when you step out the door. storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein's here with a look at your bus stop forecast. tom. >> good morning. yeah, it's still comfortably cool. there's a little bit of haze over capitol hill. live view from our tower camera on this wednesday morning. your headlines, a short sleeve day with warmer weather on the way. a warm afternoon as a summer pattern returns by later today. temperatures right now nearby suburbs in prince george's county, upper 60s. mid-60s much of montgomery county. fairfax county, the rest of northern virginia near 70. washington and right by the chesapeake bay. your bus stop forecast this morning, you'll be comfortable in short sleeves. students waiting for buses between 7:00 and 8:00. it will be in the upper 60s with a lot of cloudiness but no rain. sunshine breaking out 8:00 to 9:00. temperatures by then around 70 and getting a little more humid. a look at the changes on the way. that summer pattern hour by hour into the afternoon. that's coming next weather and traffic on the 1s at 6:11. melissa's had several crashes

this morning. are they causing delays? >> they have. chopper 4 right now over top of the beltway. this is the outer loop between colesville and georgia there. now, we were hearing about a crash perhaps some carpet rolls in the roadway that had fallen off of a truck causing a crash. we are not seeing that at this point this morning. we're going to get more information, of course, and pass it along. beltway at braddock road moving nicely. wider look, we look pretty good really. a little slow b.w. parkway inside the beltway, but that's pretty typical for this time of morning. 95 in virginia, coming through stafford county, all my friends down there headed north a little bit slow from an earlier crash. 66 typically slow running about 45 miles per hour. i'm back in ten minutes at 6:11. >> thank you. 6:01. now to a developing story. president obama asking congressional leaders for authorization to train syrian opposition forces in the fight against isis. the white house now acting quickly to ramp up the effort against that terror group. the president may also want more

wide-ranging air strikes against targets in iraq and possibly syria. we'll learn more about the president's isis strategy later tonight. he will present that plan to the nation in a primetime address right here on nbc 4. it begins at 9:00. in the meantime, the white house is starting the groundwork for international support. news 4's angie goss has more from the live desk. >> hi, aaron. secretary of state john kerry is in iraq meeting with the country's new leaders. now, this is the first high-level u.s. face-to-face with prime minister abadi. the main mission, to make clear without an inclusive government, the u.s. cannot support the fight against isis in their country. forming a coalition against the militants, that is top of mind right now. before he leaves, kerry will also sit down with iraq's new president. aaron? >> angie, thank you. and you can look for more on this story throughout the morning on news 4 today. we'll have more also on an nbc

news poll on isis in a live report coming up at 6:45. 6:03. police want to know where is this family. 27-year-old katherine huggle, her son and daughter went missing in montgomery county more than 48 hours ago. and what makes their disappearance so strange is that they all went missing at three different times. 2-year-old son jacob never your honor ared to his grandparents' home sunday night in gaithersburg after his mom said she took him for pizza. early monday morning huggle told the kids' father she was taking 3-year-old sara to day care. sara hasn't been seen since. and that same night the couple stopped at a chick-fil-a in germantown on their way to get help from police. but huggle slipped out of the restaurant. family and friends passed out flyers last night in hopes of getting answers. >> pray and if someone sees them to contact the police. >> any message to your daughter? >> please come home. >> i just want my freakin' kids back, dude. that's it. that's it. that's all. >> officers think that she may

have boarded a bus at a nearby transit center. police say huggle is a diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic and the key to finding hermes be the key to finding her children. if you have any information on her or her children's whereabouts, contact police. right now in arlington, the search is on for the men police say tried to kidnap a teenager. this happened monday night on south 12th street not far from columbia pike. investigators say the 18-year-old was trying to get into her car when two men grabbed her from behind. she fought back and suffered minor injuries. the men ran away when they noticed a police car responding to another incident. new calls for an investigation this morning after the release of the ray rice assault video. the president of the new jersey state senate wants to know why a county prosecutor did not pursue a case against rice. and ravens' owner steve bishotti is responding for the first time. he said the ravens did ask police, prosecutors and the revel casino for the video. but those requests were denied.

