at 6:00, break out your raincoat and umbrella. you'll be soaked if you leave your house without them. storm team 4 tracking a wet and socky start to the weekend, and the pockets of time you can get outside. a chaotic scene outside the white house. what we're now finding out as a suspect fights for this life. and making your metro ride safer. how the transit agency is reaching out to teens in hopes of stopping violence. as we get the 6:00 hour going, first, though, we mentioned it before, it is going to be a wes weekend. good morning, everybody. i'm

>> and i'm david culver. aren't you tired of it? tom kierein tracking when showers will be in and out of your neighborhood. what are we thinking? >> in, right now. storm team 4 radar. a broad area of rain all across virginia, sweeping across the potomac moving into maryland right now. the areas in yellow and orange, coming down a little harder. from fredericksburg, culpepper and near la rey advancing off to the north and east, comes right into the metro area. in a couple of hour, between now and then, areas of green, pockets of yellow coming down harder moving in here in about another hour or two. sometime around 8:00, 9:00, see that moving in. a cool morning, too. generally 50s to near 60. the new hour-by-hour timing on the rain for the rest of today

minutes. >> check in with you then. working to learn more about a chaotic scene near the white house. fbi officials believe the suspect wanted law enforcement officers to kill him. police searched his home in pennsylvania last night hours after witnesses say he walked up to an e street checkpoint on the west side of the white house flashing a silver gun. >> secret service are walking through, coming around him, surrounding him. gave him multiple chances to stop this advance. >> the secret service says one of the agents shot him in the chest after he allegedly ignored their commands to drop his weapon. he is in critical condition. good time to download the nbc washington app, where we'll send out making news alerts as we get new developments. this morning we are learning what may have

egyptair 804 just before it crashed. smoke was detected. one minutedetected in the avionics department when controls the plane. shortly after that, it went off the radar. they are still determining if it was an explosion and what or who may have caused it. >> somebody who has knowledge and put it close to an area with a fuel line or in some area they knew would be at strocatastroph that's very troubling. >> human remains discovered in the mediterranean yesterday along with some passenger seats and luggage. 66 people onboard from paris to cairo. and gm announced firings yesterday

management to improve effectiveness and accountability. one-third of the managers terminated worked in rail operations. now to making the metro ride safer. today metro was holding the first-ever use impairment summit. the gom, haal, have teens come with a way to stop fights on trains and inside stations. the kids will take part in workshops and discussions how to minimize conflict. about 200 students from d.c., maryland and virginia are participating in this. the summit begins at 8:30 this morning at metro's headquarters on fifth street and northwest. students will also get the chance to meet with local officials and community activist. bringing you up to speed on decision 2016. hillary clinton will be in fort lauderdale, florida, today meeting with trayvon martin's mom and other parents of gun violence victims. you may remember, trayvon's death ignited a heated debate across the nation about race and gun rights and florida's stand

your ground law. clinton crushed senator bernie sanders in florida's democratics primary sand is likely in town o key up what could be a significant clash in the general election over gun violence. on the other side of are things, donald trump focusing on his likely general opponent. eight out of ten believe party leadership should get behind trump. the presidential nominee picked up an endorsement in the nra targeting clinton at its annual convention in kentucky. now, trump says she was "heartle "heartless" referring to clinton, for backing restrictions on gun ownership claiming those restrictions would leave americans in high-crime areas unable to protect themselves. >> she wants to abolish the second amendment, take your guns away. >> clinton has not called for overturning the second amendment, although she favors more restrictions. trump previously supported an assault weapons ban, and a

mention. new campaign finance reports show the trump poured more than $7.5 million of his own dollars in april. his personal investment stands at more than $43 million. and be sure to watch "meet the press" tomorrow, because hillary clinton will be on "meet the press" with nbc's chuck todd. you can watch it right here on news 4 starting at 10:30 right after "news4 today.." also in politics, d.c. democrats hold a caucus today to elect delegates to the 2016 convention. it's open to all registered democrats who live in the city. just go to the washington convention center in northwest d.c. to get involved. caucus voting will run from 10:00 this morning to 2:00 this afternoon and then again tonight from 9:00 until 10:30. to the case of a loudon county man accused of killing his ex-wife. he tried to make the murder look like a suicide. northern virginia bureau chief julie carey reports on the witnesses who took the stand this past

