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

i'm aaron gilchrist. i'm eun yang. we want to check your forecast right now. meteorologist chuck bell telling about something to look forward to finally, chuck? >> yes indeed. the cooldown is officially under way. it's going to be a warm one today. upper 80s and low 90s. compared to the upper 90s to 100 degrees it will feel nicer. it's dry, warm and humid outside. most areas are inside the metro area will be above 90 degrees by a smidgen or two. rain chances ramp up this afternoon and into this evening. rain most likely from sundown to sunrise tomorrow. currently, still in the mid-70s in potomac. bull run. still 81 now in downtown washington. highs today in your hometown, if you live in leesburg, it will be 91 today. 92 in manassas. 94 in fredericksburg. 95 into parts of southern maryland. it's going to be a warm one for sure. how about a wednesday morning commute. let's go to traffic's very o

melissa mollet. >> i like all these adjectives. as long as they're nice ones. eastbound l street diverted at 19th street because of the utility repair under way since yesterday. they think it will be wrapped up at 3:00 this afternoon. that is good to get that out of the way. westbound 66 at 29. gains ville, we have the two left lanes getting by the work zone. they say until 2:30 it should wrap up. we typically see it end quite a bit before that. this one is out of the way on 395. again, 95 coming out of the 32 area looking quite good northbound and southbound. now to a story breaking in southern california where tens of thousands are fleeing their homes because of all this. the blue cut fire in san bernardino county. it is fast moving. the flames are already destroying homes and businesses.

evacuated. and we also know that two firefighters were hurt fighting this. and looking ahead with extremely dry weather expected today, firefighters also expecting a tough time trying to get this big fire under control. aaron? >> angie, thank you. it's 5:03. we could know what caused a deadly explosion at a silver spring apartment complex by the end of the week. today is the 7th day that recovery crews will return to that scene along pine i branch road. fire investigators are closer to figuring out what happened there. meanwhile, washington gas says it has completed testing gas lines in nearby buildings. none appears to have issues. residents complained about smelling natural gas before that explosion. a 7th body was found in the rubble yesterday. none has been identified but 7 people remain technically unaccounted for. >> it's 5:04. developing today, the search for a swimmer missing in the potomac rier

this morning at 8:00. chopper 4 flew over as boats and a helicopter looked for the man near great falls last night. their search was suspended when it became too dark. the man went underwater near the billy goat trail and did not resurface. the prince george's hospital center is putting measures in place to treat water after a potentially dangerous bacteria was found in a new area. water testing found pseudomonas outside of the neonatal intensive care unit. but didn't specify where. last week, the babies were moved from the area because the bacteria could cause infections for some patients. donald trump will get a first classified intelligence briefing today. it will be conducted by the office of the director of national intelligence. chris christie and trump's adviser michael flynn will join him at that

a source tells nbc the briefing will be big picture. nothing about covert operations, nuclear weapons or espionage. hillary clinton will be in the battleground state of ohio today. this comes one day after the -- about her private e-mail server. days after that interview, fbi director james comey announced that the agency would not recommend prosecuting her. meanwhile, savannah gut i sat down for an interview with tim kaine and his wife anne holton. she noted both have been in politics for a long time and asked them to compare their experience so far and 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. and so that part is very, very different. it is fun. it's a sprint. when you get added to the ticket, you do the last 105 days, right? the candidate has been working for 18 months or

do it. >> but we are having a lot of fun. >> you can catch the rest of the interview on "today" right after "news4 today." new this morning, a shakeup in the trump campaign. the republican nominee has tapped breitbart news's to be his campaign ceo. kelly anne conway now promoted to campaign manager. paul man fort will stay on as chairman. this just 82 days before the people go to the polls and vote. trump telling them we're winners and we need to win. the overall comes astrum continues to trail hillary clinton nationally in several polls. i'm angie goff at the live desk. aaron, back to you. angie, thank you. it's 5:06. day 12 of the 2016 olympic games in rio. live picture of the olympic cal dral.

