today, winds wl be out of the uthwest and temperatures will get close to 90 degrees. unbelievably warm. the record for today is 94. so i don't think we're going to be setting a record at national airport today. tied aecord at dulles yesterday with the temperature reaching 86 degrees. right now it is 69 in washington, 64 ins potomac thi morning. 75 in beverly beach by the bay there. and 68 degrees at joint base andrews. forecast hour by hour, what a ni day to be outside. feeling a lot like summer. a little hint of humidity in the air a well. storms will be getting going afteror about 3:0:00 this afternoon. some of your thursday evening plans could get rained on. more about that and a peek of the weekend forecast coming up. melissa, good thursday morning to you. >> good thursday morning to you. silver bospring, soud georgia avenue, new paving project here just started up this morning near uversity boulevard. the right lane is what's getting by. in laurel, northbound bw parkway eear 197, this makes more sense.

the map wasn'tng up a couple minutes ago. the right lane is getting by the work zone. you're seeing those delays in the northbound les here this morning. lanham outer loop 5 betwe and 450, right lane gets by the work zone. district heights. inbound 66 at 1 doesn't want to cooperate, but it is moving st fine. developing in maryland overnight, we now know the name ofinhe teenager kille a crash on i-270 yesterday. >> the principal at northwest high school in germantown says th teen was onef his students, 17-year-old josh snider. lice say the driver veered into aarked box truck on 270 near montrose road. they don't know what caused the crash. they say n alcohol was involved here. in the statement, the principal said josh was kind,ard working, and has a positive impact an all of those around him. there will be grief counsors

at the school today. now to an arrest in a violt sexual assault in rockville. police made that arrest less than 24 hours after it happened. theoman says she was walking to a friend's house near route 355 and gude drive on tuesday. she had just left the shady grove metro station aroundmi ight. that's when an attacker apparently dragged her into the exually eat her, and assaulted her. she was able to get away and run to a nearby office building where a security guard calle police. women we spoke with at that metro station say they're taking extra precautions. >> my husband always comes and picks me up. >> why? >> because i don't w want toalk at that time of night, dark night. >> investigators spent a considerable amount of time in a 7-eleven near the scene but haved no said whether videoed to the arrest. the confirmation controversy surrounding jud bre kavanaugh may be nearing the end. in just a few hours, the fbi's report on the supreme court nominee will be in the hands of sehitors.

the w house tweeted overnight the compiled report was delivered to capitol hill. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell announced a procedure vote tomorrow with possible confirmation vote scheduled for saturday. dr. christine blasey ford, the woman accusing kavanaugh of sexual assault, criticized investigators for not interviewing her or witnesses. a portion of the statement released by her attorney says, que, we are profoundly disappointed that after the tremendous sacrifice she made in coming forward, those directing the f birr investigation were not interested in seeking the truth, enduo. news 4's tracie potts will have more in a live report. there's an investigation into a horrible discovery at a local high school. prince george's county police y a deadewborn was found in a restroom at high point high schoa yesterday. chool resource officer found the baby. detectives believe the baby h just beenborn, and they're trying to figure out whether it was a stillbirth. the mother of the baby was found. she is now receiving medical

care. two people were seriously hurt in at crash t involved half a dozen cars. take a look at all this damage. last night police say that six people were hurt after their cars collided on new york avenue in northeast. it happened between 1st street and florida avenue.se some of the cars just totally torn up. we hope to learn more about their conditions later today. 4:34 now. time for a look at our other top stories this morning. police in prince george's county say a man was fou dead in the street last night on manton way and lanham. no word on the suspect or ctive. wtinue to learn more about yesterday's active shooter situation in florence, south carolina. officials say officer terrence carraway was killed. he was one of seven law enforcement officialshot while trying to serve a search warrant. the shooter was identified as fred hopkins. fairfax county police say

there's no threat to the public after a shooting that injured two people in centerville. chopper 4 flew over the scene last night. police tell us two people are being detained. the victims are expected to recover. parts of southern stafford county are still under a boil water alert this morning. take a look at the map here. areas south of eskimo hill road and east of 95 are impacted. a water main break may have contaminated the water there. if you live around thi, you should boil drinking water before you cook. along to the outside. one touch, score! oshie! >> first goal of the new season came just a few seconds into the caps' home opener last night.ea didn't ry stop for the rest of the night. yond defeg champion capitals won 7-0 over the boston bruins, but even a win that big can't

