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 sunshine, hot and

humid, some storms that could be strong, but a betterhance of those tomorrow. let's talk about traffic with jack taylor. good morning. northbound baltimore washington parkway, a vicle left the roadway before powder mill, tow otrucks scene. southbound unaffected for now. the beltway has been quiet as we start things off. should find all your travel lanes open we have ash new c in virginia. 56 eastbound before fairfax, a new crash blocking the left lane. 5:01 right n and a 5-year-old girl from fairfax county is dead, her sister in grave condition in the hospital and their mother accusoo of ng them. >> we brought you the breaking news yestetoay morning. day the mother, veronica youngblood, will make her first pearance in court.

justin finch is live with more on theue family i that may have sparked this killing. >> reporter: good morning. we have learned there has been so family strife in the youngblood house hold. veronica youngblood is due to arrive in court later t s morning and the question everyone is aching to answer is what may have prompted hero allegedly shoot and kill her 5-year-old daughter. details so far a still emerging in this case. 33-year-old veronica youngblood is accused o shooting two children sunday night, one of them her 5-year-old daughter, bro brooklynn died after being shot in the head. police found both children in an apartment unit, they lat tracked down youngblood to loudon county, a townhouse there. spoke to a mother in that neighborhood who waspr sured to learn why youbeblood was g pursued sunday night and

she also witnessed youngblood's arrest. take a listen. >> she looked young. she looked like she was coming from the gy she looked like someone i would never think would do such a thing. i did not know. >> reporter: and again, that mother shocked to learn the details of this investigation. so far youngblood is due inus court in a few hours, about 9:00 a.m. we are told. julie carry also uncovering in this case that her ex-husband had som marital strife over the years. we'll have more in the next live report. i'm justin finch news 4. it's 5:03 a disturbing discovery in fredericksburg, a homeowner returned from vacation and found a body in his front yard. now the man accused of dumpingy the b faces a felony charge. police say the victim was with

jared smith when his car crashed heto a ditch. they say smith t hid the victim's body so it could not be seen from the road. we talked to the homeowner who did not want to show his face on camera. >> twoamies tragically lost people now. they have bigger stress problems than what i have. >> the victim has been entified as 23-year-old deandre miller coldwell officers say coldwell used heroin just hours before the crash. this morning a school bus driver is behind bars accused of sexually assaulting with a girl with special needs in montgomery county. >> chris lawrence outside the courthouse now with more on this. >> reporter: when you put your kids on that school bus, you a trusting -- no, you expect that they're going to get home safely. not only is ts bus driver charged with raping a girl on

the bus but now prosecutors think there could be more victims out there. this is etienne kabong, he's 62 years old, from gaitersburg but students knew him as mr. steed. his charges date back to july 31st, he was driving a bus with special needs students. they stopped to let one of the kids off and the school bus attendant gets off to help that childnds soon as they do they say the camera on the bus captures him walking back to the seat, sitting down with this girl and molesting her in the seat. detectivesay they could hear her scream. that she tried to move away as he was assaultingher. now what we've heard, basically, is that from -- from police is that because of his extensive record, because he's driven so many buses over suc a long period, there could be more victims. the superintendent sent a letter

to parents inontgomery county outlining everything that happened. jack smith saidds w cannot convey my anger, disgust and disappointment in the alleged behavior of mr. kabongo. again, he had a flight scheduled to ethiopia for today. that's why thest e's attorney kaid we think he's a flight r they did not give him bond, he's still locked up right now. this is a list of all the bus routes he's driven over the past nine years. i've tweeted outhat link so you can see and take a look at some of the schools that he has driven too. reporting live, chris lawrence, news 4. 6 minutes after the hour right now and the mendocinomend complex fire is the largest in the state's history.

>> this thing is a monster. 443 square miles of land already scorched. so give you perspective, this thing is nearly the size of l geles. the massive fire is made up of two firesth burning n of france. it's being treated as one because of how close the two bodies of flames are to each other. of it little sig slowing down. it's only 30% contained. we talked to sheena rveen, she said as of right now, this area the region the fire isoving not forecasted for rain any time soon. a big job ahead with this one of a dozen fires firefighters are battling out west. the mass shooting inside a maryland news room was a tragedy that stunned our area. >> the police chief in that community is talking to the news 4 i-team about changes to prevent it from happening again.

