Bit and talk about another yellow alert for tomorrow. And topper, we want to take a look outside. Those pictures out of leesburg look rough. Take a look at our own weather terrace. Its raining. Not so rough. We can hear it outside. We can certainly feel and sounds like quite a storm. But there it goes. All right, a man being investigated for a possible link to three shocking murders in our neighborhood was indicted on gun charges today. His name is charles severance. You know this face. He is linked to the deaths of three prominent local Community Members in alexandria. Ruth anne legado, and nancy dunning, the wife of then, alexandria sheriff, jeff dunning. There were some dramatic reactions announced stowed in announced ctoday along a notorious dangerous section of route 1 in college park. All were pedestrians run down by drivers late at night. Scott broom is there to report on major safety announcements that are going in before the university of maryland goes back into session. In short order, this is going to be a very different section of roadway with a lower speed limit, with fencing to keep pedestrians from jaywalking and with a new signal here to keep drivers from blowing through the crosswalk. Sounds good, honestly, because a lot of people have been getting hit. Marylands highway administrator announcing the changes today, as we found workers at this notorious intersection beginning the planning for the installation of that new pedestrian traffic signal. It is just an accident waiting to happen. You really do need a stoplight here. Improvements that pierce has announced today will make a dramatic impact on to safety of route 1 next to university of maryland. State Officials Say they began a study here last fall, but then came the deaths of three pedestrians since january. All of them students or former students mowed down by cars late at night as they crossed the road while the bars were closing. In the past two years, we arrested over 500 drunk drivers on this highway in the vicinity of college park. The changes announced today would lower the speed limit to 25 through the busy university of maryland corridor. Meanwhile, fencing will be installed on the median to stop an epidemic of jaywalking. And a pedestrian activated light will be installed at this intersection, where a 22year old woman was killed crossing earlier this month. The traffic light will be in by the end of october, but the lower speed limit and the fencing, that will all be in place by the end of august before more than 30,000 students flood back here to begin their classes at the university. In college park, scott broom, wusa9. Las vegas on the potomac. At least thats what the developers of the new mgm are promising. Members of the Prince Georges County council met today to hear from opponents and supporters of the project. About a third of the lawmakers werent there, sot vote was moved to next week. Construction on that project could get going within just a few weeks. Gamblers could start placing their bets in 2016. It was a violent weekend in the district. Seven people were shot. Three killed and theres been a spike in homicides across the city this year. And those murders maybe just the beginning of the pain for the victims families. I can truly say, i know how they feel. Sandra johnsons daughter, the daughter of a d. C. Police detectives was also murdered during a violent spree. Over memorial day weekend in 1990. Now 24 years later with her daughters killer serving life in prison, the pain is still not gone away. Thank god every day your child comes home and you can tell them good night and always tell them you love them. Every single day. Because you never know when you may not be able to say it again. Yesterday morning, 21year old, thomas in Montgomery Village and derek price of District Heights were killed as they sat at a car. A third occupant was wounded. Two other people were wounded along lincoln road a short time later, and 22yearold hemp el fid was killed in a separate incident on 6th street in southeast. The murder on 6th Street Southeast was the 67th so far this year. That is up 22 from the 45 at the same period last year. There has been one arrest. Jimmy flemming is charmed with two counts of murder. They are looking for the publics help. They are offering a 25,000 reward for information leading to an arrest or conviction. Anybody can lose a child to murder. Sandra johnson says the families of these latest victims should reach out to an Organization Called parents with murdered children for help. She works with them. In the district, wusa9. We have a link to the parents of murdered children website at wusa9. Com. Flemming who was charged in the capital street case was formally charged with murder late this afternoon. A man accused of detonating explosives outside a family members home in bethesda is now awaiting extradition to maryland. Heres how it all got started. 2 00 sunday morning, a man calls 911 reports his sonin law was trying to break in. When police get there, they find two explosive devices. 