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i'm angie goff. in for aaron this morning. chuck bell standing about melissa mollet also here working for you to get your stuts started. >> chuck bell, you start us off. how long can we enjoy this w lovem weather without the humidity? >> well, without the humidity just today. we'll hre coo than average temperatures today and tomorrow, but tomorrow even though we'll stil c beler than average, a lot more humidity and rain chances are back tomorrow as ll. partly to mostly clear sky over us here early this morning. that's allowed temperatures to drop to now 60 in haagersto. 61 for leesburg. 67 in arlington county at national airport, and 70 there in annapolis courtesy of some warmer bay water. nice day to spend some quality time by the don't forget your spf, of course. swould go 30 or higher today with that high angle. temperatures this afternoon will be hoveringen ithe low 80s. nothing to complain about there at all. highs in your hometown today, 81 in gaithersburg and waldorf.
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80 in .fredericksbu a little more cloud cover farther down to the south, and i think if there's any chance for rain today, it's down below charlottesville. more about the return of rain right here in the dmv coming up. for now let's go to melia. >> takin a look at the beltway earlier. road world war i has cleared out of the way so you don't have to worry about that any longer. 270, copper road. northbound and southbound through gaithersburg. everything rolling alongite alia, outbound after nicely. seminary. had some lanes blocked there. even that ramp to little r turnpike was blocked as well. that has cleared out of the way. annapolis here eastbound span of the bay bridge, two-way trachks. westbound closed by the work zone. eun. >>melissa, thank you. 4:31. today maryland voters will head to the polls for the primary. here's everything you need to knowt.efore heading polls open at 7:00 a.m., so in about two and a half hours. as we head into primary day, we're learning that 80 thousands
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voters are not properly ret'stered. >> t a lot more than originally thought. i mean, 60,000 more people than thean mar motor vehicle administration first told us about. this is all duet to t computer litch that was discovered la friday. just to remind you, this impacts people, thoseyo owhoup updated your voter registration it at the mva. >> it affects transactions between april 22nd od last year june 5th of this year. >> well, you'll still be abl to vote, about ut your information may not be correct. you are going to have to fill out a provisional ballot. now, you are asked for id. make sure that it's a valid photo id, like state ,entification card your driver's license, or a military card. a military id you can find your link on the maryland board of elections website. you also have a link in the nbc washington app. now, if you are doing an absentee ballot, make sure to drop it off at the post office or a polling place b the he wanted of the day.
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hgrt breakew video in the ongoing immigration fight this morning. this cell phone video first seen on the rachel maddow show was shown of a facility of mieg rabbit children separated from their rents. in it the little girl tells the worker she came to the u.s. with her 10-year-old sister tnd wants k to her mother, whom she says is inin vi. it's not clear how old the girl is in the video. nbc new reports that the children only spend days at the s.nter and spent nights in foster ho thousands of children are still being held in similar facilits across the country. more on the efforts to redowniet them coming up at 4:45. we do have an update on a story the news 4 i-team brought you about eaunlicenseders in d.c. public schools. the investigation revealed one of every t four of district teachers are unlicensed. now, the d.c. council says it will have hearings about the
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issue when it returns in the fall in december, including into whether the district has the proper requirement f staffers. the education department kwirmtd to news 4, it too has oversight of the d.c. licensing. a spokeswoman says theha agency s not spoken to school districts about the issue yet, but says the agency expects an update this year from d.c. officials about what they're doing to -- d.c. officials say they've already planned to tightin up requirements. those government agencies the d.c. office of state superintendent of education is now monitoring the problem, by the way. here are some other stories making headlines this morning. today a vote by the d.c. council could affect the of your next uber or lyft ride. councilmembers will vote on a proposal to raise the ride share tax from 1% to 6%. that money wouldo towards d.c.'s share of dedicated funding for metro. uber and lyft worry that it could drive customers .