5:00 here. the highs and lows for team usa in day 11 of olympic competition. the biggest story is the upset on the beach. kerri walsh jennings will not take home a fourth straight gold medal after they lost to brazil in the sem times. they lost both sets. the first time she's ever lost a match. moving to the gym, it's a fourth gold medal for simone biles in the floor exercise event finale. aly raisman took home silver. the women's basketball team advanced to the semifinals after blowing out japan. a hard and controversial loss in the ring for a boxer from prince george's county. gary antoine russell competed against uzbekistan. russell seemed to dominant most of of the match and knocked him to the ground at one point but the judges gave the loss to him. >> i'm destroyed. i feel e

down. we got a legacy we got to hold up. i feel like i fumbled the ball. >> after the match, gary russell, sr., said his son got robbed. coming up, we'll let you hear flad may weather's reaction to the match. see him right there. >> you know, i'm not an expert and i know i'm biased for team usa. but he looked like he was winning the whole time. >> the reality is, you're not a failure. you get to the olympics. >> exactly. >> that's not for the worst of the worst. >> he's being tough on himself. so many athletes that level take those losses tough. >> coverage of the 2016 rio olympic games continues. >> here's a live look from the city this morning and the olympic caldron. what we can look forward to in the day ahead when we go live to brazil. fairfax will have a new mayor. who will be taking over after the recent sex for drugs arrest ousted the previous leader. slowly but surely t

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5:11 your time right now. we're looking for things to get better day by day here. >> chuck, i think you have a nice looking forecast for us.

say tie. i'll take a nice looking forecast. temperatures in the mid-70s this morning. another warm and humid day. this is the typical august weather. upper 80s an low 90s in the area. 108 heat index is like yesterday. right now, what to wear for the day. don't need to worry about jeans, lightweight clothes. need your sunglasses this morning. won't need the rain poncho, i'll have that ready to go. rain chances increase with time through the course of the day. plenty humid for a morning run. play tennis as early as you can. not a bad pool day. up to 2:00 or 3:00. by the time we get towards evening walk time, rain chances coming more likely. >> back to school today in fauquier county, virginia and washington county, virginia. bus stop forecast of the year coming up and the five-day outlook. let's go to melissa mollet. >> it's coming along okay here. as we look at the

can see everything is nice and open on the beltway ahead of earlier roadwork out of way. 270 here from 70 down to the spur. right now, you can go 66 miles per hour. take you 27 minutes. southbound, northbound same thing with no issues. had problems on 270 earlier yesterday morning. construction that did not start this morning. that is good. first street at p street southwest still shut down for a police investigation. that's where kristin wright is this morning. 66 live look at eastbound and westbound rolling along just fine. take a look at prince george's county, live look coming up. >> melissa, you just mentioned this breaking news we're following near national park. d.c. police investigating a triple shooting on first street southwest. news 4's kristin wright live with the latest. kristin? >> reporter: the first thing we noticed when we got here was all of the evidence markers scattered across the

down the street here on first street. you see the entire block here between o and p is blocked off because of this investigation. you probably can see the flash of the camera lights. those are investigators taking pictures of evidence down on the ground. now, the other thing we know about those yellow things that you see there, those are often where bullet shell casings have ended up when there is a shooting. it's hard to count exactly how many of those evidence markers were seen. but there are a lot of them. i think at least around 20. now here's what we know about the shooting. it's a triple shooting. three people shot here this morning. not that long ago at about 3:00. police are telling us the victims are two women and one man. now, right now police are just beginning their investigation back here live. we don't have a lot of information about what exactly went down here. but we can tell you that right now, police are looking

cream or tan colored vehicle. eun and aaron, back to you. >> kristin wright, thank you. it's 5:15. the city of fairfax will swear in its interim mayor. he will take over the top job at 10:30 this morning. the former councilman replaces scott silver thorn after his arrest in a sex for drugs bust. some acknowledged the work that silver thorn did and others focused on the embarrassment he's caused. >> worked hard for the city. he's still a -- if he needs to reach out, i'm available. i'm knot afraid of him. >> how do i explain to my 13-year-old daughter the specifics an the details of the mayor's arrest. that's a reality. this morning, the swearing-in ceremony takes place at the council chamber. a special election to pick a new mayor is scheduled for february 7th. this just in. sprint says 911 service is fully restored after an outage.

