of these thunderstorms we had a 22 degree temperature drop from 5 do 73 in about 20 minutes. so even 30 minutes. so that really feels a lot bert i think temperatures may try to come back a little bit. but, first things first let's get you through the storms because they've been taking down an awful lot of trees. and we have warnings you can see that's all lined up 95 moving east at 35 miles an hour and tremendous bament of lightning on the eastern shore and all those areas in yellow including alexandria, falls church, counties of anne arrundel, calvert, and prince george and under severe thunderstorm warnings until 5:30 and main risk gusts capable of taking down trees and limbs and we had a lot of that. there's another area under severe thunderstorm warning and it includes portions of culpeper, green, madison and orange moving east at 35 miles an hour and entire area stays under severe thunderstorm until 8:00 tonight and hopefully the way this

drops a little early. heads up on the eastern show it's headed your way and all of these little indkailters show us where we have had reports of tree damage and thunderstorms are taking down trees. i'll take a look at a couple of them including intersection of river road and west bar and that's somerset neighborhood and wisconsin avenue and woo woodmont to bethesda not necessarily chevy chase. plenty of reports like this coming in and you want to stay out of the way of these storms as they're passing on through. check out these temperatures. we were up to 95 now down to 73. but look back towards couple better land they bounce back up again too. don't be surprised to find the temperatures dip down and rise back up and good news the thunderstorm should be out of here quickly and we have relief. heat relief coming if you don't consider that heat relief with the 73. i know i do. we'll let you know if you get any other up daiingts and warnings and we'll certainly pass them on to you. laura back to you. >>

this evening about the deadly police shooting in baton rouge, louisiana the gunman that shot the law enforcement officers was clearly targeting them. >> investigators say gave inlong was heavily armed. he was carrying two rifles and a .9 millimeter hand gun and police believe if a swat team member had not shot and killed long he would have continued his killing spree. joining us live now from baton rouge is fox's isaiah carry and isaiah we want to get an update from you on this police investigation. what is the latest. well, sarah, lauren, investigators say as you guys just mentioned, gaveen long, 29 years old targeted those police officers. it happened just across the street across airline highway where you can see dozens of baton rougeians out there providing and putting down flowers and balloons that give condolences to the officers. three officers who lost their lives and three officers who remain hospitalized

we're told gave inlong came to baton rouge after making a track from dallas and houston and ended up here several days ago and came in a rental car. investigators say he was methodical, calculating, they described him die bolical and evil and say his goal was to kill police officers. we're told he would walk along airline highway in dark black clothing with that rifle or with one of those rivrlees and he would get attention of some of the passers by. individuals that would call 911 and when the officers showed up to the scene because they had a description of a man out here car writing a rifle he went behind those buildings back there and waited until they came hichtd the buildings and investigate towards say he attacked each one of those officers hitting six of them and killing at least three of them and he had a shiingt ray was in

video of him in action they had a chance to look at the video and there's no doubt in his mind his goal was to kill police officers here in bat on runl, louisiana. sarah, lauren. . >> tell us what about what's like for police now given everything that happened before the latest shooting and now to see that officers are being targeted kind of give me what the officer is here and pretty much on edge citizens aunt police department. >> absolutely. now i'm based at the fox in houston but originally from baton rouge, louisiana, and i've been talking to friends and family members and certain shocked by this they're on edge. i'm told by some there's a division now between white and black community and black community as well as the police department. and what we saw from police officers today was pain and the governor of louisiana had tiers in his eyes and

in his eyes and the police and we're told that there is a sheriff association along with association of police chiefs they're bringing more police officers in and more deputies in to provide backup for baton rouge police officers because many of them are going through counseling and we're not seeing a lot of police presence on the ground. and east baton rouge sheriff department she are on the scene there and only a few of them they're meeting and greeting some of the people bloom and flowers and not a strong heavy police presence that we would expect after a heavy shooting now as we head a lot of she's officers are in mourning right

it. >> more about the shooter he is from kansas city missouri and former marine sergeant he turned 29 yesterday the day he decided to on fire on law enforcement. long was active on social media and youtube posting videos under a pseudonym like this one. take a look. . >> you've got to fight back. that's the only way of bully knows to quit. he does not know words. he cannot understand words i promise you he doesn't understand words. >> it was posted on july 10 and long says he was in dallas at the time that was three days after the deadly ambush on officers. there well, long is not known to have any ties to specific extremist organizations and police say they found a card on long's body suggesting he was a member of the washtaw nation made up of african americans that claim to be part of sovereign native american nation within the boundaries of united states. >> we are learning more meantime about the three officers who were killed they

