get that instability, not able to get that severe weather risk and that's why that severe thunderstorm watch is down to the south. talking about st. mary's county, westmoreland county, spotsylvania county, orange county and points to the south. notice, we have got rain coming in but not a single thunderstorm right now from frederick, hagerstown, leesburg lore ray, rain around the region, the thunderstorms, they are down to the south and they are some fairly strong storms even stronger storms down around the norfolk area. so what will we see the rest of the night? will we see strong storms? yeah, still a potential for that as we move on through but i'm not expecting much in the way of severe weather, especially not severe widespread areas of severe weather move on through the night. down to the south though, keep your heads up, severe thunderstorm warning until midnight tonight. and right now people across maryland are digesting a $2 billion plan that was announced by governor larry hogan to improve the roads, the highways and the brings. the governor also said the purple line project will move

forward but with some big changes and some big ifs. our transportation reporter, adam tuss live in annapolis to help break down these new plans. adam? >> reporter: that's right, wendy. basically with the purple line, the state will pay less but montgomery and prince george's counties will have to kick in more if the project is going to be built. nonetheless, this was a landmark day for transportation in the state of maryland. the governor saying he is going to spend millions on new road projects saying he is going to fix every structurally deficient bridge in the state and yes saying the purple line will go forward. forward. le long-planned purple line in maryland is a g >> we will be moving forward with the purple line to connect new carrollton and prince george's county to bethesda and montgomery county. >> reporter: and between those points, stops in places like college park and silver spring. on the road side big things just around the corner.

>> we are announcing today the investment of nearly $2 billion for improving maryland's highways roads and bridges. >> reporter: for us in the d.c. region, the governor talking about widening parts of 270 and easing congestion adding a new interchange along the beltway at the greenbelt metro station and widening route 404, which leads to you the eastern shore and ocean city, moves applauded by the business community. >> roads in maryland have been a real problem, the brings, the tunnels and so we commend the governor for that big investment. >> reporter: the governor also saying he will fix every structurally deficient bridge in the state. and back here now live in annapolis, now a closer look at the purple line and what it means for places like the capital, crescent trail. that's coming up at 6:00. jim, back to you. >> adam tuss. adam thank you. prince george's county executive baker says it is too soon to have a real opinion on today's purple line announcement. he wants to see the financial numbers from the governor's office before commenting.

but montgomery county executive leggett did offer his thoughts. >> i think this is great news. i want to thank the governor for his leadership in recognizing the tremendous needs that we have throughout the washington region for additional transit the purple line is huge huge plus for montgomery county and prince george's county. >> there are some clear winners and losers with the continuation of the purple line project. we have listed who has the most to gain who has the most to lose on the nbc washington app. just search purple line. and police still want to hear from any witnesses who may have seep this morning's deadly accident at a construction site along i-95. a tractor trailer barrelled into a work zone near the intercounty connector in beltsville that tractor hit -- tractor trailer hit two construction vehicles and killed a crew member, randy jury. jury was 62 years old. he was from central pennsylvania. police are looking into why the truck driver apparently failed to yield to the signs and the lights that were on the road.

>> the proper warns were given. a judge who is playing a big part in the jesse matthew case near charlottesville refused to recuse herself today. the defense argued her daughter shares too many similarities with victim, hannah graham. northern virginia reporter, david culver, just got out of the courtroom and tells us why this judge says she is staying on the bench. >> reporter: in her ruling, judge cheryl higgins was adamant. she told the court that she can remain impartial and give jesse matthew a fair trial. this was very personal for her because her own daughter was brought into the defense's arguments. her daughter happened to be the same year student at uv a as hannah graham was, but the judge told the court that her daughter

had no connection to happen nah graham, they didn't know each other but did concede her daughter may have attended a vigil while hannah was missing. i want to read a little bit what defense had to say. # >> commonwealth believe it is equally important for the community know it is being presided over by a judge within this community responsible to this community. and so for those reasons among others, the common beth felt it was important for the regular sitting albermarle circuit court judge who is judge higg , to be the judge in this case. >> reporter: matthew's defense worried about a conflict of interest over admitting evidence. judge higgins signed off on more than half of the search warrants that later seized evidence

during that investigation. that means she essentially could be ruling over her own past decision. so as a compromise with the defense, she said another judge will step in to handle those specific motions, but as for her role, she is staying on this case, a case many here in this charlottesville community hope will bring justice in the abduction and death of hannah graham. just two weeks ago we were reporting about jesse matthew from fairfax and that was from a 2005 sex assault one that he was convicted on after unexpectedly taking an alford plea. we asked the prosecutor if she expected him to do possibly the same thing here. we are going to hear what she has to say when we join you at 6, plus look at what the next step would be, should matthew go to trial. wendy, back to you. all right david culver thanks, david. the nation may be watching how baltimore handles this latest deadly police shooting of an unarmed black man. officers called to a home in owings mills early this morning and confronted spencer mccain.

