right now, independence day eve.c ebrations shaping up ahead of the holiday. we have a sneak peek of the show you'll see tomor >> will it rain on your e'arade?

wll show you the timing of the storms as they move on through that could affect your day. >> plus, fire work frenzy. lit up and lobbed at a police officer. we've got a look at the wild new video and a mother's warning about a flesh eating bacteria herson caught while swimming at a beach that mayure yo next vacation spot. we're getting you ready for the fun of the fourth of july. we'll have the fireworks, the hotdogs and the red, white and blue. >> with all of that comes the military flyovers, concerns that tanks could damage our roads and a speech from the president. he's promised it will be a first of its kind. >> but there are some concerns about the weather and what to do about it.

let's get to jackie bensen. she's got some tips for folks who may be getting prepared. >> you cannot bring umbrellas,bl porta tents, any type of shelter with you to the national mall. so if you are coming here tomorrow, you should have a severe weather plan. >> the sunset on a warm and lovely summer evening and people began streaming on to the grounds of the west front to enjoy the dress rehearsal for the pbs show, a capitol >> thursday's weather may not be as co erative. they describe their back-up plan of the. >> i d research on the internet. you only go around once. let's splurge othe hotel. i founds the embassy road hotel

and they have a wonderful fourth oflyndju a wonderful roof top terrace. >> knows on or near the wall will be called irvo see in the event an evacuation becomes necessary due to weather. the park service strongly encourages eryone planning to celebrate on the national mall to sign up for the tex notification to get updates on weather and lost children aouncements. text july 4 dc to 888-777 to partaipate. a small correction that my friend at the national parks service will want me to tell you, umbrel s under 36inches. the little packable ones are permitted. that's important to know. if you are bringing litt ones, you might want to familiarize yourself with the buildings here that you'll be asked to take

shelter in in the event of an evacuation emergency. a dangerous weather emergency. you can find them b downloading the app and searching rain shelter. live on the national mall. news4.t >> a grea tip there. thank you. here's a quick reminder if you need a ride home. lyft is offering free rides to help disturb drunk driving. we'll link you to it in our nbc washington app. turning to our weather now, the all important forecast.on jackie menti we may be seeing some severe weather out there. we're o a roll. >> we're looking ahead to what we should expect and when. >> wait and watch what will be happening. if you see mother nature bringing fireworks, you want to make sure you get inside. h wee some showers and storms

out there. we're showing some of these mostly into northern virginia accident back toward the blue ridge. some shower activity around fredericksburg. you can see what' all of this is on the light side. we only saw a couple of storms. most of us stay dry. a very unsettled pattern. it is working our way. a dry morning start. mother wi spread storms tomorrow and a good chance of a few severe storms with very heavy rain. we'll time it up for your hou by hour. we'll talk about your chances in your area. we've been working for you, keeping an eye on the roads for you. this is a time lapse of the back-ups leading to the bay bridge. >> the worst congestionhe at the bridge. everything cleared up pretty quickly.

let's get a live look right now. it is wide open. s just smoothiling for everybody. it makes you wonder what be back. over the weekend. if youe staying here in town for the holiday, get ready for some big canges on the road. the memorial brid and dozens of streets down will b closed a few hoursw. from melissa has more on what she needs. we're talking about sections of constitution avenue and part of rock creek parkway. we want to expect heavytraffic d delays down in general throughout the area because of so many different events.

the lanes will reopen in a southbound direction to get m. rybody home around 9:00 p so that will be helpful. another good thought. metro might be your best bet if you avoid allhese traffic troubles. >> keep in mind, not just the roads being impacted. the july 4 celebrations shutting down flights at vague national airpor the air traffic will stop again between 9:00 and 9:45. the fireworks show, also the flight operations for the military flyover we told you about. a new location at west potomac park is now closer to reagan's flight path. >> no matter where you man to celebrate, we'll be there for you. we'll have a list of all the

