Leg laceration that has a tourniquet applied by police. Jeff one Young Witness says she and her mother saw the two victims struggling while being treated by paramedics. I was so scared on the day. I locked all the doors and the windows. I was shaking. Jeff Authorities Say after the incident farooqui took off but later showed up seeking care for his injuries at the same hospital where the victims had been taken. Farooqui was arrested soon afterwards. The suspect has been on the philippines radar for some time and a has been on the f. B. I. s radar for some time and he traveled to turkey in the last year and may have tried to sneak into syria. F. B. I. Agent brad garrett says its difficult to stop an attack like this one. This fits the profile of people who just want to act in the name of isis and jeff the male victim suffered injuries all over his body, including on his neck. But did not appear to be an attempt at a beheading as was rumored. Both victims are recovering well. Live in the newsroom, jeff goldberg, abc7 news. Jonathan concerns over hepatitis a that is coming to a smoothie chain. Michelle strawberry smoothie cut off strawberry supplier in egypt linked to the disease. We look at how many stores are affected in our area. Its a summer favorite that could land you in the hospital. That is according to Virginia Department of health. If you bought a smoothie at Tropical Smoothie Cafe you could have hepatitis a. There are now 17 confirmed cases in the state. Four in Northern Virginia. The biggest thing we are recommending for people right now is that if they did eat smoothies with them from tropical smoothie over the course of the summer they monitor themselves for signs and symptoms of hepatitis a. The symptoms are fever, fatigue, headache and nausea. The most distinct symptoms are jaundice, the yellowing of the skin or the eyes or dark urine. Reporter the cause of the health alert were strawberries from egypt. Im chief executive officer of Tropical Smoothie Cafe reporter on youtube they say they got rid of the tainted fruits. Notices in stores are saying the strawberries are now coming from california and mexico. Some customers in fairfax arent taking chances. Go to the doctor to get the shot and make sure she doesnt get hepatitis a. Reporter the symptoms usually develop in four weeks which means some customers would be infected now and not know it. In fairfax, q mccray, abc7 news. Michelle developing tod picked longtime assistant chief to temporarily fill Cathy Laniers vacancy when she leaves for the nfl. Assistant chief Peter Newsham spent 27 years with m. P. D. The last 14 years as assistant chief. He will take over on september 17. Mayor bowser calls newsham a Police Officer of the highest caliber. Nationwide search for a new chief is expected to begin soon. Jonathan a wild scene last night. Two people in the hospital after a fiery crash outside the National Gallery of art. It was late last night, a minivan hit a light pole at the intersection of pennsylvania and constitution avenue. Witnesses say it was flying. The minivan jumped the curb, hitting the vale with the National Gallery of vehicle with the National Gallery of security inside and the car burst into flames. We heard a big crash. We saw the sparks and a huge crash, like a big monster. All you could see was the huge, it looked like the fireworks no, its a huge sparks and flames. Just launched up out of the air. Jonathan both people injured in the crash are expected to recover. Its only a matter of time before the heat and humidity return but a comfortable walk on the first day of school in prince georges today. Chief meteorologist doug hill has changes coming pretty soon. Doug . Doug yeah. Were going to ease you into them. This is beautiful. Enjoy every minute. Coolish and dry weather for august. This is something we dont see too often. Thats why we are making a big deal about it. We are going to rebound in the next few days. As far as the numbers tonight we drop in the 70s and the midtoupper 60s. Cooler in suburban areas. Clear skies all the way through. The western zone wakeup temperatures in the 50s in frederick and urbana. The local area will see temperatures in the upper 50s in a couple of spots. Mainly 60. 66 in downtown washington. Then looking beyond as we head through the Morning Hours to the bus stop, it will be clear, beautiful, 65 for an average temperature. 84 degrees at recess time. By Late Afternoon we will warm up to 87 with a slight increase in humidity. All Things Considered another beautiful rand comfortable day around the nations capital. We will check out the weekend, the next seven days in a couple minutes. Back to you. Michelle you know they could use dry weather down south. President obama got a firsthand look at the hardest hit parishes in louisiana. The water finally receding. Some 60,000 homes are damaged. Many beyond repair. Marci gonzalez is live in east baton rouge parish. How has the president been received by the people on the ground . Marci hi, michelle. He was warmly welcomed here. Home after belonging tossed to the ush can. The families are having to start over. Many dont have flood insurance. From the receding floodwater to everything it destroyed, president obama how yall doing . Marci getting a glimpse. Touring the devastation in southern louisiana. I hope they see that so many people lost everything. Every piece of furniture in my house is on the curb. My walls are on the ush can. My carpet. Everything. Marci the president talking with owners of the 60,000 homes that were damaged more than a week ago in worst Natural Disaster in this country since super storm sandy. The fastrising water blamed for 13 deaths, 30,000 rescues with 2,600 people now still living in shelters. President obama what i want people of louisiana to know is you are not alone on this. Even after the tv cameras leave, the whole country is going to continue to support you folks back in their homes. And lives are rebuilt. Marci while praise for the federal aid already coming in, the sharp contrast to fema response to katrina, president obama facing criticism. Donald trump who visited baton rouge last week among those saying the president should have cut his vacation short to make this trip sooner. Yeah, but the governor of louisiana disagrees saying an earlier visit would have taken away resources from the Recovery Efforts which are still far from over. Live in baton rouge, marci gonzalez, abc7 news. Jonathan thanks. Its not just the humans but the animals from louisiana need a new home. These animals were slated to come to our area but they had to be diverted to hampton road, virginia. 