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times online. a woman with amnesia finally finds her family. millions of drivers, rain, low gas prices and the fourth of july falling on a saturday. i'm shomari stone. why some experts say that's a bad combination. >> "news4 at 11" starts now. >> they put their lives on the line at work, but this was supposed to be a friendly competition. >> yeah. police detective from brazil died tonight in virginia after he crashed his bike at the world police and fire games. two more riders are still in critical condition. >> news4's jackie bensen is live at innova fairfax hospital with the latest. jackie? >> reporter: this was heart-wrenching. just a short time ago, one of investigator carlos silva's colleagues talked to us about this man, this 48-year-old man and the life he lived thousands of miles away from here. >> i worked with carlos, my big

brother. it's very hard for me to say these words. i was his roommate. and actually, yesterday we talked a little bit of the world fire games. >> reporter: declining the assistance of a portuguese translator, alexander manzan, also taking part in the world and fire games spoke about 48-year-old investigator carlos silva. he was killed in a horrific chain reaction crash after experiencing a tire blowout during a bicycle race held in prince william county forest park this afternoon. it was part of the world police and fire games hosted by fairfax county. >> he is a hero. he was doing what he is supposed to do, and that is to maintain readiness. >> reporter: just before 10:00 p.m., officer silva's body was escorted from the hospital by an honor guard from the fairfax county police department. >> he loved what we do. he loved to be here. he loved to train. and most of all, he loved his career and his daughter.

>> reporter: investigator silva is survived by a 13-year-old daughter. and officials here have asked us to ask you, everyone who is listening to send thoughts and prayers for the two officers who remain hospitalized here in critical condition. back to you. >> all right, jackie. there won't be any shortage of prayers going their way. tonight d.c. police chief cathy lanier is praising the coordinated response to what turned out to be a false alarm at the washington navy yard. an employee thought she heard gunshot there's this morning, and law enforcement didn't take any chances. we saw a huge show of force. the chief says the woman who called this in did the right thing. she spoke up after a gunman killed 12 people nearly two years ago at the navy yard, local and federal agencies have been practicing their active shooter response. but employees in building 197 never expected to go through this again. >> they say, you know, what is the chances of lightning

striking twice. well, never thought it would happen again. heard someone yelling get out of the building stay away from the cafeteria, get out of here. and everyone started running towards the exits. >> authorities locked down the navy yard for about two hours today so they could search each building one by one. >> d.c. police say that heavy law enforcement presence we all saw today is good practice for the real thing. mayor muriel bowser also made it clear the district will respond to credible threats. >> when we talk to our residents and visitors who want to celebrate independence day in the district of columbia, should it be very clear to everybody that we take clear and credible calls from our citizens and employees very, very seriously. >> people we talked with today said they were looking forward to enjoying the holiday and wouldn't let any potential terror threat change their plans. new at 11 tonight, we're hearing from the passengers of a flight that had to be diverted from dulles airport. a woman started making threats

on board a united express flight from st. louis to dulles and the pilot had to land the plane in columbus, ohio. >> i was told to put my tray up my computer away. and we were only about halfway through the flight. and then we just took a nosedive right towards the ground and did a really quick landing. i looked around. this isn't dulles airport. >> officers arrested the woman. an agent isolated the passengers and their bags in a far corner of the airport. a bomb-sniffing dog checked them out. they didn't find anything and united put them on a different plane back to dulles. a group that wanted to put up ads on metro featuring a cartoon of the prophet muhammad is now suing the transit agency. the american freedom defense initiative says that metro violated its free speech rights by banning political and religious advertising for the remainder of the year. the transit agency made that decision in may shortly after the prophet muhammad ad was submitted. the cartoon featured in the ad won a contest in texas, a contest that was attacked by two

men with connections to isis. a developing story tonight for all of you going through the process of applying for a federal security clearance. the office of personnel management says it will keep doing background checks but you will have to use old-fashioned hardcopy forms and questionnaires. earlier this week opm shut down the equip system and online databases that is used to complete and submit background forms. the site could be down for four to six weeks. whether you're hitting the road or staying close to home, this is a fourth of july story you'll want to hear. travel experts say it's shaping up to be an especially dangerous weekend on the road. news4's shomari stone is live near the beltway and chevy chase to explain why. shomari? >> reporter: well, chris, tonight hundreds of drivers have already jumped on the beltway for the fourth of july weekend. aaa is warning them to be careful and vigilant.

