Us. Im adam tuss. Im jennifer fitzgerald. Our former colleague tom where say a orange sherbert sunrise. You know, lauryn has some good s descriptions awell. We are happy to have her with us. Lauryn, this weather has been aioss the last couple of days. Once ag you walk outside and you are going to feel the humidity and mugginess yeah, tom had a great way of describing things out there. Lets show you guys the sunrise out there rightus now beca it is absolutely gorgeous out there. And we are go g it continue to see some beautiful conditions you see the banner, weather alert. It is red because we have got so more storms on the wayfor today. Currently that i temperature 76 degrees. 76. It is so warm out there right now. Winds are calm right now. Not seeing any rain out there right now, so that is the good eews. But we have mor rain on the way. It will be a little different than yesterday. You what to expect in just a littl bit. Guys. Lauryn, thank you vermuch. Video and pictures of the storm damage have been rolling in since the storm hit last night. So take a look at this. This is on Reservoir Road in northwest. A huge tree clipped this house on foxhall in the foxhall area and landed on wires nearby. It didnt appear as though anyone was home and we have not received any reports of injuries. Meantime, a tree brought more wires down on 38th street northwest in the glovf park area oc. Then it left haanded on a car. Luckily, no one was ht here either, but power was knocked out in the area. And lightning struck a house on north Nelson Streets in arlington. At started a fire. No one was home when that happened. No one was hurt either. The fire mshal was there to investigate. You can see more damage from arou the area last night and an around the clock forecast with our nbc washington app. You can see some tense moments as farright groups and counterprotesters converge in downtown d. C. The two groups faced off just blocks from the white house yesterday. On one side far white activists and White Supremacists on the other, antifascist and black lives matter groups. Our Mark Segraves shows us how police tried to keep the peace. Dont get behind me. You got it . Get behind the line. Youre breaking the law. Reporter police tried to o keep the tw sides apart. I tell you guys to burn the flag, freedom of expression. Reporter but that wasnt always possible. You are terrorists. Reporter in Freedom Plaza r farht activists demand free speech, upset some of their voices have been banned by some social media outlets. Provirong security the p boys, a known white supremacist group. You see the fake news out there. Reporter 200 to 300 supporters showed up. Rme would oppose the faright showed up and that sparked heated exchanges. Police kept a watchful eye on these men calling them testifiea antifa orifascist when they showed up wearing masks. On the other side of the Police Barricade a larger crowdor nized byck b lives matters, including many wearing masks. A Police Officer fell as police were ting toescort a supporter of president trumps out of the kounts protesters area. Even after the rally ended, supporters on both sides lingeringed in therea as police triedep to ke them apart. Ar neefrly three hours of speeches on both sides andsome more shouting in the Streets Police reopened most of the streets and most of the demonstrators left. D. C. Police say they made no arrests at either protest. In the district, Mark Segraves, news4. Police did a very good job out there yesterday, keeping the crowds under control. Some protesters who attended the farright rally at Freedom Plaza plan to meet at trump ternational hotel and then to a vip dinner. Our crew saw folks getting on a bus. Officers separated the groups who hurled insults across police barriers. At least one person was detained. Police are searching for are a gunman responsible for killing a man in southeast. Demarco jones of waldorf s ound dead on burns street early yesterday morning. Detectives said head been shot several times. They are offering a reward for information that leads it an arrest here. A mnssive explosio at a Shopping Plaza in sou florida. Look at the damage here. Patrons scrambled as chunks of concrete and steel rained down on them yesterday. Officials say natural gas exploded at a vacant pizza shopa the g and debris damaged other stores and property. Wow, just take a look at that. More than 20 people were injured, but miraculously no one seed. Witnesrecall the chaotic moment after the explosion. You heard a big boom and then the ceiling started caving in. We were trying get out. To be honest i thought the avengers came or Something Like that. It was just a lot of smoke. It was just something to it wasau trtizing. Yeah, scary for sure. Firefighters found ruptured gas lines in the rubble but are still trying to determine an exact cause of the blast. Meantime, residents in Southern California still on edge after two powerful he thquakes there rocked region. Take a look. Theri 7. 1 quake struck fday night just outside the town of eidgecrest making it the most powerful earthquak to hit the region in 20 years. Co this mes a day after that powerful earthquake struck in the same area on the fourth of july. Htousands are without power or clean water rig now. The governor has declared a state of emergency and he is stressing that residents and officials need to be prepared for an even bigger earthquake in the coming days or weeks. We all, i think, have a unique role and responsibility to bear individually to be prepared for the next earthquake, a magnitude even greater than 7. 1. Scaas. No one w killed in these quakes here, and officials are warning drivers toowgo slly because the region is still experiencing aftershocks. Incredible video. No kidding. Billionaire Hedge Fund Manager Jeffery Epstein is under arrest on sex trafficking charges. The daily beast reported that authorities took him into custody in new york yesterday. Nbc news confirms he is facing feral charges for incidents occurring between 2002 and with 2005. Court documents show dozens of underage girls were brought to his palm beach mansion for what turned outo be sexual encounters. Epstein avoided a lengthy jail sentence years aer registing as a sex offender and paying financial settlements to his victims. Former u. S. Attorney acosta, who is now tmps labor secretary, ovrsaw that deal. Well, police have arrested a man after they say he tried to pay for sex wit a minor. This happened before 2 00 a. M. Yesterday on 8th street in downtown d. C. Police arrested omer taha. And firefighters raced to pull out or to put out a fire at a row home along la place in northeast d. C. Smoke billowing from the top. A witness says firefighters arrived on the scne quickly and knocked the fire down. No one was hurt. And ar reminder fo drivers in virginia. This is a big one. A stretch of route 29 is going m to close trow at noon. It will impact the northbound lanes from riley to vint hill road. V dot crews plan to remove hills that make hard to see the traffic light. The southbound lanes wl not be affected. We are told the project is expected to last through early august. So be aware in that area. I wave to gi you a live look outside your window here. You are looking at the national harbor. A beautiful morning. 76 degrees. Its heating up, and rain is likely heading our way. Lauryn ricketts will be back to let us know when. Stay with us. Well bght back. E this is will preparing fortake. And this a loving reminder from his wife. This is will finally depositing that expense check. Oh, sd this is will paying hi brotherin law back with zelle for their annual camping trip. 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It wraps youn a blanket. It does. You walk out to that thick humidity, guys, thats what were feeling right now. I really think its a little thicker and stickierhan the last couple of days mainly because. Rain that we saw yesterday and last night. Lets take a look outside right now. Beautiful conditions. O were going to have som sunshine this morning, but i believe we are going to have a few showers out there throughout the morning. More showers picking u steam into the afternoon. Even a f storms. Some could be strong. We are weather alert. Heavy downpours is the mainhr tt. Relief coming heading into monday afternoon, monday evening and tuesday and wednesday, thank goodness. Current temperatures right now nobody in the 80s just yet. Degrees. At 79 so we will continue to see that temperature go up to the midtoupper 80s. Now, a few showers around during the Morning Hours and even into the htime. Then some rain. Numerous showers this afternoon and even isolated storms. These are going to be pretty strong rain makers, so we could have some flooding, additional flooding out there. You can see nothing really happening, maybe a few sprinkles right w. Watch for some fog and low visibility especially on the usual spots that generally see it. Otherwise, pretty quiet across themidatlantic. However, we will see these storms pick up as we go through the day. Tomorrow temperatures are going in be in the mid80s. Showers lingering ito the first part of tomorrow along with some storms. Tapering off in the Late Afternoon and late evng. As far as rain chances, i mean, look at this. We could have flooding around the area as we get a couple of inches of rain around the area. So we have got about a 70 chance of rain t about a 40 to 60 tomorrow. Then tuesday and wednesday dry. Ore chances of rain come bac thursday night into friday. We dont warm down cool down, i should say, we warm up in continuinto next weekend. All right. Just hot thinking about it. Thank you so much, lauryn ricketts. Reporters notebook next. We will be ba in 15 minutes with more of the mornings top stories. Good morning. Im pat lawson moose. The controversial decision to cancel plan to move the fbis s headquartert of d. C. And into prince gees shockecounty shocked a lot of folks. An july 4th celebrations shut down reagan national. Scott, a lot of people were shocked when the Trump Administration called the