bubbling out of the water main. this morning repair crews are trying to fix this sue. that could cause lingering issues through the morning commute. good morning to you. >> we have live coverage of both incidents. ell in l get to chuck just a moment. first let's begin with melissa on this very busy morning, melissa. >> it's a busy morning. several trafficrt a first in prince george's county. southbound 295. the rame there to outer loop. this crash investigation. the ramp there is blocked. this is a construction worker that was hit. a hit-and-run here by a vehicle early this mo ning. they'reow looking to that car. you rn use thep to the outerlook. chopper 4 ove this one, gaithersburg, german town there. if you use this section of frederick road we ahutdown in the southbound lanes. take a look at that water just

gushin out of the roadway here this morning. so that's going to take time to fix. that rain closure, road closed and if you're thinking about an the best right now thing you can do is take middlebrook roa stead. >> good morning, it's now coming up on 6:02 on your monday morning. skies have been clear erght. no rain to worry about here on a monday. that's good news. it's going to be a beautiful morning. your early morning outdoorac vities. a warmer weather pattern and drier weather pattern as well. there is a little chance for rain coming our way tomorrow. your monday morning, 50s and 60s. 62 in prince george's county. after school activities and it's probably going to be in the

shorts category so 62 this morning and htuh tempe up near 80 degrees and that is a plus weather no matter how you look at it. >> more about that tuesday rain chance coming up. >> thank you. it's 6:02. nowo more breaking news. a construction worker has been seriously hurt after a crash on i-295. >> what are you learning? >> we learned it was a hit-and-run crash. that driver did not stop t help that construction worker that was hit. the crash was around 00 in the morning. police have been here for hours investigating what happened. this is on southbound 295 at exit 1-a in the national harbor area. this was a work site. they have been doing construction here all last week. it was not clear whether there were any surveillance cameras in the area that might have

captured what happened. is construction worker fighting for his life in the hospital as police try to find the person that hit him. >> all right,aimee live for us. thank you. this morning's accident comes on the same day that maryland's new move over law takes effect. it's a change designed specifically to make things safl for p doing work on the side of the road. if you see a work truck with it's lights on you must move on and slow down. that includes recycled truck and service vehicles and utility vehicles. also oreaking news of gaithersburg that could effect your morning commute. >> a water valve burst and shutdown a major road heading south into d.c. let's get over to nicole. jaco what are you seeing nicole? >> it will be a major trafficpr lem here on route35 you can see the southbound lanes are completely shutdown. although the northbound lanes are open at this point but we're told that the actual valve break is about a block down the road.

we want get you to some chopper video right now. giving you a clor look at the mess made there. i can tell you that you can see right now the wattill bubbling up at the height of all of ts we are told water was actually shooting several feet into the air. tellg me this morning this ll be a tedious process. right now some customers may be experiencing low water pressure but at someoint as they're repairing all of this thees p will have to be turned off completely and some customers will experience a brief sbrum s interruption in service. >> it's a broken valve. it's an 8 inch valve, which isn't huge, but the 8nch valve is on a line that's connected to a 24 inch water main. so there's a lot of water in that big pipe. so it just tak time toet all

of that water cleaned up. >> some of the congestion i happening right now on root 355. the vehicle cannot get throughu ound. they're having to either turn right here on high point drive or make u-turn to go back northbound. so we're seeing this all morning long. this also the case for buses. we're told no buses can get down here and anyone that is catching a bus between middlebrook and i gains preserve road will have to walk down to the middlebrook stop in order to catch that bus. >> it's going to push all of that traffic on an alternate road. thousands of people trying to get to work this morning. thank you, nicole. also the former mayor of d.c. and current council memb>>. he was injured during a confrontation. his chief of staff tells t us councilmember was attending an art all night event at the d.c.

