Explosion. You might remember we told you about the 911 call hours after the first building blew up. We knew back then that the caller complained about the smell of gas. Now we have that 911 call. A man makes that call after he was walking back to his apartment on arliss street and noticed a strange smell. He tells dispatcher he smells natural gas. He first smelled it on the outside of the building. Coming from the first floor. And then he went up the stairs. Still smelled it. The smell had been in the building for more than a few minutes so he called 911. Where inside the building . Its just like i want to report a strong smell of gas in the building going to on for like 30 minutes or more. Scott that tells us, this was a lingering smell of gas. If true, must have gone away by the time firefighters showed up on the scene. Now he wasnt the only one who smelled gas on july 25. Ill be back at 6 00. Scott taylor, abc7 news. Michelle scott. Thank you. You can listen to the entire call at wjla. Com. You can also sign up for breaking news alerts there. Get updates sent straight from our newsroom to our phone. Also developing now, word that a woman was attacked while walking across one of the busiest bridges in our area. The assault happening just off the arlington side of the key bridge this weekend. The bridge connects arlington and georgetown. Its a walk that many people make every day. Richard reeve joins us live to walk us through what happened. Rich . Richard a very busy area in the day. But at night, not so much. Im walking exactly where the woman was. Walking across the bridge on the virginia side and came into this area here. It was here she had an encounter with a man. Lets show you video of the area. This happened at 2 30 in the morning early sunday. Unlike now, the area was very, there are street lights on the bridge. But once you get off the bridge its dark here. She saw the man walking toward her. Police say he grabbed her and pulled her to the side, off the sidewalk. Covered her mouth and put her hands down her shorts. She was able to break through. She says the guy ran off toward d. C. If tar lot of folks this is a cautionary tale about walking alone, especially at night. We are in a city. Sometimes we forget it. Its a beautiful path we can take. But we have to remember to be vigilant for our fellow citizens and ourselves. At night you have less people going by. Its welllit on the bridge but as soon as you get off the brim its darkener that area off the bridge its darkener that area. You have less people coming through. Richard you can see. Very picturesque in the day. At i have jogged here and it gets very dark. Coming up at 5 00, what police say you should do to keep yourself safe in the situations. Reporting live, richard reeve, abc7 news. Michelle thank you. This man is behind bars accused of harassing miss maryland. Police say 51yearold valencio pires attended an event hosted by miss maryland Hannah Brewer and then continued to contact her via social media and email. Even after requests were made for him to stop. He faces harassment and stalking charges. Jonathan police in Prince Georges County offering reward leading to for information about a death of a clerk killed over the weekend. He was shot and killed in an attempted robbery. Police say a man shot him as he attended to run. The clerk made it to the parking lot where the guy shot him again. P. G. Police and the f. B. I. Now offering 50,000 in reward money. This is a senseless crime that should never have taken place. He went in the 7eleven and announced the robbery and began to assault our victim he fled without taking any property. The clerk lost his life because he was working the midnight shift in a 7eleven. Jonathan police are also searching for the suspect in the murder of an up and coming rapper known as dirty swipey. He was shot outside his apartment over the weekend. Michelle final goodbyes is underway for the son of late former d. C. Mayor marion berry. Christopher barry is lying in repose from now until 2 00 p. M. Then the service will begin. Christopher died last week of suspected drug overdose. He was 36 years old. D. C. Officials are going to build the first water tower for the city since 1945. Construction of the st. Elizabeth water storage weeks and stand 170 feet tall. Cost 14 million. And will be completed by the year 2018. Its replacing the original tower there built in the 1930s. Jonathan there is a race against the clock for a critical deadline in Ellicott City for those rebuilding after the floods. Michelle John Gonzalez is there with the shut down of main street. A month after this thousandyear flood decimated about a twomile stretch of main street in historic Ellicott City, some of the residents here and the Business Owners still have so much work ahead of them. Look at this front yard. This san area that isnt closed off. You have a riding motor. Flipped over. Still stuck in the mud. This is the day that the residents and the Business Owners have a final chance to get work done before the area is schult off for shut off for a while. Kn this weekend there was a flurry of activity. Dozens of vehicles came through to clean out close to 100 properties we understand. Now after today, main street will be closed for three weeks to allow county crews and other utility workers to complete the Critical Infrastructure repairs. My front yard was washed away. I have a lot of trees down. Six tons of dirt i bought on saturday to fill in the hole. John the idea is have the pedestrians safely moving through here by september 16. They will keep the area open until 7 00 tonight. After that, its offlimits. We understand a communityrun supply truck will be in the area handing out cleaning supplies throughout the day. John gonzalez, abc7 news. Jonathan up next, back to school for many in the district. Parents are saying yea a look at day one. That opened up. Reporter the state of maryland dominates in rio. Coming up, we