Are not allowed. Also drones Glass Containers and fireworks are banned as well. New technologies are going to be used by local Law Enforcement agencies including the federal ones to try to thwart any wouldbe attacks or attackers. Everybody gets screen and goes through a mag no tomer magna tomereters in a post9 11 world. Chris officials cannot name specific Terror Threats this year alone 40 people in the United States have been apprehended with suspected ties to isis. Seven of them just in the past two weeks. You can see why security has been enhanced. Chris papst, abc7 news. Jonathan thank you. The increased security measures warranted in the light of the recent attacks overseas involving isil. Senior political reporter scott thuman with more on that. Scott . Scott jonathan, by now even is well aware that we need to be alert. A lot of the security measures that will be taking place behind me here are what you might consider routine. The difference this time around is the amount of concern that Security Experts are willing to publicly discuss with this upcoming holiday. Now, we are hearing from Committee Members both on the hill and the security expersons across the country who say Security Experts across the country who say the reason the measures are more important they believe those inspired by the terrorist group could be the most severe we have seen in a long time. The threat is the most significant we faced since the 9 11 attacks. We are aware of the discussion and the chatter around the fourth of july event. Targets. New york city. You know. They want to make the biggest splash here. We want to make sure they dont. Scott what are the police and the intelligence agencies doing differently this time around to try to prevent any act of violence or attacks . Well talk all about that tonight at 6 00. Reporting live on capitol hill, scott thuman abc7 news. Kimberly all right, scott. Now to the weather. People want to know what to expect when you head out to watch the fireworks tomorrow. Jonathan and good barbecue weather. Brian van de graaff joining us. Brianne do we have to brian do with have to celebrate it on the fourth . Were observing the holiday on third. Sunday and friday is the better of the two days but i have hope for fireworks time. Belfort furniture weather center. 82 at reagan national. Winds out of the south at 9 american. It has south at 9 miles per hour. The sun has made appearances. 83 in fredericksburg. 70 at andrews. 78 in lexington park. Across the area. Watching sprinkles to the south and the west approaching. The sprinkles could sneak in later this evening. A spotty light shower but overall the bulk of the evening is try. More rain tomorrow morning through midday. I have hope high hopes by fireworks time we should see drying. Well look at the future cast in a few minutes. Kimberly hoping there is science to back up the hope. We have a list of local places to check out tomorrow for fireworks at wjla. Com. Jonathan right now 30000 customers are without water in ananases crews work to repair a water pipe there, a water main. A spokesperson said the 40foot long pipe broke 1 00 near lost creek boulevard and bayou bend in laurel. Were told the heavy rain washed the soil from underneath the pipe to cause it to lose support and break. Water service should be rear toed in a few hour restored in a few hours. Right now we are anticipating 7 00 tonight. That we will be back in service. Jonathan two fillup stakes on the home depot at 198 and 197. Elevated water storage tank in 7800 of of brock bridge road. Kimberly in just a few hours, the vigil will take place to remember a bicyclist killed in a crash yesterday at the world police and fire games in Prince William county. Jonathan so sad. Now we are hearing from some of the teammates of the victim carlos silva who was from brazil. Northern Virginia Bureau chief Jeff Goldberg is in resten where the vigil will take place tonight. Jeff earlier in morning the memorial was set up for carlos silva. We turn over here and see the pavilion tonight at 8 00 a Memorial Service will be held for mr. Silva. 48yearold carlos silva from brazil. A 125year veteran of 25year veteran of the force. He loved his work, coworkers and his 13yearold daughter. He had been training intensely for yesterdays cycling race. And for the mornings triathlon. The crash happened at 12 20 in a cycle event near quantico. World police and fire games. Authorities say the cyclists were riding down a steep hill when a riders tire blew out causing him to lose control to lead to a Chain Reaction crash. 43yearold ryan the chief park ranger at the Harpers FerryNational Park in West Virginia was critically injured as was a 44yearold rider from canada. Teammates of carlos are devastated by the loss. Just sad. Theyre resilient people. They will step up and finish the games out strong. Well all be better for the experience. Jeff now friends of ryan levin tell jay korff that he suffered serious injuries. He has already endured two surgeries so far. But they also tell jay they are cautiously optimistic that he will pull through. That is good news. At 5 00, we hear from more. Powerful words from the teammate and the dedication they made for carlos this morning. As well as the thoughts of experienced cyclists about the crash that took place yesterday. Live in reston, Jeff Goldberg, abc7 news. Jonathan thank you. Sweetbrier college now has the 12th official College President and a new governing board. This is phillip stone first day in office. Stone said he doesnt want to keep the school open for one more year but for another 14 year. Sweet prior was on the brink of of closing. Coming up a shark cage diving trip overseas. Look