y rain. security failure, the fall out after a damaging internal grags uncovered some serious lapses with the tsa. storm team 4 meteorologist tom kiereinen helping you to prepare for the day ahead. >> we can all exhale that pounding down pour we had yesterday is long gone. a couple of hours ago, we did have one band of moderate showers coming through, but they are out in the eastern shore. from hagerstown to martinsburg and west of there into the mountains getting a few lying showers. these running going to be passing well north of the metro area. roads are drying out a little bit. temperatures are cool this morning, we're in the 60s to just near 70. it's only near 60 far north and west. have an umbrella today. late afternoon and evening is

when we'll get a few more showers coming on through. bus stop forecast next weather and traffic on the 1s. it was a terrifying ride for people taking this metrobus in the district. take a look a tree came crashing down this is just west of mcpherson square. it happened during the evening rush yesterday, it happened as the rain started to come down hard. people nearby said the rain and win came out of nowhere and they heard a crash. passengers were on the bus, when that tree cull came down but thankfully nobody was hurt. all of the passengers were able to get out of the bus through the back door. now, let's check in with melissa monthly -- mollet. >> outer loop at georgetown road we have the two lanes blocked. kind of ebbs and throws there. you can see in flow downs at the

bottom of the spur. taking a look at prince george's coin right now starting to see some volume and typical slowdowns here headed on indian head highway. same thing here. taking a look at 95, bw parkway, everything looking pretty good. 270 at shady grove road northbound southbound no major issues. back with travel times in ten minutes. 6:02 today, a man accused of making threats against the metro system heads back to court. he's responsible for a string of threats dating back to last december. the charges include attempt to make terrorist threats. he appeared on a reality tv show last year. he pretended to be a well-known rapper to gain money from a fan on line. if coleman is convicted, he faces 20 years in prison.

the agency in charge of your security at airports across the country is under fire this morning. a new report reveals that the tsa screeners failed to test -- failed a test to detect weapons and explosives and now the acting head of that agency is no longer in charge. news 4 megan mcgrath is live with more on the scary statistics here. >> reporter: security checkpoints like the one you see behind me at reagan national airport, the assumption is all of these checks keep dangerous things off of airplanes and now comes an alarming statistic. the screeners failed to find fake bombs and weapons 95% of the time during spot under cover checks by teams from homeland security. the tsa's acting administrator has been reassigned and major changes have been ordered. now, during the investigation, agents smuggled a variety of mock contraband past security including fake explosives and weapons. investigators slipped the

dangerous items past airport screeners in 67 of 70 tests. that's a 95% failure rate. now, nbc news reports that in one case an alarm sounded and the screener did a patdown of the agent and still did not find a fake plastic explosive taped to that agent's back. we've been talking to passengers here at reagan national airport and they find it all very disturbing. >> i actually got through a corkscrew at one time and i was shocked they didn't find it because that wasn't allowed either. >> it definitely scares with me that they will let something like that through, 95% of the time. especially in the nation's capital. >> these under cover spot-checks have been going on for 13 years. tsa has been ordered to revamp procedures and training. back to you in the studio. a man in montgomery county is recovering in the hospital right now. he is accused of killing his girlfriend outside of a target

in germantown. montgomery county detectives believe the man shot the woman as part of a domestic issue. it happened in the parking lot right outside the target on north frederick road. police chased down a ford pick up miles away on darnstown road. the man is in the hospital right now. county police shut down dangerfield road in clinton last night. they say a man on a motorcycle drove on that road on at openly lane. he later died. i'm kristen wright at the live desk where we are getting in new pictures of a rescue from a capsized cruise ships in china. rescue teams were able to get to a 65-year-old woman. there she is there. they were able to pull her from the water, put her on to a stretcher and on to a boat and

bring her safely to shore. the effort continues to find more survivors. we see rescue teams on a vessel there. they are on the hull of the ship trying to listen for any signs of life and listen for any other survivors. they think that there may be people trapped there in that hull. the ship capsize ds in the yangtze river in bad weather. it may have been a cyclone. 458 people are on board. five are confirmed dead. 14 rescued. they are working in poor weather conditions now to find more survivors. lawmakers are grilling amtrak's president on capitol hill today. they will be asking him about the deadly train derailment in philadelphia last month. follow us to find out what amtrak has to say at this hearing. eight people died when the northeast regional train went off the tracks.

