island, a child died. three others are in the hospital recovering after this racing boat crashed into a spectator boat. the accident happened at the thunder on the narrows race yesterday. a 7-year-old died in the crash. maryland natural resources police say the boat's driver lost control but it's not clear why. the time right now is 4:30. it's really refreshing outside. >> if you have a reason to be out this morning, get out and enjoy it though. a nice break from what we have been dealing with last week. >> badly needed, right, tom? >> indeed. good morning to walk the door, get some exercise. lower humidity has moved in. if you slept with the windows open, it was rather chilly waking up this morning. in the 50s in montgomery county, fairfax, much of northern virginia. mid and upper 50s. closer to washington right around the beltway inside the beltway in the low to mid 60s. as is much of southern maryland. shenandoah valley the mountains in the 50s this morning. live view from the storm team 4

tower camera, looking out to the east. the first hint of dawn beginning to show up. sunrise is still over an hour away. then by 8:00 we'll be in the mid 60s. by noontime 70s. beautiful day coming up with lots of sunshine. don't forget the sun block. looking at the commute, it's smooth so far, right, melissa? >> not too much to worry about. a little construction here and there. but again, nothing major right now. looking at our map here, 66 and 95, both inbound and outbound lanes all open and smooth. no problems. taking a look, top of the beltway. no major issues there but 95 in maryland here b.w. parkway, 29, into and out of town looks good. zooming in we have a little bit of road work on 95 northbound at the icc with the left lane blocked so a warning for you there. beltway at colesville road rolling along quite nicely. looking at 270, no problems there into or out of town.

back at 4:41 with weather and traffic on the 1s. breaking news into the live desk. an escaped inmate captured. not to be confused with the prison break in new york. they think kristopher mcneil simply walked out of the brown creek correctional facility in north carolina, scaled a fence. saturday he was in for second degree murder and mcneil got about 80 miles before people recognized him and he was put back in jail about three hours ago. a prison kitchen employee is charged with trying to help him escape. aaron? >> all right, kristin thank you. and kristin referenced this developing story in upstate new york. people living in the town near clinton correctional facility are waking up for the first time in three weeks not in fear. [ cheers and applause ] cheers for that small town, escapee david sweat is in critical condition this morning after being shot by a state trooper yesterday, just two miles from the canadian border. the fugitive was unarmed when the new york state police

sergeant shot him twice as he ran toward a tree line. sweat's capture comes two days after his fellow escapee richard matt was sho >> these were dangerous, dangerous men. both matt and sweat. they were killers. >> they have put their lives at risk for us and can't thank them enough. can't thank them enough. >> citizens speaking of police officers there. david sweat being treated at albany medical center under heavy police guard this morning. sweat and richard matt were on the run for about three weeks after a movie style prison break. a correctional officer has been arrested for help with the murders. and students can get help with grief. 18-year-olds calvin li and alex murk both died when the car flipped and landed in someone's

driveway. montgomery county investigators say speed and alcohol contributed to that crash. counselors will be available from 9:00 this morning to 3:00 this afternoon for the students. right now, aviation investigators are on the ground in alaska trying to figure out why a sightseeing plane slammed into the granite cliff thursday. eight cruise ship passengers and the plane's pilot were killed. a father and daughter from montgomery county are among the victims. the plane went down near the national monument in southern alaska. that's steep mountainous terrain that sees frequent high winds. today the last round of decisions due out of the supreme court as it wraps up this term. we are still waiting on decisions about lethal injection drugs, about how congressional districts are shaped and how far the government can go to limit mercury emissions and whether they will hear high profile

cases in the fall. coming up in a few minutes we'll look at how some groups plan to fight the rulings. this morning we expect to hear more from montgomery county council's president about governor hogue up's purple line plans. leventhal welcomes the decisions but it creates problems. hogan approved the plan last week, but he wants the counties to spend more to help the state pay for it. a live look outside for you right now. the bad news, it's monday. the good news -- it's going to be gorgeous outside today. tom is putting together your walk to work forecast and will bring us that at 4:41. a live saving measure will cost you in loudoun county. why supervisors passed the measure that will charge you if you need an ambulance. yours truly, james white why

