tuesday forecast. plus waking up after thewo t day on wall street in months. what caused the and what it means for your finances. and -- people are dying. people are getting sick. and they have no idea that it's being caused by roundup. >> a warning about a popodar t used on lawns across the country. the multibillion dllar yout for a couple who said it gave them cancer. it is 4:30 right now. off in the distance you see the capitol wheel before the wilson bridge as we look live on thist sday morning. >> look at you knowing your geography. >> i'm guessing there's a bridge. it should be there. >> there's the bridge. >> pretty daut there -- >> unless something drastic happened overnight. >> the good news is there will finally be relief from the rain. still nthe not to walk rough the rain this morning. >> we need to dry out. >> good morning, everyone, i'm aaron gilchrist. >> i'm eun yang. the roads near your hometill might be slippery this morning.

melissa mollet is standing by with what ton n first 4 -- whati to know first 4 traffic. >> first to storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell and the forecast. it's goingn to be aher very chilly day today. it will be a better day than yesteay when we had precious little sunshine and a boatload of rain. today morene sunshi less rain doesn't mean no rain at all. there are showers across central west virginia. interior new england, the adirondacks, that's snow, everybody. several inches of sw up toward like lake placid in upstate new york and mt. washington, new hampshire. it's literally the year to be talking about snow in my humble opinion. one or two drops along the blue ridge. most of us off to a dry start. chilly but dry. 46 in leesburg. 48 in the shenandoah valley. 52 in arlington. reasonable sunshine, clouds building, then a likelihood of

showers in the afternoon. today's high short of only about 63 today. but the ten-day forecast has 80s in abundance. >> i love it. thank you. thank you. mclean, gw parkway between he3 and beltway. lanes blocked with the sinkhole. northbound lanes being pushed to 123. you can see the closure inle purphis morning. allow extra time if you have to go that way. inner loop, outer loop of the beltway, no problems. earlier roadwork is gone. we had it in two spots. southbound 95 the ramp to little river turnpike, ramp blocked there. silver spring, northbound georgia after 16th street, left la is getting by the work zone. taking a look at 270, frederick to the spur, 67 miles per hour, going to take you 27in mutes. no problem southbound. northbound nicend open, as well. aaron? >> thank you. more on the first 4 traffic alert on thew parkway. the sinkhole, northbound lanes are closed between 123 and the beltway. the national parks service saysd the weather other factors

have delayed the repair of the sinkhole. officis say the lanes will remain closed at least through this morning's rush hour. what do we want? >> justice! >> when do we want it? >> now! >> dozensf activists are calling for an independent investigation of a montgomery county police officer. th held a rally at the third district station in silver spring. we first brought you the story last week. a white officer was caught on camera using the "n" word while speaking to a group of black men. >> the men were searched and cited for trespassing outside a mcdonald's in white oak. the men said they were there paiting to be picked up for work. testers said while the word that was used was a problem, there is a larger systemic issue at hand. >> people need to understand that officers need to be trained properly. >> what i'm really concerned about was the level of professionalism that didn't see in that encounter. it's not just the word. >> the police union said the

officer was just repeating language used by one of the men. the incident is still under ti invesgation. police in greenbelt arelo king for a killer and a mive in a deadly shooting. bettie jenifer was attacked on her way out monday night. police believe she was targeted. >> the fact she was in broad daylight in front of multiple witnesses, whoever did this, it didn't seem to matter to whoever committed the crime. that in itself is extremly shocking. >> reporter: she was married to two men at the same time. one husband is a well-known actor in ghana. the other is kendrick jenifer, and he is serving 20 years for r trafficking s in baltimore. bettie and kendrick were in the midst of a divorce. it's national police week. tributes to the officers who protect and serve our communities will continue today. last night thoutands turned o for a candlelight vigil on the