calls to emergency lines yesterday. the phone carrier said the issue was connected to a power outage at a switch site. sprint is not saying whether it was this transformer fire we talked about yesterday morning. power is still out in -- road closures and detours are still set up. pepco says repairs should be completed by 3:00 today. today, you can find out what alexandria is doing to fight and prevent mosquito-borne diseases. holding a meeting at the william ramsey rec center at 6:30 tonight. health officials will discuss how to prevent zika or the west nile virus. 2016 olympic games in rio are still going on. our local olympic champion is coming back home today. gold medalist katie ledecky will arrive at dulles international this morning. she scored five medals in rio and broke two world records. she says she'll take a break before heading off to stanford

she goes next month to go to college. she deferred a year to go to the olympics. she's looking forward to swimming for stanford. >> you wonder how she stays out of water. do you say, no pool. >> i think she needs a break for a couple of weeks. >> i think she'll be doing a lot of interviews and talking to kids. >> for sure. >> people want a lot of her time. back to rio where several medals are on the line today. >> from the basketball court to the track team, team usa looks to add hardware to the 84 medals we already have. jay gray in rio with more on what's ahead? >> reporter: good morning to you air on, eun. great to talk to you this morning as well. the oouts looking it add to the medal count when it comes to track and field. strong american hopefuls. we should see a medal from the track today. we won't see any medal when it comes to beach volleyball as far

kerri walsh jennings and april ross booted out of the gold medal match losing to the home team, brazil last night. also today, women's golf tees off. that will be exciting. a lot of american chances there. we also have men's basketball. they're battling argentina in the quarterfinals. they've been a little shaky believe it or not. they won nair last game by three points. argentina is a team that's always given them fits. it should be interesting to see how they do there. also in the combat sports, boxing and wrestling, the american women getting under way as well. should be a great day here in rio. hopefully team usa continues along their winning way. that is the latest live in rio. back to you guys. >> we're looking forward to it. jay gray live for us. thank you, jay. >> you can watch the primetime olympic events starting at 7:00 p.m. at the museum on pennsylvania avenue. you must be 21 or over to attend. check out nbc washington's app for a

happening all over the city through the olympics. follow wendy rieger on twitter and facebook and see all the behind the scenes events happening in rio. she can also -- you can also catch her live report tonight on news 4 at 5:00. it's the first day of school for students in two school districts in our area. students in washington county, maryland and fauquier county, virginia. will begin their school years today. this will be the first full school year where most washington county students will be assigned an ipad. news 4 is working for you in the community helping students get -- in need start the school year off right. eun and i were among folks packing backpacks with school supplies to help thousands of students in our area. you can join in this effort. if you want to donate online, we have a link on how to give an the nbc washington app. search backpack for kids. so this is something we do

in different places, different schools to help out. just to make sure that kids who might not have essentials, the little things, get those things to start the school year. without worrying about it. >> it makes a difrpts when you're metropolitanly prepared. if you have the tools going in, you feel better about it as well. >> good work, aaron. >> and you. >> if we could only get chuck to do better work. the forecast is not kids standing at the bus stop sweating, dripping sweat. >> did you hear that, that was them back on the bus ride over here. >> not pleasant at all. i got your bus stop weather for you kiddos. back to school you go. hope flip a successful school year for all the kiddos headed back in. bus stop weather in fauquier county and washington county. 78 degrees by 8:00 and 80 degrees by 9:00. outdoor recess for the kids today, that's an excellent way to get it going. it will still be hot today, but not as horrible as it's been. skies are mostly clear here early this

still 80 degrees at national airport. it's been a mild stretch here into the early morning hours. 79 in prince george's county right now. 74 in bull run. 72 in leesburg. not much of a rain threat during the first half of the day today. rain chances gradually climb with time into this evening. weather front across parts of ohio and pennsylvania. that slide in our direction, it's not going to come blasting through. not much of a severe weather threat. individual storm could pack a punch. a low to moderate impact on your outdoor plans for today. temperatures upper 80s to around 90 degrees. future weather timing it out. dry at 11:00 a.m. as we get towards 3:00 or 4:00, showers more likely. kids coming home in maryland may have to contend with a shower or two. 8:00, 9:00 this evening. that i think will be the best time. between sundown and midnight,

