happen sunday afternoon. all the counterprotesters rallying dow to the east on pennsylvania avenue to freedom mazza and will mar up here to plaza square at the same time hat the white supremacists will be gathering atggy bottom to the west. they will march up pennsylvania avenue from that direction, and thiss where the two sides will seet. this i what d.c. officials are worng to avoid, the unite the right rally in charlottesville one year ago that turned deadly. today d.or may muriel bowser sent a message to the protesters on both sidnd everyone in d.c. and around the country. to e want people to be able exercise their rights, whether we agree with th or not. >> reporter: butced.c.'s pol chief with another message for anyone thinking of doing anything beyond free >>speech. f you come here with the intent to hurt somebody or break soething we're going to place you under arrest. >> reporter: how things will n unfoldunday is still

uncertain, but major road white house nd the limb pact traffic. as for the protesters and counterprotesters, they will start off i separa locations and end up athe same place. at least three groups of counterprotters will rally i separate locations around the city sunday afrnoon and then march to lafayette square. at the same time the white supremacist protesters will meet at the vinast metroion and then take metro to foggy btom ere they will march to the white house for the rally and also in lafayette square. >> ol number one g is going to keep them separated, so we will use a number of techniques that we're going to utilize to keep them >> he also warned anyone, even people with authorized with gun carry permits that no guns will be allowed near the protest nttes. >> reporter: i hat to be absolutely clear. even if you have a permit to carry firea d in thetrict of columbia, on sunday you will not be able to carry that firearm in

ny of the areas that are have been identified. >> reporter: he was veryanid at this press conference this afternoon saying while the protesters have their permits for these spific routs that we laid out and the metro stations where they plan on boarding and coming ieo the city on, says all that could change on sunday morning. he says it's very fluid,pnd ice in virginia and here in d.c. are ready for anything. the anticipated and unanticipated. that's the very latest from lafayette square. jim, back to you. >> fortunately our city, as you pointed outll week, ha had a lot of experience in this. mark, thank you. virginia's governor and the city of charlottesville declared states of emergency. we told you that yesterday. one of the cmonwealth's top safety officials says in addition to better coordinating of esresour the move also sets a standard for anyone who will be out this weekend. that if you message come to charlottesville, if you

behave peacefully, you'll havei no ues, but we're not going to tolerate any violence. >> brian moran says one of the locion merchandise our area that will include enhanced security the vienna metro center where martin mentioned the wte supremacists plan to gather. we know this is an importa story. when we get new details, you'll know about them. we're also constantly updating our n washington app. in our next half hour, we talked to business owners in our region. why a lot of them say they won't close up shop when those protesters march through. it was an awful scene in the middle of russia house, and now a witness and the police are telling us it was road rage that turned deadly. rthern virginia bureau chief julie carey is live near the prince william county parkway where this unfolded. jules? >> reporter: well, wendy, as commutersng through this area of the parkway about this time last night witness a very disturbing scene over in the eft-hand turn lanes,an had

been struck and killed, and we -- when we learn today about how it happened, well, that was even more troubling. spray paint on the prin william county parkway marks thp ot where a roadway confrontion came to a tragic end. this video shows the scene around 4:00 yestday, one of the drivers dead on the roadway s. woman watched the aftermath unfold from her business overlooking the scene. >>we see accidents here all the time. i mean, i see hits many times, but this was the first time that we see actually a fatal, y know, accident, and we saw them on the ground. >> reporter: here's how it happened. police say a pickup truck and sedan were traveling northbound when the drivers got into some sort of dispute. when they stopped at the red light, the driver of the pickup got out to confront the the sedan. the driver in the sedan pulled off to the left and struck a honda minivan. in the procs t pickup driver was caught between the vehicles. the sedan driver briefly left are scene but then pulled into a

nearbyng lot. good samaritans tried to provide cpr to the victim but it was too late. thoe who watched the life-saving effort saddened to learn an argument on to led to death. >> it's veryun unfoe. it's -- you know, sometimes people can live and lefrmt sometimes you don't get that opportunity. > fortunately, that was the case. ybe they weren't thinking clearly or thinking what was around them or what could happen to them, but, yeah, it is heartbreakveg. >> the inigation continues. no decision has been made yet about whether the sedan driver will face charges. late this afternoon prince william county police identified the man that was killed as 53-year-old dean walker of woodbridge. the sedan driveras a 34-year-old man, and there was a woman behind the wheel of the minivan. witnesses tell me she was absolutely devastated out here on the scene to have gotten caught up in the middle of this cident. jim, back to you in the studio. >> i'm sure she was. julie carey, tnk you