it was traveling over 100 miles an hour. a frightening accident kpawrpted on video as a mini van plows into a boy walking to school. the efforts of strangers to help the victim. outer loop at old georgetown what is blocked right now and how long are those delays. relief for hundreds of high school students who thought that they would have to retake the s.a.t. where thei

social media is still buzzing about this morning caitlyn jenner showing off her transition, how her big reveal set a new record. >> plus with all the turnover lately, who is the king of late night television. new numbers just into our

a young boy is recovering this morning after this terrifying accident in new york city. we have to warn you this is graphic. you can see right there, the boy he was just walking yesterday when that car just barrels on to the sidewalk and drives right over him. people in the area immediately called police. they even tried to lift the car off of the little boy. the fire department eventually came and got him from underneath that car and the boy is expected to be okay. it's still not clear though what caused the driver to lose control. what we do know is charges have not been filed. coming up on 17 after the

hour. today, we'll learn more about takata's defective airbags. the company's vice president will be at a hearing on capitol hill this morning. 34 million afer bag were recalled. we're learning one possible cause of the problem. they plan to replace a chemical propellant in the airbag. some scientists believe ammonium nitrate becomes unstable over time. so farm it's not confirmed that it's to blame. social media is being scoured to find out more about a murder case. officers charged him with killing a student a few months ago. they have gained access to his google mail accounts. they are searching the app yik

yak for words like grace, rape, and murder. a fair cox county -- fairfax county attorney will keep her job amid reports of how they handled a police investigation. she was criticized for the way she carried out the investigation in the shooting of john gear in 2013. a friend of the convicted boston bomber is being sentencedutors say he removed things from dzhokhar tsarnaev's dorm room when he recognized his friend during the manhunt. police people were killed during the bombing. sudden death of a dog after he got groomed at petco. he was taken to the store right

outside of the friday. hours later he died of an apparent heat stroke. the vet told the owner he was likely put in a drier too long. the groomers were suspended. another world cup soccer executive is out of a job at least temporarily. fifa suspended the general secretary of the division that runs games in north and south america. he's not allowed anywhere near soccer-related events. the ethic committee said it booted him over news of a corruption investigation. two officials from the congo have also been suspended. you can get a free skin cancer screening. it will be happen at the rayburn house office building in the

gold room. it is from 11:00 until 1:00. one in five americans will develop skin cancer in their lifetime. a new study says you should stand for two hours a day while you were at work. they recommend as much as four hours of standing while on the job. the researchers say employers could accomplish that by letting workers take walks or providing standing desks. transgender activists are applauding caitlyn jenner this morning. she made her debut on the cover of "vanity fair" yesterday. espn anoubsed it will honor jenner with the aurthur ashe award during this year's espys.

we had thunder, lightning and hail. >> it was a mixed bag. a lot of the sogginess are lasting throughout the night. high water in some places. >> still some of that lingering in the after math of those heavy downpours we had. good morning, as you are looking out your kitchen window you may see some low dark clouds passing over but they are not producing any more of those heavy downpours. storm team radar showing a few scattered sprinkles in the metro area. from hagerstown down toward 81 martinsburg, panhandle of west virginia and the pavement gradually drying out. we have temperatures in the mid to upper 60s. fairfax, louden, prince william and monday mont and much of prince george's county just in the mid to low 60s. charles calvert anne arundel

falls church, the district right around 70 degrees. there's the capitol under low dark clouds now. staying cloudy through the morning and noontime. we'll hold steady in the 60s to where we are now. up to 70 by the early afternoon. a lot of clouds late afternoon. showers moving on through and into tomorrow morning and another cool day tomorrow with a greater chance of showers off and on from the morning into the afternoon and evening. highs only upper 60s. then on thursday, partly sunny the mid 70s. might get a passing shower mainly in the afternoon, could get some afternoon showers on friday with afternoon downpours. weekend we'll have highs reaching the low 80s maybe saturday and sunday. sunday is looking like the dry day for the weekend. maybe a shower late sunday night into early monday morning.