>> a little nerve-racking. >> reporter: nicia jordan isn't looking forward to driving to new jersey this fourth of july weekend. >> definitely worried about the traffic. hopefully, hopefully we're leaving early enough. >> reporter: she will hit the highway early friday morning to beat the traffic. and she is going to be extra careful. the national safety council predicts around 400 people will be killed on roads during the long independence day weekend nationwide. the most since july 4th 2008. local aaa officials are concerned because this year's fourth of july falls on a saturday. gas prices are relatively low. some people could drink alcohol. and you can't forget rain is in the forecast. >> when you mix huge numbers of people on the roads with holiday celebrations which unfortunately mean some unfortunately will choose to drink and drive and you add rain that's a recipe that unfortunately leads to tragedy. >> reporter: aaa says around 800,000 people will drive on d.c. area roads this weekend.

nisha jordan will remain vigilant and optimistic. >> i think everything will work out okay. >> reporter: and have a good july 4th? >> yes. >> reporter: have a good time, nisha jordan. tonight aaa also recommends you slow down, buckle up, put your kids in proper child seats and also make sure that you don't of course drink and drive. live from chevy chase, shomari stone, news4. right now traffic is back to normal on georgia avenue in wheaton. we pushed out a breaking news alert on our nbc washington app just as soon as wsse announced everything was fixed. the southbound lanes have been closed since yesterday afternoon when a huge matter main break flooded the street with 2.5 million gallons of water. a fight between sunshine and rain this holiday weekend. and we all want to know which is going to win out. let's go to veronica johnson in the storm center. you're keeping a close watch on this, vj. what is the latest? >> a very close watch on this. and taking a look at the latest information that has come in. so here it is folks.

i think in terms of the rainfall, new data showing the moderate rains are going to be coming into our area much, much later now. and the heaviest rain is going to be trending more away from the area. so some good news there. more towards the south and west. let me show you what i mean. earlier today, i had the bars way up. much higher by friday evening. now some showers for friday evenings that more moderate rain is going to wait until any thunderstorms start firing off. that's going to be saturday afternoon. you can see the one-inch totals way over here now, culpeper and fredericksburg instead of way up here. still some wet weather will be moving through. but lots of dry periods. i'll show you when those will fall, the dry periods with maybe a little sunshine along with your fireworks forecast. we'll have that coming up. >> thanks vj. tonight the justice department says it hasn't found any connection between the church fires that have broken out over the past two weeks. preliminary investigation show two of the fires were started by natural causes and one was an electrical fire. investigators are still examining the other fires and say they will bring charges on

hate crimes if they have enough evidence. more than $3 million is going to charleston to help mothers of emanuel church and their families. anonymous donors have pledged the money for education. the scholarship was fund was started in honor of the reverend pinckney. he and eight others were killed last month during a bible study at the church. the fund is still accepting distributions and it could provide a college education for dozens of families. the sister of the man accused in the church massacre has pulled a go fund me site she was using for a canceled wedding. amber roof's site had raised more than $1600. we have this screen grab for you before she pulled the page. the profile said $5,000 to cover lost wedding costs, pay bills and fund a honeymoon. the couple said they would donate 10% of the money raised at the church. the shooting at the church

happened four days before amber would have walked down the aisle. a 9-year-old boy is in the hospital here in washington. next at 11:00 who police say put him there over a slice of cake. a new york city firefighter forced to retire because of health problems he developed at ground zero. tonight he's got a few million reasons to celebrate. for five months, she didn't know who she was or where she was from. until this week. >> they

