the death toll is climbing. the tragedy in italy is more clear. >> kristin wright has been following every new development and joins us live from the live desk. >> we want to show you live pictures off the top coming to us from italy on the ground. right now, there is a search for survivor survivors: we don't have the live pictures yet but we have video of the ground that shows the devastation of this earthquake. it is a 6.2 magnitude quake. the death toll right now standing at 37. that number, though, in situations like this, as always, keeps changing. we do expect it to rise. you're looking at here piem looking at the rubble on the ground. the earthquake hitting in the middle of the night as people are sleeping. people are buried in this rubble. two towns leveled. about 100 milesfr

after the quake came aftershocks. we have also seen images this morning of some dramatic rescues happening. as i said, searches going on continuously for survivors of this quake. we'll stay on top of it for you throughout the morning. a station in north carolina is reporting that the elon university's women's basketball team is in italy right now. but that their coach says that they did feel it but that they are okay. so right now we're checking around to see what other americans, what other groups of students may be in italy right now. we're staying on top of this earthquake in italy all morning. at the live desk, i'm kristin wright. good morning. it is 6:01 on a wednesday morning. i'm storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell. skies mostly clear in the overnight hours allowing for temperatures to drop back down into the 60s. comfortable again this morning. enjoy it. our warming trend starts today but

the weekend. sunny and warm and your evening plans to be outside. dinner and barbecuing in the backyard. 59 in frederick, maryland. one of the few spots back into the 50s early this morning. highs today, 82 in gaithersburg. 86 in waldorf and la plate a. the let's go over to melissa mollet tracking troubles on the beltway all morning. >> troubles on the beltway continue. a live report from meagan fitzgerald on the scene. particular a look at the inner loop at river road. a one-mile backup as you head nb. inner loop at river road. another problem, top of the beltway, outer loop before georgia. left lane blocked by a crash. that backup has started to build in the past couple of minutes. southbound bw parkway after the bemt way, still that report of police activity before the good luck road overpass and one other new issue this morning.

follow police direction. the two issues on the beltway, going to follow them an they will cause slowdowns. it's 6:03. a messy situation on the inner loop of the beltway as melissa mentioned. this after a tractor-trailer carrying trash flipped. >> the driver was trying to avoid another car when this happened. meagan fitzgerald is there with more. what do you know, meagan? >> reporter: aaron and eun, police tell us this happened at 1:00 this morning. you can see the overturned tractor-trailer. if there is a bit of good news, the fact that it happened on the right hand shoulder of the lane. not affecting traffic as badly as it could. what's happening now. crews are going inside that tractor-trailer to try to move out all of the contents of tractor-trailer which was boxes of trash bags. they're throwing it into a dump truck. they tell us they're doing this so that they're able to lift up that tractor-trailer and haul it out of

but they're not going to do that until after rush hour at 9:00 this morning, they're going to block off three of the four lanes on 495 northbound here at the river road exit. so they're asking folks to avoid the area at 9:00 if possible. that process will take about an hour to clear this scene here. we're told the driver was charged with negligent driving. no injuries to report. back to you. >> meagan, thank you. we also have an update on breaking news news. a deadly shooting in montgomery county. police put out new information on this. they say that a man in his early 20s was shot and killed on soipd spring road in burtonsville overnight. we're working to find out his name. they don't believe it was a random act of violence. they think the man who died and the shooter knew each other. we'll update you as soon as we learn more. today marks a big step in the recovery process for

ellicott city. parts of main street expected to reopen today. this comes several weeks after flooding in that city killed two people and destroyed several businesses. while this step is good news for business owners, they hope the money they lost will, by being forced to close their doors will be recovered soon. i'm in a survival mode right now. hopefully, we'll get enough customers back to continue to pay bills, pay rent, pay expenses and keep going. that's my goal. >> howard county officials say that krugs still have a lot of paving work to do. they hope to have the downtown parking lot open by saturday. only on news 4 this morning, we're hearing from the man who rose through the ranks of the d.c. police department and will soon become interim chief. peter newsome will ache over for cathy lanier retiring in september. he knows the community and the police force and his priority will be to maintain a good relationship between t

