fireworks and the person with the answers is storm team 4 meteorologist lauryn ricketts. good morning. >> good morning, guys. we're going to see if we can get you some answers to those questions. this is an ever-changing forecast. i've got to tell you this is a tough one for your monday, but just know we have some changes, but also know we are still expecting rain, maybe not as much. let's go ahead and show you what's going on out there right now. we have some rain around the region right now and as a gray july 3rd. we've had some showers around this morning, mainly south and east. we could hit some breaks of sunshine here. maybe some isolated rain showers this evening. it's going to be isolated. 66 in d.c., southwest wind at 5 miles an hour. storm team radar showing rain to the south and east. it's breaking up a little bit but we've got more rain on the way. isolated showers later on

heavier rain for tomorrow. we'll time it all out coming up. >> now to a developing story we've been following overseas. the number of people killed in two bomb attacks in baghdad has gone up to 167 people. 185 were injured. official tell us nbc news that a mini bus filled with explosives was driven by a suicide attacker and it atargeted a shopping mall and a restaurant. isis has claimed responsibility for one of those two attacks. meanwhile, investigators in blurb looking for -- bangladesh looking for clues at an attack restaurant. 20 people killed. three students tied to american colleges were also killed. two attended emory university and another at berkley. a u.s. citizen was killed in the attack and did not identify the person. isis has also claimed responsibility. turning no t

power should be restored in gaithersburg after a car crashed into a power pole. happened around 2:20 this morning. one person was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries in that crash. if you are looking for something to do later on today, you are attend the rehearsal for the capitol 4th concert. we've got more on what you need to know about those festivities. good morning. >> reporter: you can see the bunting and flags are all up here. there is the looming specter of rain. these gray skies can casting a pall over the festivities. the parade runs along constitution to 7 and 17th street. you are e

a little early because of the checkpoints. then you got the concerts from 8:00 to 9:30. the concert, smokey robinson, kenny loggens, general colin paul. the national symphony orchestra will perform as will the chorale society of washington. they are going to make the decision monday evening on whether they will call the fireworks or the concert -- and the concert. they say only heavy rain, thunderstorms, the high winds will cause them to cancel and it's been decades since they actually have been canceled. the rain date is july 5th should she be canceled tonight. a lot of people have their fingers crossed. another good thing to remember is that metro

at least for that one day. there's none of the surge closures and things like that. you'll be able to get down here by public transportation which everyone is encouraged to do. the smithsonian station, the closest. we're live on the mall. derrick ward. back to you. good news for folks that choose metro to get to the events on the fourth of july. there's no track work. trains are going to run on a saturday schedule until 2:00 in the afternoon, then they ramp up to near rush hour service levels before and after the fireworks. due to large crowds, bicycles and coolers are not permitted. you should expect detours around the national mall. metro's second safe track surge wraps up today. as we mentioned, there's no safe track work

take a look here, it's going to pick up tuesday in northern virginia. service will shut down on the blue and yellow lines between reagan national airport and braddock road for a week. the city of laurel celebrated the fourth of july last night. the fireworks show and parade went off without a hitch. saturday's perfect weather made for a great show and just may have been the best chance for folks to see the fireworks this weekend. after the latest round of terror attacks, authorities here are on high alert for the fourth of july. this is a time when millions of americans are traveling. nbc's morgan radford shows us the plan to keep the country safe. >> the nation's largest cities and busiest airports, heavily guarded by armed officers. >> it's more secure. it feels good to know that there's someone watching and looking out for us. >> reporter: trained canines at l.a.x. where there's a

>> we flew early morning to beat the rush. >> authorities at many airports will be in and out of uniform. >> you'll have behavior detection people that will be in this area. you'll see local law enforcement working with dhs for a presence out there and the airport police as well. >> reporter: at jfk airport in new york, travelers say they are not afraid. this isn't stopping you? fear isn't stopping you? >> it is not. >> we live with the world as it is today and live with the risks and what happened, so we go about our living and live our lives and travel and do what we do. >> reporter: while many are focused on terrorism in the sky, the real threat may be in the car, july 4th being one of the deadliest days on the road. packed highways slowed down by accidents like this one in florida, a bus and a truck collided. killing five people and injuring 25 more.

