with your first 4 traffic. >> we'll begin, though, with storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell. a good, stiff breeze out there this morning. ao.ittle humidity, >> yes. a little of all of those things. >> your hair looks good. >> you think so >> summer came in like, you itow, a punch to the face. >> yeah did. we will a little reprieve not so much today but tomorrow and wednesday. a little break from the re-summer levels of heat and humidity courtesy of that cold front moving through ohio now. out ahead of it, as aaron mentioned, the breeze is up this morning. southerly breezes, 10to 20 miles per hour. that is going to continue to bring the warm and humid air touough the morning h. not a big chance for rain early. i couldn't rule out a sprinkle or two. the real thing you'll nice is how incredibly mild it is. annapolis hasn't even gotten below 80 ynut. that is ual for the third week of may. most of the suburbs are in the low to mid 70s now.

future weather caes the mainly dry morning. after 1:00 or 2:00, here's the chance on the high-resolution forecast model for storms developing. not everyone will be hit by a storm. between 2:00 and 7:00 this evening, better keep a weattoer eye the sky. we'll keep yo posted on nbc washington, as well. ahead of at chance, it's going to be toasty warm. high today, 88 degrees. >> cooling off maybe with -- day to cool off maybe with the sprinkler. weave roadwork but nothing to worry about. in the district, two things happening. northwest, inbound new york aven at 7th, lanes blocked by an accident. police on the scene. and northeast, 44th, south of a nannie holland boroughs. to the spur, 26 miles per hour, kes you 27 minutes. >> that's what we t like in morning. thank you.

we begi withe possibl road-rage incident this montgomery county. >> fellow lords riders -- fellow riders said it was one of the hardest things they've seen on the road. they were biking when a silver suv started honking, cursing, and swerving closely to them. one of the riders crashed, a the suv kept going. friends aren't sure whether she was hit or panicked but said the driver was aggressive. >> aggressively honking, not beep, beep, i'm here. this was ah. >> i think the hardest thing i've ever seen as a rider. >> the cyclist has seral broken bones and a head injury. police are searching for the driver of the silver suv. a wldorf man is dead after being hit while walking along crane highway in upper marlboro. 26-aar-old adrian his was in the median along crane and

rosary road. just before 5:00, a driver hit him. the driver thought he hit a deer. instead of calling police, he called onstar to rort the damage. police responded after receiving calls about a body in the center of the median. the driver cooperated with police. [ cheers ] this is a look at some of the thousands of people who spent their sunday marching in alabama protesting the state's new abortion ban. it is the strictest in the nation abortion ban making it a felo to perform an abortion except in the cases where the mother's life is in danger. governor ivy signed the bill into law last wednesda>> > president trump gave an in-depth explanati ofis controversial new immigration policy. he sat down with fox new last night. he introduced the plan last thursday. it would enhance border security. it would also create a so-called merit system favoring young, educated workers with family

ties to the u.s. i >> all it is simple -- strong very stron border. by that time we'll have the wall built, too. stro strong border, and you have to come in on merit. >> top democratsave said the plan is dead on arrival. meanwhile, impeachment talk is ramping up again. this time a republican an congressm is going against his own party. michigan congressman justin amash is the first republican lawmaker to accuse the president of impeachable conduct. he said he read the entire simueller report into r interference in the 2016 election. he said it outlined clear impeachable offenses by president trump. he accused thene attory general, william barr, of deliberately months representing the rinort march. president trump fired back over the weekend eeting amash is a,ot quote, lightweight and looking for see it. days after president trump told his staff he didn't want to go to war, he's threatened to

end iran if u.s. military facilities are attacked. he tweeted, quote, if iran wants to fight, that will be the official end of iran. never threaten the united states clain. the white house ms tehran is up to no good, but tehran says the situation is entirely made up by the u.s. soll as in europe somewhat agreement iran says they don't want a war but will be ready to deal with one if it happens. it' 4:05. this time next week, thousands of metro rerders in northn virginia will need a different geay to around. six stations on the blue and yellow lines will be shutting ws n for the summer while c do major platform work. that's every station south of reagan national. friday is the last day they'll be open until september 8th. there will be other travelt ns for riders. metro will have five free shuttle fwousz move passengers tr buses to move passengers through the meo stops. there will be a few express options to get to the pentagon