a protective order barred mccain from being at that home. three officers shot mccain, thinking he had a weapon, but did he not. investigators say two of the officers are white one of them is black. all three are now on administrative leave. the police chief says officers have been called to that home on numerous occasions because of reports of domestic violence. a gruesome discovery earlier this week in the district has now been ruled a homicide. a body found inside a burping trash can. news4's pat comes joins us live from the tran dad neighborhood in northeast d.c. with new details in the case tonight. pat? >> reporter: jim, tonight, we are learning more about the burning body here in trinidad. it's a male. it's a murder. but the cause of death wasn't the fire. a large, green trash can on fire behind this vacant house on holbrooke terrace. when firefighters put it out, they found a body inside.

at the time, they say it was burned beyond recognition. today, the medical examiner called it a case of murder. the cause of death, gunshot wounds. the victim identified as a black adult male. >> we do not have identification yet. right now, we just know it appears to be an adult male. we are working to try and identify who that person is. bev been back out in the neighborhood, talking to people in the commune airport right now, we are following up on a couple leads. >> reporter: neighbors say this alley is frequently used by prostitutes and sources say police are looking into the possibility that sex might be a motive here. now let's go to the end of the alley. take a look at this, security cameras on the side of this building, one two, three four, five, six security cameras. investigators no doubt will be check them out to see if they can get pictures of people coming and going from the ally on the -- ally on the day of the

murder. the homicide in trinidad brings the murder count to 64 a 20% increase the same time last year. >> we will get it under control. this is a spike that is unusual for us even though is the beginning of summer, but we will get it under control. >> reporter: this morning in our city, another serious shooting that could have deadly againsts. more about that coming up at 6. wendy, back to you. >> all right pat collins. the challenge to obamacare rejected. today, the supreme court voted to uphold a major component of the affordable care act that could affect millions in our area and beyond. people could qualify for a subsidy that lowers the premium cost whether they get their coverage from state or federal exchanges. if the court had ruled against it more than 6 million people in 34 states, and that includes virginia, would have been impacted.

chief justice john roberts in the majority opinion ruled that congress passed the affordable care act to improve insurance markets, not destroy them. pete sousa posted this photo today saying 10-10-26 on his camera time the president learned about the decision, adding around that same time, this clock in the oval office stopped working. joining us in the studio to break down the rules is nbc news justice correspondent, pete billance. the second time the supreme court ruled in favor of obama obamacare obamacare. any challenges on the immediate horizon? >> no big ones. if you look at today's ruling, the last time the supreme court bail it had out three years ago by saying it was a tax, it was a cacophony of different voices from the supreme court, lots of splintered opinions no one clear voice for the court. today was very different. you had the majority opinion of

six justice and you had the discenters of three but no signs of that opinion that the court is open to more challenges to obamacare, it thinks the law, even though this part is okay the rest of it is on thin ice. sometimes the supreme court issues a decision and seems to be inviting more challenges. this was not such a case. now, i should say, while i have been talking this water ski picture you have been looking at is the actual federal healthcare.gov website. and the issue was if you just bought your insurance on the healthcare.gov, the federal exchange, you would still get the subsidy and the answer from the supreme court today is yes. >> definitively. >> absolutely. >> thank you, pete. significant day. we appreciate you coming over. >> my pleasure. this was the facebook post that grabbed our attention a shark spotted in the heart of ocean city. >> that's never good. and it's violent and it's graphic. we just got the writings of an accused serial killer in alexandria. find out what it reveals about a

motive. prince george's county police say there were times they

we have seen again and again how crucial dash cam video can be for justice but in prince george's county one-third of the dash cams are broken and that leads to revelations of missing video in investigations. there's now a plan to get those cameras if i canned. to you are boo bureau chief tracee wilkins live in palmer park. tracy? >> reporter: important to know that prince george's county was one of the first police departments to actually embrace using these dashboard cameras and so they have gotten a little old. when citizens see a camera like this one in a cop car, they are expecting it to be recording

