southeastern portion of the storm that is moving out of prince george's county. a lot of lightning torrential rain and a little bit of hail there ready to cross the river to calvert county. we will shift northwest to the metro area proper. camp springs to district heights across the beltway south to clinton and the andrews air force base area, torrential rain there. more moving through the city of washington and alexandria heavy rain. falls church and mclean. torrential downpours. a larger area east and west. in the northwest, we have seen the area diminish. new area forming north and west we expect it to resume with more heavy rain before long. rainfall totals are impressive. i will wrap it up for a moment with a headline here. flash flood warning in effect until 6:45 for the district parts of fairfax county arlington county and prince george's county. a flash flood warning in effect for the same regions until 6:45 this evening. both flash flood warnings and severe thunderstorm warnings. steve rudin and i will be back to give you a complete update on what is happening on a rainy monday afternoon. scott? >> scott: all right doug. we'll check back in soon. news at 4:00, we have people trying to save a man. kimberly: trapped under a free branch and he had been stuck there for a week. kevin lewis is live tonight and crews are trying to figure out how he managed to survive. kevin: absolutely! this is a remarkable story. someone walked down the street and they looked left, where the rescue vehicle is. 25 to 30 feet down the embankment the individual saw a man trapped under a tree. he was extremely dehydrated, had major cut to his leg. it turns out that that man was 66-year-old larry shaddy who has been missing for more than a week. he disappeared from his veterans home in the neighborhood last monday morning. police have been looking for him for a long time. he survived in the humid summer elements for more than a week. here now is his care-giver. >> if it had been too hot or raining all the time how does one survive that? in a ravine in a wooded area. it's amazing. the only answer that i can possibly come up is that he went back to his survivor skills in vietnam to survive. kevin: absolutely remarkable. we are working to get an interview with mr. larry shaddy. the vietnam veteran rescued today. he is in the hospital but we are working to get an interview from his bedside. for now we are live from springdale kevin lewis, abc7 news. kimberly: thank you. moving ahead after a devastating fire. scott: fire marshals picking through the pieces of eight historic businesses in harper's ferry. and brad bell is live there now. brad, people still trying to figure out the best way to move forward, i guess. brad: two things. what caused the fire and how to move forward. you are right. look at the space between the buildings. we have been watching all day long -- a few minutes the fire marshal pulled out. but they have been picking up debris looking underneath to see if they can come one a cause for the fire. three days after the blaze. it's one reason there is talk in the town that somebody set the fire. intentionally or accidentally. but people in the town believe that a human is more than likely responsible for this. that is the search for the cause. still unknown. now as well, looking forward with there is a meeting today of a number of business owners and local town officials. they gathered in private in the train station here. historic train station in the center of harper's ferry to figure out what on earth they are going to do now. listen to what the mayor says about the impact of the fire. mayor: we have lost i estimate about 42% of the commercial business over my shoulder behind me. that is a huge impact. this is not a large center. when you lose 42% of commercial, that is horrific. brad: when we come back at 5:00 we will show you some of the steps being taken to try to help the town recover. you can see one of them behind me. a little handwritten sign. for a go fund me page. people are asking for help out here to bring this tiny town back from the devastating fire. we will have much more coming up at 5:00. in harper's ferry brad bell abc7 news. jonathan: all right. former f.b.i. back in the stafford county courtroom on charges he killed his wife. this is arthur gonzalez's third trial in the 2013 shooting death of his estranged wife julie. the first two ended in a mistrial. gonzalez argues he slot his wife in self-defense after she attacked him in an argument. although prosecutors say gonzalez staged the crime scene. kimberly: the case of the man charged with killing a university of maryland -- of mary washington student goes to a grand jury today. he was indicted last month on first-degree murder and abduction charges. he is accused of strangling grace in april in a fredericks room they shared. they victim he left the room where mann was discovered and that he admitted to strangling her. scott: tonight, new developments from louisiana. a woman comes forward to describe a chilly encounter with the movie theater shooter. horace holmes at the live desk has details coming