chuck bell here to help you get ready to head out the door. >> good morning. yeah, there is that line of thunderstorms across parts of central ohio about 13 hours away. that puts it i-95 corridor around 7:00 this evening. so that will be the primary time frame for us to see potentially strong thunderstorms here in the metro. the main threat for severe weather is up to our north today, but still anytime we're that close to an outlook area, we could see strong thunderstorms. the main risk in our area across northern maryland, panhandle of west virginia. the front will be making it into the metro after the peak of daytime heating. but out the door this morning, low to mid-70s. we'll be near 90 by noon. high today 94. steamy first and then stormy for this evening. cooler tomorrow. showers ending early. but highs tomorrow back down in to the low 80s. melissa with a check on traffic. looking pretty good overall. maybe like your weekend forecast at this point.

no one can complain, right, seeing all this green. taking a look at the parkways, bw parkway, you're right tat speed. gw parkway, a tiny bit slower, but moving right along. d.c. 295 slow as you past 50. we have an accident that should be cleared out of the way here fairly shortly, wisconsin avenue at south drive. 95 at lorton road looks good. no problems there. coming up in the next ten minutes at 6:11, we'll it a drive down 270. but everythingoff all looking quite good. we're tracking breaking news this morning. police look for a 15 month old girl and her father. her mother says her father took the girl outside a metro stop. molette green live at the southern avenue metro stop with what you need to know. >> reporter: good morning. gone for more than ten hours now. taken from here outside the southern avenue metro station. if you can, come to your tv

screen and take a good look at this patient. 29-year-old darrel keith parker is seen holding his baby girl. she is 15 months old. we don't have a name given for the baby, but police say he took her from her other about 7:45 last night. no information on exactly what led to this apparent parental abduction. and no amber alert issued in this case. police do want to hear from you. so if you can, take a good look at this picture of the baby girl. and if you know anything about her whereabouts or where her father is, give metro transit police a call this morning. i'm molette green live at the southern avenue metro station. back to you. new developments in the glowing fight in the middle east. the u.s. launching a new effort for a cease-fire between israel and hamas. secretary of state john kerry is in tel aviv. he's meeting with israel's prime

minister, palestinian authority president and the united nations chief. israeli air strikes on the gaza strip continued overnight. since the fighting started, israeli forces and militants in gaza, at least 650 palestinians and 31 israelis have been killed. the federal aviation administration here in the u.s. says it will give airlines an update on its 24 hour ban on flights between u.s. based airlines -- its ban of u.s. based airlines going to israel. the flights were canceled yesterday after a rocket fired from the gaza strip landed near tel aviv's airport. investigators are trying to determine what happened in the moments before a mostly cloudy poli montgomery county police a man inside a bank. the 54-year-old was behaving erratically and threatened officers with a knife. the shooting happened yesterday at the capital one bank in silver spring.

the video that you're looking at there. we're told security video likely shows the moment when an officer shot the man, but that video is yet to be release. a witness tells news 4 through a translator that the man was inside an office. >> they were telling the guy to say freeze, you know, to put his hands up or something. and then teller told him to leave the bank. when he was leaving the bank, that's when he heard the gunshot. >> police say there is no evidence he was trying to rob the bank. virginia is backing off its plan to take over struggling public schools. a proposal included jefferson houston school. former governor mcdonnell pushed for a state board to take over this and other poor performing schools, but a judge ruled it unkoconstitutiona unconstitutional. mcauliffe will not appeal the ruling. d.c.'s old post office begins its transformation this

morning. donald trump will break ground on the new hotel. it will have 270 rooms and trump says it will be ultra high class. the donald won the rights to transform the old post office in 2012. the project is expected to cost $200 million. mayor gray and d.c. delegate eleanor holmes nor goton will bt the ground opening. pennsylvania avenue is expected to also lose the fbi headquarters. d.c. lawmakers hope the hotel will be the first of many new developments in that area. it is time for the redskins to get back to work. players report to training camp in richmond today. cha camp begins tomorrow. practice at 8:30 and a walk through at 4:00. admission is free, but you will have to pay for parking.