rain chances linger overnight into early tomorrow morning. tomorrow during the course of the day, skies go from mostly cloudy in the morning to partly to mostly sunny in the afternoon. might be able to bubble up one or two afternoon showers tomorrow. by and large, most of your thursday will be rain-free. there's the next five days. 94 today but only in the 80s tomorrow with a clearing sky. up into the low 90s on friday. into the weekend, we go. both days highs near 90. a slight chance for a shower saturday afternoon. a little better chance coming up on sunday. see you in a few more minutes with a check on the four things to know about the forecast and our ten-day outlook which looks cooler. that's at 51 after. eastbound l street, we're diverted there at 19th street because of that transformer fire from yesterday. those utility repairs under way. they think they'll be wrapped up around 3:00 this afternoon. beltway overall, no problems. everything is nice and green. taking a look at 95 in virginia. quantico to the beltway. going to take you 18 minutes right now.

northbound. southbound also looking quite good this morning. as for safetrack, worth repeating a couple times. single track between shady grove and twin brook now there august 21. the other addition is the 20th and 21st shut down between shady grove and grove nor. it is a crash that will have you double-checking every intersection you go through. how it wept down and how the drivers managed to escape. metro extends the safetrack surge. but it could have a ripple effect. the chaes you need to knowng

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people nearby pulled the woman out of the van. they needed special tools to get a man out. both are still in the hospital. unclear whether the truck driver was hurt. how the crash happened is still under investigation. starting today, law enforcement agencies across the country will mobilize to curb drunk driving. the drive sober or get pulled over initiative takes effect today through labor day. you will see more ads and social media campaigns and increasing policing on the roads. news for your heflt now, strollers may not be as safe as you think. a report says more than 350,000 children were hurt in strollers between 1990 and 2010. one-third of the kids suffered concussions after hitting their heads. experts say it's important to buckle up your child into his or her stroller at all tiles. don't hang heavy items on the handles that could cause them to tip over, tip backward. the child hits their head on the ground, be sure to get a model

weight limit. see this all the time. want to show you some current temperatures around here. storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell says the extreme heat is over for now. when we can expect to see a cooldown and the four things to know about the forecast. also at 5:30, lanier gets ready to leave. what to expect as the search for the next police chief in the district gets under way. raise your hand if you need to do back to school shopping. the four things to know before you hit the store to sav money. thee

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we're back at 6:30. the mayor will be dealing with more than one challenge as the search for a new police chief begins. the son of joaquin "el chapo" guzman is missing. police say he was snatched from a restaurant of a popular resort and investigators are worried this could be a sign of more trouble to come. you're looking live at the national mall where the hot weather is taking a toll. a major fish kill. plans in the works to prevent it from happening today. good morning to you. i'm eun yang. >> i'm aaron gilchrist. 5:31 is your time right now. we'll have all those stories and more in a moment. first, storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell has four things to know about your foas

today. skies cleared out overnight. waiting on the sun. the sun goes down at 7:59 tonight. no more late sunsets until next may. sunsets before 8:00 until the middle of next may. for today, though, the extreme heat is done. that heat index of 108 yesterday will not be repeated today. afternoon highs today, upper 80s and low 90s. rain chances are creeping up this afternoon and into the evening hours. i'll show you future weather in a few minutes. the weekend may end shower filled on sunday afternoon and yes indeed that ten-day outlook has cooler weather arriving next week. let's go over to melissa mollet. new crash. report of a crash, not sure what might be blocked. we'll keep an eye on this one. if it develops into anything more, keep you updated as to what might be blocked. what might be delayed. eastbound l street he

that's where that transformer situation was yesterday. i was just texting with kristin wright. she says pepco was telling her yesterday the utility repairs may be over by noon. that would be better for folks in that area. 66 into up to, no problems. hearing about metro delays, we'll talk about that coming up in ten minutes. melissa, thank you. 5:33 right now. d.c. will be in need of a new top cop next month. that is when chief kathy lanier steps down and heads to the nfl. she announced her retirement after 26 years with the district's police force. she'll head security for the football league. lanier was not looking for a new job but nfl officials reached out to her. >> i feel like the transition for me now to the nfl, it is america's favorite sport. that also deserves that same sense of safety. >> chief lanier was not the first woman to lead the d.c. police force. that distinction goes

