people we spoke to say the closures will cause some he had aches. >> that will be a mess. it's already a mess down here. >> you'll have a lot of angry people, but they will get over it i'm sure. i got caught on wisconsin, that's even worse. i went a different way. >> all lanes should reopen no later than 5:00 a.m. monday. your wait at a traffic light in the district is about to get shorter. today transportation work crews will begin to retime the traffic lights in northwest washington. work has already happened in other areas. the signals are updated and the traffic and pedestrian data to reduce wait times, all of the district signals are expected to change by 2017. coming up on 4:31 now on this friday morning. 4 things to know about your forecast now. >> chuck bell with what is expected to be maybe some rain returning. >> yes, not a complete loss of a weekend, but rain chances are definitely back. clouds are back in place again this

plenty of cloud cover today. breaks of sunshine this afternoon, but that will lead to chances for showers and maybe a thundershower or two later today. limited weekend sunshine. we'll get most of the sunshine this weekend on saturday. sunday is looking quite stormy. there is a chance for stronger to potentially severe weather sunday. there is bonnie off the outer banks. we just have a couple lighter rain showers around here. temperatures they're 70 now. we'll be in the low 80s for high temperatures today. let's go over to jack taylor now at the wtop studios for a traffic update. >> good morning. we're off to a quiet start on the beltway. looking good inner and outer loop. should find all your travel lanes open this morning. no problems early at this stage. 50 toward the bay bridge, the both lanes open at this point. obvious set for rush hour. in have a 1r

we're looking good. possibly some light rain, so give yourself some time. today we're bracing for the first major impact of safetrack which gets under way tomorrow. this afternoon paul wiedefeld will talk about last minute preparations ahead of the system's first 13 day safety surge. the first part of the plan will happen on the silver and orange lines in virginia. if your route takes you between east falls xhurchurch and balls trains will only run every 18 minutes on those lines. metro recommends taking alternate trains during rush shower. mayor muriel bowser is rolling out a plan to ease traffic congestion because of extra cars and buses on the roads. starting monday, the city will expand rush hour parking restrictions on major routes. you will see more traffic control officers at major intersections and bridges.

taxi stands. also the city is halting construction projects in public places during different parts of the plan. starting saturday, bikeshare is reducing its raidtes. morning corral service will also be expanded in farragut square starting monday. loudoun county will also help try to get road relief. there will be four new buses to the silver line on july 5. threat connect to the east gate parking rides and dulles town center park n ride lots. a maryland man faces sex abuse charges after he groped a woman. police arrested 18-year-old jose pleitez. he grabbed a woman's back side on a platform

and he also faces assault and theft charges in a case in maryland. i thought i was dead. i said, well, it's over now. >> carl unger is one of the survivors in the shopping center shooting this is montgomery county. he spoke exclusively to so homa stone about the moment he thought his life was over. he was in the westfield montgome montgome montgome montgomery mall parking lot when you and winffel heard a woman cry out for help. >> he looked dead at us and start smiling before he started shooting. >> unger's friend did not survive. moments later tordil killed claudina molina. he's struggling to pay medical bills. if you would like to help, search donate carl in our nbc washington app p. rape counselors

the high school. 16-year-old freshman santos escobar-villatoro was killed thursday. he was riding his buying when he hit a commercial sign on the sidewalk. he fell into the busy road and was hit by an suv. this happened right around the corner from school. >> just think it's heartbreaking of course for the family of the young man who got passed away and also for the person who hit him. i know that for me, that's one of high biggest fears as a driver. >> police have identified the driver as an 18-year-old woman, she was not injured. police are starting to identify the people behind the scary stunts on our roads. officers in prince george's county say the atv rider in this video is barber, a convicted sex offender. and now faces charges of reckless and negligent driving. than

and he's also facing charges. supporters and opponents of donald trump clashed in san jose. a dozen or more people were punched, one person was pelted with an egg. police say several protesters were arrested there. meanwhile during the rally donald trump went after hillary clinton after she criticized him in a speech earlier in the day. >> it was so sad to watch. and you know, she's up there and supposed to be a foreign policy speech. it was a political speech. had nothing to do with foreign policy. she made a political speech tonight, folks. and it was pretty pathetic deal. >> trump will continue campaigning today in california. and coming up a little later, tracy spoie potts will have mor the clashes and the big endorsement for touchdown. fbi is now offering a $10,000 reward for new information in a charles county cold case. martin hawkins jr. wasde

tonight police are search a few laplata neighborhoods for new clues. fears are confirmed this morning about the death of a music legend. prince died from an overdose of a powerful painkiller called fentanyl. the medical examiner in minnesota found high levels of it in prince's bloodstream. the office officially called his death an accident. fentanyl is a synthetic opioid up to 50 times more potent than heroin. you can learn more about it on our nbc washington app. we're off to a cloudy start this morning. you might need your wipers on, too. chuck is tracking what to expect in your commuter forecast. two military jet crashes, one of them can debt adly. and history back where it belongs. the tip that led investigators to a stolen artifact hidden for decades.

