of it drinkingmá fountains in o local school district were found to have water with high levelse lead. leaders come up with a plan to make sure it never happens again. and gone in 60 seconds. a flood barrier in the midwest  breaks, and in moments an entire section of a business district is+[[pal under water.e see after -- water after rain and flooding incidents. "táhe damage that water causes yesterday. , good morning, everyone it's 4:00 a.m.;kpó i'm aaron gilchrest. >> i'm eun yang. let's begin with a check of the foreca and commute. melissa mollet has first 4 traffic. >> we'll begin,mryj though, wit storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell and a loe at thnumbers this morning. >> i thinké$vá-q going to like most of the numbers, mostly in 50s in fairf county, 54 in leesburg, beautiful loudoun county, 56 in prince george's county. a little úgcátk 62 in jjy 63 in annapolis. cooler in parts of the

shenandoah valley where winchester's at 48 on this fine tuesday morning. what a nice day ó1wúit's goi.w today. plenty of sunshine and a quick jump in temperatures. of hours. the sun's up minutes after 6:00 a.m. by 9:00 most areas will be closing in on 70. today's high expected toeach 82. that's almost ten degrees warmer than average for early may. folks. it's going to be really cloudy and a lot cooler starting tomorrow. melissa will detail that coming up. >> aght. thank you. right now i'm going to detail a whole lot of roadwork happening around town. e ndover, inner loop bef landover road, right lane gets ikjo work zone. left lane is getting by here. annandale, outer loop express express lanes. fairfax, eastboundet66 bween nutley and 123, left lane is ;h% blocked. 19urel, northbound parkway

between and 198, left lane gets by. also getting by in the left lano wjip z cf1 o we are following azzp22 breaking news in prince george's county right now. police are investigatiniçqo a homicide in oxon hill. officers say just after midnight they found a manho had been shot lying on a sidewalk on kenmont road. he laterh died at the hospital so far the victim has not beenv identified. we have an update to the breaking news webrought you yesterday. a virginia mily's worst fears were confirmed last night when police found a bo insiden suv that sank in the potomac river. last night crewspulled the car island. it went into the water on sunday. divers spent all monday n searchi for it. 72-year-old barbara bushkin was suv.he her husband posted this photo of her on facebook. in an emotional post he said his felong valentine has passed away. bushkin was returning from a charity event when her car went river.e

4:03. aoday metro board chair jack evans could f disciplinary action. >> board members are expected to meet behind closed doors to discuss his future. evans told our news partners at wtop that he was not told the nature oftoday's executive e session. thhics committee has been looking into evans' actions. in march he was reprimanded for violating the code of conduct. he wasu" accusedfs using his government e-mail to seek firms thatp lbyr(s> thedistric. evans is also under a separate federal investigation. happening today, the montgomery county counsel is set to tackle the issue -- montgomery county council is set to tackle the issue of montgomery county sloogs andnz ÷ safety of your child's drinkingñ wer. water comiáñm drinking fountains contained a level a lead that wasbove the state' minimum requires -- minimum requirements.

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this happened on sunday just befor:00 in the lemorning.4jmñ police say the business is in vuf] rhode island avenue in northeast. anyone with information about this should call d.c. police. there is a 7$10,000d"t reward leading to -- for metro station that leads -- for information that leads to arrest of the suspect. a former d.c. foball lf his girriend will stay behind srs. >> jamalpeaks is his name. we covered oue storyhim being kicked off the football team at ballou high school last year becae they could n verify his address. he was later reinstated. last month detectives say they found his irlfriend, ñ death inside a ft. washington home. detectives say speaksketried to it look like she had y hlfaccidentally shot herselfí news4 was the only sgñg)jz to speak with floyd's stepmother after his bond hearing.

