our number one goal is to make sure nobody gets hurt andy no propert gets destroyed. >> that's d.c.'s police chief wlking about this weekend's demonstration bhite nationalists. were expecting much more information from him and the mayor in the next hour.>> > it is gameday for the washington. redski we're going to help you get ready and familiar with some of the team's newce and the dog days of summer continue. take a look, hazy sunine outside. we're on our way toward 90 degrees again today, and if w hit it, it will be the sixth straight day in a row of 90 or higher. so when are we going to get some relief? i'll have the latest in my updated forecast.

good morning and welcome to news4 midday. i'm molette green. >> i'm pat lawson muse.in we beg with event planned this weekend. marking one year since the deadly clash between white nationalists and counterprotesters in charlottesville. >> virginia's governor and the city of charlottesville have declared states ofn emergency case people show up and things get out of hand. >> and soon we'll be gettingn update from d.c. officials about the plan for the rally here. >> let's get right onews4's megan mcgrath live in northwest with what is planned. megan? d morning.r: well, g in about an hour, the mayor and representatives from several fferent law enforcement agencies will be gathering here in northwest. they're going to be participatin in a round table discussion with community and faith leaders. they'rekioing to be t about exactly what's being done, how they are preparing for thee unrprotests.ally and

all is quiet around house at the moment, but sunday will bring a potentially volatile mix for the unite the right rally and coterprotesters. vernment agencies are coordinating to make sure that the violence that erupted in charlottesville a year ago doesn't happen here in d.c. the mayor,hief of police, chief of the park police, homeland security and other agencies are all sitting down at noon today to finalize plans. metropolitan police chief says lessons have been learned in the wake of the charlottesville molence. >> tn criticisms of what happened in charlottesville, one wa a failure to coordinate with other law enforcement agencies. weo that her on a daily basis. thed criticism was a failure to keep the two groups separated. we're going to make sure that hyppens here in washington, d.c. >> withcal barriers? >> with whatever we need to do. >> reporter: there will be road closures and parking restrictions in areas around the

white house and foggy and a large police presence should be expected. and metro will probably be your best for getting around on sunday. if you don't want to get caught up in any of the rallies or the counterprotests, then you want to avoid the areas around the white house and foggy bottom. ck to you. >> megan, thank you so much. we do expect to hear from the mar in just about an hour. you can watch that live in our nbc washington app and see thises on the city's plans afternoon on news4 starting at 4:00. new panic in indonesia. the resort island of lombok has been hit by a third arthquake in a little more than a week. officials say 319 people have been killed. the strong aftershock today was measuredt a magnitude 5.9 by the u.s. geological survey. fortunately, the is no tsunami

warning because the quake was centered on land. at 11:03, we're going to teckup on our weather see if we will make 90 again. definitely we'll be hot again oo this afte >> amelia, what about the humidity? >> the humidity today, t, marginally lower than yesterday, so if you've been out these past few daysig it feel a little bit more comfortable to you out there this afternoon, but it'sl stot by all measures. take a look, here's the current heat index.es 90 deg is how hot it's feeling right now in the district. feeling about 87 in frederick and 89 degrees is the current heat index in culpeper. the thermometer in d.c. readi 86 degrees with hazy sunshine out there. as we head on into the afternoon hours, we continue t warm. i do think we hit 90 today. that means we're at least in a six-day heat wave. 90 is in the forecast again tomorrow. can't rule out a isolated thunderstorm during the late butrnoon and evening hours most if not all of your thursday is really looking dry.

we have partly sunny skies this afternoon and, again, still feelingy humid out there. take a look, storm team 4 radar dry rightnow. as we head to the weekend, more esbstantial shower and thunderstorm chaeturn to the forecast. i'm going to have more on that coming up in about 20 minutes. >> amelia, thank you so much. the man accused of shooting a womanoutside a busy fast food restaurant in northern virginia, pat, shot himself as police closed in. d> detectives say he shot the victim behin the mcdonald's in fredericksburg around 2:00 yesterday. officers tracked him down in some nearbynd woods a that's where they say he tookis own life. the victim's name hasn't been released, but we're told she and ellis knew each other. she's still listed in critical condition. theather of an 11-month-old was gunned down in broad daylight as children played in prince george's county. 23-year-old lamont adare jr. wat in seat pleasant yet afternoon. grieving family members and

neighbors gathered at the crime. sc they say he was a well-known basketball player in the area. he was headed to china next month in fact to play overseas. his mother is devastated. >>pa feel . i've got a void in my heart because my son iso longe here. >> they have a son that is less than 1 year old so he'll only remember his father through facebook video or videos of him playing basketball. >> detectives urge a one with information about the shooting to call prince george's county police. ew this morning, three people are facing charges after an ear morning crime spree. take a look at this video from chopper 4. it shows howard county police o arrestin of the suspects just off to the side of i-95 in elk ridge. tpolice say suspect pulled an armed robbery in baltimore while driving a stolenpickup. the suspect then crashed that uck and triedo run off from police. after a brief search, all of the suspects were found and they were arrested.

