>> take a look at the mess here. a tractor-ailer has jackknifed on 495. the lanes are closed and the cleanup has begun. this crash is sure to impact travel plans today. good morning. i'meun yang. >> i'm aaron gilchrist.. 5:00 a.m this morning. we'll begin with melis good morning, guys. this is not the day for this to happen, especially inner loop with folks going over the bay bridge. this is inner loop, after connecticut aftvenue this morni. we are only getting by on the far left de. it's a jackknifed tractor trailer here. and a huge response on t scene. additional problem is we have a fuel spill with thisoi this is to take some time to get this out of the way. inner loo out o connecticut, that left lane is open. we were green and yellow here a

short time ago. now, we're red and slow thratgh area. you want to do t icc stead today. this could take a couple of hours to clean up. the rest of the beltway is nice and green. in rockville, southbound 270 hafore grove road. a brand-new crash there. waldorf, berry road at middletown, getting by 66, 95 in viinia. no bigroblems there. >> thank you. we have team coverage of thisrash thismorning. justin finch arrived on the scene just a short time ago, ere cleanup has already begun. justin, what are you geing? >>d morning. that's right. we are seeing hazmat crews cleaning up the sll of fuel from the jackknifed tr tractoailer. want to show you what we are seeing. we are seeing bit of backup behind this crash. this is the beltway inner just past connecticut avenue

here this tractor-trmaler has sed into the right side of the highway here, filling up three lanesetween this crash. and we have a response again. hazmat crews,irighters on the ground, cleaning up the spillage and this vehicle, and determining how they will clear this scene here. we have traffic moving slowly from the far left lane at this time. as you mention, aseople wake up to go to work or school orgi the long labor day vacations, this could be an impact. if this was a route they were counti on thismorning, we understand that a sand truck is going to make its way to clean up thefuel. but that could take some time, as well. you may not want to count r on thte as you make your way out this morning. back to you in theud st. >> justin finch, le for us on the scene there a along the beltway. thank you. that may impact travel plans, of course. the holiday weekend is here and

millions are expected to hit the road for a labor day trip. >> here's some ok the l of the areas going to be impacted. agan national airport, the bay bridge and the road to ocean city. >> a lot ofre eyes on the forecast, as you expect. storm team ck4, c bell, leading the way with the weather. >> all right. thertunately going to be on cloudy and the wet side for the first part of your holiday weekend. no complete rainouts. but youror outctivities will be less impacted by weather on sunday and labor day itself. we've traded our 90-degree weather for higher rain chances today and tomorrow. most of our rain chances are stacked up on the friday afternoon and the iturday. sund looking better. lower rain chances there. and the loweses rain cha coming up on monday. likely to be back upo 90 degrees, yet again. rain chances are goingbi to be

part of the forecast. for today, nothing much to worry about. temperatures in the 80s this afternoon.ha today's raine remains at 60%. a closer look at the weekend highs and lows,oming up. today, senator john mccain will lie in state at the u.s. capitol. the body of the late senator landed at joint base andrews la a military honor guard escorted his casket to a hearse. james mattis greeted cindy mccain as she came off the plane. her husband's cleagues and staffers were there to meet the family. >> his casket is set to arrive around mid-morning. megan mcgrath has more on toy's tribute to the man known as the maverick. megan, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. p members of tlic will be able to pay their respects to john mccain during a publicvi tation. if you look at first street

along the u.s. capitol, they have blocked off of the road and have metal fencing set up. in a matter of hours, we expect to see crowds form a line behind the fences. mou mourners will be able to file past mccain's casket in the rotunda. thousands of people turned out on wednesday in arizona. they came to theta arizona apitol to pay their final ropt respects. mccain's body will be brought here later this morning. his colleagues and other guests will atten an arrival ceremony. at 1:00, that's when the public visitation will begin. it goesil u:00 tonight. those who will come and pay line up at the visitors center at first street. look at the map. we have roads inplace.

first street and east capitol streets are closed railro ed al. on saturday, the formal funeral service will be held at ton na cathedral, by invitation only. a barack oba george w. bush will give eulogies. and then, on sunday, senator mccain will be buried in a ceremony at the u.s. naval academy. th at is also by invitation only. >> megan, thank you. 6 minutes after 5:00. thousands of froederal employee are reworking their budgets. most federal workers expected the raise in january. the president sent a letter to congress saying the federal government can't afford to increases. the president signed a $1.5 trillion tax cut bill.

