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straight years of murder rate going down and violence going down in the city. reporter: but breaking the cycle won t be easy. it is similar to the crack epidemic of 25 years ago. difference now is that we know what happens. what happened when we didn t stand up, it was a city under siege. a large population were in control. we have to get a handle of it with the synthetic drugs. this is just the beginning. reporter: the exploitation of young women, the domestic violence and the arrival of synthetic drugs are not easy to deal with. we have to get it out here, grab young people up, put fathers back in the household, strengthen the household, strengthen families and build up our culture again. reporter: police are making an effort to change the pattern, but they continue to seek the public s help, even from those who don t live in the city. things happen on metro trains. they happen, you know, all over the city, and also throughout the dmv. we need everyone to ....
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 real-time 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 ....
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 we ll be expect expecting. lauryn? i know it s july, but we should be in the upper 80s for the time of year. we ll 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. we re starting to cool down just a little bit but this is about as much as we ll 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 we ve got a heat advisory. that goes for areas that are just to the east of the blue ridge. so we ll have to watch as that heat index c ....
which could be around 105. let me show you what the forecast is for sunday. in the morning, if you re up early at 6:00. 70s and low 80s. quickly by 9:00, we ll have heat index values over 90. by lunchtime, talking triple digit heat index. up to 102 and the height of the heat tomorrow. when you factor in the temperatures and the humidity, at about 4:00 or 5:00. that would be the heart of it throughout the day. and then we ll see things settle down as we head toward the evening hours. as we look at the day planner for sunday, it is going to be a sunny, hot day, an outside chance of a storm. 91 by noon. 95 at 3:00 with a high of 98 degrees and not a lot of wind. we do have some relief coming by the middle of the week. we ll show you the seven-day in a few minutes. the heat is on with tomorrow promising to be worse. the national park service telling people to beat the heat at the indoor museums. stephanie tells us they are taking special heat precautions. we all know ....
the deadly metro stabbing which ended with the suspectng away. for the first time the sister of a police officer ambushed and killed is sharing her pain. why she says now is the time to support police. story right now. the coast guard is searching for two men who disappeared while swimming off the cove point light station. they vanished about 7:30 this morning. calvert county fire and police are participating in the search. officials plan to continue looking for the men throughout the night. new video tonight in the deadly stabbing case on metro. police tell us the video shows the suspect the moments before the crime and also running away from it. news4 s darcy spencer has a closer look at this video. darcy? reporter: in this video, you can see him running throughout the metro system. it s clear that prosecutors are trying to place him in the metro system around the time of the murder and to connect him to the murder weapon. prosecutors say this just released ....