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check on traffic now with melissa mollet. good morning to you. >> good morning. do have a crash here, got off the phone with police. this is blocking one lane here. 50 eastbound at bay dale drive. easy for me to say. before the bay bridge here, you'll have one lane blocked. right now traffic looking good going across the bay bridge and coming from the eastern shore this way as well. 270 at montrose road, no issues there. and 66, 95, nice and green. see you back here in ten minutes. >> all right, thank you. it is here as we approach labor day, the unofficial end to summer. nearly 2 million of you are expected to hit the roads this labor day weekend. the maryland transportation authority says today and monday leave before 10:00 or after 10:00 to beat the rush. and you can stay up to date with the latest travel delays on the nbc washington app. find out where the cheapest place is to fill up in the district before you hit the road. the gas report will be released later today. according to aaa, the average in the district is $2.68 in gallon. if you're in virginia, $2 a gallon and $2.50 in west virginia. give yourself extra time if you're flying for the holiday weekend. more than 62,000 washington area residents are expected to fly. lines at reagan national, dulles and marshall will be long as tighter security measures have been put in place. this comes after a report earlier this year revealed hundreds of security breaches at u.s. airports. you may see more bomb sniffing dogs while waiting in line too. aaa says get to the airport early and be patient. you may be affected by some ongoing track work on metro. red line trains will operate every 10 to 20 minutes. orange, silver and blue line trains will operate every 26 minutes. that goes into effect at 10:00 tonight. on labor day the trains will operate on a sunday schedule. happening now, migrants refusing to leave a stalled train. we want you to look at this scene in hungary this morning where chants of no food can be heard in protest. the migrants are unwilling to get off a train and register as refugees in a town northwest of budapest. it holds one of the country's five camps for asylum seekers. most of them want to travel on to germany. the head of the u.n. refugee agency is calling for urgent measures to deal with the humanitarian crisis in europe. that's the latest, now back to you. happening today a 20-year-old who police say tweeted he would purge all the white people in la plata, maryland, will face a judge. hollins is accused of making a threat of mass violence. the account he posted the message on wednesday looks to have been deleted. some people didn't go out to shop that night as that threat spread online. today, officials will visit one of d.c.'s most dangerous intersections. we're talking about the intersection of "m" street and wisconsin avenue northwest in georgetown. council member mary cheh and ddot officials will visit the site at 9:00 a.m. they'll discuss solutions to the traffic problems. some say 9:00 a.m. is too late and they need to be there at the height of rush hour to really understand the traffic problem there. working to learn the name of the driver in a deadly hit and run. a large construction truck hit and killed a woman on braddock road and commonwealth yesterday morning. it was coming from a nearby site. it hit the woman so hard, she died instantly. investigators tracked down the driver in prince george's county yesterday afternoon. police are still working to identify the victim. 5:04 right now. one of metro's top brass is not on the job this morning. james dougherty stepped down yesterday. metro admitted they have to get better and promised to review the policies. he was drilled by the transit authorities board of directors over a derailment near the smithsonian station last month. we are learning that an employee at metro hit a wrong button and deleted critical track safety information. news4's transportation reporter adam tuss was at that meeting yesterday. he said the board ripped metro for the failures and a national search underway for a new safety officer. we are following a developing story out of california where three people have been shot. one of them fatally in sacramento. what we're learning about the victims. and you made it the first week of school for a lot of kids in the books now, but what -- or in the books now, but what -- or will be in a couple of what did iran's supreme leader get in the nuclear deal? to start with, $100 billion. they keep their nuclear facilities and ballistic missiles. there won't be surprise anytime-anywhere inspections. and after ten years, restrictions are lifted and iran could build a nuclear weapon in two months. congress should reject a bad deal. we need a better deal. developing right now in california, a search for the gunman who shot three people on a college campus. police say an argument in a parking lot at sacramento city college escalated last night. one person is dead and two others are students we know. police said