Would keep the government funded through mid december. Now if it passed today it would only postpone the possibility of a government shutdown. Coming up, nbcs tracie potts will explain how lawmakers plan to get this bill passed before the deadline. Today is your last chance to visit the crime and Punishment Museum at gallery place. The museum in northwest is closing today after seven years. The police in charge say they were asked to leave their building and didnt have a choice. The museum will continue to offer some programs like walking towards and traveling educational programs. I always thought that they offered the neatest programs during valentines day, they offered you a passion crime tour where you could get handcuffed with your partner. Therapy. Exactly. For a good price. So sorry to see them go. Time now to check the forecast. 4 31. Weather and traffic on the ones. Are we getting any relief from the rain . We needed the rain. Guess we shouldnt complain, chuck. We did need the rain. The rain we got last night will do some good. We have a lot more coming our way. Weekend forecast in a few minutes. Weather slowdown. Plenty of low visibility and high standing water across the area so be real careful this morning. Conditions will improve with time during the day. Visibility under a mile here in Prince William county. Only 1 1 2 mile in gaithersburg. Relatively low. Outside chance of an occasional shower or two. Temperatures in the low to mid 70s now. More rain where that came from. Light rain today and tomorrow but a chance for flooding rains and some crazy wind as we get towards friday, saturday, potentially into sunday as well. Talk school day impact on all of this rain in ten minutes. For now, heres melissa mow will he. Darnestown. The road is closed down from a fatal car fire overnight. Going to very likely be shut down for the next few hours. Top of the beltway, inner loop at wisconsin avenue has a problem with a tractortrailer spun around the wrong way. Seeing some pretty big backups from that. Woodburn road shut down from robey. The on ramp from garrisonville road, have a brand new crash and a problem in brandy wine well talk about in a couple of minutes, guys. Right now, Donna Shalala is recovering from a stroke. Shalala was a former cabinet secretary under president clinton. She had a stroke late yesterday. She is 74 years old. She served eight years as health and human secretary. She was president of the university of miami before that. In an email to the Clinton Foundation staff former president clinton and his daughter chelsea say that her condition right now, initial reports, are very encouraging. Eun. Kristin, thank you. 4 34. In the day ahead a high yachtsville man will go on trial for a hit and run. Earl teeter hit and run a man. A 911 dispatcher was fired after telling warricks daughter to stop whines a he xu called in for help. A 21yearold from fairfax is dead this morning after what the pent gob is calling a noncombat related incident. The navy is investigating how seaman Phillip Frazier mane died in bahrain. Im trying to wake people up and honor the people who have been murdered. Floyd wolf said he is doing something to express his sadness and frustration with the growing homicide rate in the district. We are tracking a rise in violence here in d. C. So far this year police have opened 120 homicide cases and that is a 50 increase from last year and wolf wants to illustrate that. The documentary photographer runs a blog he calls dc shrines. He says everyone who died is someones son, someones daughter, mother, father regardless of the choices they may have made. Wolf thinks its important people consider this a regional issue. We are all in the same community and i think siloing it that we live here, you live there doesnt work. Even on a practical level doesnt protect it. If wolf cannot find a memorial to take pictures of he puts the victims picture on his blog to make sure they are not forgotten. Developing this morning, students in prince gorges county may not be allowed inside their classrooms. More than 3,000 students have not had their immunization shots a month into school now. A spokesperson told news 4 any student who did not have their shots by the deadline, that is today, will have t leave the school until they are in compliance. Today d. C. Public schools chancellor kay yeah henderson will give her annual schools address. Theyll city jim advance will sit down with chancellor henderson. The kentucky clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to samesex couples says she met with the pope. Kim daviss lawyer said she met with pope francis a the the Vatican Embassy during his visit to d. C. Vatican officials have not commented. Davis spent five days in jail for rejecting a federal court order to issue marriage licenses to gay couples. D. C. Wants to use private ambulances to respond to your calls. They would still be the First Responders on a911 calls but private ambulances would take care of the low level calls. We are going out into the market to negotiate for the service so we dont know yet. We have to buy ourselves some time to prepare our vehicles to respond more timely and very importantly to train our staff. Mayor wants to try it out for a year. The d. C. Council will vote on the council for a month. Today the first flight for cuba will leave from bwi. Its the only airport in our airport that is authorized to send charter flights to cuba. The flights will operate twice a week on wednesdays and saturdays. Storm team 4 radar is clear right now but for how long . Chuck is back at 4 41 to let us know if the kids will need the umbrella at the bus stop today. Were also keeping an eye on Tropical Storm joakim to see if it will strengthen to a hurricane. How it could have an impact on the weather here. Get ready to say awwww. This is good stuff, people. An update on the panda cub and the one adorable mome ava and i needed a little vacay. But we needed to watch our spending. Meaning i needed to watch nikki. Shes the spender. Im the saver. So, mobile banking from td bank helps me keep track. For both of us. She was just