Of st place this afternoon. He later died at the hospital. Investigators are working to learn what led up to this incident. Weve got a crew thats headed to the scene. Wereegoing to have m information on this breaking news as it comes about. All right. Thank you for being with us tonight. Im erika gonz and our following story, a family tragedy unfolding in buoy. A wife and mother suffering an unimaginable loss. Her husband murdered. Allegedly by her own teenage so. She spoke with news 4s derrick ward this afternoon. Reporter 62yearold barbara koroma was a firm believing in education and achievement since coming here fm sierra leone, through studies in america and abroad, he earned a ph. D. And recjnition, places like ohns hopkins and nih where he was a scientist. He loved life. Reporter and his wife, patricia, says amid all of her husba husbands achievemts t family and three childn were his priority. He was a loving husband, caring father. He can do it he go the extra s le for anything. Reporter thipast friday, the elder barba koroma was found stabbed to death near the woods edge in buoys allentown park. His crashed infinity suv was nearby. Police were first called to the scene for the report of an aunident. They the damaged vehicle and shortly after that the 17yearold koroma emerged from the woods. Police found his fathers body nearby. After questioning, barba koroma was arrested. Police say he stabbed his father while he was driving causing the crash and then dragged hisfa er into the woods nearby. His wife cant understand how a routine errand involving a father and a son could end so tragically. E there was no problem between them because hs going to take him to the high brlibrary his homework because hes in summer school. Reporter authorities are piecing together just what happened in ths rk. And ended in these woods. H whiles going on a family is facing its own quandary. Im still in shock, and in. Deni reporter in buoy, derrick ward, news 4. Police say the teenager is being held without bond on first and seconddegree murder charges. All right. We go to more breaking news this evening. Director of National Intelligence dan coats is stepping down. R president tp tweeting the news this afternoon. Saying that he would leave his post august 15th. Coats has served as President Trumps dni since 2017. During his tenure, mr. Trump has publicly criticized coats over policy issues. President trump also tweeting thatom he will be ninating congressman John Ratcliffe as his replacement. The texas republican making headlines this week for his grilling of former special counsel robert mueller. Presidenkstrumps attac on longtime maryland congressman Elijah Cummings i onlytensified today. Yesterday, mr. Trump, if you remember, slammed part of ummings e which represents calling it rodent infested. Today, the president cald cummings a racist. Nbcs Jennifer Johnson explains how the white house is defendinp mr. Tr latest attacks. Reporter another showdown between President Trump and a member of congress. The president now attacking the powerful chair of the House Oversight committee. Congressman ejah cummings. President claiming while cummings constantly investigates him and trumps immigration policies, hisaltimore district has become a disgusting rat and rodentinfested mess. A Top White House aide, once a congressman from south carolina, d defendingthe tweets. If i had poverty in my district like i had in baltimore and spent all of my time in washington, d. C. , chasing down this mueller investigation, this bizarre impeachment crusade, id get fired. I think the president is right to raise that. Has absolutely zero to d with race. Reporter baltimore residents who have long battled poverty and crime reacting. As much as it hurts to hear things about our city that we love and cherish dearly, our city has been is in need for hel g. Its aat city. We got great energy. And, yeah, weve got some rats but not as big a rat as the one we got in d. C. Right now. Reporter this latest firestorm and charges of racism coming on the heels of another controversial trump tweet aimed at four junior congresswomen of color telling them to go back to the countries they came from, three of four were born in the u. S. Including representative rashida tlaib. Our president has a hate agenda. He doesnt have a policy agenda. Thats what he falls down on. Reporter the president issuing no apologies but s claiming democrats alway the race card. Jennifer and Maryland Governor larry hogan is beiniticized for his response to the president s attacks. In a statement, he said baltimore is the heart of the ate, but he also seemed to assign some blame to congressman cummings. Saying attacks between politicians are unproductive. City leaders and a lot of social media commentators felt theve gornor should have