Theres a lot of humidity in place today, so do in the turn your back on a ra chance. Its not going to rain everywhere all day long, but our rain chances are at 80 today. Temperatures upper 60s to around 70. Dry commute in, highs in the low 80s and likely to have a wet commute home. Melissa, good morning to you. Uc good morning, chk. Right now have a new problem here. We did have just the right side blocked by this accident southbound 295 at malcolm x. Right now everything is shut down temporarily. Looks like they may be getting something out of the way. It isat closed this point southbound. Northbound gw parkway pushed off in inbound Memorial Bridge. Think of 110 instead. Looking at 66 and 95, no issues. Had thero earlier pblem in chan tilly. That is gone. Beltway inner loop and outer loop construction has disappeared from our system. 70 to 270 youre going 70eriles p hour will take you 26 minutes. Eun . Thank you, melissa. A richmond woman had to go to hospital over the weekend in dominican republic. On sunday, skyler was admitted to the hospital after six hours of vomiting and losing consciousness. Ive had infections before. Ive had stomach viruses and had Food Poisoning and this was something i hadnt been in good health could have been really, really, really dangerous. This all comes on the heels of reports of nine americans who receny died at resorts in the country including Prince Georges County coupleme nathaniel hol and cynthia day. He t has not been an up tick an themerican deaths reported in the dominican republic. New details about alexander perez. The latest personn arrested i the connection of former red sox player shooting of david ortiz. Perez is accused of being the liaison of the merson hit and person who paid them to shoot ortiz. He remains in an intensive care hospital. Boston yesterday his wife released a statement. Tiffany ortiz thanked the doctors who have now upgraded his conditiono good and she thanked everyone who has helped. She wrote,ot qu your support has lifted his spirits tremendously during this challenging time. 4 33 now. The loc Lgbtq Community is coming together to remember zoe spears. She was found. Shot to death the second trans gender woman killed in that area this year. She was 23 years old. Yesterday people mourned her death at the latin amerin youth Dropin Center in columbia height. Were having a hard time wrapping our heads around the idea that shes gone forever. In march, another transgender woman was killed. No word yet on whether the two cases are connected. The fbi is offering a 20,000 reward to anyone who can help solve the murder of a father and son. Dwayne young and his son america were found dead in their Virginia Home last november. Investigators want hear from anyone who may have been near the home at the time. The home is on route 28 corridor near route 29 and oak shade road. Investigators say no tip is too l. Happening today, d. C. Department of transportation wants you to weigh in on a plan to make a city street safer. Anight youll be able to ta upcoming e details of project to improve florida avenue northeast. Speed ductions, added pedestrian crossings and more bicycle lanes are all being considered. 4 34 now. Youve probably been stuck in traffic in Memorial Bridge with new construction. Have you been there . Yesrday i got stuck. It started last year and it caused quite the mess. Ow theres a new project for memorial circle. Ti now the naonal park service wants to make some improvements. Theynge still figuri out costs andeytrying to get mon together. Right now the plan includes putting a walk signal in, improving the signage and reducing the number of lanes for causing using the circle. The park service says that will cut down on tricky mergers. This is going to become more like a traditional traffic circle. One lane going around and dvers will yield to sbl. That Memorial Bridge project wont be complete least 2021. For now no time frame for the project and no word on how much it could cost. Were talking about the circle project. The park service talked about crash cycle. 006 and 2012 there were 060 crashes. 4 35. A look at the top sties were following for you this morning. Montgomery county police are investigating the death of a woman who was found shot to death in a home in kensingtonl t night. Police found a gun at the scene and made an arrest. More investigation will be released today. D. C. Police are looking for two women seen in Surveillance Video setting fire inside an apartment 11 people were forced out of their homes becauseof this. No one was hurt. Acting ceo no more. The Prince Georges CountySchool District has asked Monica Goldson to take over its top position permanently. Goldson is now the districts first africanamerican female leader. If you like to add a new nobody your family and help a dog out youre in luck. Washington Humane Rescue Alliance rescued the dogs following what was called a large scale animal cruelty case in new jersey. 188 dogs were taken from the home there. 12 dogs will be up for adoption here oncehey receive t necessary medical and behavioral treatment. I think theyll find homes quickly. 