. that breaking news right now near nationals park. d.c. police investigating a triple shooting there. news 4 kristin wright is headed to first street southwest between o and p streets right now. a man and two women were shot there. they are all expected to survive. good morning everybody. i'm aaron gilchrist. i'm eun yang. that's it. brazil has upset the united states. >> it is the major upset everyone will be talking about this morning. the women's beach volleyball team falls to brazil in the semifinals. we'll have much more coming up. that's the

match. stunning. we begin with meteorologist chuck bell with a check on your weather headlines. chuck, good morning. >> good morning you guys and good morning everybody. wednesday finally here. skies are mostly clear right now. the best news i can give you is the extreme heat with temperatures near 100 degrees. that is officially over. the upper 80s and low 90s. an increasing chance for rain coming our way this afternoon. shower chances tonight into the front part of tomorrow, optimistic about the first half of the weekend. >> more important than that, a cooler weather pattern coming our way. 94 for a high in downtown. 87ga gaithersburg. rain chances increasing. i'll time those out in a few minutes. i have one crash westbound 7 just after

follow police direction around this one. in northwest rock creek parkway at the kennedy center, we have traffic alternating through. taking a look at 95 north before the beltway, all lanes open. i'll see you back here in a few minutes. melissa, thank you. breaking news right now. a state of emergency in southern california because of a raging wildfire. take a look. the blue -- forced 82,000 people to evacuate their homes. firefighters suffered minor injuries. search and recovery efforts enter a 7th day at the scene of an apartment explosion. washington gas

the building in silver springs. none appear to have leaks. fire investigators say they may be able to explain what caused the blast by the end of the week. a 7th body was found in the rubble. none has been identified. also developing now, the search for a swimmer missing in the potomac river will pick up at 8:00. chopper 4 flew over the area as a helicopter look for the man near great falls last night. the search was suspended when it was too dark. near billy goat trail and did not resurface. the potentially dangerous bacteria found inside the prince george's hospital center has been found in a new patient care area. the hospital says water testing found pseudomonas outside the neonatal intensive care unit. last week, babies in the nick u were moved because of the dangerous bacteria that can cause in

place to treat the water. fairfax will swear in interim mayor the former congress -- he resigned earlier this month after his arrest in a sex for drug bust. fairfax residents had their first chance to talk about the controversy. some acknowledged the work he did for the community and focused on the embarrassment he's caused for the city. >>. [ inaudible ] >> explain to my daughter, this is -- the mayor's arrest. >> special election will pick a new -- to pick a new mayor scheduled for february 7th. calling 911 may not get you help depending on your cell phone carrier. sprint customer are having trouble making emergency calls. they're working aggressively to fix the problem. the issue is connected to a power outage andi

switch site. not sure whether it's transformer fire we told you about yesterday morning. road closures and detours are still set up around that area. pepco says it should be completed by 3:00 today. turning now to decision 2016 where donald trump gets a first classified intelligence briefing today. conducted by the director of national intelligence. presidential candidates received these types of briefings since the 1950s. director of national intellveins james claimer says they're fairly general. hillary clinton's campaign in the battleground state of ohio this week. she's expected to highlight her tax plan at an event in cleveland. it comes one day after the fbi sent members of congress the notes from the interview last month about her private e-mail server. days after that interview, fbi director james comey

the agency would not recommend prosecuting her. savannah guthrie sat down for an interview. >> she asked them to compare their experience being on the presidential ticket. >> i'm very well-known by the voters in one state. but now 49 other states have to get to know us. that part of it is very, very different. it is fun. it's a sprint. when you get added to the ticket, you do the last 105 days. the candidate has been working for 18 months or longer. today you can find out what alexandria is doing to fight an prevent mosquito-borne diseases. they're holding a meeting starting at 6:30 tonight. health officials will discuss how to prevent diseases, including zika or the west nile virus. 4:36 is

games in rio. a live look at the olympic caldron. just after 5:30 in the morning in rio. today, women's golf returns to the olympics for the first time in 116 years. the men's basketball team enters the elimination game against argentina. they've had two rough games so far in the quest for the gold medal. that should be a great game after their stunning loss, beach volleyball duo, kerri walsh jennings and april ross will take on a different team for the bronze medal. bowie is trying to add to her medal count. jamaican track star usain bolt and justin gatlin will compete in the 200 meter semis. should be great. much more on the winners and the losers from yesterday's competition. jay gray will provide a live report fro rio and we'll let you know how a local boxer did

boxing icon is reaching to his -- reacting to his match. if you are just over the extreme heat and the humidity, relief is on the way. storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell is back with a look at when things will start to feel more comfortable again. she's ready for some football. what happened when d.c. police chief kathy la near leaves. expand the save track and it coul

welcome back at 4:41. time for weather and traffic on the 1s. i think chuck bell promised a little relief. do you remember that correctly? >> i may have heard something about relief. >> yes. >> yes. it is coming everybody. today will not be anywhere near as ferociously hot as it has bnt last couple of days. still going to be plenty warm. rain chances are sneaking up. that is sliding in our general direction and rain chances go up this afternoon into this evening and most likely time to rain is overnight into early tomorrow. right now temperatures in the low to mid-70s across the suburbs to near 80 in town. the rest of the day, it will be plenty warm. upper 80s and low 90s if you're planning that trip to the beach. looks like good beach weather for sure. ten-day forecast in ten minut

