Another country interfering with our elections. The Intelligence Committee is the best place for that. Reporter even those against a special counsel still like the choice. I dont think appointing a special counsel was necessary but if one was going to be appointed i think bob mueller is an excellent choice. Reporter the man who picked mueller, rod rosestein briefing senators behind closed doors today on his decision to appointment the special counsel and the role of the firing in james comey. It was a counterintelligence investigation before now. It seems to be now a kremlin investigation. In a lunch today with Network AnchorsPresident Trump said the special counsel hurts our country terribly calling the entire investigation a pure excuse by democrats having lost the election. Jonathan the instapoll is active now. What do you think of the finite appointment of a special prosecutor. Is right move . We have joined by brad garrett. Its good to get your appointments on these things. Your impression of muellers appointment . I cant think of anybody better to pick than bob mueller. Think of his experience. 13 years as the f. B. I. Director. Longterm federal prosecutor, u. S. Attorney in two districts. He knows the f. B. I. He knows the prosecution and the judicial system. He knows politics. But he is a straight shooter. Its a unique combination in somebody. Great pick in my view. Jonathan i have heard a lot of people talk about a special prosecutor. Be careful what you wish for. The net that will go out on the case will be big. I could include everybody. Democrat, republican, it doesnt matter. Anyone with contact with the russians will find out what the contact was and what it entails. What do you think will map with the investigation . What is your best guess . My best guest is mueller will get to the bottom of whatever this is. Now, inea anything . That is the other possibility. Conversations they would like to figure out if they were truthful or accurate or not, there may not be a tape of them. This case will take months and maybe a year or two before you get some real answers. Jonathan talk about the best case worst case. Worst Case Scenario we are talking about collusion and votes stuffed in boxes. Best case its just propaganda that went out there and influenced peoples decision at the ballot box. Does that sum it up . Maybe. Did money get exchanged . Were there promises made . If i get elected youll get x . It will look at those things. It goes beyond to you help me get elected. Now what can you do for me . It could be a quid pro quo situation. Who knows . Im guessing, of course. Those are things you are looking for. Jonathan timeline. Quick answer what do you guess . A year to two years. Jonathan wow brad, thank you for that. Appreciate it. Whatou life fixture now. We are waiting for president and the president of columbia to come out. They are doing a joint best conference. We are waiting for the q a to take place after they make the initial comments. When that happens well take it live. Moving on. Republican congressman Jason Chaffetz the chair of the House OversightCommittee Says he will resign before the end of his term. He earlier said he wouldnt seek reelection in 2018. He recently subpoenaed james comeys home mow and invited comeys memo and invited the f. B. I. Director to testify next week so now its not clear who will lead the committee. Nancy eye catching cover of the time that is depicting the white house of a russian makeover. The cover comes amid escalating controversy over the Trump Administration relationship with russia. This isnt new. In the opening month of trumps presidency, time rolled out a series of politically focused covers featuring the 45th president in a critical light. There is a lot to keep track of. Dont niss updates on the cotial and the f. B. I. Investigations into the president s campaign and Michael Flynn as well as potential ties to russia. Go to wjla. Com text. I havent been to war but you saw the debris. I saw the car flip over and leave the ground. Im in a convertible with the top down. You can see the tears in his eyes. Recount of what happened yesterday. He survived this yash on route 50. It looked like a bomb torn the cars apart. Brad bell has more from the man that walked away from the crash. That is him. Brad tony knows he nearly died yesterday. Im grateful is that i am still here. Yesterday afternoon he was heading east on route 50 and enjoying a drive in the convertible from the home in bowie to cambridge. Literally in the blink of an eye, everything changed. I looked over and in a blur i could see a car coming the opposite direction. As soon as i looked, i saw it make contact. Slammed into stanleys before it came to a rest. The cow killed the wrongway driver. 22yearold Laura Ashley Murphy and the man she hit head on. Murphys 14monthold baby max survived. According to sources is recovering. What stanley and the police are trying to figure out now is why did the crash happen at all. It was crazy. It was the big question is why was she driving that way . Live. On bushs frontage road here next to route 50. If you look left you can see how you could end up in the wrong direction on route 50. We are now being told this is where in fact a young woman did start driving in the wrong direction. So many questions. Why. Why did she continue on for nearly two miles . When we come back at 5 00, we will new 911 tapes. To shed light on what happened here. You will hear from rescuers. It was tough for them. Nancy also new at 4 00, 80 spike of the Sexual Harassment at the Anne Arundel County schools. 