something that he wasn't. it's just ufsad. they took an angel21ñ/id from uñ >> temple university recruited speaks, but the school says it never offered him a scholarship, anuhe isn't cently enrolled)n at thk+ z].át certain ovoawc president trump tax returns. yesterday treasvery secretary mnuchin said the department willot hand them over to the house. mnuchin says the ways and means committee's request for the d. legitimate legislative purpose. he said he made his decision ter receiving advice from the justice department. now the democrats are left with a few options. they can subpoena the irs for the returns or filebffa lawsuit. since 2016 president trump has repeatedly said he'sñ÷ûo under t ñ refused to release his tax returns. f(l! chief of staff mick mulvaney said the democrats will never get the president's tax returnsb

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a fiery emergency landing killed 41 in russia. the pilot declaredn a emergency after a lightning strikeis dabled the radios. thick, black smoke trailed the burning plane as it landed a at eoscow airport. 22-year-old jmy brooks from new mexico was among the dead. rescuers say passengers grabbed their carry-on -- grabbing their carry-on bags, rather, slowed the evacuation of the plane. the super jet is not certified to fly in the u.s. 4:08. four u.s. capitol police officers whohe died in t line of duty are being remembered. the solemn ceremony was held inside the u.s. capitol visitors center yesterday ahd of national police week. among the honored were officer j.j. chestnut and detective john

gibson. the only two officershot and killed by an armed assailant more than 20 years ago. sergeant christopher enny, accidentally killed during a 1984 training exercise and sergeant clinton holtz who collapsed and died during his shift in 2014 were also recognized. the current police chief, matthewverdarosa, participated in the service, his last before het retires athe end of the month. t's been four years since d.c. firefighters lieutenant kevin mccray died in the line of duty. he had a heart attack during a call. now fellow firefighter jonathan tate is trying to ducate firefighters about heart disease. he started a nonprofit aimed to educate about healthy eating and even built a new gym inside mccray's old firehouse. >> we wanted to honor him, but we also wanted to do it as a reminder to other firefighters that you have to be proactive about your health. >> on behalf of the whole mcrae

family, we are overwhelmed by the thoughts at somebody could dedicate a whole gym to my dad. >> tate says he hopes to build more gyms in other firehouses throughout the trict. in case you missed it, it's a boy. the former meghan markle, duchess of sussex now, gave birth to a boy early yesterday morning. >> it's her first child with prince harry. and great britain did not waste any time celebrating. iconic landmarks were sit up blue lastnight. the b. -- the pb tower a others were lit up in blue. >> we are more on the celebration. a lot of anticipation. we still don't know the baby's name. >> reporter: we don't know the bae,'s nam and we've also never seen him.or good mning. that could all change as ealy as tomorrow. we're just going to have to wait and see. what we dopr know is ty limited. place the boy delivered yesterday,

weighing seven pounds, three ounces. prince harry was there for the birth. he says he is over the moon. take a listen to proud dad. >> i haven't been to many births. this is definitely my first birth. it was amazing. absolutely incredible. as i said, i'm so incredibly proud of my wife. and as every father and parent would ever say, you know, your baby's absolutely amazing. but thi little thing is -- is .absolutely to die for i'm just over the moon. >> yeah. smart man, harry. thank your wife. but absolutely nothing. last month, kensington palace said the birth would be revealed only one harry and meghan had the opportunity elebrate privately. the new baby boy is seventh in line to the british throne, and al the couple decides to apply for du citizenship for their son, he could also be an american. just making a suggestion -- i hear cory is a great name. >> i don't th enough credit.n

giving birth is a miracle. i think the fact that harry was gushinout what his wife accomplished by bringing a new life into this world -- em>> listen, i rember seeing the video in tenth grade biology. it is -- >> scarred for life. >> it is superhuman what you all can do. >> thank you, cory smith. 4:12. from a real kingdom to a fictional one, this weekany "game of thrones" fans can't stop talking about last sunday's episode. >> it isn't because of the storyline but because of a coffee cup. did they drink coffee in that fan taftical world? >> no. >> during a scene a coffee cup is on the table. the goof may have been missed by the entire cast, crews, editors, and the suits at hbo. how is that possible? all the details and the costume maybe that's why. i don't watch it so i don't know about the dragons and the mother of dragons and all that. they've been having a field day social media. one joked about hbo spending two years and millions of dollars on each episode and no one caught the coffee this is what i'm saying -- there