he now says, quote, seeing that video changed everything. we should have seen it earlier. we should have pursued our own investigation more vigorously. we didn't and we were wrong. nfl commissioner roger goodell says the league also tried to get that elevator video and was denied. in an interview with cbs, he was asked how tmz got that video i he couldn't. >> we didn't get this right. that's my responsibility, and i'm accountable for that. i will tell you that what we saw in the first videotape was troubling to us in and of itself. but what we saw yesterday was extremely clear, extremely graphic, and it was sickening. and that's why we took the action we took yesterday. >> now, the nfl suspended ray rice indefinitely, but the new league policy incdes a six-game suspension for first offenders of domestic violence. that opens the door for rice to play for a difnte le in the as. bud goodell says he'd have to be confident, rice addressed

his personal issues and pai price for s tis. you'll see new houses being built on the chancellorville battlefield. the new development is called the legions of chancellorville. following a lengthy hearing, the county board of surr approved the construction of a new subdivision there accordg to "the frlae ar irchts how police are being proactive to make sure neighbors know what to watch out for. plus, the popular food that can keep your kids from catching a cold. and it will feel a little more like summer today as we take a live look outside. meteorologist tom kierein will take us through the warm-up hour by hour in your weather and traffic on the 1s coming up at 6:11. stay with us.

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many commonly prescribed drugs may be linked to alzheimer's. researchers followed elderly adults taking xanax. six years later those who took them were 50% more likely to develop alzheimer's. experts say these medications should only be used on a temporary basis. here's something you can do to help your kids fight off cold and flu season. it's right around the corner. give them yogurt that contain probiotics. european researchers found children who took a pill containing them were less likely to catch a cold. when they did fall ill, their symptoms were milder. something to try out. >> keep everything moving, keep you healthy. >> yeah. adults can do it, too. >> absolutely. >> i wonder if it works for adults, the cold-fighting part of it. >> oh, okay. >> let's take a live look outside. a little cloudy and a bit muggy. >> storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein here with the forecast. your weather and traffic on the 1s. >> yeah, and the dogs want to get moving, too.

when you're walking the dog this morning, you'll notice it, a little more humid. you'll be comfortable in short sleeves. by 7:00, upper 60s. a lot of clouds through 8:00. by then near 70. then sun breaking out by 9:00. a little more humid into the low 70s. hour by hour for the rest of the afternoon, we'll have morning clouds. a live view from our camera are breaking up. by noon time, partly cloudy. and more humid during the afternoon as we reach the low 80s. right now reagan national is at 71. pretty good chance of severe storms tomorrow. i'll look at that next weather and traffic on the 1s at 6:21. now melissa, getting any more accidents? already had several. >> not right now. fingers crossed. it's been kind of a nasty morning as far as crashes go. i've had about a half dozen so far. right now looking pretty good. 66 into town. going about 45 miles per hour. no problem, fairfax county, any of that area, you're just fine. stafford county, as you're heading north on 95, no issues. it's much better than it was before. beltway at landover road moving

right along. travel time outer loop from 95 to georgia, 13 minutes to 70 headed south looking fine as well. a bigger look at the beltway. everything looking pretty good right now coming up when i'm back at 6:21. an accused thief caught napping on the loose. the job description he has on facebook that makes this pretty tough to believe. and a scary trend among our kids. a health issue teenagers are seeing that people typically don't worry about until their 50s and the driving force behind the problem. it is now 6:12.

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welcome back. 6:15. this morning, nationals fans, you are one step closer to seeing your team in the playoffs. the team beat the braves last night, taking their magic number to ten. aaron got to see that in person. 6:15, your time. and right now police in prince george's county putting neighbors on alert. they're trying to track down a suspect in a sexual assault on a popular trail.

a woman was attacked in a wooded area monday evening. detectives went back to the scene yesrd, ssg t flyers to warn neighbors and to ask for help. >> i don't want anything like that to happen to my girlfr. i don't ntnyinli tt to happen to my children. >> both of my daughters come through here in the moin no one is back here, like, escorting them to school. i'm very terrified now. >> detectives are determined to find the suspect. they are offering a reward of up to $25,000 for information that leads to an arrest and charges. a fairfax county-based firm is losing a major contract with the government after it was targeted with a cyber attack. the office of personnel management says it will terminate its contract with usis at the end of the month. the company does the bulk of federal background checks. last month its computer network was hacked, putting the personal files of thousands of government workers at risk. a father confessed to killing his five children. this is timothy jones jr. being taken into custody in alabama. police say he told them where he dumped the bodies, and they were

