handicapped, i told my husband i saw a lady and i saw her walk but i've never seen her since then. i assumed that he was living there by himself. >> the sheriff's office said deputies were called to the home saturday to check on the welfare of the family. they say moore was reluctant to allow them into the home. while they were speaking to him out front, a woman and two children, ages 8 and 11, ran out of the side door. the woman told deputies a shocking story, that moore, believed to be the father of the children, had held them captive in the home, refusing to allow them to leave for two years. he's been charged with multiple counts of abduction, felony adu assault and battery. >> real estate records show moore was not the owner of this home but it's not clear whether or not he was renting it. >> in fredericksburg, jackie bensen, news 4. n

robbery suspects they say held a family hostage for 12 hours. this happened inside a silver spring apartment. this man, whose name is orlando, says five men went into the home by saying they were there to paint. over the next few hours, they tied everyone up, stabbed orlando's son-in-law and stole his car. a 7-year-old was among the hostages. police say the family was targeted because orlando's daughter works at a check cashing business. the men took her to the business and tried to rob it but didn't get any money. now we want to give you a look at other things happening in the news today in fairfax county. police will be back at a popular trail looking for answers. officers will be in the area not far from the vienna metro station. they're looking for clues after a woman was randomly attacked and stabbed along the trail last week. remember that powerful torpedo that ripped t

week. there's a meeting on the recovery process in queen anne's county. neighbors can expect rebuilding updates and answers from first response agencies. the meeting gets under way tonight at 7:00. we'll see whether the dow will stay in record territory today. it hit the 22,000 mark for the first time yesterday. some of the companies that have contributed to the big gains, boeing, mcdonald's and apple. dozens of companies are expected to release earnings numbers this mornings which could give the dow an extra boost. president trump could tout the gains when he speaks in west virginia tonight. but it doesn't look like everyone will be excited to see him. someone vandalized the huntington arena where the president is expected to speak to supporters. an anti-trump message was written across the building. no word on who did it or when. it's 4:32. we have breaking news this morning. more heartbreak for a minnesota

after that school explosion in minneapolis was the school's janitor. crews pulled his body from the rubble last night. the other victim has been identified as ruth berg. she worked as the school's receptionist for 17 years. investigators say contractors working on the building caused a natural gas leak yesterday. students and teachers inside the school said they had just seconds to get out before the blast. >> so my daughter got up and was getting ready to leave out of the counselor's office and was blown back into the counselor's office by the explosion. it was seconds after they told everybody to get out that explosion happened. >> seven people are still in the hospital this morning. doctors say their injuries range from serious to critical. new overnight, d.c. fire crews also responded to a fiery two-car crash on irving street northwest. it's not far from med star washington hospital center. one person died, another injured. fire crews say that car was fully engulfed in flames w

the two victims were in the car that caught fire. no one in the other vehicle was hurt. molette green at the live desk. a lot of people shaken up after an earthquake in oklahoma overnight. it measured 4.4. but a big part of an oklahoma city suburb lost electricity. crucifixed it -- crews fixed it. there wasn't any significant damage. >> molette, thank you. it's 4:34. we're working for you with our backpack for kids program to help kids get ready for school. starting at 6:00 a.m., you can go to the credit union in kingstown. we'll be accepting donations of new backpacks, school supplies and money. we'll be there until noon today. if you can't make it out to fairfax county, you can make a donation through the nbc washington app. >> erika gonzalez will be live at the drop-off to show you just how quick and easy it is to do.