next next, melissa what's going on the roads? >> still have this issue as you are headed into the district. this is westbound, right there at the sousa bridge, it's block because of some flooding. that's something going on this morning. had a report of it earlier. outer loop at g.w. parkway, that crash on the shoulder, no problems there. you can see we're starting to get just a little bit slow here. 66 through manassas 44 miles per hour, not bad there. 95 northbound 15 miles an hour slow spot there. beltway and outer loop looking quite good. 6:23 right now and our very own eun yang on assignment in new york city. >> she's all the way up in the big apple. she joins us live with what's coming up. you got your umbrella in hand. >> good morning to you aaron and angie from a rainy and

chilly new york, a little windy too. it doesn't feel like june but i'm happy to be here on the today show plaza to talk about what's coming up later today. matt will be joining us very soon to tell us what they are working on the today show. we're here on the plaza. not a whole lot of people out here yet. i think the rain and the wind keeping people away, but we're expecting more people to trickle in as the morning wears on but i will be back with more with what's coming on the show and about my appearance on the today show at 8:30 this morning. for now we'll send it back to washington with aaron and angie, guys. we're excited. we can't wait to watch, eun. >> thanks. we'll see you soon. >> sounds good. 6:34. a lot of organizations in our community that need your help and nbc4 is working with the united way on a day long fundraising drive to help them get the help they need. it's called do more 24. on thursday, you can contribute to any of the 600 nonprofits

that are participating. whatever your passion is, more than likely there's going to be a nonprofit there that you can support and be able to really and truly help them get over some of the finish lines that they have to do with the work that they are doing in the community. >> we're hoping that do more 24 sets a record this year and raises more money than ever before. for a list of all the nonprofits, 600 of them and to find out how you can contribute check out the nbc washington app or nbc washington.com. we just got our hands on this. new this morning, we are learning your favorite late night tv talk show host, now that david letterman is retired. according to a new poll, jimmy fallon takes top billing of the current crop. 20% of americans say they watch fallon a couple of times a week. jimmy kimmel got 11% of that voter. 6% chose conen o'brien. >> when it comes to your late night show, who is your favorite

right there? >> i saw it right there. >> johnny carson is still the king. >> david letterman came in second. we just can't get enough of her so we're going back to new york city to check in with eun yang this morning and you have a guest with you. i think we know who that man is. >> i do have a guest. talk about how chilly and rainy and cold it was. matt lauer is here to hold things up. >> just to hold the umbrella. >> what's going on today. >> a busy news day. a lot of subjects people are talking about, caitlyn jenner, we're going to interview buzz bisinger. we're going to have more of our interview with tracy morgan. we spent more time with him and his fiancee and took them over to studio 8 h. we'll talk about his return to comedy and parenting that's something you are involved in. >> that's right, for sure. we're going to have some summer tips how to survive summer

travel with kids. you have three kids. how do you survivor? >> you know, we just relax. we take chill pills all summer long and say what will happen will happen. we don't get too wound up. one of the new stars of the jur rasic movie is coming with us. >> what about the weather map? >> it's been brutal. i have a feeling it's not great where you are from. >> we're just changing over in washington as well. i'm happy to be here. i'm looking forward to being on the show. >> come on inside. let's get warm. >> thanks so much matt. >> we'll you guys in a little bit. >> see if you can score some of those chill pills for us. bring them back. us mommies need them. a live look now at the washington monument, the view of it from the outside is all you are going to see for a few days. the latest problem that has the landmark closed to visitors. >> right now, storms are rolling out of the area after a night of heavy rain as we take a look at the radar. you are going to want to keep that umbrella handy. when you can see showers where

you live with your hour by hour forecast at 6:31. sharing the road with someone who is not even paying attention. where you'll soon

right now a d.c. landmark is off limits to visitors. we've learn the washington monument will remain closed for a few more days. the problems that are keeping people from enjoying the view from inside. the heavy rain that may have kept you up overnight is now pushing its way out of the d.c. area this morning, but there's always a but, we're going to get a brief break from those showers. >> storm team 4 meteorologist tom kiereinen is here. >> this new model just coming in showing brand new timing on rain moving through, as you just showed on the storm team 4 radar, most of the area is gradually drying out temporarily after we had one wave of moderate rain moving through. we're still getting a few light sprinkles, between 70 and hagerstown, west of there and into the mountains. this will pass north of the metro areas where the roads are

