you tonight. first a display of emotion from president as debt talks with republicans break down. record-setting heat and we have a hot weekend ahead. and good evening, i m wendy rieger. jim and doreen have the night off. the temperatures that continue to smother our area are not letting go. we had a little buiit in the way of cooler temperatures. they have gone back up as we made our way through the night hours. as we think how hot things have been. high temperature of 105 degrees. the old record was 98 so we shattered that. bwi up to 106 today. 102 that record not a record breaker setback in 1926 amazing how hot it got out there. heat index of 97. cooler to the north and west. shower activity and rain to the north and west. will it help to cool things down? the forecast coming up. we are following breaking news out of virginia tonight. a sipsychiatrist has been shot d killed. the killer? a patient. the 8600 block of mcklain. this took place in a see included wooded re
tough. boehner says he and the president could not connect. i in confidence that the congress will act. if the white house will not serious, we will. the senate voted down the cut, cap, and balance bill. we refuse to waste one more thing on this piece of legislation. we worked our tails off trying to get something done. i am told that this is a piece of crap. a piece of junk. that is not what i came here to do. the president will work on a forward. boehner says he wants to deal with senate leaders instead. wbal-tv 11 news. the senate rejected a house measure that would raise the debt ceiling for exchange in trillions of dollars in spending cuts and it constitute because additional amendment mandating a balanced budget. a town hall meeting has begun on this in college park. more on that in a minute. now to the heat on today s triple digit temperatures. it was the area s hottest july 22 on fact at 106 degrees. our meteorologist john, the tracks temperatures. did
it might not get to 102, but we ll probably get to 100 or 101 degrees and it s all about that humidity as you know. check out the heatwave. we ve still got the heat dome on top of us centered across the east coast even as far north as maine there were triple digit temperatures today. tomorrow we ll be right back inside the heat dome and we want you to be ready for not only the triple digit heat, but the fact it will feel like it s about 115 degrees. today we actually had a heat index of 120. that s the most humid day we ve had since july 16th, 1980. check out temperatures. at 11:00 we re at 91 in the city, almost everyone else in the 80s. that s the only place at 91. that s typical of the city to stay hotter, about 10 degrees cooler in the suburbs, but factor in the heat index and fredericksburg is the real hotspot at 102, 93 quantico, feels like 97 in d.c. and 99 in annapolis. this heat sounds crazy. we need to blow the roof off that thing, shawn. i talked to my sister
quality in effect. we ll start to lose the heat of the day around 8:30. that s around the time of sundown. we have seen severe storms roll through. where we ve had at least some severe thunderstorm warnings in effect. they ve all been lifted. widery scattered widely scattered showers. hagerstown is the only one now starting to dip below that 85 to 90-degree range. we will see the potential through the evening. but it is a good time to just remind you again to stay hydrated, stay in the shade. this is all going to be right on through tomorrow, before we start to lose some of these conditions. bob will have your complete updated first warning forecast coming up. our first warning weather coverage continues now with mike hellgren. he is live with more on how the weather is impacting the power grid. adam, there are really no major problems with power right now. and we re not expected to break a record. but big problems are on the track. we have reports of people stranded wi
confidential materials prior to their testing. according to a source on the case, an instructor was ordered to provide materials in advance of the class. the chief has ordered an investigation, something he expects to be finished in two weeks. the chief has also confirmed he has been put on notice to show what he s doing in the next two weeks we want to know what you are doing about this. instructors are reassigned. the agency could revoke the academy s privilege are providing certified ems training and that would force the city to outsource its own program. it is our intent to get out of the business of teaching our folks it is not our intent to get out of the business of teaching our folks emergency medicine. if we cannot do that. but we have to change the way we are doing it. city fire officials emphasized none of the students who cheated have been involved with calls for service. a not guilty plea from the two men accused in the election day robo-calls made thei