>> we might well have been able to prevent 9/11. >> tonight form errer and curre politicians defend programs. no ordinary flight. a plane makes a stop at dulles and it got here with no fuel in the tank. >> you know someone had to see something. they know something. >> a family looking for answers after their daughter is killed in a hit and run. good evening. tonight a clinton, maryland, family is looking for closure. last weekend their 22-year-old daughter was run over on the beltway after getting into an accident.

news4's derrick ward talked to the victim's family. >> reporter: on this father's day a family is incomplete. a loved one is missed by all who share this home. >> it is father's day. it's just rough. >> when i heard the news, i already couldn't believe it. it was like a dream or something. i was, like, no. not tiara. >> she loved music and poetry and his 18-year-old son. jackson was a victim of a horrific beltway incident a week ago. maryland state police say it was around 1:45 a.m. on saturday, june 8th, when her chrysler hit the guard rail and spun to reou came to rest. she was hit by several vehicles when she got out of her car and one of those vehicles may have been a tractor-trailer and know for sure none of those vehicles

stopped. >> someone saw something. they know something. someone's car came home that was smashed in that wasn't when they left home and they don't have a good explanation as to why. >> being the last one is heartbroken. >> this family has questions. the car hit the guard rail twice. >> car was smashed in the rear. i don't know if someone hit her in the back that would have caused the accident or it's just up in the air right now at this point. >> reporter: there's the void that her laughter and sense of humor and poetry used to fill. >> she's the one who kept everyone laughing in the household. everyone's spirits lifted. so it's going to be hard just having that bright sunshine not there anymore. >> derrick ward, news4. >> anyone who may have any information about this crash is asked to call maryland state police. crews cut apart trees and boarded up homes in montgomery county today. four days after thunderstorms ripped through that area.

news4's darcy spencer talked to residents in rockville as they deal with the destruction left behind. >> it's pretty scary. scariest thing i've been through. >> reporter: terry saunders and her family call this backyard their sanctuary. >> my dad's putting green was back here. this is where we lived when they were kids. we ate breakfast on the grill down there. everything. >> reporter: the yard of the flower valley drive home in rockville was severely damaged by thursday's strong storms. today some of the trees being sawed into pieces and hauled away. >> i do know what a car zone looks like. >> reporter: three days after the storms, some families in rockville still have these unsafe signs on their doors. structural damage that needs to be fixed before they can go back in. >> i'm so grateful that my family is safe. >> reporter: over on stevens court, trees toppled into homes. keith adams says he feels fortunate that he dodged the damage this time.

>> considering what i have versus what everybody else in the neighborhood had, i can't say how fortunate i am. i have a little bit more understanding but nowhere near what the people in moore and elsewhere came out and their house is a pile of rubble. count your blessing. >> reporter: darcy spencer, news4. no severe storms to speak of this weekend but there could be a little activity early this week. storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell is in the weather center with a first look at the forecast. hi, chuck. >> hi there, jim. good evening to you. happy father's day to you and to all of the dads out there. on the whole not a bad day outside. a lot of clouds but not much in the way of rainfall inside the capital beltway. a couple showers for you late on a sunday night mainly just down to the south of washington. here it is on live storm team 4 radar. not a lot of rain from washington northbound. once you go south down to parts of southern prince william county and triangle and quantico

down toward fredericksburg and stafford getting in on light rain showers this evening and very loud thunderstorms now rolling right through the heart of ocean city, maryland. not a good night out at the beaches. for us on your monday morning back to work, mostly cloudy. 69 degrees at 5:00 a.m. and quickly warming up. mid 70s by 9:00 a.m. we'll talk about how much warmer it will be tomorrow afternoon and anymore rain chances on down through the rest of the week. all that is coming up. >> crews battling wildfires in colorado call today a great day. the fire is now 65% contained and they believe that that number is going to go up tomorrow. firefighters say cooler temperatures and lower humidity are helping them battle the flames. crews are still working very hard to put out hot spots and prevent flare-ups in the colorado springs area. the 22-square mile fire has destroyed nearly 500 homes and also killed two people. we're following a developing story from syria tonight. there are reports of an