drying out. the roads are drying a bit. going forward into the rest of the morning, these patches of green, you might get a few scattered sprinkles this morning. it's later in the day hour by hour, by 2:00 p.m., a line of showers into southern maryland and south of there, fredericksburg to charlottesville, some of shows thundershowers coming through, but they are not going to be nearly as heavy as they were yesterday, but enough to make the afternoon commute and the evening commute wet if you are going to be out tonight you will be running in those showers through the evening hours. we've already had problems with some standing water this morning and now you've got problems on 270. what's going on with that? >> we have delays right now. this just popped out. as you are headed out the frederick , pretty slow all the way southbound as we zoom down 270 here. we're either yellow or red. it's just volume. nothing actually happening. just a little bit nasty this

morning. wide look at things. prince george's county inbound indian head highway, 12 miles an hour. sousa bridge, we are still blocked here. that ramp is blocked because of some flooding there and bw parkway southbound of the parkway have a disabled vehicle. a live look right now. that's the washington monday yum hard to see through all the haze right there. a look at the outside it's all you can see today as it remains closed. tourists will have to wait until thursday for the monument to reopen. derek is at the monday yum this morning. >> it is those pesky elevators. if you take a look at the washington monument this morning, as you expect with the overcast day we're having, very top shrouded in mist. you won't be able to tell the difference until thursday.

during the earthquake in august 2011, the monument was shut down for nearly three years so they could do $15 million in repairs to damage done by the earthquake and that included some work on the elevators. when the elevators and the monument reopened, you had some issues with those he willelevateors again, doors not opening or closing and stranding passengers. that has been addressed and problems seem to have subsided until late last week until you had some intimatementermittent power outages. they shut it down until thursday. technicians are there trying to get to the heart of that problem. it will reopen thursday at least accordingly to plans and there have been calls early on at least last year to replace the elevator system altogether. that's been resisted and they think they can fix this. wait till thursday and get that

spectacular view once more. live at the washington monument, derek ward, news 4. 6:35rk the head of the irs heads to capitol hill to answer questions about a big data breach. investigators say hackers stole the personal information of thousands of taxpayers from an irs website. recently government watchdog group said they warned the agency about security flaws in the computer system. budget cuts hampered efforts to upgrade the system. the senate could vote on a bill to phase out nsa data collection over time. phone companies would hold that data inside. however, the nsa would still be able to search your phone records. senator rand paul says the reforms in this bill don't go far enough. paul forced a suspension of the nsa data programs earlier this week by blocking a vote. it appears he won't be able to block this new bill. an office in maryland is

receiving thousands of dollars in brand-new riot gear. the sheriff said the unrest in baltimore wanted him to prepare for unrest. they bought more thads 68,000 worth of emergency gear. the man charged with murdering his murders in rockville, prosecutors say scott tomaszewski posted that the vilardos were nice people and it was scary that they were killed in their neighborhood. they were stabbed more than 50 times. documents also say the suspect spent time in the house after the murders looking for things to steal. a damaging new report highlights serious lapses that could put you at risk. the action being taken to try and change the tsa. part of a bridge in the district right now shut down. we'll have detail coming up in a

couple of minutes. speaking about hitting the pavement, who says you need both hands on the wheel when you drive. the northern virginia roads will

emergency repairs are under way at the arlington memorial bridge. we took a look inside. we're going to show it to you right here. the steel beams are supposed to be 3/4 of an inch thick. because of corrosion those beams are paper thin and riddled with holes. tour buses are banned as well. the entire middle section of the memorial bridge will be replaced. you may soon pass a self driving car on the roads of virginia.

