Reporter the Folklife Festival is under way. The National Symphony will play and, of course, thousands will crowd onto the mall for the fireworks, but some things will be different, including a huge rock concert featuring the foo fighters as well as a baseball game. Heres where you will find the five major events. The Folklife Festival on the mall runs from 11 till 5 with a concert at 4. The nationals play the giants 1591 05 tomorrow morning. The foo fighters concert with eight bands at rfk stadium starts at nan. The National Symphony with Barry Manilow and others on the Capitol Grounds at 8 p. M. And the fireworks cap off the day at the other end of the mall. Actor Bradley Whitford is hosting this years capitol fourth concert for the first time. What could possibly go wrong . Absolutely everything. Thats why you want to watch. Reporter now the fireworks will hit tomorrow night at 9 09. 30 and last for 17 minutes. You dont have to wait until tomorrow night. Still time to come down to t
Grilling outside running inside for cover . Lets get in with erica grow. I saw sunshine on your shoulders. Yeah. Unfortunately it is not going to last all weekend. We have showers and storms in the forecast. Good news for today, though. Were keeping things mostly dry. There is the potential for a sprinkle or a quick shower during the nats game tonight as the nats are finally back in town but you can see more showers streaming toward us 9 30 in the morning tomorrow. Its already raining in parts of the area and possibly some thunderstorms starting to move through as we head into the barbecue time but it clears up in time for the fireworks so at least we have that on the dry side. Heres the nats forecast if you are heading to the ballpark. Well see the potential for a shower or thunderstorm as the game is Getting Started at 6 05. Coming up well give you the beach forecast and take another look at a drier sunday in the first alert seven day. Back to you. Thanks, erica. The activity on the
Are not allowed. Also drones Glass Containers and fireworks are banned as well. New technologies are going to be used by local Law Enforcement agencies including the federal ones to try to thwart any wouldbe attacks or attackers. Everybody gets screen and goes through a mag no tomer magna tomereters in a post9 11 world. Chris officials cannot name specific Terror Threats this year alone 40 people in the United States have been apprehended with suspected ties to isis. Seven of them just in the past two weeks. You can see why security has been enhanced. Chris papst, abc7 news. Jonathan thank you. The increased security measures warranted in the light of the recent attacks overseas involving isil. Senior political reporter scott thuman with more on that. Scott . Scott jonathan, by now even is well aware that we need to be alert. A lot of the security measures that will be taking place behind me here are what you might consider routine. The difference this time around is the amount of conc
Are not allowed. Also drones Glass Containers and fireworks are banned as well. New technologies are going to be used by local Law Enforcement agencies including the federal ones to try to thwart any wouldbe attacks or attackers. Everybody gets screen and goes through a mag no tomer magna tomereters in a post9 11 world. Chris officials cannot name specific Terror Threats this year alone 40 people in the United States have been apprehended with suspected ties to isis. Seven of them just in the past two weeks. You can see why security has been enhanced. Chris papst, abc7 news. Jonathan thank you. The increased security measures warranted in the light of the recent attacks overseas involving isil. Senior political reporter scott thuman with more on that. Scott . Scott jonathan, by now even is well aware that we need to be alert. A lot of the security measures that will be taking place behind me here are what you might consider routine. The difference this time around is the amount of conc
Are not allowed. Also drones Glass Containers and fireworks are banned as well. New technologies are going to be used by local Law Enforcement agencies including the federal ones to try to thwart any wouldbe attacks or attackers. Everybody gets screen and goes through a mag no tomer magna tomereters in a post9 11 world. Chris officials cannot name specific Terror Threats this year alone 40 people in the United States have been apprehended with suspected ties to isis. Seven of them just in the past two weeks. You can see why security has been enhanced. Chris papst, abc7 news. Jonathan thank you. The increased security measures warranted in the light of the recent attacks overseas involving isil. Senior political reporter scott thuman with more on that. Scott . Scott jonathan, by now even is well aware that we need to be alert. A lot of the security measures that will be taking place behind me here are what you might consider routine. The difference this time around is the amount of conc