we have the two right lanes blocked. we have megan mcgrath headed that way to see what's happening. two right lanes are closed. overall, prince george's county moving nicely. 270 into and out of town is looking quite good. and 66 and 95 no problems. everything running along and nice and green. back in a couple of minutes with more. let's get one more check of the forecast. chuck bell is here with more on the hot and steamy day. >> you would never guess memorial day would be in the rearview mirror would you? a very mild start to the day. storm team radar right now nothing to worry about for the early morning ride into work and school this morning. a couple of showers here in southwestern maryland. a few more showers down across carolinas. with time today, i think that band of shares will move into parts of the shenandoah valley. our friends and neighbors who live out here i-81 your rain showers are higher today than they are in the metro. we have a few opportunities into the metro area in the early evening hours. temperatures topping out in the 80s to nearly 90. seven-day forecast coming up in a few minutes. dangerous flash flooding is going on right now across houston. flood waters leaving countless drivers stranded and more than 1,000 homes damage in central texas. 12 people are missing including two families who were vacationing together. check out this mall a lot of people were stuck inside unable to leave because of high water. that's the parking garage. here at the rockets game a warning to stay inside. the weather so severe right now, 83,000 are without power also. we've learned in the city of houston alone now between the major storms in oklahoma as well as texas, eight people have died so far. we'll continue to monitor the situation. aaron, back to you. we are learning more about the savopoulos family in d.c. who died in a brutal murder in northwest earlier this month. three family members and their housekeeper died. family remembered amy savopoulos as a giving mother who loved to travel. the obituary says ten-year-old phillip loved racing and math. police charged 34-year-old darron wint in this case. he paid a cab driver $1,000 to drive him from new york to d.c. >> $10,000 a pop, he should be under the jail if he did it under the jail. >> police believe that wint did not work alone. we've also learned investigators are now looking for a key witness who is missing apparently. court documents say officers interviewed savopoulos assistant. police say that assistant lied about when and how the ransom money was delivered. they have not named the assistant as a suspect or person of interest in this case. the fbi believes a single person threatened several flights heading into the new york area on memorial day. the person claimed which will weapons are on board. several police agencies were called with these threats. u.s. fighter jets escorted an air france flight to the city. you can see the huge response as agents police and firefighters examined that plane. they found nothing dangerous on board. six months and not a single change following the plane crash that killed six people in gaithersburg last december. montgomery county says it won't reduce at the nearby airpark just yet. the county wanted to make some changes, but learned they would lose money if they did. the county explored cutting training at the airpark as well as late night flights. virginia governor terry mccull if says -- mccall i have has appointed nelson moe as the head of the virginia's information technology agency. he will oversee a network of more than 60,000 computers at 2,200 locations across the state. and maryland governor larry hogan is headed to asia. one of his goals is to persuade korean air to offer flights to bwi. what crews hope to get done. outrage this morning with a t-shirt with an american flag on it. rain headed back into our area but when puerto rico's healthcare system is on life support... putting three and a half million puerto ricans at risk. it's an outrage. puerto ricans are us citizens and pay the same medicare taxes, but receive only half the federal healthcare funding as the other 50 states. the headlines tell the story.... "unfair treatment from washington"... "thousands without medications"... "it's a crisis that could imperil the whole economy." president obama must act now to protect care for three and a half million u.s. citizens. before it's too late... in the day ahead, a company that owns a pipeline that caused an oil spill along the california coast hopes to remove the section. crews are still trying to remove an oil slick from the ocean. it killed several wildlife including a sea lion pelicans and fish. two beaches are closed until next tuesday. pacific sun wear is pulling a t-shirt. many people posted angry messages regarding a t-shirt with an upside down flag. out of respect for those who vut their lives on the line for our country, we have stopped to selling it. the beltway at bm parkway, the inner loop this picture showing us two lanes shut down. this is a pedestrian versus a semi. unfortunately, a fatal accident here. wide look at things overall, rest of the beltway is actually moving pretty nicely of course. this could be here for some time. we could start seeing some big back-ups here on the inner loop