can't rule it out but what we ad luray and port royal. pretty big storms. usis o hneinas from jthis right up towards winchester. there's one if you live innc wister rain falling down in your area, too, all part of a front and system making its way off to the eve. you lan see thee of storms ev. erunat ew york.arts of n for us tomorrow i think a much better chance of area-wide storms, some of which could be severe during the afternoon. that's what we'll be tracking for you. a fewtorms this evening. a better chance tomorrow afternoon and then tracking rain chances pretty much all week. leon, i've got to tell you 97 degrees. that's the current heat index in the city. that's a h one as well. >> we know how the formula always works and that means storms will pop up and you've got chanc r ofin every day through saturday, right, so what does that mean? are we looking at washouts? >> that front just kind of meandering over our region the next couple of days. not seeing washouts. any te this time of year normally what we see are afternoon showers and thunderstorms. a

based on the latest track it's going to be moving into luray. we'll see that pop up there and the steady rain at 5:30 and 5:40 d winchester at 6:15 and perryville at 6:50. closer to home in the metro area, i'm seeing isolated showers popping up in montgomern and right on the border of frederick and loudoun county and up around theus damasc area. most of us stay try tonight and everybody dealing with the heat and humidity. 89 degrees right now. it's feeling like 98 across the area, and that heat i index going up as well as with storm chances. more on the storm chances and timing coming up around 5:20. it's hot out there. amelia, thank you very much. let's turn to politics. president trump says he may turn to an a executive order to get l controversiaitizenship question on to next year's census. those comments as a federal judge in maryland who is overseeing a lsuit on t issue is now seeking new information from the white house. leon harris joins us from the newsroom with mre on this. hey, leon. >> adam today president trump's justice department s

really hasn't moved so we could see some big issues out that way, including areas ofw chester and luray. we could see some flooding concerns and postponement of fireworks. much more on the fireworks >> you got it, amelia.near the . a scuffle bewoeen t groups of demonstrators caused problems. here's news 4's jackie bensen with more on what'sg. happenin >> reporter: i have a lot of new information for you, and we have some new video for you. we could have that for you and show you what it looks like when that happened. we're told that two people are under arrest for what is described as a permitted flag-burning. this group was given a permit for a burning of an historic betsy ross type of flag, the one with the stars in a circle here in lafayette park. to do so legally they are required to have proper equipment and fire extinguisher, what's known as a burn pit and en they are given a permit to do that. however, we are told that the people doing this violated that -- that permit from the national park service by -- by stepping out of lafayette park and pennsylvania avenue so at that point

this forage county south of luray with another storm that's developed. look at the storms vem develop over the last s 15 minutes or much. had a severe thunderstorm warning around frederick county. thisse re storm died off. they build up and become severe very quickly and then they just completely die off. that's what happened around frederick, but it's not h happeninge. we're not seeing this one die off just yet. a lot ofli tning around port royal and another mess around thluray. severderstorm warning for clark county and northern county and northern rappahannock county and extreme fauquier which goes until 5:30. can you see right here. i want to show this area in towards warrenton. watch out other storms f me around the boundary that. boundary is ving our way and will give you a cnce for severe weather tomorrow area-wide. we'll break it down and take hour by hour. i'll be back here in a couple of minutes. >> we'll see you then. doug, thank you. >> prosecutors say he staged the crime scene to throw off investigators, and tonight laszlo pentek of fairfax

noteworthy areas, up around mont iomery countyto howard county and also back around the luray area and dupage county, showers moving easted a only is a to 20 miles per hour. it will fizzle out. if you're in fauquier and loudoun county we may get -- want to keep that in mutual fund in those locations until 9:00, sock tonight. just some isolate showers out there and otherwise we're 89 degrees. white had us are completely dry and almost tomorrow i have the heat index for saturda and sunday. ming up a different kind of fireworks displace on the mall created a disaster. >> news 4's derrick ward is in northwest washington with a warning from investigators. ness. >>reporter: professional fireworks teams take all kinds of precautions and they get inspected and monitored. still, despite d.c. laws non-professionals can get their hands on pretty formidable stuff. >> warning investigators say they are responsible for thefi re that xwuted this wood frameha on barn around 1:00 a.m. and everyone including the pes got out safely. >> could have had far worse implications if people hadeen asleep. or th

. >> back through luray and north and western maryland where the d.c.ea, not a lot of intense rainfall with future weather. a good trend but maybe at least some light showers out there so kind of damp and soggy. let's head back to future weather. i want to put this into motion. 8:00 p.m. notice howre we' still seeing showers in parts of the metro area with the heaviest rain back .round i- 9:00 p.m., fireworks are getting under way. a lot of area might be okay and maybe very light showers out th re, and we have to worry about low cloud decks and again theeather might not have to be ideal but might not have to cancel fireworks displace butg alon i-959 is that's where they are delayed or postponed until tomorrow night. still heading out there, bring a tarp or chair. have our app downloaded so you can get weatherlerts toour phone and make sure you know where to go. if thunder roars, head indoors and head to your car and go to -- 89 degrees tomorrow. can't rule out a shower tomorrow morning and hit-and-miss thundershowers around tomorrow fternoon and evening