now.s molette, whae latest? >> reporter: the huge fire is out. the firefighters are aone. ta look at what's left of this large two-story home on whittier boulevard here in bethesda. we want you to look at what firefighters had toattle. yes, a lot of firefighters. about a hundred of them. in the last few o minut battling the blaze, they were hosing down hotspots concentr e concentrating on the rf area which caved in. one firefighter suffered from no one believed to be inside the home, although there is a car in th driveway. montgomery county police are still here on the what's next is the fire investigators who will come in when theun comes up to determine what caused thise masslaze here in bethesda. to give you a better idea of where we are, we are not verym far f walt whitman high

school. that is the latest from the scen b here inhesda. back to you. >> molette, thank you. we are i for another day of azing hot temperatures. i mean, it definitely feels like it's in the 100 degrees, right? >> yeah. >> i'm dripping. weather alert mode today. >> it will be later on. >> like 150. >> that's what it feels like. >> a lot. >> we want to point out for people this is going to be ah roay for people in d.c. pepco says there's a scheduled outage happening impacting pele off north capitol street. that should be over by 8:00 a.m. we'll check in with melissa in a minute. first, meteorologist chuck bl and sheena parveen here with the forecast. >> the good news, it will not feel like 150 this afternoon, only 100 to 5. small consolation. >> it's a good thing the outages are early this as we go through the afternoon, that is the worst time of the day to have any power outage. it's going to heat up.

you need the ac. it's 78 degrees in washington. feels more like 81. itarm and humid again. it's a lot like yesterday. ashe kids head out to the bus stop, good news. no rain. but it's really humid out there. 80 degrees in annapolis as we start off our wednesday morning. still patchy fog. if you're in frederick, the visibility dropped to half a this is going to fluctuate. mostly it's going to stay west of d.c. be careful as you're driving. speaking of driving on your commute, beware of that fog. it will be muggy.y you proba want to blast the ac when you get in your car this morning. by lunchtime, near 90 degrees. this afternoon, back in the mid-90s. most of the area stays dry. can't rule out a pop-up shower at yost. ll be lucky if you see it. it will cool your temperatures down a bit. we'll talk about how long the heat will last and when the rain is coming in, let's check in with melissa. >> look good.

chopper 4 over bw parkway. everything is rolling along. as lonas we see movement, that's good. alexandria northbound, 395 after the beltway, middle ofoa the is blocked with a new crash. have to keep our eyes on that that could develop into something bad quickly. stafford northbound after garrisonville, a crash involving a tractor-trailer. sounds like it's offer to the side. no major problems on the inner loop oruter loop. 270 looking good. bla brandywine, one lane blocked by a crash coming inbound. school is getting out early for some kids in the area. it's because of the heat. >> jintin is live in adelphi on what prince george's county schools plano do today. >> reporter: aaron, parents and students have to adjust schedules today. different schools have different schedules. we do know that all prince

george's county public schools will end their day early cutting it short by two hours on the second day of school because of this hot weather. we now have coming our way in the forecast. it is going to feel at points today lik more than100 degrees. the county posted this decision on twitter last night and no doubt parents may get another reminder this m around dropoff when school starts today. not only is school ending early, but evening classes, activities and even evening high school are going to be ending completely closing today as well. school-based staff like teachers, they will be leaving early as well. lunch will be served to before they make their way home for the day. hot weather also csing two other schools completely for air conditioning repair, margarett regional schoolsas as well riverdale elementary schl and bac live, of course, questions about what will happen on thursday andis point, the county says no decision has

been madement once it is made, they will alert parents and schools as well. again, for today, this wednesday, day two of school, classes will end two hours early for prince george's county and afall r-school activities are going to be completely canceled seld. live from -- canceled. >> justin, thank you. 6:05, developing right now, one chiles dead in florida and thousands waking up without dower along the gulf coast. tropical storm gmade landfall late last night west of the alabama and mississippi border. you can see the projection of the storm track here. angie goff at the livesk de. the latest video showing the destruction from the storm. angie? >> good morning, aaron. a state of emergency was declared in mississippi making resources available to places hitardest by gordon so far. take a look. this is some of that videohat we got in overnight. you can see how powerful the winds are. ey're ferocious. very high speeds and dangerous. gordon's top sustained winds remained at 70 miles per hour.

