to what went down. >> while a motive is still being determined what we do know is this young man was born in kuwait. he later became a untillized u.s. citizen having lived in the u.s. for -- naturalized u.s. citizen having lived in u.s. for most of his life. he was not on any u.s. terror list. he fired about two dozen shots from a high powered rifle into a military recruiting office injuring one marine before speeding away. >> he was unloading a large gun on the naval recruiting office. police say mohammad youssef abdulazeez's next stop was a u.s. naval reserve center where he shot and killed four marines and wounded two more people before he was killed. hours later abdulazeez's house was swarmed by authorities. neighbors say he'd lived there with his parents and sisters for about 15 years. today two women were taken away in handcuffs and two computers seized from the house. the fbi said they'll search those computers for a motive. >> you don't want to be angry. >> reporter: the capitol and federal buildings security were beefed up in the afternoon. folks were trying to figure out how to accept it or at least understand it. >> it just makes me sick to my stomach. how can we prevent this? and we're such a great country. >> reporter: at the iwo jima memorial visitors seemed overwhelmed how to prevent such a shooting. >> they're the people that save us, they protect us. railroad or possible islamic extremism. >> i'm -- >> reporter: or possible islamic extremism. >> i'm not running out killing a bunch of muslims. i don't know what they seem to have against us other than they seem to be bringing the hate to everybody else. >> reporter: or just another mass shooting. >> we have mass shooting whether it's in the city, military, kids at school, whatever. just it's sad. >> the fbi says they plan to investigate the young man's family, his friends, his associates, anything and anyone that may be linked to the 24. they'll investigate any possible isis connections. that's certainly questions that many people have had and whether or not he heeded the group's calls for lone wolf style attacks, but at this point authorities say it appears that he acted alone. live in the satellite center i'm mola lenghi for wusa9. >> thank you, mola, and the authorities are also telling us there is no immediate evidence that the shooter actually knew any of those victims personally. next week the jury in the james holmes murder trial will be asked to make a life or death decision. that's the same jury that found holmes guilty today. it will be back for the sentencing phase of this trial. there are only two options left, life in prison or death. holmes was found guilty on all charges of murdering 12 people and wounding 70 others during that shooting spree in 2012 inside a movie theater in aurora, colorado. tonight relatives of those victims responded to the verdicts. >> we're very happy that this animal, this mon stern, will never see the light of day. -- monster, will never see the light of day. >> this isn't over for any of those people. everyone else will walk away and it's over, right? it's another day at the job, but it's not for any of these families. >> defense attorneys conceded from the start holm was the gunman, but they'd argue -- holmes was the gunman, but they'd argued he was guilty by reason of insanity. obviously the jury wasn't buying it. new tonight a warning from the d.c. attorney general's office about a new scam targeting businesses possibly costing them thousands of dollars. it involvers scammers posing as pepco bill collectors and they are alarmly good at it. garrett haake joins us now live from the customer service department in northwest washington. >> reporter: i spoke to one customer today who was so worried that his power was going to be cut off in the middle of his dinner restaurant rush at his business that he rushed down to this pepco office to pay what turned out to be a nonexistent debt. only then he realized he'd been fooled. this business owner got an odd phone call while he was preparing for his dinner rush back? january. the caller claimed to be with pepco and said bow tie had failed to pay a retired deposit. they needed 1,300-dollar fast or else. >> as a result -- $1,300 fast or else. >> as a result, our power would be shut off that afternoon. it was a courtesy call from pepco and they were going to shut our power off in two hours. >> reporter: rather than trying to ask for a manager and getting transferred, he called calling them back. >> it all continued to ring true. >> reporter: the caller asked for a money order, but the owner rushed out for cash instead and instead of waiting for the cammers to pick it up he ran right to the neighborhood pepco office. >> then it completely clicked for me that i'd been scammed and i felt so stupid. >> reporter: the scammers have targeted other businesses across d.c. since january including the common restaurant on connecticut who threatened to call the cops and the steak and eggs restaurant on wisconsin whose owner also went to pepco. the attorney general's office said today the scammers successfully fleeced at least three d.c. restaurants hitting one for $1,000 another for 