30 minutes for thunder alley. 22nd street between c street and constitutional avenue in northwest closed from 9:00 this morning, in about 30 minutes, until 9:00 p.m. all memorial day weekend. investigators now looking into what caused a world war ii era plane to crash into the hudson river. this was friday night. police say the pilot was a 56-year-old from key west. the plane was on its way to an air show in long island. at least two people have died following severe storms in southeastern texas. the national weather service says that a tornado touched down in the area, damaging more than 150 homes. several people also were rescued from the floodwaters. it's our question on the facebook live chat this morning. how are you spending this memorial day weekend? a lot of folks having an extra day off, plans to be with family, barbecuing. you picked the right day for it. welcome back to "news4 today." i'm david culver. >>'m angie goff. a lot of people

to the pool or beach. you'll probably have a lot of company. meteorologist tom kierein is tracking your holiday forecast live on the storm team 4 weather deck. how's it feel, tom? >> kind of mild and muggy. getting a little breeze here in northwest washington and the birds are chirping, and we've got sort of a pastel blue sky and we've got flying insects as well. and -- they're out now as we've got the heat and humidity returning. pollen count sup as well. you probably have noticed that as we have the tree pollen, mostly oak and pine, back in the high range. dry the last couple of days and also the mold spores building. great day for a bike ride. not much wind. mild and muggy through the rest of the morning. low 80s by noontime. warm and rather humid. sunny and hot during the afternoon. up around 90 degrees by mid-afternoon with a light wind. i'm back way look at our rain chances here for the restf

tom, we'll check in with you then. thank you, and as tom mentioned, a lot of folks headed out. in fact, 38 million americans expected to travel this holiday weekend. a lot of people on the roads, in the air. there is good news for those of you who still have to head out of town. we can tell you gas prices at an 11-year low. suddenly, yeah. creeping back up. on the rise, national average $2.32. up 18 cents in a month. despite wait times at airports with tsa, still skepticism that the improvement will not last. i'm melissa mollet with your first 4 traffic and look at the rails. orange line no train there's. silver line service running between east and new carrollton. stations closed there. vienna, done lohring and west falls church. take shuttle buses between the stations if that helps you. on the red line delays every 8 to 16 minutes here

also have delays yellow and green line running every 12 to 15 minutes. silver/blue line delays every 20 minutes and memorial day holiday schedule overen 7:00 to midnight operating on a weekend schedule. have a safe, happy holiday. >> thanks, melissa. not everything makes it past governor larry hogan's desk. he vetoed five bills friday. two bills related to transportation, another measure iran cruising maryland's use of rue newable energy. one of the bims required the state to save money to pay for a $1 billion replacement for the harry w. memorial bridge spanning between southern maryland and the northern neck of virginia. a prince george's teacher on administrative leave and charged with sexual abusing a student. vincent mcduffie taught at forestville high school pap 17-year-old told police mcduffie had sexual contact with her several times in march and april on the school

police say mcduffy admitted to being involved with the student. the school district now in the process of firing him. prince george's county public schools getting ready to lease its report on the child porn at school scandal that rocked the community there.rawa school attendant. he made videos having sex with children and with each other. the students safety task force releases its findings tuesday and will recommend changes to the school's policy and procedures. the goal, ensure student safety. two sons of the ashburn ceo braulio castillo took the stand friday in their dad's murder trial. he's accused of killing his estranged wife michelle in 2014 and staging it to look like a suicide. his 8 and 11-year-old sons testified aboutha

they say they saw their dad on the night their mom died. also, one of the sons testified castillo asked for the home security code. the trial is going to resume next week. a virginia taxi drive sir indicted on charges of conspiracy to support isis. police arrested mohmed el hasan in january at his home in woodbridge, virginia. accused of helping to friend to try to join the terror group and then lying tab to the fbi. investigators say el hasan drove him to the airport in his cab so that the man could fly overseas 0 join isis. his attorney calls the situation a case of islamaphobia. justice done a different way. what the judge says about overseeing fairfax county's new veterans treatment document. a new program aimed at helping veterans get their lives back on track. can be emotional, deeply personal, but as we saw this week, very rewarding. >> one, two, three -- >> reporter: if it wasn't for

think this -- >> i wanted to get it. >> reporter: would be part of an official court proceeding. >> thank you. thank you. >> reporter: stephen daniels, shaking hands, feeling loved. >> enjoying every minute of it. >> reporter: in the part, stephen's legal troubles never had him smiling in the courtroom. >> i've been in and out of the court system. >> reporter: his offenses, non-violent but still illegal. >> dwis, drunk in public. >> reporter: yet years of army and national guard service made him eligible for fairfax county's new veterans treatment document. >> everything happens for a reason. there was reason i was put in the docket program. >> reporter: a strict 12 to 18 months resembleal military-like discipline. hearings every two weeks with the same judge, and in stephens case, it's judge michael lidner, who every hearing makes a point to call these veterans turned defendants his heroes. >> when i say they'y

