>> scott macfarlane is breaking the story right now from our live desk. scott? >> the federal government says in northwest d.c. they have intense security on par with the pentagon and the white house yet this is the second time in the past four weeks a worker has been cuffed for carrying a handgun inside. his name is thomas presley, police say, from woodbridge, virginia. we're told he works i.t. he was stopped for a random screening inside and they found a handgun in his bag which was fully functional and capable of being fired with one hand. he's in jail in d.c. until the court hearing on friday morning in this case. his arrest comes a month after the case of an employee whose home was raided i

west virginia. in both cases, investigators say the men were stopped in what they called random employee screenings. prosecutors are awaiting a decision from the grand jury in jonathan winkey's case. no injuries or gunshots reported in either case. no response yet from pressley's attorney. more as we get it on the nbc washington app. for now, i'm scott macfarlane. now to the tragedy that's brought everyone to a single stage this afternoon. >> you just heard emotional words from president obama and more during the memorial service where the five officers were killed in last week's ambush in dallas. former president george w. bush paid tribute

touched on persisting racial disparities, the life-threatening dangers that police face and asked for everyone to call on truth to prevent future violence. >> dallas, i'm here to say we must reject such despair. i'm here to say that we are not as divided as we seem. i know that because i know america. i know how far we have come against impossible odds. >> the president says he's spoken at too many memorials. more highlights and the latest into the investigation coming up later this hour. d.c. mayor muriel bowser is discussing a range of programs currently in the works to improve the safety and quality of life for both police and the community. >> news4's mark

details. mark? >> reporter: mayor bowser has had public availability almost every day where reporters have a chance to talk with her but this is the first time in many weeks where she's had a real sit-down press conference for more than an hour taking questions from reporters hitting on a wide range of topics from her legislative agenda for the past year to crime and safety and to the national race relations with police. and that was one of the big topics today. today, mayor bowser said one of the pieces of legislation she's introduced today will go a long way, she hopes to keeping race relations between the community and the police department on a good footing here in the district and says one of the reason things are so good between the community and the police is because our police department is reflective of the diverse nature of our community. and this new program where she's expanding the base fromad

years old will, again, help to keep d.c. residents and, again, a diverse phase of residents. coming up at 5:00, you'll hear from the mayor and from the chief of police about why the chief is still concerned that there could be violence here in the nation and particularly here in d.c. that's the very latest from city hall. mark segraves, news4. >> thanks, mark. we are learning new details this afternoon about a shootout involving d.c. police. it happened just before hid night in southeast. police now say it appears to stem from a robbery and one person is said to be in custody. news4's pat collins has an update. >> reporter: seven bullets into the windows of this school. now take a look at this suv riddled with bullets. when you see all of this

no one was seriously hurt in what happened here. here, behind me, the martin luther king jr. elementary school and the baptist church. it was back here in a parking lot that police responded to the sound of shots fired. they encountered an suv. there was an exchange of gunfire. people who live around here said it sounded like a war zone. >> it was a battle. several guns were going off at one time. i was at my window so we bent down. we heard, get out, get down and there was a lot of running around in the areas where children play. >> there was a standoff. eventually, police got the people inside the suv to surrender. they made them raise their hands above their head andwa

backwards until they could get them into custody. three women, two men. how did this all get started, why did it take so long to come to an end? we're working on all of that. i'll have more for you coming up at 5:00. hillary clinton talked about gun violence during a campaign speech today in new hampshire. she made a reference to the recent murder of a dnc staffer here in washington. >> just this past sunday, a young man, seth rich, who worked for the democratic national committee was shot shot and killed in his neighborhood in washington. >> seth rich was shot twice in the back while walking near his house or w street in the bloomingdale neighborhood of northwest. it was around 4:00 in the morning. rich was apparently on the phone talking with his girlfriend. there are indications that his murder may have been the result of an attempted robbery. police

neighborhood today looking for any leads. and we saw another pretty nice day today. not too hot. we hit a high of 88 degrees. right now, look at the numbers. across the mid-atlantic, just about everybody into the 80s. 87 in richmond. 88 down towards virginia beach. ocean city, 87. a nice beach day. showers and thunderstorms down to the west but nothing strong. most of them should die as they move on in but it's a sign of what is to come tomorrow, a rather unsettled day. our storm chances increase tomorrow. our next heatwave starts on thursday. the weekend outlook, we'll talk about that, still in the 90s for the weekend and then possible big-time heat for next week. we have that ten-day forecast and there's a lot of 90s involved. >> all right, doug. paying m