condemned mr. Trumps tweets. And mr. Trumpsbe tweets have blowing up on social media. Weve posted a larger story in our nbc washington app. Just search trumps cummings comments to read more on that story. Okay. Letsnotake a shift w. Turn to our weather. Did you feel it today . It was even more humid than it was yesterday. Storm team 4 meteorologist Clay Anderson iin the weather center. And he says even more heat is on its way. Hi, clay. Good evening, hi, everyone. Yes, the heat will continue to build. Its summertime in washington, d. C. No sprise. It will sotart to get rather muggy and start thinking about the heat index as we go back to work tomorrow. Outside right now, a beautiful sunny day across our area right now. No problems. Folks, if you had an opportunity to be on the water, a great afternoon and evening to be on the water. Pe temtures as i said, the bermuda ridge is the culprit. Well talk more about that in a moment. 92 degrees in towns down to our south. Temperatures are already in the low 90s. You factor in the heat, what does it feel like outside right now quantico, virginia, already feels like 96 degrees and its 6 00 p. M. Well give you all the details unrstos anrelief. Ers cp l calpe, t a heatwave. Erika, well ta in a bit. All right, clay, see you then. More breaking news. There is more turmoil in puerto rico. The u. S. Territory thought it was getting a new governor on august 2nd. Why those plans are now in flux. Z35whz z16fz y35why y16fy breaking news. The woman in line to replace puerto ricos governor says she doesnt want the job. Puerto rico justice secretary Wanda Vazquez says she ho Governor Ricardo Rossello will appoint a secretary of state before he resigns this friday. Former secretary of state luis marin would be the next in linee but he signed. Rossello allegedly insulted en wom, members of the lgbtq communi , and victim of Hurricane Maria during an online chat. That has led to weeks of protests across the island. Leading to his regnation. A surfer in florida is lucky to be alive after coming face to face with a shark. That shark latching isonto h arm. Miraculo miraculously, habget away. Atre going to say or put out a warning first he photo were going to show you is a bit graphic. We can also tell you that this man actually refused to be taken to the hospital. The surfer manages to paddl back to wore. His arm bloody there. But, again, his injuries werent too serious. He said he didnt want to go to the hospital. The attack unfolding saturday acksonville beach. The surfer says hes seen a lot of sharks in h 20 years out on the water but never one that up close and personal. S i wan shock, like i said. Im like, what is going on . And then it let go. Luckily. So i was able to swawim a and get onshore. But, yeah, that was definitely, finitely intense. You can say that again. He says he plans to stay out of the water for a few weeks to let his wou a heal but thetack is not going to keep him from surfing he says. Stay with us. News 4 ato6 00 is cing right back. Choosing my Car Insurance was the easiest decision ever. I switched to geico and saved hundreds. Thats a win. But its not the only reason i switched. Geicos a company i can trust, with over 75 years of great savings and service. Now thats a winwin. Switch to geico. Its a winwin. Youre watching news 4 at 6 00. A gun Rights Groups challenging marylands concealed carry law. According to the fderick news post a group called maryland shall issue filed a lawsuit in the states court of special appeals. The tsuit says laws are unconstitutional. Maryland is one of ten states that requires a permit to carry a concealed weapon. Local authorities have the discretion on whether or not to permits. Ose whale, you can bet a lot of folks in one part of d. C. Will not be taking their airconditioning for granted this evening. Petco restored power to customerin northwest. There was a great hallelujah heard everywhere. Equipment at the florida avenue substation affected power to 39,000 customers. So, you know, yesterday we were checking in, different parts of the city, there was a show at the lintooln theater that had be canceled. Bus boys and poets at 14th and v had to close. The massive power outage left thousands of d. C. Residents and businesses without power for hours. Making for a very uncomfortable evening. Darcy was interviewing this young woman who was saying that she had just moved in t t district like yesterday was her first day in d. C. Welcome to the district of columbia. Good it wasnt two weeks ago we were talking heat indexes no kiing. Dding. Itwas still hot today. No airconditioning is no joke for anyone. Were glad everyone has their power back on. Lets look outside and show you it is warm. Some people would say 92 degrees is hot. Some people say 92 degrees is warm. I guess it depends, some