victim. the information you'ren knowingly giving away whensh ring photos on line. good morning, everyone, i'm eun yang. >> i'm aaron gilchrest. it is 6:00.m. we want to begin with a check of the forecast and outliommute. messa mollet standing by with the first 4 traffic. >> we begin with meteorologist chuck bell and our forecast. how's it looking, ouck? >> to a very foggy start here first thing this morning. this is going to hang around for another two or three hours or so. so plan on a foggy start. the 80-degree weather that we enjoyed the day before yesterday is coming bac most areas will be in the mid 80s this afternoon. warm, very humid, as well. as a result, understormse likely to bubble up after about 3:00 today. the evening commute could well be hit by raindrops. take the umbrella on the way out the door. the thickest of the fog is for hethe most part in northern half of the viewing area. northern montgomery county, only .3 mile visibility,.3inmile warrenton, visibility a half

mile or less through the shenandoah valley.pe temturewise, it's comfortable. 50s to near 60 degrees for now. but once that fog lifts and the sunshine comes back out,pe temtures will start to climb. most everyone will be in the low to mid 60s by mid morning as the fog burns away. today's high, a toasty warm 87 degrees. and again, watch out for these afternoon thunderstorms. melissa, the commute in may be dry. the commute home likely won't be. >> good to know. taking a look northbound at 395 and glbe, i was initially going to show this picture because all of the fog which you have to watch out r that. seeing it on 395 and on the 270 corridor right now. we also have a crash here on the right shoulder. northbound 395 at glebe. doesn't seem to be slowing things too much right now. but just a heads-up. tyson's outer loop of the toll road, right lane is still blocked. bale of hay in the roadway. there. slowdown northbound 5 at huckleberry drive. two-way traffic using the southbound lanes, this is a fatal crash investigation. so the northbound lanes are

still closed this morning. in the districtnd westbou66 after the roosevelt bridge, right side blocked. we are following breaking news in montgomery county. it aechts happened yet again, robbers smashed through the front window of a 7-eleven looking to steal an atm. >> news4'sst j finch is live at the scene for us with more. porter: just imagine being inside the september 11th when a pickup truck smasheevthrough. thi jump out and make off with that atm. that's what happened in the big mess there at this tech road 7-eleven close to 3:15 this morning. montgomery county police telling us at least two thieves were inside that pickup truck, and here on scene they tell me theyd got in an out very quickly here, striking overnight at this store in the 12200 block of tech road right off the columbia pike. a place where people stop very

often overnight, but especially rly in the rning, this time, though, they'll have to go somewhere else. the investigation at this time is going inde and outsidef the store. police working to find witnesses as well as service video to try to piece together what happened here. who these people are, and more about that vehicle they got away in. we can tell you that this is now the sixth seven smash-and-grab heist since march. most have been in prince george's county. deviation. a we saw one in northeast d.c. now this one in montgomery county. of course, the big question -- are these all the same ople, the same crew? police now say that's under investigation, as well. they do know in this case now looking for a older model pickup truck that got away with that atm t re ahe store. we're live in silver spring, i'm justin finch, news4. back to you. >> all right. thank you. fr an aan-american scholar

and professor is demanding change at a local school. he says his grandson was called the "n" word and threatened with violence. >> this allegedly happened tuesday at horace mann elementary school in d.c s michael aarys his grandson, 6-year-old max, was running to lunch with friends when another student called him the "n" word and threatened to shoot him. a police report wasle and a letter went home to pants. dyson says this isn't the first time something like this has happened at school. >> what do you o aboute systematically? what are the institutional mechanisms that can be put inpl e to, a, be proactive and address this kind of situation, and b, raise the consciousness so that young people and staff members are-- are aware? a the d.c. school system said the allegations under investigation. >> we're getting word about concern among parents at a mr. chairman county school on. tuesday a gun went off in a classroom at hilton high schl. now some are wondering if enough is being done to keep students

safe. the student bught the weapon into the building to show his friends. parents say it was two hours before police and school offdials realize the gun had been fired. while no one was hurt, parents say that wasted time could have been the difference between life and death. coming up in our next half hour, you will hear from the parents h and learn they say can be done to improve safety. it's 6:05. students atnc charlotte are still struggling to deal with tuesday's deadly campus shooting. a large crowd gathered last ght for a prayer vigil to honor the victims. 19-year-old ellis parhere and 21-year-old riley howell were killed. ho tackled the gunman as the shooter opened fire in the classroom. lice arrested the suspect within minutes after arriving. four other people were hrt in nge shooting. addi to the tension in charlotte laht nig, another deadly shooting took place near campus. one person was killed an off-campus apartment complex. police say t victim is not a student. we're also told the iident has