jackson and 41-year-old matthew gerald and brad g arafala we learned jackson was a new father, gerald as exmarine and garafalo was father of four. three more officers were injured in the ambush and one remains in critical condition baton rouge is a city on edge and police across the u.s. on high alert after the fatal shootings of officers in dallas and now baton rouge and police in today's world have turned stress -- policing has turned stressful for many cops that see themselves now as target. >> to get a better understanding how officers are coping on the job "fox5" paul wagner wept on a ride along. he's joining us live from the wheaton station with that story. they're on edge as

. >> they are, sarah, laura, since the dallas shootings i've been talking with a lot of cop cops. i've gotten to know a lot of cops over the years and they tell me they're feeling stressed and families are really feeling stressed. they feel like they are targets simply for wearing a badge we went out with officer john moorely. take a look. . >> a rock victim high and university of maryland grad and member of the national guard and we were in his cruise are a few minutes when we got the first call a minor fepder bender involving a couple with and i fant in a car seat. the parents wanted the baby checked out. age back in the cruiser we talked about the recent assault on law enforcement and baton rouge.

. >>" don't think a lot of officers on the 'roid unless veterans know what they're posed so do in these situation situations. >> as we road along we talked about what it is like to be a cop today. >> you're really never off duty doing this job. and especially when you have take home car like this and i mean even when not working everybody knows who are you and what do you and where you live. >> our second call took us to a houseness wheaton with a woman called 911 to say he was worried about human trafficking and officer morally suspected she was having mental health issues and after making sure she was okay we were back on the road. >> just making sure she's already checking her welfare and go on to the next one. . >> our third call is far more serious two cars collided near connecticut and veers mill and one of those carsnother baby in a car seat. and the air bags deployed aunt parents wanted baby checked ou out. >> if

can mind it out where they're taking her. >> officer morally had a body camera a few months now and although apprehensive about using it first now he likes it. >> honestly i like having it. if i'm on a call i don't see everything with my own eyes. >> with every cellphone equipped by a camera he skekts pob photographed at every spot what concerns him are the people that turn on a camera and god him into something confrontational. >> the cellphone doesn't get the whe side of the story only where they started videotaping it doesn't take what led up to that. >> since the shoot ningz dallas and bat on range morally says he's getting more people than thanking him for service. it's something he appreciate but more so this cop want more foam tubing him and he says don't be afraid to come up and say hi. >> people will come up and like to speak with me i would like that and help me get through the day and helps build relationships with the community 0% of interactions with people every day are good

willed. . >> while on the road today we heard over the radio one of the dispatchers telling officers someone just brought food to the station here in wheaton and said if you're hung rain want something to eat come on in, stop n we've got food. somebody wantsed to come by and thank the officers and drop off something to eat. fox new tonight dmirtz montgomery country would like this news. the governor announced he will spend more than 5 million tlarz to create an ipt change. watt kids mill road and the other will be used to relieve traffic congestion and governor will spend additional 1 million for tr

>> "fox5" veronica clearly caught up with him. i had a chance to ask him about why he made that decision. we'll have that next. laura. >> rear live at the republican national convention to sdmek in with tom fitzgerald straight head. >> and you can spot the reason people are upset about 35u8 paul ryan latest instagram report. we'll have the story ahead.

>> we continue our convention cover yaj now and one state lead whor will be notably absent from the fest activitys in cleveland is maryland governor larry hogan. >> "fox5" political reporter veronica cleary kawingtd one the governor today and asked minimum why he decided to skip the convention. veronica joins us live in northwest d.c.. hi, ver on kaxt. >> hi, ladies. well a happened full of prominent rears decided to skip this year's convention. mitt romney, jeb bush, ohio governor john okay significance and one that bring us closer to home. governor larry hogan. instead of going to convention

events in montgomery county and there i got to ask him about why he decided not to go to cleveland and i also got to learn about his thoughts on donald trump's choice for vice, take a listen. >> why aren't you in cleveland today. >> cleveland what's going on there? >> you just decided this was better way to use your time. tell me about that decision >> i don't have anything it do with cleveland but i have a lot to do with maryland we're staying fork used. governor is a freend of mine we're in the republican governor's association. i don't have any comment other than that. he's a good guy with great background and great governor. . >> well governor hogan was in gaithersburg during that q and a and toured new year's eve vacs facility we want through the area of novavacs and toured otr

