Area. Were told lightening hit the lightening rod at the top of the maryland state house. Se it caused external sprinklers to turn on. No smoke or damage. Dam we want to check in with mike thomas the lightening western seeing east of the bay bridge that coincides with a new warning. We have a severee thunderstorms out. Out. Updated information our system o is being a little bit of rotation with that storm so something im going to be keeping my eye on here as the hr store cross the bay. Ill show you exactly what were talking about for the most part its quiet with exception being the lone storm out towards the bay. Severe thunderstorm warning does re pain in effect for northern portions of calvert under county, extreme portions of an a runnel. The rotation that hads my system alerting me saying it is deteching rotation. Ot no tornado warning. Over the bay, so i doubt they would issue one. There is water spout potential. Well see whats gnarl weathers service puts out. O here is that warni
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 k
When he gets in the car, he knows what he is going to happen what is going to happen. Tonight, on cspans q and a. Now, Homeland Security undersecretary Suzanne Spaulding talks about protecting the nations infrastructure. She was part of an event hosted by the American Bar Association. It is about 90 minutes. [applause] youood morning and thank for that very gracious introduction. Some of you know and everybody will eventually learn that when you have spent over six decades occupying space, you take on a variety of roles. Way, you it another wear a variety of hats. I will explain to you three different hats that i wear. And currently special advisor to the American Bar Association Standing Committee on net law and National Security, we celebrated by 54th birthday, founded aba president and Later Supreme Court Justice Lewis powell and chicago lawyer. The committee focused on the legal aspects of Security Issues and conducted studies and sponsored programs and conferences and highlights t
Our electric grid. Following the nairobi shooting in the shopping mall, we did a Campaign Across the country to enhance the security and resilience of shopping malls all across this country. That has continued with training exercises and regular interactions. Particularly the attacks in paris, we recognize that the great work we were doing all across the country with owners and operators of commercial facilities we could perhaps taylor more effectively for smaller venues, like the cafes, the smaller venues like the 9. 30 club across the country appeared we went back to our mitigation efforts, and we set fordo we tailor this smaller entities that not have a big, robust Security Operations . So we developed the Homeland Security hometown security initiative, and we developed handouts. Report, plan, train, and , to encourage those entities, to make sure that they connects not only with the federal resources that we can bring to their disposal, which is at the National Infrastructure coord
Sinking southward to bring us a chance of showers in the south hair on today. You also might run into patchy fog this morning. Everything looks okay. I ran into a patch coming in. Town by town 52 in roxboro and 57 in goldsboro. Temperatures hold steady today. Yesterday was a high of 71 but low to mid 50s across the board today with a few showers on and off. Renee. Looks it good elizabeth thanks. Jurors are expected to begin deliberating Trayvon Smiths sentence. The same jury convicted him of killing melissa hugins jones in her apartment. Mikaya is here to bring us up to speed today. Closing arguments are scheduled for this morning and the jury has to decide between melissa joins was found beat and stabbed to death by her eightyearold daughter. The same jury found Trayvon Smith guilty of her first decree murder. On friday the state and defense rested. Today the jury is expected to get to the sentencing case. A death sentence requires a unanimous decision by all 12 jurors. When the jury