stand o from the crowd. llions of college graduates will now try to find ework. thhings your grad needs to set herself apart from the others. [ scream ] yikes. severe weather strikes. millions clean up from a weekend of strong win and pounding rains. we'reshowing you the hardest hit spots. it is 4:00 a.m. good morning, everyone, i'm aaron gilchrest. >> i'm eun yang. it rained all sunday. mean, i can't remember if there was a minute we didn't have rain. let's begin this morning with a check on your commute and formoast. melissa llet is standing by with your first 4af trfic. >> we'll start withto s team 4 meteorologist chuck bell. i didn't get off the couch until 4:00 yesterday, and then it raining. >> that wasn't the rain, that was the struggle bus. >> 4:00? you have to turn around and go back to bed. >> aaron, get t off couch before then. four things to know on a

monday. damp for now. sunshine coming be by later in the afternoon. temperaturewise, in the comfortable, cool range, mostly 50s to near 60. 61 annapolis, 55 leesburg, 58 in hagerstown. your forecast for the commute on your monday -- no rain, rain's e o a lot of puddles early this morning and cloudy skies, as well. but tho g clouds theive way to afternoon d temperatures will recover nicely, up into the mid 70s. today is the day. look at this -- 14 hoursof sunlight for today. hose are the nice long days of early summertime weather. melissa mollet, what's going on a monday morning? just a little roadwork right now. that is very, very good. capitol heights inner loop at central avenue, left lane blocked by the work zone. 270, two different work zones here that you might run into if you're headed out soon.e southboundre 80 and then before 85. some lanes blocked because of

the work zones. one is the right lane blocked, one is the left lane. looking at 66, fairfax county parkway to the beltway, 63 miles per hour. you get there in nine minutes. aaron? >> all right. thank you. 4:02.g developin this morning, an urgent search for an suv in the potomac river stretching into the morning hours. >> this has been an all hands on decorati decoration. look at the video from the scene showing drivers, boats, and aea helicopter shing for the suv last night. d.c. fire officials say they were called tooosevelt island after someone reported seeing an suv go into the water near the island's parking lot. officials did find tire tracks deading into the potomac. the coast guaris assisting, trying to figure out where the suv might be right now. >> there is the possibility that this vehicle is in the water that it could have floated somee dist that is a possibility we're exploring. the coast guard was going to do some modeling for us based on

current patterns in the river te see w, in fact, that vehicle couldndave eed up. >> news4's cory smi will have a live report from roosevelt island at 5:00. a young man is among the dead in a rash of violence. 18-year-old sayon coplins was shot and killed on statton in southeast d.c. this happened around 9:00 p.m. saturday. he died at the hospital. another young man was shot in the kenilworth neighborhood. he was rushed to the hospital.on histion has stabilized. d.c. police are also working two other shootings. this morning, one american is among41he people killed in a fiery plane crash in russia. >> take a look at this dramatic video. you can see the plane on fire as it made an emergency landing at an airport in moscow yesterday.n the ere tail of that plane was engulfed in flames as thick, black smoke filled the sky. to assengers were able escape the plane.

the passenger plane was on its way from moscow to the northern russian city of mermesk. the crew reported a mall function and returned tohe airport -- a malfunction and returned to the airport. a cracked indshield forced a united airlines airlines to les airport yet. look at that map from flight da.s ware.com it shows the plane looping back toward dulles. united released a statement saying, quote, about 45 minutes in the air the pilot noticed an issue with the windshield. the flight returned to dulles without incident." the passengers were transferred to another flight to las vegas. it is unclear what caused the windshield to crack. this morning, investigators are trying to figure out why a helicopter crashed into che sapeake bay killing two men on board. the chopper went down a mile off the tip of kent island, maryland, on saturday. crews recovered the bodies of the pilot, charles knight of mt. airy, and the passenger, matt

clark of pasadena, maerryland. the helicopter was rented to the pilot. a teacher accused of sending racy photos to students and soliciting sex at loudoun county high school is expected to appear before age jud allison breel was arrested last month. today she's expected to plead guilty to contributing to the dlirc delinquency of three minors. in exchange, she will get a suspended three-year sentence for the misdemeanor charges. she was the school's marketing teacher. she has been on leave without pay since last today president trump's former attorney and fixer begins a three-yearr pon sentence for tax evasion, campaign finance crimes, and lying to congress. michael cohen was spotted in manhattan during his last weekend of freedom. he will spend his time 70 miles from new ork city in otisville. he'll have some famous company -- the situation from mtv's "jersey shore," and billyrl mcfad also imprisoned there. the house intelligence chair