214 this School Year Compared to 118 from we have asked more information from the incidents. When we get the information well have an update. Covering metro now. Alison we are nearing the end of metros safetrack program. It isnt xed to end june 25, surge 16 on the red line. It begins june 17. Bus bridges will fill the gap. Metro says it will have completed three years of traffic work in one year when they are finished. This is a day you want to find shade. The summer preview continues. Heat and humidity. With that comes a chance of popup storms. Doug hill has more. Doug we have a popup thunderstorms. That is the theme throughhe most of them are watch of the metro. If you look at the computer model guidance it suggests that some will continue eastward to the metro area. Maybe 8 00 8 30, 9 00. In if forecast we had warm and humid and better chance of the widespread thunderstorms storm. Good eye on things. It will be muggy tonight and warm, too. 90s west and northwest of metro. 86 at Reagan National. 80 at kwan i can toe 80 at quin tyco. The hourly forecast keeps it warm and muggy with the showers and the thunderstorms isolated. Hold in low 7 os overnight. Warm night. One more hot and humid day to go. Big changes in the weekend. Thats in ten minutes. Thank you. We have breaking news out of new york city. This right here. Chaotic scene in times square. A car running right into a crowd there, killing one person and inquiring several others. Injuring several others. Michelle marsh is monitoring this. Michelle the driver appeared to be intoxicated when he drove the wrong way, jumped the curve and nowed down 23 people. One died and 22 others are treated. Many have seriouses. Police are calling it an accident. Witnesses describe it as pandemonium. A couple of hours ago they identified the driver and richard rojas, a 26yearold naver i have veteran. He tried to run from the scene was he was tackled by a traffic agent. He is in custody and undergoing tests to determine if he had drugs or alcohol in his system. They do not suspect a link to terrorism based on the information they have so far. If any new information comes in about how this unfolded well have an jut. In the satellite center, im michelle marsh. Nancy thank you. We want to take you live the white house where President Trump is holding a News Conference with the colombian counterpart president juan santos. If they hold a question and answer session with reporters we will listen in. If he addresses the investigation and the special council appointed. We will special counsel pointed. We will bring it to you. Jonathan a popular swim coast mugged and paralyzed from the race down. Determined to walk again. But bureau chief sam ford reports that the coach lapsed yesterday. This the coach suddenly collapsed yesterday. This is heartbreaking. Sam this is a heartbreaking story. Popular coach at the rumsy pool on capitol hill. He lived here on the forest hill apartment over here. He was walking past the United Medical center on the d. C. Side. Family members said he was walking home from the store in the wee hours of april two men jumped him on the sidewalk. He fought back until they shot him once in the back paralyzing him. They went through his pockets and they found nothing and fled. This happened in front of the United Medical center across from his home. Emergency personnel responded quickly. Five weeks later family members he was doing well in rehabilitation and suddenly yesterday hi collapsed and died. I hate to sound sellish. That was my baby boy. A good guy. Of all the people on the earth to leave the earth early why did my son he didnt bother nobody. He didnt bother anybody. This hurts. Sam police have made no including the kids who loved him. We will hear more about his fiancee who tried to save his life when he collapsed yesterday. Reporting live from southeast washington im sam ford, abc7 news. [gunfire] two shots fired this is unbelievable. Coming up next at 4 00, the traffic stop that goes wrong. And the split second reaction may have saved the officers life. In europe it costs a tuition but in maryland its free. The difference of cost if you need a lifesaving flight. Alison and look carefully. Did you see that . Former president. And his attempt at a photo bomb on national tv of. That is just ahead. And were partnering with cigna to help save lives. We are the tv doctors of america. By getting you to a real doctor for an annual checkup. So go, know, and take control of your health. Doctor poses. Learn your key health numbers, and take control today. Jonathan this may be hard to watch. Two shots fired. Jonathan the deputy made a courtesy traffic stop to see if the driver in the survivor needed assistance. The man got out of the s. U. V. With tried to knock him in the head. As the officer was going down he drew his pistol and shot a guy in the shoulder. Literally in a split second. You can see the driver in the red shirt now on the ground. The driver is facing firstdegree assault charges. Lucky the officer reacted quickly. Alison wow unbelievable video. The man who operated the amtrak train that went off the rails two years ago is now in police custody. Brandon bostian turned himself in, in philadelphia after he was charged with involuntary manslaughter. In may 2015 the train was headed to new york from d. C. Going 106 Miles Per Hour on a 50mileperhour curve and crashed in philly. Eight people died in the accidented. 200 more were injured. Alison the former chairman of fox news roger ailes passed away. Nancy we learned he fell last week hitting his head and never recovered from it. He started fox news almost built it not to just a cable news rating leader but profound influence on the right wing of american politics. Ailes resigned last july amid several Sexual Harassment allegations against him which he denied. Update now on the death of rock star chris cornell. Soundgardens lead singer hanged himself in detroit. He was 52 years old. He was one of the leader voice of the 1990s grunge movement. In 2001 he joined audio slave that broke up in 2007. Jonathan it happens every may, not just the preakness but questions if it will stay at pimlico. Deteriorating conditions at the track surrounding it has someone wondering if the second crown will move. We go to baltimore. Because of the aging track there is buzz about whether preakness may be moved to laurel or