school already. these are really important tools that kids need to get their school year started out right. >> can use all the help they can get. >> 4:35. another check on your weather and traffic. >> let's check the roads and rails in a minute with jack taylor at wtop. first we'll go to the forecast and sheena parveen in the weather center. good morning. >> good morning, guys. yes. it's another nice morning, another mild one. yeah, i cannot believe school is about to start soon. pretty soon we'll show you the bus stop forecast. for now, we'll show you the nice beach forecast for the weekend. i'll have that coming up in a minute. we hope you enjoy the rest of your summer before school starts up. currently in washington as we go through the day today, four things to know before we step outside. another hot and humid day. carry the small umbrella, another afternoon storm chance. these will be mostly isolated in nature, not for everybody. we'll see some pop up. over the weekend, nice relief. we have a cold front moving

humidity will drop. monday, we're looking at a rainy start to the week. i'll show you more details coming up. right now, let's check the roads on your thursday morning commute. good morning, jack. >> sheena, good morning. we're going to start? the beltway, maryland. connecticut avenue, authorities were checking for a crash. they're not finding anything. hopefully, we'll have all lanes open, nothing in your way hopefully. >> rock creek parkway, two spots. kennedy center, one direction at a time under flagging operations. virginia avenue, the left lane getting by each direction. the beltway itself, otherwise is off to a nice start. inner outer loop, should find nothing in your way. especially kwie net virginia between alexandria and mcclean. inner loop, express lanes all look good. back to you. >> jack, thank you. it's video hard to watch. that's exactly the point. what officials want you to know when it comes to the safety of back seat

new immigration plan. it has a lot of people upset on both sides of the aisle. the requirements raising some eyebrows. how do you eat a reese's doughnut? >> the whole thing at once. >> the treat thatay have this m

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cars have many worried about their own family cars. ford insists there's no danger to drivers of nonpolice ford explorers. yesterday an officer in massachusetts passed out and slammed into another car after being overcome by carbon monoxide. no one was hurt. patrol cars in three other states have been pulled out of service because of similar incidents. if you needed an extra reason to buckle up in the back seat, pay close attention to this. >> safety experts say you run a real risk of injury if you don't. they're putting out a new video to prove the point. shows what happens at impact of a car going just 35 miles per hour. the passenger flies forward hitting the back of the driver's seat, pushing the driver into the steering wheel. the message is clear. buckling up can save lives. >> more than 50% of the people who die each year in the rear seat are unbuckled. that number would drop dramatically if people

up. >> only 29 states and d.c. require back seat safety belt use. it could be a game changer for traveling in the northeast. it just passed a major hurdle. the latest on elon musk's hyper loop that could run from here to new york. some people are getting ready for fall. the store that's already selling pumpkin spice products. >> no. i think it's too early for that. we still need the summer stuff to stay out for a while. our forecast, we'll be showing that soon. as far as your commute this morning, as you head out the door, it is going to be dry later on this afternoon. i could see a fewsolated

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now back to that breaking news in the district where a firefighter has been injured in an accident.

arrived on the scene, has more on the investigation. justin, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. we're coming to you from the corners of 8th street and f streets northeast. as you can see behind us, crime tape is still up and also a fire engine behind us. unclear at this time if this is the engine that is involved in this investigation at this time. here's what we know. a firefighter, a male in his late 20s was hit by another fire vehicle. we're hearing reports of that this morning. it appears he may have jumped from a fire truck, then was hit by a passing vehicle, possibly another fire vehicle here. as a result, he did suffer some serious injuries. this is all happening amid a fire response here to a home on the 800 block of f street northeast. it was a two-alarm row house fire. we have new details emerging about this firefighter. that he was part of engine 3 in his late 20s. we do know he was taken to med star

we are hearing a briefing is said to happen in an hour's time where more details should come out. live in northeast, justin finch, news 4. back to you in the studio. >> we'll brief you as it's happening. president trump is throwing his support behind april plan that could dramatically change immigration policy. >> it would slash legal immigration by half over a decade and move the country to a merit-based system. tracie potts is live on capitol hill. how would this work? >> we're talking about a points-based system where people would gain points to enter this country based on their background, their education, age, to some degree would play into this. and their skills. highly skilled workers would be favored here versus low-skilled workers. that is sort of the gist of this. in addition to slashin