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hacked from other websites or directly from aepersonal commuters. d.c. is one of the happiest cities in the country. allegedly. the district came in third behind richmond and norfolk. new yorkers are the unhappiest people in the country. the study says people may be willing to endure less happy ngs in exchange for higher incomes or lower cost of living. the stud did y did is from the national bureau of economic research. my question is where are the texans. >> houston was sixth happiest. so this is a completely subjective, they asked the question are you happy. people said yes or no. >> i'm from texas and i tell you, we should be number one. when i first moved here, i was so surprised at how unhappy people were here. >> such a humble people you are, too. >> stay it loud, say it proud.

>> i topped listening when she said texas was number one. go sooners. oklahoma sits right on top of texas keeping them down. temperatures outside in our neighborhood this morning are in the low and mid-70s. be ready for a steam bath of an afternoon. cold front coming promises cooler weather tomorrow, but that will be the firing lean for thunderstorms later on today. there is sunrise early this morning. sticky temperatures in the low 80s by 10:00. we'll spend most of the afternoon in the low to mid-90s. best chance to storms arrive after about 5:00 this afternoon to 9:00 this evening. how is traffic? police can be happy about traffic because it is looking quite good. right now chopper 4 over 95, looking good moving right alone. 270 at germantown road, no problems there. 66 a little slow through scale city. a little slow 66 inside the

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right now storms that sit in ohio are coming our way. we'll see them before the day ends. it's a weather alert day. chuck bell will pin point exactly when you will see them in your neighborhood next weather and traffic on the 1s at 6:21. we fgo to the latest on the shoot down of flight 17. russia responding to the report that blames pro-russian separatists for the attack. richard jordan has the latest developments from the live desk. >> u.s. intelligence officials say they believe the russian rebels mistakenly shot down the plane last week and at this point, they have no evidence

that points to any russian involvement but just the inchly pli indication now has at least one russian government official responding, making a statement to keir simmons, he says they referring to the u.s. have given up tell itting everyone it was russia's fault. i'm not surprised. 9 u.s. claims have turned out to be completely it false. the west tries to blame russia in every detail. it was groundless. he went on to say russia wants to find the truth and that everyone should sit down and work on that. meanwhile two military aircraft left eastern you ukraine today with the bodies of some of those victims on the way to amsterdam. dutch government has declare dad a national day of mourning as they wait for the first bodies to arrive. and the black boxes have arrived in the uk.wait for the first bo arrive. and the black boxes have arrived in the uk. back to you. and some of the victims bodies are being taken to

amsterdam as he mentioned. nbc news is there. you can look for a live report at 6:45. a new clue could help track down the group who killed a man who owned a market for 20 years. the new clue is surveillance video. police want to find the man in the green shirt. he was at the deli on colorado avenue in northwest about 3:00 on friday july 4. two hours later, police say masked men robbed the store and the tackattacked the owner. representative andy harris wants to strip funding for d.c.'s marijuana law. the law removes criminal penalties for possessing small amounts of pot in the district. the group d.c. vote is calling on residents to complain to his office thursday about city issues like potholes, building permits, and parking tickets. harris has said decriminal

i'dii'd i decriminal i'ding mayor hair hurs children. donald sterling filed a new lawsuit against his wife and adam silver. the law seat says they committed fraud and violated corporate law by trying to sell the team to steve ballmer. sterling has another lawsuit already making its way through probate court. 6:18 your time. today you can voice your opinion on the future of arlington county. the county is redeveloping the courthouse square area and first three designs are ready for you to see. each concept is based on public input from past workshops. the new designs will be on display from 7:00 until 9:00 at envisions courthouse square. >> so amazon getting ready to release its first smartphone, the fire. consumer reports as an early version and can tell you whether it's worth considering.