out. horace: a chance encounter with the guy that opened fire at the movie theater. for several weeks before the shooting, john houser stayed at a hotel. a week before the shooting she and a friend were approached by a man they think was houser eating at a eck loal restaurant. he started talking about his cat. he didn't want to pay the money to euthanize the cat so he hit the cat on the head with metal to try to kill it. >> he was standing in front of me. acting out. what was so strange and weird you can tell he had emotions about it. like he was in tears. it was confusing. in my mind, it was contradictory of what he was saying. horace: she says the man approached her and struck you up the conversation. now she wonders if she called police once he left. if it would have made a difference. the funerals for the two killed in louisiana are taking place today. kimberly: thank you horace. time running out. a search is expanding. scott: still ahead the staggering new scope of a challenge to find two teens missing. kimberly: confederate statue vandalized and how people on both sides weigh in. >> coming up we hear from an emotional mother who is in disbelief after her son was charged in a stabbing in frederick county. i have that story ahead. scott: it may look okay as we give you a live look at downtown d.c. but looks can be deceiving. we have rough weather moving through the area. doug hill will have the latest coming up. oh my gosh, it's the guy from last nit. what?! can i jump on your wi-fifi? yeah, you can try it. hey! i had a really good time last night. yeah, me too. the only thing is that... the only thing is what? what's the only thing? oh my gosh he's married. he's a kleptomaniac. he's a pyromaniac. he's a total m maniac. hey! hey! go back to your wife you sociopath! leave slow internet behind. the 100% fiber optics network is here. get out of the past. get fios. now $79.99 a month. go online or call now. call the verizon center for cuomers with disabilities at 800.974.6006 tty/v doug: doug hill with you. this is video from wilson boulevard in the rosslyn section of arlington a few minutes ago. we had torrential rain. it's sweeping across the roadway. this is still under a flash flood warning. the rain is diminishing to a sprinkle or so and the heavy rain is pushing south and east to prince george's county. steve rudin and i will be back with a live update on what the other storms may be headed this way. see you then. scott: a deadly stabbing at a church. new details about the man police arrested on the scene. diane cho spoke with the mother. diane: he is being held without a bond at the frederick county jail. this afternoon we sat down with his mother who told us she was still in disbelief today, speaking through a translator. the son had a history of mental illness and he was diagnosed with bipolar at 10 years old. he was recently kicked out of his apartment and had no place to go and had an incident with him not too long ago. kim told her he wanted to stab a dog and kill himself but decided it wasn't a good idea and he was in tears telling her this. so she took him to a counseling and retreat center five days prior, a keyian prayer center to get him help. authorities say kim stabbed a male victim at the church 11 times and stabbed his wife after she tried to intervene on sunday night. >> what he did i'm not accepting through my heart, what he did. it's hard to believe. >> according to the documents kim told detectives he was tired of treating badly and being disrespected by all koreans. coming up at 5:00, we will have more of the emotional interview and why she says she felt lost trying to get him the help he needed. from the sat line center diane cho abc7 news -- from the satellite center, diane cho, abc7 news. kimberly: now a statue in montgomery county tagged with a point message. someone spray painted "black lives matter" on the statue of a confederate soldier. this comes days after there was a plan to take it down. people on both sides weighing in. >> this is an appropriate conversation to have. if it starts the conversation it's awesome. >> it's and vandalism. free speech is something exercised in the open and does not result in county taxpayers having to foot the bill. kimberly: the statue is part of a memorial in a county owned park. across from the circuit courthouse. an encryption says it is dedicated to the heroes of montgomery county. scott: new at 4:00 a mess at a fast food joint after this, a cab driver in massachusetts slammed into a fried chicken restaurant after he lost control of the car. he says another person cut him off. the next he knew he was plowing in the building. there were people inside at the time but the car missed all of them. even the driver wasn't hurt. tonight, howard county man out of the hospital and drove a pickup truck into her apartment. marilyn schmidt was rushed to the hospital after he slammed through the sliding backdoor. she back home. and he has been arrested and charged. kimberly: a close call. let's see how the rain is impacting traffic. jamie sullivan has the details. jamie: you know it is impacting the commute. very