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found inside a burning trash can. police say somebody shot 19-year-old heineken mcneil of southeast d.c. before he was burned. he was found in the trash on holbrooke terrace in the trinidad neighborhood. police are offering a $25,000 reward if you have any information which will lead to a conviction in this case. a little boy from maryland is in the hospital tonight and police say his mom's boyfriend put him there over a slice of birthday cake. the boy is in critical condition. the boyfriend is charged with first degree assault. police say the mom's boyfriend got mad because the 9-year-old ate a piece of birthday cake without permission. robert wilson allegedly dragged him into a bedroom, handcuffed him and beat him up. the little boy is from hagerstown, but he is being treated at children's hospital in d.c. a familiar name is joining the race for the white house. virginia's former senator jim webb is now in the mix for the democratic nomination. webb made the announcement today in an e-mail to supporters. he admits his bid is a bit of a

long shot but says america needs quote, a fresh approach to solving problems. last month an nbc news/"wall street journal" poll put him well behind hillary clinton but ahead of former maryland governor martin o'malley. republican candidate rick perry was in d.c. today for a speech focused on race. during an appearance at the national press club, the former texas governor criticized a lack of effort by republicans to appeal to black voters. he also said black families should hold democrats accountable for decades of what he calls unsuccessful anti-poverty programs. perry is promoting policies aimed at black voters like education reform and changing sentencing laws to keep nonviolent drug offenders out of prison. four couples are suing a court clerk in kentucky because she won't issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. the aclu is joining the suit against clerk kim davis who says her christian beliefs prevent her from going along with last week's supreme court ruling. to get around it davis has

stopped issuing marriage licenses to all couples, gay or straight. after five months, a woman in san diego has finally rediscovered who she is. until recently, she didn't even know her name. now she is reconnected with family in colorado and maryland after a global search. steven luke reports on this from our sister station in san diego. >> reporter: if you've ever wondered what it looks like to find yourself -- >> they found me. >> reporter: meet 54-year-old ashley minata who after months of wondering has a family she doesn't remember. >> people should be able to track people down much easier than this. >> reporter: rescued february 1st near st. patrick church in carlsbad by firefighters ashley didn't know her name age or anything else. at the hospital, doctors delivered a grim diagnosis, ovarian cancer and a theory antibodies from the large tumor

led to retrograde amnesia. she called herself sam and found comfort in god. debbie might be ashley's real life angel. the registered nurse turned friend made it her mission to find family. >> i just told her everything. she is just phenomenal. >> reporter: after talking with her two sisters for the first time with tears and many, many questions, answers slowly return. >> apparently, i was on my way to tucson. they didn't hear from me which they didn't think was odd because i travelled a lot. >> reporter: manotta often travelled to florida. many of her first memories were of there. eventually facebook post reached more than 21 million people, and that helped to find her family. >> 21 million people. that's a lot of people looking for her. >> the power of social media too. it can be used for some very good purposes. >> that's right. did you see the moon out there tonight? >> i did see the moon out there

tonight. gorgeous. we're just coming off the full moon, and we want to see more of the clear skies. we have a little bit of the parting of the clouds. a little bit of filtered sunshine tomorrow morning until we get to saturday afternoon. in between some clouds, some rain we're going to have. and we're talk about of course a cool fourth of july, with periods of clouds and rain. it could be one of our coolest fourths coming up since 2010. let's take a look at your travel weather here. this is what you can expect from early in the day into the evening hours. if you're traveling out of town these little blobs where there is going to be showers setting up. around 11:00 a.m. for the afternoon down i-64 roanoke. if you're going this way or going west that's where you're going to hit the rain tomorrow. frostburg morgantown, out 68, some showers to the beach areas now. i've updated the forecast to show just some cloud cover for tomorrow. 77 degrees. the temperature still on the cool side. and for the fourth, 80 at the beach. the water temperature 73. still could see a shower or thunderstorm at the beach. and right here inland, as you'll

