news 4 midday begins with breaking news. and that breaking news, two children are hurt after a fire in southeast washington. i'm barbara harrison. >> and i'm eun yang, the children, teenager and woman also escaped that fire this morning. they were taken to the hospital, but they weren't the only ones. news 4's erika gonzalez is live and spoke with someone who lives in that building. erika. >> reporter: hey, eun, let me give you a glimpse as to what things look like outside the apartments here. if this is any idea as to how fast this fire spread, how heated it was. if you look up, that second window there is where the

started. the one above it though that's where fire officials say the occupants that were inside faced the most danger. meanwhile, i talked to the tenant inside the apartment where the fire began and he told me he woke up this morning to the sound of fire alarms ringing, the smell of smoke. he looked in a back bedroom and that's when he saw huge amount of flames. he was able to quickly grab his nephew and get out of the apartment before things got really bad. just before 8:00 this morning a fire at these garden apartments on second and orange street southeast. >> well, when we were dispatched and ready multiple phone calls indicating there were people trapped in the building. >> reporter: here's a glimpse at the scene, dc fire and ems sent out signaling danger. the people inside the apartment where the fire started made it out okay. a mom and her two boys had to be rescued from this window above, a teen jumped to safety. and a firefighter at the helm of the hose suffered minor burns. in all five people were

expected to be okay. what started the fire? still unclear. fire officials say they were able to get here within four minutes of that first call. we do know that the red cross is now on scene helping to help these folks get to some place stay tonight and in the coming days. back to you. >> erika, thank you. for more now on that breaking news, pat lawson is following a death investigation from the live desk. pat. >> hi, good morning. prince george's county police say they found someone's body in the middle of the road in bowie this morning. we're talking a major intersection happened at annapolis road near glendale road. we're told police are on the scene right now although we don't know if the roadway's completely closed off. so far police are only calling this a death investigation. they have said that the victim is a male. we'll be following this breaking story and update you when

more information. here at the live desk, pat lawson. >> thank you, pat. take a look at our forecast now. >> good morning. we're getting a welcome reprieve from heat and humidity. there's the live view from the storm team 4 capitol camera. a few clouds drifting gracefully over the metro area now. the sun coming through those clouds, temperatures beginning to climb nicely up around 80 degrees to low 8 0z. metro area, nearby suburbs around the bay low to mid 80s. farther to the west low to mid 70s shenandoah valley and mountains. storm team 4 radar not showing any rain in our vicinity. there are some downpours and showers coming into the ohio valley from the north and west. this cluster of storms now coming into kentucky, that's going to stay well to our south here later today. however, much later tonight and into tomorrow morning we could get some flooding rains. we'll look at the hour by hour timing on that in just a few minutes. thank you, tom. new at midday, we are just learning about a

investigation in silver spring. it happened this morning. montgomery county police say officers went to georgia avenue near eastern avenue at 4:30 this morning. that's just outside the district line. police didn't tell us anything about the victim or what they found. we have a call in to police to find out more. you may want to check your windows the next time you go to sleep after a man in prince george's county tried to steal a sleeping child through a window. this happened on l street in fairmont heights. the child's father says his 7-year-old son was asleep next to his mother, then around 4:00 in the morning someone reached through an unlocked window and tried to grab the boy. the mother started to scream and the man escaped. >> i would like to see some justice. i would like to see whoever it is running around here doing stuff like that be caught. >> police have been talking with neighbors since the incident. if you have any information, contact prince george's county police. two robberies at the exact same store within less than 24 hours of each other.

