now at 11:00, schools closed before it evennc opens. ns about mold forcing students out of their building just weeks before the newchool year. parents say the problem is not new. >> this particular school would allow us to bringur children into that building for at least

a year? >> new revelations about the former athletic director at the university of maryland. a new controversy for a department already in turmoil. and haf bracing for the worst from hurricane lane. the massive storm dumping several feet of rain on islands. >> news4 at 11:00 starts nooo andevening. what a way to start the school year. you saw it first on 4 today. an elementary school is now closing its doors to stunts for the entire year. >> over the past 18 months, we've introduced you to the parents worried about mold at district heights elementary in prince george's county.e shomari stound out tonight the first day of school this year will happen someplaceelse. shomari? >> reporter: good evening. parents of students at district heights elementary school areon relievedht because their kids will go to a vak cat forestville hscghts ol. they say that i told you so that

they knew there was mold inside district heights elentary school. they alaud, appreciate interim ceo monica goldson f swift action and transparency. >> it's most important our staff d students remain safe. >> reporter: at her first school board meetinger i ceo monica goldson confirmed what som parents a district thits elementary school feared. >> that mold reappeared in district heights elementary hool on a friday. >> reporter: shepa tolnts and the board dee humds fires won't solve the problem. more needs to bedo . the best option was for us to move the students from district heights toforestville high school on the first day of school. >> reporter: we first told you about did the poor air quality at the school in april of 2017. students and some workers complained about respiratory problems. prince george's county public schools had an outside contractor test it the air qualit f and theynd slightly

elevated mold spore counts in e classroom. the school repaired 24 ventilation fans and officials sisted the school was safe. >> my kids was there. my kids was there. and we were ache >> this meeting is very important. >> reporter: parents and school board member ed burroughs appreciate her leadership. >> to find out this newra adminion is willing to move quickly, it's refreshing i want to applaud this decision. i was ver upset those students were left in that environment not too long ago. >> reporter: now, ierimceo goldson says buses willor tran the students to forestville high school. they'll remain there for a year during the school year. meanwhile, crews will try their best to rove the mold, install a new ac ventilation system and hopefully fix the problem. live here in upper marlboro,

shomari stone. >> and thank you. breaking news from chopper a 4 pedestrian was killed tonight here on route 19 in laurel. take a look. this is the intersection with old line avenue in and rundle hcounty. craspened just before 9:00 tonight. you can see several lanes closed for this investigatio police were directing track there and tell us the driver did stay on the scene. new insights tonight into the mysterious resignation ofd former maryl athletic director kevin anderson. tonight the diamondback the campus nspaper first reported he used $15,000 of school money to hire l ayer for two student athletes when they were facing allegations of sexual misconduct. that violated ptocol according to the university. all of this happened last august. we undstand the president's office found out when the athletic department got the bill fothe lawyers. there's more.d umays it told anderson to cut ties with that attorney in

question. a month later, last september, anderson hadn't done so. late tonight,he university released a statement saying this in part "the decision to hire is lawyer showed a serious ivck of judgment in a sexual misconduct case account university's commitment to a fair and impartial handling of all such matters is." anrson then then was placed on sabbatical last october. he resigned in it's not clear at this time if this was the reason why or why all oft this is j now coming to light. maryland's athletic department right now is in some challenging times under heightened scrutiny after fooall player jordan mcnair collapsed durin a workout. he suffered a heat stroke and died weeks later. terps football coach d.j. durkin and t officials are on leave in that case. thatte happened afanderson left. at the live desk, i'm leon harris. hurricane lane has been downgraded to a category 3 storm as it continues to churn just

southwest of hawaii. but the threat is ndi nishing for the people on the island. >> it is still a force, folk a ra flooding still a huge concern for the next few days. nbc's jay gray has the latest now from honolulu. ening.d this is the situation in honolulu right now. wind picked up t. waves increased dramatically. a spitting rain going to intensify over the next couple hours. lane moves closer to the we'veady seen flooding in aastline. some areas. the waves having a big impact, as well. wind tearing away some power lines. early.l still this is a slow moving abmassive storm. one that ccald cause signi damage here. >> we're extremely concerned about the pentials for inland flooding. landslides occurring and dage to the transportation communications infrastructure. >> the biggest conceow right especially here on oahu is the possibility of dving rains over the next 24 to 36 hours.

some areas could see as much as 30 inches of rain and officials warning thoseinho ridthis thing out, make sure have you food, water and medical supplies that will last for 14 days. they're saying that it could take two weeksn some of the hardest hit areas for the water to recede and crews to make w their in. i'm jay gray, back to you now. of rough road back. stevie wonder chaka khan, jennifer hudson and faith hill are part of the amazing lineup that will sing at aretha franklin'sfuneral. >> her service will focus on her gospel roots and her son edward will be orpeng. the service will be held at the greater grace temple in detroit next friday. sley died of pancreatic cancer last week at the a of 76. a man accused of killing a mother and son in loudoun county is out of jail tonight. >> charges have been dropped against brian welsh of hedon.

