concert. the u.s. warning came after the pulse nightclub shooting left 49 dead in orlando back in june of 2016. this morning we know homeland security is keeping tabs on manchester sending out a statement reading in part, we have no information to indicate a specific credible threat involving music venues in the united states. the public may experience increased security at events. we know back this morning, they're treating that as a potential terror attack until they have information proving otherwise. back in to you. >> justin finch at the british embassy. thank you. we want to check in with angie goff at the live desk with how the world is reacting to this news. >> in shock. arianna grande, herself, who had wrapped the showef

broken. from the bottom of my heart, i am so, so sorry. i don't have words. then there are so many others that have weighed in. we have harry styles, bruno mars, demi lovado. an english singer sending his love to everyone involved. also along with the condolences were called for help. desperate relatives, the missing concert goers still online sharing pictures, names, phone numbers of their loved ones hoping that sometime today they're going to be reunited. we will bring you more throughout the hour. eun, back to you. >> angie, thank you. this is a story we will continue to follow for you throughout the morning. stay with us he on air and get background right now in the nbc washington app. approaching 4:32 now. we turn to the murder of a local college

robert collins iii was supposed to sooef his degree from bowie university. instead, he'll be remembered with a moment of silence. a tribute was held last night for collins on the bowie state campus. he died early saturday morning after what witnesses are calling an unprovoked attack. collins was out celebrating after he learned he had been commissioned to serve as a sikd lieutenant in the army. >> i can talk a lot about direction because he was a good person, a great leader, but the one thing i'm going to highlight most is his character. >> bowie state community will be on maryland's college park campus today for graduation. skmensment is being held at the xfinity center as originally planned. we're told collins was following in the footsteps of his father by enlisting in the

army. richard collins jr. he was still trying to process what happened. >> i really have -- have not tried to process motive or intentions behind this yet to be honest with you. it's still quite surreal. as you said before, a parents' worst nightmare has just reached my doorstep. >> we've posted 11 minutes of the exclusive interview online. meanwhile, the 22-year-old accused of killing collins is staying in jail for now. a judge denied a request to allow shawn urbansky to be released to his parents. calling him, quote, an absolute threat to

they're vetting as he is part of a group called alt-reich. a man died after being attacked from 11th street and 5. that's near the 11th street bridge. working to find out more about the victim. so far no arrests have been made. angie goff here at the live desk. president trump is in bethlehem this morning and just met with palestinian president mahmoud abad at the presidential quarters. they're walking after a joint news conference. the president is expected to deliver remarks at the israel museum. next

where he will meet with pope francis. >> angie, thank you. 4:35. back here the white house will unveil president trump's four things to know about it. the $4.1 trillion proposal calls for deep cuts to several entitlement programs. that includes medicaid ant the federal food over the years. there are no cuts to medicare and social security retirement benefits but it could have an effect on student loans. it gets rid of federal subsidies while putting into place an income different requirement plan. congress sets the budgets. tracey pots will have the latest on the russia investigation.

covering northern virginia this morning, two 16-year-old boys have been charged with distributing xanax to students. both are students in loudoun county. they shared a drink mixed with xanax with as many as seven eighth graders. none of the middle school students were harmed. they passed a ban last night by a vote of 4-1. the opposing council member said that they will move down the street in front of other businesses. new construction on beach drive could soon make a mess of your morning commute. the project will soon be shifting to its second phase in northwest washington. that involves this highlighted stretch from children's street to broad branch

give an update at a public meeting tonight. this is the second to wrap up by the fall of 2019. 4:37. let's get you caught up on weather and traffic. >> a look at your commute when we check back in with melissa mollet. a brief reprieve? >> a little bit, yes. we're going to see this over the next several days, clouds and showers and clouds coming in waves. >> if you really need sunshine to feel better about things, you may need to wait until friday around here. a lot of energy is keeping cloud cover in place and rain chances, a little higher today south of town. if you're traveling much higher rate changes, around town, rain chances stay at 60%. looking at showers coming into the afternoon hours. no realea

