Sunshine . Because im freezing. We are waking up with temperatures in the 60s around thy. Cit low 70s right next to the warm waters of the chesapeake bay. Even more spots have dropped into the 50s this morning than we had yesterday morning. All of the Shenandoah Valley is in the 50s now. Gaithersburg 60 now. 61 manassas and 58 warrenton and 55 in winchester, virginia. Summertime ff for for sure. Your planner today. More sunshine than yesterday and a bitan warmer th yesterday as well but rain chances are low and not quite down to zero. Rain chances are under 20 . Just like yesterday but yesterday it did raint my house around 6 30, 7 00. Taking a look at the beltwa inner loop and outer loop okay near 50 a lane blocked because of a work zonee rest of theway looking just fine. Here is ather situation. Gw parkway turkey run because of work zone there and laurelpa bw way between 198 and 32 left lane is getting by and silver kpring Georgia Avenue northbound 16th street wor getting by that work zone as well. Aramatic rescue steps away rom onef the citys biggest attractions. Police say a woman went into the water off district pier and does not come back up and took divers 25 minute to find her and the woman was taken to the hospital in critical condition. Since t wharf has been opened, to my knowledge, the first time we have had this kind of event. Police are investigating whether the wom purposely went into the water or if she fell. A search is on forro a gup of teen who attacked and brutally hit a virginia man outside of a hotel. The attack happened earlier this month. In this video you can see one person hit the man and that prompted the group totart lttacking. The suspect al believed to be 13 toea 14 y old violently kiing and punching him before the teens ran offhere. One of them app to spit in his face as well. The man suffered injury to his head and eye. A witness was also hurt. Both were treated at a local hospital. The motive for this attack still not known at this point. Lets go up to capitol hillw went to tell you about hours of congressional testimony. It was either the end of the russia questions or the beginning of the impeachment debate, depending on what side of the aisle you were on. This morning, republicans say Robert Muellers testimony was a disaster and its time to move on. But democrat say it exposed the Trumps Campaign potential criminal behavior. No lawmakers focused their o questiotruction of justice. The former counsel dismissed tfrhe president s claim of exoneraoeon. He ds not get into the game of trying to nair hit his own report or tell his own store. Republicans claim. The chair of the house c intelligencemittee tried to make the casehat the president s campaign should still be investigated. Trump Campaign Officials built their strategy, their messaging strategy around those stolen documents. Generally, thats true. And then they liv to co it up . Generally, thats true. The president repeated his claim that the whole thing was just a witch hunt, a sentiment that mueller rejected. House democrats say they will continue their investigation and impeachment remain on the table. Stay funed tuntuned later on t much more at 7 00 a. M. President trumps fight to keep his tax returns released is heading court. The lawsuit seeks an injunction against a new york law that wouldllow the house ways and Means Committee to access the president s new new york tax returns. The committee rah requested six years of tax returns and has filed its own lawsuit against the Treasury Department and the irs in an effort to ge those returns. The president s attorney saying that the lawsuit is an attempt to end what he calls president ial harassment. Develong this morning, there were cheers and celebrations in puerto rico embattled governor rah card dough rusaid he wou resign. He faced intense pressureuov al noming impeachment heari after a series of damaging chat messages between him and his top advisers. Late last night, rossello said he would not remain in power. This morning Jeffrey Epstein is on sued watch. Sources close to the invesegation here say that h was found injureded in his jail cell. He was reportedly in a fetal position in the jail roomnd semiconscious with mark on his neck. In word on his condition at this moment. A sued attempt or assault has not been ruled out here. Epstein is being held during his trial for conspiracy and sex trafficking. His next court date is set for wednesday. He denies all of e charges against him. Of justice for the family another district teen who lost his life to gun violence. Derek desir has been sentenced to 34 years in prison for the murder of malik mercert a bus stop in 2015. Police say desir shotto mercer death at the bus stop because mercer and a friend had teased i m. U. S. Official are confirming that north korea fired two short range missiles into the sea. South koreas military says the missiles were launched from north koreas Eastern Shore yesterday. This would be the first launch reported since President Trump and North Korean Kim jongun met land month. No iication that the missiles t posed anyhreat to the United States or to allies. A political battle is brewing this morning in sea pleasant. Earlier this week this employee announced her attention to run for mayor against eugene grant but when she got to work coyesterday she was esed off the property. Riley said an email was sent to all City Employees telling she was not allowed inovernment buildings including the citys Police Department where she was an assistant. I already knew that i was going to receive backlashfo my announcement. I was humiliated and treated like a criminal being escorted to my car. Im a resident here. The current mayor eugene grantn iss fourth term. Het said he could no comment on this case because its a personal matter. Riley is nan sure if she