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delish. >> so i think -- i tried to drive in this morning with the windows down. >> no. >> what for? >> a little too sticky. i rolled them back up and turned the ac on. >> i'm worried about ruining my hair. >> exactly. that's exactly my point. >> only when it's super dry out and it almost feels like there's no humidity whatsoever, then we will roll the windows down, eun, but this morning it's a little bit muggy. 74. it is mild to start your day. by 8:00 a.m., 76 degrees. take a look how quickly we're going to warm up. 10:00 a.m., 82 degrees outside. by lunchtime talking about the mid 80s. that's not where we're going to stop. talking about 90 degrees. feeling like summer today. fall weather in the forecast. we are still watching maria. it is now a tropical storm. off the coast of north carolina. coming up, we'll talk about where it's heading now. our fall weather on the way. let's check the commute with jack taylor, wtop. good

our work crews have been on the outer loop of the beltway. crews still working down on the rock creek parkway at kennedy center. they'll be there for another hour. one direction at a time. don't forget in northwest, closure at 15th street at euclid. structure fire. euclid is blocked at 16th and 14th. sounds like we have a new crash, 66 eastbound at 123. apparently a couple of left lanes blocked. maybe by the time you get on the roadway they'll have them cleared. beware, back to you. jack, thank you. following breaking news in the district this morning. more than 100 firefighters had to work to put out this blaze at the ecuadorian embassy this morning. >> this is at 15th and euclid streets northwest. one firefighter hurt at this fire. they tweeted this video of the two alarm fire. you can see the flames shooting out from the roof there. heavy fire. it took them about two hours to fight the fire. still no wor

fire. crews remain at the scene right now putting out hot spots. some new details this morning about students and staff at american university. they're hurt -- they're feeling hurt after hateful images appeared on campus yet again. ten of these confederate flag posters with cotton branches attached to them found at three different locations t. happened the same time the school unveiled a new campus center. news 4's adam tuss will join us live for a look for the search for the person who is responsible. this morning parents are waking up to another day of searching for their daughter. >> they described her as a hard worker. 19-year-old never showed up for work at a military base more than a week ago. news 4's justin finch is live in

>> reporter: aaron, good morning. ashante was a student at wise high school. she stayed in touch with her teachers. they like her family are surprised to hear that she has somehow up and vanished. her family, as you mentioned, now in virginia not vowing to leave until she is found. that is what her parents told crowds gathered at a candle light vigil just on sunday. their daughter not seen since the 19th. the last sign of her, her mini cooper entering the j.e.b. at little krieg naval base where she worked. among three points the fbi is now focusing on. take a look at this map here. workers found her phone three miles away in a dumpster still ringing. her car was discovered five miles northwest of the base. a neighbor says it had been there for days.

ashante's mom is still far from giving up. >> my mom instinct tells me she's okay. she's scared and she's hurt, but she's okay. i feel that she's okay. she's still -- she's still with us. i feel that. >> reporter: and as you heard, her parents not giving up hope. the fbi having some points of interest to focus on here. they are now offering a $10,000 reward for information that leads to finding ashante. back in to you in the studio. >> justin finch. justin, thank you. now to the latest assault on a metro bus driver. metro transit police say this woman, allison thomas of northwest dc was arrested after assaulting a w 1 metro driver with a bottle of sunny delight. she got on the bus with two children and became upset after the driver drove off before they were seated. you might remember another assault that happened last month, this one on the x 2 metro bus. a different woman threw a cup of

simple assault. it's 5:05. now to the developing crisis in puerto rico. the governor says there is no running water. only 5% of the island has power. today ten d.c. police officers will head to san juan to help the police force. they will bring supplies and satellite phones. president trump will visit puerto rico next tuesday. here on the east coast, the high surf from tropical storm maria. more than 10,000 visitors have been told to leave but some are staying behind. beach erosion could be worse than north carolina. chuck bell is standing by with the latest on maria. we know, chuck, it's been downgraded from hurricane to tropical storm? >> yeah. still an awful lot of wind and wave action over the open waters of the atlantic. that is particularly harsh on the outer banks and

