done and melting underway on the sweltering penguin. fast forward to right now and you can see the penguin will soon be a puddle. all of that is part of living in the nation's capital. it is july. we have team coverage of the summer swelter led by jonathan elias on the national mall. jonathan? jonathan: how are you doing? it was oppressive day. now the clouds moved in front of the sun and it feels like we are standing under a shade tree. it's wonderful. when the clouds move away and the sun moves out it's oppressive. triple digits is what it feels like. we have a cooler filled with water. we are handing folks water if they don't have one. don't underestimate this heat. this is a game they are playing in the blue shirts. it's kickball. they have a league out here. on t

flag football league. they are playing as if it's normal temperatures. a lot of folks drinking water and staying the hydrated in this weather. don't mess around with it. things could change. sooner than later doug hill and the meteorologist in the weather center. when are the storms coming in to cool it off? doug: not tonight. with that we are not sure on a placement. we know a cool front is approaching and there are thunderstorms with the heavy downpours. no real threat of rain tonight. just hot temperatures. 95 now at 6:00. reagan national airport. show you the heat index and what it feels like outside. it's still 104 in washington. 107 at quantico. 103 in fredericksburg. 104 degrees in annapolis. those are the hot spots. the hourly heat index through the evening. we will see relief but it will hold in the 90's in the city until 10:00 if not later on. doppler radar. there is nothing locally at all. tomorrow is the chance. with the storms could come a chance of severe

has us in a slight outlook for some severe thunderstorms through the afternoon. improving weather on the weekend. highlight for you in is a minutes. back to the hot mall and jonathan elias. jonathan: thanks very much. we are talking to the tourists passing us by. a lot of tourists throughout the day enjoying d.c. we heard from folks from ireland and canada and other parts of the country. they didn't complain at all about the weather. they are just happy to be in d.c. the folks who live in d.c. are complaining the most about the weather. they are coping with it. a lot of folks are getting off work. they are walking by. you can see the sweat on them. stephen tschida is picking up on the team coverage. how are they coping over there? stephen: it's hot here but it has not stifled life. we have a band playing and milling around and enjoying themselves. just up the street. there are some kids who really found a good way to cool off on a day

>> that is a way to keep cool. children frolic in the water and much to the envy of the adults watching over them. >> this feels shady and good. >> tourists in the blistering son outside the museums. they suffered. the workers in the protective gear felt the heat even more. >> they were dreaming of refreshing get-away.

sound good on a day like today. the thought of a beach will probably make for heavy traffic heading out to the beach tomorrow. reporting live, stephen tschida, abc7 news. stephen: we have the weather out here but we don't have the water to go with it. if you want to know what the weather is. if you want to be alerted about a heat day like this, go to wjla.com/text. they will be sent to your phone or tablet to let you know if there is something like this as well. cooling stations if you are out and about, we put locations of cooling stations on the website. a gud resource for you. go back -- a good resource for you. we are handing out water to those without a bottle but back to you. michelle: i hope you are wearing sun protection. new developments in the hunt for the men responsible for shooting a 1-year-old. look at this. the police releasing this video showing the extended gunfire. this happened monday on corner of 13 and istreet in northeast. little boy it

bullets. he was released from the hospital late tuesday. reward offered for information leading to an arrest. developing now, former president jimmy carter hospitalized tonight. as a precaution. the 92-year-old became dehydrated helping to build a habitat for humanity home in winnipeg. his wife is by his side. volunteers said he urged them to keep working even when he fell ill. he had just spoken to the group minutes earlier. as promised, senate republicans unveiled a new version of the plan to repeal and replace obamacare. but the new version is already meeting resistance from within the party. a snapshot, it provides more money to combat opioid crisis and more money for states. it also rolls back taxes on health savings accounts while blocking funding to planned parenthood as well as rolling back medicaid expansion and increases premium for older americans buying insurance using a tax credit. >> it's

they are pointing fingers at who should furnish most of the medicaid cuts. we say don't make medicaid cuts. >> american families and american businesses are hurting. under the collapsing weight of obamacare. it's time for congress to act. michelle: already two republican senators say they will vote no. one more and republicans will again have to go back to the drawing board. keep an eye on that. president trump meanwhile dined atop the eiffel tower tonight in his first official visit to france. at a news conference with french president emmanuel macron, trump defended his son's meeting with a russian lawyer in the campaign. in his words, a lot of people would have taken that meeting. a man facing a murder charge in the death of a bowie state university student in may. sean urbanski was indicted today in the death of army lieutenant richard collins who was black. urbanski was not charged with a hate c

being part of a white supremacist website. authorities now say a pennsylvania man has confessed to killing four men who have been missing now since last week. police found the remains of one of the men today along with other remains that have not yet been identified. they were found on a farm near philadelphia. sources say 19-year-old cosmo dinardo whose family owns that farm confessed to the killings today. 14-year-old is now recovering after a fireworks explosion mangled his hands. but only on 7 tonight. he says he is not giving up on one life lon

michelle: tonight two big updates in ballpark ambush case. congressman steve scalise wounded in last month's ballpark shooting in alexandria underwent another surgery today but upgraded to fair condition. also today the federal election commission allowed members of congress to use campaign fund for home security. they can use $15,000 on cameras, sensors and similar devices. today's heat wasn't enough to stop police from training for an emergency. take a look how at this video. this is from

fairfax police spokeswoman julie parker. all right. what you are looking at is officers practicing a pit maneuver to take out a car in a chase. parker says as fault was 120 threes in today's training. now to this story. an may iing story from kansas city. news helicopter found this car abandoned a roadway. minutes earlier the person in it carjacked at gas station with a 3-year-old in the backseat sleeping. cameras were rolling as the officers arrived and the little boy jumped out and went to the officer. not hurt. sh

