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good morning, i m annie yu. and i m steve chenevey. welcome to fox5 news morningorng on this friday morning.friday mg let s start with some securitytr news for you this morning. you we re just a few days aways away from the big fourth of julyh ul celebration on the mall. and with tens of thousands ofhos people expected there u.s. park police are stepping up security. that s right metro is alsoghs gearing up for the largeing f crowds and fox5 s lindsey watts joins us from the national mall with offerin everg you need to know.yo reporter: the smith joan smih folk life festival is set up set behind me and we re also seeing preps for the big showpsb on monday. mda obviously this is a huge h weekend for park police and a they are taking a lot of steps s to make sure everybody stays sta safe. sa on monday, they re going to be o eight security access pointssoi where they are going to beo checking all your bags, all your coolers, all your back yr packs and here are some ....
time. this is the only one day ofe the year that we put a sparkler which goes to t 1200 degrees in a smallmall child s hands.d why do we do that? reporter: there will be willb eight security checkpoints outit here. we can probably throw that up tt on the screen for you.reen y officers will be lookingl be lkg insides all bags back packsba and coolers.and coole a list of prohibited items for r tonight, obviously no drugs or o alcohol will be allowed nol wial weapons of any kind and you also can t bring tents or grills and you re going to a want to leave youndr drones at home as well. now, another big issue today t that s on the minds ofe mindof everyone, the weather.ea rain is a question foror tonight s fireworks. we are expecting some bad weather today and intohe tonight. best case scenario would be if it gets a little nasty the fireworks tonight could be postponed. they re supposed to start around 9:10 but if the weather gets really bad they could be postponed unti ....
this happened right across thecs street from the deanwood metro station.stat minute money avenue here.nu h you see d.c. police are still on the scene. th as we go down here this is the t 4800 block of car roll streetl e northeast which is blocked off f still at this hour.sou you see d.c. police at the endat of the street here.t he this happened we re told aroundn 11:00 o clock last night. nig i can show you video tape fromaf about 4:00 o clock this mornings when we got on scene here. her we saw dc police moving an unmarked metro transit police p cruiser out of the neighborhoodo we re told that this metro transit police officer s cruiser was fired upon but he is okay.y. not sure about the condition ofo the suspect. the gunman who this officer confronted here on the street. e not sure if this had anything t do with the metro station iftatf that s where the encounter begab but again this did involve metro transit police officer in an neighborhood here in theode in district ....
2016.. i assure you. it wasn t a bad year, b though. it wasn t. the heat index possibly will soar to 100 degrees or higherr today. toda that s going to be thehe feels-like temperature.s-ra weather and traffic coming upffn on the 5s at 7:05. 7 good thursday.rsy. i m allison seymour.son smour. and i m steve chenevey.ve welcome to fox5 news morning.nig want to get to a developing story out of northwest d.c..c one person dead after a a bizarre and tragic accidentt there happened earlier thisneari morning. bob barnard live on therd li scene now. bob, good morning. reporter: hey, good morning, guys.b,morn we re onin kansas avenue northwest; the 4400 block. bck d.c. fire rescue squad two sad o just left.just lef it appears they were able to wee get the car up and off the man m who was killed here thisd here t morning. you see the row house here.er family and friends in front.ront they ve been just besideust bese themselves this morning. this happened a little after 5 ....
among the dozens injurednj nearly 20 are in critical condition those people killed and injured as a suspectedpected terrorist plowed a truckis through a large crowd who was celebrating france s biacetyl steel day. bastille day. annie yu has more on anothern ah sad day in france. annie.ni good morning allison andon and steve. steve. france has suffered what appears to be yet anothere yet terror attack, this comes just j eight months after gunmen gun killed more than 130 people inoe the paris attacks. attacks among the victims ofms o thursday s attack arek are children, as well as two americans. looks like we re having some connect cull irks withct that story. we ll bring it back to you in c just ao moment. but france s president francois hollande is expected the the country s state of o emergency. it was supposed to end on july 26th. 26. over to you allison and steve.. we said we would get youou more information on thenfor suspect in that attack.t in we ll have tha ....