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several people suffered heat exhaustion during a girl scout event at serenity farm at benedict. nine girls were taken to a hospital. several others taken to the fire department to cool off. the girls were at the farm for a camp program. it was a rough day for fans and athletes alike at congressional country club in bethesda. fans there did everything they could to shield themselves from the sun at the at&t national. people used a lot of umbrellas, big hats, drank lots of water. because of the heat montgomery county is extending ride on service this weekend. doug is concerned about a line of storms out there. doug? >> jim, we're watching this line of storms coming through portions of indiana and now through ohio getting ready to make their way into western portions of west virginia. this line has had a history of producing winds upwards of 80 to 90 miles per hour. so once again, extremely strong
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storms making their way our way. these storms are moving down to the south and east very quickly at about 60 miles an hour. that puts them right around the d.c. area at around 11:00 tonight right along the i-95 corridor. the way they're going, i think maybe just down to the south of washington. if you live south and west of washington, be on the lookout for these storms tonight, even around the d.c. metro area. we could easily see winds here of 6 o 0 to 70 miles an hour. right now sitting at 103 with a heat index of 108. the all-time record temperature set a little earlier at 104 for the month of june. 102 in frederick. 100 in fredricksburg. much more on the heat. i'm show you when those storms arrive and who is going to be affected a little later on. >> thanks, doug. a tough day to be outside. since it is the weekend, a lot of folks can't resist.
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derrick ward is in bethesda. is it getting any better as the sun starts to set? >> reporter: you know what? it's weird. the sun is down. it seems a little cooler. i'm still sweating as much. something about this weather. you take a deep breath, and it's soupy, it's not cool like air usually is. that's what it's like when you have heat indices like that. some folks out because they wanted to be, some because they had to be. this was a response to a heat-related incident on the water when a hiker was ever come, he was rescued by boat. all over, people who had to be out were doing all they could not to become casualties. over at congressional today where they were having the big golf tournament, if you couldn't find shade, the most you could do is create your own breeze and stay hydrated. at this construction site in prince george's county, some had air conditioned cabs and some did not.
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>> 150 degrees in here, bud. >> reporter: his best way to keep cool was to drive with the windows open. >> got to make a living. >> reporter: kevin smith has a hole to fill near his home after the stormed downed a tree. he waits till the sun goes down. he's a retired landscaper who knows a thing or two about working in the heat. >> pretty much i'm telling the guys to drink a lot of fluids. they've got to take breaks, got to get in and out of the sun. you've got to do a fair day's work for a fair day's pay. >> reporter: for some that fair day was cut short by the high temperatures. >> it's get together the point where you can't touch your tools, it will start burning your fingertips and then you can't do anything done. unless you want to put your tools in water. then you kind of rust everything out. a lot of our work is metal. torch work today, put ag flat roof on, you have to call it off. >> reporter: another contractor couldn't end his outdoor job early, so it's all about hydration. >> i was trying to push this off until next week. but they've got to have it down for the fourth of july.
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that's where i'm at. >> firefighters almost have to get as much water into themselves as they purt on the fire. >> our personnel are well aware of the situation at hand with the heat. we're advising everybody to stay inside. >> reporter: if not, if outdoor work is a must, wisdom is as well. >> the humidity and heat factor gets up to 107, 108 degrees, you don't want nobody out there no way. it's just too hot. >> reporter: as we've been telling you, the metropolitan washington council of governments issued a code red alert for ozone. that means for some people, just breathing can be dangerous. they're advising folks with compromised respiratory systems, with asthma or lung disease not to come out. those who don't have those conditions should still take care, stay hydrated, don't mow your lawn with a gas mother. if you can help it, use an electric mother. that's better for the o son zone and for your breathing. firefighters in northwest
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d.c. fought a massive two-alarm fire about 5:30 this morning. the flames shooting through the roof, gutting the home on glenbrook road near american university. cell phone video captured all of this. that blaze was so intense firefighters had to run ex-tro hoses. no one was home at the time. a neighbor had to call 911. there was report the house was undergoing some type of construction. investigators looking for the cause of the blaze. in prince george's county crews are trying to reach a worker they believe is trapped under the rubble of a roof that collapsed. that roof gave way last night at a document storage facility in cheverly, maryland. rescuers tried to find the victim last night but had to pull out because the building was unstable. that search resumed about 3:00 this afternoon. the workers say a forklift accidentally hit a 50-foot-high storage rack full of boxes. that triggered a domino effect and those shelves eventually hit a support beam. the roof collapsed and the walls buckled. 16 workers in there were able to get out.