no affiliation to unc charlotte. 6:06. the house judiciary committee will hold a hearing toy to discuss attorney general william barr's handling of the mueller report. but it will take ple without lliam barr. the attorney general announcedni last ght that he would not hearing.for the democrats who control the committee had plann to allow a lawyer to question barr. the justice department argued be that would inappropriate, but the democrats held their round. as a result, the attorney general said he would not appear today. after barr announced that he wouldn't peer on capitol hill, theit comme chairman, jerry nadler accused barr of being, quote, tirefied -- terrified.te >> yay he answered questions related to the mueller reporhand conversations wit the white house. >> has the president or anyone at the white house ever asked or suggested that you open an investigation of anyone? yes or no, please, sir. the president or anybody else? >> seems you'd remembin somethlike that and be able

to tell us. >> i don't know. i wouldn't say suggts. >> hinted? >> i don't know. >> during that same line of questioning, senator kamala harris asked barr whetherad he h reviewed the evidence collected by m eller before making his decision against pursuing obstruction charges against the president. barr said he hadn't. before appearing before the committee, he said he would not complwith a subpoena to hand over theda un-rected lurl report. the committeeel is liky tog bein contempt proceedings against him.o hist was made in annapolis but not in the way we were expecting. maryland lawmakers elected delegate adrienne joernes as th first woman and first african-american to hold the job. at this time yesterday, she wasn't even a candidate for it. baltimore delegate maggie mcintosh you see right there and prince george's county dallas derek davis were batting for t

-- battling for the position. in an effort to unite the party, both dropped out. jones takes over the position that was held for 16 years by mike bush who died last month. >> a surprising turn of events. something you don't see every day in politics. to see the change in the folks who were originally vying for it seemed to have enough votes. then completely different. residents from texas to michigan are dealing with a powerful storm. >> that system has already produced tornadoes, heavy rain and hail, leaving behin a lot of damage. news4 cory smith has the latest. >> reporter: good morning. yeah, that time o year again. severe weather season. talking with b a violent system that continues its march across the nation's midsection. millions of people are in its paths. and this is what's goingleft over. the national weather service says more than two dozen tornadoes have touched down across five states and the threat is not over. residents in the storm's path not only dealing with the damage, but you can see there, the emotions that come with losing everything. >> feel sick to my stomach.

it's hard to believe that mother nature can tear stuff up like this. >> it's all the way up to my steps, and itco ming in. >> reporter: waterways in dearborn theigh michigan, are getting so bad that tey have asked the governor to declare a state of emergency. may and -- a man and woman heev bn killed in separate incidents. the damage piling up in certans sectf the country. back to you. >> thank you. d> we're working to learn mother nature aboble shooting in -- learn more about ainouble sloog southeast washington on d street. two men were shot. one was not conscious and not ng breathi at last k. we're working to learn whether an arrest has been made.i polce are look could for two teens wanted in connection to a brutal murders near a metro station. late sunday d.c. police found a man who had been stabbed several times on 14th street not far from the potomac avenue metro

stop. police now believe his attackers are xavier culbreath and jada smith. both arers 18-yeald. culbreath is wanted for first-degree murder. smith is wanted for robbery. call police if youhave any information about this case. a reporter: the driver of dump truck that hit and killed a homeless man in prince george's county yesterday will not fatesh rges. this happened while the man was walking across the kenilworth avenue ramp to route 50. he w on crushes apparently recovering from a broken leg. he had been hit by a car a few weeks ago. we don't know the victim's real name, but his friends knew him as concrete. they say he was a homeless panhandler. 6:10. new, the national parks says it will not move up the timeline for safety changes on the southern end the george washington parkway. earlier a bad crash killed a tax driver and lt three others seriously hurt. a representative of virginia had joined lawmakers saying the road is dangerous and needs updates imediately. the park servi currently

gathering crashgate on the road. next month it will hold meetings to get information,input from the community on how to improve the road. safetyre ratings important when buying a car or a baby stroller.li now, arngton has a special safety label for its bars and restaurants. the arlington restaurant initiative program that trains restaurant and bar employees on how to deal with sexual assault cases, crowd control, and other safety emergencies. 30 of the city's 400 bars d restaurantsre involved. >> going out for a date or h meeting witfriends, knowing that they're goi to be safe. >> statistics show violent crime in arlington was down in 2018, but drunkenness is still a problem. >> 6:11. ahead, an unusual move bow the d.c. mayor to stop crime in the district. >> what she's proposing and why not everyone is on board.

