this is, of course, the seventh annual festival here in 2008ers burg -- gaithersburg. this is the fifth consecutive year that politics & prose has been here as the official bookseller, and we really want to commend the gaithersburg staff and all the festival sponsors and volunteers for working so hard, especially hard this year given the weather, to make today possible. and thank you all, really, for coming out. you're all a very hearty, hearty bunch. a few quick administrative notes. now would be a good time to turn off your cell phones or anything else that might go beep. second, if you're tweeting today, please use hashtag gbf. and, third, we really want your feedback. so, please, at the end fill out a survey. they're available at the back of the tent or on the gbf web site. and if you complete a survey, you have a chance -- a chance -- to win a $100 visa gift card. finally, juan williams will be signing books after this presentation. he'll be, there's a signing line on the other end here of the festival grounds. and copies of his book, "we the people," are on sale

police say villa grand morales was lured in gaithersburg.vanessa alvarado, who promised sex as a setup for the attack. one detective called it a senseless assassination. apparently designed to enhance the street cr members involved. >> this young man was a hard one hard-working young man. really did nothing wrong. >> reporter: tensions -- tensions are running high thanks to a gang war in el salvador. >> there's been increased tensions between the governments and the gangs down there, which is also leading to increased pressures on the american affiliates. >> cory said unaccompanied minors in the u.s. being sent to fearful family members are suckers for local gangs because they have no families here, no money and no language, when they get to the u.s. meanwhile, u.s.-based gang members here use social media and other tricks to identify victims' family members who are still in central america. they then extort money from innocent relatives here in the u.s. who are terrified the gangs will kill their loved ones back home. >>> that's the extorti

at least we drop into the 70s for the heat index, 79 downtown, 75 in gaithersburg, 77 in kensington. by 9:00 heat index back into the mid to upper 80s and that's why it's not comfortable to exercise late in the event or at night or past 9:00, 10:00 in the morning. we will come back and tell you when the heat leaves us, we will also tell you when the humidity leaves us and they are different days. >> thanks, top. >>> the fbi and the justice department are taking over the inig deadly police shooting in baton rouge. cell phone video shows officers struggling with alton sterling outside a convenience store. someone yells, he's got a gun. seconds later shots are fired. sterling was pronounced dead. the baton rouge police chief says his officers were responding to reports of a man selling cds outside a convenience store. that man reportedly threatened someone with a gun. sterling's family calls the shooting murder and today his son broke down as his mother spoke to reporters. >> one of the greatest fears is to see your child hurt and knowing there's nothing you can do about it. >> the shoo

seventh annual gaithersburg book festival.name is gene taft khedama committee member the festival and the policy manager of johns hopkins university press. please have you here but if i did make a couple of announcements here. gaithersburg is a wonderful city that probably supports the arts and humanities will you please to bring the stay of this event thanks in part to generous support of our sponsors and volunteers.our if you see our sponsors and volunteers please say thank you. please silence all devices that might make any noise. if you're trading today pleasen use hashtag gpf really need your feedback. surveys are available here and on our web site to give youan complete a survey you enter for a chance to win a $100 visa gift card. a quick word about buying books even though this is a free event it does help if you buy a book our friends at politics and prose are here on site and we appreciate your support.our it supports our jobs and book festival. i hope you enjoy the festival on the program today and buy a book and com

christian morales came to gaithersburg from new jersey for a landscaping job.d with his cousin and worked hard, we're told, until the night in june he was murdered in malcolm king park. his body found in the woods. >> he was stabbed over 40 times. >> reporter: today, montgomery county po ms-13 murdered the man. two men are wanted tonight and they are armed and dangerous, police say. meanwhile, police have arrested v vanessa alvarado. >> vanessa lured christian to the area with the promise of sex. she did this because members of ms-13 decided they wanted to kill christian. >> reporter: police say several gang members met them at the park and asked christian to come into the woods to smoke marijuana. that's how his young life ended. >> unfortunately, he made the decision to go into the woods with them. denot come out of those woods. >> reporter: pat, coming up at 6:00, what one of the suspects told her boyfriend in jail about the murder which is critical to this case. >> kristin wright, thank you. >>> a show of solidarity between the muslim community and montgome

booktv on c-span2 live from the gaithersburg book festival. [inaudible conversations] .. >> if you are tweeting today, use the hashtag gbf, and we need your feedback. surveys are available at the tent and on our web site. complete a survey for a chance to win a $100 visa gift card. i'm pleased to introduce author kristen green. she'll be signing books immediately after the presentation, and copies of her books are on sale in the politics & prose tent, a great partner for us this year. a quick word about buying books. even though this is a free event, it does help the book festival if you buy books. the more books we sell at our event, the more publishers are willing to send their authors here to the book festival. purchasing books from politics & prose does benefit the local economy. it supports local jobs, supports our book festival. so if you enjoy the program and you're in a position to do so, please consider buying the authors' books here today. so let me introduce kristen. kristen green is an author who grew up in farmville, virginia, and

look at this big blob showing up from german town to gaithersburg. if this thing develops a little lightning, it wouldn't surprise me. and it's booking east, toward 370 north of the icc. moving east as i said at 40 miles per hour, so gaithersburg, damascus in just a few minutes. dayton and howard county, about little bit of lightning. we got temperatures now from 6 the 74. they're not going to drop much overnight and get ready, because it's going to get hot quickly. i'll be being ba in a few minutes to tell you about this coming heat wave. >> thanks, howard. >>> they say the show must go on and tonight it did. all the rain did not stop the big fireworks extravaganza on the national lawn. >> had ellison barber join us live. just a few extra umbrellas down there? >> reporter: the crowd spent most of the day huddled under umbrellas waiting, watching and hoping the fireworks show would go on tonight and it did, right on time at 9:09. >> we waited in the food court until the rain stopped and came in the last minute. it was perfect. >> it was foggy so you