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today president obama got a first-hand look at the destruction caused by a massive wildfire near colorado springs, colorado. nasa released these images today giving a view of that fire from space. it has destroyed hundreds of homes. but today, there was a sign of progress. some of the evacuees were able to go back home. jinah kim live in colorado springs with the latest. jinah? >> jim, i want to show you the hot spot that's just developed within the past few minutes here. you know the fire keeps going out and then it gets bad again. this is one fire that just does not want to go out. earlier today, president obama was here, and he thanked the more than 1,000 firefighters who have been just working around the clork. shortly after announcing that 346 homes had burned to the ground, officials at the waldo canyon fire in colorado springs had more grim news. one person was found dead in a home, and up to ten people could be missing. >> we're looking at a relatively
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small number of people that we're still dealing with a lot of incomplete information. >> reporter: this is now the most destructive fire in colorado history. president obama declared the area a federal disaster zone, opening up more money for the fire fight and recovery. >> we had been putting everything we have into trying to deal with what's one of the worst fires we've seen here in colorado. >> reporter: on the fire front, a second day of calmer, cooler weather means more progress, less danger. >> the focus for the day is to hold what we got. improve the lines we have in place. meanwhile, the 32,000 people evacuated from their homes are slowly being allowed to go back. >> i haven't even been to my house since before tuesday at lunch. >> reporter: for those whose homes are still standing, the reaction is elation mixed with sad nts. >> i feel really lucky and blessed that it is. i feel sorry for the people in mountain shadows that don't even know where their house burned or
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not. >> very grateful. fourth of july weekend coming up, want to get in the house and be settled. >> reporter: it could be a somber or nonxis sent independence day for many in co-co. at least 30 cities in the state have canceled fourth of july festivities. this fire is now 15% contained. the air force academy which had been shut down much of this week is now back up and running. back to you. closer to home, crews are battling two large wildfires on national park land in virginia still. hundreds of acres have been scorched. this one is in shenandoah national park. chopper 4 shot this video late this afternoon. the other fire is in warren county. for now authorities say no homes or businesses are being threatened and no evacuations are needed, but that could change. today's high temperatures along with the steep and the rocky terrain is making access to the fire extremely challenging for those firefighters. the former chief investigator of the prince george's county states
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attorney's office is facing sexual assault charges. according to "the washington post," 61-year-old james artis was charged yesterday with assault and a sexual offense. he was fired today. he's accused of fondling a legal assistant at the upper marlboro courthouse earlier this month. "the washington post" reports that he kissed the woman, fondled the assistant. he says he only touched her shoulder and her back. he has been with the state's attorneys office since 1999. a recent supreme court ruling could mean a shorter sentence for lee boyd malvo, one of the suspects behind the deadly 2002 sniper rampage that terrorized our area. on monday the high court threw outmanned tore life imprisonment without parole for juveniles. that was his sentence for the murders he committed when he was 17 years old. the chief prosecutor in montgomery county where malvo was convicted of six other
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murders since his sentence for the maryland shootings will ensure he remains in prison for the rest of his life. today, both chambers of congress passed a bill that prevents loan rates from rising for 7 million college students and their parents. that show of bipartisanship did not last long. steve handelsman has our report. >> reporter: down to the wire the package passed the house and the senate. it's not one of those short-term stopgaps. >> we'll build more roads with less money. >> reporter: highway funding is secured through 2014. flood insurance through 2017. student loan rates locked for a year and they don't double on monday. a rare bipartisan compromise. >> this is a good moment i believe we can actually celebrate something before we start battling over health care. >> reporter: but they didn't. republicans stun pd by the supreme court upholding what they call obama care did win a
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new line of attack from yesterday's opinion, that the penalty for not buying coverage starting in 2014 is a tax. >> it is a tax, largely on the middle class. >> reporter: an obama spokesman estimated only 1% of americans will refuse to buy coverage and pay that penalty tax and said the pioneer of the concept was mitt romney. >> he was the chief proponent of this very policy when he was governor of massachusetts because he said it was fair to make sure there weren't free riders driving up everybody's insurance rates. >> reporter: democrats claim the health care law is essential to our economic recovery. >> these people that talked about repealing this, it would cause the loss of 400,000 jobs. >> reporter: house republicans will vote to repeal the week after next. >> so much for one day of bipartisanship. i'm steve handelsman, news 4, capitol hill. coming up, d.c. camp kids
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shot in the middle of the day. an exclusive report from the mother of one of the victims talking about the day she thought it was safe to let her children go outside. newly elected leader in egypt made a defiant move in front of thousands of people in tahrir scare today. show me your water. >> water! >> reporter: how hottest? >> real hot! >> reporter: you can say that again. but what about your pooch, what about your plants, what about your -- >> water! >> reporter: i'm pat collins. a