slow. and in more spots than we would typically see. take a look. this is the outer loop of the beltway near 95 college park area in maryland. we did have almost all lanes blocked with the crash. everything now just blocking the left lane. so you are able to get by. let's take a look at the mapping system. to talk about how slow we are. ten miles per hour. that continues on the outer loop. no problem getting past this through montgomery county. wet roads. the water main break still only the right lane where they are doing the work. the left lane is getting by between 30th and park center drive. take a live look that you can get an idea of the road spray. taking a look at 66. this is a good idea of what you are seeing out of the city. bumper to butcher traffic. you get an idea where you will see the slowing. 66 heading in and out. just be careful and while it's still light out you need headlines when it rains. back to you. kimberly: you heard the thunder. scott: i was driving here to do the 4:00 news and it came down and then a lightning bolt. doug: cats and dogs. scott: i saw a couple. i didn't want to confirm it. doug: let's get started. steve rudin in the weather center. we'll go to him. first weather wall to look at the doppler radar. what was a large area of intense rain broke on the pieces, the first area southeast of the city moving to eastern prince george's county. part of calvert county. this is intense rain. you see the lightning bolt imposed. look at how many lightning strikes. a lot has been here. we will check on the estimated total of the rain. some of it is raining 3-4 inches an hour. this is moving slowly. only 5-6 miles per hour. these areas like right here over eastern prince county. the northwestern section getting torrential downpours. like possibility of flooding. this is the pattern that is repeating itself. all across the area. this road moves off of 301 in prince george's county maryland route 382. there is a lot of farm land there, but torrential rain. plenty more north and west. that is the pattern for the next couple of hours. we will see the batches of the showers and the thunderstorms from northwest to southeast. areas in falls church that just got hit will get more. more storms are rolling down. take a look at the storm scan to show you our areas, heavy rain. north and east. not much happening at all. farther west to the foothills the blue ridge and 81 numerous pocket of showers and storms. go to steve rudin who is checking the weather bug total. impressive numbers. steve: the rain totals are impressive in the past hour, hour yeah. when the rains first started. we will take this full screen to show you what is going on in terms to the rainfall total. 1.6 inches in arlington. francis scott key elementary school. in arlington, just over an inch of rain. 30 miles per hour wind gust. to glebe elementary school a tenth of rain. we have a flash flood warning in arlington and alexandria. district of columbia. this is until 6:45 this evening. the severe thunderstorm warning originally in place for the district now come down as the strongest storm is well south. east of d.c. across prince george's county. heavy rain will continue. we head back to doug hill. doug: we are looking at the satellite and the radar. you see the storms come and go. the good news is we get to tomorrow and it gets better. 92 tomorrow. hot and humid. slight possibility of a stray storm. then it will heat up around here. 92 tomorrow. humidity is up there, too. 94 on thursday. thursday afternoon a cold front comes in. well not cold. kimberly: we get it. doug: it will stay hot and humid with sunshine friday saturday, sunday. great vacation weather, i suppose. kimberly: it's 5-10 degrees cooler. is that where you are going in way to rub it in doug. doug: all right. we'll be back. steve and i will have it covered for you. kimberly: her death is making waves tonight. first, racing against the clock. the challenges now facing the crews searching the atlantic for two missing teenagers. scott: race against time in waters off of florida to find two teenagers missing since they took off friday on a fishing trip. boats and planes crisscrossed area of the atlantic ocean the size of maine now. they are looking for 4-year-old austin stephanos and -- 14-year-old austin stephanos and perry cohen. they found their both capsized and empty on sunday. >> we are not accepting volunteers at this time. with the assets that we have out they could hinder the ongoing operation or becoming a search and rescue operation themselves. scott: the families of the teens aren't giving up hope. offering $100,000 search reward. kimberly: new at 4:00 michael jackson's father joe jackson is in stable condition after he suffered a stroke in brazil. a statement from a hospital in sao paulo says he was admitted yesterday with irregular heartbeat and is now in the intenseive care unit. he turned 87 years old on sunday. a second family tragedy. whitney houston's daughter bobbi kristina brown is dead at the age of 22. it has been more than five months since she was discovered inside her home. marci gonzalez reports on