a little bit morein towards shenandoah county, around r nd unt ,pretray :4good line, an 5d look at you a the lightning associated with this as i makes itsay downeast. this is pa line and oowers of storms that hasart developed ai-81 that not done lo yet, guys. most of us on the dry side and we'll see more storms develop and push across our area tonight so headup for those. when thunder roars get indoors. we'll talk much more about the weekend forecast here. we've got a lot to talk about as far as theweekend is concerned. high temperatures, yes, will stay in the 90s, but we'll finally get some relief for the we bend, and ater chance of showers and thunderstorms out there on friday and saturday. look at hagerstown coming down a little bit because of the heed. same deal in richmond b shower activity around richmond. philadelphia. 83 degrees over towards ocean city, maryland.

a perfect beach weekend and we're going to talk much more about the beach forecast, the pool forecast and the heat recast and the storm forecast and i've got a lot of bforecas. sy friday for you. all right. we'll check back in just a bit. doug, thank you. the heat is going to be a major llenge for folks heading down to the mall for the fourth of july, and today district leaders gave us new details about what we can expect next week. the president will speak, as you know, warplanes will fly overhead, and, ocourse, fireworks will explode near the mall. news 4's corey smith joins us live outside the lincoln memorial helping you get red for the big festivities. hey, cory. >> oh, jim, are you red re, because i'm very, very ready to celebr first fourth of july here in the nation's capital. as we all know, president trump likes celebraions to be huge, and the 4th will be no different. that's added extra stress to thd local federal agencies who have pthlatollisn a

>> reporter: the stage is not quite set for president trump's salute to america, but it's coming alo . on the 4th the area near the steps of the lincoln memorial wilbe off limits unless you're lucky enough to score a ticket from the white house to see the president's speech up close. f you're not, don't wore we, because there will be plenty to see this independence day. >> did you miss the f 35 fighter jets flying over d.c. earlier this month? you'll have another chance to see a raref display o american air power, the blue angels and air force one and aircraft from all five branches of the military will fly over the mall, practically unheard of given that d.c. airspace is restricted. >>hile there will be an increase in air traffic and ise, there will be no cause for alarm. >> reporte speaking of airspace, the folks who plan to are he baby trump bli still trying to secure a permit and if that's the biggest symbol of protest on the 4th, this maybe the smlest. miniature balloons are being sold online, but be warned. park police say balloons are a

restrictedite teym. >> if thre on the prohibited items list they will not be allowed in the area. if they comply with the prohibited items list, we will allow that type of first amendment activity or any other item tocome into the area. >> reporter: mayor muirual bowser says the district is laser focused on making sure the 4th goes off without a hitch. she says the district will be prepared. >> and i feel they have shared with us everything that they have for our corporation. >> keeping thingser intting. cory, now that we know what to expect, what can we tell you about the timing of the fiseworks show thi year? >> reporter: oh, yeah, that's right, jim, big question. 9:07, the first firewor display will go off over the lincoln memorial. it will last about 15 minutes. >> we had a little issuewith his shot freezing up there. >> cory can throw his voice. multi-talente ithere. may's the heat. >> we have a full list of road closures, access points and vents for the fourth of july on

the nbcashington app. just o search fourthf july. all right. switching gears. it has been one year since a gunman shotnd killed five people inside the "capital gazette" newsroom. todayhere is a growing memorial to remember them. the survivors gathered to talk abouttheir colleagues today a a park and to rlect on this day together. ahead at 5:30, news4's chris grordon joins us fromnn aolis with messages from those survivors. prince william coun police are investigating after someone dro their car to a 9/11 memorial at freedom high school in woodbridge. can you see the marks in the grass and the benches knocked over there. a security directore at th pool saw it happen wednesday morning and reported it to police. they are still trying to find e driver responsible. >> now we want to head back town to share hotsville. a white supremacist gets life in prison today for the deadly hate crime. >> julie carey joins us from charlottesville with more on

this. julie? >> reporter: well, it's beenlm ast two years since white sfrem sift james field came here to ohio to join the unite the right rally and plowed his dodge charger into a group of counterprotesters. he set theay back in march when he pleaded guilty to the federal hate crimes cha avoi theeath penay b toniestrg o he and his victims he'll never walk free again. now today in court something we haven't heard before, an apology from james field. he said, quote, to the judge anv to theictims gathered in the courtroom i would lik to apologize for my actions on 1 august2. i would like to apologize for the hurt and loss i've caused. his comments cameev after sal hours of eart wrenching testimony as victims described th lasting impact of his hate-filled drive into that crowd of counterdemonstrators. they gathered to oppose the unte the right rally.

