A lady told me she came at 1 00 and is planning to stay until the cool closes. A number of people cooling off today. It was a hot day in the city. For kids in the summer rec programs a great day to be in the pool. The kids amused themselves at the splash park. Im with my mommy and daddy. Not so busy downtown. The food truck where a lot of people decided it was too hot to eat. At least too hot to eat outdoors. So hot. Some sat out in the sun with the newspapers. Way to take advantage of the good weather. Sam raj says this is nothing, they regularly have the temps of 103 degrees over there. We have three seasons. Hot, hotter hottest. But a lot of women had out parasol to block out the sun. Hydrate, hydrate, hydrate. Construction workers dealt with the heat today. Whether several stories up in the sky or directing traffic on the ground. Sam he was talking about hydrate, hydrate, hydrate. Construction worker dealing with it. There are the people here in the pool. Now the National Weather service put out a report that june of 2015 that we had last month is the hottest june they have had since they started to keep records in 1880. Who knows . July may be on that same path. A hot day here in the capital city today. Reporting live from northwest washington, sam ford. Abc7 news. Leon all right. You got it. Watch your back. Dont step backwards. Find a list of the cooling Centers Across the area at wjla. Com. You can get the latest forecast from storm watch 7 team through the Wjla Facebook and the twitter feed to download the storm watch app on the tablet or the part phone to keep it in your pocket at all times. Kimberly only on 7 tonight, member of the Prince Georges County school board is under investigation for getting free and reduced lunches for her child. By lying about her own income. Maryland bureau chief brad bell is live in Upper Marlboro to explain how she did it. Brad . Brad that is the allegation. This all began with a g. A. O. Study where they wanted to find out if those getting free and reduced lunches qualify. So an investigator pulled a sample of 25 Government Employees because they had access to the salary information to see if they qualified. They found more than half of those they looked at sample of 25 did not qualify. Several of them were here in Prince Georges County. One of those People School board member. When lynn was elected to fill a v when lynn was elected to fill a vacancy on the Prince Georges County school board she was called an advocate for public education. Now abc7 news learned she is the sunt of a subject of a criminal investigation by the states attorney whether she lied about her income to qualify for the Free School Lunch for her child. A prospect that doesnt sit well with her constituents. They take advantage of the system. If there are people who need it ridiculous. Sad. To falsify information. A federal investigator informed the School System in april that she was among several Government Accountability Office Employees receiving free lunch despite earning salaries greater than the 133 of the poverty rate, the threshold for program. It goes on to say she listed no income at all in 2011 and 2012. She works as management analyst at the Government Accountability office. Just more than an hour ago board member munday contacted abc7 by phone and denies any ethical violation and claims to have put money in her daughters account and up aware of an investigation. She resigned june 1 but there are those who believe she should leave now. Immediately. Immediately. Late this afternoon, the Prince Georges County school board issued this statement saying they are aware an investigation is ongoing and is underway. They are cooperating. Spokesperson for the board told me by telephone that the reason she stays on the board, the board doesnt have the authority to remove her. As for the resignation, she said she did it because she wants to pursue her ph. D. In Upper Marlboro, at school headquarters, brad bell, abc7 news. Leon new developments in the investigation in the grisly mansion murder in the drink. In the district. The only person charged in the case was in court. Brianne carter has a look at what happened inside. Brianne in the last hour a judge found cause to hold daron wint on firstdegree murder charges in connection with the case. This comes after several hours of testimony. This is the only person charged in connection with the death of Savvas Savopoulos. Savapoulos wife amy their 10yearold son phillip and the housekeeper figure figure figure were found Vera Figueroa were found inside the home on may 14. In court today new details in the case. Testifying before the court, the lead detective jeff owens revealing Savvas Savopoulos and familiar lay housekeeper were strangle and beaten to death. The detective telling the court in addition to the d. N. A. Found on a construction desk inside the savapoulos blue porsche which was taken from the northwest Washington Home and found set on fire in Prince George seacoast. However, when asked by mr. Wints attorney if there was any evidence in the home beyond the pizza linking mr. Wint the detective said no. Later telling