that stretched for more than 24 hours. first at 4, the big promise after a sit-in that put washington in the spotlight. first at 4 this afternoon, an acquittal for the police officer chasing the most serious charges in the death of freddie gray. >> the judge found officer caesar goodson not guilty on all charges. >> chris gordon is live with a look now. they have four more trials, chris. >> reporter: pat and chris, demonstrators here were angry at today's verdict here at the courthouse. they marched in front of the baltimore courthouse protesting the acquittal of officer goodson. >> nobody is calling for people to carry out

but the violence that has been carried out in protests over and over again has been by the police. >> reporter: officer goodson stood trial on seven charges, including second-degree depraved heart murder, manslaughter, and reckless endangerment. judge barry williams found goodson's failure to seat belt gray was not a criminal act. goodson didn't seek medical treatment for gray, but prosecutors failed to prove goodson knew gray was in distress. the judge determined there was insufficient evidence that goodson gave gray a rough ride. the judge said he couldn't determine that the wagon ran a stop sign from this video presented by prosecutors. the national president of the naacp says the trial shows the need for police reform in baltimore. >> we have a police department with a long tortured history of distrust with the community, so the fact that you

a conviction, this is not an exoneration of the police department. >> reporter: after three police trials here in baltimore, there has yet to be a conviction. at least one legal analyst says prosecutors should think about dropping charges against the remaining officer. >> if they could not get a conviction on anything in this case, yes, there needs to be reassessment as to whether to go forward on the other cases, which are weaker cases. >> reporter: what are the chances protesters will remain peaceful tonight and in the days to come? i'll have that story at 5:00. back to you, pat. we'll be going back to baltimore for another live report at the bottom of the hour. you can go to the nbc washington app to get a moment by moment timeline of freddie gray's arrest. most of the rain has

let's get to storm team 4 chief meteorologist doug kammerer. who is not out of the woods yet? >> we're going to see a refiring of showers and storms later this evening, but for the most part all of the rain is down to the south. things starting to change just a little bit. most of the entire area is dry right now. look just back to the south and west. an intense line of thunderstorms developing down towards southern virginia. a brand-new thunderstorm warning in shenandoah county as well as rockingham county and hardingham. that severe thunderstorm warning in effect until 4:45. we're tracking the showers to the south. not too worried about these. we could see some of the northern fringe here come down to places like fredericksburg and culr

south. we could see a couple of showers or thunderstorms later this evening. we're not expecting too much in the way of severe weather. we think that threat has moved down to the south. now is a great time to download or open the nbc washington app. we'll keep you updated on the progress of those showers. you can track the radar, see the latest forecast, all right in the palm of your hand. and i'm wendy rieger at the live desk. an unprecedented sit-in on the house floor is now over 26 hours after democrats started this protest. the capitol is a little quieter. the democrats are declaring victory. they say they have gotten their point across to the american people. represent john lewis who started the sit-in said they'll keep the

pressure on after lawmakers return from recess in two weeks. >> the fight is not over. this is just one step. but when we come back here on july 5th, we're going to continue to push, to pull, to stand up, and if necessary to sit down or sit in. >> but republicans are still slamming the sit-in. house speaker paul ryan held a press conference this morning. he called it a stunt. he said democrats were trying to use this as a fundraiser to raise money off of a tragedy. >> do you think the sit-in will have any impact on the votes congress takes on gun laws? that's our nbc washington flash survey this afternoon. call or text the number on your screen or vote on the nbc washington facebook page. president obama is frustrated. called the supreme court's decision on immigration

of families who have made their lives here. some republicans say it is vindication the president overstepped his authority. today the justices split 4-4. the vote leaves in place a lower court ruling which says the obama administration does not have the authority to provide that kind of protection without congressional approval. 26 states challenge mr. obama's executive order mostly from areas dominated by republicans. >> but for more than two decades now, our immigration system everybody acknowledges has been broken. and the fact that the supreme court wasn't able to issue a decision today doesn't just set the system back even further. it takes us further from the country that we aspire to be. >> it's a very busy day on the court. the court upheld an affirmative action plan that

