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and tonight, what we're learning about the woman who kept everyone on f edge hours after scaling the statue of liberty and keeping officers at bay. >> "news4 at 11" starts now. ♪ my girl, my gir >> oh, tens of thoands packing the national mall for the capitol fourth concert and the big fireworks display. >> we've got live team coverage tonight on the holiday celebratntns as the coury comes together to celebrate independence day. happy birthday, america! many of you enjoyed one of the best celebrations in the nation righte h at the capitol. >> a huge crowd packed the national mall and capitol grounds tonight for all the action. news4's darcy spencer there live at the national itmall. qua sight down there, darcy.

>> reporter: fireworks on the mall for the fourth of july. it never gets old. now, when you watch m story, pay special attention to a little girl who was just mesmerized by the fireworks. thedi beautiful lay on the fourth of july. fireworks at the washington monument. a fantastic ending to a brutally hot day on the national mall. >> it was awesome. >> have you beenhoo the here before? >> no, this was our first year. >> reporter: for the thousands who braved the heat and humidity, itas worthit. fireworks on the fourth on the nation's cap aol is kno some of the best in the world. >> they were pretty. >> reporter: what id you think of the fireworks? >> it was >>awesome. eporter: earlier, people staked out their spots on the monument ground.ny at under trees to shield them from the blistering sun. th group of friends got here hours early, and they were prepared. >> eifrybody brought dferent kinds of food. so we allpi had a cnic.

and we had some music playing as well. >> reporter: the threat of storms never materialized here, making a near perfect night. was it worth waiting around for th fireworks? >> it definitely was, all 15 minutes of it. >> reporter: now that thear firework over, it's time for everyone to go home. u.s. park police officers were readyar to the crowds and keep everyone safe. >> so here is our mantra. be patient. be respectful, and be courteous. >> reporter: i just checked in with u.s. park police. they're telling me tytt evng went well today. what you're looking at behind me, this is one of the many roads thatas closed. all of the roads have been reopened, and it looks like today' fourth of july, it started off very hot, but it ended in a great success. back to you. >> aright. we like to hear that. darcy, thank you.> and our team coverage continues tonight as the locali fests on the fourth. news4's jackie benson is in kensington, maryland with a check on the celebrations there hi, jackie.

>> doreen, hello. this was definitely muc more of a hometown celebration. a lot of people here tell me theyome to this every year. they really seem to enjoy themselves. now the fireworks, some w pictus t that looks like, capped erday of family friendly entertainment at albert einstein high school. now, that fireworks show i nelf wasrly a half hour-long. plenty of time for the mostly local crow including many children, to take it all in. >> awesome. it's great. land of the free. >> it means everything to me, te see peoome here and get along. you know, it's legendary, especially in the times of, you know, we got going outnow. >> there is nothing like a fourth of july. thend fireworkst just makes me feel like an american. i'm very proud to be an american today. >> reporter: now, to avoid the problem of carsarking in all the residential streets around here, there was free parking at wheaton plaza mall, and free

ride on shuttle bus service over here. they got erybody in and got them out very quickly. live in kensington,ki j bensen, news4. >> sounds like a great time. thank you,ieja our fourth of july coverage isn't done yet. we'll take you the other big celebrations acros our area in just about ten minutes. oh it was warm, even steamy at those holiday celebrations. but thankfully, the rain stayed away. >> storm team 4's amelia draper says he can expect more hot and sticky weather tomorrow. >> hey, doreen, exactly. one more day. t it.s j one more day of our heatwave, and then we'll start to see a transion to more comfortable weather around here. take a look right now. we're at 85 degrees, and it's humid out there, with the temperature at 7:00 m. of . so it's already a mild start with more clouds than sun there tomorrow morning. peeks of sunshine at times. but overall, mostly cloudy skies. and by 11 a.m., that 82 degrees

is feeling more like 90. right now on storm team 4 radar, not tracking any rain. only a few sprinkles fling in parts of northern fredrk county. shenandoah county and a parts of fredrick county are under a flood warning. that's going to last about another 20 minutes. i'll have m on tomorrow's storm outlook coming up in ten mites. a muted apology from a woman who sent off a security scare at one of the most iconic symbols of america, the statue of liberty. at the live desk, we first started telling you at 4:00, a woman scaling the statue, even hiding from police under lady liberty's foot.we wellave learned her name is therese okoumou. she is 44 and lives on staten island, and she was protesting the separation o children and families along the southern border. tonight she is facing a host of charges,ncluding federal

charges of trespassing and interfering with a government function. police sayhis was an extremely difficult and dangerous rescue, and once they got t ther woman was combative. >> at first, she wasn't friendly with us, but we took our time tg basicall a dialogue with her and get a rapport with her so she would truok us. so that while. >> it took a while. that's one waytif p it. it took about three hours or so. police say okoumou apologized to the three officers helping her to safety. rganizers say the woman is not affiliated with their group. jim, back to you. >> leon harris, thank you. a deepening mystery tonight at the center of it poison and international nispies. toght a couple from a small english town poisoned and in critical condition. medical officials said the people who had been in tha area where the couple had been should take precautions and wash theire