jared ramos is charged with shooting 5 newspaper employees back in june. he's pled not guilty. police records show for years he sent disturbing tweets to newspaperemployees. the police chief said his department gets at least one call a day a a threat. now he's planning to hire an employee to do nothing but monitor social media for anything but concerning language. >> if we're not trying to get better after every bad thing that happens we're not doing our job. >> coming up tonight we'll hear more about how social mea is changing the role of police officers in preventing crimes. today in ohio, republican troy balderson, who you see with president trump, is fighting for the s statth congressional d district seat. he's facing a tough race with

democrat danny o'connor. voters in miigan, missouri and kansas also cast ballots today. testimony from the key witness in the trial of paul manafort is expected to continue today. yesterday rick gates admitted to falsifying financial duments d hiding millions of dollars in foreign bank accounts. gates told jurors he committed a host ofaf crimes with mt and he stole from manafort while working for him. th were indicted on 12 federal charges including conspiracy against the u.s. manafort pleaded guilnot guilty all the charges. broadway singing different tune in front of the white house. those are cast members from musicals including wicked,be tiful and hamilton to participant in the ongoing es pr

this was organized in part by rosie o'donnell who has famously feuded with president trump. >> your voice is important whether it's here in washington d.c. or the town where you live. let your voice be heard. the president is not currently in washington, 's on what the white house calls a working vacation at his resort in new jersey. white supremacists are coming to town this sunday to rally in the shadow of the white house. while the district has experience handling protesters, anxiety is high because this group has a history of deay violence. this is the same grouphat held a rally late august in charlottesville where a counter protester was killed. metro said there will not be a private rail car for the group. they will not say how peoplell e kept safe but adds they're working with police. e the pur line will allow you to go to more places but in th meantime will slow down your

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welcome back.'s 5:15. take a look at this incredible video. look at those flames. a tanker truck craet off a massive fireball on antalian highway killing two people and injuring dozens more. this happened yesterucy. a tanker slammed into the back of another semi triggering this large explosion. officials shut down the freday evacuated the area. then a short timeno laterer blast even bigger than the first one. the explosion was so powerful part of the road collapsed. just incredible to see from all angles. we know this is the time g withduation photos, time to be creative. but one student took her shoot to a whole other level. >> thisn s to be texas a&m

alumni, herictures are giving you -- let's look at the pictures. that's her posin with an alligatorig called tex. >> do you think you should take a photograph with called big tex? i don't know. it might be dangerous. 1 she took a few snapshots with thefoot gator at gator country. nose.'s touching his that's close to his teeth. >> she went into the water with she interned at gator country there. >> that's crazy. i don't care where you worked. >>she's getting some sort of wildlife degree, clearlynows at she's doing. >> good luck and congratulations. soccer players have new field to play on in the district. >> they unveiled a new field yesterday. it's part of a development with the u.s. soccer foundation.

the group hopes to put these play spaces communities across the country to give kids a safe placela to p in their neighborhood. theoundation says they hope to open at least a thousand mini fields nationwide by 2026 that's fantastic. >> not today. >> not today to be >> it's too hot to beut in that. >> i feel kids don't feel it a much. >> they're out playing in the summertime. >> you grew up in richmond, it's a swamp area >> i stayed in the house. i fired up that nintendo,he original nintendo, mind you. >> do you have it?no >> . >> i do, i have two. >> do you have "street fighter"? >> i do. i have all three. should we go weather? all right, guys. some storms later on this

afternoonc isolated c coming our way. slightly betr coverage than we had yesterday. some of the storms could be a little bit stronger bu believe we could have a better chance of severe weather tomorrow. behind that front, the humidity drops just a little bit. it's not going to dropff so much where it's going to be refreshing outside but thursday and friday just a little less this weekend he is going to be a little bit on the wet side. we have rain coming thisd weeked t looks like it lasts into early next week. visibility down a little bit, especially those areas that had rain aen we into last night. again a little patchy fog out there. be careful as you make your way out the door this morning. no need to really worry about any cold air coming our way. temperatures already in the 70s right now, heade to near 90 by noon. so temperatures in the low 90s byer on this afternoon. some of these storms as i said could strong later o this afternoon. if you're headed out for

grilling, again we have a chance for thunderstorms poppingndp ar the region, but it is going to be warm out there. i know s kids went back to school already, but if the kids are t going camp or back to school, it is going to be warm and sticky. keep an eye in the sky for afternoontos. keep an eye in the sky if you' e headed tol headed to the pool because of the afternoon storms but that would feel nice because it's going to be 100 degrees. here's a look at your future weather. this is 5:00 a.m. you can see we have sunshine out there, a few storms popping up after about 2:00. again not everybody goingo see them, but a little bit more widespread in coverage as we go through the day. about 8:00, 9:00, they start to die off. tomorrow a 50 to 60% chance of storms. thursday and friday, plenty of sunshine, back in the 80s