university of texas can consider race in its admissions process. police need a search warrant before requiring drivers to take blood alcohol tests. they voted to put limits on repeat offender laws. it could be harder for prosecutors to seek longer prison terms for people convicted of multiple crimes. several people were arrested during a prostitution sting operation this weekend. one of them turned out to be a prince george's county elementary schoolteacher. tracee wilkins is working on this story and has more on the charges and details about the case. >> reporter: prince george's county police say that a prostitution sting happened here at the days inn motel and it ended with a fourth grade teacher in custody for doing what police are calling pimp-like activities. he's facing charges for human trafficking and also prostitution. 29-year-old martin brown, who was a teacher

langley park, was taken into custody. he paid for the hotel room that a woman was using to solicit herself for sex. >> sometimes a prostitution scheme has many moving parts, and he was one of the cogs in this scheme. >> reporter: we talk to parents about this teacher facing these kinds of charges and hear what the prince george's county school system has to say about all this. thousands of drivers and metro riders have been dealing with long-term projects for weeks now. where plans are in the works to avoid a mess when the delays move into new neighborhoods. which artist will receive e oonf

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the fact this is happening in august should make it easier. >> august is usually our lowest ridership month. these were the ones that were selected for august. they'll have less impact, but there'll still be impacts on the ridership. >> between august 9th and 18th, metro will single track on the opposite end of the red line between the twin brook and shady grove stations. right now, we're still in the middle of phase two of safetrack, so trains are not running from eastern market to minnesota avenue and benning road and both the potomac avenue and stadium arm ory stations ar completely shut down. there's no service between arlington cemetery and rosslyn. the tribute to late music legend prince. messy streets and no running water. the update we just got about a mess in one local

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new reaction now to the supreme court's decision on immigration. >> essentially the tied vote kills president obama's plan to keep millions of immigrants from being deported. brian moore has been working this story on capitol hill. president obama admitted this is it. the end of his road for his plans to reform the immigration system, so what happens now? >> reporter: this was a stinging defeat for the president, chris. there's no doubt about that. really what this does is it halts the forward movement the president wanted to have. the president said if he's going to stick by his executive orders telling federal agencies not to single out parents of children born in the united states, even though they're undocumented, if they don't have any kind of criminal history, i

searched by law enforcement, they get put on the back burner. what could have happened here if the court ruled in the president's favor, he could have gone a step further and given them work permits, help them get out of the shadows. it's a terrible defeat for the president and also for 4 or 5 million undocumented parents who had a lot of dreams riding on this court decision. >> what's been the reaction on the campaign trail? what are hillary clinton and donald trump saying about this? >> kind of predictable. secretary clinton said today's heartbreaking supreme court immigration ruling is going to tear apart millions of families facing deportation. we must do better. mr. trump says that the supreme court has blocked one of the most unconstitutional actions ever undertaken by a president. also makes clear what is at stake in november. >> a lot of people felt the president ovep

judge merrick garland, the president's nominee to replace antonin scalia, he's still in limbo. how did the vacancy on the high court play into this? >> that's an interesting question. that is what everyone is talking about today, chris. justice scalia, we had an affirmative action case in which he would have likely played a role, but also this one. he had some serious misgives about the president's action. this might not have ended up a tie. merrick garland, if he had been put on the court, would not have been a deciding factor in this case. as donald trump pointed out, it shows the court how delicately balanced it is right now. each side is eager to fill that position, which by the way as of saturday the nomination has been up in the air for 100 days. in the nbc washington app, we have the tweets from presidential candidates and other

the ruling. well, just yesterday, doug and amelia were telling us watch out because that morning commute was going to be pretty brutal. doug, you called it. it feels really good outside right now compared to earlier. >> when is the next round? >> we saw round one. yesterday i was expecting to see a round two. we may get something, but it's not going to be too big. the reason being round one was so big. no severe weather. we did have a couple of trees down in loudoun county and back to the west. all in all, we have dodged a bullet here early this morning. most of the activity was down to the south as expected. right now 82 degrees. winds out of the northwest 6 miles an hour. 70s back to the west. more clouds and some rain. this was thin