browsing. We gotta go. Im ava. Im nikki. And we bank human at td bank. What . An adorable sneeze from the National Zoos panda cub bei bei caught on camera. I think that was a sneeze, right . Oh, so, so cute. The fiveweekold cub was taking a nap with mei xiang when that happened. We are told hes now four pounds. Hes now just snoozing away with his mom this morning as we take a live look. So adorable. They look so comfortable. Thats the baby, right . Thats the baby. Thats the baby. First Lady Michelle obama and the first lady of china named the baby last week. They broke the tradition until the cub was 100 days old. People are nervous about that. A lot of people are superstitious. That sneeze already 900 shares on facebook. People are loving it. Eating it up. Super cute for sure. 4 41. Time for weather and traffic on the 1s. Are we going to get a relief from this rain . Yes and no unfortunately. Well get a break that is moving up into the northeast corridor. For us were in a little lull in the action for now. Couple of light showers in southern virginia. Theyre coming our way. Take the umbrella with you. The heavy rain may be gone but theres more chances for showers. This morning at the morning bus stops, puddle jumping for sure. Cloudy and humid. Well be in the mid to upper 70s by later on this afternoon as well. Lots of clouds and occasional showers as well. More about joakim and your weekend and how theyll get together for ten minutes. For now, more breaking news in first 4 traffic. Breaking news darnestown. Closed from black rock road and bellingham drive. To avoid it will be clopper road. That is a fatal car fire that happened there. On wisconsin avenue we are jammed here because of a tractortrailer, double tractortrailer that spun around. In an nondale, shut down. Kroom roadblocked because of a downed tree. 95 north the on ramp from 610, we do have a crash there as well. Back in a few minutes. Developing right now, Tropical Storm joaquin. Strengthening and it could become a hurricane. Its turning near the bahamas. Theres a hurricane watch there. All eyes on the east coast to see what kind of impact its. Were following breaking news right now from the live desk and that is a fatal car fire in Montgomery County. Right now we can tell you there was some form of car crash involving a single car. This is the picture we have showing all the flames and Montgomery County fire responding. One car involved, some sort of crash. The car caught fire and we know one person, an adult male, were told a man, is dead. Molette green is on the scene. Shell bring us an update as soon as she can. This is darnestown road and black rock road. Its shut down between 107 and black rock road. More to come in just a few minutes. Back to you. Thank you, kristen. Congress has just hours left to avoid a government shutdown. The senate and house are expected to vote today on a temporary funding bill. The deadline for that vote is midnight. That vote just pushing the budget problem back until december. Nbcs tracie potts is live on capitol hill with this. Good morning. Eun, good morning. Heres how its going to go down now. A 10 00 a. M. Ote in the senate then move it to the house for an early to mid afternoon vote just hours for the deadline. The bottom line, thousands of federal government workers all over the country can pretty much rest assured at this point that theyll be on the job tomorrow and that they will be getting their paychecks but thats not the end of the story. Round two is already underway. Negotiations between democrats and republicans because of what theyre voting on today is to just extend the current funding to december 11th. Theyre giving themselves another three months to try to work this out. One of the big issues is still planned parenthood funding that conservatives want to strip out of this budget. The president s of planned parenthood got a five hour drilling. They arent happy about them getting fundsing because of the video that came out. They have negotiation to do. They have a leadership change coming up. Tracie potts live on capitol hill for us. Thank you, tracie. Theres an eighth indictment into the shadow campaign. A federal grand jury today indicted or yesterday indicted d. C. Bus man Reuben Charles on two counts of failing to file his federal income taxes. Hes seen her shortly after grays election. Charles was a major fundraiser for the campaign and at one point was in line to be grays chief of staff. Gray has not been charged and has denied any wrongdoing. We all know parking in d. C. Can be tough and parking where you shouldnt can really cost you. I know that firsthand. Now the d. C. Council says it is considering an exception for firefighters and First Responders. Its so tough to find a good spot near the downtown station some firefighters put signs on their windshields pleading to are a break. Council members say they are planning on allowing them a special permit parking. Penalties for drunk drivers involved in deadly crashes in maryland will go up starting tomorrow. Dui offenders with blood alcohol levels of. 08 or higher will have 6 months for the first offense and 1 year for the second. The driver will lose their license completely if its a second offense. Today you can be part of a ceremony to mark the start of National Fallen firefighters weekend. They plan to recognize 87 firefighters by presenting american flags from the u. S. Capitol to a national u. S. Fallen firefighters foundation. Taking a look at the capitol right now. The public is invited to a ceremony at 2 00 this afternoon. A motorcade directly after the ceremony will travel along the beltway and i270 and then take i70 north to frederick. Traffic will be impacted. Redskins are about to get a big settlement from minneapolis. Theyre going to pay the team 237,000 for this bus crash. Two team buses collided on an exit ramp. A Minneapolis Police car lost control. No one was seriously hurt. The Minneapolis Police department no longer offers to escort pro sports teams. Today is the last day on the job for the leader of the library of congress. Dr. James billington is retiring after 28 years on the job. He launched the National Book festival that we love so much. As of right now its not clear who the next librarian of congress will be. He says it was a true mhonor an what a job. You can get lost in there. Its a great resource. You need a whole week. Today might be a good day to go to the library. Very good day today and to get like war and peace this is how long of a big book. This is going into the weekend. You betcha. Not all one system but several in a row which will include it looks like now joaquin just in time for your weekend unfortunately. Theres a whole lot of deep puddles and high water. Over 1 1 2 inches from gaithersburg, washington. Over two inches south of town from quantico and culpepper. More than three inches of rain from stanton and harrisonburg. 