right now at 6:00, we're following breaking news in rockville. a mother hurt in a fire. you can see in this live picture. how her son helped firefighters get her out. >> and all new at 67::00, we learned about a new push coming to bring the olympics to our backyard. and it feels pretty good out there so far, but get ready for the heat. >> let's go to tom kierein to tell us how the morning is shaping up. >> it is rather humid. the humidity did drop yesterday and it stayed fairly low overnight. now creeping back up a little bit. we had a due passing light showers south of the metro air. those are beginning to break up. your headlines, morning headlines for this thursday, a little patchy fog now areas south of washington. watch out for that. it will stay rather humid through much of the day and you'll be comfortable in short

sleeves all day long. this morning in the low 70s. hitting the upper 70s after that between 8:00 and 9:00. quite a bit of sunshine and rather humid conditions. coming up next weather and traffic on the 1s at 6:11, a look at the hour by hour temperature warming today. now melissa dealing with building volume already. we do have building volume and a brand new crash just in. this is georgia avenue at brookville road, all lanes blocked. so trying to get more information for you on that and pass it along. taking a live look beltway at river road, no major issues there. a look at 395 headed in to and out of town, no problem. you're at speed. bw parkway, same thing in and out of town. a bigger picture here, d.c. 295

a little slow as it typically is this time of day. indian head highway coming into town as you approach the beltway a little slow, as well. i'll get more information on you brookville road crash and be back in 10 minutes. now to that breaking news, a house fire on iris road. megan. >> reporter: we have new information for you. first of all, i'll step out of the way and let you see for yourself here. we're being told by the fire department that the flames actually damaged the gas meter inside the house. so they now have a situation where they have free flowing gas. they have been unable to shut the gas off at that meter. so they had to take a stand back stance here. the utility company is on the scene. as soon as they shut it off, firefighters will again go inside the building.

there was a second firefighter injured, as well. those injuries, though, not considered to be serious so a total of two firefighters who have been transported to the hospital. and also the hol homeowner withe threatening injuries. a neighbor dialed 911. when firefighters got here, they found the son, the adult son who lives in the house, they found him out in the yard. he has been able to get out. he told them that his mother was still inside. firefighters did find her up on the second floor, she was taken to the hospital with life threatening injuries. what caused the fire? they don't know, but does appear that it began somewhere down in the basement and then spread through the house. and there is quite a bit of smoke. back to you. >> thank you, megan.

new this morning, a new effort to bring the olympic games to washington in 2024. there is a website going up today to try to build support to bring the games here to the d.c. area. that website will go on line in about about b. two hours. it will also announce the board of directors. owner of the caps and wizards among them. now, there are several cities around the world that want those games. four of them here in the u.s.. boston, l.a., san francisco and washington. now, d.c. thinks that they have the edge because a number of sports facilities in the area and also the hotel rooms that can support a large olympic sized crowd. so the effort to bring the games is under way. but the official announcement won't come until 2017. that's the latest from the live desk. 6:04 now. police are asking for the community's help in solving a

murder. a man was stabbed yesterday morning in langley park. he had moved here from central america about two years ago and worked as a landscaper. police handed out flyers and talked to people about who may have wanted to hurt him, urging people to come forward with any information and not be worried about immigration status. >> we still don't know what happened. we are calling our community if they know anything, please communicate with the police. >> we need to find out who did it, make sure it doesn't happen again to keep the neighbored hood safe. >> police are offering a $25,000 reward for information that leads to the killer.safe. >> police are offering a $25,000 reward for information that leads to the killer. someone found a 17 month old a car parked at naval air station pawtaxent river. the naval criminal investigation service says the child's father works on the base. ncia officials have not released how long the baby was in the car

and it's not clear whether the father for goat thgot that he w. jurors will go back to work in the mcdonnell corruption trial. the former governor and his wife are charged with accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and gifts from businessman jonnie williams in exchange for promoting his company. stay with news 4 on air and on line for bringing updates as soon as there is a verdict. right now about 100,000 of you in prince george's county are still under the boil water advisory. the advisory impacts 11 communities all because of a 24 inch water main break that broke in hyattsville. some schools and businesses brought in extra bottled water and boy boiled everything from the fau set p. wssc says this is all precautionary. we'll keep you posted on updates. two women attacked by a great white shark.

