With the folks in town. One area of moderate to heavy rain is moving through the metro area now. Another batch is coming in later tonight. Severe thunderstorm watch over kentucky and parts of west virginia. It might just work out that we get the little bit of a break. If it doesnt end totally, it might diminish enough to get the fireworks in fine. Here is where we are at the moment. Heavy downpours across the district. Just over the city in the north, heavy downpours. Lets zoom in closer now and take you right down to nearly street level where we have rain falling on the mall. We have heavy rain at that. The areas in orange are moving east. We do think we will have a break. Here is how it will go. Mild and muggy. About 70 to the low 70s. Isolated showers later tonight and maybe thunderstorms with the next batch. But the in between time, 8 30, 9 30 to 10 00 we still have a chance of having a break from the rain. I just saw sam sweeney on the mall a minute ago. Im looking at that hood and thinking you are not getting a break from rain right now, you, brother . Sam it just moved in, in the last 15, 20 minutes or so. Not a lot of people happy with your forecast. We have diehard people here on the mall. They are waving to us. They are happy, cheering. A ton of people are already out here. It doesnt look like it but they are on the other side of the Washington Monument there. You can see these people, they have been out here for hours. As of right now the top of the 4 00 hour, the show goes on tonight at 9 09. National park and the park police say they cant remember a time when they had to cancel the fireworks here on the National Mall for the last 25 years. They are hoping not to cancel it tonight. The only way they would cancel it, were told, if very strong storms come through, lightning or high winds. That is the only way they would cancel it. If there are already people out here, and we expect and the sort of storm moves in, they have a backup plan. They would evacuate people to the nearby museums. We are keeping it positive here and thinking happy thoughts. Lot of people out here for much of the day. They are echoing the same message. I love it. Awesome. Getting wet, but i love it. I cried when i seen the white house. Is the rain going to get you down . No. Im going to stay right here and wait for the fireworks. Im ready. A little bit of a damper. I like that everybody is still out here and have the gear on. Taking pictures. Theyre troopers. Cooler weather. Fewer crowds. Its a winwin. Remember, if you are coming out here, a couple of housekeeping rules. No Glass Containers on the mall, no alcohol, no tents. This is a no drone zone. They know we had a lot of people that want the perfect fireworks picture. Leave your drones at home. Jonathan, michelle, one more rule. No marijuana on the mall tonight. So leave it at home. Back to you inside. Michelle all right, sam. Thank you. As we await final word on the National Mall, some towns have already made the de postpone. Jonathan this is heartbreaking. Kellye lynn has the changes coming in. There are more than a few of those. Kellye absolutely. But before we get to that, we have heard from the National Park service. They are tweeting that the fireworks are still scheduled to begin at 9 09 p. M. On the National Mall this evening. Now, on to the towns in maryland that are changing their plans. The first to postpone is college park. Display on campus at the university of maryland has been moved to tomorrow night at 9 00. Greenbelt, maryland, doing the same thing. Gaithersburg moved their activities inside. But the fireworks will take place on friday night, weather permitting. If you would like a complete list of the Fireworks Shows that are happening in your neighborhood, head to wjla. Com. Severable search fireworks. Well keep track of any other postponements on abc7 news. Michelle stay with abc7 as we track the weather system as well on all platforms. Facebook, twitter, wjla stormwatch7 app. Jonathan what is the fourth without the parade . There is more than the parade on constitution. Today marks the 50th anniversary of the Independence Day parades in the palisades neighborhood of d. C. Congressional delegate Eleanor Holmes norton was walking in the parade saying beforehand it wouldnt be the fourth of july in d. C. Without the palisades parade. Now weather, not the only concern on the National Mall. Security is a top concern. Michelle of course with the recent attacks overseas, they have the whole world on edge. Today two bombings in saudi arabia. One in the holy city of medina outside the prophets mosque and the cemetery where Prophet Muhammad is buried. Ryan hughes is downtown with the security measures in place here. Ryan . Ryan everywhere you look you can see and feel increased Police Presence out here. Also expect a closures. Right behind me you can see Police Cruisers and buses blocking off a lot of roads around the mall. They will stay that way until 11 00 tonight. Now the gaits gates opened here a few hours ago but before the tens of thousands of people can get inside onto the mall, they will be searched. You will be forced to open up any bag, coolers and anything you have with you to go along with what sam said. You not