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Day well have after severe storms overnight. Scattered showers during the Morning Hours until 10 00 a. M. And then improvement in the weather. I want to show you storm reports from yesterday. These are hail reports across the area. Notice how they favor parts of northern virginia. Baseball sized hail reported. Ive added in the wind reports and you can continue to see the damage was mainly in West Virginia and virginia. Barely any storm reports in the district or in maryland. Heres the latest on storm team 4 radar. Showers in maryland as we look further back to the west some heavy rain impacting areas just to the north. Scattered showers until 10 00 a. M. Otherwise temps this morning in the 60s. More on what to expect in ten. For now we send things over to dave. Quiet on this friday morning. You got that right. Good so far driving around beltway and beyond and around the beltway, damp and wet and storms late last night. Inner lanes, a minor crash on left shoulder. Pavement damp here off the wilson bridge without delay. May want to back off on your speeds when you hit the road later on this morning. I66 looks good. I395 and 95 between quantico and pentagon no issues. Northbound lanes of route 29 at monument drive are blocked. Back to you. Heavy rain and golf ballsized hail went on for hours in middleburg, virginia, last night. Look at the size of the hail. The area remains under flood watch this morning and the line of thunderstorms with powerful wind gusts snapped some trees. Cars were also damaged pretty badly because of the hail. Some neighbors actually put down sandbags to keep the water out while others were without power for hours. This morning the National Weather service is investigating to see if those storms produced a tornado in virginia. You can see the funnel cloud in these pictures as well as some video we got. It isnt clear if the twister caused damage. The weather was a problem for those trying to get out of town. Someone tweeted this video while stuck on a plane at Reagan National for hours. At one point a full ground stop was in effect. Somewhere close to 50 flights were canceled at dulles and reagan. A good number of flights set to leave bwi at 6 00 p. M. Did not take off until after midnight. Its 5 03. Two big fires are burning right now. Both are out west. Hundreds of acres on fire in new mexico and southern california. There are also lots of evacuations under way. Were just getting new details on those wildfires that are spreading out west. Its hot, dry, factor in the winds overnight and just got word this blaze now at 1,700 acres. A stretch of highway 101 stic move through rugged coastal canyons west of santa barbara. Thousands of residents forced out their homes in arizona and new mexico. Well stay on top of the latest developments there. Back to you. Thank you. Were one day out from the beginning of surge two of Metro Safetrack program. No matter how you get around our region, this will likely impact you. Especially if you live in Prince Georges County. This work will last more than two weeks and we want to check in with Megan Mcgrath live at the new carolton metro station with more on what to expect. This is a big deal. It will be difficult no question about it. If youre a federal employee who lives in Prince Georges County headed to downtown washington, there are going to be two closed stations blocking your path. There will be buses but frankly the buses cant handle the regular crowds that we see here and its just math. Buses cant carry as many people as trains can. Transportation officials are hoping for a 60 in ridership from Prince Georges County. Thats an awful lot of people that have to figure out Something Else to do here. Take a look at whats going to happen during this phase two. The second surge of the construction here. Its happening between Eastern Market and minnesota avenue and benning road stations. Now that means that the two stations in between those points potomac avenue and stadium armory, they will close down entirely until the work is done. Were talking about a 16day period here from june 18th through july 3rd. This is phase two of the surge. The hope here is that the work that will be done will make the system more reliable, safer, and certainly well see a lot of headaches as work goes forward. Were also going to see some disruptions in virginia starting on saturday. No trains will run between Arlington Cemetery and rosslyn. Were her at the New Carrollton station run from here to greenfield. Folks need to think ahead and come up with other plans and some people should just take some other way or figure out some other way to get to work. Return to metro when this part of the project is done because it will be rough going here for a while. Back to you in the studio. Megan mcgrath. Thank you. On top of safetrack there will be track work on metro. Blue line trains will only operate between franconia, springfield and Arlington Cemetery and pentagon. There will be no rail or bus service between Arlington Cemetery and rosslyn. The good news is red,c yellow d green line trains will operate on a regular weekend schedule. Now to the terror in orlando. Funeral services are beginning for the 49 people who lost their lives at the pulse nightclub on sunday. One victim will be buried at the Greenwood Cemetery in orlando today. The city owned cemetery offered plots to all victims in the shooting attack. Several victims were from puerto rico. Back to the island yesterday for services that will happen this weekend. And the owner of a gun shop in florida refused to sell gunman omar mateen body armor weeks before this attack. The owner says he thought it was suspicious that mateen wanted high grade body armor typically used by law enforcement. The owner did alert the fbi but since there was no sale, the shop did not check the mans i. D. And had no name to give the feds. Im not backtracking on anything. Im saying that the president of the United States actions were responsible because of the full withdraw of troops from iraq. Arizona senator john mccain there saying president obamas policies are responsible for the threat of isis today. He clarified his comments after saying the president himself was directly responsible for the terror attack in orlando. Ahead at 5 50, nbcs tracie pott new gun control legislation. I a scare on stage for rock singer meat loaf. Youll see the entertainer drop his microphone and then fall to the floor. This happened at a concert last night in canada. The 68 year old this morning in the hospital. No word on his condition. Medics have rushed to his side before after a stage collapse. One in 2011. At that time he got up and finished that show. Well stay on top of the latest developments in this. Back to you. Thank you. Its 5 08. Today d. C. Leaders are drafting a constitution for statehood. The