Police said that the crash happened sometime before 2 a.m. Sunday near the intersection of Dolley Madison Boulevard at Waverly Way.

The driver, who police have identified as 31-year-old Curtis Mathia Rustin IV, of McLean, was driving a 2005 Nissan Altima northbound on Dolley Madison Boulevard when police said he lost control of his car near the intersection of Waverly Way.

Police said Rustin’s car went off the road and crashed into two trees. He was pronounced dead on the scene of the crash.

Detectives said they believe Rustin may have been speeding, and that right now they don’t believe another vehicle was involved in the accident.

According to police, this is the eighth “non-pedestrian related fatality” in Fairfax County so far in 2021.

Police are asking anyone with information about the incident to contact their Crash Reconstruction Unit at 703-280-0543.

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Ethan Mereish, an associate professor of health studies at American University and a licensed psychologist, spent a year surveying almost 100 LGBTQ-identifying people ages 12 to 18 who live throughout the D.C. region. Each one completed three weeks of daily surveys about the discrimination they faced, and rated their emotions for the day based on a scale.

Mereish’s study found that on days youth experienced discrimination related to their LGBTQ identity, they also experienced increased negative emotions. And on days when the youth didn’t experience any discrimination, they reported lower levels of negative emotions.

“Despite our best efforts to have the D.C. area be a welcoming, affirming and safe space, queer youth are still experiencing a lot of stress related to their intersecting identities,” Mereish said.

He said the most common stressor identified in the daily diaries was vicarious stress — which he defined as exposure to negative, stigmatizing information related to one’s identity.

Some examples of this included hearing transphobic or homophobic commentary from politicians or news outlets, watching anti-LGBTQ commercials, seeing discriminatory commentary on social media, or witnessing or hearing about a hate crime.

“These are very negative and difficult experiences. And if we understand them from a stress framework, they’re obviously very stressful experiences,” Mereish said. “And we know from decades of research, stress is very toxic to our health. It’s one of the strongest predictors of poor mental and physical health outcomes.”

Young people experience all kinds of stresses, even before the pandemic, but: “LGBTQ youth specifically experience added stressors that are unique to their oppressed and marginalized identities such as homophobia, biphobia, transphobia and other forms of marginalization,” Mereish said.

The survey found an average of 17 stressors reported during the 21-day period.

“Those stressors are, over time, internalized, and have toxic effects on one’s mental health, on one’s self-esteem and on one’s body image,” Mereish added.

Daily stressors

The 94 LGBTQ youth in the survey commonly reported feelings of rejection from family, peers and teachers.

“Rejection took many forms — including verbal harassment, slurs, being discriminated against, being misgendered, feeling that one’s identity is being erased, being outed,” Mereish said.

This can lead to feelings of isolation and loneliness, which he said is a “significant predictor” of poor mental health. He said decades of research has shown LGBTQ youth are at greater risk for several mental health concerns — such as depression, anxiety and suicidality — than their heterosexual or cisgender peers.

Youth also reported stress from “having to navigate and figure out what environments may be safe for them to be a queer person and what environments might feel unsafe,” and sometimes have to “hide one’s sexual orientation or gender identity, from context to context.”

Some of this stress might come from classroom settings where students may have to decipher which teachers are allies and which are not.

“And for some adolescents, given that the sample was 12 to 18, some were still questioning and trying to understand their identity, and not having a safe space to understand and explore that identity was also a stressful experience,” he said.

Supporting LGBTQ youth

Family, friends, teachers and community members all have a part to play in alleviating mental hardships for LGBTQ youth.

Mereish recommends school administrators host trainings for teachers to address biases and that queer history be taught in schools to help normalize and affirm the LGBTQ community.

He added that the existence of gender-sexuality alliances in schools helps “decrease disparities in mental health for queer youth.”

“Families play a very crucial role in all of this,” he said. “We know a really important factor in being able to reduce suicide risk is having an accepting and affirming parent.”

