gun safety. this comes a week after the mass shooting at the oregon college. republicans controlling congress have shown little interest in restricting firearms. today the postal worker who flew a gyrocopter over restricted airspace should be back in court. hughes says that flight was his protest against campaign finance laws. faces up to 9 1/2 years in prison. breaking overnight, fiat chrysler workers will not strike. the automaker reached a tentative deal with the united a autoworkers union last night at

midnight. they rejected a deal on the take last week saying it did not go far enough restoring benefits to workers. back to you guys. >> thank you, kristin. time for "weather & traffic on the 1s." still cool out there. >> cooler. amelia segal has our weather forecast, amelia? >> you've got it. washington at a more comfortable 59 degrees. storm team 4 radar tracking dry conditions across the area. we're completely dry throughout the day with mostly to partly sunny skies and relatively speaking nice today. pretty similar. washington hit as high temperature of 7 f, frederick, a high of 74. culpeper, a high of 75. now some rain in the forecast for tomorrow. i'm going have the timing on that in ten minutes, but with dry road this morning, at least the weather isn't impacting that morning commute. >> thank you nr this, right, amelia? you can see we don't have any

problems there inbound or outbound. you're looking good at this point. taking a look at 95 in maryland, b.w. parkway. you don't have to worry about that. 270 northbound and southbound rolling along nicely. nice and green. nothing in the way there. zooming into the downtown district looking nice and clear. green, that is what we love to see no matter what time of day. back in ten minutes. be'll s we'll see you then. >> thank you. any decision to suspend the search is painful. in this case we were searching for fellow mariners. >> i'm mad at the storm, mad at god, brutally sad, angry. >> it is the news family members have been dreading. officials say it is unlikely

anyone could have survived in the water for this long. as the search and recovery mission comes to an end, the investigation into why this happened enters a new phase. the ntsb is focused on finding the data recorder. it went down last thursday. the ship lost propulsion while attempting to outrun hurricane joaquin. finding the recorder will provide investigators with the last 12 hours of the investigation. again 3rks 3 members were on board when it sank. only one body has been recov recovered. new this morning two people missing in that flooding in south carolina are dead. we first told you about this and the two missing people yesterday morning. they disappeared after they drove their truck around a barricade on a closed road. this brings the total dead now and all that terrible flooding in north carolina and south carolina to 19. that area still not in the clear

though. this morning people there under threats of flooding in south carolina for the next 48 hours. aaron. >> kristin, thank you. three members of the civil air patrol in maryland are in south carolina right now. the volunteers are helping emergency responders by flying over flooded areas. they then take pictures to show affected areas in real time. the air patrol members are in south carolina in columbia right now, one of the hardest hit parts of that state. today a house subcommittee will hear testimony in the volkswagen scandal. two representatives from the environmental protection agency will be there as well. volkswagen faces major fallout after researchers discovered that some of its cars had technology which allowed them to evade emissions tests. the committee hearing will discover what the deception means for consumers. a construction site left

people sitting and waiting for hours and hours. some drivers in the tunnel turned their cars off. others turned their calves off and walked around to see what it was. a truck spilled its cement and they were trying to clean up the mess. >> now, that tunnel did reopen more than two hours after this all started. investigators are investigating what caused it to spill. there are going to be public hearings on the marijuana expansion. they want to increase the number of living plants to as many as 1,000 and they want to expand the facility into neighboring and adjacent properties. it begins at 11:00. and we're learning an employee in the mayor's office who was arrested on drug charges may have had a prior rap sheet.

police arrested lorenzo sanders on tuesday after find 1g 00 grams of cocaine in his pare apartment. sanders former supervisor said they knew of sanders' past when he was hired in 2012 but glaud called sanders a model employee who exceeded expectations. mayor bowser is reviewing the arrest. is someone getting a ride on your dime? uber says someone may be using your app. it allows you to request a car right from your phone. with that convenience comes risk. people are getting your usernames and passwords from other websites by giving them a test on the uber app. >> anything you do digitally can do it. >> now, your best defense is to

create different and more difficult usernames and passwords for each of your app accounts. that way if a hacker gets into one of them, that's the only one he or she can access. metro line will extend the line from fairfax. congressman gerry connolly has introduced a bill that would look into expanding the feasibility. this week they voted unanimously for the feasibility study. it's focused on completing it's 2025 plan before considering any new extension. today you can learn new information about maryland's purple line. the future light rail line would link prince george's and montgomery county. new video in this morning of the aftermath of the deadly air strike in afghanistan. the latest on the investigation. a bizarre story out of

florida where three students died after their principal hypnotized them. how it happened and the compensation their families are now receiving. taking a look at the current temperatures, it's cool and clear but that could change.