allowed to bring in weapons. No alcohol or fireworks. On top of the local Police Agencies the d. C. National guard is out here. E. M. T. s and hundreds of volunteers. Officials say they did make some minor changes after the recent terror attacks. Everyone we spoke to says they welcome the heightened sense of security. We are glad its here. We feel safe. We love it. I feel calm and safe in d. C. Ryan police are also asking parents to take a picture of your son or your daughter with your cell phone in case if anything happens you have a recent picture on file. Bottom line if you see something that doesnt feel right, let police know so they can take action. Were live downtown. Ripe hughes ryan hughes, abc7 news. Jonathan thanks, ryan. In new york central park a virginia teen stepped on device that ended up exploding, critically injuring him. Michelle the blast put the city on edge this Holiday Weekend and tonight, Northern Virginia bureau chief Jeff Goldberg spoke with the young mans family. How is he doing . Jeff he is doing okay. He is pushing through. Well get to that in a moment. We did hear earlier today in the last 20 minutes from the new York City Police department talking about this situation, essentially saying they believe the situation was not meant to be detonated intentionally to hurt anyone. Essentially saying it was accidental. More on that in a moment. We spoke with the young he says that connor golden, 18 years old, tells us he is in serious but stable condition. Still in intensive care. His parents by his side. Golden a graduate of oakton high in vienna, carried off on a stretcher. He had his left leg below the knee amputated as a result of the explosion yesterday before 11 00 a. M. Golden and two friends were hiking on central park on the Upper East Side when golden unknowingly jumped on to this explosive type device leading to the blast. New York City Police late today saying they believe the device was a homemade device and designed for experimental testing purposes. Not designed to hurt anyone. Goldens grandfather, meanwhile, believes his grandson will pull through this ordeal. Between his parents, upbringing and his training and no forth he boy scout training and so forth he has the training to deal with this. There is somebody who made the material. I wont tell you where to look or what i think it is, we dont want to put ideas in peoples heads. Jeff a lot of information we are waiting to hear from the new York City Police department at some point. The department not giving a ton of information making it clear they believe the device was detonated accidently, not meant to hurt anyone. Regardless, this has changed the future of a young man from the area. They will have more information soon and expect to know what the content of the device is before the close of business on wednesday. We have more at 5 00. Back to you. Jonathan all right, jeff. Scary stuff. According to the Consumer ProductSafety Commission there are 260 e. R. Visits a day leading up to and through the fourth of july as a result of the most common injuries are from the sparkleer accidents. Then unidentified fireworks followed by the fire crackers and the bottle rockets. Follow your laws in the state and the neighborhood and if you are going to use fireworks be careful. Michelle developing now in Montgomery County this afternoon, an attempted rape suspect under arrest. Hebron accused of attacking a woman while she walked home from a late night shift at wendys. Kevin lewis spoke with the victim. She told you her play list might have saved her life . What was she listening to . Kevin the woman was Walking Around georgia a at 1 00 in the morning. She was listening to a gospel song called, im not alone. She felt someone grab ahold of her body and place a knife against her neck. Montgomery county police tell woman to walk behind a concrete wall at a nearby Apartment Building and he allegedly grabbed her to the ground and cursed at her. The victim recalled the lyrics of if song, im not alone and grabbed the courage to grab hold of the knife. After chasing hebron away she ran back to the wheaton wendys where a manager called 911. He grabbed me. He put a knife on my neck. He grabbed me next to a building. I dont know. I cant say if he did it or didnt do it. We still believe in jesus christ. That is our rock, our fortune. At the end of the day thats who we stand upon. While investigating they found blood on the concrete wall. They processed it and got a match with hebrons d. N. A. Which was on file due to a number of previous arrests for crimes like theft, destruction of property and burglary of a car. Were live in wheaton, im kevin lewis, abc7 news. Michelle thank you. Coming up at abc7 news at 4 00 lottery history in the making for the 4th of july. Jonathan big jackpot. Michelle the two near record jackpots up for grabs. Jonathan also ahead for us, the reason a judge says a 10yearold girl with a a perfect golf swing cannot play competitively for a full year. Michelle nasa has its own celebration this 4th of july. Milestone in a fiveyear mission to jupiter. Thats next. Jonathan we are tracking the rain this 4th of july. We are keeping an eye on the weather. Will the fireworks go off on if mall . Maybe