the neighborhoods. >> reporter: in spite of its friendly reputation, police have investigated five attempted sex assaults in the past three weeks. the latest happening here on thursday night. a woman was grabbed and dragged into the woods. >> he demands that she take her clothes off. fortunately, she continues to scream in some way, shape or form hits him, scares him off answered runs away. >> reporter: daniel mur vitt deputy chief of the arlington police department. he says investigators can't definitively say these case are connected but there are many similarities. women are the targets and they are usually being attacked at night. >> they are all described as a relatively young male, perhaps being hispanic. >> reporter: this is the sketch of the suspect from the first attacking on july 25th on 15th street north. six days later, another woman was attacked on south harrison street. police released this sketch of what they believe the man looks like. murray say he is doesn't want the community to live in fear but saysless's important to

always be aware of your surroundings. >> try to keep your distracts minimized. we see so many folks walking around, paying attention to their smartphone. >> reporter: police asking anyone with information about any of these cases to come forward and contact the arlington police department. at 6:00, we spoke with neighbors who explain how they are taking safety precautions into their own hands. reporting in arlington, meagan fitzgera fitzgerald, news4. an historic day in havan. the american flag now flying at the u.s. embassy in cuba for the first name more than 50 years. how far we have come in the few short months since our president's announcements in december. >> reporter: secretary of state john kerry declaring the american and cuban people are no longer enemies or rivals. >> time to unfurl our flags, raise them up and let the world know that we wish each other

well. >> and nbc4 -- news4's david culver has been in havana all week and there as that u.s. flag went up. he joins us live with the response from those onlookers. david? >> reporter: hi there, wendy. yeah, the crowd, they started lining up early this morning shall thought under the brutal, hot, havana sun for hours just to get a glimpse of this, the flag going up over the u.s. embassy, first time in 54 years this happened in cuba. a mix of cubans, americans, tourists from other countries, all here to see history. a crowd growing slightly impatient. >> raise the flag. raise the flag. >> reporter: many of the kuhns w -- cubans who waited hours in the heat a step ahead, waving or wrapping themselves in their own american flags, others holding tight to cuba's. [ applause ] as it climbed the pole, cheers erupted.

>> moment historic. >> an historic moment? >> yeah. >> it is an important moment, not only for cuba or the united states, but for all the world. >> reporter: jorge here with his wife he wonder why the hu.s. ha relations with other nations. but not with cuba? [ speaking spanish ] >> friends. >> long live cuba, long lift u.s. americans also making a pointed to be here. this coastal carolina college basketball team, playing in cuba this week, rising junior, esllih wilson says he hopes it will help with the poor conditions he has seen here. >> appreciate what you have in america, it comes to other countries, you see all this, makes you really appreciate things. >> this is the moment i have been waiting for this is the moment i have been waiting for. right here. >> reporter: cuban-american

jorge left cuba for people that 1980. he is visiting his brothers and has a sign need market day. years of separation has been tough. >> i think the biggest suffering and the biggest pain as a cuban-american is the suffering of family. >> reporter: he says he hopes the values of the flag are ignored. >> the flag stands for what it stands for, which is liberty, justice and freedom for all. >> reporter: we hear so often about the changes, that seems tonight buzz word, folks talking about what needs to be different, but in talking with cubans about these new relations, they also point thought are things that they hope stay just the way they are. we will share more on that wendy, when we see you at 6:00. >> thanks, david. new era. be sure to stick around for innocence lightly news with lester holt just after news4 at 6:00. he is going to be angering live with more stories on this historic day. a developing story in the district, we just learned a deadly standing along the h street corridor started with a fight at a bus stop. one person has been arrested for

monday's attack and his name is hector luis feliz. he is accused of getting into an argument at the bus stop with a man he did not know and stabbing him. >> as passengers were boarding the metro bus, a fight broke out. during the course of that fight, another individual, is suspect we have arrested, was believed to have come up and stabbed him. >> this case is part of a trouble trend because there have been 91 homicides in the district since the year started. that's up from 72 at this same time last year. the district is already closing in on the 102 homicides that it had in all of 2014. we now know the name of the fairfax woman killed about a crash in fredericksburg. her name is angela mcquillan. she was driving south on i-95 early sunday morning when she got near the central park shopping area. her car suddenly ran off the road and caught fire. no one else was inside.

