women's bodies who were found hidden in an abandoned d.c. building for more than a decade. now they can't rule out a possible serial killer case. and the union said metro and did make special arrangements for the white nationalists in the unite the right rally.y, tohe union plans a big response. it' a 6:00. good morning, everybody, i'm aaron gilchrist. >> and i'm eka gonzalez in for eun yang. we're expecting a bit of a hot day today. >> things will take a turn, toos memollet has your early look at your commute. firstthough, chuck bell and sheena are checking the weather. >> we still have time, right?ah >> we're looking at storms as we head into the week and we'reg lookt storms, until then, the heat is staying. >> mother nature cranking it up a bit. 90s yesterday. a little warmer today and a

little warmer for tomorr. heat and humidity will be building. lights back on at reagan national airpor there goes another plane load of melks heading out of town. i don't b them. hopefully, they're going somewhere cooler.up r 60s to around 70 degrees closer to town. mid-70she along western shore of the chesapeake bay. aepare for heat humidity. yesterday, there was a lovely breeze out of the west and southwest which doesn't make it feel too bad. today, the wind is laying down. a little more fog. a third of a mile into warrington. watch out for a few foggy spots from place to place. otherwise be ready for a hot and humid day. afternoon highs, 87 in martinsburg. 89 in gaithersburg. 93 in d.c. more heat and humidity and storm chance. more of that coming up but for now, let's find out about the co thursday ute. good morning, chopper 4 over the beltway,ac approng american legion tyidge.

prut there. inner loop and outer loop, no big issues on the beltway. that's goodnews. 95, that camera switched on us, field, h and spring fooel ere's a crash near franconia. sterling, augusta drive, onlef the lane is open. looks like that's clearing in just a mois clearing as well, whiskey bottom road, we had a crash. but insound near sterling, a crash and two-mile backup headed inbound. >> melissa, thank you. 6:02. and the power is back officer at reagan national airport after a blackout plunged the terminal into darkness. >> news4's justin finch is at reagan this morning following it's very latest. justin. >> reporter: eka, this will be relief of those flying into or outside of reagan national. no residual impacts for that

outage last night, for those he here in this mess, say just a shock when everything just went black. yeah. you can hear that? people are gasping as those lights were flickering. and then went off. this was about 10:00 or so last night. close to that time.e generator power did kick in. however, it could notly f power the airport. the ac, we're told was down. llcalators, elevators also down as dominion energy crews were called to the airport to work on that oblem, though. as they were working, flights were delayed. tarmac.were held on the close to 11:00, powerrp to the aiort was restored to relief of passengers who say the power issues here were just a shocking sight. >> no syner than bags came out of thega b thing, off the -- whatever you call it, evything shut off. and the lights went out.

they flickered a couple of times. and theng the next t i knew, it was dark. >> reporter: so, what w the issue? the airport points to disruption in two power feeds from dominion energy to the airport. and they're now working tosu ma an issue like that does not happen again like that in the future. we're live here at reagan national, i'm justin finch, news4. aaron ander ga back to you. today, metro's union will hold what they call a truth in justice rally. news4's megan mcgrath is live at the metro center station to explain the issue and what the union wants de about it. megan. meanwhile, we'll geto megan later in the broadcast. meanwhile, we're getting our first loo at the preliminary price tag for securing the white supremacist rally and oth

demonstrations. d.c. police spent an estimated $2.5 million to keep the peace on suay. other city agencies spent an additional $100,000.at th according to preliminary figures the mayor's office provided to our news partners at wtop city officials say they plan to seek reimbursement through a federal fund set b upcongress. the next time there's a demonstration at the national hall dm the fees.s could get the nationalce park ser already has fees. some news o cut colorado. on the disappearance of a pregnant woman and her two young daughters. chris lawrence on that. chri >> aaron, the woman's husband and the father of those two little girls is now in custody. police, they may be working on recovering their bodies.

