on this memorial day, president trump continuing a solemn tradition lay iing a wreh at the tomb of the unknown soldier. visitors to arlington national cemetery are being greeted by those honor iing the grave men d women who died for our country. >> a formal way for honoring the men and women are also taking place. this is rockville's annual memorial day parade. 20,000 are expected to attend. we'll show you what is

there. and we're watching the weather. we have some fog, some mist, it's humid out there. can we see more sunshine around the d.c. area and where you are. how about the rain chances. we're going to time everything out in a few minutes. good morning, i'm mollet green. >> president trump just arrived and will be laying the wreath before delivering remarks. the president is back in d.c. after his first trip abroad, which got so much attention and during that it trip he spoke to u.s. service members stationed in sicily and is expected to repeat some of the same themes in his speech today. he talked about boosting spending on the military and the pledge to unshakable support to men and women in

you see him with his hand over his heart as the wreath is laid this morning. here's another view of arlington national cemetery where flags and roses are at every grave site. >> today volunteers will try to make the day a bit easier for family members coming to visit loved ones at the cemetery. they are handing out thousands of roses to visitors. jews tin finch is live all the arlington national cemetery this morning. >> good morning, they will be wrapping up in just about a a half hour or so. for almost a decade they have been handing out flowers and roses like this to visitors here so they can pay their respects. at the arlington national cemetery entrance. >> the roses come from clom can ya, ecuador, everyone pitches in. >> this range of roses

foundation now in its seventh year. hundreds left flowers on 140,000 graves a at arlington. >> all the volunteers lay a a rose and thank the person for the service and move on. >> reporter: this morning 20,000 more flowers were given out to leave at graves for some visitors a thoughtful touch on what can be an overwhelming day. >> there's not any words that can adequately encapsulate the emotion and the experience of being here with not only our fellow servicemen and women, but all thundershower families and loved ones. >> e we love the guys that are in the ground. and right now. >> at the veterans memorial, the names of three more servicemen are being formally add ed. >> it's certainly a somber day. it's a e reminder of how lucky we are to be here. and to remember our brothers

>> reporter: the number now 58,318 men and women killed or missing in action. >> we never forget. that's why it's important. >> and this year arlington is one of 18 cemeteries nationwide where the first dooundation has provided flowers like these so visitors can grieve. >> back into you. >> thank you so much. with so many events taking place for the holidays, so many family pla plans. we want to know if we can get in the pool today. >> i'm like where your head is at roigt now. i enjoy it. >> was that a splash in my ear. >> if you want to head out to the pool now, it's locking fine. we have the clouds out there.

so a good time to get in the poll. the temperatures are coming on up. look at the cloud cover right here. we're getting some clearing right there. . we'll all see some sunshine today. and temperatures will respond from that. but we are seeing a few isolated showers out there right now. in just a little sprinkles in some of our areas. it's really not that much. that's what we'll watching through the remand eer of the afternoon. you can see the sunshine in the 70s. we'll have a a chance for rain showers through the area just through the early part of the afternoon. the threat should be gone by 4:00 p.m. ap lot of other festives. we'll time out the rain on our futurecast coming up in about 15 minutes. i also want to show you the next ten days as well. as you head back to work, temperatures heat on up.

we're going to be showing you guys that coming up in about 1 minutes. >> be prepared for traffic on the roads as holiday traffic returns home. our news partner says the least amount of traffic is expected after 10:00 tonight. now aaa pretickets more than 39 million people are traveling 50 miles or more this weekend. >> and the national memorial day parade also this afternoon. another parade just started. >> absolutely. rockville is holding its 73rd memorial day parade. melissa mollet is the em see. >> reporter: good morning f

take a look behind me, you can see the parade going on. a huge turnout today. thousands of people coming out here to downtown rockville and today is all about honoring those who have served our koun tru try. there was one never had so much been owed to so few. certainly a sentiment shared by many here today. a slout for those who served and gave the ultimate sacrifice. >> so we're here to support everybody and all the troops that have served and we are indebted to them. >> including veterans from vietnam and world war ii. >> pearl harbor hit and i was 16. when i turned 17, i dropped out of school and i wept. >> we all felt obligated to go. some of them didn't come back. so this is a day to remember

