based on his driving, not theirs. get snapshot and see just how much your good driving could save you. "news4 today" starts now. >> a manhunt underway for two convicted killers who used power tools to escape from a jail in new york. that's just one of the stories we're following for you this morning. good morning. welcome to "news4 today." i'm adam tuss. >> i'm molette green in for angie goff. it's sunday, june 7th. let's go to storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell with your forecast. it's going to be a good one, right? >> you betcha. yesterday finished up beautifully out there. skies remain fairly clear overnight. we're off to a bright and sunny start here this morning. to what promises to be a very pleasant day to be outside today. temperatures just about average by june standards. there's the view from our tower

this morning. searching for sunrise out there. plenty of clouds around first thing this morning. these are not rain making clouds so we don't have anything to worry about there. still dark at national harbor. storm team 4 radar scanning the skies nary a drop to be found. 100% of dryness in the metro area for today. current temperatures now, mid to upper 50s across the northern and western areas. 54 in fredericksburg as well. 69 in washington. planning out your day today, a nice, mild, dry morning. temperatures in the mid 70s, up to 82 for a high temperature later on this afternoon. but rain chances come back into the picture starting tomorrow. more about all of that with your seven day forecast coming up. >> all right thank you so much, chuck. right now, a massive manhunt for two murderers on the loose. this is richard madd and david sweat. they escaped 20 miles from the canadian border yesterday. officials say the two used power tools to cut through steel pipes

and escaped through a manhole. state troopers and k-9 units are scouring the clinton county area to find the men. right now, aal who and two men are recovering from a stabbing in d.c. the attack happened right outside the gallery place metro station at the intersection of 7th and "h" streets in northwest. d.c. police say they have nonlife threatening injuries. two were stabbed from behind. police are looking for a silver mercedes right now as a man and a woman who may be behind the attacks. also in d.c. police looking for someone they say attacked and sexually assaulted a woman. it happened on 13th street southeast in this apartment building. only a block from the congress heights metro station. a man attacked her friday night. d.c. police are offering a $1,000 reward in the case. king street in leesburg is back open this morning after a massive building fire. take a look at this cell phone video.

that fire broke out on king street just south of market around 11:00 p.m. last night. we're still working to figure out what caused the fire. fire in northwest d.c. totally destroyed the inside of family home. that happened on 14th and madison streets northwest. the family got out safely. it took firefighters 45 minutes to put out the flames. now investigators say the fire started in the basement and quickly spread to other floors. this morning the faa wants to know why two airplanes tapped each other on the tarmac. take a look at this photo here. you see the wings of two southwest planes clipped each other at a small airport outside of los angeles. this is basically like a fender bender, but it's not clear how it would impact a flight. southwest took the planes out of service and the company said it's making sure no damage was done to those planes. well, new this morning, president obama is in germany. he's meeting with several world leaders there today. air force one landed shortly

after midnight. take a look, you can see president obama and german chancellor chancellor angela merkel delivering speeches together. they'll meet with six other countries including italy and japan but not russia today. it will be another emotional day today for the biden family. they buried beau biden yesterday. he was the oldest son of the bidens. we see how the family said good-bye. ♪ >> reporter: more than a thousand mourners filled the church in wilmington, delaware. >> mercifully grant us, that our brother beau may come to the eternal table of christ. >> reporter: the public servant and son of vice president joe biden, he was memorialized by the top u.s. commander in iraq where he once served. >> beau biden's character was genuine. he had a natural charisma that few people possess.

>> reporter: president obama offered high praise, saying biden lived a life of meaning for from a young age. surviving the car crash that killed his mother and baby sister. and never standing in the shadow of his father's success, but instead forging a political career of his own. >> and the example made you want to be a better dad or a better son. or a better brother or sister. better at your job. better soldier. he made you want to be a better person. >> reporter: biden died at the age of 46, leaving behind a wife, children and extended family including sister ashley. >> he was my first love. and what a beautiful example of love he provided. >> reporter: while the vice president did not speak, he and the president shared an emotional hug, and it ended with

chris martin from cold play performing "from kingdom come." a heart felt tribute to a family man, veteran and politician, gone too soon. well, this weekend marked 71 years since allied forces stormed the beaches of normandy on d-day. veterans gathered at the world war ii memorial to mark the anniversary. veterans placed wreaths on the memorial to honor the soldiers who died on that historic day. more than 9,000 allied soldiers were killed or wounded. their sacrifice led to the liberation of western europe. if you were hoping to take part in the celebrate fairfax festival you have another chance today. you can visit us starting at 11 clork -- 11:00. the festival is at the fairfax county government center and it wraps up at 7:00 tonight.

glad we'll have good weather. >> any truth to the rumor you're doing karaoke? >> we should never ever have me do karaoke. i have done it before. 6:07. coming up wounded warriors give it their all on the field. all the action good for a good cause. eruption fears. what people are doing before this volcano blows.

you're watching "news4 today." >> a volcano in indonesia could explode any day. people living near it have already been evacuated. farmers rushed to harvest their crops at the foot of the mountain after the country raised the threat to the highest level. it has sporadically erupted since 2013 after being dormant

for years. now indonesia has 129 active volcanoes. >> wow. some wounded warriors have a great story to tell this morning. they took the field at prince georges stadium to play last night. they overcame severe injuries to be able to compete and the best part, kirk cousins and ravens tight end dennis key da led the team. >> they're just as excited, they like to hear about the military stories and we like to talk to them about playing in the nfl. >> now, several other football players took part as well. this was the third annual softball game for wounded veterans. the game's proceeds go to local charities that support wounded warriors. what a great event there. >> yeah. >> happy that, you know the redskins and the ravens' players could get out there and help those guys. >> all for a good cause. i mean, those wounded warriors are so courageous and brave and to have our football heroes --

you know, i mean to be out there. >> it must be interesting to come back from such a debilitating injury and then go back out and perform the way you like to perform. good for them. very happy for them. all right, well, we're going to get a check of the forecast today because this whole week has been kind of wild. >> yeah. >> like the rain this week. then yesterday was nice. what is today going to be like? i want to check in with storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell. chuck, what are we expecting on sunday here? >> definitely want to eat outside today if we can. >> yeah. >> we can get outside. >> oh. that's sounds good i mean, the skies don't look too bad right now. good. >> yeah, it's a nice morning outside. plenty of clouds but nothing to worry about out there. temperatures generally in the 50s and 60s this morning. as you take a look over washington, boy, i'll tell you, running around this building, it will get you.

