Transcripts For WRC News4 Today 20140826

Bright sunshine, sunrise at 6 32. A little bit of fog in the rural areas but not as widespread or dense yesterday. Then between 8 00 and 10 00, temperatures jump into the 60s to near 70. You need your shades with bright sunshine and a light wind during the afternoon. Then hourbyhour for the rest of the day, well have temperatures jumping to the low 80s by noontime. Mid80s and upper 80s by mid to late afternoon. Bright and sunny with low humidity. Your backtoschool forecast in the next weather and traffic on the 1s coming up at 6 11. Aaron . Thank you. We have an update on a Traffic Alert for drivers in Fairfax County. 90 minutes ago vdot crews finished this problem in centreville as we showed you the crooked lane stripes from chopper 4 yesterday morning on i66 near route 29. Vdot says brand new stripes were laid last week and they apparently peeled off the road there. Crews spent the night replacing them so there should not be any problems this morning. King street in alexandria is back open this morning following a water main break. Overnight crews shut down a section between diagonal road and west street thats near the king street metro station. Once again, everything is back open to traffic. And speaking of traffic, news4s Melissa Mollet is watching for any other issues to slow you down on the morning drive in your first 4 traffic. Melissa, good morning. Nice to know the two issues we dealt with earlier this morning are out of the way. Heres a live picture of centreville. That major issue yesterday, those wiggly lines, you can sort of see things straighten out. 66 at 29 in centreville, no issues there. Thats a good thing. Taking a look in Montgomery County, 270, top of the beltway, no problems. Maryland near 95, looking good. Vw parkway, no issues there. A wider look at the beltway, everything is moving right along inner loop and outer loop. Wouldnt it be nice if it could stay that way for us, maybe until about noon tomorrow . 270 at falls road is moving along. Im back in ten minutes. See you at 6 11. I wont hold my breath. Thank you. We are just an hour away from bems beginning to ring in Prince Georges County. We have been talking about it all morning. Its the first day of school. Buses are rolling out and heading to pick up your students right now. News4s Megan Mcgrath is live in Upper Marlboro with how drivers are getting ready for students. Megan, good morning. Reporter well, take a look behind me here, you can see weve got a driver right here just going over their bus, basically, making sure the lights work. He just revved his engine a moment ago and is getting ready to leave the bus lot here. We have seen some of the buses starting to leave to go and pick up those children this morning. Its the first day of school here at Prince Georges County. You can perhaps hear the alarm clocks going off and the groaning of children right now as they get ready to head off to class. Now, a little while ago i spoke to a bus driver who has been driving for 36 years. This year, however, shes got a new route but she says shes ready. New bus, new kids, so ill have to adjust. We did a dryrun yesterday so we know exactly where were going. So its going to be easy today. Reporter so some new things this year, some of the buses have cameras designed to catch people who go around the buses as they are picking up children. Theres a New Elementary School in hyattsville, new programs and an expansion of prek. Heres something kind of important, i asked the ceo of schools, Kevin Maxwell, about staffing levels. He said they are about 95 filled but do have a critical shortage in terms of teachers in some areas. He says they have substitutes in place, they are ready to go, but they are looking for teachers in some areas. Im going to talk to Kevin Maxwell live coming up next half hour. Back to you in the studio. See you then, megan. 6 04. The Maryland Governor Martin Omalley is going back to school today as well serving lunch at touring the new edward m. Elementary school in hyattsville. Hell be joined by the ceo dr. Kevin maxwell. For all of you heading back to school today, we want to see your Smiling Faces out there. Send us your pictures using the hash tag show us your scholars. And 6 05 is your time right now. Prince William County police have finished their doortodoor search for a man who shot someone in the face outside of the mcdonalds. The man shot is expected to survive. Here are the two suspects still out there. Police released their photos overnight. Police say jamie boyer on the left is an accomplice and Dewayne Williams on the right fired the gun. This happened on wood boulevard in woridge. Prosecutors are not close to finished for questioning Bob Mcdonnell who will be back on the stand in rich homond in a f hourom now. The two say their marriage was falling apart and they