south by 9:00. now not much to show in our area. as a matter of fact, we are high and dry. i mean, just down to the south and west look at these storms that have been firing up here. flash flood warnings, severe thunderstorm warnings, tornado watch back to the west. this is all down to the south. we were watching one storm. it did have a severe thunderstorm warning with it in shenandoah county. that's now been cancelled. it developed very rapidly and now it is weakening. don't worry about that. you will see some showers move through, but most of these will be dying as they move in as our atmosphere is a little bit more stable. i'm still watching this boundary to the north. this is one we're thinking might be round two for us, but it is not gaining too much strength here. we're going to be tracking that as it moves on down. let's time it out. 6:00 notice some showers around the area. most of us dry, but still seeing m

through 10:00. here comes that front with some storms, but they kind of fizzle out when they make their way into our area. tomorrow we were thinking sunshine and a pretty nice day, but we could have some clouds and some fog early and some showers that will develop during the day tomorrow. they won't be super widespread, but i think we'll see a good chance of at least some scattered showers and some thunderstorms around. i'm not expecting anything severe tomorrow. temperatures tomorrow under mostly cloudy skies right where they are today. low 80s in most locations with scattered showers and a few thunderstorms. heading toward the beaches this weekend? not a bad beach weekend. not the best, but not bad. chance of showers on friday. breezy and cool on saturday. 74 degrees along the boardwalk. sunday coming in with a temperature of 77. get your tan down this weekend inland. sunday looking beautiful.

degrees. another chance of a few storms on monday. getting back to normal. first at 4, what's changing and what's not after that family tragedy at the park known as the happiest place on earth. hard to believe, but next weekend we'll all be celebrating the fourth fios is not cable. we're wired differently. so we wired the wagner's house with 100 meg internet. which means in the time it takes mr. wagner to pour a 20 oz. cup of coffee, tommy can download 30 songs, and jan can upload 120 photos. 12 seconds. that's the power of fiber optics. only fios lets you upload as fast as you can download.

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d.c. mayor muriel bowser said today she does plan to run for re-election in 2018. she made the comment to reporters at the d.c. democratic party's traditional unity breakfast. she hadn't said so publicly until today. former mayor vincent gray was also there. he won the ward 7 council race. many believe gray will be seeking a rematch against bowser who defeated him two years ago. in our next hour, tom sherwood will have more on mayor bowser's plans. disney world beaches are now open again after last week's deadly alligator attack. guests can access beaches one hour after sunrise until an hour before sunset. last week you'll recall a

2-year-old boy as he was wading in shallow water at the disney resort in orlando. we're now counting down to the fourth of july. a lot of you are getting ready for fireworks. montgomery county fire rescue wants to make sure it is a safe holiday. the crew stopped by our studios with some reminders. in montgomery county, all fireworks are illegal to possess or discharge, including gold label sparklers. each year fireworks in the u.s. cause about 12 deaths and a baa tali -- battalion chief was on hand to explain. >> they can cause fire injuries to the violenindividuals using r watching them. >> you could be slapped with a $500 fine. fans of prince

his hometown in minnesota today got treated to a new tribute to the latest music icon. they witnessed the unveiling of a new mural painted on the side of a movie theater. an artist from new zealand created the must recall. in april, prince died from an accidental overdose after taking a powerful painkiller. after the unveiling today, fans went inside the theater for a special screening of prince's hit movie "purple rain." this year's kennedy center honorees include musicians from several genres. [000:27:56;00]

al no staples. the ceremony itself will be held in december. we are closely watching a developing situation in baltimore right now. new reaction to a pivotal decision today. the baltimore police officer accused of murder in the freddie gray case, he's a free man now. we're taking you there live for a look at what's happening right now. our other big story, the weather.

