it was hot and humid yesterday. >> it was more humid. like last night didn't seem so t but you felt moist. >> all the way through the evening. i'm eun yang. >> and i'm aaron gilchrist. >> you did say moist. >> a lot of people don't like that word. >> i don't like thatrd >> i don't mind it. >> it's just a weird word. >> we have toayit. >> what about soy? >> which is worse, moist or upy? >> whatever word you want to use to describe the humidity today, use it. it's hot and humid already. >> it's going to fee like sauna at times. the 90s are back, the humidity is back. it's going to look like yesterday. we have a warm start this morning, by the afternoon, quickly weet into the 90s by lunchtime we'll be in the 8 but the humidity will make it

feel lle the 90s. we fell like 100 degrees this afternoon. we have a cnce of thunderstorms this afternoon and more chances tomorrow. temperatures right now 78 degrees in quantity koe. that's the warmest spot on the map. 76 degrees in washington. if the kids still havodsummer camp before the back to school thing gets started, temperatures will be in the 80s for most of it and then in the 90s this afternoon, be are ose couple pop up storms we'll watch that for you. more details on the forecast in a couple weeks. let's head to jack taylor to see what's happening on the roads this morning. >> we'll start with one of our few delays, 95 in virginia, near the center point parkway, there was a work zone, but it's

clearing up now. 395 you have a work zone there. but it's the southbound direction and not causing any do slow . the beltway through maryland and virginia, should find youranes open, lots of green on the map. let's see if we t can keeps going for hours and hours and hours. it's 4:32 and today the fairfax county mother will appear inourt today, she's accused of shooting two daughters, her 5-year-old is dead and her other daughters is fighting for her life right now. it happened at the tyson post counter sunday night. >> police arrested her after she knocked on theoo d in loudon county of ap acquaintance. > this morning howard county police are offering a reward for any information that could lead to an arrest in thef shooting

a 19-year-old woman. hey say she was an innocent by stander hit by a stray bullet in omurel. that is in critical condition right now, but stable. hople who heard the gun fire say theyrd between six and seven shots. witnesses told police they saw a group of young men running after the shots were fired. authorities say a crime like this one is unusual in this area. >> we don't have a lot of shooting incidents in howard county. there's not a high rate of violent crime. >> the reward is upo $1,500 for information that leads to an arrest. new information about the search for a missing motr o five. her body was found in a philadelphia basement. she lived in new york. this is surveillance video of her outside of her home in the bronx on july 28th. that same day she went to philadelphia to meet a. frie family members say they never heard from her again.

days later police found her vehicle in fairfax county. theyes ad luis martinez. a teenager who disappeared last monday from montgomery county was found safe in canada. it's note clear how ended up in canada but police say he was not injured. today faly say good buy to a 10-year-old girl who was killed by aee her parents just tucked her into bed wednesdayight when a tree crashed through their home during a thunderstorm. she was trapped in her bed and later died. visitation starts at 107k th:00 morning. >> a school bus driver accused of assaulting a 12-year-old girl with special needs. police say etienne kabong

attacked that girl on a montgomery county school bus. the mon dee see doe wildfe is the largest in california. it's burning north of san francisco. according to fire officials the fi is only 30% contained. promising news, no deaths have been reported. today rick gates returns to the stand to testify against paul manafort. yesterday gates admitted he falsified financialts docum and hid millions of dollars from the irs and also testified he stole from manafort wle working for him. this morning the little league team takes the field in connecticut. >> the d.c. team takes on the berlin little league team. the team lost its first game of the regional tournament this pastd. weeken

our entire area, including the washington nationals isng roo for the team. all of these young players are part of the nats youthaseball community. the team is the first ever n predtly black little league team to advance to the regionals. the game is on espn this morning. > we want them to make it to bristol. >> yes. it's 4:36 right now. still ahead a brawl at a beauty salon. we'll tell you which trement sparked this scene. investigatingfter having a baby, a mother'skills called to queinst

