family to respect their pry vass so i -- privacy and their grief. >> reporter: it comes 40 years after the sifting through clues including the excavation of a remote hill side in virginia where the family once own property. >> dozens of subpoenas issued. reams of documents analyzed and over 100 interviews and interrogations have been cop conducted. we have traveled to half a dozen states. >> reporter: lloyd welch is in prison in delaware on unrelated child sexual assault charges. he will be extradited to virginia in the next few days, where he will stand trial. if convicted he could face the death penalty. at 6:00, you will hear from prosecutors on why they are looking at lloyd welch possibly being involved in other child abductions across the country and you will hear from prosecutors as to why this case is being tried in virginia and not here in maryland. pat, back to you. the man at the center of this case lloyd welch, is already in prison, serving time now for sexually assaulting young girls delaware and south carolina in the '90s. before that he worked as a ride operator for a carnival company that travel around the country and often set up at malls. police arrested welch in 1997 on a number of sex charges. delaware's board of pardons last august denied a commutation request for him in a case in which he admitted abusing his girlfriend's daughter. still ahead we have morn the details of how the lyon sisters' case rattled the community and changed the freedoms many local children and teen also before 1975. our team coverage continues at 5:30 and much more right now on our nbc washington app. now to the moment that will change the lives of all who know tomica early. she died after being run of wire drunk driver and her boyfriend tried change her tire. she was just 32 years old. this accident happened on the busy suitland parkway in southeast washington. it was just after 10 last night and police were quickly able to arrest the driver who hit her. news4's darcy spencer live now near the crash site with more on the victim and how this crash occurred. darcy? >> reporter: jim, initially, we were told that she was actually changing the tire, but when i talked to family members today, they say that was not the case. we now know she was out here on the parkway near stanton road with her boyfriend last night, standing close to him when she was struck and killed. as you said, the driver now facing some serious charges and we learned that she lost her husband nearly one year ago. 33-year-old tomica early was struck and killed last night. family members say it happened as she watched her boyfriend change the tire on their car. they say he didn't realize at first that she had been hit here along the suitland parkway in southeast. he found her body 50 feet away. we spoke to a close family friend. >> you know, it's just so sad you know, when i got the call 5:30 this morning, it just touched my heart. >> reporter: police sayer lives hit by a man who was behind the wheel of this blue pickup truck. the driver identified as 52-year-old robert paris of southeast washington. police say he was driving at a high rate of speed when he hit early. he kept going smashing into another car then hit a light pole. paris has been charged with second-degree murder and leaving after the colliding. it happened just before 10:30 last night in the east bound lanes of the parkway. >> tomica was a good person, a loving person. she would put her hand out for anyone. she would give you her last dollar. >> reporter: adding to the tragedy, early's husband, sean early, died of a heart attack last august. his mother told me she feels like she just lost a daughter. tomica's family says her death has been especially hard on her own mom. they lived together in suitland in prince george's county. >> her daughter and her was just like mother/daughter best friends, hang out, you know, they did things together. >> reporter: a very close relationship there you know, these sorts of tragedies have played out all too often here in our area. coming up on news4 at 6:00, we have tips on what you should do if you find yourself broken down on a busy highway. pat, back to you. >> thanks darcy. there are growing concerns about safety tonight in yet another community after violence near a metro station. news4's chris gordon is live at the wheaton station where a young man was shot and killed in a metro parking garage. chris? >> reporter: we know a lot more about the shooting know. we know hot suspects are weave the pictures and about to show them to you and the victim's picture as well. but what we don't know is what brought them together, what caused this deadly confrontation here at metro's parking garage? the two men police apprehended on the scene are now suspects. they have been charged with first-degree murder in yesterday's fatal shooting in the wheaton metro station parking garage. police identified them as 19-year-old douglas shannon chase from d.c., said to be the here is the and 18-year-old brent deion sanderson of rockville, maryland. police told news4 