Little guy. To a y finish to your thursday. Melissa . Firs4 traffic alert. Beltway and ae closur outer loop shut down at i66 right now. Because of a truck crash, fire, an investigation. We know multiple vehicles involved in the situation. Megan mcgrath is on the way so she should be there soon to give us live pictures from the ground. At this point, all traffic diverted to westbound 66. You cant get past that. You can try to the outer loop express lanes. One express lanes is getting by the truck fire. 66 the ramp fromestbound 66 to the outer loop is shut down because of this crash and investigation. As we look at the rest of 66 that looks fine. Southboun95 at wood bridge two westbound lanes blocked by this vehicle. No issues on 270. This morning, we are continuing to follow a majorup date in the vegs into the shooting of david ortiz. The former red sox star was shot in the Dominican Republic earlier this month. This morning, we know he was not the intended target. This was apparently a case of mistaken identity. They say the bullet was mend fon david fernez who was sitting with ortizre at the table whe he was shot. The had the is suspected. Being organichestrated by a mex drug cartel. Eleven people have been arrested including the suspected gunmanr but people are still wanted by police. Ortiz is still recovering in a oston hospital and he is conscious and has been able to wat k. Righnow, police are work to go identify the students secretly recorded allegedly by a former High School Teacher who is already facing charges for child pornography and secretly recording a woman at his home. Now investigators say he recorded students while they were dressing a herndon high school. In may he was charged with possession of child pornography after thousands of videos were found on seral devices. Now more charges are expected to be filed. The man marshals say barricaded himself inside a he in Loudoun County is dead. We are told he apparently killed himself. This started yesterday near dulles airport. They say a man barricaded himself on landing scare. When marshals and deputies went in, they found him dead. No one else wwith him. We are waitedingheo see what was wanted for in d. C. Ddot says it is suspending the permit of a popular electric Scooter Rental Company in d. C. Skip scooters perm has be suspended 30 days while of cials investigate repor battery fires. The company has 24 hours to remove all scooters from d. C. Streets. E latest fire was at a building where skip stores some of its scooters and their batteries. Skip says it is cooperating with the investigation points out those scooters were not on the road. Last month, t skip scooter caught fire outside of downtown d. C. The city investigated thefire. In they say better wifi customer is com along the tracks. It is reported that amtrak is testing this and making changes as right sidership inrg viia increases. It will benefit riders w take the trains north of Union Station from maryland toward new york and boston. Nbc news has learned th a iran missile shot down a u. S. Drone which was flying in International Air space, not iran air space as previously thought. This is according to one u. S. Ia officl. They say thispe hapned above the strait of hormuzhormuz. Deleon is charged with theer murd of his girlfriend. Ar 33ld Sylvia Fernandez was found dead la night and police say neighbors heard arguing at the apartment before the. Gunfire some have dubbed him the bearded bandit. Police are asking with anyone with information on him to come forward. A man bawho wears a big beard i robbing banks in virginia and maryland. He robbed a Safeway Grocery store in virginia. This morning, a word of a break and nearly 60yearold cold case. New technology has helped identify a man who was last seen in 62. In1985 human remains were found at a trash construction site. Yesterday, thanks to forensics he was identified as roger kelso 20 disappeared more than years ago. Images show what he may have looked like today. His family attended the un annoment. Just appreciate the police dont care who you are. They are going to fight for you and we are evidence of itli po say the case is still open. They are not saying anything about a possible suspect in the investigation. A local mother is in a fight for her life with a rare form o cancer. She is the daughter of former Prince Georges County sheriff alonzo black. He former sheriff has a historic legacy in law enforcement. They say nothing could have prepared him for his daughters cancer diagnosis in march. She is battlg a rare form of rectal cancer that isea sprng quickl quickly. She is a mother of five. My daughter is ve strong and independent. I raised her that way. We raised her that way. I just pray to god that they get the cancer out of her. I just pray. Candle has worked in the federal government for 20 years. Her family says many have donated oney to help the family. We have a link to the go fund me account in the washington app. Search go fund me. Le this morning, we have new information reed by the white house about a fourth of July Celebration on the national mall. The white house released stails how the president lan will fit in. The day begins with a National Independence day parade and run down cons tutional avenue and President Trumps salute to america starts at 6 30 and will include a military tribute and flyover along withee a sp from the president at the lincoln memorial. The capital fourth concert kicks off at 8 