It is going to be heavy downpour. The main thing i am concerned about is flooding concerns. We have so much moisture. It isoing to come down to the surface and right now no rain out there. We again have the snshine out there. Most of the fog is burned off. Here are the temperatures. We are in the 70s or the lower 80s. 82 in d. C. Feels already like 88 here in d. C. We know it is going to be a hot day. Feeling like 91 in baltimore, 93 in annapolis. A warm day out there. If you are heading to the pool today, it is not going to be that bad early afternoon through the morning. But any time after 2 00 or 3 00 we will see storms develop. Ets talk about your sund coming up. All right lauryn, thank you. Happening today far rigld groups ho a major rally that could be i heatedn the district. An Antifascist Group got a permit to gather across the street. Now live with more on todays events. What is it looks like out there . W right all calm and quiet. You can see preparations are underway for a rally a couple of hours from now called demand sp free ech. Sponsored by right wing gups saying their free speech isbe ng infringed upon. Organizers here say the folks on the other side should be joining them for that. You canee they have a lot of security all the way across pennsylvania avenue on 14th street. The organizer said this is not needed. They want us quiet. They want us not having our event. This is a peaceful event. We did it in San Francisco. We d a totally peaceful event. On the other side of 14th street will be the other side of the issue. Allout d. C. Will have a coalition of groups there and plan to drown these guys out with music. The local music of washington. Thrown into the lurch will be the proud boys. Th are there providing security for the group. They talked about San Francisco not being a problem. The groups got together in oregon and it was a problem. Both sides say they wont start anything. Police are here to see that happens. Now back to the breaking news in california. Officials are still waiting for he sun to come up to get a fresh look at the damage from last nights quake and experts say there may be even more aftershocks. As Southern California was recovering from a jy fourth earthquake, a larger, more powerful quake hit in its wake. Largest quake in my life. I was really scared. These residents that lived near the epicenter were in the backyard pool when the quake started. A it ced items to fall off of store shelves, roads to crack and sparking fires. A significant amount of fire and rcue and mutual aid from the los angeles, riverside, San Bernardino dinno and Fresno County areas. Shaking felt across Southern California andas las v and mexico. Baseball fans at Dodger Stadium got a jolt. S seismolo say it was on thea same ft line as thursdays 6. 4 shaker 150 miles from l. A. In the mojave desert. The largest quake to hit inSouthern California 20 years. The last above 6 was a 7. 1. Years ago. Thearthquake offered shaking in los angeles, city Officials Say there are no reports of instructal damage. But the reality of living in earthquake country reminded residents to be prepared for the big one. All right. Will continue to follow all of the breaking developments as firsts responder get a better look at the damag this morning. You can check the nbc washington app for all of the updates. And this morning wizardsand capitals owner ted leonsis is mourning the loss of a friend killed weekend in maryland. They died when their jet ski crashed into a marker. Sessions efs theceo of a Company Called red river, a partner of monumental sports. Heso was a s Ticket Holder and travelled with the team to ndon for a game. A stretch of route 29 will close monday at noon to improve one of the regions most dangerous intersections. An crews plo flatten the road by removing hills making it hard to see the traffic light on the other side. The southbound lanes wont be affected. We are told the project is expected to last through early august. Now video that has taken overe thternet. Shows a girl licking a tub ofue blbell ice cream, puts it back in the freezer. Edpolice identifi her and say she did it in a walmartn east texas. Blue bell pulled all of their ice cream aoss the nation. If you want to read how authorities caught her search blue bell in our nbc washington app. Nbafans, we have so news for you. Kawhi leonard is signing d aeal in los angeles but is not playing with lebron james. Allstar forward Kawhi Leonard is joining the l. A. Clippers. Not only did they get leonard. The clippers pulled off a huge trade acquiring Oklahoma City thunder allstar paul george. Two of the leagues biggest names will be in l. A. I wanted him to go to the lakers but we will e. By archie will be christened today in a private ce it will be unlike the christenings of his royal cousins. A small group of friends and family will gather. But we learned that Queen Elizabeth wont be attendin if you are dying to see the pictures the family will post pictures on their social media page. A house fire leaves a family