a mecnic stole alane and crashed it. investigators believe he was suicidal and not trying to ht or attack anyone. witnesses say the man was doing stunts up in the air before the plane went down. d.c. police are putting their plans in action this weekend as the second unite the right rally is set to happen just outside the white house. omerosa changing part of her story bore her tell-all book about the white house comes out. in the book she says several people told her about hearing trump use the n word several tis while making the first season of "the apprentice." the white house says the book is riddled with lies.

welcome back to "news 4 today" on this saturday morning. i'm david culver. ff i'm megan fitzgerald in for angie go. a beautiful day, it seemslike, e sun is out. no clouds no rain right now. it sounds like rain might be on the way. is that right lauryn ricketts. >> a few showers may be moving into our region, especially by this afternoon. i wouldn'tny cancel plans. let me take you on a tour real quick. this is our live camera overlooking the dulles toll road in russ now coming back to the d.c. area, we've got haze, cloud cover. camera. our live capital we can see a little bit of blue sky off to the west. other than that we are looking at crowd cover out there. depending on your lo tion, you'll see sunshine or clouds and whether you'll see sprinkles today. we've got a few sprinkles down to theouth through stafford county and going down through

fredricksburg.he for here in d.c. area we're dry for now. hu'll talk about the timing of any showers anderstorms and we'll talk about a big idat-upcoming our way as we go through thee part of this week coming up. we'll talk about that on the ten-day forecast in just a little bit. happening today, the class of 2022 is in the district. >> it's move-in day for howard university freshman. derrick ward is live inas northwest wngton as the incoming students begin the next phase ofheir lives. derrick? >> reporter: good morning. this is always a big y. it happens every year. every year it's a chance for the university to make the first impressi . as you cansee, they've got thiso work logistically. those bins are meeting those cars. they have to move on. no time for those long tear-filled good-byes. it comes at a f special time howard university. this year began with issues with

heir physical plant and then they had the student takeover which was driven by that. coming into d.c. on quite a weekend where there's protests and rpcountests coming in. the voeks here, the volunteers are not only helping them move their things, but making sure they know about the university't instional history. and they're putting all this in context as we hear from the vice affairs. of student >> i think what's going to be important is what happens afterwards. so starting tomorrow, we'll have our pinning ceremony and we're going to be having a lot of conversations talking about what happened in the spring, how can we move forward and meet the needs of students and res live is a big part of that. >> reporter: they say one of the goals this year is to have 85% of the housing either renovated or new. they want to get as many students to move on campus so they have that experience. another important thing happening today is voter straks. that's always important. a good lesson for these

freshmen. live on the campus of howard niversity, derrick ward, news 4. back to you. >> derrick, thank you. i remember the day. >> taking this alum down memory lane. >> i moved in just along that street there, my freshman dorm. tomorrow is, as derrick mentioned there, is the white supremacist rally that's going to be here in the dist oct. this com year after the deadly rally in charlottesvillay >> police s they're doing everything they can to keep ysa fe. that is not stopping folks from getting uneasy. ite the right 2 will hold their rally in lafayette square across from the white house. counterprotests are expected nearby. many rally participants are u expected to the foggy bottom metro station. of course, george washington university hospital is just a few yards from that. some nurses there tell us they're concerned. >> hopefully we'll have people to walk ushe to t car if we need to. hopefully everything is peaceful. i don't know what's going to happen. >> last night an anti-hate

teach-in panel was held at washington hebrew congregation. speakers encouraged the hundreds who attended to resnd to the rally with action that creates lasting change. depending on where you want to go the rally and counterprotests could affect you. we're expecti o delay the rails this morning. news 4's melissa mollet ntinues our coverage with first 4 traffic. >> here is a look at the road closuresin ta about a pretty extensive set here. 15th to 17th streets in northwest around the white house between k and constitution, 18th to 23rd betwe pennsylvania and e. e, f, and g between 17th and 23. let's take a look at the rails here right now. ted 's going to be imp because of the rally. so orange line, unite the right marchers gather sunday at 2k p.m. at vienna. silver and orange lean this weekend, no intras running between foggy bottom and federal triangle.ns tr every 20 minutes outside