0p. M. On the capitol west lawn as usual and we have been told the big fireworks display is moving to west potomac park after 9 00. Ahead, driving can be dangerous especially with people behind the wheel with cell phones in their hands. A new trend may put more lives at risk. What is a broken nose . Apparently nothing can stop max scherzer. Can you believe this . We werent sure when he was coming back . He is the best. He pitchedast night when it comes to Home Appliances we want them to be affordable and economical and dependable. Today at 5 00 we will show you the top rated brands from washer to dryer to offenses and refrigerators. We are working for a new study shows millions of people are hitting the road pipe. Hitting the an estimated 15 million drivers admitted getting behind the wheel aftersing marijuana. They say drivers seem to have a disconnect when it comes to marijuanas effects of driving ability. The founders found 70 of rivers dont think they will get caught whiledriving for stone. There is no breathalyzer for marijuana like alcohol. So zero tolerance policy when it comes to driving at the wheel while stoned. They say it doubles the react iond an for getting in a crash. A 75yearold runs behind the car to try to sop it from rolling and she falls over. A Police Officer was there and ran over to stop the car. The woman was taken to the hospital and is expected to be okay. Time for a look at our s foreca hot and humid, chuck bell. Indeed. A summerlike day around here and probably end with a good chance of Severe Weather. The peek threat time will be between 4 00 and 9 0 on. Upside if youre heading for the beach the weather will be 100 perfect. Not so we are in weather alert mode day. Chuck bell is monitoring the chance for severe afternoon storms and join us in a few minutes for a look what to expect. Justin trudeau heads south to meet with President Trump at the white house for a discussion on global trade. Nbc news Craig Boswell joins us live from capitol hill with more on this. Reporter good morng. Canadian prime ministerus jtin trudeau is meeting with p president troday at the white house. Theer two lead really in their last meeting about trade, which is what they are talking about today, their last meeting about tra at the g20 really was a got of tension when they wrapped up that meetin when they were discussing tariffs at the time. But today they are talking about the u. S. And mexico and canada trade pact. Last november 30th the threead s signed that deal with a placement for nafta but that deal has not been ratified by the u. S. Congress. Mexico, yesterday, ratified the deal but Justin Trudeau has his own reelection sdoeral months the road so a lot of moving parts here. This is the largest freightad tr deals. The u. S. Exports some 320n bio t canadian an import 306 millionand vehicles and machinery we bring in from canada and we have talked about for several days nownd weeks what we bring in from mexico. Mexo now the biggest trading partner with the u. S. And recently becoming the biggest trade artner. The importance of this deal is not st on the president. The president will want to p pressure on congress to ratify this deal but, right now, there tension between the president and House Democrats that such a pitch level this may not beon their radar screen quite yet. Thank craig. Next week is the democratic president ial debate. The first of the 2020 campaign season. Ill be reporting live from miami covering the twonight event. You can see my reports next wednesday and watch the debate on news4 wednesday night and thursday night at 9 00. Overnight fire and crash may pact your morning commute on the beltway. This happened on the outer loop near i66 and Megan Mcgrath just arrived on the scene and joins us live with more. The outer loop of the beltway is completely shut down and they are touring traffic on to 66 the westbound direction. Ill step out of the way so you can see the scene. A lot of Emergency Responders here. This accidentlv invoed a tractortrailer crying ice cream. It wrecked after the ramp to 66, caught on fire. At this point, i was told by state ooper on the scene they are trying to gethings they n open one or two lanes to lso me of the traffic get by but they are not ther they still have documentation tod investigation do, so for the time bein all of the lanes on the outer loop are closed. Thelve our yo express lanes are also clared in this ea. We dont have a timetable in terms of whenbe they might able to let some of the traffic they are working on that but we are not there yet. Thr im Aaron Gilchrist. Thu. They are working on that but we are not there yet. Im Aaron Gilchrist ththu. They are working on that but we are not there yet. M Aaron Gilchrist. Rothu. They are working on that but we are not there yet. Im Aaron Gilchristuthu. They are working on that but we are not there yet. Im Aaron Gilchristghthu. They are working on that but we are not there yet. Im aaron ylchrist. If travel about this area youll be forced off at 66. Any injuries . Im sorry . Any injuries . Any injuries in that crash . Reporter we are trying to confirm that. I dont want to give information about that until we have it official. Ill get back to you on that in the next half hour. Megan mcgrath, thank you. Federal investigators are trying to figure out what caused a train carrying military ammunition and chemicals to derail in nevada that happenedt yay afternoon. More than 20 cars flew off