yesterday that investigators had recovered a gun and tonight, police confirmed that a firearm was recovered in the possession of the suspects. police identified the victim of the shooting as 20-year-old eric melgar of silver spring. police say multiple shots were fired. there are still important questions about this shooting so far left unanswered. did the victim know the suspects? >> we don't have that information at this time. >> and as far as the motive? >> as i said the motive is still under investigation at this time. >> reporter: the murder makes this wheaton business woman nervous. >> i don't feel safe. you here doing your every day, you know, things and you don't know what's gonna happen at the next moment. >> invested quite a bit, ensuring wheaton is a safe place but i will not lie and say that is not a great concern to our residents, it is a great concern to me and we will get to the bottom of this. >> reporter: this wheaton resident asked us not to show her face. >> i will never go in that garage again. >> reporter: that's because this is not the first time in recent months that there has been violent crime here at the garage. i will have more on that coming up on news4 at 6:00. live in went, chris gordon, jim, back to you. >> chris thank you. showers are moving out but we have something else on your horizon. >> veronica in the storm center. what is next? >> something else will have you adjusting your thermostat. yeah back to the ac on crank it up. all right let's talk about what's going on right now, we have got some showers coming through our area you can see storm team4 radar, very light showers, all associated with this weather front that's actually dropping from north to south right through our area. behind the front, some lower humidity and northwesterly winds have already started picking up, reagan national, 12 miles per hour, 87 degrees the temperature, lower humidity, drier conditions yeah, going to see the stickies drop right on down. pleasant conditions, in fact, expected tomorrow but then by the weekend, we are going to see the return of some higher temperature, in fact, the start of a heat wave, what we have got to talk about in our forecast, coming up, a heat wave. and your thursday planner forecast, your sky cast in a couple of minutes. >> look forward to that veronica, thank you. president obama spoke for more than an hour this afternoon in an effort to sell the iran nuclear deal to a skeptical congress. >> i've already reached out to leaders in congress on both sides aisle. i expect the debate to be robust and that's how it should be. this is an important issue. >> house speaker john boehner doubled down on his reaction yesterday, saying if it's as bad as it seems right now, he will do everything he can to stop it. israel's prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, has been one of the most outspoken against the iran nuclear deal. he spoke with nbc's lester holt, repeating his harsh criticism, both of the deal and iran. >> when you let the number one terrorist regime in the world have a short path to the bomb and hundreds of billions of dollars with which to finance its terrorism around the world, that's not good for any of us. >> do you think that the relationship between israel and the u.s. has been fractured? do you feel the president has betrayed you on this issue? >> no. look, i think we have a disagreement. you can >> you can see lester's full interview at 7:00 after news4. a power battle is under way in virginia. hundreds of people are ready to take on dominion virginia power over plans that threaten wetlands and trees behind nearly 1,000 homes. northern virginia bureau reporter david culver joins us live from battlefield high school in haymarket. what's going on out there? >> reporter: pat, the doors just opened a few minutes ago and it's already filling up inside. you will notice a few people wearing red. those are the residents who are frustrateded with dominion virginia power's machines. if we look over here you can even see some folks using their canines to voice their message stop dominion power towers also going to social media at this hour using the #fight the powerline. three hours on the road each day to and from d.c. this is what jim napoli comes down to. >> i love to be able to come back, sit on my porch or on my patio and just be surrounded by nature. >> reporter: from his family's gainesville home back deck it is a view of peace quiet nature. >> my camp david, if you will. >> reporter: but it's threatened jim tells me go from tree lined to high voltage power lined. dominion have power considering five different routes, three of them threaten the wetlands that border nearly 1,000 homes on the haymarket haymarket/gainesville border. >> i think they wanted to steamroll us here. >> reporter: this councilman and the town mayor don't like dominion's approach. >> frankly i don't think they are listening to us at all. >> it is very difficult to come up with any routing scenario that's going to make everybody happy. >> reporter: chuck penn with dominion