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 firefighters here as they continue to fight what

appear to be hot pockets. no flames since we've.een he of course, we'll continue to keep you updated. we hope to get an update from the chief shortly. they're very occupied right now but wll bring you more information as soon as we have it. back to you. >> thank you, nicole. c we willtinue to follow that story throughout the morning. you can find updates all o day the nbc washington app. right now, it's 6:02.yo let's get t speed on the morning commute and a look at weather. melissa mollet is here with the traffil and chuck bith the forecast. >> the next couple of days, it's all about me today from the weather department. four things you need to know for the weather. still a few lingeri drops outside. but everyone should be dry by lunchtime. mainly dry this afternoon. not completely, but mainly drer s still an outside chance of a shower but ready for more steady rain tomorrow. most of the rain across southert

of pennsylvania and southwestern parts of virginia. we'll number a litake b of rainfall action for today. right now, it's at the degrees atational airport onhe longest day of the year, the summer soltice happens just foui tes from now. it is the longest day of the year. 68 currently in leesburg. 69 in fredericksburg. 69 in bethesda and chevy chase. if you're thinking about going to the beach tomorrow and saturday. highest chance will be saturday evening and into sunday. i'll give you the forecast and now to melissa mollet about her in fic. it's all about her in traffic. >> it's always about me, chuck. on marlboro, seeing a tiny slow downbut on the shoulder right now. the restf the beltway is fine. no matter virginia, wherever you're heading. 270 here at old hundred, 109

southbound, a little slow because of construction south thereof. you're fine all the way to the spur, northbound 270 clear as well. in the oudistrict, eas l street at 16th, we had a crash there. one way. that is o cleared of the way. and hanging around in arlington, event 66 before 29 rosslyn, right side blocked by debris.> here at the live desk, we're following breaking news in rginia where a verizon wireless outage is affecting your 911 service rht now. verizon experiencing an outage affecting both 911 and ten-digi. dial so fairfax and arlington county residents are being urged to text 911 from a verizon phone as an alternate. while they try to work out this problem. again, if you have an emergency 911.t now, text don't try to call. we'll be providing updates as

oon as we get information o this. aaron, back to you. it was a sight seen for miles around. huge pillars of smoke after a deadly tractor trailer incident on the woodrow wilson bridge. the driver of the tractor trailer was killed and threeer wo had to be rescued. the driver lost control and crashed into a gorup of trucks there. and the horrible traffic continued for 12 hour >> news4 transportation reporter adam tuss is one of the people stuck in all of that traffic mess last night. hes joins live from near the wilson bridge with more on why the backupsere sobad. adam, you were not alone out there, struggling to get home. >> reporter: it was -- it was brutal. i mean, i was one ofs hundr of thousands stuck. aaron was stuck in it last night too. i think i have put the piecing togeth pieces of why it happened take a look. yesterday was a different story.

thul started with that a crash on the wilson bridge. people then tried to cut througd 395 295 to get through the district. that didn't work. you had theov rain in. and the nationals and orioles ga p to the stress on the freeway. all of that combined to make the perfect storm of a traffic people saying a half hour just to go around a traffic circle. a trip that would normally take 20inutes took two hours and change. it was brutal. coming back out to the beltway, guys, take a look, it's looking good. as w drive across from the maryland side into the virginia side, a much different story. i said it before, i do want to re-emphasize this point. what hapned yesterday, when you take one bridge out of the entire transportation network andas it that kind of effect on the entire region, we need to study better ways toake sure we have emergency plans to get people around. if there's a trueemergency,

we're in big trouble. i will say i eventually ditch might car after a multihour commute and hopped on metro. and they did perform well. kudos to them. >> thank you.> ew this morning, one person is dead after an accident just outside of joint base andrewsn suitland. police say two cars hit a man on allentown road before the base. both drivers arrived scene before police arrived. right now, detectives are investigating a sexual assault. they arrted thi man yesterday the driver for metro access and accused of of raping arider. the woman told police the incident happened onmonday. childs is an employee for first transit which operates the metro access service. cardinal theodore mccarri a familiar face and name in our region has been barred from public ministry. the allegation says he sexually

