again, it was very valuable. >> reporter: there were three separate cooling sections set up along this parade route and we understand that almost 10,000 people all told by the time the parade was over had gone through and gotten cooled off in that water. back to you, doreen. >> looks like a good idea to me. thank you, jackie benson reporting. >> that heat advisory remains in effect and it will get worse before it gets better, we're told. doug kammerer, tell us about that. >> any time you add on another day of heat and that day is coming tomorrow where i do think the temperatures will be at the level they were today and the heat index could be more and that will put the heat index to 100 to 105 tomorrow and you put that back-to-back and you could be talking problems. 94 degrees, the current temperature with the heat index of 99 and that's the way it feels when you step outside and that's why the entire area under the heat advisory all of the way through the night tonight and in through the day tomorrow for the potential heat index over 100. current temperature, 95 in frederick, maryland and 92346 baltimore and cooler along the bay and annapolis coming in at 89 degrees and fredericksburg coming in at 95 degrees. what are we expecting tonight. it will be very humid and very warm. low temperatures into the low to middle 70s. tomorrow afternoon will be one hot, hazy and humid day. remember, the biggest thing you need to remember here, check on the elderly and make sure you're also drinking plenty of water yourself. >> thanks, doug. now to memorial day tributes and americans honoring military veterans and those who gave their lives in service. the president honored them the arlington national cemetery and to honor our heros who made the ultimate sacrifice, michelle franzen reports. ♪ ♪ on hallowed ground at the tuchlt unknowns at arlington national cemetery. [ "taps" ] >> reporter: president obama led the nation in a ceremony honoring our fallen heroes. more than 1 million americans who served, fought and gave their lives while defending our country. >> we remember that it is their courage, their unselfishness, their devotion to duty that has sustained this country through all its trials and will sustain us through all of the trials to come. >> reporter: that chain of sacrifice includes the more than 6,000 military personnel killed, fighting wars in iraq and afghanistan. >> let us mourn, yes, their passing, but let us also promise ourselves to do that which we can every day starting today to prove worth of what our final have given us at so great a cost. >> reporter: at fort campbell in kentucky this weekend, a memorial marking the most recent deaths, six soldiers from the 159th combat aviation brigade who died in a bombing thursday in afghanistan. overseas, troops also paused to pay tribute. at this base camp, a waffle fallen heros and an empty table setting to serve as reminders during wartime. back loam in hard-hit joplin, missouri, residences digging out from last week's deadly tornado even took time to remember the fallen. somber reflection, along with patriotic ceremonies across the country, marking this memorial day. michelle franzen, nbc news, new york. >> u.s. park police are trying to figure out what caused a woman to lose control of her car and slam into a tree in the washington parkway this morning. it happened just before 3:30 in the northbound lanes before the parkway north of route 92347 laurel and the crash killed the driver of the car and shut both direction of the parkway for more than four hours. police still have not identified the female driver who was killed in that accident. some of metro's train cars could be to blame for delays throughout the transit system. a metro board member says the britta 4,000 series metro cars are hurting on-time performance and that type of car has the worst record for breakdowns along the entire metro fleet. metro board member is calling for the transit agency to fix those cars especially since metro would have to use the cars for another six to eight years. so there they were up in baltimore about as regional a competition you can get. we're talking about men's lacrosse, the terps of maryland and the university of virginia. it was tough and we still don't know who won. >> we do, actually. >> i don't. >> i do. lindsay does, too. >> and the maryland men's lacrosse team haven't won a championship since 1957 and the unseeded terps face number seven virj who won it all. it was a back and forth battle, but in the end the cavaliers took advantage. uva gets the win 9-7. let's go to baltimore. against maryland first year had john tillman, fourth quarter and the terps trailed 6-5, and it's tied at six and take another look, ryan young comes up big time and ties that game up. then uva would strike quickly after that. colin, this guy, briggs had the game of his life and scored five goals today and sweet goal here and uva wins it 9 to 1k37 they capture the national championship and their first win since 2006 in the championship game and we will have much more coming up in sports. >> thanks, lindsay. >> you're welcome. >> some very dedicated lacrosse fans braved all of this heat out there today to tail gate and also to do a little trash talking at baltimore at the backup. >> chris gordon is in baltimore now with more on that. chris? >> well, good evening. the fans are leaving the stadium saying this was a