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from both sides in the coming months as they prepare for the trial. carolaway's lawyers have asked a judge to suppress evidence ceased from his phone. he's accused of recording his former students engaging in sex acts and he's facing criminal charges in prince george's county as well. if you look up and see a large plume of smoke in bowie, don't worry, it's part of a movie that will recreate a plane crash beginning tomorrow. the prince george's county fire department is aware of this and the production is expected to last three days. people in the area of john hanson highway probably will be able to see the smoke between 10:00 in the morning and 6:00 tomorrow evening on those dates. another security warning for all of the pokemon go players. you may have unknowingly given the

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first at 4:00, a month after the orlando club massacre, the attorney general spoke about that before the house judiciary committee. loretta lynch says the department of justice is committed to keeping communities safe and secure. >> just one month ago today, 49 innocent lives were taken in an attack on the pulse nightclub in orlando. an appalling act of terror and hate that underscored the urgency of confronting threats in whatever form they take. >> in orlando, a fountain near the club is lit up with rainbow

now to the presidential race, more than a month after bernie sanders lost out to hillary clinton, the two former rivals have seemed to have mended fences. >> steve handelsman is live on capitol hill with details. steve? >> pat, thanks. most bernie sanders supporters are already set to vote for hillary clinton but she needs every vote she can get now. and so her staffers and his staffers negotiated for weeks. he got what he wanted on his issues and she got a clear endorsement. it looked a bit awkward but bernie sanders stood with hillary clinton in new hampshire and used the "e" word. >> i am endorsing hillary clinton. >> reporter: he said she can address our crisis. >> hillary clinton will make an outstanding president and i am proud to stand with

thank you all very much. >> she used sanders sound bites. >> we need an economy that works for everyone, not just those at the top, not just the millionaires and billionaires but everybody. >> democrats are more unified. the clinton candidacy is in more trouble. her lead has dropped to 3% over donald trump nationally. 56% believe clinton's carelessness with classified e-mails was criminal. attorney general loretta lynch decided on no charges got slammed today by republicans. >> i think it's a travesty because i don't think hillary clinton has been treated like any other american. >> reporter: soldiering on, clinton is vetting possible running plates along with elizabeth warren and tim kaine and james

donald trump says he will pick his running mate to try to unify the republicans before their convention begins next monday. i'm steve handelsman, news4. pat and barbara? >> thank you, steve. will sanders supporters endorse her now that he has backed her? call or text the number on your screen. you can vote or see the results over the nbc washington facebook page. can you feel it today? it feels a little different. doug, i know you felt it. >> i felt it coming in to work today for sure. the humidity will be on the increase each day. we're talking about pretty intense heat over the next couple of days, too. not tomorrow. tomorrow is a little unsettled, kind of like today with the cloud cover but a couple of showers and storms. i'll show you what we're talking about. we've seen cloud cover across much of the region during the day today. 8

southeast at 9 miles an hour. a lot of sunshine and cloud cover. a mixture of sun and clouds all day. underground temperatures, 86 in centreville. chantilly, 87 degrees. riverdale and tuxedo, maryland, 84. so it's on the warm side today. not hot. not oppressive. just on the warm side. storm team 4 radar clear around the area but we're watching storms and showers back to the west. you can see what happened. those are the clouds. watch where the clouds came from earlier today. from the north. very interestingly, i's like a backdoor cold front aloft came through the area and now we're tracking these showers and storms to the west. most of these should die as they move our way. it's a trough moving our way. an upper level system working our way. we'll see a chance of an isolated shower or two this morning. not going to be much. at

