condos at adelphi after last night's storm forced them out. they say that storm did cosmetic damage to the high rise building. this is not the only damage from the storm in this area. news 4's justin finch just arrived at another scene nearby dealing with weather damage. he will have a live report in a few moments. first, it is 5:00 a.m. good morning, everybody. i'm aaron gilcrist. >> i'm eun yang. we'll get to melissa mollet. we'll start with chuck bell and sheena parveen wondering if we're going to see more storms in our area? >> yes. we could have a couple of rumbles of thunderstorms. >> warm and humid. the mid 80s are coming in today. >> it's a little early for mid 80sed for my personal taste. feels like summer again this morning. on your way out the door, temperatures in the low to mid 60s. off to a super mild start. four things to know about the forecast. feeling like summer again today. mid 80s. cool and wetve

it may not rain every minute of saturday and sunday but you need to have backup plans to go for outdoor activities especially saturday afternoon and saturday night. we may be talking about 90 degrees before next week. we'll worry about 90 degree weather more coming up in a bit. for now we are tracking rain drops with sheena parveen. >> yes, we are, chuck. we have showers around this morning. mostly though if you're north of the district so we're not looking at everybody seeing the rain. we're not seeing that stretch rain down 95. very busy section. it's mostly around hagerstown, mart continuesburg, frederick shifting from west to east. that's the general direction. going to continue moving through around frederick. hagerstown seeing some of that moderate to heavy rain. currently it's mild. 64 degrees as we go closer to 7:00 a.m., mid 60s. still some showers around. by noon, warm and muggy, 77. by 6:00 p.m.,

a chance for a thunderstorm. we'll take a closer look at the weekend forecast. let's check the roads on this friday. good morning, melissa. >> good morning. this is something we're going to be talking about throughout the morning. justin finch on the scene. we'll see live pictures in a minute. rigs road between adelphi and metzerott. they'll be blocked because of the utility repairs. 270 has cleared out of the way. in bound canal diverted at foxhall. usually clears up at 5:00. beltway overall looking quite good. aaron? >> melissa, thank you. power crews working to get the lights on near rigs road. >> justin finch joining us live. good morning. >> reporter: eun, aaron, lots of action where we are off edwards way here in adelphi. just above us, pepco

working to respond to those challenges. just behind that scene, perhaps you can see one of their trouble spots back there, a snapped power pole and tree debris on the ground below. i want to take you now to my left, perhaps your right, and you can see all these dark condos out here behind us. ridge road, you will see traffic being diverted in that area cutting through that strip mall parking lot. they're working around utility crews working there to restore power to those lines. i want to take you to video of downed trees we have seen. this is the presidential park condos. you see trees have fallen into that driveway area and also have fallen on two cars off metzerott road there. we have seen trees falling off of that entryway there. it is not yet been cleared so you will see difficulty as melissa mentioned traveling in and around that area this

morning. that's the latest here live in adelphi. justin finch, back to you. breaking news out of howard county this morning. take a look at your screen here. there is an arrest warrant for timothy powers. he managed to get away from the howard county general hospital last night. county police looked for him but they don't know where he is right now. they don't believe he had access to a car though. powers is a minimum security inmate and we're told that he was last seen wearing aburg begun did i sweatshirt. inmates in arkansas. erika gonzalez has the latest. >> reporter: the state of arkansas executed a death row inmate. the first in a decade. dell lee was executed last night before midnight. this after the u.s. supreme court declined to hear five last-minute appeals by his attorney.

sedation during the procedure and that the last meal he asked for was communion. lee was sentenced to death in '95 for the murder of a 26-year-old arkansas woman. at the live desk, i'm erika gonzalez. >> erika, thank you, five minutes after the hour. right now prince george's county police want people to be on the lookout for this missing 72-year-old woman. helen johnson hasn't been seen since april 7th. she may be driving a gray ford taurus that looks a lot like the one you see here. it has maryland tag 4 ald 25. this morning a man is recovering from serious injuries after police say he was hit by a car. the crash happened near southeast street and commerce street in frederick, maryland, last night just before 9:00. it's near the frederick ves tore scene to call them right away. raids happening in paris right now after another

suspected terror attack. erika at the live desk. >> we have information after last night's suspected terrorist attack. the paris investigators office leading the investigation. they found a pump action shotgun and knives in the gunman's car. he was killed in the attack on police. i believe this is new video coming into our newsroom of the rates that were taking place in the city overnight. one officer died and two others injured in the shooting. isis has claimed responsibility. meanwhile, there is a countrywide manhunt for accomplipolices. developing. she was wrongly held for years. aya hijazi is back in the united states. she's going to meet with the president today. she thanked president trump for

