during his elementary school years. min wen goes before a judge this afternoon. detectives say he broke into the home of denise and cory madison earlier this year and shot cory madison to death. the mad dissons had been married three months when this happened. we are learning about a violent threat against police officers in anna rundle county. the words killing aac cops coming soon were found in the brooklyn park neighborhood. they found more graffiti on hammond lane. it read, quote, kill cops. they say that these kinds of threats will not be tolerated. if you have any information, police want to hear from you. it's going to be a busy day on capitol hill. congress has just hours to avoid a shutdown. at midnight the u.s. government will no longer have the legal authority to spend money. there is a spending bill currently in the works that

would keep the government funded through mid december. now if it passed today it would only postpone the possibility of a government shutdown. coming up, nbc's tracie potts will explain how lawmakers plan to get this bill passed before the deadline. today is your last chance to visit the crime and punishment museum at gallery place. the museum in northwest is closing today after seven years. the police in charge say they were asked to leave their building and didn't have a choice. the museum will continue to offer some programs like walking towards and traveling educational programs. i always thought that they offered the neatest programs during valentine's day, they offered you a passion crime tour where you could get handcuffed with your partner. >> therapy. >> exactly. for a good price. so sorry to see them go. time now to check the forecast. 4:31. weather and traffic on the ones. are we getting any relief from the rain? we needed the rain.

guess we shouldn't complain, chuck. >> we did need the rain. the rain we got last night will do some good. we have a lot more coming our way. weekend forecast in a few minutes. weather slowdown. plenty of low visibility and high standing water across the area so be real careful this morning. conditions will improve with time during the day. visibility under a mile here in prince william county. only 1 1/2 mile in gaithersburg. relatively low. outside chance of an occasional shower or two. temperatures in the low to mid 70s now. more rain where that came from. light rain today and tomorrow but a chance for flooding rains and some crazy wind as we get towards friday, saturday, potentially into sunday as well. talk school day impact on all of this rain in ten minutes. for now, here's melissa mow will

he. darnestown. the road is closed down from a fatal car fire overnight. going to very likely be shut down for the next few hours. top of the beltway, inner loop at wisconsin avenue has a problem with a tractor-trailer spun around the wrong way. seeing some pretty big backups from that. woodburn road shut down from robey. the on ramp from garrisonville road, have a brand new crash and a problem in brandy wine we'll talk about in a couple of minutes, guys. right now, donna shalala is recovering from a stroke. shalala was a former cabinet secretary under president clinton. she had a stroke late yesterday. she is 74 years old. she served eight years as health and human secretary.

she was president of the university of miami before that. in an e-mail to the clinton foundation staff former president clinton and his daughter chelsea say that her condition right now, initial reports, are very encouraging. eun. >> kristin, thank you. 4:34. in the day ahead a high yachtsville man will go on trial for a hit and run. earl teeter hit and run a man. a 911 dispatcher was fired after telling warrick's daughter to stop whines a he xu called in for help. a 21-year-old from fairfax is dead this morning after what the pent gob is calling a non-combat related incident. the navy is investigating how seaman phillip frazier mane died in bahrain.

>> i'm trying to wake people up and honor the people who have been murdered. >> floyd wolf said he is doing something to express his sadness and frustration with the growing homicide rate in the district. we are tracking a rise in violence here in d.c. so far this year police have opened 120 homicide cases and that is a 50% increase from last year and wolf wants to illustrate that. the documentary photographer runs a blog he calls dc shrines. he says everyone who died is someone's son, someone's daughter, mother, father regardless of the choices they may have made. wolf thinks it's important people consider this a regional issue. >> we are all in the same community and i think siloing it that we live here, you live there doesn't work. even on a practical level doesn't protect it. >> if wolf cannot find a

memorial to take pictures of he puts the victim's picture on his blog to make sure they are not forgotten. developing this morning, students in prince gorges county may not be allowed inside their classrooms. more than 3,000 students have not had their immunization shots a month into school now. a spokesperson told news 4 any student who did not have their shots by the deadline, that is today, will have t leave the school until they are in compliance. today d.c. public schools chancellor kay yeah henderson will give her annual schools address. they'll city -- jim advance will sit down with chancellor henderson. the kentucky clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples says she met with the pope. kim davis's lawyer said she met with pope francis a the the vatican embassy during his visit to d.c. vatican officials have not commented. davis spent five days in jail

for rejecting a federal court order to issue marriage licenses to gay couples. d.c. wants to use private ambulances to respond to your calls. they would still be the first responders on a911 calls but private ambulances would take care of the low level calls. >> we are going out into the market to negotiate for the service so we don't know yet. we have to buy ourselves some time to prepare our vehicles to respond more timely and very importantly to train our staff. >> mayor wants to try it out for a year. the d.c. council will vote on the council for a month. today the first flight for cuba will leave from bwi. it's the only airport in our airport that is authorized to send charter flights to cuba. the flights will operate twice a

week on wednesdays and saturdays. storm team 4 radar is clear right now but for how long? chuck is back at 4:41 to let us know if the kids will need the umbrella at the bus stop today. we're also keeping an eye on tropical storm joakim to see if it will strengthen to a hurricane. how it could have an impact on the weather here. >> get ready to say awwww. >> this is good stuff, people. an update on the panda cub and the one adorable mome ava and i needed a little vacay. but we needed to watch our spending. meaning i needed to watch nikki. she's the spender. i'm the saver. so, mobile banking from td bank helps me keep track... for both of us.