the nationalri hne center predicting a life-threatening storm surge along parts of the central gulf coast. the storm is blamed for the a death little boy in pensacola, florida. this after a tree toppled on to a mobile home. here another rue of the storm from above. this one snapped from the international ace station. now, we are expecting to see the storm die down. that what expertsre saying. but it is still carrying at this hour a lot of rain and win wit it. just a few minutes, nbc's jay gray is goingeo join us l from mississippi with a closer look at the storm and the damage it's caused. back to you. >> thank you, angie. now to the other major weather story we're following this morning. japan is dealing with the aftermath of the most powerful typhoon in 25 years. we would call it a hurricane ont this side globe. at least eight people are dead and dozens injured.us winds gd up to 110 miles per hour. this is a t 2600-ton tankert

slammed into a bridge. the bridge connected the airport to the mainland. this collision knocked out the bridge. about 300 people were stranded at the airport after that crash. seven minutes after 6:00. we turn to a storysirst on n 4. thousands of d.c. public school parents learning their kids' personal information was exposed online for six months. >> no socsecurity numbers were listed. but thereere plenty of personal details. the information included students' names, dates of birth, student i.d. numbers, grade level, attendance information. housing stas andhether the students are eligible for special education. officials tell us the information was inadvertently up loaded to the d.c. councilbs e. we asked about how the school system is handling this problem >>e making sure that this does not happen again. so part of the next steps are to make sure there's a thorough review of information.

>> d.c. ps removed webb site on august 9th after an employee noticed the problem. a letter wasn't sent home to parents31ntil august . the deputy chancellor says a cause of the delay was to make sure they had correct student addresses. >> it's now6:08. police arrested a man after a standoff and that lasted for hours in the district. this happened on 22nd street northeast in t brookland area. police blocked off streets after getting a call about a man in a distressed state. dozens of officers in tactical gear tooktsositions in str and alleys near the home. a negotiator managed to convince the man to surp surrender without resist hce. we'ring from the family of a woman mauled to dog.h by her own this happened weeks after she adopted the animal. herba h found her after the attack on monday night at their home in columbia. the pit bull mixta wasing over her body. the husband called 9-1-1 and tied the dog to a fence post. conway's family is shocked.

>> this was one animal she thought she could save. that one animal tdet n to be rescued and the animal, unfortunately, killedhe >> the dog was euthanized. conway had adopted the dog from out of state of the. h pening today, jury selection starts in one of d.c.'s most high-profile murder cases. the trial is expected to last for two months. savvas savopoulos, his wife amy, their son philip and vera figuerer we killed. daron wintui pleaded nlty. dna evidence will be crucial in this case. you can get caught u before the trial starts by watching our the on murders, inside investigation, special. it's in the nbc washington app right now the. he's had more than 300 opinions. his opinions stand nearly 5,000 pages in length. >> a wild and contentious first

day of confirmation hearings for supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh and multiple times, beprotesters had t dragged out of the room. some were arrested. democrats tried to delay the hearing. they say thousands of documents re to kavanaugh's time working for the bush administration should be available for review. president trump has barred those documents from being released. urs into the hearing, kavanaugh was finally able to deliver his own opening statemedt. >> confi to the supreme court, i would be part of a of nine committed to deciding cases according to the constitution and walls of the -- d states.he uni the question and answer session were asking about gun and abortion rights ruling and whethera kavanaugh believes sitting president can be investigated. if confirmed, he will fill justin anthony kennedy's seat. president trump is blasting