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was anything but relaxing. check out a fighthat broke out in a new york city salon last friday. you can see employees hitting a woman with a broom. it turns out that womanas a customer who refused to pay because she said lhe didn'te how the salon person waxed her b ws. so she threw a few hits first of her own. the video has been viewed online times.nds of both women are now facing charges. peopleea who livey have been protesting outside the salon calling for it to be st down. >> wow. >> over eyebrows. >> you know what -- >> it's the -- never mind. i can talk -- you can paint those on, right? >> if you mess up your eyebrows, i might have to leave work for a week. you don't want that to happen. >> ano. >> we ha warning about your health this morning as we prepare for a lot of sun ts week. >> doctors say black people are not doing enough torotect

themselves from skin cancer. a resent survey found tjo ty of black men and women do not use sun screen, they believe the age-old mythhat dark skin does not need sun protecti. >> it is hard because you have years of what you don't need, and that's not true. >> whether it's cloudy, sunny, snowing, i don't care you need sun screen every day.hi >> skin cancer is more common in fair skinned people it does occur in people with darker it's farwhen it does, more deadly. it often diagnosed in black people at later stages. >> i thi it's a problem with different ethnic -- >> you can never do too much. as we go through the day today, morning sun -- hded to near 90 degrees by the time we

go through the noon hour. we'll talk about ting of rain and maybe severe weather not only today but coming up tomorrow right after this. late utility work coming in near naywho road, sounds likegu working on the signal but

ignition. while you were sleeping, space x successfully launched another satellite into orbit. it blasted off just after 1:00 this morning. it will help pvide internet and phone service to rural parts of southeast asia. a tense day in a federal courtroom as former business partners faced each other. rick gat is expected to take the stand today testifying against paul manafort. >> yesterday gates made some explosive admissions. >> reporter: he said he stole money from his boss and hid itg from the rnment. rick gates saying on the stand that paul manafort, the president's former campaign chair, directedim to do wire transfers into offshore accounts to hide millions of dollars they

earned working for the ukraine government, to hide that money from the u.s. government, the o irs, they wouldn't have to pay taxes on it. he admitted he falsified tax records, lied to accountants and bookkeepers to hide that money. and also that he kept hundreds of thousands of dollars for himself in offshore accounts he set up for himself and his boss knew nothing about that. because of the embezzlement today as we expect more testimony, paul manafort'ss attornn cross-examination will try to paint him as an unliable witness, in other words how can you trust what he said about what manafort did when he lied and admittedly stole money from his boss. so today we're expecting three more hours of direct examination and then the cross-examination of the government star witness. tracey, thank you. 4:46 now, politicians are calling for president trump's

hollywood walk of fame star to be removed. you may recal the president's star was recently vandalized. the city of west hollywood passed an ordinance last night. it asked to remove the star due president's e, treatment of women and other actions. it would be a move that has never been done before. today mks 90 days until election day and in montgomery county you can s three names on the ballot when it's time to choose the nextnt c executive. nancy florene presented 20,000 tition signatures to get her name othe ballot. she's a democrat that plans to run as an independent. she said the current candidates are flawed candidates. >> what does it do to the race? people think it's going to split the vote. >>t's not. people are concerned about that.

mr. ficker is going to come in third no matter what. this is a demand for hope of unity in montgomery county. the board of election will count each signature for verification andake the final decision about the ballot. new information this morning into the min of the teenager accused of opening fire at a parkland, florida high scho in february. according to just released transcripts of thl first for interview he had with police, nikolas cruz said he heard voic in his head months before and the morning of the shooting at the high school on va len pe's day. he said the voices told him to y a gun and to burn, kill and destroy. many details a blocked out because under florida law, some information from confessions must be withth held from public until try. this morning a woman is

planning her 17-year-old daughter's funeral instead of getting ready for her senior year in high school. e girl was one of 12 people killed inag cho. one hospital had to turn away victim's familiesecause the waiting room was so crowde the city officials assure gun a maryland woman paid the price for her breakfast choice. she was in labor when her doctor came in and said she tested positives for opiates. she said she ate aop seed bagel for breakfast. as a result h daughter had to stay in the hospital on hold for fiveays. >> and i said, can you test me again. and i ate a poppy seed bagel

this morning for breakfast. she id, no, you've been state.ed to the >> so doctors say tyealized that the situation was a legitimate case of poppy seed defense. herase was closed and she said she hopes hospita raise the threshold for positive tests o warn expecting. mothe i would not think twice about eating aoppy seed bagel. beyonce isn the cover of vogue magazine. >> she reveals in the september issue -- that's the big>> one. september? >> yes. it gets ready for the fall season. she delivered her twins by emergency c sect she said thee babies wer in intensive ce for weeks. the singer and super star said her attitude about her body changed after welcoming the sntwins. she't pressuringerself to