want to get you caught up on the forecast. >> chuck bell is here now. we made to friday, chuck. >> and for me, it was only three day week and still seemed like it took forever to get here. outside this morning, a couple rain showers. head east if into the howard county and a few more lonesome raindrops acro

only one mile visibility at stanton, for four miles at culpeper. so keep an eye out for the kids out there morning. at the bus stop, temperatures in the low 70s. recess gets a "b" because of all the cloud chances away and it's a risk of showers for your after school activity. so have the umbrella, shorts and t-shirt ready to go for today. when i see you in ten minutes, i'll show you future weather and help you team out when you're most likely to get hit by a raindrop. when you're most likely to be stuck in traffic? let's find that out from chuck taylor. >> potential in springfield. 95 north, state authorities headed to the scene in spring feel. sounds like a prisbroken down tractor trailer. no lights on, no flashers. so it may very well be a very

iser. it is blocking the right lane. 270 south moving south of 118, should find for now early all traffic lanes available to you. back into you. new developments this morning in two military jet crashes. one of them deadly. we now noma reason core captain eff kuss was the pilot who died when his blue angels fighter jet crashed it in tennessee. he was practicing for a weekend air show with five other jets. no one else was hurt. in colorado, air force officials are praising the actions of a thunderbirds pilot. >> he dealt with it accordingly. and abandoned the aircraft and that was correct action with the conditions he had. >> major alex turner's f-16 jet crashed just after a flyover at the u.s. air force academy graduation where president obama was speaking. the president met with the pilot

his service. after more than three decades, a stolen piece of history is back where it belongs. a hand written letter by charles darwin was received to the archives. the fooik had received a tip about the whereabouts earlier this year. experts inspected the letter to make sure it was authentic. they determined it was essentially a thank you note darwin wrote in 1875 to the he had curator of what a is now the national museum of natural history. >> pretty cool. the fight is on for california. new attacks from the frontrunners as bernie sanders looks for an upset in decision 2016. a security guard accused of war crimes, new security crimes at a local

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14 before the hour now. it was a wild day in the race for the white house. hillary clinton and donald trump went after each other this california on thursday. while bernie sanders is hoping for an upset in the golden state. tracie potts is live on capitol hill now with all the twists and turns. >> reporter: a lot of them, too. trump and clinton showing you the latest video of their events out there in california a. donald trump says he can't wait to debate hillary clinton because he wants to talk about her e-mails. he says she's absolutely guilty, definitely a topic that he plans to bring up in the fall and hammer her on during those debates. meantime clinton is saying she can't wait to talk to him on stage about foreign policy. she had a big speech on that, talked about it more at events last night

positions are dangerous on foreign licy and she can't wait to talk to him about that. meantime donald trump is now getting support from paul ryan after weeks of discussions between their staffs, it looks like ryan now says publicly he will vote for trump. and let's check in on bernie sanders who has more than -- while he wants to win win california and by the way there are six states voting on tuesday, that of the six states, he hey not win new jersey, but he's still trying to pull out all the young people in california. all three of the candidates out in california today. >> tracie potts on the hill. thank you. records show terry mcauliffe mistakenly restored right to vote for several violent felons in prison or supervised probation. that is according to the "washington post." mcauliffe restored the right to vote to felons who served their time and completed patrol last

month. the governor spokes map sa sman errors were are due to flaws in a system that officials came up with to identify convicted felons in the state. the state has corrected the problem. glo the latest now on the alleged gunman in ucla was a note about a cat that led to a so-called kill list and a woman's body in minute men. the note was found after mainak sarkar killed engineering professor bill klug and then himself. the note suggested that they check on his cat in minnesota. the list had the names of two professors and a woman.usuf abd after a cnn investigation. he was accused of publicly executing people and other war

accusations back in 1998. questions about his past have followed him for years. most recently in a federal civil lawsuit. >> ali is entitled to immunity as an official or former official of the somali government. >> it's very troubling and it causes a lot of questions to be asked about what time of vetting was done. >> metropolitan washington airports authority says ale was properly vetted by private security contractor master security. 4:49. new information in the fight against isis. the united nations says the terrorist group is increasingly focused on attacking international civilian tar gets. the report out yesterday says the global threat is high and diversifying even as the group loses territory in iraq and syria. it's all about making the district more environmental will you friendly. today the department of energy and environment will celebrate the nash run stream restoration. there is a res

cutting happening there this morning at 10:00 a.m. we're tracking a developing story, muhammad ali is in the hospital. the former heavyweight champion being treated in arizona for a respiratory issue. his spokesperson says the 74-year-old is in fair condition, but sources tell the associated press could be more serious than his team is letting on. muhammad ali has been battlie i par kkinso parkinson's disease for years. two owe pinlympians are lea for rio today. they are part of the canoe and sl slolam. >> in the summer games? >> i think it's canoe slalom. i think either the's in the water. >> if it's