>> what people don't know, chuck does wind sprints in his weather forecast. gets his heart rate up. >> moments ago i was on top radio and now i'm in the studio. it's a nice enough day to be outside. we'll do the weather on the backward side here as we go backwards here. i'm all discombobulated. these things happen to you in the world. here's the future weather for the course of the day. we have the clouds outside this morning. they're not generating anything in the way of rain just yet. notice how the clouds thin out and they may linger longer out in the shenandoah valley. there could be a few lonesome showers out in the mountains of west virginia. i don't think they'll get as far east as i-81. nonetheless keep that in mind today. we stay dry in the metro. in fact, the clouds that we have this morning should give way to

the mostly sunny sky by later on thissen a. and on into this evening. any rain chances really very, very low and out to the west of i-81. rain chances as far as the rest of the week ahead, now tomorrow, significant chance for showers and storms coming in tomorrow afternoon, tomorrow evening tomorrow night. one or two of those could be strong to severe. so we'll be keeping a close eye on the weather tomorrow. showers linger on into the day on tuesday, but then as we head towards wednesday thursday, friday, hot humid weather comes back into the picture and rain chances diminish quite a bit. back to work and school tomorrow. mid 60s in the morning. upper 80s around 4:00 5:00, 6:00. then as you see on the future weather, not much going on early in the day, but an afternoon/evening chance for showers. that's what you need to be on the lookout for tomorrow. your seven day forecast it will be a hot week ahead. last week was cool and cloudy

and wet and we loved it. this week, summer -- people who love summer and love 90 degree days this is your week coming up starting after tuesday. temperatures could be back in the 90s starting wednesday going into next week. >> nice that we eased -- we're easing into this really hot stuff. >> i think so. >> thank you, chuck. next up "reporter's notebook," a look at the stories affecting our community. >> we'll be back in 15 minutes. good morning, welcome to "reporter's notebook." i'm pat lawson muse. we begin with o'malley, he's in. martin o'malley is in the race for the democratic presidential nomination. some question whether baltimore where o'malley was once mayor and where he made the announcement could be a challenge for him but the biggest question is whether o'malley can upset the conventional wisdom that hillary clinton is the inevitable democratic nominee. joe madison, was that the best back drop for this announcement? >> i don't know where else he could have done it. i mean, he's identified of course with baltimore.

that's where he really started his political career. and the reality is that's going to be the least of his problems. people, you know, several months from now won't remember where he announced his campaign, but can he raise enough money to challenge hillary clinton? >> bremante the riots are fresh in the minds of many and protesters said you're the reason, it was your policies that led to the riots following freddie gray's death. >> yeah, martin o'malley sort of talked right through the protests but i think that will keep maryland and baltimore in the discussion during the process. now, where he sort of falls there probably will determine that. but up until those things happened in baltimore, o'malley probably could have run strongly on the fact that, hey, i had a zero tolerance policy. we reduced crime in this city but then after we have the riots

that sort of flipped and said, wait a minute, maybe his policies weren't the best, 100,000 people were incarcerated out of 600,000. that may not work. he really is going to have to run as the alternative to hillary clinton. i think he's hoping that she may falter and that he may be the alternative to her. but in the field -- the field is not that crowded on the democratic side. that helps him. >> not yet. dave, some think o'malley is the democrat most likely to attract the liberal wing of the party. what do you think? >> well, not the people who are voting for bernie sanders. >> right. >> in fact, that's the issue now. he is not able to run right against hillary we are being told by the operatives, he's got to get past bernie sanders. sanders has established a place in the campaign that o'malley clearly wanted t have. now he has to do battle with sanders and a lot of people think that will be tough especially with these problems not only with the crime situation in baltimore, but the economic initiatives that were

undertaken by mayor and governor o'malley in baltimore. >> you know what was absent, where were the politicians from baltimore? if you're running in a city that you were once mayor and you're running for president of the united states, you'd want every local politician that you have ever worked with behind you. they weren't there. >> and finally, he has to sort of fight, his lieutenant governor could not sort of follow in his footsteps and citizens of maryland sort of pushed back on the tax hikes governor o'malley pushed through. >> free meals. a new maryland law allows schools to provide free breakfast and lunch, to at least 40% of the students who qualify for reduced or free meals. the hunger free act goes beyond qualifying individual students. this year maryland has adopted the plan which comes with federal money. bremante, howard somerset, washington counties are taking

part in this and baltimore for the first time is a city where all of the students are getting free -- reduced free meals under the plan, because 84% of them qualify. how does that impact the washington area? >> well i think, you know, the interesting thing here, you can look at it in a couple of ways. the fact that all of the schools in the city of baltimore will qualify for this, maybe there's an economic issue in baltimore that that many families would qualify and then the entire school district in baltimore city is eligible. i think it's a good thing, because it's fed aaleral money and the state and city doesn't have to pay for this. maybe the stigma is not the same, and let's remember here the issue in colorado, you had a kitchen manager in the public schools in aurora, colorado, was giving away lunches to kids who didn't have enough money to pay for their lunches because they

were throwing away the food anyway. >> is this a great equalizer? >> people argue that it is. but i watching congress and watching how they're watching federal money, especially the republican controlled congress is you have to wonder what -- how this is going to resound back there. i mean what's the cost? is there an additional cost because everyone going to get a free lunch? and no one is paying for lunch anymore. that's money they don't have anymore that's going to be -- that's going to have to be taken from somewhere else. >> all schools won't be opting in. only 40% of the students in schools. >> no, they won't be. i think we have hit all the points on it. there is stigma. i remember in new york when the wall street crash happened, you had wealthy families that turned around and didn't want their neighbors to know that their children were getting meals. there's nothing i could really add except though as we get towards the end of the school year, i want people to realize that one of the worst times for

child hunger is summer. >> yeah. >> because they don't get free food. they don't get their school meal. hunger, summertime is the worst time for children. >> metro funds were slashed in congress last week. this happened in the house. tell us what we are -- what numbers we're talking about. >> well normally there is a $150 million appropriation that is to be matched with $150 million from d.c., maryland, virginia. the concern now that the republicans have slashed this to $100 million is that the local jurisdictions will revert to less money there. they may not, they may. the feeling is that if you had 150, 153 million, that's the bare bones way to keep this system going. keeping new equipment. responding to the safety issues that they have. and if they don't get the money they need there could be dire consequences the critics say. >> we have had issues with accidents and safety and more

training. again, it's an old story in terms of metro has an image problem. obviously they have an image problem with congress. if congress is reducing the money here. but i believe congress actually was looking to reduce it almost to $75 million. >> that's right. they tried. >> in some ways metro got at least another $25 million that congress did not want to give. >> the burden is on the back of working people because here's how they're going to deal with the fare increases. that's exactly the way they'll try to make up the short fall. who does that impact the most? it's middle class poor working people who depend on the metro system to get to work. >> i should say quickly there's still a chance in the senate -- senator barbara mikulski has been a big champion of this. she's now the ranking democrat the republicans

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d.c. school reform failures. after seven years of reforms the. public schools and academic performance and in resources. a report by the national research council says poor and minority students are still far less likely to have quality teachers and performance grade level or graduate from high school in four years. your reaction to this report? >> i think that it's an honest report that is disturbing and one of the things that bothers me and i was really focused on was how the best qualified teachers are really in the upper scale neighborhoods. they're at the best schools. you would think that you would want to reverse that. which means you've got to provide incentives for good teachers, master teachers and i hate to use that term because unions don't like that. it's to get them into poor performing schools. that's the one thing that bothers me. the other thing that bothers many eis -- bothers me is where

the african-american and other minority students are failing are in key classes like s.t.e.m. science, mathematics, that's going to be so important in the future. >> bremante? >> the folks who put this report together actually used joe's word -- disturbing. the fact that 60% of black students and economically disadvantaged students are still reading below proficiency and math proficiency i think what's important in the report it says wait a minute, the information that's coming in is coming from too many different places. the way they're storing data. 44% of the schools are charter schools and they submit information differently than the public schools. they said if you have information coming in at different ways and different forms, how can the school system get a good handle on where they're moving?

