100 in cambridge, a lot more hundreds across the area as we move in towards tomorrow, especially into thursday. >> one-year-old shot last night is expected to make full recovery. >> the police chief says are getting closer to arresting the three gunman. the shooters opened fire in a backyard in northeast dc near 13th and i streets last night. >> neighbors show fitzgerald where the child was sitting when that gun fight began. neighbors tell us there were kids playing on this. that represents shell casing. >> the corridor northeast is changing. ne b

coming in, making this a trendy part of town. behind many of these shops are reminders that this area was a crime scene just hours ago. >> we have an exchange of gunfire up there in the ally near the 1,300 block. >> peter says the gun fight started at around 9:00 last night. he said three men got into an argument in the back ally and shots were fired steps away from where little kids were playing. a bullet struck one-year-old boy who was sitting in his stroller. >> the three suspects ran off and that toddler was rushed to the hospital. but officers are closing in on the gunman. >> that's reassuring for many of the neighbors who live around here and didn't want to speak on

camera because they fear retaliation. they say it's complete changing, but many folks insist, there's still much more work that needs to be done. >> to have people resolving, we all have to say, we're not having that. >> that one-year-old is still in the hospital, he's expected to be okay. >> short sided and disfurnysfu l dysfunctional. after the trump administration decided to shelve its plan for new fbi headquarters. it's a move that will have a ripple effect on local economy. the administration says it requested more than $1 billion for this project. but only half a million dollars was approved. our 525 million, half a billion, that left them in an $880 million hole. still,

calling this decision foolish. >> it is a big waste of taxpayer murn to delay this decision. i've never seen a decision handled with more mismanagement and more negligence. >> some democrats are also questioning the motive behind this decision and they want documents released to understand why this is fbi project was shelved. >> as you know, local governments in both virginia and maryland were buying for that new headquarters. it would have been big business for the local community and economy. among the sites being considered one in fairfax county and two in prince georges county. tracee wilkins is live with reaction from disappointed residents and lawmakers, tracee. >> you've got to remember why it's been so much, this right here, it's been vacant for more than a decade. people were hoping that the fbi would m

11,000 jobs and all of the benefits that come along with that, including additional jobs that will be attracted to the county. when we talk that this had been put to a halt altogether, they took to this personally. >> it would have put us on the map. >> for many, news that the fbi headquarters won't be relocating after all with a personal disappointment. >> they had two of the three final locations. one a metro station and the other at the mall location, once considered an economic engine for the count yir this prime real estate set abandoned for more than a decade. >> i moved out here at a time it was rising. >> it's

president trump. >> to me, this is an abuse of power by the trump administration. >> strong words today for maryland's congressman and senators who have fought to get to headquarters in maryland. county executive says the fight, if it's over. >> they were falling on the trump administration to reconsider this ill fated decision. >> and for many people who live in prince georges county, fingers are crossed. >> it's been down in dc for quite some time. i think. >> maybe we still a chance. >> from the area, live in prince georges county, yet, there's only 3% of federal states actually here, meaning most of the people are commuting. the idea is that this would change the commute for residents. reporting live, back to you while in the studio. >> thank you, tracy. this decision also states for

beltway, fairfax county, that county fought to bring the fbi to an empty government warehouse in springfield. the site is just off 95. it is steps from the springfield metro stop. county leaders believe that is still prime property and that another agency will move in. >> it's not smart for the vet cal taxpayer and something is going to happen there and we're going to keep pushing for something to happen there. >> admits that any other agency will not be as large as the fbi. but he doesn't believe the tenant needs to be that big or that prestigious for springfield to keep growing. at 5:30, we'll look into what the trump administration means for you. washington post robert mccartney is crunching those numbers. he will be explaining how much money w

studies that were kurkted to help the fbi pick the best new location. >> now, to the latest surrounding that meeting between donald trump, jr. and a russian attorney during the presidential campaign. today, trump, jr. tweeted a chain of e-mails that he called an effort to be transparent that purportedly shows an exchange between trump and acquaintance, in one of the e-mails he writes about information that could incriminate hillary clinton, adding that it is "part of russia and it's government support of mr. trump." trump, jr. responds in part, "if it's what you say, i love it." nbc news track down the attorney who says she has no connection to the kremlin. she also says, she wanted to meet with trump to discuss sanctions and did not have campaign information. late this afternoon, the white house released a statement