new Columbia Statehood Commission is revising a draft constitution. District residents can go online and submit any changes they would like to see. The group plans to vote on a final draft by the end of this month. The d. C. Council would have to approve it by early statehood to be on the november ballot. After a night of severe storms, were in for a bit of a reprieve. Storm team 4 meteorologist Amelia Draper is back with a look at when the rain will start moving outc of the region. Keeping you safe from the zika virus. What not one but two communities in our area are doing with the hopes of preventing you from getting sick. So long, sanders. Not quite. Why the senator still is not so more moms get prenatal care. Offer moms access to maternity nurse support around the clock. Empower local communities working to reduce premature births. And partner with governments by providing Actionable Insights to help treat kids at risk for asthma. Were built to do all of that. And more. Unitedhealth group built for better health. Comfortably cool this morning with temperatures in the low to mid 60s across the area. 66 in the district. 61 in frederick. Scattered showers around through the Morning Hours. Here we are at 7 00 a. M. Have the umbrella handy. Know you may deal with rain as you head into work during the earlier Morning Hours but by mid to late Morning Hours were dry. Still cloudy. Look at what happens around the midday hours. We start to see clouds across the area. Increasing sunshine by this afternoon. Really nice with low humidity and cooler temps than yesterday. Ill have your hour by hour temperature forecast coming up in the next ten minutes. For now well send it over to dave at wtop. Really quiet on the roads this friday morning. Thats a good thing. We hope it stays that way. Traditionally fridays are a quiet rush hour. Hoping for the best. Fingers crossed. Thats the case on 270. Wide open frederick toward montgomery county. You can see it near 109. Lots of space between the headlights. We hope it stays that way. In virginia, a crash working route 29 northbound lines of lee highway are blocked before monument drive. A crash took down a pole and wires. Police are on scene northbound lanes of 29 redirected around the backside of the Fairfax County government center. Otherwise, 66 looks good heading to the beltway as the alternate. Thats the latest. Back to you. Thank you, dae. We now know how this little boy died. 2yearold lane graves was killed when an alligator dragged him off at a disneyworld resort on tuesday night. The Orange County medical examiner says the toddler died of drowning and traumatic injuries. Wildlife officials are removing alligators from the water but have not figured out which one grabbed the boy. Graves was wading with hisc father when a gator grabbed him. D. C. s police chief says people should be fed up with daytime shootings. The latest happened near a small park in southeast washington. Two d. C. Police officers were on patrol near potomac avenue yesterday when they heard a gunshot. They rushed to a man who was hit in the leg on the sidewalk and used their medical kits until an ambulance arrived. Chief says there were many families in the park. A dark chevy was seen leaving the area after Police Arrested a getaway from a quadruple shooting last week. Investigators are still on the hunt for the mass shooter who is accused of targeting victims. Donald trump attacking president obama for his response to the orlando mass shooting. At a Campaign Rally in dallas, trump claimed the president is blaming guns for the attack and that Hillary Clinton wants to abolish the Second Amendment. Trump will hold a rally in houston tonight. Senator rnie sanders wants his supporters to influence democratic policies. In a new video message, sanders did not concede but vowed to work with Hillary Clinton. I look forward to the coming weeks to continue discussion between the two campaigns to make certain that your voices are heard and that Democratic Party passes the most progressive platform in its history. Sanders is also encouraging local and state politics and we are not aware of any scheduled Campaign Events for clinton today. There will be a Community Meeting this morning about preventing the spread of the zika virus in Prince Georges County. It will be at the Southern Regional technology and recreation complex in fort washington. Health officials will let you know about safe ways for cleaning up standing water. They will also have travel advice. The meeting begins at 10 00 a. M. News4 went behind the scene to see how they test for viruses. The control plan includes trapping and testing mosquitos in all eight wards. Up until this year it only tested for west nile virus. This year it added testing for viruses of three others. As of today the district says it has no confirmed cases of any of those viruses. We want to make certain that things that are of concern and being able to report that to the public. Again, for Public Safety and also for confidence in where we currently stand. The testing on mosquitos is done in d. C. s forensic lab. Doctors showed us it found one potential positive case but they are not sure which virus it is yet. Time to get a check on our weather and fathers day weekend is upon us and Amelia Draper, we hope things will dry out for dad. It will be beautiful this weekend. Really both days whether you take dad golfing, tennis, whatever your plans may be. The weather looking spectacular. Right now cloudy skies for everybody and showers for some. For most of us were actually dry. Im tracking showers in parts of Southern Maryland around frederick, northern montgomery and heavier rain over the mountains. Notice this trend moving south and fizzling out as it does so. Scattered showers until 10 00 a. M. This morning and after that well have overall a nice day. Because of that the weather having a low impact on your friday. Fabulous weather this evening. Very refreshing. Lower humidity levels. Our high yesterday 89 degrees. Our high today, 78. I also want to mention dulles reported 2. 82 inches of rain yesterday. Reagan reported just under a half inch. Virginia, West Virginia, saw the brunt of the storms. Everybody today has improving conditions. 7 00 a. M. Were around 66 degrees. If you want to go out for that Early Morning jog, i think you would be okay. Maybe wear the light rain gear. You may not even need it. Have your lunch outdoor kind of weather today. 70 degrees at noon. Peeks of sunshine. Increasing sun as we work our way toward 4 00, 8 00, temps in the 70s. 66 in the district. 