eagle on saturday. there was a dispute over his i.d. according to gray's chief of staff, when he questned how he was being treated, he pushed him out of the door. the statement is councilmember gray did attempt to enter the d.c. eagle last night but refused to provide proper identification to our door staff after being aed for it several times as required by d.c. law. >> a powerful deadly earthquake and tsunami that h pts of indonesia. angie is at the live desk with o deents. what's the latest? >> the death ftoll froday's quake and tsunami increased to least 844 but we're also seeing reports that at least 1,200 people could be de here's a look at the video of the disaster and rescuers at work.e 50,000 peopl without a place to

go and without homes and as you take a closer look, we do know that most of thosed that die are from the city. now the 7.5 magnitude quake hit friday and waves as high as 20 feet in some plahis and t morning rescue crews as you can see are doing everything they can to dig throughhat debris and rubble to find more survivors and you may wake up to see that the deathtoll number reached more than 1,200. that's an unusual numbes at t point. nbc news still reaching out for e natural disaster agency but as of right now the official count at 844 but in situations like this the nbers can change real quick, chris. >> yeah. it's a horrible tragedy no matter how you look at it thank you, angie. the u.s. and canada reached a tentative trade deal. it accomishes two big things. it gives the u.s. greatest

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that boys could take advantage of girls. they're suspending him but some say that's not enough. >> nbc news is reporting deborah ramirez spoke with the fbi this weekend. sheav claimsanaugh exposed himself to her at a party when the two were in college. kavanaugh denies all the allegation including those of his first accuser dr. christine blasey ford. after her emotional testimony last week the white house improved this investigation. while this is a background criminal ion, not a probe, democrats are raising concer the white house is limiting it's scope. the white house is denying that. >> the white house isn'tte ening. we're not micromanaging ts process. >> are we going to get the kind of investigation -- >> this morning, we're also a

keepin eye on a developing situation in pennsylvania. three men were killed wn a car exploded in allentown. this happened late saturday night but some people who live nearby are still not allowed back into their s.ho witnesses say it looked like a war zone. police say thisasintentional. local and federal authorities believe one of those people killed was the person responsible. so far no word on a motive. >> the caps are closing out their preseason but as they get ready for tir regulareason opener they could be without a key player. this hit by tom wilson could mean the period w caps arehout him for six or more wilson earned a ten minute penalty but the department of player safety said they offered wilson an in person hearing and

that means they're considering suspending him for at least six games. >> still ahead,anaging your child's chores and allowance all with the touch of a button. and a lookt d.c.'s newest museum. where it is and what you'll find there. >> as you're getting ready to start yoube day, m it's time to take the dog out for a walk this morning. if you need a dog. this little guy is available for adoption at the humane rescue alliance. a check on the website there. walking the dog this morning. nice and coolw. no toasty warm later this fafternoon. the day forecast coming up next. >> how you can get pink heels in the month of october for breast cancer awareness month. we're going to go back into the store to show youow it'sll being de. being de. next on onne

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back to breaking news we ve been tracking for you this morning. chopper 4 catching a glimpse of thousands of gallons of water gushing out on to 365n gaithersburg. an overnight water main break lead to this mess which is impacting the commute for a lot of you this morning. melissa is going to join us in just a few minurss. lady melania trump will head to africa h for first major international trip without the president. >> her first stop is in ghanarr tomoow. followed by visits to kenya and egypt. the first lady's trip will focus on child wellbeing. one of t great things about women in our area, all cool museums. we have great news for you this morning. >> after sevenears in the making a new exhibit is about to open. news 4 has a sneak peek at the

newly expanded glenstone meum this weekend. it features modern and contemporary art. it's designed to be a place where people canunwind from stress. the museum reopens on october 7th. >> that' because october is breast cancer awareness month. >> it will kill tens of thsands of women thi year alone and some women are kicking off the campaign to raise awareness. she's with members of alpha ppa alpha sorority. >> hold up your heels. shoes. pink soles onis te on high heels, they're doing this all throughout the month he at expert shoe and luggage repair here with members of alpha kappa

