Ive been on the show. Sho such a beautiful start to the Holiday Weekend. Weeke when is the best time to i drive . Every day wes ve beeneb looking at traffic on the bay bridge. I was surprised by the backup. E a t of youybe a lot of youas would have left yesterday. Erd yeah. Well, maybe the weather weath held people off yesterday. Yest. It was storming last night andit it was such a humid day but asmt we take a live look outside ondo this saturday morning, morni gorgeous Crystal Clear bluerystr skies. Sk it is the epitome of a good g day. People are heading to theding beach right now. Now satellite and radar shows theana cold front that came throughha last night produced some of o those strong storms as sunk well off to our south. Our sth. Cooler drier air has moved in. I it was so humid yesterday butteb it feels much better. Ette temperatures are still mild in washington, 71 degrees toees start you off on a saturday sur but cooler north and west,es very comfortable in the low 60s. 64 gaithersburg, 65ur 6 martinsburg and 63 ind 6 i frederick. Its 69 in annapolis and a nice morning along the bay as well. Well. Current dewpoints, this tells the whole story, are only innlyn the 50s. The 5 compare that to the low 70s yesterdayly thats why its i just is so much more enjoyableob outside without that humidity. Ud heres your setup for today. Od today is gorgeous. Gge there is nothing wrong withh the saturday forecast. For High Pressure is in place,e inl its dry, sunny, high spfpf needed but thats about it. Bouti by the time we get toet t tomorrow, sunday, things arehing changing a little bit. Tlit. A warm front is quickly moving n northward tonight and wellnd have more clouds, probablybly even some showers on sunday so initially it looked like just monday the fourth of julyhe fout would be the rainy day but already looks like tomorrow those showers are in the fork. Hr so, really nice today. Eay. Warm and sunny, 83 degrees. 3 dee were going to be tracking tck some showers on sunday anduny then unfortunately what couldnae be a pretty soggy fourth ofrtof july thats all still ahead inhi your sevenday forecast. Annie. Well, developing overnight,ig blood bath in bangladesh. Devastation this morning aftern a deathdly 10hour stando several gunmen stormed ame popular restaurant on friday. Da. 20 people are dead and the and death toll continues to rise. Foxs karen mchugh has the details. Details. Reporter a deadly siege s in the capitol of bangladesh a group of attackers storming aton restaurant popular withopularith americans and other foreigners n right in the hastert citys diplomatic zone friday night. N armed gunmen taking dozens hostage hurling bombs settinget off explosives and shooting at Security Forces killingng multiple police officers. Obviously in constant touch t with bangladeshi authorities as they continue to workntue t through this. Ugh this. Reporter more than 25or people rushed to the hospital hi following the initial assault au with everything from broken bro bones to gun shot woundswoun including dozens of police officers. Ofrs. [speaking foreign language] the interpreter it is a spanntish restaurant a small restaurant. Restaurant. Customers drop in mostly ins the evening. This rest vaughn where somereom armed persons intruded. Intde local Security Forces are s on the scene andec responding. Po our embassy in dhaka currently conductingonct accountability. They have accounted for 100 f persons of american citizensofmi working under the chiefhe cef mission authority. Utrity. The terror group isis is claiming responsibilityilit crediting isis commandos with carrying it. I [speaking foreign language]la the interpreter wengnterpr talked to the employees of theye manager that tried to come tri out. Ou now were trying to see if it can be revolved peacefully. Reporter a earlier a eli hindu police was hacked tol death collecting flowers, an attack police are blaming on o radical islamist this after aftr authorities in bangladeshanglh rounded up more than ad up mth thousand suspects including ancg number of suspected islamist radicals after a recent waveen v of attacks on religiousigio minorities there. Caron mchugh, fox news. While isis is claimingg responsibility authorities intis bangladesh are not immediately i responding to that claim. Cla in the past they have dn isis has a presence there. He to serbia where fiveto people are dead, 2 s0 people peo injured after a gunman walkedma into a cafe shooting. Sotin police say the gunman is ins custody accused of shootingin his wife and another womanoman before randomly shooting at other people insider cafe. C security will certainly be tight in the dmv. D d. C. Officials say officers will be working around therod te clock to keep you and yourto ken loved ones safe. D fox5s alexandria limon ison live on the National Mallall where security preps are underrs way. Good morning, alex. A reporter hey, good hey, morning, annie. Nnie yesterday during that presstre conference i asked police chief cathy lanier whether w terrorist events around the ad world like the bombings at thent airport in turkey and also the e call from isis for additional attacks during ramadhan whichrah actually ends the day afterfter the fourth of july, whetherer those were things taken into tao account when planning at whenlan security plan for the fourth thf of july here in the nations capitol. Capi and lanier says of courseourse are always something that theyhy look at and take into accountina but she says honestly the the security plan during during Independence Day is already so tight, that now d. C. Officials a like the police and fireir department are focusing oning other problems that they face fc every year and people just forget to think about. Ut now, were talking about things like heat exhaustion and dehydration because of the weather, unsafe and drunk and d drivers and unfortunatelyortute being like a fire that