for the first time in 20 years,enovations havebeen made to the white house bowling alley. we're taking you inside for a look. chuck? all right. utstarting to think abo the weekend. here's future weather on your weekend. saturday likely to start out kind of cloudy and dry. and the rain may holdil ternhe eni hos of ountff at rday. i can't guarantee that. it will look rain saturday into early sunday morning. then the rain should be coming to an end late sunday afternoon.

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it was a show filled with big moments. madonna performed, paula abdul apparently still can perform. it was not -- >> you better stop with that. w >> in't all about the nostalgia. taylor swift performed her --ong >> "me." >> the jonas brothers took the stage with the comeback. it was drake who owned the night. he won top artist.or a victthat gives him the destruction of being the artist with the most billboard awards ever. >> that was bts. >> the kpop group sflp. >> y-- group? >> yes. look at you. a lotf boy bands. this morning, d.c. merriayo bowser has a new way curb crime. >> it incl es an unusual step that not everyone thinks will rk. >> reporter: surrounded by d.c. police command staff, mayor b murielwser announced her plan to reduce crime over the summer. > part of the initiative will involve sending more officers into neighborhoods that are

experiencing higher volumes of violent crime. >> reporter: this summer, d.c. police will focus on high crime neighborhoods mostly east of the river. >> we are laser focused on violent crime before it happens. wser's rter: part of laser focus is on the 55 murders so far this year.e thayor has taken the unusual step of sitting face to face with detectives to have them briefher oneach investigation. >> i want to be able to go into every community and let them know that i'm concerned about the violence that's happening in the community, let k familiesnow that we are concerned for their oved ones and what happened to their loved ones, why the violence happened, and how we're going to bring people to justice. >> reporter: in the district, mark seagraves, news4. t's 6:16. the u.s.ch capitol police ef is retiring. matthew verdorosa took over as chief three years ago after serving 30 years in law enforcement. he was chief when a gunman opened fire in alexandria at a

republan party baseball practice in 2017. in a letter to the capitol police board, he said one of the proudest days of my life was when i was sworn in as chief of police. thank you for your service, and angratulations. it's beenund since the nixon administration. now the white house bowling alley has undergone a facelift. melania trump oversaw the renovations. you see the logo for her be best campaign on the screens there. this is the first big change since th clinton administration. the first lady invited children of the secret service to help break in the new bowling alley. looks fun. fancy shoes, too. >> kbryeah. :17. time to check in on the forecast with chuck bell. is it going to warm up for real this time? will. >> yeah, forreal. yesterday was a big crash on the forecast. really thought most areas would be up into the 80s yesterday. never happened.

barely made it to 70 yesterday at international airport. even fredericksburg was only 73. richmond, virginia, yesterday, 88 degrees. so t warm air was just barely to our south yesterday. it will return this afternoon. so be ready for another warm and humid day much like the day before yesterday was. right now, 60 with fog in shington, d.c. dense fog advisory for the district and arlington county. fairfax, prince george's, montgomery, loudoun county, ouryland, virginia. sun's up thoughan't see it because of the clouds and the fog. now that the sun's up, that will start toat off the fogginess that's out there. mid 50s in the western suburbs. about 60 from downtown all the way to the chesapeake bay. already 70 in st. mary's county. the warm air is lying in wait. it's coming our way this afternoon. thunderstorms will bubble up after about two :or 3:00. storms around 85 to 87 degrees. there you see on future weather

a likelihood for a round of u therstorms. not a big, severe weather threat, but certainly warm enough and humid enough where some of those storms could pack a little bit of a bunch. doug and amelia will be here during the afternoon hours to keep you safe and advised ofany potential for severe weather. not a high chance, but any individual storm could have gusty winds and frequent ligheing and som pretty brief periods of heavy rain. that rain chance moves down into southern maryland later on in the evening. vewe'll do it o again tomorrow much like today. mid 80s with afternoon storms tomorrow. hit-and-miss rain ces on your saturday. rain likely saturday night until noontime at least on your sunday. now over to first 4 traffic. melissa? good morning. a couple of now.ems in virginia westbound 66 at lee highway, we had the ramp blocked. the ramp reopened, but are you going to see police out ere if you're heading out soon. it's causing a delay of a short time ago. merryfield, eastbound 66 before the beltway, take a look, slow

