umbrella nearby. it could end up being a rainy week. storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell. good morning, chuck. >> good morning, everybody. hope you enjoyed your weekend. back to work and school. a reality. kind of a soupy start this morni morning. some needed rain chances are coming our way this week but very little in the way of sunshine. monday morning rain drops in western virginia and maryland. there are a couple of sprinkles here. keep that in mind. a few patchy areas of fog as well. your hometown forecast in merryfield, virginia, your temperatures will climb up to near 80 degrees. >> sounds like a good warning to me. new crash at 28 and compton road. report of an accident. just a warning for you there.

southbound off the b.w. parkway, a disabled vehicle. here, 47 miles per hour and 46 southbound as you're headed to fredericksburg. no problems there. erika? >> thanks, melissa. developing right now we're working to learn more about a fire. it happened on benfield road in severe na park. i want you to take a look at this picture, this video -- this is a picture, excuse me. somebody sent this to us. the house scorched and a lot of the upper floor destroyed. firefighters say two people died. they have not released any information about who they were or exactly what happened there. anne arundle fire have just tweeted that investigators have now taken over the scene. we expect an update on the

plan to give body cameras to police in montgomery county. "news4's" derrick ward joins us to explain what has to happen first. good morning. >> good morning. cameras are already out there. police say this is an effective tool fro text them from forgive louis charges and it's to protect against police abuses. later today at about 2:00 the county council will be briefed before the public safety committee about what they found so far. there's actually been a case in montgomery county in which they have come into play. a woman who refused to leash a bar on georgia avenue in june

got a second-degree assault conviction because body cameras worn by officers corroborated that and witness accounts of what happened that. will probably be one of the things brought up. again, it happens at 12k here at montgomery county council headquarters. please say 22-year-old ryan salandy admitted he hit 21-year-old william mcdaniel with his car after they got into a fight on friday. a youth hockey coach is in court today for a plea hearing. virginia state police say they pretenled to be a 12-year-old when they reached out to timothy bodenheimer online. investigators say he sent child porn to an undercover officer.

bodenheimer was most recently an assistant coach for middle school students. >> i want police officers fired. >> a renewed call after the death of mckenna. the naacp organized last night's gathering. mckenna died in february after fairfax county deputies tased her four times. i'm mollette green at the live desk. pope francis is back at the vatican city after a packed u.s. visit. earlier this morning he sent out this tweet. now, the pope also answered questions on his trip back to rome talking about how warm the american people were to him

during his visit. he also took questions on the sex abuse scandal, the refugee cry says. and speaking of the sex abuse scandal, he said we must not cover these things up. those who covered it up are guilty. and the pope says he wants a closer connection with the church and those here in the u.s. that's the latest from the live desk. i'm mollette green. back to you. >> thanks. there's the tweet. with my heartfelt, and he tweeted #godblessamerica. in about 15 minutes jay gray will join us from philadelphia and we'll talk on the last days of his visit in the u.s.

a controversial visit for president obama. he'll sit down with russian president vladimir putin. president obama will address the asem will be i this morning as will heads of state from china, france, and iran. russia's growing military presence will be part of focus of vladimir putin ice meeting today with president obama and before it even starts the two sides can't even agree on what the meeting is about. putin's spokesperson said it's about syria. earlier this month he sent out a message. today it's about ukraine. today's talking will their first sit-down conversation in about two years. new information involving the deadly accident involved a duck boat in seattle. up in factors that may have contributed to the crash as we have learned another victim has crash passed away. right here, a crash in

centreville. details coming up. first addressing the name of the university of

we've got new information this morning about a deadly crash between the ride the duck's vehicle and a bus. a fifth person has died, a woman. a frond action. she a front axle sheard off. why that have suspended operations in seattle for now. did you stay up late last night to see the super moon?

the total eclipse happened right there. nasa says we wojts see another super moon until 2033. >> incredible shot for a lot of folks. some saw it. some didn't. if you're getting ready to head out to work this morning, this is kind of what you're looking at. >> let's check in with storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell. >> a little bit of fog starting to form. we'll give you a green and yellow light for early this morning. no real weather slowdowns this afternoon and another yellow light for later on this evening with a few showers around. a few damp roads around this morning. temperatures in the mid to upper 60s. we'll talk about the next seven

days in ten minutes. for now, more travel troubles for melissa. >> a warning here. an accident at compton road. >> top of the beltway. outer loop is moving along just fine. 66 inbound. remember to live to our friends on wtop 103.5. taking on retailers. one mother's open letter that's creating quite a stir on open media. the damage left behind by vandals at one california mission just

check out that scene right there. fortunately everyone is okay after part of a backdrop almost collapsed on republican presidential candidate carly fiorina. you see security and staff trying to shield her her. she was in the middle of a speech in texas when that happened. pretty scary. donald trump will reveal his tax plan.