virginia. it's the extended period of time with the wind and the rain that is doing the beach erosion. 60 plus-mile-an-hour winds on the other side of it. not exactly something to be taken all that lightly if i could finally just spit it out. meanwhile, there we go, 70-mile-an-hour sustained winds now as of 5:00 a.m. advisory. that's new information that just came in. a new forecast track. still going north at 5 miles per hour. within 24 hours it should be going almost due east. then it will really pick up steam and race out over the open waters. by sunday and monday it's getting close to scotland. that's a long ways from here. we'll have the five day forecast coming up. chuck, thank you. so twitter is considering users some more space to express ourselves. >> no fun. social media giant is testing out new

with a small group of users right now. in the announcement about this twitter said 140 characters just isn't enough space for some users to express themselves. >> better that way. >> some people need less opportunities. >> some people reacting and saying they want twitter to consider an edit feature. >> that's what i'm talking about. >> we posted a poem about this on twitter. let us know what you think about that. some people say though if you had more space to tweet, then you can explain yourself better. maybe. >> challenges you to be concise. get to the point. figure out what you want to say. are you missing melissa mollet. we are. she's been out on maternity leave with a beautiful new baby girl. >> that's not the baby. >> there she is. >> all right. we're going to check in with melissa and the kids and check in on live as aam

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he. we have breaking news out of prince george's county. a man is dead and police trying to figure out who did it. you are looking at video we have on rocky mountain drive at temple mountain hills. it happened at 1:00 in the morning. the shooting happened at the end of the block there. it's a residential area. we're working to get more information on the victim and the others involved. a 27-year-old cold case involving a clown has been solved. a florida woman was arrested in virginia on first degree murder. the bizarre killing happened back in 1990. investigators say sheila warren dressed as a clown and took flowers and balloons to a woman's home. police say she shot the victi

warren married the woman's former husband years later in 2002. hateful messages on the american university campus are sparking anger and concern this morning. >> confederate flags were posted across the school. people there say they will not be intimidated. adam tuss is live with more on reaction and what police are doing. adam? >> reporter: good morning, aaron. yeah, police are actively investigating this case. all of this happening over the past day. take a look. these confederate flag images were poetsed at three different locations here on campus of american university. they were confederate flags that had pictures of cotton branches on them as well. this, of course, is rattling some nerves here on the campus of american university. all of this is coming at the same day that an anti-racist center was announced and unveiled here at american university. so obviously tensions a bit high here on campus. but at this point no details on who

what was happening. this is going to be a big test for the new president here at american university who just took over recently. obviously has been dealing with some pretty high tensions on campus. now has to deal with the images of the confederate flags. ten we're told at three different locations on campus. >> adam, you mentioned this anti-racism center was just made. that was the result of some racist images, messages left on campus earlier this year. anyone been caught in that case? >> reporter: no. actually, they're still looking to see if both of these cases could be connected. what you're talking about, aaron, is the bananas found flung news. the person who's responsible for the anti-racist center saying he put out a message saying don't be deterred by this. don't be fearful. this is not

they're trying to put together information on what you need. waking up this morning dealing with another racist image that has been posted here, guys, at american university. >> adam tuss live for us in northwest washington. adam, thank you. and there is a battle brewing over a flag you may see every day on your morning commute. >> a confederate is happening near 95 on private property and that's not sitting well with other county residents. according to our news partner, wtop, they filed a new zoning complaint. they want the flag gone but the county says their hands are tied. now opposing groups are looking into other private properties to hang black lives ma other or guy pride flags. >> do you know each other? chuck bell, aaron gilchrist. >>

of me. >> snuck up on you. >> he's sheena's turn to do weather. >> well then shut up. >> you can't see her yet. she's over yonder. good morning, sheena. >> good morning, guys. a few more summer like days, right? >> yes, eun, you're going to like today's weather. 90 degrees today, guys. we are talking about a huge temperature swing in the forecast though. and by swing i mean we are swinging down to cooler temperature ahead. we have fall weather in the forecast. this finally will arrive as we go into the end of the week. currently it's 74 degrees in washington. 67 gaithersburg. 70 leesburg. 76 annapolis. 73 grease in quantico. fitness forecast, it is going to be heating up quickly. better inside. by 7:00 a.m., 74 degrees. heating up by lunchtime into the mid 80s. by 5:00 p.m., the