Supportive parental figures or guardians should educate themselves on LGBTQ issues and “be able to face their own biases that they grew up with,” Mereish said.

“There isn’t anything wrong with queer youth — it’s the system of oppression that creates these negative health outcomes, and stigmatizes and creates these stressors.”

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On Friday afternoon, D.C. Police Chief Robert Contee led a public safety walk along 14th Street, where Thursday night’s shooting occurred. There he addressed the public’s concerns over gun violence in the District.

“People are really mad as hell, and I don’t blame them — I am too,” Contee said.

New video footage

The video released by police Friday afternoon depicts a clearer image of the first suspect, who is wearing a lime green/yellow hoodie and appears to be pointing their gun at a blurred image.

Then it shows both suspects, one in the lime green/yellow hoodie and the other in a black hoodie, fleeing to an older black sedan with a standby driver. The car was spotted driving eastbound toward S Street.

The shooting occurred Thursday evening near the intersection of 14th and Riggs streets in Northwest. People in the area sought out safety after hearing sounds of gunshots.

The two men who were shot are expected to survive, according to police. Police said it appears one of the men may have been targeted and the other was a bystander.

Returning to the scene

During the walk-through Friday afternoon, Contee spoke to business owners and residents. He was joined by several other city officials.

Joining & on public safety walk along 14th Street.

— DC OCA (@DC_OCA)

In impassioned remarks, he called for stronger accountability for people who commit violent crimes.

“I’ve been in this city for 30 years. This is the same movie when I was a boy growing up here,” he said, referring to the days when D.C. was known as the “murder capital” of the U.S. “When are we going to do something different? … What does not happen here is accountability? People are not ready to have that conversation. ”

Contee added, “When I start talking about accountability, people start talking mass incarceration. I’m not talking about mass incarceration. I’m talking about holding people accountable who make our communities unsafe.”

When asked about safety precautions for the forthcoming weekend, which is expected to be busy as the forecast predicts nice weather, Contee said police will be out monitoring the area and will use “every available resource” that they have but otherwise did not give specifics about safety precautions.

ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵapp’s Mike Murillo spoke with Ward 2 D.C. Council member Brooke Pinto at the scene of the shooting along 14th Street about the past week’s shootings.

“The truth is that gun violence is happening in our city and across our country every single day. And the illegal ghost guns that we see are a huge part of that problem,” she said, referring to guns assembled from kits without serial numbers.

“I think people are scared, they’re worried and they want to know what they can do to help,” Pinto added.

She went on to say that dozens of neighbors and business owners showed up to be a part of the solution. “There’s a real sense of community action and obligation,” she said.

Mayor Muriel Bowser joined Contee at a news conference Thursday night at the scene of the Logan Circle shooting and said: “We have to press on everything that we know about stopping crime right now, it won’t be one single thing. And I say to them … I will repeat what I said, we need to get to people before they use their guns. That’s how we prevent it.�

This shooting comes at a time when there are heightened concerns over gun violence within the District. On Saturday three people were injured in a shooting outside Nationals Park and last Friday a 6-year-old was shot and killed in Southeast D.C.

Police are still searching for the suspects and ask anyone with information to call them at 202-727-9099 or 50411.

ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵapp’s Abigail Constantino, Alicia Abelson and Mike Murillo contributed to this report.

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On , museums throughout the country offer free admission to anyone who downloads a Museum Day ticket.

The magazine said in a statement that the idea is to encourage museums, zoos and cultural centers across the United States to mimic the free admission structure of Smithsonian museums in D.C.

“With many public spaces being shut down for a year or more, Museum Day 2021 celebrates the reopening of museums after long closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic,” the magazine said.

This year’s theme is “Experience America,” to represent the “return to, and resurgence of, our country’s diverse cultural experience.”

More than throughout the U.S. are expected to offer free admission on Museum Day.

