brought in. meagan? >> reporter: -- using daron wint's facebook page during the trial. saying heeb used fk very heavily except for the day before the murders and the day of the m jder. thege ultimately decided that that information, that facebook page was going to be admissible into court. then that's when this jley ion got under way. that's when the judge started asking these 80 individuals questions. the courtroom was filled with 8t pol jurors, 12 of whom will eventually decide if daron wint is guilty. more than three years ago, wint was charged with killing and torturing a family of three and their housekeeper before setting th house on fire.fo rmer federal prosecutor says it's a rare occurrence and a crime people remember. >> we have had sadly, many

doublede homi quite a few triple homicides, but this is one of the only quadruple homicides i can retember. >> rep it is also a story that was widely reported, which is why the judge aed the jurors a series of questions. one was if the heard or read anything about the race commonly referred to as the mansion murders and will that impact their ability toe fair? otential jurors gasped when the judge said the trial will last two months. she followed up by asking if ouyone had serious reasons as to why theyn't serve. we got insight who will testify in court. the family's surviving housekeeper of 20 years, nelly r gutierrez andn wallace were among the many names mentioned. another question from prosecutors, if jurors would trust theesmony of a witness whose also a convicted felon. this witness would receive a reduced sentence in exchange for

his testimony. one of several questions that will be used to try to ensure that daron wint gets a fair trial. >> now a lot of these potential jurors did admit to the judge that they are familiar with and have been following the so-called mansion murder case here. so the attorneys on both sides al reife wee'avre going to get som who knows nothing about this case. if they tell them they can be fair and take into consideration all the ther questions tha were asked and will continue to be asked over selection, which could go as late as wednesday. back to you. >> two months there. >> that's going to be tough people. thanks, meagan. another day with above average temperatures. doug is inhe storm cente now to tell us, are we going to get a break from this? >> thank you, wendy. i think it's going to come on friday. it's not going to be tomorrow. we've seen a couple of 94, 95s

out there. right now currently at 91 after getting 's 92 earlier. till on the hot side, especially for this time of year. temperatures about 10ab degrees e average. 104, annapolis, 102 d.c., 101 quantico, this would be very close to the heat advisory criteria. one more hot one. that's what we've got out there on yoursd th. showers and storms coming on friday. that's when we get some relief and thennd big wee change here. i mean a big change. what we've got out there right t.w. more on t see you back here in a minute. >> all right. you've got our atntion, doug. thank you. thousands of parents had to scramble today to find childcare. all prince george's public county schools closed early because of that extreme heat and trouble with school h vac systems. news 4 is working withou tonight with teamtatewide probl maryland but we begin with

tracee wilkins. she's live at laurel high school to explain the troubleay t in prince george's county. >> reporter: this is one of the schools that has issues. idepending where you a this building, you may feel the air conditioning or you may not. p that's ablem for a lot of the schools in the county. today it was a huge inconvenience for a huge number of parents. everyone is waiting to see what the school system is going to do tomorrow. >> it is what it is. it'seally hot. their health comes first. f reporter: thousands parents had to make alternative plans to pick up their kid after prince george's county schoolsed announc they would be closlyg two hours ear due to excessive heat. at laurel where parents say the ac is working just fine, they were tfrustrated. air conditioning is fine. >> according to a spokesperson, there are 209 school buildings, ten schools with major h vac problems. 35 schools with minor proouems that easily be repaired.

there is a backlog of more than $2 billion in overall repairs including h vac. with baltimore city and county closing a number of its schools due to air condition problems, the closures became political.er maryland gr larry hogan tweeted concerns, saying he's provided enoug money to fixhe problems. in a statement, a spokesperson for hogan said, prince george's county receives more education funding from the ste than any other jurisdiction and has received record funding und the hogan administration. >> would it be a bad idea if they cut off the air conditioning in his office? i'm sure his airs conditioning working just fine. >> ben jealous, hogan's competitor in is the upcoming ge midterm chall his commitment to school infrastructure needs. one laurel high schoteacher sa it depends where you're standing. >> used to have to worry about snow days, now w have t worry about sunny days. we can do much better.ep

