Weather day by any means. Tracking showers on storm team 4 radar. We have had rain move into the area and its going to continue for the morning hours. Here is the latest now. The rain favoring parts of Northern Virginia back into western maryland and the panhandle of western virginia. Rain moving through Montgomery County Fauquier Frederick and howard county. Scattered showers for the morning hours. As we get into the afternoon hours, scattered showers and thunderstorms possible. You want the umbrella handy today. You have outdoor cookouts. Be ready to move indoors. Here is the morning planner, 73 degrees, spotty showers. 8 00 a. M. 10 00 a. M. Temperatures warm into the mid70s by noon. Limited sunshine is possible at that point. Coming up im going to show you future weather for this afternoon on into the evening, what we can expect for fireworks and timing out the potential for thunderstorms later today. All right. Thank you so much amelia. Happy fourth of july. There are so many thin
Independence. From the festival to the fireworks later on. Really, theres something for everybody. One thing to keep in mind is you will notice a lot of police. Law enforcement on high alert. News 4 derrick ward is live downtown with what you will need to know about that and other big events going on for the fourth. Its raining, i see, derrick. Reporter in this part of town, you will see a lot of police around town. Considering whats going on and what day this is, theres probably a bit more. Certainly more of a secure per am ter. There are other things going on as well. The fireworks are the big draw this evening. Theres a Folklife Festival on the mall. Its been moved up closer to the capitol. I dont think its necessarily a security concern, but logistics and repairs being done to the mall. Folks are already down here getting ready gather. The parade gets under way at 11 00. Some folks are going to be here ahead of time. The prime spots are under trees. We caught up with folks who were
And warm. Beginning to climb now into the low 80s. Our radar not showing showers around the metro area but a few popping up in frederick county, maryland. Parts of the central Shenandoah Valley and in the mountains. This is just beginning a rund of some showers and thundershowers that will begin to move in but not until later afternoon. Between now and then, sun shine in and out. Temperatures are mild and muggy. Reagan national now is at 82 degrees. Tom, thank you. Right now the search on for a man who murdered someone on a metro train. It happened at the noma metro stop. We are at the scene. Meghan, what are you hearing . It was a brazen murder. It happened in the middle of the day on the fourth of july on board a metro train. And now police are asking for your help in finding this man seen in the photo here. Hes an 18yearold man, jasper spires. The big fire works display down on the mall was just hours away. Metro was filled with people making their way to holiday events. Among them,
Health police, atf, fbi, secret service and department of homeland defense. Reporter security teams began a systemic search of building one, 20 floors had to be cleared, every square foot searched. Nearly five hours later, another siren, another announcement, this one much more welcome than the first. It was the allclear. Allclear. Allclear. Resume. Reporter and of course, the best possible outcome in the situation and no one is criticizing the person who reported what they thought was a gunshot. This is exactly what authorities want people to do. They want to be able to sort this all out. Jim, back to you. Derrick ward, thank you. A better look at the Walter Reed National military Medical Center. This map gives you an idea why it took so long for police to search that campus, 243 acres. Todays scare happened in building one. Thats the tower in the front of the complex. Its a prominent building that can be seen as you drive by on Rockville Pike. For three hours, workers inside the comp
And ems, even though this is a medical facility. Even though there was one specific is threat thatfully turned out not to be real there was more than one specific threat prepared for and what we might say, this is an example of the emerging science of safety. Attention. Attention. All personnel are directed to shelter in place. Reporter the siren and the recorded message was clear, something was up. An employee at this facility heard what sounded like a gunshot. An employee did what was expected, reported it First Responders did what they are trained do here. A systemic search floor by floor of the 20story tower that is building one. Theirs was just the first phase of the sweep. Then dogs trained in the detection of explosive devices will enter those floors and look for explosive devices. Reporter this, even though the initial report, the call to 911 was for a gunshot. And there was no indication that there was an explosive device. We are here. We will do a complete job. Reporter a job