Answers. Tom . Well we wont have any of that, thankfully. Yeah, those storms came through gave us some gusts of wind and caused some tree damage up near the pennsylvania border. Now everything is settled down. We have a few sprinkles in the mountains but those have dissipate. You may be leaping over puddles from the lingering rain, mid 70s, sunshine breaking out. In the afternoon, quite a bit of sunshine. You will notice the humidity will be lower and a cooler afternoon with temperatures into the upper 80s. So if youre going to be out for a morning run you wont need the umbrella or rain boots. You will need the sun block, sunglasses and short sleeves. A look at the hour by hour forecast for this fabulous friday thats coming up next weather and traffic on the 1s at 5 11. Whats going on with the roads, melissa . Right now 95 southbound here, through triangle in virginia. You can see we have a bit of a slowdown here on the screen. That is because of some lateclearing road work. Right now, 95 south there as youre headed kind of through quantico triangle area, going 27 miles per hour. 95 in maryland, b. W. Parkway, 29 everything is rolling along nicely there. Some road work in branch avenue southbound at woodyard two right lanes are blocked. 270 at germantown, no problems. 5 02 is your time right now. The Confederate Flag above the South Carolina state house is coming down in a few hours. This morning at 10 00, state troopers will remove the flag for good. Governor haley signed a bill banning the flag from flying on the state house grounds yesterday. The deadly shooting in a Historic Black Church reignited the debate over the flag and investigators say the shooter wore Confederate Flag patches during the shooting and may have wanted to start a race war. The Loudoun County naacp will hold a rally this morning. Theyll gather at a statue that memorializes confederate soldiers. Monuments that no longer reflect the views of the community should be removed they say. That would require a change of law and news4s derrick ward will have more on this later this hour. There may be a legal challenge to virginias decision to remove the Confederate Flag from state license plates. The sons of the confederate veterans say it will go to court to keep the state from banning the plates. Last month, Governor Terry mcauliffe called the flag divisive and hurtful. Today, d. C. Mayor Muriel Bowser will do something about the spike in the sale of synthetic drugs. She is expected to sign a bill giving police more power to go after the people who sell them. These products are potent and are illegal in the district. You can find them for sale in Liquor Stores, gas stations and they go by the name of k2 or scooby snax. The new law will put stiffer penalties on businesses caught selling them. In ten minutes, Megan Mcgrath explains theres new concern of a more powerful drug linked to recent crimes. Today the d. C. Council will approve the proposed death with dignity legislation. If approved it would give terminally ill patients a way to end their lives in a humane way. Council member proposed this bill and it faces significant opposition from faith leaders and physicians. D. C. Detectives arrested two people for sex trafficking of children in the district. The primary offense happened in the 3800 block of south capitol street two weeks ago. Yesterday, Metro AirportPolice Arrested jarnese harris, she and another man are charged with sex abuse and distribution of marijuana. 5 04 now. The Spotsylvania CountySheriffs Office say they never stopped looking for a suspect who shot a store clerk in the head. This morning the sheriff will announce new developments in this case. Last march a man walked into the store, posing as a customer. He shot kelly wood the clerk twice in the head and stole a cabinet full of medication. She survived the shooting. The mother of two missing germantown woman will appear in court. Catherine hoggle has a hearing on child neglect charges. She was the last one to see the two kids. They went missing in seventh and she refuses to say where they are. Investigators are pursuing a homicide case against hoggle. 5 05. The orthodox rabbi admitted to secretly recording women. The lawyer says freundel should have only been sentenced once for all of the recordings. Instead the judge sentenced him to 45 days for each victim. Freundel will be back in court later this month for a hearing on the sentencing issue. A developing story this morning. One in every 50 americans is affected by the hack at the office of Personnel Management. The hackers obtained Sensitive Information of 21. 