>>ter: with more than 40 schools complaining about conditioning, r that is why the prince george's county school system decided to close the entire school system. now, we're going to find out this evening what's going to happen for next -- what's going to happen tomorrow. scott mcfarland has been looking into what's been happening. >> internal memos show in just our local maryland schl districts there are tens of millions of dollars in neededre irs for both the heating and cooling systems. hundre of school buildings aging faster than they can be replaced. half the schools in prince gorgeous county are m nowe than 40 years old. the average lifespan of a heating and cooling system, about 30 yrs. one school board official told the board they are using a band-aid approach in choosing which h vac systems teplace. when they do so, they decide

elementary schools first then middle then high. like seemingly all other school systems sregionwide, they they want and need more funding to tackle the to-do list that remains. a prince george's county public school report shows they're using window units because the larger hvacystems aren't sufficient. about $8 million in repairs planned in montgomery county this year. education officialshi say is a fraction of what's needed to ensure no school has a heang or air conditioning failure when the temperatures outside are extreme just later t school year. wendy? >> all right. scott mcfacfarlane. a man who spent three terms in the u.s. senate is now back in that job for the next few months. former republican senator jon kyl sworn back into office rlier this afternoon to replace the late john mccain. who passed away recently from brain cancer.

kyl previously served with mccains the other senator from arizona until he retired in 2012. kyl says he's committed to staying on until the end of the current congressional term, which is in january. separation of power, pardons, abortion and campaign finance. those are just a few othe topics that lawmakers posed to supreme court nominee brettna kah on this second day of his confirmation hearing. that hearing expected to last several more hours. leon harris in the newsroom now with a look at some of the respons from judge kavanaugh today. leon? >> it's been a long one, j. questions began just after 9:30 this morning and they could go until 9:30 or even later tonight. each member of the sjuate ciary committee gets 30 minutes to question judge brett kavanaugh. like yesterda the lawmakers and kavanaugh have faced a long stream of interruptions throughout the day. in his responses, kavanaugh says he i an independe judge and that no one is above the law.

he said as a judge he owes his loyalty to the constitution not to a president, but kavanaugh dodged several questions related to presidential pardoning. >> if you walk into my courtroom and you have the better legal arguments, you will win.la >> trumps he has an absolute right to pardon himself. does he? >> self-pardons is something i've never analyzed. >> does the president have the ability to pardonn somebody exchange for a promise from that person they wouldn't testify h against? >> i'm not going to answer hypothetical questions. of thatt sort. >> w role, if any, you played in developing the bush administration's interrogation policies. >> i was not involved incr ting that program nor crafting the legal justifications for that program. >> president trump said he's been watching parts of the hearing and h said he'spy with what he's heard. kavanaugh's facing a second round of questioning tomorrow,

which jim and wendy, means we get to do the whole thing over again. back to you. >> could bewhe. thank you, leon. it was a tragic scene uncovered today in northwest d.c. a man's body foundin pned underneath his car. this happened not far from 37th street in upper northwest. a relative made this gruesome discovery. n'investigators say the body may have been there for some time. news 4's chris gordon with the rest of this story. >> reporter: a neighbor called 911 just before 10:00 this morning when she heardmi scr coming from behind her home in the 2300 block in northwest washington. a man was pinned by his car against the back wall of his home. the screaming the neighbor heard me from a relative of the man who had come to check on him when he didn't answer his phone. fire rescuers say the man had been dead for some time, possibly overnight. his bmw apparently rold

backwards down the steep slope of his driveway, pinning him to the wall. members of the police crash team areestigating to determine if there was a mechanical failurer what elsould have caused the car to roll downhill. >> it does appea toe an accident based upon preliminarily indicators. >> reporter: neighbors say the victimived here for 20 years or more. he worked for thena intonal monetary fund. they say his son had just left for college and the man was living alone in the house. >> i think he backed into the driveway, whichice tly does, and he must have gone to his trunk. it was a bit of an older car. my suspicion is maybe the parking brake or something slipped up. just to re-e orce, you just have to be careful at this point. it is unfortunate. >> reporter: his body has beenr ved and taken to the d.c. medical examiner's office. police havemw left the parked in the driveway. at this time his family chooses not to speak publicly about this

