california right now. that earthquake sits on the franklin fault which has been dormant for more than 1 million years. >> we haven't heard how those folks got hurt but the story is still developing and we'll continue to follow the latest developments. go to nbcwashington.com for updates all throughout the day. >> that's right. right now, in the district h street northeast is shut down for this. a drill. crews can practice what to do in the event of an emergency on new d.c. streetcars. >> derrick ward is live there right now to tell us how this can help you. derrick, good morning. >> good morning. we're live here again in the 1200 block of h street. you can see h street is almost clear, almost as if it never happened. it never really did in a live sense. the trolley is out of here but see that car over there, that was part of the disaster drill. here is the scenario. the streetcar eastbound on h street and a car pulls out in front of it, gets t-boned and

there are injuries. they got the manny can out of the car for a mock rescue and had to get passengers off and deal with that thing. this is about practicing for the inevitable but something they hope never happens. we heart from a d-dot official this is also a time for people to think about these street cars being on the street not only if they are a driver but a pedestrian or regular motorist as well. >> the biggest thing that we can tell people is to just pay attention and not be distracted. you can't dart out. they can't stop on a dime, they can't move out of traffic. that's a lot of steel coming at you. we want people to be aware of their surroundings. >> now this drill is just about over. they will be reopening the 100 block of h street between 12th and 13th. again rest assured once these streetcars get running at least the first responders will have a whole new skillset that's needed

to deal with this new part of our infrastructure. live in northeast, derrick ward, back to you. >> thanks. >> adam, you're our transportation reporter you cover all over the dmv. the big question about this is, when are we going to get on these streetcars. >> that is the million dollar question and everything that d-dot officials told us it's going to happen before the end of this year. 2012, 2013, 2014, we're told by the end of the year the streetcar will be running on h street. >> you've been pressing them but they will not give us a hard deadline. >> they've set dates before and got burned. they're saying by the end of the year. >> okay. chuck is our expert in the storm team 4 weather center. let's get an update on our -- how our sunday is shaping up. where is the sun? >> the sun is outside of our windows here in northwest already. there are still clouds in our sky but more and more sunshine coming your way as you go through the remainder of your

morning and into your afternoon. temperatures are also warming up quickly. the place that i'm keeping the closest eye on for cloud cover is back to the west across the ston area. still a lot of clouds out here and that could be the place that sees the biggest sunshine challenge for later on today as that cool, damp marine layer comes in and banks against the front range of the blue ridge mountains. temperatures moving into the low and mid 70s right now. runners impact for today, did my miles yesterday, dog and i did nine miles in the drizzle yesterday afternoon. if you waited until today, good decision. much better running weather today but temperatures up near 80. you will need to stay hydrated. dog and i went through two bottles of water yesterday. clouds slow to budge for today out to the wegs of town but big time summer 90 degree weather is coming back soon and keeping the latest on tropical storm cristobal in the western atlantic. more on all that with your seven-day forecast coming up. >> thanks, chuck. taking a look at the week

ahead, tomorrow family and friends will say a final good-bye to the 18-year-old shot missouri man and -- who was shot and killed by police. president barack obama is sending three white house leaders to michael brown's funeral. reverend al sharpton will deliver the eulogy and the service will happen at the friendly valley temple church in st. louis. this weekend, brown's former high school classes remembered him on the football field. >> they held a moment of silence. nbc was there. as the vikings take to the field for their first game this season, many of them carry heavy hearts. >> it's not a body out here thinking about michael. >> reporter: more than winning a championship. >> pretty good. the guys are resilient. they'll be fine. >> reporter: they want to win for former classmate michael brown. eight days after graduating on august 1st he was shot and killed. >> michael was a student here. out of the respect for him and the family we decided to do

something. >> reporter: at saturday's game the entire stadium paused for a moment of violence. >> for our former high school graduate, michael brown. >> reporter: this first week of school has been full of distractions for the community and coaches want to make sure their student athletes get off to a good start and stay focused. >> football really sets a tone of the school. so get back into the swing of things. allow us to get back to normal. >> reporter: these teenagers will do so without ever forgetting their classmate. >> i know him as walking these halls and not bothering nobody. that's the michael i'm going to remember and believe he's up there looking down on us. >> marhisa goldsmith reporting. the naacp will join community members and hold a prayer vigil for the family of michael brown and city of ferguson. it will happen at the montgomery county office building on

maryland avenue in rockville. slow down in those school zones. watch out for kids crossing the street and getting off school busses in maryland and in the district. several school systems in our region start school this week. >> on tuesday you can try your luck at baltimore's horseshoe casino. now the casino features a first in the state outdoor gaming area for smokers. celebrity chefs like guy fee jiri and aaron sanchez will open their new restaurants. the casino opens tuesday at 9:00 p.m. >> on friday, expect heavy traffic if you're hitting the road for the three-day labor day weekend. aaa predicts more than 34 million people will travel. that's the most in the past six years. aaa says gas prices should remain low for the busy weekend. >> this morning a new record

