right now showers to our west are beginning to show up on storm team 4 radar. it is a weather alert day with a risk of storms this evening. communities northwest of the district are at the highest risk. but for the entire viewing area, the heat and the humidity will definitely be an issue. heat indices could climb to 100 degrees or more today. let's go right to storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell to bring us up to date on this. chuck, good morning. >> good morning, aaron. yeah, we're going to suffer all day long through the heat and humidity and then face a chance for thunderstorms coming in later this afternoon and into the early evening hours. storms running a little behind where we would normally expect them because the cold front is a little farther out to the west. man, oh man, is it warm and humid outside. temperatures are already in the mid to upper 80s area wide.

87 in martinsburg, 86 at reagan national, 83 at annapolis bayside so it's going to be a warm afternoon for sure. temperatures could easily make it up into the mid-90s in many locations. storm team 4 radar nothing in the metro area just yet. here's the leading edge of a couple of showers in the mountains of west virginia. the cold front itself is just getting ready to move into pittsburgh. the front itself is still about eight hours away from the i-95 corridor. out ahead of it, the main risk for severe weather is up to our north but since the front is coming in during peak of daytime heating, parts of northern and western maryland have a little better chance of thunderstorms than down to the south. we'll spend most of the afternoon in the low to mid-90s. thunderstorms most likely between 5:00 and 10:00. we'll narrow it down neighborhood by neighborhood in a few minutes. some breaking news coming out of taiwan. we're learning about a plane that crashed there and it may have killed several passengers on board. crews are on the scene there right now. this was a transasia airways

flight trying to make an emergency landing. the pilot requested a go-around during this bad weather and then lost contact with air traffic control. 58 people were on board, including four crew members. you can keep it here for updates as we learn more information. we're also following breaking news in ukraine. let's go to richard jordan in the live desk. >> reporter: ukraine's defense ministry says two military fighter jets were shot down near the ukraine-russia border not far from where malaysia airlines flight 17 crashed last week. now, each jet reportedly had two crew members on board. it's believed that they were ejected and were able to parachute down before the plane came crashing down. you see the wreckage there. this is unverified. this video has not been verified. it was posted online by the pro-russian separatist group that is also believed to be behind last week's shootdown of the malaysia airlines flight. now in the background of this video you hear some conversation between a few men.

they are overheard saying look at this ukrainians so that you do not dare to fly here. now, we don't know what happened to the pilots or crew members on board that flight but the presumption from what we're hearing from that video is that the men were able to run off and escape there, leaving their parachutes behind. we'll be following this throughout the day but for now that's the latest from the live desk. >> the latest now -- more information now on the shootdown of malaysia airlines flight 17. two military planes carrying some of the victims' remains are now in the netherlands. the planes landed about an hour ago. most. crew members and passengers killed last week were dutch of the right now british investigators are examining a pair of black boxes from flight 17. they're hoping that they will give them some clues into the flight's final minutes. investigators are trying to figure out exactly what happened before a montgomery county police officer shot a man inside a bank. donovan baiten died at the

hospital. he threatened officers with a knife yesterday. security video likely shows the moment when an officer shot him. through a translator, a witness told us that baiten was inside an office. >> they were telling the guy to put his hands up or something. the teller told him to go out of the bank, to leave the bank. when he was leaving the banks are that's when he heard the gunshots. >> police say there was no evidence that he was trying to rob that bank. new today, donald trump is breaking ground at the old post office building in the district. he will turn it into the trump international hotel. news4's tom sherwood is live in downtown d.c. where the ceremony just wrapped up. tom? >> reporter: aaron, if donald trump couldn't make it to the white house at 1600 pennsylvania avenue, it's not a bad second to have a luxury hotel here at 12th and pennsylvania avenue. this is going to be a $200 million, 270-room tel.