tragic accident. reporting from northwest washington, chris gordon, news 4. >> just awful. t well, was a tragedy in a local school that raised a number of safety questonns. on 4 tonight, the changes that could be coming because a student diefter getting trapped in a motorized room partition. flu season is a month away but the vaccine is alrrody lling out and there may be more help on the way. and one, two, three, open on four today. d.c.'s mayor muriel bowser there's more to life than the climb.

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hot and humid conditions continue across ourmrea. lso tracking the tropics. what's left of tropical storg gordon makts way into parts of arkansas. flash flood watches there. florence.tching we've been talking about it the last couple of days. it's now a categoryca hur. much more on the path that that one -- that coming up in about ten minutes. >> that has gained some steam there. e'ug, thank you. new tonight, learned a local school district is considering additional safety measures after the death of a third grer. >> 9-year-old wesley was killed last may after he w caught between a mechanical door and the wall in the gym of his school. consumer investigative reporter susan hogan is in our newsroom with details you're only going to see here on news 4. susan? >> wendy,hhis is s heart

breaking story. the 9-year-old was helping a teacher operate the motorized partition when he somehow got caught betwet and the wall. it helped at franconiaoo elementary s may 18th. we learned not long after this tragic acciden fairfax county public schools started asking for additional information about a safety device that can be installed with these huge partitions. it has motion sensors that will actually sound an alarm and stop the panels from moving in meone gets near the moving partition. now, the school district tells us h it no current plans to purchase the safety device and that it is,quote, always evaluating opportunities to improve safety practices and procedures. we do kw that fairfax county has 127 motorizedn partitions its schools. the maker of these safe path device tells us ises between $5,000 and 6,000 iotall each

one. fairfax county did revise its policy rng the operation of these partations right after sley's death you can hear more about that in our nbc washington app. just search "partition." back to you. >> susan, thanks so much zwlnchlgts facebook and twitter under the microscope on capitol hill. executives from both companies explained to senators wha they're doing to secure your social media from influence by foreign governments. twitter's considering labelli bot accounts. facebook says social media companies are in a,ot arms race to protect democracy. >> i think facebook and twitter have upped their game. i think they are much more away of the threat that russians, iranians, other foreign actors may play, but t i alsonk that our adversaries, for example, the russians have upped their game as ll. >> there was an open seat at ri today's heangs because google refused to send a representative. the compy's under fir after a

watchdog group pretending to be ruian trolls bought fake ads on google. well, the football seaso's about begin. the redskins' opener is this weekend on the road against the arizona cardinals. as sherry burress reports from ashburn -- >> reporter: it's back to business as usual for the redskins with the regular season opener just four days away, but in the four seasons under head coach jay gruden, the burgundy and gold he yet to win that first game. with new players on offense and defense, the redskins hope to snap thatak losing stre. >> i think they all have theiv own iidual fights and we've got to find a way to beat arizona. this tm's got to find a way to go beat them. no, i don't think there is any secret thing. you prepare the best you can to win a game. i think it's a fine line. nku can get too overhyped with this and t this game is going to be fine your season. it's one of ev16.

