historic day in washington. >> the fired fbi director went to capitol hill and accused the president of lying to the american people but stopped short of accusing mr. trump of a crime. blayne alexander is on capitol hill. blayne? >> reporter: doreen and leon, comey made it very clear, he just had a gut reaction, he just had a feeling from his very first interaction with then president-elect trump that he might someday need these memos to protect not only himself but the fbi. >> raise your right hand. >> reporter: with cameras and the world watching, fired fbi director james comey explained why he kept detailed notes on meetings with president trump. >> i was honestly concerned that he might lie about the nature of our meeting. >> reporter: comey made the stunning revelation he ordered those memos leaked to the press soon after his firing. >> so i asked a friend of mine to share the content of the memo with a reporter. because i thought that might prompt the appointment of

personal attorney claiming victory. the president never, in form or substance, directed or suggested that mr. comey stop investigating anyone. >> reporter: comey testified he was not fired because he had lost the confidence of the fbi as the president claimed. >> by saying that the organization was in disarray, that it was poorly led. that the workforce had lost confidence in its leader. those were lies plain and simple. it's my judgment that was fired bauds of the russia investigation. >> reporter: a focus for republicans, the president never explicitly told comey to drop the investigation into michael flynn. >> i took it as a direction. this is the president of the united states. >> reporter: and regarding the president's tweeted threat, suggesting that their conversations may have been recorded. >> i've seen the tweet about tapes, lordy, i hope there are tapes. >> reporter: and on

hacking, comey said russia is still coming after america and will try again. today trump's personal attorney said the president never asked comey for loyalty and he never asked him to end an investigation into michael flynn. >> blayne alexander, thank you. white house officials initially said comey's firing was based on his handling of the hillary clinton e-mail investigation. then the next day, they offered new reasons, including a failure to prevent fbi leaks. >> then the day after that, president trump contradicted them during an interview with lester holt. take a look at this. >> in fact, when i decided to just do it, i said to myself, i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made-up story. it's an excuse. >> and he had repeatedly told me i was doing a great job and he hoped i would stay. so it confused me when i

that he actually fired me because of the russia investigation. >> so the day after trump fired director comey, he hosted two russian diplomats in the oval office and notes from that meeting reportedly suggest that he told them firing comey relieved him of pressure from the russia investigation. >> lester holt is anchoring "nbc nightly news" from washington tonight. lester, thank you for joining us tonight. >> sure. >> it's getting really hard to keep track of who said what to whom at what point in all this, but the president's remarks to you in that interview seem to have been a turning point in this controversy. what do you think? >> i had come into the room and we had heard a number of reasons. the latest right before that interview was, he fired him based on the commerecommendatiom the deputy attorney general. then he said to me, i was thinking about that russia thing. what we heard from comey today, was that, he takes him as

word, that it was related to the russia investigation. where in that is unclear. but he believes that is why he was fired. >> so what's your take on what you saw and heard today? what is the next step in this? >> well, i think the next step is going to be to see what bob mueller and the special counsel does. you heard comey was asked a number of times if he believed this rose to the level of obstruction of justice. he demured on that, but suggested that's something that the special counsel may be looking into and it's not clear whether that investigation is currently under way, but if that is, in fact, a focus of the investigation, there will be more subpoenas. the president could be compelled to testify. >> one thing jim comey made very clear, he has a lot of respect for bob mueller and the work that he expects him to do as that special prosecutor. >> i think that he is certainly someone who has handled a lot of high profile investigations. he's on the call list for a number of compani

he's widely respected. i think all eyes will slowly shift toward him as we move forward. >> before we go, what's your sense of why the president was so silent, relatively today? >> don't know. we heard that he might be live tweeting. he didn't do that. he spoke at the faith forum today and made kind of a veiled reference to enemies and things, but hard to know if it was specific to this. you know, as we always say, the day is young, the morning is still to come. we know the president often tweets in the morning. i think a lot of people expect we may hear from him at some point, but can't figure why we haven't heard from him at this point. >> interesting. >> lester holt, always good to hear your take on these events. and a quick reminder that lester's reporting continues on "nbc nightly news" right after this broadcast. and there's more coverage ahead on news4 as well. at 6:15, scott macfarlane takes a closer look at the hearing,