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an adorable sneeze from the national zoo's panda cub bei bei caught on camera. >> i think that was a sneeze, right? >> oh, so, so cute. the five-week-old cub was taking a nap with mei xiang when that happened. we are told he's now four pounds. he's now just snoozing away with his mom this morning as we take a live look. so adorable. they look so comfortable. >> that's the baby, right? that's the baby. >> that's the baby. first lady michelle obama and the first lady of china named the baby last week. they broke the tradition until the cub was 100 days old. >> people are nervous about that. >> a lot of people are

superstitious. that sneeze already 900 shares on facebook. people are loving it. eating it up. >> super cute for sure. 4:41. time for weather and traffic on the 1s. are we going to get a relief from this rain? >> yes and no unfortunately. we'll get a break that is moving up into the northeast corridor. for us we're in a little lull in the action for now. couple of light showers in southern virginia. they're coming our way. take the umbrella with you. the heavy rain may be gone but there's more chances for showers. this morning at the morning bus stops, puddle jumping for sure. cloudy and humid. we'll be in the mid to upper 70s by later on this afternoon as well. lots of clouds and occasional showers as well. more about joakim and your weekend and how they'll get together for ten minutes. for now, more breaking news in first 4 traffic. breaking news darnestown. closed from black rock road and

bellingham drive. to avoid it will be clopper road. that is a fatal car fire that happened there. on wisconsin avenue we are jammed here because of a tractor-trailer, double tractor-trailer that spun around. in an nondale, shut down. kroom roadblocked because of a downed tree. 95 north the on ramp from 610, we do have a crash there as well. back in a few minutes. developing right now, tropical storm joaquin. strengthening and it could become a hurricane. it's turning near the bahamas. there's a hurricane watch there. all eyes on the east coast to see what kind of impact it's

. we're following breaking news right now from the live desk and that is a fatal car fire in montgomery county. right now we can tell you there was some form of car crash involving a single car. this is the picture we have showing all the flames and montgomery county fire responding. one car involved, some sort of crash. the car caught fire and we know one person, an adult male, we're told a man, is dead. molette green is on the scene. she'll bring us an update as

soon as she can. this is darnestown road and black rock road. it's shut down between 107 and black rock road. more to come in just a few minutes. back to you. thank you, kristen. congress has just hours left to avoid a government shutdown. the senate and house are expected to vote today on a temporary funding bill. the deadline for that vote is midnight. that vote just pushing the budget problem back until december. nbc's tracie potts is live on capitol hill with this. good morning. >> eun, good morning. here's how it's going to go down now. a 10:00 a.m.ote in the senate then move it to the house for an early to mid afternoon vote just hours for the deadline. the bottom line, thousands of federal government workers all over the country can pretty much rest assured at this point that they'll be on the job tomorrow and that they will be getting their paychecks but that's not the end of the story. round two is already underway. negotiations between democrats and republicans because of what they're voting on today is to

just extend the current funding to december 11th. they're giving themselves another three months to try to work this out. one of the big issues is still planned parenthood funding that conservatives want to strip out of this budget. the presidents of planned parenthood got a five hour drilling. they aren't happy about them getting fundsing because of the video that came out. they have negotiation to do. they have a leadership change coming up. tracie potts live on capitol hill for us. thank you, tracie. there's an eighth indictment into the shadow campaign. a federal grand jury today indicted -- or yesterday indicted d.c. bus man reuben charles on two counts of failing to file his federal income taxes. he's seen her shortly after gray's election.

charles was a major fund-raiser for the campaign and at one point was in line to be gray's chief of staff. gray has not been charged and has denied any wrongdoing. we all know parking in d.c. can be tough and parking where you shouldn't can really cost you. i know that firsthand. now the d.c. council says it is considering an exception for firefighters and first responders. it's so tough to find a good spot near the downtown station some firefighters put signs on their windshields pleading to are a break. council members say they are planning on allowing them a special permit parking. penalties for drunk drivers involved in deadly crashes in maryland will go up starting tomorrow. dui offenders with blood alcohol levels of .08 or higher will have 6 months for the first

offense and 1 year for the second. the driver will lose their license completely if it's a second offense. today you can be part of a ceremony to mark the start of national fallen firefighters weekend. they plan to recognize 87 firefighters by presenting american flags from the u.s. capitol to a national u.s. fallen firefighters foundation. taking a look at the capitol right now. the public is invited to a ceremony at 2:00 this afternoon. a motorcade directly after the ceremony will travel along the beltway and i-270 and then take i-70 north to frederick. traffic will be impacted. redskins are about to get a big settlement from minneapolis. they're going to pay the team $237,000 for this bus crash. two team buses collided on an exit ramp. a minneapolis police car lost control.