60 animals arrived here yesterday. Most of them already in shelters hoping for a permanent home. Many of the shelters were damaged in the floods. Workers and th from several groups are working to place the animals in new homes. If you are looking for a pet, now is a good time. Howard county leaders are discussing the next step in recovery from last months devastating floods there. Today marked the first day of the entire main street area being completely off limits to everybody but workers. Its now to allow for Critical Infrastructure repairs that could take a month. There is so much work to be done. Damage to the infrastructure alone will take more than 22 million to repair. If you dont have a real reason to be here, dont come just to gawk or sightsee. Many of you have asked how can i help . That is one of the ways. Jonathan beginning tomorrow they will shrink the main street no access every. Court avenue is open to the public but Street Parking is not allowed. Old columbia pike down main street is also open. Tough situation there. So much work to be done. Jonathan coming up for us at 4 00 mcdonalds issuing a recall. Michelle the happy meal toy it doesnt want kids to get their hands on. Jonathan breaking the record to confiscate weapons at checkpoints. The staggering amount. And how many were actually loaded. Reporter five years after the big earthquake, you still find damage in the nations capital. Im stephen tschida. In a moment ill fill you in. Michelle still ahead, we are going back to school. There are questions surrounding Prince Georges County. The concerns they are addressing heading in the new school year. Jonathan we want to see your backtoschool pictures. There have been good ones. Thank you to the families who sent in photos today. A lot of smiling faces, excited to go back to class. Keep sending them. Burst. Com wjla. Click on the back to School Bubble to upload the pictures. Then watch wjla. Com and see if your pictures are there. A lot of good ones. Your husband wants to stay free from artificial ingredients. You want to stay free from artificial preservatives. And your debit card wants to stay on a diet. Fill your cart with Small Victories like giants natures promise brand. Well for less. Only at my giant. Michelle a 7 on your side consumer alert. Mcdonalds recalling the stepit trackers given away in happy meals. The concern is it could cause a rash or Burning Sensation on children wo filed over the problem. More than 30 million of these trackers were handed out in the u. S. And canada. Jonathan well, 7 on your side looking for viewers who want to save big money on the next major purchase. It can be anything. We want to help you become a smarter process in the process. This is how you do it. Take the survey at wjla. Com shoppingsurvey. Or go straight to wjla. Com where a survey link is at the top of the page with the help of troubleshooter Horace Holmes and the professional shoppers at consumer checkbook. We will do Comparison Shopping for you to see if we can help you get a better deal. 7 on your side will feature of some of our viewers savings coming up this fall. Michelle the campus of Stanford University is going dryish. Undergraduates can no longer drink hard liquor on campus. That includes drinks that have more than 20 alcohol by volume or 40 proof. Beer and wipe are still allowed. After former stanford swimmer brock turner was sentenced for sexually assaulting a woman at a party. But the University Says the new policy is not a result of that case. Jonathan take a look at this. This is remainder of gun safety 101 when you fly. Leave your gun at home. Or put it in a checked bag unloaded. Actually it has to be in a case. The t. S. A. Says it has confiscated all of these weapons. All you see on the screen, they grabbed them from people trying to fly. Usually in a carryon bag. That was just one week. 81 guns, 70 of them loaded. 31 had a round in the chamber. Also confiscated swords, throwing knives and machete. Thats what they were traveling with. Michelle makes you wonder. Jonathan hello . Time for a check of the traffic situation. Eric smith is in the abc7 Traffic Center. Hopefully nobody has sharp instruments in the gridlock. Eric i hope not, jonathan. It will be a tough ride. You can see sever the beltway in both directions as well. It will be a busy rush hour already. A few cameras from the beltway to look at the inner loop. Near side of the screen is the interlap delay. Slow in both directions. Tough on the interloop at tysons. It continues past the legion bridge off the washington parkway. This is heavy and connected. Not too bad right now for the inner loop out of bethesda at old georgetown road but it will continue on 395 into siller spring silver spring. Plenty of traffic from landover in both directions. In virginia, 95 southbound to lorton looking heavy on the far side of your screen to 123 over the quick with typical southbound delays. 