quality person and i applaud his transparency. >> it is now the deadlyiest crash involving marine aircraft in more than a decade. >> all on board a plane that's considered a workhorse for the marine corps. break down investigators are sifting through debrises scattered for miles across rural mississippi. as well as transport cargo. on monday, witnesses heard a loud boom and watched it spiral, nose down into a soybean field about 85 miles north of jackson. the plane was on its way from north carolina to cafo

the fbi is helping military investigators figure out what went wrong and they're warning people in the area, stay away from the crash site because there may be weapons on board. >> there was some ammunition, i'm not familiar with what types of ammunition. but it -- they're out of precaution we just wanted to make sure that people did not approach. >> military officials are making sure all the families have been notified before identifying the victim. now, this type of aircraft was involved in at least one other deadly accident, but that was back in 2002 when it crashed into a pakistan and killed seven marines. >> awful, yesterday, chris, thank you. developing story back here in washington tonight. the senate pushing back its traditional five week august recess so it can work on health care legislation. majority leader announcing this afternoon that the recess will begin two weeks later. along with the health bill, he

says, they'll also work on nominations, which he blamed democrats for stalling. the senate delayed its august recess back in 1994, also to work on health care, that effort proved to be unsuccessful. they promised to be a greener and a safer alternative to the other paint. well, tonight a consumer alert after four major companies are defined for deceiving customers who thought they were buying environmental friendly. >> parker is a new bush by a dc lawmaker, how it could reduce the amount of money we paid for a parking ticket. >> reporter: ahead, what prince georges county police are doing abo

a consumer alert tonight, four paint companies have agreed to settle charges that they deceive their customers. the ftc said the customers who thought they were buying environmentally friendly paint were misled. our consumer reporter susan hogan joins us to know tell us what she has learned about this. this is disturbing. >> this is a pretty big deal, wendy. for those of you who prurpfully choose products. here are the four companies under fire by the ftc. benjamin, color house and impure yal paint. the

promoted their paint products as emission free or containing zero volatile organic compounds, known as boc after application. according to the settlement, some promotions even made explicit safety claims regarding babies and pregnant women, however, the ftc alleged the companies had no evidence to support these claims. benjamin are also accused of marketing their paint, kbruzing environmental seals without disclosing to its customers the customer had awarded the seals to own products. the settlement reached today prohibits them from making unqualified claims and they all must stop using existing marketing materials that mislead their customers. now in a statement to news 4. it will make the statement more prominent on the labels and marketing materials so our customers can make more informed decisions. they told us, it is updati

marketing materials and product labels and coordination from the ftc. we've reached out to the other two companies and not heard back from them. back to you. >> good work, suzanne. thank you. >> do you owe a lot of money on parking tickets in the district. we know some of you do, i have. dc council member is proposing a new annual am nesty to help you clear your records. you still have to pay something. >> the district is famous or infamous for parking tickets, last year more than 1.5 million tickets were written worth about $68 million. >> now serving f 8 at counter 15. >> as the district's traffic adjudication office in sourt west, hundreds of people show up to pay tickets or go into private hearing rooms to fight those

>> usual lir, in the past history, a lot have given ticket am nesty in dc. we have been singing. >> one month out of each year. they'll allow anyone with more than $1,000 of over do tickets to pay 60% of the tickets to clear their records of fines and fees. >> of course, it's hard to pay those fines and those amount of fees are extremely high. the booths, the tolls, the fines and the fines of the fees on your credit, taken out your taxes is a bit much. >> they're paying tickets like the idea. >> why do you think it's a good idea. >> because it helps to get a clean record. >> i would love that idea, you get a break on tickets. i get tickets a lot. the difficulty of just finding simple parking space, i have no problem with that. >> they may take up a voteer

in the district, tom sherwood, news 4. >> the fire rescue company snapped this picture of ups truck that failed to a bridge. it happened at 2:00 this afternoon. the driver was the only one in the truck and he was not injured. >> police in prince georges county are increasing patrols to help reduce the chance of more violent crime. there have been about a dozen murders in the month of july alone. that's 11 days. due to the violence, prince georges county police chief is putting officers on 12 hour shifts now. news 4 chris gordon is live for us in paurmlmer park with more these changes. >> police are putting a priority on reducing the murder rate. in the first 11 days of july, there have been 12 homicides committed here in prince georges county, the most recent committed in the past 24 hours. the overnight shooting isth

