This afternoon. Thats coming up. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to news 4 midday. Had right now actordanny glover isst tefying before a house panel about reparations for slavery. This is the first time in more than a decade reparations have come up on capitol hill. I am deeply honored to be here today, to offer my testimo testimony. A National Reparations policy is a moral democratic and economic impai erative. Now, minutes before, cory booker sat in th witness seat and gave his opening statements. I feel a sense ofger where we are in the United States of america, where we have not had direct conversations about a lot of the root causes of the inequities and the pain and the hurt. Had we should point out casenator booker is a i did date for president right now. Todays meeting is being held on ju juneteenth. The aclu will host a forum at the ame church that starts at 1 00, and it is open to the pelic. Th president is officially back on the campaign trail althou he is here in washington today. He kicked off his Reelection Campaign in florida last night he deals with more staff turnover and the fmer aide testifying before congress today. Tracie potts have more. Ta i snd before you to offgnially launch my campa for a second term. President trumpes announc his Reelection Campaign in florida. Six democrats could beat him today. Back in had washington. Patrick shanahan is being replaced after reports ofdo stic violence nearly a decade ago. E there was a deliber concealment here. We need a permanent secrety of defense, just to run the place. We give it some direction. The shakeup happeng amidnew tensions with iran. To have no secretary of defense at is time is appalling. Mr. Trump explain sending 1,000 war troops to the region. Weve learned over the yearss iran not best dealt with by turning the other cheek. K laws askte former whi House Communications director hope hicks about obstruction of justice and whether President Trump ever asked her to lie. Democrats are promising a transcript of her private testimony within 48 hours. The white house is sending a lawyer sit in on that testimony. And claim executive privilege if necepoary. Tracie s, nbc news, washington. The stage is also set for the firstf series o democratic president ial debates. News 4 is bringing you complete coverage of decision 2020. Ill bert repog live from miami as 20 democrats clash over the course of two nights. Dnu can look for my report starting next wday and watch the debate right here on nbc 4, wednesday and thursday nights at 9 00. Alost five minutes after the hour. Lets switchgears and getack to the weather. Weve been in this pattern for a couple days here. In and out of the rain all day. I wanto know how much rain were going to get, when its going to be getting its going to be gone. I have some other questions id like to throw at you. Come on, ill run them back to you. Lets do this. Is llets start with those t now. We have a few showers out there right now, sun is trying to breakthrough. Really tryi hard to breakthrough across the areas. We will eventually see a little sunshine here and there today. I think a lot of us are going to be stuck in the c auds for good portion of the day. 79 degrees temperature right now, as we get into the noon hour, well take it up a bit. We topped out in the upper 80s i really dont think well have a severe chance out there today. There could be on or tw storms that are a little stronger out there as we go through the day. Listen, if youre headed out to nats park, they have that makeup game this afternoon. Youll have some showers and storms. It doesnt look like anything crazy, too strong across our area. That changes for tomorrow. Weve got some Severe Weather in place for tomorrow. Thats coming up in about 20 minutes. Lauren, thank you. re tracking a developing story in kensington, maryland where a woman was shot and killed overnight. Around 10 30 last night this happened. Montgomery county police were islled to a home. The road off connecticut avenue, j t northof the beltway. Police found a gun ahe scene and arrested a man. Officers say this does not appear tbe a random crimep p theame of the woman and the man who was arrested have not been released. Were going to bring you new developments as soon as we release them. Two women involved in a suspected arson p. A fire started around pennsylvania avenue southeast, not far from the maryland line. The two women at the buildings entrance. One dumps a bag of liquidin the lobby. You canev see hereral times trying to get it it toignite, then flames and smoke fill the room. The fire caused major damage in that building. 11 people were forced out of their homes, no one was hurt. Right now a d. C. Program thats become a big part of the summer is getting a big boost the city is pushing 1. 