A perfect Beach Weekend and were going to talk much more about the beach forecast, the pool forecast and the heat recast and the storm forecast and ive got a lot of bforecas. Sy friday for you. All right. Well check back in just a bit. Doug, thank you. The heat is going to be a major llenge for folks heading down to the mall for the fourth of july, and today district leaders gave us new details about what we can expect next week. The president will speak, as you know, warplanes will fly overhead, and, ocourse, fireworks will explode near the mall. News 4s corey smith joins us live outside the Lincoln Memorial helping you get red for the big festivities. Hey, cory. Oh, jim, are you red re, because im very, very ready to celebr first fourth of july here in the nations capital. As we all know, President Trump likes celebraions to be huge, and the 4th will be no different. Thats added extra stress to thd local federal agencies who have pthlatollisn a reporter the stage is not quite set for
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We have no way of getting out. Why this is a matter of life and death. How 7 on your side got involved. Wait until tomorrows forecast abc 7 news at 11 00 starts right now. Captioned by the National Captioning Institute www. Ncicap. Org live from the abc 7 broadcast center, this is abc 7 news at 11 00, on your side. A new solution for dozens of homeowners forced out of their homes because of a slipping hillside. It has been two months since the hillside collapsed in Fort Washington, and tonight residents met with officials to see what they can do to save their homes. Tom roussey attended the meeting, and is live in Fort Washington to tell us about the new option. We definitely got different reactions to it tonight. Going into tonights meeting, they were two basic options for the homeowners. One was everyone would be able ,o keep living in their home costing 22 million dollars. Another option would cost 11 million and no one would be able to continue living in the area. For 15 million of