jienchts good morning, everyone. thanks for joining us on this friday morning. i'm eunyang. >> i'm chris lawrence in for aaron this morning. a lot of us are waking up to a soggy friday morn tg. t means wet roads for your drive to work thismorning. melissa will have a look at traffic, but, first, chus bell more on this gloomy -- >> precious little sunshine for today, eun. upd to drive to work without the rain, you should have come in at 2:15 with me. four things you need to know about the weather. it's going to be friday fizzle. sorry about that. tsash flood watches for pf central virginia. some places could get over an inch of rain. heaviest rain in virginia today. not so much in maryland. then we turn warmer and more

humid for the weekend. there's one big slug of rain. it's cominar in t the d.c. metro area. first thing on your friday, so be ready for rai here over the next couple of hours. don't plan on much sunshin today. temperatures are in the 60s to around 70 degrees in the shenando now. low 70s around town. most of us will stay in the upper 60s to mid 70s. more aut theeekend which does look warmer coming up.g, good morn melissa. >> good morning. first 4 traffic alert here this morning. take a loo at this. so silver spring, new hampshire avenue there at oak view drivth is a fatal crash investigation right now. traffic there on new hampshire being pushed out of the way to he y away from investigation. that's out there. southbound traffic is diverted there at theoonner and northbound at adelphi road. we're sending a reporter that way to get some eye on it. new hampshire avenue at adelphi.

camp springs inner loop ranch southbound branch avenue has a crash there as well. eun a change of plans on capitol hill helps lawmakers push back a vote on immigration reform.di republicans l negotiations say two issues need to be worked out. one, requiring employers to use an on-line system to verify workers or citizens, and, two, making it easier to retain agricultural workers. meanwhile, the crisis at the border is shifting focus. confusion is growing over how to reunite parns and children after president trump's executive order to stop separating migrant families. more than 2,000 children are beinos held in facilities a the country. >> the reason that those children cannot be reunified is because the systemas been overwhelmed by this poli. >> first lady melania trump says

she wants families to be a reunit quickly as possible. >> she boarded the planekeearing a jact with the phrase i really don't care, do you on the back. social media exploded with critics calls u calling the first lady tone deaf. president trump says the phrase s a shot at the media andys tweets he is wife los angeles discovered how dishonest they are and no longer cares. the first lady's communications director e-mailed a response saying,"it's a jacket. there was no hidden message." time magazine's new cover is getting nationalor attention this striking image. it shows president trump lookinl down ontle girl who has become the most visible symbol of the crisis at the thborder. photos was taken just last week by john moore, ahotograph for getting images. >> a stark red cover with -- s was a distraught 2-year-old fror

ho. she and her mother were detained by border patrol agents. the capti reads "welcome to americry" >> we'll t to get that cover for you this morning. a local muslimroup is protest i protesti protesting. now to a disturbing sery wh woman was malled to des by her fiance's dog. someone driving down highway 4 in huntingtown, maryland, saw the dog attacking the woman and called 9 11. state trooper nd arrived, the dog was still attacking this woman. he shot and wounded the animally and immediaried to help the dictim. adtional troopers arrived, one of them killed the dog.

>> i can't believe it. i have never seen him to even b aggressive. nothing. >> the neighbors say the dog was a dogo, which looks similar to this wiki peeda page. the dog's owner is a corrections 'soption at prince geor county, who was training the canine unit. d.c. police arrested a man for a deadly shooting in northeast. policeay 19-year-old eric -- egree charged with first murder. he was run over, abducted, held for ransom, and then murdered in tdi rict. now police say they've arrested one of the men responsible fort this b crime. according to some of the court documents andreimmons ai.'s family pd $7,000 in ransom money before he was shot and killed in an alley on tuesday. investigators say darren moore is onee two men responsible. police arrested him wednesday after heri bde himself inside a home in buoy. there's been noord yet on the second suspect.

we have an update on that breaking news we brought you yesterday. montgomery county fire officials say arone tank somehow fueled a townhouse fire in gaithersburg. take a look at the video from chopper 4. fire officials say the couple who survived by jumping from their second floor bedroom slept with their door closed. that closed bedroom door mayav have their lives. after battling this fire for hours, firefighters went door to door in the neighborhood to check smoke detectors. news 4 spoke with one coupl who says it was a fire -- for them. >> this is not good. i don't want this to happen to our home. we have a baby. let's just get ready. i mean, god forbid something haens. >> montgomery county fire and rescue offers fr smoke alarm installations and safety checks to residents. well, here's what we didn't e during that massive backup just a couple of days ago. take a look at this video.