other small businesses and he said that that is his focus after today's event his goal is to visit other countrys in maryland. and the republican national convention is now underway in the city of cleveland and donald trump will accept the nomination on thursday and already the town is looking more like armed camp with unpress departmented levels of security making it seem like a prison. concerns over terrorism, protesting and recent police shootings all prompting all that security "fox5" tom fitzgerald is live in cleveland tonight with more. tom, how bad is it? i know you waited in line today it took a while to get in. anybody from washington, d.c., d.c., maryland is familiar with types of high profile event security i will

have never seen anything like this. and entire one mile square area around the arena where this rep convention is held is ringed in tonight and reasons are understandable. the rift in this country right now over issues like the black lives matter protests which wept on in this city and shoot ningz bats on ruth put this city on edge especially police department. a lot this from the cleveland patrolman's association. listen to what he said about how police officers in cleveland view the latest remarks on the police shootings. . >> it's deplorable. the president has blood on his hands in our opinion the pol

on ruth and min money those comments minnesota governor should be run out of town on a rail? for making comments thaet they did one short day after those it's insightful and it validates the false narrative of black lives matter and then they escalate and this is where we're at. and call uing on ohio governor john okay significance to suspect the state on carry law. thought this area on top aft iriana there has been they're all out in force throughout cleveland especially around this arena hall. what this led to in conjunction with the protests are at times roads blocked and roving protests we also saw very long lines for both delegates and media

nobody likes a long line but the delegates from maryland told us today they appreciate the hard work to keep them safe and they're willing to put up with all the delays. >> what's it been like. >> it's been fantastic honestly at the end of the day something that needs toe happenen i feel safe and secure and in today's heightened situation i feel it's perfect. >> everybody has been secure it's been no issue at all. eye opening about how many people are here. >> yes very much so i'm blown away by the amount of people and everything else going on. >> the crowds here tonight donald trump is expected to be in the hall we're told to wish his wife well. milania trump when she deliveries herd

coming up 5:30 we'll talk to leader of trump campaign of how keep the commonwealth vote is in 2016 if trump want to one day occupy the whitehouse. tom fitzgerald, "fox5 local news". . >> our own tom fitzgerald is reporting live from the rnc and that's not just on the air. interact with tom noon, 3 p.m. and 89 p.m. each day this week and check out our new show five at 6:30 that begins ton. >> autopsy r up ahead taking the stage in ohio and hillary clinton at the naacp conventio convention. >> why she says killing of police officers is undermining cat justice reform. >> it's a bus of love and positivety. los angeles city leaders and for a summit the

amid a tense national mood. >> the most milienial campaign ever where hospitals are using emojis to teach young people about sex

>> it's like a bus going through the city bus of love we want everybody on the bus. >> two of america's hip-hop stars are rally, gang members across southern california unling people to stop the violence. the game spoke about his campaign for peace yesterday in la. >> la mayor and police chief showed up for the town hall meeting and the game and fellow rapper snoop dog are among many activist and celebrities calling for change in the response for growing violence in america's cities. >> and meanwhile, coming up, cleared

baltimore police lieu ten enter acquitted in the death of freddie gray. >> and becoming third cop to walk free in the controversial custody case. we'll tell you about the judge's decision straight ahead. >> and the heat turns up inside and out. last ditch efforts in chief hand to stop don'tald trump zika mystery in utah the first continental u.s. died from zika and they reportedly pass today to someone they didn't have sex with. >> and facebook for work a social meet york plan tested by companies all over the kupty. >> and fire department using pokemon to prevent fire dems. their new campaign ahead.

>> right now and action and protest leading up to trump's nomination this week and all eyes are on virginia for this fall. >> tom fitzgerald is liver at the convention tom how critical is the commonwealth to republicans this year. >> it's a good key question laura and sarah and i cannot under estimate how critical virginia will be for the trump campaign. typically for years virginia was a solid republican state. that has changed over the last few years. it's gone more purple as democrats moved into the torn portions especially arlen tong and fair tax and prince willia william. take a look at where they are here on the tlaevr been given prime territory on the convention. across from podium if you've been to one of these come veptio