Safety precautions will be in place at all participating museums.

Participants can download tickets beginning Aug. 18.

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The sheriff’s office that Colby Neal Savage, 24, of Prosser, Washington, was heading southbound on his motorcycle when he drove off the road and hit a telephone pole at about 12:30 a.m. at Point Lookout Road and Thompson Orchard Lane, in Lexington Park.

The sheriff’s office said deputies and EMS found Savage in a culvert off the side of the road, and that he was taken to a hospital in critical condition.

The sheriff’s office said they don’t know yet why Savage’s motorcycle left the road, but that speed appears to be a factor.

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The National Association of Counties, which represents 3,069 counties throughout the country, is holding its 2021 annual conference in-person and virtually from July 9 to July 12 in Prince George’s.

It’s featuring speakers such as Vice President Kamala Harris, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell.

NACO Communication Director Paul Guequierre told ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵapp, “This conference is county leaders from across the country coming together for the first time, for all of us, since before the pandemic began.”

Last year’s conference was canceled and NACO was able to hold part of the originally planned event virtually. He said normally NACO annual conferences take three years to plan, but this year’s conference was planned in three months.

He said that county leaders talk about the issues they’re collectively facing: “So that could be political, could be economic, could be cyber security, any issue that counties are facing, we’ll talk about here.”

The main theme this year is COVID-19 recovery. The American Rescue Plan, which President Joe Biden signed back in March, for counties across the country.

“It was the largest federal investment in counties ever,” Guequierre said. “So this is a great time for county leaders to come together to discuss what they’re doing back home in their counties, in terms of recovering from COVID-19, both on the public health front and the economic recovery front.”

He said that although a large focus of the conference will be on COVID-19, other issues such as infrastructure will also be a focus.

“All of the issues that counties face did not go away when COVID came,” Guequierre said.

ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵapp’s Acacia James contributed to this report. 

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After a gorgeous Fourth of July weekend, Tuesday and Wednesday will have temperatures in the mid-90s and a heat index around 100 degrees. Both days will see mostly sunny skies with a few isolated thunderstorms.

Thursday there will be a slight drop in temperature to the upper 80s as a cold front approaches. It will be a cloudy day with showers and thunderstorms that will extend into Friday.

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Tuesday: Mostly sunny, very hot and humid with isolated afternoon storms. Highs in the mid to upper 90s. Heat index around 100.

Wednesday: Partly cloudy, hot and humid with isolated afternoon thunderstorms. Highs in the mid to upper 90s, with the heat index ranging from 100 to 105.

Thursday: Mostly cloudy and muggy with showers and afternoon thunderstorms. Highs 85 to 90.

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Montgomery County Fire and Rescue said the fire on Holly Spring Drive in Burtonsville started at about 11 p.m. in either the laundry room or the deck of the two-story, single-family residence.

One of the family said they smelled and saw smoke and flames coming from the deck, which was covered with vinyl flooring, the fire department said. A neighbor called 911.

Officials were told that a contractor installed a new HVAC on Sunday, which a fire spokesperson said “may have involved work on the electrical system.”

He also said that the only ignition source identified that was common to the deck and the laundry room was electrical.

There were no reported injuries. However, the fire caused $1 million in damages.

Officials are still investigating the cause of the blaze. They said the deck and laundry room floor, at the back of the home, collapsed, and that this has limited examination of the area.

Update — 2339 Holly Spring Dr, Burtonsville; single-family house; Cause, under investigation, undetermined (limited examination due to deck & floor collapse); Area of Origin, rear deck or laundry room; Damage ~$1M, incl $600K structure/$300K contents; 4 adults displaced; no inj

— Pete Piringer (@mcfrsPIO)

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Ooh and aah at a spectacle that never disappoints. Fireworks start at 9:09 p.m. Sunday and will be launched from both sides of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. If you’re heading down to D.C., beware the road closures. “A Capitol Fourth,” the concert that usually precedes the fireworks, will be pretaped again this year.