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69 still here in dc. 64 gaithersburg. 66 degrees this hour up in westminster. there's your weather make k lowe pressure off to the east.ff t again, here in dc mostly dry few showers off towards maryland pan handle upcoming through theh mounts of west virginia. that's it for right no. newight future cast model is dryer. you'll see that, why did it keep changing so much. what's the problem of the the problem is your geography. models don't handle how this area of low pressure is going to cross mountains too well jumping from a big time wash out to a little bit of agent this model you can cedrine the morning whee we were hoping for. heavier rain out virginia where they real don't need it. afternoon showers start to builo in from the west about one or 2:00 in of the afternoon.. heavy rain, pocket of heavy rain around dinner time hour. the big question does it get out of here in time so that we cann do fireworks down at the mall at 9:o 9. mean another round avenue rainoa

i was looking around the gaithersburg -- >> you can't mention anybody at fox. [laughter] >> no, i won't do that. i don't want to offend you. [laughter] >> only one. >> only one. [laughter] but, you know, i mean, i really -- for example, i noticed that -- [inaudible] >> yeah. >> and i was thinking i really like lawrence block. i like lawrence block mysteries a great deal. and then, of course, you have, you know, i mean, there's no getting around, when people ask me what do you think of the great books of the 20th century, i think invisible man -- >> right. >> i just think that's an incredible piece of work. >> right. >> so there's no shortage. i'm a big ready. i'm a big fan of books. >> right. the front coffer here, you've got -- cover here, you've got in mount rushmore style billy graham, ronald reagan, l nor roosevelt and thurgood marshall. why those four individuals? obviously, this is about post-war america, the people who had the most impact. but there are other people, lyndon johnson or john kennedy or other people who had -- henry kissinger -- who had dra

right now, 87 in lorton, 88 in gaithersburg.et the heat index and it's feeling like 97 when you step outside here in the district. 96 i fredericksburg. feels like 90 in gaithersburg, just hot all the way around. temperatures as we continue through the rest of the day will top out into the 90s. we were going to be in the low to mid-90s for daytime highs today and maybe a chance of an isolated shower or thunderstorm. nothing showing up on the storm team 4 radar except down around roanoke and blacksburg, that's about it. we're just looking at fairly muggy conditions with a mix of sun and clouds. now, again, we could have a shower or thunderstorm pop up as we continue through the afternoon and evening during peak daytime heating hours but probably we'll remain dry. just a great pool day. go ahead and put on that sunscreen because it is july sun. it is brutal out there. all right, working out, again, you don't need me to tell you this, but go ahead and hydrate. if you're headed out to the nats game, we play the brewers once again. $1

same for gaithersburg, 73 baltimore. and we've got 66 degrees at frederick and 700 degrees at hour. low, which isch i greater to here into the 50s and 60. we are not dealing with anything oppressive its not mug muggy or sticky. ruth of high pressure inf hi control. mostly clear skies. and as i said, we will see a bit of patchy fog. plenty of sunshine tomorrow. t still low humidity t tomorrow's high will be in the 80's. once we get into tuesday thingst start to take a little bit of a turn. d up seeing rich of high pressure move out.. going to open the door for more of a southerly flow by tuesday t we are back into the '90s. the? a. no. then we're going is oz southerly flow back into the night, hot hazy humid weather. tuesday is going to be the first day we get nie sign of humidityn creeping back in.cr full force by the time we get w into wednesday, thursday period. we've got a warm front that'sarm going to move to the north. as it does it will set us up for storms, wednesdays, thursday, friday, could be active wet wise you have to keep your eye to sar the exercise. 88 degrees dc 87 g

. >>> turning now to a developing story in montgomery county, power should be restored in gaithersburg after a car crashed into a power morning. one person was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. >>> if you are looking for something to do later today, you can eastbound -- enjoy the rehearsal for the capitol fourth concert. it's happening at 8:00 p.m. on the west side of the u.s. capitol. we have more on what you need to know about the festivitiefestiv. >> as you see behind me the stage is set up and every now and then we hear some music and sounds of the mike checks, the sound checks that are going on here. the big events are all tomorrow and it starts with that fourth of july parade. that parade actually begins at 11:4/545. access to the mall starts at 10. the parade is going to run to 7th to 17th street along constitution avenue. you're asked to get there early to get through checkpoints. things kick off with the concert and fireworks. that concert runs from 8:00 until 9:30 p.m. it's going to feature smokey powell, and cast did i pope and yolanda adams. if it rains,

