Watch until 10 00 later on this evening. Well see portions west of dc are looking better and better. Most of the threat is kind of the i95 corridor off to the east over the next few hours here. 68 degrees at your overnight low tonight. Thunderstorms early. Once we lose the daytime heating things should improve for us and we have a great start to the weekend. As method well have to watch out for those fireworks. Will we be able to get them off on monday afternoon . Ill let you know in just a bit and sarah back to you. Dc leaders laid out their plans earlier to keep the public safe over the 4th of july weekend. Fox 5 Alexandra Limon is live tonight in northwest with what you can expect this Independence Day weekend. Alex . Reporter hey guys, the dc fire chief told us if it was up to him, everyone would head to the National Mall leave it to the professionals and just enjoy the fireworks displayed. The director says if he had it his way, rely on public transportation. However, since they know thats likely not going to be what happens for everyone, they have an all encompassing safety and security plan in place, and a lot of that will include extra Law Enforcement and security. That will be visible thought the district. Heat exhaustion, illegal fireworks 10 drunk be drivers are some of the problems Law Enforcement and fire crews will have to deal with this Holiday Weekend. This is the only one day of the year that we put a sparkler which goes to 1200 degrees in a small childs hand. Why do we do that. Reporter as tourists and residents head to the nations capitol to a celebrate Independence Day. The ramadan ends july 5th are also things taken into account. Has it change specifically for security planning for the 4th of july . There has been we have a pretty tight for the 4th of july. So its nothing significant. Chief lanier says the majority of the police force will be on the clock. She also says there are no known terrorists threat to the district of columbia. The large crowds and potential for children to be separated from families. Burns due to unsafe fireworks. People are asked to pitch in and help out those who will spend their time working to protect the public. We should pause to reflect on all the government workers but especially our Public Safety officials who are spending time away from their own families to keep our city safe. If youre relying on the metro this Holiday Weekend. Heres what you need to know. Surge 2 of the Safetrack Program continues through sunday. Ep mind and the fact that Metro Rail Service does and at midnight both saturday and sunday. However, on monday, metro says there is no scheduled track work service will return to normal just for that one day and starting at 2 00 p. M. , they will build up to rush hour like service with peak service time happening before and after the fireworks display. Now, if, its a big if, if Severe Weather does push back the fireworks display to tuesday, which hasnt happened in 25 year, metro says they are prepared to replicate the service. Alexandra limon fox 5 local news. A vietnam veteran visiting the district suffered a near fatal stroke. His family says if it wasnt for amazing doctors an complete stranger, he may not have survived. Fox 5 has more. Of. Live every day like last day and enjoy it. Live every day like its your last because it could be. Thats what i wanted to. With his family by his side. He was feeling lucky the day after surviving a stroke. He tells me hes in town from cleveland visiting family for the 4th of july. He was working on his computer at his sons home when he started having trouble speaking yesterday. Luckily, his family jumped into action, realized what was going on and called 911. His wife credits an amazing response by the arlington ems for getting to joe quickly and rushing him off to George Washington University Hospital where two doctors removed a blockage from his neck and brain. Now he tells me this was the third time in his life hes come close to death. A few years ago, he survived cancer then back in 1967, during the vietnam war, he was aboard the uss forestall part of the crew that put out a huge five that killed 143 his doctors at georgia Washington University hospital say its an honor to have helped him spend another july 4th with his family. Its incredibly is symbolic on this day, the day were recognizing our vets and were recognizing this countrys independence to be able to have a great outcome for someone whos done so much for this country and his children, who have been involved in the armed forces to actually do something for them in are you sure is incredibly meaningful. Im a lucky guy. Reporter he also wants to thank act complete stranger who he says jumped into the middle of a crowded intersection to block traffic so joes ambulance to get through. Joe is expected to be released from this hospital tomorrow. At georgia Washington University hospital. Fox 5 local news. Still present a of problems with the Anacostia River. Despite recent improvements. That the river received on its annual report card. Wait until you see the helpful contraptions some people have come up with to help people in a particular time of need this Holiday Weekend. Well be right back. K. Now at havertys furniture, ly sale. Where you can create the perfect home. From now until july 4th, youll find huge savings on stylish pieces. Plus, youll get an extra tenpercent off accessories and, were offering thirtysix month, nointerest financing. Come in today for savings in