wts to get her job back. Ef she dinitely is planning to run for mayor and not deterred by all of this. Lawmakers on taking aos cl look at the impact that ecigarettes are having on teenageu. Committee is expected to hear testimony from the cofoder of juul. They say they staging an epidemic. A story could be hard for any parent to watch. A 3yearold boy is in the hospital after climbing on to an airport baggage Conveyor Belt and it happenn atlanta. Security footage capturing the terrifying moments earlier this week. Police say the little boys mother said she put him down at a spirit kiosk to print her ticket. She said the child rodeatn th belt five minutes befor landing in the tsa baggage unit. Youay m remember andrew. He has autism. On friday, he had a bit of a meltdown on the metro ride home. A picture went viral showinger offic dominique case helping him on the train. Yesterday, the two got a chance to see each other again. Later on today, officer case will be honored at the metro Board Meeting for all of his help with that family and andrew and his mother plan to attend that ceremony. A great story there. Englands flamboyant new Prime Minister made a prom yesterday that could mean Economic Disaster for the uk. We willtell you more on his plan coming up next on news4 today. S,could kim kardashi being doing more time . Skies clear overnight all allowing the Shenandoah Valley to drop in the 50s this morning. Any more chances for the popup showers later tod . Iayl in the uk today will be conservative Party Leader Boris johnsons first full day as Prime Minister. Johnson spent yesterday meeting with queen elizabeth. But he also met with protesters and he made one thing very ea cl the uk is leaving the european union. And we are going to fulfill the repeated promise of parliament to lee pe and come out of the eu on october 31st. No ifs or buts. He replaces former Prime Minister theresa may whon anounced her resignation last month. Authorities in virginia are looking who is repeatedly responsible for vandalizing the robertee e. L monument. It was found covered in graff i some of it is foul language. In 2017, a judge sentenced mill two to four years for violating probation and that made him a celebrity crusader for criminal justice reform. Yesterday, the Court Granted the rapper a new trial on the original charge because of alleged police corrun. The court said he would likely be acquitted if prosecutors retried the case and prosecutors have not said if they plan t do that. Reality tv star Kim Kardashian west is on a mission to fix prison refoth and at cause has brought her to d. C. A spokesperson for d. C. Jail tells usim k. Visited its facility yesterday and saying it has to do with a special project she is involved with. Last year she lobbied on johnson who was sentenced to life on a firsttime drug offense. We have learned dutch actor rutgers hower was died. His loved ones confirthe news saying his funeral was held yesterday. The actor died at his home in the netherlands a weekgo following a brief illness. He starred in several dutch classic films. 75 he was years old. Ew a n initiative to reduce h thearmful impact of Climate Change on r all districtidents and beginning with the makeover of nearly 100yearold building. Part of news4 today commitment, chris gordon shows us how the center is designed ts ave money and save lives. Reporter solar panels save money for the low income residents who live here at the recently renovated maycroft Department Building in columbia heights. High Tech Batteries in the basement can provide power for three days to the community room. Its the districts first resiliey center . An Affordable Housing development. Eain case of blackout, residents can come her to charge phones, monitor news, refrigerate medicine and power life saving devices. That currently copd and have machines that allow me to continue to assist me in my eathing situation. Reporter without that, it could threaten your life . It could be a life and death situation. Porter this clean ener initiative is part of the district governments solar for project. We have a target to reduce clean house gas emissions by 50 by 2032. Reporter the government is committed to2zojn more affordab efficient hsing and call it environmental justice. Will the solar panels be getting a workout today . We put solar pans on our house earlier in the year. What a difference does it make. Not only does it absorb the solar energy but extend the life of your roof. Who is not a fan of free fri electricity . I think its brilliant idea to put it in on the older renovated buildings and i put it on the suggestion box make sure they put solar panels on t roof at chan 4. Tax break . Yes. Much bigger than in maryland or virginia. Just know going in yo roof space has a lot higher value dn theistrict of columbia than in maryland or virginia from a tax perspective. Out here on a thursday morning, oh, its going to nice to be outside today. 67 at National Airport. Light wind out of the north. And light northerly breezes help keep breezes. Dry air cools off more effective at night. Look at the 50s. 50s begin in Fauquier County and the blue ridge and Shenandoah Valley. The close suburbs are down close to the 50 60s in gaithersburg and 64 in upper marlboro. Your planner for your thursday, much like yesterday. Plenty of sunshine fore first part of the day. I do think there will be a little bubbling up of rain chances late into the afternoon nd a small window of opportunity. Not looking for severe weather. Here is what happened yesterday. Nothing at Dulles Airport and nothing at bwi and nothing at annapol annapolis. Over a third inch at National Airport came down between 6 00 and 8 00. Half an inch of rain at foreheaforehea fredericksburg. Not everyone is going to get rained on but like yesterday, there is a difference betweenve low chances for rain and no chance for rain. I like it. Taking a look at the belt way. Outer loop near 50 construction has disappeared. Nner loop looking just fine. 66 no complaints and nothing in your as far as work zones. 