folks told me, well, this is its not texas heat. Well, were not in texas. Were in washington, d. C. So 92 degrees currently is the temperature outsidright now. We have some southerly breezes and the wind is calm. So the humidity, the heat index, is not a factoryet. But as you noticed theres some clouds in our graphic here. Keep an eye o b the skyause things will change over the next 24 to 72 hours. Fo. Things you need to know number one, humidity makes a comeback. Tuesday, heat index near 100. Well tell you why in just a moment. Wednesday, and even more wednesday, storms, possibly some strong storms, for wednesday. Temperature at 92egrees currently in town. To our south and west, 93 degrees. Down to our south, 93. So its still hot, everyone, as the warm, muggy, air comes in from the south, particularly manassas 94. Quantico, degrees. Respectively. Up and down the eastern seaboard, the bermuda ridge as i alked about, its warm in washington, warm down to our south. But this is late july. No surprises here. As far as the atmosphere is concerned. With the High Pressure that dominates our area, its hard to break through that ceiling as fars bringing convection or thunderstorms across the area. So even across areas of the appalachians to our west, no real thunderstorms to think of. Well show you the radar across our area. So for tonight, a very pleasant evening for us. Speaking of evening, lets talk about temperatures if you take the final evening o and enjoy your ieekend, this is wha looks like for us. 9 90 degr denng yoar op 83 degrees. Sunset, 8 22. Degrees. No storms. You cant beat that. 10 00 p. M. Tonight, 79 degrees. Rather tranquil evening across the washington area. Forecast for tomorrow, as i said, were going to bump up the temperatures, bump up the humidity. A cnce of an isolated shower but more into tuesday, into wednesday. Take a look, everyone, as you can see, tuesdaynto wednesday, were going to call this hot because when you talk about temperatures in the mid 90s, heat index close to 100, if you have pets, you have the elderly, theyll definitely consider it hot. Thureray, a chance for show as well. We continue to take a preview of next weekend. I know its unsettled for the next severaldays. Well root for dry weather for saturday into sunday. Does look like were going have not a heatwave. Okay. Well call this a hot spell. A hot spell. Yeah. A hot streak. Not a heatwave. Okmi. Congup, we check in with the burgundy and gold in richmond. Plus here in d. C. , wt causnats manager Davey Martinez to do this . Say what . Get em, davey, get em. We switched to chevy. For dependability. For technology. For thmuscle. And just look at it. Adios, lexus. Bye, bye, ford. We switched to chevy. And i couldnt be happier. See ler yourself why peop are switching at the chevy allstar open house. Or add another chevy to your driveway. Current gm owners can get over 5,100 below msrp on this equinox. Find new roads at your local chevy dealer. And out of respect, we will let you make the first offer. Thirty minutes. Wait, what . Shhh. One hour. Out of the question. One hour with the tablet, and my client will walk the dog. Sweeten the deal by doing the dishes. One hour with the tablet, the dog will do the dishes. We got a deal congratulations. Only xfinity xfi lets you take control of your familys online time. Now lets talk about getting our ears pierced. No way. Why . Please. Thatswitch to xfinity ande. Get this great offer. Click, call or visit a store today. This is the xfinity sports desk. All right. Kerry joining us. Era hot one out th it was a hot one. Hows the weekend been for you guys so far . Its beengood. It doesnt matter. Why . That was basically what happy. Ed at nats park toda oh, my gosh. Okay. I was like, what . That looks very reminiscent of avey. Oh, w. I see what you did there. I see what you did sometimes when i see what you did there. When the weather is too hot, clay, you give us weather thats too hot, sometimes you want to finish sports i mean, do the whole thing. Dust the plate. The whole thing. Exactly. What happened at nats park, precisely, what happened attsna park, davey have what happened was Davey Martinez was like, yo, s too hot, im done. Last time he was ejected, may 23rd. Since then the nats had the best recordban ba. Who knows what kind of goodness awaits . Nationals trying to avoid the sweep on this Beautiful Day for baseball. A game adam eaton and Davey Martinez would not see a whole t of. First inning eaton facing walker buehler. Takes the ball starts heading first. No. Umpire says not so fast, pal. Next pitch, hes gone. Strikes out. Hes got some words. Guess what, gets martinez comes in to defend a player and hes on. So heres the thing. Davey is going to get his moneys worth. Kicking dirt. Second atbat, if im goini to go down, going