Courts. Since seven months ago we are over 10,000 now reservations through the free system which allies the anxiety of people about the closure, reduction in number of courts and the comments are i have never been to that park and that city. That is wonderful. There are so many places we can play. The map shows you the green for the original courts we had. It was pretty empty in the eases part of the city. It is where we had three and four courts. We spread it out. Now we have three online reservations throughout the city. We may expand more. People are excreted about this. There had a few things we are working out. Should it be an our rath an hour rather than an hour and a half. I want to acknowledge jackie who is the lead on this project. She is home with a bad virus. The Community Support has been tremendous. The two people ruiobjected to the rfb having gone through the free Online System now support it. We reached out and they were no longer objecting to the selection of an operato
Right now, on news 4 this week. Safe streets. A new effort to make intersections safe for pedestrians. And we explain the markers popping up along streets in d. C. Shutdown slow down, how a big closure is impacting businesses in alexandra. And remembering the titan, a look at the ian whopired the movie remember the titans. Hello, everyone. Im leon harris. Icou may have n a lot of yellow at intersections. But were not talking about traffic lights but new plastic pylons that have been cropping up. We started investigating and we report its all in the name of safety. Reporter after 53 years of crossing the same intersection, aieda arudis takes a little more time. Are you worried about the cars and the driver ths . Yeah. Yes, theyre speeding, you know . Reporter and as she rightfully points out, speeding and turning dont mix. Thats why they are using more and re of these yellow pylon and yellow stripe devices, a lot more of them. We have 85ti locas across the district. Theyre known as left
You get on the baltimorewashingtorkway kenworth avenue northbound there is work and to go north on that stretch that ramp remains closed. You will find westbound span closed so eastbound is running twoway traffic and still in ay that twow traffic pattern. For now traffic is light and not causing that much of a delay. Back in to you. Th morning, former Vice President joe biden is defending his record on race after a tense texchange during night of the democratic president ial primary debate. He was one of ten candidates on the stage last night. Heres alook at all of the candidates who were a part of the debate. Ten other candidates took part in tht debate the nigh before. It was senator Kamala Harris who dnfronted about his record. You may remember biden caused controversy earlier this month when he spoke about having a respectful relationship in the 70s and 80s with two senators who opposed desegregation. Harris accused him of working with those senators to prevent africanamerican dent
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
We are at 81 rig now. You can see the northwest winds sustained at 16 miles an hour. So we are seeing some higher gusts. It is going on a nice breezy day out there and again fairly comfortable even though the temperatures are going to be on the hot side. Yes, it is going to be hot with temperatures at 90 degrees. Thats a little above average this time of year. Average is 88. We from the low 90s back to the 80s tomorrow and then start there. It up from in fact, the humidity is along for the ride pretty much the rest of this week. So lets talk about your fourth of july forecast. You know its going to be hot. Do we have any storms . We will show you coming up. All right. Back to the breaking news. Overnight preident trump became the first sitting commander in chief to cross into north korea. Yeah. The president invited the north korean dictator to meet him at the dmz earlier this week on twitter and take a look this is that meeting. The concrete section is the demarcation line separating