the republican presidential hopeful says he plans to speak from trump tower. that's going to happen at 11:00 this morning. candidate ben carson is barely behind trump in the latest nbc wall street journal poll last night. he spoke about immigration, education, and restarting the space program. he also reiterated his plan to create jobs. he said he'll do that by implementing a six-month corporate tax holiday. a closer look at new poll numbers that shows how close carson is to trump. he leads by 1.21. carl carla fiorina and marco rubio

are tied. a report from the pew research stern is all new this morning. it says a percentage of foreigners living in the u.s. could break a record set more than 100 years ago. pew says foreigners could make up 14.9% of people living here by 2025. the number currently is 13.7%. that was set back in 1989 after a wave of immigrants from ireland, poland, and italy came from america. >> this morning three people, two of them under 18 are in the hospital after quasi-stampede. police say in tempe, arizona, the concert yesterday went as planned after saturday's chaos. people rushed the stage over the weekend and in the may hen some

got stuck under the crowd. a couple went to the hospital. a new method of treating breast cancer could become the norm. the study was published in the "new england journal of medicine". some say women can skip chemo depending on their gene and have the same ee fechlkt. here's some news iffer your health this morning. a new study says lowering the legal drinking age could lead to more students dropping out of high school. more and more campaigns to drop it is pomming up on campuses as a way to stop binge drinking. experts say access to capitol hill impacts kids who are already at risk of dropping out. new discussions today about the maryland football stadium.

some students and school groups say byrd was a racist and a segregationist and they want that name changed. maryland's president wallace lowe talked about other options. d.c. regulators originally rejected an aur for exelon to buy pepco. according to the washington business journal they're going to ask for a new hearing today. >> d.c.'s attorney general showing them how to spot bad contractors. they ire hosting a forum. earlier this year they filed a lawsuit accusing a virginia couple of selling all legal houses in the district. >> a lot of you may be thinking the following.

halloween costumes can show way too much and one mother says they're even sexist. mother lynn cramer did something about it after she saw this police officer uniform for little girls. she wrote a letter and it went viral. >> if she was standing in the store with me looking at these, i'd be very concerned, that when she looked around, she didn't see options that were empowering. >> party city addressed her accusations. they say in part the girl's cop item is one of their most popular costumes. much more on both sides of the story coming up on the "today" show. as we come up on the "today" show we're checking in with rain that could be coming our way. >> let's get a check of the weather and traffic. >> yes indeed, everybody. welcome back to work, school, and reality. cloudy skies out there for now.

a little patchy fod as well and rain chances not just on your monday but all the way through the coming week as sunshine will really be at a proceed yum. pretty low, plenty of clouds around. rain chances today. everyone has a chance for rain. rain chances are lowest by the bay and highest by the blue ridge and the shenandoah valley. so plan your day accordingly. here's the way future rain handles the chance. kind of dry. a break or two of sunshine as well. but after lunchtime by 1:00, 2:00, a bubbling up of occasional light rain showers passing through the area coming from the southeast moving toward the northwest. hit and miss rain chances. midday rain chances in and around the metro. for now the only rain drops are toward culpeper, rappahannock

here. 5 miles of visibility in culpeper. they slow things down just a little bit. ful you're going out for your early morning run, temperatures in the 60s through 9:00 a.m. even a sliver ore two of sunshine between 10:00 and 2:00 will allow temperatures to warm to near 80 degrees. nationals and reds. good baseball weather could rule out a slight chance for a delay but they could be able to get it to completion. a lot of rain chances. your best chance will be late tuesday into the day on wednesday, but there's a chance for showers every day from today all the way up through saturday. we'll look at your monday hour by hour ten minutes from now. let's look at traffic. >> good morning. it sounds like we have a lane block there. northbound at 28 at compton

road, that's now off to the right shoulder. you don't have to worry about that. a big look at the beltway. inner loop, outer loop, everything flowing just fine. a little bit slow. southbound v.w. parkway. that's a disabled vehicle that's been cleared off to the right side of the roadway. top of the beltway, outer loop, we're getting slow because of volume. 270, 118, a bit of vacuum headed southbound and prince george's county looking good. i'll see you back here at 6:31. happening today d.c. bowser teaming up with mentors. they need about 500 mentors for the empowers males. it's a literacy program where they gain confidence and december cover a passion for reading. this is happening tonight from 6:00 to 8:00 at the howard university social work auditorium. mayor bowser is expected to be there. >> congress has days left to pass a spending bill and avoid a