the court asked by the prosecution though that the processing of the d. N. A. In this case was not complete. New details today surrounding the money in this case. 40,000 allegedly delivered to the savapoulos home by a savapouloss say tant on the morning of may 14 sapp assistant on the morning of may 14 and according to the court railroads placed inside the car in the garage. Telling the court today when wint was arrested on may 21 10,000 in money orders were found inn that car traveling in. There was a box truck traveling with him as well. In that box truck it was revealed in court today that contained about 13,000 in money orders. In excess of 7000 in cash. Recovecovered from the wints fathers home new information about a receipt taken from the home. Showing that wint allegedly spent 1100 retaining a lawyer on may 16. During cross examination, questions were raised by the wint defense attorney about the savapoulos assistant, including what may or may not have been found in his car. Trying to raise the questions about that as well. Now as for other people connected to the case, this has been a big question in this case throughout the time. We do understand in testifying today that the detective was asked about other people being involved. Wint is expected to be back in court september 25. Kimberly metro announced a fire and rescue liaison in the Transit System rail operation control center. It means this position is now aimed at improving emergency communication between metro and area fire and e. M. A. Personnel in incidents. The uniform fire officer is based in the metro center 40 hours a week and can communicate directly with the local Fire Departments in emergency. I believe that the liaison will provide that critical information in the first couple of minutes of the incident. That would improve the results. This move is a result of the ongoing talks between metro and local fire chiefs particularly following a deadly smoke incident in a struggle near the Lenfant Plaza in january. The number one thing they talked about was metro says they improved training and emergency drills and radio to improve the safety on the rails. Leon kimberly, we have breaking news now in the newsroom. Get downstairs to jonathan elias. What are you hearing . Jonathan we just got this in. Montgomery county fire on the scene of a trash involving a train and a dump truck. Silver springs. We have pictures to show you. All brunswick line Train Service has been suspended as a result of this. This is a good size dump truck. This is like a semi. Not clear how it happened or how long the delay will be to get the area cleaned up and get the roads reopened. We have crews on the way. We encourage you to stay with us for any updates. We will put it online when we get that. Live at the news desk, back to you. Kimberly coming up next at 5 00 people should internet assume they can jump on an airplane and get off in havana. It doesnt work like that. Kimberly so how does it work . 7 on your side with a consumer alert about what you can expect if you are trying to plan a trip to cuba. Leon later the war of words escalates between a president ial candidate and a former one. Kimberly plus on the 46th anniversary of the first Lunar Landing nasa addresses questions about returning to the moon. Leon you can sign up for breaking news text alerts. Its only a few clicks to get notices on your phone. Stay with us. Kimberly we saw both protesters and supporters at the Cuban Embassy today as the flag was raised for the First Time Since 1961. More americans are envisioning trip there but 7 on your side with a consumer alert because travel for u. S. Citizens still requires more than a passport and a visa. Reporter americans have been flocking to the cuban shores. The travel organization said web traffic quadruple and the web traffic doubled. Everybody said i want to get there before mcdonalds and starbucks and before the commercialization changes the city of havana and the rest of cuba where it looks like every place else. This is an exotic destination that people have had fascination with. They have added trips. More and more come in and put a stress that hasnt had investment over the years. Even when the embassies open, travel as a tourist is still prohibited. Americans have to travel in 12 categories, such as educational purposes. Dozen of cuba travel providers appear on the internet the u. S. Could penalize those whose trips dont comply with the current law. The accounts are frozen. It may take months to get a deposit back. There are practical reasons to go with the good reputable company. Change may not come as rapidly as you think. They are apprehensive about some effects including effects on environment. They want to go slowly and carefully. We have the categories on wjla. Com. In i major restriction on tourism would require congressional action not expected. Leon it looks like the traveling days are over for the longtime host of ferry home companion. He is retiring. He said he is retiring but he always comes back. But he says this time around he is certain and he is going to hand it over to the musician chris feely in july of next