faster. the water taxi will be mia making four trips a day from alexandriao the whatever starting at 6 -- the wharf starting at 6:40 every morning.n a 8-year-old texas girl is afe after she was snatched off the street walking with her mother. this was the scene that a a doorbell camercaught. that's the little girl's mother being thrown from the suspect's car as he took off with 8-year-old salem sabatka. an amber alert was issued, and community members went on their own looking for the suspect's car. they found it atel a hot and called police. the girl was found safe. >> if i wouldn't have found her, would have gone. >> happened about three blocks from my house. it's scary to think that something like that could happen to your kids. >> 51-year-old michael webb is now in jail, charged with k napping. hours after the girl was found, others in the fort worth community marched through town as a show of support and strength. new this morning, four middle school students have been charged in a mob attack of a

fellow udent. the attack happened may 10th as a 14-year-old girl aslking home from grant park midl e schooin prince william county. a group approached and started beating her ure th girls and a boy have been charged with assault. a man who survived the shooting high scho 20 years ago has died. austin eubanks was found dead at his home in colorado early saturday. eubanks was open about his history of substance abuse in the years following the shooting. he hid under a table in the library with his best friend at the time of the shooting. eubanks was shot in the han his friend was killed. 4:07. a new plan t curb gang violence in boston is stirring up controversy. nonprofit is paying current and former members to attend class. it pays $400 a week to take classes. that's about $20,000 a year all coming from private donations. the program ctors say the

cost is far less than the $100,000 in policing, parole, and prison costs that is spent on each gang member. e goal of the organization is to have boston gang free in just five years. this weekend, hundreds of thousands of students across the country graduated from college, andf that wasn't enough of a reason to celebrate, the graduating class of morehouse ollege was given more than advice by the commencement speaker and billionaire robert f. smith. >> we're going to put little fuel in your bus. this is my class, 2019. and my family is making a grante to elimi the student loans. [ cheers ] >> you heard that right. smith's family is paying off the graduating class' student loan debt. the cost -- $40 million. moorehouse is a historicallyle black col in atlanta, georgia. mr. smith is a billionaire, and $40 million is something he can afford. a way to pay it forward and give

theraduating class an opportunity to get started on the right foot is incredible. incredible. w tech billionaire. obviously thisas all the talk of social media over the weekend for people who went to morehse and follow black twitter and these things. o sort sets the bar for commencement speakers now. >> right. n't ask me to speak at a graduation. it's 4:09. the "today" show's savannah guthrie h simple advice at george washington's university. >> she was the commencement speaker for the class of 2019. dn't remember the speakers at both of her graduations including her law school graduation at nearby georgetown. t don't stress when other people seem be going higher and faster, they're having kids when you can't, when others are getti that promotion, buying that house, going on that tripth havingse trips. don't you worry. the life that you are is enough. it is enough.

you are enough. >> g.w. honored her an honorary dege in performance service. she already had the j.d., a lawyer -- >> now she's dr. guthrie .squi >> exactl 4:10. ahead thes morning, t 2019 preakness stakes will be remembered for years to come. not because of the horse that won but because of the one that came in last place. >> we'll show you the moment hat had a lot of people talking. plus, a wild weather weekend across the midwest. look at that. the dest bction lefthind by a rash of tornadoes. chuck, wow. >> yeah, violent weather across lech of the midd of the country. we do not have a tornado threat so to speak today, but there will be an opportunity for thunderstorms around hereinater on the day today. that's setting the stage for cooler and mre delightful weather the next couple of days.