proctor who was interim chief in 1997. d.c. mayor muriel bowser will have to fill two seats. chief lanier will step down september 17th. the schools chancellor, kaya henderson is leaving the end of september. the replacements comes as bowser gears up for her own reelection campaign next year. a sign post before he was shot and killed by a deputy outside of a hospital. the 29-year-old was just discharged. the guards were walking him to a bus stop when they say he had a, quote, mental health episode. a fairfax county deputy shot him multiple times after failed attempts to negotiate with him. the depp tip is on administrative leave as the investigation continues. expect more delays on the red line for the rest of the week. metro has extended safetrack work under way until sunday. it's also adjusting the rest of the repair schedule because of safety concerns after last month's

it will include seven new weekend shut doups on the orange and blue lines. metro will announce more changes in september. 5:35 now. this morning, two people are behind bars in maryland for using teenagers in a human trafficking scheme. the two have been indicted on charges that include prostitution. police are still looking for a third man involved in the ring. joshua jones. according to charging documents, since 12013, the suspects lured victims by posing as on online modeling and escort agency. the victims include two teenagers from other states. our west virginia horse racing officials, are they doing enough to protect the animals involved in the sport. the eye team is looking into that claim. scott macfarlane has more at 5:00. >> i'm at charles town races. charles town, west virginia. coming up on news 4 at 5:00, our iteam investigation slooking into the

what should be done and what shouldn't be done to make this sport and venues safer. including disagreements over whether state racing officials are doing enough to protect the well-being of the horses. and whether some trainers should have been booted out. >> there's no acceptable reap for horses to die. we know it will happen in horse racing >> 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. the son of drug lord "el chapo" guzman was one of several kidnapped in port vallarta, monday. he was ab dublted by seven gunman members of a criminal group. for decades "el chapo" was single handedly in charge of the

press that other gangs could be trying to wipe out the guzman clan. "el chapo" was captured in january, six months after he escaped from a mexican prison. so many people are cleaning up from those devastating flooding -- floods in louisiana right now. still raining there. tens of thousands of homes in the area around baton rouge have been partially or totally destroyed. however, only about one in eight people has flood insurance there. even though they can't apply for assistance, the future looks bleak. >> i don't know what we're going to do, where we're going to live. i know that people recover from this. but i don't know how. 11 people have died in the flooding there. also, taylor swift has announced she will donate a million dollars to help people in louisiana recover. she said the situation there is heartbreaking. 5:37 now. take a look at this disturbing

at our news partner. he says the 100-degree heat we've been getting is killing fish on the national mall. this is in the constitution garden pond north of the the reflecting pool. the national park service says the shallow weather -- it causes algae to grow and takes oxygen out of the water which the fish need. if you spend a lot of time in your car, you are going to see a difference in your insurance bill, especially if you live in the district. we'll take a closer look at what you are paying and why. >> plus, we'll not watch these temperatures grow as high today. chuck is back with a look at the more comfortable weather

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welcome back. 5:41. time for weather and traffic on the ones. i'm like whag i'm seeing. >> you like that picture? >> all of it. it's a lovely picture. our weather is starting to improve today. big improvements coming our way next week. it's plenty warm and muggy outside. temperatures well up into the mid and upper 70s this morning. highs in the low 90s across much of the area. back into the 80s for tomorrow. if you're already starting to plan out your trip for the weekend out to the beach, highs this weekend at the beach will be in the 80s. a little chance for a shower object sunday. if you're more of a mountain thanch

upper 70s to 80. ten-day forecast coming right now. for now, go over to melissa for troubles on metro. >> to mt. vernon square because of a malfunction on the yellow line. just got off the phone with police, a three-car crash that will be actually out of way fairly quickly overall. travel times 270 looks good. beltway, inner loop and outer loop, no problems there. 66 inbound is fine. 95 north. 55 miles per hour from quantico to the beltway. can't ask for more than that. melissa, thank you. changes at the top. donald trump is making major changes to his presidential campaign for the second time in two months. it is not being called a shakeup. how the campaign is explaining the changes. feel like i let my family down. >> disappointed local olympic boxer. he's worried about his family and others are worried he was cheated. we'll explain. meis