on benning road near oklahoma avenue again this morning. they say someone held a gun up to the place and then ran off with $60. that happened around 1:00 this morning. then at 2:00 a.m. yesterday a man also robbed the same store at gunpoint. police say they haven't arrested anyone19e so far. i'm meagan mcgrath along connecticut avenue, one of five new night light safety zones that have been set up in response to the new safetrack hours metro is keeping. metro not staying as open as late because of repair work, that means folk who is are out and about late at night and early morning hours at bars and restaurants they have to find another way to get home. well, police want to make sure that patrons and employees get home safely. and so they have created five night life safety zones. you can expect to see increased lighting like this in those zones as well as

police patrols. now, take a look at the neighborhoods that are being impacted here. h street, chinatown, dupont circle, u street and adams morgan, streets like connecticut avenue, seventh street, vermont avenue, 14th street. now, the program starts tonight. we're going to see those extra patrols as well as the extra lighting. you can expect that to be the case wednesday through sunday from 11:00 p.m. until 3:00 in the morning. once again, police just want to make sure everybody gets home safely. back to you all in the studio. thanks, meagan. now to a developing story we're following. an 18-year-old man from indiana has been arrested and charged with trying to join isis. he was arrested on tuesday while trying to board a bus from indianapolis to new york where he was eventually going to travel to isis-controlled territory. fbi agents searched his home yesterday and removed some items. if convicted he faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. and we're getting new details about the

orlando shooting now. a federal official tells nbc news that omar mateen bought plane tickets to san francisco two days before the shooting. the purchase was made for his family to visit his ailing mother-in-law. meanwhile, officials say on the night of the shooting mateen arrived around midnight, left for two hours then came back to the club and started shooting. investigators don't know what he did in that two-hour period. police in montgomery county are taking steps to foster a better relationship with the lgbtq community. >> we are your police department. we are here to serve you, to protect you. >> last night's meeting was believed to be the first ever of its type in the county. one of the questions police chief tom manger faced was about the murders of two transgender women over the last 18 months. >> so i'm wondering what the police department is doing going forward to make sure there's not a third, particularly considering that young trans people of color are proba

lgbtq community. >> most who attended say the meeting was a good beginning and more are being planned for the future. well, right now at this very moment lebron james and 150,000 or so of his closest friends are celebrating. here's a live look from cleveland at the cavaliers parade to celebrate their nba championship just a few days ago. it was the cavaliers first-ever title and the first championship for the city of cleveland since 1964. you know, they said they planned this last-minute because they didn't want to jinx the team. they had to scramble to get all this together. >> looks like they got the entire city out there. look how many people are there. incredible. well, you know, it's an amazing thing. >> right. they came back from a 3-1 deficit, and lebron came back to the city of cleveland and gave them the championship they so wanted desperately. congratulations. >> first time in a long time. i guess not since 1964. anyway, congratulations to all

well, it should be a law -- or could be a law that could provide a lot of comfort. it's about to take place in virginia. tell you about the new gun rule. worse than just getting rejected, why one man's attempt at a kiss is making headlines today.

oh, it's cracked. no, big crack. >> whoa. look at that. did you see that? large hail in north dakota took a toll on these storm chasers. >> no one was hurt, but the baseball sized chunks of hail made multiple cracks in their car's windshield, as you can imagine. closer to home, take a look at these pictures of the flooding that's in our metro system. this is what the cleveland park metro station looked like yesterday evening. look at that. water just pouring down the escalators. you can see all the high water all through the tunnel, inside the system and caused a lot of problems. they had to shut it down for a while to get that water out. >> my daughter was there. she sent me pictures on her cell phone but said don't worry, i'm okay. up to her knees almost in water. storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein says we're not done with the nasty weather this week, but maybe for today. when is the next storm coming our way? he'll tell us when we talk to him in just a couple

right now, big political news after losing out in his run for the presidency marco rubio says he's planning to run for re-election in his senate seat. nbc news confirmed the developments less than an hour ago. rubio was a senator from florida and a source with knowledge of the situation told nbc, quote, he believes we need principled conservatives in the senate regardless of who the next president is. right now hillary clinton is on capitol hill meeting with house democrats. it's her first meeting with them since becoming the party's presumptive nominee. this could give clinton a chance to address any questions democrats may have as the party tries to unite after a long primary fight with senator bernie sanders. right now donald trump is speaking in new york. the latest here from the live desk. the speech started more than 30 minutes ago. we're going to show you some live pictures. the topic of course is his opponent, hillary clinton, and the response to her attacks on him yesterday and his positions