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prince george's county police investigating the deadly crash. ak at the scene right now in clinton at the intersection of glendale drive. police say that a motorcyclist was hit and killed by the driver of a car just before 10:00 last night. the crash caused another crash. we're going to continue to update yous a we learn more. a virginia man is accused of assaulting a woman during a massage. offiters arr all ann mohammed yesterday. a woman accused him of inappropriate contact last month when she visited the bella luna day spa in ma sean. shd she immediately left after that alleged assault and called 911. news 4 has reached out to the bella ruina spa, but so far has not hea back. we have a preview of tonight's episode of tmerica's talent." have you been watching? >> it's the one show we can all agree upon in our house. >> they've got a lot of talent this year. >> in the show anri elect violinist from d.c. is seto wow the judges.
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♪ snoo his another is it even more incredible than the claim. he was diagnosed with a serious nerve disease. it takes away the feeling from his hands and feet. wouldally that numbness spread throughout his entire body. despite that, joseph does whatever it takes to continue playing. what an inspiration and follow his dreams. i think he is going to do far. >> it's something else we haven't seen on the sh . >> it fferent, and you can really see how much he enjoys it on his face. still ahead, robbed with rice? a woman's wallet stolen while whole foods. the simple way the thief tricked her that you should know about. protecting your head. it's whatfoelmets are but not all of them work well. we're going to tle a lookak
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welcome back. 4:40. the temperature sores and people ll take advantage of the outdoors. r some that mean difrping four wheels for who two. new this morning, new safetyl tests rev some bike helmets protect heads better than others. ch anmportant part of bike riding, right? >> really, and consumer reporter susan han checked it out, and she shows us the helmet that are ahead of the pack. well, the tests found that helmets provide pretty gd protection from skull fractures. not all were providing equally good protection against concussi type injuries. the tests were designed to replicate real world bike ci crashes, scally focussing on the angle where a bicyclist's head is likely to strike pavement. this new rating program tested
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30 adult sized he four helmets received five stars. now, all four are equipped with a multi-directional impact protection system. >> it's technology inside oft helmets timits protation of the head. this reduces brain injury risk by minimizing the strai in the brain. >> helmet style also played a role in performance so-called road helmets, which are elongated and they tended to rovide better than urban helmets, which have more rounded shape with fewer bend. we hav a got link with the full testing results for you here on our nbc washington app. have you to do is search bike helmet. back to you. good morning, everybody. sometimes the hardest thing in thet world to is just going. if you are up at 4:41 -- if you are up 4:41 in the morning, a
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plus to you. you're already off to a great get out the door weather will be in the 60s and low 70s. nice day today before rain chances are back tomoiow. ave your ten-day. plus, work zone here on the bay bridge slowing things down just a little bit. we'll take a lo at how the rest of the roads are looking
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we have new video fromanhe big i of hawaii. take a look. thousands of people are in harm's way as lava continues to flow. this is the video that you are looking at here posted on instagram. it almost looks surreal. it's insane. just think of all that lava just itowing there. continuing to rise. officials say more than 650 have been swallowed u by lava since sunday, and that number is steadily increasing. meanwhile, hundreds of people g areting help from the red cros others camping out in nearby parks. back to you. >> atwow. s extraordinary, megan. thank you. we do have a warning right now for your next trip to the grocery store. thieves are distracting shoppers
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to steal their wall lets. a man and a woman, they used an unusualo tactic scam another lady at a whole foods. this happened in rockville. police say p ther asked kendall mac intosh strange questions about bags of rice. as they distracted her with those questions, they grabbed her wallet out of sitting right in her cart. kendall did not notice u pil she went t for the groceries. >> panicked. i said to the guy, i said i don't have my wallet. i said i need to run out to my i thought maybe i had left it in the car. by the time i got down, searched through my car, i knew what had happened. >> well, police are now searching through surveillance video. sthe they're trying to identify these thieves. in the meantime they recomnd that you keep your purse closed or your wallet with you while you shop. i am so guilty of leaving the cart out. your time is 4:46. new video from a tent citear el paso, texas, housing hundreds ofra m children. journalists were given a tour,
