>> i asked president trump have you in any way urged former f.b.i. director james comey to slow down or tepid russia investigation regarding flynn? he said no, no, next question. unequiver call. -- unekiv can. one of the conscious that will be brought to the forefront when the special counsel investigates the white house. it's remarked that history has a wray to repeat itself. when it comes to the special prosecutors that is true, too. a dozen times in the last 100 years they dominated the news cycle to put presidents on the defensive. >> the tapes, the matters of the presidential conversations. those are the matters in which the president has responsibility to defend this office. >> from watergate to white water. special counsel can follow leads sometimes aren't of course at first. >> -- that aren't obvious at first. >> absolutely. they can veer into almost any direction they want, depending where the evidence takes them. >> a prime example was land deal focused on an affair. >> did trump obstruct justice in the firing of comey and usualing comey to drop the flynn investigation? we don't know where it will lead. scott iran can tro took $40 million. no one went to jail and it never rose to improvement for ronald reagan. bill clinton was impeached by the house. later acquitted by the senate. as for president trump -- >> people should not expect that we will see criminal charges being leveled at the people around him. they may be but we don't nobody. >> be patient. there is no definitive timeline for the investigations and it is likely congressional ones may wrap up before the special council investigation. they could have the different results but the bottom line the president today when i asked him said no, he never pushed comey. back to you. michelle: thank you. resignation is raising questions about the future of a congressional investigation into the trump campaign. jason chaffetz will leave congress at the end of next month. he is the chair of the committee investigating trump's firing of the f.b.i. director james comey and whether the trump campaign colluded with russia. he has not commented on the investigation. >> we need to switch gears quickly to chief meteorologist doug hill. there is a storm watch weather alert just issued. what is going on? doug: one of the clutchers there were a couple of clusters and this area has turned severe. the national weather service issued severe warning until 6:45. zoom in and show the area. it's north of berryville. so the way it will head east at 6:o 9 in five minutes. over charlestown at 6:17 in hillsborough. there are to few other clusters but this is the strongest with strong winds gusting to over 50 miles per hour and quarter size hail. back in a few minutes with another update. severe thunderstorm warning until 6:45. michelle: thank you. to a developing story now chaos in times square. a car goes out of control and strikes dozens of people. police call this an isolated incident. the driver crashed into a crowd and drove three blocks before crashing to a barricade. 18-year-old, tourist killed. 22 others >> it was like bowling. hitting people. >> even though you know it is in the back of your head you think it will never happen. we have the best security. we have all the people and all these things. we don't even know about to keep us safe. >> rojas tried to run after the crash. >> a man pulled from the wreckage of the wrong way crash yesterday has died. the baby of the woman killed is clinging to life. the mother sped down the wrong way of a busy highway. listen. >> the car just went the wrong way. heading toward the severn river. >> it was going westbound in lane of traffic and out of control. >> the maryland bureau chief brad bell talks to a man who walked away from >> tony looks back on the crash and understands he could have been killed. >> i was grateful. and thankful that i was okay. >> the car heading the wrong way and highway speed traffic on eastbound 50 yesterday hit the car next to stanley's head on. >> the car was totaled. he wasn't hurt. but the driver died instantly in the crash. her 14-month-old baby aboard is recovering from injuries. the man she hit was trapped for hours. despite heroic rescuers and a special team of doctors flown in to help, he, too, died. robert skidmore of annapolis. stanley says there was nothing that he could have done to avoid the collision. >> i happen to in a blur i could see a carm copping the opposite direction. >> the big questions tonight why did murphy go in the wrong direction. why didn't she stop? police believe she got to 50 here from the bush's frontage road. an easy mistake to make. you could get on the wrong direction. but why did she continue driving dodging cars for two miles. in annapolis. brad bell, abc7 news. jonathan: police find an escaped inmate in drugstore and the chase that followed cost the man his pants and his freedom. >> shocking video and a split second decision that may have saved a deputy's life. how it unfolded. >> a severe weathererning afternoon. virginia and western virginia. it travels with high winds and the hail size of quarters. next up, hillsville and we will keep an eye on it. 