A few more showers we could see later tonight, but all eyes on next happening over the two to three hours. Stay ahead of this weather with forecast on air and in our nbc washington app. We invite you to download that app. If you havent done so already, youll find forecast for your neighborhood right in the palm of your hand. Leon . Wendy, weve gotur eye on the white house this evening because were still waiting for the president to come out and make some remarks about the sunsus question is as were waiting for that, we understand i. C. E. Is moving forward with plansfor deportation raids this weekend. Plans that had been set to happen last month. Well keep our eye on that. In the meantime, two Homeland Security officials are telling nbc news that the postponed raids are expected to start sunday and planning to target thousands of undocumented people in majorities around e country. Things, though, could change before the weekend, but here are the ten cities previously mentioned. Now, wh
Footage that were getting into the newsroom out of utah. Its of a raging wildfire or actually just a fire in the town 70 miles southwest of salt lake city. More than a dozen homes and buildings already destroyed. Reportedly two firefighters were hurt and hospitalized. We dont know of any other injuries. Thousands are without power. People are evacuating and the red cross is on the scene right now trying to help out. Still no details on what caused this fire. Im at the live desk. Back to you. Time for weather and traffic on the 1s. Man, we had quite the storm. Chuck bell with four things to know. Thats right. Fortunate fortunately, that Severe Weather threat is gone and will stay gone for a couple days. Time for a cool change. Thats what we get around here today. For a little bit of tomorrow as well. Our twodaybreak from the high heat and humidity. Dont you worry. Hot weather lovers, the heat blast is coming back for the weekend and you have a trip sunday and monday. All three days coul
David is on assignment for us. It is a storm team 4 weather alert day. Were tracking a heat wave hitting our area today. Good morning, tom. Good morning, kristin and chris. We are starting off fairly better than what well see later today. There will be the threat of afternoon storms. Now, all is calm and quiet but rather muggy. We start off early on this saturday morning. There is the sun just now getting up above the horizon. Sunrise on this saturday morning coming up in a mostly clear sky. Thats the live view from our tower camera, overlooking Prince Georges County on the horizon. All the counties in orange under a heat advisory. Includes the metro area. The feels like temperature may be as high as 105 in this orange zone by mid afternoon. Dangerous heat on the way. A look at our Storm Chances is coming up in a few it already feels hot out. It could be hours before power is fully restored to some buildings in downtown d. C. That includes seven museums. A normally welcome relief from
Leshan, wusa9. It is a stunning development. The police chief says as far as hes concerned, the swimmers are free to leave brazil, after they finish talking to investigators but that may be up to a brazilian judge, not police. And the judge in charge of the special hearing says the case and the punishment for false Police Report is a small fine. Nothing that would keep them in the long run from leaving. Cassandra writes, not sure what to believe. I know the government of brazil does not want the shame of a robbery. This could be the truth or we might never know. And from lynn, unbelievable. They should not be allowed to compete in future Olympic Games if they are found to be lying about the whole incident. Log onto our wusa 9 facebook page. And tell us what you think. Following breaking news right now. From metro. Where the derailment of the train of the east falls they announced that the Metro Transit Police will open up its own probe. There were 75 people. One person was injured. Our
Management. That survivor told us stories we heard before from other residents, there were complaints about gas over and over and ignored. When i come back at 6 00, you will hear his dramatic story. Reporting live in Silver Spring, scott broom, wusa9. In a written statement, Washington Gas is saying only it will continue to support the ntsb investigation, kay apartment management has ignored all attempts by wusa9 to have questions answered. We got breaking news involving a possible hepatitis a outbreak. The Virginia Department of health is investigating a cluster oh of hepatitis a cases that appear to be linked to smoothies from tropical smoothie cafes. The cases are likely linked to frozen strawberries imported from egypt. Anyone who had a smoothie from a cafe in virginia within the last 50 days could be at 6th, 7th or 8th, consider a vaccine or immune gob goblin. 9 babies were transferred after a bacteria was found. Reporter doctors at Prince Georges Hospital say the three babies eva