it will be testing on busy roads like i-95 and maybe the beltway. those roads will help assess the car's ability to adopt to new information on the fly. don't be alarmed. they still will have a driver behind the wheel for now. >> good. don't test them on my road. i'll give you my address. 6:41, it's time for weather and traffic. >> chuck bell with the storm team 4 by 4 on the national mall with the drive time forecast. chuck. >> good morning to you both. on the roof of the 4 by 4, there's our wind gauge there measuring a stiff northeasterly breeze right now. the top of the monument is starting to get a little fuzzy with the clouds out there. drive time forecast, lights. yellow light conditions on your commute forecast for the second part of the day. temperatures have been cool

courtesy of that northeast breeze. with the rain chances it's going to be a cool and wet day today. how is traffic holding up this morning. not so hot. two problems just popped up. tree down, massachusetts avenue at 13th street and flooding issues with some stranding here. we're getting reports of eastern avenue between addison street and olive street. still have this problem at the sousa bridge with that ramp blocked on the bridge. 270 south pretty slow. 66 inbound not so bad. 95 north, quantico to the beltway you are about 13 minutes behind. listen to our friends on wtop when you hop in your car this morning. as you saw about 20 minutes, our friend, eun yang is on the today show plaza. she's giving us a look for a story she's putting together on the today show. rescue teams are scrambling

to pull survivors trapped in a ship that capsized in a storm. the success those teams are having so far when we go

concerns about your safety after a damaging investigation uncovers some serious lapses with the tsa. this morning, passengers are reacting to the news that agents are missing a lot of potential

threats. it's one of stories we're working on right. storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein starts us off with the rain ahead. >> hair styles by mr. humidity today. cool and damp morning. live view from the camera showing some low clouds over most of the region now. they are producing sprinkles right now. showers for the afternoon. temperatures holding steady. upper 60s throughout the rest of the day. >> take a look at this, a massive tree down. just got this picture into the first 4 traffic center here. this is across mass avenue in the district. we'll have detail on this one coming up. 14 before the hour now and today a man accused of making threats against the metro system heads back to court. police say he's responsible for a string of threats against metro dating back to last december.

coleman or kid cole, he was on a reality show on tv. if convicted, he could face 20 years in prison. the agency responsible for making sure your flight is safe to board. a new report says screeners failed detection tests at several airports. mc -- megan mcgrath is live at reagan national airport right now. >> reporter: security checkpoints, the assumption is that such checks prevent dangerous things from getting on to airplanes but now comes an alarming statistic, that screeners failed to find fake bombs and weapon 95% of the time during spot under cover check by teams from homeland security.

tsa's acting administrator has been reassigned. changes have also been ordered. during the investigation agents smuggled a variety of fake contraband during security. in 67 of 70 tests, that's a 95% failure rate. in one case, an alarm sounded and the screener did a patdown of the agent and still did not find a fake plastic explosive taped to that agent's back. we've been talking to passengers here and they find it all very disturbing. >> it puts me a little bit on edge especially because i've been at this airport all night long, so i mean, how long was i in danger, you know, what got through? >> reporter: tsa has been ordered to revamp procedures and training. we're working for you to help your family's road trip go

a little more smoothly this morning. >> news 4 eun yang is not here, she's there. tes on the today show for a parenting segment. she joins us live. >> good morning to you. it is a chilly and rainy and breezy morning here in new york city. we're on the today show plaza and guess what since we last talked, people are showing up to get ready for the show. matt lauer lent me his big orange umbrellas, that's helping me to keep dry. coming up on the today show, we're going to be talking about those parenting tips to get you through surviving summer travel with your kids. how to get to the beach and back without getting too much sand in your eyes and hair and i'll have some ideas on how to keep your kids occupied and happy on those long road trips. you know five minutes there are

we there yet? don't touch me. we go on a lot of road trips. i'll tell you how to survive that at 8:30. hopefully we'll get some tips on having not to say don't make me pull this car over. just a reminder, you can see her right here on nbc4. she will be live on the today show on the 8:30 half hour. we're working to find the name of a woman who died in germantown. authorities say her boyfriend killed her. the shooting happened at the target store. officers say they caught the boer a car chase, after he crashed. they found a gun in his car as well. county police shut down dangerfield road in clinton last night. a man on a motorcycle drove off

that road and later died. police are trying to figure out what caused the crash. happening now, the search for survivors from a capsized cruise ship in china. rescue teams right now are mobilizing. they are looking for any signs of life or anyone who may be trapped. the cruise ship sank in the yank zee river. it may have been a cyclone. five are confirmed dead. rescuers to make matters worse are working in poor weather conditions right now. today, catholic university will unveil the winning design for the altar pope francis will use when he visits in december. 18 teams entered this contest. they are for pope francis' outdoor mass. talk about the weather. it looks like we need to keep the umbrella around. >> yeah, but no more pounding