63 in college park. 61 in rockville. A high today of 78. High of 82. For sunday, high temps in the mid 80s and what youre not seeing on the sevenday or on your iphone app or weather app this morning, low humidities for the weekend and monday as well. Summer officially begins on monday. Well have a high of 88. With a chance of late day showers and thunderstorms on tuesday. Otherwise a high of 90. Thanks. The search is on for the man accused of sexually assaulting an area teenager. Where parents and kids may want to be extra vigilant. Its like putting a price tag on your life. Why some families are having a hard time paying do  a life sing device for people avwi unexpected extra steps to raise healthy chickens with no antibiotics ever. For example, thyme. Its part of our 100 veggie diet that we feed our chickens and helps support their immune system. And we dont need to add antibiotics to their diet. If you want some sage advice, you should use thyme. Okay, rosemary. Thyme, just one more way we bring you chicken raised with no antibiotics ever. Its not the easy way. Its the perdue way. Good morning from the traffic center. Watching a nice quiet start to a friday morning rush hour. No big travel troubles to speak of on the area roadways and quiet on the beltway as of right no theres a crash on inner loop in local lanes near telegraph on the shoulder not causing a big delay. In Fairfax County, a crash took down a pole on lee highway near monument drive and northbound lanes of lee highway remain blocked. Southbound, westbound should be able to get by. 66 still running unoevenunevent. Back to you. The voice singer killed while signing autographs in orlando will be laid to rest today. The gunman took his own life. A private funeral and burial will take place in her home state of new jersey. This morning investigators are examining one of the black boxes from egyptair flight 804. Thats the plane that crashed into the Mediterranean Sea last month. It had 66 people onboard. Yesterday a search boat recovered the voice recorder. It could reveal why the crashed. Most importantly, the question of whether a bomb went off onboard. In news4 your health this morning, we know the epipen can be life saving for allergy patients but the cost of the device is steadily increasing. Some costing up to 400 to 500 leaving families with Food Allergies scrambling. If you have a High Deductible Health plan and you havent reached your deductible yet, youre going to pay more for your auto injector. One says prices increased after a competitor was pulled from a market. He developed a smaller device for 50 soon available to patients called allergy stop. Redskins logo and apparel are a source of controversy at a well known school in the district. The Student Government has banned all redskins its dress code. It says the teams mascot is offensive and antiethical to the values of the community. Motion denied. The judge in the trial of a Baltimore Police officer refuses to throw out the charges against him. Whats expected to happen today when court resumes. Some might call them good samaritans. Others would say heroes. They tell us about the chaotic moments following this fatal bus accident on the gw parkway. A look at the nice day ahead and the beach forecast. Doesnt that sound nice . We should go to the beach. Good morning to you. We want to start off with a check of your weather. It was a damp start this friday. Lets check in with storm team 4 Amelia Draper to see what we can expect for the day ahead. Happy friday. If youre getting out of town heading to the beaches today not the best beach today. Showers likely during the Morning Hours<\/a> until 10 00 a. M. And then improvement in the weather. I want to show you storm reports from yesterday. These are hail reports across the area. Notice how they favor parts of northern virginia. Baseball sized hail reported. Ive added in the wind reports and you can continue to see the damage was mainly in West Virginia<\/a> and virginia. Barely any storm reports in the district or in maryland. Heres the latest on storm team 4 radar. Showers in maryland as we look further back to the west some heavy rain impacting areas just to the north. Scattered showers until 10 00 a. M. Otherwise temps this morning in the 60s. More on what to expect in ten. For now we send things over to dave. Quiet on this friday morning. You got that right. Good so far driving around beltway and beyond and around the beltway, damp and wet and storms late last night. Inner lanes, a minor crash on left shoulder. Pavement damp here off the wilson bridge without delay. May want to back off on your speeds when you hit the road later on this morning. I66 looks good. I395 and 95 between quantico and pentagon no issues. Northbound lanes of route 29 at monument drive are blocked. Back to you. Heavy rain and golf ballsized hail went on for hours in middleburg, virginia, last night. Look at the size of the hail. The area remains under flood watch this morning and the line of thunderstorms with powerful wind gusts snapped some trees. Cars were also damaged pretty badly because of the hail. Some neighbors actually put down sandbags to keep the water out while others were without power for hours. This morning the National Weather<\/a> service is investigating to see if those storms produced a tornado in virginia. You can see the funnel cloud in these pictures as well as some video we got. It isnt clear if the twister caused damage. The weather was a problem for those trying to get out of town. Someone tweeted this video while stuck on a plane at Reagan National<\/a> for hours. At one point a full ground stop was in effect. Somewhere close to 50 flights were canceled at dulles and reagan. A good number of flights set to leave bwi at 6 00 p. M. Did not take off until after midnight. Its 5 03. Two big fires are burning right now. Both are out west. Hundreds of acres on fire in new mexico and southern california. There are also lots of evacuations under way. Were just getting new details on those wildfires that are spreading out west. Its hot, dry, factor in the winds overnight and just got word this blaze now at 1,700 acres. A stretch of highway 101 stic move through rugged coastal canyons west of santa barbara. Thousands of residents forced out their homes in arizona and new mexico. Well stay on top of the latest developments there. Back to you. Thank you. Were one day out from the beginning of surge two of Metro Safetrack<\/a> program. No matter how you get around our region, this will likely impact you. Especially if you live in Prince Georges County<\/a>. This work will last more than two weeks and we want to check in with Megan Mcgrath<\/a> live at the new carolton metro station with more on what to expect. This is a big deal. It will be difficult no question about it. If youre a federal employee who lives in Prince Georges County<\/a> headed to downtown washington, there are going to be two closed stations blocking your path. There will be buses but frankly the buses cant handle the regular crowds that we see here and its just math. Buses cant carry as many people as trains can. Transportation officials are hoping for a 60 in