chris clackum, nbc news. >>> the weather so hot and humid, can't you give us a break, today, please keep it this bay, we like this this is what everybody likes the blue skies, probably the bluest skies we have seen in quite some time, that cold front came through to take away all the haze just a few clouds. temperatures up to 88. so, yeah, that's hot, but look at that dew point, any time that dew point's below 60 we are comfortable and that's where we are today. this same temperature, 88 degrees, we also saw that at 11:00 two nights ago. the heat index was 98. there's no heat index tonight. 81 gaithersburg 81 martinsburg, 83 culpepper, nice everywhere, no rain to talk about storm team4 radar is dry and we are going to say that bay as we make our way through the next few days satellite and radar showing almost no cloud cover from boston down toward d.c., richmond, back toward the best. some high clouds moving on in that's all they are, some high clouds, see a few more of those during the day tomorrow one thing we will see for sure as we see these very dry air moving on in some very nice n

chris clackum has more. >> reporter: as the memorial to the chattanooga shooting victims grew greater wednesday. the military and fbi say it could have been worse. if not for the heroic efforts of a sailor and a few marines. >> i can tell you that our marines reacted the way you would expect. some willingly ran back into the fight. >> a fight that began when a heavily armed mohammed youssuf abdel aziz was met with gunfire from a sailor trying to protect his post. >> he observed him and opened fire on him firing several rounds at him. >> abdulazeez returned fire. >> he made his way throughout the building continuing to shoot at those who he encountered. >> he exited the building into a fenced area where he shot and killed two more service members before firing on another crowd seeking safety. >> two service members attempted to provide cover and assist the military personnel getting over the fence and away from the shooter. the shooter continued to fire and kill two additional service members. >> moments later, chattanooga police shot and killed abdulazeez whose reasons for doing this

chris clackum, nbc news. >>> lots of tweets and posts about this one, a possible lion, a lion walking through a city. a new update this afternoon from animal control officers. >>> and why the pope's approval rating is fall >>> i'm a five-time corn hole champion for the state of virginia. that is not a real thing. but ohio state, my intern goes to ohio state. >> oh. >> yeah, all excited about that let me see if i can make at least one of these guys before i do the weather. okay. so far i have zero points. oh, i got a point! i got bun point. thank you, everybody. thank you. no? no? thanks a lot. take a look at the weather, show you how things are out there right now, we move on through the rest of the day. going to be a pretty nice afternoon. 87 in d.c., look at pittsburgh, pennsylvania, only 79. columbus, ohio, there you go, intern eric, 81 toward ohio. temperatures the next couple of days, going to be on the nice side, tomorrow, call it a fantastic friday, humidity will return as we move on through the weekend. you know what, i think that's going to bring a chance for some storms, too

chris clackum, nbc news. >>> bill cosby's lawyers are asking the court to sanction a woman who accused him of sexual assault. they claim that she broke a confidentiality agreement by leaking a 2005 deposition. in those documents cosby admits to giving quayed through women that he wanted to have sex with. the "new york times" released more excerpts over the weekend. cosby's lawyers won't walt the woman at the center of that to be sanctioned for breaching that confidentiality agreement. cosby denies drug and assaulting more than two dozen women. >>> calories available any time of day. soon you will be able to order an egg mcmuffin for breakfast, lunch or dinner. all-daybreak fast is coming to a mcdonald's near you. the company has been testing the concept at a few restaurants the past few months and the experiment has been so successful, mcdonald's will take it nationwide starting in october. >>> and it's a beaut california to go work off this morning's egg mcmuffin, right, doug? >> hoping the other day could i get an egg mcmuffin at 1:00 and realized what time it was. >> you seem that w

chris clackum, nbc news. >>> a mere 1400 light years away? maybe i'll head there next weekend.ou know how long a light year is? the speed of light for a year is 1400 of them. all right. enjoy another one of these great days we've had around here. we've got some changes coming in during the weekend, mainly in the form of higher humidity then the heat is going to be returning, maybe another heat wave coming next week. lot of sunshine nothing close to a heat wave now. 83 degrees. wind 12 miles an hour not as breezy as yesterday. the humidity even lower than yesterday at 32%. we were 95 degrees sunday and monday, 91 tuesday, 85 yesterday, 82 today. yes, it is definitely more comfortable. 83 is the high today in northeast philly 82 in wilmington and at the shore, it is around 80 degrees as well. bit of an off-shore wind. hardly any clouds around. picture-perfect kind of day. going back to the west chicago back into south dakota it's still dry. there's moisture down south but that as you can see is all moving straight to the east. it's not coming anywhere near us. with the weather pa