cl british counterterrorism agents say tonight there is no evidence the couple was arg d the, but the man and woman were poisoned with the sameve lethal n agent that nearly killed a former russian spy and his daughter back in march. >> folwing a detailed analysis of those samples, but can confirm that the man and woman have been exposed to the nerve agent novichok. >> that happened in seven miles away from the apparent poisoninr attack elier this year. you'll remember that one set off a huge diplomatic incident. more than two dozen countries expelled russianpl diats. russia denies any involvement. back at home, a hardworking father killed on his job. he just emigrated from nepal. he leaves behind a daughter and a wife.sh n worked behind the counter at the sunoco gas station on franklin farm road in

herndon. police say a 19-year-old man robbed the store about 1:15 this morniin mo officers arrested the suspect within minutes. they immediately confront him. he did resist and two officers were able to eventually take him into custody. >> friends of theicm tell news4 that he was a hard worker. he had two jobs. members othe nepali in herndon started a gofundme page to raise oney for the funeral and the family. if you would like to help, we t the link in our nbcon washin app. search gas station murder. traffic complaints tonight in a northern virginia neighborhood. ndlks there say the traffic apps that many of us den every day are turning their quiet roads into freeways. o pictures fro news partners show you the problem. this is rush hour in alexandria. near east taylor run parkway.

neighbors say apps like waze take drivers off the highway and send them down local streras. >>ic here is unbearable at rush hour. you have to plan your day around what you're going t do so you know i can't go to the grocery traffic is00 becau going to take me 30 minutes to go get there. waze. got in touch with the app tells us it doesn't believe there is data to show it puts excessive traffic on a particular street. for now the i hops that signs and some extra police enforcement keep drivers away. next up, mixed emotions for the city dealing with tragedy the capitol gazette usually covers this parade, b today they're a big part of it. how the community honored the newspaper. surfers wive ready to into a competition, but one of the world's deadliest predators had other plans. and bhe storyind one

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it wasn't just any fourth of july parade in annapolis today. >> no, it w not. so many there were thinking the the deadly attack at capital gazette last week. staffers at the newspaper walked in the parad carrying a banner and cheers echoed throughout the parade as they walked by. some even marched in solidarity with them. news4 explains how this year's fourth of july parade honored the victim. a >> such tragedy that it's hard to celebrate sometimes. >> reporter: karen mcilwain

began her independence day by bringing bal ons to the memorial for the five people killed in the shootings at the capital gazette last thursday. she is watering thes,flow which are already wilting, and knows she's not alone, thinking of the victims this independence da >> for me, it makes it sadder. but t community comes together and everyone will celebrate a honor the victims. and hopefully their families. >> reporter: this cple from philadelphia has been coming to annapolis for the last ten summers. >> and my thoughts cingown here this particula weekend bring sadness to my heart to see these people had to give their lives doing their job every day. >> we knew we were going to come here and say our prayers and pay respect to these people. yeah. it's not -- it's very sad visit this time. >> reporter: downtown annapolis is decked out for the fourth ofu , with american flags and navy flags flying. the shootings changed the course of history for maryland

capital. visitors like paul brought their family from frederick to spend independence day here. >> it's always great to be here wi the history here. and yeah, even in tragedy, need to really celebrate what this country is all about. >> those first a ndment right are extremely important, the first bill of right, m ah. the free press, absolutely. >> reporter: this independenced in annapolis is different, different because people who dedicated their lives to covering theews of this community were suddenly and violently taken from it. reporting from annapolis, chris gordon, news4. on sunday, two more capital llgazette staffers be remembered. services for gerald bfischman wi sunday afternoon at judianemial gardens. fischman worked at the newspaper for more than 25 years. he was e thetorial page editor. also sunday, rebecca smith's

family will holds.wo visitati smith was a sales assistant who joined the paper last november. surfers today in south africa really got a run f their money during a surfing competition when a special guest decided tooin in on the fun. check this out. a great white shark, as see here, emerged beneath the surface of the water during the competition. an organizer says they tried to waitt out, but says the shark insisted on sticking around. the surting competion had to be canceled for the day. oh, and any other day. >> good thing they spotted him that way and not the hard way. a 16-year-old driver is amazingly unharmed after he drove his car into a sinkhole in minnesota. the giant hole in the ground opened up after heavy rainfall

and flooding. the teenager escaped from the sinkhole by climbing out of the back window of his car. that according to the minnesota starr tribune. a happy reunion to tell you about tonight. a man and his blae pug guido gether once again. >> good boy, yes! >> well, guido was in his owner's car when a thief stole it back in may. detectives near tampa were able to find hiit. the abandoned guido soon after taking the car. guido wandered to a nearby cleaners, an employee there has been watching him er since. i think he recognizes his owner there, d't you think? what a bond. >> it's hard to tell which one is happier. fireworks weren't only going off in d.c., but across our region tonight. one of them was in college park. news4 viewer captured video of a fireworks display. and what goes better with fireworks than a little music from the hit 1970s movie ma