5 million people. This applies to spouses, children neighbors even roommates of people who went through background checks. Hackers had access to the information for over a year as well. Coming up nbcs tracie potts has more on the long list of firings we could see following these revelations. Just in to the live desk, the latest tally on people hurt at the running of the bulls in pamplona, spain. This time one person hurt not gored thankfully. But one person in fact hurt. I think it happens right there. Some sort of hand injury were told. Four people though since the bull run started this year, four people have been gored including two americans. The running of the bulls of course happening during this annual festival where people race alongside six bulls in a very narrow stretch. There you go. Aaron . All right, Kristin Wright live for us thank you. Im thinking youll change your mind about the running of the bulls. Only one injury. Nope, im out. Already done. Its over. Hey, look at the current temperatures around here this morning as you get ready to head out the door. Tom is putting together his hour by hour forecast. Hes going to let us know what you can expect if you want to cook out tonight and i do want to. Can i come over . I thought wed do it at your house. Okay. Heads up for anyone who uses the third street tunnel. The area to avoid this weekend. Its a story we first brought you on news4 yesterday morning. Now we are hearing from why are we watching this again . I pay for all these channels, so i make myself watch them all. Joey, ill watch anything except this. Except this. Go back, go back, go back, go back, go back, go back. Fios custom tv lets you pay for the types of channels you want, not the ones you dont. 100 fiber optics is here. Get out of the past. Get fios. Now for 79. 99 a month. Go online or call. Call the Verizon Center for customers with disabilities at 800. 974. 6006 tty v people of the coffee drinking world, dunkin has a dark roast coffee thats deliciously roasted just right for a bold start and smooth finish thats never bitter. Put down the dark roast youve been putting up with and reach for the one you deserve. Welcome back. Right now, new york is preparing the confetti. The ticker tape parade for World Champion u. S. Womens National Soccer team kicks off at 11 00 this morning. All 23 players will be there including stars abby wambach carli lloyd. They won a record world cup title on sunday. You might want to avoid the third street tunnel if youre travel, early attorneytomorrow morning. Vdot is installing a new water line as part of the tunnel project. Third street southbound will be closed and the ramp tunnel. The tunnel the tunnel on ramp. There will be a lane closure to tell you about in the area. The closures are in place from 1 00 a. M. To 9 00 a. M. Time for weather and traffic on the 1s 5 11. Just in time for the weekend. We get a little break. Meteorologist tom kierein has some good news. Yes, i have good news for you. Beautiful sunrise. A peach colored sunrise matches my peach. If i took a bite of this right now, the juice would be running down my arm. Theyre so juicy with all the rain we have had. No rain today. Theres the live view from our tower camera. The sun is coming up on this fabulous friday with lower humidity. By 8 00 in the mid to upper 70s. By noontime hitting the upper 80s. By the time you head back home, you will notice lower humidity and more sunshine by the afternoon. A look at changes in the forecast to be for the weekend. Thats coming up next weather and traffic on the 1s. Melissa has info on a crash on 95. Yeah, brand new crash here. Southbound in triangle. This is the same area where we had slowdowns i was telling you about because of the lateclearing road work. The crash is on the shoulder but its adding to the slowdowns. 95 south through triangle. Take a live look. Now that crash. Wide look at the beltway, overall no major problems as youre taking a big look at the beltway. 95 in maryland at scaggsville looking good. Annapolis, brand new disabled week. A wide look at 66 coming up. New this morning president obama unveils several new national monuments. The details coming in. Authorities say theyre behind a string of crimes behind murder, even abandoning soccer. Top chef. Soccer. Top chef. [whi stles] soccer top chef [shouting] disco [singing] say it and see it. The x1 voice remote, only from xfinity. Youre watching news4 today today. Welcome back at 5 16. D. C. Is going after synthetic drugs. Not the drugs themselves but those who sell them. You can find them inside Liquor Stores and gas stations and the drugs are linked to recent crimes. Megan mcgrath breaks down d. C. Mayors new strategy to fight these drugs. Megan . Reporter well, eun, you may be able to find the drugs in some stores but theyre illegal in the district of columbia. And Police Believe that a spike in crime can be attributed to use of synthetic drugs. Later today, mayor Muriel Bowser is going to sign emergency legislation giving police greater power in cracking down on businesses that sell synthetic drugs. Now, Police Believe that 18yearold jasper spires was high on synthetic marijuana when he stabbed Kevin Sutherland to death on a metro train on july the 4th. Thats one of the high profile cases that we have seen recently. And on tuesday, a 10monthold baby was found abandoned in a stroller at Judiciary Square and Police Believe the childs caregiver left the child alone so that they could smoke synthetic marijuana. Now, police chief cathy lanier says the new law is needed to stop a very disturbing crime trend. I truly feel like if we dont get a handle on the synthetics now, we are in danger of you know