Heat wa continues today. The hot and muggy weather could turn inafternoon storms. Lauren rickets is there tracking it. Today is the hottest day of the year, megan, unfortunately, for a lot of people, especially those with outside work on saturdays. It is going to be a very muggy indext day with that heat close to 100 degrees. The june rise is beautiful and gorgeous, plenty of sunshine as we continue through the day today and then a chance ofat scred showers and thunderstorms later on this afternoon. But as far as what were looking at right now it is 72 degrees at 6 00 a. M southerly winds pushing in the humidity. Asp you wake u this morning temperatures will slip a degree or two by 7 00 a. M. And then rit back up. Plenty of sunshine this morning, storms later on this afternoon. O lets talk a who will have the best chance to see storms, coming thup. Sounds good, thank you. This morninfire officials are investigating a massive fire that engulfed a large home in irfax county. Chopper 4 fl
Viva las vegas. Overseas. Top story. President trumps wide ranging News Conference hours ago and ao extrinary offer to meet the north korean dictator kim jongun in the Demilitarized Zoneetween north and south korea tomorrow. Kristin welker is traveling with the president. She was at the News Conference in japan. Kristin, good morning. Reporter peter, good morning to you from osaka. This is a diplomatic cliffhanger. Will kim jongun accept President Trumps invitation to meet him at the dmz . The president building suspense with t freewheeling News Conference that lasted more than an hour overnight, all coming on the heels of critical Foreign Policy talks. This morning President Trump touching down in south korea after unleashing this extraordinary tweet. If chairman kim of north korea sees this, i would meet him at the border tdmz j to shake his hand and say hello. Ovduring an night News Conference the president was o pressed whether the meeting will actually take place. Spoke with thepe
Thats coming up in justbo. Lauryn, thank you. Just in to our newsroom this morning, the new York City Police detective who was on capitol hill pleading for additional funds for 9 11 First Responders earlier this month has died. Luis alvarezs family announced his death this morning. Here he is at the capital testifying with comedian jon stewart. They were asking congress to keep the fund going to help 9 11 First Responders who are now ltdealing with hea problems from their work at ground zero. Congress has yetot to ve on the bill to extend those funds. Thoughts and prayers with his family. And this morning a Death Investigation is under way in a quiet i beach townn delaware. Authorities found a bodyoa flng in a canal in Bethany Beach yesterday, not far from where a woman originally fromnt montgomery c was last seen. Her name is linda lee bravo. There are reports the body recovered yesterday appears to be. Wel and have the latest on our nbc washington app. New this morning, President Tru
to canceled and delayed flights, a look at the chaos for holiday travelers across the country. we ve got a lot of news to get to this morning, but we ll start with the january 6th investigation and the possibility that former president trump could be referred to the justice department for criminal prosecution. here s an interview with vice chair of the committee, congresswoman liz cheney. so the committee will or will not make a criminal referral? we ll make a decision as a committee about it. there is possible there will be a criminal referral. yes. which would be effectively the committee saying he should be prosecuted, and this is the evidence we ve the justice department doesn t have to wait for the committee to make a criminal referral. there could be more than one criminal referral. i have greater concern about what it would mean if people weren t held accountable for what s happened here. i think it s a much graver constitutional threat if a president c
warn you. we won t show the moment that walker is shot, but this footage is still disturbing and might be difficult for people to watch. here it is now. police say walker s car had been involved in a police chase the day before, but it s unclear what that traffic violation on monday was for when walker drove off, when they tried to pull him over. police also reported a gunshot from his car during their pursuit. you cannot see the angle of walker s vehicle or the gunshot. walker s family lawyer says it is unclear if he accidentally fired the gun. now, eventually police say walker ran from his car wearing a ski mask and officers say they first tried to use tasers on him which did not work. they eventually opened fire after police said walker stopped and appeared to turn quickly toward them. but just yesterday during a press conference, akron police chief made the crucial clarification that walker was unarmed at the moment of the shooting. as you could see in the video, there