five people are in police custody after shots are fired at d.c. police officers. we have more on where the investigation stands and if police think the group is involved in other crimes. following news in dallas this morning. president obama is on his way to the city still mourning the killings of five police officers. the message we expect the president to give today. and steamy summer humidity is back. a look at our next heat wave, when that arrives, that's coming right up.

police officers and five people in an suv. that group is in custody right now accused of shooting at the officers right near martin luther king junior elementary school. megan is live to tell us what happened. >> reporter: barbara, you can see behind me here the suspect's suv and there are quite a few bullet holes. i counted at least seven and we have shattered windows as well. police do not believe the officers in this were targeted, rather it appears to be a situation where the officers came upon a group of people who had committed another crime and the suspect opened fire trying to avoid arrest. d.c. police responding to shots fired found themselves under fire overnight. it happened behind martin luther king junior elementary on alabama

>> i saw it and the police saying get out, get down. >> reporter: a police spotter which picks up gun shots in the area sent out an alert. when police arrived they saw several people in an suv and that's when the shots rang out opening fire on the officers with police firing back. >> you could tell it was a battle of gun fire because it was more than one gun and it was consistent for a few minutes. >> reporter: no one was hurt but the suspects initially refused to get out the suv. they then sur rended about 30 minutes later without incident. all the suspects were taken into custody but it appears that only one has been arrested. the others however are being interviewed. initially we were told nobody was injured in this but we're now learning it is possible that one

may have sustained minor injuries. back to you in the studio. good morning. breaking news. a federal judge has scheduled the federal trial of deonte charged with sexually exploiting children for pornography. the trial will begin march 14th. prosecutors have told the court their discovery in the case is substantially complete now and we expect motions or challenges from both prosecutors and defense attorneys in the coming months as they prepare for trials. the lawyers have asked the judge to suppress evidence seized from his phones and his statements to investigators in this case. his lawyers say he has cognitive defects and an i.q. of 63. the prosecutors response to that challenge expecty

we're told. also facing dozen of local criminal charges in the case in prince george's county court. he's accused of crimes against children ages 10 to 12 and having videotapes of the children. president obama is on his way to dallas for the memorial service today to remember the police officers killed in last week's attack. former president george w bush is expected to attend the service. we have more on how the city is remembering those killed. >> reporter: with the city still heart broken and many on edge support for dallas police keeps pouring in. >> brent thompson was my friend and i loved him. >> reporter: hundreds paying respects to the five officers killed and nine others injured. those in uniform putting their lives on the line to protect others. this tribute just blocks away from where

carried out his killing spree in cold blood firing rounds and admitting his hatred for cops. >> this person had delusions and this person was committed to killing officers. >> reporter: an emotional turning point for dallas police now focusing on laying their own to rest while investigators sift through body cam videos. johnson was killed by a police detonated bomb robot. >> this wasn't an ethical dlip mau for me. i would do it again. >> reporter: president obama will be standing behind the pulpit. his comments sparking debates about race, justice and this latest tragedy. >> this killing, it has to stop. black men dying and being forgotten, people retaliating against the people who are sworn

community and the nation trying to heal and move forward. george w. bush and his wife will be at the memorial along with joe biden. we will have special coverage of today's memorial service in dallas this afternoon. we anticipate a special report will begin sometime shortly after 1:30. we'll stream the service on our nbc washington app. we have breaking news, an evacuation on capitol hill. they are investigating a suspicious package in one building, the ford house office building. they told everyone to evacuate but to remain calm. there are several road closures around the capital but we don't know which roads are closed. only the ford house office building has been evacuated for a suspicious package. we'll update you when we learn more. right

bi bit of sunshine through a milky sky over the capital. there's a live view. here are the four things to know for this tuesday turning more humid throughout the day and a storm chance increases during the day tomorrow and then a heat wave arrives on thursday, our longest heat wave of the year through the weekend and into the first part of next week. radar doesn't show any storms locally. there are a few showers trying to pop up around kul pickepper. reagan national up to 83. a look at the hour by hour timing on storms for later today, that's coming up in a few minutes. >> thank you. steven briel is about to learn if he'll spend his life in prison for killing his house mate. in may a jury foun