prime real estate and that's a -- and i want to be able to make sure you have a good time at this convention and go back and spread the word about what we're trying to do in 2016 and we spoke to the man in charge of the trump effort and that would be the supervisor of prince william county board of supervisors an screw wart said despite the fact you look around this convention floor you do not frankly see a lot of people of color here stewart defend that and said it's up to delegates to go back to virginia trying to win the african-american and minority votes you. >> to show up. that's what i do prince william county bork the eastern side of the country with a lot of minority. republicans can win minority populations but we have to show up and work and minority neighbors and churches and sin going and continue to do that and got to

job of doing that and win minority populations in americ america. >> and one of the reasons they interest to do that is and republicans need to reach out to groups they previously struggled to get to come to their side of ballot m koxting up we'll be back at 6 with another live report. in cleveland, tom fitzgerald. >> thanks very much. as expected protesters taking to the streets of cleveland. they were granted permits to far are parade. and trying try to keep pretest areas way from those geping the black lives matter and one woman was arrested during a rally today. and there's roughly 5500 law enforcement

for the convention. >> in the race for a white house hillary clinton is condemning yesterday's shooting that killed three police officers in baton rouge clin top spoke at naacp convention in cincinnati and said recent killings of police officers is undermining efforts to enact criminal justice reform we have difficult work ahead of us to repair the bonds between our police and community and between and among each other we need one another. >> civil rights group invited donald trump to speak at their convention and does he klipd the invitation. . >> and four prosecutions and so far zero convictions in the death of freddie gray the latest verdict came this morning a baltimore judge ruled

lieutenant brian rice is not gettive wrong doing in gray's arrest and death and rice was the highest ranking officer charged we hear more now from "fox5" bob barnard. >> prosecutors have now 0-4 in their cases again the six baltimore police officers charmed in the death of freddie gray. today's not guilty verdict not surprising anybody. >> 42-year-old baltimore police lieutenant brian rice arrived at the courthouse toss learn his fate after 9 a.m. and soon found not getty on all three counts involuntary mant, reckless endangerment and misconduct in office. and it's clearly result of rus rushed prosecution. if it lasts a mere few weeks these cases may take weeks to investigate and this is rushing to bring charges. >> cara roland was in court when barry williams explained his decisi

>> he started methodically going through each charge and he said what the prosecution would have needed to prove for all charges. >> a few community members stood outside waiting for latest verdicts queue let i holding signs calling for justice with freddie gray. >> i commend mosley for putting her career on the line and charming officers. she picked up the ball and dropped it. >> brian rice the most senior in rank of the six baltimore police officers charged in the death of 25-year-old gray and three other officers were in the courtroom today. garrett miller and edward niro and ceasar goodson. goodson left court saying nothing to reporters and he and niro acquitted during earlier bench trials. >> there's nothing to hope for anymore it's gone. >> the next officer set to stand trial is garrett miller due in court in nine days and in baltimore, bob barnard, "fox5 local news".

baltimore fraternal order of police issued a statement saying in part we are pleased judge williams found lieutenant brian rice not guilty of all charges and as anticipated the facts spoke for themselves and lieutenant rice's actions were found to be reasonable based upon the situation that he and the other officers faced and we again strongly urge mrs. mosby to stop the malicious prosecution against the three remaining officers based upon the evidence presented in previous trials and we're certain the remaining plea officers will be found not guilty.. >> and fox 35 in the district tonight. carey moments this past weekend for elderly residents in northwest. gun shots rang out 10:30 last night garfield terrace a senior citizens apartment building in the 2,000 block of 11th street and as you can see onebility hit a resident's window and we spoke with that person who was home with the fiancee at the time. >> i heard the gun

out and i went back to the darment and she said baby there's a hole in the window you should have gotten -- could have gotten shot shot. i looked not only was there a big hole this size right here there's a fragment in the window also right so it had not been for double window pane i could have gotten shot. >> this morning he went to rental office to report the incident and was told to report to maintenance. he's angry with garfield terrace because of the lack of the concern for the safety of the people that live there. >> a new report out of russia says russia operate aid state sponsored drug program that benefitted athletes that compete in the summer and winter olympic games and world anti-doping agency says the country sports ministry helped cover up doping by athletes by tampering with urine samples and alleged doping took place between 20 12e and 2015 and international olympic committee is reviewing report and expected to announce any sanctions or bans