abused a teen 60 years is found to be credible and established. in a statement mccarrick said he is innocent, but sorry for the pain the accuser has suffered. >> when the invtigation corroborated the allegation, action was taken. the process to protect young people in fact worked. >> this morning, we're hearing reaction from cardinal timothy dolan. he's the archbishop of new york. cardinal dolan tells nbc news the accusations against cardinal mccarrick are. ly painf for him. >> this is a real heartbreaker when you see somebody you've admired, loved and appreciated and when something that nauseating from t past comes forward. >> the diocese in new jersey said it recved three sexual misconduct allegations against mcderrick in the 1980s. settlements were worked out in two of those cases. we'r told none of the incidents

involved minors. mccarrick is one of the highest catholic cardinals in the u.s sheved from 2001 to 2006. today, family, friends and fans will say a fin farewell to fashion designer kate spade. the funeral isn being held kansas city. spade committed suicide at her home ineew york on j 5th. she was best known for her handgs that carried her name. now, to the crisis at the border, after days of mounting pressure from bot parties, president trump signed an executive order that will keep children and parents together whilet adults w for immigration hearings. the order also instructs the litary to build new shelters for families. it does not end the administration's zero tolerance licy which requires every person crossing the border illegally to be prosecuted. >> it's about keeping families together, while at the same time, ensure that we have a very

powerful strong border. >> the disorder not address how or when families separated already wl be reunited. more than 2300 children are currently living in shelters i 17 states without their parents. experts believe many will never see their parents again. just hours after signing that order, president trump doubled down o his zero tolerance immigration policy during a campaign rally in minnesota. thousands packed the arena in duluth last night. se fred defended his administration'snce on immigration and blamed the ration ts for the imm crisis. >> democrats don't care about the impact of uncontrolled migration on your your schools. your hospitals. your job or your safety. democrats put illegals immigra before they put american citizen. what the hell is going on? >> more on the president's

executiv order and the ongoing situation at the border coming up at 6:30. the white nationalist group whose rally triggered violence in charlottesville last yearow wants to demonstrate in our area. unite the right requested a permit rig outside of the white house. the group wants to hold anve annirsary rally on august 11th and 12th. that marks one yea since last year's rally. you'll rember in that clash between whi nationalists and counterprotesters one woman diec when aar rammed into the crowd thaugust 12. two virginia state troopers also died in the violence. the national park service has approved the application but has not yet issued those permits. and new construction in downtown bethesda. marriott international plans to relocate its headquarters to the corner of wisconsin and norfolk

ues. construction should be finished after 2022. after the formal ceremony, marriott will issue a pop-up er stand. stan canada is not. first country to legalize mare o marijua marijuana. the white from the north could be getting green very soon. and making sure everyone will be able to see the nation's capitol from their sites. 85 degrees this afternoon. mainly dry. still an outside chance of a stray shower or two. but drier than the past few days. if you want to get the car crashed, you can probably get it done today. more rain on the way so you may want to hd off.

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chopper 4 over a house ire in gaithersburg. we're tracking this for you this morning, 6:15 right now. dozens of firefighters there on e scene. we're told at least two peoplea were hurt asult of the fire. of course, we have a crew on the ground. we'llring you the latest within the hour.

also. we've been workingoror you f ideas for sumr staycations. >> this morning, molette green is talking to folks at the northern virginia sailing center. their push to keep waters clean an boating tysa live with details on that, good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you guys. it's a beautiful morning. first day of summer, recreational sailorsre going to be out full force for the season to be out here and enjoy their time on the water. first thing we all did before we got on the boat is we strapped up. life jackets. we got the standard these orange ones and then we got the luxuriouss- mercenz versions. this time here, cameron, sah and his sister is here. they're both nscapt cameron tell me about safety being of prime insurance for you guys. >> working for the asa, we focus on being safe on the water, if you fall overboard you can be swept away by the current.