year. A legend. A long time listening. We were driving through georgia. If you think its hot and humid here. Kimberly nothing. Leon the humidity here is the intern for what is happening there. Kimberly im telling you. Doug it is tough out there. It is temporary. This is from the Second Street on the boardwalk. The sunshine gave way to clouds. Rain is moving in. You may not expect a time lapse here with 110 blocks north of the area. They have had a flood. Flash flooding. The coastal highway is flooded over. A sight. We are checking the cons conditions on the beach. At the beach the heavy rain pushing offshore. They have heavy rain. But that is out of there. Peculiar feature localized. Extreme indeed. Heat advisory from 8 00 across the area. A few heat index value close to 105. That is criteria. Tough to be out there. There are areas that are hotter and even more humid than this. This is hot enough. 95 at reagan national. 92 at fredericksburg. 91 in winchester. It feels like 9 it 7. Feels like 103 in washington d. C. Feels like 104 over in eastern on the midshore. There are areas here that are looking for rain. But not happening. Not enough trigger in the atmosphere to give us showers locally. They are pushed southwest along the midappalachians. The chances will come in from the north and the west tomorrow approaching the cold front. Ahead of the front, everybody is sweltering. Low to mid90s. The humidity is so widespread across the midatlantic southeast part of the country so everyone i think is through the midatlantic will get relief. After shower and the thunderstorms tomorrow. It will be cooler but the difference is the humidity level. Dew point will drop. So it will feel less humid. That is important moving through wednesday and thursday and friday. Tomorrow is partly cloudy. Lazy and humid. 89 to midday. 93 in the afternoon some computer models give us showers to 1 00 and 2 00. But most are later in the day. The showers and the storms and the cold front. You see numbers go down. Not a dramatic drop. With the humidity levels down this is acceptable weather. Comfortably warm. Kimberly thank you. Several states really dealt with the Severe Weather over the weekend. Take a look. Leon i cant imagine how she was feeling, all the emotions. Leon plus, we are life. We are intelligent. We must go. Leon well, the smartest men in the world joins the search for answers. Not of this earth. 17 years latteser a man finds out he owes maryland a lot of money. How technology is used to find people who owe cash to the government. Kimberly reminder that all service is suspended on brunswick train after a train hit a dump truck in Silver Spring. You are looking at the accident there. In the Silver Screen area. We have more information on the accident after this break. Kimberly head to the newsroom. Jonathan elias has the latest. Jonathan this is a fullsize dump truck on the track. There were people on the train at the time of the collision. Show you the live picture from the chopper to give you an idea of what we have been looking at. The train hit it as a good speed. You are looking at the fire crews surrounding the truck. They are putting down sand to keep the fluids that might leak from the truck from becoming a problem. We dont know injuries are reported at all from the driver of the pickup truck or the dump truck or the people on the train. From the picture on the ground these are live. Look at the damage on the front end. The other seen we have not seen we have not seen anyone get off or evacuated off the marked train. No report of injury which is a blessing if you see the damage that was done. We have the crews on the way to figure out what happened. And why this dump truck was parked up on the tracks at the time of the train coming by. We can tell you this. There is a delay for the brunswick line. Use the ticket on metro. Metro will honor all brunswick line. Use the marked ticket the metro will honor it. We will stay on top of the story. Let you know new developments as they come in the newsroom. Im jonathan elias. Back to you. Leon thanks. If you owe the state of maryland money you will probably find out about it soon. The states ability to track down people is improving with the technology. Item investigate chris papst found out that he owed the state money that happened 17 years ago. Unsettable. Way back john carroll would cruise in the 1986 audi but he learns that the maryland has no record of the car insured for a tenmonth period. Starting in 1998. The result is a 2500 fine. I have always been covered. He says he lived in the current connecticut home since leaving maryland in 1998. He believes the insurance wasnt properly transferred. But after 17 years he switched Insurance Company and no longer has the record to prove he had coverage the whole time. Its four cars ago. Its impossible to prove that. 7 on your side reached out to the collection unit. They couldnt about the about this case. But the director told us that the notices are typically sent out yearly. He admits they have had trouble finding people who move out of state. And more tech notices are sent to people who leave money. I dont