a school bus driver in montgomery county faces felony charges includi rape. now they want to know if they have other questionbout him. he's accused of sexually assaulting two students on a special needs bus late last month. the attack was captured on the school bus camera. officials have xaegathered information about the routes kabongo has driven. the we've posted the number in our nbc washington app. a baby is in the room as a man opens fire on his girlfr the child is okay, and the young woman made a desperate escape running down two flights of tairs to a neighbor who could help. news 4's meagan fitzgerald is in waldorf and she spoke to neighbors about what happened and didn't want to go on camera. >> so she came in the room and r gasping ir whatever,

holding her chest saying kennyh shot her. >> reporter: a young mother desperate for help after police say her boyfriend was trying to kill er. it happened just after 12:30 inside this waldorf artment building. charles county deputies arrived on scene an spent hours investigating while the woman was airlifted to the thspital. > officers were canvassing the building when they found the man deceased. he was in the stairwell of the apartment buiing and appeared the he had a self-inflicted gunshot wound. >> the infant was found unharmed inside the camer many neighbors didn't want to go on camera but saying they were shocked about a w man they ha known for years. >> she was so quiet and didn't mess with anybody. >> that was meagan fitzgerald reporting. the woman is in serious condition tonight but is expected to survive. police have not releas the name of the suspect or if he had any history of domestic

violence. wendy? >> well, scientists are anxiou explore what is beyond our immediate atmospherebut the trump administration is viewing e ace as the next battlefield. vice president pes announcing president's plans for a space force. he did that earlier today. it would becomeixhe military service with a target launch of 2020just two years from now. pence says it's necessary to ensure american dominance in space with competition and threats from countries like ina and russia. >> what was once peaceful and uncontested is now crowded. nd adversarial. pace in his words is a war-fightingmain just like air and land and sea. >> it's not clear how much the so-called space force would cost. its creation would also require approval from congress. with the recovery still underway in puerto rico, we're getting a better sense of the human costs fromast year'

devastating hurricane maria. in a request to congress, puerto rico now says more than 1,400 people died as a result of the hurricane. most of ose deathse not from the storm itself but rather from the power outages and flooding that pr ented residents and first responders from getting around the island. g $139 rico is now seek billion in reconstruction. >> here at home, we're in the midst of a heat wave, this is the sixth day when we've had temperature in ths. >> that qualifies as a wave, i would say. >> how about you, dohig. is the longest stretch of 90s that we've seen tomorrow. seven days that we'll tie the longest strerch. out right now, not just 80. we've now hit 92 degrees today, but notice this difference. i mean we're here in 92c. in and that's the only 90 in the entire mid-atlantic area. the only reasone've had the cold front come through and having to cool things off a little bdt. where woyou want to be?

ocean city, 77 degrees and the beaches are looking great this afternoon. pretty nice or even elkins, west virginia, back towards the mountains at 79 degrees. that would be nice. aouple of showers are trying to make their way on down in parts of maryland. mostly north of baltimore. we've seen a couple of sprinkles here but most of us will remain dry. it will actually be a very nice night and lookingret. low humidity and temperatures in the upper 80s and lower 90. scattered weekend showers and storms. we're tracking the flood threat right on into early next week. ee you 5:25. >> thanks, doug. a big problem with the drinking water in maryland's largest school system. we're going to show you how is widespread this is, plus the steps being taken to fix it. >> and then a consume alert. the security flaw that could ed have expos some of your personal iormation. w to check if you're affected. >> and a head up about another metro shutdown, folks. how to get around the clures os