they hope to open about november, 2016, but certainly in time for the 2017 presidential inaugural. here's a little of what donald trump had to say. >> we will produce one of the great hotels anywhere in the world. it's the most exciting location, right between congress and the white house on pennsylvania avenue. it's going to produce many, many jobs, both in construction and then a year and a half later in operating the hotel. >> we told the gsa and many of you are here today when you are ready to turn over this building to the trump organization, we would be ready. and today we're shovel ready. >> reporter: now, the oldest post office is historic, but it's been badly used for decades until the federal government put it out for bid and trump won the bidding two years ago to develop this hotel. now he's about to start it. it was a big day here with the mayor and the congress members and all kinds of folks. this is a big shot in the arm

for development and business here right in the same block, right near the same block where the fbi will be leaving in a couple of years. live in downtown washington, tom sherwood, news4. >> as tom alluded to, there is hope that the new trump hotel will help revitalize the pennsylvania corridor. the area largely shuts down after business hours on weekdays and a new initiative launches today to change that. in addition to donald trump's project there are also plans to redevelop the current fbi site once that agency moves to a new location. more breaking news now. let's go back to richard jordan. >> 395 northbound at seminary road, you can see police activity there. apparently a box truck has overturned, police shutting down some of the lanes right now. only the left lane is getting by. police investigating this accident. we believe this is a single vehicle crash so only that box truck there involved. haven't heard about any injuries yet or how the driver in that truck is doing, but this is certainly causing a backup.

again, 395 northbound at seminary. it looks like southbound is doing okay, but those northbound lanes, only one lane is getting by right now. that's the latest from the live desk. aaron, back to you. just a few minutes ago, we learned a father accused of abducting his child is now in police custody. metro transit police say the 15-month-old has been found safe. the girl's mother says that darrel parker took her from outside the southern avenue metro stop last night. a security guard at a maxway store saw the child and called 911. officers arrived and that's when the father took off. police say the child will be reunited with her mother. new today, emergency landing. passengers from bwi forced to jump onto an emergency slide to get out of this southwest airlines plane. coming up, what happened inside that plane that had the pilot scrambling to land. plus, the extreme measures being taken today to get the costa concordia moving again more than two years after

new developments now on the violence in the middle east. right now there is no end in sight. israeli tanks fired more shells and mortars toward gaza today. this comes as hundreds of thousands of people seek shelter. the u.n.'s refugee agency says more than 118,000 people are staying in 77 u.n. shelters. so far at least 650 palestinians and 31 israelis have been killed since the fighting started more than two weeks ago. right now the u.s. is launching a new effort for a cease-fire between israel and hamas. richard jordan has more on that from the live desk. >> reporter: aaron, secretary of state john kerry is trying to bork that deal. he is in the region holding several meetings with leaders across the area seeing what he can negotiate between the israelis and the palestinians. the first meeting was with u.n.

secretary general ban ki-moon. >> the u.n. is wholeheartedly in this effort to see if we can advance not only a cease-fire but a sustainable process going forward, which is very important. >> kerry did say that there is progress in those talks. however, he would not elaborate further. he also med with mahmoud abbas and later today will meet with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. before that meeting he will have a private meeting with the family of max steinberg. steinberg is an american citizen and israeli soldier who died in gaza. his funeral took place early this morning in jerusalem. now, meanwhile, we are waiting for the faa to make a decision on whether airliners, american airliners will be providing service to tel aviv. delta has already said that it will suspend service for another day. that means at least until thursday, tomorrow, because of safety concerns. the european airlines seem to be doing the same. air france, lufthansa, air

berlin all suspending their service until further notice. there was a rocket attack near the tel aviv airport yesterday that caused many carriers to suspend service to that area, but we are waiting for the faa to make a decision. that is expected shortly. we'll be watching it here from the live desk. a chicago-bound southwest airlines flight made an emergency landing just after leave bwi. the crew spotted smoke in the cargo area, apparently. all 54 people onboard forced to jump off the plane using the emergency slide. this happened in columbus, ohio, around midnight. no one was hurt. southwest is trying to figure out where exactly that smoke was coming from and if there was a fire in the cargo hold, what started it. right now the costa concordia making its final voyage. this comes more than two and a half years after it ran aground and capsized off the coast. 32 people died in january of 2012. now 14 vessels are towing that ship to the port of genoa in