of stranging the student last year. the jury is recommending a sentence of life plus 11 years. the beginning of metro's fourth safe track surge caused delays this morning at reagan international airport. this time the blue and yellow lines are closed from reagan international north to pentagon city. you should hop on at another location. those shuttles run every five minutes. passengers we spoke with say they're just trying to roll with the changes. >> instead of stopping here we're going to get off at pentagon so it's not much of an inconvenience. >> i'm no longer riding but i think they've done a good job handling it so far. >> this fourth surge will last until next monday and then the next shut down will be in october. a major story developing right

people are dead after two trains collided head on in italy. we're getting this video from the scene. there's a lot of carnage there. the trains belong to a private company and those cars are crushed and destroyed. there are survivors, including a small child. this is going to involve a long investigation before we find out what happened. today d.c. mayor will introduce to help police recruit more officers. it includes turning the city's high school graduates to help, talking to them about it and looking at retired officers who have years of experience. the mayor will propose legislation that will expand the maximum age for the cadet program to 25 years old. it's available to any high school graduate. she will ask the police chief to rehigher

detectives so they can train the next generation. we're keeping an eye on new hampshire where bernie sanders and hillary clinton are together. sanders is expected to endorse his former opponent. we'll look at how this could change the presidential race. the attorney gen

woman: i have a masurprise for you.are you? man: you have a surprise for me? narrator: at dominion, 1 in 5 new hires is a veteran. and when they're away, they miss out on a lot. but they won't miss out on financial support. because we cover any difference between their military pay and their dominion salary, and continue benefits for them and their families. why do we do it? because our vets sacrifice enough. "dominion. depend on us for more than energy." ♪ stand by me.

we're still waiting afor th appearance of hillary clinton and bernie sanders is expected to endorse her. sanders is finally expected to endorse hillary clinton at this rally taking place. we're joined by mark murray. talk about hillary clinton had to do to get this endorsement and how much it will help her. >> part of it was wowing bernie sanders. they had a meeting in hillary clinton's home and president obama meeting with bernie sanders and maybe the most important part of this was the democratic platform going on last weekend and bernie sanders getting big victories when it comes to the minimum wage and health care and trade and something that he can say to his supporters we were

>> what will people be watching for at this event. >> what i'm going to be watching for is how genuine the endorsement is. sometimes you say i back somebody but it doesn't seem like someone really means it or not and everybody is going to be looking to see how sincere that is. it's important for hillary clinton, our poll found 78% of supporters said they would vote for hillary clinton over donald trump. that's good but that number could be boosted up. if that happens you would see hillary clinton's numbers go up against donald trump a point or two and that's significant. >> sanders hasn't abandoned his own campaign and isn't expected do that until the convention. >> that's right. he's not going to be suspending his campaign. part of his message has been the revolution continues and sometimes it's hard to extinguish a revolution if you extinguish your campaign.

but the lead has shrunk. is part of that due to the e-mail. >> hillary clinton's went down one percentage point and donald trump's up one percentage point. there's political noise. there's no doubt compared to last week it's a closer race but it's important to note the overall trends and almost every poll has hillary clinton ahead. >> do you think the trouble in the country right now with the police shootings in dallas and all the other shootings are having any impact yet. >> we haven't been able to see any impact. it's a story we have to watch for and see about president obama's reaction when he's in dallas today, the memorial for those police officers. but this is a case of any presidential election all these external factors sometimes matter and sometimes they don't and we have to keep muwatching. >> we'll have more on the rally at

right now the attorney general is testifying before the house committee. this is her first time on capitol hill since she announced hillary clinton would not be prosecuted over her e-mails. >> the american people expect government officials to abide by the law just like everyone else. to be reprimanded when they break the law. that is not the case for former secretary of state hillary clinton. >> while i understand that this investigation has generated significant public interest, as attorney general it would be inappropriate for me to comment further on the underlying facts of the investigation or the legal basis for the team's recommendation. >> the hearing started with a moment of silence for the five police officers killed in dallas. now to a developing story in michigan. the county sheriff says larry