heather heyer was lled that day, and more thano two dzen others injured including a woman from northern virginia. the victim told the judge about the fear that still consumes their daily lives. some of them can no longer go out and run because of broken legs a some are still struggling to walk again and so many of them talked about suffering from ptsd. here now theon reacti from heather heyer's mom and one of the activists who marched that day and witnessed the hate-filled attack. >> knowing that he won't be out again to cause more harm to more people helps. a knowing that clear message has been sent hoping to prevent other deaths, that helps. >> he gets what he deserves. he desearchrved that and more.im for ho ask for mercy. that right there, it didn't resonate to me, like are you serious? is. >> prosecutors are also hoping

that this life sentence -- multiple life sentences here today send a strong message to other white supremacists across the country, that if they commit acts of hate likethis, they will be dealt with severely. now, this is just one of two cases against james field. he's also been convicted in charlottesville circuit court of the murder of heather heyer and of injuring and t making allose people. a jury made a recommendation in that case of life plus 400 ut years, bhat sentencing won't happen until the middle of next month, so today's life e,sentenc the first official life term given to james field. back now to the studio. >> a tragedy the entire country witnessed. julie carey with the sentencing today. julie,yo thank >> traffic stops by police in the district will now be tracked. according to race it's part of an effort now to find out if officers are racially profiling african-americans. this was supposed to happenee threars ago but officers haven't been collecting the

information. news 4's mark segraves reports on a judge's ruling ordering police to comply. >>s it happndreds of time each day. >> police stopping people for traffic violations or other suspected crimes. activists like eugene courier believes d.c. police are targeting african-aricans without probable cause. >> the d.c. police like most police around the country are using their first point contact with the black community, the stop and terrific tactics, based on the assumption that black people are more likely committing certain crimes. >> reporter: in 2016 the d.c. councilrassed the n act to address the concerns. the law requires d.c. police to track the race e ofry person they stop whether that person is charged or not. hey must also track the location of the police stops, but in the three years since the law was passed d.c. police have notomplied saying their current technology wasn't capable of collecting the data,

but a d.c. superior court judge dismissed that argument saying the police could have come up like temporary solution this one-page form that they have ordered them to star using. judge john campbell said iodicial intervent is both warranted and necessary. >> we've been saying along that we'll ve a full-time solution which i believe this court will be comfortable with in the summer. > while the archief's deptment starts complying with the law by the end of july it's possible the bowser administration could appeal the jud 'scision and further delay the collection of the data. >> the chef's response is completely disingenuous even after being ordered to comply by a court. they are still considering ways delay further. in the dis ict, marksegraves, news. preliminary data released by the police department shows of the 10,000 people arrested for driving without a license, 80% were icafrican-amern.

erika? >> president trump tried to end the obama-era dreamer program in 17 but was blocked by federal courts and the deferred action for childhood arrivals program has allow 700,000 young people brought to the united states illegally by their parents t remain in the united states. the court is not expected to reach a decision onat th contentious case before early 2020. news 4 is working for you in the community with a special group of students who learned leadership skills and the importance of maki good choices. fairfax county's road dawg opened up an event for neighbors in need. he middle school students visited the animal shelter and the jail. >> this program was developed tl heour youth make better choices, teach them and give them opportunities for

leadership, expose them tofe difnt parts of our county and let them know there's a lot of opportunities within the party. >> i started to trust more people than i did when i first came here, and -- and i started learning more about the community and things. >> good for them.he now, once students finish their work at united community, they were off to a swimming pool and a cnic, well deserved. good for today. >> still ahead, a claim of n mistaentity in a deadly ambush as a local nightclub. ahead the sentence for the teenager charged in the attack that ended with the death of an unintended victim. plus, who broke out and who needs to g back on track and back to work. nbc political correspondent steve kornacki joinswi us for on the two-night democratic debates. and the boom in locally sourced food leads to new rules for gardens and farmers' markets y.some are not happy about these changes.