move off. Now the justice dertment, a watchdog, is going to review the decision to keep the building in downtown. You were the first to report this. What else do we know . We know the fbi headquarters in downton d. C. Is old and too small for the fbis work force. It needs to bee raced. Two years ago this week the ump administration canceled plan to move it to springfield or Prince Georges County and that shocked people because both eparinge counties were p for an economic boom and influo workers. Democrats, especially on the House Oversight committee, said the Trump Administration might have called it off because the esident did not want private developers to take over that space wher the fbi office is now and compete withis trump hotel. The administration has said this is a decision they madein pendent of those issues. Buctthe inspeor general of the u. S. Justice department, the watchdog who oversees the justice department, says its going to investigate why the decision was made and the implications from it. And the fbi director actually said the cancellation was the fbis decision. Yeah. W so,hose was it . Thow long do you expect review to take . It could take months if not years. I think this will takeo mhs. They dont take days or weeks. Federal inspectors general take their time with thing. I dont think we will get an answer before the end of the calendar year. So the jury is still out. Ye. And reallyld springfie new n, carrollthey were preparing for this possibility. And those plans, years of work, the transportation initiatives, the infrastructure initiatives were all for naughl, welhe president s big july 4th pns took the city byst rm. More fireworks, the speech at floioversln memorial, and tanks which we havent seen on the city since the end of the gulf war in 1991. They evenpe sused traffic at reagan national. We have seen that beforfor floiovers, but never for fireworks . Yes, the faa is pushing back a little bit. We were saying wngat is goi on . They said we have suspended operations at the airport for, for things like military floiovers or things like that. Theor reason that the fir shut down the airport is because they were moved south to windows potomac park. Thatrp necessitated the airt shutting down between 9 and 9 45. We really didnt find out about it until a couple of daysef bore the fourth of july. So people were scrambling who had made plans to potentially fly into the airport at that time. Some people like to fly in and watch the fireworks. I mean, they actually i got in touch with a person who actually scheduled his flight back from california to lanat 9 21 when the fireworks would be going off. Now because the airport shut down, they were scrambling, they didnt know if their flight would be canceled, if they were going to watstay an extra day. This threw a little bit of a shockwave throughout the system. We dont know how many flights were affected. The Airport Authority couldnt give us an exact number. Needless to say, if you shut down the airport over two hours, thats dozens o flights, hundreds potentially thousands of people that had to find another way to figure things out. Plus air force one lowflying around the national mall. Thats not something that we have seen either. So i think this whole fourth of july was pretty unconventional. To say the least. From the air to the ground, federal records reviewed by the news4 iteam show public buses hit close to20 people a year in the d. C. Area. Cl it ines pedestrians injured or killed in crosswalks. Scott, the nbers actually have been about the same for many ears despite the campais to improve Pedestrian Safety. So are the campaigns just not working . The counties that ruan trsit buses know they have to do more, that the campaigns for pedestrian awareness helped, but they ar anot going to put dent in the numbers. The numbers are high. Ab t 20 people hit a year. Yes, busgainst pedestrian accidents are less common that are car against pedestrian accidents. But when a bus hits you, you are going to injured severely. A bus hits you, a good chance you are going tocodie. Mmunities are trying to take iously. We found that every one of our local jurisdictions, nearly all that transit buses, have some proposal or some idea who to do to change the infrastructure of the bus itself in d. C. Metro bus. They are adding strobe lights to the outside o more buses to be, you know, catch the eye of distracted pedestrians. In Montgomery County they have ededxternal speakers that make an announcement if you are near the blind ot. Perhaps even more ambitiously, they are testing a system that tually automatically brakega bus if s too close to a pedestrian. Ittakes over from the bus operator. Its ambitious. They think they are getting close to making it deployable, but it will be some time still. In d. C. , adam, they put out these yellow to stop people from making left turns and get pedestrians to go to the crosswalk where they are supposed to cross . Yeah, Street Safety is a big issue. You have seen these visn zero plans where they are trying to cut down on deadly pedestrian accidents or deadly traffic accidents and serious injuries. They are trying to eliminate them completely. Things like this with the buses is really a work in progress. One thing metro bus did do, scott was mentions strobe lights. They have this flashing thing to catch the attention of pedestrians. Its not just the bus. Everyone needs to Pay Attention. And a lot of people are distract n distractadays. The yellow markers, the city hah put ese at dozens of intersect pns. They areopping up everywhere and people are startingo notice. Thats why we did a story about it. These are designed to get cars to go out in the intersection a little bit more and make a 90 degree turn. If you go like this, then you are going to have t slow down a little bit. A lot people whatthey do without the devices is slice chrough the crosswalk and the intersection whi increases the risk for a deadly accident. So the city is really trying to come up with this effort. Anything that you n do and i will say, as bad as Driver Behavior is, road design plays a big part in how we get around safely. So if you design the roads in the right way and you make them safer, you can see a dramatic impact. And then the data shows that those do work . Yeah. Well we are seein this year that pedestrian fatalities, ta traffic falities in the city overall are down about 25 year over year. And the mayor has made this a big push. She is doing high visibility crosswalks everywhere. You have these protected bike lanes all over the pla. They are making bike safety a bigger deal. Now you havehese Pedestrian Safety initiatives at intersections. We will see if they pay dividends. Pedestrian accidents are a 12month a ye tng. When you talk to City Planners and engineers and people who operate the vision zeros progr they circle two months, march and october. Warm enough for people to be out and its dark early. Et the dusk hours that can trigger a series of pedestrian accidents. We looked at the data. These are peaks in early spring and early fall. All right. Got to take a break. Back to ba well be right back. Metro could be coming to georgetown. Its bn talked about forome time. Now the idea is being studied to determinwhether it actually makes sense. Therris a huge catch he adam. The catch is building a new station in georgetown means you need a new station in rosalynn. Ea yh. Can you imagine . I wanthis to happen so i can cover the constructionreheted headacs that go along with th ts. Here ishe issue. At rosalynn, you have thelue, tlver and orange lines trying to get througho get into the district. You can only fit so many trains r hour. What metro knows is that it has a bottleneck there. In order to relieve that bottleneck they are thinking about building a second station at rosalynn to divert the blue line and fr of space. That would require a new tunnel nder the potomac and potentially run a route where you go into georgetown, west end, thomas circle, places like that to union station. This is bomething that hasn on the books, frankly, for decades. Its almost like the purple line or the silver line or something t you know, seemed far off but then actually came to fruition. They are studying it now. Why are they studying it now . Well, they know this is metro looking down the line. Looking to20 had45, 2050 and understanding if the system gets back to a point where we are carrying 750,000, 800,000 riders a day, you are going to have a problem down the line, especially with the Development Patterns going on right now. There is so much people dont understand there is so much a developmeund metro right now that they are banking on hundreds of thousands of riders coming back to the system and potentially putting a crush loas on thetem. So metro is being proacti and looking at, okay, thats going to be our Biggest Issue down the line. How do we address that . They are doing whats going to be a twoyear study for something that we all already know. If they want to seriouslyre eve the congestion this that part of the system tr y need anotation and tunnel under the potomac. Its not a gondola that sanys you or athing along those lines. You need to build this. Going through georgetown, can you imagine . No. I can recite cpter and verse all t myths about why metro never went to georgetown. The rock. People didnt want it, so on and so forth. None of that is true. Thet. Just never built this is a study to look whether or not it would make sense and at what cost . Billions. I mean, a tunnel itself would be billions. This would be huge. Dont forget metro has dedicated for the first timeever. They have congressional support. They are looking at a new revenue stream to come in. So once they get the system right, once they fix these things, they are looking towards how they are going to relieve congestion in the system down the line. All right. Constructi construction, Metro Construction of georgetown, the stuff which nightmares great job security for me. 250,000. Thats how many phone calls have poured into the