Minutes. God bless america land that i love a preview for you of tonights capitol fourth of july concert. The National Mall will be filled with people celebrating our independence day. Rain is a factor. Security will be tight. News 4 molette green joins us live near the Washington Monument to let us know what to expect. Reporter you know what, on a day like this, looking at the flags that surround the Washington Monument are especially meaningful. We expect thousands of people to come on down and enjoy the day full of festivities, even with the threat of rain looming over the Fireworks Show tonight. When you come on down to the National Mall, you should know there are eight access points. Most of them opening at 10 00 this morning. A couple of them opening at 2 00 p. M. Where visitors will get a security always tight, especially with so much heightened awareness around large events and this one expected to be large as usual. For the big concert on the west side of the capital, that starts at 8 00 tonight. Entry and Security Check start at 3 00 p. M. , and they will be at third street northwest and pennsylvania avenue and also third street southwest and maryland avenue southwest. Oh, yes, were watching this rain. Theres a light drizzle coming down right now. Hoping we dont have to put off one of the largest firework shows set to start at 9 00. It hasnt happened in 25 years. Were keeping our fingers crossed and opening the festivities to go off without any problems. No rain, threatening to cancel. Back to you guys. All right. Watch out for plenty of road closures. Look at the map here. Everything around the mall, including the arlington memorial bridge, will be closed from 6 00 tonight. They will also be closures along constitution and pennsylvania avenues for the parade. And there is no track work on metro today but be ready for some crowded metro stations. Metro rail is going to open at 7 00 this morning and close admit night. Rains are running on a saturday schedule. They will ramp up to near rush hour Service Levels before and after the firework. Because of large crowds, you cannot bring bike or large coolers. Metrobus run on a saturday schedule too. Expect detours around the National Mall. If you are drinking, there are freeways to get home safeu. Sober rides is give you free cab rides from 10 00 until 4 00 a. M. The program is only as good as its use as we want people to use it. I would hate to think that anybody gets in a car after drinking that says they didnt know about the ro the Washington Regional Alcohol Program is partnering with nine location local taxi companies. More than 230 people by the way took advantage of the service last year. A calm day in central park turned into complete chaos after a small explosion there. It left a Fairfax County man, connor golden with a severed foot. He stepped on what looked like a homemade firework. Connors friends dont have any idea what happened. We dont know. There was a small explosion. That was it. It looks like connor and his friends were climbing on the rocks when the explosion happened. They are looking for the person who may have left it in the park. We have more on the victim and his family how they are reacting to this accident. To hear that news, it was like surreal. Is still is. Kind of like im in a dream. Reporter or more like a nightmare for this family. Their 18yearold grandson suffered a traumatic l in central park in new york when investigators say he apparently stepped on explosive material. I hope they found, what happened, who did it and to get anything else like that out of central park. Reporter connor golden is from Fairfax County. He just finished his freshman year at the university of miami in miami. He was in new york with a couple many friends this Holiday Weekend when it happened. Connor spoke to his dad by phone, but he was very woozy and he said he didnt think it was a firecracker. Reporter carey golden is his grandfather. He says they had to remove his leg below the knee. My son is having a tough time. So hopefully its going to work out for him. I mean, this is a lifechanging thing for this poor young man. Reporter his grandparents say he graduated last year. Enjoys Outdoor Activities like rock climbing and parasailing. I get sad. Reporter connor was also an eagle scout. Hopefully between his parents and the eagle scout hes got the character to deal with this. Reporter darcy spencer, news 4. A suspicious death is under investigation in loudon county. A womans family found her dead in the garage of her home in sterling friday morning. She just renovated her apartment on Cardinal Glen circle. The medical examiner is working to find out how she died. It took about 20 minutes and 100 firefighters to put out this fire in adam morgan last night. You can see the fire covered the upper floors of this row home on calvert street near adams mill road. No one was hurt but four people are without a place to stay decision 2016. Donald trump and Hillary Clinton will not be on the campaign trail this fourth of july holiday. We know that over the week, clinton spoke to the fbi for about three hours about her use of private email server while she was secretary of state. As for donald trump, he set off a new controversy after attacking clinton on twitter by tweeting an image of her with what appears to be a jewish star of david layered with hundred dollar bills. Well get the latest on what all this means for the campaign from Edward Lawrence in just a little bit. Today an event in space. Scientists have been waiting for for the last five years. Nasas juneau space craft is arriving at jupiter today. It launch in 2011 and it has a year and a half to examine how jupiter evolved. It will orbit the planet 30 times before the harsh radiation causes to fail. Its going to take color hopefully relay some helpful information. Its always cool to see the pictures that result from these, even though we look at them. They are pretty, and then the scientists will learn something useful. For sure. 8 minutes after 5 00. It could literally rain on your parade today. Kind of cheesy. A look storm team 4 radar. Rain is moving in as we speak. Chuck bell is back with a look at the weather. The weather could ruin your fourth of july plans. Good news for some of you when it comes to your electric bill. Why the next statement you get in the mail could be a lot lower. We continue to follow the latest out of baghdad where a terror attack has claimed the lives of more than 100 people. Wh he. If you are just waking up now at 5 11. Heres your warning, your fourth of july plans may need to move see here on the screen. A round of rain moving in the area right now and more is on the way. Lets get right to storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell. How does it look . A lot of clouds. You wont have to worry about getting sunburned on the fourth of july. Thats the one thing you can check off the list theres a little bit of light rain across the area right now. Cloudy skies will be the rule for much if not all of the day today. The heaviest rain likely right during the peak of the afternoon hours. Current temperatures, courtesy of the clouds. Your Outdoor Activity planner today during the parade, rain moving