explosion at the military airport on the western edge of damascus. because of limited media access, nbc news cannot confirm the explosion. the airport is home to president assad's elite forces. there's been heavy fighting reported around damascus as syrian rebels attack government forces and buildings. as the civil war inside syria grows more dire, some members of congress are calling on the u.s. to do more. >> no boots on the ground is sort of everyone's position including mine because the rebels don't want us in there. i think you can neutralize the airpower by cratering the runways with cruise missiles and set up no-fly zone by having aircraft and patriot missile batteries operating out of turkey and jordan to nuclearize the airpower. >> it's estimated 93,000 people have died in the syrian conflict over the last two years. syria expected to be a hot poppic at this week's g-8 summit. president obama and the first lady left the white house last

night. looking for consensus building on ending the fight in syria and also on the agenda, trade, economic growth and tax policies. the two-day summit will include leaders from france, canada, russia and japan. security is expected to be extremely tight in the u.k. can large protests planned. north korea wants to negotiate with the united states. the country proposed high level nuclear and security talks today. the white house says it's open to negotiations as long as those negotiations are credible. the obama administration says the discussions must be based on north korea living up to its obligations including scrapping any plans to build nuclear weapons. intelligence officials released more evidence today that those controversial surveillance programs are actually helping to stop terrorism. they gave new details about a previously unknown terror arrest and as brian mooar reports now, even some of the president's biggest adversaries are defending the surveillance.

>> reporter: when colorado based extremi extremist was arrested in 2009 with deadly backpack bombs intended for subways, federal authorities say he was taking orders from al qaeda and now u.s. officials are revealing that terror plot was just one of dozens in more than 20 countries foiled with the help of the nsa's once secret data gathering programs. >> if we don't do that, another attack on our homeland is likely. >> reporter: former vice president dick cheney says current technology could have crushed al qaeda. >> that program, that capability against that target we might well have been able to prevent 9/11. >> reporter: nsa supporters want to step up the search for edward snowden, the former government contractor who claims credit for the leaks. china is investigating snowden's claims that nation was a target for extensive nsa hacking. >> he needs to look an american jury in the eye and explain why

he has discloses sources and methods that will put american lives in danger. >> reporter: intelligence officials say only 300 phone records were followed up on last year. >> we need to find the right balance between protecting our privacy which is sacred in the president's view and protecting the country from the real risks and threats we face. >> reporter: washington trying to calm critics who worry uncle sam is becoming big brother. brian mooar, nbc news, washington. three people injured after a deck collapsed this afternoon at a home in st. mary's county. this happened in hollywood, maryland. the deck suddenly fell eight feet to the ground. state police say two people had to be taken to the hospital by ambulance. one flown to a shock trauma center but everyone is expected to survive. not clear why the deck collapsed. a development in the effort to pushback the start time in fairfax county. the school board hired a team of

sleep experts to move sleep time to 8:00 a.m. right now classes begin at 7:20. specialists will hold meeting to discuss how to implement the time change. last april the school board agreed to move high school start times back to 8:00 but so far no changes have been made. tomorrow prince george's county executive will announce the final three seats on the board of education. a new bill went into effect allowing four additional members to be part of the board. under the new law, baker will appoint three of those members and the county council appoints one member to the board. teachers and staff are expected to get a pay raise starting next month. the county school board is scheduled to vote wednesday on salary increases and cost of living adjustments for thousands of school district employees. the cost of living adjustments would range from 1% to 2% of employee salaries and they would take effect in july. the step increases would go into

effect early next year. a former "sesame street" puppeteer has won three daytime emmys. he shared two awards for producing and directing the series. clash played elmo for 28 years before quitting last november after he was accused of sexual abusiing underage boys. his attorney says the lawsuits are without merit. across the country on no fuel. a special aircraft makes a special stop in washington today as it gets ready to complete a very long journey. plus, we'll tell you why half a million harleys were parked outside of the vatican. running with ties on. the special father's day event that raises awareness about a very important cause.