6yearold, mark was taken into custody after he ran into fairfax county. Police say he was involved in a divorce and custody dispute. D. C. Council voted to the veto was 121. Only tommy wells sided with the mayor. And viewing the plan, gray said he was concerned the citys new streetcar system could be jeopardized, but council chair, Phil Mendelson said it will be completed. And that yoga tax, the tax on personal services such as fitness classings, that is also included in this budget. Dont block the tracks. Thats one piece of advice to help you avoid getting a ticket as d. C. Prepares for trollly service. Drivers are being warned to be sure to park within those white lines. We have to get used to some of this that is taking place on the streets. With streetcars not a vehicle that can sort of go around parking. So we have to have everyone park where they need to park. We want the cars to park within the boundaries of the white line around each parking space. They have to stay within those boundaries. Thats a problem. To spread this message, h street main street have been patrolling the corridor, alerting drivers. We have passed out pink tickets that resembles the real ticket to warn you basically how to park properly. Starting today, drivers are facing penalties. Its a 100 fine. If you found to be parked outside those boundaries. And that includes towing. John, owner is concerned that the changes will affect his business. With the changing parking laws allot here, just makes it hard. It makes it hard to do business. With streetcars hitting the road by the end of this year, these changes are here to stay. You think of a street, think about the park properly. Park within the white line. Be careful when i open and close my door. Have to be conscious that something new is traveling down the corridor. Looks dangerous. Fast growing Loudoun County, many farms disappeared in the last few decades, but in the protected western loudoun, farms are growing. As peggy fox reports, an increasing demand for local produce and a special Marketing Campaign is helping both restaurants and farms. Theres some eggplant right beyond that and i have garlic. From this farm, the vegetables and fruit grown here travel just a short distance to their destination. Half a meat ball sub and tomato soup. Restaurants around Loudoun County, like the fireworks wood fire pizza, buy as much local produce as they can. It makes sense, why wouldnt you take advantage of the bounty that is right here at home if you food doesnt have to travel a thousand miles, then great. Local produce costs more than the mass produced kind, but plenty of customers are willing to pay extra. If you order fireworks black sheet pizza, the sausage not only comes from a local farmer who raises the lamb, but he also makes the sausage. And Everything Else you see on it from the produce to the cheese comes from local farmers. The partnership between restaurants and local farms has grown stronger thanks to farm to fork and an 11 day marketing event that highlights that connection. Its like a speed dating for chefs and farmers. Kevin grove who started his organic Quarter Branch farm in 2009 increased his acreage from 2 to 10acre and serves 10 restaurants. Everyone sees my name on the menus and theres so much publicity and everybody wants to taste the local food. Everyone i talk to is doing really well. If theyre not seeing expo then issue increases, they are just seeing steadiness. From the hustle and bustle of a popular lunch destination to the fields of lubbotsville. I look around and really enjoy the nature that we have right here. It seems like Everybody Wins here. Who wants the last one . Peggy fox, wusa9. Looks tasty. Still ahead on wusa9, by the numbers, were breaking down the tv ratings for soccers biggest event. Lets just say, they dont call the it world cup for nothing. The cruise ship is finally floating again. What is in store always watching. Always tracking. Wusa9s first alert weather. We are under a yellow alert right now because of all these storms. Again tomorrow, we can look forward to something on wednesday. I want to say that before i go through this. Were looking at heavy showers and storms pushing through the metro area. Frequent lightning and heavy downpours. Lets start with a live look outside. And we are looking again from tysons, from our gwinnett headquarters, it is slow going out there. This is a live picture. So the visibility is greatly reduced. The air is cool temperature wise. Very humid. Humidity is 74 . Winds out of the west at 10. Severe thunderstorm watch covers everybody until 8 00. These are Severe Thunderstorm Warnings now for jefferson and berkeley and Washington Counties until 5 30. Got some pretty strong storms and i would suspect if they hold together, get ready in frederic for gusty winds also. Were going to talk about some of the reports of downed trees. This is just over the past three hours. 