want to owe anything. Maryland does not have a statue of limitation for this debt because its usually associated with fines. Chris papst abc7 news. Kimberly not fun to get a letter like that in the mail. Up next on the abc7 news at 5 00 a push to preserve the past. Find out why the smithsonian is using anniversary of the Lunar Landing to launch a new project. Leon then later there is information about daycare discipline kept secret. We will tell you how to find out the information you need to know to keep the kids safe. Donald trump comments causing controversy. We look at why the candidate might be conc Kimberly Donald trump has done it again and taken the spotlight with controversial comments about senator mccain. Will it be his downfall . Scott thuman has more to show why some say the rest of the field should be worried. Scott you can dismiss this as rhetoric or an inflammatory comment by trump. Or look at numbers. He is causing problems if for competition. He is not a war hero. He is a war hero. Hes a war hero because he was captured. I like people who werent captured. That is predictably, donald trump is again creating waves and instantly rebuked by a laundry list of candidates. Its ridiculous. I dont think he has the character or the temperament to hold the highest position in this country. Johnvoters wonder how will trump survive . He has a chance to be competitive for the republican nomination. The Brooking Institution says the trump probusiness message and the antiobama aggression earns repound sounding approval from plenty of republicans and polls show including among the iowanss where he is second to scott walker and doubling jeb bush. So is he just a flash in the pan . Or a real contender . It is hard to understand why people think Bernie Sanders has momentum and donald trump doesnt. Trump is polling twice as high among republicans as bernie is among democrats. Because he is not wedded to donors, he can speed his mind making him refreshing option. And the rest should be concerned. You are using to a political nost then there is a problem. We access the debate stage. It will be a circus and some say that trump will be the ring leader. The decision each candidate has to make is do they go after trump . Or do they try to stay out of his vision completely . Kimberly leon back to you. Kimberly we know you will keep watching it. Twozationers on a mission in New Hampshire say two sisters on a mission say trump appeared to wait for them in a campaign event. Touch was quoted to say oh all right lets get a selfie. They are known as the president ial selfie girls. They are working on a project to snap pictures with every president ial candidate. This morning they have 15. Scott walker being the latest to join the list. The project all started when 15yearold emma snapped a picture with new jersey governor chris christie. They say the photo with dr. Ben carson was the toughest to get because he wrote an oned for the Washington Post about the narcissistic act of photographing ones self and blasting it all over social media. But they got that too. They offered rick perry a redo, because he was looking away. But the girls are directing all the Media Inquiries to mom. She will turn 18 before the next years election making her old enough to vote. The little sis is too young still. Leon we think its difficult to get president ial candidate to jump in front of a camera . Kimberly the p. R. Shame. All right. Good job. Leon all right. One small step for man one giant leap for mankind. Leon Neil Armstrong uttered the words 46 years ago today. Today the smithsonian used the anniversary to announce the first in a series of kickstarter campaign. The museum wants to raise 500,000 to build climate controlled display case to digitize the base suit using the three dimensional scanners. Its already raised 93000. They also announced a study to bring space travel to the moon. They want to see what it costs to get the humans back to the moon. It could be done with a Public Private partnership or a fraction of the 100 billion price tag previously estimated by nasa. Kimberly . Kimberly famous Physicist Stephen Hawking is backing an Ambitious Program in search of aliens. He teamed up with the Breakthrough Initiative project. The goal is to look for extraterrestrial life. Its time to commit to find answer to search for life beyond earth. We are life. We are intelligent. We must know. Scientists will use the worlds most powerful telescope with the millions of volunteers to search nearby stars and galaxies. This is the largest scientific search for alien life. Kimberly you think they are scared to find out . Leon i know a lot of people who do not want to know the answer to that. Fascinating question. All right. Well see what happens. Coming up on abc7 news at 5 00 paying the price. Find out how much more we are paying for college education. The 7 on your side fighting back wall of justice. Someone turned themselves in. That story is coming up. Kimberly then new tonight at 6 00 an unmanned Space Mission explodes after launch. Twofoot long piece of equipment being blamed. Leon 7 on your side fights back against crime. A man featured on the wall of justice turned himself in. Fighting back against crime investigator Jennifer Donelan has an upgrade about his arrest. Jennifer this is the news that 7 on your side fighting back justice is all about. The wall is working. 