every room. With havertys, your home can be perfect, even when life isnt. The 4th of july sale from classic to contemporary. Havertys. The Anacostia River is widely considered one of the most polluted rivers in the nation. Just this week, the anacostia water showed society gave it an f. People should be will have to swim next decade thanks to a huge tunnelling project. Paul wagner joins us live with the story. Hey, paul. Reporter sarah and tony, you can blame the problems with the river on the engineers who designed the system in the 1800s. When it rains really hard. The sewers combine with the runoff which sends raw sewage. Thats about to change by dc water that will divert all of that to the river and down to the waste Water Treatment plan where it belongs. This is one filthy river, one of the filthiest in the nation. In its report card, the anacostia water shed society gave it an f. The dirty river has been a dumping ground decades. Thats about to change in a big way. Dc waters investing bills of dollars to build a series of tunnels around the city that will take the combined sewage and put it we have a requirement to capture the sewage through this other than you blue line, tunnels underneath the Anacostia River and all the way down to blue plains to get this completed by march 23rd, 2018. Theyre larger than a metro tunnel and are 100 feet under ground. At this site on the banks of the anacostia near rfk stadium a huge Boring Machine nick named nanny has made it to the 11th street bridge. Go ahead and mind down to popular point. On other side of nat stadium and well put nanny at this location. As nanny moves along, the clay shes digs is placed on a Conveyor Belt deposited at the bottom of a shaft where its picked up by a giant crane and removed from the site. To the northwest dc water has been building a tunnel along first street northwest where theres been terrible flooding for decades. We installed a small pump station, 10 million gallons a day. It will be acting like its large sister. When the storm cell passes, it will fill up that tunnel. Of will pump into the existing into the existing sum. Reporter according to dc water, 2 billion gallons of combined or raw sewage flows into river more than 80 times a year. By the time the project is completed in the next decade, that should be reduced to two all this work in this general area will capture sewage thats currently going to the anacostia. We still need to build the northwest to get our 98 percent capture but we dramatically captured a lot of sewage thats going into the water. Reporter auto the gave the water an f, overall, it says, the river is improving. Dc water says the first phase of the Anacostia River project came in under budget and should be completed by 2018. Paul wagner fox 5 local news. Meanwhile, vigils in arkansas are hoping people will relieve themselves in an unusual situation. Theyre deployed what theyre calling floating potties, the 67,000 bathroom is anchored by 4,000 pound weight with 24hour satellite surveillance. The monitor when the door opens and how many times it flushes. Two pumpouts boats are assigned to each rest room and will run once a week to clean them. Were protecting beach. Were protecting the boating population. And public drinking water. Anything that can help prevent han for a the water will only make this lake a better water source for the public. Officials hope the floating bathrooms work so they can add up to six more around the lake. Not a bad idea. I never thought about that. Keeps Everything Else cleanup. They look like two washing machines floating around. I would be afraid it would tip over. Coming up, an incredible story involving a young girl in minnesota, wait until you hear what shes doing to help those less fortunate. Mike thomas will join us with another look at your Holiday Weekend forecast. Dont go anywhere. Fox 5 local news at 6 00 will be right back. A young girl in minnesota is doing what she loves and it is all for a great cause. Doing both hair and nailsor he scheduled an appointment to find out how it started. This is my Little French tip. Reporter at a time when most kids are enjoying the summer vacation. I understand if you dont like your french tip. Its my first time, i guess. Reporter stevens master man is mad at work. Even though her popup salon, that hasnt all been the case. Why do you believe, thats a good chore for me. I dont know, i believe youll look good in green. Reporter shes good at selling things, including herself. My french braids are very different. Different than average french braids. I think so. How . I dont know. Her mom said she wanted to help homeless kids get healthy food. She offered to do nails and hair on the corner for a dollar to help yes. Thank you very much. Reporter at first she had a tough time getting anyone to take her seriously. I would ask, hey, guys, would you like to get your nails done today . I was like, you know . Not today. Reporter how did that make you feel. Made me feel little bad. Reporter when she was about to call it quits, she got her first custody. So i did them then she posted this thing on facebook and now im technically famous. Couple of my friends had already posted had already shared it on their page. Of i was like wait a minute. I read through it and im like what a sweet story. Then im like, i saw the picture and thats my daughter. Reporter theres been a steady stream of customers plenty of tips. About 90 cents. Reporter not just the money kind. Dont give up on