is firing back after president trump reversed course and says special counsel robert mueller should not testify before congress. the president tweeted a couple of hours after house democrats announced a tentative may 15th date for smueller' testimony. congressman adam schiff said mueller will testify because the american people deserve the truth. the democrats want additional information on thess ru investigation. >> all he has to do is sit there and read any of the 448 pages, and is absolutely devastating. you know, there'sno up for donald trump in bob mueller appearing. e have the facts, they may be disappointing, but that's where we are. that we'll learn more from another house investigation. >> friday the about the said mueller's -- friday the president said mueller's testimony is up to the attorney general. s william barraid he has no objection. today is the deadline for barr to give house democrats the un-redacted mueller report. tensions are mounting between the u.s. and north korea after north korea fired missile sts. imagesia on state-run med show

north korean leader kim jong-une overseing the tests on saturday. u.s. officials say the weapons were short-range missiles which landed in the sea and aren't re considea threat to the u.s. this comes as talks between the u.s. and north korea stalled after kim refused to denuclearize. yesterday, cluck todd asked republican -- chuck todd askede rublican senator john kennedy whether trump is being paid. >> i don't know. he could be. i don't know. the only person who knows th is kim jong-un. we can all speculate. but i would much rather have us be talkinging -- have us talking with kim jong-un than firing missiles at each other. >> president trump tweeted that a deal with north korea will en happ 4:07. putting iran on notice. the u.s. is deploying the "uss abraham lincoln" strike group and task force to the u.s. central command region. offic ls aren't commenting on why the academies was taken -- the action was taken but say

there is no interest in going to war with iran but will re ond to any attack on u.s. interests. the announcement comes just days after the trump administration imposed new limits on iran's nuclear activities. ♪ family and friends of north carolina student riley howell paid their final respects this weekend. howell was one two of people killed on april 30th when a gunman oned fire at the university of north carolina at charlotte. investigators called howell a hero saying he tackled the gunman and saved lives.n howell wasrotc student and 21 years old. a police officer was killed during a routine traffic stop. this happened in mooresville, north carolina. k-9 officer jordan sheldon was shot after pulling a driver over around0:00 p.m. saturday. the suspect apparently shot himslf in an apartment close to the scene.

check your freezer. tyson foods is recalling nearly 12 million pounds of frozen ready-to-eat chicken strips that could be contaminated wh metal. the agriculture's food and safety inspection service says it's aware of six complaints eo from ple who found pieces of metal in the food. the frozen products have "use by" dates of october 1st, 2019, through march 7th, 2020. if you have the chicken, yoush ld throw it away or return it to the store where you bought it. and a heads-up about a robo call scam known o as the ring. if you see a 222 area code, don't answer the phone. the calls are coming from overseas during the middle of the night. the caller dials your number and immediately hangs up. this may repeat several times. the scammer hopes you'll be concerned enough to call back. the call back works like a 900 number chargie you a hug amount. the fcc says you should never call back a number that you don't recognize. >> i never do. i don't answer numbers i don't recognize anymore. >> leave a message. >> usually always a robo call.

we are still on sussex stand by. >> the wait for the next british royal baby is giving a whole new word meaning to -- whole new meaning about the world expecting. we don't know when the official due date is or was. a l of people are saying the baby's already here. f royals and members of the media have been camped outn windsor for days waiting for the announcement that the baby is here. baby sussex will be seventh in line to the british onthr at this point prince charles has been waiting so long, seventh in line, i mean, at that rate -- >> you'll never get it. and forhe seventh -- the news organizations are spending thousands to camp out for the seventh inin l -- >> have to buy the fascinators and hats the whole time. still ahead, millions of college graduates are about to enter the work force. before they do, they need to find a job. >> how to helpyour college grad stand out from the crowd. plus, severe weather strikes. h're taking you on a tour of the hardes areas. chuck? all right.

