officers recovered 122 illegal guns in the last month alone. there have been 98 homicides in the district this year. there's a new effort to limit illegal guns, and it will give you a reward for reporting one. d.c. mayor bowser saying you can get $1,000. she posted this tweet about it. it says, "help take illegal guns off the streets." today a former fairfax county police officer heads to court facing a murder charge. a grand jury indicted adam torres monday, two years after john gear was shot and killed. gear was unarmed. in court yesterday, we learned county attorneys may have slowed the process down. they originally advised the police department to withhold certain pieces of information about tourists. you can follow megan fitzgerald on twitter. she will be at the courthouse this morning. d.c. police now asking for your help to find this man. take a look. you see him in a hotel lobby. police say a man threatened a woman with a gun in the embassy row hotel in dupont circle this

past weekend. they say he tried to force open a woman's door. when she resisted, the man said he would shoot her. he then ran away. police are calling this man a person of interest, not a suspect in this case. a commission put together to honor former d.c. mayor and council member mayoran barry wants to hear from you. a public forum will meet to hear your thoughts. it happens at 7:00 at the executive office of the mayor in northwest. barry died in november and had been dubbed the district's mayor for life. 4:31. 76 degrees. a little warmer than this time yesterday. it feels like more humid, too. >> yeah, but you know what -- i hear a rumor, a rumor, tom kierein, that a cold front is on its way. >> yes, it is. you probably read my forecast discussion, too. more than a rumor. a fact. looks like that will move in tomorrow. a lot the humidity in the air, city lights illuminating the

humidity. you see this hanging in the air over northeast washington now. a live view from the tower cam. a chance for p.m. afternoon, maybe evening thundershowers and showers. storm chances are much higher tomorrow. likely as the front gets closer. storm team 4 radar not showing showers around. maybe sprinkles here in southern frederick county. maybe leesburg, a few blips on the radar. northern fauquier county, sprinkles there. otherwise clouds, a mild morning. temperatures in the low to mid 70s throughout most of maryland and virginia. and around the bay, mid to upper 70s. shenandoah valley, the mountains, upper 60s, near 70. 60s in the mountains. melissa's checking road construction. i just said we had nothing happening on the beltway. as soon as i said it, something popped up. maybe i won't talk for the rest of the morning. outer loop at new hampshire avenue, two lanes blocked. that is typical in the morning and has been throughout most of

the summer. i thought maybe today we would get away with. it again, outer loop at new hampshire there, the two right lanes blocked here this morning. beltway at river road, right now no major problems there. road looking quite good there. inner loop and outer loop, 66 no problems. 95, northbound/southbound, no issues there. yesterday, of course, we had a lot of slowdowns northbound. outer frederick, a little construction -- outer fredericksburg, a little construction. inner loop and outer loop rolling just fine. tap of the beltway bw parkway, 95, and 29 nice and green. back in ten minutes, 4:41. >> see you then. 4:33. today, officials in the district are ramping up efforts to warn people about the dangers of synthetic drugs. the attorney's office and d.c. prevention center have joined forces to hold talks at area shelters. the meetings come in response to a recent spike in overdoses related to synthetic drug use. the session is at 7:00 at the

community for creative nonviolence shelter in northwest. a big deadline for the purple line today. private company are bidding on a chance to build and operate the rail service. they have to send transportation leaders a proposal by the end of the day. the project would connect the stations from bethesda to new carrollt carrollton. shawnta smith has been charged with first-degree cruelty to children. the daycare is at nanny helen boroughs northeast. a controversial rule to conduct business in english only will not fly in frederick county, maryland. members repealed the law in a 4-3 vote. >> having something on the books that has a perception that this does allows for a lot of misinterpreting from employees, and i think it needs to go. >> you can go out and do business in 25 different languages. i don't have a problem with that. i think as a basic common societies you have of to rules and have to have parameters set.