74 with full cloud cover here in washington. 70 in hagerstown and frederick. 75 in annapolis. What to expect. Then cloudy and humid. Occasional light rain showers. Take the umbrella with you. Turning breezy by later this afternoon into the evening. Theres the big slug of moisture heading from new york into new england. Traveling that way could have a big impact. Heres the next shot of moisture down across central and southern new england. Heres future weather by 8 clock the little push of moisture trying to sneak into the metro area. Showers likely Prince William countries county to fredericksburg. Prince Williams County to annapolis. By lunchtime and thereafter a lot of clouds around with occasional passing light rain showers. Nothing all that heavy. Just grab your little umbrella for the travels around town for the remainder of the day. As far as joaquin and the path, the Hurricane Center does think it will make at least category 2 strength and theres concern as we get into the weekend from saturday night to sunday the storm may be recur offing towards the east coast. Well be watching this very, very carefully. Nonetheless, it will be close enough to interact. As a result, a lot of wind and rain in the forecast. Showers today. Light rain tomorrow. Heavy rain and wind possible from friday into sunday depending on where and when joaquin decides to make a run at the eastern seaboard. Well stay all over the very latest of joaquin. Talk about getting all over things. Breaking news first 4 traffic. Breaking news again in darnestown road. They keep changing. The latest is shut down between black rock road and whites ferry road. Alternate to avoid it all go a little bit north, clapper road. Inner loop 3rks 55, we have the tractortrailer issue here this morning. That is blocking some lanes. At this point that is why we are seeing such a delay on the inner loop. 66 is fine and dw parkway, all nice and green. The search is on now after a terrifying attack on an arlington woman. The specific area police want you to be extra vigilant about. And a bizarre burglary taking place at Grocery Stores across the region. Across the region. Why thieves are stealing lau welcome to fort green sheets. Welcome to castle bravestorm. Its full of cool stuff, like my second in command. And my trusty bow. And free of stuff i dont like. And in my castle we only eat chex cereal. Chex cereal. Its full of delicious crunchability. No artificial flavors, and its glutenfree. And thats something even my brother. Sister can understand. Mom, brian threw a ball in the house looking live at storm team 4 radar, there seems to be some rain. The area is dry. Chuck bell is putting together the hometown forecast and will bring us that in a few minutes. Police in arlington are looking for a man that attacked a woman on hearndon street. This happened in the clarendon area. The young woman says she doesnt know who assaulted her. The fbi wants to hear from you if you recognize this man. Take a look. Hes accused of trying to rob a bank just before noon in the district. This happened at the citi bank near chevy chase circle. He passed the teller a note demanding money and then walked out. He is considered armed and dangerous. This week were going to learn about a new plan for route 7 in northern virginia. It connects commuters all the way from leesburg to alexandrea. A long time ago it was called the buffalo trail. Now the road is overloaded with cars and transit leaders say theyre considering several options to ease the traffic there, including dedicated bus lanes, a street car and a light rail line. The idea is to come up with something that will move people all day long and reduce their travel time by about half. Transit leaders say new Public Transportation could take 9,000 people off the roadways. After they release the details of a new plan, there will be a series of Public Meetings about it in november. You could soon have to pay a bit more if you want to take uber or lyft in prince gorges county. It would add a 25 cent surcharge on rides. According to the Washington Post that would improve the county basis stem and it would include all services that start in prince georges county. Take a good look at this guy were about to show you next. If you recognize him. Police Montgomery County want to know who he is. Hes wanted for stealing laundry detergent pods. Theyre looking for a second man who is wanted for doing the same thing in a safe way in rockville. Montgomery county police say the guys pulled knives when someone tried to stop them at the safe way store Surveillance Video shows an employee using mangos to try and stop the thief. Using the proceeds to buy drugs. You want to track them down . We sure do. Police are offering a 10,000 reward for any tips that lead to an arrest in either case. News 4 today begins with breaking news. Breaking news on the roads right now. Montgomery county, darnestown shut down between black rock road and whites ferry. Fatal car crash involving a ferry. You could take clopper road. Inner loop at 355 wisconsin avenue, you can see we are jammed. Thats because of a tractortrailer that got spun around blocking lanes. Back with more this a couple of minutes. Check in with you soon. First, good morning to you. Im eun yang. Im angie goff in for erin. The weather, storm team four weather is not as crazy as last nig