this is an isolated incident but they haven't found the shooter. classes are scheduled to go on as normal this morning. in the day ahead you can learn more about the status of a new police station in prince george's county. the district 7 police station is set to open in october or november. at tonight's meeting you can address any concerns you have about the opening that's at 7:00 p.m. in the potomac landing elementary school. rushern baker came under heavy pressure to staff the new station after reports that you saw first on news4. six new officers will be on hand once the police station opens. time now for a look at weather and traffic. one more school day to get through. >> and storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell is going to tell us what kind of day we'll have. chuck, good morning. >> we'll have a b-minus kind of a day today. that's the best way to grade it for today. keep your standards high. not going to be a bad day to be outside. temperatures will be a little cooler than yesterday, but clouds will be increasing and rain chances will be sneaking up as well. 73 in rockville, 74 in reston, out to great falls and potomac. 69 as you head down the road towards dumfries and triangle. 71 now in southern parts of prince george's counties. temperatures with fog in the low spots. and then the upper 70s to near 80 degrees between 8:00 and 9:00 a.m. this morning. increasing clouds. there's your "b" grade for recess. probably dry through recess, but i have that umbrella ready to go as rain chances increase as we through the day. the beach forecast, that's all we care about, that's in ten minutes. >> what we care most about. speaking of, bay bridge looking good. no major problems at this point this morning. you want the leave early or late. just got off the phone with police, we got conflicts reports if it was east bound or westbound. it sounded like it was in the median. we have one eastbound and one westbound lane blocked. getting a tad yellow. 95 at dale boulevard no problems here northbound or southbound. big look at the beltway, again looking quite good. nice and green, everything is moving, no more road work here on the beltway at this point this morning. branch avenue, just south there at the beltway right after the beltway, we have the left lanes getting by. that construction, northbound connecticut avenue at the beltway, two left lanes getting by there and then taking a look up top here, looking nice and clear this morning. b.w. parkway, 95 and 29 everything running perfectly into and out of town. live look at 270 coming up. >> thank you. a frantic call to 911 for a baby in d.c. so why was the closest ambulance miles away? an 11-year-old takes measures into his own hands after an intruder enters his home killing a 16-year-old. that st you're watching "news4 today." >> i came out and found out. but he was -- like just laying there and not breathing. >> an investigation continues this morning into t death of a 5-month-old baby boy and why the nearest ambulance was so far away. a woman who was told -- who told news4 she was his aunt says the boy's name was trequan. we know it was a d.c. fire truck that started taking him to the hospital. the first ambulance dispatch was seven miles away from the home on hillside road in southeast. d.c. fire officials say paramedics on fire engine 30 arrived in about four minutes. they asked for an ambulance from neighboring prince george's county but after finding out there wasn't one available chose to drive the baby to the hospital themselves. the child's aunt said he had asthma and lived in a hot apartment. >> the house is hot, it's hot in there. >> a closer d.c. ambulance eventually met up with the fire engine 15 minutes after the call went out. about halfway to children's hospital, but then the baby was in critical condition and did not survive. an official cause of death has not been released. d.c. fire and ems are promising to get to the bottom of the response. this death comes after two recent high profile incidents. a 77-year-old man collapsed across the street from the firehouse and no one inside helped him. he later died. the firefighters on duty were disciplined but the lieutenant in charge was allowed to retire with her full position. pension, rather. earlier this year a 1-year-old boy choked on a grape and the closest ambulance was not sent and a fire lieutenant was charged with neglect of duty. prince george's county is look for ways to cut costs in its fire department. that includes reassigning a dozen firefighters. four of them will come from the riverdale heights station, making that entirely volunteer staff. bowie and accokeek will have also have firefighters reassigned. this morning, a community will gather to remember a police officer who was gunned down. shannon miles who police say shot goforth 15 times has been charged with capital murder in the shooting. a developing story now at 5:17. a county clerk is behind bars after refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. the federal judge in kentucky said enough