Long. Reporter theres no severe thunderstorm warnings right now, and good thunderstorms rolling into the south of town between dc and fredericksburg, moving down i95, and more thunderstorms crossing the maryland p. A. Border, headed to frederick. This is heavy rain, and stanford down 305, and also down the river, and also colon corral beach colonial beach. Fredericksburg with the storms, and this is the one that caught our attention. The apartment complex off connecticut avenue, and this is what the storms looked like around 1 00 and 2 00 this afternoon, and they were up in meyersville, and ominous, and heres what they did. They took down the power lines there, and pete sent that in. We appreciate it. We will talk about tomorrow morning like fog, and we will talk about the heat wave and when it will finally end. Top, the worst of the damage from the storm appears to be centered in Montgomery County, including a house struck by lightning and destroyed by flames in gaithersburg. And thats where Garrett Haake is standing by live. What can you tell us about the home . Reporter i spoke to a woman who was alone in the home when the lightning struck, and she was downstairs when it happened, and she got out just fine. The home worth three quarters of a million dollars, thought to be a complete loss, by far the most dramatic damage from the storm that passed through tonight. Reporter lightning carved a scar in this tree in bethesdas the storm bethesda. The storm striking it. Boswell street was blocked until the chain saws could remove the damage was at this home in gaithersburg. Firefighters arrived quickly, but the flames on the roof moved faster. Roof was entirely on fire. Reporter neighbors described a dramatic scene, flames shooting from the roof, even as heavy rain pounded down. I was driving into the neighborhood, and i saw the house on fire, and it was pouring rain, apparently struck by lightning, and flames were on the roof. Reporter the one woman inside made it safely to a neighbors house, and her home is now a charred shell. I feel very bad for the people who live there, and im just glad she got out okay, and everyone is all right. Reporter and you can see the roof of the home burned completely off tonight n the span of a few minutes, and Montgomery County fire officials said they sent 75 firefighters out here to fight the blaze, and fortunately no firefighters injured either. Garrett haake, wusa 9. Punch. Theres also a handful of transform fires reported. One happened in be bethesda. Take the time now to make sure you are safe in the future. The storms popped up and came in with little warning, and you would get the warning if you download the free wusa 9 app. We have the latest watches, warnings, radar, and breaking information when you need it the most. Now to Prince Georges County. The family of a Convenient Store clerk gunned down 3 weeks ago is speaking out and begging for help. The victim was gunned down at work, and he left behind a wife and two children in a story you will see only on 9, wusa 9s ellison barber spoke with the victims heart broken sister. Reporter his sister flew in not show her face because the killer is still out there. You dont have to see her face to understand the pain she is going through. I just said okay, youre not talking about this. Its not happening. Pick up the phone. He came to study, to make his life better. But he is gone. Reporter tywon aluani was one of eight siblings. He left his wife and two children in london to pursue a graduate degree. He is the kind of guy that does not sit in one place. Reporter it came to an end on saturday, august 20th. A masked man shot and killed him during a robbery attempt at the 7eleven where he worked. The suspect didnt get any money, but the 31yearold was shot twice, and the suspect ran away. Minutes later the suspect robbed this hotel. How could someone just come and money . Reporter she heard the news nearly 4,000 miles away in london, and she had to tell his wife. It was her boyfriend, and her birthday, and she called and said have you heard from my husband . He hasnt called me . And i was like hes going to call you. Maybe the phone line is bad. Reporter this pain isnt going away. This is someone that is right here. My brother. Reporter the family hopes they can have some justice. Hes gone, and hes not going to come back. I just need that person. To be caught. Reporter for the man who was trying to make his life better. Someone most definitely heard something, and thats all we need. Reporter police say they really want people to take a look at that suspects backpack. They s if you look closely, maybe its something you recognize. If you think you know anything about this crime, police want to hear from you, no matter how small of a detail. Reporting in clinton, im ellison barber, wusa 9. Members of the Community Came together to raise awareness for an