v. A. s new hotline for veterans. So many at the v. A. Had to move the operation to the mountains of West Virginia. Thats a lot of calls since the hotlinetarted two years ago after complaints people couldnt get through. It started o years ago like a pilot project. S it finally coming to fruition. What chef in shepherdstown, West Virginia, is not far from the maryland West Virginia line is a t ofwa rooms filled with phone banks staffed by dozens of veterans and staffers at the v. A. At all times 24 7 to take calls from veterans about someing, access to care, rescriptions, about their benefits checks. They get calls 24 hours a day. They ve a quarter million since opening. They expect 3,000 a weekng movi forward. This represents an improvement in services f de veterans to serve to have their phonecalls answered when ehey need. These medical cers that the veterans use, these clinics veterans use in our area dont have switch boards and fast phoneanswering capability. Their medical staff, their admihestrative staff,are dealing with veterans in the building. Its been notorious in the system, its hard to get a call answered. This is something they try to fix by having somebody kededicad to take cause. Most important, veterans can call if they are having a crisis. These people are trained to patch them immediately to the Veterans Crisis network. They dont want a suicidal vetean unable to speak to somebody. There is a Veterans Crisis hotline. This will serve a double purpose th reinforcing that. We are glad e service is there and the phones are up and working. We want tunderscore we do a lot of things about things that to be fixed. This doesnt need to be fixed. Thank you. Thats reporters notebook. Stay with us now. News4 today continues. St news4 today arts now. And at 6 30 on this sunday morning, welcome into news4 today. Im adam tuss. Im meagan fitzgerald. We are expecting more showers today after a rainy saturday evening. The rain really came down yesterday. Take a look at this video from nats park after the shutout win from the royals. They ere lucky to finish the game before this heavy rain started coming down. We saw severe thunderstorm warnings all night long as aill. R just slammed Eastern Market and arlington fire tellsa home moanre tndstorms coh agryugaiov mg rothinn tt us lauryn, what can we well, we are looking at some more rain showers coming our way. It is cong our waynumerous show thunderstorms coming our way. That was as advertised yesterday. Saw a few showers and thunderstorms. Especially tomorrow night. So we are looking at more showers today. Numerous showers. Be weather ready. We have weather t alert outre for today. Now, we have got a mix of sun and clouds out there this morning. It is muggy out there. Hose temperatures are the mid70s right now. So againrs going we through the Morning Hours, but better chances some nerous o fa region heading into the afternoon and into the evening. So we get a few sprinkles possible out there right now. Watch th fog. We do have a lot of fog out there. Current temperatures, oh, its warm, 79 in annapolis, 76 afheington, low 70sin the shen dmore ou and then heavy rain later on this afternoon throughout this evening a few storms. Im worried about the flooding today. More flooding additional from yesterday. Let. s talk about t thats coming up in just a little bit. Thank you very much. A clash not far from capitol hill. Far right counterprotesters confronted each other outside the trump hotel. They converged hours after the farright rally came to an end t yeday. Police were out in force. But as Darcy Spencer shows us, things did get head. Reporter clashes between demonstrators outside Trump International hotel downtown. Officersd separate the two groups who hurled insults across a police barrier. You are the one hiding fa. Rertr anifa,ur or yo antifascist demonstrators, many wearing helmets and covering their faces and Trump Supporters forced a shutdown of pennsylvania avenue not far from the capitol. I came out here to see the morons protesting our freedom. Reporter police took one man into custody. Its unclear if that person will face any charges. And hose who attended an earlier farright rally at Freedom Plaza plan to meet at trump hotel and go to a vip dinner. We saw some getting on a charter bus, but protesters were waiting. A suit and tie event in private. Its not a rally. Its just people sitting around a nice dinner having drinks and talking to one another. And then anfa shows up and tries to attack us. If White Supremacists are coming into d. C. And ten to one show up to say we isnt want th here, i think that sends a message to young people we will not have hate in d. C. Reporter rlier rally at Freedom Plaza at the white house you justify the crap he has done . Reporter far right activists and known White Supremacists. On the other side antifascists matter. K lives a white supremacist group, proud boys, provided security for the free speech rally. No arrests were made. This morning an uber driver nd three passengers are. Ecovering after a late night shooting in d take a look. Police say a gunman opened fire on thear fridayight. The driver was shot in the finger, was rushed to the hospital. He is expected to be okay. Some passengers were hurt in the by flying glass in thear but did not need to go to the hospital. Police are still searching for gunman and a motive. New ts morning in missouri there is a frantic search for a killer. Police say six people were found st. Louis ome in county. They say on friday night six people were in the house. O on them came back at around noon yesterday and discovered the others dead. Authorities arent saying how they were all killed and the victims identities have not been released. Take a look at this wild chase. Police pur me a who stole this fire truck. Of course, where els northern california. They do these cases thet. Bes the Oakland Fire Department says someone took a truck yesterday morning. The suspected thief led thepo ice on the road through multiple counties. It made its way to restaurant parking lot and collided into the back of a parked vehicle. The iver is now police cust ty. Andhey never end any differentlythan that. Starting today for metro riders the doorsn the red line are going to open a little bit faster. The Transit Agency will start t using automa door opening feature for the first time in years. From hould prevent doors opening on the wrong side of the train and eliminate the delay required as a safety measure during manual operation. Operators have been manually opening the door for years, but after months of testing metro says they are ready to flip the switch. The rest of the line should follow later on in the year. President ial candide and democratic frontrunner joe biden is switching gears. Wee after criticism over comments made aboutit working wh segregationists, yesterday the former Vice President apologized. Last month biden t referenced civility in the senate when he worked with senators who opposed civil rights back in t 70s. Many people criticized the comments, including senator kamala harris. Harris challenged biden on his i comments du the first democratic debate. On was i wrg a few weeks ago . To somehow give the impression to people that i was praising those men who i successfullyop sed . Yes, i was. I regret it. Im sorry for any of the pain or misconception that may have caused anybody. After the debate bidens poll numbers sank and kamala harrisy cketed. During yesterdays event in ol south carina biden defended his record working for civil rights. 6 36. The race for the white house is one of many topics on meet the press this morning. Breaking down the race and the immigration battle after news4 today. Chuck wilbe here for a preview in just about ten minutes. In Maryland Voters have to dentify as male or female when registering to vote. Ca they choose an x or unspecified. The board unanimously voted for the change more than a week ago. It wontcost anything. They will us a the current forms until they run out. These forms include the third od ion. Anit all comes down to we are just hours away from the final. A southern califorccer wp highfive did you see that . Take that, england. The ladies at team usa so inspiring, they are trying to secure the fourth world cup ever. Thats right. But in order to defend their title they are going to have to tht past the netherlands who are tough. Y are a tough team. They are pulling for the upset. But we are defending champs for a reason. Thats right. Find out who wins later this morning. It starts at 11. So you can go from us to meet the press to the world cup. Thats all you need. If you are looking for a place to catch the game they will be howing it on the big screen at national harbor, the waterfront strict, also the wharf in d. C. Its free to attend. Es automatic all ages are welcome. Go team usa play . Pinoe going to reports are she is going to play. She is a beast. Cant wait to see theame. Take look at this. The tall ship providence is now docked in and ex andrea. The ship is a replica from the 700s. This cop hi has a history copy has a history of its own. This was built for out bicentennial in 1976. This ship was in two of the pirates of the caribbean series. We will do daily tours. We will do weekly themed cruises such as craft beer cruises every friday night, familyfriendly pirate cruises on saturday morning, and well do once a month adult pirate cruises, adult wine cruises and sunset sails. The providence is open to the public later this summer. Ou right now y can get a look at it from the dock. Im in. Yeah. That would be fun. All right. Lets open up the window. Take a live look outside on this sunday morning. Already 76 degrees. It is sticky out there once again. Take a live look at the white house and the national mall. You might need your umbrella. Lauryn has a look at your full forecast whewe come back. N no the Great American tent sale at sears. Save up to 50 off summer fashions and sandals including swimwear. Ge plus, yo 15 cashback in points. Shop in store or at sears. Com to start making your moments matter. Hes dancing like nobodys watchinl and because the devices on freds wifi network are protected with xfinity xfi, literally, nobodys watching. Except for millions of you, of course. Wait, millions of people are watching . Yeah. Were making a commercial. If its connected, now thats simpleasy, aw. Its protected, with xfinity xfi. E, get started with xfinity for 79. 