it is some of the worstve traffic ween in years. the smoke could be seen formi s away. the fiery crash left one man dead and drivers all over the dmv stuck in traffic late into the >>ght. he president finally signs an order to end family separation athe borde but willhis order bring lasting resolution to the growing debate. a nd the white supremacist rally until charlottesville wants a repeat rally exactlyne year later. bought in charlottesville, though. now their shts are setor the white house. >> announcer: "news4 today" starts now. good morn,g, everyo thanks for joining us on this thursday. i'm e yang. >> i'm aaron gilchrist. we know plenty of you want to know whether there's another traffic nightmare this morning.

n eyesa mollet is keeping on conditions there. >> but first, let's check i with meteorologist chuck bell. how is the rain, chuck? >> much drier. ryfinally a chance to out. essentially 18 hours or so. a few things y need to know about the forecast. a few sprinkles but most of the rain is over for now. we're drying out by the afternoon. i can't say it's 100% dry this afternoon, but most of us don't need to worry about rain second half of the day today. but steady rainikely to move back in for tomorrow which, of course, is friday. none is happy about rain chance on friday. right now, a couple dropa in and shenandoah counties. that's about it. current temnratures 68 winchester, 69 in upper marlboro. 73 in qntico and 73 at national airport. your forecast after cloudiness and damess this morning, we'll go back to mainly dry weather and peeks of sunshine high temperature, 85 degrees.

we'll show you more about the friday rain chance and talk about the beach forecast coming up. good morning, >> good morning, chuck. roads, a look at the mclean georgetown n pikeear difficult run parking lot, all lanes ared. bloc we're getting more information actually on the phones trying to figure out what's going on. in the district, l street and 16th street, y have crash there this morning. woodrow wilson bridge looking very different c from aple hours ago where we were shut down. good.e eastbound stand, westbound stand, no worry. beltway, overall, nice and clear. aaron. >> melissa, thank you. it was a sight seen for miles around. huge pillars of smoke from a deadly tractor trailer accident. this son the woodrow wilson bridge. the driver of that tractor trailer was killed and three workers had to be rescued. investigators say the driver lost control and crashed into a group of work trucks.

the horrific traffic continued for 12 hours. >> news4 transpoation reporter adam tuss was one of those stuck in that traffic last night. aaron was stuck in it too, adam. e joins us near the wilson bridge. it seemed like everyone had a problem getting home last night, adam. >> reporter: let me tell you, eun, we're going to remembe that commute for a long time now. listen, i'm happily to report that things here on the wilson bridge are running smoothly this morning. a lot of people probably wondering about that. you can take alook. everything is fine here. but look at the video of just how badhings got backed up all throughout the rest of the day yeumerday. it wasr to bumper everywhere. my personal story, i had to go pickomeone up at reagan national airport, and you of the airportt loop itself. i finally had to ditch the car and get on metro because it was so bad and the pick my car up later on in the day. it was horrific everywhere.

a couple of reasons for this, obviously, the wilson bridge incident had a lot to do with things. but then you had people trying to divert through 95 to cut through the city. you had a nats and orioles game last night. it was by the way, raining on top of all of that, so it was really a perfect storm of a classic nightmare last night. this morning, we're moving smoothly. but i do want s to this all points to something a lot larger, i othe event an emergency if we take out one of our bridges like what happened yesterday the needs to be an alternate plan and people need to start looking at how to get around on the road. metro i thought performed excellent yesterday. aaron, i feel your pain, buddy, that was rough. >> six miles to get to the navy yard.

it tk me hours, great. >> adam tuss driving live for us,am thank you so much. 5:05, one person is dead just outside of an accident in suitland last night. the prince george's countyli department said two cars hit a m near the base. both drivers arrived on the scene until police arrived. metro transit police arrested deymon levarne childs last night. childs is an employee for first transit which operates metro access service. he's beenac familiar and name in our region for ars. cardinal theodore mccarrick has been removed from the ministry after credible allegations of sexual abuse. the report says the cardinal

sexually abused a teenager nearly 50 years ago. mccarrick searched as the cardinal. in a statement,ar mccrick said he's innocent but sorry for the pain the accuser has suffered. >> whether the investigationco oborated the allegation, action was taken. the process sped up to protect young people in fact worked. >> this morning, we're hearing reaction from cardinal timothy dolan he's therchbishop of new york. cardinal dolan tells ushe accusations are personally heartbreaking for him. >> this i difficult when something that nauseating comes up. t archdiocese in new jersey

