We will tell you all about that. Good morning, everybody. Its 6 00 a. M. Im aaron gilchrist. Im eun yang. For joining us this morning. There is something that could ruin the plan for everyone this evening. Heavy rainy may roll through the area later on today. News4 somara theodo is tracking the rain chances for us. If you get hit by one of thesestorms, its strong to severe and why we are weather y. Ert to allow gorgeous is that sunrise in the background there . Plenty of sunshine to start you off. It is a warm start. We are heading to the low 80s very quickly. We have a chance for fog this morning so keep that in mind. It is going to be humid and sticky out there as we get our fourth of july under way. Highsoday 92 degrees so its going to be a hot and humid day. Storms are in store with these storms. Lots of lightning. Heavy rain even the potential for damaging and gusty wind out there. So youre going to want to have that backup plan ready to go into action once those firew ks start of
Impacts for the storms that we are expecting today, i think heavy rain, downpours is going to be the greatest issue. We will also see strong damaging wind and i cant rule out any isolated hail. Now the timing on this is going to be between 2 00 and 9 00 p. M. The window we are working with. Its a critical hour for fireworks. Ill break it down and then we will take a look at a few regions coming up. For now, back t you. Rain could threaten tonights fourth of july celebrations. President trump salute to america and a concerts happening but you may want a backup plan. Justin finch is live along the National Mall for us this morning. Good morning to you, justin. Reporter happy fourth. It might be smart t bring a poncho if you come out later. So far the weather is holding up. We got here a few moments ago and we have been watching police clear off this area for all of the celebration set to begin later today. A line of Police Cruisers out here clearing away a lot of the cars that were parke
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
Thursday. Fires broke out in the city of ridgecrest outside of los angeles as crews have been working throughout the night. Californias governor already called the white house to k for a president ial Emergency Declaration to help with the recovery. So far no deaths have been t reported. Bunow the concern is the possility of strong aftershocks. We will be keeping a close e there. Good morning to you. We have more on last nights earthquake. But firstwe are tracking more rain chances for our holiday weekend. Auren. Orning good morning. Still looks like more showers could be coming our way. You are r ht. That is a weather alert. Ar have the humidity out there. And then we go to see more storms blossoming in this moist atmosphere we areei seg. Any time after 2 00 or 3 00. Look at the hazy sunshine coming up there about 5 49. Early this morning,this saturday morning. Temperatures right now, look at this. We even have 80s. Annapolis 81. We are 78 here in the district. 60s out in the valley.
With the latest. Anchorage hitting 90 degrees and more than 100 wildfires across the state. The hottest day of alltime. Heat and humidity combined for a sweltering day from the south to new england, with the heat index above 100 grees. T will be sizzling again. Spacey shocker, the young man that accused the actor of groping him against his will abruptly drops his civil suit with a hearing in the criminal case set fornd mo. From nbc news this is today live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today. Thank you for jning us on this morning. I am peter alexander. Good morning. Waking up to the news of yet another big earthquake hting our friends in california overnight. Exactly right. The state of california on alert this morning and we want to get right to the breaking news from overnight. The second major quake to hit california in two days, a magnitude 7. 1. This one containing 11 times more energy than the first. This one was centered near ridgecrest, california out in the M