>> the last person was a college student. he came home from school to help the search because ms. wallen meant so much to him. grief counselors will be at wild lake high school today for anyone who needs them. we've been telling you about the search for laura wallen since last week. her father texted news 4's kristin wright and said simply, lawyer is in the loving arms of god now. >> we have much more on the ongoing investigation justin finch will be at the high school later this morning. build that wall. >> remember that chant from the trump campaign trail. it could be that president trump's tough talk on immigration may be softening. last night, president trump sat down with top democratic leaders, nancy pelosi and chuck schumer, at the white house. democrats say funding for the wall is out but press secretary sara sanders says on t

we're told the president is also considering making the protections of daca law. schumer and pelosi released a joint statement saying they would work with the president on a border security package that will be acceptable to both sides. the white house calls last night's discussion a positive step toward bipartisan solutions. 4:31. let's go to chris lawrence at the live desk. breaking news out of india. >> yeah. a boat full of construction workers is capsized in a river there. at least 19 people have drowned. police are still looking for more than 30 missing passengers. ten people did manage to swim to safety. india has been deluged with monsoons and it's made these crowded, poorly built ferries about the only way for construction workers and other people to get to work. they think that's what happened here. at the live desk, chris lawrence, news 4. aaron, back to you. president trump heads to naples, florida, today to look at the impact f

more than 4 million across the state don't have power. officials are encouraging all floridians to check on their elderly neighbors. >> conduct a welfare check on elderly residents that you might know either in your neighborhood that don't have power or at local assisted living facilities or condominiums where you know there's a large concentration of elderly people. >> nursing home has been shut down. eight people who died are in addition to 17 florida deaths directly blamed on hurricane irma. an update on the amount of money raised for the victims of recent hurricanes. at this time yesterday, we told you the hand in hand telethon had raised $14 million. this morning, that number climbed to 44 million. >> i won't be afraid ♪ ♪

on other networks tuesday night. the money will go to nonprofit organizations, ones like the united way and save the children as well. it's a smaller local organization too. >> texts and digital organizations will -- you can text give to 80077 to donate $25. 4:33 right now. in the nation's capital, it's not short on star power. one star didn't throw away his shot. >> ding, ding, ding went the trolley. lynne manuel miranda. starve hamilton. he's on the train that runs under the capitol. this was yesterday. miranda was lobbying congress to keep the endowment for the arts off the chopping block. another shot here. tweeting his goodbyes to washington from looks like the

speaker's balcony at the capitol. >> looks like a fun, positive trip. i love that he brings music to whatever he's doing. >> hopefully the guys who spend the money -- of course, you can check out his twitter timeline. you can check it out with visitors, staffers and lawmakers during his trip to the hill. the nmystics will be back o the court tonight hoping to even up the series. 101-81. hope we fare better. the links have home court. >> best of five series on sunday at 3:30 in the capital one center in d.c. >> capital one arena. >> that was the one in landover. >> it changed names. makes it hard. >> i'm telling you. >> the place where they play the ball downtown over with the courts and the ice skating. >> l g

your -- >> aaron, you give them 20 million bucks, it will be the gilchrist arena. >> we'll start with jack taylor. we promised breaking news on the roads, jack. >> unfortunately, so. if you're riding across the 14th street bridge towards the case bridge, all lanes are temporarily blocked. this was because of a tractor-trailer carrying large concrete slabs. the debris was all over the roadway. what they're hoping do is open the center lane. the left side of the roadway is unfortunately where i believe the damaged sign is hanging down no the roadway. if you're coming in on the hov lanes, it's going to be a tough merge for now. authorities remain on scene. our hiccup this morning is in maryland on 270 southbound with early delays. if we've got a shot down here, 109, you see it's very slow. the work zone is down towards

everything from the roadway. hopefully, things will be open by the time you hit the roadway. be aware. that's the latest on our roads. the latest on our forecast now with chuck. >> thank you, jack. we're teamed up with morning. people think i have a lot of time off. where is sheena when you need her? >> maybe she's smarter than i am. >> today we're going to be dealing with raindrops and several -- starts during the course of the day. light rain up and down the i-95 corridor. this continues in waves during the course of the day. temperaturewise, a humid start to the morning. 67 degrees in gaithersburg this morning. 66 in lorton. 72 in quantico and annapolis. as you plan out the day, the grade today, c-minus. not going to rain all day long. but you can get rained on three or four times. high around 80 degrees. what to wear for thes

of school. 175 days on the school calendar. an umbrella today. it will not be cold. for more about the weekend forecast, let's go to somara. >> everybody has an opportunity for extra credit. there is rain chances. let's break it down. temperatures to start off on saturday, 60s. that muggy feeling follows us through the weekend. we're on the drier side. should get a lot of breaks in the clouds and leading to mostly sunny skies. temperatures this weekend, top off in the mid-80s. we're actually going to go up from there. compared to today, last weekend, so much cooler. when you we are going to see that nice stint of warmer weather. lots of sunshine. best chance for showers more than likely saturday afternoon. looking at a 20, 30% chance. it is a big purchase. apple's new $1,000 phone. the experts say, no matter what

