Security is visible for the holidays. And in boston, lining the charles river, a half Million People will watch the fireworks. City Officials Say they are a bit nervous. Obviously, everyones concerns have been raised because of all the isis activity thats going around. Reporter isis is urging its sympathizers to attack in the u. S. The fbi reports no specific plots uncovered, but in pittsburgh, the cops are alert. The lone wolftype thing, there is generally no precursor warning because of the very nature of it. Reporter heres a warning, the roads are jammed. This is new jersey on the way to the beach, the heaviest holiday traffic in eight years. Heres denver. Cheap gas has more people driving. Prices today are almost 90 cents per gallon lower than they were last year. Reporter jammed roads . Check. Fear of terrorism . Check. Millions having holiday fun . Check. In pittsburgh theres been so much rain, they say their big problem is they had to cancel their annual regatta. And Boston Poli
Brazil onpolice officer killed in a tragic accident at the world police and fire games. Developing right now, our newsroom is getting flooded with complaints from people with no water hours after crews told us they fixed the problem. News4 at 11 starts now. Off the top at 11 00 were less than an hour away from the fourth of july. And tonight we have Live Team Coverage to make sure youre ready for the big holiday weekend. Hundreds of thousands of people are going to be on the mall. And news4s Darcy Spencer is live with what to expect down there. But first keeping a close eye on the forecast. Absolutely. Weve had a little bit of change there. Weve been tracking all of them right now on our storm team 4 meteorologist Veronica Johnson has what Mother Nature has in store for you. Thats right, guys. Its still looking wet for the morning, but now im seeing less my moderate or big heavy rains coming through for the morning. Its still looking like were going to have the popup thunderstorms duri
Weather day by any means. Tracking showers on storm team 4 radar. We have had rain move into the area and its going to continue for the morning hours. Here is the latest now. The rain favoring parts of Northern Virginia back into western maryland and the panhandle of western virginia. Rain moving through Montgomery County Fauquier Frederick and howard county. Scattered showers for the morning hours. As we get into the afternoon hours, scattered showers and thunderstorms possible. You want the umbrella handy today. You have outdoor cookouts. Be ready to move indoors. Here is the morning planner, 73 degrees, spotty showers. 8 00 a. M. 10 00 a. M. Temperatures warm into the mid70s by noon. Limited sunshine is possible at that point. Coming up im going to show you future weather for this afternoon on into the evening, what we can expect for fireworks and timing out the potential for thunderstorms later today. All right. Thank you so much amelia. Happy fourth of july. There are so many thin
Independence. From the festival to the fireworks later on. Really, theres something for everybody. One thing to keep in mind is you will notice a lot of police. Law enforcement on high alert. News 4 derrick ward is live downtown with what you will need to know about that and other big events going on for the fourth. Its raining, i see, derrick. Reporter in this part of town, you will see a lot of police around town. Considering whats going on and what day this is, theres probably a bit more. Certainly more of a secure per am ter. There are other things going on as well. The fireworks are the big draw this evening. Theres a Folklife Festival on the mall. Its been moved up closer to the capitol. I dont think its necessarily a security concern, but logistics and repairs being done to the mall. Folks are already down here getting ready gather. The parade gets under way at 11 00. Some folks are going to be here ahead of time. The prime spots are under trees. We caught up with folks who were
Fairfax to montgomery is actually weakened over the last 30 minutes. And some other showers now approaching frederick city a little heavier down 340 over toward myersville about to get wet and the heaviest stuff im watching south of dog land and Colonial Beach will cross the river over the next 30 minutes. Futurecast tonight waves of showers occasional storms into saturday morning. And then as we get into midday here are the showers, but notice in the afternoon, they start to move south of us. So we are going to dry out some of the afternoon. That means i think decent conditions for the fireworks. Ill have the fireworks forecast and sevenday forecast coming up in a few minutes. Tonight, a memorial to remember a Brazilian Police investigator who was killed competing in the world police and fire games thursday afternoon in northern virginia. Our mola lenghi reports. Reporter debra, 48yearold carlos silva will be honored here at the reston towne centre in an hour by his brothers and siste