shot and killed deputies yesterday. that's different from what was said last night. he said he got the wrong information when he was gordan was not restrained. several people shot while attending a vigil for a victim of gun violence. they were at a vigil yesterday when someone opened fire on the crowd. he was shot and killed over the weekend. police say the people who were shot yesterday were hit in the legs and ankles and one in the stomach but they're all expected to survive. now to a story only on news 4. agonizing moments for a family as they try to call 911 during a medical emergency just to receive a busy signal. >> the medic said to me i'm sorry fbut your brother's

the family tried for over an hour to call an ambulance. last night the backup 911 system for montgomery county shut off for about two hours. he said his brother was undergoing kidney dialysis and was having trouble breathing and he eventually called the police directly and they sent out an ambulance. >> i called like ten, 15 times. then i sent an e-mail -- a text message to 911 hoping they could get my message. nothing was going through. >> we are investigating it and that we will have answers as to -- >> a 91-year-old woman also died during that outage. the outage affected the nonemergency line from 11:00 p.m. sunday night until 1:09 a.m. monday morning. investigators think an air conditioning failure in the i.t. room caused the system to

they did their best to notify people through the alert system but if you're not signed up for the system the only way you could find out was through social media. the county activated the 311 call center to help answer emergency questions. a study found that medical errors cause up to 250,000 deaths every year, making those mistakes the third leading cause of death in this country. those numbers could be higher because a medical error is not an official cause of death on a death certificate so getting an accurate count can be difficult. we have more. >> reporter: you may remember the headlines from five years

>> unnecessary treatment and people falling through the cracks, overdoses, complications that are preventible. these are the collective causes that comprise the problem of people dying when they should not, people dying underour care. >> reporter: the doctor underscores that most of the mistakes are not due to bad doctors. >> we shouldn't look to doctors to blame the problem on individuals. we are human and we're always going to be human but we can talk about how can we design the system and the hospital to capture mistakes, provided safety nets. >> reporter: early on a monday

interns are attending a safety seminar. >> our job is to give you these tools to train you in these so that you can provide the safest quality care as possible. >> doctor mayor runs the seminar. >> we need to breakdown those barriers and do huddles with everybody involved in a person's care. >> reporter: he cites miscommunication and diagnostic error as causes of medical mistakes and he believes educatedi educating young doctors is critical. >> we need to make sure they understand it's safe for them to go up the chain of command when they're uncertain and they're trying to make a critical thought process in a patient's care. >> reporter: while the doctor hopes more fund will be directed toward combatting medical errors for the long time. >> we spent a lot of time and money on heart disease and cancer but we hav

recognize that our complex medical system can harm people just as any diagnosis or medical treatment can go wrong. >> reporter: tonight on news 4 a look at the problem of overprescribing medicines and the potentially harmful effects of taking medicine when you don't need it. mid day road work is slowing drivers in our area down. three projects you'll want to avoid. a combination of flooding, rain and tornados hammered parts of minnesota and wisconsin yesterday.

a violent tornado tore through minnesota. you can see the funnel cloud rip through a barn and toss debris into the sky. many who live there say it's unlike anything they've ever seen. >> i was shocked to see that everything is gone but it's replaceable. as long as i got my love dog. >> that woman lives in a small town that saw some of the worst damage. roofs were blown off the building and trees were toppled. a semi truck was flipped on its side. >> pretty powerful storm there. >> it seemed like we've seen more storms?

phone and they're able to shoot video and next thing you know it's online and we see it but we've gotten off pretty easy with severe weather this year but we have humidity today though and it's back and it's time to call it high summer in washington and it's going to be here for a number of days. you can see that haze in the sky over capitol hill. the radar has one shower down in culpepper county off to the east and getting a few others trying to get going your way in southern west virginia. they may move into west virginia later today. temperatures in the 80s and reagan international at 83 and the forecast for the rest of the afternoon nice to get out and visit the rose garden. sue put that on my twitter page yesterday. post your picks

or instagram. love that. the future weather into the afternoon those areas in green are zones of potential showers and maybe a little bit of thunder and lightening. that's about noon time. later this afternoon and into the early evening hours maybe a few stronger storms but likely not severe. they dissipate and really nothing much around the metro area at all so only a small chance here around the immediate metro area. highs today and tomorrow in the upper 80s and storm chance on wednesday afternoon and maybe a morning shower tomorrow. thursday, friday, saturday, sunday, monday, tuesday, highs low to mid 90s with a small chance of a storm. a greater chance for storms next week with highs in the 80s. we're keeping an eye on leaders from both political partiess

hillary clinton and bernie sanders are together right now working to unite the democratic party. republicans are out this morning announcing their agenda ahead of the election. how it's a great day for an adventure. surprises are hiding around each corner. come chase thrills that lead in every direction. yet somehow bring us all back together. busch gardens williamsburg and water country usa. vacation packages start at $50 per person. a whole other world awaits.

