Flashing lights and everything to grab attention. Its a quick exit if you will. Head north on to kenilworth avenue, be aware. Head on collision at everett street, a neighborhood street. Be aware in this section, you will be rerouted. Also, this is morning number one of phase 3 metro rail continuous work. It will close between braddock road and National Airport. Jack, thank you. Most of you are probably getting ready to take on your morning commute for the first time. Phase 3 of the Safetrack Program could tangle traffic in northern virginia. News 4s derrick ward is monitoring the situation for us in alexandria. Derrick, good morning. What are you seeing in. Reporter what were seeing now is folks sort of getting used to this. Were at the braddock road station here. What is going on essentially is the blue and yellow lines are shut down between braddock road and National Airport. Now, if metro is providing metro is providing stt service. Theres lots of people on hand to tell you where you need to go and how to get there. There is an limited shuttles that will take you directly to National Airport. Folks who are indeed going that way. The blue buses with metro insignia on them, theyre inhanesing the service. What you need to know is essentially all of the blue and yellow line stations to points west, theyll have delays and crowds. How are people dealing with it . We spoke with one commuter whose experience was typical. Hes just feeling his way around. Are you leaving earlier to make well, this is the normal time i usually leave. I like to be ahead of the game especially when it comes to metro. This is nothing new for me. What do you think about it . I mean, its way overdue. But its an inconvenience but its better for six days into the surge that you will have to deal with and after that, another one begins. We are live at braddock road. Derrick ward, news 4. Pack to you. Thank you, derrick. The next phases could change the way you get around this summer. Metro is asking that you use the bus services as much as possible. Also dont forget about the capitol Bike Share Program and vre. You can consider hiring an uber or lyft driver. We have seen prices increase in the past. As always, check your nbc washington app for ideas on how to get along with the delays. 6 03 right now. A new video of a local stabbing suspect taking police on a highspeed chase in north carolina. You take a look here. Police say that is Klein Lawrence of hyattsville. Weaving through traffic at 110 miles an hour. Police eventually stopped him and arrested. Stabbing a Police Officer at Grocery Store. Hes wanted for strong arm robbery charges also in Prince Georges County. A man accused of shooting at a number of locations including the National Security agency. 35yearold hong young is accused in a series of shots fired incidents that happened over a week last year. Police say they found a semiautomatic handgun and shell casings in his 1999 lincoln. Police matched the bullets to those collected at the scene. They happened in howard, Prince Georges County and an arundel. Scheduling a vote on gun control legislation today. It comes weeks after the daylong sitin on the house floor. Dozens of local families marched on capitol hill and held a sitin on their own. This is tuesday. They were demanding a vote for gun control. Six people were a vote on a gunrelated bill. It would allow the attorney general to delay the sale of a gun to a suspected terrorist for three days. Some democrats say its not real gun control and will oppose it. We now know that a virginia man accused of plotting an isisstyle attack allegedly tried to buy a gun at a chantilly store. Mohammed jalloh made a Court Appearance on tuesday. He tried to buy a gun without a required i. D. When he returned, the owner sold him a disabled gun. He had a right to work hard at trying to read people and talk to them, asking questions. Get an idea what they want it for. According to Court Documents jalloh unknowingly met with an undercover fbi informant whom he believed was an isis National Guard after listening to lectures by a former al qaeda leader. Hes back in court next tuesday. A suicide car bombing at a secured compound in yemen killed at least ten people. Officials say militants stormed the compound and have begun clashing with soldiers. Yemen was also attacked on monday. It comes at a time when muslims are marking the end of ramadan. No group immediately claimed responsibility for todays attack. Back to you. Erika, thank you. Its 6 06 right now. A bit of a water scare at the u. S. Capitol. House lawmakers and their staff will be allowed to take free blood tests. Theyre looking at whether elevated lead levels are affecting them. They shut off the water there after tests showed lead levels slightly above national standards. Maryland governor larry hogan will hold a News Conference on heroes highway in he signed legislation earlier this year dedicating a section of route 924 as heroes highway in honor of two Hartford County sheriffs deputies. They were both shot and killed in the line of duty in february. Expect delays today