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to kn. eat smart, keep track of your alcohol consumption and of course break a sweat. exercise. excising reallyelps lower your risk. hold up those heels and shoes come on into the shoe store and get this done. >> bac to you. >> thank you so much. >> happy to see them out there. >> we need to go back to some breaki news on the roads. melissa has your first 4af c. >> two differ spots. prince george's county and montgomery seeing some major issue this morning. oxon hill southbound 295, this is an accident investigatio a construction worker on the scene this morning was hit. they are n f looking the vehicle. you can use the ramp to national harbor and the inn b loop not to the outerloop this morning. section of southbound frederick road shutdown. take a look, chopper 4 showing us a gusher there in the middle of the southbound lanes so

taking a look at what is closed here, brad is telling us how things are going now. >> right in the centerlanes. sometimes they can reopen a left one and get them by but it'so ot going the case this morning. so your best bet is to get off on orchaad ins of middlebrook. now you were telling me -- >> problem on the beltway. that's right, brad. silver spring, outerloop. a brand new crash reported lere. the restks okay. but inbound, new york avenue.e right lan there is blocked by a crash. good morning, chuck bell. >> good morning. it's a pasant start to a monday. the only thing wrong with today is itsnd monday a we have to go

back to work. skies mainly clear through the overnight hours. fog not a big concern for us this morning. four things you need about the next couple of days, sunny and warm today. a chance for showers later on in the day tomorrow but not eryone will get rained on. very warm on wednesday and bordering on hot b october standards as we get toward thursday. temperatures could be within a few ticks of 90 by thursday. for t iay thought's all about warmth. temperatures in the upper 70s to aroundes 80 deg later on in the afternoon today. so that's not too bad. 61 currentlyn winchester and 61 in baltore. 68 annapolis. making your plans tet outside and enjoy your monday. mostly sunny. midy 70s noontime. afternoon highs up around 80 degrees. you could get the car washed today if you wanted to tak your chances as the official recommendation. dry weather for we're watching out for that chance of showers tomorrow.

this is 8:00 tuesday morning. no rain for the morning commutew tomo 4:00 in the afternoon up near bout 7:00 or 8:00 in the evening. there will be a 40% chance of a shower or thunder shower coming your way. no severe weather expected. probably the only way to make sure that you're going to get ined on tomorrow is to watch today. you.huck bell thank it's 6:21. getting children to pitch in around the houseghan be t work. >> three kids. everybody has to pull their weight. but managing theirre c and allowance shouldn't be all that hard. coming up the technology now available to help you sort it out. plus the pot, manomac can be beautiful but dangerous as well. a man had to be rescued from it. what got him hurt. >> i told you he wouldn't know.

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welcome back. 6:24. so paying kids allowance helps them understand concepts such as earning money and the value of a dollar. but managing all of this can be a chore. >> it sure can. we're taking a look at technology that can help you

sort it all out. >> allowance and chores t will keep your family's allowances and chores in sync. they can be created on a daily, weekly or mthlyasis for each child and the allowance grab lets your kids watch the allowance savings gr. kids can see what chores need to be done and check them off as completed. the app is $2.99 for ios and android. it uses simple and friendly interface that looks like book shelves and chalk boardsio inform is synced with various devices and it will sens remainders when scores need to be repeated. >> the app is $2.99 for ios. piggybot helps spend, arsh and save smart. virtual balance like you. each child will have separate

accounts and you decide how to allocate theirlo alwance. others center on money management. that app is free for ios. >> we're tracking breaking news on the roads. two mayor issues melissa is back to lead our coverage in your traffic at 6:30. >> and from the weather department, a quite start to your monday. just a l bit of fog outside in the rural areas early this morning. you're going to like the way your monday is looking. weather-wise anyway. forecast coming up next. >> a final hurrah for bryce harper. the national star gets emotional. a look at the intervw andie