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♪ day 12 of the 2016 olympic games in rio. a live look at the olympic caldron. just after 6:45 in the morning. day 11 of competition was a series of highs and lows for team usa. a prince george's county boxer says he let down his family with his quarterfinals loss. gary russell from capitol heights lost his match against uzbekistan yesterday. >> destroyed and internal. i feel like i let my family down. we got a legacy we got to hold up. i feel like that i fumbled the ball. i really do apologize. i really do. >> russell seemed to dominate most of the match and even knocked out his opponent to the ground at one point. the judges, though, gave the match to the uzbekistan

20-year-old was robbed of a win, including boxing icon floyd mayweather. >> i thought gary russell, i thought he won. but you know how amateur boxing is. >> i don't. but okay. >> i think that was the thing a lot of people complained about. >> arbitrary at one point where the punches land. a lot of things we're not seeing. apparently, he's not the only one who has had this issue. >> an irishman wrote a letter to them and said something is not right. we'll see if something more comes out of this down the line. >> he shouldn't be so hard on himself. he made it to the olympics and really represented usa and his family well. >> huge, yeah. let's get you an update on the medal counts talking about the olympics. team usa dominating still. 84 medals in total. we have some of the same amount of every type here. 28s across the board. china and great

dead heat for second place. china leading with one more medal than great britain. #rieger in rio. follow her on twitter and facebook to see all the behind the scenes things happening in rio right now. you can catch her live report tonight on news 4 at 5:00. 5:48. time to get the backpacks ready once again. can you believe it? it's back to school time on monday. two big school systems are back in session. students in d.c. and prince george's county will be heading back to the classroom. so now it's time to get the students geared up and get the backpacks packed. melissa mollet took her son backpack shopping. did you get out of there without everything being star wars? >> hardly. spending a million bucks. this year is a big deal. he's heading into first grade. he knows what he wants. after last year -- eun says she knows him. anything and everything star wars-related. focus on

save. >> best thing you can do, plan ahead. have a list of supplies and get just those. the closet, what do they need right now. maybe less than you think. he needed a few shirts and pants and no shorts. something else, map is out online. i knew star wars would be a sticking point. i found one new shirt for my master negotiator instead of four. we knew that. searching with your fingers can help you save and. print out the coupons. put them on your phone and upload apps like thread up. you can buy anything almost new. >> thread up, i'm going to check that out. >> what about trading, a great way to gather new gear from friends. swapping clothes. very fun to teach, i should say kiddos a lesson and they can donate anything left over. >> because i'm looking for all the supplies and i get to see ne

>> i need one of everything please. >> i'm exhausted. we're both excited for first grade. i don't know how you do it with three kids. >> i don't either. >> you have the cutest kids. both adorable. >> you didn't really let me get what i wanted to get. >> that doesn't ever change either. thanks so much. >> thanks. does he know you have that backpack right now? he's going to wake up looking for it. >> i stole it. it was dark. >> one other reminder, tax-free week is under way in maryland. it runs through saturday, august 20th. saturday, yeah. you won't have to pay tax on clothing and shoes priced at less than $100. the tax exemption comes in time for back to school shopping. it's not what it's limited to. you can see the full list at what you can buy. search tax holiday in the nbc washington app. news 4 trying it help out thousands of students who need supplies. a lot of them you've

pencils to folders. pencil sharpeners. things of that sort. >> crayons. >> you have a week left to help out if you'd like. you can donate items at any apple credit union branch. eri erika gonzalez and amelia draper will be there next week. search backpacks for kids in the nbc washington app for more information. eun was working hard. >> two at a time. >> i was trying to keep up. >> you've done this a few times. >> i have. good news heading into the new school year, kids are improving on most statewide tests in virginia. 80% of students are proficient or advanced in reading and math standards. standards of learning exams. 83% are proficient or advanced in science. writing and social studies scores stayed the same from last year. 77% are at least proficient in writing. 86% of students are proficient or advanced in their socia

studies, social sciences. more results are available at so.l. virginia senator tim kaine and his wife are talking about their life so far on the democratic presidential ticket. it is part of an exclusive interview with "today's" savannah guthrie's. >> we're having a lot of fun. both sets of our parents are still alive. to have my parents at age 81 and anne's parents at age 90-plus and our kids and nieces and nephews and efg everybody, it's been remarkable. >> you can catch the rest of that interview on "today" after "news4 today." donald trump is shaking up his campaign once again with less than three months to go to election day. trump has named a new campaign manager and april campaign ceo. the shakeup hours after trump hit hillary clinton claims she's against the police. >> just like hillary clinton is against the miners,