virginia power says they have been working on this project for about a year. he stressed they are hosting tonight's meeting because they want public input. >> which is the reason why we are doing everything we can to come up with the least impactful routes. >> reporter: jim and thousands of his neighbors hoping to hold on to their quiet place and investments. i have had residents come up to me practically in tears over the thought of having their property value diminished by upwards of 35, 40%. >> reporter: on news4 at 6:00 i'm gonna walk you through a possible compromise here. in hay market, virginia david culver, news4. in just the last hour nasa leased the latest photo from pluto's surface and scientists say they have made several new discoveries that are simply mind blowing. plus, there's a noticeable change at ben's chili bowl amid the bill cosby rape allegations. we will tell you what's different now and a clerk turns the tables on would-be robbers. we talked to just moments ago, we got a brand-new look at pluto and its moons from nasa. it's just the latest accomplishment for the horizon space probe guided here in laurel, maryland. >> amazing, respectaren't they? dave wagner gives a better look and what scientists are learning from this historic journey. >> reporter: they are publicity photos of the solar system's latest rock star. >> the pluto system is something bonderful. >> reporter: the dwarf planet and its moons like we have never seen them nitro jeep, met thain ice and 11,000-foot mountains. >> the most striking geologically, we have not yet found a single impact crater on this image this means this is a very young surface. >> we are locked with tell legend write it the spacecraft. >> reporter: one day after the encounter with pluto, scientists are receiving a treasure trove of photos and dad ta, including the largest moon. # pluto on full display for planet earth to see. dave wagner nbc news. a built closer to home historic home along georgetown pike in great falls, virginia is in the midst of a makeover this is what turner farmhouse looked like a few months ago. now, it has a brand-new porch and other repairs to make it safe. neighbors have been concerned about its deteriorating condition. the home once housed the family who ran one of the biggest fairy farms in all of fairfax county. now the park authority owns it. they tell us they are preserving and restoring as much of the original materials as possible. here at the live desk, tracking a major commuter alert in maryland about to hop on the red line in montgomery county, trains are single tracking between grovner and begin brook and could be like through the night. track issues outside grovner cause deed lace all day. chopper4 over that area not too long ago. metro says if you need to get to the begin brook or white flint stations have to use an outbound train because inbound trains will be passing those stations to reduce some of the delays. we will keep an eye on this tonight and tweet out any updates at first four track. virginia transportation leaders are presenting a study that could one day expand the 495 express lanes into maryland. the lanes would cross the potomac river near the american legion bridge. vdot wants those lanes to go all the way to the 270 spur. the commonwealth transportation board in richmond is reviewing the report. good service, bad service, now with online review sites, you can see what other consume verse to say about businesses and leave your own remarks, too. but free speech may not exactly protect you, should you write a negative review consumer reporter erika gonzalez is here to explain. >> online reviews can help consumers decide on everything from inexpensive lunch options to pricey hotels but it's what's happening to some consumers when they post negative reviews that could land them, you, me us, in court. a gaithersburg woman emailed the consumer watch team for help so we looked into her story. tonight at 11:00, we will show you what happened when she posted a not so flattering review about a company and whether or not the same thing could happen to you. thumbs up, sure. but it's giving companies a thumbs down that could cost you sleepless nights. tonight at 11:00 the one thing that you should keep top of mind when you post a review online. we will see you tonight at 11:00. >> all right. it's a big night for one of the world's most famous athletes. more on the anticipation surrounding a new appearance of caitlyn jenner. chief lanier and t swizzle's night. how the top cop made a lot of people very happy. ♪ feel like a natural woman ♪ >> and the kennedy center honors list is out. some showers continuing to fall across our area, nothing heavy and nothing storied but still a little wet out there and that of course, means some wet roads and where you're going to need to pop your umbrella a small umbrella day today. take a look rain shaft there is in the distance. you look out to the north, depending on your, you can probably see a little bit of that rain coming down 88 degrees right now, plenty warm and still