and her estranged husband were in the midst of a bitter divorce and custody level when michelle was found in the lower level of her ashburn home after her four young kids woke up and reported her missing. the prosecutor told jurors castillo killed his wife and staged the death to look like a suicide stating he is no murderer, was the response. the morning the kids woke up and couldn't find mom, a protective order barred him from the house. a man testified saying he did a sweep around the house. when he went inside the house found castillo opens doering in the master bedroom. castillo's focus was in getting the kids off to school. two were so upset they were crying. he testified he asked the oldest child, jonathan, have you searched downstairs. the answer, we already searched

do? i said we should call 911. but castillo loaded the kids in the car and left. it was the other who called police to report michelle missing. when officer ace rived they found her dead in the basement. investigators say beaten, suffocated, hanged in a shower to make it look like a suicide. one of michelle's best friends testified telling jurors when they chatted a day before michelle was found dead she was happy, excited to soon be running the boston marathon. members of her running team will testify when the trial resumed on monday. in leesburg, julie carey, news 4. it's 6:08. it's been a rainy month. expect more of the asame today, i'm sorry to report. tom will have the report when you'll be clear of showers this weekend. >> it may be a major challenge in the preakness. nyquist l

well, check this out. a seemingly out of control blimp swirls around philadelphia before crashing on to a construction site near the interstate 95. the crash actually closed part of the roadway for a little bit. federal transportation officials now trying to figure out what happened. police tell us there were two people onboard, but thankfully nobody was hurt. okay. so rain definitely going to impact today's 141st preakness stakes happening in baltimore. >> right. the race set for 6:45 this afternoon. the preakness as we all know, the middle jewel of the racing's triple crown. all eyes going to be on nyquist seeing if he can win this win after the kentucky derby win. the biggest obstacle may not be what he's running against but what he's running in. the rain. >> nyquist has never run on a sloppy racetrack before. he's run on a good one with moisture, no

handle it, but never faced with it before. sometimes horses handle it well and sometimes they don't. >> so our coverage of the 141st preakness stakes begins at 5:00 right here on nbc 4. well, your weekend plans might get washed out. we've been talking about it all morning. tom is tracking showers, and when we can expect this soggy stretch to end. nice shot there of the national harbor. and from now i will be fine, this will be a blip in my life, but for him it is aefeverythingd i could not live with myself if i walked away. >> a common connection that turned into sorry much more. how a mother's decision is changing the life of a man she

snee . >> announcer: and now your storm team 4 forecast. good morning. here in the storm team 4 weather center tracking rain moving across virginia into maryland and the district. got one area you see there in the yellow. that's moderate rain that's going to sweep into the metro area in about another hour. new hour-by-hour timing when it tapers off in about five minutes. shocking cell phone video shows why a new york police officer is off the street and under review this morning. take a look at this. witnesses say the officer dressed in plain clothes there hand cover add man for no reason. pointed his gun at bystanders and punched one of them in the face.

to arrest people for riding dirt bikes when this incident began. the nypd says there's more to the story than meets the eye and it will conduct a thorough investigation. if you or your family has plans to get away by plane, well, we're going to el it you a little more why this could be a challenging summer. meantime, though, a lesson in selfless giving from a local teacherer. meet arlington's own mr. katone. >> reporter: with his second graders focused on the board, his surpriseclassroom visit didn't catch on immediately. >> nice job, tigers. >> hi! >> reporter: soon they reezed he was back, if only for a few minutes. >> i have had the surgery yet so i'm still able to drive. >> reporter: the past few weeks he's been on medical leave awaiting a kidney transplantants from the get-go, fe