virginia, parts will stay dry tonight. tomorrow, a mixture of sun and clouds and tomorrow afternoon, same deal. can't rule out an isolated shower tomorrow morning but most of us will stay dry. by 1:00, one of the waves is already through and we're seeing rain around dover. more thunderstorms develop and a much better chance of storms tomorrow afternoon area-wide. 3:00, 4:00, 6:00, that's something we'll watch out for. tomorrow, 88 degrees. isolated a.m. showers and then possible scattered thunderstorms during the afternoon. we do not expect any of these to be too strong. however, we could see fairly heavy downpours. that's something that we'll watch out for. temperaturewise, upper 80s. 88, manassas. 90 in fredericksburg. heat indices, in the 90s. speaking of the 90s, wow, here they come. 93 on friday

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the employees are getting raises by 5% or more. for the second time in a week, a lockdown has been ordered on the grounds of the u.s. capitol. i'm told the capitol u.s. center and would impact more than 10,000 workers and an untold number of visitors while the u.s. house is in session in fact, they are on the floor of the capitol voting. they will be in that chamber lockdown as well as everybody else in their offices locked down. they are taking votes as we speak but the members won't be allowed to leave and the people in lockdown now in the capitol and office buildings will have to stay in their office spaces until further notice. u.s. capitol police is the agency that orders

there was a misinterpretation last week which caused a lockdown. uncommon to have two in such a short period of time. sheltering in place, suspicious packages are common on the capitol grounds. they happen thousands of times a year. but this is a more enhanced procedure and it's not a very common one. here's what happens when you're locked down inside the capitol or office buildings. you're told to go to the nearest office space available, the nearest lockable door available and shelter there. if it's your office, so be it. lock the doors behind you. you're told to pull the drapes or any curtains you might have in your offices and stay away from the windows. again, they are infrequent but they are sweeping and, in this case, we're told that it includes the entirety of the u.s. capitol complex. the house office buildings, the senate office buildings

capitol building. it was a few hours ago that there was a security call further from the capitol complex. not visited by tourists. the ford office building had a security call today and ended up being nothing. it was cleared just before or after lunchtime. this is the second security call on capitol grounds today but this is more significant and prominent and in stature this is a full lockdown of the u.s. capitol. it's worth mentioning, this is not any other summer day. this is one of the busiest weeks for congress this year. it's one of the last days of actual sessions in congress before election day. they are about to undertake a two-month recess either tomorrow or thursday. the capitol complex will be much smaller, far fewer people. this is a busy day. not only are you going to have all members of the u.s. house, all members of the senate but because they are in session and they are here, you're going to ve

from their home districts come in for the sessions of the week. you'll have tourists here. certainly when the house and senate are undertaking their final session of the year, you'll have a number of lobbyists visiting the capitol and you'll have tourists as well. it's hard to imagine there being a larger population than it has at this moment as a lockdown is called. we're trying to figure out what is triggering this. it's worth reminding people that there is a u.s. capitol police force. it's a large one. 1700 officers. they patrol the grounds. they are the ones who trigger these lockdowns. there's a weapon outside the building. that's according to an officer being quoted by reuters. >> they are looking for a man with a gun in the 1400 block of third street southwest.

department in d.c. they have stopped a person of interest. let's get our bearings. the 1400 block southwest puts you on the house side of the capitol but quite a distance from the three main buildings of the house side. the cannon house, longworth and rayburn house office building. you're actually getting closer to that ford house building i alluded to earlier. a man, they are saying, possibly with a weapon, a person of interest is being detained. that might be what is contributing to that lockdown on capitol hill. as you can see, there's a business being undertaken. a floor vote is being taken right now. the u.s. house. members have nowhere to go. they are locked in the chamber so might as well vote on something. that's happening right now. but during lockdowns on the capitol complex, the protocols are quite clear. you go to the nearest room available with a closeable or lockable door and shelter

