The cheek, the panhandleer managed to pull out a pack of cigarette from his pocket and used a pen to write down johnson license plate number. The police went to that house where they also found a tomahawk stashed. Leon thanks, kevin. Rough evening commute today for folks taking commuter trains south from union station. A fire on the rail bridge between the district and virginia halted rail traffic for a while. The bridge is open and there will be delays. Amtrak, v. R. E. And the freight trains are affected but metro is not by this one. No injuries. The cause of the fire is under investigation. Michelle we are going to a long holiday weekend. You may have motessed a familiar sound this time of year. Its Rolling Thunder time. Jonathan elias has been out with the riders for the the past couple of hours and is live at a Gathering Spot in fairfax. How is it going out th when you hear a hog go by, deafening roar of one. But there will be 300,000 for the memorial day ride. They have been doing this since the late 1980s. They will have the riders staging at the pentagon. But they all get there at different staging point in the area. Were at the patriot Harley Davidson shop. This is in fairfax. You know, they will be in the neighborhood of 10,000 riders leaving from here heading to pentagon for sunday mornings ride. A couple of riders not normally a political thing. This started because they want to raise awareness of m. I. A. And p. O. W. From the vietnam war. This year i have seen shirts that said, riders for trump. I asked one rider. I heard trump would be in town to address the riders. He said tomorrow at 3 00 he is hoping to be at the Lincoln Memorial but they are trying to iron it out with the secret service whether its saturday or sunday. If you want to come out and support the riders, they encourage it. They love to see people waving, clapping a they will leave from the pentagon heading over to the vietnam war memorial. Anywhere in between there you can stop by and you will see a show. 300,000 plus riders. Live in fairfax, im jonathan elias, abc7 news. Back to you. Leon all right. Thanks. Its the exclamation point on commissioning week at the u. S. Naval academy in annapolis. Three cheers for the class of 2016. Then all the caps fly, as you see there. That never gets old. Maryland bureau chief brad bell explains why today is unlike any prior graduation ceremony. Brad the United StatesNaval Academy commissioning ceremony is like any college graduation. Like an Aircraft Carrier is like any other boat. From the deafening blue angels flyover to the words of the secretary of defense. The point is made, these young men and women now have a job to do. You take an oath to a life of service and sacrifice. Brad b diplomas they swear to defend the constitution of the United States. Against all enemies. Foreign and domestic. First, the new marine second lieutenants. And then the navy. Each one of them you ask says he is ready. It has been four years. Ready to get out on the fleet and serve. I feel like it was the best fit for me. Take a challenge every day. The class features a celebrity. Star Navy QuarterbackKeenan Reynolds drafted by the Baltimore Ravens and given a release by active duty, the secretary of state of defense. For each of the 1,076 graduates it has been a challenging for years, working for this moment. They are officers now. After three cheers, ready to launch their midshipmen hats. Hip, hip, hooray brad with that, the newly commissioned officers head out. Th they will be navy seals. They will be infantry officers. All of them telling us they are ready to defend our country. In annapolis, brad bell, abc7 news. Leon how about that . Brad showing skills there. We have to have him talk to the nats. Beautiful day for graduation wasnt it . The sun continues to shine right now in the 5 00 hour. Chief meteorologist doug hill with a look at how long the sunshine and the hot temperatures will stick around. Doug it will stay mighty warm tomorrow. Then it will change noticeably on sundays and monday. Right now sunshine. We are monitoring the showers and storms west of town. I want to take the opportunity for the latest on what we have been watching what the Hurricane Center is watching. They investigate the aircraft today. They believe that over the next 12 to 18 hours it will become a lowend Tropical Storm named bonnie. It slowly makes a trudge to the South Carolina coast. Notice that it is going to take till sunday afternoon to make landfall. A lot of rain. Not particularly high winds. A lot of ra the week. At some point it will make a righthand turn. Indication showers starting to pop up. A few parts of the area for the next few hours. That is the latest. Michelle . Michelle one week left until metro starts the safe track program. That means the entire system will close every night at midnight. This weekend there wont be service on the orange line. Silver line operate between New Carrollton and reston east. The i vienna and west fall church will be simons charged with first degree sex abuse, robbery and kidnapping. Both attack happen on the red line. Once they got off the train at the Friendship Heights station the victim said the man sexual assaulted her. Later that day the police say simons robbed a second victim at the vanness metro stop but stop van ness metro stop. But arrested there. We are watching breaking news in poolesville. These are live pictures from news chopper 7. This is happening on darstown road and bealsville road if you know the area. This is a single vehicle accident. No one else has been hurt. There are Power Outages caused by the down pole. Michelle he is only 26 years old but a Northern Virginia man is now facing the possibility of decades in supporting isis. Northern Virginia Bureau chief Jeff Goldberg now has more on an indictment that authorities hope could lead to more information about the global terror network. 