Good morning. We have problems on the metro as far as possible delays here because of speed restrictions we have been talking about this week outside of mcpherson square. Those last until this friday. Well keep you updated. The outer loop of the American Legion bridge coming down in the outer loop as you hit virginia, we have one lane blocked. We have seen a half mile backup here as a disabled vehicle hopes to get that one out of the way soon. 270 at shady grove road, no problems. Its nice and green on the beltway. Well see you back in ten minutes. This morning female firefighters with the fairfax fire and rescue department say they are fed up. Their frustrations have to do with what others say about the culture within their department. Erika gone zalez is live with me on this announcement. Reporter in a little more than an hour, a group of women firefighters will speak out at this firehouse in dispel that harassment exists inside this workplace. Meanwhile, the board of supervisors will hire a consultant to be the judge of that. This comes just days ago when the fire official in charge of the professional standards within the department, guy morgan, was put on leave after inappropriate images and comments were found on his Facebook Page. But there are even greater questions swirling as to if and how allegations of harassment in an Anonymous Online forum allegedly at the hands of coworkers impacted the lives of firefighter Nicole Mittendorff who killed herself last month in Shenandoah National park. Heres what the board of supervisors had to say about the reason for hiring a consultant, quote, to assess the working environment within the fire and rescue department, focusing on equal employment issues, workforce morale, Mental Health assistance and communication issues, end quote. So this morning that announcement coming at about 7 30. Wll and bring you much more coming up on news4 midday. Live in annandale, im Erika Gonzalez. Today the man charged with hitting and killing a Montgomery County officer will be enter a plea. We expect him to plead guilty to vehicular manslaughter. He was working a dui checkpoint a , noah leotta, and the officer ran him over. And a man could spend the rest of his life in prison for beating and strangling a man last july. The judge released him on unsecured bond saying the bail process was unfair. Then he went missing triggering a manhundred. It is 6 03. Two special Police Officers at a d. C. Hospital face Involuntary Manslaughter charges. Officer 74yearold James Mcbride from leaving the Medstar Washington Medical Center before being discharged last year. After they pulled him to the ground, mcbride had to be resuscitated. He died two days later from what the medical examiner said was Blunt Force Injury to his neck. New images this morning, take a look, Montgomery County police are asking for your help to identify this man who shot at someone during an argument in wheaton last week. He did not hit the other person. This all happened on layhill road on friday. Theres a 10,000 reward in this case. We want to take you to a devastating scene as we continue to follow a developing story. This out of sri lanka. Take a look at the images. We know that 200 families are missing here thought to be buried under the gushing water and mudslides. Water is covering three searching for survivors. At this point 16 bodies have been recovered. 180 people have been rescued. We know Power Outages are making the rescue efforts right now very, very difficult. Im angie goff at the live desk. Back to you. Thank you. Five minutes after the hour now on this wednesday morning, and happening today the Obama Administration will announce new overtime rules that it hopes will help american workers. The Administration Says the new rules will make 4 million americans eligible for overtime pay. Now under this policy businesses would not be allowed to deny overtime to anyone making under 47,500 a year. That is double the current annual salary threshold. Hourly workers are mostly guaranteed overtime. The change could force some Small Companies to convert salary workers to hourly workers. As summer approaches lawmakers on capitol hill are working to protect you and your family from the zika virus. Today the house will multimillion bill to provide funding to prevent the virus spreading here in the u. S. Yesterday the Senate Passed a 1. 1 billion to combat zika. Experts expect it to spread more widely during the mosquito summer season. The virus can cause severe birth defects. With fears of zika on the rise, well show you the best mosquito repellant to use in the next ten minutes. You may remember this fiery crash involving a pickup and church van in hyattsville last november. Four people died there including the driver who caused that crash. Now First Responders who worked to save lives that day will be honored for their heroism. The ems system will present awards to those in annapolis at 10 00 this morning. Other first local responders are being honored for heroism on the job. The men and women of the d. C. Fire department were honored last night. One couple had a the firefighters who saved their lives. If it wasnt for them, i would not be here, my husband and i would not be