no one was seriously hurt. the minneapolis police department no longer offers to escort pro sports teams. today is the last day on the job for the leader of the library of congress. dr. james billington is retiring after 28 years on the job. he launched the national book festival that we love so much. as of right now it's not clear who the next librarian of congress will be. he says it was a true mhonor an what a job. >> you can get lost in there. it's a great resource. >> you need a whole week. today might be a good day to go to the library. >> very good day today and to get like "war and peace" this is how long of a -- >> big book. >> this is going into the weekend. >> you betcha. not all one system but several

in a row which will include it looks like now joaquin just in time for your weekend unfortunately. there's a whole lot of deep puddles and high water. over 1 1/2 inches from gaithersburg, washington. over two inches south of town from quantico and culpepper. more than three inches of rain from stanton and harrisonburg. 74 with full cloud cover here in washington. 70 in hagerstown and frederick. 75 in annapolis. what to expect. then cloudy and humid. occasional light rain showers. take the umbrella with you. turning breezy by later this afternoon into the evening. there's the big slug of moisture heading from new york into new england. traveling that way could have a big impact. here's the next shot of moisture down across central and southern new england.

here's future weather by 8 clock the little push of moisture trying to sneak into the metro area. showers likely prince william countries county to fredericksburg. prince williams county to annapolis. by lunchtime and thereafter a lot of clouds around with occasional passing light rain showers. nothing all that heavy. just grab your little umbrella for the travels around town for the remainder of the day. as far as joaquin and the path, the hurricane center does think it will make at least category 2 strength and there's concern as we get into the weekend from saturday night to sunday the storm may be recur offing towards the east coast. we'll be watching this very, very carefully. nonetheless, it will be close enough to interact. as a result, a lot of wind and rain in the forecast. showers today. light rain tomorrow. heavy rain and wind possible from friday into sunday depending on where and when joaquin decides to make a run at the eastern seaboard. we'll stay all over the very

latest of joaquin. talk about getting all over things. breaking news first 4 traffic. breaking news again in darnestown road. they keep changing. the latest is shut down between black rock road and whites ferry road. alternate to avoid it all go a little bit north, clapper road. inner loop 3rks 55, we have the tractor-trailer issue here this morning. that is blocking some lanes. at this point that is why we are seeing such a delay on the inner loop. 66 is fine and dw parkway, all nice and green. the search is on now after a terrifying attack on an arlington woman. the specific area police want you to be extra vigilant about. and a bizarre burglary taking place at grocery stores across the region. across the region. why thieves are stealing lau

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looking live at storm team 4 radar, there seems to be some rain. the area is dry. chuck bell is putting together the hometown forecast and will bring us that in a few minutes. police in arlington are looking for a man that attacked a woman on hearndon street. this happened in the clarendon area.

the young woman says she doesn't know who assaulted her. the fbi wants to hear from you if you recognize this man. take a look. he's accused of trying to rob a bank just before noon in the district. this happened at the citi bank near chevy chase circle. he passed the teller a note demanding money and then walked out. he is considered armed and dangerous. this week we're going to learn about a new plan for route 7 in northern virginia. it connects commuters all the way from leesburg to alexandrea. a long time ago it was called the buffalo trail. now the road is overloaded with cars and transit leaders say they're considering several options to ease the traffic there, including dedicated bus lanes, a street car and a light rail line. >> the idea is to come up with something that will move people all day long and reduce their travel time by about half. >> transit leaders say new public transportation could take 9,000 people off the roadways.

after they release the details of a new plan, there will be a series of public meetings about it in november. you could soon have to pay a bit more if you want to take uber or lyft in prince gorges county. it would add a 25 cent surcharge on rides. >> according to the washington post that would improve the county basis stem and it would include all services that start in prince george's county. take a good look at this guy we're about to show you next. if you recognize him. police montgomery county want to know who he is. he's wanted for stealing laundry detergent pods. they're looking for a second man who is wanted for doing the same thing in a safe way in rockville. montgomery county police say the guys pulled knives when someone tried to stop them at the safe way store surveillance video shows an employee using mangos to try and stop the thief.

>> using the proceeds to buy drugs. >> you want to track them down? >> we sure do. >> police are offering a $10,000 reward for any tips that lead to an arrest in either case. "news 4 today" begins with breaking news. >> breaking news on the roads right now. montgomery county, darnestown shut down between black rock road and whites ferry. fatal car crash involving a ferry. you could take clopper road. inner loop at 355 wisconsin avenue, you can see we are jammed. that's because of a tractor-trailer that got spun around blocking lanes. back with more this a couple of minutes. >> check in with you soon. first, good morning to you. i'm eun yang. >> i'm angie goff in for erin. the weather, storm team four weather is not as crazy as last nig.