h earing today. what he objected to and what democrats will do next. the latestb smash-and-g robbery, the crime is becoming a weekly event the a 7-eleven stores in our area. a plook at whatlice know about today's bad guys. plus i'm tracking ne ecord warmth in the forecast and this will help to touch off showers and thunderstorms. the latest timing in e updated forecast. >> announcer: "news4 midday" starts >w. >> good morning. and welcome to "news4 midday,"

i'm melissa mollet. >> and i'm erika gonzalez. breaking news out of baltimore. there are reports the city's mayor will resign today. a lawyer for catherine pugh is making an announcementid am growing requests to resign. she received $800,000 from a hospital network and others that did work with the city for her book. her home was raided by the fbi so a news conference is scheduledfor this afternoono discuss the mayor'se but publisher and ceo francis tony draper said she will resign. thefirst-term democrat became mayor in late 2016. look for updates through our nbc washington app. attorney general barr has informed us that he will not appear today. >> house chairman jerrold nadler

announciha t william barr thclined to testify before committee.r nadle said barr objects to asking questions fromf staf counsel due to the possibility they might discuss sensitive topics in the mueller report. ow er awinth theattorney general o wednesday it is not hard to see why barr might want to stay away. >> and now democrats are saying he needs to step downpotts has capitol hill. t> you elect peoplet are supposed to be able to do their own talking. > the administration hase nerve to dictate our procedures. reporter: so barr is a no-show after five hours in the hot seat yesterday. >> the letter is snitty. >> reporter: talking about this letter from robert mueller, raising concerns that barr's summary to congress left out important context on why they did not carge president trump with obstruction of justice. >> you did not question or look at the underlying evidence that supports the conclusions in the report? >> no. > reporter: democrats want barr to resign and hedefended himself insisting mueller's

issue is with media coverage, not his summary. >> he was very clear with me he was not suggesting that we had misrepresented his report. >> we need to subpoena the notes that were taken of the conversation between mueller and barr. >> reporter: republicans are urging democrats to backf. of >> enough already. it is over. >> if this is their whole argument, ey ain't got nothing. >> reporter: next up, him into testify on maywith mueller testifying, but they have not confirmed that date. tracie potts, nbcnews, washington. right now the president and first lady are participating in a national day of prayer service in the rose garden of the white house. this is a live picture for you. the national day of prayer is an annual event held on the first thursday of may inviting people of all faiths topray for the nation. last night president tmp ru

ed o er to end violencect relige a new face has entered the 2020 presidentialat race. s michael bennet of colorado is now the 21st democrat running for president. he went on "cbs this morning" to .announcement. he said he and his campaign delayed the announcement while he was being treated for prostate cancer ands now cancer--free ao the fer head of denver public schools is known as a policy-oriented moderate. now time to take a look at our weatr sand near record heat today. >> it seems like the temperatures have been kind of up and down all week. so where does that put today, amelia? >> well we'll be hot out there with high temperatures near 90re deg. these are the current temperatures now. 74 in washington. es78 degre in manassas. 70 in frederick, and 66 in leesburg. what i'm showing you now are the dew point temperatures. this is how we track the humidity. when the dew point 60 or higher it is humid.

so it is muggy out there for this time of the year. we're at 63 dewmoint terature in washington. so noticing that humidity especially over to manassas where theer dew point th is 67. so not only are we hot on your thursday afternoon, but humid well with the high temperature of 87. now the record high today, 89 degrees. we'llome close but i don't think we'll break it. this is the only day in the month of may where the record high temperature is in the 80s. every other record to break is in the 90s. so kind of an attainable record but with the heat and humidity, ladies, we'll see showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. i'm going to have more on the comingwhen they are moving up with future weather at 11:2. >> thank you, ma'am. in about an hour or so, d.c. mayor muriel bowser is set to unveil new marijuana legislation to allow for the sale of recreational cannabis, currently residents could grow and possess small amounts of marijuana but they cannot p legally purchase .