must be thousands of people who episodes.he >> it's pretty obvious. >> yeah. ahead, did you use an online service to complete your taxes?e did you hato pay? a new lawsuit says that many companies are tricking people into spending money on service which should be free. >> we have the details on this case. plus, a stunningro report f the united states revealing extent of damage caused by humans on the world's anim life. chuck? yes, indeed. our pollution of the atmosphere is only half the problem. polluting the oceans and lakes e and sts is another big part which will also cause increasing problems into the future. speaking of the future, enjoy the sunshine today because today might be the last full sunshiny day for quite a while. ft

16 aer the hour now.g the loses city attorney is preparing to file a lawsuit against tax companies like h&r the lawsuit alleges that millions of taxpayers were charged for a service the companies are required by law to provide for free. file free is a service the irsir requ the companies to provide for free to anyone who makes under $66,000 a year. t ttinoh rning we're ge glink between human activity an animal extinction. the united tions reportays that more than one million species of plants and animals will soon become extinct if human behavior doesn'ha e. the report says nature is in more trouble now than at any time in man history the loss of species on the land and in t sea is accelerating much faster than before. it says warming oceans are

killing off much of the world's coral reefs if the ocean warms another 0.9 degrs. 70% to 90% of the ocean's coral will disappear. 145 people wrote this report. all of them said it's not too late to reverse the direction we're headingi but action must be taken now. it's just a com teteagedy to think that that much coral reef and so many of the world's beautiful species would be gone. and you can't get it back. >> a lot of questions -- you kind of have to educate yourseld -- not kiof, you have toe ducate yourself to understand how what you're doing has an impact. this morning,, davenport iowa, is cleaning up after er flooding yestday. >> the trouble started when a barrier that was supposed to hold back the rising water of the mississippi river failed. cameras were rolling when this happened. e took off running to avoid being swept away in the waves. water quickly filled restaurants and bars. many of which had just finished

cleaning up from flooding four months earlier. you see the water rushing acrosi the park lot and then bam. >> we were just saying, the kind of damage after flooding is just insurmountable. >> they ll it the mighty mississippi for a reason. some of the areas in southeast iowa didn't have flood insurance. they've been taking -- rolling the dice and playing that gamble all these years.d anow they're really going to have to pay. >> exactly. >> yikes. crazy amounts of rain for them. we can empathize with that after our record-breaking rainfall last year. infact, our continuing 12-month record all the way through the end of april, from may of last year to the end of april this year, ill a 12-month rainfall record for us. we're ahead of rainfall again here in the month of may. ahead.an inch rainfall just for the month of mayve we're not en a full week into it yet.ei the 7th. 62 in washington right now with a south wind. fairly light now atfi only miles per hour. southerly and southwesterly winds today will bring

temperatures back to at or above 80 ees. and i hope you enjoy it. it will not last. 57 in gaithersburg this morning. 60 in quantico. 60 on the eastern shore. your planner, an abuance of sunshine. look at that jump in temperatures. from 50s between now and 7:00 or 8:00, quickly to 70 by 10:00 a.m. and highs around 82 degrees. not a bad day to spend ti outside. look how much cooler it's going to be tomorrow. only barely making about 70, maybe 71 or 72 for the high tomorrow. a big drop. almost no sunsomne at all trow. here's the culprit, this area of low pressure is going up to our north. but more important for us, high pressure over the eastern parts of canada is going shove this anld front down into the richmond and roe areas. we call it a back door cold front because co's ng from the east while most come from the north and west.