of nine without a home. And now their community is rallying around them. Find out how you can help tooen od news4 t a family of nine has been displaced after a fire ripped through their home. The community is trying to make life better for him and his children. I came out of the house, i saw flames coming out of the garage. Michael called 911 on wednesday when he saw his neighbors ouse fire. The family of nine inside make it out . They were all running out of the house. The smiths and their seven kids were safe but the home was so damaged they cant live there for now. For a family this large it is devastatin devastating. The smith family are good people. Ey are like the people that you want to have you ki play with. The people you want to live next door. They organized a fundraiser and as a thank you for all they haveor done f their hometown of buoy. They both grew up here and that is a huge testament. Lance is a soccer coach among others. If my ds could only play certain sports because coach lance would drive them to practice or the game and be there to help when i couldnt be. The community wan r toturn the favor. I want to get them in there as quickly as possible. Th firetarted in the garage. When that happened it destroyed a lot of the athletic equipment that the dad and the kids use. Insurance is not going to replace that. All right. We want to give you a live look outside. I a hot day. Temperatures are going to heat up. Why we are in weathealert why we are in weathealert why we are in weathealert this is how driving should feel. The techadvanced nissan leaf. The best selling electric vehicle of all time. This is nissan intelligent mobility. Start the car start the car the ikea summer sale. Wooooooo save up to 50 off select items in sre only ul june 26th to j7th. Ikea. It is 9 15. Welpme back. Exect to have company if you are heading to the beaches in delaware this weekend. The sand is hot, the water is cool. That guy doesnt like the water, rywhere. Ellas are ev a lot of people decided to spend their 5th of july here. Ie wanted ic cream. They are happy get you a coop of delaware peach or apgical unicorn. The beach hpy to see feet on the boards and people spending a lot of money. This lady needs to find shorts asap. Way too hot for jeans. I am going to get some shorts. Chairs, umbrellas, sweatshirts. Those are the top sellers. They say the summerstarted off slow but it really picked up. The manager says keep coming. Lots of sandwiches to folks coming off of the beach. Businesses seeing more of all of them, way more than in 2018. So far itas been much better. If you are coming in from northern d. C. Or the baltimore area, pack some patience, you are go to need it. It is extra crowded this weekend. Again, bring your patience. Sounds lovely, doesnt it. It is so hot and sticky. I always say i cant complain. I would much prefer extreme heat than cold. I dont blame you. The cold that we have aroun here. Right now the opposite of a windchill, heat index, 88 is what it feels like here in d. C. Just 9 00. 9 17. We are on our way to a hot day. 100 . The heatndex will be around 100, similar to yesterday. I feel like the humidity is thicke it is like a blanket. T tha is why the temperature will oly get t 90 but feel like it is closer to 100. But we do have sunshine,ei ved sunshine out there right now. We have clouds earlier. It was an eerie sunrise out there. Oranges and reds, iut it on my instagram page. The s came up this morning and now we are looking at sunshine. I t is hot out there already. Let go and take a look at the headlines. Some of these could be severe. It will be heavy rain. Winds will be secondary to that. Really heavy rain possible. Could lead to. Flooding moisture in the air. T will come down to heavy downpours there. I think we will have it throughout the day tomorrow. Current temperatures out there now in the 70s, low 80s. 82 in the district. You factor in the humidity. Feels like 93 in annapolis. 88 in washington. It is hot. Hot already. Again it will be like that throughout the day. You are going to the nats game taking on the royals at 4 05. We will have scattered storm t it will be 90 close 100th wi the heat index by first pitch. 5050 shot at seeing the storms move over nats park. But we are going to have at least a chance and we will have chances tonight and into the overnight of scattered showers and thunderstorms. A few sprinkles but everybody else is dry right now. Kind of moving really slow. That gives you an indication of how it will go. They are going to hang out there for a little whileand drop a lot of rain into the area. Slow movs. Two, three we see the storms popping up around the region. Heavier rain at 30. I know we have fireworks tonight too for your saturday. The sun goes down 20 minutes until 9 00. We will still have scattered showers and thunderstorms around. Through the late evening hours as asystem comes through the area. Maybe a few storms. It will be more stabilized tomorrow. It will still be muggy. The heat index in e 90s. Few lingering