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(announcer) there's a freedom about asheville. an unspoken invitation to discover o you really are. come up for air. asheville. discovery, inside and out. we're back now with major problem in the dinking water at montgomery county public tests show there was lead in the water in many of the drinking fountains. news 4's chris gordon is live for us to show what's being done to fix this problem. chris? >> reporter: well, jim, montgomery county began this round of greview its water quality in january. it says it will have all of the

problem faucets repaired beforen the bng of the new school year. elevated levels of lead in drinking water can be dangerus for your child. >> behavior problems, hearing problems, anemia, those are some of the things that can happen in children with increased lead levels. >> reporter: maryland requires public schools to test all water faucets. montgomery county just finished its review in may finding elevated lead levels at 86 out of its 206 schools. >> out of more than 13,000 wateu fis that were tested, we had a little bit over 200 fixtures that had elevated levels of lead. those were immediately removed from use and remodera on was put into place. >> reporter: there are reports that 153 of the water outlets that had heightened lead levels wecessible to students before they were taken out of

ervice. >> we'll start thool year ensuring all fixtures he been remediated including putting brand-new fixtures in place. all that have will be done by the start of the schoo. ye >> reporter: i asked some parents at the rockville town center if they areonfident in the quality of water at their students' schools. >> i'm just happy they found it because i'm glad they are doing their testing. i want to know how long it'see like that for though. >> reporter: well, there really is no clear answer to that question. it depends on the age of the school and the phymbing. that's montgomery public county school system is being so carefu to regularly monitor its water quality now at all of its schools that's the latest live from potomac, maryland. jim, back to you. >> let's hope they get it fixed, pretty soon, chris, thank you. >> we have a consumer alert from millions of cable customers. yeaaw a security f could have exposed some of your personal

information. >> cepsumerter susan hogan is working with information you need to know. what happened? > wreporter: this is wha know so far. a security researcher who actually found security flaws in california cast's xfinity's online system, so -- in california cast'sxfiniti online sytem. a flawwas also discovered in another system that could have exposed last four di of customers' social security numbers. comcast, the parent company of nbc 4 tells us that, it quote, quickly investigated these issues and within hours blocked both vulnerabilities, eliminating the ability tot conde actions described by the researchers. comcast says it has no reason to believe that the vulnerabilities were ever used against customers. o of the flaws was found on xfinity's in-home authentication page where customers can pay

their bills without logging in, customers asked to verify their accounts and if a hacker obtained that address it could repeatedly refresh the log-in gu page to f out the address. that's because each time the page addressed three addresses would change while the correct address remaine the same. comcast has since disabled the in-home authentication after learning of this flaw s now you'll need to manually log into your account. a lot of information's all on our website. yeah. this is one of those things that was cught by our researcher. he alerted comcast, and they fixed it.ey >> well, ere lucky he caught it. how long would there have been going ? >> it is pretty neat -- this is all the researchers do, right, that's their job. >> all right. >> thanks, susan. >> sure. the redskins preseason kicks off tonight against the new england patriots right here on nbc 4. our sherree burruss is live at

gillette stadium up in foxborough. you know, sherree, i could ask you about tom brady saying hlo o you today, but he's not one of us so let's stick to the skins. >> reporter: yeah, absolutely. tm not sayit we're best friends because he said hi. he is they. en redskin fans waiting hours, months to see the redskins finallyake the field with new quarterback alex smith, all their rookies and their newit addns to the team in the off-season, so their first preseason game is just hours away. but minutes ago alex smith arriving to gillette stadium in the first wave of guys walking in before smith. we saw rookie running back darri darri darrius guice and to say he's excited for the new year that's an understatement. >> getting ready step out there for the first time i'm

excited m 1, to 10 it's like a 12 now. the energy uild off and jitters from the young guys that are putting on their uniforms for the first time? >> this is my fifth year doing it no i think f the young guys i definitely have been in their shoes before. ithust -- need to let loose. it's going to be an amazing feeling, and once they go in ehere, it all goes away. like going on for the first time or doing anything in front of bunch of people. you'll get that nervousness inside and at the end of the d you're doing something that you love. >> reporter: everyone sort of getting a chance to sh that rust. new addition wide receiver paul richardson, he said it's kind o like feeling like a rookie again and coming out here with a new team and put on a redskins jersey for the first time so ev certainlyone is excited to be back here. guys, back for you. >> we're pump. >> watch the redskins preseasonr openeght here on nbc 4. after the came, sherree will have live reaction from the stadium on the redskins post-game report followed by the