stray shower possible across the area. most of us will stay dry. we have tropical storm maria across the coast sending waves on shore to many beach locations. this storm will be getting pushed out to sea. it won't be moving inland. cold front moving through tomorrow. look what happens friday afternoon. i mentioned big temperature swing. highs will only be in the 70s for most of the area just about the mid to low 70s. so here's your forecast as we go from today into tomorrow. that cold front starts to move in. we'll get breezy tomorrow after a hot day today. more sunshine, too. high around 80 degrees. friday mid 70s. the sun, look at saturday and sunday. 72 saturday, 71 on sunday. we are nice and sunny knows dzys those days as well. this is the fall weather a lot of people have been waiting for. we're going to keep our eye on the temperatures. it looks good. i think we're excited. are we taking a look at the roads in a minute? >> we'll do that in a nd

with a member of our team who's been a little mia. >> that's right. but for good reason. our melissa mollet has been on maternity leave. >> where are you? >> i thought she was in the bathroom. >> no, she's sitting on her chair but, you know what, melissa, we appreciate you getting up early with us. >> in the nursery. >> colette is up, right? how are you doing? >> you know what, we had to wake her up. she was an hour ago eating. i thought, of course today of all days she wants to eat at 3:00, 4:00. she's nice and awake for you right now. smiling and looking around. i miss you guys. when you toss to traffic i almost started talking about the beltway. instead we're going to talk about babies. i miss you guys so much. it's nice to be home, but i'll be back soon, right? >> how is she sleeping? it sounds like she's sleeping pretty well. >> yeah,

really well, eun. you know with three kids, somebody has to sleep, it's not going to be you. she goes like seven or eight hours a night for a stretch and -- look at this little face. i don't want to leave her. here she is. >> adorable. you can just bring her in to work. >> 5:00 a.m., that's what she wants to know. >> can we ask about barrett and brennan? how are they doing with her? >> they're doing great. so barrett -- hopefully both of them are asleep and i'm not screaming and waking everybody up right now, but barrett is just crazy about her and so is brennan. they just love her so much, want to kiss her all the time and hang out with her. so it's going well. >> so we can see obviously the baby is just absolutely perfect and it's nice to see her -- oh, little sneeze. those are the best. >> oh, bless you.

how you're doing. we can see the kids are great. how's life for melissa? >> i'm good. i'm tired. i'm in this like constant state of exhaustion, but we're sort of used to that on the morning show, right? you don't sleep anyway. i think a morning show is good training for any mom, i think. overall i'm loving having this time with them and doing lots of stuff with them and everybody's getting this nice individual attention. >> a little smile. >> smile for you guys. she's saying hi to everybody. >> what a cutie pie. >> it's nice when they start interacting, you know? >> melissa, i know the bosses can't ask you but since i don't run anything, i can ask whmpt are y. when are you coming back to work? >> i will be back to work in october. how about that? is that good enough for new. >> we can't wait to have you back. congratulations. you look

>> thank you, guys. >> the whole shot. >> in the shower. i did a lot of makeup though. >> thanks, melissa. >> i'll see you at 6:00. >> all right. let's go over to wtop. jack taylor's been doing such a great job filling in while melissa is on leave. we appreciate having you here, jack. >> thanks so much. it's that falsity, oh, no she's sleeping in. oh, right, there's a baby, no sleeping in. 66 eastbound at 50 fairfax cleaning up this crash. two to the right are coming on. if you're coming on 50 to get on 66 eastbound, you're good. completely unaffected. good news in northwest. crews are still there. lanes are still open on 15 and euclid. euclid street has been reopened between 16th and 14 th. south of the george washington parkway. aaron,

neighbors hoped for a new shopping center. instead they're getting a homeless shelter. why plans to revamp this mall are being put on hold. ♪ i can't believe i'm out here on the front porch in the swing just a swinging ♪ >> but, first, audition excitement. the new season of "the voice" showing us a ralph northam: i'm ralph northam, candidate for governor and i sponsored this ad narrator: ed gillespie says dr. ralph northam doesn't show up? dr. ralph northam was an army doctor and a volunteer medical director at a children's hospice. he passed the virginia law requiring concussion standards for school sports. the smoking ban in restaurants. and dr. northam is working to connect veterans to good paying jobs in virginia.

