stafford county, north of fredericksburg, that is where we saw the rain and quite a bit of lightning popping up from this cell in parts of calvert county. not a severe storm, plenty of thunder nearby and heavy rain. this continues to move to the east, southeast. not a lot of lightning with the rain, charles county, same story. not looking for any more severe thunderstorms from this, but not out of the question that you get gusty wind. the feels-like temperature this evening, still feels like 100 degrees fredericksburg, 92 95ntico, 94 warrenton, leesburg. it is hot and muggy and will stay that way most of the night. the rain moving up high about midnight, all done. the heat not going anywhere, and still looking at storms for the fourth. more about that coming up in about 10 minutes. kimberly: stay ahead of the bad weather and find out when it is moving in by getting alerts sent to your phone. sign up at wjla.com/text. 6:00, a child claims that a d.c. police officer behind the wheel of a cruiser hit his bike, then left the scene. looking into thursday's incident on otis place northwest

farfall totals today, thus over one inch and culpeper with fredericksburg just shy of one inch and a half inch past river. almost three inches of rain. we are not out of the woods. additional rainfall is possible through the evening. you can see the steadier rainfall south of east of the i-95 corridor, this red and orange could indicate upwards of one inch or more within one hour. possible sooadways give yourself extra time and take it easy through the afternoon. we are catching a break for some of us, especially near fredericksburg, the main area we will watch through the afternoon because we could be talking gusty thunderstorms with some of this clearing. showers continue near hagerstown , to the north, moderate to heavy rainfall. you can see about 2:00, 3:00, more rainfall on the way. i will talk about this more in the extended forecast. adrianna: thank you or the update. for up to the minute weather alerts download our stormwatch 7 app, especially for days like today so you can know what to door. president trump is in germany on the eu for the g 20 summit. the schedule features m

more over south of fredericksburg. ultimately it is going to work out to the benefit for the weekend. it's not as humid and there will be plenty of sunshine. the next ten days 94 for the day. another weather alert day. there is 80% chance of showers and storms over the weekend. monday and tuesday are back in low 90's with the thunderstorm chances. hot again. mid-90's. thunderstorm in the region for thursday and friday. back to you. michelle: thank you. michelle: it's so hot to play tennis. alison: venus williams doesn't get old and she has a chance to make history again. and paid player in d.c.? yeah, sports is next. i need the phone that's where i happen to be... to be the one that rings. i need not to be missed phone calls... to not be missed. i need seamless handoff... canyon software. from reception, to landline, to mobile. i need one number... not two. i'm always moving forward... because i can't afford to get stuck in the past. comcast business. built for business. robert: wizards made it official. they matched o

it's 95 in fredericksburg and it will feel warmer than that. in the weekend. it's 98 for friday and saturday. chances of thunderstorms for friday, saturday. monday still in 90's but the high of 92 with a chance of the storms. then it will break monday night. check out. i will move out of the way. you can see everything. look at that. 86, 85. so mid-80's. lower humidity for a good chunk of next week. that curly w is when the nats return. talk to larry, alison and robert. alison: thank you. larry: five-game win streak. looking good. alison: good stuff. robert: good stuff here. inspiring tell that is amazing and inspiring. the story mostly for inspiring. meet daniel rodriguez, our coach of the week. >> you got to score on this drive. robert: as a kid, daniel rodriguez was headed in the wrong direction. barely graduated from high school. to make matters worse, four days later his father passed away. >> i just like i have to do something with my life. robert: he did. from 2006-2008, he served in iraq. from 2009-2010, afghanistan. >> it was where i was part of one o

stafford to fredericksburg. even a few embedded areas of heavier rain off around west of us around the remington area. coming up we will take a look at the forecast for the overnight hours and we are tracking showers and thunderstorms for the day tomorrow. freshly updated fut minutes. alison: all right. we'll see you then. developing now investigators are looking for the cause of an explosion that took place at eglin air force base near pensacola, florida. no one was seriously hurt but the blast destroyed a lab that was in a building there on the base. for several hours people were warned to stay indoors because of this. look at the large cloud. it contained methyl chloride. that chemical has dissipated. larry: the fallout from the gory photo of brian sean -- katy griffith continues. she had an hour-long interview with the secret service a month after she released a photo of herself holding a severed trump head. alison: an assassination is how the new york police commissioner is describing the ambush that killed

