Stafford county warning in effect for 15 minutes. For the next half hour this area west of the city of washington under Severe Thunderstorm Warning. This is how it looks right now at the chantilly, udvarhazy center. Usually you can see the control towers of dulles but they are slammed with the rain and the wind right now. Its moving our direction at 40 Miles Per Hour. Lets zoom in and give you details. There is the southern storm for the viewers in effect for a bit longer. This is the larger one that is pressing eastward. The storms are moving at 40 Miles Per Hour. They will blow through quickly but briefly we will get a lot of lightning and heavy rain and strong wind gusts and proceed eastward through the eastern superbs and the chesapeake bay. The latest timing says in moments it will be at reston. 4 23, burke. 4 41 coming through the district. 4 47 in alexandria. East of town in bowie at 5 06. Any more warnings come back, we will be back right away. Aliso of course, once the storms clear out we are still dealing with a week of very intense heat. So d. C. Parks and strayings parks and recreation are extending the hours across the city. So now they will close at 9 00 all week. We have a complete list on the sites on the website at wjla. Com. Jonathan baton rouge, the city that desperately need healing but yet, once again it is suffering. Retired marine who appeared to be biding his time sprayed Police Officers with ar15 rifle. As a result, three officers are dead. A fourth fighting for his life in a hospital. Emily schmidt has the latest from louisiana. Reporter investigators are lacking into the strange world of mark gavin long who gunned dn three Police Officers on his 29th birthday before officers killed him. Officials say he wanted to kill cops. Long who legally changed his name posting online saying, fighting back was the only way to bring social change. Fallen officers montrell jackson, Matthew Gerald and Brad Garafola are willing honored for their service. I watched them at Football Games and parades and being out in the parades. He does the right thing. Reporter the shootout comes two weeks after the controversial death of alton sterling in baton rouge and Philando Castile in minnesota. Both africanamerican men killed by police. Monday morning attorney general Loretta Lynch vowed to help heal rifts. Now is the time to ensure that every american, everyone under the sheltering arm of our constitution feels respected, feels supported and feels safe. Reporter in the wake of this attack and the recent murder of five officers in dallas Numerous Police departments around the country are taking extra precautions for personnel. Reporting from baton rouge, jonathan now that shooting in baton rouge on the heels of the ambush in dallas has Police Officers from all over the area on edge. In Baltimore Police are sending two officers to every call. In our next half hour, we will talk to an organization founded by black Police Officers about the current challenges they and the nation right now are facing. Michelle new developments in the nice truck attack. Frances interior minister says investigators have yet to find any direct communication between the drive and isis. Investigators believe the attacker was selfradicalized penalling support to the pledging support to the terror group and looking up information about the orlando nightclub shooting online. There is an attack in the french resort area killed 84 people, including three americans. Alison all of the horrific events like the attack in nice and the killings of Police Officers in texas and louisiana and that attack in orlando all underscore the focus of this. This is the first night of Republican National convention. That is security. Jonathan right now on the abc7 instapoll we are asking you what you want to hear about during this convention . The choices are national security, immigration, the economy, and Race Relations . If you would like to take part in the voting and its instantaneous as far as the results go to wjla. Com votenow. Michelle the polls just opened up. The Republican National convention is underway. You are looking live at the convention floor. Things kicked off at 00 this afternoon with 1 00 this afternoon with the national anthem, followed by prayer and a moment of silence for the Police Officers killed in louisiana. The focus tonight is make america safe again. With that in mind, that theme could apply for concerns what is happening outside of the cleveland quicken loans arena. Jonathan many reporters set to cover the convention are showing the Safety Equipment they brought you would think they were gearing up for war. Alison scott thuman tweeted his luggage and that included body armor. He joins us now to talk about security and the focus tonight. National security. Scott you are right. Inside all smiles. Festive atmosphere. No real worries about security inside. Frankly getting inside is a difficult effort. Once you are here there is a pretty significant sense of calm. Outside, yes. A different scenario. You talk about the picture we tweeted out. It wasnt to alarm anyone but the matter of showing the difference between this convention and those past. There is a palpable sense of concern and worry. That is why security has been stepped up so much in light of what we saw that you have been talking about in baton rouge and dallas. One organization, Global Security journalists was recommending that the journalists bring military grade body this is perhaps overstepping but you can never be too careful. This is, however, not traditional in many sense convention. We say that because not only is donald