and i'm tracking strong to severe thunderstorms. we've got two svere thunderstorm warnings. one back to page county as well as warren county and shenandoah ounty and new warning for prince george's county until g:00, right along the beltway here. a pretty strong storm here and just to the north of clinton another storm as well making their way off towards the north and east at about 15 miles an hour, not moving very fast, meaning very heavy downpours. much more on the storms today. theetter chance of area-we stoidrm

hey, we've got a severe rm thundersarning in prince george's county. doug is tracking this from our storm center. we'll have an update in just a few minutes. >> three ms-13 gang members, h none of t older than 17, gunned down one man and injured another today. one of them was sentenced tof liin prison. prosecutors say they stalked a former rival gang member at a prince george's county nightclub. as news 4's darcy spencer shows us, they killed the wrong ma >> a teenage ms-13 gang member sentenced to life plus years in prison for the ambush murder of one man and the attempted murder of another. fernando barras was just7 years old when he wascharged, and his two accomplices were 16. >> quite frankly don't want to send young people away for lifet but that's was justice here

today. >> the attack happened on the apartments on riggs road in chillum and one victim was shot at least half a dozen times and survived. another 22-year-old man was shoe and kil >> he'll never grow up and grow old with his siblings and other relatives because cowards viciously gunned him >> reporter: authorities tell us all three teenage suspects were gang members charged as adults with murder. prosecutors say the victs were at the galaxy nightclub when they ran into the gang members. the surviving victim had been volved with a rival gang years ago in his home country. prosecutors say after he went home to these nearby apartments the suspects were waiting for him and opened fire, but it was his friend who was >> unfortunately what his affiliation prior to coming t.s the u followed him and he was marked asg taret. >> reporter: barras has always

maintained his innocence calling it a case of mistaken identity. in chillum, darcy spencer, news 4. now to decision 2020. after two nights of debates, voters have now heard from 20 of the democratic hopefuls. entering this week former vice president joe biden was the clear front-runner, butt now seems like we know who his biggest competition may be. joining us now is nbc news national political correspondent steve kornacki. steve, let's start with the moment everybody is still talking about, that tense exchange betwn senator kamala harris and biden about race. will that move the needle for harris, and how is it impacting biden so far? >> yeah. it's interesting. biden already trying today to clarify his comments so clearly his campaign feels there's some work to be done in the wake of e that mo last night. also there are some early indications from an overnight poll, a snap poll that was taken. morning consult did that that

showed kamala harris surging in the wake of the debate and biden dropping somewhat. harris moving into a tie for second place nationally. she had been much lower. biden in the lead and his lead reduced, so the early indication there is th joe biden suffered somewhat from this debate and that kamala harris bashedly improved her dcision and as for her she will get a lot more attention, a lot more media attention and attention from activists now so it gives her a shot in the limelight. >> and taking into account both deate nights, who has to double down and get busy and get to work? >> yeah. the biggest challenge coming out is frankly for joe biden. not just the substantive disputi he had w kamala harris. i think what has his folks unnerved around his campaign and emocratic voters is how he handled it. he had a week to be prepared for the possibility that someone, and kamala harris onm, hi might challenge him on the stage, and his response, he seemed

unfocused and seemed to be grasping for words, and a lot of people looked at that and saide th remember joe biden from 2012 and remember him from 2008, hand that looked like a different biden on the stage. can the old biden return next time around, or is this the new normal? i think that's a b question. >> a look at where the democratic party is right now and where does itneedto head? >> it's fascinating. i mean, the common thread here between most of the answers that tyou heard from all of candidates last night is they believed candidates who this party has moved substantially to the left just since donald trump has become president. you can see that panicularly o questions around immigration, questions around race and a little bit there with that question of private insurance andkamala harris at least in the moment on stage seeming to endorse the idea of getting rid of private insuran ne. she's back away from that, but i think that's something longer term that some republicans are looking in and say there might be an opening

for them once somebody comes through this process. >> nbc's steve kornacki. thanks so much for taking time out with us and haring your insights. we appreciate it. and stay tuned for more debate reaction the "nbc nightly news" with lester holt coming up after theews at 6:00. coming up, the special tribute for five journalists shot to death in their newsroom a ago. >> and a new severe thunderstorm warning for prince george's county right now. doug is back in