said it received three sexual allegations against mccarrick in the 1980s. we're told none of the incidents involved minors. today, family,rids and fans will say a final farewell to fashion designer katee. sp a funeral is being held in kansas city. spadeommitted suicide at her home in new york on june 5thsh. was best known for her handbags that carry her sense of styl today, marriott construction will kick off construction for new headquarters in our area. >> news4's nicole jacobs is live. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, aaron, good moing, eun. this location is just two blocks from bethesdach metro w makes this location key to keeping it here in maryland. you may remember one of the top democrats in is area teamed up with republican governor larry hogan to assure myland did not mission out on this cutting edge

opportunity. today, officials will break ground on this $600 million international headquarters. it's a process that is expected to bring in 3,000 construction jobs. and certainn its completion, really give this area an economic boost. nearly 800,000 square feet, we're talking about. and 242 rooms as far as the hotel go, allf which is expected to be operational in 2022. yore taking live look now at exactly where it will all be built. maryland has been hom the marriott for 60 years. and also, it did consider moving to virginia and maryland -- virginia and d.c., i should add. it will stay here in maryland. and that nggroundbrea that starts at 9:30 makes it all official. we're live inthesda, nicole jacob, aaron and eun, back you. thank you.

here at the live desk following breaking news in gaithersburg. i want to get you the first image we're seeing from a massive townhouse fire. this is happening right now on oriol place and belshu there road. based on that fire, you can imagine it being a townhous the units around it have also been damaged aswe . we're told all of the people did manage to get out although one person had to jump from the seco story to escape the smoke and flames. right now, montgomery county firefighters have between 60 and 70 at that scene for the massive fire. we'll stay on top of it and bring you developments a they happen. eun, back to you. >> chris lawrence, thank you. it's now 5:09. now to crisis at the border after days of mounting pressure from both parties, president trump signed an executiverder that will keep children and parents together while the

adults wait for immigration hearings. the order also instructs the military to build new shelters for families. it does not end the administration's zero tolerance policy which require every person crossing the border ilgally to be prosecuted. >> it's about keeping families together. e at the same time, to ensure that we have a ver powerful first strongborder. >> order does not address how or when families already separated will be reunited. more than 2300 childrenre currently living in shelters in 17 states without their and experts believe many of them will never be without their parents again. this morning, president trump doubled down on the policy during a campaign rally in minnesota. thousands packed the arena in duluth last night. the president defended hisni admiration's stance on

immigration. and he blamed democrats for the immigration crisis. >> democrats don't care about the impactf uncontrolled migration on your communities. your schools. your hospitals. your jobs or yoursa ty. immigrantput illegal before they put american citizens. what the hell is going on? >> we'll have more on the tipresident's execuve order and the ongot g situatione border coming up at 5:30. the white nationalist group whose rally triggered violence in charlottesville last year now wants to demonstrate in our area. unite the right requested right outside of the white house. the group wants to hold an anniversary rally on august 11th and 12th. that marks one year since last y.year's you might remember in that clash, between white nationalists and counterprotesters, ohe woman din a car drove into theow crd on august 12th.

two virgia state troopers also died patrolling the violence. the natnal park service h approved the application but has not yet issued the permit. canada is not the first country to legal iize marijuana. the white may be getting green pretty soon. and the nation's capitalst from the f president's home we'll have more on that on "news4 chuck. good morning, everybody. thursday off to a cloudy some puddles around as well. car wash forecast --, we it's mostly dry, so you could wash it. but there'se likely man an inch of rain coming tomorrow so probably not the best dayo te. te. unlessda y

