In fact, Saturday will be the hottest day the region has seen so far in 2019, coming at the tail end of a weeklong heat wave east of the Rockies. Highs are forecast to peak at 96 degrees, and the heat indexes will climb to near the 100 degree mark.

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Areas north and east of D.C. could see some looming showers and storms into the late evening.

Earlier, the National Weather Service issued severe thunderstorm warnings and watches in the area.

Locally damaging wind gusts and large hail were the biggest threats in those storms, NWS forecasters said.

It began hailing around 4:20 p.m. in parts of Northern Virginia.

Hail pea/dime with intermittent larger sizes. Fort Hunt, south of Va beltway.

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“Another round of storms is possible later this evening,” the weather service said in its Saturday forecast discussion. “The activity (if it holds together) this evening may be more organized since it will be in a more favorable environment.”

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Areas north and east of D.C. could see some looming showers and storms into the late evening.

The humidity will begin to drop in the overnight with clear skies.

Most of the D.C. region has been dealing with scorching temperatures over 90 degrees since Tuesday, with a brief respite on Monday before a surge back into the 90s for Independence Day.

While the East Coast roasts, Spain and France are dealing with their worst heat wave in over a decade.

Temperatures in northeastern Spain, where wildfires are raging, reached 106 degrees听this week as parts of Europe recorded their hottest June temperatures in recent memory due to hot air moving north from Africa.

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Saturday: Very hot and humid with a mix of sun and clouds. Severe storms possible in the afternoon and late evening. High temps in the mid 90s.

Sunday: Lower humidity and breezy, with isolated storm chance. High temps in the low 90s.

Monday: Mostly sunny, low humidity with temps in the mid 80s.

Tuesday:听Hot and humid. Some storms possible. Highs in the low to mid 90s.

Wednesday:听Very hot and humid. Afternoon storms possible.听Highs in the low to mid 90s.

Thursday, July 4: Partly sunny, hot and humid with afternoon and evening storms possible. Highs in the low 90s.

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According to 听first obtained by , seven companies will share up to $116 million dollars as part of no-bid contracts to be awarded by Intralot, the firm hired by the city to run the sports betting system.

Mark Jones, a former official of the D.C. Lottery, is involved with the contract through his firm M. Jones Companies.

Everett Hamilton, who managed communications for Mayor Muriel Bowser’s first run as mayor and is now CEO at Octane, is a subcontractor through Octane.

D.C. Council member for Ward 3 Mary Cheh said, “The whole thing is beginning to — as far as I’m concerned — have a smell about it.”

Cheh and her colleagues will have to approve the plan in coming weeks, but Cheh said, “I’m poised to vote against this contract.”

草莓传媒 has reached out to Intralot and Bowser’s office for comment.

草莓传媒’s Mike Murillo contributed to this report.

Editor’s Note: A previous version of this story stated that five of the seven companies had no prior experience in sports betting, based on a previous version of The Washington Post’s story.

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The event, which will be located in Santo Domingo, began at 10 a.m.

The news conference was in Spanish.

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A team from the law firm McGuireWoods, led by former state Attorney General Richard Cullen, completed the months-long investigation and will also be included at the conference.

Watch the video below.

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The resolution hearing is set to begin at 10 a.m.

Watch a live stream below.

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The Choir of the Basilica performed, as well.

Watch the event below.

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Hometown pizza chain &pizza has a new pie on the menu called the “,” named after the moment a man was caught on live TV eating &pizza in the hallway outside the Michael Cohen testimony to Congress Wednesday.

The man, , was offered an &pizza box before he went to town on a slice, unfortunately in the background of a CBS reporter discussing the testimony. Judging by the look he gives the camera in the now-viral video, someone off-screen must have told him he was on unknowingly on television.

tfw you go to eat your hallway pizza and get told you鈥檙e in the live shot

鈥� Mike Uehlein (@MikeUehlein)

Folks took to Twitter to share the funny moment and &pizza quickly caught on, making the man 鈥� who they call an intern 鈥� .