look at that. 99 for fredericksburg. some of those numbers could easily push 100 degrees.ardless of whether or not they do it's that real feel temperature that will that certainly be above 100 later on this afternoon. heat advisory starts at noon. we'll show you that map in a few minutes. that's weather. erin como is back with traffic. >> on-time traffic brought to you by toyota. visit buy a toyota.com for special offers. >> 5:07 on this thursday morning. inner loop crash at georgia avenue. caution there. at least one lane still blocked. good newsily is traffic is not slowing past that scene because volume is so light and outer loop looks good. 95 baltimore-washington parkway quiet if you're heading toward the baltimore beltway today. va3, virginia three a crash in spotsylvania. all westbound lanes closed. that's at cherry road. caution t by but a crash investigation,ti, then on 270 traffic is still flowing freely in both directions through germantown urbana. things looking good in rockville and gaithersburg this morning. if you have an early flight at dulles or reagan nat

at noon is feels like 96 in fredericksburg and 94 in washington and 96 in leesburg. everyone lagging behind will catch up. these are computer will be and what it will feel like and according to models here we'll peak out 105 degrees in washington around 4:00 and doesn't mean the exact time or numbers but gives you a clue to where we're heading and even more so tomorrow the air tmps will be warmer and the break with light showers. right now the large area of clear skies have extended in metro washington and temperatures will rise. i don't think we'll see much more than an isolated shower later today and 30% chance tomorrow maybe but the jackpot comes with the cold front on friday. 97 degrees in the future cast for this afternoon on the thermometer and temperatures stay very warm and muggy tonight, upper 70's to 80. tomorrow mid to upper 90's and there's a representation of some afternoon showers and storms and even more so on friday when the front kicks into gear. as far as friday's storms, there is a slight chance of severe weather up towards the baltimore area and b

in fredericksburg, virginia.id, news 4. >> he's doing it. >> yes, he is. >> you know, a month today you're going to experience something really rare and fabulous. the moon is going to pass and an e collapse. >> take a look at this. the dc area will be close to the storm team 4, chuck bell explains what makes this e collapse so special. >> first continent crossing, total solar eclipse in north america since 1918 will occur on august 21st. >> during the solar eclipse, we have a unique view. we're able to see it invisible light -- and that's the only time we can do that. >> this is something special even for those who studied the sun for a living. >> i've been studying the coro na for 20 plus years. >> it's the outer part of the sun's atmosphere. >> it's very almost silky-like structure that's coming out. that's a special region of the sun for us to study. and the reason is because that is where space weather comes from. it can impact communications, satellites, there can be hazardous to astronauts. >> there are a l

there's no warnings yet, but howard, we're tracking big storms through fredericksburg.ings on those in a minute. in the meantime, this goes until 9:00. here's a look at the radar over the last hour. heavy thunderstorms, in some cases severe. east of 95 through anne arundel, prince george's county, hovering on either side of 95 once you get back toward dale city. we still have the severe thunderstorm warning in effect. it does include upper marlboro and that goes until 5:45. prince george's county and anne arundel county has one now until 6:15 up to the north there. pretty good lightning. remember, it's summer time, kids are outside playing. if you hear thunder you have to get the kids inside. these aren't severe, but it's going to slow you on your way home. from alexandria back toward