according to "the was" ngton post,e mayor's bill has the alcoholic beverage regulation administration overseeing marijuana sales. all right, here we gon. agai it is the scene that has played out again and again and again over the past couple of month >> this morning it happened again. robbers smashed through the front window of a 7-eleven looking to ste an atm. >> sounds familiar, right? justin finch has more. >> reporter: sunrise over yet another 7-eleven atm smash-and-grab scene. no shoppers, but lots of investigators working this store on the 12,200 block of tech road in a lver spring area shopping plaza off the columbia pike. >> this place is so busy. they are open 24 hours a day. very surprised. >> reporter: this began at about 3:10 this morning.y montgomeunt police say two suspects dressed in black hoodies forced 7-eleven workers rdwn to the floor. then a person behind the wheel of a pickup truck plowed

through the store front. they load up the atm and took off. the workers were not hurt. up close you really see the impact taking window and the -- the frame and the cash register. at a place where so many start their days, this was a tough sight. >> i think they need to increase the security around because i think they're hitting this area more. it is like they target the area because think the 7-eleven up in new hampshire got hit. >> reporter: he is right. that happen. on tuesday same m.o. as today's heist. the suspects dressed in black with faces concealed and the store owners not hurt but the atm also stolen. today there is a trend showing no sign of slowing down, i heard about a couple in the county. and even in baltimore. >> reporter: since march several local 7-elevens have been targeted for atm theft. last week a south dakota avenue store was hit in northeast d.c.

and from march to april there were four hit in prince george's county. police in all jurisdictions working to see if these cases are somehow connected. justin finch, nbc4. developing right now, there is a search for a dark-colored suv an arundel county poce say an 8-year-old boy was hit by an suv boarding a school bus this morning. we're told this happened in area of shoreline boulevard and bayou bend bouleva in laurel. the child is expected to be okay. police are asking anybody in the ea who may have witnessed this or maybe you have some surveillance cameras in your yard that caut this, please call police. police are looking for a pair of teen suspects in connection to a deadly stabbing near aetro station late on sunday. d.c. police found a man who had een stabbed several times on 14th street. not far from the potomac avenue metro stop. police n believe his attackers are xavier cul and jada smith, .

i went to howard community aollege and i took an acting class as a l because i thought it would be an easy "a" and hi a professor that challenged me and before i knew it -- >> you were bitten by the bug. >> yeah. badly. >> maybe one day. what do you think will surprise people about oslo? >> i think both the people ill -- will maybe take for granted how dangerous and intense an experience this was for people involved.e peoon't know that. and the play while dealing with something so heavy it is very funny. even we were surprised that once wgot into performances that people were laughing so much and findingor hum in something that is very heavy. but what is great about the play is it is dealing with human beings and we get to see that kind of human angle on it.

>> thank you so much for being here. good luck.an you have her couple of weeks left for the run. so the lanes burg theater is the home for oslo through may 19th. erika. the busy summer travel season is just around the corner so coming t up, airlines getting the best and worst ra t

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>> oh, my -- >> take a look at that. much of the middle of the country is seeing a second day of severe weather and all part of it. that is unbelievable. the storm system has produced more than two dozen tornados including this one captured on camera in baylor county, texas, yesterday. officials say two pveple ha been killed in oklahoma and millions of people remain in the storm's dangerous path. back here at home, 74 degrees. at least it looks like it is a sunnier day than yesterday. yesterday was much more gray. and some areas were higher than we were but it looks like it is shaping up to be a nice day. >> a nice day. defatally feeling like summer. warmth in the forecast. yesterday we had the onshore flowro pducing a marine layer like san francisco weather, thar is our weathesterday. but today a totally different story. the temperature roller coaster continues this week. here is a look at orm team 4

radar. most of the area completely dry. i'm tracking a lone shower back into morgan county, west virginia, trying to move into washington county in maryland. but aside from that, we're dry and plenty of sunshine out there. a wider look of storm team radar and the system causing that severe weather that erika was talking about and t is is impacting our area. that will continue to do so. right on through the weekend. so here is a look at yourain outlook. this afternoon we'll have some scattered showers and thunderstorms out there. mainly between about 2:00 and 8:00 p.m. on friday new information coming in is telling me that most of the day isooking mainly dry. overnight where we'll see rain moving through the area. on saturday, some late-day showers, maybe few rumbles of thunder are possible on sunday. some scattered showers around, potentially throughout the day but plenty of dry time as well. it is not until monday where we see completely dry weather. so two takeaways from this. when you look at this,k it loo like we'll have a lot of rainy

weather. this is that summer-like pattern where you might get a storm or might stay completely dry. you'll have much more dry time than wno time. hing to cancel or change your weekend plans over just yet and the second takeaway. it is a tricky forecast. and it is still evolving. erre is future weath this afternoon. at lunchtime, notice we're still dry within the next minutes. even moving toward 2:00 p.m. we're keeping it dry out there. once we get between 20 and 3:00 with help of the heat and humidity among other factors we start to see showers and thunderstormsround the -- the lou ray andrg leesbu area. scattered showers and thunderstorms out there and any storms today could have very heavy rainfall. some strong gusty winds and maybe even hail. the evening commute could track scatter showers around the area and by 5:00 the potential for rain anywhere and estcially in d.c. metro region as we look toto 6:00 ght, still tracking