she's accused of abusing children through an organization she founded to help kids living on the street. she was found not guilty. they said the allegations are always false. larry hogan sr. passed away last night after suffering a stroke on saturday. in a facebook post governor larry hogan called his father an american hero. hoeg fwan sr. represented tpeope in congress. he was 88 years old. today family and friends will say good-bye to a soldier killed when a black hawk helicopter crashed on monday. army specialist jeremy conlin was 22 years old. he died when his helicopter crashed on a golf course. his memorial service is being held where he grew up near chapel hill, tennessee. it's still not clear why that

two other soldiers are still in the hospital. starting this weekend, getting to virginia from downtown d.c. is about to get easier. after two years the massachusetts ramp southbound opens tomorrow. you can drive directly on to the highway instead of using the ramp. this is part of the capital crossing project which won't wrap up until 2019. over to metro where there is some good news for riders this weeke weekend. metro has canceled the shutdown of the blue, orange tracks in d.c. trains will single track between the square and smithsonian. silver line trains will only run from wheelie west and balston. on the red line, the college park station will be closed. there is an emergency response on sunday. yellow line trains will only run

vernon square. it was a bit of a tense situation when people why watching the baby eagle cam. d.c. 4 caught its leg in a y-shaped stick. they decided to rescue the bird. they say d.c. 4 wasn't seriously hurt and is going to be taken to the vet today. they got a lot of calls from people watching the camera and say something happened there. >> a lot of adoptive parents watching out for them which is good. don't put the umbrella away just yet, right, chuck? >> not only don't put it away just yet, start looking for a backup umbrella just in case you get caught without your current one because we have a lot of rain chances for not just today. we have rain chances stacked up through the weekend and on into thear

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13 after the hour now. what's going to be a pretty warm friday around here. >> and some rain, sheena. >> yes, that's right. we have 80s returning to end out the week. we also have showers in the forecast. take a look at the radar right now. they're mostly north of the district, but it is a warm kind of muggy morning out there. frederick seeing some light rain. up towards hagerstown seeing more moderate rainfall in the area. coming up chuck and i to show you some storms to expect. let's check the roads with melissa. >> good morning. reminder about the situation in prince georges county, adelphi shut down between rigs and met rey ott shut down because of the overnight storms. beltway

raining in the southern half. goldsboro road has cleared out of the way. pat cummings is being extradited to virginia. he took 15-year-old elizabeth thomas to live in a remote cabin in northern california. an amber alert was issued for the pair on march 13th. they were found yesterday after the caretaker for the cabin says he became suspicious and called authorities. thomas's father says he's relieved his daughter has been found. >> we're going to have to figure out what kind of state of mind she's in, of course, and probably get her some help. it may be a long road but, you know, at least we got her back now. we got her back. >>. covering prince george's

after a former prince george's county teacher is arrested. this time a substitute teacher and basketball coach is fatesing child pornography charges. news 4's megan mcgrath is outside the school where he was around elementary kids for nearly a decade. megan? >> reporter: certainly the allegations are disturbing. he's accused of uploading child pornography from his iphone to a drop box account. 34-year-old christopher spate was charged. investigators received a tip about that drop box account, a search of his capitol heights home turned up the exully responsible material. he said he admitted to

it. he worked at bradbury heights elementary for years. he's done work with the sports academy. they released a statement saying that he is no longer working in the school system and any behavior that harms a child will not be tolerated. a letter is going to be sent home to parents later on today explaining the situation. back to you all in the studio. >> megan mcgrath live for us. megan, thank you. montgomery county police have been equipped with cameras. they're going to be equipped for three months. montgomery county sheriff's deputy secure county courts, serve protective orders for suspected violence. news 4 says only uniformed deputies, including those participating

for the cameras. another new development in the saga of the east end trailer park in manassas. a new potential buyer has emerged. a lawyer who owns two other trailer parks. he wants to buy the property, repair the sewer system and let them stay. catholics for housing is the other group interested in buying the park. last year residents were told they'd have to move because the owner couldn't make city mandated repairs for the faulty system. news 4 your health. women who want beautiful skin may have to cut back on how much they drink. a new study from brown university says alcohol consumption increases the risk of rosacea in their skin. white wine and liquor were the biggest culprits and the more women drink, the higher the risk for a lot of things. well, a gift from