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to capture t audio ose calls. but in them, the 17-year-old daughter sd three of her siblings were chained to their beds. police rescued the 13 children back in january. th were all severely malnourished. their parents have pled not guilty to all charges. a hearing will determine whether >>ere's enough evidence for a trial. we're working for your health this morning. amo snella outbreak linketo melons is getting worse. the cdc said 78 people until seven states have been gettin t sick. >> canada plans to legalize recreational marijuana by this fall. m canadian priister justin trudeau made the announcement yesterdaynside the house of commons. he said by doing this, the government hopes to draw money away from organized crime. the new law goes into effect on october 17th. there is a development

debate brewing over the home of george washington. this is the view pos tacross th the mt. vernon ladies association said the development will threaten the historic view. the association will a unveil -- they'll unveil this campaign next weeko stop dominion energy from building that compressor. >> i've been there, the view are impressive. >> it's hard to know, you always want to balance these competing interests but it's hd to say about that with that. all everybody wants is nice and sunny and dry.th >> i too much to ask for, chuck? >> no, it's not. and you'll gethat in september. but here in june, happy summer solsti day, everybody. it begins at 6:06 this morning, obviously meteorological summer

began. if you don't believe me, you been outside the last couple of days. early morning peeks of daylight lighting u parts ofur sky. it's going to be a nice day to be outside. over the last 40 days, ark building has been required because 25 out of the last 40ys we've had rain somewhere in the d.c. metro area. and it's added up to between 10 and 15 inches. aboutna3 at nat airport. for today, this little weather front is going to slide just far enoughown to o south where we catch a break from the rain today. not going to be bright and sunny all day but nowhere near as overcast as we've been. rainl chance w hover near that front, mainly south and southwest of the d.c. metro area. don't get used tot' thinking going to last longer. that cold front across the upper midwest brings another rain chance in on saturday. for today, these hours up in pennsylvania will mainly stay north of us. and these ones in southwestern

virginia will mainly stay to our south. let me sew you fut weather. you'll get an idea what i'm talking about. early morng sprinkles coming to an end. by lunchtime there will be breaks o sun and there's a chance for an isolated shower around the metro area. i think higher rain chance linger into our south. by later this afternoon to this evening, notice a steadier rain coming in 8:00, 9:00, that is the rain that's impacting us starting as early as morning by tomorrow. temperaturises it will beay nice day to be outside. breaks of sunshine, not a whole lot o rain, it's not enough to cancel your plans and not much of a threat for any thundersrms. soelcome news for anybody going out to the pool. 85 today,id-70s with the rain tomorrow and more rain tomorrow and potentially another half an inch saturday. sunday will be the hotter day.

up near 90 degrees. let's go to first 4 traffic. good morning, chuck. taking a l at the district, eastbound, l street near 16th, still has a crash blocking those lanes at this point this morning. at mclean, georgetown pike nea difficultun parking lot. we have that crash cleared out of the way. spoke with police and that is now gone. it's between two differe vehicles. live look, woodrow wilson bridge. inner loop and outer loop rolling along nicely. very, very difficult from yesterday, of course. and the beltway, overall, no issues at all. aaron. >> melissa, thank >>you. > you will be seeing a lot more of some people on instagram. find out who will be able to post video that could run up to an hour. >> a teen thought someone broke into his family's

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area well into the night. >> and the chuck bell warned us the rain would beinoming durg the afternoon rush. and he was right. down at nats rk, the battle of the beltways was put on hold because of the rain.k nats p was mostly empty by the time the a nationa orioles were finally able to take the field after a three-hour delay. it was a 7:00 claim. >> the confluence, the rain, the sporting events, the fiery crash onilhen bridge led to that tlavg. >> 5:30. good morning, everybody, i'm aaron gilchrist. >> and i'm eun ng news for transportation reporter adam tuss was stuck in that terrible traffi >> melissa is tracking delays we need to know about, but first, we go to chuck for the forecast. >> you know adam tuss, mr. transportation himself gets stuck in traffic, that say

problem for everybody else. on your thursday morning, it's iet outside. most of the rain is now gone. rain chance are falling aso we into your thursday. not all the way to zero but there's still an isolated chance of getting a little showe nowhere what we've seen. most of the i-95 corridor is close to the 70 degrees mark when you get by the bay, annapolis is at 70 degrees. as you're planning your thursday, not really needinghe umbrella. suns up for now, on this, longest day of the year. congratulations, everybody, we made it. hitoday, 85 degrees. over the next couple of days rain chancereturn. more about that coming up in a few. for now, let's go to melissa. >> good morning, chuck, woodrow wilson bridge looking a heck of a lot different than it did y. yester