in gaithersburg, 6 # # dulles.l. tonight is almost done.one. we infant to get to tomorrow, what is going on monday.onda let's get straight to futurecasr here. there it is. some rain shower activity down over portions of sun maryland and northern neck of virginia. this moves out and there's just a frontal boundary stalled right we'll have little l waves right along it depend ped how that energy slides across depends on who get the showers tomorrow. aúmaybe a spotty shower here, maybe a little l more steady rain towards the mountain. tomorrow is not a washout, butas it is a day where you'll have to be on guard for a few showers. not expecting any thunderstorms tomorrow afternoon and in fact i think despite the showers beinge shown here i think the farthertr north you go the better chance you stay dry.dry. tomorrow, a stronger wave of energy comes our way, the heavier rain starts to move in from the west. most of will be focused from the south. , 5, 6:00 steadier rain. all important 9:00 hour where we're expecting fireworks hereie in washington. i

gorgeous morning to go, exercise, even just head out h to the pool very early.ar 66 gaithersburg, 634 at winchester, 66 in culpeper and nice to be ne to getting some of thesehese comfortable mornings thise morn summer. really the heat has been can kept at became i know yesterday was so humid but we haven't had too many man intolerable days.ay fox futurecast starting offff with saturday gorgeous,aturday , sunshine wall to wall, reallylly nice. by this evening a watch is going to lift up from the north and the clouds willcloudsl increase.ea so will that humidity.at hit by this time tomorrow morning when you're watching fox5 newson morning as i know you will be,il there are some showers outr there and making it as far north as northern virginia vir into southern maryland. myl as that continues to liftt northward there will be ad ere chance for showers.or shors rain tomorrow will be fairlyro b light, very isolated. isola not looking at widespread rain r but enough that there will be showers, there will be plentyl e of clouds including at the beaches. let's fast forward to mondayorrt morn

low to mid-70s. 75 in gaithersburg. 73 in gaithersburg.morning, there will be some 60s. 68 in sterling. 69 in fredericksburg. by mid-morning, we're back in the mid-to upper 70s. by lunchtime, there will be a few showers pop primarily west of town. culpepper west and along i-81. maybe up to hagerstown. we get into the evening hours, a couple of showers possible. wind chester, pretty good shape downtown. even 85, 86 in buoy. then by tomorrow evening, some showers begin to pop pretty close to culpepper, orange. these could roll across our southern suburbs. if you're around i-95 tomorrow, we do not see showers in your forecast. day planner. 70s to start. 82 by 11:00, and 85 with someone's by 1:00 p.m. the next three days, afternoon storms on wednesday, possibly, a yellow weather alert. 86. then for heat on thursday. a heat index over 100. 97 on thursday. next seven days. friday still hot. 95. nats come back to town. if you cannot make it to the ballpark, you can watch it on 9. another game on channel 9 [000:22:58;00] then isolated storms on mo

that's rain cooled air there in gaithersburg as well. lows tonight into the lower 70's upper 60's for most locations. couple cool spots get cooler than that here there and. how about independence weekend forecast? let's take a look. i have bad news. that is that we now have storms likely monday. looks like models are coming into agreement. looks wet. not looking too great for the holiday. 82. better news saturday and sunday looks fantastic. lots of sun saturday. low humidity, temperatures getting into the low to mid 80's both of those days. tonight 68 degrees, scattered storms earlier. we'll start to clear out as we head into overnight for your day saturday. absolutely gorgeous. 83 breezy from time to time. but, it's not going to blow the beach umbrella away. fox 5 act weather seven-day forecast. again, we're relative cool for the weekend, 83 degrees. monday -- i won't call it a wash-out yet but it's getting close, we work our way into next week, we start to bring the heat back by next friday, 92 with lots of sunshine. lauren and sarah o

for tough call for fireworks gaithersburg and frederick already called it.s been raining alleen afternoon. others are hanging until the unt bitter end. and they should because i thinki white-out lightening it might be dreary we're in a window of dryy weather if we to go radar i'll show you what to expect if you don't mind drizzle and showers you'll be okay. badge of rain that moved through this afternoon no thunder in it. just a few spotty showers towards our west front royal, charlotteville. more concentrated area in west virginia severe thunderstorm inn effect. even out toward even kentucky that's all rain that's going to make it into our area later on tonight. like i said i think that's abou' 10 p.m. and afterwards. we may get the firework and then quickly have to run to our cars. flash flood watch out f virginia extreme western virginia counts out there and pan handle of maryland also up l in philadelphia.in we're not worried about flash fa flooding here in washington. evening temperatures pretty study in low 70s. latest model going to bring in another r

future cast tonight 10:00, temperatures in the 70s. 73 gaithersburg. 79 downtown. by morning, 60s, 65 in frederick. 71 or so in silver spring and buoy. not a bad start. by 8:30, temperatures low to mid-70s, pretty nice. in to the 1:00 hour, 82 hagerstown, comfortably warm for the mountains to the coast. by 6:00 m. manassas, 85 in dale city. let's talk about the day planner, 70 to start, low 70s this time, 81 by 11 and 83 by 1:00. not bad compared to what is coming our way. thursday isolated thunderstorm, 90. 97, isolated storm. next 7 days, 98 friday. 99 sunday. 100 on monday. still 93 on tuesday. the only form of relief, isolated afternoon thunderstorms. >> we got sad news to pass along for long time red skins fans, the team confirm the man who generations of fans knew as chief z, has died. williams dressed up in native american costumes in the 70s, he continued to wear the head dress for decades, cheering on the burgundy and gold. he entertained fans in th appearances across the region. when his health deter rated he started using a scooter that dan schneider pur