a life ys have to have jacket that fits you properly. >> reporter: that is perfect.r and yister fished out this water bottle just a few minutes ago. not too little ago. and it was very close to this ospreyet that you guys have fallen in love with. the mama and the babies in there. there's trash in the nest as, well talk about that pollution. >> thespreys are actually picking up plastic cups and otherebris to build their nest stronger. it just does not look right.d the poor birds -- >> reporter: what do you want people to do because thatis tra afoming from the district, right? r a big heavy rain like last night, you're going to see a lot. >> yeah, all of the trash flows downhe river eventually washes back up on the shores. and then builds up in piles out in the potomac. >> reporter: we're going to talk about man how boaters help others in distress coming upater o in the hour on news4.

we'rety the northern virginia sailin school. all of their friends. recreational boaters, very omssion ate about the waters. that'sg up. >> thank you. we'll see you later. canada plans t lalize recreational marijuana by the fall. canadian prime minister justin trudeau made the announcement yesterday inside the house of dmmons. he sy doing this, the government hopes to draw money away from organized crime. the new law goes into effect on october 17th. there is can development debate brewing over the home of george washington. this is the view across the potomac at mt. vernon. dominion energy wants to build a gas station directly aoss the river. the mt. vernon ladies association saiden that develowill threaten the view. >> it is quite a spectacular view. from both sides. mt. vernon particularly is very

lovely. >> george washington owned 8,000 acres at one point. a crazy amount of land. >> stalk a staycation, that's a place worth visiting. >> it's so fu super nice there. for locals you can get a year-long pass a go anytime you want to. and today might be a fineay to go visit george washington's house because it will be a relatively dry dayompared to how rainy it's been around here lately. when i tell you, a little rainy, that may be a wild understatement. over the last 40e days peo are looking for wood to start building their ar we've had 25 rainy days out of the last 40. and rain fall amounts have been inpress ive impressi up to 13 inches of rain. today a i little break action, the weather front which brought us rain last night, that'sng settust to our south today. so rain chance today will be

higher the farther south and west. richmond, charlottesville and higher rain chance around there than the city. for us, we're drying outostly overnight. here's a look at future weather. there could be a k-quved little shower this afternoon but this is nowhere near thete ity or coverage that we've seen over the past couple of days. once we get to 7:00 this eving, there's the steadier rain that's coming back towards thea metro a late tonight.er tempurewise, it's comfortable this morning. 60s in the shenandoah valley. northern maryland. and those gardening without too much of a rain threat. 68, 80 at noon. high of 85 degrees. and it's a good time of the yea to stop the crab grass and iltgrass by providing weed preventer to let it dry in between the rain t showe let it soak into the soil. what about your friday? as i mentioned a high rain

chance tomorrow. rain could be steady. unfortunately, the most likely times, heavy rn tomorrow, friday afternoon and evening. warmer and more d,hu a likelihood of rain and thunderstorms on saturday. nowhere near as rainy on sunday but it will be a hot one with a high near 90 eede okay, melissa mollet, i think some people are still trying to get home c from thatmute yesterday. >> i know. it was a rough one for a lotop because of that fire on the woodrow wilson bridge. rails right now, delays to branch avenue on the green line because of a disabled train at georgia. upper marlboro, upper loop, the rest of beltway looking okay. 66 into virginia, no big probms at the wilson bridge. you can see inner loop, very minimal delays there. south of theo beltway i town, j.