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if you feel like your kid is always on their phone, they probably are. cell phones are more time consuming for college students than any other activity and that includes sleep. apparently female college students spend an average of 10 hours a day on their phone. ten hours a day. male spend an average of eight hours. texting takes up most of the time followed by sending e-mails and checking takes book. i'm hoping somewhere in those ten hours work is being done perhaps over the phone. >> we know now kids are -- you're googling your research. so maybe there is redeeming qualities to that, too. >> they use it as a way to get away from the stress of college. >> and not having a face to face conversation. all right. it is 1 1 after 6:00.

still some clouds, but not too terribly hot and humid. tom kierein has your weather and traffic on the 1s. >> while you're on the phone, download the storm team 4 weather app. you can get it for free. keep up with the weather. you can see the latest radar and see what is going on right now. we have dissipates sprinkles south of the metro area. right now, it is rather humid. comfortable, though. mid-60s suburbs and rural areas. a little patchy fog south of the in the troe area. we'll have a little patchy fog through 8:00, low 70s by then, then low 80s by noontime, near 90 during the afternoon. small chance of an isolated storm south and west. we'll look at the weekend rain chances in ten minutes. crash georgia avenue the at brookville. all lanes blocked.

so tough to get through. 95 at cherry hill road, moving just fine. we look good overall. a little slow bw parkway as you come inside the beltway. remember to follow us @first4traffic. a little girl trapped inside a washington machine while it was running. how an employee worked rescue her before went into a high speed cycle. >> and cobra with did deadly venom cannot be found. the search to find it and the damage it left behind.

. i'm following breaking news. about 200 families in northeast washington are without water this morning because there was a water main break in their neighborhood. this is on otis street between 28th and 30th place. water main break in that area.

and now water service has been cut off. that means no showers, no running water in the sinks there. and water crews say it will take about four to six hours for-to-fix that break and get the water running again. streets are also closed. again, about 200 homes how affected here on otis between 28th and 30th. that's the latest from the live desk. it is now 6:17. we're learning more about carriry moments for kids an parents when an experiment went wrong at a children's museum. a fldemonstration of a smoke tornado malfunctioned. a chemical flash rurt eighurt es and one adult. the museum says smoke tornado is a routine about peermeexperimen are looking into what went wrong. >> there will be a civil rights investigation over the police department in ferguson, missouri. officials will dig into how the

ferguson department has operated over several years. the case follows the shooting death of course of michael brown, the 18-year-old black man killed by a white police officer. and police in ferguson face widespread criticism for using military style equipment on protesters angry over brown's killing. more than 50 were displaced in a huge fire in a massachusetts apartment complex. take a look here. it took firefighters hours to contain this blaze. the heets was so sbebts, fire crews thought the building would collapse on top of them. fire firefighters were hurt. everybody in the apartment building did manage to get out. the parents of a five-year-old girl are relieved this morning. she became stuck in a washing machine while it was on. it happened at a laundromat in pasadena. people started hearing the girl screaming and realized it was coming from one of the machines. they frantically called 911

while the owner killed the circuit breaker to shut it down. the girl is recovering and expected to be okay. 1 18 after the hour. people are trying to find the person who set off a campus scare. someone reported a man with a gun holding someone hostage. police responded with their guns drawn. you can see in the photo here. officers searched that building along with two others. the call turned out to be false. police stepped up patrols in response to the incident. if you you fly out of reagan national on whiften, you've pro noticed big changes. yesterday jetblue moved there term that will a to terminal b. but the big move is coming next when southwest occupies almost all of the gates in terminal a. preparations are also under way to totally revamp terminal a which dates back to the roosevelt era. two teens are still shaken up after a shark attacked their kayak and then knocked them into two girls were wading off

the coast of massachusetts. all of a sudden a great white shark took a bite out of their kayak and then flipped them into the water. and the girls say things got even scarier. >> we were sitting in the water and she was sinking and i was slipped over holding on to the bottom of the kayak. >> it was petrifying waiting in that water for the harbor master to come not knowing if anybody was going to come get us. scariest part was sitting in the water waiting wondering where he was. >> a neighbor heard their streams for help, called 911. police never spotted the great white. >> one was wearing a camera, one of those gopro cameras. so hoping they can find that and share how of their story. coming up on 21 after 6:00.

sun starting to work its way into the sky. want to get you caught up on the forecast. >> the sky is beginning to brighten up. just analyzing the latest model showing the likelihood of storms on the week independent. don't have any now, though. dew point comfortably try. it is more humid to our south. walking the dogs this morning, we'll have it rather humid. clouds giving way to quite a bit of sun by mid-morning. we'll be in the upper 70s. and there is some low cloudiness over capitol hill now. live view from the city camera, afternoon highs near 90 degrees. so hotter than average weather continues today and tomorrow. might get an isolated storm well south and west of the metro area later this afternoon. small chance very humid, hot day tomorrow. up near 90 on friday. then saturday, again, hot and humid, up around 90.