>> i've never seen anything of this magnitude, especially this number of fatalities. >> on the road or in the air, a call for caution and security as we remember our freedom. morgan radford reporting there. the fbi interviewed hillary clinton for more than three hours saturday about her use of a private email server while she was secretary of state. in an exclusive interview on msnbc with chuck todd, clinton discussed the interview and reiterated that she did nothing wrong. >> i never received nor sent any material that was marked classified, and there is a process for the review of material before it is released to the public, and there were decisions made that material should be classified. i do call that retroactively classifying. clinton said she had no knowledge of a timeline for the review to be compl.

tweeting, it is impossible for the fbi not to recommend criminal charge against clinton. what she did was wrong. >> you can watch more of hillary clinton's interview with chuck todd on "meet the press." chuck will also have an exclusive interview with labor secretary thomas perez who is rumored to be on clinton's short list for vice president. grab your umbrella. you'll need your raincoat. it's cooler up there. lauryn is updating her forecast with your best chances to avoid showers and what to expect when you head out to enjoy the fireworks. and a wild chase. the familiar danger that played out on the streets of l.a. as an atv goes speeding down the road.

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and they can't. >> wild scene in los angeles as police chase two men on an atv, at one point during the chase, those guys were teasing the officers. they were blowing through red lights and driving in opposite lanes. they eventually surrendered and taken into custody. right now, five homes are burned and three fires are injured after a fast-moving brush fire broke out on a san bernardino hillside. it burned ten acres before firefighters were able to get it under control. one person was treated for smoke inhalation. the cause of the fire is still under investigation. about 6,000 acres of land in hawaii were burned. from a large brush fire that broke out. heavy winds prompted roads to close and caused widespread power outages. no injuries reported, several people hiking on trails had to be airlifted out of the path of the fire. let's open up the window. take a

oh, a little bit gloomy out there. if you are planning on grilling today, you've got limited time. lauryn is tracking when the showers break back out and your chances of a dry fireworks show. not so great at beaches in florida. they are usually packed. there's a major health concern that's frustrating a lot of folks down there.

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celebrate independence day, it's looking some of those activities could be in jeopardy. all parades usually start in the mid morning hour and that's exactly when the rain will start tomorrow. headed to the pool, could have some thunderstorms, golfing, fireworks, all of that jeopardy. hour by hour timing it out for you in a few minutes. a conspiracy targeting government buildings in two cities in arizona leads to a tucson man's arrest. 18-year-old mahin khan was arrested after an investigation. he faces two counties of state terrorism. the arrest and allegations are not related to the independence day weekend and the timing of the arrest was coincidence. in this crucial time for

over a toxic algae bloom. that's led to a state of emergency. nbc's gabe gutierrez has the latest. >> reporter: today along florida's treasure coast. anger. >> we want our waters back. it's summer. the fourth of july weekend. >> reporter: a foul-smelling algae bloom takes over. >> it's putrid. >> this is sad, heart breaking and devastating to our economy. >> reporter: it's been described as resembling guacamole. although a lot less aprpetizing. it can cause skin rashes and if ingested even liver failure. florida's governor has declared a state of emergency as the algae growth, starting in lake okeechobee has pud downstream. these demonstrators want the

government to buy land south of the lake to store excess water. they blame the sugar industry for fueling the bacteria. it's attracting the attention of environmentalist of erin brockovich. >> it's water, it sustains all of us. it's gotten lewd did i crust that we continue to do this. >> in a written statement u.s. sugar has said sugar cane farmers are reducing pollution and not increasing it. and to say otherwise is simply irresponsible. and a slap in the face to communities that rely on farming for jobs and security. at lake okeechobee, controlling excess water has been a challenge for decades ever since a massive hurricane killed almost 2,000 people in 1928. farther south in palm beach county. >> would you let your kids swim in this water? >> absolutely. >> reporter: tourism officials and authorities are sin ising -- insisting the water is safe 50 miles from the toxic algae.

they say the current is in their favor. >> we're looking forward to welcoming visitors this weekend and throughout the summer. >> other coastal communities aren't so fortunate. >> mo than a holiday weekend ruined, an ecosystem at risk. gabe gutierrez. 31 people in maryland have been infected about the zika virus, that's according to state health officials. the baltimore sun reports all of the cases of the were travel-related and no one has contracted zika by being by then by a mosquito in the state. the cdc is awarding the state more than $66,000 for zika prevention. a tennessee family is suing the tsa after they say agents assaulted their disabled daughter. 19-year-old hannah cohen and her mother were traveling through the memphis airport last year after a visit to st. jude children's hospital when her sequin top set off the security alarm there. her mother says sequin top. agents pulled her aside, slammed her to the gr a

