67. Warrin68. 63 i winchester. A much milder start, a lot more as a result, the combination of chance warm and breezy. Winds back up to the southwest. Ll show you future weather and help you plan out how long the taking a look right now it is slow. Seems like they are starting to before king, right side is blocke falls church, right side of the there. Inner loop and outer loop. Inner loop by braddoc roadbl republ we know that a third american died days earlar. Three causes of death are while a different person in a differ hotel, they are owned the couple was staying at the and she reportedly had a drink collap her cause of death has also been listed respiratory failure. The deaths occurred five days i know for a fact that she was those families plan on having autops conducted once the week and wein are stayon top telemu 44. Albert is on hisway to the you can see his reports here on the deaths of two americans on morn author in figi say david michel texted the parents the couple was rushed to the the christ rapp was a public meanwhile, virginias the governor wants law make of committee in the i will be askingor votes prayer republican lawmakers say they will b proposing their own measur 4s Northern Virginia bureau parkla florida, w arrested yter hes accused of standing outside the school whil a gunman killed people despit hearing the gunshots he happen a parent praised law enforc that led to the death of our convic beltwa its not without controversy. Leader montgomery, prince ideas. One concept is improving traffic flow on other busy roadways. This will allow private that will extend the 95 express projec managers say they will major setback for d. C. Yester the d. C. Council was mayor muriel bowr andothers brittain have been filled with protests. They well konld rols to a banquet at the winfield house. Earlier in the day the pranident may held a joint News Conference. The president urged brittain to forge ahead with plans to quit the europeanunion despite mays resignation as her partys leader. Suggested that i sue the european union, which we didnt do. We went to negotiations and we came up with a good deal. Thats not such a iueould have s but thats okay. Shes probably a better negotiator than i am. Not far from there thousands of demonstrators were taking o thestreets. The president saying in the News Conference he saw more supporters than protestors. Its now 4 08. The white house is once aain fighting a request from House Democrats who are demanding to see documents related to the trump administrati. Despite a subpoena, the white house has directed former aide hope hicks and Ann Donaldson not to hand over any information. Hicks was the White House Communications director and donaldson was don mcgahns chief of staff. The full house will vote on whether to hold attornel genera william barr in contempt of congress. Mcgahn defied a subpoena and may also be held in contemt. 4 09. In this were getting an idea of how the parents implicated in a College Admissions scandal may defend themselves in court. Defense attorneys he told a judge that the payments made were not bribes, rather terrible donations to the schools and athletic programs. 33 parentsre facing charges including actresses lori laugh lynn and felicity huffman. In lougand others are fighting the charges. Amtrak is upgradi the trains to speedup the trains. Amtrak wants trains to be able to travel 125 miles per hour. Right now only two of the three tracks meet standards that allow th speed. Amtrak says this is all in preparation for the next generation of high speed accella express trains which are set to hit the flax 2021. There will be a new platform at the New Carrollton station. We re working 4 your healthrn this moing with news of some surprising developments about what to eat and how much to exercise. So for years the advice has been that chicken is better than red meat when it comes to lowering your cholesterol. Well, it turns out that may not betrue. Small Study Suggests that poultry and beef can be equally bad at causing high cholesterol. Doctors say the saturated fat in meat causes problems. The study says there can be a good number of those kinds ofs fatin chicken, especially in the sksn. Thatthe best part. Weve also been hearing more and more that you should try to walk at least e10,000 stepsry day, but doctors say that number ic t based on scienti evidence. It came from a Marketing Strategy to sell pe come to md terse. Older women need only to walk half of that to reduce their risk of death by 41 . I was always told if you cant do 10,000 steps, get up and move around. Rs take the st its an idea that has a lot of people talking. Technology t at wouldow you to talk to drivers in other cars on the road. Coming up, were taking a look at how it would work. Plus, Severe Weather impac as people across the midwest return to their homes. New problemsarise. Chuck . And for us we may have to storry about some thundrms around here this afternoon. Theres not a guarantee of Severe Weather and the showers in, West Virginia those added clouds may keep usjust cool enough to keep our Severe Weather chances youre watching news 4 today. A d. C. Council member wants go go music recognized as the official music of the district. E nyan mcdid you have if i announced legislation yesterday. Someone complained about the loud go go music at the metro t pcs store i shaw neighborhood. The music was eventually turned off and then back on. Mcdid you have if is helegislation requires t mayor to come up with a plan to preserve the music. There are some decidedly d. C. Things. One of the complaints, it wasnt so much that the musics wa playing, it was that it could be heard fromocks away. The level, not the music itself. Your smartphone could soon be able to connectma with your car. Automakers are racing to deploy cars to talk to everything around them. Yeah, i dont. Were seeing tis in force. The latest rollout should be in cars in three years. Cv 2 x. Take a lookt what happens as a scooter comes from out of sight. So we cant necessarily see whos coming from the side but as we pull up here, we can see that weve got a message here. There was lots of beeping. You could see on our heads up dispy depending on the lights that theres a scooter that we needed to avoid. T. All rig the way he explains it, if theres a safety element here. Ford says its working with policy makers to clear the technology for use. Theres the rub. Your cars going to snitch on you. Right. Were seeing more aftermath of thatst devaating flooding across the miwest. Officials say the people who c were preparedldnt have been ready for what happened. Making matters worse, more rain ison the way to some areas, and its not just humans who are under threat here. In arkansas Th National Guard had to air lift hayales to cows that were stranded. A in oklahom many people are only just now beginning to return to their homes. Some of these homes were under as much as nine feet of water. Wow. In most neighborhoods people are piling up their ruined longings in theirdriveway. Dumpsters will be brought to neighborhoods for free. Theyve been overwhelmed by ther help First Responders and complete strangers who have u s to help with the cleanup. 