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>> that's brandon scholes shocking many including his students because he's a teacher at kenmore school in arlington. he's now a temember of team ada. a teacher and he sings? >> yeah. >> we're rooting for him for sure. 100%. >> george mason graduate. he went to school teaching in arlington county. >> i love it. >> he was on our 4:00 show yesterday afternoon. trying to get that up on the web for you. >> very cool. good luck. >> "the voice" airs monday night, tuesday night, right, 8:00 p.m. right here on nbc 4. scare in the air. a chopper targeted the danger for the crews that patrol our skies and the simple tool that turned into a weapon. plus, a deadly house fire and a surprise twist.

whereashanti? we're tracking the steps of a young woman who vanished from a military base. the danger in the air and the action taken on the ground to keep officers safe. plus, drinking orange juice is part of a lot of people's routines. >> every morning. >> every morning? >> right out of the bottle. we have some news

"news 4 today" starts now. you're also pouring the juice in the glass. >> who's going to wash the glass? >> you are. >> i'm the only one drinking out of the bottle. it's fine. good morning, everybody. news you didn't need to know. i'm aaron gilchrist. >> i'm eun yang. thanks for joining us with your news 4 team is wtop's jack taylor monitoring your commute. >> let's begin with our meteorologists chuck bell and sheena parveen out on the storm team 4 weather deck. the screen says 74 degrees. does that feel about right? >> feels right. >> it's right on the money. >> it's a little bit muggy and buggy. >> a little thick. >> acorns following from trees. >> i took one on the noggin. >> 4 things to know. number one thing, it's going to be hot.

most of us will not get the cooling rain drops at all. tomorrow, quite blustery and breezy as a northwest wind brings cooler air in on friday. some chilly starts possible for saturday and sunday morning. right now though as we were talking about, it's mild start. low to mid 70s around town. our average high is only 75, 76 degrees. we'll be way over that again today. here's your planner. sun's up at 7:01. down at 6:57. under 12 hours of daylight. best chance for an isolated shower today between 2:00 and 5:00. >> the daylight thing, now it's under 12 hours. i don't like to hear that. >> i'm calling it like i see it. >> glass half empty, chuck? >> sometimes. let's go over to the jack, he's a calls it like he sees it. >> that's right. 66 going eastbound, this is unfortunately the early morning crash. at 50

at one point they had two left lanes blocked. they are making a little progress. 60 eastbound at 50 fairfax. delays already back towards fairfax county parkway. be aware there's a slowdown. crews still working on the rock creek parkway. alternates by one direction at a time. they should clear probably under 45 minutes. if that's a normal path of travel, you're used to it. back to you. >> all right, jack. thank you. in our top stories this morning, we will not be intimidated. that is the message coming from officials at american university after these confederate flag posters showed up on campus yesterday. it happened on the same night the school unveiled plans for its anti-racism center which was created because of racist incidents that happened in may. >> we're still working to learn what set off this massive fire at the ecuadorian embassy on 15th street in the northwest. fire broke out just after midnight. more than 100 firefighters were

fire. one firefighter taken to the hospital. 15th street has reopened. today ten d.c. police officers will head to puerto rico to help state police there. the officers will help take with them supplies and satellite phones. the governor says conditions are getting desperate. there is no running water and only 5% of the island has power. president trump will visit puerto rico on tuesday. >> a centerville man is arrested after authorities say he pointed a laser at a police helicopter. >> this happened on saturday as fairfax county police were making their way back to -- their helicopter was headed back to its hanger. they spotted the laser. there was a light flashing into their eyes and they called it in. >> i think he said it was a laser pointer. >> oh, there it was. there was a laser pointer in there. pointing a laser at us. that's not cool. >> do you feel it was directed at us? >> there's no doubt. >> i guess i kind of maintained cop mode. this person's done s

