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servitude. a woman forced to worked inside a area house while a couple took her passport away and threatened to shoot if she ran away. and as the calls for anthony weiner to resign grow on both sides of the aisle, theres word his wife is expecting. good evening. im doreen gentzler. >> and im vv vjim vance. it felt like triple digits. jackie bensen is going to show us how some people kept cool this evening. first we go to veronica. another heat advisory for tomorrow? >> thats right. f...

it made a dangerous search for anymore victims. >> the same system dumped softball-sized hail on other towns. today, the dangerous system will stretch from the ohio valley to the gulf coast. well have a complete update coming up on "good morning america." now, to the political storm brewing in washington. president obama and the republicans are now gearing up for what looks to be an epic budget battle. also, a brutal 2012 election. yesterday, the president went on record with his sid...

trouble. southbound out of frederick on 270, heavier volume. eastbound 66 and northbound 95 live. back to you. >> thank you. 5:01. we begin with breaking news out of northeast washington. police are investigating a shooting. a man was shot in the heart in the park two hours ago. he was taken to hospital. theres no word on his condition or whether the police have made any arrests. overseas, the u.s. is on the brink of a trade war. president obama and g-20 li leaders have been trying t...

first to the news. live at 5:30 a.m. here at 30 rock in new york city. this morning, details are out on the much anticipated new book by journalist bob woodward which offers a rare behind-the-scenes look at the obama administrations decision to increase troops in afghanistan. the book called "obamas wars" paints a picture of top advisers deeply divided over the war in afghanistan, which critical -- vice president joe biden and richard holbrooke doubt the presidents strategy there. ac...

id like to say a couple words about the guy. short and ugly. there you go. welcome to "morning joe." great to have you with us. what a day in norm city yesterday. we actually had breakfast with ahmadinejad. you had lunch with warren buffett. i thought it was a bit in politic for you to ask him to come on "morning joe." tell people, you get warren buffett. youre at lunch and what do you say to him? >> he would be more than willing to carve out a three or four-minute segment once a wee...

one spokesperson says manning faces up to 52 years in prison on charges filed so far. as far how he got his hands on this information, stories coming out of the pentagon are that he had quite an elaborate ruse. he would go into work with blank cds. they would be labeled with musicians. he would put on his headphones and pretend to listen to music. he was downloading the top- secret files and walking away with the disks. outside the pentagon, scott thuman, abc 7 news. july has become ...

power lines fell on train tracks, passengers stuck in one train for hours. others forced to wait for hours. >> the power line fell between the silver spring and glen forest stations. and the domino effect from uniyogs station to montgomery county. john, what is going on now? >> reporter: well, right now, crews are on the scene here, trying to repair the power lines that was tossed all over the place earlier today. it was a frightening scene as passengers were struck on a train for 2 1/...

it was day five without power. day five awaiting on the court in the white oak area of montgomery county. utility crews from pennsylvania and northern maryland worked around the many downed trees to repair the broken line. work on the street was delayed because someone stole some of the fallen power line that would have been used in the repair. but neighbor george wordsington who had his power restored wednesday night said they are used to being at the end of the line with pepco. >> a ...

downtown washington. the event takes teams of homeless men, women and at-risk youth. opening ceremony and parade will be held tonight at 5:00. local members of congress will meet with the national transportation safety board today to go over the weeks findings with last years deadly metro crash. a panel found long-running safety issues as one of the reasons for the collision. metros red line is back to normal this morning. part of it was closed for hours yesterday after power lines...

from montgomery county were trapped on board for more than three hours huddled on board the rear car all alone poach that time while pepco made sure -- most of the time while pepco make sure the 13,000-volt wire under that train was not hot. >> we had to make sure all the power was killed to the tracks before we could send people down there. >> reporter: pepco insists there was never danger of electrocution as long as they stayed inside. >> they were grounded inside the car. so pepco h...