in gaithersburg a pedestrian hit by a car.alk in with rest of drive items around the dmv as we continue, allison and steve. >> coming up next what's hot on the web this wednesday morning including rudest city in america. >> can't be she'll that here. >> plusably madison under fire once again this morning details coming i'd wash them, and it'd be back before i even got to class. then, i found the tide and downy odor defense collection. it gets out and keeps out the yoga aroma, wash after wash. new tide and downy odor defense collection. >> back tat again with the white dress for first time n since 2009 venus advances to wimbledon finals. she is now one win away from heading back to the wimbledon final. last typing that happened she lost to her sister serena. >> which city do you think is rudest city in america? >> new york city. >> allison says new york city it's a hint not new york city. america's rudest city is actually miami. ranged travelers in the nation and new york city came in third and loss ankle less sandwiches in bet

temps right now in the 80s. 81 in the district. 82 in gaithersburg. head out into the rest of the evening hours, we'll fall into the 70s and keeping it mainly dry here in washington with most of the rain now to our south and east but still very heavy rainfall. everybody enjoying spectacular weather with low humidity. dewpoints now in the 70s. tomorrow, it will be very comfortable outside. we start off the day with 68 degrees. a few clouds and mostly sunny skies overall. a high of 86 tomorrow. that's at 4:00 in the afternoon. tomorrow, nearly perfect. sunday, not too hot. low 80s for highs. fourth of july is looking rainy by the time the fireworks get under way monday night, potentially okay. here's your fourth of july ç planner. rain mov by noon, tracking heavy rain. still, showers around during the afternoon hours and then scattered showers by 9:00 p.m. when fireworks get under way. a severe thunderstorm warning for anne arundel and prince george's county. that's going until 7:00 this evening. >>> next at 6:00, dramatic dash cam video captures a dea

. >>> here's the most recent one that happened in gaithersburg on east diamond avenue around 7:00 tonight it careened into the music center, no injuries here, inspector was called out to examine the structural integrity of the job. >>> here a car smashed into a condo building, and it happened on hickory treeway. a wusa 9 employee who lives nearby snapped these pictures, and a spokesperson in a tweet said no injury. >>> now t o a woman who says it felt like an earthquake when the mercedes here smashed through the building. no one was hurt. >>> a tasty way to show support. one restaurant's competitors opened their doors to help out after a fire. >>> here's your wakeup weather, and it's expected to be hot as soon as you wake up. 70s to start. 80s by 9:00, and by lunchtime, temperatures 86 to 91. we will come back and talk about what that tranat for the heat index and maybe forecast changes for tomorrow and the weekend. >>> and more coverage of tonight's >>> continuing coverage on tonight's breaking news, the french interior minister says the death toll is now at 80 in the horrific attack in

had lightning lighting up our skies, loud thunder, all coming from a storm that developed over gaithersburg. right now it's over northeast washington, coming into northern off to the south and east. look at all the lightning. hundreds of lightning bolts, reports of pea-sized hail. there's the view showing all the lightning that we've had coming quite a bit here over the last just half hour or so. it's going to continue moving on into southern prince george's county, and dissipating over the next hour or so. an update on our heat wave is coming up in just a few minutes. >>> it is my honor to be able to throw donald trump over the top in the delegate count tonight. congratulations, dad! we love you! [ applause ] >> donald trump's children have played a key role in his campaign throughout this election season. tonight, they cast the deciding votes in the roll call in cleveland. >> their father clinched the republican nomination for president. but that was just the beginning of another unpredictable night at the gop convention. the reading followed got held up when alaska's delegation protested

feels like 77 in gaithersburg, 78 in rockville, and about 78 also in buoy and upper marlboro, by noon, boom, we are back low to mid 90s with the heat index. we will come back and talk about the prospect of storms tomorrow, and we will look ahead to the weekend. one day will be better for planning your outdoor activities. >> got it. >>> a maryland seminary student is presumed dead after he tried to save the life of a struggling kayaker. 24-year-old brian burgcamp studied in emmitsburg and went missing in a wichita, kansas after kayaking, one kayaker was having trouble and he believe burgcamp jumped in to help the woman and was swept away. faculty told us they were proud of burgcamp. >> greater love than to lay down one's life for one's friend and that is exactly what brian was doing. >> rescue crews say they are still working to find burgcamp's body tonight. >>> no charges against the navy official who threatened 3 men with a gun outside his home, 33 days since he pointed that gun at 24-year-old merrill shoop and 2 others. the navy official accused them of being drunk and said it gave