a little sticky for many of us. nice conditions though by 9:00, the humidity will start to drop. temperatures fall to the mid-70s by 11:00 and yes, the skies will start to clear as well. here's a look at the showers coming through our area. not a lot, as you can see. they are making that movement from north to south right on through. and right there around d.c., that little shower we were watching now, southeast d.c. just about ready to pass over the beltway. so making its way out of anacostia and right now, around congressional heights, around rushville and sugar run or sugarland run area. there will be some showers moving in, these dropping right on down into areas of loudoun county and fairfax county. allergy report of course humid. a lot of wet weather around. so while the tree and the weed count has been locker the mold count has been high and likely pretty high with more rain moving in. here is a look at future weather see the cloud cover continues to clear, skies making their way on -- out of here in the cloud cover but by tomorrow morning, i think it will be a mostly cheer start, by tomorrow afternoon there could be some louds rotating back in area of low pressure, see around lexington park tomorrow, can't rule out an isolated shower or sprinkle during the afternoon hours to meanwhile, commuter forecast starting early on, 69 degrees a low humidity. terrific conditions between 8 and 10 p.m. up to 74 by then throughout our area, very low humidity start the day. and we might expect, low humidity, cooler temperatures, still conditions, the weather will have a low impact on our area, lots of sunshine coming our way tomorrow. here is a look at your storm team4-day forecast, 83 tomorrow, 87 friday, yes on friday, a little touch of humidity back, but it is this weekend saturday, 94 degrees the high temperature. it is the start of our heat wave on saturday, a four-day stretch that's not going to end until tuesday with the -- probably our hottest day coming up on monday, condition does top out with 100-degree 100-degree days. 30% chance, a better chance of early part of next week. so stormy sunday afternoon. more storms coming your way monday and tuesday of next week look at these high temperatures guys, we have had few 90-degree days the month of july but we have got a stretch of them, saturday to tuesday. we have got more on what you can expect throughout the day tomorrow. i will have your sky cast coming up in just a few minutes. >> all right. see you then. thanks, vj. working several developing stories right newt 5. >> president obama fields a question about bill doesdy. >> we will explain why his answer is now making headlines. a murder indictment in the mysterious indictment of two maryland girls. we will walk you through the frightening case and how it is now impacting and changing montgomery county. plus, a local car theft crime spree and the thieves are ♪ southwest is having a sale because when there's a reunion every cent should go to a killer dress. ♪"never gonna get it" by en vogue ♪ and heels. and a blowout. mani/pedi. three weeks of tanning. facial. a backup dress. bronzer, lip gloss... book for as low as 73 dollars one-way now at southwest.com. 40 years later you can mention a crime that occurred 40 years ago, very few swroisd know what you were with talking about you mention the lyon sister case, people nod their heads and say, yes, we about you mention the lyon sister case, people nod their heads and say, yes, we remember.what you were with talking about you mention the lyon sister case, people nod their heads and say, yes, we remember. today is also a day they will never forget for the community and family members. >> investigators struggled to find answers in this case. news4's tisha thompson is here with a closer look at how authorities arrived at the indictment announced today. >> if you talk to anyone living in the d.c. area in the '70s, they can tell but they were whenned lyon sisters disappeared, how it caused so much fear and changed the way we do things because two little girls justhow it caused so much fear and changed the way we do things because two little girls just vanished. spring break before the holiday when the 10 and 14-year-old walked to the cafeteria before lunch. their brother saw them eating pizza, a friend hung out with them a bit and then the sisters vanished setting off a massive search that lasted for decades. >> i was teaching high school two blocks from here in 1975 the day these girls were abducted. >> reporter: maryland state's attorney john mccarthy says the lyon sister case profoundly changed montgomery county with many parents no longer allowing their children to walk anywhere alone. police chief tom manger remembered being a college student at the time. >> this was something that had an enormous impact on the community and feeling of safety for children in this community. >> reporter: in the days after disappearance, police created this sketch given by the description of a young girl with the men in the day. the man had been staring at them in the mall. two