75mi lion to extend the marion berry Summer Youth Employment program. This is video from Previous Program events. The mayor should be talking soon about todays votes. E throgram helps young people in the district find productive summer jobs and internships in vavernment and the pri sector. The money going to the program today is just part of a larger commitment to keep it gog hrough 2030. News 4 has a crew at the event now, and we will have more later in the hour. A new chapter is beginning for prince gees county public schools. Dr. Monica gold son was named permanent schoolo yesterday. She took over after a former ceo resigned amid scandal last year. Shes a native of prince georges county. Shes been in the school for 40 years as a student, teacher and administrator. She was choosing out of20 candidates. The 4th of July Celebration is going to look different this year here in washington. Ot its still n clear what to expect on the national mall. Justin finch is at west potomac park with more. By all accous, there will be a fourth ofju celebration on the mall, it may begger than years past. He Washington Post citing sources familiar with the plan. Two major events to look out for could be in this the works. One would be a president ial speech at the lincoln memorial. And a fflyover o air force one. The president not expeced to ben the aircraft. The president s visit to france back in 2017 where he saw bastille Day Celebrations going on there. Imagine, a shift like this prompts a lot of questions from electricity Nation Parks Service on security and changes to already standing plans. It just so happened in orlando last night at a rally, the president did tease these 4th of july events. By the way, on july 4th in washington, d. C. , come on down, were going to have a big day. Bring your flags, bring those flags. Bring those american flags. July 4th. Hundreds of o ha thousands of people, were going to celebrate america. The post said it reached out to the white house for comment on tuesday. And the white house did decline. Well have to wait and see when these plans ce out and what theyll look like, back inside to you. New this morning, a new source of tension in the middle east. An American Oil Company the target of a rocket attack. Were going to have the latest on this. New information from a virginia couple whose honeymoon ended badly in the dominican public. Arend a new source of tension in the middle east today. Iraq is in the middle of an accident involving three local workers. The u. S. Uncovers iraqs involvement in those attacks. A report now from doe har qatar. Reporter fragments of mines. And the magnets used to attach them. The mine that was used does ear a strikinge resembof that displayed in the iranian litary parade. More proof of iranian guilt. To us, a photograph and the video that shows Iranian Revolutionary guards next to the damaged ship. President trump is now playing tacks. He he said it was questionable whether he would take military action to keep the Gulf Shipping lanes open. Going to w to prevent iran getting nuclear weapons, certainly he says. Secretary of state mike pompeo met u. S. Military commander and says americas aim is to defend and deter. President trump does not want war. And we will continue to communicate that message while doing the things that are necessary to protect american interests in the region. American oil Company Exxon Mobil says its evacuating 20 workers from iraq, after a rocket landed at its rt headquas there. Iranian backed militias being blamed by someri iraqi secuty officials. All this as an 1,000 american troops are being sent to the middle east to convince iran the u. S. Is serious. Deans presint said it too doesnt want war. But he doesnt control the country or irans miitias in the region. Had just this morning, irans president has said tehran will not negotiate with washington under pressure. Not ruling out talks all together. T meanwhilose american oil workers evacuated from their headquarters at basra this morning. Many of them have just returned to that facility after being evacuated last month. So tense times there. Bill neely, nbc news, dohar, qatar. Crimes trial for a navy seal is now underway. Hes accuses of murdering a captured isis fighter and sq. Oting civilians in irala edward ger has denied all the charges. Several outlets reported President Trump was consider g pardoningallagher, and several other Service Members accused or convicted of war crimes. His legalea defense tm says the charges stem from junior seals who count stand being called howards. The defense plan is to aovihilate the gernments case. To show these witnesses are lying. Prosecutors have a difficult case to make it. Theres very little physical evidence for the military jury consider. Today that jury is set to hear from a navy s. E. A. L. Who says he witnessed gallagher killing a teenaged detainee. No arrest in theou mysteri murders of a Northern Virginia father and son. They were found dead in their home last november. Local authorities and the fbi are announcing a big reward. They hope will bring new tips. Northern Virginia Bureau chief julie carrie has an update on thetory shes followed since the beginning. Im here to announce that the fbi is offering a 20,000 reward. The fbi hoping money will get people to talk. To offer new tips in the double murof a father and sun. W theyere found shot