Answers. Tom . Well we wont have any of that, thankfully. Yeah, those storms came through gave us some gusts of wind and caused some tree damage up near the pennsylvania border. Now everything is settled down. We have a few sprinkles in the mountains but those have dissipate. You may be leaping over puddles from the lingering rain, mid 70s, sunshine breaking out. In the afternoon, quite a bit of sunshine. You will notice the humidity will be lower and a cooler afternoon with temperatures into the upper 80s. So if youre going to be out for a morning run you wont need the umbrella or rain boots. You will need the sun block, sunglasses and short sleeves. A look at the hour by hour forecast for this fabulous friday thats coming up next weather and traffic on the 1s at 5 11. Whats going on with the roads, melissa . Right now 95 southbound here, through triangle in virginia. You can see we have a bit of a slowdown here on the screen. That is because of some lateclearing road work. Right now, 95 south there as youre headed kind of through quantico triangle area, going 27 miles per hour. 95 in maryland, b. W. Parkway, 29 everything is rolling along nicely there. Some road work in branch avenue southbound at woodyard two right lanes are blocked. 270 at germantown, no problems. 5 02 is your time right now. The Confederate Flag above the South Carolina state house is coming down in a few hours. This morning at 10 00, state troopers will remove the flag for good. Governor haley signed a bill banning the flag from flying on the state house grounds yesterday. The deadly shooting in a Historic Black Church reignited the debate over the flag and investigators say the shooter wore Confederate Flag patches during the shooting and may have wanted to start a race war. The Loudoun County naacp will hold a rally this morning. Theyll gather at a statue that memorializes confederate soldiers. Monuments that no longer reflect the views of the community should be removed they say. That would require a change of law and news4s derrick ward will have more on this later this hour. There may be a legal challenge to virginias decision to remove the Confederate Flag from state license plates. The sons of the confederate veterans say it will go to court to keep the state from banning the plates. Last month, Governor Terry mcauliffe called the flag divisive and hurtful. Today, d. C. Mayor Muriel Bowser will do something about the spike in the sale of synthetic drugs. She is expected to sign a bill giving police more power to go after the people who sell them. These products are potent and are illegal in the district. You can find them for sale in Liquor Stores, gas stations and they go by the name of k2 or scooby snax. The new law will put stiffer penalties on businesses caught selling them. In ten minutes, Megan Mcgrath explains theres new concern of a more powerful drug linked to recent crimes. Today the d. C. Council will approve the proposed death with dignity legislation. If approved it would give terminally ill patients a way to end their lives in a humane way. Council member proposed this bill and it faces significant opposition from faith leaders and physicians. D. C. Detectives arrested two people for sex trafficking of children in the district. The primary offense happened in the 3800 block of south capitol street two weeks ago. Yesterday, Metro AirportPolice Arrested jarnese harris, she and another man are charged with sex abuse and distribution of marijuana. 5 04 now. The Spotsylvania CountySheriffs Office say they never stopped looking for a suspect who shot a store clerk in the head. This morning the sheriff will announce new developments in this case. Last march a man walked into the store, posing as a customer. He shot kelly wood the clerk twice in the head and stole a cabinet full of medication. She survived the shooting. The mother of two missing germantown woman will appear in court. Catherine hoggle has a hearing on child neglect charges. She was the last one to see the two kids. They went missing in seventh and she refuses to say where they are. Investigators are pursuing a homicide case against hoggle. 5 05. The orthodox rabbi admitted to secretly recording women. The lawyer says freundel should have only been sentenced once for all of the recordings. Instead the judge sentenced him to 45 days for each victim. Freundel will be back in court later this month for a hearing on the sentencing issue. A developing story this morning. One in every 50 americans is affected by the hack at the office of Personnel Management. The hackers obtained Sensitive Information of 21. 5 million people. This applies to spouses, children neighbors even roommates of people who went through background checks. Hackers had access to the information for over a year as well. Coming up nbcs tracie potts has more on the long list of firings we could see following these revelations. Just in to the live desk, the latest tally on people hurt at the running of the bulls in pamplona, spain. This time one person hurt not gored thankfully. But one person in fact hurt. I think it happens right there. Some sort of hand injury were told. Four people though since the bull run started this year, four people have been gored including two americans. The running of the bulls of course happening during this annual festival where people race alongside six bulls in a very narrow stretch. There you go. Aaron . All right, Kristin Wright live for us thank you. Im thinking youll change your mind about the running of the bulls. Only one injury. Nope, im out. Already done. Its over. Hey, look at the current temperatures around here this morning as you get ready to head out the door. Tom is putting together his hour by hour forecast. Hes going to let us know what you can expect if you want to cook out tonight and i do want to. Can i come over . I thought wed do it at your house. Okay. Heads up for anyone who uses the third street tunnel. The area to avoid this weekend. Its a story we first brought you on news4 yesterday morning. Now we are hearing from why are we watching this again . I pay for all these channels, so i make myself watch them all. Joey, ill watch anything except this. Except this. Go back, go back, go back, go back, go back, go back. Fios custom tv lets you pay for the types of channels you want, not the ones you dont. 100 fiber optics is here. Get out of the past. Get fios. Now for 79. 