there will be a break in the weather. We have that coming up. Prodders, shuckersers, and sniffers, all giant produce is triple checked. Were focusing on fresh. So you dont have to guess. My giant. Trying to make me eat my greens . Low. No, just trying to save you some green. Whaaat . thousands of blue tags. Thousands of low prices. My giant. Michelle it is that time of year we are hearing more about bear sightings. Jonathan people are getting out and enjoying picnics. He is Photo Bombing her. Michelle yes. Jonathan in fact, one behind a maryland Natural Resource officer. She is taking a picture and the bear crosses the woods. The officers were called because the folks were out for a picn picture of the bear oblivious to the presence. The bear could care less. Michelle looking for perries, maybe. Jonathan Photo Bombing. Michelle in virginia, this black bear taking casual stroll in the neighborhood in stafford county. This is the corner where this all happened in the corner of victoria and harpoon drive. A neighbor sent this to us at abc7 news. Jonathan you know why the black bear crossedded the road. Michelle tell us. Jonathan it can. A judge in Loudoun County has banned a 10yearold girl from playing golf for a year and her father, calls it a setback the golfer cant compete for now. The 10yearold ordered to stay away from golf tournaments for the next year. That decision is part of an ongoing custody battle between her parents that has now lasted seven years and comes at a time when her dad michael vechery says her career and talent are flourishing. She just happens to have want she won 23 out of 33 tournaments in the last two years. Reporter vechery caddies for his daughter and coaches her says e bought her plastic clubs when she was 3. Now she is a promising prospect. As far as her skill level, she is in the top 10 in the nation. Ready to obtain a scholarship to college. Here she is 10 years old. Reporter but the the child shall not be per fitted to play competitive permitted to play competitive golf or take lessons with a golf pro. The mother who did not comment on the story has sole custody for the child. The latest order doesnt lay out why the child cant compete but vechery believed the judge thought she was playing too much golf. The judge thought she is playing five or six hours a day golf with me. That is false. Reporter vechery is appealing the decision hoping his daughter wont have to take a year off from competitive golf and slow a career he says is off to a stellar start. Michelle the appeals sounds gu but it will take about ten months so a long time wait for reversal and the outcome [jonathan the problem is the parent. You have to do what is best for your kids. If your kids are passionate, the parents may not get along but get along that the child should do what she wants to do. Michelle it will hold her back. Hope they get that resolved. Look at the traffic with jamie sullivan. Jamie the district is where we are having an issue. This is the waze map. You can see the red and the white line. Virginia avenue continuing to the roosevelt bridge. I pull out a little bit to get closer to the National Mall, you can see how many closures we have. If you are going to attempt to drive downtown for the fireworks now is the time to download this waze app. Waze will help you get around the closures that are populated in the system. Just join the traffic watch 7 group. Talk about what we are seeing with a big picture now. Like we said, not much to worry about along the capital beltway. Mostly in the green. The focus is in d. C. With the slowing and the closure. The top side of the beltway, in the 40s. Driving through the rain. Its a nuisance for you the wipers will be going. If you are heading back from the beach, no delays. A clear drive continuing closer to st. Margaret. That is a look at traffic. Back to you. Jonathan thanks. Nasa solarpowered spacecraft juneau is expected to start orbiting jupiter tonight. Its five years after it launched. In the mission, jupiter will circumstance the planet 37 times, soaring low over cloud top to snap pictures and gather data on the giant planet. Fascinating. Michelle its cool. It will study scientists better understand the atmosphere and how it was formed. Jonathan pretty funny and it snaps a picture rand there is a starbucks, drive threw. Somebody got there first. Doug you never know. Michelle we will keep an eyes to the skies. Doug 11 151 when they intend to fire the rockets to slow it down from 150 miles per hour. That is really fast for a spacecraft to go. Jonathan wow doug here, we have been looking all day of a possibility we will get a window of time for the break in areas that will happen. Not every single area but many areas. Lets get you started with what we have at the moment. This is a lousy look but this is live ray cross the Potomac River for National Harbor to the alexandria side of the river. Its cloudy. A little farther west from here, the skies are brightening a bit. The best news is the first batch of rain is moving through the metro area. The temperatures are so unusual for 4th of july at 4 21 in the afternoon. Its only 7 2 degrees at Reagan National airport. Winds out of the south at 13. Dew point at 70. Its muggy. The rain is on the move. You dont have to go far south to see a major change in the pattern. Look at this. 92 in charlotte. 