clear. so if you're going to the ladies' room or men's room, you go to the nearest space available and stay there until further notice. it was about ten years ago, a backfiring car in the garage of the rayburn house building triggered a lockdown. i recall being there that day and had to shelter in place in a janitor's closet with strangers. we got to know each other quite well during the three or four-hour lockdown. they are quite uncommon compared to the suspicious package calls. it's one of the most heavily secured areas. it was earlier today that some type of security c w

in the ford house office building. that's the furthest west and south of the house office building but a small one not used by members of the congress or their staffers. there was a security call to the ford house office building earlier today and it turned out to be nothing behind it and it was quickly cleared. what we're hearing now is some person of interest, a man, spotted around the 1400 block of third street southwest. again, that's the house side of the capitol. quite a distance west and south of the main house office building. the longworth building and cannon building. also worth reminding you just how busy a place the u.s. capitol is at this point. votes are being taken right now in the house. it's a full session day. busy in the house and senate. many of the 53

congress that can be in d.c. are in d.c. there are about a dozen d.c. staffers each. members of the senate can have about 30 or 40 staffers. the requisite lobbyists, trade associations, they are all canvassing the hill today. this is a day that business is getting done and there are no doubt tourists here. it's a beautiful tuesday afternoon. a bit humid, though, in d.c. a population on capitol hill that is likely measured in the tens and thousands. staffers alone, a good 15,000 or so and 535 members. the capitol complex on lockdown right now. d.c. police looking for or are speaking with a person of interest seen with a gun in the area. here's a live picture of the capitol from outside. this is pennsylvania avenue vantage point, the west side of the capitol. there would be no doubt there are a number of people outside the capitol as well trying to get in. when the

nobody leaves or enters. the police has a force of about 1700 officers, fully deployed on a day like today. when you talk about these entrances, the capitol itself has three or four visitor entrances and staff or member entrances on each side, both the house side and senate side. the recently opened capitol visitor's center has a series of manned entrances as well. so, too, do those house and senate offices. all of the entrances are covered by magnatometers. there's no easy walking in or out. in fact, the only people that can walk through a secured entrance without going through a

magnetometer. all metal has to be checked at the door. not terribly uncommon for firearms to be found on capitol grounds. people have been stopped with firearms either within very close proximity or inside the entrances of the capitol building. this is not that uncommon. again, a lockdown is again uncommon. if they are trying to secure this complex, it's worth noting there's a large underground network to cover. not just above ground entrances but the picture below the ground on the capitol complex is like a spider web. a labyrinth of tunnels and passageways. you can go from one extreme corner to the far other corner and navigate that entire trek underground. that's why u.s. capitol police secure the underground areas. there are underground

and then you have to get checked again when you try to traverse the capitol complex underground through one of the many tunnels. it's almost like an entire community to itself. there are stores, banks, post offices, cafeterias. people go all over the place during the course of the day. there's a lot of terrain for capitol police to cover. that's an indication of how sweeping in scope and size a lockdown can be. u.s. house members, you can see them now still voting. they cannot leave the house chamber until the lockdown is lifted and people visiting or members of the staff, they, too, can't move. they are locked down in their offices. our second lockdown of the u.s. capitol complex in as many weeks. we had one late last week, we have one now and we're hearing at this point that a person with a gun might be the cause of this. a person spotted potentially carrying a gun, a man, according

questioning right now causing the lockdown on capitol hill. back to you in the studio. >> scott, we have no indication whether or not he got close to any of the entrances, do we? >> judging on what the metropolitan police is telling us, it sounds like he's quite a distance from the capitol itself. if he's at the 1400 block of third street, you're talking about quite a walk. but closer proximity from the house buildings. maybe a block or two away. you're in some proximity to the office buildings. there are no other reports on this that anybody with a weapon has gotten inside the complex. we're also very early on. this lockdown was ordered about 20, 30 minutes ago. as i mentioned, and i mentioned it for a reason, there's so much terrain to cover inside and outside. the u.s.