what led to the death and where the investigation stands now. marci: 22 years old the adored only child of superstar whitney houston and bobby brown. bobbi kristina's life ending yesterday in a georgia hospice. six months after being found unresponsive in her home. in a statement, the houston family saying bobbi kristina brown passed away sunday club 26 2015 surrounded by her family. she is finally at peace in the arms of god. in january, aspiring singer/actress found facedown in a bathtub. the circumstances leading to her death under investigation and eerily similar to her mother's. >> i have a 46-year-old female found in the bathroom. marcimarci: days after whitney houston's death, bobbi kristina was hospitalized for anxiety and continued struggling with the loss. >> they are in some ways prefer paired in this history of tragedy. marci: now mourning for bobbi kristina. oprah tweeting "peace at last." eva saying, "he is seemed to be caught in the web of celebrity upon arrival. 22 years. a sad end." the medical examiner's office now says that the first part of the autopsy is complete and shows no medical condition that could have caused her to lose consciousness in the bathtub. they will wait until the testing is complete to determine cause of death. marci gonzalez abc news, new york. kimberly: the next story started as a local push to get one child reading and now it is getting international attention. scott: this is great. ron lynch a mailman in utah found out about a 12-year-old's passion for books. matthew flores would read anything he could get his hand on. newspapers and advertisements and even asking lunch for extra mail -- asking lynch for extra mail. the reason? >> he asked about going to the library and he couldn't afford a bus pass. he didn't want electronics. this kid just wanted to read. >> i find it interesting and it makes you smarter. scott: he is now reading books sent to him from as far away as the u.k. australia and india. kimberly: that is a thirst every parent wishes their child naturally had. scott: extra for extra mail just to read it. good for him. kimberly: good job. scott: still ahead at 4:00 squaring off. the president taking aim at a political opponent from on ocean away. his words for donald trump, mike huckabee next. kimberly: but first, changing the conversation. 35 women one magazine cover and the man they say they are all standing up to. that is coming up next. when "abc7 news at 4:00" kimberly: depending where you are standing there is sunshine pouring down on you are a river where there shouldn't be. we'll go to doug hill who is tracking the latest thunderstorms in the area. doug: we start out looking at montgomery county. very little clouds and the ground is dry. but they are on the northern side of the storm cutting through the district. south of rockville, new storms there. the heavy storms that we just saw are moving to calvert county. slow-mover. so this area is heavy rain. creeks are going to be deep in this area. terrain and big valley areas. so viewers you know the drill. the spot where the water gets deep. watch that. it is moving slowly. there are a few other areas north and west to the metro we are keeping an eye on as well. one cell northeast of bethesda that we are watching. more coming down the pike out of reston to western and central fair fax. we have until 6:45, inside the metro, a flash flood warning. the severe thunderstorm warning canceled for area. there are no severe thunderstorm warnings in effect right now. just flash flood. we monitor the storms as they will move in the direction. the storm scan shows more. most of the heavy duty stuff is in the foothills of the mountains pushing to the richmond area. we still have a flood warning. localized flood warnings here and there. but in general things look doing better. how about sunshine tomorrow? with just the slightest chance of isolated storm. 92 to 94. hot and humid weather as we head to wednesday and thursday. steve rudin will be back in 17 or 18 minutes with an update on the heavy rain and storms. scott? scott: all right, doug. the silver line is celebrating one year in service. kimberly: hard to believe it has been a year since it has been inducted. metro is looking at the positives but also what needs to change. jeff goldberg has the progress officials want to make. jeff: is there in anyone to accurately grade the silver line success -- >> i ride it every day. jeff -- it's someone like floyd jones who commutes to work from d.c. to tyson's corner and says the addition of the line makes life easier. >> smoothness. nice train on the bathroom make it good. jeff: everyone in the room would agree. economic and political leaders from around the region celebrating the one-year anniversary of the opening of phase one of silver line. phase two will connect the line from reston to dulles airport. >> the silver line is the most transformative investment we have made in ourselves in northern virginia. jeff: according to metro it is averaging 17000 riders per weekday. a number smaller than expected but one that officials say will only grow. then there is the economic