and likely storms during the afternoon as some much cooler and drier air pushes in, that's the price we'll pay for a big change and the end to our heat wave. highs just near 80 on sunday with bright sunshine. storm team 4 seven day outlook, we keep that going into next week with low humidity and highs near 80. we have a new crash 270 southbound. right at machinery village area of. so volume building there. also sil thisd, all lanes blocked there. your alternate will be zion road. taking a look at 95 this will have in a virginia, slow. wider look, typical slow 295 as you pass 50. 66 in centreville, slow and then opens back up for you. i'll see you at 6:31. many of you have been

waiting for this day since february. the new football season is just a few hours from kicking off. >> packers taking on the seahawks and the city is all geared up for a huge kickoff celebration. >> jay gray is in seattle with a look at all the day's activities. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. i've been waiting, as well. this is truly the start of the best time of year in sports. quiet here right now. the lights are on inside the stadium. things will change dramatically over the next several hours. they are excited about the chance to kickoff the nfl season here in the home city of the super bowl champs. they will unveil the banner representing the seahawks and their win in the super bowl. there will be a big party before it all gets under way. we have sound garden, the iconic seattle band that will at that time stage, followed by

pharrell. a lot of people will be at that concert and then pour into the stadium here. an evening of fun and football. people will all be tuning in to nbc to see what should be a good game between the seahawks and the green bay packers. both teams with super bowl aspirations this year, as well. for nbc sports, this is a season that begins with the first game here tonight in seattle. it ends with super bowl xlix in february. that is in arizona. and who knows, maybe the redskins will be part of that last game since they're not a part of the first game here tonight. back to you. >> we can only hope so. >> jay kind of chuckled when he said that. what's up with that? >> i have faith. >> who thosug knows. >> of course you can catch the game tonight at 8:30 right here on nbc 4. >> go skins. an albino cobra has a

neighborhood on edge. the five foot snake bit a greyhound in a backyard in los angeles. it slithered away but not before the dog's owner snapped a photo. that greyhound is still being treat aed by v ed by vets. the snake will strike if it's cornered. >> if it bites you, the venom can kill you. you have about an hour before it really starts to affect you. this cobra is not completely illegal in california. there are circumstances where you can have it, but it is illegal in that particular area, that county. so animal control trying to figure out who has it, why they had it. sd >> shouldn't they be illegal period? >> well, maybe for educational purpose. protecting children. the rules crossing guards have to enforce this year. and the new sign of life and a plan to get from you d.c. to baltimore in 15 minutes flat. plus ps are climbing now.

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we're staying on top of breaking news right now. a mother was injured in a rockville fire. take a live look at this picture here. >> her son says he made it out of the house without being hurt. megan mcgrath just spoke to a man who rushed to the home. and she will share the first things the man saw when he got there. and check out some gorgeous colors to kick things off this morning. well, blue. >> temperatures will start climbing soon. let's check in with tom kierein to get you ready for your day. good morning, tom. >> i'll elaborate, banana and apricot. look up from your treadmill and look at the sky this morning. it's a beautiful start. and starting off this morning,

we have temperatures that are in the 60s to near 70s. highs, though, soaring once again way above the average high which is only low to mid-80s this time of year. it will be near 90 by midafternoon. falls church should be around 90 and partly cloudy. county by county, northern virginia, possibility of scattered storms this afternoon. about a 30% chance. as highs reach near 90 there. as well as the shenandoah valley and into the mountains, it will be in the upper 80s to mid-80s. and a 30% chance of a few scattered afternoon storms likely not severe. a look at the big hour by hour changes on the way over the next 24 hours, that is coming up next weather and traffic on the 1s. the accident we were seeing 270 southbound montgomery village has cleared. so looking good. wider look, you can see we look

good. a lile slow sttop of the beltway and bw parkway inside the beltway, about 1 miles an hour. still have the crash georgia avenue at brookville road. all lanes blocked. alternate is zion. so hopefully that can get you around things. 66 running about 40 miles an hour. looking at 95, you are slow through dale city. and then you open back up to about 40 miles an hour as you're approaching the beltway. beltway at landover road, looking pretty good. a couple of travel times here, 50 west from the beltway to bw parkway, 10 minutes. 95 north to the beltway, 23 minutes. you may notice as you walk your students to school in fairfax county, crossing guards have a less active role. county police say crossing guards are not allowed to direct traffic and parents say that puts kids at risk. molette green is live in burke with why schools are asking for police to step in immediately. >> reporter: crossing guard out

