tay tay a severe storms, just some downpours with thunder and lightning tracking into the lower neck of virginia, lower part of the eastern shore. coming up in a few minutes, a look at another heat wave on the way. we may have our hottest temperatures of the summer so far coming up in the next few days. looking at when they arrive and when they leave. that's in just a few minute donald j. trump is ready to serve and lead this country as the next president of the united states! [ cheers and applause ] >> this has been an unusual campaign and the start to this year's republican national convention, it was kind of unusual, too. >> it was. donald trump's wife melania introduced herself to the world tonight. that was after speakers who took on the black lives matter movement hillary clinton's handling of the attacks in bengha benghazi. >> and an introduction by her husband that we've certainly never seen before, the candidate appearing on stage before the last night of the convention arriving like a rock star. news4 has team coverage tonight from quicken loans arena in cleveland starting with steve handelsman and what we saw on day one. >> reporter: donald trump ignored yetot tradition and came to his convention on the first night. >> we're going to win. we're going to win so big. >> reporter: he was the warm-up act for his wife melania. >> an amazing mother, an incredible woman, melania trump. >> reporter: melania, 46, from slovenia was a model now a mom, married to donald in 2005. >> if you want someone to work for you and your country, i can assure you, he's the guy. >> reporter: the convention began with conflict. anti-trump forces disrupted, demanding delegates decide if trump delegates can vote for somebody else. you don't want trump to be the nominee. >> i personally don't want trump to be the nominee. the world just got to witness the tyrannical man who will stomp the grassroots. >> reporter: like melania trump said, she has. the trump campaign already out with a video showing today's anti-trump disruption. i'm steve handelsman, nbc news at the rnc in cleveland. >> and our team coverage continues now with news4's chris lawrence. he's inside the arena now. >> he went to see how the message was getting to people outside. what were you hearing tonight? >> reporter: bottom line, that a lot of women, a lot of republican women are just fine with donald trump as their nominee. look, they don't like the fact that he made that snide comment about carly fiorina's face or called rosie o'donnell fat. but they're not looking at those comments in a vacuum, and they refuse to just write him off. >> the way he reacts and says things, yeah, that bothers me. but the big picture for me and where america is going. and i can't go the other way. i can't go with hillary, i just can't. >> he's a beautiful man. he's a family successful and good people, and i think that shows a lot about somebody. >> reporter: so look, there is a reason that melania trump was the headliner of the first night of the convention. there was a reason she talked about her husband. there was a reason that you heard rudy giuliani use words like friend, husband, father, grandfather. these are not the words that pop into your mind when you think of donald trump, but this is part of the appeal, part of trying to rework his image to appeal to those all-important female voters. jim, doreen. >> reporte >> chris, you were right in the middle of that chaos that erupted on the floor this afternoon. give us your impression of day one right out of the gate they came out. >> reporter: yeah, two things, jim. there is a fracture in the party, no doubt. we saw that play out when you're watching ken cuccinelli badge around, people shouting and booing rhein preibus, the president of the rnc. you can see this isn't a tightly controlled convention. i say that because on one hand, you've got people delivering this message down here about pull up your bootstraps, work hard, you'll get ahead, this is america. well, that sort of runs counter to what donald trump's fabulous appeal has been, that these trade deals have rigged the system, that it's not enough to work hard, that there are forces in machine to keep the american man from succeeding. there is sort of a cross-current, and that's one of the things that sort of jumped out at me tonight. again, we've got a few days to go, and this could be a very unified convention by the time we're standing here on thursday. >> stay tuned. as we've seen, anything can happen. chris, thank you so much and stay with us for our continued coverage of the rnc all week long. chris and tom sherwood will be and tune in for the news today tomorrow morning followed by the "today" show when matt lawyer has an exclusive interview with donald trump. new photos released today show how the ambush of police officers in baton rouge unfolded. authorities described it in chilling detail. they say gavin long traveled from missouri to baton rouge specifically to target law enforcement. he was armed with two rifles and a .9-millimeter handgun when he sneaked up behind officers