Washington, d. C. One of the biggest in the nation. The nio and one of the best i love it. Ove were just hoping though ofoug course that the rain holds off tonight so that the show canso indeed go on. T meanwhile there is heightened security in the districtty leading up to todays event. Fox5s Anjali Hemphill has the latest on security preps. Ur. Reporter good morning guys. You dont get to see theor National Mall quite like thisgns very often, calm, quiet, not a soul out here. Utere. Later today thousands ofusan tourists and residents areests expected to flood the mall for r tonights fireworks show. Reworko in this day and agege unfortunately security will beur on the minds of everyone andryoa we did speak to the d. C. Police chief who says the majority of her police forceicoe will be on the clock tonightckot even though she says right now g there are no known terrorist tet threats to d. C. Threat listen to what she said. S has it changed anything ath specifically for securityally fc planning for the fourth of july . There has been someee s small changes but we have ae pretty tight security plan for partners so its nothingot significant or nothing thatng ta should change the ability for ai people to feel safe and comeafen celebrate. Reporter if you are heading down to see the fireworks and livetedo music shw tonight there will be eight be i Security Check points whereck ph officers will be lookingcers wle inside all bags, all back all packs and all coolers. Coole will you not be allowed to to bring drugs, alcohol, weapons of any kind. Any kin you also cant bring any tents or grills out on the nationalou mall and youre also going toe t want to leave your drones atourt home. Were live on the nationalve mall this morning, anjalinjali hemphill, fox5 local news. 5 02 is the time. Tim lets talk about the third round of metros safe track safk program because it beginscae iti tomorrow and this roundshiro repairs is going to impactmp both the blue and yellow line riders. It will also affect rail aff service to Reagan National nio airport. Erin como is here with more ofer what you will face tomorrow. Omo. Hey, erin. Good morning. In well, just to keep in mind m this kicks in tomorrow at 8 00ro p. M. So tomorrow morning,orng things will be normal service for metro. Well let you know if there if r are any disrupt tomorrow night at 8 00 kicking in for safe track surge this evening it will be a seven dayil process shut down between thetwt yellow and blue line. Ine. Shuttle service is available isl keep in mind between braddockk road crystal city pentagony pena city as well as braddock roadoc to National Airport. Lport if you are planning to head toea the airport keep in mind taxi tx lines will mostlikely be much longer, uber will be busy potentially with surge pricey wr pentagon. This is what you can expect for the rest of the blue andwh l yellow line commute. It will be running in twon different segments per line. Every 15 minutes betweenwe franconiaspringfield and braddock road. Every 12 minutes. Mut as for the yellow line twoine segments as line. 12 minutes between huntingtonetn and braddock h road and 12 a 1 minutes between national nio airport and greenbelt f youred taking the blue orgr yellow linl keep that in mind as you head ya out. Out. Watch for crowded conditions coi on those shuttle buses anduses expect longer wait times andes crowded conditions at theat t following metro stops lenfant n plaza pentagon, Pentagon City pn as well as crystal city, c king street old town in alexandria. Exania. Eisenhower, Huntington Van Dorn and onn franconiaspringfield. Co this will Impact Service for those virginia commuters. Commu. You can use metrobus as much. Uc fairfax sector vre also available to replace those metro trains. Art, arlington Rapid Transit tns and dash in alexandria. You have options in addition adt to biking to work if possible and telecommuting the mosthe m desirable or taking car to go, zip car. Zip car. Im happy to help you planpp your alternates and if you plan on taking those shuttle buses metro has availableilab anticipate crowded conditions cs and give yourself a lot ofelf a time for your are morning and evening rush home. Evenin if youre taking metro today toy to get down to the national new enjoy fourth of julyh j festivities Service Begins at 7 00 and lasts through t midnight. I have everything you need toino know on my twitter at erin back to you ways glom were learning more about a small explosiony explosion fairfaxsion park that seriously injured a fairfax man. M the explosive was notveas n intended to hurt anyone. Aone. Police believe it was just a homemade fourth of july fire work. Work connor golden and two of hiswof friends were visiting thee city. Ci he jumped off a rock in the park and his foot landed on lan the explosive. P hes listed in serious buterio b stable condition. Ondion his other two friends were not e hurt. Still no word what caused a twnoo alarm fire in adamsin as morgan. Morg fire broke out around 9 30und 9 last night at a row home on calvert street northwest. Thwest were told when firefightersers arrived they found flames shooting from the second andec third floors and the attic. Ttic well, it looks like w unfortunately were in for ael fairly wet Independence Dayep afternoon into the eveninghe eve hours which of course is goingus to cause some problems with some of the fireworks displaysas out there. Let me show you sw where we are this morning. Mning radar is not wet out this morning. Weout th most of the showers are off to the east of us, down to theown south of us. S. Listen, as we progress throughes the day, chances for rain,ai widespread showers and thenhe basically showers likely into ln the afternoon. Afternoon. We have to throw into therento the threat of somereat o som thunderstorms as well. So, again, weve seen better b Independence Days around here,oh theres no doubt about that. Ut. 68 degrees for washington. Manassas 66 and dullesle 66 degrees. 