is enough and sent kim davis to jail for contempt of court. in june, the u.s. supreme court made same-sex marriage legal. davis said her conscience wouldn't allow her to issue the licenses to same-sex couples. in fact, davis stopped issuing licenses to any couples back in june. her deputies now, five out of six of them, will start issuing marriage licenses today. davis -- the couple that's suing davis because she wouldn't issue the license is set to tie the knot today. virginia lawmakers are once again up against a deadline in a battle that affects every voter in the state. "the washington post" reports democrats and republicans have until today to suggest names for an expert who will help redraw congressional districts. last year, a court found the twisting boundaries -- existing boundaries concentrated black residents in one district. you may notice a pretty big first, the university of maryland is allowing beer sales in the stadium. anyone who looks like they're under the age of 40 will be asked for i.d. you can only buy one beer at a time. if everything goes well, fans can see wine sales down the road. tough decisions lie ahead for the redskins. the team has to cut the roster to 53 by tomorrow. the players had their first -- their last chance rather to prove themselves last night in the final preseason game. it was a 17-16 loss to the jaguars, but head coach gruden says wide receivers including ross who caught his fourth pass of the touchdown makes his job tough. >> he has to cut like 20 guys or something like that and they were rumors or people questioning who rg3 could be one of the guys who's cut. no. >> no. they have -- >> but, you know, it's out there. >> we shall see. coming up on 20 minutes after 5:00. a live look outside this morning. >> and storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell is saying we'll get a little relief from the heat. >> yes, indeed. some cooler weather coming back into the picture for the weekend. today is still a little warm and humid. temperatures will be near 90. but better weather moves in starting tomorrow. your weather impact on the day today increasing clouds and increasing chances for rain. relatively low impact early this morning. not looking for heavy rain. no gullywashers coming our way, but scattered showers are likely by the second part of the day. 65 out in the panhandle of west virginia. 68 in culpepper. 69 at naval air station. 77 now at the naval academy in annapolis. planning out your morning, sun's up at 6:40 this morning. temperatures in the low 70s for next couple of hours. there are some areas of fog to be dealt with as wel first thing this morning. here's visibilities. only a mile and third visibility in frederick, maryland. four miles visibility in martinsburg and four miles down in culpepper. areas of fog around first thing this morning. that will give way to increasing cloud cover later on this afternoon. highs today about 85 in gaithersburg, 87 in manassas. near 90 right along the i-95 corridor from washington southbound towards the fredericksburg area. with the chance for showers in your forecast, what to wear today, jeans, short sleeves. but have your umbrella ready for later on this afternoon. not much rain through the morning hours but by 1:00, 2:00 this afternoon, rain showers coming off the bay and into the metro area and on the i-95. so that does mean you will need the umbrellas for sure. courtesy of the clouds around will be noticeably cooler. if you're headed on out to the beach for the weekend, water temperatures, 79 degrees. some clouds around on saturday. temperatures in the 70s. but increasing amounts of sunshine for sunday and labor day looks amazing everywhere. here's your seven day forecast around the metro. 90 today. 84 tomorrow. 85 sunday. back into the 90s next week. don't turn off the a.c. just yet. melissa mollet has some metro woes. >> not what i want to talk about right now. not what anybody wants to hear right now. orange, silver line delays. no service right now from clarendon to mcpherson square. between the two. that's because of late-clearing track work. same thing, blue line. no service from arlington national cemetery to mcpherson square. keep you updated here. and on twitter at first 4 traffic. still have this problem. 50 at bay dale driech. again, sort of in the median there. we have one eastbound lane blocked and one westbound lane. 66 nice and green. almost no volume at all. 66 and 95. 95 no problems there. might start to get slow in dale city, but seems like overall volume just a bit lighter this morning. perhaps some folks headed out of town. branch avenue southbound at the beltway, we have that left lane as the only thing getting by this morning. 270 northbound and southbound looking quite good right now. no problems at all here on 270 this morning. again, still have the metro problems orange and silver line. no service from clarendon to mcpherson square. back in a few minutes with an update. all right. thank you. it's 5:23. a live look at capitol hill. in a few hours, members of hillary clinton's inner circle will face lawmakers there. jake sullivan set to testify behind closed doors about hillary clinton's use of private e-mail and the attack on benghazi. and yesterday, her chief of staff spent 9 1/2 hours before the same house panel. and why a helicopter made a hard landing that killed a marine. 