showes. We will start to clear out. It will be around there tuesday and wednesday. This is what we are seeing now. Humidity but you will not feel any raindrops. Rain on thursday afternoon through thursday night, fridaya into the weekend we are good. Look at this. Yeah. Looks like it will be wa rm welcome back. This story we are talking about a Charity Hockey game that was started in buffalo yesterday, they are working to raise about 1 million. N that is a lot of money. They dont p on stopping the charity game for more than a eek. Called the 11day power play. They are not full days. Teams play in threehour shifts. Certainly not just two teams on the i theole time. More than 2,500 players are expected to hit the ice. The same group broke the world record back in 2017. Ha tt is incredible. We know hockey is a lot of en urance. I can imagine. Just think of their calf and thigh muscles. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Take alo at this lake in china. The sea of glowingolors because of the soaring temperatures the region has been seeing. They are covering more than 80 square miles and the temperature in that part of the country are expected to keep going up and up and up. That means the colors will get more vibrant. Wow. That is really interesting. You fly above there when you are land. Yeah. Yeah. Now to a story you will remember the next time you have omething happening with your car. A family in connecticut found a slhering boa curled up under theirngine of the car. The car owner ended up pulling it out. T ee things i cant do. Snakes, roachs, rats. This would have freaked me out. Police are looking for the owner. But for now a neighbor that owned a few snakes off ed to care for it. Boa constrictors are often kept as pets. Yeah. Yeah. I can see it with snakes but roachs and rats. Yeah. Come on. All right. There is a lot of protocol to remember if you ever meet the queen of england. Thursday she met someone that did not need to worry about any ofhat. Olive the duck with the queen. Volunteers at the park says olive thinkshe is human. Must think she is royal too. Neregard. No respect. Walking in front of the queen. N wea was delighted to meet olive but still didnt touch her. We have been trying to find out why the queen met the duck. Exaclly. Ight guys, if you are he following t weather outside today you are going to want to ollow up fo storms later on this afternoon after 2 00 or 3 00. Some could beg. Stro you step outside and it is already a sauna. Lets talk abouthe timing of compare comcast business to your current provider. My Current Service provider does not provide half of what you provide. And to know that my ci could save money . Ider id be thrilled. This sounds like a whole businessackage, which would be incredible. So what are you guys waiting for . Lets do it. laughs comcast business gives you more. Switch now and get fast, reliable internet for a new low price of 39. 95 a month. Plus, get free installation. Better, faster . I mean sign me up. Call today at 18005016000. Comcast business. Beyond fast. And this a loving reminder from his wife. Ill preparing for takeoff this is will finally depositing that expense check. Oh, and this is inll paying his brother law back with zelle for their annual camping trip. And this is will finally relaxing for the long flight. This is your right here, right now bank. This is wells fargo. News4 today starts now. Hi there and good morning. Thank you so much for joining ui on t saturday, july 5th. We have a lot of news to get to. Weinre track the earthquake in california. First i want to hone in closer to home with weather coming through. Good morning, lauryn. Good morning. We have heat and humidity out th there and ink that is an under statement if you walk outside early on this saturday morning. Feeling close to 90 degrees. We have the haze and t humidity. Weather alert for this afternoon. Look at the temperatures. 70s and the lower 80s. Humidity feels like 93 and 88 here. You know it is going to be a hot day if it is already up to this heat and humidity. It will feel closer to 100 degrees. Not lot now but we will have more showers and thunderstorms later. To we continue track the breaking news in Southern California where officials will be surveying the damage after another powerfulqu earthe. Stephanie is live in los angeles with more on how things are looking now the sun is rising. Good morning, stephanie. Reporter yeah. Good morning to you. I am hereoutside downtownos angeles. We are about 150 miles from the epicenter. Quite a distance away. The good news here is that the Los Angeles FiDepartment Reports no structural damage in the city of los angeles but that is not near the race in ridgecrest, caliornia, a small town about 150 northeast of los angeles. Ow the sun is starting to co up here on the west coast rescue workers are surveying the damage so that we will get a better picture as time goes t on to extent of the damage. Man, oh, man. His was a major earthquake. 