okay, football is finally here. i know it already, my husband has been talking about it. the 'skins will play their first preseason game tonight against the new england patrnsts. fans have been waiting for th moment. quarterback alex smith will make his officia debut for the team tonight. but smith isn't the only new face that fans will see rocking thaty burgand and gold against the new wide receiver paul richardson jr. along with rookie running back derrius gu ice wilg be putn the jersey for the first time and they are excited. >> i already put on red at the nfl rookie premiere but getting y to get out there for the first time i'm excited, man. 101 through , i'm like a 12 right now. it's almost here, man! rookies! >> nbc4 ishe place for all of the redskins action tonight.

the game starts at 7: and afterwards we'll break down the game in the postgame rfoort news4 at 11:00. well, the vice president is talking about something called space force. at this hour it could be a new branch of the military. why some are questioning this plan. and we have new information about a compound where 11 starving couldren werend in new mexie . the children has given police some very disturbing details about what adults were teaching them.in

chi new details about the families living inside a compoundpoin n mo rdey mitgars elieve th smalall children found there we being trained to carry out school shootings. gadi schwartz i in new mexico with an update. >> reporter: in this makeshift compound in rural new mexico, investigators not only found appalling conditions, but oraccording to prosec they may have uncovered a sinister plot. emaciated children were discovered along with an arsenal of high-powered firearms. in court filings the district attorney says some of the kids were being trained with assault rifles in f preparation future school shootings. that information they say comes from one of the children nown foster care. >> there was a shooting range on the left side of the property. >> rep tter: authorities say compound had been under

surveillance for some time. a police rai was triggered after they learned from a text message from inside saying we are starving and need food and water. authorities had beenng searc for a child with severe med al problems allegedly abducted from georgia by his fath . officials say he is the son of an imam who has been linked toam radical isl and may have had a connection to the 1993 world trade center wbombing. one of five suspects arrested at the compound who were arraigned on wednesday. he entered no plea. the remains of a young child were also discovered. authorities now waiting for test results to determine if the body is little abdul. jason badger and his wife, tonya, who own the property say they alerted ahorities that the man and the missing boy were here. >> it's sad and so pathetic. something should have been done and it wasn't. >> reporter: the fbi had been surveilling the property but wasn't able to get photo positively identifying him. >> there were photographs taken of children and others on the prop nty.

they werer identified as being those targets. >> reporter: gadi schwartz, nbc news. right now vice president mike pce is preparing to outline the trump ce force ation's s plan to the pentagon. you may remember several months ago, the preside proposed creating the space force as a new branch of the milildry. it w focus on defending space assets. however, it has been met with some opposition from military circles. the space force cannot be established withoutess giving it approval. the event is set to begin in just a few minutes. for updates on his remarks, go to the nbc washington mop. tes is once again under way in alexandria after a dramatic third day of testimony for paul manafort's former business partner. rick gates said manafort directed him to hide millions of dollars from the irs in foreign bank accounts. manafort's attorneys tried to undercut gates' credibility by

uggesting he stole money from na tfomart extramarital affairs and not the one he admitted to t earlis week. the prosecution is expected to wrap up by the end of th week. a defiant conservative congressman frome upstew york vows to continue his run for re-election despite the fact that he's bn chargedith insider trading. representative chris collins spoke out hours after being arrested yesterday. news4 has the latest on the fallout. >> reporter: representative chris collins is facing charges of insider trading and lying to the fbi. >> congressman collins acted as if the law didtpply to him. >> reporter: he's accused of using his role on the board of a pharmaceutical company to pass along information about a failed drug trial to family members, t allowim to sell off stock and saving them more than $700,000. >> congressman collins had an