there they are together. hillary clinton has just walked out to an event in new hampshire with her newest supporter, bernie sanders. as you know the candidates were very tough on each other during the campaign. they just took the stage and here's what bernie said. >> secretary clinton has won the democratic nominating process. [cheers and applause] and i congratulate her for that. >> sanders has officially endorsed clinton for president and we had to put a pause in his statement because there was so much cheering. sanders is still talking at this moment. today house republicans are highlighting their election year agenda. it's called a better way. the house gop spent six weeks laying out a six part plan that touches on everything from taxes to health care reform and defense spending. >> we got

all around the country. every member of the house republican conference participated in this after consulting with their constituents. >> find out more about the agenda at better. gom sfl the army soldier who leaked thousands of documents said she's glad to be alive this morning. she's serving a 35 year sentence for espionage right now. he she has been released from the hospital and her lawyer said she'll be under close orvgs for several weeks. a fountain in orlando park is lit up in rainbow colors to honor the victims killed in the pulse nightclub shooting. 49 people were killed.

other recent events restarted the conversation about gun control. today a group of activists will call on congress to ban assault weapons. the group is delivering petitions to lawmakers this afternoon. they have gathered more than 1 million signatures in support of reforms. police are searching for a suspect in the death of a 27-year-old man who worked for the democratic national committee who was shot and killed a block from his home. it happened in the blooming daily neighborhood in northwest d.c. police say seth rich was walking on the street and talking on the cell phone with his girlfriend just after 4:00 sunday morning. before he got home he was jumped and shot in the back. rich spoke to his mother on the phone. she said he may have been the victim of an attempted robbery. >> they never took in anything so it even on top of being totally ridiculous if it was a

they set off to do. >> the acting police captain in the fifth district says he couldn't comment on whether the killing was related to recent robberies in that area. d.c. says it's taking steps to increase security at construction sites in that neighborhood as a result of recent robberies. d.c. police need your help solving a murder. they're looking for the three men in this video. they believe they know something about a deadly shooting on 18th street southeast. that happened on saturday. the 30-year-old man died. if you recognize the people in this video call police. every summer road projects get under way slowing down kmuts so this year there are three projects you need to watch out for we have been traveling around the area talking to people stuck in that work. >> reporter: when this tangled web of road work starts you and your car sit.

yes. >> reporter: one problem spot, river road in the d.c. line where a paving project happening now comes on the heels of massive utility work here. >> i don't know whether it's been utilities or water or electricity or cable down below but obviously they've had to do. >> reporter: this new repaving project won't finish up until next year, 31,000 vehicles a day impacted by the work which is often happening mid day. >> it is a pain because it would just be more convenient for everybody if they did it at night. >> reporter: in the district you can't miss the work around third street. a new tunnel and utilities being moved. it means walking through here is tough. >> a little stressful. >> reporter: what was it like trying to cross the street, it was difficult? >> yeah. >> reporter: we learned that along

new project will start next month. this project will change 66 inside the beltway for the first time solo drivers will be allowed to pay to use the road during rush hours. >> all of these projects will last into next year, at least. that project on 66th inside the beltway will start next month. there are a few showers to the west of us but no rain in the d.c. metro area right now. it's getting warmer out there but tom is out there after the bre with hotak

you may have noticed your starbucks coffee costs more this morning. starbucks raised prices for the third year in a row this time by as much as 30 cents for some drinks. we may know where some of that money is going. yesterday starbucks announced it was giving