the presumptive republican nominee called the democrat, quote, a world class liar. and trump said he is the only candidate who can improve the economy. >> -- the dilapidated airports or the factories moving overseas to mexico, or to other countries for that matter, i know these problems can all be fixed but not by hillary clinton. only by me. >> trump also spoke about hillary clinton's role in the benghazi attacks where ambassador chris stevens died. he said she, quote, left him there to die. eun. >> pat lawson, thank you. a bipartisan bill on gun control could be voted on as erarly as this week. this comes as four measures failed to pass in the senate. senator collins would block people on two terror watch lists from buying guns. people accused of domestic violence in virginia will no longer be

law prohibiting guns for anyone under permanent protective orders or facing a family abuse case. virginia public safety secretary brian moran says the law helps keep police officers safe. it also protects the people who are being abused. >> firearms killed 66 victims of domestic violence last year. so this is a significant number who have been killed in virginia. >> moran says a woman is five times more likely to die when a gun is present in a domestic violence incident. i'll be able to get to my stop, which is chinatown. and i'll probably be in my office actually earlier than when all the metro system is all functioning without all the shuttle buses. >> gm and metro, a shout out to you, i think you're doing a great job. >> praises for metro this morning from passengers taking advantage of free shuttle buses at the green belt metro station. right now we're i

phase two of metro's safetrack program. and it seems to be going pretty smoothly. just a reminder the orange, blue and silver lines are not running from eastern market to minnesota avenue in benning road. the potomac avenue and station armory stations are closed. check out the nbc washington app for a full list of shuttles that are available. meanwhile, the potomac yard metro station is inching closer to reality. the alexandria city council has unanimously approved a master plan permit for the proposed station that would go along the blue and yellow lines. design still needs to happen but construction is slated to start in late 2017. the station would open in 2020. maryland's planned purple line has taken another step forward. the group of private companies that will run the light rail line has reached a financial agreement on the $5.6 billion project. neighborhoods along the 16 hl mile route from bethesda to silver spring to new carrollton will change with road developments and trails. while some call what's going to

voicing concern. >> i'd lose my job, sally would lose her store. it would effect everybody in this area. >> construction is expected to pick up in the coming months all along the corridor of the planned purple line. if all goes right it could be running in 2022. a bomb threat held a plane in place for hours on the tarmac last night. investigators now say it was all a hoax. the delta plane took off from laguardia airport hours after it was scheduled to leave. it landed in miami shortly before midnight last night. delta said nothing was found in a full security sweep. they did not say whether anyone was arrested. out west a flight made an emergency landing after a man tried to kiss a sleeping teenage girl. police say they arrested that man after the plane landed in seattle after leaving portland, oregon, yesterday. the man was 23 years old. the girl he tried to kiss was 16 years old. she and everybody else i guess except the guy was

where they were originally planning to go. new developments in the flint water crisis, why top lawyers just filed lawsuits against two companies in michigan. but first, as we look live at storm team 4 radar, we're working to pinpoint when our next set of strong storms will hit. the latest from storm team 4 meteorolog

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without power in the clare don. officials say an underground transformer exploded. firefighters had to use a foam truck from reagan national airport to get control of that fire. and now to waldorf where the storm caused a house to go up in flames. >> strong winds knocked this tree which then took down some power lines. take a look at the video here. you can see how intense those flames were. the tree fell on to the garage and then the sparks from the power lines started the fire. it took 50 firefighters to put out the flames. look at the size of that tree. the homeowner is now left with $200,000 worth of damage. >> i'm devastated. i just moved in here a year ago, and to come home to this, i lost everything. >> the red cross is now helping her find somewhere else to live. just so unexpected. if you have old trees in these neighborhoods and they come down during a storm like this there