500 they're still at it prompting a warning today by the a.g. and a business owner who nearly became a victim himself. >> i think they've called us here at bow tie probably four or five times since then and then we just opened another restaurant last month and in the past week we've gotten two phone calls. >> reporter: part of the theory here is that the scammers are targeting businesses where different people might pay the bills every month hoping that someone will make a mistake. the a.g.'s office thinks there might be other victims out there. if anyone else has been targeted by these scammers, they're asked to call the mpd's fraud unit. reporting live downtown garrett haake, wusa9. >> you know this is an important warning, garrett, because last week dominion power warned about a similar scam and urged businesses there to hang up if they get one of these calls. pepco tomorrow us tonight the company never threatens to cut -- told us tonight the company never threatens to cut off service without working out payment options and it never asks for a specific amount to settle a balance. a pedestrian is left with critical injuries after a hit and run accident last night along the 8300 block of annapolis road in new carrollton. investigators say it appears the woman who was hit was not in a crosswalk. the suspect's car is described as a dark toyota, possibly a camry with some front end damage. if you know anything about this case, contact prince george's county police. montgomery county police have released the name of a pedestrian killed this morning in wheaton. she was 45-year-old maria dolores posades. the accident happened around 11 a.m. not far from where the victim lived. a car went out of control, crossed three lanes, hit a utility pole and then hit the pedestrian. the driver stayed at scene. police identified the driver as 83-year-old mary also tabb of north bethesda and they are still investigating. it's a stomach turning attack all caught on camera. the victims say they were beaten for their bmx bikes. >> now police are upping the rewards for information about the attackers. ellison barber is in northwest where this all went down. ellison, this was a tough one to watch. >> reporter: it was and d.c. police are now offering up to $5,000 for anyone who helps to id some of the people who may have been involved in saturday's attack. it happened right here on the 1100 block of r street northwest. the video which we are going to show you is a bit graphic, but it's that vitality that has some bikers in this area very concerned. >> right of a left i heard somebody got jumped out here for a bike. >> reporter: edwin garcia was at the shaw skatepark on saturday for something called bike jam. >> it's like a bmx concert, so everybody rides and at the end of the night, whoever is the best rider kind of gets a prize, kind of like a skate date, just for fun. >> reporter: but the day wasn't fun for one of the riders. the person lying on the ground and being stopped on in this cell phone video told usa he and some friends spent the day at that competition. they decided to sight see afterwards and say they were just heading to their cars when at least 15 people started to attack them. >> i believe i could have been stabbed or anybody or killed or seriously injured because it was a lot of people. they could have really done anything they wanted to really. >> reporter: police say four people were beaten up for their bmx bikes. >> taken were two bicycles, two pairs of sneakers, cell phone and a backpack. >> reporter: they found the backpack, but they're still looking for the expensive bikes, the five people in this video and anyone else reportedly involved. >> right now it's too early for us to tell whether or not they've been involved in any other incidents, but we are obviously checking that. >> reporter: the video is horrible, but some say things like this is the dirty side of living in a city. >> it's unfortunate, but it doesn't surprise me. it's just the nature of living in a big city whether it's d.c., new york or san francisco. >> reporter: after seeing the video these bikers say they'll be extra careful when they head out of the park. one of the things i learned from speaking with those guys at the park is that these bikes even though they're small, they aren't cheap. they easily cost $1,000, sometimes up to $3,000. one of those guys told me someone tried to steal his bike just a little while ago, so this video definitely has them worried. reporting live in northwest i'm ellison barber, wusa9. >> ellison, thank you. the victims of the attack managed to walk away with some minor injuries, mostly bruises and a broken nose. police are asking anyone with information to give them a call. now to a peeping tom's case in maryland, today the owner of ram's head taverns pled guilty to secretly videotaping women in his bathrooms. 