here should be coming on duty in just a few minutes. no longer allowed to stand in the middle of the street in the middle of heavy traffic to try to control things and get kids to cross safely. parents and schools want something done. 24 schools have actually asked police to help out at these crosswalks. this is not a new rule. this is enforcement of an existing one. now, here is what fairfax county police had to say in a statement to schools. by continuing to stand in the middle of the street and direct traffic, crossing guards are in greater danger and are not on the curb to ensure the students stay off the roadway. this issue has parents and schools very concerned this morning about backups at these crosswalks and of course about the safety of the children. we're live in burke. back to you. today could mark the end of

a 34 year quest for the truth. west virginia man expected to formally enter a guilty plea for a 1980 murder in fauquier county. ronald cloud is accused of killing brad baker on new year's eve that year. baker manages a farm. police believe cloud shot him this retaliation for firing his stepfather. cloud is already serving a life sentence for kidnapping and rape. two armed and dangerous men are still on the loose this morning. police say they're responsible for more than a half dozen store robberies all over d.c.. one papa john's pizza on capitol hill was robbed twice. the thieves escaped in and out of the stores in just 30 seconds. police are hoping store surveillance helps track the men down. drivers can share the road with d.c.'s new street car, but new plan might ban bicyclists. regulations would ban riding a bike within a street car guideway except to cross the

street. the alternative is mike laysurr streets, but riders say they're also dangerous. >> g is one way, but both roads, there are horrible conditions. almost unsafe to ride a bike. >> the department of transportation says priority is safety for all modes of conversation. ddot is taking your comments until september 27. you can find an e-mail address to talk to them on our home page nbcwashington.com. how would you like to get from d.c. to baltimore in just 15 minutes? can could be possible this in the future. investor group says it has secured $5 billion from the japanese government to build a new high speed rail line. rains would use magnetic levitation to essentially float along the track. japan hopes a successful launch will lead to more business. today a coalition of native

american groups will send a letter to broadcasters asking them to stop using the name redskins. several broadcasters and newspapers have already decided to drop that name. yesterday the new york daily news joined the group. take a look at the headline, it reads sack the name. the paper says it won't use the logo either. instead, they will use this image, a circle with burgundy and gold. in a statement, the paper says the inescapable truth is that the term red skin derives solely from the racial characteristic of skin tone in a society that is struggling mightily to be col colorblind. a new app launching that will deliver your favor lie vags. plus no s.a.t., no transcript, no rob. the maryland college asking for application applicants to submit a video instead. and tom kierein will take us through the rise in your temperatures.

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a developing story now. u.s. officials estimate upwards of 100 americans are fighting four isis in the middle east. >> richard engel was able to find one of them. he joins us from turkey with more. >> reporter: thousands of foreign fighters have either entered turkey to fight with isis and other militant groups or tried. we have reports in the past americans have been among them, but they have been very illusive. we've been looking to try to find one of these american isis recruits. earlier will summer, we managed to do just that. and it reveals an interesting story about an american man from north carolina, not what you'd expect from a typical isis

cruit. he wanted a military career, that's what he hoped for. and he was struggling to fit in back home. he was having problems with the law, he had been with respect toed, divorced, he was having trouble with anger. and on glt liline, he found isi violence vocal terrorist group and got sucked into their propaganda, decided to pledge allegiance to this group and then tried to make his way to join them in syria. he's now being held in the united states on unrelated charges. he claims he's not a terrorist, no threat to the united states. others however disagree. we'll have the story coming up on "today" show. >> richard, thank you. we're looking forward to that interview. your weather and traffic on the 1s starting with tom kierein. tom. >> good morning. through the magic of television,

i've been transported to a platform atop our storm team 4 tower here in northwest washington overlooking washington. i can see a few clouds now passing over the metro area. temperatures at 73 at reagan national. clouds coming and going. a little patchy fog in rural areas. by noon, mid-80s near 90. mid to late afternoon, small chance of an isolated storm south and west of the metro area. 24 hours ahead going forward through the evening, by late evening, mid-70s. and this time tomorrow morning, might have quite a bit of fog around. thick patchy dog stafog startin friday morning. a look at the rain chances coming up at 6:51. pretty typical volume for this time of the morning. 66 looking normal, about 45 miles an hour. wider look at things, we're a little red bw parkway inside the beltway. and at colesville road.

prince george's county side of things looking quite good. colesville road slow a little bit. then you open back up. as you look 95 north bound out of fredericksburg, slow through triang triangle. it opens up in springfield. data charges adding up? there is a new feature on facebook that could be to blame. we'll tell you how to stop it. and we're staying on top of breaking news. a mother was hurt when the fire store through a rockville home. this is a live picture of the house right now. we just spoke to the man who rushed to the scene. the first things he saw when he arrived. karen: hi, i'm karen. joyce: and i'm joyce. karen: and we are... karen & joyce: the koch sisters.