news at 11:00. 16 members of this canadian junior hockey team did not survive this crash back in april. a devastating collision on their team bus also robbing the survivors of teir dreams and potential, but one teenager is getting back on the ice and not giving up onis dreams. janet dirks h his inspiring st ry. >> reporter: ryan lights up on the ice and 19-year-old was practicing sledge hockey today. >> just to be on the ice, all m thories i have. it's pretty exciting. i mean, you're learning a new way to play the game and i'm joig it. reporter: this is just the third time he has been at rinks e the humbolt broncos crashed in april when the team bus collidedru with a on a saskatchewan highway. 16 members were killed and he was left palyzed from thech st down. >> beautiful. >> he's been through six hours of therapy months and earlier this summer he spenk at the sideliner's hospital in philadelphia for more therapy. the ice is where he can forget

all of that. >> it feels like when you're on the ice you have nothing to worry about, so i just like being outhere and having fun. >> reporter: he is coached by chris cedarstan, a former player who lost his right leg in a construction accident when he was 25. s a young kid playing hockey the rink is your second home, you know. it was just coming back. you couldust see how enthused he was to be out here. a smile on his i mean, it's something that i'll never forget, you know. it was just getting him back out on the ice. >> keep practicing and hopefully get good and long term make the olympic team and win a gold medal. for now i'm out here havingfun. >> reporter: his coach says the youn player hasthe drive and ambition to realize those drives, and he has the >> so incredible. you also get the sense that he's playing for those teammates. >> i remember when this accident happened and i'm still thinking oh, my god, tho poor families,

of all of those 16 team members, oh, my gosh. >> well, lawmakers exposed for racking up the bill on your tab. >> new at 5:00, lawmakers onth ir way out are cashing in on international trips with vacation destinations. >> plus, one of your weekend days won't be nearly as nice as what we're seeing out ere right now. doug is back in timeo time out t

all righty. you know, even your glass of wine when u're sittingoutside gets warm just like that because of this humidity, doug, but it's just -- >> thing it doesn't do, and most drinks won't do as much. they won't sweat a much on a day like today. did you know that? >> who wants a sweaty drink? >> i'm just telling you. with lower humidity they don't sweat as much. >> okay. and they are not beingilluted by the rain so that's nice, too. >> heck of a >>toss. out there right now, dealing with some sunshine, a little bit in the way of cloud cover, too. fair weather clouds. nake a look out towards reston, the reslive camera. p lookitty good and if you are thinking of doing that outdoors. no problems there and eating outdoors and reston town centerd looking good downtown looking great. just a few of our fair weather cumulus clouds. still 92 and, yes, it's on the

hot side. not nearly as humid and yesterday a heat index of 1 and tomorrow a heat index of 92 and 11. winds out of the northwt at 9 miles per hour so humidity not a big factor. look at winchester. 87 82 and gaithersburg down around 100. average high temperature in d.c. 87 so we're five degrees above average but it doesn't feel al that uncomfortable and later this evening when the sun sets arod 7:30nd 8:00 it's niceg to get really, really out there. we've got a couple of chances on the radar and onewa down tds culpepper county, a little bit of a downpour and north of the city, for the most part we're remaining on the dry side and that's the case on through the nightt wider side showing what we've got from d.c. up to the great lakes a chicago. wn towards atlanta and parts of the tennessee river valley. we're watching this system move closer our way and weay see some more clouds tomorrow and maybe an isolated shower and all in all our fridayoo isng

great. high temperatures yesterday all along the easternoa se. tonight 86 in new york and 87 raleigh. we're actually the warmest on the map. all right, kansas city, if i just stand like this. we're the warmest the map. 86 in lexington and 73 in atlanta. what did i tell you? they have some rain going on down towards the atlantic area. hot du ang the afternoon great for lunch. again, just like today really nice. nice little breeze at lunchtime. 85 and nice for dinner tomorrow night and tomorrow evening, your friday evening is going to be fantastic and then the clouds eove in tomorrow afternoon and then really rain chances move in saturday and sunday and not a washout for the evening. t's something we'll have to watch. temperatures in the mid-80s. could even be a flood threat sarday, sunday and monda morning about that and on your weekend. amelia joins me at 5:45. she has to. it's on the schedule. >> it's in her contract. >> in her contract. >> thankyou, doug. we've got an update next on security plans ahead of next