years later in 1977, lloyd lee welch was arefsed for burglary in montgomery county. it with would take another 36 years before a detective in the cold case division linked the two together, naming welch shall a person of interest for the first time. for the last year we have watched as investigators carefully sifted through difficult terrain about four hours south of wheaton in a remote area of bedford county, virginia, called taylors mountain where the welch family owned property. >> spent many painstaking hours in very rough terrain and very heavy, chevy, cold, snowy weather up on the mountains looking for forensic evidence in this particular case. >> reporter: prosecute others won't say what, if anything, they found there. >> we are going to tell you more about welch at 6:00 and why prosecutors say that is on the end of the beginning in the history of the lyon sisters case because it is an incredibly complicated thing to try a case that's 40 years old. >> so much time. all right. >> thank you, tisha. another development in that deadly awful birthday cake beating. the little boy's mother and uncle are now being held without bond in a hagerstown jail. detectives tell us the uncle handcuffed his nephew to a chair so the mom's boyfriend could beat him. jack garcia was just nine years old he died from that beating. police say his mother approved the harsh punishment and tried stop paramedics from helping. the smithsonian took a new step to distance itself from bill does bay. new sign explains why the national museum of african art will not take down an exhibit of the comedian's personal collection. tom sherwood talked with visitors about this. ♪ >> reporter: the music room is just one of five rooms in the gallery exhibit conversations that features 64 works loaned by camille and bill cosby and 100 more from the museum of african art. it opened last november after years of planning and amit the intense outpouring of allegations involving cosby's using drugs to subdue and have sex with dozens of women. with numerous calls for the exhibit to be canceled, the museum instead is putting up signs declaring that the museum in no way condones mr. cosby's behavior. the signs say the exhibit is a joyful exploration of african and african-american art in one place. visitors today understood but still struggled with the cosby accusations. >> the reason we are here is not because of the great article. >> the cosby situation was tragic. if i were among the injured people, might object to it but i think it's important to separate the art and the artist and that knowledge. >> reporter: this patron was focusing on the artwork. >> i wanted to see what it was depict and did see it was from an african artist the continent of africa. >> reporter: what about bill cosby? do you have any thoughts about that? >> no. >> reporter: exhibit is due to run until january next year. in the district, tom sherwood news4. news4 has confirmed today that the famous ben's chili bowl on u street no longer posts a sign that says bill cosby eats free. cosby's been a friend of the family owners for nearly six decades. the family has said cosby remains a friend but ben's has weighed the appropriateness of a mural outside the restaurant. there was no comment today about what happened to the cosby eats free sign. president obama weighed in on the cosby controversy during his afternoon news conference today. cosby received the presidential medal of freedom back in 2002. the president said there is no precedent for revoking the medal but offered these comes about what cosby is accused of doing. >> if you give a woman, or a manor that matter, without his or her knowledge a drug and then have sex withconsent, that's rape. >> the presidential medal of freedom is the nation's highest civilian honor it is presented to individuals who have made special contributions to u.s. security culture or other significant public or private endeavors. the criteria is very broad. there are no set standards and awarding the medal is subjective. that makes it difficult to revoke because the recipients are not held to those specific standards. we asked you whether you thought bill cosby's medal of freedom and hollywood star should be revoked. here is the results so far. # upcoming mgm casino at national harbor will mean millions in education for prince george's county. the county council voted to reserve half of the tax revenue from the casino for public schools, libraries and community colleges. the measure came after county executive baker proposed raising property taxes as a possible revenue source. the "washington post" reports mgm's casino is expected to generate $42 million in revenue when it opens next year. some students wouldn't have to cram for final exams any longer in montgomery county public schools. the school board backed a plan today to end two-hour finals in middle school classes starting with the 2016, '17 school year exams will be replaced with assessments like tests, projects or essays. in october the board will present a plan on how this will change