And because the flights cant be that close they have to be delayed. The flyovers and fireworks shutting down the flights at Reagan National airport. Between 6 15 and 745 p. M. And between now and 45 p. M. On the fourth of july there will be no Flight Operations at dca at all. The faa making that announcement on social media today. Hopefully they will divert them to dulles or something which is not enjoyable. Joseph bishop henchman. The flight was atan log national and 9 21 on the fourth. Onhe other hand, why is this all being done at the last minute. Air traffic has been stopped in the past for the flyovers. It has never been stopped before because of theireworks. The reason the fireworks are affecting the flight this year is because theti loca where they are being launched has changed to west potomac park and thats now closer to the flight path. And the Airport Authority couldnt tell us exactly how many flights will be affectedse becof this change but dozens of flights do usually come in and go out during a time frame like that. Lwe should t you that no flights at bwi, marshal or Dulles International will be affected. Ck over to you. Thats going to inconvenience a whole lot of people. News 4s cory. Corey smith has a look at the massive tanks thn are i the area. Tell us about that scene. Reporter ask and you shall receive. Thta president wanted his ks and hes got four of them plus another military vehicle. Earlieroday well show these tanks, two abram and two bradleys on the flatbed rail car. Ss, and they will be in place for the president s salute to america. They weigh tons, lots of them. 60 tons per vehicle. And that has many local leaders concerned about the damage that could be done to city streets. Moreover, they believe that the president is politicizing the fourth of july. This is what congresswoman Eleanor Holmes norton hady to sa earlier ttoday. The one holiday where everybody comes together and doesntlo even at how you define what your political party, is so hes already by the way in hi he has taken hold of this event made it into a political event. Reporter now we are told that the tanks will be somewhere in the vicinif the Lincoln Memorial. Hear what the w think,ther or not the president has gone too far or if he is striking the right tone by bringing in these military vehicles as part of his salute to america. Back to you. Going to be quite a show. Thanks, cory. Now to the weather. All this pomp and pageantry planned on thursday and, doug, youre looking at an iffyas for that night and also out there right now. Tell us what youre seeing. The storms coming through parts ont loudoun c and Frederick County and no severe thunderstormarning. Not expecting anything really, but i wouldnt be surprised if one of these did in fact become on the stronger side. Excuse me. Show you what were dealing with. Those showers are making their way in over the last two hours or so. You can see a little bit of a line. Frederick county down towards Loudoun County. More back to the west. Ill zoom into this area right here through Loudoun County. One just along the porter between loudoun and Frederick County. You see all the heavy rain with this one. This will pulse up and pulse down. Will they briefly become severe . Yes. Thats why we we are watching them very closely. Leesburg getting hit pretty hard by these storms. All the s arms to the northnd down to the south. I think we are going to see a much better chance of storms overnight tonight and then again during the day on your wednesday. Wednesofy is a good chance storms and, yes, were talking about a chance then as well. A few showers and storms this evening. A better chance of storms tomorrow and then tracking the Storm Chances for the 4th as doug, should people start thinking about possibly cancelling or changing plans because of the weather . I definitely wouldt cancel any plans just yet. This is not every getting them, but if you want to think about having a plan b and you want the poncho ready, maybe get back to yourif car there is thunder or lightning coming back in. Ill have much more on this including the timing of these including coming up in a few minutes. Now is the time to make sure that youave the nbc washington app. Weve posted a full schedule of the events on e scene. Immigration advocates are demanding change after reports r of deplable conditions at Detention Centers on the b u. S. mexicoder. What do we want . Justice w when do want it . Now. These are advocates rallying outside customs and Border Protection here in d. C. Wendy rieger is standing by at the live desk and a look at the changes they are calling for. Weve been reporting on the troubling conditions at the cvp. They say a migrant was told to drink out of the toilet if they were thirsty. Ay advocates snough is enough. They marched outside of the offices today calling for a safe sanitary housing. Care for all immigrants at the border, especially children. What were seen concern ofno toothbrush orousoap, ding the number of migrants in a facility into one. We just hope that the government will listen to us any finallchange their policy so that they are more just towards latin america. The Trump Administration has repeatedly downplayed the conditions at the border, with youer yesty nbc news learned a watchdog within Homeland Security warned the administration about the deteriorating conditions as early as may and jay gray will haom new reaction f todays real. Thats ahead at 4 30. Back to you. Thank you, wendy. Now, new details on what led a shooting inside aarking garage at pentagon citymall a masksd suspect approached tianother man sitng inside of his car. At suspect showed a gun and then tried to stealhe victims cell phone. That victim fought back and during that struggle the gun went off. Police tried to revive him, but he died at the hospital scl were learning new information about a deadly crash on the bw parkway. 