here. I mean, it was just like lieutenant kevin mccraes family was also recognized during the ceremony. Muriel bowser presented an award in his honor. He died last may battling an Apartment Fire in the shaw neighborhood. Amazing for them. And to all the First Responders who run toward danger while we run away. Exactly. A live look right now as we think were seeing the washington monument. Its pretty cloudy out there. Its a great place to be outside usually to be active and a new study agrees. Thats why d. C. Was ranked the fittest city in america. And a new problem on the beltway. Details on that one coming up. And there you go, get it in park. There you go, come on out, man. A man taken down by police after leading them on vo for dominion, part of delivering Affordable Energy includes supporting those in our community who need help. Our Energyshare Program does just that, assisting with bill pay and providing free, energysaving upgrades. Its more than helping customers, its helping neighbors. Stand by me good morning, im storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein. Its cloudy, calm and cool. I have my umbrella ready. No rain falling here, but looking at storm team 4 radar, we have rain near shenandoah valley. Most of it will stay west of us through the morning commute. The ride to and from work throughout the morning is damp and cool. Maybe a little bit of fog in the lower 50s for another couple hours. Heading back home, just briefly into the lower 60s with a cloudy sky. Drying out as we get into the afternoon hours. But a damp and cool start this morning. A big problem on the beltway, what is going on . We have a problem here that doesnt seem to be slowing anything, but well keep an eye on this one on the outer loop. The ramp to northbound bc parkway with a car in the ditch on the left side of the if it hangs around too long. Orange, silver, blue line delays because of a speed restriction. 270 south of the beltway is looking good. 56 inbound to 95 northbound rolling along just fine. Remember to listen to wtop 102. 5 f. M. When you hop in your car. We have breaking news right now out of Silver Spring. Police investigating a breakin at colonel e. Brooke Lee Middle School. We are told this happened around 2 30 in the morning. At this time there are no reports of things that were taken, any specifics on that or if the property was damaged. Right now were told school should open as normal. We have not received any alerts of any closures or delays. Angie, thank you. It is now 6 12. A new crime trend police in our area want you to know about called virtual kidnapping. Officers tell us no one is ever in any real physical d think ranson is all that will keep their loved ones from home. The Police Department have this on their Facebook Page in Prince William county. Just yesterday three scams were report in our area, two at George Mayson university and a third at at unidentified catholic school. News4s iteam has more on what to do if this happens to you. You can find the tips on the nbc washington app and search virtual kidnapping. 6 13 as we turn to the trial of a Baltimore Police officer in the death of freddie gray. Defense attorneys expected to wrap up their case today. Officer edward niro faces assault and reckless endayment charges. Niro unlawfully arrested freddie gray and was negligent when he didnt buckle him into his seat in the transport van. Niros attorneys say another officer arrested gray and the wagon driver should have made sure gray was buckled in. Gray die in the back of the police van. Today ong expected to begin in the trial against a lawyer accused of terrorizing a mcclain couple. Andrew schmuhl and his wife alicia are accused of killing alicias boss after she was fired from her job. Andrew claims his mental state was due to the medication he was taking. Now close to 4,000 exfelons are registered to vote according to the Virginia Department of elections. Some say this decision was a blatant move to help get his longtime friend Hillary Clinton elected. And currently the district requires people to show good reason to have a weapon. Yesterday a judge halted enforcement of that law. The u. S. Attorney for d. C. Will ask the courts to allow the the law until the citys appeal can be heard. Were not going to let you go and youre not going to get away from us. You need to talk to us, okay . This is not going to work. We cannot keep doing this. And the ambulance is in big trouble this morning as a man stole it. And all this happened after he jumped out of a hotel window. This was in seattle. We dont know why the guy was on the run. According to police there in seattle, he stole the ambulance when emts arrived at the hotel to help him after he jumped out of the window. Police just released the video less than 12 hours ago. At one point the guy struck the front of a police car here. After a few minutes of police chasing, the man finally pulls over. Sth he steps out of the ambulance and collapses on the ground. And drug counselors could be returning to the fair schools. The counselors were taken out of the schools three years ago. The principal told county leaders the current drug programs are not as effective. 