traffic. >> again, westbound 7 at 395 still have a report of that crash being there. sort of near park center drive. follow police direction past that one if you can here this morning. eastbound l street still diverted to 19th street. that's that transformer fire from yesterday. utility repairs still under way. they think until 3:00 today and are hoping to wrap that up. >> taking a look at 66 going into town. no problems eastbound or westbound. see you in a few, aaron. thank you, melissa. decision 2016 will be decided in less than three months. donald trump is searching for more support. who he -- >> the more you drive, the more you pay. the new numbers just out this morning that say drivers in our area pay more for insurance than most other places in the co

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the vote on every african-american citizen struggling in our country today who wants a different and much better future. >> donald trump making his most direct pitch yet to african-american voters at an ee sflent wisconsin last night. he used the term african-american more than a dozen times his speech and said the key voting block was being taken for granted by hillary clinton. his speech came in the backdrop of the recent violence in milwaukee after a black officer fatally shot a black man over the weekend. tracie potts is tracking the latest developments on the campaign trail for us. why is he making a -- >> because his numbers are so dismal. he's got 1% support. clearly inside the campaign there's now a strategic effort to try to reach out to some of those voters as his poll numbers are slipping both nationally and in battlegrou

bringing a couple of new people to the head of his campaign, trying to shake things up at the top. more on that next hour. >> tracie, the fbi sent its notes from its interview with hillary clinton last month to congress yesterday. what are lawmakers hoping to get out of seeing these notes? >> republicans particularly who want to see her prosecuted want to go through the notes to see if there's anything perhaps inconsistent in what she told the fbi versus her testimony on capitol hill. anything that they can push as possible criminal acts. she's ln cleared of any criminal wrongdoing, although the fbi says she was grossly negligent in how she handled the e-mails. they don't think it was criminal. nothing that they've decided to prosecute. republicans are hoping to scour the notes and find some sort of discrepancy. >> tracie potts on capitol hill for us this morning. tracie, thank you. coming up on 4:47 now. john mclaughlin, host of mclaughlin group, passed away yesterday

his brash style on his talk show spawned imitations and parodies. it taped here at nbc4 for several years and included panelists talking and shouting over each other. it always ended with his signature, out of time, bye bye. d.c.'s police chief will tackle a new position with the nfl. she's headed to new york city to head security for the league. yesterday she announced her retirement after 26 years with the department. >> i feel like the transition for me now to the nfl, it is america's favorite sport. and that also deserves that same sense of safety. >> lanier dropped out of high school and earned her ged to join the department and eventually rose through the ranks. she steered the department toward community policing and under her tenure, homicides continued to drop but edged up recently. the question now turns to who will replace her. >> someone who really had the heart and the

district a safer place. >> we need to have a chief appointed that knows the city. come from the ranks of the metropolitan police department. >> lanier's last day is september 17th. muriel bowser will need to fill two big spots as she gears up for reelection. the 2018 campaign. d.c. schools chancellor kaya henderson is stepping down at the end of september. good morning everyone. angie goff here at the live desk. following a developing story. this one out of chicago. where an officer was grazed by a bullet. he was actually hit in the face. this after police say that a suspect fired at the officer's cruiser. what we know at this point is police were trying to stop a car in connection with a carjacking. a possible carjacking when the driver took the shot, they say. officers fired back. the man was not hit but they were able to take him into custody. aaron? >> angie, thank you.

people are threatening the police officer who shot and killed a black man in milwaukee. the weekend shooting led to widespread protests and violence. social media posts say it's a 24-year-old patrolman. some include his photo with his name. however, the milwaukee police department has not confirmed the officer's identity. we're learning more about what led up to a shooting and killing of a man outside of a nova fairfax hospital. the 29-year-old was just discharged from the hospital. fairfax county police say security guards were auk walking the man to a bus stop when he attacked them with a metal sign post. a sheriffs deputy tried to negotiate with the man but refused to drop the post. a woman who lives nearby said she heard multiple shots from inside her home. >> i heard the shots. i looked through the window and i see police officers were there -- >> officers began first aid and the man was taken back to the hospital where he later died. police say the dep