safety, you go out to community meetings. most of the folks that are in those meetings are saying positive things about the metropolitan police department. >> lanier will become senior vice president of security for the nfl. a nationwide search for her official replacement is already under way. five members of the prince george's county board of education are demanding the chair and vice chair resign. this comes after investigation into the county's headstart program. the school system lost more than $6 million in federal funding after claims of student abuse. the board members wrote a letter saying leaders did not keep them informed. county executive baker is happy with the job the school leaders are doing. >> i have all the confidence in the world and he's done a great job. dr. maxwell, we've seen improvements in the school, graduation rates are up. we've seen improvements in early childhood education. we're going to move

chair of the -- he will do everything he can to make sure the headstart program continues. more than 900 students in that program start classes on monday. the host of america's got talent is spending his first week at college right here in the district. nick cannon has been posting pictures on his instagram outside of howard university. that is where he will spend his freshman year. he said in a statement that he wanted to get his first college degree from an institution with a proven legacy of producing great minds. it's not known what he will major in. welcome to d.c., nick. >> good luck, kid. we're kicking off our backpacks for kids supply drive. >> erika gonzalez is live outside the apple federal credit union in kingstown ts morning. the donations are coming in there. erika, good morning. >> reporter: hi, eun, aaron. we want to make sure our kids get off to a wonderful start to the school year. we need newkp

supplies. we'd love to meet you. that's why this morning we're outside apple federal credit union in kingstown. you can bring any one of those donations or you can brio owe if you say i don't have time to stop at the store, got a little box over here. you can come by, drop off a cash donation or have a couple of other options for you. you can send checks to nbc4. we're going to put this information up on your screen right now where you can mail the checks to. another option would be to go to nbcwashington.com, you can make a secure donation online. really cool. for the first time this year, you can text in your donation. i love this. we'd love to see you, of course. if texting is ease yefrmt you can do that at nbc4 d.c. you can text the number 56512 to make the donation. we'd love to see you this morning. we know for a lot of parents it's not easy to get the kids off to a gr

we know that. we want to help. come on out. we'd love to meet you and we want to help our community. our kids get off to a great start this morning. aaron, eun, back to you. >> thank you, erika. our golden girl, katie ledecky is back home from rio. in her first interview with me, woo talk about what she was thinking as she was breaking olympic records. we're now hearing for the first time how the freddie gray case may change laws across the state of maryland. >> we're talking backpacks for kids donations. erika is live at the apple federal credit union in kingstown. >> she'll be there all morning long. you can stop by on the way to work to make a donation.

good morning everybody. 6:12. amelia draper. apologize for saying siegel earlier. getting ready for the backpacks to school drive. in the mid to upper 60s. a great outdoor recess kind of day coming. temperatures near 85. couple of clouds early this morning. what to wear today, shorts, t-shirts and sunglasses. that's all you'll need. no chance for rain or really much of a chance any time too soon. the morning run, no problems with that. another good pool day. don't forget your spf. band practice and football practice and good car washing weather. i'll be back with the forecast in ten minutes. let's go over to melissa? traffic. the beltway, inner loop before river road. ride side of the screen. an overturned tractor-trailer, trying to off load it and get it back on its wheels. left lane blocked by

the way. 270 sothbound, no problems. top of the beltway very slow because of that problem at georgia avenue. 66 and 95, no problems there. back in a few minutes with more on the news on the beltway. melissa, thank you. a maryland state legislator is responding to the investigation of the baltimore police department. it comes after city leaders pledged to seek new state laws as a result of the doj report. but the chairman of the key state senate committee says there are some things state law won't fix. >> they're going to have to deal with their police department. that's the way it works. what makes sense in baltimore city does not make sense in frederick county. zurk insees a state role in other findings of that report. he sees the state considering further reforms this coming session in police training and the use of body cameras. the price of epipens has

