i m heather holmes. we begin with developing nation out of benicia where a grass fire has been burning dangerously close to home. this is new video into our newsroom moments ago. take a look at this. the fire burning off of interstate 780 has grown to about two acres. the flames have shut down the northbound on-ramp at the east 5th street exit. the fire reached the yards of home on francisco court. fire officials say the fire was contained just about an hour ago and so far no injuries have been reported. ktvu news has a crew on the scene right now, gathering additional information, as soon as we ll get, it we ll be sure to bring it to you. a father s day adventure took a scary days a dad and his children had to be rescued. ktvu s patti lee is live to explain the quick response and how this response came after the failed rescue of a man on memorial day. patti. well, around 10:00 this morning a father and his two kids took a fishing boat on the ramp and once they got
good evening and thanks for joining us. i m diane dwyer. sarah shourd spoke out today about her two friends still being held in iran and the lack of any judicial process there. kimberly terry s live with more for us. reporter: sarah shourd showed up at her alma mate tore speak and about 60 people came to hear her. the crowd was quite diverse. about 50 or 60 people showed up. a big crowd. some say they came to show their support, others say they travel in the middle east and wanted to educate themselves on what happened to her there. her fiance, shane bauer, and their friend, josh fattal as well. bower and fattal remain incarcerated. the two along with shourd were charged with spying after they mistakenly crossed into iran from the border shared with iraq. today s event started with a showing of a 20-minute documentary that shows the region where the three were captured and also details what happened to them. shourd says while people have a lot going on in their own lives
and better news as we move through the evening hours. look at annapolis, maryland. this is what it looks like on our weather bug camera. just about 15 minutes ago, you could barely see the building in the background. that s because they had a hefty hefty round of severe thunderstorms. this is what we have going on right now. the good news, the severe thunderstorm warning for charles county has now canceled out. now we re just left with a severe thunderstorm watch. and a good chunk of it has been canceled, especially out to the west of the d.c. metro. areas shaded in pink, prince george s county charles, calvert st. mary s you have the severe thunderstorm watch until 8:00 this evening. i believe this will probably get canceled before then. of course, we will take a look at the forecast in more detail. this is all part of a cold front that s going to bring us relief from the heat and humidity we had for the past several days. caroline? thanks, steve. keep us posted. now to ou
if you re heading down to pennsylvania avenue in the northwest for the capital pride festival. at least a 30% chance of thunderstorms. first half of the festival probably going to be dry. anything after 3:00, you re starting to live on borrowed time a little bit. just sort of keep that in mind. have your rain plan ready to go just in case. after we get through today with the steaminess and storminess, oh, is it going to be nice the rest of the week. we ll talk about that coming up in a minute. today with the heat, the showers may be a bit of welcome relief. sometimes a festival feels better after you ve been rained on. new from overnight, crews have recovered a woman s body from the water on the southwest water there is front. she disappeared late last night after supposedly swimming with friends. this happened near the capital yacht club on water street southwest. news 4 s derrick ward is live there for us with the latest. derrick, what do we know? reporter: good mor
the nats wearing throwbacks. ryan ludwig, but no cigar. the first run of the game. gets a double. two batters later, wilson at the plate and he rockets one up the middle. the base hit would score, the nats up 2-0. they go on to win 2-1 for the second straight day. bruce earns his 14th save. orioles hosting the rays. bottom 6. o s down one. and for the second time in this game, he knocks one out of the yard. this one going some 420 feet into center field. and the o s take a 4-3 lead. now tied at 4. bottom 7. jj gives it a good ride. a towering shot to left. is it gone? not if justin has anything to do with it. the leap, the nag, and the home run rob. this game would go into extra innings. top of the 11th. evan, a broken bat that would fall for a base hit. ben comes in to score. the ray s add another run. 11 innings, ending baltimore s four-game winning streak. ncaa super regionals, virginia hosting cal irvine. he gets to start. top second, registered the first of his three