around the roosevelt bridge. Vdot will do inspections through friday. They focus on the bridge itself and the ramps leading up to it. It will begin after rush hour at 10 00 and should be done by 3 00 in the afternoon. Overnight, nobody struck it rich in the Mega Millions jackpot. Estimated at 454 million. That means, im going to start thinking about lucky numbers for later this week. A new drawing will happen on friday. That jackpot will total about a half a billion dollars. The odds of winning the Mega Millions jackpot, about one in 259 million. Now, some people did get pretty lucky. There were seven Million Dollar tickets sold. The lottery and the mega ball was 10. I forgot to play. We have another chance now. Yes. All right. Have to play to win. I like how you say we. He didnt win the lottery, but could have walked away with a lot of cash. What does he think about his effort to track down the owner. Who left 200,000 behind. Changing course. The backlash that has Loudon County leaders reconsidering an lgbt gay pride forecast. Good morning. Im meteorologist chuck bell. 6 11 on a wednesday morning. The weather will impact your time outside. Air quality index is code orange. Thats unhealthy for sensitive groups, asthma sufferers and the like. Drink extra water and breaks from the heat if youre outside for an extended period of time. The temperatures, up, up and away they go. Up near 90 by noon. Highs today, low to mid90s across the area. Not much of a rain chance today. Little better chance tomorrow. Well get into that hour by hour with your forecast coming up in a few more minutes along with the fiveday outlook. Route 50 is a slow ride in. Its Getting Better. At least everything is out of the roadway. Were talking about 50 west. John anson highway towards kenilworth avenue. Thats the gik of the ramp headed north. Chopper 4 will zoom in for us. You can access the ramp past the crash, but itsau early delay. In kensington, cedar lane remains closed. Authorities remain on scene. This is morning number one phase 3 of metros continuous track work. Blue and yellow lines shut down between braddock road and National Airport through july 11th. Back to you. New this morning, pope francis has met with the parents of a 19yearold American College student who was found dead in rome. The vatican says the pope expressed great sympathy and prayer for what happened. Police believe beau solomon got into a fight with a homeless man. He was only in rome a few days when it happened. That man is under arrest on suspicion of aggravated homicide. Police say the suspect pushed solomon into the river. Aaron, back to you. Plans for an lgbt pride month in Loudoun County has been stopped over strong opposition there will not be a pride month there this year. A supervisor on proposed honoring the Gay Community by making june pride month. Some say it would badly influence children. Instead, they voted to make july love loudoun month. Several sounded off at a meeting. Republicans have whispered in my ear, jonathan, were not antigay. Show me. By some of us, were the new Resolution Says all are welcome in Loudoun County and urges everyone to love and respect the diverse community. Time is running out to find a victim of the deadly floods in west virginia. Its been eight days and search crews still havent found a 14yearold girl. Rescuers were trying to save Michaela Phillips and two of her siblings when a cord snapped and she was separated. Search leaders say rain on top of the flooding made the rescue even more difficult for them and baltimore prosecutors wont be able to introduce some key evidence in the trial of lieutenant brian rice. Judge Barry Williams ruled that evidence about his Police Training cannot be used. Rice is one of several Police Officers charged in the arrest and death of freddie gray. Prosecutors are expected to argue that rice should have known it was against Department Guidelines to leave gray unbuckled in the back of that police van. Gray died from a broken neck. Maryland hopes to save the lives of Police Officers with the purchase of new body armor. Governor larry hogan announced yesterday that Police Departments across the state will get some funding, including 1400 for the Laurel Police department and 1200 for police in district heights. There will be more Police Patrols around a parking lot used by ice cream truckdrivers in Prince Georges County. A driver was shot nine times at the facility in high yachtsville on monday nied. Hes in critical condition. Police believe it was an theyre looking for two suspects. Hillary clinton will go on offense against donald trump today this. Time she will hit him on his Business Record in atlantic city. Her Campaign Says she will make that case that trump is quote up fit to be president because of the business deals he made in that city. For the third time in a week, people vandalized a sign. We told you about a group of young Trump Supporters declaring their property trump country. They made a new sign after someone spray painted and threw eggs at the old one. They plan to put up another new sign as soon as