disabled, what would they do to an elderly person who doesn't understand, who is confused. >> hannah is permanently disabled by a brain tumor that's left her blind, deaf and easily confused. the charges against hannah were eventually dropped. switching gears to our weather, and the cooler temperatures. the rain chances. >> it's chilly out there right now. not july. >> 66 degrees is what it is. >> we have some clouds, some rain out there. yeah, 66. we're going to take it into the 70s today. >> still cool. >> still cool. our average temperatures in the mid to upper 80s this time of year. what's going on? we're going to be complaining thursday, friday next week as we have our next heat wave possible, 90s. let's get to our weather today. periods of shower. most of us will stay

i got to tell you not only because it's cool out there, but because we've got a little of cloud cover out there. we're tweaking this forecast for you. we have about an inch of rain. celebrate the fourth of july on the fifth. that's how we're going to do it if it comes down to it. current temperatures, we said it was chilly. mid 60s right now. we have that rain rolling by that area. most of the heavy rain by the eastern shore and spotty stuff through central virginia. what we're looking at for tomorrow is still crawling through the midwest, crawling through missouri right now and into really illinois and indiana. that's going to continue to move to this area. the reason this forecast has been a little tricky because we're trying to figure out what track it's going to take. whether it's going to sweep right through virginia or farther north. this morning, it looks a farther north. heaviest rain concentrated north. for the next 12 hours,

we could have a few sunny breaks but we'll have isolated showers as we continue through the afternoon. planning for fourth of july, starting tomorrow morning off to the dry side and rain chances increase throughout the day. more scattered showers throughout the evening. here we go hour by hour. 6:00 tonight, few scattered isolated showers. and mid morning tomorrow that's when we start to see some rain move in from the south and west to the north and east. we'll continue with rain through the afternoon tomorrow. thunderstorms as well. picking up just around an inch. we get a thunderstorm, it could be a little bit more but it will become more spotty in the evening and fill back in. depending on where the spotty rain showers come, depend on whether the fireworks come or not. tuesday morning, we'll have some showers around for the first half of day but we'll get clearing by tuesday night. and then we warm up. look at that.

humidity. temperatures in the 90s to end out the next workweek. lauryn, thank you, not a gold medal forecast. bethesda's golden girl dominates. the latest on katie ledecky. her closest competitors were left in the deep end! . >> he trails clinton by six points when his deficit was one point in late may. >> he's at a significant fundraising disadvantage as clinton and her allies pummel trump, 0 outspending them by a $26 million to zero margin for the month, although some are final coming to the rescue. >> there are ways trump could turn things around in mid july. first the vp

republican convention set to start on july 18th. >> they are putting the focus back on hillary clinton after the trump controversy is over. the federal judge, the response to his orlando terror attacks and his strange victory lapse in scotland. >> july has become very important indeed for the presumptive republican nominee.

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>> she finished nearly 10 seconds before anyone else. her eight minutes 10.32 seconds is the third fastest ever in the event. >> i'm confident that no matter how the race shakes out that i can get my hand to the wall. >> she did it and that's actually not her best time. she owns the top 11 spots for the women's 800 meter freestyle. >> unbelievable. >> michael phelps qualified to defend his 100 meter butterfly from the 2012 olympic gold medial that he won at the rio games with a first place finish at the u.s. olympic swim trials from obama on saturday. -- omaha on saturday. we're watching the weather. the scattered showers that may

and fireworks. lauryn is tracking when to expect them. 2016, why hillary clinton's campaign is on the defensive and the difficulty both candidates face in choosing a vp. remembering a beloved coach. how teammates and family members are honoring an inspirational leader in their lives.

time right now is 9:30. the number of people killed in two bomb attacks in baghdad has gone up. official tell nbc news 167 people were killed. isis has claimed responsibility for one of attacks. preparations for the fourth of july celebrations continue in d.c. this morning. you can head on down to the capital fourth of july concert rehearsal tonight at 8:00. the show and firework still on for tomorrow. one person has been taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries after a car crashed into a power pole in gaithersburg. it did cause a power outage earlier in the area but spawr should be restored at this point. a lot of you want to know about this. the blob, the green blob! a lot of the rain and will it rain out your celebrations for the holiday week. good morning for you. i'm adam tuss. >> i'm molette green. you can see the rain moving in on storm team radar. lauryn ricketts is attracting when them