to death last november. The double homicide shattering a close knit family of four. The women re away in vietnam visiting a sicken relative wh the men were killed. Th moer and daughter now live in con starnt fear. Thats why they asked us to shiejaary. Telling us how this crime h impacted them. Cant leave her alone. And she cant leave me alone without worrying. I dont want my daughter worrying about me. Mommy, dont leave me. The husband was a cabinetmaker, so thried with this this country he named his son america and his daughter virginia. The men were shotet some overnight from november 7th to the 8th. They want to hear from anyone who travelledhe near t home in that time frame from are the area of route 29. It these folks are normal People Living daily lives, going about their business and then to suffer a double homicide in thiw ay is the reason for the attention. Renewed attention and a l 0,000 reward they hope w help close this case. We have Contact Information for you on the nbc washington app, just search fbi. Julie perry, news 4. For more than a week now, news 4 has been covering the death of americans vacationing in the dominican republic. This morning we learned a richmond woman had to go to the hospital there over weekend. They cut their honeymoon short to fly home for her treatment. Skylar was admitted to the uhospital after six hors of vomiting and losing consciousness. Ive had infebeions re, ive had stomach viruses and food poisoning, and this was just something that, if i hadnt een in good health i think could have been really really dangerous. This all comes on the heels of reports of nine americans who recently died at resortshe in t dominican republic. That includes Nathaniel Holmes and cynthia day. Their toxicology results could take a month to come back. There has not been an uptick in the number of american vets. Tourism Officials Say theyre testing the alcohol in hotel minibars as a precaution. Be if youd like to add a new member to your family andou help an animal in need, you are in luck. 12 dogs that were rescued from a formerin weser kennel club top breed will be up for adoption in our area. The rescue alliance rescued the dogs following a large scale animal cruelty case in new jersey last week. 188 dogsere taken from one home there. 12 of those dogs will be up foro adoptionnce they receive the di necessary meal and behavioral treatment. Every dog owner knows those looks, like can you play with me or feed me or i did something bad, please forgive me. Those heart tuggingve looks ha a little bit of Science Behind them. How about. Heres Gadi Schwartz with how evolution iselping dogs truly become mans best friend. Have you ever felt like you can read a dogs mind, when you look at those little faces that say, hey, got any treats . I didnt eat that shoe and why are you making me wear this . Evolutionly t Science Behind thesepp puy dog eyes. It has to do with this muscle right above their eyebrows. Dogs havect perfe the art of the eyebrow movement. Tir cousins the wolf, whose same facial muscles are pretty weak. Humans have sub consciously favor dogs with expressive eyes. While you may have seen some dogs on line trying to take theirto conversationhe next level i love you. Good girl. Othersre making due with the slightest little twitch. The next time your dog looks at and asks, im a good boy,right . Hey, lester, when are you coming home . Okay. You can says thousand of years of dogs learning to speak silently and literally evolving into mans best friend. Gadi schwartz, nbc news. I could take all of the h puppiese with me with those cute eyes. Theyre so adorable. And then you break the bank, right . Is. Its those eyes, they get you every time. Every time. Will rain be the end of the wet pattern today . The women behind the furlough cheesecake company. They quit their government jobs and they have some big news about where you cand thr creatioeins off deep woods provides long lasting mosquito protection. So you can keep living life youway. Off live on. Sc johnson. We want to bring you a story we first talked about during the government shutdown. Jackie and kki were forced to find a way to make ends meet. They t turned toheir love of baking and turned it into the furlough cheesecake business. They appred on the Ellen Degeneres show. They wering soed, right . Since then they have sold more than5,000 cheesecakes. They quit their government jobs. Their Good Government jobs. Had now their cheesecakes will be in 100 selected Walmart Stores starting august 18th. Its a privilege. We know this opportunity doesnt come its not a common theme. R company was only a month old, when we were sitting in arkansas at walmart headquarters and the buyer said, this doesnt happen. There are people waiting over a year. Can buy the furlghed cheesecakes on their website. Ad posted a link. What a sweet update, i love that. As long as we can have a slice right now. Wouldnt that be good right now . Were keeping an eye on the status of Washington Nationals hitter, he was wornng on his bu thing and wound up taking a baseball to his face. Patrick