grading policies. loudoun county schools recently dropped final exam requirements for high school teachers. tonight, a new 12-passenger van sits outside the home of that fairfax county family of 13 that lost everything in a fire last month. news4 introduced you to the family when they were taken in by a marine family that they barely knew while searching for a new place to live. then the charity, gracing space helped furnish the new home. now, ford has donated a brand new vehicle. news4 viewers have been helping out the family through a gofundme account, which reached more than $3,000. men on bikes breaking into cars. local why are we watching this again? i pay for all these channels, so i make myself watch them all. joey, i'll 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 don't. 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 he has already proven that's a lucky kid. now, we are hoping that he can beat the odds and find an adoptive family while he is still just a little boy his name is ray sean and he is beating the odds against him and he is not even 3 years old yet. we are betting someone watching now will enjoy having this wonder. adorable toddler as part of their family. at kidville in bethesda, inside the big muscle gym all that laughter was coming from ray sean, who was having a ball literally. those who know him say ray sean has beaten a lot of odds. >> he has been in a care for a little more than a year. he suffered a dramatic brain injury, which he was not expected to survive and came into care following that injury. >> let's go see the band. >> he was not expected to walk but he is now taking some steps, so he has surpassed everything the professionals said he was not going to do. >> we were serenaded by the rocking railroad band. ray sean was fascinated. >> a venner in jettic very happy, very lovable, very affectionate. he has limited use of his right hand and right leg but he manages to get around. he plays ball. he place with trains, he likes to read books he is very active. he has no medical issue i has very limited speech at this point, he is working with speech and language, he does some signing, he's no problem making his needs known. if he is hungry, if he is looking for a toy, he will let somebody know. >> reporter: it's size to imagine finding a family to love ray sean. >> he loves affection. >> if you have room in your home and your heart for ray sean or another child who is weight, call our special adoption hot line. the number is 1-88-to-adopt-me or search wednesday's child on nbcwashington.com or more information about ray sean and other children who are waiting. pat? >> all right. thank you barbara. it is one of the hottest lists in town. >> and now we know who's going to be celebrated at the kennedy center honors. two thieves caught on home surveillance video trying to break into cars in this neighborhood. coming up how they plan neighbors in this neighborhood, to crackdown on crime. i'm tracking showers on storm team4 radar next in our forecast thunderstorms for several days and i'm looking toward our next heat wave. ♪ southwest is having a sale because when there's a reunion every cent should go to a killer dress. ♪"never gonna get it" by en vogue ♪ and heels. and a blowout. mani/pedi. three weeks of tanning. facial. a backup dress. bronzer, lip gloss... book for as low as 73 dollars one-way now at southwest.com. why are we watching this again? i pay for all these channels, so i make myself watch them all. joey, i'll 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 don't. 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 tonight, d.c. police have a new lead on a series of car break-ins in the glover park neighborhood. >> last night, a neighbor's surveillance camera captured two thieves on bicycles. they went from car to car, grabbing everything they could before pedaling off. news4's megan fitzgerald is live on w street right now. megan has this neighborhood been targeted before? >> reporter: they have indeed. neighbors tell us they realize they have to park their cars right outside of their house, making them potential targets for thieves but they tell us they are aware of that, which is why they are coming together to try to crack down on crime. glover park is what many describe as a nice place to live u >> young singles, families, grad students. >> a very nice neighborhood. close knit. >> reporter: even the nicest of neighborhoods respect immune from crime. >> petit thefts that sort of thing over the years. >> reporter: latest was a car break-in early wednesday morning on north w street. >> i have had some trouble. >> reporter: thanks to robert hyman, it was caught on camera. >> 7/14/15, 2:48 in the morning. >> reporter: you can see what appears to be two guys on bikes opening up a car door, taking keys and cash according to the own other of the vehicle. >> they have been there three minutes. >> reporter: but the video shows them attempting to break into others before biking away which is why neighbors around here say they are not only looking out for each