i'm standing on the weather deck right now, it's dry but it's chilly out here. my goodness, those temperatures are only on the 60s tomorrow. plenty of clouds around and we had some rain showers out there throughout the morning. 66 right now in washington. 65 at dulles, 64 in gaithersburg. it's a chilly start. those temperatures aren't gone up since i got to work at 4:00 this morning. heaviest rain off the eastern shore. isolated spotty showers as we continue into the afternoon. if you are headed out to the barbecue, maybe not the best pool day, but still looking good, even if you are headed out to the golf course. i don't think you are going to need the rain gear. we're going to time out the storms and rain coming through on your fourth of july celebrations. let's turn our attention now to decision 2016. hillary clinton's use of a private email server is back in

over three hours yesterday talking to the fbi. a sign that the year long federal investigation might be coming to an end. >> no campaign appearances saturday for hillary clinton or donald trump. both had other business to take care of. clinton spending three and a half hours at fbi headquarters in washington speaking with investigators about her use of a private email server while she was secretary of state. the year long investigation is looking into whether anyone broke the law by mishandling sensitive information. >> after the interview, clinton spoke by phone with nbc's chuck todd. >> i was pleased to have a chance to sit down and answer their questions today to try to bring this review to a conclusion. >> this comes a day after attorney general loretta lynch said she would let career prosecutors decide after critics slammed her for meeting privately with bill clinton after a

in the week. >> i certainly wouldn't do it again because i think it has cast a shadow. >> republican nominee donald trump pounced on the meeting. >> he just happened to be at the airport at this time. think of it. just happened to be at the airport. he was talking about golf and grandchildren. >> trump spent saturday looking at potential running mates. meeting with indiana governor mike pence. newt gingrich and chris christie are on his short list. >> it's something we'll discuss seriously wh donald, but we're not placing any emphasis on that. it's his call and he's got to make up his mind. we'll see what happens. >> republican national convention opens in a little more than two weeks. we're following a developing story out of howard county. detectives are still working to identify the suspect in saturday's double shooting. at the turf motel in laurel. meanwhile, police have also identified the victims. 29-year-old amanda doher is pronounced dead at the hospital. 33-year- d

currently listed in serious condition. please believe the suspect and victims may have known each other. still no suspect this morning in alexander's fourth homicide of the year. people who live alongside first street just outside of old town woke up to gunshots. police found shaquan hall shot. we spoke to one woman who saw the mother. >> my heart goes out for the family. the mother, and her family. >> alexandria police will hold a community meeting wednesday night to talk about this homicide. a beloved montgomery soccer coach killed in a freak accident in mexico as inspiring, selfless, humble, 29-year-old jose franco was on vacation with his girlfriend. they were snorkeling and she got caught up in a rip current. he drowned saving her. family members and members of

the team say that's the kind of guy he was. >> he was our little brother. he was -- but he was the one who took care of us. >> he was my best friend. he's a very loving man. >> he always put people before him. he was always look out for people. >> franco coached the river plate boys team. they set up a go fund me page to help his family. we have a link on the nbc washington app. search jose franco. let's take a live look at storm team 4 radar. a lot of green out there. we're getting you ready for a weather alert day tomorrow and also timing out what you need to watch out for as you make your holiday plan. he gave the world a look inside the horrors of the holocaust. we remember elie wiesel and the legacy he leaves for future generations.

welcome back. president obama called him the conscience of the world. elie wiesel's book gave us a painful firsthand account of the atrocities of the holocaust. >> he became a fearless champion of peace and humanity. we have a look at his life and legacy. >> i force myself to have faith. >> elie wiesel has the look of someone who has seen the horrors of man's inmumity to man. he saw the pain and suffering inflicted on his own father until he finally died in the buchenwald concentration camp in the freezing weather of 1945. >> i had no desire to live and i was convinced i would not be alive. but i was. >> he lived and ultimately made his way to france where he became a journalist

later wrote a book called "night" about the death camps. >> and now we have learned at least this. we cannot allow it to happen again. >> i asked him about the fact that some moremon's now in line of their treatment of other deceased people have actually baptized his father. he said he thought the action by the mormon church was bizarre. he remembered the day of his liberation from buchenwald. >> i remember when the american army's came to liberate us. i did not want to do. i wanted to cry but didn't know how to cry. maybe something in us warned us if you cry now you'll never stop. >> here you were, you that you were you were going to die, and suddenly you are liberated. did you even know what that meant? >> yes. on one level, the

disappears, they ran away and all of a sudden the americans came in and i remember there was a military officer and he said you are free. those are the first words of freedom to those who were not. they meant something to us. we didn't know how to digest those words. what to do now. >> a memory from 67 years ago. jews, you are free. gabe pressman, news 4 new york. all right. it's getting a little bit cooler. some clouds out there as well. lauryn is updating her forecast with how to dress for the fireworks and what you can expect when you go to fire up the grill. a new honor for those who served our country. the challenge of the making the desert storm memorial a reality on the national mall.

