There. We saw the police frisking them and interrogating them now. We understand that brown has not been macedded under arrest as of this point. But we also heard that a duffel bag with weapons and drugs were tossed out of the front door by chris brown to the police there. So right now the police are inside questioning him. This began about 3 00 in the morning when a woman made a call to 911. As the standoff played out throughout the day, chris brown would not come out and did not allow the police to come in and question him initially. He took to instagram and posted a number of rants. This is part of one of them. Barricaded myself in my house. Have you seen my house . Im going to barricade myself in my palace. Leon that is a small portion of the rant. If you want to hear more check it out on the w wjla. Com. Small caution you might not want children around you when you do play it. He uses serious explicit language there. Again, we are watching this as it plays out. You see it on the screen. The police are now inside the home questioning chris brown about the incident this morning where he allegedly held a gun to a womans head. Right now we are still waiting to get more information from the l. A. Police. We will let you know what we learn. Back to you. Jonathan thanks. Another story were following on metro regarding this years Marine Corps Marathon. Metro will not open at 5 00 in the morning like it has in years past. It has not run extended hours since safetrack got started so there has been no extra service after concert or sporting events and no extra service before big events like the marathon. It will open sunday but the Marine Corps Marathon and the events are the last weekend of october so there will be more eight car trains running when metro is up and running. Also right now at 4 00, its a but will we see the same thing a year from now . Michelle that is a big question today. That is ocean city behind us. One of the reasons that governor larry hogan and the comptroller want school to start after labor day. Its gorgeous. Jonathan it would give students and parents another week to enjoy time on the beach. Its the subject of the instapoll as well. Should schools wait until after labor day before going back to class . Michelle go to wjla. Com votenow to weigh in and we will show the numbers live as you vote. As brad bell reports, educators are he about hesitt about change. Brad for most kids the bell has rung. Back to school. Summer is over. Hit the books. But tonight the Maryland Governor and the comptroller, the tax man, would rather they hit the beach until after labor day. A popular idea with some parents. Give the kids extra tame to get prepare and have a final plan for the summer. Brad they called a mysterious press conference on the ocean city boardwalk tomorrow. Saying the longsought idea to mandate a post labor day start date will move ahead. It gives us a better summer. I enjoy spending time with them. Brad ocean city businesses long pushed for a longer start date for the school. And it would mean 74 million in revenue statewide. The bill has never made legislative support. If he makes the move tomorrow he will face opposition from legislators who believe this is when the school ought to start. They include the superintendent, board of education and the teachers union. The union s to mandate school start on hotel rooms and selling ice cream cones. A notion that has support among parents. Its a selfish reason to have kids wait. Summer is long enough. No need to prolong it. Brad the governor will announce the plan tomorrow at 1 00. In cheverly, brad bell, abc7 news. Michelle the Kings Dominion law in virginia mean they go to school a week from today. Send us your pictures by going to burst. Com wjla. Click on the back to school bubble. Jamie on the subject of a week from today, the tuesday after labor day infamous known as terrible traffic tuesday. Well, turns out the past few havent been any worse than normal commute. When school is in session, will this be different this year . Abc7s transportation reporter Brianne Carter has this outlook. Brianne the big question is whether or not safetrack will play a role in this. Initially safetrack was not expected to have a surge come tuesday after labor day. But the kristing surge will be in place. That question and the piece of the puzzle remains. What we know according to data by the Transportation Planning board they say the traffic nightmare so many expect so many expect dubbed terrible tuesday may not be that. What they have seen in the data four of the past five years the tuesday is no worse than any of the other days in that rampup we see from august to september. There are so many people on vacation and the school is ju but now it seems a perfect storm on tuesday. Congress and federal workers are back. Many vacations will have seized. Also all classes will be back in session as well. So there is expected to a slowdown, especially in the morning. Especially in the morning, the traffic going up significantly between an average day in august and september. It is from 15 to 45 . The increase in those two months. Brian so what we understand is if you sit in traffic for 45 minutes to an hour, expect that to be anywhere from 90 minutes or more. That is as we see the switch from august to september. We will have more at abc7 news at 6 00. Reporting live, Brianne Carter, abc7 news. Jonathan thank you very much. Me . Looking from space down to us. That is a giant eye of the hurricane. This isnt the only hurricane in the ocean now. Hurricanes madeline and lester are in the pacific. Gastelum is in the at lan ghaston is in the atlantic. Three of them. Chief meteorologist doug hill has been busy with all of this joins us with the forecast. That is a lot of color. Doug hurricane gasston is that size. Its pushing or propagating ocean swell to the coastline. Its contributing to the waves and rip currents. Now two disturbances we are watching. One south of the hat ris area. This first Tropical Storm is hermine and the next one is ian. They both have the separate