found yesterday. police say they stopped his suv over the weekend. it was soaked in blood. the children ranging in age from 1 to 8 years old were report missing fmocali week. 6:17 now. encouraging, that's how doctors are describing the recovery of a third american infected with ebola. rick sacra is being treated at a specialized medical facility in nebraska. his doctors say he is becoming more alert and interactive. he became infected while working in liberia. a fourth american with ebola arrived in the u.s. yesterday. he is being treated in atlanta where two other americans were cured. dr. kent brantly is one of those cured americans, and he recently thanked the organization he was working for when he contracted the ebola virus. brantly and his family had been serving in liberia with samaritan's purse for about ten months when he fell ill. these are pictures during his

address at the organization's headquarters in north carolina. yesterday he thanked staff members in person for their prayers. brantly said, quote, i'm going to keep telling my story so i can remember what god has done in my life. tomorrow we will mark 13 years since the 9/11 attacks. this morning members of the house and senate will unveil three congressional medals honoring those who perished on september 11th, 2001. the medals are the highest civilian honor congress can bestow. today two 9/11 widows will co to washington to push for stronger cockpit safety as orpne the steer1tri it is a record year for car recalls. what's even more alarming is the number of cars on the road right now with open recalls. consumer reporter erica gonzalez has that number and a possible way to reduce it. >> we're talking about people behind the wheel of vehicles with open recalls. that means they haven't been fixed yet. and there are a whopping 37 million cars ku s currently on

road with open recalls. that's according to carfax. the company that provides vehicle history reports says it has a way to reduce the number of open-recall cars people are currently driving. it's a free app that allows consumers to keep up with recall alerts and even vehicle maintenance. we set out to learn how it works, and sure enough, we found cars with open recalls in this northern virginia parking lot. >> this one has a passenger air bag inflater that's been recalled. that means that the passenger air bag may not deploy in an accident. >> tonight on news 4 at 5:00, we reveal more recall alerts that we found just by entering license plate numbers in the mobile app. and we'll show you how to use it. this video is just unbelievable. take a close look at this here. the van you see in the water there, a person, both of them swallowed by rushing floodwaters. this is on a highway near vegas. a man appears near the van and

moments later the person disappears as the surgerying water sweeps that man into the ravine there. this guy actually survived this whole thing. flash flooding responsible for at least two deaths in arizona around the same time as well. >> you can see, looks like it goes right over the cliff. >> i wonder how deep that was. to walk away from that. >> incredible. our weather, we had some showers yesterday and a little bit of humidity this morning. >> tom kierein, what do you say? >> yeah, and it left the air quite humid overnight. a lot of cloudiness around. short-range model, the new one just came in showing a lot of cloudiness for the next few hours. but then cloud cover likely breaking up by midmorning. and the clouds we have with us now not producing any rain. storm team 4 radar all clear all across west virginia, virginia, maryland, the eastern shore, dry pavement on this wednesday morning. and it's rather mild with the increased humidity, upper 60s in prince george's. much of fairfax, upper 60s as well.

near 70 the rest of northern virginia and the district and right near the bay waters. there's capitol hill under this cloudy sky. a live view from the storm team 4 capitol cam. later this afternoon, partly cloudy, reaching the low 80s. and you'll notice it'sing go to be getting more humid as we get into the afternoon. but then sweltering humidity. tomorrow summer returns big time, up near 90 degrees tomorrow afternoon. and then a cool front sweeps through likely triggering storms by midafternoon into the early evening hours. some of those storms during the day tomorrow as they do sweep on through with that cool front could be severe. storm team 4 will be on it. storm threat after 3:00 p.m. mainly on thursday is the way it looks right now. heavy rain and maybe some damaging winds from those strong thunderstorms tomorrow afternoon and early evening. after that, less humid, beautiful day friday. partly cloudy. highs mid-70s. saturday might get some showers. temperatures in the mid-70s. then as we get into sunday, sunshine back for the skins' home opener and 70s and