impact, especially in tyson's corner. state officials say estimated $18 billion in development is happening near the five silver shrine stations. >> there has been an atmospheric shift in tyson since the silver line opened. >> at lunchtime, we have new customers. jeff: she sits within eye line of the silver line and the manager thinks that the sales will keep moving. >> definitely. more people is better for business. for sure. jeff: while supporter of phase two of the silver line are excited about the project, they are also going to have to remain patient. the extension to dulles airport is not set to open until 2020. in tyson's corner, jeff goldberg, abc7 news. scott: janitor and commercial cleaners have a new contract and it comes with a pay raise. the union employees will get $2 an hour raise over the next four years to push most cleaners' pay up to $15 an hour. in d.c., the contract will increase worker access to full-time hours and the employer-paid healthcare. it impacts 10500 employees in d.c. virginia and in maryland. kimberly: he won't be running against them but president obama now squaring off with the top republicans. at a news conference in ethiopia he dubbed dubbed the rhetoric outrageous and sad. this is as donald trump is leading the g.o.p. presidential pack in the latest cnn orc poll. we have the latest from washington. reporter: a game of political ping-pong spanning two continents. it started with the republican presidential candidate mike huckabee's comments to brightbart news over the weekend where he compared the iran nuclear deal to the holocaust. >> he is so naive he would trust the iranians and take the israelis and basically march them to the door of the oven. >> at a news conference in ethiopia, president obama who has for the most part avoided the 2016 election fired back. president obama: the particular comments of mr. huckabee are part of a general pattern we have seen that would be considered ridiculous if it weren't so sad. reporter: huckabee's response -- what's ridiculous and sad is that president obama does not take iran's repeated threat seriously. the president also called out donald trump condemning him for saying senator mccain is only a war hero because he is captured. president obama: that arises out of a culture where those kind of outrageous attacks are too commonplace and get circulated nonstop. reporter: this comes ten days before the republican debate. donald trump leads the pack with 18%. but the same poll shows 39% of registered voters expect jeb bush to ultimately win the republican contest. in washington, steve nanes, abc7 news. kimberly: there were light moments in the president's historic visits to ethiopia today. president obama: i had a chance to see the famous lions that live on the grounds. i'm considering getting some for the white house. although i have to make sure my dogs are safe. kimberly: the president was preferring to the lions, known if black mains. they are long associated with the imperial dynasty. scott: one man having to get creative to get his starbucks fix. kimberly: that is after he was banned from the store. for life. what he did coming up next. scott: and changing the conversation. the women speaking out against bill cosby. the magazine cover that has the whole country talking. scott: a powerful magazine cover changing the national conversation. 35 women accusing bill cosby of sexual assault appearing on "new york magazine." kellye lynn at the live desk. this cover is getting a lot of attention tonight. kellye: it is. the cover is generating a significant amount of attention on social media. all of the women on the latest cover of the "new york magazine" tell a similar story. >> i took a couple of sips of the cappuccino. from the first sip and the second sip i knew i had been drugged. >> i was sick. i was confused. i was foggy. no idea what was happening. kellye: allegation of sexual assault at the hands of a once belove cod median bill cosby. now 35 of the 40 abusers are raising the voices through the pages of the magazine. on the cover, compelling black-and-white photo of the women seated. on bottom row empty chair to symbolize those not yet spoken. on social media some complained about having trouble getting on the new york magazine website. technical difficulties aside readers appear to be deeply moved. sweeting "powerful." and saying the empty chair is the most indelible image i'll see this year. and bill cosby denies the allegations. his lawyers are seeking legal action against an attorney responsible for releasing the entertainer's deposition in a 2005 sexual assault lawsuit. back to you. scott: all right. at home, the fall-out over cosby's unsealed testimony is only growing. just last week the smithsonian released dozens of e-mails showing patrons and donors calling for his art exhibit to be removed from the national museum of african art. the management team has been debating the future of a long-standing bill cosby mural on the side of a location. kimberly: up next on "abc7 news at 4:00" -- new moms getting really bad advice. >> huge fine for a car maker but that is just the start. i'm