they've not only served country with valor and courage and on the field of battle, but even harder, they came home, had problems, and fought some battles here. >> reporter: helping stephen accept it all, this guy. >> that's my mentor. >> i don't give him orders or anything like that. i just encourage him. >> reporter: his military service repaid with loving justice. >> this is my second chance in life. >> reporter: and now lasting friendships. >> i'm not going away. >> okay. good. >> it is a courtroom experience like i've never seen before. during regular hearings, the judge not only calls participants his heroes, as you heard there, then he and the entire courtroom including the deputies proceed to clap after each one updates the court on their progress. >> wow nap is something else. thanks, david. grab the shades if you're headed to the beach. don't forget the

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an suv crashes through the front door of the store. officials say no one got hurt in that accident. pretty close call, though. the crash is under investigation. >> crazy. the university of north carolina system says that it won't enforce transgender bathroom rules. they won't try to enforce the law requires transgender students to use the bathrooms that correspond to their biological sex. a legal brief by the university's systems lawyers say that nothing in the state law keeps students from using bathrooms consistent with their gender identity. so the sun is coming out and we are taking a live look of people outside enjoying it, and kicking that soccer ball around. tom is tracking temperatures up in the 80s, and the best time to fire up thatrill. g

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good morning. right now we've got bright sunshine around the region. just a jindal breezen gent's -g comfortable with a sleeveless top, shorts and sandals. don't forget the sun block and your sunglasses pap bright and sunny hot day coming up. >> all right, tom. thanks. we've all heard about the long lines at tsa checkpoints as we

airport, as nbc's tracie potts tells us, more folks are looking to another option when it comes to getting through the airport. >> reporter: to avoid long airport security lines, tsa says, 15,000 people a day are signing up for the fast lane. there are hundreds of places to apply for pre-check expedited clearance at airports even shopping centers. george applied at dulles airport. >> hopefully make going through the security checkpoints easier. >> reporter: here's how it works -- fill out the application at tsa dot gov and thoen to an enrollment center. take your birth certificate and passport and get fingerprinted for a background check. only u.s. citizens or permanent residents apply. >> $85. >> reporter: covers five years of zipping through security. it's faster, because shoes, belts and light outer jackets stay on. >> just like you're at the grocery store. you see the line for 15 items or fewer, it goes much qer

the line with somebody with a huge basket of groceries. >> reporter: it's similar to custom and border protections global program for international travelers. millions who signed up for that can also use the pre-check lane. show your passport, smile for the camera, place your fingers on the glass. if all matches a piece of paper allows you to make a speedy exit. this man says he pre-check took less than an hour. >> see if it helps and how much easier to travel. >> reporter: especially now. it's almost summer. airports getting busy and security lines getting long. tracie potts, nbc news. so as we're still talking about pre-check, four places in our area to sign up for it. at reagan national, pre-check counter on the lower level in terminal c. near baggage claim 6 and 7. at dulles, located on the departure level behind the united ticket counter, and an office at the alexandria common shopping center on duke street and there's an

in downtown d.c. at 1701 k street. 8:47 your time now. a u.n. health agency says no need to postpone the olympics in rio. the world health organization says there is no "health justificati justification" because of the zika health break. officials say the gameless not significantly alter the international spread of the zika virus. the study is controversial. talking about a possible link between cell phones and cancer. some scientists weighing in with doubts about the way it was conducted. the study is from the national toxicology program, part of the national institutes of health. researchers exposed 2,500 rodents to cell phone radiation for nine hour as day every day for two years. they found low rates of brain and heart tumors in the male rats, but none in the females. >> more people are harmed by cell phone boss of texting than because of cell phones because obr

>> the nih stresses that previous studies suggested the risk in humans is limited. just in time for memorial day. a 74-year-old military mystery has been solved. >> and it all what do with a plaque that hung in d.c.'s city hall for decades. it disappeared back in the 1990s. and guess who found it a few years ago? our very own mark seagraves. he's done nor digging and we know a bit more about its history. >> reporter: this is the ground floor of the wilson building outside of what is now the mayor's press briefing room, and this is the wall where the plaque originally hung. from 1942 until the mid-1990s. the plaque was out that have been missing forever, thrown away during the renovation of the wilson building, until 2010. and that's when parts of the plaque were found inside this janitor's closet. >> all that remain, fragmented panels with the

