239th birthday, Law Enforcement was on guard against any attempts to crash the party. The fear is terrorists may have a circle around the fourth of july and a bullseye on an american city. Elaine quijano is in new york. Reporter 7,000 nypd officers will be deployed this weekend, some will be heavily armed, standing watch along with canine units. Others will patrol the hudson river, boats capable of detecting radiation. More officers will watch from overhead in specially equipped helicopters. James is head of the nypd counterterrorism unit. Helicopters have many capabilities, able to do a survey with radiological detection equipment. They also have cameras theyre able to see basically the dimple on someones chin from 1300 or 1400 feet in the air. Reporter at the Police Command Center Officers will keep an eye on thousands of cameras. Security is tightened across the country. In washington, 700,000 people are expected on the national mall, and police will have special patrols around majo
Fairfax to montgomery is actually weakened over the last 30 minutes. And some other showers now approaching frederick city a little heavier down 340 over toward myersville about to get wet and the heaviest stuff im watching south of dog land and Colonial Beach will cross the river over the next 30 minutes. Futurecast tonight waves of showers occasional storms into saturday morning. And then as we get into midday here are the showers, but notice in the afternoon, they start to move south of us. So we are going to dry out some of the afternoon. That means i think decent conditions for the fireworks. Ill have the fireworks forecast and sevenday forecast coming up in a few minutes. Tonight, a memorial to remember a Brazilian Police investigator who was killed competing in the world police and fire games thursday afternoon in northern virginia. Our mola lenghi reports. Reporter debra, 48yearold carlos silva will be honored here at the reston towne centre in an hour by his brothers and siste
Tomorrow. If it were sunday people wouldnt care as much. Showers coming in waves. Heavier stuff toward richmond. Right now, light showers in the neighborhood, so to speak. Many areas not seeing much at all. Leesburg is quiet. Fredericksburg is quiet. Montgomery county, not much going on at the moment, but some showers south of prince gorges, and a lot of light showers from Charles County to prince georges. Western maryland, west of hancock, thats lifted to pennsylvania. Were going to see this on and off shower activity overnight and during the day on saturday. Heres future cast tomorrow, 6 00 a. M. , some showers around. You notice its not a solid wall of green or yellow. But the problem is, as we go throughout the day, look what happens. By 2 00, weve got heavier showers, maybe thunderstorms. 4 30, you got the cookout planned. That could be a problem. Im going to be optimistic, that well get out of here by 9 00 or so, when were getting ready for fireworks. Those will be okay. Parades,
Focus can now go back to security and enjoying a safe holiday, which is what we saw during the parade today. Reporter cheers from the crowd came as the National Independence day parade and old glory made her way down constitution avenue. Hundreds of people not letting the rains rain jackets and umbrellas. Reporter or the possibility of a threat on the nations capitol ruin their Independence Day celebrations. Im not worried about it. We got the best police and Security Force in the world right here, so im not worried about it at all. Its great so far really. Its nice to see everybody out here celebrating america, you know, on the 239th birthday. Its just great. Reporter the motorcycles were a part of the parade and also a part of the increased security we saw on the National Mall saturday. We even spotted metropolitan police chief kathy lanier driving up and down the route. We are constantly monitoring and constantly making checks of all of our areas on a regular and rotating basis. We
Drenching rains and the terrorism alert. Were live at the National Monument where Security Leaders are breathing a sigh of relief, and im you are too bruce. Reporter yes, a lone wolf attack, isis inspired assault by an individual was among the top fears of security official, but thankfully the only explosions down here tonight were the fireworks. A Late Afternoon downpour forced thousands to seek shelter. But by the time the first blast of red, white, and blue hit the sky over the lincoln memorial, the rain had cleared and the crowd was overjoyed. Its beautiful its amazing. Really awesome the fireworks are beautiful. Reporter 700,000 people usually crowd americas front yard to celebrate the fourth, but metro numbers suggest far fewer came this year, scared away perhaps by the terror alert issued last week by homeland security. And by the weather. Special patrols watched the monuments, Surveillance Aircraft patrolled the sparkling skies. No one we talked to seemed worry. I didnt even kn