police said their response was an appropriate use of force and nobody was hurt. back to you guys. >> erica, thank you. inside from the protesting, he was there over an hour. >> he railed against the media in response to the violence in charlottesville. >> just like they don't want to report that i spoke out forcefully against hatred, bigotry and violence and strongly condemned the neo-nazis, the white supremacists, and the kkk, i openly called for unity, healing and love and they know it. >> the president later tweeted not only does the media give a platform to hate groups but the media turns a blind eye to gang violence in our streets. today we'll hear from the family terrorized 40 years ago by a member of the klu klux klan. this story getting

during 1970s, a member of the klan placed a burning cross on the lawn of a college park couple. he is now a priest in arlington. you see his picture. he took a leave of absence from his parish yesterday after writing and apologizing for his past. the couple's attorney will address the fact the couple never received restitution that he was ordered to pay them. outrage for people living at condos. the clock ticking as neighbors have until noon to leave their homes because of code violations. county officials conducted another inspection yesterday and determined the building was unsafe. many of the people there are renters. the condo association board said they didn't have enough time to make necessary changes. >> we had problems in the past, but to get that friday evening really short

>> social workers trying to find temporary housing for nearly 100 neighbors forced out. this morning, dozens of neighbors are waiting for answers after this three alarm fire destroyed their apartment building. this was the scene near hagerstown, maryland, at the wood bridge apartments in washington county. a neighbor says he thinks lightning started the fire. firefighters believe everyone got out of the building safely. at one point, firefighters couldn't do proper searches, flames were too intense. working to learn how a man is doing after driving himself to the police station after being shot. take a look. this incident turned the police station into a crime scene last night. they believe the man was shot somewhere else, haven't said where. the man was rushed to the hospital. safety on metro has the attention of the white house. the president cleared the way for d.c., maryland and virginia to create a new safety

agency. it means metro is lined up to get a new watchdog group and they could punish metro if they get lax on safety. the federal transit administration is already overseeing issues. today is the last wednesday at work forever? doesn't it sound nice, only if you win the powerball jackpot. the jackpot is worth $700 million. wrap your head around that kind of money. >> this is the second largest in that game's history. chance of having a winning ticket is 1 in 292 million. you have to play to win. >> somebody who always wins, right? >> that's true. taking a drive up to pennsylvania may improve your odds. that state has seen the most powerball winners. after taxes, if you take the lump sum, looking at about $292 million and the payout, have a better chance of hitting the jackpot with a

lottery association. not everyone can run in to 7-eleven to get powerball tickets. nevada residents, crossing the border into california for their chance at millions. did you see that line? a line at that store wrapped around the parking lot. some waited in line for two hours, all for that chance at the powerball jackpot. >> you win, it is more than worth it. it is 4:34. get another check on the weather and traffic. >> jack taylor has the commute in a second. first, sheena and lauren are refining that wednesday forecast for us. >> yeah. it looks good out there, really good. a few scattered showers, after today, more like fall. >> it will be beautiful. this morning, you wake up and see the clouds around, maybe a few showers in the forecast, too. let's look at the radar. we're seeing improvements. seeing the cs

county, leesburg, maybe a few sprinkles. not holding together too well. school forecast today, 7:00 a.m., few showers around. hold onto clouds the first half of the day, too. 84 degrees by lunchtime. by the afternoon, good news is we are much less humid, a cold front moves through. for this morning, still warm out there. let's check the temperatures with lauren. >> good morning, we have warm temperatures out there, also on the muggy side. 79 degrees is that temperature now. it will drop a degree or two as we continue through the morning. then lower 70s outside the beltway. but here are four things you need to know. scattered showers this morning. you may be able to forget the umbrella, we are dryer into the afternoon. we have weather headed our

feels like late september and also maybe early october. we're going to let you know how low the numbers go. let's check in with wtop's jack taylor. good morning, jack. >> good morning. work on buoy westbound. two left lanes are blocked. georgetown turnpike, a paving project, two left lanes gets you by. volume is still light, not causing any slow down. rock creek parkway at the kennedy center, there until about 6:00. traffic alternates getting by one direction at a time in southbound lanes. back to you. >> thank you. she's the oldest and newest american sworn into citizenship. she's 103 years old. >> she brought four generations of her family with her to witness her

the wheelchair, raise a flag and take the oath. she joined the family in the u.s. five and a half years ago from cambodia. >> she didn't want to live there because of living conditions and always wanted to come here because of the rights, she heard so many things about this place. >> that's her great granddaughter speaking for her. now that she's a citizen, the great grandmother says she most looks forward to voting. she is not the oldest person to become a u.s. citizen, if you can believe it. >> a turkish immigrant lives in los angeles was 117 when she took the oath in 1997. >> never too old or young to feel that sense of patriotism and pride to become a u.s. citizen. love to see the family there, too. another man living out his dreams, but he may be the reason why you wake up with a ticket on your windshield. coming up, we tell you why this