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water main break in gaithersburg. >> nic jeobs is following the gushing water coming out there. >> that happened around 3:00 this morning. since then this is the scene we've been seeing a will likely see for some time. the southbound lanes completely shutdown. we're told the valves break several blocks down the roa re. i want to get you to video where you can still see some of the water still bubbling up from the valve break. several feet of water were shooting into the sky. many people p takingtures of that. you can see still a little bit of that with our chopper veo here. i can also tell you i spoke with the pio this morning that says that the repair will be a tedious process. she also says the valve itself is only 8 inches but crews have to actually go underground to

access that pipe and then repair it and because of that, somecu omers may see the effects of that. n sometimes w you close the water main down and close more vaes, it all depends on the number of valves you have to close and will determine how many customers are out of water. once we get the water off we'll have a better idea o how many customers are impacted. >> you're taking a live look at route355. you can see the cars coming up southbou southbound. others making a u-turn to go north. an individual from montgomery transit so anyone taking a bus that normally catches a bus between middle brook and gain preser road will have to walk down to middlebrook in order to catch the bus.

i want t get to me llissa that has work arounds foryou. >> the best idea will be to take middlebrook road and work yyr over to 370. so southbound shutdown at game preserve because of the water main break.d really these massive problems effect so many folks this morning. they have to get out there and make those repairs. just getting an update on the situation in oxon hill. i'm hearing from a source out ther this is the southbound 295 right into the outerloop crash investigation. a worker was hit out there. >> that construction workeras

53-year-old jonathan wright from virginia. police tell me he wasf part a crew doing construction work on the ramp behind me. i want to step out of the way and give you a look at the scene. he had just gotten out o work vehicle and was walking in the ramp. police say that's when a black car hit him and then sped off. police say when they got here they found wright lying in the road. he'sow fightin for his life in the hospital. police say his family has been d noti as you can see investigators are still here trying to figure out what happened. they're also on the look out for the black car that hit construction worker jonathan wright. >> weatherwise your money is off to a quite start this morning. already a hint of color showing up. sun is not up until just after 7:00. temperatures in the 50s and 60s. 64t nationa airport.

62 degrees in prince george's county. a nice day no doubt about it. after work and after school, temperatures today will climb from the 50s and 60s now into the low 70s by lunchtime. afternoon high today around 80 de tees. more abo forecast and the days ahead onhe nbc washington app and like and find me on social media as well. ll give you the ten day forecast that doesn't have a hint of october weather in it at all coming up. >> thankyou. it's 6:34. we begin with your top stories and breaking news out of indonesia. the official death toll from the earthquake and tsunami has risen. at the same time, 50,000veeople

haeen forced out of their homes. >> today marks one year since man shot and killed 58 people at a concert on the las vas rip. memorials have planned all day and if you remember a woman from our area was killed.ro tina was also injured but she survived the shooting. it was t worst mass shooting in modern american history. >> nbc news learned t fbi spoke to judge brett kavanaugh's second accuser deborah rarez. she has accused the supreme court nominee of exposing himself to her when they both atte the fbi is investigating the sexual assault and misconductai against kavanaugh. today students plan to protest after a dean tweeted about one ofkavanaugh's accusers. more coming up. >> right now police in northern virginia are searching for suspect that barricaded himself in a motel room and then

escaped. thodos. alton he may be driving a silver bmw. saturday police tried to serve an arrest warrant for him at a motel in fairfax county. he barricaded himself inside. >> 6:36 now. new overnight the winners of the 2018 nobel prize for physiology w medicinee just announced. james allison and honjo were awarded. dr. allison works at md anderson in texas. ey discovered the body's immune system can be harnessed to c attackcer cells. he spent more than a decade at the howard hughes medical institute. >> you'll be seeing a lot of pink this month. coming up fashionable footwear for a good cause. >> that's right. we'lce hear one c survivor's

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just6: about and we're tracking two first traffic alerts for you. i-295 after aonstruction worker was hit by a car right along the exit to i-95 northbound. that area was shutdown to traffic for hours but just are he opened in the last few minutes. a few warnings about that area next. >> this is what it lked like when a water involve burst overnight in gaithersburg. it's going to take hile to clean that up. chopper 4 is at the scene. all the team coveragentinues. but developing this morning, he's the former mayor of d. and current councilmember and now he filed a police report against a local night club. >> he was injured during a confrontation. the chief sftaff tells news 4 he was attending an art all e nightnt at the d.c. eagle.