you won't see elsewhere. at 6:30, mark segraves takes us inside the local bars that had watch parties for comey, from the crowds to the coverage and why one owner says the controversy is good for business. pr plus for a look back, head to our app and search comey timeline during the break. turning now to a crime that has a community on edge and family members desperate for answers. two high school seniors shot to death just hours before their graduation. their bodies found inside a car in montgomery village. tonight police say they're working several leads, but still no arrest in this case and the motive is a mystery. news4's chris gordon has more on the investigation. >> i think anyone who is a parent just sees this case and is really emotionally impacted by it. >> reporter: the police chief tells me investigators are working on leads. shadi adi najjar and artem ziberov were gunned d

montgomery village the night before they were to graduate from northwest high school. investigators are putting together a timeline to determine where the teenagers were before the shootings. >> track that information down, talk to the family, talk to their friends, talk to folks they might have been correspond with. >> reporter: the chief said there are few random murders in montgomery county. usually there's some association between victims and their killer. some say the gun shots recorded monday night shows how personal this attack was. [ repeated gunfire ]. >> to shoot that many times, it's usually there's some emotion that causes somebody to shoot that many times. again, we just don't know at this point. >> reporter: shadi's funeral was held yesterday. artem's family is planning a service for

germantown. leon? >> thank you, chris. >> artem's family hasn't spoken publicly, but we understand that you talked with his father off-camera. what did he tell you? >> i spoke with william at their house today. we wouldn't appear on camera, but he did share a story. he said monday night the family had a happy dinner together. afterwards, artem's mother said, i think your father wants to speak with you. artem went upstairs. the father tells me he reconsidered, saying, i'll speak with you another time. that was the last time he saw his son. in the district now, police say they found a gun inside a locker at hardy middle school in georgetown. school officials say someone tipped them off, leading to a search of two lockers. the school was locked down for about 25 minutes before that gun was found there. tragedy in a

3-year-old boy died after falling from an open upstairs window. he's among the hundreds of children injured in this same way every year. julie carey joins us from the bailey's cross roads areas with a warning from safety experts. hi, julie. >> reporter: hey, doreen. as you can imagine, this family is so distraught. they have asked us to give them privacy. so we're keeping a distance from their house. child safety advocates telling us they're saddened to hear the loss of another child, but they say there are things you can do to prevent this kind of tragedy. the windows, closed tight today at this home on magnolia lane. a 3-year-old boy fell here from an upstairs window. >> the fire department is on scene for a 5-year-old male that fell down. unconscious. >> reporter: that was the initial dispatch on the incident. police would later learn the victim was not 5, but just 3.

second-floor room with his sibling. he climbed atop a bed, leaned against the window and the screen frame buckled. >> i'm lost for words. >> reporter: jarell tucker is a father of four who lives across the street. what's happened on this block has him thinking hard about safety. >> i hear something like that, it make me go lock up all my windows, because i got kids around that age. >> reporter: it's at least the third time in northern virginia a child has been killed or badly injured in a window fall. in the two other cases, the little ones survived. even though in one instance, a 3-year-old tumbled from the fifth floor. with this latest incident, child safety advocates taking the opportunity to remind parents how to prevent this. first, keep furniture away from windows. and if the window itself is going to be opened, install either a window stop or window guard. >> that will allow the window not to go all the way up so that a child can access the

a window guard protects the child from being able to get direct access to the window as a whole. >> reporter: finally, it's important to remember screens are meant to keep things like bugs out. they will not hold a child in. in fairfax county, i'm julie carey, news4. >> news at 6:00, police in loudoun county are investigating a series of car break-ins. it appears the thieves are targeting parents who are dropping their children off at school. six cars were hit yesterday at various schools in ashburn and sterling. in five cases, mothers dropped off their kids and returned to their cars to find their purses gone. some cars were unlocked. other cars had their windows broken to get inside. no word yet if the cases are connecte connected. some surprising new details about the woman accused of leaking highly classified nsa documents to the media. why she could be in more legal trouble. he's an oxon hill clipper who played with the band and came back to volunteer at the high ol

trying to figure out why someone would shoot and kill this young man. we have seen a beautiful thursday across our area. high temperature, 76 degrees today. that's still a little bit below average. back to average tomorrow before we go soaring into the 90s by the end of the