bligation, a legal duty, to keep that information secret. >> reporter: collins even allegedly made phone calls about the illicit trade while he was at the white house congressiona. picn he says he's innocent and will continue running for t-election. charges that have been levied against me are meritless, and i wl mount a vigorous defense in court to clear my name. >> reporter: but on top of his legal troubles -- >> lock him up! lock him up! >> reporter: -- now he's facing a tough campaign in november. >> if this hadn't come out, he may have coasted in. >> reporter: his op nent, nate mcmurray, once a long shot inrk new yo's most conservative district, now a candidate with new life and new funding. another red flag for republicans about a possible blue wave comingn november. but the president seems more optimistic, tweing yesterd simply red wave. nikki carvajal, nbc news,

washington. ominee formocratic governor in maryland is apologizing for cursing while taking qstions from reporters. ben jealous joins fellow party members to announce several endorsements when a reporter from "the washington post" asked him to respond t to adst paint the former naacp chairman as a socialist. our affiliate in baltimore was there for the exchange. take a listen to this. >> not to put too fine a point on it, b do you identify with the term socialist? >> are you kidding me? is that a fine enough point? okay. >> shortly after that, jealous tweeted an apology to that reporter and forse his of language saying, quote, as a former journalist, i know howt important for a free society to respect reporters and answer their questions honestly. jealous faces governor larry hogan in november. new thisrn g, another child in virginia is the latest

to die in a hot car. this time it happened about ten milesrom chmond. the victim was just 17 months old. ts dad l him in the car and went to work, thinking he had dropped him off at daycare. the little boy was discovered in the business park garage. this is the trd deadly incident in virginia this year when it comes to child hot car deaths. virginia actually ranks tenth in the nation. okay, so as we deal with this oppressive summer heat, there are tperature problems inside a major medical center. >> news4's scottar mnd is investigating a series of mishaps at a hospital that cares for the region's veterans. >> reporter: this is the type of place you simply can't have trouble keepingng t cool. the flagship medical center of the u.s. department of veteran affairs in d.c. 100,000 patients, 2,000 workers inside but an investigation by the news4 i-team shows a series of failures in recent months.

in the fall, refrigeration equipment broke downn a space storing flu vaccines. more than a quarter million o dollar vaccines were ruined and had to be tossed. a cooling pipe burst in may, flooding several floors and o forcing staff move a patient from intensive care. and patientar e gleason said he walked out of the center on his own after being hospitalized back in july for complications from multiple sclerosis. >> there was no air conditioning. >> no fans? >> no fans. i couldn't sleep at nigbe use it was so hot. >> reporter: tonight as part of our full i-team investigation on "news4 at 5:00" and 11:00, ust how long the complaints about the air inside existed, including inside the medical center's blood what the agency has promised to do and why it may take until 20 to make a the fixes. for now in d.c., scott mcfarlane, news4 i-team. outrage in hollywood after the academy announced significant changes coming to the oscars. they include a shorter three-hour broadcast and a new

category honoring popular films. also some of the less popular awds will be handed out during commercial breaks. we'll finding out which awards night. to the big it's an effort to tighten up the prestigious ceremony after ratings for this past year's oscars sank to an all-time low. just too long >> it's always been too long. everybody who goes and watches agrees. injury.ler coaster the damage a loose cell phone can do. and flyin nightmare forwo children delayed by bad weather. we'll have the response of the parents and airline.

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start the day with the chicken you love. get the feeling of chick-fil-a, for breakfast. ♪ a little league team has struck out of chances to move on to theld wseries. the loudoun south little leaguers were eliminated from their tournament yesterday.th team from virginia were knocked out by the team from georgia. it would have been the first time since 1994 a d.c. t areaeam made it to the little leae world series. congrats on a great run for loudn south and also d.c.'s mamie johnson team. >> we're proud of both teams. >> they did so well. every year hundreds of thsands ofhildren travel on planes without an adult. >> and each airline has its own guidelines about how it keeps children safe from point a to >> but you may be surprised to hear there are no federal

regulations regarng unaccompanied minors. nbc's blake mccoy reports on ona ly's terrifying ordeal after the flight carrying their children was divted. >> reporter: it would be a nightmare for any parent. 9-year-old carter gray and his 7-year-old sist, etta, traveling as unaccompanied minors on a frontier airline flight chaperoned by an employee. but the planend the kids never show up at their final destination. as this actual tracking map from flightaware.com shows, frontier 1756 took off from des moines heading to orlando at 7:25 p.m. expected arrival,6 10 p.m. but severe storms force it to circle the airport f an hour before diverting to atlanta. arriving at the gate there at 12:12 a. rter and etta's parents say they knew the plane landedn atlanta, not from the airline but from apps. >> it was almos instant terror.