weekend's white supremacist rallies. some nearby sinesses will stay open. how they will keep their employees safe. wi and then an act of kindness that we're s you only on news 4. a d.c. man making sure that dozeho ofless families have a safe place to live. >> and new at 5:00 tonight, the maailures at a local hospital.a new

a look now at some of our p storiesoday. a road rage turns deadly. one man is dead and another under investigation after a confrontatn on the prince william county parkway just

fo reafternoon. police say a driver got out of his signal at to confront another drive and was hit by another vehicle and died. >> and a man shoots his girlfriend in front of her and then turns the gun on himself. he wasou dead in the stairwell of an apartment complex. the girlfriend escaped to a neighbor owes home. >> and policeill be ready sunday when hundreds of protesters and counterprotesters arrive downtown for a white supreme court sift rally near . the white hou the chief says their main gal will be keeping groups separated so they can avoid the deadly clashes that unfded last ye in charlottesville. >> demonstrators for that unite the right rally plan to take the vienna metro to foggy bottom before heading to lafayette square. >> and that could impact restaurants and businesses along the march route. erika gonzalez is in our ewsroom with that part of the story. erika? >> we know g.w. is closing several businesses because

the ral and today we're hearing from restaurant managers who work in the same area and say that employee safety their top priority. just outside the foggy bottom metro stop the grocery chain and numerousrestaurants, like district commos, this assistant manager says business hours will not change. he says he's been talking all week about the rally and encourages them to speak up if they don't feel safe. >> anybody who doesn't want to work and doesn't feel comforta e workingfinitely has a right and can let us know and somebody whoikoesn't feel working on their day off can take that day off as well. >> for now he anticipates having a fully staffed restaurant. wendy? >> thanks, erika. stay with us for complete coverage and on the day of y sun demonstrations get the latest updates any time in our nbc washington aw. you khat feeling waiting for a metro train to arrive only to find it iscked with no room to get in. well, metro warns those days are

coming. for ten days starting this saturiay construction be disrupting surface. the lines most affected ar the blue, silver and orange line and some stations will be closed and trains will be single tracking which means significant crowding and delays. rushour trains were run every 20 minute. there will be no blue service in the district or maryland and in the worst thing metro warns it maynot have room for all riders. metro and aaagg both t use another way to get around. news 4 has learned that the edther accused of shooting her daughters purchhat weapon at a gun show just days before that incident andou documents show veronica youngblood bought the gun at a northern virginia gun show. the locationhe of spent cartridges suggests that the girls were shot in different ooms, and at least three shots were fired. police say they also found a letter. youngblood is charged with killing her 5-year-old daughter brooklyn and shooting an older

child. she has admitted to police that she killed her daughter. >> all police officers in fairfax county will soon carry newools in the fight against opioid overdoses. ch officer will be issued an improved personal protection kit. it will limit exposure toad substances like. fentan also, officers will carry narcan kh s we nasal spray that a counterac opioid overdose. last year 15,000 people died from opioids last year alone. >> city officials are still seeking the help of landlords who are willing to rent apartments to famili experiencing homelessness. news 4's mark segraves shows u how one landlord opened up an ntire building so dozens of families now have their very own homes.

>> reporter: the d.c. general family shelter is still slated to close, there's still 131 families living there. they have been trying to find em permanent homes, but the city has been having trouble find willing landlords willing to open their doors tmi homeles lies. that's where this developer jamie smith came in. he's dedicated this entire building so that more than two dozenss homel families now have a place to live. >> it kind worked out as a perfect fitand they were working to close d.c. general so we just decided it would b good partnership. >> reporter: families like the foulers who got the keys to their first apartment today. >> we're very grateful that they gave us the chance to start on a new journaly. >> if you wou like to learn more about how you might be able to help these homeless families check out the nbc website and

search homeless. in the district, mark segraves, news 4. >> there is no insight into the scope of pa manafort's allegedtd tax fraump the alarming numbers are coming out in court. >> plus, exposing lawmakers accused of announcing their retirement and taking vacation-like trips on your tax d llar. 're looking at mainly dry conditions tonight and tomorrow, but as we head into the weekend rain chances return to the forecast. doug and i will have the latest timing and impact coming up. >> we've got to talk to you about something you posted on today. cebook page >> the fall merchandise is out at the grocery stores, and this has been happening for decades and it still bugs a l of people. frosted pumpkin pie pop tarts, by the way. is it too soon? i love me some pumpkin pie. >> i think it's way too soon. we' still in early august. we're nowhere near september. a lot of kids aren't einn ng about heading back to school just yet. i have to say this caught my