prepare. >> we have a lot of wooded areas around the washington -- well, we're in a forest. >> yeah, we call it the urban forest. we love our trees. until storms come. and it happens every time the weaker older ones as you mentioned, eun, they come down. well, we may have some problems with that storm, but right now everything is pleasant and calm and quiet and serene. there is the view overlooking the potomac river. some sunshine coming through high clouds. here's what to wear today, dress for a summer like day. thankfully you will not need the umbrella. sunglasses, sun block, you'll be comfortable sleeveless and in shorts and your flip-flops. right now temperatures are climbing up to around 80 degrees. the metro area it's in the 70s shenandoah valley and out of the mountains reagan national at 82. storm team 4 radar not showing rain anywhere in our vicinity from the beaches all the way to the mountains, much farther to the north and west getting some showers now kentucky, ohio, indiana, another cluster around chicago. this is a severe system that's going to be getting closer to us,

tomorrow morning. so watch out for high water tonight. all these counties in green including washington, panhandle of west virginia, shenandoah valley into the mountains, likely streams and creeks coming out of their banks from heavy downpours coming in by late tonight into very early tomorrow morning. hour by hour forecast for the rest of the day, mid 80s by 2:00 and staying that way by 6:00. may briefly get up to maybe 87, 88 around 4:00. and we'll have those high clouds coming and going. then all cloudy by 10:00. chance of a shower 10:00 p.m., but likelihood after midnight tonight and for the morning commute tomorrow some rain and thunder. here's the hour by hour timing on that. the area you see in the orange and the yellow, those are the heavy downpours 5:00 a.m. coming into the shenandoah valley, panhandle of west virginia. then it's between 5:00 to 7:00 a.m. that they quickly come through the metro area with some heavy downpours. then it settles down after that for a while, but then as we get into the evening hours this is as of around 5:00 in the afternoon we'llrt

some thunderstorms developing again around much of the region passing through as we get into the evening hours some heavy downpours maybe with some damaging winds and hail as well. then friday into the weekend lower humidity returns, highs in the 80s, maybe near 90 on monday but still not too humid, might get some storms around next tuesday. tomorrow weather alert day. we'll have frequent storm team 4 updates. all right, tom, thank you. well, if you found yourself digging a bit deeper in your wallet when you fill a prescription, you are not alone. a poll by consumer reports found that about three in ten americans or about 32 million people were hit with higher drug prices in the past year. that translates to $50 to $60 extra for drugs they needed. and the poll also found that the higher cost can translate to unhealthy choices including skipping doctors appointments, tests or even not filling the prescription. meantime, there are new concerns about the opioid epidemic and its connection to a common dental procedure. more than 60% of teens walk

after getting their wisdom teeth removed. it's often their first experience with that kind of powerful drug and can lead some down to a path of addiction. one doctor says over-the-counter painkillers -- and doctors and surgeons should not be so quick to prescribe. >> many patients never need or require vicodin or percocets or any of those opioids. >> the university of pittsburgh is now spearheading an effort to get dentists to change how their prescribe after wisdom tooth procedures. coming up, the teenage girl d.c. can't help but be proud of. her success despite all the odds against her. news 4 midday is back in

right now on news 4 midday we're tracking more chances for severe weather. our storm team 4 radar is already picking up the system headed our way. this after a night of tornadoes flooded metro stations and the snapping of a lot of trees out there. we had 64 reports of severe weather. >> the damage is significant in parts of howard county. a tornado dragged along the ground for 12 minutes before finally breaking up. wbal's omar jimenez shows us how it looks right now. >> reporter: good morning, guys.

across howard county, and there will be a lot for families to clean up in the aftermath of this tornado. in woodbine a family, teen and mom were at a farm when it came through. some of the trees snapped in half, others were pulled from the roofs. the chimney from their house was on the ground. one of the teens was riding a horse nearby when the rain, thunder and lightning started. just south of there here in glen elk a tree ripped through a family's home. the family's been there for 25 years. and they saw the tree go through there. the tree sliced through where an 18-year-old and 21-year-old were at some point during the storm. they were on opposite ends of the house, thankfully, at the time. and each escaped shaken up but unscratched. the family car also looks to be totalled. >> my two kids were inside. and one was right underneath where the tree is, so none of this means anything to me. you know, the damage. that could have been shi