if you need an ambulance in loudoun county, you can now expect to pay a bill. the loudoun county supervisors approved a bill to charge you if you need an ambulance. the program will start some time next month. any bills will go to your insurance company first. the ride could cost anywhere from $470 to $770. former boston crime boss james whitey bulger said he wasted his life. some high school students wrote

the former leader of the winter hill gang in prison as part of a school project and he wrote back, saying he brought shame to his family. he's serving a life sentence for racketeering and his role in 11 murders. the students from massachusetts posted his letter on their school website. bulger also says if you want to make crime pay go to law school. cool temperatures to start your weather and traffic on the 1s at 4:39. and happy monday, tom. >> same to you. starting off on the cool side. maybe you need a light jacket for the next couple of hours, then you'll be comfortable in short sleeves later today. drink plenty of water. with the low humidity, it will be warm this afternoon. you'll need the sun block. the year. get a quick burn and definitely need the sunglasses. as you're walking to work this morning, a light jacket perhaps over the next few hours. bright sunshine. low humidity during the afternoon. just a few high clouds coming in. high temperatures reaching the mid 80s by this afternoon.

a little bit of a light wind. a look at the storm chances coming up in the next seven days at 4:51. a look at road work. what's going on? >> a little bit of road work is hanging around. branch avenue southbound right there near woodyard road. three right lanes blocked at this point this morning. as we zoom out a little bit, everything is moving along just fine. don't have any major problems on the beltway or construction to speak of this morning. 95 in virginia there at lorton road, northbound and southbound, everything is rolling along nicely here. 66 in to town, no problems. same thing as you're headed out of town. remember to listen to our friends on wtop when you hop in your car for the latest on traffic this morning. 270 also looking quite good. a live look at 270 in ten minutes. thank you. the confederate flag is back in the president is and all because

of -- back in the spotlight this morning. why the dean is calling for the removal of the flag at the church. you have seen the video, but do you know the consequences of yesterday's failed spacex launch? why the astronauts might be

right now a big fire that won't stop burning out west. we want you to take a look at the pictures. this is a grass fire in central washington state. it keeps getting bigger and growing quickly. having real impacts on anyone who lives near it. about 200 people are told they have to leave their homes or should leave their homes. even a walmart was evacuated. a handful of buildings damaged or destroyed about nine or so.

and emergency shelter has opened for those who decided to evacuate and investigators are trying to figure out what sparked this fire out there. angie? >> thank you, kristin. two weeks from now, governor walker will tell us if he's running for president. he told fox news channel he'll announce the week of july 13th. he's running a few points behind jeb bush and marco rubio in the latest nbc poll. and another candidate is set to announce a bid. ohio governor john kasich is expected to join the race july 21st. he is reportedly planning to head immediately to new hampshire, south carolina and michigan. and chris christie is expected to announce on tuesday. the total number of republican candidates will be a staggering 16. coming up on 15 before the hour and coast to coast, lgbt pride events took on new meaning

after the supreme court legalized same-sex marriage. the issue is far from settled, and tracie potts is following the story from capitol hill now. good morning. >> reporter: hey, aaron, good morning. we saw the demonstrations from new york to san francisco, celebrated what we thought was a clear decision from the courts. that same-sex marriage is now legal in all 50 states. however, we are seeing different reactions from at what of those states and louisiana and ohio they say they'll comply, but reluctantly. they don't like the decision. but they have no choice. in new york, we saw the first same-sex marriage performed by governor cuomo before the court even sent the paperwork out. but in texas, we're seeing the attorney general saying that he's got an army of lawyers ready to defend county clerks and judges that have religious objections that's the next legal front here. religious objections by public officials who do not want to participate in same-sex marriages. so it is certainly possible that we may see that part of this

work its way back up to the courts. some of the 14 states that had banned same-sex marriage now find other ways to object to the court's historic ruling last week. >> tracie potts, thank you. as you can imagine the ruling is expected to be a huge boon for the wedding industry. a new survey of more than 1,200 couples and single found they spent less -- or plan to spend less on their wedding than other couples. the average cost of a wedding for any couple is more than $31,000. vice president joe biden sharing his personal connection with the church in charleston where nine people were killed during a bible study. he spoke at sunday services at the emanuel ame church. he said he visited the church before and he knew pastor clementa pinckney. his appearance was a surprise to worshipers. the leader of one of the most loved landmarks is now calling for the removal of a