9 feet of water, everything is ruined. I dont think you can salvage anything. No, yo have to bulldoze the whole thing. This is part of our changing climate. The weatherlo patternss in for the longest period of time. And the same thing, only this year the focus of prolonged periods of heavy rain has been out tour west. So all part of our changing climate. Weve got to start taking action. Meanwhile, we also have to be take ed, anyway, to maybe some Severe Weather precautions this afternoon. Not ahigh risk for severer weatt any individual storm today certainly could pack quite a punch. The main threator today, theres plways aossibility of smaller hail not likely to face the amount of hail we saw two or ree days ago on sunday, but some of these thunderstorms could have gusty wind. Youll notice the you walk out the door this morning, youll say, whoa, what happened overnight. Winds turned back around to thea South Southwest and temperatures are way warmer this morning than yesterday. Some places as much as 20 degrees warmer. 42 yesterday morning out at dulles. 62 this morning. 60 now in edericksburg. 70 by the bay in annapolis. A big change, youll notice it. A gusty so bhwest wind wi with us all afternoon. Breezy, warmer, morehumid. Thunderstorms are likely today starting as potentially more than 2 or 3. Going until 10 or 11 00g toni. Unsettled weather in he west is coming in our direction. The one real mplicated fashion in the northwest, if those clouds can keep us a ltle cooler. The Storm Prediction Center had the yellow streak. The slight risk and adding cloud cover is reducing our threat for Severe Weather. Not reducing it toero but not likely to be as much of a Severe Threat as it had been. Few s the clouds and a showers before lunch. If wenyan get a breaks of sun, that will be the opportunity to have some thunderstorms maybe during the early parts of the evening commute and an even better chance of storms after thiseeps us going. So 85 today with a storm chance. 88 tomorrow. Only aned isolat shower tomorrow. Friday looks dry. The weekend looks great. Great weather for saturday. Nbc 4 will have a big presence there. Capital festival down on pennsylvania avenue. Melissa mollet, what have you got going on on a wednes y . Od morning. A couple of problems, alexandria and vandoorne. Thats a crash investigation there. Alexandria northbound 395. Right side blocked by a crash. Falls church, eastbound 66. Right side also blocked. Rockville, northbound and southbound 270. Lanes blocked for milling and paving. Want to give a huge shout out to my buddies at the annual b mitch tournament. I emceed this at Trump National ns virginia. Former redski brian mitchell. Doc walker, former maryland player, gary williams. They raised more than 100,000 for the leukemia and lymphoma tospital and we had survivors there. Y thank James Roberts of Community Wealth for putting it altogether. Melissa, thank you. 4 20 our time. A look at a Museum Exhibit 365 million years in the making. Later today on ellen. Really . Were getting old. Were 25 years older. Were on the health horizon. Were going to live until were about 120. Ewww. Im with ellen. I dont know if i want to livei unt im 120. Ellens best bud jennifer aniston. She asks her about a friends reunion. To hear the answer check youre watching news 4 today. Welcome back at 4 23, its something kids will talk about for years to come. S thery of a 3. 7 billion years of life on earth displaed at the smithsonian Natural History museum. Were talking about dinoaaurs. After ive year, 110 million renovation, news 4s corey smith was able to sneak a peek at the before s in fossil hall its reopening this weekend. Reporter remember being a kid and walking into the museum for the first time. The smile on yourace as you gazed up at creatures that walked the earth. You can go back, way back and feel like the kidaiag as a kid, i came to this museum. I remember the fossil hall. Its amazing. Reporter for the project ld ager it feels like an friend coming home. The halls new exhibit takes visitors on a journey through deep time using displays both big and small to tell a story tha started nearly 3. 7 billion years ago. More than 700 fossil specimens are on display. Interactive elements invites sers to travel through the time. The stars of the show, fossils, many of them posed in biologically active positions. Its the difference between reading the book and living then book the book coming to life. A dramatic rise caused polar ice caps to melt. Reporter it asks visitors to ponder the future. Paleontology hase a v clear message that concerns our human future, and that was not apparent in any of the previous hall renovasons. Stat very clear in this hall. Reporter momportant of all, the museum wants your imagination to take flight leaving visitors both young and old with memories of a time long ago. Really spectacular. Every time. Eve as a grownup it offers youre. Awe weve been there, done that, but its still pretty cool. Right now on the nbc washington app we take you insid the exhibit with pictures. Search dinosaur. 4 26. A warning for people hoping to travel to cuba. Evn if youre planning an educational trip, your vacation may have to be canceled. We are working for you. Before you send yo children off to summer camp, how the Measles Outbreak is impacting camp a activities admissions. Chuck . Dog walking forecast. Take a little look t ats little girl, cookie, 2 1 2 months old. How cute of a face is that. Go to humane rescue alliance. Org and see how you have the cookie monster join your family. Dog walking forecast, get it doney. Earl right now on news 4 today, a man in custody accused of attacking women over and over on the street. How neighbors helped detectives catch him. Plu sephora shutdown. Why its closing all of the Beauty Stores just for today. Hes used to delivering speeches at the statehouse. Now he knows how f itls to deliver a baby. News 4 today starts now. Good orning, folks. Welcome to the middle of the week. You made it to wednesday. Were about an hour away from sunrise now. Mu not to see out there this morning in our front yard. A tiny bit of a breeze. I saw that. Lag was moving. Substantial. Good morning, everybody. Im aaron gilchrist. Im eun yang. Were working to get the family up andout. We start with the check of traffic with Melissa Mollet and weather with meteorologist chuck bell. Chuck, were in weather alert mode already today. Were looking at big changes this afternoon. Yeah, theres that coo