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he promised during the speech to release civilians currently being detained and tried by military tribunals. he took an informal oath of office today in defines of egypt's military rulers. morsi will officially be inaugurated tomorrow in front of an egyptian high court. a new poll out suggests president obama and mitt romney are running neck and neck in three battleground states. in michigan a poll find president obama ahead by four percentage points with 47% of likely voters favoring him, 43% backing romney. in north carolina and in new hampshire, the candidates are locked in a statistical tie when the polls margin of error is taken into account. a citizen's group wants to ban corporations from making contributions in d.c. elections. to do that it has to get thousands of signatures on petitions and only has until july 9th to do that. the group is hoping to get that measure on the ballot on november 6th.
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tom sherwood reports. >> reporter: brian weaver, a leader of the initiative said the city has been battled by scandals, conviction of former councilman kwame brown and harry thomas. citizens need to do something. >> just trying to find a way to sort of come out of this crisis of confidence that we're having. supporters of initiative 70 have been fanning out around the district, getting voters to sign petition that is would help corporate donations to city campaigns, political birthday parties and other fund-raising for politicians. initiative seven reporters must turn in 24,000 valid voter signatures by the end of the day july 9th and need many more in case of errors to get on the november 6th ballot. weaver says the group is near its goal but will work through the july 4th holiday week. mayor vincent gray returning from china after encouraging
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trade agreements is under federal criminal investigation for his 2010 campaign for mayor with rumors swirling that he could resign at any time. rumors so far with no firm basis, but that disrupt the flow of city politics. >> i think now everyone is sort of holding on to what's coming next. there is a little degree of everyone holding on to their seat saying what's the next shoe to drop. >> reporter: in the district, tom sherwood, news 4. we not only have heat, we have nasty storms heading our way. >> they could be really nasty. the heat is one thing. we've had a lot of problems. heat xhaulgs a big factor. now the storms come through. the storms could have a bigger impact on us tonight. these are storms that have been out to the west moving our way. they're not right out there right now. the evening will be most likely be on the dry side for the next two or three hours. then the storms move in. we'll talk about the storms in a second. right now let's talk about that heat. we have seen record breaking heat today, not just record breaking heat for the day, june 29th, today, the old record 101
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set back in 1934 and 1874. we shattered that record. now at 104 degrees. that is the all-time record high temperature for the month of june. we have only seen 104 degrees ten times before in the last 142 years, simply amazing how warm it's been across our region today. right now we still sit at 103 at 6:00 at night with winds out of the west at 7 miles per hour. dew point of 66. that has come down just a little bit. 100 in martinsburg, 100 in fredricksburg and 101 in la plata. the heat index 117. right now in leesburg, 108 in the district. 114 in la plata and 112 in manassas. an incredibly hot evening. even though the sun is coming down, it may actually feel worse to you, believe it or not because you don't have the sun helping to take off some of that heat. we'll continue to watch that very closely, the heat index,
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that 110 plus, possibly through 9:00 tonight. that's why we have the excessive heat warrick for all of northern virginia, charles county into southern maryland and towards the panhandle of west virginia. heat advisory for the rest of you. now, there's the line of storms right here, you notice the red box. that is a tornado warning through eastern portions of ohio. the yellow, all severe thunderstorm warnings. with this broke echo making its way through, we call this a bow echo. it moves to the right. this will continue to move to the right. it's going to go across parts of west virginia and across central virginia. it may include the washington metro area. i expect them to produce a severe thunderstorm watch in effect for our entire region, most likely until about 12:00, 1:00 in the morning. so that watch should be coming out any time now as the storm system will make its way our way. when is it going to get here. let's take a look at it. as it's making its way across ohio, coming through the region,
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around 9:00, starting to see that right to the west of i-81 at 9:00. at 11:00, right through the i-95 corridor from baltimore and washington, through fredricksburg and richmond. if you live in fredricksburg, if you friends around warrenton, maybe, this is a storm you really need to watch. even around washington, but especially south of washington, i think that's where the strongest winds could be. by 5:00 a.m. tomorrow morning, this thing is out of here. it's gone. then we start to heat up again and then we'll be talking about the heat again. because of the heat, we could see strong to severe thunderstorms during the day tomorrow. guess what? during the day on sunday. i don't expect a lot of them on tomorrow or sunday, but if they do develop, they could be very, very strong. this evening, very hot and humid with clear skies. temperatures 89 to about 96 degrees with the heat index over 100. tomorrow morning the rain should be out of here. it's going to be extremely muggy with temperatures into the 70s tomorrow. tomorrow afternoon a mixture of sun and clouds.
