searching for the person who shot four people in the area. it happened 34 mun block of 18th street northeast. .other three victims are expected to live. they believe the shooter was in a dark-colored chevy malibu or imbalani am pal a. we're going back to the live desk. >> erika? >> eun and aaron good morning to you. if this looks familiar, that's because this caught fire in 2015. overnight, this forced people out of a building in dubai. it's not clear how it started yet. it's caused a lot of damage, debris raining down. incredibly, nobody was hurt in the fire. firefighters say they've got it under control. dubai passed new rules earlier this year to add fire resistant siding to buildings like the one we just showed you. back to you guys. all right, a,

today will be a busy day at the white house before president trump takes off for new jersey to start his vacation. he'll be spending the next 17 days at his golf club there on the president's agenda meeting with the vice president and speaking to french president manuel macron. the president is dealing with and talking about the expanding russia investigation. special counsel robert mueller is using a grand jury in d.c. as part of an investigation into potential collusion between the trump campaign and russia. legal experts call the grand jury the next logical step in any investigation. the "wall street journal" reported this first. nbc news has not independently verified the report. coming up, tracie potts will explain what the grand jury will be looking at and who they expect to hear from. we'll discuss the leaked phone call transcripts between other heads of state. in virginia, an alarming story about how dro

a stafford county sheriff's deputy is recovering after he was accidentally exposed to a dangerous opioid. deputy a.c. wofford was investigating a case involving these two people here. david chambers and samantha stout. detectives say they were found with illegal drugs inside a van at the goddard school parking lot yesterday morning. they say the deputy handled fentanyl when he was collecting evidence inside the van and became ill. just touching the drug can result in overdose. staff gave him narcan to reverse the effects. the deputy is expected to be okay. when the new school year starts next month in montgomery county, all public schools, even elementary schools, will stock narcan. head to the nbc washington app to see chris gordon's story on why this life-saving drug is being stocked in schools. this morning, we're learning about the outpouring o

its firefighters was critically injured. we brought you this story as breaking news yesterday morning. dane smothers jr. was hit late wednesday night by a ladder truck arriving at the scene of a fire on f street northeast. his two uncles also serve in the d.c. fire department and one of them was responding to that same fire. >> he was ready to make sure that his family was proud of him. it makes everyone closer when you experience a traumatic event like that. >> smothers was preparing hose lines and other equipment when he was pinned between two trucks. among the people reaching out to help engine 3, capital police which delivered pizza to the firehouse. metro is expecting a major closure going into effect on the green line. they will be closed for two weeks starting tomorrow. shuttle buses will run from naylor road. t

to stop leaks in the tunnels. the medical center and bethesda station will be closed. buses will run from friendship heights to grosvenor strat more. we'll have more on the closures happening on metro's other lines. it will be a nice weekend. just walk. >> exercise. sneemt get out the >> get out there and walk. check your weather and traffic. >> wtop jack taylor, he's in for melissa. but first we'll check in with lauryn ricketts. are people going to have dinner alfresco, lauryn? >> i think so. they haven't been able to do it. we've had some rain in the forecast. one thing we do have out there today is the mugginess. the humidity. that's going to be up quite a bit today. but we have a calm weekend ahead with the humidity dropping. then we have a little bit of unsettled weather into next

week. current temperatures 76 in washington. 68 at dulles. temperatures in the 630s outside the beltway. continuing through the morning, temperatures top out around 80 degrees. watch out for fog out there as well. we're drying right now. but we do have some storms out there later on tonight. most likely after 8:00 p.m. until then, temperatures moving right on up into the low 90s. enjoy that sunshine today. more sunshine for the weekend. we'll talk about timing for the storms in a few minutes. we'll talk about traffic with jack taylor. hello, jack. >> good morning, lauryn. a couple things going on. work on the westbound lanes of 50. paving project. long set of cones going to take them a little bit of time to clear that out of roadway. the right lane getting by on scene. a new crash on the beltway, near 202. authorities may be along left side. hopefully contained to shoulder. won't cause any kind of delay. crews in the rock creek

a time and working in virginia avenue, both directions. find the left lane gets by. otherwise, a brief delay. be aware it's out there. the crew at the kennedy center hangs out until 6:00. air raro aaron, eun, back to you. >> we want to make sure your kids are ready to head back to school. as you think about that, you might want to snag some deals this weekend. the sales tax holiday starts. >> it's too much. it means for three days, you won't have to pay sales tax in the commonwealth for things such as school supplies and clothing. it includes binders, backpacks, calculators, lunchboxes, clothing and shoes under $100. justin finch will join us live with a breakdown on how you can save and what else you can stock up on now. there's a lot of stuff you need to go back to school, apparently. >>

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near a trader joe's. homes near the home had a five-year home price appreciation of 67%. that's 14 points higher than a whole foods. surprising? the information comes from adam data solutions that collects property data around the country. >> interesting for sure. >> i thought it was the whole foods of the marker you've arrived. i like the trader joe's. >> i think whole foods is bringing in diverse populations as opposed to trader joe's which is too fancy. >> a lot of great deals at trader joe's. >> i want creamy. i don't need that naturalness. give me jiffy and let me go home. >> oh, aaron. >> maybe stock up on some possible sic popsicles. >> you got to try it, aaron. maybe try the pool today. it's definitely going to be hot and humid. temperatures in the low 80s.