them. >> the day including music from the rockville band and a wreath laying ceremony. >> i kind of feel honored to be able to remember those who fought and lost their lives. it's really great that i can remember them in this way. >> my husband was a a veteran. he passed in 2003. and i started carrying on the tradition in the family. this tradition has been going on here for 73 years. we're live in rockville, news 4. >> thank you so much. folks already gearing up for the national memorial day parade in d.c. today. take a look. everything in red here is what you need to avoid if you're in your car. road closures began at 9:00 this morning to start assembling the parade near 7th and constitution. the parade itself runs a al

and 17th streets. it starts at 2:00 this afternoon. several roads all around the national mall will be closed begin ining at 1:00 p.m. those closures should. wrap up around 5:00 p.m. this e reminder if you plan to take metro, today six stations remain closed as part of the track work there. it inclouds the five stations on the orange line. as well as the rhode island avenue nation on the red loin. the orange line stations will stay closed through june 15th because of the safetrack work and all trains are running on a weekend schedule. right now the serge is on for a missing prince george's county teen. she's 14 years old last seen on queens town drive in mount rainier on sunday morning. if you see her, you're asked to call police. memorial day is the unofficial start to summer. it's also the start of the 100

parents will want to hear this story. . in the last five years, more than 5,000 teens have been killed in crashes during the 100 days following memorial day. aaa says you should practice safe driving before letting your teen get behind the wheel. the more time you spend in the car with the teen, the better they become at anticipating the unis expected driving situation. >> a school in our area is using ab innovative program to reduce tension between police and the community. come iing up, a look at how it' engaging students that could some day solve krooims. president trump back in washington and back on social media. what he's saying about the latest questions surrounding russia and his

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welcome back. plump has drabed servicemen and women as patriot who is seep kooep the fires of liberty burning. you're looking at a live picture from arlington national cemetery where the president laid a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier. just a few minutes ago. he's expected to give a speech in just a few minutes. president trump is back from his foreign trip and he's taking

he tweeted overnight, quote, the fake news media works hashd at disparaging and demeaning my use of social media because they don't want america to hear the real story. his son-in-law is in the spotlight over allegations of proposed secret back channel communications with russia. tracie potts has all the latest. >> reporter: the president returns with moult pl sources confirming his son-in-law is under scrutiny by the fbi. >> he's not a target. so i think i would just wait. sounds like he's more than glad to talk about all these things. >> according to "the washington post," he tried to set up back channel communications with russia. >> i don't see any big issue here relative to jared. >> there ought to be a review of his security clearance to find out whether he was truthful. >> the president trump trump administration is chasing another leak about the mahe

>> i think it's darn close to treason. >> and with the fight against isis ramping up, the. president is proposing more money for defense and less for diplomacy cutting nearly a third of the state department's budget. >> it does not make us safer. >> reporter: president trump tweets his budget promises big benefits for all. tracie potts, nbc news, washington. >> vladimir putin faces scrutiny in this country. today he's in france meeting with the president ahead of his visit activists demonstrated against the persecution of homosexuals. they want to put the topic on the agenda of his meeting with putin. developing this morning, north korea has test launched another missile. this is file video of a previous launch. u.s. military officials say it appears to be a short range missile and flew for about six minutes before landing in the sea of japan.

president trump tweet ed about the launch this morning saying, north korea has shown great disrespect for their neighbor china by shooting off yet another ballistic missile. but china is trying tohard. japan's prime minister say it is will work with the u.s. to take concrete action to control north koreaen aggression. also developing, another person in custody nkd the bombing in manchester. police raided multiple apartments and arrested another man. a terror network set up the bombing at a convert last week. 22 people were killed in that attack. dozens others hurt. 19 of those victims remain in critical condition. and a chilling confession from a man accused of going on a shooting rampage in mississippi. eight people including a sheriffs deputy died. mya rodriguez has more on the victims and how the tragic shooting unfolded. >> reporter: this morning a troubling portrait emerging of