Don’t want to hobnob with the downtown crowd? has some suggestions on where you can watch the fireworks.

This local tradition will be on Barracks Row this year by the Eastern Market Metro station. The parade starts at 10 a.m. on Sunday.

The parade begins at noon on Sunday in Northwest D.C., and ends in a community cookout at the Palisades Recreation Center. The parade goes from Whitehaven Parkway, down MacArthur Boulevard, takes a left on Edmunds Place, a left on Sherier Place and ends at the rec center, where there will be free picnic with live music and moon bounces.

The Nationals are hosting the Dodgers. On Saturday, the 7:05 p.m. game will have Freedom Fireworks. Sunday’s game starts at 11:05 a.m.

Maryland

Ocean City will light up the sky on Sunday at Northside Park, 125th Street and the bay. The event kicks off on the Caroline Street Stage with music at 8 p.m. followed by fireworks starting at 9:30 p.m.

Charles County is hosting a Fourth of July fair on Sunday with food, fireworks, live music and even pony rides. Admission is free and the event runs from 3 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Frederick Fairgrounds is hosting a “parking lot party” with the country radio station 99.9 WFRE. Visitors can also enjoy a fireworks show from their cars. The event starts at 4 p.m. on Sunday.

Visit Downtown Columbia Lakefront on July 4 for a festival filled with fireworks, food trucks and entertainment. Blankets can be placed in the area starting at 3 p.m., music starts and food trucks open at 5 p.m. and the fireworks show begins at 9:20 p.m.

Little Market Cafe is serving up an all-you-can-eat BBQ with live music from noon to 4 p.m. on July 4. Tickets start at $25.

Head to Lake Marion Community Center in Montgomery Village on July 4 for either a 5k race or a “fun run.” The “fun run” begins at 7:45 a.m. and the 5k race starts at 8:15 a.m. Runners are encouraged to arrive at 7 a.m. The first 180 runners will get a T-shirt.

Virginia

For the price of admission, Fourth of July activities include daytime fireworks, a chance to meet “George Washington” and watch a performance by the National Concert Band. Admission is $26 for adults and $13 for children.

Fairfax City’s 55th annual Independence Day parade starts at 10 a.m. on Saturday, stepping off at 4100 Chain Bridge Road. It will then loop around downtown Fairfax, along Chain Bridge Road, Main Street, University Drive and Armstrong Street. Roads along the parade route will be closed from 7:15 a.m. to 1 p.m. A separate fireworks show will be 6:30 p.m. on Sunday at at Fairfax High School (3501 Lion Run). Items that may puncture the synthetic turf, smoking, alcohol and animals (except service animals) are not permitted on the football field.

Lake Fairfax in Reston will have fireworks on Saturday. The fireworks will start shortly after 9 p.m. Tickets can be purchased in advance for $10 per vehicle or on the day of the show for $15 per vehicle.

Start your Fourth of July early on Friday by catching some evening fireworks and live entertainment at Workhouse Arts Center in Lorton. Tickets start at $40 a car. The event begins at 5 p.m. and ends at 10 p.m.

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of its Fourth of July parade, Dale City will be hosting the annual event on July 3. The parade starts at 10 a.m. and will go from Kirkland Drive to Center Plaza along Dale Boulevard.

Manassas Park Community Center is hosting a free fireworks show with food trucks on July 4. The show starts at 9:15 p.m.

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One of them touched down in the Cherrydale section of Arlington and tracked into D.C., the weather service said, and traveled about 4.4 miles to near 16th Street and Constitution Avenue on the Mall and just south of the Ellipse in Northwest. It was listed as an EF-1 tornado with winds reaching up to 90 mph.

The other one touched down about a mile northeast of the Capitol, then traveled along H Street into the Kingman Park area. It was listed as an EF-0 tornado, with winds up to 80 mph.

National ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵapp Service survey confirmed two touched down in Arlington, VA and Washington, DC. See graphics for details.

— NWS Baltimore-Washington (@NWS_BaltWash)

Tornado damage on the Mall

The bulk of the tornado damage on the Mall was along Constitution Avenue. Since the width was only around 125 yards wide, the trees along Independence Avenue, 600 or so yards to the south, fared better.

The damage mainly consisted of mature trees, toppled fences, and objects such as trash cans and portable toilets being overturned. A dozen or so port-a-potties for the Independence Day crowds were shunted into the middle of 15th Street.

Wind-blown and overturned porta potties blocking 15th Street across the National Mall

— Dave Dildine (@DildineÃÛÌÒÊÓƵapp)

Old elm trees on the Mall took an especially hard hit. Many were snapped at their bases or at the truck, not uprooted.

“In addition to these two tornadoes, we had over 100 storm damage reports across the area on Thursday during the afternoon and evening hours,” Storm Team4 meteorologist Amelia Draper told ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵapp. “Wind damage bringing down numerous trees and power lines creating a lot of damage across the area.”

Downed trees and wires

The Arlington Fire Department said Friday that they responded to 16 fire alarms and 15 reports of downed wires after 9 p.m. Thursday.

Storm Team4 meteorologist Steve Prinzivalli said that between Thursday’s rainfall and additional showers on Friday, flooding from “small streams, creeks, and urban areas” were a possibility.

“Remember: When you encounter a flooded road, turn around and find an alternate route,” Prinzivalli said.

Downed trees and wires were reported across D.C., Maryland and Virginia, including one of a tree in Arlington that fell onto a house on the 4300 block of 16th Street North that trapped a person inside. Several large trees toppled near the White House and the National Mall in D.C.

Arlington County Fire says one adult who was trapped in this home, was rescued. Their injuries are not life threatening, thank goodness

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Damages and outages

The storms caused significant damages and delays starting Thursday afternoon.

One of the areas that saw damage was the National Mall, where thousands of people are expected to gather for Fourth of July celebrations on Sunday. The National Park Service said Friday morning that they’d still be ready:

Major storms rolled through last night. We are still assessing the damage along the National Mall, but are confident we have the resources & time to get everything ready for Sunday’s celebration. Thanks to our maintenance crews for all their hard work!

— National Mall NPS (@NationalMallNPS)

Heavy rain and strong winds caused backups at the Chesapeake Bay Bridge on Thursday, delaying the afternoon rush hour. That’s in addition to traffic delays caused by storm debris and dark traffic lights on local roads.

Thousands of homes, at one point more than 60,000, lost power.

At least six homes were evacuated Friday morning in Takoma Park, Maryland, where a huge tree fell and brought down power lines, sparking multiple fires.

ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵapp’s John Domen reports that a “massive cleanup” is underway through parts of Prince George’s County, Maryland, early Friday morning, where tree limbs are laying on roads and some shoulders.

A massive cleanup underway through parts of Prince George’s County today. This is enterprise Road near Largo Community Church. Some cars are driving through the neighborhood along the post to detour, others are turning around. More

— John Domen (@JDDsays)

Due to the “significant tree damage,” officials in Bowie, Maryland, said they will relax its yard waste protocols and collect any tree, plant or log debris put into a trash can on July 7 and 14. Any larger tree limbs, trunks and logs should be placed at the curb. More information can be found on

In Arlington, ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵapp’s Neal Augenstein reports that Utah Street — which normally carries cut-through traffic between Washington Blvd and Lee Highway– has a large tree and wires blocking the road.

He said that crews will be out later to cut up the tree and clean up the wires along the intersection.

At the end of the block on North 21st Street, off Nottingham, in Arlington, a snapped branch from an older tree has pulled down a utility pole and wires, leaving them lying across the street. Augenstein said it doesn’t appear any wires fell onto any cars.