99 a month for 2 years. Plus, add xfi advantage for enhanced network security. Click, call or visit a store today. L, this week many of us read ind saw new accounts of the conditions insde those Detention Centers southr. F the borde yeah, the renewed fight over immigration and the border crisis will be front and center late they are morning on meet the press. So chuck todd joins us, moderator of meet the press. Thank you for being here as always. Front and center. Its what is being talked about the debate stage just a couple of days ago. Kids are dying. People are dying in these Detention Centers. I guess the big question is, i mean, where do we go fromi here . Mean, is Congress Going to pass anything on this issue . I dont see h. Its pretty clear the president has no interest in some sort of compromise because he views this perhaps he views it as important to hisolitical coalition, but he sees it as they dont like the conditions, they can go home. T nk he sees the conditions almost as part of the attempt at deterrence. The whole atteattero tolerance, the attempt at family separation was this wasy actuahis idea that somehow it was going to be a deterrent. I think tyve learned that they are not going to be able to do that. But you cant sort of enforce your way out of this problem. People are desperate. You think thats a deterrent . Go to honduras. Go to el salvador. Ill show you deterrent to stay, right . I think thats the part that the president hasnt comprehended. As long as he believes that, where does this compromise happen . I mean, it is they are so far apart here that i thinkt is just about can you at least getr a comomise on how to take care of these fol in the meantime. But i dont see how we resolve this. And me would say if he bent at all, it would be one of his signature exactly. He is not going to politically bend on this. N though the pictures are so i wonder, the one question i have isat what point, if could get our cameras into one a these detention nters, these images rather than zi verbaling these images, would something ge done . Probably. Think the lack of video here is probably keeping the president from acting. Lets talk week after the debate. It seems like abou some of the andidel sbiland ntinue to attac former Vice President. Hnde id everyone forgets when was Vice President. Its interesting. He decided yesterday, you know, and i apologize for the cliche in advance, he said e quoteunquotop the bleeding. He had been just taking incoming on this and heeced to give the speech where in the most important state to his market for the nomination, south icarolina, to givet there, defend his record and ba insica legacy. He is always goin tialkng about theg t be obama biden administration. I think yesterday was trying to say, hey, wait a minute, you are coming after me on race . Barack obama vetted me, okay . I am going to trust his judgment. I think this was his sort ofba shot at her a little bit, at kamala harris, but i tell you it was an interliting. It was a classic whington apology. He apologized to tkose who too it the wrong way,ht rig . I apologize for you istead of owning it. M ashington. Its welcome to washington apologies. It had a tinge of that a little bit. Who is coming up . Jeff merkley, first u. S. Senator to call fornshutting dhe desentention centers. And on the president ial front amy klobuchar. Looking forward to it. You can see meet the press every sunday right here at 10 30 take carre our alost a real titan last week. A member of the Tc Williams High School legendary s 1971te championships has died. He was a fullback whose Championship Team was turned into that film remember the titans. Ba was that team that helped break down racial iers. It taught us how to respect each other. He love each other, but youve got to respect each he otr. Reporter this was posted which Alexander City schools when pe jynes retired from Tc Williams High School in 2018. The man immortalizedin the movie remember the titans was thend soul of the school, retiring months before his death of cancer. Thede movie witel washington portraying herman boone was the story of the schools1971 statel ro championship just months after threerean fluus editct into one racially integrated scho. Hemissed. Reporter former mayor said the teams struggle, bonding, and eventual triumph leave their mark on the city to this day and petey was always there. He would say mr. May, somedaw iant to be like you. Reporter the actor who played jones in remember the titans said people still come up to him and talk about how the movie impacted their lives. When mr. Nesetired the Scholarship Fund for alexandria began an efrt to honor him and the 1971 tight oons with a scholarship. As of yesterday it had raised 225 of the 3,000 goal to help a tc williams studnt get to. Colle jackie bensen, news4. Since jackie filed this s story,ervice arrangements have been announced. A service this friday at baptist. At Bethlehem Church in alexandria. In lieu of flowers the family is asking donations to the in7 or titans fund. What an inspiration. I drive past that high school all the time. Cool to see the history there. You are an alexandria residents . Yes, and our high school in t back in the day played them. Yeah, out in winchester. Pretty interesting. Cool. So is this forecast. I was outside having dinner last nighthe wall of a sudden torrential downpour. It was crazy. I told you not to eat outside. I dont know what you are doing. Not listening to you. Yeah, i i mean,was supposed to rain yesterday afternoon, yesterday evening. Andd. It di we got the nats game in. It was hit ass and miss though. We were talking with chuck. Some places lost power. There were still some Power Outages this morning. A lot of that came through last night as a frontal system came through the area. But showers and thunderstorms are possible once again today. I think we willave a little bit more shower activity. When i say showers, i mean heavy downpours within these showers. Andthen a few thunderstorms as well. Some of those could be a little on the stronge. Si a few showers out there possible this morning. Better chance of numerouser showand a few thunderstorms later on this afternoon. We have the cloud cover out there right n. We have some sunshine earlier this morning. Su peeks of hine happening out there. Widespread rain expected not only tday and the first part of tomorrow. Drying out tuesday and wednesday. Then we have got more scattered rain showers as we get into your hursday afternoon and thursday evening. Nothing happening on the radar right now. We have gotmaybe a sprinkle down here in clark county, but thats about it. So again you are looking at maybe an isolated shower as we go through the morning. T betterances of rain pick up after lunchtime. Temperatures in the 70s rightw. No look at that. Annapolis coming in at 79 degrees. As you wake up this morning a little bit much patchy fog out there, especially through 9virginia. By0 we are going to have the temperatures right around 80. That humidity hits you like a ton of bricks as you walk outside. Temperatures a little cooler today. We are going to be in the mid80s, but again isolated morning. N the numerous showers later on this afternoon and throughout this evening with some stronger storms. Here we go. Again any seowers that we se this morning i think are really going to be confined west of the district. As we continue through the afternoon we will start to see them fill in and be more area wide. Could have oome areas some heavy rain because i am concerned about flooding today because these are going to be slow movers once again, and then by the time we head into tomorrow morning we are looking at some showers. But it tapers off as we go through late tomorrow afternoon and into tomorrow evening we start to get some clearing skies and you are looking better as you head into tomorrow night. Humidity. Temperatures tomorrow in the upper 70s and lower 80s. We have some drying out conditions by that evening commute. So the forecast for tomorrow rs a. M. Showe and a few storms, tapering off after three or four and continuing to taper off 7, 8 00 a. M. Tuesday, wednesday nice. Temperatures in the upper 80s. Thursday and friday, thursday night into friday he will have chances of rain and a few storms. Look at those temperatures. Pretty ho i even goingto next week. Weve got more news right breyers natural vanilla. Milk, fresh cream and only sustainay farmed vanilla. Its made with fresh cream, sugar and milk. Breyers the good vanilla. We proudly partner with American Farmers for grade a milk and cream. Mmm . Floral fusion oil. For caressable soft skin. Indulge in thrich lather. And delicate scent. Pamper yourself. [background music] get caressably soft skin. With caress. Imagine no wait for a table at a nrestaurant,o trouble getting a reservation. Metros summer shut downhas made that a reali in alexandria. Drew wilder dropped in on some well known hot spotst thave gone cold. Reporter inside one of old towns staple restaurants the same Delicious Food that has brought people in for years, this summer they are not coming in. We have seen like a stagnant dropoff, a short dropoff. Reporter it ped off the end of may when metro shut down the king street station to do much needed work on the stations platform. For businesses on king street it cut theilifeline. We always joke about how its just right across the bridge, but when it ces down to the metro not being there, that bridge feels like it might as well be miles away. Reporter a survey of local businesses three weeks after the station shut down. Why would we take the pulse three weeks in . We wanted to know about it in the moment there