off until after midnight.ç we're watching some tough conditions out west for firefighters battling those wildfires in california. it's hot and dry. some of the worst of it in rugged coastal canyons west of santa barbara where the firefighters are struggling to fight those flames and hundreds of firefighters and a fleet of aircraft doing their best against a blaze that is now grown to 1,700 acres. thousands of residents forced out of their homes as well in arizona and new mexico where wind whipped blazes rage on. back to you. this morning we're preparing you for the second phase of metro safetrack program. whether you're driving or using the train, you'll likely feel the impact. phase two starts tomorrow. it w

two stations in the district will close. stadium armory and potomac avenue. prince george's county commuters will notice a major impact. passengers that use blue, orange or silver lines are urged to consider alternate ways of getting around. and on top of safetrack, there will be track work this weekend on metro. blue line trains will only operate between franconia, springfield and arlington cemetery and pentagon. the good news is red, yellow and green line trains will operate on a regular weekend schedule. the time is 4:31. we have rain and showers lingering this morning. amelia segmea is this going to work into the morning commute? >> showers around for the morning commute but for the most part very light in nature. grab the umbrella heading out this morning. know if your windshield wipers are on, headlines needs to be

we dry out and increasing sunshine. overall a nice friday. a spectacular weekend and very little rain chances over the next seven days. right now 67 degrees. we'll find ourselves in the 60s throughout the morning hours. scattered showers through 7:00 a.m. 9:00 a.m., the majority of rain south of washington at that point and by 11:00 a starting to track peeks of sunshine at that point. a temp of 68 degrees. our high yesterday, 89. today noticeably cooler with lower humidity levels. i'll work you throughout the rest of your day and evening if you have friday franplans i'll you know what to expect and latest on father's day weekend in ten minutes. for now, what's the latest onç the roads? >> not so bad out there. today so far so good. on the beltway in maryland and virginia, no delays. inner loop near telegraph road in local lanes there's a

there's no delay off the wilson bridge through old town. i-66, traffic moves well inside and outside the beltway. camera at prince william parkway. lee highway, police diverting southbound traffic off route 29. a pole came down on that crash. back to you. now to terror in orlando. funeral services are being held for the 49 people who lost their lives at the pulse nightclub on sunday. one victim will be buried at the greenwood cemetery in orlando today. the city owned cemetery offered plots to all victims of the shooting attack. several victims were from puerto rico. two of their bodies were sent back to puerto rico yesterday for services this weekend. during the shooting massacre, the fbi says gunman omar mateen spent significant time on his cell phone. at one point

messages with his wife. sources tell nbc news around 2:00 a.m. mateen texted his wife asking do you see what's happening? she responded no. he then responded i love you, babe. salman tried calling her husband several times but he never answered the phone and mateen searched for headlines about the massacre on his phone. he eventually died in a shootout with police any nigt the nightc. john mccain is clarifying comments he made claiming president obama is directly responsible for the terror attack in orlando. >> if the president had not pulled everybody out of iraq, you would have never seen the rise of isis so he bears responsibility. >> mccain put out a statement saying he initially misspoke and blamed the president's policies. in ten minutes, nbc's tracie potts joins us live with how soon the senate may

gun control legislation. donald trump is again criticizing the president for his response to the orlando mass shooting. at a campaign rally in dallas, trump claimed the president is blaming guns for the attack and hillary clinton wants to abolish the 2nd amendment. senator bernie sanders is not conceding theç democratic presidential nomination. in a new video message, he urges his supporters to continue a political revolution. >> it's no secret that secretary clinton and i have strong disagreements on some very, very important issues. it is also true that our views are quite close on others. >> sanders says he looks forward to working with clinton in the coming weeks and we aren't aware of any scheduled campaign events for clinton today. drowning and traumatic injuries. the orange county medical examiner says that's how 2-year-old lane graves died from that gator attack at disneyworld the

wildlife officials are still removing alligators from that water but haven't finished out which one boy grabbed the boy on tuesday. disney is adding warning signs about alligators and other wildlife. there are an estimated 1 million gators that live in florida. wildlife officials deal with thousands of complaints about them every year. two d.c. police officers were on patrol in a small park on potomac avenue yesterday when they heard the gun shots. they rushed to a man shot in the leg on the sidewalk and used medical kits until help arrived. there were many witnesses including families in the park. a dark chevrolet car was seen leaving the area after the shooting. d.c. police made an arrest in a brazen daytime shooting. they charged kevin cole with assault with intent to kill.