overshadow this. >> the first new championship banner for any d.c. team in decades is now hanging at capital one arena. isn't it pretty? before the game, the team seemed to have theirt llebration. t . >> and that celebration flowed outside to the streets where fans were just as excited to see that new banner. >> i've been waitingll my life for this moment right here. all the heart ache, it's paying off. go >> well, inside the arena, you can see plenty of people rocking the red here. and plenty of back-to-back chants. but there's no break for the champs. >> they're back on the ice tonight taking o the penguins up in pittsburgh. let's hope they get another big win. >> the momentum is flowing their way. coming up this morning, a wish come true. a teen in the battle of his life gets a day he will never forget. we'll show you how the caps gave him the celebrity treatment. but first, cleaning service chaos.

maids hired to clean leave their own mess behind. one womas warni before you hire someone to clean your home.

it's if4:40. you think power washing your deck is a pain, imagine this. our camera crews spotted workers cleaning the capitol dome yesterday. you can see they're strapped on as they work about f 200t above the ground here. the work is part of the ongoing vation project there at the capitol building. >> scary. >> it is a little scary, right? >> that and when they did the monument after the earthquake and they were scaling it. ver do it. >> they know what they're doing though. so good for them.f a lot people in this area use cleaning services for their homes, but this next story will have you digging a little deeper into the cleaning company y hire. >> this brooklyn resident says she hired two women to clean her apartment, but when she got home, this is what she found. the cleaners had trashedt he

hartmenand drank her liquor. she said s nearly a liter of vodka and gin that had been consumed. >> they spent 45 minutes getting he together enough to put her in an ambulance. she was too drunk to put her flip-flops on. wow. well, she says that she paid the company $185 plus a $60 tip but has not received arefund as of yet. our nbc station in new york hast tried to reacho that company, but the phone number seems not to be in service. my word. i feel like you see a lot of stuff for the first time in news. this is a first for me. >> got to do your homework. chuck, 4:41 what do you have? >> a little fog early this morning. visibility down under a mile in parts of prince george's county. dog walkire st, your buddy shadow. adopt shadow if you like, 10-year-old dog avail for adoption at the humane rescue alliance. best time to take the walk wngl be first t this morning when it's still cool.

very warm today, near 90 this afternoon. risk of some showers on your evening walk. ten-day forecast when i

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g following breakws in southwest d.c., where a tour boat has run agroundn the potomac river. ifee you have around there, you know these 70 foot catamarans that take people around at night. you get a good look at the monuments. one of them ran aground last 1 night wit passengers on board. it took d.c. fireme depa, d.c. police, and the u.s. coast guard to get all 17 to safety. they have now towed that boat to georgetown harbor. at the live desk, chris lawrence. 4: thank you, chris. now. at 8:00 a.m. sharp, senators will begin poring over the fbi's expanded background investigation into supreme court pick brett kavanaugh. republican senators a pushing for a confirmation vote over the next few days. tracie potts is on capitol hill this morning. whats christine blasey ford

saying about this investigation? >> overnight her attorneys pout out a statement sayin that they are profoundly disappointed that she was never interviewed. neither was kavanaugh, by the way. they say that those i charge of this investigation were not interested in seeking the truth. o you said, it starts t roll out to lawmakers:0t a.m. different groups of lawmakers seeing it at different times. but lunchtime, they should have all had a ok the white house has already seen it, saying they are fully confident that after this report, kavanaugh wl be confirmed. the voting on that already set to begin onda f >> tracie potts on the hill this morning. thank you. president to sign a bill into law to help combat the nation's opioid crisis. it passed the senateesterday with bipartisan support. the billde inc building more programs to treat addiction, more closely monitoring prescrtions, and updating information on alternative treatments to addictive drugs. drug soverdo killed more than 72,000 americans in 2017,