break down some interesting statistics. Doug the heatwave is over. Gorgeous weather. How many days of this . Youll like my jonathan now to a developing a man barricading himself in the home surrendering within the hour. A Massive Police response when this got started. Traffic was blocked off around Henderson Court in cliffton. Jeff goldberg on the scene. As this was happening, i guess it got wrapped up. What got it started . The situation wrapping up. You can see the enormous Police Response wrapping up peacefully, thankfully. The call came in after 9 00 this morning. Call of a man with a handgun. Possible hostage situation. Family members got out of the house. It was a 20yearold man. Thats when the communication was attempted to begin by the Fairfax County police. Took a few hours to make contact with the man. The Hostage Negotiating Team on the scene, s. W. A. T. Team and the mobile crisis command unit. The man was in Emotional Distress and he was armed but they did talk him down peacefully. He got into the custody of the swat team. Just after 3 00. Fairfax county police have not been providing us any information to what the man was saying. We will try to get more information and tell you why police were on the same block in clinton a month that is coming up. Jonathan as long as it ends peacefully. Thank you. Michelle today is end of the line for gawker. Com. The flagship site seized the operation today. It was bought by univision after losing a lawsuit by hulk hogan. Jonathan 7 on your side consumer alert. The big get bigger. Pfizer buying metavation or 14 million. All because of the mort foalia including a prostate portfolio including a prostate drug. The shareholders must sign off on the deal before it is wrapped up. Michelle flying to mexico is expected to become easier and cheaper. Most restrictions between the u. S. And mexico will be lifted sides to fly route they want as often as they want. In december they agreed to open the aviation markets to each other. American, dempt dealt and southwest announced new flights across the border. Time for a check of the traffic situation. Checking on the roads. Angela foster in the abc7 traffic center. How is it looking . Angela not too bad for the most part. The big story is the fire activity we are following. As a result, metropolitan police are telling us kenilworth avenue is closed for now. Both directions. On a stretch between the baltimorewashington parkway and 450 annapolis road. We are starting to see congestion. The usual delay on tiner loop from tysons to bethesda area. Getting heavy on the 295 corridor. The baltimore washington parkway. North and southbound delays. In the oxon hill area from branch avenue making your way to 2 10 and arlington on interstate 66. Got hefty delays for you already. Traveling in the westbound direction. A live look at interstate 66. What we are seeing there is the result of an accident. Westbound near the vienna metro station. Police tell us they moved everything to the side. The shoulder is blocked. Quick peek of the delay on the inner loop leading up to a crash approaching river road. That is the latest from the traffic watch. Back to you. Jonathan all right. Thank you so much. Okay. The Olympic Games over. Team usa had an incredible haul of medals. Michelle if you take a closer look, really maryland dominated. Of the 121 medals collected by americans 18 went to marylanders. That would have placed the state 14th overall. And that is what we are comparing it to other countries. Jonathan 14 golds would be sixth place in gold medals. That is all th Montgomery CountyBureau Reporter kevin lewis in bethesda. Maybe tv gets maybe swimming gets tv time but we had a host of people winning medals. Katie ledecky entering her prime. We are live at stone bridge and sacred heart this is where ledecky attended hockeys. Attended high school. This is where she made a lot of magic happen. Take a look at the stone ridge swimming and the diving record board. Ledecky absolutely owns it. Our lady of Good Counsel High School in olney had two to litch yaps in rio. 20yearold Kyle Schneider won a wrestling gold medal. The youngest man to do so. The Athletic Director calling schneider a solid young 20yearold jack conger who earned a gold in the 40 x 200 freestyle. Durant and Carmelo Anthony were critical in the basketball medal. This is a remarkable example of taking a goal and put in the work. As an old rachel coach, it was tense. Kyle knew what he had to do. He had to gain points onebyone. Think he just broke them. Reporter to recap, maryland was its own county it would have placed 14th in the overall olympic medal count. And gold. They won 18 medals 14. Of 18 medals, 14 gold. Impressive. Jonathan that was great. We had a male wrestler who won gold. A female wrestler won gold. All the swimming. Maryland is a hotbed for gold. Doug maryland got 25 of the gold medals. Jonathan not too shabby. Doug way to go. Michelle not too shabby is the start to the week. Ditches like this makes monday easy. Doug this is the pattern we talked about last week. A cold front coming through. Enjoy every minute of it. It is august and it will get hot and humid again. Jonathan it was raining buckets yesterday. Doug the buckets hurt more than the rain. The latest report from st. Marys Elementary School in annapolis. Beautiful day in maryland capital with light bree from the west. The air temperature and the on friday the temperatures were in the mid90s. Feeling close to 100 degrees. Here is the change from friday to monday. 81 in frederick and baltimore. 82 in manassas. But as a bonus, no extra charge much lower humidity levelses possibled by much lower levels by lower humidity levels. This just doesnt happen often. Tom is the same. Just about the same. Later in the week the humidity will ramp up again. 83 tonight. 81 at 7 00 p. M. After sunset we drop through the 70s. The sun sets at 7 52. Many areas around the beltway are close to 60. 