the chief says they need help to find the shooter. time right now 4:36. there will be a community meeting this morning about preventing the spread of the zika virus in prince george's county. it's going to be held at southern regional technology and recreation, complex there in port washington. officials plan to share with you safe ways for cleaning up standing water. they will also be able to offer some travel advice. that meeting set to begin at 10:00 this morning. d.c. leaders pushing for statehood are working on a state constitution today. the new columbia statehood commission has been putting together a draft. district residents can go online and submit changes they would like to say. the group plans to vote on a final draft by the end of the month. the d.c. council would have to approve to by early july for it to be on the november ballot. we couldç see demonstratio if they resist

pepco-exelon. clear your plans on sunday night. it's going to be a big game seven in the nba finals between golden state warriors and cleveland cavaliers. especially if you watched last night's game. the cavs forced a winner take all game with a dominant showing last night. lebron james scored 41 points. in the regular season, warriors weren't only the best team this year but set the record for most wins of all-time. the last time cleveland, not cavaliers but city of cleveland won a championship was back in 1964. in the beginning of the series everyone thought it was for sure golden state and cleveland didn't have a chance. what a way to come back. >> a lot of pressure on lebron. it's not so much that he needs to win it for him but the city that took him back. >> very passionate game for sure. the rain is

fizzle out thank goodness. when will that sun return? storm team 4 meteorologist amelia draper is back with that answer. motion denied. the judge in the trial of a baltimore police officer refuses to throw out charges against him. what's expected to happen in court

it's now 4:41. time for weather and traffic on the 1s. looks like some rain is lingering today. >> amelia draper, you say it will stay with us during the morning commute? >> by 10:00, 11:00 a.m., the rain will be south of the area. this is a circular motion on the radar. what will happen is i'll track these showers around baltimore sinking south during the morning hours. just some light showers for most of us during the morning hours and then we'll have clearing during the afternoon. you can see here on future weather we're completely dry by 10:00 a.m. and then sunshine starting to peek out around midday hours. highs today in the 70s. latest on the weekend in ten minutes. for now, we'll send things over to dave tracking an incident on the the beltway. >> we're watching minor crash and activity on the inner loop in local lanes you can see behind me over on west of the wilson bridge in lal

inner loop and it's along the left side. traffic is just getting by to the right at speed. give them an extra lane if you can. 66, east and westbound traffic moves well. in fairfax county behind the government center, lee highway southbound near monument drive southbound lanes are blocked because of a downed pole. that's the latest. back to you. >> dave malko> playing the blam. and a warning for people in montgomery county. the slew of recent bear sightings. my goodness. pictures and obviously the vdeo i

>> barack obama is directly responsible for it. when he pulled everybody out of iraq, al qaeda went to syria, became isis. >> arizona senator john mccain is facing criticism for his comments about president obama. let's go to nbc's tracie potts now for reaction. tracie, senator mccain tried to clarify his remarks. what did he say? >> as we all in the wake of what happened in orlando, mccain said that president obama was directly responsible. those are the words that he used. then when he was questioned specifically about that, he said that the responsibility lies in the fact that the failed -- he failed to contain isis and as a result we've seen these attacks happening not just this one but several attacks happening in the u.s. and europe. he said he wasn't backtracking but he did further try to explain andri

