"news 4 today" starts now. a deadly crash involving nascar driver tony stewart. a news conference just wrapped up. what we're learning about the confrontation that led to one man's death on the racetrack. >> a country worried about war watching closely military strikes in iraq. the new help headed to those forced to hide out on the top of a mountain. good morning, everyone. thanks for joining us. i'm angie goff. >> i'm david cull ver. a lot of headlines from overnight. a lot of headlines. we start with a dose of good news.

>> we hope so. i think chuck bell is in the weather center tweaking things around trying to rule out the chance of rain, right, chuck? >> i have it down to only about a 10% chance of a shower today. i would love to tell you not to worry at all. good news, we're not looking for severe weather. but there's the slimmest little chance at a shower today. i would not plan to cancel anything as a result of this tiny shower chance. outside we go, it's indeed a beautiful way to get your morning started. temperatures are in the upper 60s to near 70. it's 73 now at reagan national airport, but 66 in reston, 63 in manassas and there is a touch of light fog out there this morning. no rain on storm team 4 radar right now and 90% of us will be dry 90% of the day. that's welcome news for the second half of your weekend. generally clear skies, except patchy fog. by 9:00 a.m., 75 degrees. highs mid to upper 80s with more sunshine than yesterday in the lower rain chance. rain chances increasing soon. more on that in a few minutes.

>> thank you so much. new air strikes by the u.s. against islamic militants in the ongoing crisis in iraq. now this weekend, the u.s. dropped four more bombs on isis who military leaders say were firing on civilians taking shelter in the skin -- sinjar military range. the bombs destroyed multiple armored cars and truckses and the president made a statement yesterday this military action will be, quote, a long-term project, end quote, in iraq. those thousands of civilians are surviving on more air drops of food and water this morning. overnight british military members dropped aid on to the mountain. this is video of that drop. notice it parachuting out right there hours before u.s. planes made a similar delivery. about 40,000 people are stranded on mount sinjar. the united nations called on iraqi leaders to come together to bring the crisis to an end. we are going to be joined by

"meet the press" moderator david gregory in the next 30 mines to talk more about this militant group isis and the president's plans to deal with this threat. then you can watch complete coverage of the crisis in iraq later this morning on "meet the press" that begins at 10:30. we want to get to that breaking news this morning. a deadly crash involving a nascar driver. tony stewart hit another driver on a racetrack. this happened in upstate new york. the other driver died. in that race, the other driver's car spun out, he got out of his car and walked on to the track. that's when stewart's car hit him. >> he was visibly shaken by this incident and has promised his continuing cooperation in this investigation. >> the three-time champion stewart is being quesedy police, but they say this is not, it is not a criminal investigation. five people shot overnight in the district. we're working to find out more

information, but this is what we know right now. the shooting happened on n street southwest just before 2:00 in the morning. that's just one block over from nats park. two women and three men were shot. d.c. police say all five of the people were taken to the hospital. they are all alive. police are not releasing a possible motive. this morning we are learning new details about a deadly shooting we first brought to you yesterday. a 23-year-old man was shot and killed on warder street and quebec place in northwest d.c. police are looking for clues to find the gunman, but as news 4's darcy spencer explains, investigators are not just looking at the crime scene. >> reporter: the shooting happened near this intersection on warder street in northwest washington. a man who lives in the area tells me he heard more than a dozen shots. that witness says he heard shots fired from more than one gun. when itwas over a young man was dead. he's been identified as 23-year-old dondre dyer of northwest d.c. he'd been shot multiple times.

so far, police have not made an arrest in the murder, but they are making progress. on saturday afternoon, they executed a search warrant that was in the 700 block of rock creek church road near the shooting scene. detectives could be seen carrying evidence out of house. police sources confirm the search was connected to the murder of dondre dyer. d.c. police are offering up to $25,000 in reward money for help in solving this murder case. in northwest, darcy spencer, news 4. well, a montgomery county woman alive this morning thanks to the actions of some local firefighters. they rescued her from a burning townhome. take a look. this fire just gutted the house in silver spring. montgomery county fire said something on the stove sparked the flames around 8:30 last night. that fire did more than $100,000 worth of damage. firefighters will be back out there this morning checking smoke alarms, talking with neighbors about fire safety.

and food left unattended on the stove also sparked a hotel fire. this at the national harbor. prince george county fire say the fire broke out on the 11th floor of the wind ham hotel yesterday. the hotel sprinklers put out the flames and may sound obvious here, but firefighters want us to stress the dangers of cooking, especially if you're not paying attention. well, this morning, bracing for round two. the hurricane. headed towards hawaii. plus the damage done from the first round. chuck says the beginning of chuck says the beginning of the work week could be a

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. storm team 4 tracking hurricane julio this morning. the national weather service downgraded the system to a category 1 hurricane. that's the least powerful level. julio isn't expected to hit the hawaii islands but pass to the north of it.

people there still cleaning up off after tropical storm iselle hit friday. julio will bring rain and possible flooding to the big island but it's good news it's taken another path. >> you bet. >> and getting smaller. >> some of the lingering rains across the western path of the hawaiian chain are leftovers from iselle which completely fell apart. julio off the north coast of the island chain so that's not going to be much of a problem except for big waves which isn't as big of a problem in hawaii as around here because the north shore of hawaii where is people like to get the big waves. for us we don't need to worry about a big weather impact on your sunday. the weather will take it easy. skies cleared out last night into early this morning and as a result we have some pathy dense fog this morning. not a lot on our city camera view. inside the urban center temperatures are just warmer to keep the atmosphere from getting sat tur it rated. parts of suburban maryland fog

has become thick indeed. 73 right now at reagan national airport. not any breeze at all this morning. driving into the fog, don't forget to use your low beams and slow down a little bit because otherwise you may not be able to see what's in front of you. manassas, visibility under a mile. cull pepper half mile visibility. frederick, maryland, down to a third of a mile. real thick spots of fog out here, even winchester, only a mile and a half this morning and under a mile visibility in cumberland. take it easy out there on your way to sunday services. but radar shows fog yes, rain no. looks like we're going to be basically dry today. that east breeze that we had yesterday that cooked up those lonesome showers, they'll be even fewer showers today, but it's still not 100% dry forecast. rain chances for the week extremely low chances for rain today. but medium chance comes back into the picture for late monday. best chance for rain this week will be coming up on tuesday and

all that gets out of here for wednesday and the second half of the week is looking amazing. 73 in washington now, but look at this upper 50s towards the blue ridge and shenandoah valley. winchester, front royal, 59, luray, good morning to you, 57 degrees there. 68 in edgewater. here's our future forecast, all dry through the front half, 3:00, 4:00, literally one or two lonesome showers. it isn't necessarily going to rain right there, but that indicates there's enough moisture in the atmosphere when you add in the daytime heating we can't give you 100% dry. it's 95% -- we'll go 95% dry for everybody today. great viewing for the full moon which is the closest full moon of the year. clouds come back in by 5:00 tomorrow afternoon. and then rain chances come in on your tuesday. with all that here's your seven-day forecast. a nice day coming up today. mostly sunny. mid to upper 80s today. just a stray little shower

chance. i wouldn't worry about it. got to ask miss gof, did the butterfly party go off without a hitch yesterday. >> we had a stray shower that got all over the bubbles but the kids didn't care. >> i tweeted you the radar update at 2:00. >> any mom planning a big play date has no time to check the radar. thanks, chuck. up next "reporters notebook" a look at stories affecting our community. >> back in 15 minutes with more of your top stories. >> welcome to "reporters notebook." i'm pat lawson muse. we begin with work inside the mcdonnell mansion. at the corruption trial, a form top aide to the former first lady described work conditions as hellish. mary shay sutherland said the governor's wife screamed a lot, sometimes prompting intervention by the security detail and also testified that mcdonnell showed no romantic interest in johnny williams which the defense

