Ton. Sober ride is offering free cab trips from 10 00 tonight until 4 00 in the morning. Call 1800200taxi for a way home. More than 230 people took advantage of that service last year. I think we might be okay as far as the weather goes this morning. Fingers crossed for the fireworks tonight. Chuck has 4 things to know for us. Fingers are crossed. That may be the best hope of keeping fireworks dry this evening. The things you need to know about your fourth of july forecast. Grab the rain gear. I wish i could give you the all clear for rain chances but rain chances are most likely between noon and 6 00. We should be getting a little break in the rain after about 6 00, 7 00, 8 00. Thats just about time for the fireworks. They should be able to fire them off this evening. But this is an iffy call at best. The back end of the rain, which is the most important part now is still across parts of at the general pace its going, its about 13 hours away from being done. That means the back of the rain should be arriving here between 5 00 and 6 00 this afternoon into this evening. Fingers will stay crossed. As you are planning out the fourth of july today, temperatures in the mid to upper 60s this morning. Showers likeliest between noon and 6 00 this evening. Fireworks time, temperatures will be in the low 70s and like i said i think they are going to be able to get them off. But if you are going to the parade today, you are going to need the poncho. Ill be back with a check of the extended forecast for the rest of the backtoworkweek coming up in a few minutes. A calm day in central park turned into complete chaos after a small explosion that left a Fairfax County man, connor golden with a severed food. He stepped on what police say looks like a homemade firework. We dont know. There was a small explosion. It looks like they were cl explosion happened. They are still looking for whoever left the device. Theres more on the victim and how the family is reacting to the accident. To hear that news it was like surreal, it still is. Still like im in a dream. More like a nightmare for this family. Their 18yearold grandson stepped on an explosive material. I hope they find out who did it. Hes from Fairfax County. He just finished his freshman year at the university of miami in miami. He was in new york with a couple of friends this Holiday Weekend when it happened. Connor spoke to his dad by phone but he was very woozy and he said he didnt think it was a firecracker. To remove his leg below the knee. My son is having a tough time, so hopefully its going to work out for me. I mean, this is a lifething thing for this poor young men. He graduated last year. Hes musically talented and enjoys out door activity. I get sad, does connor know whats happen to his legs. He became an eagle scout and helped bl his character. Hopefully between his parents and eagle scout, hes got the character to deal with this. Darcy spencer news 4. This morning, the Loudon CountySheriffs Office investigating a womans death in sterling. Her family found her garage friday morning. She just renovated her apartment. Her name has not been died. It took about 20 minutes to put out this fire, hundreds of firefighters work on this one. Adams morgan last night. You can see fire covered the upper flows of this row home on calvert street. No one was hurt but four people are without a place to stay. The white house is couldnt telling me the terrorist attack carried out by isis on sunday. 167 people were killed there and 185 others were injured. Lucy cavanaugh has the latest. Reporter baghdad skies ablaze after a powerful blast. Death and chaos on the streets. Isis claiming responsibility. Two bombs in one night. Devastation on an appalling scale, shops and restaurants neighborhood. Time for maximum impact. A refrigerator interest truck packed full of explosives blowing up outside of this busy Shopping Mall as families were breaking their ramadan fast and celebrating the end of the school year. As firefighters battled the blaze into the early hours of morning, daylight revealed the full scale of the destruction. An desire block entire block de desimated. The dead and injured. Many of them women and children. It was the third mass slaughter of civilians blamed on isis in less than a week. Istanbuls airport. Now baghdad. The terrorists keeping their promise of a series of attacks before the end of the muslim they also happened last month. A break through in the battle against the extremists who controlled the city for more than two years. They will continue launching these offensive strikes while defending as best they can their remaining territory, their two cities, mosul and raqqah. A victory that today came at a heavy price as survivors and onlookers try to make sense of the deadliest attack in iraq so far this year. A search continues for a man who tried to sexually assault a woman in northwest washington. He came up to the woman around 2 30 sunday morning. The woman got away before anything happened. Turning now to the race for the white house. Donald trump and Hillary Clinton dont have any Public Events scheduled for today but on saturday clinton spent more than three hours talking to the fbi about her use of a private email server while she was secretary of state. Meanwhile, donald trump is seng he attackedlinton by tweeting an image of her with what appears to be a jewish star of david layered with hundred dollar bills. Well have the latest on the race for the white house in a few minutes. A live look outside for you right now where rain is coming down in spots. Flip flops definitely a no this morning and it may stay that way for the rest of the day. Chuck bell as your what to wear forecast. Calling on congress. The rally lawmakers can expect tomorrow when they return to work. And