94 in knoxville. There is a warm front that separates this warm and humid stuff from the stuff in here. That is playing a role in the cloud cover and the area of the low pressure along the front cop attributing to the showers. This is the break area we are so interested in. Virginia. Even though it is 4 20 or so, the thunderstorms will pop here once the sun is out a bit. Later tonight we could see thunderstorms. We are hoping in between 8 00 and 10 00 in that time frame, most of the rain will be off to the east. That trend is continuing right now with the heaviest downpours over Prince Georges County north over route 50. We will zoom in the city. Northeast, southeast washington still have the rain. But starting to dry out the north and west. The best we can tell you for fireworks should be 72 degrees. There could be isolated showers. Mild and muggy. After that, 10 30, 11 00 the chance of showers and the thunderstorms increase. We run through the future cast and show the next batch coming in. They could pop up anywhere, late tonight through the morning but through the day tomorrow it calms down after isolated showers or thunderstorms. Then we will be in good shape. We will be good to go except it will get warm heading through late wednesday, thursday and friday. 86 tomorrow. Showers and thunderstorms clearing. The next seven days shows the heat building in. Lower 90s wednesday; thursday, friday, saturday. 30 chance of showers and storms on friday afternoon and everything and saturday. But well get back to july heat and eventually some summer humidity as well. Michelle hello, summer. Doug coming back. Jonathan thank you, doug. Ahead for us on the fourth back to work tomorrow for many and metros surge three as well. The third stage. What you need to know for tomorrows commute is coming up. A group of tennis players serving up a new way to raise money and awareness for military families. Im amy aubert. Ill have that stor fios is not cable. Were wired differently. So we wired the wagners house with 100 meg internet. Which means that in the time it takes mrs. Wagners car to arrive for the airport, she can use fios to download the movie up in the air to watch while shes. Up in the air. Thats the power of fiber optics. And right now you can get 100 meg internet with equal upload and downloads speeds, tv and phone for just 69. 99 per month online. Cable cant offer internet speeds this fast at a price this good. Only fios can. Jonathan aquinas world record. Michelle bonnie broke the regard for the most consecutive signals matches. But she is not stopping. Amy aubert is in maryland to show us how many, what is she up to, amy . Amy well, you guys, she set out to beat 36 consecutive singles matches. She did it on saturday. She played 38. She played right here on this tennis court behind me. What i really want to show you, all the events are still going on. Take a look over here. This is all part of a bigger event to raise money and awareness for military families. Right now they have a tennis clinic and family festival going on. Still happening out here. They are raising money for scholarship for children and spouses of military service members. Take a listen. Just to know there are people out there looking out for troops, children, and to help them out with tuition. Is a great thing. Amy that was a scholarship recipient you heard from. She set a goal to raise 72,000. That is 24 total school scholarships. The events are still going on. They dont have the total number of donations because they are still coming in. We have more on her story tonight at 5 00. If amy aubert, abc7 news. Jonathan all right. Thanks. Coming up next on abc7 news at 4 00 we are heading back to the Independence Day celebration. Howl many hot dogs americans will eat today. Guess the number. You might get it. Its coming up. Reporter a piece of americana that may go away. Why military bands next year may not be marching down constitution avenue for the end pen decem whatcha doin . Just checking my free credit score at credit karma. What the . . . Youre welcome. I just helped you dodge a bullet. But i was just checking my. Shhh. Dont you know that checking your credit score lowers it just be cool. Actually, checking your credit score with credit karma doesnt affect it at all. Are you sure . Positive. So i guess i can just check my credit score then . Oooh check out credit karma today. Credit karma. Give yourself some credit. Sorry about that. Announcer youre watching abc7 news at 4 00. On your side. Jonathan something to digest on the 4th of july. A fun fact about the Independence Day holiday. 