Chance for a scattered storms thunderstorms later on this afternoon but not for everybody. We will talk about who could see those coming up. Good morning. Championship 4 over to check this out westbound 45 hearing it was shut down at washington boulevard because after tree across the roadway. Crews are on the scene and it c has notared out of the way so youll see that on the ride of the roadway. No major lay. Green belt is looking better after nasa goddard. That backup has disappeared. Aaron . Melissa, thank you. We have been staying on top of the breaking news. An early moing house fire in arlington. One person was rushed to the hospital for a burn. This person is in serious condition. Frefighters tweeted picture from the scene a hours ago. This happened on hayes street. That is near the crystal city area. The fire destroyed a detached garage and an apartment. It did not spread to the main how. Fire official say one firefighter is being treated for dehydration. Fire investigators are now looking into what may have caused the large fire to start. We are just days away from the fourth of july and President Trump says will be one of the biggeser gathings of history of washington, d. C. Its call a salute to america. Expect a traditional parade and fireworks. But this year, a military display on the National Mall tooin news4 justin is there with what to expect. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Even at this late day, we are hearing a lot could change. The final details, the final logistics are still falling intc place iluding the controversial use of tanks for this fourth of july celebration. We can tell you a of right now, all indication are there will be a larger than usual celebration. Today, we are seeing tents come in and other lope gist cal elements fall in place for what will feature some familiar elements to the parade, t concert, festivities, and fireworks that will now launch from west potomac park and no onger by the Lincoln Memorial which is where the president is scheduled to give his speechon the fourth of july. He spoke more about that and some of the new details for this salute to america celebration from the white house yterday. We will have planes going overhead. The best fighter jets in the world and other planes too. Tanks stationed outside and we have some incredible equipment, military equipment on display, brand new and we are very proud of it. Reporter military jet flyover as you heard. Now we can talk about the tanks. We are hearing associate press were brought in earlier from georgia and locked upder military guard. You heard the president say it does not appear it will go down the streets but instead stationary and on display somewhere for the fourth of july desperation. The details areet to be ebbing and flowing. No word how the tanks will be used. As we learn more, we will bring that to you. Live on the mall, justin finch, news4. Thank you. You can expect, security will be tight for the fourth of ly festivities. Police will not only be dealing with huge crowd here for the holiday but the recent outbreak of violence in the district. Eekend, there were two deadly shootings and a triple shootings. In a driveby shooting at a bus stop left two Young Children hurt. They are just 3 and 6 years old. The whole Community Needs to be outraged at what transpired. And everyone who knows something about the case needs to come forward. A 20yearold man was also hurt in that bus stop shooting. All ree victims are expected to recover. Police are looking for the driver of a dark colored sedan. This morning, Arlington County police are trying to figure out what led to a shooting at the mall at pentagon city. One person is in the hospital with lifethreatening injuries now. The shooting happened before 2 00 in the parking garage. Shoppers tell us they heard as many as four shots. Police believe prgple were ang before that shooting. No arrests have been made and officers say no threat to the public. A btersweet moment for a couple seeking justice for their three Young Children killed in a car crash. Thomas hawks pled guilty yesterday in that deadly dui crash in september. He slammed into the back of the familys vehicle on indian head highway in maryland. The 5yearold twins and their 1yearold brother were killed. We just want this all to end. We just want this to be over with. Ili know my beautiful chdren are looking down and are saying good job to mommy and daddy for fighting and continue fighting. Hawks faces nearly 40 years in prison when his sentenced september. This man was found not guilty by reason of insanity. Bashen killed brad jackson at an Old Town Alexandria business last ly because he thought the victim was a werewolf. His trial ended in a hung ry. He will be in a mentaltate facility where he will be overlooked. Jacksons friend did not feel justice has been served. No justice. Insane or not, no justice. Bassans Attorney Says sevipe bizarre bar injury is a result of the killing. Baseball fans are mourning the sudden death of Los Angeles Angels pitcher tyler skaggs. 