66 westbound here out of vienna is going to be plenty slow as you head off the beltway past route 123. Its all volume right now. That is all from the Traffic Center for now. Back to you. Jonathan thanks. Five years ago to this day, the eart that is what the video you are seeing it has a shot of the white house. I was like not again. Well, it was 5. 8magnitude earthquake. The epicenter in mineral, virginia. Jonathan it was felt up and down the east coast. Effects notably at the National Cathedral still felt today as far as financially goes. Stephen tschida is at the cathedral. A lot of people would be surprised how little has been done or fixed since the earthquake five years ago. Stephen there is so much to do. This is the pinnacle on the top. This is how damaged they were in the brief earthquake. Keep in mind, they were up there. The very top. They plunged onto the roof. Some pieces actually landed down here on the ground. [chimes] stephen chimes marking the second the earth shoo earthquake hit. I heard what i thought were explosions. I heard boom, boom. Stephen the National Cathedral rocked and massive stone pieces decorating it broke loose and ploppinged to the belonged to the ground. Plunged to the ground. The Building Made a deep, groaning noise that sounded like, you know, like a dumpster falling off a truck or something. Stephen the earthquake inflicted damage all up and down the eastern seaboard. Among the hardest hit structures the washington monument. To have an earthquake here in the district is a little crazy. Stephen a lot of people can tell you where they were when the quake hit. Derek just arrived for his first day on the job. The whole building vibrated, swayed back and forth. It was an old, old structure. A lot of dust and stuff got kicked up in the air. Stephen they have done millions of dollars worth of repair work. Of work to do on the cathedral here. They expect it will take another ten years. Keep in mind, the earthquake was five years ago today. Stephen tschida, abc7 news. Jonathan you never know when they will hit. Tornadoes you get warning. Earthquakes, no. Michelle if i recall correctly it was a beautiful sunny day. Doug gorgeous. Not a cloud in the sky. No wind. Boom jonathan its like that again today. Doug we are okay. Michelle nothing is shaking. Jonathan knock on wood. Doug yeah. I know they are working on trying to forecast all kind of time and effort and money spent into that and hopefully they can do that. Especially for the west coast and the earthquakeprone areas. Jonathan dogs seem to know better before we do. They go crazy. Doug if you walk around on all fours. Jonathan going with that . Lock that in . Doug pretty much. Eileen is busy all the time. She was out this morning and weather bug camera school. German school in potomac and she scored for all the weather team cool German School tshirts. I will take that. Thank you very much. So show you what the skies look like early on as eileen was getting ready to head out there. Jonathan pretty. Doug isnt it gorgeous . Through the day, nothing but sunshine and few weather clouds. Gorgeous weather. To the friends at German School i say danke schoen. Thank you. That is extent of my german. I can count to five, sure. Anybody can. But thats it. Beautiful skies out there. The temperatures are comfortable across the region in the lower to mid80s in many spots. One of the conditions with the winds off the river enough to keep Reagan National, 81. Its 82 in manassas. Warmer, the by a water temperature are warmer than the air temperature there. This is how cool the air mass is. How comfortable it is with the low humidity. Tonight is game two in the beltway series with the orioles and the nats. Yards. One more night here. Here is the story. First pitch, 78 and clear skies. Temperatures slowly drop during the game. Then the os come here tomorrow and again on thursday. So we are looking pretty good here weather wise as far as what will happen coming up. The forecast specifically for the overnight hours, clear skies through the viewing area. 59 to 67 by morning. The nats host the os tomorrow and thursday it will be a bit warmer. Touch more humid. Calling for sunshine. First pitch at 7 05 tomorrow evening. 90 degrees on thursday. More humid but not a terrible weather pattern at all. Summary. The numbers sidebyside here for seven days. 87 form. 87 tomorrow. 90 on thursday. Friday partly cloudy. No rain in weekend forecast but systemly warm and muggy. Upper seasonably warm and muggy. 30 c monday afternoon and again on tuesday afternoon. Its looking good. We will talk more about what may be coming after the sevenday period in a little bit. Michelle thank you so much. Next on abc7 news at 4 00 we are going back to school. How Prince Georges County is addressing serious issues in the new school year. Jonathan coming up for us at 4 30, a massive pile of shopping carts growing around a dumpster, d. C. Apartment complex. Folks who live there want them picked up but the neighbors may be part of the problem. Well explain coming up at 4 30. Jonathan back to School Brings all kind of how cute is she . Look at the big smile. Big moments when you had back to school. You shared so many to us. Thank you. Look how happy he looks. Michelle go to burst. Com wjla. Then click on the back to school one to upload your pictures and watch abc7 or head to wjla. Com and check out our gallery and see if yours has been posted. Jonathan look how cute she is. Great backpack. Hair looks beautiful. Michelle it matches her shoes and her top. Everything. Jonathan got it going on. Michelle when you see pictures like that you know the summer is officially over. At least as far as 129,000 students in Prince Georges County go. For those who are going to Public School there. Jonathan a lot of parents are happy about that, too. Abc7s John Gonzalez went back to s students to find out how the system is handling big concerns going in the new school year. John its back to school. Im ready. Redski