Thank you, scott. The Train Service has been restored to Harpers Ferry that the nearby train station was shut down because the streets were blocked, but not damaged. A witness to one of three murders gave emotional testimony in the Charles Severance case today. The murders happened in alexandria over a 10year period, but the case will be tried in fairfax. And thats where our peggy fox joins us now live. Peg . Reporter the witness was the caretaker of ruthanne lodatos elderly mother. During this Pretrial Hearing today, she broke down and sobbed on the witness stand remembering ruthanne lodatos murder. And she said she saw the gunman, felt a terrible pain when she was shot in the shoulder, fell to the ground, and started screaming. The family is deeply and forever grateful to her. She was heroic, courageous. Reporter shes talking about the only witness in the Charles Severance triple murder case as severance sat in a wheelchair next to their council, she recalled the murder of her employer, ruthanne lodato. She was shot. She lead a 90yearold woman to safety. She had 911 calls. And then she put her own life at risk and returned to ruthanne. Reporter franco gave this sketch to police of the suspect. She gave a description to the policethat lead to the arrest of a murderer. Reporter franco was shown six photos of men including one of Charles Severance. A detective testified that while she looked longer and more closely at his picture, she could not say it was him with certainty. Theyre not looking for the truth anymore. Theyve decided they know what the truth is and theyre treating Charles Severance as if he has already been convicted. Reporter the defense asked the judge for a second competency hearing for severance, saying that he is not assisting in his own defense, that they have to talk to him through the jail cells food slot. Do you think that he is mentally ill . I dont think that he is mentally ill, but at worst a little bit much. Reporter any lack of cooperation by severance is willful. As usual severance did speak out of turn twice today. Reporting live in Fairfax Peggy Fox wusa9. The trial of Charles Severance is scheduled to begin on october 5. Weve got breaking news right now out of prince georges county, Danny Lee Harvell is in custody charged with an assault and attempted murder of a county police officer. Police say that harvell tried to flea in his car in district heights. An officer tried to stop him, but he got caught. That officer was dragged about 100 yards before crashing in to a tree. That officer suffered a broken leg and other injuries, but he is home now from the hospital. One frustrated dc homeowner reached out to wusa9 after someone crashed their suv on to his property. Now this one happened early sunday morning northeast. The car came straight down knocking off the trash bin there. My neighbor cleaned it up and then went straight in there. Didnt even notice it until later in the day. But he couldnt get anybody to take the suv out of his yard. Its been five days. I mean ive been getting the runaround between the insurance companies. When i called back the police department, i got, i was told that they dont remove vehicles from private properties. And while we were talking to mr. Yim, a tow truck finally pulled up to tow the suv from the property. They are not sure if it is the driver or the Insurance Company in charge of the payments. According to the sheriffs office, deputies were called to a home in waldorf because of a domestic dispute. Now, investigators say that a teenager called 911 three times. Investigators found a man and a woman arguing in the driveway. A sheriffs deputy says he was forced to shoot the man when he came at them with a knife. That suspect is still in the hospital. The districts minimum wage is one step closer to moving from 10. 50 an hour to an unprecedented 15 an hour. The dc board of elections have approved the wage hike if its supporters can get the required 23,000 signatures. Andrea mccarren is live in Dupont Circle this evening to hear what the Business Owners and the workers have to say, andrea . Reporter lesli, this measure could be voted on by dc residence as early as next year. The National Restaurant association insists it would lead to more job cuts, automation, and could even force some businesses to shut down. Destination metro center. Reporter amidst the hustle and bustle, the minimum wage issue hits close to home. I honestly think that it would be amazing. I definitely think that every american should be able to provide for their family with dignity. The 15 minimum wage would make life a lot easier. Reporter anyone with experience in the service industry, especially restaurant work says the minimum wage increase is a necessity. Giving them the sky high cost of living. I saw a lot of people within the restaurant that i worked in, who were struggling, who had families and daughters and sons, and that it was impossible for them to get by and pay rent and put themselves through school. Reporter Richard Kessler is torn. As Small Business owner, he would like to see the wages down, understanding the need for workers to earn a living wage. Yeah, i have to be honest that they would impact the way we would look at how many hours they could have their employees in. And that i would have to really budget myself for the increase, but it is good for the people. I mean, i live on 10 an hour, it is very difficult. Reporter seattle, san francisco, and los angeles have already raised their minimum wage to 15 an hour. If waywodes it would be if washington, d. C. Does it would be the first city to do so. Reporting live from Dupont Circle, Andrea Mccarren wusa. Theres a lot riding on this as they surveyed local Business Owners, finding more than half said they would have to cut jobs if the minimum wage goes to 15 an hour. If the proposed minimum wage hike goes to a vote in 2016 and passes, it would be fazed in by the year 2020. Two