scattered showers and thunderstorms and still humid out there. otherwise the humidity really sticks with us through saturday. the threat for any orminess winds down between 8:00 and 9:00 p.m. can't rule out an isolated shower overnight and then maybet some lday showers and thunderstorms tomorrow. i'm going to have a closer look at friday and your weekend coming up right around 11:40, ladies. >> thank you, ma'am. summer safety plan. how d.c. leaders are working to stop a spike in crime. and trying to buy a home is getting harder. and now a new study is showing which jobs will have the toughest time being i our area.n

we are foinowing break news out of baltimore right now. there are reports that the city mayor will resign today. here is whate know. the lawyer for catherine pugh is making animportant announcement on the pressure to resign.

the mayor is accused of receiving roughly $800,000 from a hospital networnd others that did business with the city of baltimore for copies of her healthy holly children's book. her home was raided by the fbi and a news conference is scheduled for this afternoon to discuss her feature but it is said she will resign. she became mayor in late 2016 and look for updates on the breaking story all day on news4 and in the nbc washington app. and new at 11:30, with a rescue earlier this morning in the district, firefighters responding using blocks to free a person that was partially trapped under a jeep. this is right at georgia avenuep and berrylace in northwest. just a couple of blocks from howard university. so we're told the pedestrian had serious injuries. but is expected to be okay. investigators are looking into what led up to the crash in the firs place. right now d.c. leaders are

searching for answers and proposing changeso t stop the violence at the city homiode rateinuing to climb. d.c. mayor muriel bowser will make the summer months safer fo everybody. >> but as mark segraves reports, it reports unusual steps that not everyone thinks will work. >> reporter: surround by d.c. police command staff, mayor muriel bowser announced her plan to reduce crime ore -- crime over the summer. > part of the initiative will involve sending more officer news neighborhoods that are of riencing higher volumes violent crime. >> reporter: this summer d.c. police will focus on high-crime neighborhoods mostly east of the river. >> we are laser focused on polent crime before it hapens. >> reporter: part of the laszer focus is on the 55 murders so far this the mayor has taken the unusual step of sitting face-to-face with detectives to have them bri her on each investigation. >> i want to be able to go into

every community and let them know that i'm concerned about the violence that is happening in the community and let famies know that we are concerned for their loved ones and what happenedo their loved ones, why the violence happened and how we're going to ing people to justice. >> reporisr: in the ict, mark segraves, nbc4. this morning police are inveigating two similar assaults on women in centerville that happened on the same on april 18th, a woman was walking along braddockner sully station drive and a man grabbed her from behind and touched herp inapriately and then ran away. later that day a similar attack happened to another woman at a park on wal any road and warn you should only walk and run in areas you are familiar with. buying a home in our area could be tough. and a new trulia study shows most teachers, first respondera and restaur workers in our area could barely afford a third of the homes for sa in the

district. currently the median home list price in the area is more than $434,000. that is up 1.5% from a year ago. teachers can only afford 32% of the available homes. and that percentage is even lower for first responders at 26.5%. restaurant workers can only afford 1.5% of available homes. now here is cnbc morning business report. good morning i'm frank holland at cnbc headquarters. a lot of young adults say they are already saving up to buy a home. a new survey b bank of america finds more than half of the again z demographic or people between the ages ofnd 18 a 25 say they plan to be homeowners in the next five years. to reach their goal they would rather use $5,000 for a down payment thann a dream wedding or to go shopping or even on a vacation. about half of them say staa ing amily is the reason for buying a house. with your cnbc morning business

record, i'm frank holland. right nowf the threat o measles continues to spread throughout the country and now fears are growing the most popular venues could be hot spotsofor the spread he virus. hundreds packed an amc theater in orange county, california, to see "avengers: endgame" and a measles patient was among the midnight showing. and a female crew member on the ship owned by the church of scientology is under quarentine in the island of st. lucia. so how do you know if you've been vaccinated and if you can't remember doctors have >> prove your vaccination by accessing your health care records. if there is uncertainty, some blood tests could be done to thove your vaccination. >> i didn't reali. that is interesting. if you are still unsure when you received that vaccine, get a booster to increase youro prction against the virus. itis going to be spectacular. it is a major transformation of