raise come october and employees will get new benefits and stock awards. at least it doesn't cost as much as the speeding tickets you can get here in the district. if you got one of those tickets aaa says the number of citations from the cameras is up 34%. they sited 64,000 drivers in a three month period and that means about $37 million in speed camera revenue, that's nearly the same amount the city made in the fiscal year 2014. tom is back to tell us about our humid weather and how much longer are we going to be comfortable. it's more humid today. >> how many more minutes left before noon time? it's starting to get humid here and you can tell what's going on where you are with the nbc washington app. there's the haze over washington and you can tell the

has thickened up quite a bit. by 2:00 we'll be in the mid 80s. just a small chance of a passing shower or thunder shower and then by 8:00 p.m. back down to around 80 but sticky humidity and an end of the evening back to the 70s. the radar showing a few sprinkles here that are tracking to the east. most of these are going to be missing washington throughout the rest of the day today, maybe a few isolated showers or thunder showers into west virginia where temperatures are in the low 80s wt right here in washington generally the low 80s and reagan international is up to 84 degrees. i took this photo yesterday afternoon. i call these cotton ball clouds. you can post your photos on my facebook, twitter and instagram and share. love seeing your photographs. as we look here at the next several days, today's high in the upper

wednesday but we have a chance for showers tomorrow. likely no severe storms but maybe some downpours in the afternoon. here comes that heat wave until next tuesday. highs low to mid 90s a chance of afternoon storms on sunday and next week. that's the way it looks. thank you. two new study kbrs you may want to know about. the first is about prediabetes. researchers found the obesity epidemic is only partially responsible. one-third of people who are not obese have abnormal glucose levels. many people with prediabetes go undiagnosised. >> woman who give birth to their babies a few weeks early are at risk for delivering their second baby

a study followed mom's over a period of six years. those who delivered their first born at 37 or 38 weeks were two to three times more likely to have a preterm birth later. the risk was the same whether mothers delivered natural or were induced early. after the break a comedy about surviving law. how a very serious subject is getting a lot of laughs. m> why you man: hey baby, how are you? woman: i have a surprise for you. man: you have a surprise for me? narrator: at dominion, 1 in 5 new hires is a veteran. and when they're away, they miss out on a lot. but they won't miss out on financial support. because we cover any difference between their military pay and their dominion salary, and continue benefits for them and their families. why do we do it? because our vets sacrifice enough. "dominion. depend on us for more than energy." ♪ stand by me.

what. we're talking about a new play that's being called engaging, funny, sad and relatable. and it's called coping. it's on stage right now for a limited engagement as part of the capital friends festival and we want to welcome some of the actors from the show. we have rebecka and melissa and madlin and donny. thank you for coming. tell us about what the play is all about. >> so "coping" takes place in the aftermath of connor evans suicide. it's a comedy about his loved ones coming together and coping with his grief. >> is it black comedy. >> that's a really dark comedy but it's hilarious. >> i wand to find out why people were laughing. your character's boyfriend is the one who committed suicide. talk about the

go through as the surviving girlfriend. >> sara has suffered a great deal of trauma and she's deal with her ocd on top of that but she's doing everything she can to honor conner's memory but she realizes there's no right way to grieve. >> i guess with the ocd and everything there are funny moments. melissa what's your character like? >> jessica is connor's sister. she turned into his primary caretaker after their parents death and she deals with depression on top of this great loss of her brother so she's dealing with survivor's guilt in a specific way and part of her process is to lash out at everyone around her which works out very well kind of. >> do you get a lot of laughs. >> there are a lot of reactions, laughs and we have people on the front row i guess it was friday night kind of covering their

>> like, oh no she didn't. >> danny, you are described as a character who is sweet, stoned, but loveable. are you stoned throughout? >> yes, for the entire play, not in real life but lucas has decided that the only way he can deal with the whole situation is to not deal at all so he has turned to substance abuse and it's one of the reasons i really love the character is because i think we've all known someone or experienced that feeling of just having to escape from everything and that's actually i think what makes him so funny is you really just never know what's going to come out of his mouth. it's either completely on point sattire comedy or it's absurd and he doesn't know what he's saying.