trump going to be the one on the main stage thursday night receiving the nomination. But at the same time, its also because of the tone here. For example, take a look at who is going to be speaking. Hey, we are not doing this where every four minutes we have another politician talk. You have everyone from the host of duck dynasty and melania trump, Donald Trumps wife taking the spotlight tonight. They say just set the tone that they arent going to be the traditional g. O. P. Format that takes place every four years at the events. We are seeing it so far. Michelle not the traditional lineup with the speakers. I want to ask you a question about security, though. Talk about the open carry law in that state. Folks have the right to walk around with the weapons in plai what are the Law Enforcement officers saying to you in terms of their feelings about folks still being able to do that in the climate we are in now . Scott the areas we are in, we havent seen it a lot. But we are working with the other politicians and we have other crews doing that. Is it a contentious it is a contentious argument. I spoke to the head of the police union in cleveland. He is serious about it. He said, yes, it is part of the law but we would like a state of emergency declared in light of what we have seen with the officers. They want john kasich to have open carry law stopped around the convention but the governor indicated it wont happen. They believe there is an antipolice sentiment amongst very small portion of the population it could get out of control. They anyone with a gun. It may keep the eye off the prize and off the real focus and is just one more hurdle that the Security Experts say believe could be an issue. We will keep an eye on it and let you know if it develops into anything serious. Alison well talk to you all week. Thank you for your reporting. Tonight we hear from the woman who could become the next first lady. Trumps wife melania. At 4 30 we look at her life, what led from being architectural student, to modeling to becoming a wife and a mother. Jonathan this just in. Father of a fairfax man was critically hurt in an explosion in new york central park says his family is overwhelmed by the help they received since the incident. His son connor golden has undergone three operations since doctors amputated his left leg below the knee. Terrorism not suspected in this case. But police are still looking for whoever it was that left a bag of homemade fireworks in the 18yearoldjumped on the bag 18yearold jumped on the bag visiting the park july 3 and it exploded. Michelle for the third time a judge exonerated a Baltimore Police officer accused in freddie grays death. This time it is the highest ranking officer charged in the case. Lieutenant brian rice. Now there are calls for the states attorney to drop all charges against the three officers awaiting trial. Maryland bureau chief brad bell is live in baltimore with that angle of the story. Brad . Brad just in the last couple of hours or so the head of the Baltimore CityPolice Officers union called a press conference to say the state attorney needs to drop the malicious prosecution of the other officers. The union claiming there is no evidence. What we saw today, as the heavy winds come into town here, what we saw today was that the judge is agreeing with the f. O. P. That there is not much of a lieutenant brian rice was the bicycle officer who first spotted freddie gray on the street of west baltimore. He initiated a pursuit after they made eye contact and gray took off running. Rice called for additional officers to help make the arrest. He gave the orders to shackle grays legs and loaded him face down on the floor of a Police Transport van choosing not to seat belt him to the bench. For that reason, prosecutors argue he caused the subment death of gray from a tunnellable in the back of the van. Judge Barry Williams rejecting that claim saying just as he did in two prior acquittal of the officers charged in the case indicate that an error in judgment is not a criminal offense. Finding rice not guilty on all counts. Im not surprised at all. Brad arthur johnson, among a handful of Peaceful Protesters outside the courthouse. Over nothing serious and not even reckless endangerment. Brad when we come back at 5 00, you will hear from the head of the Police Officer union. He wants the case dropped but he is also calling for a better dialogue between the police and the community. In baltimore, brad bell, abc7 news. Jonathan all right. Thanks. Coming up next at 4 00, the hundred of millions mark convention on interstate 27 222 interstate 270. Michelle spacex off to the International Space station and the important cargo coming up. President obama the soldier that was there that day said with all due respect to john wayne. Alison the president awards the highest military decoration. Heroic action by retired Lieutenant ColonelCharles Kettle ahead at 4 00. Doug in the past few minutes we have Severe Thunderstorm Warnings to tell you about. Look full screen at the radar. Full in the details. Severe thunderstorm warning in effect until 4 45 for portions of charles county, Prince Georges County, fairfax, Prince William and stafford and king george in virginia. Another warning out for the district. This is until 5 30. For the central, district, eastern, prince georges, anne arundel, calvert, fairfax, montgomery and the city of alexandria. They are moving quickly but they will rom and roll with thunder, lightning and winds. Full update coming up at abc7 news at 4 00. But how did we end up here . His mom thought he had the flu and that he was