least liked stretch of road in our area. details about the plans to fix the george washington parkway. and the future is now. amazon ceo jeff bezos unveils his plans to crowd an out-of-this-world reality. think about it amazon is an out-of-this-world ality. you think about what we're doing and clicking to get in two days, delivered to your door. >> this is true. and i grew up o "star trek." none of this surprises me. >> here we go. >> this is exactly what i expected. >> you were just fayding a w to talk about "star trek" this morning. in 'm going to weave it where i go. good morning, it's 4:00 a.m., i'm aaron gilchrest. >> i'm eun yang. we have first 4 traffic. >> we begin with meteorologist chuck bell. >> if there are more "star trek" references i want to transport myself to 7:00 right now. you probably noticed an improvement in the day yesterday. rnlater into the afn, a

little bit of sunshine, made it to the upper 70s yesterday as advertised. i think today will be all the way up to 80 degrees. our rain chances are a lot higher. a couple of rain chances first things thivemorning. eually our higher rain chances will come in later into the afternoon. we have dropto contend with this morning now across northwest virginia, the panhandle of west virginia, south of fredericksburg. at least have the umbrella handy. no big a minute expected this morning. temperatures are mostly in the mid to upr 60s to get your friday started.ll and it wi end up a nice warm 100 with highs up close to 80 -- warm one with highs up close 80 degrees. an increasing likelihood for rain and thunderstor later in the afternoon. unfortunately, the rain chances remain high into the weekend. more coming up. >> thank you. this morning, a portion of rock creek parkway is closed, and it willy with main that way -- it will remain that way through the weekend. >> cory smith with more. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. i hate to be the bearer of the

d news, bute signs are up acd a busy part of radio could creek and potom parkway is closed all this morning. not just drivers, cyclists and pedestrians will need to steer enclear this week the closure started last night the intersection of rock creek and virginia avenue northwest and extenown i-66, potomac river freeway interchange, behind the lincoln memorial. it's just the area around the kennedy center that's closed to bike and foot traffic. the closure is so crews can pnstall adestrian bridge connecting the waterfront to the kennedy centitr. will allow access to the mall and roosevelt bridge, part of an improvement project. today is not the only day you'll have to deal with the roadwork. it's not scheduled to reopen until 5:30 tuesday morning. have some patience and plan ahead. back to you. >> it's going to be a problem. thank you. this morning we have a

better idea of how the national par service plans on repairing the george washington parkway. it's one of the roughest stretches of road in the area. the north section will be rehabbed first from spout run by the ey bridge all the way to the beltway. the parks service says it just needs the money to make the repairs. it's trying to secure that right now. we have breaking news right now. there's a search for a missing teen in prince george's county. take a look at your screen here. police say this is 6-year-old aidan legal. he is on the autism spectrum and is nonverbal. we're told he w last seen last night in the 12000 block of starling lane. he was wearing yellow pajamas and had head phones. call police if you know where he might. this morning, more on the shocking virginia showing a montgomery county police officer using a racial slur toward a group of black men. >> the men were waiting to be picked up for a landscaping job outside of a mcdonald's. but the police said they were ss trespai

trespassing. in the video, there is a woman, a female officer, rher, using the "n" word. the recording reveals one of the men me a derogatory comment toward the officer. montgomery county leased the officer's body camera footage. c and y her her use the same slur in the video. >> couldn't believe it. i could not believe it. i couldn't believ the face that she made. she thought it was a cool thing to say. it's not. sh even said it was appropriate. >> montgomery county police released a statement that reads in part, "the matter brought to our attention today is disturbing and contrary to our department's values and our overarching mission to fairly and impartially serve our community." now to a news4 i-team investigation. this morning a patient w escaped a locked psychiatric unit at the veterans affairs medical center in the district is in custody and facing several charges. this is a story you saw first on news4. according to police and v.a. records obtained by the news i-team, the patient remealed the ceiling -- remove of the ceiling

les in the shower in the unit. he crawed to -- crawled to a lockeeispace. a nbor who didn't want to be identified said she was able to catch a cab to virginia. >> he went through the emergency room and asked someone in the emergency room, the staff at the hospital, to call a taxi cab.er >> report they called him a cab? >> they called him a cab. >> report: he was wearing his hospital clothes. >> he was wearing scrub bottoms and a tank top. >> reporter: the cabbie hold a woman against herill and assaulted her. the man is being held and faces several charges. the v.a. hospital tells us it is reviewing its policies and procedures. new developments in the chelsea manning situation.s she i longer in federal custody, but that may be short-lived. manning was in the alexandria detention center for refusing to

testify before a virginia federal grand jury about the release of wikileaks documents. her freedom may not last long because federal prosecutors have asked manning to appear before another grand jury forme the sa questions as soon as next week. manning's lawyers say she will refuse again to provide any answers and ar that could land her back in jail. manning served secretary of years in a military -- served seven years in a military for leaking documentsea to wikil. her 35-year sentence was commuted by rethen-pdent barack obama. president trump is rushing to his son's defense after donald trump jr. was subpoenaed to answer more questions related russia. the republican-led senate intelligence committee wants to know whether don jr. was forthcoming we testified about the 2016 meeting and trump moscow project. trump jr. said he was only vaguely aware of the project.de the presi's former fixer, michael coh t, testifiedhat he briefed him aut ten times.