going back 20 years. Reporter and under the bill which will be signed into law later on this afternoon for the first offense a business can be fined 10,000 for selling synthetic drugs. They can be closed for 96 hours. Thats for the first offense. Then the penalties go up from there. Ultimately for multiple offenses a store could actually lose their business license if they are found to be a repeat offender. The mayor is going to sign this bill into law at noon today. Back to you in the studio. Megan thank you. Investigators are not ruling out criminal activity as they dig into how a virginia couple ended up in the potomac river. Search teams found the bodies of Charlie Zintner and his girlfriend Melissa Smarr where the boat had been anchored. We told you about the search for the couple as it was breaking yesterday morning here on news4 today. The concerns started when the couple didnt return to the Landmark Yacht Club wednesday night. When the coast guard pulled up to the boat, music was still playing and the boat was running. Its very sad. Im really shook up about it. They were just great people. He got along with everybody. Now investigators dont know the couple fell out of the boat or got out intentionally but they do say the weather was bad on the river wednesday night. A Metro Transit Police officer is in jail this morning accused of exposing himself to an underage girl. David davis is facing charges of indecent liberties with a child. Prince William County police say he used the cell phone app tango to correspond with a 16yearold philadelphia girl and investigators say davis asked the girl to send him inappropriate images of herself. Davis remains in jail without bond. Bids to build the purple line will be accepted later into the year. Companies vying for the contract are being told the august deadline has been pushed to november. Maryland governor larry hogan approved it in late june. The delay is so the four companies can adjust their bids to include some cost cutting measures. The winning bid for the 16mile excuse me you got it . Im okay. The rail line will be built in the washington suburbs. The winning bid will be announced next year. Hes okay. Im all right. Right now, we are learning more about problems with the troubled d. C. Streetcar project. The new report details dozens of issues that need to be fixed before service can start. The American PublicTransportation Association says ddot has to fix broken rails and find the solution for doors that scrape against the side of station platforms. The review also says ddot needs to have one person one point person in control of the whole project which doesnt. Theres concern theres not enough Staff Members with Technical Expertise to run the line. Still no firm date to open up the service on the street corridor. In news4 your health, 5 20 people suffering from back pain and depression may find more relief if they treat the depression first. University of pittsburgh researchers found that people who took pain killers experienced less relief than those who took a placebo. Treating anxiety and depression before back pain becomes chronic can make symptoms less severe. You might want to add a banana or berries to your breakfast. Fewer than one in five adults gets the recommended daily amount of daily fruits and vegetables. The data shows intake tends to be higher in california and lower in states like mississippi and tennessee. Public Health Experts say we should all aim for about two serves of fruits and two to three serves of vegetables each day. This study does not surprise me. I eat a lot of fruits and vegetables. First thing in the morning. Usually. Blueberries and apples. I try to knock out the fruit in the morning and try to do vegetables. Even someone like me who makes a conscious effort, the vegetable thing sometimes i fall short. Can i have your apple . I used to eat them all the time. I share. I share. Beautiful sunrise coming our way on this friday morning. Tom whats in store . Banana tangerine sky there. Thats a live view from the storm team 4 city camera on this friday morning. You will notice the humidity has dropped overnight in the wake of the storms yesterday. And the storm team 4 radar all clear now. No more rain around. Temperatures are in the 70s from the Shenandoah Valley across virginia. Maryland in toward the chesapeake bay. Mid 70s in the nearby suburbs. In the mid 70s by 8 00 this afternoon. Partly sunny. By noontime low 80s and beautiful summer day on the way. Upper 80s to mid 80s with quite a bit of sunshine and the humidity will be comfortable in the afternoon. Now, new model timing on potential showers tomorrow morning. Mainly in Northern Virginia from fredericksburg over to southern parts of st. Marys county, lower eastern shore. Thats going to be through the morning hours. Then the showers track off to the south. The rest of the area is dry on saturday, but a few of the morning showers coming on through. Maybe lingering in Northern Virginia in the afternoon hours. Then well dry out in the entire region. If you have plans in North Central virginia or Northern Neck tomorrow morning, you may have the showers