hospital. we have new video to show you. this is of several men, persons of interests, in a deadly shooting in northwest. police want to talk to these men about that shooting that killed matt shlonsky this past weekend. he was caught in the middle of the gunfight near the shaw metro station on 7th street north west. d.c. police chief cathy lanier wants anyone who knows anything about what happened to come forward. >> the people who know the individuals involved in this, they have to come forward. it's that neighbor today, somebody else's neighbor today. it's that child today, somebody else's child tomorrow. >> there are six people, half a dozen people that are interested in talking to in this case. they also say they recovered a burgundy chrysler that drove away from the scene. you're looking at a picture right here. they say it was stolen last week. chief lanier revealed new numbers about crime in the district. we have been told that homicides are on the rise. the chief said as of last night, there are 94 homicides in d.c. this year, compared to 72 last

year. they have arrested 52 homicide suspects. today, a controversial vote for lawmakers in frederick county, maryland. the county will vote on whether to invoke an english only ordinance. it requires county business to be conducted in english. supporters say this allows the county to avoid printing documents into multiple languages which gave them money. but several council members say there's no evidence to support that. 4:31 is our time. we'll get a look at weather and traffic on the 1s. 73 degrees outside. this warm air is not going to just completely disappear. we have to wait for it to slowly get out of here. >> yeah. seems like the sticky weather is sticking around. we're ready for a cooldown, tom. >> yeah, it will be a bit cooler because of more clouds as well as an increasing chance of some showers. getting some showers, thundershowers out in west virginia, pennsylvania. the bulk will stay well north and west of the metro area over the -- much of the daylight

hours. we'll get a few of these coming in later this afternoon. a few may come into the shenandoah valley by noontime. here's hour by hour timing. by 9:00 in the morng, perhaps a few showers coming up the southern part of the shenandoah valley and west virginia by noontime. some thunder and lightning with that. after that, around 2:00, 3:00, get closer to western, northern virginia, much of maryland by 4:00 to 3:00, they'll be getting closer. right into the metro area, maybe a passing thundershower around 5:00 or 6:00 p.m. after that they'll drift away and dissipate overnight tonight. melissa has a look at our traffic this morning. slowdown on 95? >> this is northbound of course through stafford as they're trying to do a little bit of road work on the right side of the roadway. you have to stay left here. you can see a tiny bit of volume at 95 at the weigh station.

it was pretty busy, you had to get off on route 1, to courthouse road. looks like it's getting a bit better. prince george's county overall no major problems. looking nice and green. same thing, northbound and southbound on 270. you can see volume headed southbou southbound. 395 northbound at glebe road, that has a right lane blocked until 5:00. and all the closures have now cleared out of the way. b.w. parkway, 95 and 29, everything rolling along quite well. see you in ten minutes at 4:41. >> thank you. a d.c. family is opening up about a father and husband who was stabbed to death. he was stabbed in northeast last week. it happened after smith bumped a little girl with his bag. his wife spoke exclusively to news4. >> he doesn't deserve that. he does not it was -- he was a

mild mannered type of man. >> police arrested hector felix for that crime last week. smith's family says they're now struggling to pay his funeral expenses. they started a gofundme page. we put a link to that on the nbc washington app. it's raised $190 of a $4,000 goal as of right now. you may be able to help police in d.c. if you recognize these three men. take a look. police would like to talk with them in connection with a murder in the district. this happened last month, blocks away from verizon center in northwest. antonio austin was stabbed to death in the 400 block of "e" street. a reward is being offered for any information that leads to the arrest or conviction. a father facing murder charges for the death of his 5 week old son. robert smith, sr., was arrested yesterday. police responded to the home on 9th street northwest. the call was for an unconscious

baby. at the time, detectives told us the child's death was suspicious. the medical examiner said the infant died from blunt force injuries. well, right now active duty military troops are preparing to help firefighters get a handle on these wildfires out west. about 200 soldiers will be trained for a few days before being dispatched to washington state this weekend. several wildfires are burning near the town of chelan. they're burning through $100 million a week fighting these fires. keeping a close eye on a developing story from the live desk. thunderstorms are complicating recovery efforts in the chinese port city rocked by two explosions last week. teams specializing in handling hazardous chemicals are scrambling to clean up the blast site. there were about 700 tons of deadly chemical sodium cyanide