4 38. Still ahead, what a passenger did on board a plane that forced an ergency landing. Plus, facebook no longer just for photos and videos. The Company Announces its getting into the cash game. Well explain that when newsre today urns. Happy wednesday. Coming up today at 5, theres something in your home that you should watch out for that could drain your wallet. Household leaks are never a good thing and a lot of times you might not even be aware that you have a problem. 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A subsidiary willhao t the new digital currencyill start next year. Theres so many so whats he upside of using faceboo versus using venmo. Just another option. All right. We bng in chuck every morning. Just an option. Hes the only option. Your gardening weather for today, get your outdoor o activities early because rain chances are increasing as we get later on in the afternoon. The coolest and driest part of tth day is first thing morning. And did you know this is the most active tme of the year for Lightning Bugs but their populations have been on the decline. What can yotudo to help . Off some of the outdoor lights so they can find mare mate. Isnt tat sweet . Hte announcer youre watching news 4 today. I stand fore you to officially launch my campaign for a second term asresident of the united states. Thank you. Standing before a cheering crowd in orlando, florida, President Trump there officially aunching hisreelection bid. He spoke about the economy and once again promised to build a wall on americas southern border. This morning, hes back in washington but its not a crowd of supporters hes facing. Its mounting investigations by house democrats. Today his formermm ications director hope hicks will testify behind closed doors. Ws 4 tracie potts joins us live from capitol hill. Tracie, what are democrats hoping to learn from hicks . Reporter well, first of yl, there hoping to learn if the president ever asked her to lie. The last time she was onll capil testifying, she admitted to telling white lies for the president. They also want to know more about five specific incidents of possible obstruction of justice outlined in the mueller report. Theylan to ask her specifically about all of this. Now the white house says shes immune and does not have to answer any questions because shs a former white house official. She also worked on the first trump campaign. Overnight a letter from the chair of the House Judiciary Committee rejecting that saying they fully expecther to answer questions. We learned a white houselawyer will sit in on this closed door testimony with hicks ready at any point to invoke executive privilege and tryto shut the whole thing down. That getsnder way today. Well have to see what happens. Tracie potts live on capitol hill. Tracie, thank you. And reminder that next week is the democratic president ial debate. The first of the 2020 campaign. Ill be reporting ve from miami covering that twonight event. You can see my reports beginning next wednesday and watch the eebate right h on nbc 4 wednesd and thursday night at 9 00 p. M. Roversy inking co the Trump White House current acting defen secretary patric shanahan was being considered to take over e job permanently but yesterday he abruptly pull d his namem consideration. A Washington Post investigation detailed two instances of alleged Domestic Violence in shanahans family. Shanahan reportedly to the president he did not want personal situations to distract from the nomination. Within moments of shanahans departure, the president offered the job to mark tesper current army secretary. He is expected to begin today. He must be confirmed by congress. Prior to his prior role he served a as Top Executive for a majo defense contractor. Several republicans in the Virginia Legislature want to stok into the Sexual Assault allegations again Lieutenant Governor justin fairfax. Two women have accused the Lieutenant Governor of assault. He denies any wrong doing but just last week he told news 4 he opposed the hearing. Fairfax told us his attorneysre hed out to prosecutors offices in two states asking them to look into the a allegationsove he said would clear his name. T today therump administration is expected to e relacan obamaera policy put in place to combat climate change. In 2015, president obama phased out coal burning plants. Over the last years, federal data shows air pollution has worsened under President Trump the epa has blamed the up tick partially on wild fires in the west. Last night the mayor and police chief of phoenix once again issued publico gies for the manner in whi several officers with the citys Police Department handled an investigaon of shoplifting. A Community Meeting was held and at times things became pretty intense. An africanamerican couple was taken into custody because their young daughter took a barbie from a dollar store. This happened last month but only recently was the footage of the arrest made public. Many took issue with how officers handled the situation. Guns were drawn and officers used curse words. We are here because of trust. We are here because of transparency. We are here because of accountability. And that is wie the couple plans onng sui the city for 10 million. The officers involved have been reassigned toesk duty. 4 49 now. Were following developing story out ofph iladelphia. This week federal agents made one of the largest cocaine busts in the american history. 