>> never seen anything like it. >> reporter: in its commercial for the fire, amazon bests that the fire comes with free amazon prime for a year which includes some 2 day shipping and unlimited streaming music and video. but consumer reports checked out the fire in the lab. and its if he can getech geeks about some other features. >> beginning with dynamic perspective which gives the phone a 3d look and firefloy, which help wills you identify objects in front of you by scanning them. >> reporter: how well do the features work? >> i found the hands free gesture feature a bit clunky. it didn't always work. and fireapply sometimes had trouble identifying movies, songs and objects in front of it. >> another feature is called mayday which is free video tech support with live people.

they can access your phone and fix problems or change settings w450i8 you watch. so is all the new technology worth switching over? >> bottom line, this is a fun phone with a lot of unique features. but some people won't like the fact that it can't run popular google apps like youtube or g-mail. >> so consumer reports will test out some of the camera features starting on friday. that's when you can get your hands on the the phone. runs about $199 with a two year contract. but there are so many gadgets. this is to compete with the iphone, trying to set it apart. but whether or not it will be worth your money and the switch is up to you. >> how does it work as a phone? >> this is true. >> they never tell that you anymore. >> like can you call somebody. >> sometimes that's all you want. 21 after the hour. and this is a storm team 4

weather alert day. beautiful sunrise behind us, but that could change later on today. >> with the timing of these storms, chuck bell on this this weather alert day. >> good morning. it is thick outside this morning. temperatures are in the 70s and already feels like it's near 80 degrees. shear a live picture of capitol hill already early morning sunshine bouncing off the northeast facing of the dome there. your weather impact on the day today will be moderate. heat and humidity first. chances for thunderstorms late this afternoon into this evening. some could be strong to severe. so we'll be keeping a weather eye to the sky. it is indeed a weather alert day. that means frequent updates on air and online. there will be a chance for damaging winds. higher threat for severe weather up to our north. rain timing 2:00 to 6:00 northern maryland. i still think there is some indication on the later data

that this may need to be sped up a little bit. but so far 5:00 to 9:00 here in town. here are the storms on radar. still about 12 to 13 hours away. so still looking at that 5:00 to 8:00 time frame late this afternoon into this evening. temperatures out the door this morning in the low to mid-70s. we'll be near 90 by noontime. have highs today in the low to mid '9 mid-90s. a quick warm-up this morning, near 80 as early as 10:00. highs today 94 in washington, 92 this gaithersburg, 90 in annapolis. again, a risk of strong thunderstorms coming this about 5:00 to 11:00 this evening. "7-day forecast" time, the cooler weather arrives tomorrow. highs back into the low 80s. cloudy tomorrow with scattered showers around. great weather for friday and for saturday. in fact most of your weekend is looking really nice. just a little chance for some showers late in the day on sunday. and another shot of cool air

arrives mid part of next week. so no big heat waves in sight. >> sounds perfect. chopper 4 over 95 in virginia. this is kind of your fairfax county parkway. you can see things moving along quite nicely. beltway at river road, no problems there. moving along. same thing beltway the at ritchie-marlboro road. wider look, pretty slow d.c. 295 after you past 50. and 66 headed in to town inside the beltway, same thing, 395 just inside the beltway, as well. chopper 4 headed to a possible crash on prince william parkway. that in a couple minutes. right now watching the companies ta costa concordia on move making its final voyage as it was removed from the reef where it's been stuck for 2 1/2 years since the ship hit the reef and capsiz capsized. 32 people were killed there. now 14 tugboats are moving it to

a port in northern italy. it will be broken up in to scrap metal. it's so a slow journey here. not expected to arrive until sunday. moving about 2 not oknots per h. moving the ship has been a challenge. they plan to get to the port again by the end of the weekend. that's the latest from the live desk. take a look, a huge geico insurance banner fell on to this house in the san francisco area. a pilot apparently was towing that 4,000 square foot banner and it broke loose from his plane on friday. sarah clark was inside that house when it happened. >> i saw a gigantic piece of fabric over our gazebo. i thought it was a parachute or hot air balloon at first. >> there was some concern about power lines. sarah says if the banner landed one electric pole over, it would have taken out a transformer.