they're off. >> certainly a memorable start to the preakness stakes --

>> did you see that? >> lost theockey at the start. >> did you see that? >> yes. this was on saturday. the horse, bodie express, threw his al qaejockey as the gate op. he said, i've had enough. even without the jockey, he finished ahead of two other horseapparently. no one finished ahead of war of will to take the stakes. themo bel is the final race on june 8th. but you can see it here.ol >> don't th on really tightly to make sure they don't fall off? isn't that pa of the jockey training? i don't kn how it works. >> not this time apparently. >> i'm glad he's okay. >> yes, for sure. er theweekend, democratic presidential front-runner joe den kicked off his campaign in pennsylvania. >> he's calling for less anger and mon unity i the upcoming presidential election. analysts say pennsylvania, michigan, and wisconsin are st must-win es. president trump won all three of

those in 2016. while calling for unity, mr. biden did not hold back on the current president. >> if the american people want a president to add to our division, lead with a clenched fist, a close hand, they don't need me. they've got president trump. >> democratic senators elizabeth warren and bernie sanders also campaigned over the weekend. warren spoke to voters in new ampshire while sanders rallied supporters in georgia. it was perfect weekend for a cookout in anacostia. community members hd the annual big brown getdown. it pairs students with mentors to give them advice. the students also get opportunities for internships and s the goal is to celebrate culture and look ahead to the future.an >> wto connect young people to help them think about the next steps in their life, to help them sape their tures. want to affirm that who you are

is enough, and you can make it in this world. >> right now this is an annual event. the group hopes to expand and have several of these events throughout the year. nice way to bring people together d start building. this morning, folks across the southern plains are cleaning up after devastating tornadoes over the weekend. >> look at the video from the storms in nebraska. dozens of tornadoes touched down there, and they packed a punch. you can see a semi-truck was even blown around a bit. that has to be strong winds. the trnadoes were produced from super-cell storms that moved across lge patches of land covering hundreds of miles. wow. then take look at that video. this is from near abilene, texas. it under a risk of severe thunderstorms through tomorrow. this video was recorded on sudden morning. according to theatnal weather service the tornado registered at at least an ef-2. ore than 100 structures wer

damaged because of the storm. this is -- i guess this is the time of yearta we to see a realpike in these tornadoes in that part of the country? >> yeah. i lived in oklahoma a total years of my life for school and work. really the middle parts of the may from the 5th three the 10th to memorial day is sort of the peak for severe weather season there. the four years that i was on tv inoklahoma city, we had wther fatalities four memorial day weekends in a row. >> is that right? >> it's that time of yeafo them. then june, july, tornado alley moves north as the warming season moves north. crazy stuff across the midwest.r nately we will not be facing that severe weather threat for today. we may have thunderorms to contend with during the middle parts o the afternoon. garden-variety thunderstorms, not the super cells like they've been coping with in the grea here at national airport on a monday morning, does it feel like summertime this g?mornin 75 deees. here we are just after 4:00 in

the morning. southerly breezes have been up all night. ty'll be with us for most of the day today. so most of the i-95 corridor is the mid 70s now. 75 in lorton. 77 for quantico. 77 in baltimore. once you're into the shenandoah valley, it's a bill cooler this morning. even -- a bit cooler this morning. even upper 60s is unusually warm for this time of year. your commute then for today will start off warm anddry. there could be a shower along i-81 as early as noon 1:00 or 2:00. most of us will have to watch the 2:00 to 6:00 time frame. here's more of the severe weather across the southern plains here. still a severe weather threat at this time of the night. remember, this is a long way to our west. only like 2:15 in the morning they're watching for severe weather in far west tes and eastern new mexico. it will be another busy severe weather day out there. for us, t aroundhe east we're waiting on that cold front moving through central ohio now. as it bumps into the very warm

and somewhat humid air that we p have ince over us, it's likely to wring out some rain and thunderstorms. on future weather, by noon to 1:00, maybe an isolated shower winchester to frederick. between 2:00 and 6:00 is when the front reaches the i-95 corridor. doesn't look all that impressive on here, but know there could be a rumble or two of thunder. any of these individual storms could have gusty winds or brief periods of heavy rain. fortunately the severe weather parameters are not all that impressive for today. that is welcome news. don't need severe weather on a monday. we clear out tonight, and man, is it going to be nice here the next few days. look at this five-day forecast. after an 88-degree day today, only mid 70s tomorrow. mid to upper 70s on wednesday with a couple of mornings in the 50s. that's going to be goo open-window sleeping weather. another chance for thunderstorms on thursday. meat, ssa mollet, is the warm air coming back. ore about the memorial day weekend comingup.

