The navy seal acquitted of murdering an isis fighter in iraq now facing a new sentence. We were certainly hoping for a different sentence. President trump celebrating the outcome. But the controversy in the case, far from over. Plus, quad goals as team usa heads to the finals well talk strategy with the star goalie. Sea change the Little Mermaid casting choice thats lighting up the internet and you go coco, cori gauffs winning Streak Continues and the teen sensation is headed to round three, today, thursday, july 4th, 2019. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, and welcome to today and thank you for joining us on this holiday morning, the 4th of july, im Sheinelle Jones alongside Kristen Welker filling in for savannah and hoda this morning, craig is off for the holiday we have a lot to get to. Its great to be with you. How about coco. I love that were calling her coco like were buddies, rootin
61 winchester and leesburg 59 and commuter forecast for today. The only impact on your commutee weather witoday is a little fog around early this morning. Sun up at 5 51 and put off the fog relatively quickly and a Beautiful Day with temperatures in the mid topper 80s and nice weather tomorrow. More about that coming up. Thursday chance of rain coming up in a few. Taking a look at the road here in virginia. As we take a look at 66 here this morning. Rkying in. Fairfax county pay to the beltway we dont have anything in your way. 66 miles per hour. That takes you eight minutes. These repairs could be through the morning mess and you cant turn on seminary. 29 there between riley shut down for three months because of that road rk. Pure panic and chaos as flash tloods swept through d. C. Area yesterday. This is video from potomac, marylanid outs folks are dealing with the aftermath of this. Many cars were wa seems like a river took over their neighborhoods in some cases. Inside, water washe
Alexandria will remain closed. All activities also cancelled, again, Georgia Washington School alexandria closed today. Working hard as always, mike thomas and erin como. We did melting yesterday with temperatures in the 50s around dc, we fallen back below freezing in a lot of suburb this morning, watch for a couple slick spots this afternoon had, as you mentioned big warmup starts tomorrow. Well talk about that coming up. Breaking news out of maryland right now. We have a crash involving an overturned vehicle on the ramp from university boulevard to the outer loop. Well take a look at that. If youre just waking up with us as 5 00, weve been following several breaking news stories and first from the district, a person has critical injuries after jumping from their apartment to escape an Early Morning fire, a short time ago, were told the fire started on the second floor of the building, firefighters were will the put it out. Investigators are trying to figure out how the fire developin
Kc and the sunshine band is just one of the many bands performing on the capitol lawn tomorrow evening. To actually be here at the capitol, the nations capitol performing tonight, going to be one of those pinch me wow moments that i will never forget. Reporter long before the show starts at the capitol, the nats will face off with the giants tomorrow morning at nats park but is where you will find actor bradley built ford, hosting the concert with the National Symphony tomorrow night. I want them to crush the giants, im all nats. Reporter at noon, the foo fighters and eight other bands will rock rfk stadium and of course, the National Mall will be packed with those going to the Folklife Festival and the fireworks. Some the places off the mall where you can see the fireworks lincoln park, east capitol street, meridian hill, we have lots of folks to gather in those areas, a little bit further away, stale good view but a little further away from the maddening crowds. Reporter this is the
Weather day by any means. Tracking showers on storm team 4 radar. We have had rain move into the area and its going to continue for the morning hours. Here is the latest now. The rain favoring parts of Northern Virginia back into western maryland and the panhandle of western virginia. Rain moving through Montgomery County Fauquier Frederick and howard county. Scattered showers for the morning hours. As we get into the afternoon hours, scattered showers and thunderstorms possible. You want the umbrella handy today. You have outdoor cookouts. Be ready to move indoors. Here is the morning planner, 73 degrees, spotty showers. 8 00 a. M. 10 00 a. M. Temperatures warm into the mid70s by noon. Limited sunshine is possible at that point. Coming up im going to show you future weather for this afternoon on into the evening, what we can expect for fireworks and timing out the potential for thunderstorms later today. All right. Thank you so much amelia. Happy fourth of july. There are so many thin