>> 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

puddles early, but the rain's over. the afternoon high, 77es degre from clouds to sunshine we'll give the daily grade a b-plus today. 77 today. wt there are more rain chances before theeek is through. we'll check that coming up. for now, melissa mollet, good morning. good morning, live look, 270 atmiddlebrook road, northbound, southbound, everything looks good. had earlier roadwork near 80 and also near 8 58, all that has cleared out of the way. capitol pights, inner looat central avenue, had the left lane blocked by a work zone. that is also now clear.be the ltway nice and open in orders to any sort of roadwork. white's forry is shut down. high water on the potomac riverf is the reason that. and leesburg, shreve mill near the greenway, road shut down there atco silin creek came over its bankscause of the rain yesterday. >> thank you. divers, boats, and a helicopter have been searching for an suv in the potomac river for hours now.

you're looking at video from the active scene last night just off of roosevelt island. d.c. fire officials say a witness called to report seeing that suv go intothe water. >> received a call for report of a vehicle in the without here at roosevelt island at the parking lot. law enforcement has interviewed a credible witness who indicated they did see a vehicle go into the water. they described it in some detail. also indication ofo sme tire tracks. >> the u.s. coast guard is trying g in this sear to figure out where that suv might be right now. news4's cory smith will have a live report with theom latest f officials coming up at 5:00. this morning, one american ismong the41 people killed in a superjet crash in russia. the back end. the passenger plane as you see l was al of fire as that plane nded yesterday at a moscow airport. take a lookmo at the video closely here. thick, black smoke filled the sky as fire destroyed thep lane. 37 passengers were able to escape. russian media reports the

plane's flight data recorder and a voice records recorder have -- voice rcorder have beenfound. it's hoped they will help figure out what caused the fire. the plane was onro its way f russia when the crew reported a malfunction. we have an update on the boeing h737 airplane t skidded off the runway and into the st. jn's river in jacksonville. federal investigators have recovered the pdane's recorder. they hope it will help discover what happened friday. the plane was landing at the naval air station from guantanamo bay, cuba, which the plane began toid sk the landingapear ared in the river bed. everyone survived. taking a look at your top stories this morning -- ing to gators are t determine what caused a helicopter to crash killing two men on board. it went down in the chesapeake bay on saturday about a mile off the tip of kent island. both pilot andss pnger died. >> reporter: today president trump's former attorney and

fixer begins a three-year prison sentence for tax evasion, cam aign finance crimes,nd lying to congress. michael cohen will time in otisville. a busy week on capitol hill as tension escalates between the white house and democrats. there are multiple deadlines need to be met. just today alone, attorney general william barr is supposed to hand over the un-redacted special counsel's report. and the treasury secretary is supposed to turn over president trump tax returns. more on this coming up in a few. minute a plan to ease traffic jams on the beltway and i-270 in maryland have people living in thea upset. there was standing room only at the meeting at the silver spring civicin build yesterday. governor hogan is proposing to widen the maryland section of the beltway and parts of 270 and the parkway. the governo wants set up tolls.cs critire upset over the $9 billion public-private project.

>> ignores the shifts among the population that wants mass transit, mixed use developme, walkable as well as environmental friendly modes of transportation. >> several dozen homeowners near the beltway and 270 could lose their homes and green space to make room for the expansion. the governor released a statement saying his plan is the only serious solution. he said, quote, these ng anti-tion relief activists show no regard for the hundreds of thousands of marylanders stuck in soul-ushing congestion, end quote. today, howard university -- >> will welcome a new basketbala ch. kenny blakeney takes over for the team. the d.c. native is leaving his post at columbia university. he played at dematha high school before earning two championships with duke. he ll work to help make howard a ncaa appearance for the firs time in 25 years. welcome home.

just about 4:36. company, kentucky derby drama. ang --oming up, kentucky derby drama.he anger overmost famous horse race. what it means for the preakness, not far from our back yard. details about what could be behind the deaths of bald eagles across maryland's eastern shore. what's believed to be blamed just ahead. good monday morning. coming up this afternoon at 4:00, we'll take you to a community gardenor in neast where volunteers are pouring their hearts, souls, and sweat into the dirt. >> i like planting. today i helped taking out the roots. >> how some very passionate people ine heto feed and clean their community.