northern italy. once there, it will be broken up for scraps. later today, lawmakers will discuss your legal rights on your next cruise. a senate committee will hear the cruise passenger protection act. this bill addresses a number of incidents that could happen on a cruise ship, including sexual assault, unsafe conditions and medical care. victims of various cruise ship cases are expected to testify today. we brought you the breaking news yesterday that a d.c. court had delivered another blow to president obama's affordable care act. mark murray's nbc senior political editor joins us to look at when the legal battle over this law will finally be over. mark, good morning to you. >> good morning, aaron. >> w is actually in question in this latest ruling? >> it has to do with the subsidies that people get, the targeted low income and middle income americans. the d.c. circuit court of appeals ruled that people who get their subsidies on state-based exchanges, like you see in d.c. and maryland, would get the subsidies, but if you get one on the federal

exchanges, states that decided not to set up their own like virginia did, you want to get subsidies. it's important to know in the very same day just a couple of hours later the fourth circuit court ended up ruling 3-0 and upheld all subsidies for state-based exchanges and federal exchanges. but again, this creates all this kind of uncertainty and will just move to the next legal process. >> which would be the supreme court at some point? >> first it would be to the full d.c. circuit. so it was a 2-1 panel that struck against these subsidies. now the administration would appeal to the full d.c. circuit. there are more democratic appointed judges than republican ones and many people feel like it would be upheld. and then the question is does that then go to the supreme court after that, but aaron, we're not going to find out for another couple of years or so. all the meanwhile people are getting these subsidies and that makes it hard tore take away from both legally and politically. >> do you get the impression this is a political issue or really a bona fide legal issue

where they'll have to get through the language and see what the law actually says? >> it's hard to look at all the decisions that were made. the judges that upheld the subsidies for both state and federal were democratic appointed judges. the republicans -- the judges that were again it were republican. yeah, this is very political. it seems like when it comes to the legal matters where all of a sudden these judges and justices aren't necessarily donning robes, they're putting on their political r & d labels and i think that's what's happening now. >> i want to turn to the unaccompanied minors at the southern border. congress has two weeks before their summer break. yesterday democrats came up with a plan to help with this crisis with unaccompanied minors coming across the border. any way that funding is going to happen before this two-week break happens? >> it doesn't look positive right now. democrats came up with their own legislation, $2.7 billion according to kasie hunt. the white house wants $3.7 billion. maybe you can split the

difference. the problem is in the house of representatives. they say the president needs to act on this 2008 law regarding children and minors who come from central america. until they deal with that, they're not going to provide any funding. i think that's the impasse right now. and again we only have two weeks to go. two weeks. sometimes congress can't act that quickly so i think that's why so many are pessimistic. >> thanks, mark, appreciate it. for more from mark and the nbc news political team, check out first read on nbcnews.com. pro temptetesters are targe maryland congresswoman who wants to change the marijuana law. andy harris wants to strip funding from the law that removes criminal penalties for having small apoints of potn the district. the group d.c. vote says he is interfering with d.c. politics. they want residents to complain to his office on thursday about city issues, potholes, building permits, parking tickets, anything. harris has said decriminalizing marijuana hurts children. turn now to storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell.