attesoion so much i was carrying a watermelon with my work dress. you know what that is like. had to backtrack in the store and take a picture of this. >> okay. i'll give you props for at. >> watermelon -- holding a watermelon in a work dressihich ised and be able to take a picture. you go, amelia. s >> way toon for that kind of stuff. >> go to her facebook page and a let her knowyou think. is it too soon or not? >> ain, we'llga (sound of footsteps) (sound of car door opening) (car door closes) (sound of engine starting) ♪

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a number of retirinaw kers are traveling the world and you're paying for it. the question is whether those trips are just meant for work public citizen says they are suspicious all of these trips are just for congressionals.elated busine according to "usa today," exiting lawmakers who continue to travel are costing taxpayers their destinations include canada, mexico, italy, germany, thailan the government affairs lobbyist says some of these trips appear to be vacation destinations. >> the problem withost of these trips is the lack of disclosure. all we know is tt they went somewhere and what the price tag was. that's it. you know,nt do discuss what the itinerary was, what ind of business they were doing, if any business whsasoever. >> oday" reports all of

these trips were legal because they were signed off by the member's committee chair. > there's an opportunity for you this weekend to make some terrific summertime memories. the perseid meteor shower re hes its peakovernight sunday into monday. the question is whether the weather will cooperate? amelia is he to answer the question. >> the weather, unfortunately, is looking less than fantastic. while it peaks sunday night into monday you could still potentially see a few meteors out there on saturday night and re's the forecast right now. 11:00 p.m. there is a chance for showers out tere with the temperature of about 74 degrees. not lking good saturday night. sunday night you might get a few breaks in thclouds so we'll keep our fingers crossed. temperatures once again in the low to mid-70s with dry conditions likely out there sunday nig into early monday morning. breaks in do get a few the cloud what can you expect.

again, you'll want to be out there sunday night into earl monday morning starting around 11:00 p.m. on sunday. where should you be looking? well, with the perseids you can look anywhere in the sky and you n't need to worry about that, and if you did have clear skies we could see up to m oneeor out there a minute and, guys, there's no moon out there so you don't have to worry about moonlight, so let'shope the forecast improves for our sunday night. back to you. >> nice. thanks. coming up, vaccines destroyed. a blood bank at risk. patients scrambled. a news 4 i-team inveigation reveals a breakdown at a major local hospital a what's bei done to fix it. >> doug andmelia a get to the ross shoe event and get the shoes you want...for way less. oh yeah. ross has the top brands at big savings. for the latest styles and trends...

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> the v.a.'s flagship hospital has been taking heat over the last year for supply shortages, backlogs and mismanagement. tonight it's truly in the hot seat. >> an investigation by the news 4 i-team announces major problems temperatures inside the medical center that serves more than100,000 veterans and as scott macfarlani reports th panningering patients and advocates who worry, some saying that something has to be done and it has to be done now. >> reporter: the fourth of july holiday in the nation's capital. for an army veteran e likeard gleason it's supposed to be a memorable day. >> was having complications with my multiple sclerosis. like this. but not >> they needed to admit you and stay there. >> right. >> reporter: it forced cleese gleason to the medical center where he's been a patient for 30 years. temperatures in the district hit 93 degrees and inside gleason

unbearable. >> there was no air conditioning. >> reporter: no fans? >> no fans. i could t sleep at night because it was so hot. >> reporter: forcing the man hospitalized because he could barelyalk to walk o that nigdn. >> i coul't stand it any longer. >> reporter: the news 4 i-team found his room wasn't the only one impacted in july. air conditioning failed in an auditorium and on the third floor. the agency says reirs are still underway and this isn't the first proem with the oling system. in may a bur pipe spread to one floornd knocked out the power in another forcing patients to be removed from intense ircare and that's unacceptable says the director of foreign affairs, patrick murphy. >> when you have the high temperatures with a lot of humidity that can lead to a terrible situation for these patients in these rooms and can run into refrigerator issues. i >> reporter: a has. a refrigerator malfunctioned