stored at the warehouse when it exploded last wednesday. at least 114 people died in the blast. almost 70 others are still missing. now the cause of that blast is still under investigation. aaron? >> meagan fitzgerald, thank you. a new plea from former virginia governor bob mcconnell. his lawyers disputed the suggestion that the u.s. supreme court won't take his case. his lawyers say the case raises legal questions for the court. a political standoff happening in richmond. first, terry mcauliffe says he's shocked that fairfax county judge jane roush was not elected to the state supreme court. it seems that house republicans failed to push her through. and a special session to redraw a congressional district or all the congressional districts around the state ended abruptly before it really got started with the help of one retiring republican, senate democrat voted to adjourn the session and now the federal courts will draw that new map. well, you are probably in

the middle of back to school shopping, so where are you spending all your money? the national retail federation asked more than 6,000 people this summer, and more than 60% said they plan to shop at a discount store. 36% planned on hitting up those office supply stores. 54% -- more than half will shop at clothing stores and 36% of those surveyed said that they were going to go online to get their shopping done. now, more than 90% of people, the majority shopping online said that they planned on taking advantage of the retailers free shipping offers. aaron? a nasty crash involving a train versus a car in florida. why police say the driver passed other cars to get on to the tracks. no doubt about it, it's going to be hot enough to put the top down today. but tom says it's also going to rain in some places. what time you want to put the top back up so you don't get soaked. and a drug known as the

frightening images here of a car hit by a train filled with passengers. this is monday night in florida. police in auburn dale say that a 44-year-old man drove around cars and then around the train crossing arm. he was struck and killed. it was pushed half a mile down the tracks. witnesses say the driver may have thought at first that the train was not moving and decided to pass everyone.

so he didn't see that a second train that hit him on a different set of tracks was coming. a huge moment for a much loved actor and comedian. tracy morgan look back on your tv -- will be back on your tv this fall. it will be his first time on tv since his limo was rearended on the turnpike last year. that killed his friend and seriously hurt him. he will host "saturday night live" on october 17th. he says this show launched his career and he's stoked to be back home. that's what he tweeted out. >> great to see him. 4:41 your time right now. weather and traffic on the 1s this morning, we are waiting for some rain. tom? >> it's still way off to our west, we're dry around the metro area, with the storm team 4 radar. we are seeing the leading edge out in west virginia and that will stay well to our west. but it's later today, for the morning and the midday commute, no travel problems, but during the afternoon, caution because we may have some roads wet from

some passing thundershowers. but we'll have dry roads for the morning commute. in the upper 70s. then for the afternoon commute, the upper 80s with a few of the passing thundershowers. look at storm chances for the rest of the week, that's coming up at 4:51. flits, what's going on? >> we have the inner loop at the university boulevard, two right lanes blocked. that should be out of the way in next 20 minutes. outer loop at little river turnpike, a vehicle is disabled. that just popped up. you have to stay to the left because of the road work all the way up into stafford and then you clear up after that. if you want you can take route 1 or courthouse road to get around that situation. wide look at the beltway, inner and outer loop, everything is rolling along just fine. the irs says it's underestimated the scope of a recent cyber attack and now we're getting an idea of what

the thieves stole and how many potential victims are impacted. businesses are boarded up in northern virginia because somebody has been using them as target practice. it's one of several shootings at

you're watching "news4 today." >> 15 before the hour now. new details now about the massive irs data breach we have been following for you. it looks like it got a lot worse or is much worse than originally reported. nbc's edward lawrence joining us live now from capitol hill to talk about this. so edward, how big a problem are we talking about here? >> reporter: we're talking about 338,000 taxpayers that are now affected. the irs admitted that the number of taxpayers whose information was hacked has now tripled from the number that they released in may. the irs says the hackers were able to confirm identities by

entering names, social security numbers and street addresses in a part of their irs website. the experts say that information is sold online and easy to find. the irs says that hackers also tried to access information on 281,000 more people but were denied by the site. now, the agency would only say that it's aggressively moving to protect taxpayers whose account information was accessed. there will be a round of letters that will start to go out today. the irs shut down the part of the website that was hacked. that part of the website has not been put back online since may. reporting live in washington, edward lawrence. angie, back to you. >> thank you so much, edward. prince william county police say a 25-year-old man was survive after one of the officers shot him. they went to tory loop for a domestic disturbance between a woman and a son. while the officer was speaking with the mom, the son came at the officer with a knife.