and another chance of rain coming saturday, sunday, and monday and tuesday of next week. jack taylor, how's the traffic looking out there? >> 66 going eastbound we have a crash, but you can see everything over on the shoulderw struck on scene, and a minil lay, volume still light this morning. we had earlier issues on the northbound lane befor powde mill we had the vehicle leave he roadway and go to the tre line, authorities arrived on scene, and temporarily stopping traffic. ey just had a mini van leaving th rdways into the trees. inner and outer loop, should find nothing wrong as we keep it clean and green. hum us might be on your l grocert every week but is it good for

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>> announcer: "news4 today" starts now. it's about 5:30 as we look outside at the capitol dome ere looking nice but when you step outside it'soing to feel like august in washington. this afternoon it's going to be 0 degrees, at least the feel like temperature will be that outside. >> only i washington. >> aaron is looking moist. we're in it now. >> if i walk away -- good morning everybody i'm aaron gilchrist.

>> i'm eun yang. sheena and lauren are h your forecast and we'll check in with jack taylorr for y traffic. >> jack is the only one working right now. he's the only one up here working. >> he's wking o completely ignoring us.ik he's i'm not stepping in that. >> smart man. ladies, what do you have? >> jack is just hanging out. we have hot and humid conditions aaron so get excited about that. it is going to be warm out ther anmoist. >> yes and the moisture and the heat will make it feel around 100 degrees today. look at these temperatures this morning, a lot likeyesterday. me areas a couple degrees warmer than yesterda 76 in washington by 7:00 this morning we'll be in the 70s, still, the mid 70s. and then by 10:00 we'll be around 80 degrees for much of thearea. some of us could be closer to the mid to low 80s. humid, and by:00 p.m., it'll

be hot. the humidity makes it feel hotter. and then we have the chance for a couple pop-up storms in the fo wcast. tomorrhave a higher chance of thunderstorms by the ind of the week we' see better conditions before we talk about th weekend rain chances. lauren is back in a minute. let's head to jack taylor and get a check on the roads. we'll start on the northbound washingtony, park touchdown powder mill we had a mini van go into the tree line.h paused traffic temporarily, traffi nowmoving. there was a delay leaving the beltway headed north. now we have a crash sth on the parkway. washington here's what's left of the crash in virginia,he 66 eastbound, accident activity on the left shoulder. what was left of the vehicles

involved in the crash, earlier we had them on the tow truck, the tow truck is gone, like virginia state authorities on the scene. usually the flashing lights cause a rubber necking delay but volume still pretty light, nobody cares at this point. today the fairfax count mother accused of an unthinkable crime will appear incourt. veronica youngblood is accused of shooting her two daughters, thone of , 5 years old, is dead. her other daughter is in the hospital fighting for her life. >> justin finch is outside the courouse with more on the family issue that may have sparked this epkilling. >>ter: it's hard to know what would prompt the shooting ut we could ren come closer to learning something today when veronica youngblood appears in court in just a f hours. here's a look at her mug shot here. we can tell you that julie carrie was able to do some digging into court documents and

able to uncover that youngblood and her ex-husband were living together with their children in a town he in oaktown and found they were on track to move out of state but sunday night police arrived to a unit at the postyson corner apartment unit finding the two chi ren shot one of them dead, she had been shot in her head. a second child was rushed to the hospital in serious condition. youngblood was found in a n townhouse incounty. we spoke with neighbor who told us she saw a police officer arrest youngblood. >> i saw him pointing a gun at h someone, w seemed to be a lady, she looked pretty young, and she was on the sidewalk. he told her, put your arms up, and like any arms you have put them down put your arms up and don'tove, done move.

>> reporter: it is unclear at this time what youngblood's connection was to the apartment in the tyson's area. we canell you i court documents you will see a history of divorcend custody battles between youngblood and her ex-husband. no word what if anything it had to do with this. but she's due live in court this morning. s i34 we have new information about the search for a missing mother of five.y her b was found in a philadelphia basement she liv in new york but her suv was spotted in fair fox counth. is video of her outside of her home in the bronx on july 28th. that same day she went to philadelphia to meet a friend. family members say they never heard from her again. days later police found ier