150 million hot dogs will be eaten today by 65 of americans who will attend a holiday party. That is a lot of dogs. Michelle Many Americans will be washing down the dogs with beer. July 4th is the nations top beer drinking holiday. Beer . Michelle beer. Jonathan 43 of americans will be with the dogs and their beer. They will watch the fireworks display. Lot of folks out there enjoying the shows. Michelle lets go back out to sam sweeney on the National Mall. Jonathan we are holding out hope. Doug was telling us he thinks there may be a lull in the weather action so we can see the at 9 00 we are hoping for that. The lull right now. I have to be in the rain right now. Last hour, we were wearing a raincoat and the feet were getting soaked. Now you can see we have to rain jacket. The people are out here. The umbrellas are down. That is the good news. So many of the tourists we have been speaking with have traveled not just from across the United States but from around the world. They want to be here for the fireworks. They want to celebrate americas 240th birthday. Thatry out here. Many have smiles on the faces. Some of them are down because they wanted to sit out here and enjoy the sun on a july afternoon. One man we spoke to is thrilled about the rain. Come to sell out and go home and get rest. How many ponchos do you think you will sell . Hopefuy he tells us he is expecting to make 1,500 to 2,000 selling ponchos. He is the only one happy about the rain for the most part. If but then if you are coming out here, the show is scheduled to go on at 9 09. The only thing that would be able to cancel this fireworks celebration is strong winds, lightning, or severe storms. If that happens they will cancel it. But they say they have not done it in 25 years. We will continue to update you every hour from the National Park service. If the show will go on. Reporting live on the National Mall, im sam sweeney. Back to you. Michelle all right, sam. Thank you. We do notice that sam was able to take away the hood and the rain gear. A little bit of a break. Doug we are working on that way. There are showers around 5 00. East of the city. But through the evening we have a shot of a couple of hours where its cloudy and damp. The rain may hold off until the next batch comes in later. As well. Fingers crossed that will come in well after the firework display. The Doppler Radar now. You can see the back edge of this line. The rain is moving steadily east northeast across the eastern suburb and the by a by a. This is headed our way. The next area of precipitation, the next area of the low pressure from the west arrives and we are talking a about the possibility of heavier downpours and the thunderstorms then. Right now we have a little break over eastern section of the metro area. More rain going to follow here in next 45 minutes to an hour. Firework time, we have the fingers crossed. Hopefully it will be cloudy. There could be isolated showers somewhere but we think we have a shot to get it in tonight. Muggy, mild, low 70s at 9 09 when the Fireworks Show is beginning. The pool forecast for the next few days more like summertime. Today is chilly. Low 70s. 86 tomorrow, showers and storms. Wednesday. 90 lower 90s will continue through saturday. Check out the next seven days. Steve rudin will check it out in a few minutes. Jonathan chris is here to explain why. Those are the ambassadors for the military. The barricades were holding back tens of thousands of people. Watching the Independence Day parade in d. C. Go down constitution avenue. What would they do without them . Next year we may find out. The pentagon every year spends 400 million of the budget. To fund the bands that r it also includes buying instruments for the bands. There is a bill in the u. S. Senate that would drastically limit how much money the pentagon can spend on the military bands. So many festivals and parades around the country have them. They would now lose them. The measure is added to the 2017 Defense Department budget which already passed the u. S. House. And did receive blowback. Petitions including one at the whitehouse. Gov garnered 26,000 signatures. But David Williams from the Taxpayers Alliance says there is only so much money to go around and it needs to be prioritized. We have seen a 75,000 cell low. The pentagon needs to prioritize the spending. This money isnt protecting the country. It is only protecting bands. Chris now coming up at 6 00, we will tell you when the senate is likely to take up the measure on the funding for military bands. We are also going to tell you at 6 00, who decided to implement this possible defunding. That person has many people surprised. Live in northwest d. C. , chris papst, abc7 news. Michelle thank you. On metro this afternoon, ejoy the day. No track work across the system. One note if you are using the subway for the Fireworks Show downtown, you will only be able to enter at smithsonian after the display. Looking ahead now to safetrack. Surge three starts tomorrow evening at 8 00. No rail service from braddock road to National Airport. This surge only lasts one week unlike the first two which were twice as long. A state of emergency in parts of south florida today. Toxic algae are causing big problems down there. Officials may try to get the president to declare a fe state of emergency. Army corps of engineers now announcing that water leaving lake okeechobee will be reduced starting tomorrow. A move that is expected to reroute the water flow and clear the coastline. Jonathan scotlands vote to stay in the European Union could hurt their most famous export. Scotch. Andrew owns and runs the smallest traditional distillery in scotland. The majority of the single malt is exported to