ey this a dispute over his i.d. when he questioned how he was being treated the employee pushed gray out of the door causing him to fall and hurt his back and hands. news 4 reached out to the night club and it gave us this statement. heid attempt t enter the d.c. eagleutast night b refused to provide proper identification to our door sta after being asked for it several times as required by d.c. law. >> the annual red mass turned into a protest against judge kavanaug it happens every year before the u.s. supreme court's new term which begins today with only 8 justices >> yeah. the justices came back to work and the fbi is investigating legations of sexual assault and misconduct against supreme court nomin judge brett kavanaugh. angie is in the newsroom with

the latest. deborah ramirez spoke with the fbi over the weekend. she claims kavanaugh exposed himself to her at a party when the two were in college. kavanaugh denies all the allegations including those of his first accuser, dr. christine blasey ford. after her emotional testimony last week the white house approved the investigation. yoday we know that students at catholic universill stage a protest to demand the dean of social work be fired. he attacked kavanaugh's third accuser. he later apologized. the universityed suspe him. sources there say that no fbi interview is scheduled for her. hear more about that information coming up on the "today" show.

okaymelissa, one of those big problems is starting to look better. >> starting to look better in oxon hill.an all open and still have some delays but at least we're not closed any longer. this was a construction worker struck there in critical condition andow they're looking for that vehicle. it was a hit-and-run. chopper 4 swing us this right now. gaithersburg section of southbound frederick road is shutdown. so take a look here at what exactly is closed. this watern m closed between wheatfield. >> we have seenhe water some what get a little bit lighter but you can see it's still gushing out there, right in the center of 355 which is going to cause the closure and repair to take time. n is270 southbound to get going to be a much better option

for you. and we have nicole jacobs live, just about 2,000 feet below it. what are you seeing back at the closure point? >> w wellre still seeing of course southbound lanes completely shutdown as we have been all morni long and this will be the scene for some time according to the cio. they have done a lot of wor ahead of them. i want to get you again to chopper video just y to give another look. again we're some ways down but you can get alor look and see that water still bubbling up there. i can tell you they're telling us this will be a tedious repair process. she also says that at some point during the repair process water servicebe interrupted all together because the pipes will have to be cut completely now fortunately, that will happen while most people are at work but crews again have ahead hours of repairs of them to go as they go underground to fix this 8 inch

svalve. you ca how cars here taking a live look now are having to either make a u-turn or turn on high pois drive they try to avoid this mess here going southbound. back to you. >> i'll take it. thank you. 270 southbound at montrose road. oking okay had an early report of a crash near the split not seeing a delay. let's keep our fingers eastbound braddock road a new crash there. as you loo t at beltway, in of town and out of town there.ing looking good travel times, no big problem on 270. miles per beltway, 24 hour there between 95 and 270. 66 inbound not bad at 40 miles per hour. quantico to thebeltway, 27 miles per hour this morning. remember to listen to wtop when you hop in your car. you have better news than i do chuck bell.

at least there's nice weather out there. >> absolutely right. we got cheated out of nice september weather during the month of september. why do we have it in october? the first day of october is here and our weather pattern turned from an incredibly rainy one into a very warm and relatively y pattern. sunrise, still 10 or 12 minutes yeay. goodseptember. we finished 4.4 degrees above avr average temperature wise but way above average rainfall wise. our fifth rainiest september on record and for the year now we're just short of 50 inches of rain for the yhrr with full months to go. we have a near 20 inch rainfall surplus. we't have to worry about rain today but this weather front to our north, that will ging a tiny chance for showers as we into tomorrow afternoon and evening. so you're 100% dry monday

we'll hav an afternoon high today up close to 80. that's above average for sure. our average high now only 74 deees. you can always use our app to stay ahead of the weather and there's my social media pages as well. send me an note twitter if you have a weather report for me. tomorrow now, clouds increasing by noon and between 2:00 or 3:00 in the afternoon, about o7:00 8:00 in the evening there will be a 40% chance of a passingwo shower or tomorrow. not a lot of rain but a little chance anyway and the right back to what it's going to feel like, a little bit of late summ. around he temperatures running nearly 15 degrees warmer than average as we head toward the second half of the week and the weekend looks good. >> very nice, chuck, thank you. it's now 6:52. there will be no more pro baseball in washington until april. >> yeah. the nats wrapped up their season yesterday and it certainly wasn't with a win. in fact, they got blown out by the rockies out in denver losg

