Make larry thank you for that. Good luck, mr. Speaker. President trump started the day adding to the drama with the tweet calling the appointment of the special prosecutor the single greatest witch hunt of politician in american history. The situation changing by the minute. This is what happened. Hours after saying that Michael Flynn wouldnt comply with the subpoena the chairman of the Senate Intelligence committee correcting himself saying that the panel hadnt gotten a response from flynns lawyers yet. We learned that the former c. I. A. Director john brennan will appear before the house Intelligence Committee next week to talk about the allegations that russia meddled in the u. S. President ial election. Earlier in the day, utah congressman Jason Chaffetz announced he will leave congress june not but it is unclear what the early departure of the head of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee means for the investigation. Alison in the midst of all the madness with the investigation, mike pence quietly formed a Political Action committee to let the Great America committee accept donations from individuals up to 5,000. The sources close to the Vice President says the p. A. C. Will be used for the 2018 and the 2020 elections. The car just went the wrong way. Heading to the severn river bridge dodging oncoming traffic. Larry it all unfolded last night in the 5 00 news. Tonight a survivor of the horrific crash along route 50 in maryland is speaking out about what happened. Brad bell is live with new information about the driver. The new information comes in part from the 911 calls. We understand from sources that Police Believe the wrong way driver got here to the frontage road. If you look down that. It could be an easy mistake. The big question is why did she keep driving. Two miles weaverring in and out of traffic. A terrible crash. The the 911 calls came in a hurry. Literally the entire road is covered. Like the engine of the car is completely out and in the ground. Brad others reported a car heading in the wrong direction on route 50. The eastbounds drivers couldnt see the westbound car coming. Just like that. Before he could truly grasp the situation, the wrong way car hit the s. U. V. Traveling next to tony stanley. I hadnt been to war, but you saw the debris. I saw the car flip over. Impact killed the wrong way driver. 22yearold Laura Ashley Murphy and badly injured her 14monthold baby max. Firefighters worked for hours in the 90degree heat to rescue the man that murphy hit head on. He has been identified as 66yearold Robert Skidmore of annapolis. He, too, would die. This is a bad one. They mad communication with him. It was a difficult extrication and it hit the providers hard. How and why the driver was going the wrong way remains a mystery. Even if you didnt know where you were going, i think when you saw the oncoming traffic you would have tried to at least pull over. The fullfledged Police Investigation is underway to try to answer the you can hear the 911 calls in the entirety at wjla. Com. Alison now we turn to a story of chaos in the heart of new york city as a car goes out of control and hits a group of pedestrians. Nancy chen at the live desk. Nancy there are several blocks of times square is blocked off after the chaos around 12 00 noon. They are calling it an isolated incident and say there was no indication its an act of terrorism. The driver 26yearold Richard Rojas did a uturn and jumped a curve to a sidewalk. He drove for three blocks hitting several people before crashing into a paircade. An 18yearold woman was killed. We went around the corner and heard a big crash. We saw people running away. We went back to the corner and we sidewalk. Around the corner. We saw a ticket person on the ground. Police were running to help him. Then the car started on fire. Looking at the live pictures of the scene. The traffic is blocked off. Rojas tried to run after the crash and reportedly punched an officer before a traffic agent tackled him and taking him into custody. They are working to determine if he had drugs or alcohol in the system. At the n. F. L. N. F. L. Live e desk, nancy chen. Alison thank you. We have word of another possible safety violation on metro. This happened five hours ago. It was right outside the eisenhower avenue station on the yellow line. Metro says three workers were on the tracks when a train started coming in to their work area. No one was hurt. Break at q mccray street 25 hours ago. The 12inch main predated the civil war. More than 150 years old. Alison wow well, 7 on storm watch tonight because we have a slight risk of storms in the area. Chief meteorologist doug hill is tracking the storm chances. Doug we have one west of north and west through frederick county. Another patch to winchester. Go to the big map and drill down in the areas. The first stop is coming out of winchester. Showers and the thunderstorms are building there. This cluster betweengategate and frederick is moving north and north east. Heading to howard county. And Baltimore County at 5 4 batch, this is headed to the berriesville, leesburg in 45 to 50 minutes. More chances of the isolated chances of the thunderstorms through the evening. You the activity tapers off quickly. Muggy overnight. Tomorrow is a better chance of the thunderstorms. We leave you with the current numbers that are ranging from the upper 7 os to lower 9 os. We will check the weekend coming up. Alison new information just in to our news room. Heartbreaking story. A deadly crash we first brought you last night at 11 00, and 6yearold xavier lucky died after being hit by a car on livingston road in southeast. They issued a statement saying it was the little boys birthday. The driver did stop. There is the child was hit. Larry well, he stopped at a corner store to