4:40. a new video this morning of what's left of a hospital in afghanistan. the u.s. hit that building with an air strike over the weekend.

12 aid workers an ten patients died. you take a look at the building now. it's a pile of rubble. the president called doctors without borders to apologize. the military say it was a mistake and is calling for an investigation. doctors without borders is calling for an independent investigation. the school's principal hypnotized as many as 75 students over several years. 's according to the sarasota herald tribune. three those died. two were in a car cracommitted third died in car crash trying to self-hypnotize. amelia segal keeping an eye

on things. >> you've got it, aaron. a high of 76 in the district wchl're looking at mostly sunny skies throughout. nice day to have lunch outdoors. this evening as well getting home from work, comfortable with the temperatures at around 70. it's a dry start, but clouds will increase throughout the day. the most likely time period of rain will be between 4:00 and 10:00 p.m. race moving around and maybe a few isolated thunderstorms as the cold front pushing through the area during the late afternoon and evening hours. it could slow down the evening commute for your friday. by 10:00 we'll return to mainly dry conditions. first, melissa tracking app accident already this morning. >> brand-new crash in northwest. we're talking about out bound claim bridge road. you can see the right lane is blocked. it looks like a tow truck has pulled upton scene for us.

370 westbound and 270, we have one getting by here. that milling and paving project. overall we're looking pretty good, seeing a little bit of a slow down right here after you're passing 66. we'll look at that one. 66 looks good. so does 95 on virginia. i'll see you in tern minutes. >> house republicans cast their vote for the next speaker of the house. we're breaking down who's in the running and what they have to do to win. >> an update on the story we told you about yesterday, the lawmaker demanding change after a passenger at dulles was told to pump

students head back to school today in culpeper county after students with a gun caused a lockdown. three culpeper schools were locked down yesterday after a 15-year-old freshman flashed a pellet gun. this happened on a school bus yesterday morning. a student also made threats. one student told "news4" it created confusion and fear. >> girls in my class were saying they were scared and afraid. people were texting each other and texting their parents and talking about were they going to die and stuff like that. it was pretty intense, pretty scary. >> now, the 15-year-old student was taken into custody yesterday, but he's not been identified. there's no word from police if he'll face any charges. developments this morning in cision 2016. hillary clinton makes her first policy change since her role as secretary of state. this as donald trump and marco rubio campaign in nevada.

tracie potts is live on capitol hill with more. good morning. >> good morning. we'll be looking to the reaction to the 180 hillary clinton has done now. she's not sure if the tpp, trans-pacific partnership, obama pushing that idea, she's not sure if it's a good idea and she's worried about the impact on american jobs. as secretary of state she supported it. now she and bernie sanders say they've got concerns about it. if joe biden jumps in the race, that will change things because he is supporting it right now. other things we're watching today, on the ald trump and marco rubio realtoday. right now rubio is ranking third in the latest florida poll t quinnipiac poll, and he's two points ahead of jeb bush.

eun? >> tracie potts live on the hill for us. thank you, tracitracie. 4:48. majority leader kevin mccarthy seems to be in the lead but he needs 218 votes. the official vote will take place among the full house of representatives on october 29th. outgoing house speaker john boehner set to appear on the tonlt show with jimmy fallon tonight. that comes after he said he would step down as house speaker and as a congressman last month. both hillary clinton and donald trump have appeared on "the tonight show" recently. 4:48. a man is in custody after a series of sexual assaults in arlington. they arrested him after he left a bus. a victim helped them create a

sketch and then hmm they caught him on a metrobus. a howard county police officer is on the other side of the law this morning facing dui charges. maryland state police say cory britton drove drunk, hit and injured a woman and drove away. police arrested him on tuesday night. police say he was driving a nissan maxima when he rear-ended a woman up in marlboro. a woman took pictures of the license plate and that's how he was tracked down. he's on administrative leave. prosecutors say alva graham stole personal information from drug addicts, personal and assisted living homes. use thad data to prepare fake tax returns and then dposed the returns in his own kchlt

prosecutors say he tried to get more than $2.5 million. this weekend's justice or else rally on the national mall will be peaceful. a news letter from the capiol police intelligence officers warns them about the potential for violence. he tells the "washington post" he has not seen the news letter. the letter says louis fair con has been accused of inciting violence against the police. metro is adding another layer of safe the to its intercoms after they told agency about one man's ordeal. they say if no one picks up the call, the calls will be transferred to transit police. a rider tried to use the call saturday night. no one picked up. his concern quickly grew to one of safety when he could. find a station manager. >> i want to feel safe on the metro and know if there's an

emergency i have someplace to go and somebody's around. nobody was around. >> reporter: the station manager at grobe never was on a break when he called for help. the call box has been tested and is now wassing. virginia congresswoman barbara comstock wants answers about a nursing station. a worker told a mother to pump breast milk in a pet relief area. they're working on lactation rooms now. she said other airports are providing nursing rooms and pods by working with the makers of baby products. the smithsonian is also working to make changes after a lack of private nursing areas. the american civil liberties union sent a letter to david scoreton. they plan to make appropriate spaces available in every building. it's 4:51.