the new book by bob woodward. on twitter, the president described it as fille with, quote, so many lies and phony sources. in the book, woodward quot officials who heard chief of staff john kell i will calling the president aidiot. and quote that, we're in crazy town. he quotes others who claim they heard jim mattis saying that the president had the comprehension of a fifth or sixth graders. he said he reached out several times to interview president trump. theeaook will be rd next week. the prince william county school board will meet to discuss student safety. theoard is considering hiring retired police officers to patrol elemeary schools. the officers will be armed. prince william county recently gave the school district half a million dollars to launch a pit program. llows the district to hire five safety officers and one supervisor. they will rotat among all the county's elementary schools. safety officers already patrol the middle and high schools. still ahead, we are taking

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tropical storm gordon made landfall overnight. just west of the alabama/mississippi border. this video from mobile, alabama,

that was hit pretty har by wind and rain. >> jay gray is live in gulfport, mississippi. what are the conditions you'ree there, jay? >> reporter: hi, eun, aaron. just a when i whiff of a breeze right now. you can't hear the waves. things have calmed down significantly the overnight, n the case for so many here along the gulf coast where we saw strong winds, 70 miles an hour, some 80 miles an hour gusts at landfall. driving rains that caused flooding and the winds also taking down some power lines. we've got 20,000 or so in alabama alone without power, tens of thousands across the region. it made quite an impact. the storm continues to move on and willltimately move across the south and into the midwest. >> jay, you mentioned the storm moving on. this is a storm that could cause problems for several more days. wa are some of the biggest concerns for emergency crews as

it moves inland? >> reporter: yeah. aaron, right now the ccern is tting the power restored for so many and clearing out the areas th flooded. as it moves inland, you've got first responders moving into the midwest because this storm has slowed down significantly now that it's over lan's oing to linger and drop some rain across the midwest in many areas that are already aling with catastrophic flooding. it looks like gordon could continue to cause problems for the next several days. aaron, eun? >> all right, jay gray live in gulfport, mississippi. jay, thanku. it's 6:17. if you know someone who smokes, they'll tell youuitting is no easy task. a new study finds going cold turkey may not be the best option.ty universi of minnesota recruited 1200 smokers, those who quit immediately struggled the most and had more problems with withdrawal symptoms. those who gradually quit were able to stick it out. they ended up smoking fewer

cigarettes eve day and had more days of not smoking at all. new video this morning shows e construction project that had gone very, very wrong. >> youoo take a here. you can see a crane fell over and split a home in half. at crane went through the second story of ts house in orlando. the roof was under construction. you can see on the back side there wasork happening. the roofing company said the supports on the crane were not properly set. eventually, it just tipped over. the weight of the truck destyed the road in front of the house. nobody was hurt in all of this. but, oops. >> we see cranes all over our area. oh, yeah. >> it's just a wonder that have to make sure that they're secured. >> isn't it amazing. give people credit. the ones who put them together. it's amazing to me.m you see swiveling around. makes my so nervous. >> we're talking about a lot of heat again today,

>> aaron, stay inside. conditioning.ir >> don't have to tell me twice. >> that was easy enough. aaron isutt goingde at all today. the weather alert today, especially through the afternoon en temperatures feel like 105 degrees again. it's a lot like ayesterday. ittle bit of patchy fog. again, mostly west of d.c. now the heat will continue today and tomo ow. look ais. we have a much cooler weekend in the forecast. i'm talking about highs in 70s. it's going to feel a lot r.ni there's some rain but at least we won't be as hot. 78 degrees in washington. 80 degrees in annapolis. 73 in frederick. m assas. in lorton, temperatures are warm. it's very humid out.no that'ser reason why there's patchy fog. frederick seeing a half mile of visibility. warrenton, less than a half mile. be careful driving this mornin same weather system in place giving us the ht and humidity. tropical storm gordon bringing a lot of rain to mississippi and alabama and eventually,t's