dialysis unless you could find a transplant. >> reporter: a teacher at nottingham elementary school 23 years. he has seen hundreds of students come and go. same for parents. >> you see them around the school, but you don't -- you're not as close. >> reporter: alison rice and her daughter lucy now an exception to that. two years ago lucy was in mr. katune's class and aside from cordial interactions no real friendship between mom and teacher, until last year when the school told parents about his weakening health. >> i thought it was the right thing to do. >> reporter: alison began a year-long series of tests to see if she could give him one of her kidneys. >> sometimes you sit there, splun ought to step up and do it, at a certain point you think, well, you know what? maybe that person that i'm waiting to do this is me. >> reporter: turns out she was a match. >> i have such admiration for alison and her family connecting with maurice and his family to give the gift of life. >> reporter: the

the next few weeks. >> i get emotional just thinking about it. >> reporter: grateful doesn't begin to describe it for maurice. >> speaks volumes. that's why i've been here at this school for so long. because this community is just awesome. >> reporter: but alison says with her kidney comes something else. >> i've warned him he's probably going to be a lot faster after the surgery and probably ought to warn his wife. >> reporter: a little fast, perhaps, but wrapped in a whole lot of generosity. >> i love what she says, we often talk about, if only somebody will do something and she says, i'll do something. >> it's not just words. it's actions. she's so sweet. has a great sense of humor. how many people do you honestly know would be able to do something like that? i got chills. >> a cool group. >> angel from heaven. >> indeed. >> tom kierein with us now, and has the rain started already? >> yeah. yeah. it's raining all around the

look at storm team 4 radar. the area in yellow advancing across virginia now coming into northern virginia out of the south and west. getting closer to the metro area. right now the moderate showers now from rappahannock count into fauquier, to fredericksburg advancing north and east. panhandle of west virginia, and the leading edge near warrenton coming along 66 towards haymarket, shortly that rain moving through. hour-by-hour timing. moderate rain by 9:00 coming into the metro area, southern maryland, the eastern shore. around noontime, tapers off to light showers, a few sprinkles. during the rest of the afternoon that area in green are all sprinkles of light rain all around the region and tapering off tonight across much of virginia and lingering showers by 9:00 p.m. around the

little fog and a sfew scattered sprinkles. temperatures hovering around 60 degrees. you need an umbrella, a poncho, rain boots, a jacket, do get through the day. hour-by-hour forecast the rest of the day, temperatures hovering in the 50s tapering off to sprinkling during the afternoon, hovering in the upper 50s. going out tonight? sprinkles, patchy fog. temperatures in the 50s through the's evening hours and during the day sunday a few passingfaé sprinkles, maybe a brief light shower. not as much rain as today bought good chance. tomorrow low 60s. maybe a sprinkle on monday. look at our week ahead. here comes summer! we'll be in the 70s tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday. the 80s. remember the 80s? >> believe it when i see it, tom! >> love that. >> oh, going to be warmer? oh, okay. >> 80-degree weather. >> 6:20 right now. the unique

to make a noticeable difference in nature. and we leave you were aquick note right now. this weekend the loudon county animal shelter wants you to make an adoption. it's got a lot of cats right now, and hope you have room in your home for a little critter. the shelter's offering $50 off for all adoptions and that runs through tomorrow.

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i'm melissa mollet with your first 4 traffic and a couple things happening on the road. closures here around town this weekend. take a look. first start toing in fairfax on saturday, the fit foodie race. 7:00 a.m. to 10:30 at the morning at strawberry park in fairfax. runners and walkers taking over the mosaic district. a lot of fun for folks. in bethesda, strut your mutt. road closure there as well. the actual area having this, woodmont avenue as bethesda avenue. lots of fun. definitely done that before. also saturday, police bike ride through the second district. meet at the second district police station there on idaho avenue in northwest, and