you're not with your kids at this point, you're really kind of out of control. >> reporter: chad said the first time they heard from their kids was when 9-year-old carter borrowed a cel a phone texted him shortly after the plane landed. around 4:00 a.m. he got a second and from his son that he his sister were being taken by a frontier employee to a hotel and would stay overnight. >> no supervisor tried tocall, no phone call, no e-mails, nothing like that ever took e. pl and so we were really in the dark. >> reporter: in a statement, the airline writes our records showed the children were in contact with their mother before beinged transpoo the hotel and with their father the following morning. >> welcome to the new frontier n ai. >> reporter: this 2014 frontier commercial proudly talks about how it handles kids. >> by treating our tiniest guests like the biggest deal. >> reporter: in its statement the airline writes ineeping with frontier's policy, the children were attendied to at al times by a frontier supervisor, placed in a hotel room overnigh

and provided with food. chad said the food was rice krispy treats and water. separate ere put in rooms with other unaccompanied minors. >> my son ended up sleeping with a boy that was 5 years older than him. reporter: frontier's statement says we understand how an unexpected delay caused by weather can be stressful for a parent and our goal toys help pairengers get to t . stination as quickly and safely as possib >> parents need to definitely do a little bit more research and probably worry about thisli a le more. never in our wildest dreams did that this would happen >> this is really an unbelievable story. >> very disturbing. >> we're going to hear a lot more about that. >> i bet we will. >> you just never think that that would happen. >> no, no. we are enjoying the day and hoping it will stay this way. >> no rain maybe would be a good thing, right? it's been raining prettyuch every day since the middle of ngly. and today is loo mainly dry. i can't rule out an isolated

thunderstorm during thend afternoonvening hours, but for most of us it's going to be a dry thursday. take a look at your weather headlines. mainly dry tnd tomorrow and then scattered showers and thunder ew rumbles of in the forecast over the weekend, especially on saturday. right now is the time where we n start to get information in from our computer models, and one of them is already in's suggesting that sunday is looking mainly dry, so the o better chanc rain right now does look to be on saturday and the weekend isn't going to be a washout, it's just not picturep ect. as we head on into early next week, monday and tuesday, rain is in the forecast. so with all of the rain we've had, that means we're going to be watching for potential of some flooding out there monday tuon into day. not a guarantee, but i just want to alert you that that could beo a ibility. currently our temperatures are in the low to mid-80s. 86 deges right now in washington, 84 in frederick, 81 back in winchester. it is another summer day with em the highrature around 90. when you factor in the humidity,

it's feeling 9 like today versus feeling like 100 degrees, which has been the case so far this week. and again, maybe an isolated thunderstorm out there. so the weather forhe most part having a pretty low exact on your day. it's still hot forr outd exercise but not quite as bad as it has been. if youthe heading t pool, it is looking fantastic. make sure you have the sunscreen this afternoon. eating outdoors for a barbehie or som like that, you can't rule out that isolated thunderstorm but most of us will be okay. again, some thunderstorm chanc and shower chances in the forecast saturday and sunday. ini'll have more on that c up in about 15 minutes, ladies. >> all right, thanks, amelia. highway projects taking homes. we'll have more on that story right after the break.

new this morning, a shooting during a traffic sto in bowie now under investigation. it happened around 5:30 last night on elder oaks boulevard. that's about a mile from bowie town ceer. chopper 4 was over the scene after a fight broke out during that traffic stop. a bowie officer fired his weapon. the suspect ran awas and still on the run this morning. police say the officer's injuries are we will continue to follow developments and send any updates on the story through the

nbc washingto app. we are getting our first look at video of aol deadlye shooting in nashville, tennessee. the video shows aol whitee officer shooting a black man as awauns nbc's gabe gutierrez reports. >> reporter: this morning growing outrage after newly released video shows a white nashville officer shooting aac suspect as he ran away. 25-year-old daniel hembrick diet a sime later. >> i just feel like if a person running awayrom you, how do they pose a threat? >> reporter:is mother is in agony and calling for justice. >> my kidon't deserve this. please leave us alone. just leave u alone. >> reporter: the nashville district attorney's office just released the surveillance video from july 26th. the tennessee bureau of investigation says earlier that evening officers had been looking for stolen vehicles and trying to stop a car that had erratically. authorities say hambrick got out