against the police. believe me. you know it and i know it. guess what? she knows it. >> want to bring in nbc's tracie potts who is live on capitol hill. tracie, what's behind the new line of attack from trump? >> clearly he needs to make inroads with the african-american community. polls have shown us that he's got maybe 1% support compared to more than 90% for hillary clinton. so apparently behind the scenes they're making a strategic move now to try to get some of those votes. we heard him talk about, mention african-americans more than a dozen times last night. that was initially billed as a rally. then they told us it would be a speech with teleprompter which showed strategy changes going on behind the scenes with the trump campaign. >> all right. tracie potts on capitol hill for us. thank you. let's turn our attention now to our forecast and much-needed

stifling humidity. >> little bit. relief is relief. when you get to billion degrees lieb it's been. hey, chuck. >> it's not been pretty. dogs and i go out for late morning walk and get back about noontime. all three of us were laying on the cool tile floor yesterday after we got back. it was an ugly hot day to be outside yesterday. so far to the first 16 days of the month, it's the warmest august on record. temperatures have been 5 degrees above average. it's been so warm so far for the month that we're 2 degrees warmer than the old record for the warmest august. that was set back in the blistering summer of 1980. we will trim some of that temperature surplus off because next week will not be as hot. as far as today is concerned, a dry start. plenty of sunshine early. it will be warm today. upper 80s to low 90s for highs. still plenty hot today. but not as bad as it's been. by 5:30,

could see an isolated shower to 5:00, 6:00 tonight. rain chances creep up after that. right now, storm team 4 radar is dry. couple of showers along the maryland, pennsylvania border. more steady rain across ohio. that's the rain most likely impacting us later this evening into the late night hours tonight. so on the whole, the weather will have a low impact on your plans to be outside for today. again, it will be plenty warm and u mid, though. high today, 94 in downtown. upper 80s in northern maryland and the shenandoah valley. most of that rain chance comes after 4:00 or 5:00 this afternoon. if you're grilling in the backyard today, get it done early. rain chances creeping up up up with time. as far as rain chances this evening, at 8:00, rain likeliest between 8:00 and 10:00 or 11:00 this evening. drying out after that. as far as the cooldown that's coming, here you can see it. seasonably hot for the next couple of days. towards the early parts of next week, afternoon highs will be back down into thew

that will feel nice. see you in a few more minutes with a check on high temps in your hometown. let's go to melissa. >> still an issue on the yellow line. delays in mt. vernon square because of a problem at huntingdon. when we spoke with police a short time ago, they were saying this is a three-car crash on springs road. it's still coming up on our system. 66 and 95 looking normal for this time of day. maybe lighter heading into the 6:00 hour. prince george's county and looking at 270, northbound and southbound rolling along fine. more coming up. there's another reason to cut down on the long commutes. a new study says the more you drive, the more you pay for insurance. 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 m

area. it's an 8.9% difference in maryland and a 9.5% difference in virginia and in d.c., the rate increase is among the highest in the country at a little over 10%. only higher in alaska and california. good morning, i'm landon dowdy at cnbc headquarters. more travelers expected to fly the labor day holiday than before. explains schedules and airfare declines for the increase. the average price for an airline ticket costs 5.2% less than in 2015. with your business report, i'm landon dowdy. >> thank you. 5:57. the washington national cathedral needs help five years after a big earthquake and the cathedral isn't halfway done with repairs. tom sherwood gives us an update on how much it left to do. >> the washington national cathedral, one. most famous places in the district of columbia, but five years ago, an

million worth of damage to this famous structure. there's a big effort to fix it and to raise more money to bring the project to a close. but there's a great deal of work still to be done. the cathedral already has spent over $10 million, most of that for repairs to the inside of the cathedral. there's another $22 million in repairs to the towers and finials and figures to give the cathedral it's distinctive magnificent look. they're doing what they can while they look to raise the money they need. in the district, tom sherwood, news 4. breaking right now, a triple shooting in the district. the victims are two women and one man. more than 24 hours after flames shot out of the ground in northwest washington, repair crews are still working to fix the problem. we are live at the scene with what commuters and people who work in the area need to know. >> as tough as it gets for an

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