Happened . Reporter they are still trying to figure that out. But me give you a lay of the land. It sits at the triangle of land where the potomac and the shenandoah rivers meet. The National Park is just down the road. That is with the rivers are. Let me show you where this fire was. In the heart of the historic district. You can see for buildings, all of them terribly burned up. We do not know the cause yet. It is under investigation but one of the pieces of evidence we know that they will be looking at is an extraordinary piece of videotape that was given to us by the man who took it early this morning. Take a look at this video. It shows at about 3 00 a. M. The first moments of this fire. It is crackling loud. You can hear the trauma and the voices of the people. They are wondering where the Fire Department is. They caution each other to get away. A woman is worried about getting her dog away from the fire. The good news, no injuries to people. Two cats were killed. This is a bad fire in the heart of town for the try to be an attraction to tourists. A total of eight is is is lost. They say this is a tremendous blow to the town. Its Harpers Ferry. We will survive it but it is very hard. When you see them go up like this it is like you have lost somebody cared for. Reporter you can see the top of the building is burned out. If you look very closely can see some wisps of smoke. It is still flaring up every now and then. They have had to bring a fire truck and put water on it periodically. We will share with you a little bit more of the human drama of this story. The pain people are suffering in the sense at the outset of history lost. Brad bell, abc 7 news. Kimberly something you can never get. We have heard from Business Owners whose livelihoods are destroyed as well. Jonathan they are hoping they can somehow rebuild. John gonzalez continues the Team Coverage from Harpers Ferry. Reporter during the column of the night in Harpers Ferry flames rip through historic section of buildings. In all for buildings. At least one of them 200 years old. Eight businesses are a total loss, including the popular private twins bobpub on potomac street. I do not think it would be this bad when i got here this morning. Reporter livelihoods are got almost as quickly as the brickandmortar. Fortunately, no injuries were reported. The pub has been around for a couple of decades inside a building that dates back to the 1830s. It started in the bigger building and it just went to the one next to me and in my place. Reporter with a sign in a few blogging covered in sit the owner of 10 fold is trying to literally look at the bright side. The sun out in the water. I have gotten some photographs of rainbows. We just hope we can rebuild. Reporter her business is a fair trade collection, proceeds that find their ways and artisans in third world countries. He says it will be hard to replace which you lost. Developing countries artists and artisans being paid a fair wage. It is a good place. And gone this morning. Reporter on the other side here on high street the damage looks just as bad. There he extensive. You can see inside of the village shop. One of eight is this is destroyed. Insurance adjusters have been called but quite frankly it does not look like there is anything these Business Owners will be able to salvage. John gonzalez, abc 7 news. Kimberly you are going to one to stay with abc 7 news and wjla. Com as we follow any development in the fire in Harpers Ferry. Jonathan Fairfax County police of arrested for teenagers for a series of car fires in the Little Rocky Run neighborhood. Nearly a dozen vehicle set on fire this month causing 120,000 in damage. Most of them were set on july 18. Kimberly we are sorry to tell you they could be more bad news ahead for metro riders. More service cuts in order to speed up muchneeded Maintenance Work on the track. Tom is live to explain how it will impact writers riders. Reporter it definitely will. You could see track work at the time of the days you are not used to. Basically we are entering rushhour and i am told rushhour should not be affected. Pretty much the entire rest of the day and the 24 hour period could be affected by this. This is video from this morning. The administrator for the federal transmit transit administrations head metro, you have to find more time to work on track and do safety matters for the system. What that means is metro may have to do track work and angle track in times of the day that folks are not used to. That includes more midday traffic work at between morning and rushhour. Also, potentially more track work overnight and it would start earlier, as earlier as 8 00 at night. He was with the active administrator had to say about metro and how it needs to find some time to do this. They are going to have to tackle what i characterize there as the balance between what needs to be done for safety and the Service Levels that need to be provided. Reporter she said she recognizes that metro has to find a balance because riders do not like to see singletracking. They like to see full service on the red line behind me. That drives a limited window every 24 hours a can work on tracks. She is encouraging metro to find sometime during that perdio to work on safety matters period to work on safety matters. It will decide what timetable singletrack but that also includes midday track work. And also more weekend track work which we assert we seen a lot of years. Coming up at 5 00 you will here from passengers and what they think about what went on today at that metro meeting. Reporting live in northwest, tom drorowsy, abc 7 news. Kimberly look at this. Pictureperfect and not a cloud in the sky. What is ahead for tonight and into friday . Doug hill can tell is that. Doug not quite finished with this youthful air mass quite yet. We will slowly ramp up humidity levels into the weekend. At the moment absolutely gorgeous outside. A live look from the weatherbug camera in the world, maryland. Laurel, maryland. A continues drive for the second day in a row. Dry for the second day in a row. 81 in annapolis and 87 at Reagan National airport. When you factor in humidity is low enough of the heat index, it is the same or lower than the actual air temperature. That is what we mean by comfortable. It feels like 81 degrees in annapolis. Through the evening we will stay in the 80s and continued with mostly sunny skies and a gentle breeze of the northwest at three to six Miles Per Hour. Into the overnight, another clear night. 