going to move into the new england area and pull in cooler air for us. if you're walking the dog today, this is nick available for adoption at the apca. find outa how to give nic home. the earliest time of the dave is the best time to walk the dohe. up quickly to 90 degrees by hutch ti lunchtime. th e best chance is by t of the week for showers. temperatures into the end of the week, too, mid-90s to mid-80s with the rain chancesn friday. take a look at saturday and sunday. we have showers in the forecast with temperatures in the mid-730s. that is a huge change from what we've seen this thing. melissa mollet, now get a check of the traffic. >> good morning. over southbound wheelie avenue. the ramp to getoln to the road. things are partially blocked cause of the brand new crash in reston.

>> the crash is clearing out of the way and so are the delays. brand new problem here eastbound 66 in fairfax before the beltway. had that new crash. kiner loop and outer loop of the beltway l typical. the exception top of the beltway outer loop as you approach connecticut avenue starts to get a little bit slow. are you ready? >> let's go. >> come on. >> there yougo. it's melissa mollet and her mi . you know, melissa doesn't just track your commute with your first 4 traffic. she's a m and it was back to school for her family this week. vee and her husband jake made a family ent of the whole thing walking their son brennan to his first day of school there'sarrett and cole behind them. everybody was ready for e first day. >> brennan had a great day. took a flower to his teacher. i did that as a kid. yes, we wa first first day.the >> as long as you had a shirt

for him to put on. >> getting ared. you okay? >> we had a great time.et ba heads off to preschool next week for a couple days a week. thanks for sharing, melissa. 6:22 is our time. backo school often means busier schedules. now to make planning dinner more challenging meet the local mom who said she found a solution. later on "news4 today," first the capitals, now the mystics. details on the-e firver appearance in the wnba finals. then on ellen this afternoon -- i gave the answer on my mind. had never been asked theti qu before. tried to be honest. that's what cameout. >> texas congressman and senate candidate o'rourke sto by and talks about a question he was asked at a rally and his response that went viral. you n catch ellen on nbc4

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guys. you is oppressive when walk outside. you're going to sweat this morning, but especially this afternoon. av the sky looks thick outside. that's how youto get through this atmosphere here. it is flat-out tgunkys morning. a fuzzy looking sky over washington. not much in the way of cloud cover outse. but the humidity is just oppr s oppressive. 78 degrees with a heat index of that's at 6:30 in the morning. what was tropical storm gordon is now going to rain itself out across the deep south. we will eventually have to deal with the moisture as we get towards the weekend. not between now and then. between now and weekenl it's alabout the heat and the humidity. a few spots ithe 70s, not many. we'll ben the 90s. heat indexes out over 100 degrees for heates ind again today. 94 degrees today. rain chance, under 20%. don't count on getting cooled

off this ternoon. more about the weekend rain chances and hurricane florence cong up. good morning, melissa. >> good morning, chuck. taking a look at the roads, eastbound 66 before the beltway, chopper 4 is over this. a lanea crash, had blocked and now on the shoulder. that is good news. t, you can zooms see some of the delays headed inbound before thebeltway. looking pretty normal there. stafford, northbod i-95, a crash involving a tractor-trailer on the ride side am the roadway. the to eastbound dulles toll road ramp there is blocked by a crash. bethesda, outer loop, no delays there. we are seeing delays top of the beltway, outer loop instead. eun? >> melissa, thank u. it's 6:32. back now to the breaking news we've been tracking all morning for u. about 100 firefighters spent hours battling an overnight fir in bethesda. >> molette green is live near that home with the latest. what have you learned?

>> reporter: well, we've got new details. just spoke with the montgomery county fire spokesperson who tells me, firefighters still have not yet made contact with the family of this home here in the 6900 block of whittier here in bethesda. b it'sieved that no one was home at the time. neighbors say that the family was staying elsewhere while the home was being renovated. but the car in the driveway that's rightro at the door, just steps from the, front do caused firefighters to wonder and start some initial searches as the flames basically raged inside this 7,000-square foot house. >> yes. we had anxiety for a whilar there was an the driveway. that time of the night, there's forys the potential residents to be in a house asleep. this particular home was being renovated. neighbors told us thatevhey be the family was staying with others. as far as i. kn last i heard, still have not been in contact with the family.