claimed. the mcdonnells accused of accepting gifts and loans in exchange for help promoting his company. joe madison, what are your observations about the trial and the case the prosecution is making? >> not only did she say he was playmate, her favorite playmate. that suggests there might have been some other playmates that weren't as favored as this guy, but -- and that she was a nut bag. you know, this is -- i mean this could be reality tell vix. i don't even know why we would bother to try to script it any better. i'm still finding it interesting that the -- that most of the negativity is not on the governor, it's on the wife. it's almost that she could possibly go to jail, she could possibly be found guilty and he as a government official, depending on whether or not he's going to be tried on virginia law -- see what's at trial here

is that breaking federal law or are they breaking virginia law. because virginia law is rather lenient when it comes to certain gifts. >> michael, your impressions? >> i like the reality tv anal y analogy. i would w a lifetime movie of the week maybe. it's salacious, it's embarrassing, but it's still up in the air as to whether or not it's illegal. even if as you suggested it's possible that the former first lady ends up convicted and the governor isn't, that's not really a victory for the former governor. and so while this needs to continue to play out what we see at least to this point is, the impact of financial stress on a relationship and how that could potentially lead people to do that, which they might not otherwise do. >> lots of questions raised. the biggest was in a quid pro quo where is the pro kwo for the quiz? what was the quhe qwid? what can they prove that helped

the governor and his wife in seemingly erratic behavior certainly on the first lady's case and being a nut bag is not against the law. that's the personality trait. and so we're still wondering who really did what and what -- what did they do an when did they do it? >> dave is right. what did the businessman get out of this ? did he acquire any special favors, did he acquire contract? did he's choir anything of value? that has yet to be determined. >> will d.c. legalize pot? november? d.c. voters will decide whether to legalize possession of small amounts of marijuana. in a historic vote the board of elections approved a ballot initiative 71. it allows possession of up to 2 ounces plus a few plant in the privacy of your home. you won't be able to buy pot in a store. dave mcconnell, the cannibis

campaign, said it turned in three times as many signatures as it needed. what do you think of that response? >> well, it looks based on my reporting like they may well have enough signatures and that it will go to the ballot and based on, i don't know, gut, my gut, and, of course, my reporting and talking to people, there's a likely possibility it will be approved in this form. that doesn't mean it's the end of the story. we've already got andy harris, conservative eastern shore congressman, has decided that city laws on marijuana are too lenient, had he wants them rolled back, so there's always the possibility no matter what the citizens of the district do, as has happened so many times in the past, congress getting back through riders on appropriations bill prohibiting what the city can do through the ballot. >> polls show most residents support legalization. how do you think legalization here would resonate in the rest of the country? >> i think it would send an interesting message that nation's capital is a place where you can legally possess

marijuana and that makes d.c. different than colorado, for example. the stakes are actually higher. today's point, i think that helps explain why even if this proposition is passed, it may never see the light of day, particularly if the republicans take control of the senate or if the margin is close in such a way democrat senators who might otherwise be with the city end up going against the city on this issue. i think that we're far from seeing the end of this and i just want to make a quick point with regard to the petitions, petition signatures is an old trick in politics all over the country. you want to show a really strong hand by announcing you have way more than the necessary number of petitions. but we don't actually yet know how many of those petitions are legitimate and with the polling that's been talked about to this point, you know, i think that while the polling shows a substantial majority and support, it's quite likely this will pass but by much smaller

margins. >> the board of elections has certified enough signatures to put the issue on the ballot. joe madison, campaign issue, how big is this going to be? two mayoral candidates support legalization, one does not. >> it's going to be a big issue. i imagine it will be number two on the ballot quite honestly. the mayoral campaign and then this issue. if you've got 55,000 folk, and this is legitimate number, that's a lot of votes. these are people who are more than likely to turn out and vote particularly in a mayoral campaign. and i sort of equate this, even though i wasn't around at the time, to prohibition. remember, when we had prohibition and that washington, d.c., also faced prohibition, and we know that the presidents had their private stashes and then when prohibition ended, it ended in washington, d.c., too. so i think quite honestly, what's going to happen, washington, d.c., is going to get right in line with the rest of these cities and these

states, but dave is absolutely right, the one thing we have happening in this town is that we've got that congressional oversight that could change everything. >> and dave, there are a lot of people questioning whether legalized pot would generate enough jobs and revenue to make it worth -- >> the old argument, is it worth it, right, immoral, a health issue? there are lots of other negatives that can get into the voting and thinking. >> there's a bill sort of off market infrastructure for the transmission of marijuana and i don't know that that's going to be fully professionalized in a way that might make it worth it for the city. >> we have to take a break. when we come back, the petitions in for the mayor's race. stay with us. .

the petitions are in, david catania and carol schwartz say

they have secured enough signatures to secure their spots on the ballot. catania accuses mural bowser of refusing to debate. he wants one now. bowser says she's focusing on taking the campaign to the phones and front doors of voters. michael, how do you size up this race so far? >> very interesting. i think that carol schwartz's entry and this petition effort has spiced this thing up a bit. for those who don't know, there's some backstory between carol schwartz and david catania and the back story is such that it wouldn't be a surprise to anybody if her only reason for being in the race is to spoil things for david catania. >> she denies that. >> i know she denies that. i've denied a lot of things that weren't necessarily true. i don't think that's a big deal. i think that what we now have is something very interesting. david kattcatan in criticizing mural bowser for not debating

has effectively named her as the frontrunner. that's the kind of thing someone who is challenging the frontrunner will do. please debate me. you know, because i need you to legitimize my candidacy. that's one of the things i think is very interesting to note. and i will also say that he's asking her to debate but the reality is it's mid-august. no one is paying attention to debates in mid-august. let's get to this conversation in late september. >> do you agree with that? >> most of it, yeah. i think carol schwartz is a spoiler. no if, and or buts about it. she can't raise enough money to be competitive compared to the other two. you're absolutely right. most people are on vacation this time of year. this is, you know -- and you're -- you sound desperate. i want to debate you. and the reality is come after labor day the campaign will start in earnest and we'll have plenty of opportunities to see them debate. >> so you say that she's a spoiler but dave mcconnell, 6500

signatures she said she collected does that sound like she has some strength there. >> it might. she was a powerful force when they ran on the council. this is her fifth time running as mayor. she had a strong attraction to and relations with the african-american community. held in high esteem. never quite got there. why now? why is she running now is the question? she hasn't been on the scene for a while. nobody else -- no other situation has prompted this kind of response. the question has to be, why is she running now? but i just -- maybe i'm -- people are going to look at me and say what's he talking about. who would she -- who would she hurt more? would she hurt -- it's assumed she would hurt catania more, but could this -- is this really a good thing for muriel bowser? >> i think carol schwartz has provided a lot of substantial and good service to the city.