beautiful weather monday, tuesday, low humidity, highs near 80. i'm back in ten minutes. weather and traffic on the 1s at 6:31. a look at neighborhood highs today. melissa has another new accident. >> take a look at this right now. this is the inner loop at annapolis road. right now chopper 4 just got over the scene. we wanted to show you this picture. obviously going to see some delays building. i did have this map built for you. and we're not seeing the delays yet. it looks like could be on the ramp. going to get more information and pass it along after we talk with police. as you're starting out in prince william couy, all my friends there heading out 66 into town. it is a fairly slow, getting very slow as you head into oakton. and then it opens back up as you approach the beltway. no major issues after the oakton area. taking a look at 95, a little slow to quantico as you're coming out of stafford county. and then slows down a bit again as you're heading into the woodbridge area. prince george's county side of things looking good at this point. a wider look. you can see overall, we look pretty typical in the slowest

part, top of the beltway near coastal road. >> melissa, thank you. 6:23, your time now. pizza night might be a quick and easy dinner choice, but it's apparently harming your teen's health. the centers for disease control says that teens are getting too much salt in their food. one-third more than recommended. too much salt puts children and teens at risk of high blood pressure and heart disease. both conditions more associated with middle age. researchers say pizza and bread are the biggest culprits. 13% of salt that kids eat comes from fast food and pizza restaurants. 6:23 now. the bets for the new royals pregnancy are starting to roll in, and they are getting creative, too. earlier this week we told you the favorite names so far are elizabeth, victoria and james. all good classic names. charles has a 12-1 odds. william hill has alice at 25-1 odds. and here are the long shots. 500-1 odds the baby will be named macbeth.

slightly better stands for joffrey with 250-1 odds. i know people will keep coming up with interesting names. i think they'll go classic. they went with george. >> a good, strong name. >> it is. >> it's royalty. >> yeah. you can't go with something else. if you like living on the edge, wha t hseorou. check it out. >> i don't get this. >> whew! >> you like it as long as you're not afraid of heights or the water. take a look. here it is. they're calling this the cliff house in australia. five-story home includes -- >> look at that. >> -- spa area where you can hear the sound of the waves. >> the home includes an open-air jacuzzi on the lower level and a place to have the perfect barbecue. because what's a house without a perfect place to have a barbecue. and the house has a two-car garage. you see built right into the cliff. my fear would be the one day it's just going to fail right down. >> you get a stiff wind through there, forget about it. never see it again. >>he views probably

spectacular. a man accused of breaking into a home was found asleep on the bed. that's right. >> just take a look. look at this. had the stolen bag of jewelry with him, apparently. the sheriff's department there in sarasota, florida, posted these pictures of that suspect. you can see him knocked out. >> crime is exhausting. >> took a lot out of him apparently. the department says the cleaning lady called the police when she walked in and found him passed out on the bed. the post says the man didn't notice deputies taking his picture when they got there. >> apparently the suspect's facebook page, he describes himself as a security equipment technician. >> he will not be hired to do any more security. >> needs a new line of work. >> no more fare cards. how about that? the new system that metro is testing that could use your federal i.d. card, your phone, even a smartwatch. plus, conduct questions about a local judge. the painful punishment that he's accused of ordering on a man representing himself.

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we are staying on top of a developing story tonight. president obama lays out his plan to fight isis. and this morning secretary of state john kerry is already in iraq meeting with its brand-new prime minister. in just a moment, we'll go over what americans hope to hear in tonight's speech. but first, taking a live look outside. how pretty is the capitol? the sunlight starting to poke through those clouds. news 4 today keeps your weather and traffic together for you every ten minutes. we start with to remember steam 4 meteorologist tom kierein. tom, good morning. >> this morning, we are starting off with that increased humidity around the region. and the humidity is going to begin to build as we get into the afternoon. there's a wider view of the capitol from our city camera this morning. and the clouds still pretty much covering the entire sky. there are just a few breaks in the cloud cover now. and if you're going to be waiting for the bus, walking to work this morning or standing waiting for the metro, you'll be

comfortable in short sleeves. driving this morning, you'll be on dry pavement between now and 8:00, we'll be in the 60s. a lot of clouds around. but then by 8:00 to 10:00, the cloud cover should begin to break up. sun breaking out. you'll need your shades. temperatures climbing into the low 70s by then. neighborhood high temperatures today, summer returns. it will be into the low 80s in washington. around the bay, upper 70s to near 80. farther west near 80 in the shenandoah valley. mountain, many locations into the low 80s. a look at the hour-by-hour temperature and humidity changes over the next 24 hours coming up at 6:41. melissa, do you have another accident? >> another accident here. this is breaking news. we're talking about prince george's county here. the ramp from annapolis road to the inner loop right now is shut down. you still, though, can come up annapolis road, take a right and police are letting you by the scene. this should be out of the way over the next couple of minutes. some injuries. chopper 4 over the scene as that's been dwindling down just a little bit.