covered by the meningococcal meningitis. Vaccine he had received. Until 2014 there were. No vaccines for meningitis b in the u. S. While uncommon, meningitis b can. Lead to death within 24 hours. Trumenba is a vaccine for 10 through 25 year olds to help prevent group b meningococcal disease. Trumenba should not be given if you had a severe allergic reaction after a previous dose. Most common side effects were injectionsite pain, fatigue. Headache, muscle pain, and chills. Ask your doctor about. All the risks and benefits of trumenba and tell them if youve received any other meningitis b vaccines. Meningitis b can be spread by typical sharing behaviors. A drink. A spoon. A kiss. It all started here. It might have been prevented with trumenba. Ask your doctor about trumenba. Jonathan check this owl. Storm track 7. Its coming down heavy. Some are seeing heavy rains and others see partial blue skies and it changes so fast. Doug hill will have an update on the storms in a matter of moments. Stay right there. Michelle more than 2 tons of supplies and gear speeding toward the International Space station. A spacex fall come rocket launched this morning from cape canaveral. It includes a new port to standardize how spacecraft connect to the station. The Spacex Dragon crash will deliver the payload to the station wednesday morning. Alison Maryland Governor larry hogan is promising help for those constantly stuck bottlenecks. Chris papst in the newsroom with the improvements planned for i270. Chris, tell us about this. Chris today, Governor Hogan announced 230 million to reduce traffic along the heavily congested i270 corridor. He says its one of the biggest problems he encountered when he became governor. Now he is making a push to improvement. The highway carries 260,000 vehicles a day. 20 years the numbers are expected to increase by 30,000 hogan said the congestion creates safety issues and it hurts the local economy. The 230 million, of that, 130 million will be for a new interchange at watkins mill road to reduce traffic on local streets. That construction should begin next summer. The other 100 million for ideas on how to solve the i270 congestion. Those proposals are due in january. We dont want to put the cart before the to attract the best ideas from transportation, innovators and companies from across america to come up with the best idea. Its not what i want to see. Its what the best ideas are. Well figure it out when we get if proposals. Chris the republican governor was announcing the transportation money, the Republican National convention is starting in cleveland. We asked him why he is not there when he has attended five other Republican National conventions. Coming up at 5 00, we will tell you what he said. In the newsroom, chris papst, abc7 news. Alison okay. A very active weather day. Michelle storms. Doug we have a new severe numerous Severe Thunderstorm Warning in effect. The entire metro area under a warning for the next hour or so is the ease east way to put it. Give you live look at then conditions. This is live at National Harbor on the maryland side of the potomac. In the background you see the wilson bridge. The left of that looking back north and west of the area here, this is arlington. Farther over is alexandria. This is the storm headed in our direction. A fast mover with a lot of rain, lightning and thunder. The overall picture, everything in pink is maryland, delaware, pennsylvania, to eng new new england under severe thunderstorm watch until 8 00. Everything in yellow are Severe Thunderstorm Warnings that are in effect. The areas to the south and southwest until 4 45, the larger area here from the district eastward to the chesapeake bay, that is under a warning until 5 30 this afternoon. Here is the Doppler Radar. Pretty much rain. Not a lot of extensively heavy rain in the North Baltimore area of the storm. But the red color shows how heavy the rain is. A lot of lightning. Wind gust potential to 45 or 50 Miles Per Hour as this line comes through the area. A quick zoom in. We have a little storm by that is just north of acin his. We see the other that is north of annapolis. And we see the other line that is south of b. W. I. From gaithersburg south to northwest washington through cabin john to mclean and that is the line we looked at live. That is under effect until 5 30. This region here as the storms move in from the west. This is south of stafford through the blue ridge. That area is power packed with lightning and thunder as well. This is the main event for the next hour. Savage, maryland, 4 23 the storm will come through. It should come through the district at 4 31. Silver hill at 4 45. Annapolis at 5 05. Dunkirk at 5 18. A big storm. We keep an eye on the southern ones and the northern ones. But the good news it will be out of here by 6 00 or 6 30 this evening. So we will cool it down a tiny bit tomorrow. It on wednesday. Near 90 thursday. Look what happens at friday, saturday and sunday. 9, 5 95, 96, 99. I think the lyrics are hot time in the summer. Alison you look nice and tan, relaxed. Jonathan you look relaxed. Doug i am for the moment until all of this stuff started. Michelle right. Alison coming up next at 4 00, the keynote speaker tonight at the convention as we told you is melania trump. We take a closer look at the woman who could become first lady. Scott im scott taylor live in Montgomery County. Coming up next, you will meet a family who desperately needs your help right now. The dad vanished 19 days ago. You can jonathan welcome back. 7 salutes an army hero. Today, president obama awarded retired colonel Charles Kettles who se