teenagers have been held for the stabbing death of five of their relatives in oklahoma. Police made the grim discovery last night when they responded to an open 911 call right near tulsa. That when somebody dials for help, but then doesnt speak. The teens ran from the house when police responded, but soon captured by an officer and his dog. A 13yearold girl in the house is in the hospital in serious condition. A 2yearold was found uninjured and in state custody. Outspoken republican candidate donald trump made his way to the u. S. mexico border today to bring attention to illegal immigration. Since announcing his candidacy, trump has been dogged by fellow republicans for the comments he made calling mexican immigrants racists and criminals. Don champion has more from lorado, texas. We have a tremendous dangers with the illegals coming in. Reporter republican president ial candidate donald trump visited the u. S. mexico border in texas to call attention to illegal immigration. Trumps tell it like it is campaign may not help him with hispanic voters, but it will be critical for a win in 2015. I think that ill win the hispanic vote. Reporter despite the heated rhetoric, his message is breaking through, leading in the polls. Some of his rivals say that they are fed up with the campaign antic. He offers a barking carnival act that can best be described as trumpism. Reporter trump says if elected, he would build a wall along the border to keep Illegal Immigrants out. A group of Border Patrol avents who plan to accompany trump to agents who plan to accompany trump to the border says our intentions to meet with mr. Trump is to provide boots on the ground perspective just to be clear an endorsement was never discussed for any president ial candidate. Don champion cbs news, loredo, texas. Now, he may consider an independent run if the republicans arent supportive of his bid. An arlington man has plead guilty to using a gun while assaulting security guards at a fairfax hospital. At the time of the assault last march, on charges of veral banks in northern virginia. He escaped from the hospital, triggering an hours long man hunt that ended with his recapture. Hell be sentenced in october, facing at least 32 years in prison. Local Commuter Rail lines, vre, and marc may consider a shut down. Company Officials Say they just may have to stop operating unless Congress Extends a deadline to install advanced safety technology. Positive train control or ptc prevents trains from colliding and breaking speed limits. We heard a lot about that during a recent amtrak crash. Amtrak Officials Say the technology would have prevented that deadly derailment of a passenger train in philadelphia back in may. We are just Getting Started on wusa9 news at 5 00. What animal control officers are doing to catch a bear on the loose in fairfax. That story coming up at 5 30. Im meteorologist topper shutt. This is about as nice as it would get in july. Its warm, with the lower humidity. Lets look at the future cast, why wouldnt you . 72 in gaithersburg and frederick at 9 00. Still 80 downtown, but comfortable mid70s in leesburg and manassas. Well come back and talk about your weekend and which day would be better if you have Outdoor Activities planned. Nice job, coming up, the i 95 construction worker who would come from the aide of the kidnapped victim. New information on the woman found dead in a texas jail cell three days after being arrested during a traffic stop. Check out this home video of the shark caught from an ocean city beach. The person who posted it on youtube says they caught it Late Wednesday night at the 84th street beach and then released it back in to the ocean. Its a sixfoot sand bar shark and these sharks are pretty common to our area. In fact females are known to give birth in the delaware bay in the early summer. Its Mission Accomplish for lady bird. The tunnelboring machine has dug four and a half miles under the potomac river. All part of a project to build a new sewer tunnel. Crews brought the machine back to the surface and now they are use other equipment to finish the work. Over the two years, lady bird has removed 1. 2 million tons of material enough to make 72,000 truckloads. Today a texas prosecutor tried to shed a little more light on the death of the 28 yearold woman founding aning in her jail cell two weeks ago. Following this story, joining us live from the newsroom with more. Reporter well lesli, the question in the death of sandra bland has been whether or not she killed herself or was killed. No injuries consistent with a violent homicide were found during an autopsy of the 28 yearold. Get out of the car. Reporter sandra bland was arrested for allegedly assaulting a state trooper. Dash cam video shows the trooper threatening bland with a stun gun when refusing to follow the orders to get out of the vehicle. Three days after the arrest, she was found hanging in her texas jail cell. She killed herself. Friends and family question whether she committed suicide. Those arent the only contradictions. Documents spilled out for bland when she was booked in to vail, showing discrepancies on questions, whether she previously attempted suicide to whether she was on medication. Authorities say any contradictions in those documents are the result of blands own answers to jail officials. Prosecutors say that blands injuries were consistent with the suicide according to the autopsy. Saying that some lacerations in abrasions were found on the wrists, but that they were consistent with a struggle while being handcuffed. Still prosecutors say their ve instigation, which is ongoing has found fault in the arresting officer as well. There are multiple investigations, department of Public Safety conducting their own civil investigation of the troopers actions. Neighborhood kateed that the trooper violate they have indicated that the trooper violated their internal policies. Prosecutors say that they violated