but i don't think there's any reason for her to be in the race other than to spoil things for david catania. >> because they were combatants before. that's a good point. >> where's jim mendelsohn when you need him. >> phil. >> i'm sorry. >> [ inaudible ] i was thinking. >> yes. >> street cars hit the streets last week operators started their training. 28 drivers will train for 30 hours. street car service is expected to begin in washington later this year. joe, what will these mean for the district's economy, for tourism, for businesses, local businesses and for the city's image? >> for eighth street, you know, it's really attractive, because you have now clubs, restaurants, up and down that h street corridor. just to go -- when i first moved here, i mean h street was wol. and most people, you know, it was ghetto, most folks didn't want to invest there. it has transformed into something most people didn't

think it would. now you've got this attraction, so people can now park at union station, they can -- they can take the bus or the metro, hop on a street car and bar hop, restaurant hop. it's a positive. >> michael, you and dave have lived here a long time. >> i think street cars add a certain panache and i think that's good. >> but? >> but if i'm a business owner along the u street corridor and 14th street corridor, georgetown, adams morgan, what about us? >> you should have gotten in line earlier. >> yeah. >> i just think that, you know, i think it's great sim botically. my fear, though, is with these bar hoppers, there's something in the back of my mind that fears, you know, an accident of some sort, somebody not really paying attention. street cars are new to the city and for a lot of people who don't know how to maneuver around street cars, could be a problem. >> dave, good for the city? >> you would have to weigh,

where they're doing it it has to be an advantage because it adds something, it gets them out of their cars while they're going up and down bar hopping. they get in a street car and go to the next bar. i mean if that's -- if that's something to think about. and they add something extra and they bring back something that the city once had that a lot of people say if given a chance could be used again. there are people that are of a certain age that remember the street cars fondly and they remember them as being nonpolluting. you got around fairly cheaply an, of course, maybe they would be more expensive now. they were a good way to get around. a lot of people think that the automobile industry and the motorized industry just contrived to get rid of them. >> uber is a good way to get around and back on the street in virginia. the private ride sharing company are on the road again. the state's dmv commissioner says as long as they can improve insurance, drivers get background checks, rate transparency they should be allowed to operate. >> operate not like a common carrier and something they

didn't necessarily want to do. they had a certain competitive advantage not to operate like a common carrier. now virginia is saying, nope, you're going to have to operate like taxis and other common carriers. >> are you on board with that, mike sml. >> yeah. listen, i've used uber. i think it's great. i respect and appreciate the concerns about competition with taxis. i don't want a competitive advantage based on sort of loopholes in the system so i'm fine with treating it like you treat taxis. i will tell you, i think it's better for there to be more of these kinds of operations. i'm glad lift is in the area to provide some competition but uber can be extraordinarily expensive if you get caught at the wrong time. >> competition is good. the more the merrier. if you look like a cab and drive like a cab you're a cab. >> all right. thanks guys, thank you for being with us. that's "reporters notebook." "news 4 today" continues.

"news 4 today" starts now. hey there, good morning. i'm angie goff. >> i'm david cullver. sunny skies to start. the question on this sunday, is the rain going to hold off? >> we start with your forecast from storm team 4's chuck bell. >> angie and david, good morning to both of you. and a very pleasant sunday morning to everyone out there in the news 4 nation. skies tried to clear out a bit late last night and as a result we've bubbled up some fog to deal with first thing on your sunday morning. here's the view from our reston town center camera looking back out, here's the control tower at dulles international airport. you can see the fog is really quite thick out there across parts of northern virginia and suburban maryland as well. take it easy on your way out to sunday services. 63 in gaithersburg, but 58 in warrenton, 64 in burke, virginia, 63 in brandywine,

maryland, 73 downtown. as a result of being warmer the visibility is better inside the beltway. your sunday starter, temperatures in the 60s now. it will be mid to upper 70s by 11:00 a.m. this morning and a very nice afrnoon coming our way. 90% dry today, but a spot shower can't be completely ruled out. highs today mid to upper 80s and a beautiful evening coming our way. good moon viewing for the super moon. more about that in a couple minutes. there's a new traffic alert if you drive through northern virginia. if you get off of the beltway at georgetown pike expect road work for the next few months. crews are repaving that road to spring veil road to great falls. you should think about using a different way to get home. the road won't be closed however. if you ride metro today, track work is even affecting sit ver line. no stations are closed. you can't take the silver line east beyond stadium armory. you have to use the blue line. the blue line trains running once every 24 minutes.

on the red line you could have a 16 minute wait. on this sunday morning one church in hyattsville practicing what they preach and forgiving a group of burglars. an associate pastor showed us the damage at the shiloh church of god seventh day. they ripped out the condenser that supply air conditioning to the chuh. looks like they were going after the copper which can be sold for cash. >> people are desperate and it doesn't matter whether it's a church or commercial property, people are going to come and do what they want to do. deviant behavior. >> some told us without the air conditioning it felt like it was 100 degrees inside the church. that's why you see a bunch of those fans set up just so they can get through the morning services. 74 people displaced by a fire in d.c. getting some help this morning. that fire happened just a few days ago on belmont street northwest. news 4's derrick ward tells us how the columbia heights community is coming together to help them find a new home. >> reporter: the last of the families displaced by the fire

leave on the next leg of a journey into ap uncertain future. more than 60 people from 16 apartments had to leave their homes. firefighters were the first responders but a second wave of help came from the community. >> as soon as the fire trucks pulled up we had neighbors coming out asking what they could do? >> reporter: briann, a belmont street neighbor running for the county ward 1 seat, politics took a back seat to humanity. the call went out for interpreters. >> do need help. >> reporter: sydney called on her spanish language lessons from her elementary school to traverse the language barrier. >> the first response is their eyes open up like what, you can speak spanish. >> reporter: residents were put up at the columbia heights recreation center first. the red cross and city agencies were there as well. the last of the displaced families have been moved to some hotels but the goal is to get them back into permanent housing so the work is far from over. >> we want to keep these

families together, we want to keep them close to the resource thfs' been access, their jobs and school. >> work has begun on repairs. >> it's going to be a lengthy process. i don't think people realize that this could take several months. >> reporter: but those reaching out for their neighbors in need see this as a time to get them back home. the vice chair commissioner says even though they're not in the building the resident neems need to form a tenants association. >> this is the best way for the people to come back to the building. >> it's been nice to help out. >> reporter: derrick ward, news 4. if you want to help those families the community is accepting donations. we tweeted out the link to the website where you can give money at nbcwashington.com. we also put the link on line for you on our website. just head to nbcwashington.com and all you have to search is columbia heights. good way to save money happening today. shop in maryland you want to hear this. as of this morning clothing is sales-tax free. the state tax holiday and covers

any clothing you buy under $100 and applies to bridal gowns and shoes. the holiday is a week long so you can take advantage of the savings until saturday. around midnight it will come to an end. maryland comptroller peter franchot does not want your kids to go back to school until after labor day. according to the "washington post" he plans to launch a petition on the matter next week. he says the after labor day start would be good for the maryland economy and for the state's families. local school boards aren't too excited about that idea. they say it would not give teachers enough time to prepare for state mandated testing. the naacp asking the fbi to investigate the death of a missouri teenager shot by police. the st. louis chapter says the fbi will ensure there's a transparent investigation. >> 18-year-old michael brown's death. the shooting happened yesterday afternoon. police are not saying what led up to that shooting. only that the 18-year-old was shot by an officer. brown's mother wants answers.