>> ybody's 0-0 so the expectations really don't matter. it's a weird league. you can never predict how tyngs will pla out. we've just got to go out on sunday and play together as a team, play as a smart team and try to get the win. >> i feel like you can't come out there and, you know, get warmed up. you've got to start hot. we want to come out and start fast, be physical, play 100 miles per hour. they're going to make plays. we've got to make more plays than they get. we'll keep correcting and t working frore but you have to come out fast and aggressive right off the bat. >> this is goingoo set the for us. coming out and winning that first game on the road is going tote a big t for us. >> reporte h for adful of these guys, this is going to be y a first time they p regular season game in a redskins uniform. so from the rookies to the vetsl they save jitters. they'll explain coming up at 6:00. from redskins park, sherry

burress, news 4 sports. the nfleason will kick off here on nbc tomorrow night as the super bowl champion eagles falcons. the atlanta >> it's going to be big. the district of champions nickname haseally taken off now. the washington mystics are one step closer to becoming the latest champs from the district, beating atlanta last night to advance to the first wnba finals in team. histo in the past three months, the caps became stanley cup nd the valor won the arena lootball league title. the mystics wil face the seattle storm, game one seattle on friday. the games i our area will be played at george mason due to renovations at the capital one arena. a pair ofy' doro ruby slippers missing for more than a decade because they werear stol back. the smithsonian playing a role in making sure they're legit. the question what's for

dinner is one parents may be dreading. ahead at 5:00, our consumer reporter susan hogan on what oluld be a s

this jus in, we've gotten an announcement from prince ungeorge's , all schools will be operating as normal tomorrow. despite it being hotter than

today. >> wondering what changed. >> it must be the blowback, you know, tt they're getting from parents or something. >> you can't get any kids toin learn any when it is so hot inside that classroom. it'soing to be the case. montgomery county we're talking about, over 200 sc40ols and abour 50 that have problems. that's going to be the same in a lot of other counties as well. we're just going to have hot schools for theext day or so before win com ginalgly during day tomorrow. take a look outside. a pretty good vantage point.ow look offds the distance, see those storms? that's way overowards the eastern shore. how about that. 91 degrees winds out of the south right now. 91 frederic 91 annapolis. look at the heat index now. well over 100. 102, d.c. 104, annapolis, 104 in quantico. it really was just below the heat advory criteria for much

of the day. i think we're there throughout the day tomorrow. even hotter. i mentioned the look how far away we're looking, these are right on the delaware li and we're looking at those from our tower cam shot here in d.c. that'seally, really neat to see. as we look towards the wider picture here, you can see where those storms are firing up right along the del mar there. not much in the way of cloud cover at all and that's allowed us to heat u all because of high pressure. the high pressure moving like this, the air around high pressure goes cckwise. you can see what's happening with that the north side, storms going all the way up into canada on the south side, bringing isture in and following what is leftf tropical storm gordon. crossing over, about to cross over the mississippi river right here. areas down in this area, louisiana and mississippi, flash flood watches i effect. 4 to 6 inches of rain or more. we're going to be watching -- exactly wheres this system

go and how much rain would we see from iur now,cane florence, this has been an amazing storm. yesterday this storm was justco ng a hurricane at 75 miles per hour. sw it's a category 4 hurricane, rapidengthening here. this was not forecast very well by the national hurrine nter. one of the biggest problems is rapid intensification. that's what happeneere as far as forecasting is concerned. you have that wind speed up to 130 miles per hour. northwest at 13. that's the movement. now there is nothing out ahead of it so it's not going to cause any problems, but take a a look this. the movement is here by five days. this is on monday.e here is model spread. from all the way down towards the bahamas into parts of canada. it really is amazing the spread here. we have no idea where this is going to go just yet but c ther arputer models that bring it closely to the east coast. we're going to bell over it for you throughout the next couple of days. another hot one tomorrow. most sunny skies. tomorrow, making our way into

the 90s but 80s on 7friday,s on saturday and sunday. showers likely both days. we'll talk more about the weend forecast at 5:45. >> all right. we'l look forward to it. doug, thanks. back in may, d.c.'s mayor made aem surprise annout that she had adopted a baby. well, today she is talking about it. >> i think the moment that really stuck out to me wasll lite looking down at miranda and just those eyes looking back at me. up next, mayor bowser opens up about motherhood and we get our l firstk at baby miranda. there she is. huge construction site right in the middle of downtown bethes. this is the purple line. i'm adam tuss. i'm going to take you t inside work and all the impact it's