ridership from Prince Georges County<\/a>. Thats an awful lot of people that have to figure out Something Else<\/a> to do here. Take a look at whats going to happen during this phase two. The second surge of the construction here. Its happening between Eastern Market<\/a> and minnesota avenue and benning road stations. Now that means that the two stations in between those points potomac avenue and stadium armory, they will close down entirely until the work is done. Were talking about a 16day period here from june 18th through july 3rd. This is phase two of the surge. The hope here is that the work that will be done will make the system more reliable, safer, and certainly well see a lot of headaches as work goes forward. Were also going to see some disruptions in virginia starting on saturday. No trains will run between Arlington Cemetery<\/a> and rosslyn. Were her at the New Carrollton<\/a> station run from here to greenfield. Folks need to think ahead and come up with other plans and some people should just take some other way or figure out some other way to get to work. Return to metro when this part of the project is done because it will be rough going here for a while. Back to you in the studio. Megan mcgrath. Thank you. On top of safetrack there will be track work on metro. Blue line trains will only operate between franconia, springfield and Arlington Cemetery<\/a> and pentagon. There will be no rail or bus service between Arlington Cemetery<\/a> and rosslyn. The good news is red,c yellow d green line trains will operate on a regular weekend schedule. Now to the terror in orlando. Funeral services are beginning for the 49 people who lost their lives at the pulse nightclub on sunday. One victim will be buried at the Greenwood Cemetery<\/a> in orlando today. The city owned cemetery offered plots to all victims in the shooting attack. Several victims were from puerto rico. Back to the island yesterday for services that will happen this weekend. And the owner of a gun shop in florida refused to sell gunman omar mateen body armor weeks before this attack. The owner says he thought it was suspicious that mateen wanted high grade body armor typically used by law enforcement. The owner did alert the fbi but since there was no sale, the shop did not check the mans i. D. And had no name to give the feds. Im not backtracking on anything. Im saying that the president of the United States<\/a> actions were responsible because of the full withdraw of troops from iraq. Arizona senator john mccain there saying president obamas policies are responsible for the threat of isis today. He clarified his comments after saying the president himself was directly responsible for the terror attack in orlando. Ahead at 5 50, nbcs tracie pott new gun control legislation. I a scare on stage for rock singer meat loaf. Youll see the entertainer drop his microphone and then fall to the floor. This happened at a concert last night in canada. The 68 year old this morning in the hospital. No word on his condition. Medics have rushed to his side before after a stage collapse. One in 2011. At that time he got up and finished that show. Well stay on top of the latest developments in this. Back to you. Thank you. Its 5 08. Today d. C. Leaders are drafting a constitution for statehood. The new Columbia Statehood Commission<\/a> is revising a draft constitution. District residents can go online and submit any changes they would like to see. The group plans to vote on a final draft by the end of this month. The d. C. Council would have to approve it by early statehood to be on the november ballot. After a night of severe storms, were in for a bit of a reprieve. Storm team 4 meteorologist Amelia Draper<\/a> is back with a look at when the rain will start moving outc of the region. Keeping you safe from the zika virus. What not one but two communities in our area are doing with the hopes of preventing you from getting sick. So long, sanders. Not quite. Why the senator still is not so more moms get prenatal care. Offer moms access to maternity nurse support around the clock. Empower local communities working to reduce premature births. And partner with governments by providing Actionable Insights<\/a> to help treat kids at risk for asthma. Were built to do all of that. And more. Unitedhealth group built for better health. Comfortably cool this morning with temperatures in the low to mid 60s across the area. 66 in the district. 61 in frederick. Scattered showers around through the Morning Hours<\/a>. Here we are at 7 00 a. M. Have the umbrella handy. Know you may deal with rain as you head into work during the earlier Morning Hours<\/a> but by mid to late Morning Hours<\/a> were dry. Still cloudy. Look at what happens around the midday hours. We start to see clouds across the area. Increasing sunshine by this afternoon. Really nice with low humidity and cooler temps than yesterday. Ill have your hour by hour temperature forecast coming up in the next ten minutes. For now well send it over to dave at wtop. Really quiet on the roads this friday morning. Thats a good thing. We hope it stays that way. Traditionally fridays are a quiet rush hour. Hoping for the best. Fingers crossed. Thats the case on 270. Wide open frederick toward montgomery county. You can see it near 109. Lots of space between the headlights. We hope it stays that way. In virginia, a crash working route 29 northbound lines of lee highway are blocked before monument drive. A crash took down a pole and wires. Police are on scene northbound lanes of 29 redirected around the backside of the Fairfax County<\/a> government center. Otherwise, 66 looks good heading to the beltway as the alternate. Thats the latest. Back to you. Thank you, dae. We now know how this little boy died. 2yearold lane graves was killed when an alligator dragged him off at a disneyworld resort on tuesday night. The Orange County<\/a> medical examiner says the toddler died of drowning and traumatic injuries. Wildlife officials are removing alligators from the water but have not figured out which one grabbed the boy. Graves was wading with hisc father when a gator grabbed him. D. C. s police chief says people should be fed up with daytime shootings. The latest happened near a small park in southeast washington. Two d. C. Police officers were on patrol near potomac avenue yesterday when they heard a gunshot. They rushed to a man who was hit in the leg on the sidewalk and used their medical kits until an ambulance arrived. Chief says there were many families in the park. A dark chevy was seen leaving the area after Police Arrested<\/a> a getaway from a quadruple shooting last week. Investigators are still on the hunt for the mass shooter who is accused of targeting victims. Donald trump attacking president obama for his response to the orlando mass shooting. At a Campaign Rally<\/a> in dallas, trump claimed