corbin will start game onwitoday no word on who ll start game two. I hope hell be pitch iing o. Take that up, put that back in site, youll be all right. Theyre going to get a 1 00 game in, tons of people were asking me they have that doubleheader, theyre making up for the philes on monday. They have a 1 00 game, a 7 00 ga. I think toay theyre going get the 1 00 game in, if youre headed to the game, it it will be all right. The doubleheader, ou7 00, have a few showers around. I think theyll get that game there could be a delay, because h have a fewers around, i dont think its going to last throughout the entire duratim of the ga nothing happening out there right now. Everybodys moving around out the there. Showers and thunder out there tod. A 50 50 shot. Its not going to be super widespread. Well have a few showers out there. Not a big Severe Threat out there today. Were not talking about the r severe weathe monday. Better chance of Severe Weather tomorrow you can see a few showers out there. A lot of this rain around thee shndoah valley willn come i to the Western Areas around 3 00, 4 00. Well top out in the low to mid80s today, 85 in d. C. It a gets wetter 3 00, 4 00, to the east after 5 30, ll6 00, we start to see those showers along i95, lets show you right now, theres some of those showers after3 00 or 4 00 in our western suburbs. And it am continue to travel to the east. Bright spot. Not everybodys going to see it. Again, heres a look at the game forecast. The showers are going to be off to the west during the middle part of the game. And its humid out there. We drop into the s with about a 60 chance, but that chance goes down through the innings the game. Lets talk more about tomorrow. We do have that Severe Weather threat tomorrol time that out for you in a little bit. Coming up, a story that will have you questioning the person driving next to you. The Alarming Number of people willing to admit they drive high. Drivers describe it as simply terrible. Were talking aoutmemorial circle. The design 40 years since the late d. C. Mayor marion berry started the late summer jobs rogram. I got my first job through that program when i i was a youngster. The Program Kicks off with a big announcemt today. Hey there, dorothy. Is good morning, i didntea ze you were actually in the program they are announcing a om major ctment. This announcement is happening right now, let me step out of the way for a minute to show you what is happening here. We have the mayor here, other city leaders. The city announcing the 11. 7 million financial commitment, extending funding through 2030. Thousands of people have been helped over the last four decades. Were seeing that video of what happened in the pastha this d is continuing the legacy of former mayor marion berry. When i heard about the opportunity to wrk in the federal government, i jumped at it. I dont know any other 17yearolds with this oprtunity and iplan to take it. Advantage of were celebrating 40 years of young people in washingn, d. C. , getting a fair shot through Summer Youth Employment. Had were told that 700 tiployers are parpating in this program, some of the students are going to make as much as 20 an hour. Not too bad, a lot more than i made years ago, in my summer job. How about you . Had. Thats not bad. Not bad at all. Its a really Great Program for these people to be a part of year after year. You get to work in a real lig work settin and get that paycheck dorothy. That will be good. New this morning, were learninabout a startling new survey concerning marijuana use and millions of our fellow drirs. According to aaa, that survey, an estimated 14. 8 million drivers reported driving within one hour after using marijuana in the past month. Nearly 70 of tse drivers think they wont get caught. Millennials make up most of the mivers. Men aree likely than women to drive after using pot. The pairing effects of marijuana are experienced within the first 1 to 4 hours. You knou all abthe traffic irk is els in our area and how tricky they c t beo navigate. Now, the memorial circle is set to get some safety upgrades. Reporter traffic that doesnt always Pay Attention to the driver in the next lane. Its tear ib will. Pedestrians and cyclists that dont always find it easy to cross at designated paths. Its terrible. Even scooters get caught up in all of it, because theres no other safe place to ride. And you know what marie thinks about this. Its tear ib will. If if youve driven through, the easiest environment. Itsno you have people going 80,000 different directions. Fix it. Fix it d. C. Well, not exactly d. C. , but th national Parks Service says it has a plan to approve putting in walk signals, improving the signage, yes, even shrinking the numberfanes around the circle to one. Which will cut down on tricky merges. This is going to become more l a traditional Traffic Circle, theres going to be one lane going around, and drivers coming into the circle. The bridge is under a massive innovation. Dont forget the sinkhole on the orthbound gw parkway also about to go through construction. Its just