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you're watching news 4 at l00. the purplee's taking shape in a big way. major construction in full swing alongorhe nator. >> the purple line will run from bethesda, as you know, to new carrollton. today our transportationer repo adam tuss got a behind the scenes tour of it all. led withveryone is thr all of that noise. >> reporter: purple line construction is changing the land scrape. rig --ghandscape. rit now it's especially apparent i montgomery county. so much of this work is

noticeable. happening in the shadows of building and homes. just to give you an idea of how close this work is happening to daily lifta ke a look. ffght here next to buildings and all the t and pedestrians. this massive hole. this will be the shaft that actually meets metro's red line way down underground. now, remember, the purple lineo will be metro. it will be a tram-like train system that connects to metro. it will run from bethesda to new carrollton. a large tunnel being dug out four feet at a time along the path of the in east silver springs. >> the entire tunnel is going to be about 30 foot high, 40 foot r:de. >> reporll of this work is, of course, disruptive. >> all day long i wear earplugs. all day long i wear the bose sound cancelling headphones and still hear . >> reporter: she is in a tough asot, literally. she's battling b cancer, works from home and her apartment is right next to a lot co this truction.

>> this is not just a month ort this is three years of dealing with this. >> reporter: she sles at the t she'd like to see more noise walls to help cut down on all of that construction. withhe construction team -- >> we're sympathetic. we know we're loud. we have major infrastructure to build. >> reporter: she says a lot of the heavy work will be this fall. along the purple line, adam tuss, news 4. now the purple line is scheduled to be completed in 2022. fire investigators in montgomery county say the cause of this massive house fire inbe esda is probably accidental. that home located on whittier boulevard. it had been under renovation.or investigat say the fire started in the kitchen, spread through the house, caused more than $1 million in damage, but theamily was not home at the time. one firefighter did receive some injuries. a big consideration tonight for the prince william county school board.

they'll talk about hiring armed retired police officers to protect your child inside elementary schools. the county gave the distrt $500,000 to launch a pilot program. it allows the district to hire five safety officers and one supervisor. the district already has safety officers in middle and high schools. teacher of the year is mr. dan reichard. can you join us on the stage? >> virginia governor ralph northam announcing region th e's pick for teacher of the year. there he is rightic there. rei rei reichard goes up against oth winners to be considered virginia's teacher of the year. smithsonian curators are clicking their heels. they are thrilled about this discovery. judy garland's iconic ruby red

."ippers from "the wizard of they've been found after they were stole more than a decade ago. more on how dorothy's shoes made their way home. >> reporter: they're probably the most identifiable pair of shoes around. >> they've been danced they've been loved. >> reporter: they've been missing since a late-night smash and grab robbery in 2005. while there are four surviving pairs, smithsonian conservativen tore tore dawn wallace says they were worked in by judy garland. >> we can see the cracks. if they're dance in, the paintd appl to the bottom is going to begin to crack. >> reporter: a man approached the insurer of the shoes and saidre he knew where they the fbi got involved. >> lots of interviews, several searches. only to lead later this summer to the epcovery.

>> rorter: they had to verify slippers. those ruby the shoes got the forensic treatment here at the lab in the smithsonian. we were able toook at the composition t of the bead prongs, this red and all the materials that make up the shoe. >> rsoorter: the smithnian actually had a mismatchedin pai its collection. the stolen pair were alsomi atched. the right right with the right left. >> we were lucky enough to have the other pair of shoes brought here and were comparing the two and able find they were consistent with the pair that we have. >> reporter: it's going to be y awhile before can take a better look at those famous ruby slippers. theybe will n display here in october. >> even after two years of working on this project, i still sort of smile every single time rsee the shoes come out of the box. orter: at the smithsonian, derek ward, news 4. the shoes will beay on dis at the national museum of amican history starting october 19th. when weome right back, a