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>> announcer: "news4 today" begins with breaking news. that breaking news is o of gaithersburg this morning. these are pictures from the scene of a house fire, where 90 firefighters were called early this morning. >> we know at least one of those firefighters was hurt getting these flames under control. news4's nicole jacobs and chopper 4 there bringing us team coverage. we'll check with them in a few minutes. first, it's 6:30.

good morning,y. everyb i'm aaron gilchrist. >> and i'm eun yang. another thing people are talking about, the trouble on the road.y many of are telling us on social media that last night'fi tr was the worst in years. that i o becausef the combination of a bad crash and bad weather. >> we'll start with chuck. any chance we'll see more rain as we begin theongest day of the year, chuck? >> well, there's always a chance. d the chance for today are far lower than the last few days and a l lower than they're likely to be as more rain is likely to move in tomorrow. outside, a picture of downtown washington. early more sunshine out there. it's a press way to get your thursday morning going. most of the lht rain is either to our north to our south. az a slight chance for a five-minute rain shower but nothing to destroy your outdoor plans. good mornin everybody. a few lonesome sprinkles.

but we're driving t. gh of 80 degrees. going to the nats and orioles last evening, a three-hour delay and we lost the me. tonight there will not be a siificant chanceor a rain delay, but let's hope it leads tos n aat check on traffic. >> good morning, chuck. i have a good feeling about traffic. camp springs, inner loop blocked by a disabled vehicle there. wilson bridge looking couple of hours here. flowing nicely this morning. 66 here, slowdown through manassas, woodbridge, 95 is your slowdown. headed southbound, you can see the slow spot is south o hyattstown there, going 29 miles per hour this morning. taking a look at that eire retch you can see after that, you can heads down to the

beltway with no major delay. eun. >> thank you, melissa. now to breaking news in montgomery county. >> dozens of firefighters have spent hours battling a townhouse fire.ne 4's nicole jacobs is there. good morning. t> reporter: aaron, that call came in a 4:45, and sincethen, firefighters have been doing this, fighting this fire. you can see they're still putting water on the back of this yu this is where firefighters saw the most flames when they arrived here and those flames we're told by the chief, quickly spread. and it was shortly afterwards the roof collapsed which you can see here as well. still hot spots and smoke coming up from this home. he said thas because of the way it's collapsed. because of that collapse they've been having to fight this fire from an exterior standpoint. the chief said when they arrived and the flames were massive

because of that there's been a massive response. as you mentioned 90 firefighters responding to the fire. we've seen pepco here. ambulances here. we do know t residents were at home during the time. here's the fire chief speaking of that. we had originally found and we met with two the structure that had escaped the structure. reportedly, one had the window on the front of the building. tud unsure how the second one got out of the str. >> reporter: and you're taking a live look again at firefighters continuing to put water on this end unit. ehis is a two-alarm fire. although the f chief does say that it's slightly above a two-alarm fire. on firefighter, we're told, was taken to the hospital for evaluation as well. so, a total of three people taken to the hospital. those two residents that we mentio td who are insid home at the time, they were also taken to the hospital. thehief says a third occupant

of the home who was not heree me is being interviewed, to find out whatever they can about this blaze, but it still under investigation. the origin and all of that still we'll continue to bring you more as we get it. back to you. >> nicole jacobs for us in gaitrsburg, thank you. here at the live desk, we're thatwing breaking news will affect just about all of you living in virginia. right now, verizon experiencing an outage affecting 911. if you live in fairfield, fairfax, virginia,alexadria. text, calling does not work.

traffic m ising again this morning on the wilson bridge. thisnrash shut dow the bridge for hours yesterday. and created a terrible traffic meor commuters for nearly 12 hours. the driver of aractor trailer died after losing control and crashing into a group of work trucks that was parked on the bridge. president trump rallied his base in minnesota last night urs after signing an executive order to end the separation of falies at the u.s. border. that order does not end the administration's zero tolerance policy program but it does allow families to stay together until thehe immigration ing. more and how that could happen coming up at 6:45. today, marriott inrnational will kick off construction for its new headquarters in downtown bethesda. marriott plans to relocate to the corner of wisconsin and norfolk avenues. this is what the new headquarters and flagship hotel