he's joining us to talk about the forecast and the possibility of some storms this afternoon. >> looking absolutely like we're going to have at least some thunderstorms around. fortunately, most of the energy is up to our north so it's a bigger severe risk across pennsylvania, new york and new england than it is down here. nonetheless, it's going to be so hot outside today that that does indeed offer additional energy for thunderstorm formation, so we've gone ahead and made it a weather alert day here at channel 4. that means additional coverage online at our website and also right here on air. we'll have a couple of extra cut-ins during the course of the afternoon to keep you posted on things. outside for now, it's just hazy sunshine out there and it's awfully humid as well. temperatures have climbed into the mid-80s. 86 at national airport. the dew point 72, humidity 63%. another planeload of folks coming down for an on-time arrival hopefully at reagan national airport. heat indexes will be up near 100

for the middle and later parts of the afternoon. chance of some damaging winds with some of these isolated thunderstorms this afternoon. the timing looks like between 5:00 and 11:00, arriving first out across parts of northern maryland. there's a higher threat to the north side of our viewing area, so northern maryland, southern pennsylvania, a higher risk than down across places like fredericksburg and southern maryland. go ahead and download our storm team 4 weather app from the google play store or itunes store. it is absolutely free and we keep our forecast updated all the time on there. it's a good way to see what the inner thinkings are of what we think will happen this afternoon. the weather impact today will be moderate. heat and humidity is a moderate impact for sure and then thunderstorms one or two which could come strong or severe later this this afternoon or this evening. the cold air is still back across western parts of pennsylvania and eastern ohio. a little low pressure out ahead of it is generating a couple of thundershowers along the virginia/west virginia border. no severe weather here. but these will continue off to the east and will be impacting

interstate 81 south of the winchester area over the next couple of hours. if they were to hold together, there's still about two or three hours away from i-95 and metro d.c. i don't think those will hang on too much longer before they fade back out. as the front comes in later on today, that will be enough of a forcing mechanism to change things over to a thunderstorm threat. currently 86 now in frederick, maryland, 85 in fredericksburg, virginia. the remainder of the afternoon, heat and humidity. storms beginning to fire up north and west of the metro. west of d.c. by 5:00 with temperatures in the low to mid-90s. here's the rain chance progression. 4:00 to 9:00 through the metro and 7:00 to 10:00 p.m. through parts of southern maryland. so it's a progression with time during the course of the day. so showers and storms gradually coming to an end by 10:00, 11:00 this evening. that's welcome news. here's our future weather forecast. 2:00 not much going on. 3:30, that first line of showers starting to get going there. by 5:30, 6:00, chances for rain

in the metro, but i think our best chance for rain here in d.c. will be between 6:00 and 8:00 this evening. seven-day forecast time, everybody. this is the one-day shot of intense heat and humidity. we get cooler air back in here tomorrow. plenty of clouds on your thursday and a scattering of rain chances as well. highs tomorrow only in the low 80s so that will feel nice indeed. friday and saturday, the first half are your weekend look great, sunshine. temperatures just about average. a little chance for rain late sunday. it's not going to bother anybody's picnics, i don't believe. and then another push of real cool air looks to be on tap for the middle of next week. get ready for that one. >> thank you, chuck. a trend worrying doctors. what teenagers are doing to get bigger and stronger. plus the wild claims rapper snoop dogg is making about his last visit to the white house. first, though, a look at what's hot on nbcwashington.com.

welcome back. it is time for the redskins to get back to work. players report to training camp in richmond today. the actual camp starts tomorrow. if you're headed down, here's what you can expect. practice starts at 8:35 tomorrow morning and there will be a walk-through around 4:00 p.m. that's all open to the public, admission is free, but you have to pay for parking. if you're not going down, you can stay with news4. diana is in richmond and she'll have live reports starting this afternoon. singer adele just won a victory over paparazzi harassing her family, according to her, adele and her partner sued a u.k. photo agency for taking pictures of her 2-year-old son's milestone moments. lawyers for her son accepted a five-figure sum to settle the privacy case. the agency also agreed not to use the figures again. adele helped fund a campaign in california resulting in stricter harassment laws against the paparazzi.