the only incompetent crease you'll hear about today. company executes tiffs have seen their salaries go up 600% since 2007. the ceo now makes $19 million. congressional members are calling for an investigation into price gouging. you know, this next story will leave you inspired and thankful for the little things really. 9-year-old zion harvey is learning how to use his new hands after he received a double hand transplant in philadelphia last year. we've been talking about him. >> love him. >> he's from the baltimore area. when he was 2 years old, doctors amputated his hands and feet because of an infection. zion has one request for his mom right now. >> convince mom to let me play football. [ laughter ] >> i knew that was coming. >> smart kid. big audience, put that out there. >> the pressure. >> zion had the chance to throw out the first

baltimore orioles game. 't do.an't imagine there's go, zion. we're getting another account of the incident involving four swimmers who claimed to have been robbed. jimmy feigen is accused of vandalizing a gas station. in a statement, he says he was terrified when a security officer pulled a gun on them. that happened at the gas station after the alleged vandalism. he also said he left several facts out of his story. the first time he told it. specifically that the teammates urinated on the side of the gas station and that rye on lochte pulled a framed poster off the wall. he said "i realize i made a mistake omitting these facts. i was trying to protect my teammates. for this apologize". team usa had a come nabt performance in the rio olympics. >> it's a local olympian and gracious and humble tam ents who showed off her amazing skills. i spent

katie ledecky. she has a busy schedulement moving right along to stanford university where she will swim. do you remember the moment when she broke her own moment. at one moment she looked all alone in the pool. that didn't cause her to slow down for a second. >> you can't take anything for granted when you're out front or favored to win or anything like that. i had to focus on how i wanted to put together that race. it was my last race in rio. i wanted to make it count. >> boyd she ever. she broke her own world record. katie and i talked about all the experiences. this was at her alma mater in bethesda, stone ridge. she appreciates her family, community and all the people who show her support over the years. she took home five medals, four gold, one silver. i didn't put them on. i didn't want to scratch them. >> i was afraid.

about her experience in rio. be sure to watch news 4 at 6:00 tonight for all my favorite parts of our interview, including her thoughts about team usa. she loves cheering on her teammates and how she's reacting to her new job. not so new anymore. as a role model to kids. she loves that. we want to go back out to erika gonzalez where you can bring items for the backpacks for kids drive. >> erika, we see her on facebook live and donations are coming in. it's great to see it all happening. >> reporter: it's wonderful. people have been telling us they've been watching for the past couple of days and seen the stories we've been doing, the commercials, the promos this you've been seeing about coming out to make a donation. we're in kingstown. if you know this area pretty well, you know where we're at. the apple federal credit union. we're between the kohl's and the walmart in this area. what we are asking of you this morning, help us make the transition for kids to go back

a little easier for them. a little easier for their parents and for the teachers as well. i have a number of educators in my family. i hear it from them firsthand, about how much pressure they have to make sure their students are off to a great start. whether putting extra supplies in their classrooms that they are paying for out of pocket. we hear you. we want to help. that's why we're here this morning. we need your help to get our kids off to a wonderful start. bring new backpacks, school supplies, you can bring it out here to this location. one of the cool things that we are doing this year fort the first time ever, if you can't make it out here, we'd love to see your face, you can make a donation through a tex message. you can see that to 56512. you text nbc4 d.c. or you can go to nbcwashington.com to make a secure online contribution. we'd love to see you this morning in kingstown. i'm erika gonzalez. erika,

we want to she you. come out and help out. nice weather to be out there. >> chuck bell taking credit. >> take the credit before the blame of heat, haze and humidity come back on later into the weekend. mostly clear skies this morning. no need for the umbrella for today. in fact, we'll be dry across the d.c. metro area for quite some time. there's our proud washington monument under that pleasant weather. 69 degrees still. waiting on the sun to come up. it's about nine minutes away. light southwesterly breeze outside early this morning. little cooler across parts of northern maryland. frederick is down to 59 this morning. front row virginia down to -- as you plan out the day, another nice day to be outside. winds out of the south this afternoon, averaging about 5 to 10 miles per hour. humidity not bad for the next couple of days. it will be another great night for baseball. nationals and the orioles at