finally tuned and there's a lot of space and so many people there today. i could estimate the crowd on capitol hill today, the entirety of the complex in the tens of thousands. i think you mentioned the visitor's center is also included in that lockdown. how much information do they give people when they are unable to move, people who are not familiar with washington? >> you're going to have a lot of visitors having their first experience and visit to this complex. police have a protocol. there are loud speakers throughout the entire of the capitol grounds to help communicate messages, most importantly to communicate messages for those that are there for the first time. in some cases, they are ushered to open spaces. the capitol visitor's center, it has large auditoriums. you can move large

comfortable areas. the office building is a little different. these are working spaces. these aren't tourist spaces. when you have tourists, and you often do, inside the senate or house office buildings, you have to make a friend. you may have to move into an actual working office or into one of those open spaces that they have, like the cafeterias, post offices or gift shops. these are sealable areas and the capitol police can move people into them. >> this is a full session day for congress today and as we can see from the live pictures, work is going on. congress is at work. how much information are they given as they continue with what they are doing? >> capitol police communicate to members of congress and to the whole population in many different ways. not just with loud

phone and there's a loud alert that will go out. they are getting these updates in their pocket or in their hand held devices. once more, their staff on the house floor, staff director for the speaker of the house, they are out there to communicate these messages. you can't get a good vantage point from this camera but on the average day when u.s. house is in session, that member of congress is speaking in front of almost nobody. the people are there with an indication that they are not just locked down but they are kind of locked to stay on the u.s. house chamber and just listen to the business happening today. >> scott, you've mentioned that earlier incident today at the ford house office building that turned out to be nothing, i wonder, though, whether the capitol police were on higher alert and they boosted their staff or

event that may have happened at the ford house office building. >> yeah, the ford house office building is in somewhat close proximity to the epicenter of this incident from the npd, the southwest side of the capitol grounds. it may be coincidental. the security call, for lack of a better phrase, pat, relatively common. i'm not sure it would trigger a higher alert unless there is a connection between the two. what we saw is relatively run of the mill at the ford house office building and perhaps an indication of how frequent these things are. u.s. capitol police take no chances. they will call and they will evacuate air waives and tell people to shelter people in place when there is the minimal threat. i'm going to read this to you to it rate and specify. this

"close, lock and stay away from external doors and windows. take emergency kits and move to your offices assigned shelter in place location." of course, each office has a plan for this. "move to the internal part of your office until the incident has been cleared." often the innermost place is either the chief of staff work area or the members office or restrooms inside the member's office. it also says if you're near or not near your office, take shelter and check in as soon as you can. check in and let them know where you are. when there's a lockdown on capitol hill and you're two buildings away from grabbing a sandwich,

that's your home until the lockdown is lifted. i can tell you at 4:00 on a weekday, a lot of people and staffers are nowhere near their offices. it's a busy time. they are running to committee offices, committee hearings or press events. a lot of staffers would follow over and i would estimate at this point some percentage of house staffers and visitors are sheltering the people that they don't know right now in a place far from their desks and computers. i've been part of several capitol lockdowns. i forgot my phone at my desk and never made that mistake again because i was unreachable and it was disconcerting to them, as a best practice, keep your phone with you because it might be hours to get back to where your phone is. you are told to silence your mobile phones. make sure that they are quiet and you're quiet. what's more, you're instructed when buildings

that you can't enter or exit anywhere on the complex. can't go outside or come in from outside until directed to do so by u.s. capitol police. back to you for a moment. >> what generally is the scene outside the office? with it being tourist season, you have people milling around and a lot of time people are standing in line going through security, trying to get into the building. when a lockdown is issued, what do they do about people who are close to the area that is an issue? >> it's pretty easy instructions if you're outside. they will ask you to go somewhere else until they do what they have to do. i'm going to pause for a moment and give you more information. i want to show you a vehicle, a live picture that we're taking, you can see the metropolitan police cruiser and that's a disabled vehicle that is behind itwi