a wider look. slowest spot right now is the outer loop. top of the beltway at colesville road. otherwise we're looking pretty good, i have to say. prince george's county side of things, no major issues there. 66 and 95. 66 a little slow as you're headed into fairfax county. otherwise looking good. want to tell you about this vre delay. fredericksburg line, 304, 25 minutes behind. also affecting train 306. eun? 6:32. president obama will present his plan to take down isis at 9:00 tonight. you can watch the nationwide address right here on nbc 4. this comes on the heels of a new poll that found nearly 50% of americans believe the u.s. is less safe now than at any point since the september 11th attacks. according to a new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll, 61% of americans believe military action against isis is in our national interest.

13% say we should not interfere. the poll also found that 40% respondentsay.smitar actioagnsis sulbe limited to airstrikes only. another 34% say it shoul include both airstrikes an combat troop in the day ahead, a 19-year-old colorado woman is expected to plead guilty to trying to help isis in syria. court records show police arrested the woman at the denv airport in aprilead t syria. records show that she told fbi agents she wanted to use he skills as a nue'ai the militants there. today two men who tried to walk onto the capitol grounds with a gun will be offered plea deals. these two separate incidents happened back in july. congressional staffer ryan shucard and port council member ronald prestidge. the plea deal would carry a maximum of one year in prison and a $1,000 fine. it's being offered after a judge declared d.c.'s handgun ban unconstitutional in july. that ruling is being appealed. also today, we'll learn more about proposals to train

officers to handle people with special needs. you may remember ethan saylor died last year when offut frederickouy iff' deputy pull h o oa vie thte he was trying to see a movia second time. he had down syndrome. among the proposals, the commission is recommending people with special needs train new officers in the police academy statewide next year. a maryland public defender wants a charles county judge dismissed after the judge ordered a man to be shocked in his courtroom. this happened in july. the defendant was acting as his own attorney during a gun possession case. and according to "the washington post," the judge becam impatient with the man because he was, quote, rude and nonresponsive. so nally ordered the man shocked with something called a stun cuff. it's a taserlike device wrapped around the man's ankle. so far no comment from the maryland judiciary. a commercial is at the center of a bitter feud between opponents in a tight race in virginia. and here's why. this ad by fairfax county

supervisor john foust was filmed in the government complex building. he's getting backlash from opponent republican barbara comstock. both are running in the 10th congressional district race. comstock says it is against ethics for elected officials to use county facilities for political purposes. foust camp say they were permitted to film at that location. 6:34 now. and soon you can get where you're going on metro more quickly without the hassle of adding money to your smart trip card. the transit agency will test some new payment options. our richard jordan live at the bethesda station which is one of those test sites. richard, good morning. >> reporter: hi, aaron. good morning. metro says it is trying to keep up with technology. so the goal here is to eventually replace your smart trip card with your smartphone. but it's going to have to be the next-generation smartphone like the iphone that was just announced yesterday. some other devices you can use, the new apple watch.

also a chip-embedded credit card. or if you're a federal worker, eventually your i.d. badge would allow you to get in through the fare gate. so the plan here is starting next month, metro will start installing one new fare gate at ten different stations across the system. these will be for testing. so in january, metro volunteers will be able to use that fare gate and their device to get onto the platform without having to use their smart trip card or to buy one of those paper cards. so this will start being tested over the next few months into the next couple of years because it will likely be until 2017 when systemwide all riders will be able to do these new fare gates. at that point that metro would replace all the fare gates. now, in addition to the ten metro stations, there's also six bus routes that will be part of the pilot program and two parking garages. so all of that starts at the beginning of next year. a lot of riders excited about this, but then there's also

riders who say th're concerned about their privacy, whether or not this opens them up to identity theft. so that's something that metro will be looking into now during this testing phase. reporting live this morning in bethesda, richard jordan, news 4. and in a few weeks, you'll have a new place to park. temporary spots will open not far from the tyson's corner station. the fairfax county board of supervisors reached an agreement with the owners at tower and atrium buildings. you can park in 100 spots there in the evening. a connector bus will run every ten minutes to take people from the garage to the metro. right now the only parking along the silver line is at the wheely reston east station. the president told no. why some high-end golf courses in new york would not let president obama in. and changing the strategy at target. the products you'll see more of and those the store could cut back on. plus this -- not only getting warmer, it's getting more humid out there. we'll take you through this growing humidity hour by hour in your weather and traffic on the 1s at 6:41.