after a near inch.ro rain ac the area yesterday, we're going back to sunshine for today. tomorrow looks great. then a few more clouds toward the middle of the ek, and oh, you know what's coming. how about some increasing rain chances just inse

veral new studies show additional benefits of regularly working out. one study showed that fitness improved the memory of patients th heart failure. two-thirds of people with heart failure struggle with decision making and m.ory skills patients who were younger, educated, and more fit were less likely to have any cognitive impairment. your fitness level may affect your risk for certain

cancers. researchers om johns hopkins tracked nearly 50,000 adults who took a treadmill stress test. those who were very fit were 77t less likelyo develop lung cancer and 61% less likely to develop colon cancer than those least fit. researchers found people who did develop one of those cancers had a lower risk of dying from the disease. a 3-year-old diagflowsed with leukem is caught -- agnosed with leukemia is caught in a fight betwee his parents and florida efforts. the parents of noah mcadams decided to stop his chemotherapy and left the state. they tried to get a second opinion at an ohio hospital. florida authorities issued an endanger child alert and acked the family down in kentucky. noah is now with his grandparents, but his father and mother are still fighting to get him back. >> i want mye,on hom and i want him to. treated with a treatment that is not going to damage his little body so much.

>> the parents could win their case if at oncologist can showa th chemotherapy is not necessary and that there are other medically approprte treatments. we are quickly approaching the time when millions of college students will graduate which means employers will soon have a flood of action -- of applications. >> the challenge will be made urself stands out from the crowd. here are a couple of suggestions -- target your cover letter, resume, and linkedin page for each prospective employer. show confidence but also humility during your interview. nobody like a cocky interview. no one wants to hire someone who doesn't think they have more to learn. clean up your social media pages, a take as many internships as you can. h.r yexperts recommend that show the three es during your interview -- ergy, experience, and enthusiaoo. gd luck. >> a lot to remember from coming ou of college.

you know what i mean? are you mature enough to handle 's? >> i think it all right. makes good sense. >> it does. 4:15. the d.c. region may have seen its fair share ofr, rough weathe but florida was hit hard by mother nature. check out this bolt of lightning which hit a bit too close home. >> this is my house. and -- [ scream ] >> my .goodness did you that? it almost sounds like cannon fire. that was in boynton beach which isn't too far from west palm beach. florida is known for its lightning and strong storms.on no was hurt here, and littles damage wadone. i guess that's what lightning looks like upclose. we only see itfrom far -- a far distance. >> wow. >> stay away. a few hundred miles north on wilmington island, georgia, cleanup is also underway. the national weather service says a tornado touched downate saturday. yacht h winds ravaged club there. one boat was flipped on to its eddes. other were tossaround like

toys. a few people suffered minor injuries, but everyone escaped relatively unscathed. over the weekend we learned the hurricane florence -- the storm that hit the carolinas last september, was the ninth most destructive in u.s. history. >> florence made landfall as a category-one hurricane with winds reaching 90 miles per hour. $24 billion worth of damage was done across four states. that storm spawned 44 tornadoes and ended up killing 22 people. another 30 people died indirectly as a result of the hshurricane. rom heart attacks, house fires, electrocution, and traffic accidts are all taken into account when putting together the death toll. people don't always remember those it's not just the direct storm but the aftermath, the flooding, so much damage. >> the winds get allhe headlines, the water does most of the damage. >> yeah. >> no question about it. the winds fade quickly. as w saw from florence, it's --

don't underestimate a catego-one storm. dropped 40 inches of rain. really the water is what we need to focus on with these thing so speaking of water -- >> yeah.st >> yeday -- >> are we going to dry out today? >> yes, we are. a little chance to dry out for your monday and you tuesday. a little bit higher chances foro rain as get deeper into the work and school week. for now, it's off to a nice tart after ainy day yesterday. f inch age, between a h and inch of rain across the region on your sunday. waking up on a mondaym ning, winds have turned back to the north. able out of the northwest later day.he that will help push the clouds out and bring the sunshine back. right now, comfortable enough fonia may mor. temperatures in the mid 50s in the shenandoah valley. upper 50s to near 60 around the city here. on the whe, i think you're going to like the way the day's turning out. cloudy skies, 57 this morning. 6:05 for the sunrise, and 8:05 for the sunset. 14 hours of daylight today.