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parents gave police cell phone video of the man's car. he faces felony threats and stalking. right now, the accused killer of frfax county teen is behind bars. the 18-year-old is charged with first-degree murder in the death of his ex-girlfriend, jol johol mous moussa. two weeks later, her body was found in moodlawn park. thiss bri some closure for moussa's family. they are first upset that she was thought to be a runaway. >> hearing the details does not make it easier. if anything, it reopens up wounds that we've been trying to hide behind and do something constructive with. >> mmoussa'sder led to the cryuation of not a runaway

foundation. hero family said she had a n contact order against ibrahim, who was a former boyfriend. at least seven people are nowd confirmed dter a crash involving a greyhound bus and a semi truck in new mexico. >> state police say the truck blew a tire, crossed the media and hit the bus head-on. this was along interstate 40 i th horeau, west of albuquerque. the truck's driver svived that crash. new details on theoppled statue in south carolina. another protest epted on campus. protesters at unc-chapel hill ocked down the statue earlier this month. last night, opposing groups rallied at the pedestal.

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right now, first 4 traffic alert. and upda on the beltway. inner loop after connecticut avenue. this i a jackknifed tractor-trailer. we have two left lanes getting by. that happened in a co eed in the of minutes. >> thank you. labor day weekend is the deadliest time of year on our roads. when more impaired drivers get behind the wheel. >> usually that conversation revolves around drunk driving. but this year, the spotlight is shining on a different problem, driving under the influence ofu s. the department of transportation is putting out safe driving ads. it pushes a respons to roadwayd hs associated with ma thmarijuana, opioids and oer drugs. prerations lasted late

into the night for aretha franklin's funeral. thousands are set to saygo -bye to the queen of soul. her funeral gets under way at 5:30 this morning. >> jay gray is outside of the church where the service ista ng place. we understand that there's a limited number of fans iide the service. is that right? >> reporter: yeah. good morning. the chance oet a le for so many fans here. they've been lined upince late yesterday afternoon. about 2,000 fans may get the chance to be inside for what is going to be an incredible tribute. this funeral will i lude so many dignitaries and stars. stevie wonder, faith hill, ariana nggrande, amo those who will sing in the service. bill clinton among a host of dignitaries that will speak, as well. 2,000, there's been crowds of people waiting to get in since

yesterday. it should be quite a day here. >> do we know where aretha franklin will be buried? >> reporter: yeah, aaron. in fac there will be a procession to woodlawn cemetery. about seven miles away. anat procession, 100 vehicles or more. it will include several pink cadillacs, guys. >> very fitting. jay gray, thank you. if you like avocados, they are part of the mediterranean diet. followinghat diet reduces death by 25%. it came fm healthy oil in fish and moderate amounts of alcohol. i love acados and fish and

veggies. >> i don't like any of that etuff. >> you l the alcohol. back t melissa and keeping an eye on the beltway with this trac br-trailer. >> problem with this tractor-trailer. inner loop after connecticut avenue. look at this. this is the jackknifed tractor-trailer. jis is the situation that changed. we have two left lanes open. we have a fue spill. you can see it there, jackknifing. we haven't gotten that out of e way. the heavy duty tow is on the scene. you want to commit probably and pay for the icc, east-west highway, something else if you're headed out soon. inner loop after connecticut avenue is where the situation is icky there. the rest of the beltway is looking good here this morning. yo t don't want worry too much about that. shadyound 270 before grove road might be the ramp there. still have that crash and i the district. south side, right side blocked