headed inbound. northbound at glebe, right lane is blocked. wanted to show you because of the fog there, as well. inner loop, outer loop, no compints. bryantown, northbound 5 at huckleberry drive,two-way traffic using southbound lanes. northbound closed because of a fatal crash investigation. tral times on 66 and 95, not bad. 270, not battle either. top of the beltway, 95 to 270, e 33 miles p hour. remember to listen to wtop, 103.5 f.m. when you hoin your cap

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>> reporter: take a look at this photo. you see a boy sitting at a table playing with a bowl and a spoon. there's not much else you cin tell by lat it. but if you download the file, you get much more information the picture was taken using an iphone 5 at 4:08 p.m. on june 28th, 2015, in norwalk, connecticut. in fact, we know the location down to the exact gps coordinates. >> when you take a photo with a digital camera or a phone, details about things like when, where, and how the image are created are captured and storeda automay in the file in what's called exif data, exchangeable image file format. and that information travels with the photo wherever you send it, wheer you're posting it on line or sharing it with a friend in a text. >> reporter: reports reports t sayshe exif data can be useful if you store them in google phot or icloud photos, it allows you to search by date and location.

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right now, breaking news. an overnight atm heist. it is the sixth one in recent weeks, and we're learning new details about how the crooks pulled off the crime ts time. >> reporter: the tragic death of a student has the fairfax county school board making changes to keep your childrefe. coming up, more on the important vote that's coming to ght.

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visibility in manassas, leesburg, winchester, visibility under a third of a mile. kids, kep your speeds down and low beams on so you don't have any tragedies with the kids out there waiting by the roadsides. temperatu ts now, mostly in 50s in the suburbs. 54 now at dulles airport. 54 in prince george's county. armer air just down to our south. it's already 70 down in st. mary's county. temperatures today, easily jumping way into the 80s. about 87 for the high temperature around here today.mb take thella with you because there is a likelihood of thunderstorms to develop between 2:00 and 3:00, and we'rekely to be right on the i-95 corridor in time for the evening commute. the evening ride home could be slowed by raindrops. good to know. thank yke. we'll tat because it is dry at this point. brennantown, northbound 5 at huckleberry drive, we had two lanes getting by in the south lanes. this has reopened now. that is good news. this is a fatal crash

viinvestigation invol two vehicles, a head-on crash from last night. all lanes are now open. erryfield, eastbound 66before the beltway, left lane is blocked by the crash. that's causing pretty significant delay as you're headed inbound. northbound 395 at glebe, crashes the right side. have a truck there trying to keep everybody to the left. inner loop, outer loop of the beltway, no real claints there. this problem actually just cleared. we had inbound new york avenue after north capital with a right lane blocked. that's just cleared. >> thanks. 6:32. more on the breaking news. another atm robbery is under investigation this morng. this time at a seven in silver spring. at least two thies smashed into the front of the store with a pickup truck overnight. this is at least the sixth atm heist in our area since march.us news4'sn finch will have a live report in minutes. 33. new details about a gun scare at

a local high school. liince william county po say the 16-year-old who brought the gun to hyln high srool in wooge may be connected to the shooting of a student last week. >> no one was hurt tuesday aft noon, but parentsid it took hours for school officials to realize a gun had gone off. >> for two hours if they were -- the sense that it happened, they were literally walking around the school as it nothif nothing happened. how do we breent this? do the -- prevent do the kids have to have backpacks in the school? obviously it was concealed in a backpack. >> police soces say not getting a lot of information from students contributed to the delay inng findi the gun. many students reported seeing the gun earlier but didn't report it until after the gun went off. stoday forecast i set to take -- today fairfax county is set to take steps to make schools safer for students. the school board will make a major decision involving motorized partitions.

