while several people had to look for a place to stay. roads turned into rallies whens hundr of atv riders roared through busy streets in d.c. and virginia. >> it is 4:00 a.m. i'm aaront. gilchr >> i'm angie goff in for amy yang this morning. we're so glad you can jien us. it is a big morning in c. with school starting today. >> several school distr west virginia starting today. clark county in virginia, loudoun unty starting on thursday. >> the biggest part of getting the new school year started is, of course, what are you going get there when you -- what to wear on the way to the bus spot. atwant to start with a look the monday forecast. >> monday getting off to a d start for now in the city, but boy, there is somehunder and lightning to our south. >> if you're in the fredricksburg area and you have to go to the bus stop this

morning, keep in mind we're seeing some rain. while some of you may be driving with the windows open, others of you may be needingd the w shield wipers. let's look at temperatures fit, 73 in washington, 74 in quantico. it feels pleasant outside. now we look at the radar and see showers to our south.'l zoom in around fredricksburg, moving throughcu epper. the heaviest of the lightning is farther south. as the kids head to the bus st, we'll mostly be in the upper 60s by about 7:00, 8:00 this morning. feeling comfortable. the farther south you are, you'll need the umbrella this morning. let's head to melissa and see what the commute is looking back. >> good morning, cheen nah. we don't have any road work in the way. taking a look at 66 and 95. i know chuck and cheen nah are

following this morning and talking about th. fairfax, bla lane between 50 and 29, all lanes blocked because ofome downed wires this morning. taking a look at 95 in maryland from 32 to thebeway, on time there. 68 miles per hour will get you there in about ten minutes. aaron? >> melissa, thank you. five d.c. children are waking up on the first day of school without homes. take a look at video. this is the 1300 block of north capital between florida and new york avenues. you can see how large the flames e. a total of six adults and five kids were displad. the american red cross was called if to help them. no word on what may have the fire. >> d.c. kids will hit the classroom for a new yearn a few hours. a fresh coat of paint and new f desks, some the things that will welcome kids tola this

morning. it's also the first day of school f the interim chancellor, dr. angela. /* she say she's making sure all staff members are ready to do their best work. ro all of our teachers have passed bacd checks, they're regularly evaluated by their administrators often formerly and informally. they engage in rigorous development opportunities. in thosere ways w able to ensure quality. >> there are 13 schools open under thede exten school year system. 102 more will open >>today. a travel alert if you are taking amtrak, there could be residual delays because of a fire that happened yesterday noer the tracnear the tracks

usterday. traiates will be given at 6:00 this morning. also today, watch t led foot on route 1. the speed limit is reduced between slaters lane and four moyle run. breaking news right now.e we learning that shots have been fired outside the u.s. embassy in turkey. chris lawrence at the live desk with that. reporter: straight to video from the scene. the important thing to note here is that officials say no one was the embassy was actually closed because of the start of t muslim holiday. the shots were fired at a security booth outside the u.s. embassy in the capital of turkey. nbc news is told six gunshots were foird from a moving white car. right now police are out there looking ft fire. nbc news reached out to the state department spokesperson. we'll be sure to update you as

soon as weea more. this caused traffic disruptons in the distr and northern virginia. atv and dirt bike rider ripped through the streets yesterday. they could be seen popping wheeli, weaving in and out of traffic. e rider crashed into a light pole. atvs are legal in the district and there's a no-chase policy so the cops couldn't go after them. arlington police say n arrests were made. we have new details of the deadly plane flash carroll county, manied phd. thentsb says they learned that plane crashed short after it took off landing in a soy bean field. the pilot and another man on board did die. the ntsb does not know why the

plane crashed at this point. a preliminary report is expected in the next few weeks. right now d.c. police are trying to find a person who shot and killed a man this weekend. police sayne this happed on southern avenue in southeasterly yesterday morning. the victim is identified as dokeith uglas. he died at the hospital. police tell news 4 this was the district's99th homicide this year. a 15-year-old is recovering from a gunsh wound. the teenage boy was shot yesterday afternoon at 4th and pond street near kenilworth avenue. no word on a potential suspect or motive. the university of maryland football season will start in less than two weeks.th school is hoping -- onev saturdayal gathered at the school. head coach d.j. durkin was not there. offensive lineman jordan mcnair died in june after suffering a

heat stroke on practice. on friday the state board of regents announced an investigation into the ogram. >> it's a gradual process. we're woping thingsl be well in the future. >> parents we talked to said they support coach durkin but will also support t outcome of the investigation. today in alexandria, back to work for the jury in the paul manafort trial. the jury deliberated for two days last week asking the judge a few questions including the definition of reasonable doubt. next month manafort will go on trial in d.c. for separate charges. manafort and russian agent maria bu tina are held in the same jail. prosecutors say she was tied to the kremlin, used sex and lies