>> now, take a lo at the scope of damage. a totaloss to this home. a million dollars just up in flames. firefighters did some initial searches, th tell me. but the walls were collapsing. the roof caved in. f onefighter suffered dehydration on the scene. the cause o ithe fire still unknown. fire investigators are going to come in and tryo pinpoint what made this house just go up in flames overnight. >> molte green live -- thank you for that update. >> happening today, juryst selectiots in one of d.c.'s most high-profile murder cases. >> more on the trial that's expected to last months. angie. >> this happened more than three years ago. savopoulos, the wife amy and phip, their son. and the housekeeper, vera gueroa were all tortured and

killed. daron wint, the lone susct. he pleaded not guilty. dna evidence is going to be crucial in this case. some key e hdence me been left behind at the crime scene. a scrdriver was holding a window open in the home. it was not recovered. water bottl and gloves were discarded by first responders and firefighters. as a result, she did not collect those items. you can, of course, watch our mansion murders inside the investigation special. it has been posted i n thebc washington app. it's there right now. aaron? >> angie, thanku. it is 6:35. here's a look at the other top stories this morning. jury selection continues today in the trial of a manccused of killing his pregnant girlfriend. tyler tessier faces charges. red and friend disapp was found buried in a field in montgomery county. another democrat beat out a lo time incumbent.

she beat out mike capuano in democratic pry mayor any massachusetts. he conceded the race less than an hour and a half after polls closed. the defeated congr sman said pressley will be a goodng sswoman and said that massachusetts will be well-served. >> on capitol hill, social media executives will be in the hot seat. sheryl sandberg and twitter chief jack dorsey will answer questions about fighting election interferce. less than two months until the midterm elections, they want to make sure users aren't manipulatedy foreign governments. 6:36 now. we now k tw who washington mystics will face in their first-ever wnba finals. the storm beat t phoenix -- the mystics will head over to the other washington for the first game on friday. the mystics a topped theanta dream in game 5 last night of the semifinals. the seriesas tied at 2-2 whend d.c. pulleff the 86-81 win. this could be the third

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welcome back at 6:45 a live look outside right now. oh, my goodness, can you see ale the it's going to be a hot and humid day. temperatures feel hotter than that. temperatures in the 104-degree range here. >> one of our school districts re will send students home early to get them out of the n at earlier. we'll have more othat in a second. and the 4 storm teamorecast in a few minutes here. this morning, a new bk is providing a compelling portrait of the dysfunction and chaos within the trump white house. it's written b veteran journalist bob woodward. >> he writes at times, the west wing is paralyzed bthe russia investigation. kristen will kerr is live with more on what's in the book. >> hi, aaronnd eun. what a bombshell.

bob woodward standing by his new book, wch as you said titled "fear." the book set for release next week shows a dire - sis in the midst of a, quote, nervous breakdown. mr. trump tweeting that top officials refuted. cusing woodward of being a democratic operative. in one excerpt, he said -- that he was ordering military dependents out of south korea w whicld be the u.s. is preparing for war. defense secretary james mattis alarmed, reportedly warning the presidt that the u.s. remains in the region, quote, in order to preve world war three. that's one of the trulyos exe nuggets. a lot more details from the book in a few minutes on "today." kristen welker, we'll see you on the "today" show.