whatever is happening important not only to the officers but the chief of this department. it is a problem they are trying to fix. >> i think transparency is certainly one of the overriding factors for our use of the cameras. >> reporter: prince george's county police say they want citizens to know what happens the second an officer's siren goes on and someone is pulled over. >> really important to the chief that we are able to show our community what it is that we are doing how our officers are interacting with the public. >> reporter: for some time now a number of dashboard cameras at the department weren't working and the parts needed to repair them were out of date. now they are getting an upgrade from dvd-based cameras to hard drives. >> initially, a tiny little screen, i think it might have been a black and white. >> reporter: new high-tech cameras will also be helpful for police training. >> being able to utilize real-world scenarios officers encountering subjects who are sometimes violent, react in ways we may not be expecting, those are valuable, valuable training tools for us. >> reporter: dash cam video can

be a major part of police investigations so when it's unavailable -- >> no one is more disappointed when we, during the course of an investigation, go to get that video and realize that the camera in question was not operational. >> reporter: an officer killed in the line of duty just a few months ago in a vehicle crash had one of these cameras in his car and it did not work. on news4 at 6, why that was a crucial part of the investigation they had to forego and why it is so important to get these cameras working again. live in palmer park, tracee wilkins, back to you in the studio. thank you. a jury is now recommending a 13-year prison sentence for a virginia man convicted in the shooting death to of a 10-year-old. they found billy lee guilty in the death of his fiancee's son at a home in orange. prosecutors say lee pulled out a gun to threatening the woman but shot her son, george. lee's attorneys argued it was an accident and said the fiancee changed her story during the investigation and trial. >> he wouldn't hurt a fly. i mean, that little

boy. he loved him with all of his heart. >> lee's former fiancee will have her own hearing later this week on felony abuse charges in the case. well, people are starting to become afraid of sharks out in ocean city after several beachgoers spotted a hammerhead shark in shallow water. the ocean city beach patrol confirms those sightings to news4 -- toer that sighting. and they are cautioning people. "national geographic" says hammerheads are normally harmless to humans, however, the beach patrol says this shark was behaving uncharacteristically. and they have alerted the national aquarium in baltimore and will continue to monitor the situation. the busiest time for summer travel is expected to be even more crazy this year. aaa tells us more than 42 million people are planning to get away for the fourth. that is the most since 2007. 85% of travel will be done by car, by the way. gas is averaging $2.78 a gallon which is down 88 cents from this time last year.

but some of that money will go toward the hotel bill. that's up about 9% this year. thousands of commuters in prince william county may have to find another way to get to, would. the potomac and rappahannock transportation commission operate the prtc buses and it's facing a $9 million short fall next year. the director of prtc tells potomac local.com most possible solutions will involve cutting bus services. the family of the south carolina church shooter has released their first statement. find out what they want us to know in light of this tragedy. and canine heroes. we will tell you about a change to the way that local officers are being honored. how about a $79 flight to the caribbean?

hello everybody, i'm storm team4 chief meteorologist doug kammerer. we have been talking about the severe weather threat for today for the last couple of days. and yesterday, we alluded to the fact that most of them may be south of d.c. and this is the reason why. we had a storm system making its way through. take a look. national harbor live camera look at all the clouds, seen a lot of cloud cover during the day. you need that sunshine to help moisten the atmosphere, give it that juice that energy it needs to provide some thunderstorm activity. we haven't had that. we have had all those clouds throughout the day and that's why we are seeing just showers out there right now just rain. this is straight rain. severe thunderstorm watch just issued down toward st. mary's county westmoreland county, down toward spotsylvania county, orange county, areas to the south. nobody under that watch, d.c. metro area. right now, just rain. light rain at that leesburg, bluemont, winchester, showers coming through st. mary's, shenandoah county, fredericksburg, seeing shower activity, see rain this evening if you are heading out, take the umbrella. i think bell see shower activity coming through.