find out what's going on. >> police on the ground made the arrest and seized a high powered laser from the car. facing criminal charges. >> 5:35. students returning to potomac high school this morning after a scare on school grounds. news 4 captured this exclusive video after officers took a 10th grade boy into custody. the student was found with a gun yesterday. this all started when a teacher spotted that boy exchanging cash with another teen who was trespassing. a school resource officer was imme he had yeah italy called and the school was put on lockdown for about two hours. police are still looking for the other trespassing teen. today the teenager who was murdered while defending himself here in d.c. will be laid to rest. zaier kelly was killed while

the city. he was 16 years old and an a.p. student and track star. neighbors of the bethesda home you see here are demanding some answers this morning. >> firefighters say they found hoarding conditions at this home after a deadly fire. that's not the strangest part of this story. news 4's chris gordon exmains what they found. >> reporter: bethesda neighbors are waiting to find out what caused this fire. >> want to know if there was anything wrong with the house itself? was it a gas line? whether there was something strange going on there and we just don't know. >> reporter: investigators are finding underground tunnels dug around the house. a piece of heavy earth moving equipment sits in the backyard. investigators are collecting and testing chemicals that are stored here. they're finding electrical wiring and hoarding conditions t

>> we believe we have narrowed down the orange begin in the home. they're not comfortable saying what was the cause of the fire and what was the first material ignited. >> reporter: police are keeping this fatal fire scene under lock and key in case criminal charges need to be filed. in bethesda, news 4. starting today, if you use the prince william parkway trail to get around, you should expect some delays. construction crews are paving the trail. now there will be some delays every weekday through the fall. >> it's from who he hadly road to liberia avenue starting east moving west. later this year the crews will do the same thing on the fairfax county parkway trail. out with the mall, in with a homeless shelter. it has a lot of you talking now. look at the impact of changing one of our shopping destinations. kids are always asking you for that second cup of o.j.

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you're watching "news 4 today." welcome back. for the next two years homeless families will be staying in what used to be a department store in northern virginia. >> the story had a lot of you talking on facebook. soon the defunct macy's at t

landmark mall will be a homeless shelter. it will provide a place to sleep for 60 to 80 people at a time. >> the people behind this idea says it works because the mall is being renovated so the mall is being renovated. neighbors we talked to were not all on board. >> no, i don't think it's a great idea. >> at the same time, here's a need, here's an opportunity. >> the plan isn't completely final. the homeless shelter plans to sign a lease in the next two weeks and open the shelter for residents by the first of the year. >> we'd like to hear what you think of this plan. should empty retalt buildings be turned into homeless shelters? so far the majority of you say yes. president trump promised to build a wall. now we're seeing construction for the first time. the first look at the race to make good on the promise. >> reporter: where is

billy, the wise high school graduate missing for more than a week? we're live with what investigators are now honing in on. good wednesday morning. it is mild start to your day, so at the bus stop this morning, pretty comfortable. temperatures in the mid 70s. by the afternoon though it's going to feel a lot more like summer. unseasonably warm now. near 90 degrees. a chance for a stray shower. we'll tell you when you can expect a shower coming up. wrapping up our accident on 66 eastbound at 50 fairfax that had the left side of the roadway. that's nice to see. no flashing lights and nothing. 7 eastbound at belmont ridge road at kenne