of the car and ran and that he was carrying this gun. protests followed. the officer, andrew delke, is now on administrative leave. >> if there was ever a o case premeditated first-degree murder, this is it. this is it. he stops and takes his time and makes sure e gets a goodshot. >> reporter: nashville's mayor is promising a kprecomprehensiv review of police procedure. >> thi is a tragic event. . d my prayers go out to mr. hambrick's moth >> reporter: after the latest shooting to raise questions about racial bias in police encounters. >> i just want justice fory son. that's all i'm asking. and for all theoung black -- young guys and young women. i want justice for them. >> reporter: no charges have been filed and the police union sa w the shooting justified. but some activists and even the city's actg vice mayor are now

calling on the police chief to step down. gabe ngutierrez, news, nashville. a warning for you if you use ride-sharing services. d.c. police say a fake uber driver i robbing riders. investigators say this surveillance video of the suspect and his female complice, this is video of them. they say on saturday morning a victim called an uber drive got into a car that pulled up. the driver forced the victim at gunpoint to withdrawro money several different atms. police believe the man and the woman are connectedo at least three different robberies and kidnappings. most of theap crimesned last month along busy u street. ifer the gent wants your property, even your home, the government can sometimes take it. >> it can fall under eminent domain. some living along i-66 in northern virginia are in that situation and are now scrambling to find a new homni as vir

plans to expand the interstate. >> news4's david culver talked with the homeowners who feel like the voices are being muffled. > reporter: when many of us spent hours commuting like this, you might understand why the short kwauk walk is so appealin >>ee across the s is the metro rail station whi i take to work every day. >> reporter: we strolled along. four minutes. his wife, sue, is relying on vdot for their next homeei becae current house along with the four homes next door will be wiped out as part of the i-66 expansion project. >> tomorrow's i-66 will move more peopl and servehe needs of northern virginia's travteers. >> rep there are benefits to a wider highway here, but for residents who live in his district -- >> vdot and their conactors areickel and diming my

constituents over the price of their home they're taking. slatedrter: this home is for demolition as well. she's lived here 47 years and she says vdot wants her out by the end of the year. >> it kind of puts us in l that we don't know what's happening. >> reporter: her daughter traveling in from texas to help her mom move this summer, or so shethought. >> she's elderly, she's about to undergo knee sgery that she was putting off thinking she'd be in her new ho . >> reportevdot says they are working individually with each of the impactedroperty owners, adding that the properties go through a fair market appraisal and that they work to find comparable homesor the residents. i'm david culver, news4. > a flying cell phone smacked a woman in the face while on a rollercoaster, and now king's dominion has a new policy. the populark theme p in virginia posted these signs banning cell phones at the twtedimbers coaster. in june a woman was hit by a flying cellhi phone on the

ride. the woman says the phone came from another rider's pocket. the phone left a huge gash on her forehead. >> headaches did stop after a couple of weeks, so that was very l.help but now it's just ealing and i'm waiting for it to be 0% healed. >> reporter: and the woman asked for a refund from king's minion for her season passes and she did get her money back. >> good for her. >> i guess it's bound to happen. everybody has a cell phone and they take iteverywhere. >> there you go. still ahead, a look at who is better at losing weight, men or women. andn update on a libraryte orarily closed because of snakes?

well, this story may make your skin crawl. a d.c. public library is open

again after several snakes weree discovered ins the building. now, it's believed thisetould have sng to do with all the recent rainy weather. erika gonzalez has the story. reporter: in we go to the d.c. public library in georgetown. and curled up with a gd book isn't who or what, i should say, you might think. snakes. over the weekald, sev garter snakes were found in the library's basement. >> i mean ius would wet my pants. i mean i just wouldn't -- >> reporter: here's the type of snake we'reoualking while they're not the actual ones found in the library, these are garter snakes. a library spokesperson says the snakes were f hnd downe by the meeting room steps away from the children's section. i'm told four snakes were found. three alive and one dead. >> i think garter snakes are terrific >> reporter: why so many and how did they get in? >> i'm not aeo mlogist or a snake expert but i suspect