sh shanann watts is pregnant. officers took her husband chris watts into custody yesterday and ficials say he has admitted to killing all three. detectives have been collecting evidence in the family's home overnight. you're looking at video from that scene which undstandably is the entire neighborhood on edge. as you take a look at some of othat. we als want to call your attention to a tweet that we just got. 's from one of the neighbors, katie eastman. she said the neighbors have hammered a cross in the lawn and brought stuffed animals to that home. and again, we're expecting to l get a more information when the police hold a press conference at 120 this afternoon. aaron. >> all right, chris. thank you. it's ht6:06 r now. developing this morning, three d.c. families who spent 12ears wondering what happened to their loved ones finally have an answer. >> d.c. and fbi officials have idenfied three sets o remains

found in southeast. you may remember constructwon ers discovered the remains under an apartment building in southeast. we now know all three women are black, in their 40s and went missing in 2006.ol d.c.e say they all three were murdered. jewel king was 47 yearsnd old last seen in april that year. mother of three died of ans t wound. verdell jefferson was 41, she went missing about a month police say she died of blunt force trauma and was buried with king. dorothy butts was 43 years old and last seen on christmas day 2006. sho died of a gunshot wound. investigators say she was found separate f the other two victims. we spoke to one neighbor who knew one of these women. >> i knew her through the drug program i was in. when they showed me her face, i newly who she was. i thought, oh, my god, you know, you never thought it wbold be so you know. >> officials are not o rulingut the possibility that one person

could have killed all three men. thimorning, we have new information on the capitol g gazette news ram shooting suspect. the defense attorney for the man charged in that shooting is king the judgeor more time to krl aico an instanty offense. jarrod ramos has pleaded not guilty to five counts of first degree murder. no matter what newspaper you pick up today, you're probably going to see editorials defending freedom of the press. "the boston globe" invited newspapers across the country to stand up against president trump's attacks on, quote, fake news. the president has repeatedly opferred to the press as enemy of the pe. more than 300 newspapers are going to participate wt tth the #free press. >> jury deliberations will begin aft 12 days of st

imony. president trump's former campaign chairman is facing 18t counf tax and bank fraud. the defense rested witho calling a single witness and in its closing argument said manafort astargeted. be sure to download the nbc washington app forupdates throughout the day. critics are speaking out against president trump'on decisio revoke the security clearance of former ciajo direcr brennan. brennan has been very critical of the president. the white house cited brennan's, quote, erratic behavior, for the move. democrats say it's political and payback for speaking out against the president. the white house has offered a list of others who could also lose their clearances. we'll hear more from brennan at 6:30. we have an update on the fire in clarksburg, maryland. the fire i so big it could be burning for days. a limited water supply has mad

it sufficient for firefighters to put out the flames. they are contained, though. montgomery county fire investigators are still trying to figure out what caud it. no one was inside the warehouse when the fire started. >> the fallout continues from a report details systematic sexual abuse in the catholic chuh in pennsylvania. the state attorney's office said since the news broke it's received more than 150 calls and e-mails reporting abuse. bombshell alleges that archbishop cardinal donald wuerl helped to cover it up. wul served as archbishop for ye s. the grand jury report mentioned wuerl's name nearly 200 times. erl has publicly defended his actions. >> here's what i can till about ca wuerl, the public comment that he has made directly contradict the church's own documents that we found in

the secret archives, and that's all spelled out in the grand jury report. >> wuerl issued a statement saying in part that he acted with diligence, with concern for the victims and will prevent future acts of abuse. he so far declined our request for an terview. new this morning in college park, the university of maryland boar of trustees could make big changes for the football program and the school as a whole. college football writer brett mcmurphyeported that toard is planning a special closed-door meeting. according to mcfmurphy the topis include resignation matters. and matters of d.j. durkin and university president wallace loh. we're learning more about the tuesday attack in british parliament. that suspectdeified by

reuters was 29-year-old lih khater is a british citizen from sudan. khater is now being hel on suspicion of terrorism charges. all of the victims are expected surviv 12 minutes after the hour now. some of the most popular family rs on the road didn't get a passing grade in the latest minivan crash testing. we'll tell you how your minivan may stack up. gd mornin conditions as you start out your thursday. we're heating up again, by 5:00 p.m., 93, at least we do stay p.m., 93, at least we do stay dry.