They’ve also shared many memes with the man’s look of surprise in differing poorly-edited scenarios.

Love at first bite?

鈥� &pizza (@andpizza)

Sometimes, the only thing you can trust is your tastebuds.

鈥� &pizza (@andpizza)

Pizza Hut even joined in on the conversation, asking people to raise their hands if they’ve ever needed a hallway pizza 鈥� to which &pizza replied with some competition. Pizza Hut or &pizza?

Raise your hand if you’ve needed a hallway pizza at one time or another

鈥� Pizza Hut (@pizzahut)

Lesson learned: Pizza may not always be the safest option for a quick bite.

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Sincero writes self-help books filled with advice on how to build confidence and habits that will allow readers to meet their goals. Her first book, “You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life,” topped the New York Times Bestseller list and has .

Her following book, “You Are a Badass at Making Money,” also made the New York Times Best Seller list.听Her newest novel debuted in December and is titled “You Are a Badass Everyday: How to Keep Your Motivation Strong, Your Vibe High, and Your Quest for Transformation Unstoppable.”

Sincero’s success may come from her stylistic choice to give advice as if she were one of your close friends. While she touches on psychology and human nature like many other authors of self-help books do, Sincero does it with a heaping dose of humor, honesty and warmth.

She talked with 草莓传媒 anchors Shawn Anderson and Hillary Howard Wednesday about her new book, the inspiration behind it, and how you, too, can become (and stay) a certified badass.

“In my book, I talk about going to the ‘spiritual gym,’ which is putting practices into place to keep your motivation strong,” she said.

Sincero said you come into the world doing the things that are true to your heart as a child, but over time, you learn to judge and doubt yourself, which stops you from becoming the true badass you’re meant to be.

To achieve life goals, she said you should spend time attempting to unlearn self-doubt in order to return to that child-like wonderment. But unlearning unhelpful, harmful thoughts is hard work.

Sincero’s advice, detailed in her new book, focuses on how to do that hard work every day.

“Surrounding yourself with people who are really making it happen, reading self-help books, meditating, listening to music that pumps you up” are just some ways to go to the ‘spiritual gym,'” Sincero said.

Of course, just like how going to the regular gym can regularly end up on the unchecked part of your to-do list, going to spiritual gym can become an easily-avoided chore. But similar to your physical-health goals, life goals must be regularly confronted and worked on if you want to see some progress.

“Every day, you read a little bit from a book, or you watch something on YouTube that inspires you, or you call somebody and you map out your to-do list for the day … And it can be just 10 or 15 minutes,” she said.

But going to spiritual gym “is critical,” she said. So, where do you start? Sincero recommends taking a good, hard look at your complaints and excuses.

“If you’re constantly complaining that you never have enough money or that you stink at relationships, or whatever, you can start looking at that and be like, ‘Huh. What if I changed that story?’ Or ‘What if I really questioned that down the roots of it? Is that really true or is that an excuse that I’ve been throwing around for my whole life?'”

And Sincero isn’t just calling readers out on their bluff; her advice to look inward comes from a deeply personal place.

“My big issue was money and I was really struggling well into my 40s, living in a garage,” she said. “I had a lifetime of proof that I sucked at money. Then I did the work that I write about and turned it around.

“I really believe that anybody who feels like it’s too late for them, or they’ve tried everything but it doesn’t work … I really believe that if I can do it, anybody can, because I was committed to being broke for a very long time.”

“You Are a Badass Every Day” can be purchased at any book store or .

草莓传媒’s Shawn Anderson and Hillary Howard contributed to this report.

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If Northam were to resign 鈥� though he has stated that he intends to stay on until the end of his term听鈥� 39-year-old Fairfax would become the commonwealth’s 74th governor and the second black governor in the state’s history after former Gov. Douglas Wilder.

There is no place for racism in America. Governor Northam has lost all moral authority and should resign immediately, Justin Fairfax is the leader Virginia needs now.