3 11 a downed tree near warrenton. And another system went through warrenton, produced some large trees. Those are storms that already pushed through the district. Erica is going to chime with us and were going to look at the latest radar. Its going to show a solid line rolling through the immediate metro area. In fact, no warnings in the immediate metro area, instead of the panhandle of West Virginia. But, were looking at frequent lightning and the possibility of some bigtime street flooding and winds flooding is still a possibility, but the good news is, the storms are moving fast. Erica, look at all the lightning downtown. This had warnings on earlier and beginning to push off to the east. What do you think . I think . You think its going to hold together . Should the folks toward bowie be worried . I think this is something people should keep an eye on. I took the lightning off of here so you can see the heavy rain fall moving across new york avenue right now up toward college park and moving up toward the beltway there. And this is going to definitely impact you if youre heading home through Prince Georges County and northeast washington. And putting the lightning back on here. When you have higher density of lightning strikes. That generally indicates theres a lot of ice in the clouds. So, we could see some hail as well. So if youre going out 450, its going to be slow going. Follow the storms out, if you will. All right, quickly, well go back and talk about headlines. Covers everybody. The main threat is still wind damage. That hasnt changed. Much like the storms that went through last night. Critical times now until about 9 00 p. M. So, heres a look at our future cast. By 6 30, well see some showers and storms tonight. Even by 8 00, showers at gaithersburg to leesburg and notice how these pop up more yellow. By 10 00, you are trying to walk the dog. Gaithersburg wont be able to do it. La plata, a better chance of walking the dog without getting a shower. And by midnight, this is a heavy cell. And we get a break, much like today. On tuesday morning, and more showers and storms develop by tomorrow afternoon. We have a yellow alert for tomorrow as well. So, heres your day planner. Look how sticky it is. 85 by 11 00. 87 by 1 00. Shower or thunderstorm possible pretty much at any time. Best chance will be in the afternoon. Good news, after tomorrow, finally less humid and nice on wednesday. 83 thursday. Temperature of about 85. Now the next seven days, friday, just an isolated storm. Nats back in town. Both saturday and sunday, quite a few storms on saturday and sunday. Well be monitoring that pretty closely. 87 on sunday. Isolated storm and on monday, isolated storm, 88. Lets get through tonight and tomorrow. More than two years after it ran aground and killed 32 people, the Costa Concordia is afloat once again and took an unprecedented salvage operation to make it happen. That ship had to be rolled back over and into position where it could be refloated. The plan now, tow the cruise ship to northern italy where they are going to break it up for scrap. Engineers are hoping the ship is structurally sound enough to make the voyage. Hopefully we thought of everything. Theres always something you havent thought about. Murphys law overall. Had been lying on her side after hit ago rock while passing too close to the italian island. The captain of the ship still on trial for his role. Hes accused of manslaughter and abandoning ship before all the passengers got off. 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The taliban shot malala a couple years ago for encouraging other girls to do so. Craig boswell with more. Activist outside the Nigerian Embassy say they are bringing back the efforts. Twitter campaign that Brought International attention to the abduction of more than 200 nigerian schoolgirls. Want to make it clear that the movement is not dead and we have not forgotten the fate of these girls. Group wants a new plan. The islamic militants that kidnapped the girls. Mark three months of holding the girls captive with the video mocking the social media efforts to free them, implying nigeria would get its girls back. Parents of the missing girls are critical of the failure of the Nigerian Government to rescue their daughters. Malala, the sur survivor visited the families. Monday, she urged the nigerian president and International Community to take action. We think this country is far away in africa and not going to affect other countries. Protesters plan to keep up the pressure and say the nigerian president will hear their voices during a planned u. S. Visit in august. Craig boswell, cbs news, washington. Coming up, find out why you may be out of luck when it comes to a payout fromgm, even if your car has a defective ignition switch. Might cost you more than you bargained for. We have tips on how to avoid blowing your vacation budget on those pesky hidden hotel fees. Were going to disney world. Say what . Todays viral video, a little guy who surprised his dad to his reaction to a surprise trip to disney world. L s want to know how hard it can be. To breathe with copd . It can feel like this. Copd includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema. Spiriva is a oncedaily inhaled. Copd maintenance treatment. That helps open my airways for a full 24 hours. You know, spiriva helps me breathe easier. Spiriva handihaler tiotropium bromide inhalation powder does not replace rescue inhalers for sudden symptoms. 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