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all right. doug is here to continue to talk about ese storm chances that are kind of widespread and, you know, pop-up showers that we're starting to see now. >> not everybody is seeing hem, have a couple of severe thenderstorm warnings out t. if you're in montgomery counyo haven't seen much at all. another warning is back along the blue ridge. let's take a look to show you what's happening on storm team 4 radar. can youee where the storms r.few and far between, but where they are, they are strong and have some very heavy downpours associated with them. zoom right on in towards this storm in towards prince george's aunty, and, y, this is a couple of different storms, a nice little area of storminess. we've got a new storm that just popped in through d.c. thissy is veer thunderstorm warning does include washington, the northeastern parts of it, print was for storms i george's county, but a new storm

is forming behind it. i'll show ye what we talking about, and we'll have a storm back towards reston. capital heights and moving right across the beltway over towards route 50 and up towards upper marlboro, north of upperarlboro and along 202 so heads up in this area. back to the west and tracking another storm. arningevere thunderstorm going until 5:45 and you see this one around luray, around the front royal area and more storms along i-81. heads up this evening. keep a watchful eye to this sky. right around the reston area, odds are we move on towards route 7 down around 50 as well and check out these storms as they move on down towards d mcclains an tyson corner. you can see the line here that continues to move into our area. i want to show you these storms frommer to cam. you can see the rain out of this had. i want to move up and tilt up and show you these storms. this is from northwest washington. look as we tilt all the way up,

guys. this is what i love about atather. look the cumulus clouds and they move all the way up, and you can see how tall the tops. are these shooting tops, and now any time you see it get like this, you see this right here. that the top of thunderstorm right there, that's thovershooting the top of the anville like system. that shows you you've got a pretty strong storm out there and we will continue to see more of these throughout night. 939 degrees is the high temperature and today's highs, the hottest days we've seen so r far this yend we think we get even warmer during the day tomorrow. 939 at the airport and 59 huntingtown and 92 fredericksburg. heat a big issue. 97 d.c. and 100 in leesburg and renear 100 deg in annapolis and i do expect these to go up during the day tomorrow as well. high temperature tomorrow up 94 ich means, yes, we're predicting the hottest day of the year coming tomocaow. sered thunderstorms in the afternoon. we'll see a couple of those as well, and, yes, some of those could be strong, possibly severe begin, because any time you have this kind of heat it helpshe atmosphere to kick off some of the storms.

headed to the pool, awesomeeath ooking good for that. headed to the d.c. united game, perfect night for that. breaking news, what's that? okay. i'm going to pan back in. oh, there it is right there. there's new severe thunderstorm warning for this whole line now as it's making its way to the east including i'd 81. around federick county virginia, clark county virginia. this is until 6:15, so you see now as we talked about this line along i-81 and making its way in towards and through parts of northern virginia. we'll continue to keep our eyes on that one. a new severe thunderstorm warning. temperature-wise the next couple of days it, 94 tomorrow. got to change this. 93 o sunday and 89 on monday with a et wery nice day out there. a lot of relief. 95 coming up on tuesday. cknow, when we come ba we'll talk more about that beach forecast for youoming up c

we've got that breaking news if you're just now joi ang us 5:30. a severe thunderstorm warning in effect forarts of prince george's county right now, and a small part of the district. doug is tracking these storms and also some in virginia as well. we'll have another updaten just a couple of minutes. it is a day of remembrance for e victims of the "capital gazette" shooting. >> today marks one year since a gunman stormed the newsroom killing five people in h path. today news 4's chris gordon was with the survivors as they honoredtheir colleagues. >> reporter: five rose bushes planted in this memorial garden, a symbol of the love for the victims of thecapital gazette" shootingsings one year ago. gerald fischman, rob highsin, john mcnamara, rebecca smith and wendi winters. ♪ >> reporter: here at acton cove waterfront park in annapolis, the families of the victims and survivors of the