6 16 right now. In this week on news4 today, were helping you get ready with summer safety tips. Mosquitoes are part of summertime, but this summer theres a big concern because of the zika virus. Thats why insect repellants could be a smart choice if youre outside. The consumer reporter susan hogan has what you need to know. Reporter theres no vaccine for the zika virus and no drug to treat zika infections, thats why Consumer Reports tested insect repellants specifically for their effectiveness against the kind of mosquito known to transmit zika. Products that contain the right percentage of deet are the most aggressive against the mosquitoes in our test. Here are the repellants Consumer Reports say work best. W woods contain 20 of deet. They all kept mosquitoes from biting for eight hours. In addition to insect repellants, wearing logsleeve shirts and long pants outdoors will also help protect you from mosquito bites. Im susan hogan, news4. Bug repellant to sun screen. A new study shows many sunscreens on the market right now are not doing the job as well as they claim. Consumer reports tested 65 waterresistant sun screens claiming an spf of at least 30. Researchers found that 43 of them didnt measure up. The fda doesnt regularly test sunscreen itself and they dont require that manufacturers send their test results to the fda. And a recall for parents this morning. About 129,000 infant bicycle target are being recalled due to choking and magnetic ingestion hazards. Specific cycle is recalling nopinch bubble helmets sold under the schwinn brand name. No injuries have been reported but you should stop using the helmets and find out how to get a free replacement. D. C. Is the nations fittest city. How about that . Thats according to the American College of sports medicine. Some of the factors they looked at are how much people exercises, how much park land is available and the rate of smoking. Minneapolis, denver, portland, oregon, rounded out the top cities. Not portland, maine. And some metro areas, thats, oklahoma city, louisville, ranked last. Not surprising. We are a bunch of fit people around here. I have pedals under the desk right now to keep it moving. There you go. Hes going to hurt himself tryig it will be rough to get outside today, chuck. Just so gloomy out there. But you are tough. Youre in tiptop shape. Youll be fine. Cloudy skies again over washington. You can barely make out the monument there in downtown. So just enough fog to reduce your visibility a bit. Four miles of visibility now in washington. Four miles in gaithersburg. So be on the lookout for some areas of fog early this morning. Not a lot of rain in the metro area just yet. Roads are still on the damp side from the showers yesterday. Most of the rain is still confined after the panhandle of West Virginia and the southern tip of maryland in the lower parts of the bay. We will have a possibility of a light rain off and on today, but it will be a lot more clouds than rain chances. Heres the future weather forecast, cloudy skies, maybe a drizzle drop or a sprinkle here during the Morning Hours. By early this afternoon, and into the later parts of the day, there maybe just a thin spot or you may get a peek of sunshine, but not a lot of sun with skies clearing out later tonight into early tomorrow. Planning out the day, then for today, the sun is already up. You would never know by looking outside this morning. The temperature is now 52 degrees. Well stay in the 50s for most of the Morning Hours and a lot of clouds around. Maybe a hit or misshower this afternoon. Then a few spots of sunshine may allow temperatures briefly in the low 60s today or going out for plans this evening, back into the upper 50s. Kind of damp but generally rainfree for your evening plans. Cloudy skies in the morning but a little bit of sunshine tomorrow afternoon. And just a touch warmer back into the upper 60s. So for your pedaling forecast, aaron, today, cloudy and damp, 63. Tomorrow, a little bit more sunshine with temperatures in the upper 60s. Friday looks like the next best day out of three to get the bike out, whether you are pedaling it or have a motorcycle. And the weekend, you better get your bike out on friday. Saturday will not be a plenty of rain around, maybe an inch or more of rain. Sunday also looks challenging. The full sevenday forecast that does have a warm up at the end of it is coming up at 6 51. We have an update on the American Legion bridge. That disabled vehicle is out of the way near virginia. Outer loop ramp to northbound bw parkway, we have a car in the ditch on the left side but it is not slowing anything. Well keep our fingers crossed it stays that way. 66 and 95 okay overall. 