and here's jp. >> we have been tracking these since they formed west of fredericksburg. let me show you what we're talk about. over 60,000 feet tall. this one over port royal with the lightning, you see the top of the scale, 60,000 feet, and we hail, that's one of the concerns with the storm, not just the storminess, not just the winds but the hail as well. and i want to just show you there. we have hail close to an inch east of port royal, so this is what we're looking at right now with the storm until 7:00. back to you. >>> the good news is we have seen the storms exiting, so yellow weather alert for severe storms for a while. severe storm watch east until 9:00 and then threats are still damaging winds and flash flooding. good news, a nice weekend and not as humid. here is future cast. by 7:30, most heavy and severe weather across the bay. still some residual showers in prince george's county. 7:30 we're in the 70s with dry conditions but tropical. 7:00 a.m., back in the 70s tomorrow morning. it's going to be warm to hot tomorrow but not going to be humid tomorrow. tem

an 18-year-old woman after a shooting in fredericksburg.re 9:00, officers received reports of gunshots not far from dixon park. >> fredericksburg police say they found the woman was shot in the head. police have not received any suspect information. they do ask anyone with information to call police immediate immediately. >>> a woman is recovering after she was stabbed on a popular trail. >> mean details. megan, good morning. >> reporter: good morning guys. police returned to the scene of the crime. investigators are at the entrance to this path where the incident happened yesterday morning. they're talking to folks walking by, people using the path, either jogging or walking dogs. they're trying to find out information about exactly what happened yesterday. about 7:30 in the morning, a woman was using this path which runs right adjacent to vaiden drive. a man came up from behind and stabbed her in the neck and then ran away. police saying that this is a completely random and unprovoked attack. certainly, very disturbing for folks who use t

look at fredericksburg at 105.t's why much of the area, now, under a heat advisory right on through 8:00 tonight. with that heat index value around 105 that includes everybody east, including all. we have seen a couple of showers and a couple of storms and not really going on here down to the south. we're looking at a couple of showers, that's about it, though, the wider picture, we've got severe thunderstorm watches new york in philadelphia. nothing in our area, i'm tracking this little system here, this little spin in the atmosphere. we can see a line develop across our region and move through around 7, 8:00, that's something i'm going to be watching very closely. now we don't have a lot going on. i think we can see that later this evening. maybe a couple of storms you see here, they're through by around 9:00, behind this system, well, we get through tomorrow. tomorrow we'll start off sunshine. it's going to be hot tomorrow morning as it was today. around noon, 1:00, no big deal, tomorrow afternoon, i think a pre

currently, near that 105 degree number around the dc metro area sitting at 105 right now. 105 fredericksburg. 101 in baltimore. 103 and we're baking, for sure, the hottest day easily so far this year and i saw actual high temperature so far of 97 degrees. something else is tracking, the storm to the north. there was severe thunderstorm watch up here. there's going to be boundary coming through here. i think we'll see a good chance for strong storms later this evening. we have one storm in our area. this is right now crossing over the bay bridge, if you're out there towards the bay bridge, you're thinking about cross kin it. it will go across and once you get back down towards cambridge, you'll be okay. another storm down towards saint mary's county. we'll see a better chance of storms tomorrow. strong storms moving likely tomorrow. a much nicer weekend coming up, we'll talk about that as well. >> all right. and the best to stay inside, if you can. and we have 13 great events that are happening this weekend, this weekend, that are going on inside. we just shared them on our washington faceboo

again 76 in washington, 81 though for quantico. 76 in fredericksburg this hour.ndreds we had earlier this week but still some high numbers. 95 for d.c. t-97 for leonardtown. here's your forecast for the next couple days. 92 degrees your high in washington. tomorrow look at that. relief is here. less humidity, 85. all right, that's a check of the forecast. over to erin como for traffic. >> well, 5:38. rock creek parkway reopened near virginia avenue. traffic getting by. we had earlier high standing water. keep in mind in laurel we have a downed tree eastbound 198 the ramp to northbound baltimore-washington parkway closed. so you'll have to enter at a different point this morning. aside from that bw parkway does look pretty good in both directions. also problem free on 95 right now. however as you make your way out storm damage. eight is closed in both directions between the bay bridge and bay city. a lot of other problems in the area secondaries dealing with debris, power outages. bay bridge is getting by. any questions at erin fox5 d.c. on twitter. back to you wi