shootings sat together on this day of remembrance. >> i feel like the last year has been a nightmare, and i feel like i'm waking up from it except the nightmare is still he , and the house is still empty and his car is still gone. >> reporter: maryland declared day.freedom of the press photographer paul gillespie is a survivor of the "capital otgazette" shogs. >> we'll name this freedom of the press. that's a tremendous, you know, honor. too bad it took losing five of my family member to makelly evel remember them and do something to commemorate they gave up. >> reporter: the "capital gazette" says it's all together itting that this park was chosen for the memorial garden because this is where robac hyth who was killed in the shooting used to come to think before he was write his columns. >> he thought deeply about things, and that's something hat people do not tell you that journalists do.

>> reporter: at 2 p. 33 this afternoon, exactly one year ago to the minute that the shootings began, the "capital gazette" family gathered together in private for a moment of silence to remember their colleagues. reporting from annagolis, chris rdon. news 4. >> tonight there's a concert and a candlelight vigil for the victims of the "capital gazette" shooting. that starts at 7:00 at maryland hall in annapolis. everyone is welcome. > a pretty big celebration is happening to celebrate america first steps on the moon 50 years ago, and we got a sneak peek into some of the rare artifacts from the apollo missions, including apollo 11 and the national air and space museum center in chantilly. it even has a pair of neil armstrong's gloves that you see there. the museum is preparing a week of events to celebrate the historic space voyage. >> i think that thisom mt in

particular is an exciting time to look back at the history to see where we're come and use that historynf to im where we're going to go next i think. >> what you won't see just yet, neil armstrong's spacesuit. that's going to go on display july 16th for the first time in 13 years. and there will also be a free feival on the national mall. celebrations will run through july 20th. >> okay. that's pretty cool. aldi is back open tonight in district heights. the grocery store on marlboro pike held a grand reopening ceremony today. this store is 1 of 0 in the d.c. area and 1,300 across the country being remodeled and upgraded. to celebrate the reopening they offered a golden tcket giveaway handing out gift cards to the first 100 shoppers, but if you didn't make this morning, you can still enter to win a free year's surprise of aldi produce. doug's backyard weather took us to an unusual home yesterday in

rockville that's doing its part to teach folks about our anging climate. pepco's watershed exhibit is an nteractive exhibit where customers can learn what sustainability real means. the entire side is solar powered and it's a real life example of le enan gy how we move towards more clean energy. we can on the part of everyone really combat climate change as individuals and as groups, and this is alegreat examp of how we can take a home and give you examples of ways that you can change your lifestyle to help with climate change. >> the home was built by university of maryland students, and it's now open to the public. >> you can now grow a garden in your front yard in fairfax county. it used tohebe band, but t county has just passed an ordinance to change that. news 4's aimee cho takes us to annandale where some neighbors are ecstatic about this and some

not so much. >> beard's tongueover there cili. > port: h laseo pack ofa something of a pharmacy in his front yard, whether it's herbs for medicine or food for lunch his garden keeps on giving. >> this is lettuce that i'm about to eat in my sandwich. and it's actually pretty redelicious. >> r hporter: he and girlfriend ashley airers have been building the grden for a year. technically before it was allowed they wantedto help the environment. >> so lining the bottom of all these beds is that tree. >> reporter: fairfax county now giving folks the green light to grow gardens in their front yard and where thiscouple seize beauty others see something else. >> i think he's failed with his vee garden. >> reporter: valerie smith lives nearby. likes the idea of the garden, but wishes they would take better care of it. >> at least all our junk is behind >> reporter: he says he put up this fence to try and apiece his neighbors, but en so some say they are still not so thrilled