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new warning about a spike in cases of salmonella around the country. the culprit may be in your backyard. remember in may we told you about the debate over chicken coops. the mayor may have been onto something. the cdc says they're behind a nationwide salmonella outbreak. >> we are following ten different outbreaks now, each caused by a different strain of salmonella. we think these cases are going up because more and more people have backyard poultry. >> young children most vulnerable to infection. >> i can't imagine managing a chicken in your yard, apparently they're pretty messy. >> foreign exchange student house i was stayi

in the kitchen sink. >> that's worse. did you eat the fresh eggs? did they taste good? >> not a farm guy. >> i got you. there's no better way to celebrate your birthday than with a giant cake. >> you know me so well. this is bei bei celebrating his second birthday at the national zoo. he is licking a giant cake with several ingredients, including sweet potato, carrot, apple and apple juice. do you remember the older sister, she's in china celebrating a birthday today. she's four. the father has a birthday this weekend. it is a big family affair. i am sure the mom will get in on the action, too. how often i share my birthday with the pandas which is this saturday.

i am excited about that. i cleared the weather out. today you wake up for scattered showers. sheena has timing when you need the umbrella after the break. >> network's got talent gone wrong, a stunt fails. new at 5,

good wednesday morning. notice some big changes compared to yesterday. look at the radar, we have a lot of clouds and light showers around. you may run into some of those this morning, but this is part of a cold front. once it moves through, we will see dramatic changes in the weather pattern.

coming up. plus, an officer escort to kindergarten. why he had an entire department on his side for his first day. >> he may be the one leaving tickets on your car, you want to root for him after hearing this dad's story. we'll share it just ahead. stay with us. it is 4:46. first, we continue to follow breaking news out of phoenix. that's where protests broke out overnight. this is outside the arena where president trump was holding a rally. that was the scene outside. inside, he was back in campaign mode. >> the president riling up supporters, hitting on a number of topics. even showed that he would be willing to shut down the government to get funding for the border wall. >> build that wall. now the obstruction is democrats would like us not to do it, but believe me, we have to close down our

building that wall. >> the president took aim at arizona's republican senators without naming them. >> get to edward lawrence live on capitol hill. what are some take aways from the rally last night? >> reporter: very passionate president, contentious speech. this was the president unscripted, he lashed out, basically set the political world on fire again. you mention he is ready to shut down the government to get funding for the wall, also talked nafta. said it is more likely to be terminated than not because re-negotiation is not going well. he also talked about or hinted at pardoning the commercial chair of joe arapahoe, the president is not backing down from any of this controversy. in fact, stoking the fire a bit. >> edward lawrence on capitol hill, thanks. a white nationalist wanltd by virginia police says he will turn himself in. christopher cantwell was featured in a documentary about the deadly rally in

using tear gas. cantwell said he was defending himself when he used pepper spray, looks forward to his day in court. espn announces names, robert lee won't call the virginia, william and mary game, his game too similar to robert e. lee. the story trending online. espn made that decision after the deadly protests in charlottesville. in a statement, they said we collectively made the decision with robert to switch games as the tragic events in charlottesville were unfolding, simply because of the coincidence of his name. 4:48. police arrested a teenager they say attacked two women on a bike trail in alexandria. they were attacked 30 minutes apart in broad daylight on the bike trial near holmes parkway. joshua sprinkle is in custody, charged with attempted robbery and abduction for the first

second. police released his name, not his photo. they tell us they don't want to confuse the public because sprinkle is possibly linked to other cases. we hear about people that get out of prison, have nowhere to go to turn their lives around. we caught up with a single father in the district who has turned his life around. talking about richard salmon here, his job to write parking tickets. he is a d.c. native, spent five years in prison after being caught with two pounds of marijuana and a gun. he is part of a new effort to help people turn their lives around through a d.c. retraining program. >> second chances, she said that from day one. we have a full comprehensive effort to ensure we support returning citizens, those that want to start small businesses, those returning to employment, and at 18, build a returning citizens

>> representing the mayor in the beginning of comments. the one stop resource center expected to help 5,000 others leaving incarceration. >> sounds like an incredible program to help a lot of folks. >> good to be able to pushed back into productive things. >> parking tickets are painful, going to say, living in d.c. paid a lot of money. >> you see it on the windshield, it is like oh. you know you just missed it. >> they get you every time! >> like they're waiting. >> parking wars, that was in if i am e-- philly. they're serious about tickets in philly. >> same in d.c. how about this weather? >> we have big changes under way, guys. yesterday we were really hot and humid, today this is that transition day, in between hot weather yesterday and huge cool down coming as we go into tomorrow. today you'll notice it, too, not that hot today. warmth morning.