vehicle fairfax county they arrested luis martinez. :35 here's a look at your top stories, today family and friends say gd-bye to a little girl killed by a tree services will be held today, her parents nttucked her bed wednesday night when a tree crashed into the home during a thunderstorm. visitation begins at 10:00 this morning. the mendoci complex fire ldfire is now the largest in california history. it i nearly the size of the city of los angeles. this massive fire is made up of two fires burning north of san francisco. according to officls theire is only 30% contained. no deaths have beenepted so far. three, two, one, zero, ignition. >> while you were sleeping,

space x successfully launched another communication satellite into orbit. it blasted off about 1:00 this morning. the new satellite wil help provide internet and phone surface to ruralar p of southeast asia. also the little league team takes the field in connecticut a win keeps the hope ofo heading t the world series live. >> they take on the berlin little lgue team from maryland's eastern shore. they lost the first game this weekend. our entire area, including the rooting n nationals is for the team. they're part of the nats youth baseball academy. win or lose they're already because they've accomplished so much. >> it's the first ever predominantly black little league team tova e. good luck on the next round. ahead still, a brawl at a

beauty salon. and investigated after aving a baby, a mother's parenting skills called into question because of something she her warning about something that could beou

>> anner: you're watching "news4 today" today. . a lot of people go to the salon to treat themselves but this scene was anything but relackg. it's a fight that broke out at a new york city salon friday, you can see an employee hitting a woman with a it was a customer who refused to play because she said she didn't like how the salon waxed her eyebrows. you can seehe threw a few hits of her own. the video has been viewed on linef thousands time. both women are facing charges. people who live nrby have been protesting the salon calling for it to be shut down. >> what a fight going look at

that. >> eyebrows are important. >> got to get it right. i understand. wnghave a war about your health this morning as we prepare for a lot of sun thi week. >> doctors say black people are not doing enough to protect f themselvm skin cancer. there's a recent survey that found a majority of blacken and women do not use sun screen. many belief a in the old myth that people with darker skin don't need sun otection. >> it is hard because, you know, you have years and years and years of what you don't need. and that true. >> whether it's oudy, sunny, raining, snowing, i don't care you need sun screen every single day. >> doctors say while skin cancer is more common i fair skinned people it does occur for with darker skin and when it does it's often deadly. it's often diagnosed at later stages when it's less t likely be cured. we have muggy conditions already on this tuesday

we are heating up, in fact, by 9:00 a.m. temperatures around 80 degrees. patchy fog out there right now but we are looking at more storms later on this afternoon.t we'll timem out for you coming up. jack. you will find we havewo problems on the baltimore washington parkway, northbound, a vehicle left the rd but the lanes are open. southbou

>> announcer: you're watching "news4 today." welcome back, at 5:45 thism shown here on your tv screen is behind bars thi morning accused of sexuality assaulting a girl with special needs in montgomery county. and prosecutors say he was at risk of leaving the country. >> chris lawrence is live outside the montgomery county courthouse now with more on this. chris, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, aaron. when you put your kids on that school bus, you trust, you expect that they're going to get home safely. not only is this driver accused of molesting a 12-year-old girl, but police think there could be

more victims out there. look at this image. this is photo of etienne kabongo, he's 62 years old. back on july 31st, he s driving a group of students with special needs home.th one o kids got to the stop and the bus assistant got off with that child to help them get off and that's when prosecutors say mr. kabongo walked to this girl's , she was sitting by herself, and raped hern he's b charged with second degree rape, and molested her. is in the process of outfitting all of its buses with security cameras. this bus had a camera and it captured most of what happened prosecutors say. they also say he had an airline ticket to ethiopia for today. they saye was a flight risk

and the judge denied him bond. we also spoke with some of the administrators and prosecutors who say this is the worst --wo e t kind of crime for families to endure. >> it's every parent's worst nightmare to have their child accosted on a schoolus on the way to and from child care. >> reporter: again we're talkinb t he's been driving for multiple years i've got a list of schools and bus route going back eight, nine years, i put this up on my twitter page far back it goes. police interested in what happened, if ,anythi in the past. chris lawrence live news 4. > 13 before the hour now. it was a tense day in an alexandria courtroom as former business partners face each other. >> rick gates is testifying

agains paul nafort. yesterday gates made explosive admissions. tracie pots joins u live now. >> reporter: he said he hid money from the government and stole money from his boss. we can hear more about that gates expected to be up for three hours of direct and cross-amination on what h did when he was working for the president's former campaign ma chair, paul fort, who's on trial now for these taxsvasion charnd other financial crimes. ates said he was a guy who was directed to make wire transfers to these offshore accounts to hide millions of dollarshey earned working for the russian backed ukrainian government wo shldn't have to pay taxes on it. e said he lied to the accountants, bookkeepers, falsified tax forms and then took some off the top. stole hundreds of thousands of dollars to put in his own offshore aosounts his