doing right now. so i take that into consideration and i don't worry about any of this. >> reporter: the family says while it won't be the same, it will be okay and they do plan on rebuilding the home. from howard county this morning, omar jimenez, wbal tv news. the big story out in california the big wildfires forcing people out of their homes. the good news the fire in santa barbara county is more than 80% contained now at this hour at least. and it could be completely contained by midnight tonight, we're being told. the two fires closest to los angeles were blowing bigger this morning causing more evacuations, about 700 firefighters are attacking them with helicopters. better weather could make a difference as they try to keep et under control. a texas man is in prison charged with manslaughter in the death of his 6-month-old daughter. police say michael bedford left his daughter in a hot car when they arrived on the scene they found her unresponsive a

he's being held on a $20,000 bond. just into the live desk, another lawsuit over the water crisis in flint, michigan. there's been a lot of finger pointing of course. this time michigan's attorney general says two companies are at fault for the lead in the town's water supply. the companies are violia north america and rockwood andrews. the attorney general says they were hired by flint and the state when the town switched its water source two years ago. and the a.g. says that led to the problem. he says not only did their actions start the whole crisis, but he says they allowed it to, quote, continue and to worsen. earlier this year the state filed criminal charges against two environmental regulators along with the city of flint's water employees. at the live desk, back to you. and now to a controversial new study involving the effects of antidepressants on young

how it could effect treatment options is dr. joshua weiner, good morning. tell us about this new study. >> let me first start out by saying the cdc has done studies and found one in 12 kids, 8% of kids roughly in high school each year will make a suicide attempt. and the majority of those kids are doing that because of depression. when we're talking about treatments for depression for teenagers and young kids, this is a really important topic. so this study was a study that actually analyzed 34 previous studies looking at the use of 14 different antidepressants for kids in treating depression. essentially the bottom line is they found that the only antidepressant that was shown to be significantly better than placebo was prozac. all the other medications they did not find to be significantly better than placebo. >> that's incredible. let me back up just a little and ask you, do most children who

parents aware that there is a problem before this happens? >> sometimes yes, and sometimes no. i have had patients who have been hanging out with their parents, cooking meals for the week and talking about things they're going to do in the upcoming week who then an hour or two later make a suicide attempt. with that said, most of the time if you look back and you find out that your child has made a suicide attempt -- and let me say there have been times where some kids in my practice have talked about having made suicide attempts and never having told anyone. they took a bunch of tylenol or aspirin, sick the next day, the parents wonder why they don't tell them i took this in a suicide attempt. sometimes there are clear signs and other times there are not. >> we know now we have a treatment that could possibly work, but what would you say to a parent? what should they watch out for to know if their young child is depressed? >> well, this is obviously very hard. and i think you just have to trust your gut as a parent. if you see a major change in your child's personality, partil

more irritable, talking about not liking life, saying i wish i were dead, things like that, declining grades, et cetera, withdrawing from friends, you want to take it to the next level and you want to get them to speak with somebody to find out whether they're depressed. >> this prozac, does it work for anxiety for kids worried about taking tests and that kind of thing? >> antidepressant medications, all of them for the most part, all the most commonly prescribed ones are also frequently used to treat anxiety disorders. this study was only looking at the effectiveness for treating major depression. so when it comes to treating anxiety disorders, we don't have one of these large studies, that i'm aware of, that's looked at the effectiveness of all these medications. what i can speak to what i see in my practice which is that these medications for the majority of patients work very well. when i see kids with depression, i always put them on prozac as my first choice medication. >> just one last quick question, what about nonmedicati

problems like these? >> well, so the recommendations from the american academy and child adolescent psychology is you try to start with therapy first and take that approach rather than turning to medications. some kids are going to refuse to participate and not talk to a therapist and then you're left really with no other option other than looking at medication. now, there are some dietary changes, exercise, et cetera, looking at the stres sors in their life, seeing if some of those can be lessened. but medication really needs to be considered as an option. and one that parents should not be horribly afraid of utilizing. because these medications work very well while in this case prozac or its generic work very well and vast majority of kids tolerate without any difficulties. >> all right. dr. joshua weiner, thank you. >> my pleasure. >> back to you. thank you. live back to cleveland now where the city is reveling its first nba championship since the 1960s. apnt

planning this party just a couple of days ago because they didn't want to jinx the final game. they won it in fine fashion too. lebron james now has three nba championships coming back to the cavs. still to come, if the words buttercream don't make your mouth water, we have the treats we're sampling in our studio and i talk one-on-one with the woman behind the business. and one of the most dramatic rescues of all time. the latest on an e