66 inbound through manassas, we are a little slow. And that is totally normal this time of the day. 270 here at montrose road, northbound and southbound looking quite good. And then remember, orange, silver, blue, possible delays on metro because of the speed restrictions outside of mcpherson square. See you in ten minutes. Were following breaking news out of ecuador. The country has been hit by a as of right now, no damage reports have come in. Now this rocked the same area that was hit last month by another earthquake that was very fatal. It killed more than 650 people including an american. And we know that 25,000 people are still displaced because of that. Im angie goff live at the news desk. Back to you. Thank you. The parkway in peril. The heavily traveled roads are littered with potholes and missing key striping. Why park police say its a major safety issue. My arm is stuck under the door a Police Dash Cam catches this dramatic scene as a mans car bursts into flames. Who that driver is credited dash cam video showing a Daring Rescue in anchorage, alaska. Bystanders and Police Officers pushed the car to a after the firefighters arrived, the whole car burst into flames. The driver says a group of Good Samaritans saved his life. This evening cyclists in maryland will ride the roads to remember riders who died. John bower and lynn rosenbush will be remembered after riding their tandem bike last halloween. Katharine lyon was driving drunk and hit the couple from behind. Shell be in court this friday. Do you ever think how much food a city like d. C. Wastes . Today a local organization is going to take what we would normally toss aside and use it to serve 5,000 people. Mike curtain is the ceo of d. C. Kitchen and helping put on todays event. He said its unsettled that Food Producers often throw away bruised food rather then a give it to people who are hungry. We live our food has been made very inexpensive and somewhat devalued. What we want people to understand is the value the food has and hopefully prevent people from throwing it away. Volunteers will serve free lunches from 11 00 to 4 00 on the Woodrow Wilson plaza at the Ronald Reagan building in downtown washington. Such a great organization. It was a dramatic derailment that caused problems for a d. C. Neighborhood, metro and marc commuters. How the district is preparing the Emergency Team for future disasters like this one. A busy dry cleaner closes its doors without warning leaving a store full of unclaimed clothes. How you can get your items back. And so far may is 4. 5 degrees cooler than average. But there are signs just in time stronger is blasting without risking her bones. Its training her good cells. To fight the bad guys. Stronger is less pain. New hope. More fight. Its doing everything in your power. And everything in ours. Stronger, is changing even faster than they do. Because we dont just want your kids to grow up. We want them to grow up stronger. A developing story in new york city where this fire is causing headaches for commuters nearly 12 hours after it broke out. Well take you live there in 15 minutes withaj passengers are seeing right now. Here at home we are dealing with a new routine, morning showers, here you go. You can see the system pushing behind us right now on the radar. Chuck bell is here with 4 things you need to know before you leave for work. Rain jacket, umbrella, all that jazz. Ark. I lost my sunglasses a month ago and havent needed them so far. So i guess theres one little bit of an upside. And havent had to use too much sunscreen for the month of may either. Outside we are stuck in a rut. Thats the number one thing to know about the weather. No change is coming soon. The rain will slowly come to an end. Looks like most of tomorrow and friday will be generally rainfree, though not a ton of sunshine. The warm air staying away for now. And saturday is looking quite soggy. For now rain drops near hagerstown and a few sprinkles in st. Marys county. Temperatures are in the cool, low to mid50s. Cloudy outside this morning. Maybe a drizzl temperatures in the upper 50s at 7 00 tonight. Still plenty of clouds around. And a cool start tomorrow with temperatures near 50 degrees by early tomorrow morning. So no real warm up in sight. But by memorial day i promise, melissa, i think well be 80 degrees for memorial day weekend. Okay. Something to look forward to this. That is always good. All right. Well take a look at this westbound braddock road. Part of the right lane is blocked. Outer loop ramp to northbound bw parkway has a car in the ditch on the left side. Not impacting any lanes. Beltway at colesville, no problems. Orange, silver, blue, possible delays because the speed restrictions outside of mcpherson square. Travel times in ten minutes. Today first respontdders wi take part in an emergency drill. This comes shortly after the train derailment. Part of this exercise will happen today at medstar medical center. Good morning. Reporter hey, aaron. The hospital here and Emergency Responders across the district are really going to be put to the test today, as they were a little over two weeks ago. That Surveillance Video you saw first on 4, it shows the tsx train cars one by one jumping the tracks and just piling up on top of each other near the rhode island metro station. Nobody was hurt but there was a chemical spill. You want to be aware today of where the drill is going on so you are not alarmed when you see it. They simulate a derailment and a hazmat situation is going to happen at 32 and g. A shelter operation is being set up at the community center. It will be closed all day and parking restricted. Lookout for people tng patients will be brought here to Medstar Georgetown University hospital. So the exercise is a test