this is close proximity to the triggering of the lockdown. pardon me if i'm mistaken, that may be -- i don't want to say that's the u.s. labor headquarters but i think we're a few blocks from the capitol complex at least we're looking at a vehicle. it may be connected to this. what happen if you're one of those people waiting to get into the complex and a lockdown has been ordered? if you're one of those people locked up, you're told to go somewhere else, union station, one of the other places in southeast d.c. that is opened for business on a day like

you're ushered to a safe place. there's auditoriums and reading areas and meeting rooms. there's actually quite a bit of space in the capitol business center to execute these lockdowns because those where all of the tourists are. in the office buildings themselves it has to be more creative. you can be ushered into a member's office space or committee's office space. the basement level of all of these buildings, capitol office buildings yourself, you're going to have a cafe, seating area, businesses, for lack of a better phrase. we're taking a look at a vehicle in question and metropolitan police department cruiser responded to that vehicle and very clearly seems to be a disabled vehicle missing a tire. we're waiting to see the connection that this might have to the incident. this

proximity to the capitol itself and metropolitan police are responding and our early reporting tells us that the police is talking to a person of interest and may have triggered this lockdown which now is the entire area. >> you mentioned 10,000 people. are we talking about just the staff members or does that include the capacity in the business centers? >>. >> 10 to 15,000 staffers alone. you have all 500 plus members, almost all, 500 members of congress in town today. congress is in session before the long summary elects year recess. but you're also going to have so many other people. i don't mean just tourists. when congress is in session, you're going to have trade

groups here to advocate for something. it's one of the primetime busiest times of the year, one of the final days before a two-month recess in an election year. this place is full of visitors especially this time of day as they enter this lockdown. >> would it be reasonable to assume that they think there could be some danger inside the capitol because in your live picture of the mall and some of the streets nearby the capitol, it seems like business as usual. traffic is moving, people are walking along the mall there. how wide is the perimeter that they are protecting? >> washington d.c. bureau saying that hill staffers are reporting multiple police cars on the senate side of the complex now. senate side of the complex. that would be near the -- stand by real quick. all right. we're getting information now that updates us quite a bit. the lockdown is about

has been lifted. there's police activity on the senate side of the complex that would match our complementary to the earlier reports saying that there's police response on the southwest side of the house complex. we're getting reports that the lockdown either just has been or soon will be lifted. let me update that information and toss it back to you so i can do so. >> all right. scott macfarlane with news just coming in from nbc news reporting that the lockdown that we've been reporting on for the better part of the last half hour appears to be about to be lifted at the capitol after earlier reports of a person with a gun and police and capitol

buildings and entire capitol grounds. again, we believe the lockdown is about to be or has been lifted. >> there was a report of an abandoned car. it looked as if the tire was missing. scott, you have something for us now? >> yeah. the lockdown has been lifted. the staffers are free to move within the complex. i think we have news4's mark segraves live at the scene. can you hear us? we can see you. can you tell us what you have out there? >> reporter: this is a very fluid situation. we're at first and c. the capitol is that way. take a look at this silver car

you can see that the front left tire is damaged. it appears to have a front tire out. there were two men occupying this vehicle when police stopped this vehicle coming out of this tunnel here that runs underneath the department of labor building. we're told that this scene started in the 1400 block of third street southwest. so to give you an idea, that's on the other side of the national mall from us, closer to nats ballpark. police had a report of a man with a gun there. that incident has ended at this scene here at first and c streets northwest, again, about a block from the capitol. there were two men in this vehicle. when police approached the vehicle, they saw a man with a weapon, possibly an automatic rifle or a machine gun. one man fled on foot and another man has been taken into custody. he's still being held here on the scene in the police cruiser as police officers are arriving and sorting the scene out. again, here's the very latest that we know, that within the last hour, a call came in from southwest d.c. in the 1400 block of third street of ama

either put out a lookout or a chase. this silver car behind me was the suspect vehicle, two suspects in that vehicle, at least one of them armed with possibly with an automatic rifle or machine gun. again, we're told that one man fled on foot. another man is in custody right now. again, a very fluid scene. the roads around us are all shut down within a block of the capitol. and we're gathering a lot of onlookers here and press is beginning to assemble as well. again, one man in custody and one man on the loose and one weapon has been take fren that silver car behind me. that's the very latest. live from northwest. >> mark, can you specify the machine gun? mark has lost his connection which means he can't really hear me at this point so we'll try to reconnect that and get more d