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new details tonight about the murder of a musician in prince george's county. shahim body died after being shot in oxon hill tuesday night. it's not clear if he was the intended target in the shooting. prince george's county bureau chief tracee wilkins joins us from the latest on the investigation. hi, tracee. >> reporter: hi, that's something that the prince george's county police are trying to figure out. they have been working this case since the shooting happened. this is a young man that no one expected to see killed this way. we're talking about a college graduate, who had been volunteering since his graduation. his mentor has a lot of questions too. ♪ ♪ >> he went with me as a junior in high school, doing the 28 olympic games. and from that experience, he knew exactly what he wanted to do. >> reporter: it was here on the field of oxon hill high school

passion for percussion, in the school marching band. he got a full music scholarship where he became a section band leader. after earning his music education degree, he returned to oxon hill high, where he volunteered every day with the marching band. >> he would get off work a little early somedays and he'll come in, start working on concert percussion, the sim phonic band, whatever literature, whatever the students needed, he did it for them. >> reporter: no one expected his story to end this way. >> and i said, no, they have the wrong guy. >> reporter: tuesday evening, the 26-year-old was killed in a barrage of gunfire in the 5200 block of leverett street in glass manor. there were bullet holes in the fence, the trash can, and the ground. nearly 70 evidence markers on the street. >> standing outside with a group of men. a car pulled up, someone inside the car opened fire and he was hit

>> reporter: please say they're still looking for a motive and suspect in this case and don't know if body was the intended target. for students and colleagues at oxon hill high school -- >> we've already made a true commitment to dedicate next season to him. >> reporter: friends and family are going to hold a vigil in his honor tomorrow night at the murder scene. prince george's county police are asking anyone with information that can help lead to an arrest in this case, to give them a call. reporting live from pauma park, back to you. bill cosby's legal team has said that he will not testify in his sex assault trial, but today the jury did get to hear what the comedian said about an encounter with his main accuser. an investigator took the stand and read a transcript constand gave to police in 2005. just days after the alleged assault. cosby told police that he gave constand pills, but he said that he was conscious, and what en

consensual. prosecutors now trying to establish that cosby had a pattern of drugging and molesting women. cosby is denying the allegation. we go back to our top story and the fall-out from james comey's riveting testimony today. the former fbi director said the trump administration spread lies and defamed him and the fbi. >> today's hearing went on for nearly three hours. as you can imagine, millions of people were glued to their tvs. three of them right here on this set. scott macfarlane covers the hill frequently and you are a former congressional staffer yourself. what struck you about what you saw and heard today? >> today's hearing was what so few congressional hearings ever are. smooth. it was disciplined. it was efficient. there were no hometown shout-outs to the constituents back home, and no winding long filibusters by the senators. those speeches before the questions. clearly it was a choreographed hearing, done soy

leadership, the senate intelligence committee, known to be one of the less political committees. and doreen and leon, this thing moved smoothly. the three hours went by in a flash. that's so unlike every congressional hearing for which i have prepped as a staffer. >> it's a shame to say that's a surprise. >> and the questions were less partisan than i expected that they might be. >> and not redundant questions. that said, there's a story line that a lot of people missed. this is, in addition to being a worldwide story, a very local story. the key figures who james comey said he spoke to during this with donald trump, were all local people. dana boente who was james comey's boss for a few months after inauguration. the top prosecutor in alexandria, prosecuted former governor bob mcdonnell. comey's last boss, rod rosenstein, deputy attorney general was the top cop in maryland for 15 years. he plays a role in this as well. and comey's deputy, andy

he's one of the fbi ishl ioffic who tried to investigate d.c. mayor james gray. >> we remember. and you are on the hill all the time. what was it like today? >> i gotta tell you, i've seen nothing like the crush of humanity on the hill today. the u.s. house was paralyzed. all the parking evaporated. the elevators were jammed, had to take stairs up six or seven flights. there were so many people. just look at the line. that was through the hart senate building, which is a very wide open space. to see a clutter like that, it was an indication. it was a show, not just on television. it was a unique show on capitol hill. and capitol hill getting the attention it thinks it regularly gets from the public. this was different. >> and it's not over yet. >> more to come. >> thank you, scott. some number of developing st