the president is responsible for what happened in orlando. >> all right. what do we expect today? anymore reaction from his remarks or from what the president might say? >> possibly. the focus today is gun control on capitol hill and lawmakers are looking at on monday, which are measures to make sure there are background checks at gun shows and internet sales and various measures on what to do about people on those terror watch lists. do you notify the fbi? do you make them wait and delay the purchase of a gun or block them and restrict them completely and that's part of the conversation that's going on in the background here. >> tracie, thank you. the defense gets back to work today in the trial of baltimore police officer caesar goodson. he's the van driver accused of taking freddie gray on that rough ride that eventually caused his death last year. yesterday the judge denied a motion to dismiss all oth

the defense is trying to prove gray's death was an accident and not a homicide. goodson is facing the most serious charges of six officers involved. second-degree depraved murder. >> are you confident the state will get a conviction? >> i think something should stick. i really do. >> the verdictç in goodson's non-jury trial could come early next week. heroin is being taken off the street in frederick county, maryland. eight people have been indicted in what police are calling a large scale heroin ring. weapons, drugs and money have also been seized. we're expecting to see more details at a press conference later this morning. this morning we're just learning about a sex assault on a 14-year-old girl in the alexandria section of fairfax county. we saw it happen on richmond highway in a wooded area back in april. mt. vernon police say a man

assaulted her. >> i just basically did what any person, any person with any kind of moral obligation would do. >> we are finally hearing from some of the good samaritans who helped rescue trapped and scared passengers from this tourist bus that crashed on the gw parkway. two of the parkway heroes are army soldiers stationed at -- at least three people were trapped under the bus after it collided with a car and tipped on its side. the soldiers say they were acting on adrenaline when they pushed that bus upright. >> this time is just seemed like the bus didn't weigh anything and so we just lifted the bus and so initially when he tried to push the bus, it actually slid a couple of feet. >> oneer

than a dozen others were hurt in this crash. many are crediting these good samaritans with saving more lives. federal prosecutors have busted a local identity theft ring. they say the scam could involve thousands of victims and millions of dollars. investigators say they posted job listings on craigslist. police claim they asked for driver's licenses, passports and social security numbers. the two are now held without bond in alexandria. d.c. police are searching for two persons of a robbery in southeast. look at the surveillance video here. it clearly looks like a school hallway. the theft happened in the 3300 block of minnesota avenue southeast. that's near kimball elementary school. police are not saying what was taken but they do need help identifying the people you see in this video. silver spring is on a bear alert. this follows several daytimeç sightings

montgomery county police say multiple people calling in to say they've seen this. a bear. news4 viewers also sending us videos and pictures of it. one man tells us they saw the bear and he thinks it was about a 200-pound cub. >> bear didn't look that large to me so i wasn't really afraid of it. i was more so watching it making sure it was going away from me and not toward me so i can get out of the car. >> a bear is a bear. >> looks large to me. >> the bear may be the same one that's been spotted in montgomery and prince george's county over the last few weeks. remember there's one hanging out at arby's in leesburg. >> they keep coming closer and closer. soon we'll see them in rock creek park and it willing over for us. >> you need to stay at least 50 feet. i don't know. >> 200 pounds he wasn't scared. if i saw a 200-pound bear, i

would run the other way. rain leftover from storms overnight. what about today? >> we'll track showers during the morning hours until about 10:00 a.m. after that we'll start to see clouds diminishing from north to south across the area. over all, when all is said and done, you'll say today wasn't so bad. weather having a low impact on your friday. as far as storms go yesterday, no confirmed tornado reports but we are seeing a lot of damage especially in virginia and west virginia. mainly middleburg where some large hail was reported. here's the latest. here's what's left of the storm system. you can see still some heavy rain back around the mountains of winchester and in the immediate area for the most part just scattered light showers and they will move from north to south during the morning hours until 10:00, 11:00. have the umbrella handy. you could deal with rain for the morning commute. otherwise we're starting off cool. 66 at 7:00 a.m. by noon, 70. it will be cooler today but