washington,e 89 in 90 in fredericksburg. area, 89-92iewing will be the air temperatures. 90-94, the feels-like temperature's. maybe an isolated storm. we will talk about the rain chances for the next week and our 10-day outlook coming up very shortly. adrianna: breaking news from montgomery county, an andrew air force base to make an emergency landing. that happened at the lee jordan field in takoma park. officials believe the reason was a maintenance issue, and there are no reports of any injuries. developing now, president trump's oldest son, thrust into the spotlight after a report revealed donald junior met with a russian lawyer tied to the kremlin after his father clinched the gop nomination. as emily rao reports, trump junior thought the lawyer had damaging information on hillary clinton. >> welcome to moscow! emily: eight miss universe connection initiated a meeting between donald trump's inner circle and a russian lawyer with ties to the kremlin. responding to a "new york times report," don junior first told abc news

cherry road, all lanes still blocked there in fredericksburg. you take a look at the beltway and the earlier problem o coming up. >>> tysons has been transforming for years. now word that additional development is coming to the capital one campus. >>> right now, temperatures headed towards the triple digits. the forecast that you need to hear before you head outside. >>> an arrest made in a frightening hit and run. why the victim's friends believe she was hit on purpose. >>> new this morning, president trump touched down in paris. we'll fill you in on the latest trip overseas. >>> we begin in paris. it's 5:45 where in just a few hours, president trump will meet with french president macron. the two leaders are scheduled to hold a joint news conference today. that's where you can expect the president to face questions about russia in light of the controversy surrounding his son. >> news 4's tracie potts is live on capi h tracie, we're getting new comments from the president about that controversy. >> right. ahead of this news conference he's alre

dulles at 75. 81 in frederick. 87 in fredericksburg. and upper 60's in the extreme western maryland. great news, part of that severe thunderstorm watch issued earlier has come down. it is no longer in effect from montgomery, fairfax, fredericksburg or loudoun counties. the area west no worries at all. however, it still continues for southern maryland, prince george's county and to spotsylvania and stafford until 9:00. but i suspect that this will also cancel out well before 9:00. notice the areas here in orange. those are the severe thunderstorm warnings that still remain in place that are beginning to diminish a little bit as this moves to the south. not moving fast at all. but right now anne arundel counties, you are under severe thunderstorm warning until 6:15. and another one until 6:45 for if you are traveling across the bay bridge. upper marlboro, heavier rain. shady side. not around warning at all. alexandria. oldtown, oxon hill looking at showers. but a huge improvement compared to a half hour ago. it will improve through the ev

, in the fredericksburg will cap. -- locale. he consumed three full pages with descriptions of roads, rivers, topography, so you could not doubt he had been. as in any good military report, he detailed his orders from his commanding officer, jackson, on december 12, 1862, to move to hamilton crossing "which i did by marching nearly all night." upon arrival, he founded the enemy up scared -- obscured by a thick wood. it is difficult to not be impressed with the fatigue and exciting of -- anxiety of his position, when all of a sudden at noon on december 13, he met with conflicting orders to action. moments after a staff officer told him to hold his troops he was met with the news that archer's brigade "had been penetrated and would be captured unless there was instant relief." early discarded jackson's orders to meet this is serious emergency and proceeded blind into ground was unacquainted with. sure enough, the enemy had "turned the lanes right, causing chaos." he was forced to make independent decisions while responding to cont

it will eventually impact fredericksburg and stafford in the next hour or so. michelle: thank you, steve. "world news tonight" with david muir up next. alison: join us at 11:00 have a grea >>> tonight, breaking developments. protests and chaos at the g20 as president trump arrives. thousands descend on the summit. many fighting the global economy. police and protesters clashing in the streets. water cannons, tear gas and now mounting injuries. hour team in the middle of to it. >>> also tonight, the meeting with vladimir putin is now coming with president trump offering his toughest words yet aimed at russia. but when asked who meddled in our election, how the president responds on the world stage. >>> the new findings tonight inside the airport disaster in chicago. the catastrophic failure. panic on bofrd. >>> we have surveillance video