couldnt have conspired to swap for 150,000 in bribes. The prosecutors pointed out the two vacationed once a month together for over two years. If convicted they could face time in prison. And our reporters are in richmond following the details of the trial. You can hear the full report coming up today beginning at 4 00 p. M. Today the d. C. Council will hold a hearing about expanding a csx tunnel under the southeast or southwest freeway. This applies to the virginia avenue tunnel. The council asked vdot to postpone the decision on the expansion until september. People living in the area dont want the expansion because of longterm construction and pollution. Csx says the tunnel needs to be updated to better serve the area. The meeting begins at 11 30 this morning at the d. C. Council chamber. Taking on pepco. The dispute that had people in one neighborhood getting a restraining order against the utility. A cool start for the kids heading back to school this morning. Well go to meteorologist chuck bell live in Prince Georges County with their bus stop and school day forecast at 6 11. Plus, do you ever wake up sort of dazed and confused . Yeah, well show you whats behind the disoriented feeling. And you may get this when your alarm goes hey can you fix this . You bet thats our new interactive speaker wall. sup . Thinks its a speaking wall. This can even dim your lights. Your 3dprinted girlfriend will love that. Real mature. There you go. A laser drone for cats. I wish i had lasers. I dont. Pew pew pew. The new radioshack is finally here. The store of your past is now the store of your future. Come see one of our remodeled stores and save 50 percent off skullcandy headphones. Or get a 20dollar gift card with air raid speaker purchase. Welcome back. Heres a startingle new study about smoking. More than a quarter American Teens who never spoked a cigarette have used ecigarettes in the past year. That is according to the cdc. The numbers are concerning because other studies show minors who use the almost twice begin smoking conventional cigarettes. Do you ever wake up with sort of a drunken feeling of confusion . Doctors say you may be experiencing something called sleep drunkenness. Theres a new study showing 1 in 12 wake up disoriented once a week. The episodes were more common among those with major depression, Anxiety Disorders and bipolar disorder. One of the dangers is people can become violent if confused. Apparently theres no real treatment for this condition, sleep drunkenness. Its kind of rough to deal with. It is tough on our schedule. It is 6 11. We are talking about weather and a beautiful start to your day. Kids are heading back to school in Prince Georges County. And so that means we send chuck bell out to laurel in Prince Georges County to get the forecast for the day. Chuck . Reporter hey, good morning. The principal is on his way in to work. The last time we saw the principal on the last day of school, lets say that day didnt end up the way we wanted it to. Outside on your beautiful tuesday morning, storm team 4 by 4 on the job, 63. 7 degrees out here in laurel, maryland, first thing this morning. It will be a great day to be outside all day long today. Temperatures, obviously the low 60s now. Well be in the mid to upper 70s by resays time today. It will be aplus recess weather today and good afternoon for after school activities. A lot of people are back to school, football practices, all the crazy fall things. Band camp is over with and time to march out the routines. Good weather for back to school. Breaking news in news4 traffic with Melissa Mollet. Breaking news in the city. 395 northbound at 14th street bridge, we have two left lanes blocked with a car crash here. So making it very slow to get across the bridge at this point this morning. Another crash on 95 northbound at 123 slow approaching woodbridge. Otherwise, looking pretty typical, the slowest spot looking at the beltway map is 295 just as you pass 50. Back in ten minutes at 6 21. Well, as genius as he was on stage, he was the greatest friend you could ever imagine. Remembering a friend. The touching tribute at the emmys honoring the life of Robin Williams. First, weighing into the controversy surrounding Michael Brown. The donation that has anne arundel welcome back at 6 16. A busy morning in Prince Georges County as kids head back to school. Heres a live look at one of the School District bus lots where the buses are running. Weve seen a couple roll out already. Kevin maxwell will join Megan Mcgrath to talk about the changes in schools there coming up in 15 minutes. Right now pepco is under a restraining order from a group of homeowners in the potomac because of trees in the openwne yards that are in danger of the power lines and need to come down. The neighbors say thats not okay. When you look at the documents, it doesnt say pepco