this next story is pretty unbelievable. snoop dogg claims that he smoked pot inside the white house. he made the comment on his double g news network show. he told his guest, jimmy kimmel, that he lit up while lighting up the bathroom on a recent visit. while there's no way to know this is true, we do know that he stopped by the white house in december. he was to perform at the kennedy center honors. we hear a lot about problems associated with getting too late sleep. now there are new guidelines being released on how much is too much sleep. plus, what caused a massive banner to fall from the sky and the danger it just missed. and we are just minutes from an update on our weather. we're watching some big issues today and the heat and risk of storms.

i'm jim handly on the news4 live desk. right now capitol police are questioning a man who was

apprehended at the cannon office building for the second time in a week. they have stopped another gun from entering a capitol hill office. this happened shortly after 9:20 this morning. they detected a weapon on a man going through the administrative screening process. the northeast door of canon was closed for about 25 minutes today. it has since been reopened now. two officers escorted a man wearing a suit, not a staffer, from the cannon office building. he's being questioned. they loaded him into a waiting police van. he did not respond to questions on the way in. another incident happened last week, a capitol hill aide pleaded not guilty to carrying a pistol to capitol hill. we'll have more on the story coming up throughout the afternoon. from the live desk, i'm jim handly. right now the mother of a d.c. police officer on trial for attempted murder is expected to testify. samson lawrence is accused of trying to kill his wife.

he attacked her in their home last november. the 17-year-old daughter already testified. her 911 call was also played in court. she told the operator my father is beating my mother. i need you to come now. if convicted, lawrence could face life in prison. a new york city man who died after a controversial arrest will be laid to rest tonight. al sharpton is scheduled to speak at the funeral for eric garner. you probably remember the cell phone video. garner is in the gray shirt here. a police officer is accused of putting garner in a chokehold while trying to handcuff the man. that officer was stripped of his badge and gun. four ems workers who responded have also been suspended for not performing cpr after garner lost consciousness. also a virginia man will learn his prison sentence for the death of a teenage girl. randy taylor was convicted of killing alexis murphy even though the 17-year-old's body was never found. murphy was last seen at a gas station almost a year ago. detectives said surveillance

video showed her car following taylor's truck. her car was found abandoned several days later. sentencing is 3:30 this afternoon. beretta says it could take three months before it moves out of prince george's county. they blame strict maryland gun laws for its decision to relocate to tennessee. a bill last year would have made it illegal for the gun maker to operate in maryland. that legislation was later changed but beretta does not want to take chances on it being reen stayed. the governor says the gun lentiling passed is keeping schools safe. take a look right here. a huge geico insurance banner fell onto this house in the san francisco area. a pilot was towing that 4,000 square foot banner when it broke loose from the plane on friday. sara clark was inside her house

when this sglapdhappened. >> i thought at first maybe it was a parachute o hot air balloon. >> now, there was some concern about power lines in that area. sara says if the banner landed one electrical pole over it would have taken out a transformer. it didn't do any damage to the power lines there. parents, take a look at your tv screen here. if your child uses this crib, stop using it. it's made by a new york company. the consumer product safety commission says the slats and top rail can detach and trap your child. 14,000 were sold at specialist stores across the country. they usually went for about $800. you can contact the company for a repair kit. we have all the information you need on nbcwashington.com. just search crib recall. the number of teens who have experimented with human growth hormone has doubled in the past year. 11% of students surveyed said that they used hgh at least once in 2013. that's up 5% from 2012. experts say teens may be using

it to improve appearance or boost athletic performance, but they don't realize the health risk involved. the partnership for drug-free kids conducted the study. you could consider more sleep more of a want rather than a need. until now research suggested eight hours was a healthy amount of rest at night, but there's a new study that changes that. nbc chief medical editor dr. nancy snyderman shows us why. >> reporter: every morning tens of millions of americans wake up feeling less than refreshed after a night of shut-eye. but it turns out that when it comes to catching zs, less just might be more. recent studies suggest that sleeping seven hours, not eight, is the sweet spot for sweet dreams. one city shows that brain function is at its highest after seven hours of sleep before starting to decline. another study finds that people who sleep between 6 1/2 and 7 1/2 hours per night have a lower mortality rate than those