. >>> turning no t power should be restored in gaithersburg after a car crashed into a power pole. happened around 2:20 this morning. one person was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries in that crash. >>> if you are looking for something to do later on today, you are attend the rehearsal for the capitol 4th concert. we've got more on what you need to know about those festivities. good morning. >> reporter: you can see the bunting and flags are all up here. there is the looming specter of rain. these gray skies can casting a pall over the festivities. the parade runs along constitution to 7 and 17th street. you are e a little early because of the checkpoints. then you got the concerts from 8:00 to 9:30. the concert, smokey robinson, kenny loggens, general colin paul. the national symphony orchestra will perform as will the chorale society of washington. they are going to make the decision monday evening on whether they will call the fireworks or the concert -- and the concert. they say only heavy rain, thunderstorms, the high winds will cause them to cancel and it's

gaithersburg will hold theirs on friday night.ostponed their show until july 24th. >>> despite a little cloud cover, the fireworks show on the national mall went on as planned. there were smaller crowds this year than years past, most likely because of the weather. security was tight this year. there was one incident of a suspicious device in a bathroom, but security cleared the area and drmd there was no threat. >>> this morning pbs is defending night's fireworks display on the national mall. the network ran footage from previous years showing clear skies and no scaffolding around the dome. pbs said, we showed a combination of the best fireworks from this year and previous years. it was the patriotic thing to do. the people who saw that and realized it wasn't fresh footage -- hamshfourthfail was trending. >> kind of caught in a no-win situation. it wasn't a good view because of all the low clouds and rain. >> really it's your fault. >> pretty much. i'll take the blame. you can send your blame to me pbs. we thought originally the

gaithersburg in solomon's island holds off until friday postponed their show until the 24th. a complete list, search fireworks in the nbc washington app. >>> one month from today, all eyes will be on brazil for the official start of the 2016 summer games. the country is expecting at least half a million tourists for the games and despite a slew of problems from security to health risks, officials in rio say they are ready. here is nbc's laura aguilera. >> reporter: workers are putting the finishing touches on venues, getting rio ready to welcome thousands of global athletes and visitors for the games. the olympic park rio venue management director gave assurances that everything will be done on time. >> we are scheduled to have everything done by the 18th of jul ready for training here on the olympic park. >> reporter: another sign of progress, rio's mayor inaugurated a new bus expressway expected to serve tens and thousands of motorists per day and reduce travel time by 60%. he says the project will bring development to neglected corners of the city. despite the visible tra

it was filmed inside a beauty salon in gaithersburg called blue mercury spa. you can see she dumped something in the water. and her attorney says she was not trying to kill her coworker but traying to get back to her. the two women were in a month-long fight and the day before lemonfield blamed cruz for spitting in her food. so she dumped the skin care lotion in the water as retaliation. here is what lemonfield's attorney had to say followed by the state attorney's office. >> it was stupid. she admits it. she did not mean to kill her. >> the judge saw fit sending a meag the ability for the young woman to move forward in her future was the way to go. i have to accept that. chris: now cruz, the victim, she was in court today and minutes after the judge said that the woman pled guilty was going to jail for ten days we asked the victim what she thought about that. that part of the story at 5:00. chris papst, abc7 news. scott: all right. coming up here at "abc7 news at 4:00" -- the new study in n.i.h. says it will conduct at the olympics. michelle: fireworks fallou

start gaithersburg at 63. 66 at westminster.tminster. in the city on the mild sidee at 74 degrees. 7 annapolis at 72. satellite and radar crystald clear skies out there, beautiful moon. it's going to be a great day today. lots of sunshine coming your way. very typical of july heading back up into bethe low 90's.0' real heat returns tomorrow.omro we'll talk much more aboute abot what you can expect for thexport coming heat wave in just anus little bit. bit that's a quick check of the erin como has got the roads. g e hey, erin. e happy friday to you.to you. >> my goodness, you, too, too mike.mi. 4:35. we'll start you off with a look at safe track surge five.ra this is the second morningd rnin that our commute will be affected.affected. single tracking between easten falls church and ballston. balls vienna to ballston trainsin running every 18 minutes oninuts the orange line.erang silver line 18 maintenance.nt ballston to new carrolton additional trains will run but b anticipate crowded conditions. n as of 10 o'clock in thek in evening syst

here is a look at what's happening with the fireworks in gaithersburg tonight, by 9:00 i think thingsbe fine, so be able to get out and enjoy it, and just enjoy what you didn't get to enjoy for the fourth. so, as we move into tomorrow, we will see this frontal system move through. then as i said on the back side, nice westerly flow, ridge of high pressure builds in for sunday. once we get into tomorrow, we are under a marginal risk right here in this area shaded in green mainly to the east and maybe seeing storm or two pop up. here is a look at your full forecast for you for tomorrow. 87 degrees, by the 11:00 hour, keeping an eye to the skies by 3:00. and by 7:00 it looks good. 77 degrees for tonight then. partly cloudy skies. and for tomorrow, we are talking 94 degrees, once again, nice westerly winds, will help to cool things down somewhat. here is a look at your fox5 accuweather seven day forecast. it is going to start to heat up once we get into next week, all over again. so just be prepared for that as we head into the low 90s, and then, the mid 90s by the ends of the week, so fa