burns and injuries caused by peopleauo setting off fireworks at home. M this is the only one day ofeo the year that we put a sparkler which goes to to 1200 degrees in a small s childs hands. Why do we do that. T reporter d. C. Fire chief. Ff gregory dean says in hisy dean opinion everyone should leaveull it to the professionals, enjoy fireworks displays and head toea places like the National Malltim for safety reasons. Rsons now, if that in mind this list of prohibited items on yourtems ono screen that includes alcoholes h drugs weapons personal fireworks, grills, tents and t this relatively new addition, drones. Dres. Now, officials also recommendls using Public Transportation. Port the good news is if that isth i your plan, metro tells me theres no scheduled safeuled s track work. On monday they have expanded service for the fourth of july. Starting at 2 00 p. Mf. Serviceee will build to rush hourlike hri service and the peak timeseak will be before and after the fireworks displays, so, again, a no scheduled track work onk o monday, so some good newss there. But through the weekend therekee is track work and just keep inp mind that today and tomorrow too rail service will end at midnight. Midnight reporting live in downtownnt d. C. , alexandria limon, fox5 local news. Well, developing thising th morning Alexandria Police areexc investigating a deadlyeadl shooting tat morning around 4 oclock inclok the 1000 block of firstf rs street. Police say a man was shotas sho there. The shooter is still on thetillo loose and police are currently investigating. And now to a fox5 f exclusive. D. C. Detectives are taking avesa close look at metro m Surveillance Video after a teenaged boy says he was heldasl against his will by ay a stranger. He claims it happened on as appe green line metro train after refusing to perform a sexual t act. O fox5s tisha lewis spoke to ske the teen last night. N reporter the scare comesom ahead of the Holiday Weekend. Ee the teenaged boy was able to escape and got off here at the t navy yard station. He got on the train just two jt stops earlier at the congress or heights station when he sat inat an empty seatio next to theo t suspect. Spec now, the young victim says the rider asked him to perform a pfa sexual act in exchange for for 10. 0. When the teen refused and tn tried to get up and sit init another seat, the man grabbed gd his arm pulled him down andn and held him in place. Ldim in plac eventually the 17yearold waslw able to break free to this reportedly all went down dw this morning sometime betweenngs 8 00 and 8 30. 3 the victim was on his way to a summer job. Ob. He called his boss who then helped him file a policeile a po report. We are not identifying theifyihe victim because hes underages ue and the nature of the crime. C. This might happen again andga i feel as though people should know what go on on the metro. Eto people dont realize whats happening on the metro. Et people are like on the metro thm you want to go this place, i want to go this place. La people hear on the news thatewta things happen to all these a t people but they dont thinkt ti its ever going to happen toappt them. Thats how i felt. s h i f reporter a Metro Official says theres likely surveillance. Many of the new trains have h surveillance on board. Ce on boa once the attacker is identified theyll release thest surveillance image of the attacker to the public. Pli right now hes facing simplee assault and enticing a tisha lewis, fox5 local news. Metro says progress ises i being made in its safe trackafec repair work. K. The general manager sayss workers have removed all off those potentially troublesome underground insulator. Ins insulators say theyve been replaced by fiberglass whichas is more heat resistant. They support the electrifiedlect third rail but in recent months 1346 them have caughtem v on fire. F good news for metro riders. You have a 15 minute graceute ge period at all rail stations. Sti that means customers who enternt through the fare gates can nowno change their mind within 15n 15 minutes and exit the system at s the same station without a staow penalty. Now, prior to this changeor to customers entering and exiting g the same station would be charged the base fare even if they didnt travel. Well, coming up on fox5 o fx news at 7 the Anacostia Riveriv is at the center of a major restoration project that willojl open it up to the swimmers inwir the coming years. Y plan coming up and of coursers caitlin will have another lookto at todays forecast. Fec a beautiful morning here inere the dmv. Th stay with us. S. Fox5 news morning will be right back. Right back. I dont want to lie down. 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Prevent headaches and migraines. Talk to a headache specialist today. Welcome back. The anacostia is widelytia is w considered one of the most one polluted rivers in the country. Just this week the anacostia ano watershed society gave it an f a in its report card on thed t river but the news isnt all bad. The river should be well on its way to be swimmable in theae next decade. Fox5s paul wagner h story. Reporter this is one is on filthy river, one of the fillhef kneest in thfilthiest in the nat its nothing new. Ot new the dirty river has been a dumping ground for decades. Dad but thats about to change and a in a big way. D. C. Waters investingnv billions of dollars to build a series of tunnels around thed city that will take the combined sewage and put it in its proper place. Lace we have a requirement to capture the sewage through this tunnel system this orangehg line and blue line, those are tunnels underneath the Anacostia River to blueo b planes, to get this complete cpt by march 23rd, 2018. Reporter the tunnels are a 100 feet at this site on the banks ofsi the anacostitea near rfk stadium a huge boring machineachi nicknamed nanny has hard madeash it to the 11th street bridget