just a few hours ago. oute loop and inner loop all clear. and toarli 66, some folks have flat tires this morning. eastbound, near l street and 16th, w do have it blocking lanes there. no problems ang 270. that is nice and clear this morning. and the beltway overall behaving itself at this point. aaro >>melissa, thank you. 5:32. news in eaking montgomery county. firefighters are battling a house fire. chris lawrence is in the live desk. >> yes, we are told that one person jumped from the second story of that townhome. we just learned that paramedics rushed two people to the burn center they are expected to survive. we'll show you how devastating

the house fire was. smost of it knocked down and that structure is almost completelyapcod. right now firefighters are trying to see if it spread to some other units. montgomery county has at least 60 units on seen. this is not far from strawberry noll elementary school. nicole jacobs is headed there as well. we'll be bringing you live pictures from above and on the ground. eun, back to you. >> chris, thanks so much. we are used to that traffic around the d.c. area. we see it all the time. this mornin people are still talking about just how bad the roads were yesterday. >> one drive said it took him 30 minutes to make his way around a single traffic circle around here. and this is >> a deadly crash shut down the wilson bridge which is a main

artery in a out of thecity. the flames were just eating through those cars. and a huge pillar of smoke could be seen for miles. look at these images. we're told a tractor trailer lost control and crashed into a oup of work trucks that was parked on the bridge. witnesses said this is somethi they've never seen before. >> saw fire shoot down underneath the bridge. d smoke shooting up in the sky, man. looked like a bomb on the oidge. >> driverthe tractor trailer died. and take a look at these pictures. three construction workers had to be rescued from that bucket underneath the bridge. that crash happened arod 11: a.m. and the bad traffic continued all day and into the night. >> transportation reporter adam tuss was just one of thousands stuck in the nightmare traffic last night as was i. he joins us live nearhe wilson bridge with more on why the backups were so badng for so adam. >> reporter: really, aaron, it

was the perfect storm of eventsi no do want to report to you this morning, take a look at the lson bridge it is flowing smoothly this morning. a lot of people probably worried about that. right now, wee on the where all of that happened yesterday and it is moving. now, as far as what happened y. yester take a look at all of the tweets and all of the reaction on social media that started coming in when that traffic lasted for hours and hours, 30 minutes just toet around a traffic circle. i hear people telling me on twitter it took t hours for what was normal a 20-minute commute. it just went on and on and it oos horrific for a long time. take a at some of the video of the backup that actually started. guys, i mentioned it was the perfect storm of events. you have that wilson bridgehe incident main connecting point between maryland and virginia. you hadg people try cut through the city on 295 and 395. you had the rain move in

overnight. and then youlso have an orioles and nats baseball game, all of that combined to make this an awful situation. t here this morning on the road, the situation a little bit better. everything is moving smoothly. that is for the record books. i myself had to dl with eye an hour commute and ditched the car and got on metro which the situation got better after that. after you. >> adam tuss driving for us giving an update. a lot of people felt that way, you didn't have a c tice but ditch your car. thanks, adam. 5:36 rht now. president trump rally base there. hee president signed an order. butrder does not end the administration's zero tolerance program but it does allow families to stay together while families wait for an immigration hearing. virginia senator tim kaine raised a concern for thousands i

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although a lot of experts are calling them doomed as of last night there's still a scramble with congress. but it is itpossible. the remainder is there's 2300 children separated from their parents. it's going to try to reunite milies.th their we're understanding there's not a true mechanism to reconnect these kids. it's possible one former i.c.e. executive told us he believes hundreds o kids are going to end up permanently, permanently away from their parents for life. some of them have been deported, sent back home. their children are still here. they actually may become wards of the u.s. government. >> susan, thankyou. it's 5:47. the fight over whether to boost e way for tip workers may be heating up. voters agreed to a measu to give workers a hike by 2025 even if they earn tips.