rain like we had on on our roofs yesterday. at least it's going to be lighter rain today. this is the radar showing a few scattered light sprinkles, that area in light green left of the screen, shenandoah valley and the mountains. that's advancing to the north and east. we might have a few scattered sprinkles this morning as we head off to work and school. rather cool. we're just near 60 in montgomery county. low to mid 60s, loudon county. charles calvert, saint mary's upper 60s. baltimore just at 61 degrees. a rather cool start this morning. boy, that sky did look angry yesterday afternoon right before it unloaded all this heavy rain. this photo taken by holly slaughter in fairfax county posted on my twitter page. post yours on twitter and on facebook and share as well on instagram. live view from the storm team 4

capital camera this morning. they are producing a few sprinkles this morning. a greater chance of rain coming in again is not going to be until late afternoon and evening hours. most of the day, we'll kind of flat line in the upper 60s throughout the day. then this evening gets a little bit cooler with a northeast wind all the way down around to 60 tomorrow morning. during the day on wednesday highs only in the upper 60s. average time is 81. maybe a shower in the morning but a greater chance of midday and afternoon showers on wednesday. then a chance of a passing shower thursday mainly in the afternoon, mid 70s, up and rather humid up near 80 on friday with a scattered thunderstorm. sunday looking dry. it looks like the best day of the weekend for outdoor activities. melissa has breaking news on the roads now. breaking news on northwest washington. take a look at this massive tree that is down right now. this is across massachusetts avenue right there at 13th. you are going to want to take 11th or 14th to get around this one.

going to be there for a while and start causing some real problems. eastern avenue at minnesota flooding. new report a pedestrian struck blue ridge avenue at amherst in silver springs. westbound, sousa bridge, still have that ramp blocked. a wide look at thks we're quite slow everywhere. looking pretty typical. slowest spot right there. prince george's county rolling along as we always do on an average tuesday. 270 the entire stretch from frederick down to the spur is overall pretty darn slow at this point this morning. on capitol hill this morning, we'll learn more about amtrak's deadly train crash in philadelphia. amtrak's president and the ntsb will testify in front of lawmakers this morning. they are going to talk about a safety measure that was not in place when the train sped off the tracks last month.

the train was traveling at more than 100 miles an hour and eight people died. following news 4 adam tuss on twitter to learn what's said at the hearing today. in the day ahead president obama will award the medal of honor to a black world war i veteran. henry johnson served in all black regiment known as the harlem fighters. he's being honored for rescuing his comrades in france in 1918. the u.s. awarded him the purple heart in 2006 and in 2003 the u.s. army awarded him the distinguished cross. the washington monument is still closed today. engineers are working on the elevators. one of takata's vice president is in washington right

now. a cruise ship capsized off the coast of china. only 14 of the over 400 passengers have been rescued. the man leading the tsa is no longer in charge. that's after recent tests that screeners were not able to detect weapons at checkpoints. they failed 95% of the tests. most of the sprinkles the area, shenandoah valley panhandle of west virginia, there's the sky over washington right now. low grade clouds throughout most of the day. holding steady in the 60s, near 70 degrees. pretty good chance you'll have need for an umbrella late afternoon and overnight. couple of problems, massachusetts avenue at 13th. take a look at this second. a tree across all lanes at this point this morning. kind of a mess there. eastern avenue at minnesota had some cars stuck in water there. another problem i should say from overnight and blue ridge

road at amherst, pedestrian struck there at silver spring. we also have this problem. westbound sousa is he bridge. so glad that you could join us. be safe everybody. >> that is the broadcast this morning. the today show coming your way next. we're coming back in 25 minutes. in the meantime, make it a great

good morning. heads rolling. the leader of the tsa is out this morning after a report finds screeners and airport tests failed to detect mock weapons nearly every time. a shocking 95% fail rate. what happens now? breaking overnight. aruise ship capsizes in china with more than 450 people on board. the search for survivors is on as cries for help are heard from inside the overturned vessel. close call. the video just in of a lightning strike hitting dangerously close to a police car. and new thunderstorms bearing down on the east with new threats of flooding. and call me