escorted ride through the second district. lots of fun for your kids. on sunday, d.c. bike ride here on sunday. 6:15 when they kick off. goes to about 11:00 a.m. a 17-mile ride through the city. lots of closures including parts of 395, hov lanes and closures downtown. all the info on our nbc washington app. have a great weekend. see you sunday morning for "news4 today." right in downtown d.c., a lot of people are getting in touch with their wild side. >> yes. this is part of a biodiversity festival and 2016 bioblitz, a hands-on event showcasing science xzibits, art and other family-friendly activities. we have a look inside. >> the aquatic gardens, a park teeming with wildlife. >> lots of different small fish. >> reporter: and it's the job of the national park service to keep an eye on things and document what's in the parks and make sure everything is

in d.c. and in this magical garden. >> reporter: not an easy task. it requires a lot of manpower. so the national park service is enlisting the help of volunteers. folks willing to get in boats, grab nets and other tools and count the critters. >> on a quest to discover everything. we're looking for spiders and dragonflies. sound monitoring for bats on the national mall. >> reporter: it's called bioblitz. volunteers fan out in national parks around the country. 13 in our area. don't worry if you don't know anything about wildlife. >> you can take a picture of what you see so even if you don't know what it is, a scientist can help identify it. >> reporter: if you want to volunteer go to our website and sign up, nbcwashington.com. we have the link that you need. just use the key cord bioblitz. back to you in the studio. >> thank you so much. how cool. you st

in on the action. the festivalics up again at 9:00. running until 5:00 at constitutional gardens. expect a special appearance and dance number from buddy bison, who just was on news for midday. lucky to be graced by his presence. that's happening at 10:45. >> angie, guess what's back. >> what? >> the rain. the chill. storm team 4 tracking much cooler temperatures and when this dreary weather will start to clear out. neighbors on edge after a suspected sexual assault case. the new break that could help ease concerns in one community. then a group of bus drivers getting a bigger paycheck. the new deal and why it will

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the time, 6:30. your top stories on this saturday morning -- a man is in critical condition after the fbi says he ig for the secret service commands near the white house. an agent shot him in the chest after he approached a security gate with a gun. and examining whether there was a sudden phi or an explosion kbron board egyptair flight 804 just before it crashed. minutes before dropping off radar sensors on the plane detected smoke. today metro is holds the first-ever youth empowerment summit. the goal, have teenagers come up with a way to stop the recent spike in fights on trains and

the summit begins at 8:30 this morning. first, we welcome you back to what is a rainy and cooler start to your weekend. we welcome you back to "news4 today" on this saturday. i'm david culver. >> and i'm angie goff. hope you're off to a great morning. despite seeing that it's got a lot of action on our radar here. meteorologist tom kierein joining us now for the start of what is going to be several wet days, you say? >> exactly. >> soggy saturday. yeah. that's right. radar, showing quite a bit of rain around much of the region. it's a steady, light rain right in washington now, and looking at radar, seeing it track off to the north and east, we'll have this one area of yellow and orange. coming down harder right now in fo folk quire. that's the way it looks now. 6:31 your time now.

suspect in a sexual assault case. a man of interest in an attack tuesday night on ingleside terrace. a man got into a victim's home after midnight and sexually assaulted her. neighbors tell us the woman was eventually able to fight the man off and he ran away. we are learning new details about the search for two fairfax county teenagers who have been missing more than a week. police say that the teens may be changing their appearance. 13-year-old danielle leapa and and 14 yurd rudy. rude may have dyed his hair from brown to green. the fbi is assists the police searching for them. investigating the murder of a teacher's assistant no an apartment complex. someone shot 24

area. he returned home to find a crime in progress. >> he got home and -- walked into a situation where people were burglaring cars and he tried to ask what they were doing or what was going on and they shot him. >> he worked as a teacher's assistant at fort hunt elementary school. no word from police on a possible motive or suspect. wounded veterans hoping to serve families are one step closer to et gooding help from washington. the senate passed a veterans care bill including an amendment allowing the department of veterans affairs to cover costly procedures like in vitro fertilization. military couples uncolliding a man and wife from hagerstown visited capitol hill to encourage senators to pass the bill. now it has to merge with similar legislation in the house. a celebration today at the cno cana