arrest and conviction this weekend they will do it with his family by their side. In Prince Georges County a family has been waiting for a year for charges to be filed in a deadly car accident that left a young mother and father dead. But still no charges. Wusa 9s mola lenghi is live in the news room. Reporter last year three children were left behind in what is now a family in turmoil and a grandmother struggle thing to keep it all together. Im no longer grangran, im their mommy. Reporter virginia retired grandmother to the mother to her grandsons. Now i have to rebuild my family, and i have to build a new family for elijah. Reporter elijah lost both of his parents on a curvey road. Delante and shellah were hit by a pull. Moore a disabled vet, retiring from the army after 26 years says she has waited far for a year for charges to be filed against the man who hit her daughter and soninlaw. You drove so fast. Was it worth it . Was driving that fast really worth it . Because in the blink of an eye, you took the life of two Beautiful People and destroyed many. Reporter since the wreck moore says the family has been decimated. The young loving couple the had one son, and daughter from previous relationships, and now they live with other family members, and moore won a custody battle over his paternal grandparents, but it left relationships strained, and now the children have limited contact with each other. Everything he knew has vanished. Reporter one car accident, two people killed, and so much lost. Im not fighting battle thes to try to recoop the things that have been taken from this child. Reporter except the one thing he cant get back. Do you wish mommy and daddy was still here . 1 year later the wounds are still obviously fresh. Missmoore has spent the last year constantly following up with the police and the state Attorneys Office in the hopes that charges will be filed. She says authorities recently told her to expect charges to be filed against the driver soon. Lesli . We can only hope. Now to p developing detail in the incident involving olympianim tonight we learned he will be suspended for 10 months for the gas station incident that became an embarrassment during the rio olympics. He will also be banned from the 2017 world championship, and tmz is the first to report this. The International Olympic committee has not yet made it public, and we dont know about the punishment for the other swimmers involved including marylands own jack conger. Tonight police are investigating an officer involved shooting that was caught on camera here outside of a safeway in dcs petworth neighborhood. Oh my god they just shot somebody. Witnesses said a gunman was shooting in the street, and even at a metro bus, just randomly, and they said an officer who happened to be inside of the safeway rushed outside, told the man to drop his weapon, and then he opened fire. Now a witness who didnt want to show his face says he is relieved that the officer took action. I believe in if the officer wasnt there, that anybody could have been hurt. No one else was hurt. The suspect was in surgery, no word on his condition. Police have recovered his handgun, and Georgia Avenue is back open to traffic. Dc police are appealing to you for new leads in last weeks shooting after pregnant woman and a man outside of a Convenient Store in northeast. The woman was 5 months pregnant with twins, but she took a bullet to the stomach and lost both girls. The attack on brentwood road was caught on camera, and you can see two men approach the crowd and start firing indiscriminately at people. The mom was an innocent bystander, and the shooting was retaliation for a murder the night before. The university of Maryland Police have identified one suspect here, arrested in the shooting of a security guard, and hes 24yearold jamal green of dc, and the search continues for the second suspect, and the place early yesterday at the College Park Marriott hotel and conference center. Police say the suspects stole three safes from the conference center, but they dropped them as they fled the scene. We learned the guard is still in the hospital recovering. Out of fairfax county, new details on the death last weekend of a jail inmate. 53yearold kelly scott. The medical examiner ruled the death was due to natural causes, and specifically abdominal inflammation caused by a perforated ulcer in his intestine. I kept saying youre not buying anything. Dont buy anything. Reporter but she did, and thats when the trouble began. The warning about the bogus business that could be targeting you. Washington spirit soccer team makes a move to protest the National Anthem. The protest backlash now in dc. Miniinauguration in just a few weeks. Details about the big sleep number beds adjust on both sides for your best sleep ever. Dont miss the biggest sale of the year. All beds on sale with the queen c2 mattress only 599. 