the president is blaming guns for the attack and that Hillary Clinton<\/a> wants to abolish the Second Amendment<\/a>. Trump will hold a rally in houston tonight. Senator rnie sanders wants his supporters to influence democratic policies. In a new video message, sanders did not concede but vowed to work with Hillary Clinton<\/a>. I look forward to the coming weeks to continue discussion between the two campaigns to make certain that your voices are heard and that Democratic Party<\/a> passes the most progressive platform in its history. Sanders is also encouraging local and state politics and we are not aware of any scheduled Campaign Events<\/a> for clinton today. There will be a Community Meeting<\/a> this morning about preventing the spread of the zika virus in Prince Georges County<\/a>. It will be at the Southern Regional<\/a> technology and recreation complex in fort washington. Health officials will let you know about safe ways for cleaning up standing water. They will also have travel advice. The meeting begins at 10 00 a. M. News4 went behind the scene to see how they test for viruses. The control plan includes trapping and testing mosquitos in all eight wards. Up until this year it only tested for west nile virus. This year it added testing for viruses of three others. As of today the district says it has no confirmed cases of any of those viruses. We want to make certain that things that are of concern and being able to report that to the public. Again, for Public Safety<\/a> and also for confidence in where we currently stand. The testing on mosquitos is done in d. C. s forensic lab. Doctors showed us it found one potential positive case but they are not sure which virus it is yet. Time to get a check on our weather and fathers day weekend is upon us and Amelia Draper<\/a>, we hope things will dry out for dad. It will be beautiful this weekend. Really both days whether you take dad golfing, tennis, whatever your plans may be. The weather looking spectacular. Right now cloudy skies for everybody and showers for some. For most of us were actually dry. Im tracking showers in parts of Southern Maryland<\/a> around frederick, northern montgomery and heavier rain over the mountains. Notice this trend moving south and fizzling out as it does so. Scattered showers until 10 00 a. M. This morning and after that well have overall a nice day. Because of that the weather having a low impact on your friday. Fabulous weather this evening. Very refreshing. Lower humidity levels. Our high yesterday 89 degrees. Our high today, 78. I also want to mention dulles reported 2. 82 inches of rain yesterday. Reagan reported just under a half inch. Virginia, West Virginia<\/a>, saw the brunt of the storms. Everybody today has improving conditions. 7 00 a. M. Were around 66 degrees. If you want to go out for that Early Morning<\/a> jog, i think you would be okay. Maybe wear the light rain gear. You may not even need it. Have your lunch outdoor kind of weather today. 70 degrees at noon. Peeks of sunshine. Increasing sun as we work our way toward 4 00, 8 00, temps in the 70s. 66 in the district. 63 in college park. 61 in rockville. A high today of 78. High of 82. For sunday, high temps in the mid 80s and what youre not seeing on the sevenday or on your iphone app or weather app this morning, low humidities for the weekend and monday as well. Summer officially begins on monday. Well have a high of 88. With a chance of late day showers and thunderstorms on tuesday. Otherwise a high of 90. Thanks. The search is on for the man accused of sexually assaulting an area teenager. Where parents and kids may want to be extra vigilant. Its like putting a price tag on your life. Why some families are having a hard time paying do  a life sing device for people avwi unexpected extra steps to raise healthy chickens with no antibiotics ever. For example, thyme. Its part of our 100 veggie diet that we feed our chickens and helps support their immune system. And we dont need to add antibiotics to their diet. If you want some sage advice, you should use thyme. Okay, rosemary. Thyme, just one more way we bring you chicken raised with no antibiotics ever. Its not the easy way. Its the perdue way. Good morning from the traffic center. Watching a nice quiet start to a friday morning rush hour. No big travel troubles to speak of on the area roadways and quiet on the beltway as of right no theres a crash on inner loop in local lanes near telegraph on the shoulder not causing a big delay. In Fairfax County<\/a>, a crash took down a pole on lee highway near monument drive and northbound lanes of lee highway remain blocked. Southbound, westbound should be able to get by. 66 still running unoevenunevent. Back to you. The voice singer killed while signing autographs in orlando will be laid to rest today. The gunman took his own life. A private funeral and burial will take place in her home state of new jersey. This morning investigators are examining one of the black boxes from egyptair flight 804. Thats the plane that crashed into the Mediterranean Sea<\/a> last month. It had 66 people onboard. Yesterday a search boat recovered the voice recorder. It could reveal why the crashed. Most importantly, the question of whether a bomb went off onboard. In news4 your health this morning, we know the epipen can be life saving for allergy patients but the cost of the device is steadily increasing. Some costing up to 400 to 500 leaving families with Food Allergies<\/a> scrambling. If you have a High Deductible Health<\/a> plan and you havent reached your deductible yet, youre going to pay more for your auto injector. One says prices increased after a competitor was pulled from a market. He developed a smaller device for 50 soon available to patients called allergy stop. Redskins logo and apparel are a source of controversy at a well known school in the district. The Student Government<\/a> has banned all redskins its dress code. It says the teams mascot is offensive and antiethical to the values of the community. Motion denied. The judge in the trial of a Baltimore Police<\/a> officer refuses to throw out the charges against him. Whats expected to happen today when court resumes. Some might call them good samaritans. Others would say heroes. They tell us about the chaotic moments following this fatal bus accident on the gw parkway. A look at the nice day ahead and the beach forecast. Doesnt that sound nice . We should go to the beach. Good morning to you. We want to start off with a check of your weather. It was a damp start this friday. Lets check in with storm team 4 Amelia Draper<\/a> to see what we can expect for the day ahead. Happy friday. If youre getting out of town heading to the beaches today not the best beach today. Showers likely during the Morning Hours<\/a>. Mostly cloudy skies overall. Late day clearing and windy at the beach today with highs near 70. Breezy tomorrow. Partly to mostly sunny skies. Highs low 70s. Mid 70s on sunday with plenty of sunshine and winds not an issue by sunday. Water temperature coming in now at 73 degrees. I have a feeling in some spots its cooler. Four things you need to know this morning. 