breaking news in prince george's coin, a major crash on 210 that could impact your commute. >> this is all happening in the northbound lanes between palmer and livingston. we have team coverage for you this morning getting you up to the minute the minute you are up. let's start with erika gonzalez at the live desk. >> let me tell you what we have because we think this could impact your commute if you are coming out of southern maryland. what we know this is in oxon hi hill. this is in northbound 210 wean palmer and livingston in oxon hill. if you are coming out of southern maryland this morning, you need to know this is an accident here possibly impacting you

we're not sure how many cars are involved. i want to send this over to melissa mollet who can tell us more about the impact on the roads. >> going to be a big problem for sure if this hangs around. oxon hill road might be a good suggestion for you this morning if it sticks around too long. northbound indian head highway is shut down at palmer and livingston road. southbound is unaffected. another big problem, 9th and o in northwest. pedestrian struck. it sounds like a fatal crash right there. southbound, wisconsin near dorset, all lanes are blocked. northbound bw parkway to 32, blocked due to a crash and response as well. we'll update you on all of that right now. >> going to be that kind of a morning. i'm aaron gilchrist.

for a second time this week a lot of you are waking up to damage after a night of strong storms. [ sirens ] >> you can see here from the video the down pour from last night and flooding was a concern as well. >> combine that with some powerful winds and there are a lot of downed trees and wires this morning. >> storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell has the latest on our forecast today. are we in the clear, chuck? >> we're almost in the clear. our severe weather threat is over. that's the good news this morning. still dealing with light rain out there first thing. this will also not last too much longer. what you need to know, cool, with puddles this morning. sunny and hot this afternoon. our next chance for severe weather looks to be on sunday. we'll be watching that very carefully. that is ahead of the real break from the intense heat we've been suffering the last couple of weeks.

showers to about the plains toward warington. these showers are coming eastbound. they will be on i-95 in the next 30 to 45 minutes. we'll track that for you over the next couple of hours. remember the story about ryan lochte being held up at gunpoint in rio. well that story is developing this morning. we've got some new avoid to -- video to show you. the three american swimmers, one of them from rockville, jack conger . this is new video from the group exiting the police station south of rio but the men en route home when they were call in by police. one of them already is ryan lochte, he's already back on american soil. back over to you. more now on that developing story erika is reporting on.

brazilian authorities began suspicious of the story. it showed the athletes checking back into the olympic village. men weren't acting like they were robbed. seemed to have the items taken during the robbery. he spoke to the "today" show by phone and said he may have embellished what happened. >> when he talked to me, he says that's when the guy pointed the gun and cocked it. you said before it was placed in your forehead and cocked. he said no, that's not exactly what happened. he feels it was more of a traumatic mischaracterization. >> the u.s. olympic committee released a statement in part that jack conger and jack bentz will continue their conversations with police today. ryan lochte is back in the u.s. and says he was nev

stay in brazil for further questions. the ntsb is now investigating that deadly explosion at the flower branch apartments in silver spring. today marks one week since that blast. the agency's senior pipeline investigator has been on site from beginning. seven people died there. still no word on what exactly caused that explosion. sources tell news 4 the preliminary cause of that blast could be out by tomorrow. but until those results are released, some people who live in the flower branch apartments say that they are scared to go back home. many are still trying to figure out what their next move is. residents like felishia and her husband came back to their apartment to get a few things. she was unsure about what will happen next. until she learns exactly what happened one week ago, she doesn't feel safe. >> all of us were so scared seeing what happened next door to our neighbors. >> until the results come back, felishia and her husband are

splitting their time between the car and a hotel. anger and disappointment, prince george's county is reacting after a federal head start grant is pulled after allegations of abuse and poor training. according to the review, one incident involved a three-year-old boy who was forced to mop up the floor after he had a bathroom accident. the school district ceo says the allegations are unacceptable. >> what i can say is our expect our employees to behave appropriately, and when they don't, i'm going to deal with them appropriately. >> the district plans to appeal and during that time the federal government must keep the funding in place. the program is still set to begin on august 29th. back here at the live desk, we're learning about a fatal pedestrian accident in northwest d.c. we understand this happened at 9t

in northwest. police tell us the driver did stay on the scene, but again a pedestrian truck and killed at 9th and p streets in northwest this morning. back over to you. the spread of the zika virus through a south florida community has officials in fairfax county taking notice. they will hold a zika town hall meeting tonight at 7:00. 60 cases have been found across virginia, all are travel-related. the meeting is about getting ahead of the problem. >> educating people. what the symptoms are. what to look for, leth people know and get comfort as to what fairfax county is doing and we're on top of it. >> 29 of the 60 cases have been found in northern virginia. health officials say only one in five people with the virus shows symptoms. let's

