from our newsroom to your phone. alison: mold in a prince george s county school. but not just any school. jonathan: this is one of the 7 on your side team that looked into the situation in the past. a maryland mother pulled her daughter from the classes. alison: she thought it was mold but the school didn t think anything was wrong. chris papst first broke the story. the mold problem now appears widespread, right? chris: it is becoming more of a problem, absolutely. in may i stood in front of the school that the children inside the school said they were getting sick possibly because of mold or mold allergies. at that time, the district said there was no mold inside of this building. but that is no longer the case. the end of last school year we introduced you to ms. jackson who pulled her daughter out of the school because her daughter was passing out and getting terrible headaches. jackson claimed it was because of a mold problem to a mold allergy. after our story aired,
i was terrified. there was no overall panic. police in public handled the situation well. folks self-evacuated because they did hear a gunshot. that is the right thing to do. we had people shelter in place here. we momentarily stopped trains and we are providing full service right now. so police are saying there never was an active shooter situation. amtrak says service was disrupted for 15 minutes. sam ford, abc7 news. kimberly: thank you. still unsettling on the anniversary of 9/11. you can imagine. but a picture-perfect day when you talk about the weather. beautiful out there. scott: absolutely. unfortunately it may not last for too long. check in with chief meteorologist doug hill for a look at what is a rainy saturday, doug. doug: it s looking that way. we start with sunshine tomorrow morning but the next system moving in at a good speed the clouds, showers and the thunderstorms are a good bet for saturday afternoon. at the moment, looking live at the weather bug c
police say jerome hunt used a bicycle rack to get over the white house fence around 10:30 last night. this afternoon, he pled not guilty to one charge of unlawful entry. leaving the courthouse hunt answered some questions, including whether his birthday had anything to do with jumping the fence. no no. i don t i don t celebrate birthdays like that. reporter: when asked if he intended to get inside the white house or hurt anyone hunt said no. no. oh never. never. i do never do anything like that. reporter: how easy to get over the fence? i better not talk about anything because my lawyer told me not to. reporter: how long were on the grounds before you were taken into custody? they they have a good protective system for the president. they reacted real fast. that s all i ll say. reporter: now, hunt says that he does not intend to ever do this again but does not regret what he did. at 6:00 hear more from hunt. he was released today on his own recog any dance
dmv. a severe thunderstorm warning was issued and what followed was a cluster of rapid fire lightning strikes. doug are we done with this? yeah we are just about done with severe thunderstorms. we have a couple of stronger storms out there, still some showers. but the severe part is out of here. we ll go from red to blue here. take a look at the radar, showing you what s happening. we saw the showers and the thunderstorms. watch this fire up with all that lightning, severe thunderstorm warnings for every county along the potomac and southern maryland including the d.c. metro area. we have some thunder and lightning up towards the chesapeake, but we re watching this area here winchester still some showers, the heaviest of which around hagerstown and frederick, maryland seeing the lightning and thunder, too. we ll continue to watch as they continue through the hour. then something different moving in towards the end of the week. thanks doug. jackie bensen did you get we
florida. the flight is raising major questions about the security of airspace above the district. news4 s pat collins has some mixed reaction from capitol hill. this was a breach of security of the capitol that could potentially have been very serious. and we need to understand why he was able to kind of get on to the capitol grounds in an aircraft with nobody stopping him. reporter: it was something you d never expect to see. certainly not after 9/11. a 61-year-old man piloting what he described as a flying bicycle, buzzing into our city and landing the contraption undetected on the lawn of the capitol. it has people in our city shaking their heads. if he can do it what s stopping someone else who has bad intentions? reporter: norad said they didn t know the flying lawn chair was there until, well, after it was there. on the hill congresswoman eleanor holmes-norton says she s concerned about overreaction by security officials. this is the people s house and senate