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but cameras were notlled inside. the department of health and human services released this video. this morning they are still working to reunite thousands of children at facilities acrossnt the c with their parents. >> news 4 tracie potts joinng us here studio this morning. tracie, we are seeing a lot of these videos across the country. these different facilities. what do you thinkre the biggest challenges as far as mi reuniting the es? it seems like there hasn't been a concrete plan. we have gott >> some have been united, but there's still thousands of kids who don't know where their parents are or wherever they came into this aountry with that's part of the problem. the administration says we don't want to just connect them with someone who maybe says i'm the parent and extort the parents for money. on the other nd, youave people all over the place. you saw that people until new we have people in new york. we have people in arizona. you have people in texas. apparently in some cases good
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records weren't kept on which children came in. >> you can only imagine the issue that continues to arise. now, border patrol temporarilys ped prosecuting some parents. does that mean this helps the situation in any way? >> p well,bably this kind of means it's going to take longer. he policy.t changing what they're doing is putting a halt on things because the courts are backed up. theyhon't have enoourts or judges. we've heard president trump talk about that. they're urging him to get more people outhe to try to deal with this backlog in the system. >> we heard sarah peters talk about that. we don't have enough resources. then, you know, that president trump is going to the white house to meet with republicans today. really to put what he wants to do. come into the countryga ily, he said -- what is it that he is giving to that so far? >> he is getting backlash from both sides. what president trump really wants is that wall. he talked about it in carolina last night. that was a big part of his spch last night. e give and take that's happening on capitol hill is how much money for the wall versus
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trying to solve this problem, and that's one of the reasons why they can't seem to do t big deal. if anything comes through a vote this week, it's probably just dealing with the separation issuend trying to make sure that doesn't continue to happen, but they've t got take the kids who are already in detention with no knowledge of where their parents are. >> parents have been catplaining heir children are being used as a bargaining chip. >> great to see you, tracie. the red hen restaurant in lexington, virginia, was thrust into the spotlight after ther owicked out white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders and her party last week. now, that restaurant's move is affecting a local red hen here in the district. this red hen in d.c. in the bloomingdale neighborhood isiv receing threats and harassment. the owner says that the restaurant has received phone calls, on-line threats, and even been vandalized. he says that sanders were to
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enter his rest raupt, she would be treated like any other customer, regardless political affiliation. those two restaurants have nothing to do with each other. leave the red hen in d.c. alone, for goodness sake. >> it's a greatot >> it is fantastic. the owner and the chef is such a great guy, and he has been handle this with a lot of grace. >> what can do you? >> here's an update on the poisonous plant we've been telling you found. we told you about this. it's called hogweed, and it was found inalexandria. scientists say there's no evidence that the weed is spreading. here's a lk at what it looks like. it'siant hoggweed that can grow to be 15 feet tall. if it gets in your eyes it can cause third degree burns and blindness. don'te fooled by the pretty flowers. don't go near it. see, look at that white flower. >> that would be -- you know. >> it could be causing a har
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hogwart. >> harry potter joke. >> don't approximate ut it on the back of your hand and say i thought i was only going to get a hogwart and then your hand falls off. don't do it. >> just the wr. >> weather advisor is relatively safe. outside we've had a very, very ratretch of weather around here. april was above average in ra fall. may was crazy wet, and june has been super wetwe as . over the last couple of months, that's more than 17 inches of rain, and we're more than 7 inches above average in rainfall just since the 1st of april. if you have been thinking, gosh, it seems like it's been raining ai lot, you are correct. rain chooances for today will sy mostly to our south and west., blacksburoanoke, you'll run into the rain later. along south side virginia now near danville, but around us high pressuren off the new gland coastline will keep any rain chances bottled up just down to our south for today. here's future weather for you.