see in a moment. a little bit of filtered sunshine for early 64 to 71 degrees for your wake-up forecast. 74 to 79 where mainly cloudy tomorrow during the afternoon. some more spotty showers coming through our area. it's going to feel like another may kind of day for us. let me show you what happens by afternoon. the heavier rain is going to be more to the south and west, and then make its way up to the north around western maryland by early saturday morning. it's not looking too heavy. this is saturday at 10:00 a.m. scattered showers and some scattered showers and thunderstorms for your afternoon. so it's not looking like a washout. you're ready to bring it in. fine for a few minutes for the cookout, for the pool party but there will be lots of dry period. even at 9:00, i don't think it's looking like a lot of rain. maybe a 20 to 30% chance for the time the fireworks go off. but it's looking much in our favor, i think. a few morning showers for saturday. the temperature at 70 degrees.

your afternoon is going to be humid. some filtered sunshine, scattered showers and thunderstorms for the afternoon. but, again a 30% chance because we'll be trending with less and less rain as we get to the late afternoon/evening hours on the fourth. here we go. temperatures, we're going to cool it down. 75 by 9:00. sunset is at 8:37. 72 by midnight. there might be some people out that late. let's put on the four-day forecast for you. here you can see we don't have any high heat there over the next four days. the fourth of july by sunday, some sunshine coming our way. maybe a shower early on sunday. we get a high of 86 degrees on sunday. and then next week some upper 80s to around 90 degrees with storm chances back at the end of the week wednesday and thursday. so it's cool this fourth of july. and we will be dodging some showers, maybe a storm or two. >> so dressed for just about every condition. >> right. there you go. >> fourth of july. >> very cool. >> when was the last time we had that?

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this is the xfinity sports desk brought to you by xfinity, your home for the most live sports. >> boy anybody who thought the caps were done dealing, no way. >> i feel like bryce harper right now. where is my stanley cup. give it to me right now. this team is rolling. is anyone out there having a better day than brian mcclellan. the capitals general manager picking up two key additions over the last two days. last night it was three-time

stanley cup champion justin williams. today they required oshie in a trade with st. louis. they get oshie from the blues in exchange for troy bowyer. he has played in the red white and blue before. he helped win over russia in the olympic games. the move expected to make the caps better. oshie is a playmaker. he is excited about the prospect of playing with guys like alex ovechkin and niklas backstrom. >> it will be strong i've never experienced before. i've always played with very good players players that have played in the olympics but never played -- have put up numbers like those two guys have. so get out there with them would be amazing. i feel excited. i feel kind of like a kid in a candy store, i guess. >> meanwhile, troy brower saying goodbye to the washington fans. we reached out and he sent this statement saying, quote, my family and i want to thank the

capitals and their great fans in washington and their overwhelming support for my tenure in d.c. it was an honor playing in front of so many great fans at the verizon center. i wish them nothing but the best in the future and look forward to seeing them again when i come back with the st. louis blues next season. tonight in the nba, the wizards made some moves tonight, trading with milwaukee for swingman dudley. the wizards give up a future second round pick. dudley a very good three-point shooter. moving on to baseball now. another tough break for max scherzer. he pitched a great game in atlanta but unfortunately didn't get the w. he was named national league pitcher of the month today. a great performance from mad max. he struck out nine braves batters. didn't give up a run until the fifth inning. but the nationals unable to provide much run support. down 1-0 in the seventh. here is catcher wilson ramos at the dish. he singles into right and that would plate bryce harper. this game is tied at one.

later on, stay with me here. bottom of the ninth scherzer still on the mound. cameron maybin hits a chopper over third. this ball lands in foul territory, but the umpire his back was turned to the ball. not in the best pox to make the call. scherzer can't believe it. the nats lose a heartbreaker final score 2-1. >> once it bounces before the umpire, fair foul is not reviewable. i asked them. they said we both got it fair. one of those unfortunate bounces for us. >> o's and rangers. baltimore was in last place on june 7th. scoreless in the ninth inning. martin with a man on second. and martin up the middle. shin-soo choo passes the test. scores the game's first run. they win by a final score of

2-0. love the capitals' move. the wizards' move too. it's very quiet. i like jared dudley. >> i loved troy brower's parting message. >> he is a winner.

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