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"news4 today." new this morning, crash test results have just been released on som of the most popular minivans on the road and not everybody is making the grade. the insurance institute for highway safety t tested 2018 of toyota sienna, they tested the chrysler pacifica and the tnda odyssey. thesets mimic what would happen if the front corner of your car hs another object. researchers say they didt find y issues with the seat belts or air bags here but there were heconcerns with structure of the toyota sienna. they say the vehicle crumpled around the tes dummy's legs posing a risk to real passengers. because of this, it got a marginal rating. the pacifica got acceptabl and

honda, good rating. a beach in cape cod is closed today after a shark attack a swimmer. this happened at the beach in theown of toro. the 59-year-old victim suffered puture wounds to his foot and leg. aerial footage showed a large shark close to the shore. i thisthe first shark attack you see it right there. shark attackirst off the coast of massachusetts in about six years. a differe animal to worry about for residents in oklahoma. they have air mystery on t hands right now. >> they're that's right, they'r to figure out if the legendary chupacabra is eere. i l saying that. it's killing their chickens. it shows a video of an animal that tesembles legendary chupacabra.

they think the animal is a coyote with bad case of mange. this is like mexican folklore legend one-on-one. everything that parents used. either the chupacabra is going to ce get you or the cookery. all of that. look it up i your research. >> mine said we're going to feed the sharks. either go to b now or that's it. see, that would cause me to not sl to eep. >> yeah, it's going to get you. >> you there go. finally, a little sunshine back in the picture. sun's not up yet. already frightening skies across the area. sun coming up 23. not too many minutes from now. the line of planes, everyone racing down the runway to get out of town. it's going to hot here. 93 degree plus. today there be our 32nd day of the year.

today, we're off to a start this morning. it will be another sizzler. forecasting 93 for hig temperatures this afternoon. the heat will peak tomorrow and then tur cooler for the weekend. saturday, still on the warm side, but sunday, afternoon higr temper on sunday only in the low 80s. so that is welcome news indeed. so, get t car washed today. absolutely. dry weather at least through late tomorrow afternoon into the ening. at least one more day to drive a shiny car. 76 degrees, a cooler 67 in 66gaithersburg. n manassas. and kids that don't have to go to school there's still quite a few that have summer vacation continuing. good day to go to the pool. putn your sunbloc about 20 or 30 minutes before you head outside. bring extra water for drinking, not the pool water. all of this unsettle westerathe out to the west. it's going to be humid and hot.

there's your day planner, 50% of storms rolling in by tomorrow the storms late friday, languager into the weekend. saturday and sunday have a little rain chance, melissa, but the big improvement by the weeken will be lower temperatures by sunday. >> thank you, chuck, 95 northbound before francon road, chopper 4 over this crash with a vehicle turned around. getting that out of the way with a tow. as you can see, there are delays. even though it's on the left side of the roadway, it's on the hileft shoulder at point, we were blocking a lane. now on the shoulder, but still haveelays there heading inbound. pretty significant. pound, itland parkway near firth sterling, southeast, still have .th and accokeek road near livingston, lane's blocked there because of a tree. maryland 270 looks good.

at all of the beltway, normal. 95, north, quantico to the beltway slow because of tham pr chopper just showed you. remember tis lten to wtop 105 fm when you hop in your car today, aaron. >> thank you, limea. >> 6:21, as kids are going back to school, some schools are

♪ for some kids, the cafeteria can be a bit of aus dange place in school. >> yeah. as our schools open for the new

year, news4's chris lawrence takes a fresh look at how some schoolsre trying toelp kids with potentially deadly allergies. >> reporter: foodes aller affect nearly 6 million children which amounts to about two kidsl in every s. >> you have to have a plan in place to be responsive to whatever thatal medondition is. >> reporter: did cintia johnson said it starts with mom and dad billing out the forms describing the allergy. >> the epipen is a great example that an older student can ayself-administer in a that perhaps a younger student cannot. >> reporter: my son has a severe peanut allergy. he has to be constantly aware of everything he's eating. when he goes up to k tdergarten fall, we'll be sending this epipen with him. we aeo make sur we talk too him about never, ever sharing food in the cafeteria, ght? >> yeah. >> reporter:ti s through

lals is hard enough. >> we really do not have parties in the ways that we used to.or >> repr: some are taking the idea of allergy-free tables to another level. starting in november, for the first time, arlington schools will serve soy butter sandwiches instead of peanut butter. andhey're keeping a close eye on bullies,ti sos, simple teasing can escalate. burying a kid'sace with food they know will cause a reaction. >> you want to make sure that nmudents are in a safe and healthy envit. that is both physically and emotionally. a reporter: so that food i source of energy, not anxiety. chris lawrence, news4. it's 6:25 right now. new this rning, how to get the best medical care at an afford about price for you pets. next at 6:30, a closer look for how much you should be paying

for your pets medical bills. and pretty comfortle as we start off this thursday morning. 73 degrees inwashington. nice and dry out there but into the weekend, it's aifferent story. we'll talk about increasing rain chance coming up. plus, a possible sexual