well-played game, a great game, in fact, it came down to within two scores and just two and a half hours ago and fans are brimming with confidence rooting for a victory. >> maryland lacrosse fans waited a long time for a shot at the national championship game. >> my uncle was the first national championships in maryland in 1937 and he was on the last of 1975. let's go. >> virginia lacrosse teams have won four national titles, trying to make it five today. this t-shirt says one love, a foundation named for yeardley love, the virginia women's lacrosse star allegedly murdered by hugly. >> it played a part in making them more focused and more disciplined and recognizing as he said we have to do this for her memory. we can't just continue on being lax. we have to be strong and we have to be committed and focused and i think the results are starting to show on the field. sdwloo some fans came a long way for the love of lacrosse. this group travelled from central new york, once syracuse lost, they adopted the terps. >> i'm a cuse fan and graduated 30 years ago and i have friends in the baltimore area, so absolutely, if the team will be my team, i'm definitely going root for the terps. the maryland virginia rivalry has divided the loyalty of family and friends. >> maryland, of course. >> reporter: can you agree on this, it's an all-acc final and it is about lacrosse? >> i definitely agree. acc is dominating this whole year. it's too good. >> it's all about -- >> they beat carolina, duke, and now it's virginia. >> we lost to maryland over, but we're about to take it to them today. >> reporter: and that prediction came true. the virginia cavaliers win it 9-7. the 2011 men's lacrosse championship. that's the latest from baltimore. back to you in the studio. >> thanks, chris. coming up on news 4, a pair of gop women seem to be zeroing in on president obama's job this weekend. the president's focus, though, has been on filling the nation's top military job. emerging hip-hop star sean kingston is fighting for his life after a weekend accident. on this memorial day as michelle franzen reported, u.s. troops fighting in afghanistan took time-out to remember their fallen comrades. it was a flag raising ceremony at dawn at the u.s. base in kabul and at another base in eastern afghanistan, soldiers enjoyed a traditional cookout, but a special table was set in the middle of a dining hall and it featured an empty plate and chair in memory of those who have been killed in combat. more than 1,060 military men and women have been killed in afghanistan since the war there began ten years ago. today two republican women with charisma and conservative views looked a lot like they were campaigning for president. the question is whether michele bachmann or sarah palin will actually run. steve handelsman reports. >> reporter: thanks. good evening. palin and bachmann are taking attention away from declared republican candidates and tim pawlenty and newt gingrich, but taking on an incumbent president would be a bigger undertaking. >> reporter: memorial day is a reminder of the power of a president. barack obama stood alone at arlington national cemetery. >> brotherhood, sacrifice, love of country. >> and it is my fervent prayer that we may honor the memory of the fallen by living out those ideals every day of our lives. the commander in chief ordered changes at the pentagon. army general martin dempsey to be change an of the joint chiefs, a new deputy and a new army chief of staff to carry out obama policies. >> reporter: >> from bringing our troops home from iraq to beginning to reduce forces in afghanistan this summer. >> reporter: across town a campaign-style bus, brought sarah pail toin see the declaration of independence and constitution and to get on tv. >> and to remind ourselves we don't need to fundamentally transform america, we need to restore what's good about america. >> reporter: palin is raising her profile and not saying if she'll run for president. palin's rival, minnesota congresswoman and tea party fire brand michele bachmann went to new hampshire. if all veterans would stand right now that we may rightly pay our respects. >> bachmann declared soon. >> the person they compare myself to is barack obama. >> reporter: two more republicans who might want the president's job. democrats claim the bigger the number of republicans get in, the better the chances for barack obama. i'm steve handelsman, news 4. when sarah palin left washington today she moved on to fort mchenry in baltimore and from let family traveled to gettysburg. there is a new report that suggests that real toll of the earthquake in haiti might not be quite as catastrophic as the haitian government initially reported. that number is nonetheless, exceedingly severe. the report was commissioned for the u.s. government by the agency for international development. according to the associated press those findings suggest that no more than 89,000 people were killed in the quake in 2010. the haitian government put the death toll above 300,000. the report also suggests that fewer people were left homeless than the united nations has estimated. there has been no official reaction yet to that report. coming up, mother nature puts on a dramatic water show. not everyone twont ocean city for memorial day, we'll stop by other well-known shores. well, kind of a hot one out there. i hear everyone saying it seems too