a at nats ballpark as the beltway battle continues. maybe a little homefield advantage will help us out a smidgen. dry overnight and into tomorrow. there may be a stray shower or two tomorrow along i-81 and into the mountains of west virginia. on the whole rain chances tomorrow are pretty, pretty low. here's the forecast. 87 today. 90 tomorrow. the real humidity and the haze and the heat of summertime come back in for friday and last all the way through the upcoming weekend. see you back here in a few minutes for the four things to know about the weather. let's go to melissa. >> still this problem on the beltway. this is the inner loop. we have megan fitzpatrick and her crew on the scene. this is an overturned semi. it had trash bags inboxes to be sold that they had to off-load. now they'll be able to right the truck since they got the boxes off of the back of the truck. inner loop here. you can see the delays. inner and outer loop near river road because of

over. still delays hanging around. we pushed that on the nbc washington app. download us if you haven't already. after the beltway, still the police activity reported. we'll take a big look at the beltway coming up. melissa, thank you. 6:22 now. as wildfires rage out west, mandatory evacuation orders are being ignored. why some families are determined to live in the path of the a proefrpg flames. a community in north carolina is demanding answers about the police shooting of a deaf man during a traffic stop. why his family believes his disability played a major role in that shooting. we are taking backpacks for kids donations this morning. live at the apple federal credit union in kingstown all morning low. see the storm team 4 by 4 with erika and a

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home last week. family members say he was unarmed and suggested the sequence of events was a tragic misunderstanding. a witness says it's an issue of training. >> they should have been trained to realize, this is entirely different situation. to pull someone over, that's deaf, they're handicapped. >> the state bureau of investigation, the highway patrol and the district attorney are investigating this incident. the trooper involved here, saunders, has been placed on administrative leave. we're staying on top of new information about the biggest fire burning in california. the chimney fire started over the weekend. it's now creating extremely dangerous conditions. that's according to firefighters. they say it's burned a lot of homes and buildings but the fire is so bad, they can't even count how many. some people won't leave their homes. >> it's important to me to stay here. this is our home where we've lived. i want to protect our place. >> right n

35% contained. donald trump is turning his attention to minority voters. we'll go live to texas. plus find out how he's stirring up more questions about the clinton foundation. >> no rain in sight. chuck bell says it's going to start to heat up. four things to know about the forecast just ahead. we're still taking backpacks for kids donations. live picture from the apple federal credit unionn i

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welcome back. life in kingstown with back tox for kid. ways to donate and the updated weather forecast coming up. plus, good samaritans who rescued hundreds of people during the baton rouge floods say lawmakers want to regulate citizen heroes. >> if you take the beltway to montgomery county, listen up. a tractor-trailer accident on the beltway could cause troubles well into the morning commute.

i'm aaron gilchrist. i'm eun yang. our first weather and backpacks for kids. amelia segal -- chuck this is your fault. amelia draper. >> i totally did it. there's no doubt. the one that has to take the heat for that. i apologize amelia. we love your husband matt and your new last name. clear skies over waurng ton. it's nice and comfortable on will cool side. this is the last of the cool mornings. most places will hold near 70 by tomorrow morning. the good news is the sunshine is here to stay as we get towards the weekend, we have ready, set and sizzle temperatures going back into the 90s by the weekend. we are keeping a close eye on the

it could eventually find it way to the gulf mexico by next week. an update later on. in the meantime, a nice day to get outside and enjoy. let's go to my colleague amelia draper with backpacks for kids. >> reporter: hey, chuck. it's a beautiful morning here. we're at the apple federal credit union. a temperature right now around a fabulously comfortable 68 degrees. what a picture perfect morning. we have a lot of people swinging on by on the way to work to get monetary donations. we're having a blast this morning. we're on facebook live. for ways to donate, check out my twitter and facebook pages, as well as erikas. we'll be here until noon today at the apple federal credit union. we're taking donations. new backpacks and school supplies. you can swing on by with the monetary donation. you can donate via text. to learn how to do that, you can see the information on your screen. also all of

