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on fox news about his meeting with a russian lawyer last year. and parking is challenging enough, but what about not finding a spot on your own street. we talk about a parking problem all over the dmv. news 4 at 11:00 starts now. these are interpersonal disputes that have devolved, tragically, into solving a problem with a gun. >> prince georges county police chief just four days ago talking about a spike in homicides. >> he says most of it is not random crime. it's people who know each other, who have a score to settle. since that news conference last week, the problem's only gotten worse. two men killed in separate incidents on saturday, two more shot and killed at the same scene on sunday. and early this morning, two men shot, one of them died. >> all told, 12 homicides in the first 11 days of july, now in

longer shifts. we asked the chief tonight how that's going to help if the victims are all targeted. shomari stone is live with the answer for us. >> reporter: good evening, the police chief says that the add hours will decrease violent crime, because there will be more officers on the streets. now the average officer works eight to ten-hour shifts. well, it's going to increase to 12 hours. there will be more police officers out on the streets, and he says that will cause the people who have these long-standing disputes to think twice about pulling the trigger. >> this is my home. and it troubles me. >> reporter: the police chief wants to clean up his home, prince georges county. he's making it a top priority to reduce the murder rate. officers will target high-crime areas. >> the frequency of which these are desolving into violence and people are getting hurt. >> reporter: last night two men were shot,

in forestville. the chief says the increase in violent crime is between people who know each other. >> wreee're going to take actio and bring the level of disputes down, and the best way to do that is through increased presence. >> reporter: the chief says officers will work 12-hour shifts. >> those extra hours will be integrated into the community. those officers are not working whatever their task may be but allocated into the arias. >> reporter: t -- areas. >> reporter: the murder rate is about even with this time last year. residents say they appreciate the increased patrols. >> i feel safe. >> reporter: now we asked what specific areas will officers target. that answer wasot

look at the data. meanwhile, the last time officers went on 12-hour shifts was during a snow emergency. shomari stone, news 4. all right, shomari, thank you, turning now to our weather and heat wave that's going to get worse. >> you're talking triple digits over the next few days. >> we could actually hit the century mark on thursday. take a look at the numbers. held down just a little today because of the cloud cover we saw this afternoon. 92 degrees in the d.c. area. 93 around quantico and 91 in gaithersburg. tomorrow we're up close to 100, if not above it, and by thursday, we would be at or above 105 degrees before we start coming down towards friday and saturday. i want to show you this little system around charleston. doesn't look like much, but i

night and morning hours. we'll be back in just a couple minutes. from the live desk now, we have donald trump jr.'s laits reaction to his controversial meeting with a russian lawyer. it's a conversation that even some republicans are calling troubling. he's accused of meeting with someone he thought was a russian attorney during his father's campaign. and an e-mail released today apparently proved that he knew that meeting came with a promise of dirt on hillary clinton. at the time he was enthusiastic, writing "i love it." but new tonight, he tells fox's sean hannity he would probably do things differently. >> there's nothing i would do to ever endanger this country. >> the president himself has been noticeably out of sight. he has no public meetings scheduled for the third day in a

been uncharacteristically silent. leaders in prince georges county tonight are asking the trump administration for a second chance. but in the meantime, the fbi is staying put in its deteriorating headquarters in downtown d.c. the fallout over scrapping plans for a move hit the county hard yesterday. it had two of three potential sites for a new headquarters, near greenbelt metro station. folks we talk to toilsd it was more than just a building. >> i still think we're turning a corner. it's just a disappointment. >> you expect something, and you think something's going to happen and it doesn't. it's disappointing. >> council member evans is happy about the decision. he says it would be cheaper to build a new building in the district. he plans to write donald trump suggesting

a baby caught in the crossfire last night is home from the hospital. and they are promising to catch the shooter. families tell news 4 they thought they were in a safe area and didn't mind their children playing outside. the 1-year-old was in a stroller when a group of men got into an argument and started shooting. prosecutors are expected to rest their case tomorrow in the murder trial of a former parks department employee accused of stabbing a wedding caterer to death. he says it was self-defense. we get caught up tonight from fairfax county court. >> reporter: prosecutors calling it murder, arguing that while working for the fairfax county park authority over the summer, he pulled out a knife, stabbed and killed a beloved wedding caterer. the defense? they have a difference story. they say this was a terrified teen who was threatened and acted in self-defense.