to make u.s. connections and tried to infiltrate american political organizations like the nra. she's pleaded not guilty. eight minutes after the hour. president trump is ramping up his attackn the investigation led by special counsel robert mueller. "the new york times" reported white house counsel don mcgahn answered questions for 30 hours for the mueller investigation. the president fired back on twitter saying the report made it seem like mcgann turned on him and allowed him to be interviewed. the president compared him to joseph mccarthy. lpresident trump's perso attorney, rudy giuliani argued the president should delay sit-down with mueller. >> i'm not going to be rushed to have him testify so he gets trapped into perjury. when you say he should tell the worry.nd shouldn't

that's silly because it's somebody's version of the truth. >> truth is truth. >> no, truth isn't truth. the president of the united states says i didn't -- >> truth isn't truth. mr. mayor, do y realize -- >> don't do this to me. >> don't do truth isn't truth to me. >> former cia directo john brennan also appeared on "meet th he said he's considering legal action over president trump's revoking of his security clrance. >> despite vocal criticism, his wife tries to tackle the problem of cyber bullying. she's doing it today in rockville. first lady mel len yeah trump will deliver brief remarks, addressing the positive and tsnegative eff of social media on young people. she will also attend a panel discussion withre rntatives from multiple social media

platforms. canadian prime minister justin trudeau will be running for re-electi next year. >he queen of soul's best-selling record was a gospel record. this sunday aretha franklin's home church let the world know how much they'll miss her. there are a lot of petsll probably s adjusting to their new forever homes. a rec on the numbers of the clear the sheel terse event straight ahead. 4 kwoo 10y on mon morning. showers across northern virginia and thunderstorms in fredricksburg. those are coming north. if you live near fredricksburg and stafford,er thu

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in gospel music, her home church is honoring her legacy. > the new bethel church dedicated sunday's service to enthe que of soul. ♪ >> the service shifted to telling stories abo her. long-time friend jesse jackson also spoke. he shared a moment with franklin because she passed. >> s opened her eyes quickly and embraced my arm and we beg to cry. >> franklin's family announced there will be a four-day celebration in detroit starting august 28th. fural and burial will be private. she died last week at the age of 76. or strong earth kwiks hit weekensia at least a dozen people were killed. here is a look at one of the

shelters. you can see a mother trying to comfort the young children there. it's the same region that was trying to recover from a quake earlier this month that killed hundreds of people. smoke from three huge wildfiads in california hase its way here. that's true. it's been carried over 3,000 miles in a jet stream. here is a look at the intense fires that have been burning. a meteorologist told "the washington post" that some people in the area could tually smell the smoke from california. the paper says there was an air quality alert put out in baltimore for that smoke. but some of the cooler c temperaturesared things out. "crazy rich asians" dominated o at the boxice weekend, beating all expectations wh a five-day tally of $34 million.

it's the biggest opening come day since 2015, the first featuring an all american cast. >> i have friends that went and saw it twice, twice in one weekend, opening weend. happening today, you can celebrate one of the best chinese restaurants in america. the peking in falls church issen in for its duck and famous patron the 40th anniversary, to fcelebrate, a portion all the sales will benefit military veterans and the third generation co-owner is a marine and combat veteran. he actually o got othe mill. when 9/11 happened, reenlisted. the duck is good.

they carve ity it rea good at the table. abaoment you py have seen on social media already, people in taiwan are eating ice cream that looks like a puppy. >> okay. oh! the shar-pei puppies. >> i don't want to eat a dog. they're made ofchocolate, milk tea or peanut flavored ice cream. >> took the head right f. >> how is this different than eating a chocolate bunny. >> it's different because it feeds into a ereotype. one puppy ice cream takes about five hours to make apparently. the restaurant is struggling tow keep uph demand as they can only make 100 per day. also out in the far east there is a trend of takin real food and making it like

desserts. this might be the next trend. >> it's just the way it looks, t still, i don't know if i one. eat >> let's move on. i think we shouldust get past that. a lot of kids heading back to school today. the new clothes, all the kids with all their new stuff.ha this morning you need to know is if you are around the edricksburg area really south of d.c., make sure you take a rain c north of that it looks pretty good. by tomorrow, we're going to see big changes. we he strong storms in the forecast. we have a weather alert for omorrow and then we have som really nice weather ahead. we're talking about low humidity, sunshine, cooler temperatures. that's gndng to be for the of the week and into the weekend. we'll actually be unseasonably cool by then. if you're north of d.c. or around the d.c. area and points

north, you can drive with the windows open for now. 68 degrees in leesburg, 69 in gaithersburg. if yth're far south where we have mid to low 70s, that's also where we have all the rain this morning. we have scatterun showers a fredricksburg. this is steady where you see the light green. it extends towardsmanassas. some of that could be moving into ton district at the bus stop, showers to the south. otherwise today will be comfortable with only a high around the low 80s byhe afternoon. certainly not a washout. tomorrow, that's when we'll see that increasing chance for thunderstorms as we go through the afternoon hoursly ma i would say after about lunchtime tomorrow, that's when we'll start to see the higher threat. we could see w damaging windsh some of the storms tomorrow, too. it gets ny,er wednes thursday is going to be absolutely perfect. let's check in with melissa on this monday. gomorning.