66 d martinsburg youre 64. 6 winchester so. 64. Its very humid out this o morning. Its going to continue to betino humid today. 8 00 a. M. Showers around, arod, lunchtime some showers around,an temperatures in the mid 70s. N a little bit of a thunderstorm chance late this afternoon into the evening hours and of course as long as we have a threat of thunderstorms outut there this evening, our fireworks forecast is jeppt i divejeopardized just a little bb we can deal with a little a l light rain. When you start to get intoli ste thunderstorm activity aroundtorm 8 oclock that could causek thad some problems. Danny espinosa goes yard for ya the second time in the ball game. Washington wins 12 to one. L tough nighont for my reds. R yeah. But the home team looks were. Lw thats right. Thats right. Lets talk about the mariners because they were looking foboro a four game sweep against the baltimore orioles. S. Third inning seth smith sakes jimenez ep for the grandr the g slam mariners up fourzip. Fr mark trumbo hits a solo homee run. Run. Os down fourone. On bottom of the seventh, mariners two on for kyle f k seeger and he brings in both inh runners with a double to Double Center field. Ie mariners score one more time me sweeping the orioles inpi the seattle final score ninefour. Io hm. All right, tough night forh i the os. Yeah. High scoring baseball games both of them. Thats right. Coming up on fox news bws morning Security Leaders in bangladesh say despite thesh sas claims isis is not responsible s for a deadly terror attack in ak their countrys capitol city. Ol and we are now learning newae information about the deadly dea alligator attack at wal disney world. As we head to break rightea now heres a live look outsideut across the dmv. Ss the time right now is 5 09, 5 temperature 69 degrees. Gree we are back after this. Afterhis. Okay, ready . Whoa [ explosion ] nothing should get in the way of the things you love. Get americas fastest internet. Only from xfinity. Hang right now, the death toll continues to rise from a deadly terrorist attack in iraq. Weekend. Weeker thees two bombs went off in baghdad. Wi right now Officials Say 115ay people are dead and 187 otherth people are injured. Nj isis is taking responsibilityesy for the attack which the white w house is condemning. Condemn Security Officials iny ofalsi bangladesh are searching forrchf the masterminds of the attackhet in the bangladeshi capitol of dhaka. Dh 28 people were killedlled including six attackers. Aa isis has claimed responsibility but theut the Bangladeshi Government says the attackers belonged to a banded Domestic Group known as jmb. All are known to have been bangladeshis. De most embassies have issued iue travel warnings urging thoseing staying in the country to take extreme caution. Famed author and holocaust survive elie wiesel was w remembered at a privateer Funeral Service in new york onyo sunday. He died saturday at the age off 87. 87. Weasel was an accomplished author published more than 50 books but hes beslit known for the memoir night which is nazi concentration camp. Ntratiom he was one of the last firsthand witnesses to thene to nazi atrocities. No word on what throwed anhrd explosion on the severn river. On a ma tn was riding a jet ski jet when it exploded. Expded. The victim was taken to theen to hospital with nonlifethreatening injuries. Ir meanwhile the father of a a toddler killed by an alligator t at disney last month says he told rescue officials two on o the gators were involved in thatrs attack. The Orlando Sentinel obtainedo l emails from that emergencyom te responders. In them the boys father saysers that he was attacked by a second alligator as he triedigoa to reach husson he also saidls i the family kept showingho rescuers pictures of the boy. His body was discovered intact about 15 yards from the shoreheo under water. R w heads up dominion customers o in virginia. Gia. Changes are coming to your you bill. Bi you are soon going see a goi couple of extra dollars in dolln your wallet and thats becausetc there was a gas rate decreaseere that on friday. On then means the average customer will see their billshel decrease by 4. 35. 35 gas rate changes happened hpe about once a year. Out once a y there is a debate ragingate on the National Mall. Ml. Visitors are using the rainbowai pool at the National World twowo memorial as a wading pool. P but its against the rules set by National Park service. Servi some say its tacky and disrespectful. Others say its a place too relax, reflect and cool off. O no word on any changes coming cm to the no wading rule. R the memorial honors 16 million i Service Members who served in world war ii. War all right. Ig coming up on fox news morningewg were following several stories of people injured byinry fireworks at home. Firks at home. And we have some good newsveo for all of you planning to crack open some crabs today and throughout the rest of theut summer. As we head to break rightto b now, live look outside acrossdes the region. Th time is 5 12. Temperatures 69 degrees. Gr we are back with more newse n after this. His. Keep on track with Dunkin Donuts fruit smoothies, made with lowfat yogurt and real fruit blended into feelgood flavors like new wildberry. American runs on dunkin. Live look outside on this monday, july 4th, 5 14 is ourly4 time right now, just turned toue quarter past the hour, hou 69 degrees. Kind of heavy69 out there. You can kind of feel itu coming. Yeah, you can feel it in you the air this morning. Orni that almost was a song. Oss a you can feel it no, filll collins you can feel it i can feel it coming inl in the air tonight shes feeling it. Hold on hopefully this is what thet can i say over d. C. Will lookovi like later on this evening. If we just have showers itshows no big deal but if we get g heavier rain or thunderstormshut later on this evening then ienie tell you what, this fireworks fw forecast, its definitely ininin jeopardy of if not delays, not y potentially getting into someom postponements out there, okay. Ka so, just so you know. But if not, you know, weve got our own display for you here. Thats about the best we can this evening definitely there will be clouds and showers, temperatures only in the loweres 70s. How heavy will the rain be . Ainb well be in kind of a. Will we be in a lull or will weor wi have thunderstorms . That isnd the question. If the rain is heavy or we have thunderstorms expect delays or maybe even some postponements and weve been b telling you this morning if itt gets postponed at the mall the theyll happy tomorrow. W. Today showers and rain andn and storms possible temperature ofos only aboutsi 75 degrees. 