levels. some peeks of sun by noon. have your lunch outdoors. 4:00 p.m., that's when we'll start to approach our high. 76 at that point. our high today 78 degrees. spectacular evening. 8:00 p.m., plenty of sunshine and temperature around 74. so dining out this evening you can anticipate temps in the upper 60s to 70s. that's going to be comfortable. gorgeous. if you're eating outside, maybe bring some long sleeves. for the most part it will be beautiful this evening. temperatures right now in the 60s. 66 in washington. again a high today of 78. for father'sç day weekend, the weather delivers. saturday plenty of sun. high of 82. sunday a high temp of 85. it will feel like summer with highs in the upper 80s on monday. chance of storms on tuesday cooling us off for wednesday and thursday. quiet on the roads this morning, right, dave? >> not so bad at

given that forecast, shouldn't take long for roads to dry out. wet conditions in places including on the beltway in virginia where on the inner loop you can see that sheen on the pavement and minor crash now entirely on that wide left shoulder. this is inner loop local lanes near telegraph road and traffic easily getting by that through old town toward springfield. otherwise in virginia, 66 traffic moves well inside and outside the beltway but we do have a crash behind the fairfax county government center on northbound lanes of lee highway. toward monument drive. all those lanes are blocked. crash took down a pole and they're redirecting traffic using the backside of the government center. beltway looks good. that's the latest. back to you. she found a note on her windshield scolding her for parking in a spot reserved for veterans. she says she has nothing to be sorry about. wait until you hear her response. a glimpse into the future of

the the ro nast looks good dad. how good? 162 likes. did i get any retweets on those green beans? yep! and they're blowing up on instagram. honey, your rump roast just broke the internet!!!! as it should. life is family mealtime and everything you need to make it picture perfect. now be sure to tag your mother because she needs more followers. ok.

the roast looks good dad. how good? 162 likes. did i get any retweets on those green beans? yep! and they're blowing up on instagram. honey, your rump roast just broke the internet!!!! as it should. life is family mealtime and everything you need to make it picture perfect. now be sure to tag your mother because she needs more followers. ok. welcome back. if you're just joining us, look at your screen right now. this is storm team 4 radar. rain hanging around this morning after hours of storms. the latest on power outages and a look at when the rain will finally move out in just a few minutes. the sudden death of a rising member of the british parliament is sending shock

after meeting with constituents. this morning the suspect's motive is coming into question. many wonder if it had anything to do with a political battle that's dividing the u.k. the killing comes days before a referendum on whether britain should leave the european union. police quickly arrested a 52-year-old man whom they say is their only suspect. >> we've lost a great star. >> there are conflicting reports from witnesses that her killer may have shouted "put britain first" as he attacked her. thunderbirds are back in the air this weekend. earlier a pilot crashed in colorado. the pilot forced to eject and he wasn't seriously hurt. the team has been grounded for the last two weeks. today as part of the 100th anniversary of america's national park system, the first

family will head to carlsbad cavern in new mexico. he'll spend part of the weekend with his daughters and then the family will head to yosemite. you may have seen this story. it's getting shared on social media. a veteran dissed with a note on her windshield. someone left her this note in north carolina. take a look. this parking is for veterans, lady. learn to read and have some respect. the woman is a veteran. she served in the navy for eight years. she said she hopes the other person realizes what they did wrong. the woman was a physician in the navy. this morning a look at what the new iphone could look like. take a look at the new patents apple secured this week. the new phones could have a wraparound display, augmented reality. as you can see the new display provides a larger curved screen allowing photos and videos

the augmented reality would allow your device to overlay images onto a real setting. sounds very high tech. >> buttons on the side would be virtual they said. right now power crews working to restore power to tens of thousands in virginia. the richmond area took the brunt of it and slight improvement this morning in northern virginia over the last half hour. dominion power says just over 5,000 don't have power. in maryland, pepco reporting about 900 outages mostly in forest heights. up to a hundred in the dark in southern maryland. >> we'll check in with amelia draper to find out