11 others were also hurt when it made the hard landing at camp lejeune. this happened wednesday during a training exercise. the military says about 20 marines were participating in that training that requires them to exit through the back of the helicopter using suspended ropes. 5:24 now. police in missouri say an 11-year-old shot and killed a teenager who was trying to break into their house. st. louis police say the 11-year-old was home alone with a 4-year-old when the teen and another person tried to get inside. once the two made it inside, police say the 11-year-old shot the 16-year-old intruder in the head. the mother of the shooter says she bought the gun for protection. >> it doesn't matter the age. children have access to guns all too often and all too often they end in tragic circumstances. >> he's a kid. a kid killing another kid, that's just -- it's unexplainable. >> the person who broke into that house with the teenager is now in jail. police are not saying whether they plan to charge the 11-year-old in that shooting. prosecutors in south carolina plan to seek the death penalty against the accused charleston church shooter. police say that dylann roof shot and killed nine people during a bible study inside emmanuel methodist church. heal a sew faces -- he also faces federal hate crime charges. and a painting of j.e.b. stuart has been taken down. the judge decided to take it down because the courtroom should be a neutral place and can't be -- can't be that if it has a symbol of the confederacy. there's still a memorial of stuart standing outside the courthouse. in "news4 your health" this morning, new numbers show the use of smokeless tobacco is on the rise among athletes. the smoking among high school students has dropped by more than 20% since 2001, but over that same amount of time the number of high school students using smokeless tobacco has grown to 11%. and the more sports the student plays the more likely they're to use it. the pew asked what people what they taught of their generation and it wasn't so great. 59% of the millennials said theirs was self-absorbed. and 39% said free did. yikes. the baby boomer image called themselves hard working, responsible and patriotic. there you go. guess we're supposed to move on now. i have an opinion. we are kicking off this labor day weekend in the 70s this morning in some places, but it will be another hot day. chuck is putting to your hour by hour forecast for 5:31. a heart felt honor. how you can pay tribute to the victims of the on-air ambush while helps others. and breathe easy, why your water bill is not going up as much as originally thought. now at 5:30, new evident in the murder of an -- new evidence in the murder of an arlington woman. why did police search her estranged husband's home? in decision 2016, republicans are breathing a bit easier this morning. democrats however facing more uncertainty. the latest on the race for the white house. if you're just taking the dog out for a walk, be prepared for some warm temperatures to meet you at the door, but just how warm will it get today? good morning. i'm eun yang. >> welcome back to "news4 today" as we approach 5:30 on this friday morning. good morning, i'm aaron gilchrist. chuck is taking a look at our hour by hour forecast through the day today. what do you say? >> i say it's going to be a pretty good day to be outside early this morning. kind of cloudy and dry. later on this afternoon, that's when we start to worry about a chance for some rain showers interrupting your plans. wake-up weather first thing this morning, temperatures upper 60s to low and mid 70s. there are areas of fog once again like we had the last couple of mornings. this area of showers across parts of eastern ohio is drifting down into west virginia and southwestern pennsylvania. our rain chances will be increasing, but as you can see on storm team 4 radar, nothing out there right now. hour by hour with the skycast 4, the clouds will come back in this afternoon, along with a chance for rain showers. 70s this morning. mid 80s by noontime. flirting with 90 degrees later on this afternoon. nothing wrong with a little harmless flirting, isn't that right, melissa? >> absolutely. taking a look right now at our first problem here this morning. we're talking about that issue on metro right now. otherwise, volume looking pretty good at this point. orange, silver line no service from clarendon over to mcpherson square. because of the late clearing track work this morning. blue line, no service from arlington cemetery to mcpherson square. 