of that particular closure. blue lines, service between franconia and arlington. no service in d.c. or maryland. the city of charlottesville remembering a deadln day its history. >> certainly a tough day for them and the entire thuntry. is a live look at the memorial service in charlottesville. they are celebrating the life of heather heyer, the woman killed at last year's rally. >> they're getting ready for that remember balance ceremony to begin. a lot of folks in the area have shut down their businesses for today to remember, not only heather heyer, but t also the virginia state police troopers who were killed in a chopper crash responding t the protest. i spent the past couple days down there in charlottesville where i caught up with folks who are hoping so desperately for a peaceful weekend. >> reporter: on a summer evening, charlottesville's downtown mall is the pndce to strollust be. tonight on the seemingly taceful pedestrian plaza,here

are markings of a painful pa. just one year ago the clash between protesrs and er counterprotetaking a life. fourth street carries heather heyer's name. growing memorial the two virginia state troopers killed in a chopper crash. they were responding to the protest. >> it was terrifying. >> surroundedy the tranquility of her flower shop, owner karen walker struggles with the images of that day. >> it made me really, really sad. >> you've been here more than 20 years. >> is this the charlottesville you know? ay no, not at all. >> you hear people don't want a charlottesville happening here.in to have it usehat way, does that hurt? >> yeah. it's not indicative of this town at all. >> what is this town? >> thitown, it is love. >> reporter: sitting outside the mud use coffee shop, right o

queue it seems, an embrace showcasing that love. >> not even a second of hate in this town. >> reporter: as half the shops and restaurants prare to close this weekend ahead of expected protests, police are making their presence known. in places li karen's hedge fine blooms will hand out free purple flowers to honoe lives lost. mud house coffee shop staying open. her employees wanted to be here. she says they will be serving up a local favorite, a caffeinated surge of le. >> love that. nice job, david. great story. the space is full for many animal shelters around the city, but there is a great event happening topl help peo all of the hdmvp an animal and make a n bestfriend. more on that coming up 4 xt on "news day."

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the stacks. >> there were snakes slithering through the building last week. erika gonzalez spoke with an expert about this problem. >> reporter: in we go to the d.c. public library in georgetown. curled up w gh ad book isn't who or what you might think. snakes. over the weekend several garter snake found in the library's basement. >> i would just wet my pants. i just wouldn't -- >> here is the type of snake th're talking about. while they're noactual ones found in the library, these are garter snakes. a library spokesperson says the snakes were found here by the meeting room, steps away from en the chil 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 not a meteorologist or snake expert, but i would suggest -- >> it's the rain. >> -- they're trying to get out

of the rain. >> reporter: matthew evans is assistant curator of reptiles at the smithsonian. >> they're coming up looking for a cool dry place. they're good for the environment, eating all the creepy-crawly things that we don't like. they're okay. >> reporter: the library closed a few days for pest control but is once again open for all kinds of readers, minus the ones that slither. >> erika gonzalez reporting there. lauryn ricketts is our snake expert. read re saying they can very well -- >> they produce pheromones -- garter snakes, that's how they're able to find the other snakes because of the pheromones, but they can't differentiate between male and male. i lovsnakes. >> i thought it was garden snakes. >> garter. >> is there such a thing asga en snake? >> i don't think so. i think that's a common misconception. don't quote me.

>> if they're venomous, get real close -- >> just look them in the eyes. you'll not their eyes are like vertical as opposed to horizontal. >> i'm not getting that close to a snake. >> it's hard to see. if you're behind -- there's a serpentarium in north carolina i used the go to. if you can see them behind glass, you can see their eyes -- iad a whole snake. >> that's cool. >> we went and out waders on and got snakes and salamanders. it was like a d12-year- boy's dream which i loved. whether it was sunny, rainy, we walked outside no matter what we did. >> listen, if you want to get

outside for whatever you want to do to davgts maybe go hunt some snakes, maybe go have some birthday parties, whatever you want to nldo, the reason i said birthday party, i had a couple people ask me awhut her they could hold some parties outside. yesterday i stayed maybe not. but today i e-mailed them, i said go at it. e' this i going to have a few light scattered showers here and there. a fews afternoon sto any time after about 2:00 or 3:00. and then ireasing coverage. i'll show you that in a second. we have some sunshine out there right tenow. eratures are in the 70s and low 80s at this point. it's a rather nice morning, a little muggy out there, but really not that bad. as we get into the afternoon an evening, that's when we'll start to s scattered showers and thunderstorms develop. temperatures topping out in the mid to upper 80s today. only about a 40%, 50% chance you'll see it at your house during the afternoon and this