park. a ribbon cuttingality 11:00 officially opens the new mars donn track bridge over the canal. the first major project completed in the pa, in honor of the national park service's 100th anniversary. a serious u-turn for some of the lowest paid transportation workers. under a new contract, the bus drivers some of the best paid in the washington area. the union supporting drivers and the company that manages the buses came to an agreement yesterday. the union says in addition to increasing drivers' hourly pay, the company agreed to triple its contribution to the workers' retirement savings plans. 6:34, your time. mexico's foreign ministry has given the green light to extradite drug lord guzman to the united states. mexico said it would agree to the move after receiving guarantees guzman would not face the death penalty. he will face drug

charges in federal courts in california as well as texas. guzman's lawyer said he will exhaust all legal avenues to stave off extradition. head of the drug cartell and escaped from prison not once but twice. six are going fast for the olympic games in rio. 67% of available tickets already gone. ticket directors unveiled the ticket designs yesterday saying new technology would make the challenge of counterfeiting them even more difficult. now special police will be out there, looking for fakes and scalpers, just to make sure everything is on par. the time, 6:35. are high school students overpuni overpunished? suspensions and expulsions are becoming more common in our region. rain this morning, rain this afternoon and it keeps on coming. tom's updating his forecast for whether you can eatsi

the rest of your weekend. it's 6:36.

schools pushing students out of class through wide spread discriminatory overuse of punishments. what a virginia based nonprofit says after analyzing data from the state's department of education. the group found more than 126,000 suspensions were given in the 2014 school year even though only 70,000 students were enrolled'sthe organization says black students and students with disabilities were suspended or expelled as disproportionate rates. sad news to report this morning. the companion to everyone's favorite talking horse. alan young has died. young is best known for playing wilbur post, the owner of mr. ed. i watched this every night.

ridgen natures of the series say young got the part when someone said he looked like the kind of guy that a horse would talk to. young was also a radio and tv comedian and he was 96 years old. it is a rainy pattern. a lot of us would like a break from. we're tired of it. right? >> we would. >> storm team 4 track itting how long showers will stick around and when you'll be able to break out the grill. >> right. it's almost in every kitchen. the changes the government says will help your family eat healthier when it comes to food. stay tuned.

>> announcer: and now your storm team 4 forecast. a soggy saturday morning. we've got steady light rain falling in the immediate metro area. that's a close-up view of radar. the area in the yellow, coming down harder in fauquier, and into charles county advancing off to the north and east coming into prince william, loudon, fairfax and the district within the hour ahead. a look the a hour-by-hour timing after that is coming up in about five minutes. >> all right, tom, thanks. coming up in about 18 minutes from now, the "today" show. let's see what they're working on. >> sheinelle jones and kregg melvin join us live from new york. good morning. >> always good to see you both. coming up on saturday morning on "today," egyptair flight, news ov

plane for several minutes. was it terrorism? we are also just getting in our first image of the of plane debris recovered. our experts weigh in on what could be responsible. also ahead, the latest from the white house after a huge scare when a man with a gun was shot trying to get close to the president's home. what police are learning about him this morning. and warning -- low bridge ahead. check this out. north carolina truck drivers will finally be able to stop crashing into that bridge over and over again. >>. and we're getting you ready for a safe memorial day from the latest high-tech gadgets to a quick getaway, we have you covered. >> can't believe it's already memorial day. those stories and lots more when we get started on a saturday morning here on "today." >> if only it would stop feeling like memorial day. >> tell me about that. >> by the way, happy birthday, craig. did you celebrate what? yesterday? >> i did. on a plane. i celebrated on a plane. >> all by yourself? >