forcing staff to throw away a quarterif aion dollars of flu shots. 22,000 doses, according to a memo from federal >>overseers. nd now you're out, time, money, resources. and if there ever is a critical issue where you ne those and the temperature system fails, that could lead to a life-threatening issue. >> reporter: temperature problems put odlife-saving b banks at risk. in this memo a d.c. v.a. official announced the blood banks had a problem with the wemperatures being toom and say those concerns have been brought up since 2004, but they have not been successfully addressed. the v.a. told insptors they would get new refrigeration t items bt's one item on the growing list. v.a. records obtained under the freedom of information act shows 20 million of air conditioning heat are needed. who is to blame? the v. inspector general told us this spri many of the problems inside the v.a. medical

system are d to mismanagement. >> didn't act with emergency or purpose allowing the problems to continue. >> reporter: we wanted to know how these problems have lagged t for years, no one at the medical center would agree to do an interview with us, so we went to the mid-atlantic regional managers who ore see buildings and purchases and they declined, too. we then came to aency headquarters, and officials here declined to be interviewed, too stead issuing a written statement saying we will continue with planned repairs ts mare vet advance receive safe, quality healthcare and employees are in a safe work environment. back at his home edgar gleason says that's not good enough and someone needs to take ownership of these problems for the sake of america'san vet >> i thought about other veterans, veterans who don't have the option and have to go to the v.a. and that's when i said i'm going to speak up this time. >> reporterlkeeping the dership at this medical center has been difficult. the man who oversaw the medical center for much of this year and during msny of the probl was reassigned in april. a temporary director has days

left in his term and a fifth director in the past 14wi month likely be named in a matter ur weeks. that's a lot ofver >> this is just unbelievable. i'm thinking if some of these people in the culture of complacency had relatives or family members in these hospitals would they feel any odifferent, you know,d there not be that culture? >> reporter: what the inspector general has said as he did a long review of this center says a lot is preventable because a lot of it was cultural, just placency, problems that could have been avoided. >> you're saying if the air conditiong has been an issue for 14 years, i mean, come on. >> reporter: problems een there for a while. >> thanks, scott. if you have a tip about the. . that you want the i-team to be looking into, visit our nbc washington app and tiip on invesgations. >> okay. doug is back with a good looking thursday out there. how long will this stuff stick with us? >> right on through the weekend and then it will look dirderent.

yes the heat index was 0, today it's 95. still hot and human outside tight now an isolated shower has come through, all in all a lot of sunshine and bright blue skies. there's the 92 an 77 by 11:00. eating dinner outside, hitting the barbecue, that's lookingpr ty good, too. it's still hot. six days in a row with temperaturesre90 d or above and advertise 87 and we're at 92. five degrees above average today. we'll be right back there tomorrow. owat's it. a couple of ss. one in fauquier county and one towards culpepper count deand let's zoom on over to a thisa. a couple of showers around the manassas area an auple of sprinkles and one right around here.all and the planes that will continue to drift down towards hay market and most of us are on the dry side. that's going to be the case tomorrow. same deal, maybe an

shower or two and tomorrow's high right around where it is today. degrees and another hot day. not too humid and a nice day. friday evening is loong great and that leads to the weekend. what are we talking about? more rain chhces and means some issues with the garden. >> yeah. if you want to get the gardening done we'd recommend doing it tomorrow when we're really not y worried about rain. maybe an isolated thunderstorm out there and for the most part looking like another dry day. 74 degrees so mild out there to start, and a high temperature of 91 makes it the seventh day in o where we've hit 90 degrees or higher and the garden center tells us to protect your skin whenen gag. use an spf of 30 or higher, a t nice big and sunglasses that have uv blocking in them. as we look to the weekend here's the forecast. temperatures are in the mid-830s. showers at ti on saturda not a washout, but there's the