50 at bay dale drive, a crash in the median. two lanes are blocked. bill look at the -- big look at the beltway, no major problems. prince george's county is looking nice and green. travel times for you in ten minutes. >> thank you. 5:31 right now, thousands of you will hit the roads for the final flirt with summer. since we're talking about flirting this morning. so when is the best time to head out to beat the big rush? news4's megan mcgrath on the bay bridge, looking at things. megan, how is it looking? >> reporter: it looks terrific if you're an early bird, if you can get out of to house soon, now is a terrific time to leave. we are not seeing any delays at the bay bridge. many people consider labor day to be summer's last hurrah. that means they will be headed off to the beach, to the maryland and the delaware beaches which means they're going to be crossing the bay bridge. which you see live behind me. traffic right now, running at speed. i came across about an hour ago had no problems at all. i had an e-zpass, there was no line. i cruised on through. that'll be the case for a while this morning, but of course the traffic is going to continue to build as we wear into the afternoon. an estimated 354,000 vehicles are expected to go over this bridge. over the long holiday weekend. if you can leave before 10:00 a.m., that's your best bet. if you can't leave by then, and you don't want to sit in traffic the advice here is to leave after 10:00 tonight. really around 11:00 in the afternoon, that's when we start to see the traffic building. especially at the receive ran river, an area where we go from four lanes down the three. that is really in recent years become a big bottleneck, almost as bad as the bay bridge and that builds very, very early. keep that in mind as you're planning your trip this morning. also something to keep in mind, that gas prices are cheap. you will get a break on that this year. also the toll here at the bay bridge has gone down. a couple of months ago from $6 to $4 so that'll save you a buck as well. but expect a lot of people out there on the road with you. keep in mind that you have to use your head lights at all times on the bridge even in the daylight. and just take it easy out there. leave plenty of room between yourself and the vehicle in front of you. police have extra patrols out there and tow trucks at the ready should anyone break down. they'll move them out of the way as quickly as possible to keep things going. back to you in the studio. >> thank you. >> republican party leaders are breathing a bit of a sigh of relief this morning. presidential candidate donald trump has promised he will not run as an independent. republicans were concerned that trump would run against them and split the vote. but now it looks like that is not going to happen. and so jeb bush says trump is too pessimistic and republicans will lose if trump is the nominee. bush is now third in the national poll behind trump and former neurosurgeon ben carson. and my family understood take what is -- undertake what is an arduous commitment that would be proud to take under ordinary circumstances. but the honest to god answer is i don't know. >> some pretty candid commends from vice president joe biden about whether or not he thinks his family has the stamina for another presidential run. the biden family is still grieving the loss of his son beau who died of cancer. biden was asked about his interest when he spoke at an atlanta synagogue yesterday. there are reports that biden has met with potential donors and advisers in recent weeks. alexandria mayor bill euille announced on sunday whether he'll launch a write in campaign to keep his job. he was defeated by alison silver burg. arlington police are examining new evidence in a murder case. bonnie black was killed in april. yesterday, officers searched the home of her estranged husband david black. they seized two bicycle, documents and other items. neighbors who knew bonnie black say they're happy to see movement in the case. >> i'm glad that it's not that they -- that obviously the police still have leads. >> we have all been waiting impatiently to see results. >> this isn't the first time police have searched david black's home. police describe him as a person of interest in the murder, but he has not been charged with any crime. black says he's innocent. a group of northern virginia lawmakers pushing to expand background checks for gun buyers. this comes more than a week after two journalists were shot and killed on live television. a group of democrats has a petition with 2,800 signatures asking for stricter laws. the local chamber of commerce in roanoke raising money for a tribute to the woman who survived the on air ambush. they want to build a new community center in honor of vicki gardner. she is doing better as she recovering from being shot in the back. gardner has had this vision for a long time and they're hoping to make sure it happens. breaking news out of bangkok. turns out a man in custody there is unlikely the shrine bomber. police just announced the actual bomber is still on the run. dna ruled out the man thai police arrested near cambodia, thought to be the yellow shirted bomber, but they say he definitely