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in that thursday game. >> a navy s.e.a.l. from prince george's county killed in action will forever be remembered at his high school in hyattsville. generations of students can now learn about lieutenant brendan loony and his heroism. the school named its convocation center after him. brendan was one of the nine navy s.e.a.l.s. who died in 2010 when their helicopter crashed in afghanistan. lieutenant loony graduated in 1999. nine other students have become navy s.e.a.l.s. >> 10:10. coming up, some schools in d.c. have a new look ahead of the first day of school tomorrow. meet the young volunteers who helped spruce it up. >> and now to chuck. >> that's right. putting the finishing touches on the bus stop forecast for tomorrow morning. i'll let you know whether you need an umbrella and mama molette will

new developments this week from the terrorist group isis. tuesday it released a horrific video of the execution of american journalist james foley. now isis threatens to kill another journalist if the u.s. does not end air strikes. now the threat is putting lots of pressure on the obama administration. >> yeah. chris jansing is the nbc senior white house correspondent and

she's hosting "meet the press" this morning and joins us now with more perspective on what needs to happen, what the u.s. is planning. air strikes in syria possibly. what -- >> that's a key question, right. >> it is. >> one of the ones we're going to be talking about seriously on "meet the press." the question is whether or not where we are now, which is in iraq, needs to be expanded particularly in light of the brutal murder of james foley. there are problems with that, obviously. there's concerns about civilian casualties, concerns about our intelligence on the ground. do we have enough information to make those strikes particularly effective. we do know there is a whole range of options on the desk of the president. he has difficult decisions to make. >> he had a busy week and somebody we want to talk ability who's been in the news, senator rand paul from kentucky, had an interesting kind of week. >> yeah. >> guatemala performing surgery and there's talk more about his presidential ambitions. >> it's way you've never seen him before even though four years ago he was elected to the

senate he was an eye surgeon. that is what he did. he has for about 20 years now done this kind of pro bono work. this is the first time he's gone to a foreign country and it's the first time he brought along a couple camera crews that included a camera crew from the ad company that did his political ads four years ago. also included a conservative group's camera crew shooting a documentary. so you couldn't go down there and see sort of this juxtaposition of both the humanitarian which was very real, blind people who now see, but also the clearly the political and all the signs pointing to a 2016 run. >> we will keep watching what he does. switching now to ferguson, missouri. we've all been watching this story develop and now we're going to be preparing to cover the funeral of michael brown as the grand jury continues to hear evidence on a weekly basis. >> yeah. we're going to talk to the reverend al sharpton on "meet the press." he's going to be delivering the eulogy at the funeral which is

tomorrow. but also there's a new development from the president late yesterday looking at a review of the militarization of local police and you know a lot of concerns were raised when we saw legal police in camouflage, in heavily armored vehicles pointing in some cases heavy weapons that had come from the pentagon program. is that appropriate. even if they decide it is, are the police properly trained? not just how to use the equipment but when to use it. under what circumstances. >> this is not new. they've been doing this for decades, the pentagon and local police, this relationship. >> we've seen an escalation of this and certainly when you see it in the context of a situation like this. >> yeah. >> it really ratchets up the questions that are raised and so there's a lot of pressure to take a look at this policy. we should say, though, that for the most part the defense department defends it. >> going to be a great show. can't wait for "meet the press." >> thank you. >> thanks for coming in. you can see "meet the press" every sunday right here on nbc

4. right after "news 4 today." students in prince george's county public schools head back to class on tuesday. now school leaders will allow your children to use mobile phones tablets and e-readers. students will use tablets and other electronic devices for learning purposes as determined by your student cool principal. prior to that change students had to turn off all of their electronic devices in class. >> students go back to school tomorrow. the campuses look prettier. volunteers spread out to spruce up more than 100 schools across the district. in southwest, we found volunteers of all ages planting flowers outside am ma din bow when elementary school. >> to make the school clean for the first day of school on monday. >> this is d.c.'s tenth annual beautification day. >> the first thing we're going

to hand out an award for is the young scientist finalist. someone who is much smarter than i am. >> who let that guy on stage. lots of you in montgomery county were out yesterday to go back to school. only a small part of the huge montgomery county back to school fair. in spite of the rain thousands of families showed up to learn about resources for your kids and have fun, of course. that was a great event to be a part of yesterday. a little dreary but the kids got to play with the horses, people dancing, health fair, getting ready for kids to go back to school and a couple kids i asked, didn't seem too thrilled to be getting up bright and early tomorrow morning but your atelling us the week will be okay weather wise. >> i think so. i got to do the back to school fair last year, 95 degrees and sweltering, so i'm not sure -- >> no complaints. >> about the weather. >> looked like the crowds were just as good yesterday and great to go back to school tomorrow.