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it before the end of october. >> reporter: and back this year, the nazle spray vaccine flu mist. >> if you have an aversiono shots and you're between 2 years of age andour 50th birthday and otherwise healthy, you would be eligible for that nal spray vaccine. >> reporter: last year's flu season was pticularly nasty and the vaccine was only about 40% effective. sill, experts even if you do get sick, the vaccine can cut the chances of flu complications, including death. erika edwards, nbc news. in the last year, 180 children died as a result of the flu. thanks to a simple message, the loudoun county sheriff's office says it's seeing a drop in a crime that usually spikes during the summer months, vehicle left. deputies say compared to t same time last year, 50 fewer thefts between june and august. in many cases, the thieves go

into cars that have been left unlocked o thesheriff's office started a campaign called 9:00 p.m. routine, encouraging residents to lock their cars before they go to bed. there you go. > well, it's been more than three months since the surprise announcement from d.c.'s mayora he had adopted a baby. now for the first time we're getting a look at little miranda. a local motherho says she's found a solutiono planning meals during the busy back to school per io (announcer) there's a freedom about asheville. an unspoken invitatily to discover who you rere. here, the world is a big, beautiful place

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her name is miranda and she may be the most talked about ba in washington, d.c. three months ago, mayor muriel bowser announced she was adopting a newborn. she wanted to become a mother. tomorrow, the mayor opens up on the "today" show to hoda kotb about her new life butirst she talked to news 4's mark segraves

abou's why s ready to introduce miranda to the world. >> reporter: this is the first time mayor muriel bowser has allowed news cameras to see her new baby. benow we're happy to kind of out. we're settled in and miranda will be baptized on sunday. she'll have a little party that's she's going to go back to being a normal baby. >> rorter: bowser chose to share her and rymiranda's s with hoda kotb after she talked about her journey being a single mom with a busy schedule. >> i w enjoyedching her on the "today" show. got to share how much her story meant to me and i know a lot of women. >>enhere is a m where that child is put in your arms. describe that momen for me. >> i think the moment that really sticks out to m was literally looking down at miranda and those just those eyes looking back at me and

knowing i was her entire world. and when i had that feeling, i knew that we would be together forever. >> when she looked at you, what did you see in tse eyes? what did you see? >> i just saw -- i saw my baby girl. i had no hesitation, no -- the feeling was that it was going to be the two of us and we would -- we would make it in the world. >> reporter: as for why she waed to become a single mom in her mid-40s, the mayor talks about that with kotb, but she to us -- >> i thank that d.c. was eager to have a first daughter. >> thereou go. >> reporter: the mayor will talk tomorrow thoda about the ming of the adoption coming in the middle of an election as well as what the mayor and baby miranda talk about at night when they're all llalone. >>right. >> beautiful sentiments there. >> is she back on her full schedule? not.e i she talks a little bit about that as well. the fact that, you know, this

came during summer recess so a bit of a lighter schedule. she hff taken time to be with miranda, but she said that all ends when the council goes back into session this fall. the mayor will resume herull schedule. she's hired a nanny who is home with baby miranda elizabeth when the mayor is at work. her parents, mother and father, she says, are thrilled to haver anotranddaughter and they take the baby once a week. in fact, today mirandas with the mayor's parents as we speak. that's howhe's doing that balance. >> maybe she's watching this right now. >> i can't imagine them watching anything else. >> why not? important television. >> tomorrow morning. >> you can see them tomorrow morning on the "today" show. there llu go. what's for dinner? it's a question that many parents dread hearing, especially now that school is back in session. we're juggling our kids' busy living with our own. one local mom says she's found the solution for her family. she's sharing her secret with our consumer reporter susan hogan.

