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 water. Most days i only get through one of these. You cant go in the water but being near it provides sense of relief. Children and the elderly most susceptible to the brutal temps. It was on code red today. A big undertaking with 1,100 children and 200 staff members. But everyone seemed to be having fun. If you were stuck in the office today. Consider yourself lucky. We ran into a construction crew doing repair work in a parking lot. Stay hydrated is their advice to prevent heat exhaustion. A number of schools werent that crowded but nice reprieve if you went. We spoke to a woman with her 4yearold. I dont have to worry about her getting sun burn or anything. Did you sweat today . Yeah. Its a massive safety issue for the kids. You dont want the kids dehydrated or exposed to too much sunlight. Its not really necessary. Kevin so far there really arent that many cancellations due to the heat. There are a number of cooling centers open throughout the metro area. We have a full list on the website. Just go to wjla. Com. Live in silver spring, kevin lewis, abc7 news. Alison thank you. Stay with doug hill and the stormwatch7 team on the go. We are updating on all platforms. You can get realtime local forecasts no matter where you are with the stormwatch7 available on google play and the app store. Alison developing n stepped on in central park on july 3 that caused him to lose part of his leg. Scott taylor is following the developments. Scott every time we hear more about this, it gets scarier. Officials are saying connor golden stepped on a homemade explosive, it wasnt some type of fireworks. Im sure you remember the university of miami freshman lost his foot in the blast. It turns out that golden stepped on an explosive that has been used in terror attacks for decades. It was a shopping bag that was pressure sensitive. He stepped on it and it triggered the explosion. Its filled with chemicals you can find in your own home. Terrorists in paris used it and shoe bomber richard reid. They traced the source of a bag to a bakery in jersey that is now closed but so far they havent made an arrest. Officials believe someone was testing how to make tapp they didnt find fuse or ball bearing in the explosive which would suggest a terrorist plot. Leon thank you, scott. This afternoon, the race for the white house we are seeing and hearing multiple reports that referee republican president ial nominee is going to name indiana governor mike pence as his running mate. However, the Trump Campaign not ready to confirm it yet. What we know is trump posted to twitter he would have an announcement ready at 11 00 a. M. Tomorrow morning. He did not say who the pick is, though. Our chief Political Correspondent scott thuman joins us from the capitol hill bureau. Give us a breakdown on this. Scott this is as you pointed out a lot of speculation and chatter. The Indianapolis Star was the first to report it. Governor mike pence is from indiana. They would seem to possibly have an inside track on this reporting and they are going with it at this hour. As well as networks. The rest are making for donald trump to make it offial anything until it happens or comes from his mouth. He will make the announcement tomorrow at 11 00. If it is mike pence there are a few factors involved here. One, his experience. Pence was member of the house on the republican side for six terms. That is 12 years representing indiana. In that time, he built up a base of allies and friends. Especially among the real conservatives. That is the other factor. A true conservative a lot of people call him to give him religious, social conservative. May be able to bring a lot of people from the base who are concerned that maybe trump isnt their man, he doesnt reflect all of the values that they desire in a candidate. The third thing is even though those are the pros in his column if you are looking if he is the nominee on the Vice President ial part of the ticket. The con would be some say that he has had disagreements with donald trump. As love last december he treated ou muslims would be offensive and unconstitutional. That is in direct opposition from what we have heard from donald trump consistently for six months now. They have also had disagree ment over the Transpacific Partnership trade program. Controversial trade program. Pence is in favor of it. Trump is against it. There would be sorted out to do. We will talk more about mike pence and who he is and if it looks like he may be the top three of the veepestakes at this hour coming up at 5 00. Leon it occurs to me he also endorsed ted cruz if im not mistaken. Scott you are right. He supported ted cruz when they campaigned in the primary process in indiana. But he has warmed up quite a bit to donald trump. Really seemed to be not just auditioning for the job but asking for it in the past couple of weeks. Leon it may pay off for him. By this time tomorrow well know for sure. Scott we should. Scott thuman on capitol hill. The ruth bader ginsbergdonald trump feud appears to come to an end. The Supreme Court justice issued apology for comments today after refusing to back down from the criticism of the president ial candidate. Ginsberg said, my recent remarks were illadvised and regret making them. Judges should not comment on candidates looking for public office. I will be more circumspect in the future. And scott thuman will be at the convention on monday and have reports and nightly specials on the sister station newschannel8 at 7 00 next week. Michelle . Michelle lets revisit the veep stakes. Right now french democratic nominee Hillary Clinton is