>> the law first passed in 2012. supporters argued it would save money. opponents said it was hard to enforce. they said it also violated federal and state statutes. a prince george's county police officer is not on the job this morning after being accused of assault and child abuse. corporal steven moore of arrested on monday in calvert county. sheriff's deputies say he assaulted his son and ex-wife during an argument. prince george's county police have suspended him. moore is a nine-year veteran of the force and work in administration. former federal police chief now expected to plead guilty to manufacturing meth at a high-security government lab. the news4 i-team says christopher bartley will plead guilty friday. prosecutors say he tried to make meth at the national institute of standards and technology in gaithersburg the same day there was a suspicious explosion there. he resigned the next day. his donor said he was -- his attorney said he was conducting

an "unauthorized training experiment." today the man known as the subway guy is expected to plead guilty to child pornography charges. "we no longer have a relationship with gerald fogel and have no comment." this after investigation an investigation into a child pornography investigation. federal agents searched his home in indiana last month and seized computer and dvds. fogel shot to fame by pitching the so-called subway diet. lots of are you remembering civil rights leader julian bond. he died this past weekend. and now there's a memorial planned to remember him. the ceremony is this saturday afternoon at the tidal basin near the martin luther king memorial. organizers say similar memorials will be going on around the country there. bond was head of the naacp for some time and was a member of the georgia house of representatives. more recently, he taught at american university and uva. uncle sam wants you to fill

out a yelw review. the government working with the online site to engage mother nature with the public. it want feedback on services from agencies, national parks, so on. right now on yelp, the lincoln memorial five out of five stars. the social security administration has three stars right now. and congress only getting two stars. 4:37. the bench-clearing brawl between the cowboys and rams and why dez bryant may not be feeling too good today. some of are you getting the kids ready for the bus stop now. will they need the shade umbrella or both? tom kierein with the forecast. we turned over everything that was work related, every single thing. >> hillary clinton getting testy with reporters, insisting she did nothing wrong with her personal e-mails while secretary of state. will she be able to put this controversy behind her? we look into it.

it's there is a group of grown men. the dallas cowboys and st. louis rams got into a massive, lengthy brawl yesterday. this is during a joint practice in california. dez receiver took a shot in the face and then does pushing and shoving that continues from both teams, spilling on to the sidelines, too. the players were separated. and as you might expect, practice was over.

a big day ahead for new england quarterback tom brady. his attorneys and the lawyers representing the nfl commissioner will be in court to debate his punishment for deflategate. the league suspended brady for four games over the incident this year. today, the judge wants the two sides to go through settlement talks again. neither brady nor commissioner roger goodell are required to be in court. 4:41 now. weather & traffic on the 1s starting with tom kierein. >> right now we've got the humid in the air. as you're about to prepare children for school this morning, a lot of the jurisdictions back in school. yeah, they'll be comfortable in short sleeves, mild in the 70s for 7:00 to 8:00 a.m. waiting for the school bus, between 8:00 and :9:00. might need an umbrella when you're heading back home during the afternoon hours with some showers around. maybe even thundershowers.

a nicer weekend, next weather & traffic on the 1s coming up at 4:51. melissa has construction in montgomery county. do have construction, and you said water bottle. i have one. trying to be good. i have my water bottle handy inside the station. rockville pike at wilson drive, two northbound lanes blocked and two southbound lanes blocked at this point this morning because of roadwork. 395 south at duke street, two lanes blocked there in the southbound lanes again. more construction there. top of the beltway at colesville, no problems. northbound -- inner loop/outer loop, everything rolling just fine. northbound/southbound, branch avenue here, pennsylvania avenue, indian head highway, everything looking good. a trip down 270 in ten minutes. >> thanks. developing at the live desk now, new information about who police say is behind a deadly explosion in bangkok. what's the best way to get your kids to do well in school? psychologists weigh in on the best methods to motivate students heading back to classrooms. the navy s.e.a.l.s about to

do a first. who they are ready to let into the ranks.

4:45 this morning. new pictures of the deadly plane crash in indonesia. it went down in bad weather over the weekend. all 54 people on board died. we're following a developing story right now at the live desk. two new pieces of information in a bombing at a shrine in bangkok. first, police don't think he was acting alone. also now there is a reward equivalent to $28,000 for information leading police to this man. this is surveillance video police have released of who they think is the bomber. the guy there in the yellow t-shirt, wearing a backpack. then you see he leaves it behind just three minutes before the big explosion. 22 people killed there at the

shrine. 130 -- there's the explosion -- 130 wounded. there's also been a second explosion that went off in the water near a ferry. police are looking into the possibility that the two explosions are connected. no one hurt in that one. now the bomber at the shrine, police believe, is part of a network. more to come on that. back to you. amid growing political pressure and unsteady poll numbers, presidential candidate hillary clinton on the defensive. she faces tough questions about whether the server holding her emails was wiped clean before she handed it to federal investigators. nbc's edward lawrence is following the story from capitol hill. boy, things sure got heated. >> reporter: yeah, hillary clinton lashed out. actually she's blaming the controversy on republicans saying that this is just partisan politics that's going on, believing that they cannot beat her on the issues. clinton said after a town hall meeting in las vegas that she did not send classified information from her personal e-mail server. hillary clinton addressed the