evening. we've got a few sprinklar that right along that i-95 corridor backing themselves into orange county and central virginia. for us in the beltway, we're looking good. again, maybe a few sprinkles as we gogh the next couple hours where we're watching this little area cluster of showers. that's continuing to push to the north and east. you can see it's weakening, and cewill pro a few showers behind this. not much to write home the reason we're seeing this system or seeing the rain is because we've got a frontal system that's hanng out to the north. what's goings to happen, it's going to wave back and forth,li ly not dropping south of that mason-dixon line. with that there all weekend, the strongest dynamic force in storms will be here, western pennsylvania as this splits to the south, some of thevi heaest rain could come from baltimore and points to the north and east. we or not expecting a lot of rain in our region. ouis area be the heaviest rain we're seeing.

i put that in case you're traveling up 95 saturday morning, we're getting sunshine, some clouds. we'll have a fewshsolated ers as we go through about 2:00, and some thunderstorms start t develop and pop up around the region, any of these could lead to localized flooding. we will keep a chance through the late evening. we'll go dry overnight with a little fog and do it all again tomorrow with the same almostst exact fore just a little cooler tomorrow. even as we go into your sunda w night,re really not looking at much rain across the area. here is the dynamics for the heaviest rain. that's still under a half inch of rain. the perseid meteor showers peaking tonight. maybe a few areas that could have clearing skies, but i do expect fog both tonight and tomorrow night and plenty of clouds around. unfortunately it is a new so conditions are right to see them if we just h clearskies. i don't think we or going to

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developing overnight, the seattle airport was shut down for hours after police say a suicidal mechanic stole an aircraft and crashed while doing stunts. we're a d away from the

side the right rally o the white house. police putting safety plans into action to avoid a repeat of last year's deadly violence in charlottesville. another controversial white house tell-all is heading to bookshelves. but the author is already walking back o of the biggest stories about president trump.el me in on this saturday morning.lv i'm david . >> i'm meagan fitzgerald. a beautiful day so far. expected to be another hot one. another look outside. lauryn ricketts is standing by to let us know if and when rain is coming through. >> we've got a few showers out therht now, a few sprinkles out there right now. we also havelo a lot of cover here in d.c. i see plenty of sunshine, especily west of d.c. into loudoun county, back towards the shenandoah valley where things up.heating already up to 82 degrees right now. we're going to continue to see those temperatures right up into the mid to upper w 80s as continue through the day.

chances ofhave a few some rain. it will be more --re iing as we get into the afteoon. in chances increasing threw out the day. you can see nothing out there right now except for a few sprinkles except to t south of us, lining up along i-. a few thunderstorms possible later today. we'll talk about the timing ofu moreine and when we can dry out. we have self days of rain coming our wa i'll talk about all that on the ten-day forecast in a bit. >> a lot to talk about. at 9:32, a developing story out of washington state from overnight. air lean officials say a plane mechanic stole an airliner and died during aoy ride last night. the joy ride ended when the plane crashed on a small island near the airport. theechanic has only been identified as a 29-year-old employee for horon air. he was the only person on board. witnessesay the man took a small plane, ignored the control tower and took off. al i other flights and out of

seattle's sea-tac airport werer delayed diverted for some time. several witnesses on the ground ught their own video. a local sheriff says the mechanic's lack of flying skills ultimately caused the crash. > this morninginal preparations are under way for tomorrow's white supremacist rally right outside the white house. >> d.c. officials say they're trying to avoid the deadly violence that broke out ines charlolle last year. organizers of the unite the right 2 have a permit to ally in lafayette square across from the whi house. at least five groups of counterprotesters plan to rally and march to lafayette square. authorities are ramping up security to keep both sides apart. one top d.c. official won't beo in town f the rally. mayor muriel bowser says she's going forward with a long-planned trip to el >> i'll make a designation that the city administration makes any decisions that i'm not able to mabu.

i should say that we -- if i i think i need to be here, i'll be here. >> president trump isn't er.ected to be in town ei he's staying at the trump national golf club in new jersey while renovations are being made to the white house. charlottesville and the rest of virginia already under states of emergency ahe of the weekend rally. law enforcement there has been planning to accommodate several demonstrations and protests expected weekend. give you aive look as we head down to charlottesville. what you're looking at is a mome thas celebrating the life of heather heyer. she was killed last year as a car went into the downtown mall. this celebration is also supposed to take place to hon or her life outside the white house a little later this morning. happening today, the class of 2022 is indi the rict. >> today is move-in day for howard university freshmen.