they're trying to getut of the rain. >> reporter: matthew evans is assistant curator of reptiles with theso smian national zoo. >> i think with all the wacky fl weather and thding, they're coming up looking for a cool, dry place to hang out. they're harmless. they're good for the environment. they're eating all the creepy crawly things we don't like, so they're okay. >> reporter: theibrary closed a few days for pest control but once again open for all kinds of readers, minus the ones t slither. >> okay, that's scary. >> yeah. garter snakes are harmless, but we don't want them in the house. >> they don't look good in the house. >> we don't care if they need a dry place. >> mike two takeaways, yes, it would be disconcerting to see the and a quarter but they have the right idea. we should be heading to the library, reading books. >> libraries are great. >> exactly.oo as we to the weekend, talking about the weather, there is more rain in the forecast so

maybe a few more snakes finding their way into the library this weekend or maybe yourself. take a look, here's your weekend forecast right now. so this forecast is a pretty s typicamer forecast for us where we're going to have a mix ofs clod sun and some scattered showers and thunderstorms, but it's not a washout. saturday morning 00 a.m. we start off at 74 degrees. at thatance of a shower point but as we head into the afternoon and evening hours, your shower and thunderstorm chances do increase to about 60%. 86 degrees for a high temperature on saturd. 85 on sunday. so we are cooler, but those humidity levels are still gng to b muggy so it's going to feel pretty soupy out there this weekend. as we look toda right now, a mix of clouds and sunshine. there is the chance forr sho or thunderstorm throughout the day, but that chance is pretty low. notice it's only 40% to 50%, right now based on the latest information, i think sunday might be the better weekend day, but it's kind of splitting hairs. i wouldn't cancel your outdoor plans, b definitely have that

backup plan ready if you're having peopleover. be ready to get indoors if a shower or thunderstorm does move area.the you might want to get a tent if you're having an outdoor party. if you're headingo the beach, looking nice on friday with a temperature of 87. aid-80s for saturday and sunday and again some and thunderstorms at the beach but you know how that goes at the aybeach. at the beach is better than a day not at the beach. so weather definitely having a bit of an impact on your weeken if you want to go golf or cycling, know there are thunderstorms in th forecast the best bet is in the morning hours. if you're heading to the beach, it's looking like you'll haves thunderstohere and then those outdoor barbecues, be able to move things indoor. as we look at your ten-day forecast, here it is. on satday and sunday there you see those mid-80s. mid-80s monday and tuesday with more rain in the forecast. the humidity lowers finally on wednesday with the high temperature of 89 degrees.

kids neveromplain at the beach, no matter the weather. >> no, they don't care. they don't wcare. are working for you as the students, the kids, get ready to head bac to school. look at picking the best after-school program for your child. and a new study that could help mothers and docrs come up with a safe time for inducing labor. the information could help reduce the number of-sections cdo

children across the washington region will start going backch tol next week. and the end of summer has many parents makinglans for before and after school activities. how about a little extra learning time? joshua is founder and president of flex academies and you have some options. what is all, tell us flex academies. >> sure. thank you for having us. what flex academies does i provide before and after school program management, mainly for ptas, also foundations and some school districts. we manage all aspects of me progor the ptas. what that means is we provide safey, quality and efficie in them to create programs their schools. >> so kids are at school all day. one might ask why do they need more learning time aft o they get o class? >> after school doesn't have to be an afterthought when it comes to learning. a this is different type of learning. this is enrichment.

and i am very confident that of the25,000 kids we worked with last year in the 80 schools, th one of them out there is in 15 years going to say i'm the top chefse i took cooking in my after-school program. or i'm a soccer star because i ook soccer with overtime athletics. it's a different type of learning but it's still learning. >> so you work with thean paren the ptas and the principals to help design these programs? >> exactly. >> and before a parent chooses an after school program, how do they make sure it's safe andul what s they look for? >> parents and ptas and pta presidents needs to think about a variety of topics. first of all, we look at all the background checks, all the certificates of insurance. we have anon-site coordinator there every single day. you want to look at variety. you want to make sure there's fund-raising as well because ptas are always struggling to fund raise and sure that it's fun for the kids. >> of course.