including nearly 30,000 from opioiddoov. prosecutors are expected to wrap up their case on tuesday in the trial of the lone duspect of th. mansion murder case. jurors heard combative and sometimes conflicting testimony sterday. she testified she was sitting next to him in her friend's car. she said he smelled like gasoline. when it was theefense's turn, attorneys reminded her that she told a grand jurye did not smell like gasoline. the trial resumes on tuesday. we have an update in a deadly lyft crash one year aftew a mom of thr killed in a lyft ride. ace driver will finally appear in court toe a murder charge. the family expressed their anger over a lack of charges i this case. after our story aired on monday,

that changed. news 4 confirmed that d tver will be in court today to face a murder charge. 4:48 now. this morning worshippers at a loca mosque say the county government limits theictability to pe faith by restricting their hours. neighbors say they just want to keep awaygeraffic and cion on the roads. news 4's david culver looks into the debate. >> reporter: when the islamic center first opened up on this spot three years ago, they were asked how many people come to morning prayer. they sn.d roughly te that was true at the time. but like much of northern virginia, this area has grown a lot. so, too, hashe number of folks coming to worship here. the mosque community wan to expand their worship hours to allow for early morning and late night prayers. >> that's great for the mosque, but we're concerned about theac adverse i on the neighborhood in terms of traffic

and noise. >> these restriction are impacting the free exercise of religion. >> reporter: they took their appeal to then zoning board wednesday. the zoning officials want more traffic and noise studies done befo they weigh in. david culver, news 4. well, need a plan for dinner tonight? why not celebrate national taco day. americans ate more than 4.5 billion tacos last yr. that's 490,000 miles of tacos, or 775 million pounds. and you don't have to save tacos for dinner. coming up in o next hour, molette g popular taco joint here in d.c. with inspiration on ways to telebrate throughout the entire day. doou have a taco bell -- you have like a taco costume. that was years ago. i dressed up as a taco. i was taco bell for it's out there.

it was 2012, believe. >> oh, wow. good memory. >> well, it's a long time ago now. i'm going to need an extra shell now. gained a little weight since then. we are going to be a e to get outside and enjoy a little sunshine today. just remember, it is going to be nearly hot. i don't know. can you call 89 hot? i guess you kind of can. hat's an average h temperature for the end of july, not the g obeginning ofober. skies are mostly clear. it's a quiet way to get the day going today. and rai chancoday are stacked up later on into thern afn and into the evening hours as this cold front does promise to take us out of the ths for at least the next two days. we'll be back in the warm andas we get into sunday next week. right now though, a dry start to the morning. here's a look at future weather. through the day today, plenty of sunshine early. clouds will start to develop later on into the afternoon. here's noontime. still bright sunshine across the region. by 3:00 o 4:00, clouds starting

to form. by 6:00 this evening, a chance for showers northern maryland and west of the shenandoah he valley, into mountains of west virginia. rain chances increasing with time as we get later into the evening. i think most of your daylight plans, nothing to worry about. after 7:00 or 8:00 this evening, grain chanc up rather dramatically. we're likely to have a period of rain, maybe aumble or two of thunder late this evening and into the early parts of tomorrow morning. i mean early, like before this time tomorrow morning. temperaturewise, it's goingo be a war one. we're in the comfortable 60s now. anh afternoon h near 89 degrees. likelihood of showers and storms late evening. here's your ten-day forecast. at least we knocked the intense heat out for tpl next c days. friday, mostly cloudy, 73. not much of a rain chance friday or saturday. maybe a littled drizzle aro saturday. the warm air comes back on saturday. back into the 80s we go. melissa, we'll be in the 80s most of next week. >> i can't believe it. october. here we go in the l 80s.

takingk at the beltway right now, work zones have cleared out of the way. no problems here on the beltway. inner loop and outerloop, everything is running smoothly. in silver springs, southbounde georgia aveear university, we have at right lane getting by the paving there. northbound is not affected at all. laur laurel, northbound bw parkway, the right lane is getting by a work zone. weee a lit slow through that area. and 270 here, main and local n lanethbound and southbound, near montrose road nice and clear. guys? >> thank you, melissa. a popular exercise spot is reopening this morning. you'll be able to return to the monta mt. vernon trail once it opens at 6:00 this morning. it had been closed earlier this week after large construction equipment damaged a bridge leading to that trail between memorial circle and the roosevelt bridge. national park ser says engineers came to check out the bridge, and it is safe for joggers and cyclists. a new law will require more homeowners in montgomery county to install carbon monoxide