blown off the foundation. what she found next. and the teen won't give up on his dreams and wh

michelle: take a look at this. caught on video in china. cars going down a road and without warning. buried underneath a mudslide. in all, eight vehicles were buried under the mountain of mud. here it is again. it happened so quickly. rescuers were able to free everyone trapped. wow! authorities in sweden are trying to determine what caused this bridge to collapse today. the bridge was under construction when it fell along with the scaffolding that surrounded it. at least 12 people were hurt. four of them seriously. must see video of a dramatic rescue off the coast of libya. this is what italy's coast guard found when it responded to a dingy full of migrants tipping over. >> no, no, no! >> this video really c

there felt as the rescuers try to get to the swimmers. this rescue one of many in the past few days. some 4,000 migrants have been rescued. teenager was aspirations of becoming a professional basketball player is now recovering after losing three fingers in a fireworks accident. only on 7 tonight the boy tells richard reeve what happened. richard: turner and his father love basketball. >> i'm so hurt behind this. richard: that hurt is still deep after backyard fireworks went off near his right hand. tearing off the three middle fingers. the hand wrapped in bandages. there are more where his shirt caught on fire. he can't remember if he was throwing the firework away or if someone was tossing it at him. >> part of my head, my shoulder. it could have been worse. >> somehow the flames were put out.

ice water and called for help. this has turned into a life changer and a tough lesson for a 14-year-old. his parents are livid that the unidentified man who they say gave their son the fireworks. >> my son could have been gone because a dummy making a dumb decision. >> doctors at children's hospital wants the 14-year-old hand to heal before considering options like prosthetic fingers. important because he has dreams of playing basketball with the nba. a dream he is holding on to. >> everything happens for a reason. my future might be better than what it was supposed to be. >> from the young injured player a plea for safety.

>> frighten images from northern illinois where floodwaters washed out roadways. evacuation orders are in place for some areas. take a look at this from minnesota. this is a home at one point knocked off the foundation by the same line of storms. the woman who lives in the home says she was laying in bed, when she saw her china cabinet fly down the hallway. talk about a scare. in a minute the movement stopped and then the world turned upside down. >> we lost our cat. it was his cat. it's hard for me to see him devastated by losing my kid's best friend. >> so they lost a cat but her husband and the two sons were

not hurt. our story is the heat. i asked if we achieved a record. he said no. a hot and a humid day. let's get you started with what we have now. it looks nice. except if you are walking you have conditions that's 105 with very little breeze. as of 6:00, this is what it feels like around the area. it's 107 at quantico. 101 in culpeper. leesburg. fredericksburg, 100. air temperatures will hold in the 80's in the city. may not dip below

overnight. a tough summer night ahead. meanwhile northeast it's an afternoon of the severe thunderstorms. the storms are going to push across to the store. we have an isolating shower somewhere tonight. 99% of the area won't see it. we have a steaming morning. it will warm quickly to the mid-90's. by the mid-to-start afternoon cold front will trigger a lain of two of thunderstorms. finding the placement is impossible. some models through d.c. and others have the broken area of storms passing south. the storm prediction center now has us marked off for a slight risk of severe thunderstorm.

the model shows this configuration tomorrow at 7:00. thunderstorms south and east of washington. more over south of fredericksburg. ultimately it is going to work out to the benefit for the weekend. it's not as humid and there will be plenty of sunshine. the next ten days 94 for the day. another weather alert day. there is 80% chance of showers and storms over the weekend. monday and tuesday are back in low 90's with the thunderstorm chances. hot again. mid-90's. thunderstorm in the region for thursday and friday. back to you. michelle: thank you. michelle: it's so hot to play tennis. alison: venus williams doesn't get old and she has a chance to make history again. and

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robert: wizards made it official. they matched otto porter's offer sheet by brooklyn. $106 million over four years so he s

athlete in d.c. go down the list with porter. $24.8 million. kirk cousins will make $24 million under the tag this year. bradley beal, $23.8 million. john wall yet to sign the $173 million extension deal. max scherzer will make just over $22 million. way to go, otto porter jr.! out of georgetown. in women's hoops a big honor if women's team. they will represent the united states in the world university games in taiwan next month. 12-day tournament begins august 19. the players are excited about rep thing country. >> it's exciting. i feel like we are blessed to be in this position as a team and as a university. just knowing that it's us. everybody go where they go. place usa is where we go. that is the main goal. robert: tennis, venus williams found the fountain of youth. at 37. she is still putting it down on the tennis courts. defeated her

6-2. back in the finals. it's been eight years since she won a wimbledon singles title. she has five already. another title would make venus the oldest women's grand slam champion in the open era. you are right, too hot. michelle: yes. robert: for tennis. they're in paris and it's not as hot. doug: it's seasonable. but here is a little above. the humidity made it feel worse today. tomorrow hot and humid again. 94. good chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon with a cold fronted. behind the front on saturday and sunday there is average temperatures. key is the sunshine and the lower humidity levels. that is good news. steve rudin is busy to set timing for storms and looking ahead to the weekend. join you at 11:00. michelle: thank you. "world news tonight" with david muir up next. join us at 11:00. have a good ni

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tonight, breaking news as we come on the air. we have just learned of a confession after a gruesome discovery. dog sniffers finding bodies buried 12 feet down after four young men vanished. what the attorney for the man under arrest just revealed. president trump on the world stage asked about his son, don junior. and the russian lawyer who flew from moscow and went to trump tower. what the president said about his son, and what the president also said to the first lady of france, making headlines too. the newest republican plan to repeal and replace obamacare revealed tonight. reaction pouring in right now. what does it mean for seniors, preexisting conditions and medicaid that covers millio