it's changing again. doug kammerer and amelia now at 4:30, after the heavy rain we got this morning, storm team 4 is tracking another round of showers. in just a minute, an update on what to expect tonight and heading on into the weekend. we are keeping a close eye on baltimore. a handful of protesters gathered after the acquittal of a second police officer charged in freddie gray's death. >> the demonstrations have been peaceful and the police commissioner is praising the city for remaining calm. jay gray is live in baltimore. jay, what are you seeing on the street right now? >> reporter: hey, there, chris, pat.

quiet here right now. we have seen a couple of a couple of dozen. clergy members here as well. their mission -- to keep the peace. they want to make sure things remain calm here. those protests were at times loud, but never any hint of any problems here. there was a stepped up police presence here along with sheriff's deputies. we do know that the national guard was put on stand by last night just in case there were problems after this verdict. it is the second officer acquitted. six have been charged following the death of freddie gray. this evening the police union here as called for the charges against those four remaining officers to be dropped in the wake of what's happened here. that's the latest. there are some court observers who say that could be something that could happen well down the road, but right now the next scheduled trial is in two weeks. that's the latest here in baltimore. chris, pat?

>> all right. great to see scene behind you. turning to the weather, let's get a quick update from amelia draper. you're tracking some more rain. where do you see it right now? >> rain and thunderstorms well west of the area. it is looking dry during the earlier evening hours. as we move on into tonight, can't rule out some isolated showers. you can see the entire d.c. metro area, most of virginia completely dry. look at the electrical storm back in west virginia and parts of virginia right now. that activity stays to our south, but we could see some showers moving down later tonight. right now we're at 82 degrees. 7:00 still around 82 muggy degrees out there. 8:00, some isolated showers. 78 degrees at 9:00 p.m. by 11:00 p.m., we're in the mid 70s.

we only cool to around 70 overn it's uncomfortable again tomorrow. some showers now in the forecast. i'll have the latest timing on what you can expect hour by hour on your friday coming up in about ten minutes. democrats have ended their unprecedented sit-in on the house floor declaring they have now raised the gun issue to major status in the presidential election. senate republicans reversed themselves to allow more votes on some gun measures. steve handelsman is live inside the capitol. what's the latest going on there? >> reporter: chris, thanks. here at the u.s. capitol there are still no gun votes scheduled in the house of representatives, but house democrats are jubilant because they say helping their party in november they've managed to raise this gun debate to new political heights. ending their protest, democrats marched down the capitol steps to declare victory. they had put the gun issue on

page one democrats demanding tougher laws. >> the new dawn of a new day in our fight. >> reporter: all night into the afternoon, democrats disrupted live streaming on social media the names of gun violence victims. democrats demand votes on background checks for every gun sale and no fly, no buy, banning gun sales to anyone on a terror watch or no fly list. >> i'm not going to vote for bad legislation because it is politically expedient to do. >> reporter: house speaker paul ryan calling it an election year stunt by democrats. >> because it is one. let's just be honest here. >> reporter: john lewis who started the sit-in comparing it to civil rights protests that he helped lead in the 60s admitted one goal is to motivate voters upset about gun violence to

choose democrats in november. to stay home on election day. we've got to get out there and do it and turn our country around. >> reporter: democrats in a majority could mean passage of tougher gun laws. house democrats took a page from donald trump's surprising success, attacking the way congress, the way washington, does business to win the support and the votes of americans who are fed up. live at the u.s. capitol, steve handelsman. news4. there's no more water in the streets, but some people are only just now getting it back in their homes. the problems they're still dealing with after that big water main break. a brand-new decision about a classic phone you know. the question is whether part of it was stolen. a judge has made a decision. breaking news at the live desk. another victory for a virginia

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bank human. first at 4, the skies have cleared after this morning's strong storms, but storm team 4 is keeping a close eye on the radar right now. >> we have doug and amelia standing by with an update. is this going to impact the commute at all tonight? >> we're thinking the commute is going to be okay. we knew we'd see round one, but we haven't seen much of round two. >> we have plenty of clouds out there. it is very stable. it is humid, but we were looking for sunshine this afternoon to help thunderstorms fire and didn't happen. >> they're not happening. that's the case. we saw those clouds, but without the sun and heating temperatures have only been in the upper 70s to low 80s. things are fairly calm this evening, but we're still going to be tracking this system just to our north. >> that could set off some isolated showers not really during the early evening hours, but during the later evening hours.