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nelson mandela's family members were seen visiting a south african hospital today. the 94 year old has been there for over a week with a lung infection. there hasn't been an update on his health since thursday when it was reported he is improving but still in serious condition. an unusual sight at the vatican this sunday. pope francis blessed thousands of harley motorcycles.

the blessing in honor of the motorcycle maker's 110th anniversary. the pope's our father prayer was nearly drown out by the thundering engines from the bikes. it's estimated half a million harley owners rolled into rome for the four-day celebration. state of the art solar plane on display in virginia today. the solar impulse landed at dulles early this morning making its second to last stop on a cross-country trip. the pilots are making the first attempt to fly a plane day and night across the country, get this, without any fuel. the swiss made plane is powered by thousands of solar cells that convert light into electricity to charge the plane's batteries. pilots say they learned a lot from their journey. >> we can focus on energy savings and to make it fly date and night we had to reduce energy consumption. >> huge potential that we can make things that people think are impossible like flying an airplane day and night with no

fuel. >> the plane will travel to new york city for the last leg of its trip next month. runners lined the streets of pentagon city today for a father's day tradition. around 1,500 people laced up for zero prostate cancer run which benefits prostate cancer awareness. some runners sported neck ties for the event. kids got a chance to take part in a fun run. there they go. proceeds from the race go to prostate cancer research, education and also free testing. great cause there. didn't have bad weather for it either. >> cloud cover outside. temperatures weren't too terribly crazy. >> you like it like that when you run. >> any time you're below 80 degrees and you get humidity down just a smidgen always hells. good d good day for anything you wanted to do for much of the day. father's day of course and more clouds than raindrops and most of the backyard barbecues for

dad went off without a hitch. we had a lot in the way of rain showers to our south. outside on late sunday night, a mostly cloudy sky overhead. not much rain here inside the capital beltway. showed you that on radar a minute ago. we'll show you again. high temperature today a very warm 87 degrees. even with all of the cloud cover outside after a 69-degree start. plenty of clouds. only a trace amount of rainfall at national airport today. so looked threatening for much the day but it never really did rain all that hard. hopefully your dad had a nice day to get outside and enjoy a little celebration. 80 degrees right now as of the 11:00 hour. dew points are still in the mid 60s. that's on the humid side for sure. winds are very light now out of the west at only 3 miles per hour. and that soupy thick air mass we have in place will be here for the next couple days. a break in the air conditioning bill is just around the corner. 80 inside the capital beltway. mid 70s alongside the bay from

annapolis into st. mary's county. calvert county down . so what's tomorrow looking like? again, much like today. a lot more of a cloud issue than a rain issue tomorrow. scattered showers can't be completely ruled out. most of the day will be just warm, humid and on the cloudy side. highs tomorrow much like today. generally middle to upper middle 80s around the area. 84 to about 87 or 88 degrees. there will be a rain threat tomorrow and like we have on radar now. most of the rain threat down to the south of washington. any point could get rain. rain showers for now on your late sunday evening southern parts of fauquier county down to southern prince william county along i-95 getting below the capital beltway rain showers will greet you from woodbridge to quantico.

most of the showers are fairly light. the strongest storms by far are out here onto parts of the eastern shore where ocean city has been getting quite a round of thunderstorms here late this evening. that's where most of the action is going to be centered again for tomorrow as a weather front to our south sort of stalls out across parts of central virginia. showers mainly from washington southbound tomorrow but if you live in northern maryland don't rule out the opportunity. a lot of mugginess in the air for tomorrow. and that will last on into the first part of your tuesday as well. tuesday a little ripple of low pressure coming up the coastline means enhanced chance for rain showers on your tuesday. once that area of low pressure goes away, it is going to be nice around here for a couple of days. overnight mostly cloudy, muggy. a couple sprinkles south of town. lows 64 to 70. for tomorrow, a mix of clouds and sunshine. passing showers in the afternoon. warm and humid. highs mid to upper 80s. heading down to the coastline, monday not a bad day. tuesday kind of showery. sunshine returns on wednesday.