morning commute. temperatures most in the 50s and 60s. today's highs staying in the 60s. as we go through the morning hours, you will notice your commute will be dry. four things you need to know before you step outside. like chuck mentioned, the rain mostly to the south. the cloudy days will be better in between. for today that rain will be primarily south by thursday. friday/saturday looks good. let's check your roadways with melissa mollet. >> good morning. i tried to sneak by. not fast enough. river road between springfield and little falls parkway, i just came through this work zone, you're going to have to stay to the left by getting which the paving. they should be wrapping t

in the next probably 45 minutes or so. 66 and 95, no big problems. inner loop near old georgetown road. outer loop after branch blocking the right lane. road work on the express lane coming up. >> melissa, thank you. >> oh, my god. >> it looked more like a bar fight. this was actually the scene after a sudden death in a family. why they're blaming a hospital employee for the brawl. she was a student council president, had a 4.0 gpa and is a model president. and a countrywide controversy continues to swirl at a virginia high school. the seven f

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so act fast. go to fiosgigabit.com you're watching "news 4 today." >> oh, my god. >> get off of him! >> a kentucky family said this happened right after they lost a loved one and they're demanding answers right now. you can see a security guard force a man to the ground here. this is at a hospital in lexington. the doctor said that man and his family could say their good-byes to a woman who passed away. the hospital said, quote, we are deeply

that happened at our hospital and they are reviewing the security services. this is weighing in on the nbc washington facebook page. a high school senior with a 4.0 gpa will not be allowed to walk at her graduion because she's pregnant. she was suspended for two days and removed from her role. the christian school in hagerstown told "the new york times" the 18-year-old will still receive her diploma. they say rugals violated the school's code of conduct by having premarital sex. get ready for another sort of dreary day around here. >> not much sunshine today. better rain chances the farther south. highs probably not going to make it above 70 degrees. better days for the holiday weekend. sheena has that forecast coming up. another day, another bomb shell

trump to push back collusion claims. >> we continue to monitor the latest from england where the death toll continues to climb after an explosion from a concert.

we are getting new information on what the british prime minister is calling an appalling attack. we now know that children are part of the 22 victims killed at an arianna grande concert in manchester. >> we are getting a statement in the last hour or so from the chief constable in manchester,

bomber. the blast happened right outside the concert as people were leaving. arianna grande when that send off panic sending people to safety. >> reporter: aaron, here at the live desk we want to take you back to bethlehem where president trump just made his very first comment on the manchester explosion. >> so many young, beautiful, innocent people living and enjoying their lives murdered by evil losers in life. >> he went on to say he was not going to call them monsters, that he would like that. he was going to refer to them as losers because that's exactly what they were. he will have more on that. the president making that during a joint news conference with mahmoud abbas.

he will follow on to rome. 4:48 right now. president trump may be over seas, but his white house is dealing with new reports in the russia investigation. >> according to "the washington post," president trump asked two top intelligence officials to say in public that they saw no evidence of collusion and his campaign. >> tracie, what are the highlights? >> reporter: both of them deny when they were asked by president trump to say in public that his campaign had nothing to do with ties to russia. we're talking. >> the -- talking about the director of national intelligence. they're both testifying on the hill. one of them wrote about this in a memo. the white house response, they say that they do not respond to reports. >>

former national security adviser, michael flynn, if we can. we know flynn said he plans to plead the fifth. what do we know? >> we know he's going to talk it over. there are questions by democrats who want to get to the bottom of this, who want to see what evidence he has after the committee that subpoenaed knows documents. if he's not going to talk, they have to decide if they will hold him in contempt. they haven't decided why i had. >> tracie potts on the hill this morning. 4:49. the man who claims he coined the term alt-reich. she confronted him and called him a neonazi. they informed her

he called the decision unfair. he wasn't there due to politics. the alt-reich movement has been described as a group with anti-semetic views. some people are calling for the name of jeb stewart high school to be changed. it was named in honor of a confederate general. they'll hold another meeting at the school to discuss the issue. they estimate changing the name would cost nearly $1 million. the teacher's aide pled guilty to sexually exploiting children to create child pornography. a judge is asking prosecutors and defense attorneys to submit a list of

testify at the sentencing hearing. caraw caraway's trial is set for mid january. addiction is an often misunderstood problem. >> this new training video is going to every law enforcement agency in virginia. loudoun county dep sis have video on how to re1307spondresp get ready for more construction in a pretty busy area of d.c. next week crews will start working on a new barn dance traffic signal. this is happening at the intersection of 14th and irving street northwest.