confederate themed decoration there. there are two stained glass panels that have images of the flags. it was put in to honor military leaders anned yesterday the deep of the church spoke to worshipers about the flag during his sunday sermon. he said it's become a symbol of white supremacy. >> the fact that so many find it so offensive should be enough of a reason to fold it up and put it away. >> the cathedral's governing body has a final call on whether to remove the panels. maryland governor larry hogan said he's feeling strong and healthy after his first round of chemotherapy. he said he feels humbled and uplifted by the outpouring of support. there was a prayer vigil for the governor last night in annapolis. in addition to the supporters he thanked the medical team saying, quote, we are killing cancer cells left and right and i have no side effects.

end quote. >> he's a wonderful person, a wonderful man. he deserves it deserves this. like i said we're all 100% behind him. >> last week the governor revealed he had been diagnosed with an advanced stage of non-hodgkins lymphoma. he pledged to keep working while undergoing treatment. a lawyer combing through the offer for a new baseball stadium in spotsylvania county. the supervisors are making a counteroffer on the stadium. this would go around the south point parkway on route 1. spotsylvania county wants to see if the proposal is realistic and supervisors are asking for a rent payment of $250,000 a year. your ride on vre is about to get more expensive starting july 1st, fares are going up 4%. now to give you an idea of what you'll be paying a trip on the fredericksburg line costs $11.10 and on wednesday, it will cost

you $11.55. so on average you'll be paying 45 cents more a trip. and officials are trying to make it easier for you to identify the express lanes on the beltway and on i-95. you'll start seeing new purple lines stripes appearing on the road throughout the middle of july. >> i was wondering where you went. >> slide right in there. the new four inch stripes are being added to the yellow stripes and those stripes are supposed to make it clear you're entering the express lanes. derrick ward will show you which stripes they're added to. >> i'm glad you didn't leave me there. well, they're crossing their fingers that the next supply launch will succeed. spacex's explosion destroyed food and water that astronauts need to survive.

>> coming back shows vehicle on course. >> he's not talking about eating the mustard and ketchup packets yet. they have a lot of food on board. they have a lot of supplies. >> and that was former astronaut mark kelly talking about his twin brother scott on the iss right now. the astronauts have enough supplies to last through october. however, this is the third failed launch in eight months. his brother scott said he watched it while he was up there and he said, quote, space is hard. which it is. >> yeah. i think we have heard that before too. yeah. you know they plan for these sorts of things. they make sure they have backup plans in place. it will work out. >> i think the next spacex is slated to go up in september. let's turn to tom kierein as we approach 4:51. we are happy. this is a good place to be -- >> it feels great especially after some wicked weather we got

in the last couple of days. >> on saturday and then the low humidity came in yesterday. it is in place this morning. enjoy it while you can, because you know it's going to come back. as we approach july.now though it's beautiful. pleasant humidity today. but by the time we get into tomorrow, we'll have the humidity get up into the sticky range by tomorrow afternoon. it's going to remain rather steamy here for the week ahead. storm team 4 radar not showing any rain anywhere in the vicinity. starting off early this morning with a clear sky. got that bright moon in the western sky now and the temperatures down into the pleasant 50s. most of maryland and virginia around the bay, around 70 degrees. much of southern maryland is low 60s. montgomery county and fairfax county, upper 50s. near 50 in on the eastern shore and out of the mountains it's much cooler. eastern shore near 70. look at the beautiful blue sky. and by 8:00, should be jumping

into the 60s much of the region. then by noon upper 70s. beautiful afternoon, great weather for outdoor work and recreation. and then tomorrow, we'll be back up near the average high of 88 and on wednesday as well. thursday, friday, saturday, a little bit below the average high. back up near that first part of next week. so a nice break from our high heat and high humidity. as we get up into the upper 80s tomorrow, an afternoon thunderstorm. there's a possibility a slight chance it would be severe tomorrow. then a much smaller chance of an afternoon storm on wednesday. mid 80s, a possibility of a passing shower or thunderstorm during the day on thursday. then on friday, looking as we get into the fourth of july weekend a chance of afternoon storms as well as on saturday saturday evening could have some thundershowers interrupting some of the fireworks displays. mid 80s on the fourth and then partly cloudy and looking rather