you want to have the ull showers in the forecast mainly in the afternoon and early evening hours. next chance of rain is on monday as well as tuesday. dining out tomorrow night temps are going to be in the 70s, so very comfortable. the chance of a shower early. most of us going to be completely dry. good news there. can't tell you how many people today asking on facebook and twitter what are the nights looking like. i want to be outdoors. tonight as well as tomorrow night for most of us will be dry, but with plenty of clouds around. here we are starting off the day 7:00 a.m. the morning commute really not impacted by the weather. maybe some patchy fog out there. plenty of clouds. we'll keep it dry for the most part during the lunch hour. we'll continue to track scattered showers until about 6:00 p.m.

after that we really start to dry out and clear out for the levels. 7:00 a.m. patchy fog. 72 degrees. by noon, we're near 80 with muggy conditions. some scattered showers during the afternoon hours. by 8:00 p.m., most of us are dry at that point. still at 77. humidity forecast for tomorrow, it's feeling uncomfortable. as we look to saturday and sunday, low humidity levels. really nice. on monday the humidity levels do start to increase once again. temperatures right now in the upper 70s, low 80s. 82 degrees in washington. saturday a high here of 85. 87 on sunday. more sunshine around on sunday. chance of some showers and storms on monday. 81 for a high. there's a chance of some showers and thunderstorms on tuesday with a high around 90. wednesday and thursday mid 80s with mostly sunny skies. so this weekend again looking picture perfect. if you are heading to the beaches, water temperature now at 74 degrees.

tomorrow unfortunately not looking like a great beach day. but plenty of clouds and the chance for some showers there as well. breezy on saturday. sunday we'll have plenty of sun. high saturday and sunday in the 70s. we're working several developing stories in our newsroom right now. >> wendy rieger and jim handly are standing by with more. >> this is a story that i think is interesting because of the iwo jima memorial. one of the men in this flag raising was misidentified and the person who correctly was part of this group took the secret to his grave. we're going to find out how they figured that out and why he kept quiet. >> so much time has passed. another one we're talking about, you and have both rescued pets. always you do. we've got an nbc 4 responds

story tonight that you're going to want to hear, but his bicycle stolen. this is a $2,000 roughly bike stolen. what's happening today is we depend on bikes now to get to and from work. his was stolen downtown. i'm assuming he took it to the work. we're going to find out what needs to be done to help protect your bike these days because it is a livelihood issue now. >> finally, we have a great consumer story from susan hogan about pets. we rescue our pets, but some go through breeders. a particular person lost some money and didn't get the pet. >> what you need to ask before you go online looking for a breeder because they're out there everywhere. we have to get to the studio. ten minutes. we're streaming too. see you guys. >> all right. we'll see you in just a few.

meanwhile, the water has stopped flowing. however repairs on the water main break will continue through the evening's rush. now some neighbors are being told to boil their drinking water. boil the water before they drink it. open the nbc washington app for neighborhoods affected by the boil water notice. >> reporter: the water is no longer gushing, but there's still a gaping hole in the middle of axel road. at the bottom, a broken 12-inch water main. for people nearby, there was no water to make coffee this morning and it was off to work with no shower. >> we had no water in the apartment. nothing. it's difficult. >> reporter: no shower this morning. >> no shower. >> reporter: the main broke yesterday evening, creating what looked like a river. the water eroded the soil around the cracked pipe and blew out

the pavement setting the stage for a nasty >> i made a u-turn and took about three back roads and finally made it here after two hours. took about two hours to go through all the detours. >> reporter: now this is proven to be a very complicated repair. not only is there the broken water main, but crews learned that there are four bad shut off valves that need to be replaced as well. news4. for days, family and friends have been holding out hope for a family that disappeared at sea. they just got another crushing blow, but there's still a lot of unanswered questions. and we are keeping our eye on the radar.