65 in the city. The next seven d 38 in the sunshine with the low humidity tomorrow. We will hit the mid80s for the day on wednesday. More humidity on thursday. Hot and humid and 92. A slight chance of a late day thunderstorm on friday. The weekend is warm and dry. More showers on monday. D. C. United take on the chicago fire r. F. K. Saturday evening. It looks like it will be fine there. You can watch it live on newschannel8. Michelle nice forecast. Doug i like it. Jonathan thanks. We would be remiss if we didnt say happy birthday to someone special and cute. The National Zoos bei bei. The youngest of the giant panda. Its his birthday. He turns 1yearold today. Celebration held over the weekend. Panda mom chose friendship and luck for the birthday. Michelle leaving mom to enjoy the sweet treat. The older sister received a birthday. Not wasting any of it. Jonathan you know they like it if they lick the tray. Good cake. Is it melon . Michelle they like it. Whatever it is. Jonathan its gone. Michelle next for us at 42 00, a new concern about the zika virus. A warning from a Top Health Official about the state it will spread to next. Jonathan next a suicide bomber stops. Where the takedown happen and the destruction he could have caused. Jonathan a continued plea, demands for more help in florida as the zika virus continues to spread. Michelle Health Officials worry the virus could pop up in neighboring states as the c. D. C. Expands the travel warning for pregnant women. Elizabeth hur has more. Elizabeth zika fears reaching as far north as new york city have the crews spraying neighborhoods as a precaution. What we know, okay, about the zika virus. Elizabeth in miami, students are returning to school to zika lessons. Reassuring for parents. They have been taking care of it. Two neighborhoods have been identified as the zika hot zones but the Health Experts warn its only a matter of time with the neighboring states including louisiana recovering from the historic flooding facing the greatest threat. If you have area of flooding it leaves places behind where mosquitoes can breed. So until you get the water cleaned up its a hot spot for zika and west nile. Elizabeth calling the situation dire they are telling all pregnant women should stay out of miami. Saying it should be taken seriously. Knowing all locals dont share the concern. I dont feel like i have to worry about it. Im not in the first trimester of the pregnancy. The problem with zika is you dont see the issues until 69 months and the baby is born wi elizabeth dont wait until its too late. When it comes to fighting zika its all about protection and prevention. In new york im Elizabeth Hur for abc7 news. Michelle to see all of the online reporting go to the website on zika virus. Wjla. Com. Search zika. Maryland Health Officials are now reporting their first case of another mosquito borne virus. We are talking about west nile. An adult in western maryland contracted the virus and survived. The state Health Department says the virus has been detected in mosquito pools in Prince Georges County. Montgomery county will conduct spraying jeff overing night as presymptive measure. Still ahead presumptive measure. Still ahead. A poorly planned heist. Why the thieves did not get away with the entire haul. Jonathan but first, a new School Opening in d. C. All boys high school. We will take y washington where work continues. But the officials are excited to see the experiment begin to play out. Announcer youre watching abc7 news at 4 00. On your side. Jonathan there have been critics that questioned the legality of a boys only Public School but d. C. An experiment. Michelle they are on a quest to answer this question. Can an allmale High School Environment improve achievement for teenage boys . Sam ford went to find out on the back to school for the students. Sam opening day for the d. C. Public school. This is a dream come true for all of us. They celebrated the moment with student. I introduce the mayor of the soon to be 51st state. Mayor muriel bowser. Sam the mayor believes this is waun way to break the path from street to jail. We want them to go to school, to college, to career. Sam the city has spent 58 million to make it happen with a low system to a school with much success in chicago. When we brought it up to teens last year but for parents the principal the biggest draw one its all boys. Nay can focus on the structural of the school. Sam and others like it. An environment where i see people who look like me. With the same goal and achievement of me. The building is not finished yet but thats not a problem. Each year they will add another grade until they have a full school. People want the experiment to work. Sam ford, abc7 news. Michelle we want to see your backtoschool pictures. Thank you to to the families that sent in the photos we have exciting classes back to class. Go to burst. Com wjla. I remember going back to school you would lay out your outfits. Make sure it has short sleeves. Doug i remember we walked uphill. To and home from school. They fell for it for a while. Michelle the stories. Poor pinocchio. Doug a nice day. We have low humidity, comfortable temperatures and zero rain. It will stay in the lower 80s. 85 at reagan national. Dew point at 40 . Current temperatures close to the metro. 84 at potomac and herndon. Its delightful. The temperatures will drop in the 70s. Overnight, probably in to the 60s. It could be in the 60s in the morning. Average high of 86. Its clear and comfortable. Light winds and a very enjoyable evening. High pressure building in from the midwest to keep us cool tonight. 83 calling for high with sunshine. The high will move off the shore and a lit thursday you will feel the moisture come back. 89 degrees. Looking forward to friday night the Buffalo Bills in town at fedex friday night. Should be partly cloudy. Slight chance of thunderstorm. It will be toasty with temperatures in the upper 80s to start the game. Cooling thereafter.