joce sterman. coming up a settlement with the feds could mean that the company will oh my gosh, it's the guy from last night. what?! can i jump on your wi-fi? yeah, you can try it. hey! i had a really good time last night. yeah, me too. the only thing is that... the only thing is what? what's the only thing? oh my gosh he's married. he's a kleptomaniac. he's a pyromaniac. he's a total maniac. hey! hey! go back to your wife you sociopath! leave slow internet behind. the 100% fiber optics network is here. get out of the past. get fios. now $79.99 a month. go online or call now. call the verizon center for customers with disabilities at 800.974.6006 tty/v >> kimberly: a major out toe maker hit with a significant fine. scott: fiat chrysler will have to pay $105 million. joce sterman has the other steps they now have to take. joce: let's forget about the fine. we need to talk about the people who are impacted and own the cars. you guys. fiat chrysler may have to buy back hundreds of thousands of vehicles or give a chance to trade them in for market value. a move the fed says holds the company accountable after they didn't do enough to get the cars off the road in the first place. >> years after coming off the assembly line. fiat chrysler top-selling pickup the ram and the older jeeps could be brought back by the company to get them off the road. it's part of a huge settlement announced between the feds and the out toe maker. with the a -- and the auto maker. it's involving more than 11 million cars. >> this is a good example of how not to do a recall. >> vehicle safety laws have been broken with problem cars still on the road. 75 people have died in crash-related fires. >> no way to defend what fiat chrysler was doing. whether it's commission or omission, the reality is the consumers were not protected in the situation. >> the move is the biggest find issued by the national traffic safety administration. agency that has been criticized for being too slower too lenient in years past. >> we have an administrator who is cracking the whip. >> safetied a vo can't with if d.c. center for auto safety told "7 on your side" last week that they need more manpower and asked for funding to double the stat. that is key to crack down at the safety problems to put you at risk. >> what we need is more investigators for more defects. >> fiat chrysler is offering buy-back for people whose car have not been fixed. they say they accept the consequence and are making improvements how they handle the recalls. joce sterman, abc7 news. scott: a florida man says he has been banned from starbucks for life for confronting people illegally parked in handicap spot. rob rowen said he was a regular but starbucks sent him a notice of expulsion for harassing customers. he said he was only calling out people breaking the law. >> after someone park, it's obvious they weren't handicap. it wasn't a handicap parking sticker. i said you need to move your car. >> starbucks issued a statement saying they are working with the land lord of the property to improve the parking situation. kimberly: "7 on your side" health alert. americans are eating less food but not necessarily healthier. average american drank 40 gallons of soda per year in late '90's. last year it fell to 30 gallons. the day sta collected by the university -- data collected by the university of north carolina and analyzed by the c.d.c. found the first time in 40 years the average adult daily caloric intake is declining. the average calorie intake from children fallen 9%. scott: new moms getting too many pointers for the job. it says mothers are bombarded from information how to care for the babies. it comes from doctor family members media. kimberly: the next story hit the heart of my own family. my father-in-law was diagnosed with prostate cancer. the first thing his doctor did is give him a list of foods to eat and list of foods to avoid. i thought begged the question why don't we all eat like we have been diagnosed with cancer? this week mom of five children got the diagnosis this spring and never considered the cancer nutrition connection before. but they had her eliminate alcohol, red meat, sugar products right off the bat. >> it is a little boring but not that bad. it isn't. especially if you are fighting for your life. kimberly: the leading research in d.c. in the field of food that promote and combat cancer says we can feed cancer cells without knowing it but we can use food to fight the disease. coming up tonight, "7 on your side" reports on the cancer diet and the risks if we don't change what we eat. scott: sounds interesting. what is interesting is the weather. doug: right now it's bright sunshine outside. we will tell you the latest. go to the doppler radar. the heaviest area is over southern eastern princess george's and calvert county where a slow-moving cell that is drifting northeast. we still have a flash flood warning canceledded. it look like it's down. it may have been canceled as well. saturday and sunday is hot both days. lore 90's. mid90's in the virginia beach. water temperatures are slowly climbing. highest level of the