around. Otherwise, a partly sunny day. Temperatures in the mid 80s. Then on sunday, partly cloudy, more humid. Afternoon highs into the upper 80s. Great beach and pool weather on sunday. Monday, back to work. It will be hot and humid again. Temperatures in the low 90s. A small chance of a storm. Greater chance of afternoon storms, but steamy humidity on tuesday and wednesday. Highs low to mid 90s both days and remaining humid toward the end of next week. Home time highs coming up at 5 31. A slowdown on 95. Whats going on . Quite slow southbound through triangle. We had late clearing road work. Its Getting Better and then a crash off to the shoulder. So thats why things are kind of loosening things up a little bit here this morning. Taking a look at 66 flying into town, flying out of town, no problem either way. Remember to listen to our friends on wtop 103. 5 when you hop in your car this morning. Wide look at the beltway. Again looking quite good right now. No major problems to speak of. If it could stay this way that would be great for us. I feel like we deserve it now. 270 at old hundred road, northbound and southbound, rolling along. I want to mention outer loop at annapolis road. See you at 5 31. This morning at the live desk we are going over greeces new plan to get out of debt. This information just coming out overnight. Greece has submitted a 13page set of proposals to the creditors. Theyre trying to secure a threeyear, 53. 5 billion euro bailout package to save the country from just complete financial ruin from bankruptcy. The proposals include a slew of tax hikes including a 23 tax on restaurants and catering. Greeces parliament is debating these proposals today and by the way it looks like european stock markets have responded well to these reform proposals. Eun, back to you. Thank you, kristin. Lawyers for the man charged in the colorado theater massacre say their client will not take the stand. The defense for james holmes is expected to wrap up its case today. Holmes lawyers say he was delusional during that attack which killed 12 people and hurt 70 others. Closing arguments are expected to begin next week. A former nfl player may be facing up to three years in prison. Former San Francisco 49er and chicago bear defensive lineman ray mcdonald has been charged with Domestic Violence and endangering a child. Mcdonald is accused of assaulting a woman while she was holding a baby. That happened in california in may. The Chicago Bears released him days later. The 49ers released mcdonald last year citing pave yorl behavioral issues. You can see the waco mammoth site is where the bones of where 24 mammoths were discovered. The basin and range is home to cave art and californias snow mountain, hiking and camping spot is known for the rich biodiversity. New developments in that massive data breach that impacted tens of millions of people, maybe even you. What the office of Personnel Management is now promising. Live look outside on this friday morning. We are already seeing temperatures in the 70s. How warm is it going to get where you live . Tom is putting together your home time high forecast. Well have that for. From here to the feds, the music thunder clatter by wild cub most weekends only last a couple of days. Some last a lifetime. Hampton. We go together. Always get the lowest price, only when you book direct at hampton. Com southwest is having a sale because when theres a reunion every cent should go to a killer dress. Never gonna get it by en vogue and heels. And a blowout. Mani pedi. Three weeks of tanning. Facial. A backup dress. Bronzer, lip gloss. Book for as low as 73 dollars oneway now at southwest. Com. Good morning. Im Aaron Gilchrist and now at 5 30 we continue to follow developing story after that massive opm data breach. We are live from capitol hill with what lawmakers want president obama to do. Im eun yang. The fallout continues after Court Documents show bill cosby admitted to getting drugs in order to give them to women he wanted to have sex with. The group now demanding he return his president ial medal of freedom. First though, hes check the forecast with tom kierein. A forecast we can look forward to, tom. We deserve a break from our high heat and humidity. Well get that today. Hometown temperature, springfield now 73 and a little less humid and partly cloudy there. Then by mid to late afternoon, it should be in the low to mid 80s. Partly cloudy sky with lower humidity. Right now in laurel, Prince Georges County in the mid 70s there. Partly cloudy. Hitting the low to mid 80s there as well. In Loudoun County, leesburg at 73 under a partly cloudy sky and the low humidity in place throughout the day too. Afternoon highs as well as much of Northern Virginia will be reaching the low to mid 80s. So we are drying out this morning. Theres still a bit of some ponding of water from yesterdays rain, but otherwise looking good. So is your banana yellow dress. Thank you. I wore it to cheer you up this morning. Very appealing. Oh. That was actually pretty good. Yeah. We have been together for an hour and half and you havent even you havent cracked even funny jokes for me yet. Taking a look at the beltway, everything is moving along nicely. Looking pretty good this morning. 