government shutdown. the deadline is wednesday. it appears it's going to pass. john boehner plans to step down later this year. they plan to keep the government up and running until december when someone new is in charge. less than a week since pope francis has anncanonized junipe serra, the statue has been vandalized. only the graves of europeans were vandalized. pope francis back in italy after a visit. he put this tweets out there adding the hash ta

tag #godblessamerica. crews are still cleaning up after mass on the benjamin franklin parkway. hundreds of thousands came from across the country for a chance to see him in person. we're going have more on that coming up. jay gray will be live be with report this morning whith what kind of lasting impact the pope is having on people. >> let's check in with jay. i think we have jay. there we go. >> good morning, guys. how are you this morning. look, you can't blame things for being flustered after more than 8 hunl,000 were here. the pope tweeted. let's get a quick look at the twitter and let you know what he said as he landed. again, thinking about the trip

here and what a trip it was. so many hundreds of thousands visiting. he says, with my heartfelt thanks may the love of christ always guide the american people. #godblessamerica, blessing this city for sure. closing in at nearly half a billion dollar. it's not the money but the pope's visit. stopping regardless of what was going on to spend time with the children, bless them. spend time with the infirm. you could tell that was the part of the trip he seemed to enjoy the most as well. that's the latest live in philadelphia as the cleanup continues. dave erika, back to you. >> what bryce harper and jonathan papelbon are saying about this that happened to the

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i'm mollette green. audi says 2.1 million of its cars worldwide were fitted with software that allowed its parent company to cheat u.s. emissions tests. now, it goes on to say the engine in question was built into the 1.6 and 2.0-liter

models. last week volkswagen reveal 11 million vehicles worldwide contained software involved in this emissions rigging scandal. we're going to put all of this information inside our nbc washington app. back to you. >> thanks. 6:31, a start to a gloomy week as you step out to overcast skies and maybe as you look at the radar, a little rain. showers pushing into our area. >> the clouds won't give you a break from the heat. storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell has more. good morning. >> good morning. a lot of clouds and even a few areas of fog as well. out toward winchester, virginia. as far as rain goes, most of the rain is still in the mountains of west virginia, headed into southwestern p.a. but there still could be a little rain

shower or two earlier this morning and another opportunity for rain showers coming our way later on this afternoon. right now it's a mild to muggy start. planning out your day, hour by hour. 67 degrees. 77 at noon and near 80 for a high with a risk of a few spotty showers this afternoon. best rain chances late tuesday into wednesday. more of that coming up in just a bit. >> right now, a brand-new problem. a report of an accident. you're going to get more information on that in the next ten minutes. 95 northbound through stafford, we're still a tad slow. dale boulevard also still have that accident. 66 west of oxen road looked good. david, i'll have some more on

that crash coming up. >> we'll check in. a woman will find out how long she'll face behind bars. sheel face up to 7 years in prison. she admitted to hacksaw blades and other tools. matt was killed by a border agent, sweat was later captured. d.c. police are looking for the latelatest. tom thomas stallings was killed. so far there's no suspect information, fwu you know something about this, police are offering a reward of up to $25,000 for an arrest and conviction in this case. prince william county police are looking for a man who tried to hit a sergeant with an suv. police say the suv nearly hit the sergeant while he was trying to stop it. the sergeant was not hurt.

police found the car abandoned later on. they believe it could be connected to another hit and run >> right now we've learned about stepped up evacuations. about 4,000 people left today. 3,000 moved out yesterday, most of them tourists. the super typhoon is expected to slam the country's eastern coast packing 114 mile per hour winds. now, just last month a typhoon hit that island killing eight people and toppling trees and flooding roads. that is the latest. back to you. a top ranking official says he violated the company's conflict of interest rules. they posted they filed an ethics complaint against mortimer down

downie. a fellow beau board member says downey served as a paid advisory for the company while the company took in tens of mill ios in profits. starting tomorrow blue line is the only one going through the stadium armory. a transformer fire happened earlier this month. it says there will be free shuttle buses between stadium armory and minnesota avenue during the hours that orange and silver line trains by pass the stadium armory stops. right now more olympic sports could be coming in 2020. we learned in just the last hour five recommended for the summer olympics in tokyo. they're baseball and soft ball which counts as women. karate, surfing, skateboarding and surfing. we're going to learn about the final decision from the

