engages in a shoot out with dallas police. the explosive end and what may have made the shooter snap. plus, a new twist in the search for rudd. the 8-year-old girl who disappeared from homeless d.c. shelter last year. amplgts wild street battle that ended with explosions and his death. charles hadlock shows us what led to that shoot out. >> reporter: a dramatic shoot out. a heavily armored black van pulled up around midnight and began opening fire on the police headquarter building. >> reporter: police immediately returned fire but the bullets did no good because the van was armored. it continued to ram several police cars before it sped away with police giving chase. a 12-mile long chase through the town of hutchins where it ended in a restaurant parking lot. >> a swat snipers shot at the suspect through the front wind shield of the van striking the suspect. >> reporter: then they used small explosives to make sure the van wasn't rigged to explode in a greater explosion. >> reporter: police have identified the suspect has 35-year-old james bowlware. man with a history of family violence. he was arrested for briefly choking his mother and uncle at their home. he lost custody of his children and blamed police for that. the family saying they knew their son had problems and glad that no one else was hurt. >> to find out more and to see more pictures and video of the deadly stand off just go to our nbc washington app and search dallas shooting. back here in the district new efforts to find rudd today. a volunteer dive team searched the river. while they didn't find any signs of the missing 8-year-old girl the team did find a bag with evidence consistent police aring looking for. >> i was shocked that it was right there. since we are looking for evidence, i thought we would have had to get in the water to find it. >> a police lab is expected to process the bag. relisha was last seen on last year in march where her family was staying. tatum later killed himself but she was never found. we topped 90 degrees today. how are things shaping up for tomorrow? >> temperatures will be a touch cooler but still warm and still extremely muggy. here is a look at the high temperature in your neighborhood. washington going to come close to 90. i don't think we'll hit it. only a three day heat wave regardless. 89 in washington. 88 for a high in la platte. when you factor in the humidity this is what it will feel like during the afternoon. feeling like temperatures are in the low to mid-90s across the area. feeling about 95 in washington. i'm going to have more on the potential for thunderstorms. i'll have that in about ten minutes. metro's red line trains are bed back on schedule hours of delays. train operator noticed smoke outside the metro station this morning. in response the line had to be shut down for about an hour. the line then had to single track for several hours so that crews could fix the problem. service was back to normal at 3:00 this afternoon. there was reports of smoke at the bethesda metro station. that incident was given the all clear. capital pride parade is moving through the streets of d.c. thousands of people are there including darcy spencer. >> reporter: the parade has been going on for the last hour and a half. they throw out items. you can see they are coming up the street here. a marching band on its way. a lot of fun going on this afternoon. i've been covering this for the last several years. it has grown not only the parade route, the number of people participated in the parade and thousands of people coming out lining the streets in support of diversity here in washington. let's hear from one man who has been coming to the parade for the last several years. >> this is great event. it brings together from all over the area who may not live in the area or have a lot of gay friends. they come here in the community. >> reporter: we should also mention there was some demonstrators demonstrators, about 40 of them, earlier today. police had to break that up. it was largely peaceful. coming up, she dedicated her life to her students. supporters have a special dedication of their own. school is out for summer but the learning continues. how one group is making sure kids stay engaged. see why leave early go roam sleep in sleep out star gaze dream big wander more care less beat sunrise chase sunset do it all. on us. get your first month's payment plus five years wear and tear coverage. make the most of summer... with volvo. scary moments for a driver after this suv jumped the curb and hit the side of the evergreen school in silver spring this afternoon. medics looked over one person at the scene but no one was seriously hurt. the suv hit the school. this is a historic church entrance. the building does not have any structural damage. some kids in the district have a brand new library. everyone student gets to take home 12 new books for reading this summer. this school is in ward 7 which has a literacy rate of under 50%. today the octo consulting group donated 20,000 books. if the slide is not addressed at an early age, by the time the kids hit the fifth grade they could be three years behind. >> we need to get the reading material out to children, have the books and activities in their hand so parents don't have to stress about how to help their students over the course of the summer. >> a number of our employees live here in ward seven we thought this was a heck of cause to get behind. >> they have donated books to 30 schools in the district. we stayed mostly dry today but the storm team 4 weather app says there could be storms on the horizon. a touching distribute to a teacher committed to helping the a special honor for a beloved music teacher murdered at her doorstep. children will be able to play and learn at the ruth ladado playground. for the first time we're hearing from her husband about the park. derick ward spoke to her husband about what this honor means to the family and the community. >> reporter: music and young people were two of her causes. it's fating tribute to her life. >> my wife would be so pleased to see this. kids exploezosed to music. >> we thought of how best to do that. >> reporter: it was february last year when she was killed on the doorstep of her home. police believe it was one of a series of murders. the accused is on trial. a motive is yet to be determined. >> reporter: this park was already planned when it was decided it should honor her. this feature, the giant piano came late. it was a surprise to a lot of people. ruth ann would approve. instead of hammers and springs mallets and tone bars make this imagination. >> it's great my daughter who never met ruth can be here and be playing in this. >> we knew of her and happy to celebrate with her legacy. >> she'd be smiling today. keep the light layers ready for tomorrow. it's going to get sticky. >> looks like we're going to have little relief. today we hit a high temperature of 92. tomorrow it will be a touch cooler but it's still warm. it's still humid. with the heat and humid among other factors we can't rule out scattered showers and thunderstorms mainly during the mid afternoon on into the evening hours. because of the mugginess some of those storms could be on the strong to severe side. i'll have more on that in a little bit. for the workweek little relief. if you're hating this humidity look forward to wednesday. looks like we'll see the humidity drop a little bit on that day but looks to shoot right back up for thursday. the weather tomorrow having a low to moderate impact on your day. it will feel like temperatures are in the low to mid-90s during the afternoon hours and tracking a few thunderstorms tomorrow. a good idea to download the nbc washington app where you can get the radar right there. with these storms, i wouldn't cancel your plans if they're out doors but be able to move indoors. have that plan b ready to go. temperatures are in the 80s. right now 89 in washington. 