can come into your yard and chop down the trees any time they want. Pepco says they bought the right to cut down the trees back in the 1950s. One homeowner stood in front of pepco crews to keep them from cutting down his tree. Hundreds of people now focused on finding solutions after the deadly shooting of Michael Brown in ferguson, missouri. Police made no arrests overnight. Last night local and National Activists held a town hall about race, cultural and Community Across the country. More than 4,000 people attended the Funeral Service for Michael Brown yesterday. Peaceful protests turned into violent episodes with Police Two Weeks ago after the unarmed man was shot to death by a Ferguson Police officer. A Legal Defense fund for the officer who shot brown is already raising more than a quarter million dollars. Officers from the Anne Arundel Police department are expressing shock over the donation from their police union. In a letter to the countys fraternal order of police, a group of africanamerican officers called the donation to officer Darren Wilson noble lacking regard for minorities in the department. They also write, quote, the situation has the chance to get worse if its discovered that officer wilson acted improperly. The bottom line is we dont know all the facts and this is too sensitive of a Community Issue to make an early judgment. Today we could learn the identity of the soldier who shot and killed herself in fort lee. The base south of richmond went on lockdown yesterday morning after the soldier barricaded herself in an office building. The Army Spokesperson says the Soldier Turned the gun on herself as officials tried to negotiate with her. The army says she was a Sergeant First Class who had served for 14 years. No one else was hurt. We have new details about three sex assaults in just five days that may be linked to the same man. D. C. Police say the attacker left his Chicago Bulls cap at one of the crime scenes that you can see there. All the attacks happened in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood northwest d. C. One victim was also stabbed. Now in each attack the woman was walking alone between 2 00 and 3 00 in the morning. If you have any information, call d. C. Police. Right now Takoma Park Police need your help looking for a missing man. Take a look now, they say 21yearold david pride seen here was last seen at the montgomery crisis center. If you recognize him, call Takoma Park Police. And today the democrat running to become the next governor will get highprofile help. Vice President Joe Biden will attend a georgetown fundraiser for Anthony Brown around lunchtime. According to the washington post, lit snag brown between 300,000 and 350,000. There are only going to be 25 people there. Brown is humbled by the support. Hell face republican larry h hogue in the november election. And the redskins will make their final cut this afternoon. And many will learn if the starters will play in the preseason game on thursday. Good morning, guys. The redskins back on the practice field later today in a big decision looming. Will the head coach jay grudan play Robert Griffin iii and the starting offense in the preseason finale against the bucs . Normally startering dont play in the fourth preseason game, but with the struggle in the offense this preseason, they could use the exthat work ahead of the Season Opener on houston on monday. Grudan will make his decision after practice today and well have the latest on news4 today at 5 00 and 6 00. And you can watch the game this thursday night with special coverage starting at 7 30 here on nbc4. 6 21. Breaking news on the roads. Lets go to Melissa Mollet. Breaking news on 395 northbound at the 14th street bridge with two lanes taken up here because of a crash that happened a little while ago. Very slow across the bridge with everybody squeezing into the one lane. 66 headed into town through centreville, youre a little slow after centreville and opening back up. Thats good once you get through that area. And beltway at colesville road, this is the way to check out the other roadways are looking. Really not too bad, but the outer loop from 270 is going to take you 11 minutes. Thats not bad this time of the morning. Otherwise, we are looking good coming across the 14th street bridge there on 395. Prince georges county side of things looking food as the kiddos head back to school. Remember to follow u us firstthetraffic for your shot for a 125 gas gift card. I love all the green on your screen. Gorgeous morning underway. Its dry, so we should not have any weather problems travelwise this morning. Look at the gorgeous sky. Look up from your yogurt at this yogurtcolored sky over the Potomac River starting off this morning. A little bit of strawberry color on the horizon with the sun up in 12 minutes. 