questions that had been lingering about the personal e-mail server at the news conference after the town hall meeting. she said she used the server out of convenience because she wanted to use one phone, not two. republican marco rubio says the controversy shows incompetence. clinton says she's just not worried and this investigation is nothing more than partisan politics. five security agencies looking at now 305 emails to see if there was some violation of handling classified materials. they still have 80% of the emails she turned over to go through. the 305 are from the 20% that they have already looked at. sources in the fbi say they are going to be able to wipe the data off of a server that hillary clinton turned over. she deleted personal emails. the fbi said she deleted most to ensure they were personal and not work related. reporting live, back to you. >> thanks, edward. 4:48.

we hear directly today from some of the top republican presidential candidates on their education plans. six candidates are speaking at a republican education summit in new hampshire. jeb bush is first. he's faced a lot of criticism for backing the controversial common core program. each candidate will have about 45 minutes on stage. today a murder trial is coming to an end in prince george's county. prosecutors and defense lawyers will deliver their closing arguments in deandre weems' trial. prosecutors say he was attempting to rob a hotel when chavez tried to intervene. veterans at the american legion post in arlington are not happy. the american flag that flies 24 hours a day in front of their building is missing. the p.o.w. flag that flies with it was found yesterday on the ground. post manager sharon walker discovered the flag missing tuesday morning. >> we don't like to speculate

that there could be, you know, somebody that would think of doing such a thing. >> they don't know if the flag was stolen by pranksters or if someone -- if it's someone looking to make a statement. see the large frame that looks like there should be perhaps something inside it? a church in bethesda says there used to be a banner that read "black lives matter." the black unitarian universalist church says it's the third banner someone has damaged or stolen. once someone cut out just the word "plaque." the church posted on facebook it is in contact with police over this. maryland governor larry hogan halfway through his cancer treatment and says he is now 95% cancer free. the announcement coming via twitter. hogan was diagnosed with non-hodgkins lymphoma earlier this year. doctors said the cancer was aggressive but treatable. even so, the "washington post" reports the update surprised the doctors who are treating him.

hogan has gone through three rounds of chemotherapy so far. for the first time, there's a government-approved pill women can take to increase sexual desire. the fda says you'll be able to buy adaddie in october. it works differently than its counterpart. viagra targets a man's physical ability to have sex, addi changes chemicals in the brain. women and the military. the navy's top officer says its elite s.e.a.l. teams will be open to women if they can get past the grueling trainer. the admiral did not say when it would happen. he made the announcement to "defense news" hours after news broke that two women had passed the army's arduous ranger course. turning to weather now. i think it's going to feel nicer out there. we might not have -- >> it is. >> it is still muggy. but we're not going to see as

much sun. >> you can cut the air with a machete. thick humidity. you've got to fight your way through it. it is probably as humid as we can get here in washington in the summer. starting off with a few clouds coming through. the tower cam overlooking washington now. you see the city lights illuminating the haze and humidity this morning. that picture tells the story. by 8:00, we will be in the mid 70s. then by noontime, should be climbing into the low 80s. partly sunny this morning through noontime. then the clouds building during the afternoon by maybe 2:00, 3:00. up into the upper 80s. then showers and thundershowers. pretty good chance of those coming on through. that will be moving into the metro area perhaps later in the afternoon. right now, just getting a few showers here, southwestern virginia and north carolina and off the outer banks. this is the front that we will be seeing come our way tomorrow. it is triggering pretty good thunderstorms now in illinois, down into missouri. that's going to be getting closer to us tomorrow. right now storm team 4 radar showing don't have any showers

around here locally. although there might be a little sprinkle in southern frederick county. the blips on the radar. hour by hour, look at our forecast for the rest of the morning. looks like we'll stay dry here through noontime. these areas, patches of green, maybe a few showers on the eastern shore by 1:00 punishment as well as shenandoah valley, panhandle of west virginia. by 3:00 p.m., we may see thundershowers popping up especially in the mountains and shenandoah valley. there's only a small chance locally for the afternoon hours. maybe an isolated thundershower northern virginia, nearby suburbs, maryland, late afternoon. then the evening hours, things should settle down. humid overnight, temperatures right now in the low to mid 70s. most of the region, reagan national at 78. then it stays humid tomorrow. a likelihood of mainly afternoon storms tomorrow. some with heavy downpours, maybe flooding. we'll have highs in the upper 80s. and finally after the front goes by, beautiful weather. low humidity, great weekend coming up friday through sunday. highs in the 80s.