the president argues congressional investigators are trying to reopen the mueller investigation. >> my son is a god person. my son testified for hours and hours. out.mueller report came that's the bible, the mueller report came out, and they said he did nothing wrong. >> with the escalating battles between the white house and house democrats, house speaker naiy pelosi isn't r out impeachment. she says he trump administration wants to have a constitutional crisis and the constitution must be protected. breaking news concerning north korea's latest missile test. cory smith with what some military experts are saying. h>> reporter: north korea fired three new missiles over the past week. the most recent coming yesterday. this morning military experts are weighing in saying that they're all eerily familiar. according to the ""associated press,"" they say the new millers look like a missile the russian military has deployed to syria and has been trying to sell abroad for years.

it's a short-range nuclear-cape ballistic missile that's een in th russian arsenal for more than a decade. it's designed to fly at a flattened out altitude of aro 25 miles, and they're ache to make in-flight guidance adjustments. new images apparently show what you see there, kim jong-un observing the launches through binoculars yesterday. south korea's president, moon a jae-in, s the launches were probably a type of protest against the u.s. after that failed hanoi summit back infe uary. we'll continue to bring you the updates as we get them. back an you. >> thk you. 4:08. a homeowner thought he was shooting at an intruder. now place say it was a case of mistaken identity. this happened at a town home. police weref called ar the shorn shot someone who walked into his home. according to the 911 call, the homeoer tried to help the person he shot because the two knee each otht. >> lehe units know, three of

russ going to make entry into the house and look for the downed subject. >> apparently was the daughter's friend, and he didn't know who was so he just shot. >> police are nothe confirming t relationship between the victim and th homeowner. only saying that they knew each other. the victim is expected to be th okay, and homeowner has not beench arged. starting next month, you will be allowed to use elootric scters and bikes on certain park trails in montgomery county. he county's planning board approved a six-month pilot program starting in june. it will allow electric bikes and scooters only on paved sections of certain park trails. scooters will be limited to 15 miles per hour. the county is still working out details regarding where vehicles can be rented. maintenance policies and other rules. if you want to invest in uber, you can starting today. uber is going public. for now each share will cost you $45. the offering 180 million shares of its common stock. not everyone is happy with the u move to go ic.

earlier this week, ride-share drivers went on strike across thun coy. they say they're upset about it pay, benefs, and how the tipping system works. in ane exclnterview with nbc news, facebook co-fnder chris hughes is making resigns saying the company sould be broken up and that ceo mark zuckerberg is too powerful. hughes was zuckerberg's roommate at harvard. he says that facebook that exists toty is no the same one he founded with zuckerberg in 2004. hughes says facebook is far too big and powerful. he explains why he's speaking up now. >> every single time there's some new headline about a privacy scandal or election that's going on, i do feel a sense of responsibility. i'm angry at mark and angry at a lot of facebook's leadership for taking something that heldso much promise and could have been so amazing and sacrificing quality, security, stability for clicks. >> hughes left the company in

2007. he sold all of his stock in 2012 making $500 million. in a statement to nbc news, facebook says, quote, with success comes accountability. but you don't enforce accountability by calling for the breakup of a successful american company. it's we4:11. re learning mother nature -- learning more about jeff bezos' new rocket. >> it will be in space this yeat for sparism he calls it. the other announcement, a lunar lander called "blue moon" took three years tdevelop. bezos talked about how the earth can run out of energy but w can look to space for unlimited resources. bezos showed elaborate images of what he calls space colonies that he says could hold a million people each. a glimpse into what our future could look like. >> people are so creative once they're unleashed.

if this jejz builds t road -- generation builds the road to space, the jazz, we will get to see thousands of future entrepreneurs building a real space industry. >> that may seem hard to imagine osnow, but bez ended his presentation saying everything big once started small. itreally is like something out of a movie. even those images. >> or a tv show that started in the late '60s. >> here we go, you know what, producers, help us out on a friday. >> it's interesting.r "staek" was for science, it wasn't for tourism. there went a big push to make money which is the difference -- difference biggest in what we're seeing in this idea. leave me alone, eun. 4:12. ahead, mother's day just days ways. if you're wondering what to buy her to thank her for all she's done, we have a few ideas for er h. >> bring them. plus, a second-grade teacher fighting breast cancer forced to pay f her own substitute. how her community has rallied around her. chuck? >> scotty, i need wp speed in

