards the lane divide everything is moving very, very well. Thank you very much. 5 54 and we want to get you a 7 on your side consumer alert. If youre thinking about buying a car, now may be the best time to do so. The company true car Research Says historically the lowest average sale price is in august and thats because dealers are trying trying trying to move out old the ventear, so inventory. The first two days of any month are also good times to buy. An area Amusement Park is giving back in a big way. The Massive Community effort that has organized they will pay off for hundreds of children in our area. That good story coming up next. We i shall resign the presidency effective tomorrow. Vicepresident ford. It was today 40 years ago former president Richard Nixon resigned his presidency after his administration was under fire for the involvement in the watergate scandal. It is believed a number of his officials helped cover up a break in of the National Democratic committee during their campaign. Nixon faced impeachment but resigned instead. 5 58 and coming up in the day ahead, pleads that the u. S. Naval academy will reunite with their families. They have not been able to contact them since induction day on july 1. A parade will be held tomorrow morning and it will feature the Naval Academy brand. Take a look at a pretty Impressive Group of guys. I had the honor to take part in an event honoring several of our purple heart recipients from mount vernon yesterday. They all came together as part of national pirnal heart day purple heart day. Seeing as how president washington initiated the merit badge that turned into the perchal heart award, it was fitting that the ceremony was there at mount verner. So mount vernon. So happy to take part in that event yesterday. Six flags will donate nearly 4,000 School Supplies to four counties. Its all part of their annual stuff a coaster drive which will give people half price tickets for six or more new School Supplies donated. Each schools principal and more than 40 students will be on hand to accept all of those dotations. We have another noinations. We have another donations. We have another hour of news. Captioned by the National Captioning Institute www. Ncicap. Org this is good morning, on your side. Breaking news overnight, the Ebola Outbreak in west africa declared an International Health emergency. Well tell you what it means to try to fight to stop it. Just coming into the abc7 newsroom, who is calling for the immediate removal of a d. C. Traffic camera thats in prince georges county. Its really shaping up to be the best day of the week. Were talking about the weather. If you have any plans to get outside, i suggest you do so. Good morning to you washington. Im jummy olabanji. And
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