That is helping to produce some showers and thunderstorms. Notice this line of storms making its way off toward the east. Now most of these have heavy downpours but moving fairly quickly, not too worried about these, dont expect them to become too strong. There are stronger storms through haigers up to clark county, virginia, Frederick County, virginia, winchester, 81 toward front royal, 66 the next few hours. This whole line will move off toward the east. Once again not expecting it to get any stronger than this. Most of the storms just scattered showers and a few thunderstorms as they move on through the after into. Talk about these as they come up in the afternoon. But amelia segal baking in the heat. We always say it is not the heat its the humidity we have got a heck of a heat index. The heat index very impressive this afternoon. I have to say you can hear it on my mic, a nice breeze, at least we are not dealing with still air. You factor in the humidity right now, its putting the heat index or the real feel out at about 101 degrees in washington, 103 in leesburg. Of course, there is a heat advisory for washington, arlington alexandria and falls church that will run until 8 p. M. Tonight. And as we head into the weekend doug this heat and humidity continues as well as the chances for some showers and thunderstorms. Yeah, we are going to talk about which day has the better chance for showers and storms. If you have plans this weekend, i have got that forecast in just a minute. Thanks, doug. Not guilty. This afternoon, a man charged with killing a young mother in our area is a free man, acquitted on murder charges. Im Meagan Fitzgerald in Prince Georges County. Three and a half years after a woman was gunned down in her oxen hill apartment her family still doesnt have justice. 24yearold rash sheikh bell was found not guilty late thursday evening in connect with the murder of kai ya wilson. In 2011, prosecutors believed it was bell who entered wilsons apartment, looking for her boyfriend. He wasnt home and wilson was shot and killed in the bedroom. Her four small children were inside the room at the time of the shooting. The defense disc edited the prosecutions key witness and disputed Surveillance Video believed to show bell heading to her apartment. At 5 00, hear the emotional 911 call her 7yearold daughter made to dispatchers letting them know her mother was just shot. Im consumer reporter Erika Gonzalez in the newsroom with an update on that takata air bag recall. It was confirmed it was involved in the death of a woman in will a l. A. That is the seventh death linked to the defective takata air bags. The fifth confirmed death in a honda. The air bags can spray shrapnel upon impact. Nearly 34 million of the air bags have been recalled in the united states. Takata says it has no comment in this case. We sent out an alert on the nbc washington app as soon as the charges against a uva student were dropped. Now, we have just gotten reaction from 20yearold Martese Johnson. I have always been passionate about social justice and applied to minority communities throughout our country. Now im ten times more passionate and driven to get things done. Three alcoholic Beverage Control officers left the uva student bloodied during his arrest in march. Johnson was initially charged with resisting arrest and public intoxication. Prosecutors decided no to pursue the case. The officers wont face charges either. Johnson says he is okay with that and says the case has reinforced his passion to work for social justice. No word on whether he plans to file a lawsuit. We are still waiting to hear what led to two people getting shot on a busy highway. Take a look at the backups this caused along the bw parkway last night. We brought this to you as it was breaking last night at 11 00. Someone shot two people near route 450 and still not clear how bad lit victims were hurt. It happened around midnight, but police are still searching for the driver of a volvo who caused this deadly wreck on the parkway. Witnesses told police the driver ran away after slamming into a chrysler turning left on first sterling avenue southeast. Four people were in the chrysler. One of them died. Police say a second person in the volvo tried to runaway too but he was hurt in the crash and Police Arrested him a short distance away. We are learning a lot more about an accident in rockville where a school bus rap over a woman and killed her. Crew. Cheetah reynoso was a bus attendant for the school system. She was crossing crabs branch way thursday when the bus hit her less than a mile from where she worked. News4 was told the tragedy hit the Department Hard because reynoso and the bus driver worked together. The pads near the south run Recreational Center in springfield are open again this afternoon, they were closed earlier this week after a raccoon attacked and bit a 75yearold woman who was walking a trail. This afternoon officers with fairfax animal control say they have trapped a raccoon from that area and its tested positive for rabies. So far they have found 21 animals this year that have tested positive. A lot of people weighing in on this story on facebook today. A dispute over whether an naacp leader is black or white. Why her parents say she is lying and how she is responding. How about this, a president ial foot race. President obama issues a and today is day two of our potentially fiveday heat wave. Here is the latest on storm team4 radar, tracking a line of thunderstorms containing some heavy rain. You can see