in place north of the beltway and a live look at 270 shows you that stretch heading south from gaithersburg moving well! back to you questionable incident among the university of maryland police department. details on the act by one of a member of the department on social media that cost him his job. and it could be the hottest weekend we've seen in a few years -- eileen whelan is back to tell you about the dangerous heat would could be facing. here's what's happening behind the headlines. when asked if i was going to the conventions i answered: i wasn't important enough. to be honest, i made a strong case not to go. political conventions are crowded sea of humanity. security makes moving about difficult. transportation is iffy, there are lines everywhere, food's expensive, and it's full of people who can be obnoxious. many of the 50,000 politicians, lobbyists and others in at important people on the planet. it's not just the political types. it's everyone. there are more than 15,000 journalists in cleveland. that's nearly six times the number of delegates. 25-hundred. just think. every sin

fox5's alexandria limon is lon live in gaithersburg with mores on that story. alex. >> reporter: that's right,s ght, police say the suspects inuspect this case may have been motivated by the desire to des rise within the ranks of ms-13.ms-13. bats really disturbing is thatit the montgomery county policent department says the victim in this case hadgo s no known gangg ties whatsoever.ti in fact, they couldn't really ra point to a specific reason why o he was targeted other than he tn happened to know an acquaintance of the gangai members.ers. >> that young man was an a 18-year-old male, his name's christian villa morals.or he was stabbed over 40 times.r m >> reporter: it was a brutal bru murder that happened at a malcolm king park inng park in montgomery county onryount june 16th. now police are searching for two dangerous gang ms-13. investigators say they havehey h aliases and they believe theye have the means to flee. to flee. >> we're reaching out to the public in this case becauseec these two individuals areestwo extremely dangerous andgero they're on the r

n. 63 at gaithersburg, 65 forfor baltimore and annapolis 72is 72 trees.trees. a relatively comfortable start.rte 91 later this afternoon.er t 90's are back. lots of sunshine today. not expecting any rain whatsoever. going to be a beautiful day aul out there.outre we get into the weekend,eekend really we get into fridayorida things start to change a bite b for us. high pressure continues tour build down to the south. that's ge oing to grab some of o this heat out towards the center of the country he thrower it in our direction.econ we're talking 90's,0' potentially a 100-degree00-degre reading or two around here. her with all the heat building bui across the central part u.s. look at all these watchesas and warnings.and warning thess.e are heat advisories ands excessive heat warning in the t red dominating the center parttt of the country already indy i anticipation of the heat thiss weekend they've already postedtd excessive heat watches off tosft our north and west includingncli the eastern shore and some ofomo the beaches there. be aware of.beware that it's g

feels like 86 gaithersburg, 844 dulles 88 to the south. going to have code orangec already effect all the wayec through tomorrow. that means weather air quality going to be stagnant and hot. not good for anybody with respiratory re diseases or elderly people or children to be outside too long. frontal system going to move t through. storms are going to head well to the south. but, tomorrow we s are talking about that hot air staying in place. and i can't rule out maybe a pop up storm here and there. very stray, just along the way. nothing that's going to be widespread. temperaturesres heading into the '90s. he'd in dc, talking about digits make sure you stay hydrated, wear light clotheing,, check on elderly neighbors and retiffs. don't leave pets or chin in cars unattendedded at all. find a friend with a pool if you don't have a pool. learn thousand cool down a little bit.. here's what's happening thoughha between the three to 7:00 hour, we can have a pop up storm or two as i said nothing widespread, 78 degrees partly cloudy carpal and mug

gaithersburg is trying a new venue it will be at bohrer park.e have a complete list in our region there are lots of them go to fox5dc.com for more information. >>> fox 5 local news at 11 starts right now. >> this is fox 5 local 11. >> right now at 11, the holiday weekend is here. from your fireworks forecast toc the security on the national mall. fox 5 has you covered. >>> plus a fox 5 exclusive hearh from the victim of a bazaar sexual assault on metros green line into zoo into annual burger eating contest in dc how many mn did the winner eat.at news starts right now. >> holiday weekend is here. this as live look. this is a live look at traffic f heading east on the bay bridge. you see traffic is still heavy it's moving. mov look you see lightening as well. >> mother nature fireworks i'm tony perkins. >> i'm sarah simmons in for shawn. we saw storms rollhr

temperatures outside in the 60 wash ton, gaithersburg 64, westminster 66, frederick 66, 68 annapolis,s this hour still though in quantico.o. satellite clouds just aboutjust every where. sun was able to break through. mostly clouds returning. you can see drizzle. front royal along i81 corridoroi little bit of light rain. main event coming through indiana heading into ohio val this is heavy rain.s h west virginia does not need ref see rain given all the flooding they had they could be in the t bulls eye. eye here's future cast nine a.m..m. parade time for a lot of folks. tomorrow morning.rr good news for them is perhaps dry because the model is note showing rain doesn't mean theren will not be a little bit of o light rain or drizzle. look like the worse out to our west. in of the afternoon hours here it comes 1:00 on our doorstep high 81. then we get into five, 6:00 dinner time around here maybe heavy rain pocket of thunderf here and there, this is the big question mark, how fast is thiss area of rain move out of here. does it get out of here just int time that mayor be a little lit lig