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>> chuck tried it, sheena, melissa. everyone is getting a taste of that unicorn frappucino. people walking down the street. it's all over instagram. apparently not everyone loves it. >> if you got on social media, barristas say it's stressful to make it. >> one even dauld the devil. another person was happy that they sold out of the ingredients. whether you loved it, you can only get it until sunday. starbucks is genius. put a time limit on it. >> i don't think this would have had a long life span after sunday. >> there's something else. >> let's try something else. >> lindsay, what does this thing cost? do you sfler 4.95? >> 5 bucks. >> when i go to starbucks i w

caffeine, right now! that's what we need. the whole reason i go to a coffee shop. outside it is a cloudy start this morning and raining for some. the real issue is how mild it is. 64 now our average high temperature this time of year, 69 degrees. so we'll be way above average again today. courtesy of this mild start. low to mid 60s everywhere this morning. temperatures will quickly jump though into the upper 70s to near 80 by lunchtime. even with scattered thunderstorms, most areas will be in the low to mid 80s. chances of you getting rained on today, at least 60%. already raining across parts of northern maryland. we'll bring higher rain chances back for everybody. no rain this morning. pockets of moderate rain along the maryland/pennsylvania border. this moves on out. we should be dry for most of the late morning and early afternoon. daytime

4:00. showers are indeed likely. nedum brel la. shorts and short sleeves and sunglasses for a time. for tomorrow, cloudy skies in the morning. chances of a few sprinkles before lunch. the real issue for rain comes in tomorrow afternoon and tomorrow night. heaviest of the rain likely late saturday night up into early sunday monk. sunday afternoon we should be able to taper back to just showers. you'll get precious little in the way of sunshine. after the 80s today will be cooler than average with the clouds around. saturday, sunday, monday and tuesday. we'll talk the return of heat coming up with sheena. for now, it is traffic time. meliss melissa? >> good morning. adelphi road between rigs and metzerott there, shut down through the morning. live picture from the scene with justin finch and his crew. this as they're working on the utilities from last night's storm. the beltway, inner loop and

the rain is falling in the southern part of the beltway. 66 and 95 are just fine theer morning. 270 from frederick down to the spur going to take you 27 minutes. now all over our area there are road names with obvious origins. river road of course runs along the potomac river, canal road so you sort of get the idea. as a traffic reporter quirky road names stick out to me. the ones i wonder about most are first name road names. who was that road named for? tonight on news 4 we're going to dig into some of those roads and meet a funny mother/daughter duo shocked to find their names at an intersection. how do they name the roads? look forward to meeting in the street with melissa. he went from being a convicted felon to helping them. now

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good morning, everyone. it's 5:30. happy friday. made it to the end of the week. we want you to enjoy the warm weather today because it's not going to stick around for your weekend. >> let's check in with meteorologist sheena parveen and meteorologist chuck bell. lay it out, guys. >> one more taste of summer today and probably another pretty good taste of summer late next week. >> that's right. >> it's that middle part otherwise known as the weekend we're worried about. >> the weekend weather doesn't look dry by any means. what's going on currently, radar showing showers up near fredericks county, mart continuesbumartinsburg. north of frederick around 70 with heavier rain approaching. as we go through the morning hours, the rain chance will stay around. by 7:30 the computer model you'll want to pick up with showers moving through the

thunderstorms. temperatures in the 80s with that. let's check the roads this morning. then we'll get another check on the week end weather. melissa mollet. >> we'll check the roads. >> if you want to come do traffic and swap, we might be messed up. inner loop after connecticut aft avenue you can see this. you do see a little bit of a slowdown there at the top of the beltway. rest of the beltway nice and clear. green the whole way around inner loop and outer loop. adelphi road between rigs and metzerott we have them out there showing you what pepco is doing to try to get the utility issues back up and running before the morning commute. travel time is coming up. aaron? >> melissa, thank you. back home after years in jail abroad, a woman who grew up in virginia was just released from egypt.

what's happening today. >> she is a charity worker and she was detained in egypt for nearly three years. now she's back home arriving back in the united states. hijazi was accused of abusing children while she was running a foundation to help the kids. her case was on the agenda when they visited with egypt's president. she's going to meet with president trump as we understand it this morning at the white house. back over to you. >> erika, thank you. 5:33. other top stories. there is an inmate on the run in our area. he walked out of howard county general hospital last night. he is considered a minimum security inmate. there is a warrant out for his arrest. power is 52 years old and he was last seen wearing aburg begun did i sweater and s.