elsewhere. No one wants to see it leave the state. Its an it has been here for so long. They are committed to keep preakness at pimlico but it would require a Strong Partnership with a price tag of 350 million. I love picklyco and i love the hisser i love picklyco and i have been to the preakness. But its 11 days of the year. They are focused on the big weekend and they are hoping for a turnout as many as 40,000 for Black Eyed Susan day on friday and the big day on saturday, perhaps as many as 13 o,000 fans. President trump i respect the move but the entire thing has been a witch hunt. There is no collusion between myself and my campaign but i can always speak for myself and the russians. Zero. I think it divides the country. I think we have a very divided country because of that and many other so i can tell you that we want to bring this great country of ours together, john. I will also say strongly we have had tremendous success. You look at the job numbers and you look at what is going on. As we discussed before. You look at what will be happening. Well incredible numbers with respect to the success of general mattis and others with the isis situation. The numbers are staggering how successful they have been, the military has been. Tomorrow as you know im going to saudi arabia, im going to israel. Im going to rome. We have the g7. A lot of great things going on. I hate to see anything that divides. Im fine with whatever people want to do. We have to get back to running the country really, really, really well. We have made tremendous progress in 100 some odd days. Tremendous progress. You see the job numbers and the production starting. The plants i am proud of it. That is what i want to focus on. Believe me, there is no collusion. Russia is fine. But whether its russia or anybody else, my total priority believe me is the United States of america. President trump and president santos, can we say that today we are setting a new road map in the relationship between colombia and the United States which are the commitments . You were talking about the con flict. Many deaths, human rights violations. There is plenty to be done. A very serious problem. We havent really seen a problem like that mr. President in decades. In terms of the kind of violence we are witnessing jonathan President Trump is hosting the president of colombia and the joint press conference. We were waiting for the q a to take place. Out of the gate the president addressed issue with russia and the special council that has been assigned saying it is distracting from the work that needs to be done in the United States. The concil will get to bottom of that. It could take months or years. We have more on the press conference after they wrap it up. But talk about what all of us felt today when we walk outside. Nancy the heat. Jonathan sponge effect. Doug pretty much. Washington, d. C. Downtown got a break. Wind direction blowing across the midtoupper 80s in washington. Its a little break we got. Humidity is not so much. We didnt get that break. But look at this. 86. 93 in frederick and 93 in culpeper. 91 in hagerstown. If you look at winchester what is up with that . 79 degrees. This is adding to the moisture in the air. The heat index are 94 in leesburg. 91 in baltimore. 93 fredericksburg. The direction of the wind, this time of year is so key because the water temperature mainly in the upper 60s right now. The air cools off quickly when it flows over the water. More in the summer not a profound effect. Heavy rain near brunswick in maryland. That will cross over the north to Washington County there. Could be more trying to take shape. Overall c thunderstorms. They are not organized, not in line. We could see more coming through the next few hours. Keep it in the forecast. Its going to remain warm and muggy overnight. Back near 90. Chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon with a cold fronted. Cooler over the weekend. Morning showers. High of 73. Is a peek of sunshine in the afternoon. The cloudiness with the peeks of sunshine coming through. We will see the temperatures drop from 89 to 90. Monday hitting 78. Clearing and 78 on tuesday. Through the balance of the work week next week we will see the temperatures in the low to mid70s. Chance of storm on wednesday. Looking to the weekend sunshine and 80. Only if that holds true. Stay with us. Abc7 news at 4 00 continues after this. This major mess could lead to commuting chaos if you are heading in or out of the district. We tell you how long it is expected to last coming up. Tom went to washington to take on the Insurance Companies and the Credit Card Companies and the wall street banks. Thats what Tom Perriello is about. Progressive causes have been my lifes work. Im Tom Perriello. And before and after congress i led nonprofits to battle climate change, poverty and president bushs attacks on civil rights. Now im running for governor to reduce economic inequality. Because together, we really can build a virginia that works for everyone. As you look back over the past six months or year, have you had any recollection where you wonder if anything you have done has been something that might be worthy of criminal charges in the investigations or impeachment as some on the left are implying . President trump its totally ridiculous. Everybody thinks so. We have to get back to working the country properly and take care of the problems we have. We have plenty of problems. We have done a fantastic job. We have a tremendous group of people. Millions of people out there looking at what you had just said. And said what are they doing . Director comey was very unpopular with most people. I actually thought when i made that decision and i got a very, very strong recommendation as you know from the Deputy Attorney general. Rod rosenstein. When actually thought it would be a bipartisan decision. Because you look at all the people on the democratic side, not only the republican side that was saying such terrible thi