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take note here. you might have to make reservations at the golf course way ahead of schedule in time for labor day weekend. popular weekend. >> really busy weekend. president obama found that out the hard way. we're learning he was rejected at several golf courses over labor day wooeb end. he was in new york for fund-raisers and to attend a wedding. sources told our sister station in new york, three elite golf courses denied the president's request to tee off that saturday morning. club managers apparently didn't want to inconvenience their high-paying members by shutting down their courses. there are some fancier courses up there that can have a $100,000 a year membership. >> wow! >> so if those folks have reservations and they want to play, if you're a smart businessman, maybe you don't bump those people. >> plus security descends upon the golf course can be disruptive as well. >> yes. let's take a live look

outside right now. a beautiful view of the capitol. some low clouds there. but still not too bad so far. >> let's see how the rest of the day is shaping up. storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein here with your weather. tom? >> good morning. i'm not waxing euphoric about today's sunrise. steel city gray cloud cover over washington w. a little thin band of pink on the eastern horizon. sun's coming up here in just a couple of minutes. by 8:00, still cloudy, near 70. you'll be comfortable in short sleeves throughout the morning. and especially in the afternoon as we get into the low 80s, midafternoon, and sunshine breaking out. and noticeably more humid. and then humidity and temperature change s overnight. very humid by dawn tomorrow. a look at our severe storm chances for thursday and weekend rain chances. next weather and traffic on the 1s at 6:51. melissa, what's going on now? >> if you're hopping on 95 in virginia in stafford county, a little slow through stafford. it opens up a little bit and then gets really nasty.

it opens up past that after you get into woodbridge. a little slow this morning. if you're getting onto 66 and headed into town, hopping on at prince william parkway, very slow as you hit prince william parkway and then loosens into falls church. 270, montrose road is jammed right now. very, very slow at this point this morning. indian head highway at the beltway, no problems there. a wider look at things coming up overall looking pretty typical otherwise. >> thank you. as the president prepares to reveal his strategy for isis, the group made new threats against americans. the company's employees it says it could target. and concerns about security at a local nuclear plant. the trip a reporter made to that plant without ever being stopped. and if you thought it was too early for the pumpkin spiced latte, just wait. the list of top christmas toys that was just released overnight. i said it. it's september. christmas. it's 6:43.

we are following a developing story. tonight president obama addresses the nation about his strategy to fight isis. >> it is one of several stories we are following to get you up to the minute the minute you're up. we go straight to nbc news reporter tracie potts to fill us in on what the president will say. tracie, good morning. >> eun, good morning. what lawmakers want him to say

is what is the plan. they want a clear strategy with a goal and specifics on how to reach that goal in terms of dealing with isis. the president has said he does not need new authority from congress for what he wants to do. and while he didn't get any pushback from that on lawmakers when he met with them privately yesterday, publicly both democrats and republicans are saying yes, the president does need to come back here to capitol hill and ask for more authority. what he's asking for is a vote of support. and we'll get details on what later tonight. the white house is saying that he's looking at three things. equipping and training the iraqi military, equipping and training syrian rebels, opposition to get them to do the work on the ground. and then pulling together a coalition of nations in the region. that's why secretary of state john kerry is in the region. in fact, in baghdad this morning meeting with iraq's new government, meeting with jordan trying to pull that coalition together. eun? >> tracie potts live on capitol hill for us. tracie, thank you. terrorists with ties to isis are threatening to show up at