police are trying to figure out what caused her to drive off the road. we are hearing about some new fallout from that metro derailment, wins is learned that metro leaders knew about a track defect and didn't do anything about it, there are now new calls for some change at the top. transportation reporter adam tuss joins us live from metro center with more on who may be asked to step aside. adam? that's right, chris. the head of metro's board of directors is in the hot seat. when we contacted him about all, they said he is not surprised by the criticism. this is the chairman of metro's board of directors, mort downey, and directly in the center of metro's woes. multiple insiders tell news4 the recent revelation that metro knew about a section of misaligned rail yet still left it in service for about a month, all the while carrying trains with passengers, could force downey out as head of the board. insiders say he doesn't have a handle on things. downey recently testifying on

capitol hill. >> i believe we have made real progress but we cannot claim we are where we need to be. >> reporter: metro has been facing criticism on every front from the federal government to local leaders and yes, from riders. >> i don't believe they have our safety in the forefront. >> reporter: jan chase rides every day as leadership an issue. >> i think it's top down, definitely, from the leadership all the way down. >> reporter: we reached out to downey via e-mail, he is out of the country on vacation, say he is not surprised a focused now and says the board needs to be more demanding, not just asking questions but assuring they are getting timely and correct answers. he says perhaps the board should have independent engineers working for them. when asked if he will be replaced, he said these up to the appointing officials. and again though, from riders -- how would you rate your confidence in metro right now? >> pretty low. one out of ten, about a two. >> one or two out of ten? >> yeah. yeah. pretty bad. >> reporter: now coming up at 6:00, this issue is reaching much higher than just local

leaders. the u.s. department of france portation getting involved. how that could affect metro leadership. wendy, back to you. >> adam tuss. well, county executive baker announces plans to move forward with the purple line. baker released a statement today saying that light rail would be good for the environment and good for the quality of life in the county. the county just agreed to give $20 million more to the project on top of the $100 million already pledged. in exchange, the purple line will start in the city of glenn ridge and the control center will be based there. >> public transportation is so much better than everybody driving around in their just, you know, one car, all by themselves. >> use it? >> yes, i would. >> really? >> my family takes the subway. so, yeah. >> the purple line would run through prince george's county to bethesda in montgomery county and planners are hoping to start construction on this project in may. a woman in central virginia

is defending herself for planlg jar rising an o-- planlg rising -- play jer rising an obituary. cramer says she liked the first person perspective. the florida woman had written it before she died and her family is not mad, they say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. a driver blindsided, attacked and then carjacked here in our area, even after an arrest. why police say their work is not done yet. i'm darcy spencer along the chesapeake bay off of sandy point. nearly a dozen and a half people have lost their lives in boating accidents so far this year. coming up on news4 at 5:00, i will tell you the number one thing that people are not doing that is costing them their lives. and we are here live at the

prince william county fair for opening night. we want you to come out, say hi. coming up, let you know what kind of weather you can expect if you are planning

absolutely beautiful day down at national harbor and that's clear indication of just

how many people are going to be getting out on their boats this weekend. but you know, it has been a deadly summer on the water in maryland. 17 people have died so far this year in boating accidents and the biggest priority right now to get more people to wear their life jackets. why? because 14 of those 17 people who kind the water this year, they didn't have them on and believe it or not, it only takes about 60 seconds for an adult to drown, only 20 seconds for a child. news4's darcy spencer has this important reminder for boaters. >> reporter: it is a perfect day on the water off sandy point but too often the summer, a perfect day has turned to tragedy. 17 times this summer, someone has died in a boating accident on the water in maryland. many times, those deaths could have been prevented if they had been wearing one of these, a life jacket. >> takes just a few minutes to buckle all the buckles.