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complete shock at the kentucky derby over the weekend. yooreing at the moment gamblers found out maximum security, the horse wse cros the finish line first, was disqualified. never in the history of the kentucky derby had a winner ever been disqualified for interfeernt interfeerninte interference. >> people were screaming. >> losing their minds. >> the owners of maximum security and country house, the winner, are not committed to y'nning at the preakness. maximum securit owner called the outcome egregious. you can hear from him in an interview coming up on the "today" show. >> espn reports that maximum security's kentucky derby disqualification cost betters some $9 million. only 1% of bets predicted that country house would n. preakness is next weekend in baltimore. apparently the allegation is mu that maxi security wasn't running in a straight line, that

the jockey was moving the horse, cutting so the other horses ge couldn't by. >> you can't do that. >> you can't -- apparently that's against the rules. >> these things happen. let's turn to meteorologist chuck bell at 4:40. sitting at 60 degrees. >> uh-huh. sure are. going to be a d pleasant outside. a little cloudy and damp around this morning. but finally the rain which was here pretty much start to finish on your nday, that's now gone. we'll get back to more sunshine later on in the day today. you're going to spend a little time oside in the garden today, you can expect your box woods -- inspect your boxwoods for leave damage. leafminers, spsylid aol is -- sor, don't know much about the insects. the ten-day outlook coming up. traffic.ow about the a live look through germantown, looking good, 270 northbound and southbound, we'll look elsewhere

and tell you where we have a little slowdown.

it is going to be a busy week in washington. the trump administration faces several deadlines, two major ones just today. >> on top of that, lawmakers are making moves to hear from specialcounsel robert mueller. ayne alexander with more. >> reporter: good morning. let's start witheahe pair of ines. yes, attorney general william barr is under subpoena from house democrats,nt they wa the

less redacted version of the mueller report and want it made available to everybody. congress, democrats more specifically, are threatening to hold him in contempt if they it.'t get so that's deadline number one. deadline number two, we should know today how the administration plans to respond to a subpoena from a different use committee over the president's tax returns. steve mnuchin, the treasuriment is, missed the first deadline but said that heill take final action by today. now the other thing that we're watching clely is that president trump's former attorney general and fixer michael cohen, the man who oncy is he'd take a bullet for the president, is set to begin his three-year sentence today for things inart like lying to congress and, of course, for his role in the hush money paents made during the 2016 campaign. finally, it's the possible testimonyof special counsel robert mueller. president trump is weighing in on that overnight in a p tweets saying he does not believe that mueller should testify before lawmakers saying, quote, no redo for the des."

as you can minimum wagin this is launching a battle -- is imagine, th is launching a battle between congress and president trump as they' trying to set a date and get muler to testify on may 15th. guys? >> blayne alexander on the hill. thanks. todayarks another monumental achievement in tiger woods' career. perhaps even bigger than his comeback win from them ters. president trump will bestow on tiger the nation's highest honor for a ci, the presidential medal of freedom. woods is the 33rd athlete to receive the medaln and the fourth golfer. president trump tweeted that he gave tiger the news while congratulating him on histe mas victory. 4:45.n overnight, nbc news has learned that all protective restrictions have been lifted for southern israel signaling a cese-fire with gaza. no official announcement has been made, but there has been an agsence of israeli air strikes. a cease-fire reement could end what has been the bloodie

fighting between israel and in hamas five years. the two sides have fought since the islamic milita group took control of gaza more than a decade ago. howard county police are trying to figure w t led the death of a woman and a man badly hurt. the woman's body was found in ag apartment alo spiral cut in columbia, maryland, yesterdaer family membcalled police to do a welfare check and found the 36-year-old woman dead and a 42-year-old man injured. crews rushed the man to shock trauma. also developing, a homeless d.c. high school football player whose sto gained media attention last fall is behind bars this morning accused of killing his girlfriend and staging it to look a like suicide. prince george's county police say 19-year-old jamal speaks confessed to the death. floyd was found shot last month in a home on beauty i.uic buick

