county and now neighbors are cleaning up i and more ra heading our way. news 4 today starts now. it is 5:00 a.m., good morning, everybody. i'm aarongilchrist. >> i'm eun yang. ada busy s and today thousands of kids are headed back to class. the time is athere. appened to summer? >> slowly drifting >> we're keeping an eye on the commute. let's start with the forecastora bus stop fecast maybe, guys. >> maybe so first day of school, you know what that means, start getting our afternoons kid-free, once again. >> this is true. t there is still t whole dropping back off from the bus stop, parents waiting. >> o the rare occasions i go to the mall, i go right in the middle of the afternoon when those kids will be fewer and fewer. bye, kids, see you next summer. >> as the kids are handing out chuck is heading out to the

mall later on today, you might run into someshowers. mostly in the afternoon. we do have some fog around. manassas isg see less than half mile visibility and then we look off to the west and that is wher we have a dense fog advisory across 81. be careful of that. temperatures mild, once again. back to school forecast for those of you heading back to school or having to take the kids back toschool. at least by bus stop time we'll be dry, paty fog, mid-70s. mainly dry by recess today and later on this afteoon, that' when we'll see the scattered showers and storms developing. we also have a bit of a blood threat across northern maryland and this goes until 10:00 p.m. tonight because oforhowers and developing. chuck will show you that for the afternoon coming up. let's take you over to melissa and see what's happening on the roads. l >> taking ak at the roads. beltway inner loop and outer loop, nice and clear this morning. nice way to kick off a monday ith no road work on t

beltway. in sterling this water main. warning for you there, you can seehe slow down and right now being directed around it once you head through that area. prince george's county no problems in town or out of tn d 95 in virginia. quantico to t btway getting you there in 17 minutes. thimo ing, d.c. leaders say careful planning paidoff. protests by a small group of white supremacists and a larger group of counterdemonrators remain peaceful. >> both groups gathered a year after a similar event left one person dead in charlottesvill about 24 people came to d.c. to be a part of the unite t right rally. >> some tense moments between a grou of counterdemonstrators and police. >> some folks identifying clasd with police. many in that group dressed in a all blacknd hid their faces.

police eventually spread the crowd with some sort of kecki l ic chemical to break it up. despite the fact that fewer than 30 white tinaonalists showed up jason kessler refused to call yesterday's rally a failure. left lafayette square beforer theiarch was even expected to start at 5:00 p.m. northernirginia bureau chief asked them why they left downtown so early. >> prove that we can do a peaceful rally and that we can speak and we did that and we proved when lawor ecement had a robust commitment tosp free eech and protecting both sides when they keep the sides separate, people can bed. >> didn't y just really get chased out oto downwn? no, we left for the safety reasons because of the rain and the weather. >> kessler insists yesterday' march was about free speec and the first amendment, not hate. there was one arrest athe vienna metro station.

30-year-old donald franklin georgette was arrested for spitting on two virginia state troopers. he is from d.c. and has been charged with simple assault. metro's largest union says general manager paul wiedefeld deserves to be fired. >> he lied to employees on how they were transported downtown. >> chris lawrence at the vienna metro station with more and with what metro is saying about all this. chris? >> ll, first ofall, they're saying, aaron, that metro escortedcustomers to be to the rally on a private train. metro says that's not true. this morning we're sorting out o the facts so you can decide for yourself. got to the metro station about 2:00 in the afteoon. ey got onboard an orange line train to foggy bottom and for a few minutes riders did block from entering the station. the train wasn't complety private, however.

journalists were onboardnd ce kessles train left the station, they reopened that entrance. we're told basically at some point transit officers were advising passengers to the front of the train and then when they arrived at foggy bottom, all the passengers were asked to exit first andhen lice escorted kessler's group off the train. now, metro's pol e made the final decision on how to safely get kessler's group to the rally. quote, they were escorted by police on to the rear of the train and police road inhat rail car and others to protect the safety of everyoneonboard the train. the train stopped at every station to allow anyustomers to enter and exit. now, one d. council member called this unbelievably wrong and disgraceful.xa says it is the opposite of what metro said it would do and, of course, metro's largest union now demanding that wiedefeld