鈥� Joe Biden (@JoeBiden)

Fairfax issued a statement Saturday afternoon after Northam held a conference asking for forgiveness.

While Fairfax’s statement does not directly call for Northam’s resignation, it does say that Fairfax “cannot condone the actions from (Northam’s) past, that, at the very least, suggest a comfort with Virginia’s darker history of white supremacy, racial stereotyping, and intimidation.”

鈥� Justin Fairfax (@LGJustinFairfax)

Fairfax, who is a descendant of slaves and was raised in Northeast D.C., graduated from Duke University and Columbia Law School. Before becoming lieutenant governor, he worked for Tipper Gore during her husband Al Gore’s presidential campaign, and was a staffer in 2004 for then-Sen. John Edwards, a North Carolina Democrat.

History repeats itself. I will be stepping off the dais today in protest of the Virginia Senate honoring Robert E. Lee. I鈥檒l be thinking of this June 5, 1798 manumission document that freed my great-great-great grandfather Simon Fairfax from slavery in Virginia.

鈥� Justin Fairfax (@FairfaxJustin)

Fairfax also spent two years as a federal prosecutor in Alexandria. In 2013, he was awarded the National Bar Association鈥檚 鈥淣ation鈥檚 Best Advocates Award,鈥� .

He was elected as Virginia’s lieutenant governor in 2017 after defeating Republican Jill Vogel.

Fairfax is known for taking a more progressive economic stance than Northam and Attorney General Mark Herring. During his campaign, he stated that he would raise the minimum wage and advocated for more workforce training.

Fairfax has opposed natural gas pipelines proposed in the past. In regards to gun laws, he hopes to ban high capacity magazines, bump stocks and assault-style rifles, as well as supports universal background checks. Fairfax also attacked Vogel for introducing a bill requiring transvaginal ultrasounds for women in order to have an abortion.

The lieutenant governor post is considered a part-time job. Fairfax’s website says that “he currently works as a Litigation Partner … for international law firm Morrison & Foerster LLP.” He lives in Northern Virginia with his wife, Dr. W. Fairfax, DDS, and their son and daughter, Cameron and Carys.

Even if Northam does not resign, as lieutenant governor, Fairfax will automatically become a contender for governor in 2021.

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Baltimore Fire identified the two victims Saturday as Andrew Lindsay, 54, and Israel Espana Argote.

On Saturday, the National Weather Service confirmed that the EF-1 tornado with an estimated maximum wind speed of 105 mph touched down in Baltimore just before 10 p.m. Friday.

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草莓传媒’s Dave Dildine said it’s “fairly rare to get tornadoes this time of the year.”

“They have occurred in all months, but this time of the year, tornadoes tend to be brief. They tend to spin up quickly, but they can do damage,” he said.

Historically, tornadoes have touched down in the month of November, but only once every seven or eight years, Dildine said.

The last time a tornado touched down in Maryland during the month of November, it was 2010. The tornado hit Baltimore County, less than 10 miles away from where the Friday tornado touched down.

The 2010 tornado was also an EF-1 of similar strength.

Why is it so uncommon? Dildine explained: “This time of the year, we have a lot of wind energy in the atmosphere, as the jet stream sags south. But there isn’t a lot of instability. The sun angle is lower, and so it tends to be more difficult to generate sufficient instability, and that’s one of the ingredients you need for tornado genesis.”

It’s been fairly warm for fall, and Dildine said the warmer weather seen before the cold front on Friday offered “just enough buoyancy for storms to flare up.”

Similar weather setups have been the cause of tornadoes later in the year in the past.

“It’s a good reminder to everyone that it’s always a good idea to be weather aware, no matter what time of the year it is,” Dildine said.

The last tornado fatality in Maryland occurred in April 2002, in La Plata.

Four people were killed by tornadoes in southern Virginia late February 2016, and the most recent tornado-related death in the state happened in Chesterfield in September 2018.

草莓传媒’s Keara Dowd, Jennifer Ortiz and Abigail Constantino contributed to this report.