11 00 a. M. A spectacular weekend. Very little rain chances over the next seven days. Good news for commuters i guess. Good morning, amelia. We are watching a quiet traffic pattern right now and not really bad on the beltway. Look at the live look at the mormon temple. This could be a slow spot but this morning moving well on outer loop heading into the distance and away from the sunrise. Tracking a crash on lee highway near monument drive. Northbound lanes of 29 remain blocked. Four lanes of lee highway blocked. 95 and 395 volume beginning to build. No issues into washington this morning. Northbound lanes look good. Back to you. The defense gets back to Police Officer<\/a> caesar goodson. Hes the van driver accused of taking freddie gray on that rough ride that eventually caused his death last year. Yesterday the judge denied a motion to dismiss all of the charges against officer goodson. The defense is trying to prove grays death was an accident and not a homicide. Goodson is facing the most serious charge, seconddegree depraved murder. I dont know if its the one they get but something should stick. I really do. The verdict in goodsons nonjury trial could come early next week. Eight people have been indicted in what investigators are calling a large scale local heroin ring. Police in frederick county, maryland, seized weapons, drugs and money and we expect more details at a press conference later this morning and this morning were learning about a disturbing sex assault on a 14yearold girl. This happened in the section of Fairfax County<\/a> in april. The girl was assaulted on richmond highway in a wooded area near dart drive. Mt. Vernon police say the girl was walking along a path when a man grabbed her from behind and assaulted her. I just basically did what any person, any person with any kind of moral obligation would do. We are hearing about dramatic rescue along the gw parkway for the first time. It was instinct for two Army Soldiers<\/a> who were just a couple parkway heroes who stopped to help. The sergeants were driving home when they saw the overturned bus. They immediately pulled over and rushed to help the passengers. At least three people were trapped under that bus. This after it collided with a car and then tipped on its side. The soldiers say they were acting on adrenaline and moral duty. It was it shows you how precious life is. Life can end at any moment. One person did die and more than a dozen others were hurt in this crash but many are crediting these officers with saving even more lives. A local Identity Theft<\/a> ring could involve thousands of victims and millions of dollars. Federal prosecutors say two posted job listings on craigslist and asked for drivers licenses, passports and Social Security<\/a> numbers. Shell companies were set up to advertise cheap travel deals. The two were being held without bond in alexandria. D. C. Policec are searching for two persons of interest in a robbery in southeast. Take a look. This is surveillance video. It looks like its inside of a school. D. C. Police say the theft happened near kimball elementary school. Police are for the saying what was taken but they do want help identifying the people in the right now d. C. Police on the scene of a stabbing in northwest that happened very close to the Third District<\/a> police station. Police found a man suffering from multiple stab wounds in the 3300 block of sherman avenue right near park road. The victim was conscious and breathing on the way to the hospital but his injuries are described as very serious. No word yet on a motive and suspects in this case. Back to you. Molette, thank you. 5 33 right now. You might want to be on the lookout for a bear if youre headed near silver spring, maryland. Check this out. Montgomery county police say multiple people have called to say that theyve seen one of these guys during the daytime. News4 viewers sending us videos and pictures of it. One man tells us he saw the bear. He thinks the cub is about 200 pounds. Bear didnt look that large to me. I wasnt really afraid of it. I was just more so watching it making sure it was going away from me so i can get out of the car. Police think this bear may be the same one that has been spotted in montgomery and Prince Georges County<\/a>. If you see a bear, make noise. Scream. Yell. Scare him. Youre not supposed to run. Thats what i would do. Happening today, you can see a cool flyover in the district. U. S. Coast guard will fly nine plains over the city in celebration of 100 years of f flying at 1 00 p. M. The morgan boulevard metro and Anacostia Park<\/a> will be good spots to see it. Should be awesome. The lawmaker now pointing fingers at president obama for this weeks deadly shooting in orlando. A warning for people in montgomery county. The slew of recent bear sightings and the pictures to prove it. More on this story coming up. Rain is starting to fizzle out. When will the sun return . Storm team 4 meteorologist Amelia Draper<\/a> is bkac curry will get a technical. He was ejected. Thats the big story in the nba finals. Twotime mvp steph curry ejected from last nights his wife then tweeted that the game was rigged. She quickly tweeted an apology saying this was the heat of the moment. She apologized. On the other side, lebron james came up big for cleveland. 41 points. Game seven is sunday night. Can you imagine the emotions and passion there . You know, even before the game they were fired up because she tweeted out a picture that her along with warrior families were still stuck on the bus and couldnt get into the arena. I think like you said, emotions were high. Shes always courtside. Always a big cheerleader. Good cook, too. Follow her on the instagram. There you go. Should be a great game. Lets turn our attention to the forecast now. Were talking about residual rain. Hopefully things will dry up for the holiday weekend. Good news they are. I love that word residual. Scattered showers this morning. Look at the storm yesterday. West virginia, virginia, you got hammered with strong, gusty winds that produced a lot of wind damage and some large hail. We got reports of anywhere from golf ballsized hail in some areas to baseball sized hail. It looks like one of the hardest hit areas was middleburg, virgini virginia. Very little storm reports in maryland and the district. Storms weakened as they pushed toward the east. Right now 66 degrees. Well be in the 60s through the Morning Hours<\/a>. Comfortably cool. Showers generally light in nature around 7 00 a. M. By 9 00 a. M. , most of the d. C. Metro area looks to be dry. Showers