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and hours to get to him, or her, to get there, the conditions at the south pole are about 75 degrees below zero fahrenheit. and that can be dangerous for planes and their fuel. fuel could freeze at that temperature. >> the last report i heard said there might have been a second patient down there too, we haven't had that confirmed. but there might be more than just one person who needed to get out of there. >> some brutal conditions. yeah, hi, tom. >> yeah, it's the pit of winter down there now. we're starting summer. and now temperatures are cli climbing into the 80s around much of the region. we've got still low humidity in place, nice reprieve from the steaminess we had yesterday and the storminess, there's the sky over the potomac river off to a pleasant start on this wednesday morning. the temperature now up around 80 in the metro area. then by 2:00 ought to be in the mid 80s. then maybe mid afternoon jump up to around 88 or so. back down to the mid 80s by 6:00

going. they're going all cloudy tonight, there's a small chance of a shower by 10:00 p.m. temperatures by then back into the upper 70s. likelihood of some showers and downpours coming through tomorrow morning, mainly in virginia but close to the metro area. we'll be in the low 70s by dawn tomorrow. nothing on storm team 4 radar now, all clear from the beaches to the mountains. a beautiful june day underway. but we do have these downpours coming into kentucky. that's going to track well to our south here over the next several hours into the afternoon. but this cluster here up near chicago that's going to be on a track to get closer to us. that's going to be arriving here by late tonight into tomorrow morning. so there's a flash flood watch all these counties in the dark green colors, shenandoah valley, panhandle of west virginia, washington county, western maryland, watch out for high water there late tonight after midnight tonight. here's the new hour by hour timing, this is as of 2:00 a.m. all the area you see in the color heavy downpours in the orange and yellows, that's by 5:00 a.m. coming into the

west virginia. after that it gets closer to washington and get heavy downpours quickly coming through around 5:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. but much of the heavy rain southern maryland, northern neck after that. then we settle down for a while during the middle part of the day by 11:00 a.m. maybe a little sun breaking out. and into the afternoon. but then it's later in the afternoon by 5:00 p.m. we start to see some thunderstorms firing up. and then a line coming down from the north into the evening hours tomorrow. it's all gone though on friday. highs reaching the low 80s with low humidity back. it is a weather alert day tomorrow, so during the storminess we'll have frequent storm team 4 updates. low humidity in place friday into the weekend looks great with sunshine around with highs in the 80s. next chance of storms next week maybe on tuesday. that's the way it looks. thank you, tom. >> a mellon man shares his story following a young actor's death that could be linked to recalls in millions of vehicles. coming up, why it has safety advocates outraged. but first, the story people can't get enough of on our nbc washington app.

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place. great, mind if i have another taste? not at all mmm you're all right bud? never better i don't know if he likes that. yeah part of the complete breakfast well, if you are trying to satisfy your sweet tooth, there is a new bakery in town that is sure to hit the spot. butter cream bake shop recently opened in the shaw neighborhood in northwest washington. and for award winning pastry chef tiffany opening the store front was a dream come true. tiffany, good to see you and thanks for joining us as always. >> thanks for having me. >> you know

i do, just for full disclosure, you've created a number of delicious desserts at a number of restaurants, but there is your first own store. >> it is. >> tell us why this was important to you. >> just my whole career i always wanted to break out on my own. i think for a pastry chef in the restaurant you're kind of the punctuation on the meal, but now it's the pastry show. it's great. >> your creations are as beautiful as delicious. >> thank you. >> tell us how you make the designs? >> it all kinds of happens with the clients. we base a lot of what we do as what they're looking to explain as part of their relationship or things they love in their life. we really work with each person so kind of hard to say, but as far as desserts go we make things we like to eat. >> definitely. you brought some signature treats with you. >> we did. >> this is your flaky on top, scone in the middle and my ultimate favorite nutella homemade, i'm telling you they're amazing. but today you're going to make us a strawberry rhubarb pie, the time of year.