looking like a great day today. high temperatures as chuck said in the low to mid-830s. soak it up. we're all thinking about friday when it will feel very much like summer again. melissa, what are you in the mood for? today's weather for 100 on friday? >> today's weather. i like it much, much better than that. 100 is never my friend. inner loop here, before river road. you can see we are just a little bit slow here in the distance. again, we have this tractor-trailer on site off loading the trash bags for sale and get it up on the wheels and get it out of the way. >> how about a one-mile backup across the bridge on the outer loop of the beltway. people are looking, they're curious, that's natural. 28 at 270, a crash on west montgomery avenue. southbound 15 at harmony church road off southbound lanes there coming out of the leesburg area are shut down. northbound 15 is unaffected. big look at the

routes into town and out of town. overall, not so bad. considering what we're dealing with, i should say. she wants to let people overstay their visas without removal. one lawless order after another. >> donald trump hit hillary clinton on immigration last night while he based his questions on whether he is softening his approach to deportation. >> a new poll in virginia shows trump has a lot of catching up to do with his rival. roanoke college polls show clinton up in the crucial battleground state among likely voters. there's a margin of error of plus or minus 3%. trump is upping his outreach to minority voters. halle jackson has the latest on that from texas. >> reporter: good morning,un

and aaron. you've seen donald trump this last week make this pitch and push. we saw it here in texas. as we look ahead to a couple of -- he's got a visit to jackson, mississippi. then tomorrow, we've learned that he'll be meeting with republican, african-american and hispanic activists to talk a little bit about his policies, his position when is it comes to things like immigration. when this comes to his outreach to minority communities. this is fairly new for trump. as you talk about, it's only something you've seen him talk about publicly and push hard on publicly for maybe six or seven days or so. it's a real uphill challenge. the lace he's survey monkey online poll shows he trails hillary clinton by a staggering 79 points with the african-american community. he's got ground to make up. frankly, his new pitch isn't striking everyone as pitch perfect from critics. calling it condescending. a top aide telling nbc news that the outreach is part of an ongoing conversation. there's mre

>> hallie jackson live in austin texas for us. vice president joe biden is in turkey right now. his plan was hours after turkish special forces launched an operation in northern syria. this is an attempt to get rid of isis militants along the border there. steven hill, an actor known for portraying law and order character adam shif has died. he was the grumpy district attorney. he left law and order in 2000. producers say hill offered up his own lines during recordings. hill was 94 years old. 6:36 right now. an olympian from prince george's county coming home today. boxer gary antoine russell will be home. they'll be at the dave and busters to celebrate him and his appearance in the summer games. gary didn't medal while there. he lost a match against

uzbekistan even though it seemed like he dominated the fight. >> reporter: trailer here on the northbound lane of 495 is slowing traffic. coming up, i'll tell you what happened. the devastating earthquake in italy killed dozens of people. we have the up to the minute details straight ahead. plus, a new area of florida now in the zika zone. we'll show you where the concerns are spreading beyond miami beach. and we are still taking backpacks for kids donations. we're live at the apple federal credit union in kins town in alexandria, virnia. gi

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mid to upper 80s around town. friday, saturday, sunday, good weather at the beaches. little cooler in the mountains with a shower on friday up in the mountains. i'll be back with your ten-day forecast in ten minutes. for now, let's go to melissa mollet who is dealing with the beltway issue. >> about a one-mile backup as you approach river road. this is because of the overturned tractor-trailer here this morning. also a problem, 95 southbound here. as you're coming to the beltway, that is because of the earlier problem. outer loop at georgia. that's clear. backups still hanging around. orange delays to new carrollton. 270 south, not bad. top of the beltway, really slow. 66 and 95 at 45 miles per hour both spots. guys? melissa, thank you. a terrible crash in the district and the victims all survived. >> what we're learning about this accident that created quite a

the death toll keeps on rising in italy after a devastating earthquake. live pictures from the ground coming up next from the live desk. >> reporter: good morning everybody. i'm erika gonzalez. we're live outside apple federal credit union in kingstown, virginia. we're waiting for to you come by and bring us a new backpack or newschool