69 in the city in a very light breeze. Our outside story continues to be the highpressure area stretching from portions of iowa and eastward to pennsylvania. That is keeping the storm track to the south. It is only a matter of time before the showers come back our way. I will let you know when that will happen at our seven day outlook in a few minutes. Kimberly if one is not enough. A rabid that has been found in gaithersburg. This bat was found in an orchard on tuesday. It comes nearly two weeks after officials confirm a rabbit bat had been found in an apartment complex and less than a month after we first told you about a woman in that very same complex who had bats in her apartment that tested positive for the virus. Tonight, Horace Holmes will take a look at the bat problems in gaithersburg. Jonathan the Senate Panel Approves more benefits for workers from the hacking. They still information on more than 22 million federal workers and retirees. According to rollcall. Com the Senate Appropriation committee agreed to provide them with 10 years of credit monitoring and at least 5 million in liability detection. Kimberly john kerry is getting lawmakers an ultimatum on the iran nuclear deal. He addressed the senate for the Relations Committee this morning. He was joined by Energy Secretary ernest monize and secretary jack lew. Lawmakers work clearly skeptical. I believe you have been fleeced. You have turned to run for being a pariah to now congress being a pariah. The choice we face is between an agreement that will ensure mans beer program irans new beer program is limited rigorously scrutinized, and wholly peaceful. Or no deal at all. Kimberly congress has a six day review. Period to vote on the deal. President obama has vowed to be veto any bill that will block it. You can watch a National Town hall tonight at 7 00 on news channel eight. He will stream live on wjla. Com. Jonathan coming up, a controversial fundraiser for the Police Officers charged in freddy grays death has been scrapped for now. What it involved that has a venues backing away from it. Kimberly growing calls to remove bill cosbys our collection at this with sony and. At the smithsonian. Reporter how bats are the roads in d. C. . We will have the report oh my gosh, its the guy from last night. What . can i jump on your wifi . Yeah, you can try it. Hey i had a really good time last night. Yeah, me too. The only thing is that. The only thing is what . Whats the only thing . Oh my gosh hes married. Hes a kleptomaniac. Hes a pyromaniac. Hes a total maniac. Hey hey go back to your wife you sociopath leave slow internet behind. The 100 Fiber Optics Network is here. Get out of the past. Get fios. Now 79. 99 a month. Go online or call now. Call the Verizon Center for customers with disabilities at 800. 974. 6006 tty v jonathan a developing story after summit he pulled the emergency door release on a metro train. The video of the train stopping at the plaza station on thursday and moments later you can see a guy open the doors and exit with the child. They guy has not been charged. While the train was stopped there were delays moving through the plaza. Kimberly the lawyer who represented the Boston Marathon bombing is taking on another case. David brock has been traditionally appointed to defend dylann roof, who is charles in last months trials in church shooting. The also revisited susan smith the South Carolina mother sentenced to life for drowning her two young sons. Jonathan a controversial show to say the least with cans. A Baltimore Police officer had planned to put on a black face in annapolis another venue has said is not quite a host him. It will not happen. Bobby burger says his show is never to raise funds for the six officers charged in freddy grays death. He did sell 610 tickets at 45. The Baltimore Police union says it never supported the event and refused to accept money from it. Kimberly people are pushing back against the smithsonian and their message to remove bill cosbys exhibits. They released 35 emails to the Associated Press calling for the National Museum of african art to down its conversation exhibit, some even threatening to withhold donations. This follows cosbys unseal testimony in which he admits to getting drugs to women he wanted to have sex with. A big jump in drunk driving related traffic deaths. Those types of death have been on declined around the country. Newly released numbers from 2013 show anyone dui deaths here at home. That is up 26 from the year before. Arrests also went up with Police Booking 17,700 drunk drivers. Jonathan a lot of folks what might not mind getting stuck in traffic on a day like today. Jamie if you were stuck in traffic, it was not as bad as it was during the beginning of the week. This is 395 near armienavy drive. About 30 seconds ago they cleared away an accident that it been in place for about the past two hours. I want to talk about the delay still behind where we did have the crash. It was heading south on to army navy drive. A tow truck was there on scene. I knew it was going to reopen soon. About a minute ago it did. 17 Miles Per Hour on 395. If you