with his growing garden. >> to me at least it's not most appealing. i knowhat sensibilities like that vari from person to person. >> grapevines along the edges. >> reporter:pack osca says he ks his garden has been a prickly topic with his neighbors. >> i've met more neighbors in the past year than the previous ten i've lived here. > reporter: despite all the complaints he's still hoping beautiful friendships can bloom. >> we have no problem withhe beveemvrha dinner. we hold barbecues all the time in the back. >> barbecue and a lot of salad. i think he needs to pinthe cinder blocks green, help them blend in. >> i like the way that he phrased goat. i've en to meet a lot of my neighbors. i bet you ha check on the storms out there, and they are real kicking up, amelia. >> absolutely, jim.e we'r tracking very

rainfall. gusts potentially up to 60 miles per hour and perhaps even ad sm east of i-81 until 6:15. here's some timing for you, time line for heavy rain. 5:55 in the front royal area and moving to millwood about 6:20 and washington about 6:31. also a really impressive storm prince george's county, and parts of the district. this severe thunderstorm warning is in effect until 6:00 p.m. tonight producing a lot of rainfall, a lot of a lightning check out this lve picture in the largo, maryland area. doug and i have

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storm team 4 tracking several storms in our area. doug and amelia will join us in a few minutes with an update on e situation. a northern virginia woman is behind bars tonight accused of going to great lengths to get prescription drugs.

very's aliused of stea identities to get work in medical offices. in a story you'll see only on news 4 our northern virginia bureau chief julie carey tells ous beingicted of the crime vedn't stop this woman from trying it all or again. >> jamie joclark. that's her real name and these are the mug shots that were taken most recently in loudon and then in fairfax county. nicole whitman loudoun county's chief commonwealth attorney. >> it is unusualth in at she took someone else's identity and then got a job in a medical office. i've not personally seen anyone go to that length. >> reporter: it started in loudon when she stole her own sister's identityobo get a j at the national sports medicine institute. she worked inside this building scheduling appointments w sheas also using her boss' name, the doctor's name, to fill prescriptions at a nearby cvs

for xanax. she got caught, was fired and faced multiple charges. she pled guilty to the job atis th medical office but when the time came in december for her sentencing, she was a no show and fugitive. that's why there's this new mug shot. fairfax county investigators write in court documents that clark used a differt woman's name there to get a job at yet another doctor's office. once again, she's accused of writing prescriptions an once again she got caught.s her look at what police seized from her apartment. among the its, lots of pill bottles. wittman says prescription fraud remains a big problem. >> in terms of the efforts that substances, it's a tty steady td constant diet that we get of it here in loudoun county commonwealth attorney's office and in the courthouse. >> reporter: since clark's arrest in fairfax county though, she hasmained behind bars. she's being held without bond. in northern virginia, i'm julie carey, news 4.

>> we're getting pop-up storms left and right. >> and we saw a whole punch of them yesterday, and they seem to really pack some heat and punch. are we looking at a similar situation tonight, guys? >> that's exactly what we're looking at. we were talking about this 2:30. not a lot going on. if it pops again, 3:00, 4:00, 5:00, and here we are during the 5:00 hour,t a lo warnings out there. >> and what's interesting is very similar to yesterday, some of these storms are not moving. they are sitting inone spot, specifically prince george's and anne arundel county. >> storm team 4 radar tracking these storms. can you see numerous yellow boxes here. severe e all thunderstorm warnings that have now come out across our area. the strongest storm right now in through prince george's county, is one has got tremendous amounts of rain and has not been moving much at all over the last hour or so. actually built itself back in thunderstorm ere warning continuing there until

6:00, a new warning, this one for anne arundel county. look at all the lightning with this storm right here. i want to time this one. this one is moving miles per hour. on this track, again, incredible amountsf rain. annapolis at 6:0. if you live there, please take precautions. this right now over croston.n you caee where the warnings are, one here and one in anne arundel and another one. this includes the ea around pasadena and that as well continues until this evening, rather until about 6:30. now back to the west. not a warned storm, right between reston and the dulles toll road and then here is the line that has developed, and you can s every county within this line is now under severe thunderstorm jefferson county, loudoun county, park county and page county and fauquier county and