>> announcer: "news4 today" starts now. right now, approaching 6:30. much better news for travelers than when you went to eep. the lights are back on at reagan national this morning. that's after a power outage created some chaos there last eeght. you can on the left side of your screen, things are back to normal. news4's justin finch is at the airport to bring us a live date what happened there. and what it means for today's flight in just a fminutes. first, good morning, everybody, i'm aaron gilchrist. >> and i'm eorka gonzalez in eun yang. we're working for you on this thursday morni helping you get out the door with everything tou need know. melissa has a look at the commute in just a minute. >> first, a forecast from chuck and sheena as we get closer to the weekend. what's the good news here? >>ew good is it will not be 95 degrees over the weekend.

welcome news. >>,nd sund especially looks quite a bit cooler. >> it's that the good news. >> the other good news, we're getting closer to th weekend. we're past wednesday. we do have rain in the forecasth k it's all uphill from here. i don't know, the weekend's upon uso uphill i guess. i'm not sure. 73 degrees right now in washington. all you need to know this morning it's nicend dry tside and it's going to be hot this afternoon. temperatures in mido upp 60s. radar is showing nice dry conditions. we do have thes clo around outside but they're not producing any rain for us. for the commute, dry roads throughout the day, we're back in the 90s, not just today, but tomorrow. but thunderstorm chance increasing for part of your friday. rain into the weekend. we'll talk about the timing of that in a fewminutes. chuck is back in a few minutes. melissa, let's get a check o the roads. good morning, i-

southbound, after pennsylvania avenue, brand-new problem. 270, hyatt own toclarksburg, we still have foggy conditions from yesterday's warehouse fire that shut down frederick road through that section. 95 northbound before franconia road, that crash has cleared out of the wat chopper 4 is showing you delays headinghbnond. right now, quite slow inbound at 95. centreville, 66 before 79, left shoulder crash. and suitland, that has cleared but delays hanging around. >> melissa, thank you. 6:31ight now. this scene at the vienna metro still on sunday is making headlines. metro's largest union is upset with how the transit agency chose to support thehite nationalists heading to the unite the right rally. today, the union plans to hold its own rally. >> news4's megan mcgrath is live

at the metro station to explain the issue and what the union wants done. >> reporter: yeah, thatal is going to happen later on. outside of the metro center station at 12th and g. metro's largest union is continuing to call for the firing of aeneralrica paul wiedefeld or the handling of white supremacists as it took to rally. unite the right organizer jason kesler and followers were escorted on a metroar marked special.ni now, the u that represents rail and bus workers said it constituted special treatment for the white nationalists, but metro said that there would not be designated trains. now paul wiedefeld has defended it saying the police presence was there for security, making sure there were no confrontations or flare-ups in the system.

ngd all oe line trains were marked speal because of track work. that while the white cenationalists were p on one metro car. it was not a designated train that was open to the general public. so,er the controversy continues, but union rally scheduled to happen at noon. expected to last abo an hour. back to you. >> megan mcgrath thank you. ng this morning, new leads in an investigation a t decade i making. d.c. police have found the remains of three. you may remember back in construction workers discovered the rnains under apartment bu wding inaynes place. all three women were black and in their 40s and went missing in 2006. district police say all three were murdered. 41-year-old ver ddell jeffersonn the left. and jewel king and dorothy butts

also killed from a gunshot wound. police are not ruling out the t possibilitt all three could have been killed by on and this is a sketch of a man who approached a girl in the area of fairfax county. the man touched the girl and then exposed himself before running ooff. developing this morning, and just steps away from yale university. officials a trying to figure out if someone intentionally distributed a laced bat of k2. rescue crews in new haven, connecticut, say first responders have been called to more than 60 overdoses since tuesday. here in d.c., more than 260 people were taken to hospitals over a ten-day period in july r synthetic drug overdoses. k2 is often callesynthetic marijua b marijuanut the chemical composition is different. tonight, the redskins will 2018.r their first win in