a local woman tries to set a world record. Why shes been playing tennis sincfriday. E good morning, everybody. Were taking a check of storm team 4 radar here for you real quick. Those are the highs for tomorrow. Dont Pay Attention to those. There are indeed rain drops were dealing with here. Theres more where this came from, everybody. So have your umbrellas ready to go for today. You are probably going to need them most likely between the hours of lunchtime on up into the mid to late parts of the afternoon. Do not expect much in the way of sunshine for today. What to wear, checkmark for the rain poncho. Probably still get away with shorts. You wont need the sunglasses or spf. Parade route, its not going to be a pretty at least it wont be blazing hot. Well help you plan out whether those fireworks are going up. The story shock the country. This morning, were learning new information about the moments an alligator snatched a toddler right from his fathers arms. Theres more to the story than first reported. Another day, another controversy for both Hillary Clinton and donald trump. What they are both trying to set straight welcome back at 4. 44. The democratic and Republican Conventions are a few weeks away and both candidates are being doged by familiar issues. Hillary clinton met with the fbi over the week as part of their investigation over her email server while donald trump controversy over a tweet. Nbcs Edward Lawrence is following all of this for us on capitol hill. Dmorng, edward. Good morning. Kristen and aaron. This is a week of image control. Hillary clinton being interviewed by the fbi for three hours during a possible criminal investigation. Reporter Hillary Clinton wants to focus on narrowing down a vicepresident ial pick and attacking the republican. Instead, she met with the fbi for three hours. Im not going to comment any further on the review, but ive been answering questions now for over a year. Ive released more than 55,000 pages of my emails for the public to read for themselves. Clinton surrogates took to the sunday talk shows to defend indictment. But republicans are still except tal. I think shes disqualified her herself as our commander in chief. Donald trump is fighting off another controversy of his own doing. In he tweeted what appears to be a star of david over a pile of money. This same image used on a twitter account of a user that promoted. Read into things that arent there. The Anti Defamation League says its long overdo for him to reject racists and anti semitics. Hillary clinton will have her first appearance with president obama on the campaign trail. Tomorrow, a for gun safety legislation will march to the capitol demanding action by lawmakers. The group d. C. Moms and dads for rational gun safety legislation was formed after the attack in orlando and the sitin that followed in congress. The demands include universal background checks for gun sales. It starts at 8 15 this morning. We learn the name of a man of a serious crash in the district. Vincent king was killed when he crashed his car saturday night. It happened near howard university. According to police, his car hit a ford f 150, jumped the curb, hit a hydrant and overturned. Police say speed was a factor in the crash but that is still under investigation. Phase three of metros safe track Program Begins tomorrow. That means there will be no service on the yellow and blue lines between National Airport metro will provide shuttle buses to help out there. Metro is warning riders to expect reduced services. President obama and the first lady met with officials planning the design and construction of his president ial library. The new york Architectural Firm will design the library. It will open up in chicago in four to five years. A 54yearold Arlington Woman in history is close to making history. Bonnie vona and her amazing tennis skills. You may have heard of someone being called the worlds best grandma. Well, bonnie vona of reston, virginia, may get the official title this weekend. Shes attempting to break the Guinness World records of consecutiv matches. The record right now is 56 in a row s she played her first match friday morning and plans on playing continuously until monday morning. Shes 61 years old and she came prepared. I have all these goodies. I brought with me a pillow and cushions so that if i need to or if i have some time to i can get some rest. Pickle juice is one of the keys to kind of keeping your stamina going. Who needs gatorade . Yeah. Who needs gatorade, when you have pickle juice. Sponsors and pledges could help her raise 72,000 this week. All going to thanks u. S. , thats the inspiration. Im thinking about, you know, this is benefitting the military, and im thinking about all those people that i can draw inspiration do. This isnt even begin to compare to what they do through every single day. Vona doesnt expect to win many of these matches. The goal is to keep playing right into the record book. At the montgomery tennis plex. Like dory said just keeping swimming. Lots of plans for today. Were keeping our fingers crossed, arent we . On the up side, i guess, we knew days away that the fourth was going to have a serious rain challenge to contend with. Theres an awful lot of rain chances in your fourth of july forecast. It may not rain every minute of every hour all day today, but, boy, you should have a rain plan ready to go. All cloud cover, you may get one or two tiny break of sunshine today. That will be it. They will be few and far between. Right now, its at 69 degrees at ren southwest. Averaging only 5 Miles Per Hour and there are rain drops to deal with here this morning. What about the next 12 hours as we go through the course of your fourth of july . Light rain at 7 00 a. M. Temperatures mid 60s. Mostly cloudy. If you are going to get a peek or two of sunshine, it will be before 11 00 this morning. Steadiest rain likely during the peak of the afternoon and rain likely to continue up to 4 00, 5 00, early this evening. Hopefully we can get a little break. On the hole, the weather will have a high to moderate impact on your outdoor plans today. Rain is likely all afternoon. A half an inch to maybe as much as an inch is expected. The rain should be easing up by 8 00 this evening. Fireworks time is just after 9 00. Heres the plume of moisture that were dealing with. Raining all the way now from the blue rage in the bay all blue ridge in the bay, kansas city, all that moisture is pointed straight at us. Not much in the way of a break. 