tomorrow. the ioc decision could affect russia participation in the rio olympic games which start next month. >> and congratulations they still meet the k-9 class of 2 2016. they're so cute. eight laboratories successfully completed 11 weeks of rigorous training in narcotics detection and here they are posing for class pictures on the steps of training september they are was earlier this month and these pups are very accomplished and they came from guiding eyes from the blind which is in new york. >> and coming up, off grid parenting why these parents say they don't give their kids medicine, school routine or bedtime. lot of kids like that. and body shaming batsle a woman fights back tonight against a playboy model after posted a picture getting dressed in a rocker room and where one hospital it promoting

assault to young adults with emojis. >> and storms hoovering to eastern parts of delaware and a lot of wind damage in the storm's wake. i'll go overall the reports coming in next as well as look at forecast for the rest of this evening. finally a brief break in the heat and hutty and third and next heat wave it's only days away. i'll have all that in the 7 day forecast coming up

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this recent episode of the "imsons" focusing on nass tall gentleman and mobile game pokemon government as you can see even homer simpson cannot take his eyes off the game. >> funny. >> love it. >> meanwhile as much as pokemon go is driving people nuts here is a brilliant use of the game or marketing tool. fairfax county professional firefighters and paramedics posted this fet owe own their facebook page with this message "spread the word we're trying to con frirm reports the sound of smoke detector may cause the pokemon go toop spawn a rare chizzard report back and let us know if this is true" well played fairfax firefighters and paramedics well-played. so, that's to get you testing your fire smoke protect tore. >> serve trying to make use of that any way they can to get their message out there go right ahead.

outside where you can see it's raining out there from tower cam. >> hopefully that will drive some of the humidity away. gosh, caityln can we get rid of it. >> i know it's been tough to be outdoors the past few days with humidity briefly yes this evening the real relief comes tomorrow and wednesday. wednesday definitely looks like bet day when it comes to heat and humidity relief. outside right now, temporary relief from showers and thunderstorms that moved through along a severe squall line that kased a lot of wind damage that ripped through northern virginia and district itself and then ra long the bay and now heaviest rain and lightning pushing east of us to section of delaware. no more severe thunderstorm warnings for our area and one out for dover and a son ton of light eggen with the storms and heavy rain and they were moving so quickly we didn't have a flash flooding nraet but sometimes when you're fast moving squall lines actually note of the time you get a lot of high winds. damaging wind at that and we have trees down and wires down across the district in several spots and zooming inside the beltway

rain behind the actual line of showers and thunderstorms and still raping sdeenltsly up towards northeast d.c. and fak home apark to prince george county and south of there too eingts east of mount vernon and st. mary county having reports of damage too. here's the back edge on western side of the beltway. once that pushes through i think we're rain free for the rest of tonight. but you can see some of us will be doing cleanup. this map behind me showing storm reports which are actually all these little dots of whipped damage reports and they extend along the whole line of the storms 2459 began earlier this afternoon near cumberland, maryland along the blue ridge east to fauquier county and southern district and southern maryland and to the bay. unfortunately if you have the old trees on property it's easy for them to come down with the 630 miles an hour wind gusts and adam morgue and and and tacoma areas around d.c. we've gotten officials reports of trees down at different ipt section. may be tough to get around this evening, too, be

that. a line of storms goes through and it only exists in yellow where you see this yellow shitding basically extreme southern maryland northern neck of virginia to eastern shore, delaware, south jersey and towards philadelphia. temperatures dropped significantly behind these storms as they tend to do rain cooled air overhead. 7 washington and 7 gaithersburg. it was 93 degrees. storm are reaching 80s hugging southern delaware. there 73 mannasas. and look at this. behind the storms sun comes back out so quickly it's already 90 degrees in cumberland and we'll have a steamy and warm evening couple hours of daylight once the rain passes and storms die down it stays humid this evening and warm. we'll clear out overnight and then later on tomorrow. him the actual cold front with drier air coming in a break in humidity. so tuesday storm is not out of the question with the actual front coming through. it will

not as hot as earlier today. high temperatures in 80s. low humidity. that should be a beautiful day. >> for at some time these early storms clearing and we have showers rights now and within the next hour we clear out the d.c. area and see late day sunshine and that gives way to mild night. 75 for overnight low temperature and storms moving out and tomorrow morning mix of surprise and clouds and again afternoon hours could be a sure or thunderstorm along this fronts and not as hot and juicy outside tomorrow as it was today and winds are out of the northwest that limits our severe threat for tomorrow afternoon which is g i don't think anyone else want to deal with trees down. 90 stom. look at 87, sunny, nice on wednesday and but oh, yeah here we go again if gets holter. 91 on thursday and that signals beginning of third heat wave of season. 96 fri. 98 both saturday and sunday incredibly hot weekend. close to if not getting triple digits