soon for it to be this hot, but we're never satisfied, are we? >> no. i don't think anybody ever is. you gets a day that's 82 and no humidity and everyone loves you and then it goes on 96 and then, it's, like, what are you doing? we still have three weeks of spring left and it definitely felt more like summer. you what we need here? we need one of these on our beaches to give us a little bit of water. take a look at this. you saw this video earlier. this was out of australia of a water spouts and just amazing the amount of water that this things was picking up, too. and a lot of other foul out there, and any kind of creatures that live out there in the water and yes, literally dump them on land so you have heard of raining frogs and raining fish, that's how it happens. what a boom shot that is out there. the record at bwi, 98. they hit that risked 98 degrees so today will be an un, fishl record. the record dulles is 95. winds out of the north at 9 miles an hour and not enough of a breeze to cool you down. look at these temperatures, 95 in frederick and 95 in fredericksburg and 93 in leonardtown and you add in the humidity and you get the heat index and rung upward of 100 degrees and 102 in baltimore and 92347 quantico and 106 degrees down toward fredericksburg and that's why we have the heat advisory in effect for today and overnight and into the day tomorrow as well and a couple of things you need to be reminded about. always check on the elderly and a lot of times they do have not air conditioning and they just sit in those rooms and make sure you're checking in on the elderly and remember the pets as well. bring them inside and give them a little ac and drink plentied of water and help people around you do the same. no rain to talk about. we're not going see any rain over the next day or so. better chance of rain and the best chance of rain coming up on wednesday, but this is going to be a dry pattern. a little bit on the warm side over the next couple of days. no cloud cover from the great lakes down through portion of north carolina and we're not going see clouds overnight and into the day tomorrow either, frontal boundary, just to the north and watch which way this front goes, back to the north. high pressure dominating and we're going to stay very hot during the day tomorrow and actually a little bit more humid tomorrow. that's where we're going to see the problem with the heat index of 100 to 105 degrees during the afternoon. we will see a frontal boundary start to come down during the day wednesday and most of wednesday will be dry and there could be showers and thunderstorms late in the day, maybe at 6:00, 7:008:00, wednesday night and as this front moves on down, i do think we'll see a very nice end to the week and temperatures falling back down into the 80s on thursday and friday. mostly clear, hot and humid, and winds will be on the light side. tomorrow morning, mostly clear. humid once again with areas of fol fog, and that's around i-45 in the morning and you'll see and by 9:0010:00 you'll walk outside and you'll feel it. you'll start to feel the sweat building up your body. mostly sunny tomorrow afternoon with the heat advisory and with the heat index warmer than it was today at 1 thoun 105 degrees and actual temperatures, 90 to 95 and as we move on through the next couple of days and if we hit 92 on wednesday that will make it the first official heat wave of the season and 89 on thursday and then i think it looks like a fantastic day on friday and then we'll just call it a fantastic friday with a high temperature of 86 degrees and as we move on through the weekend, i think temperatures stay in the 80s with only a slight chance of a couple of showers so it looks like a fairly dry and fairly warm pattern a little bit more like summer than late spring. of course, coming up this friday, we'll be out in somebody's backyard. you love that picture. it's like the biggest picture ever. we're working on this, but we want to come to your backyard and do the weather live. this week we'll be in fairfax county, i believe, last week we were in ocean city, maryland and had a great time there. send us some pictures of that backyard and also lettuce know why you want us to come at weather@nbcwashington.com. i'm taking that picture and i'm signing it for everybody. >> it's not just that your head is twice the size of the grill, it's also that you're wearing a suit and tie. >> in someone's backyard. that's not going to be the case, acres sure you. >> thank you, doug. >> thanks, doug. >> with gas prices as high as they are this year, a number of people are looking for memorial day getaway just a bit closer to home. john schriffen checked out a vacation spot that has the benefits of the beach without the long road trip. >> reporter: less than 45 minutes from d.c. is a quaint beach town with the elements for fun. a water park for the kids and motorsports for adults and a beach even someone from brazil could enjoy. >> i'm missing the waves, but i like it. it's cool. i like it. i feel like i'm a little closer to home. >> reporter: regulars say chesapeake beach in maryland has everything you need to relax on memorial day, especially if you have the best seat in the house. >> it is so nice, like, the perfect temperature and you sit by the water and there's a breeze and kids playing and you can go far out because there are sand bars. >> just a few minutes