>> reporter: 14 of the 17 victims were not. >> on a boat, if you hit rough water or another object, you don't have seat belts holding you in, a good chance you will find yourself in the water and that's going to be your lifesaver. >> reporter: the victims range in age from 7 to 63. the deaths include a prince george's county man who died last weekend on a family boating trip. >> they had life jackets on board but they were stowed away. the boat took on water and it went down less than three minutes. >> reporter: the numbers don't count the near-misses. this officer helped rescue an entire family could have ended up among the statistics. >> with them floating along about 45 minutes, they were holding on to the skis, the xpris sinking, the life jackets actually saved their lives. >> reporter: as labor day approaches, police are trying to turn the tide on the fay the way it a new safety campaign, increasing pat tronlts water around at high-traffic marinas to push their safety message and enforce laws meant to keep

everyone alive. >> officers will be checking for life jackets and other required safety equipment, looking for reckless boaters and targeting alcohol or drug-impaired operators. >> reporter: you're going to start seeing those additional safety patrols this weekend. along the chesapeake bay, darcy spencer, news4. i'm carol maloney, redskins get the win but a couple of major losses is what we are talking about today due to injury. here is the latest, backup running back cyrus rhett out for what is believed to be a torn acl and mcl. and watching what happened to tight end niles paul last night, paul out for the season with a fractured left ankle. he had to wipe away the tears before being carted off. this especially painful, paul was named the starting title end and he has become a leader in the locker room, paul tweeting today --

tough, tough loss. and wait until you see the emotional reaction from coach jay gruden. going to have that on news4 at 6:00. >> thank you, carol. a university of maryland basketball coach just resigned after he was accused of sex abuse in connection to his former job. bryce mckey stepped down after the university of maryland suspended him today. the school hired him as the assistant coach for the women's team in april. sex abuse allegations stem from his previous coaching job at xavier university in ohio. one of his former players accused mckey of assaulting her at his home in kentucky last may. the victim's father laid out the allegations after the mckey's arraignment today. >> but he said he gave her

alcohol and after a while, he was talking to her and started to put his hands on her, made a move. and later on, he made another move. and she told him she wasn't interested. >> mckey is also accused of trying to pay off friend of the victim in an attempt to avoid criminal charges. an actor was hurt when a stage collapsed at the madeira school. the 21-year-old woman is doing okay after she got stuck with when a ramp collapsed on the stage. the school says the woman is with an acting troupe called traveling players. she was trying to adjust the stage ramp when it fell on her leg. an ambulance was called and the school security crew was able to free her. over in louden county, school busses are rolling out earlier this week, a week before labor day. and that's why new teachers reported for orientation today. the red carpet rolled out for them, 700 new teachers are joining the growing school

district. a lot of them have come full circle. 14% of the new teachers went to loudoun county schools, at least three of them credit their former government teacher with inspiring them to get an education. >> she makes class challenging but also fun at the same time and it was just inspiring to see a smart, intelligent, powerful woman being a teacher. >> well said. school starts in loudoun on monday, 35ug 1st. a new look at the devastation after deadly explosions rock china, but the first time, we are seeing people pulled out of that rubble alive. >> and they have helped mend our broken hearts and they continue our family tradition. we are going to introduce to you the furry friends in our nbc4 families as we encourage you to help clear the shelters. i'm julie carey in loudoun county, where new legislation is opening the door to more hops farms with craft brewery, but now, there's some bush back

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all of the major players in the race for the white house are in iowa tonight for an election tradition, a trip to the state fair. but first, we are going to tell you about some good news for the bush family. her name is poppy and nbc correspondent general it nah bush hager and her husband is celebrating the birth of hair second daughter, poppy louise hager, named after her

grandfather, called poppy as a child. they released a get toe of the grandparents are poppy and big sister milla. mr. bush got emotional when he learned the baby was named after him. and jeb bush is with all the other major candidates, again out in iowa. it is a tradition, the iowa state fair, they are flipping burgers, taking pictures, wooing voters, the first state to hold primaries but rumblings that another big name could join the field. former vice president al gore. jeb bush says it proves hillary clinton should worry about securing the nomination. >> mrs. clinton seems to not be able to have integrity and to tell the truth and if she is not doing anything wrong, then just be honest about it and show. >> vice president joe biden being talked about as another possible candidate but he hasn't made a decision yet. our storm team4 coverage includes coverage from one of the biggest state fairs in virginia. we begin with vj, taking a look