that as we head to the weekend a little early to say now. it will be very, very warm and leakly weekend where we might start to see heat advisories and warningings go up. hard to believe we are talking about a weekend hotter than the past two. . >> what? >> i know upper 0s to possibly 100 degree readings. >> is it possible. >> i know. >> yeah. >> so you know we're just summer took a while to get here and now the term turz are stick around. >> will carry a fan around everywhere i go. >> it would not hurt. >> getting that back. >> not a bad idea. >> i'll sprits awe long the wa way. >> thank you. >> up ahead we're talking about a viral selfie posted by speaker paul house speaker paul ryan and it's causing quite a bit of controversy online. >> sure is and why companies are now using facebook for work emails.

. >> you have seep this next severally pretty popular on social media and got a lot of backlash. house speaker paul ryan post today it shows group of congregational interns and what stood out to social media critics how overwhelmingly undiverse the photo s typically facebook is used as escape from work and now it will be soon excused as a way to help co-workers communicate with each other. users create a separates profile for work and that gives them access to event and features and users can only see and interact with other employees at the company and new service allow us to talk about projects via instant messenger a cents you event notification when you have a meeting. it's set to go live this fall if successful it could replace office email. >> interesting. >> meanwhile, health officials are using emoji

young people to practice safe sex. new york public hospitals are behind the safe sex campaign targeting campaigns through emogis and images of birds, be bees and suggestive plant. >> oh, boy. >> under emogi is headline need to talk to somebody bay bridge. it health officials hope the campaign will encourage teens to look into the types of confidential sexual health services available them. >> maybe if you speak their language. >> exactly. >> think don't have somebody to talk to the birds and bees about it may be a good way toe do it. >> straight ahead today's top headlines you may have missed. >> "fox5" on the fly is

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to die with zika passed it to a caregiver. now health officials are wondering how it is spread. there was no sexual contact. >> off grid parenting one couple says that's what they call all natural approach to raising kids. adele and matt allen say no to doctorsens and mainstream schools and dwro breastfeeding. >> getting ugly kanye and tata at it again. kanye's wife kim record the conversation. >> i appreciate you telling me about it it's mice. >> now the aftermath. swift says she never heard all the lyrics of the song which say i made that b famous and now that sneaky snap chat could land kanye and kim in court. >> big backlash for playboy model

a photo of naked woman on snap chat sayingfy cannot unkey this you cannot either florida woman saying unsee this danny christine blackman coast post ed her own candid shot saying it's more beautiful. plaqueman's post has gone vira viral. mean while what is up with men's fashion week and ruvrle and lace. >> thanks for being us with. "fox5 local news" at 6 starts now.

. >> we're on the weather watch tonight at popup thunderstorms move throughout ream sglon take a look at video from bethesda a tree fell over took down power lines with it and you can see right there there are looks like first responders out there trying to guide people around all the mess that's going on out there and similar scenes like this all across the region tonight and sue palka is the worst of this over now. >> shawn absolutely it is and there's a couple of warnings and this was bonafide squall line fired up by 95 degree heat and humidity and it came through with attitude and sguingts to 50, 60 miles an hour taking down a lot of trees and literally dozens of reports of trees coming down tonight and as mentioned the worst is just about over. and the back emof the rain as cleared the back portion of roadway and worst of the storms now over tortd dover and georgetown areas heads up ocean city and bethany and everyone else out at the beaches headed your way and there are still two severe thunderstorm warnings one of which in southern st.

lot of lightning. gusts of 50 to 60 capable of taking down trees and heads up in that area and this for orange in spotsylvania smul portions of spotsylvania until 6:15. once again storm here is moving east at about 25 miles an hour and it could also produce those strong winds creating damage. another look to d.c. you can see starting to clear out in montgomery county, western portions of fairfax, loudoun and it will be it for the night and we also wanted to show youal the tremendous numbers of storm reports all of these lights blue balls indicate writing wind damage has been received. so this has been long lived as the storms began up west of interstate 1 and have been taking down trees in their entire path i expect that to continue for the next little while. good newsment start sod see severe thunderstorm watch scaled back. for most of d.c. it's over. still in effect parts of s mary and calvert and i bet those go