during gt height of the tordo outbreak. >> multiple people are dead and many more injured after a this ri boat accident morning. fears the death toll may continue to rise. >> a major metro route closing for weeks. it is 4:00 a.m. good morning everybody. >>announcer: news4 today starts now. >> 4:00 a.m. kicking things off with a live look outside. happy friday to you. and it's beautiful out there. soe're going to want to take advantage. >> check in on the friday commute and forecast for you melissa mollet is standing by. >> i hate that we wasted all the great weather on a wednesday and thursday a a friday. not that it's a waste on a friday, but man,he weekend is

in trouble. >> here's what's going to happen. i'm going to t talk abo nice lr today. >> and i'm going to leave the rain and weekend forecast for you, chuck. >> because if you were going to hate somebody, why should it be you? i didn't say that. >> but you're totally implying. >> why woulde they h rain? i don't get it. >> >> they're not opposed to rain, it's just when the rain comes. >> there's two of us and we have to split up the news some way. i'm going to talk about friday anchuck's going to talk about the weekend. enjoy today. today's the last nice day. very comfortable start. again, this morning, 61 in frederick. 64 in clinton. if it you're heading to the pool today i would say if you have any day for the next seven to 10 days to pick a pool day, today will be the only one and the best one of ours. we have sunshine through the afternoon. temperatures low 80's, later on

-- we have rain. moving that looks to stake around for quite a while. chuck willave more details. >> good morning. taking a look vw parkway, earlier crash all lanes blocked. th clear ted out. chevy chase outer loop right laneng getti by and inner loop in mclane getting by. taking a look at5 in virginia. quanticoe to th beltway on time. take you about 17 minutes. >> thank you. it's 4:02. 32 reportedornadoes in just one day. >> this morning we're seeing credible and chilling video. our chris lawrence is at the live desk.

>> in some neighborhoods witnesses watched houses being torn to shreds. take a look at this. yesterday, a flury of tornadoes swept through central iowa bringing hail. flattened buildings in three cities. these storms even forced officialcu to ee patients from a local hospital. a tornado hit a farm equipment plant inpella, while the building was packed with dealers and customers celebrating the company's 70th anniversary, fortunately only seven injured. plant activated the torm warning syst so the workers were in shelters at the time. >> all right. thank you. 4:03. officials in missouri say at least 11 people are confirmed dead at this point. the tourist boat they wer on yesterday capsized and sank. overnight, we received cell phon video of this whole

ordeal. >> >> it's going under. >> that video shot by people sitting in a restaurant helpless. they couldn't do anything to try to save those people. officials say more than 30 people were on the boat. five stillss g. investigators will be back at the scene to search once the sun comes up. overnight officials of the company issued a statement saying they are deeply saddened by the tragic accident and will continue to do all they can. g statements on to say that the safety of their guests and employee is the number one priority. new details about d.c.'s recent spike in overdoses. the medical examiner says the drug at thes center a new type of k-2, which is a synthetic marijuana.ar it atly has a chemical combination not seen before.

yesterday going door to doorha ing out fliers warning people to stay away from the drug. there have been more than 100 overdose calls just since saturday. that is about the same number taken for all of july last year. medical examiner says people should take the warning seriously. >> i think the community needs to understand in a what's now out on the street, we don't k really what it is yet. and we're finding now, new compound that d.c has never seen before. so the message i stay away from this stuff. >> the fire chief says these overdoses are happening across the district, not just in a single neighborhood. a big development from he white house. vladimir putin could be coming to d.c. word of that invitation to the russia president surprised a lot of people, en some in president trump's own administration. visit would happen this fall at th height of the election season and considered an unexpected turn. since the summit the president

has faced a fire storm of bipartisan critsoicismcriticism time magazine isn't wasting any time jumping on the controversy. it is sending a strg message. take a look it shows preside trump morphing into vladimir putin and back to himself. animation was released on itter yesterday. cover story is titled the summit crisis. it described what it described as the president's puzzling affinity for putin. a -- the times says a reporter never took a step inside. a friend caught reportense his apartment on wednesday afternoon. according to thee friend, was leaving a note. "new york times" said the reporter left the note with the

friend and never went inside the apartment. reporter was trying to contact him about a story. if she is so intent on contacting me, i would have preferred for her to do it by phone and not by barging in when i'm not . >> this reporter in particular has been aggressive, you know asking questions of everybody who i've every known. >> is he was worked for stuart in the past. so far noe charges h been filed. if you're a frequent rider on the red line this will be important. a major shutdown starts tomorrow. for 45 days it will behut down for repairs. you can get around it by taking the green line to fort cotton from gallery place. more capacity will be added to the green and yellow lines during the shutdown. shuttle buses will be provided. service resuming september3.