20yearold brittany rks was killed last week when a car slammed into her. She was a Howard University o student studying t a dentist. U. S. Park police say 24yearold darnel bassett hit and killed her. He was try to lose police in a chase. Darnell bassett has been charged with a felony for an incident on june 26, the same day as the bw parkway crash. Prosecutors have not said ifth at charge is for burks death. Bassett has been in the hospital in Police Custody since the crash. Well, we just wrapped up pride month celebrating the lbgtq community here and abroad. Today a district couple shareds diturbing video showing a man vandalizing their pride flag. News 4s Meagan Fitzgerald has their story. This is a very qet residential commuerty. Repo the last five years bet ed rhodes and her husband have considered independent avenue in southeast home and feel comfortable and purchased this Security Camera to be safe and this morning they captured this, a man walking on to her yard, tearing down her pride flag andt slamming up against her gate while hurling homophobic slurs. We just ripped it completely off. Reporter rhodes showed us the broken pole that she found lying on theround when she returned home this morning. To hear him just be so disgusted and have such violent verbal reaction to a flag was really discouraging. Reporter she sa she and her husband were flying the flag to show support for pride month in a community that has been the target a ofs of violence here in d. C. And across the country. Just for anybody walking by to know that this is a house ere youre safe and supported and were trying to fight for you and for everybody else to to be equal. Reporter while rhodes is upset by the mans criminal actions she ys she wont let him stop them from showing their support. Absolutely well fly it again. Two teens are recovering after a shooting at a playground in Fairfax County. Police sa the teens were shot just after 11 00 last night. Hey believe attack may have been gangrelated. Were told one teen has since r been eleased from the hospital. Th have nonlifethreatening injuries. A contentious meeting today at the d. C. Council as Embattled Council member jack evans faced hours of tough questions from hiscleempingts evareation. Evans is trying to convince them of not stripping him of his chairmanship of the powerful finance comndttee a as Mark Segraves reports evans refused questions. Many of the reporter last week when uncil member jack evasked for a chance to be heard before he Council Votes to take his Committee Chairmanship away evans said he would be happy to answer all their questions but today evans was only willing to answeruestions regarding the metro ethics investigation which he called flawed. When council mrs asked about possible conflicts of interest being investigated by federal prosecutors evans was less forthcoming the best approach to that is to let the investigations which are looking at all of that pay t rather than me try to answer that question today. I have just lot of questions that are clearly not going to red today. I appreciate your pontification and youre mischaracterizing a lot and interrupting me. You put news this position to egin you. I dont like to either. After two hours of back and forth evans left th meeting without talking to reporters. Most of the Council Members voted in favor of taking the chairmanship away when the Council Votes next week. In the district, Mark Segraves, news 4. Remembering a titan. We are just Getting Started news 4 at 4 00. In a new minutes a look at the man who inspired the character in the movie remember the titans. And were counting down oo thenly Solar Eclipse happening this yea ll bring it to you live. And tommy is going to take us out to the farm for honey, this gigspeed internet is ridiculously fast. We are seriously keeping up with the joneses. Keeping up with the fords. Keeping up with the garcias. The romeros. Patels. Wothe wahhthewahh nskes. Right. No one is going to have internet like this. Xfinity makes keeping up with the joneses simple. Easy. Awesome. Want gigspeed internet . Weve got you covered. Or check out our other amazing Speed Options at new low price. Get started now for as low as 29. 99 a nth. Call, click or visit a store today. Back now with a look at how hot it feels here this afternoon. The heat index is close to 1 in many spots. Doug is back with chances for storms tomorrow and for the 4th and hell take us through the impact hour by hour. News 4 is working for you and the community and a loat the tall ship prtidence docked a its new home in alexandria. The ship is a replica of the merchant ship from the 1700 built for the centenn celebration and also played in two parts of twohe pirates of caribbean disney movies, and now theres now plans for its life in alexandria. D we will daily tours. We will do weekly cruises such as every friday night, Family Friendly pirate cruises on saturday morning, and well do once a month adult pirate cruises, wine cruises and sunset sails. Now the foundation promises that no one walks the plank bearing the pirate cruises so youre safe if you want to check it out. It wont open up to the public te they are summer. All righty. You dont have to wait until thursday to celebrate the fourth july. Tonight bowie is hosting its early independence celebration with free concert and Fireworks Show at prince georges stadium. Mu 7c begins at30 and fireworks start around 9 