but many oppose the idea saying the financial burden may force to cut back and increase prices. but they question whether the vote was the will of the people. >> barely passed. and again, 17% of the people voted. this is a low turnout election. i think it's a misnomer to say it's the willle of the pe it's the will of the people who voted in this election with the lowest turnout we've had. >> the d.c. council still has the wer to reject or modify this mare. 5:48. tonight on "little big shots" a kid from d.c. with a sense of humo >> your element in the periodic table is element number 60. the initial is iron. it will fit through any metal. so i said you could be mr. magnetic >> ha ha.ah

yeah. i like that. >> it's like what -- >> the 9-year-old, a global science ambassador from here in the district. you can watch "little big shots" tonight at 8:00. it was two weeks ago that the caps won the cup. and they continued their party under theai fou at the bellagio hotel. there you go. jump around. there's alex ovechkin, back from getting soaked in sin city with the family, of course, continuing the celebration. then it's te for the award to receive the seventh career maurice rocket richard trophy. and we heard his thoughts for the first time on coachar trotz's departure. >> first of all, to thank him,

thank him for for a great job of being our coach, be our dad did be our chance to win this. but it's a business. we ner know what' going to happen. he's going to be fine and i wish him luck. >> there you have it, ove hashe an milestone to look forward to. you may have noticed his wife is pregnant with their first baby. >> and if you're missing hockey and you want them to come back soon, they announced season opener october 3rd against the boston bruins. >> if they could do that all run again, aaron, another for the stanley cup. >> we could. city.big celebration for the >> what we need say chance to dry out here, that's not what we're going to get. well,t we'll get today. but just know there's more rain in the immediate futureg start this time tomorrow. right now, it is a mostly cloudy sky overhead. most of the rain has come to an

end for now. rain chance are delightfully low for a change. high pressoue overern canada will push this weather front just down to the south. that's the fro that sparked the rains yesterday, just south of us, most of us will be rain-free. there's a chance for a shower. rain chance ramp up very quickly once we get into tomorrow. so partly sunny to mostly cloudy skies. temperaturewise, not all that unpleasant. here's autook ate weather. mostly cloudy during the morning hours. breaks of sunshine. just a hit and miss varieties of fa quicke or ten-minute, that's about it. then we dry out for the afternoon. once we get into th evening the rain that was pushed to the south from late last nig that starts looking up to the north so about 9:00, 10:00 tonight the rain is encroaching again.

in quantico, 73 in district ights, 74 currently in annapolis. planning out the day, warm and humid. highs low to mid-80s on the longest day of the year. the summer solstice is at6:06 this morning. you can stay ahead. weather by using the nbc washington app. you can follow me on our social media platforms. i put a cute video of theuppy do playing. you may want to look for that. on friday, rain likely an inch or more across the area fomorrow. another half inch of rain possible on saturday. sunday will be the drier half of the weekend. there's still an outside chance of a rain drop. c finally, aple dry days in a row in the early parts of next week. i'll give y the beach forecast in a few. for now, over to melissa. >> good morning, chuck.r up marlboro, outer loop, blocking just a little delayn there the beltway. rest of the beltway looks good,

no problems rht now including the bottom of the beltway, woodrow wilson brie looking good. eastbound, westbound, no matter which way you're headed it's a heck of a lot better than this time yesterday. washington event l street and 16th street still have that crash. eastbound 66 before 29 roslsros area. 270 northbound and southbound, just find. pravel times, 270 no issues there. f the beltway looking quite good. 66 and to the beltway, about 30 minutes. remember to listen to wtop 105 fm when you hop in your car. movie pass is getting new competition. amc is launching its own subscrtion service for $20 a month. that will allow subscribers to see upo three movies a week.

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we continue to track that story throughout the morning. but you can find updates on on the nbc washington app. right now, we're also following some breakg news out of montgomery county. dozens of firefighters are battling a house fire right nows firefighted someone had to escape by jumping from a second floor ndow. >> news4's jutst arrived on the scene theren gaithersburg. nicole, bring us up to speed. >> reporter: aaron and yun, a

massive fire. firefighters have been working, of course for several hours at this point. i can tell you 90 firefighters are oe scene her as they continue to pour water and foam on to this end units. we're told onead firefighter been taken in for an evaluation. it's unclear t exactly whatir condition is. two residents we're told were injured as well. one, we're told, jumped this second floor to escape the flames. everyone did make it out ok with regards to escaping the t flames, buheir conditions,f urse, at this point are unknown. you're taking a look again at all of the smoke still billowing fromhis unit. firefighters, in many cases, it looks as if they're justg try to get a game plan. we've seen pepco here. countless firefights