meagan with lots of memory lane. students enteringthe n phase of life, derrick. >> reporter: good morning. this is where it all starts for the new class of incoming freshman. we oer outside college hall, one of the new dorms. they're having people line up down here. students and voluners are showing up with bins and they can load their stuff onto those bens, get them into the room. they're asking folks to move on so they can get people inthere. no long good-byes. they have 1500 stunts to move in. quite a year it has been -- actually closer to 1600. quite a year it has been for howard university. it started with the beginning of last semester. student activism taking over the central adminisation building. is is a weekend that will be quite interesting in the nation's capital as well. th's all part of the contest. they're showing them the institutionaly. hist

there is an emphasis on t practical. those housing issues as we hearn from vice pres of student affairs. >> as we're moving forward, we or looking to having either 85% of our housing stock either new oren vaeted inhe last fiv years. one thing i want to make sure that the community know is as we move forward, our hope is to have more of our students on campus and creatingrueliving, learning communities in the environment. >> reporter: part of their introduction to that experience will be the move-in. later today will there be a barbecue, a okout on the quad. these families and the incoming students, all thes,eturning clbout 4,000 students all together can get together and begin the year wiially starts on august 20th. one of the more important things happening today,oting 're live howard university, derrick ward, news 4. back t you. >> derrick, thanks. a big metro project happening that i going to affect how you get around this weekend as well, especiay if you're planning on taking the

rails. trains will beine tracked between mcpherson square and smithsonian on the blue, silver hed orange lines. construction on lines will last 16 days. some stations also shut down this weekend. there's a lot to go through. our digital helping you out this weekend. go intbc the washington app and search metro shutdown. >> we've learned the names of the police officer who shot killed a suspected drug dleefr in landover. korm jeffrey u benson'st was looking for gregory campfield junior. neighbors said campfield was obbing drugs and people. officers tried to arrest him when they say he reached for a gun in his waistband. corporalt benson shim. campfield died at the hospital. detectives say they found a gun, drug and cash on the scene. this morning there's a new twist surrounding the death offa university maryland football

player. several members of the school eels apgt let ticks department e now on administrative leave. jordan mcnair was an offensive ts.man for theer he was sent to the hospital after practice in may. he died in june. sports ol hired a medicine consulting firm to conduct an investigation. the firm is going to determine if the schoollo fd proper protocol. the school saidn part, we will be able to speaktan greater deil when the review is complete and shared with the public. our thoughts remains with jordan mcnair's friends, family and teammates. the woman who followed president trump to the white house seems to be changing her story. omarosa manigault newman said three people told her abo trump using the n word on severalhi occasions making the first season of "the apprentice." during an interview with npr she claimed to have heard the words from trump herself. she also claims president trump

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a painful remembrae happening today. it's been a year since a white supremacist rally erupted in charlottesville. >> one survivor is telling her story oecovery and renewed determination to bureau chief lie carey. she asked us to partially shield her identity, fearful whiteac suprists might target her. >> reporter: it's a terrifying scene of violence replayed ound the world as a whit supremacist plowed through a crowd of counterprotesters in charlottesville. lisa was in the middthat crowd. >> when i was hit, i had no idea what was going on. i heard screaming that sounded different from the rest of the day. i was beginning to think, should i run, and then i heard -- that was him hitting dies.

hitting her body. this has been her daily drill as she fights to regain what was taken from her during those violent seconds. lisa is a long-time animal terights activists who prosted on that issue many times before. her decision to join tho countering the white supremacists was simply shiftin the fi human rights. >> i wanted to go and stand up against people who are violent. and oppressi >> reporter: once in charlottville, she met a group themd.c. and marched with >> i felt terrified and i was s standing there people were lining up in forma ton march out and i thought, this feels like war. >> reporter: lisa stuck close to the group and was not caug up any of theke clashes that bro out when they confronted the whitsprem sifts. she started to relax when suddenly those screams and james fields gunnehis dodge up the street into the crowd.