step down. chris lawrence, news 4, back to you. >> chris, thanks. it's 5:06. right now d.c. mayor bowser is headed back to el esalvador. interrupted her trip abroad to return back to the district and monitor yesterday. we hav people coming to our city for the sole purpose of spewing hate. year t make sense last and it doesn't make sense now. more on the mayor's train mission still taead. s with news 4 today as we foll the aftermath from yesterday's rally and a much larger counterdemonstrations. our coverage continues on air and on the nbc washington app. 5:06. now to developing story in prince george's county. a man was beaten to death and his killers are still on the street. he at the hospital. his b identity has notn released. also in prince george's county a murder/suicide

investigation. yesterday afternoon police resmaur esponded to a call abo gunshots. officers found two adults dead inside a home. investigators have not released any names yet. and this morning, new calls for unty of maryland, the university of maryland football coach to be fid. >> coach d.j.durkin is on administrative leave. justin finch is following this controversy from college park justin, good morning. >> good morning. the lawyer for the family of jordan mcnairt said t coach durkin fostered aorrible culture which included the physical and verba abuse and this lawyer saying that coach fired.should be he is on paid administratl e leave as w two athletic directors are and also a strength coach. damon w evans hired durkin

said he is investigating these allegations which sifirst surfad in a report. a sophomore lineman w died back in june weeks after falling ill in a practice. the family lawyer says this was an obvious case of heat stroke that he says never should have happened. back out live, we can tell you an external review is now under wa and results areue in september. the family of mcnair has yetle uit in this case against the university of maryland. we're live in college park, i'm justin finch. >> justin, thank you. happening toda prosecutors in the paul manafort trial say they plan to rest their case. being tried on charges of tax evasion and bank fraud. the trial resumes this afternoon in federal court in alexandria. former white house aide omarosa kicked off her book

tour. >> she released a secret recording he made in the highly secure situation room in the white house the day she was fired. chief of staffohn kelly said she wanted to make her departure friendly and withoutff any ult in the future relative to her reputation. she said she was complicit in helping the white house deceive the countr >> i had a blind spot when it came to donald trump. i wanted to see the best in him. obviously, i failed miserably. >> the white hse sayser book is full of lies.es secretary sarah sanders calls the recording in the situation room a blatantar disr for our national security. you could hear more from omarosg later this morn "today" show. the latest on a security gap atur nation's airports. examining the flight data recorder from a stolen airport in washington state. they said richard russell took

an empty commercial plane and eventually crashed it. russell had the same broad s security acchat thousands of ramp workers and mechanics have and this morning that y real is concerning w investigator are trying to piece together how this could happen. >> we're fortunate in the sense it wasn't a terrorist or somebody who was focused on causingass destruction. >> federal investigators also located human remains at the crash site. those remains are now being reviewed by a medical take a look at this scene. a single engine cessna meme an gency landing on interstate 580 in california this weekend. lookse how c the plane was to the cars. pilot aviation say the was trying to get to the hayward airport when a fuel line ruptured. the plane was not damaged a neither were any of the cars on the freeway. that is some expert flying right there. that close to the cars on the highway. >> noby gotrt. it is now 5:10.

she sacrificed her life taking i stand t hate. >> one year after the deadly protests in charlottesvill heather heyer's mother shares her message of hope. several neighborhood in virginia are cleaning up after storms knocked down trpower >>l. chuck? >> another chance of rain and thunderstorms. orm team 4 radar scanning the skies for you on a monday morning. not much rain left. current emptures in the 60s and low 70s. a nobad-looking day. again, rain chances are going up with time. sheena is back in a few more minutes to

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angie goff here at the live desk. north and south koreas will meet again next month and ns is significant because it has been more than a decade since a south korean leader has gone to pyongyang i more than a decade. the third meeting between south korean president and kim jong-un. they met at the border in april and may where both said they would work towards better relations. he world also waits to see if kim jong-un abandons his nuclean we now, all eyes are waiting for an announcement for that september summit between the rival koreas. right now a date has not b.n released that is the latest. >> shame, shame, shame, shame, shame. s that se were the cha

greeted the small group of whitm suprists that showed up for the unite the right 2 rally in lafayette square yesterday. despite the tension, no violent confrontations between the two sides. in downtownrl chatesville yesterday, the message was one of healing. large crowds of people linked e ms in solidarity as pol watched. some minor altercations with officers and no major incidents here. police arrested four men for minor offenses. the demonstrationsarome one yefter violent protests left heather heyer dead and an outpouring of love and support for her mother this weekend. susan brit vis the spot where her daughter wasle kil when a vehicle plow unded into a crowd. people sang songs and left prayers where sheost her life