poli tied him to the death afc malla manwalai and her son in january. vestigators tell us the suspect and her i were involved some kind of drug deal. forensic tests show the nine bullets found on the victims and in the home don't match the gun connected to the suspect. however had, bullet casings found at the scene do match the suspect's gun. prosecutors continue to t investigateir deaths. there's tension again tonight between psident trump and one of his earliest campaign supporters and most loyal cabinet member. attorney general jeff sessions. >> there is even some speculationing whether sessions is going to keep his job after the midterm elections. it all comes after this comment from the president in an interview there morning on fox news. >> i put an attorney general that never took control of the justice department, jeff sessions. never took control of the justice department. he took the job and then he saig i'mng to recuse myself.

i said what kind of a man is this? >> attorney general sessions fought back. he said in a statement i took control of the department of justice. ay i was sworn in and while i'm attorney general, the actions of the department of justice will not be improperly influenced by political considerations. sessions also defended the work of the doj prosecutors and the investigators saying he's proud of the work they've done to advance the rule of law. tonight, the cincinnati inquirer would like you not judge a news outlet b its twitter handle. >> the newspaper which uses the handle @inquirer tweeted this, we are not the "national enquire enquirer". no doubt they have bwin bombarde tweets about the famous tabloid and its ceo david pecker. peck ser a friend of the president's and told nbc news the prosecutors inves former trump attorney michael cohen granted picker immunity.ay sources picker shared what

he knows about paying women for the rights to stories that could embarrass president trump and then nevered publish them. the practice is known as catch andkill. back close to home tonight, metro riders yjoice. >> o on news4, metro says it's ahead of schedule with the massive 45-day long red line shutdown that has closed the rhode island avenue and brook land stations. the uneven platform at rhode island i avenue made it diffictht for riders wi wheelchairs to board the train. instead of rebuilding the atform, metro says it lowered the rails in certain spots to achieve a levelrf e. this platform had chunks of concrete falling off in the pas and metro says that has also been filmed. >> all of our work is progressing ahead of plan. we are in great shape to rurn e area to service on september 4th. >> even though they'f ahead schedule, riders have to wait

till september for the station to reopen. crews are fixing othermaller issues. a heads up if you dri memorial bridge. construction is closing all six lanes and sidewalks for one weekend. >> it happens next month. you won't be able to get through starting the evening of friday, september 14th. reopen early the following monday morning. we told you the memorial bridge needs a lowell lot o work. crews are going to replace the deck. that's the surface that you drive on. that wrtk s in october. next month's closure is to bring in a crain and g ready for that project. next at 11:00, a look at the newest on demand business coming to.he distri a new service at your fingertips. letting you shed aittle excess baggage. and who called the cops on a mom for letting her 8-year-old walk the dog. >> we've got a debate tonight over the so-called free range

parenting. >> and another beautiful start tomorrow morning. this is 7:00 a.m. temperatures in the 50s and 60s. but it doesn last for long. i'll let you know when

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million plus people who visit t washington, d.s year will bring with them a lot of luggage. those numbers are why a new temporary baggage storing business has chosen the district as its third city in the.s. >> our bounce partners would utilize space like this om. >> reporter: bounce is betting people will pay $6 a dayerag to have their stuff stored and insured after checking out of a hotel. >> each of the tag have a unique number. >> reporter: customers are given a lock with a flubbed security tag. it was awkward to have to go to a client site meeting. i was in ses and had to have my suitcase and go to the receptionist and put this in the back. >> reporter: the drop-off locations are called partner stores all over the city. mostly small locally owned businesses that have a little underutilized space. like the chocolate house on 18tt et northwest. >> thank you. >> reporter: the arrangement has the added benefit of bthnging ugh their doors just the type of customer who areciates

artisan chocolate barns truffles sourced from around the district and frommakers the store's owner travels around the world to discover. >> people coming in they might not know that the chocolate house is a main destination here. >> reporter: bounce ames to be in 100 u.s. stis in the next ar or so. the latest business to see its future in the district's om vigorous ec jackie bensen, news4. >> i like that idea. >> oou want to rent your own basement to do this. >> make some money. there is new screening technology atdulles. it caught an imposter trying to enter the country byg pretend to be someone he was not. >>ulles installed this new facial recognition software on monday. bywednesday, the system iitued first bust. a man arriving from brazil presented a french passport but the facial cparison software revealed the photo on it didn't match the one taken by screeners. his real passport was found

inside his shoe swing he was from the republic of congo. cbp officers are unsure if he posed a threat but he was sent back to brazil. >> he could be here for a variety of reasons. he was trying to come here y. illega >> this biometric screening technology is now in more than a dozen airports. the goal is to eventually broadese and speed up processing for everybody. good news could teaching your child responsibility actlly put them in danger? >> this is now a hot topic. the cops were calle on an 8-year-old in illinois. her name's dorothy. she was walking the family's dog. by herself. looked like that onl by herself. someone called the police. the police arrive found nothing wrong. a few days later child services got involved. >> i wanted her to start learning responsibility. she was gone for about five