a matter of funding to a the Traffic Circle in better place. Right now theres no immediate time frame or concept for the worti in the meanme, marie, shes still frustrated. Im so tired, thats why im mving to North Carolina. Youreving to North Carolina . Im done with the whole metropolitan area. Shes frustrate there is some data to back up her frustration. The national Parks Service took a look at cash data here between 2006 and 2012, over 600 crashes right here. At memorial circle, adam tuck, news 4. Now to a young girl who is proving anything is possible. At just 10 years old, kayla snyder has become the youngest person on record to reach the summit of el captain at Yosemite National park. Heres a sense of how big of a feat this actually is. Look at this. The route she climbs known as el captains nose is higher than the worlds tallest building in dubai. It can fit nine statues of liberty. She and her parents appeared on the today show this morning. What goes through your mind . How do you feel . I dont know. A lot. What was it like in that moment when you got to the top . Its really overwhelming. Really emotional. Oh, my goodness. We should mention both of her parents are climbers and helped her along the way. It took hys five d to reach the 3,000 foot peak. We wish her congratulations. It takes apecial person to even want to do that. At 10 years old at that. You have to have that thrill seeking dna. Thats not in me. Im with you. You go ahead, do your thing. Tens of thousands of people have expected in d. C. Are expected for the National Capital bbq battle going on this weekend. Am coulding up, more on the food a flavor so many of you are looking forward to. Happy wednesday, coming up today at 5 00, theres something inur yo home that could drain yourt. Walle household leaks are never a good thing. And a lot of times you may not be aware that you have a problem. Also want to make sure you look under the vanity for any leaks you may not see. How to locate, fix and prevent leaks. Thats our warning right . I know that, they are going to be in the studio. Its humid. You got that right. Its humid in here though, right now. Its going toa st humid, tomorrow and thursday, and thaty humiddrops on friday. Friday, saturday beautiful. And then that humidity starts coming back in on sunday. Today, hot a humid, low 80s, mid90s tomorrow, with he top out some areas on friday and saturday. Prably not getting out of the upper 70s. Were in the upper 70s right now, i here washington, baltimore at 81, culpepper at 82 right now. Well take that temperature intt the low mid80s for daytime highs today. Well have to worry about showers later on this afternoon. After about 2 00 or 3 00, i think some of that moisture will enter the valleys. There could be a thunderstorm, but for the most part, were looking at showers not being crazy strong, there could be one or two that are severe. For the most part, showers and a garden variety thunderstorm. Showers out there today, widespread thunderstorms for tomorrow. In fact, today were in the mid80s, and well have those scattered showe and a few storms. Tomorrow, thats a different story. We have sunshine around tomorrow. Not seeing that much sunshine r out thereht now. You may be seeing a few peaks here and there. Scattered showers and storms by tomorrow afternoon and tomorrow evening, some of those could be strong damaging winds. S alsoe hail possible. And i think large hail would be likely as we go through the day tomorrow. 91 degrees will be our daytime high tomorrow. Strong to severe thunderstorms f in the rnoon with the heavy rain, winds and hail. Small threat of tornado possible as well. Letsd. Talk about your weeken friday and saturday will be nice. We have more rain possible for this weekend. Well show you that coming up. Lauren. Nk you so much, a new first of its kind crackdown on e cigarettes. Plus, how nasa is planning mark the milestone. How often is it that you get to see something thated tou the surface of the moon. People with emphysema or chronic bronchitis suffer with a nagging cough. Theyre constantly gasping for air, like trying to breathe under water. A new treatment thats helping patients breathe easier without major surgery. Good job. You like playing frisbee . Wi it wasnt always easy for debbie to play her dog riley. My dog means a lot to me. Anndi love speg time with him, doing stuff. And now it doesnt wear me out so badly. Debbie started smoking when she was 16. A habit that got worse over the nereers. At opoint smoking two packs of gets a day. My father died from smoking. My mother died from smoking. My little sister died from smoking. My uncle died from smoking. She couldnt kick the habit and developed a debilitating ng condition landing her in the icu and near death. I know they Say Something good comes out of everything. Thatsk when i was luc enough to meet dr. David duhamel. He told her about this valve treatment, recently approved by the fda, it can help people with chronic obstructive pulmonary nd it doesnt require major surgery. Not being able to walk across the room without becoming