it sounds like systematically that the d.c. public school system has to get more uniformity and that will help them. but the unfortunate thing even seven years later, after trying to make dramatic changes the school system still really isn't moving forward. >> dave, is it a reflection on ree and -- >> it could be taken that way, but the question you have -- are there struck charles -- structural changes they haven't made after seven years. is there a union regulation that says teachers have to stay where they are, they can't be shifted? is there any way that the unions and the government and the city administration couldn't work together to move people around. it seems amazing after all this time and money that we have all these problems. >> you know, the resources -- it's really interesting on the resources. and your best schools are in your best neighborhoods that's where the parents have

resources. and the schools that aren't performing well are usually in your poorest neighborhoods, that's because the parents don't have the resources. you want to transfer resources where they're needed. >> but one of the positive things about this report they recognize that. that some of the best teachers are not there and they need to make that shift. >> the council's push for the poor with the budget battle now done. the d.c. council is zeroing in on the poor. with the host of proposals to help people find jobs, they their electric bills, to stop your employers from screening you from later. and giving a diploma to avoid the stigma of putting ged on the resume. >> i think there's a bit of politics there. but i think this thing about the

credit check, i think it's doing to be -- that's going to be a difficult one. because if you own a business, we do know your credit sort of is tied in to how businesses will look at you as a future employee. and i think that might be a tough sell. >> i hope not because gee whiz if you don't have a job and you can't pay your bills you're going to have bad credit, and how do you get out of that? i would hope not only would they do everything they're suggesting they do, i would like to see if they haven't -- i would like to see them drop the box like a lot of cities and states are doing too. >> i don't know, a lot of people who are in the regular school system might object to that. i can see objections there. does changing what you've got in college really help you get a better job? isn't it what you know and what you can do and your performance is? >> what's behind this d.c. united talk about moving to virginia? >> governor mcauliffe. he's out to get every sports team in town and he's talking and they're listening. and you have to wonder when they

negotiated this deal with so much crucial stuff going into it didn't anybody think about a loophole where once we start building this stadium, you will play there and not at the last minute tell us you're going to leave? >> the d.c. deal is just about done. is this a ploy -- >> i think that what it is. but d.c. united know 40% of their fans come from northern virginia. but d.c. is the place we want to be this is the place we should be. he has to answer to that. >> he wants to be where the best financial deal is. that's what they all do. they want best deal. tax abatement, you name it. they want the best financial deal. it's the bottom line. >> all right. and that's the last line. thank you for being with us. that's "reporter's notebook." stay with us now for "news4 today." "news4 today" starts now.

>> good morning, everyone. and welcome to "news4 today." i'm molette green in for angie goff. >> i'm adam tuss. we want a check of your forecast with storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell. how about some sunshine today? >> we'll get some sunshine back for this afternoon. still plenty of clouds hanging in the sky early this morning, these are not rain clouds. don't worry, everybody, your outdoor plans won't be interrupted by mother nature at all. it will take time to burn the clouds off and get back to the sunshine that we enjoyed the second half of yesterday afternoon. here's the view from national harbor first thing this morning. temperatures are in the 50s and 60s. again, you see plenty of clouds but nothing on storm team 4 radar. scanning the skies nothing on it first thing this morning. temperatures 59 in leesburg, 64 manassas 69 now in capitol heights. here is your skycast 4, by 9:00 a.m., 73 in the city. about 70 in the suburbs.

suburbs 80 up to 82 and then highs today, 86, 87 degrees. going to be a nice warm day to be on the outside and by later on in the day our skies should be nearly 100% blue. some good news there. highs today as i mentioned well into the 80s. back to work forecast is coming up. there are two concerns that two murderers crossed into canada after breaking out of a prison. take a look. they escaped from the new york prison about 20 miles from the canadian border yesterday. officials say the two used power tools to cut through steel pipes and escaped through the manhole. state troopers and k-9 units are scouring the clinton county area to find them. right now an urgent public health warning on synthetic marijuana. more people are suffering in the overdose outbreak. darcy spencer speaks to one who

lost his brother to the drug. >> it's crazy. >> reporter: stefan james eichler talked about the reaction he had. >> i passed out in my room and i woke up and i was drenched in sweat everywhere. >> reporter: he smoked it for about a month and he ended upped a dikted and -- ended up addicted. he quit using the synthetic drug because of what happened to his 22-year-old brother, charlie. he took his own life after abusing k-2. >> the first couple of times this is all right i can do this. before you know it it's too late. >> reporter: in d.c. a spike in synthetic marijuana overdoses caused the mayor to issue a public health warning. dozens of people have been taken to the hospital after overdosing in recent weeks. health officials they're being marketed to young people. >> it's very serious because essentially you have something

thata pretty package, but can be deadly. >> reporter: stefan james warns young people to stay away from the drugs, they can kill you. >> a lot of people are still very oblivious to what it could actually do to them. >> now one reason synthetic marijuana has become so popular among young people is it doesn't show up on drug tests for people who are on probation. two teenagers are in jail in ohio this morning. deputies arrested them for a series of crimes across three states. a sheriff's office in ohio says the 16-year-old boy and 15-year-old girl are connected to crimes including car theft and running from police. they caught them after they crashed a stolen car. the texas governor is calling on washington to help towns recover from devastating floods. governor greg abbott talked about federal aid during a visit to wimberley, texas, yesterday.

it was one of the worst hit by the heavy rains in the state two weeks ago. dozens of people in texas and oklahoma died in the resulting floods. recovery crews are still searching for those who went missing. china is mourning more than 400 people who died in a cruise ship disaster. rescue workers and government officials held a ceremony this morning near the wrecked ship. hundreds of bodies were found over the last two days. raising the death toll to 406. 36 people are still missing after the ship capsized in bad weather monday. now, chinese police have arrested the engineer. south korea's president wants peace with north korea. here you can see her lighting incense at a memorial altar. the president says she wants to start up talks with north korea centering on bringing the nuclear program to an end. well, you've got to give a hand to some local students because they've been doing the

same thing for so many others, literally. julie carey reports on their efforts to help child amputees. >> reporter: you won't find one of these, a 3-d printer in many high schools. when it arrived at a s.t.e.m. engineering class in marshall high, students were shocked at the assignment that went along with it -- design prosthetic hands for children. but the s.t.e.m. engineering and design and technology classes combined forces. take a look at what they have created. attachments that kids can use for specific purposes to play ping-pong, for example. >> i decided to make a double sided one to like -- so they can attack the ball by back hand and front hand. >> reporter: chester says he worried a child missing a hand might have trouble playing with other kids. >> to help like younger kids to create new friend by playing the

game. >> reporter: another student's love of basketball was the inspiration for this prosthetic that could be used to play hoops. and the challenge of holding a book and turning the pages was -- with just one hand led to this design. >> this is the completed hand, so starting here this is the actual book holder that will hold the book. >> reporter: the hands across borders was in a magazine article. she made her firsthand and convinced her vice principal to buy the 3-d printer. it melds layers of plastic to create the 29-piece hand. >> you can create hands in ten hours or so with about $50 in material and reprint it every six months as the child grew. >> reporter: and the project has another benefit. >> i love the fact that the students can get fired up and learn something and use it and apply it concretely in the real world, right now, to help somebody. >> nice to kind of help. think about helping the community and making a difference while you're still here in high school. >> reporter: the class has sent

off a completed hand to be evaluated for quality control and by next year they hope to send a smaller hand to an actual child. well stamp prices could be going down in the next few months. the u.s. postal service close to a limit on how much it can make from the stamp hike it put in place last year. that's co that's according to "the washington post." once they hit that limit, forever stamps can cost 3 cents less. cell phones and computers pope francis says are having a negative impact on your kids. the pope says it provokes suffering to the soul. the pope says people become slaves to their computers and lose their freedom. he also discouraged letting your kids use their phones during family meals and saying it leaves kids in another world. pope francis says he has not watched television in 25 years. >> so we isn't ask him about "breaking bad" or "game of

thrones?" not catching up on that. he speaks out about a lot of stuff. >> yeah. i like he has his convictions and he stands by them and that's what you want in all of your leaders. >> he'll shoot your straight. >> whether you like it or not. >> 6:38. coming up, thieves steelal thousands of bikes across the region. how to improve your chances of getting it back. memorial bridge repairs, we take a look inside the bridge after decades of wear and tear.