clouds around. this is part of a cold front. big cool down setting up as we go into the rest of the week to get to the weekend. the weekend is looking good. here's the radar now. we have light rain in parts of loudoun county, sprinkles leesburg into parts of the beltway. light showers. there's a cold front. we have clouds around because of it, behind it clear skies, cooler, dryer air. that's moving in as we go into late today and tomorrow. temperature wise, 79 degrees. kwan if you want to exercise outside today, it will feel good compared to yesterday. yesterday was hot. by lunchtime, there's a cold front moving through, drawing us out this afternoon. tomorrow, a chance for an isolated shower north and west of the district. otherwise, big area of h

that's going to pull down that cooler, dryer air mass. look what happens to our forecast. this lasts for many days, through the weekend. highs only near 80 degrees. nice and dry. really going to like it. let's check the roads with jack taylor, wtop. good morning. >> crews are working on rock creek parkway at the kennedy center. getting by one direction at a time. authorities are there. and in virginia, work in place, georgetown pike, two left lanes getting by. and paving project in maryland on 50 westbound after 3 and 301, two left lanes getting by. shouldn't cost much time. back to you. i am erica gonzales at the live desk, we have brand new video to show you from north carolina where people demand a confederate monument be taken down. this is the scene that was there

people are surrounding the silent sam monument. it honors unc alumni, several hundred that served in the confederate army. these protesters say it doesn't belong there any more. three people were arrested. you remember that video of people pulling down a monument, that happened close by in durham last week. >> erica, thank you. unlicensed in schools, as a new year begins, taking a look at who is joining your kids in the classroom. an eye opening investigation just ahead. showing up to school in tyle.

how would you like to come back from your vacation to a newly renovated home? the first family is back at the white house, the renovations there are complete. the president was away, a small army of workers carried out a series of upgrades in the west wing. upgrades include new heating and air conditioning systems and fresh carpets. repairs were boiudgeted at $3.5 million. 4:56. two cases that shocked the region, school aides accused of sexually abusing students, neither had a teaching

scott macfarland found they join a growing list of unlicensed professionals accused of misconduct. >> reporter: buses are ready, kids are ready, school year about to begin, soon meet the child's new teacher. all teachers in the area are background checked and licensed, but there are other professionals in local schools background checked but not licensed, including recent series of individuals arrested for assaulting children. the safety groups tell the i-team, not having a license in the state is a potential risk to your kids. >> those unlicensed people we have working intimately with our kids are often in positions where it's easier for them to groom and sexually abuse children than a licensed teacher. those people are often alone more one on one, often have more intimate relationships with kids because they're helping kids who have been acting out, talking to kids about why they were acting out. >> reporter: teachers unlicensed are able to get jobs in 50

schools. others with licenses are also economically hurt. how many people are operating in local schools without licenses and what's being considered for change. for now, scott macfarland, news4 i-team. now to a touching tribute to the son of a houston police officer killed in the line of duty six years ago. first day of school. officer kevin wills' son will never forget. >> he will never have a chance to see his son. his wife was seven months pregnant when he died. yesterday, dozens of his colleagues made sure they were on hand for a special milestone, the little boy's first day of school. mounted officers, even a helicopter fly by was part of the big surprise. >> come to me with fellow brothers and sisters in blue, we appreciate the support we're getting from everyone in the community. >> what a beautiful show

support. you can imagine this event went viral and kevin's mom posted something special for him on the first day of school for him every year as well. >> maybe not that level, something special. that's cool. >> a day he will never forget. news4 continues at 5:00 a.m. breaking news out of phoenix. protesters clash with police as president trump rallies inside. more on bwhat led to this scene and the president renewing anger this morning. forced out by fire. an apartment building destroyed by flames. new details about how it started during a storm. a big oops on america's got talent.

wrong on live tv had to say something after the show. when it comes to powerball, one of the biggest jackpots ever just hours away. we have tips to increase your chances. first, it is 5:00 a.m. good morning, everybody, i am aaron gilchrist. >> i'm eun yang. lauren ricketts is joining sheena parveen. >> we will look at the commute with wtop's jack taylor. ladies, maybe good for the morning to spend time out there? >> i think we're getting a sun tan with the lights. >> the sun is coming up. we may be dealing with a few showers as the sun comes up. once the sun goes down, looking at really nice weather. >> we have big changes coming. we're still warm outside this morning. it is cloudy skies, 79 degrees in the district. the showers