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>> ancer: you're watching "news4 today." 6:44 right now. and this is what it looked like inside reagan national airport when the power sdenly went out, trapping thousands of passengers in the dark. >> it took more than an hour p befoer was fully restored. news4's justin finch isle following the very latest at reagan national for us this morning. justin. >> reporter: erika, aaron, as you can see, the power is on right now. no impact to flights coming in oto or of reagan national. great news for passengers all arou. but for those who were here, in that blackout, they say it was theepy to be stuck here in the dark. r words, not mine. they also captured all of this on social media.

perhaps you can larhear the gasg as the lights went of the good news is generators did come on androvide limited power to the airport. the ac was eported off as we as escalators and elevators. dominion energy crews were called in to tackle the problem. as they were working flights were layed. also left a mother and father waiting for their children to fly back froas dall. they say when tyot here, things looked off and they rticularlpick quickly knew there was a problem. >> we were walking from the dark from the parking garage into the airport. power was out at least in part of the airport. and we could tellac wasn' on. it's clear something wasn't right. >> reporter: so, what was the issue? the airport saying right now, it appears two power feed supplies from dominion, to the airport, somehow failed.

they're now l tking intot to see what caused that to make sure rsthat, of c did not happen again. an airport like this does need power. live he at reagan national, i justin finch, news4. this is a first look at the "the new york times" editorialrn page this g. the headline "a free press needs you." you may see a similar headline in almost any paper you pick up today. "the boston globe" invited all papers across the country toan up against president of the united states trump's, quote, attack on fake news. the president has repeatedly referred to journalists as the enemy of the people. more than 300 papers are expected to participate with the #free press. former cia director brennan is speaking out after the white house revoked his security clearance. >> the white house is calling brennanouote use this access.

nbc's kristen welker has more. good morning. >> gd morning to both of you. for the first time, president trump is drawing a direct connection to the russia investigation and that m controversiae you just talked about to revoke former cia director john brennan's security clearance. the president telling "the wall street journal," quote, i call the witch hunt and these people led it. effectively citing brennan amoe the holds responsible for the investigation. now brennan, as youknow, was director of the cia during the obama administration. and he first told mr. trump the russians had interfered in the election shortly before his inauguration his then, brennan who is now an nbc news senior national security analyst has been a feared critihe of president and tells me, quote, if mr. trump believes that this is going to lead me to just go away and be quiet he is very badly mistaken. all of this, of course, marking yet anotherf escalation that feud we've been covering here between the president and the intelligence community. and we'll have all of that and

much more coming up on "today," ys. back to you. >> see you there, kristen welker at the white house. anks. jury deliberations will begin against forme campaign chairman paul manafort. during closing arguments yesterday, prosecutorsed descr manafort as a money-hungry liar. the defense rested without calling a single witnes and in its clong argument said manafort was targeted be sure to download the nbc washington app day.pdates throughout the we have an update on that large fire at a recycling facility in clarksburg, maryland. we told you about this morning as it was breaking. that fire is so big it could actually be burni for ys. a limited water supply has made it tough forig firers to put out the flames but they have contained. get this montgomery county fire officials are still looking to see what caused it. nobody wast inside when

starts. developing this morning, three.c. families know what happened to theiroved one. detectives have identified human remainsnder an apartment building in april. all three women went missing inw 2006 ande murdered. jewel king was 43 years old the mother of three died of a gunshot wound. >> verdell jefferson w 41. she went mufissing a month late. she wasre b with king. and dorothy butts last seen on christma day 2006. she also died of a gunshot und. investigators say her body was found away from these women. drugknew her through t program i was in and when they showed me her face i didn't knoi wh she was. i thought, oh my god, you never thought it would be somethi you know >> officials are not ruling out the possibility that one

could have killed all three women. meanwhile, the falloutnt ues this morning from a report detailing systematic sexual abuseho in the cc church in pennsylvania. state attorney general's office said since the news broke it has received more than 150 calls and e-mails reporting abuse. the bombshell report alleges archbishop of washington, cardinal dald wuerl helped to cover up some of theab e. wuerl served as archbishop for years. the gnd jury alleges more than 300 priests arrested1,000 children. wuerl hasef publiclyded his actions. >> what i can tell you about cardinal wuerl, the public comments that he has made directly contradict the church's owne documents that found in the secret archives. and that's all spelled out in th grand jury report. >> wuerl issued a statement