♪ >> help meet the table? >> reporter: michelle is a mom on the go but she always makes time for family dinners with her husband and thr kids. >> that's our time where we can reconnect with one another sit down, have a meal with one another and talk. >> forget takeout food. >> i love to cook. >>ineporter: c up with recipes wasn't always easy. >> tell me if it's >>ready. i was so frustrated trying to come up with meal plans. i did an internet search one day and it came across emeals. t' >> reporter: i a meal plan service and it's been a life-changer for michelle for the last six years. l they ill list every m have for this week. >> reporter: michelle chooses the meals for her family and here's the coolest part, the app creates an automatic sho fing lim the recipe. >> it does it in categories so it's really easy to go throughr ine sto and you can use any of their shopp features they have so you can make it really easy on yourself. >> reporter: she says the app

saves her money, too, because the recipes don't call for crazy ingredients you'llsenly once. >> going to have our tomatoes, garlic and oil. >> reporter: even the kids like to get involved and enjoy tasting the fruits of their labor. >> yeah, you like those noodles. t tre are a lot of meal planning services ere. emils costs about $8 a month with a year subscription. it has if you're gluten-free, low ca, you pick what you want o eat, but it just loads your grocery cart for you. ta your lillttle list and off you go. think it's rea >>reat concep goodonow. thkssullsan. t sure.. ol nearlee months after a popular cereal was recall, people are still eating it and still getting sick. the fda is soesperate to get

the word out, it tweeted this message, quote, seriously, get rid of kellogg's honey smacks in the cthset. hefficials say the number of people stricken with salmonella has nearly doubled since the recall was announced. if you have it in your pantry, seriously, get rid of it. throw it out now. >> sug smacks were always my favorite as a kid. is that the same? >> anything you were eating when you were aid is lon expired. >> all right, doug, boy, was it hot againwo today. e tomorrow? >> i think so. yesterday, extremely hot. we weret 94 degrees yesterday by noon. >> the humidity, though. >> that's a thing. it's actually only crept up during the evening hrs today. very hot and humid day for sure. take a look outside. not much in the way of cloudiness. ju plenty of sunshine. cumulus clouds. 91, the current temperature.

87 b 70. you have a nice night but here are the current temperatures. a lot of 91s. look at all 91s. frederick county coming in as the 90s as well. look at t-- that's the heat and the humidity combined. it's going to be like that again nkmorrow. i tven hotter. notice where we do have areas in the 90 ns, we're going to see many of those tomorrow. st much in the way of storms. the onlyrm out here towards the del mar, the maryland-delaware line. we're not goi that way tonight. at least most of us aren't. if you are, that's good, you get to go back to ocean city for couple of days because it's looking good there. saturday and sunday a different story here, a really different story as we look towards the weekend. it all has to do partly withap what'sning with gordon. first off, this big ridge of high pressure sitting over us

continuing to give us the heat, humidity and sunshine. this is a front that is finally going to try to move through tot'rrow night and then going to stall out. where does this moisture go? a lot of rain associate with it towards parts of the southeast. if it goes to our north, we're not going toee much, just shower activity. if it comes across our region, we could be looking at a rather wet weekend. that's something i'll be tracking. your school day forecast. feeling like 104 tomorrow afternoon. i expect to see a heat advisory tomorrow again. that heat is going to relax on friday. down to 85. a ten-degree temperatu drop on friday as a result of that frontal boundary sitting on top ofme us. esult gives us a chance for showers and thunderstorms friday afterno. watch o for these. 78 degrees on saturday. a chance ofer showers. sh likely on sunday but it could be rain on sunday, if expectgot weekend plans, a lot of clouds. notice the numbers. 74 on sunday. so a 20-degree temperature

differen between thursday and sunday. you're going to feel it, too. it's going to be really breezy as well and a good chance for shower activity. we'll see just how much rain is associatesith that systemt moves to the north. more showers on monday. a high of 80. then we're rather unsettled. temperatures go above average again. average high of 83. we'll talk much more about the hurricane that's out there, storm.ne florence now a more on that at 6:00. >> doug, thank you. well, at first glance it might look like something that is frozen in thercc but this ballerina tutu is actually part of a uni pe artject that can be found in an unexpected place. we're talking about the dead sea. take a look. the dress along with other items have been submerged in the sea and become covered in a crystal-like salt layer, giving them a fairytale kind o appearance and quality. the artist behind them has been creating these salt sculptures

for more than a decade now. she's carefully roving them for a display in an austrian museum. that's pretty incredible. there is a shoe right there or a slipper. au >> so ful. something not so nice, 521 passengers, 15 hours in the air -- >> it's an uy scene. they've finally hit the ground and they are going nowhere fast. ple waslane full of p ple waslane full of p quarantined for hours at jfk.