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their owner. >> that's right. scott mcfarland is working to keep this from happening to you as the news4 i-team shows us how riders can end up back on the road. >> reporter: ask any bike rider and they'll tell you it's a risk of the road. lock it up or lose it. according to the national bike registry only 5% of stolen bikes make it back to their owners. you didn't have much hope of getting these things back? >> no. >> reporter: brian holms got hit at his own house. when thieves broke into his garage. >> it was a deadbolt. it was kicked in. or, you know, possibly crowbared. >> reporter: he joins an unlucky group -- more than 2,000 people who have had their bikes swiped last year in the d.c. area. >> unfortunately mine was not insured. >> reporter: sometimes this crime ends differently if you take the right steps according to officer mike owen.

>> we don't findmost of them but there are things you can do to help ensure you get it back. >> reporter: like having photos of your bike and writing down the serial number. >> this exponentially increases our chances of finding it and register wit the police department. >> reporter: he says many people gave up don't even report it stolen. with most hot bikes being resold within hours, the time is critical. post on social media sites immediately. >> i would suggest reaching pawnshops. >> we are not in the business of citizens arrest. >> reporter: this man helped bag a bike thief. >> it's a pretty distinct bike and i knew it was a customer who had visited a couple of hours prior. >> reporter: store employees kept an eye on the thief until the police arrived. >> with the increase in the value of the bikes we're seeing more bike theft. >> reporter: there's no other bike quite like damon tate's. >> probably 11 $12,000.

>> reporter: a one of a kind racing bike he built it piece by piece and keeps it locked in a secure room in his building's garage. but that didn't stop thieves from getting inside. >> it just became an utterly sickening thing. >> reporter: tate made all the right calls to his online biking community and then someone spotted an ad on craigslist. hours after the heist. >> the ad has been posted two blocks from where i lived. i immediately contacted the guy through craigslist and through the cell phone number. >> reporter: working with police, tate arranged to meet the guy in front of a busy hotel and officers took the guy into custody. >> one of the cardinal lessons of living in d.c. when your bike is stolen it is gone forever. what every cyclist wants to happen is to catch the guy. >> reporter: but officer owen cautions about approaching anyone without police help. >> a bike is property at the end of the day. don't put yourself in physical danger.

>> reporter: best advice is to register your bike with the local police department oter national bike register and when you bring your bike home for the night, make sure you actually store it in your home for the night. scott mcfarland, news4 i-team. well, if you lost your bike, news4 item wants to help. visit the washington app and click on investigations. we'll show you how to post a bike on the social media site. moving over matters. june is move over awareness month in virginia. the law says you must change lanes when you see an emergency vehicle on the shoulder of the highway. if you can't get over slow down. between 2013 and 2014, public safety officers were hit or killed. all month long, virginia state police will post videos on social media to explain why moving over matters. well, you've probably seen the changes maybe experienced them first hand by now.

lanes on the memorial bridge are closed. they're not opening any time soon. the national park service gave a firsthand look at the underlying problem. >> oh, look at that. that beam is right in half. >> rusted support beams, columns, old worn down building? nope. this is a bridge you might drive across every day. inside the memorial bridge. >> some stuff you can't step on right here. this one is orange. can't even step on that step. it's not safe. they have marked them all off with the orange. >> there's no way to evaluate what part might fail. we look at the whole thing and know that structurally we need to keep heavyweight off of it. >> reporter: lane closures in place, tour buses not supposed to use the bridge until they're fixed. bottom line -- the memorial bridge is not as strong as it should be. it's become such a big issue that the u.s. transportation secretary came to talk about it. >> i have heard it said before that in america, we're great at

responding to the wolf at the door but we don't respond as well to the termites in the basement. well, today the termites are becoming the wolf. >> now, the lane closures remain indefinitely. the entire middle section will have to be replaced. is the bridge safe? >> the bridge is safe. absolutely the bridge is safe by what we have done to it, which is move traffic to the center. >> as of today, there's no set date for when the lane closures will end there. every parent knows having a second child can be an adjustment for your first child. but take a look at this, prince george seems to be taking to his big brother role pretty well. we are getting our first look at the royals. george is doting all over his new baby sister, princess charlotte. the duchess of cambridge snapped

the pictures at their home outside of london. okay, they're adorable. >> right after that he took him and -- don't tell anybody. listen i'm the youngest of five brothers, brothers can be rough. >> but he's got status, he's the first. >> i see. wait to stick up for him, molette. >> he's so cute. >> what you didn't see is the crying if i that was three hours long before the picture. >> and the throw up. >> it's a morning show, molette. >> i know. but it's a great day to be outside. this is going to be a good one. >> all the pool parties that you have planned up no reason not to go on ahead and attend and enjoy the afternoon. now, we have some clouds this morning. i know every time you wake up in the morning you go outside, oh, that's awfully cloudy chuck, are you sure it won't rain? it's not going to rain today. that's welcome news. a couple of showers to contend with yesterday.

these are not the rain-making clouds. these clouds are on their way out, the sunshine should be able to burn through most of them before lunch time this morning. we should be on to a blue sky by later on this afternoon. 69 downtown at reagan national airport. winds are gradually back around from the south later on this afternoon. a nice, mild morning, back up to 80, 82 degrees later on this afternoon. perfect way to enjoy your dog walk or jog. it will be a good one. 54 now in hagerstown. 51 in martinsburg. winchester at 54. there won't be so many 50s on the map tomorrow. suddenly breezes will make for a warmer day tomorrow. we're already though mid to upper 60s in and around the urban centers. hourly temperatures most areas up to around 70 by 9:00 a.m. up into the low 80s by this afternoon.

more and more sunshine for the later half of the day. out to the pool, spf 30 or better by later on this afternoon with temperatures in the 70s and 80s. those are always the days that you get the worst sun burn. maybe you're going on to the ballpark today. the cubs are still in town. we gave them a licking yesterday. hopefully another one today. first pitch at 4:05 this afternoon. should be near 100% sunshine by the time the game starts. seventh inning stretch time, 81. last out temperature around 78 or 9 degrees. by noon most of the clouds are gone from the metro area the clouds may linger longer out in the shenandoah valley and the only places that might have a risk of a shower today will be west of i-81 into the mountains of west virginia. that's where about really the only rain chances are. i don't think there's too much of a threat for winchester and martinsburg either. the rain chances the one tiny chance out into the mountains.

here's where the next weather maker is coming from. this curlicue in the atmosphere is going to bring rain in detroit. if you're changing planes at o'hare, could have weather-related slowdowns as a result of that. this is going by to our north late tomorrow and as a result, our rain chances go up with time during the course of the day tomorrow. some of the thunderstorms tomorrow afternoon could be on the strong to sever side. rain chances ramp up after 3:00 or 4:00 tomorrow afternoon. enjoy the 80s and the coolness and the rain drops while we have them because starting on wednesday, mostly sunny. hot and dry back into the 90s we will go. already had seven days of the 90s this year. about to add on. >> okay. at we'll get ready. thank you. well mark one off the bucket list. the 78-year-old nationals fan meets one of her favorite

good sunday morning, everyone. american pharoah was chilling in his stall at belmont park and now today things will start to get crazy for the 3-year-old colt whose what captured the attention of the nature. and even in the opposing clubhouse, that's the angels mike trout celebrating. in tampa outside before last night's game of the stanley cup finals, the fans rejoicing. american pharoah grabs the lead out of the gate and never gives it up. >> here it is, the 37-year wait is over. american pharoah is finally the one! american pharoah had won! >> this is for the sport, having been 37 years. we need stars. i'm so thrilled and honored and privileged, humbled, excited. this is all for you!