68 at reagan national. Dew point comfortably dry at 58. A calm wind. And weve got a clear sky all around the region. Hurricane cristobal is all the way east now of the bahamas. These areas in the orange are where the heaviest rains are falling and it is well east of the bahamas. The category 1 hurricane with 75mileanhour winds making it up to 80 to 90mileanhour winds. By wednesday into thursday, tomorrow and thursday could be some rip currents at the beaches with big waves. Stays well off the coast, off the new england coast moving off to the end of the week. For this afternoon, it is a glorious summer day. Low humidity. Highs reaching the mid80s. Midafternoon, quite a warming from where we are right now in the 50s and 60s. And then during the day tomorrow, the morning rather cool but not as cool as this morning, the low 60s tomorrow morning. Soaring to the low 90s tomorrow afternoon. And a little more humid. Then it will turn a bit less humid again for a couple days on thursday and friday. Into the Labor Day Weekend, our next chance of rain not until labor day itself. Great weather at the beaches on saturday and sunday. Highs away from the waters up near 90. Right at the beach in the 70s to near 80. Labor day looks like the next chance for rain, maybe scattered storms monday afternoon with highs right around 90 degrees. A look at the roller coaster right here over the next 24 hours in the next weather and traffic on the 1s at 6 31. See you then, thank you. A florida man is recovering after being bitten by a 9foot crocodile. This happened sunday morni in a miami suburb when a man and woman were swimming in a shallow river behind a house. Police say they were jumping in and out of the water when the crocodile came upon them. The woman was bit in the shoulder and the man was bit several times in the hand, the harm and shoulder. Both are expected to be okay. You just, in miami, you just have to be careful. You just have to expect that. A 9foot crocodile in the back of the house, not in the ocean. This morning hollywood is celebrating the best and brightest stars. The 2014 primetime emmys took on a more serious tone to remember those actors lost this year. There was a touching tribute to Robin Williams who took his life earlier this month. Williams good friend and fellow comedian Billy Crystal called him, quote, the brightest star. The heavens are so far away from us now, the beautiful light will continue to shine on us forever. And the glow will be so bright, it will warm your heart. It will make your eyes glisten. And you will think to yourselves, Robin Williams, what a concept. The academy also paid tribute to other artists who passed away in the past year, including paul walker, Phillip Seymour hoffman and james garner. You can see more coverage of the emmys throughout the day on news4 today and on the today show. A lot of touching tributes there last night for so many people. And you cant ignore the fact it was a huge show. It was a celebration of some of the best in television. A lot of folks who we knew would win won and some surprises, too. The easy target, the weakness on your smartphones operating system to make it easier for thieves to steal your personal information. A cool start to the morning and just the beginning of a wild ride well see temperaturewise. The rollercoaster ride youll experience the next 24 hours in your weather and traffic on the 1s at 6 31. Plus school bells will be ringing in the hour for children in Prince Georges County. Heres a live look at the school buses ready to go. A lot of them streaming out already out of the lot in Upper Marlboro. We are talking to the School Superintendent Kevin Maxwell next about the changes your kids will see when getting to class this morning. 6 26 is the time. Welcome back. A lot of children are about to head out the door as tens of thousands of kids head back to school today. We have crews at two schools in Prince Georges County right now for a look at the changes in store for students when they arrive in class. And news4s Megan Mcgrath will talk to school ceo Kevin Maxwell in about a minute. But first, we want you to know the conditions your kid will be dealing with as they wait for the bus this morning. Well see some wild temperatures swing over the next 24 hours or so storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein is here with what you should be getting yourself ready for this morning, tom . Well have thermometer whiplash over the next 24 hours. Up and down we go. We are down right now with much of the region in the 50s under a clear sky with low humidity. We dont have the fog around like we did yesterday. Just maybe a few whisps of fog over the open fields in the rural areas. Shenandoah valley, 52. Front royal, winchester, mid50s there. Closer to washington, nearby suburbs hovering right around 60 degrees. And that includes Prince Georges County where it is