ramps leading to it. it should not start until after rush hour at 10:00 and should be done by 3:00 in the afternoon. the senate returns from the july 4th recess later today. one of the things not on the agenda, gun control legislation. four gun control measures were introduced in the senate last month. it fell short of the votes. house democratic leaders will call for a vote on gun control today. this comes after dozens of local families march on capitol hill on tuesday. families of gun violence victims held a sit-in demanding congress take action on gun control legislation. six people were arrested house speaker paul ryan will allow a vote on the gun-related bill. the measure would allow the attorney general to delay the sale of a gun to a suspected terrorist for three days. some say it's not real gun control and will oppose it. i'm erika gonzalez at the live

security compound near the international airport in yemen has killed at least ten people. officials say militants stormed the compound and were clashing with soldiers. yemen was also attacked on monday and comes at a time when they're marking the end of ramadan. no group immediately claimed responsibilities for today's attack. 4:31. new overnight, nobody waking up a multimillionaire this morning. that means you still have a shot at winning the mega millions jackpot. >> could be $508 million. play on, america. >> play on, america. half a billion dollars will be on the line in the next drawing. the odds of winning are 1 in 259 million. the powerball prize of 1.6 billion? crazy. >> that was back in january. people i

one. >> that means i still have a chance. i have to buy some tickets. why are you laughing at me? keep hope alive. >> nearly six months after that historic powerball jackpots, there are three tickets not claimed in virginia. >> you have until next tuesday to claim your prize. now, those tickets were sold at a 7-eleven on a richmond highway in morton and at a mart in coburn. it's a slim chance. >> meteorologist chuck bell is here now. greater chances of getting struck by lightning. actually, yes. >> yes, actually. >> lightning kills many, many people every year. we've had over 30 fatalities this year alone. when you hear thunder, go indoors, go to the nearest place and buy a lottery ticket. some like it

these are the days that will keep you happy. if you're one of them, heat index up near 100 degrees and could be higher than that later into the week. the heat wave continues to build with each passing day. almost no chance for a cooling shower today. looks like we'll be sweltering well into the weekend as well. outside this morning, have had a few lonesome sprinkles. our temperatures will be up into the mid-80s by 11:00 and near 90 by lunchtime today. don't forget your spf. if you're working outside, drink that extra water. i'll give you the ten-day forecast at 4:51. let's go to jack taylor now and find out how the rock creek parkway is coming along. >> it's one of those long-term projects. crews usually hang out until 6:00 in the morning. volume usually light at this hour. doesn't cause a big delay. pressed aou

6:00. if you're an early outer, if you will, you will basically find it still in place. one travel lane getting by. also, this is our first morning rush hour of surge number 3. the blue and yellow line service will be shut down between braddock road and national airport. a lot of information. keep track through the day and plan for alternates, alternates, all the nas. . a community meeting on a homicide t killed 23-year-old jiuquan hall. the victim's mother told our bureau chief that she believes her son's death is related to a nearby murder from a few weeks ago. the meeting begins at 6:30 at the charles houston recreation center. new video in this morning of a high-speed chase in north carolina. the suspect is a wanted man in our

high yachtsville weaving through traffic at nearly 110 miles an hour. this is yesterday morning. police eventually stopped and arrested him. he's wanted for stabbing a police officer at a grocery store last month. lawrence is also wanted on strong arm robbery charges in prince george's county. we're learning more about the former national guardsman accused of plotting to help isis and stage an attack. he made a first federal court appearance on tuesday. he is suspected of buying an ar-15 from blue ridge arsenal in chantilly. the store disabled the gun before the purchase after talking to the fbi. >> he seemed very calm. >> according to court documents, he unknowingly met with an undercover fbi informant whom he believed was an isis supporter this spring. authoritie