it didn't do any damage, though, to the power line. the faa now looking into this. if you work early mornings or late nights, you might want to pay attention to this. >> there is a new seat belt that actually tells you when you're tired. take a look at this. this seat belt is being developed by a company in spain. the device measures your heart rate and breathing through sensors. if you're about to fall asleep, the seat belt will sound an alarm. >> national highway traffic safety administration estimates in a 100,000 crashes here in the u.s. are the direct result of driver fatigue every year. >> and at least 1500 of those crashes result in deaths. at least me, i know myself better than to know i'm not a late night driver at all. and just as soon as i get in the car, it could be 15 minutes, an hour, and i'm all right dozing off. >> i can do that in the daylight. >> with this work, it's hard. well, right now, we're following breaking news.

a flight from baltimore forced to land early overnight. the mid flight scare that people put put people on emergency slides. plus blood, beer cans and broken fence.disturbing party strangers held. and a weather alert day. chuck bell is tracking when we'll see storms and the big change coming once they're gone.

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we're following breaks news this morning. police want your help to find a little girl they say her father took her from her mother at the southern avenue metro station last night. if you know where they are, call metro transit police. also a flight there baltimore had to make an emergency landing in columbus, high overnight. the danger that forced them to do this with passengers. plus it is a weather alert day. take a look behind us. all of this is the reason why. >> storms are pushing our way

right now. meteorologist chuck bell here to let us know when we'll start seeing them around here. >> a beautiful morning outside as long as you you like it awfully sticky. temperatures are in the 70s right now. we'll be in the low to mid-90s later this afternoon. radar initial line of showers with storms pittsburgh down to morgan up to. latest high resolution computer models say these might actually be able to hold together long enough to bring a rain chance in a little earlier than i was originally thinking. so maybe more in the 3:00 to 5:00 range especially northern and western suburbs. but the main impetus for thunderstorms is a cold front still about 11, 12 hours away from the i-95 corridor. main threat for severe weather is up to our north. but a little bit of that threat does come down into northern maryland and panhandle of west virginia. primt

primary deal damaging winds. temperaturesilbeea90y lunchti. ghy w mid-90s. heat index values up near 100 degrees today. tomorrow, a much better day. scatterer going of showers. mostly cloudy. highs tomorrow back down into the low 80s. "7-day forecast" 20 minutes away. taking a look at chopper 4 over prince women yes, ma'am parkway, still looking for the crash we were hearing about in virginia. not seeing anything at this point. 270 at democracy boulevard looking good. and overall look at things, slow at the top of the beltway and slow 295 just after you pass 50. 66 pretty much yellow your entire ride in. same thing with 95 this virginia. about 35 to 40 miles per hour at this point this morning. if you're looking at your parkway, you can see gw parkway headed in to and out of town looking quite good. no real issues or problems. follow us for the latest traffic information on twitt twitter @first4traffic. breaking news right now,

southwest airlines trying to figure out if a fire is to blame for one of its planes making an emergency landing in columbus, ohio. flight 424 left baltimore late last night, it was on its way to chicago when crews found smoke in the cargo area. all 54 passengers and crew members jumped off the plane on the emergency slide. nobody was hurt. southwest now trying to figure out where exactly the smoke was coming from and if there was a fire in the car go hold what started it. in just a few hours, the mother of a d.c. police officer on trial for attempted murder is expected to testify. officer lawrence is accused of trying to kill his wife. prosecutors say he attacked her in their home last november. their 17-year-old daughter had to testify yesterday. she told the 911 operator my father is beating my mother. i need to you come now. if convicted, lawyer reps could