campaigning. Alison joining us to a face here, tim k Jeff Goldberg is in annandale. I guess she is hoping kaine could deliver a swing state for her . Jeff this is a possibility. He is popular senator, popular former governor and popular former mayor. Moments ago, all the things you expect a number two to do, attacking donald trump and pumping up Hillary Clinton and speaking in spanish. Which would broaden his appeal with latino voters that are crate call in this race that are critical in the race. Lets take a quick listen. I saw this back years ago when i was teaching at the university of arkansas. I met a lot of students who scraped together the money they needed for tuition but then something happened. There was a sickestness in the family. The car they forth broke down, the child care arrangements collapsed. They couldnt go on. So we started something called the arkansas single parent scholarship fund. We have now provided emergency funding for more than 35,000 students to be able to stay in school, graduate from school. Jeff at the moment talking about the Small Business issues. Talking about equal pay for women. Talking about education. Attacking donald trump, too. Do you want a trash talker or Bridge Builder . Hired president or youre fired president . The crowd loved the lines. Donald trump had something to say about Hillary Clintons campaigning here in virginia. Well tell you what they had to say and from tim kaine and Hillary Clinton at the event that has drown thousands of supporters at 5 00. Michigan thank you. The man who shot two Prince Georges County firefighter in april killing one of them has been charged. Darrell lumpkin has been indicted on six counts of weapons charges. Firefighters John Ulmschneider and kevin swain entered lumpkins home responding to a welfare call but lumpkin thought they were intruders and shot them. But because of his assault convicted in 1980, lumpkin is banned from owning weapons. He will be charged with murder. We rely as always as the law to tell us what is fair based on the facts. We said from the beginning we would consider the facts and apply the law to the facts. Thats what weve done. Michelle lumpkin faces up to 45 years behind bars. Leon up next at 4 00 the mistake Virginia State make regarding an amber alert. Ali woman fights back after being attacked at a metro. We will show you the video that helped authorities catch the suspect. Michigan its now in the michelle its now in the hand of a judge. The decision in the hands of a judge for the high stearaging officer charged with the death of freddie gray. President obama about to leave a town hall meeting. Well tell you what its about next on abc7 news. Leon a procession including a horsedrawn carriage held for philando castile, a man killed in a traffic stop last week. Today a chance for family and friends come to say their final cowboys and honor final goodbye and honor castile. His death spurred National Protest and debate over the police use of force and race relation. Michelle closing arguments today in the trial of the fourth Baltimore Police officer charged in the death of freddie gray. Lieutenant brian rice is charged with manslaughter. The highest ranking officer charged in grays death. His fate will be decided by a judge. The verdict coming monday morning at 10 00. Alison we know cases like that and many others sparked a National Conversation about Race Relations and community policing. Michelle the discussion coming back to the forefront after two Deadly Police shootings an the ambush in dallas. Leon today, that issue addressed by president obama in a town hall that airs tonight moderated by world news tonight anchor david muir. It starts at 8 00. Now go to d. C. Bureau chief sam ford with a preview. Sam . Sam well, leon, we are outside of the Studio Theater at 14th. The crowds are here to get a grimes. A glimpse of president obama. He arrived two hours ago. Abc is calling this the president and the people a National Conversation. This comes in the wake of deadly violence in baton rouge, minnesota, dallas. Focus on relations between police and black people. I was scared to that, seeing that. I thought sam among those lined up to participate, toya graham, the mother from baltimore who saw his son rioting and ordered him home. When i seen what happened to those two guys i was angry, as a mother. To know that this could happen to my son. Also in line a number of retired Police Officers from a number of departments. Not one of us in my profession, i have been in the profession for 30 years puts on the and gun badge and says im going to kill somebody today. Nobody does that. Nobody does that. We want to do our job and enforce laws as they are written. Sam david muir is the host and president obama and guests will discuss concerns. Some participating question the effectiveness. Instead of a dialogue, it tends to evolve to fingerpointing monologue. That is not constructive, because it deepens problem. Sam its set to air tonight at 8 00. In fact, the president and the people will air tonight at 8 00 on abc7. We will have more on the story coming up at abc7 news at 5 00 and 6 00. Reporting live from northwest washington, im sam ford, abc7 news. Michelle thank you. Moving on now. Copeland will be a disney star. She is be dancing nutcracker in movie. She broke the news by posting a picture of the script to the instagram account. She has been lauded for breaking down barriers as an africanamerican dancer. She became the first black woman to the american ballet principal to become the first principal dancer. That is exciting. Leon it is. She is amazing. Alison she is going to have a show at wolf trap for a couple of days this su i think its this weekend. Which is fantastic. Leon hopefully the weather is nicer than it is right now. Get to that later. Michelle such an inspiration. Check in now with Jamie Sullivan for a look it at traffic. Jamie there are two issues. But i want to begin with the lowest traffic on the outer loop. See it from the interchange to continue to the wilson bridge. That is where you get relief. 