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we're following breaking news in rockville. >> it is one of several stories we're staying on top of to get you up to the minute the minute you're up. >> we start with megan mcgrath this rockville at the scene of a fire that injured a mother. >> reporter: since we last spoke to you, firefighters have been able to go back inside the house. even though they are apparently still trying to turn off the gas. the natural gas to the house. i got an update a short time ago. the you utility company is digging in the front yard trying to access the line so that they can shut it off. but we have a fire now in the basement where the gas line comes in. and that's actually a good thing i'm told, it's a controlled fire. so the gas is burning off as it comes up out of the line.

that is a safer situation, so firefighters have been able to go back in. this all began to unfold around 4:30 this morning. a thab called 911, realized the house was on fire. when firefighters got here, they found the adult son inside the home with his mother, he was already out. and alerted them that his mother was still inside. upstairs bedroom. they found her, she's been taken to the hospital with life threatening injuries. she's in critical condition. a little whiling a ge ing ago, a neighbor. >> when i got here, the fire department was already on the scene. ladder truck had already d deployed. house was basically surrounded by the fire department. >> reporter: and two firefighters were injured. we're told those injuries are minor. still trying to figure out what caused the fire, although at this point, preliminarily it looks like it did start somewhere in the basement.

reporting live in rockville, megan mcgrath, news 4. back to you. investigators trying to figure out why a baby was left to tie ondie on a maryland naef. the 17 month old was found in a parked car. the criminal investigative service says the father works on the base. it's not clear whether the father forgot he was there. in just a few hours, the jury goes back to work in the mcdonnell corruption trial. they have thousa deliberated for 13 hours wi verdict. ar charged with accepts thousands in cash and gifts from jonnie williams in good chanexc promoting his company. new this morning, the effort to bring the 2014 olympics to the washington region. taking another big step today. the d.c. 2014 bid organization

plans to go live with its website about 8:00 a.m. today. one of first public efforts to build widespread support. they also intend to announce the board of directors which includes other than of twner of and wizards. an advisory still in effect for more than 100,000 people in 11 different communities that you see on this map. all because of a 24 inch water main that broke tuesday night. schools and businesses brought in extra bottled water and boiled everything that came out of the faucet. spokesperson for wssc says this is all precautionary. the advisory is expected to go until at least tonight. today senators mikulski and cardin will be talking about the

challenges students face to pay for higher education. and listen to this, your support can get into a college in baltimore without sending in test scores or transcripts. all they need to do is record and submit a two minute video on their smartphone. goucher college says the move is designed to help students confused by the regular application process. students must answer how do you see yourself at goucher. videos will be evaluated on content, structure and clarity. the app will be available for next year's incoming class. happening today, d.c. mayor gray trying to convince a major tourism group to host an event in d.c.. the mayor is in the middle of a ten day trip to china. he wants the world tourism federation to host its annual summit in washington. if you keep maxing your cell

phone data limit it may be because of facebook. unless you change your default settings, all of the videos in the news feed will start to play automatically. both on wi-fi and 3 and 4g networks. you can change the auto play feature so that it is off or only works with wi-fi. you can start having alcohol delivered to your house today. a new app called drizzly will go live and begin making deliveries today. it's free to download and will bring beer, wine and spirits to your front door. the app says delivery will take anywhere from 20 to 40 minutes. you have to take in time for traffic. clink also delivers booze here in washington. the regulation address hin strags says it's totally legal for the app to operate in d.c.. i can see problems. >> stay tuned. we'll let you know how it goes.

coming up on 5:51. >> yeah, just coffee. >> margarita flavored coffee? >> this is green tea. don't let the color fool you. >> i believe you. >> wouldn't be a bad idea. >> we're starting off this morning with pink margarita sky. storm team 4 tower camera. right now 73 reagan national, dew point down into the mid-60s. better than it has been last few days. it's been up around 70 or so with the steamy humidity. so it's just moderately humid. a little more comfortable this morning. short sleeve morning as you head out the door. a couple hours ago, showers passing south of washington. forecasting they would dissipate and they have. so we're starting off with just clouds away. but later this afternoon around 3:00, might get thundershowers south of the metro area. some of the thundershowers briefly popping up. likely not severe.