and still pleasant, into midweek next week. a nice pattern coming up. what's going on the roads now, melissa? overall looking good. a look as promised at 270 southbound out of the frederick area. you see it is nice and green. don't have anything in the way. same as you're headed northbound, tropical look to our friend at wtop 103 went.5 later morning. 66 east between nutley and the beltway, two right lanes blocked. 95 at mine road, slow, construction through the area. overall, prince george's county moving nicely here. indian head highway, branch avenue, pennsylvania avenue, everything nice and green, and not getting reports right now of any construction in those spots. bw parkway, 95, 29 also into town, out of town, not having any issues. i'll see you here at 5:01. >> thanks. you want your kids to do well in school, but finding which rewards or incentives are helpful can be tough. this is more complicated for those kids who are not

self-motel straighted. family -- self-motivated. family psychologists say not to use money or food as rewards. a better incentive is a long-term goal kids can work toward. it's wise to make sure the lack of motivation is not signaling a larger problem like a learning disability. doctors say parents should focus on the effort, not the actual outcome. that means the reward is not based on the grades but on the process used to get that grade. >> it's a horrible feeling to hear -- >> anger and confusion, a woman said she doesn't know what to think after someone held her 12-year-old son at gunpoint. police say one of the gunmen was only 8. and why people looking to lose weight are turning to a lose weight are turning to a drug used by diabetics. life's the food that brings us together. and kitchens where every meal is the most important of the day.

life's the food that brings us together. and kitchens where every meal is the most important of the day. they're going to be in the penitentiary if they don't straighten up. maybe they need to learn a lesson. >> tough words for two children police say pointed guns at a 12-year-old boy on his way home from school, took his cell phone, and rode off on their bikes. in the police report, two armed robbery suspects, one 8 to 10 years old, about 4'5", the other taller, older, between 13 and 14, same weapon, a handgun. police say the crime happen ted intersection of madison and 4th streets in northwest. the victim's mother told us

she's angry. >> i don't understand, you know, why these kids are out here doing this sort of thing. >> people in the neighborhood were upset when news4 told them about last week's crime. two women said this is the kind of problem that starts at home. lgbt advocates are hailing the white house for hiring its first-ever openly transgender staff member. raffi freedman will work for the office of personnel. this is the latest in a series of steps the obama administration has taken to support transgender equality. as of april, an executive order prohibits federal agencies from hiring contractors that discriminate against transgender and gay employees. right now the water's back on for a group of homeowners in leesburg. crews had to cut the water and sewer as they worked to stabilize a sinkhole that opened up over the weekend on current terrace. dozens of homes affected. water and sewer may be shut off

again as crews work on underground utilities. engineers still working for a cause. in "news 4 your health," a drug used to control blood sugar in diabetics may also help people lose weight. british researchers assigned a group of overweight adults with type two diabetes a daily injection of a drug or a placebo. they were asked to eat a low-calorie diet and exercise more. after one year people treated with the drug lost more weight than the placebo group, especially those who got the highest dose. today is the last day you can donate to help families in rockville go back to school. rockville taking donations through the end of the day;shs the back-to-school jam this friday. the event provides backpacks full of school supplies to rockville students for just $2 each. the people behind this event are asking for all kinds of supplies, pens, glue sticks, folders, so on. you can donate at rockville city hall and several other places. good news for many parents. fourth graders and their

families can get into national and federal parks free for an entire year. that starts as the new school year gets underway. several counties in our area have already started that school year. this is really easy, aaron. all you do is go on line to sign up, and the student and a carload of their favorite peeps get into the park for free. put down that ipad. get out there, see some grizzly bears -- >> not me, just the fourth graders. >> they can bring their friends. >> i have a lot of fourth grade friends. no. 5:00 a.m. stay with us, "news4 today" continues right now. d.c.'s homicide count rising as anger in the areas it's happening. the response by the city. subway severing its ties with their "it" guy. this as jared fogle expected to plead guilty in court on child port charges. and mayor for life. how you