lisa was struck and tossed upside down. in this photo capturing the , chaos and terrthose are her legs pointing straight up in the air. n of it,e whole confus it felt like i was being swept into a tornado. i had no idea i s hit by a car at that time. i was just spinning in the air.r >> rr: she landed on another car and fell to the ground. >> i felt very calm, and there was all this chaos going on arngnd me, but there was not i could do but lay there. >> reporter: a doctor from richmond rushed to her side as they awaited emergency responders. her forehead was cut, hejaw out of alignment, her hand badly broken, and worst of all, both legs were brokentoo. >> they put the plates and pins and screws in my legs, and then i think it was wednesday when they did mhand surgery. >> reporter: pain at time excruciating and fear, especially at first, powerful. >> the first night when i tried to fall asleep, i woke up terrified that the nazis were

going to come in to kill me.ur they put a sy guard by her my door. >> reporter: she said she also experienced joy at the outpouring of support. >> everything was taken out of my hands and people were b mng so good e. >> reporter: after the hospital and six weeks of inpatt,nt treatment was up to her with the help of her physical therapist to do the hard work of rehab. >> i can do most things now.t i can'nce yet. i would like to be able to dance. i can now do hikes. >> reporter: and she can march again, on sunday, on the anniversary of heatheranyere's deather grave injuries, lisa will be in d.c. joining those planning a peaceful counterprotest of the second >> it's a responsibility. >> our right to speech is not just a right, it's a responsibility. i would like white supremacists to understand that, that they're not going to break us. i think everybody who can show up should show up.

>> lisa says one reason she can show up this weekend, she got help paying for her l care which we know can be very expensive. er insurance covered just a fraction of her physical therapy. >> that's before the heal charlottesville funpped in to bridge the gap. it's awarded more than $300,000 to those who were injured by or tnessed the attack. switching gears now. >> a few sprinkles out there right now. maybe this afternoon a few more thunderstorms rolling through the area. for the most part, we'll have dein here and there with a few afternoon thtorms. we've got a lot of dry time in between. for,he sunshi if you're west, you're seeing sunshine. if you're stuck in d.c., you're seeing more cloud cover. temperatures in the 70s and 80s if you're headed to the pool today, you'll have plenty of dry

time. temperatures in the low to mid8 at noon. arnd 2:00 we can develop a little more of a thunderstorm. we'll keep thunderstorm chances as we go through the evening. we'reeeing a few sprinkles out there right now lining up just through southern phd, prince george's county,ll the way back throughin quantico m base. just a few light sprinkles out there. isat's all it amounts to. look at you can see the cloud cover rht here. all this is sunshine and i do believe even down here we'll stt to see the sunshine, the clearing skies move right into the district. we will have good deal of sunshine here and there today with clouds, a little chance of rain in the morning, better chance for storms later this afternoon. and the reason why we've got frontal system that's hanging out to the north, and it's going to wave back and forth very slowly, not slipping south of that mason-dixon line. thetrongest dynamics for the heaviest rain as you can see in western pennsylvania going up

through new york, as it sinks a little further to the south, we'll see maybe heavy rain from baltimore towards philly. that's where then heaviest r will stay throughout the weekend. today's forecast is similar to tomorrow. we'll have maeb a few sprinkles here and there and some thunderstorms developing in the afternoon. this is 4:30. you can see some of these storms, could be heavy at times given the moisture content in theair. we could have flooding concerns. he keep a chance into the first part of overnight. temperatures in the mid to upper 80s for daytime highstoday. maybe if you're headed to the carpenters,e' got mary chapin carpenter at wolf trap, keithurban. we could have storms out there at 7:30 or beyond. itel hard to whether they'll be right there in the concert venue area. same deal tomorrav, we'll a few showers around. maybe a little more cloud cover. then the best chance widespread rain will be on monday, low to mid 80s. another chance of rain on tuesday.

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both mayor muriel bowser and president trump are out of town for thissweekend' rally and protest. t here is a look at the roads that will be down ahead of the rally and protest. you can find a whole list of closures in our nbc washington app. mro proje affecting the blue, silver and orange line is under way. stations are closed. search metro shutdown on the nbcwashington.com. a few showers this morning, a few thunderstorms later this afternoon. tomorrow almost exactly t same as today. >> all right. that's it for us. thank you so much for joining us. >> we're back here tomorrow morning at 6:00 morning at 6:00 wi ♪ ♪ ♪ raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens ♪

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