available green cards by half. >> tracie, some lawmakers already coming out against this. that happened yesterday we understand. is this plan going to go anywhere. >> democrats say it's a nonstarter. even some republicans are concerned. not so much about the skills-based portion of it. but about reducing the number of people who can come into this. their argument is you're dealing with legal immigration, but it can actually make illegal immigration worse because without those low-skilled workers working in restaurants and in farms and construction, they think that it would actually drive more to seek out illegal immigrants. >> tracie potts on capitol hill this morning. tracie, thank you. the immigration debate is heating up in our own backyard. activists are voicing their frustration with the white house over the deportation to el salvador of two brothers. one was on the

club and looking forward to playing in college on a partial scholarship. he was supposed to begin yesterday. diego was going to join him and help pay for expenses. immigration and customs enforcement detained them after they were notified of the move. their supporters lashed out at them. >> you are separating our family. you are lying that you are focusing criminals. >> i.c.e. says the brothers were stopped in 2009 after trying to use fake passports and visas. covering northern virginia now. the three-year saga to allow a new mosque in noeksville will head to court. there was a special use permit granted for the muslim society to build a new mosque near cedar point elementary school. they claim the board failed to follow its own rules in granting the

>> the manama -- he turned himself in on tuesday. he tried to pull someone over monday morning at williamson boulevard. he told the person he was an off-duty police officer. when the driver asked for some identification, he turned himself in to police the next day and is charged with impersonating a law enforcement officer. >> 4:48. thousand to the rift between montgomery county firefighters who served side by side. several firefighters said they were afraid of idriss did he brul after a confrontation over a confederate flag. the judge denied every p p -- >> i guess we can appeal or try to move forward from this. >> i'm not going to have any comment. >> you're happy with the outcome? >> no comment. >> this goes back to last month at the bethesda firehouse. you can see did he brul there. heaw

license plate and got mad. the other firefighter says he called them racist and threatened them with guns. he said he never threatened anybody. the judge said he's disappointed in everyone's behavior and called it an awful mess. some people opposed to the purple line have failed to get a new ruling on noise and environmental issues. bethesda magazine reports that a u.s. district judge will not reconsider the potential effects on pollution of the line. the recent decision clears the way for it to continue to the court of appeals. they will decide how the issues -- >> guion build a hyper loop. wortd travel system is faster than expected. engineers propelled a pod built for passengers and freight along a 500-meter stretch of vac

can you imagine this? it reached speeds of 192 miles per hour, which is about triple the speed of a test that was done in may. the hyper loop could take passengers from d.c. to new york in less than 30 minutes. i mean, that would make me a little nervous. considering it takes about three hours on the train now, right? >> your head would have to be harnessed in for that to work. 4:50 the time right now. u.s. foods, one of the biggest food distributors in the country is expanding in manassas. governor terry mcauliffe -- it will include the addition of 200,000 new square feet, doubling the size of the facility. too soon? sheena and i would say yes. >> too soon. >> fall is a little more

i can't think of that. >> stores rolling out the pumpkin spice flavored product. world market released the pre-ground pumpkin spice coffee two days agoment while cheerios and -- dannon yogurt. i didn't know there was one. the products are in the stores at the end of last month. starbucks has not said when it will release their pumpkin spice latte. >> if you can get past the whole feeling like fall imagery of pumpkin, it's a nice flavor. it tastes good all year long. >> i absolutely love it. i'm a mocha girl. if i have to choose between them. >> can we enjoy august, please, sheena? >> i put pepper mint in my coffee. >> yum, i love that. >> now you're talking. >> to make it christmasy. >> i don't do it now. i will not do it until well after the pumpkin stuff has been

here. we all like the pumpkin stuff. it makes us feel cozy. for now, you don't want to be cozy. it's going to be a nice summer afternoon. for your commute, mainly dry. the isolated thunderstorm chance for the evening drive in some areas. might not be dry. most of the area will. you want to hydrate. going to be another hot one. lunch outside. if you sit outside, sit in the shade. if you're heading to the pool, keep an eye to the sky this afternoon. if you download the app, you'll have the radar at your fingertips. 75 degrees in the dringt district. 74 in quantico. another mild start to your morning. if you are headed to the pool, this is what it will look like. you want the sun block, 89 degrees. 2:00 p.m. 90 degrees. by 4:00 p.m., start to see a couple isolated storms on the radar. temperature topping out around 92 today. here's future weather. we

