she says this is the season for movie buffs and transafrica's washington african film series is being held at the national geographic auditorium from today through sunday. you can go down and see some great movies there and if you go to the maiden memorial you can see screen on the green. that's monday until august 10th at dawn at 8 p.m. and this week they are featuring dog day afternoon with al pacino and how about staying cool in a taxi. it will be so hot this weekend. we are talking about a water taxi. take it from the national harbor. and of course this is a hot political season so why not go to the capitol steps a musical. regardless of your political affiliation she says it will have you cracking your sides. it is playing at the ronald reagan build and international trade center so there are a lot of things to do this weekend. make plans right now and stay cool. take a lot of water with you okay. let's get the forecast again. >> especially when you see the weekend forecast. it will be hot. on saturday we will be around 90. that's the drier of the two days, okay. sunday some scat

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