other, they are also taking matters into their own hands. it's very effective. i have already caught quite a few people. >> reporter: the owner of that vehicle broken into early this morning did file a police report and he also shared that surveillance video with police as well. police continue to encourage people to lock their doors and not leave any val news plain sight to either take them out of your car or to hide them. at 6:00, neighbors detail a plan they have to try and keep thieves away from this community. back to you. >> thank you, megan. ver ron cache the showers moved on. >> they are moving on. we have got just a few more showers left with this shower activity, but then it's back to stormy sweltering kind of weather. more typical of summer. we have got a little bit of a break for today. but wet pattern indeed. haven't had a lot of 90s this month, a stretch coming up. let's go straight to your planner forecast walking your pet, your dog, temperatures in the 80s, around the low 80s, between 7 and 9:00 showers will be ending skies will be clearing. we will drop to the mid-70s behind 11 p.m. this evening. there on storm team4 radar, the shower activity from north to south, it is moving through light showers now through areas you of the northern neck and southern maryland, around colonial beach moving away and heading toward areas like montrose and then some more showers up here around piscataway, headed toward waldorf and brandywine 301. all from north to south. fairfax you're next. showers just north of you around reston. those showers not lasting very long will not be heavy and not a stormy pattern for us this evening at all. by morning on the other side of that front low humidity delightful air will start out at 69 degrees hit the mid-70s by 8 and 10 a.m., sunshine, yes terrific conditions through the day tomorrow. now some of will you see a few clouds rotating mainly east of 95. 59, cool spots there, 63 starting out in fredericksburg. so a nice start under a very clear sky. forecast, look at this, from the 60s to the 80s by 1:00 tomorrow, great day to get out, jim handly play a little for sure. >> yes! >> yes i have a reason. lots of sunshine, not too hot, temperatures in that range between 78 and 84 degrees. good day tomorrow to get out and wash the car, because tomorrow is looking dry, friday is looking dry, most of saturday is even looking dry before a little bit of a pattern change starts to take place and it gets really active. so, stellar conditions, the weather low impact on us getting outdoors tomorrow. the water temperature at the beach, 76 degrees, but take a look for the beach location, showers around the area and then gets nice and warm by sunday. the high there 86. our weekend forecast, 94 95 degrees with chance for a shower or thunderstorm each day starting on saturday, really think it's more late afternoon and evening there on saturday. but on saturday yeah the start of our heat wave a four-day stretch for us doesn't end until tuesday i think we max out on monday with heat index values well over 100 degrees. so along with the heat probably some poor air quality days just another reason you why got to enjoy thursday and friday we have got a lot more of these stormy conditions, the pattern change coming up on news4 at 6:00. >> thanks, veronica. they are masters of music, film, stage and small screens, spanning decades and a wide range of genres. meet this year's kennedy center honorees. ♪ welcome to the hotel california ♪ >> their so cal sound put them on the map in the '70s and your honored them 120 million record sales world wide. the eagles also have one of the best-selling albums of all time second only to michael jackson's "thriller." ♪ from rock to bach, music director say jie ozawa conducted orchestras around the globe including nearly three decades with a boston symphony. ♪ "west side story" made rita moreno a household name and a member of the egot club, evening a grammy oscar and tony. carole king, aside from her own albums, more than 1,000 artists have recorded her compositions. ♪ ever since the credits rolled in 1977, he has been one of the biggest names in hollywood, george lucas mastermind behind two of the most successful franchises of all time, "star wars" and indiana jones. >> i wonder why the lord isn't with us every day. >> and 90, two-time emmy winner cicely tyson is the oldest honoree, but shows no signs of slowing down. all of the honorees will be here in washington this december for a star-studded gala. there is controversy surrounding tonight's espys over an award for caitlyn jenner. espn's honoring jenner with the arthur ashe courage award. it comes after jenner's decision to come out as a transgender woman. jenner won the gold madeeddle in the decathlon in the 1976 olympics as bruce general. some critics say espn should have picked someone who had a more recent connection to sports. winners include michael sam nelson mandela and billie jean king. washington's football team so the ninth most valuable sports team in the world according to a ranking from forbes