>> so american pharoah joins the ranks of secretariat, seattle slew and affirmed who was the last to be a triple crown winner 37 years ago. that's a look at your morning sports. i'm carol maloney. i hope your sunday is a good one. a special story to tell you about, one nats fan from maryland. this is 78-year-old dorothy lynch on the left with nats infielder anthony rendon. lynch and her husband love watching him play. lynch's husband died a few months ago and her kids took her to the ballpark. rendon went up to her in the stands, signed a ball for her, thanked her for being such a big fan. very cool. well today you can go to a block party in the district. friendship hospital for animals is celebrating its newly renovated building with a block party and special pet adoption event. it starts at 11:00 a.m. on the brain did wine -- brandywine

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>> the search is on for two convicted killers who used power tools to escape from a jail in new york. one of the stories we're following this morning. good morning. and welcome to "news4 today." i'm adam tuss. >> i'm molette green. it will be a nice sunday for you to get outside. let's go to storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell with all of the details. good morning. >> good morning molette and adam. it's a nice morningio outside. mid to upper 60s in and around the urban centers first thing this morning. here's the way it looks from the reston town center camera. beautiful this morning. there are clouds in the sky, but there are no rain drops on the radar. so we're off to a comfy, dry start this morning. 64 now. rockville and gaithersburg. 64, manassas. 67.

and by 8:00 or 9:00, temperatures are rising up into the low 70s by 9:00. mid 70s by 11:00. we should be left with near 100% sunshine. a nice, quiet, dry sunday evening as well. back to work and back to the 90s, that's coming up. >> thank you so much. right now a massive manhunt for two murderers on the loose. this is richard matt and david sweat. they escaped from maximum security prison 20 miles from the canadian border yesterday. they used power tools to cut through steel pipe and escaped through a manhole. state troopers and k-9 units are scouring are clinton county area to find the men. we are working to learn more about a stabbing outside the metro station. d.c. police say three people were stabbed at 7th and "h" streets around 2:00 a.m. the victims are a woman and two

men. they have nonlife threatening injuries. they're looking for a silver mercedes right now. police are looking for someone they say attacked and sexual assaulted a woman. it happened on 13th street southeast in this apartment building here. only a block from the congress heights metro station. a woman told officers a man attacked her friday night. d.c. police are offering a $1,000 reward in the case. king street and leesburg is back open after a massive fire. take a look at this from a cell phone. several engines rushed to the scene to knock down the fire. we are working to figure out what caused that blaze. a fire in northwest d.c. destroyed the inside of a family home. that happened on 14th and madison streets. the family got out safely. it took firefighters 45 minutes

to put out the flames. this start -- that fire started in the basement and quickly spread. the faa wants to know why two planes tapped each other on the tarmac. two wings of the southwest planes quliped each other at -- clipped each other at a small airport outside of los angeles. this is basically like a fender bender. southwest took the planes out of service. the company says it's making sure no damage was done to those planes. new this morning, president obama is in germany. he's meeting with several world leaders there today. air force one landed shortly after midnight. we want you to take a look. you can see president obama speaking alongside german chancellor angela merkel. they're meeting with six others including italy and japan, but not russia today. president obama left for germany not long after speaking at beau biden's funeral. vice president joe biden's son died of brain cancer last week. more than a thousand people came

to pay their respects to the biden family or say good-bye to beau yesterday. the top u.s. commander in iraq spoke, so did members of biden's family. but not his father. president obama said quote, beau was someone who cared and he made you want to be a better person. coming up on the week ahead, the high profile trial against jesse matthew starts in fairfax county. he is charged with attended murder and sexual assault related to the 2005 case. the victim says she was attacked while walking home from a fairfax grocery store. he has pled not guilty and is also charged with the murder of hannah graham. you can be one of the first to ride one of the brand new trains. it's being run out of the shady grove metro tomorrow at 7:00 a.m. >> pretty cool.

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level was raised to the highest. the volcano has sporadically erupted after being dormant for years. indonesia has 129 active volcanoes. there's a new campaign about your children's safety around your tv. >> yeah, even with all our new lighter flat screen tvs they can tip over and be deadly. news4 consumer reporter erika gonzalez shares way to prevent a tragedy from happening. >> reporter: sylvia santiago lost her toddler when she crawled out of bed and went into the next room. >> the next thing i knew i heard the tv coming down so i immediately picked this huge tv up and just threw it. >> reporter: but it was too late. her daughter died in the hospital a week later. the consumer product safety administration warns about putting it on a dressing that can be tipped over. here you see a simulation that the toddler pulls out the dresser draws and climbs.

>> it's not the older ones that can fall over. >> reporter: flat screens are lighter, but as they get larger and larger the weight increases. and their pedestals or feet may not fit the old tv stands. fortunately it's relatively easy to secure them so that kids can't topple them. this can be strapped on to the media console since this is too heavy to pull over. >> make sure the furniture is sturdy and place the set as far back as you can on the stand. then if you're putting a new tv on an old tv stand, make sure that the legs or pedestals don't extend over the edges like this one does. >> reporter: finally anchor the tv to the furniture and if the furniture could tip over, attach it to the wall. sylvia santiago hopes other families never go through what she has. >> i have an almost 2-year-old son who will never know who his

sister is. >> strap your televisions down. strap your furniture down. >> a child dies every two weeks from unstable and unsecured furniture and tvs. just take the extra few minutes and -- >> scary. i mean, yeah, i have two little ones who like to climb on everything. >> yeah. >> so it makes you think. a lot of things that you put together, they actually tell you to secure it in some sort of fashion. >> but you have to take the extra time to do it. >> absolutely. >> i mean, really. all right ten minutes after the hour. dangers in the kitchen now. we see the most common injuries while you prepare your food. and let's take a peek out the windows. storm team 4 meteorologist chuck

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you're watching "news4 today." >> welcome back. some wounded warriors have a great story to tell this morning. they took the field at prince georges stadium to play in the comcast sports net amputee classic last night. teams are made up of veterans who overcame severe injuries to compete. the best part, redskins quarterback kirk cousins and dennis pitta led the team. >> they like to hear about our military stories and we like to talk to them about playing in the nfl. >> excited. several other football players took part as well.