international olympic committee next year. fwans talking about thi this shows nats closer jonathan papelbon attacki ining bryce ha. then this happened. if you haven't seen it yet, take a look at this. it started with harper missing a flyout. then papelbon grabbed him by the neck and threw him against the wall. >> you know, a testify game there's a lot of intensity that builds over. for me, i can't allow that to half. harper says papelbon apologized. this moments after matt williams called on papelbon to pitch and

that didn't go down so well. >> that image of him going after his neck there, it's rough to see. pushing ahead with plans for police body cameras. the technical and problems they're a'degreesing in the days ahead. a couple of brand-new crashes. two at the top of the beltway. one on 66. i'm live with the report coming up. first an out of this world announcement. how nasa is billi

at 6:40, today in washington nasa is going to announce what it's calling a major science finding. we expect the announcement to have to do with the recent exploration of mars. nasa clearly trying to build

some excitement around the conference. they tweeted out, mars mystery solved? find out on monday. at "news4" midday we're have the updates as well. at 6:41 time for your "weather & traffic on the 1s." let's check in with chuck bell. >> good morning, everyone. goomy fog. a come of raindrops as well. most of it is staying away from us. there are a couple of showers toward paige, shenandoah valley, and rappahannock county. cloudy and damp. temperatures in the mid to upper 60s, low 70s. again there is a chance for more rain coming on this afternoon. highs today in the upper 70s to near 80. only a "c" for recess.

an "f" for you in traffic. >> i'm failing here this morning. inner loop here at connecticut avenue. we have inner loop at connecticut crash and an outer loop at georgia avenue. also 66 inbound here at 123. brand-new accident. 270 southbound, a little slow. germantown to the beltway. ower loop, very slow because of the accident there. 66 inbound looks fine. typical there. you're ten minutes behind. remember to listen to your friends when you hop in your car this morning. a message overnight from pope francis as the catholic leader arrives. what he tweeted after his flowers in the last couple of hours. >> first a developing story in maryland right now where an overnight fire has left two people dead in anne arundel

deadly fire. it happened near server i sever high school. the fire department isn't

releasing names or ages of the victims. it did tweet photos. you can see the upper floor of the house was pretty damaged. >> we have a team of reporters standing by with all the headlines. we want to check in with meteorologist chuck bell and a check on the weather. >> temperatures in theed my 60s now. a damp p start to your day. a check of the forecast coming up. melissa? >> right now the top of the beltway, outer loop, is quite slow. we have an inner loop crash and then an outer loop crash slowing things quite a bit. david? >> okay, melissa. let's bring you up to date on the anne arundel fire. it happened on benfield road. the department is not releasing

names or ages of the victims right now. it did tweet the photos you're looking aet. you ski the upper floor of the home damaged. we'll post more as soon as we learn exactly what happened here. >> today we could learn more about how police in montgomery county can use body cameras. leaders hope to have statewide guidelines in place the next few months. "news4's" derrick ward on what has to happen next. >> reporter: at 2:00 the safety committee will be briefed on the pilot program that's been in place since earlier this summer. finally some of the issues that are coming up with this new technology and how best to use it. they include letting people know that they are being recorded and whether people will be reluctant to call police if they for some reason don't want to be recorded. also there are issues of the

data from the cameras. the video, how long does it get stored. these are all questions being worked out after the state legislature gave the green light for the use of cameras. now, the montgomery county council is expected to have some recommendations for policies by october 1st and they're expected to come out with a policy by the beginning of next year. live in montgomery county, "news4." >> thanks. barack obama in new york where he's going to meet with international leaders. they'll be together for the 70th session. president obama will address the assembly. russia's growing presence will be part of the focus with president obama. before it even starts the two sides can't agree on what this meeting is about. putin's spokesperson says it's about sear yachlt earlier this

month he sent additional weapons. the white house says todaytalks sit-down. the man accused of a deadly hit-and-run will face a judge this afternoon. 22-year-old ryan salandy admithood e hit william mcdaniel with a car after they got in a night. witnesses saw salandy drive way from sweet speier drive. police were able to catch up with him in germantown and arrested him and charged him with first-degree murder. an assistant coach. investigators say he sent child porn to an undercover officer. bodenheimer was most recently an assistant coach for a group of middle schoolers. pope francis took tough questions from reporters before