>> lovely. >> all right, guys. see you in about 15. well, female pilots who served during world war ii can now you buried at arlington national cemetery thanks to a bill signed by president obama into law yesterday. during world war ii, congress voted down a bill that would have granted the female pilots military status. it wasn't until 1977 women air force service pilots were recognized as veterans. 40 years ago they lobbied congress successfully to be buried at v.a. cemeteries. the latest approval came separately, because the army runs arlington national cemetery. changes are coming to your grocery store, and the food you buy there. changes that the government says will hedge you and your family live a more healthy life. nbc's chris pallone has the story. >> reporter: for the first time in more than 20 years a major update to the labels telling you when nutrients are in the food you eat. first lady michelle obama announced the changes at a

washington. >> you will no longer need a degree in nutrition to find out if the food you're buying is actually good for your kids. >> reporter: carry nutrition labels. under new guidelines calories listed in bigger, bolder type and reflecting the latest research on the role of sugar in american diets, there's a new line revealing how much shoog hear been added to a product. >> added sugar increases the risk of diseases like type ii diabetes, obesity, tooth decay and heart disease. >> reporter: if you've ever laughed at the list of serving size for a bag of chips or ice cream or a soda, that's changing, too. listing more realistic sizes to have a better idea how this affects their diets. >> we hope they'll use this to make better healthy choices for their families. >> reporter: anoo

manufacturers objected, but now many are embracing the changes. >> consumers repeatedly says they want this new information. >> reporter: start seeing this in stores within the next two years. chris pallone, nbc news, new york. a major historic restoration about to take place at the tomb of jesus in jerusalem. many christians believe this was the scene where jesus was crucifies and entombed. works about to begin, the first in almost two centuries focus on repairing, and ultimately preserving the structure. supervised by a university in greece. pilgrims will still be able to continue visiting the site while the work is underway and it is expected to last about a year. and emotional reunion. a teenager meets those who helped save his life. his heart stopped during a basketball game in march. an emt was in the stands,

external defibrillator or aed at the school. medics across the street continued to work on him on his way to the hospital. johnson has since made a full recovery. >> thank you. i'm indebted to y'all. y'all saved my life. >> reporter: doctors say the 17-year-old has an enlarged heart and needs to quit competitive sports. the team says he plans to study radiology. virginia's largest industry, but farmers in northern virginia feel development has taken over the land from when we eat. look at the changing landscape and emotional impact having on a decade's old tradition in fred drigsberg. >> reporter: it's a life that seems so removed from the rest of northern virginia. >> come on! >> reporter: on his family's silver ridge farm just north of fredericksbu fredericksbur e

morning mike silver feeds the cattle both by hand and on tractor. like the fifth generation of silvers to farm or raise cattle here. looking after his dad, jerry. >> nothing i more enjoy than talking about the farm, showing people what we do. >> reporter: but both father and son now watching the landscape around them quickly change. >> that's 18 acres there that we'd farm for a long, long time. we've lost it this year. sold for houses. farm on the back side of us. 300 acres all in houses. >> reporter: the silver family has been farming this land nearly 200 years. jerry silver tells me they reached their peak in the mid-80s. since then lost about one-third of the land. >> easy. come on. >> we're growing housing in stafford county. not cattle. >> reporter: the cattle business here feeling the pinch. >> come on, girl. >> reporter: look no farther than the fredericksburg

>> used to be full. i mean, you know, the stands here where people used to watch the sale. it would be full. and now -- you have a handful of people coming. there's just no farmt farms in the area. it's really sad. >> reporter: at one of the exchanges last auctions, a bull was brought from the county farm. the final bid, aren't what they used to be. with decreasing land to farm, so went the local demand. >> the purpose was to have a place for local producers to sell their cattle. there's just not at many local producers anymore. >> reporter: but the stockyard wasn't just a place of business for all of those years. also a social gathering. >> you flow them all and get used to seeing them, how they're doing and they're family and stuff. like a weekly gathering. >> reporter: for the generation whose have raised cattle, come to the stockyard and participated in the exchange, the closing sure is sad. but it's what it