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breaking news on three big stories. central italy was rocked with an earthquake. new details as the zika zone is expanding in florida. trash bags littered the beltway and doing damage to the rush hour commute in montgomery county. we have live team coverage in all the big stories. we begin with meagan fitzgerald live on the crash approaching river road. meagan? >> reporter: eun and aaron, this happened at 1:00 this morning. now that the sun is up, you can see better here what actually happened. that silver tractor-trailer tipped over on to the right shoulder of the northbound lane here. again, it happened around 1:00. crews have been out here for several hours trying to clean up this mess. want to show you video that we shot earlier showing you exactly whathe

they were trying to off-load the contents of that tractor-trailer, which were hundreds of boxes of plastic bags that they were trying to push off into a dumpster. we're told crews are doing that so that they can pick this tractor-trailer up, put it on its wheels and haul it out of here. we're told that won't happen until 9:00 this morning. that's the important thing here. that's when they tell us that three lanes of the northbound 495 is going to be closed off while crews try and haul this tractor-trailer out of here. so anybody who can possibly avoid this area at 9:00, certainly advised to do so. police tell us that the driver of this tractor-trailer has been cited for negligent driving. but no injuries at this point to report. back to you. kristin wright at the live desk. again, still following the devastating earthquake in italy. we're showing you a l

this is what it looks like across much of central italy today. an absolute war zone. the mag nunitude quake struck i the middle of the night. people were sleeping in their beds. the death toll is 37 people. but that number is in flux as we see in situations like this. because the search and rescue effort is far from over. this is all happening about 100 miles from rome. two towns just leveled there. people are buried in the rubble of their collapsed home. we have some video, i think, we want to show you. we have been seeing these images of rescues happening where you are seeing people being carried out from underneath rubble where they are trapped and big teams, rescuers are trying to get to these people. pope francis, we understand, today prayed the rosary with the faithful in

by the utter devastation. aaron, back to you. >> kristin wright for us at the live desk. 6:48 right now. benning road is now clear of this pretty serious crash. a car flipped and another one had lots of damage after they collided on benning road just east of the h street corridor last night. d.c. police say no one was killed here. it's not clear how seriously they were injured, though. we're working to find out the exact cause of that crash. as of this morning, there are more than 40 homegrown cases of the zika virus and they're appearing in new areas. mike spears is on miami beach this morning from our sister station with details. >> i'm michael spears in miami beach. crews have another busy day ahead as far as mosquito control efforts. we're not only talking about spraying, but code enforcement officers will be out on the street as well. the health department announced four new

wynn wood area yesterday. the area where people are being infected has gotten smaller. the health cleared in fact 76 blocks of the win wood area. here in miami beach, the zika zone, 1.5 square mile area, has not changed. no new cases were announced yesterday here in miami beach. the cdc woorns that pregnant women should avoid traveling to this portion of the miami beach area. thisth the health department is investigating a local case in tampa area. the first such case outside of south florida. i'm michael spears in miami beach. back to you in the studio. >> that was michael spears reporting from miami. chuck bell back with us in the studio. it's, what, 69 degrees. >> a nice day outside today. a big difference, our colleague down there in miami beach. the 24th anniversary of hurricane andrew. a category 5 storm that hit the area 25 years ago. starting to show signs

little life into the early parts of the peak of return season. officially it peaks around labor day weekend. andrew, was 24 years ago. not had a major hurricane make landfall since 2005. the year of rita, wilma and katrina. that's the longest major hurricane drought on record. that record goes back into the 1850s. this is tropical storm gaston. likely to become a hurricane. but all indications that are this will stay well into the open atlantic. this area of disturbed weather here, just to east of puerto rico, this is starting to show signs. if it becomes a tropical storm, which is looking pretty likely in the next three to four days, it will take on the name ermine. it's closer in proximity to the u.s. it may make a run towards south florida late this weekend and

mexico next week. wanted to give you the heads up. you start hearing about things with that name, that's what it's all about. around here, a nice day today. temperatures in the 60s now. we'll see afternoon highs into the mid up toer 80s in downtown washington. on the whole, a great day to be outside. here's your exclusive. storm team 4 ten-day forecast. 80s today. back to near 90 tomorrow. then getting hot and humid around here for friday into weekend. cooling rain chances into the middle of next week. let's go to melissa mollet. >> not so hot. river road, this is an overturned tractor-trailer. they had to off load it to get it up on its wheels. sounds like for meagan fitzgerald on the scene, it's another hour or two before they're able to do that. taking a look at the beltway there, you can also see the outer loop is getting slow as they pass the scene. understandably folks are curious and kind of looking to the left there. right now, you can see the