we're going to determine what you should wear in a moment because i already know that my neighbor is a mom and she says it's sweater weather and we'll find out. outside, what a fine looking morning outside this morning. the columbia island marina just on the other side of the potomac from washington, d.c. abraham lincoln memorial viewable way up there in the upper left-hand side of your screen. not sure which one of those boats is inviting me out but i'll check my twitter feed @chuck bell 4 if your boat has a seat left. winds out of the east at 12 miles per hour and that east to northeast wind will clear our skies out. but it may take a little while because that mure rich marine layer going westbound daytime heating gets the ground warm uphill into the blue ridge. you folks in the blue ridge may be a little bit sunshine challenged for much of the day. otherwise, where the sun is breaking out it's warming up quickly. 75 in washington, 72 with full sunshine in edgewater, maryland,

70 frederick, 70 in martingsburg, west virginia. hour by hour, h street corridor, sunny day, full sunshine according to our computer model by 1:00. high temperature on h street around 80 degrees around 4:30 this afternoon. going out it to dinner a lot of great restaurants on 8 street as well. 76 degrees. good evening to get your table ready to go. bed time tonight 71 degrees at 11:00 and starting off tomorrow morning sun up just after 6:30 in the morning, even downtown temperatures will be in the mid 60s. some of our cooler suburbs may be back into the 50s and then a great first day coming. good weather for baseball this afternoon. hopefully good weather for another nationals win. mild, no chance for rain at the baseball game today. the only lone exception would be central and southern shenandoah valley where there's the slightest chance of a sprinkle or two today. i don't think it's worth canceling any plans at all as on the wholes the weather picture is getting better. bus stop time skies will be

clear, a mild and humid, umbrellas not needed at all for tomorrow morning. so temperatures upper 50s in the suburbs to low 60s in town. you can be the judge. what i used to do, run in place, that will get you warm. tropical storm cristobal need to keep a close eye on this. a minimal tropical storm now with winds at 45 miles per hour. sustained winds. but the trajectory of this storm over the next couple days the official forecast you can see here plotted from the national hurricane center, keeps it well off the coast of florida, but the east coast of north carolina jets a good ways out. by wednesday, thursday time frame hopefully that will be making the all-important right turn and leaving us alone for labor day weekend. before that storm gets here it's going to be a nice, very summer like week around here. if you've got summer vacation still left this week it's going to be a good week for it. headed to the beach, perfect beach weather all week long. >> good. >> good. >> thanks, chuck. >> there you have it. >> and then keep it right here

for press pass this morning after "meet the press." today's guest is paul butler former federal prosecutor now a professor for georgetown university law center. we'll get his prospective on the situation in ferguson. see "press pass" at 11:30 here on nb

everybody needs to go home,

those words from a black man who lives in ferguson, missouri. not referring to his fellow towns folk. he meant the many others, the many who never even heard of ferguson before last week. the many who lately have emerged at night kind of like bats to flutter around, throw a molotov cocktail, confront a cop or two and holler no justice no peace and ask for directions to the nearest 7-eleven. the black man who wants those guys gone has lived in ferguson, he is devastated by what happened to michael brown and he is deeply saddened by the racial disconnect that has plagued his town. that man's sister told me about him, she lives here in the d.c. area but says her family has been in ferguson for a century. 100 years ago the races were separated in ferguson and 100 years later they still are. she told me one of the things that troubles her ten years ago, she actually conducted diversity training sessions for the

ferguson police department. she said there were three black officers on the force back then. ten years later that number hasn't changed. what also hurts her is the lack of political activity on the part of the majority black population in ferguson. no sense of political urgency she said. but a woeful sense of complacency. now it does seem to an outsider looking forward and backward, that complacency, that disinclination towards political engagement is a huge problem in ferguson and elsewhere. the grand jury decision on the cop who killed michael brown, whatever it is, will probably be met with anger and disappointment by one faction or the other and may once again be expressed in the streets. but, that's not where they're going to find solutions there. solutions will be worked out in church basements, living rooms, government offices, not by protesters, but by progressive politicians, preachers, housewives and handymen.

good people who are willing to organize prioritize, strategize, good people who recognize the value of marching and protesting, but who realize the greater good that comes from mapping and planning. those are the folks that should be welcomed in ferguson these days. like the man said, all the others need to go home. >> nothing else to say after that. right? >> says go home we leave the building. >> that's it for "news 4 today." "meet the press" is coming up next. >> wake up with us at monday morning we begin at 4:26 a.m. until then have a great sunday.

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next on "meet the press." today president obama returns from vacation to face a crucial national security question. and what can be done about the hundreds of isis fighters with american and western passports. i'll ask mike rogers, chair of the house intelligence committee. and healing the racial divide. calm is returning to the streets of ferguson, missouri. but this morning, new concerns about whether the police officer who killed michael brown will face criminal charges. i'll be joined by the governor of missouri and the reverend al sharpton. plus, exclusives. rising