7 on your side featured grand larceny suspect acevedas on last week wall of justice. He turned himself in the next day. The Sheriff Office is adding a new face to the wall. 2 of 4yearold Marlene Paige who is wanted for a probation violation and grand larceny. She joins page wanted for discharge of a firearm. Who is it this week . Set the wall of justice in motion. The spotlight is on marvin. Fairfax county police are asking for your help to search for marwin. The 124yearold is wanted for three count 24yearold is wanted for three count of rape of a minor. He knows he is wanted by police. Fouryear police that at one point lived in sterling but the detectives havent located him. Police say he 54, weighs 125 pounds, 2 years old black hair and brown eyes. Police say he is wanted for rain and wants him off of the wall of justice. Put him behind bars. If you see him call the police. Well see you next time on the wall of justice. Jennifer donelan. Leon a dramatic finish at the british open. We will let you know what happened with a threeway tie heading to a playoff. Websites like this are a Great Research to help you search and find out the information about the daycare you trust for your kids. Why dont they list the most serious discipline . Im joce sterman. I will explain why coming leon we want to get to the breaking situation we are watching in Silver Springs where marked train hit a dump truck at a crossing. Lets go to the phone with Victor Willingham who is riding on one of the cars of the train that hit the truck. First, where are you right now . Are you still on the train . Im still on the train. Second car back from the engine. How are you . Im doing all right. Leon first of all, how many people are in the car and which car are you near the car that hit the dump truck . The car that had a couple of injuries on it was the front car. One of the safety windows that was knocked in. Hit a cou of people. Those people of my understanding have been removed from the train. Transported by ambulance away. Waiting on the response for what could happen and we want to get out of here because the engine is damaged and they wont move it anytime soon. Leon a heck of a way to end the work day. What did it feel like or sound like . Just a small bump. Its like the engineer hit the brakes hard and smoke and the lefthand side i was riding back with. On the lefthand side of the train. Leon was there a panic after the impact . What happened inside the car. In the front part, everyone just looked around and said we hit something. Nobody was sure. Its impact of the car accident. What are they telling you . Weve only been told a while. Well sit here for a while. The air conditioning is working and the bathrooms are working. They are talking about getting water to everybody. But there hasnt been response from mark how we will get to kensington station or wherever we may go. You are on the air. Anything to say to folks who are waiting at home . Ive been tweeting them. Thats how you found me so they know im all right. We are in good spirits. Trying to make the best of it. Leon take it easy. U make the best of it now. Hope the best down the road. Good luck. Now check to see how its shaping up traffic wise. That will be complicated. Its impacting things. The Montgomery County Police Tweeted out this picture. A little bit of a different view. Also the hazmat cleanup of the fuel is going to cause more delays. A train track maintenance truck that was stuck. And this will be closed for a while. Brunswick service has been suspended. A heads up for you in this area. The Washington Gas is on scene. And this whose sure will last five to six hours. Between 26 and 27th street. Typical delays on the beltway. Back to you. Leon thank you. Kimberly finding the right daycare is tough enough. Make sure the kids are safe. Leon but the item found crucial information you should really know when making this decision that is kept secret on the state website. Item investigator joce sterman explains why and how to get around that. I was shock and horrified and angry. This Montgomery County mother placing her young daughters in someones care was act of trust that was betrayed. They decided to go to bed and they would wake up with this man molestic them. Joce this man was charged an convicted of a third degree sex offense in 2013. Served time and now takes up space on the sex offender registry. Two years ago he helped his wife run a daycare out of this home. Its unjust. They should have been shut down immediately. Reporter but now the day care is legally open for business without him. She didnt want to comment. After her husband was charged, the records show they briefly suspended the license and moved to revoke it saying the failure to protect the children in her care violated state code. That is something youd never know without 7 on your side. I thought out was something they would share with