In every 15 americans their Social Security numbers and much more stolen. Tonight growing calls for somebody to get fired. And heavily guarded. The Confederate Flag spending its last night flying over South Carolinas state house grounds. News4 at 11 starts now. First tonight, synthetic drugs. D. C. s mayor and police chief say theyre at the center of a spike in murders this year. Tomorrow, mayor bowser will sign a billiz givingey police more power to go after the people who sell them. And tonight chief cathy lanier tells our Jackie Bensen synthetic4odbini; city backvn;l decades. Chief about this tonight. V her comments were powerful. And i have to tell you, i found and dangerous drug. Reporter on tuesday, a 10monthold baby was found abandoned in a strolle h in the broiling sun at Judiciary Square in downtown d. C. C based on a witness description of a woman in orange p1 n police found< the childs caregiver twotb blocks away. In chargingh5n documents, the officersxzx described her as qu
Welcome change. Storm team 4 meteorologist tom tier tier with weather and traffic on the 1s. Good morning. Good morning. You may have noticed when you stepped out to walk the dog or a morning run its less humid. Live view from the storm team 4 camera here in upper northwest. We are zoomed in several miles down to downtown. Excellent visibility as the humidity has dropped overnight. Temperatures right now are in the generally 70s. Mid and upper 70s through 8 00. Sunshine is breaking out. Partly cloudy noontime low 80s. Then lower humidity during the afternoon. Upper 80s by 4 00 to 5 00 with lots of sunshine around. And as you head out the door now we are in the 70s from the mountains, Shenandoah Valley and around the bay. Some locations there up around 80 degrees. Now melissa, whats going on with construction . Road work should be out of the way in the next 30 minutes or so. In hyattsville, this issue popped up. Westbound 450 there, Veterans Parkway two right lanes are blocked because o
Answers. Tom . Well we wont have any of that, thankfully. Yeah, those storms came through gave us some gusts of wind and caused some tree damage up near the pennsylvania border. Now everything is settled down. We have a few sprinkles in the mountains but those have dissipate. You may be leaping over puddles from the lingering rain, mid 70s, sunshine breaking out. In the afternoon, quite a bit of sunshine. You will notice the humidity will be lower and a cooler afternoon with temperatures into the upper 80s. So if youre going to be out for a morning run you wont need the umbrella or rain boots. You will need the sun block, sunglasses and short sleeves. A look at the hour by hour forecast for this fabulous friday thats coming up next weather and traffic on the 1s at 5 11. Whats going on with the roads, melissa . Right now 95 southbound here, through triangle in virginia. You can see we have a bit of a slowdown here on the screen. That is because of some lateclearing road work. Right now,
Sunshine. Temperatures in the upper 80s. And next weather and traffic on the 1s the hour by hour breakdown as the day goes forward and now melissa any slowdowns . You still have this closure in fairfax, oakton at fox mill road because of the overnight accident. Chopper is on its way. So as soon as they get there, well get a view of things here from above and see how bad it is. Seems like it may not be reopened until 9 30 this morning. Wide look at the beltway, no major problems. 66 and 95 looking good. 95 a little slow northbound in dale city, totally step cal for this time of the year. B. W. Parkway and Everything Else looking quite good. Travel times in ten minutes. Thank you, melissa. Today stores caught selling illegal synthetic drugs stand to face new penalties in d. C. Theyre easy accessible you can find them inside Corner Stores and gas stations and now police are linking a spike in crime to these drugs. Megan mcgrath explains the action mayor Muriel Bowser is taking today. Mega
66 eat of compton rolling along. Were going to have more on this fatal crash coming up in a couple minutes. Its 5 01. Good morning, everybody, im aaron gilchrist. And im eun yang. On this wednesday july 15th with the forecast, tom kierein. Hey good morning. With the storms we had overnight, late last evening, are now long gone, theyre passing. And the cloud cover has broken up. Partly cloudy now, well see sunshine this morning. Temperatures are fresh and cool now, northwestern suburbs in the mid to upper 60s. And that includes the Shenandoah Valley and the mountains and closer to the bay, southern maryland, eastern shore. Mid to upper 70s. Theres the first light of day showing up there. Clouds breaking up. Live view from the power camera. Upper 70s by 9 00. By 11 00, should be around 80 degrees. Next weather and traffic on the 1s. A look at the drive time forecast, aaron. Developing now, we just learned the Wheaton Metro garage is now open following a deadly shooting last night. This h