new traffic signal has a turn on restriction. it should be in place by mid june. 4:52 is our time right now. we got rid of the rain later in the day yesterday and not so bad this morning. >> not so bad. feels comfortable outside. just cloudy so that's good. we still have quite a few more days of just kind of gloomy, dreary weather. not what you want to hear. the good news is we're going to get it out of the way. we do have rain in the forecast later on. a couple models are disagreeing on the time. some putting it around fredericksburg. we still have rain in the forecast. we have showers and clouds as we go through memorial day. rain chances sunday and monday. i'll show you the forecast in a second. cloudy skies, we're dry. south of richmond, that's where we have a little

starting to move to the north. we'll keep our eye on that closely. look at this weather wa turn very unsettled against much of sunday. that's when it will dry out. with showers around, 63 in the district, 64 in quantico. pretty comfortable this morning. if you are exercising, cloudy a dry. by the 6:00 p.m., chance of showers. then as we go through your time it shows us mainly cloudy. overnight wednesday looks mainly on the cloudy side. then we go into thursday and that's when we have another chance for showers, even thunderstorms. look at the forecast as we go into the weekend. sunshine friday/saturday. rain chances return on sunday/monday. hi, sheena. beltway, better than it was. all three

gone. inner loop and outer loop gone. we had the inner loop express lane should down. in bound river road between springfield drive and little falls parkway as you're passing spm the alley way as well. 66 and 95, no problems there. we'll take a look at 95 and maryland coming up. we told you it was coming. now we know where it was going to be. the location for the district's first wawa. >> major blow for a purple line. what the judge says it must have happen before the project moves forward. developing story out of london. 22 people have died in an apparent terror attack. latest information and

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you're watching "news 4 today." maryland's purple line rail project is facing a new setback. a federal judge is ordering further study for this project. the delay puts federal funding at risk. there is a june 1st deadline to get that money and the developers lose it, the entire project could be derailed. a judge who's been criticized by maryland governor larry hogan cited a low

some riders who don't pay their fares on metro buses are becoming more violent. scott mcfarland and the news 4 eye team uncover a disturbing trend. >> there's a surge in the number of cases of people who cheat paying their fair on metro buses. what's more, our investigation shows an increase in those cases leading to attacks against the bus operators, actual assaults. video obtained by the news 4 iteam through a public records request shows some of those assaults. bus drivers being spit upon, punched, in one dramatic case that went to court earlier this year a passenger actually stabs the bus driver after a dispute over fare cheating.

we told you about a new wegmans but it may be months until you can dig into a hoagie from wawa. it was supposed to open on 19th street between l. and m. it will not sell gas. d.c. is reporting that wawa will open eventually a dozen locations through the area. how about that? >> make a note where that is. now if we get a dairy queen, we'll be good to go. >> stay with us. "news 4 today" stays with us at

5:00 a.m. "news 4 today" starts now. it's about 5:00 now. good morning, everybody. i'm aaron gill crest. >> i'm eun yang. we want to get you started with your weather and traffic. we want to look at roads and rales with melissa mollet in minutes. >> first, chuck and sheena headed outside for us this morning. whattest it feel like, guys? >> it's nice. it's cool. >> i like it. it's good weather outside this morning. there have been enough breaks in the clouds to allow temperatures back down to the 50s and 60s in the area. there's a check of our area. there are rain drops from richmond southbound. it will try to inch its way in our direction. current temperatures, a big range. 50 in winchester, 62 by the bay in annapolis. as you're planning out your day today, may get a peak at the sun. mostly cloudy day. rain chances sneak up a little bit especially once we get past about lunchtime today. because of the cloud coveray