truck struck a crowd in bastille day celebrations. this happened in nice, france. if we can come back in the newsroom here. i want to show you that people are posting all over social media. you can see the video here. people running in panic. another video here on social madia. people are running, a very chaotic scene in nice, france. there are other images throughout social media, twitter, that are too graphic to show here on tv. again, this happening during the bastille day celebrations. we are going to keep monitoring the situation. we will bring you the latest as it comes in. back to you in the studio. maureen: thank you, amy. now let's talk about the summer heat. it has brought us the hottest day of the year so far. we're not done with the heatwave yet. chief meteorologist doug hill has a look at what is ahead. doug: we officially hit 98 degrees at reagan national. the hottest day of the year so far. start with the

all the jurisdiction is orange. that will continue as a combination of high temperatures and the high dew point temperatures which gives you feels like temperatures in this range. even at 6:00 in the everything. it feels like 102 in the capital. 101 in andrews. if values are slow to drop through the everything hours. we are keeping an eye on showers across west virginia that could affect our viewing area in the next three or four hours. maybe cooling showers. we will look for cooler temperatures when i join you in studio in a few minutes. maureen: thank you. today's heat meant summer day camp kept children inside. the camp sunshine in silver spring declared code red on the triple digit heat index. nine out of ten on the u.v. index. the stormwatch7 weather team can alert you of any dangerous conditions where you live. go to wjla.com/text to sign up for text

symbol of a nation wounded and divided in the aftermath of a week of violence. in minnesota, a funeral for philando castile. he is the man a police officer shot to death last week and whose final moments played out via facebook. his girlfriend says castile told the officer he had a concealed weapon and was killed when he reached for his wallet. meanwhile, in dallas, police sergeant michael smith was laid to rest. the fourth officer of five killed in a shooting free by a man who said he wanted to kill white police officers. those deadly incidents prompted a national town hall with president obama. d.c. bureau chief sam ford joins us from outside the studio theater in northwest washington where the town hall is being held. sam? zach this was a busy block at 14th much of the day. the crews are sort of putting things away. wrapping

the day, the hour or so he was here talking about the situation with police. many thought that community policing model was doing so well and after the past week or so there are questions about that. >> we thought we made progress of the community policing movement but only the recent events surrounding the controversial and the graphic videos of the police violence have undermined that process. >> the police chief of milwaukee among those who lined up outside the studio theater as was toya graham and her son. the mother who made him leave the baltimore riots last year. abc called it "the president and the people: a national conversation" president. president obama: the bad news is as we saw so painfully this week that this is our job. we are not close to where we want to be. sam: it was an hour-long broadcast. some left disappointed.

policeman insisting on dallas symbol for the -- white house symbol for the dallas officers only. >> he wanted to put lights up in the white house for the police officers that were killed. well, what about the guys that was murdered also? two wrongs don't make a right. sam: one of the criticisms of meetings like this, sometimes they are not dialogue but monologue with everybody holding his or her particular point. some reviews said it was good meeting and others said it was a kumbaya moment. you can tell for yourself. it will be here at channel 7 on 8:00 p.m. tonight. "the president and the people." reporting live from northwest washington, i'm sam ford, abc7 news. maureen: the broadcast is at 8:00. the president --

national conversation." it will air uninterrupted on abc7 and we will live stream it on wjla.com. there are big developments in the search for runningmates by both presidential candidates. chief political scott thuman leads the coverage tonight. scott: we start with g.o.p. because donald trump made the choice about the vice presidential running mate. he is not saying anything yet, we know that all the chatter, all the speculation he has chosen the governor of indiana. make pence. that is all the talk. pence is the stable pick. despite the disagreements with trump on a couple of major issues, including lambasting trump's proposed ban on muslim immigrants and supporting the t.p.p., the transpacific partnership deal that trump opposes. we will know for certain if it's pence or someone else when donald trump

press conference tomorrow morning at 11:00 in manhattan. he says that is when he will make the big announcement. democrat hillary clinton may still be a couple of weeks away from making the announce. herself. she was today with one of the leading capped did as. -- leading candidate. hillary clinton was at a rally today the tim kaine. jeff? jeff: a crowd and they were happy to see them together. according to clinton campaign, 2100 people packing the auditorium at the northern virginia community college to see and hear hillary clinton and tim kaine speak and stand together as a possible v.p. pick. tim kaine has a lot going for him. he is a popular senator and a popular former governor in a critical swing state that will be key to winning the white house. no matter how long the l

of hillary clinton anxious to get a look at the democratic nominee and the potential runningmate tim kaine. >> if i was working for someone for four years i'd want it to become someone like tim. >> hillary clinton represents the leadership we need in the country. >> looking relax and comfortable, kaine and clinton taking the stage to huge applause. kaine happy to play the role of the attack dog, building up clinton and tearing down trump. >> do you want a you're fired president or you're hired president? >> trump taking nolte of the visit to commonwealth -- taking nolte of hillary visiting the commonwealth -- clinton sharing her thoughts about what to expect from the republican convention next week in cleveland. >> it is going to be entertaining

if you are into bigotry, blustery and bullying. >> expressing confidence about november as they may be on the ballot together. >> we are going forward. not only strongly but with pride. confidence, optimism and we

with his vice presidential selection. next week we'll have reports from cleveland and the republican national convention. i'll be here all week long. and then the week after that we will be in philadelphia for the democratic national convention. that coverage beginning july 25. busy, busy couple of weeks here on themca pain trail. maureen? maureen: indeed. thank you, scott. supreme court justice ruth bader ginsberg now says she regrets her comments deriding donald trump. in a statement, she called the comments ill-advise and added that judges should not comment on candidates running for public office. in two recent interviews ginsberg said she couldn't imagine a trump presidency and she joked she would move to new zealand if she won. trump called for her resignation. still ahead at 6:00 -- the video, the university of maryland police chief