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missing. the fbi is on the case. a teen with ties to prince gorges county vanishes on a

military base. >> let her go. >> let her go. campus clash. protesters taking sides. the battle over free speech turns violent. confederate flag outrage. a local campus marred with signs of hate. the pictures and the action the school is taking now. escaping the devastation. hurricane victims from puerto rico arrive in the dc area. see the family reunion that's been a long time coming. >> hola. >> they made it. they made it here. you're watching "news 4 today". today the parents of a young prince gorges county woman will be searching for their daughter. >> 19-year-old ashanti billy has been missing for a week now. the fbi is ramping up efforts to find this woman. news 4's justin finch is live in marlboro with what investiga

what do we know? >> reporter: aaron, good morning. ashanti finished up school last week. the fbi continues to connect more dots in this case. her parents back on sunday were at a candlelight vigil down there asking the public for help. the fbi now on this case, too. a $10,000 reward being offered for tips that find her. part of the fbi focus is on this video showing ashanti's cream color cooper arriving at the j.e.b. naval base where she worked. that was from the early morning of september 18th when her car was last seen. there are other points of interest as well in this case. take a look on this map including where her car was found so that car had been there fo

ringing cell phone some three miles away from that base in the dumpster. a shan at this's parents spoke about not knowing where she issor who has her. take a listen. >> to deploy and fight for freedom and know that somebody i gave freedom to has turned around and taken the freedom. that's a problem for me. >> reporter: the hope is that that will find tips to bring her home. ashanti's mom said being around the search and where she lives is of comfort for her. she is confident her daughter is out there and wants to come back home. >> justin finch live for us in upper marlboro. justin, thank you. take a look at the scene in berkeley, california. another heated free speech protest. yesterday protestors interrupted a rally sponsored by right wing group patriot

group began to clash. four people were arrested. the patriot prayer march and rally was originally set up as a four day free speech week. yesterday would have been the fourth day but a u.c. berkeley student put a stop to it. 5:49. another defeat for president trump and the health care. they will not vote on it after three republicans voted against it. tracie pots is here. >> reporter: what's next is tax reform. the president heads to indiana to push it today. republicans will outline the details here. here's what you need to know. the corporate tax rate would drop from 35 to 20%. there would be three individual tax brackets.

that might end up being cut as they try to work this out. >> tracie potts live on capitol hill for us. tracie, thank you. the votes are in. it looks like conservative judge roy moore has defeated incumbent senator luther strange in an alabama primary. a border wall with mexico is no longer just an idea. eight wall prototypes are under construction now in southern california. you can see here the heavy machinery digging ground in san diego county. some of the walls will be concrete. they will stand between 18 and 30 feet tall. u.s. customs and border protection says the signs may be tweaked over time. not everyone is happy with president trump's decision to build the

with breaking news and some new video that we just got out of afghanistan, this is the kabul airport right now. we know that special forces on the ground shall now securing the situation after an attack at the airport just hours after defense secretary james mattis arrived for a visit. we know the secretary was not near the airport at the time of the attack. confirming that this did, in fact, happen. reuters at this point reporting isis is claiming responsibility for several attacks in that area using rockets and mortars. no reports of any injuries. we'll bring you more as we get it. aaron, eun? >> angie, thank you. >> turn to meteorologist chuck bell now and talk about the forecast. >> a few more days. >> stretch the summer along. >> you have one more day to be happy. >> okay. today's it? >> aaron will be complaining tomorrow because it will be too

always worried about his hair. >> always fixing it. >> always fiddling with it. >> less and be less every day. >> well, the good news is the gray ones you get to keep, aaron. you can get them to change to gray, they're yours forever. we've got a clearer sky out there for now. we have a few more clouds coming back later on in the afternoon. on the whole, a pretty warm day. breezy weather moves in friday and the weekend. nothing cool about this morning. 76 in annapolis, 74 in arlington. quantico. low 60s in the shenandoah valley. it is a mild and humid start to the day. hourly temperatures up, up, and away we go. easily in the low to mid 80s by lunchtime today. afternoon highs in the upper 80s to near 90. there is a little chance of rain today. 20% chance of a stray shower. about 2:00 and 5:00 this afternoon. northeast winds 8 to 18 miles per hour. the nor

northwest winds tomorrow. increasing speeds. rather blustery. tropical storm pulls away. the low pressure turning out and in. it means it will turn quite breezy tonight and into your thursday. keep that in mind. here's future weather. it will show you the hind of the rain chance. outer most reaches of maria's influence. coming into southern maryland as they may, depending on the computer model we look at, bringing shower chances as far west as i-95. rain chances are down near zero. as far as future wind speeds, by this time tomorrow morning northwest winds 15 to 20 miles an hour. could be a little blustery. early tomorrow morning and into the afternoon before the winds fadeaway. keep that in mind. there's your planner tomorrow. around 70 in the morning. highs tomorrow only around 80 degrees. a ten degree