in. Trying to get to the pool today, humid. There may be a rumble of two of thunder. Headed down to the nats game, the day is certainly likely and they may have to postpone the game, the heaviest of the rain is likely when they get the game in. Its probably going to be a one. Thinking about hitting the road and heading out to the beaches, tuesday, wednesday, and thursday, lingering shower. Warming up big time. Wait until you see our fiveday forecast coming up in ten minutes. There are 93 degree days coming up around the corner. Chaos in new yorks central park. A small explosion there. It left a Fairfax County man, connor golden with a severed foot. He stepped on what looked like a homemade firework. Connors friends dont have any idea what happened. We dont know. There was a small explosion. That was it. 18yearold connor golden is in serious but stable condition. He had to get part of his leg amputated. He was in central park with two of his friends. He was climbing on a rock when he stepped on a plastic bag that set off a blast and severed we were in the park moments later as connor was rush to the hospital. Police are trying to figure out what caused the blast. They say it did not appear to be a bomb or terrorrelated. They are calling it a homemade explosive material, possibly a firework. They believe it was not designed to hurt anyone. Police k 9s and bomb squad called to investigate. His grandmother says hes an eagle scout, honor student, a musician, and a member of the school chorus. Police believe the explosive material had been in the park for at least a day. They are looking for whoever may have placed it there. Once again, they dont believe it was meant to harm anyone. The search continues this morning for a man who tried to sexually assault a woman in northwest washington. Investigators say he came up to the woman in Mount Pleasant around 2 30su place and got away before anything happened. Another break through into the investigation of egypt air flight 804. New this morning, reports say the victims of the plane crash have been recovered from the mediterranean. The flash crashed the flight crashed two months ago flying from paris to cairo. Its not clear if all 66 peoples bodies were on board. Egyptian investigators found both black boxes from the plane. They are still working out to figure out what exactly caused the crash. People in bangladesh are mourning those killed in the hostage crisis in cafe in the countrys capital on friday. A makeshift memorial was set up near the cafe. Security officials were questioning some of those who were rescued as they look for information on the possible master minds here. Isis has claimed responsibility but the government has that claim. Meanwhile, the white house is condemning the attack that isis is claiming. 167 people were killed. 185 others were injured. We have the latest on the developing story. Reporter baghdad skies ablaze after a powerful blast. Death and chaos on the streets. Isis claiming responsibility. Two bombs in one night. Devastation on an appalling scale, shops and restaurants reduced to rubble in the upscale neighborhood. Timed for maximum impact. A refrigerator truck packed full of explosives blowing up outside of this busy Shopping Mall as families were breaking their ramadan fast and celebrating the end of the school year. As firefighters battled the blaze into the early hours of full scale of the destruction. An entire block desimated. Nied these makeshift stretchers, the dead and injured. Many of them women and children. It was the third mass slaughter of civilians blamed on isis in less than a week. Istanbuls airport. A popular cafe in bangladesh. Now baghdad. The terrorists so far keeping their promise of a series of attacks before the end of the muslim holy month. They also happened last month. A break through in the battle against the extremists who controlled the city for more than two years. They will continue launching these offensive strikes while defending as best they can their remaining territory, their two cities, mosul and raqqah. A victory that today came at a heavy price s onlookers try to make sense of the deadliest attack in iraq so far this year. You might save some money on your next power bill. Dominion virginia power cut its gas on friday because of lower fuel prices. The average customer could save about 4. 35 on their next bill. Gas rate changes typically happen about once a year. Another day closer to rio. Track and field stars are showing their skills with the games one month and one day away now. Heres whats new from the track and field trials. 18yearold vashti cunningham, the daughter of nfl star Randall Cunningham became the youngest track and field athlete since 1980. Ashton keaton won the decathalon. The track and field trials are haen pretty awesome. Chuck bell, pretty awesome meteorologist here. Wow who are you again . You are too kind. I wish i could keep the rain away. Im not going to be a very popular person with a forecast like this coming up for today. On the whole, the weather impact on your fourth of july plans will be moderate to high because of very solid chances for rain coming our way. Not raining too hard just yet. The heaviest of the rain likely between noon and 6 00. Right during the peak of the day on average a half an inch to maybe as much of an inch of rain is a possibility. The rain should be easing up by 8 00 this evening. Fireworks time is 9 00 down on the National Mall. They are probably going to be able to get the fireworks in but you should have your rain poncho ready to go because its not a guaranteed dry. The one up side of all the clouds and rain chances look at those temperatures today, hovering only in the low to mid 70s for afternoon highs da steamy and stormy as it could be. Right now, light rain, northern frederick county. Leesburg, clark county, into winchester. Theres a blum of moisture that goes all the way back to st. Louis, missouri. This Little Pocket of dry in central kentucky, that is our hope of a dry period for the fireworks. That pocket of dry weather there is about 13 hours away from us now. That gets it in here between 6 00 and 7 00 this evening. Fingers crossed that we can keep the dry weather for the fireworks. Heres future weather then. Here comes the steadier rain by noon today. 3 00, heres the heaviest rain likely between 2 00, and 5 00. By 7 00, things back to cloudy and maybe an occasional light shower. No driving rain for the fireworks time tonight, but more rain chances come back in overnight and heres early tomorrow morning, maybe some Early Morning rumbles of thunder first thing tomorrow morning and maybe an afternoon tomorrow. Not anywhere near as much rain tomorrow as what were up against for today. Today, 100 chance for rain, primarily, middle of the afternoon. Tomorrow, 60 chance but mainly thats before lunch. After that, here come the 90s. Temperatures 90 or better, wednesday, thursday, friday and perhaps into the week too. Ill give you our exclusive tenday forecast coming up at 5 51. Back to the news. And it may look inviting on a hot day what people are doing at an area war memorial is nothing but distasteful and against the rules. 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