down the road is north beach. there you will find more sand, more shopping and, yes, a boardwalk. >> how's it going? >> good. >> did you catch anything yet? but you hope for it, right? you'll get something. >> a trip to the chesapeake bay area is not complete without tasting the local favorite, steamed maryland crabs. the owner says this weekend he's doing triple the regular business. >> it's about 100 over weekend and on memorial day nobody's got them. >> we have our crabs here and i have my coach jena who will open this in less than 20 seconds. >> go for it. >> we'll start here and pooel this backwards, all of the way back and open this from the side. >> all right. >> we'll clean out the middle and then we're going to crack this in half and here is all of the meat right here. >> uh-oh, i think i made a mess of it. >> oh, no. >> you what? if that doesn't work, i've got a mallet. >> break my heart. >> reporter: after a quick day trip, chesapeake beach might soon be your holiday spot. i'm john schriffen, news 4. >> there is an art to that. >> i heard john in the newsroom saying it's a lot of work for not much. >> something many people have said after -- >> many times. >> coming up, gas prices are still falling. we'll tell you how low they could go. >> a deadly accident in virginia, we are told it could have been prevented. >> hip-hop star sean kingston has been in a terrible weekend accident. >> some car rentals may not be safe enough to drive. we'll tell you about somebody fighting to get them off the road. coming up in sports, uva and maryland battle it out for the men's lacrosse championship and also memorial day baseball at president barack obama marked this memorial day with tributes to the nation's war dead. he spoke with arlington national cemetery. and placed a wreath at the tomb of the unknowns. it caused heat-related illnesses, half a dozen people including members of a marching band had to go to the hospital. others had to be treated as well. sarah palin and congresswoman michele bachmann spent this memorial day appearing to be campaigning for president, neither woman has yet declared herself a candidate, though, for the republican nomination. a deadly crash in loudoun county might have involved a distracted driver. that happened happened just before 7:00 on route 9 near daley farm lane. julie carey has more on the police efforts to step up enforcement on a busy road. >> reporter: a loudoun county deputy targeting aggressive drivers on route 9 trying to make sure there is not a repeat of what happened last night on this narrow, but busy road. a road that carries hundreds to the charlesestown casino. that's where a vienna couple was headed at 6:30 when a yaris plowed into their forerunner. virginia state police are looking into a warns report that the yaris driver who was killed was preoccupied with his cell phone just before the crash. this is the couple that survived in the forerunner. anna castro and jose castro rivas was wearing seat belts. castro got the call that her mother had been airlifted to a fairfax hospital with a broken ankeel. >> they got lucky because they had a bigger vehicle and i think that if they would have had a small irone, i don't know if i would be telling this story right now. castro's husband jose was treated and released early this morning, still very shaken and he didn't want to appear on camera, but with his step daughter translating, described the terrifying crash. >> remember, and i was driving and i was taking pictures of the scenery and she yelled at me saying lookout! >> within seconds, the vehicles collided. the couple was trapped and jose was eventually able to climb out a window and free his wife. the driver of the yaris, 31-year-old satish, died at the scene. the accident shows how dangerous texting while driving can be. >> this is something that shouldn't happen because you never know when somebody else is going to be distracted because of a cell phone and they're putting their life in danger and those around them. >> the stepped up enforcement by the loudoun county sheriff's department was scheduled to last through the end of the memorial day holiday. in view of the latest accident no viewiot whether that special enforcement might continue. near% val, julie carey, news 4. >> this is at least the second fatal accident on route 9 in recent months. three men were killed there back on christmas eve. a local pastor was killed when he lost control of his motor vibingel and hit a tree. that accident happened near mile marker 20 in triangle saturday afternoon. elija alexander bird was traveling southbound on a 2008 harley davidson motorcycle. police say speed may have been a factor in this crash. bird lived in dale city and was the pastor at open arms pentecostal free will baptist church in woodbridge. he was 59 years old. congress could take action to keep potentially dangerous rental cars off the road. new york senator chuck schumer bruced a bill that would stop congress -- involving recalled vehicles. he says rental agencies should be held to the same standards as dealerships which don't lease out cars until all potential hazards have been fixed. gasoline prices are going down and apparently will continue to do so. today the national average for a gallon of regular unlead side $3.78. that's down 6 cents from last week. here in the d.c. area, prices are still a bit higher than that. $3.85 a gallon in