mark did say that this incident began at the metropolitan police department at the 1400 block of third street. he alluded to some type of police pursuit, the end of which you are seeing now. the police cruisers and surrounding of a disabled interest, a gray car on the northwest side. that was the u.s. labor department headquarters, the famed building in some proximity to what is happening here. we have this ongoing but there are me the lockdown has been lifted. >> thanks, scott macfarlane. we'll continue to follow this story to its end and find out what happened. as scott just told us, two people caught in a car. one perhaps with a gun. one of them got away and th

and one weapon has been

well, we have had a muggy day compared to yesterday. temperatures are in the 80s and the humidity is not going anywhere. a few isolated showers out there as well. that's going to continueto

showers here and there. and then we have thunderstorms by tomorrow afternoon. not everybody is getting wet but we could have scattered afternoon thunderstorms and we're getting hot and muggy. wait until we go into next week. it looks like we've got a string of 90s headed our way. i'll show you that on our ten-day forecast coming up. and afternoon thunderstorms as we get into the weekend. that's what we're going to see. just here and there, typical garden variety afternoon storms. current temperatures right now, 86 in washington. 84 in dulles. you know, not a lot going on with the radar. sunshine outside the nbc 4 studio. showers moving through shenandoah county and it will continue to die out as it moves to the east. now, we could have a few, again, spotty showers, maybe a heav

downpours. it's going to be very isolated. you're most likely going to get out and enjoy this evening. although, it's going to be on the warm side. temperatures falling through the 80s. still at 80 degrees for 10:00 p.m. a few showers possible overnight. thick humidity as we continue towards daybreak tomorrow morning. 11:00, a spotty shower, a lone shower. partly cloudy overnight and, again, spotty showers throughout the overnight and a few isolated showers early tomorrow morning. and then maybe sunshine breaking out midday. but mostly cloudy as we get into the afternoon with scattered showers and thunderstorms headed our way. i'd say about a 60% chance you're going to see it where you are tomorrow afternoon. here's a look at your planner. temperatures once again are in the mid-to upper 80s. the heat index is in the lower to mid-90s. if you're headed out to the pool, keep an eye out to the sky. a.m. workout, maybe a few

heat indices in the 90s. look at the temperatures as we get into thursday and friday, mid-90s. the heat index will be around 90. you can see a small chance of isolated showers and thunderstorms and then look at the 90s, all the way through the end of next week. and this comes from capitol hill, a lockdown at the u.s. capitol has been lifted after reports of someone with a gun was seen near one of the office buildings. >> this lasted for about 30 minutes. it happened in both the capitol buildings and visitor's center all locked down this afternoon. we now know that there has been at least two arrested. news4's mark segraves is live at t

mark? >> reporter: this is what we're told. that the first call came in from southwest washington in the 1300 or 1400 block of third street southwest and there was a man with a gun. they got a description of a suspect vehicle and that's the silver four-door with the doors opened. we don't know if a chase ensued or someone else spotted them in this vicinity but we know this is where it ended. a security guard told me what he witnessed. he said he heard a loud explosion. he doesn't know if it was gunshots or what. he saw a huge cloud of dust come from outside that tunnel there and then when he walked out, he saw police swarm this car and at least one man surrendered. he had video of this on his phone. at least seven or eight officers surrounded the car. one man stuck his hands out of the car and surrendered. at least one weapon,

automatic weapon or machine gun was taken into custody here. they have brought in dogs to search this car. we're at first and c northwest. about a block below the capitol. the original call which came in from southwest washington was closer to nats ballpark by third street and we are now in northwest washington on the opposite side of the mall from where this started and now a block from the u.s. capitol just up the street here. and the first reports came in from southwest washington and this is where the scene ended and the front tire is ploen out. it's unclear