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it is 6:45. we're staying on top of breaking news that is coming out of gaithersburg right now. livea look at these pictures from chopper 4. this is the scene of a house

fire where 90irighters were called early this morning. we know at least one of those firefighters was hurt getting the flames under control. nicole jacobs and chopper 4 are the. and we're checking with them in minute. as. president trump is not backing down. >> he blamed democrats for the s immigration . >> so, the democrats want open borders. let everybody come in. let everybody pour in. we don't lcare, them come in from the middle east. let them come in from all over the place. we don't care.t we're ing to let it happen. >> that rally came just hours after the president signed an executive order ending the separation of families who.nter the u illegally. nbc's peter alexander has more on what's next. peter, good morning. >> reporter: aaron and eun, good morning. the president defending as you noted that dramatic reversal,

that controversial policy separating children from their parents illegal caught at the border. this was a significant 1280 ami the pressure. on wednesday the president signed an executive order that allowed those families to stay together in federal custody while adults await prosecution. in fact, their prosecution will be moved up to the frontf the line. a health and human services spokesman tells nbc news that 2300 children already separated may not be immediately reunited with parents who are still awaiting court hearings. we'll have more. we'll have live reports from both the board and texas and right here at the white aaron and yun, back to you. >> peter alexander, live at the white house. u so much. 6:47. the white nationalist group whose rally triggered violence last year now wants to demonstrate in our area. unite t right applied for a

permit in a park outside of the white house. it marks one year since last ye's rally. you may recall in that clash between white nationalists and counterprotesters, one woman died when a car drove into the crowd there on august 12th. two virginia state troopers also died patrolling the violence. the national park service has approved the applicaut not issued the permit. now, we go back to breakingon ns inomery county. >> dozens of firefighters have spent hours battling a houn to us townhouse fire. nicole jacobs is live. >> reporter: i can tell you fire fire the ters are still here a scene. they've been putting water on the back of the home. i can tell you two residents were inside at the time. they've both been taken to the hospital, as well as one firefighter who was injured. al of their conditions right

now unknown. we do know according to the chief they are interviewing a third resident who was not inside at the time, as they continue to investigate. it's unclear exactly where the fire started. of course, all of that is under investigation. the good news is that everyone does escape those flames and this investigation is ongoing. back to you. > nicole jacobs for us in gaithersburg, nicole, thank you. it was a sight seen for miles around the area. look for yourself. huge pillers of smoke from a deadly tractor trailer on the woodrow wilson bridge. the driver of that traasor trailer killed and three workers had to be rescued. investigators say the driver lost control and crashed into a group of work trucks. this happened around 11:00 a.m. and the terrible traffic continued for the next 12 hours. >> news4 transportation reporter adam tuss i one of the people stuck in that traffic last night. he joins us near the wilson

bridge with more on why the back ups were so bad there, adam. >> reporter: this was such a perfect storm of events, guys, that happened. and it was a tragic catastrophe to remember f the ages. take a look, i can tell you the good news is the lanes rolling through the wilson bridge are rollin. smooth take a look at all of the reaction from social media erybody stuck in delays last night. we're talking 30 minutes to go around a traffic circle. hours to go around a commute that would normally take 20 minutes. this is why y see the video of day.backups that lasted all i put together the pieces why i think this happened. in addition to the wilson bridge, you had a nats and sore creoles game. you had people trying to cutug th the district. coming out live to the wilson bridge you can see that tngs are moving good this morning. all of it combined for a perfect storm myself, i ditched the car and hopped on metro, guys.

that got me around. back to you. >> y have to think fast when you're stuck in that mess so long. adam, thanks so much. >> melissa mollet is here. obviously, adamng is sho us a much better picture and things are movingy smooto far. >> it is moving smoothly so far because i know apl lot of p still have the hangover. let's take a look here at my thp, you can see we're looking good here a bottom of the beltway, very, very different from this time yesterda a couple hours later we were really sitting in it. littleoop right now, a bit of a delay. you can see going 13 miles per hour. that has varied for this time of day. no major pa. live look at the woodrow wilson bridge, into town, out oftown, you are good. allentown road, right side blocked by disable vehicle. another problem, annandale, little river, left lane blocked by a crash this morning.

