Headed today. Its still fun at the zoo. Rain or shine. Storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell is tracking exactly when were going to see the rain today. Good morning, chuck. Hey, molette and adam. Weekend finally here and for better or worse youre going to start out your weekend with a full deck of cloud cover this morning. The good news is i think our weather will be improving as the weekend wears along. But storm team 4 radar early on your saturday now showing mostly cloudy skies and hit and miss chances for rain out there. At any point you could be hit with a drop. Already light rain here. Thats going south along 270. Again, not expecting a complete washout today. But do remember that rain drops will be part of it. Out the door temperatures in the 60s and 70s. What youre doing this morning, hit and miss showers. Temperatures are going to stay in the low 70s. Rising to only 80 degrees today. Well get more into the details of tomorrow in a few more minutes. Thats right. Thank you very much. Were following a developing story in the middle east. The Israeli Military says a rocket that launched from gaza hit and killed a 4yearold boy in israel. Benjamin netanyahu says hamas will pay a heavy price for the attack. A strike killed two women, two children, and a man. Rockets have been crisscrossing the sky since the ceasefire end bed. The war against isis could expand from iraq across the border into syria. The u. S. Has been launching air strikes against the terrorist group in iraq. Isis main headquarters there in syria. One of the top advisers says the border doesnt mean a thing. Were staying on top of another developing story in missouri. Overnight the streets of ferguson have been calm once again since a Police Officer shot and killed an unarmed black 18yearold. Last night dozens of people marched in the streets protesting the death of michael brown. Captain ron johnson from the missouri Highway Patrol says arrests have dropped from 47 on tuesday to 0 overnight. The whispering winds of change continue to reflect a brighter tomorrow for our community. Captain johnson says police will reevaluate their plan every day to keep that communi safe. Right now dozens from our area are on their way to ferguson. They organized a bus trip on social media. They plan to rally in support of michael brown. Chris lawrence talked with the group as they left union station. Let me know youre on the bus. Reporter a bus load of people are on their way to ferguson brought together by a single tweet. I said does anybody else want to know and the response was overwhelming. Reporter she organized the trip and says the bus could have carried more. Several people who canceled coming today because they were afraid. They said honestly, im sti afraid to go to ferguson. Reporter but we havent seen violence like this in days. The crowds have dwindled and the governor pulled the national guard. With the protest sort of dying down now, do you think youre going too late . I think were going just the right time. All that passing over is perfect. Reporter someone put down 8,000 to reserve the bus. The group needs to pay him back, but so far theyve only raised 2500. I spent word to everybody with the word black in its name. I thought i was naive. I thought people meant what they said. If you claim to be about social justice and change, you should be about it. Reporter so theyre take it upon themselves trying to raise money along the way. 40 people riding 14 hours to help other demonstrators and registered missouri citizens to vote. Right now the future is uncertain for officer Darren Wilson who shot michael brown. A grand jury will meet again wednesday to decide if he should be charged. Theres a lot of support for wilson online where we checked, more than 280,000 has been raised. That includes from the chapter of the fraternal order of police. Now county police chief ken davis says he disagrees with that donation. Two Police Officers are suspended because of information posted online. Including one that says, quote, you are a burden on society and a blight on the community. The second officer is in a controversial Youtube Video from 2012. He calls himself a killer and had strong comments about american political leaders. Later today, a big group in maryland will protest against walmart. Theyll be at the Village Shopping Center off of glendale road. Theres a plan to build a new superwalmart there. Neighbors say they are concerned the walmart could create more crime and traffic. The protest begins at noon time. Also today youll see a Group Handing out fliers about ralisha rudd. Thats the 8yearold that disappeared back in march. This is what she looks like. Its possible rudd was killed, however, shes not been found. Today you can celebrate the National Zoos giant panda cub birthday. Bao bao turned 1 year old today and the zoo is throwing a party. Its a major milestone. The celebration begins with a private ceremony at 9 00 a. M. For friends of the national zoo. Bao bao will take part in the traditional ceremony given to chinese children on their first birthday. At 11 00 you can stop by the zoo for a special demonstration. Zoo keepers will give her a frozen cake. And at 1 30 eat a special noodle addition just for bao baos birthday. No word if hell be blowing out candles. Coming up, what no one saw coming when these people pulled out their camera to watch a rocket launch. Just a few more days now until those school bells start ringing. This morning how technology can help protect your kids on the school bus. Plus let you know about any problems along the ride. Plus the moment on this date thats hard to forget. Now how this regions preparing its that time of year. Theres a big back to school event in rockville today. Montgomery county schools start up again on monday. If the rain stays away, it should look like this again at the back to school fair. This is our video from the fair last year. Youll see lots of music, activities for your kids, health screenings, and me. Ill be the master of ceremonies for an award ceremony. Its on hungerford drive. Also on monday, d. C. Student wills head back to class. Today volunteers will clean up more than 100 