have to travel on 295 the average in the teens. And pretty typical on the beltway. Getting from virginia to marion. Maryland. As we start with the top side of the beltway through Montgomery County, the inner loop will take you through just under 35 minutes to get to 95 in college park. Outbound on 66 in the beltway do fairfax about 20 minutes and slow on 95 south and working to wait for the mixing bowl and going south towards the we dont have any crashes in the d. C. Area. We do have traffic lights out. Writer 24th street. Make sure to treat that as a fourway stop. Back to you. Jonathan it was another one of those days were we strongly encourage or hope you get a chance he outside and enjoy. Kimberly absolutely beautiful. Doug enjoy it as it comes and goes because we only have a limited number of days left in the pattern. Jonathan you feel again have to do something on days like this in july. Doug even will be get to the bad is it will just a little bit more warmer and humid this weekend. A nice look at the chesapeake bay. The winds are very light on the waterways here. No small craft advisorys in effect. It will stay crystalclear like this through this evening. I would not ever give you a little look at the country. See how we are shaping up temperature wise. Today is the area from texas all of north. Rapid city at 92. The heat is building the High Pressure that is giving us this delightful weather is steering the weather system. It is keeping the rain and clouds south and west. That moves east in the next couple of days and every thing changes. The humidity serves to build. But we are not there yet. 87 degrees. Temperature at Reagan National is 85. 84 in frederick maryland. Baltimore, 84 degrees as well. We will see a steady dropoff in temperatures under mostly clear skies once again this evening. Temperatures around the midnight hour in the lower 70s and then dropping into the 60s by morning. Below 64 in baltimore in the morning. 70 at quantico and 69 in downtown washington. The rain and storms are pushed south. Although it out north carolina. The front only go through so far in washington and we get stuck in this kind of zone with repeat showers and storms. That is all settled to the south and we are enjoying sunshine and it is only a matter of time, the sundaymonday timeline of the next cold front will come in and put us back in this pattern again. It will be very hot and humid with chances of showers and storms. On the futurecast it looks delightful. The same sort of story for saturday. Humidity levels in chip saturday and sunday is back to hot and humid weather with a chance of lady showers and storms. The better chance for showers comes on monday and tuesday. Jonathan when we get a day like this in july, this is rare . Doug it does not happen often especially considering the pattern weve had since may. Kimberly we will take it. Thank you, doug. Coming up, evacuation and rescues in parts of the west as firefighters battle wildfires. Learned what is hampering efforts to put out the fires. Jonathan stay on top of any raking news bite signing up for text alerts. Go to wjla. Com test jonathan several raging wildfires out west eating to evacuations and rescues this week. Hundreds of families on vacation at glacier National Park have been forced to pack up. And get out kimberly entire near its in california are threatened. Randy hit has the latest. Reporter flames raging out of control in northern california. This one leading up treason seconds has burned nearly 10 square miles, destroying this building and threatening hundreds of homes. It was really windy from the beginning. The wind was going all different ways. I want to get out of here. Kimberly bulldozers are building critical fire lines as while the least the region. Wildlife flees the region. Go, dad go. Reporter this one hearing through Glacier National art or campers were forced to pack up and run. I dont when they die. Reporter the flames shutting down roads. Families had to abandon their cars. We could not even get firefighters through their. Reporter it doubling in size and ours is higher crews continue to battle hot, dry conditions. Strong winds up to 30 Miles Per Hour are not helping in here in california the heat is also returning. Temperatures are expected to start approaching the triple digits through the weekend. Kimberly it is really tough to see the horses running with the flames. Jonathan and difficult for the rescuers to get anything under control at all. New information and the death of a woman in a texas jail. What police are checking in Sandra Blands death now. He does and a learn your customers. Kimberly learn how a mail carriers got instincts about one of the p youre watching abc 7 news at 4 00 on your side. Jonathan new information in the death of sandra land in a texas jail cell. Prosecutors say they did not any injuries on land that were bland that were consistent with a violent homicide. Kimberly Marci Gonzalez is the latest evolvement. Reporter today, prosecutors releasing some of the autopsy results, sharing new insight into what caused Sandra Blands death in this jail cell early last week. They did not find any injuries on this particular organs or body parts that were consistent with a violent struggle. The cause of death as hanging in the manner of death as a suicide. Reporter prosecutors revealing preliminary testing showing she may have had a significant amount of marijuana in her body when she died. Found with a garbage bag around her neck three days after she was arrested after this traffic stop. Get out of the car dont touch me you are under arrest reporter a bystander recording what appeared to be her on the ground. She started yanking away in the kick me so i took her straight to the ground. Reporter bland charged with a Public Service operator officer input in thi