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with jenna bush hager to talk about the partnership. >> home is the most important thing. the fact that we get to be a part of that at the beginning is an honor. it never gets old. i love it. >> yeah. >> he just agreed with what joanna says. smart husband. >> you can watch the entire interview after "news4 today" on the "today" show. >> he's actually -- >> funny guy. the kids could see rain at the bus stop this morning and when they're dropped off this afternoon somara. >> absolutely. if you're hitting the roads, wet pavement for sure. starting off in the 60s. take your time. we're expecting rain chances on and off throughout the day. protecting the president,

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good morning. welcome back. now, i'm not going to lie to you. it's not the best running errands kind of day. but you got to get your stuff done. temperatures in the low 80s. we'll be dealing with rain. the best time to get the errands done around 2:00 p.m. you might not have to contend with as much rain. somara, thank you. 4:45 and the mother of the man accused of setting his pregnant girlfriend on fire says he's being portrayed as a monster. >> phillips' family says they don't believe he doused his girlfriend with a flammable liquid inside her capital heights apartment and set her on fire. they've attended wednesday's court hearing where a judge denied the bond. he was a trainer and was recently accepted as a firefighter with the d.c. fire department. >> he's less than a man. walk away. if you don't want the responsibility, walk away. >> this is not my son. my son could not have done a heinous crime like

attempted murder. his attorney maintains he's not guilty. they're still in critical condition. a man confessed to killing a local yoga instructor will spend time in prison. he pled guilty to her death. you may remember this case from late last year. he didn't show up for christmas dinner. johnson admitted to sexually assaulting her before killing her and leaving her body in her car. 4:46 now. is there a deal to protect so-called dreamers? that's the question tonight following a dinner with trump and democrats. >> tracie potts is here to break down what was said and how it could affect border security and what was promised on the campaign trail. >> three things out of this dinner that you need to know first. the president and democrats, chuck schumer and nancy pelosi, agreeing to continue talking about daca and a quick fix to protect

country illegally. apparently they agreed to keep talking about subsidies, cost sharing subsidies for health care. that's a big one. and border security, we've heard a lot about that at demonstrations around the country. but not money for the wall. that's a big one that the president and republicans wanted. there's a dispute that the president's spokeswoman saying that he did not exclude the wall with chuck schumer's spokesperson saying it was not part of this deal. even though the president may pursue is later. no wall for now. protection for deemers. hick sub dider sid is. seems to be a big winnow owe another republican tweeting that the trump base is blown up, destroyed, irreparable as a result of this deal with democrats.

amnesty done. trump caves. severe reaction from the conservative side. >> we'll see what happens. tracie potts live on capitol hill. thank you. maryland congressman elijah cummins wants our people to be paid more. he's proposed a bill to raise the amount from $160,000 to $187,000. the secret service has said it's already stretched thin as it protects various properties as well as the president's children. a new family twist in the investigation into russian meddling. the son of president trump's former national security adviser is under probe. michael g. flynn worked for his father's lobbying firm. the younger flynn is facing questions about his role in the business. his lawyer refused to comment. today, d.c.

bowser is set to announce reforms on criminal records. she wants to simplify the process of sealing arrests and conviction records of d.c. residents to give them a second chance for employment and housing. the announcement is set for noon. keep an eye on the nbc washington app as we learn more. construction on the new center will be launched later this morning. take a look. this map showed where the new complex will be located along st. barnabas road in suitland. everything should be finished by the fall of next year. it looks like it's working. we told you about the lasers that crews are using to clean off the jefferson memorial. this is a brand new piece of video here. that biofilm seems to be coming off. the laser is the eraser tool, if you will. it's basically zapping away the bad stuff here. pretty incredible considering the grime has cover

memorial for more than ten years now. at this point, they're only testing the equipment to make sure it works. the national park service says it couldn't find a cleaning agent that would keep the memorial safe. i'd still be worried about damaging anything. >> like on your sofa, you find a 1309 on the back, you test out the stuff and then do the whole thing. we're almost halfway through september. time to talk about christmas? >> no, no. >> nothing like it. >> i still have to get through september. >> you weren't supposed to be able to plan the national christmas tree lighting. that's happening outside the white house. the lottery for those free tickets opens on october 12th. find out october 30th. if you score tickets to the november 30th event, we'll remind you about those -- those are the sorts of things you should plan for. we're waiting to see who will perform, of course. knowledge is power at every point in time.