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around the 90 degree mark. plenty of sunshine. we have rain chance later in the day. we're going to talk about that and when it could impact you. exactly the timing on that. a major

forced to flee north carolina's outer banks. when tourists can now return. we're working for you to get your kids ready for back to school. what you can do now to avoid summer slide. 4:45 now. the investigation into possible collusion between the president's campaign and the russians just entered a new phase. >> the "wall street journal" says -- tracie potts is live on capitol hill to explain what the grand jury will be looking at and who they might hear from. tracie. >> good morning everyone. the fact that this grand jury is reportedly impanelled signals they may be taking a new turn in the investigation. a grand jury in an investigation like this cannot only hear from witnesses but they can get their hands-on documents. business records, memos, notes and other things that may lend to the investigation. unlike the other grand juries that have been part of this looking at specific individuals, this one,

journal, appears to be broader and may even take a close look at the president's own actions. the president's attorney, both internal and outside the white house have said that they welcome this and that they have no indication that the president himself is a target. >> tracie, the white house is dealing with the fallout from these private phone conversations the president had with world leaders. what can you tell us about the calls? >> they were early in his tenure. one was a week after inauguration. we just got the transcripts. they were leaked. the white house not happy about that. what we've learned is that when the president was on the phone with mexico's president, they talked about the wall. the president saying i have to get you to pay for this wall and asked him to stop publicly saying that mexico would not. he also said the money may likely come from elsewhere. the other call was the australian prime minister which we reported at the time was a pretty tense call. now we know how tense. according tohe

president talking about accepting refugees from australia. he said this is going to kill me and abruptly ended the call saying i've had it. this morning, the australian prime minister admitting it was a frank call but not going beyond that responding to the release of the transcript. >> tracie potts, live on capitol hill for us. tracie, thank you. 4:47 now. we're learning more details about the tragic drowning in anne arundel county. it was a grandfather who died with his 4-year-old granddaughter yesterday. the man could not swim but he jumped in the water anyway to save the little girl struggling in the deep end. this happened at a backyard pool on jammar drive. the victims' names have not been released. a construction worker is dead. the university of maryland police and occupational safety experts are investigating this accident. the worker fell down an elevator shaft yesterday at a building under construction at campus drive and route 1. the man has been identified and police ask that

i'm erika gonzalez at the live desk. the massive power outage in the north carolina outer banks finally over. really good news here. two islands in the dark were back in today. they lost power last week. 50,000 people had to leave. there's an untold number who had to cancel their plans because of all this. this happened when workers who were building a bridge damaged an underground transmission line. back to you guys. >> erika, thank you. a man trusted to teach elementary students will be charged for abusing them. he taught third, fourth and fifth graders in silver spring. five current and former students report that he touched them inappropriate inappropriately. a class action lawsuit has been filed against

permanente against a doctor. dr. brian williams worked as an anesthesiologist at kensington and largo from 2010 until he was dismissed in 2014. his license was suspended in 2016 after investigation by the maryland board of physicians. several women came forward saying he inappropriately touched them. a criminal investigation is still ongoing. in montgomery county, a judge puts the brakes on pesticide bans. it would prohibit the use of pesticides on private lawns starting next year. the council wanted to limit the overuse of pesticides harmful to people, animals and the environment. the circuit court judge says it preempts the county's ban. the county will review the options including a possible appeal. big news from west point involving a fairfax county woman. simona skew will become the firstfr

lead the 4400 cadets there. her new official title is captain. her family says the 20-year-old has always been an achiever and leader. she was class president, captain of the volleyball team and founder of the black student union. she received appointments to west point and the academy. her sister gets emotional when talking about what this achievement means. >> i'm so proud of her. she's such a good role model for me. i'm just so proud. >> she's making us cry. after graduation next spring, simone steps into her next position as a military intelligence officer. i mean, what an incredible lady. sky is the limit at this point. she's going to run things very soon. >> keep an eye on her. she'll be in intelligence. we'll try to follow her. >> love it.