face life in prison. we have learned a stabbing last night, the woman and man expected to be okay. police have identified a suspect but not made any arrests. a popular website is trying to right a wrong. a man used airbnb to rent out his home and he came back to a disaster. >> will this was busted. that is blood. >> mike novak shot this youtube video of the damage to his home after his first ever airbnb hosting experience. it lets people rent out rooms to temporary guests. novak got a call about a wild house party. >> 100 people here, major fight broke out between multiple people. broke through t neighbor's

fence. people slept in all the rooms. i found like lingerie in the rooms. so i've been cleaning my house, febreezing everything. >> he also had to clean up blood, cab cans, bottles. neighbors told him a motorcycle was zichi inzipping up and down wheelchair ramp. some items damaged were musical instruments. airbnb is working to reimburse novak. the site has permanently removed the individual who rented the house. a key reform to virginia's mental health system is not working as well as it should be. health officials say a state bed registry is not being updated frequently enough. it's meant to let people know which psychiatric facilities have openings in an emergency. that registry was created after gus deeds attacked his father senator creigh deeds and then killed himself. fw gus deeds was denied access to a mental health facility because there wasn't enough room.

according to the "washington post," the bed registry is only updated once a day at times. today you can hear all about a deal in the works to build d.c.'s new soccer stadium. d.c. proposed a land swap to help cover costs. a developer could get property at the reeves center in good change for two acres at buzzard point. several d.c. agencies currently use the reeves center. that site will host a public hearing tonight. today ben's chili bowl will open at the airport. this is their first airport location. the original restaurant served patrons for more than 55 years. ben's has been featured on tv shows, even visited by the president. today's ribbon cutting is part of a redevelopmentand

dining options at reagan national. the freelance star reports a committee recommends a sixth high school be built in stafford county in the southern end of the county. they found current plans to expand student capacityill not keep up with the county's expected growth. 6:36. we are just celebrating falls church. you can show your pride all year long. take a look at the specialty license plate featuring the little city logo. you can pre-order the new plates from the dmv for $10 in addition to the regular fees. we've posted the information you need at nbcwashington.com. a bold claim. how snoop dogg says he got away with smoking pot inside the white house. plus what you can do with apple's newest invention.

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welcome back. apple moving forward with its plans for a new smartwatch. they received patent approval yesterday. it's expected to be called itime. itime is the first completely new product launched by tim cook. it could be launch as early as october. the irs has a warning for you and wants to you hear this next sortory because scammers a duping people out of millions. according to the irs, scammers call people telling them they filed their taxes wrong, that they owe the government money and they have to pay immediately or be at risk of arrest.

investigators say scammers have collected more than $4 million in this. an irs official says before the agency ever contacts you over the phone, they will send multiple notices in the mail and they never threaten to arrest people. you've got to really be cognizant of this stuff. they will never phone call you until they have reached out to you with a notification via mail first. >> and that's every single government agency, state, local, federal, they all do it by mail first. not a crazy e-mail, no threats or anything like that either. >> and if you get that phone calls just hang up. don't pay attention. looks can be deceiving because, boy, is that pretty. but that's not going to be the case later. >> storms are rolling in later on today, right? >> you betcha. it looks pretty outside, but it's a sweat box in the great outdoors first thing thois morning. we'll have a quick rise this afternoon. temperatures into the upper 80s to near 90 by lunchtime.

low to mid-90s today with heat index values that are at or around 100 degrees. there is the cold front still entering the state of ohio. it will make the i-95 corridor around 7:00 this evening. main threat is damaging winds. not much of a tornado or any flash flood threat. you can keep ahead of the weather by having your storm team 4 weather app on your smartphone. traffic thousanow with melissa. chopper 4 over 95 this virginia, headed northbound at fairfax county parkway, looking pretty good there. a little bit of volume. beltway at 50, no problem there. taking a wider look at things, slow at the top of the beltway. 66 pretty slow headed in to town, as well, and then d.c. 295. a look at 270 and 95 coming up this ten minutes. sbl a little girl was taken from