here is the chance for severe weather also where we see the sunshine. 90 in fredericksburg, 90 toward richmond, and we have a couple of storms developing. now i am watching this area here. i do think we could still see some stronger storms in and around this region through the next couple of hours. so, if you live in fredericksburg, toward waldorf, maybe calvert county, st. mary's county, the area to watch the next few hours for some storms development, and i think they could develop the next hour or some all because of this area of low pressure moving our way. see the spin in the atmosphere any time you see that spin aloft, it helps provide that spin at the surface and yes think we could see those strong storms down to the south but you notice where that watch is, well down to the ut, norfolk row neck, they have the best chances of seeing those severe storms. let's take you through 7:00 tonight, future weather a few showers, again, a couple possible storm, but then around 10, as that motion continues, that swirling motion, that's when we could get stronger storms in and around parts of southern maryland 10 11:00, shower activity.

tomorrow morning no problem most of friday looking okay. we will see a lot of cloud cover, some sunshine, a lot of includes, some showers in the afternoon. i'm not expecting much, probably need the umbrella, put a 30% chance of showers in in the region. 8 a.m. on saturday, notice the shower activity earlier in the day watch what happens around 1, start to see a frontal boundary move our way as the front moves through could see a severe weather on saturday biggest threat, some heavy rain. locations on saturday could easily pick up one to two inches of rain on saturday, saturday afternoon may just be a washout if you have plans on saturday especially in the afternoon, maybe quite wet. 85 on d.c. fredericksburg, 86 83 leesburg, best chance of showers aroundism-95 off to the east. 78 on saturday with that rain. 80 degrees on sunday. #

now at 5:00 tonight an inside look at the personal notebook of an accused serial killer. what it says about the man who allegedly targeted people in alexandria for years. and it's something that's in the national cathedral and it's a tribute to the confederacy. the decision has been made about the stained glass. and tough enough getting through your teenaged years but being transgender makes it even harder. find out how this topic has become part of the

a critical ruling today in the triple murder trial of charles severance. >> prosecutors won their battle to use his graphic and violent writings as key part of their evidence. >> northern virginia bureau

chief julie carey, got her hands on these copies of messages of death from the accused killer's notebook. >> reporter: investigators pored over thousands of pages in charles severance's notebooks. in these passages filed with the court and obtained by news4 prosecutor says they found a motive for the murder of three well-known alexandria residents. they say it was severance's anger after losing his young son in a child custody dispute 15 years ago. for example, he writes "can you forgive someone for kidnapping your son? can you murder someone for kidnapping your son?" many writings initially dark what the severance calls the enforcement class, police and social workers. this entry reads "the only good cop is a dead cop. murder is good. court justice is bad. kill authority. listen to their screams." later, severance aimed his anchor at a bigger group he called the utopian elite, urging the judge to bar the writing from trial, severance's defense attorney claimed they are cherry picked to outrage jurors and only represent a fraction of his

work. one of his friends offered this explanation at a previous hearing. severance was a active fantasy gamer. >> i think that they extracted what they wanted to be sensational about it. >> reporter: the prosecutors see it differently and point to this statement from severance. "introduce murder into a safe and secure neighborhood. it shudders with horror. " all three victims were shot at their front door. here's part of a severance-penned poem prosecutors will use at trial. "knock, talk, enter, kill, exit murder wisdom." the judge's ruling these writings will be allowed at trial. coming up on news4 at 6:00, a look at what charles severance has to say and hear about guns and ammo. in fairfax county, i'm julie carey news4. we are starting to see some signs that some work is about to start at a prince george's county cemetery where these heavy rains washed a person's casket out of its resting place.

people have loved ones buried there our cameras got video of large concrete blocks which appear to be part of a new retaining wall that prevents a repeat of last weekend's problems and that casket washed up was set to be reburied today but the cemetery has not confirmed if that has happened. this just into news4 tonight, the deep of the national cathedral here is calling for the removal of the stained glass windows that dismay is the confederate flag at the historic church. in a press release, reverend gary hall says he knows the kathed that cal's initial intention was to foster reckon reconciliation of the parts of the country divided by the civil war but now he says it has emerged as a symbol of white supremacy and calling on the governing bodies of come up with a new window design. he will address the issue in his sermon sunday. crews had to clean up a monument in richmond after someone spray painted it. someone wrote "black lives matter" over the monument of

jefferson davis, a former confederate president. reporter christina head has reaction from people who live there. >> reporter: it was the message that stopped almost everyone who walked or drove by black lives matter boldly spray painted on the jefferson davis monument. >> i don'tgraffiti. i don't agree with defacing public property, but i understand the reason behind it. >> is a monument. it is wrong. understand the confederate flag. i have never owned a confederate flag flag. never wore an item, t-shirt or anything that had one on it. but this is -- this does not further anything. >> reporter: sir james weaver says he was just walking by and stopped in his tracks. he offered this explanation for the graffiti. >> black people general are fed up. >> reporter: city of richmond crews came by to power wash the monument. richmond police tell us they believe the vandalism happened