possible. New legal consequences for parents who allow teens to drink at their homes. Any adult who hosts an Underage Drinking Party in maryland can be sued if an underage drinker gets hurt or hurts someone else after leaving that party. This comes from the high court in it ruled yesterday in favor of two lawsuits brought by victims of incidents. Research across 11 countries found that only 58 of preemies received proper care. Researchers say better practices and onsite neonatal intensive care facilities could reduce preemie death by 18 . Two scientists may have discovered the key to your teeth repairing themselves. Kyle biening and adam if he lease have created a biomaterial that can simulate stem cells native to your teeth. They say in the future, all fings could be made of the material so teeth that are damaged could repair themselves. It could end the era of the root canal. Hope that works r right . Bryce harper and Stephen Strasburg are taking the national theyre two of those record tying four players in the allstar game. Harper, 23 years old, hes on his fourth allstar team. I cant believe that. 23. Hes starting the game for the National League in the outfield tuesday nied. Strasburg has a chance to start on the mound. Second baseman Daniel Murphy and catcher wilson ramos were also chosen as reserves. They led all players in the league at their position in home runs and batting average. Awesome. Way to represent. Nearly six months after the 1 16 billion, billion powerball jackpot, there were three tickets not claimed in virginia. The tickets wrb sold at the la dough beg a supermarket at a 7eleven highway on morton and the fast mart in coburn. You have until next tuesday to chaim your prize. Time is running out. Dont let that money go to waste. When you buy a ticket, where do you put it . In the drawer, kitchen drawer where you put everything in there. You close it and dont i watched the episode where the motherinlaw camen emptied out the drawer. Someone did. It was a signed muhammad ali. The key is to not hide it so well that you cant find it when you win. Not really a winning forecast for us here. Because you and i arent necessarily big fans of the 100degree heat index. There are folks who live here that are happy as they can be when the temperatures start rising well up into the 90s. The next couple of days for for those folks. I may not be one of them. Ive been enjoying the cooler than average weather. The first week of july is almost gone and 4 degrees cooler average for the month. Thats about ready to be completely flipped around. Low to mid 70s out the door. Near 90 in gaithersburg. Fo Fredericks Burke and go out and grill outside in the backyard this evening. Temperatures still near 90 at 6 00. It will be a good evening for grilling, not much if anything in the way of a rain chance. Big storms out here near chicago early this morning. Delaying flights across parts of the midwest. Rain chances are very close to zero for today. If were going to have any shot at a stray shower or two, it will be south of the d. C. Metro area. Down into Southern Maryland and the northern neck. Not much, if anything, in the way of a rain chance. For tomorrow being tomorrow looks a little better. Heres future weather for tomorrow. Thunderstorms blossoming in the shenandoah valley. About 4 003 00, 4 00. Migrating eastward. At least theres a 30 chance of a cooling shower. Hot weather means people want to go to the beach. The next couple days at the beaches, near 90 on friday. Both days over the weekend look like theyll be plenty nice indeed. The next five days at home, 93 friday. Friday likely to be the best chance for seeing the raindrops on the afternoon. But wait, theres more. At 5 31, ill give you the four things to know. At 5 51, the tenday forecast looking on in the next week. Jack taylor a good wednesday morning to you. And to you, chuck. Good morning. Those riding in maryland, not such a great morning. Its Getting Better but very slow trying to get inside the beltway. Headed to a crash earlier near kenilworth avenue. Everything is believed to be cleared. The delay remains. It was on the ramp to the north on kenilworth avenue. The through lanes are open. You can access the ramp at the accident as welg. Be aware. Also, this is theres the chopper side. Everything is out of the roadway. Thankfully, youve got access to the ramp and both travel lanes. This is morning number one much phase 3. Metros longterm work. Blue and yellow line between braddock road and National Airport shut down until july 11th. Thanks so county is making to the trash Pickup Program after many of you raised concerns. Going out of his way to do the right thing. The length he went to, to find the Rightful Owner who lfte the greek flavors of our mediterranean collection. Ve your choice of delicious chicken or hearty steak. With crumbled feta and cool, creamy tzatziki sauce. Try our mediterranean collection today. Subway. Fresh is what we do. These are awesome this is my dream car. Yeah, i like this. Ive been waiting to get in this. 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