270 southbound from 70 to the spur, 70 miles per hour. Get there in 26 minute. Nothing in youray there. Northbound is looking good. Road work they have had hanng around northbound near montross. Blood, swe and tiers are not what you think of when it comes to ice cream but what it took for a local woman to get her business off the ground and now this d. C. Ice cream is helping oers. Looks pretty good. Looks pretty good. Keep it here all day. When yohave nausea, heartburn, indigestion, upset stomach, diarrhea try new pepto liquicaps for fast relief and ultracoang. Nausea, heartburn, indigestion, upset stomach, diarrhea get powerful relief with new pepto bismol liquicaps. Rk woo hard give it everything you got strength of a lioness tough as a knot rocking the stage and were never gonna stop all strength, no sweat. Just in case you forgot all strength, no sweat. No no no sweat. Ozens off ponies in virginia are swimminged during slack ti yesterday morning. The easy time r them to cross. Yesterday was the 94th annual swim. All of the horses are auctioned off and the money goes to aolunteer fire company which cares for those horse. On a hot summer day, nothing quip hits the like some ice cream. So good. Dream to open a new store li this may sound pretty sweet but it doesnt come easy. We talked to onee local stor owner who with you in a lot of work to get her business off the ground but she is not only providing frozen trea to company, but also providing lessons to young employees and hopes she inspires others to do the same. I love ice cream. I think that it just make people happy. Reporter its hard not to smile when you walk into this smallribrant ice cm shop on virginia avenue in northwest. Here is karen sellers new a business, ream of 15 year in the making. Im a member of the National Ice Cream association. Ive traveled all over. Reporter the washington, d. C. Native had been a hairstylist for 20 years but always dreamt of having the first black female ice cream shop in this neighborhood was no easy feat. It was very hard getting to this point. Very tiresome but it was all worth it. Reporter karen said it took blood, sweat, and tears an a whole lot of money od thing happen to good people her father always said and for karen that goodtu f came in the form of several grants including 50,000 from grape Street Funding and now karen is passing on all of the busine lessons she has learned to her young employees, many of whom a young d. C. Natives. But i also want to teach a lot of young people how to prepare their sale for that foundation. Most importantly, she is Ic Development and we are very happy and we are going to be behind her 100 . Reporter the aloops menu features cookies and cakes from other local women, looking to one day open up their own store front. For karen, this space isnt juss aboutrving the community, but also giving back to it, something she also learned from her father. Ive gone through the process and ive learned a lot to get to this point and i nt them to understand it is possible for amem to do the thing well. Welcome to the scoop i had such a great day with all of those young people. She wanted to bring in new business to part of georgianu avewhere she grew up and didnt see these sorts of things when she was younger. She is expanding and adding vegan items as well if that is your thing. Totally. I dont eat any dairy so i would be all over that. I love she is featuring other peoples work as well. Did you eat anything . Iad a small little bite of salted caramel and i wanted morh but to rein it in. Next on news4 today, a man takes his phone to a local store for some service and then he ends up behind bars. We will tell you what sprint employees found in that phone that made them call the police. Use your back patio to pad your wallet and how that extra space could bring in a couple hundred dollar a month. How do you like that, chuck . I like those dinosaur thi where you put them on the thing and make the car flip over. That is my size of a scoop. Your Weather Forecast is coming up. Fz z35wdz z16 y35wdy y16fy when you have nausea, heartburn, indigestion, upt stomach, diarrhea try new pepto liquicaps for fast relief and ultracoating. Nausea, heartburn, indigestion, upset stomach, diarrhea get powerful relief with new pepto bismol liquicaps. Work so hard give it everything you got to strength of a lioness ugh as a knot rocking the stage and were never gonna stop all strength, no sfoat. Just in case you ot all strength, no sweat. No no no sweat. Just about 4 30 here on your thursday. Good morning. Welcome. It is july 25th. You have almost made it to the weekend. Almost. Still dark out there but a Beautiful Day is on the horizon. Welcome in. Im adam tuss. Im jummy olabanji. Aaron gilchrist and eun yang have the week off. Are working for you this morning. Melissa mollet is standing by with first 4 traffic. B lets start with storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell who says you can do pretty much what you want outside today. Pretty much. I think today will be cooperative with your outdoor plans. Little chance for a popup shower or two. That chance was there yesterday and i mentioned it and im glad i did because it popp up right on top of my house yesterday around 6 30 in the evening. Yame story again for today. Most of the da will be dry, comfortable, low humidity, plenty of sunshine. Lo at these numbers this morning. All of the Shenandoah Valley in the mido upper 50s. The western suburb in the low to mid six. Even National Airport a relative cool 67 degree
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