national mall. it honored 3917 officers who died last -- 317 officers whoye di. the names are engraved on the national memorial wall. 4:35. anyone with money in the stock market may be nervous after the worst day. china retaliated against the u.s. and imposed tariffs of their own. megan fitzgerald from the live desk. >> reporter: good morning. stock futures are up which could point to a little autumner day on wall street. this after china unleashed $60 llion in tariffs on american goods. that announcement sent the dow jones tumbling more than 600 points yesterday. one of the worst days for our rkets this year. the tariffs are in retaliation for the ones the u.s. imposed last week. the president raised them from 10% to 25% friday and claims china is toame for the collapse of the potential trade

agreement. to leaves talks at a standstill, though the president said he will speak with president xi jinping next month at the g20 summit in japan. tariffs start on june 1st on products made in the u.s. we'll have more on how it could affect your wallet coming up in a few minutes. back to you. >> thank you. to our other top story -- nv federal itigators are headed for alaska after a midair plane crash. five people were killed and one person is still missing following yesterday's crash. passengers were sightseeing on -- on sightseeing on the royal princess when it happened. the search for amand elerd. she's from maryland but lives in maui. her family and friends will hold a vigil for her. there could still be protesters inside the venezuelan

embassy in the district despite receiving an iction order. last night police cut the chains that locked the front gate and handed the activists an evision order. they support the current venezuelan president and had occupied the building for 34 days. lawmakers in alexandria are considering a proposal to dicount parking during metro's summer shutdown. this would apply to some city-owned parking garages and lots in old wn between late may and early september. line e closing the blue stations for repairs duri those months. if approved the garages would have a $2 flat rate during specific hours. coming up, a controversial parking ticket proposal giving more power to the people who live around you. why your neighbors could soon be the ones cracking down on drivers.el h and good tuesday morning. >> coming up at 4:00, a feel-good story about how a summer job on a golf course led

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actress felicity huffma entered a formal guilty plea in the college admissions scandal. she was in federal court yesterday. huffman admitted she paid $15,000 to boost her daughter's s.a.t. score.os utors are recommending four months in prison. she will be sentenced in september. a jury awards more than $2 billion to a couple claiming the killer roundup caused them both to develop cancer. >> the husband and wife wereia both dosed with non-hodgkins lymphoma after using roundup in their yard in california for more than three decades. they're blaming the parent company, monsanto, for not doing enough to warn cuomers about the cancer-causing agents in the weedkler. >> it's changed our lives forever. we can't do the things that we used to be able to do. and we really resent monsanto for that fact. >> this is the third trial to end this way for monsanto. there are still more than 10,000

more plaintiffs and -- plaintiffs in pentagon lawsuits against the company. the rain chances, we're not quite done with our chances for rain today. on the whole, the trend is a dry one as lo get cr and closer to the weekend. car washing forecast, well, you could take your chances if you want to. want to. a quick-hitter shower chance

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15 beforehe hour. china and the u.s. are going tit for tat with tariffs. >> cha unleashed $60 billion on tariffs on american goods. this after president trump increased taxes on china last week. trade war could trickle down to you. tracie potts joins us live with the items we could be paying more for. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. everything from luggage to frozen vetables and more. the president headed down to louisiana today to talk about natural gas. that could get hit, as well. so could your family. new surveys are showing that the trade war cod cost the average american famy of four $800 a

year. now the president says he's gotr chiight where he wants them even thou there are no negotiations scheduled. talks seem to be stalled. wall street is nervous. take a look at the markets today 600ause the dow plunged over points on monday. >> thank you. new this morning, a federal judge has ruled a d.c. radio staon is a russian agent. the justice department demanded wzhf-a.m. register as an agents of the russian government. radio sputnik has been broadcasti since december of 2017. the station is part of a russian government news agency created presidentladimir putin. in 2013 the justice department ordered the station's owner tos regi as a foreign agent, but the company filed a counterclaim arguing it simply buys and selli ime without knowledge of the > content. >>it's 4:46. laura and reed's law is officially on books. maryland governor larry hoga

signed a bill to protect unborn children. yesterday the parent of laura wallen looed on as it became law. it is named for their daughter and unborn son reed whom police aay were killed by the baby's father two ye ago. if someone knowingly attacks a woman who's pregnant, they could be charged wi an additional felony and a jail sentence up to ten years. that would be in addition to any other sentence they received. >> if this helps another woman in the state of maryland, we will have honored laura. soit's not as much about healing as it is about honoring laura and honoring reed. >> wallen was four months pregnant when detectives say her boyfriend murdered her in the september of 2017. 4:47 now. news4 is working for you to spur changes to keep your children safe at school. thanks to a news4 consumer investigation, a new law is on the books in virginia now to protect students around motorized partitions.