>> there is now closure for the family of the woman killed in the metro smoke incident in 2015. etro reached a settlement with the family. 61-year-old died inside a train stoppedken a smo tunnel. the amount is unknown, but the family's lawsuit asked for$50 es claiming am metro's negligence led to that incident. we are learning new details about a deadly train accident in germantown. two were killed walking along the tracks wednesday night. two women m have died over a social media video. a friend that contacted news4 saying she believes the women were on the tracks recording something for social media. policere not confirming the report but say the train operator saw the women, sounded the horn and slammed the brakes. the train was not able to stop in>> time. many of you followed the alerts from the nbc washington

app wit theeported shooter. >> that sent patients and staff into a frenzy. this after a man tsheatened to t doctors. turns out it was a verbal threat and there was no active shooter. police still looked down four buildings and swept the entire campus. seayrity experts hospitals have particular reason to be on high ert. >> the are a high risk environment just for impulsive violence. for threatening behavior that might turn into something like a mass shooting. >> no one was hurt and thewn lock lifted after an hour. >> it's now4:09 crews rescued 50 to 60 cats from a hoarding situation. officials discovered water and electrical problems. hazmat units went into theome

with full gear and discovered more cats. some were in the walls. officials secured the home and are now talking about the homeowne homeowner. well, today is your chance to become a mega millionaire. jackpot for the mega millions lottery up to there is 422 million now. if there is a winner tonight, it would be at sixth largest, 19th largest in u.s. history. we're going to break down the chances of winning later. have to add that to the to-do list. >>shere a very strange landmark in the heart of london ght now. it certainly stands out among beg ben and the rest of the historic city. it is a 25 foot statue of jeff goblum. pose i from the movie jurassic park and the statue is meant to rk the 25th anniversary of the

movie. get near , take selfies. that thing. >> it's a good surprise. i went a long way here because of it. >> really? mou far did you come? >> i took a one and a half hour bus ride. >> it's certainly a sight to behold. that's as much as i can sum up. >> well said, sir. the statue was just installed on wednesday. t is part of a promotion for a subscription tv service in england. they're selling something. jeff goldblum -- jurassic world. he has a crazy following. >> because he's so, like pops up in like random movies now, and then -- >> kind of a scene st wler. >> tha a creepy statue. a virginia high school band is football fight song. >> we'll have the reaction for

that pluonnuing coverage of the wild weather in the midwest, a double tornado caught on camera. >> and sheen in a will be back to talk about the bad news about rain chances on the weekend. happy third and fourt birt

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bridge, you can see the semi shift into h lane. the driver suffered a medical issue behind the wheel. the treeper wooper was not seri hurt. you might freeze because you don't expect it. have the presence of mindo move out of the way. there is a serious hnclth n this morning after an old steam pipe burst in new york city. >> healt s officials thousands of people may have been exposed to dangerous asto asbestos. take a look at the images here. this is what it looked like in the flatisronict when the 86-year-old pipe burst. steam shot hundreds of feet into the air for nearly two hours. one person said it sounded lik a jet engine. >> i looked out the window and saw 300-foot column of steam rising into the air out of a giant hole in the middle of avenue chunks of concrete kind

of spread across the >> the debris on the ground has estos so sitive for a the surrounding area will be closed for several days. officials have to conduct more tests. new ruleseqring nfl players to stand for the national anthem are now on late last night the league and players assiation issued a statement agreeing to suspend enforcement of the polic this. follows the - thnfl's policy requires them to stand or stay in the locker room. both sides plan to discuss the issue over the next several weeks. school bells will soon ring again but one virginia high school will have to sing a different song on the football field. patrick henry high school is no longer allowed to play their fight song, diie.