here. right now, we're on the inner loop to virginia headed up to the scene to show us what is going on. no problem right now again, 66 or 95. outside this morning, in the weather department summertime has moved in in a big way across the area. southwesterly winds this afternoon made it a very warm day to be outside. it's going to be even warmer and humid today. there will be a chance of showers and thunderstorms. so the overall impact on your planner today could be moderate for the second part of the day. up and out the door early for your run this morning. run early, not late. r 70 around the area for now. we're going to move up quickly. mid 70s by 9:00 a.m. and above 80 degrees by lunchtime today. rain chances continue to stay fairly high. >> was your debit or credit card recently declined or maybe you received a fraud alert? you are not alone. it's supposed to be good how does it feel to be home? does it feel good to be home? >> yes. yes. >> a maryland teenager shot in the head is now back home with his mother. he can only respond in one word answers with the help of his mother. his mother says he has had to relearn how to walk talk and understand her. the 17-year-old is on the road to recovery. he faces years of treatment. doctors removed half of turan caudle's skull. his mother drives him every day for rehabilitation. a go gunned me -- a go fund me account has been opened to help with medical costs. >> the doctors said he won make it through the night. if he did make it he would not be able to walk talk. >> police say a 16-year-old shot him and another friend in january during an argument over a video game. investigators say the suspected shooter dell land know dunmore turned the gun on himself. all three survived. a funeral will be held for carrie orosco. she delayed her maternity leave until her premature baby was to leave the hospital. she was shot by a suspect wednesday. president obama sits down with the head of nato in the oval office. tensions have been high since vladimir putin sent troops into ukraine. that meeting comes ahead of the nato summit planned for 2016. a new study is out on fraud alerts and a growing number of flagged transactions turn out to be false alarms. >> you can let your credit card company know when you are traveling or when you are about to make a big purchase. there is a new credit card.com survey saying a lot of us are seeing those false fraud alerts more often. nearly seven in ten now say they have received at least one false fraud alert and certain groups are more likely to get them than others according to this survey. if you are white, a republican a college grad or if your income is over $75,000, you are more likely to get one. why? because the credit card companies are tightening up their rules. after these security breaches they are concerned about fraud. they are tightening up rules. they are scrutinizing these charges much more and that often leads to false alerts. tracy, thank you. we've got this breaking out of iraq. the iraqi army launches an operation to take back the anbar province from isis. the islamic state captured this big city of ram mad -- ramadi earlier this month. it was considered a major blow against the u.s.-backed strategy against the group. the troops are getting support by shiite and sueni forces. >>. the chicago bears then released him. according to police mcdonnell assaulted a woman holding a baby. tom brady appealed the suspension for deflate gate. a live look right now at the capital this morning. we're hearing from the man who caused a security scare on the national mall right in front of the u.s. capital. on sunday a capitol police officer spotted what looked like a pressure cooker and propane tank inside the man's car. israel shimeles owns that car. he put the rice cooker and tank inside his car. >> right in front of the capitol, of course i would have done the same thing. >> he's sorry for delaying anyone who tried to get to the memorial day concert. he was cited for driving on a suspended license. turning now to the race for the white house, presidential candidate bernie sanders has one message for voters and pundits. don't under estimate me. he's trying to ignite a grassroots fire among progressive democrats who might be wary of hillary clinton. former maryland governor martin o'malley is widely expected to jump into the race as well. a lowden county supervisor may run for office. he will consider running as an independent. seven students are facing charges after a school pranch -- prank in saint mary's county. this is what students and teachers arrived to this morning -- that morning, rather. thousands of lady bugs. if you look closely, they are covering the halls. 72,000 lady bugs to be exact. they ordered the lady bugs on line and broke into the school to let them loose. four are being charged as juveniles and others as adults. breaking news on the roads. this is the inner loop just on the bm paperwork wayd bw beltway. inner loop after bw parkway, headed that way to show us some of the volume that might be building here this morning. 