taking a stand against hate. >> she was a real sweetheart an, veery passionate about basic human rights in general. >> we're out here just to let her know that her life was not in vain. >> heyer's mother also mentioned two virginia state troopers who died when their helicopter crashed. their footage helped police track down the driver charged with killing her ughter. more than two dozen people had to be rescued after flash flooding at a popular camp site near san antonio, texas. helicopters were called tn drop life jackets. the national weather service says up to nine inches of rain fell there in jutt abo three hours yesterday morning. no serious injuries were reported. and take a look at this incredible video. a powerful storm swept through stafford county last night. ssive wind and rain brought down trees and power lines. look at the stump of that tree. just outside of fredericksburg.

we checked and close to 1,000 power outages near this area. it could affect the start of i schools today the surrounding coties. we hear anything more, we'll bring it to you. >> a lot of cleanup. in that area yesterday more than reree dozen down, even though we just showed a few right there. three dozen in that area. a lot of rough weather to deal with. calmer today, what do you think? >> well, for the firstalf of the day. >> i jumped the gun. yes for the first half of the day and then later on we'll see kind of a repeat of showers and storms this afternoon. so, we will be .watchi i know storm cleanup for today in those areas a lot of downtr s and you have until i would say 3:00 p.m., maybe 4:00 p.m. to get somef that cleanup done before we see more showers and storms roll through. visibility thi morning we' looking at because we have fog out there, patchy fog. off to our west near the shenandoah and you might run e

into s of that as you're commuting around this morning. 74 degrees in washington and 72 in clinton and 71 degreesco in quannd weologi also have a flood threat for today. mostly arrive this afternoonndnd evening a flash flood watch for northern maryland and northern virginia off towards martinsbering until 10:00 p.m. we won't see much develop until later on a thisernoon and after the evening commute. this morning we haveun thrstorms and continuing to move north into pennsylvania and that area of low pressure over us and closeren to ther of it. as we go through the day today, we'll continue to see this thing develop with showers and storms across the as you're commuting this area, we're looking dry. by lunchtime mostly dry but then later on this afternoon, showers and storms forart of t evening commute. so, here's future weather. dy00 p.m. today. mostly cl couple showers developing. as we go through the afternoon and evening, now, thiss 8:00, 9:00 tonight. we'll see some more widespread showers and storms.f some that rain could be

locally heavy. that's mostly later on today. and then we go into tomorrow. small chance for scattered showers as the area of low pressure moves away. wednesday, thursday looking dry and back in the 90s and a small rain chance as we end out the week. good morning, melissa. >> a reminder on the rails. we'll talk roads in just a second. trains running every 20 minutes. some extensive track work happening this week. through august 26th, blue line service only between franconia and no service in d.c. or maryland. aolot of using the yellow line instead. inner loop and outer loop of the beltway looking quite good. no complaints and s270,e situation. nice and gre from frederick with all the way down the spur. if your kids aren't getting enough sleep before school, it could hurt their ability to

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>> did you know each school day your child is taking in several st of information at any given moment. now, we're not talking about st what is on their smartphone or tablet screens. >> in the classroom, kids are attending to five or six different things at once. the lesson plan, learning follow the teacher's social cues,ll of their cues. -social >> reporter: dr. daniel is a slp specialist at children's national hospital and he is anose is the time to take steps to improve your child's sleep and yours, too. one easy way. >> eliminating devices within a half hour or hour of bedtime very important because devices provide lights which changes the sleep/wake schedule. >> reporter: how much sleep does your child need? 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 14e ange 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 1rs h a night. elementary schoolers just under 12 hours. if you're not on a schedule yet, you can start by dialing back bedtimes an hour earlier each week until you fall into a healthyrhythm. justin finch, news 4. >> h yd to getr kids to get that much sleep. so many activities and so much homework. but you have to stick to that hedule. back to the new school year from sleep to supplies we go we're working for you to get you ready for school. 5:30.at we'll fill you in on the tax-free deals you can take advantage of all week. good morning, everybody. welcome to monday.en y the dry weather while we