played a role and he faces explosives charges. that's the latest, aaron? >> thank you. your complaints have prompted d.c. water to significantly reduce a new fee that could have more than doubled some water bills. now, we broke this story earlier this week, that d.c. water would charge 2,000 people between $40 and $80 extra a month. the board of directors voted to cap that rate at under $10. >> the consequence did not seem fair relative to the water use statistics that we were able to delineate. that only came out because our customers came forward. >> the higher fee primarily targeted newer homes where the size of the water lines is bigger to support required sprinkler systems. the new fee will start showing up on bills in november. hours after a decision on deflategate, tom brady is spotted. where the patriots qb showed up even though he didn't play last night. fairfax county students head back to school and there are a few changes that parents and students want to know about. important reminders straight ahead. breaking news on metro right now. we are single-tracking here, blue, orange, silver lines, single-tracking between eastern market and smithsonian this morning. that is in addition to this issue as well. orange, silver line, no service from clarendon to mcpherson square because of late clearing track work. kind of nasty morning, kicking off this labor day weekend from metro. 270 south no problems there. top of the beltway, no problems. 95 over to 270 there this morning, 66 inbound is fine. so is 95 northbound. 95 south no doubt going to be nasty later on this morning. remember to listen to our friends on wtop 103.5 f.m. when you hop in your car. chuck? >> thanks. you're always asking me to get some rain on the flowers, i'm asking you to keep the traffic off the bay bridge on my trip over it this afternoon. areas of fog out there first thing this morning. temperatures are comfortable. 65 in martinsburg and 63 in luray. 76 at reagan national. highs today will be in the mid to upper 80s. might touch 90s along the i-95 corridor. it will be a warm and humid day. if you're headed out to the baseball game, first pitch at 7:05. a brief delay not completely out of the question. great weather for sunday and monday. saturday, could be a cloud charge. maybe a drizzle. more sunshine back for sunday and monday looks great. seven day forecast in ten minutes. chuck, thank you. tom brady not wasting any time getting back to work. the patriots quarterback was spotted inside gillette stadium last night for his team's final preseason game. the appearance came hours after a federal judge threw out brady's four game suspension for his part in the deflategate scandal. brady is expected to suit up for the regular season opener next thursday. it will be right here on nbc4. the first bell will ring a little later this school year in fairfax county. it is back to school for kids this coming tuesday, september 8. one more weekend. fairfax county high schools will start at 8:10 and middle schools at 8:00 a.m. when your child heads out the door, they will have newly trained crossing guards. officials listened to parents who were concerned about safety and they brought in professional crossing towards. outrage when it comes to how some students get to the bus stop. what they're being forced to do just to get to school and what is being done about it. what is expected to happen for the man accused of threatening to wipe out all the threatening to wipe out all the white people i was about to head to thecheck. bank, but out of nowhere it just started to rain. like really rain. [clap of thunder] i did not want to go out. [clap of thunder] but then i was like duh, just use your phone. mobile-deposit-techno-thingy to the rescue. i'm rayna. and i bank human at td bank. what did iran's supreme leader get in the nuclear deal? to start with, $100 billion. they keep their nuclear facilities and ballistic missiles. there won't be surprise anytime-anywhere inspections. and after ten years, restrictions are lifted and iran could build a nuclear weapon in two months. congress should reject a bad deal. we need a better deal. happening today, officials will visit one of d.c.'s most dangerous intersections. we're talking about the intersection of "m" street and wisconsin avenue in georgetown. >> news4's derrick ward will have more on in a moment. but first, breaking news in your first 4 traffic. what's happening, melissa? >>we are single-tracking between eastern market and smithsonian. also other issues on metro. orange, silver line right now no service between clarendon and mcpherson square. same thing on the blue line between arlington cemetery and mcpherson square. chuck? outside, we have fog first thing this morning. we'll be left with a mix of clouds and sunshine through the late morning into the afternoon. but then clouds thicken and rain chances going up. highs mid to upper 80s. some spots might touch 90 but ever so briefly. >> thank you, chuck. 