national guard after listening to a former al qaeda leader. he is back in court. what will be the political fallout for hillary clinton after the fbi recommended no charges against her for her use of a private e-mail server as secretary of state? clinton did not mention it in her appearance with president obama in charlotte yesterday. but donald trump used it in his attack of the likely democratic opponent while he was in raleigh. nbc's edward lawrence will have more on what it all means in a few minutes. p hogan will not attend the convention. instead he'll going to the crab and clam bake in chris field. he will not be voting for donald trump. there will not be an lbgt pride month. the critics said that would

promote homosexuality. instead, it will be love loudon month. they sounded off in a meeting last night. >> republicans whispered in my ear, oh, jonathan, we're not anti-gay. show me if you're against this resolution or if you're against the gay lifestyle you're somehow ignorant. >> the new resolution says all are welcome no loudoun county and urges people to love and respect the diverse community. today, we're expecting a major announcement about a product recall from the consumer product safety commission. we don't know what's being recalled but it's some sort of children's -- something that adults and children use and once that announcement comes around, around 10:00, we'll send an alert to the nshs washington app. the water scare at the u.s. capitol. house lawmakers and their staff will be allowed to take free blood tests. doctors are looking to see whether elevated lead levels are

the capitol. officials shut off the water in the canon house office building after tests showed lead levels slightly above national standards. the current temperatures around here this morning. a lot of you seeing the 70s right now. but it is about to get even hotter. a closer look at that and your what to wear forecast when we check back in with chuck bell. the fairfax county man who lost his foot after stepping on an explosive in central park. what we expect to learn in a few hours. changes are on the way again for some of you when it comes

just into our newsroom. oscar pistorius has been spendsed to six years in prison for the murder of his girlfriend. the double amputee olympic runner killed reeva steenkamp in 2013 and the legal drama has been going on since then. a couple of years ago, he was acquitted of murder but found guilty of culpable homicide. so he was sentence today five yers years in prison which was more like a year of house arrest. an appeal after that brings us to where we are today in this case. the blade runner sentenced to six years in prison for the murder of his girlfriend, reeva steenkamp. back to you. >> erika, thank you.

commissioners are listening after the one-day trash pickup program. >> the program's director says if they miss your street call 311. larger trash bins will be given to homeowners between september and december. let's go to meteorologist chuck bell now. folks are trying to figure out what to wear. a little steamy already. >> you bet. very warm outside already. temperatures low to mid-70s as you step out the door for your morning jog or run. definitely shorts and sunglasses and t-shirts today and also new on the what to wear list, water bottles that you strap on to your waist, i'd suggest one of those to stay extra hydrated. perhaps you're going out to the nationals and brewers today. it's a 4:00 game. man, is it going to be hot. temperatures near 93 degrees at 4:00 this afternoon. staying in the mid-80s past 8:00 this evening. going to be a warm one for sure. we'll talk about how long it will last and which day is the most likely one you'll get a cooling range on. that's coming up

now go over to jack taylor and find out the latest on the wednesday morning commute. >> thanks. we have a couple work zones hanging in there. prince george's county nero owe authorities are working there. the left lane getting by. 7 westbound out of the dulles toll road. work down there. should be in the wrap-up stages and clear by the time you hit the roadway. don't forget, this is morning number one of phase number 3 of the continuous work. yellow and blue lines closed down between brad ak and national. it's an unspeakable crime. a mother accused of using her own child as a weapon. she put her newborn -- for her boyfriend. >> the national convention a couple of weeks away. we're learning about changes being made in ohio. who is

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. today is the best evidence ever that we've seen that our system is absolutely, totally rigged. it's rigged. >> donald trump in raleigh, north carolina, last night reacting to the news of the day. the fbi director not recommending charges against hillary clinton for her use of a private e-mail server while serving as secretary of state. that tops our decision 2016 coverage. let's get to edward lawrence who is tracking the latest. does the fbi's decision mean that hillary clinton is in the clear now? >> eun, if you ask clinton's campaign folks, they think it is. she put out a statement yesterday saying that this case is over. it's not quite over yet. now the case has been turned over to the attorney general's office. the attorney general will have