there's 4:00 p.m. you see a couple spots trying to flare up, even into the evening. for your friday, we're mainly dry tomorrow. then we go into the late night hours. we have showers approaching. they sort of break up as we go into saturday. this is actually a cold front. we'll see more clearing and we'll have lower humidity. isolated chance friday. mid-80s saturday. a morning shower possible. cold front moving through. could see more on the beach and the coast. low 80s. looking perfect. humidity is dropping through the weekend. i think you'll like these nice changes. 84 saturday. 86 sunday with low humidity. monday that's a rain you start to the week. for now the roads are dry. let's check out the conditions elsewhere. good morning, jack. >> i love the fact that -- south, not too

connecticut avenue. we have accident activity. grab the left lane, there's activity on both sides of the roadway. they will give themselves a buffer lane. rock creek parkway, the kennedy center. traffic all the nates. the left lane blocked in both directions. the kennedy center will hang until 6:00. no big delays. back to you. >> jack thank you. another case of a hoverboard burst into flames. >> how it happened. what you need to know to stay safe. what to do if your kids have one. a new fbi building may still be in the works after all. a firefighter has been injured in an accident at the scene of a fire. you're looking at live pictures from where it happened as well as the hospital where

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welcome back. plans for a new fbi headquarters may not be scrapped after all. here's what we learned much the fbi is still expected to get a new state-of-the-art location. but it may take another five it seven years. the same three locations are still in play apparently. there are two in prince george's county and one in springfield, virginia. the money setsi

project will be saved and used for the new headquarters. but a fortune has already been spent. >> do you have any idea how many millions and millions of dollars have been wasted. >> we're aware of how much we've spent on the project. that's around $20 million to date, sir. >> that's wasted. >> some of that can be repurpd. but the majority may not be. >> keep in mind, that answer, $20 million, just covered what the general services administration invested in the process. it does not count other agencies or maryland or virginia. firefighters in prince frederick, maryland are warning families about the dangers of hoverboards. this as one caught fire in a home. no one was injured. here are tips to keep you safe. don't leave a charging hoverboard unattended. never leave it plugged in overnight. only use a charging cord that came with the hoverboard and stop using it if it overheats. 4:58 now. a piece of

the 44-acre saltwater farm in maine where e.b. white wrote the classic children's tale charlotte's web is on the market. it's going for $3.7 million. the barn that was the setting for the animal tale, the home dates back to the late 1700s. just a classic. >> it is terrific. >> did you read it? >> sometimes you joke around with me. it's a beautiful book. >> terrific. >> yes. >> it's early. >> it's a mash-up that will likely have our stomachs growling all morning. two great things coming together. reese's peanut buttercups and krispy kreme doughnuts. >> match made in heaven. starting tomorrow, you can take a bite of the new creation. it is filled with reese's peanut butter cream and dipped in chocolate and mini peanut butter

>> never see you again. >> dozen in a couple of minutes and we'll be good. >> stay with us. "news4 today" continues right now at 5:00 a.m. "news4 today" begins with breaking news. that breaking news coming out of the district this morning. a firefighter seriously injured in an accident at the scene of a house fire. >> d.c. fire and rescue are investigating whether the firefighter was hit by another fire truck. he is now in critical condition. this happened as crews responded to a house fire on f street northeast. that's in the h street corridor neighborhood. we'll have the latest on that situation. good morning everyone. i'm eun yang. >> i'm aaron gilchrist. as you've been sleeping, we've been working to find out the latest about that breaking news. justin finch at the scene of the fire. adam tuss is at the hospital where that firefighter was taken. >> first, we want to give you a quick check on your weather and traffic. sheena parveen is outside with the forecast. sheego