magazine. the burgundy and gold values at $2.5 billion. it's one of three nfl teams ranked in the top ten along with the cowboys at number two and the patriots at number six. for the third straight year, famed soccer team, real madrid, ranks first, valued at $3.26 billion. seems like all of the bmv tried get their hands on taylor swift tickets. for 168 youngsters the concert came as a surprise thanks to d.c. police chief kathycathy lanier. as news4's zachary kiesch reports tonight the chief spent the night with the daughters of police officers and the department's civilian employees. >> yes, i think if you look at the pictures, you will notice only one of us very rowdy. in fact, i got in trouble a couple of times. i was ejected twice. >> reporter: taylor swift one of the biggest pop stars in the world performing in d.c. last night. in the crowd, police chief cathy lanier and a whole bump of really luckyq0 girls, like tee annie shriver. >> the best part was probably when the lights came on the stadium was going right wythe and red and everybody was just loud. >> people don't realize how div cut is to be the child of a police officer. >> reporter: for lanier it is two fold, opportunity to acknowledge her staff and families but chance to mentor these young women. >> so, for mom or dad to come home and say, i got you taylor swift tickets, oh my god how great is that? >> he said haveie you ever -- do you listen to taylor swift and all this stuff, i said, yes he is like, chief lanier got us tickets and i started doing cartwheels and stuff around the room and stuff. it was fun. >> reporter: 168 girls and more than 20 chaperons. it was a party. today, they relived the best aaiqmand, of course, said thank you to the chief. reporting in northwest d.c. zachary kiesch news4. >> what a night for those young ladies. hey, if you're wonder hog paid for all the ticket, it wasn't the taxpayers, they were donated. still ahead at 6:00, new calls for change after federal workers were getting paid while playing hooky. find out what happened after our i-team report aired. a clerk comes out shooting. up next, the two men are dead a third on the run after an attempt at a >> a clerk opened fire when he saw the would-be thieves pistol whipping his co-worker. >> store clerked he was surprised but prepared when he saw a masked man pistol whipping his co-worker. the two return from quick break behind the convenience store in southwest houston. >>y i don't know so he hit them. >> surveillance cameras show the moment four men drive into the parking lot with their faces covered, three jump out with guns and rush the door. that's customer tomorrow vo being dra dragged by one of the would-be robbers in an apparent attempt to use him as a shield. push me and pull me aside. another two coming with a gun. >> reporter:ed edthe pop was the store clerk firing the suspect, you see two run out quickly and eventually a third. they make their way to the getaway car with the clerk running out to fire again. it's believed the suspects wound up just down the street at an apartment complex trying to flag down an ambulance. the clerk says he was wearing a pistol because the store had been robbed just ten nights before. he doesn't think today's would-be robbers saw him until it was too late. >> you were ready to do what you needed to do. >> exactly. >> it is unclear whether the clerk will face any charges. >> that case has now been referred to a grand jury. new at 6:00 the growing concerns about safety around one metro station after a deadly shooting. just the latest high-profile crime in the same area. the tragic twist of fate, a woman killed after her car broke down on a busy road. new tonight we will have some advice and what you can do to protect yourself if something similar happens. the new call for action after theism-team caught federal workers golfing and gambling on your dime. first tonight, disturbing new developments in a mystery that spanned four decades. we have team coverage of the indictment in that lyons' sister case. >> newly up veiled search warrants reveal information in the suspects in the case, lloyd welch. according to the4u "washington post", welch's cousin says he helped him get two large duffel bags from the trunk of car in 1975. each weighed about 60 pounds, he said and they had red stains and smelled of death. the bags were then set on fire. mark seagraves joins us now live from wheaton where the girls vanished about 40 years ago. >> reporter: that's right doreen, lloyd welch, the man charged with the murder of the lyons sister is currently in prison in delaware, serving time for an unrelated child sexual assault x he will be extradited took virginia to stand trial, but prosecutors say that this case is far from being closed. the investigation continues and they are actually looking at lloyd welch for the possibility of other child abductions so they are going to start tracing his movements from when the lyons sisters disappeared in 1975 until he was arrested in delaware in 1997. police and prosecutors were clear, the investi