37-year-old karl muehlhauser was busted when his camera dropped from its hiding place and fell onto the restroom floor right in front of a woman who then took that camera to the cops. >> it happened over the course of three years and we were able to identify multiple bathrooms. >> now following today's guilty plea a judge sentenced muehlhauser to 90 days in the howard county jail and he was immediately taken into custody. he still faces a class action lawsuit being filed on behalf of women who may have been videotaped without even knowing it. investigators in bedford, virginia, are making it clear they're looking for more suspects in the alleged murder of the lyon sisters. sheila and katherine lyon vanished back in 1975 during a trip to wheaton plaza. prosecutors unsealed murder indictments yesterday against convicted child sex offender lloyd welch. today in a newly unsealed affidavit we learned that according to police, relatives knew in 1975 that welch was on the run from police and had two girls with him, yet none of them made the call this might have saved their lives. among those under the microscope, welch's uncle richard welch. >> he remains and will be a primary focus as we move forward now that lloyd welch has been charged. >> a relative allegedly told police that in 1975 lloyd welch came to the family's property in bedford, virginia, with a duffel bag full of bloody clothes he wanted washed. another relative said he helped lloyd welch burn two duffel bags each weighing 60 to 70 pounds. they said it smelled like death. a heads up if you're heading out overnight on the beltway, right now three lanes of the outer loop have been shut down right near the more man temple so road crews can perform emergency repairs to the bridge over connecticut avenue. all lanes will reopen by if you've a.m. -- 5 a.m., but the closures will begin at 9 p.m. every weeknight until the work is done. top? a very nice evening but big changes on the way. not as cool in the morning, but pretty nice for july. by 9:00 still comfortable, mid- 60s to mid-70s. we'll come back and talk about a yellow alert for sunday and it's not the reason you may think. >> but first officers caught handing out illegal parking tickets. now d.c. could owe you big a wusa9 call for action investigation has discovered that thousands of people have been fined in d.c. for a parking violation that turns out is not a violation at all. >> and for the last five months our russ ptacek is trying to get those refunds for people who have been wrongfully ticked. >> reporter: the real d.c. law rightfully states you cannot park upon any elevated bridge or parking structure, but parking enforcement added ticketing for under. that's donna johnson in february at the very spot she parked legally under a bridge. >> go figure. this is an error. >> reporter: actually a domino effect of errors creating years of tickets. look at the d.c. parking enforcement training manual we uncovered wrongly okaying tickets for legal parking under an elevated structure. >> we are correct. >> reporter: even d.c. agreed it was wrong. refunds are going out? >> they will. >> reporter: five months later we had to tell donna d.c. has issued more illegal tickets and still hasn't refunded the tickets she's been complaining about since october. >> it just irks me. >> i apologize to donna. >> reporter: that's christopher shorter, director of public works. shorter has only been on the job a couple of weeks and his new staff told him the department had only identified -- >> we found 122 tickets. >> reporter: -- 122 tickets? compare that to the 2,974 tickets for 2014 alone identified by a wusa9 open records request. >> this is looking like a problem of $100,000 or more a year. >> well, we have to do some additional research. >> reporter: his staff told him the problem only went back a year and a half. back through august of 2013? farcing enforcement's current train -- parking enforcement's current training manual predates that and again wrongly identifies parking under a bridge as a violence. how does that happen? >> i'm not sure. >> everyone who has been issued a ticket falsely will be issued a refund. >> reporter: donna trusts this time the district will do what it promises. >> thank you so much. >> reporter: you're so welcome and you're helping other people. >> good. >> reporter: our analysis found about 2/3 of the tickets issued are invalid tickets. stack that up 10 years. we estimate d.c. owes drivers over $1 million in refunds. i'm investigative reporter russ ptacek, wusa9. >> she says she still hasn't received a refund, but you can bent russ will not let this one go. -- bet russ will not let this one go. if you have a problem you want our wusa9 call for action team to investigate, go to www.wusa9.com and click on the wusa9 call for action tab or call our hot line at 301-652- help. the teenage girl who walked away from a plane crash in washington state tonight is speaking out. 16-year-old autumn veatch was the lone survivor of last saturday's patch flying with her grandparents when they hit some bad weather. >> we saw nothing. we couldn't see a thing and grandpa, he was kind of panicking. we couldn't get the gps to work and then he said that he was just going to try to fly up. so he started to go up and we just -- i just -- we didn't see anything until we saw trees. >> the plane crashed into a mountainside, burst into flames, burned and bruised, veatch started hiking down the cascade mountains. >> i don't have any