the day areetting longer. between now and the summer solstice, we add another 54 minutes ofaylight by june. here it is, high pressure building back in. so rain chances being pushed away. our next chance for rain is a much longer down into the week, quite some distance away at this time. in let me walk you through the future weather then over the next couple of days. starting off with some clouds a und, but again, credit suisse will be partly to mostly sunny by later in the day. there's a tiny chance for a r raindrop otwo near the chesapeake bay primarily and to the eastern shore. that's about it. tomorrow, clear skies overnight, could have some patchy fog first thing tomorrow. then 100% chance for tuesday. the front sags down. into wednesday, i think the cooler air and a wedge willet up. as a result, wednesday part to mostly cloudy, not -- partly it on mostly cloudy, not a rain chance. we'll have to wait until thursday or friday before rain

chances really ramp back p. so becoming sunny and 77 today. 82 tomorrow. cloudy skies, the easterly breeze on wednesday. high only around 72. then on thursday, mid 70s. a better chance of some showers ound town on thursday. most likely day for rain this week, though, will be friday.rt we'll staalking about the weekend in the next half hour. now let's go over to first 4 traffic. good morning, chuck. beltway, inner loop at central avenue, still have the left lane blocked. rest of the beltway no matter where you'reor going coming from looks nice and open. inbound south capitol after frederick douglass bridge, the right lane blocked by a zork e. in league, shreve mill road, between the dulles ndgreenway a sccolin, closed because it's over the bank.

4:23.l weme back. if you use uber or lyft a lot, this next story will impact you. this wednesday, ride-share drivers will go on strike, and that could mean no service for hours. >> there are calls for drivers it turnff their apps here in washington and six other major cities across thecountry. news4's mark seagraves explains what the drivers hope to gain.: >> reporterer estimates the

ride-share company is worth up to $90 billion and plans to off shares in the company to the public sometime this month. uber drivers like this man who wanted to speak anonymously say they'll walk off the job wednesday. >> i just want to drive. we need better pay. >> reporter: the strike will last for12 hours. drivers plan to turn off their apps at noon on wednesday, may 8th, and leave them off until midnight. katy wells from georgetown university has done several years of research into how uber drivers are paid. she says the drivers want to send a messagers >> worke certainly have been experiencing really difficult situations for an extended period. >> reporter: wells explains that the paperwork uber filed with the government in order to offer its stock to the blic revealed the company's long-term plans. >> it intends for driver incentives to go down overim t and this information is coming out at a time when driver pay has already been reduced a number of times overa the pst few years. >> reporter: a spokesperson for uber declined to comment.

in the filing with the securities and excisnge common, the company reports drivers have earned over $78 billion since 2015, as well as $1.2 billion in tips.nt >> if you wao make a lot of money, they'll drain you. you have to drive a lot. maybe 80, m 90 hours a week for like $1,800 a week. >>ereporter: not only ar rivers in d.c. and other big cities planning to strike, some are consiring an organized protest at international airhert. >> at t end of the day we get the short end of the stick. >> news4. it's 4:25. coming up, widening roads to lpeed up your commute. it's a proposa for two of our area's busiest highways. this morning, we'll tell you some people are pushing back against it. and ordog-walking fast for your monday, this is pharaoh. good-looking 4 1/2-year-old dog. make a great walking bud. ing to have to jump puddles early. the rain's over. temperatures in the 50s now.

we'll be back in sunshine and gree weather before this day is done. plus perks kentucky derby drama. it was a horse race for the history books. new details about how much the wild ending cost betters.

right now on "ews4 today," a rush to the rescue in the potomac river after an suv smer submerges. new details for the overnight survivors. passengers killed during a fiery landing. we learning about the american on t> s flight. >>ey may seem like great deals but there's a high cost to fast fashion. startling statistics about the growing pollution problem sparked bysh opping.e first as approach 4:30, ae livlook outside as we start a new work it week. while you may be sad the weekend has ended, the good news is the rain hasgone, too. we still have clouds to deal with. we're going to see a lot of the

sun once the sun comes up later >> i can't wait to see the sun again. >> it's going to happen. the sun will come out -- >> tomorrow? >> o, today. good morning, everyone, i'm aaron gilchrest. >> i'm eun yang. bet your bottom dollar? >> absolutely. f thanks for joining us. we're working you with everything we need to get moving on this monday. >> chuck will fill us in before melissa tells us about the commute in first 4 traffic. what do you have? >> you guys have given it all away. i'm going to start reading the news over here. we'll get sunshine for monday anoernoon. for cloudy, patchy fog. not a big issue with the fog here first thing this morning. winds are out of the north and t northwest, thais a drying breeze for us. damp comfortable good open window sleeping weather. the rain yesterday cleared out all the pollen. allergy sufferers get a little . break school day forecast, boy, the last couple of weeks of school always the toughest for kids. in the 50s at the bus stops this morning. again, we'll be jumping the