here's your seven-day forecast. 86 tomorrow. 30% chance of rain. 83 on tuesday with a much better chance of some showers around. then things really get nice. wednesday and thursday, those are some free air conditioning days for mother nature. highs in the low 80s. lows in the mid 60s. nothing to complain about there. plenty of sunshine as well. as we head toward the end of the week and on into next weekend, never too early to think about next weekend. highs upper 80s pushing 90 by next weekend. you can follow me on twitter. >> thank you, chuck. nearly 40 people stuck upside down for three hours today in england. three hours upside down. happened when a ride broke down at this theme park in the southern county. some stranded passengers were children. one of the stranded riders took video as emergency crews worked to help each passenger get out of that ride. fortunately no one was seriously hurt. at least two people had asthma attacks. and miss usa 2013 is,

connecticut! >> screams and tears. you saw it right here on nbc before the news. a new miss usa crowned just moments ago. it's erin brady from the great state of connecticut. ms. alabama was the runner-up and ms. maryland did make it into the top 15. congratulations. coming up in sports, the nats bats get cold in cleveland. plus, a wild finish at the u.s. open. could the birthday boy hold on?

february 22nd. a landmark transportation bill is up for consideration in the virginia legislature. even though it's backed by republican governor mcdonnell, tea party republicans refuse to support the plan. but terry mcauliffe thinks this is too important a time for partisan politics. mcauliffe reaches out to democrats and urges them to support the bill. and the bill passes. terry mcauliffe. putting virginia first.

>> diane is here. strasburg back on the mound. >> everything was looking so good except the finale. the ending wasn't so good. i feel like i made need to say spoiler alert. that's what the indians did to the nationals today. they spoiled stephen strasburg's return. the ace a little rusty. had a solid outing. nats struggled getting hits.

last night's hero, anthony rendon showing off his stylish haircut. don't like it. ace gets in and tossing the bat. one of the strikeouts of the game. santana rips it up the middle. indians up. five innings, four strikeouts and one run allowed by strasburg. top of seven now, davie checking out his club. lined to first. reynolds catches it. nats get shut out by indians 2-0. os hosting red sox before the game some fathers and kids out on the field playing a little catch. i love that. great day for them. great day for chris davis. bottom of three. os up 1-0. this is why they call him crush

davis. a two-run bomb to right center. his major league leading -- this is his 23rd homer. birds up 3-0. bottom of five. man on for davis. hammers one to the opposite field. davis is safe at second for the double. three rbis on the day for him. os take three of four in this series. they win it 6-3. it was a tale of two golfers today for justin rose there were tears of happiness after capturing his first major. for phil mik elckelson tear the is. happying to make it a happy birthday and father's day. his second shot on 10 might just do that from 76 yards out phil and he holds it. that's an eagle giving lefty the lead at even par. on 13 justin rose with the long putt for birdie and the outright

lead. he sinks it. rose finishes at one over and has to wait. phil's third shot on 18. if he holds it, we're in the playoff. the ball rolls past the cup. that means justin rose wins his first major and is your 2013 u.s. open champion. mickelson finishes second at the open for the sixth time in his career. everyone was rooting for him today. he just couldn't get it. coming up on sports final, san antonio leaves the heat seeing green in game five and nats crumble in cleveland and eagles and birdies are nice, how about an ace? we'll get more from the u.s. open. all that and much more in just a few minutes here on nbc 4. >> we'll be watching. thanks. still ahead right here, a very special father's day for a u.s. soldier.

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it was a father's day to remember for hundreds of families in washington state today. about 250 soldiers were reunited with their loved ones in this emotional homecoming. some brought cameras and signs but one army wife brought something her husband has never seen before. his own little girl. his daughter, specialist got to hold and meet his 2-month-old daughter willow for the first time today. a group of soldiers returned home after spending seven months in afghanistan supporting security forces there. what a father's day. >> sweet. >> that's our news for tonight. "sports final" coming up next. "news4 today" starts at 4:00 a.m. have a good night, everyone.

tonight on "sports final" -- >> phil mickelson poised to win his first u.s. open but rose had different ideas. >> frustrations boil over for the nats. >> i can handle