georges county. two men were shot, one died on the scene. a neighbor describes the gunfire he heard. >> somebody unloaded. >> in response to the recent spike in homicides, the police are extending work shifts, officers will now be on patrol for 12 hour shifts targeting high crime neighborhoods. >> this afternoon, the chief elected to move the agency to 12-hour shifts. this is in response that turned violent. he wants to increase the police presence on the streets in hopes of reducing any more incidents happening out there. >> until july, the number of homicides was way down in prince georges county. the 12 murders this month alone

year at this time. prince georges county residents are concerned about the recent increase in homicides, but think police are doing all they can. >> police say homicide investigators are working around the clock to southeast recent murders. that's the latest live at the police headquarters, wendy, back to you. >> thank you, chris. a nuisance for people in one arlington neighborhood. shopping carts just left in the streets. how people there are taking matters into their own hands. >> and temperatures that could be dangerous in the forecast, doug has got the triple digits on the seven day, he's back with more on when we'll see that. >> a little woman run over by a big dump truck, firefighters to the rescue. security cameras rolling, story

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county, this going now until 6:00. you see the storm now on through into parts of winchester and in and around the area, in towards clark county. you see that right here. and you note numerous other counties, starting to move in to louden county and down towards the south. these may actually move over towards and that's something we'll watch very closely, how many of these move in across the blue ridge and over towards parts of northern virginia. we'll go ahead and zoom on in, just now to the east and right around winchester, just south of winchester, here is the big guy right here, some purple and some any time you get purple and pic here, that can mean some hail. a lot of lightning jurs to the north over towards blue mont. would be louden county if it does in fact hold together. this is part of a storm system back to the west. we've seen numerous storms developing. i want to show you what's going

dc to the north move on in towards the north. as they do so, most of the action will stay north of 66. now, we will see a couple down towards south. i think most of us stays well north of 66, you see what's happening in parts of pennsylvania, right around the pittsburgh area. this is part of that system moving off towards the east. we've seen numerous systems that's why we've had the cloud cover. current temperatures around the rest of the region. 89 in manasas, now down to 7 the degrees and 92 degrees over towards the hunting town area. look at cambridge, around 100. i expect a lot of 100 degree heat indices during the day tomorrow. it will be one hot day for sure. the storms, numerous small storms in he

four back to the west and that's why we've so many clouds. . dry on wednesday, thursday, isolated storm, as well. look at these nurm bers, 95 tomorrow. 100 on thursday, the heat index thursday, over 105. that's why i've got thursday as weather alert day, that could be heat advisory issued on thursday because of the heat. 93, good chance of storms on friday and into the weekend, drier conditions and closer than average right now our average high about 89. >> thank you, doug. >> a danger to pedestrians with a construction boom around our area, those mass of trucks barrelling down our road.

>> where some residents are calling these shopping cart graveyard. they're taking to social media, calling on costco and their neighbors to do something to clean up the problem. their concerns, just ahead.

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area hit and seriously hurt by a dump truck. good samaritans rush in to come to her help. that woman who is expected to sur vooufr. we hearing from the first responders who cause this among the worst they've ever seen. and northeast dc. pat. >> jim, she is so, so lucky to be alive. what happened here on south dakota avenue this morning brought worry to the hearts of even some veteran firefighters. >> to tell your the truth, i had never seen injuries that bad. >> that's lieutenant brian fraley. he's seen a lot in his time with the f d

quite like what he saw on south dakota avenue today. >> the majority of the a young woman set to be in her 20s, struck by a big dump truck, the truck belongs to fort meyer construction company that does a lot of the road work for our city fort meyer has a work yard nearby. the woman was walking when it happened, but was she in the crosswalk at 33rd street or on south dakota avenue at the time of impact. police are trying to figure that out. now, this incident was captured in part by security cameras from the gas station nearby. you can see the woman walking down the sidewalk on south dakota avenue towards the 33rd street she goes out of view so it's unclear to exactly where she was when she was struckby

dump truck. you can see someone waving their hands in front of the truck to get the driver to stop. people at the gas station then moved to give first aid to the woman. it was engine 26 that was called on the scene to help. >> look to panic at people's faces. we knew we were walking on the scene of something that you're not going to see every day. >> reporter: now, the woman is said to be in serious condition she may lose a leg. the driver of the dump truck stayed on the scene. police say he's cooperating in their investigate cops talk about all of this at 6:

back to you. blasting the decision to ditch the plans to move the fbi headquarters out of downtown dc. in a statement he called it disappointing example of the disfurngs that has been typical of washington d.c. for too long. they had two sites. finalists for the new location. robert of the washington post talking about the wibers and losers after this decision. >> it looked like fairfax was going to get the new headquarters. neither one of them is going to get it now. the district of columbia was losing the fbi headquarters which it wasn't too crazy about. in return it was going to get a nice high end hotel officer building. if you want to find a winner, i suppose it's the u.s. taxpayer. >> dc council member jack

the decision. he plans to write the president suggesting two possible sites until the city. pob lar point. >> people who live in a troubled mobile home park find their future still in limbo. just a few minutes ago the city manager told us that all is not lost city council delayed a decision of letting the charity take part. the charity and the city are working on agreements to ensure that repairs will be made in a reasonable amount of time. manassas has been fighting with the park's owner to fix sewer we are problems. if they take control if the city retains the properties, residents will have to move. >> it's a campaign to control shopping cart being waged by residents who live in the pentagon city area. they say they're fed up with the neighbors who litter the area

costco bears some of the blame. julie carey joins us across from the store. >> hey, wendy, well this is one of the biggest shopping cart dumping grounds we found in the pentagon city area. as you walk or drive around here. it is easy to spot dozens of more abandoned shopping carts and now neighbors want something to be done about what they consider to be bad. many of the neighbors like this woman do their shopping and help themselves to costco cart rolling it home and ditching it. so you won't be taking it back.

>> some residents have been documenting the problem with pictures for a couple of years now. one spotlight, what they call a shopping cart graveyard and part, simply abandoned in the week. who take the carts. >> others would like to see buy carts with an electronic wheel cart some also point to a system they use to kurt

youtube video shows customers a quarter to get a cart and get the money back when they return. now residents tell me that costco does periodically make a sweep through the area picking up the abandoned cart, but some in the area get left behind for quite some time and then those get rusty, some even turn into trash cans. i called the costco manager to ask him about all of this and whether they had plans for change, but i have yet to hear back. reporting live from pentagon city, back to you now in the studio. >> i don't think that quarter is going to make a lot of difference, you know, people will probably pay a buck to not have to return that thing. >> why some lawmakers are pumping the brakes on considering the plan. >> could charges in your eyesight offer clues about the

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right now, guys, we're seeing we do have that severe thunderstorm warning coming closer, this is in louden county and clark county, too, against severe thunderstorm warning for those three counties louden county and clark county until 6:30. this storm making its way, it will still stay to the north of 66. i think this is really clark county and louden county. you can see it moving a little bit more to the east and southeast, but still tracking the storm. this is right around the blue mont area. so heads up if you're around blue mont, moving towards leesburg, i think it will move just out around the middle berg area. on that track we're going to be near

around middle berg. right around 6:20 here and out of that area in towards parts around 6:36. this is, again, something we'll watch very closely. this is all part of a system that's praelly that's really a couple of systems. help me to produce some of these pop up thunderstorms. this is the kind of thing you get when you get intense heat like we have out there right now, more storms back to the west. these areas, right here. notice this right here. we can actually see this come through over night tonight, and bring us more shower activity and clouds over night. not a lot of rain. i think most of us will be out of here. current temperature, heat index sitting at 95. we've got to 80 by 11:00, still going to be very warm and mild across our region, that's something we'll be watching. good day to hit the pool with high temperature around 95. heat index, even hotter, i have 'got heat index of 100 degrees tomorrow and i'm going 100 d

weather alert day, not because of that 100 degree temperature, but because, also, we'll see a heat index of 105 and we could see heat advisory during the day on thursday, that is something, of course, we'll be watching during the day thursday. still hot and humid on friday. high temperature of 93, good chance of showers and thunderstorms, saturday and thunderstorm, we'll see high temperatures upper 80s to around 90, next week possible next heat wave starting next tuesday. coming up during the day on thursday. that, of course, something we'll continue to watch. speaking of those storms, watching that storm right now, louden county, northern faulk county, this is severe thunderstorm warning going until 6:15, or rather 6:30 tonight. i'll continue to keep you posted as this moves next in towards louden county making its way that way nour, back in, same thing happens, we'll be here. >> thanks, doug. >> is it time to build another major bridge in the area to