a lot of people are super scared of pie crusts, but i always tell them don't be scared. if it doesn't look beautiful, it's going to be rustic and taste great. >> that's the trickiest part, right? >> it's a matter of practice try not to sweat it too much and honestly if you don't want to make the crust, just make everything with the fruit, put the crumble on it and you have a crumble no pie. so easy peasy. >> so where do we begin? >> we have all the fruits chopped up. we do with rhubarb and strawberry, you can substitute any fruit you want for the strawberries, blueberries, raspberries whatever you're going to have will be great. so the fruit goes in. >> is there a ratio for rhubarb to berries? >> honestly six cups of fruit. we do four cups of rhubarb, two cups of strawberries. you can do all of one, all of the other, it's a really easy recipe. that's the nice thing about pies, they're rustic, they're simple. we have our mixture of corn starch and sugar here. that's going to be what sweetens

rhubarb is pretty tart, so decent amount of sugar to kind of get it palatable for most people. then we've got some lemons here. you can buy pasteurized lemon juice in the grocery store and that's totally fine if that's what you can get. but fresh is so much better. >> okay, then again, depending on how tart you like it, you can add more lemon, more lemon zest. >> yeah, i have a really hard time writing recipes for home cooks because it is such a personal choice. if you like it a little sweeter, add more sugar. if you like less sweet, add more lemon. it's scientific. everybody always says pastry is such a science. >> exactly. >> but pies have a little more wiggle room. >> that's easier for us home cooks who are exact with our measurements. >> when you're at home you're going to put it into a raw crust. i brought a baked one here just because it looks a little prettier. but you're going to kind of load the fruit in. you're going to dome it a little bitca

so you want it to be high on top. >> you want a big pile. yeah. >> tell us about the crumble topping you brought. >> super simple. this one is great because if you make it you can keep it in the fridge for like a month uncooked. put it on top of muffins, on fruit and corn starch and sugar and make crumble. without the pie crust it's super easy. three ingredients, flour, brown sugar and butter. >> easy. >> yes, super easy. that's it. once you got this guy pop it in the oven for about an hour to an hour and a half. you want it to be nice and bubbly and thick and then you end up with pie. >> beautiful. let me taste your pie of course. >> sure. >> gorgeous. >> there you go. >> and, yeah, the perfect thing to make for the fourth of july weekend, which is coming up right around the corner. >> that's right. butter cream bake shop is going to have strawberry rhubarb pie and key lime pie for the fourth of july. >> yes, we will. >> come and get it, tiffany, thanks so much as always. >> thanks for havng me. >>

now to a story trending on our nbc washington app. news 4's mark seagraves shows us why everyone's talking about 16-year-old destiny tyree. >> reporter: this is the room destiny tyree, her mom and her younger sister have shared for nearly two years at the d.c. general homeless shelter. >> well, that was my motivation. i don't want to live in the shelter when i get older. >> reporter: destiny was so motivated she took summer classes, classes on saturdays and even online classes in addition to her regular class work. and she credits living in a homeless shelter with giving her the focus to achieve those goals. >> d.c. general helped me be humble in life. i wasn't that humble, but it helped me be that humble. >> reporter: at age 16 destiny graduated two years early at the top of her class. she was recently among students honored by the school's chancellor for excellence. she has a scholarship to attend potomac state in west virginia next year. and she has her eyes set on grad school before