in maryland, tvel times looking good here on 270. tom of the beltway, outer loop, no major delay. 66 inbound, very typical as well. remember to listen to wtop10 fm when you hop in the car. most of th us will be dry for most of the day today. that ielme news. skies still with clouds but not producing much in way of rain. yesterday's rain chance pressed farther do the south. this weather front hanging south of us but there could be a quick nothing hower, but major. we'll be able to spend more than nudge time outdoor today for outdoor plansbe not t interrupted too much. you can see no rain. a dry start to the day. here's future weather, a highor resolutionast model. nothing more than a five or t

minute shower between now and 5:00 this evening. quiet b steadier rain starts to move through central parts of e shenandoah valley earlier this evening. probably able to get that nats andrioles game in tonight. there's your planner for today. a mixf clouds and sunshine. warm and humid. 85, for today. tomorrow, a whole lot cloudier and rainier and cooler area lt. highs tomorrow will be stuck in mid-70s. do get an inch or more of rain tomorrow. rain chance both over the weekend but saturday isar more jeopardy of being washed out than sunday. high on sunday will be near 90d grees. next week, finally, a chance to dry out in earlyparts. all right, chuck, thank you. 6:53, all week we've een working with you for ideas for summer staycations. how does a day on the water

soun >> always nice. molette green are talking to folks at the virginia sailing school about their push to keep the waters clean as well as boating safety tips. she's liveth o potomac. >> reporter: you know, first day of summer, why not be out o the water. and safety is of utmost importance. we are geared up ons t boat. we have our life jackets on.re but there three things in addition to that that you have to have. cameron, sarah, let's go through it. the portable radio, right? the air . then the flares. talk to your sailors about this. >> yes, here at the saiatng asson we practice multiple times going over safety issues d helping boaters in distress. >> reporter: and you love the man yo board drills thathaou to do. you know it's important. >> yeah, all sailors practice it

over and over again we have it down pat so nobody gets lost. >> reporter: als watching out for people on your boat but also other boaters. and all thismorning, we've been tolking about pollution and how eeclean. it is th potomac river. we want to keep it clean. this boater picked up -- pull outne ofhose items that you caught, yep, could be listerine or some other btle that you keep alcoholic products in there. you don't want that to happen. thanks for these t issues, safety and keeping the waters clean. >> hey, what are you working on tomorrow? >> reporter:oh, my goodness, tomorrow, the circus is in town. we're out at national harbor with the universal circus. we're going to beki t about their push to really support n children foster care.

they give a portion of their proceeds to foster care. all of that coming up in the 6:00 hour. on can't wait to hear more about that. he potomac. >> 4 things to know today. fashion designer kate spade will be laid to rest. the 55-year-old died by suicide earlh.r this mont the funeral will be held in her hometown of kansas city, missouri. loudoun county board members will vote tonight on whether to change rules on firing guns near homes. right now, you're allowed to shoot any type of guns within 100 yards of occupied homes in post of the county. the boa is considering expanding that to about half a mile. traffic is moving after the shutdown yesterday on the idge. it created a traffic mess for commuters. some say itk t hours upon hours to get home. the driver of the tractor trailer crashed into work trucks

died in the crash. a firefighter and two others were hurt in a fire in gaithersburg. they're still putting out hot spots now. you can look for updates on washington app. looking at theed wi ed witw wilson bridge, no problems here. d no problems on the beltway causing major delays. chuck. >> a nice mix of clouds and sun. and a slight shower chance but more rain, more rain for tomorrow. >> chuck, thank you. that is the broadcast this morning. we appreciate you waking up with us. >> the "today" show is next. we'll

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