south of the metro at that point by 11 00 a. M. And peeks of sun and a temp of 68. Dining out tonight, comfortable, gorgeous. Temps in the upper 60s to 70s. Ill track the weekend and what to expect hour by hour on fathers day in ten minutes. She found a note on her windshield scolding her for veterans. She says she has nothing to be sorry about and wait until you hear her response. Glimpse into the future of celphones. L good morning. Welcome back. We are watching the traffic conditions around the region and so far so good. Good setup for the friday rush hour. Live look at the beltway right now on outer loop. Nice and easy heading west on 495 taillights heading away from the camera and easy going toward george avenue. No delays. Beltway all around looks good in maryland and virginia. In virginia, fairfax, lee highway northbound rains of route 29 remain blocked near monument drive with a pole down on the roadway. Follow police direction. Back to you. Heres the latest on storm team 4 radar. Areas of rain around charlottesville. Scattered light showers in our area but coming up, ill let you know how yesterdays storms will impact the weather today on into the weekend. Time is 5 44. Right now cleanup is under way after strong storms slammed parts of virginia on thursday. Heavy rain and huge clumps of hail came down for hours. Thats where we find news4s derrick ward with a look at whats left to clean up this morning. Big hail out there. Reporter the roads are clear. Were on route 50 through the heart of old middleburg. Roads are clear now. We have seen some fallen trees and obviously cleared off the roads. Crews have been busy out here. This is the golf ballsized hail that weve been talking about. It did some damage to cars actually and blanketed the ground out here and was a start for folks in middleburg hearing it hitting the roof and all around you. No Severe Damage<\/a> were told of. Vehicles were damaged. They seem to be recovering pretty well from the we are expecting more rain later today as we heard from amelia. So whether the flood issues down here are something later on, well have to see. Right now a quiet after the storm in middleburg. Back to you. Thank you. A tragedy for a Houston Family<\/a> after a young boy crawled into a car and was locked inside in the heat. The 3 year old died after he went into cardiac arrest. Neighbors are heartbroken. A little kid that was a poster child for being thec energizer bunny. Its not easy news. Police say the doors had Child Safety Locks<\/a> on. No charges have been filed but the case is still under investigation. Right now Prince William<\/a> county police are looking for a suspect in a domestic related shooting. Lori Lee Cunningham<\/a> beat her wife with a gun and then turned it on herself. Both women were treated at the hospital. Cunningham was discharged from a Treatment Facility<\/a> on sunday and disappeared. Theres a warrant out for her arrest. It will be another two years before we see a new fence around the white house but a new design has preliminary approval. 11foot fence which is four feet higher than the current one. It also would have wider and stronger picketts. They expect construction to begin in 2018. Paid parking may actually be hurting business for some in rockville. Customers have to pay to park at rockville town square along east montgomery avenue. Its free to park at the center and other places. Business owners blame paid parking on declining business. The city agreed to study the issue to see if chang made. Today marks one year since nine people were shot and killed during bible study at Mother Emmanuel Church<\/a> in charleston, south carolina. There are dozens of memorials plan for today in the city. The biggest will be at the college of charlestons td arena where thousands will gather to remember the victims. For the families today is a tough day. I feel just i get down in the dumps and i cry. Without even knowing whats going to happen. I really have no control. A gunman faces charges in connection to the shooting and faces Death Penalty<\/a> in state and federal trials. It started a National Conversation<\/a> about symbolism behind the confederate flag. The man in charge of the cia has a new warning about isis. Efforts to fight isis have not carry out terror attacks. Isis is now bigger and more widespread than al qaeda. The cia director also warns sighs isis is trying to positionc fighter for more attacks in the west. Isil is training and attempting to deploy operatives for further attacks. President obama pledged more air strikes against isis and added special forces operations in iraq and syria. Lets turn our attention to our forecast especially after all that rain. We want to look at the friday and the weekend. Storm team 4 meteorologist Amelia Draper<\/a> with her forecast. Good morning. We talked about it yesterday morning how we could have some Severe Weather<\/a> and very heavy rainfall. Yesterday dulles reported 2. 8 inches of rain. A new record for the day. Only some scattered showers out there this morning. Heres the thing on radar. The rain kind of moving toward the southwest. Very light showers in parts of Southern Maryland<\/a> around Northern County<\/a> as well. And heavier rain further back to the west over the mountains. This rain youre seeing here heavier and its going to stay back in those areas. For most of us have the umbrella handy. I think its really going to be a dry morning. Maybe just sprinkles as you head on into work. Everybody noticing plenty of cloud cover right now. I want to show you skycast 4 throughout the day. This forecast what the sky is going to look like. 7 00 a. M. , still overcast skies. Comfortably cool. Temps in low to mid 60s. As we work toward midday hours, we notice brightening in the skies. Some clouds breaking up and temps around 70 in the suburbs and the district at that point. Really nice day to have your lunch outdoors. Go for a walk around the midday hours. Lower humidity. By 4 00 p. M. Temps in mid to upper 70s. More importantly, notice plenty of sunshine. You wont need sunglasses heading in this morning but you will coming home as we kick off our weekend. Heres what you can expect for youre doing outside. Perfect pool weekend. Wall to wall sunshine both days. Getting some golfing weather. Not too hot. Not too cold. Temps just right. Cant say that about a lot of the weekend so far this year. Sunday brunch looking nearly perfect. Looking at current temperatures, were in the 60s. A high today of 78. A high tomorrow of 82. 85 on sunday. 