how much less humid it becomes during the day tomorrow. bordering on the chilly side for saturday and sunday mornings. sunday morning in particular almost all of the areas outside of the beltway will be down into the 40s. for now it is traffic time. let's go to jack taylor at wtop. >> thank you. in ashburn we had an early morning crash on 7 going eastbound on belmont ridge road. two right lanes blocked at the scene of the crash. we also had report of a crash on northbound new hampshire avenue. metzerott road. as much as we've heard through the scanners, i think it's in pretty decent shape. working on rockcreek parkway. traffic alternates. wrapping up pretty quick. aaron, eun, back to you. >> 5:54 right now. sonic customers are the latest victims of a massive data breech. nearly 5 million credit and

for sale on a theft website earlier this month. a majority of these cards were linked to the eatery's drive through. officials say it's possible after other parts of the company's security sim testimony says it will continue to keep updating this. our area did not experience any damage from hurricane irma, but the storm will still impact your budget. orange juice prices going up as much as $2.30 a gallon. irma destroyed half of the florida citrus crop. they're trying to bring in oranges from brazil to make up for the short fall but that is also expensive. good morning. i'm morgan brennan at cnbc headquarters. ford is teaming up with lyft to test self-driving cars. the companies will work together to design software to allow ford vehicles to communicate with lyft's smartphone

ford will offer human driven cars on the network. it plans to make the self-driving cars available to lyft customers. with your cnbc business report, i'm morgan brennan. >> it's now 5:56. it could be a social media game change ger. >> next on "news 4 today" at 6:00, twitter is testing you. even our angie goff is not sure if she's on board. plus, the darlings of hg tv world calling it quits. oh, no. >> i told you. >> i don't want to believe it. the reason the fixer uppers are ready to step out of the spotlight. i'm going to have to go to waco? >> reporter: american university waking up this morning after more hateful messages posted on campus. i'll have the details coming up. ♪

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confederate flags on campus. racial tensions on the rise. local students waking up to a new discovery this morning. embassy inferno. a firefight overnight. we've been following the breaking developments since we went on the air at 4:00 a.m. social media shakeup. just when you thought you had it down, twitter makes a change. "news 4 today" starts now. they want you to talk more. >> i don't know if that's such a great idea. >> i don't think

>> i think 140 characters keeps it brief, concise. you have to get to the point. >> i agree. >> yeah, the amount of ranting that happens on twitter. >> seriously. >> to give people more space to do that. >> my technical writing teacher in college. write your paragraph, cut it in half, cut it in half. that's how you do t make a good tweet. boil it down. >> i would rather have an edit feature. >> me, too. >> typo, i forgot a word. >> you have to go back and delete the whole thing. >> obviously it has people talking this morning. we'll tell you more -- >> has us all upset over here. right now we want to talk about the forecast and the warm weather continues just a little bit longer. >> it does. we're not even talking warm. today we're talking about hot weather continuing. >> going to be hot. going to feel like summer. temperatures close to 90 degrees. i'm going to show you what we're talking about over here. looking at temperatures currently in the '70s. good

73 right now in washington. so it is very comfortable outside, but it's mild. 63 gaithersburg, 69 manassas and fredericksburg and annapolis coming in at 76 degrees. if you're commuting -- many of you are, but if you're about to leave the house and leave for your commute, we're looking at dry roads this morning. 74 degrees. by lunchtime, look how warm we're getting. 85 degrees and by 5:00 p.m. you'll have the ac on. temperatures close to 90. we could have a stray shower around at best. we're still watching now tropical storm maria off the north carolina coast line. this thing is going to head out to sea. what's going to help it do that is a cold front. it's really going to be cooling us down. we'll take a look at the fall weather on the way. that's coming up. let's check the roads with jack taylor, wtop. hi, jack. >> good morning. crash eastbound washington