the tracks. Hazardous material alert was a declared nearby high was shut down. Its not believed any threat to the public exists. Officials say they feel they are quite literally dodging it. A Health Committee plans to question top official about the problemag pld d. C. V. A. Medal center. This is because of a multiyear investigation by the news4 iteam. The hearingets under way at the u. S. House Oversight Committee in tyburn building a capitol hill. The scomeoubcttee is chaired by jerry nadler. They will alking about several news4 i team reports in which we reported a man overdosed in the parking lot of the Medical Center and his body was undiscovered by v. A. Staff more than a day and they willta about the recent escape of a patient from the psychiatric ward from the Medical Center. He went through the Ceiling Tiles of a shower and got outside the building and got to a home in manassas. He went through the emergency room and asked someone in the emergency room the staff at the hospital to call a taxi cab. They called him a cab . Yes. Reporter he was wearing his hospital scrubs . He was wearing scru and a tank top. Reporter several local members from this subcommittee will local questions about troubles at a local Medical Center. Scott macfarlane, news4 iteam. Od the iteam will report on the hearing later t and its working on a special. Tune in on saturday for under scrutiny inside the d. C. V. A. Storm team 4 weather alert day. Increasing chance for Severe Weather late in the afternoon and evening. Dry and quiet start to the day but end with clap of thunder across the area so be ready. This morning, skies are partly to mostly cloudy. It is thick outthere this morning. 76 humid degrees. South winds for now will be increasing sou hwesterly wind later on in the day. 15 to 25 Miles Per Hour. That southwest wind will pump in heat and humidity and the h approac a cold front will be the trigger for Severe Weather later in the day. Right now, we are in the mid70s around mostly i95 corridor. Upper 60s to near 70 in the western suburbs. Nyour weather will be hampered by weather the morning and early part of the afternoon but 4 00 and 9 00, expect thunderstorms across the area. Not everybody is going to get storms but those who go are facing a Severe Weather threat. There is the cold front through thellhio va. Severe weather before the sun is up across alabama, mississippi, and louisiana. That threat comes our way later on ithe day today. The highest chances for Severe Weather along the i95 corridor and especially the southern half of the chunere4 nation. Heis future weather. Here is the good ews. Tomorrow breezy. Fresher air moves in tomorrow. We will be dry for friday saturday and sunday. First 4 traffic has a busy g mornin. We are talking about thewa beltshut down outer loop is closed at6 6 right now because of this crash investigation. Megan mcgrath was just telling us about. All traffic being pushedn to westbound 66. You can get past that. Uter loop express lanes are closed and pushed to westbound 66. Initially you were able to get by in the outer loop express lanes but not the ramp is osed. Ies atnot know about inj this point. 95 northbound and southbound, no major issues right now. E 270 looking pretty good from 70 to 66 Miles Per Hour gets you there in 27 minutes. A little more than 36 hours after breaking hisose during unting practice, max scherzer was back on the mound last night supporting a black eye but he threw ten strikeouts in the game. 88 double digit strikeout game of his career. Nats went on to beat the maillies. X scherzer, there you go. Here isor one f peanut fans. Planters peanuts has released a limited edition basketball sneaker a called the crunch force one. Stop it combination of yellow, blue, and black there. Theyeature mr. Peanut logo. If youre interested you have until tomorrow to buy the sneakers and run a salty 170. What . Good luck with that wow. We are following breaking news on the beltway. Crash on the outer loop at i66 leaving a mess. We are live on the scene and tracking how this will impact your morning commute. Im a migraine sufferer and im an emt. When i get a migraine at work, its debilitating. If i call out with a migraine, thats onee ess ambulance to serva community. I just dont want to let these people down. Excedrin migraine. Relief that works as hard as you do. Now on news4 today, aie fry overnight crash maympact your morning commute. It shut down part of the beltway. We ain working for you help you get around the backup. Developing overnight, a u. S. Military drone shot out of the sky by amissile. Where it happened and w the military says launched the attack. Shoppers love Farmers Market for the pressure local foods but dangers could be lurking at these stands. Working for you to ke your family from getting sick. Good morning. Its 5 00 a. M. Now. Im Aaron Gilchrist. Im eun yang. Its thursday. Almost friday, right . A lot to catch you up including breaking news. Outer loop of the beltway is shut down and Melissa Mollet is standing by with pdates in your first 4 traffic. Lets start with chuck bell with the forecast. Traffic may be snarled but not because of the weather this morning. Your afternoon and evening commutes, that could be a weather problem before anything else. Storm team 4 weather alert today. Severe storm chanc increase with pim later into the afternoon. Hot, humid and breezy. In the 90s tod. Later into the a. Hot, mid and breezy. In the 90s today