at the come back, heat and humidity on the way. >> that's right. our last stretch of the sticky stuff ended not this past weekend but the early part of last week and here we go again. we have been taking a look at the latest data coming in, wait it stacks up in my weather headlines, 90-degree stretch back this weekend and in terms of rainfall, we haven't had any widespread big rains in a while, looking like it could be dry for a while, but when this rain comes, it could come in a big way. oppressive, yes, next week, in fact the 90s again starting this weekend. fact nor a little bit of humidity and pushing the feel-like factor to the upper 90s, sunday afternoon, for sure on monday. monday, tuesday could be very oppressive for us, 87 right now, there is your south wind, five to ten miles per hour with dough have sunshine, high pressure in control, check out the overnight readings, folks, 66, hager town, 61, manassas, 65 right in d.c., yes, it still is going to be comfortable, going to get the

change but the change is going to be very gradual coming throughout our day tomorrow. here is a look at the sky, a few clouds coming through, there's 3:00 on saturday, the evening on saturday, touch of humidity, we will top out around 91 degrees by 3:00, look at that, the little sunshine stacked across our map on our hour by hour planner, mid to upper 80s during tomorrow evening with a very light wind. we do have, again, just a little bit of a chance of a pop-up thunderstorm but the best chance comes toward the end of next week so, yes, go ahead and wash the car this week and you will be able to get a lot of mileage out of those quarters. amelia segal with the forecast for the fair. amelia, you having a little fun yet? >> yeah, vj. the gates just opened. people coming in for opening night of the fair, the largest county fair in the state, out here with the storm team4 by four it is hot. the temperature right another, 90 degrees, the weather station taking in all the information. the most part, looking at calm

winds, huge mid really not an issue. you can see dew point temperature here, 56. i point that out. dew point is over 65 it is humid, nowhere near that, we want you to come out tonight, the only night that nbc washington is going to be here. we are handing out lots of goodies and we have also some great fair food. i don't know, what are you guys thinking? we have a burrito, a turkey leg, we had chicken cheese steak, i think. i think i'm thinking about the turkey leg here. also, another awesome event that we are doing here, we want you to download the nbc washington app. ? going to be for the chance to win this exact mini cooper here. of course, you download the app, you will see a lot of 90s on the board, vj talking about our heat wave, six-day-long heat wave, a great time to hit the pool this weekend as well. if your plans don't include going to the fair, not too humid tomorrow, humid on sunday, by monday, notice the mugginess. saturday here at manassas, temperature around 89. plenty of sunshine. on sunday, a little bit warmer

and a bit humid. high temperature on sunday of 91 degrees. all right, vj, what do you think? time to think about it, burrito, turkey leg, cheese steak what do you want? i will bring it back for you? >> a cheese steak, like a really small one, half of one, split one with you. i love the fair food. i have got to get to one before they are all over. we do have a look at some more events coming up as well as that seven-day forecast, guys, a little later this hour. >> thanks, vj. now at 5:00, northern virginia known for a lot more than just its wineries. have you heard about a battle over breweries there? some say they don't want it in their backyard. call it a sextortion scandal a hacker paid the price for stealing nude photos cash in. tell you how he did it and how he is being punished. >> three teens from a d.c. group home are accused of committing a violent crime in prince george's county. police is two in custody and are looking for a t

now at 530, the search is on for a third teenager wanted for a violent carjacking outside a local church. >> they all live that group home and tracee wilkins is showing us how the bold attack is changing the neighborhood. >> reporter: this happened just behind me here and prince george's county police are saying that they want to find this young man and they need your help.

police are looking for 18-year-old dimarco green. >> this was a very brazen attack on man in a parking lot. >> reporter: green is accused of assault and carjacking a man in this mt. ranier church parking lot. police arrest aid keel la carter and tyrell leonard, both 17-year-olds are being charged as adults for their alleged involvement in the crime. >> anyone knows where this person is, we would like them to come forward. >> reporter: all three lived in this d.c. group home blocks from the crime scene. someone from the group home familiar with all three of these young men tell me that dimarco green had been here for some time, longer than the other two suspects. they say this he was a quiet young man and they are surprised to hear this about him and all three actually. people who live here in this mt. ranier community say it is normally quiet. >> there's police everywhere. >> reporter: making sunday's scene stand out even more. >> this is family owned businesses, for them to do that,