"sup the movie". b.i.g. night at the wharf. it was packed with people. take a look. this was the first fourth of july celebration since the wharf opened last year. kids enjoyed cooling off by running through a fountain. well, did most of us get the fireworks in without rain, amelia? >> most of us di i have to say i had my radar pulled up, looking at it,do counting . >> everybody else was looking. >> but i waso happy whe saw that we were virtually dry across the area. by 9gh0 p.m. to there was some showery activity out there in parts of loudoun and montgomery county at about 8:30, butui thatly fizzled out. so from what i've heard on facebook and twitter, just about everybody, if not everybody got the fireworks displays in tonight. ich makes me so happy. s.t's take a look at your weather headli tomorrow, the final day of this heatwave, a seven-day heatwavei me we've hit 90 degrees or

higher now six days in a row. seventh.will be the as we look to friday, we're not in the '90s because we have rain andun thunderstorms aas early as the morning hours. but guess what? spthink your friday night is going to be tacular. more on that in a moment. as we look to saturday and ou sunday, gorweather both days from start to finish. we're balmyhough, out there. and 7:00 a.m., we're still going to be balmy. 78 degrees. it's humid. tomorrow it's feeling close to 100 degrees during theon after and evening hours when you factor in the humidity. so similar today, but not as bad. at noone'll be around 84 degrees. partly to mostly cloudy skies. then we sort of have aix of clouds and sun for the afternoon and evening hours. and we'll see more scattered showers and thunderstorms. best chance tomorrow once again north and west of washington th the high of 91, we'll hit that between 3:00 and 5:00 p.m. by 7:00, a temperature around 86 degrees. hehere is future we for tomorrow, starting off at 7:00 a.m. it wants to be an isolated

shower to around the baltimore area. i can't rule tha out. but just about everybody is rain-free, especially in the metro area. notice theiness here at lunchtime. once we hit 2:00 p.m., the scattered showerto and thundes do start to fire. see how they're favoring areas o north and westhe district as we move into the evening hours and continuing to track scattered showers and thunderstorms that could have some heavy rain becau of how mega muggy it is. overnight we see more substantial rain moving intoea e this all with the cold front, and that brings much needed relief to the area by your friday evening. so 89 degrees on friday. and i might be temperature because i do think we'll see rain here by the midmorning hours, if not rl r. a few rumbles of thunder. but not seeing a huge threat for sere weather out there on friday. it's muggy during the morning and midday hours, but by the afternoon hours, we're aeady noticing those lower humidity levels. the pool outlook tomorrowoi if you're during the morning and midday hours, you're going to bfi just .

friday is not looking like a great pool day unless you want to go during e early afternoon and evening hours. saturday will be an awesome pool day, but with a bit of a breeze and cooler temperatures, from what we've been experiencing, it might almost feel cool out there. take a look. here is your ten-day forecast. 89 for a high on friday. 80% chance for r an thunderstorms on friday. it's not a washout, but i think we will have rain for the morning through the mid afternoonhours. breezy, sunny, low humidity, low s on saturday. mid-80s out there on sunday. >> wow, that weekend is looking delicious. >> cannot wait. >> thanks, amelia. just ahead, how the ts' just ahead, how the ts' struggles ended up in a

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this is the xfinity sports desk. all right. you know, this nationals season is supposed to be a season of eexcitement. ll-star game is here in d.c. in two weeks, but nobody is having any fun rightno the nats are in the midst of their worst baseball since 2009 and can't seem to do anything thright lately. entered today's game in danger of falling below .500 l thise in the season for the first time in almost four years that is causece for c and also cause for a closed door fla players only team meeting. fans feeling patriotic onhis fourth of july. no score in the 70. runners in the corners for jackie bradley junior he pops it up in foul territory. adam eaton goes into a nice slide in foul territory, but he comes up,anoses bal, double pumps and throws itay run scores. boston takes the lead. nats luck doesn't get any

setter. ryan m with the wild pitch. davy martinez not too happy. he's seen that look plenty of times before already. nationals loseheir fifth straight game and shut-out for the ninth time this year, 3-0 to boston. orioles visiting the phillies. always got to make sure you're looking good for the birds. manny machado has been one of the few looking good lately. ahead bottom 7, at least up 2-1 oith a man on. two-run shot center. phillies beat the orioles 4-1 and sweep the brief two-game series. what day for john carlson of stanley cup. spending his day with the cup,a spg the love. started at children's national this morning. kids and families able to take pictures with the cup. an the cup party continued in bethesda at a charity fundraiser. fans buying tickets to help raise money to help defeat a fo of childhood brain cancer.

the caps defense bringing a lot of joy to the area today. history made today at the nathan's famous hot dog eating contest. joeyt chest wing his 11th eatingmustard belt after 74 hot dogs in ten minutes, folks. over 22,000 calories, 54,000 grams of soum. but not without controversy. originally judges said he only ate 64. it's a light day know. after reviewing chestnut did eat 74, and he enjoyed every minute ee it. >> i wasng good today. i was happy. i think happy. i love to eat. and so try to have fun and i was enjoying the food and beating the heck out of the guys nexto me. >> beating up the guy next to me. you got to love it. w do you lose track of 10? >> that's why i have people holding up the signs. >> do you want to be one of the guys counting that thi >> no, no.

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