6:47. day two for confirmationar gs of brett kavanaugh. protesters had to be dragged out of the rm by police. >> he's written nearly 300 opinions. his opinis span nearly 5,000 pages in length. >> at least 70 people were arrested there. thin a wereo tense between lawmakers just minutes in. decrats tried to delay the hearing. they say thousands of documents related to his time working for the bush administration should b available for review. president trump hred those documents were being released. it's 6:47. om maryland was mauled to death by her own dog. police say it happened just weeks after robindog. her husband found her after the ck monday night at her home in columbia. we're told the pit bullas mix standing over herody. he called 9-1-1 a tied the dog

to a fence post. conway adopted the pit bull from out of state. angre goff withing news. a prosecutor charged two russians with attempted murder. the man and his daughter itre poisoned a nerve agent. this happened this past march in salisbury. prosecutors charged two people in that they've been charged with conspiracy to murder sergei skrip al and his daughter. a nerve agent was used and causing grievous bodily harm with inten to kill julia and bailey. tnse a wei -rg6:48. one child is dead in florida and wakingds of people are up without power along the gulf coast.

asopical storm gordon made landfall latet night just west of the alabama/mississippi border. >> take a look at the video received overnight. gordon's top sustained winds remained at 70 miles per hour. tathe storm will to die down, but it's still carrying a lot of rain with it. thna nathurricane center is predicting a life-threatening storm surge along part of the central gulf coast. >> today, the prince william county school board will meet to discuss school safety. they're hiring retired police officers to patrol elementary schools. they would be armed. prince c williamnty gave the district half a million dollars to launch a pilot program. five safety officers and one supervisor. theymoould rotate the county's elementary schools. safety officers patrol in the middle and high schools. it may be the second day of school for some. >> justin finch is live with more on what you need to know.

.thetan ws reallany d usgedoroes. ren, talk about a schedule change prince george's county public schools, all of them will be closingn early this just the second day of school. hopefully in time to beat thet' high heat t coming our way. points it's set to feel like more than a hundred degrees. the county put out this decision on twitter last night and no doubt, parents will get a reminder that classes for the hours county ending two earl all after-school activities, events and classes will be canceled as wel today. teachers and other school-based staff will beng leavi early. students will not be going home hungry. nch is going to be margaret bre schools and riverdale elementary school areoing to be closed today. the air conditioning systems can

early today, what will happen t has not yet been made. when it does, they will share it with the public. life from adeli,ph ck t io 'myou. >> justin,hank you. for more on today's storm team 4 weather alert, this extreme heat. >> what would not be all that abnormal for the end of june or july is very unusual here i september to be seeing temperatures way above 90gr s. our average high dropped 5 degrees overhe last 5 weeks. it's not normal to be quite so warm in late in the year. fogginess this morning. not too much of an issue. there are pockets. me of the river crossings foggy towards warrenton, washington, virginia, luray. tell us about the haze a the midity out there. 78 at national airport. not much of a breeze.

the tropics have beeting more active. there's what's left of gordon now. the moisture will hook around the west side of memphis. it will bring our chance for rain into the weeken after that, the next storm, need to keep a close eyen is florence. hurricane florence. a long, long, long way out into the atlantic. wever, some of the long-range computer guidance brings it towards the carolina coastline nine or ten dw.s from no there's a long time to wch the storm. it's just along the eastern -- keep ase on florence. any chance for rain tol c someouwhere between slim and no for rain chances today. there's a chance so mud heat umidity out there that you can't completely rule it out. same story tomorrow. legitimately higher rain chances for friyndhr a and the tempeweek.e rain,

good morning,jaere c short time ago. meone jumped out of their car and got the tire tread out of the road. don't ever, er do that. he almost got hit. act a good idea. things ared up because of that. inner loop at the woonow wil branch, we're not seeing this on camera. slowdowns here. bottom of the beltway. outer loop as you approach georgia. normal slowdownshere this morning. southbound bw after the beltway. single lane getting by disabled vehicle here this morning. fairfax station. chapel road near 123. have a crash reported there. 66, 95 loong okay in virginia. single tracking on the yellow line between pentago cit and l'enfant plaza. travel times -- now to 70. a little slow beltway, inbound 66 same thing there. 95 north as