europe. Shipping models to berlin is generally easy. It hasnt been a problem. But with the scots potentially being forced out of the e. U. , he says that could be very bad for business. Big multinationals, i think, are in a far better position to handle it. Some could move out of britain completely to keep the headquarters in thee. U. Jonathan he was stability. He says his Company Might not be able to withstand any major changes. Michelle coming up on abc7 news at 4 00 boy scouts of america responding to a controversial sponsor of a day camp. Its like polar opposite of what boy scouts is supposed to be. Michelle the restaurant that sponsored the camp and how the scouts responded. Jonathan still ahead also for us, Holiday Weekend accident. And an unbelievable fine. This is like the first 4th of july i have had off in three years and now i have body parts flying in my yard. Jonathan the whole story will surprise you including who discovered the body parts coming up next. Prodders, shuckersers, and sniffers, [ inhales ] all giant produce is triple checked. Farm, crate, and store. Were focusing on fresh. So you dont have to guess. My giant. Jonathan a woman taking her dog for a walk and before they left the yard, the dog found a human hand. Michelle a man injured his hand. But investigators couldnt find a part of it. The woman who is a nurse was shocked when her dog came up to her with a hand in his mouth. Of july i have had off in three years. Now i have body parts flying in my yard. I hear a big boom. I thought it was a gunshot. Inhear a scream. Michelle she is like next time im working the holiday. The man had the equivalent of half a stick of dynamite explode in his hand. Jonathan the dog thought he was doing a favor. Michelle not so much. Well, you cant blame the brexit on this one. The bbcs once popular show top gear is being called a ratings disaster. And now the departure of host chris evans. Jonathan the relaunch in may was a complete lemon. Evans and Matt Le Blanc cohosting but failing to follow in the same following on failing to bring there the same following of the original host. They will blame anything on brexit. Michelle hay had big names but chemistry for it to work. This is a bizarre one. Cub scout camp sponsored by of all places hooters. Jonathan you have to wonder which dad in the den decided to come up with this one. The hooters girls pose with the scouts in denver. Parents doing double takes when they went to pick up the children last week. You took the kid where . Picture on the Denver Area Council facebook showed the boys doing the activities making crafts. The hooters girls, they werent posted. Some parents are dumb founded. And i step back for a second and take a look. Im like are they wearing hooter visors . Its polar opposite of what the boy scouts is supposed to do. There is some dad in deep you know what. In a statement, they said a restaurant extended support to help make a cub scout possible and provided volunteers for the camp. The group of tra volunteers wore the wrong attire. I was hooters, gang. Michelle at least they are not in the usual outfits, it doesnt look like. Jonathan im not falling for that. I wouldnt know what that was. Over the weekend, nobody hit the megamillions jackpot. Plural. Both of them are going up again. The dueling jackpot, the mega and the power ball. We tell you what they are. Kellye first, earn a College Degree fios is not cable. Were wired differently. So we wired the wagners house th 100 meg internet. Which means that in the time it takes tommy can download 30 songs, and jan can upload 120 photos. 12 seconds. Thats the power of fiber optics. And right now you can get 100 meg internet with equal upload and download speeds, tv and phone for just 69. 99 per month online. Cable cant offer internet speeds this fast at a price this good. Only fios can. Jonathan still no big winners in the megamillion and Powerball Jackpot over the weekend. The megamillions jackpot 449 million. Almost half a billion dollars. Last friday nights drawing, the 33rd in a row with no winner. They will dry again tomorrow night. Then saturday, nobody hit the power ball, which now climbs to 257 million. That next drawing will be wednesday. Wow imagine attending a university for two years but never stepping foot on campus. Michelle in tonights lynn tells us about an innovative education model happening in Montgomery County. Tell us about it. Kellye you might think of online learning. That is not what this is. Thousands of students in Maryland Drive to this campus every day and they attend classes there. But the location is many miles from their home university. Its called the university of shady grove. Collaboration of nine degreegranting institutions in one place. Allison is about to start a new chapter in life. Now that she is graduating from the university of Maryland College park. But her time at the school was never spent on campus. We have recreation center, the office of student services. I dont need to go to the main campus for anything. Kellye everything she needed she found here at the university of shady grow. Rockville campus representing nine schools. Including salisbury, bowie baltimore. Degrees are offered in fields like business, psychology, nursing, pharmacy and biology. This is the marriott teaching kitchen. Its primarily used by hospitality and tourism management majors. One of 80 programs offered here at the universities at shady grover. 