The 4th of July parade from Washington DC in celebration of Independence Day. Marites Buenafe, originally from Kentucky, told her family she'd disembarked from the Norwegian Bliss for a hike. She never came back to the ship. The girl plunged 45ft from the vessel’s fourth deck but it was not initially clear what caused her fall

If you're celebrating Independence Day in the nation's capital, expect fireworks, fun and a fair share of traffic headaches.

The July Fourth Independence Day Celebration on the National Mall in Washington kicks off Friday morning with the annual parade along Constitution Avenue and ends later that night with fireworks over the mall's memorials, monuments and landmarks.