and shot them at close range. then he ran, ignoring civilians before stopping to shoot other officers. >> this was a diabolical attack on vet fthe very fabric of soci. that is not hyperbole, that is not an understatement. >> three officers were killed in that ambush over the weekend, three others wounded. police say they believe long was the only shooter. a protest in richmond shuts down i-95 during the afternoon ru arrest. the group of black lives matter protesters blocked all southbound lanes of i-95 and draped a sign on the overpass. that protest lasted about a half hour and backed up several miles. closer to home tonight, police in montgomery county are dealing with a possible threat aimed at one of their officers. police chief tom manger tells us a police officer's car was spray painted with a slur this weekend. he also says officers are getting verbal threats. the chief says he feels anger towards police is being fueled by social media and images from police shootings being replayed over and over on 24-hour cable news. the issue of safety also top of mind at an annual meeting of black law enforcement officers taking place in the district this week. >> i'm not going to tell you we won't get past this, but i can tell you it's going to be real rough. real rough. >> both chief manger and major brown say the attacks police everywhere. i'm darcy spencer in rockville. there has been a second fatal crash involving a bicycle right here at this crosswalk. i'll tell you what the community says needs to happen next. and less than three weeks to rio and now there are serious talks about banning russia from the summer games. >> when thatecision could b de know you can keep your financial big picture under control. know you can see how much you have to spend and whether you should transfer funds. know you can easily keep track of what you're putting away. and know you're budgeted for the great escape. thanks to virtual wallet by pnc. ♪ for the second time in less than a year, police in montgomery county are investigating a deadly crash involving a bicyclist at the same intersection. >> now neighbors and frids what it's going to take to make changes. news4's darcy spencer reports from veersville road in rockville. >> reporter: the video shows the devastating impact. 31-year-old oscar gutierrez out for a bike ride was struck and killed. >> he was a wonderful person. he was a very hard worker. very young, 31 years old. it's a shame. it's a shame that this happened. >> reporter: it happened at the same crosswalk where 19-year-old frank towers died just seven months ago on his bike. veers mill road and turkey branch parkway in rockville. >> for it to happen again is unbelievable. they supposedly have improved the intersection and all those things, but when we went there today and pushed the button, it didn't work. >> reporter: after frank's death, there were calls for making this crosswalk safer. >> there needs to be a speed limit change or a red light friends have set out these ghost bikes near the crash scene not only as a lasting memorial to him but also as a reminder to motorists the deadly consequences. the driver who allegedly ran over the teen was acquitted on the charge. the judge said the law only applied to pedestrians, not cyclists. >> it's crazy that you can kill somebody with a car in maryland and nothing happens to you. >> reporter: the state's attorney here in montgomery county is working to close that loophole in maryland law. in rockville, darcy spencer, news4. less than three weeks now until the start of the summer olympic games, but tonight there are questions about whether russian athletes will be part of the opening ceremonies. earlier today the board of the world anti-doping agency called for russia to be expelled from the games in rio. they say it's because of government-ordered cheating during the 2014 games in sochi. members of the international olympic committee will hold decide what to do. the russian track team has already been banned from the games which start with opening ceremonies in 18 days. the d.c. parks and rec department is trying to help people stay cool during this heat wave. the hours at some of its spray parks across some of the district are now extended. from now until friday, 13 parks will stay open two hours later, until 9:00 p.m. during the week. open our nbc washington app for a map of all the pools and spray parks in the city. just search spray park. that looks inviting. >> it does, and that is some welcome news during this heat wave, tom, but we had a little bit of a break tonight. >> it was amazing how much the temperature dropped, that rain came down. our heat index was at 100 this afternoon. it felt like 100 degrees, and in just a matter of minutes, the temperature plunged down into the low 70s as showers came on through, and now we've settled down. here's a live view from our storm team 4 capitol camera overlooking union station. a s we are drying out. just a very gentle breeze now, but it is still quite humid. we've got that sultry full moon hanging in the southern sky, but it's