definitely in the water. we'll have to look that one up. >> you can shalom water ski. it's not -- >> chuck bell has the answer. are you ready for at least a little chance for some rain on the weekend? >> i'll take it. we've had a few dry days. >> i like her even more. yesterday i e seed the school safety awards yesterday. these the 12 best of the best kids around the entire mid-atlantic region. do you know how many kids participate in the school safety programs in in region? 90,000. and these are the 12 best of the 90 plus thousand. so had a great time yesterday. and one of those young folks, right there, he wants to be a tv meteorologist. i tried to talk him out of it, i said don't do it, they will wake you up before 2:00 in the morning and send you to work. outside, a lot of clouds out

yet, but warm and humid. feels like summertime. showers and thundershowers likely not just in the shenandoah valley, but area wide unlike yesterday where it was mostly a shenandoah thing. what about the weekend? tomorrow very warm and humid again. most of the rain chances for your saturday are the p.m. variety. probably not until after 7:00, 8:00. sunday, 80% chance for rain and strong thunderstorm, possibly a severe thunderstorm is a possibility. that is on sunday. so stuff to do outside, saturday will be a better day. temperatures won't budge much during the morning hours. we'll eventually get up into the low 80s later this afternoon. tropical storm bonnie finally moving away from us, but going over the warm waters of the gulf stream have reintensified that system. and out here for us, the west virginia raindrops are coming eastbound, so they will be in the shenandoah valley in t

otherwise just hit and miss light rain showers out there early this morning. future weather carries ben ra better rain chances s is in hes evening. they stand at 60%. tomorrow's rain chance only 30% and most of that comes closer to sun set or after. sunday will be the busiest day from a thunderstorm perspective out of the whole next week. by sunday night into monday, clearing out, drying out, turning less humid and temperatures finally back a little closer to average. let's find out the latest on the friday morning commute from our news and traffic partner wtop. 50 west in maryland, jon hanson highway out near 301, an earlier reported crash. authorities headed to the scene. north i-95 heading into springfield, just before you get up to the ramp, a tractor trailer is stopped blocking the right lane. no lights, no flashers. authorities are with it now. virginia state troopers with the blue lights on.

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we're now getting a look at dramatic footage of a sinking boat in the chesapeake bay. fisher map rescued all 22 people on word including about a dozen elementary school students on wednesday.map rescued all 22 pe on word including about a dozen elementary school students on wednesday. the boat hit something and went down this about 10 feet of water. take a look at the bottom right corner of your screen. police in montgomery county are looking for this man. it only took him seven minutes to rob a department store of more than 1$150,000 in jewelry. offers say he used rocks to where he into the jcpenney last month right before it opened. it is an exciting weekend for a lot of students in fairfax county. prom is right around the corner. and with all the fun comes the need for part parents and poli be extra vigilant. patrols will be stepped up. the bestdv

to make sure students do not have access to control. officers will be out in force looking for drunk drivers. >> we want to prevent everybody there drinking and driving. it's really just something that affects not only those who are involved this it, but their family. >> police tell us they have been canvassing the county for a while testing whether stores will sell alcohol to underage buyers and ticketing them if they do. the annual herndon festival continue this is weekend. you can enjoy music, food and fun beginning at 5:00 tonight. it runs through sunday. it opens at 1:0:00 tomorrow. pets are not allowed on the prem says. hope the rain holds off. comic book fans will dekrepd krend this weekend because awesome con begins today, the biggest am comic and pop culture convention in d.c. this year's event will feature guests from tv and movies and

i'm going on sunday. >> you are? will. >> i'm going to check it out. i may or may not be this a uniform. you call it a costume, i call it a uniform. >> star trek uniform? >> it could happen. >> we need to check that out. thank you do your support the do more 24 campaign. you helped raise more than $1,460,000 for local nonprofit this is this 24 hours. how about that? i was at one of our events yesterday at the target in columbia heights theft. volunteers packed 1,000 backpacks with school supplies and bags with personal items to help needy people around the region. and you can open our nbc washington app to see who is benefitting the most from all the nonprofits who participated. next year's day of giving, june 2, 2017. great way to get involved. right now at 5:00 a.m., a difficult day for students dealing with the loss of a classmate. how montgomery county community

tragedy. i'm molette green at the live desk. details coming in about the first american athlete to pull out of the rio summer olympics because of concerns over the zika virus. it's reported that a cyclist wants out because his wife is pregnant and he's reportedly concerned about her and their fee tis. he represented the u.s. in the 2012 olympic games in london. brazil which is the enp pi center of the virus linked to very serious birth defects. . back to you. it is 5:00 a.m. good morning. i'm aaron gilchrist. >> and i'm eun yang. we've had such nice weather and now a threat of rain. >> chuck bell with our weather headlines. >> good morning, everybody. where is that umbrella? haven't needed it in a couple