66 no problems. 95, getting a little slow there to match my banana yellow appealing dress. 95 northbound at dale city, all the yellows are going to match me today. Same thing as you take a look up north, no major problems there. Travel times in ten minutes. Thank you, melissa. The office of Personnel Management says it will send you a notice if your information was stolen in a massive hack. New numbers reveal it wasnt only federal workers whose information was compromised. Even roommates of people who went through back ground checks is all vulnerable. Nbcs tracie potts has more on the lawmakers demands for president obama to start firing people. Reporter eun, they want to start with the director of the office of Personnel Management. Not that this all happened under her watch, but think her response has been weak. Katherine archuleta was first grilled in june after we learned about the breach a month earlier and now its much wider. They are calling for her and the person in charge of Information Technology for the administration to be fired. No indication thats going to happen. Archuleta has said she is not going to step down. What shes doing is trying to respond to this massive breach. We are talking about very Sensitive Information. Social security numbers, banking information. Health records even. And fingerprints of people who applied for background checks or who were federal workers. All of it stolen from the database that opm says is targeted ten million times a month. Thats how many they thwarted. This one they didnt. In fact, they think the hackers were in the system for a year before they were detected. So lots of people in the dmv may be affected by this. A couple of things to know. They havent started sending out notices yet, so you know the youre affected but if you worked for the federal government after 2000 or applied for a background check, they think youre likely in that group. Keep an eye on on your information very closely to make sure youre not a victim of identity theft. We are expecting more information and the notices to come out in a few weeks. Thank you, tracie potts. This morning we are learning how the fbi was able to keep people safe over the fourth of july holiday. More than ten people were arrested in the u. S. Over the past month. The fbi director james comey believes some of those people were planning attacks around independence day. The people arrested are accused of being linked to isis and comey says isis sympathizers are so unpredictable that its hard to be sure of the timing of their plans. The government is extending all federal marriage benefits to all samesex couples nationwide. Originally the federal government could not distribute Social Security and v. A. Benefits to couples living in states where it was banned. Loretta lynch announced the changes yesterday and it comes less than a month after the supreme courts decision to legalize gay marriage. Forced budget cuts will shrink the army by about 40,000 soldiers affecting every Army Installation in the u. S. And overseas. Theres no word on how the cuts will be distributed. The army says unless budget cuts are made there may be more cuts needed in the next few years. If more positions are lost the country may not be able to meet its current deployments. The federal Aviation Administration is the latest to pull away from donald trump. The agency says it will rename navigation points near the Palm Beach International airport where trump owns a home. The faa said in the statement that they generally choose names that are noncontroversial and trump has been under fire for statements that hes made while running for the president ial nomination. The statements accusing undocumented workers of being drug dealers and rapists. A second celebrity chef is dropping plans in the future d. C. Hotel in the Old Post Office pavilion. Geoffrey zakarian says trumps comments dont align with his values. He said america is a nation built by immigrants his family included. Jose andres also pulled plans for the restaurant in that area. A man who killed a pregnant woman and friend will spend the next 12 years in prison. Ronald hayes was behind the wheel of this car in december of 2013. He was leading police on a chase when he crashed into a minivan carrying six people. Two women, 21yearold Brittany Queen and Brittany Everett died. Four others were hurt in the crash including two young children. After the crash, hayes tried to run, but Police Caught up with him using a helicopter. A former fbi agent will serve three years in prison for stealing heroin from evidence. His staff had some pretty damaging effect on cases too. Some charges had to be dismissed against 25 defendants in drug cases and some had already pled guilty. Lowry says hes confident he will leave prison a changed man. You can overcome significant life events and seem like theres going to be in end in sight where things might seem like its devastating. You know youre looking at your whole life crashing down. Lowry once worked in the fbis Washington Field office. He pled