transportation leaders are, once again, debating a new bridge over the patomic between louden and montgomery counties. transportation reporter adam has the story tonight from chopper 4. >> flying high on chopper 4 tonight, take a look at an age old debate in our region. take a look at the patomic river and how are we going to get across it, should we build a new patomic river crossing between the bridge and point. take a look, of course in louden county, there's so much development on this side of the area. you're talking about the dulles area, if you can see how many people are over here. a lot of people have to get back and forth between that side of the river and this side of the river over here in montgomery kourn county. take a look, you've got all of this agriculture that the county really wants to protect and that's what's drawing this debate between the two counties, take a look at how picturesque some of the la

you can see it off in a distance. take a look. >> it is like a zombie that simply will not die. it needs to die. it's to everything in montgomery county, for sure. i argue for a reach, all it does is promote more and environmental degradation, it will cross the reserve, which we will not allow to happen. >> again, taking another look at the patomic tonight. how did we get back and forth and make it easier, will it ever happen. the regions transportation planning board which sets transportation policy is expected to take up this issue next

. we're told someone stole the ambulance from maryland hospital this afternoon and decided to drive to the con seen yevenient. used the gps tracker at the 7-eleven on arbor street. they didn't find the suspect. the. we're told no one was inside the ambulance when it was stolen. chris, thank you. >> brought to you by the same people who put on the big event like taste of dc. i just got schooled in the art of ax throwing, real axes and i found out pretty fast. you don't have to be a lumber jack to like it or to win. just about anybody can

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>> if you try to muscle it with just your arms, you'll get nowhere with this. you're using your core and a beard or flannel shirt in july won't help. in fact, women have an edge with axes. >> so women tend to do better than men, primarily, because men really just try to strengthen it in there. they try to use aural that muscle to get it in. it's a precision sport. i told you earlier my mom who is 67 came out here and she was railing away at it and loved it. she played for two-and-a-half hours, had a great time so anybody can really play. >> go, mom. players are never allowed in a range without an instructor and can't leave the enclosure think

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>> that's not fun. hey, it is all hands on deck as police in pennsylvania search for four missing men. >> up next the event

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been obtained. data shows that 220 arrest for distribution last year. >> more than 400 arrest for public consumption and nearly tripled the year before. part of it may be confusion with the law, smoking in public is still illegal. >> zes separate search for four young men who disappeared. >> police are suspecting file play and arrested a person interested in that disappearance. dan has our report. >> we're going through it with equivalent of fine-tooth comb. >> they're looking for clues that could lead them to the four missing men that disappeared within days of each other. the district attorney calling it an all hands-on deck search. the u.s.

police forces all across the county and other counties have now taken part in this. foul play is suspected. on monday, police arrested 20-year-old dernardo on unrelated weapons charges but stopped short of calling him a suspect. >> i will say, though, that mr. dernardo is a person of interest in this case. it is the family property that is at the center of the search. the mystery started last wednesday when 19-year-old jimmy patrick disappeared. three other men, 22-year-old mark, 21-year-old tom mayo and 18-year-old dean were last seen friday. police believe the men all knew each other. >> he wouldn't go missing like this for no reason, so clearly something has to be happening. >> antagonizing for friends and family looking for answers hoping for the safe return of the missing men. dan, nbc

>> some of you under severe thunderstorm warning. >> doug is monitoring that as the temperatures around here are nearly triple digit later on this week, doug. >> that's been something we've been watching all day long, any time we get this hot and humid, you see the pop up thunderstorm. we've got a warning in effect until 6:30. this includes louden count your, as well as clark county and really louden county. . this is actually a boundary that's moving on through, we'll see a couple of showers in through it. this is the storm right here, to the east of winchester, right around and just southwest of leesburg, you notice that yellow box. here it is right here. that comes here, much of southwestern louden county. this is the storm that develops, more storms continue to develop. we've seen a lot of rai w

heads up, could be a little bit of flash flooding into parts of clark county virginia, especially in through some of the mountains there. heads up for that. this storm continuing down in the south and east, severe storm in through our thunderstorm warning, 6:30. we could see a couple of more developing back to the west now that could also move in. the big thing we'll be following is going to be the heat. the heat indices around 100 thursday, close to 105. we'll talk much more about the heat and how long it lasted when the next best chance of storms is. unwelcomed news for capitol hill staffers who have vacation plans next month. mitch mcconnell delayed the start of the senate recess until the third week of august. when congress stayed in town to debate health care and crime bill that didn't adjourn until august 25th. the senator says this delil