buy hisfyiance save her favorite county but it ended with another man who wanted to rob the story. He shoot him and paralyzed him. Now five weeks later the popular swim coach is dead. Sam ford is live after it happened after speaking with scotts family today. He was walking across to the apartment complex across the street where he lived when he was accosted by robbers who shot him. Then he suddenly collapsed and died. My son is a good guy. A good guy. Independent guy. He didnt bother anybody. Its so quick. I thought id see him tomorrow. The mother and the sister of 25yearold scott said they were stunned it happened so quickly. He loved his family and fiancee and his job. He was a popular swimming instructor at the rumsy pool on capitol hill. Of all the people on the earth who have the leave the earth early why my son . He went to rehab and he was doing well. Then he collapsed moving from the wheelchair to a car. They say his fiancee did c. P. R. As did the paramedics. But he died. Im thankful god blessed us to have time to spend with him. He could have been gone that night when we got shot. There was an outpouring of love from the students. The community. The kids came to see him. Made cards for him. The go fund me page, a lot of love on there. The go fund me account for the masses expenses raised 17,000 of the 120,000 it was seeking. The fiancee says much will be used to pay for a funeral. The mother says she hopes that the son gets justice for the senseless act but then added the son is gone. Thank you. We know who the Arlington Police opened fire on yesterday on the gleeb road. The police shot and killed danielle after he hit an officer with the truck. They tried to pull him over after realizing he was wanted on the outstanding drug warrant. He took off. When the Police Caught up with him, they say he struck the officer and that officer is expected to sur vive. Alison we are getting more information about the death of roger ailes and the soundgarden front man chris cornell. Larry a week after the tunnel collapse at the nuclear the facility are raising for decades. What is in a name . In Fairfax County, apparently years of debate. How it could come to a head tonight at the j. E. B. Stuart high school. Do you remember luckys bid the retired race horse abandoned in maryland . The thoroughbred is heading to his forever home. We have the u my car insurhuh. With geico. I should take a closer look at geico. Geico can help with way more than car insurance. Boats, homes, motorcycles. Even umbrella coverage. This guys gonna wish he brought his umbrella. Fire at will howd you know the guys name is will . Yeah . Its an expression, ya know . Fire at will . You never heard of that . Oh, there goes will bye, will thats not his name take a closer look at geico. Great savings. And a whole lot more. Alison 142 years. But that could soon be coming to an end. This aging track. So there are rumors about whether the preakness may one day be moved to laurel or elsewhere. No one wanteds to see it leave the state. It has a cultural value. Alison so Governor Hogan and the mayor say they are committed to keeping preakness at pimlico but say it would require a strong private Public Partnership with price tag of 300 million. Larry wow hundreds of thousands of you watched or shared lucky bids story after we told you about the horse this month. Tonight, war admirals descendant has a new home and ryan hughes has the happy update. We are happy for lucky. We are really going to miss him. A bitter sweet day at paradise stable. Lucky bid, the retired race horse left abandoned in january found his forever home. He hit the lottery and he didnt know it. He has become a celebrity. They have fielded hundreds of calls since abc7 shared his special story two weeks ago. All across the country and a couple outside the country. Lucky bid won more than 140,000 in winnings as a race horse. A descendant of war admiral but he is nursing a leg injury and was left at a boarding facility in damascus. Now the horse is off to a sanctuary at sleeping fox farm in thoroughbred rescue in martinsburg west virginia. Watching a horse recover and rehabilitate from the injury and starvation. Angie and gary frankhart were drawn to lucky bits story. Our hearts, our resources get sunk into bringing that horse back to health. They were selected by the shelter knowing this guy will not be expected to race again. Not every horse gets save and the shelter hopes it will bring attention to all the other horses that get abandoned every day. After hugs and tears. He is a lucky boy. Deserves every bit of it. Living in the lap of luxury. Ryan hughes. Larry i love a happy ending. Alison a nice story. We have summer weather but comes with it is the thunderstorms. Doug we are tracking the Severe Weather out west. This is a live look at the chasers at work. No funnel cloud. Clearly we have a severe thunderstorm. Probably i just see the bottom of it. Probably a super cell. We are looking for the area to develop the rotation. Nothing now. A big break out of the storms there in the area. Weatherford and the northward. Another big outbreak under a warning now. Keep an eye on that. The skies change. We will start, the coverage from the weather camera. This is southern frederick county. We look up in that direction. A lot of cloudiness. That is the story for the afternoon. 71 for the rest of the afternoon. 