d.c. and that's still down a penny from yesterday and down 8 cents from last week. drivers say they're happy that prices are dropping, but they say they still got a long way to go. >> ecstatic because i'm a recent college grad and i don't have that much money to be spending for gas so when gas prices went down that added more money into my pocket for food, bills and what not. so -- >> aaa expects prices to keep dropping as the summer continues and possibly, they say to about $3.55 by july fourth and even $3.25 by mid-summer. they say that might happen as long as there are no major hurricanes in the gulf. coming up, the medicine shortage that has doctors scrambling for a backup plan for patients. we'll tell you about some ♪ [ woman ] this icelandic mud was working wonders on my skin. but if it was going to do the same for my spa, i had to figure out a way to get it back to the states. so i called my citibank small business expert. he got me a line of credit to make it happen and even improved my cash flow. now, my spa has more business than ever. ...and so does 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[ male announcer ] at citibank, we believe small business is a big deal. what's your story? citibank can help you write it. welcome back, everybody. i'm meteorologist doug kammerer on storm center 4. we don't have thunderstorms out there and strong storm, but the heat can be just as bad. 94 degree, the current temperature out there right now with winds out of the north at 9 miles an hour. you get the heat index. the heat index 99 in washington and 102 in baltimore and 104 in fredericksburg and a very dangerous situation as far as the heat is concerned. if you are going to be outdoors make sure you're drinking plenty of water. tonight dropping down to a temperature of 73. a very warm and humid night tonight. 74 in annapolis and tomorrow temperatures from the low to middle 90s. temperatures around 94 in washington and we can expect the heat index tomorrow between 100 and 105. that's why we have the heat advisory continuing throughout the day tomorrow as well. one more time, we are going to be going out on friday to somebody's backyard and we want to come to yours. if you'd like us to do the weather live send us pictures to weather@nbcwashington.com and maybe we can do the weather live from your backyard coming up on a friday. >> doreen? >> sounds good. thank you, doug. singer sean kingston is in a hospital after an accident on miami beach. his watercraft hit the palm islands bridge yesterday evening. a female passenger was also hurt. kingston's publicist says he is now stabilized. the 21-year-old jamaican-american singer rose to fame with his 2007 hit "beautiful girls." medical experts are warning about the impact of a growing shortage of prescription drugs. experts say medication shortage is not a new concern, but they say it is getting worse. health care providers say more than 200 drugs are now in short supply. they affect things such as cancer care and heart surgery. doctors and patients are being forced to delay surgical procedures while hospitals hunt for substitutes. the shortages are attributed to recalls, production problems and fewer problems that make the same drug. lindsay is coming up next with our sports report. memorial day baseball, nats against the phillies and one of the toughest holes for the congressional u.s. open. >> maryland and virginia playing for all of the maefshls in the national what a joy to have this regional thing with maryland and virginia playing for the championships. >> and playing in baltimore and battling this intense heat. i don't know how the players felt about that, but this was a matchup that had such a great storyline no matter how it unfolded. the unseeded maryland terps have not won a championship since 1957. their opponent uva just five years fresh off of their last title win, but tom starcha had suspended colin brigs for side's game because of what he said were, quote, team matters. he scored five of uva's nine goals and led the caves to another national championship title. let's go to baltimore. >> clear the space and clear your hands every time! why not us? let's do this! one, two three! >> why not us says uva coach pumping his guys up before the game, the all-time winningest coach going up against this guy, john tillman in his first year for maryland. perfect foose grant katalino. two goals for this game. second quarter, back come the cavs and colin brigs takes it behind the net and he scores. such a talented guy. virginia ties it up at three. then in the fourth quarter of the game it was maryland down 6-5 and he scores the equalizer and young remembered playing in honor of his mother maria who died last month after a battle of pancreatic cancer and the game tied at 6, and what a game it was, but uva goes on a tear in the final minutes. nick o'reilly to brigs in front and he scores his fifth goal of the game and that's enough, virginia defeats maryland 9-7 for the national championship and the cavs, last title wib was in 2006. 