one ofas wngton's most historic buildings and it is almost complete. apple said that it will open its flagship store in d.c.'s carnegie library next saturday, may 11th. the tech company will share the space in mt. vernon square with a d.c. hiory center. there is a six-week festival planned with local artists as part of the grand opening. andrew carnegie donated the building to the city in 1903. many of you love sharing photos with friends and family a on socmedia. >> but as consumer reporter susanxpogan elains, you may be sharing a lot more personal information than you think. >> take a look at this photo and you see a boy sitting at a table playing with a bowl and a spoon. not much else you could tell by loing at it. but if y download the file, h you get 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 done to the g exact coordinates. >> so when you tke a photo with a digital camera or a phone, details about when, where and how the image are created are captured and stores automatically in the file in what is clled exit data. which is short foran able image file format. and then that information travels with the photo wherever you send it. whether you are posting it online or sharing it with a friend in a text. >> reporter: consumer reports say the data could be very useful if you store them in google photos oricloud, it allows you to search for pictures by date and location. but you may want to remove the location data before sharing on social media. while other users won't be able to access the data, the social me ciapanies can. >> we spoke to the popular social media companies and they all told us that exit data isn'o used advertising purposes.

but so companies like facebook and twitter do say they use exit data for analytics and other business purposes. >> reporter: exit data travels with photos that you text or email so keep that in mind when you're sharing. >> want learn how to remove the data from your photos altogether? well you can do that right now. we have instructions from consumer repor on hour nbc washington app. just search "photo privacy." back to you. >> i didn't realize you could do that. >> i know. >> very interesting. down to the address. >> that is scary part. a family heirloo used for generations for wedding is now missing. coming up, the shipping fiasco blamed and how the family is working to get in heirloom back. >> fasten our seat belt and let's go. where you could go on one tank of gas. watch us liveriday on news4 today.

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>> the love behind family heirlooms could be difficult to explain for some people. >> we'll show youa picture in a little bit to see a sword and maybe that is just what you see, a sword. but for a local family, they see this and they see generations of special memories passed down from a decorated navyal adm but now it is missing. we are on a search for the lost sword. >> this navy dress sword has sliced a lot of sugar. >> every generations have pictures of this sword with their wedding cake. >> reporter: michelle cut every wedding cake th this sword for four generations starting with alford vernon serving in world

wars and he cut hisa c with the sword in 191and last month it was called back into service. >> my sister is getting married in june and the sword has been lost. >> reporter: a family membership shipped and then on tuesday this email. >> we're attempting to verify the packing location. >> reporter: upscllosed the im and ended the so much without finding the sword and offered $200. >> do you feel like ups has done enough -- >> no. >> reporter: we reached out to the ups about the lost sword and they will continue to vestigate even adding additional resources to try to locate the lost sword. drew wilder, nbc4. >> so the family has set up an ple couldount where p send information about the missing sword. we'll put a link in the nbc washington app. you just havech to sear"sword". >> good for them. >> when it goes back so many generations. you want to find it. >> i know. > okay.

outside it is 74 degrees and it will get warmer. >> i went for a run this morning and it is like a puddle because it is humid out there and especially for this time of the year. we have near record warmth in the forecast. it is going to be humid again tomorrow. warm again tomorrow. and you know in our area when we have the heat and humidity, oftentimes it comes al showers and thunderstorms. that is the case today mainly between 2:00 and 8:00 p.m. we're going to have showers and thundersrms moving through the area from west to east. some heavy rainfall, some gus winds and hail. i can't rule it out. so be weather ready and be prepared to head indoors and ase look to tomorrow, what i'm seeing right now with the new information coming in, it looks like most of the day is going to be dry. but once we get past 6:00, 7:00 p.m., then the cnce for rain will start to build into the area unless you are north and west of the d.c. metro area. during the n afternoon hours there is frederick and fauquier county, you could see showers and thunderstorms. but i think most of us are going to be dry t outre on our

friday night. but then at night we have rain moving through, heavier rain and then some rain over the weekend. it is not a wash-out. we are getting into the summer kind of pattern where we're not ing about a strata form all day. chilly rain out there. it is rain maybe at times and when it is not raining, re temperatures at that bad. especially on saturday. the humidity drops as we look to sunday. currently across the area. tempeures coming in in the 70s. 79 in reston. 74 in wagton. 73 degrees up in baltimore.is here a look at your forecast for tomorrow. because today we warm to near 9e and again we'v already talked about the thunderstorms out there. a high on friday, 85 degrees. so warm and humid. and some late-day showers and thunderstorms again for most of us and that means during the evening and overnight hours.e here is thorecast for the weekend. starting off saturday, mild and dry with the temperatures of 65 most of the day is dry. maybe some peeks of sunshine on saturday. as we head to evening hours, showers likely nar 70.