detectors. this bill was first reported by the news 4 i-team this summer. the change means existing homes built before 2008 will need detectors under two conditions. those conditions, if they have a gas operated appliance or if thefz a they have ached garage. county already had a law requiring newly constructed homes have those tectors. could you live in less than 200 square feet of space? well, some people ar choosing to move into homes that are smaller than a metro car. d.c. h sh schooldents built these homes as part of a program to revitalizeeiborhoods. advocates say tiny house communities could be ideal for senior or young professionals. i this ones about 160 square feet, and it sells for about $50,000. >> they don't look that small in the picture. >> there'soo hotel r about that size. >> if you think about it, they're using it as a hub to sleep.d go, change, eat, >> not actually live. >> yeah, why not. well, it seems the novelty

of the electric scooter in our area has worn off, at least for some people. >> so a problem coming with those convenient scooters is the mess of parking them. that s triggere road changes. a sign recently popped up, this one at george mason university's campus in arlington. scooters were being left at the door. this is not a problem just fe th campus. you'll likely spot one of these scooters not properly parked sometime today. the app gives directions on where and how to properly park the schoolers. that sign has since been removed. i see them everywhere. take a look at this yng man walking with caps team captain alex ovechkin. th's 18-year-old hunter. he suffers from a life-threatening disorder, but heas able to have his wish of meeting the washington capitals come true. >> ovie took it a step further ing him rock the red carpet with him before last night's home opener. our molette green caught up with

the teenager before his big moment. >> wishes do come true for hunter. >> why don't we bring in the stanley cup. >> up close with the one and only stanley cup.ea >> it's her than you think, right? >> oh, yeah. >> 35 pounds. >>al capowner ted leonsis delivered the beauty a a surprise to this caps fan from michigan, who's on the trip of a lifetime. >> i didn't t nk they'd be bringing in the cup. it's pretty crazy. >> i know this is a special time for you a youramily. we're thrilled that you're going to be here and come to the game tonight. yeah? >> yeah, this is insane. >> reporter: that look of surprise and joy on hunter's face is what his familyreamed of. a special gift for an 18-year-old who's had a tough couple of years battling a life-threatening gastrointestinal disorder. >> i'm just happy he gets to live his dream.

>> sow sweet. bout that. hunter had a cool couple of days with theaps. he joined the team at practice tuesday. he was able to spend some realtime with the team. he also hit the ice during prtice and turns out he's got some skills. after walki c the redpet with ovie himself, he stayed for the banner raising and the awesome win to top it all off. the caps taking it over boston last night. >> we're going to have more on that win coming up in just a few minutes. and also ahead on news 4 today, speak that's the message to local high schoolers who now have a new way to report school threats. >> we have the details on the program designed to help keep students safe. plus, buyer beware. buying a used rental c can save you cash. but it can cause major headaches late on it you don't know what to look for. this morning we're working for you witho ips on howve money and get the car you want.

and now the moment we've all been waiting for. [ cheers and applause ] >> wins come and go, but championship banners fly forever. the washington capitals hoisted the banner before last' ni season opener. there were cheers and even some tears. >> it's there forever. ll be able to show my kids this banner. go caps. go d.c. sports. >> plenty of emotion from the ns. hundreds of them gathered outside to watch the big moment together on the street there. the game actually wasn't tt bad either.

the caps beat the bruins 7-0. good morning, evyone. m aaron gilchrist. >> and i'm angie goff in for eun yang this mornin h we'le a full report on the big night, but first we want to kick things off with a check on your ride into work or wherever you're going, as ll as your forecast. >> melissa is standing by with a look at the roads and rails this morning. let's turn to chuck bell first. another hot day in this first week of tober. >>yeah, very warm start to the month of october. there are some coomor days ahead ow and saturday. but the warm pattern that we're in nowht will be r back on top of us for sunday and most of next week. four things to t know about forecast. another mild morning. temperatures are in the 60s now. close to 90 degrees this afternoon. chance of showers and srms moving in primarily later on in the evening hours. as i mentioned, it'll be cooler tomorrow. highs tomorrow only in th low 70s. about a 15-degree drop from this row afternoon.om right now, a couple of areas of thick fog. half-milenc visibility in p