8 19 friday night. We know it was the major quake. E we did that quake on the 4th of july in the morningha tt was a 6. 4. Seismologists saying that was a foreshock to the larger quake and still a 1 in 10 chance we could see an even larger quake. You started to see people posting pictures on twitter. Store shelves. Things falling off of t store shelves. Cracks and fires. House fires that sparked up as e ult of the quake. Not one but two serious quakes here in Southern California. I c tell you as a residenh ere this is a wake up call. People are running out and making sure they are prepared. What was it like for you . Did you feel this . I did. I felt the first one more than the larger one. I felt it. It e i live i did not feel as severely as others. My friends. My producer really felt a lot of shaking. A rolling motion on this and some people said people felt it lasted a minute. That is very long not knowing hat to do and 1,700 after shocks since the large quake on thursday. Thank you so much for your nd reporting a stay safe out there. N we turn to a developing story closer to home. Overnight fire forced six people out of their townhouse. We are told the firt sarted on the deck. Tw the o adults and four kids were able to make it out unharm. The fire did notpread to homes. Oring far right groups are set t hold a major rally that could get heated because demonstrators are planning to protest. Freedom plaza in about an hour and a half featuring speeches from far rights activi and one block down the road on pennsylvania avenue Antifascist Group iser gathing in pershing park. The proud boys will be providing security today. A police bracing for the possibility of large crowds that might try to clash. Given the opportunity to say what they want to say but we have keep them separate. There are no scheduled street closures for todayspr otest drivers should be planned for random road closures. Ve d in virginia. A stretch of route 29 monday at noon from riley road to vint hill road. They plan to flatten the hill so that you can see the traffic light. We are told the project will last through early august. And what many are calling a case of excessiveforce. Police officers engaging with a suspect outside of a mcdonalds on wednesday night and officer allegedly slammed the suspects head to the ground. He said the incident erodes the trust people have in law enforcement. Police tell us that he was trying to sell hallucgenicus ooms and was resisting arrest. I saw the officer do some ar extracurricctivity as a result of the use of force. That gives me some pause. The Police Officer that kneed the suspect had his police tiwers taken away and is on administrative du for now. Two children in critcoal ition after a road rage s incidentid off fireworks inside theck pickup tru police say a man picked up a gun a man and two children we badly burned and are being treated. And this morning a warning if you plan to enjoy more fireworks this holiday weekend. Fireworks sparked several fires in thregion in the last couple of days. Everyone inside and their pets got out safely. D. C. Fire says the fireworks were legal and improperly used. We are concerned everyyear. On the front porch, roof, the backyard. They explode. If they move. If they fly. Dont use them. Ou yre going to hurt yourself or someidy else. F nearly gutted the home. Police are working to keep people safe from the danger of fireworks. D. C. Police confiscated illegal fireworks and found all of this. President trump is considering using an executive order to get a controversial citizen question on next years census. The Justice Department says it is not giving up and looking to use legal americas on the 2020 census. The announcement came hours after he told reporters his administration is exploring several options four or five ways we can to it. We are working on a lot of things including an executive order. If President Trump makes an executive order it would not override the Supreme Court ruling but may prompt lawsuits by the people that sued in ther fiplace. And the immigration debate will be front and center on meet the pre with chuck todd right here tomorrow after news4 today. Coming up. Cannabis confusion. The changes sparked by the ig iteam investation revealing the limit of drug testing and the legal headachesul that co fa cbd users. Ce ce start the car start the car the ikea summer sale. Wooooooo save up 0 off select items in store only june 26th to july 7th. Ikea. Welcome back. 9 42 is the time. Nt we wa to tell you about the iteam investigation finding Police Fields tets cant popular sh between a Health Supplement and marijuana. A virginia representative says the law has to be fixed. More on how a state lab handles marijuana cases. In a criminal Justice System relying on Scientific Evidence and Laboratory TestingLinda S Jackson say the results at her state lab must be accurate. Before the lawng chaed the definition of marijuana in march tests only had to determine whether products contained thc. W the definition allows for hemp products like cbd that have trace amounts no greater