>> they told me how many times my son was shot. eight. you're not god. you don't decide when you going to take somebody from her. if that was the case. i brought him here, i should have took him from here. that was mine. >> she said her son graduated from high school and looking forward to starting college next week. she's supposed to deliver the mail, but an ohio postal worker is in some trouble this morning for what she's doing right there. did you see that? lifting the garbage can, throwing it out. someone caught it on their cell phone. the woman appears to be carrying a white crate to the dumpster, tosses all the undelivered mail into that trash. >> what? >> she goes back to her car and throws more mail away. the letter carrier under investigation. the mail was eventually collected, delivered. people living in the area say they knew something was wrong because they hadn't been getting their mail for several days. >> wow. this is just a three-hour drive north but it's not getting the attention like it did in the

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new for you this morning, palestinian negotiators say israel has abandoned peace talks that would have ended the fighting between israel and gaza. israeli negotiators left cairo, egypt, two days ago. if they don't return today then the talks are over. israel says they will not send representatives back to the table until gaza stops firing rockets. shifting gears to iraq right now, developments in iraq, only adding to the number of foreign policy changes. isis continues to make progress in that country. >> that's right. it's aiming for the largest christian city and forcing thousands of folks to flee their homes and go up to a mountain

top. david, "meet the press" moderator, joining us now. the president yesterday, we heard him speak, he came out and talked previous briefly about a time line. we have a clip we want to play right now. >> we're not moving our embassy any time soon, we're not moving our consulate any time soon. that means given the challenging security eb virmts we're going to maintain vigilance and ensure our people are safe. the important timetable i'm focused on is the iraqi government getting formed and finalized. >> all right. we also heard him talk about assuring americans there's not going to be another war in iraq as far as sending troops and the question as we have these air strikes, is war inevitable? >> certainly we are in war, if we're dropping bombs and protecting the kurdish people of iraq and the city minority as

well. what the president has engaged in is to try to re-engage the government to try to secure u.s.s assets and personnel in our embassy and to really, you know, make good on the incredible sacrifice that america has made in iraq. the real difficulty right now is that isis is a true threat, not just to the iraqi government, but to that entire region and as it kind of gathers, like a forest fire, gathering strength, gathering fighters. it has a real threat to the entire region and a more sweeping threat that the president recognizes has to be dealt with. >> that lead mess to my next question then, what if we are unsuccessful? yesterday the president stood there, seemed very confident at least right now they can prevent this from happening, them attacking and the ability to give humanitarian aid. but on the flip side, he did mention that there was an underestimation when it came to the threat of isis. >> he's been very clear he doesn't think that america can

solve this problem, that it has to be iraq's government that is unified enough to have a coherent military strategy within iraq to fight isis, that it cannot be america coming in and doing it. the president said we didn't come in earlier because we don't want to just solve the problems for this government, which america really doesn't like. i mean this is so complicated because you a real security threat, but a real political problem in iraq for america and the region that america does not want to solve. not even with more additional troops. >> we shift gears to politics back home. republicans talking about impeachment. yesterday marked the 40th anniversary of richard nixon's impeachment. i guess the question is going to be, this anything to these? >> we're going to have a conversation about why this has gained so much currency in this election season, how both republicans and democrats are using it and what it says about the state of our politics that it's not just about the partisan divide and how polarized that is, it is going to another level to delegitimize a president and

we've seen it before. we saw attempts against president bush and, of course, successful attempt against president clinton. this becomes state of our politics which is not just disagreement but pushing it to this level. >> all right. david gregory, moderator of "meet the press" thanks for joining us. you can see "meet the press" with david sunday on nbc 4 right after "news 4 today." if you are thinking about betting big with a night at atlantic city the town might not be the way you remembered it. nbc's harry smith tells us how the city is struggling and what it's doing to reinvent itself. >> reporter: strolling down atlantic city's boardwalk on a summer's day, tourists stop for saltwater taffy. nearby, kids play in the surf. donald johnson knows there's something wrong, he works 16 hour days and has done so for seven years. >> the tourists here for obvious reasons, casinos popping up all over the country. >> reporter: three of the city's dozen casinos will be closed by

this fall. a fourth is in trouble looking for a buyer. at stake more than 8,000 jobs. in office just six months, mayor don guardian knows the city rode its bet on gambling far too long. >> how hard a hit is your town taking right now? >> it'sicing a very hard hit. this is a town where all our eggs were in one basket. >> reporter: gambling was legalized in atlantic city in 1976. it was supposed to be the ante dote to decades of decline. >> overnight there's going to be gold in the streets. >> reporter: like the good old days lured by sea breezes and novelties of the boardwalk atlantic city reached its peak of popularity during prohibition, an era of decadence captured in "boardwalk empire." >> take it easy, fella. >> but all of that was a distant memory by the time the casinos arrived. even as the gleaming towers rose, some neighborhoods still

struggled. there were a lot of streets that gambling gold didn't reach and once again, people here, like club owner eric millstein, worry. >> every day, you're nervous. you worry about the lack of employment that you read about. you worry about the casinos being closed and how it's going to negatively affect your business or if you're even next. >> reporter: the mayor says his town is already reinventing itself you as it has in the past. it won't be easy. it never has been. harry smith, nbc news, atlantic city. and some of those out-of-work employees could soon be in our area. with the new mgm resort opening at national harbor lots of casino jobs and revenue happening here. maryland live casino went to new jersey to discover some new employees. >> so you might need some sunglasses if you're looking out your window tonight or in this case moon glasses. the last super moon for a year. going to be hanging over our area. looks bigger and brighter than

at any other time, because it's closer to the earth. if you're interested, the best time to catch this is going to be when the sun sets around 8:00 tonight. >> and this is going to coincide with a meteor shower coming our way on tuesday. >> [ inaudible ]. >> okay. >> it's true. we're going through the per see asconstellation, we get the perseid meteor shower. 8:00 will be the perfect time because not only the sun going down, the moon rises at 7:56 this evening. about 8:00, just as the moon comes over the horizon it always appears much bigger when it's rising and setting because you have the perspective of the horizon to compare it to. it always looks bigger. >> they say the next one is not until september of 2015. >> the earth and moon sort of do this on the course of the year, get closer and farther apart. this is the moon's closest approach to earth. the next time it's this close will be next september. it will be starting to move away. it's about 25,000 miles closer now than it was six months ago.

yeah. you'll notice it. it will be about 10 to 15% larger and 30% brighter. speaking of bright objects in the sky, hark to the east. there it is, the sun. it's up this morning. sparkling sunshine off the potomac river this morning. couldn't see it a couple minutes ago because of the clouds and fog out there, so this is an improving weather picture for sure. it's going to be a nice day to be outside today. 73 now at reagan national airport. still not any wind blowing out there and there are some foggy spots to be dealing with first thing this morning. so your view out the windshield may be a bit reduced. slow down a little bit. use the low beams. here's the current visibility. here's the current picture for national harbor now. our city camera is on this side of the river looking east. this is on the east side of the river looking back off to the north. there's the george washington ma sonic temple right there in old town alexandria. beautiful day outside. zero visibility now in winchester, virginia. half mile visibility in martingsburg. a third of a mile for visibility

in frederick and manassas. zero visibility in culpepper now. locally thick fog across northern virginia and parts of suburban maryland. warmer inside the city we have relatively good visibilities. once the fog is burned away we will be left with sunshine today and the uv index is back up into the high range. burn time, 15 minutes or less. don't forget your spf on your way outside today. a much lower rain chance than yesterday. most of us didn't see rain yesterday. had a couple showers here in town. manassas got rained on, fairfax did. not everybody got rained on yesterday and even fewer folks will have to worry about rain this afternoon. currently it's a nice morning. cool, though, in a few spots. shenandoah valley, upper 50s. andrews air force base 63 degrees. our future weather forecast. fog burns away. full sunshine by late this -- into late morning today and tons of sunshine into the afternoon. so much so that we may be able