may eventually pop up a bit in the mountains and quickly dissipate this evening. and rest of the area will have sunshine. temperatures 60s in the suburbs and rural areas. a little patchy fog south of the metro area. watch out for that. if you're walking or driving this morning on your way to work and school, a little bit of that patchy fog between now and 8:00 in the rural areas. elsewhere clouds coming and going. rather humid by 10:00, upper 70s. then by noontime, into the low to mid-80s and peaking near 90. tomorrow, hot and humid, up around 90 on friday afternoon. well wi we will do that again saturday. if you're out hiking, doing anything outside saturday afternoon, watch out, likely storms will be coming through, some could be very strong. that's the price we will pay for a nice drop in humidity on sunday. much more comfortable with sunshine and highs right around

80. storm team 4 seven day outlook, we'll keep this wonderful pattern going into the first part of next week. highs near 80 with low humidity. might get storms mid week hex week. melissa dealing with normal volume? >> pretty typical this time of the morning. top of beltway slow at colesville road. down south here, 66 and 95, 95 north bound from quantico to 495, 42 minutes. very slow in dale city this morning. 270 in frederick and heading south into town, slowest spot is germantown. you op back up a little bit once you hit rockville. beltway at river road looking just fine especially for this time of morning. georgia avenue brookville road, this problem still there. lanes blocked by a pole. i spoke with police. they're saying it is still down. pepco on the scene. alternate is zion road. and remember to follow us @first4traffic. prince george's county

police asking for the community's help in solving a murder. a man was stabbed to death. he moved here about two years ago. police handed out flyers and talked to people about who may have wanted to hurt him. they're urging people to come forward with information and not to be worried about their immigration status. >> we still don't know what happened. we're calling on the community to please communicate with the police. >> we need to find out who did it, make sure it doesn't happen again to keep the neighborhood safe. police are offering a $25,000 reward for information that leads to the killer. i'm richard jordan at the live desk. in just about 30 minutes, the nato summit will begin. president obama started off his day meeting with british prime minister david cameron. both are close allies. one of the big issues will be the crisis this ukraine and how russia is moving toward the ukranian border into ukraine.

that is a hot topic on the agenda. the president will be meeting with leaders from france, germany and italy to discuss this. but both the u.s. and britain very concerned about isis militants in iraq and syria. that issue is not on the summit agenda. nato says iraq has not asked for any help dealing with those isis milants. but it is going to be a topic of discussion on the sidelines there both the u.s. and britain want to build a coalition. we will be following the governments throughout the day here from the live desk. it is now 6:55. fairfax county public schools eliminated half day mondays. but footing the bill for longer school days is creating controversy among leaders. cost for eliminating those early days is estimated at $7 million. this year, the schools are covering that cost. the school board members are making a plea for county funding in the future. something supervisors are hesitant to to. ending half days is popular for

parents who struggle to find daycare options. today we will see revised plans on a memorial for president eisenhower. this past spring, the panel objected to the large metal tapestries. they said the columns could block views of the capitol. they also want more pedestrian access and better lighting. designers will present revisions to the board this afternoon. four things to know on this thursday morning. we are just hours away from the beginning of the nfl season. green bay packers taking on the seattle seahawks tonight. coverage begins at 7:30 right here on nbc 4. a boil water advisory continues in prince george's county. 100,000 people in 11 communities are affected. jury deliberations continue in the mcdonnell corruption trial. julie carey will be live tweeting any developments as they happen. and we will break in as soon as the jury hands down a verdict. breaking news in rockville

this morning. a woman critically hurt in this house fire on iris street. we'll bring you any updates during the "today" show. and yet another long sleeve summer in september day with highs near 90. small chance of an isolated storm south and west of the metro area. and it will be up near 90 and very humid tomorrow and again on saturday. saturday afternoon and eechiven likely thunderstorms. lower humidity. highs sunday, monday, tuesday, near 80. slow in the normal spots. taking a look down south, 66 running about 40 miles an hour. slowest spot 95 north right in dale city. running about 15 miles per hour. >> and that is our broadcast morning. we appreciate you starting your day with us. >> the "today" show is next. including richard engel's interview with the american who tried to join isaiah. more news, weather and traffic for you.

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