7de that would be one of theon the cooler july 4th readings weves had around here. Tomorrow back up to 90 degrees. Looks like tomorrow theres a chance for showers andke thundersantorms. The better chance of that willha be for the first part of the p day, okay, and then we startwe s to dry out tomorrow afternoon ar and tomorrow evening. So, if there is a postponementtm of fireworks and it has to goo to tomorrow evening, tomorrow,om evening looks like its going to be okay. Hope that doesnt happen,oe though. Heres the deal. All right. Lots of warm air is coming ouriu way and then its going to get t hot, hot, hot. So, heat will build into this week. Were talking about several da t going to go 92 to 95 degrees 9 for a High Temperature and youee add in the humidity and youreny talking about someutom temperatures i believe intoaturs the upper 9 i0s, maybe evenbe close to a hundred degrees or o so and next week looks hot, l too. So, not only going to be hot h this week looks like well be ll hot next week and maybe even mae hotter for next week if the the long range models verify. Els v you can see this morning we dooe have a few showers out therers e but its not very wet. Y w but look at all the rain the rai thats back to the west. The it still has to come across. Acr all of West Virginia or ata or a least most of West Virginia is under a Flash Flood Watch which will start this morningil and go untill tomorrow morningg your forecast for today looks ts like this. Showers and thunderstorms possible. We could get into some heavy rain at times this afternoonhi nito the evening hours. S the eve High Temperatures only making mn it up to 75 degrees or so. Sevenday forecast looks likeasl this. 75 today obviously. Bvious showers thunderstorms possibleth again tomorrow. High of 90. Turning hot onun wed nesday,nesday thursday, friday. Were talking about lower toow mid 90s that extends into the o weekend as well. Not only h well. Well there you go, guys. Go, all right, gary, weht,ary, appreciate it am 5 17 is the 17 time. Ti lets take a look at thes ta stories youre engaging withreng the most this morning with our t realtime news tracker. First up two Chicago Police officers were taken to thers hospital after someone threw a firecracker inside their squadhu car. Now it happened late yesterdayee afternoon. The officers were on patrole onp when another vehicle pulledther alongside them. Ongsid the firecracker was then thereon into the windshield and then exploded. N an so the injuries are not lifethreatening. So far the suspects have nothe been arrested. Ested. Next up a nineyearoldeard girl in southern californiauthef lost her left hand and several fingers on her right hand after an explosion caused byan elegal fireworks. The l. A. County sheriffs sri Department Said it happenedap saturday afternoon. Turd aft the girl also sustained injuries to her face. Inries she was taken to the hospital hs where her left hand had to bee amputate fundamental. Right now she is listed inno stable condition. And finally some good news for seafood lovers. Eafoov the chesapeakes blue crab blu population is growing but itsgr not up to full strength justngth yet. 2016 b report was just released andor s it shows the overall population of blue crabs grewabw from 411 million last year to 533 million this year. Y thats a pretty big gain a significant gain but its still lower than the target tar levels theyve seven. T the department of naturaldepart resources said current c Management Strategies shouldme stay in place to maintain ant healthy crab population. P lots of good food out there iff you like crabs. Indeed i do. Coming up on fox5 news ns morning the Natural Resources rs officer has a once in a lifetime encounter with aount black bear. Bl and four years after a Superstorm Sandy, a key part p of summertime in new york city finally reopens. Fi and as we haded to break,we d lets go ahead and take a live look across the d. C. Region, r get you going on a monday mon morning. 5 19 is our time right now. Me rw fox5 news morning, dance withnc me, come on, whiz. O w thats my song right there,ge michael jackson. Chae oh, yeah. H, y hard not to love mj. Ot to love were back right after this. Er dont go anywhere. Ny 5 22 is the time right now. A maryland Natural ResourcesPolice Officer had a pretty close encounteric with a bear. B it was caught on camera. Oner officers were on patrol in in baltimore county. Ore c take a look at this, when they actually stumbled upon thisled n photo op. Now the black bear doesntroe really seem to be paying muchinh attention to them but thesen to officers do work around wild animals. S. So, the moral of the story here is if you come across a aos bear, probably best to for go fg the selfie and get out ofetut of there. Be safe. Be saf do not try that at home ort r in the woods. In theds. Right. Yeah. All right, new this morning, the Washington Post is is reporting that a popular water park in alexandria may lose its license its lease its lea rather. 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