with more or less sleep, suggesting that too much sleep may even be bad for you. >> here's the secret. wh is perfect for you.eep is no more, no less. it's very unique to you. >> whatever your magic number, experts agree that skimping on a full night's sleep, even by 20 minutes, impairs performance and memory and can negatively affect your health and cause weigh gain. >> despite being fully aware that sleep is important, most of us are still not able to get to that magic number that's just right for us. >> now, sleep experts say the only way you can really know how much sleep to get is to do your own study and monitor your sleep habits. to do that best, dr. snyderman suggests unplugging, no e-mails before bed and try to remove the television from your bedroom altogether. this is a storm team 4 weather alert day. we want to check in again with chuck bell for the latest on our forecast today.

>> hey, aaron. once again looking for hazy sunshine out there. for now scanning the skies with our network of cameras around here, looking southbound there's the washington monument, the jefferson memorial. hazy day outside today for sure and it's plenty warm as well. prince george's county, the capital wheel right there, the woodrow wilson bridge, the sky looks a little bluer looking off to the north there. it's indeed going to be a very hot day to be outside. the camera has gone dark on me temporarily. sorry about that. showers moving on on the west virginia/virginia border here. the cold front that will spark off the next round of showers is still back across parts of western pennsylvania. so the potential is there anyway for gusty wind today. some damaging wind gusts are possible with some of these isolated thunderstorms. temperatures are already in the mid to upper 80s. head indexes are already in the low 90s. afternoon highs today low and

mid-90s. good news is cooler weather arrives tomorrow. your beach forecast and your seven-day coming up in a few more minutes, aaron. >> all right, chuck. thanks. it's going to take a little more work for your kids to graduate from maryland public high schools. the school board voted to use new tests tied to the common core curriculum. these tests are not to be more difficult than the state's current high school assessments. the exams will be phased in starting with this year's freshman and sophomore classes. some educators feel the change should have been held off a few more years until the common core was more well established. virginia is backing off of its plan to take over struggling public schools. a proposal included jefferson school. the governor pushed for the state board to take over that and other poor performing schools. a judge ruled it unconstitutional. virginia's current governor says he will not appeal that ruling, saying local school boards have the primary responsibility of educating children. more students are expected to attend stafford county public

schools and one community is recommending they build another high school. the committee recommended a sixth high school be built in the southern end of the county next to the westlake development project off u.s. 17. the committee found current plans to expand student capacity at its schools will not keep up with the county's expected growth. we are counting down to the opening of the new silver line. a lot of people looking forward to ditching their cars and taking a train instead. northern virginia bureau reporter david culver took a ride with one commuter to see just how bad her commute is and how the silver line just might help. >> reporter: if only nadia's daily commute from d.c. to tyson's was this easy. >> i made it. >> reporter: but nadia's trek to tyson's from her home in northwest took more than an hour. we timed it. her route brings her over the key bridge onto 66 and then

route 7. nadia is used to seeing a lot of red. >> does this frustrate you or is it just part of what you're used to? >> i'm used to it. >> reporter: but that doesn't mean she's not eager for ear way. >> the thing is you can relax. i didn't care to do that. >> reporter: at first her drive all looked pretty smooth. >> might be lucky today. there's almost no traffic. >> reporter: but that quickly changed and we sat and sat. >> it gets frustrating with not really moving and you can stay at one place for like ten minutes. >> reporter: which is why come monday nadia wants her view to change from this to this. she's willing to test out the silver line. she tells me her commute will look like this. taking a bus, switching to the silver line. but back to our road trip. after 43 minutes, we finally made it onto route 7, getting