mild. upper 80s to near 90 degrees. now let's check on the monday morning commute with melissa. we have a disabled car. >> we have a brand new disabled vehicle. this is 95 northbound headed to fredericksburg there at 17. so just a warning there. sounds like it's off to the right side of the roadway right now. 270 at old hundred road, no problems there. 66 here and 95 rolling along just fine for us this morning. nice and green. did have some earlier road work so it's cleared out of the way. overall, road work is pretty light this morning. taking a look at the beltway taking -- looking pretty good i should say. beltway at good luck road, inner and outer loop everything is rolling along. we have the road work happening, maryland 95 northbound at the icc with the left lane blocked. back in ten minutes. see you at 5:01. >> all right, thank you, melissa. ne

you're watching "news4 today." >> we now know the names of a mother and daughter who died this weekend. fire officials tell us crystal puderbaugh and her 4-year-old daughter lily were electrocuted

in their home. >> anything with electric in water is never good. never work with a sump pump that's blocked in. there's all kinds of electricity rolling through this thing. if it's plugged in and you put your hand in, you can shock yourself. >> firefighters are working to finding out if a sump pump caused the shock. some of you are still cleaning up from a tornado. we learned that two touched down during saturday's storms. they ripped up more than 50 trees and damaged houses and barns too. culpepper's police department wants your extra prescription drugs. the idea is to keep leftover pain pills out of the wrong hands. there's a drop-off box on old brandy road. it's available to the public, no questions asked from 8:00 in the morning until 5:00 p.m. monday through friday. the police department will dispose of the drugs in an environmentally friendly manner.

today, mayor muriel bowser celebrates the start of the summer jobs program for young people in d.c. she's holding a round table at enlightened incorporated later on this morning and is honoring some of the community members. she is speaking tonight at the caribbean recognition awards. in less than three hours, the police and fire kicks off their games. thousands of police officers firefighters, from all over the globe are here for the games over the next couple of weeks. everything happens -- this event happens every two years. all of the events are free and open to the public. the competition runs through july 5th and of course nbc4 is a proud sponsor of the games. >> you helped out with the opening ceremony. >> opening ceremony on friday. it was so cool to see, you know, be right on the field as the parade of nations is coming by. 10,000 in town.

>> a really diverse crowd. >> yeah. the guys from norway put on a good show. >> i'm going to have to go to your feed. such a real test of toughness. but so many different kinds of sports. i hear them dodge ball? >> yeah. >> darts going on today. >> anything you can think of. >> ping-pong hockey. >> a lot of fun. >> runs the gamut. stay with us, "news4 today" continues right now at 5:00 a.m. >> "news4 today" starts now. >> and good morning, everyone. i'm aaron gilchrist. >> i'm angie goff in for eun yang. welcome to "news4 today." if you had a moment to maybe go walk the dog early this morning, you will notice a drastic change in the weather. >> tom kierein is here with your weather headlines. >> yeah, the dog won't want to come back in. gorgeous morning with the lower humidity, that's moved in since yesterday afternoon. storm team 4 radar scanning the sky, don't have any rain around the vicinity. look at that deep orange tangerine glow on the eastern horizon. live view from the city camera

this morning. there's the jefferson memorial washington monument under a clear sky. temperatures by 6:00 a.m., the mid 60s. then near 70 by 8:00. then by 10:00 into the mid 70s with low humidity and bright sunshine. your drive time forecast next weather and traffic on the 1s at 5:11. speaking of drive time, how is the monday commute, melissa? >> our drive times actually looking good right now. no major issues. 50 here just southeast of the beltway, hard to see, but no major problems at this point this morning. 95 in maryland at cherry hill road, everything looking quite good. in prince george's county, we have this construction hanging around. it's kind of rare because it's some of the other construction this morning. branch avenue at woodyard, three right lanes are blocked. 270 out of frederick looking quite goodall the way to the spur.