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severe weather tortured parts of the m this is video out of indiana. high winds toppled a huge radio tower. the storms destroyed farms and vehicles here in indianapolis, but unfortunately -- or fortunately, we should say, there were no injuries. it was a similar scene in ohio. strong winds caused by a possible tornado damaged homes and caused flooding. the flooding caused a road to collapse and created a sinkhole. the national weather service confirmed tornados in other parts of the state. we're getting some new details in the case against a costumed man who walked into a baltimore tv station wearing a bomb. a judge says he's not criminally responsible for his actions and he's going to be treated in a state hospital for schizophrenia. he walked into wbff wearing a hedgehog suit and a fake bomb made out of candy bars and wires. he was shot and wounded by police officers. a rescue mission that went

on for days is finally ove arrived in south america after a long flight from the south pole. >> they both got sick working in antarctica. conditions were cold and dangerous. there was a good chance a plane wouldn't be able to fly them out of there, but the pilot was able to fly through 75 degrees below zero weather in total darkness to get to the researchers and get them out alive. >> pretty amazing. we're getting some new information in the search for a father and his three children who disappeared while sailing in florida. >> the coast guard has now recovered a second body that's believed to be that of one of the family members. heartbreaking news. right now as they look for the other members of the family, hope is fading. >> this is still an active search. although it is a desire situation. >> reporter: shortly after 1:00 this morning, a yellow kayak believed to belong to the kimberly family was found. a short time later searchers in

both a helicopter and an airplane spotted what could have been a flare. then shortly after 8:00 this morning a bucket containing cell phones, birth certificates, a garmin device, and cigarettes was located. yesterday crews found the first body believed to be that of 17-year-old rebecca kimberly. sadie is the girl's aunt. >> i haven't heard from them since sunday, so then i kind of figured that it wasn't good. feels like i've lost one of my own kids. >> reporter: the family who lived on the 29-foot sailboat left sarasota for fot. myers early sunday, a 75-mile father's day trip to visit a brother and work on boat repairs. when they hit a storm, ace made a frantic phone call to his brother. >> we have remained in close contact with the family over these developments.

as a father of four, i know how devastating these findingre helicopters, and boats, the search has gone on around the clock, but hope is now fading that any of the family will be found alive. >> we continue to hold out hope. there's so many factors involved and we still have hope they're out there. we're still searching. it's an active search and rescue mission. >> the coast guard told nbc news it did send up a transport plane to search the area around the island this morning. >> it can take up to ten hours for that plane to get there, but search teams are not yet ready to call this a recovery mission. now at 5:00, a call for calm after a baltimore police officer is acquitted of murder in the death of freddie gray. >> ain't no justice. it is just us. >> i have the top five reasons why the judge found him not guilty. new reaction on capitol hill

to a news4 i-team investigation. the u.s. weighing in. an employee of the department of homeland security might have been planning an attack. but we have breaking news off the top at 5:00 this evening. high powered firearms taken off the streets and we have learned about a possible massacre that was averted. this after a 17-year-old with an assault weapon makes some serious and frightening threats. >> it all started with some texts to his girlfriend. he said he was going to kill her and that's just for starters. >> pat collins picks up the story. he's at d.c. headquarters. >> reporter: he's 17 years old. police say he had access to an ak-47 and 180 rounds of ammunition. now according to court documents obtained by news4, he made threats of mass violence, threats to his ex-girlfriend. he texted her that he was going

to go to her house, kill their entire family, and bring friends to watch him do it. he said he was going to go to her school, her high school, eleanor roosevelt high school, and shoot it up. he said he was going to go to her mother's workplace, shoot it up, and kill her mother. now news of all this bizarre investigation began to unfold this morning here at police headquarters. at police headquarters today, a display of some seized guns and then a gun and violence press conference and then the chief told a bone-chilling story about a 17-year-old girl who called last week and complained that her 17-year-old boyfriend threatened to kill her, her family, and then shoot up her school. >> the gun recovery unit worked with that young woman through