d.c. >> i wanted to be a lawyer, but as i started getting closer to -- that's what i want to do. i want to help people like me. i want to come back to my community and help so therefore i want to be a principal. >> reporter: her principal who inspired her has no doubt destiny will achieve anything she setds her mind to. >> there are times i tell destiny i don't think she realizes how bright she is. and when she does, look out world. she inspires me. she's the reason why i do this work. to see students like destiny succeed is amazing. >> oh, it's nothing i can't accomplish. the sky's the limit. >> reporter: while destiny has received a scholarship to potomac state in west virginia, she's still working to save money for books and other essentials the scholarship won't cover. if you'd like to help go to the nbc washington app and search college. in the district, news 4. this is interesting, minnesota tops the list of the best states to be a kid in. that according to a study by the ne casey

philanthropic organization based in baltimore. they assessed each state on categories like economic well being, education, health and community. in our area virginia ranked 11th, maryland was 16th, west virginia 39th and d.c. was not ranked. and it's too bad kids can't make those decisions on their own on what state they're going to live in. >> that's right. >> they have to go where their parents are. it's the gadget if you want to call it a gadget, that people go crazy over, the apple iphone. >> now we have a better idea of what is gng to be newoi

the recent death of a hollywood actor highlights concerns over new technology in millions of vehicles. >> "star trek" star anton yelchin found pinned under his 2015 gee grand cherokee which had just been recalled. in april three different models were recalled totally more than 1 million vehicles worldwide. as news 4 consumer reporter susan hogan shows us this came after hundreds of complaints from drivers. >> reporter: michael brick said it happened to him. >> i got out of the car, pumped gas in the car, just started rolling backwards. >> reporter: he thinks he knows what went wrong. >> i've owned this car for six months now and i know the shifter is very quirky, you have to get used to it. >> reporter: what he didn't know was that hundreds of other jeep owners were experiencing the same thing and complaining to fiat chrysler automobiles about their cars rolling away. by april 12 this

the car manufacturer knew of 700 complaints potentially related to this issue including 212 crashes, 308 claims of property damage and 41 injuries. april 19th fiat chrysler automobiles issued a recall of 1.1 million vehicles worldwide. the problem according to the recall notice, drivers might inadd vert ently fail to achieve the park position before exiting the vehicle. >> most people don't know they have a problem until they get out of the car and it's rolling away on them. >> reporter: sean kane says the real issue is in the design of the gear shifter. >> they designed a shifter completely different than what most drivers are used to. >> reporter: michael couldn't agree more. when you say quirky, what do you mean? >> you can go from drive and think you're going into park and go into reverse and sometimes it's in neutral. the shifter stays in one place so you have to get used to the function of it. >> reporter: the death of anton

related to the shifter issue if that's what investigators confirm. fiat chrysler says it is working with investigators and also says it's premature to speculate on the cause of this tragedy. >> that was susan hogan reporting. at the time of the recall in april chrysler did not have a remedy to fix the shifter the company says will take place in july or august. well, if you've been holding out for the latest iphone, you may not have to look much further than the current models. a "the wall street journal" report suggests there may not be any big changes on the next version. the journal reports apple will break with its tradition of overhauling the design every two years with only some subtle changes this time. this coming out this fall. one possible change though removing the headphone jack. why would they do that? but the journal says there could be an overhaul next year when apple marks tenth anniversary of the popular smartphone. one last check on your weather. hey, tom, when is it coming the bad weather? >> not until te

it's this cluster of storms around chicago, that's the one that may be getting close to us but not until after midnight tonight. that's the latest timing on that. maybe for the morning commute tomorrow you might get a heavy downpo downpour, especially in virginia. so there's a flash flood watch out shenandoah valley and in the mountains watch out for high water there. all these counties in green under this flash flood watch for late tonight and through the day on thursday. east of there around the immediate metro area we may not get enough rain for some flooding, but there could be some ponding of water especially in the morning. and then after we get into the upper 80s this afternoon it will get more humid tomorrow. storms around and low humidity returns friday and the weekend, great weekend coming up. enjoy. >> enjoy for sure. thank you, tom. that does it for news 4 midday. we can't let you go without barbara tasting our delicious strawberry rhubarb pie. >> it looks absolutely amazing. >> we have to save some for our director, happens to be his favorite flavor. isn't it amazing? >> and i'm not a big fan of

actually very good. >> worth every calorie.

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