the flex academies are located here but you're allver the country. >> we started in washington, d.c. our first school was actually in montgomery county. now we'n d.c., maryland, virginia, new jersey, connecticut, and new yo0. we have schools. >> and are the students all ages or certain grades? >> it's really interesting. on bof ourgest groups is pre-k 3 up until k. the kids who are between kind ot kinder to fourth grade, and then around fifth grade they think they're t cool for us and we get to middle school, sixth and seventh we're back with them andigh grade they're too cool for us again. >> and what do parents pay for these services? >> anywhere between $90 and $225, sometimes more. some of the more expensive ch programs, wnclude materials, are computer coding or cooking, so there's obviously good value for that. >> okay. the program is flexad ies. joshua erkoff, might all

those children enjoy being in school after getting out of school. >> i hope they do. >> thanks so much. molette, back to you. important information. >> other than feeling her baby move, the most exciting thing for an expectant mother is to see her baby. now a major new study finds moms can hold their babies a little sooner and have labor safety induced at week 39 instead of 40, which is typically considered full term. >> tre is no evidence of harm. all the evidence was both for the mom and the baby a benefit. >> the nationwide study included more than 6,000 prepgnant women. half wanted labor to begin naturally. the other half had it induced at 39 and those were less likely to have a c-section. they also had a lower chance of developing dangerously high

blood presdrre. william groveman led the study trial. >> we would never want to intervene if we believed it was causing harm. if it'sng not cau harm and potentially leading to benefits, it's ctainly something we believe that women should have a choice about and we should have a patient-centerediz indi approach. >> women in the induction group also reported less pain erall. the american college of obstetricians and gynecologists welce the new findings but also caution elective should be reserved for healthym won and only after an in-depth conversation with her doctor. i'm ericaedwards, nbc news. the success of your diet may depend on your gender. a new study out of denmark finds men and women rct differently to low-calorie diets. doctors followed more than 2,000 ov overweight people with ediabetes. finding after an eight-week diet men had lost more weighthan the women and had larger reductions in fat mass, heart

rate. women had larger reductions in hdl circumstanand h circumferen. they also had lean body mass and pulse pressure. pulse pressure can indicate a person's risk for heart disease. i think it breaks down what we already know. we already knewhi information. >> it's not fair. >> it's not. from low-calorie mea to a burger that could feed a whole family. >> we'll show you the extreme meal only available for football fans.

it's almost lunchtime and this next story will either make you hung ry or might make you nauseous. take a look at this seven-pound burger called the gridiron burger. it will be available at the arizona cardinals stadium this season. it's made up of five three-pound burger patties, five hot dogs, five bratwurstk, 20 slices of american cheese, eight slices of bacon, eight chicken tenders and 12 ounces of fries. >> that's disgusting. >> no kidding, it is disgusting. and the regular lettuce, tomatoes and pickles. any fan who can chow down on all of that plus the 10-inch buns that come witil it w get a cardinals jersey and recognition

on the video board. they won't be able to wear the jersey. it costs $75. if you're interested, washington's team is taking on the cardinals the first week of the regular season. good luck chokingf all that down. >> and the burger has to be eaten by one itrson? an't be a team effort. >> and we're not talking about sharing, a family meal or anything. >> not for me. toys, polaroid cameras and super hero wall decals. sounds like a dream for any child, right? >> absoluholy. but for items, those items are especially comforting for little ones seriously ill confined to a hospital room. i had a chance to spend some time at the hope for henry foundation headquarters in northwest. that organization is kicking off a brand new program at hospitals in our area. we've been decorating all morning. what's inside this big gray bag could really iact a child's life in a hospital room. we've got some of the room decor

here. pillows, things to make a child'sor room feel like home. fri strong is the ceo and founder of hop henry. came up with this new idea, a launched ur own just last week. what do you say about the impact so far because you've already done this in isn rooms? >> yes, the kids are absolutely loving it. w it's we observed with our son henry. we're creating apa that was like our own home in the hospital, really helped him heal and it's doi that for all these other children too. >> this organization has been around for a number of years. i wanted to ask a couple of former patients who benefited from hope for henry about t o impa something like this. what do you think? >> so it reallys relie the stress of a hospital stay and medical appointments and just gives the patients some hope > >> it also provides a

distraction for the kids going through a hard time here at the hosptaal. >> we'reing up for hope for henry's newest project, which is a room of your n, giving it a big thumbs up, s? right, g all right. that is the very latest. you're operating in two hospitals here and of course a hospital in ohio, med star georgetown and ch dren's national medical center and the cleveland hospital. >> cleveland clinic children's. >> that is theatest from hope for henry. >> what a wonderful program. an incredible joy for little children. >> it's what they need and deserve. let's get a quick checkn the weather. >> love that story, molette. for today and tomorrow we're looking mainly dry and more storms for the weekend. >> all right. thanks so much. that's news4 midday. see you again aa 4:00. >> havod day.

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