18-year veteran trained in crisis intervention tactics. he is on routine administrative leave as the investigation continues. three people in prince george's county face charges related to human trafficking. mosby and tara perry are charged with trafficking dozens of women through 2013. the victims included two teenagers from other states. police are still looking for a third man, joshua jones. maryland's attorney general says the suspects posed as an online modeling and escort agency. metro has extended the safetrack work currently under way until sunday. it's also adjusting the rest of the repair schedule because of safety concerns after the derailment last month. it will include seven new weekend shut downs on the orange and blue lanes. metro will announce more changes in september. it's 4:50. a columbia heights hotspot is now the second best new restaurant in the

honor to bad saint. it's a walk-in only restaurant. it opened last september on 11th street northwest. that's not all d.c. magazine -- named the restaurant city of the year. earlier this month in 2014, another restaurant won the honor. i'm telling you right now, it is so much fun. >> great filipino food and it's so much fun. it's a little teeny place. they don't take reservations. the play list, amazing. you're eating, dancing. >> wait, wait. is it a club or restaurant? >> she's all up in the club on saturday nights. >> it's a cute little restaurant. really small. filipino. very flavorful food. >> congrats to them. a new place in shaw not far from where i live a month ago. also, very good food. >> i want to try that. >> absolutely. aaron you're invited too. i was wondering

to completely leave me out. >> not completely. controller, we can send camera one over here, we'll try and do the weather forecast for you. nothing going on around here. sometimes the cameras are sleepy in the morning as well. it's been incredibly hot around here. hard to believe, isn't it? it's so far, august is 5 degrees warmer than average and worse than that, we're 2 degrees warmer than the warmest august on record, which is the august of 1980. the good news is, we're going to start eating into that temperature surplus into next week. i promise you, next week will feel nicer around here. for now, a dry start this morning. clouds will increase this morning into the afternoon and showers out here across parts of ohio and west virginia now. that's all part of a cold front which will be sliding down into our neighborhood tonight. rain chances go up late this afternoon. showers off and on likeliest from sundown tonight until sunrise tomorrow morning. timing out the first chance for rain by 4:30, 5:00.

the shenandoah valley. by 8:00 or 9:00, the rain chance coming into the metro. most of the daylight hours will be dry here in the metro. you may want to take the umbrella to play it on the safe side. in the upper 70s to 80 now. hourly temperatures will the mid-80s by lunchtime and it will be a warm afternoon today. high downtown 94 degrees. there will be more likely upper 80s across parts of northern maryland and the shenandoah valley. here's the ten-day forecast. 94 today. into the 80s tomorrow. lots of clouds around and a passing shower or two. most of the rain comes overnight tonight. the weekend starts dry. maybe a saturday afternoon shower. rain more likely for sunday evening into monday. look at that melissa mollet. temperatures in the mid-80s for high next week. you'll love that. weather looks perfect for all of us to go out to eat. how about me? i'm by myself in here. >> you're invited. >> thank you. >> southbound here on 5, the

the work zone. you can see the tiniest little bit of orange or yellow popping up and it should be out of the way soon. 66 west after the roosevelt bridge. left lane was getting by the work zone. that's just cleared up in the past couple of minutes. same situation with the accident westbound 7 after 395. i was telling you to follow police direction. police now gone off the scene. that has cleared out of the way. you don't have to worry about that one anymore. 95 in maryland from the 32 down to the beltway going more quickly than you should. northbound you're okay as well this morning. a live look at 270 at 109. no problems there. un? melissa thank you. if you're noticed a rate change in your car insurance, there's a reason. how much you drive is impacting how much you pay, especially if you live in our area. a lot of things can increase your risk for getting cancer, including your weight. but how long your

if you are just joining us, police are investigating a triple shooting. we have a crew headed to the scene there. we'll bring you an update in the 5:00 hour. we're keeping a close eye on the weather after days of extreme heat. when the high temperatures and humidity will finally leave us.

charles town west virginia coming up on news 4 at 5:00, our news 4 iteam investigation looking into the disagreements over what should be and shouldn't be done to make this sport and these venues safer. including disagreements over whether state racing officials are doing enough to protect the well-being of the horses. whether some trainers should have been booted out of it. >> there's no acceptable reason for a horse to die. we know it's going to happen in horse racing. >> coming up tonight in our investigation, you'll see some of the races that have so many people trying to pressure the state racing commission into making changes to make local thoroughbred horse racing safer. in charles town, scott macfarlane, news 4 iteam. a violent rah tack in florida. investigators say a 19-year-old florida state student brutally killed a couple. thert

his parents when he became agitated and left. deputies found him at the scene of the murder biting the face of one of the victims. >> in this case we can't establish a motive. there's just -- i don't know. we don't know what was going on in his mind. >> deputies had to fight the young man to pull him off the victims. they sedated him but he's in grave condition at the hospital and may not survive. in news for your health, being overweight for a long time could impact your risk much developing certain cancer. the 12-year study found that for every decade a woman is overweight, her risk of developing obesely-related cancers rose. a type of cancer that begins in the lining of the womb. there is another reason to cut down on the long commutes. a new study says the more you drive, the more you pay for

insurance quotes compared premiums for people who drive 5,000 miles a year against those who drive 15,000. long distance drivers pay an average of 8.6% more for insurance. the numbers are higher in our area. 8.91% difference in maryland, 9.46% difference in virginia and in d.c., the rate increase is among the highest in the country at 10.2%. it's only higher in alaska and california. all right. lot of traffic for us, too. >> lot of driving. >> stay with us. news 4 continues at 5:00 a.m. breaking news right now near nationals park. d.c. police are investigating a triple shooting. news 4's kristin wright is at first street and southwest between o and p streets right now. a man and two women were shot there. they are all expected to survive. it is 5:n