95 in virginia don't have any problems there. taking a look at 66 eastbound, westbound, everything looking quite good. remember to listen to our friends on wtop for the latest on traffic when you hop in your car this morning. southbound fine. northbound as well. we've been talking about how warm we've had may, in terms of may. it is memorial day, but it's the turning point. >> i get it. it can be really warm. may if everything goes the way it's trending now, it's going to be the second warmest may since 1874. >> that is warm. >> we're in fourth place now for warmest may on record. number one is 1991 and we're not going to be able to get to first place. i think we got a solid run at probably a solid second or third place for warmest may since we started keeping records in washington. that was 1874. it's been a while since we had a may anywhere near this warm. early morning darkness still outside. sun is up before 6:00 a.m. though. you'll have to wait just a little longer for some daylight. 70 now at the raegan national airport. temperatures will be 80s before lunchtime. some real doses of summer-level humidity. temperatures in the shenandoah valley this morning are in mid to upper 60s. 57 now at stanton and harrisonburg. temperatures are a couple of degrees warmer than we were yesterday morning at the same time and as a result i think later on this afternoon, we'll be a couple degrees warmer than yesterday. yesterday, we topped off at 85 degrees. there you can see that quick hourly rise in temperatures. up to about 87 88 degrees for a high in and around town today. there are more clouds and even a couple of rain showers just down to our west and southwest and that's the energy and the moisture that's going to bring us our rain chances later on today. bad weather continues across the southern plains and the lower mississippi valley. if you are flying toward there, you could have some flight delays around those hubs. here's the way future weather handles our rain chances. 2:00 this afternoon, showers and thundershowers bubbling up in the shenandoah valley. and as they fade out between 6:00 and 9:00 tonight, they could graze into the d.c. metro area. higher rain chances, the farther west or north of i-95 today. we have a repeat performance tomorrow. no real weather slowdowns today until probably the second half of the afternoon into the evening commute. the seven-day forecast this looks a whole lot more like july than may to me. temperatures in the upper 80s to near 90 all the way through the week and into the first half of the weekend. off and on chances for thunderstorms nearly every day. they are already under fire for the way they handled the arrest of a uva student. >> now we're learning about another controversial arrest by the virginia adc welcome back. a lawyer says a virginia alcoholic beverage control officer was involved in two controversial arrests. this picture shows a violent arrest in march. one of officers who arrested him also arrested uva student elizabeth daley two years ago. she was holding a bottle of water at the time. >> the charlottesville field officers is small. >> officers said they thought daley had alcohol. she sued the department. the sides later settled. you may spend less time stuck in traffic this morning if you used the i-95 express lanes in virginia. the company operating the lanes hoping new signs will help you avoid back-ups. this will give drivers a chance to exit earlier and maybe avoid some major delays. it is now 4:58. a popular summer job program in the district is expanding. today, d.c. mayor will sign a bill into law expanding the summer jobs program through age 24. it offers 1,000 jobs. the signing ceremony happens at 10:00 this morning at the rise demonstration center. she will also ask the d.c. council to fully fund the program next year. 4:58 ufer time right now. stay with us. news 4 today continues at 5:00 a.m. right now, we are shut down. two right lanes of the inner loop of the beltway there right after bw parkway. this is because of a fatal pedestrian crash. a semiversus a pedestrian here. we have megan mcgrath on the way there to give us a better idea of what is happening. 66 after fairfax county parkway, eastbound, westbound, don't have any problems. moving along nicely. 95 in virginia everything looking good north and south. running at speed there at 60 miles per hour. prince george's county moving along nicely. bw parkway in generally looking good itself. more on this fatal accident coming up in a couple of minutes. chuck. summertime has arrived. one way or another, officially summer begins on june 1st and astronomical summer begins the third week of june. mother nature didn't get the memo. it's going to feel like summertime already in the area. temperatures in the mid to upper 60s right now and we'll be in the mid to upper 70s sooner than you can say wait a minute i thought it was late may here. 75 degrees by 8:00 a.m. 84 by lunchtime. 88 our expected high in washington today. with chances of showers and thunderstorms bubbling up in the shenandoah valley between 2:00 and 4:00. i couldn't rule out that one or two of those showers couldn't drift into the met row area this evening. afternoon highs generally well up into the mid and upper 80s, and plenty steamy. talk about rain chances coming up. another round of powerful storms continue to hammer houston, texas. take a look at some of this video. we know 12 people are still missing, including two families who were vacationing