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In her tweet posted Friday afternoon, she wrote, “Because feminine hygiene is a necessity, not a luxury. #PinkTax.”

Women pay more than men for shampoo, razors, shaving cream and other products, consumer retail experts say. Experts refer to it as a 鈥減ink tax.鈥�

Because feminine hygiene is a necessity, not a luxury.

鈥� Mayor Muriel Bowser (@MayorBowser)

The new tax exemption includes tampons, sanitary napkins, menstrual cups and “comparable products.”

The post from Bowser says, “DC stands with women and understands that feminine hygiene products are basic necessities!”

The general sales tax in D.C. is now 6 percent as of Monday, increased from 5.75 percent.

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WASHINGTON 鈥� U.S. Capitol police say that they have arrested 164 demonstrators protesting the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh on Saturday for numerous instances of unlawful demonstration.

The arrests are being processed off-site and the people are being released.

Police say that the majority of arrests were made around 12:45 p.m. at the Rotunda steps on the east front of the U.S. Capitol. They were charged for crowding and obstructing.

One adult female was arrested in the Senate Gallery in the United States Capitol Building for crowding and obstructing around 2:30 p.m.

Around 3:45 p.m., 13 people were arrested and removed from several Senate Galleries. They were also charged with crowding and obstructing.

CNN reported that as of Friday, had been arrested for protests against Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination in the District.

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In Montgomery County, a 26-year-old motorcyclist was killed in a collision in Rockville, Maryland, Monday night.

Priscilla Anne Alves, of Silver Spring, Maryland, was traveling east on East Gude Drive when a driver, Quentin Bernard Wellmaker, 27, also of Silver Spring, was traveling west and attempted to make a U-turn onto eastbound East Gude Drive.

Alves’ motorcycle 鈥� a 2015 Honda CBR 300 R 鈥� and Wellmaker’s 1999 Lincoln Navigator collided in the intersection just before 6:45 p.m. at East Gude Drive and Taft Street.

Alves was transported to the hospital, where she died from her injuries. Wellmaker was not injured in the collision.

Two more people were taken to the hospital in Montgomery County after a motorcycle collision near the intersection of Aspen Hill Road and Robindale Drive just before midnight.

And in Prince George’s County, a man died and a school-aged boy are in critical condition after a motorcycle crash in the Landover area.

Police responded to the scene at Old Landover Road and 65th Avenue around 3:30 p.m.

The man operating the motorcycle was pronounced dead at the hospital, and a child who was also on the motorcycle was taken to the hospital with critical injuries.

All three crashes remain under investigation.

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On humid night in D.C., people flooded Stanton Road near the Wellington Park neighborhood in Southeast. Holding candles, and with balloons, they gathered at the site where 18-year-old TaQuan Pinkney was gunned down last weekend.

Police have arrested and charged Elijah Jarmon, 17, of Southeast D.C., with premeditated first-degree murder while armed. He is being charged as an adult.

Police had found Pinkney at Stanton Road suffering from a gunshot wound. He was transported to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead.

Two other victims were located but not injured. Several vehicles were damaged.

Pinkney was a recent Suitland High School graduate, who was set to start classes at the University of D.C. Community College later this year.

Below is a map of where the shooting occurred.

草莓传媒’s Mike Murillo contributed to this report.

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The 56-year-old man and 53-year-old woman were found around 8 p.m. in the 1500 block of Peach Orchard Road with apparent gunshot wounds, police said, after an adult family member who also lives in the home notified police.

A firearm was recovered at the scene.

“Preliminary investigation has revealed that the deceased were involved in a relationship and lived together in the home,” Captain Paul Starks of the Montgomery County Police Department said.

Police are unsure of the motive, but are investigating the shooting as a “domestic-related event,” Starks said.

“We don’t believe there is any danger to the public at this time,” he said.

Starks said there are no records of police previously responding to the home.

He said police expect to release more information, including the identities of the deceased, Sunday morning after notifying family.

Below is a map of where police say the bodies were found.

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