Joins us with more on this tragedy but we begin with meteorologist Clay Anderson on this storm team 4 weather alert. Clay . And what we have, erika, not only do we have theeat but also thunderstorms creeping back into our area, as we showed you right now. National Weather Service has issued a Severe Thunderstorm Warning and it stretches in areas just to our nortpicking up they long 270 and as we have dragged out to show you heading toward leesburg moving, again, bluemont, leesburg, gaithersburg, at about 7 00. The good news as you look closer to these storms, they are ac weakeningss our area. So down to our south, there are some thunderstorms moving in from the Shenandoah Valley and rnthat one wag, but as it moves closer and closer to gaithersburg, it will be weakening. T temperatures as we mentioned, yes, we have the century mark in annapolis. 101. Huntington down to touth and east, 100 degrees. Plenty of 90s to go around. The story, of course, theed abo. Some areas exceeded 115 degre
The rain shafts coming through this thunderstorm. Theres a nice little lightning bolt right there. That was chopper 4 about 20 minutgo that. Same storm. Take a look at it on storm team 4 radar has really declined and decdased in intensity, an what its done is sent out this boundary, so were seeing other storms form in parts of fauquier and Fairfax County and Prince William county. Lets go in and zoom on it. Lets show you in through Fairfax County nd greatfalls, the heaviest of which coming towards quantico. Strockest storms now, ba into Jefferson County west virginia. A lot of lightning with this one and a ne forming back towards thisn our way moving t through evening. On the hot side. 91 so far today, leon and well go higher tomorrow. Ngouve been talki about the chances of a 12day long heat wave. Are we still on track for that . The one day were really watching would bemo nda 8y. 9. That would take us out of the heat wave, but if were looking at 89 to give us some relief, you know wev
A perfect Beach Weekend and were going to talk much more about the beach forecast, the pool forecast and the heat recast and the storm forecast and ive got a lot of bforecas. Sy friday for you. All right. Well check back in just a bit. Doug, thank you. The heat is going to be a major llenge for folks heading down to the mall for the fourth of july, and today district leaders gave us new details about what we can expect next week. The president will speak, as you know, warplanes will fly overhead, and, ocourse, fireworks will explode near the mall. News 4s corey smith joins us live outside the Lincoln Memorial helping you get red for the big festivities. Hey, cory. Oh, jim, are you red re, because im very, very ready to celebr first fourth of july here in the nations capital. As we all know, President Trump likes celebraions to be huge, and the 4th will be no different. Thats added extra stress to thd local federal agencies who have pthlatollisn a reporter the stage is not quite set for
Facili a frightening ordeal. The news4s iteam scott flack flynn joins us now with next. Conclusive the man is actually from new york and hes actually a ma reas. Navy investigators say he made threats by phone a email and yardook targeting the navy and an official there who handles the navy and u. S. Marine legal complaints. Ts is the ar15 the feds say they took from anthonyeid who they suspect was alsoil ing a device to enhance the weapons capability. Hes charged with making threat he madethreats against an official with the u. S. Navy jag office at the navy yard, an official he had been contacting in the appeal of a prior assault case. They say he yelled and cursed at ye official by phone saying im coming after and then by email they ay hewrote do you like being able to live and i will eliminate you all from my life, and the on his Facebook Page they say reed wrote said im going to hurt people and madeto reference a kill list. Four days later saying none of my threats are true. Defend
Severe thunderstorms with damaging wind gusts, but, doug, really heavye1rainfalls, flash flooding could be an issue tonight. Its going to be a major concern all through the night. You seeth the first line here wi a couple of severe thunderstorms, one towards baltimore, another through Prince Georges County and the district. More storms back to the wes this isjfe1 the area that werey worried about for flash flooding right now weree1 tcking this storm right in here. This is right around thee1 bethesda area. Look at the incredible amount of hahp hc tjust made its way through d. C. Right over our studios. I got tonre1 tell you, looking outside, it was the darkest ive ever seen a storm come through. It looked like nightt outside. All the lights came on in our parking lot. n t w3 jf over towards college next line. Over towards college l of thesee1 boxes here all all Flash Flood Warnings. Just about our entire area under a. M. So, guys,e1 weret just gettin started. Its going to be a long coup