police shot him. both he and his mother are in the hospital right now. police say the mother's injuries are not related to the shooting. the man convicted of the boston marathon bombing is now asking for a new trial outside of boston. lawyers for dzhokhar tsarnaev say continuous and unrelenting publicity meant they could not be impartial. he has been sentenced to death. arlington police now investigating a robbery and they think this man they be involved. police say somebody up stole three laptops from the virginia tech applied research company last week. this is not video from the scene though. however, police believe the man is responsible for at least 20 other laptop thefts over the past year. all in arlington. police in fairfax county are offering a reward for your help with the different kind of office crime. cracked glass shows where

officers say somebody's been firing bullets into office buildings. news4 started to track the shootings late last month. it's happened in the herndon area off the dulles toll road. >> i have three daughters who play outside the house. i mean houses don't have fences. so of course i'm worried. >> fairfax county police do not think the suspects stick around very long. they think the suspects fire off a few rounds and then drive away. well, today the fda will make their final decision about the little pink pill some call the female viagra. flibanserin. the way it works it increases a woman's desire to have sex. viagra affects the ability to have sex and it would help women

with an extremely low libido. the fda rejected it twice since 2010. side effects including fatigue and fainting and low blood pressure. an advisory panel recommended it could be sold if the pill's risk were limited. but the science behind the pill has not changed since the last time the fda rejected it. 4:49. later today we'll learn how many people are expected to fly out of up to for labor day. airlines for america will deliver its labor day forecast. last year an estimated 14 million people flew on u.s. airlines during that seven day labor day travel period. well, frontier airlines doing away with its toll free customer service line. that means some of us will have to pay to call customer service. and apparently the switch took place back in june. frontier said the move will save the airline more than $1.9 million a year. the airline said it's passing those savings directly on to the

customers. and i guess it makes sense with more and more people ditching the land line, but i can imagine it alienates other people. >> yeah. then you have to wonder does that mean i'm going to get better customer service because now -- >> you don't have to pay for the extra bag? that's the real question, right? coming up on 4:51, i want to turn to storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein. yesterday, standing still, i started sweating. >> everything everybody was talking about, no matter where you went. >> it peaked around 1:00 and then it got cooler in the afternoon. then we have clouds pushing in, that should keep the heat back in the box. >> maybe some rain. >> maybe some rain in the afternoon. there's the haze. humidity didn't go away that's for sure. still hanging in the air that's the live view from the storm team 4 tower camera. the dark area in the middle of the screen, that's rock creek park. off in the distance is northeast washington. you can see the city lights illuminating the haze. temperatures downtown, 74. low to mid 70s, near the bay

waters. eastern shore right around 70 degrees. starting off this morning in the upper 60s, near 70. most of northern virginia including fairfax, loudoun, montgomery and frederick counties. panhandle of west virginia, the mountains, upper 60s to around 70 most locations. we are getting some rain around pittsburgh, northern west virginia. that's passing well to the north and to the west this morning. right now, off to a clear start radar wise anyway. don't have rain anywhere in the vicinity. a little bit of sunshine coming and going. by noontime we'll have temperatures into the mid 80s. and quite warm and humid and then peaking in the upper 80s. maybe around 2:00 or 3:00. by 5:00, that's when -- right in the metro area we may have a passing thundershower. sticky humidity today, but it's going to get even worse, oppressive humidity on wednesday

