nationalists who showed up. how they traveled is drawing more attention. >> now neighbors are cleaning up and more rain is headed our way. news 4 today starts now. >> good morning, everybody. welcome to your monda at 4:00 a.m., am i'm aaron gilchrist. >> thousands ofids are headed back to class. >> melissa mollet is keeping an eye on the weathtraffic. >> hard to believe, school is going back in for our local counties. >> i wonder if the kids are happy. >> i'm happy. >> why are youhappy? >> they need to be learning. >> i alwaysir dreaded the day of school. everything felt too new. well a little if its they're standing at the bus stop.

kids moth s might be seeing so. off to our west near 81 and areas west of that some of theh er elevations looking at a dense fog advisory. manassas half mile visibility and gthersburg under 2 miles visibility. be aware of that as you're driving around. temperatures are vermild, 73 in clinton and as you wake up and walk outside, you'lly ee that patg by 7:00 a.m. byos 8:00,y warm and temperatures by the 70s but we are going to be dry. for the most part this morning, showers around baltimore and areas north. later today the chances go up. check the afternoon forecast and send it over to mu lissa and see what's happening on the ro >> southbound after malcolm x right there and sterling white water drive at sandbank square.

50 bay bridge here this morning, work zone two-way traffic right now and inner loop and outer loop of the beltway, no problem. pnchl . >> this morning, d.c. leaders say careful planning paid off. a large group of counterdemonstrators and both groups gathered a year after a similar event left one person dead in charlottesville. only 24 people came to d.c. to be part of unite the right. tense moments between a group of counterdemonstrators and police. >> both identifying themselves as anti-fascists. many in that group were dressed in all black andid their faces. police eventually spread the crowd with some sort of chemicai to breakt out. outside the white house, protesters fired off bottle

rockets at police. >> despite the fact that fewer than 30 white nationalists showed up refused to call it a failure. northern virginia bureau chief carey asd. >> we could prove when law h reforcement a robust commitment ande speech and protecting both sides and when they keep the sides separate. >> didn't you justet really noased out of downtown? >> we left for the safety reasons because of the rain and the weather, actually. >> he insists yesterday's march was about free speech and the first amendment, not hate. there was one rest. poli say donald franklin georgeet was arrested for spitting on two virginia state troopers. he has been charged with civil

assault. 03 this morning. outrage over how those white supremacists marchers were transferred downtown. they wereen g special accommodation by being allowed to board a prite train car. >> the union is calling for the general manager to be fired saying he lied to riders. chris, good morning. >> good morning.ey e saying ride the rain to the rally. now, technically, it wasn't.it wasn't entirely public either. that's where it gets interesting. take a look at some of this video. got here about 2:00 in the afternoon. the police escorted them as they boarded the rear car of the orange line for a few minutes they blocked riders for entering the station. they were not on that train.

some journalists were onboard and when their train left the station police reopened the station to everywhere. it did make a stop to pick up passengers, but a lot of people saw transit officers and passengers to go in front of the train and when the arrived, all the passengers were asked to exit first. what they say, metro says that kesslerraveled on regularly scheduled train. did with other passengers, media and law enforcement. p escorted bice on the rear of the train and police road in that rail car.ot still,nough for a lot of folks. called it unbelievably wrong and disgraceful and said it would be opposite of what metro said it

would do. of course, tback to you. >> chris, thank you. d.c. mayor bowser is headed back to el salvador. she returned to the district to monitor yesterday's. we had people coming to the city for the sole purpose of spewing hate. it didn't make sense l t year and it doesn't make more now. stay wewh n 4 today as we follow the aftermath from yesterday's rally and much larger uncorprotests. our coverage continues on air and on the nbc washington app. developing story in prince y george's co a man was beaten to death and his killers are still out there. officers found him yesterday in

capital heights. he later died at the hospital and his idant tdentity has not released. gunshots in upper marlboro. they found two adults dead inside aer home new calls for coach of university of maryland to be fired. rkin was placed on administrative leave. that program has been under review since may when jordan mcnair collapsed during practice. he died two weekste an autopsy report shows he died of a heat stroke. the familsays coach diurkin should be fired. happening in the paul manafort trit should res his case. being charged on bank evasion

and bank fraud. former white house aide omarosa. >> in her book she called the president, she says kelly wanted to make her departure friendly anhout any difficult in the future relative to her reputation. omarosa said she was listed ashi helping the house. >> i had a blind spot when it came to donald trump. i wanted to see the best. i failed miserably. >> the white house says her b fk l of lies. calls the reporting in the situatiota room a b disregard for our national security. you can hear more from omarosa on "today" show.