at this. A huge shark trying to gnaw through the cage and eat the yummy things inside called humans. What they say about the experience. Kimberly not fun. Alert for the drivers hitting the roads this Holiday Weekend and why the Police Believe the dangers are higher this year and what you can do to protect yourself. Jonathan this you got to see too. Supposed to be a standard bond hearing between a judge and a bad guy but it left this guy in tears. How it stemmed from return question the judge asked him. Why are we watching this again . I pay for all these channels, so i make myself watch them all. Joey, ill watch anything except this. Except this. Go back, go back, go back, go back, go back, go back. Fios custom tv lets you pay for the types of channels you want, not the ones you dont. 100 fiber optics is here. Get out of the past. Get fios. Now for 79. 99 a month. Go online or call. Call the Verizon Center for customers with disabilities at 800. 974. 6006 tty v is there an elkn your bed . 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Jonathan a lot of incidents where the sharks are not staying away. People are on alert because of recent shark attacks. As abcs Marci Gonzalez reports some people are calling for beaches to be shut down. Marci a surge in shark bites creating a scare along east coast beaches. We usually go waist or chest. Not today. Marci this shark pulled out of the water along the North Carolina outer banks today. Relief nobody was hurt but already this year along the carolina coastline there have been 11 shark attacks. All but one happening in the past three weeks. Experts saying saltier water caused by a coastal drought along with the waters warmth and the increase in fish swimming close to shore are all factors drawing sharks toward packed beaches. Breeding concern for swimmers and fishermen alike. This video shot off the florida coast and posted on the Youtube Channel chew on this showing the scare of captain ben chancys life. There were ten bull sharks under the boat while well were fishing. It makes you feel like when you watch the movie jaws. Marci chancy accidently hooking one of the shark. His strength rowing from throwing him from the kayak forcing him to swim for his life. I swam faster than i thought i could have. Marci some are calling for the beaches to close in response to the increase in the shark sightings and attacks but so far no such plans. People are told to stay close to shore and swim near a lifeguard. Marci gonzalez new york. Jonathan thousands of people in tennessee return home this afternoon after officials lifted the Evacuation Order in the maryville area. They evacuated after a train carrying lick quid chemicals derailed and sent toxic fumes high in the air. Tests to monitor the air quality now have shown no danger to residents. There were no air monitoring that indicates that there is any issues from the beginning of this event to now. Jonathan at this point the cause of the derailment remains under investigation. Kimberly security guards at a mall in georgia are suspended after startling video shows them beating up a teenager. Take a look at this. You can see the three guards repeatedly punching a shirtless 16yearold outside a mall near atlanta. Witness say they were trying to get a group of uncompanynied kids to leave unaccompanyed kids to leave. But the girl who shot the video said the guards swung first. I was at a store across the street from the mall. I got a phone call. I was my son hysterical screaming come help me. Kimberly in a statement the guards worked for a Third Party Company and no matter what happens will no longer work on sight. Jonathan we are getting details about one of the two convicted killers who broke out of the new york state prison. Richard matt wrote a letter to his daughter prior to his escape. He promised his daughter he would see her on the outside. She received the envelope three days after the escape. But it was post marcked earlier postmarked earlier. Matts drawer cooperated with the investigation while he was on the run but matt was eventually shot and killed by police. Kimberly a friend of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev dropped the appeal for obstructing investigation in the bombing. Court documents fired yesterday he said he elects to wealth draw the appeal. He sentenced for three and a half years in prison after tearfully apologizing for impeding the investigation. Jonathan officers are warning drivers to remain on i a letter this fourth of july because its already the deadliest day on the american highways. Police say this year could be worse. Police say the combination of low gas prices and improving economy means more people will probably get out there on the roads. A friday and saturday events increases possibility of drunk driving events. You have a possibility that people could attend two events, on friday and saturday and that is a culmination of integral part of Highway Safety this weekend. Jonathan they estimate 400 americans will be killed this weekend. The leading cause of all of that is drunk driving. Kimberly because of that uber and the group mothers against drunk driving or m. A. D. D. Are joining forces to keep drivers safe as possible. From now through sunday people can go to uber. Com madd to take the pledge not to drink and drive. Uber will match every donation made to mad through the pledge page up to 25000. The murn raised will help madd provide services to victims of drunk driving. At 2 00 in the afternoon the roads were jammed heading out of town. Lets go to jamie sullivan. This is a big day for a lot of people to get on the road. Jamie it is. Especially 95 heading to the beach. Thats where i want to start. This is 50 and its not bad. From bowie to the severn river bridge. You can see a good pace. Move to 95 like jonathan was talking about. Its still heavy. Take a look. This is through Stafford County. You see a solid line of volume. This is near the stafford regional airport. 