it captures cu daring r under the wilson bridge. this video was recorded wednesday by the fairfax county police helicopter. you can see construction workers being i safely lowero a boat oney one. the tractor-trailer ran into a construction zone that slammed into another truck. that ignited a massive fe and trapped the workers under the bridge. the truck diverted, but -- the trk driver died, but a of the workers are okay. the wilson bridge was closed for urs and the massive gridlock lasted 12 hours. looks likthe tv family roseanne barr made famous will rern without her. e conors will premier this fall. the show will be a spinoff of rosean roseanne. it enjoyed sky-high ratings during its rebot lastseason. the show was canceled after roseanne sent a racist tweet. roseanne barr will not have a

role in this new series> >>he arlington cemetery station is going to be closed. crews are installing wireless cable. bus wills reple trains at the metro station. blue line trains will only operate twooeng franc owna and sfrikfield and r national airport. >> the construction along 66 isn't going anywhere any time soon. next week v-dot plans to break ground lo add mores inside the beltway. the project will add another trel lane on 66 between the dual esconnector road and fairfax drive. they wil build a bridge over the old dmonianai not in my neighborhood. that's the message some resides have for amazon. montgomery county, d.c., agi northern va are all in the running to become the next headquarters for amazon. a town hall meeting was h

d last night about their opposition. they say there's already enough construction aes coon. >> we don't need it. there's just so much more development that keeps poepg up, like, every month. >> others say they don't mind being the next headquarters as long as amazon pays its fair share of taxes.l loeaders say luring the company would bring 50,000 jobs andons ofla dolrs in revenue. it is convenient, button line shopping is about to cost you more.au that's bec yesterday the supreme court ruled states can require intert retailers to collect state sales tax on on-line purchases. if you shop at major on-line zblob, rs, like appear you are already paying tax. a $20 million project that t onesigned to make an imp communities in prince gornl estcounty is possibly e finally costlete. the f baptist church,

another groundbreaking ceremony, on saturday they'll be cutting the ribbon. it's to celebrate the completed family life center. this health and fitness center is unique because it will get half its power from a new solar farm. g coming up, wive you aea live k peek at the new facility. well, don't let this week fool you. it's danger rs, and it has been spotted in our area. what you should not do if you seeyour yard. >> touch it probably, number one. >> the pope is lucky that someone was close by to make sure he didn't take a tumble. more onhat o news 4 ahead today. 4:10 on a friday morning. i just realized i left my glasses somewhere.l temperatures w in the 60 skpz low 70s today, and you better know where that umbrella is you're going to need it all day long.

s. >> you don't ever want t touch it. >> it's unclear how this plant ended up in virginia. experts suggest if you do come across hogweed, wear protective gear likend goggles gloves. >> it looks so nice. it's very deceptive. zblirmt a university of michigan will decide how to distribute money from a half billion dollar settlement to victims of sexual assault. the university board agreed to a $500 million settlement last montil that money go to more than 300 victims of larry naar, the school's former sports doctor. each victim is expected to

receive about $1.25 million. this morning pdple aro the country are remembering charles kraut hammhammerkrautha. he revealed he had just weeks to li. he was a fox news commentator, pulitzer prize winner and psychiatrist who was trained at harvard. he was 68 years old. ne showing pope francis taking tumble at the altar while celebrating mass. he stumbled onhe step there. you can see the aide did everything to prevent him from falling. it he didn't quite know there was an extra step on the platform there. the poped gathe himself and continued with the procession out of thear a.

>> that happens to me all the time. you miss the step. i'm just glad hell didn't . >> exactly >> yeah. cpr training seems to be flat leaning. the american heart association rson on-line and in courses are falling short. they say a lot of people never really master the technique or they forgett whato do where. experts say they should offer shorte but more prote sessions as well as continuous training of structors. families across south texas this morning are dealing with devastatingdi floong. governor greg abbott has issued ar disaste deck lashs for six counties. they werdi hit by this floo. look at videos here. you can see people have to wade through the streets. the tex national guard is working to rescue stranded residents while one man left his home of 32 years.

>> they had five inches of rain erday. >> the other issue is, you know, unrequire here where we have nice rollingh greens w a lot of dirt, that's hard, rock why i soil out there, so it becomes instant runoff. all of it does. >> nowhere to go. >> right. it all drains down into a precious few drainage spaces down in the rio grande crazy stuff. >> more rain for us. more rain, chuck. we're building an ark. i don't know what else to do. >> remembe how nice it was last weekend? barely. >> focus on that. last weekend was our first dry weekend i seven weeks. we are not going to be able to keep the streak of dry weekends going, unfortunately. on a friday morning the skies are cloudy, i and ifs not raining at your house yet, don't you worry.