they are not from around here. >> reporter: prince george's county police are offering reward up to $25,000 for an arrest th arrest in this case. they had issues with the young men living there for years. a stretch of o street is open for the first time in nearly 40 years, but this time, it's got a bigger purpose. o street between first and third northwest is now official lay green street that means rain water won't be going into traditional storm trains. it is going to go through channels in the curbs and into 33 rain gardens. that water will then be absorbed into the ground and plants. >> most importantly, it doesn't end up going into the municipal system and be treat sod that we basically relieve a little bit of the fresh shourpt municipal system so we don't have any pressure on the rivers as a result. >> leaders in d.c. with planning

similar green street projects on minnesota avenue and 15th street. and lord & taylor is the only store that remains at the former white flint mall up in rockville and today, the company won a $31 million lawsuit against those mall owners. those owners closed the mall to build a mixed use town center. today, a federal jury ruled that move violates a 1975 contract with the retailer. that contract required white flint to operate as an enclosed mall until lord & taylor's lease expired around 2040. mall owners claimed they had no choice after bloomingdale's close. lord & taylor said they triggered the mall's demise. if you take the bus you will get to the new mgm at national harbor after all the original transportation plan banned public buses from the resort but transportation officials and

labor leaders protested, saying many of the 3600 people who will be working there, they depend on that bus. so now, mgm has decided to allow a bus stop near the resort's employee entrance. it is craft beer month in virginia and one of the newest breweries in loudoun county is hoping to open this fall. but he is facing some stiff opposition. our bureau chief, julie carey, explains why some of his rural neighbors want to slow his plans down or halt them all together. >> reporter: these are some of the newest hops plants in loudoun county, just starting to creep up these strings. >> these are nugget hops. >> reporter: martin doherty is on a fast track to transforming this site into the bee cord brewery. he hopes customers will be rolling down fogby bottom road by october. >> soon, we will have a 20-barrel fully automated brew nous this building here and on the left side, we will have a tasting room with small gift shop. >> reporter: earlier this week, some of the neighbors got together to discuss concerns, chief among them, traffic on the

gravel road, noise and impact on the water supply. rick lives on the 20 acres next door. >> i just think with the dirt road and the many house and horse farms we have in this vicinity, it is not really the best site for activities like that. >> reporter: a new state law makes it easier for hops growers to add craft breweries 14 operating in loudoun county, two were added after the legislation, two are in the pipeline and four more in the planning stages. the brewery's met all the requirements to get its loudoun county zoning permit. the yet abc per from the the state. some neighbors may lobby the state to try to get the abc license rejected, but doherty says he can put some of their worries to rest. >> first off, some of the crazy stuff like loud music at 2 in the morning, we can easily dispel by letting everyone know we are not doing that and planning to do that. >> reporter: he sees a middle ground r. >> i would like to reach some kind of a settlement where we

could limit the hours of operations so that there's not noise late at night. >> reporter: in blue mount virginia, julie carey, news4. in d.c., beer week is at its peak today in and around the city. the week-long annual celebration of all things ber ends on sunday, but there's plenty to do tonight. at the washington marriott marquee, you can try sam adams, flying dog breweries and others. more fun planned tomorrow and sunday. go to our app, search beer week. she is called the serial stowaway. we are getting our first look at video of how a woman repeatedly tried to elude airport security. and firefighters got to the scene to bat the flames after scene to bat the flames after some deadly

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i'm pat lawson muse at the live desk with new details about what may have caused that massive explosion in china. investigators say firefighters may have triggered the initial blast as they hosed down an initial fire at the warehouse where the volatile chemical calcium carbide was stored. the combination of the chemical, the fire and water is believed to have triggered a smaller blast at first. that led to the second larger explosion when other chemicals caught fire. firefighters found one of their own alive today in the rubble. still 13 first responders are