to evaluate the response by the First Responders, the hospital and across the districtn various agencies. It will be in realtime starting at 8 00 this morning. Back to you. Thank you. The man responsible for a scare near the u. S. Capitol is now in the hospital for a mental evaluation. If you have the nbc washington app, you can get a breaking news alert. U. S. Park police tell us a man drove his pickup truck onto the National Mall yesterday afternoon claiming he had been exposed to anthrax. He collected it, i believe it was at a farm in virginia, or what he thought to be and he brought it here to let us know about the threat. The test for anthrax came back negative but robots searched the suspects truck to be safe. And now to decision 2016. One of the closest races yet in Sanders Campaign could ask for a recount in kentucky. Heres why, nbc news reporting with 99 of the votes in, senator sanders with 46 of the vote compared to Hillary Clintons 47 . Sanders won the democratic primary in oregon but he really needed to win in both states to stop clintons shot at gaining more momentum here. Donald trump is now fewer than 100 delegates away from clenching the gop nomination after his primary win in oregon. Were also seeing him make something of a truce with fox news anchor megyn kelly. They talked about his tweeting habit in an interview last night. You will be amazed at the ones i dont retweet. Bimbo . Well, if that was a retweet, yeah, did i say that . Many times. Excuse me. Trump said his attacks on social media are a modern day form of fighting back against the attacks aimed at him. Message to women, especially young girls. For those of you who take it every day, you know the issues on the bw parkway are obvious. Lanes with no markings and stretches of road just littered with potholes. In many places the outer fog line of the roadway is missing as are the center lane dividers. The u. S. Park police say the deti deti deteriorating conditions are making it harder for police. Reporter major arteries in and out of d. C. That the officers control like the bw parkway here are becoming increasingly dangerous because of maintenance concerns. Many cars hit the potholes rendering their cars disabled. Reporter if you take a drive on the bp parkway, you will notice in some areas the lane striping on the roadways is wearing off or very difficult to see. The president of the union says that is a along with potholes. Many drivers say they are noticing that issue on the clara barton and the bw parkway. Funding is a big concern for them but they say a plan is in place for repairing the entire stretch of the bw parkway. Starting this summer they will begin the process of restriping roadways. They are working to get sustainable paint so hopefully the markings will last. Reporting in laurel, megan fitzgerald, news4. We have a new poll just into the live desk. And it says 72 of voters in new jersey say that trump should not pick chris christie, the governor there, as his Vice President ial running mate. This according to the quinnipiac poll just released. Among the numbers, 64 of republicans say that would not be a good idea. This as the new jersey governor gets his lowest Approval Rating from new jersey voters with 64 disapproving of the job hes back to you. Thank you. A showdown today over how big the backups are. Well show you how big coming up. You take your stuff to the dry cleaner and now the business is locked up. Its a vo for dominion, part of delivering Affordable Energy includes supporting those in our community who need help. Our Energyshare Program does just that, assisting with bill pay and providing free, energysaving upgrades. Its more than helping customers, its helping neighbors. Stand by me good morning. Im storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein. May is calling saying it wants its dignity back. You can track the radar. Have an umbrella handy. We may get a few sprinkles this morning. Most of it is off to our north and west. Have the umbrella ready in the 50s. And by midafternoon well be near 60 degrees. Late afternoon, just clouds around and in the low 60s. If you have a problem on 95, what o you have a problem on Prince William parkway, now a twomile backup heading northbound in part because of a crash at Prince William parkway. Also take a look at this westbound braddock at shirley gate road with part of the right lane blocked. As far as travel times, 270 germantown to the spur is typically slow right now. Top of the beltway 95 to 270, normal slowdowns on the outer loop. Looking at 66 and 95, overall looking pretty normal. Remember to listen to our friends on wtop 103. 