principle would not elaborate but said the song will be replaced some communi members say the song dixie is a part of the school's tradition and hope the decision will be changed. that's in far southwest virginia. seeings morning, we are video of that line of severe storms in the midwest. >> take a looks at t rare cell phone video of two tornadoes in iowa. that is quite the sight to see.s the samem generated self damaging tornadoes. iowa's governor said she is sending emergency management crews. >> do you see everybody in the parking lot standing do you see this? they look pretty calm. and those look pretty nclose. >>hat video you can hear someone kind of laughing. >> maybe a far enough distance to observe how magnificent

mother nature is and powerful to see two side about buy de. -- we do not suggest you do that. if you see a tornado that looks that close, go iide. then we get video like that from people who don't care. >> we sit in awe. >> we do.er so weaike that is typical for the m cdle of thentry there in the tornado alley of course. but us, right here, we have, after today, not a good whether or -- weather pattern. it's going to get messy. so we'll tk about the nice weather first. that's what we have this morning. take advange of it. it's 72 degrees right now in washington. we have some very comfortable temperatures in our suburb 61 in frederick, 66 in manassas. gorgeous day to exercise. just like yesterday. 7:00 this morning.

get outside, ver pleasant, 72 by noon. 83 by the afternoon. stil dry and mostly sunny with temperatures in the upper 80's. this area of high pressure is t going keep us dry for only today. it's going to move away, as we go into the weekend, and take a look at that down to the south. this is an organizing area of low pressure pulling in moisture from the gulfo of mex riding up the eastern seaboard. and it's going to impact the weekend forecast. here's future weather. if you have friday night plans, we're still going to be dry. then for hetomorrow, computer model is kind of sped up on the timing here, so, saturd 11:00, we could very well already have showers moving in. that low moves away and for sunday, we look to be d the if first half of the day. second half sunday we d rain in the forecast. so we're going to keep that rain chance around later this week and also and even into n

t tomorrow, in the morning we unchtimee dry, by showers around by the afternoon. we're looking at highs in the upper 70's, scattered showers, periods of rain. some a little bit heavy atti s. see which areas are already seeing the sunday mostly later in the day. look at monday and tuesday, more rain in the more as we go into the rest of next week. chuck will show you that with the 10-day. it is we get a check on the roads. nice and dry. southbound 270 before democracy boulevard disabled dyvehicle. some trying to change the tire. so kind of stay away from that if you can. he was little bit in that right lane. alexania, northbound, 395 after duke street left lane blocked by that work zone. outer loop, inner loop after the

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susan hogan, news4. >> all right. i think she's saying everything in moderation. >> of course, especially yogurt and quinoa. nutritionists recommend a wide variety. >> i also like brussel sprouts. >> cram a that into a pork chop, i'm good. >> from health to fitness. a big claim fromnike. shoes that says they can help you move faster. one of my favorite quotes from julia childs. sunshine from today but rain chances climbing as we head into the weekend. a look at the weather coming up. >> we continue to follow the breaking news, tourists killed during a trip out on the water. latest updates from a deadly duck boat accide duck boat accide nt

teach them to smile. teach them to love themselves. teach them they are special, and you'll be amazed by what they do. >> announcer: news4 today begins with breaking news. >> oh, no. >> we have breaking news now at 4:30. new updates on a string of deadly storms.

the death toll rising after a boat full of tourists cap sizes. plus tornado trouble. a first look at the damage. good morning erybody i'm aaron gilchrist. >> i'm eun yang. we'll get right back to that in a minute. first a check on your forecast as we begin this friday. storm team4 tracking storms. >> chuck and sheena here with the forecast but melissa has been update on the roads. >> it looks nice outside. you're smiling very big right now. >> i'm a smiley person. >> are you? >> don't you think? >> sometimes. but this seems extra suspicus. >> i worry about people's outdoor plans this weekend. >> weold them. it's going to rain. >> exactly. maybe this is the weekend y binge watch your favorite show, read a nice book. peace for example.