fireworks shows in our area so open it up and search fourth of july. >> a m with a lit fire work here in forestville. an accomplice recorded ihe ident on his cell phone. fortunately, that officer was not injured in saturday night's incident. >> hew wilder more of that video and some reminders about where just buying fireworks could get you into trouble. >> prince george's police say n they have a interest for the people in the video. watch the person who crossed the stet toss a lit fire work at the prol cruiser. then the fires work goe off. no one was injured. but prince george's chief of police says the department will acot tolerate attks on the officers. obviously throwing fireworks ate anyon is illegal in prince george's county, no fire work of ny kind is legal. throughout the dmv, fireworks

laws vary slightly. but the first is true for everyone watching right now. any firecracker that explodes, cherry bombs, roman cancedles, e illegal. now let's move around forore specifics. in montgomery county, all fireworks, even sparklers are illegal. your only legal option, the snap and pop noise makers or party poppers. you can use gold label sparklers. in arlington, here's what you cannot light off. anything tt is a projectile, explodes, or has sparks greater than 12 feet. it is pretty much the same as arlington. the city of alexandria does not aly fireworks at all. in loudoun, you can use stationary sparklers on the ground. and sparklers are okay but anything that explodes is not.

the bottom , lineyour best bet is to grab a lawn chair and a bottle of water and enjoy a show. one man is dead ater a crash in montgomery county. police say a car collided with a truck that was puck a trailer carrying sod. the driver of the red car was pulled but he is not yet en identified. the druk driver was treat for minor injuries there on the scene. police say they don't know what caused the crash but people say this intersection was a trouble spot because of eeding in the area.ls new detai on a deadly jet ski accident in anne arundel county that killed a married couple from reston. chopper 4 was there at the scene. thorities say the couple was riding together on the jet ski when they hit a buoy around 2:00 in the morning. fire officials recovered the bodies in the south river in

edgewater. neither of them was wearing a lifejacket at the time. it turns out there had been six deaths on anne arundel county waters in less thanweek. >> that's not the only concern on the water this holiday week. tonight, a health alert after a young boy contracted a form of a flesh eating bacteria near ocean city. that boy had been swimming in the bay close to assateague state park. the next morning his mom said he boke one these red spots all over his dy. she post the disturbing images on facebook as a warnin the official name for this bacteria is neck necrotizing. it is usually contracted through open wounds and researchers say it is getting moremmon as thet

waer temperatures rise. if you're headed to the beach for july 4th, officials tell us it is safe to swim. you need to take ecautions. especially if you have an open cut. >> a high profile murder case.ge a j in montgomery county ordering a new psychological evaluation for a mother charged with kling her two children. katherine had been in a psychiatric hospital ever sincei her cldren went missing five years ago. the bodies have never been found. she's been deemed incompetent to stand trial but prosecutors say they think she's faking her illness. today the judge ruled the prosecenors can have their op psychiatrist evaluate hogle. did y have trouble on facebook or tonight they're up running smoothly. facebook tweet, thewere where people were having some issues on the app. some users couldn't view or uploadideo or pictures.

instagram and what's app which are both owned by facebook experienced t same problems. about 12 hours later, both platforms tweeted the app issues had been resolved. no word yet on what caused the outage. still ahead, a bourbon blast. aware house full of whiskey, up in flames. and tonight, it is not just the drinks that are damaged. >> the environmental impact is the bigger emergency.> >>plus, rock 'n' roll at the home of the burgundy and gold. it transformed with the rowing stones. plus -- burger beast. a mother of fourn de her title. just wait until yo

louis alvarez spent his day. hundreds gathered for the police detective's funeral. they've fought tirelessly for them. alvarez developed cancer attributed to hitime spent on e pile at ground zero. he testified last month before congress, barely able to speak. he pleaded with lawmakers to fund the victims compensation fund permanently. the son said he dreams now one day to join thenypd. he was 53 years old. 've got anupdate on that massive fire at this jim beamng agiacility here in kentucky. this is what it looks like now. two buildings, flattened after the fire late last nightoy

destr 45,000 gallons of booze. the facility fits just outside of lexingt. they believe a lightning strike may have caused the blag. the state environmeal workers say it could create low oxygen levels that could have a serious impact on the aquatic life n theriver. we're learning new details about another shoppers set to close. they said at seven corners and falls church, they'll begin a liquidation sale monday. they expect to it last through august 3rd. it will be turned into a giant food store. many shoppers employees have been protesting. thy're saying the company has been keeping they will in the dark about which stores are the ones closing. >> the rolling stones at fedex field. check it out. you c see the massive screens