season. what is up for the next seven days? it's hot and humid stuff. look at the highs all week long. there will be a minor frontal system coming through the area on thursday to give us a chance of the showers and storms. otherwise it's hot and humid with highs in the 90s. we will continue to keep an eye on the storms to see if more coming down the pike. in the 5:00 hour. kimberly: all right. thank you. scott: plenty still to talk about. kimberly: looks like we are checking in with jamie. how is the traffic situation? jamie: we have wet roads so we will still see the road spray. nothing to keep in mind and be careful. looking at the capital beltway. this is near van dorn street. heads up from virginia to the wilson bridge. we have slowing. that is on the outer loop. but let's talk about the inner loop. there are two lanes blocked at the inner loop at van dorn. you see a solid red line behind it. averaging 11 miles per hour. as we pull out you will get a good idea that it starts near the wilson bridge. coming to virginia. if you head north on 385 it's not bad. we have slowing on southbound. the outer loop is the slower area today. this is going to take you over the 15 minutes. stick to virginia to talk about the water main break. westbound on king street. 30 to park center drive is where work is being done. repairs underway. left lane is only one open. stay to the left. we have volume and congestion. but other than that, we just have the one crash. we'll monitor it. be but careful. that is a look at traffic. scott: "7 on your side" keeping your cash where it belongs. in your pocket. kimberly: up next a secret behind warranties you need to scott: anytime you bring home a big ticket item, warranty can give you peace of mind. kimberly: but some of the deals have a dark side. consumer reporter john matarese helping you navigate warranties. jop: a lot of -- john: a lot of products give you free repairs as long as you own the home. but a couple learned whose lifetime they were talking about. mark graham has a houseful of broken windows. >> they broke off. john: his livingroom window won't stay open. >> it won't stay up. john: on a side window the glass cracked a hot day in the sun. >> i heard a crack. what was that? john: he looks at the bad seals that are letting the moisture in between the glass. >> it gets moisture on the inside of the pane. john: he figures he could get them fixed for free because they came with a lifetime warranty. many home improvement companies offer these days. >> lifetime warranty on parts. the pane and the seal. john: lifetime warranty on windows would give anybody peace of mind. what happens if you can't find the company? it turns out the retailer he brought them from 18 years ago was gone. when he called a nearby company with a similar name he got bad news. >> she goes when did you buy them? 1996. she said that company is out of business. john: we called the new company which agreed to look at graham's windows and help him find the manufacturer which at this point is his only hope. >> what do you think of lifetime warrantys? >> they stink. john: it's the company's lifetime, not yours. remember that when shopping so you don't waste your money. i'm john john matarese abc7 news. leon: just out of sight. a missing person case ends with a man found alive lodged under a fallen tree. tonight his ordeal. and a congregation coming to terms with a tragedy. and the suspect's odd motive. before it strikes. "7 on your side" investigates a diet that blames if you want to prevent cancer eat like you already have it. announcer: now "abc7 news at 5:00". leon: in the last ten minutes, the sun came out across the area after storms this afternoon. our chief meteorologist doug hill tracking the storms for us. doug: it has been a quick turn of events. slow-moving storms outside the area. this was outside the studio 45 minutes ago. coming down in arlington. torrential rain. strong wind guests. a lot of rain. it has been making its way outeast out of the district. beginning to dissipate slowly. as you point out across the area sunshine is coming back after the dark rainy skies we had earlier. we check the doppler radar. the cluster is southeast of metro area. over the southeastern prince george county and northwest calvert county. that will be the story a little while longer. it will move in and move out. a couple more showers and the thundershowers north and west of the metro area. that will be the end of the rain story as we get through the latter afternoon and the early evening hours here. we will see the conditions improve slowly as we head through the evening hours here with a little bit of sunshine continuing. we will see finally a turn-around here tomorrow with improving weather conditions across the area. if you like hot summary weather that is the story going forward for the next few days. no warning of any sort in metro area. heading through the evening the rain will land and is it going to wind up with the totals. .67 of an inch in district. no warning or flash flood warning. no severe thunderstorm warn

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