everybody. What do you think about the fact they dont . Its terrible. They put everyone in jeopardy. They went through dozen osfiles and discovered rouster teen inspection is available but the suspensions, the revocations and the serious discipline kept secret on the web. This area requires attention. This senator has been fighting to improve that. She helped to fighten the rules to Police People caring for children. But says much work remains for transparency. They are blaming confidentiality issues. Im uncertain if providing that information is helpful a hindrance. But in a twist, liz kelly from the director of child care say they can find information that is kept confidential on the web by calling the state. That seems odd to me. Is it odd to you . It doesnt make logical sense but i understand the reason behind it. That is very shocking. Stunning to day care providers like this one. Problems at a higher level should be posted. That is the pride and joy. If thigh are not posting the violation it could lead to more harm. They talk to us recations are in the past. If they are reopen then the state feels safe. For the case you heard about he can no longer go to the address. Updateout about virginia. 7 on your side getting action after asking why serious discipline isnt posted, the department of service said they will add it to the website in the future. It was super hot. Heat advisory up for a few hours. The most we have seen is 102 for the heat index. At the moment its 103 in reagan national. I take my words back. Its 107 now. The current heat index in fredericksburg. 101 degrees in frederick. The relief is not coming until later tomorrow. Few showers midday possible. Lower 90s. High humidity levels. We will push in cooler and the drier air starting wednesday and lasting through thursday and friday as well. So we got away a mini heatwave. Looking to the next seven days 30 chance of thunderstorm to end high heat and humidity. Stilt warm in 80s still warm in the 80s. But it will turn humid again. That the weekend outlook. Partly sunny. Hot of 88. Increase in humidity saturday and more on sunday. Chance of afternoon evening and thundershowers. Back to you. Kimberly if its not a drought its a deluge. Leon way in between. Still to come look at the foods plagui maureen just so sad. Neighbors and friends reacting to the death of a woman and her children in ohio. 42yearold victoria tried to shelter herself and four children in the bathtub of their trailer when the heavy rain hit. The trailer was swept away. She was six months pregnant and she died as did her two children. Her two other children found clinging to branches downstream. Part of the western u. S. Suffering through a draft are now dealing with too much rain. Brandi hitt reports that is leading to dramatic rescues. Damaged homes and a collapsed highway. Brandi powerful floodwaters took out the bridge on interstate 10. Emergency crews pulling this driver to safety just in time. Matt gutman at the scene. He fell through the bridge as it collapsed. All of that water knocking out the underpinnings of this bridge. That major interstate closed in both directions. They will be there evaluating other bridges so it hopefully wont happen in the future. L. A. Has the wettest july on record. To get more rainfall for the month in one day. Not every city can handle the water that came down at once. Many neighborhoods are flooded and damaged. A huge rain. Probably in five or ten minutes. You can see the water here pouring into a shopping mall. Angels came is rained out for the first time in 20 years. Lightning seen throughout the west parking the apartment center. Too much at once leads to flooding. This rion is on edge with a threat of more downpours. Brandi hitt. Kimberly two difficult extremes. Abc7 news at 6 00 starts now with breaking news. Announcer from abc7 news, this is a breaking news alert. Maureen the breaking news from Silver Spring where a commuter train crashed into a truck that was blocking tracks near the beltway. Jonathan elias is standing by at the live desk with what he has learned about this. Jonathan our understanding is the train was coming down the tracks normal day for commuters. Dump truck on the track or too close to the track. Either way the engine and the truck came in contact. The area we are talking about is 495 by georgia avenue. That is biggest area near Silver Spring. They felt a bump. This is the bump. The dump truck was damaged severely. The driver was injured but they are not life threatening and he was taken to the hospital. For folks folks that are on board the train only a couple people were injured. It wasnt from the impact itself but from the safety glass that popped in from the window and fell on top of passengers. They have been taken to the hospital. The problem is the train, live picture on the track. All passengers are offboard. They have to be offloaded and taken to another destination to find their way home. The engine has been damaged and the train will not be moving soon. The Emergency Personnel have to investigate what went wrong. We noticed that the dutch truck is one of two on the track. They ma