guilty in april. Prince georges county police are starting a new system to detective with the Community Called next door. It allows verified Community Members to join and communicate with each other. Prince georges county police is the First Department in our region to use this system. The Police Department hopes it will let them connect with thousands more residents in a safe and secure environment. We have just learned that Kennedy Center will be expanding. The National CapitalPlanning Commission gave the go ahead to the Expansion Plan yesterday. It called for additional performance and rehearsal spaces and new classrooms and new public area. The more ambitious plan was scaled back earlier in year to reduce the cost of that project. Major changes in news4 your health this morning. Why the bottles in your medicine cabinet will look different. Taking a look at the roads in virginia this morning. Did you need to use your wipers last night . Well, tom will tell you if you need to use them in morning. Brand new problem in oak welcome back at 5 40. A group is demanding the white house revoke bill cosbys president ial medal of freedom. President george w. Bush awarded him the medal in 2002. A Nonprofit Group dedicated to sex assault prevention start an online petition this week. They say that cosby does not deserve to be on the list of distinguished recipients. The white house said the medal has never been revoked and doing so may not be legal. One of marylands most powerful women is hoping to see one of the most Inspiring Women featured on the new 10 bill. Maryland senator Barbara Mikulski will introduce a bill today calling for Harriet Tubman to have that honor. She escaped in 1849 and she returned several times to help others to freedom. The Treasury Department recently announced the redesigned 10 will feature an american woman. Senator shaheen is also sponsoring that bill. Time for a look at weather and traffic on the 1s. And we think youll like what youre about to hear. I thought you were about to speak minion or something. Me thinks. That is a world. That is a word. We have a clearing sky. The rain is long gone. Great weather for driving this morning in midday and for the afternoon commute. Well have drying roads this morning. Watch out, a little bit of ponding in some of the low areas from yesterdays storms. Otherwise, some sunshine with drying roads will be in the mid to upper 70s for the morning commute. Headed back home, dry roads. Lots of sunshine. Temperatures in the upper 80s and you will notice its going to be a bit less humid throughout the day. A look at weekend changes in the forecast. Might get a little bit of rain on saturday. Thats coming up next weather and traffic on the 1s at 5 51. Now melissa, whats happening on the roads . Brand new closure. Just got off the phone with the police here. Fox mill road shut down at fox veil drive. We have a downed pole with wires and traffic being pushed this morning on to hunt road. A warning there. Going to have to take another route there. As far as travel times in maryland dont have any issues there. 66 inbound from Fairfax County beltway to the parkway on time. Quantico to the beltway at 25 minutes. Remember to listen to our friends on wtop 103. 5 when you hop in your car this morning. Melissa, thank you. We continue to follow developing story in South Carolina where the Confederate Flag has just a few hours left to fly outside the state house. We are live in columbia for a look at whats expected to unfold in a matter of hours. He is accused of raping his exgirlfriend who died shortly after the attack. Why is a maryland teen allowed 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 developing right now at 5 46, we are just about four hours away from the removal of the Confederate Flag from the South Carolina state house grounds. It comes days after debate there and weeks after the Charleston Church shooting. Dave wagner is live in columbia, South Carolina this morning. Well go live to him in minutes. Good morning. Im storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein with Melissa Mollet on this morning. We have your weather and traffic headlines. Oh we deserve a break from high heat and humidity. Well be getting that today. Eastern sky on fire now as the sun is coming up here in a few minutes. Melissa . And a brand new problem in fairfax. Look at this. We have a road closure because of downed wires. Fox mill at foxvale drive. More on this coming up in a couple of minutes. The Confederate Flag is coming off the grounds of the South Carolina state house. And we are following that developing story this morning at 10 00 a. M. , the Confederate Flag will come down for good. Originally put up as a protest for the Civil Rights Movement and that evoked strong feelings on both sides here. A deadly shooting last month reignited the debate over the removal. Nbcs dave wagner has here on what we can expect during this removal process. Dave, good morning. Reporter yeah, good morning to you, aaron. You know, its been three weeks since that hatefueled rage campaign down in charleston, South Carolina, in which nine people were killed at the