issues here. This is the reason that the redski game moved tomorrow night instead of thursday. Upper 80s but it will be muggier tomorrow. We will be watching for the isolated shower and the thunderstorms late in the day west of washington. Well talk about it in a few minutes whether any of the Tropical Weather could affect us by the Holiday Weekend. Michelle thank you. Last night at least 30 people got out of their cars to help when a tree fell on a mans car on beach drive in d. C. That man was rushed to the hospital with life threatening injuries. Q mccray is not far from where it happened. I didnt come down due to bad weather yesterday. Does it have other people in that area worried . Q let me give the viewers at home a live look where we are. We are live off of b there is still part of the car here. The hub cab and the front fender. Across the street you will notice where the tree used to stand before this freak accident. We got to check this footage out. D. C. Fire and e. M. S. Were first on scene. The camry involved in the accident with the roof missing. It was sawed off to save the driver. The driver was heading northbound here around 6 30 yesterday. The peak of rush hour. Out of nowhere the tree came crashing down on top of the car. This is a hefty tree. Nothing that a few people could lift up. The First Responders were happy to see people help them out. The amazing part of the story, 30 people with the Park Police Officers that responded lifted the free off the car and rolled it out from underneath the free, allowing take him to a local hospital where he was treated. Q this is another live look at the debris. The mans name has not been released yesterday but i know currently he is in Critical Condition at a local hospital. I spoke to a couple of the Good Samaritans who helped out yesterday. They are praying for his quick recovery. Is there a safety issue . Are trees going to continue to fall on all the passing traffic . I spoke to ann arborist. Youll hear from him later. Q mccray, abc7 news. Michelle thank you. Cathy lanier is stepping down in the coming weeks. She is reflecting on a career that even she as mitts was a long schoth admits was a long shot when it began. She talked to our sister station newschannel8. Today she said becoming a mother chief lanier as a teenager, no common sense. Being a teenager you know everything. Once i had my son everything in life became about taking care of my son. Everything in life was you got to take care of him. So it was get back to school, get an education, get a good job. Make sure that you can provide for him. Make sure he goes to college and has everything he needs. So i started working with that in mind. You kind of put your head down and you work. Michelle check out the entire interview online at news8newstalk. Com and see how she responds about questions about who might become the next chief. Jonathan coming up next at 4 00, for us the reason the final redskins preseason game is moved up a day. Michelle next, a fiery wreck involving nearly a dozen cars. The story behind this heartstopping video. Thats next. Jonathan hit the easy button for being laz ahead of the competition. Michelle a big reveal on Good Morning America. Cast of season 23 of dancing with the stars revealed. Coming up. Michelle the next round of celebrities are red deto step out of the comfort zone and in the dancing shoeing. Including ryan lochte, the man behind the rio olympic scandal, vanilla ice, former Texas Governor rick perry and music legend babyface. Season 23 of the series premier is september 13. Right here on wjla. Watch all the action on abc7. To see all the contestants that were announced just go to wjla. Com. Jonathan well, the growing concern about active shooters now has more and more people seeking ways to protect themselves in a worst case scenario. Joce sterman with the new digital partner circa has a firsthand look at a program that teaches people to try and take down an active shooter if there is, if that is the only choice they have. Joce this is active shooting trainer. I feel awkward. A man landed on my ankle. We are in the safety of a gym marietta, georgia. But there is a dark reality. What were training for happened then a man with a gun is coming for you. Joce most people hide and hope. Its not a tornado drill. Joce they are teaching through a program called alert at texas state. You may get hurt and you may die. If you do nothing you are going to get hurt and you are going to die. Joce critics say this training gives people in crisis a onetrack mind. They become acclimated to the idea that anybody with a gun is an active shooter. So a suicidal kid, angry parent with a hammer, gunman with an Assault Rifle get treated the same. Mike doran evaluates School Crisis response says Shooter Training was a thing. Looks out completely the or scenarios more likely to happen. Potential for lawsuits from ohio to oregon. People filed because of the training trauma and pain. In iowa, Insurance Group says it paid 300,000 in training injury medical claims. We are seeing bizarre behaviors unintended consequences. Joce but they dont see et as a liability issue. This is about saving your life. Its never your turn to be shot. Im not going to wait in that line. You are not going to race in that line. Joce im joce sterman for circa. Jonathan part of the training they tell you there are literally dozen of things around the office and the classroom even in a public bathroom to help you fight against or fight back against an active shooter. If you want to find how they can give you some defense go to circa. Com. Video there on the active shooter sto everyday items can help you get out of this kind of situation. Time to look at traffic. Jamie sullivan is keeping an eye on details and its easy if theyre moving that slowly behind you. Jamie i know. A lot to talk about. This is heading outbound. The up is shining in your eyes the sun is shining in your eye as you are trying to travel. You miss in a crash and that adds to the congestion. So its a little heavier on 66. Bottom of the beltway is