janeiro where it is day 13 of the games of the xxxi olympiad. team usa will continue its quest for gold. ashton eaton will continue his quest to once again be the world greatest athlete, heading into day two of the decathalon. and bottle will compete today in the 200 meter. in basketball, women's team will play france in the semifinals. they advance to the gold medal game if they win. so exciting! >> big days ahead still. this is not over yet. >> just because swimming and gymnastics over doesn't mean we're done. >> it is friday-eve, if you will, we're getting ready for the weekend. chuck

forecast and we'll let you know if you can have dinner on the patio tomorrow night. talk about going that extra mile. why the manager at a northern virginia restaurant dug through bags of trash for a customer. search for a missing

after an active night of weather or night of

weather, thgses have -- things have calmed down this morning p. >> let's check with chuck bell to find out what we can expect for today for this thursday. >> the severe weather threat is gone for now. it does not return, the severe weather threat until sunday afternoon. between now and then, things are going to be a lot quieter. still dealing with rain drops here this morning from fredricks to leesburg, down along 66, out toward the blue ridge and shenandoah valley this morning. these rain drops are coming eastbound. there will be light rain coming in here along the d.c. metro and i-95 corridor from now until 7:00 this morning. plenty of sunshine. upper 80s and low 90s across the area. it is thursday. very important to start planning out your weekend. headed to the beach, temperatures in the upper 80s. in the mountains, nice and cool, highs in the low 80s. better chance of rain on

preg chance of -- pretty good chance of stronger thunderstorms coming up on sunday. more about that in ten minutes in the ten-day forecast. breaking news continuing here in first 4 traffic. northbound 210 at palmer road, livingston road where it switches over. all northbound lanes are blocked by this accident. we do have molette green on the way. right now, no great alternate. you have to work your way through a neighborhood. southbound is unaffected. downtown, 9th and o street, intersection still blocked from that crash by a pedestrian being struck earlier this morning. we'll have an update on it coming up. hitting the reset button. the changes we can expect today when the gop presidential nominee heads to north carolina. there's good customer service and there's this guy. why he dug through parks of

is one of those robots from an other bank, td bank's new intern, bart, we're training him to bank human. uh-uh, bart? why are you winding the clock back? the clock stated 11:35 pm, but they are still working. the clock is fine. our live customer service is available all night, and all day for that matter. he's learning. at td bank we do things differently, like live customer service 24/7. bart: hello? hello! don't just bank, bank human.

and for anyone waiting for donald trump to suddenly become more responsible, remember what a great american, maya angelou said, when someone shows you who they are, believe them. >> hillary clinton pounds donald trump's campaign shake-up in cleveland. she cast trump as incapable of changing himself and went on to say quote, there is no new donald trump. >> trump heads to charlotte, north carolina, after announcing those campaign changes. what are we going to see? as the campaign trail goes forward. >> donald trump tried to hit the reset button going on. his newly appointed campaign manager kelly

she advised trump to stick to the issues. that's what he did last night and we're expecting him to do in charlotte today. he hit hillary clinton on her policies as secretary of state and iraq. >> what about on the democratic side? hillary clinton is expected to meet with law enforcement officials today. what are we expected to come out of that meeting? >> hillary clinton wants to show she is with police officers. she's strong on security here. she's going to be in new york, a place where she was senator, trying to gather support there. so she's hoping to show that she is strong on police issues and also stands with the police officers. >> all right. edward lawrence live on capitol hill for us. thank you. 4:47 your time right now and crews are preparing to resume the search for a missing swimmer near great falls. the man was swimming in the potomac near the billy goat

at one point he went under and did not resurface. points have been searched. a successful recruiting plan has hundreds of bowie state students have no place to stay on campus. they implemented a new strategy to recruit freshman and it worked. more than a thousand signed up. the school says it doesn't guarantee housing for students and all 1300 spaces of oncampus housing filled with more than 300 people on a waiting list. a cumberland man was sending child pornography over the internet. after a five-month investigation, police arrested 51-year-old patrick ortizia yesterday. this alexandria man exposed himself on multiple trains and they believe

victims. william madison, jr was arrested once in july after an incident on a blue line train in arlington county. after his release, police say he did it again this time on an orange line train in vienna. 6,000 people are living in shelters right now. the flooding in louisiana is not letting up in some places. in fact, the water is rising even more in certain spots. as far as 100 miles away from baton rouge. at this point, 30,000 people have been rescued. officials say 11 people have died in the flooding. search crews have been going door to door and checking sunken cars to try and find anyone else. montgomery county police are trying to figure out why a man's car crossed into oncoming traffic killing him after a head-on collision. this happened in burton'sville. the driver of the other car was expected to recover.