27yearold tyler skaggs was found deadn a hotel room yesterday in southwest texas. The angels were there for a ri threegame se against the texas rangers. Last nights game was cancelled. No details have beeneleased how skaggs died. Po ce say foul play is not suspected. Washington nationals tweeted their condolences saying, quote. A tired new York City Police detective who gained National Attention for his emotional testimony on capitol hill will be laid to rest tomorrow. Ruiz al varez died over the weekend. He foughto replenish the funds for 9 11 victims before he died of cancer. He brought that on by his time on ground zero. He wrote, quote. I dont know if you remember me. My goal and legacy in this world was to see the Victims Compensation bill passed. That would extend benefits to the 9 11 responders the rest of their lives. The handwritten note wa delivered with a gift, alvarezs nypd shield. M thisorning the man who shot and nearly killed an Alexandria Police officer is expected ba court today. That is according to our news partner wpot. Bashir has been indicted on 14 counts of allegedly stalkingo tw Mental Health professionals and setting fires at the homre. You may mber bashir was found not guilty by reason of instant for officer peter laboy. Happening today, jack evans will speak with fellow d. C. Councilmembers in hopes of keeping his position on a werful committee. Evans is accused of using his public position for personal gain. Next week, the council will vote whether to remove him as chairman of the finance committee. Evans has more than a year left on his council seat. News4 will be tre and update you at 11 00 a. M. Ar protests e set to take place around the country in of recent reports at migrant detention facilities at the u. S. mexico border. T one o protests is scheduled to happen in front of the white house at 10 00 this morning. The demands of the p ttesters areclose the migrant detention facilities and reunite families. This come after the government o ann internal watchdog learned that conditions were so bad that Border Agents were worried about possible riot. The caucus led them to the southern border yesterday. We had a chance to visit with 15, 20 mothers, some of whom had been at that Border Patrol for over 50 days. Rom had been separated their kids. There was a toilet but no Running Water for people to drink. In fact, one of the women said that she was told by an agent to drink water out of the toilet. D tartment of Homeland Security did not respond to a request for comment from nbc news concerning the watchdog owport. New video shthe tall ship providence sailing into town just in time for the fourth of july. Its a replica of the 177as continentnavy warship and it iealso appeared in the mov pirates of the carbean. It was damaged in the storm four years ago and restored in m ine and nows calling alexandria home for the summer. Its going to be visible reminder of the city Maritime Heritage and its going toe something for tourists. Be s going to be something for residents to take pride in. Anits here and everyone c e come andoy it and it will be than an educational component to it. Pe the ship will be docked on king street and oned to tourists. N ext on news4 today, before your kids take off on lmets meet safety standard. Heir a fake 911 call. Hearom the innocent person il who temporar became a murder suspect. Never be arrested and technical i wasnt arrested then and never had handcuffs on. What we are learning how that hoax started. If youre heading to the beach for this holiday, looks like youre going to be dealing with rain. Small chances at the maryland and delaware beaches on friday and temperatures in the low to mid80s and better chances friday and saturday. We have our own chance around here if youre sticking around. We will talkyour welcome back. A fake 911 call aed to terrifying situation for a Prince Georges County family. An Award Winning national is column for the miami erald was accused of murdering his wife. He was a victim of a trend called swatting. Megan fitzgerald spoke to the family and learned how this was fake. Reporter on sunday morning before 5 00 a. M. , leonapo pitts temrarily became a murder suspect. Pitts was sleeping when his phone rang. It was bowie police calling after a 911 caller contacted them about a crime happened in pitts home. The caller on the line stated that he had murdered his wife and that he was going to shoot the police when they arri. D on sce s reporter the caller gave pitts address,police called asking him to come outside. Putting him in handcuffs before getting his granddaughter, daughter and wife marilyn out of the house. Bowie police chief john nestsky said it took minutes for them to realize it was a prank from the random caller. While the pitts are shaken up they are grateful how police handled what could have been a dangerous situation. Megan fitzgerald, news4. We are working for you this morning to keep your kids safe while biking. A recent investigation by Consumer Reports says al potentily unsafe helmets are widely available online. Some helmets purchaseonline were missing an important and required safety label which means they may not meet safy standards. Officials say there should always be a labor on the inside to show the helmet has been test and meets safety stane rd set by thnsumer product safety commission. We are working for your health now with a warning about nasty parasite in the pool that could make your kid sickcr its called to and is chlorine tolerant. People can get stick after swallowing contaminated pool water. It can caus diarrhea that lasts for weeks. Outbreaks ha been on rise over the past ten years. High winds blew a trampoline down the oreet. Lok at this video out of north dakota. The trampoline raced down thcr street and ted spark as it moved. Nobody was injured. Reportsne window was broken. The National Weather service said there wereind gusts more than 80 miles an hour at the time. Our dg camm kammerer explai weather video. Recently, he tried his hand at becoming a ninja warrior. There he is trying to the course a few wweeks agoile they were filming in. Baltimore rst qualifying obstacle is always the five floating sts. Made it through that part of the acstacle course. The second obst . He is hanging thered an supposed to jump to the next set of bars and couldnt quite make it and u ended in the water. He was real close but he didnt make the cut. He h a job right here on news4. He doesnt have to worry about all of that. Oh, right there he almost had it too. I dont know how they do iit equires so much strength and focus and determination. Doug is tall. I talk about this a lot because i love that show. Seem like anybody who is taller has more of a difficult time from gettingrom obstacle to