were still adjustments to make. Reporter they will consider adjustme survey found four in ten businesses are losing money. The closer to the metro station, the worse it gets. As you can see, there is a buffet and i dont have a single guest sitting in th building. Reporter he says his restaurant has taken a 30 to 40 hit. He and the others will have to endure because this shutdown just started. Blue and Yellow Line Service wont flow through king street again until september at the earliest. We should be able to survive hopefully. Hopefully. Hope is the word. Reporter reporting in old townlexandria, drew news4. , ts having an impact. Much more ahead on news4 today. Ageat hourbyhour look your forecast with storm team4 meteorologist lauryn ricketts. Looks good now but rain could be on the way. Stay with us. Wimpy trash bags . Cmon. Hefty hefty hefty hey ladies. Buy hefty® ultra strong™ at a low price. Dada i wish. Get hefty® ultra strong™ costs less than glad® forceflex where sold head to head. News4 today starts now. Aves of heavy rain roll through the d. C. Area again. This time leaving some destruction in thec distri plus, more showers are on the way for your sunday. And dueling rallies downtown. Far right groupsge a freedom of speech demonstration but they were outnumbered by a massive crowd of counterprotesters. Billionaire sex offender Jeffery Epstein gets put in handcuffs after landing back in the united states. More on how this case went from a shady courtroom deal to new child sex trafficking charges. And at 7 00 on this sunday morning i want to welcome you in here. Than for going with us. Im adam tuss. Im meagan fitzgerald. To we are in sre for, it seems like, a sfilar day yesterday. Hot and more storms coming through. It feels like rinse rinse repeat literally with all the rain as well. Lauryn, we are in a pattern thats just kind of continuing y after day. Youre right about that, odam. As we continue to through the next couple of days we will start to see that pattern break down, specifically by tomorrow night intoda tues morning. So thats when well finally see an end. The heat is going to stay with us, unfortunately. Lets ke a look outside. The humidity is so thick out there. Your windows are probably steaming up a little bit because its so thick out there. So again that humidity hits you like a ton of bricks when you ad outside today. I think its worse today than the last couple of days. We are getting some sunshine, cloud cover ot of out there and thats how its going to be throughout the day. Nothing really happening right we have got one little lonely sprinkle leaving clark county and heading hamilton and purcellville. But for the most part we are dry for now. Isolated showerossibleainly west of d. C. As we continue over the next couple of hours. Numerous showers and even a few thunderstorms ter on this afternoon. 76 is our temperature right now on our which a to the mid8 today. Cooler than yesterday. But again its going to be muggy out there and its going to be wet. Lets talk timing of these storms coming up. Thank you. And speaking of these storms, video and pictures have been rolling in since the storm hit last night. Take a look at this. This was on Reservoir Road in northwest. A huge tree clipped this house in the foxhall area and landed on wires nearby. It didnt appear as though anyone was home at the time and no reports of injuries. Meantime, a tree brought down more wires on 38th street northwest in the glover park area of d. C. That tree landed on a car. Luckily, no one hurt, but power was knocked out in the area. And lightning actually struck a house on north Nelson Street in arlington. That started a fire. No one in the home was hurt. Here the fire marshal was there to investigate. And you can see more of the damage from around the area last night and on around the clock forecast on our nbc washington app. Some m tenseoments here as farright groups and counterprotesters converge in downtown d. C. The groups faced off just blocks from the white house yesterday. Now, on one side we had farright activists and white premacists. The other antifascists and lack lives matter. The conditions were set for potential trouble, but as mark o segraves sws us, police kept the police. Dont gethind me. You got it . Get behind the line. Youre breaking the laor. Repr police tried to keep the two sides apart. Burn the flag. Freedomof expression. Reporter bu that wasnt always possible. In Freedom Plaza far right activists rallied under the banner demand free speech upset some of their more outspoken voices had been bannoc by sl media outlets. Providing security the proud boys, a known white supremacist group. About two to 300 supporters howed up on Freedom Plaza for the farright rally. Some who owe poise the farright showed up and that sparked heated exchanges. Police kept a watchful eye on these men called themselves aifa or antifascists when they showed up wearing masks. On the other side a larger crowd organiled by blaces matter gathered to voice their opposition, including many wearing masks. A Police Officer fell as police were trying to escort a supporter of president trumps out counterprotesters are even after the rally ended, supporters on both sides police in the area as tried to keep them apart. After nearly three hours of speeches on both sides and some more shouting in the Streets Police reopened most of the streets and most of the demonstrators left. D. C. Police say they made no arrests at either protest. In the district, Mark Segraves, news4. Some protesters who attended the farright rally earlier in the day at Freedom Plaza plan to meet at Trump International ahotel and go to vip dinner. Our crews saw folks getting on a charter bus. But counterprotesters were waiting. Officers separated thewo t groups who hurled insults across the police barrier. At least one person was detain. Well,this morning d. C. Police are searching for the gunman responsible for killing a man in southeast. Demarco jones of waldorf was fund dead on burns street earlyy yesterdorning. Detectives say he had been shot several times. They are now offering a rewardf information that leads to an meanwhile, investigators will be back on the scene after a massive explosion at a Shopping Plaza in south florida. Take a look at the damage here. Patrons scrambled a chunks of concrete and steel rained down on them yterday. Officials say natural gas exploded at a vacant pizza shop. He blast and debris damaged other stores and property. More than 20 people were injured, but miraculously no one died. Witnesses recall the chaotic moments after the explosion. Heard a big likeoom and the ceiling started caving in. We were trying to get out. To be honest, i thought like the etavengers came or somng like that. It was just a lot of smoke. It was just something to it was traumatizing. It was traumatizing. Wow. Firefighters found ruptured gas lines in the rubble, but are stillte trying to deine exactly the cause of the blast. Meantime, sidents in Southern California still on edgewo after t powerful earthquakes there regked the rn. Take a look. This is bad. You can see the Grocery Store asre shaking the ground rumbling underneath it. The 7. 1 quake struck friday night outside the town of ridgecrest making it the most powerful earthquake to hit that region in 20 years, and it comes aday after a powerful earthquake struck the same area on the fourth of july. Thousands are now without power and clean water. Californias governor gavin newsom is stressing that residents and officials need to be prepared for an even bigger earthquake in the coming days and weeks. We all, i think, have a unique role andesponsibility prepare individually to be prepared for the next earthquake, magnitudeeven greater than 7. 1. The good news here, no one was killed in any of these earthquakes. Officials are warning drivers to go slowly because the region is still experiencing aftershocks. BillionaireHedge Fund Manager Jeffery Epstein is under arrest on sex trafficking charges. The daily beast first reporteu that orities took him into custody in new york yesterday. Nbc news confirms he is facing federal charges for incidents occurringetween 2002 and 2005. Court documents show dozens of underaged girls were brought to his palm beach mansion for wh turned out be sexual encounters. Pstein avoided a lengthy jail sentence years ago, registering as a sex offender and paying finaial settlements to his victims. Former u. S. Attorney alexei cost a, who is now president trumps labor secretary, oversaw that deaot epstein is n commenting. D. C. Police arrested a m after they say he tried to pay for sex with a minor before er 2 00 a. M. Yesty on 8th street northwest downtown. Omere arrested 63yearold taha from annandale, virginia. Rg he is cha with enticing a no mir. And firefighters raced to put t a fire at a row home on lang place in northeast d. C. As e billowing from the top flames were coming out of the attic. A witness says firefighters arrived onne sce quickly and knocked the fire down. No one was hurt. A rminder forrivers in virginia. Stretch of route 29 is closing tomorrow at noonfor a long time. This is going to iact the northbound lanes from riley road to vint hill road. Now, v dot crews plan to flatten the road by removing hills. They make it hard to see the traffic light in that area and there have been a high number of crashes. The southbound lanes will not be affected. We are told this prect is expected to last through early august. And the fourth of july may beover, but many are still rocking the red, white, and blue. The annual Independence Day day yesterday. Darcy spencer was the emcee. An antique and classic car show followed the parade. On top of that there was some dancing, musical performances, and the night concluded with fireworks. This was the41st year of tl aurel celebration. Looked likeoo a gd time. Coming up, the ws4 iteam is working to keep you safe on the street. Our Scott Macfarlane found local public buses hit nearly 20 people every year. Ahead we will take you to Virginia Tech where researchers