to bubble up one or two more stray showers. it's certainly not much of a rain chance. it's 10% or less on the rain chances for today. just don't be completely surprised. you won't be able to say to yourself he told me no chance. i'm telling you there's a tiny chance for a little rain today, but i wouldn't worry about it at all. dry for tonight. skies will be clearing out after the sun goes down this evening and off to a dry start tomorrow morning and then a little chance for rain coming our way as we head into monday afternoon late and most of the rain chances this week will be coming up on tuesday. so today, partly to mostly sunny, a stray shower is a possibility, but not a likelihood. rain chances come back tomorrow but probably after dinner time tomorrow. rainiest day of the week will be tuesday. and may have lingering rain drops into breakfast time on wednesday, but wednesday afternoon and wednesday night will be dry and our summer with one nice break from the heat and humidity after another that trend will continue, everybody. wednesday afternoon, thursday, friday, saturday, amazing

weather returns. it's our coolest summer since 2009. and i'm loving it. >> wow. >> i was confused looking at the seven day thinking this is august. no 90s. >> what everybody is talking about, how nice everything has felt. >> send your thank you money to me. >> what's your e-mail. >> we will etake a cut as well. >> sure. >> thanks. no secret not every child is too excited to head back to school. >> one washington wizard decided to add some incentive to getting ready for back to school. john wahl, his foundation teamed up with the boys and girls club to give 250 local kid news backpacks chock full of school supplies. >> the main thing my mom taught me if you don't do schoolwork you can't play basketball. that's one thing i want to instill in these kids, education before anything. >> wahl says he hopes to make the backpack give away an annual event. the kids will like that too. the redskins coach is showing his players how it's

done. done. >> see how he showed off h

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good sunday morning, everyone. the redskins back on the practice field and in a little bit down in richmond and one player will no doubt have a smile on his face. defensive end jason hatcher who started training camp on the physically unable to perform list recovering from knee surgery back on the field and hoping to get up to full speed. >> my explosion is kind of one of the things i have to work through. getting 300 pound human being laying on me and see how i respond from there. so it's one of those things i have it to work through. that's why they're progressing me along so next week i'll get game reps like i said and get to have a human being laying on me and see the response from there. >> jay gruden may be in the trainer's room.

he decided to play a little corner back on saturday. the head coach couldn't catch up to receiver santana moss but against andre robert hess planted bump and run coverage signaling the incomplete pass and moss who had gruden's number all day long talked about his coach's coverage skills. >> i had to act on the db did they like it or not. when you're a receive you just have to try to get the job done. when the coach in front of you, you want to make sure you don't hurt the coach. do what you got to do without hurting coach. >> get out the ice packs. that's a look at your sports. hope your sunday is a good one. >> in baseball news the nationals ended last night's game only hours ago. fans in atlanta were treated to rain delay of nearly four hours before the game began. both teams struggled to score and it went into extra innings. the nats finally put up runs in the 11th and the game ended at about 2:30 a.m. >> a streak of long games this

weekend. this time the boston red sox and los angeles angels played a game, listen to this, more than six and a half hours. it wasn't over until after midnight on the west coast. 3:30 our time. the teams finally done. the game went into the 19th inning. the longest game the nates have played with 16 innings which happened earlier this year. if you're wondering, looking at that red sox game, right there, the angels actually won 5-4. they had a walk-off home run for all five people that were left. >> wow. and the people in the stands, that's what you call die hard. >> threat dedication. >> wait it out and did for ththat nats game earlier as well. >> we have much more news four ahead. >> in a few hours a major effort by volunteers at the national mall, the special tribute happening there today that you may want to join in and lep out. stay with us.

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"news 4 today" starts now. new this morning, a deadly crash involving nascar driver tony stewart. what we're learning about the confrontation that led to one man's death on a racetrack. >> worries of war. closely watching military air

strikes in iraq this morning. the latest efforts to keep militants back and new forms of aid examining to those forced to hide out on the top of a mountain. on this sunday morning as we just hit 7:00, good morning, i'm david cullver. >> i'm angie goff. >> we want to start in the storm team 4 weather center with meteorologist chuck bell. >> good morning angie and david. sunday off to a nice, quiet start today. rain chances are lower today than they were yesterday, so the second half of your weekend is looking even better than the first half. outside, early this morning, here's one of our nearby neighbors in northwest d.c. the national cathedral, early morning rays of sun light bouncing off the northeast facing of the building there. it's a beautiful day to be outside. little more fog across parts of northern virginia, the view over dulles international airport. temperatures, 72 downtown but most of the suburbs outside the beltway are in the low to mid 60s early this morning. annapolis at 70 degrees, and 63

in huntington. bit of fog around first thing this morning. sunshine later this afternoon, still a chance of a stray shower or two. highs mid to upper 80s. tomorrow sunshine to start but showers by late tomorrow, more about that and the rainy tuesday coming up. see you in a few more minutes. >> thanks, chuck. new air strikes by the u.s. against islamic militants in the ongoing crisis in iraq. nbc's dan shennaman tells us how the military action could last a long time. >> reporter: for a second day u.s. war planes and a predator drone launched air strikes against rebel fighters in northern iraq. >> so far these strikes have successfully destroyed arms and equipment that terrorists could have used against ir beya. >> reporter: med at protecting tens of thousands of yazidi refugees forced to flee the fighting and surrounded by militants in the sinjar range. >> american aircraft are positioned to strike around the mountain to help forces in iraq break the siege and rescue those

who are trapped there. >> reporter: part of the mission, delivering tons of food and thousands of gallons of water to the starving refugees. but analysts say these strikes may not be enough to beat back isis fighters who since january have taken over a wide swath of iraq and syria and recently launched attacks against neighboring countries. >> fundamentally this is not going to change the tide in iraq. it will take much more on the part of the iraqis and likely the u.s. to do that and push isis back. >> reporter: president obama insists that more will not include u.s. troops on the ground. >> ultimately, only iraqis can ensure the security and stability of iraq. the united states can't do it for them. but we can and will be partners in that effort. >> reporter: and an effort that some fear may turn a limited air campaign into a long-term military commitment. dan shennaman, nbc news. and overnight, new supplies of food and water were dropped to the yazidi civilians. take a look at this brand new

video we got. it's a british military member making a drop there. just hours before u.s. planes made a similar delivery. about 40,000 people are stranded on mount sinjar and overnight the united nations called on iraqi leaders to come together to bring the crisis to an end. we are going to be joined by "meet the press" moderator david gregory in the 10:00 a.m. hour to talk more about the president's plans in iraq. then watch complete coverage of the crisis later this morning on "meet the press." it begins at 10:30 after "news 4 today." at 7:03, new this morning, five people shot overnight in the district at this hour, we're working to gather more details for you but here's what we know right now. the shooting on n street southwest just before 2:00 this morning. two women and three men were shot. d.c. police say all five of t people we ketohe hospit they are a ave police are noreasg possible motive. a $25,000 reward offered for details about a deadly shooting

we brought you yesterday morning. 23-year-old dondre dyer was shot and killed on warder street and quebec place in d.c. police looking for clues to find the gunman here. they did serve a search warrant yesterday on rock creek church road. police hauled off evidence from the home and sources tell news 4 that search was connected to the murder. no suspect has been arrested. new from overnight, a deadly crash involving a popular nascar driver. police are questioning three-time champion tony stewart after he hit another driver and killed him. this happened on a dirt racetrack in new york. the other driver's car spun out and then he got out of his car and walked on to the track. and that is when stewart's car hit him and threw him 50 feet. >> he was visibly shaken by this by this incident and has promised his continuing coornn is statn.