homes of twitter employees. the social media website has been taking down accounts they believe are connected to the terrorist group and its affiliates. it is the same group that beheaded american reporters. right now the white house is building the groundwork for international support against isis. news 4's angie goff has me on that from the live desk. >> tracie just mentioned this a second ago. happening right now, secretary of state john kerry meeting for the first time with iraq's new prime minister. kerry and prime minister abadi will talk about the need to make the new government more inclusive. now, it is a must that the u.s. is going to continue to help iraq fight isis militants. kerry will also sit down with the country's new president during his visit. forming this coalition, last week you might remember the u.s. and nine other countries agreed to creating a united front against isis. aaron? >> angie, thank you. we'll learn more about the president's strategy later tonight. president obama will address the

nation in a primetime speech at 9:00 tonight right here on nbc 4. look for a full wrap-up at 11:00. right now the desperate search is on for this missing family. katherine huggle, her son and daughter disappeared one by one in montgomery county more than 48 hours ago. this is 2-year-old jacob who never returned to his grandparents' home sunday night in gaithersburg after his mom said she took him for pizza. early monday morning, 3-year-old sara went missing after hugglu said she took her to day care. that same night, huggle and the children's father were on their way to get help from police. but huggle slipped out of a chick-fil-a in germantown during a quick stop. >> pray and if someone sees them, to contact the police. >> any message to your daughter? >> please come home. >> i just wa my freakin' kids back, dude. that's it. that's it. that's all. >> officers believe that huggle may have boarded a bus at a nearby transit central. police say she is a diagnosed

paranoid schizophrenic and the key to finding hermes be the key to finding her children. if you have any information on their whereabouts, contact police. 11 minutes before the hour now. a region already getting ready for the 2024 summer olympics bid today will learn what's needed to prepare our 911 operations across the district, maryland and virginia. the chair of the d.c. bidding committee will speak at a council of governmenbod hearing t rios 1 infrastrucre. the council has beekeat upgradinthseicsc derechkck o svi i parts of northern virginia in 2012. 6:49. new this morning, student loan debt isn't just a problem for the young. a small but growing percentage of seniors are struggling to pay as well. a government accountability office report says that in 201 4% of americans between the ages of 65 and 74 still owed money on federal student loans. that's up 1% from 2004. about 80% of the student loan

debt by seniors was for their own education. the rest was taken out for their children. target's new ceo is looking to refocus the retailer on a handful of key areas. the chain is working to bring shoppers back to its stores following a number of setbacks including last year's massive data breach. ceo brian cornell tells "the wall street journal" the department store will prioritize certain departments including baby products, fashion and health. it may cut back on selling such a wide variety of groceries. the company says it still needs to decide what role groceries will play in its stores. there it is. the new iphone design is out. and now other companies are trying to make sure they get a bite out of the apple, too. moneywise. cnbc's morgan brennan here to tell us about the huge amounts of cash up for grabs now. morgan, good morning. >> good morning, aaron. well, apple fans may be fawning over that iphone 6 and the apple watch, but there's a whole host of companies that are scrambling

to capitalize on these new products. and they've been searching the internet for the past few weeks for rumors about the iphone 6, trying to verify what it would look like and how it will be built. why? they want a piece of the -- get this -- $21 billion smartphone accessory market. shipments of accessories such as iphone cases and skins topped $2.2 billion in the past year and are expected to reach $2.5 billion in the middle of next year. meanwhile, walmart is out with its annual chosen by kids hot toys list. this is the head of the holiday shopping season. big winners, arts and crafts, electronics, scooters and classics like hot wheels cars. walmart plans to promote the items as chosen by kids with in-store display as well as online and says it won't waver in offering the lowest price. aaron, back to you. >> morgan brennan at cnbc, thank you. we're talking about some interesting weather we keep going down and up and back up to summer again. >> tom, we're getting closer and closer to the beginning -- the

meteorological beginning -- which one -- >> astronomical. >> anyway. >> right. >> it's going to get cooler pretty soon. >> fall and all that. >> autumn is a battle between winter and summer. and summer's going to be winning out. it's saying not so fast. not quite done with us yet. got clouds around. a little pink tinge to the clouds. live view. there's capitol hill. a little bit of a summerery like haze. right now 72. cloudy at reagan nasaeag na light northeasterly win. bringing in that humidity off the bay and the north atlantic. and temperatures 60s all around the region this morning. and it's mild and kind of muggy, too. great day for baseball at nats park. an afternoon game. first pitch is at 4:05. and another big game with the braves. by then it will be in the low 80s. good baseball weather for the game. partly cloudy. a light wind. temperatures upper 70s by the seventh inning. by the last out, should be in