there are hopi to prevent these kinds of accidents. Its 7 10. Good mning. Or at 7 12 we want to welcome you back with breaking news from the beltwa this morning. A deadly crash has stopped traffic on the inner loop right now. One person dyperson died at the scene. Another rushed to the hospital. No wordhat caused this crash. Out lanes on the outer loop are open. More as this develops. And this morning the news4 iteam investigates bus blind spots. More people are walking local streets this time of year with residents and tourists crowding the crosswalks a it can bed angerous. Now government officials and trms tnsportation researchers are trying to make sure those crosswalks are safer starting with the biggest vehicles on the road. Its a challenge. Our Scott Macfarlane looked whats underway to protect you. A wning. Some might find these images thin this report a little disturbing. All right. Looks like we are having issues with that story. We will get to that as soon as we can. All right. Switchg gears here, there is much more on the story though in that nbc washington app. And we will ge to that in just a few time right now is 7 13. We are going to be back with your weather m and a look re news as we start this sunday morning here. 76 degrees. Lauryn says you might also need get the deals atw during the gmerican tent sale at sears. Save up to 30 off appliances. Like this ken fridge for twelve ninetynine ninetynine. Plus, you get 300 cashback in points over twenty weeks. Shop istore or at sears. Com to start making your summer moments matter. Shop istore or at sears. Com by finding the best deals on paint and stain. Lowes knows you do it right we do it right too, with big savings on top otbrands like valspar, cab and hgtv home by sherwin williams. The time is right at lowes. Welcome back. The timeis 7 16. Back to that i amstory. We were having technical difficulties with it. Talking about bus blind spots. More people are walking local streets, as we mentioned, this time of year and it can be dangerous. Now government officials and transportation researchers are trying to me the crosswalks safer starting w the biggest vehicles on the roadw. Thats right. And Scott Macfarlane was looking into the ways they are trying to protect you. A warning. You might find an image or two here a bit disturbing. Reporter youorkharder to move faster than tina glenany, o personal trainer who used beat the traffic on foot in arlington. Until one night in march 2016 i didnt usually go that way home. D reporter when she cros 15th street with the right of way. I was 22 feet into the crosswalk. Reporter and was struck by a metro bus and trapped underneath. I didnt have time to scream. Reporter the bus dragged her nearly 50 feet. A pedestrian saved me and stopped the bus. So that was pr reporter tell me about that. Another pedestrian intervened to stop the bus . He ran up to the bus and stopped. Banged on the door. Reporte she was rescued by firefighters, suffered traumatic injuries to her legs that required eight surgeries and rehabilitation. She sued andettled for a confidential amount. He didnt see you . I dont think he did. Reporter last december a tour bus struck and killed her mother as they used the crosswalk in downtown d. C. The Nations Capital is saturated with tour buses and the area has more than00 1, local transit buses. So the iteam reviewed 15 years of federal records and found nearly 20 people get hit transit buses in our region each year. Thats not counting theol scho or commercial buses. Its a oblem that plagues decision andbs subur alike. Its rough being a pedestrian here. Reporter Councilmember Evan glass woies the risk could grow as see increasing foot traffic. People are choosing to walk and take bicycles and other forms of transportation so we need to modernize andat upde our rules and regulations. Reporter making the roads safer is just part of the solution. Transportation researcher andrew courtroom is working on technology to alert the driver. All of a sudden somebody jumps out. Reporter and the pedestrian on the str dont look up before they cross traffic. S reporter the problem iso if gnt sian aic thsoeylutionres he virginia ch, trying to find a way to make the streets saf for the pedestrians and the drivers and passengers of the buses and cars. Using a dummy in place of a pedestrian, his team shows u why so many people on foot are at risk. He says t busese turns at a speedeof five miles pr hour, the same speed fast walkers or joggers move, creating a moving blind spot. The bus may be matching the sried of ns. Reporter his team is testing new technologyhat would alert bus drivers to a person who is just out of view. The system automatically triggers the brakes when the bus gets too lclose to ede pestrian. It gives a audible tone and a red light goes off. Reporter the technology is still under development but local transit agencies say they re trying to eliminate these accidents. Metro buses added strobe lights. Omni ride uses video training for drivers and is adding more mirrors to increase their view of the road. Loudoun county has internal a external cameras so bus roperat can better see the riders. An announcement will come out saying caution, this bus is turning. Reporter back in arlington, tina is focused on putting the trauma from the bus collision that nearly cost her her life in the rearview. You have tohaind a new y and a new goal. At that time it was like, okay reporter a goal she is determined to achieve one step at a time. Scott macfarlane, news4 iteam. There is much moreon this story on our nbc washington app. Including how local transite agncies are training bus drivers to better position their bodi to avoid crashing in pedestrians. There you can also send the iteam any tips they should be looking into asgoell. To be safe out there. Thats everybody. Drivers, pedestrians, everybody. Distractions at an alltime engh, so Pay Attention. Especially wh the weather isnt good. Laurynricketts, Pay Attention out there. I am paying attention. All t time. See lauryns great jeep cominhe down t road, get on the other side. Just pull over. Thats my biggest fear is hitting someone. Oh, yeaca people come out of nowhere. And our regional has grown so much. People are everywhere now. Especiallyke bi bicyclists. I am scared of that. Scooters. Thats another thing. My goodness. We could talk about for t that for the next 15 minutes. Lets talk about theea wer. Rain and lightning. We have the world cup game going on, the finals. I think a lot of people will be out andabout down watching it. Again you might want to go ahead and jump in that uber because we are going to have rainhy w are you laughing . I am not laughing. Im giving everyone n transportatiovice. Would you like to jump in there. You are doing. A great job i know. All right. I know about the marine life. There you go. There you go. All right. Lets go ahead and take a look outside right now. Listen, thatsot what it looks like outside. Thats actually just a graphic, a little picture that i have behind my map because i looked outside and theas camera wt pointed where i needed it to be. We are not looking outside but we are looking at the weather headlines. Numerous showers today especially this afternoon. A few isolated ones before after lunch a better chance for numerous showers. Thunderstorms, some which could be strong. T reliefmorrow night into tuesday finally. Current temperatures right now in the 70s. 76 here in the district. Annapolis at 79 degrees. Visibility down as well, especially through southern virginia and up towards martinsburg and hagerstown. 85 degrees will be the daytime high today. 8 00 a. M. We are only going to be in the upper 70s. Only. D then wz we get into the noon and afternoon hours lowtomid 80s. Now, you walk outside, the thanity i think is thicker it has been the couple of mornings. We will have an isolated shower this mhning and more showers and a few thunderstorms pose this afternoon. Nothing happening out there right now. We have a little sprinkle coming out of clark county and into purcellville. Thats dissipated at this point. Again, here we go. Ca 1 00 sered showers and again a few thunderstorms. Any of these you are going to have the potential t drop a lot of rain. We are not going to have them all over the place but we are rsing to have widespread widely scattered showend thunderstorms. Heavy rain possible into the overnight. I think there will be fog tomorrow morning. We will be dealing with rain for the morning commute. Rain at lunchtime and it pushes iout Late Afternoon ato the evening. The humidity drops off a little bit. We will have a little bit of humidity around for tuesday. It jusont be that wet. Well finally have some sunshine on tuesday. Heavy rainthe main impact today. If wst get am, could have damaging winds in that as well. Now, for tomorrow temperatures are going to b in theupper 70s and lower 80s due to the rain and the clouds that we are going to have around. Tuesday and wednesday we are back to near nine90 degrees. A touch of humidity. Its going to be on the rise. Next chance of rin comes thursday night and into friday. A few showers and thunderstorms. But we stay warm going all the y into next week. Weve g more news right afterot at havertys we know everyone has different tastes. And this Independence Day were making it easy to find your style at havertys 4th of july sale. And right now, get free financing for up to five years. Its big savings on furniture thats already marked down with more styles and Custom Fabrics to choose from. Celebrate your independence with furniture that fits you. Oo havertys life loo welcome back i time nows 7 27 on this sunday morning. As the museum gets ready to shut its doors we are learning more about what the buildings new owner has in store. Yeah, John Hopkins University recently submitted a plan to convert that building n pennsylvania avenue into a stateoftheart educational facility. This is what it could look like. As you can see, the school isnt proposing a dramatic change to the outside. We know that the massive