2006 and it was such an interesting game when you consider the coaching separation and the differences. how marvelous that maifsh maryland coach takes his team to the championship. >> he's had a lot of experience, but the fact that he can get the players to buy in the way they needed to, they dealt with the death of ryan young's mother. everyone was impacted on that team and ryan young, obviously most of all and the fact that he was able to play through that and that was less than a month ago. what might we expect from that team in the years ahead? a brand new coach. >> a lot more. >> we're moving on to baseball, the nationals opened their series with the phillies today. despite the fact that halladay gave up multiple homers in the game this season, defensively, the nats couldn't help themselves. let's go back to nationals park where a lot of people thought maybe finally ted was going to get the win in the first president's race, but it didn't happen. instead it's aimed again. he is so honest. teddy 0 for 394 and the top of the fourth, levan hernandez, facing ryan howard and crushes it out to right for a home run and his 12th of the season and not too shaeb. the very next batter and he does the same exact thing and back-to-back, my friend and he gave up four runs and the bottom of the fifth fifth we go. roadway halladay, facing chippy espinoza always wants to do something. he puts a good rt read on it out to right for a home run and take a look at what the phillies fan does here. this is comical. do i really want this? no. sends it on back and it'ses e n espino espinoza's eighth of the year. the nationals found themselves down 4-4 and jason werth facing his old club, with two runners on, two out and halladay gets them swinging and the nationals lose 5-4 and they have now, by the way, lost 10 of their last 12. we're less than three weeks until they tee it up at the congressional country club for the u.s. open and we continue our tour of the golf course with director of golf john lieburger. here's a look at hole number 6. >> the new tee box on hole 6. this hole has been lengthened to truly make it a par 5. in past events this member par 5 has been converted to a par 4 for the championship and for the previous tournaments that have been held here. the par 5 gives the player now that risk reward opportunity and the chance to go for the green in two shots and maybe pick up a birdie or eagle. there is a creek that luns down the fairway that's actually well off line, however, a shot that goes to the right and catches one of those mounds will tear them into that hazard and getting closer to the green complex. it's got modest transitions in the green and it's well guarded by a pond on the right and on the left well guarded by bunkers. so if you try to go for this, too, and you're not deadly accurate. you're going to find one of those hazards. >> good thing we're getting our money's worth out of john lyburger that shows us every single hole at congressional country club. that. >> that is an amazing tournament. >> if you're not deadly accurate, forget about it. >> i have to tell you something about the nats game earlier because i was listening to parts of that and i don't remember what inning it was, they had runners on first and third, nobody out, and they couldn't get a run across. >> discouraging. >> that's the story of the whole season. >> it seems liken ebbs and flows and the problem like the series with the padres and it was abment on to gain momentum and it didn't happen and the filly comes to town and we all know what they can accomplish and the nationals have a hole to dig themselves out of, so to speak. >> thanks, lindsay. >> before we go, because of the magic of television, i am told that my coworker dan hellie is live from baltimore. we were trying to get him earlier and it wasn't happening, so dan hellie. you're always late for everything, i thought you would show up for tv today and what was it like to be at that game when uv attack that championship. >> you know it was crazy mere because it was a pro-maryland crowd and i think the maryland fans outnumbered them 8 or 9 to one and you had john tillman for the university of maryland and they had all of the people here back and virginia just had too much fire hower in the end and maryland allowing five goals per game and virginginivirginia race goals and he had the game of his life as virginia was their first title at 06. >> we'll have plenty of sound for you coming up tonight at 11:00. >> dan and john lyburger from congressional have been hanging out. we will have that sound later tonight at 11:00, but as you heard him say it was a pro-maryland crowd out there today in baltimore. >> that's what you'd expect, right? >> you know, sometimes, you are very fortunate when there's a porta john nearby. >> a porta john. >> sometimes a man's got to do what a man's got to do. porta johns i'm about to start a nascar coverage and i've never used a porta john before than in the next coverage. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] with amazing innovation, driven by relentless competition, wireless puts the world at your command. ♪ pnc virtual wallet now comes with spending zone. it organizes all your spending, including your pnc debit card, credit card, and your bills. so you can view them by category... or by month. you can set a budget... and it'll even alert you when you're getting close to the amount you've set -- and when you've gone over. spending zone is built to help you keep better track of your spending. experience everything virtual wallet has to offer at pncvirtualwallet.com. pnc bank. for the achiever in you. we have some breaking news tonight out of northwest d.c. fire fighters have had to rescue about a dozen people from an apartment building on upshire street. weir told several children were among those rescued. we have a crew just arriving on that scene now. we'll have the very latest on this tonight on our broadcast at 11:00. today's military is as diverse as our society, but it wasn't always that way. yet men and women of all race still made the sacrifice for their country. today a unique group of army rangers from the korean war came to remember fallen colleagues and fallen barriers, too. derrick ward has our story. >> it's been called the forgotten war, the korean conflict of the 1950s. it's not forgotten to those who served nor to those who lost loved ones to those whom this memorial is decaded. survivors of the second ranger company, an all-black ranger company made up of two other all-black units in a segregated arm p/e. >> they said you guys are going to go to korea and you're going to get killed and they had 500 volunteers to go to the company. they literally jumped into the an nals of military history. >> always thought rangers jumped all over, but come to find out we were the first rangers that ever jumped out of an airplane, and i'm telling you, they say that the ground was secure, but when you hear them bullets whizzing past your head and people are running around down there. >> reporter: they distinguished themselves through their bravery. we had the bayones and when we hollered buffalo, we were coming up the hill. so we didn't have to fight too much because when we got to the top of the hill everybody had gone, and you can look down on the other side and see them running. >> still, death did visit their ranks. donald lasalle saw it up close. he saw how in the end there was no discrimination when after a jump he came upon a soldier who was in his last minutes of life after being shot. >> you go into shock and boy, i don't care what complexion you are you turn green and when you, do you do. >> reporter: those who died are why they are here on this memorial day. it's why this wall was here in the lincoln memorial with the haunting images everyoned in stone and why this band of brothers will man this float in the name of fallen com rats and fallen barriers, barriers that fell under the weight of the sack ri feces, often under sack ri feces of men like these. >> for these rangers, participation in the parade today is part of long coming recognition and they didn't do what they did for recognition, they did it for love of country and honor. >> all of the rangers we spoke with today live in our area. they're the subject of a book called the u.s. army's first, last and only all-black rangers. >> a final check, doug. >> current temperatures still in the mid-90s and the heat index still upward upper 09s to 90 degrees. high temperature around 94 degrees and the heat index tomorrow between 100 and 105. so maybe even warmer as far as the heat index is concerned and that's why we have the heat advisory all day tomorrow. wednesday, a hive 92 and a 30% chance of storms and they will be late in the day probably between 5:00 and 8:00 on your wednesday and 89 degrees on thursday and 86 on friday. friday really looking like a very nice day out there and just remember, drink plenty of water over the next couple of days and if you take break, take frequent breaks and staying inside with ac, if you can and always check in on the elderly and bring in those pets. >> it's cooking out there, but as pat collins reports now it is not keeping people, certainly most of them young and hearty from enjoying the outdoors. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> reporter: they call it popping. it's sort of a robotic kind of break dance and they were popping in the park as the temperatures today were popping around 100. >> so you can be cool dancing even when it's hot. >> i don't know. i'm really hot. >>. >> reporter: now we're at the girlfriend's picnic. you know what they say about being cooler in the shade? well, they're not always right. are we having a good time? >> absolutely. >> are you staying cool? >> yes, you have to stay still. >> oh, how do you stay cool. >> just mental exercise, but physically i'm staying in the same spot. i drink a lot of water and some wine. >> a little bit of wine. >> eye little bit of wine helps. >> don't trust my thermometer. it's 2:23 and it says 98 degrees here in dupont circle and this is michelle and what is that? >> it's called a spirit hood, actually, and i live in florida so it's usually way hotter than this for me. >> this is nothing for you? >> no. it's normal. sometimes you need a little animal in your life, you know? >> just in time for a scorcher. the opening of serendipity iii, a famous new york spot known for its special ice cream creations like the french fried oreo sundae, the strawberry field and the famous froho. it's a frozen hot chocolate. >> they sold more than 10 million of these since they opened this place up in new york in 1954. ladies, you can't leave here until you eat all of this. >> no beach, no problem, put your feet in the fountain. they say it's cooler that way. >> five degrees cooler. >> ten degrees cooler. >> yeah. >> you didn't bother to take your sandals off. >> because they're so strappy. >> the it goes back up to your body and cools you off some. >> happy memorial day. >> you, too. >> i hope that -- i don't see how that's helping her cool off, but -- i feel cooler after seeing that. >> you ever notice pat has