his plane touched down in rome. we have video just in showing the pope talking with reporters there. when asked why he offered comfort and consolation to bishops regarding the sex abuse scandal, the pontiff said, quote, it's terrible thing and the words of comfort were not to say, don't worry, that was nothing, but it was so bad i imagine you cried hard. pope francis also said he was surprised by how warm the american people were to him during his first ever visit to this country. that is the latest. back to you. >> we're starting to see what kind of legacy pope francis has left. hundreds of thousands have followed his journey. pope francis called attention saying all those responsible will be called. it culminated with them joining

in mass. >> i will pray for you and your families, and i ask you please to pray for me. may god bless you all. god bless america. >> more than 500 people including vice president joe biden and his wife dr. jill bind helped send pope francis off as he left last night. call it rare. astronomical phenomena. this is the first time in about 30 years that this has happened. it was also considered a blood moon because of the orange red tint some saw. and unlike some predicted, it was not the end of the world. nasa says that won't happen again until 2033 and that would be the moon, not the end of the world. >> the end of the world is delayed till 2033. >> chuck bell is with us now.

some found it tough to see the moon. >> we desperately need the rain. we're about five or six inches behind. the rain would be appreciated and, yes, the clouds did interfere with some of theée4ng shutterbug's and to take pictures of it. carol evans sent us this twitter this morning. you can tweet me @chuckbell on twitter. you can't see the monument which is 155 feet up. pretty low ceiling. 66 now at almost 10 miles per hour. be're in the low to mid-60s. what should we expect today, a lot of clouds. a mild and humid day today. generally dry with the clouds early this morn andtowns in the

60s. the mid 70s by noon. after lunchtime shower chances start to increase once again. rain chance only at about 30%. we should see a sliver oer two of sunshine late morning to lunchtime. that will allow temperatures to get up. rain chances today will be highest west of the metro. out toward the shenandoah valley and i-81. everyone has a chance. don't stray too much out the door. kind of a dry start, but by 1:00, 2:00 this afternoon, there's those rain chances coming back in on us am quick check of the forecast. mild and cloudy with off-and-on shower chances today and tomorrow. heaviest rain likely to be tuesday morning into wednesday. off-and-on shower chances remain for the remainder of the week. melissa mollet with traffic. >> remember we have one at the

inner loop and anothered edanot outer loop. actually looks pretty good. don't have any problems overall. prince george's county looking good as well. at the top of the belt, we have those two accidents. especially slow. b.w. parkway a tad slow. same thing on 95. you're pretty slow here. right now 270 southbound, slowest spot is going to be on 270 out of frederick and it opens up quite a bit as you get through german town. >> thanks. new details on a deadly crash between a ride the duck boat and a tour bus. ride the duck has now suspended its operation in seattle. that's because the ntsb says a front axle sheared off the vehicle and the problem is affecting more of the company's

cars. nothing to worry about this morning if you plan to fill up your gas tank. prices are coming down. down nine cent over the last five weeks. the national average about $2.35 a gallon. in d.c., a little higher, $2.50. virginia, $2.30. prices are coming down because they're being forced to compete for your business. good morning. i'm landry dowdy. volkswagen's scandal deepens. report i sass its own staff and suppliers were warned. v.w. says the software affected engines in 11 million diesel cars worldwide. reports say the company is suspending the research it has. that's your cnbc morning business report. i'm landon dowdy. there's a renewed call for

consequences after inmate natasha mckenna dieds in jail. >> i want police officers fired. >> she died after fairfax county deputies tased her four times. protesters are questioning the decision to not pursue a grand jury in the case. joyce mitchell is facing up to 7 years in prison for her part in a prison break. she's admitted to giving tools to richard matt and david sweat. police hope to have statewide guidelines in place in january. and a deadly fire in maryland. this happened overnight. two people have died. pope francis in vatican

city. even time to shoots out a tweet. quote, with my heartfelt thanks, may the love of christ always guide american people. #godblessamerica. inner loop and outer loop, things slowing. two different crashes. allow some extra time. guys? >> thanks for joining us this morning. the "today" show is coming up next. >> thanks for letting us crash the party. >> absolutely. >> make great morning, everybody.

>> good morning. icebreaker. president obama set to meet with russian president vladimir putin today, a meeting two years in the making as putin announce adds new plan to fight isis that catches even the white house by surprise. we're live at the u.n. back home, the pope returns to the vaticanovernight after wrapping up his historic trip with an outdoor mass attended by nearly a million people in philadelphia. >> pray for me, don't forget. >> this morning the one thing he says surprised him about his visit. man of substance? after months of being accused of avoiding the issues, donald trump set to unveil details of his new tax plan today while his rival carly fiorina has a scary