roads. we want to check in with jack taylor who is following this on 395. jack, what's going on here? >> 14th street bridge. you go underneath the railroad bridge. unfortunately, the height was the issue. we had a tractor-trailer carrying concrete slabs. the slabs were very high. they damaged a little bit of the sign. the left lane will remain closed there. center lane by. this is the delay trying to come across the 14th street bridge. also affected are the hov bridge. going to be a tough merge. plan ahead for this. couple accidents on 270. first of all, we had the work zone after 109. sorry, that was blocking half the roadway. then a crash at 28 blocking two right lanes. they're hoping to clear that out as quickly as possible. going back to the breaking news on the freeway eastbound. megan mcgrath is on scene. megan, i would love to see what happened. what do you have? >> yeah.

vantage point here. if you take a look to the left, the truck that is causing the problems here. carrying these prefab concrete slabs. it's causing major traffic problems this morning. i'm told by a police officer on the scene, this truck was traveling toward the case bridge. there's a csx railway bridge down the line there. i don't know if you can see in the darkness here. what i was told by an officer on the scene, this truck was making its way towards the case bridge with this large load, these slabs, apparently too tall or something happened where it impacted and hit that bridge. you can see the far left-hand side of the slab came away. for a time it was -- some that of concrete was scattered across the roadway. all lanes were closed on the case bridge. probably within the last five to ten minutes, we have seen a slight improvement here. we are seeing traffic getting by on the left two lanes on to the case bridge. but w

on the right-hand side. if you take the case bridge, here's what to expect. if you take the hov lanes toward the case bridge, the hov lane is closed. also, the merge lane or the ramp from ohio drive on to the freeway, that is also closed. they're concerned that the slabs are not properly secured or could fall. that would be a terrible situation. they're going to keep the lanes closed until they can secure things. >> megan mcgrath live on 395. don't like to hear the words on 395 lanes closed at this time of day. >> the rain is not helping, right, chuck? >> the rain never helps anything in a traffic situation. everybody is unhappy. you can see the raindrops on megan's live shot on 395. goinger going to probably get rained on, not just once or twice, some places three or four different times with dry hours in betwee

day today. it's a muggy start as well. you can tell what was irma is going to be passing overhead. it's that tropically humid air. that's going to bring us a continuation of rain chances. you can tell there are literally lines of showers lined up. what was irma is starting to lift up towards parts of southern and southwestern pennsylvania. sort of the scoop and score with the moisture here today. indeed, 60 sto to 70% chance of rain. next wave a couple of hours behind this one. next wave couple of hours behind that one. rainfall ready on your thursday today. we're not looking for anything in the way of severe weather or flooding. all those concerns down near zero. just raindrops from time to time. here's a look at future weather. wave number one between now and 5:00 or 6:00. after 8:00 or 8:30, another chance for rain by lunchtime or so today. more rain developing with the heating of the day in the

shenandoah valley. those raindrops will be in the city between 5:00 and 7:00 this eefrng. temperaturewise, in the mid to upper 60s. on your way out this morning, highs around 80 degrees. rain likely. couldn't rule out a rumble or two of thunder. not looking for anything in the way of severe weather. you can stay ahead of the raindrops or the interactive radar feature on our app. i'll be tweeting it out at chuck bell 4 and they'll find me at instagram or forecast for you. first peek at the ten-day forecast. an outside chance of a stray shower on saturday. most of the weekend will be dry. hurricane jose may bring us a chance for rain on tuesday. we'll be keeping a close eye on that. let's go back over to the news. chuck, thanks so much. it caused major problems for people. the recent equifax hack. it's not getting easier. people are having a hard time freezing their credit. it's a sale people wait

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there are new developments in the equifax breach affecting nearly half the u.s. population. >> millions of americans are rush to go limit exposure by freezing credit reports. you can do that online or temporarily lift that freeze if you're applying for a loan or credit card. but it could tak

veteran cyber security experts say every adult should assume your personal data is in the hands of criminals. >> you got to freeze your credit. otherwise, someone can masquerade as you. ruin your credit rating and when you go to buy a house or a car. you've been ruined by cyber criminals. >> right now, there are seven attorneys generals launching investigations over this mass jif data breach. >> we're working for you with news of a recall that could impact all target shoppers out there. target says it's received a dozen reports of dressers tipping over on to young children. it's now recalling about 175,000 of room essentials dressers. there's a photo of the ones we're talking about here. they have four drawers and coming in three different colors. you can return the dresser to any target store for a full refund. >> you can help people who are suffering from the natural disasters across the country and right here in our area by shopping. the

event under way today. the fall wee sale is happening in prince george's county. you can head there today at 9:00 a.m. to pick up great consignments for little ones. stay with us. "news4 today" continues right now at 5:00 a.m. that breaking news only two left lanes getting by right now on 395 in the district after concrete fell off a truck. it is 5:00 a.m. right now. good morning everybody. i'm aaron gilchrist. i'm eun yang. it's a mess out there. let's check in with jack taylor to get the latest. before we check in with chuck and somara. what's going on? >> this is the trouble spot. it may be there for a little bit on the freeway going eastbound. off the 14th street bridge as you drive