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very hot and humid with possible severe storms, temperatures 97 to 101. the next couple days showing a gradual cooling down to 94 on monday and tuesday. right now july 4th still looking hot with a chance of thunderstorms but not as bad as what we've seen during the day today. hopeful li we won't have power outages. that's the last thing you want is your air conditioner to go out. >> tonight there could be a lot of downed trees. i guarantee the power companies are looking at this storm with a very kooe keen eye. police in london raiding homes to help protect tourists in town for the olympics. the young victims of a senseless shooting in the district are speaking out for the first time about that midday attack. coming up in sports, the wizards pleased with their pick in nba draft. roger federer on the ropes at wimbledon. w[ leanne ] appliance park has been here since the early 50s.
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today president obama declared the wildfire damage near colorado springs a federal disaster zone. that fire is now the most destructive in colorado state history. it has burned nearly 350 homes. two people are dead. ten people could still be missing. our area got hit with record breaking heat today. the mercury reached 104 degrees this afternoon. that broke the previous record of 102 set way back in 1874. an excessive heat warning is in effect here until 9:00 tonight. the younger brother of bernie madoff pled guilty to being part of the largest ponzi scheme prosecute phd the u.s. 66-year-old peter madoff admitted to conspiracy and falsifying records in the multibillion dollar fraud that destroyed the savings of thousands of investors. he eebs pekted to get a ten-year
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prison sentence. a news 4 exclusive report. we're hearing from a young boy who was shot outside of a d.c. day care earlier this week. >> that child along with his cousin and a camp counselor were hit when a gunman opened fire, started shooting wildly in a southeast neighborhood on monday. darcy spencer has our report. >> he's in a lot of pain. he's not walking by his self. he has to have a walker or even a wheelchair for long distance. >> reporter: this 6-year-old boy was shot and wounded four days ago while lining up with 30 other kids at his first day attending the orchard park day camp. his mom says he'll turn 7 on saturday. >> it's not worth it. nothing is. it's not worth it. i could have been burying my son instead of celebrating him. >> reporter: his 7-year-old cousin also wounded, shot in the back. he's ready to return to camp. >> you want to go back? >> uh-huh. >> you're not scared? huh-uh. >> reporter: the boys' moms are
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outraged. >> he got shot and came through his shoulder. no broken bones. he's up and healthy. >> who would think their child would get shot at a camp? it's scary. >> reporter: it happened at 19th and savannah street southeast monday afternoon. their counselor was also wounded. the 6-year-old was shot through the ankle and there's a bullet lodged in his thigh. >> of course it's scary. he's 6. i would never expect my 6-year-old to be getting shot, never. >> reporter: we're not showing their faces because the gunman is still on the loose and there's fear in the neighborhood. >> whoever it is, you need to be ashamed at yourself for shooting at a gang of kids. come on now. it could have been your child. >> reporter: police say in the day camp shooting the gunman was chasing another man, showering the victims and several parked cars with bullets. >> he's scared of fire crackers now or fireworks, any type of loud noise, he's screaming. i guess it is scary for him.