gaithersburg, maryland, postponed its show until thisil friday july 8th.. >>> developing tonight a mysteryh of a uss college student now being investigated as a murder in rome. >> disappeared suddenly hoursy after arriving for a university exchange program.ge his body was later discovered ie a river. steve wrap spa port has theh latest on the investigation. >> reporter: mystery as authorities investigating the death of a 19 year old college student as a murder. university of wisconsin madison student bow solomons, he was found in the river after he disappeared friday last seen by friends at a pub blocks from a university. he had just arrived for an exchange program hours earlier. >> this is so un characteristic. >> reporter: university says it was u alerted by his roommate wo claims he lost contact with him one a.m. friday and became worried when he was not at orientation later in the day.da according to news reports his walter and phone are missing two italians claim they saw a man throw a person into the river. v they are reporting solomons' body was found with ahead wound prim nary auto

lou will spend 10 days in jail for astonishing act caught on video inside blue mercury in gaithersburgtch as lemonfield open as co- worker's water bottle and pours in a drying lotion treat acne. she replaces the cap and shakes the bottle before returning to it a table. >>> it's one of those cases where a good person did a stupid thing, paid the price. she is sorry. >> reporter: santa cruz drank from the bottle and ended up so sicker she was hospitalized. >> my client alleged the day before this incident, the victim spit on her pasta, which she had for lunch and the next day my client did this stupid thing in retaliation. >> reporter: a dispute from a party. she said santa cruz made inappropriate advances, conduct she rejected. emotional santa cruz said she was disappointed by the short sentence, in court, she testified that she lives in fear, and has to rely heavily on her mother. lemonfield's apologies in court did not seem sincere, she said. >> >> reporter: did the state buy her apology. >> the judge did. that's what is really important. >> reporter: lemonfield will be on probation f

. >> 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

it feels like 95 in gaithersburg.'s the number we're going to pay attention to as we go into the weekend. tonight, the temperatures fall into the 70s. that's upper 70s for d.c. temperature is right around 80 degrees and only going up from there. not much to cool us off. we had a few showers but they died out in the blue ridge mountains. most of us, if not all of us, will stay dry. again, not looking too bad. tomorrow's forecast, 98 degrees. dangerously hot again. isolated showers in the afternoon. this is a number i want you to pay attention to, the temperatures. for saturday, it's going to feel like 100 and 108. by sunday, it's going to feel about 100 degrees. that's because the hume mit tea is going to drop. by monday, we're back up. the humidity comes back in and it's going to feel like 100 to 108 again. that's why we're in a weather alert mode. now, tuesday, that temperature falls into the mid-90s. heat index is near 100 degrees. take a look at this. by 10:00 a.m., it will feel like 97. by 4:00 p.m., it will feel

ballpark.bal it's still fairly warm out there right now.ow. 83 in the nation's company toll, 81 at gaithersburg have 80-degrees at baltimore this hour. a that's the same for culpeper and winchester and 75-degrees at frederick. humidity has bench a pain in the last few days and everybody haso kind of felt the stickiness andc tonight we're seeing the humidity basically at a pretty comfortable level so not quite as bad. our overnight lowe's into the 70s tonight.70s we got a little bit of a cool down from the rain that happenen yesterday. it was just a short little breae but we're going to be heating all back up again before too long and our current dewpoints in the 60s and 70s.70 that's all going to change, however, because once we get into tomorrow we're going to see the humidity kicking back inck again and it's going to get a little sticky and a little uncomfortable. speaking of temperatures rising all the heat from thtee south is going to move right into the mid atlantic and tomorrow we'reow actually going to be in the mid 930s and you're going to feelto the difference in the atmosphere. we're

police believe the murder of a t man in a gaithersburg parking lot last month was gang related.olice arrested two people connected to christian via grand morales' death. d they're still looking for oscar del perez.erez all of the suspects appear to have gang ties.ti we're reaching out to the public in this case because these two individuals are extremely dangerous and they're on the run. they were last known to be in the wheaton area.re we believe we know they're looking for them. police arrested vanessa oliver rat oh and 16 year old juan gout rare oh vasquez who they are now charging as an adult. they murdered the victim to gain status in the gang. new at 10, uniforms, equipment and personal items were stolenee from a group of tenth grade basketball players and it has the community outraged. storm travel -- or it happened to the travel storm stafford team. the team stopped in marylandin after winning the game and paving the way for them to compete for the national title. within a two-hour window thievee busted into cars and swiped everything in site. windows were not the only t

gaithersburg is trying a new venue at borough park starting t at 9:25.we have a complete list of all the fireworks displays in our region. just go to fox5 d.c..com for more information.n. leave it to the pros. don't light them off yourself. just go watch those.ose. > go advice.dvic >> two baseball teams will take the field fourth of july. you got to see the story comingg up after the break.he stay with us. . okawhoa!ady? [ explosion ] nothing should get in the way of the things you love. ♪ get america's fastest internet. only from xfinity. so far the nats have 16 wins in each of the first three months. j yes, there have been some the slides but a pretty good seasono so far. yesterday not only the start ofe a new month a chance to extendxn the winning streak to six james. daniel murphy with a runner and two outs and what does he do, he comes through.he c in the clutch, base hit all the way to the wall in the rightight field, back to the track and t there goes jason werth raising around third. he scores ties the game two alla and it goes into