>> and as of right now, stewart is still scheduled to race in nascar's sprint cup today. a stove caught fire in a montgomery county home and destroyed it. take a look. the fire gutted the house in silver spring. montgomery county fire said the fire started around 8:30 last fight. the woman who lives there was rescued by firefighters. that fire did more than $100,000 worth of damage. firefighters are going to be back out there this morning checking smoke alarms and talking fire safety with several neighbors there. cooking also led to a hotel fire. this at the national harbor. prince george county fire say the fire broke out on the 11th floor of the wyndham hotel on merry mam passage. the hotel sprinklers put out the flames. firefighters want to remind you cooking can be dangerous if you're not paying attention. they say fires do not take vacations so always practice that fire safety no matter where you are. later this morning a new memorial will be constructed on the national mall. the living wall of honor will

pay tribute to post-9/11 veterans. the wall will be made up of more than 1,000 different colored flowers and you will be able to see it at the world war ii memorial. construction set to begin at 9:00. hundreds of volunteers will help build it and then after today, the wall of honor will move and you will be able to see it at arlington national cemetery. right now inspectors are trying to figure out how this happened. a building's roof just collapsed. what one neighbor heard before the destruction. overworked and underpaid. how one group hopes to get some improvement on their jobs. starting today. ñoñí

starting today your taxi driver in montgomery county will be part of a union. drivers say they work as many as 16 hours a day and are paid less than minimum wage.

they're losing business to ride sharing companies. companies like uber and lift. today about 1,000 drivers will announce their affiliation with the national taxi workers allowance. careful, how you drive on the beltway today. extra police are on the highway in both maryland and virginia. troopers will be looking out for aggressive and reckless drivers and for all of you who text from behind the wheel. this is part of the multistate safety campaign called drive to stay alive. >> this morning crews in d.c. are trying to figure out what caused a building's roof to collapse. fortunately no one was hurt in the building collapse on tenth street and it had been vacant for years. the roof and part of the wall came crashing down. there's some of the crews looking into it. firefighters evacuated the buildings on either side just to be safe. >>nd and what they told us this morning, there were gentlemen working and five minutes later after this started working the

building collapsed. >> close call for them. neighbors tell news 4 the building has been empty ten years. they say it is a mag nat for drug use and squatters. neighbors say they've made calls to have something done about the building before the collapse. >> in hawaii a big mess as the islands prepare of round two of tropical weather. the emotional toll the storms have having on one family as they try to help out their neighbors. >> luckily julio will stay north of the hawaiian island chain. fuse for us, more sunshine today than yesterday. we may be off to a soggy start some time soon. which day to be looking out f

storm team 4 is tracking hurricane julio this morning. the national weather service has downgraded julio to a category 1 hurricane. now that's the least powerful level. julio isn't expected to actually hit the hawaii islands but pass to the north. jacob rascon reports how people in the state are cleaning up after tropical storm iselle. >> reporter: the community of puna on the big island copes with the worst damagep. volunteer firefighter was out helping neighbors when he realized his own family was in danger. >> responding to different calls but leaving your family is one of the -- hardest things ever.

>> reporter: his fiancee laura and their 3-year-old daughter took shelter in the laundry room until shawn got home. the family got out just before two trees came crashing down on to the roof. the next day, the neighborhood united here. >> one, two, three, go everybody. >> what motivates you to come out and help? >> we just got to help our neighbors. that's all. it's just taking care of one another. >> reporter: across the state, cleanup efforts on a smaller scale. most of hawaii suffered only minimal damage. more than a foot of rain and wind gusts up to 66 miles per hour pummeled the big island. hundreds of trees and power poles blocked major roadways. other debris fell on to cars homes. the state's worst storm in two decades now behind them, people in this community now preparing for months of rebuilding. >> jake rascon and storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell joining

us. we see the damage that's going on there and the cleanup that's happening, but julio expected to come through. is that going to cause even more damage? >> luckily no. they're still dealing with rain in hawaii but remnants of isle which went into the western part of the island chain and came to a stop. hurricane julio will stay off the north side of the island chain so that is welcomed news. the only real impact they're going to have is the surf will remain very, very high on the north facing sides of the hawaiian islands. good news for our friends and neighbors in our island state of hawaii. outside it's going to be a nice day, indeed. here comes another plane load of folks down the potomac making the right turn ahead of the 14th street bridge. hope it' me arrival for everybody there. what a fine day in washington today. bright sunshine is burning away, a little bit of a fog we had out there early this morning. there goes the plane, another one. look at that one right there. scary looking bug.

our sunrise this morning. get off of that. things scaring me. 72 at national airport. winds remain calm and there is some really thick fog across virginia and maryland this morning. the view from our tower camera. rays of sunshine getting through. bouncing off the glass buildings here in downtown rosslin. but see there, still an awful lot of lingering fogginess this morning. keep that in mind. here's your current visibilities. nine miles visibility at national airport where you saw the pictures from. three miles in gaithersburg, zero visibility in martingsburg this morning, two miles in winchester a third of a mile from culpepper to manassas be on the lookout for a little thick fog first thing. no rain out there this morning. we're off to a 100% dry start. and i think we'll be 95% dry through the remainder of the day today. so much sunshine and daytime heating with the moisture, the fog you see out there this morning, even when the fog disappears, that moisture remains in the atmosphere. and when you heat it back um

with some strong august sunshine, i can't completely rule out a quick little hit and miss five-minute long shower today. rain chanceses today are extremely low, under 20%. tomorrow, 30% chance for rain coming our way late in the day but the rainiest day of the week by far will be tuesday. rain pulls out of here early on wednesday. out the door temperatures this morning, 66 in hagerstown, 50s across much of the shenandoah valley, to the west of the blue ridge. 66 in leesburg, 64 in virginia. 64 in clinton and rosariville in prince george county. your sunday afternoon planner, plenty of sunshine. we'll pick up more clouds after 3:00, or 4:00. best chances are going to be about 4:00 and 6:00. wouldn't worry too much about it. 8:00 -- 7:56 when the full moon rises today. that's the time you will want to take the pictures of it as it rises off the horizon. our super moon, the closest full moon of the year. not much of a rain chance today

until mid to late afternoon, even so that is a inlow rain chance indeed. seven-day forecast time. indeed, everybody, some nice weather for the week ahead. some showers on tuesday to help clear the gunkiness and the pollen and stuff out of the air. we always need a little rain too because we've been relatively dry with some of the last couple weeks. once the rain drops pull out by wednesday breakfast time, wednesday afternoon through the rest of the week, amazing august weather returns. >> yeah. we just have to get through that tuesday. >> that's all right. always rain on tuesday. no one minds that. >> all right. thanks, chuck. smoky bear's iconic message is all over twitter today. >> as he celebrated his 70th birthday this weekend he became a social media hit. nbc's halle jackson showed us how he stayed relevant all a these years ♪ spemoky the bear ♪ >> reporter: spanning generations but through it all his message has remained the

same. ♪ because everybody knows that he's the fire prevention bear ♪ >> reporter: he's adapt his message to a medium on-line. to selfies and bear hug hash tags, smoky seems more approachable. >> just as he went from print and radio to television, he's now moving on-line because he has to be where the audience is. >> reporter: it all began in 1944. >> hello there, folks. this is smoky. >> reporter: smoky named after new york firefighter smoky joe martin who was hurt during a 1922 fire rescue. there was an actual smoky bear in 1950, a bear survived a wildfire by climbing a tree, becoming the smoky mascot. over the years with more and more wildfires, the campaign widened its focus. almost all of us know that slogan andhis face, right, smoky? the ad council says 96% of americans recognize smoky bear. because most wildfires are started by people like the one

at this forest almost five years ago, smoky's handlers are not letting up on his crucial campaign. western states are dealing with the worst wildfire season in decades. while lightning and severe drought sometimes contributes statistics show humans are to blame for nine out of ten wildfires. halle jackson, nbc news, los angeles. >> birthday cake and all. >> i know. he has what, 24,000 followers on facebook. >> yeah. on twitter i think, 300,000 on facebook. >> 300,000. >> he has his own zip code too. >> yeah. >> pretty impressive. >> still got it after all these years. >> texting and walking, have you tried it. i think i've seen everyone try this. it's not as easy as it sounds. >> it can be dangerous for one particular group. we're going to tell you who you should be reminding to put down the phone before they cause an accident. >> and a big traffic alert. the eight mile stretch of construction that might slow you down. plus, how long you're going to plus, how long you're going to have to deal with