wesley lipicky's familybetood hind ralph northam as he signed it into law. nearly a year ago the fairfax county third grad was killed a motorized petition at hnts elemey school. his parents say this is a bit of light in a tragic situation. >> a bill like this which will provide for other children to situation t in the teat wesley was put in is a fitting tribu. prohibits new law anyone from operating a motorized partition if students are in the same room unless the wall head a safety sendal -- has a safety sensor. it requires anyone who operates the walls to be trained every year. e law takes effect july 1st. to a news4 i-team investigation into a local h halfway to. nearly 100 people are wrongly walking away from itye each r. we're talking about inmates who are authorized to leave for the day but who don't return as required at night. now scott mcfarland and the i-team are raising new concerns

about a facility that's supposed keto being those men and us safe. >> reporter: hope village is the last stopl for federaprisoners from d.c. they're free to leave during the dayno work jobs but must ret each night. an investigation by the i-team revealed there may be a problem inside. despite being close to their full release, inmates by theze dons flee hope villain every year. federal -- hope village every year. federal authorities call it an escape. we've learned escd ees are accu committing murder while on the run, including one man who's accused of willing willy sharp's granddaughter the same day he fled hope village. do you find it concerned? one of the men arrested for thi escapea halfway house that day. >> i honestly didn'ton know no was in the hastert way house. >> reporter: in a village it said it tracks its residents' whereabouts and reports all accountability problems. it added when an objective

analysis is committed the number of escapes that are correctly classify read low. why are men -- relatively low. why are men willing to risk more prison time? aspart ofour investigation at 5:00, we hear from a former inbhat what life is like -- inmate about what life is like inside and outside and the changes that could be made. for now in southeast d.c., sco mac,farlane news4 i team. there's help for maryland drivers who are confused about the real i.d. program. last week t maryland motor vehleonstration issued warnings to about -- vehicles administration issu warnings to about 66,000o people wh had a risk of having licenses recalled or confiscated. they already have real i.d.s but never verified the identities. complaints poured in to thery nd motor vehicle administration. they've i cued alarification saying no licenses will be taken away immediately, butho yould probably register. like you're supposed to do so ve you don'ave the risk of

getting your license taken>> aw. > drivers parking illegallyir blocki hydrants or in handicapped spaces, ever wish you could do something about that? in the district it may happen. charles allen from ward six is presenting the citizens safety enforcement pilot program. he says there aren't enough t enforcemenficers. so here's how that program would work -- citizen enforcers would use an app and take a timestamped picture of the violation. >> wow. >> violators would then get a ticket in the mail. initially ten people from each ward would be trained to hand out tickets. we spoke to residents about the idea. >> enforce with drivers, rsbike and scooter people that you're a moving vehicle, you nationwide pay atttion to people on the sidewalk. >> that sits weird with me to haveay everyd people policing ea other. >> now the pilot program is part of an omnibus vision zero bill to prevent pedestrian deaths. seven council members signed on to the bill. no word on when the d.c. vote --

the d.c. council will vote on the proposal. >> don't theytay snitches get stitches? that's what i kept thinking ou ab >> if you see eun's car, you're going to walk away. >> justsaying. you know, do you have enough -- i guys if you really know the lau? what if ake a mistake? >> i think it sounds awful. the city -- how about more education so people know the rules everywhere you go or signs that don't confuse the stuff out of you. in this city, boy.si 12 gns in one spot. all saying different things. new, we're learning of an incredible undeater expedition unlike any other. >> a new record has been set r the deepest ocean dive in human history. crew led by a texas businessman descended 35,853 feet below the surface. that's a long way down. >> seven miles. >> okay. you know, how do you do that? >> weirdo.no