loose weight quickly like sheft did aer the birth of her first child. she looks . incredible >> of course, >> i think she's in a different category. i've seen a few of the already, stunning. this is the first time she had theg editorial mak decisions. so as a special guest, she chose e photographer. she had a lot of say. >> you do want to contr everything about it, don't you? >> right. >> it's about you, you want your hands in every aspect of it. >> i can't wait to see the rest of it. how about the weather? hot and hot. >> yes, our hair is going to do this later itoday. like your hair today. it loo lionesque. >> today it is humid. we might get some frizz going on, especially this morning with the mugginess, 90s as we go through the afternoon, humidity stays high. by the end of the week we'll be drying out but the humidity is

not going to drop off t today with the humidity it's going to feel like 100 degrees this afternoon. we have some pop-up storms in the forecast. temperatures in the mid to lows this morning, muggy outside, 78 innt k co. by lunchtime, close to 90 degree humidity making it feel around 100 degrees. by 4:00 p.m. temperaturet 93. here's what future weather is showing as we go through the day today. you see by 7:00 p.m.e could have another couple thunderstorms forming north and west of d.c. and trying to move through but dieing out after suns sunset. tomorrow dry the first half the day. we have a higher chance for scattered showers and start to dry out by the end of the week. there's your forecast for that. temperatures i 8the uppers.

you might notice a tiny break in the humidity thursday, friday,n but noting too noticeable. into the weekend we are watching rain and those rain chances once they start, there's a chance they could last into t first couple days of next week. let's check the roads this morning with jackor ta >> we'll startith the inbound suitland parkway, the inbound lanes now open. we have the work long-term georgia washington parkway, a new trafficpa ern, southbound two lanes, northbound you have one getting by. usually northbound i slowest. we have the beltway itself, inner andoo outer moving very well. our new trouble spots north on the baltimore washington pa way. it sounds like a tow truck is on scene and grabbed the left lane

before powder mill. back to you. withere at the live des new video out of indonesia, look this shows the aftermath of sunday's 6.9 magnitude earthquake. so far the death toll a is 98 but officials saying that number is it expected to rise. we are about to show you pamatictures we just got in, but before we do, we want to mention everyone we see in the pictures are alive. take a look. -- >> i think we lost angie's mike. we wl try t bring you the latest a little later in the newscast. 4:54 and kidsick off t school year in a few weeks. students in prince george's county sta the year with new supplies. this is one of many stuff a bus lsents. yesterday officia created a

huma chain to load 2,500 backpacks on a bus. they'll be handed out to students latermohis h. the school district's goal is to collect 15,000 backpacks. >> our goal is to make sure backpack,ent has a school supplies and what happens next, they'll have a smilen eir face to start an amazing, successful school year. >> the stuff a bus campaign has anothervent at lar go plaza shopping center. another great way to help is by taking part in nbc's annual backpack for kids. tomorrow is the next chance to help out with that. we'll be at the apple federal credit union in kingstowne. if you want to make a secure donation online go to nbcwashington.com and search backpacks. a new jerseych t had a

surprise when she helped a fellow customer out in wawa. she paid for his snacks. do you recognize him? she didn't. she said he looked like keith urban, that's because she was keith urban. e has a great story to tell students this year. that tour is heading here, keith urban plays at jiffy lube live. >> more reason to do something nice w no justin timberlake would show up if i played f his chick-fil-a. doesn't happen. >> th're warning him. we're learning more about a mother accused of killing her own daughters. a family comese hom to find a man dead next to their porch, sd now another man accused

of dumping his body there. that's next as ns 4 continues.

>> announcer: "news4 today" starts now. just about 5:00 a.m., good morning everybody i'm aaron gilchrist. >> i'm eun yang thanks for joinings for news 4 today. westerday was hot today may feel hotter. ant to start with a look at your forecast. >> jack taylor also in with a look at our commute this morning. let's start with how hot it's

going to get. >> it's going to feel around 100 degrees this afternoon. if you thoughtesterday w hot, yesterday we got a little bit of relief, the showers picked up early. >> you're right. >> today we don't have the showers that narly thebers are going to keep going on. >> we do have a little bit ofre ef toward the end of the week but just a little bit. >> nothing to write home about really. but theig is some at the end of the tunnel i guess. 76 degrees is our temperature right now. the south wind bringing in the humidity. the wind n is too bad today. fou wake up this morning you'll see a little bitog this morning. especially in some of the areas that received rainyesterday. starting with temperatures in the 70s. head to 80 degrees by 9:00 a.m. so we'll be at the 80 degree mark by the middle of the morning. then the afternoon, mid to low 90s. plenty of