obstacle. If youre shorter youre more compact and lighter. Doug, lauryn says lose some weight there you go i got a list of things that he did i wrong thatl send him later. His form need to improve and his swing. Analyzeth video, this is this happen, doug. He take a look at the sunrise. Its beautiful out there. Sun high in the sky and plenty of sunshine with the temperatures in the 60ss and and warm in the low to mid90s today. Yesterday in the 80s so warmer out there todaynd plus tick up in the humidity but plenty of sunshine throughout the day. We could have an isolated storm but it looks north and west of d. C. If we see later on in e afternoon, throughout this even, i know nats game against the marlins at 7 05, i think that will be okay. Hotter and more muggy than yesterday and 30 chance ofse ng a shower and thunderstorm popping up. Nothing out there right now. Rgh pressure sitting ove top of us yesterday that cleared oud the clou has now moved off the eastern seaboard and that is pumping in that humidity. In defely humid tomorrow. Temperatures still in the low to std90s tomorrow. S. Tomorrbo timing it out for you. Nothing this morning. Here is the showers just to the west of d. C. Later on toy. E could have a few lingering shower overnight. Its north so there may be a few rained espcially early tomorrow morning. Then tomorrow afternoon 40 chance of seeing scattered showers and thunderstorms for everybody. Thursday, oh, yeah. Fourth of july, some of the models are hipting we cou ihinte showers around noon time. Even at 9 00, we could have howers and thunderstorms and the time the fireworks usually get going. Hot today and continuing all the way into the weekend. Heat and humidity combined. We are talking about that heat index right around 100 degrees. Chances of rain. Fourth of july forecast real quick. Fireworks time, the temperatures are going to be little on the warm side in the 80s but looks like we will have ace good chan of seeing scattered showers and thunderstorms around for fireworks me. We will talk about the tenday forecast. First, here is melissa to talk about the road. Chopper 4 heading to i95 Prince William parkway and crash blocking the left and ride. Show you that in a little bit. Inner loop and outer loop of the beltway looking okay. Bw parkway accident cleared powder milk and south of that nasa. Godda brand new delay here. 6 21. We are working for you helping you planour Independence Day celebration. Tommy mcfly has a scoop on where to catch the best fireworks in town. Fireworks in town. Ellen this afternoon z3a5wz z16fz y3a5wy y16fy you dont have to wait until thursday to celebrate the fourth of july. Toght, bowie hosts its early Independence Day celebration with a free concert and Fireworks Show at princ georges stadium. Music at 7 30 and fireworks at 9 15. Nice someommunities have an early celebratioso me people dont want to deal with the crowd. You can take if more celebrations. Extend your celebration. Our tommy mcfly keeps track of everything happening around our area. A new segment called the scene he tffps you o with the thing to do and hottest event. Reporter of course, the big National Celebration right hi bend us on the National Mall. But there are fireworks all around our gion. In fairfax, the Fairfax High School is having a celebration at 7 00 with balloon artists ann face paters and things for the kiddies. Mattie stepanek park will have a live cebration. Live music. They do note, drones are not allowed which i think makes sense. In Prince Georges County they are having a celebration in parking lot 1 at umd. Show up for the fireworks and so much more like the fun and nysic. There are many, mmany, many, more fireworks all around our region. , of coursewe have the fireworks finder for you up on the nbc washington app. Search fireworks. With the scene, im tommy mcfly, news4. Still ahead, if you have thoughts about the push to make d. C. A state, now you have anc ch to speak your mind. We will tell you when. Plus stepping down. Virginias Lieutenant Governor leaves his law firm months after he was accused of Sexual Assault by two women. What he had to say about it. Lauryn ricketts . We have humidity coming back in today and starting this morning in the n60s a0s. But middle part of the morning, temperatures in the 80s. A hot day out there day. Your forecast is coming up. Good morning, everybody. Approaching 6 30 now. Im aaron gilchrist. Im eun yang. We have breaking news from arlington this morning. One person is recovering after being seriously hurt during this overnight house fire. This happened on south hayes street. We are told the fire started in a detached garage with an a aptment. Several streets had to be blocked off but we are told right now, the scene is clear. Lets turn to the morning commute and your forecast. Melissa mollet has a lo at first 4 traffic and storm team 4 lauryn rickhuts is in for c this morning with a look at the weather. We have a nice look at the weather outside. Sun coming at 5 47 in the morning. Beautiful o sunri there and looking like a beautiful morning. Not a lot of cloud cover out there and High Pressure in charge. 70 is our temperatureight now. See the winds . Direction south and west. Yesterday was nortest wind and suppressing the humidity and now the wind out of the southwest is take moisture and humidity from deep south and transporting it here to the midatlantic. Feeling good and sunshine out there. Feeling hot, however. Midro up 90s this afternoon and a chance of isolated shower or thunderstorm later on this afternoon but better chances of rain throughout this week. Especially for your fourth of july. Ng will talk about that and talk how hot its gto get. The temperatures will be fairly warm through the first week of july. That is coming up. First, talk traffic. Good morning. Chopper 4 head to go5 in virginia Prince William parkway northbound. Sounds like a left lane blocked. East