95 is slow. Move to the maps. Traveling in the area downtown planning to do this tomorrow. Metro is on saturday schedule today and tomorrow. They open up at 7 00 and close at 3 00. You have free parking and offpeak fares. Tomorrow training run after 2 00. The h. O. V. Restrictions have been lifted. Vdot picked up a lot of the weekend work so you dont see many work zones that will help with the traffic. But 95 is the slowest spot. That is a look at traffic. Back to you. Kimberly all right. Thank you jamie. People are struggling to beat the heat in parts of europe. From spain to poe land temperatures climbed beyond 104 degrees. This is places a lot of people dont have air conditioning. The temps are expected to remain high throughout the weekend. The Weather Agency for the United Nations says europe is better prepared to cope with the heat now than in 2003 when tens of thousands of people died in a heatwave. Now here in the u. S. , parts of the west coast dealing with the record heat. This is how they are dealing with it. The video from the oregon zoo in portland where the zookeepers are doing what they can to keep those with fur coats cooler. Seattle saw the hottest june ever. It doesnt sound very hot does it . 78. 9 degrees. For seattle thats hot. June in las vegas is officially the hottest there ever. In the desert its scorching hot. Jonathan that gets over 110. I would love to talk about the weather. But that tie. Brian earlier i did weather with the coat unbotened. Thats not the proper way. All weekend we have been looking ahead to the weekend obviously. We have had storms. I think there will be showers tomorrow. But im hopeful looking at the latest model by the evening it will move out. Jonathan perfect. It will School Things off. Brian cooler. If you could do something saturday opposed to sunday kimberly sunday. Brian talking backwards. Jonathan its friday. Brian may brain is as nothing by as is about as foggy as this. We didnt have as much sunshine yesterday but today we broke the clouds time to time to get in the sunshine. Temperatures responding to the low 80s. Low 80s is not too bad for this time of year. We are only 80 at nats park. 80 in indian head and in hern don. The nationals have a game this evening. You see sprinkles on the radar. A good way to look at it is honing in on the live doppler radar. Its sprinkles that are light. Culpeper, front royal. Areas to the west. Keep an eye out for the sprinkles. It could impact the game but dont think it will be a rain delay. Tomorrow the area of low pressure will spring by. Period of rain off and on by saturday. Tomorrow evening if the rain pulls away quickly enough we will get drying just in time for the holiday. And for the fireworks. Sunday looking su push. Superb. On sunday the temperatures will be warmer. Be a little drier of a day as well. It should be more comfortable. Early next week, temperatures in the mid80s. Hit or miss showers next week. A typical pattern. Nothing too extreme. Tomorrow may not start off nicely but i am hopeful and the models are coming in at the coffin census by later in the day it will improve. Kimberly its nice for july. Brian temperature wise, yes. Cant complain. Jonathan thank you. Kimberly coming up on abc7 news at 4 00 oh, my gosh kimberly an emotional reunion in a very unlikely place. We will explain the connection between one judge and one inmate. Jonathan if you have not already done it sign up for the text alerts on breaking news weather, traffic. Just go to wjla. Com texts. Enter your cell phone number. Stay with us. We have more news coming up after this. Jonathan this is something were just getting in. The Fire Department tweeting out a house on fire on stone hall drive. The fire is now out for the most parent. Yes told no one was injured. At this point they dont know the cause. Amazing story from south florida. We are used to seeing school redownions in hotels. But this was between two people inside a courtroom. Kimberly the judge and the suspect attended the same middle school. We look at the emotional meeting. Reporter this begins as a standard appearance. Judge in her robe and the inmate in a county jail jump suit. But it becomes clear their worlds arent that far apart. I have a question for you. Kimberly yes, maam. Did you go to naughtlis middle school . Oh, my goodness. Oh my goodness. I always wondered what happened to you sir. Judge mindy blazer realizes she and arthur went to the middle school together. All those years back on miami beach. He cant stop crying. My goodness. They were classmates and they played together and called him a good kid. He was the nicest kid. Oh, my goodness. Look what has happened. Im so sorry. My goodness. It brought back memories of how smart he was. He was wellrounded athlete, bilingual. Booths cousin tells us he had potential for greatness but instead of college he went on another path. On and off crime and drugs but always good at his core he says. A good dad and grandfather. I was heartbroken. It broke my heart. We are really trying to find help because there is obviously a need for help. The latest arrest was for burglary and he is still in jail. Family members hope this is a wakeup call. I hope you can change your ways. Good luck to you. Oh, my goodness. What do you think he was thinking . Wow i had both possibilities and opportunities. That should be me up there. Jonathan the bond was set at 43