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this is something most of us do every day, texting and walking. but a new study shows that having your eyes on your phone can be a deadly distraction. >> that's right. nbc takes a look at the first of its kind study and the results may surprise you. >> reporter: we've probably all done it. >> i ran into a car. a parked car. while i was looking at my phone.

>> reporter: this high school senior laughs about it now, but a new study shows walking while distracted can be dangerous, even deadly. safe kids worldwide conducted its first study on how teenagers cross the road. it followed 34,000 kids ages 16 and under and discovered teenagers are more likely to be hit by cars while distracted than any other demographic they studied in the past. >> we talked to so many young kids about safety, look left right left, but as kids get older we worry about other things and don't talk about walking to and from school. >> reporter: even with bright neon signs and designated areas if your student has their nose in their phone, they'll react slower and not see what could be coming right for them. >> never know what's going to be in front of you. seems like teenagers especially, they're so unaware of their surroundings. >> reporter: the study showed one in eight middle schoolers admitted to being distracted walking and texting.

worse one in five high schoolers. a majority of them said no. >> i always think that i'm not going to get hit, i'm not going to hit somebody, nothing is going to happen to me. it could. >> reporter: the study found teens were just as distracted by wearing headphones as they were by texting. >> just don't -- it's not important. it can wait. >> nbc reporting. i was driving yesterday and a guy jumped in the street and i was forced to get around him. >> it's not just a matter of being hit by a car. hospital workers estimate 10% of the emergencies have to deal with a cell phone and think that number could be higher because people are too embarrassed to admit that they were texting and walking when they got hurt. >> dangerous, obviously. we showed it there. maryland parents your child's school calendar could be changing. the new push to get all kids in this region to go back to school

after labor day. >> and new this morning, the scare for passengers that forced them to evacuate a plane. >> and no, your eyes aren't fooling you. a little bit foggy out there right now. pretty foggy out there. chuck is back to tell us when it will burn off and how warm is

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good morning, everybody. i'm storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell. your sunday morning off to a beautiful start. there is a lot of fogs

especially across the western suburbs in northern virginia this morning. if you're headed out for early sunday services, manassas, bristow, the plains, virginia, watch out for thick fog this morning and parts of northern maryland this morning. prince george county over the river towards alexandria, virginia, the capital beltway and woodrow wilson bridge, there is sunshine this morning. it's going to burn this fog away fairly quickly. be ready for a nice improvement. current temperatures mid 60s in the suburbs. 72 downtown. 74 in annapolis. your hometown forecast, charles county, maryland, current temperatures in the mid 60s. 69 at 8:00 this morning, 85 for a high today around 2:00 this afternoon and 77 degrees just as the sun is going down around 8:00 this evening. see you in a few more minutes and talk more about the increasing rain chances as the new work week gets started. see you in a few minutes. two reports in the last 30 minutes say nine people may have survived a plane crash in iran.

this happened near tehran. the country's capital shortly before 1:00 in the morning our time. investigators say the plane's engine shut down while in the air and at least 40 people, including seven children, died. an engine problem on another plane grounded it before it could take off. passengers should be in new york today after they were rushed off their jetblue flight headed that way. the plane's engine caught fire and the pilot stopped the plane before it could leave the airport in puerto rico last night. firefighters quickly put out the fire. three people were hurt in the evacuation. new traffic alert if you lynch in northern virginia. a live look. here's the beltway at georgetown people. expect road work the next few months. crews are repaving over an eight mile stretch to spring veil road in great falls. vdot says you should think about using a different way to get home. the road will not be closed.

if you ride metro track work affecting the silver line. no stations are closed but you can't take the silver line beyond the stadium armory. you have to use the blue line. the blue line trains running once every 24 minutes. on the red line you could have to wait 16 minutes. >> it's going to be a hot morning service for one church in hyattsville. burglars stole parts from their air conditioning unit. the pastor tells news 4 they aren't mad at the thieves. >> this is our cage. where we hold all of our air conditioning units. >> reporter: associate pastor daniel ray shows us the damage. >> came in and methodically dismantled four units. >> reporter: these condenser units supply air conditioning to the sanctuary at shiloh church of god seventh day in hyattsville. and about how hot did it feel in here? >> at least a good 90 or close to about 100 degrees in here. >> reporter: pastor ray says the

thieves climbed the cage and ripped out the units. >> it was well planned, well executed. >> reporter: they weigh hundreds of pounds apiece. >> the fence is bent a little bit. it could have been a rope or something they used to pull up. i'm not sure. >> reporter: pastor ray believes the thievers were after the copper inside the condenser units. >> people are desperate and doesn't matter whether it's a church or commercial property. people are going to do what they want to do, just deviant behavior. >> reporter: the morning service did go on with the help of handheld and oscillating fans. >> the service was very hot, but we did have a good service. it's something we had to endure but we did it. >> reporter: and while parishioners suffered through the service, pastor ray says he's thankful no one was hurt. the units can be res placed. here's his message to the thieves. >> that's what we want to let everybody know, we forgive you, whoever you are, we forgive you.

>> reporter: darcy spencer, "news 4 today." dozens of d.c. families are in hotels after a fire destroyed their homes. the fire gutted their apartment building at 14th and belmont streets that's in northwest. this happened thursday. today the columbia heights neighborhood is coming together to help find them a new place to call home. many are raising money, some literally lending their voices. >> so my dad said, you know, these people, they need interpreters to come and help the people who, you know, can't understand. so he brought me up here. it's been really nice to help out. >> could be months before crews can repair that building. if you want to help out and donate, angie and i tweeted out a link you can use or head to nbcwashington.com and search columbia heights. the naacp is asking the fbi to investigate the death of a missouri teenager shot by police. the st. louis chapter says the fbi will ensure there's a

transparent investigation into 18-year-old michael brown's death. the shooting happened yesterday afternoon. police are not saying what led up to the incident, only that the 18-year-old was shot by an officer. brown's mother wants answers. >> they told me how many times my son was shot. eight. you're not god. you don't just going to take somebody from her. if that was the case i brought him here, i should have took him from here. that was mine. that belonged to me. >> brown's mother said her son just graduated from high school and was looking forward to starting college next week. this is video you just to see to believe. an ohio postal worker in a lot of trouble for doing what you see right there. mail, she just opened the garbage can, dumped it out. someone caught it on their cell phone. the woman carries a white crate to the dumpster, tosses the undelivered mail away. she goes back to her car and then throws more mail away. the letter carrier now under investigation. the mail we can tell you was eventually collected and

delivered. folks living in that area knew something was wrong because they hadn't been getting their mail for several days. >> unreal. maryland comptroller peter francho doesn't want your kids to go back to school until after labor day. he plans to launch a petition on the matter next week. he says the after labor start would be good for both the economies and family. >> local school boards are not crazy about that idea. >> they aren't. they say it wouldn't give teachers enough time to prepare for state mandated testing. a good way to save money happening today. if you shop in maryland, listen up. as of this morning, clothing there is sales tax free. it's the state's tax holiday and covers any clothing you buy under $100. that applies to things like bright bridal gowns and shoes. it's a week long so you can take advantage of the savings until this coming saturday night. this morning an important message for those of you who drive a volkswagen.