35-year-old, the man accused of going on a horrific killing spree in rural mississippi leaving eight people dead including a a sheriffs deputy and two boys. authorities say the carnage apparently stemmed from a domestic disinvolving his wife and kids. they escaped by jumping out of a window. >> allegedly targeted three homes. three women were killed in the first house along with william dur, 36 years old a husband and father. at the second home, deputies found the bodies of the two underaged boys. then a man and woman found dead at the third house. he witnessed the killing of his wife. >> honestly, e he could have killed everybody in the house. >> reporter: he spoke with

who recorded the interview. >> he knew what he had done and was not afraid to talk about it. >> it's a good thing they showed mercy. >> he's being held on seven counts of first-degree murder and one count of capital murder. >> back here, police are on the lookout for multiple suspects after a deadly attack outside a motel. detectives say a group beat up a 24-year-old mab yesterday morning in the parking lot of the days inn in silver spring. he later died at the hospital. police don't know why he was attacked, but are treating his death as a homicide. in the district police are looking for more than one person involved in a shooting that left one man dead and seven others injured. police are droibing the incident as

it happened just south of the bloomingdale neighborhood early saturday. the 32-year-old was killed. police say they are locking tr two men who ran to a blk car with tinted windows and fled the scene. it you know anything, call police. we told you asht about this program when it was first starting. now the public safety could are wrapping up the school heyore. ann b thompson shows us how that program is building trust. >> this is not your typical field trip. students in the science lab learning how to investigate crimes and looking for clues to their future. they are students at the public safety academy. an area where 20% of the city's violent crimes occurred last year. >> my mom push

>> along with the high school degree, andre and his classmates get six community college credits and the chance to become a metropolitan police cad et. >> i want to be in the fbi. >> the cadet program is the first step? >> yeah. >> they earn $32,000 a year and an associates degree paid for by the department. >> everybody is on the same palk. >> grounded in reality. >> walking home and so we try to tack whal they believe the issues are. >> police shootings nationally and police in our own neighborhoods made them suspicious. >> i felt annoyed by their presence, but now i understand the way they do the things they do. >> it works both ways. >> you get a sense of what some of the things these young kids are struggling with. any time we can relate better with our kids here in the city

>> they want future officers to come from the neighborhoods they patrol. >> i want to be the person who prevents their next move, who steps them from getting arrested again. >> making their nand a better place to live and a a career for themselves. ann thompson, nbc news, washington. >> i love that story. >> those young people are going to be great. >> after the break, the latest on a computer problem that stranded hundreds of travelers this holiday weekend. and the scary situation that landed this great white shark in this boat.

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today passengers stranded because of the british airways glitch are hoping they will get back home. the computer glitch on saturday messed up travelers all over the world. this is what the terminal looked like yesterday in london. hundreds of people trying to board a a flight. those that didn't make it slept in the airport. the airline says this doesn't look like a sicyber attack. hopefully they gave everyone a free drink ticket or something. today's the day many of us view as the official start to the summer season. >> travel experts say it will be the most pop

getaways this summer. chris clackum has the details. >> reporter: american vacationers are approaching the summer with an eye on what's happening elsewhere and have decided to stay and lay here. security concerns are keeping people from jumping on a vacation to europe or an overseas vacation. that's what the survey of over 1 1300 consumers found that most of us will be headed off the summer for what he calls microadventures. >> more of a burst of a vacation, past experiences rather than a longer format getaways we have been used to in it the past. >> reporter: taking fridays and mondays off for extended weekends for fun experiences close by. >> short, drivable trips away from home as the most viable and easiest to plan ask afford types of vacation this is summer. >> all of which plays into predictions that gas prices should rises