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a police officer in cincinnati could be punished for using a taser on an 11-year-old girl. police say he confront the girl and her friends at ar kroge supermarket last month and accused them of stealing more than $50 worth of goods. he then shocked her when he says she claims she resisted arrest an tried to run. >> an internal review fountain that officer should have warned the girl about the taser. it alsoound he expressed racial prejudice captured on body cam. the same officer has been reprimanded before after the body cam captured him using a homophobic slur. think you've had a rough flight? some people in new york may hav yobeat. >> nearly a dozen people fall ill on a flight all the way fro dubai. that plane quarantined and a team from the cdc brought t the tarmac. >> adam cooperstein with our

sister station in new york has the story from jfk. >> if you feel itsick, let us know. >> reporter: confused passengers stuck on their plane for hours after landing at jfk. quarantined after 100 people reported feeling sick. >> it was just gross. it was really bad conditions. >> reporter: erin sykes from manhattan says she noticed w peope sick even before the plane took off. >> they should have never let those people on the plane. they were coughing sly viole and, like, it's common sense. >> reporter: after landing, seven crew members and three passengers were taken to jamaica hospital for treatment. ne other people were sick but declined medical attention. the mayor's officehe says symptoms pointed to the flu. health authorities screened every single passengerefore they were finally allowed through customs. >> people were worried, you know, b what it is.n't know so you're getting down there and guys with masks on the nes and stuff like that, so it's like a plane from hell. >> reporter: the cd is now

looking into what caused the -- >> what are you looking forward to right now? >> going home. going home and take ashower. >> reporter: the cdc says the symptoms of those people being treated for illness include cough, fever and stomach sickness. in new mayor's office york city says that could be tied to the flu outbreak right now in mecc because a lot of the people on that plane had recently visitedrt mecca. reg from jfk, adam cooperstein, news 4. >> what a mess. oh, my gosh. >> that plane, by the way, is a double decker and somege pass on the top say they didn't realize what was going on because the people who got sick were all on the lower level. news 4 at 6:00 starts now with doreen and leon. >> news 4 at 6:00 begins with breaking news. we start tonight with breaking news. in a moment in our nation's history that is unlik any of us has ever lived through before. "the new york times" has just published shocking op-ed

piece. >> that's right. this is written by afi senior al in the trump administration who questions the president's fitness for office and describes a resistance within the white house to protect democratic institutions. >> "the times" has agreed to withhold the wrmeer's but in a note the editors say the author is a senior official with the administration whose idtity is known to them and whose job would be jeopardized by its disclosure. >> miss writer says many of the senior officials in the ioesident's own administr are working, quote, diligently from within to of his agenda and his worst inclinations. >> the author goes on to say meetings with him veer on topic and off theai. he engages in repetitive rants and his impulsiveness results in half-baked, ill informed and ofn reckless decisions that have to be walked back. > there were whispers o invoking the 25th amendment to

start a complexcess to remove the president. >> at the white house a few minutes ago, nbc news asked the president for a response. >> so, if the failing "new york nymes" has an aus editorial, can you believe it? anonymous. meaning gutless. a gutless editorial. we're doing a great job. the poll numbers a through the roof. our poll numbers are great. guess what? nobody is going coe close to beating me in 2020 because of what we've done. >> keep in mind this is the backdrop now as the senate considers the suspect nomination of jud brett kavanaugh. >> this is his first full day of testimony benore thee judiciary committee. the questioning expected to last another three hours. blayne alexander is here to break it all down for us. hi, blayne. >> guys, president trump's name has come up several times during today's questioning. now, of course, the big question, will this article specifically be mentioned durin