profoundly short of breath, thats the degree to which these be patients are dealing with. Heres how it works, tiny valves that look like the mouth of a fish are placed in a patients airways to block off the damaged areas of the lungs where r gets trapped. They can see the valve opening and closing and deploying. The valve allows the healthier parts of the lung to expand making it easier for patients to breathe. So to be able to do this minimally sinvasive i a real game changer for our patients. Its been a game changer for debbie. When i woke up, it was like, wow when i breathe now, i get all the air where before part of it got stuck in the damaged part of my lungs. Several months after the prdoedure, shes back to ng a lot of the things she loves. Enjoying the Little Things life that we sometimes take for granted. Even before, just leaning own to pick up something. It waske you would hold your breath underwater, now its not like that. Im enjoying life again. Now, at 63 years old, debbie made history as the first person in our region to have this valve treatment. Its minimally invasive and done rough asome am bronchio scope broncoscopy. San francisco is the first majores city to ban e cigarett the ordinance has to pass a second voteext week. The recent cdc study shows nearly 5 Million Middle School admit h School Students to vapping next year. An increase of more than a Million Students over t year before. Can you believe its almost been 50 years since mankind first set foot on the moon. The air and space museum will be putting Neil Armstrongs space suit on display. There are certain moments we know. Folks of all ages explore the air and space museum. They can tell you where they were. I today apollo 11 reached the moon. Was 11 years old, i was in iowa. It can alsotell you how excited they are. They soon open their doors to a new exhibit. One that will honor Neil Armstrongs famous rds. We have been very busy in the last four years. Kathleen lewis is the curator. When she watched armstrong take hose famous first steps, she never imaginede would get to restore his space suit. Were looking forward to inspiring younger generations. Theres a month to go before the ent opens. It will be at 10 56 p. M. , the exact moment mankind walked on the moon. Amy cho, news 4. Its all about the bbq after the break. Well tell good morng. Reynolds wrap wants to pay you oss 000 to eat bbq a america this summer. The winner gets to bring a friend and reynolds will pick up the tab for travel, ago dwa accommodationsnd food up to an additional 10,000. You canly appy submitting a photo of yourself grilling. And why you are the best person for the job. Send it to reynolds chkit. Com. You have to put it in by the end of today. Somebody wants that job. So iortant right there. One of the biggest bbq showdownsin the country is just alys away. Were tng about the national bbq battle. We all got tips from a pit master who will be at thissing wgds event we got the food on the grill, ribs, chicken. Were ready for a bbq this morning with famous daves. All ahead of the National Capitals bbq battle going on this weekend. I have my pit master whos going to talk about the menu for the weekend. Give it to me. Ell have our Award Winning st. Louis. Ribs bbq chicken, fried chicken. We have our smoke porked flash fried in a blackberry bbq sauce. Thats what my first time safetying it, and it melted in my mouth. Famous daves is gng toave a good presence this weekend. Crystal can run down why this it so imporor you guys to be there. It is our 25 year anniversary, so we are so excited to vare with all of our fans. We like to share all of our food, our ribti , beef brisket. Everything you see today you can get downtown. Its quite a ad, were ready to eat. The National Capital bbq battle is this weekend, you can go down on pennsylvania avenue and enjoy a whole host of foods. Famous daves, thank you so much. We did it. I am still full. You had to the tips, the ribs, the chicken, you have to sample everything . I had the corn bread, the corn and coleslaw and on and on. I mean, you were a mess eating that bread. I had had a rib before i sat down. By the time erin goteup th, there was no food, we ate it all. What are you going to say, aaron . No, go ahead. I sll have food baby, so whatever youre going to say is a little better. Chance for scattered showers this afternoon. Listen, one or two of those could be strong, but i you this the better chance for that comes tomorrow afternoon. He nats will probably get in their game. Su. Ay looking great thats going to do it for news 4 midday. Thanks for joining us, were back on the air at 4 00. Off deep woods provides long lasting mosquito protectio so you can keep living life your way. Off live on. Sc johnson. We are live in five, four, three, two, one. [ applause ] let me tell you something, mr. White all it takes i just one person to believe in a young man or woman for them to reach their dreams and you are that man, sir. [ applause ] i just love this show. Another Golden Buzzer on agt. Welcome toaccess live. Thats the detroit choir, they flew everyone