Puerto ricans exploded in cheers and celebrations. N today whe governor announced he will resign. He made the announcement on facebook around midnight. Protesters have been camped outside the Governors Mansion for almost two weeks, over a scandalinvolving offensive chat messages and corruption allegations. Gabez gutierre has more now from the island. It was an incredible scene. Thousands of protesters in old san juan. Demanding the governor resign. Rumors were swirling that the governor could resign at any minute, and then just before midnight came the announcement that he would be a deliveri pretaped message on social media. People gathered around to listen to that messag ould resign effective august 2nd. It was an incredible reversal. A stunning turn of events. A afterbout two weeks of unrest here in puerto rico. The governor had been under fire, and pressure had intensified for him toig res after priv gte chatroup messages were leaked. They included derogatory and homophobic comment
Tonight and tracking some isolated showers back into Northern Virginia and into parts of fauquier county. Im going to have more on that coming up at 625,but, again, its just all about the heat and the warm nights and hot days that well be experiencing right on into the weekend. 11 00 p. M. Tonight, taking the dog out for the last time, its still at 81 deges. The humidity levels, think that is wednesday, thursday, saturday and sunday says it it all. Weont see the humidity start to come down until monday and dangerous heat is in thest foreca. Potentially tomorrow, but especially friday, sarday and sunday. Much more on that at 6 25. All right, amelia, thank you. There is another escalion in the public friction between President Trump and four Freshmen Congress women of color. The democrats are taking steps to formally rebuke the process and there was a vote on n wheth Speaker Nancy Pelosi was out of word when she called the president s wor rates of on the house floor. For a third day in a
Move in, in the afternoon and evening. Any storms we do see could be severe. Ooking at the radar right now, its fizzled out and just turning into light rain in southern marand. Right there we actually saw lightning, heavy rain. That was a thunderstorm bubbling up this early in the game. Kind ofag setting the st for what were going to see later in the day. Temperatures right now already on a race to the high. 87 in the ditrict. 88 in gaithersburg. All the way up to ederick, really hot. Were going to the low 90s this afternoon. Its going to be a hot and humid soupy kind of day. Shows and stormsagain really beginning after 2 00 p. M. More widespread. For your fourth of july outlook, the morning iexercs, if youre waking up now, getting ready to hit the pavement, it is muggy out there. Barbecue parties, be able to moveindoors. Fireworks, some of us, not everyone, but some of us will be impacted. Well talk more about the rain chances and ill take it hour by hour. Thanks, somara. Developing t
Ere starts right now. Ws 4 begins with a storm team 4 weather alert. And good afternoon. F happy fourthuly to you. Thanks for spending part of your holiday with us, and if you have plans for the rest of the holiday ight, strong storms could affect those plans. Thats right. And thats why were starting things off at this hour hereth storm center with amelia draper. Weve seen some sprinkles with rain out there on the mall right now. Lo what are you king at in. Im tracking very heavy rain down at the mall right now, and youre hearing the dinging going off. A new Severe Thunderstorm Warning out there. We talked about the high likelihood for storms and heavy rain yesterday, leon. Right. And here it is. First, lets take you to some video at the Lincoln Memorial where the president is set to give his speech at 6 30 tonight, and check it out. Just an absolute downpour down there. Our camert checking the right now. No Severe Thunderstorm Warnings t there, but very heavy aspl speech at 30eng rig
Warning until 5 15, for another 14 miutes, princegeorges and parts of charles and fairfax counties as well. This storm was producing prolific amounts of lightning. Starting to see some of that lightning fall out of thunderstorm which is a good sign. It means that the thunderstorm is starting t calm down a little bit and fizzle out somewhere, but, still some very heavy rainfall and that will ber the main tt out there tonight, hervey rain. Ill have the fireworks forecast coming up in about 15 minutes. All right. Thanks, amelia. People havehe been gatng down on the mall well before this rain hit. And even after is started our crews have seen many folks headed down to get a good look. Crowds continue torow as we check in with W Corey Smith the live near the Lincoln Memorial where the president is the set to speak. Reporter yeah,gu , the crowds do continue to fill in. But this rain is kind of forcing people to make that executive decision, are we going to stay or go . We see more people fil