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
Stricter fight against synthetic drugs, next. Now abc 7 news at 11 00, on your side. Jonathan first, a storm watch weather alert, several counties under a Flash Flood Watch for rain that is moving in overnight. Rain and possible thunderstorms this weekend. Which day is better for outdoor plans . Steve rudin has the timeline on the showers. Steve we will get all of this out of the way by late tomorrow afternoon, improving conditions. Between now and then, we could be looking at flash flooding. The stormscan, most of the metro to the west, west virginia, all of this moves are way overnight. We have the potential of areas of heavy rain. The latest on the Flash Flood Watch has expanded to include the district, alexandria fairfax, Prince William and prince georges county, in addition to shenandoah county. That is overnight into the day tomorrow. We could pick up anywhere from one to two inches, depending how quickly they move. 83 degrees right now at Dulles International airport and we will
Meteorologist Lauren Ricketts breaked down the start of a heat wave. It will be a warm one out there. Not only was it warm today but lucky for us we had showers and thunderstorms early this morning. But once we head into the rest of the workweek or weekend into the next week oh, boy well see things heat up. And here is the current temperatures out there. 87 is our temperature here in washington. 91 in frederick. 90 in leesberg. What constitutes a heat wave here in d. C. , three consecutive days above 90. D. C. Not so much, but if you are headed out to dinner partly cloudy, hot and humid a passing shower but this is what we are worried about tomorrow. Excessive heat. And we have a heat vise in place. Well let you know how hot it will get coming up. Cooling centers are opening up. You can go to the reefs center and libraries and Community Centers and Senior Centers in fairfax, montgomery and prince georges county. And we have a list of cooler centers and six things you need to know about
His comets and what veterans have to say about it. Now abc 7 news at 11 00 am on your side. Jeannette getting ready for extreme heat, the district has activated its emergency plan with dangerous temperatures on the way tomorrow. Devon lucie is in the abc 7 Weather Center. Devon finding a way to stay cool is tops. Belfort furniture Weather Center the stormwatch radar, watching closely as this cluster of storms from the midwest to the great lakes, there is southward movement. Rule watch that overnight come early morning. Heat advisory issued, going into effect from 1 p. M. Until 8 p. M. , with the heat index expected to 105. The heat index is the combination of the temperature taken in the shade plus the humidity and what it feels like. It was humid saturday, 83 realtime temperature, 75 dew point, feels like 91. It will be hotter and more humid tour. The heat index could 110 at the high end. Most of us, the heat index 105 106, which is why we have the heat advisory. We will let you know
Terrifying turn in north carolina. Plus, violent spiking in d. C. We crunch the numbers to show you the dramatic rise in homicides in 2015. You will wake up to a heat wave tomorrow morning. Oppressive heat will feel like they will soar past 100 degrees. Lauren rickets breaks down the dangerous condition well be expect expecting. Lauryn . I know its july, but we should be in the upper 80s for the time of year. Well be in the upper 90s tomorrow. Right now we here in the low 80s and this is where temperatures are right now. 87 in washington. 74 in culpepper. Were starting to cool down just a little bit but this is about as much as well cool down tonight. Temperatures will end up overnight tonight into the 70s to around 80 degrees so you can see around here we kind of plateau as we head into the overnight hours. I do want to mention weve got a heat advisory. That goes for areas that are just to the east of the blue ridge. So well have to watch as that heat index climbs anywhere from about