chance for sam rain out there during the morning hours as well on saturday. sthe best chance for is going to be your sunday morning, but that's going toelp touel some scattered showers and thunderstorms in the day. the weekend is not looking lik washout but it's still muggy out there, despite our cooler temperatures, no impact on humidity levels. i wouldn't cancel those outdoor plans just yet but definitely have the backup plan and with how much rain we've had in mid-july, early into the nsweekend, flooding co and that's what we'll fos on heading towards sunday and even on into monday. >> normally this would not be a tion coming up over the next couple of days where we'd be worried about flooding.of upward 1, 2 and 3 inches of rain between saturday and tuesday and because we've been wet for the last month and a half it does look like we could see flood concernsagain so watch out there. i can't say it enough. turn around, don't drown. heads up there, but tomorrow no problem. 91 and a better chance of rainda

on sat and sunday afternoon and monday looks like that's the best chance for most of the day with showers and rain chances and more storms on tuesday. guys? >> thanks, doug. nbc 4ng is gea up for our clear the shelters event, and it couldn't be happening at a better time because this is kitten season which means a lot of cats are looking for permanent homes. there is a no vacancy sign outside the fairfax unty animal shelter, one of several local shelters near or at capacity for cats. >> the summer is traditiotilly the when shelters are most full of cats. kitten season starts in early spring, and so around this ti year the kittens are eight weeks old and some have to find their adoptive families so shelters become more full than >> oh, my goodness, they are very cute. the fairfax shelt isffering half off pet adoption fees for this month, but during our clear the shelomr eventng up a week from this saturday, all fees will be waived on that day. if you're thinki about taking

home a new family member, you might want to head tohe local animal shelter and adopt on augustar 18th as we che shelters. for more information check out our nan washington app search clear the shelters. >> i want the dog right there. >> looks like a model dog. >> kittens all look like they are ewdels. >>ork city has decided to cap the number of ubers and lyfts that are allowed to operate in the area. >> could it happen here? we'll take a look next. >> a former university basketball player has left

s > new york city just placed unprecedented lim ride-sharing services like uber and lyft including declaring a moratorium on new lenses for the ride-hailing companies. so could d.c. be next? ne4's nicole jacobs went digging for answers today. >> reporter: one look at washington, d.c.'s abustl it's hard to imagine what could make it better, especially when it's described like this. >> bad and tting worse. >> reporter: new york had an idea andep voted to ke a cap on ride-sharing licenses for 12 months with hopes of minimizing traffic congestion among other

thing it got us thinking would d.c. officials coider something ike that here? >> i don't think uber is likely to be contributing significantly to congestion in the district of columbia. >> on the weekends uber is my only way of transportation. i wou like to see little bit more regulation especially esring rush hour. >> reporter: witnrun the gamut, and uber officials aren't the slightest bit convinced a cap would ease congestion. > we think it's a great thing that washington has lots of options foreople to move around. si by all accounts new york is a special case, cred a mega city and statistics show new york dispatchers 80,000 vehicles per day and here in the district there's no licensing process for an exact number but according tt uber significantly less because there aren't as many full-time drivers. >> in a place like d.c., this is a part-time op people are turning to supplement their income. >> reporter: there is a big pitch for bike sharing and a push for car poompts

transportatitrappings officials saydireezing adional ride-sharing licenses won't take the heat off traffic in the capital. nicole jacobs, news 4. >> tonight at 6:00, bracing for this weekend's white nationalist rally and counterprotests. >> we want to dissuade anybody f from purposly coming to our city to destroy our city. >> the newction to secure our city and keep people safe.cr a ch of brakes and a terrifying scene unfold. >> sometimes people can live anm learn, andimes you don't get that opportunity. unfortunately, that was the case. >> but a witness reunts a deadly crash in northern rginia and why she's convinced it started with road rage. >> plus, new concerns about ther drinking wfter high levels of lead were found in one of the largest school districts in our region. >> tonight, new concerns about

safety at thiss weeken white nationalist protests in the ciray. demonrs and counterprotesters descend on the white house. >> and sunday's event is expected to draw hundreds of people from around the country and comes one year after that supremacist rally that erupted in deadly vall in charlottesville. >> news 4's mark segraves has a look the plan to keep our city safe. mark. >> e mayor signed that executive order this afternoon. what's going to happen on sunday ternoon? there's going to be counterprotesters who will gather down at freedom plaza to the east and march here to lafayette square. at the same time the white w supremacisll be gathering at foggy bottom and to the west matching here toth laughe square right behind me at the white house where the two sides will come face to face. his is what d.c. officials are