and on its wbray to another ano tunnel already completed. Omplet. Well go ahead and mined and down to popular point which isnh on the south side of the anacostia on the other side of d nats stadium and well pull wel nanny out at this location. Reporter the clay shes clah digging is placed on a Conveyor Belt which is then deposited at the bottom of a th shaft where its picked up by a giant crane and eventually eva removed from the site. Mofr to the northwest of rfk stadium d. C. Water has beenr ha building a tunnel along firstlo street northwest where theresrs been terrible flooding for decades. Ca weve installed a small a s purge station stati 10 milliongallon a day pumpay m station on the southern terminance. It will be acting like a large storage system. Ys it will pump into the the existing into the existing et system. Reporter according toepter d. C. Water 2 billion gallons of combined or raw sewage s flows into the river more than 80 times a year. Yea and by the time the project is completed in the next decade, dc that should be reduced to two. All this work in thisk t general area will capturel pt sewage thats currently goinglyg to the anacostia. Aco we still need to build the Northeast Boundary tunnel to tl get our 98 percent capture but b we dramatically capture a lot a of sewage thats going into the river. Reporter although the anacostia watershed societyrs gave the river an f, overall ove it says the river is improving. Im paul wagner, fox5 local news. Metro is showcasing awcin special art display to honoror an american universityni graduate killed at kild nomagallaudet deb station. Stai the images are photographs taken by kevin sutherlanduthean killed on a metro trai july 4th. Ly all who knew him say he was a very talented photographer andph he was traveling to the National Mall to capture cap images the fireworks when heorke was killed. Kille some of the photographs featured include images of thege union station, the Washington Monument and the u. S. Capitol. All right, time now 7 17. Caitlin is back with anotherhnoh look at todays weather. Yesterday it just startedust pouring after dinnertime. Yes, i know. Kno out of nowhere. Out ofowhere it was like the skies skies opened and we were like zero le no. That game was delayed i think ws a couple times. We had two rounds of badwo r weather that came through. R it was a busy night. Oh, gosh. Much quieter today. Quie good. So nice. A lot of people want to be ate the beach today, out on the water barbecuing out by therbuig pool. Fourth of july weekend is here. O today is going to be magnificent. Ma rest of the weekend not soo much. 65 a 5050 today should be really nice be c and very comfortable outside. De. So, yes, we had storms thatrms came through yesterday butterdab that really cut out theeallt ou humidity so it feels veryy comfortable at a. Ortaat satellite and radar quiteradarue quiet. Cold front has now moved offed o towards our south and high a hih pressure is in place. La it just should be really niceeae and sunny all day long. Lon heres what were watching. Storm system turn out of est midwest bringing heavyem rain ti parts of nebraska and kansas. A n that is going to move due eastward. Wa not bringing a Severe Weathereea threat but it is bringing autis heavy rain threat throughoutt tu the day on monday the fourth fou of july. Uly. Unfortunately thats going tooit be have to be a fourth of july l indoors. Do will we clear out in time for fireworks . We might. Ight. Thats the way it looks rightksg now and ill show in you aw y minute. Minute outside right now reagann national 71 degrees. Ees. Dulles 69, bwi marshall 68 ands8 this is without the humidityid so it feels very comfortable. Fo. Gorgeous morning to go, exercise, even just head out h to the pool very early. Ar 66 gaithersburg, 63 frederick, i 64 at winchester, 66 in culpeper and nice to be ne to getting some of thesehese comfortable mornings thise morn summer. Really the heat has been can kept at became i know yesterday was so humid but we havent had too many man intolerable days. Ay Fox Futurecast starting offff with saturday gorgeous,aturday , sunshine wall to wall, reallylly nice. By this evening a watch is going to lift up from the north and the clouds willcloudsl increase. Ea so will that humidity. At hit by this time tomorrow morning when youre watching fox5 newson morning as i know you will be,il there are some showers outr there and making it as far north as Northern Virginia vir into southern maryland. Myl as that continues to liftt northward there will be ad ere chance for showers. Or shors rain tomorrow will be fairlyro b light, very isolated. Isola not looking at widespread rain r but enough that there will be showers, there will be plentyl e of clouds including at the beaches. Lets fast forward to mondayorrt morning, 7 00 a. M. , here wea. M. W go. This is the fourth of july. J this forecast is not lookingoo great. Gr showers begin in the morning, mg increased in coverage and intensity by the afternoon andeo there could be pockets of heavy rain, thunderstorms allndr afternoon. Af im stoppin p. M. A lot of that rain seems toeems stay off towards our west. Tards this would be our window when fireworks begin but this is thii not too much of a win tow, so w that is what were watching. Wan is there a chance we could get those fireworks in . As far asw today, though, mildin withd w temperatures in the low 80s0 later on but this is actually aa below normal. Ormal. Dry pleasant weather, very comfortable. Here are those projected highrod pressure system. 83 in washington, beautiful to be out on the can chesapeake che this afternoon. Fton but dont forget that t sunscreen, you really need it. T. High spf because we have the high u. V. Index. 59 in hagerstown tonight, 62ig in frederick, 61 at dulles sos s comfortable again tonight but then by sunday as the clouds increase, so does the humidityhe and the cha