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right now at 5:30, calls to unite the right much smaller than expected. what organizers are say agut their low turnout . plus, a different story for the rallies against the right. a look at how protesters clashed with police. and metro rtraged. thee to the rallies that is leading to calls for metst's leader t down today. >> the rain fell so hard that you couldn't even see out of the

house. it blew, i thought the windows were going to blow out. that's how hard it did. first, this morning, yesterday's weather could cause trouble today. severe sto soaked parts of our area today bringing downow trees and lines. look at that hundreds of people still don't have power and there is a lot to clean up on the roads, too. a lot of damage there. >> oh, boy, really is. 5:31 our time right now. i'm aaron gilchrist. >> i'man eun thanks for joining us, much more on yesterday's protests in a moment. but, first a look to today's forecast with chuck and sheena. >> melissa will have an update on the morning commute for us. chuck, sheena. >> some kids are heading back o tto school today and some people are doing storm cleanup. >> a little school work for today and back to sunshine and 90 degrees but not day. monday much like your sunday is

going to be covered up with a lot of clouds later on today and get whatever amount of you're going to get and get this morning before showers and storms bub ie up later on the afternoon. this area of low pressure in the upper level o the atmosphere will keep us unsettled. rain chances drop as little we get to tomorrow. right now a lovely 63 degrees in es leesburg, virginia. 72 in clinton at jost base andr and your pool day forecast for today for the kids that don't haveo go to school. not the best pool day. only a slight chance of rain showers and reaching as much as 70% by 4:00, 5:00enhis g. colook at the rest of school and workweek forecasng up in a few more minutes. good morning, melissa mollet, how is the commute. >> as you look at the beltway, everything is green and rling along well here. inner loop and outer op.

a little bit of a slow down because it's 5:30 on a week day morning. as you're approaching the wood bridge area. a little bit of a slowdown. very typical for this time of day. same situation 0 south through urbana and just volume there. no actua problem. southbound on 95 in maryland from2 down to the beltway. you can see you're on time going 71 miles per hr and speeding and you'll get there in ten minutes. your time is 33. we have breaking news out of new york city and angie goff is at the live desk with more. what is going on? >> this is out of newark, new jersey. a coach bus carrying passengers rom d.c. to newark penn station has crashedinto an overpass. the company arranged the bus for thepassengers. and the company tells our nbc station in new york that the bus was nearing its trip to penn when it barrelled into that being operated by a group called liberty coach which has yet to release a statement on this.

we're told this happened shortly shtly before midnight, 50 people on that bus and many were treated in area hospitals there. at thipoint r, officials saying according ton nbcw york that everyone is expected to survive. looked at video earlier ark g to gather more of this. this appears to be a two-level bus and thero entire of it looks completely ripped off. we te going to continue follow up on this and let you know how it impacts people in our area. now, back to you. >> giane, thank you. now back toop our story. protests in the streetsf the district. these groups were on alert for white nationalests but the folks protesting them that made t most noise. this incident happened more than an hour after the nationalist

group left d.c. ttle rockets went off near the white hous despite the tense moments, police report no major problems. the people taking part in the unite the right 2 rally took metro downtown. you can see escorted by police through the station. thisraorning theirl on metro has people talking. >> news 4 chris lawrence is live the vienna metro station to explain why some say the general manager should lose his job becausef is. chris? >> well, metro's largest union says metrooupo beow escorted on private train to the rally. now, metros that is not true. this morning we're kind of sorting out the facts so you decide for yourself. take a ok. kessler's group got here to the vienna metro station about 2:00 in the afternoon. they got on board an orange line train and they were all in the rear car. or a few minutes, police officers did block riders from entering parts of the station, although the train was not

completely, that rail car was not completelye. privat some journalists onboard with kessler's group. once thehe train left station, it was reopened and people could get in. we were told that transit officers did advise passengers to move to thet front of the train to avoid kessler's group and then when they arrived at foggy bottom,ll the passengers were asked to exit first and thenolice escorted kessler's oup off the train. we reached out to metro and they say police made the final decision on how to safely g kessler's group to the rally. quote, they were escorted by police o to the rear of the train and police road in that rail car and others to the safety of everyone onboard the train. the train stopped station to allow any customers to enter and exit. not good enough says one d.c. council member. he called it unbelievably wrong and disgraceful and exactly the opposite of what metro said would do. of cour, the union now demanding that paul wiedefeld

step down. >> chris, thank you. it's 5:36 this morng. d.c. mayor bowser is heading back to el salvador. sheer ipted her trip to return to the district and monitor yesterday's unite the rightdemonstrations. when she arrives back in el salvadorig sn an agreementom pring ties and tomorrow shet will viz a small town where a lot ofehem living h in washington come from. she hopes that sends a message of support during a tough time foimmigrants. telemundo 44 is in el salvador with the mayor. at here's a look at our other top stories this morning. many metro riders will haveke t adjustments on the way to work today. the silver, orange andnelue are all affected. blue line trains will only run