but only by less than a quarter of a gallon over last summer. >> i like the idea of spreading a bunch of weekends together and not just one trip. but i also want one trip. i want both. >> just want some sunshine today. >> everybody just wants some sunshine. i went live on secofacebook for second and they are done with the rain. we had some rain shower this is morning. just a few showers out there earlier this morning. now we have the haze. and we could have a few more showers on hand as we continue through the afternoon. that's going to be something we're watching. you can always download the nbc washington app and take a look at our radar where you are. because we could have some showers as we get into the afternoon. i'm going to time that oor

are trying their best to get out of here. we're seeing some sunshine in some spots. the areas seeing some sunshine the temperatures have responded. 77 in leesburg. 76 in fredericksburg. 70 in washington. the temperatures are going to come on up into the 80s. it you're headed out to the memorial day parade i have the forecast for you. temperatures in the low 80s. a chance of an ice latded shower for the afternoon. daytime highs mostly low to mid-80s for everybody. let's time it out for you. 2:00 p.m. is the parade start time. we could have just a few light showers. but then they are out of here and will continue with some sunshine. a little fog overnight and possibly a few showers as we continue through the afternoon. but i believe we'll have partly sunny skies for your tuesday. a few isolated shower

and that will be on wednesday and thursday. so if you're paying your respects out to arlington national secemetery. television going to be wet and mug muggy. a little damp if you're headed out to play golf. that's coming up in about ten minutes. this isn't something you see every day. check it out. 73-year-old australian fisherman caught a far bigger fish than he hoped for when a 9-foot great white shark jumped right into his boat. knocked him right off his feet. he had to radio the coast guard. he was left with a bruised arm and bleeding right arm when the shark hit him with his fin. but if all he had was a cut, he's probably pretty

>> that's "jaws" like. >> no one can prepare you for that. coming up, how virtual reality may seem like science fiction. and a boy flying off a water slide. what we're learning about what went wrong during what should haveeen a fun day in the s bun

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just moments ago, president trump began delivering remarks after laying a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier at arlington national cemetery. it's a tradition and he's delivering those remarks at the nearby amphitheater. the president is scheduled to speak there. this is a live look now at the president in addition to the president's attendance there, mike pence, succeed succeed james mattis and the chairman of the joint chiefs are all there to honor our fallen soldiers today. >> we believe that when men reach beyond this planet, they should leave their national differences behind them. >> that is one of several speeches by president john f. kennedy that will be celebrated as w

birth. today would have been his 100th birthday. >> the kennedy center will celebrate the day with ab afternoon of readings, performances and rare video footage of the president. they have been planning the celebration for over a year and one of the ideas they came up with is to use kennedy's own words for a new way to honor his legacy. >> i thought wouldn't it be interest figure we could take not just the words of jfk, but his recorded speeches and set them to music. integrate them into the orchestra. >> the celebration continues today at 4:00 p.m. at the kennedy center opera house. the postal service will also dedicate a jfk forever stamp for the centennial. tens of millions of americans suffer from chronic pain. while drugs can offer relief, more people are aware of the addictive nature of the in

pain has emerged using virtual reality to trick the brain. dr. john torez explains. >> reporter: six months ago, his left arm was in such excruciating pain he couldn't lift a skillet let alone this desk. >> it was getting worse and worse and worse. >> reporter: the 57-year-old didn't want to mask the problem with painkillers so he stuck it out. until e he found dr. kim at stanford, who offered him an unconventional treatment. >> you see both hands are moving together. >> reporter: vir yule reality with high-tech goggles associated with video games. now being used for something much more serious. >> what i'm finding midwest surprising and promising is the amount of pain relief people are having. >> reporter: a neuroskrigs says she made the discovery by accident while studying virtual reality for conditions like severe anxiety. a welcomed side benefit