than 3 the lab must be able to amount. Ne the exact sometimes the law is ahead of technology. He cosponsored that rijuana bill taking effect so agricultural pduction of him could begin professional but the law has left people in limbo. Police arrested the store owner for selling marijuana. He says it was cbd. It is tough for police and prosecutors to be aware of eve law immediately. When the lab tested the product they did have thc buton we dt know how much. The field test also come back positive for cbd. They cant tell the difference. Virginia law currently allows officers to use the field tests as evidence in court. I tnk the only thing to legislatures is to urge our partners this is not a place they should be prosecuto ng. The law makes a distinction between testing of plants and hemp products. It says hemp flowers on the packaging and under. 3 thc. You think there wl be a criminal justice look at a marijuanand cbd related laws for next year. Rihave no doubt that will happen. Thanks to your work and investigation that you have done ig has shed lht on that. And the lab director told the iteam evidence requiring the more advanced testingi be on hold. To watch the entire series visit our nbc washington abb and click on investigation. The traffic cones are impossie to miss on i66. They are everywhere. Crews and drivers are getting ready for another phase of road work. Up next why some drivers say they are scared to drive right now. Welcome back. The time is 9 48. E wre talking about the travel corridor in virginia the i66 is under construction at every twist and turn and some drivers say they are nervous to drive on the road right now. I66. It has been called many things. Most of them were not nice. Not long ago it was named the wohwt damn hig in america. Frightening. N right it scares me to ride 66. Ivans liketo ride his mot motorcycle and the traffic and the construction is another em pro pavement is rough. And the motorcycle pulls and i am not that good. 66 is going through a massive change. Outside the beltway new toll lanes are being added. A yeah. This wholea is changing. How about mulch piles as rows and rowsf trees it are used to these huge piles. I usually drive 66 in thern moing when there is a hardlyny traffic and usually avoid it right now. A lane is under construction. Remember, that is the stretch that got so much criticism about sky high tolls at rush hour. A new meeting about all of the work. For maryland drivers the toll lane proposal would look similar to this in virginia. There terror years of construction left. No kidding. I66 is not an easy drive. Dont get caught in traffic from 9 00 a. M. Until midnight. I have to think about it all the time. I am from winchester. Wrong one. Yeah. Wherever you are going today. Put on the ac or jump in the pool or Something Like that. S it i hot out there. I think we are gng to have good pool time. Several hours between now and in to thearly afternoon. But that that we see two orhr ee that is where youwill see the storms poppingvp o the weekend. More showers around tomorrow. Rainshowers will be heavy as well. A few isolated storms. We willot n be as unstable tomorrow. Relief coming byonday afternoon in to tuesday. We have warm temperatures out there. Temperatures in the 80s along i95. 95 in annapolis. 88 here. This is not even 10 00 yet. You know it will be a hydration. Very humid out there. Storms coming from the north and the west and pushing to the south and to the east. About a 60 perfect chance. This storm have been watching. A slow moving storm. A lot of t storms will be slow movers. If you are out there on this saturday you are going to see that could be a while before the storms dissipate. Weee storms after 3 00 popping up around the region. And then we have got more rain heading into the late evening and overnight. We have a trigger for the storms today. We have a frontal system that will be approaching the area. We will continue with a chance of rain monday morning. Clearing out monday afternoon. 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The 7. 1 quake hitting Southern California last night a d after another powerful quake. More on this later. A hot day in store. Yeah. We had that chance of storms moving in after 2 00 or 3 00 that will bring heavy downpours that will bring heavy downpours and diagonaling that will bring heavy downpours compare comcast business to your current provider. My Current Service provider does not provide half of what you provide. And to know that i could save money . Id be thrilled. This sounds like a whole business packa, which would be incredible. So what are you guys waiting for . Lets do i laughs comcast business gives you more. Switch now and get fast, reliable internet for a new low price of 39. 95 a month. Plus, get free installation. Better, faster . I mean sign me up. T calloday at 18005016000. Comcast business. Comcasbeyond fast. Watching television thatsis educational and informational the more you kw on nbc. 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