90 of the 4,000 students transfer from community colleges. Many of them like 42yearold den brew ken brewer who stresses the importance of convenience and cost. I can stay locally. Start classes here. At university of maryland eastern shore. That is a benefit to me. Its also the most Cost Effective way i could go about it. Kellye another advantage, shady groves close relationship with the business community. The industry supports students with scholarhips and internships and because they are educated here and a close partnership, jobs. Kellye an approach to education that strives to meet the needs of the area students and employers. Students who transf universities at shady grove are more likely to graduate. Shady grove boasts 75 graduation rate. Jonathan thats great. A group of veterans arrived before the rain started. The riders pedaled 35 miles from pittsburgh. The local nonprofit bike shop and the veterans hope to make the ride an annual event. For all of those who participated congratulations. And a thank you, too. Michelle they planned that trip right. Dodged the rain. Jonathan now they have fireworks to look forward to. Steve i believe we will get them in with no problems. 9 09, clearing. Then another round of thunderstorms. If people went to the beaches maybe you were jealous. You shouldnt be. They had a yucky weekend. Jonathan its still the beach, though. Steve its still the beach. Looking at ocean city. Cloudy skies, a few scattered few showers over the district and the National Mall. Those will ease moving through the next hour or so. Off to the rest of us at reston. The skies are beginning to clear and dry out. Before the fireworks the temperatures are in the lower 70s. Isolated showers. Mild otherwise. Muggy. The show starts at 9 09. Dont forget to leave the pets at home. If you have pets that are scared of the fireworks make sure they have a safe zone in their home and that they have their collars on. This is the busiest day of the year for the local Humane Society picking up lost pets. 86 of for the high. Scattered showers and thunderstorms come to an end in the morning hours. We will see graduate clearing. It wills talk about the weekend. If you put off going to the delmarva beaches for past weekend, upcoming weekend looking good. Temperatures are in the middle to the upper 80s to start. Cooling down on sunday. Mountains are nice. But on the warm side for this time of year. Temperature 80s on saturday. Lower 80s on sunday. I will take you out to look at next seven days. If you are staying in town, a mini heatwave could be the hottest stretch of days we have had so far this season. 91 on wednesday. Lower 90s on thursday. A chance for a few thunderstorms on friday and saturday. Middle to upper 80s sunday and monday next week. Check on traffic and a busy holiday, especially downtown. Jamie it is downtown. People are focused on today. But tomorrow is surge number three for safetrack. That will in place until july 11. We will be shut down from National Airport to braddock roads. The trains run 12 to 15 minutes on the blue line, yellow line is every 12 minutes in some stretches. You want to give yourself exfrom time. The extra time. The roads are wet. Keep that in mind on the interstate. But not too bad. This is a big picture look. Mostly green. Moving to the waze map i want to foc show you the closures in place. That is rock creek parkway, where the red and the white stripes are. Mainly along the National Mall. If you plan to drive, not a good idea. 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Ryan hughes tracking the prep for the National Mall. But first, Everyone Wants to hear from chief meteorologist doug hill. What is the word . Do we get a break in the rain to let the fireworks get off . Doug it is looking that way. But there is no guarantee. Little individual showers should pop up. We dont see a threat of anything that is heavy thunderstorms in the window from 9 09 when 9 45 and the fireworks are going off. Temperatures, this is something you need to know about. If youre inside all day, 70, 73 degrees in falls church. This could be the loyest record. Models are aglowing with the scenario agreeing with the scenario the main batch will myth through. If this comes to pass, then things are looking pretty good for the fireworks time frame. Close up o doppler, most east of the city. It will continue to move northeast. Individual showers farther west to keep an eye on. But over the next couple of hours we will see the trend continue. And i think we are on track to have a muggy and a mild and a cloudy and a damp night out there. But at least weather that should work out okay for the fireworks. Late tonight the thunderstorms are a possibility. As a warm front moves through the area. Tomorrow a different day. Look at this. 86 degrees. We could deal with the thundershowers and clearing and then it will get hot. We are talking 90. We will show you that. The sevenday forecast in a few minutes. Michelle thank you. Already, Fireworks Show have been postponed for