this was the third annual for wounded veterans and the proceed goes to local charities that support wounded warriors. it can happen in a split second. and the next thing you know you're in the emergency room. we're talking about getting injured in the kitchen. as doreen gentzler reports, doctors are seeing the injuries more and more. >> reporter: take a look at this x-ray. it's a finger caught in the blade of an immersion blender. the hand belongs to helen sprainer. >> my blood ran cold when i realized i couldn't get my hand out of blender. that was like, well, i really hope i still have a finger. >> reporter: that blade was stuck on helen's hand for more than two hours until doctors were able to remove it. >> it's surprising, but something that is not unheard of. >> reporter: orthopedic hand surgeon dr. kessler says he sees injuries like helen's at least once a week. people who injure themselves while preparing food. some of the most common accidents are cutting hands and

fingers while slicing bagels taking pits out of avocados separating frozen hot dogs and hamburgers and like helen getting caught in the blades of blenders mandolins and food processors. >> people can last aerate tendons or nerves. there can be other tearing injuries from the blender. >> reporter: nearly 900,000 americans end up in the emergency room due to kitchen related injuries every year. that's according to a 2002 consumer product safety commission report. but dr. kessler says people in the d.c. area may be more likely to injure themselves. >> i think that the sort of high intensity population that we have does have a high susceptibility of getting these injuries and also i think d.c. people are a little more food oriented. maybe than some other areas and try new recipes or try new

things. >> reporter: dr. kessler says the best way to prevent the injuries is to slow down and use common sense. like making sure you're not bringing a sharp object toward your hand. helen sprainer said she's being more careful about what she's doing in the kitchen. >> think more about the repercussions about what you're doing. >> doreen gentzler, news4. >> very lucky. oh, man. >> yeah, immersion blender and the finger, slow down. you know what the best idea is, just order out. >> we have great restaurants in this area. i mean -- you could order out and go to the restaurant. >> you're paying, i'm eating. >> i didn't say that. >> you did. >> there's the way it sounded on this end of this desk. >> fair enough. all right. >> we'll get you some memos that you like. >> did i mention how glad i am to see you chuck?

>> you're always glad to see me until i stick you with the bill. >> on a day like today, i'm happy to see you. >> fair enough. a lot of people adam, would be willing to pay for weather like this. but i give it for free. >> there you go. so we'll take that. >> i don't know about that. >> outside this morning, plenty of clouds. another plane load of folks coming down the river here. you want to sit on the left side of the plane if you want the view. you have to call your friends and tell them to it is on the left side of the plane. a southwest wind is coming down planes are coming down over your head on the way into the runway. 69 degrees right now. in washington. down at the airport, not much of a breeze just yet. temperatures are 57 in northern maryland and 55 in shenandoah valley. 66 in fredericksburg and stafford and down to colonial beach. beautiful day coming up.

headed outside to do your running again you've got some extra miles courtesy of the cooler than average weather. another great running day outside today. temperatures up into the upper 70s, low 80s. the only place to see a shower, out into the mountains of west virginia. in and around town, we'll stay dry today. the clouds will continue to thin out with time. we should end up with a partly to mostly sunny sky by later on this afternoon. future weather cranking up that bit of a rain chance in the mountains of west virginia. that's just about it. quiet weather for today. and for tonight. and to get the day started tomorrow as well. there's storm team 4 radar to set your mind at ease. nothing happening outside early today. here's the next weather maker though. this curlicue is going to bring heavy rain to chicago in the next hour or two. and eventually that could go over towards detroit. so those are some important hubs for travelers so keep in mind there could be some airline delays, chicago to detroit,

perhaps into pittsburgh by late tonight that's the storm that what bring us a chance for severe thunderstorms tomorrow. have our nbc washington weather app ready to go. main threats are some gusty winds brief periods of heavy rain. hail can't be ruled out. just warm enough to get things cooked up into the upper 80s. here's the way that monday breaks down. dry through the morning hours tomorrow. but by mid to late afternoon that threat for showers and storms coming on in, future weather not painting it all that well until the next chances for thunderstorms come in later in the day. nonetheless, keep a weather eye to the sky as we have a slight risk for some severe weather. now, once we get all the severe weather out of here, a few fading showers on tuesday. once we get those done,

wednesday onward, back to summertime. in the 90s. >> thanks, chuck. well, it's not over yet. you have another chance to celebrate fairfax with your family today. and as chuck said it will be a nice day. news4 will be at one of the hundreds of booths at the celebrate fairfax festival. the event is at the fairfax county government center starts at 11:00 this morning and ends at 7:00 tonight. there's a karaoke contest that adam wants to take part in. and a petting zoo. tickets are ten bucks for adults, five for your kids. you know you want to do that. >> bust a move is my song. a maryland teenager makes it to the top at a restaurant chain. we meet the young manager. today republicans are systematically and deliberately trying to stop millions of american citizens from voting.

well, the gloves are on no longer. hillary clinton is taking on her republican rivals by name. and it's no accident that she's targeting them especially on issue to the ballot box. >> clinton took on 2016 candidates rick perry scott walker, chris christie and jeb bush. saying their policies made it harder for americans to exercise their right to vote. she says she's going to push for automatic voter registration for all. >> clinton's goals here are twofold. one, the issue of voting rights is absolutely crucial to minority voters who are going to make up a large part of clinton's democratic electorate. and two, by calling republicans out by name she's starting to position herself directly in competition with them. >> and that's all before she makes her first big announcement speech as candidate on june 13th in new york city. >> and before jeb bush just two days later is scheduled to make his presidential run official too.

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you're watching "news4 today." >> all right. check it out. a maryland teenager is going to work in a pretty special position. he's chipotle's youngest general manager ever. >> this is so cool. the job comes with big perks like a company car and some stock options. but montel millage told news4's zachary kiesch that's not what the job is about. >> in my lifetime, i was able to

do something. so chipotle, if it's the marines it's the marines, if it's going to school and becoming a psychologist it's doing that. >> reporter: grill, prep, montel milledge learned thousand cook at chipotle. >> back then, i was looking forward to going in the armed forces, the marines. my mother said he is didn't approve of me going and chipotle was the next big thing. >> reporter: at 19, he's the youngest restaurantier in history. he sees a college degree down the road. but now a new store to manage. his rise up the ranks in two years has made him a star amongst his colleagues. his motto, appreciate the people. but there are some perks. >> i feel like i have achieved so much already. i mean, my mom is going bonkers

every time i call her. i got promoted. >> reporter: he credits his mom for his leadership skills and mindset. she said be respectful. be honest. be real. >> opportunity is at every corner. it's at every street. and when the door opens, walk through it. >> reporter: reporting in maryland city, zachary kiesch news4. >> he's going places. >> i like him. yes. 7:26 is our time. >> why the price of stamps could be going down. bringing new meaning to the term helping hands. here at marshall high school. i'm julie carey in fairfax county. i'll tell you how high school students are making prosthetic hands for those who can't afford them. looking outside right now, storm team 4

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in today's top stories, two murderers are on the loose this morning after escaping from a new york prison. richard matt and david sweat broke out yesterday. that prison is about 20 miles from the canadian border. officials say the two used power tools to cut through steel pipe and escape through a manhole. d.c. police looking for whoever stabbed three people in northwest washington overnight.