29 miles per hour. It doesnt sound like relief. But when you travel in the teens and the Single Digits here it is going to be helpful. Outbound 295 heading to national harbor. Jammed from the 11th street bridge. We are seeing slow traffic heading outbound on 66. A crash near 123. It will take you under 30 minutes as you start near the capital beltway, continuing to the Fairfax County parkway. Here is a live look at this accident activity. This is over on the right shoulder. We have all of our lanes getting by. Everybody approaches the want to look over and see what is going on. That is why we are seeing the heavy traffic. Interloop is heavy as well but no crashes to report there. That is a look at traffic. Alison thank you very much. Well, if you are in the pokemon go craze, most people seem to be, this is interesting. A huge event tonight down on the national mall. So the National Park service is going to be debuting the first rangerled pokemon hunt. Participants will join park ranger for exploration of the National Malls hunting for pokemon. The event starts at 7 00 p. M. Leon by then it might be meltemon. Alison that is cool is they are capitalizing on this and learn more about what the city has to offer. Michelle stay away from the protected you know, remember we did a story of people going into fountains and places they shouldnt go. Doug make sure of that. Heat is the big story today. 97 degrees is nothing to sneeze at. That is why you have the heat advisory until 8 00 tonight. Even at 8 00 tonight it will be hot and humid. Here are the numbers as we have them. Looking out across the cool waters of the potomac river. 97 at Reagan National. Southwesterly breeze that wont cool you off. Not with the blowing air with dew point of 71. Its muggy. Ultra muggy to be truthful about it. It feels like 106 in fredericksburg. 105 in leesburg. And in the district. 102 in annapolis. 99 in frederick. 96 in winchester. If you are hitting the pool, a perfect night for swimming. We will keep the ears open for thunder from the approaching storms. Best chance of that is south of metro washington. 91 at 7 00 p. M. Are in the 90s at 9 00 p. M. Thunderstorms southwest of fredericksburg. Downpour along 81 to go from stafford to bridge georges county. We keep the isolated showers and the storms in the forecast through the evening. Here is one. It will move across the river to Charles County before long. The sevenday forecast calls for another hot day tomorrow. 94. A chance of a thunderstorm especially south of the city tomorrow. Better chance will back off the heat on saturday. 88. Sunny and dry and 90 on sunday. 94 on monday. Typical summer stuff early next week. 4 00 thursday. You know what that means . Michelle trivia. Doug the question today. When was the last time the actual air temperature reached 100 fahrenheit or higher in the district . July 26, 2012 . August 13, 2013 . August 3, 2014 . Of course our weather drone will be flying ten feet above your head to make sure you dont look u we have monitoring back there. We watch you with the drones all the time. Alison spying on us. Thank you. Still ahead at 4 00 on abc7 news we will tell you what a a. A. A. Survey found about road rage in the united states. How many of us admitted to getting angry behind the wheel. That is coming up. Alison still ahead at 4 30 why residents were left in the dark about an amber alert yesterday. The child was found safe but the surprising reason people didnt get immediate text notifications sent to their phone. Thats ahead. Horace im Horace Holmes live in the 7 on your Side Help Center. The phone bank today, the topic is, well, ask the mechanics. These folks from a. A. A. Midatlantic here. They are all me canks to answer mechanics to answer questions and your car. This time of the year there is a chance of it overheating or you have mechanical problems with your car or problems purchasing a car, give them a call. Call 7032369220. We will be here live until 6 30. Give us a call. Alison you want to make michelle coming up on abc7 news at 4 00 a murder on independence day. Family members of the victims speaking out saying she was targeted. The explanation as the Investigation Continues coming up. An amber alert goes out in virginia but two towns know nothing about it. Well explain why in a live report coming up. Leon one last look at the weather trivia question of the day before we get the answer. Doug is back with that and the forecast after this. Are you okay . Yeah, i just got charged for my credit monitoring. Thats how i know its working. Ah. You know you can go on creditkarma. Com and check it out there. Its completely free. Really . Yeah oh, that didnt hurt at all. Yeah, completely painless. Credit karma. Give yourself some credit. Announcer youre watching abc7 news at 4 00. On your side. Leon all right. Doug is back with the forecast and the trivia answer. Doug the question again. Take a look alison im going to say august 3, 2014. But leon was confident. Leon thats the date im going with. Alison good. Michelle i think its july 26, 2012. Doug lets look at the map. 2012. Michelle i remember that year was hot. Doug that month we had seven times that it hit 100 degrees or higher. It wound up being the s