that by the brighter colors here on radar. As this continues to move toward the east, we do think it will break up somewhat if it does hold together it could impact the metro area in just over two hours. Thats going to put us just after 6 p. M. , but would be more scat scattered in nature. Not picking up a lot of lightning, but could be rain. How it feels, about 93 i think higher than that about 101 right now in washington. For tomorrow and sunday, humidity remains high. It continues to feel oppressive outside. And not much of a break arrives on monday either. We have updated our forecast. High temperatures remaining around 90 degrees, at least through monday. Doug will have more on that coming up in a little bit, chris. Thanks amelia. A lot cooler up in canada where the u. S. Womens team is just hours away from their second world cup match. Fans will be crowding around the tv to see them play sweden which is led by the u. S. Teams former coach. She has been bad mouthing former players and does credit the u. S. Women with teaching her how to deal with world cup pressure. Join the crowds watching the game on the big team. The Swedish Embassy is hosting a viewing party at due pop the circle. Doors open around 5 30. The match starts at 8. Heres one fan you likely wont see at you are in next nats game. President obama made a surprise visit last night there for the annual congressional baseball game. The democrats beat the republicans, 52. They now lead the series, 39 wins, 38 losses, and 1 tie. Money from the game goes to charity. The president s competitive side came out when he rap into some of his other famous forebearers. Teddy, abe, Thomas George and william posed with the president on his way out of the ballpark. Potus tweeted this picture with the nats running president s. It includes the caption i challenged them to a race. No word. On when that race will take place. The president has 2. 6 million followers since joining twitter last month. Wow. A freerange parenting philosophy has triggered discussions all over social media. Now, maryland is making changes to the way it handles these cases. Black or white a prominent naacp leader finds herself at the center of a skin color controversy. Are you africanamerican . I dont i dont u this just in, news4s derrick ward has an update on the latest death in northeast d. C. Blamed on a popular synthetic drug. Reporter it happened here at echo stage on keeps chapel road in northeast. Victoria callahan, a sterling, virginia, teen back home from her South Carolina college was celebrating her 19th birthday at echo same in northeast d. C. She felt ill and was rushed to the hospital by ambulance. That was about midnight. 12 15, she was pronounced dead. Police say she had taken the designer drug, molly, a form of mdma, the main ingredient in the drug exstas cism metropolitan police are conducting a death investigation. Coming up on news4 we will talk to the director of d. C. s department of health about how they are trying to regulate and stop the use of this designer drug. Thanks derek. Starting this weekend, you will have another option to get to your favorite attractions in d. C. Today, local leaders cut the ribbon to launch a new route for the d. C. Circulator. Service around the National Mall starts sunday and there will be 15 stops, including ones that are just a few steps from the lincoln and jefferson memorials, the smithsonian museums and the capitol. We expect that visitors will continue to choose narrated bus tours that have different that have a different level of service, but certainly, while they are here, they can go from point to point and use the circulator as an option. Tickets for the mall route are just 1. Buses start at Union Station and run every ten minutes until 8 p. M. If a sign in Montgomery County says no smoking that now means no tobacco or electronic smoking. Beginning today, esigs are banned in places where traditional cigarettes are prohibited. Although they dont contain smoke, they contain nicotine and other harmful chemicals. The debate over a Silver Springs couples parenting style prompted a change in policy. Officials will not investigate unless children are harmed or at substantial risk. They say allowing children to be out in the World Without adults is a parenting choice rather than neglect. The states updated policy reads, in part when we heard talk of brothels outside of washington, we dug deeper. I heard of a 13yearold her parent, like, sent her out of state because she was being targeted for gangs. Reporter we found the problem is human trafficking, a scheme using vulnerable women, often underaged, to make money without their concert. Community Development Organization says essentially these are called brothels, someone is making money out of them but doing trafficking because the individuals who were actually selling their bodies, they are not making a profit. Reporter the gangs are no joke and it is not just here in langley park the threat that family members back home will be targeted if they dont comply. What traffickers do is they are exploiting somebodys need and so when somebodys basic needs respect being met, whether or not there is a trafficker being involved that puts them at very high risk of being taken advantage of. Reporter there are efforts to address the issue, including a group that provides shelter counseling for women victims of human traffic. Today they are at a school in Prince Georges County for prevention and education. Black and latino women are most susceptible because of