>> good morning, sheena. no worries along 270, no road work or anything on the way on thetw b either. nice and clear inner loop and outer loop. you can starto see the moisture in the sky as we mount where rain owing could be falling this morning. fairfax, blake lane, between 50 and 29th, still have the lanes blocked right now. shut down in both directions. 66 inbound, in problems. fairfax county parkway to the beltway, 66 miles per hour, eight minutes. outbound same situation. no big worries there this morning. we'll be back in a couple minutes with a look at 95 in maryland. 4:20. kidstant the are f way to school. parents want the safe way. coming up, newsoe 4 chris lawrence talks with parents and police

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4:23 right now. getting kids to school can be complicated this morning. life is easier when they can walk or bike themselves to school. >> it gives parents a whole new list of things to be concerned about. news 4's chris lawrence talked with police about what you can do to make sure your child is ready for the road. >> it's tough t determine the right age to let your kids walk or bike to sch l school. when it comes to her boys, jordan park say a lot depends on maturity. >> he's walking with friends, probably going just to school or home, second or third home. >> reporter: police say -- >> you have certain neighborhoods where one parent takes it on mondays and

wednesda and then on tuesday and thursdays and one does fridays. >> when the kids ore 9 10 years old, they may be ready to go it alone. at that point they understand safety. danger,erstand stranger things like that. >> reporter: she tells parents walk the route with yourreids behey do it on their own. >> the parents know that path, they've walked it with them. haveiscussed certain areas of concern. >> if a driver pulls up asking forct dins, don't engage. >> i always tell my daughter. you're a child, helping another child is okay. >> if someone walks up on em, what should they say? >> i think get back, you're not my dad and that whole mentality -- >> reporter: remember riding a bike through rush hour traffic is a lot different than the bike trail. >> i would say if they're going to be crossg the street, they need to get off the bike and walk the bike across the orstre.

>> rr: the goal is getting to school on time and inec one chris lawrence, news 4. >> later this morning, the news 4-team takes a look at dangerous roads near schools and what's being done about it. >> also ahead this morning, after being accused of covering up the abuse of cldren in pittsburgh, d.c.'s card woirld meets with his gong gags of priests. uth.ruth isn't >> president trump's lawyer rudy giuliani makes a startling claim during a weekend appearance on "meet the press. >> good monday morning. 4:25 on your monday. early mornies rumf fire for the southern half of the dmv, breaks of sunshine later today, not hot at all. could have stormy weather around here tomorrow

. 4:28 right now. good morning everybody. thanks for joining us on this mond morning. i'm aaron gilchrist. >> i'm angie goff in for eun

yang. 's back to school for many school districts. >> we'll get to melissaith a check on the commute in a moment. first chuck and sheena are here with a check on the forecast. a little ang tift on theradar. >> we do have showers around. in some parts of the i area, feels really nice. we have a nice breeze. you can have the windows down. other reparts, uas out. >> thunder and lightning, quite a bit thismorning. no, these are not severe thunderstorms, but some early morning rumblesf thunder certainly going to be an early wake-up call for a lot of our friends down here south of the city. these are all coming n th towards fredricksburg and stafford. could be a rainy go and a noisy start to the day. after this cluster goes by, that's about it. all dry weather downos a southern virginia, that will be our dry late morning and our dry afternoon. or this morning, a couple of

sprinkles and showers in parts of loudoun andax faiounty. temperatures, 60s in the shen dough nah valley. this afternoon actually looks pretty nice. a little humid. high today only 82 degales. weather ert mode for tomorrow. more about that in a few. now let's go over to melissa mollet. good morning, chuck. taking a look at the roads here now. an update on the situation i fairfax. blake lane between 50 and nd, the northbanes are now open. we have that downed wire there. southbound lanes are still shut down here this morning. a warning for youthere. into town on 66, into town on 95, both loo ng quitegood. his radar again, that gre showing you where we have rain falling right now. 270 southbound fromtoermantown the spur is nice and clear from frederick actually headed southbound. beltway i