nan drive. police said speaks was playing with a gun he bought illegally. when he fired the shot that killed his girlfriend, he then put the gun in floyd's hand. we first introduced you l speakst fall. he became ineligible to play football at ballou high school because he was homeless. a lal youth shelterheard the story and offered him a home so he could practice and play with the team. a now-banned farm pesticide is being blamed for the deaths of two dozen bald eagles over the past three years in maryland delaware. authorities beeve old stocks of the chemical called carbo-furan is used to kill pests like foxes and raccoons. the eagles are eating the remains. at least secretary of in maryland and -- seven of them in maryland and delaware have died this spring.

♪ family and friends of north carolina student riley howell paitheir final respects this weekend. howell was one of two people killed april 30th when a gunman opened fire at the university of north carolina at charlotte. investigators calledell a hero saying he t tackledhe gunman and saved lives. howell was 21 years ol > 4:48. "news 4 your health" is working 4 you in the community, as is comcast. thank you fic partating in comcast cares day or the weekend. members of the new and telemundo family were at seabrook elementary school. ndlunteers helped spruce up the school inside aout. part of a commitment to make a lasting commitment to communities where we work and live. >> volunteerism is part of our dna. this is a great way to come together and ow how we

celebrate our community. >> it's inr. the 18th yea impressive to see so many people come out on a saturday morning giving back. > starting today, "ns4 today" celebrating teachers all across the area. >> it is teacher appreciation weete moletreen is in the commute u community. and her -- in the community. and her first stop at yfield secondary school live in our next hour. >> teachers make the world go hound. you know it much i love teachers -- you know how much i love teachers. >> my mom taught third, fourth, and fifth grade for30 over years. >> and raised you. >> on top of all that. >> immediate sainthood. >> i'm glad -- when i moved to the third, she went to third, i went to fourth, she went to fifth. >> it would be diffict to teach your own child. >> every time i did anything wrong, oh, mom heard it about it in the teacher brea room, and i was in tfoouble b i got off the bus. man. such is life. teachers, we love teachers,

absolutely. going to be a good week for a lot of outdoor recess tim which i know teachers well.ciate, a that means the kids burn off a e little ofenergy before they have to come back and go back to their studies in the afternoon.a skies re still on the cloudy side this morning these clouds are not going to b with us allday. an improving weather picture as we go deeper into your monday afternoon. after acloudy start, north to northwesterly breezes will help improve the weather picture outside quite a bit. now it's 58 in hagerstown, maryland, 57 in fredericksburg, 55 in manassas, 56 now in bra y brandywi brandywine. cool, cloudy, damp outside ethly s morning. with the return of sunshine, temperatures today should easily climb back into the mid 70s. 14 hours of daylight today. sun's up at 6:05 and down at 8:. that's t wrong number for today. 77 is today.82 s the forecast for tomorrow. another great day coming up for

tomorrow. the nice weather's going to last most of the week. but as we get toward wednesday and thursday and friday, rain chances start to gp a bit. all that moisture well to the west of us. for today, skies clearing out, sunshine returning. nothing going on storm team 4 radar. future weather carries the clouds in and out, probablymost gone no later than 2:00, 3:00, there's the tiniest chance for a showof to the western shore the chesapeake bay. i don't think we need to worry too much. for tomorrow, again, a little bit nicer weather. finally backs up into the 80s. wednesday, a little back-door cold front will slide through on wednesday. that means a return of an est o northeasterly breeze. cloudy on wednesday, tiny rain chance wednesday mainly west of the blue ridge and the shenandoah valley. thursday the front comes north as a warm front. back into the mid to upper 70s. maybe anow isolated sher or thunderstorm or two thursday. again, pretty low rain chances.b the nextest chance for rain

everywhere will be friday. 60%hance of rain and thunderstorms friday aftet oon. sorof a repeat of what we just did. stormy late in the day on friday. saturday, clouds, maybe a little rain early. will be our saturday cool and dry. another high rain chance toward sunday and monday. daytime highs staying below 70 degrees. a little something for everybody in the next ten days. over to melissa mollet and monday traffic. good morning. inner loop, outer loop, nice and clear. earlier roadwork has disappeared for us. inbound south capitol after the frederick douglass bridge, right lane blocked by a work zone. maybe slow headed inbound. white's fer shut down again. we have high water on the potomac river as the cause there. and leesburg, shreve mill near the dulles greenway, road closed. water over the banks of sicolin creek. >> thank you. coming up on 4:53. check your freezer. tyson's food is recalling nearly