socioeconomic factors. The Community Knows exactly what apartment complexes, what apartment unit, who is involved but they are not going they dont have the relationship with the police. Reporter reporting in prince georges, zachary kiesch, news4. It is a decades old political tradition that is now out in iowa, at least for now. Republicans will no longer hold the president ial straw poll. It was once considered an early test of a campaigns strength, but in recent years, its cost candidate a lot of money just to make a showing. Some of the current gop candidates have already announced they were planning to skip it. Washed out roads, stranded drivers, more Severe Weather on the way, a flash flood warping in effect across colorado. In one twohour period, denver firefighters had to rescue five drivers stranded in their flooded cars. The rain was so heavy, it washed out roads. One driver said it was so hard to see, she turned on to a street without realizing it had become a small lake and impossible to drive through. Our region is still sweating under this blast of hot weather, but it didnt keep these folks from hitting the National Mall today. You need to remember though that when temperatures get this hot it can be dangerous, even if youre not careful or even if you are careful. Thats why cooling centers opened today in d. C. , rockville, Charles County and other local jurisdictions. We have posted a list of some of the cooling centers on our website, nbcwashington. Com. Doug i got to ask, i mean, any relief coming in the next few hours at all . Well, you know, two things help. One, we have a breeze out there right now, so that helps a little bit. The clouds, i think, will be more prevalent tomorrow and sunday, that will help too, but the humidity is there. It is going to stay there over the next couple of days. Take a look outside right now, you see the cloud cover but not a lot of clouds. Plenty of snipe right now bright, blue skies. Once again that heat index well into the 90s, even around 100. 93 degrees the current number at the airport. The dew point over 70. We continue to tell you any time we get a dew point over 70, we are on the uncomfortable side if not oppressive. Exactly what it is now. The heat index, 101 in washington. 99, fredericksburg. 97 gatorsburg. Look it the west, 80 in hagerstown, 86, winchester. You know something is going on, only 72, charlottesville. What is it . Thunderstorm activity. We do have some storms. Notice charlottesville, a big storm down there the rest of us just seeing a few showers and storms along a line that is making its way toward the east. You can see the storms around hagerstown. These will move toward the thurmont area, route 15 in Frederick County the next 15 to 20 minutes. A strong storm, not a lot of lightning with this though. Not a lot of wind. A little bit of lightning with this storm just down west of bluemont, clark county, move through parts of Loudoun County the next half hour to an hour, one storm in from the royal, in toward fauquier county. We do have storms and expect them to decrease in intensity later on this after into. A lot of names the heat of the day they actually will increase. Not this time. Just not the dynamics in the atmosphere to keep these storms going as we move on through the night tonight. We will see a few storms. Your evening is okay though. No problems tomorrow appens tomorrow afternoon. More cloud cover around 1 00, but we are still dry but then here comes the showers and the thunderstorms. Notice where they are. Mostly from the potomac south. I think Northern Virginia, south of maryland the best chance of storms tomorrow. High temperature back into the low 90 today, better chance of showers and storms. 91 monday. We stay in the 90s on tuesday. In a couple of minutes, amelia segal take you through the next seven days, there are some 80s out there. She promises. This he prome she promises. All right. Her racial identity set off a national debate. Y the leader of a Civil Rights Organization is facing questions about her skin color and there are a lot of channels on your tv but only so many you want to watch what if you could pay for the types of channels you want and not the ones you dont now, fios brings you a totally new way to customize your tv. Starting at 74. 99 per month with no annual contract. Get custom tv, including internet and phone. Price guaranteed for two years. Or from now until june 13th get a 400 visa prepaid card when you sign a 2 year agreement. Go to getfios. Com. Cable just gives you channels. Fios gives you choice. 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I was wondering if if your dad really is an africanamerican man. Thats a very i dont know what youre implying. Are you africanamerican . I dont i dont understand the question of i did tell you that, yes thats my dad and he was unable to come in january. Are your parents are they white . City officials in spokane want some answers too. They are looking into whether dolezal lied when she identified herself as being partblack on a job application. We learned today she has some ties to our area as well. Howard University Confirmed dolezal got her masters degree back in 2002. We continue to work a developing story, the search for two escaped killers enters day seven. New information this afternoon on how a prison worker developed a relationship with the inmates. One of the biggest street festivals of the year under way in d. C. How to get around if youre heading downtown. 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