>> this comes afr the death of a third grader. megan mcgrath is live in fairfax with details. megan? >> reporter: the hope here is to prevent a tragic accident like this from ever happening again. tonight, the fairfax county school board is expected to vote in favor of shifting money from the reserve fund to get safety improvements going faster. now, was m of last year when third grader wesley lapicky was killed by a motorized artition at franconia elementary school. he was helping a teacher operate an when he was -- operate it when he was caught between the wall and the waretition.- the board is partition. the board is expected to free up money to install safety sensors in the existing per fashions. it would -- partitions. teit would dect a person in the danger zone and stop the motor. the school board is expected to shift money from the reserve fund so the work can be done this summer. >> we will be retrofitting 127

moveable walls to ensure that we ave motion sensors so that if an object or a person comes in contact, they will stop. >> reporter: so the money would be used to retrofit those partitins that are already i place in the school system. and of course, new partitions that are going in in the future, they will already have the safety sensors. back to yyo. >> thank this morning we're learning the names ofpe two le accused in a smash-and-grab robbery in the district. take a look. d.c. police say that kwan neil and devonte brooks are wanted for stealing items including designer handbags worth several ousands of llars. surveillance video captured it thehieves smashing the display glass at the secondi consignment store in dupont circle last week. you see them grabbing the bags. police are asking for information that leads to an arrest. 6:35.

it is going to be spectacular. a major transformation of one of washington's most historic buildings is almost complete. >> yeah. apple says it will open its flagship storethn d.c. inside carnegie library next saturday, may 11th. the tech giants will share somee space thein mt. vernon square with a new d.c. history center. the six-week festival with local artists is plannedfs part o the grand opening there. andrew carnegie originally donated the building to the city in 03. > it's now 6:36. coming up, trying to buy a home is getting harder. now a new study is showing which jobs will have thee toughest tim buying in our area. first, here's a look at what we have for you tomorrow on "news4 today." >> reporter: fasten our seat belts, and let's go. whre you can go on one tank of gas. watch us live friday on "news4 today."

we are back with a video you will be seeing all over social meditoday. uh. a line drive hit ended up breaking the arm of clevelan indians pitcher cory kluber. this after he released a pitch against the marlined it firack and struck his right forearm. >> wash him. he's still playing. >> ouch. my gosh. experts say the ball left the bat at 102 miles per hour. do you know how hard a baseball is in high goodness. he ended up leaching early. he will be determine when he e-ma'll be ab play again. that is painful. >> and heck tried to pi it up with the other hand. i'd have been a pile of tears, screamin for my mama. >> 25 people had to come help you.ri allt. good news for chick-fil-a lovers. >> d.c.'s first freestanding

chick-fil-a is now open. it's located on market street in northeast. that's the dta crossing shopping center. you know where the costco is there. in chick-fil-a fashion, dozens e camped out erday before the doors opened for a chance to get r a free chick-fil-a year. >> my son plays baseball near there. i'm telling you, this is going to be a game changer. here's your morning business report. >> rep ter: good morning, i'm frank holland at cnbc headquarters. a lot of young adults out there say they are already saving up to buy a home. a new survey by bank of america finds more than half of the gen-z demographic or people beeen 18 and 25 say they plan to be homeowners in the next five years. to reach their goal, they would rather use $5,0 tosave for a down payment than o a dream wedding or to go shopping orn even o a vacation. about half say starting a family is a top reason for buying a house. with your cnbc business report, i'm frank holland. >> thank you. ling at the home market in our area, it is tough. a new study shows that most of

our achers, first responders, and restaurant workers can barely afford a third of the homes for sale in d.c. thet median home lis price in the area is more than $434,000. that's up 1.15% from a year ago. teachers can only afford 32% of the available homes. and that rcentage is even lower for first responders at 26.5%. restaurant workers can only afford 1.5% of available homes. it's expensive to live around here, chuck. >> it sure is. if are going to be going down to the baseball game, it's a 4:00 game between the nationals and the cardinals. may want to pack your poncho. it will be warm and humid. temperatures in the mid 80s.rs thunderms likely between 3:00 and 5:00 at the ballpark. i'll show you future weather and talk about the weekend outlook eastbound on 66, have a pretty good delay headed inbound. a lot of fog. this is the scene across the area. we're going to look at our other

trouble spots coming up. take a look here. the rime tape is up, 7-eleven closed down. the latest store to be hit in an overnight smash and g b. this time the thieves got what they were looking for. more coming up.