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>> reporter: the mother of the 7-year-old boy says she will allow her son to continue going to camp in the neighborhood. the mother of the 6-year-old boy says she's not returning. she's keeping him close to home and has plans to move away. in southeast, darcy spencer, news 4. a man has been convicted of first degree murder in the 2004 shooting of a waldorf bartender. after two hours of deliberations a charles county jury convicted matthew corel of murdering christopher maider. prosecutors say mader left work on thanksgiving eve. he was found shot in the head in his car. corel was arrested in 2010 after rewards in the case -- a reward was featured on america's most wanted. he will be sentenced on august 21st. another update now on the record breaking heat out there, doug. >> still looking at that time heat index of 108 right now in the district. looking at 117 off to the west
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in leesburg. 112 in frederick and 110 in fredricksburg. the heat is going to be the scenario over the next couple hours, next couple days. over the immediate next few hours and i mean the next three to possibly six hours, this is what we're going to be looking at, this extremely strong line of thunderstorms. again, i expect the national weather service to put out a -- severe storm prediction center to put out a new severe thunderstorm watch that will encompass our entire viewing area. this line of storms making its way very close to western portions of west virginia right now. you can see where that line is. it will be around the metro region and south by around 9:00 to about midnight. i'm thinking right around d.c., probably around 11:00. stay with us on nbc4. we'll keep you updated all night long and continue to cut in as need be. all this heat is not keeping people from going outside. but it is changing some of the things that they do outside. pat collins checked on things down at the national mall at the folk life festival as only he
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can. >> hot people. >> show me your water. how hottest? >> real hot! >> you don't even want to see this ♪ ♪ >> reporter: on the golf course, on city streets, down on the mall, on a scorching hot day like this, you have no better friend than -- ♪ water >> reporter: hey, kids, do we like water? >> yes! >> reporter: cold water? >> yes! >> reporter: on a day like today? >> yes! >> reporter: let's hit it. >> reporter: the magic fountain in columbia heights, it goes up, it goes down. where is it going to be next?
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water works. >> ice cold, $1. >> reporter: this is 4th and florida avenue northeast. i think of it more as rashad davis's water store. >> i've been selling water since i was 15. i'm 2 now. it's been seven years now. >> reporter: is it a good business? >> it's a good business, sir. hot dogs. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: hot dogs, hot dogs. not these kind of hot dogs. paging dr. bowman, paging dr. sarah bowman. when it gets really hot, what do you do for fido? >> never leave them outside. make sure they have plenty of water. heat stroke can happen really fast. >> reporter: that's good advice. hot plants. >> feed me now! i'm starving! >> reporter: at a time like this, plants can't do it on their own. when it gets sizzling hot, what
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should people do with their plants? >> just water more often than you would otherwise. preferably in the morning rather than after work. >> reporter: so no matter what you do this weekend, make sure you take your buddy with you. stay thirsty, my friend. live on the mall, pat collins, news 4. >> our coverage of this record breaking heat continues on nbcwashington.com. there you will find a list of cooling centers as well a the latest forecasts and the heat warnings. >> it's goings to be a good week to go down to the coolness of metro. it's going to cost you more. starting sunday rail fares will go up 5%, bus fares going up 10 cents, parking rates a quarter. using a paper card will cost you an extra dollar per trip. the peak of the peak surcharge is being eliminated. virginia governor bob mcdonald today announced his appointments for the university of virginia's board of visitors. one of the members reinstated is helen draga, she was widely
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criticized for the role she played in the ouster of president theresa sullivan. sullivan was reinstated earlier this week. julie carey reports. >> reporter: helen dragas was cast as a villain in the forced ouster of theresa sullivan. heckled and chased by students after one meeting many blamed her for engineering sullivan's resignation. monday as dragas dt did an about face and voted to reinstate sullivan, she was among those receiving embraces. now governor bob mcdonald is giving her a second chance. dragos was org 1/2ly appointed by tim kaine. while the move surprised some on campus, others say it offers her a chance to redeem herself in the eyes of the uva community that stood so strongly behind president sullivan. >> i'd love to see redemption come out of it for her. to say i'm here for the uva
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community and not my own agenda. my initial impression when i first heard what was going on. >> we'll see how things work out in the future. it gives her a chance to explain herself and her point of view and work with our community more and we'll see how it goes. >> reporter: in reappointing her, governor mcdonald issued a statement explaining he believed draga was unfairly pointed out. he added her serious critique of the challenges facing university is a voice that must be heard and can help. along with dragas and three other new board members, governor mcdonald appointed two executives from northern virginia to the board of directors, bobby gilmore from the virginia energy council and victoria harper, the coo of gwinnett. coming up tonight, they're taking aim in organized crime that targets the
