but one texas town, amarillo has come up with a solution to the problem. no pyrotechnics but a laser show. >> new and safe and celebrating a wonderful day. and we have our own party going on. and you can see the african-american fest is going on. thousands of people have experience the fun. if you haven't gone, you still have a little time to check it out. we'll have it until about 9:00 tonight. it is free to enter. >>> before we go to the break, here is a live look. it's right on 50 and traffic looks really good right now. people are spending the night in ocean city. but tomorrow at this time come back and see a difference. we'll have a check on the weather right after this. p?p?p?p?p?p?p? . >>> we have fireworks tonight. and show us. >> clear of baltimore but south of baltimore and the annapolis area you can see the storm tracking steadily south here on the radar. so, all the interest in anne arundel county take shelter for the next 30 minutes. it will clear out and you can see it through easton and be ready for the storm in 30 minutes. >> and you can se

one texas town amarillo has come up with a solution to the problem. no pyrotechnicians.tead, a laser show. >> something new, something different and something safe and really celebrating a wonderful day. >> reporter: the preparations are well underway here in the nation's capital on the mall. you can see the band stand going up. the good news for anyone who had the show canceled, this will be broadcast nationally on tv. david carly, abc news, washing -- curly, abc news, washington. >> now maryland's most powerful doppler radar and the forecast certified most accurate by weatherate. >> hi. i am meteorologist lynn jet charles on -- lynette charles and on this 4th of july, the low should be right around 65. and the record low was set in 1986. it was 53 degrees then. our record high was setback in 2002. it was 100. so we hit the century mark and now we should be right around 86 degrees for this time of the year. today, i am forecasting above that. yesterday, we were above that as well. we came in right around 93 degrees into baltimore. 90 in easton. patuxent river around 91.

but one texas town, amarillo, has come up with a solution to the problem. no pyrotechnics, instead, a laser show. >> something new, something different and something safe and really celebrating our wonderful day. >> reporter: the preparations are under way here on the nation's mall. you can actually see the bandstand behind me. this is one of the biggest shows you will see and for all those folks who had their shows canceled, here's the good news, this show will be broadcast. you can watch it on tv if nothing else. dan and bianna. >> watch it on tv, all right, davivi thank you. it's so sad. i lived in austin for five years. they had an amazing fireworks show. >> i always wanted to go to austin. >> ron, you've been, right? >> yes, i have. good morning, everyone. >>> defiant libyan leader moammar gadhafi is threatening to attack europe. gadhafi warned of attacks against home, offices and families if nato does not stop its air campaign againsnst his regime. a u.s. state department spokesmama said the u.s. is taking it seriously. >>> in syria hundreds of thousa

towns like happy, texas are depressed. originally named for its oasis-like source for water, main street now resembles a western ghost town. lake meredith is the other big water source feeding 11 cities, including amarillond lubbock. it's so hot and dry, the lake is slowly disappearing. >> the average loss of water from lake meredith is 100 inches. >> just from evaporation. >> just from evaporation. >> very hot and hazy areas building into the northeast. heat advisories are up for 11 states. the hottest of the hot, mississippi and parts of tennessee, where the heat index could soar to 116. we're seeing temperatures rise quickly across the south this morning, just dying for a little bit of a breeze here. let's break this down and talk drought first off. texas still getting the brunt of it. there hasn't been a whole lot of moisture the past three or four months. they're in exceptional drought. this is a drought they haven't seen, really, since back in the dust bowl, and there is not a whole lot of rain in sight there. there will be some moderation of this heat, though. we've already seen that somewhat. the northeast is a little bit cooler and a little bit dryer than it was yesterday, at least as humidity

towns like happy, texas, are depressed. originally named for its oasis like source for water, main street now resembles a western ghost town. lake meredith is the other water source feeding 11 cities including amarillo and lubbock. it's so hot and dry the lake is slowly disappearing. >> the average loss of water from lake meredith is 100 inches. >> just from evaporation. >> just from eprapvation. >> reporter: now hot and very hazy air is building into the east. where the heat index could soar to 116. >> reporter: all right. so there you go. the northeast getting a little bit of a break. not so much a cold front coming through yesterday, but more or less a drier front. with less humidity up there, but the southern half of the u.s. continues to sizzle. we'll see dangerous amounts of heat and humidity. as mentioned the number of heat advisories and warnings up stretch across 11 states. here's the forecast high temperatures for these areas. as measured in the shade, not including humidity, dallas, texas, may well get up and over 100 degrees. 97 in jackson, 97 expected in atlanta, georgia. we'll see some relief to this, not so much today, definitely not so much tomorrow but as we head towards the weekend