17 tonsf cocaine was found stored in seven shipping containers on board a ship docked in the citys harbor. Court documents say most of it was being shipped to europe. Drug agents say cocaine is making a comeback just threehs mont ago two tons of cane was found in the port of new york in new ayrsey. Tis one of the oldest e u. S. Markingn the end of slavery in this country. That celebration started on june 1ie when union soldrs announ announced to slave in the galvest galveston, texas, they were free. 46 states and the district recognize juneenth has a holiday. Matter of weeks americans and the world for that matter will celebrate 50 years since the moon landing. In honor of that anniversary, the air and space museum will soonxh open a new eit celebrating the achievement and the man who took those first eps on the lunar service. Peek. Is a sneak i know about moon rocks and this is one right here. Reporter there are certain moments we know. Yeah, i think thats a moon rock. Reporter or remember as folks of all agents explore the air and space museum. Ask anyone over the age of 50 and they can tell were. Re they thats one small step tr man. Reporter the day apollo 11 reached the moon. I was 11 years old inw ioa. Laying on the floor of our living room. Reporter it can also tell you how excited they are that the museum will soon open its doors to a newexhibit, one that will honor neil arm strongs famous words a the space suit he wore whileaying them. We have been very busy. This is the curator of the apollo 11 thibit. S is a great responsibility. Were also looking forward to inspiring younger generations to work on the next generations of suits. Reporter theres still a month to go before the exhibit opens. They plan to celeanate the 50tversary with a big party and it will be at 1056 p. M. The exact minute mankindl wad on the moon. The drive home for many of you yesterday could have proved to be a bit treacherous. Look at this. Buckets of rainn,oming dow slowing down the commute to a crawl. Its tough to drive when itsni raing this hard. We may not be out of the woods quite yet. Chuck bell, maybe a little more than atoittle rain ay . I dont think the rain will be as heavy as it was yesterday. Thats t good news 23467 the super soakers the last few days are a little less likely today. A thats little by of good news. A little extra cloushcover today ould help keep temperatures a littl cooler to reduce our chances for strongerto ss and the heavier downpours of rain. So, theres a little good news. That being said, take your umbrella withod you ty to look like the smartest kid in school. 72. Now in washington, 68o in frnt royal and 68 in leesburg. 68 also in columbia, maryland, this morning. 73 at quantico. Your pnner for your wednesday, hump day is here. Rain chances are increasing as we get into the afternoon, but nlike the last couple of days i dont dont see a big chance fow ther today. Periods of brief to heavy rain possible but you can see on our graphic the Severe Weather threat is out to the west. Tomorrow, that mov right back in to our area. So now thursday will be storm team 4 weather alert day. For now, overnight clouds and rainrs showre pushing on out, but again theres plenty of moisture in the atmosphere to your west. Theres future weather. Dry th ugh the morning, increasing clouds and as we get into, 4, 56 00 p. M. Do have your umbrellw, for tomoruch higher chance for some severe storms on your t rsday. The good news in all this is that thats a cold front coming by thursday evening. We get a gusty northwest wind on friday to blowe humidity out. Enjoy it because we will be right back in the steamy 90 next week. Well, as long as the weekend looks okay im okay with it. Ut washington sound 295 at moll come x avenue now the left lane is get by the crash. Arlington northbound gw parkway pushed on to the inbound morial bridge because of work there. You might want to take 110 instead. As we look at the beltway inner loop, outer loop, no big complaints. 95 in maryland from 32 to the beway, 71 Miles Per Hour gets you there in ten minutes. Eun . Thank you, melissa. After hurting a ribscle back in april, max scherzer suffered another injury. De this vio was hard to watch. He broke his nose. There. E that right he was working on his bunting and wound up taking a baseball right to his face. He was supposed to start today but now his status is unknown. Patrick corbin will start game todaand no wordon who will start game two. Its just such an unlucky freak thing. Hes a goodlking guy, too. He gets paid the big bucks for his arm. You know what i mean . Switching gears, every dog owner knows those looks. Can you play with me today . Well, it turns out those heart tugging looks have a Science Behind them. I knew it. It all comes down to the little muscles in their eyebrows. A new study by team of evolutionary psychologists shows that dogs have perfected the art of eyebrow raising. They developed stronger musclesv people h favored dogs with expressive eyes. So, while yve may ha seen dogs online trying totake their conversations to the next level like this. I lo you. I love you. Good girl. I love you. Other dogs are making due with just aittle look. Yes. Little face there. I swear leo looks at me like this. What are you talkingou ab like that dog, right . E ctly. Whats going on . Up next on news 4 today, were checking inith the women