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this morning we're learning there is a racial disparity when it comes to access to treatment for opioid addiction. researchers found that white e patients wre nearly 35 times more likely to get a prescription for addiction treatment medications. that is compared to eafrican-americans who w also struggling with addiction. 74% of those office visits were either paid for by cash orou thr private insurance.

medicare and medicaidpicked up the tab for oy 19% of the visits. it is teache appreciation week. a groupal of cornia parents is rallying around a second-grade teacher fighting breast cancer. the parents are paying for her ave.stitute while s's on california teachers received ten sick days a year. beyond that, they can take an additional 100 years of extended sick leave butmust pay for their own replacement out of wn their o paycheck. in california, teachers don't pay into the state disability insurance program so they don't benefit from it. something most parents don't belie is right. >> i thinks it's unfair. theteachers are going through so much. >> no teacher should have to go through what our second-grade teacher is going through. >> the teachers union says it is consulting with members about this policy. there is no national standardfo how states deal with teacher sick leave. i had no idea that that was even a thing.t t in certain places teachers

had to pay for their own subsontutes. you d get enough pay for the work teachers do anyway. crazy. 4:17. flying with delta coul have nice perks for the next two weeks. irline is because the will test free wi-fi. if will start on monday on select dta flights. if you're lucky enough to be on one, you should get an e-mail before the flight. don't expect freei-fi to become a permanent thing. delta is using this period to survey passengers being making it a normal part of the ight. jetblue is the oly airline to w offer freefi on all flights. sons and daughtere expected to spend more than $25 billion on mother's day this year according to the national retail federation and not your mother. one hot gift this year is a stylish fitness tracker. wireless earbuds and portable phone chargers will be big, too. experts believe shoppers to buy

more than $2 billion worth of s. electronic however, two out of three still plan on buying flowers for mom this year. with n never go wrong flowers. >> right. but you know -- the electronic, the flower thing, what about a nice wallet or a handbag or something that's st for her. not just practical? >> i find that stuff gets rejected. my mother doesn't think i notice. i've bought her jewelry a things, and she doesn't wear it. >> did you try diamonds? >> right. >> chuck said, "did you try diamon diamonds?" no. >> chuck bell with the forecast. rain today? >> a chance this morning and a better chance later this morning. not a total washout. skies will be on the mostly cloudy side as you start out on a friday. at least you can see the monument down awn. that good sign. 69 degrees. southerly winds overnight have helped to tour is scour all the -- to scour all the low clouds out of here that we dealt with

yesterday. it's been an improving weather picture. 70 from warrenton to quantico, 69 in washington, 67 in prince george's counti. thurmont, maryland, down to 59. the planner for today, a warm day today. starting out near 70 this morning.be really won't hat much of a climb to get near 80 degrees by later on in theafternoon. here's hit-and-miss rain chances at any time. at least have the umbrella handy. no heavyain just yet. and not everyone, not everyone's going to get hit. but thoseos -- the people who don't get hit with rain are going to be hard to pinpoint this far in advance. there's the front across peterson ohio. that is what it promises, increasing rain chances later on in the day. already some raindrops here.ow hagerst the west of leesburg, parts of culpeper county. that's the first little chance for tain heres morning. then i think we'll get a little break in the action late morning intoarly afternoon.

there's the front coming through. another chance for rumbles of thunders between about 3:00 an 8:00 evening. have the umbrella handy to play it on the safe side. the warm weather, that's it. once the front goes by, cool and cloudy all weekend. saturday morning, still salvageable without rain.ec rain bes likely later on in the day saturday. mother's day, still looks cloudy, cold, and wet all day long. that pattern now looks like it's going to last through monday, too. >> i don't love that. i don't love that. 'hank you. we been talking about this yesterday and today. we'll talk about it next week, as well. rock creek parkway between ue virginia aven at 66 there, all lanes shut down. pedestrian bridge installation. no vehicdes or perians allowed through until tuesday morning. inbound traffic, diverted to rginia avenue northwest through tuesday at 5:30. northbound indian head highway after the wilson bridge, right hene gets by t

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right w, a first 4 traffic warning as you wake up on a friday. a major shutdown in d.c. the detours you need to know about a where you'll be seeing backups outside of the district during today's commute. plus, he's made a career performing for children. now he's accused of checking out

child porn. how police were tipped off to his internet searches. and a historic labor transformed by technology. a sneak peek inside apple flagship store ahead of the openi weekend. it's 4:30. we begin thisriday morning by taking a live look outside.go g to be another rainy start weekend. >> and if that feels like deja vu, you're right. today will be the sixth friday in a row we've seen rain. just in time for the weekend, the rain wants to ruin our plans. every time. >> storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell has t the timing of storms, then we'll check in with melissa mollet for the morning on the roads. >> the weekend's in real troublement today will be the nicest of the nex four orfive days, and even that comes with a possibility of rain. northern v trginia,racking into northern maryland, you see to