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>> right now we are troubleshooting. we suspect that we hit some animal as we rotated. >> it appears they did find a bird. likely that was what it was. >> we are declaring an emergency. michelle: not what you want to hear while on board a flight. the bird strike caused a fuel leak. firefighters quickly foamed the plane as the passengers evacuated. the grateful passengers shared the pictures here with us on alongside crew members. jonathan: amazing to me how calm pilots are when they declare an emergency. nice work. sounds of explosions and fireballs filling the air. all caught on video overnight in cleveland. watch this. that will get your full attention. one of a series of explosions as three garbage trucks burned. firefighters battling the flames. i took them an hour before knocking it down. no unwith was hurt the cause is un -- no one was hurt and the cause sun known but the video is spectacular. the historic lorton prison reopening but not to inmates. mike carter-conneen shows us that the cell blocks are turned into modern day apartment units. mike: the lorton reformtary revitalized and rebranded as the liberty crest apartment on laurel hill. it was commissioned by president roosevelt and opened by 1916. by the end of the century it conditions and security problems and shut down in 2001. >> there was a couple of dangerous riots here. there was one correctional officer murdered here. >> there were people who thought it was a nasty area. take the buildings down. but they are historic. >> extensive reservations are underway. >> we have gratitude to the original architects that put the windows in to fill spaces with light. >> the developers have kept in place historic place cell block marking and signage. this warned against the unauthorized viddors. >> we decided to embrace it. >> 30% of the 165 rental units is been claimed. >> i love it. mike: she shares a two-bedroom apartment with her husband and two young children. >> for the space and the square footage i feel like i got the best deal possible for the area. mike: but she admits before >> ghost stories. i thought about that. once you saw the unit that went away. when you see the apartment, i don't think about a jail. mike: in lorton, mike carter-conneen, abc7 news. jonathan: that would be an interesting place to call home. michelle: yes. for sure. hot enough for you? jonathan: this was good. sweaty day. but toasty. doug: the folks north and west under the severe thunderstorm warnings like earlier in the day. pounded with heavy rain. give you an update, wide view of the radar. pick out the reds and the yellows to tell you off the bat on the presentation who has the heaviest weather. there is severe thunderstorm warnings in effect until 6:45 north and east. it should expire if they haven't already. it's this area over southern west virginia, jefferson county and westward to winchester that we had new clusters of heavy thunderstorms. again the possibility of the severe weather and wind gusts over 50 miles per hour. large hl this is the cluster now. so you can see the way it is moving east northeast. to brunswick across potomac to maryland. roundhill to berryville. in those areas, storms. second part is a new warning. this runs until 7:00 tonight. you can see the lightning. this is strasburg, north of front royal. to the east. almost to the west virginia line. we will watch it closely. there could be a third wave tomorrowing up south and west. closer to sunset it will settle down. but a lot of action and lightning and rain. we will pull back to show d.c. metro area. everything should continue to track north and west of metro washington. we will monitor the shower and the storms. future cast shows running out of steam by 8:30 or 9:00 tonight. it's muggy overnight with the clouds. through the day tomorrow we have sunshine. but then a fresh round of storms in the afternoon from a cold front coming in. we will get close to 90 degrees. over the we will get northeasterly winds. cooler temperatures. morning showers. otherwise cloudy for saturday. sunday is cloudy again. afternoon sunshine. cool side at 73. but we warm up by monday. then another colt from to bring more -- cold front that brings more showers monday. thunderstorm on wednesday afternoon. temperatures hold to low to mid-70's. the advance look to next week saturday and sunday, beginning of the memorial day weekend. sunshine by 80 degrees and if only it will hold true. erin: sounds good. thank you. nats close out the series in pittsburgh. could michael vic be returning to football? 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doug: update on the storms. look at the radar. north and west. it should stay. the heaviest clusters north of front royal. steve will track the showers and the storms and looks like a cooler weekend. in the next hour we will have a warning on the crawl across the bottom of the screen. michelle: thank you. 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