5 f. M. When you hop in your car. And right now we are tracking problems in new york city after this massive fire left rail passengers waiting for a ride. The impact its having on computers this morning. And after a month of allegations of bullying and harassment, this morning a group of female firefighters with the fairfax fire county department are speaking out. Well tell you what they have to say coming up. And new pressure to cut the wait times at the how passengers are putting pressure on the tsa to fix the mess. Plus, the rule changes in the day ahead that could mean a a huge fire broke out in new york city and 12 hours later is causing problems for commuter. We are up to the minute the first well have weather and traffic. No rain today. Were in the low 50s today. Well talk about the weekend rain chances and the warm up in five minutes. And a twomile backup northbound 95 at the parkway because of an earlier accident. And we have a problem on Prince William parkway just west of 95. Details are coming up. And 6 46 now. Right now thousands of new york city commuters are struggling to get to work after an explosion and massive fire under train tracks in east harlem. This meant Major Service disruptions there. Katherine creag is live in harlem now with more on what commuters are facing today. Katherine, good morning. Reporter eun, good morning to you. Its really a rough morning for hundreds of thousands of commuters. They rely on the metro north train system today. Normally we would see on the elevated train tracks trains rolling by every five to seven minutes but we are not seeing that. There was a huge fire that broke out here in harlem where we are near 118th street and park avenue. The fire started at a Garden Center due to nursery chemicals. And propane tanks may have exploded. Throughout the night, the new York City Fire department sprayed water on the tracks and sealed columns. People in the area are stunned by what they saw. Take a listen. I would say the fire was five or six stories high. It was enormous. Absolutely enormous. Reporter and that Garden Center we mentioned gone. There were also six parked cars that were damaged. And were trying to figure out what exactly can be done with all of this rubble that you see here. But this was a huge Garden Center that was here for many, many decades. This is also the si j few years ago, of a huge building explosion. Eight people died. So this neighborhood really still reeling from what happened last night. Also, still mourning what happened just years ago from the building explosion. Back to you. Katherine creag live in harlem for us this morning. Thank you. Today a temple hills man will be sentenced for killing a kidney transplant survivor. He could spend the rest of his life in prison for beating Jonathan Harris in 2015. Last july he made headlines after a judge released him on unsecured bond saying the bail process was unfair. Then he went missing triggering a manhunt. Speaking out is what a group of female Fairfax County firefighters plan to do this morning. They are upset over the allegations of harassment within their department. News4s Erika Gonzalez is live with more on the new steps the county is taking based on the allegations. Erika, good morning. Reporter that question, does harassment exist within the Fairfax County fire is expected to say, no, it does not, this morning. And well be there for the announcement in less than an hour. This comes after more than a month of allegations that some firefighters wrote disparaging things about their coworker Nicole Mittendorff. She killed herself last month. And then lastly, the fire official in charge of professional standards within the department was put on leave after inappropriate images and comments were found on his Facebook Page. So now the Fairfax County board of supervisors says that it will bring in an outside consultant to weigh in on that matter. But again, we are expecting an announcement from some of the female firefighters from the Fairfax CountyFire Department in less than an hour. And we will update you online and coming up on news4 midday. Live in annandale this morning, back to you, im Erika Gonzalez. Two special Police Officers at a d. C. Hospital are facing charges. Officer Clifton Montgomery and Charles Brown tried to stop 74yearold James Mcbride from leaving Medstar Washington Hospital Center before he was discharged last year. After they pulled mcbride to the ground, his life had to be resuscitated. Mcbride died two days later from Blunt Force Injuries to his neck. New details and new pictures in a shooting investigation. Take a look, there is a 10,000 reward if you can help Montgomery CountyPolice Identify this man. You can see hes holding a silver handgun in his left hand. Police say he shot at someone but did not hit the person in wheaton last week. The shooting started an argument off georgia avenue. Happening today, the Obama Administration there announce new overtime rules that it hopes will help american workers. The Administration Says these are rules to make 4 million americans eligible for overtime pay. Under the policy businesses wont be allowed to ny than 47,000 a year. Thats nearly double d. The change could force some Small Companies to convert salary workers to overtime workers. And as summer approaches, lawmakers on capitol hill are working to protect your family from the zika virus. Today the house will debate a multimillion bill that will provide funding to prevent the virus from spreading here in the u. S. Yesterday the Senate Passed a 1. 