the nsa contractor accused of leaking a classified document about russian hacking. prosecutors say they believe reality winner planned to leak more documents. they referred to a taped jail house phone call with her mother, where she referred to those documents. the governor also said winner had access to the dark web and a notebook where she wrote she wanted to burn the white house down. winner pleaded not guilty today. a judge has not yet ruled whether she'll be released. election watchers in the united kingdom are predicting a long night ahead. the polls closed about there an hour ago. voters are deciding whether to replace the government of prime minister theresa may. her conservative party was about 20 points ahead in the polls when she called for a snap election back in april at the time, hoping that a win, and a big one would give her a mandate in the upcoming brexit negotiations. but the terror attacks in london and manchester have shifted the landscape entirely. e

in with labour candidate jeremy corbyn framing the vote as a choice between hope and fear. a major renovation for an historic building on capitol hill. crews will start demolishing and rebuilding the fifth floor of the cannon house office building. it's showing signs of age and wear. members of the house and their committees have offices there. the project is slated for completion by late 2018. metro leaders called safetrack a success. but after a year of repairs, news4 is learning about new programs and maintenance coming down the line that could impact your commute. plus, erasing school lunch debt. how good samaritans are stepping in to make a difference in one local community. and news4 is working for the community. we have partnered with the united way for a one-day fundraising drive. it's called do more 24. we want to keep this counter going up, spokes. head to the nbc washington app, where we're tracking the giving live, and we have a link there

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started chilly, but it's turned out to be a really nice day. >> but this guy is saying it won't stay that way for long, right, doug? >> are you blaming the messenger? >> always. >> who else is handy? >> that's true, you gotta take the good with the bad. and this forecast, not the

i'm not excited about the heat, but some of you actually are. this is the kind of day to get excited about in my book. temperatures in the 70s, look at this, a postcard of a shot here. you can see a lot of people obviously down there on the parkway. a few bikers and runners. you see a few of them right there. i've been waiting to see another boat on the river. saw one a minute ago. would be nice to be on a boat right now. 71 degrees at 7:00 p.m. not as cool as last night, but it will be quite cool. many of you last night in the lower 50s. d.c., 56 degrees, a school start for mid june. 70 towards huntingtown, nice all the way around. we're not going to see any chances of rain for the next week to week and a half. again, we saw a very wet may. june will not be nearly as wet. we'll start off dry and very hot as we move into next week. two storm systems, you can see this spin here. watch this right in

spin in the atmosphere, around pittsburgh. that's why they call it pittsburgh. no, it's not. but out to the east, cloud cover and a storm moving out. giving us better weather tomorrow. temperatures now, all of these below average, but we get above average quickly. the air of low pressure and the troth moves east, the hot air moves n record high temperatures. heat wave well into the 90s. heat index near a hundred degrees. tomorrow though, beauty of a day. 82 degrees and mostly sunny. average high temperature this time of year is 82, we'll be right there. but going above average and staying there for the most part. 87, low humidity on saturday. 95, still some humidity on sunday. hot one at the nats game at 4:05 start. 95 on monday, this is where the humidity really starts to creep in. heat

monday, tuesday, wednesday and probably thursday. the best chance of rain late next week. looking at a six-day heat wave. >> okay, thank you, doug. his testimony captured the world's attention. next the four big take-aways from fired fbi director james comey's hearing on capitol hill today. and only in washington, several bars packed with people and press for a front row s

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now at 6:30, aftermath from james comey's testimony on capitol hill. for nearly three hours, the fired fbi director told his side of the story, explaining why he felt uncomfortable around president trump. >> and he also talked about why he kept detailed notes of those meetings that he had, glad he kept those notes later and he had someone leak those notes to the press. for a closer look, let's go now to chris lawrence. >> well, there was no one gotcha moment, but we learned that when it comes to the russia investigation, the man running the fbi didn't trust the very people he worked for, including the president himself. james comey says he started taking detailed notes on his conversations with president trump because "i