back to school there for college park and Upper Marlboro and two camp springs. And Fairfax County is near 60 degrees. Much of the rest of Northern Virginia, upper 50s. Prince william, hovering in the mid to upper 50s. As is culpeper, southern maryland, st. Marys now in the upper 50s to near 60 there as well. A little bit of haze in the air, but overall very dry. Theres the capitol. Well soar later today. There goes the roller coaster up into the 80s by midafternoon. Then down we go tonight overnight. And by this time tomorrow morning, 7 00 to 8 00, right back down to the low 60s. Then it will soar to near 90 tomorrow afternoon. So a big change coming our way. Your backtoschool forecast for this tuesday is coming up in the next weather and traffic on the 1s at 6 41. Breaking news heading into the city with a crash on 395 northbound at 14th street bridge. You can see this Police Response taking up two left lanes. Everybody is squeezing by on the right. I just spoke to police who say it could be some time before this is out of the way. Probably through the 7 00 hour. A wider look at things, we are looking good with the exception of the big slowdown coming across the bridge into the city. 270 southbound, a little bit of red, but it usually looks that way headed out of frederick. Kind of opens up a bit and gets a little slow again heading into Montgomery Village. Taking a look at 66 and 95, we are looking pretty good this morning. A live look at the beltway at river road, and then 66 east between 495 and gw parkway, 13 minutes. 95 north, quantico to the beltway is 33 minutes. Running pretty well there. At 6 32, we are less than an hour away from bells ringing in prince georges public schools. And weve been talking about it all morning, the first day of schools with buses rolling out to head to pick up students as we speak. Megan mcgrath is live in Upper Marlboro with the chief executive of schools with how the school year is shaping up. Good morning. Reporter good morning. This bus lot was packed filled with buses early this morning. Its starting to clear out. Many of the buses already out on the roadway picking up the kids. Of course, this is the first day of school in Prince Georges County. Im joined by ceo of schools, Kevin Maxwell. First day, are you all ready . We are absolutely ready. We were 95 staffed a week ago. And we have substitutes for the classrooms that we didnt have a hired teacher in place yet for, but we are still hiring. We are still taking a look in the high shortage areas like special education, some of our tougher sciences, languages, looking for the last handful of people that we can use. But we are pretty happy with 95 . Reporter talk about whats new this year, you have a new school . We have a Brand New School in hyattsville. A beautiful school. I was there about ten days ago or so. And it is just a Wonderful School with a green roof, all kinds of environmental pieces in it, the art theme. So it really is a cool school. Then we have some spanishimmersion programs, we have new aeronautics programs at the high school, and some new programs going on and we are really excited about it. Reporter thank you so much for joing us this morning. And just to mention to folks who are getting up and heading out to work, keep in mind, the kiddos are out there in full force today. So as you make your way into work, keep an eye out for them on the roadways walking to school. In some cases they will be at bus stops. Be careful. Megan mcgrath live for us in Upper Marlboro. Thank you. You may be eating breakfast and soon more than 240,000 children in maryland will be eating it for free. According to the washington post, the maryland departme of education awarded nearly 7 million to the maryland meals for achievement program. That Program Provides free breakfast for the kids. More than 150 schools in our area take part in it. And just in montgomery and Prince Georges County, state leaders say students who eat breakfast score higher on tests and are better behaved in the classroom. For all of you heading back to school, we want to see your smiles. Send us your pictures by sending them to showusyourscholars. Later today well show you some of our back to school photos. And the new casino in Prince Georges County is not open yet and has competition. The horseshoe opens tonight at 9 00, the fifth casino in maryland. The second casino near our area. Maryland live in hanover is already open and mgm will open in 2016. And a former employee stole a list of wealthy customers names to help the horseshoe casino. Maryland live says the woman emailed the high rollers to promote the grand opening tonight. The judge issued a temporary restraining order against the woman. Shes expected back in court on friday. New this morning, we are learning a former fbi director was seriously hurt in a crash. Police say louis freed suffered