first b amendment tt will be removed. The museum is set to close the end of the year. It hasnt announced a new location yet. And we are keeping an eye on the weather. Giving you a live look outside right now. 76 degrees at 7 27 this morning. Its going to be a hot day. La ryn ricketts is also tracking storms moving through. She will be back with a look at our forecast coming up. Our forecast coming up. Stay with us. Prestige creams not living up to the hype . One jar shatters the competition. Olay regenerist hydrates skin better than creams costing over 100, 200, and en 400. Fact check this ad in good housekeeping. Olay. Wihefty hefty hefty n. Hey ladies. Buy hefty® ultra strong™ at a low price. Dada i wish. Get hefty® ultra strong™ costs less tn glad® forceflex where sold head to head. Announcer news4 today starts now. 7 30 on this sunday morning. We want to welcome you in. Tha s you so much fortarting your day with us. Im adam tuss. Im megyn fitzgerald. We are expecting more showers today after a rainy saturday evening. Yeah, that rain really came downn places. Here is video from nats park after the team shut out the royalsyesterday. Both squads lucky to finish the game before the heavy rainsrt sta falling. We saw some sevre thundestorm warnings all night long. It was a soaker. Rain slammed Eastern Market. Arlington fire said lightning sparked flames at a home. More thunder borms could moving through again today. But there is some relief in sight. Lauryn ricketts is tracking whats coming today. Lauryn, we have dubbed this forecast the hot mess. Yeah, thats right. The hot mess. Were you naming it after me . No, of course not absolutely not. We will talk more after this, yeah, kind of went happened and. Lets look out there right now. Listen, it is not too bad out ere. Of course, yeah, we are weather alert out there as we go through the day todayecause we are going to see possibly some flooding later on this afternoon. Now, ion think we are going to have numerous thunderstorms, those a lot of severe thunderstorm warnings like yesterday and last night. Ot to say we dont have one or two, but the main threat it heavy downpours. We are seeing sshine right now, but that humidity, if you havent been outside yet, it hits you like a ton of brick m i think itse humid today and more smooteamy and thick may because of e rain we got last night. Temperatures in the 70s right now. Annapolis at 79. Some of the visibilities are down across the northwestern portion of our area and central virulnia. Be careff you are out and about. Nothing going on right now. Go to the farmers market, get ome coffee, take the dog for a walk. We are dry right now. Thats no the case later on. Lets talk about the relief p. Coming your way coming a clash not far from capitol hill. Farright activistnd counterprotesters confronted each other outside of the trump hotel. The groups convergedhours after the farright rally came to an end yesterday. Yeah, and police were t in force to try to keep both sides as far apart as possible. As Darcy Spencer shows us, things did get heated. Reporter clashes between demonstrators outside Trump International hotel downtown. Officers separated the two groups who hurled insults across a police barrr. You are the one hiding your face. Reporter antifa, many hearing helmets and covering their fac, and Trump Supporters forced a shutdown of pennsylvania avenue not far from the capitol. I came out here to see the re morons that a protesting our freedom. Porter police took one man into custody. Its unclear if that person will face any charges. And those who attended an earlier farright rally at Freedom Plaza plan to meet at trump hotel and go to a vip dinner. We saw some getting on a charter bus where protesters were waiting. Its auit and tie event. Its in private. Its not a rally. Its just people sitting around a nice dinner having some drinks and talking with one another. Thats all we were trying to do. Then antifa shows up and tries hi attack us. If w supremacists are coming into d. C. And ten to one show up to say we dont want this here, i think tat sends a hat we to young people will not have hate in d. C. Reporter earlier a rally at freearm plaza ne the white house you justify the crap he has nene . Reporter on oside far right activists and known White Supremacists. On the other side antifascists and black lives matter. A group known as the proud boys, a white supremacist group, provided security for the free speech rally. No arrests were made. Darcy spencer, news4. This morning an uber driver and three passengers are recovering after a late night shooting in d. C. Police say a gunman opened fire on the car a17th and otis place. The driver was shot in the finger, was rushed to the hospita iands correspondeexpect oka police are still searching for are the gunman and for a motive here. New thi morning in missouri there is a frantic search for a killer. Police say five people were found dead in a home in st. Louiy county. The say on friday night six people were in the house. Then one of them left, came back around noon yesterday, and discovered the others dead. Authorities arent saying how they were all killed and the victims identities have not been released. And take a look at this wild aase. Police pursued man who stole a fire truck, of all hings, in northern california. The Oakland Fire Department says someone took one of their trucks yesterday morning. The suspected thief led police on the road through multiple counties. The truck eventually made its way to a restaurant parking lot and collided into the back of a parkehicle. The driver is now in police custody. Heads up for metro riders. Staing today the doors on the red line are going to open a bit faster. Thats because the Transit Agency will startsing its Automatic Door opening feature. Nt the doors re on the wrong s of the train and cut down on the delay required during the safety operation of manual opening on doors. Operators have been manually opening the doors for years. After months of testin metro says they are ready to flip the switch back to automatic. This will allow the trains to go and function little bit smoothly and the rest of the lines should following later this year. All right. Groce shopping. Love it or hate . It i mean, no, i dont really like it. No. Thats how most people feel about it. But youve got to do it. What e can all agreeon is that wed like to save some more money doing it. Consumer reporter susan hogan with a preview of a series of stories she is working on to save you both time and money at the store. Ll we thats right. If you are like me, feeding the family is a big line in your budget, and can also be super time consuming. Supermarkets are battling it out for your business, and the real winners in the Grocery Storewa is you. More focus is being put on Online Shopping with Curbside Pickup and delivery options tour make ife easier. But do these services really work . Andust how much do they cost . We put several of them to the test to see for ourselves. So next we on news4 at 4 we are working for you with the results of our experiment. Find out which stores can save t you the time and money and how accurate our orders were. We were very surprised by the results and we cant wt to share these stories with you. To you. It comes down to this. We are hours away from the womens soccer world cup final. Such a great team to watch. The ladies of team usa are trying to secure their fourth world c o ever. Iner to defend the title they are going to have to get through the netherlands, a tough team pulling for thebu upset. We are the defending champs. Thats right. Find out who wins it all later this morning at 11 00. Hopefully, they will be sipping the tea again. I know. Yeah. And if you are looking for a place to catch the game we have you covered. They are going to be showing it on the big screen at National Front at the wat district plaza. Also a viewing party at the wharf in d. C. On pearl street. Its free to attend and all ages are welcome. Hey, when it comes to reimming and safety, thes a lot of conflicting information online. So we set out to separate fact from fiction. O next with wha you should know coming up on news4 today. Welcome back. Your time is 7 41. We are talking about an importae. Story her we know school is out, summer is in. Before your kids dive into theng swimmi pool or head to the beach there is some really important inforemation that ts need to Pay Attention to dwh it comes to safety. It comes up every summer. News4s Doreen Gentzler helps us debunk some of the swimming myths before you get back in the water. When it comes to swimming safety there is a lot of usefuli informa online and some of it is down right dangerous. Chances are you asked yourself, do you really have too wait up t an hour after eating before you get in the pool . And is dry drowning a real thing . Well, we took your questions to an emergency room doctor to help separate fact from fiction. Reporter misinformation in medicine seems to spread faster than actual evidencebased research. Dr. Christina johns is a me pediatric eency physician and mother of two. She says they are offices are busy with phone calls and visits this time of yearr fom panicky i parents rea stories of socalled dry drownings on social media. That catches op like wildfire. Then we have a situation where were believing somethi when its only really half of the reporter the fact is children whooo inhale pl water do not need to be monitored for several days for signs ofat respiry distress. If there are any symptoms that are related to that event, those are going to occur in the firstseveral hours. And not days later. Reporter instead, she tells parents to closely watch their tchild immediately afterhey swallow a mouthful of water and get medical attention quickly if you think there is trouble. Heres what to look for. Is there any difficulty s breathe are they having trouble speaking because they are breathing so fast or seeming like they cant catch their breath . Coughing a lot. Rorter fact or fiction, you should wait up to an hour