12-0. making matters worst, this may be the last time we ever see bryce harper in d.c. gear. he becomes a free agent and the way he became somotional after the game, a lot of folks speculate he won't be sticking around. >> yeah, imean, i think, you know, it's tough. sometimes you go up there and you never know what's going to happen. getting a little emotional because you never know. go up there and hitbl dou and kind of, you know, write it off like that. be.i'm back, i'd love t and if i'm not, you know, we'll see what happens. >> harper went on to thank d.c. fans. he felt they always had his back. true. and they're talking about offering him upwards of $400 million or more. a lot of money. >> stiget ready to see o plent

pink this month because october is breast cancer awareness month. >> the disease will tens of thousands this year alone and this morning a local business and african american sorority are kicng off t campaign to raise awareness. she's with the alpha kappa alpha sorority as they kick off october breast cancerwareness day. >> pink heels for breast cancer awareness month and we're inside expert shoe and luggage repair where joe, the owner is working on a shoe right now. you can come into the store, upport our shoes and breast cancer awareness. a portion of the proceeds go to breast cancer research. i want to bring in crystal williams that is a member of alpha kappa alpha. you're a cancer survivor.

your sister battled breast cancer two times. tell me about t message you want to send out. >> arcassandra my sister was a breast cancer survivor. there's so many different forms of breast cancer. >> right and the message you want to send out to everybody. >> so the message i'd like to onsend out would benue to get your annual mamogram and coinue to support others who are going through breastan cr awareness. >> all right. this store has been doing this for several year na turner is the store manager. we're running low on time. tell me what you want peopleo know. >> wear your support and you can mail in shoes anywhere from around the united states. we will take them, ship them to us and we'll ship them back to you and don't forget expert shoe luggage repair.com. >> all right. thank you. we are so happy to beble to support this effort as we kick off breast cancer awareness month in the month of october. back in to you guys. >> all right.

so much good for the community. tomorrow you can find her at the dale city firehouse. >> that $10,000 award winning chili. today marked one year s8ce people were killed on the las vegas trip. memorial events are planned all day. a woman from our area was killed. she was from martinsburg, west virginia. and more ahead on today. >> construction worker is in seriousngondition follon accident on the southbound ramp of 295. maryland state h police say was walking on the ramp whendr the er hit him and took off. part of the onramp to the outer loop of the belt way just reopened. >> this morning's accident comes on the same day that maryland's new move over lawes tak effect. it is a change designed epecifically to make the roads safer for p doing work on the side of the road. y you see a work truck with lights onou must move over or slow down. get a closer look at th penalties on the nbc washington

app. >> a broken water invve cause a major road closure in gaithersburg. crews s t it's going take awhile for that to getprepaired. you can track the progress of this situation on our nbc shington app. that will take hours to fix. this is a live look right now. that secti of southbound frederick road there. take middlebrk road instead. southbound frederickarhutdown ame preserve. really between wheatfield and professional drive.be going tlow for the morning. guys. >> what a way to start to work. >> thanks for joining us for ne 4 toda the "today" show coming up next. >> we'll be back in 25 minutes with weather, traffic, and local news. news. unl then, have a great dtiay

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ben jealous. governor. good morning. breaking t,overniull speed ahead. the fbi interviewing the second woman who accused brett kavanaugh. this morning, h deep will this investigation go? and we're hearing from the senator who single-handedly stopped the confirmation vote. >>f judgeavanaugh is shown to have lied to the committee, nomination's over? >> oh, yes. i would think so. >> just ahead, the fbi's nextst eps. total devastation. th death toll skyrockets overght to nearly 900 people from theve massi earthquake and ami in indonesia. the wall of water wiping out entire communities. rescuers now struggling to reach the