policies by failing to provide timely checks on bland as they are required to do on inmates in their jail cells. Lesli . All right, thank you for that information. Authorities also say toxicology reports show that bland had marijuana in her system. Well tonight, we are hearing from a highway construction worker who help add young womankid woman kidnapped. An 18yearold woman jumped out of that car, ran to huntington and begged to help her. I asked the family if she was okay. She said no there was a man trying to kill her. I told her to stay behind me that i wouldnt let nothing happen to her. The man driving the car was aaron burg. After the young woman jumped out of the car, he took off, but police captured him just minutes later in dale city. Now hes facing several charges including abduction, sex assault. Burg and that young woman had been acquaintances. A fastmoving wildfire is tearing through California North of napa valley tonight. Right now that fire is threatening as many as 200 homes. Investigators say that it may have all started with some sort of fiery car accident yesterday afternoon. Now thousands of acres have been torched as firefighters attacked those flames from the ground in the air and two communities, they have already been evacuate. E been evacuated. We grabbed the things that were important to us, the few unreplaceable items. The rest is in gods hands. We are trying to water, mow, and that is all we can do. The firefighters say that those flames are being fueled, but four years of droughts and super dry vegetation and of course those winds that just keep changing directions. I know were not going to get to the threeday guarantee, but the drought in the northwest sounds strange. In the summertime they have a nice stretch of weather, which is why people live there, suffering from november through march and then june through august is pretty nice. But the drought in california is the el nino predictions, if they are correct and theyre forecasting a monster el nino this winter, youre going to go from salmon to feast. A lot of rain . A lot of rain. What about here though . I dont want to talk about it. It would be a very snowless winter. Thats not a part of the threedegree guarantee. It would not be a good winter for you snow lovers, but you guys would love it. Okay lets start with the three degree guarantee. That we will talk about. 88 today. The reason why i went 89 and then i said im going to knock that down a degree. Well let you know how we did at 11 00. Well talk about the temperatures right now with a live look outside. The live michael and son weather cam. 87 is a good thing, a good sign. Dew points still in the 50s. I cant remember two consecutive days in july with dew points in the 50 and relative humidity in the 30s. We are stealing a couple of days really. Winds are out of the north at 12, plenty hot when youre in the sun. In fact probably should have mentioned this yesterday. When you are outside with days like today and yesterday, you are not going to feel yourself getting cooked because it is a dry air mass. As you perspire, it evaporates and you feel comfortable. Do not forget the sunscreen again tomorrow and especially over the weekend. Another great evening that will lead to a cool night. A cool start tomorrow that will lead to a hot finish. Drier air mass has heated up quickly, cooling off quickly. Saturday will be hot, in fact plenty hot, but not that humid. Sunday, we will join forces again, heat and humidity rolling back in. Sunday and most of next week. The only Silver Lining that i have for you here, i dont see any storms on sunday, it wont be quite as hot on last sunday, pretty much brutal at 98. The future cast tonight at 10 00. Low 70s already in the burbs. 78 downtown, 72 in la platta, leesburg, and 73 in manassas. Well advance this by morning another crisp morning. 63 in gaithersburg by 5 30. And 60 in frederick, even 59 in romney. Ive widened the range for low temperatures. Well see some upper 50s in places like frederick, hagerstown, maybe even damascus. By about 9 00 were back in the 70s, gorgeous, mostly sunny. By 1 00, this is the day to all walk to lunch or take lunch outside. 86 downtown. Only in the low to mid80s in the suburbs. 83 in frederick and manassas, and 83 in la plata talking about a spectacular day. A fine finish. 5 00 p. M. Tomorrow. And were knocking on the door of 90, but it will not be humid. 88 or so. And then by 7 30 temps are going back down. Not as cool tomorrow night, but wow what a perfect night for the cookout or the dinner outside tomorrow night. Just perfect be, to make your friday night plans now. Clear and cold tonight. The wide range. 58 to 70 for the lows. 70 downtown. 58 in northern and western suburbs, the far northern western suburbs. 77 at 9 00. The low 80s by 11 00. 86 with full sun by 1 00. So saturday, it is hot, but still not humid, 93. And then hot and more humid on sunday, 95. Not quite yellow alert worthy. The next seven days. Monday, isolated storms are possible as we would get a dip in temps. Low 90s on tuesday. Isolated storms here and some pretty good heat that will roll in here on wednesday and thursday back to the upper 90s. A major retailer is jumping on the black friday and july bandwagon. Plus, why walmart is shrinking their hours at some of their stores in the area. And tonights consumer alert. Right after the break, why this woman would spend four years behind bars. Iran keeps their nuclear facilities. Military sites can go uninspected. Restrictions end after 10 years. Then iran could build a Nuclear Weapon in two months. Iran has violated 20 inttiernaonal agreements an td iseahe lding state sponsor of terrorism. And four years on the latest conviction that was writing a bad check in loudoun county. That sounds pretty harsh for one climb. But over the last dozen years, the Commonwealth Attorneys Office says she has been convicted of the credit card theft, identity theft, forge