franconia an springfield. that work won't bed finishe until sunday august 26. metro says all riders need to plan ahead. the federal investigators are reviewing the flight data recorder from a commercial, recovered from a commercial plane stolen over the weekend. this is a lookt the crash site in washington state. investigators believe richard russell a gund service agent stole that plane in seattle on friday and crashed it. the fbi also located human remains from the crash site, which are being examined by the medical examiner. summer vacation is officially over for some local students. it is the first day of classes for students in spotslvania and culpeper and warren county. look out for our special reports bl month long and we'll fill you in on thet things to buy during tax-free week in maryland.

that's in just a few minutes. 5:39 now.up coming it's something no one expected while shopping. a sinkholewallowing cars outside an outlet mall. this morning, that hole is growing. the video just ahead. late-night shockers. if you went to bed before d.c.'s teams finished playing, a few surprises. we'll fill you in on the wild win and sadiointing defeat you'lle hearing about today. b

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co-leaders atlanta andwi philly take on the a cardinals in st. louis. a 3-0 shutout. there is better news for d.c. united. >> teams took on orlando city and the teams were tied at 2- but then wain rooney fed the ball for a goal. look at that. final score here 3-2. on wednesday d.c. united will take on the portland timbers. s ght now it i

>> go home this was the scene as counterdemonstrators filled the downtown d.c. streets yesterday to be a force against hate.ly near1,000 people showed up to oppose the unite the right rally inlafayette square. only about 30 white supremacists showed up for that rally. despite the tension, no violent confrontations between the two groups. the crowdsytayed relativel low. yesterday people demonstrating against hate groups linked arms

in solidarity and minor altercations with officers but nothing big. >> an ooutpouring support for heather shheyer. e visited the spot where her daughter was killed during the first unite the right rally. >> today we could learn about additional charges t for mclean mother who shot her two daughters. fairfax county police say the little girl died early saturday morning nearly a week after the shooting. veronica youngblood is accusing of shooting her children inside the apartment. neither of their names have been released. your time 5:47. the trial. gins for a woodbridge man charged with killing his wife and a police officer. ronald hamilton faces a death sentence. that was in 2016. winden was responding to a domestic call. it was her first day on the street. hamilton has pled notre guilty.

t the live desk with breaking news to report. the baltimo officer at the violent video that surfaced over the weekend resigned late last night. the officerho has still not be named by officials was seen onv o repeatedly punching a man who goes by the name of mcgreere we about to show you that video. now part of a criminal winvestigation, but wet to inform you it is graphic and may be disturbing for some of you viewers. swe have alsoilenced the video because of the offensive language in. according to our nbc affiliate station in baltimore, this was reported bac in june. mcgreer's attor iy said thiss not the firstime the officer has gotten physical with a client. a eliminary hearing for this is scheduled for next yeek. in the meantime, the attorney plans to hold news conference later today. we'll follow up. aaron, eun? >> thank you.

new calls for the university of maryland's football coach to be fired. >> coach d.j. durkin is on administrative leave. news 4 justin finch is following this a controversy from college park. justin, good morning. >> good rng. the lawyer for infthe family of jordan mcnair is t calling for firing of the coach. t as you mentioned right now head coach durk is on administrative leave. mcnair died back at june weeks after collapsing at a pract e inmay. the family calls this as an obvious case of heat stroke that could have been prented. the director of athletics here at maryland says he's committed to investigating these allegations, come surface in an

espn rreort. tions are coming in, as well democrat evans says in a statement that durkin and the director of athletics arepo ultimately rible for mcnair's death. govern larry hogan weighing in, too, calling it itg.eeply troubl d president loh said this is profoundly disturbing. get answers as to what happened on that field that day. those results are going to be i du september 15th and the family has yet to file suit t agains university for the death of mcnair. i'm justin finch, new 4z. it's 5:50. new video out of lancaster, pennsylvania, showing sinkhole expanding. you can see the parking lot f crumble al into that sinkhole. the nkhole first opened on

friday swallowing six cars. no one was hurt. look, those cars are goners, too. if yhink that's bad. check out thesi nkhole in china. you can seehe whitear there dangling on the edge as flood waters pushed itloser to the sinkhole. then something unexpected happened. look at all thesele pe dozens of people teamed up, used manpower and put the ropes around the car and brought it back from the brink of destruction. >> oh, no, thats car i in so much danger, we have to save the car. what? >> maybe the person couldn't afford a new car and it was their livelihood to get to workn >> gladody drowned trying to save that car. the sinkhole is one of many in that area. heavy rain caused 20 streets to cave in over the weekend. fliftoff the delta 4 heavy rocket with nasa's solar probe.