towards culpepper county and rappahannock and you're tracking this as it is makes its way through the area. we're not done, and if you haven't seen rain you might get it with this rain. >> the national weather service saying that broken line of thunderstorms back around i-81 is moving to the southeast at 15 miles per hour, so that's not very fast. here's some potential impact times for you.ne if this li stays on its current tracks again, moving towards the southeast at about 15 miles an hour, check it out.n mov towards rappahannock county at about 6:02 and towards bluemont and continuing on towards the purserville area and middleburg around 6:45 as well. that's the timing for this line of very heavy rainfall and potentially gusts up to 60 miles per hour. a lot of lightning as well. this is future weather inhe ext ten minutes. notice it has areas of rain out there, and we're basically looking at this the to get an ideaof whenhese shears are going to fizzle out. between 6:00 and 7:00 p.m. we continue to track areas of rain

and even 8:00 p.m., the sun is up, so we'll still see areas of rain and potentially pockets of heavy rain still out there at that point and once we hit about 9:00, 10:00 p.m. the sun goes down and we lose day time heating and lose that fuel for these storms. they will fizzle out. most areas dry by 11:00 p.m. f you're headed out, grab the umbrella, and headed out tomorrow a very similar story. looking dry during the morning day idday hours and as the wears on a chance for a thunderstorm real starts to build. there's a chance for some thunderstorms aroud during the mid-afternoon hours but especially during the late afternoon and evening hours it's going to be hot out there with a high of 94 ands thunderstorms a well. doug, it's breezy, lower humidity on sunday. we're keeping it mainly dry. high of 93 so if you're getting out in the garden on sunday it's looking quite nice. >> still on the hot side but behind that we get even better on monday we think so take a look at the high temperatures. again, tomorrow we're eecting e hottest day so far this year. tomorrow it's 94 degrees.

93 on your sunday, 89 on monday, and that's the day that we're i really look at a very nice day with low humidity and temperatures a bit above average and the heat returns on tuesday, 95 then and 96 on wednesday and fourth of july, hot and humid and a high of 94. guys, a good chance for showers and thunderstorms for the fourth of july as well. hopefully they are done by 9:00. just in time for all the ti festies, but hopefully they don't rain on our parade so to speak. much more on this and the severe weather. stay with storm team 4. we'll be right here in the storm center all evening. >> all right. we'll check back top of the 6:00. thank you. the life l ksons thatids who are part of a team or club learn stay with them throughout th lr lives. >>n harris is here to introduce us to a cheer coach who is teaching her athletes that they are perfect just the way they are. >> yeah.oi you're gng to like this one, i promise you. gail waters sister-in-lain nomated her to be a hero forr he dedication to her special a olympics ch dance team, ee that ot a chance to

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first at 6:00, a second straight night of strong storms that are popping up after our blazing hot afternoon. >> all right. these are the kinds of storms where one minute it's sunny and the next minute it's soaked. storm team 4 chief meteorologist doug kammerer tracking all these storms this evening and he joins us from the storm center with an update. >> really amazing what's going n right now, and we see this just about every summer. all you need is a little bit of boundary to develop and that means r coming together predict a thunderstorm. numerous severe thunderstorm warnings. look at this line back here in and around the blue ridge and making its way off towards the east and a severe thunderstorm warning here until 6:30.o for loun county, fauquier county and rappahannock and any county along the blue ridge and then we're looking c ridge here and a severe thunderstorm warning continues and arundel county until 6:30. a nasty storm with a lot of rain and lightning associated with se errmntorhitnd ath ano annapolis. if you live in annapolis watch

out.ng tracki a new storm around colesville. this storm came because of this storm and i'll show you that right now. another storm around reston. look what's happening here. we've got surroundries that are moving out. can you see the ring around this storm and that's air moving across the storm and look how it just creates that storm. so just as erica was saying you go from sunshine to a big storm in a matter of no ome. this is about to move right over college park and reston is getting hit hard and the storm has not been moving. we'll be tracking thetorm as we move on through the night ans we're not done just yet. a few more hours of strong storms to go. >> thank you so very much. we'll keep you updated on the air right before "nbc nightly news" and we'll give you a new weather alert right in the palm of your hand. >> now, to a store you will only see here on news 4. an unsettling new threatt the washington navy yard. >> right. 60 years after 12 people were killed in a mass shooting there, a former military member is accused of