86 in leesburg. for the evening hours we'll find temperatures generally hanging in the 80s. it's muggy outside. it's dry for the evening hours. a lot of it is fall apart but it could still touch off a shower or two. tomorrow here is noon on future weather. the cloud/sun mix like we saw today. 2:00 p.m. starting to see the showers and thunderstorms fire across the area. notice not everybody sees rain. plenty of dry time throughout the day tomorrow. i think the best chance of rain is actually going to be during the evening hours from 6:00 p.m. on into the early overnight hours. i also want to point out this feature here. this is overnight sunday into monday. some heavy rain potentially along the maryland pennsylvania border. for tomorrow the greatest threat would be heavy rain with any storms. that could reduce visibility and lead to isolated flooding. widespread severe weather is not in forecast but i can't rule out that one or two thunderstorms could be on that strong to severe side. a high temperature of 89. we'll hit at 3:00 p.m. we already start off the day at 77 degrees. your air-conditioner probably working in full force. that's going to continue to be the case as we look to the upcoming workweek. 92 on monday. 93 on tuesday. the chance of mainly afternoon showers and thunderstorms. wednesday potentially our break day. i'm keeping it dry. lower humidity, 88. heat and humidity and storms return to the forecast thursday through saturday. still ahead the nats using their bats to there are a lot of channels on your tv but only so many you want to watch what if you could pay for the types of channels you want and not the ones you don't now, fios brings you a totally new way to customize your tv. starting at $74.99 per month with no annual contract. get custom tv, including internet and phone. price guaranteed for two years. or from now until june 13th get a $400 visa prepaid card when you sign a 2 year agreement. go to getfios.com. cable just gives you channels. fios gives you choice. call the verizon center for customers with disabilities at 800.974.6006 tty/v i know you recognize his voice. now you're going to see a bit more of his face. we're happy to have dave johnson with us. how are you? >> i'm doing well. the pressure is on. i've got to talk about the nationals. >> it's looking promising. >> it is looking promising. she's getting ahead of me. all right. other than the injury the pitching woes and the losses, nationals are in good shape. the sarcasm is a survival mechanism and the nationals are just trying to survive what has been a bad start to the month of june. for all the aforementioned concerns they're only a game and a half out of first place. still a good team. they just need to show it again. i think bryce harper has been showing that all season long and doing rather well. see the ad for meyer out there. that's a hyper market chain. it's a two run shot. that we know. what is a hyper market? nats offense not done. two run blast. his fifth of the season. nats up 5-2. 7-2 in the seventh inning. the nats hoping to get back on track. keep it going with baseball. to omaha. top of the second we're scoreless. trade killian. that's great name for a pitcher. this is a solo homer. virginia is on the board. up 1-0 early. to the fifth. uva up 3-2. connor jones pitching. jones wants this one back. arkansas sophomore tied the game in three. kenny towns at the play with the man on third. this one is going to right. that's going to the wall and daniel coming home. town hits the second. he's got a nice celebration. i don't know what it means but it's good. all right. there was lots of tension. plenty of interest. 4.5 million viewer but no goals between the united states and sweden in the women's world cup on friday. the united states still tops the group. the u.s. is in a good position to advance but today we were reminded there are no guarantees because often a competition like the women's world cup can offer a surprise. world cup action today, france, one of the top teams in tournament taking on columbia group f play. 19th minute. this is a terrific ball. great finish. colombia with the lead. all over the french goal keeper. they want to come up with a goal. katalina is going to beat the keeper. gets the important goal. 2-0 over france. first ever world cup win. many predict they would be in last. they play england on wednesday. all right. tonight on the ice, game 5. stanley cup final. tied at 2 thanks to chicago's game 4 win. tampa's won two of their last five at home. tonight's game very important. the winner of game 5 goes onto host the cup about 80% of the time. we know you're mobile so you are too. you can watch the game on that. i'm not kidding around. it's simple. download the nbc washington app. it's done. >> we love it. >> you know what else we love. this. staying on the ice. helping their fans clean up. six consecutive year they've done it. it's the only public indoor ice rink. one of many there to help lend a hand. even rocking the nets hat. they put together equipment and nets and so much more. that's for a great cause. they subsidize programs for kids. there's free skating. terrific. >> hyper market, department store plus a supermarket. >> that's why i showed up here to learn something. >> now you know. you learn something new every day. >> let me write that down. let us tell you about this scene. love was in the air today in the district about a dozen straight and same-sex couples renewed their vows in support of marriage equality before the capital pride parade. they held hands in solidarity. the ceremony was held atop the embassy row hotel. that about wraps it up for this evening. we'll see you this evening after the game. big game coming up. ha on this saturday night, brazen attack. the wild scene in dallas on a rampage on police headquarters. dozens of shots fired, bombs found, and a chase before the suspect is filled. manhunt. day 8 in the 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