and overturned vehicle. it is a cloudy start to the day. and it's going to be more clouds than sunshine for your friday and for your saturdayplans. here's the live picture down at national airport this morning, where it is cloudy most of therain, we had earlier in the morning. that's pulled out. still, aew pockets of drizzle out there. 80 degrees at national airport. the high-humid atmosphere don't let the temperatures drop much during the overnight hours. that's where be're going to staying. a low range ofat temperures. mid-70s in the morning and mid-80s in the afternoon. most of the action is to our north and ea. thunderstorms across parts of pennsylvania. a few moving up towards hagerstown, maryland. a couple of early rumbles in ndry vi ia hmoas temporarily fizzled out. don't turn your back on that stin chance for most of the day today. f the showers will stay

north of the but with a little daytime heating in the mix, a likelihood hors and storms to develop after lunchtime today. mid and later parts in the afternoon. the highest part will be washington northbound, to the eastern shore. rain parncts of northern virginia.he hour-by-hour,uburbs are in the mid-70s this morning. a lot of clouds and a60% chance for rain showers later today. well.goes for tomorrow, as no total rainouts, though. that's the good news. unday afternoon, an isolated shower ortwo. and labor day, if you have the day off, a perfect day for backyard barbecue. >> we'll see you in a bit. en aon all six flags is debuting a new ride. >> we give you your first look. and today on "ellen." >> why the mexican guy has to do the macarena. i lik that gold jacket.

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"news 4 today" begins with breaking news. >> that breaking news at trouble on the beltway. as we start the holiday weekend, a tractor-trailer jackknifed and is blocking lanes on the innerh loop of beltway. here's a live picture. we have team average coverage a out the door today.

>> we will go to melissa and how to get around this traffic alert. >> here's the situation right now. inner loop after connecticut avenue is what we're talking about. jack-knifedtractor-trailer. you have the two left lanes point.g by at this this is slow here right now. with the fuel spill it makes it worse. as we were talking about getting around this, the icc might be something you want t pay for today. try the gheast-west y, as well. you can see the little speck on the beltway, where the slowdowno the rest the beltway looks okay. justin finch is out there. tell me how things have progressed in the past0 minutes or so. >> hey, melissa. for this to happen around 3:30 this morning, we're seeing significan progress ha oen in the tiut there. you mentioned the two left lanes here in the beltway. behind us that scene. if you look past the left lanes, you see the backup we're talking about, just past the crash here. we saw much sloweea ier.

now, it's moving as a faster speed here. and looking at the scen you see the big rig tow isn i place, preparing to hoist and move that truck at some atpoint. half of the work done this morning. we know that crews are working to clean up the fuel that spil td froms tank of this truck after it crashed overnight. progress is being made. the movementn tehicle being towed away here. you want to avoid because there's so much going on out here. if you can afford not to come through the beltway around this crash, i w >> avoiding that area is the best idea today. rockville, southbound 270 before shadygr e. and waldorf, berry road at middletown. downed wires. 66 is okay.

95, looking okay. southbound through quanti a tiny bit of a slowdown. could be folkseading out of town. good morning, chuck. >> good morning, melissa. a lot of clouds. you can see out there, justin's live shot, the roads are wet but no rain coming down at the moment. cooler weather for today. won't be in the90s. we created higher-degree weather for rain chances. there's your four-day planner for the holiday weekend. temperatures mid to upper 80s today a tomorrow. a 60% chance of rain and rumble of thunder. rain chances are going down through sunday as a result, temperatures will go up again. radar shows u one thunderstorm here, just about harper's ferry. another near hagerstown, maryland. those will not affect the metro area. a 60% chance of rain later today. temperatures in the 70s this

morning. maybe you go down to the baseball game. the brewers are in town. i think they can get the game in. a check of the forecast and the oaryland and uva game later. are closed on capitol hill, as hundredrere to say good-bye to john mccain. he will lie i state at the capitol. he arrived at joint bas andrews. his family will accompany him to the funeral home in southwest d.c. >> the man known as the maverick will make his final trip to capitol hill. megan mcgrath is live with more on toda megan, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. in a matter of hoors, sen john mccain will lie in state under the rotunda.