it happened outside the gallery place metro station. all three victims are expected to survive. president obama is in germany right now. he's meeting with leaders from six other major countries to talk about russian aggression in ukraine. good morning. welcome to "news4 today." i'm molette green. >> i'm adam tuss. today is sunday, june 7th. i can't it's already like june 7th. >> flying by. >> wild. storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell has a look at the forecast an he said it will be a good one today. >> yeah a nice cloudy start first thing this morning. you don't want too much bright light first thing in the morning. so some nice morning clouds out there. it will be a bright and sunny afternoon coming our way. a dry finish to the weekend before rain chances start to come back into the picture starting tomorrow afternoon. there's the view outside from the prince george's county over the capital wheel area. those clouds will continue to thin out during the course of the morning hours and

temperatures are low 60s in fairfax and loudoun county. and 66, college park, 67 from edge water on down towards chesapeake beach. temperatures for later on this morning going into early this afternoon, if you're going by the pool, should have plenty of sunshine by lunch time thereafter and a great day to be out on the grill. adam tuss, get it ready. with we'll be over at 5:30. >> chuck, the grill is always on at my house. >> good. all right thank you, chuck. well right now, an urgent public health warning on the growing warning of synthetic marijuana. news4's darcy spencer spoke with a teenager who said he lost his brother to the drug. >> it's like marijuana times ten. like it's crazy. >> reporter: stefan james eichler talks about the reaction he had when he smoked synthetic marijuana. >> i passed out in my room and i

woke up and i was drenched in a whole bunch of sweat. >> >> reporter: he spoked it called scooby snacks or bizarre row and he ended up addicted. eichler quit using the synthetic drug because of what happened to his 22-year-old brother, charlie. he took his own life after abusing k-2. >> the first couple of times, okay, this is all right. i can do this. but then before you know it it's too late. >> reporter: in d.c. a spike in synthetic marijuana overdoses caused the mayor to issue a health warning. dozens of people had been taken to the hospital after overdosing in recent weeks. the drugs are being marketed toward young people. >> it's very serious because essentially, you have something that comes in a pretty package. but can be deadly. >> reporter: stephon james warns young people to stay away from

the drugs. they can kill you. >> a lot of people are still oblivious to what it could actually do to them. >> now one reason synthetic marijuana has become so popular among young people is that it doesn't show up on drug tests for people who are on probation. two teenagers are in jail in ohio this morning. deputies arrested them for a series of crimes across three states. a sheriff's office in ohio says 16-year-old boy and 15-year-old girl may be connected to crimes including armed robbery, car theft and running from police. they say they caught the couple after they crashed a stolen car. today china is mourning the more than 400 people who died in a cruise ship disaster. rescue workers and government officials held a ceremony this morning near the wrecked ship. hundreds of bodies were found over the last two days. raising the death toll to 406. 36 people are still missing. after the ship capsized in bad

weather. chinese police have arrested the ship's captain and first engineer. south korea's president says she wants peace with north korea. she spoke at a memorial day ceremony yesterday. here you can see her lighting incense at a memorial altar. the president says she wants to start up talks with the north again, centering on bringing the nuclear program to an end. well you've got to give it a hand to some local students because they're doing the same for so many others. literally. northern virginia bureau chief julie carey reports on the efforts to help child amputees. >> reporter: you won't find one of these a 3-d printer in many high schools. when it arrived in the s.t.e.m. engineering classroom at marshall high, students were shocked at the assignment that went along with it -- design and create prosthetic hands for children in war torn areas of the world. >> to me i thought it was extremely ambitious. >> reporter: but the s.t.e.m.

engineering classes combined forces. take a look at what they have created. several students designed prosthetic attachments that kids can use for specific purposes, to play ping-pong for example. >> i decided to make a double sided one so they can attack the ball by backhand and front hand. >> reporter: he worried a child missing a hand might have trouble playing with other kids. >> to help like younger kids to create new friends by playing the game. >> reporter: another student's love of basketball was the inspiration for this prosthetic that could be used to play hoops. and the challenge of holding a book and turning the pages with just one hand led to this design. >> this is the completed hand, so starting here this is the actual book holder that's going to hold the book. >> reporter: the teacher learned about the program in a magazine article. she got special training. made her firsthand. and convinced her vice principal to buy the 3-d printer. it melds layers of plastic to create the 29-piece hands.

>> you could create hands in ten hours or so with about $50 in material and then reprint one every six months as the child drew. >> reporter: besides creating hands the project has another benefit. >> i love the fact that the students can get fired up and learn something. and use it and apply it concretely in the real world right now to help somebody. >> nice to kind of think of helping the community and making a difference here in high school. >> reporter: the class has sent off a completed hand to be evaluated for quality control. then by next year, they hope to be sending away one of the smaller hands to an actual child. i'm julie carey, news4. well, stamp prices could be going down in the next few months. the u.s. postal service is close to a limit on how much it can make from a stamp hike that it put in place last year. that's according to "the washington post." so once the postal service hits that limit forever stamps could cost about 3 cents less than right now. a federal court says

virginia's redistricting plan is unconstitutional. a judge panel ruled lawmakers diluted minority influence by packing black voters into the third district therefore making it easier for republican incumbents in nearby districts. this is the second time that the congressional boundaries were deemed unconstitutional. the general assembly has until september 21st to correct the plan. we have a commuter alert, you want to plan ahead. crews are busy repairing memorial bridge. we'll get a look inside.

you're watching "news4 today." >> welcome back. in this week's wednesday's child, we meet a young lady who loves music and would some day would be happy singing and playing of the stage somewhere. >> she may be familiar to some of you. we featured lacy before. >> at the levine school of music

we met up with lacy, a 16-year-old who wants to learn how to play the guitar better. what kind of music do you like? >> hip-hop, pop. >> gary prince offered to give lacy a lesson. >> i see you brought your guitar with your today. should we take it out? >> yeah. >> gary tuned up and plugged both into the amplifier and asked lacy for a sample of something she likes to play. lacy at 16 is a conscientious student who has struggled to learn all she could. since getting a slow start as a young child before coming into foster care at 4 years old. >> she needs an extra boost to get up to speed. >> she has shown an interest in a lot of different activities. >> i did karate for a while, ballet, cheerleading, soccer. >> have you thought about what you'd like to be when you're all grown up? >> well, i want to be a fashion designer and i want to be -- >> she hopes to improve her

singing skills. ♪ >> a family could make a real difference for lacy, encouraging her to be all she dreams of becoming. meanwhile, some encouragement about her guitar future was enough to make lacy smile. >> barbara harrison reporting there. if you have room in your home and your heart for lacy or another child who's waiting, call our special adoption hotline. the number is 1 888-to adopt me or search wednesday's child on nbcwashington.com. time now is 7:41 on this sunday morning. coming up i'll take you inside the memorial bridge. we'll get a look at what needs to be fixed. >> yeah this is pretty fascinating. taking a look outside, we get a look at your sunday forecast with storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bel

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you're watching "news4 today." >> the "today" show is next on nbc4. all starting at 8:00. >> look who it is, erica hill and carson daly joining us live from new york. >> good morning. >> hey. good morning to you guys. just ahead on "today" we'll have an exclusive interview with american pharoh's jockey, espinoza and bob baffert.

a triple crown for first time in 37 years. what's next for the super horse? we'll ask. and also an elaborate plot by two convicted killers to escape from prison. how could this happen? we'll be there for the on going search. this isn't the typical story this is about a car that holds special meaning for one woman. everybody say aw. the first pictures of britain's prince george and princess charlotte together. they're adorable. trust me we have many more of the baby photos when we get it started on a sunday morning on "today." >> we wanted to see the before, how long it took them to actually get them staged. in that position. you know? >> what's that function on the iphone, you can do the birth thing, you get 12 pictures in the span of a second. >> got to be one or two good ones. >> they're so gorgeous. they can't take a bad picture. >> you're sticking up for the royals. >> the babies are gorgeous. >> all right, guys. well, you'll have a longer wait on some metro lines today.