death row was executed last night. he's the first of four inmates scheduled to die before the end of the month. paris is on high alert again this morning after police officer was killed on the iconic road. he was a gun fighter. the paris prosecutor's office say they found a pump action shotgun and knives in the gunman's car. the gunman has not been identified. a prince george's county substitute teacher and coach is charged of child pornography. he told investigators he worked at bradbury elementary school in capitol heights. news 4's megan mcgrath will have more. ready to rock the red? capitals will try to take back the playoff series tonight. they are back home at the verizon center for game

right now the best of series is tied at 2-2. every game. every game has been exciting and thrilling. puck drops at 7:00 p.m. take a look at this. part of a parking garage came crashing down on top of somebody's car. this happened yesterday at the ronald regan building. the metro station northwest. the ceiling of a parking garage ramp gave way on 14th street. as you can see, the car was pretty badly damaged. nobody was hurt though. 5:35 our time. visitation will be held on friday on glen burn any. matthew mcclanahan was working on an irrigation pipe on tuesday when a branch fell on him. this happened at the the corner of independence avenue and southeast. tree experts will investigate as to whether they cause a threat. there are

a metro worker was fired after this smoke issue. he's now been rehired. he submitted false paperwork. the fans did not play a role in the woman's death but they malfunctioned once the tunnel was cleared out. an arbitration board ruled he should have been suspended rather than fired and a judge agreed. now to a story of a d.c.'s woman's determination to honor her long time neighbor. >> clarence was a gay army veteran. he died two months ago. that's when his neighbor, delores young, learned he had no family left. his body was on to a -- they're working to give him a proper burial. >> it wouldn't rest in my soul. you know, i just can't

>> he's eligible for a military burial. a fundraiser is underway now to raise money for funeral costs. if you want to donate search veterans funeral in the nfc washington app. metro car makeover. train cars taken out of retirement for a revamp. how they're being changed into works of art next. >> reporter: right now pepco crews working to restore pow

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more metro station next month. >> like to see that. see how it turns out. time now to check our forecast. >> good morning, everybody. off to a bit of a cloudy start this morning, and there are rain drops to be dealt with for today as well. showers around this morning. a risk of some thunderstorms again this afternoon. both tomorrow and sunday. precious little in the way of sunshine. that goes into monday. not going to rain all weekend, but there's certainly going to be periods of rainy weather, particularly saturday night and early in the day sunday as that cold front comes sliding on by. that's the front that will generate the thunder showers later today. sheena has a look at the ten day forecast which has the number 90 on it. stay with us. right now big problem on the beltway. we're going to show you this live picture. talk about this inner loop after connecticut avenue. talk about how big those backups are and they are growing straight ahead. plus, a new way to

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right now at 5:45, tree troubles. last night's storms leaving behind a big mess that could impact your commute. plus, ramp reopening. two years of construction complete. how it will make the trip into downtown d.c. easier for thousands of you. and the dangers of diet soda. cutting calories could come at the cost of your brain's health. "news 4 today" starts now. so you may have heard the lightning and the heavy rain from last night's storms. this morning we're getting a look at the damage it caused. >> it's also left hundreds of people in the dark. news 4's justin finch is live in adelphi. justin? >> reporter: aaron, good

morning. close to 6:00 a.m. take a look over here. near pitch black. a number of condo buildings still in the dark. here off edwards way pepco crews are working to get their lights back on for them. way back there it does appear that this storm downed at least one power pole. i want to take you to some video we got earlier. road closures there between adelphi and metzerott road. that area, we saw cars coming to a strip mall parking lot and the crews working on power lines on that road, too. on metzerott we got a look at how strong the storms were. at least two trees down. some branches resting on top of parked cars. this morning we did find the condo resident now pulling up to all of this. >> i just want to get home. i'm just tired. i just want

i feel i'm going to have to go longer, but i just want to be ho home. >> reporter: as you can see, they are loading what appears to be a damaged power pole on to a crane of some kind to get it out of here. but as you can see, the work is happening in adelphi. hopefully in short order the lights will be back on. back in to you. >> justin finch. thank you. starting this weekend, getting to virginia from downtown d.c. is about to get easier. after two years of construction and detours the massachusetts avenue ramp to 395 southbound opens tomorrow. now this new ramp allows traffic to drive directly onto the highway instead of using the third street ramp. this is good news for drivers going east. those driving west bound on massachusetts avenue will see new delays. this is all part of the capital wrapping project. metro, there is good news for riders this weekend. the metro has

shutdown of the blue, orange, silver lines in downtown d.c. instead, trains will single track. silver line trains will only run between balston. on the red line, green belt and college park stations are closed. there will be emergency response drills at the navy yard. yellow lines will run between huntington and mount vernon square. ben relatively quiet this week. news 4's tracie potts joins you live with the two things we'll see the president do. >> reporter: aaron and eun, two things you need to know. health care is back. president trump says he thinks it's possible congress can get it done next week. he's got some new ideas out there about preserving basic benefits, so-called guarantee benefits like emergency room visits,