missing and more than 20 have died. a total of 56 people all together have died. more than 720 are hospitalized and the fires are still burning. chris? >> all right, thanks, pat. a state of emergency is now over in ferguson after protests earlier this week marked one year since the death of michael brown. today's announcement comes after three nights of calm. in fact, most of the demonstrations marking michael brown's killing had been peaceful until gunfire erupted on sunday night. officers shot a young black man who they say fired at a police van. now, even with the state of emergency over, police promise they will still be vigilant. charles county sheriff deputies took a big step today as they tray to improve relationships with the communities that they serve. deputies took part in a workshop on community policing today. the sheriff talked about how the recent high-profile cases of police conflict are hitting home and explains what he wants his men and women to take away from

today's training. >> conflict resolution, embrace the diversity that's in our community and also as we are able to begin to break down some of the barriers that have been observed and seen in the national spotlight. >> members of the naacp chapter also took part in today's workshop. probably don't even have to say this to most of you but our pets are our family. as we try to help clear out our local shelters, we have a very personal look at the ones who greet us at the door when we come home. coming up, i will tell you how 100 women this had their computers hacked, nude pictures of themselves stolen and what happened today in court to the guy who did it. seeing red in our forecast and lots of it. i will show you what days will be most oppressive

a government contractor was found guilty today of hacking into women's computers, stealing naked pictures of them and then trying to coerce those victims into getting him naked pictures of other women. nbc's chris gordon has more on this case of the so-called sexing to. >> reporter: this hacker hijacked nude photos from the computers of a hundred women.

28-year-old mauricio rios is an ex-marine who worked for a contractor with the department of homeland security. today, in montgomery county circuit court, he was sentenced to serve 18 months in jail. >> it's a very troubling case, where this individual, who seemingly had a very promising career, you know, took advantage of his knowledge and abilities to hack into computers or e-mails of victims to find their compromising photographs. >> reporter: defense lawyer louis simmons says his client is a good person who did a bad thing. >> i mean, here is a guy whose conviction will probably cost him any serious job working with security in the future. now, some people would say, it should. >> reporter: paul curtz is a cyber security expert who says that kind of hacker uses malicious codes found in the dark corners of the internet. >> you attach it to an e-mail and you send it to somebody,

they click on it open it up, the malicious code is on their system and you can rifle around inside somebody's computer and you can basically take what you want. >> reporter: ahead, how to protect your privacy from hackers. that's coming up on news4 at 6:00. reporting from the montgomery county circuit court, chris gordon, news4. we have got breaking news just in to the live desk. the university of virginia says it has been the target of a cyber attack. the school says no personal information, like social security numbers, were accessed. uva says federal investigators tipped them off to the breach and they say the attack originated in china. over the weekend, the university says it will upgrade its security system which will take down many of the school's systems, including e-mail. at the live desk, i'm pat lawson muse. >> all right. four young brothers in alexandria are getting a better night's sleep, thanks to some police officers with some really big hearts. the officers bought and put together new beds for the boys

and their mom. these are facebook pictures of alexandria police setting up the beds on wednesday. the family had been sleeping on the floor. the officer heard about their situation from one of the boys who attends the alexandria police youth camp. officers raised more than $2400 online for bunk beds, mattresses and bedding. >> how nice. lovely. >> yes. >> good deed. >> absolutely. so, finally, the weekend is upon us. >> right. and the weekend really isn't going to be bad. yes, it is going to be hot, the more extreme weather that we are talking about with heat -- >> next week? >> next week. we will have to deal with it for a couple of days for sure. so, get out and enjoy the weekend. >> while you can. >> while you can. right. everybody wants to get out and have some fun, especially if you have kids too, right? look at the temperatures across the area right now, where we have been and where we are headed. we are in mid and upper 80s right now, temperatures tomorrow will be higher than what you are seeing on the board right now. 85 in waldorf, 81, pax river, those locations near the water, south wind, just a little lower,

including rehoboth and ocean city from 80 to 79 degrees. if you are heading to the beach this weekend, here's what you can expect. those water temperatures, those have been coming up, too, with the heat. 81 right now, was 80 yesterday, we have got sunshine and warmth at rehoboth, 80 the temperature on saturday, 83, just a little warmer coming up on sunday, maybe a few more clouds, too, coming through the area, again, nice conditions there. here locally, instead of dropping down to the 50s overnight, i think more around the low and mid-60s a touch more humid, even early in the day tomorrow, you may be noticing that. 69 degrees inside the beltway. and then we will deal with the humidity, too, tomorrow afternoon. now, there will be few clouds coming through our area from time to time tomorrow, but we are talking sunshine for the most part across the greater part of our area, and some clouds starting to stream in off to the west, here it is, during the afternoon hours, 3, 4:00 and the main locations were we could see a few pop-up showers or thunderstorms will be on the windward side of the mountains.