crews are putting in some new cal boxes and fixing up the track on the orange line trains. they're coming every 16 minutes. there is single tracking on both ends of the green line and you could have up to a 20 minute wait between trains. well, a big problem underneath the memorial bridge is causing heavy track up on top. the national park service took me inside to see what's going on and why the problem isn't going away any time soon. >> look at that. that beam is right in half. rusted support beams old worn down building? nope. this is a bridge you might drive across every day. inside the memorial bridge. >> some steps you can't step on right here. this one is orange. can't even step on that step. it's not safe. they have marked them all off with the orange. >> there's no way to evaluate what part might fail. we just look at the whole thing and know that structurally we

need to keep heavyweight off of it. >> lane closures now in place, tour buses not supposed to use the bridge until the fix is made. that means the 14th street and roosevelt bridges will pick up extra traffic. bottom line, the memorial bridge is not as strong as it should be. the u.s. transportation secretary came to talk about it. >> i have heard it said before that in america, we're great at responding to the wolf at the door, but we sometimes don't respond as well to the termites in the basement. well, today, the termites are becoming the wolf. >> now the lane closures remain indefinitely, eventually the entire middle section will have to be a replaced. that's a big project. is the bridge safe? >> the bridge is safe. absolutely the bridge is safe. by what we have done to it which is move traffic to the center. >> yeah. as of today that's no set date for when the lane closures will end. the texas governor is calling on washington to help towns recover from devastating

floods. governor greg abbott talked about federal aid during a visit to wimberley, texas, yesterday. it was one of the worst hit by the heavy rains in the state two weeks ago. dozens of people in texas and oklahoma died in the resulting floods. recovery crews are still searching for people who went missing in the storms. yes, we are having some wonderful weather here. but those people are still trying to get back to some sense of normalcy. >> epic amounts of rainfall out there. some places from houston up to oklahoma city, not just their rainiest month for may, but the rainiest month of all time. some of places 20, 25 inches of rain in a single month. our rainiest month by comparison on record here, september of 1934. only -- i say only 17 inches of rain in that month but you can stack on another seven or ten inches of rain on top of that and we'd be suffering the same fate out there. our hearts go out to them in texas and oklahoma. quiet weather here for another day.

a perfect way to finish out the weekend. and the quiet weather will bring -- carry on into monday morning, but a chance of thunderstorms tomorrow afternoon. make your plans now to have a weather eye on the sky tomorrow. for now, what was an all gray sky just a few hours ago now getting increasing little slivers of blue. that's the trend. the trend is your friend. the trend is for the skies to clear on out. it will be mostly sunny by this afternoon. 69 degrees still in washington. the clouds have retarded the warm-up a touch, but it will get up into the upper 70s and low 80s for today. perfect to get outside to enjoy some early june weather. our warm and dry pattern is ready to come back. it's been cool and cloudy and rainy for the last week. rain chances are highest tomorrow and continue into tuesday. by wednesday, thursday, friday, back down to the dry weather. not only rain free, but back into the 90s as well.

already had seven 90-degree days this year. and still some 50s along i-81. most of the metro area, mid to upper 60s. you'll go out for your morning run, temperatures will be in the mid 70s by lunch time. about 78 almost 80 by 2:00 or 3:00. have your run done by them. what do you do at 2:00? head on down to the washington nationals ballpark. the first pitch is at 4:05 this afternoon. perfect weather for baseball. cubs got it yesterday but we could split the series two games apiece if we can win this one today. great weather for baseball. temperatures low 80s at the start of the game. back in the upper 70s by the last out. there's clouds giving way to sunshine around the metro area by 2:00 this afternoon. clouds could linger longer in the shenandoah valley. may bubble up one or two lonely showers west of i-81. on the whole, rain chances are

very very low. tomorrow's rain chance is coming from this area of storminess, and we're drying out ahead of it. but a risk from the storm prediction center a slight risk for severe storms tomorrow afternoon and storm evening. so keep that in mind. we could have some rough weather tomorrow. could be periods of heavy rain and hail a possibility. then once we get the showers out of here on tuesday that's it. goes right back to having to water the yard and potted plants. as temperatures are back into the 90s with nothing more than hit and miss chances. that's why i'm going to the beach. >> all the rain we got this past week does that do anything for the heat here now? do you still have to kind of water the plants? >> you won't have to water them yet, but once you get to thursday or friday two or three days in the 90s without rain you'll want to turn the watering on. >> got it. well, pope francis says cell phones and computers are having a negative effect on your kids.

during his plane ride to rome yesterday, the pope said dependence on computers provokes suffering to the soul. the pope says people became slaves to their computers and lose their freedom. he also discouraged letting your kids use their phones during family meals saying it leaves kids in another world. pope francis says he hasn't watched tv in 25 years. 25. >> -- who. -- wow. coming up, mark one off the bucket list. a 78-year-old nats fan meets one of he

well, new this morning, three people recovering from a stabbing in d.c. it happened outside the gallery place metro station. news4's derrick ward is there with the latest. derrick? >> reporter: well, good morning. this happened at about 1:48 this morning. this is where things have come back, you have restaurants, bars lots of establishments that would have been open at that hour. now, metropolitan police say three people were standbbed, two males and a female. one person was stabbed in the arm, the other in the back of the neck. they don't have a lookout at this point. all three are expected to survive. i can tell you a grisly scene. there's a blood trail that leads up the block up and to the corner. but again, police say three of the victims suffered nonlife threatening injuries. they did post a lookout for two

individuals, a male and a female. the male was -- had a mohawk, he was wearing a pink shirt and had a mohawk. the female was wearing a yellow dress and might have been in a silver mercedes. again, three people stabbed. nonlife threatening injuries and no under arrest. live in northwest, derrick ward news4. >> thank you so much. today you can go to the block party in the district. friendship hospital for animals is celebrating the newly renovated building with a special pet adoption event. it starts at 11:00 a.m. on brandywine street. there will be free zumba classes, food and music and of course your chance to take home a new pet. this is a great one. a special story to tell you about one nats fan from maryland, take a look here. this is 78-year-old dorothy lynch on the left with nats infielder anthony rendon. her favorite player. and lynch and her husband love

watching him play. lynch's husband died a few months ago. her kids took her to the ballpark. rendon went up to her in the stands. he signed a ball for her. thanked her for being such a big fan. >> oh, that's so nice. >> yeah this happened at yesterday's game. it was rendon's birthday yesterday. >> and our julie carey took the pictures. >> so great she was. a great day today? >> for anything you want to do. even play baseball. >> go outside. >> thanks for joining us this morning.

good morning, a far -- pharaoh is crowned. race nothing immortality at the bell tonight. >> american pharoah, fight to the end, american pharoah has won the triple crown! >>. >> what's next more racial or life as a stud? this morning, american pharoah will join us and be seen right there exclusively along with winning jockey victor espinoza and hall of fame trainer, bob baffert. prison break two convicted killers on the loose this morning after escaping from a maximum security prison using power tools to cut the steel walls. >> it was elaborate. it was sophisticated. >> the up to and community on high alert this