Mall. You may notice more Security Keeping an eye on the crowds. Transportation reporter adam tuss explains why. Reporter given the significance of the fourth and what it stands for, some added attention from metro. The large crowd, we do have all hands for our Police Departments at bay. There are a number of events and we want this to be a safe and happy holiday for everybody. Reporter some departments are using internal memos weve looked at. Im not going to let it stop me from enjoying this great place. Reporter and lots of people are expected to come here to the mall on saturday to enjoy it all. Metro says its expecting 600,000 to 700,000 riders on saturday and may have to adjust some stations around the mall to become entrance only after the show. What were going to have is service ramping up around 2 00 to near rush hour Service Starting around 6 00 until after the fireworks to be able to handle that capacity crowd. Reporter metro will be charging regular weekend fares. So in rush
Gunman after a began is shot dead at a city play ground. Baltimore state attorney general Marilyn Mosby bringing her message to philadelphia. After weeks of negotiations and missed deadlines diplomats may have struck a deal on the iran nuclear program. Those stories in a moment, but first the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast, a bright spot in the day. Reporter good afternoon to you both. Its perfect out hear, it is, especially for july standards. We have cloud cover upstairs, mostly sunny skies for the most part a breeze blowing from time to time and slightly humid conditions, but not too bad. Not a bad afternoon at all. 83 in trenton. 86 in philadelphia. Reading, 84. Sea isle city and on the boardwalk in Atlantic City, 80 degrees both locations as the sea breeze starts to kick in. Satellite and radar weve been tracking a complex of showers and thunderstorms off to the west all morning. And now you can see the cloud cover starting to roll in from the west from that system. But r
That. Flairs that today proved to be fire hazards twice this week. The new eastern span of the bay bridge, plagued with problems, experiences a new issue. The potential danger of discarded roadside flairs. They are believed to have sparked this smoky fire around noon today, and a similar fire in the same spot monday night. Surveillance footage of the area helped identify flairs as a cause of both fires. We have crews that were actually seen in the video, actually placing flairs on the eastbound lanes. It is thought that those flairs were probably either moved by the wind, or passing traffic, that rolled a flair into the great area. Reporter the rubber seal that covers the expansion joint caught fire. There was approximately 6 feet of seal that was damaged from the fire on monday evening, and today, there was approximately half of that. About three feet. Reporter caltrans crews carry flairs and routinely use them to warn drivers of maintenance work. They raise questions about the vulner
Makes a surprise visit to baghdad, reviewing the progress against isil. The haunting message sandra bland left her friend. One year later will a nuclear deal with iran help bring Washington Post journalist home from an iranian prison. This is Aljazeera America live from new york city. Good morning im randall pinkston. Defense as he can ash carter landed in baghdad this morning on an unannounced stop. He arrived a few hours ago where he will meet with iraqi leaders and u. S. Commanders fighting isil. They are working to plan a ground assault to retake ramadi. The visit comes during a bloody week in baghdad with isil attacks claiming dozens of lives. Imran kahn is live in baghdad. This visit was not on the publicly announced agenda for secretary carter. How is iraqs leadership reacting to his arrival . Thats absolutely right. Although this visit was unannounced, it certainly was not unexpected. These things take a lot of organizing. It goes to show you how dangerous the security situatio
Migrants try to get into britain we begin in syria where another front line in the war is emerging. Two groups that have been fighting on the same side against i. S. I. L. Are battling each other. The al nusra front, which is Syrias Al Qaeda affiliate attacked the headquarters of a group called the vision 30. The armed group says it kidnapped a group of division 30 fighters and its commander on thursday. Division 30 fighters were trained to build a moderate force to fight i. S. I. L. On friday there were reports that the u. S. Responded with air strikes against al nusra front. Division 30 fighters called on al nusra front to stop spilling the blood of muslims the iry commander went to sir iry commander went to i. S. I. L. Safe passage was granted to fight i. S. I. L. And the security of the people. We are shocked by this attack by our fighters. Rumours that we are american agents are not true. Our fighters are syrians, fighting i. S. I. L. And the Syrian Regime for the security of the