>> i don't k you, chuck bell. all right. the adventure and moms were disclosed last ight. victor sicobo's marine spent more than four hours in the deepest known part of the ocean. the team collected scientific sample says and identified at least three -- samples and identified at least three new species. they found candy wrappers on the ocean floor. disheart disheartening. to put in perspective just how deep they were, think about 65 washington monuments stocked on on top of one another. >> or 28mpire state buildings. >> there you go. >> or seven miles -- how do you -- >> 50 to 80 feet per mile -- didn't have the time for the math exactly. >> it would have taken me three days to fige that out. >> it would not. 2.5 days tops. t skies have been clearing out athittle during e overnight hours. thank goodness we tre going

catch a little break in rain. still have a chance for showers today, but nothing quite as substantial as the soaker that we had on monday. and the last 365 calendar days in a row, we maintained a icord-breaking pace. over 70nches of rain in the st 365 consecutive days. that is 30es inch of rain abovee avrage. ridiculous. of course, that falls on thee hels of our wettest all-time calendar year, 2018. really the rain has not let up since we started 2019. ther are some signs of a slightly drier pattern as we get summer.e after six or seven rainy fridays in a w, i know a lot of people are ready for that. it is a cool 53 in washington. there are spots of clear sky out there. where the skies have been clearer, temperatures have fallen into the 40s. 46 in wincster. 43 in thurmont. 46 i germantown. 49 in stafford this morning. plan on a day where we start out

with sunshine and then quickly turn mostly cloudy by about lunchtime. ond we will have some afternoon showers to ctend with. it will also be breezy today. northwest winds arod 15 to 25 miles per hour. that broad northwest flow will bring a pocket of cold air overhead during the day. future weather, sunshine to start. aftok about 11:00, at the clouds tarting to build you -- starting to build up there. into the afternoon, 2:00, 3:00, bam. little chances for fast-moving rain showers on that northwesterly flow. wear your fleece this morning, and have the umbrea with you just to play it on the safe side. we are in an improving weath pattern after today. back to 70 tomorrow, 75 thursday. near 80 on friday. and i think the weekend isoing to be nice and warm. low to mid 80s with nice, low rain chances. we might go four or five days amelissa. how do you like that? >> that wog.d be amazin i'm looking forward to it. northbound gw parkway between 123 and the beltway, still shut down.un

northbolanes blocked to the sinkhole that opened up over the weekend. all northbound lanes still pushed on to 123. they are hoping to get it out of the way by this evening's commuop. inner lo, outer loop, no beltway.n the it earlier problem on 395 at that ramp is now clear. nd taking a look here at 95 in maryland, 32 to the 69ltway, miles per hour gets threw in ten minutes. >> thank you -- gets you there in ten minutes. >> thank you. a toddler at football association game decided she wanted in on the action. look at this. you see in the corr, 2-year-old pippa biggs wandering on to the field. thank goodness someone picked her up and handed her bac to her dad. that could have ended up, you know, in aad wa >> yeah. the father said that -- >> baby girl -- >> he said his daughter is known to be cheek very active. the game continued without any other amateurs -- >> look at her. >> coming on to the field. >> 2-year-olds, they don't care. they're like, listen, i want to

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it is 5:00 a.m. good morning, everyone, i'm aaron gilchrist. >> i'm eun yang. we'll tegin with a check of forecast and commute. melissa mollet is standing by with the first 4 traffic. >> we'll begin with storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell and a look at the weather this morning. no rain, so the coolness in the air isn't quite as bad as yesterday. >> yes -- >> still pretty >hilly. the rain makes it worse. >> it does. and it's not raining now -- reason i was giving you the quizzical look. not raining this morning, but bring the umbrella with you. it may rain on you a little later on in the day today. nothing like the super soakers of yesterday, but quick-hitting showers, not at all out of the yes, indeed, very chilly. your spring fleece early this morning. it's also going to be on the breezy side. northwest winds have arrived, and that will mean that things stay plenty cool.