it tougher to swallow. >> when i saw it in the paper i almost started crying, because it was that emotional. some place we'd been coming for so -- so long. >> reporter: families like the bennetts say the children of many farmers they know are choosing different careers. >> yeah, right. a lot of them, they're just not interested. the younger generation, this is -- it's a hard life. i mean, you don't make that much money, and -- it's just hard. >> this one is a truck tractor. >> reporter: but if a 3-year-old's playful spirit is any indication, the silver family may have hope passing this on to a sixth generation. >> do you know what this is? >> huh-uh. >> it's barley. >> barley. >> the little davis la to do without the exchange. >> you keep working and hope you'll have the opportunity to be raised on a farm, to be raised nd

might want to do themselves. >> dave carter and i got to spend the day out there and the exchange officially came to an end this past week. >> so sad. >> a tradition out there. good folks, though. >> thanks for sharing that. talking about the weather, we want to talk about the rain. larry wrote us and said, why have you been oh negative? i love the rain. my garden looks beautiful. and so i guess there are some positives. it's just -- gone on for so long. that's why. some of us kind of get depressed. >> the farmers are having a problem, getting the fields to dry out and get the planting in. it's been so wet. here we are off to another wet morning and putting a positive spin on it, we don't have the a drought. don't have to worry about that. and it looks like that one area in yellow the moderate rain into the metro area in an an hour. advancing off prince william and fauquier, and coming into spotsylvania, and fairfax, and loudon county

counties. seeing still lingering moderate showers, south and east of us coming down harder. it's going to taper off across the rest of virginia as the morning goes on. noontime, areas in green. very light rain. metro area, much of the region. continuing, 3:00, 4:00 this afternoon. still light rain. most of the showers crossing the bay pulling east. this evening, just clouds around. might have a few scattered sprinkles through this saturday evening and patchy fog around as well. temperatures now in the 50s, and the upper 50s, staying steady. upper 50s into the afternoon. for the preakness, we'll have steady rain this morning for folks gathering early. noontime a few light showers. then a few sprinkles and temperatures in the upper 50s during the afternoon and by race time in the upper 50s, a few sprinkles around. sunday, cloudy day. not as much rain as today but a likelihood of a few

monday, but warmer. here comes summer. tuesday, wednesday into friday, 70s tuesday it 80s wednesday, thursday and friday. how do you like that? >> oh, i like it. >> we like it. all right. thank you, tom. 6:53 your time. breaks news in the egyptair rash. whatc w

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teachers in the district honored for their work. named one of the teacher of the year, or the teacher of the year in d.c., teaches english at the seed public charter school and jessica cunningham given the d.c. milken educator award. our aaron gilchrist emceed those awards. and four things to know on this saturday. start with a man in critical condition after witnesses say he brandished a gun at a white house security checkpoint. a secret service agent shot the suspect after the agency says the man ignored several commands to drop his weapon. 20 managers in metro have lost their jobs including seven senior managers. the announcement of firings yesterday. one-third terminated worked in rail operations. today metro is holding the first-ever youth empowerment summit. a goal, to figure how

breaking news. look at these pictures. the egyptian military posted them on its facebook page. believed to be photos of the wreckage from egyptair flight 804. and rain tapering off this afternoon. scattered sprinkles. have the umbrella handy no matter what you're doing outside today. that does it for "news4 today." we'll be back in 25 minutes with another news and local weather update. join us at 9:00 for another full hour of news and weather. until thehave a great n

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good morning. breaking overnight, emergency on board. new information this morning about doomed egyptair flight 804. investigators confirming smoke alarms were going off in the front of the plane before it crashed into the sea. this as we're getting our first look at the debris from the plane. we're live in cairo with the latest in the investigation. the gunman's motive. secret service takes down a man moments after he was spotted with a handgun in plain view as he headed to the white house gates. >> he had a gun out just in plain sight. i mean, it wasn't even hidden. >> this morning, what police are saying about what that man was thinking. major break? police in texas asking for the