treatment, patients chronic pain disappeared and quickly. >> they will have the pain reloaf for a week and for some people they have many months of pain relief. >> reporter: so what are these patients doing in the vir yule world? he's actually moving his pain free arm, but when he looks through the goggles, he sees the injured arm doing the work, trying to pop balloons floating around him. after just five sessions, he says his pain disappeared. >> the cost to me was really minimum. just a little bit of time and no side effects. >> reporter: dr. shawn macy, one of the top pain experts, says the treatment works by tricking the brain. >> that's where the excitement for vr comes in. the opportunity to rewire our brains into a more normal state so that we're not experiencing as much pain. is this the future of pain management? >> it's one of the critical futures of pain management. >> reporter: for patients like

here. dr. john torez, nbc news, california. we have some breaking news now. golfer tiger woods arrested this morning for driving under the influence. our partner station in miami says police pulled woods over in jupiter, florida, where he lives. this all happened around 3:00 a.m. this morning. police took woods to jail. he was released less than an hour ago. we'll continue to stay on top of the developments from that story. now to a scary accident at a newly opened water park in california where a young boy escaped serious injury. >> this is amazing. it was all caught on camera. steve patterson has the story. a trip to a brand new water park this holiday weekend takes a horrifying turn and the whole thing is caught on camera. a 10-year-old sliding off the end of a three-story waterli

at the wave water park and slamming into the ground at high speed. >> i thought he was dead at first because he hit the ground pretty hard. >> reporter: the boy gets right back up escaping a spill with only minor injuries treated at a local hospital. >> he did have some scraping on his back and once again we check him out fully and he was talking to us ask laughing and smiling and was in good spirits. >> reporter: this is just the latest in a series of recent accidents at water parks across the country. a 10-year-old kansas boy was killed going down the world's tallest water slide his family received a settlement. some parents wondering who is holding the parks accountable. >> there are no federal regulations or even reporting requirements for amuseme menmens or water parks. >> there are inspection programs. other

the private sector or have minimal requirements. six states have no regulations at all. >> we use safety first. >> more than 4200 people a year are taken to the e.r. for injuries suffered. this weekend a stark reminder that could have ended a lot worse. >> the chances of being seriously injured on a fixed amusement ride are 1 in 16 million. that doesn't factor into this weekend. that boy walking away with just minor injuries. we're talking about scrapes and bruises. steve patterson, nbc news. a local high school student and his teacher are going to great lengths to make sure a local soldier and his sacrifice are are never forgotten.

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>> i'm going to not say a word. >> what matters is 2017 memorial day weather. >> it does. and it's -- it's a little muggy out there now. the good news is we're not seeing a lot of rain pop up right now in the immediate area. we're going to see some fog and some mist. definitely some cloud cover out there. humidity drops later on tonight. then as we continue through the rest of the week, we do have some rain chances here and there, but really we do have some dry days, which is odd because we haven't had had that many in it the last couple weeks. we have an unsettled weekend. we could have some rain for this weekend. 70 degrees hear in the d.c. area. a lot of areas have been getting some more sunshine. we're all headed into the 80s today. 84 where i think we'll top

the clouds have held on longer, but most of us will be in the 80s. isolated showers possible through the middle portion of the day. not much showing up right now. we could have a few sprinkles out there in this haze, but let me take you through it. 2:00 p.m., this this is when the national memorial day parade gets underway. so we could have a few scattered showers. and then they are out of here. we'll have some sunshine on the back end before the sun goes down. fog and clouds overnight and then another chance of rain for tomorrow afternoon. but an isolated chance. 30% chance you'll see some showers and some thunderstorms by tomorrow afternoon. so outside events, yard work, if you're going to do that, it's going to be dry this afternoon. later this afternoon the pool time looks good. barbecues, keep an eye on the sky with chances of midday showers. the ten-day forecast is coming up in a few minutes. >> thank you. up next the new record meet the first woman to reach the highest p