classmates gathered at christopher barry's high school last night to honor his memory. the son of the late mayor marion barry graduated wilson high school. organizers of the event say christopher barry touched the hearts of many of the people he grew up with. according to a police report, he smoked p 2 and pcp before collapsing on sunday. he died at the hospital. a new poll shows that voters want bob mcdonnell to stay out of public office. 67% of respondents say mcdonnell should not run for elected office again. while 21% say he should. among republicans polled, 60% said he should stay in private life. a manager was told he somehow

in the trash when drying his hands. christian rossa pick through all of it until he found the ring. >> i said, look, we found the ring, but he actually took his time to find it. thanks to christian, we make this couple very happy. >> i hope christian got a big tip. finding the ring was their reward, but as you might imagine, the couple left an especially generous tip. those are the people that you go back to every time. >> 100%. >> people who selflessly go beyond that. >> how do you throw away your wring? >> i've done that here. carlos martinez did that for me. i put the soap -- >> you need to have this resized. >> look, it's enough of a burden to wear. >> chuck bell, you better stop right now! >> i'm teasing

hear me. i can say this anything this early. 75 degrees right now. still dealing with clouds and rain drops here early this morning. yesterday, another very hot day for sure. we made 95 yesterday. so far this summer we've been over 90 degrees 41 times. more impressive than that, we've been above 9518 times already this summer. we've had a lot of extremely hot days. today will be another hot one. it won't be as hot. our cooling trend continues. 95 on monday -- on tuesday. 95 yesterday and only in the low 90s today. we're watching rains across parts of northern virginia here. nothing heavy. no severe weather threat from this point forward. we will be dealing with light to moderate rain here between now and about 7:00 or 8:00 this morning before things dry out. future weather carries all that rain out of here by about 8:00

later today, i couldn't rule out a -- a little spot shower or two. these will be fast-moving events. no severe weather. no thunderstorm threat today. temperatures in the low to mid 70s. it's a muggy and humid start for the day. as you are planning the day, most of the day will be 80s to near 90 degrees. backyard barbecuing, nothing to worry about. tomorrow, even nicer. plenty of sunshine. plenty warm. it will be in the 90s for tomorrow. saturday looks good. most saturday plans, no worries. sunday may very well turn out to be a weather alert day. a chance for genuine severe weather coming our way sunday afternoon. we'll watch that for you. that's ahead of a nice change in the weather that brings cooler than average weather and lower than average humidity in place for monday and through most of next week. i'll see you at the top of the hour with a check on highs in your hometown and weather in

breaking news in oxon hill, northbound 210, indian head highway at palmer road, livingston road, all lanes blocked northbound by that crash. don't have a great alternate to send you around this. folks working their ways through neighborhoods. southbound is unaffected lane-closure wise. this sounds like this could last until 7:00 a.m., perhaps even later. do have a crew on the way. also, 9th street at o intersection, still shut down by that pedestrian crash. a pedestrian struck and killed there just a couple hours ago. southbound wisconsin near dorset. southbound bw parkway and the beltway, crash reported there, and we have one northbound, bw parkway, ramp to 32, it's still blocked to the crash and response on the scene there. lots of stuff happening this morning. we'll keep you updated on all of it coming up at 5. .

it's no secret commuting in our area can be rough. that could soon change. the new way to get around town. and for certain people who use cell phones, we'll tell you why you could see higher bills

right now, to a very serious accident on 210, at palmer road and livingston road. when we get there, we'll bring

report. 4:57 now. news 4 your health. behind the scenes look at how researchers are working to develop a vaccine for the zika virus. researchers are breeding mosquitos in an environmental chamber. those mosquitos will be infected with zika so scientists can figure out how the virus progresses. they take every precaution when dealing with the live virus. >> i have total confidence we're not putting them at risk. we know we're not. >> the lab would not say how close their scientists are in developing a zika vaccine. we've reported that car thefts have been decreasing over the last several years. new information shows that car jackings have been going up in some areas of our region after reaching a six-year low of 134 car jackings in the district back in 2014, that number went up by 10% last year and

increase this year. car jackings where the suspects use a gun are on track to near a six-year high in the district as well. the numbers in d.c. are not as high as they are in baltimore. what's so disconcerting about this is this is an invasion of our inner space, our inner sanctum and our psycher. our zone of security. now,over all in maryland, car jackings have gone down, including in montgomery and prince george's counties. in baltimore, car jackings are on pace to double this year. this will not be welcome news to at&t customers. >> the customer is raising rates on its data plans. it will cost more to have more data but the price per gigabyte will be lower. the new rates will begin on sunday. for now you can keep your existing data plan but if you want to change your data l

you'll have to pay the new rate. >> that breaking news a a major crash in prince george's county that could impact your commute. >> we have team coverage for you this morning. getting up to the minute the minute you are up. we begin with erika gonzalez. what's going on? >> this is not looking good for drivers coming out of southern maryland. this is an accident in oxon hill that we've been monitoring since we started this morning. this is impacting what is northbound 210 wean palmer and livingston. we still don't have a better idea as to how many vehicles are involved. we can tell you that chopper 4 is en route there. we've also got molette green on her way there. i want to this to melissa who will let us know how it's impacting drivers