Welcome t news4, im jummy o. We are in the longest, most miserable stretch ofather this summer. Temperatures expected in the 90s but when you add ithe humidity, its going to feel a whole lot worse. Chuckegins our coverage, it is hot out there. Hot m anderable as well. A hot day without the humidity around is bad enough but we have tropical levels of humidity around here. Dew point t temperatures is way we measure moisture in the weather department. Dew points are into the midand even some spots upper 70s. Hot as it is, many spots are at or above 90. When you factor in the humidity, 99 in college park, 90 at dulles. The current heat index 103 in manassas, 106 aapolis. Dangerously hot and dangerous for now and it promises to gett as we get towards the weekend. Tht part of the forecast is coming up. Thank you, chuck. With the heat chuck mentioned, its tough to stay cool. Some people are finding ways to stay cool and having fun outside while theyre at. It one stop, georgetown waterfront. T
Puerto ricans exploded in cheers and celebrations. N today whe governor announced he will resign. He made the announcement on facebook around midnight. Protesters have been camped outside the Governors Mansion for almost two weeks, over a scandalinvolving offensive chat messages and corruption allegations. Gabez gutierre has more now from the island. It was an incredible scene. Thousands of protesters in old san juan. Demanding the governor resign. Rumors were swirling that the governor could resign at any minute, and then just before midnight came the announcement that he would be a deliveri pretaped message on social media. People gathered around to listen to that messag ould resign effective august 2nd. It was an incredible reversal. A stunning turn of events. A afterbout two weeks of unrest here in puerto rico. The governor had been under fire, and pressure had intensified for him toig res after priv gte chatroup messages were leaked. They included derogatory and homophobic comment
Tests the Home Delivery services. Announcer news4 midday starts nmo. Good rning and welcome to m news4day. Im melissa molette. And im aaron gilchrist. We start with the weather. New orleans dealing with floodingt similar to whawe saw on monday. A flash flood emergency is sued there. This picture or video coming from nbcs Morgan Chesky i believe. It is a very different scene here. It is warm and dry. The sun is out. Finally calm conditions, but it wont last. The system thatan hit new could be headed this way. Lets check in withry laun ricketts with more on what is ahead. Chuck and i have been fall following this and it is a potential Tropical Cyclone number two. Look at this rain. And it is not even close to landfall yet. They will fly a hurricane hunte service into it today to check it out to see if it has the tropical capability to become a depression or into a hurricane. Eventually so again this is what were watching. But a lot of heavy rain pushing around new orleans. Ix fo inches f
While, what about the dry conditions . Well talk more about it coming up. Good morning, and welcome to news 4 midday. Be we in with the weather. And the heat that lauren just mentioned. This is day two of 90 degree weather, and the heat is expected to stick around. Ac lets go bk to lauren. M lauren, howuch humidity are we mixing in with t heat today . Of not that much. A little bit humidity out there right now, for the temperatures that are approaching 90rees today, its not eling too humid out there, inhe fact t dewpoint which is the measurest ofe in the air, are a little on the lower side, were in the low 60s for the due point. Once we get past 65, thats when you starteeling that humidity, we have sunny skies out there, it is beautiful, barely a cloud in thesky, current temperatures, its warm, temperatures in the low to mid 80s this time of year. Were going to surpass the normal 87 this time of year. Its going to be uhot, were j not going to have that thick humidity around. Few clouds
List. Right now a man hunt is on for the man who shot and killed a local News Reporter and photographer live on the air near roanoke. The governor says an arrest is imminent and that police are closing in on the suspect on i64. The shooting happened in virginia in flank lin county. That is about four hours from d. C. Now, the news crew was at a Shopping Center this morning. These are pictures from their reporting. They were doing a report on tourism for their morning show. Wdvj reporter Allison Parker was doing a live interview, 6 45 this morning. That is allison. He was talking to a woman from the local chamber of commerce when the man came up and started shooting her and adam ward, the camera man. They talked about how the tragedy played out on live information. Someone with a gun, we believe it was a man, barged into where they were and fired several shots, six or seven, it sounds like. We heard screaming. And then we heard nothing. And the camera fell. After the shooting, the camer