states the option to get the a waiver and opt out of that. it's not in writing yet. some lawmakers say they feel pressured by the president's artificial deadline to get it done. not to mention the fact that it's already a very busy week. when they get back, the first thing on their agenda is to prevent a government shutdown that will happen on midnight friday if they can't pass a spending bill. the thinking is that republican leaders want to pass a temporary extension for about a week while they work on that. eun and aaron? >> tracie potts. thank you. seven marijuana advocates were arrested after holding what they called a joint session on capitol hill. a pro canabus group was celebrating 4/20. recreational marijuana is legal in d.c. people are allowed to transfer an ounce without

they thought they were doing everything legally. they were on federal land and they arrested them. the group says it will fight the charges. police in frederick, maryland, said they caught another group of local businesses selling cigarettes to under age kids. a recent news 4 i-team investigation found a 7% increase in local businesses failing those checks in recent years. when the i-team went under cover they watched clerks sell to under aged teens employed by police. erika gonzalez has details of a shooting? >> right. they found a man dead on campus. they first got a call from a woman saying a man walked up to her, showed a gun, she struggled with him, that gun goes off. that guy runs off, she's okay. after that police got another call and that the

shot in his car. they're trying to see if they're related. it's the third fatal shooting in 24 hours. new this morning, a big morale boost from one bush to another. president george w. bush visited his father president george h.w. bush. bush 41 tweeted this photo of the visit. the 92-year-old is in a houston hospital with pneumonia. doctors say he is gaining strength and is in good spirit. queen elizabeth ii turns 91 today. a gun salute at the tower bridge and high park will mark the queen's birthday. this will be more low key celebration if you can have a low key celebration for queens. if you're looking at video of her leaving easter mass

sunday with the rest. we want to check in with melissa. she's watching a big problem on the beltway. >> inner loop after connecticut avenue. this is an over turned vehicle and another vehicle. two vehicles involved here on the left side of the roadway. right now traffic about a one and a half mile backup. only getting by on the far right side. those backups really are building on the inner loop and the outer loop as folks are looking trying to figure out what's going on. rest of the belt way looks okay. adelphi road between rigs and metzerott. pepco is working on the utility issue trying to get it out of the way before the morning commute kicks in. metro, silver line delays. wanted to update you on that. as far as travel time, 66 in bound and 95 northbound both looking quite good. 270 southbound is okay. top of the beltway again slow because of the problem we just showed you there in that live

from 95. good morning, melissa. we have a pretty good friday outlook if you like the summer-like weather. temperatures today will be in the 80s. we have showers in the forecast for the morning commute. i'll show you those in a second. by lunchtime, warm and humid. if you're exercising, wear a hat today. dress cool. we're going to get into the 80s. happy hour today, watch for thunderstorms developing. we'll see that in the forecast. exercising, 7:00 a.m., 55 degrees. noon, 7. could see a passing chance. temperatures mid 80s with some thunderstorms possible. here's how to look. we're watching the area of rain in frederick county. 270 near hagars town. future weather try

8:00 a.m. clearing us out for most of the day. now we'll look ahead into your weekend. saturday, mostly cloudy. periods of rain. better rain chances come later in the day saturday. going to be higher rain chances, then we go into your sunday. we're looking at morning rain. trending a little bit farther to the south but we are going to keep the rain chance in for sunday. cooler across the week. next week we heat up again. chuck and i back with more details on the weekend weather. >> thanks, sheena 56789:54. easier to get out of the store when you're shopping. you might not have to type in your pin every time you check out. master card said it created a new card with a fingerprint scanner. they say biometric when you hold your finger over the censor. if it worries you, thiss

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right now on "news 4 today." inmate escape. search for the man who walked out of the maryland hospital while in custody. plus, child important charges against a teacher. disturbing details about what was found on this man's computer. and the caps quest for the cup. what to know before the puck drops tonight for

breaker. "news 4 today" starts now. 6:00 on the dot. good morning, everybody. i'm aaron gill crest. >> i'm eun yang. some of you will have some cleanup to do after last night's severe storms. many people don't have power and a large tree fell near riggs road in adelphi, maryland. >> not far from where a high rise had to be evacuated. >> know lis is a mollet will fill us in on the impact to the roads. >> first, chuck bell and sheena parveen are here to tell us about more rain in the forecast. just wait for a little while, right? >> yeah. i wish that we had better news. you can tell by all the himming and hauing. >> the