on sunday cooler with the high only around 70 degrees. plentysf cloudthroughout the day on sunday with occasional rain possible at times, mainly early and then again during the evening hours.y mondand tuesday we're keeping nice and dry. mid-70s on monday and around 80 on tuesday, melissa and erika. >> thank you, ma'am. it is called the most exciting 2:00 in sports and the kentucky derby has a new g.ont-runner this morn we'll explain. >> but first, a taee of th food that could earn one d.au restnt one of the most restnt one of the most prestigious food honors around.

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the winners for the biggest award in the food industry will be announced on monday in chicago. hallil is in the runningor the hoard award and we're here with more on what the or means. congratulations to you all to be on the list to make the short list. that is super exciting.

>> thank you. >> what does that mean? what does it do for a restaurant, for a chef to bea warded this prestigious honor? >> honestly, it is excitinhe t restaurant and everybody and all of white house work there were very proud that we've been le to even just a semifinalis or even a finalist and just super amazing. our restaurant has been around for 26 years so it comes with hard work and dedication from all of the employees day in and day out. >> so are there, i guess -- is this based on a certain amount of dishes ortype of dishes or what kind of puts you guys as a front-ruer for the things that you do so well? >> honestly, it is justthe consist epsy. they look for restaurants toq ualify for the outstanding staurant category to be in service for tenye s. so us for 26 years, we've been o around fthe longest out of the competition so there is ressure and high stakes but we're very excited. >> you say the name hallil and i never hear that your stuff is

not good. we're excited to have you here. spread. is a beautiful very spring-like so talk about what you're making and what we could find on your menu. >> of course. we'll talk about and demo together with your help, we'll do our andivas. it is springtime and light. o this is one my favorite dishes on the menu. it is a true classic that we've been serving for a long time. but what i find is it hits all of the notes, sweet and sour and ertter and salt >> and this is the purest form. look at how gorgeous. and so this is an appetizer orth order with a salad. >> this is one of the vegetables. it le a fantastic litt appetizer. they're great and super easy to make at home and great for parties and they hold up wel d again, using the -- it is su a great vessel put things inside and use. >> so they are very sturdy. so what are we putting inth se -- >> awesome little orange

segments and take a couple and follow me if you will. just put some in there. like two or three.nothing wild. and then with some asted almonds. just right on top of those. nothing too crazy. and then we have goat cheese. nice and easy and -- >> can we go crazy on the goat cheese? i love goat cheese. >> we'll put a couple little dots, one in the front and one in the back so we could get even coverage. and then a little ispro-tip to put a little dot of -- practice makes pr makes -- makes perfect but we put goat cheese to anchor it on the plate otherwise it starts to wobble. so this is a roasted garlic dressing. this is garlic cooks low and slow in olive oil and then top eating ith chives and anou are in the springtime, you want something that is so you have the beautiful colors

here. >> absolutely. >> so appetizing. >> right on the plate. >> lovely. >> and do the last one. and like i said, it is super li t. it is nice and crisp. a lot of different textures. they have a nice little crunch and bite to them. so if you are not making a mess, you are not cooking. so it is okay to make a mess. >> are youxcited for monday? are you nervous. >> very excited. there is a whole crew that will go out there. we have a lot of veterans and chefs and servers and -- andb ussers and dishwashers that have been around for a long time so it is great th we'll all support nce to go and d.c. >> well we wish you the bestt o he luck. chef robbie meltzer up for a wajames beard ard for outstanding restaurant and the best of luck with food like this, you won't have a problem. thank you very much. and melissa -- you get the picture.ta i'm ing it. >> excellent. thanks, guys. well good news for chick-fil-a lovers. d.c. first free-standing

chick-fil-a is now open. located on ñó;ut street in northeast. that is near the dakota crossing center and in chick-fil-a tradition, dozens camped out for a chance of free chick-fil-a for an entire year. >> to anyone who toldong a wrot life, i thank you because you saved mine. >> and coming up, the most taumg e talked about moments of t bheig