5:47. the officials will visit the intersection at m street and wisconsin avenue. ward 3 council member mary cheh and ddot will visit the site at 9:00 a.m., but many of you say they need to see the traffic earlier at the height of rush hour. news4's derrick ward has more. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. well, it's relatively calm and orderly here at this intersection, but as the day progresses things will progress as well. so will the pedestrians, the cars, and the bicyclists and so will your chances of getting into some kind of accident. you know, back in 2010, this was deemed the second most dangerous intersection in washington. second only to 14th and "u." a break in the traffic, and the tesfai mesghi temptation is to dash across. but the sign says there is turning traffic. what they have done is blocked so pedestrians can cross diagonally. now, the city has invested in the program called vision zero. that means by 2024, they aim to have no pedestrian fatalities in the district of columbia. this is an import from sweden. it is data driven and critics have said that there's not enough data to make it effective here in the district. later on, mary cheh and other groups will bring light on that. they say this is a cross roads to pedestrian safety. that will happen at 9:00 and they will see some pretty busy traffic here and probably get some data to help with that vision zero project. that happens at 9:00 this morning. we're live in georgetown. derrick ward, news4. >> 5:49. we warn our kids not to walk along in wooded areas, but for some loudoun county middle schoolers that's how they get to school. it take as mile to walk to the trail side middle school using the trail. now a group of parents are asking for their bus stop back, but the school board denied their appeal. >> i do not walk on the trail by myself. there have been too many incidents that happened and it's a very secluded, wooded area. i felt like if something happened, if somebody screamed nobody would hear. >> loudoun county school board doesn't feel it's unsafe to walk the route. the parents can petition the transportation department in hopes for a change. we hope to learn what went wrong at a texas hospital that treated an ebola patient. an independent review now says the hospital wasn't prepared. duncan's travel to liberia wasn't verbally communicated to the doctors and the guidance was unclear. right now, police are asking for your help finding the man who robbed this pharmacy at gun point. take a look at this video here. he's at the drugstore on stringtown road in clarksburg yesterday morning. the robber forced two women to the ground while he grabbed prescription pain killers. several nearby schools were told to shelter in place for nearly two hours as police searched for the gunman. happening today, a 20-year-old who police say tweeted that he would purge all the white people in la plata, maryland, will face a judge. hollins is accused of making a threat of mass violence. a friend of hollins says that the suspect may have been playing around. >> i have seen the crowd he hangs out with. he has, you know, a lot of white friends. >> now, police say some people didn't go out shopping that night as the threat spread online. the account that posted the message on wednesday looks to have been deleted. breaking news on the roads right now. sorry on the rails i should say right now. blue, orange and silver lines single-tracking between eastern market and between foggy bottom. we have this problem, orange and silver, no service from clarendon to mcpherson square and no service on the blue line from arlington cemetery to mcpherson square. very slow this morning. outer loop between colesville and georgia. brand-new crash sending chopper to that one. not there quite yet. 66 into town, out of town, just fine. 95 northbound, southbound, no issues. and looking at the bay bridge, you are in the clear right now. megan mcgrath out there for us live. we'll hear from her again coming up in the 6:00 hour. but right now you're looking good if you're headed out any time soon. chuck? >> melissa, thank you. hello, chuck. >> hello. you have delivered at the right moment. >> yes, 96 yesterday though. i wasn't a fan of that. dogs and i went out yesterday afternoon. even 15 minutes and you're covered in sweat. i hated it. >> that's d.c. summer weather right there. >> no kidding. i'll be glad to say good-bye to the 90s. we are not done quite yet. we have once more chance at them today and next week is looking plenty warm as well. but the good news, between now and then, we have a long holiday weekend and the holiday weekend weather looks very nice. very cooperative for all of your outdoor plans and picnics and parades and weddings and rehearsal dinners, all that stuff that everybody has been peppering me with on social media. hey, we've got a rehearsal dinner on friday night, should we have a backup plan for rain? yes, was should always have a backup plan. clouds increasing this afternoon and chances for rain coming in by mid to late afternoon. temperature right now 70 in gaithersburg. runners forecast still feeling like summer today. temperatures upper per 60s to mid 70s now. near 80 by 9:00. you don't like to be -- at least i don't like to be running that much. highs today 88 frederick, maryland. 