from rockville and potomac to gaithersbu gaithersburg, bethesda, front royal, all in the low 60s this morning. mother nature hitting a home run today if you are heading out to the nationals and dodger games. it's a noontime game. moving to the upper 80s and low 90s today. tomorrow, that's when the heat moves in. 97 is the forecast for tomorrow. a bit more humid tomorrow but the real industrial strength humidity moves in on saturday into the weekend. humidity levels, nice and comfortable today. this is the last of it for a while. tomorrow, annoying, much warmer, humidity increasing for tomorrow. weekend, saturday, sunday, on into monday, afternoon highs near 100. heat indexes especially sunday and monday could be 105 or higher. here's your five-day forecast. 91 today. that's the cool one. there will be chances for thunderstorms sunday and especially on monday. extra special four things to know about the forecast, coming up. for now, extra special, jack taylor. wtop. >> if you are heading to the outer loop, police describe it as a spill on the ramp. watch for a quick and abrupt delay. o

and the city of gaithersburg is moving its fireworks show to friday.l about it in our area right now in our nbc washington app. >>> now to a developing situation. three suicide bombings have occurred today during ramadan. two security officers were killed in medina in that attack. and then the highest concentration of shia muslims in a su the white house, both candidates hard at work behind the scenes in search of their potential running mate. this weekend, donald trump met with indiana governor mike pence and today pence is not saying whether or not he will take the job. >> i'm not going to get into hypotheticals. this was a time that we'll always cherish. >>> also today, both campaigns talking about this tweet by donald trump, an anti clinton message that appears to feature a jewish star of david. trump removed it after it was criticized as anti-semitic. he says it's nothing more than a star. clinton says it should give people cause for concern. >>> it's a decision that every kevin durant heading to golden state. >> that's right. durant goes to the w

. >> how about the fireworks in gaithersburg, doug? >> beautiful. >> all right. good news.ws. people who missed out on seeing those fireworks on the fourth of july, we get another chance tonight. tonight at 9:30. this is video from a previous show and the hope is that tonight will be just as spectacular. this show was originally scheduled for july 4th. mother nature put the plans on hold. that's where they will do the gaithersburg fireworks tonight. >> thank you for clarifying that video. you don't want to go pbs on everybody. >> no. >>> coming explain why the nats star my son has meningitis b. but how did we end up here? his mom thought he had the flu and that he was covered by the meningococcal meningitis... vaccine he had received. until 2014 there were... no vaccines for meningitis b in the u.s. now there are. while uncommon, meningitis b can... lead to death within 24 hours. trumenba is a vaccine for 10 through 25 year olds to help prevent group b meningococcal disease. trumenba should not be given if you had a severe allergic reaction after a previous dose. most commo

it's a comfortable night. 73 for gaithersburg and 77 in annapolis, humidity comfortable all day.e up just a little bit tonight. and it's going to come up more again tomorrow. we've had a dry night. there have been a few showers carolina and there's a slight chance of something isolated tomorrow mainly west of the area but we're going to begin it's transition as high pressure starts to get out of the way, certainly bringing us a beautiful and pleasant evening. it will be moving away and while we stay dry overnight with just partly cloudy conditions, we're going to see a warm front coming through tomorrow. that is going to get the humidity cranking again. it will begin to return tomorrow. you'll notice it as the week goes on and each day this week is going to get a little bit hotter. tomorrow we can get one more day in the 80's. at 8:0075, by noon 84, 4:00 a slight chance of shower or thunderstorm. 88 but as the week goes on, we're really going to see things heating up and we'll say good-bye to the 80's and usher in our second heat wave of the summer. that begins later this week. w

we start with a young softball player from gaithersburg. up against incredible odds, she got a chance to meet her favorite player.favo i want to introduce you to kay line king. as part of espn kay line had an unexpected day with nats star bryce harper.rper she has a rare kidney conditio which has resulted in onene transplant and doctors say she's going to have another. those concerns were forgotten as she took batting practice and through out the first pitch. but behind the scenes tour seemed to especially impressly her. this is my lockers.ocke oh, wow, you get two. i just have a little bit more stuff. after giving kay line a trip, t, describe her experience, best day ever. when a group of interns from a mortgage firm in maryland werere told no work today, they capped their caps and go off, but they never expected to see this. take a look. that is the iron man cal ripken jr. he stopped by the pickup gamekup and pitching for the afternoon. no action at short stop for ripken. the interns obviously quite excited at the opportunity, butr when y

highs this afternoon, 85 in frederick, maryland. 83 in gaithersburg.erfect night for grilling out in the backyard. temperatures near 85 degrees at 6:00. back into the upper 70s by 8:00 or 9:00 this evening. for tomorrow, it will get a little warmer. temperatures back into the upper 80s to near 90 tomorrow. still, not terribly humid. the increase just in time for the weekend. it will be dry on friday with a high of 97. saturday and sunday, at least an outside chance at an afternoon thunderstorm with highs near 100 degrees. better rain chances monday, tuesday of next week as the heat finally starts to break a little bit. it has been a tricky wednesday morning commute. jack taylor is here to help you navigate the roadblock. >> number one, this is morning number one of surge 5. metro's continuous work, orange and silver line between boston and east falls church. residual delays from new caroll ton -- yellow lines reserve normal service from earlier activity by vernon square. blue lines delays near the town center due to -- other big stories the crash in lo