blocked by some showers and a little thunder and lightning way down in southern maryland, northern neck of virginia. they're still lingering there in extreme southern st. mary crossing the bay over the next hour, so continuing to pull away. as we take a look at this photo, this was taken by one of our own nbc photographers of dark storm clouds rolling over memorial bridge. you can see the waves on the potomac river there as the winds were whipping up. we had gusts to around 60 miles an hour as they did come through. temperatures just now, 70 in shenandoah valley, low 70s around the bay. reagan international is now at 77. we'll hold steady in the 70s low 70s starting tomorrow. there is a small chance of a shower in the morning, as well as around noontime. a very small chance of an isolated storm late afternoon tomorrow, highs in the upper 80s. then later cooling back down to 80 degrees on tuesday evening. on wednesday here comes a nice break and we could use it. we'll take it. not very humid. low humidity in places. on thursday a little more humid. highs in upper 80s on thursday. 10-day outlook, though. here comes another heat wave. we'll number the mid-90s on friday. and look at saturday, sunday and monday. each one of those days may be up near 100 degrees as the humidity returns. also, might get some thunderstorms around on saturday as well as monday starting next week. so get ready. if you have plans for the weekend, you might want to stay over at jim's house where he's got the you have your thermostat on? >> i need to get some freon in there. >> we look forward to seeing you in the morning. thanks, tom. coming up next, the redskins man for this season. what about the future? up next on jimmy fallon. hey, guys, join the sfx: turbines revving up, you hear that? and louder that's the sound of our summer sale firing up its engines with fares as low as $69 dollars one-way. so get ready to take off... because sale prices as low as these don't happen every day! book your low fare now at southwest.com low fares. nothing to hide. that's transfarency. sfx: clap, clap, ding carol joins us now with her tonight's bobblehead, right? >> well, this is tomorrow night's bobblehead. the nats were off tonight. if you are on the fence about going to the park tomorrow night, i want to show this to you. dusid you saustid you say -- du bobblehead night. hopefully rested after the longest season in club history, an 18-inning lost. they open the season tomorrow against the dodgers. the orioles visiting the oriole empire with the yankees. and on the mound, kevin gossman. he's facing rodriguez. a-rod is knocking the cover off this baseball. 696 career home runs for rodriguez and the yankees taking a 1-0 lead. in the third, the birds were looking to get back in in comes jonathan scope. have a great year. not many people talking about him. he doesn't care. he's 16th of his career high. last chance, he goes down one. 105-mile-per-hour pitch. shatters the bat of ryan flat flaherty and he's record ford fastest pitch tonight. brian durant and company today. a 14-day camp. team usa going for their third consecutive gold medal next month. their first exhibition game is this month against argentina. a long-term deal deadline came and went without an agreement. now a report is fueling a fire about cousins' future and the state of mind on both sides. according to mike florio of pro football talk, cousins wanted a deal of 40 million guaranteed. he stirred the pot saying they were never willing to match his asking price, saying they could hire somebody else if needed. he thinks the team is risking it, not cousins. >> he has to come out of this with 20 million. for the team, the risk is cousins is going to be great and you're going to have to pay him a gigantic contract next year based under the franchise tag, or you let him go to market and let the market set his value, and he decides he's going to go with someone else and you don't have a replacement who ends up being capable and cousins goes on to be a star with other teams. there is more risk for the team, i think, than for the player at this point because the team never put enough money on the table that created the kind of risk that would make the player >> mike florio of football talk. i wish i could say that wraps up the kirk cousins contract discussion, but deal after deal probably continuing -- >> for many months, right? >> you said it, yeah. >> we're very familiar with that around here. training camp. it's next week. >> next week. >> is that crazy? >> it's going to be hot, you know? >> is it? 120 deeesgr a final push to put d.c.'s professional women's football team on makers of victorious d.c.divas on the gridiron. it chronicles the divas' undefeated season. they hope to finish the movie in time for the premiere [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> steve: from studio 6b in rockefeller center in the heart of new york city, it's "the tonight show starring jimmy fallon." tonight, join jimmy and his guests -- chris pine. joanna lumley.

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