about the nature of that meeting." comey was concerned the investigation itself would be shut down, and he admitted that he had leaked his own memo in the hopes that it would lead to the appointment of a special counsel. comey gave it to a friend to pass along to a "new york times" reporter and says, i thought it was very important to get it out. he also revealed the obama administration tried to influence the fbi probe into hillary clinton's e-mails. comeys former attorney general loretta lynch asked him to call it a matter instead of an investigation. he said that was inaccurate and it gave him a queasy feeling. comey also cleared up a mystery from the day after the inauguration. now, you have likely seen this clip play a dozen times as president trump calls comey over, he will bypass the handshake and hulls him in for a hug. comey said the president

to working with you." that's important, because in a private dinner six days later, comey says the president told him, a lot of people want your job, and he would understand if comey walked away. chris lawrence, news4. bars and restaurants across the district decided to cash in on the comey hearings by opening early for watch parties. the bars were mostly standing room only. >> reporter: probably something you're only going to see around washington, d.c., watch parties at bars across town, all gathering together to watch the comey testimony. >> i want to hear the truth. i want to know what went on behind closed doors, and i wanted to hear it from comey's mouth. >> reporter: the line stretched down florida avenue to get inside shawn's tavern to watch the historic hearing. >> people are like, why are they standing in lin

morning, about you itbut it's s know in d.c. and it's become common. >> reporter: people were multi tasking because it's a work day. >> everyone seems to be paying attention because it's important to them. and we're all doing the same thing, that's pretty cool. >> reporter: there were other people at the bars working as well. reporters, lots of reporters. >> the press was here first. the employees i think were here the earliest, and then we had the press around 8:00. >> these women couldn't get in the crowded bar to see it on the big screens, so they watched on their phones. >> i think when something is happening that's potentially traumatic for the american people that people feel better to be around each other. >> reporter: back at shaw's tavern, the owner has mixed feelings about the possibility of more high profile

>> yeah, maybe not for the betterment of the country, but maybe for business it will be okay. >> reporter: in the district, mark segraves, news4. >> after the hearing was over, we wanted to know, did comey's testimony change your opinion about the russia investigation. take a look at the results of our survey so far. a majority of you say, no, it did not. cast your vote on the nbc washington facebook page. metro says you should notice a smoother ride as its safetrack maintenance program now comes to an end. the agency turns its sights on finding more funding to keep the system going strong. transportation reporter adam tuss talked with metro leaders about how to make that happen. >> reporter: hey, look, metro says it's making progress. everything from new railcars coming onto the system, like the one you see right here, the 7,000 series railcars, to new lighting, to better experiences. but if that progress wants to stay, then metro says it needs

things, like maintenance and it certainly needs more funding. but today the metro board couldn't even reach a complete consensus on how to find a new funding stream for metro. all of this is coming on the heels of safetrack, which is wrapping up after a year of massive delays for riders. but metro's general manager says all that frustration has been worth it. >> put it this way, i'm sleeping a lot better now. because i know that the improvements that we've made. >> reporter: look around metro and you'll see signs of change, everything from shiny new stronger railcars, to brighter flashing platform lights. right now, metro trying to keep all of that momentum going. along the red line, adam tuss, news4. we've got a week of big results from the news4 i-team. tonight action to change a decades' old law that's being exploited for profit in the housing market. >> here in prince william county, the total debt when it comes to unpaid

in the hundreds of thousands. just ahead on news4, i'm going to show you one mom's mission to help pay down the debt for those kids who simply can't afford it. beautiful today, beautiful tomorrow and then the heat really starts to build across the area. get the sandals ready, because we're talking hot. narrator: the washington post endorses dr. ralph northam. mr. northam would make the better governor. and virginia progressives agree. ralph northam is the only candidate who stood up to the nra after the virginia tech shooting. dr. northam led the fight to stop the republicans' transvaginal ultrasound law. ralph is a leader for education, expanding pre-k for thousands of families in virginia. ralph northam: making progress