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we're following breaking news on several fronts. storms are rolling our way. it's a weather alert day here at nbc 4. a little girl is missing and the search is on for the man who took her. news 4 today is working to get

you up to the minute the meant you' mea minute you're up and we start with katy tur in amsterdam. >> reporter: we're at the air force base where the bhoed he bl be landing. they will be landing around 4:00 p.m. local time. there will be a moment of silence once the bodies are on the ground and loaded back into trucks. there will be a moment of silence, the dutch king and queen and family members will be here. once that is done, the bodies will be taken to a facility where the process of identification will begin. it's unclear how long that could take. it could take days, weeks or months. victims' families have been asked to help create a profile of the victims, pictures of them to help identify l hadentify ja

birth marks. and then they will be given back to the families. if they are not dutch citizen, they will be repatriated back to the country that they are from. all in all they want it make it as quick and painless as they possibly can. 9 back to you. more of her reporting today on the "today" show starting at 7:00 this morning. now to the breaking news we've been watching all morning here at home. police looking for this little girl and her father. they went missing outside the southern avenue metro stop in d.c.. molette green live this morning with what we know. >> reporter: that baby girl has been away from her mother all night long. i'm here at the southern avenue metro station where metro transit police say the baby was taken. we want you to take a look at this picture.

stop what you're doing and focus this morning on these two people. you see the 15 month old baby with her father. we don't have the name of the baby girl, but the father is 29-year-old darrel keith parker. something happened between the father and the mother of the baby here at that metro station about 7:45 last night. and metro transit police say he then took his daughter away. if you can, give the picture another look before we wrap up this story for the morning. if you know anything about their whereabouts, give metro transit 3w4r police a call. back to you. investigators are trying to figure out what led to an officer shooting a man at a bank in montgomery county. that man identified as a 54-year-old died at the hospital. he was be hafing erratically and threatened officers with a knife.

we're told security video likely shows the moment when the officers shot the man. that video has not been released. police say there is no evidence that he was trying to rob the bank. new developments on the violence in the middle east. the u.s. is launching a new effort for a cease-fire between israel and hamas. secretary of state john kerry is in tel aviv meeting with israel's prime minister, palestinian shorts president and united nations chief. israeli air strikes on the gaza strip continued overnight. so far at least 650 palestinians and 31 israelis have been killed since the fighting began more than two weeks ago. in the meantime, the faa says that it will give airlines an update today on its 24 hour ban on flights between u.s. based airlines and israel. the flights were canceled yesterday after a rocket fired from the gaza strip landed near tel aviv airport. a new report proves it's not just your neighborhood getting

mail after dark. d.c. ranked the worst in the country for late mail. northern virginia also came in the top five for late mail. the u.s. postal service inspector general did this report after the murder of a mail man in prince george's county last november. the postal service says it tries to get letter carriers off the street before 5:00, but it blames budget calf for satisuts working longer hours. >> what your children eat at lunch will be discuss order capitol hill. congress approved standards in 2010 that requires school districts to increase fresh fruits, veggies and whole grains. but the measure was changed to allow shaome districts to opt o. today school administrate informations will discuss how to improve quality and delivery of school lunches. the holder of a winning power ball ticket will claim hi. he won $1 million. he bought the ticket at mia's market and deli on south glebe road. the ticket matched the first

five number. missed the last one, the power ball number. >> so close but no cigar. >> but $1 million isn't bad. >> still nice. this next story are is pretty unbelievable. snoop dogg claims, i emphasize claims, that he smoked pot inside the white house. >> he made the comments on his gg news network. he told his guest jimmy kimmel that he smoked in the bathroom during a recent visit. and while there is no real way to know if this is true, we do know that snoop did stop by the white house last december. he happened to be in town to perform the 36 theth am kennedy center awards. interesting. >> yeah, i don't believe it. i just don't. >> may not have inhaled. >> i won't say anything. chuck, what do you have for us? >> this beauful sunrise is a little deceiving. it's a terribly humid morning.