26yearold, a cab driver from woodbridge accuses of providing Material Support for isis in 2015, and 2016. Following this indictment from a federal grand jury he could look at up to 48 years in prison. He pleaded guilty to one count of inspiring to support the terrorist group. He is accused to aid and abet the attempt to join isis by connecting him with another in every investigation like this is a jigsaw puzzle. You want to piece it together until you have the entire picture. Details surface in the future in regard to the possible connections to isis. Coming up at 6 00, we go to his mosque in woodbridge and find out what those who knew him think about his arrest. Jeff goldberg, abc7 news. Leon close call. An officer tried to clear a tree from road and what happens next to have him running for cover. Michelle plus, what is causing the elevator issues at the Washington Monument . Chris papst went to the source to find out. Leon that is little chloe who had a fun day as the school and the Community Came together to rally around the fighter. She is batt we are not in ocean city. We are not in rehoboth beach. Ill tell you where we are coming up in the story on amazing sleep stays with you all day and all night. Sleep number beds with Sleepiq Technology give you the knowledge to adjust for the best sleep ever. Save 500 on the memorial day special Edition Mattress with Sleepiq Technology. Plus 36month financing. Know better sleep. Only at a sleep number store. Leon we know the popular beaches and the long drivers to get to them. How about something closer . How about cheaper even . Michelle that sounds great. Cheryl conner dodged the bay bridge traffic to find half dozen alternate spot to drop the beach blanket. You scored a great assignment today. Leon way to rub it in. Cheryl i know i have had to pinch myself all day. Look at this. We have our toes in the sand. We have been walking to the water. For memorial day weekend its cold but it doesnt feel so bad out here. Look at the dogs. They are having a great time out here. Check out this beach. This is not a bad option if you want to skip the there is a turtle in the sand. Dogs in the water. The people back in the sun enjoying one of the local beaches off the beaten path. I found out about it from a friend who lives in annapolis. Cheryl rebecca lives in alexandria. She drove about an hour to end up here at Beverly Beach park in edgewater. With her boyfriend and two dogs. You can say they are dodging ocean city. Its a hot mess. Its just, you know, so crowded. Its so dirty. Cheryl there are no swimming signs but beach lovers were playing in the Chesapeake Bay. There are kayakers. The big bolts in the distance. The High School Seniors are dreaming about graduation day. Being here is calmer. Its familyoriented. Its nice to come to a place that you worry about the crowds. Cheryl we did digging on the local beaches an hour from d. C. Take a look. You may avoid the its more likely to be your own slice of paradise. I want my friends to know about it so we can have doggie play deaths but play dateless but i dont want a lot of people to know about it because it will run the fun. Cheryl a helpful heads up from d. N. R. They tell us often times on holiday weekends, stat park like sandy point that is not too far from here will close to traffic as early as 9 00 or 10 00. The capacity is based on the parking. Sat sandy point they have 10,000 spots. So if you plan on going, go early this weekend. We are live in edgewater, cheryl conner, abc7 news. Leon you are lucky it didnt rain today. Have fun out there. Cheryl so lucky. Leon all right. Now go from the breaches to the pools right now. Steve rudin standing by in d. C. Washington where d. C. Mayor Muriel Bowser had an annual summer kickoff event. A steve i could not resist not stepping in the pool. This is beautiful. A lot of folks are enjoying themselves. The pool opened up a half hour ago. Thanks to the mayor. Muriel bowser. She was here. We will show you what it looked like here when she decided she would jump in the pool. A lot of folks are surprised she did jump in. They had the countdown and then there you have it. Everyone enjoying themselves. Having a great, great time here. This pool was completely refurbished at oxon run here. This is the first time everyone is seeing this. It will be open tomorrow, sunday, monday from noon until 6 00 p. M. Then it will open seven days a week starting a couple of weeks. The best news of all, something new. Free to d. C. Residents. They have 18 pools for the district that are outdoors. And something for everyone to enjoy. They have 11 indoor pools and 24 for the kids. D. C. Sneak up here. Come here for a second. Are you having fun . Yeah. Steve awesome. She is enjoying herself. Out there smiling. That is a good thing. Check on the full forecast and head back inside. Chief meteorologist doug hill. Doug thank you. We kick off th weekend here. Memorial day weekend. We have haze; clouds. Very, very warm temperatures. As we head through the evening here. The latest numbers for you. Coming in. Still 91 in leesburg. 90 in manassas and fredericksburg. 8 is in annapolis. 85 in the city of washington. Moisture level creeping up. So its muggy. The combination is yielding showers and storms. Most of the activity west of the metro area now. For the first pitch tonight at nats park at 7 05, again cardinals, the skies are partly cloudy. 