an members of the public will get cnce to pay their respects. he landed last night at joint base andrews. he wl be brought to the u.s. capitol and placed under the rotunda. vice president mike pen speak during the arrival ceremony. at 1:00, that's when the public visitation gets under way. here take a look back live, you see the setup in front of the capitol. we're standing on first street. this is where members of the public will be asked to line up. in front of the visitor's , centou'll be lined up with these metal fences. and you have to pass through security. it'sra best to tvel light. the visitation will last until 8:00 tonight. tomorrow, mccn's casket will be making a stop at the vietnam

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your time is 5:45 we are tracking a first 4 traffic alert for you as you start you friday. a tractor-trailer jackknifed on the beltway, blocking lanes many of you may have planned to get to work or the beach. >> the cleanup here is expected take several hours because fuel spilled on the road. morning, this remembering senator john mccain. his body is back in our area after hundreds attended a memorial for him yesterday in arizona. >> mccain planned that service himself. it included native american music and a eulogy by his friend, joe biden. bin said that mccain could look past a certainolitical argument. >> the underlying values that

animated everything john did, everything he was. >> news 4's meganl mcgrath w join us from theol capt 6:00 a a.m. on how you can pay your respects today. its 5: right now. trump says the federal government does not have enough money to ge thousands of federal workers the raises they were promised. that has thousands of families in our area reworking their budgets as we go into the last half of year. tracie potts has more onhe why president chose to make this call right now. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. lot of people, federal workers, look for the bump in pay right after the holidays. this was set to kick in januaryp now,sident trump has announced the pay raises are not going toen ha he's canceling them, 2% for federal erwo 25% locality pay raise for those

who are eligible for that. he is scrapping it. he tells congress in a letter, that the country cannot afford it rightnow, invoking the law that allows him to cancel those raes in national emergency or when there's a serio economic condition. he didn't go into specifics of what that is. t his critics say it's the tax cut, plus t $1.3 trillion in spending the presidentppved over the last year. >> tracie, thank you. we're a few days away from thetart of a major murder trial. >> now, there's questions about the way thevidence was collected. police say he killed his former boss and wife, child and housekeeper. in court records, investigators

found a screwdriver holding a window is that how the suspect was able to get inside? >> the forensic biologist asked that the screwdriver be collected. she does not believe it was recovered. there's much more in the report that you can find in the nbc washington app. they're anxious to see how the governmentame to accuse the wrong man of the heinous crimes and in the rush to judgment thet overlookedhe true culprit. >> the atf had no commt. you can look next tuesday as we examine the evidence with lingering questions and a panel of experts. that's tuesday night at 6:30, for "mansion murder: inside the hevestigation." we could learnate of a former fairfax county teacher accused of abuse a jury is deciding whether sexually molested a student when she was 14. h

he lost his license four years ago when the improper relationship ce to light. but the student revealed new details that led to the charges. in closing arguments, the prosecution said that he was grooming the student for a sexual relationship. her statements don't match the physal evidence. 11 minutes before the hour now. ankids in prince george's county are ready to go back to hool. for some, that means a newly renovated elementary school. the school has new equipment, t natural lighd redone classrooms. o in t building, there were portable classrooms. district heights is closed because of mold. school starts on tuesday a few virginia districts head back to class on tuesday.

and the city of alexandria is opening itfirst school in two decades. david culver has a look at the new school that incorporates the past and the new of the city. >>let's go to melissa and that alertn e beltway. is it any better? >> no. actually not. we he the jackknifed tractor-trailer. we have crews on the scene trying to get this out of the way. here's the problem, we're adding delays on the outer loop because folks are looking to the left saying, what's going on there? the inner loop is where the problem is. two lanes are opened with the tractor-trailer. the rest of the beltway looks great right now. nice and green andsdry, well. mclean, northbound g.w. parkway. a crash there. in the district, southbound