sincere because he like everyone else is going through a lot of pain. >> now you are the stage manager, right. >> yes. i play the stage manager. >> you play the stage manager. >> our production has a real stage manager named patrick who is fantastic. i'm just an actor. i play the healthy part of sara's brain. sara will hold the action nld the two of us will discuss how best to proceed. >> wow. are some people sitting there just dumb founded by it or do most people know they're supposed to laugh. >> i think they did a wonderful job of giving the audience permission to laugh at really absurd circumstances that grief creates. i think that people get pretty early on they're allowed to laugh and feel the deeper feelings and to cry or just sit with their own

the subject matter. >> you have a message you want to tell us about. >> yes. if you are considering self harm or suicide, there is a service available called hope line and you can call 1800442 hope at any time. >> coping itself at the festival from today until when? >> it's there until the 23rd of july. you can find out more at coping d.c..com. >> thank you all for coming. >> hunger is something that goes unnoticed in most communities. in our area nearly 500,000 seniors struggle to find their next meal. many of those people turn to d.c.'s central kitchen. >> reporter: william knows he's part of something meaningful as production manager. >> i understand how significant it is because a lot of these meals we send out it's probably the only meal they get that

straight days. >> reporter: corn bread and pasta on the menna at d.c. central kitchen two days ahead of schedule on the 10,000 day of consecutive meals served. >> we're bringing in three shifts of volunteers a day. >> reporter: many preparing these meals once received them. >> it was that experience of fulfillment that i've been chasing all my life and he made me realize what was important. >> reporter: news 4. the craze to find pok eman is taking over social media and more. the good and bad coming

what you buy. now here is cnbc's landon. >> reporter: it's being reported th t

accident. tesla says it hasn't received any notice. small suvs do poorly in headlights with none of the 20 vehicles received the highest ranking. they tested low and high beams. everyone has been talking about that new app pokemon go and you catch up with virtual characters anywhere including catching these characters in some pretty serious places where they prefer you not be. in fact the u.s. holocaust museum is asking members not to play that app there and they're trying to get pokemon excluded from places. we learn how other people are reacting. >> reporter: pokemon go has been out for six days and it's becoming a national addiction. it surpassed

snapchat going to number one in the app and android app store but what many people don't realize when they're chasing them are the security risks that may come with the game. >> i got it. i got it. you see that. >> reporter: while the app fosters real life social interactions it can attract unwanted strangers. this 17-year-old man says he and his friends are completely obsessed with pokemon go. >> it's the status quo for everyone around us right now. how much do you have, are you high level. >> reporter: the game gets kids moving leading them to local landmarks to unlock new battles and join new teams but police warn that criminals are using the app to lure people to unfamiliar places with hopes of catching a pokemon character like this one. >> i got it! i got it! >> reporter: players and parents should be aware of an ingame

any user can create a lure spot and that can be used to draw in victims to a specific location. >> it brings people together but that safety issue is why i walk around with multiple friends because it's like i don't know who you are or what you do. this may be an uncomfortable situation for me. >> reporter: that's why these two women play pokemon with their two kids. >> you don't know whose watching your children. they have to be aware of their surroundsings. >> reporter: there's one more rule. >> i've learned my lesson on not going into the streets even if there's a pokemon in it. >> reporter: you got to be careful with this game. it takes skill. >> yes. tom? >> another great app is the nbc washington app where you can see your latest forecast. right now the radar is showing one shower here in

county. it's tracking into staff ord county. elsewhere just some clouds around. temperatures are in the low to mid 80s. later today we'll be in the upper 80s and again tomorrow. greater chance for a storm wednesday and a heat wave follows after that. back to you. >> all right. thank you. a 6-year-old caught something bigger than a fish over the weeblgd. he caught a great white shark. blake was holding the fishing rod when he felt a huge tug and a surprise at what was on the other end. >> i first thought it was a giant yellow fin tuna. >> i told the kids to sit in the middle of the boat down low and we took a few pictures and as soon as we could get it in close enough we cut the line and sent him on his way. >> it turns out that shark never took the bate. it was hooked on the boat's trolling rig. back in the water and on its way. thanks for joining us to.

afternoon first at 4:00. >> you can

♪ stand by, we are live in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. >> you have to shove it in your mouth. you're not going to be able to do it all. >> two. >> oh, my god. [bleep]. >> is there a napkin? >> that's just not cute. stuffing your face with fries i don't think is good for the ladies. james taylor, lukewarm, got the boot on bachelorette last night. look who is with me!