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an increase in clouds today, and there could be a lonesom sprinkle or two. trdon't think the rain chances get into the d.c. area assault. now, for tomorrow a lot more cloud cover and any time after about noon tomorrow rain becoming a little bit more likely. by tomorrow evening rain changing over to some understorms. best time for rain is from sundown tomorrow until sun up o thursday morning. there's your ten-day forecast. enjoy these couple of days with temperatures cooler than average. rir average now is 87. byy we'll be 93. both days over the weekend will be searing hot with highs in the mid to upper 90s, and then fourth of july not too bad. 4th about average on the ha th a high of 88 degrees. >> i like tha t that is goihelp a lot of folks. annapolis, eastbound fan of the bay bridge, that has just cleared out of the way. the work zone has gone both directions. now, open and running just fine. inner loop and outer loop at the
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beltway. that's good as ll. have to love that. 66 here at123. eastbound-westbound no problems. you can see everything is flowing quite nicely. through prince george's county, we're looking good as well. as we zoom in here, a look at wilson bridge. that's looking good. inner loop and outer loop. eun. >> messa, thanks so much. it's now 4:53. the number one question parents of teens hear in the summer is can i borrow the wr? s to help them drive a little smarter this summer. molette green has details. >> we're in the midst of packed driving class. they're learning the abc's of the proper way to drive. one of the biggest distractions is this littlein tom is here to tell us how this isun getting a lot of droif drivers in trouble. >> 90% of driving is visual. 5% is touch. 5% is hearing. every time you take your eyes off the roadway, you reduce your
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ability to control that car by 90%. >> coming up on news 4 today we're going to take you inside a simulatedd distraciving vehicle, so young people can see firsthand the dangers of driving while distracted. answering a phone. new this inmo 16 athletes bear it all for espn's annual body issue. plenty of pics are perhaps too hot for tv at this hour, but here are just a few that we can show you. f olympiure skater adam rippon struck a pose this year. soccer playe crystal dune is also featured. >> we also have new york giant daquan barclay, and you saw los angeles dodgers plar puig. >> a big first here. meg megan ripino are the first same-sex couple to appear on the
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cover iny the b issue. now in its tenth year. >> greg orman is alsotoo. >> athletes -- we can see them play, but the amount of training it takes to get their body to be in that kind of condition to perform at that level, it is very impressive. it's not just about,he oh, look great. it's the commitment. it's thededication. >> you have the mental game. you have to exercise and prepare a lot. 4:55. it will be another exciting day as teensanight to a in the world cup. that should start at 10:00 a.m. the game som people will be running out of work to catch is the 2:00 p.m. match between nigeria and argentina. the teams are big rivals. one moment they're still trending on twitter. it's a block by the iranian goalie. take a look. sflo incredible. that goalkeeper blocked a
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penalty shot against superstar christiano ronaldo for portugal, whoany consider ishe world's best soccer player. that block kept portugal from just one point for the rest otc the it ended in a tie. >> the goalkeeper had a pretty incredible story o. >> now h is going to be an even bigger star. he worked as street cleaner. he was homeless. s hept outside the stadium. >> okay. >> come on.hy this ise watch the world cup. it's not just the soccer, the footba. >> it is the journey. he worked all these odd jobs all over tehran and never gave up his dream to play for the national team. >> he is a national hero. >> rona one or two days. maybe it was the first dave the world cup. he already made hisry with, like, hat tricks and everything. ouat's pretty phenomenal. even ifre not a soccer fan, it's moments like that.
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>> coming up, primary day in maryland marked by glitch impacting 80,000 motorist says.s what we know i being done to make sure your ballot counts. >> and fighting back. a local girl takes a abcction against her school district. she says the school boards not doing enough to protect her after she said a boy attacked 4 r. details when newday continues.
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zbrierchlts good morning. it's:00 a.m. i'm eun yang. et i'm angie goff in for aaron. plenty to to this morning, but we want to start off with a wonderful forecast. for sure. so you are yourtraffic. chuck bell, it's been a hot couple of days, but i'll take it. >> beautiful day to be outside yesterday. let the dogs out. walk this morning about 1:40 a.m., and it was super comfortable outside for everybody. cooler than average. less humtd thanaverage. you can't complain about that. rain chances are back tomorrow, and enjoy.e if you l hot weather, it's oing to be sizzling hot by the weeken your tuesday morning, though, 54. up near columbia, maryland. 59win hester. 60 in gaithersburg.
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