the back door cold fronti w bring the cool northeast breeze off the ocean. that means a lot of cloud cover. not a high chae for rain tomorrow, but i cooperate rule l out a sprin or two of rain. dsre comes the clou thickening quickly during the daytomorrow. then opportunities for maybe a drizzle drop or a sprinkle mainly from washington southbound toward the fredericksburg area. then back into the warmer air for thursday. that does come wth a chance of rain. thursday afternoon not bad. friday back to near 80 but a likelihood of thunderstorms in the afternoon and evening.ay saturdmaybe a couple of drops early. i think most of your saturday afternoon like lasn weeke saturday afternoon is probably salvageable. ha> right now big problem here that has justened. we just got off the phone with police. here's what we know -- the outer loop after kenilworth avenue is shut down. this is because of a problem nearby on route 1. they decided to shut down the beltway. you can see we're starting to

see the delays o the map. we'll talk more about this coming up. a couple of other things on thet bey. inner loop before landover and inner loop between arena drive and ritchie marlboro, we have work zones there. 66, 95, no major issues. more on this beltway problem coming up . nothing says s mer like summer travel deal so let'sr on choicehotels.com like this: surf's up. earn a fifty-dollar gift carda when youjust twice this summer. or.. badda book. badda boom. book now at choicehotels.com

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finally putting the basement bar in you've been talking about, eachear thousands of people take on major homerojects themselves. >> these diy or do-it-yourselfts projec are often completed uccess.rying degrees of i would never try it. it would notork for me. this morning, news4's megan mcgrath is worki 4 you with the it's you' need before taking on a home project. >> reporter: it's that time of year when many homeowners start thinking about making improvements aroundho the e. maybe a new kitchen, a fire pit, or perhaps a deck. it looks real easy on tv.b easy can quicklyn turn impossible. >> you know, it all starts out with all good intensions. >> reporter: david bradley is a builder. over the years, he's fed more than one diy failure. >> a lot of times people get in over their head. >> reporter: how do you know if you're up to the task? research and plan regular key. do you need permits? when indoubt, contact the

county and find out. look at the steps involved in completing the job, and be hones you have the skills and knowledge to actually do it. bradley says one of the most common mistakes is to overreach. instead of trying to install an entirely new kitchen by yourself, keep the old configuration of cabinets. just paint them and swap ou the hardware. ta a a lothe before picture. >> these were dark brown cabinets. and gave it a new look. >> reporter: deck looking old and worn? bradley says you can often keep e old substructure if it's in good shape and just replace the deck boards. that's a much easier project, andokthe result l brand new. >> now if there's stairs involved, it gets a little more complicated. for the stair railing. for just resurfacing, it's not so bad. >> reporter: things you probably want to avoid -- electrical work, plumbing, and projects that involve structural elements.

megan mcgrath, news4. >> you see on thent iernet sometimes put little shelves inside our cabinets toke it easier. i wouldn't do that. o'm afraid i'll mets something up and the whle -- i'll mess something up a the whole thing would collapse. you know how she said be honest -- i'm honest. >> nails and a bracket -- >> i don't trust myself. you can do it for me. >> wait forhat to happen. maybe you know your property needs work but you're unsure where to begin. >> tomorrow, megan will show simple things youan do to make your property pop. now 4:26. coming up, they're a local staple for a summer feast. how the blue crabs are shaping up. this is cute anna, only two months old. wouldimake a perfect adon to your family. >> cute. >> for years to come. perfect weather for a nice, long walk today, t. a new twist in a murder ry myste. a machine's body found at aus

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right now an update to a deadly crash into the potomac river. new details about w theoman killed on her way home from a charity event. plus -- >> it's been a long 46 years, seven months, and 20 days. cracked.d case how a northern virginia company helped track down a killer decades after a woman's death. and lus, glitz, glamor, just plain bizarre. we'll takyou out to the met gala red carpet for a recap of the year's most-talked-about outfits. first to breaking news. a major traffic alert. a stretch of the beltway is shut down rightnow. >> melissa mollet begins our team coverage before we check in with chuckell for the forecast. melissa, what's going on? >> good morning. this is greenbelt this morning. talking abouthe beltway. the outer loop after