to down teething. Tantrum like my teething 7monthold. Brian dozier unloads on this one. Ho tworun st. Puts the nats on top. Put on your dancing shoes. Thats right. Nats kept scoring. I told you when davey gets booted, thats good news. Rg strasn the place. Base knoc. Rbi single. He went seven innings, onerun. Nine ks. Picks up win number 14. The most in all of baseball. The nats dominate this one 114. Heres davey on his ejection. Always say this, i dont like, you ow, arguing about balls and strikes, but im not going to protect their players. I am. Adam turned around. Thats what really iited everything. He was walking away. And, you know, he started coming after him. So that was my cue. Pvey justotecting his guys right there. What can you say . All right. Ay four of redskins trainin camp and the team still missing one of their best players. Offensive tackle trent williams. Although according to cbs sports the meseventiro bowler has no desire to ever play again for this team. Ow. That said, hisy jerseade a cameo today. Lur Sherree Burruss has more from richmond as as the stars of the day. Reporter portion of practice we cant shoot the offense showed up. One Position Group had their best outing this Training Camp. The Wide Receivers grabbing the spotlight. Way to go, man. Way to go. They got us today. So we got to get webetter. Got to start making more plays. Especially myself. I got to do a lot better. Oh. Yeah, we definit the red zone. We take pride in that. Got toe physical, come down with catches and get a touchdown. I respect him saying that because the end of practice went well but guys are competing. The defense kutcked the ball o today. They got some stops in the red zone. Stuf s that we need toee. I respect him saying that. They been doing ll, man. They catch the ball a lot. Got to respect it. Itso ging to get us better. They win some, we win some, you know, thats how it is when both groups are very good, you know, so today we got the better of them. Reporter in the afternoon a number 71 sighting. Trent williams is Still Holding out and not at Training Camp but fellow offensive lineman morgan moses making a stateme at the podium wearing his jersey. My mostwanted shirt wasnt ready yet, so i had to opt out forhe jersey. I expect him to come back, you know, he loves football, you know, just like every one of us does, im pretty sure h to be here. You know, obviously, he has to figure out some things and they have to figure outome things. Its above my pay grade. And once they figure that out, hell be here. When he gets here,goan, were g to welcome him with open arms. Hes our brother. We love him. When he gets here, well rock out. Reporter yet, this all remains the same. Williams isnt here. Camp goes on. Ch from rimond, sheree burruss, news 4 sports. All right. Let the coco d. C. Takeover continue. Coco gauff advnced to the m draw of the city open at the rock creek tennis center. Won in the final round of qualifying 6162. She lost nine games in her first two quifying matches. Shes the youngest to reach t fourth round at wimbledon since 1991. City open action continues tomorrow. Hows this for a weird scene, huh . Patriots coach Bill Belichick spotted next to elvis a the st. Jude invitational this afternoon . But wait, thats not bill. Nor elvis, i should say. But look at this guy. Loo just like the super bowl champion coach Bill Belichick. Got the sweatshirt cut off. Sunglasses. Doppelganger. I had to look at that guy a few etimes, i was lik wait, are the patriots in camp or not . He just looks just like him. Lo and behold. He may or may not get paid for what he does. I dont know. All right. Weird thing we wanted to show you, thats all. All right, thank you, kerry. Okay. Hot one out there. Yeah. The heats going to build over the next couple days. As u see, monday intotuesday, were calling tueay hot because not only 95 degrees, dew points in the 70s which means heat index close to 100. Okay. Well make sure that kerry gets it together befox we see you time at 11 00. Good night. Role of a car company . Announcer to take your kids to and from school . Announcer we think it can be something bigger. So we have the essays from the last three parts. Announcer this summer, volkswagen is sursorting americas te announcer visit your vw dealer to learn how you can join in. Announcer now during the volkswagen drive bigger event, get a 1,000 purchase bonus on 19 jetta, tiguan, and select atlas models. Tonight, breaking news. The countrysntelligence chief is stepping down. Dan coats, the director of National Intelligence, who has often clashed with President Trump on major policy issues involving russia, iran, and north korea. The president now nominating a republican congressman and trump loyalist to replace him. 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