and thursday. that's going to be in place along with temperatures in the 80s. a greater chance of an afternoon storm tomorrow and maybe a shower in the morning on thursday or afternoon thundershower. greater chance then too. remaining humid, but less humid on friday and into saturday. highs in the 80s. getting more humid on sunday, but not too bad. comfortable humidity into the weekend. next chance for storms is on monday afternoon. let's check on traffic. things are slowing down on 95. >> still have the slowdown on 95. about a mile stretch i would say. as you get on there in fredericksburg, it will be slow, stay to the left side of the road as they clear things out of the way. probably in the next 20 minutes i would say. really into stafford. 66 west of the toll road, two right lanes are blocked until 5:00. 270 at falls road, looking good. nothing major there. inner and outer loop also rolling along quite nicely. 390 north at glebe road, the right lane is blocked until 5:00

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for the -- in place for a man known as a real life superhero. lenny robinson known as the route 29 batman was killed in an accident on the way home. he dressed up as the caped crusader for charity events and a woman who partnered with him said he made a lot of kids happy. >> he would electrify the room. and kids would run to him and he would open up his big cape and the kids would gather underneath it. like he protected them. >> robinson's funeral is at noon on wednesday in owings mill, maryland. you can donate to the organization that he worked with. it's called superheroes for kids. it is based in baltimore. in "news4 your health" a new study reveals women with a heavy work load may have a harder time getting pregnant. harvard researchers followed nearly 200 nurses who were trying to conceive, and they

found women who worked more than 40 hours a week took about 20% longer to get pregnant than those who worked less. nurses who had to lift heavy loads took longer to get pregnant. we expect an update today on the recovery efforts in the gulf in the ten years since hurricane katrina. housing and urban development secretary julian castro should fill us in at 11:00 this morning. when katrina hit land as a category 3 storm, the levees failed in new orleans. it killed more than 1,800 people and flooding morse -- forced many out of their homes. it's the most expensive natural disaster in our nation's history. two cats rescued from a chinese slaughterhouse will arrive in the district. they were rescued from the china's yulin festival back in may. it was done by the human society international. the animal rescue league will give them a home until a new one is found and a dog also rescued

from the festival known as the dog meat festival is now enjoying life with a new loving family. you may be able to help loudoun county animal services found out who abandoned this dog. it was left at the best western hotel in leesburg. she was found tied to a tree behind a hotel dumpster. animal services says she may have been there for several days. if you have any information, loudoun county wants to hear from you about what you may know. well, we say it all the time. d.c. is an expensive place to try and buy a house. but a new housing list says if you look at some smaller cities outside the district, you could find your dream affordable home. money.com ranked four smaller cities as some of the best places to live. north laurel, maryland, had a 4% unemployment rate. damascus for the tight knit community. and urbana and in virginia,

vienna ranked 48th for its vibrant downtown. aaron? some music stars going to perform on the national whattal this year. a new organization called facing addiction announced it's holding a rally on october 4th. sheryl crow, steven tyler and joe walsh from the eagles will perform that day. it will raise awareness about how big a problem addiction can be. and we know, aaron, goo goo dolls will be performing there as well. stay with us, "news4 today" continues right now at 5:00 a.m. "news4 today" starts now. >> good morning, everybody. i'm aaron gilchrist. now at 5:00 a.m. as the murder rate ticks up, the men in this video could help solve an american university man's death near the shaw metro. and a police officer behind bars this morning. what court documents say he did wrong in a shooting death. and we're talking about the weather, of course, aaron, this morning.

tom, over the next couple of hours it will get hot and muggy. then we'll cool off, right? >> showers may be moving in later today. right now though we're starting off with maryland 95 north at route 100, there's when lane -- i got to do the traffic. awesome. >> that was very good, tom. i can come and do the weather. >> starting off with -- yes, melissa now your time to do the weather. >> 68 in frederick. >> see, what a team. we are a team. it's in the 60s and 70s in the region. here is the hour by hour forecast over the next six hours. partly cloudy through the morning. no travel problems weatherwise for the morning commute. by 9:00 it will be around 80 and by 11:00 a.m., into the mid 80s. not as hot as yesterday. your bus stop forecast for this tuesday is coming up in a couple of a