99 a month. Go online or call. Call the Verizon Center for customers with disabilities at 800. 974. 6006 tty v people of the coffee drinking world, dunkin has a dark roast coffee thats deliciously roasted just right for a bold start and smooth finish thats never bitter. Put down the dark roast youve been putting up with and reach for the one you deserve. Welcome back. Right now, new york is preparing the confetti. The ticker tape parade for World Champion u. S. Womens National Soccer team kicks off at 11 00 this morning. All 23 players will be there including stars abby wambach carli lloyd. They won a record world cup title on sunday. You might want to avoid the third street tunnel if youre travel, early attorneytomorrow morning. Vdot is installing a new water line as part of the tunnel project. Third street southbound will be closed and the ramp tunnel. The tunnel the tunnel on ramp. There will be a lane closure to tell you about in the area. The closures are in place from 1 00 a. M. To 9 00 a. M. Time for weather and traffic on the 1s 5 11. Just in time for the weekend. We get a little break. Meteorologist tom kierein has some good news. Yes, i have good news for you. Beautiful sunrise. A peach colored sunrise matches my peach. If i took a bite of this right now, the juice would be running down my arm. Theyre so juicy with all the rain we have had. No rain today. Theres the live view from our tower camera. The sun is coming up on this fabulous friday with lower humidity. By 8 00 in the mid to upper 70s. By noontime hitting the upper 80s. By the time you head back home, you will notice lower humidity and more sunshine by the afternoon. A look at changes in the forecast to be for the weekend. Thats coming up next weather and traffic on the 1s. Melissa has info on a crash on 95. Yeah, brand new crash here. Southbound in triangle. This is the same area where we had slowdowns i was telling you about because of the lateclearing road work. The crash is on the shoulder but its adding to the slowdowns. 95 south through triangle. Take a live look. Now that crash. Wide look at the beltway, overall no major problems as youre taking a big look at the beltway. 95 in maryland at scaggsville looking good. Annapolis, brand new disabled week. A wide look at 66 coming up. New this morning president obama unveils several new national monuments. The details coming in. Authorities say theyre behind a string of crimes behind murder, even abandoning soccer. Top chef. Soccer. Top chef. [whi stles] soccer top chef [shouting] disco [singing] say it and see it. The x1 voice remote, only from xfinity. Youre watching news4 today today. Welcome back at 5 16. D. C. Is going after synthetic drugs. Not the drugs themselves but those who sell them. You can find them inside Liquor Stores and gas stations and the drugs are linked to recent crimes. Megan mcgrath breaks down d. C. Mayors new strategy to fight these drugs. Megan . Reporter well, eun, you may be able to find the drugs in some stores but theyre illegal in the district of columbia. And Police Believe that a spike in crime can be attributed to use of synthetic drugs. Later today, mayor Muriel Bowser is going to sign emergency legislation giving police greater power in cracking down on businesses that sell synthetic drugs. Now, Police Believe that 18yearold jasper spires was high on synthetic marijuana when he stabbed Kevin Sutherland to death on a metro train on july the 4th. Thats one of the high profile cases that we have seen recently. And on tuesday, a 10monthold baby was found abandoned in a stroller at Judiciary Square and Police Believe the childs caregiver left the child alone so that they could smoke synthetic marijuana. Now, police chief cathy lanier says the new law is needed to stop a very disturbing crime trend. I truly feel like if we dont get a handle on the synthetics now, we are in danger of you know going back 20 years. Reporter and under the bill which will be signed into law later on this afternoon for the first offense a business can be fined 10,000 for selling synthetic drugs. They can be closed for 96 hours. Thats for the first offense. Then the penalties go up from there. Ultimately for multiple offenses a store could actually lose their business license if they are found to be a repeat offender. The mayor is going to sign this bill into law at noon today. Back to you in the studio. Megan thank you. Investigators are not ruling out criminal activity as they dig into how a virginia couple ended up in the potomac river. Search teams found the bodies of Charlie Zintner and his girlfriend Melissa Smarr where the boat had been anchored. We told you about the search for the couple as it was breaking yesterday morning here on news4 today. The concerns started when the couple didnt return to the Landmark Yacht Club wednesday night. When the coast guard pulled up to the boat, music was still playing and the boat was running. Its very sad. Im really shook up about it. They were just great people. He got along with everybody. Now investigators dont know the couple fell out of the boat or got out intentionally but they do say the