serious injuries when driving his vehicle off the road. This happened last night in a small town in vermont. His name was in the highprofile Jerry Sandusky case. In 2011 penn state was hired to handle the child sex abuse complaints involving the former assistant football coach. The crash is under investigation. And listen up, gmail users, your email could be at risk. Experts identify a new weakness. Hackers access accounts with a 92 success rate and their method works on windows, ios and android operating systems. The attack relies on downloading a malicious app. Added security. The feature now required in one state that could help to keep thieves away from your cell phones. And your kids may need a jacket heading out to catch the bus. Well check in with meteorologist chuck bell live in Prince Georges County with your bus stop and school day forecast at 6 41. And the growing lack of leg room can try anyones patience these days. Well tell you about the well tell you about the inflight battle that after seeing everything, but let me take one last look. Sure. Take your time. Builtin nav, heated seats for mom, dvd with Wireless Headphones for the kids and tons of room for the golf clubs golf clubs, and strollers. Shhh. I love this part. So what do you think . I think its everything we wanted. Great. Discover for yourself why more people find their perfect car at carmax. Carmax. Start here. Welcome back at 6 40. A United Airlines flight was forced to make an Emergency Landing in chicago after two passengers fought over a device to stop the seat from reclining. Take a look at the pictures of the gadget called a knee defender. You fasten it to the tray in front of you to keep the person in front of you from reclining in his her seat. Over the weekend a woman flew water at the man for using the device on a fourhour flight from newark to denver. Apparently once the plane was on the ground in chicago the pilot kicked off both passengers because they were arguing on the plane. Those knee defenders are banned on flights in this country including United Airlines. Thats not a good move. It is an ongoing debate. Everyone is paying for the ticket, so everyone has the reclining feature. Everyone uses it, but sometimes theres just not enough room on the plane. The sunrise you see on the screen, gorgeous this morning with a Beautiful Day ahead for a lot of us. We want to get you up to speed on the forecast. Chuck bell is out in laurel this morning. Reporter hey, good morning, aaron and eun. 64 degrees in west laurel this morning. A Beautiful Day to be outside. A great day to go back to school. I mentioned earlier ive already seen the principal on the first day of school. This is Justin Fitzgerald here at bond mill elementary. Tell us about the excitement of first day. The first day is exciting because the new kindergarten family is here. It is an emotional piece for the families dropping their babies off for the first time, but once they see what we do here on bond mill, we cant wait for them to come aboard as well as for returning families just moving in. Today is a whirlwind day going by in the blink of an eye. We are so excited. Reporter thank you for coming out here to remind me that im not in trouble today. Thats good news. Beautiful weather for all the indoor and outdoor activities. Bright sunshine start to finish. Cool 60s this morning. Well be in the upper 70s by lunchtime. And mid80s by the time you get off the bus to go home. Now only 179 days to go until summer vacation. Thats the way they think of it here. Over to melissa for traffic. We have some breaking news to tell you about this morning. 395 northbound as you head into the city across the 14th street bridge, we still have the situation here with the two left lanes shut down. We are getting by now on two right lanes still very, very slow as you head into town. 270 at shady grove road is moving right along. The beltway at New Hampshire looking pretty good slowing down a bit. You can see the outer loop between 95 and over to this area is looking good. 395 headed into town is where a big problem is. Guys . 6 43. Breaking news on the roads. Well tell you about trying to straighten out the mess you see right here. Some work done while you were sleeping to make sure you did not encounter this on your morning commute. Plus, a new headache many of you may encounter with your iphones. The problem with the smartphone battery and what you can do right now news4 today is working to keep you updated the minute youre up. Angie goff is here with the latest plan for veteran and military members. Angie . When the president addresses a group of veterans today, hell outline four things, improving access to Mental Health care making it easier to get health care after leaving the military. Getting assistance lowering mortgage rates. And perhaps the biggest issue, reforming the