north c aital street wit overturned vehicle. 270 looks okay. inner loop, not so hot because of that issue near concticut avenue. 66 inbound, 95 northbound, no issues. remember to listen to wtop when you hop in yourcar. hi, chuck. >> good morning, melissa. a fine day to be ready for your big trap to the beaches or the mountains. honestly, weather will be pretty good for most of the holiday weekend. we'll be hitting and missing on somehower chances and thunderstorm chances today and tomorrow. right now, at national airport, a steamy 80 degrees, already a heat index of 84.t away from the city and the water. 72 in gaithersburg. 73 in frederick, maryland. your planner for your getaway,

hit and miss chances, peaking at 5:00 this afternoon. temperatures will stay in the 80s becausef the higher rain chances. it doesn't look like an organized weather system around us it isn't. there's a lot of moisture around. this area of general low pressure that's overhead this morning, is keeping thunderstorm chances around rumbles of storms in hagerstown, maryland. some showers out towards persville and berriville, and falling waters, west virginia. future weather keeps most of thc rain c today from the d.c. metro area and points north.es but somet these computer models don't handle all of the ins and outs of the shower chances all that well. everybody needs to be f ready rain today and tomorrow. no total rainout. but nonetheless, hit and miss showers. texas and maryland, college

football season is here. 85 degrees tomorrow. some showe there. perfect weather. if a turtle can't beat a longhorn in a rainstorm, riously. 90-degree weather on monday. and the whole first wee of september will be filled with 90-degree days. >> chuck, thank you. 5:53 right now. a tribute to a k teenled in parkland, florida, in the school shooting ere, is getting a lot of attention this morning. last night, the university of connecticut honored alex shatter at the football season opener there. -year-old dreamed of goi there for college before he was killed in february at stoneman uglas high school. he was made an honorary husky when the school learned of his love for that school. the mystics are in the finals but we don't know if the

star pyer is healthy to take the court. at the last game, she tripped and injured her left knee oainst the dream. she had to be heff the court. the ability to play tonight will be a game-time decision. >> she is walking much better. if your motion is not limited, you can push off and cut and go. there's going to be pain involved somewhere, if she plays. she's a tough player.he >>s hopeful that she will be back for tonight's home game. don't want to push her too much. >> game three tonight tips off at 8:00. it's time tome kiss s good-bye. >> it's sad to do this. for many here, theeend wouldn't be complete without a crab feast. therab feast is a sign of summer. always a good time. molette green is live at the warf, at a seafood stand that's been supplying crabs to locals for decades. hi, molette.

>> reporter: yeah. i'm at jessetaylor's seafood, with my new friends. there's pete and clarence. we're here and set up i brought my own table and chairs to set up for my personal crab feast for the weekend. this is how we did it back in he day in the summers i washington. we're going to talk a good deals that you can get on crabs, why women are being consumers throughout the 6:00 skur. and i a you on twitter to send me your best crab cooking recipes. i want to compare it to my grandma's. weute going to talk a that in the 6:00 hour of news 4 today. let me set u my table. we'll be back with more. good morning. seema mody at cnbc headquarters.

walmart has increased its selection of toys and is expanding toy aisles. it's part of an effort to lure shoppers after toys "r" us went out of business this summer. walmart will begin its layapry ram one day earlier this year. with your cnbc business report, i'm seema mody. still ahead, colin kaepernick heads to court. he's behind the police brutality protests at nflgames. now, heays the owners colluded to keep him off the field. and we're live inevetroit juster hours ahead of aretha franklin's funeral. and b aaking news, look at the jackknifed tractor-taylor. te coverage onhis next at 6:00. stay with us.

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>> "news 4 today" begins wh breaking news. >> take a look at the mess here. a tractor-trailer has jackknifed on the beltway. chopper 4 has just arrived on the scene. lanes are closed and the cleanup has begun. this i a crash that is sure to impact travel plans. i'm eun yang. >> we have team coverage on that crash. we begin with melissa. >> first 4 alert on this getaway day. inner loop before connecticut avenue is where this is. ovwe have im here. we have three lanes getting by this morning. this is on the right side of the roadway. the issue now, the outer loop is getting slow because people are looking to the left and wondering what is going on.ng the best t to do is to think about the icc this morning. there is the delay. three lanes open.