weather was bad on the river wednesday night. A Metro Transit Police officer is in jail this morning accused of exposing himself to an underage girl. David davis is facing charges of indecent liberties with a child. Prince William County police say he used the cell phone app tango to correspond with a 16yearold philadelphia girl and investigators say davis asked the girl to send him inappropriate images of herself. Davis remains in jail without bond. Bids to build the purple line will be accepted later into the year. Companies vying for the contract are being told the august deadline has been pushed to november. Maryland governor larry hogan approved it in late june. The delay is so the four companies can adjust their bids to include some cost cutting measures. The winning bid for the 16mile excuse me you got it . Im okay. The rail line will be built in the washington suburbs. The winning bid will be announced next year. Hes okay. Im all right. Right now, we are learning more about problems with the troubled d. C. Streetcar project. The new report details dozens of issues that need to be fixed before service can start. The American PublicTransportation Association says ddot has to fix broken rails and find the solution for doors that scrape against the side of station platforms. The review also says ddot needs to have one person one point person in control of the whole project which doesnt. Theres concern theres not enough Staff Members with Technical Expertise to run the line. Still no firm date to open up the service on the street corridor. In news4 your health, 5 20 people suffering from back pain and depression may find more relief if they treat the depression first. University of pittsburgh researchers found that people who took pain killers experienced less relief than those who took a placebo. Treating anxiety and depression before back pain becomes chronic can make symptoms less severe. You might want to add a banana or berries to your breakfast. Fewer than one in five adults gets the recommended daily amount of daily fruits and vegetables. The data shows intake tends to be higher in california and lower in states like mississippi and tennessee. Public Health Experts say we should all aim for about two serves of fruits and two to three serves of vegetables each day. This study does not surprise me. I eat a lot of fruits and vegetables. First thing in the morning. Usually. Blueberries and apples. I try to knock out the fruit in the morning and try to do vegetables. Even someone like me who makes a conscious effort, the vegetable thing sometimes i fall short. Can i have your apple . I used to eat them all the time. I share. I share. Beautiful sunrise coming our way on this friday morning. Tom whats in store . Banana tangerine sky there. Thats a live view from the storm team 4 city camera on this friday morning. You will notice the humidity has dropped overnight in the wake of the storms yesterday. And the storm team 4 radar all clear now. No more rain around. Temperatures are in the 70s from the Shenandoah Valley across virginia. Maryland in toward the chesapeake bay. Mid 70s in the nearby suburbs. In the mid 70s by 8 00 this afternoon. Partly sunny. By noontime low 80s and beautiful summer day on the way. Upper 80s to mid 80s with quite a bit of sunshine and the humidity will be comfortable in the afternoon. Now, new model timing on potential showers tomorrow morning. Mainly in Northern Virginia from fredericksburg over to southern parts of st. Marys county, lower eastern shore. Thats going to be through the morning hours. Then the showers track off to the south. The rest of the area is dry on saturday, but a few of the morning showers coming on through. Maybe lingering in Northern Virginia in the afternoon hours. Then well dry out in the entire region. If you have plans in North Central virginia or Northern Neck tomorrow morning, you may have the showers around. Otherwise, a partly sunny day. Temperatures in the mid 80s. Then on sunday, partly cloudy, more humid. Afternoon highs into the upper 80s. Great beach and pool weather on sunday. Monday, back to work. It will be hot and humid again. Temperatures in the low 90s. A small chance of a storm. Greater chance of afternoon storms, but steamy humidity on tuesday and wednesday. Highs low to mid 90s both days and remaining humid toward the end of next week. Home time highs coming up at 5 31. A slowdown on 95. Whats going on . Quite slow southbound through triangle. We had late clearing road work. Its Getting Better and then a crash off to the shoulder. So thats why things are kind of loosening things up a little bit here this morning. Taking a look at 66 flying into town, flying out of town, no problem either way. Remember to listen to our friends on wtop 103. 5 when you hop in your car this morning. Wide look at the beltway. Again looking quite good right now. No major problems to speak of. If it could stay this way that would be great for us. I feel like we deserve it now. 270 at old hundred road, northbound and southbound, rolling along. I want to mention outer loop at annapolis road. See you at 5 31. This morning at the live desk we are going over greeces new plan to get out of debt. This information just coming out overnight. Greece has submitted a 13page set of proposals to the creditors. Theyre trying to secure a threeyear, 53. 5 billion euro bailout package to save the country from just complete financial ruin from bankruptcy. The proposals include a slew of tax hikes including a 23 tax on restaurants and catering. Greeces parliament is debating these proposals today and by the way it looks like european stock markets have responded well to these reform proposals. Eun, back to you. Thank you, kristin. Lawyers for the man charged in the colora