church. Today at 10 00 a. M. , this flag is coming down. You know its been a long time since the civil war, but emotions are still raw over the future of this flag. The flag comes down at 10 00. It will go to a nearby museum. It will be gone from the state house, but i talked to a number of south carolinians who say theyll continue to fly the flag of the confederacy. It was flown either on or outside the state house for 54 years, a long time. I did talk to the brother of one of the victims of the shootings there. His name is Malcolm Graham and his sister was killed three weeks ago in the shootings. He told me he cannot believe that its taken this for this flag to come down. He said this flag should have come down a long time ago. Aaron . Dave wagner in columbia South Carolina for us. Thank you. In 15 minutes well tell you how the Confederate Flag is taking center stage in Loudoun County, virginia, today, as well as across the state of virginia. A Silver Spring teenager charged with rape wont be returning to school even though a judge ruled that he could go back to class. 16yearold marquise turner is accused of raping his 19yearold exgirlfriend outside of a courthouse in rockville last month and the victim died on the way to the hospital but an autopsy has not been released. As questions about the criminal case remain uncertain a Montgomery CountySchool Spokesman indicated that turner would be able to complete course work outside the classroom. New details in the case against an orthodox rabbi who admitted to secretly recording women. Barry freundels attorney said his client was wrongably sentenced to 6 1 2 years in prison and the lawyer said he should have been only been sentenced once for all the recordings but instead the judge sentenced him to 45 days for each victim. Freundel will be back in court later this month for a hearing on the sentencing issue. If you live in Prince Georges County, you know a new way to get in touch with the police. Its called next door. Next door is a private hightech version of a Community Message board with crime reports, classified ads and upcoming events. About half the neighborhoods have their next door accounts right now. Pgpd is the first in our area to use that service. You have less than a month to buy or sell property in Charles County before a new transfer tax goes into effect. Theyll charge half a percent on every home sale. But if youre a first time home buyer and this is your primary property, you have only to pay after the first 50,000 of the purchase price. Sometimes when traveling you have to do what you have to do and pope francis is no different. After waving to thousands in santa cruz, bolivia, he needed a place to change into the vestment to celebrate mass. The only place nearby was a burger king. I mean, talk about being one with the people. Who hasnt been there . Holy cow. After he left, yes. The restaurant was not open to the public though because of the popes visit. No one was inside. Burger king later put a post on facebook thank the pope for using the restaurant as a changing room. Just his presence probably brought new life into that accomplishment. Talk about a thats got to be can you imagine . That burger king will be famous. Its been blessed. I feel like pope francis has really demonstrated that he really is just kind yes, hes the pope. But hes really like a person. A human being. Does things the way everybody else does them. I hope he got a whopper. Burger king, might as well. This image behind us tom all lit up back here. Is the wall on fire or is that the sunrise . The eastern sky all lit up. Our sunrises are getting later right now. Were losing about a minute or so of daylight every day. 30 days from now, well have 30 minutes less sunrise and sunshine and daylight and there it is. Coming up in a turquoise tangerine sky. Beautiful sunrise on this fabulous friday morning. It is still mild. Were near 70. Shenandoah valley the mountains of western maryland near 60s and 70. Nearby suburbs in maryland mid 70s now. Mid to upper 70s, Northern Neck and around the bay. It has been so humid mushrooms are popping up. Its the size of a baseball this one posted by tammy via twitter. Post your pictures on facebook and twitter and ill share, as well as on instagram. By 8 00, the mid 70s. Partly sunny and noontime, partly cloudy. The low 80s. The lower humidity in place. It wont be as humid as in the last couple of days. Mid and upper 80s much of the region. Tomorrow morning we may get a few showers around dawn. Mainly south of the metro area. Maybe thunder and lighting in Southern Maryland and parts of Northern Virginia from prince William County south and over to charlottesville. Then the showers track to the south, by noontime a few lighter sprinkles and then the rest of the afternoon is drying out tomorrow. A beautiful summer afternoon coming up on saturday. And sunday is looking great as well. As well have not much humidity for the weekend. Highs mid 80s tomorrow. Then on sunday the upper 80s. More humid on sunday but great beach and pool weather for much of the region. Monday, back to work it will be hot again. Back in the low 90s. A small chance of a storm. Greater chance of afternoon storms tuesday and wednesday and low to mid 90s. How are the roads now, melissa . Overall looking good. We have this issue that well send chop tore in a couple of minutes. Fox mill road at foxvale drive, a downed pole because of the accident from overnight. So traffic being pushed now on to hunt road. A warning there. 