fredericksburg and down 95 is wet right now. around the capital beltway, a few sprinkles here and there. likely to slow things down just in time for the everything rush hour commute. temperatures, it's still warm even though we have the cloud cover. now in the middle 80's at reagan national airport. moving through the everything hours, if you have outdoor plans, temperatures fall to the lower 80's and eventually in the 70's. we are not going to drop much farther than that for overnight lows. talking about the day tomorrow, we are tracking timing of showers and thunderstorms that are likely to impact the rush hour commute. more on that coming up in a few minutes. nancy: steve, thank you. developing story out of florida where investigators are looking for cause of an explosion at the air force base near pensacola. no one was seriously hurt when the blast destroyed a lab that was in a building on the base. for several hours, though, people we indoors and away from the huge cloud. it contained a chemical but it's since cleared. alis

one shower in parts, we're back to the west and few south of from fredericksburg. this is the area we're watching now, around fredericks, and right on down towards the dc metro area, now, wouldn't be surprised to see a few more showers develop in this area tonight. so heads up there, but right now, right around shefr leaf, you can see down towards the kettering area, around 495 and the beltway. we could see showers and fairfax line coming out of the storms helps to create some of those. this is the one around shep pard's town. and just to the west of frederick, around middle town. we're seeing a lot of rain here over the last one to two hours. wouldn't be surprised to see minor flooding. you want to make your way out and about. the wider view here, showing, this has been a line and we've seen some severe weather to the north and east. we've seen a couple of flash flood warnings out there. this is going to move off towards the east and behind it. we'll stay on the hot and rather mild side as well. you can see what's happening. out of the northeast at 12 miles per ho

feels like 100 degrees, all the way down to fredericksburg feeling like 103 now.leesburg feels like 100. annapolis feels like 98 degrees. here's where the heat advisory is across the area. orange-shaded counties so basically you can expect those triple-digit temperatures to continue through the amfternoon. if you're grilling, it's going to be hot for whoever's manning the grill. we could see a stray thunderstorm by about 3:00 p.m. better chance for scattered potentially severe storms tomorrow afternoon. into the weekend, though, a relief there right around 90 degrees. we'll take a look at the extended forecast coming up. >>> amazon says this year's prime day sale surpassed black friday and cyber monday. it is the biggest day ever in amazon history, in fact. the e-commerce giant said the 30-hour event grew by more than amazon says prime members' most popular purchase was the amazon echo dot. now we are getting a glimpse at the new echo in the works. >> reporter: and amazon is reportedly working on the next version of the echo, aiming to take some of the hype away f

flashing lights are tying of the left lane northbound out of fredericksburg. southbound on the bw parkway coming up maryland, the accident is blocking the left lane. use 90 as your workaround. that is our traffic watch. we will be back in the next 10 minutes with another update on the road and the rails. right now, we will try to cool you off because you have got to remember about the pets. do not leave the pets in the car. single to sox, our wjla abc 7 pet of the day, chilling hawaiian style of in potomac, maryland. we want to see your pet pix. send them to us at burst.com/wjla. aloha, socks! larry: we want to introduce you to a germantown boy who could be on the stage at the espy's. autria: jackson is skating like a pro. he has a rare autoimmune disease. after months of rehab, the germantown native is now on the road to recovery. god.on: i trust in he said to me i could do it. larry: besides hockey, jackson also plays basketball and baseball. autria: wow. in the fall coming over football, but in the summer, you go for food. kidd and i were out to get a sleep

fredericksburg close to 90 degrees tomorrow, 84 annali what's normal this time of year, but the heatmoving back in. monday with the extra rain, 89, tuesday,teady climb wednesday, thursday. by friday we are closer to 96. keep the umbrella handy monday and tuesday, another beautiful day of the weekend to enjoy. intoe time we get wednesday, thursday, friday, that is of the next real blast of heat. saturday, d.c. united. next, next tuesday, the nationals are finally back in towbn. kimberly: what's going on at wimbledon? robert: venus being amazing. bad news for nationals pitcher joe ross. venus with another chance to make history. >> and now the toyota sports desk, brought to you by your local toyota dealers. robert: soon, serena williams will be a proud mother, but today she was a proud sister, venus williams looking to become the oldest woman to win a grand slam in the open era at 37 years old. things began to unravel, garbine muguruza break set, the forehand goes long. muguruza takes that. down set point, venus beginning to show some cracks, the backhand into the net. 7-5, andtakes th