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your time is 6:44. the house judiciary committee may be iviewing an empty chair today. attorney general william barr said he will not be at today's meeting where house democrats plan to have an attorney

question him on his handling of the special counsel investigation. >> now the justice said that d that woul be inappropriate and then barr said heould not show up. this all comes after heavy the cism of his summary of special counsel report and his remarks to congress on wednesday. for more, we go live to nbc's peter alexander at the white house for us this morning. peter, good ing. >> reporter: hey, good morning to you. you're right. democrats are blasting the attorney general's testimony after thats contentiou hearing before the senate judiciary committee on wednesday. the democrats accusing william barr of givingolitical cover to president trump, some even calling for barr to resign. as you mentioned, he was due to appear before the house but iary committee today, the justice department announced that he's just notoing to appear. certainly not under the proposed format. as for the president, he's made it clear that he's standing by the attorney general, praising him in an interview overnight. even supporting william barr's decision noto testify before he house today. it, of course,is a move that

could lead democrats to subpoena barr to try to force him to testify. they've already warned that they could hold him in contempt of congress. more of the escalating battle when we see you a few minutes from n coming up on "today." back to you. >> see you then. thank you. new video this morning of the president and first lady g attendin dinner ahead of the national day of prayer. more than 100 people from faiths all over the world were at the h whiteuse last night. the president led the group in mourning for people targeted by violence and hate because of their religion. the president extended his sympathies to muslim victims of the ristchurch shootings, recent bombings and arsons. the president and first lady will attend a national day of prayer service later today. i'm cory smith at the live desk with a look at a new quinnipiac national poll that came in. it shows that more than half of american voters say that donald trump committed crimes before he became prsident.

this compares to the results of 64% back in march 5th in a ha surthey asked the same question -- survey that asked the same question. that was before the release of the mueller report. abe survey also asks if the president is ve the law. more than half of those responded saying yes, another takeaway, the majority of voters say robert mueller conducted a fair investigation. they surveyed 1,044 voters across the country. the margin of ror was plus or minus 3.5 points. back to you. >> thank you. back to the breang news. a smash and grab, a scene we've seen play out at 7-elevens all over the past two months. >> this morning it happened i aga robbers have smashed through he front a wind of a 7-eleven looking to steal an atm. news4's justin finch joins live from outside of the store with more. justin, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. it does appear we're telling you

about these almost weekly now. and this time this case at this 7-eleven in montgomery county, police are telling us that thieves did get away with the machine. idi want to take you to v from earlier as the investigation was ramping up at this tech road iceleven overnight. we are told pole are looking for an older model pickup they say smashed through here. thieves jumping out here, grabbing the atm, and then lling very quickly away. it's a ene that's become all too familiar here in our area. i do want to show you a mapo lay out how frequently we have been seeing these happen over the past few months here. 40s, we have a case now today -- of course, we have a case now today on tech road in silver spring. last friday it was south dakota avenue and northeast. a 7-eleven there. and then a few weeks before that, april 17th, on a varnum mt. rainier, a 7-eleven there. april 10th, upper marlboro, march 27th edgewood road in college park, march 13th at

fin' snortore in west lanham hills. the first four happened in prince george's county. last week it was northeast d.c.n g we're talking about montgomery county. back out live, a big mess left behind. another hallmark of the cases here. now right now, police are working to see if they can find surveillance video and as much of it as possible to get more angles on this getaway vehicle and the people they believe who were inside and got away with the machine. working to learn, too, if this l case ked to the other five. we're live here in silver spring. i'm justin finch, news4, back to you. >> a right. thank you. >> police are looking for teenaged suspects connected to a stabbing near a metro station. late sunday d.c. police found a man stabbed several times on 14th street not far from the potomac avenue metro stop. xavier culbreath and jada smith

on suspected, bo 18. culbreath is wanted for first-degree murder, smith is wanted for robbery. police want to hear from anyone who might have information about the case. an african-american scholar and professor is demanding change at a local school. he says hgr ndson was called the "n" word and talented with violence. michael aaron dyson says 6-year-old max was running to lunch with friends when another stunt called him the "n" word and threatened to shoot him. this allegedly happened tuesday at horace mann elementary school in d.c. a police rort was led, and a letter went home to parents. dyson says this isn't the first time somethinike this has happened at school. >> what do you do about this systematically? what a the institutional mechanisms that can be put in place to, a, be proactive and address the uation, and be, raise the kshconsciousness so yg people and staff members are aware? >> the d.c. school system said the allegations are under investigation. makiyah wilson is being

remembered through a new foundation called makiyah scouts. it's meant to empower young girls like her. these are the first to carry on makiyah wilson's name through the program. the mentoring program met for the first time last night. we'll check in with chuck bell on what at. gloomy st a whole lot of fog, too. >> yes, indeed. still very thick in areas, as well. be careful this morning. visibility is low, this is the view from our city camera. there's the north end of the runways there at reagan national airport. foggy conditions out across much of the region this morning. temperatures are in the 50s to near 60 degrees. hardly a breeze blowing just yet. w so once get the wind to turn back up out of the south and increase a little, get the sunshine going, it will help eat

the fog away. zero visibility now in leesburg, zero visibility in winchester, and a lot of areas now wellr unde mile for visibility. so take it easy out there this morning. temperatures, mid to upper 50s in the shenandoah valley. a lot of mid 50s through the area.