66 east of thompson road no problems into town. No problems out of town. Looking quite good. Overall, Prince Georges County rolling along quite nicely. 95 in maryland scaggsville road, northbound and southbound, 216 rolling well. Same thing when youre looking at 270 this morning. No major issues at all zooming in to 270 370 rolling along quite nicely. Now speaking of 370 it is one of the shortest interstates in the country. Dont know if you knew that. It was named for a man who was never even supposed to be in washington. Tonight on news4 at 6 00 well venture through Silver Springs, chevy chase and gaithersburg to meet the man responsible for the Massive Development of the area. And bringing one of the worlds Biggest Companies to Montgomery County. Tonight, we will meet sam ide, the man i370 is named for. Were in the 2800 block of stanton road and the police are on the scene of a shooting. Lots of evidence markers are in the street. It happened about 2 00 a. M. This morning. Police report an adult male was shot several times and theres no information on the identity of the victim or any suspects at this point. But the 2800 block of stanton road remains completely blocked after this Early Morning shooting. Again, 2800 block of stanton road here in southeast, an adult male shot multiple times at about 2 00 this morning. No word on the victims identity or a suspect but we are told that he suffered life threatening injuries. Live in southeast derrick ward, news4. Thank you. 5 55. Raise your hand if you have a desktop computer. What about a tablet . You may be to blame for sinking pc sales. I love that dress, landon. Caught my eye, sorry. Thank you. Good morning to you, guys. The pc market continues to struggle as you mentioned. The new data sales fell the sharpest in the second quarter. But microsoft will launch windows 10 later on. Facebook is looking to take on youtube. The New York Times reports that the social Network Giants is looking to add music videos to the news feeds and theyll share revenue. Back over to you. Thanks, landon dowdy from cnbc. If you take popular pain killers like aleve, advil and motrin you will see new warnings on the labels. The fda is putting stronger warnings on the possibility of heart attacks and strokes for nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs. Arthritis drugs like celebrex are on the list. The new warning says heart attacks and strokes can occur in the first few weeks of taking the drugs. Labels just warn right now of the long term effects. The gay mens chorus of washington is taking their act to cuba this week. We caught up with the group yesterday as they were doing final rehearsals. The chorus is scheduled to perform nine different concerts around havana next week. They were invited by the daughter of cuban president raul castro. The director says his chorus is trying to pioneer change for lgbt rights in a different way. It brings people together over something without as dressing the issue head on. So i often find that music can be actually more powerful than giving a speech at a podium. The singers are learning some songs in spanish and plan to perform with the cuban gay chorus mano a mano. You can keep up with them on the washington app. It will have many of you talking in the days ahead. The Confederate Flag flying on the state house grounds in South Carolina will come down for good. The emotions coming out of that state this morning. And how the debate over the flag is spurring a lawsuit in virginia. Thats all next as news4 today continues. News4 today starts now. And right now the clock is ticking for the Confederate Flag flying on the state house grounds in South Carolina. When that flag will come down today and why the debate over the flag is spurring legal action in virginia. Plus cracking down on synthetic drugs and those who sell them. The action being taken in the city today as the citys police chief talks about the impact those drugs are having on the community. First though we are getting a break from the storms and the humidity. This is just one of the things we spotted as that storm system that pushed through our region last night came through. Wild video of a funnel cloud. This is here at home upper marlboro. Storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein has a look at what you can expect as you step outside this morning. That funnel cloud never did touch down and we escaped any damage. Metro area, yesterday afternoon. Now the sun is coming up in a luminous orange sky. Live view from our city camera this morning. Youre going to notice the humidity has dropped overnight. It will be much more pleasant walking to work this morning. Well have drying walkways. May have a few puddles around from the overnight rain and 70s for the morning and during the