11 00 a. M. This morning, all cloudy with an occasional period of light rain around. The steadiest of rain, heres 2 00 this afternoon. Pockets of moderate rain between 2 00 and 5 00. As we get to 8 00 and 9 00 this evening, heres 9 00, mostly cloudy. Still some stray light rain showers here but they have never had to postpone the fourth of July Fireworks on the national mall. Probably not going to do it, but im not officially the guy who makes that call. Cloudy skies again tomorrow morning with rain likely tomorrow but likeliest in the first half of the day tomorrow. Should be drying out by tomorrow afternoon. Heres your exclusive tenday forecast. Highs to low 70s with a solid chance of rain today. 60 of chance tomorrow primarily in the morning. Here comes the heat, low to mid 90s, thursday, friday, on into next week. Theres a whole lot of july. It gets here the day after tomorrow. All right, chuck. Thank you. Involved in that deadly incident involving a toddler at a disney resort. Another story were monitoring out of florida this morning. The latest on that toxic algae thats closed several we are just hours away from capitol 4th but the Main Attraction might not happen. Chuck bell keeping a close eye on the rain. He will let us know if we can expect the show to be washed out coming up. More details on the deadly alley gator attack that killed a Tornado Warning twoyearold boy. He said another alley gator tried to attack him. A fire captain at the scene and obtained by the orlando senti l sentinel. On this long Holiday Weekend, toxic rain algae has shut down a florida beach. Signs are posted along this beach, warning people not to make any contact with the water. Nearby residents say they wont be getting into the surf until its safe. President obama is doing Something Special this fourth of july. The president and first lady are hosting members of the military and their families they will watch the fireworks from the south lawn following a concert and barbecue today. The performers of concert, janelle monet. The fireworks are so loud. They can calls a lot of anxiety for our pets. If you use a thunder shirt, trainers recommend putting it on your dog hours before the fireworks so they can time to calm down. If you dont have one, there are other options. Typically the best area in the bathroom is because its tile flooring and cool. It doesnt have direct access to the outdoors of the house more often than not. We have more tips and information on how you can calm your dogs and cats down during the fourth of july shows. Head to our nbc washington app and search anxious pe thousands of fireworks displayed across the country after the sun goes down tonight, but there is reason why you should let the professionals run the show. Nbc has details. Reporter before you let the firework fly from the front yard, you better be concerned where those little fire balls land. We know that about two out of five homes that have fires on the fourth of july are caused from fireworks. Reporter you better check your homeowners insurance, in general policies cover damage caused by legal fireworks, but if illegal you might be in trouble. If you are setting off fireworks over the holidays and lets say a stray Bottle Rocket lands on a neighbors home and sets a fire, you are going to be held responsible for that. Reporter laura adams at insurance quotes. Com says many insurance policies absolutely do not cover damage caused by illegal fireworks. And you could be stuck bill. Government demonstrations on just how dangerous some fireworks can be also raised the issue of Insurance Coverage if someone gets hurt from your fireworks. If you hurt someone and they have got medical injuries, they involve you in a lawsuit, typically your Liability Insurance is going to still cover you, but you want to make sure that you have enough Liability Insurance. Reporter her advice, leave the firework to the pros who put on a snazzier show anyway. Stay with us. News 4 today continues right now at 5 00 a. M. Just about 5 00 a. M. Good morning, everybody. Im aaron gilchrist. Good morning to you, im Kristen Wright in for eun yang. Its fourth of july. Happy fourth of july to you. Were morning monitoring the rain chances for you today. Lets get good morning. Welcome to your fourth of july, everybody. You are up nice and early on the day so at least you are making the most of it. Temperatures now are in the mid to upper 60s all across the area and there are not a whole lot of rain drops to deal with right now. There are scattered light showers here. Northern Montgomery County out to the panhandle of West Virginia and a few rain drops around i81. Nothing heavy to our west. Pockets of heavy rain from central, western virginia all the way to eastern kentucky. The back end of the rain is around 6 00 tonight. Thats a close call for fireworks which will go around 9 00 this evening. Rain chances will be on the way cooler than average side. Well stay in the 70s. Heaviest steadiest rain is noon until about 6 00. Well break down the parade and nats forecast coming up in a