here's your ten-day forecawa. m and humid and stormy today and tomorrow afternoon. prettygh hi chances for the saturday, through the first three kwours quarterr sunday. and now to melissa mollet, she's wearing yellow. does that mean caution? >> no it means i would really le to see the sunshine a get rid of the fog. i look like a school bus. >> you look lovely. >> look out. eastbound 66 at nutley, we had an earlier crash here that is now out of the way. that's good. aaron earlier texted and said, is that yellow or orange, i said orange, bus, taxi.ti transpor theme here. northbound, bw parkway before powder mill road. right lane blocked by a disabled vehicle. a slowdown there. outer loop, inner loop, we don't have much of an issue. same through prince george's county. things have cleared up, as well.

travel times, virginia,66 fairfax county to the beltway, we're slow because of the crash. going 66 miles per hour.qu ntico to the beltway, 51 miles per hour. 270 looks good. 26 miles per hour. remember to listen to wtop 103.5 f.m. when you hop in your car. guys? >> i like that dress. >> thanks. 6:54. the sentiment and love behind some family heirlooms can be difficult to explain to people. >>oor example, people just see a sword in this picture. but a local family sees generations of special memories. this world war i sword has been used to cut every wedding cake in one family since 1918. it's supposed to cut another bake in five weeks, it's missing. a family member shipped it to the area using u. s. this week the family received an e-mail saying the package was lost, and upts was closing the claim. >> they offered us an insignificant monetary, you

know, compensation for it. $100? >> $200 they said. again, you can't put a price on the 100 years-plus of memories. >> now we reached out to u.p.s. they told us that despite the claim being closed,he company is continuing to investigate this missing packag y >>u'd hope it would show up somewhere. and the person who actually retives it will return i to the rightful owner. it's just a shame to think it won't be used in more weddings. >> fingers crossed. hi. >> thanks for being here. >> 6:55. here are four things to know. some of the biggest names in music won big at the billboard sic awards. last night drake became the most-awarded artist in billboard history. other winners included artistsdi inclug ariana grande, cardi b., maroon five, and a recap of the awards coming up on "today." the fairfax county school board is set to approve funding for motorized partitions'

senso sensors. we've been covering the safety issue related to the motorized partitions after a third grader died last year. tie child somehow became caught between the partion and the wall. sensors will stop if from closing -- stop it from closing on soming it might come in contact with. leonardtown road is back open after a deadly trash in bryantown. two cars crashed head onm this orning killing one of the drivers. we'll update you as we find out more informationt abouwhat happened. the suspected gunman in the universtty of north carolina a charlotte rampage will be in court today. police say trystan terrell fired multiple shots inside a classroom on tuesday, killing two and injured four others. there's more ahead on the "today" show. the five-day forecast, warm and stormy. both today and tomorrow. these storms this afternoon, be likely to right on the capital beltway during the peak of the commute.

bring the umbrella, and remember the ride home will be a little slow. >> not so fun for my friends driving tonight. eastbound 66 at nutley, that's a slow spot. the earlier crash cleared out of the way. remember, northbound bw parkway before powder mill, right lane is blocked, and we're seeing those slowdowns, as well. >> all right. thank you. that is the news for today. thanks for starting your day with us. >> we'll see y after the "today" show. enjoy your day. >> make it areathursday, tev

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ood mornin good morning. epic clash. the attorney general and c membs gress stare each other down in a combatic five-hour showdown over the mueller report. >> america deserves better. you should resign. >> ieel your answer was purposely misleading. >> that's the masterful hair splitting. >> there were notes taken of the call. >> may we have those notes? no. >> barr defending his actions taking shots at mueller and refusing to show for yet another hearing today. what's congress' next move? a life report from whington just ahead. dangerous and destructive. overnight, another round of severe weath slams the