filed against hillary clinton. however, it's very unlikely that will happen. when the fbi recommends no charges, prosecutors generally follow what those recommendations are. >> we just heard donald trump calling the system rigged in reaction to the decision. do you think that's the argument going forward we'll see from him and the other republicans? >> it is. paul ryan said clearly it shows that clinton feels she's above the law. donald trump questioned clinton's judgment also. you'll hear that a lot going forward. she said the fbi director came out and said there was clearly, quote, extreme carelessness. we're talking about handling this classified information by hillary clinton. so donald trump came out and said that's bad judgment on her part. that's probably the debate going forward. >> edward lawrence live on capitol hill for us. edward, thank you. cleveland is getting ready for the republican national convention. even the municipal court is

the court will be open until 1:00 a.m. t normally closes at 4:30 p.m. for the third time in a week, somebody vandalized the sign in hay market, virginia, a sign that supports donald trump. we told you about a group of young trump supporters declaring their private property trump country. they made a new sign after someone spray painted it. they plan to put up a new sign as soon as possible. we should learn what kind of explosive materials seriously hurt a fairfax college student in new york's central park. it's being analyzed in the lab. connor golden stepped on a bag of homemade explosives on monday and lost part of his leg. he's in serious condition. police believe it wasn't left there to intentionally hurt anyone. they're looking for a man who robbed a bank in seven corners and triggered a bomb scare there. officers say the man robbed a td

afternoon and ran. police say as he fled, he took off his backpack and put it in front of the bank. officers evacuated several businesses in the area and called in the bomb squad. the backpack was disposed of safely but the investigation caused huge traffic problems in that area for hours. maryland hopes to save the lives of police officers with the purchase of new body armor. governor larry hogan announced departments across the state would give funding for this. it approves funding for police. baltimore prosecutors are facing major hurdles ahead of the trial of lieutenant brian rice. rice is one of several officers charged in the arrest and death of freddie gray. judge barry williams ruled yesterday that evidence involving rice's police training cannot be used in the trial scheduled to start on thursday. prosecutors alleged that the officers knowingly acted against police department guidelines in their arrest of

back of a police van and died a week later. new legal consequences for parents who allow teens to drink at their home. any adult who hosts an underage drinking party in maryland can now be sued in an underage drinker is hurt or hurts someone else after leaving the party. decision comes from the court of appeals that ruled yesterday in favor of two lawsuits brought by victims of drunken driving incidents. metro is offering some students a discount this fall. the general manager says american university students will be the first in our area with the option to use a u-pass. it costs $130 a semester. about a dollar a day for the estimate. the passes allow students to take an unlimited number of rides on metro trains and buses. metro is offering the passes to undergraduate, graduate and law school students. thanks to new money from the government plans to -- the p

grant yesterday. we showed you that it's falling apart last year. it will not cover the repairs that are expect today cost $250 million. no word where the rest of the money comes from. but this 90 million will allow them to start the planning process, which can be expensive and do some of the work on the outer edges. >> looks like a big job for sure. 4:51. time for weather and traffic on the 1s. get ready for this heat wave. this is what d.c. summer feels like. >> i'm blaming you. it was fine until you came back. now it's hot. >> i know. >> i want it hotter. >> i'm not going to complain. i like hot weather. it was pretty steamy, though. >> 90-degree day yesterday. that was only the sixth this year. by last year, we had over 20 of those. two full weeks of less 90-degree days. i personally have been enjoying it. a lot of people out here

the hot weather. skies are mostly clear. a few lonesome sprinkles out there. those are long gone. a dry and quiet start this morning. if you're traveling, your flight takes you to cincinnati, chicago, st. louis, severe weather out there could slow down flights a little bit. may want to call your carrier if you're changing planes in chicago today. not much of an issue today. temperatures will zoom back into the 90s once again. here's future weather. i don't have much of anything in the way of a rain chance. around the metro area today, our rain chances are generally 20% or less. i would not count on a cooling shower today. temperaturewise, we're in the low and mid 70s across the area now. here's the way the next 12 hours will go. full sunshine. 74 at 7:00. 88 degrees by 1:00 in the afternoon. with heed indexes near 95. by 4:00 this afternoon, heat