>> reporter: august 2016. bonds recording a wedding cleanup at the park where he works for the summer. you can heart moment he stabbed johns. but leading up to it, he's called names. >> [ bleep ]. >> reporter: his friends and family sitting in the courtroom, devastated. adamant she was not the aggressor. but in a call to police, bonds is heard saying quote, several of the guests have threatened my and pushed me around. he asked for a police officer. he said the wedding crowd wasn't happy when he told them the music had to be off by 9:00 and after the stabbing, he calls 911. did you stab someone she asks? he said yes.

throat. the prosecution will continue their case tomorrow. it's possible they'll even rest their case. still unclear if bonds will take the stand to testify in his own defense. in fairfax, i'm david culver, news 4. new tonight, reports of people take beiing debris from plane crash site where 15 corpsmen died. authorities have had trouble controlling access to the site because it's spread over such a wide area, the kc-130 fell out of the air and lost contact with air traffic control at 20,000 feet with no mayday call. witnesses reported seeing a trail of smoke from the plane as it fell to the ground. senate republicans trying to salvage a health care bill are now leaning toward keeping tax increases on the wealthy. it will pass as part of the affordable care

majority leader mitch mcconnell announced the senate would delayity august recess to keep work on the bill. tonight mcconnell's number two, senator john cornyn of texas says the newest version of the bill would keep the tax hike in place to keep premiums and deductibles in check. still no change in the plan to roll back medicaid expansion. a new book of photos from michelle obama's time in the white house shouldn't have problems with sales. it will have 150 shots of color photos of the former first lady. it will be called "chasing light." it will come out before photos of president obama. bottlenecks in your own neighborhood. your street clogged with people parking who don't live there. the news 4 i-team working for you to find out what you can do

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parking. it's becoming more and more difficult to find even near your own home. a news 4 i-team investigation shows a spike in people parking their cars in neighborhoods where they don't live. >> as scott mcfarland shows us, it has officers in our region hunting parking predators. ♪ >> reporter: you pay a fortune for your home. and every inch of the yard. so it's frustrating when

your front curb, for hours at a time. david freeman says it happens all the time in his montgomery county neighborhood. >> the kids from the high school clog the roads. >> reporter: took your spot. >> took all of our spots, yes. >> reporter: plus d.c. and arlington try to stop drivers from clogging up neighborhoods by restricting parking spots to residents only. local residents by the dozens have petitioned to have those parking permits. >> they choose this. this is something they choose versus us going out and putting it in there. >> reporter: chief of montgomery county's parking management says more than 30 communities have residential parking permits. and if you think these no-parking signs are enough to stop the parking predators, think again. there's an increase in parking predators. we pulled parking

communities around our area and found thousands. including a spike in prince georges county. the number of parking cheats has tripled in one year. the news 4 i-team took to the streets with officer ellerby. with the license plate reader atop his truck, he scans cars to make sure they're connected to a legitimate permit. >> that's a hit. and that's a hit. >> reporter: ellerby says he finds it widespread in apartment complexes where parking is limited and cars are plentiful. >> it's between 20 and 30. >> reporter: and route 193. that apartment complex has cars still out. >> reporter: and there are petitions from more neighborhoods wanting to restrict cars to permit

only. miles away in montgomery county, we checked out neighborhoods near high schools. along victory lane in potomac. day after day, they're parking in restricted spaces and getting in and driving away in the afternoon. local investigators say parking is such a premium some people are willing to risk the ticket and acknowledge a black market. people were truly selling these things. >> there were instances where they were being sold. >> reporter: like the case of tony benjamin, three months in jail after being convicted of selling counterfeit parking placards not far from fedex field. >> that vehicle's good. >> reporter: so will the new hunt for parking predators willing to break the rules for a primo spot. >> the penalty you pay for breaking these rules differs in each community. to see how much it woco

parking is restricted, go to our nbc washington app and search under "investigation." if you get a parking ticket in d.c. you might soon get a break when it comes time to pay up. council member white is proposing a d.c. annual amnesty bill. once a year, anyone with over $1,000 in overdue tickets would be able to pay 60% of that fine to clear their records. white said many working people are overwhelmed with overdue tickets. the council may take up the proposal later this year. now to a pretty amazing story getting lots of attention on our facebook page. more than 70 complete strangers formed a human chain to save a family. that family'd gotten caught in a rip current off the coast of florida on saturday. an 8-year-old boy pulled from the kuncurrent says he hopes he able to help his rescuers some day. >> that's aamazing