minutes and the next thing i know, the police are at the door. to make decisions when their children are old enough to be alone. >> child services dismissed this case. do rothy's only chore in this hoe by the way is walking the dog. her mom says she's going to keep walking tog by herself in the neighborhood and busy and gladys kravitz can goi do something else. you know? like go bother ayner. >> youe wondering, we're in the newsroom tonight and decided to give the break for lighting reasons. >> clean it. >> in the storm center, way back yonder, is it warmer, colder wher you are? >> i don't know if you could see me. at home you was waving in the background. i can see miss in the shot. a little behin thecenes here tonight. let's talk about this weather. it is fantastic. a hint of fall in the air right

now. it's going to be even coolerow tomomorning. so take a look at your weather .eadlines. gorgeous tomorr not only because it's friday. we have low humidity, plenty of sunshine. comfortable temperatures in the forecast. nice weather for the weekends. dry both saturday and sunday. xt week, well, we lose this fall-like feel and start to trk a heatwave. it's hot and humid. feeling like 100 degrees or even warmer monday, tuesday and wednesday. now currently our t tperatures suburbs are in the 50s and 60s. 63 in lwesburg a as frederick. 71 right now in washington and tomorrow morning at the bus stop, it'ses reng. 64 here in the district. 50s in the suburbs. al sunshine fromtart to finish tomorrow. really nice at recess. going out y onr lunch break with the temperature around 80. at pickup, sunny skies and a temperature of 85. the perfect weather for getting tdoors, your friday night perfect for grilling out or walk with nice long

the dog in the neighborhood. here's your pollen report. the trees cing in low. grasses in moderate. weeds and mold spores coming in high today. the weeds mainlyhat rag weed and rag weed peaks now through the first wk ofseptember. if you're suffering from allergies, anticipateo least a few for more weeks. grass pollen is going to continue to slime through september. with the lack of rain in the forecast, we should start to see the mold spores coming down across the area. what i'm showing you right n is category 3 hurricane lane. from the lates national hurricane center. maximum sustained winds at 120 miles an hour moving it toward the north-northwest at about six miles an hour. it is eected to weaken over the next 24 hours to a category 2. eventually a one. then it starts t turn toward the west due in part to a lot of sheer that will tr the storm

apart. it is bringing a lot of rain to parts of hawa, parts of the state already reporting over two feet of rain in someca ons. so we're going to continue to monitor that situation very osely. chuck and sheena both in tomorrow morning with the latest on lane and back he at home, as well. here's your four-day forecast. saturday a high of85. sunday a high of 90. monday a high of 94. with the muxd r humidity on monday it's feeling like 100 to 105. tuesday and wednesday, hot and mid. mid-90s. once again feeling more like 100, even a little bit warmer. there's a cnce for lateay showers and thunderstorms thursday, friday and next saturday. next weekend, labor day weekend, it's not a wash rht now,ighs in the upper 80s. >> we'll take it. thank u. >> we found stools in the newsroom. they swivel. we should come in the newsroom more often. >> coming up, the mystics moving ononht one step closer to

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this is the xfity sportsdesk. >> hey, you know sometimes you just have a feeling.t' sometimes indigestion. after practice yesterday, mystics head coach mike tebow shed his tea in his words feels like a team that could go on a now in the wnba playoffs they have no choice. tonit's postseason journey

started with a single elimination game at home against the los angeles sparks. they have win with capital one arena being renovatedst s hosting at smith center. second round. first quarter policing some six on a run. ep back, yeah, hits. mystics have a 15-2 run. in the second quarter, mystics up nine finds a lane. a findsther bucket. game high 19 points. that's getting it done. della doneiding yeah, going to kick it outside natasha cloud knocks down the three. mystics up 21 at thehalf. toliver putting is th ing on the cake steps thck. at's another three. she had 11. they beat the sparks 96-64. so that will py the dream in atlanta on sunday. >> we've built a great culture here. our trust with one another has grown this entire season. on defense and offense.

and tonight it kind of all came together. >> we did just about everything you know you hope as a coach. you worry all day about this and that. didn't have to worry about that tonight. we did most things well tonight. i would say do them all again. >> again did, to baseball. nationals hoping to shall we say set sail against the phillies. max scherzer on the mound. in the sixth, he had struck out cabrera. one of ten strikeouts of the day for him. low spot in the seventh. plate.a at the that one goes into the second deck. a two-run homer. only two runs allowed by scherzer. nats had their chances. bottom of the eighth, two on for bryce harper. that's a good sign. aaron nolan strikes him out. nine strikeouts. nats shut out 2-0. they d t take series. in what's become an annual

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