heavy while trying to cross the wilson bridge. We have accident activity on 295. This is on the outer loop. You can see the volume here. The slow traffic for four miles and only averaging 4 miles per hour. The big picture look a lot of green inside the beltway. Another slow spot is on the inner loop heading north. Getting into bethesda. We are seeing traffic in the now. Back to you. Michelle residents in tampa moving to what is tropical defession number nine. The game for the redskins have moved up to tomorrow. When you are talking about the redskins and they are not usually thinking tropical depression. Theyre usually thinking touchdown. Doug its a good call. But there could be rain and breezes to deal with. Well keep an eye on that. Start with the happy news. Beautiful, warm, sunny day. With the clouds out there now. The temperatures are plenty warm. One more hot and humid day tomorrow before a substantial change in the weather pattern that i know you will 89 at reagan national. If you are dining out tonight a good call. Temperatures in upper 80s at 6 00. Fall to the middle. Lower 80s by 8 00. A delightful evening around the area. The wakeup temperatures from the midtoupper 60s. A range of mid60s to the lower 70s downtown. That is how we start the day on wednesday. Lets get the latest. There will be a substantial change in the weather update in the afternoon at 5 00 whether or not this depression is upgraded to the Tropical Storm. A chance it could happen this evening, if not later tonight. The good news is this will move quickly and not have winds around the center. Much past 50 miles per hour. Out to sea but it is going to churn up the rip current along the beaches to the outer banks. So that is tropical depression number eight. If it traps it will be a hurricane, depending which one goes first, that one or this one in the gulf. This one has more potential and more action, energy and storms with it. Potential to be stronger as it heads northeast. The latest track subject to revision here at 5 00, has it tucked up here in the big bend of florida. 8 00 thursday morning. So down in tampa late tomorrow night, gusty winds and showers are possible. It will move off the coast of jacksonville. 35mileperhour winds. Shouldnt affect anything on the Holiday Weekend but it will contribute to rip current. That is a serious threat you need to think about. Check the lifeguard on the beaches before you go in the water. Dont fight the current. Relax, be calm. Float parallel to the shore. Dont try to swim in. If you swi you cant handle the wave for help so dont go in if you are fighting that current if the rip currents are bad. 90 tomorrow. Shower and storms with a cold front friday, saturday, sunday, monday on labor day. It looks spectacular. Jonathan thanks. Like coffee talk from s. N. L. , leesburg city or town discussing but a real discussion that is going on there. That classification could change the town as it stands now. Well explain it to you coming up. Michelle yesterday we put a 39 water bottom the test. How about 50 deodorant . Jonathan what . I sniff under peoples armpits for a living. Michelle that is the job. Jonathan what . Michelle he has a tough job. We will have the results which might surprise you after this. Jonathan tha jonathan breaking news. Governor hogan announced a 5 million fouryear study of looking into the project of looking into another bay crossing. There are two spans but if they added more it would reduce the amount of traffic in the area. We have more coming up at abc7 news at 5 00 and at 6 00. So lets see. Yesterday we put 39 water bottom the test. Found that you really dont need to spend that much because its a 10 bottle did same thing. Michelle today were ante. Today expensive highend deodorant. Does spending more make a difference . We look if it passes the smell test. Reporter drugstore deodorant cost a few bucks. Swipe it on after a shower and thats it, right . Wrong. Deodorant is a 4 billion business and growing. Designers are getting in the odor control mix. 25 cashmere mist and portofino. 50 for deodorant . To learn more we head to the princeton con does an expensive deodorant do Something Different that less expenseive brands . People think that they pay more for a product it will be so much better. That is just not the case at all. If you want to prevent sweat in the first place, rather than masking the odor try an antipers pir rant. It works to clog the pores that produce the sweat. He points to the drugs that are roughly the same price and have roughly the same active ingredient. Aluminum. Some people may choose to pay more for great spelling deodorant the experts advice to prevent odor in the first place is antiperspirant. Go for the box standard. The nose knows. Wow jonathan i cant up see that. Still ahead at abc7 news at 4 00 apple ordered to pay billions of dollars in back taxes for hireland. Why money and may have played a role in this. Thats coming up. Town hall could be city hall in leesburg. Im Cheryl Conner. Coming up we talk to the mayor about his plans to save tax announcer youre watching abc7 news at 4 00. Michelle back out, live pictures over artist chris browns home in los angeles. The l. A. P. D. Has a warrant to search the singers home to look for a weapon. He is accused of using a weapon to threaten a woman. Blown reportedly came out brown reportedly came out of the house for a short time. He refused to let People Police until they showed him the warrant. He has been posting rants on the Instagram Account that you can see on our website. But we want to worn you there is offensive language in the rants. We will continue to monitor the situation. Jonathan the 911 call was a woman saying he held a gun to her head. That got the police response. They have been careful about not busting down the door. Apparently she is out of the house an its just Chris Brown Inhofe side the house so they need. In virginia a big difference between cities and towns. Michelle a big money designation. Leesburg is a big town but it could become the newest city in northern virginiament