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are. is if you are headed out to the nats park, hopefully we get a win. we're playing the reds. temperatures are going to be in the 70s. i think you'll be fine. we could have a chance for light showers. anything we see could be on the light side. fourth of july, we could see heavy rain during the afternoon but could it impact your fireworks? we're going to have that information coming up. all right. thank you very much. thousands of people are going to

>> >> and as we look back at america's fight for independence, soon a new memorial could be built on the mall to honor those who served in desert storm. aaron gilchrist has a look at the effort to get it done. >> this is the whole company. the alpha company. >> it's been a lot of years since fred wellman has flipped through the old photos in the middle east. as a young army lieutenant, he flew scout operations in operation desert storm. >> we were facing the fourth largest army in the world at the time. >> iran and iraq had fought for eight years. this is a battle-tested army. >> the war sent nearly 700,000 american troops to the persian gulf after iraq occupied kuwait. desert storm was a short war that started with an air assault on january 17th, 1991 and ended four days after ground forces went into iraq on february 24th. it was a decisive coalition victory, but not one without costs. >> the weather went bad and two of my men, their helico

crashed. hal and mike. >> that's hal and mike on the right. wellman says they were two of 283 fighters who didn't come home. >> we feel that it belong here close to the others. especially the vietnam. here is the northwestern corner of the national mall where scott stump is spearheading the effort to build the national desert storm veterans war memorial. within steps of the vietnam veterans memorial and in the shadow of lincoln's memorial. >> it would be something that people would be able to see the history of our country kind of chronologically even. >> after six years of work, stump and the memorial association have congressional and presidential approval to build. early renderings, there is a massive curved wall made of kuwaiti stone. recalling the sands of the desert. it surrounds visitors with the images from the gulf war and the names of those who died. >> it's a left hook design. shows the military maneuver up into iraq and enveloped kuwait to liberate them.

>> right now, the memorial association is ramping up its fundraising efforts. >> stump believes it will cost $25 million or more to build the memorial. his group has raised only a fraction of that so far. >> we have an aggressive timeline, but we still want to have this up and dedicated sometime in 2018. >> in the meantime, stump is trying to create awareness. on memorial day, 500 desert storm vets marched in d.c.'s annual parade. it marked the first time a large number of its veterans had gathered since the war ended 25 years ago. it was a chance for these men and women to put a face on the memorial effort for the fallen and to honor their own service, the service of guys like hal and mike and wellman. i would hate for america to forget that there was a moment in time when we stood up when called and we did our duty and we did it well. >> in washington, aaron gilchrist. news 4. the desert storm memorial association expects

this year and break ground sometime in 2017 xt to learn more, search the nbc washington app, desert storm. it's considered by controversial by some but it's a program that could become a national model for helping young folks stay away from violence. nbc's steve patterson takes us to northern california where a city known for murder is now seeing a turn around. [ sirens ] >> this was once what anyone heard about richland, california. an industrial city known for gangs, drugs, most of all murder. >> there's always been homicides in richmond. >> five years ago, a radical idea to save lives. >> we're doing is very comprehensive. >> a community activist got involved. his mission was to identify young men in richmond who run the risk of being involved in

alternative. the program offering mentoring, workshops, employment help and trips outside the city. >> most of these young men are waiting for us to show up, are waiting for a responsive, credible, legitimate opportunity. >> 68 men have participated. 64 are still alive and the number of murders has been dropping from 47 in 2011 to -- 2007, to 21 in 2015. they keep their fellows anonymous even to police. what the program doesn't do is ask anyone to put down their gun. instead, they offer up to $1,000 if they stay out of trouble and reach personal mile stones. >> did you do it for the money? >> no. i did it to help myself. the money was nice. it was a plus. >> former fellow rynell robinson spent his life in and out of prison beforeni