12 million pounds frozen, ready-to-eat chicken strips that could be contaminated wit metal. the food safety inspection service says it is aware of six complaints from people who found pi es of metal ine food. the frozen products have use by dates of october 1st, 2019, through march 7th, 2020. if you have the chicken, throw it away or return it to the store where you bought it. and a heads-up about a robo call school system known as the one ring. if you see a 222 pop up, don't answer it. the calls aring from from overseas during the middle of the night.ll the car dials and hangs up. this may repeat several times. the scammer hopes that you'll be concerned enough to call back. the callback works like a 900 number charging you a lot of mone the fcc says you should never call back a number that you don't recognize. new this morning, social media is still buzzing about a surprising end to last night's sewed of "american iel." if you don't watch the show, you may be hearing about

this. a contestant from catonsville, maryland, was in the bottom two. it appeared he'd be safe after see judge the announced they were going to the only save of the se on. but that's when things took a turn. >> we need an answer right now. who's it going to ? >> which one -- you're all so great. i love you somuch. lacey. [ cheers ] >> you heard it there. credits were rolling with seconds to spare whene judges decided not to save catonville's jeremiah. he can sing his butt off. there was frustration on line over he elimination. he came out to his family, and they weren't accepting. he was a janitor at the church. i tdnk the show an talents brought his family back together. i automaker -- here's the thing -- i'm surprised but not so much

because katie said that lacey is oneof her favorites. >> did you see her face? she looked horrified that she this to say it. >> jeremiah is so. talented he's beyond -- he can play the guitar, he can play piano, he's incredible. really sad to see him go. >> homey that won't be the end of it. if he's got the talents and people have seen inow. good luck to him. >> you know, all right. it -- i hope. and it's spring. >> and the clothes we're tossing t are ending up in landfills. in 1990 the average manner bout -- average american bout 40 garments a year, that jumped tow 66, ae toss out 70 pounds of what we no longer need. each item can take up to 200 years to dechose -- decompose if

it's made of polyester. >> wearing your clothes for nine months longer can reduce the carbon footprint by 30%. >> there are green companies working to repurpose old dclothing byating them to the right organizations. they can be recycled into fibers for mattresses and llows and insulation. >> i do wear my clothes for long, long time. >> once they're worn out, they're worout. > i do try to donate any clothes that i feel like i can't wear anymore. >> hopefully it will t stretch life a bit longer. i worked with somebody who would collect our ties and turnt btm -- her mom -- >> anytiewing our crea skills, i might try that. >> you can repurpose if you need to. uber and lyft drivers plot an inteational strike. ahead, when it's going down and how it will impact you. plus, news4 returns to the banks of the potomac river. this as search ws continue to

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hainening now, cli out of their cars and walking off the job. uber and lyft drivers plan a midweek strike in several major

cities. but a far bigger demonstration could be coming to d.c. stand out from the crowd. millions of college graduates will no need to find woengsuraddso et themselves apart from oths. you who. severe weather strikes. millions clean up from a weekend of strong winds and pounding rains. we're showing you the hardest hit spots. it says 5:00 a.m. good morning, everyone, i'm aaron gilchrest. >> i'm eun yang. you're never going to live doe thct that you were in your house until 4:00 sunday and didn't see what was going on -- >> listen, i n't feel guilty. i saw the rain, it was cloudy -- >> it was ame good -- >> binged "new amsterdam." you're missing a good show. telling you. we start with the commute and traffic. >> wu start with storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell and the fo