overnight or in the early morning hours but right now nobody is in custody. this man, who does not want to be identified says it's time for everyone to come together and start talking. >> i certainly don't agree with the vandalism. i don't really think that should happen but it's part of a conversation that's long overdue. we have more on today's ruling of the affordable care act. meet someone who watched this case very carefully shelia rogers who lives in richmond and suffered serious neck pain for years but couldn't afford to go to a doctor. one of the first things she did under obamacare was go see a physician and learned that her pain was caused by a serious spinal disorder. >> i'm like, okay. there's a reason for this pain. there's a reason why sometimes i can't even take a step. it's not me. it's a condition. i would not have known. >> if today's ruling had gone the other way, shelia rodgers would likely have lost her insurance. the supreme court decision

is a major victory for president obama but republicans barn they are not done fighting. steve handlesman is live at 6 with the challenges that could lie ahead. it was in the meat, the tools that two new york inmates used to escape were well hidden but did the prison guard who gave it to them really know about it? and prince george's county making a move to make sure that all of its

he had no idea he was helping two dangerous men escape, what a new york prison guard told police. gene palmer is out on bond tonight and will be arraigned on monday. he is accused of passing frozen hamburger meat to richard matt and david sweat. a prison seamstress told investigators she smuggled hacksaw blades and tools inside that meat. palmer says he was passing on the meat in ex-charge i think

for paintings created by matt. >> he had no knowledge they were planning on escaping. he passed a polygraph test. >> there's something more that they are not telling us. besides that hole how did they cut that hole? >> matt and sweat have now been on the run for 20 days. police say they may have taken guns from a cabin where their dna was found. the prince george's county police department is now honoring fallen officers through its k-9 unit. today, the department graduated a class of k-9 officers and named two dogs after officers who have been killed in the line of duty. k-9 colonzo offers pfc who was killed in the crash while responding to a robbery in 2000. k-9 leroy is named in memory of corporal harry leroy kencan stabbed to death during an arrest in 1986. >> i hope that bell run outwe will run out of names to name these k-9s after. i don't think that's true and i don't think that will ever happen, unfortunately.

the meantime it is truly an honor and a privilege to have these officers out here about these k-9s named after the fallen. >> the families of the fallen officers were at today's ceremony, got a chance to meet the dogs after that ceremony. we are getting more details tonight about a deadly police shooting of an unarmed black man. find out what police have to say now about what happened in baltimore county. fairfax county schools could add the transgender lifestyle to the lesson plan. we are going to hear from a local teenager who says this is something everyone needs to learn about. the roads are wet with rain showers moving through. even portions of our area under a severe thunderstorm watch for st. mary's county. caroline down through warrington, spot sill veilian county, until midnight. while most of the weather is

two of the vick from the charleston church massacre were buried today. reverend sharonda coleman singleton was honored during a funeral service, she was a minister at emanuel ame church. governor nikki haley al

sharpton and jesse jackson were in attendance. news4's chris lawrence joins us now with more on the services. chris? >> lance's burial service at mother emanuel ame cemetery. she was also in charge of the upkeep at the church. in addition to her duties as minister coleman singleton was a speech pathologist girls track coach. she was remembered as a great mom someone who always had a smile on her face much the family of dylann roof issued a statement acknowledging so many questions that surround this tragedy. families say they would lake to reflect on the victims and give their families time to grieve. the family asked that care attention and support be given to the grieving family members of those victims. we have got some more rain coming in on this thursday

evening. we are already a wee bit soaked these days, but, you know it's summertime and this is what happens. right, veronica? >> that's exactly it. head over to the key wall and show what is going on across the area now. we have showers across our area now, just showers. severe thunderstorm watch just of the our area. mentioned wet conditions around areas of 270 north of montgomery county, mount erie, showers moving through keep that in mind, hit area roads, they are a little wet out there. stormy conditions down south this is fredericksburg, there's i-95. this storm sliding right across i-95 the next couple of minutes, a lot more storms firing around williamsburg and norfolk. lightning here too. so, for us, on the southern fringe of all this severe weather, but we will have some more heavy weather coming up this weekend the first half with thunderstorms the potential of flooding those storms on saturday could bring some very

