I was doing a lot of work. Sewing my seeds and the harvest came up. I was out there working and American Radio Networks recognized my work. They said, we may have a position open and i said okay. I thought it was for a dc bureau chief. Mind you, i had done local government. I even dabbled in washington. I anchored the weekends at wtop. But never in my wildest dreams would i imagine id be questioning american president s and they would call me by name. Well, at least three. But i did the work. And i started out local. Local being baltimore. My home, my love, being baltimore city. I came south and said lets try this. I thought id be there actually, i didnt want to stay when i first got here. I thought id stay for 23 years. Ive been here for 23. I started out being a reporter and i realized coming in what power was. Washington power was having a president call your name. The people who kept telling me i needed to have a president call me by name meaning the first president i covered, wher
An accident after all. Cnn is quoting several Law Enforcement sources saying that it was not a firework but a homemade explosive. Something called tapt. Connor golden stepped on, on july 3. That is the same explosive used in the paris attacks last fall. Investigators say that chemicals were placed in a shopping bag and the bag was pressurized, deactivated when it was stepped on. The 18yearold had to have a foot amputated. The joint Terrorism Task force is investigating. Alison a lot of questions on that. Now nearly two months after police broke up this Graduation Party right here at the university of maryland. Just today we were finally able to see the video from the officers point of view. Our Maryland Bureau chief brad bell live in college park with the newest information on the case today. Brad . Brad it was the body cam video. Originally the chief of police planned to relief it publicly the students involved they asked for a little delay to talk to their parents. He said it wont be
The dew point, is the true measure of the temperatures so its feeling much warmer. This is the metro and well beyond under heat advisory until 8 00 this evening. Temperatures, air temperatures on the thermometer, 97 in leesburg. 93 in manassas. 95 in baltimore. The critical observation is the feels like temperature. When you combine the temperature and the dew point. Right now it feels like 105 in the city and in leesburg it feels like 106 degrees in fredericksburg. The only thing that can cool us off is a shower. If you are dining outside its uncomfortably hot and humid until later this evening. Cooling rain, well south. Prince william county, fredericksburg and spotsylvania, a chance of showers. We will let you know if there are more opportunities locally. One place we could use some rain, all the folks dealing with it in silver springs. Thats where we find abc7s kevin lewis. At least youre near a fountain, kevin. The heat is oppressive today. I have gone through two of these full of
All the jurisdiction is orange. That will continue as a combination of high temperatures and the high dew point temperatures which gives you feels like temperatures in this range. Even at 6 00 in the everything. It feels like 102 in the capital. 101 in andrews. If values are slow to drop through the everything hours. We are keeping an eye on showers across West Virginia that could affect our viewing area in the next three or four hours. Maybe cooling showers. We will look for cooler temperatures when i join you in studio in a few minutes. Maureen thank you. Todays heat meant summer day camp kept children inside. The Camp Sunshine in Silver Spring declared code red on the triple digit heat index. Nine out of ten on the u. V. Index. The stormwatch7 weather team can alert you of any dangerous conditions where you live. Go to wjla. Com text to sign up for text symbol of a nation wounded and divided in the aftermath of a week of violence. In minnesota, a funeral for philando castile. He is
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