fredericksburg, and it may be sunny, but fredericksburg, 92 with clouds and showers in hagerstown, only at this hour with winchester at 82. the heat index shows the 90s and getting a little toasty down to the northern neck and southern delmarva area near salisbury. a little bit of haze and mostly 89 and it will feel like 94 with the dew point near 70. when it gets to 70, that is kind of sticky. a lot of heat in st. louis and kansas city. 100 degrees there and north of that, it is cooler and stormy. we are watching double rounds of showers and storms in chicago, going toward grand rapids and detroit. moving mainly east as opposed isolated showers straddling the mason-dixon line at this hour. that stuff will stay north and it will become sunnier this afternoon, the way it looks. tomorrow, hot again with isolated storms in the afternoon and in pittsburgh, a better chance of showers and storms on friday. 95 today with an isolated storm and 79 for the low in town and 70 in the cool spot. 90 tomorrow and the heat, dangerous heat with potential of 105 tomorrow and friday, scattered storms and

this hour, 74 quantico, 73 down towards fredericksburg. ?that in those heat index values already this morning up and above 80 even though we're just before 9 o'clock in the morning already feeling like 82 in quantico, 82 for fredericksburg, 80 in baltimore. feels like 81 degrees outside here in d.c. mention that cold front. there it is. you can now start to see that the sun's getting a little bit hire. this deck of clouds across the d.c. region. look out to the west little bit of clearing out here. we get this over d.c. and baltimore. we'll warm it up rapidly. then as this cold front comes thunderstorms. here's your futurecast. 11 o'clock today, mix of clouds and sun out there, here comes the cold front, 1:30 p.m., frederick hagerstown, locations just to the east of i-81, maybe front royal leesburg there in loudoun county, watch yourselves out around that time. they continue to push their way eastward. there we are at 3:30 around 4 o'clockish here in the d.c. region, that's when we'll have to kind of have our guard up. they'll continue to ma

peoples like 105 in quantico and 101 in the district and fredericksburg.have a slow drop in temperatures and the feels like tonight. the last few days we have east of the metro area tonight. in the middle pennsylvania north of tappahannock and to the bay. a few isolated storms but that is it. don't count on cooling from the sky. hot, hot, hot friday, saturday and sunday. heat index is an issue. 85 is not cool. but compared to the mid-90's it is. that is what we look for tuesday, wednesday, thursday. tuesday night with the nats return home to nationals park and we'll warm it back up and get humid. nice break from the intense heat. michelle: a driver didn't realize he had been shot until he got to work so brad bell has more on another shooting on roads in our area. brad? brad: commuters have enough to worry about. heavy traffic and aggressive drivers and now the shooting. we have had three on the area roadways since the start of july. now this. the latest shooting before 4:00 a.m. yesterday on this stretch of southbound i-95. just north of route 32. man hear

that will head to fredericksburg, imagine in the next 20, 30 minutes.ou are outside, on areas east of fredericksburg, go ahead and move inside, we are expecting that this severe thunderstorm will continue to push through. i am tracking storms from the northern portions of maryland down into the northern neck, and i wish i could say that was all we were going to see for this evening, if you look back west, around 10:00, 11:00, we could get another batch of wet weather. if you're planning on going out, i recommend having the umbrella handy. again, another round of showers and storms possible. temperatures tonight only making it into the upper 70s, low fios is not cable. we're a 100% fiber optic network. and with the new fios gigabit connection... you get our fastest... internet ever. with download speeds up to 940 megs - 20 times faster than most people have. switch to fios gigabit connection with tv and phone for $79.99 a month online for the first year. plus hbo for one year and multi-roo