strong winds damaging winds of their own. let's take a look at your future weather, even though we have got showers, still could see an isolated thunderstorm. this is around 8:00. prior to about 11 p.m. or midnight, the bulk of our wet weather should be out of here by midnight. earthly tomorrow morning 6 a.m. pockets of fog, some wet weather, occasional shower it will be light. get by with a small umbrella early tomorrow morning. so, for us, some stormy conditions down south, temperature between 6 and 9 p.m., 7 degrees, early tomorrow morning, mid-70s, not going to be cooling way down. because of the moisture still around, again, pockets of fog, our visibility should be in some locations, some neighborhoods down around just under a mile. for friday, showers, but look at this saturday it's past the moderate rain and up into heavy rain and that means not only issues with flooding but even some drainage issues around your home. so, ponding on area roads a possibility for saturday. 11 a.m. tomorrow there we are,

80 degrees. mid-80s by tomorrow afternoon, looking mainly gray, but with isolated showers, i still think it's a good day to get out and exercise tomorrow. it's an inside day for saturday. we hit the mid-80s tomorrow, maybe even 86 degrees down around fredericksburg, we take a look at the impact of our rain for this evening. travel could be a little slow, especially south got wet roads coming up for tomorrow throughout the day, it is not looking bad, but for saturday, again, flood issues, slick roads, between 1 and 2 inches of rain. the areas in red, in purple where there could be more than two inches of rain coming in by saturday. this is midday. leesburg, manassas, culpepper, fredericksburg, south the areas that had the soaking. you heard me mention, i'm talking about some wind too, on saturday. so, there could be some downed trees, maybe even some power outages coming up for saturday. 7 degrees. 87 early part of next week, i

think we will have a couple more days coming up that top out around 90 degrees next week. there's your chance of rain, too, coming our way for midweek. so we have got a little bit in the way of showers moving through right now, showers just down to the south. we will continue to monitor those. and for the weekend, again, a 50/50 weekend. fine day for saturday rain heavy at times, flooding, travel could be slow and a lot of activities the first half of the weekend. easily washed out. sunday, 80 degrees, not only talking about drier weather moving in but breezy conditions. so right now again showers moving through. we will have a lot more on our stormy conditions the first half of the weekend in a few minutes. >> vj, we will see you then. adding lessons on what it means to be transgender, part offage education vote for fairfax county schools tonight. kristen kristen wright reports there is a group working to educate teenagers and their families. >> we are grateful that you are

here, this is a safe space. >> reporter: a place where deep, difficult secrets come to light. some people think i should pressure my daughter to tell her father. >> reporter: fourth fridays brings together parents of transgender and gender non-conforming young people once ament mo. mothers in the northern virginia support group face their own transition. >> you go through mourning and loss of who you thought your child play is been. >> reporter: she always thought her blonde, pigtailed daughter, natasha, was a tomorrow boy. it wasn't that simple. today natasha is nathan. this 17-year-old is transgender. he transitioned to living as male in sixth grade. nathan says he is sure this is who he is. many respect accepting. >> no one should be called an it thing or a she/he. >> reporter: some school districts are confronting transgender issues. after a heated public meeting

last month, the fairfax county school board voted to add gender identity protections to the district's no discrimination policy. tonight, the fairfax county school board will decide whether to include optional gender identity and sexual orientation lessons in its health curriculum for seventh and eighth graders. reverend emma and roxanne edwards started fourth fridays. >> we created a place and an environment that is safe for people to share their deepest truths. >> middle school was very tumultuous for him. >> the first generation that we have really done that with that we have paid attention and listened. >> reporter: around the circle, nathan is called brave. >> having, um, friends and family that accept me for me is -- is amazing. >> reporter: unconditional love has become the only way for these mothers. >> realize that you really haven't lost anything at all and i think our journey i have gaped a lot. >> reporter: in northern

virginia, kristen wright, news4. >> the meeting is at jackson middle school in falls church. to learn more about fourth fridays, you can search transformation on nbcwashington.com. in his first appearance since the tack cada air bag problems became public the company's ceo says he is sorry. the defective air bags led to a recall of nearly 34 million vehicles because the air bags can explode with so much force, they send shrapnel flying that the air, killed at least eight people and more than 100 were injured. the ceo apologized for not reaching out to the victims and their families earlier. if you ride marc, you might have noticed a big fare increase started today. seven-day passes are going up by $20 or more. one will cost you $80 a week to get between baltimore and d.c. one-way trips going up $1 on average. mark is offering a five-day pass