1 billion bill to combat zika. Experts expect zika to spread more widely during the summer mosquito season. The virus can cause severe birth defects. Good morning, everybody. Im meteorologist chuck bell. What should you be expecting throughout the rest of the day . What you see is what you get. A lot of clouds out there this morning. Theres a risk of a few on and off showers. It wont rain for much of the day, but i have the umbrella ready to go. The clouds will be cooler than average. Could see a peek or two of sunshine, but thats it. I dont want to overstate how much sunshine youll get today. Most of the rain is just along and west to the i81 corridor to show signs of inching in our direction. More rain showers over the lower parts of the bay. Also those are trying to lift north a bit. We have rain both north and south of the d. C. Metro area. So keep your umbrella handy as we could get rained on with sprinkles developing near culpeper. Well watch that for you. The opportunities for light rain here over the last couple hours. As we get into the midafternoon hours, the clouds thin out to get a peek at the sun. And a chance of a few showers, mainly the rain chances in the shenandoah valley. But everyone has at least a chance of getting rained on. More rain across northern virginia. But by tomorrow afternoon, finally starting to dry out a well get more sun tomorrow than today. And more sun on friday than on thursday. So theres at least improvement there. Unfortunately, the rain chances are back in a big way just in time for the weekend. So your sevenday forecast, 70 chance of light rain today. Cloudy, 69 tomorrow. More sun on friday with a high of 73. A lot of rain on saturday. A lot of high chances for rain going into sunday and monday as well. But you will notice right at the end as we think of temperatures, well be up to near 80 degrees this weekend. Take a look at 95 northbound at Prince William parkway. A twoplus mile backup because of a crash headed northbound near Prince William. Allow extra time for that one. Route 1 is not looking like a bad option for folks there if you can do it. Northbound dumpfries road is seeing a crash. And westbound at shirley gate, part of the right lane is terrible, just a couple spots of trouble. The outer loop ramp to bw parkway, theres a car in the left side of the ditch. They will get that out of the roadway. Typical slowdowns in Prince Georges County inbound indian head highway. South of the beltwaying willing typical. The vw parkway is looking good. Montrose road is looking normal. Orange, silver and blue routes possible delays due to mcpherson square. Developing story out of Silver Spring where police are investigating the breakin overnight at colonel e. Brooke Lee Middle School that happened at 2 30 this morning. Still not clear if anything was taken. The school should open as normal. Eun . Thank you. And an evict ed dri will be opening for customers to pick up their clothes. The owner evicted there after not paying his rent for two years. And im landon dowdy. A Record Number of travelers are expected to fly the friendly skies this summer. Airlines for america predicts more than 231 million passengers will fly between june and august. Thats up 4 from last year. And the difference is them calling on the tsa to hire and train more staffers. The recently delayed website called ihatethewait. Com or you can tweet your photos of your wait and the security line. Im landon dowdy. 6 55 now. Here are 4 things to know before you head out the door. The big problems with the tsa as some congressmen now call for a the pressure is coming from an illinois senator, many long lines at Ohare Airport in chicago causing the problems. And now at 6 56, four things to know this morning. D. C. Tops the list at the fittest city in the country. Minneapolis, denver, portland, oregon, round out the top cities. The Sanders Campaign may demand a recount in kentuckys primary. Sanders won oregon but needed to stop clintons momentum in kentucky. Today a multiscale full preparedness exercise is taking place today. It is not related to any recent events. Female firefighters in Fairfax County will hold a News Conference to say theres not a problem with harassment within their department today. And cloudy and cool, damp, have your umbrella ready to go, the high of 63. Lots of clouds for the week. Plenty of rain over the degrees next tuesday . I think well be in the 80s for memorial day weekend. Bring it on. Bring it on. Right now, still have a big problem on 95 north with a 2. 5 mile backup. Its growing because of the earlier crash. Allow extra time and take your alternate route there. That is the broadcast this morning. Thank you for waking up with us. The today show is next. Well be back in 25 minutes with weather, traffic and breaking news. Hope to see you then. Until then, enjoy your day. Make it a great wednesday, everybody. Look, i know youre a cow and all. And you may not know what im talking about, mmmm, yoplait. Good morning. Breaking overnight, nbc news declares Hillary Clinton the apparent winner of kentuckys democratic primary. But by less than 2,000 votes. Bernie sanders takes oregon and again vows to fight till the end. We are in till the last battle. While donald trump makes nice with megyn kelly, sort of. Bimbo . There was a retweet. Did i say that . Many times. Excuse me. Too little, too late . Under mounting pressure and growing frustrations, the tsa vows to send more screeners to fix the gr