time for weather and traffic on the 1s. this is my kind of fall weather, right? not too warm, not too humid, too nice. >> it's also great weather to get the vibrant colors to come out on the leaves. we've had a string of weather like that. so hopefully we'll have a fantastic autumn. lots of sunshine again. partly to mostly sunny skies. mild as well. relatively speak, highs in the low to mid-70s. temperatures where they typically would be for this time of year. currently we're in the 50s, from 59 in washington to 58 in reston. belfour, 52 degrees there. temperatures will warm up quickly by noon. the temperatures already around 72. a high today of 76 dries. we'll hit that at about 3:00. you might want to have a jacket but i think a t-shirt will be

just fine by the time they're heading home. t this evening not looking bad either. 5:00, we're at a mild 74 degrees. dry as well. once we hit 9:00, we're looking at partly to mostly cloudy skies and the temperature at that point of 67. so a bit of a chill in the air. if you want to go for a late-night run, not too bad. tomorrow, even warmer. 82 degrees. temps will start off around 60 and some sunshine. clouds will increase throughout the day. it's mild and mainly cloudy. temperatures in the mid-70s. once we work our way toward the late afternoon and evening hours, tracking the rain and isolated thunderstorm. about a 50% chance you're dealing with rain later in the day tomorrow. that's going to set us up for a cooler weekend on saturday. we'll finish the day with some sun. it's breezy saturday morning and noticeably cooler. we go for 82 on friday to a high

of 67 on sunday. sunday, a high temperature of 70 degrees. melissa, some folks likely dealing with some sun glare this morning. what's the latest on the roads right now? >> good to know. good to pass along. right now we have this problem on outbound claim bridge road. they're trying to get this vehicle. it's almost on the sidewalken, on the right side of the roadway. i would think this would be done in the next 30 minutes or so. georgetown pike, leesburg pike, brand-new crash there. as far as lane closures, we're not reporting anything here. it looks like it may be off to the shoulder. also the inner loop parkway, moving along nicely. 270, same thing. prince george's county, a little bit of construction.

kirby high hill, a little lane blockage there. see you in ten minutes. we continue to follow breaking news in alexandria. what we're learning about the investigation under way. from downward facing dog to hands behind your back, an iteam update on a woman accused of doing yoga on the metro tracks. and why it should

welcome back at 4:58. if you're just waking up, we're following breaking news in alexandria. that's where police are on the scene of an overnight homicide. details are slim right now, but we know that officers are looking into the shooting death of man. "news4's" megan mcgrath is just pulling up to the scene and we'll bring you a live report in just a few minutes. >> we're also keeping an eye on the forecast for you. if you had to take the dog out, you onhad to take a jacket. it's in the low 50s. >> i want to hug her and thank her and welcome her into my family. >> a grateful mother almost overwhelmed after what a bus driver did for her son. her 17-year-old sanjay von cole is in the hospital. they're treating a blood clot in his leg, the result of a shooting tuesday afternoon. charles county deputy say two people stopped jay von on his bm

x-bike, robbed him, and shot him in the leg. moments after that, a woman driving a school bus stopped to help. >> she's the only one who stopped, put him on the bus, put herself in danger, not knowing what else was going on. >> jay von's mother wants the bus driver to know she saved her s son's life and his dream of wanting to join the u.s. army. a woman caught on the metro traction practicing yoga set to appear in court. metro police arrested this woman for trespassing, a misdemeanor charge. "news4" obtained this video. you see she lowered self from the platform. her partner lowers himself and he's take pictures of her

practicing various moves. deliberately passing on the tracks is illegal and dangerous because of the highly charged third rail. she could have killed herself. today the didn't is releasing its consumer report card on air travel. that report card contains flight delays in august, lost luggage and consumer complaints too. there will also be details on why some passengers were not allowed to board planes. three words you can smile about this morning. lower heating bill it's going to cost you less to stay warm this winter according to the agency. you can change a combination of milder temperatures and lower energy prices. on average natural gas users can expect to paying $578 to heat their homes this winter. that's down $65. homes running on heating oil will see a