if you travel monday to friday every week. everyone into the pool now. if you need a ride in alexandria to some refreshing water you can take the dash. the transit company is teaming up with the city and the swim club to help get families and children to the old town pool this summer. so, dash buses are giving free rides from the 1st of july to labor day. free pool buses will n from 9:30 in the morning until 3 in the afternoon and 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on the weekends much ss and businesses are helping to fight free rides. it may be summer but not too soon to start thinking about escaping winter. you will soon have a brand new option to get down to the caribbean. low-cost carrier, norwegian, announced new flights out of bwi marshall. that includes trips on mondays and fridays to martin sneak and tuesdays and saturdays, the guadalupe islands. norwegian airlines says fares will start at $79 out of the

u.s., $99 for the return home. they will begin the new routes in december. all of the flights will include free wifi. a developing story tonight out of baltimore, where there has been a police shooting. baltimore county police officers shot and killed an unarmed black man. police called to a home in owings mills this morning for a domestic situation. they have been called to that home several times for domestic problems. when they entered the apartment, the man confronted officers. officers believed he had a gun. >> the police officers encountered a subject in a defensive position, making body movements and armed movements that placed the officers in fear of serious injury or death. the three officers shot the man. police searched for a weapon but they didn't find one. a woman and two children were inside that condo as well. the officers, two of them are white, one of them is black. all three have been placed on administrative leave. the police and fire games

are about to kick off. find out how our local heroes match up in the bat of the best. a prince george's county cop says he is ready for the challenge. i'm tom sherwood in silver spring. behind merck the new silver spring library with a gaping hole. that hole is for the purple line, if it ever gets built.

tomorrow, the world police and firefighter games kick off in fairfax county, bringing together 12,000 competitors from 70 different countries. one prince george's county police officer is ready to compete with the best of the best. >> reporter: s.w.a.t. team, dive team, the corporal longs the part of a seasoned police officer. hard to believe he had to fight some weight and high blood pressure issues. >> got into biking. i took the police mountain bike course, which was a week long.

after a week of riding it really developed some skills. >> reporter: eight years later, he and his mountain bike are inseparable. >> i like to ride over the park, probably one of the best in the area. >> reporter: they hit the trails on an eight-to ten-mile loop twice a week. he introduced his now 19-year-old son to biking and now he competes nationally. >> i used to ride with him, telling him to pick up his pace. he would say, oh, dad. now he is yelling at me, come on, dad, pick up the pace. >> reporter: he will take the advice when he competes in the world police and fire games road race and mountain bike events this year. >> try to get an hour, two hours here and there as i am training for it. >> reporter: his love of riding and hours of training are fueling his into irto compete and he is eager to see how he stacks up against other first responders.

going to bring you coverage of the official start of the police and firefighter games tomorrow and you can check out the top five events right now on nbcwashington.com. now at 6:00, some considerable debate over plans to move ahead with maryland's purple line. tonight there are questions about the future of that project and who is gonna pay for it. the fight isn't over despite a key ruling today from the supreme court over the health care law. and we will have a report how an accused killer's own words could come back to haunt him at trial. we begin tonight with a look at the weather, it is raining out there in parts of the area, some severe thunderstorm watches still in effect though. a busy screen behind us and the storm center with doug. what are you seeing? >> just plain rain. shower activity around the area. no severe weather in our region.

i really don't think we are going to see much of a severe weather threat tonight. strong storms yes, but we will talk about the chance of severe weather in a second. first off, look at the cloud cover. we have showers toward the rockville area that is all they are, showers. you can see them on storm team4 radar right now. those showers making their way on through the area from west off to the east. montgomery county frederick county, back to the west, shower activity, not a single i do mean not a single thunderstorm in our area, only chance down to the south. where our severe thunderstorm watches, includes st. mary's county, westmoreland, spotsylvania, orange county. that is it. to the north not under that watch, just going to see the phones for heavy rain, i think as we move on through the overnight hours. i'm no longer looking at a chance for severe weather in our region. the heaviest you weather, between 7 and 11 tonight, downpours, maybe slick roads maybe some areas of high winds, some hail and lightning but not a widespread severe