>> thank you. hyattsville,uter loop after 450, two left lanes getting by the work zone. you'renot seeing big slowdown there. 66, 95 looking good into town and out of town. prince george's county, same situaton. no big claints there. everything is rolling along nicely. northwest, inbound at 7th, lane v shut down by a crash. and 44th south of nanny helen rr boroughs closed. summer here. and soo some you will try tob eat the heat swimming. mind r things to keep in to keep your family safe in the summer. later on "ellen" -- >> are you saying you're betten fri with jen than me? >> i don't need to say it, it's obvious. a lot of people know that. >> she told me that she was so k excited with me because she was tiredan ofng out with you. >> wow. wow. >> yeah. >> reese witherspoon drops by.

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welcome ck. warmer weather is finally arriving.

across the region, pools and beaches will soon be packed with crowds. >> ang with the fun, a warning about the dangers of drowning. every day ten people drown unintentionally. meli a mollet joins us with look at what you and your family need to know to stay safe this summer. melissa? >> reporter: good morning.re of course thes no better time to have this chat, and no simply way to keep your child, your loved onesa , then ensuring they know the dangers of water and how to swim. assh we're about to ow, you can arn.r be too young to she's just 2 years old, but , iley bella can kim, padd jump, blow bubbles. sheets been i swim lessons since she was only four months old. a>> she takes off, i feel confid t that she canddle herself to the wall. she knows what to do. >> report : lifetime gaithersburg aquatics manager sean gaffney says knowing what to do is key. first up, swim lessons early are essential. >> they're going to be more

confident and better swimmers. r orter: and teach kids from infa ty how to float oneir backs. something else to stress, that waiting, patience could be lifesaving. tell them you muff give them the green light before they head in. make sure they're clear on the pool rules. no running, horseplay, and only diving in designated areas. take breaks, and a good plan to follow -- >> if you're child can't swim more than 25 meters consecutively, you should always remain within ten feet of them. >> reporte avoid air-filled ffoaties. >> unrtunately they can deflate or pop. >> reporter: and remind them how to ask for help. nastly but perhaps most importantly, k cpr. >> there's a lot of neighborhood pools or back yard pools or your going to the beachor the lake where you don't have that access to a lifeguard. so you know, it's greato just have more people who know cpr the better off we'll be. >> reporter: as for bella, mom jessica is going to keep

bringing her here twice a week to practice being safe and adorable. >> she is good, yes. she's really good. >> reporter: also remember to keep in mind the three-to-one ratio. whether it's children or adults, when you're with a group make sure there is one strong swimmer for every three who are weaker or unable to swim. >> so important to talk about safety around water and kids. the talk of summer football season is just around the corner. coming up at 4:30, we hear from redskins new rookie before the tets the field today. that's exciting, chuck. >> absolutely right. and this little girl right here, cute diana, only four months old. cute as a button. she'd be a perfect addition to your family, a perfect opportunity to house train diana in case she's not there. the dog-walking forecast, get the miles in this mo'sing, going to be toasty warm later in the day and the chance for thunderstorms, too. more coming up.

plus, new detai overnight about a man who went missing after being arrested. we're back with an update.

>> it is 4:30 as you get your monday stard. a live look as you wake up anda this new week. a little breeze you see wth the flag. we're working 4 you to make sure you are ready for the day ead. good morning, i'm aaron gilchrist. >> i'm eun yang. we're going to need that breeze. pretty warm already. it is going to fel likeummer once again. storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell is here to fill us in on the forecae't. then check in with melissa mollet for a look at the roads. it was hot yesterday, too, wow. >> man, you're notdi ki. dogs and i did our extra-long walk yesterday.ho we were by about 8:00 in the morning which meant we left the house about 6:00 in the morning to beat the heat. it was a toasty warm one yesterday, and it's going to be every bit that warm this afternoon. plan er mid to upp 80s. i don't think too many places will touch 90, but we'll be close. right now in the upper 60s in