so don't think that we are going to see any on the other side of i-81, front royal, petersburg, harrisonburg, a chance during the after nan on saturday but also on sunday? just the southerly wind coming up around and into our area and having an impact with a lift there and more moisture. luray, see a pop-up shower or thunderstorm on saturday. monday, tuesday, same type of scenario, as long as we are into that pattern. but it's around midbeek, la bem part of the week, we will see thunderstorms that will break this heat. recreational forecast, mild morning, but hot late in the day, in terms of humidity again, humidity levels will continue to rise throughout our area for saturday and especially on sunday. the second half of the weekend gets a little sticky to uncomfortable, then oppressive for several days next week. again, the storms coming through, they could be very strong. we are going to talk more about that later, but now, with more on the weekend, what you can

expect, especially if you plan on heading to the prince william county fair, let's go to amelia segal. she is there now. >> we have our booth here for tonight only so we want you to come out, we have lots of great goodies we are giving away, bags, sunglasses, a lot of people down loading the nbc washington app for a chance to win the mini cooper we have here on location there you see it in the background. download our app for the chance to win that. weather here is nice. it is hot but it's summer. that is what you would expect. i have to say we are talking about fair food, we are going to do dessert before dinner tonight, a little bit of cotton candy, heading to the fair this weekend, not looking bad, going to be hot, prepare for that with your cotton candy, make sure you have plenty of water. the humidity, it's feeling okay this weekend, not going to be oppressive by any means, especially our standards here in washington during the summer, but as we work our way into the middle part of the upcoming week, you really notice the mugginess. that's when we start to talk

about the feels like temperatures, ben it feels about five or ten degrees warmer than the temperature, than the they are mom meter is actually reading. right now here the humidity is low. temperature with the storm team4 by four continues to be around 90 degrees. i have to say, vj, for the most part, really nice evening out here at the fair. >> and amelia did promise she was going to bring back some fair food. >> that's right. she is splitting that -- >> the cheesecake, funnel cake, whatever we want, right? all right there will be some other things going on, too this weekend. we talked about the cantina sails race. so there will be a lot of pretty sails out on the water. the potomac. here is the forecast, that south wind. 86 degrees by 1:00. it is through the afternoon really. 5 to 10-mile-an-hour wind, a little hot, but a nice breezes off the water. here is look at your fo-day forecast, we talked about the heat for several days this things stretch will go for what looks like six days. we are going to half with our

last heat wave was, six days, very uncomfortable monday and tuesday of next week with any rain there could be very strong storms coming through on saturday. >> lows in the 60s, highs in the mid-90s. thanks, vj. this weekend, nbc4 is working to clear the shelters. we are encouraging people to find their next family member at a local rescue, shelter or pound. it can be one of the best decisions you make and many of us at news4 know that from personal experience. take a look. there ae's at tick cuss and smi, hank and gatsby and my beautiful girl, nina. many of us here at nbc4 know the pure joy and love that comes when you rescue an animal from an uncertain fate. it's the start of a new life for both of you. >> this is henley. yes, ma'am and we rescued her just like we did our cats. it's how our parents raised us and what we are teaching our children, that it's the best way to get an animal if you want to have a great friend. >> ten years ago, angie goff's

parents surprised her with this guy, at tick cuss. they rescued him from the washington humane society. goff says at tick cuss helped her get over a broken heart and now, ten years, a marriage and two children later, angie says at tick cuss is still one of the loves of her life. i love the names people give their animals. meet hank and smitty. they belong to our northern virginia bureau chief, julie carey. >> hank an absolute rascal but we love him anyway. by the way, smitty feels that way about him as well. no house is complete without fur. and the two of them make our family complete. >> then there's nemo. veronica johnson rescued him from a high-kill shelter in baltimore when he was just one month old. the shelter brought him to the tv station where she was working at the time. she says she fell in love on the spot. there's something wonderful, even a bit mystical in the way we find our animal friends. >> he is half-beagle, half-pug,