campuses to get them ready for the first day of school. Families, Community Leaders, and students will all take part in the tenth annual beautification day. It runs from 9 00 this morning until 1 00 this afternoon. When you walk your kids to the bus stop, you want to know theyll be getting to School Safely and an time. That information could be just a tap away. Companies are now outfitting buses with wifi and upgraded camera systems and gpss that can be tied to an app on your phone. My mom didnt know if there was a bus late in traffic, if there was an accident. So its just wonderful. Right now those buss are farther down the east coast. Next, one womans surprise when she sat down to dinner. What happened to her home that now has a cleanup crew very busy this weekend. Are we going to get wet today . Some of us are. Im tracking where those showers are going and im taking a look to see where theyre going to be by later on this afternoon. Your weekend forecast in detail is coming up in j well, if you were here, how could you forget this . The earthquake that shook our area. It sent visitors running and put the Washington Monument out of commission for years. That happened three years ago today. Now the scaffolding on the monument is gone and in just a few hours visitors will be lining up to go inside. If you want to mark exactly when it all happened, check where you are at 1 51 where you are this afternoon. Also put the great shake on your calendar. This morning spacex is reviewing its rockets after one of them exploded on a test flight. Listen to this. Oh, my gosh was that supposed to happen . Yes. Take a look at the cloud of black smoke there in the sky. This is what it looked like when a e rocket actually exploded. Hen now, the company says discovering problems is exactly why its important to have test flights. No one was hurt, thank goodness. Spacex says an internal system set off the explosion when something was wrong. We could learn today what the issue was exactly. This morning many people are cleaning up the mess left behind from damaging mud slides and flooding in washington state. Two busy highways shut down are now shut down. Reporter it was almost time to sit down for dinner. It was nice and it was raining. Bob comes in the kitchen and he said, did you hear that. I said, what . Reporter thats when the front door burst open and water started flooding in. It was just roaring through. Reporter the slope just outside jamie lewis and bob elks home simply gave way. It took less than ten minutes to make a 60foot ravine. Reporter they may have dodged the wildfire this summer, but there was no escaping the mud and boulders that took aim on their house of 20 years. The furniture was floating. Reporter just to the north another mudslide swept debris across a handful of properties. A construction crew worked to build a temporary bypass so traffic could get through. In all, the Washington Department of transportation knows of at least ten mudslides. Four of which blocked roads including highway 153 which runs right in front of their house. This is the worst i could think of. Reporter as soon as neighbors heard what happened, they rushed to the scene buckets in hand. I had no idea what i was walking into. This is the worst thing that my best friends have had to deal with. Yep. So its a mess. We got the important stuff out. We have the art work and musical instruments. Whoa. That was close. Reporter not to be outdone by what came down the hillsi hillside look at all the people that showed up. Respect we lucky . Reporter now is a torrent of help. Its awesome. Its why we live here. Wow. Tough for the folks in washington. And the forest fires are doubly bad. You have to avoid the fire, but it leaves the hillsides completely unprotected and as a result it makes mudslides more likely out there. Tough stuff for our neighbors in the pacific northwest. For us, we do have a bit of a weekend challenge to get around in the form of cloud cover today and a risk of showers as well. I think if youre trying to pick on which day is better, tomorrow will be a better day than today from an outdoor weather perspective anyway. Theres the look over downtown early this morning. Cloudy skies await you almost no matter where you live. And if youre one of the lucky few youll get a sliver of sunshine later on this afternoon. But i think sunshine is going to be hard to come by this afternoon. 73 at National Airport today with 76 humidity. Winds are light out of the east averaging 6 miles per hour. On the whole the weather impact on your day will be somewhere between low and moderate. More low than moderate. Rain chances are actually at about 60 for today, but no heavy, heavy rain is expected. If youre going out this afternoon, baseball game time, the nationals and the giants. First pitch at 4 05 this afternoon. Cloudy skies for sure and a risk of a shower. I dont think theres going to be as much of a threat of rain delay. Your weather picture will be improving a bit. On the whole, youll need your umbrella from time to time today, but it will not be a washout. There will be plenty of usable dry outdoor hours between the rain chances. One cluster north, one south of us, and another stream trying to come straight down interstate 270 right now. So the rain right now at the moment is in Frederick County, maryland. Its moving to the southeast. You have the best chance of seeing a little rain here in the next bit. And down to our south and west. Showers moving in culpepper, those will be making for a wet start in fredricksburg this morning. Little bit of light rain just on top of the north side of dulles interNational Airport right now. Thats drifting into northern fairfax county. Little bit of light rain in your immediate future here over the next hour and a half to two hours. Heres where we are. Full cloud cover out there at 7 00 this morning. Any rain we get today will be light. By 10 00 a. M. , sprinkles in northern maryland. As we go through the afternoon, the Overall Coverage of the rain will start to diminish just a bit. Then a little back door cold front will turn our winds back to the northeast. That will bring in drier air. By 11 00 tonight, the rain should be over and skies will be trying to clear out a bit. And by tomorrow morning, still a partly to mostly cloudy start. By tomorrow afternoon, things will be starting to improve quite a bit. So for today, cloudy skies, indeed, all across the region. There will be a chance for showers at almost any point in time throughout the day. Redskins and ravens play at 7 30 tonight in baltimore. I think that game is going to be dry. Couldnt completely rule out a drop or two as the game is getting started, but on the whole, there will be no reason for a skins loss. Whats your prediction . 