the recall information to pass along that may prevent you from a costly accident later. >> how your cell phone could help save you money and the next time you head to the grocery store it's going to come in handy. chuck is tracking the potential for a very rainy day in your upcoming work week. we will have the full seven-day forecast when we

the cost of buying groceries continues to rise but there are still ways to stretch your dollar. >> news 4 consumer reporter erika gonzalez is here with how viewers are saving while they shop. >> reporter: we're talkab rebates, not coupons this time. we heard from many of you on facebook and twitter who use apps to get cash back when you shop. all of the apps are free to download on apple and android smartphones. you have to create an account on these apps to get the money back. now let's show you an example,

for instance. carol wrote to us on facebook uses an app called checkout 51 to save, cash back on salad mix to cleaning products. the way this functions is once you've got $20 in your account you can cash out and check out 51 the app will mail you a check. jesse in winchester uses an app called shop kick. collect points called kicks that will earn you a gift card. and you can get a gift card, jesse uses her kicks for gift cards to star bucks. tiffany in manassas uses an app called ibotta and unlocks rebate offers by taking a vare or watching a video. after you earn $5 you can transfer money and that app to a gift card or into your paypal account if you have one of those. for more information on these different apps and other ways to

save head over to our website, nbcwashington.com and search rebate apps. >> all right. erika gonzalez with some great tips there. technology not just helping you in the grocery store. up next, we're going to show you how it's changing the way you shop for clothes. >> we want to head over and check in with you, chuck. >> i appreciate that. checked in. i feel like we're on -- what do you check in, facebook. the facebook. i love the facebook. fog outside first thing this morning. the sunshine doing its best t burn it away. going to be a nice finish to your weekend. what about the work week whwithout the internet i would probably be like a c student. internet essentials from comcast has brought low-cost internet access to over one million low-income people at home. internet essentials is going to transform the lives of families. together with time warner cable we can bring the internet to millions more. i see myself as maybe an entrepreneur. comcast and time warner cable. together is better for more people.

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hi, welcome back. the "today" show is next. we want to find out what they're working on. >> head up to new york where erika and lester are standing by. good morning, guys. >> good morning to you guys. just ahead on a sunday morning on "today" we're following the breaking news overnight of a deadly car racing accident involving nascar driver tony stewart. police say he was behind the wheel of a car that hit and killed another man. the latest on that investigation. >> there have been more u.s. strikes against isis militants in northern iraq as the president prepares americans for a lengthy mission there. we'll look at what the u.s. hopes to accomplish. >> plus, an amazing comeback for a boxer who was diagnosed with a rare cancer three years ago, told at one point he might never box again, he is now defying the odds and adding a new title. we'll share his story. >> staying in shape when you're

in your 70s an beyond. a group of older women who are young at heart thanks to one dedicated man. >> those stories and much more when we get started on a sunday morning here on "today." >> i see video like that and feel guilty. if they're doing it we should be able to do it too. >> get out there, angie. >> let's go to the gym. >> come up with friday and workout with jenna. >> aren't you like a spin master, erika? >> i do a fair amount. >> all right. i'll call you next time i'm up there. thanks, guys. volkswagen of america recalling more than 150,000 cars. >> there's more than one problem going on with volkswagen cars. they are being recalled because theyan stall unexpectedly. gas bubbles in the fuel pumps cause the cars to shut off. raen to minivans being recalled. too many items on your key change can cause the switch to move or shut off. if that happens it can disable the air bags, power steering and

power braking. retail shopping has changed in 50 years, but experts say that's nothing compared to the changes that are coming in the next decade. nbc's courtney reagan has a look now at what shopping in the future will look like. >> the future of retail is now in the making. manhattan studios, silicon valley startups and retail labs that look like any old store but are smarter. >> physical retail is the temple for your brand. it will feel like your digital retail experience. >> if i'm a shopper and i've got this dress i'm interested in this dress, i can come over to the screen over here and the screen will pick it up and know what i've got in front of it. you can pick your size and if you've logged in add it to your fitting room. you're creating a shopping cart like on-line. >> reporter: the intersection of on-line information, physical product and personalization from data analytics will redefine the retail experience. by opting in, retailers will know who we are, what we like

and how we buy as soon as we step inside. >> as i move my feet it creates artwork on the screen. >> reporter: and personalization will be paramount like customizing a pair of converse for every shopper in the store. >> the store knows who you are when you come in. they can promote to you individually based on your buying preferences, based on your history, on what they think you'll react to each individual promotion. >> reporter: smart store fronts that sense what sports teams you like and display the team jersey to prompt a purchase. digital halos around every product that tell a story where it comes from, how it was made, and peer reviews of its performance. powered by your personal preferences and particulars, smart shelves will protect you. >> that intelligent shelf understands your daughter has a nut allergy which is dangerous. imagine every single product in the store that has nuts in it, peanuts in it or was made in a factory that had it go dark.

>> reporter: through these experiences the consumer will be in control. >> i don't think it's a world where you're going to walk in and a robot is going to hand you the shirt that you browsed on-line. there's going to be people that do want that human-to-human interaction. i think the difference is, they'll actually be able to order it on demand whenever they want it. their way. >> not only that but they can show up and eventually you order your pants and the printer will spit them out. >> print denim? >> hey, they're printing pancakes and people are eating them. >> really? >> oh, yeah. alaska airlines is doing that right now. yeah. >> the jeans are nothing. >> i will have to get on that internet and see what it's all about. >> edible pants will be another story. we'll see. >> fair enough. >> all my time on the computer is spent fighting with the weather forecast. that's it. i don't do a lot of the shopping. you try to get me onont royal r

sorry, 61 in winchester an front royal, luray at 59 degrees, 62 down at the uva campus. 71 now at the naval academy. 73 degrees in college park. going to give everybody their equal shot out. plan on sunshine today. we will see more clouds coming in by 3:00, 4:00, 5:00 between about 3:00 and 5:00 a chance of a spot shower or two. highs today mid to upper 80s. i don't think many neighborhoods have a shot at 90 but we'll be close for sure. only 16, 90 degree days this year. our lowest count in five years. our future weather forecast, the reason i have 95% dry. here's the 5% right there. a little lonesome shower can't be ruled out today, primarily west of i-95. yesterday the rain was along i-95 into southern maryland. for tomorrow a dry start tomorrow morning and clouds come back tomorrow afternoon. rain chances are back late tomorrow evening and then thro pbably

extras. >> no mr. and mrs. underwood. >> i know. that's still neat. when you see it on the big screen it's right there. >> i just saw "american beauty" on the tv the other day. >> and "usual suspects". >> that's it for "news 4 today." we are going to be back in 25 minutes with not only more news but weather. >> that's true. >> join us again at 9:00. >> no weather i'm going home. >> chuck is going to stand by. until then have great day, everyone.