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maureen: new tonight, the university of maryland police chief says he is embarrassed by the way his officers responded to this party in may. the response ended with students pepper spray and allegation of police brutality. maryland bureau chief brad bell had a chance to see the response from the officer's point of view. here is what he found. brad: the may 21 incident caused outrage across campus. university of maryland graduates ordered to break up a peaceful party for no reason. screamed at. pepper sprayed. shoved by campus police. >> i felt like they didn't have to respond like that. brad: now the university of maryland chief of police saying she is right. it was his own officers who are mostly at fault. >> i'm terribly embarrassed and humiliated by the actions of our officers. brad: chief david mitchell planned to

video today but at the request of the students, it was held. this varies from the cell phone clip except it shows officer touched off the disturbance by screaming at a woman who answers his knock at her door. >> the one officer in particular has been suspended without pay for 80 hours. brad: place saying a 911 call about the fight at the party was bogus by people who were turned away. they are charged with filing a false report. the chief says the officers should have left after finding it was a peaceful party. >> we don't often get it wrong. we did here. >> if it's a fireable offense he needs to be fired. brad: chief mitchell says it's possible more discipline will be handed out. he said what happened here is a failure of leadership. at the university of maryland, a

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the morning low 75. tomorrow morning is similar. the big number now is what it feels like outside. these are the real numbers. not just pulling them out of thin air. derived number that tells you how warm it feels. 102 in washington. 107 in leesburg. 103 in frederick and so on across the map. a tough everything out there. next few hours not much changed. you are well removed from washington if you see woodstock and the areas of southwest along 81. there are more storms to the west. we keep an eye on that over the next few hours. some storms could make it across the mountains to affect the viewing area. especially south and southwest of the city. future cast suggesting in the day that some of these will move in. this happened at 8:30. so 8:30 or 9:30 the possibility of the showers. we don't expect anything severe. but in the air mass heavy downpours and quick development of the lightning with the storms is a possibility. we will be hazy overnight.

patchy fog possible by morning. through the day tomorrow we see temperatures at 94. frontal zone at one in the mid-level of the atmosphere might dry it out a little in the afternoon. hot and humid. maybe not as intensely so as today. the farther south from washington the better chance you are. cold front from the weekend, and highs of 88. on sunday 90 degrees. 94 on monday in the sunshine. another system comes by on tuesday. another chance of showers and thunderstorms. 90 degrees. wednesday and thursday it will calm down. a quick note. the citi open, the forecast for qualifying rounds starting on saturday morning. it will be in the 70's in the morning. 88 in the afternoon with storms. sunny rapid hot on sunday -- sunny and hot on sunday. it runs through the following weekend. maureen: thank you, doug. now, let's go back to the breaking news in nice, france. we are now being told 30 people are dead. up to 100 hurt after a

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it's all about arena football in washington, d.c. robert: in northwest washington, robert burton, abc7 sports. erin: thank you, robert. to the british open where phil mickelson played one of the best rounds of his career but he admitted he wanted to shed a tear after. if he drained this putt he would have been the first player in 437 major championships to shoot that. it lifts out. take another look. lefty was left becoming the 28th player to cart 63. you know what? still not bad. he is the first round leader at eight under. he's smiling though. finally bryce harper is engaged again to the same woman he was engaged to in 2015. they made the announcement on instagram last night at the espys. congratulations to them. maureen: the latest from you, please? doug: quick look at the showers and the thunderstorms. they are developing across west virginia and western virginia as they

a chance we will get a few later tonight. shower popping up southwest of hagerstown. we had chances here going forward this evening to get cooling after a butally hot and a -- brutally hot and humid day. tonight 11:00, steve rudin has the heat story and the latest on any possible storm threat this weekend. hopefully updated seven-day will give us cooler temperatures next week. maureen: thank you. live update for you on the breaking news from nice, where a truck has driven through a crowd of people in what is called an attack. 30 people are dead. 100 are hurt. abc news confirms the truck driver is dead and bullet holes are visible in the truck windshield. david muir will have the latest on this next at "world news tonight." have a good night.

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aler. tonight, breaking news as we come on the air. the terror fears amid chaos and gunfire. the pictures coming in right now from overseas. reports of a vehicle plowing into a crowd celebrating bastille day. and now fears there could be dozens dead. was this terror? also tonight, breaking news on donald trump. his big announcement on the way, and tonight, campaign sources telling abc news all signs point to indiana governor mike pence. the tense standoff. >> stop. >> we have new video of police shooting an unarmed teen. the tension building during a traffic stop. why officers say they opened fire on the young driver. severe storms on the move from texas to maine tonight. powerful winds blowing over trucks on the highway. and where the storms are hitting in the coming hours. and prince harry, following in his mother's footsteps. the