like this program influenced you? >> if it wasn't for the program, i probably would be running around the streets, doing a whole bunch of stuff. >> he's focused on helping other cities adopt the richmond model. >> it works. it's keeping young men alive and it's a lot less costly than gun violence in this city. >> go, go. go! >> a radical approach that many here say is working. steve patterson, nbc news, richmond, california. let's keep tracking that weather. >> i tell you what. >> you are the person of the day. >> all eyes on you. >> it's a tough forecast. i got to tell you. i think any meteorologist will tell you that's working this week, this is a tough one to nail down. >> changeable. >> we tweaked the forecast. amelia is coming on later on tonight and she will tweak what

i have. let's go ahead. if chuck decides to come back from the beach, he will tweak the forecast on monday. >> we may have an isolated shower or two. if you want to go out and play golf and even barbecue later on. we could get some breaks from sunshine. let's look at the camera. we're trying to break out some sun. it might be turn out to be an all right pool day. cloudy with fog. later on this evening. i'm going to cheap a chance of -- keep a chance of isolated showers in. it's a slim chance. we're going to top out in the 70s today but it is chilly out there right now. most of the heavy rain off to the eastern shore. we'll seeing a few down in central virginia. mostly isolated stuff as we continue into the afternoon. this is what we're watching through tomorrow. tracking to the east. e

difficult, really where is that track going to go. how much rain are we going to get? when is it coming? laying down the timeline, it's been difficult. temperatures will top out into the 70s. we're timing it out for you. 6:00 p.m. tonight, we have a few isolated showers around. mid morning tomorrow, that's when the rain starts pushing in from the south and west to the north and east. we have a few thunderstorms as we get into the afternoon. heavy rain as well. we're thinking about an inch, if you get a thunderstorm it could be a little heavier. more scattered showers throughout the evening so hopefully we can get the fireworks in but i believe it does going to be a few showers on the wet side. we'll clear up by tuesday afternoon. around noontime, we'll have a pretty good chance of rain and rain and storms through the afternoon with scattered showers tomorrow night. then we heat things up, wednesday, thursday, friday. temperatures go up. not only do we have w

temperatures in the 90s guys, we've got humidity back. we have slight chances of rain thursday, and friday in the weekend. >> it's changeable. coming up, a lesson one brother couldn't pass up. how a student used his tools in the classroom to give his brother a life-changing gift. stick around.

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high school gets throoed printer. very cool. they can make all kinds of interesting things. >> and at one loudon county high school, a student had a very special project in mind. he wanted to make his little brother a prosthetic hand. we have more on this story of devotion to a brother and the dedication of a teacher. >> reporter: the story starts with this box. it's a 3ed printer, brand-new class school year to the career and tech ed class at parkview high school. when gabriel spotted it. he had a question for the teacher. >> he came to me and kind of asked if we think we can print out a prosthetic hand and i was kind of, you know, taken aback by it. i said i don't know, you know. i guess we could try. >> he and his family had been doing research to try to find a prosthetic hand for little brother lucas. they found an organization that provided the designs free of charge and he spotted the 3 d printer and took the next step.

>> he can do everything with one hand, but it would be nice if he could have two and be like everyone else. -- >> it took a little while. the first hand, a little too big, but they kept at it. >> basically, it was a matter of scaling it down a little smaller and knocking out the next one and the next one ended up just right. >> and ten days ago, lucas and his mom came many in to try on the new prosthetic hand. it was his sixth birthday. what do you think? looking at his face. it was amazing. >> it's good and like easy to grab. >> lucas is also glad kids won't ask him about why he has a little hand. >> i do not like anyone asking me that. >> lucas smiles a lot, even more these days that he can do this and this with big brother gabriel. >> able to grab things with that hand and give high fives and fist pumps like that.

>> the planet needs more people like him. for sure. >> it makes me thinks my brother loves me a lot. fantastic, big brother. all right. little lucas is going to be grabbing everything. you are going to look at a big change coming in. storm team 4 getting you ready for rain and major temperature changes. preparations for the fourth of july are under way. will it rain on the parade or fireworks? we'll tell you what the plans are. coming up on news 4.

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now on news 4 today, hundreds dead, even more hurt in baghdad. the bombings that devastated a market and the terror group claiming responsibility. you are going to need your raincoat for the rest of the long weekend. storm team 4 tracking when showers will impact your travel plans for fireworks and parades. a crash knocked out power, flipped a car and landed the driver in the hospital. the dangerous situation at a busy intersection. but first, yeah, we've been dealing with the rain here and there and it's going to be a major factor for the rest of the holiday weekend. good sunday morning. hope you are having a good one. i'm adam tuss. >> and i'm molette green in for angie goff. rain ando