Good evening. Thank you for joining us. Im cecelia vega, in for david muir. We begin with america on high alert this fourth of july. Police ratcheting up security across the country. Officers out in full force. At tourist attractions, checkpoints set up. And in boston the commissioner saying a lone wolf attack is their worst nightmare. Heres gio benitez. Reporter tonight, a nation on alert. In washington, d. C. U. S. Park police are on horseback at the national mall. We are aware of the chatter and we take those into account. Reporter authorities worried about lone wolves. And in Boston Police are deploysdeploy deploying special teams. Memories of the boston bombing still fresh, preparations up to a half Million People could attend. Reporter in chicago, huge events. Alex perez is there. It will be a busy one. Big crowds expected everywhere. The cubs and white sox at home three huge grateful dead reporter and in los angeles, 300,000 people expected at events. Authorities asking people t
Good evening. Thank you for joining us. Im cecelia vega, in for david muir. We begin with america on high alert this fourth of july. Police ratcheting up security across the country. Officers out in full force. At tourist attractions, checkpoints set up. And in boston the commissioner saying a lone wolf attack is their worst nightmare. Heres gio benitez. Reporter tonight, a nation on alert. In washington, d. C. U. S. Park police are on horseback at the national mall. We are aware of the chatter and we take those into account. Reporter authorities worried about lone wolves. And in Boston Police are deploysdeploy deploying special teams. Memories of the boston bombing still fresh, preparations up to a half Million People could attend. Reporter in chicago, huge events. Alex perez is there. It will be a busy one. Big crowds expected everywhere. The cubs and white sox at home three huge grateful dead converts. Reporter and in los angeles, 300,000 people expected at events. Authorities askin
Youll be comfortable in that for the afternoon hours. A look at neighborhood highs. Thats coming up at 11. Weather and traffic on the 1s. New crash virginia 95 northbound as youre headed through deal city. A crash with the center lane blocked. Thats adding to the problem we have a little bit north of there as well at 1 23. 66 in bound lee highway. Chopper 4 over 66 for you here in the next couple of minutes. Top of the beltway and all the main routes into town and out of town are moving along quite nicely. 270 at old hundred road. Travel times in ten minutes. Melissa. Thank you. When were talking about traveling today you can be part of the conversation about the future of interstate 66. V dot has plans to put tolls on that road between d. C. And the beltway, tolls that could cost you 85 a week. News 4s Kristin Wright joining us from the road on how drivers feel about the proposal. Kristin, good morning. Reporter aaron, naturally people are frustrated and people are worried, particular
The high clouds. Still cool between 8 00 and 9 00. Beginning to jump in the low 60s by then. Another day with a rapid warmup. Right now though quite a chill in the air. Not as chilly as yesterday. Only near 50s. Mid 50s nearby suburbs, upper 50s in washington. Near 60 right by the bay. Mid 50s Shenandoah Valley. You need your fleece this morning. Later today youll be comfortable in shorts. Youll need the sunglasses as well. Lots of sunshine around. Dry pavement, any problems on the road . Looking good. Road work here and there, tom. Nothing to really bother us here. 270 Montrose Road northbound and southbound moving along. 95 in virginia, dale boulevard also looking good right now. Taking a look here, 95 both ways here in maryland at powder mill road still have some lanes blocked in both directions because of the road work that is happening there this morning and, again, in bound 66 at 123 seeing a bit of a slowdown as you approach that construction as well. Ill see you back here in te
News4 midday starts right now. Were following developments out of South Carolina. A bit of a bright spot this morning as were learning that a dam situation, a dam that had risk of breaking has been mitigated. The people have been evacuated this morning and are now back in their homes in South Carolina. That doesnt mean the threat is over. More than 35 dams being monitored across the low country right now. 11 of them, we know, have been at risk of bursting. Some of them have failed. Others are just being watched very closely. At the same time, South Carolina dealing with a Drinking Water problem as people try get cleaned up around South Carolina. They have 40,000 residents who dont have good drinking residents. Bottled water is being brought in. At this point Officials Say it could be days before all that water that came down in southern South Carolina has gone into the ocean. Theres still the ocean of water coming from upstate down to the east coast. And then running into the already f