didn't know about. today on cross-examination we're likely to hear the manafort attorneys hone in on that last part, how he was stealing mon from his boss behind his back, and whether or not that makes gates a reliable witness against paul manafort. more on that today. tracie pots on the hill for us. thank you. 5:49, new this morning. politicians are calng for donald trump's hollywood walk of fame star to be removed. you may recall the star was recently vandalized. the city of hollood passed a resolution last night urging them to remove the star due to the president's treatment of women and other actions. it will be up to the chamber of commerce. we're 90 days away fm the elections, by that time voters may have three candidates for county executive.

nancy floreen is an independent w -- a democrat who plans to run as an independence. >> what does this do to the race? a lot of people think it's goint to s the vote. >> it's not. that. are concerned about mr. ficker is going to come in thir matter what. what you're hearing is a hope for unityon inomery county, not for splitting the community apart. >> the board of elections will count each signature she submitted for verification and make the final decision. new information into the mind of a teenager accused of opening fire at a parkland, florida high school in february. according to just released transcripts of the hinterviews had with police, nikolas cruz said he heard voices in his he told police the voices told

him to buy a gun and to burn kill, and destroy. many of the details in the repo are blacked out because under florida law, some information from confessions must be witd h from the trial.until this morning a mother in chicago is planning her 17-year-old daughter's funeral instead of helping her get ready for high schoolne she isf a dozen people killed over the weekend in chicago. at least 66 others were shot. one hospital had to turn away victims' familie because the emergency room was so crowded with mourners. city leaders held a news conference to assure overall gun violence is down. a maryland woman paidhe price for her breakfast choice. she was in labor a when her doctor came in and said she tested positiveor opiates. sheed delivhe baby, she told our sister station in baltimore,

she ate a s popd bagel for ea ast, the poppy seeds contain trace of opias, as a sult her daughter had to stay in the hospital for five days. >> i said can you test me again? i ate a poppy seed bagel for ea brast, she said no. you've been reported to the state. >> doctors realized if situation was a legitimate case of popfe seed e. her case was closed. she hop hospitals raise thresholds for a positive test or warn expectant mothers. i think it should be part of the checkups, how else would you know yourak bst choice could be a result of your child being held from you. beyonce front and center on the cover of vogue mag seen. >> s reveals in the saturday

september -- the big mack daddy ge ready for the fall -- she delivered her twins by emergency c section. b she said theies were in intensive care for weeks. she also said her attitude about her body changed after delivering the twins. she isn't pressuring herself to lose weight quickly like she did after the birth of her first child. but she looks amazg. >> she does. >> the poppy seed story, have you seen the story where elaine ate the poppy seed muffin and she failed the trudrug test. i learned a lot from "seinfeld". today we're stillng g to have a hot and humid day. it's a warm start this morning, ill a morning where

temperatures are in the 70 we have 90s and humidity. this afternoon we have a couple p-up storms in the forecast, similar to yesterday but more storms in the forecast tomorrow. temperature wise we're in the low to mid 70 76 in washington, 73 in frederick. if you're exercisingtoday, looks good as we go through the morning hours, muggy out there. 'll see plenty of sunshine this afternoon. and then we have a chance for afternoon thunderstorms. if you're headed to the pool, a good place to cool off, temperatures quickly int the 90s. with the humidity keepn e to the sky because we'll see a couple pop up storms. as we go into the afternoon we see a few popping up. tomorrow we start dry but through the afternoon we have better chance of scattered showers and storms moving in. that's part of a cold front but taen its to dry us out.

now with our temperatures we're staying normal this time of the year. normal high has gone to 87 degrees. over the next cple days we'll be in the 90s. but those will be dry

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let's start with sheena and lauren, andk a l at these summer days. the dog days of summer. days can call it the dog of summer. it's steamy outside, going to feel like 100 degrees and going to be a lot of bugs out. s >> ande afternoon storms. what would a summer day be without those hitr miss storms. that's what we're going to see this afternoon, similar to yesterday but i thi wll have more widespread coverage today. temperatures in the mid 70s so you know it'swarm. behind the camera you can see a little bit of fog andou maye encountering that as you morning.through your calm winds, the sun is coming up. temperatures come up over the next several hours. we're ates 90 deg by 10:00. low to mid 90s today. you tack on the humidity it's going to feel warm er. we have more storms today. still feeling close to 100 degrees. humidity drops a little bit by thuray and friday.

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