88 on monday as we officially begin summer monday evening. Dave, i hear youre tracking issues on metro. Yeah. This is on the heels of safetrack phase one. Unscheduled track work affecting orange and silver line trains between boston and cclarendon. Delays to and from arlington county. [000 50 58;00] delays. Eastbound beyond route 29 volume creeping into the equation as you head east out of Prince William<\/a> county into centreville. I95 northbound near Prince William<\/a> parkway, new crash involving a truck blocking the right side of 95 northbound. Back to you. If the president had not pulled everybody out of iraq, you would have never seen the rise of isis. So he bears responsibility. Arizona senator john mccain is facing backlash for claims that president obama is responsible for the orlando terror attack. Lets check in with nbcs tracie potts live on capitol hill with more. How are lawmakers reacting to mccains comments and what is the going discussion on gun control now . Lets start with mccain who is taking heat for saying the president was directly responsible for orlando. When we questioned him about that, he said that as you heard there that responsibility is we failed to contain isis and he says thats led to attacks here really been stirred up on gun control because of the orlando shooting, on monday the senate is going to consider four separate measures. One on background checks for gun show sales and Internet Sales<\/a> and three different measures on how to restrict gun sales to people on terror watch lists, on the nofly list should they get notified through fbi. Should they be delayed until the fbi gives them an okay. Should they actually block these sales from anyone on the watch list. The concern of republicans here is that there are people on these lists mistakenly innocent people that would lose their Second Amendment<\/a> right to bear arms if they are blocked or restricted from getting a weapon. Thats part of what theyre trying to work through to get this done. Right now theres skepticism that 60 votes exist here on capitol hill to even move this forward to the next step on monday. We shall see what happens. Tracie potts live on capitol hill for us. Thanks as always. The sud member of the British Parliament<\/a> is still sending shock waves around the globe. Jo cox was ambushed and killed after meeting with constituents and this morning the suspects motive is coming into question. Many wonder if it had anything to do with a political battle thats dividing the u. K. The killing comes days before a referendum on whether britain should leave the european union. Police quickly arrested a 52yearold man whom they say is theirc only suspect. Weve lost a great star. There are conflicting reports from witnesses that her killer may have shouted put britain first as he attacked her. Time is 5 53. This weekend the thunderbirds are back in the skies over ocean city maryland. Earlier this month a pilot crashed during a flyover at an airs air force graduation in colorado. The pilot forced to eject and wasnt seriously the first family will head to new mexico to celebrate fathers day. President obama will spend the weekend with his daughters at Carlsbad Caverns<\/a> National Park<\/a> as part of 100th anniversary of the National Park<\/a> system. The family will also spend time in yosemite. Good morning. Im landon dowdy. Dish network is dropping the red zone channel and nfl channel. The move affects 7 million homes and nfl says this is the first major provider to drop its channels in its 13year history. Im landon dowdy. Landon, thank you. A maryland man has been sentenced to nine years in prison for assaulting two Prince Georges County<\/a> Police Officer<\/a>. William webster pled guilty after back in october chase. They were trying to arrest him for beating up his girlfriend. Prosecutors released this dash cam video of the attack yesterday. He not only rams the one cruiser which youll see very clearly. He begins to pursue the second cruiser actually as if hes trying to ram that cruiser. Despite whatever issues he may have, theres no excuse for running from the police and for attacking the police the way he did. Both officers were hurt in the chase. One had to have shoulder surgery. Both of them have made a full recovery. This morning a veteran is hoping someone realizes what a huge mistake they made. You may have seen this story. Its circulating on facebook. Someone left a note on her car at a veterans only parking spot in north carolina. This is what the note said. This parking spot is for veterans, lady. Learn to read and have some respect. However, the veterans the navy for eight years. Im shocked and angry and also sad. The woman said veterans come in all different shapes, sizes, colorses, races. A new patent apple secured this week. New phones could have a wraparound display and augmented reality. Apple says it would allow photos and videos to be presented in a continuous loop. The augmented reality will allow you to overlay images to a real setting. Next on news4 today at 6 00, strong storms force utility crews to work through the night to try to restore power for thousands of people across northern virginia. Reporter what you need to programs goes into its second phase. Getting the word out on a number of sightings like this one. Where to be on the lookout for bear. It seemed like the bus didnt weigh anything. Two good sem right now the skies are finally starting to clear after that string of Severe Weather<\/a> in just the last couple of hours. The National Weather<\/a> Service Canceled<\/a> a flood watch for much of our area and not only the weather, Power Outages<\/a> are also clearing up but there are plenty leftover from the bad storms. Northern virginia had the worst of it. Dominion virginia has more than 5,000 outages its working to fix including more than 2,500 in Fauquier County<\/a> and another thousand in loudon county. Also at this hour, 3,800 customers dont have power. Take a look at these pictures from martinsburg, West Virginia<\/a>. You can see what looks like funnel clouds but no confirmed tornado. This morning the National Weather<\/a> service is investigating reports of a tornado in nearby berkeley springs, West Virginia<\/a>. There are reports of trees down in the area but no major damage. This was the scene for hours in middleburg, virginia, last night. Heavy rain and huge clumps of hail covering the ground. The line of thunderstorms with powerful wind. Gusts snapped some trees in half. Cars were damaged bad because of that hail. Some neighbors actually put down sandbags to keep the water out while others were without power for hours. Huge hail there. Lets get to storm team 4 meteorologist Amelia Draper<\/a> who was tracking when that rain will move out of your neighborhood. Good morning. Good morning. Not only scattered showers right now and threat of rain really diminishes by 10 00 a. M. Before i get to radar, i want to show you storm reports from yesterday. These are hail and wind reports combined. You can see they really favor virginia. Hard any any reports in maryland and no storm reports in the district. As storms pushed eastward they fizzled out. 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