the mid-70s. there's the capitol under that cloudy sky. and the entire region should be up around 80 during the afternoon and noticeably more humid with that sunshine breaking out. then hot and humid on thursday. tomorrow afternoon's highs around 90 degrees. and storms likely by the afternoon. storm team 4 on it. and watching it very carefully coming in from the midwest. that storm threat after 3:00 p.m. mainly with heavy rain and maybe strong gusty winds that may cause some power outages and wind damage. lower humidity on friday and part of saturday. although there may be a shower saturday. then on sunday, great weather for jacksonville at washington. fedex field. lots of sun, temperatures in the mid-70s. and a light wind there. good football weather. into next week, stays nice monday, tuesday, into midweek. melissa here with a slowdown on the roads. >> yeah, slowdowns pretty typical but still not the greatest to see. top of the beltway, outer loop. d.c. as you zoom in, 295, just past

50. it's a little bit slow as well. taking a look at 66 and 95. 95 stafford county as you're heading northbound through dale city, your slowest spot. 66 as you head into fairfax, eastbound, that's your slowest spot on 66 for my friends there. taking a look at prince george's county, looking pretty good overall. indian head highway always gets a little jammed as you hit the beltway. it is jammed again today. 270 southbound as you get on maybe at 70 in frederick county and head south, you are very slow through clarksburg, urbana. you open up finally in germantown. 270 at shady grove road finally moving along. live desk here, the blame game just took a big turn in the malaysia airlines flight mh17 tragedy. russia's defense minister now saying that ukraine is to blame. he told malaysia's defense minister that kiev, that government, bears full responsibility for the crash. that it happened in ukraine airspace. and the tragedy would have never

happened had ukraine opted to solve its internal problems through peaceful means. 298 people died when mh17 was shot out of the sky in july. and it did happen in eastern ukraine, but in a territory controlled by pro-russian separatists. separatists, russia continues to deny any connection to. over to you, eun. >> thank you, angie goff. 6:55. new calls for an investigation this morning after the release of the ray rice assault video. the president of the new jersey state senate wants to know why a county prosecutor did not pursue a case against rice. and ravens' owner steve bisciotti is responding to the video for the first time. he says the ravens did ask police, prosecutors and the revel casino for the video, but those requests were denied. bisciotti now says, quote, seeing that video changed everything. we should have seen it earlier. we should have pursued our own investigation more vigorously. we didn't and we were wrong. much more on the ray rice story

is coming up on the "today" show. jenna wolf talks to four wives of former nfl players. they'll share their perspective about violence and the nfl. concern over a lack of security at a nuclear power plant 50 miles outside the district. the daily caller found anybody can enter the property of the calvert cliffs nuclear power plant. that paper says on one visit a reporter did not see a single security guard there. a spokesperson for the commission appointed by the obama administration says the security of the plant is, quote, appropriate to protect the public health and safety. taking a look at four things you they'd to know before you head out the door now at 6:56. metro will test new payment options to let you use your smartphone to pay at the fare gate and on buses. we posted more information on our website at nbcwashington.com. police will pick up their search for a mother and two children who went missing from montgomery county. take a look at their pictures. katherine huggle has schizophrenia and police believe

she may have gotten on a bus in germantown. john kerry in iraq's focus will be on forming a coalition against isis. president obama will present his strategy to the nation tonight beginning at 9:00. look up from your cereal bowl. look at that gorgeous sunrise over the potomac. live view from our city camera. later today, low 80s. storms tomorrow. high near 90. >> tom, thank you. and that is the broadcast this morning. we appreciate you waking up with us. >> the "today" show is next and hoda kotb and kathie lee hosting with matt.

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president obama set to make his case for defeating isis in a rare prime time address to the nation tonight. this as secretary of state john kerry arrives in the middle east overnight to support for strikes against a terror group. playing defense. growing criticism and calls to resign. the nfl commissioner speaks out about his handling of the ray rice scandal. >> we assumed that there was a video. we asked for video. we asked for anything that was pertinent, but we were never granted that opportunity. >> while rice's old team issues a new apology and the former star makes its first comment since being suspended. "today" exclusive, look inside the home