99. Final days ends sunday. Know better sleep. Only at a sleep number store. Turning to the race for president , and tonight Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump both took part in a televised forum on National Security in new york city. The candidates didnt appear on stage at the same time. Both nominees vowing to defeat isis and provide Better Health care to our veterans, and they also took questions on issues that have dogged their campaigns. Clinton was asked about her e mail scandal, and trump was asked about his contact with vladimir putin. I communicated about classified material on a separate system and took it seriously. The fact he calls me brilliant or whatever he calls me will have zero impact. The first debate will be september 26th at Hofstra University in hempstead, new york. New tonight, can be a major invest. In a piece of vacation property, but one group has been targeting the washington area, and they promise those owners big returns, but many of them end up empty handed. I won a trip, so i asked a girlfriend to go with me. Okay. Reporter sheraton hill has a passion for travel. In december of 2014 she even flew to florida to sit through a time share pitch to get a free trip. I said youre not buying anything. Dont buy anything, but you get kind of sucked in. Reporter sheraton thought she would have a place to get away and make a little money, too. 1 year later she was thrilled when the resort Property Management company or rpm called to assure her they had clients to rent her time share. They said they were rented out at 2100 a week. Reporter the thing that roped you in was the promise of money . Exactly. That would have been what . 6,000 some dollars . Reporter nearly 800 for add fees, but when she clicked on the website, there was only an advertisement for the resort property and not her specific time share. The atlantabased company promised she would get her money minus the remaining ad costs in 90 days. I never heard from them. Reporter she is not the only one who shelled out money for the advertising fee. This woman from woodbridge lost almost 4,600. Reporter the bbb reports it has received nearly 200 complaints against resort Property Management, and kelsey owens says nearly a third were from time share owners in dc, virginia, maryland, and pennsylvania. They are calling and saying they are affiliated with your resort, and once they have your money, they are vanishing. Reporter what is the likelihood that they will get their money back . Unfortunately its unlikely. Reporter sheraton hopes by sharing her story it will help other time share owners avoid the hard lesson she has had learn. If im the last one, maybe they wont get anybody else. And then i think i will be set. Reporter now resort Property Management has an f rating from the bbb, and the nonprofit says they have repeatedly refused to respond to their inquiries and letters. When we called rpm, the automated message says the number you have dialed is temporarily unavailable. The bbb advises time share owners to check out a company, never agree to anything on the phone or online, and make sure you get all the information in writing, and make sure they are licensed to sell and rent in the state where your property is located, and you can find more information to protect your investment on our wusa 9 app. Always look it up. And now that the information is out there, look it up, and you will see the negative stories and know its not a place to be trusted. Thats the point sheraton was trying to ma. Research before. They get you with the lure of money. They take a lot of it. 3degree guarantee, starting with that, and then to the thunderstorms. I was hoping for a bullseye. I went with 93, and it was off by one, 94. 22 of the last 23, and we are going to go to 97 tomorrow, and maybe a little aggressive, but we will go with 97 tomorrow. A live look outside, and its down to 77, and dew point still in the 70s, and temperatures are not going to fall too much farther, and heres the radar, and we have, you know, one batch of showers from dc to fredericksburg, and nothing severe, but hefty. Another batch is training the same path as the original storms, north to south they are moving, and they are moving through frederick up into Montgomery County, but the storm, its heavy, and this is just around bowie, back up laurel, and this is moving off to the south, and its going to hit bowie right now, and hit Marriott Hill at heavy rain, and i dont see anything severe with that, but these are big storms as well, and one now strand thing up over to hay market and its at 66, and still heavy rain down to stafford, and everything is moving south. A rumble of thunder at 2 00 or 3 00 in the morning. Bus stop temperature, 72 to 84. Dry in the morning, but patchy fog, and you may want to add 5 minutes to the commute tomorrow. Heat index 105. Isolated storms tomorrow, and not as widespread, and a few could be heavy. Weekend, hot on saturday, and warm on sunday. We break the heat by sunday, and 97 tomorrow, and 93 on friday, and 95 on saturday, and only 84 on sunday, and only 81 on monday, and our average high is 83. We will be below average finally by monday. Dont really see any record highs at this point. 