there. they are six stories igh. it took nearly 300 people over multiple days to transform the stadium. the concert was originally set for memorial day but it was delayed for mick jagger's heart surgery. can you believe it? he was back on he staining ju weeks after the surgery. >> and he exercises so many hours a day and then he goes out and does that. do you like burgers? maybe not after this record breaking event. molly is her name. she won the burger championship in northwest the d.c. today. she took down 32 sandwiches in ten minutes. that demolished the previous record of 28. >> is she chewg or sucking

them down? winning is nothing new. she's done it five years in a row. she beat 13 other competitors from all over the country and snagged $1,500. those look like dry burgers. no catch-up or mustard or h 2 o to get them down. >> what would you t 35 of? >> not hamburgers. well, french fries. >> that works.tu >> temperare in the 90s. not a ton of storms. we didee a few develop out therehis afternoon and evening. they didn't hamperany fireworks going on. take a look at these. i love these. the boatsere out of bounds. hopefully serve doing it safely

out there this evening. streets a pretty nicenight. it's 11:00. the winds at six miles per hour. just read what's on the screen and everything will be okay. martins burg, 74.av we do h some shower activity to the stwe. over toward loudoun c nty, that's about it. tomorrow, a different story. i want to widen out here you see not a lot for us. have you seen the spin in the atmosphere? that will make it our way. that willh combine withe wind off the ocean and that will give us a lot more in the way of storm chances and heavy rain

chances, too. tomorrow morning, no problem. hopefully, many are able to sleep in durin theorning hours tomorrow. by noon, we start to see some showers. lots of cloud cover. look at 3:00. area wide storms tomorrow. and ye some of these could be strong. a couple of showers around 6:00. it may be a little wet so that's something to think about. if four fourth of julyecast is looking pretty good in most areas. i think we'll get most of the fireworks off. be ready for some of them to be stponed or delayed. 87 degrees. 85 by 9:00. that's when most areoing home. here's a couple of tips. bring a tarp or a chair. you don't want to bring the b n

blanket, the ground could be wet. go indoors. go indoors. we'll have thunder every single hoy. and humid conditions, too. much better conditions as we make our waynto earlyext week, monday, tuesday, wednesday. all looking good. that's a new one. stephen strasburg was on his "a" game. see if the nats could get

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we're remind that had the rlins are again the second worst team. >> don't take away from it. celebrate ter way to the fourth of july than by being by the pool, have a beer? mthe nats are in theiddle of a 12-gamstretch with a winning percentage no better than 38% including the marlins who they've now beaten five sraight times. stephen straurg on the hill this evening. he had a fourtof july inning to member. untouchable. it is called an immaculate inning. the first such in his career. he went 7 1/3 scoreless, striking up 14. the second most in his career.

brian dozier facing all-star sandy alcantara. 2-0. gives j.t. riddle on strike. you hit a batter to make it 1. then he faceser ya and gets him swinging. yep, they win it 3-1. >>e th fastball, both sides with the change-u threw some good curveballs. when he could throw it the way he wants. you know, i like to be nice here. the three-run shot in t fourth. that makes it 3-1.

he chopped one to third. that's a go-ahead run. they add a bunch more. baltimore wins it 9-6. the u.s. women are already in the world cup final. we know this. they face the winner of e netherlands and sweden. no scoring in the regulation m gae. we go to extra time. jackie with the go-ahead goal. that is the difference in the second world cup appearance. the americans fa on sunday in paris. and wimbledon today, the 15-year-old coco gauff back in action after taking on williams. aft winning the first set, coco serving in the second. a back hand winner there. come on, she's streaming. she's feeling it. to match point.

she hits it into the net. coco gauff, becomes the youngest woman to reach wimbledon, third round since 1991. tria, that's jennifer cap roti. up 1-0 in the first half. the winner will take on mexico in the final. a big sunday for us. we'll all be watching. >> we will. come on. they've made three straight world cup finals. the first ever to do that.

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