88 in hagerstown. near 90 in washington. that's before the rain chances start to move on in. there it is on radar. couple of showers across parts of ohio. back door cold front. so the showers are coming off the bay and towards the i-95 corridor. there's the showers budging up along the chesapeake bay and on to i-95 here. between 1:00 and 5:00. hit and miss showers likely through much of the saturday evening as well. tomorrow looking good. plenty of clouds in the morning chg at great news for terrapins fans. richmond and maryland in the college football forecast. game time temperatures with increasing amounts of temperature in the 70s. mid 80s tomorrow and sunday. back into the 90's next week >> thank you. chuck. congress is launcng investigation into major problems that some army moms are having with day care and they're doing it because of the news4 report. last month we revealed that dozens filed former complaints about the u.s. general services administration. it's the federal agency that helps to pay for child care for military families. so the i-team's scott macfarlane dug a little deeper. >> now, one army mom said it's a nightmare. a program called the army fee assistance program backlogs, unreturned calls and late payments there. it's for army parents who can't find child care on their military post. those parents are instead allowed to find a private day care at full price in the community. >> general services administration which oversees that program then cuts those parents a check to help pay for it. now, we tracked down two of the dozens of parents who complained. carmen dikes and kayla hemsley and the u.s. house oversight committee saw our story and called on the two to testify next week. they called on a high ranking official. >> and a report confirms what the moms toll us. the program is suffering a backlog of 11,000 unreturned calls and it might have grown even longer. the agency has taken steps to fix that backlog. congress will hold a formal hearing next thursday to figure out what's going wrong. it's a rocky few weeks on wall street for a whole heck of a lot of reasons, but will today be any different? cnbc's landon dowdy has that. i hope things are looking up. >> hey, eun, well, we'll see. investors are taking a cautious approach ahead of the jobs report. futures are lower this morning and while asian and european markets are in the red. stocks ended mixed on thursday. analysts expect 220,000 jobs were added to the economy last month. although, august tends to be quirry. the jobs numbers can be inaccurate as many people are on vacation. the unemployment rate is expected to jump to 5.2%. a new report shows 44 million people tried out apple's new streaming music service in the first month in july. that makes it one of the top 15 u.s. smartphone apps just behind twitter and ahead of snapchat. the question remains though how many people will stick around when apple music -- once the three month free trial ends this month? back over to you. >> thank you. if you have tickets to the terps game tomorrow afternoon, you might notice a pretty big first there. the university of maryland is tarting a one-year -- starting a one-year pilot program that allows beer sales. anyone under the age of 40 will be asked for i.d. if everything goes well, fans can see wine sales down the road. right now, a number of you getting ready for the labor day weekend getting started a little early. a live look at the bay bridge this morning where a lot of you listen crossing -- will be crossing in the hours ahead as people enjoy the unofficial last weekend of summer. what you can expect if you're headed out town. "news4 today" starts now. >> headed to the beach this long holiday weekend? we'll have a live look at the bay bridge, tell you all about the traffic coming up. also ahead, same-sex marriage is expected to begin this morning in kentucky. as a defiant county clerk remains behind bars for refusing to issue licenses to gay couples. first, breaking news on the rails. let's check in with melissa mollet. >> breaking news on metro right now. blue, orange, silver line is single-tracking between eastern market and smithsonian and kind of a mess on metro this morning. another problem top of the beltway, outer loop after colesville road, a right shoulder and right lane blocked there. starting to get some earlier than normal volume because of the problem and that slowdown. big look at the beltway, rest of the beltway looks nice. no problems inner and outer loop, 270 at montrose flowing just fine. 95 we know you'll be nasty later. virginia 95 looking good. chuck? all right, scanning the skies, looking for a chance of rain drop on your friday morning, all is dry for now. we have clouds in some areas of fog around. but nothing falling out of the sky in the form of rainfall. temperatures in the mid 6

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