saying in part that he acted with diligence, was concerned for theicms and will prevent future acts of abuse. he so fared declined our request for an interview. new this morning, the university of maryland's board of trustees could make some big changes to the football program and the school as a whole. colleg football writer brett mcmurphy reported that the board planning a special meeting tomorrow. the topics include removal, resignioion or litig matters for the scho's pendi lawsuit in the death of jordan mcnair. the meeting would also discussu the fure of head football coach d.j. durkin and unirsity esident wallace loh. 6:51 the te right now. sheena is here with the forecast. >> good morning, guys. it's going to be another hot day today. but we're staying dry. we're back in the 90s. eventomorrow, we're in the 90s. and tomorrow, we have thunderstormchance. those return late in the day

friday. then we have weekend ghchance. now 73 degrees in washington.ed 72, ick, 66 leesburg, 76, quantico. weave the clouds around this morning but not looking at any rain. if you're going out to walk the dog, it's nice and dma for you. if you need one to adopt, this isshawna. find out how to adopt her. shorter walk as the day goes onr temper heating up this afternoon. don't forget, this saturday is clear thers shel you can find more information on the nbc washington app or find a location near you to participate in the big annualet adoption event. here's future weather as we go through the day today. nice and dry. heating up, more hot and humidd and thunderstorms mostly after 4:00 p.m., we should see storms roll in forour friday night. saturday, first half of the day is looking tbe dry.

second half of the day, that's when the rain chance go if you're headed to clear the shelters this saturday, typically, there's a line. rain chance go up as we go through the afternoon. if you're heading to the beach this weekend, temperatures will stay in the upper 80l unsunday. but we do have the rain chance this weekend but again not a washout so that's good news. look at sunday, 82 for the high. temperat that's going to feel pretty nice considering today will be in the again. and next week in the 80s. good morning, melissa. >> good morning. taking a look at the roads, 95 northbound near th occoquan. headed northbound there at 95. 0 at 109, we see haze. that is the smoke from the fire we were justentioned there yesterday. we have reports of that as folks

are driving in. smoke from that fire. inner loop and outer loop of the beltway looking pretty good overall. in the district, 295, crashes t through northbound and southbound lanes through the same area use caution. and new york avenue here in capital, that is getting by. and camden line running five to ten minutes late. just a warning. travel times on27 looking good. tom of the beltway, 95 to 270 going to take you 19 minutes. 66 inbound, not bad. 40 miles per hour. fairfax parkway to the beltway and 95 north in rginia. 37 minutes. quantico, the beltway there. taking a look there, taking a look at 271. again, wtop 105 fm is where you want to the tune in when you hop in the car. sheena, thank you. a warning for lead-footeddr

ers on the beltway, speed cameras are clicking away. t >> sincey've been up ine' prince georgs county, those cameras have raked in millions of dollars. we're talking about ones in the construction zone. let's make it clear, this is a construction zone. wealthway and suitland road. aaa says at least 341 drivers are getting a ticket every single day. that's more than 124,000aickets year. and that's $40 a pop and that equals $5 million in fines. this camera is the second mostl profitne in the state of maryland. 6:55. here are 4 things to know this morning. metro'sar lst union is planning to hold a rally at metro's center station aton . the union is connuing its call for general manager paul wiedefeld to resign. the union said the metro gave special treatment for the unite the right ray.

christopher watts of denver lorado has just been charged with three counts of first degree murder. watts was taken into custody following the release of his young wife and two young daughters. hundredsew ofapers across the country are defendi press freed in the editorial pages. this is part of the effort to fightack against president trump's, quote, attack on fake news. and a live look inside reagan national airport this morning. lights are back after a blackout plunged passengers into darkness just before 10:00 o'clock last i t. the airport says this is a problem that was caused by dominion energy. electricity was fully restored about 11:15. no delays tied to the outage right now. it should be a good day for flying today. no storms around here, just hot and humid. 93 today, a likelihood of storms today and tomorrow.

hit and miss over the weekend. but noticeably cooler by monday. >> taking a look at that it now, a look at smoke 0 delays there all the way down. after that, 270 is looking pretty good. >> thank you. join us tomorrow for "news4 today," we will continue to get you ready for school. tomorrow, we'll be talking about college students. susan onsumer reporter hogan will have a look at the four that college students should not live without. every day starting at 4:00 a.m. we thank you for joining us. "today" show i next. >> we'll be back in 35 minutes erwith local traffic wea and

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