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this is a great story. she doesn't even have kids in school yet, but a local mom is on a mission to help pay down hundreds of thousands in school lunch debt. >> northern virginia bureau reporter david culver explains how she's calling on you to help her pick up the tab for families in need. >> reporter: a few months moved into her new home, adele still in the midst of unpacking. but what's taking so long? she's been a little busy, trying to feet others. >> sometimes a family just needs

a little help to get back on the right track, and the compassion is really important. >> reporter: adele's compassion has turned to the community she's only recently called home, prince william county. here, nearly 90,000 students line up for lunch each day. and in many cases, parents can't pay off the tab. what happens with all the accounts that students can't pay off? somebody ultimately has to pay for it. it comes down to the individual schools and hence you the taxpayer. >> there is no charity here. the idea is, there should be no stigma. >> some schools will deny students who can't pay their lunch, they say to feed the kid and deal with the debt later. this year alone, it's in the hundreds of thousands. that could mean school cuts. >> that could mean programs that your child isn't going to get to take advantage of because of them eating this cost for food. >> reporter: to help pay down th

gofundme. most of her donors, here. >> yeah, these are my facebook friends. >> reporter: she's hoping the generosity spreads. >> when you have parents and community members stepping up, saying, we want to do something, we want to make sure it's done right, that can make a huge difference. >> reporter: want to help this mom make a difference, search lunch debt in the nbc washington app. david culver, news4. >> that is impressive. >> is that great or what. >> yes. >> i love that. still ahead, home sales held hostage because of a decades' old law. tonight the i-team is getting results to fix the problem. and news4 is working for the community. we're happy to see a lot of you folks are getting on board with the two more 24 campaign. we partnered with the united way for a one-day fund-raiser that continues until midnight tonight. if you want to make a donation, head to the nbc washington app and look at this, we are at almost $800,000 in just a matter of a day. amazing.

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and even holding up home sales. >> a d.c. lawmaker has introduced a bill to try and fix this problem, but jody fleischer is here now with judge critics say this bill doesn't go far enough. jody? >> d.c.'s association of realtors calls this bill a baby step toward keeping tenants from holding homes hostage. renters can sell their rights to buy the place they live demanding tens of thousands of dollars. the new law would cap those payouts to $1,500, but only in a narrow sliver of situations. >> the housing committee is proposing a change. >> reporter: it would be ground-breaking and as with most housing related legislation, likely not without a fight. but anita said she's up for it. and says topa has problems. >> significant controversy has arisen. whether topa is being misused by some tenants to extract large amounts of

exposed by the news4 i-team last month with a series of reports on high dollar payouts for renters who drag out home sales by refusing to sign over their rights to buy the place they live, instead, selling the rights to the highest bidder. >> it felt like exportion. like the whole thing felt really slimy. r. >> reporter: bonds is focusing her legislation is single family homes, like this one, where a buyer told the i-team she lost her sales within hours of closing, the renter walked away with tens of thousands of dollars from the new buyer. >> people are taking advantage of it. >> reporter: the original law was designed to protect affordable housing and keep renters from being displaced from gentrification. >> reporter: the bonds bill only limits payouts to renters who live in a attached property where the landlord also lives. it doesn't include part of a home where the owner lives elsewhere. i

they approached it. >> reporter: the democrat association of realtors wants to eliminate topa rights in all single family home sales. >> does this fix the problem in the single family space? >> no. i can definitively say this does not correct. it actually would probably complicate things. >> reporter: the current law does not define what a tenant is and the new bill doesn't eater. topa doesn't require a lease or payment of rent. an intern, a caregiver, even squatters and airbnb guests have gotten paid for topa rights. a whole industry of topa chasers have sprung up, which bond said the law never intended and she wants to fix. >> it sounds like you agree this doesn't go far enough. >> oh, it doesn't, no. it doesn't. it's the beginning of the process. >> bonds says the language in her bill will likely change before anything is approved. she doesn't expect a vote until sometime this fall. the realtors say any

the d.c. council will hold a public hearing in july. several families need to find a place to stay after a fire forced them out of their homes. the fire spread to fire other homes. two firefighters were briefly trapped and disoriented because of the heavy flames. they were hospitalized with minor burns. a neighbor opened her home to help those affected by the fire. >> they had nowhere to go, so that was the least thing that i could do, was open my home up to them. as a ref juge, somewhere they c go. it was cold, there was kids. >> reporter: that same woman also gave the children breakfast this morning. four homes are unliveable now. damage is estimated at a million dollars. the red cross is helping 12 people who are displaced. the cause of the fire, still

change gears and talk about the weather. hot stuff coming in this way. >> not for a couple days, though. so enjoy it while it lasts. >> while we can. and then go indoors in the air conditioning. >> exactly right. because it's absolutely beautiful. i know i'm going to get some dinner outdoors tonight. temperature wise, we're looking good. let's look at one of the best locations today weather wise in the country. that's actually reston. right there. >> you would say reston. you of all people would say reston. >> i'm looking towards herndon too. one of the best locations in the country because we are having a fantastic day here and of course all around the d.c. metro area. temperatures in the low to mid 70s. 74 at the airport. winds out of the northeast at 10 miles per hour, keeping us on the cool side. couple of storms, one to the west, one to the east. but in the middle, we're high and dry.

