Pretty much the entire floral industry representatives from growers, distributors retailers have in one way or another, contributed to support this. A lot of those scout troops were local kids who volunteered from all over our area. Right now, there are a lot of people planning to spend memorial day outdoors and after a string of some cool nights will it be chilly as we head into the holiday . Amelia is here with what we can expect tonight and tomorrow. Hey, amelia. Overnight tonight not as cool as it has been. Early this morning, temperatures were in the 50s, some spots even in the 40s. Heres what you can expect tomorrow morning around 6 a. M. Low temperature in your neighborhood in the low to middle 60s, so comfortably cool 65 in washington 61 gettersburg as well as culpepper and 60 in la plata, mainly clear skies. Now, memorial day morning, just as we have the last few days as the sun comes up temperatures warm up quickly look what you can expect throughout the morning hours, 7 a. M
The bay waters are only in the mid 60s, so near 80 today. Well start to talk about the increasing rain chances with the look at the seven day coming up in a few more minutes. Im Kristin Wright at the live desk. Developing right now record rainfall in parts of the midwest. We have video in from well berly, texas. One of the areas hit by the massive flooding. A total of three People Killed in texas and also oklahoma. Thousands had to be evacuated from their homes here. About 400 homes are destroyed, many of them simply washed away. The Severe Weather has also brought tornados in that region. Aaron, back to you. Kristen, thank you. A Prince Georges County man is dead after stopping for gas. Fire officials call the man a Senior Citizen and say he lit a cigarette while he was pumping gas in riverdale yesterday afternoon. The flame may have sparked gas vapors and set him on fire. The man was badly burned. He die at the hospital. A holiday fishing trip turned deadly after a man died. Santos s
An alexandria man is under arrest israel shimeles is his name. His car left unattended, caused quite a scene here. Capitol Police Spotted the car on the west side of the capitol. They checked it out and saw a Pressure Cooker inside. Now, the bomb squad came in. Detonated it. And as you can see from the video it caused quite a loud blast. Nothing else suspicious or hazardous found after another search. Once the device was detonated. All of this happened during the memorial day concert here on the mall and this became very concerning for police because Pressure Cooker bombs were used to set off explosions during the Boston Marathon two years ago. And that turned out to be quite deadly. Thats the latest from the National Mall here. Im molette green. Thank you. A building explosion caused a partial collapse at a business in beltsville. Look at this picture. That was on Old Baltimore pike in beltsville. The Branchville Fire Department said two vacuum pumps failed no one was in the building
80 by 8 00 p. M. Mid to upper 80s around town. Good day to be out on the water as well. Good sailing weather. Could be a bit of a chop though countersy of that gusty courtesy of that gusty wind. Highs up around 90 degrees near fredericksburg. Well talk about the grilling forecast in ten minutes. Back to you guys. That is video of the moments the bomb squad destroyed a suspicious device left on the National Mall. You may have heard that blast before the memorial day concert there. Capitol police found that device inside a car at 3rd street and madison drive northwest near the reflecting pool. Molette green has more on the bomb squads quick work. Reporter aaron, good morning. We are learning a little bit more about the man under arrest in this case. Israel shimeles of alexandria virginia is charged with operating a vehicle on a revoked license. His car left unattended got the attention of Capitol Police on routine patrol. They spotted a Pressure Cooker and noticed the odor of gasoline. T
The minute. And devon is tracking what you need to keep an i on for memorial day. The news at 11 00 starts now. Now abc 7 news at 11 00, on your side. Kellye the moment that a bomb investigation turned explosive on the National Mall. It happened on the west lawn of the capital as thousands packed in for the annual memorial day concert. Jay korff was there when it happened. Its my understanding new details are just coming out form the police from the police . Jay thats right, just moments ago, the scene was cleared. This is where the suspicious car was, the back window kicked out. The auths and saul simpson wishes items in the car. The authorities could smell gas and saul suspicious items in the car. They deemed there was nothing suspicious in the vehicle, but out of an abundance of caution they had to see if there was a threat. These are some of the parts of the Pressure Cooker that they exploded, and here is the spot where it went off. This is not what anyone expected to happen. Near