closer to nadia's workplace. >> finally. >> reporter: alas, she makes it to work. >> do you feel good when you've come to this point? >> yes, it does. >> only to know you have to work several more hours. >> exactly. >> now, the biggest question is will it save nadia and you time and money? we ran the numbers through gas buddy and metro's website and for nadia the silver line will cost about a dollar more than driving and save just a few minutes but all of us won't know for sure until the silver line opens. that happens on saturday. metro hasn't opened a new line for more than 20 years so it's going to be a busy week leading up to saturday's opening. we'll have you covered here on news4 and nbcwashington.com. if you work early in the morning or late at night, you may want to pay extra attention to this new story. there is a new seat belt that actually tells you when you're tired. the 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. the national highway traffic safety administration estimates that 100,000 crashes here in the u.s. are the direct result of driver fatigue every year. at least 1500 of those crashes result in deaths. despite the traffic, d.c. apparently is one of the happiest cities in the country or happiest areas, i should say. the district came in third behind the richmond petersburg area and hampton roads area in virginia. new yorkers are the unhappiest people in the country. people may be willing to endure less happiness in exchange for higher incomes or lower costs of living. the study is from a u.s. national bureau of economic research survey. well, hackers target customers of a popular ticket-buying website. coming up, the announcement expected today from stubhub. plus the d.c. region ranks the worst in the country for late mail service. the safety

a new report proves it is not just your neighborhood getting mail after dark. in fact d.c. and maryland suburbs rank the worst in the country for late mail. northern virginia also came in in the top five for late mail. the u.s. postal service inspector general did this report after the murder of a mailman in prince george's county last november. the postal service says it tries to get letter carriers offthe street before 5:00 p.m. it blames budget cuts for staff working longer hours. a hyattsville man used a popular website to rent out his home during the weekend. >> this is busted. that is blood. >> mike novak shot video of the damage after his first ever airbnb hosting experience. the online service lets people rent out rooms in their homes to temporary guests of the last friday, novak welcomed two guests before he left for vacation. the next day he got a call about a wild house party.

>> 100 people here, a major fight broke out in the backyard between multiple people. it broke through the neighbor's fence, went on in their backyard, people slept in all the rooms. i found like lingerie in the room. so i've been cleaning my house, febrezeing everything. >> he also had to clean up blood, cans, bottles from the front lawn. at one point neighbors saw a motorcycle zipping up and down a wheelchair ramp. among some of the items damaged were some of the owner's musical instruments. airbnb is working to reimburse novak. they working to permanently remove the individual who rented that space. later today the new york city police department will announce the arrest of cyber hackers. they got into more than 1,000 stubhub accounts last year and bought about $10 million of tickets. stubhub identified most of the accounts that were hacked and has already reissued refunds. the ticket seller says hackers never actually broke through its

security wall. they believe password information as taken from other websites or directly from personal computers and used to enter the stubhub accounts. l.a. clippers owner donald sterling making another attempt to keep his team. he filed a new lawsuit and named his estranged wife shelly along with the nba commissioner adam silver. the lawsuit says they committed fraud and violated corporate law by trying to sell the team to former microsoft ceo steve ballmer. there's another lawsuit making its way through probate court. a key reform of virginia's mental health system is not working as well as it should. 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 was created after gus deeds attacked his father, state senator creigh deeds, and then killed himself. gus deeds was denied access to a mental health facility because federal n't enough room. aviation administration will

announce whether it's lifting or extending a 24-hour ban on flights -- on u.s.-based airlines flying to israel. the flights were cancelled yesterday after a rocket fired from the gaza strip landed near tel aviv's airport. delta says it is continuing its ban today. we'll send out a push alert as soon as the faa makes an announcement. one lane of northbound 395 remains closed at seminary road. a box truck overturned just before 11:00 this morning. traffic is moving around that accident very slowly. amazon is getting ready to release its first smartphone, the fire. that will happen on friday. consumer reports has an early version of it and can tell you whether it's worth considering a switch. new this morning, eric ka gonzaz has the story. >> there's so much to watch. >> i've been on it nine years and never seen anything like it. >> reporter: in its commercial for the fire, amazon boasts that the phone comes with free amazon prime for a year, which includes some free da