two years ago, josh gibson took on the task of figuring out what the names represented. he searched old newspaper archives, nothing came up with d.c. employee plaque. turns out in the 1940s employee was spelled differently. >> search on district government employees with one e, all of a sudden things pot with the dates of the newspaper articles we knew which minutes to look in. >> reporter: gibson pored through blueprints and about 1,000 photographs. >> and among the thousand picture there's was one oblique picture of the plaque. >> reporter: the plaque was an honor roll, common in the '40s listing names of 1,869 d.c. government employees, men and women of all races, who served in world war ii. but a corner of the plaque was still missing, until a few weeks ago, when gibson went back to the closet where the plaque was first discovered and found four small pieces. >> when you place them back int

pieces, turns out there are three names who would have been forgotten. >> reporter: and next veterans day the reassembled plaque will be returned to its original place honoring those d.c. employees who fought for our country. in the willsson building for ne. great. tom kierein with us now. the weekend to get outside. >> the mercury's great. >> it is. kind of sticky, you can tell if out walking the dog or getting in an early morning run, you're already working up a sweat. less humid into the afternoon hours. live from the storm team 4 city cram overlooking national airport and there's the river, a little chop on the river. a bit of a breeze now and a haze in the air. you can see that classic summer haze hovering over capitol hill in that live view. i took this picture of the grill ang hey set

cubicle. >> come on over! >> that was what the smell was. >> don't ever cook inside, of course. for cookout weather. it's going to be beautiful today. temperatures up around 90 degrees. for sunday, though, you may have to get that cookout early, because late afternoon and into the evening hours some storms are likely tomorrow. highs up around 80 degrees. then monday, you may be dodging showers off and on. maybe a little sun in and out, too. temperatures in the upper 70s. right now in the low 70s from the bay to the mountains, and in the shenandoah valley it is a beautiful saturday morning under way. a little bit of humidity, though, pumping up from this tropical system that is now approaching south carolina. it's a depression that may become briefly tropical storm bonny tomorrow before it comes inland and not a very strong storm, but plumes of moisture will stream north from that system and come our way and give us some chances of, in fact, likelihood, of some thunderstorms tomorrow. but not today. a great day foa

sunshine. up near 90 by 4:00. back to do mid-80s by the evening. great day for a ball game. low 80s through much of the game nats against cardinals. increasing clouds tomorrow during the day. high around 80. likely showers and thundershowers late sunday afternoon into sunday night. maybe an inch of rain. off and on showers on memorial day. a little sun back in the afternoon. 80s each day tuesday into thursday. chance of more storms on friday. >> tom, thanks. 8:52 your time. a unique way to honor those who fought 0 for your country. a

this is a really cool exhibit going on pap new art exhibit on display at the national museum at the marine corps in virginia and all through this memorial day weekend. check it out t. is an old huey helicopter from vietnam with battle scars to prove it. our kristin wright shows us, take me home huey. >> reporter: it was shot down in vietnam valentine's day 1969. the cockpit blown to pieces. >> two soldiers jumped out and they were killed. a crew of five. the other three rescued. >> reporter: steve maloney is the artist who took this huey medevac chopper and turned it into a tribute for veterans. take me home huey on display

at the national museum of the marine corps this memorial day weekend. for this vet and his marine brother here from new england, the chopper brings back memories that really never go away. >> i've been on a couple of them. the first one i was ever on, i was laying down after i ran over a land mine. >> we've all seen things we will not discuss with anybody. >> reporter: maloney wrapped the historic huey and the things that our troops in vietnam were longing for from back home. mom's apple pie, a girlfriend. >> these are the squadron names here, and then the nicknames. >> reporter: the artist partnered with an organization that supports vets suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and hopes take me home huey brings awareness. >> it's healthy to talk. so this is a great catalyst for talking. >> reporter: because even when things seem broken, those who bravely served are still bonded. >> it helps you see, because then you're seeing what our brothers went through. >> reporter: at the national museum of the marine corps -- >> it's a brotherhood. simple as that.

>> reporter: -- kristin wright, news 4. >> well it is the perfect day to break out the grill and eat outside as we take a live look at national harbor. doing a fun pirate cruise out there tomorrow. >> cool. >> may take the family. tom's tracking your picnic forecast and when rain will force your party inside. >> reporter: a special mindful memorial here at the women in service memorial at arlington national cemetery. we'll tell y ♪ it's time to get out and explore. look beyond the expected.

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at 9:00, and right now on "news4 today," we are in for a gorgeous day, but -- the rain is coming back. tom's tracking the best times to light up the grill, and also let us know when the storms could impact your plans for memorial day weekend. and from the skies to the roads, the rush is on for millions traveling today. the big issues facing anyone trying to get out of town. plus, tragedy on the hudson. the mission a pilot was on moments before his plane crashed into the water. we're going to have much more on that developing story, but hoping you have some plans to get outside and enjoy it, because today is going to be the day. good morning, everyone. i'm angie goff. >> and i'm david culver. it is all about times. especially those who want to do cooking out today.