Crews have arrived and are cutting up the tree, but it will take other crews to take down the wires and reset the utility pole.

Stuck in the storm

“I thought as I pulled out my camera, this is either going to be the best picture I ever took, or the last picture I ever took.”

Michelle Dolge, of Chevy Chase, was driving with her husband along the Chesapeake Bay Bridge for the holiday weekend when she said they “realized this weather is right behind us.”

“You couldn’t see anything; you could barely see the cars in front of you,” she told ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵapp’s Mike Murillo. “The rain looked like smoke blowing in front of you, because it was blowing sideways. It was that way the whole way across the bridge.”

Bob Thomas, of Mitchellville, Maryland, that the storm “looked like a tornado.”

“It was swirly, it was a straight line and it came right through my yard … It hit my neighbor’s tree first and tour it down, and then it hit mine and it just snapped. It was like an explosion,” he said.

Thomas said he planted the tree 37 years ago, adding, “It was a very sturdy tree.” The tree was between 60 and 65 feet.

“I’m just grateful that it was leaning towards the street as opposed to my house; otherwise, it would have crushed it,” he said.

ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵapp’s Dave Dildine, John Domen and Neal Augenstein contributed to this report.

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The truck overturned around 3:40 a.m. on Thursday between Connecticut Avenue and Rockville Pike. The left lane reopened shortly after 2 p.m., said Dave Dildine in the ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵapp Traffic Center, but traffic was being held intermittently for the cleanup.

The truck’s fuel tanks were also damaged in the crash and were leaking diesel fuel, the Maryland State Police said.

Hazardous material crews were able to protect some of the storm drains, Montgomery County Fire and Rescue spokesperson Pete Piringer said. But he said that as they were lifting the tanker, they discovered several other cracks and leaks in the tank.

The driver was taken to a hospital with injuries he described as non-life threatening injuries.

Update: Montgomery County; cleanup continues on I-495 at Exit 35 I-270 after overturned TT crash this morning. The three left lanes are still closed as clean-up continues. Ramp to NB I-270 north is open. Exit 35 remains open. tr

— MD State Highway Adm (@MDSHA)

Traffic Advisory (initial Dispatch ~4a) OL I495 beltway near split to NB I270 & Rt355 Rockville Pike, Beltway between Connecticut Avenue & Old Georgetown Road, all lanes blocked, hazmat/hot asphalt spill

— Pete Piringer (@mcfrsPIO)

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The severe thunderstorm watch issued for Wednesday night has been canceled, as storms and showers have diminished. Any lingering rainfall will end before midnight. It will be muggy overnight into Thursday morning.

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The National ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵapp Service has issued a flash flood watch from Thursday afternoon to Friday morning for D.C. and most of Maryland and Virginia.

Several rounds of thunderstorms are expected, with localized rainfall rates of up to one to two inches per hour possible. The National ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵapp Service predicts total rainfall amounts of one to three inches, with locally higher amounts of up to four inches possible.

Heavy rain in short periods of time could cause the potential for streams and creeks to quickly rise out of their banks, along with the potential for flash flooding in urban areas.

Temperatures will begin to drop as the rain pours, and on Friday, relief arrives with highs in the mid 70s to low 80s.

Storm Team4 meteorologist Chuck Bell said the biggest concern with storms is localized flooding, but that on Saturday and Sunday, there will be a decrease in rain and the sun will finally start to shine again.

Hot and humid today with scattered showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. Some thunderstorms will have the potential to be strong to severe and be capable of producing damaging winds. A Heat Advisory is in effect from noon to 8pm this evening near the Chesapeake Bay.

— NWS Baltimore-Washington (@NWS_BaltWash)

Forecast:

Tonight: Muggy with scattered showers and thunderstorms. Strong winds possible. Lows in the low to mid 70s.

Thursday: Showers and thunderstorms, with heavy rain and severe storms possible. Highs in the mid to upper 80s.