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after five years of marriage, one of hollywood's most famous couples is now calling it quits. katie holmes filed for divorce from tom cruise. they wed in 2006 after cruise famously declared his love for her on "the oprah winfrey show." holmes issued a statement saying the matter is private and personal and she's focused on her daughter. a rep for cruise says he is deeply sad denned. in london law enforcement officials are cracking down hard on crime that might affect the crowds attending the olympics coming up in the next couple of weeks. watch this. >> police! >> an up close look at an
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operation to get picket pocket ps and purse snatchers off the streets. investigators suspect organized criminal networks. this effort by 400 arrests. ranging from theft to cash machine fraud. next on sports, kyle maloney is in for dan. coming up in sports, here at congressional, the temperatures go up and the scores go down. tiger may have found the key to his round. a gator becomes a wizard. he's looking forward to making ♪
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now we do have a severe thunderstorm watch in effect across about the entire area until 1:00 tonight. take a look at this line of storms. it came through chicago, it came through fort wayne, indianation with 91-mile-an-hour winds, dayton, ohio, 82-mile-an-hour winds. now coming into portions of west virginia and you can see the watch all the way over towards our region. zoom in right now. we'll show you where that line is. once again, right on the border of ohio and west virginia. so not here quite yet. if you have evening plans over the next two to three hours, they just had somebody ask me, if i leave now, can i still get to ocean city or still get down to the beaches? yes, you can. but i would leave now. you do not want to leave around 9:00, 10:00. that's when this thing will be rolling in. severe thunderstorm watch in effect until 1:00 a.m. for everybody in the purple shade. that includes prince george's county and charles county. it does not include the counties along the chesapeake bay. i wouldn't be surprised if this
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was extended to include the del marva. the biggest concern is going to be downed trees and downed power lines. downed power lines lead to power out tanls. unfortunately in all of this heat, dealing with major problems tomorrow if we do, in fact, have power out tanls. temperatures right now 100 in martinsburg, 99 in manase sis, 103 in washington. 93 in fredricksburg. that's the fuel you need to keep these thunderstorms going and continue to keep them severe across our region. that's what i expect to see coming through the ifrks 95 corridor around 11:00 tonight. i-81, look for the storms between 8:00 and 10:00 for you folks. karyn maloney is at the at&t
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national. >> day two here and despite what the leaderboard says, the course is heating, the heat is winning. 100 degrees. the heat index announced this afternoon on the course, 109. so shattering the tournament record for heat. low scores hard to come by. let's take you to the second round action today. congressional country club, picturesque as always, even in 100-degree heat. that didn't bother tiger woods. although it probably helped he did play this morning. on number 16 from 48 feet away from eagle. jimmy walker who entered the round in second place also took advantage of an early tee time. the birdie putt from about ten feet on number 15. walker is at five under par, two shots back. not a great day for billy hurley. he's out of the naval academy. he gets a nice chip in here on number ten. hurley is three over for the day, one over for the
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tournament. hunter mahan, on number nine t 18-foot birdie putt, mahan shot a six under par 65. a two-shot lead over the field. on number nine, tiger had a shot to make it. three under par. his 12-foot birdie try. check how close that is. just miss it is cup. tiger finishes with a 68 today and is three shots behind the leaders. he was certainly satisfied with today's round considering the conditions out here at congressional. >> i thought today i got more out of my round and that was -- on a golf course like this, you're not going to hit it perfect all day. it's just too difficult. and you're going to have to make some saves. today i did. >> i'm going to enjoy the weekend. it's going to be hard. it's just like the last two days. you might not see a lot of smiling out there from guys because it's going to be a
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challenge. it's what's the whole weekend is going to be about. it's going to be hot and it's going to be a challenge. you've got to go get after it. >> so mahan, your clubhouse leader seven under carted a 65 today, three at five under. five others at four under including vijay singh. an odd sight adds seen on the course this morning. the man with the bandage around his head is robert gary guess's henley. he suffered a huge cut in his head in the trailer this afternoon. he had to leave his job to go get 40 stitches. he was back on the course to caddie for gary guess who sits right at the top of the leaderboard. >> my caddie had 40 stitches put in his head at 3:00. he was out here at 7:00 ready to go. >> he played somebody else with somebody else on the bag. i had to get back out here.