v. A. In its entirety following the recent v. A. Scandal. The president says they are creating a new board of positions advise the second rre to reduce those waiting for medical care. Thats theatest from the live desk, over to you. We have some new pictures to show you of two suspects that police in prince William County say shot a man in the face. This all started with a fight outside of a mcdonalds. The one on dale boulevard in woodbridge. Jamie bowyer is an accomplice and Dewayne Wright is on the right. Police do not believe the two are still in the area. And police are searching for the person or persons responsible for the double stabbing near Coolidge High School on 5th and somerset place in northwest. D. C. Public schools say the 17 and 19yearold students were not students of coolidge. The teens are expected to be okay. Parents were upset about the double stabbing. This is not acceptable. This is unacceptable. This should start at home with some home training. Sources tell news4 the two initially refused to tell what led up to the stabbings. And many are still working to clean up after last weekends earthquake at this Mobile Home Park in napa valley. Three homes were destroyed by the fire that followed. Those whose homes survived have to get water from neighbors swimming pools. The Salvation Army is helping to bring neighbors meals as they work to get back on their feet. The napa valley was the epicenter for the 6. 0 quake that hit sunday morning. And as people continue to clean up this morning, there are calls for a Warning System for future earthquakes. California senator Dianne Feinstein says there needs to be a statewide system to alert that a quake is about to happen. That way people can duck for cover and get away from the windows. Feinstein suggests modeling a california quake activity alert system after the ones in mexico and japan. Early estimates say that the earthquake caused a billion dollars in damage. 11 minutes before the hour now and right now both of the Northern Virginia Bureau Reporters are in richmond where Bob Mcdonnell will be back on the stand today. The former Virginia Governor will answer questions from prosecutors who are attacking his defense against corruption. Mcdonnell says his failing marriage with maureen kept them from conspiring to exchange for political gifts. Prosecutors point out they vacationed more than a dozen times back then. Stay updated on the latest by following the latest on twitter. Youll also have full reports later today on news4 today between 4 00 and 7 00 p. M. Theres a new way to protect your cell phone from thieves. Courtney reagan is live with a first of its kind cell phone bill for your money. Good morning. Good morning. California governor jerry brown wants a bill to require cell phones to have a kill switch to render cell phones useless lost or stolen. California is the first state to require kill switches. This law takes effect next july. The smartphone theft makes up half of all crime in californias largest cities. Back to you. Courtney reagan, thank you. And we have another consumer alert for you. Apple is recalling some of the iphone 5s because of the problems with the battery. Apple will replace the battery for free. The recall affects certain iphone 5s sold between september 2012 and january 2013. We posted a link on our website, nbcwashington. Com. There you can check your phone is eligible for the replacement program. Marylands governor Martin Omalley is going back to school today with a lot of your students. Today hell be serving lunch and touring the brand new edwin m. School in hyattsville. Hell be joined by the ceo, dr. Kevin maxwell. We want you to show us your scholars and we are showing you some of ours as well. Take a look at this picture. Can you guess who this is . This is a first grader but you see him now on news4 today every single morning. Thats a cute tom kierein there. With a smart bow tie. And how about this cutie . 5 years old in this picture. Red lunchbox, cute baa barettes, looking so cute. Guess who . Our Melissa Mollet. I loved kindergarten. My mom was a teacher at my school. She was not my teacher, no, theres a rule against that. We love to see the pictures. Thank you for sharing your photos. Keep them coming. First grade was traumatic for me but i got over it after about three months. And this morning there are parents taking their first graders off for the very first time. And while the weather is not traumatic, beautiful sunrise. Look at that glorious lemon glow over the potomac. A live view from our city camera. Reagan national now at 68. Dew point comfortably dry at 58. We have a calm northwesterly breeze. Temperatures right now are in Prince Georges County, back to school, in the upper 50s to lower 60s. In the far south, just near 60 degrees. And near the bay, annapolis, 69. St. Marys in the upper 50s. Much