Weather day by any means. Tracking showers on storm team 4 radar. We have had rain move into the area and its going to continue for the morning hours. Here is the latest now. The rain favoring parts of Northern Virginia back into western maryland and the panhandle of western virginia. Rain moving through Montgomery County Fauquier Frederick and howard county. Scattered showers for the morning hours. As we get into the afternoon hours, scattered showers and thunderstorms possible. You want the umbrella handy today. You have outdoor cookouts. Be ready to move indoors. Here is the morning planner, 73 degrees, spotty showers. 8 00 a. M. 10 00 a. M. Temperatures warm into the mid70s by noon. Limited sunshine is possible at that point. Coming up im going to show you future weather for this afternoon on into the evening, what we can expect for fireworks and timing out the potential for thunderstorms later today. All right. Thank you so much amelia. Happy fourth of july. There are so many thin
Independence. From the festival to the fireworks later on. Really, theres something for everybody. One thing to keep in mind is you will notice a lot of police. Law enforcement on high alert. News 4 derrick ward is live downtown with what you will need to know about that and other big events going on for the fourth. Its raining, i see, derrick. Reporter in this part of town, you will see a lot of police around town. Considering whats going on and what day this is, theres probably a bit more. Certainly more of a secure per am ter. There are other things going on as well. The fireworks are the big draw this evening. Theres a Folklife Festival on the mall. Its been moved up closer to the capitol. I dont think its necessarily a security concern, but logistics and repairs being done to the mall. Folks are already down here getting ready gather. The parade gets under way at 11 00. Some folks are going to be here ahead of time. The prime spots are under trees. We caught up with folks who were
Her car seat in pasadena, maryland. He tells news4s darcy spencer, he couldnt believe what he saw. In the back of my mind, we said, wow, what is the world coming to . Reporter Bishop Raymond shillwell found a baby girl in a car seat in the middle of the street as he returned from church on the fourth of july just before midnight. When we went out and checked it out and then we said, oh, wow, somebodys actually left a baby here. Reporter the baby believed to be two or three months old did not appear to be hurt. She was just sitting there quietly at first but then when she saw other people around, then she just started crying and we said, well, wow, i dont know who would have done Something Like that. Reporter there is no sign of what happened on this quiet street last night, except for this some formula that spilled out from the babys diaper bag. By late morning the babys mom came forward and was being questioned by police. We dont know right now if foul play was involved. We dont know
Good morning. Fire forces several people from their homes overnight. Investigators are trying to find out if it was a firework that caused this. The race to the finish in the police and fire world games as they will come to a close and we will have a live report. Its a foggy soupy start throughout the metro area but temperatures are warming up and its going to be a lot drier than it was yesterday. Good morning. Thank you so much for waking up with us, best place for sunday morning television, wusa. Its hard to get out of the door in some spots with the visibility close to zero. Last night it was so thick, a firework would go off, the smoke would hang there. The same kind of thing happened for the display on the National Mall. We did take pictures. I have them posted on facebook and twitter accounts if you want to look. You really see the effect mike was talking about with the smoke hanging in the balance. Lets look outside and get things started. You see how the fog is hanging on out h
The former communist east. The current chancellor, angela merkel, has led the tributes, describing him as a great german and a Great European. The bbcs paul adams looks back at his life. As the cold war ended, helmut kohl seemed to tower, quite literally, over everyone and everything around him. As a child, he witnessed the destruction of his country. World war ii inspiring his lifelong desire to unify germany and europe. He rose through the ranks of the christian democratic union, becoming chancellor in 1982. His provincial manners were frequently mocked but he was tough and he knew how to wield power, and when history came calling, he was ready. The fall of the berlin wall, a moment of euphoria and, for helmut kohl, a chance to put his fractured country back together. But unity did not stop there. With frances president francois mitterrand, he pursued his other big idea the new European Union and its own currency, the euro. He didnt always agree with his political protege and his car