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if he shot 78 or something, i might have took another day off. one under, you have to get back out here and make sure you don't get your bag stolen. >> felt well enough to tattoo his sponsor. to basketball, the wizards might want to send the bobcats a thank you note. the bobcats didn't trade their number two. with a third overall pick, the wizards draft bradley beal. a sharp shooter out of florida. beal was all smiles last night at the draft. he can also drive to the basket as well as shoot lights out. beal worked out with the team earlier this month. he said he wanted the wizards to promise to take him right then. they couldn't make that promise. but they did like his 14.8 points per game, enough to make him their top choice. he will not wear 23, his favorite jersey. he will instead opt to don the number three. he says he's especially looking forward to playing with the number one guy, john wall. >> i've pictured it a few times.
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i would love to play alongside of john. john plays fast and he can play slow. he can control the team. i can create penetration for him to create for himself as well as his teammates. hopefully i'll be able to knock down some shots and be able to contribute as best as i can. >> it's not only about talent and talent does win. there's no question about it. he is talented. he's going to help us win a lot of games it's also what we do in the locker room and what we're trying to build together as a team, the people that we can trust not only on the basketball floor but out in the community. he's going to bring that to washington, d.c. >> our first look at beal when the summer league starts on july 13th. they didn't get summer league as you remember last summer with the nba lockout. to tennis, roger federer's record at wimbledon when he's trailing two sets to nothing. it's 1-4.
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he trailed frenchman julian ben toe by two sets this afternoon. he rallied in dramatic fashion. let's go across the pond. this is the second set. under the closed roof at center court, ben toe ranked 29th in the world. before he gets the third best player on the world on a run, that's just too tough to get to. he wins the first two sets 6-4, 7-6. excited about that. federer rallies. now in the far court, he won the next two steps, 6-2, 7-6. he gets him on the run. momentum clearly swinging toward the six-time wimbledon champ. triple match point now in the fifth set. federer serving in the near court. the corner shot just too tough for the frenchman to return. that is game, set, match. federer advances to the round of 16. he's going to face xavier molise
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of belgium. federer says he's still playing so his can watch him play. that will do it from here at congressional country club. karyn maloney. >> you know what jimmy walker says every time he sinks a par shot or birdie. dynamite! are you too young to know what i'm talking about. >> i must be. i'm too hot to hear anything you're saying. [ obama ] i'm barack obama and i approve this message.
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[ male announcer ] it started like this... i speak the language of business. i know how jobs are created. [ male announcer ] but it ended like this. one of the worst economic records in the country. when mitt romney was governor, massachusetts lost 40,000 manufacturing jobs. a rate twice the national average. and fell to forty-seventh in job creation. fourth from the bottom. instead of hiring workers from his own state, romney outsourced call center jobs to india. he cut taxes for millionaires like himself... while raising them on the middle class... and left the state two point six billion deeper in debt.
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and into northern virginia, all of northern virginia and including the district. this is what you can expect tonight. stormy conditions and the biggest concern, again, the severe thunderstorm watch in effect until 1:00 a.m. damaging winds with downed trees, power outages are possible here. that could really bring in some problems tomorrow. gusts could be upwards of 70 miles an hour next couple of days. high temperatures remain in the 90s tomorrow. again, around 100 degrees. next up. bernard james was drafted by the cleveland cavaliers in the nba draft last night. that was at the prudential center in newark, new jersey. he was the 33rd pick overall. but that place erupted when his name was called. >> they were chanting usa because james is an air force veteran. he served in iraq and afghanistan. when he got out of the service he played some ball for florida state. at 27 he's a lot older than the other potential draft picks, that doesn't bother him.
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he said he values the discipline he learned in the military. earlier this weefk he told reporters he is not, in his words, a not-nosed kid who is going to go buck wild as soon as he gets a little bit of money. he says he's going to work hard. as for maturity, he wanted to watch the draft in his hometown of savannah, georgia. but mom wanted to see him walk across that stage. moms are like that. they need that. he went to new jersey. by the way, he's already dn traded to the dallas mavericks. trade[ male announcer ]vericks. this was how my day began.
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