of Montgomery County off to school this morning there, the second day, in the upper 50s to near 60. And near Northern Virginia, we are, in most places, 50 is the cool spot. 53 in warrenton. We are scanning the sky. No rain around. And this was yesterday morning. A little vail of light fog over a field in southern falkier county. I love to read your comments and see photos on facebook and instagram. Thats how you can connecwi me. As we look for the afternoon, beautiful summer day. Gorgeous late august weather. The upper 80s by midafternoon with low humidity. Enjoy. You need the shades. A light southerly breeze around 5 to 10. Then tomorrow, summer returns big time. We will soar into the low 90s during the afternoon. And a little more humid. Then turning less humid again, pleasant, thursday and friday in the mid80s. For the Labor Day Weekend on saturday, sunday and again on monday, each day will be up around 90 degrees. Great weather at the beaches. Temperatures there in the 70s. The next chance for rain not until labor day monday, mainly during the afternoon with scattered thundershowers. Breaking news on the roads with melissa. Heading into the district, 395 northbound at the 14th street bridge, we still have a problem with the crash and the response taking up two lanes here. Only two getting by. It really is jammed as you head across the bridge. You can see that right here on the wider map of the beltway. Otherwise looking pretty normal. Slow at the top of the beltway. Colesville road, we expect this for this time of the day. 66 at 95 moving at 40 miles an hour at this point this morning. Prince georges county side of the roadway looking good as folks head back to class this morning. 270 near Montgomery Village avenue, the southbound lanes here, southbound from germantown road north of here down to the beltway is running 20 minutes at this point this morning. Not really too bad. Remember, just follow u us first4traffic for your shot at a 125 gas gift card. Or you can like us on facebook at nbcwashington and perhaps win a car and driver for a week. Just tell us why you deserve it. Again, eun and aaron, you are not eligible for this. Too bad. Unless you get fired. I dont think you want that to happen. Two hours ago vdot crews finished this problem in centreville. We first showed you the crooked line stripes from chopper 4 yesterday morning that caused confusion there on i66 near route 29. Vdot says brand new stripes that were laid down last week peeled off the road creating all the squiggly lines you see there. Crews spent the night replacing them so there should not be any problems this morning, but melissa is on it. Well let you know how things are moving. Starting today veterans who received purple hearts can park closer to the entrance of st. Marys government center. Leaders are installing special signs there. 50 will be installed at the countyowned facilities. Purple hearts are given to soldiers hurt while serving in the military. Today the d. C. Council will hold a hearing about expanding a csx tunnel under the southeast freeway. This applies to the virginia avenue tunnel. The council asked vdot to postpone the decision until september. People living in the area dont want the expansion because of the longterm construction and pollution. The tunnel needs to be updated to better serve the area. The meeting begins at 11 30 at the d. C. Council chamber this morning. Right now four things to know before heading out the door this morning, we learn today whether the redskins starters play against the buccaneers this week. They have had a soso showing and the team must cut more players by todays roster deadline. No a few hours, prosecutors will grill Bob Mcdonnell on the stand in his former prosecution trial. He and his wife face four counts of corruption. We are there following the latest developments. And the shooters in woodbridge are no longer in our area. Dewayne williams shot someone in the face and the woman on the left is his accomplice. And Prince Georges County schools are back in session. 800 new teachers. A new school in hyattsville, an elementary school, and a lot of new programs. And 50 shades of fabulous today. Afternoon highs into the mid to upper 80s. A lot of sunshine, low humidity. And look at it hotter tomorrow. Then less humid on thursday and friday. And slow spots around town. 395 northbound heading into d. C. Near the 14th street bridge, very slow after an earlier crash. Only two lanes getting by. When you take a wider look at things, slow as you can expect up at colesville road and to d. C. 95 passing 50. Thank you. Thats our show for this morning. We appreciate you spending time with us. The today show is next. Well be back in 25 minutes with weather, traffic and any breaking news. We hope you join us then. Until then, have a great day. See you tomorrow. Make it a great tuda everybod