6 00in the morning, fog and temperature in the 70s. 9 00, in the 80s. At least low back in the mid90s, and a few storms tomorrow, but not that many. 70s to start. 81 by 9 00, and 93 by 1 00 p. M. Friday, cooler, but still 93, and saturday, we bump it back up to 95. Isolated storms are possible, and the best chance of storms will actually be saturday night into sunday morning, with the cold front, and back into the 80s on saturday, and monday is perfect for nats or football, and still nice on tuesday and wednesday of next week as well. We will go from an eventual cooldown to a letdown. It was an unsettling well, what started out a as promising night for the washington nationals, getting straws burg back from the disabled list quickly turned into a nightmare. The all mighty rightys return, everyone is happy to have him back, and there was a short rain delay, and the game got off to a good t strasburg, giving up one hit in 3 innings, plans very pleased, and then the high way outside pitch. Not looking right, and hes shaking his arm. The next pitch would be his last. Strasburg with obvious discomfort, and dusty baker coming out to get his starter, and strasburg went to the clubhouse after just 42 pitches. And we are awaiting the word of the 175 million man. The game is ongoing, tied 33 in the 8th. We will update you with the latest. Megan rapino is supporting Colin Kaepernicks protest of the National Anthem and said she would once again kneel ahead of the game against the washington spirit, but she was never given the chance. This was the scene at tonights game, and the field was empty during the playing of the star spangled banner because spirit owner bill lynch, a veteran himself decided to play the anthem while all the players were still in the a Team Statement explained in part we decided to play the anthem in our stadium ahead of schedule rather than subject our fans and friends to the disrespect we feel such an act would represent. You can read the entire statement on our wusa 9 app. To the other football now, the burgundy and gold are in full prep mode for the monday night show down against the steelers to open up the regular season. One filled with high expectation as the burgundy and gold look to defend their title. Gruden is confident the home crowd will help propel them to the victory they want. Home field advantage is the greatest in all of sports. It makes it very difficult for the posing offense to communicate. A lot of silence stuff, defensive line off the snap better, and the momentum swings at huge at home. We were 71 last year, and thats an advantage we ta it. Reporter of course everyone is excited for the nfl season, but its hard to think about with the news of strasburg. You hope he can put ice on it, and it will be who can name the third president . Male teacher and the largest planet . Someone we havent heard from. Female teacher anyone else . Through internet essentials, comcast has connected more than 3 Million People in need to lowcost, high Speed Internet at home, helping to make sure that every hand in the classroom goes up. Male teacher okay, veronica. Amphibian. Male teacher excellent. Welcome to a brighter future. Comcast. Im luann bennett, and when you see women paid less than men for doing the same work, thats not fair. Women around here face the greatest pay disparity in all virginia, and washington does nothing. I approve this message because that has to change. 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Details on that on our wusa 9 app. Yeah, the pressure will be on you to make sure thats all nice for that. You have a couple of weekends to go before that happens. 7day. Tomorrow, upper 90s, the heat index near 105, and isolated storm tomorrow, and a better chance on friday and saturday night, and we will break the heat wave by sunday, and we are back into the 80s on monday and tuesday and wednesday. Pretty much perfect for the home opener. Okay. You like that . Thats it for us tonight. The late show is next. We will call that a winner. Good night. Grocery shoppers of america take your o organics baby carrots. Take your eggs. Even your o organics chips. And join the organic movement. Organic food is no longer just for the privileged few. Now everyone can afford to go organic. O organics, exclusively at safeway. Stephen we believe the iphone 7 is the most exciting iphone yet. Youve heard the rumors and, yes, they are true. We have removed the headphone jack. applause thank you. 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