2017. Wow. Okay. You heard it here first. Ill forecast anything. Just forecast the good stuff. From the red carpet to the food, hollywood is getting ready for a big night. The lastminute preps ahead of the emmys on monday night. Plus news4s iteam caught bike crimes in action. The best way to keep the thieves anticipation is growing right now for the 66th annual primetime emmys. The show airs monday night. Itll definitely be fun. Late nights seth meyers will be the host. Were shown what the stars will be doing to get ready. Congratulations for being nominated. Maybe well win again. Its so ridiculously great. We need to win this. Reporter the stars are counting down to the emmys. That went so fast. What are you going to be wearing . How many sketches have you been sent . What can you tell me . I cant tell you anything. The new susan lucci. Five nominations so far. Its wonderful to be recognized. Before you go through that, you should know im hosting the emmys so i have a lot of tv props in there. Do you watch game of thrones . Reporter before seth meyers hosts on nbc, theres one thing that wont be happening. I cant sing or dance. There will be no singing or dancing. Reporter but its the afterparty, aka the governors ball, where celebrities will let loose. We got a speneak peek. A kaleidoscope of colors. Were going all out. Reporter and theyre hoping to more than dazzle the stars. Their senses are going to be assaulted. In a good way. Reporter mike wilbur, nbc news. You can watch special coverage before the emmys monday. News4 will still be at 6 00 p. M. , but nightly news will air at 6 30 and our emmy coverage will begin at 7 00 all here on news4. As more people ride bicycles around here, more of them are getting stolen. What time of day do most of these thefts happen and which bikes are the most attractive to thieves . The news4 iteam set up a hidden camera sting to help you protect your property. Plus the fivemile stretch with no options for a traffic jam. How this dream one step closer to becoming a 29. Take a live look over reston, virginia. Its a great morning to grab a cup of coffee and get back in bed. But people are making plans today. Bao bao at the zoo, the birthday celebration. And the d. C. Beautification cleanup day at city schools. A lot of outdoor stuff going on, youre telling me. The pressure is on. I can deal with it. There are plenty of rain chances today but no washout is coming. Thats the good news in all this. Plenty of clouds for sure. There will be rain chances today. Storm team 4 radar bears the fact there is already rain out there this morning. First drops into parts of northern maryland. Theyre going down to the south and east. Western parts of howard, northern montgomery. Clarksburg over to mount ayr. Look out for drops coming your way shortly. There are a couple of showers out across parts of some North Central virginia as well. So just kb on the lookout for drops this morning. Out the door upper 60s and low 70s. Hourbyhour here. Off and on scattered shower chances will continue through the heart of your morning with temperatures rising through the 70s this morning and this afternoon upper 70s to near 80 degrees. If we get any break of sunshine at all, well make 80 degrees. If the clouds hang in tough, well probably hold in the upper 70s. Rain chances tapering off late this afternoon into the evening. Probably going to be rain free tonight. Well talk about sunday in a few more minutes. Thanks, chuck. Happening today, Community Leaders will hold a Ribbon Cutting ceremony for a new bus service in northern virginia. The metroway route will cnnect the braddock road to crystal city in arlington. Crews removed part of the median to install the bus line. You can suz the bus Transit System tomorrow. Well, bike thieves striking in seconds. But what they dont know is that the news4 iteam is on their tail. Were taking you on a wild ride through the streets of d. C. , maryland, and virginia. Scott mcfarland and the iteam went undercover to show you how though operate. Reporter in a moment well show you exactly what happens when we get our bikes snatched because we put a gps locater on the bike. But first a warning to would be thieves, youre being watched. And not just by the news4 iteam. Youre about to witness a crime. Its like a wolf pack mentality. Reporter the guy in the number 3 shirt comes to scope it out. Our hidden cameras catching it all in northeast d. C. They have no problem doing it in the open. Reporter where a series of bike thefts have happened recently. Its something were challenged with every day. Reporter number 3 gives a thumbs up to a second guy on the bike who goes in for the steal. Little do they know, they just nabbed a police bike. The bait bike project started a couple years ago. More than 400 bike thefts last year alone. Most of the crimes happen late morning to early afternoon when commuters are at work. As we saw at the Braddock Road Metro station. This time the man works alone pulling on the bike, checking the wheels, positioning the seat before riding off. Police right now you are under arrest. For stealing that bike. Reporter why were you trying to take that bike . It was just sitting there, sir. Reporter its not your bike though. Its not my bike, sir. It truly isnt. I made a mistake. Reporter metro says highend bikes are usually the target. Broken down for parts, reuse, resell. Reporter a question the news4 iteam wanted to know. So we took this to the next level to see what happens after a bike is snatched. Occasionally here bits and pieces of the bike. Reporter jonathan brand brandenburg says a co