you heard him correctly there. nasa trying to reach for the stars and now trying to reach for the big one, the sun. r 23-stoket that blasted into space early sunday morning carrying a solar probe. that probe will fly straight through the edge of the sun's outer atmosphere. >> i guess you couldn't get into the inner atmospherhout completely burning up, right? >> is that a thing? inner atmosphere. >> it is like our atmosphere, there are different layers. >> first time spacecraft will get that close to the sun. 4 million miles awayrom the surface of the sun protected by a new heat shield and some other technology that will help out and should reach the sun b november. >> important because at that distance it's like 2,500 degrees fahrenheit and that's 4 million miles out. >> that's insane to even wrapun your head a that. >> absolutely right. sort of like the space tiles they put on the space shuttle years ago. red hot on one side.

outside speaking of which -- what's that? i thought you weresking me a question. we have a mostly cloudy afternooomg our way. not much of a rain threat early rain his morning but chances going up, up, up as we go longer into the afternoon hours and k low pressure wip us very unsettled this afternoon. cloudiness along the washington area points east where the skies have cleared and temperatures have fallen back down into the low 60s and dense fog advisory for the shenandoah valley and fla flood wat for most of northern maryland and parts of northern virginia and thhe western, eastern panhandle of west virginia. so, just know that any additional rainfall today could cause some flash flooding concerns with all the rain we had recently. here's future weather now. stopped at noon. not much of a raihreat before lunch, but by the time we get into 3:00 or 4:00 in the afternoon, rain showers bubbling up in theoa shena valley and once with you get past 4:00,

5:00, 6:00 in this evening rain very heavy at times likely to be forming here aroundonhe washinarea. so, again, rain most likely today after current temperatures, as i mentioned, in the comfy 60s. where temperatures arebelow 65 degrees, there is thick fog this morning. today's high temperature relatively warm 85, but a70% chance for rain later today. only a40 chance of rain tomorrow and then some very warm, dry days wednesday,sd th and friday back into the 90s. now, for more on the commute, let's go over to first 4's very own melissa llet. >>inbound 66 before sudley. we have a crash with two lanes blocked. take a look at these delays. we'll keep an eye on this for you. this could develop intove something, very slow if they don't get it out of the way soon. in lorton those express lanes near fairfax county parkway and left side blocked.

inner loop and outer loop no problem there. 270 looks good, too. orange and silver single tracking between smithsonian and also right now additional delays both ways. signal issue at federal triangle on orange and silver. travel timesnmaryland, no problem. travel times in virginia will start getting slow. listen to wtop when you hop in your car. aaron? >> all right, melissa, thank you. 5:55 right now. we're helping get ready for school and right now shoppers in maryland don't have to pay sales tax on certain items.ry nd's tax-free holiday started yesterday and will run through august 18th through saturday. until then, you won't have to pay sales tax on clothin or footwear that costs $100 or less per item. the first $40 of a backpack or bookbag will be tax free. the baltimore orioles rolled out the red carpet to welcome mamie hnson's little league team from thedistrict. the first predominantly

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counterdemonstrators clashed with d.c. police in the street after yesterday's unite the right rally ended before it was heduled to begin. those demonstrators outnumbered the white nationalists who showed up. how they traveled to lafayette square is stirring up more attention. powerful storms left behind a big mess and neighbors are

cleaning up and more rain is headed our way. news 4 starts now. it is6:00 a.m. good morning, everybody. i'm aaron gilchrist. >> i'm eun yang. today thousands of kids are headed back to class. can you believe it, we're talking about back to school. >> melissa mollet keeping an eye on the commute across the region. let's look at the bus stop. >> start getting ready for the kids to get to school. >> i never liked the first day of school. i justikidn't it. i didn't like the newness of everything. i liked things to be worn in. >> i didn't like the last day. >> the last day is t best, what are you talking about. this morning as we are talking about the bst , dense fog advisory for areas near theah shenan valley and also manassas seeing a