Friday: Showers and thunderstorms taper off, leading to a dry afternoon. Cooler and less humid. Highs in the low 80s.

Saturday: Partly cloudy with a chance of an afternoon or evening thunderstorm. Highs in the mid to upper 70s.

Sunday (Fourth of July): Partly to mostly sunny. Pleasant. Highs in the low to mid 80s.

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Heat indexes in the D.C. region are forecast to top 100 degrees and possibly reach 105 both Tuesday and Wednesday, StormTeam4 meteorologist Lauryn Ricketts said.

“Expect blue skies with the heat index between 100° and 105° by this afternoon,” Ricketts said Tuesday. “Expect a few more clouds at times with that heat index closer to 105° by tomorrow afternoon.”

Base temperatures will be in the mid-to-upper 90s both days, and there is a 30% chance of showers and thunderstorms scooting through the area on Wednesday.

Residents should be cautious over the next couple days and stay hydrated. D.C. has to help residents find relief from the heat.

By Thursday and into Friday, though, the area should begin to cool down and get some much wanted relief and rain as a cold front hits the area.

“There will be a lot of moisture associated with that so expect rain for your Thursday and Friday,” Ricketts said.

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Storm Team4 Meteorologist Chuck Bell said residents can anticipate heavier rain later this week “thanks to whatever is left of Tropical Storm Danny that made landfall near Savannah, Georgia.”

Thursday afternoon and evening will see the heaviest rainfall this week, with lingering showers into Friday and Saturday and, unfortunately, some persisting chance of rain on Sunday’s July 4 holiday.

“It will all depend on how quickly a cold front can push to the area. If it lingers, we may have to keep chances of rain in for Sunday,” Ricketts said.

But don’t get disappointed yet — Bell said that the chance of rain will drop to 30% on Sunday and will most likely occur before any holiday evening fireworks.

“Humidity will lower behind the frontal system however. Temperatures will be right around 80 as we head into this upcoming weekend,” Ricketts said.

Meanwhile, the Pacific Northwest continues to swelter in an “unprecedented” hazardous heat wave, according to The Associated Press, with Portland, Oregon, reaching 116 degree highs on Monday evening.

Forecast:

Tuesday: Mostly sunny, hot & humid. Very muggy. Heat index 100 degrees or higher. No chance of rain. Highs: Low-to- mid 90s.

Tuesday night: Mainly clear, humid, areas of fog. No chance of rain. Highs: Low to mid 70s.

Wednesday: Sunny in the morning, more clouds in the evening. Hot & humid. Heat index 100 to 105 degrees. The possibility of isolated thunderstorms later. Chance of rain: 30%. Highs: Low-to-mid 90s.

Thursday: Partly to mostly cloudy, humid, a little cooler. Chance of rain: 80% with widespread storms. Highs: around 90.

Friday: Mostly cloudy, cooler. Rain and thunder likely. Locally heavy rain possible at times. Chance of rain: 80%. Highs: High 70s to low 80s.

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The academy will allow for public visits and resume normal access procedures on Friday morning, according to coming a day after Maryland is set to end its state of emergency due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Under HPCON A, the Naval Academy will retain what it refers to as basic health safety guidelines, which will still require unvaccinated people to wear a mask and practice social distancing.

“It affords us the ability to return to a close-to-normal operations status,” the academy said.

Visitors will be able to access the installation between sunrise and 7 p.m. but must present valid government identification, or U.S. or foreign passport, to enter.

Anyone under the age of 18 without identification can access the area with an adult who has a viable form of ID.

The academy is reminding visitors that surrounding retail businesses are not fully staffed, and may not be for weeks.

It also said that it will take time for staff to come back and “become reacquainted and retrained.”

“The U.S. Naval Academy is excited to host visitors and asks that everyone remain patient as we increase our staffing levels to better serve you,” the release said.

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