>> teamwork. so hot today and getting hotter even still tomorrow. >> and we could even see a couple showers and thunderstorms overnight tonight. kind of an interesting system going on there. but first off, a very warm and mild night tonight. high temperatures today of 92. tomorrow we get a lot warmer than that. 82 degrees, feels pretty nice in most locations, 82 d.c., with winds out of the south at 7 miles per hour. look at the rest of the area. down to the low70s. that's pretty pleasant right now, around leesburg, 72. 75 in hunting town. so waking up tomorrow, it will be good, hot and humid by 8:00, 9:00. 9:00, 84 degrees. the humidity level is going to bring the temperature close to 90 degrees already. no problem with the early rush, but look at this, a little system, look they thunderstorm development over the last hour or two to the north of charleston. do

going to make its way our way and start to increase its chance for thunderstorm activity around our area. watch this at 12:00. not much going on around midnight, but watch to the west, here come the showers and storms around 3:00 a.m. do not be surprised to be woken up by lightning, thunder. this moves out very, very quickly. your morning is looking okay. we'll see sunshine by tomorrow afternoon. and the sunshine's going to do a lot to warm us up. hot and humid and isolated thunderstorm can't be ruled out. but most of tomorrow will be very dry. i'm not worried about any chance of storms tomorrow. but here's what we are worried about. it's that humidity. the heat index, 100 already in fredericksburg. here's tomorrow afternoon. close to the century mark in a lot of locations, but it gets hotter on thursday. 8:00 a.m.,

by noon, we could be near 100 to 105. and it gets worse in the afternoon. that is the weather alert data. we could have a heat advisory across our region. just a couple things to make sure you drink plenty of water, light colored and loose-fitting clothing. bring in the pets as well. very hard for the pets to deal with this heat. notice the thursday temperature. yeah, i said it would feel like 103-108, but the actual temperature, i've got 100 degrees. that would tie a record for the date. 93 on friday. good chance for showers and thunderstorms. saturday and sunday, not bad. that's close to average for the high temperatures and then a chance of a shower or thunderstorm on monday. it's this time of year. this is what we expect to see. if we get back to average, 89 on saturday. >> that will be cool. >> that will be cool. thank >>

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what happens when you put the boxer and ultimate fighter in the ring together? we don't know. but we can predict what happens when they take the mic. >> i'm not the same man i was 20 years ago. i'm not the same fighter i was 10 years ago. i'm not the same fighter i was five years ago. i'm not the same fighter i was two years ago. but i got enough to beat you. >> the movement, the power, the ferociousness. he's not experienced this. this isn't a true fight. if this was a true fight, it wouldn't even take one round. >> all you need to do is show up. you just show up, okay? and i'm going to do the rest. >> that fight's in vegas in august. this is going to be fun. also in vegas, court side, the wizards in the summer league. the second year player takes this one all the way up,

pretty finish. now in chicago, returning the favor off a wizards turn over. seventh overall pick. doug likes him. not letting that rookie have all the spotlight, takes this one to the defense. he finished with 20 points. the '88 all-star game will always be remembered for not mattering, but it was memorable. and of course it's memorable when it doesn't count. the first all-star game to head to extra innings. and a nice hair flip. max scherzer struck out two. right now you see this one is intense. 2-1 off the solo home run. powerful tribute earlier to jose fernandez, the marlins pitcher who died in a boating accident last year. a

of 24 when he died, he most likely would have been on the mound again tonight. harper pointed at his shoes after hearing his name called. novak djokovic was a strong start, made quick work of adrian manarino. and he thinks he's finish the it, but novak coming with a huge return. djokovic turns, has yet to lose a set. also moving on, venus williams taking on elena os pen coe. os pen coe won the open this year. did you hear me pause? i needed that in my ear to hear how to pronounce it. >> get out of the way of that ball, that's what

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not a good day on the job for this ups delivery truck driver. his truck fell through this bridge here on longwood lane in faulkner county. the volunteer fire and rescue company snapped this picture of the aftermath so we can remember it. the driver was the only one in the

he wasn't hurt, fortunately. >> that's a good thing. winning a trophy is usually a good thing, right? but maybe not when you come in worst. a laid-back kind of night here where people were encouraged to just make something, anything, even if it's terrible. that's the library i went to as

>> steve: from studio 6b in rockefeller center in the heart of new york city, it's "the tonight show starring jimmy fallon." tonight, join jimmy and his guest -- miley cyrus,