after eating before getting back into the pool . There are sometruths and there is some fiction about eating around swimming. Reporter dr. John says t waiting swim isnt really necessary. Th myth is that blood will bro diverted f your arms and legs and towards your stomachs digestive track. Thats just not true. You can go into the pool or intr the wate after you have eaten. Your tummy might not feel very good if you are full, but its not harmful or dangerous. What is harmful and dangerous is when kids go into the pool chewing gum or with food in their mouth. Its easy to choke. Its easy to get things tangledu up into the mh and airway. So that is a nono. Reporter fact or fiction . Swimming with arm floaties will protect my child . Not true because those arm floaties can pop or slide off or deflate, and they do not keep a childs head above water in case of trouble. The American Academy of pediatrics recommends a coast guardapproved life vest. These are not blown up. They cant pop. They cant get destroyed as easily. Reporter fact or fiction . If my child gets into trouble in the pool, ill hear the splasinng and struggling time to help . Not true. Drowning is often a silent struggle and can happen in seconds. Thats why its important to have a designated water watcher who isnt distracted by a cell phone. They need to not be distracted. They need to have one jo and one job only, and that is keeping an eye on the safety of kids who are swimming. He American Academy of pediatrics recently updated their guidelines and now recommend that children start learning to swim around the age of 1. Thats three yearsarlier than this Prestigious Group previously advised. Back to you. All right. Thank owou. Drng is the second leading cause of unintentional deaths behind Car Accidents monk children under the age of 14. So a lot to be aware of for sure. It just takes a second. Only a second. All right. A live look outside. It is hot and it looks like we are going to have more storms that are going to be rolling through the area. Lainyn ricketts will be back a minute to let us know when. Stayith us. W stand up to chronic migraine with botox®. What if you had fewer headaches and migraines a month . Botox® prevents headaches and migraines before they even start. Botox® is for adults with chronic migraine, a or more headache daonth, each lasting 4 hours or more. Botox® injections take about 15 minutes in youre doctors officd are covered by most insurance. Effects of botox® may spread hours to weeks after injectionu causing serisymptoms. Alert your doctor right away, as difficulty swallowing, speaking, breathing, eye problems, or muscle weakness can be signs of a life threatening condition. 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Do you worry about the cars and the way that the drivers are . Yeah. Reporter they dont see you . No. They no looking who is coming. Yes, they speeding, you know . Reporter as she rightfully points out, speeding and turning, they dont mix. Thats why d. C. Is using more and more of these yellow pylon and yellow stripe devices. A lot more of them. We have 85 location across the district. We hve put in place 3 a of them. Over the next year we will put in more. Reporter they are left turn calming devices. Ey are designed to protect pedestrians. The whole idea here is to force drivers to go out into the intersection like th truck right there and stay away from the crosswalk. More of a 90degree turn. That cuts down on the risntof an accide. Drivers, they are still getting used to them. I dont have an expert opinion. I think they will study it and e e. Reporter the city says it already has data showing these intersectionseed these devices. This year total traffic fatalities are down 25 . You can see they have already been through a battle. Ou will find the Cycling Community happy about them. Anything to help people cutting off in front of someone, certainly a great idea. Reporter a she plans t keep getting across the intersection safely. I was wondering about those things. What are they for . They are ev pywhere. Theoblem is people slice through crosswalks and arent looking for pedestrians. And it goesay both w pedestrians have to be more aware of whats going on as well. Hese make you make like a 90degree turn,ich slows you down. More of those things are coming online. We all need to pay more attention. I agree. Like there is one in georgetown. Me trying to get on the key bridge is a nightmare because everybody is trying well, everyone doesnt Pay Attention to that one. That Driver Behavior, they cut it at the last second. I called you three times. I am like you need to figure this out and do a story on it because i cant stand it anymore. You have got to follow the rules. S and watching out for storms later thiafternoon. Like yesterday . I dont think we are going to see the storms and the coverage of them as we did yesterday. More widespread, numerous rain showers that we are going to they are going video a lot of heavy hewnpours in tm. A few storms possible. A lot of severe thunderstorm warnings yesterday. A butin i think mainly showers, just heavy rain out there today with a few isolated stms. And listen, guides. This is going to continue through the overnight and into tomorro so lookingoutside right now, it doesnt look too bad. If you have not been outside yet, that humidity hits you like a ton of bricks. Ladies, put that extra serum in your hair because it is going to be muggy a throughout the day today, and its mainly more muggy than it sts over the la couple of days because we got those rain showers yesterday and we have some widespread rain today and tomorr. Now, mainly after lunch time is when we will start to see it and it will wrap up just during thec eveningmute tomorrow afternoon. Tuesday and wednesday we are dry and another chance for scattered showers and thunderstorms on thursdays temperaturee in the 70s right now. So it is warm out there. Here in annapolis. 76 in the district. By 10 00 very humid. Its that thick humidity that we are tlking about. We will keep the clouds around as we go through the lunch hour and just after lunch. Then after lunch all bets are off. Some showers around. Numerous coverage of these. Again a few storms. I am worried about flooding though. Thats my main concern once again today. And you can se here we go, not chg happening right now. We will see where this travels to. Look how slow this is moving. This is going to be the name of the game throughout the day. These slow moving showers and thunderstorms that are going to be coming our wa a shower, a couple showers through cook county earlier. Here we go. 1 30. Soeiot everybody is se rain, but we are seeing a few areas of some rain. And the yellows and the reds are that heavier rain that we are going to see. Again even into the late evening and overnight, yeah, we are going to see some rain showers. You are going to wake up, its going to be damp tomorrow. Leave yourself some extra time on your monday. Through the Late Afternoon and evening we see that dissipate and the humidity will actually drop a little bit tomorrow night and we will get some clearing especially into tuesday. Tuesday sunny skies. Vy hea rain creating flooding concerns, poading on the ay. Because the browned is so saturated we could have damaginn winds and addi Power Outages. That will be something to watch. I think the hail threat and tornado thrt is low. You will be deal with rain and fog tomorrow morning. Definitely going to be humid on the lunchtime. Showers around at lunchtime. Hr will dry out through the Late Afternoon and tough the evening tomorrow. Tllperatures tomorrow wibe into the lowtomid 80s. So again by the time we get into tuesday and wednesday weve got sunny skies. Axt chance of r thursday night into friday. But look at these temperatures. Oh, yeah, it stays warm nextnd weekend early next week. We ve got more hane we know everyone has different tastes. And its your last chance to find your style at havertys 4th of july sale. When you spend more, you save more up to 1000. On furniture thats al with more styles and Custom Fabrics to cose from. Celebrate your independence with furniture that fits y. Havertys life looks good we are sisters. Hed we just moved in toget why alissa and aleah chose fios. We stream sooo much. A lot of times alissa is watching ton her laptop, using her phone, also using her tablet. I am really good at multitasking cause im awesome. A little. The best internet is even better at our best price. Switch now and get our fastest speeds available. Ng plus, a free samhromebook on us. Thats fios. Time now is 7 56. 4 things you need to know. Team usa takes on the netherlandup in the world c finals today. I think they are going to win. Going for their fourth world cup. The game starts at 11. Heads up for drivers in virginia. A stretch of route 29 is going to close starting tomorrow at noon to make safety. Improvements this will impact the northbound lines from riley to vt hill road. Jeffery epstein has been arrested on child sex trafficking charges. Nbc news confirms he is facing federal charges for incidents occurrin between 2002 and 2005. And make sure you tune in for meet the press on news4. Chuck todd and the panel will ta tackle the imtest in the gration battle. That starts at10 30 after news4 today. Hot again . Hot and steamy. Showers and thunderstorms increasing as we go after the lunch hour. We will have a better chance of just some heavy rainthan severe thunderstorms. One of those could be strong. All righty. Earthquakes like that. Our nation is stronger than aler. The psycholog effect, you cant even explain it. I feel completely grateful and blessed. It continues. Good morning. Welcome to sunday today o this july 7th. Im willie geist. I hope you are enjoying a good long fourth of july weekend. If you live in california its been a more eventful weekend than you would have liked it to be. The state recoverim two major earthquakes in two days followed by thousands of aftershocks. We are live from the epicenter to assess the damage and the potential for somhi