all right. >> 4:50 in the morning. >> it's looking good through this friday. heat and humidity. take the good with the bad. wait until the weekend. it looks fantastic. oh, my goodness. hopefully plans this weekend because the humidity is plummeting. we're going to have plenty of sunshine this weekend. but the humidity is gone. thank goodness. we're going to be comfortable. not comfortable today. really sultry i would say only because we have sultry like that. i haven't used that one today. we'll use that to describe how muggy it's going to be. gorgeous weekend ahead. we're unsettled next week. we'll have rain chances coming through. the humidity will go up. it's up today. 76 degrees for our temperature right now. i wish that was our daytime high. we're topping out in the low 90s today. we had some of thatn

you can see we are dry right now at 4:51. maybe a little damp as you walk outside. but other than that, really just going to be sunny out there today. probably not going to have to dodge any storms until later on tonight. we could have an isolated storm later on this afternoon. but for the most part, we're going to have storms moving in after 8:00. let me time it out for you. here's 3:00. we got a little dodge up here. isolated showers and storms popping up. after 8:00, look at this. we start to see our frontal system move through the area. that's going to be responsible for dropping our humidity. that's going to swing to the east bringing storms with it late tonight and into the weekend. tomorrow morning when you wake up, it's going to be damp. possibly foggy. that humidity is going to drop throughout the morning. breezy tomorrow afternoon. fabulous weather for your saturday. increasing clouds on sunday. we'll have another chance much rain late on sunday. some scattered showers and thunderstorms through

weekend. we take it from the 90s into the low to mid-80s. the humidity starts to come back up. tuesday and wednesday, we're dry with temperatures in the 80s. average temperature for this time of year in the upper 80s. we're looking at storm chances through the end of the next workweek. >> big fan seeing a bunch of 8s there. like it, lauryn. thank you. on 50 maryland eastbound in bowie. sounds like a tree limb or something came down in the roadway. maryland state authorities out to check it out. annapolis to -- beyond 424 past 301, the airport, crews had been clearing the work zone, only the right lane getting by. picking up the barrels from the roadway. rock creek parkway, traffic alternating in one direction. they're hanging out for another hour or so. aaron, eun, back to you. >> jack, thank you. it's not too late to keep your kid from getting what some cl

how to set your son or daughter for avoiding a setback once school starts. >> not one, but two metro closures that could impact how you get around this

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it's a joint project to benefit both companies and it will create 4,000 jobs. not said exactly where the plant will be built. something that we'll keep our eyes on. eun and aaron, back to you. >> thank you. the kids don't want to hear it. i don't want to hear it, frankly. but it will be time to head back to school before you know it. it is important to make sure they don't suffer from summer slide. >> educators say it usually takes weeks or months to get students refocused on schoolwork. molette green has advice to make sure they are ready for school. >> inside charles flowers high school in prince george's county. a summer robotics class keeps the learning process fresh. >> well, it's really cool because i need it over the summer. if i don't stay on top of my education over the summer, it will go down and when school comes, i will be all frantic when it comes to learning everything all over again. >> when you don't have a summer bridge program,

>> attending museums, getting kids having learning experiences over the summer. >> that advice from flowers principal gorman brown about to welcome 2100 children back to campus. in the final days of summer break, he wants schoolchildren to read and check out some online math lessons to jump-start a back to school, back to class mind-set. in prince george's county, molette green, news 4. we are going to help you get ready for back to school from now until all the kids in our area head back sometime in september. that's what happens throughout the area. there's a whole schedule. some go back to school already starting this week. >> we had kids yesterday back in school in alexandria. >> feeling for you guys. news 4 will have you covered. stay with us. "news4 today" starts now.

right now at 5:00 a.m. >> trees down, debris on the road and more severe weather on the way. tracking another round of bad weather. overdose danger. the close call for a a sheriff's deputy and what these two people are accused of doing in a preschool parking lot. >> bring on the savings. where you can save big money for back to school shopping and a lot more all weekend long. >> fast approaching 5:00 a.m. on this friday morning. made it here. >> congratulations. >> congratulations to you. very excited and happy. >> good morning everybody. i'm aaron gilchrist. >> i'm eun yang. you'll feel the heat and humidity as you head to work. >> jack taylor tracking the commute and we'll start with lauryn ricketts. it's a frizzy hair day, lauryn. >> are you saying that because you're looking at my hair right now. >> i read it in the prompter. >>

>> thank you for that. >> it is a little bit -- >> i told a producer earlier this morning. i just came on up. that's the way it's going to be. not necessarily this weekend. temperatures in the mid-70s right now. got that nice little south wind helping to bring in that humidity right into our area. now for your commute this morning, we do have areas of fog. it's really not that bad. dry roads as we continue through the day. only isolated chances of storms later on. we did have those storms that rolled through the area yesterday. baltimore got the brunt of it, also here in fairfax had strong storms. what could we see? we have strong storms in the forecast today. we'll time them out coming up. let's talk to jack taylor right now. good morning, jack. >> lauryn good morning. we had an issue on the beltway. as you head toward the big curve, sounds like a tractor-trailer was involved. along the