so you can call him a pugle. >> reporter: my co-anchor got gatsby about the help of the washington animal rescue league. gatts bill by is a katrina dog abandoned after new orleans. >> one of the many dogs down there wandering the streets or left because their owners were homeless or couldn't afford them. >> reporter: he came to d.c. and has been living the good life now. then there's nina, i adopted her from the anne arundel spca this summer. she was found about two years ago with newborn kittens, wet and bedraggled in an abandoned building. she had been languishing at the spca since she was found because no bun wanted her. she is fiv-positive, which means she has a compromised immune system and can't be around other cats but she is expected to live out a normal life and she doesn't need any medication. she just needs to be nina and

now she can be. every family needs fur. so join me tomorrow morning on news4. i'm going to be -- on news fur -- i just said on news fur. >> i was wondering if you were going to touch that >> going to be live at a local shelter during our saturday morning shows tomorrow morning and also going to have information about how to begin the process of getting a wonderful animal into your life and for more resources, we have tons of them go to the nbc washington app and search clear the shelters. going to be a whole a lot of fun tomorrow so we hope you join us. >> they are going to be cutting the costs of adoption tomorrow, too. great time to do it. >> a good time if you are looking to do that a good time to be motivated. >> yeah. everyone wants to skip the security line at the airport, but we are going to show you how one woman took things a little too far. the story of the serial stowaway. and the technology could have prevented that deadly amtrak derailment in philadelphia. congress want it is installed nationwide by the end of this year. new at 6:00 tonight, our scott new at 6:00 tonight, our scott

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she just won't give up, newly released video shows a serial stowaway trying to get through security at two different airports without a ticket. and this happened just 48 hours after marilyn hartman got out of jail for doing the same thing on other occasion. nbc's phil rogers has the video and the story. >> reporter: when she walk $out of cook county jail july 2nd,

marilyn hartman assured us her days of testing airport security were over. are you done stowing away now? >> oh, gosh, yes, yes. >> reporter: but the very next day hartman was back at midway, spotted and intercept plied by chicago police. these security videos obtained by nbc 5 investigates show officers standing by while hartman purchased a ticket to new york's laguardia airport. and here, as they escort her down the escalator and through the concourse to security, where they watched as she boarded a southwest flight to new york. hartman never made it to laguardia, she allegedly became disruptive to the play and was removed from the plane. this time, she didn't face charges, but she showed up at o'hare the very next day. airport security cameras captured the home as hartman made an attempt to get past security at a checkpoint at united's terminal one. watch as she attempts to blend in with a family at one tsa station, then attempt it is with another group at the position on the right, where she is spotted and turned away. by then, an alert had already

gone out that hartman was in the terminal, as she attempted to leave the area, she was intercepted again by chicago police. and this time, she was placed under arrest, escorted through the terminal in handcuffs, charged this time with criminal trespass. prosecutors declaring in a motion filed this week, defendant said she did not have a valid airline ticket, did not intend to purchase one and only came to o'hare because she was tired and didn't want to go elsewhere. live now at 6:00, look at this, old glory soaring on the shores of cuba, that's live picture. where he will take you inside the flag raising ceremony and explain why some cubans hope some things won't change. developing tonight, an arrest in a bus stop stabbing. why police say man in his 50s killed a strain joernt busy h street corridor. under fire, metro's top brass under the watch of the u.s. department of transportation. what this could mean for your

ride on the future. history made in havana today, the american flag now flying at the u.s. embassy in havana for the first time in more than 50 years. >> it's a symbolic step to the end of isolation as the u.s. and cuba now enter a new dawn of diplomacy. >> john kerry presided over the ceremony, the first u.s. secretary of state to visit cuba in 70 years. >> we are certain that the time is now to reach out to one another, as two peoples who are no longer enemies or rivals, but neighbors, time to unfurl our flag, raise them up and let the world know we wish each other well. >> news4's david culver is wrapping up a week-long trip to havana. >> he was there for the hisic