a stolen airplane from seattle. took an empty plane in seattle and crashed. russell had access and it is concerning investigators to piece together how thisould happen. >> it wasn't someone who was focused on causing m s destruction. >> federal investigators located human remains at that crash site. a single-engine cessna made an emergency landing on interstate 580. look at that. federal aviation officials say was trying to get to the hayward airport and plane was not damaged andeither were any the cars on the freeway. that is some expert flying right

there. >> it' now 4:09. she sacrificed her life a taking stand. one year after the deadly protest, heather heyer's mother shares a message of hope. several neighbors are cleaning up after strong storms tore up trees and knocked down power lines. how about our weather today, chuc >> littl foggy. temperatures mostly in the 60s to right around 70 deees. warm and humid outside this morning. dry between now and lunchtime. rain chances creeping back in in the

>> shame, shame, shame, shame, she. those were the chants that greeted the small group of white

supremacists that showed up the unite the right 2 rally in lafayette square yesterdae throup was heavily outnumbered by the 1,000 people who showed up. despite the tension, no violent confrontations between the two sides. in downtownharlottesville yesterday the message was one of healing. large numbers of people linked arms in solidarity. some minor altercaons and police arrested four men for minor offenses. the demonstrations come one year after violent protesters in charlottesville left heather heyer aead an outpouring of love and support for her mother this weekend. ke visited the spot where her daughter wasled when a vehicle went into a crowd of protesters. last night people left emotional messages on the streethere heyer lost her life taking a stand against hate.

>> a real sweetheart and very passionate about basic human rights in general. >> we're out here just to her know that her life was not in vain. >> heyer's mother also mentioned the two virginia state troopers whon died w their helicopter crashed. their footage helpe police track down the driver charged with killing heyer. more than two dozen people had to be rescued after flash flooding went through a camp site in san antonio, texas. eelicopters dropped life jackets down. national weather service says up to nine inches of rain fell there in three hours yesterday morning. no serious injuries reported. take a look at this video here. a powerful storm swept through stafford county last night. brought dn trees and power lines. power outages could affect the start of schools today in

surrounding countries and people are wondering what caused all damage. perhaps they said it was a torna tornado, but it might have been a mionoburst. >> s winds with some of the wind that moved through yesterday. some saw rain and others saw strong storms and i wonder if w the kidl be happy if they have a little bit of a pushback. >> they have their new sneakers all ready. they want to go. >> i neved l the new stuff. i wanted the familiar, the old, the worn in. >> good point. >> that was just me. i know a lot of kids are back to school. some aren't. they are just sleeping right now, as they should be. soak itll in before you have to wake up to that alarm clock. patchy fog thimorning to know out, especially if you were one of the school bus drivers f towardsi-81. that's where we have dense fog. dense fog advisory there. for the rest of the area som more fog you might run in to.

monanassas is half mile visibily and you do see we do have some thicker areas of fog coverage this morning. temperatu temperaturewise it's warm and muggy like it should be this time of year. 75 hedegrees in district and 73 in clinton and we also have some thunderstorm activity this morning, not so much locally. it's mostly around baltimoretsnd around p of the eastern shore but continue to move north. that's actuallyhe center of an area of low pressure developing right on top of us and as the day goes on, m fuelede by the sunrise and daytime heating and then we'll get more showers and storms maybe the second half of today. you can see how seled the atmosphere is. as you go through your monday, patchy fognd mostly cloudy skies throughout the day and mid-80s.o as we through the afternoon and evening, that's when we have the best chance of showers and storms develop. by lunchtime mostly cloudy and

maybe a couple showers around and really by the evening commute and after. there's 8:00 p.m. that's whe we'll see the scattered showers and storms developing. pretty heavy rainfall there, too. tomorrow we still do have that chance a little lower because that area of low pressure will be moving away. wednesday drying out as well as thursday and friday, we're back in the 90s. she normal high this time of year 87 degrees. we'll be above normal and some rain chances as we head to the weekend. let's send it over to melissa mollet on this monday and see g.w the commute is look south capitol right side blocked by a crash there. no rd work nice little treat for monday morning. urbanna right lane is blockeda y ork zone there and taking a look at 66, no problems.so hbound, 95 after 123 have two right lanes blocked by that work zone. eun. >> thank you. if your kids aren't getting