it will before this day is done. most of us will be rained on before the morning commute is even done. an area of low pressure, you got a couple ofs working for us and against us. kind of sort of working for us. will not be hot today at all. high pressure over new england is wedged inel relat cool air at the surface. low pressure out across the ohio valley is providing all the deep moisture, so the combination of thoselwo things, c air trapped at the ground and warm, moist air riding over the top o it has really some steady rain now, and even some thunderstorms headed down towards the northern neck and down int parts of tide water as well. go thiy for a very slow morning. heaviest of the rain now. win chser, martinsburg, warrenton, stafford, and all this slowly but steadily ts comiards the d.c. metro area. aiow where that umbrella is. the heaviest will be in the first half of the day today. there's probably goingweo be more s to contend with later. here's future weather. heavy rain through the bulk of

thmorning commute. ings should taper off. right around lunchtime today. no sun. i wouldn't plan on much more than about five minutes of sunshine today. then after about 4:00 or 5:00, a likelihood for more rainshowers in.come on your friday evening plans probably not going to be able to douthem outdoors, it won't be driving rain we're likely to contend with this morning. current temperatures we' m in the low 70s around the city. where it's raining the heaviest. te eratures have been pushe down into the upper 60s. we should be able to break out into some sunshine tomorrow. really it depends on. expect a chance in the rn afteoon. rain first thing. m warmere humid tomorrow, and

then a chance for afternoon storms. just keep that in mind. highs tomorrow up into 85 degrees. sunday, the better half of the weekend, hot and humid. high near 90 with only a slight chance of a few showers coming in later in the day on sunday, and then really nice weatheur of , arrives first thing monday morning. monday, tuesday, wednesday, if yoff have those days next week, well done. it's going to be really pretty around he . justnote, today, heaviest rain early, and then tomorrow showers around first thingn e morning, and a chance for some thornlz thunderstorm on your saturday afternoon. i'll get you the beach outlook in a few. for now let's go toit my fav traffic person melissa. >> first 4 traffic alert. >> all lan are now open this morning. in the districtouern avenue near 23rd street southeast, all

lanes blocked there between police activity. beltway overall moving along just fine here this morning. as we take a look at ay270, s you can see from 70 down on time no problems. southbound, same situation. northbound. eun. >> melissa, thank you. these are hardly after school projects. kids who still can't drive are edging their way into the business world. see how they arrive there and who is giving them special ha. that's sndtr

welcome back to 4:23. how young is too young to start your own business? >> definitely not 6 years old because a group of young entrepreneurs are getting a head start with some help from our local busess community. news 4's adam tuss is in northern virginia with that story. >> i know someone who says, you ow, you should make a peacock.

>> the excitement on their faces is palpable. >> we'll clean the house, feed the pets. >> their ambition, through the roof. i like to sew. i decided that i wanted to start a business. >> reporter: kids fro 6 to 16 years old ready to make a splash in the business community. >> it's like nice doing all this stuff, and it's like i'm going to be doing my favorite things. s. reporter: whether it's cutting the gras >> over time i became addicted to mowing lawns, so i just started to run my own business. >> reporter: even selling used leggos with a little guidance from theparents. >> my mom said you got to get rid of all these leggos. >> these i had can are part of the young business fair in gainesville. >> they saw an opportunity and went for it. >> did you make these bandanas. >> it's really cool to see this type of energy behind business

andun entrepreneurship. >> this will be held at young aeclipse, and sharp young minds are ready to meet you. gainesville, adam tuss, news 4. >> i puty kids to work, right? i have legos at my house. have whole bunch of stuff at my house. >> i'm thinking my kids are l fallingtle short in that department. >> way to go, kids. >> yeah, no kidding. a lot of guys shave before work. chuck and i have to do it all the time. even if we don't want to. not the man whose beard is on display at the national museum of natural history. >> this is the longest beard ever recorded. you can stay a guess at how long you tnk it is. 17 feet and six inches. the beard belonged to hans langeseth, a in north dakota farmer who died in 1927. >> the kids say their dad's final wish was to have his beard cut off and held for post airport. they did that. 40 years later they donated i t

smithsonian. seems like something maybe better suited for one of those ripley's believe it or not museums where. his droemz were fulfilled, though. see? >> i guess. >> now you can think of things that you can do to have your legacy in the smithsonian museum forever, chuck bell. what do you think? >> maybe his glasses. >> before i take a look at tt 17 foot long beard, let me take my glasses off. >> you pay to have you packages delivered, but is this how they get to your door? next at 4:30, what fedex is saying about thisir video. yikes. come on. >> you got the package. >> no way. that's in northern virginia. chuck. >> you have one job. all right. so the barbecue battle. e of the best smelling events on -- in washington comes up this weekend. you don't have to worrynbout the rtoday, but tomorrow and sunday 11:00 to 9:00 tomorrow, 11:00 to 7:00 right there o pennsylvania avenue. barbecue battle.

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>> the radar is not really what we want to see as we start our friday. it is going to be wet as you head outside. i think we're used to it right now. i'm eun yang. >> last week it seems a long way. boy, i'm chris lawrence in for aaron this morning. melissa is watching the roads. >> we begin with storm team 4is meteorol chuck bell. >> maybe it's me. i was out of town last weekend for the one dry weekend in the last two months.t if you w nice next weekend, send me a plane ticket. i'll go anywhere. right now we are watching theo moderate heavy rain down across parts of central virginia. come towards the d.c. metro area. just know this is going to be quite a bit of rain now across much of culpepper, warrenton,fr ericksburg and stafford. all geg