loop. beltway overall not bad. we have the problem top of the beltway because of an earlier problem coming down off of 95. you are slow. westbound 28 at 270. follow police direction around the crash. i circled that problem around 95 to the outer loop. earlier crash at georgia is out of the way. southbound 15 at harmony church road, all lanes blocked there southbound. northbound is moving along just fine. the orange line, delays to new carrollton this morning. good morning i'm landon dowdy at cnbc headquarters. you can pay for anything with the wave of your hand. a visa powered ring offered to athletes in rio is made available to the rest of us. it will ship in december. like the apple watch, you won't even need your phone around when you set it up. i'm landon dowdy with this cnbc business report. 6:52 right now. with the kids heading back to school, we want to make su

>> naert. you can help today with our backpacks for kids. erika gonzalez is live in kingstown now with details on how to dough namt. >> reporter: we know it's not easy for parents to get their kids and students off to a great start in the school year. we want to help. we're working for you in the community. this morning, we're outside apple federal credit union. joining me this morning, robert soul of apple federal credit union. this is the fifth year we're working with you guys. >> thanks for stopping by. our partnership, our fifth year, our 60th anniversary at the credit union. we're ready to help the students get a fresh start to the school year. >> you can pick causes and do a lot of good every year. why do you choose to partner with us? >> we have a life mission. about helping our community and helping our students giving them the tools for success. the backpack donations we're accepting will go a long way to give our kids a fresh ar

>> we had a few people come by, drop off supplies and the backpacks and make a cash donation too. >> a wonderful start to the morning. please come down. we'll be here until noon. >> we're outside apple federal credit union, the kingstown branch. any one of the branches of the apple federal credit union will take your donation. if you come here, we'd love to meet you. you can come by, if you have a cash on you, a few dollars in your wallet and want to spring by, we'll take your donations here. you can bring your backpacks here. we have a new truck on the side of the parking lot to get filled. also, really cool this year, you can donate online nbcwashington.com. secure donation. you can also text 56512, nbc4 d.c. and you can text your donation this year. we want to make sure our kids are off to a wonderful start this year. outside this location, a couple of stores here. you've got a kohl's and walmart.

before you come by, we'd love to see you this morning. this is all about helping the needy kids in our community. want to make sure they have bright smiles, new backpacks and that this is also takes a little bit of the stress off the parents and the teachers as well. teachers, we know how much you do for the kids in the classrooms and how much of the supplies come from your pockets. we thank you for your what you're doing. this is our way of wanting to give back. come by this morning, apple federal credit union in kingstown and bring your new backpack and school supplies donation. i'm here with robert shuld. we'll be here through mid kay. come by and say hello. >> bye bye. love to see you today. >> erika gonzalez. please join them down there in kingstown. we appreciate all your donations. it is now 6:55. here are four things to know before you head out the door. >> a homicide in burtonsville overnight. a man was shot and killed there. montgomery county police don't

an associated press report found that more than half the people outside the government who met or called hillary clinton while she was secretary of state gave money to the clinton foundation. her campaign says the story is based on, "utterly flawed data". >> you may want to avoid the inner loop near belt road. crews are working to clean up trash bags that spilled from an overturned tractor-trailer. katie ledecky is throwing out the first pitch at the nationals game tonight. you can catch eun's interview at 6:00 tonight. another check of ten-day forecast. get ready for the heat and humidity of summertime to come back after one more day without it today. back to 90 tomorrow. well into the 90s friday through the weekend. significant chances for rain don't ramp up until the middle of next week. >> i like that. inner loop before river road, that picture is not working

us. another live picture, inner and outer loop showing the problems. outer loop also has delays from the spur southbound. outer loop as you -- inner loop as you're approaching river road still have that tractor-trailer as i just mentioned overturned and blocking that right side. as you look at the beltway, top of the beltway is slow. 95 south to the top of the beltway not so hot this morning. >> melissa thank you. that is the broadcast this morning. >> the "today" show is next. don't forget to keep donating school supplies in

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