your dreams. We believe in you. Reporter are you done . Are these my nails . Yes. Reporter i think they look good. Now can you do my hair next . Yes. Reporter who knows . Maybe one day, the thought of ruining your nails wont be such a bad thing after all. I just like doing peoples nails. Makes me feel good. Thats so sweet. Shes doing a good job. Good cause. Weather not so fantastic. Never is around here. I do want to mention we got, i guess, good news from the nationals. Theyre going to kick things off at 6 40. Thats the latest on that. But we do still have thunderstorms rumbling through parts of the region. Especially east of 95. Northwest dc and it is we are not seeing any rain or thunderstorm activity. Southern portions of dc have gotten out of the thick of it. Across portions of maryland including Prince Georges County were going to go through all of that in just a moment. I do want t at least one viewer photo. This is wendy on the tarmac at Reagan National just about half hour ago, she sent me this photo of the rain there. Heavy rain did move through. Thats the reason they delayed the nats game. 6 40 is when theyre going to be kicking off. Storm tracker radar. Broken line of thunderstorms extending from north of baltimore all the way down south of fredericksberg virginia. It started to pick up in about last hour or so close to the washington area. We did have one severe thunderstorm warning. Looks like they did cancel it for this cell up northern portions. Lots of lightening with this storm nearly 160 lightening strikes out of that guy there. Thats starting to push off on the east. It looks like they did go ahead and cancel that severe thunderstorm warning. It looks like bulk of that has pushed off to the anne, thunderstorm blowing up near the south of neighborhood. Upper marlboro. There is cloud to ground lightening. I did turn it off so we can see where the heaviest of the rain is. South eastern portions of the beltway deal with heavy rain. South, thunderstorms bubbling up western portions of charles county. Again, all of this pushing off to the east. Lets head a little farther west. You can see dale city. Strong thunderstorms, look at this cell, just to the south of spotsylvania. Thats very heavy rain. Not a lot of lightening with this guy here. But the good amount of heavy rain and then another storm just getting ready to enter the city of fredericksberg there. All of this is along a frontal boundary you can see. Most of the storms are off to the east of this particular boundary. For the next couple hours, as long as we have the sun in the sky, there will at least be the threat for along this boundary. You can see in Montgomery County maybe we do have one more starting to pop up. Severe thunderstorm watch remain unless effect until 10 00 tonight looks like they have adjusted the area a little bit. It does include baltimore and washington here in theed my vicinity. Bigger picture here, great lakes rotating around, that the whats giving us the energy for storm this evening, well continue to watch. Temperatures are rain cool now 81 in washington. 82 at gaithersburg, 86 to west minister. Annapolis 80 weekend looks fantastic. High pressure takes chrome. Lots of sunshine for saturday. Should be dry. Difference comes on monday. Unfortunately, it is something were going to be watching here. Area low pressure is going to ride the frontal boundary and it does, look like the second half of july 4th we could be dealing with a decent amount of storminess. Well continue to update the forecast. For now we do have storms likely as we hid out through the course of your monday. Lets move on ahead and well get to you Independence Day weekend forecast here. Saturday looks fantastic. 83. Sunny, little breezy from time to time. Sunday, partly sunny skies, clouds and mix of sunshine in there, monday that unfortunately looks like the worst of it. Theres your fox 5 sevenday forecast. 83 saturday and sunday, saturday is nicer, monday not too grade for the fireworks as it stands. Well keep the chance of showers and storms on tuesday. We clear things out and heat things up. Middle of july typically your hottest periods of summer. Doesnt look like it will disappoint this year by any means. Coming up is a transition for many this amount of weekend. Annual nathans hot dog eating contest. Right now in our area, several hungry competitors gathered to see who could eat the most z bergers. 4th of july. Several gathered for the seventh animal berger eating contest. The number one ranked eater in the world won. 28 hamburgers in 12 minutes h that is two better than her previous record of 26 set last year. The mother of four took home 1500 in cash along with a belly ache and following the contest everyone was treated to a free single berger. Shes probably used to eating fast. Well see you coming up at 10 00. Harvey so boosie is worried that half the population could turn gay in 10 years. And its all because of tv. They have gays on cartoons. Like these are kids. He makes some really bad points but he makes a couple that he thinks are good. He said if his son was guy, dont know, i would probably slap his ass back straight. I think im going to kick his ass. Harvey like i said, he made some bad points. Like i said. The game. His son was turning 13. Has all of these hollywood heavy hitters. Instagram and do videos for his son, kendrick lamar, chris graham, travis barker, diddy. Tyrese gave the best one. What did he do
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