showers, storms into west virginia, not coming across the mountains. and another storm off the coast, and that will be off the coast of massachusetts. but us, we're looking great. temperature tomorrow, 82 degrees. a fantastic friday. 87 on sunday. then the heat, 95 on sunday. not a lot of humidity this weekend, but still hot. 95 monday, 97 on tuesday, 95 on wednesday. and the humidity is going to be a factor. the heat index on sunday with that temperature of 95, maybe 96, 97, not too bad. monday, about 97 degrees. and then tuesday and wednesday, that's when we get over a hundred, i think. 102 is what i'm forecasting for the heat index tuesday and wednesday. thursday going for a heat index of a hundred. so if you're getting out for some of the events, watch out. tomorrow, probably the best night to get out to -- see if i can do it, does

one of them worked. cheetah fest coming up on chevy chase elementary school school. looking great for that between noon and 4:00. how about sunday, see if that works. that's what i was looking for. the nationals game, if you're going to the nats game, 12:00 on saturday. that one's great. 4:00 against the rangers on sunday, that one, on the hot side. >> cheetah fest. it's a famous local event. >> it's a hundred years old. >> we'll be doing cheetoh fest. [ laughter ] that's a different kind of event. anyway, coming up in sports, no rest for the weary after a west coast road trip. nats are back for the battle of the

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this is the xfinity sports desk. >> battle of the beltway. >> all the way back from l.a., bringing the california weather. >> nice job. >> welcome. >> but, pouring rain, including a thunderstorm, 1.04 inches of precipitation -- >> precipitation. >> perspiration. >> that too. >> precipitation. that's why i can't do weather. that was the 11th of may, and it washed out the orioles and the nationals. tonight is the makeup game. orioles, 20 games and

for the nationals, a return home after a very successful west coast road trip. the nats, that's a d.c. united jersey. after posting a 7-2 record in a swing through california, nationals with a red eye to a rivalry. right back to this makeup game against the orioles. losing one ahead of 14 state games is tough, but this club knows, it's something they'll have to work through. >> you hope that we come out ready to play. it's one of those games, you just gotta battle. and it's a long season. so there's a few games like this where it's not a fun scheduling, but it is what it is. >> guys just playing ball. nobody's complaining about travel, nobody's complaining about anything. it's part of the challenge here. 21 days in a row, then an off day, and then the next off day, i think is all-star break. 36 out of 38 days or somethi

>> i'm perspiring just thinking about it. the orioles will be without manny machado after injuring his wrist last night with the pirates mccutchen. he does stay in the game, but left shortly after. chris davis will play in his place. buck showalter isn't worried about losing manny long-term. you might actually see him tonight. >> the x-ray and mri were good. just sore. hopefully day to day and see if it loosens up and see if he's available in some capacity tonight or not. so he doesn't dodge the slide, looks like we might have dodged some more extensive damage. i'm hoping it's a day to day thing. i'm not going to broadcast whether i'd use him tonight or not, about you you never know. >> all right, i wonder if charles barkley will be in pittsburgh tonight. he was in nashville earlier this week.

finals because the nba finals, shall we say, lack drama? the golden state warriors are one game away from the first perfect straight postseason in history. cleveland, they had the lead in the fourth, but the warriors with an 11-0 run in the final three minutes, k.d. hitting the big shot that he's been working on his whole life. irving scored 38 points, but he missed this shot. warriors just too good on defense. and offense as well. warriors steal game three in cleveland. game 4 on friday. no word if barkley will be heading to pittsburgh. but they're loving this drama. the goaltender for the predators allowing the penguins nine goals first two games, but now only two

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