temperatures already in the mid-70s. if you're going out for the early morning jog or bike ride, be ready to use the squeegee across the forehead because you'll be sweating for sure. it is a weather alert day, so we'll give you extra updates on the weather flout tthroughout t course of the day. main threat for us will be a collapse for strong damaging winds with some of these thunderstorms. the timing originally 5:00 to 11:00, but there are a couple showers on radar which may get some rain chances in just a touch sooner. there is the picture outside this morning. it's a warm one. 75 degrees with 82% relative humidity. here it is on radar. there is the main line of action along the cold front, but already right out here near morgan morgantown, these are early morning thundershowers getting going. and our data holds it together at least until about i-81.

so we'll watch it carefully. no severe weather out there just yet, but add in daytime heating and there will be a bunch, that will intensify the storms. 73 in hagerstown. 72 fredericksburg. up to near 94 by 3:00 this afternoon. the timing on the rain arriving earliest in northern and western maryland. also the area that may seat strongest potential for thunderstorms today. not as much of a risk for severe weather down southern maryland because the storms arrive after the sun goes down. "7-day forecast," 94 today. but only 83 tomorrow. plenty of showers around. friday, dry.day look9@ a chance for showers sunday afternoon. taking a look at one of our slowest spots, beltway at new hampshire avenue. pretty slow there. fairly typical, though, 270 the at montrose road. you slow down a little bit as you approach that spot. 66 headed into town fairly slow.

and then virginia 95 through dale city slow, as well. we it just hear about a new accident d.c. 295 after eastern avenue, that is supposed to be in the right lane. and would explain some of the red on the map there. taking a look a 395 at edsall, remember we do have a situation chopper 4 over this, but it's a situation at king street where some of it is confusing as folks mer merge into the left lanes. today the man convicted of killing a teen will learn his fate. randy taylor will be sentence for the death of alexis murphy. the 17-year-old was last seen at a gas station last summer but her body was never found. a jury recommended two life sentences for taylor. >> the legal fight to take over struggling schools in virginia has ended. the plan would have let a board run by the state take over poor performing schools in virginia. that included jefferson houston school in alexandria. former governor mcdonnell pushed for the takeover, but a judge

ruled it y players report to training camp in richmond today. the actual camp starts tomorrow. if you're headed down, this is what you can expect. practice starts at 8:35 and there will be a walk through around 4:00. all of that open to the public and admission is free. but you will pay for parking. dianna russini is with the team in richmond, she will be live starting this afternoon on news 4.

officers use gps devices to track convicted murderers and rain pists released on parole, some officers found asleep at the switch. you can see the investigation coming up on "today." 6:56 now. your four things to know. take a second check of your stub hub account. investigation fwaors say hacker breaking in and purchasing tickets. stub hub believe they are gaining access through personal xhi computers. and a proposed land swap will be discussed tonight at 6:00 at the re chreeves center. and a flight had to make an emergency landing in columbus, ohio after crew members found smoke in the cargo area. you can see passengers having to slide down in order to get out. metro transit police need your help to find a 15 month old girl. her father took her from her

mother at the southern avenue metro station last night. "7-day forecast," 94 today. showers and storms likely late afternoon into this evening. beautiful weather coming our way for the weekend. beltway at new hampshire avenue, taking a wider look, accident d.c. at eastern off to the right side. otherwise looking pretty normal. >> that is the broadcast this morning. we appreciate yyou waking up wih us. >> and stay tuned for nbcwashington.com as far as our weather alert day is concerned. without the internet i would probably be like a c student.

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good morning. emotional homecoming. victims of the malaysia flight 17 air disaster being flown back to the netherlands right now while the black boxes arrive in britain. but this morning the crash scene remains controlled by rebel forces as russia strongly denies volvement once again. breaking news. secretary of state john kerry makes a surprise visit to tel aviv overnight just one day after the faa imposes a ban on travel there. security breach. vandals scale the brooklyn bridge replacing the american flags with white ones. who is behind the mystery and what message are they trying to send? and