experience living outside and it was so cold. i was positive i was going to die of hypothermia like especially the second day. >> but she didn't die and when she reached the end of the trail, she waited for the help from a parked car. she was driven to a country store 40 minutes away. she says she's grateful to be alive, but she is grieving the loss of her step grandparents. always watching always tracking, wusa9's first alert weather, d.c.'s most accurate. >> so we're talking 3-degree guarantee and we have a pretty good indication that you were going to be nailing it tonight. >> we were sweating it nonetheless, okay? we have thought with the cooler air we went for a high of 84 which is actually pretty bold because this is the hottest time of the year statistically climatologically. the high was 87. >> you just squeezed in there. >> we just snuck under the wire, yes, we did, and we're going to go 87 for tomorrow as well. okay. let's start with a live look outside, our live michael and son weather cam, it's really nice, not quite as cool as it was this time yesterday but really nice for july, 75 downtown, dew point only about 60, that's great and winds are light. so weather headlines, warmer but still not humid tomorrow, so we end the week on a nice no. , few more clouds tomorrow. hot and humid over the weekend and we had to to issue a yellow alert for heat, heat index 105 to 110 on sunday. if that were to materialize, we may have to issue a excessive heat warning for sunday afternoon. suffice it to say a mix of sun and clouds tomorrow morning, mid-60s and 70s to start. by 9:00 we're 75 downtown, still 70 in gaithersburg, 71 in manassas. it's cranking out a couple of sprinkles, but i'm not really impressed right now with the sprinkles. the best chance will be in the mountains west of i-81 tomorrow afternoon. in the metro low 80s, again mix of sun and clouds, not as spectacular as today but a decent finish to the week. by 5:00 it's 85 downtown, 84 in leesburg at 5:00 on the futurecast with showers again west of i-81 and by 10:00 perhaps some showers to the southwest and northwest, but i think most of friday night will be nine for grilling out and that sort of thing. day planner 75 by 9:00, 83 by 1:00 under partly cloudy skies. hot again on saturday 92, but here's your yellow alert on sunday, very hot, isolated storm and 98. 98 was the record high in dulles sunday. 95 on monday, 94 tuesday, 94 on wednesday isolated storm and 93 on thursday. nats are back in town friday through wednesday and we'll be back after this. you couldn't beat it. it was a five-star thursday. >> that's right, but the heat and humidity ar now wusa9 game on sports with a degrees owens brought to you by xfinity. >> open championship going according to form, tiger woods shooting closer to 80 than 70, wow. phil mickelson lurking and the two favorites, dustin johnson, jordan spieth, bringing some new blood to the old course. jordan spieth chasing the dream, the calendar year grand slam. he's grand, all right, good start, 5-under, two back of this guy dustin johnson. d.j., hey, just play that song. five birdies, one eagle, 7- under 65 to lead by one shot. how about tiger for those of you hoping this would be the tournament when he returned to top form? you're disappointed. stats don't always tell the story, but in woods' case it really does. nine scores showing you some shocking numbers and some facts that detail just how bad it's gotten. >> who are you and what have you done with tiger woods? >> not even tv announcers believe what they're seeing, the former no. 1 player flustered. >> oh! >> woods tinkering with swing change no. 5. >> if he'd pull it. >> unheard of in golf circles, a sport where muscle memory is paramount. watching woods play you would think his muscles have amnesia, 21-over par in his last 45 holes at majors. still he insists -- >> i wasn't very far away. i know people think i'm crazy for saying that. >> he seems fine in practice rounds, but once tournaments begin he can't execute. in the last seven majors he's bowingied the first -- bogeyed the first hole five times. woods' insistence that he's close to a break-through seems delusional and washington post covering golf says-- >> i think america wants to hear him assess his weaknesses and vulnerabilities. >> will tiger assess those weaknesses? i doubt that. all right. nats on wusa9 tomorrow, dodgers in town and jordan zimmermann versus clayton kershaw as the nats start the 2nd half of the season. you know the #natson9. finally this cute kid learning a tough lesson, overexuberant celebration. >> oh, no. >> can lead to that. >> looks like you've been there. >> the overexuberant celebration and then oh, bing. >> i'm so glad u yoran that video because we've been teasing you about that, a slow sports week. you put this on. this will carry us over. >> we'll keep watching this for quite some . time >> i love the way he's eating his chest. >> oh. now we should say do we know how he's doing? little guy is okay? >> he's fine. he's day to day. >> no worse than he was before. okay, top? >> ♪ ♪ ♪ you're only young once. unless you have a subaru. 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