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ere to help the students as faculty and alumni helped them move in. >> it's official. it started. >>eel it creeping up on me. >> it's not creeping, summer daf sleeping in or barely sleeper are over >> doctors are encouraging families to develop sleeping habits now. a simple habit that could help ur kids do better in school. >> did you know each school day your child is taking in several streams of information at any given moment. we're not jt talking about what is on their smartphone or tablet screens. >> in the classroom, kids are attending to five or six different things at once. e lesson plan, learning, following the teachers' social cues, all their friends social cues. >> reporter: over time sleep could derail learning.

a sleep specialist at children's national hospital. he said now is the time to take s to improve your child's sleep and yours, too. >> eliminating devices within a half hour or hour optimally ispo very ant. devices provide light with chges the sleep/wake schedule. >> reporter: how much sleep does your child need? perhaps more than you ndrealize. age our natural body clocks can determine our sleep needs, but in general, younger people just need more sleep. >> teenagers need between 8 1/2 and 9 1/2 hours of sleep a night. that's older teens. younger teens in the 12 to 14 age range need closer to 9 1/2 to 10 hours of sleep a night. >> reporter: the younger the child, the more sleep they need. newborns as much as 16 hours a night. elementary schoolers just under 12 hours. if you're not on skaechedule ye start by dialing backbe imes

until you fall into a healthy tt n. >> they use the word need, need 16ours of sleep, need 8 to 9 hours of sleep. >> to grow. >> enagers. >> well the growth hormone d release durinp sleep, you know, if you don't get enough, it could affect all kind of things. >> i don't know. i get it. everybody's different. if you have any special sleep concerns about yourself or your o speak chedule time with a doctor about that. >> i never get enough sleep. don't look at me. >>yeah, i have friends in their 30s who are sleeping 10 hours a night, too. >> ten hours of sleep. >> after 7:00 when you get up, what? it blowsy mind. if there is a restaurant you ave been wanting to try in the d.c. area but haven't made it out yet, this is the week f you.

annual restaurant week kicks off today and lasts through sunday. >> more than 250 restaurants offering deals for lunch, brunch and dinner ranging from 22 to $35. >> here's a tip, make the reservations now and i always choose restaurants that aren the expensive side so i'm like, ok, if ion't want to go there, this is a good time to try it out. >> i think i'm going somewhere this week. >> thanks for the invite. >> i was invited. >> back to the new school year from sleep to supplies, we're working taget you ready for school. next at il4:30 you in on the tax-free deals you can take advantage of all week. >>g,ood morn everybody. welcome to your monday. a dry start to the day. if you're thinking about getting th car washed today, maybe a better chance tomorrow. eck of ttodaoday's forecast comg right up. clashes with police during

rallies against unite the right. what unfolded in the d.c. head of nd why the metro is in a bit of trouble. your te is 4:26.im

right now at 4:29.ni calls to u the right. much smaller than expected. what organizers are saying about theirow turn out . >> plus, a different story for the rallies against the riot. how protesters clashed with police. metro outrage. the ride to the rallies that's eading to calls for metro' leader to step down today. news 4 today starts now. >> the rain fell so hard that you couldn' even seeut of the house and it blew, i thought the windows were going to blowout. that's how hard it did. first ts rning, yesterday's weather could cause trouble today. severe storms soaked parts of our area yesterday bringing dow trees and power lines. hundreds of customers in

cueper and stafford counties still don't have power. good morning to you, i'm eun yang. >> i'm aaron gilchrist. more on yeerday's protests in just a moment. first, a look at the forecast. what aummer it's been. >> it really has been, yes. >> very quiet hurricane season, but these storms day after day after day doing all this damage. >> talking about the flooding issueali issues all around. first, let's check in with chuck bell and sheena parvn. >> we've seen everything and this morning planning for storm cleanup. >> about 50% more rain than average and most of that has come in the last 30 days or so. crazy rain around here. unfortunately, more rain chanc coming back for later on today. don't put that umbrella away, everybody. most of the rain from late last evening is dried up and i think we'll start out