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welcome back. memorial day gives us an opporty

stories of bravery and sacrifice. >> one high school that job fell on a teacher and student who wanted to make sure four local men were all honored and not forgotten. aaron gilchrist shows us what they did. >> paul shelton runs the program in dur wood. when he took that job a a little over a year ago, one of his first missions was to take his cadets to arlington national cemetery where the war dead tr iraq and afghanistan are buried. >> i had known that we had students that had been killed in action who were in section 60. >> reporter: a tribute case adonors the wall. four graduates have died. class of '97 killed in iraq in 2006. private justin davis died that same sum

afghanistan in 2009. three of them are buried in arlington. >> it was bothering us that we knew there were three in there and the other one was in el salvad salvador. >> the body arrived at dover air force base for a dignified transfer, but his family want. ed him buried in el salvador. something just didn't sit right with the colonel about how the sergeant had been honored. he wanted to make sure there was a tribute for him just like other soldiers buried here at arlington. he knew that tribute would require a trip to el savl doer, savl doer, a trip he couldn't make. >> he's also a nativeel

doer. i feel proud. >> in the full dress uniform e he carried a wreath to put on the gave site in a slow, rev rant march. >> he didn't get any coaching. it was done very well. >> reporter: getting here meant finding the cemetery, reaching out to the fallen soldiers family and securing a wreath before he left the u.s. this video brought fellow cadets to tiers. >> it hit home. there's a mcgruder student in that it ground in el savl dor and he was part of the rotc. >> he helped find a driver to make a nearly three-hour trip and through dangerous gang ter tors for this moment. a moment for a soldier who sacrificed all. a moment his mother was able to tn

>> she thought we would forget about it. aaron gilchrist, news 4. there are lots of events taking place right now honoring veterans for a complete list of memorial day observances, go to the nbc washington app. an indian climber has already surpassed an incredible record and now the 38-year-old mom plans to go even further. get this. earlier this month, she became the first woman in the world to it reach the highest point on earth twice in five days. >> but then

push. hi that confidence in me. if you try then you can get success. >> her next goal is to summit kanto. >> it takes a special person to do that. >> he only took first in the final lap of the race, but the newest winner in the indy 500. >> he's the first asian driver ever to win the race. the driver won three times before. how exciting. and this is the moment of the race people are sharing online. take a look at this crash. look at this. both drivers are okay. the one car goes flying into

air flipping and breaking into pieces. the driver climbed out of the car on his own. there are plenty of safety measures on the racetrack these days, but it still looks so close. >> glad to see them walk away. coming up, the morning rain clouds are pushing out of here. a look at when wet weather returns this week ahead. >> we'll introduce you to a family celebrating a rare and impressive achievement. three brothers all college graduates now, but it's where they graduated from and future pls that are getting praanis

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welcome back on this memorial day. we want to share a story about service to a country here and the contribution of one remarkable family. >> three brothers graduated from west point this weekend. it's a rare accomplishment th hasn't been seen in decades. mya rodriguez has the story. >> reporter: it's graduation time at america's oldest military academy. west point preparing to lee school to serve their country as army officers. among the new second lieutenant, the three brothers. >> we're doing our other thing. >> but that's not how that turned out. each brother deciding o

to attend west point. surprising their nonmilitary older brother. and their mom and dad, both who served in the coast guard. >> it's their decision to go there. honor and tickled. >> it's also a rarity. the last time three siblings gararaduated from west point ate saim time more than 30 years ago. >> they made it through this 47-month creucible, i think everyone has realized how special that is since it really does not happen very often. >> for these brothers, that meant relying on each other through the grueling years here. >> we all go through our individual trials like every cadet does here, but it's nice i can reach out to them. >> now the trio prepares for life apart. each aware of the potential risk ahead. >> whether you're in training or deployed in a combat scenario

gro wrong. we accept that risk. >> before that, one final west point task together. a pinning ceremony their coast guard captain father getting their first salute as newly commissioned officers. >> it's about siblings. very fortunate. >> a gratitude shared among this band of brothers. mya rodriguez, nbc news, west point, new york. temperatures right now into the 70s on this memorial day. we're going to. top out into the 80s. maybe a few chances of some showers out there. nothing showing up on the radar right now. but again we could have a few isolated showers as we continue into the afternoon. another chance by tomorrow afternoon. that's it for news 4 midday. thank you for joining

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