84. We cant rule out isolated shower or thunderstorm in the imbah. We are seeing on dap lar radar, we have seen in the past couple of days. Most showers and storms that are along and west of 81. Some a and woodstock. Heavy downpour and lightning. Other areas that are trying to flare up over charles county. Its not out of the question. There could be isolated shower and rumble of thunder east of the mountain. That is where most of the activity is and where most will stay. If you didnt get in the pool today, tomorrow is a great day. Plenty of sunshine. 87 degrees. Muggy, too. Good pool weather for sunday and memorial day. The weather may not be so cooperative. If you are heading to the beach, this is what we enjoy the beach weather. 74 and sunshine. Partly sunny. 70 on sunday showers and storms in the afternoon. Sunday as people wrap up the beach. Skies turn cloudy with a chance of showers or highs in the upper 60s. On the Chesapeake Bay for memorial day. It looks good to me. Water temperatures 63 to 68. No anticipation right now of a Small Craft Advisory on the bay. Any showers or storms could cause sudden increase in the wind speeds on the waters. Temperatures mild enough showers and st especially sunday night and monday as well. If you are headed west of the mountains. West of 81, isolated showers around storms expected sunday. More likely sunday and monday. Temperatures just a pinch cooler than they are in metro washington area. The probability of rain here. 70 on sunday. We may get morning sun. But moisture will be streaming in our direction. Showers and the storms are likely in the afternoon and the everything. On memorial day. Cloudy for the most part. 76 for a high. Showers and storms. Cant rule out storms on tuesday. Wednesday, thursday, friday should settle down to a very average temperatures. Partly sunny skies. Not bad. Michelle it looks good for a holiday weekend. Good job. Thank you. Leon thank you. Coming up on abc7 news at 5 00 i stepped on improvised explosion if device. It result improvised explosive device. It resulted in amputation of my right leg and thumb. The simple invitation saved that marines life after stepping on the i. E. D. A Maryland School kicking off a pep rally today in support of 6yearold student battling cancer. Im vo for dominion, part of delivering Affordable Energy includes supporting those in our community who need help. Assisting with bill pay and providing free, energysaving upgrades. Its more than helping customers, its helping neighbors. Stand by me michelle a ofyearold battling brain cancer was all smiles heading to school. Leon but it ordinary day as the academy in suitland. Amy aubert tells us that team chloe came out to tell brate Chloe Williams. Amy just like that, the star of the show arrived. Chloe chloe chloe this is above and beyond anything i could have expected for her. Trying to make her happy wile she is having cancer so she can forget she is sick. Amy the entire school playing a part. To bring a smile to the 6yearold they call a ray of sunshine. I need it would be today. Banners fill the gymnasium and music and cheers echoing amy she has been fighting her parents say since 2012. She walked into the room, you see the room light up. Amy today that room shined bright. The activity dont end today. The school is planning to plant a Cherry Blossom tree in this area in honor of chloe. Ahereby appoint cleeland Cheyenne WilliamsChloe Williams as fire chief for the day. Amy a fire chief that knows about smiling through the tough times. That is just here. Like the sunshine. Amy amy aubert, abc7 news. Michelle for more about chloes story and how you can help the family go to our website. Wjla. Com. Keyword chloe. Leon i love the smile. A knew fighter. Undergone three brain surgeries and three spinal surgeries ever since she was 3 years old. She has been through quite a with them and the family. Hoping for the best. Leon good luck, chloe. Michelle still ahead for us, some firefighters were in the right place at the right time for an Emotional Rescue in prince georges county. Members of the ber win heights fire e. M. S. Station were speaking to kids. Elementary school there. When a student noticed a baby bird fallen out of the nest. They watched them put on their glove, cradle bird and returned it to the nests. That got a lot of kids thinking maybe they want to be a firefighter when they grow up. Leon heads up. Officers put their lives on the line not knowing what they will encounter. That is ahead. Michelle the problem getting to the top of Washington Monument from the man that runs the elevator his explanation for the recent closures and what it takes for a permanent fix. The third annual blessing of the bikes at the National Cathedral is getting underway. The ceremony here. You can see hundreds gather for it. The start of the Rolling Thunder weekend. Just ahead you will hear from pens when an allencompassing brain scan followed up with an lembracing hug . What happens when the worlds latest Surgical Technology is combined with caring for the worlds newest mother . What happens when you match cuttingedge Clinical Trials with a gentle touch . You get extraordinary medicine and remarkable care. Novant health and Uva Health System are proudly partnering to bring better care to every patient. Announcer youre wifing abc7 news at 5 00. On your side. Doug for viewers in Shenandoah County, Flash Flood Warning issued by the National Weather service. Its in effect until 8 15 p. M. For southwestern Frederick County, northeastern Shenandoah County west of interstate 81. Heavy rain is falling. Additional two inches in a onehour period in the region. Strasburg, to wardenville. The reg