Ere starts right now. Ws 4 begins with a storm team 4 weather alert. And good afternoon. F happy fourthuly to you. Thanks for spending part of your holiday with us, and if you have plans for the rest of the holiday ight, strong storms could affect those plans. Thats right. And thats why were starting things off at this hour hereth storm center with amelia draper. Weve seen some sprinkles with rain out there on the mall right now. Lo what are you king at in. Im tracking very heavy rain down at the mall right now, and youre hearing the dinging going off. A new Severe Thunderstorm Warning out there. We talked about the high likelihood for storms and heavy rain yesterday, leon. Right. And here it is. First, lets take you to some video at the Lincoln Memorial where the president is set to give his speech at 6 30 tonight, and check it out. Just an absolute downpour down there. Our camert checking the right now. No Severe Thunderstorm Warnings t there, but very heavy aspl speech at 30eng rig
A perfect Beach Weekend and were going to talk much more about the beach forecast, the pool forecast and the heat recast and the storm forecast and ive got a lot of bforecas. Sy friday for you. All right. Well check back in just a bit. Doug, thank you. The heat is going to be a major llenge for folks heading down to the mall for the fourth of july, and today district leaders gave us new details about what we can expect next week. The president will speak, as you know, warplanes will fly overhead, and, ocourse, fireworks will explode near the mall. News 4s corey smith joins us live outside the Lincoln Memorial helping you get red for the big festivities. Hey, cory. Oh, jim, are you red re, because im very, very ready to celebr first fourth of july here in the nations capital. As we all know, President Trump likes celebraions to be huge, and the 4th will be no different. Thats added extra stress to thd local federal agencies who have pthlatollisn a reporter the stage is not quite set for
Man on the run from police. The victims car broke apart by the collision. The victim pronounced dead at the scene, the park w with northbound lanes shut down for about five hours. This is the spot. Theot of that terrible crash on the bw parkway. Now over there is the entrance to the beltways inner loop. Back herehe crash site itself, the point of impact, and hereda toy car glass and first aid capplies scattered all about. Iv thhe wasec injsuuredsprt din t recovering in the hospital. Now this all began last night at quarles street and kenworth avenue in northeast. Police say the suspect went into a k9 vehicle and then police started what they called a follow after the suspect car. Its unclear as to whether or not that followed contribut to the fatal crash. Now police have strict rules about pursuits and chases. Generally it has to involve life or death situations. What happened here lst night, thats being investigated by internal affairs. Reen, back toyou. All right. Pat collins reporti
Around mount vernon, wood bridge, over towards waldorf. If there was any heavy flooding it would be in this area over the next half hour to an hour. Watch out. It could come up very, very quickly. The line extending all the way down i95. Really just a mess out there night on i95. Going to be a mess of a night for sure, but we are drying ando startinsee that threat, that flash flood threat diminishing. That is some veryllood news. W talk much more about this over the next couple of minutes. Doug, thanku. We could use some good news tonight. People headed out of the district this afternoon have not been able to use canal road. It remains shut down in both directions between reservoir and fox hole road. So the crews can repair asi hole. It was caused by mondays heavy rain and tonights rain probably not making their job anya eer. The repairs were extented pecte take at least through torrow mornings rush. Well let you know asoon as the road opens on our nbc washington app. A reminder from p
Heavy shower and thoerunderstor. This is going t make its way into northern Howard County shaded in green. Ill talk about thao in a second. Uth of culpepper and crossing over into maryland, tracking those two storms as well, heavy rain and a bit ofig lning. None of the storms severe but definitely have the potential of going there. Big picture does show its not atst us. This system th causing the disturbance, ats causing all these storms, its actually going to minder in our area through thursday. Yeah. So the impacts were expecting as we head through the afternoon. Heavy rain, winds for ure, and not look at any real tornado threat today, but we could see some small hail out there. Now, as we continue to move through the evening, im going to keep a close eye on the storms. Do i want you to know that some of the counties including atederick county are under a flash flood wch. More details on tat to could. Erika . Thank you so very much. We encourage you to download our nbc washington app