baseball game today, be ready to sweat. it's going to be a hot one inside the stadium this afternoon. meanwhile, tomorrow, more of the same. highs tomorrow up into the mid-90s. the one change for tomorrow is i really do think there will be a scattering of thunderstorms around tomorrow afternoon to help start cooling things off. our best chance for rain this week in the scattered afternoon thunderstorm variety comes up on friday. boy, is it going to be hot. i'm forecasting 97 degrees on your friday. 95 on saturday. and each 90 on sunday. with temperatures trending down, we'll turn a little less humid sunday and monday. temperatures closer to average. upper 80s to near 90 into the middle part of next week. let's go to jack taylor at wtop's enclosed nerve center. >> good morning, chuck. we'll look at the rock creek parkway. still working. be there about another hour and ten minutes. clear about 6:00 in the morning. rock creek parkway at the kennedy nt

working until 6:00. beltway still quiet. a fabulous start for a wednesday morning. this is morning number one with continuous work plan number three. blue and yellow line shut down between national airport and braddock road. jack, thank you. a mother is accused of using her newborn son to attack another person. the disturbing allegations and how the baby is doing straight ahead. how much time do you get for poisoning a co-w

florida this morning. a mother is in jail after police say she used her infant son as a weapon against her boyfriend. 18-year-old tatiana allen is charged with hitting the baby's father with the child and then throwing the 5-month-old face down in the sand. this all happened in daytona beach on the fourth of july. witnesses called 9-1-1 saying the baby boy was crying and couldn't lift his head. >> the baby was screaming. it was face down in the sand. it can't hold its head up by itself. that's how little it was. >> saw her pick up the baby, hold it like it was a bat, a weapon and hit the male. >> the suspect denies using the baby as a weapon and says her boyfriend hit her. she's being held without bond right now. if released, she cannot have contact with the child. it is a tragedy we've seen in our area into the growing problem ro

announce that he's making america's opioid and heroin ep dem he can a top national priority. we learned that the white house is asking for more than a billion dollars in funding to help people dealing with this problem. the money would go toward more prescription drug monitoring. new research on opioid misuse and expanding access to treatment that could save someone's life. both the house and senate passed a version of the bill supporting this initiative. it's not what you'd expect at a high-end beauty retailer in gaithersburg. surveillance video shows a store clerk pouring a toxic skin care solution into her co-worker's water bottle last fall. a montgomery county judge sentenced luz lem nfield to ten days in jail. prosecutors say the suspect got off easy. >> on video poisoning their co-worker over a perceived conflict. this is not a way to resolve problems. >> lemonfield's defense

attorneys say the defendant attacked their client at a party. the d.c. city council will hear testimony over the decision to hire a new food vendor for city schools. in may, sodexho magic was picked to serve food to students after chartwell pulled out of the contract. they had a suit with the city after alleged price gouging. i am erika gonzalez at the live desk. within the last 15 minutes, we've learned that oscar pistorius has been sentenced to six years in prison for the murder of his girlfriend. the double amputee olympic runner killed reeva steenkamp in 2013 and the legal drama has been going on since then. he was first acquitted of murder. but found guilty of culpable homicide. so he was sentenced to five years in prison which wound up being a year of house arrest. an appeal after that brings us to where we are in the case

sentence for murder in south africa. but the judge has clearly found some compelling reasons to be more lenient. oscar pistorius sentenced to six years in prison for the murder of his girlfriend, reeva steenkamp. >> erika, thank you. it is 5:00 a.m. now. good morning everyone. i'm aaron gilchrist. >> i'm eun yang. we want to check on the forecast. it's a hot and humid one. >> storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell has the weather headlines. >> absolutely right. weather will have a moderate impact on europe outdoor plans today. code orange today is the air quality index. bad air quality, you need to reduce outdoor activities today. take your shade breaks today. already mid-70s in washington. 77 in annapolis and 75 in quantico. off to a quiet start this morning. heat index values near 100 degrees this afternoon. rain chances down near