15. Well, you know you can trust Tommy Forecast fly to know of the fun things to do across the dmv. Night life, fashion, you name, it tmy is up on the scene and thats why were launching a new segment on air called the scene. Every week tommy will tip you off on all the hottest events, lots of fun things to do. This weeknd he fou some ofthhe coolest ings to do for the fourth including George Washingtons berry farm. Reporter why nota celebrte americas birthday and George Washingtons boyhood home. Im tommy mcfly with the seen. Berry farmer from fredericksburg. From 10 00 to 4 00 celebrate where gorge washington grew up, tours of his home. He watch t patriotic flag retirement ceremonies and enact with colonial reenactors. Educational aspect for the whole family plus crafts, games, handson activities,and can you going to love it. All the info on the nbc washington app. Just search scene. Im tommy mcfly. News 4. All the events wrap up at 4 00, but theres fleetcenter of reason to stay in fredericksburg including fireworks. Right now on the nbc washington app you can find our fireworks finder just searche scene for more information. Find the fireworks. Find the fireworks. Find them. And maybe your tap dancing shoes if you have to dance between e raindrops the next couple of days. Io think the fireworks are going to be effective especially tomorrow night. A lot of areas doing fireworks d some fireworks will get off it without a h and others will have a problemf becausehe rain and its a matter of how many storms we have o there. Any time theres this kind of heat well have storms and take stlook at ju that. The heat. Ow around old alexandria. Yeah, yeah, yoube wanted to in the shade. Braved the sun and the heat. Any time youre walking btween the building, close to the brick and asphalt, makes things that much hotter. Starting to see some storms th those clouds as well. You can see areawide weve got some showers and thunderstorms out there. The heaviest of whichow right n in parts of Loudoun County an on the border of Frederick County, too. Lets zoom right into this area. Northn Fauquier County and a little bit of a line moving down across the region. Moving here between the potomac and frederic and Loudoun County. Around leesburg, a very heavy storm around leesburg. Not severe and we have had some lightning out of this. Well show you a street level view. Traveling aalong route 7. This storm makes its way south and east and should go just to the north of the airport. May clip part of the airport and moving down towards the herndon area, too. The wider view showing severe utather. Some of the comper models bringing this down here over the overnight. Tore back to the west, too. Temperatures righ now. Yeah, up to 94 degrees. What a difference a day makes. 94 and windsle at 10 miper hour. That puts the heat index close to 100. 101 in quantico and 101 in baltimore and 100 in gaithersburg. A very hot and humid afternoon. A lot more where that came from, anec again, bse of the heat, weve got the storms out there. Look around virgofia. Some the strongest storms wound rappahannock and Fauquier County, princeliam county, further south than predicted. Er 11 00 they are out of here and storms ovight try to move n. Shouldnt amount to much and what this means for wednesday. Well see a good chance of storms develop. Heres 4 00, right. Not a whole lot and watch what happens by around 6 00. Numerous storms and showers and thunderstorms, and they oe going te here throughout the afternoon, so you mentioned i know theresin some go on in Montgomery County. Something well watching you very closely, and well talk more about this at 4 45. Next couple of days, hot and humid for s fre. 92 onourth of july with with a 60 chance of storms during the urevening ho thanks, doug. All right. New video youll only see right here on news 4. Un Prince Georges CoPolice Cruiser takes out a fence trying to chase down a group of atv riders, and then a little later Tracey Wilkins explains how that may get commuters in trouble. And why these young women from our area are spending. The next big thing from msung is expected to be unveiled next month. Companies will announce new products august 7th from the Barclays Center in brooklyn. Theno galaxy e so is expected to be unveiled. Rumors are this phone will havec a newmera embed right in the middle of the display screen. Its also possible that the company will try to relaunch the galaxy fold, a phone that was pushed to market too soon accordinto samsungs ceo. 30 years ago this week, jerry george, elaine and cramer first graced our tv sets right here on abc. I think i can chum up the show for you with one word. Nothing. Yadda, yadda, yadda. Nothing for you. I think this is same one i gave him. The regifter, the low talker, the puppy shirt, so much of those catch phrases still being used to this very day. S einfeld was a Ground Breaking show for using scripts that didnt allow on punchlines and the characters never seemed to look at mistakes. Tv guide ranks ithe greatest tv show ofl time. I have seen every single one of them. Lso remember the titans, remembering a certain special titan. Legendary7119 state Championship Team. Now, he was a fullback whose Championship Team was t trned in film. Remember the titans and as news 4s Jackie Bensen explains it was that team that helped break down racial barriers here. Youuys love each other but don e respecth shower. This video was addresed by alexandria public ci schools when he retired as a Security Officer om 2018. The man immortalized in the move remember the titans spent the last three decades of his life as the heart and soul of his school retiring this month bere his de