71 now. Cooling down a bit. You can see we cleared out in the morning and we will get you up to speed. It will change north and west. The clouds will build in. The horizon. You see the rain shaft. It will clear out quickly. Then its toasty near 90 in many area. 79 in winchester. They had a shower. Upper 80s for the postpart. It feels like 95 in leesburg and frederick. Isolated thunderstorms are possible through 8 00 or 9 00 tonight. This is the first patch. You can see this cell and another toward winchester. Mainly along the i81 corridor. These are moving east. They have been moving through purcellville at 5 40 and leesburg at 5 57. The forecast calls for the warm and the humid weather. Afr end. 68 to 79 overnight. The wakeup in the lower 7 os. In the day tomorrow, increasing chance of the showers and the thunderstorms in the afternoon as the next cold front comes in. Close to 90 in many area. Mostly upper 80s. We have a storm possibility through the night. Cold front will move through. It will turn the west southwest north and northeast. That will bring in the cooler air for the weekend. There may be showers to start saturday. But after that a cloudy weekend. May be peeks of sunshine. Temperatures are 20 degrees cooler than they have been for the past couple of days. The next ten sidebyside. 89 tomorrow. Cooler saturday and sunday. The weather for the preakness should be fine. On the cloudy side. But comfortable. 72 in baltimore at the time of the race. More storms on monday. It will cool down a bit. The first look at the beginning of t weekend. Sunshine and 80. Sweet if we can hold on to the forecast. Getting our hopes up. Larry fingers crossed. Thanks. Get ready for work along a local highway this weekend. Alison it laer. Blocked in. Why a local tow Truck Drivers are afraid to tow people blocking in other drivers in a local parking lot. Larry get glasses of wine ready. Tonight is a twohour Season Finale for scandal. Ill be watching. Alison here is Autria Godfrey with a look at what is coming up on good morning washington. Thank you, alison. Tomorrow on good morning washington, dont miss the rapidly changing fire storm new developments happening every day in the trump white house. Plus, expensive designer makeup worth it . Keep it here for traffic and weather every ten minutes at 4 25 on good morning for years, fios has been promising fast internet to small businesses. But for many businesses, its out of reach. Why promise something you cant deliver . Comcast business is different. With speeds of 250 megabits per second across our entire network, to more companies, in more locations, than fios. We do business where you do business. Larry tonight, john mccain is calling for the turkish ambassador to go home and he believes that he should be kicked out of the country after the bodyguards led the attack. Stephen tschida has the snowballing fallout from the incident. Armed men in suits pummeling protesters near the turkish ambassador residents. Nine people hospitali condemnation poured in afterwards and call for the u. S. Government to take action. Who wants the u. S. To give the turkish envoy the boot. I think that john mccain had truth to power and them bass dore should be kick ambassador should be kicked out. After a meeting with trump Tayyip Erdogan went to the am bess dores residence. They believe that the turkish ambassador is the one that told the security detail to go after the kurdish and the armenian protesters. He may have provoked the security detail. Peaceful protesters. Further enraging the opponent of the turkish government, post on the embassys website that states the demonstrators aggressively acted provoking the confrontation. This is america. You can protest. The right of every american. Not the right of a turkish citizen. The point of erdogans visit was to smooth over the strained relations. Its not likely what took place here on tuesday is helping that process along. Reporting live, stephen tschida, abc7 news. Coming up at 5 00, protests erupt after a verdict in a Police Shooting case. Later the medical examiner is weighing in on what killed chris cornell. A movement to change the name of the High School Named after a confederate general. But tonight the debate is getting political. Well have that story coming up when abc7 news at 5 00 to take on the tom Insurance Companies and the Credit Card Companies and the wall street banks. Thats what Tom Perriello is about. Progressive causes have been my lifes work. Im Tom Perriello. And before and after congress i led nonprofits to battle climate change, poverty and president bushs attacks on civil rights. Now im running for governor to reduce economic inequality. Because together, we really can build a virginia that works for everyone. Alison statues and other remnants has been coming down in the last few weeks. Tonight debate over a High School Named after a confederate general could heat up at a meeting at that school. Our Northern Virginia bureau chief Jeff Goldberg looks at the debate jeff since the beginning of the name change debate at j. E. B. Stuart high, Michael Klein served on ad Hock Committee studying the pros and cons of a change. He is part of a group of mens boycotting the meeting claiming other Committee Members made it political inviting the local chapter of naacp. This is a prochange rally. According to the Fairfax County school, a name change would cost nearly 70 o,000. The school signs, scoreboards and the uniforms would need a new look. There are so many things i think come first before the name change. It doesnt mean i think changing the name of the school has merit. It does. As far as the priorities go, i dont think that is where we should spend the money on it. The change. Org me fission to change name gathered 35,000 supporters. It was started by actress Julianne Moore and producer cowen. Arguing that it should be named for Supreme CourtJustice Thurgood marshall. Where we want an opening reasonable discussion of the issue. Stephen is an Ad Hoc Committee member that believes everyone should be welcome at the meeting, including the naacp. We dont think its appropriate to have a school in 2017 who fought to defend slavery. Its best for school to change the name. It will make everyone feel wel